train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000004_000002|In fact, he had looked at twenty very much as he looked at sixty, lacking a little of the grayness.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000007_000001|"But there was a passenger dropped off for you-a little girl.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000008_000001|"It's a boy I've come for.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000012_000002|Maybe they were out of boys of the brand you wanted."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000014_000003|Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000017_000000|"I suppose you are mr matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables?" she said in a peculiarly clear, sweet voice.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000017_000001|"I'm very glad to see you.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000020_000000|"Oh, I can carry it," the child responded cheerfully.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000020_000001|"It isn't heavy. I've got all my worldly goods in it, but it isn't heavy.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000020_000005|We've got to drive a long piece, haven't we?
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000020_000016|They were good, you know-the asylum people.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000021_000000|With this Matthew's companion stopped talking, partly because she was out of breath and partly because they had reached the buggy.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000007|And I've never had a pretty dress in my life that I can remember-but of course it's all the more to look forward to, isn't it?
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000008|And then I can imagine that I'm dressed gorgeously.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000013|When we got on the train I felt as if everybody must be looking at me and pitying me.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000016|I wasn't a bit sick coming over in the boat.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000019|She said she never saw the beat of me for prowling about.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000028|She said I must have asked her a thousand already.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000025_000030|And what DOES make the roads red?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000026_000000|"Well now, I dunno," said matthew.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000027_000000|"Well, that is one of the things to find out sometime.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000027_000002|It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000027_000005|But am I talking too much?
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000027_000007|Would you rather I didn't talk?
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000027_000009|I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000028_000003|Women were bad enough in all conscience, but little girls were worse.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000029_000001|I don't mind."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000030_000000|"Oh, I'm so glad.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000032_000001|But it isn't-it's firmly fastened at one end.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000032_000003|I asked her all about it.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000032_000011|But you can't where you are.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000034_000000|"Fancy.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000034_000002|I never expected I would, though.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000034_000005|I can't feel exactly perfectly happy because-well, what color would you call this?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000038_000001|"Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000038_000013|I never could find out.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000038_000014|Can you tell me?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000039_000000|"Well now, I'm afraid I can't," said matthew, who was getting a little dizzy.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000040_000000|"Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000040_000001|Have you ever imagined what it must feel like to be divinely beautiful?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000042_000001|Which would you rather be if you had the choice-divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000044_000002|It's certain I'll never be angelically good.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000044_000003|mrs Spencer says-oh, mr Cuthbert!
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000044_000004|Oh, mr Cuthbert!!
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000044_000005|Oh, mr Cuthbert!!!"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000045_000001|They had simply rounded a curve in the road and found themselves in the "Avenue."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000052_000006|Did you ever have an ache like that, mr Cuthbert?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000053_000000|"Well now, I just can't recollect that I ever had."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000054_000007|Other people may call that place the Avenue, but I shall always call it the White Way of Delight. Have we really only another mile to go before we get home?
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000054_000010|Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000054_000013|But I'm glad to think of getting home.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000056_000000|"That's Barry's pond," said matthew.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000060_000001|Do you think it can?
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000060_000003|But why do other people call it Barry's pond?"
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000061_000001|Orchard Slope's the name of his place.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000066_000004|So I shut my eyes.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000066_000006|Because, you see, if the bridge DID crumple up I'd want to SEE it crumple.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000066_000008|I always like the rumble part of it.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000066_000011|Now I'll look back.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000069_000002|I'm sure I'll guess right."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000071_000000|"That's it, isn't it?" she said, pointing.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000073_000001|But I reckon mrs Spencer described it so's you could tell."
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000074_000000|"No, she didn't-really she didn't.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000074_000001|All she said might just as well have been about most of those other places.
train-clean-100/103/1241/103_1241_000074_000002|I hadn't any real idea what it looked like.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000001_000001|The Law.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000002_000001|We will leave the banker contemplating the enormous magnitude of his debt before the phantom of bankruptcy, and follow the baroness, who after being momentarily crushed under the weight of the blow which had struck her, had gone to seek her usual adviser, Lucien Debray.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000010_000004|Villefort's conduct, therefore, upon reflection, appeared to the baroness as if shaped for their mutual advantage.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000010_000006|She would invoke the past, recall old recollections; she would supplicate him by the remembrance of guilty, yet happy days.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000012_000000|"Do you intend opening the door?" said the baroness.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000014_000000|"Who am I? You know me well enough."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000018_000000|"Oh, this is too much!"
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000019_000001|Your name?"
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000021_000001|And now, what do you want?"
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000022_000000|"Oh, how extraordinary!
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000028_000001|She had not long to wait; directly afterwards the door was opened wide enough to admit her, and when she had passed through, it was again shut.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000037_000000|"A mischance?" repeated the baroness.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000040_000001|"Your daughter will be married to morrow, if not to day-in a week, if not to morrow; and I do not think you can regret the intended husband of your daughter."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000044_000001|Come, forget him for a moment, and instead of pursuing him let him go."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000045_000000|"You are too late, madame; the orders are issued."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000048_000001|"At least keep him there till my daughter be married."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000052_000000|"I was not thinking of that," replied Madame Danglars quickly.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000052_000002|You could not help thinking of it, and saying to yourself, 'you, who pursue crime so vindictively, answer now, why are there unpunished crimes in your dwelling?'" The baroness became pale.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000053_000000|"Well, I own it."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000061_000000|"No one; his parents are unknown."
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000001|What am I?--the law.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000002|Has the law any eyes to witness your grief?
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000003|Has the law ears to be melted by your sweet voice?
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000006|You will tell me that I am a living being, and not a code-a man, and not a volume.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000008|Have they loved me?
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000009|Have they spared me?
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000064_000011|No, madame, they struck me, always struck me!
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000065_000003|I have always found them; and more,--I repeat it with joy, with triumph,--I have always found some proof of human perversity or error.
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000070_000000|"The weakness of a murderer!"
train-clean-100/1034/121119/1034_121119_000071_000000|"His dishonor reflects upon us."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000001_000002|They went up by the stair, because they thought this would make a better impression.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000004_000001|Because, if so, we can go away."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000007_000000|"I always cut their hair myself," said Wendy.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000009_000000|Then he burst into tears, and the truth came out.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000010_000000|"I don't think he is a cypher," Tootles cried instantly.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000011_000000|"No, I don't.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000012_000000|"Rather not.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000015_000000|"Then follow the leader," he cried gaily.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000019_000000|"Oh dear, are you going away?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000020_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000022_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000023_000000|"About me, peter?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000024_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000025_000000|mrs Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sharp eye on Wendy.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000026_000000|"Would you send me to school?" he inquired craftily.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000027_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000028_000000|"And then to an office?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000029_000000|"I suppose so."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000032_000001|"I don't want to be a man.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000033_000000|"peter," said Wendy the comforter, "I should love you in a beard;" and mrs Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000034_000000|"Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000035_000000|"But where are you going to live?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000036_000000|"With Tink in the house we built for Wendy.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000038_000000|"I thought all the fairies were dead," mrs Darling said.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000042_000000|"I shall have Tink."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000043_000000|"Tink can't go a twentieth part of the way round," she reminded him a little tartly.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000044_000000|"Sneaky tell tale!" Tink called out from somewhere round the corner.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000045_000000|"It doesn't matter," peter said.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000046_000000|"O peter, you know it matters."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000047_000000|"Well, then, come with me to the little house."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000049_000000|"Certainly not.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000050_000000|"But he does so need a mother."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000052_000001|Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seemed to her that spring would be long in coming; but this promise sent peter away quite gay again.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000052_000003|I suppose it was because Wendy knew this that her last words to him were these rather plaintive ones:
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000053_000000|"You won't forget me, peter, will you, before spring cleaning time comes?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000054_000000|Of course peter promised; and then he flew away.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000054_000001|He took mrs Darling's kiss with him.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000054_000002|The kiss that had been for no one else, peter took quite easily.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000054_000003|Funny.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000054_000004|But she seemed satisfied.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000055_000000|Of course all the boys went to school; and most of them got into Class three, but Slightly was put first into Class four and then into Class five Class one is the top class.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000055_000004|In time they could not even fly after their hats.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000055_000005|Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000056_000000|Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when peter came for her at the end of the first year.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000060_000000|"I forget them after I kill them," he replied carelessly.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000061_000000|When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, "Who is Tinker Bell?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000062_000000|"O peter," she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000063_000000|"There are such a lot of them," he said.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000063_000001|"I expect she is no more."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000064_000000|I expect he was right, for fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000065_000001|But he was exactly as fascinating as ever, and they had a lovely spring cleaning in the little house on the tree tops.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000067_000000|"Perhaps he is ill," Michael said.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000069_000000|Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000071_000001|For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000071_000002|But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000071_000003|Wendy was grown up.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000071_000004|You need not be sorry for her.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000071_000005|She was one of the kind that likes to grow up.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000071_000006|In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000072_000000|All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000072_000001|You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000072_000004|You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door?
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000072_000005|That used to be Tootles.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000072_000006|The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once john.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000073_000000|Wendy was married in white with a pink sash.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000074_000000|Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000074_000001|This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000075_000001|When she was old enough to ask them they were mostly about peter Pan.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000075_000002|She loved to hear of peter, and Wendy told her all she could remember in the very nursery from which the famous flight had taken place.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000076_000000|There were only two beds in the nursery now, Jane's and her nurse's; and there was no kennel, for Nana also had passed away.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000076_000001|She died of old age, and at the end she had been rather difficult to get on with; being very firmly convinced that no one knew how to look after children except herself.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000077_000000|Once a week Jane's nurse had her evening off; and then it was Wendy's part to put Jane to bed.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000077_000001|That was the time for stories.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000079_000000|"I don't think I see anything to night," says Wendy, with a feeling that if Nana were here she would object to further conversation.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000081_000000|"That is a long time ago, sweetheart," says Wendy.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000084_000000|"Yes, you did."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000085_000000|"The dear old days when I could fly!"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000086_000000|"Why can't you fly now, mother?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000087_000001|When people grow up they forget the way."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000088_000000|"Why do they forget the way?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000089_000001|It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000090_000000|"What is gay and innocent and heartless?
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000091_000000|Or perhaps Wendy admits she does see something.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000093_000000|"I do believe it is," says Jane.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000095_000000|"The foolish fellow," says Wendy, "tried to stick it on with soap, and when he could not he cried, and that woke me, and I sewed it on for him."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000096_000000|"You have missed a bit," interrupts Jane, who now knows the story better than her mother.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000097_000000|"I sat up in bed and I said, 'Boy, why are you crying?'"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000098_000000|"Yes, that was it," says Jane, with a big breath.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000100_000000|"Yes! which did you like best of all?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000101_000000|"I think I liked the home under the ground best of all."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000102_000000|"Yes, so do i What was the last thing peter ever said to you?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000103_000000|"The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.'"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000104_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000105_000000|"But, alas, he forgot all about me," Wendy said it with a smile.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000105_000001|She was as grown up as that.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000106_000000|"What did his crow sound like?" Jane asked one evening.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000109_000000|Wendy was a little startled.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000109_000001|"My darling, how can you know?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000113_000000|And then one night came the tragedy.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000113_000002|Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000114_000000|He was exactly the same as ever, and Wendy saw at once that he still had all his first teeth.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000115_000000|He was a little boy, and she was grown up.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000115_000001|She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000117_000001|Something inside her was crying "Woman, Woman, let go of me."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000122_000000|"That is not Michael," she said quickly, lest a judgment should fall on her.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000124_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000125_000000|"Boy or girl?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000126_000000|"Girl."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000127_000000|Now surely he would understand; but not a bit of it.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000129_000000|"Of course; that is why I have come." He added a little sternly, "Have you forgotten that this is spring cleaning time?"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000134_000001|"What is it?" he cried, shrinking.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000138_000000|Then she turned up the light, and peter saw.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000138_000001|He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms he drew back sharply.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000139_000000|"What is it?" he cried again.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000141_000001|I am ever so much more than twenty.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000141_000002|I grew up long ago."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000142_000000|"You promised not to!"
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000143_000000|"I couldn't help it.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000144_000000|"No, you're not."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000145_000000|"Yes, and the little girl in the bed is my baby."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000146_000000|"No, she's not."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000147_000001|Of course he did not strike.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000148_000000|peter continued to cry, and soon his sobs woke Jane.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000148_000001|She sat up in bed, and was interested at once.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000150_000000|peter rose and bowed to her, and she bowed to him from the bed.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000153_000000|"My name is peter Pan," he told her.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000154_000000|"Yes, I know."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000156_000000|"Yes, I know," Jane said, "I have been waiting for you."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000157_000000|When Wendy returned diffidently she found peter sitting on the bed post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000159_000000|"He does so need a mother," Jane said.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000162_000000|Wendy rushed to the window.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000163_000000|"No, no," she cried.
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000164_000000|"It is just for spring cleaning time," Jane said, "he wants me always to do his spring cleaning."
train-clean-100/1040/133433/1040_133433_000168_000001|Jane is now a common grown up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000002_000002|He carried out his resolve with a great deal of tact, and the young lady found in renewed contact with him no obstacle to the exercise of her genius for unshrinking enquiry, the general application of her confidence.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000003_000002|I don't like Miss Stackpole-everything about her displeases me; she talks so much too loud and looks at one as if one wanted to look at her-which one doesn't.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000003_000006|She'd like Gardencourt a great deal better if it were a boarding house.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000003_000007|For me, I find it almost too much of one!
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000003_000008|We shall never get on together therefore, and there's no use trying."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000004_000003|This contribution to the discussion, however, Miss Stackpole rejected with scorn.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000004_000004|Middling indeed!
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000004_000005|If they were not the best in the world they were the worst, but there was nothing middling about an American hotel.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000006_000000|"I don't know what you mean," Henrietta replied.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000006_000001|"I like to be treated as an American lady."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000008_000000|"They're the companions of freemen," Henrietta retorted.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000009_000000|"They're the companions of their servants-the Irish chambermaid and the negro waiter.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000009_000001|They share their work."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000010_000000|"Do you call the domestics in an American household 'slaves'?" Miss Stackpole enquired.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000010_000001|"If that's the way you desire to treat them, no wonder you don't like America."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000011_000001|"They're very bad in America, but I've five perfect ones in Florence."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000014_000000|"Should you like me better if I were your butler, dear?" her husband asked.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000015_000000|"I don't think I should: you wouldn't at all have the tenue."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000016_000000|"The companions of freemen-I like that, Miss Stackpole," said Ralph. "It's a beautiful description."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000018_000000|And this was the only reward that Ralph got for his compliment.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000018_000002|It was perhaps because her mind was oppressed with this image that she suffered some days to elapse before she took occasion to say to Isabel: "My dear friend, I wonder if you're growing faithless."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000019_000000|"Faithless?
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000019_000001|Faithless to you, Henrietta?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000020_000000|"No, that would be a great pain; but it's not that."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000021_000000|"Faithless to my country then?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000022_000000|"Ah, that I hope will never be.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000022_000002|You've never asked me what it is.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000022_000003|Is it because you've suspected?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000023_000000|"Suspected what?
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000023_000001|As a rule I don't think I suspect," said Isabel.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000024_000000|"I remember now that phrase in your letter, but I confess I had forgotten it.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000024_000001|What have you to tell me?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000025_000000|Henrietta looked disappointed, and her steady gaze betrayed it. "You don't ask that right-as if you thought it important.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000025_000001|You're changed-you're thinking of other things."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000026_000000|"Tell me what you mean, and I'll think of that."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000027_000000|"Will you really think of it?
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000027_000001|That's what I wish to be sure of."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000028_000000|"I've not much control of my thoughts, but I'll do my best," said Isabel.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000028_000001|Henrietta gazed at her, in silence, for a period which tried Isabel's patience, so that our heroine added at last: "Do you mean that you're going to be married?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000029_000000|"Not till I've seen Europe!" said Miss Stackpole.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000029_000002|"What I mean is that mr Goodwood came out in the steamer with me."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000030_000000|"Ah!" Isabel responded.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000031_000000|"You say that right.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000031_000001|I had a good deal of talk with him; he has come after you."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000032_000000|"Did he tell you so?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000033_000000|"No, he told me nothing; that's how I knew it," said Henrietta cleverly. "He said very little about you, but I spoke of you a good deal."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000034_000000|Isabel waited.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000034_000001|At the mention of mr Goodwood's name she had turned a little pale.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000034_000002|"I'm very sorry you did that," she observed at last.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000035_000001|I could have talked a long time to such a listener; he was so quiet, so intense; he drank it all in."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000036_000000|"What did you say about me?" Isabel asked.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000037_000000|"I said you were on the whole the finest creature I know."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000039_000001|I see his face now, and his earnest absorbed look while I talked.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000039_000002|I never saw an ugly man look so handsome."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000042_000000|"It's not a grand passion; I'm very sure it's not that."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000044_000001|"I shall say it better to mr Goodwood himself."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000045_000001|Isabel offered no answer to this assertion, which her companion made with an air of great confidence.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000045_000002|"He'll find you changed," the latter pursued.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000046_000000|"Very likely.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000046_000001|I'm affected by everything."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000048_000000|Isabel failed even to smile back and in a moment she said: "Did he ask you to speak to me?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000049_000001|But his eyes asked it-and his handshake, when he bade me good bye."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000050_000000|"Thank you for doing so." And Isabel turned away.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000051_000000|"Yes, you're changed; you've got new ideas over here," her friend continued.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000052_000000|"I hope so," said Isabel; "one should get as many new ideas as possible."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000053_000000|"Yes; but they shouldn't interfere with the old ones when the old ones have been the right ones."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000054_000000|Isabel turned about again.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000054_000001|"If you mean that I had any idea with regard to mr Goodwood-!" But she faltered before her friend's implacable glitter.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000055_000000|"My dear child, you certainly encouraged him."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000056_000000|Isabel made for the moment as if to deny this charge; instead of which, however, she presently answered: "It's very true.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000056_000001|I did encourage him." And then she asked if her companion had learned from mr Goodwood what he intended to do.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000057_000000|"I asked him, and he said he meant to do nothing," Miss Stackpole answered.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000057_000001|"But I don't believe that; he's not a man to do nothing.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000057_000002|He is a man of high, bold action.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000058_000000|"I quite believe that." Henrietta might be wanting in delicacy, but it touched the girl, all the same, to hear this declaration.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000059_000000|"Ah, you do care for him!" her visitor rang out.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000060_000000|"Whatever he does will always be right," Isabel repeated.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000060_000001|"When a man's of that infallible mould what does it matter to him what one feels?"
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000061_000000|"It may not matter to him, but it matters to one's self."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000062_000000|"Ah, what it matters to me-that's not what we're discussing," said Isabel with a cold smile.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000063_000000|This time her companion was grave.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000063_000001|"Well, I don't care; you have changed.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000063_000002|You're not the girl you were a few short weeks ago, and mr Goodwood will see it.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000063_000003|I expect him here any day."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000064_000000|"I hope he'll hate me then," said Isabel.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000065_000000|"I believe you hope it about as much as I believe him capable of it."
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000001|She pretended to herself, however, that she thought the event impossible, and, later, she communicated her disbelief to her friend.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000003|The feeling pressed upon her; it made the air sultry, as if there were to be a change of weather; and the weather, socially speaking, had been so agreeable during Isabel's stay at Gardencourt that any change would be for the worse.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000004|Her suspense indeed was dissipated the second day.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000006|She entertained herself for some moments with talking to the little terrier, as to whom the proposal of an ownership divided with her cousin had been applied as impartially as possible-as impartially as Bunchie's own somewhat fickle and inconstant sympathies would allow.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000007|But she was notified for the first time, on this occasion, of the finite character of Bunchie's intellect; hitherto she had been mainly struck with its extent.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000008|It seemed to her at last that she would do well to take a book; formerly, when heavy hearted, she had been able, with the help of some well chosen volume, to transfer the seat of consciousness to the organ of pure reason.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000009|Of late, it was not to be denied, literature had seemed a fading light, and even after she had reminded herself that her uncle's library was provided with a complete set of those authors which no gentleman's collection should be without, she sat motionless and empty handed, her eyes bent on the cool green turf of the lawn.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000010|Her meditations were presently interrupted by the arrival of a servant who handed her a letter.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000011|The letter bore the London postmark and was addressed in a hand she knew-that came into her vision, already so held by him, with the vividness of the writer's voice or his face.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000066_000012|This document proved short and may be given entire.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000000|MY DEAR MISS ARCHER-I don't know whether you will have heard of my coming to England, but even if you have not it will scarcely be a surprise to you.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000002|I protested against it. You in fact appeared to accept my protest and to admit that I had the right on my side.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000003|I had come to see you with the hope that you would let me bring you over to my conviction; my reasons for entertaining this hope had been of the best.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000005|You admitted that you were unreasonable, and it was the only concession you would make; but it was a very cheap one, because that's not your character.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000006|No, you are not, and you never will be, arbitrary or capricious.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000008|You told me that I'm not disagreeable to you, and I believe it; for I don't see why that should be.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000010|If I like this country at present it is only because it holds you.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000011|I have been to England before, but have never enjoyed it much.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000067_000013|This at present is the dearest wish of yours faithfully,
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000068_000000|CASPAR GOODWOOD.
train-clean-100/1069/133699/1069_133699_000069_000001|Looking up, however, as she mechanically folded it she saw Lord Warburton standing before her.
train-clean-100/1069/133709/1069_133709_000043_000029|This was not, as it may seem, merely a theory tinged with sarcasm.
train-clean-100/1069/133709/1069_133709_000043_000030|Isabel candidly believed that his lordship would, in the usual phrase, get over his disappointment.
train-clean-100/1069/133709/1069_133709_000043_000031|He had been deeply affected-this she believed, and she was still capable of deriving pleasure from the belief; but it was absurd that a man both so intelligent and so honourably dealt with should cultivate a scar out of proportion to any wound.
train-clean-100/1069/133709/1069_133709_000043_000033|It would have proved that he believed she was firm-which was what she wished to seem to him.
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000003_000000|FRIED PERCH-two
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000005_000000|FRIED PERCH-three
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000007_000000|BROILED PERCH
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000013_000000|PERCH A L'ALLEMANDE
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000023_000000|PERCH A l a SICILY
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000024_000003|Cook together four tablespoonfuls of butter and two of flour.
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000027_000000|BAKED PERCH
train-clean-100/1081/128618/1081_128618_000029_000000|PERCH SALAD
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000002_000000|LOVE.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000003_000000|"I was as a gem concealed; Me my burning ray revealed." Koran.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000005_000000|Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000005_000001|Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000001|The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000002|And therefore I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000003|But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000004|For it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak, though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old, or rather suffers no one who is truly its servant to grow old, but makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden, though in a different and nobler sort.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000005|For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000006|It matters not therefore whether we attempt to describe the passion at twenty, at thirty, or at eighty years.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000006_000007|He who paints it at the first period will lose some of its later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000001|For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured, as the life of man is not, to his imagination.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000002|Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000003|Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life, which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000005|I know not why, but infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy and cover every beloved name.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000006|Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000007|But all is sour, if seen as experience.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000008|Details are melancholy; the plan is seemly and noble.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000010|With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000011|Round it all the Muses sing.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000007_000012|But grief cleaves to names, and persons, and the partial interests of to day and yesterday.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000000|The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000002|What books in the circulating libraries circulate?
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000003|How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000004|And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000005|Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000006|But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000007|We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000008|All mankind love a lover. The earliest demonstrations of complacency and kindness are nature's most winning pictures.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000009|It is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and rustic.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000010|The rude village boy teases the girls about the school house door;--but to day he comes running into the entry, and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely, and was a sacred precinct.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000011|Among the throng of girls he runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors, that were so close just now, have learned to respect each other's personality.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000014|The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations, what with their fun and their earnest, about Edgar and Jonas and Almira, and who was invited to the party, and who danced at the dancing school, and when the singing school would begin, and other nothings concerning which the parties cooed.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000008_000015|By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000009_000001|But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000009_000002|For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000009_000004|But here is a strange fact; it may seem to many men, in revising their experience, that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft, surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth, to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000009_000005|In looking backward they may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000011_000000|In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough, but must be drugged with the relish of pain and fear; for he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000012_000000|"All other pleasures are not worth its pains:"
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000000|The passion rebuilds the world for the youth.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000001|It makes all things alive and significant.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000002|Nature grows conscious.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000003|Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to his heart and soul.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000004|The notes are almost articulate. The clouds have faces as he looks on them.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000005|The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and he almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite. Yet nature soothes and sympathizes.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000014_000006|In the green solitude he finds a dearer home than with men:--
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000015_000000|"Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves, Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a passing groan,-- These are the sounds we feed upon."
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000016_000000|Behold there in the wood the fine madman!
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000016_000001|He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights; he dilates; he is twice a man; he walks with arms akimbo; he soliloquizes; he accosts the grass and the trees; he feels the blood of the violet, the clover and the lily in his veins; and he talks with the brook that wets his foot.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000017_000000|The heats that have opened his perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000017_000001|It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000018_000000|The like force has the passion over all his nature.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000018_000001|It expands the sentiment; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000018_000002|Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000018_000003|In giving him to another it still more gives him to himself.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000018_000004|He is a new man, with new perceptions, new and keener purposes, and a religious solemnity of character and aims.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000018_000005|He does not longer appertain to his family and society; he is somewhat; he is a person; he is a soul.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000000|And here let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence which is thus potent over the human youth.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000001|Beauty, whose revelation to man we now celebrate, welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine, which pleases everybody with it and with themselves, seems sufficient to itself.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000002|The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000003|Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself; and she teaches his eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000004|Her existence makes the world rich.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000005|Though she extrudes all other persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy, she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane, so that the maiden stands to him for a representative of all select things and virtues.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000007|His friends find in her a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000019_000008|The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000000|The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000002|We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency, but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion, this wandering gleam, points.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000003|It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000004|Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but, as it seems to me, to a quite other and unattainable sphere, to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness, to what roses and violets hint and foreshow.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000005|We cannot approach beauty.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000006|Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000007|Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000010|The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000011|Then first it ceases to be a stone.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000012|The same remark holds of painting.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000020_000013|And of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors after the unattainable.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000022_000000|Hence arose the saying, "If I love you, what is that to you?" We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000022_000001|It is not you, but your radiance.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000022_000002|It is that which you know not in yourself and can never know.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000024_000001|By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000024_000002|Then he passes from loving them in one to loving them in all, and so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which he enters to the society of all true and pure souls.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000025_000001|If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000025_000002|It awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering tubs.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000000|But this dream of love, though beautiful, is only one scene in our play.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000001|In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever, like the pebble thrown into the pond, or the light proceeding from an orb.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000002|The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest, on every utensil and toy, on nurses and domestics, on the house and yard and passengers, on the circle of household acquaintance, on politics and geography and history.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000003|But things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000004|Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us. Cause and effect, real affinities, the longing for harmony between the soul and the circumstance, the progressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later, and the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000005|Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000006|Of this at first it gives no hint.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000007|Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms with eyes so full of mutual intelligence, of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000008|The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf buds.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000009|From exchanging glances, they advance to acts of courtesy, of gallantry, then to fiery passion, to plighting troth and marriage.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000026_000010|Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000027_000000|"Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought."
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000000|Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000001|Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000003|The lovers delight in endearments, in avowals of love, in comparisons of their regards.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000005|Does that other see the same star, the same melting cloud, read the same book, feel the same emotion, that now delight me?
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000006|They try and weigh their affection, and adding up costly advantages, friends, opportunities, properties, exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head, not one hair of which shall be harmed. But the lot of humanity is on these children.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000007|Danger, sorrow, and pain arrive to them, as to all.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000008|Love prays.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000009|It makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000010|The union which is thus effected and which adds a new value to every atom in nature-for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray, and bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element-is yet a temporary state. Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000011|It arouses itself at last from these endearments, as toys, and puts on the harness and aspires to vast and universal aims.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000012|The soul which is in the soul of each, craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behavior of the other.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000013|Hence arise surprise, expostulation and pain.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000014|Yet that which drew them to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000015|They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard changes, quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000016|This repairs the wounded affection.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000028_000018|For it is the nature and end of this relation, that they should represent the human race to each other. All that is in the world, which is or ought to be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man, of woman:--
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000029_000000|"The person love does to us fit, Like manna, has the taste of all in it."
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000030_000000|The world rolls; the circumstances vary every hour.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000030_000001|The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and the gnomes and vices also.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000030_000002|By all the virtues they are united.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000030_000003|If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000030_000004|Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000030_000005|They resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time, and exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful, disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000000|Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000001|We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000002|That is our permanent state.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000003|But we are often made to feel that our affections are but tents of a night.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000005|There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man and make his happiness dependent on a person or persons.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000007|But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000008|The soul may be trusted to the end.
train-clean-100/1088/129236/1088_129236_000031_000009|That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations, must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000001_000000|"My dear mr Meredith,
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000002_000001|As you know, and as I have given you proof, I have the greatest admiration in the world for one whose work for humanity has won such universal recognition.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000003_000000|"I hope that we shall both forget this unhappy morning and that you will give me an opportunity of rendering to you in person, the apologies which are due to you.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000003_000001|I feel that anything less will neither rehabilitate me in your esteem, nor secure for me the remnants of my shattered self respect.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000004_000000|"I am hoping you will dine with me next week and meet a most interesting man, George Gathercole, who has just returned from Patagonia,--I only received his letter this morning- having made most remarkable discoveries concerning that country.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000005_000000|"I feel sure that you are large enough minded and too much a man of the world to allow my foolish fit of temper to disturb a relationship which I have always hoped would be mutually pleasant.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000005_000001|If you will allow Gathercole, who will be unconscious of the part he is playing, to act as peacemaker between yourself and myself, I shall feel that his trip, which has cost me a large sum of money, will not have been wasted.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000006_000000|"I am, dear mr Meredith,
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000008_000000|"REMINGTON KARA."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000009_000000|Kara folded the letter and inserted it in its envelope.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000009_000001|He rang a bell on his table and the girl who had so filled t x with a sense of awe came from an adjoining room.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000010_000000|"You will see that this is delivered, Miss Holland."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000011_000001|Kara rose from his desk and began to pace the room.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000012_000000|"Do you know t x Meredith?" he asked suddenly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000013_000000|"I have heard of him," said the girl.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000014_000000|"A man with a singular mind," said Kara; "a man against whom my favourite weapon would fail."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000015_000000|She looked at him with interest in her eyes.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000016_000000|"What is your favourite weapon, mr Kara?" she asked.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000018_000001|Probably he required no such encouragement, for in the presence of his social inferiors he was somewhat monopolizing.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000019_000000|"Cut a man's flesh and it heals," he said.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000019_000002|Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000020_000000|"Is that your creed?" she asked quietly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000021_000000|"Part of it, Miss Holland," he smiled.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000022_000000|She played idly with the letter she held in her hand, balancing it on the edge of the desk, her eyes downcast.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000023_000000|"What would justify the use of such an awful weapon?" she asked.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000024_000000|"It is amply justified to secure an end," he said blandly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000024_000001|"For example-I want something-I cannot obtain that something through the ordinary channel or by the employment of ordinary means.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000024_000003|If I can buy it, well and good.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000024_000004|If I can buy those who can use their influence to secure this thing for me, so much the better.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000024_000005|If I can obtain it by any merit I possess, I utilize that merit, providing always, that I can secure my object in the time, otherwise-"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000025_000000|He shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000026_000000|"I see," she said, nodding her head quickly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000026_000001|"I suppose that is how blackmailers feel."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000028_000000|"That is a word I never use, nor do I like to hear it employed," he said.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000028_000001|"Blackmail suggests to me a vulgar attempt to obtain money."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000029_000000|"Which is generally very badly wanted by the people who use it," said the girl, with a little smile, "and, according to your argument, they are also justified."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000030_000000|"It is a matter of plane," he said airily.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000030_000001|"Viewed from my standpoint, they are sordid criminals-the sort of person that t x meets, I presume, in the course of his daily work.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000030_000002|t x," he went on somewhat oracularly, "is a man for whom I have a great deal of respect.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000030_000003|You will probably meet him again, for he will find an opportunity of asking you a few questions about myself.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000030_000004|I need hardly tell you-"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000031_000000|He lifted his shoulders with a deprecating smile.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000032_000000|"I shall certainly not discuss your business with any person," said the girl coldly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000033_000000|"I am paying you three pounds a week, I think," he said.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000033_000001|"I intend increasing that to five pounds because you suit me most admirably."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000034_000000|"Thank you," said the girl quietly, "but I am already being paid quite sufficient."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000035_000000|She left him, a little astonished and not a little ruffled.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000036_000000|To refuse the favours of Remington Kara was, by him, regarded as something of an affront.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000036_000001|Half his quarrel with t x was that gentleman's curious indifference to the benevolent attitude which Kara had persistently adopted in his dealings with the detective.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000037_000000|He rang the bell, this time for his valet.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000038_000000|"Fisher," he said, "I am expecting a visit from a gentleman named Gathercole-a one armed gentleman whom you must look after if he comes. Detain him on some pretext or other because he is rather difficult to get hold of and I want to see him.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000038_000002|Do whatever you can to prevent him going away until I return.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000038_000003|He will probably be interested if you take him into the library."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000039_000000|"Very good, sir," said the urbane Fisher, "will you change before you go out?"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000040_000000|Kara shook his head.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000041_000000|"I think I will go as I am," he said.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000041_000001|"Get me my fur coat.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000041_000002|This beastly cold kills me," he shivered as he glanced into the bleak street.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000041_000003|"Keep my fire going, put all my private letters in my bedroom, and see that Miss Holland has her lunch."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000042_000000|Fisher followed him to his car, wrapped the fur rug about his legs, closed the door carefully and returned to the house.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000042_000001|From thence onward his behaviour was somewhat extraordinary for a well bred servant.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000042_000002|That he should return to Kara's study and set the papers in order was natural and proper.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000044_000000|Kara was given to making friends of his servants-up to a point.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000044_000001|In his more generous moments he would address his bodyguard as "Fred," and on more occasions than one, and for no apparent reason, had tipped his servant over and above his salary.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000045_000000|mr Fred Fisher found little to reward him for his search until he came upon Kara's cheque book which told him that on the previous day the Greek had drawn six thousand pounds in cash from the bank.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000045_000001|This interested him mightily and he replaced the cheque book with the tightened lips and the fixed gaze of a man who was thinking rapidly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000045_000002|He paid a visit to the library, where the secretary was engaged in making copies of Kara's correspondence, answering letters appealing for charitable donations, and in the hack words which fall to the secretaries of the great.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000046_000000|He replenished the fire, asked deferentially for any instructions and returned again to his quest.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000046_000001|This time he made the bedroom the scene of his investigations.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000046_000003|This however yielded no result.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000047_000000|By the side of the bed on a small table was a telephone, the sight of which apparently afforded the servant a little amusement.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000048_000000|"Rum cove," said Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000049_000000|He paused for a moment before the closed door of the room and smilingly surveyed the great steel latch which spanned the door and fitted into an iron socket securely screwed to the framework.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000049_000001|He lifted it gingerly-there was a little knob for the purpose-and let it fall gently into the socket which had been made to receive it on the door itself.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000050_000000|"Rum cove," he said again, and lifting the latch to the hook which held it up, left the room, closing the door softly behind him.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000050_000001|He walked down the corridor, with a meditative frown, and began to descend the stairs to the hall.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000051_000000|He was less than half-way down when the one maid of Kara's household came up to meet him.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000052_000000|"There's a gentleman who wants to see mr Kara," she said, "here is his card."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000053_000000|Fisher took the card from the salver and read, "mr
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000053_000001|George Gathercole, Junior Travellers' Club."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000054_000000|"I'll see this gentleman," he said, with a sudden brisk interest.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000056_000000|He was a man who would have attracted attention, if only from the somewhat eccentric nature of his dress and his unkempt appearance.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000056_000001|He was dressed in a well worn overcoat of a somewhat pronounced check, he had a top hat, glossy and obviously new, at the back of his head, and the lower part of his face was covered by a ragged beard.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000056_000002|This he was plucking with nervous jerks, talking to himself the while, and casting a disparaging eye upon the portrait of Remington Kara which hung above the marble fireplace.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000056_000003|A pair of pince nez sat crookedly on his nose and two fat volumes under his arm completed the picture.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000056_000004|Fisher, who was an observer of some discernment, noticed under the overcoat a creased blue suit, large black boots and a pair of pearl studs.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000057_000000|The newcomer glared round at the valet.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000058_000000|"Take these!" he ordered peremptorily, pointing to the books under his arm.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000059_000001|Accidentally the valet's hand pressed against the other's sleeve and he received a shock, for the forearm was clearly an artificial one.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000059_000002|It was against a wooden surface beneath the sleeve that his knuckles struck, and this view of the stranger's infirmity was confirmed when the other reached round with his right hand, took hold of the gloved left hand and thrust it into the pocket of his overcoat.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000060_000000|"Where is Kara?" growled the stranger.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000061_000000|"He will be back very shortly, sir," said the urbane Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000062_000000|"Out, is he?" boomed the visitor.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000062_000001|"Then I shan't wait.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000062_000002|What the devil does he mean by being out?
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000062_000003|He's had three years to be out!"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000063_000000|"mr Kara expects you, sir.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000063_000001|He told me he would be in at six o'clock at the latest."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000064_000001|"What dog am I that I should wait till six?"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000065_000000|He gave a savage little tug at his beard.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000066_000000|"Six o'clock, eh?
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000066_000001|You will tell mr Kara that I called.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000066_000002|Give me those books."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000067_000000|"But I assure you, sir,--" stammered Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000068_000000|"Give me those books!" roared the other.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000069_000000|Deftly he lifted his left hand from the pocket, crooked the elbow by some quick manipulation, and thrust the books, which the valet most reluctantly handed to him, back to the place from whence he had taken them.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000070_000001|Good morning to you."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000071_000000|"If you would only wait, sir," pleaded the agonized Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000072_000001|"I've waited three years, I tell you.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000072_000002|Tell mr Kara to expect me when he sees me!"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000073_000001|Fisher went back to the library.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000073_000002|The girl was sealing up some letters as he entered and looked up.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000074_000000|"I am afraid, Miss Holland, I've got myself into very serious trouble."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000075_000000|"What is that, Fisher!" asked the girl.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000076_000000|"There was a gentleman coming to see mr Kara, whom mr Kara particularly wanted to see."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000077_000000|"mr Gathercole," said the girl quickly.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000078_000000|Fisher nodded.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000079_000000|"Yes, miss, I couldn't get him to stay though."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000080_000000|She pursed her lips thoughtfully.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000081_000000|"mr Kara will be very cross, but I don't see how you can help it.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000081_000001|I wish you had called me."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000082_000000|"He never gave a chance, miss," said Fisher, with a little smile, "but if he comes again I'll show him straight up to you."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000083_000000|She nodded.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000084_000000|"Is there anything you want, miss?" he asked as he stood at the door.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000085_000000|"What time did mr Kara say he would be back?"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000086_000000|"At six o'clock, miss," the man replied.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000088_000000|"Shall I ring up for a messenger?"
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000089_000000|"No, I don't think that would be advisable.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000089_000001|You had better take it yourself."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000091_000000|"I will go with pleasure, miss," he said.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000094_000000|He put it carefully in his pocket and went from the room to change. Large as the house was Kara did not employ a regular staff of servants. A maid and a valet comprised the whole of the indoor staff.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000094_000001|His cook, and the other domestics, necessary for conducting an establishment of that size, were engaged by the day.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000095_000000|Kara had returned from the country earlier than had been anticipated, and, save for Fisher, the only other person in the house beside the girl, was the middle aged domestic who was parlour maid, serving maid and housekeeper in one.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000096_000001|She heard the soft thud of the front door closing, and rising she crossed the room rapidly and looked down through the window to the street.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000097_000000|It was not the first visit she had made to the big underground room with its vaulted roof and its great ranges-which were seldom used nowadays, for Kara gave no dinners.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000098_000000|The maid-who was also cook-arose up as the girl entered.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000099_000000|"It's a sight for sore eyes to see you in my kitchen, miss," she smiled.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000100_000000|"I'm afraid you're rather lonely, mrs Beale," said the girl sympathetically.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000101_000002|It's that door that gives me the hump."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000102_000000|She pointed to the far end of the kitchen to a soiled looking door of unpainted wood.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000103_000001|I know he goes in sometimes because I tried a dodge that my brother-who's a policeman-taught me.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000104_000000|"mr Kara keeps some of his private papers in there," said the girl quietly, "he has told me so himself."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000106_000000|Miss Holland laughed.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000107_000000|"I want you to go out now," she said, "I have no stamps."
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000108_000000|mrs Beale obeyed with alacrity and whilst she was assuming a hat-being desirous of maintaining her prestige as housekeeper in the eyes of Cadogan Square, the girl ascended to the upper floor.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000109_000000|Again she watched from the window the disappearing figure.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000110_000001|From her bag she produced a small purse and opened it.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000110_000002|In that case was a new steel key.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000110_000003|She passed swiftly down the corridor to Kara's room and made straight for the safe.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000111_000000|In two seconds it was open and she was examining its contents.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000111_000001|It was a large safe of the usual type.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000111_000002|There were four steel drawers fitted at the back and at the bottom of the strong box.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000000|The top pair were locked.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000001|She was prepared for this contingency and a second key was as efficacious as the first.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000002|An examination of the first drawer did not produce all that she had expected.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000003|She returned the papers to the drawer, pushed it to and locked it.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000004|She gave her attention to the second drawer.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000005|Her hand shook a little as she pulled it open.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000112_000006|It was her last chance, her last hope.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000113_000000|There were a number of small jewel boxes almost filling the drawer.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000113_000001|She took them out one by one and at the bottom she found what she had been searching for and that which had filled her thoughts for the past three months.
train-clean-100/1088/134315/1088_134315_000114_000000|It was a square case covered in red morocco leather.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000002_000001|What started the train of thought he did not know, but at that moment his mind was very far away.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000002_000003|He remembered the day well because it was Candlemas day, and this was the anniversary.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000002_000004|He remembered other things more pleasant.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000002_000005|The beat of hoofs on the rocky roadway, the crash of the door falling in when the Turkish Gendarmes had battered a way to his rescue.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000002_000006|He remembered with a savage joy the spectacle of his would be assassins twitching and struggling on the gallows at Pezara and-he heard the faint tinkle of the front door bell.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000003_000000|Had t x returned!
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000003_000001|He slipped from the bed and went to the door, opened it slightly and listened.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000003_000002|t x with a search warrant might be a source of panic especially if-he shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000003_000003|He had satisfied t x and allayed his suspicions.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000003_000004|He would get Fisher out of the way that night and make sure.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000004_000000|The voice from the hall below was loud and gruff.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000004_000001|Who could it be!
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000005_000000|"Will you see mr Gathercole now!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000006_000000|"mr Gathercole!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000007_000000|Kara breathed a sigh of relief and his face was wreathed in smiles.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000008_000001|Tell him to come up.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000008_000002|Ask him if he minds seeing me in my room."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000010_000000|Kara laughed.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000011_000000|"Send him up," he said, and then as Fisher was going out of the room he called him back.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000012_000000|"By the way, Fisher, after mr Gathercole has gone, you may go out for the night.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000012_000001|You've got somewhere to go, I suppose, and you needn't come back until the morning."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000013_000000|"Yes, sir," said the servant.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000014_000000|Such an instruction was remarkably pleasing to him.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000014_000001|There was much that he had to do and that night's freedom would assist him materially.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000015_000000|"Perhaps" Kara hesitated, "perhaps you had better wait until eleven o'clock.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000015_000001|Bring me up some sandwiches and a large glass of milk.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000015_000002|Or better still, place them on a plate in the hall."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000016_000000|"Very good, sir," said the man and withdrew.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000018_000000|"mr Kara will see you, sir," said Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000019_000000|"Oh!" said the other glaring at the unoffending Fisher, "that's very good of him.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000019_000001|Very good of this person to see a scholar and a gentleman who has been about his dirty business for three years.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000019_000002|Grown grey in his service!
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000019_000003|Do you understand that, my man!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000020_000000|"Yes, sir," said Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000021_000000|"Look here!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000022_000000|The man thrust out his face.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000023_000000|"Do you see those grey hairs in my beard?"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000024_000000|The embarrassed Fisher grinned.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000025_000000|"Is it grey!" challenged the visitor, with a roar.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000026_000000|"Yes, sir," said the valet hastily.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000027_000000|"Is it real grey?" insisted the visitor.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000027_000001|"Pull one out and see!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000028_000000|The startled Fisher drew back with an apologetic smile.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000029_000000|"I couldn't think of doing a thing like that, sir."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000030_000000|"Oh, you couldn't," sneered the visitor; "then lead on!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000031_000000|Fisher showed the way up the stairs.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000031_000001|This time the traveller carried no books.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000031_000002|His left arm hung limply by his side and Fisher privately gathered that the hand had got loose from the detaining pocket without its owner being aware of the fact.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000031_000003|He pushed open the door and announced, "mr
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000031_000004|Gathercole," and Kara came forward with a smile to meet his agent, who, with top hat still on the top of his head, and his overcoat dangling about his heels, must have made a remarkable picture.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000032_000000|Fisher closed the door behind them and returned to his duties in the hall below.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000032_000001|Ten minutes later he heard the door opened and the booming voice of the stranger came down to him.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000033_000000|"No more Patagonia!" he roared, "no more Tierra del Fuego!" he paused.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000034_000000|"Certainly!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000034_000001|He replied to some question, "but not Patagonia," he paused again, and Fisher standing at the foot of the stairs wondered what had occurred to make the visitor so genial.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000035_000000|"I suppose your cheque will be honoured all right?" asked the visitor sardonically, and then burst into a little chuckle of laughter as he carefully closed the door.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000036_000000|He came down the corridor talking to himself, and greeted Fisher.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000037_000000|"Damn all Greeks," he said jovially, and Fisher could do no more than smile reproachfully, the smile being his very own, the reproach being on behalf of the master who paid him.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000038_000000|The traveller touched the other on the chest with his right hand.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000039_000000|"Never trust a Greek," he said, "always get your money in advance.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000040_000000|"Yes, sir," said Fisher, "but I think you will always find that mr Kara is always most generous about money."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000041_000000|"Don't you believe it, don't you believe it, my poor man," said the other, "you-"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000042_000000|At that moment there came from Kara's room a faint "clang."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000043_000000|"What's that?" asked the visitor a little startled.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000044_000000|"mr Kara's put down his steel latch," said Fisher with a smile, "which means that he is not to be disturbed until-" he looked at his watch, "until eleven o'clock at any rate."
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000045_000000|"He's a funk!" snapped the other, "a beastly funk!"
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000046_000000|He stamped down the stairs as though testing the weight of every tread, opened the front door without assistance, slammed it behind him and disappeared into the night.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000047_000000|Fisher, his hands in his pockets, looked after the departing stranger, nodding his head in reprobation.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000048_000000|"You're a queer old devil," he said, and looked at his watch again.
train-clean-100/1088/134318/1088_134318_000049_000000|It wanted five minutes to ten.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000002_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000002|She had, however, a peculiar taste; she liked to receive cards.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000003|For what is usually called social intercourse she had very little relish; but nothing pleased her more than to find her hall table whitened with oblong morsels of symbolic pasteboard.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000004|She flattered herself that she was a very just woman, and had mastered the sovereign truth that nothing in this world is got for nothing.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000006|But it is by no means certain that she did not feel it to be wrong that so little notice was taken of them and that her failure (really very gratuitous) to make herself important in the neighbourhood had not much to do with the acrimony of her allusions to her husband's adopted country.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000007|Isabel presently found herself in the singular situation of defending the British constitution against her aunt; mrs Touchett having formed the habit of sticking pins into this venerable instrument.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000008|Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000003_000009|She was very critical herself-it was incidental to her age, her sex and her nationality; but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in mrs Touchett's dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000004_000001|"When you criticise everything here you should have a point of view.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000004_000002|Yours doesn't seem to be American-you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I criticise I have mine; it's thoroughly American!"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000005_000001|You may say that doesn't make them very numerous!
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000005_000002|American?
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000005_000003|Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000005_000004|My point of view, thank God, is personal!"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000000|Isabel thought this a better answer than she admitted; it was a tolerable description of her own manner of judging, but it would not have sounded well for her to say so.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000003|Her cousin used, as the phrase is, to chaff her; he very soon established with her a reputation for treating everything as a joke, and he was not a man to neglect the privileges such a reputation conferred.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000006|"I keep a band of music in my ante room," he said once to her.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000007|"It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me two excellent services.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000010|It mattered little that he had assured her they were a very dismal place; she would have been glad to undertake to sweep them and set them in order.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000011|It was but half hospitality to let her remain outside; to punish him for which Isabel administered innumerable taps with the ferule of her straight young wit.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000012|It must be said that her wit was exercised to a large extent in self defence, for her cousin amused himself with calling her "Columbia" and accusing her of a patriotism so heated that it scorched.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000014|Isabel's chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should really be so.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000016|She would be as American as it pleased him to regard her, and if he chose to laugh at her she would give him plenty of occupation. She defended England against his mother, but when Ralph sang its praises on purpose, as she said, to work her up, she found herself able to differ from him on a variety of points.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000018|If her good humour flagged at moments it was not because she thought herself ill used, but because she suddenly felt sorry for Ralph.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000019|It seemed to her he was talking as a blind and had little heart in what he said.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000006_000020|"I don't know what's the matter with you," she observed to him once; "but I suspect you're a great humbug."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000007_000000|"That's your privilege," Ralph answered, who had not been used to being so crudely addressed.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000008_000000|"I don't know what you care for; I don't think you care for anything. You don't really care for England when you praise it; you don't care for America even when you pretend to abuse it."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000009_000000|"I care for nothing but you, dear cousin," said Ralph.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000010_000000|"If I could believe even that, I should be very glad."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000000|Isabel might have believed it and not have been far from the truth.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000001|He thought a great deal about her; she was constantly present to his mind. At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000003|The old man had been gravely ill in the spring, and the doctors had whispered to Ralph that another attack would be less easy to deal with.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000004|Just now he appeared disburdened of pain, but Ralph could not rid himself of a suspicion that this was a subterfuge of the enemy, who was waiting to take him off his guard.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000005|If the manoeuvre should succeed there would be little hope of any great resistance.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000006|Ralph had always taken for granted that his father would survive him-that his own name would be the first grimly called.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000007|The father and son had been close companions, and the idea of being left alone with the remnant of a tasteless life on his hands was not gratifying to the young man, who had always and tacitly counted upon his elder's help in making the best of a poor business. At the prospect of losing his great motive Ralph lost indeed his one inspiration.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000010|He bethought himself of course that it had been a small kindness to his father to wish that, of the two, the active rather than the passive party should know the felt wound; he remembered that the old man had always treated his own forecast of an early end as a clever fallacy, which he should be delighted to discredit so far as he might by dying first.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000012_000011|But of the two triumphs, that of refuting a sophistical son and that of holding on a while longer to a state of being which, with all abatements, he enjoyed, Ralph deemed it no sin to hope the latter might be vouchsafed to mr Touchett.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000000|These were nice questions, but Isabel's arrival put a stop to his puzzling over them.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000002|He wondered whether he were harbouring "love" for this spontaneous young woman from Albany; but he judged that on the whole he was not.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000003|After he had known her for a week he quite made up his mind to this, and every day he felt a little more sure.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000004|Lord Warburton had been right about her; she was a really interesting little figure.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000005|Ralph wondered how their neighbour had found it out so soon; and then he said it was only another proof of his friend's high abilities, which he had always greatly admired.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000007|"A character like that," he said to himself-"a real little passionate force to see at play is the finest thing in nature.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000008|It's finer than the finest work of art-than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000009|It's very pleasant to be so well treated where one had least looked for it.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000010|I had never been more blue, more bored, than for a week before she came; I had never expected less that anything pleasant would happen.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000012|The key of a beautiful edifice is thrust into my hand, and I'm told to walk in and admire.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000018|She was intelligent and generous; it was a fine free nature; but what was she going to do with herself?
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000019|This question was irregular, for with most women one had no occasion to ask it.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000020|Most women did with themselves nothing at all; they waited, in attitudes more or less gracefully passive, for a man to come that way and furnish them with a destiny.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000021|Isabel's originality was that she gave one an impression of having intentions of her own.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000013_000022|"Whenever she executes them," said Ralph, "may I be there to see!"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000014_000000|It devolved upon him of course to do the honours of the place.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000014_000001|mr Touchett was confined to his chair, and his wife's position was that of rather a grim visitor; so that in the line of conduct that opened itself to Ralph duty and inclination were harmoniously mixed.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000014_000003|Isabel enjoyed it largely and, handling the reins in a manner which approved itself to the groom as "knowing," was never weary of driving her uncle's capital horses through winding lanes and byways full of the rural incidents she had confidently expected to find; past cottages thatched and timbered, past ale houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by midsummer.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000014_000004|When they reached home they usually found tea had been served on the lawn and that mrs Touchett had not shrunk from the extremity of handing her husband his cup.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000001|The two young persons, after spending an hour on the river, strolled back to the house and perceived Lord Warburton sitting under the trees and engaged in conversation, of which even at a distance the desultory character was appreciable, with mrs Touchett.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000003|Isabel, seeing him for half an hour on the day of her arrival, had discovered in this brief space that she liked him; he had indeed rather sharply registered himself on her fine sense and she had thought of him several times.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000004|She had hoped she should see him again-hoped too that she should see a few others.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000005|Gardencourt was not dull; the place itself was sovereign, her uncle was more and more a sort of golden grandfather, and Ralph was unlike any cousin she had ever encountered-her idea of cousins having tended to gloom.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000006|Then her impressions were still so fresh and so quickly renewed that there was as yet hardly a hint of vacancy in the view.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000008|Little, however, for the present, had come of his offers, and it may be confided to the reader that if the young man delayed to carry them out it was because he found the labour of providing for his companion by no means so severe as to require extraneous help.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000015_000009|Isabel had spoken to him very often about "specimens;" it was a word that played a considerable part in her vocabulary; she had given him to understand that she wished to see English society illustrated by eminent cases.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000017_000000|"A specimen of what?" asked the girl.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000018_000000|"A specimen of an English gentleman."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000019_000000|"Do you mean they're all like him?"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000020_000000|"Oh no; they're not all like him."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000022_000000|"Yes, he's very nice.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000023_000000|The fortunate Lord Warburton exchanged a handshake with our heroine and hoped she was very well.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000023_000001|"But I needn't ask that," he said, "since you've been handling the oars."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000024_000000|"I've been rowing a little," Isabel answered; "but how should you know it?"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000025_000000|"Oh, I know he doesn't row; he's too lazy," said his lordship, indicating Ralph Touchett with a laugh.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000027_000000|"Ah, he has a good excuse for everything!" cried Lord Warburton, still with his sonorous mirth.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000028_000000|"My excuse for not rowing is that my cousin rows so well," said Ralph. "She does everything well.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000028_000001|She touches nothing that she doesn't adorn!"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000030_000000|"Be touched in the right sense and you'll never look the worse for it," said Isabel, who, if it pleased her to hear it said that her accomplishments were numerous, was happily able to reflect that such complacency was not the indication of a feeble mind, inasmuch as there were several things in which she excelled.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000000|Lord Warburton not only spent the night at Gardencourt, but he was persuaded to remain over the second day; and when the second day was ended he determined to postpone his departure till the morrow.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000001|During this period he addressed many of his remarks to Isabel, who accepted this evidence of his esteem with a very good grace.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000002|She found herself liking him extremely; the first impression he had made on her had had weight, but at the end of an evening spent in his society she scarce fell short of seeing him-though quite without luridity-as a hero of romance.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000004|"It's very nice to know two such charming people as those," she said, meaning by "those" her cousin and her cousin's friend.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000005|It must be added moreover that an incident had occurred which might have seemed to put her good humour to the test.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000006|mr Touchett went to bed at half past nine o'clock, but his wife remained in the drawing room with the other members of the party. She prolonged her vigil for something less than an hour, and then, rising, observed to Isabel that it was time they should bid the gentlemen good night.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000031_000008|So, without further thought, she replied, very simply-
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000032_000001|I'll come up in half an hour."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000033_000000|"It's impossible I should wait for you," mrs Touchett answered.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000034_000001|Ralph will light my candle," Isabel gaily engaged.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000035_000000|"I'll light your candle; do let me light your candle, Miss Archer!" Lord Warburton exclaimed.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000035_000001|"Only I beg it shall not be before midnight."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000036_000000|mrs Touchett fixed her bright little eyes upon him a moment and transferred them coldly to her niece.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000036_000002|You're not-you're not at your blest Albany, my dear."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000037_000000|Isabel rose, blushing.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000038_000000|"Oh, I say, mother!" Ralph broke out.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000039_000000|"My dear mrs Touchett!" Lord Warburton murmured.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000040_000000|"I didn't make your country, my lord," mrs Touchett said majestically. "I must take it as I find it."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000041_000000|"Can't I stay with my own cousin?" Isabel enquired.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000042_000000|"I'm not aware that Lord Warburton is your cousin."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000043_000000|"Perhaps I had better go to bed!" the visitor suggested.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000043_000001|"That will arrange it."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000044_000000|mrs Touchett gave a little look of despair and sat down again.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000045_000000|Ralph meanwhile handed Isabel her candlestick.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000045_000001|He had been watching her; it had seemed to him her temper was involved-an accident that might be interesting.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000045_000002|But if he had expected anything of a flare he was disappointed, for the girl simply laughed a little, nodded good night and withdrew accompanied by her aunt.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000045_000003|For himself he was annoyed at his mother, though he thought she was right.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000045_000004|Above stairs the two ladies separated at mrs Touchett's door.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000045_000005|Isabel had said nothing on her way up.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000047_000000|Isabel considered.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000047_000001|"I'm not vexed, but I'm surprised-and a good deal mystified.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000047_000002|Wasn't it proper I should remain in the drawing room?"
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000048_000000|"Not in the least.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000048_000001|Young girls here-in decent houses-don't sit alone with the gentlemen late at night."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000049_000000|"You were very right to tell me then," said Isabel.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000049_000001|"I don't understand it, but I'm very glad to know it.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000050_000000|"I shall always tell you," her aunt answered, "whenever I see you taking what seems to me too much liberty."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000051_000000|"Pray do; but I don't say I shall always think your remonstrance just."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000052_000000|"Very likely not.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000052_000001|You're too fond of your own ways."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000053_000000|"Yes, I think I'm very fond of them.
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000053_000001|But I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
train-clean-100/1098/133695/1098_133695_000054_000000|"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000004_000000|In old times, when all kinds of wonderful things happened in Brittany, there lived in the village of Lanillis, a young man named Houarn Pogamm and a girl called Bellah Postik.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000004_000001|They were cousins, and as their mothers were great friends, and constantly in and out of each other's houses, they had often been laid in the same cradle, and had played and fought over their games.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000007_000000|'Yes,' answered Bellah, with a deep sigh; 'but we live in such hard times, and at the last fair the price of pigs had risen again.'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000009_000000|Whenever they met they repeated their grievances, and at length Houarn's patience was exhausted, and one morning he came to Bellah and told her that he was going away to seek his fortune.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000010_000000|The girl was very unhappy as she listened to this, and felt sorry that she had not tried to make the best of things.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000011_000001|Like them, I shall seek till I get what I want-that is, money to buy a cow and a pig to fatten.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000012_000000|The girl saw it was useless to say more, so she answered sadly:
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000013_000000|'Well, go then, since you must.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000013_000001|But first I will divide with you all that my parents left me,' and going to her room, she opened a small chest, and took from it a bell, a knife, and a little stick.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000014_000000|'This bell,' she said, 'can be heard at any distance, however far, but it only rings to warn us that our friends are in great danger.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000014_000001|The knife frees all it touches from the spells that have been laid on them; while the stick will carry you wherever you want to go.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000014_000002|I will give you the knife to guard you against the enchantments of wizards, and the bell to tell me of your perils.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000014_000003|The stick I shall keep for myself, so that I can fly to you if ever you have need of me.'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000017_000000|'There is no fortune to be made here,' he thought to himself; 'it is a place for spending, and not earning.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000017_000001|I see I must go further,' and he walked on to Pont aven, a pretty little town built on the bank of a river.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000018_000000|He was sitting on a bench outside an inn, when he heard two men who were loading their mules talking about the Groac'h of the island of Lok.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000019_000001|'I have never come across one.' And the men answered that it was the name given to the fairy that dwelt in the lake, and that she was rich-oh! richer than all the kings in the world put together.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000019_000002|Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures, but no one had ever come back.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000020_000000|As he listened Houarn's mind was made up.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000021_000002|But the men did not know how this was to be done, and, shaking their heads over his obstinacy, left him to his fate.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000022_000000|So Houarn went down to the sea, and found a boatman who engaged to take him to the isle of Lok.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000023_000000|The island was large, and lying almost across it was a lake, with a narrow opening to the sea.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000023_000002|At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like a swan, lying under a clump of yellow broom.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000024_000001|But the bird had guessed his intentions, and plunged beneath the water, carrying Houarn with him to the palace of the Groac'h.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000025_000000|Now, unless you have been under the sea and beheld all the wonders that lie there, you can never have an idea what the Groac'h's palace was like.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000025_000001|It was all made of shells, blue and green and pink and lilac and white, shading into each other till you could not tell where one colour ended and the other began.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000025_000002|The staircases were of crystal, and every separate stair sang like a woodland bird as you put your foot on it. Round the palace were great gardens full of all the plants that grow in the sea, with diamonds for flowers.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000026_000002|At the sight of her Houarn stopped, dazzled by her beauty.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000027_000000|'Come in,' said the Groac'h, rising to her feet.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000027_000002|Do not be shy, but tell me how you found your way, and what you want.'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000029_000000|'Well, you can easily get that,' replied she; 'it is nothing to worry about.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000037_000000|'A man would be mad indeed to refuse such an offer.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000037_000001|I can only accept it with joy.'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000038_000000|'Then the sooner it is done the better,' said the Groac'h, and gave orders to her servants.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000038_000001|After that was finished, she begged Houarn to accompany her to a fish pond at the bottom of the garden.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000039_000000|'Come lawyer, come miller, come tailor, come singer!' cried she, holding out a net of steel; and at each summons a fish appeared and jumped into the net.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000039_000001|When it was full she went into a large kitchen and threw them all into a golden pot; but above the bubbling of the water Houarn seemed to hear the whispering of little voices.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000043_000000|'The water is getting hot, and it makes the fish jump,' she replied; but soon the noise grew louder and like cries.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000044_000000|'What is it?' asked Houarn, beginning to feel uncomfortable.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000046_000000|But though Houarn held his peace, he was not as happy as before. Something seemed to have gone wrong, and then he suddenly remembered Bellah.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000047_000000|'Is it possible I can have forgotten her so soon?
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000048_000000|Houarn sat down and took out the knife which Bellah had given him, but as soon as the blade touched the fish the enchantment ceased, and four men stood before him.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000052_000002|Instantly she threw the steel net over his head, and the eyes of a little green frog peeped through the meshes.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000054_000000|It was at this very moment that Bellah, who was skimming the milk in the farm dairy, heard the fairy bell tinkle violently.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000058_000001|He stood quite still while Bellah scrambled up, then he started off, his pace growing quicker and quicker, till at length the girl could hardly see the trees and houses as they flashed past.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000058_000002|But, rapid as the pace was, it was not rapid enough for Bellah, who stooped and said:
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000059_000000|'The swallow is less swift than the wind, the wind is less swift than the lightning.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000062_000001|Here she found a nest made of clay and lined with dried moss, and in the centre a tiny man, black and wrinkled, who gave a cry of surprise at the sight of Bellah.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000066_000000|'But what are you doing in this nest?'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000068_000000|On hearing this Bellah began to laugh.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000069_000000|'Poor little cock!' she said, 'and how am I to deliver you?'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000070_000000|'By delivering Houarn, who is in the power of the Groac'h.'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000071_000000|'Ah! tell me how I can manage that, and if I have to walk round the whole of Brittany on my bended knees I will do it!'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000072_000001|When you have found her you must contrive to get hold of the net of steel that hangs from her waist, and shut her up in it for ever.'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000073_000000|'But where am I to find a young man's clothes?' asked she.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000074_000002|Without waiting for orders, they sat down in the nest and, crossing their legs comfortably, began to prepare the suit of clothes for Bellah.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000075_000000|With one of the leaves of the cabbage they made her a coat, and another served for a waistcoat; but it took two for the wide breeches which were then in fashion.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000075_000001|The hat was cut from the heart of the cabbage, and a pair of shoes from the thick stem.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000076_000000|She thanked the little men gratefully, and after a few more instructions, jumped on the back of her great bird, and was borne away to the isle of Lok.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000077_000000|The Groac'h seemed overjoyed to see her, and told her that never before had she beheld such a handsome young man.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000077_000001|Very soon she led her visitor into the great hall, where wine and fruit were always waiting, and on the table lay the magic knife, left there by Houarn.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000077_000002|Unseen by the Groac'h, Bellah hid it in a pocket of her green coat, and then followed her hostess into the garden, and to the pond which contained the fish, their sides shining with a thousand different colours.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000083_000000|Bellah took the net which the Groac'h held out, and, turning rapidly, flung it over the witch's head.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000084_000002|Bellah only drew it the tighter, and, flinging the sorceress into a pit, she rolled a great stone across the mouth, and left her.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000086_000000|'This is our lord and master, who has saved us from the net of steel and the pot of gold!'
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000087_000001|But just as she was going to touch the foremost fish, her eyes fell on a green frog on his knees beside her, his little paws crossed over his little heart.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000090_000001|There were so many of them that it took quite a long time.
train-clean-100/1116/132847/1116_132847_000091_000000|'Here I am!' he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000005_000001|Still he would not leave the farm, and look for work elsewhere, as he might have done, for then he would never see Barbaik at all, and what was life worth to him without that?
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000006_000001|He was tired with a long day's work, and stood with his hand on the mane of one of the animals, waiting till they had done, and thinking all the while of Barbaik, when a voice came out of the gorse close by.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000007_000000|'What is the matter, Jegu?
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000008_000000|The young man glanced up in surprise, and asked who was there.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000009_000000|'It is I, the brownie of the lake,' replied the voice.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000010_000000|'But where are you?' inquired Jegu.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000011_000001|I can take,' he added proudly, 'any shape I choose, and even, which is much harder, be invisible if I want to.'
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000013_000000|'Certainly, if you wish,' and the frog jumped on the back of one of the horses, and changed into a little dwarf, all dressed in green.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000014_000000|This transformation rather frightened Jegu, but the brownie bade him have no fears, for he would not do him any harm; indeed, he hoped that Jegu might find him of some use.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000015_000000|'But why should you take all this interest in me?' asked the peasant suspiciously.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000016_000000|'Because of a service you did me last winter, which I have never forgotten,' answered the little fellow.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000016_000002|We were therefore obliged to take refuge in distant lands, and to hide ourselves at first under different animal shapes. Since that time, partly from habit and partly to amuse ourselves, we have continued to transform ourselves, and it was in this way that I got to know you.'
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000017_000000|'How?' exclaimed Jegu, filled with astonishment.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000021_000000|'Ah! my little brownie, if you can do that, there is nothing I won't give you, except my soul.'
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000024_000000|'That is my affair.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000024_000001|Perhaps I may tell you later.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000024_000002|Meanwhile you just eat and sleep, and don't worry yourself about anything.'
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000025_000000|Jegu declared that nothing could be easier, and then taking off his hat, he thanked the dwarf heartily, and led his horses back to the farm.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000026_000000|Next morning was a holiday, and Barbaik was awake earlier than usual, as she wished to get through her work as soon as possible, and be ready to start for a dance which was to be held some distance off.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000026_000001|She went first to the cow house, which it was her duty to keep clean, but to her amazement she found fresh straw put down, the racks filled with hay, the cows milked, and the pails standing neatly in a row.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000027_000001|To be sure, Jegu only replied roughly that he didn't know what she was talking about, but this answer made her feel all the more certain that it was he and nobody else.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000028_000000|The same thing took place every day, and never had the cow house been so clean nor the cows so fat.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000028_000001|Morning and evening Barbaik found her earthen pots full of milk and a pound of butter freshly churned, ornamented with leaves.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000028_000002|At the end of a few weeks she grew so used to this state of affairs that she only got up just in time to prepare breakfast.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000029_000000|Soon even this grew to be unnecessary, for a day arrived when, coming downstairs, she discovered that the house was swept, the furniture polished, the fire lit, and the food ready, so that she had nothing to do except to ring the great bell which summoned the labourers from the fields to come and eat it.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000029_000001|This, also, she thought was the work of Jegu, and she could not help feeling that a husband of this sort would be very useful to a girl who liked to lie in bed and to amuse herself.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000030_000000|Indeed, Barbaik had only to express a wish for it to be satisfied.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000030_000001|If the wind was cold or the sun was hot and she was afraid to go out lest her complexion should be spoilt, she need only to run down to the spring close by and say softly, 'I should like my churns to be full, and my wet linen to be stretched on the hedge to dry,' and she need never give another thought to the matter.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000032_000002|And she believed that all this was owing to Jegu, and she could no longer do without him, even in her thoughts.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000033_000002|She would wear the beautiful dresses that came when she wished for them, and visit her neighbours, who would be dying of envy all the while, and she would be able to dance as much as she wished.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000033_000003|Jegu would always be there to work for her and save for her, and watch over her.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000034_000000|The marriage took place the following month, and a few days later the old man died quite suddenly.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000034_000001|Now Jegu had everything to see to himself, and somehow it did not seem so easy as when the farmer was alive.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000035_000000|And all the payment the brownie ever asked for was a bowl of broth.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000035_000001|From the very day of her marriage Barbaik had noted with surprise and rage that things ceased to be done for her as they had been done all the weeks and months before.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000035_000002|She complained to Jegu of his laziness, and he only stared at her, not understanding what she was talking about.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000036_000000|Barbaik was furious.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000036_000002|But when she looked at Jegu and beheld his red face, squinting eyes, and untidy hair, her anger was doubled.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000037_000001|While now I can receive no presents except from my husband.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000037_000003|Oh, you wretched dwarf, I will never, never forgive you!'
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000038_000001|To her great joy he consented, bidding her set out for the city of the dwarfs and to tell them exactly what she wanted.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000038_000002|Full of excitement, Barbaik started on her journey.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000038_000003|It was not long, and when she reached the town she went straight to the dwarfs, who were holding counsel in a wide green place, and said to them, 'Listen, my friends!
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000039_000000|She had hardly spoken when the horse appeared, and mounting on his back she started for the village where the wedding was to be held.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000040_000001|At length she caught some words uttered by one man to another.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000040_000002|'Why, the farmer's wife has sold her horse's tail!' and turned in her saddle.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000040_000003|Yes; it was true.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000040_000004|Her horse had no tail!
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000040_000005|She had forgotten to ask for one, and the wicked dwarfs had carried out her orders to the letter!
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000041_000001|But it was of no use; he declined to move out of a walk; and she was forced to hear all the jokes that were made upon her.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000042_000000|In the evening she returned to the farm more angry than ever, and quite determined to revenge herself on the brownie whenever she had the chance, which happened to be very soon.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000043_000000|It was the spring, and just the time of year when the dwarfs held their fete, so one day the brownie asked Jegu if he might bring his friends to have supper in the great barn, and whether he would allow them to dance there.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000043_000001|Of course, Jegu was only too pleased to be able to do anything for the brownie, and he ordered Barbaik to spread her best table cloths in the barn, and to make a quantity of little loaves and pancakes, and, besides, to keep all the milk given by the cows that morning.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000044_000001|But in a moment they all sprang up with a cry, and ran away screaming, for Barbaik had placed pans of hot coals under their feet, and all their poor little toes were burnt.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000045_000000|'You won't forget that in a hurry,' she said, smiling grimly to herself, but in a moment they were back again with large pots of water, which they poured on the fire.
train-clean-100/1116/132851/1116_132851_000045_000001|Then they joined hands and danced round it, singing:
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000000_000000|Before them is a clear road.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000000_000001|Not to happiness, as they may believe, but to the opportunity for gaining happiness.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000000_000002|The goal is not easily won, but they can attain it without the aid of luck or rare gifts or miracles-simply by practicing the common everyday virtues that bring success in all human ventures.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000001_000000|A young couple's engagement period is like any other time of excited anticipation, when one has received the promise of something greatly desired, but must wait awhile before its delivery.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000001_000001|The happiness of the waiting period is characterized by the absence of a critical spirit, and therefore is apt to be thought of as an experience of pure delight.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000001_000002|But the first days of marriage bring out a different set of feelings-those that come when one has definitely obtained possession of anything that before was only promised.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000001_000003|At first the emotions seem to stand still-this is the long coveted moment!
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000001_000004|Then one begins to appraise.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000001_000005|Is the object of one's wishes as desirable as one had expected?
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000002_000000|Because reality rarely measures up to imagination, the first answer is almost bound to be, "No, this is not what I expected." And the first emotion tends to be disappointment.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000002_000001|If one accepts the fact that discrepancy between imagination and reality is inevitable, he is better able to go on to a more thorough examination of the situation, from the fresh viewpoint of finding out just what he has received, regardless of hazy but optimistic expectations; and the object possessed will more than likely turn out to be better than, although different from, what the imagination pictured.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000003_000000|Knowing that a fleeting sense of disappointment is not peculiar to one's own marriage, but likely to occur in all, as in every other human undertaking, takes away its power to hurt.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000003_000001|Unworried by any fear of calamity, each marriage partner can turn to account his or her powers of discernment by learning to recognize the assets as well as the liabilities of the partnership.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000004_000000|Roughly, both the helps and the hindrances to married happiness can be lumped under one word-personalities.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000004_000001|Temperament, mannerisms, tastes-all that is implied in the distinct individuality of each person-make up the chief source of the advantages and disadvantages with which the couple enter marriage.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000004_000002|These traits cannot be changed overnight.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000004_000003|Nor is it necessary, or at all wise, that they should be. john attracts Mary, and she appeals to him, because the personality of each one is what it is.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000004_000004|Love has grown up between the two as a result of this personality attraction.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000004_000005|And love is the motive that will make both try to keep open the pathway to marriage success.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000005_000000|But love is not a finished product that, once it comes, can forever after be trusted to keep its strength.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000005_000001|Like everything else that is alive, it must be kept growing through exercise, or it wastes away.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000006_000000|Love gives the push that keeps a marriage moving, but it does not give the direction.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000006_000001|That comes from understanding and cooperation.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000006_000003|This is what they must guard against.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000006_000004|While love is still the moving force of their lives, they must study the problems that are due to come.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000006_000005|To wait until they are beset by them is to beg for trouble.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000007_000002|And finally, they must know what constitutes a happy marriage-what to aim for in their day to day association.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000008_000000|What makes a successful marriage?
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000008_000001|Here are nine guideposts to help john and Mary along their road:
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000010_000000|The smaller issues on which this rests are the lively clashes of opposite desires, inevitable in the coming together of any two persons, intensified when those two persons are as different as a man and a woman, and unavoidable for two committed to a lifetime together in the close quarters of marriage.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000012_000000|Decisions must be made on the basis of what is good for both, not the selfish or narrow wish of either.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000012_000001|The choice that brings the larger advantage to the two persons in their common role of marriage partners is the one to be made.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000013_000000|For example, Mary wants to buy a car, just as john is reckoning that the time has come to build a house.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000013_000001|Or perhaps he wants to invest money in professional or business advancement at the precise moment when she realizes she wants a child.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000013_000004|Nor could he, overruling her against her will, find in his choice of home owning or personal career investment the satisfaction he had expected.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000013_000005|They two, and nobody else, can make the decision to fit their marriage.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000014_000001|If each one is hurt at the other's inability to join instantly in his, or her, plans, they will need to take pains not to get sidetracked into making a personal contest of the affair.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000014_000002|Trying to win over your partner with a single eye to getting what you want, regardless of its effect on the mate, is short sighted in the extreme. Even if you could care only for personal pleasure, that cannot long outlast your spouse's displeasure.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000015_000000|Staging a contest or a succession of small contests, for the sake of finding out who is boss builds up a habit of fighting that may lead to a bitter end.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000015_000001|It is useless to discover who can win in any particular skirmish.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000015_000002|What is important is to learn whether one of you is set on being "head of the house." If your spouse craves that distinction, by all means hand it over without delay.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000015_000003|It is an empty honor, for the one who bends but does not break will readily develop the fine art of influencing the headstrong one.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000016_000000|Because it is part of the traditional feminine character to enjoy giving in to the man, this tendency must be scrutinized when it appears.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000016_000002|A woman's feeling that she will be emotionally gratified by making a sacrifice does not prove that, aside from her momentary pleasure, there is any value in it.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000016_000003|The ease or difficulty with which husband or wife makes an adjustment in no way measures the worth of that adjustment for their partnership.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000017_000000|Because of women's recent growth in socially recognized independence, any individual woman may waver between a craving for self sacrifice and a repugnance to the very thought of it.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000017_000001|This changeableness can make her feel resentful after she has given in to her husband.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000017_000002|All this must be taken into account in making decisions.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000017_000003|Compromise, not submission, should be the rule.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000017_000004|If john forges ahead on one count, Mary must find an acceptable outlet for herself on some other front.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000018_000001|Respect for the other member of the marriage association is a must have.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000019_000000|Nobody can suddenly change his personality at will, and the effort to do so to please the partner is liable to result in a topheavy hypocrisy-a superstructure calculated to impress the observer, but built on a shaky foundation of chaos.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000020_000000|The changes a husband or wife makes in the partner's total personality are in the nature of altered emphasis in the expression of traits already present.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000020_000001|These minor changes occur as by products of active response to the personality of the mate in many small daily contacts, and not as a result of exhortation.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000020_000002|Nor are they necessarily permanent. A chameleon changes color easily to match its environment or temper of the moment, but a human being's more lasting change is not so readily made.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000021_000000|Each marriage partner must be proud of the other and let the other continue to be proud of him or her.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000021_000001|Therefore you have to respect yourself and act as if you did, even at home.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000021_000002|Too many couples exploit the sense of let down that marriage brings with it.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000021_000003|After so long a time, husband and wife cease to feel that they must exert themselves for each other in little matters.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000021_000004|Knowing themselves accepted, they lounge-mentally, mannerly, and physically-when at home or elsewhere alone together.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000021_000005|Some of this relaxation is a good thing, but it is a mistake to let home and spouse degenerate into nothing more than an invitation to be lazy.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000022_000001|If you are tired or irritable, you can rest or exercise for restoration, as in the days before marriage.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000022_000003|Fatigue and nervousness, expressed, breed fatigue and nervousness in a sympathetic audience.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000023_000001|Too great concentration is to be avoided.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000023_000002|Even the greatest love stagnates if it is kept out of the main current of life.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000024_000000|This is why the unique value of children is their service as an entering wedge in the close grown love of husband and wife, a wedge that widens and holds forever wider the unity of love it has penetrated.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000024_000001|Other responsibilities, other interests, may serve a similar purpose, though more easily dislodged and seldom striking so deep.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000025_000000|Friends, old and new, have a function in relieving the overclose concern of one marriage partner with the other.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000025_000002|Common friends are fine, but for this purpose there is special need of friends for either spouse who can call forth those sides of his or her nature that are not aroused by the mate.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000026_000000|The factor that underlies all the perplexities, and most of the contentment, of marriage is its unique degree of concentrated intimacy. Here the supreme testing always comes.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000026_000001|Each means so much to the other, each needs so much from the other, that there can be no halfway satisfaction in being together.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000026_000002|But there will come a first time when john is too tired to go out with Mary, or vice versa.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000026_000004|The wife may be alone part of the day and profit by it.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000026_000005|When john comes home at night, he has not had that privilege.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000027_000001|The general level of emotion is what counts, not the spectacular scaling of peaks.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000028_000000|Some husbands, some wives, are artists at achieving and momentarily living up to romantic settings, but quickly flop down to the lower levels of decent fairness between the high spots of their sentimental flare ups.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000028_000001|Others cannot utter a poetic phrase, make a romantic gesture, or let their eyes show the quick intensity of their tender emotions if they must die for it.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000028_000002|This difference is one of make-up and training, not of marriage capacity.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000000|Another terrible moment that is due to come may seem even more frightening because it is you who are slipping.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000001|Soon or late you find that some familiar mannerism of your spouse displeases you.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000002|It may be a slight uncouthness at table, a peculiar back country phrase or pronunciation, some gesture of timidity or swaggering.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000004|And your vexation terrifies you.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000005|Does this mean that you no longer love your mate as you did?
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000006|You cannot help your change of feeling.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000007|How, then, can you hope to keep your affection from disappearing altogether if it has already begun to wane?
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000030_000008|You remember other people you once thought you loved, and wonder, panic stricken, how you can keep this love from dying as those other loves did.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000031_000000|This is probably an almost universal experience, marking, not the beginning of the end of love, but the passage from an adolescent type of blind devotion to a more mature affection that persists in spite of being able to admit the flaws it sees.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000031_000001|For the very young a person must register one hundred percent or be rejected.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000032_000000|Now that you can see your mate more clearly, you should also be able to see more accurately his, or her, good points, which before were hidden from you in the mist of your enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000032_000001|Your love is now becoming less self centered and more helpful to your partner.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000033_000001|There can be no holding on to the present nor seeking to bring back the past.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000034_000000|The tale is never told.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000036_000001|There can be no narrowing of marriage to mere sex adjustment.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000037_000000|To interpret the marriage association as little more than sex is to throw away all chance of success, even in the realm of sex.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000037_000002|As a continuing part of this life adjustment, sex adjustment can develop into a permanent factor of married happiness; but without the larger adjustment, the partial adjustment cannot be made in any fundamental and enduring form.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000038_000000|In the sex life in marriage, as in other parts of the association, each partner wins by considering the other before the self.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000038_000002|At no point can the domination of either partner over the other take the place of adjustment.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000040_000000|One who prides himself or herself on having to be handled with gloves has a great deal of growing up to do in order to be able to be an active partner in the marriage.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000041_000000|In the healthy marriage, this sympathetic response will soon give way to anger, which in turn may have the effect of a dash of cold water in the face of the oversensitive one, helping him or her to buck up and behave like an adult.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000041_000001|In the unhealthy marriage, sympathy will grow into pity, which drives out the indispensable attitude of respect.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000042_000001|Both get hurt, but the weak person does nothing but squeal about it, while the robust ignores it except for trying to take some constructive step to prevent future occasions for hurt.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000042_000002|The marriage partner who is mature will maintain trust in the other's good intentions in the face of what might seem to be occasions for hurt feelings.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000043_000000|A chief advantage of the married estate is its opportunity for frankness.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000043_000001|"Why doesn't his wife tell him of that unpleasant mannerism, so he can correct it?" bears witness to the universal appreciation of this function of married life.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000043_000002|But if john nurses hurt feelings whenever Mary punctures his vanity by suggesting that he presents to the world a less than perfect front, Mary may soon lose courage and relinquish her wifely job of husband improvement.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000044_000000|Frankness must go clothed in tact.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000044_000001|Stiff minded people who are frank only when angry lose their case before they present it.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000044_000002|If the expression of anger is to have its proper stimulative effect, it has to be administered but rarely, and then in small doses.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000044_000003|More has a paralyzing effect on the recipient, producing a response in kind that takes away the ability to think of anything except retaliation.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000046_000000|We are all immature at some points, but we can welcome opportunities for growth, painful though they may be.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000046_000002|As this is an impossibility, they are aware of increasing dissatisfaction.
train-clean-100/1116/137572/1116_137572_000046_000003|That does not mean they are unadapted to each other.
train-clean-100/118/121721/118_121721_000009_000001|May be found in a cash book or the kangaroo gait.
train-clean-100/118/121721/118_121721_000022_000001|Lower preferred.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000002_000000|ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000005_000003|He had ridden from the door of the Peacock at about a quarter to eight.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000005_000005|There was no longer any room for doubt.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000006_000000|No, they hadn't.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000007_000003|It was wet and besmirched with mud, and, in fact was lying half in and half out of a little puddle of water when it was found.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000008_000000|But in this they were disappointed.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000009_000003|Of this there was no doubt whatever.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000009_000005|Here was a deepening of the mystery.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000010_000001|Squire Harrington was especially active, and left no stone unturned to unravel the mystery.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000010_000002|Lapierre gave up all his time to the search, and left the Royal Oak to the care of its landlady.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000010_000004|Every place, likely and unlikely, where a man's body might possibly lie concealed; every tract of bush and woodland; every barn and out building; every hollow and ditch; every field and fence corner, was explored with careful minuteness.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000010_000006|Doctor Scott, the local coroner, held himself in readiness to summon a coroner's jury at the shortest notice.
train-clean-100/118/124588/118_124588_000011_000000|All to no purpose.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000002_000001|He lay there still shivering, beneath the heavy blankets.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000002_000002|"I don't dare!" He echoed Graham's words. "There's nothing else any one can say.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000002_000003|I must decide what to do.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000002_000004|I must think it over."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000003_000000|But, as always, thought brought no release.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000003_000001|It merely insisted that the case against him was proved.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000003_000006|After this something must be done about Paredes's detention.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000004_000002|He raised himself on his elbow and glanced from the window.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000004_000004|Two burly fellows in overalls, carrying pick and spade across their shoulders, pushed through the underbrush at the edge of the clearing.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000004_000005|He turned.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000004_000006|Graham, fully dressed, stood at the side of the bed.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000005_000000|"Those men?" Bobby asked wearily.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000006_000000|"The grave diggers," Graham answered.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000006_000002|That's why I've come to wake you up.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000006_000003|The minister's telephoned Katherine.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000006_000004|He will be here before noon.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000006_000005|Do you know it's after ten o'clock?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000007_000000|For some time Bobby stared through the window at the desolate, ragged landscape.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000007_000001|It was abnormally cold even for the late fall.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000007_000002|Dull clouds obscured the sun and furnished an illusion of crowding earthward.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000008_000000|"A funereal day."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000010_000000|"When your grandfather's buried," Graham answered softly, "we'll all feel happier."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000011_000000|"Why?" Bobby asked.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000011_000001|"It won't lessen the fact of his murder."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000012_000000|"Time," Graham said, "lessens such facts-even for the police."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000013_000000|Bobby glanced at him, flushing.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000015_000000|Graham smiled.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000016_000001|I slept like a top last night.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000016_000003|I saw nothing."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000018_000000|Graham frowned.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000020_000000|"He shouldn't be in jail," Bobby persisted.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000021_000000|"Get up," Graham advised.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000021_000004|As far as possible you must."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000022_000000|Bobby sprang upright.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000023_000000|"How can I forget it?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000023_000001|If it was hard to face sleep before, what do you think it is now?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000024_000000|"Don't," Graham said.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000025_000000|When Bobby had bathed and dressed he found, in spite of his mental turmoil, that his sleep had done him good.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000026_000000|"The manager took my advice, but Maria's still missing.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000026_000001|Her pictures are in most of the papers.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000028_000000|"Where's Robinson?" Bobby asked.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000030_000000|"He learned nothing new last night?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000031_000001|I gather not."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000032_000000|Bobby looked up.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000033_000000|"Isn't that an automobile coming through the woods?" he asked.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000000|The car stopped at the entrance of the court.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000001|They heard the remote tinkling of the front door bell.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000002|Jenkins passed through.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000003|The cold air invading the hall and the dining room told them he had opened the door. His sharp exclamation recalled Howells's report which, at their direction, he had failed to mail.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000004|Had his exclamation been drawn by an accuser?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000005|Bobby started to rise.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000006|Graham moved toward the door.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000035_000009|He appeared, moreover, to have slept pleasantly.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000036_000000|"Good morning.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000036_000002|I've nearly frozen driving from Smithtown."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000037_000000|Before either man could grope for a suitable greeting he faced Bobby.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000038_000000|"Fact is, Bobby, I left New York too suddenly.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000040_000001|I thought you were-"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000041_000000|Graham interrupted with a flat demand for an explanation.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000042_000000|"How did you get away?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000044_000000|"Later, mr Graham.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000044_000001|There is a hack driver outside who is even more suspicious than you.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000044_000002|He wants to be paid.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000044_000003|I asked Rawlins to drive me back, but he rushed from the courthouse, probably to telephone his rotund superior.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000044_000004|Fact is, this fellow wants five dollars-an outrageous rate.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000046_000001|Thanks."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000047_000000|He surveyed the remains of Bobby's breakfast.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000049_000000|Bobby tried to account for Paredes's friendly manner.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000049_000002|Only one theory promised to fit at all.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000049_000003|It was necessary for the Panamanian to return to the Cedars.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000049_000004|His purpose, whatever it was, compelled him to remain for the present in the mournful, tragic house.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000049_000005|Therefore, he would crush his justifiable anger.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000049_000006|He would make it practically impossible for Bobby to refuse his hospitality.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000050_000000|Paredes's arrival possessed one virtue: It diverted Bobby's thoughts temporarily from his own dilemma, from his inability to chart a course.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000051_000000|Graham, on the other hand, was ill at ease.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000051_000002|For him yesterday's incident was not so lightly to be passed over.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000051_000003|Eventually his curiosity conquered.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000051_000004|The words came, nevertheless, with some difficulty:
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000052_000000|"We scarcely expected you back."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000053_000000|His laugh was short and embarrassed.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000000|"Splendid coffee!
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000001|You should have tasted what I had this morning.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000002|Simple enough, mr Graham.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000003|I telephoned as soon as Rawlins got me to the Bastille.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000006|He planned it with some local fellow.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000008|He fixed a pretty stiff bail, but the local lawyer was there with a bondsman, and I came back.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000009|My clothes are here.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000056_000010|You don't mind, Bobby?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000057_000000|That moment in the hall when Graham had awakened him urged Bobby to reply with a genuine warmth:
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000058_000001|I'm glad you're out of it.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000058_000003|Your presence in the private staircase was the last straw.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000058_000004|You will forgive us, Carlos?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000059_000001|He put down his coffee cup and lighted a cigarette.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000059_000002|He smoked with a vast contentment.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000060_000000|"That's better.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000060_000001|Nothing to forgive, Bobby.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000060_000002|Let us call it a misunderstanding."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000061_000000|Graham moved closer.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000063_000001|His eyes still smiled, but his voice was harder:
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000064_000000|"Bygones are bygones.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000065_000000|"Since you wish it," Bobby said.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000066_000000|But more important than the knowledge Graham desired, loomed the old question.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000066_000001|What was the man's game?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000067_000000|Robinson entered.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000067_000003|Clearly he had slept little.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000068_000000|"I saw you arrive," he said.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000070_000000|"Since the law won't hold me at your convenience in Smithtown I keep myself at your service here-if Bobby permits it.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000070_000001|Could you ask more?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000071_000001|That fleeting, satanic impression of yesterday came back, sharper, more alarming.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000071_000004|His reserve and easy daring mastered them all; and always, as now, he laughed at the futility of their efforts to sound his purposes, to limit his freedom of action.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000071_000005|Bobby didn't care to meet the uncommunicative eyes whose depths he had never been able to explore.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000071_000006|Was there a special power there that could control the destinies of other people, that might make men walk unconsciously to accomplish the ends of an unscrupulous brain?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000072_000000|The district attorney appeared as much at sea as the others.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000075_000000|"You've no objection to the gentleman visiting you for the present?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000078_000000|"I've been watching the preparations out there.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000080_000000|"I suppose not," Robinson sneered, "since everybody knows well enough what's in it."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000082_000000|"You'll be at the grave-as chief mourner?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000000|Bobby walked from the room.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000003|He put on his coat and hat and left the house.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000005|But almost immediately even that prophylactic was denied him.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000006|With his direction a matter of indifference, chance led him into the thicket at the side of the house.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000007|He had walked some distance.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000008|The underbrush had long interposed a veil between him and the Cedars above whose roofs smoke wreathed in the still air like fantastic figures weaving a shroud to lower over the time stained, melancholy walls.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000009|For once he was grateful to the forest because it had forbidden him to glance perpetually back at that dismal and pensive picture.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000010|Then he became aware of twigs hastily lopped off, of bushes bent and torn, of the uncovering, through these careless means, of an old path.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000012|He paused, listening.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000013|The labour of the men was given an uncouth rhythm by their grunting expulsions of breath.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000083_000014|Otherwise the nature of their industry and its surroundings had imposed upon them a silence, in itself beast like and unnatural.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000084_000001|Its brevity pointed the previous dumbness of the speaker:
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000085_000000|"Deep enough!"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000087_000001|He could see where the men had had to tear bushes from among the graves in order to insert their tools.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000087_000002|There was an ironical justice in the condition of the old cemetery.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000087_000004|Like everything about the Cedars, Silas Blackburn had delivered it to the swift, obliterating fingers of time.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000088_000000|This necessary task on which Bobby had stumbled had made the thicket less congenial than the house.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000088_000001|As he walked back he forecasted with a keen apprehension his approaching ordeal.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000088_000002|It would, doubtless, be more difficult to endure than Howells's experiment over Silas Blackburn's body in the old room.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000088_000003|Could he witness the definite imprisonment of his grandfather in a narrow box; could he watch the covering earth fall noisily in that bleak place of silence without displaying for Robinson the guilt that impressed him more and more?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000089_000000|A strange man appeared, walking from the direction of the house.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000089_000001|His black clothing, relieved only by narrow edges of white cuffs between the sleeves and the heavy mourning gloves, fitted with solemn harmony into the landscape and Bobby's mood.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000090_000000|He was glad to see Graham leave the court and hurry toward him.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000091_000000|"I was coming to hunt you up, Bobby.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000091_000001|The minister's arrived.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000091_000002|So has Doctor Groom.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000091_000003|Everything's about ready."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000092_000000|"Doctor Groom?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000094_000000|Bobby agreed indifferently.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000094_000001|They walked slowly back to the house.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000094_000002|Graham made it plain that his mind was far from the sad business ahead.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000095_000001|"He ignores what happened yesterday.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000095_000002|He settles himself in the Cedars again."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000096_000000|"I don't know what to think of it," Bobby answered.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000096_000001|"This morning Carlos gave me the creeps."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000098_000000|"Gave me the creeps, too.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000098_000002|He suggests resources as hard to understand as anything that has happened in the old room.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000098_000003|You'll confess, Bobby, he's had a good deal of influence over you-an influence for evil?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000101_000000|"I won't blame Carlos for that," Bobby muttered.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000103_000000|"Maria did her share," Bobby said.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000104_000000|He broke off, looking at Graham.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000105_000000|"What are you driving at?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000106_000000|"I've been asking myself since he came back," Graham answered, "if there's any queer power behind his quiet manner.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000106_000003|It's a nasty thought, but I've heard of such things."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000107_000000|"You mean Carlos may have made me go to the hall last night, perhaps sent me to the old room those other times?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000108_000000|Now that another had expressed the idea Bobby fought it with all his might.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000109_000000|"no
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000109_000001|I won't believe it.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000109_000002|I've been weak, Hartley, but not that weak.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000109_000003|And I tell you I did feel Howells's body move under my hand."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000110_000000|"Don't misunderstand me," Graham said gently.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000110_000001|"I must consider every possibility.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000110_000002|You were excited and imaginative when you went to the old room to take the evidence.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000110_000003|It was a shock to have your candle go out. Your own hand, reaching out to Howells, might have moved spasmodically.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000112_000000|"If it had been stolen earlier the coat pocket might have retained its bulging shape.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000113_000000|"No, no," Bobby said hotly.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000113_000001|"You're trying to take away my one hope. But I was there, and you weren't.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000113_000004|I won't think of it."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000114_000000|"If it's so far fetched," Graham asked quietly, "why do you revolt from the idea?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000115_000000|Bobby turned on him.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000116_000000|"And why do you fill my mind with such thoughts?
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000116_000001|If you think I'm guilty say so.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000116_000002|Go tell Robinson so."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000117_000000|He glanced away while the angry colour left his face.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000117_000002|He felt the touch of Graham's hand on his shoulder.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000118_000002|For Groom has brought the ghosts back with him.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000118_000003|Don't make any mistake about that.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000118_000004|You want the truth, don't you?"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000119_000000|"Yes," Bobby said, "even if it does for me.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000119_000001|But I want it quickly.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000119_000002|I can't go on this way indefinitely."
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000120_000000|Yet that flash of temper had given him courage to face the ordeal.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000120_000001|A lingering resentment at Graham's suggestion lessened the difficulty of his position.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000120_000002|Entering the court, he scarcely glanced at the black wagon.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000121_000000|There were more dark clothed men in the hall.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000121_000003|The Panamanian had changed his clothing.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000121_000004|He, too, was sombrely dressed, and, instead of the vivid necktie he had worn from the courthouse, a jet black scarf was perfectly arranged beneath his collar.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000121_000005|He lounged opposite the district attorney, his eyes studying the fire.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000122_000000|Doctor Groom stood at the foot of the stairs, talking with the clergyman, a stout and unctuous figure.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000122_000002|From his thickly bearded face his reddish eyes gleamed forth with a fresh instability.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000123_000001|"We need not delay.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000123_000002|Your cousin is upstairs." He included the company in his circling turn of the head.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000124_000000|"Any one who cares to go-"
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000125_000000|Bobby forced himself to walk up the staircase, facing the first phase of his ordeal.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000125_000001|He saw that the district attorney realized that, too, for he sprang from his chair, and, followed by Rawlins, started upward. The entire company crowded the stairs.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000129_000000|Graham summoned Katherine.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000129_000001|One of the black clothed men opened the door of Silas Blackburn's room.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000129_000002|He stepped aside, beckoning.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000130_000002|The iron bed; the chest of drawers, scratched and with broken handles; the closed colonial desk; the miserly rag carpet-all seemed mutely asking, as Bobby did, why their owner had deserted them the other night and delivered himself to the ghostly mystery of the old bedroom.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000131_000000|Reluctantly Bobby's glance went to the centre of the floor where the casket rested on trestles.
train-clean-100/118/47824/118_47824_000132_000000|Robinson stood opposite, but he didn't look at Silas Blackburn who could no longer accuse.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000001_000001|Why put them right?
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000007_000000|He asked to be taught gardening.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000010_000000|five.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000011_000000|six.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000011_000001|The Master said, The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks; commands even go unheeded when the life is crooked.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000012_000000|seven.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000013_000000|eight.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000014_000000|nine.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000014_000002|What numbers!
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000015_000000|Jan Yu said, Since numbers are here, what next is needed?
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000016_000000|Wealth, said the Master.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000018_000000|Teaching, said the Master.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000019_000000|ten.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000020_000000|eleven.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000022_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000023_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000025_000000|Household business, said the Master.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000026_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000031_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000031_000001|The Duke of She asked, What is kingcraft?
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000035_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000036_000002|There is uprightness in this.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000037_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000039_000000|twenty.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000045_000000|And how are the crown servants of to day?
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000046_000000|What!
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000046_000001|The weights and measures men! said the Master.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000046_000002|Are they worth reckoning?
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000047_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000049_000000|The Master said, Neglect of the omens, that is all.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000050_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000051_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000055_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000056_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000057_000000|twenty seven.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000058_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000060_000000|twenty nine.
train-clean-100/1183/124566/1183_124566_000061_000000|thirty.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000003_000002|First boy: "Honor bright?" Second boy: "Hope to die." First boy: "Cut your throat?" Second boy draws finger across throat.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000005_000000|Certain, true, Black and blue.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000007_000001|A form fuller than the preceding:--
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000008_000000|Certain, true, Black and blue, Lay me down and cut me in two.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000009_000001|A boy who desires to tell an extravagant story without being guilty of a lie would point with his thumb over his left shoulder.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000011_000001|The addition of the words "in a horn" justify a falsehood.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000012_000001|In making a false statement, it was proper to say "over the left." This was often uttered in such manner that the person addressed should not perceive the qualification.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000016_000000|CHALLENGE.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000017_000000|To "stump" another boy to do a thing is considered as putting a certain obligation on him to perform the action indicated.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000017_000001|The phrase is sometimes used, although the person giving the "stump" may not himself be able to accomplish the feat.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000019_000002|Once in Ohio several lads were collected together about a spring.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000019_000003|One of them drew a pail of fresh water and by chance brought up a small live fish.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000019_000005|The boys took the "stump," one quickly cut up the unfortunate little animal and each boy swallowed a bit.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000020_000000|FORTUNE.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000021_000001|Put a mark upon a paper for every bow you get, and when you have one hundred bury the paper and wish.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000022_000001|Children collect two or three hundred names of persons, asking each to give a bow with the name.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000024_000000|FRIENDSHIP.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000025_000001|If two persons, while walking, divide so as to pass an obstruction one on one side and one on the other, they will quarrel.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000025_000002|Children avert this catastrophe by exclaiming, "bread and butter," which is a counter charm.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000025_000003|On the other hand, if they say "pepper and salt," the quarrel is made doubly certain.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000027_000000|MYTHOLOGY.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000029_000001|The stars are holes made in the sky, so that the light of heaven shines through.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000033_000001|At the age of six or seven years, a child, while going to a spring to draw water, saw a little creature with wings fly from one star to another, leaving behind an arc of light.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000034_000001|Stick your thumb through a knothole and say:--
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000035_000000|Old Gran'f'ther Graybeard, without tooths or tongue, If you'll give me a little finger I'll give you a thumb. Thumb'll go away and little finger'll come.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000037_000000|PUNISHMENT.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000040_000000|Believed by most schoolboys there at that time.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000041_000000|SPORT.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000043_000001|Children believe it is unlucky to step on the cracks in the flagstones, which are believed to contain poison.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000045_000000|VARIOUS.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000047_000001|The ideas of children about the significance of color are mixed.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000047_000002|Thus in croquet no child (in a town near Boston) would take the red ball, because it was supposed to mean hate.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000047_000003|Blue is the favorite color.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000048_000001|Red and yellow, catch a fellow.
train-clean-100/1183/128659/1183_128659_000052_000001|Boys believe that they can prevent the stitch in the side which is liable to be induced by running, by means of holding a pebble under the tongue.
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train-clean-100/1235/135883/1235_135883_000004_000003|Will you absolutely take away the life of a poor innocent?" "Yes," replied the genie, "I am resolved."
train-clean-100/1235/135883/1235_135883_000008_000001|Allow me one word.
train-clean-100/1235/135883/1235_135883_000008_000003|When I have done this, I will come back and submit to whatever you shall please to command." "But," said the genie, "if I grant you the time you ask, I doubt you will never return?"
train-clean-100/1235/135883/1235_135883_000008_000005|"I ask a year," said the merchant; "I cannot in less settle my affairs, and prepare myself to die without regret.
train-clean-100/1235/135883/1235_135883_000008_000006|But I promise you, that this day twelve months I will return under these trees, to put myself into your hands." "Do you take heaven to be witness to this promise?" said the genie.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000001_000000|The Story of the First Old Man and the Hind.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000002_000002|She was only twelve years of age when I married her, so that I may justly say, she ought to regard me equally as her father, her kinsman, and her husband.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000003_000000|We lived together twenty years, without any children.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000003_000001|Her barrenness did not effect any change in my love; I still treated her with much kindness and affection.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000003_000003|My wife being jealous, cherished a hatred for both mother and child, but concealed her aversion so well, that I knew nothing of it till it was too late.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000004_000001|Before I went, I recommended to my wife, of whom I had no mistrust, the slave and her son, and prayed her to take care of them during my absence, which was to be for a whole year.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000004_000003|She applied herself to magic, and when she had learnt enough of that diabolical art to execute her horrible design, the wretch carried my son to a desolate place, where, by her enchantments, she changed him into a calf, and gave him to my farmer to fatten, pretending she had bought him.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000004_000004|Her enmity did not stop at this abominable action, but she likewise changed the slave into a cow, and gave her also to my farmer.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000005_000000|At my return, I enquired for the mother and child.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000005_000001|"Your slave," said she, "is dead; and as for your son, I know not what is become of him, I have not seen him this two months." I was afflicted at the death of the slave, but as she informed me my son had only disappeared, I was in hopes he would shortly return. However, eight months passed, and I heard nothing of him.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000005_000004|I bound her, but as I was going to sacrifice her, she bellowed piteously, and I could perceive tears streaming from her eyes.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000005_000005|This seemed to me very extraordinary, and finding myself moved with compassion, I could not find in my heart to give her a blow, but ordered my farmer to get me another.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000006_000000|My wife, who was present, was enraged at my tenderness, and resisting an order which disappointed her malice, she cried out, "What are you doing, husband?
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000006_000001|Sacrifice that cow; your farmer has not a finer, nor one fitter for the festival." Out of deference to my wife, I came again to the cow, and combating my compassion, which suspended the sacrifice, was going to give her the fatal blow, when the victim redoubling her tears, and bellowing, disarmed me a second time.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000006_000002|I then put the mallet into the farmer's hands, and desired him to take it and sacrifice her himself, for her tears and bellowing pierced my heart.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000007_000002|Though I knew not the calf was my son, yet I could not forbear being moved at the sight of him.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000008_000000|I was more surprised and affected with this action, than with the tears of the cow.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000009_000000|As soon as my wife heard me give this order, she exclaimed, "What are you about, husband?
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000009_000001|Take my advice, sacrifice no other calf but that." "Wife," I replied, "I will not sacrifice him, I will spare him, and pray do not you oppose me." The wicked woman had no regard to my wishes; she hated my son too much to consent that I should save him.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000009_000003|I let the knife fall, and told my wife positively that I would have another calf to sacrifice, and not that.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000010_000001|"I come," said he, "to communicate to you a piece of intelligence, for which I hope you will return me thanks.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000010_000003|Yesterday, as I carried back the calf which you would not sacrifice, I perceived she laughed when she saw him, and in a moment after fell a weeping.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000010_000005|rather,' replied she, the calf you bring back is our landlord's son; I laughed for joy to see him still alive, and wept at the remembrance of the sacrifice that was made the other day of his mother, who was changed into a cow.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000011_000000|I leave you to judge how much I was surprised.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000011_000001|I went immediately to my farmer, to speak to his daughter myself.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000011_000002|As soon as I arrived, I went forthwith to the stall where my son was kept; he could not return my embraces, but received them in such a manner, as fully satisfied me he was my son.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000012_000001|As to what relates to my wife, I also agree; a person who has been capable of committing such a criminal action, justly deserves to be punished.
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000012_000002|I leave her to your disposal, only I must pray you not to take her life." "I am going then," answered she, "to treat her as she treated your son." "To this I consent," said I, "provided you first of all restore to me my son."
train-clean-100/1235/135884/1235_135884_000014_000001|I doubt not but in acknowledgment you will make your deliverer your wife, as I have promised." He joyfully consented; but before they married, she changed my wife into a hind; and this is she whom you see here.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000001_000000|In her funeral procession were the eleven people left out of the Grand Army and the Territorial Pioneers, old men and women, very old and weak, who a few decades ago had been boys and girls of the frontier, riding broncos through the rank windy grass of this prairie.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000002_000000|Champ was broken.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000002_000002|The rooms over the store were silent.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000002_000003|He could not do his work as buyer at the elevator.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000003_000000|The elevator company, ezra Stowbody president, let him go.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000004_000000|She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000004_000001|But it proved that mr Bert Tybee, the former bartender, desired the postmastership.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000005_000000|At her solicitation Lyman Cass gave Champ a warm berth as night watchman.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000007_000001|It was rumored that he surprised Vida by coming unannounced, that Vida fainted when she saw him, and for a night and day would not share him with the town.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000007_000003|Without understanding why Carol was troubled by this intensity.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000007_000004|And Raymie-surely this was not Raymie, but a sterner brother of his, this man with the tight blouse, the shoulder emblems, the trim legs in boots. His face seemed different, his lips more tight.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000007_000005|He was not Raymie; he was Major Wutherspoon; and Kennicott and Carol were grateful when he divulged that Paris wasn't half as pretty as Minneapolis, that all of the American soldiers had been distinguished by their morality when on leave.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000007_000006|Kennicott was respectful as he inquired whether the Germans had good aeroplanes, and what a salient was, and a cootie, and Going West.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000008_000002|Harry would be the town's rich man in the coming generation, and Major Wutherspoon would rise with him, and Vida was jubilant, though she was regretful at having to give up most of her Red Cross work.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000008_000003|Ray still needed nursing, she explained.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000009_000000|When Carol saw him with his uniform off, in a pepper and salt suit and a new gray felt hat, she was disappointed.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000009_000001|He was not Major Wutherspoon; he was Raymie.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000012_000000|The town was booming, as a result of the war price of wheat.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000013_000000|The wheat money did not remain in the pockets of the farmers; the towns existed to take care of all that.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000013_000002|But whoever bought or sold or mortgaged, the townsmen invited themselves to the feast-millers, real-estate men, lawyers, merchants, and dr Will Kennicott.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000013_000004|In three months Kennicott made seven thousand dollars, which was rather more than four times as much as society paid him for healing the sick.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000014_000000|In early summer began a "campaign of boosting." The Commercial Club decided that Gopher Prairie was not only a wheat center but also the perfect site for factories, summer cottages, and state institutions.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000014_000003|He liked to be called Honest Jim.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000014_000005|He was attentive to all women.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000015_000001|He never came to the house without trying to paw her.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000015_000003|She hated the man, and she was afraid of him.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000015_000004|She wondered if he had heard of Erik, and was taking advantage.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000015_000006|And he's pretty cute, too.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000015_000007|Hear what he said to old ezra?
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000015_000008|Chucked him in the ribs and said, 'Say, boy, what do you want to go to Denver for?
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000016_000000|The town welcomed mr Blausser as fully as Carol snubbed him.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000016_000002|Americanism, and Pointing with Pride.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000017_000000|Harry Haydock, as chairman, introduced Honest Jim Blausser.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000017_000001|"And I am proud to say, my fellow citizens, that in his brief stay here mr Blausser has become my warm personal friend as well as my fellow booster, and I advise you all to very carefully attend to the hints of a man who knows how to achieve."
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000018_000000|mr Blausser reared up like an elephant with a camel's neck-red faced, red eyed, heavy fisted, slightly belching-a born leader, divinely intended to be a congressman but deflected to the more lucrative honors of real-estate.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000020_000001|You take a genuwine, honest to God homo Americanibus and there ain't anything he's afraid to tackle.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000020_000002|Snap and speed are his middle name!
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000021_000001|They say we can't make Gopher Prairie, God bless her! just as big as Minneapolis or saint Paul or Duluth.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000022_000002|How does the poor fish know?' says they.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000022_000003|Well I'll tell you how I know!
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000027_000000|Then, glory of glories, the town put in a White Way.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000027_000002|They were composed of ornamented posts with clusters of high powered electric lights along two or three blocks on Main Street.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000027_000004|james Blausser-Come On You Twin Cities-Our Hat Is In the Ring."
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000028_000003|She learned, in brief, that this was the one Logical Location for factories and wholesale houses.
train-clean-100/1246/124548/1246_124548_000031_000004|She could nurse Champ Perry, and warm to the neighborliness of Sam Clark, but she could not sit applauding Honest Jim Blausser.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty seven
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000003_000001|Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000003_000002|She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000003_000003|It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found "real work."
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000004_000001|She discovered that in the afternoon, office routine stretches to the grave.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000004_000005|It did not appear that the Great World needed her inspiration, but she felt that her letters, her contact with the anxieties of men and women all over the country, were a part of vast affairs, not confined to Main Street and a kitchen but linked with Paris, Bangkok, Madrid.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000005_000000|She perceived that she could do office work without losing any of the putative feminine virtue of domesticity; that cooking and cleaning, when divested of the fussing of an Aunt Bessie, take but a tenth of the time which, in a Gopher Prairie, it is but decent to devote to them.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000006_000000|Not to have to apologize for her thoughts to the Jolly Seventeen, not to have to report to Kennicott at the end of the day all that she had done or might do, was a relief which made up for the office weariness.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000006_000001|She felt that she was no longer one half of a marriage but the whole of a human being.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000008_000000|Washington gave her all the graciousness in which she had had faith: white columns seen across leafy parks, spacious avenues, twisty alleys. Daily she passed a dark square house with a hint of magnolias and a courtyard behind it, and a tall curtained second story window through which a woman was always peering.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000008_000001|The woman was mystery, romance, a story which told itself differently every day; now she was a murderess, now the neglected wife of an ambassador.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000012_000000|Her first acquaintances were the members of the Tincomb Methodist Church, a vast red brick tabernacle.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000012_000001|Vida Sherwin had given her a letter to an earnest woman with eye glasses, plaid silk waist, and a belief in Bible Classes, who introduced her to the Pastor and the Nicer Members of Tincomb.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000012_000002|Carol recognized in Washington as she had in California a transplanted and guarded Main Street.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000013_000000|They welcomed Carol, asked about her husband, gave her advice regarding colic in babies, passed her the gingerbread and scalloped potatoes at church suppers, and in general made her very unhappy and lonely, so that she wondered if she might not enlist in the militant suffrage organization and be allowed to go to jail.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000016_000000|Guy Pollock wrote to a cousin, a temporary army captain, a confiding and buoyant lad who took Carol to tea dances, and laughed, as she had always wanted some one to laugh, about nothing in particular.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000016_000001|The captain introduced her to the secretary of a congressman, a cynical young widow with many acquaintances in the navy.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000016_000003|The teacher took her to headquarters.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000016_000006|But she was casually adopted by this family of friendly women who, when they were not being mobbed or arrested, took dancing lessons or went picnicking up the Chesapeake Canal or talked about the politics of the American Federation of Labor.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000017_000000|With the congressman's secretary and the teacher Carol leased a small flat.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000017_000003|She herself put him to bed and played with him on holidays.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000017_000004|There were walks with him, there were motionless evenings of reading, but chiefly Washington was associated with people, scores of them, sitting about the flat, talking, talking, talking, not always wisely but always excitedly. It was not at all the "artist's studio" of which, because of its persistence in fiction, she had dreamed.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000017_000006|But they played, very simply, and they saw no reason why anything which exists cannot also be acknowledged.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000018_000002|Kennicott and Main Street had drained her self reliance; the presence of Hugh made her feel temporary.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000018_000003|Some day-oh, she'd have to take him back to open fields and the right to climb about hay lofts.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000020_000000|Most of the men who came to the flat, whether they were army officers or radicals who hated the army, had the easy gentleness, the acceptance of women without embarrassed banter, for which she had longed in Gopher Prairie.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000020_000001|Yet they seemed to be as efficient as the Sam Clarks.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000020_000002|She concluded that it was because they were of secure reputation, not hemmed in by the fire of provincial jealousies.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000020_000003|Kennicott had asserted that the villager's lack of courtesy is due to his poverty.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000021_000000|Nor could she upon inquiry learn that many of this reckless race died in the poorhouse.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000021_000001|That institution is reserved for men like Kennicott who, after devoting fifty years to "putting aside a stake," incontinently invest the stake in spurious oil stocks.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000023_000001|She found the same faith not only in girls escaped from domesticity but also in demure old ladies who, tragically deprived of esteemed husbands and huge old houses, yet managed to make a very comfortable thing of it by living in small flats and having time to read.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000024_000000|But she also learned that by comparison Gopher Prairie was a model of daring color, clever planning, and frenzied intellectuality.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000025_000002|A rich farming center in New Jersey, off the railroad, furiously pious, ruled by old men, unbelievably ignorant old men, sitting about the grocery talking of james g Blaine.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000025_000004|A Western mining settlement like a tumor.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000027_000000|The chart which plots Carol's progress is not easy to read.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000028_000000|Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high church and new thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000028_000002|Even her flight had been but the temporary courage of panic.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000028_000003|The thing she gained in Washington was not information about office systems and labor unions but renewed courage, that amiable contempt called poise.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000028_000004|Her glimpse of tasks involving millions of people and a score of nations reduced Main Street from bloated importance to its actual pettiness.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000028_000005|She could never again be quite so awed by the power with which she herself had endowed the Vidas and Blaussers and Bogarts.
train-clean-100/1246/124550/1246_124550_000030_000001|Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000000|peter Rabbit delivered Mother Nature's message to Johnny Chuck. Johnny didn't seem at all pleased.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000001|He grumbled and growled to himself.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000002|He didn't want to go to school.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000003|He didn't want to learn anything about his relatives.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000004|He was perfectly satisfied with things as they were.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000005|The truth is, Johnny Chuck was already beginning to get fat with good living and he is naturally lazy. As a rule he can find plenty to eat very near his home, so he seldom goes far from his own doorstep.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000006|peter left him grumbling and growling, and chuckled to himself all the way back to the dear Old Briar patch.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000001_000007|He knew that Johnny Chuck would not dare disobey Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000003_000000|"Good morning, Johnny Chuck," said she.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000004_000000|Johnny bobbed his head and said, "Good morning."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000005_000000|"I understand," continued Old Mother Nature, "That you are not at all interested in learning about your relatives.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000005_000002|The more one knows the better fitted he is to take care of himself and do his part in the work of the Great World.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000005_000003|However, it wasn't for your benefit that I sent word for you to be here this morning.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000005_000004|It was for the benefit of your friends and neighbors.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000005_000005|Now sit up so that all can get a good look at you."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000006_000000|Johnny Chuck obediently sat up, and of course all the others stared at him.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000006_000001|It made him feel quite uncomfortable.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000006_000002|"You remember," said Old Mother Nature, "how surprised you little folks were when I told you that Johnny Chuck is a member of the Squirrel family. Happy Jack, you go sit beside Johnny Chuck, and the rest of you look hard at Happy Jack and Johnny and see if you do not see a family resemblance."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000007_000000|Seeing Happy Jack and Johnny Chuck sitting up side by side, peter Rabbit caught the resemblance at once.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000007_000002|"Why!
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000007_000004|Johnny Chuck does look like a Squirrel," he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000008_000000|"Of course he looks like a Squirrel, because he is one," said Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000008_000001|"Johnny Chuck is very much bigger and so stout in the body that he has none of the gracefulness of the true Squirrels. But you will notice that the shape of his head is much the same as that of Happy Jack.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000008_000002|He has a Squirrel face when you come to look at him closely.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000008_000003|The Woodchucks, sometimes called Ground Hogs, though why any one should call them this is more than I can understand, belong to the Marmot branch of the Squirrel family, and wherever found they look much alike.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000009_000000|"As you will notice, Johnny Chuck's coat is brownish yellow, his feet are very dark brown, almost black.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000009_000001|His head is dark brown with light gray on his cheeks.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000009_000002|Beneath he is reddish orange, including his throat.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000009_000004|He has a number of whiskers and they are black.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000010_000000|"Johnny, here, is not fond of the Green Forest, but loves the Old orchard and the Green Meadows.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000010_000002|You will notice that Johnny has stout claws.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000010_000003|Those are to help him dig, for all the Marmot family are great diggers. What other use do you have for those claws, Johnny?"
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000012_000000|"Climb!" exclaimed peter Rabbit.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000012_000001|"Who ever heard of a Woodchuck climbing?"
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000013_000000|"I can climb if I have to," retorted Johnny Chuck indignantly.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000013_000001|"I've climbed up bushes and low trees lots of times, and if I can get a good run first, I can climb up the straight trunk of a tree with rough bark to the first branches-if they are not too far above ground.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000013_000002|You ask Reddy Fox if I can't; he knows."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000014_000000|"That's quite true, Johnny," said Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000014_000002|You are better as a digger."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000015_000000|"He certainly is all right as a digger," exclaimed peter Rabbit. "My, how he can make the sand fly!
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000015_000001|Johnny Chuck certainly is right at home when it comes to digging."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000017_000000|peter was delighted to air his knowledge.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000017_000002|The entrance was quite large with a big heap of sand out in front of it.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000017_000003|Down a little way the tunnel grew smaller and then remained the same size all the rest of the way. Way down at the farther end was a nice little bedroom with some grass in it.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000017_000004|There were one or two other little rooms, and there were two branch tunnels leading up to the surface of the ground, making side or back doorways.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000017_000005|There was no sand around either of these, and they were quite hidden by the long grass hanging over them.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000018_000000|"Huh!" interrupted Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000020_000000|"No," replied Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000021_000000|"Do you use the same house year after year?" piped up Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000022_000000|Johnny shook his head.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000022_000002|"I dig a new hole each spring. mrs Chuck and I like a change of scene.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000022_000003|Usually my new home isn't very far from my old one, because I am not fond of traveling. Sometimes, however, if we cannot find a place that just suits us, we go quite a distance."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000023_000000|"Are your babies born down in that little bedroom in the ground?" asked Jumper the Hare.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000024_000000|"Of course," replied Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000024_000001|"Where else would they be born?"
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000025_000000|"I didn't know but mrs Chuck might make a nest on the ground the way mrs peter and mrs Jumper do," replied Jumper meekly.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000026_000001|"Our babies are born in that little underground bedroom, and they stay down in the ground until they are big enough to hunt for food for themselves."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000027_000000|"How many do you usually have?" inquired Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000028_000000|"Six or eight," replied Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000028_000001|"mrs Chuck and I believe in large families."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000030_000000|"No," replied Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000033_000000|"If I didn't I would starve," responded Johnny Chuck promptly. "When it gets near time for Jack Frost to arrive, I stuff and stuff and stuff on the last of the good green things until I'm so fat I can hardly waddle.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000033_000001|Then I go down to my bedroom, curl up and go to sleep.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000033_000002|Cold weather, snow and ice don't worry me a bit."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000034_000001|"I sleep most of the winter myself.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000034_000002|Of course I have a lot of food stored away down in my house, and once in a while I wake up and eat a little.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000034_000003|Do you ever wake up in the winter, Johnny Chuck?"
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000035_000000|"No," replied Johnny.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000035_000001|"I sleep right through, thank goodness. Sometimes I wake up very early in the spring before the snow is all gone, earlier than I wish I did.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000035_000002|That is where my fat comes in handy.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000035_000003|It keeps me warm and keeps me alive until I can find the first green plants.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000035_000004|Perhaps you have noticed that early in the spring I am as thin as I was fat in the fall.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000035_000005|This is because I have used up the fat, waiting for the first green things to appear."
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000036_000000|"Do you have many enemies?" asked peter Rabbit, who has so many himself that he is constantly thinking of them.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000037_000000|"Not many, but enough," growled Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000037_000001|"Reddy Fox, Old Man Coyote, men and Dogs are the worst.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000038_000000|"Time is up," interrupted Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000038_000003|You need not come tomorrow, Johnny Chuck, unless you want to," she added.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000040_000000|"If you please, Mother Nature," said he, "I think I'll come.
train-clean-100/1246/135815/1246_135815_000040_000001|I didn't know I had any close relatives, and I want to know about them."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000009_000003|He was punctual, dressed in black, with crape around his hat, and presented himself at his cousin's with a face made up for the occasion, and which he could alter as might be required.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000013_000001|Where is her stepmother?
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000015_000000|"Who is he?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000017_000001|Is he a deputy?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000019_000000|"Have you mentioned this death in your paper?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000021_000001|But whom are you seeking, Debray?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000023_000001|"I think he is about to leave Paris; he was going to his banker."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000024_000000|"His banker?
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000027_000000|"Still, he ought to have been here," said Debray; "I wonder what will be talked about to night; this funeral is the news of the day.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000027_000001|But hush, here comes our minister of justice; he will feel obliged to make some little speech to the cousin," and the three young men drew near to listen.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000028_000000|The banker saw the carriage of the count enter the court yard, and advanced to meet him with a sad, though affable smile.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000028_000001|"Well," said he, extending his hand to Monte Cristo, "I suppose you have come to sympathize with me, for indeed misfortune has taken possession of my house.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000028_000003|Do you know, count, that persons of our time of life-not that you belong to the class, you are still a young man,--but as I was saying, persons of our time of life have been very unfortunate this year.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000031_000000|"What new calamity?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000032_000000|"My daughter"--
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000036_000000|"The truth, my dear count.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000036_000001|Oh, how happy you must be in not having either wife or children!"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000037_000000|"Do you think so?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000038_000000|"Indeed I do."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000042_000000|"The other night she left."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000044_000001|But still, we have quite lost our dear Eugenie; for I doubt whether her pride will ever allow her to return to France."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000045_000001|Philosophers may well say, and practical men will always support the opinion, that money mitigates many trials; and if you admit the efficacy of this sovereign balm, you ought to be very easily consoled-you, the king of finance, the focus of immeasurable power."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000046_000000|Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000046_000001|"Yes," he answered, "if a fortune brings consolation, I ought to be consoled; I am rich."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000049_000000|There was a moment's silence, during which the noise of the banker's pen was alone heard, while Monte Cristo examined the gilt mouldings on the ceiling.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000049_000001|"Are they Spanish, Haitian, or Neapolitan bonds?" said Monte Cristo.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000049_000003|Stay, count," he added, "you, who may be called the emperor, if I claim the title of king of finance, have you many pieces of paper of this size, each worth a million?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000050_000000|"To the Governor of the Bank.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000050_000001|Please pay to my order, from the fund deposited by me, the sum of a million, and charge the same to my account.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000052_000000|"One, two, three, four, five," said Monte Cristo; "five millions-why what a Croesus you are!"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000054_000000|"It is really wonderful," said the count; "above all, if, as I suppose, it is payable at sight."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000057_000000|"You do not doubt it?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000058_000000|"No!"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000060_000000|"No," said Monte Cristo folding the five notes, "most decidedly not; the thing is so curious, I will make the experiment myself.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000060_000003|I will take the five scraps of paper that I now hold as bonds, with your signature alone, and here is a receipt in full for the six millions between us.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000061_000000|"What," he stammered, "do you mean to keep that money?
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000061_000001|Excuse me, excuse me, but I owe this money to the charity fund,--a deposit which I promised to pay this morning."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000063_000000|"Certainly," he said, "your receipt is money."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000065_000000|"Pardon me, count, pardon me."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000066_000000|"Then I may keep this money?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000067_000000|"Yes," said Danglars, while the perspiration started from the roots of his hair.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000067_000001|"Yes, keep it-keep it."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000068_000000|Monte Cristo replaced the notes in his pocket with that indescribable expression which seemed to say, "Come, reflect; if you repent there is still time."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000069_000000|"No," said Danglars, "no, decidedly no; keep my signatures.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000069_000002|How absurd-as if one crown were not as good as another.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000070_000000|"Certainly, I excuse you," said Monte Cristo graciously, "and pocket them." And he placed the bonds in his pocket book.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000071_000000|"But," said Danglars, "there is still a sum of one hundred thousand francs?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000072_000001|"The balance would come to about that sum; but keep it, and we shall be quits."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000076_000003|At the door he found his carriage, and was immediately driven to the bank.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000076_000006|"Good morning, creditor," said he; "for I wager anything it is the creditor who visits me."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000078_000001|"Poor things!"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000080_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000081_000000|"I have brought my receipt."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000083_000000|"Yes; well?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000085_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000086_000001|My funds are deposited there, and you can understand that if I draw out ten millions on the same day it will appear rather strange to the governor.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000086_000002|Two days will be a different thing," said Danglars, smiling.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000087_000000|"Come," said Boville, with a tone of entire incredulity, "five millions to that gentleman who just left, and who bowed to me as though he knew me?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000090_000000|"Here is his receipt.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000095_000000|"It is one of the best houses in Europe," said Danglars, carelessly throwing down the receipt on his desk.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000096_000001|Why, this Count of Monte Cristo must be a nabob?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000097_000001|"I must visit him," he said, "and obtain some pious grant from him."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000098_000000|"Oh, you may make sure of him; his charities alone amount to twenty thousand francs a month."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000099_000000|"It is magnificent!
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000100_000000|"What example?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000101_000000|"They gave all their fortune to the hospitals."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000104_000000|"For what reason?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000105_000000|"Because they would not spend money so guiltily acquired."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000108_000000|"Well, I must confess, these are scruples."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000109_000000|"I registered their deed of gift yesterday."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000110_000000|"And how much did they possess?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000111_000000|"Oh, not much-from twelve to thirteen hundred thousand francs.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000111_000001|But to return to our millions."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000112_000001|"Are you then pressed for this money?"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000113_000000|"Yes; for the examination of our cash takes place to morrow."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000114_000000|"To morrow?
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000114_000001|Why did you not tell me so before?
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000114_000002|Why, it is as good as a century!
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000115_000000|"At two o'clock."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000116_000000|"Send at twelve," said Danglars, smiling.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000120_000000|"Certainly; it will only cost you a discount of five thousand or six thousand francs." The receiver started back.
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000120_000002|What a proposition!"
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000123_000000|"And if that were the case it would be worth while to make some sacrifice."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000124_000000|"Thank you, no, sir."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000125_000000|"Then it will be to morrow."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000126_000000|"Yes; but without fail."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000128_000000|"I will come myself."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000130_000000|"No," said the banker; "I have appeared rather ridiculous since that affair of Benedetto, so I remain in the background."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000132_000000|"Listen-when one bears an irreproachable name, as I do, one is rather sensitive."
train-clean-100/125/121124/125_121124_000135_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000010_000001|"I hate them for being poor.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000010_000003|It's the ugliest thing in the world.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000010_000006|Aren't people horrible!"
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000011_000000|Never before in his life had Amory considered poor people.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000013_000000|Question.--Well-what's the situation?
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000014_000000|Answer.--That I have about twenty four dollars to my name.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000020_000001|To morrow I'm going to leave New York for good.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000020_000002|It's a bad town unless you're on top of it.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000028_000001|I don't want to commit moral suicide.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000036_000001|I'm not sure.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000040_000001|Youth is like having a big plate of candy.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000040_000003|They don't.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000040_000005|The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood-she wants to repeat her honeymoon.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000000|One Hundred and Twenty seventh Street-or One Hundred and Thirty seventh Street....
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000001|Two and three look alike-no, not much.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000002|Seat damp... are clothes absorbing wetness from seat, or seat absorbing dryness from clothes?...
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000005|What?
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000007|That must have been One Hundred and Twelfth back there.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000008|One O Two instead of One Two Seven.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000010|Apartments along here expensive-probably hundred and fifty a month-maybe two hundred.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000013|What a dirty river-want to go down there and see if it's dirty-French rivers all brown or black, so were Southern rivers.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000015|He could live on it three months and sleep in the park.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000016|Wonder where Jill was-Jill Bayne, Fayne, Sayne-what the devil-neck hurts, darned uncomfortable seat.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000017|No desire to sleep with Jill, what could Alec see in her?
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000018|Alec had a coarse taste in women.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000019|Own taste the best; Isabelle, Clara, Rosalind, Eleanor, were all American. Eleanor would pitch, probably southpaw.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000020|Rosalind was outfield, wonderful hitter, Clara first base, maybe.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000043_000023|Where's the darned bell-
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000044_000004|A man approached through the heavy gloom.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000046_000000|"Got a pass?"
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000047_000001|Is this private?"
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000048_000000|"This is the Hudson River Sporting and Yacht Club."
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000049_000002|I'm just resting."
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000050_000000|"Well-" began the man dubiously.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000051_000000|"I'll go if you want me to."
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000056_000003|He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "no
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000056_000004|Genius!"
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000057_000002|He shivered.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000059_000000|Amory smiled a bit.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000060_000001|And again-
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000062_000000|"Stop worrying-"
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000063_000000|He fancied a possible future comment of his own.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000079_000002|They were too easy, too dangerous to the public mind.
train-clean-100/125/121342/125_121342_000091_000001|He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want-not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable; he remembered the sense of security he had found in Burne.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000001_000000|TWENTY MINUTES PAST TEN TO FORTY SEVEN MINUTES PAST TEN p m
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000003_000001|There, an opening made for the purpose gave them access to the aluminum car.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000003_000002|The tackle belonging to the crane being hauled from outside, the mouth of the Columbiad was instantly disencumbered of its last supports.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000004_000000|Nicholl, once introduced with his companions inside the projectile, began to close the opening by means of a strong plate, held in position by powerful screws.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000004_000001|Other plates, closely fitted, covered the lenticular glasses, and the travelers, hermetically enclosed in their metal prison, were plunged in profound darkness.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000005_000000|"And now, my dear companions," said Michel Ardan, "let us make ourselves at home; I am a domesticated man and strong in housekeeping.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000005_000001|We are bound to make the best of our new lodgings, and make ourselves comfortable.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000005_000002|And first let us try and see a little.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000006_000000|So saying, the thoughtless fellow lit a match by striking it on the sole of his boot; and approached the burner fixed to the receptacle, in which the carbonized hydrogen, stored at high pressure, sufficed for the lighting and warming of the projectile for a hundred and forty four hours, or six days and six nights.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000006_000001|The gas caught fire, and thus lighted the projectile looked like a comfortable room with thickly padded walls, furnished with a circular divan, and a roof rounded in the shape of a dome.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000008_000000|"It is a prison," said he, "but a traveling prison; and, with the right of putting my nose to the window, I could well stand a lease of a hundred years.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000008_000001|You smile, Barbicane.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000009_000000|While Michel Ardan was speaking, Barbicane and Nicholl were making their last preparations.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000010_000000|Nicholl's chronometer marked twenty minutes past ten p m when the three travelers were finally enclosed in their projectile. This chronometer was set within the tenth of a second by that of Murchison the engineer.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000010_000001|Barbicane consulted it.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000011_000001|At forty seven minutes past ten Murchison will launch the electric spark on the wire which communicates with the charge of the Columbiad. At that precise moment we shall leave our spheroid.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000011_000002|Thus we still have twenty seven minutes to remain on the earth."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000013_000000|"Well!" exclaimed Michel Ardan, in a good humored tone, "much may be done in twenty six minutes.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000013_000001|The gravest questions of morals and politics may be discussed, and even solved. Twenty six minutes well employed are worth more than twenty six years in which nothing is done.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000014_000000|"And you conclude, then, you everlasting talker?" asked Barbicane.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000016_000000|"Twenty four only," said Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000017_000000|"Well, twenty four, if you like, my noble captain," said Ardan; "twenty four minutes in which to investigate----"
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000018_000000|"Michel," said Barbicane, "during the passage we shall have plenty of time to investigate the most difficult questions. For the present we must occupy ourselves with our departure."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000020_000000|"Doubtless; but there are still some precautions to be taken, to deaden as much as possible the first shock."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000021_000000|"Have we not the water cushions placed between the partition breaks, whose elasticity will sufficiently protect us?"
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000022_000000|"I hope so, Michel," replied Barbicane gently, "but I am not sure."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000023_000001|"He hopes!--He is not sure!-- and he waits for the moment when we are encased to make this deplorable admission!
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000023_000002|I beg to be allowed to get out!"
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000024_000000|"And how?" asked Barbicane.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000026_000000|"Twenty," said Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000027_000000|For some moments the three travelers looked at each other. Then they began to examine the objects imprisoned with them.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000028_000001|"We have now to decide how we can best place ourselves to resist the shock. Position cannot be an indifferent matter; and we must, as much as possible, prevent the rush of blood to the head."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000029_000000|"Just so," said Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000031_000000|"No," said Barbicane, "let us stretch ourselves on our sides; we shall resist the shock better that way.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000031_000001|Remember that, when the projectile starts, it matters little whether we are in it or before it; it amounts to much the same thing."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000033_000000|"Do you approve of my idea, Nicholl?" asked Barbicane.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000034_000000|"Entirely," replied the captain.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000034_000001|"We've still thirteen minutes and a half."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000035_000000|"That Nicholl is not a man," exclaimed Michel; "he is a chronometer with seconds, an escape, and eight holes."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000036_000000|But his companions were not listening; they were taking up their last positions with the most perfect coolness.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000036_000001|They were like two methodical travelers in a car, seeking to place themselves as comfortably as possible.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000037_000000|We might well ask ourselves of what materials are the hearts of these Americans made, to whom the approach of the most frightful danger added no pulsation.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000038_000000|Three thick and solidly made couches had been placed in the projectile.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000038_000001|Nicholl and Barbicane placed them in the center of the disc forming the floor.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000038_000002|There the three travelers were to stretch themselves some moments before their departure.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000039_000000|During this time, Ardan, not being able to keep still, turned in his narrow prison like a wild beast in a cage, chatting with his friends, speaking to the dogs Diana and Satellite, to whom, as may be seen, he had given significant names.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000040_000000|"Ah, Diana!
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000040_000001|Ah, Satellite!" he exclaimed, teasing them; "so you are going to show the moon dogs the good habits of the dogs of the earth!
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000040_000002|That will do honor to the canine race!
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000042_000000|"There are," said Michel Ardan, "just as there are horses, cows, donkeys, and chickens.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000042_000001|I bet that we shall find chickens."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000043_000000|"A hundred dollars we shall find none!" said Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000044_000000|"Done, my captain!" replied Ardan, clasping Nicholl's hand. "But, by the bye, you have already lost three bets with our president, as the necessary funds for the enterprise have been found, as the operation of casting has been successful, and lastly, as the Columbiad has been loaded without accident, six thousand dollars."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000045_000000|"Yes," replied Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000045_000001|"Thirty seven minutes six seconds past ten."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000046_000000|"It is understood, captain.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000046_000001|Well, before another quarter of an hour you will have to count nine thousand dollars to the president; four thousand because the Columbiad will not burst, and five thousand because the projectile will rise more than six miles in the air."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000047_000001|"I only ask to be allowed to pay."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000048_000000|"Come, Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000048_000001|I see that you are a man of method, which I could never be; but indeed you have made a series of bets of very little advantage to yourself, allow me to tell you."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000049_000000|"And why?" asked Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000050_000000|"Because, if you gain the first, the Columbiad will have burst, and the projectile with it; and Barbicane will no longer be there to reimburse your dollars."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000051_000000|"My stake is deposited at the bank in Baltimore," replied Barbicane simply; "and if Nicholl is not there, it will go to his heirs."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000053_000000|"Forty two minutes past ten!" said Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000055_000000|"Yes, five little minutes!" replied Michel Ardan; "and we are enclosed in a projectile, at the bottom of a gun nine hundred feet long! And under this projectile are rammed four hundred thousand pounds of gun cotton, which is equal to one million six hundred thousand pounds of ordinary powder!
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000055_000001|And friend Murchison, with his chronometer in hand, his eye fixed on the needle, his finger on the electric apparatus, is counting the seconds preparatory to launching us into interplanetary space."
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000056_000000|"Enough, Michel, enough!" said Barbicane, in a serious voice; "let us prepare.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000056_000001|A few instants alone separate us from an eventful moment.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000060_000000|"Forty seven minutes past ten!" murmured the captain.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000061_000000|"Twenty seconds more!" Barbicane quickly put out the gas and lay down by his companions, and the profound silence was only broken by the ticking of the chronometer marking the seconds.
train-clean-100/1263/138246/1263_138246_000062_000000|Suddenly a dreadful shock was felt, and the projectile, under the force of six billions of litres of gas, developed by the combustion of pyroxyle, mounted into space.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000003_000002|They are nearly as large as we and relatively much lighter in weight.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000003_000003|All the periods of physical growth are correspondingly decreased.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000003_000004|Children walk four or five weeks after birth, and are capable of receiving regular instruction at the age of five months.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000004_000000|Strange as it may seem, this sphere, which for convenience we will call Brief, revolves very slowly on its axis, so that our world makes fifteen times as many revolutions as this planet.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000005_000004|It appears that on all worlds everything is regulated in accordance with the length of human life.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000005_000005|On this world, of Brief all vegetables mature in periods so short that one marvels when he hears it.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000005_000006|Think of cereals reaching maturity in seven or eight of our days, or during one day of Brief.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000005_000007|Early in the morning certain crops are planted and are harvested at night.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000006_000000|If you were permitted to look upon the public and private life of this incredible world, your first sensation would be dizziness, not to mention the weirdness of all sights that would confront you at every turn.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000007_000000|Furrows of care and trouble begin to deepen on the faces of these Briefites as they approach an age of what we would call three years, and if by lease of strength they pass on toward an age of four years, it is but an evidence of their exceptional vitality.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000009_000000|JOURNALISM.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000010_000000|Things happen in such quick succession that the news is hustled out at all hours of the day and night; not on sheets of paper, but through automatic news receivers, machines somewhat akin to our telegraph instruments.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000003|But compared to our customs, the news is very scarce.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000004|There being no competition, no time or space is required for sensational trash.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000005|Thus, if nothing of importance occurs, nothing need be transmitted.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000008|The government verifies, as much as possible, all reports before they are transmitted.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000009|There are indeed some advantages in the government being in constant touch with each home under its care. The advertising department pays nearly all expenses of this whole system of journalism.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000010|Announcements for private gain are paid at a regular rate.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000011_000011|It costs more to advertise at certain periods than at other times, all regulated by the customs of the people.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000012_000001|Of course, people take their choice as to reading advertisements.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000014_000000|THEIR FOOTWEAR.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000015_000001|They never think of covering the feet under any change of climate.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000015_000002|If one of the Briefites were to step upon the shores of our rugged Earth and see the cotton or wool and leather that lies around our feet, it would appear to him as the most ridiculous thing imaginable, and no doubt his shapely feet of ivory cast would be of more than passing interest to us.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000016_000000|THEIR RAIMENT.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000017_000000|Their raiment is altogether after new models.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000017_000003|Their garments partake of the loose flowing order.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000017_000004|For instance, a strong fabric of chosen shade is fastened at the neck, hip, knee and ankle, and lies carelessly over the parts between.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000017_000005|The females never graduated to the corset degree, and while they do not cut a scientific figure, yet they surely develop a more ruddy waist after the model intended by the Designor of the body.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000019_000003|In a city of Brief, overhead tracks after such an order run along all business streets and certain residence streets.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000019_000004|Spare me a detailed description of this peculiar traveling system.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000019_000005|Suffice it to say that a person, in lightning rapidity of motion, rushes from a store, springs upon a passing seat and is hurled away by the power of an overhead cable system.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000020_000003|I have no words of praise for this system, although the Briefites can cover considerable territory in an hour.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000020_000004|They look upon this gravity system as a wonderful achievement, for it has not been in operation for more than three hundred years.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000021_000000|The power of steam has never been utilized.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000021_000002|But they have discovered what we would call gaseous oil, and have learned to put it to work, so that it is the main force employed in hoisting and all other purposes where power is required.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000022_000000|Nothing like a traveling locomotive has ever been made, although I learned that a bright wizard was experimenting and that he prophesied great changes when his gas propelled vehicle was perfected.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000023_000001|Quadrupeds that take the place of our horses are used for drayage, although nothing except the two wheeled class of vehicles was ever used until some eighty seven years ago.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000027_000001|They are much purer in morals, more refined in manner, more harmonious in government, and unusually bright in mathematics.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000027_000005|This is principally due to their lack of time.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000028_000000|RELIGIOUS LIFE.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000029_000000|The religious life of the people of Brief is, on an average, of a higher type than is found in our world.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000030_000000|Their Redeemer is worshiped quite separately from God, and with distinctive adorations.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000030_000001|The name of their Redeemer, phonetically rendered, is Kerm Cher.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000030_000002|The most faithful translation of this word into our language would be God affluence.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000031_000001|Similar to Christ, he confirmed his identity by unanswerable miracles.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000032_000000|Many, however, disbelieved in Kerm Cher, and held to the old axiomatic truths.
train-clean-100/1263/139804/1263_139804_000032_000001|Thus creeds were prevalent and they remain until now, only there is much less variety than is found amongst us.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000001_000000|Moisture from the night's rain hung on the tree leaves, clung in globules to Rynch's sweating body.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000001_000001|He lay on a wide branch trying to control the heavy panting which supplied his laboring lungs.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000001_000002|And he could still hear the echoes of the startled cries which had come from the men who had threaded through the woods to the up pointed tail fins of the L B.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000002_000000|Now he tried to reason why he had run.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000002_000001|They were his own kind, they would take him out of the loneliness of a world heretofore empty of his species.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000002_000002|But that tall man-the one who had led the party into the irregular clearing about the life boat-
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000003_000000|Rynch shivered, dug his nails into the wood on which he lay.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000003_000001|At the sight of that man, dream and reality had crashed together, sending him into panic stricken flight.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000003_000002|That was the man from the room-the man with the cup!
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000004_000000|As his heart quieted he began to think more coherently.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000004_000002|Then the marks on the ground at the point from which he had fallen and the L B were here, just as he remembered.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000004_000003|But not far from the small ship he had discovered something more-a campsite with a shelter fashioned out of spalls and vines, containing possessions a castaway might have accumulated.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000005_000000|That man would come, Rynch was sure of that, but he was too spent to struggle on.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000006_000000|No, the answer to every part of the puzzle lay with that man.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000006_000001|To go back to the ship clearing was to risk capture-but he had to know. Rynch looked with more attention at his present surroundings.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000006_000002|Deep mold under the trees here would hold tracks.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000006_000003|There might just be another way to move.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000006_000004|He eyed the spread of limbs on a neighbor tree.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000007_000000|His journey through those heights was awkward and he sweated and cringed when he disturbed vocal treetop dwellers.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000007_000001|He was also to discover that close to the site of the L B crash others waited.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000008_000000|He huddled against the bole of a tree when he made out the curve of a round bulk holding tight to the tree trunk aloft.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000008_000001|Though it was balled in upon itself he was sure the creature was fully as large as he, and the menacing claws suggested it was a formidable opponent.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000009_000000|When it made no move to follow him Rynch began to hope it had only been defending its own hiding place, for its present attitude suggested concealment.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000010_000000|Still facing that featureless blob in the tree, the man retreated, alert for the first sign of advance on the part of the creature above. None came, and he dared to slip around the bole of the tree under which he stood, listening intently for any corresponding movement overhead.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000010_000001|Now he was facing that survivor's camp.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000000|Another object crouched in the dark of the lean to shelter, just as its fellow was on sentry duty in the tree!
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000001|Only this one did not have the self color of the foliage to disguise it.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000004|Dark pits for eyes showed no pupil, iris, or cornea.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000005|The nose was a black, perfectly rounded tube jutting an inch or so beyond the cheek surface.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000006|Grotesque, alien and terrifying, it made no hostile move.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000007|And, since it had not turned its head, he could not be sure it had even sighted him.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000011_000009|And was waiting-for what?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000012_000001|He withdrew farther into the wood, intent upon finding a detour which would bring him out into the open lands.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000012_000002|Now he wanted to join forces with his own kind, whether those men were potential enemies or not.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000013_000000|As time passed the beasts closed about the clearing of the camp. Afternoon was fading into evening when he reached a point several miles downstream near the river.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000013_000002|He hoped they did not willingly venture out of the trees where the leaves were their protection.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000014_000000|Rynch went flat on the stream bank, made a worm's progress up the slope to crouch behind a bush and survey the land immediately ahead. There stood an off world spacer, fins down, nose skyward, and grouped not too far from its landing ramp, a collection of bubble tents.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000014_000001|A fire burned in their midst and men were moving about it.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000015_000000|Now that he was free from the wood and its watchers and had come so near to his goal, Rynch was curiously reluctant to do the sensible thing, to rise out of concealment and walk up to that fire, to claim rescue by his own kind.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000016_000000|The man he sought stood by the fire, shrugging his arms into a webbing harness which brought a box against his chest.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000016_000001|Having made that fast he picked up a needler by its sling.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000016_000002|By their gestures the others were arguing with him, but he shook his head, came on, to be a shadow stalking among other shadows.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000016_000003|One of the men trailed him, but as they reached a post planted a little beyond the bubble tents he stopped, allowed the explorer to advance alone into the dark.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000017_000000|Rynch went to cover under a bush.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000017_000002|Had they somehow learned of his own presence nearby, were they out to find him?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000017_000004|The watchers!
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000017_000005|Was the other out to spy on them?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000017_000006|That idea made sense.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000017_000007|And in the meantime he would let the other past him, follow along behind until he was far enough from the camp so that his friends could not interfere-then, they would have a meeting!
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000018_000000|Rynch's fingers balled into fists.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000018_000002|That other would know, and would tell him the truth!
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000019_000000|Alert as he was, he lost sight of the stranger who melted into the dusky cover of the shadows.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000019_000002|The man from the spacer camp was using the stream as his road.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000020_000000|In spite of his caution Rynch was close to betrayal as he edged around a clump of vegetation growing half in, half out of the stream.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000020_000001|Only a timely rustle told him that the other had sat down on a drift log.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000021_000000|Waiting for him?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000021_000001|Rynch froze, so startled that he could not think clearly for a second.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000021_000002|Then he noted that the outline of the other's body was visible, growing brighter by the moment.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000022_000001|The dark shadow of an arm flapped, the radiance swirled, broke again into pinpoint sparks.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000023_000001|He pushed back into the bushes while the sparks still flitted, but they no longer gathered in strength enough to light his presence.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000023_000002|Now he could see they drifted about the vegetation, about the log where the man sat, about rocks and reeds.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000023_000004|He continued to keep them whirling by means of waving hand and arm, but there was enough light to show Rynch the fingers of his other hand, busy on the front panel of the box he wore.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000024_000000|That fingering stopped, then Rynch's head came up as he heard a very faint sound.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000024_000001|Not a beast's cry-or was it?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000025_000000|Again those fingers moved on the panel.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000025_000001|Was the other sending a message by that means?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000025_000002|Rynch watched him check the webbing, count the equipment at his belt, settle the needler in the crook of his arm. Then the stranger left the stream, headed towards the woods.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000026_000000|Rynch jumped to his feet, a cry of warning shaping, but not to be uttered.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000026_000001|He padded after the other.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000026_000002|There was plenty of time to stop the man before he reached the danger which might lurk under the trees.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000027_000000|However the other was as wary of that dark as if he suspected what might lie in wait there.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000029_000000|Thankfully Rynch found his own lurking place from which he could keep the other in sight.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000029_000001|The light points gathered, hung in a small luminous cloud over the rocks.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000029_000002|But Rynch had prudently withdrawn under a bush, and the scent of its aromatic leaves must have discouraged the sparks, for no such crown came to his sentry post.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000030_000001|To open his eyes to this blue green pocket instead of to four dirty walls, was wrong.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000031_000000|Remembering, he started up and slunk down the slope, angry at his failure.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000031_000001|He found the other's track, not turning back as he had half feared, cleanly printed on level spots of wet earth-eastward now. What was the purpose of the other's expedition?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000032_000001|The man from the spacer had made no effort to conceal his trail, in fact it would almost seem that he had deliberately gone out of his way to leave boot prints on favorable stretches of ground.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000032_000002|Did he guess that Rynch lurked behind, was now leading him on for some purpose of his own?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000032_000003|Or were those traces left to guide another party from the camp?
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000033_000000|To advance openly up the stream bed was to invite discovery.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000033_000001|Rynch surveyed the nearer bank.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000033_000002|Clumps of small trees and high growing bushes dotted that expanse, an ideal cover.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000034_000001|And the feline was attacking an enemy, enraged to the pitch of vocal frenzy.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000034_000002|Rynch ran a zigzag course from one clump of bush to the next.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000034_000003|That sound of snarling, spitting hate ended in mid cry as Rynch crawled to the river bank.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000035_000000|The man from the spacer camp had been the focus of a three prong attack from a female and her cubs.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000035_000001|Three red bodies were flat and still on the gravel as the off worlder leaned back against a rock breathing heavily.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000035_000002|As Rynch sighted him, he stooped to recover the needler he had dropped, lurched away from the rock towards the water, and so blundered straight into another Jumalan trap.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000036_000000|His unsteady foot advancing for another step came down on a slippery surface, and he fell forward as his legs were engulfed in the trap burrow of a strong jaws.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000036_000001|With a startled cry the man dropped the needler again, clawed at the ground about him.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000036_000003|But he had not lost his head and was jerking from side to side in an effort to pull free.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000037_000000|Rynch got to his feet, walked with slow deliberation down to the river's brink.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000037_000001|The trapped prisoner had shied halfway around, stretching out his arms to find a firmer grip on some rock large and heavy enough to anchor him.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000037_000002|After his first startled cry he had made no sound, but now, as he sighted Rynch, his eyes widened and his lips parted.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000038_000000|The box on his chest caught on a stone he had dragged to him in a desperate try for support.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000038_000001|There was a spitting of sparks and the stranger worked frantically at the buckle of the webbing harness to loosen it and toss the whole thing from him.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000038_000002|The box struck one of the dead water cats, flashed as fur and flesh were singed.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000039_000001|The man eyed him steadily, and his expression did not alter even when Rynch swung the off world weapon to center its sights on the late owner.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000040_000000|"Suppose," Rynch's voice was rusty sounding in his own ears, "we talk now."
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000041_000000|The man nodded.
train-clean-100/1263/141777/1263_141777_000041_000001|"As you wish, Brodie."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000001_000001|On his arrival at Paris, he was kindly received by King Charles, who promised to assist his views in joining the army.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000002_000000|"You have to choose between two generals, both great in the art of war-Conde and Turenne.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000003_000000|"Which would your majesty recommend me to follow?" inquired Edward.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000004_000000|"Conde is my favorite, and he will soon be opposed to this truculent and dishonest court, who have kept me here as an instrument to accomplish their own wishes, but who have never intended to keep their promises, and place me on the English throne.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000006_000000|"You are here highly spoken of," said the prince, "for so young a man. So you were at the affair of Worcester?
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000006_000002|Can you procure any of your countrymen?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000007_000000|"I know but of two that I can recommend from personal knowledge; but these two officers I can venture to pledge myself for."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000008_000000|"Any more?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000011_000001|Edward went to Chaloner and Grenville, who were delighted with the intelligence which he brought them.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000011_000002|The next day they were at the prince's levee, and introduced by Edward.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000013_000000|A month after this interview, Conde, who had been joined by a great number of nobles, and had been re enforced by troops from Spain, set up the standard of revolt.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000013_000003|But eventually Conde was beaten back by the superior force of Turenne; and, not receiving the assistance he expected from the Spaniards, he fell back to the frontiers of Champagne.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000014_000001|He wrote a letter to the intendant, thanking him for his kind feelings and intentions toward him, and he trusted that he might one day have the pleasure of seeing him again.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000015_000000|The Prince of Conde now had the command of the Spanish forces in the Netherlands; and Edward, with his friends, followed his fortunes, and gained his good will: they were rapidly promoted.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000016_000002|Turenne bore down Conde, who had gained every campaign; and the court of Spain, wearied with reverses, made overtures of peace, which was gladly accepted by the French.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000018_000000|Edward, who but rarely heard from Humphrey, was now anxious to quit the army and go to the king, who was in Spain; but to leave his colors, while things were adverse, was impossible.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000019_000000|After the peace and the pardon of Conde by the French king, the armies were disbanded, and the three adventurers were free.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000019_000001|They took their leave of the prince, who thanked them for their long and meritorious services; and they then hastened to King Charles, who had left Spain and come to the Low Countries.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000019_000002|At the time of their joining the king, Richard, the son of Cromwell, who had been nominated Protector, had resigned, and every thing was ready for the Restoration.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000020_000000|On the fifteenth of May, sixteen sixty, the news arrived that Charles had been proclaimed king on the eighth, and a large body of gentlemen went to invite him over.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000022_000000|"Look, Edward," said Chaloner, "at those lovely girls at yon window.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000022_000001|Do you recognize them?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000026_000000|"Yes," replied Grenville, "there can be no doubt of that; but will they, think you, recognize us?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000028_000000|"Is it possible," thought Edward, "that these can be the two girls in russet gowns, that I left at the cottage?
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000028_000001|And yet it must be.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000028_000002|Well, Chaloner, to all appearance, your good aunts have done justice to their charge."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000029_000000|"Nature has done more, Edward.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000030_000000|As they passed, Edward caught the eye of Edith, and smiled.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000031_000000|"Alice, that's Edward!" said Edith, so loud, as to be heard by the king, and all near him.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000032_000000|Alice and Edith rose and waved their handkerchiefs, but they were soon obliged to cease, and put them to their eyes.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000036_000000|"We shall have some court beauties, Beverley," said the king, looking at him over his shoulder.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000038_000000|We pass over the joy of this meeting after so many years' absence, and the pleasure which it gave to Edward to find his sisters grown such accomplished and elegant young women.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000038_000001|That his two friends, who were, as the reader will recollect, old acquaintances of Alice and Edith, were warmly received, we hardly need say.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000039_000000|"Now, Edward, who do you think was here to day-the reigning belle, and the toast of all the gentlemen?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000040_000000|"Indeed!
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000041_000000|"No less than one with whom you were formerly well acquainted, Edward-Patience Heatherstone."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000042_000000|"Patience Heatherstone," cried Edward, "the toast of all London!"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000045_000000|"A few days back.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000046_000000|"Indeed?
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000047_000000|"At Arnwood.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000047_000002|Humphrey has charge of it until it is ascertained to whom it is to belong."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000048_000000|"It belongs to mr Heatherstone, does it not?" replied Edward.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000050_000000|"Yes, I did; but let us not talk about it any more, my dear Edith.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000051_000001|"What is your perplexity?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000052_000000|"Well," replied Edward, "since it is to be so, let us sit down and talk over the matter.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000052_000001|I acknowledge the kindness of mr Heatherstone, and feel that all he asserted to Humphrey is true: still I do not like that I should be indebted to him for a property which is mine, and that he has no right to give.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000052_000002|I acknowledge his generosity, but I do not acknowledge his right of possession.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000052_000003|Nay, much as I admire, and I may say, fond as I am (for time has not effaced the feeling) of his daughter, it still appears to me that, although not said, it is expected that she is to be included in the transfer; and I will accept no wife on such conditions."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000053_000000|"That is to say, because all you wish for, your property and a woman you love, are offered you in one lot, you will not accept them; they must be divided, and handed over to you in two!" said Alice, smiling.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000054_000000|"You mistake, dearest; I am not so foolish; but I have a certain pride, which you can not blame.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000054_000001|Accepting the property from mr Heatherstone is receiving a favor were it given as a marriage portion with his daughter.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000054_000004|He can not refuse it."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000055_000000|"Put not your trust in princes, brother," replied Alice.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000055_000002|Recollect also that mr Heatherstone, and his brother in law, Sir Ashley Cooper, have done the king much more service than you ever have or can do.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000055_000003|They have been most important agents in his restoration, and the king's obligations to them are much greater than they are to you.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000055_000005|At all events, Edward, recollect you do not know what are the intentions of mr Heatherstone; wait and see what he proffers first."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000056_000001|He is not going to surrender my property and make me a present of the house."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000057_000000|"The reason for rebuilding the mansion was good.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000057_000001|You were at the wars; it was possible that you might, or might not return.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000058_000000|"Your advice is good, my dear Alice, and I will be guided by it," replied Edward.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000059_000001|That much of their property has been taken away and put into other hands, I know; and probably they expect it will be restored upon their application to the king.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000059_000002|Those who hold the property think so too, and so far it is fortunate.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000059_000004|Now is their time: even a few days' delay may make a difference.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000060_000001|"We must go now, and I will not fail to communicate it to them this very night."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000061_000000|We may as well here inform the reader that the advice was immediately acted upon, and that Chaloner and Grenville recovered all their estates at about five years' purchase.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000000|Edward remained at court several days.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000001|He had written to Humphrey, and had dispatched a messenger with the letter; but the messenger had not yet returned.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000002|The court was now one continual scene of fetes and gayety.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000003|On the following day a drawing room was to be held, and Edward's sisters were to be presented.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000004|Edward was standing, with many others of the suit, behind the chair of the king, amusing himself with the presentations as they took place, and waiting for the arrival of his sisters-Chaloner and Grenville were not with him, they had obtained leave to go into the country, for the object we have before referred to-when his eyes caught, advancing toward the king, mr Heatherstone, who led his daughter, Patience.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000005|That they had not perceived him was evident; indeed her eyes were not raised once, from the natural timidity felt by a young woman in the presence of royalty. Edward half concealed himself behind one of his companions that he might gaze upon her without reserve.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000062_000007|There was the same pensive, sweet expression in her face, which had altered little; but the beautiful rounded arms, the symmetrical fall of the shoulders, and the proportion of the whole figure was a surprise to him; and Edward, in his own mind, agreed that she might well be the reigning toast of the day.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000063_000001|After he had saluted her, the king said, loud enough for Edward to hear,
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000064_000001|I trust that the daughter will often grace our court."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000065_000000|Patience made no reply, but passed on; and, soon afterward, Edward lost sight of her in the crowd.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000067_000000|When he entered the room, he found himself in the arms of Humphrey, who had arrived with the messenger.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000067_000001|After the greetings were over, Edward said,
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000068_000000|"Alice and I have seen Patience, and I fear I must surrender at discretion.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000068_000001|mr Heatherstone may make his own terms; I must wave all pride rather than lose her.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000068_000002|I thought that I had more control over myself; but I have seen her, and feel that my future happiness depends upon obtaining her as a wife.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000068_000003|Let her father but give me her, and Arnwood will be but a trifle in addition!"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000069_000000|"With respect to the conditions upon which you are to possess Arnwood," said Humphrey, "I can inform you what they are.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000069_000001|They are wholly unshackled, further than that you are to repay by installments the money expended in the building of the house.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000069_000002|This I am empowered to state to you, and I think you will allow that mr Heatherstone has fully acted up to what he stated were his views when he first obtained a grant of the property."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000070_000000|"He has, indeed," replied Edward.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000071_000000|"As for his daughter, Edward, you have yet to 'win her and wear her,' as the saying is.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000071_000001|Her father will resign the property to you as yours by right, but you have no property in his daughter, and I suspect that she will not be quite so easily handed over to you."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000072_000000|"But why should you say so, Humphrey?
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000072_000001|Have we not been attached from our youth?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000073_000000|"Yes, it was a youthful passion, I grant; but recollect nothing came of it, and years have passed away.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000073_000001|It is now seven years since you quitted the forest, and in your letters to mr Heatherstone you made no remark upon what had passed between you and Patience.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000075_000000|"Well, my view is different," replied Edith.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000075_000001|"You know, Humphrey, how many offers Patience Heatherstone has had, and has every day, I may say.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000076_000000|"It may be so, Edith," replied Humphrey.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000077_000000|"Much you know about women," replied Edith.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000078_000000|"Very true, my dear sister; perhaps that is the reason that the New Forest has had such charms for me."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000079_000000|"After that speech, sir, the sooner you get back again the better!" retorted Edith.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000079_000001|But Edward made a sign to Humphrey, and they beat a retreat.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000080_000000|"Have you seen the intendant, Humphrey?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000081_000000|"No; I was about to call upon him, but I wanted to see you first."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000082_000000|"I will go with you.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000084_000001|What must he think of my not having called upon him!"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000085_000000|"Nothing.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000085_000001|You hold a place at court.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000085_000003|Tell him that I have just made known to you his noble and disinterested conduct."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000086_000000|"You are right-I will.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000086_000001|I fear, however, Humphrey, that you are right and Edith wrong as regards his daughter."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000088_000000|Edward was most kindly received by mr Heatherstone.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000088_000001|Edward, on mr Heatherstone repeating to him his intentions relative to Arnwood, expressed his sense of that gentleman's conduct, simply adding-
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000089_000000|"You may think me impetuous, sir, but I trust you will believe me grateful."
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000090_000000|Patience colored up and trembled when Edward first saw her.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000090_000001|Edward did not refer to the past for some time after they had renewed their acquaintance.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000090_000003|Then all was explained.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000091_000000|About a year after the Restoration, there was a fete at Hampton Court, given in honor of three marriages taking place-Edward Beverley to Patience Heatherstone, Chaloner to Alice, and Grenville to Edith; and, as his majesty himself said, as he gave away the brides, "Could loyalty be better rewarded?"
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000092_000000|But our young readers will not be content if they do not hear some particulars about the other personages who have appeared in our little history.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000092_000001|Humphrey must take the first place.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000092_000002|His love of farming continued.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000092_000003|Edward gave him a large farm, rent free; and in a few years Humphrey saved up sufficient to purchase a property for himself.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000092_000004|He then married Clara Ratcliffe, who has not appeared lately on the scene, owing to her having been, about two years before the Restoration, claimed by an elderly relation, who lived in the country, and whose infirm state of health did not permit him to quit the house.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000092_000005|He left his property to Clara, about a year after her marriage to Humphrey.
train-clean-100/1334/135589/1334_135589_000093_000000|This is all that we have been able to collect relative to the several parties; and so now we must say farewell.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000000_000001|Fears in that direction have been uttered repeatedly, but from very different standpoints.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000000_000003|It is claimed that suggestive power, especially in the form of hypnotization, may be secretly misused to make anyone without his knowledge and against his will a passive instrument of the hypnotist's intent.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000000_000004|Often this is coupled with telepathic fancies.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000000_000006|All hypnotizing therefore ought to be interdicted by the state.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000000_000008|We know that hypnotism is not based on any special power of the hypnotizer; there is no magnetic fluid in the sense of the old mesmerism.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000000_000009|The imagination of the hypnotized person is the only hypnotizing agency. Thus no one can be hypnotized without his knowledge or against his will. The story of telepathic mysteries which is often brought before the public is probably always the outcome of a diseased brain.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000001_000001|But if we were to strike out all suggestive influences from social life, we should give up social life itself.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000001_000003|The good resolution and the bad one can be suggested, the good example and the bad can be effective; both encouragement of the noble and imitation of the evil may work with the same mental technique.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000001_000006|The easily suggestible person cannot be protected by any interdict; he may catch suggestions everywhere, any advertisement in the newspaper and any display in the shop window may overrun his own intentions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000001_000007|What he needs is training in firmness.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000001_000008|The application of reenforced suggestion or even of hypnotism in the doctor's office is even for him no possible source of danger.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000000|On a higher level are objections which come from serious quarters and which are not without sympathy with true science.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000001|In recent times this opposition has repeatedly found eloquent expression.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000002|It is an objection from the standpoint of morality, belonging therefore entirely to the purposive view of the mind, but we have now reached a point where it is our duty to do justice to this purposive view too.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000003|As long as we discussed the problem entirely from the standpoint of the physician, no other view of mental life except the causal one could be in question.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000005|If there is moral criticism against suggestive therapy, it is the duty of the community to consider it.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000006|This opposition argues as follows: Hypnotic influence brings the patient under the will control of the hypnotizer and thus destroys his own freedom.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000008|His achievement has therefore no moral value, and if he is really cured of his drunkenness or of his perverse habits, of his misuse of cocaine or of his criminal tendencies, he has lost the right to be counted a moral agent.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000002_000009|It would be better if there were more suffering in the world than that the existence of the moral will should be undermined.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000003_000000|No one ought to take such arguments lightly.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000003_000002|No one can insist too earnestly that life is worth living only if it serves moral duties and moral freedom and is not determined by pleasures and absence of pain only.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000003_000003|Those who set forth this argument are entirely willing to acknowledge the profound effect which suggestive therapeutics may create.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000003_000006|A forcible book of recent days calls the suggestive power of the psychotherapist "The Great Psychological Crime." It says to the hypnotist: "By your own testimony, you stand convicted of applying a process which deprives your subjects of the inalienable right and power of individual self control.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000003_000007|In proportion as you deprive him of the power of self control, you deprive him of that upon which his individual responsibility and moral status depend.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000000|But this censure too is entirely mistaken, not because it urges the purposive views against the causal but because it is in error as to the facts.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000001|Such critics are fully under the influence of the startling results which are reached; they do not take the trouble to examine the long and difficult way which has had to be traversed with patience and energy.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000002|It is quite true that if I hypnotize a man and suggest to him to take up after awaking the book which lies on my table, he follows my suggestion without conflict and in a certain sense without freedom.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000003|He feels a simple impulse to go to the table and lift the book and, as no stronger natural desire and no moral objection stand in the way, he carries out that meaningless impulse and perhaps even invents a foolish motive to explain to himself why he wanted to look at that book.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000004|But after a long experience, I have my doubts as to whether a man was ever cured in such a way by hypnotism of serious disturbances and of those anomalous actions which the critics want to see overcome by the patient's own moral efforts.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000005|On the contrary, every suggestion has to rely on the efforts and struggles of the patient himself and all that the psychotherapists can give him is help in his own moral fight.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000007|If again and again I hesitate to undertake new cases, it is just because I have to see during the treatment too much of this daily and hourly striving against overpowering impulses.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000008|The joy of removing some obstacles from the way of the patients is too much overshadowed by the deep pity and sympathy with their suffering and craving during the whole period of successive treatments.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000009|To make a man fight where despair is inevitable, and where the enemy is necessarily stronger than his own powers, can certainly not be the moral demand.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000004_000010|Morality postulates that everyone find conditions in which he can be victorious if he puts his strongest efforts to the task.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000001|To make clear this purposive side of the case as against the causal one which alone interested the physician, I may add a few features to the short report as a typical example.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000003|In truth it was the result of four months of the most noble and courageous suffering and struggling.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000004|He had been for years a slave to his passion.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000006|For the first few months, I found great relief after every injection of morphine, but soon I could not get the same easy feeling and could eat but very little and what sleep I got was in the daytime.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000009|When I first went to see the professor in the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, I was using between thirty two and thirty eight grains of morphine daily.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000010|He put me under his treatment october sixth and that day cut me down by hypnotic treatment to nine grains a day or three doses of three grains a day.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000012|The desire for the drug was something terrible.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000013|But in about four days I got used to the loss of so much morphine and stayed on this amount for a week, seeing the professor every other day for hypnotic treatment and then returning to my room where I spent twenty two hours of the twenty four on the bed, but did not sleep more than two or three hours a day.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000014|At the end of the week I was cut off by hypnotic suggestion half a grain and this put me to fighting the desire again.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000017|The worst time of all was a cut from four injections of a fourth of a grain each to four of one eighth of a grain each, which was about january tenth.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000018|At this time I had the worst two days of my life.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000005_000019|I tried whiskey, but it gave relief only for about half an hour and then the desire was worse than ever."
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000006_000002|It was a moral victory when he finally reached the point at which he went for several weeks without any desire for morphine and finally presented the remaining tablets to a hospital. And yet there would not have been the least chance for his winning this ethical victory without the outer help of the hypnotist.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000006_000003|We do not eliminate the moral will but we remove some unfair obstacles from its path.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000006_000005|If that were immoral, we should have to make up our minds that all education and training were perverted with such immoral elements.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000006_000009|That is the glory of life that the suggestive power may belong to moral values instead of mere pleasures, but it is not the aim of life to remain untouched by suggestion.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000007_000000|Much more justified than such ethical objections are the fears which move entirely in the causal sphere.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000007_000001|It must be acknowledged that a method which has such powerful influence over the mind that it can secure ideas and emotions and impulses which the own will of the patient cannot produce, ought to be allowed only to those who are prepared for its skillful use.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000007_000002|To hypnotize or to perform any persistent psychotherapeutic treatment may thus be dangerous, if it is done by the unfit.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000007_000003|We have discussed before the injuries which might result from the administration of such powerful psychotherapeutic effects through the best meaning minister, but we can extend this fear to anyone who has not systematically studied medicine and to a certain degree normal and abnormal psychology.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000007_000004|The possibilities of overlooking symptoms which ought to suggest an entirely different treatment, or of adjusting the treatment badly to the special physical conditions, or of ignoring the desirable physical supplement by drugs, or of creating unintentionally by suggestion injurious effects, are always open when medical amateurs undertake such work.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000008_000000|All that involves the conviction that even the experimental psychologist as such is not prepared to enter into medical treatment; and a "Psychological Clinic," managed by a psychologist who is not a doctor of medicine, is certainly not better than a church clinic.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000008_000001|I cannot even acknowledge the right of psychologists to make hypnotic experiments merely for the psychological experiment's sake.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000008_000002|Nobody ought to be brought into a hypnotic or otherwise abnormal state of mind if it is not suggested by the interests of the subject himself.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000008_000003|Science has the right to make hypnotic experiments, or experiments with abnormal mental states, only under the one condition that a physician has hypnotized the subject in the interests of his health and that the patient has agreed beforehand to allow in the presence of witnesses certain psychological studies.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000008_000004|Needless to say that any hypnotization for mere amusement and as a parlor trick ought to be considered as criminal.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000001|We spoke of the danger which the mental cures carry with them when they are based on any particular creed, and especially when they are tied up with a semi religious arbitrary metaphysics.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000002|What is gained if some nervous disorders are helped by belief, if the belief itself devastates our intellectual culture and brings the masses down again to a view of the world which has all the earmarks of barbarism?
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000003|That is indeed one of the central dangers of all non medical suggestive cures, that while any belief may cure through the mere emotional power of the act of believing, the content of the belief gains an undeserved appearance of truth.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000004|Any absurd superstition can become accredited because its curative value may be equal to a truly valuable suggestion.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000005|The intellectual life of the community would have to suffer greatly if the way to be freed from bodily suffering had to be the belief in the metaphysical doctrines of mrs Eddy's "Science and Health." From a cultural viewpoint, too, suggestive therapeutics must stand the higher, the more sharply it is separated from special philosophical or religious doctrines.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000006|No theory of the world and of God ought to gain authority over the mind from such an external motive as a belief in its curative effects.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000009_000007|Freest from such implications is certainly the hypnotic method of the physician who does not need the strong religious reenforcement of the suggestion because he reenforces instead the suggestibility of the patient by slight influences on his senses.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000010_000000|Even where sound religion without superstition and without pseudophilosophy stands behind the therapeutic work, the community will not give up the question whether the church does not necessarily neglect by it the interests which are superior.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000010_000001|The community becomes more and more strongly aware that too many factors of our modern society urge the church to undertake non religious work.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000010_000002|Social aid and charity work ought to be filled with religious spirit, but to perform it is not itself religion.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000010_000003|Still more that is true of the healing of the sick. Whether or not such expansion of church activity in different directions saps the vital strength of religion itself is indeed a problem for the whole community.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000010_000004|The fear suggests itself that the spiritual achievement may become hampered, that in the competition of the church with the other agencies of social life the particular church task may be pushed to the background, and that thus the church in imitating that which others can do just as well or better loses the power to do that which the church alone can do.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000010_000006|From whatever starting point we may come, we are led to the conviction that the physician alone is called to administer psychotherapeutic work, but that he needs a thorough psychological training besides his medical one.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000011_000002|Both educators and criminologists have indeed often raised such questions, and social reformers have not seldom seen there wide perspectives for social movements in future times.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000001|When we spoke of the treatment of the sick, we had always to emphasize that the suggestion cures symptoms but not diseases.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000003|Yes, the artificial reenforcement of such special features would deprive education of that which is the most essential, namely, the development of the power to overcome difficulties by own energy.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000004|Wherever a reasonable amount of own will force and attention can be expected to overcome the antagonistic influence, there artificial hypnotic influence ought to be avoided.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000005|Everything ought to be left in that case to suggestions within normal limits, in the form of good example and persuasions, authority and discipline, love and sympathy.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000006|That holds true even for very slight abnormalities which seem still within the limits where the own energies can bring about the cure.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000007|For instance, I have steadily refused requests of students and others to use hypnotism for the purpose of overcoming merely bad habits, such as the habit of biting the nails.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000012_000008|A child who finds some difficulty in sticking seriously to his tasks might learn now this and now that under the influence of hypnotic suggestions but he would remain entirely untrained for mastering the next lesson.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000000|Still more complex is the criminological problem.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000002|And if the absurdity of such a proposal is recognized it seems to many justified to demand such an intrusion at least in the case of the born criminal, even if the occasional criminal cannot be reached.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000005|The varieties which nature really produces are brains which are more liable than others to produce antisocial actions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000006|We recognized from the start that the abnormal mind never introduces any new elements but is characterized only by a change of proportions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000007|There is too much or too little of a certain mental process and just for that reason there must be a steady and continuous transition from the normal to the entirely abnormal.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000008|Here again we have not a special class of brains which are criminal; but we have an endless variety of brains with a greater or smaller predisposition for antisocial outbreaks.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000013_000009|The variations which produce this criminal effect may lie in most different directions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000014_000002|The fact that selfish and thus antisocial desires awake in the mind is not abnormal at all; only if they are not normally inhibited, the disturbance sets in.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000014_000003|Furthermore the associative apparatus of the brain may work especially slowly; it may thus bring it about that the counteracting ideas do not arise in time.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000014_000006|Or there may be negative suggestibility, by which a moral admonition stirs up a vivid idea of the opposite.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000014_000007|In short, there may be a large number of factors, sometimes even in combination, each one of which increases the chances that the individual may come in danger in the midst of developed society.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000015_000004|No character is perfect.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000015_000006|All that society can do is, therefore, not to remodel the manifoldness of brains, but to shape the conditions of life in such a way that the weak and unstable brains also have a greater chance to live their lives without conflicts with the community.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000000|The situation is different as soon as the particular surroundings have brought it about that such a brain with reduced powers has entered a criminal career.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000001|The thought of crime now becomes a sort of obsession or rather an autosuggestion.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000003|If such cases should come early to suggestive treatment which really would close the channels of the antisocial autosuggestion, much harm might be averted.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000004|Yet again the liability of the brain to become antisocial would not have been removed, and thus not much would be secured unless such a person after the treatment could be kept under favorable conditions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000005|With young boys who through unfortunate influence have caught a tendency, for instance, to steal, and where the fault does not yield to sympathetic reasoning and to punishment, an early hypnotic treatment might certainly be tried.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000006|I myself have seen promising results.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000016_000007|But if the impulse has irresistible character in such a way that the good will is powerless, we are again in the field of disease and the point of view of the physician has to be substituted for that of the criminologist.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000017_000000|Whether pedagogy and criminology are to make use of the services of psychotherapy is thus certainly an open question.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000017_000002|The artificial over suggestions which are needed to overcome the pathological disturbances of mental equilibrium may be left for the cases of illness.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000017_000004|To reduce these abnormalities means to secure a more stable equilibrium and thus to avoid social damages, and at the same time to prevent the growth of the abnormality to pathological dimensions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000017_000005|To counteract these slighter variations, these abnormalities which have not yet reached the degree of disease, will demand the same principles of treatment, only in a weaker form.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000017_000006|It is in a way not psychical therapy but psychical hygiene.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000017_000007|And this is no longer confined to the physician but must be intrusted to all organs of the community. And here more than in the case of disease, the causal point of view of the physician ought to be brought into harmony with the purposive view of the social reformer, of the educator and of the moralist.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000018_000000|The ideal of such mental hygiene is the complete equilibrium of all mental energies together with their fullest possible development.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000018_000001|To work towards this end does not mean to aim towards the impossible and undesirable end of making all men alike, but to give to all, in spite of the differences which nature and society condition, the greatest possible inner completeness and outer usefulness.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000018_000002|The efforts in that direction have to begin with the earliest infancy and are at no age to be considered as finished; the whole school work and to a high degree the professional work has to be subordinated to such endeavor.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000018_000003|Society has further to take care that those spheres of life which stand less under systematic principles, such as the home life of the child and the social life of the man, his family life and his public life, are steadily under the pressure of influences which urge in the same direction.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000000|Harmonious development without one sidedness, and yet with full justice to the individual talents and equipments, should be secured.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000001|That means from the start an effort to secure balance between general education and particular development.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000002|The latter has to strengthen those powers by which the boy or girl by special natural fitness promises to be especially efficient and happy.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000005|More important, it would leave undeveloped that power which the youth especially needs to acquire by serious education, the power to master what does not appeal to the personal likings and interests.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000006|An equilibrium is secured only if at the same time full emphasis is given to the learning and training in all which is the common ground of our social existence.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000007|From the multiplication table to the highest cultural studies in college, the youth is to be adjusted to the material of our civilization without any concession to the emasculating desire to adjust civilization simply to the particular youth.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000008|He has to learn learning and not only to play with knowledge, he has to learn to force his attention in adjustment to those factors of civilization which are foreign to his personal tendencies and perhaps unsympathetic.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000009|Free election of life's work and unyielding mental discipline in the service of the common demands should thus steadily cooeperate.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000019_000010|The one without the other creates a lack of mental balance which is the most favorable condition for a pathological disturbance.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000020_000000|The mere learning is of course on both sides only a fraction of what the community has to develop in the youth.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000020_000002|The nourishment of the child, the care for the child's sense organs, the recesses and the rest from fatigue, and especially the undisturbed sleep are essential conditions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000020_000004|It must not be forgotten that the decomposition of the brain molecules can never be restituted by anything but rest, and ultimately by sleep.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000020_000005|Physical exercise is certainly not such restitution.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000020_000006|In the best case it brings a certain rest to some brain centers by engaging other brain parts.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000020_000007|The child needs sleep and fresh air and healthful food more than anything else, if his mind is active.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000000|More important than mere physical hygiene is the demand that a sound character and a sound temperament are also to be built up, at the side of a sound interest.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000002|The emotional stability and emotional enlargement of the mind is perhaps most neglected in our educational schemes.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000003|On the one side it demands a systematic discipline of the emotions, on the other a healthy stimulation of emotions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000004|Here is the place where imagination in play and later in art come in.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000006|The play of our children is too little adjusted to this task.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000007|For this reason it leaves too many unprepared for the world of art and for the emotional experiences of real life.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000009|Destructive emotions like terror ought to be kept away and not needlessly brought near by uncanny stories and mystic superstitions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000021_000011|Again in the field of will, we want the strong, spontaneous, independent will which is not frightened by discomfort and not discouraged by obstacles, and yet we want the will which is not stubborn and selfish but which subordinates itself to the larger will of the social group and to the eternal will of the norm.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000002|The whole social life must shape itself in such a way that everyone finds the best possible chances to perfect this harmonious growth.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000003|In the field of the intellect, the community must take care that thoroughness of training and accuracy of information is rigidly demanded and not thrust out by an easy going superficiality.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000004|The expert ought to replace the amateur in every field.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000005|Every society which allows successes to superficiality diminishes its chances for mental health.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000006|Yet while thoroughness demands concentration in one direction, society must with the same earnestness insist on well rounded general education and continuity of general interests through life.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000007|Literature and the libraries, the newspapers and the magazines play there a foremost role, and again the mental health of the community has to pay the penalty if its newspapers work against general culture.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000022_000010|But with this enrichment of feelings the disciplinary influence too has to go through the whole social life. Where art is sensational and the church hysterical,--in short, where the community stirs up overstrong feelings,--the wholesome balance is lost again.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000023_000000|Few factors are more influential in all these directions than the administration of law.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000023_000001|Sound sober lawmaking and fair judgment in court secure to the community a feeling of safety which gives stability to emotions and feelings.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000023_000003|A similar unbalancing influence emanates from overstrong contrasts of poverty and comfort.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000002|There is no doubt the arbitrary suppression of the sexual instinct must be acknowledged as the source of nervous injury while indulgence may lead to disease and misery.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000004|Not less difficult and not less connected with the mental hygiene is the alcohol problem.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000006|Its intemperate use or its use by young people and by pathological persons is one of the gravest dangers. Whether intemperance ought to be fought by prohibition or rather by an education to temperance is a difficult question in which the enthusiastic women and ministers, backed by the well justified fears of psychiatrists, will hardly be on the same side as the sober judgment of scientists, unprejudiced physicians, and historians.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000007|In any case the saloon and its humiliating indecency must disappear and every temptation to intemperance should be removed.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000008|Above all, from early childhood the self control has to be strengthened, the child has to learn from the beginning to know the limits to the gratification of his desires and to abstain from reckless over indulgence.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000009|With such a training later on even the temptations of alcoholic beverages would lose their danger.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000010|Not less injurious than the strong drinks are the cards.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000011|All gambling from the child's play to the stock exchange is ruinous for the psychophysical equilibrium.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000012|The same is true of any overuse of coffee and tea and tobacco, and as a matter of course still more the habitual use of the drugs like the popular headache powders and sleeping medicines.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000013|The life at home and in public ought to be manifold and expansive but ought to avoid over excitement and over anxiety.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000024_000014|A good conscience, a congenial home, and a serious purpose are after all the safest conditions for a healthy mind, and the community works in preventive psychotherapy wherever it facilitates the securing of these three factors.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000000|For that end society may take over directly from the workshop of the psychotherapist quite a number of almost technical methods.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000003|No one can measure the injury done to the psychophysical balance of the weaker brains, for instance, by the sensational court gossip and reports of murder trials in the newspapers for the masses. But while the influence of suggestion is on the whole familiar to public opinion, the community is much less aware of another factor which we found important in the hands of the psychotherapist.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000004|We recognized that mental disturbances were often the result of suppressed emotion and repressed wishes.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000005|For the cure the psychotherapist has to aim toward the cathartic result.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000006|The suppressed ideas had to be brought to consciousness again and then to be discharged through vivid expression. Society ought to learn from it that few factors are more disturbing for the mental balance than feelings and emotions which do not come to a normal expression.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000007|It is no chance that in countries of mixed Protestant and Catholic civilization, the number of suicides is larger in Protestant regions than in the Catholic ones where the confessional relieves the suppressed emotions of the masses.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000008|This is also the most destructive effect of social and legal injustice; emotions are strangulated and then begin to work mischief.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000025_000009|The community should take care early that secret feelings are avoided, that the child is cured from all sullenness which stores up the emotion instead of discharging it.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000026_000003|All life becomes a psychophysical mechanism and from that point of view man's thinking and acting become the necessary outcome of the foregoing conditions.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000026_000004|Nothing seems more unfit to give a deeper meaning to life and a higher value.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000026_000005|And yet if there was one thought which controlled our discussion from the beginning, it was certainly the conviction that this causal view itself is only an instrument in the service of idealistic endeavors; the reality of man's life is the reality of will and freedom directed towards ideals.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000026_000007|In the service of our ideals we may thus transform the world into a mechanism: out of our freedom we desire to conceive ourselves as necessary products.
train-clean-100/1355/39947/1355_39947_000026_000008|Whenever we aim to produce changes in the world, we must calculate the effects through the means of this causal construction, but we never have a right to forget that this calculation itself is therefore only a tool and that our reality, in which our duties and our real aims lie, is itself outside of this construction. The psychotherapist wants to produce effects inasmuch as he wants to cure disease.
train-clean-100/1363/135842/1363_135842_000006_000001|"What's that, Bre'r Rabbit?
train-clean-100/1363/135842/1363_135842_000009_000003|"I know!" he panted.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000002_000000|THE AWAKENING
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000003_000001|An awakening came.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000004_000000|What a wonderfully complex thing!
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000004_000001|this simple seeming unity-the self! Who can trace its reintegration as morning after morning we awaken, the flux and confluence of its countless factors interweaving, rebuilding, the dim first stirrings of the soul, the growth and synthesis of the unconscious to the subconscious, the subconscious to dawning consciousness, until at last we recognise ourselves again.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000004_000002|And as it happens to most of us after the night's sleep, so it was with Graham at the end of his vast slumber.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000004_000003|A dim cloud of sensation taking shape, a cloudy dreariness, and he found himself vaguely somewhere, recumbent, faint, but alive.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000005_000000|The pilgrimage towards a personal being seemed to traverse vast gulfs, to occupy epochs.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000005_000001|Gigantic dreams that were terrible realities at the time, left vague perplexing memories, strange creatures, strange scenery, as if from another planet.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000005_000002|There was a distinct impression, too, of a momentous conversation, of a name-he could not tell what name-that was subsequently to recur, of some queer long forgotten sensation of vein and muscle, of a feeling of vast hopeless effort, the effort of a man near drowning in darkness.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000005_000003|Then came a panorama of dazzling unstable confluent scenes....
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000006_000000|Graham became aware that his eyes were open and regarding some unfamiliar thing.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000000|It was something white, the edge of something, a frame of wood.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000001|He moved his head slightly, following the contour of this shape.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000002|It went up beyond the top of his eyes.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000003|He tried to think where he might be.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000004|Did it matter, seeing he was so wretched?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000005|The colour of his thoughts was a dark depression.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000006|He felt the featureless misery of one who wakes towards the hour of dawn.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000007_000007|He had an uncertain sense of whispers and footsteps hastily receding.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000008_000000|The movement of his head involved a perception of extreme physical weakness.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000008_000001|He supposed he was in bed in the hotel at the place in the valley-but he could not recall that white edge.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000008_000002|He must have slept.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000008_000003|He remembered now that he had wanted to sleep.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000008_000004|He recalled the cliff and Waterfall again, and then recollected something about talking to a passer by....
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000000|How long had he slept?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000001|What was that sound of pattering feet?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000002|And that rise and fall, like the murmur of breakers on pebbles?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000003|He put out a languid hand to reach his watch from the chair whereon it was his habit to place it, and touched some smooth hard surface like glass.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000004|This was so unexpected that it startled him extremely.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000005|Quite suddenly he rolled over, stared for a moment, and struggled into a sitting position.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000009_000006|The effort was unexpectedly difficult, and it left him giddy and weak-and amazed.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000000|He rubbed his eyes.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000001|The riddle of his surroundings was confusing but his mind was quite clear-evidently his sleep had benefited him.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000002|He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yielding mattress, in a trough of dark glass.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000003|The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000004|About his arm-and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow-was bound a curious apparatus of rubber, bound so cunningly that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000005|And this bed was placed in a case of greenish coloured glass (as it seemed to him), a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000010_000006|In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus, for the most part quite strange appliances, though a maximum and minimum thermometer was recognisable.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000011_000000|The slightly greenish tint of the glass like substance which surrounded him on every hand obscured what lay behind, but he perceived it was a vast apartment of splendid appearance, and with a very large and simple white archway facing him.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000011_000001|Close to the walls of the cage were articles of furniture, a table covered with a silvery cloth, silvery like the side of a fish, a couple of graceful chairs, and on the table a number of dishes with substances piled on them, a bottle and two glasses.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000011_000002|He realised that he was intensely hungry.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000012_000000|He could see no one, and after a period of hesitation scrambled off the translucent mattress and tried to stand on the clean white floor of his little apartment.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000012_000001|He had miscalculated his strength, however, and staggered and put his hand against the glass like pane before him to steady himself.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000012_000002|For a moment it resisted his hand, bending outward like a distended bladder, then it broke with a slight report and vanished-a pricked bubble.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000012_000003|He reeled out into the general space of the hall, greatly astonished.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000012_000004|He caught at the table to save himself, knocking one of the glasses to the floor-it rang but did not break-and sat down in one of the armchairs.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000013_000000|When he had a little recovered he filled the remaining glass from the bottle and drank-a colourless liquid it was, but not water, with a pleasing faint aroma and taste and a quality of immediate support and stimulus.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000013_000001|He put down the vessel and looked about him.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000014_000000|The apartment lost none of its size and magnificence now that the greenish transparency that had intervened was removed.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000014_000001|The archway he saw led to a flight of steps, going downward without the intermediation of a door, to a spacious transverse passage.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000014_000002|This passage ran between polished pillars of some white veined substance of deep ultramarine, and along it came the sound of human movements, and voices and a deep undeviating droning note.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000014_000003|He sat, now fully awake, listening alertly, forgetting the viands in his attention.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000015_000000|Then with a shock he remembered that he was naked, and casting about him for covering, saw a long black robe thrown on one of the chairs beside him.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000015_000001|This he wrapped about him and sat down again, trembling.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000016_000000|His mind was still a surging perplexity.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000016_000001|Clearly he had slept, and had been removed in his sleep.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000016_000002|But where?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000016_000003|And who were those people, the distant crowd beyond the deep blue pillars?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000016_000004|Boscastle?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000016_000005|He poured out and partially drank another glass of the colourless fluid.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000017_000000|What was this place?--this place that to his senses seemed subtly quivering like a thing alive?
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000017_000001|He looked about him at the clean and beautiful form of the apartment, unstained by ornament, and saw that the roof was broken in one place by a circular shaft full of light, and, as he looked, a steady, sweeping shadow blotted it out and passed, and came again and passed.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000017_000002|"Beat, beat," that sweeping shadow had a note of its own in the subdued tumult that filled the air.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000018_000000|He would have called out, but only a little sound came into his throat. Then he stood up, and, with the uncertain steps of a drunkard, made his way towards the archway.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000018_000001|He staggered down the steps, tripped on the corner of the black cloak he had wrapped about himself, and saved himself by catching at one of the blue pillars.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000019_000000|The passage ran down a cool vista of blue and purple and ended remotely in a railed space like a balcony brightly lit and projecting into a space of haze, a space like the interior of some gigantic building.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000019_000001|Beyond and remote were vast and vague architectural forms.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000019_000002|The tumult of voices rose now loud and clear, and on the balcony and with their backs to him, gesticulating and apparently in animated conversation, were three figures, richly dressed in loose and easy garments of bright soft colourings.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000019_000003|The noise of a great multitude of people poured up over the balcony, and once it seemed the top of a banner passed, and once some brightly coloured object, a pale blue cap or garment thrown up into the air perhaps, flashed athwart the space and fell.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000019_000004|The shouts sounded like English, there was a reiteration of "Wake!"
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000019_000005|He heard some indistinct shrill cry, and abruptly these three men began laughing.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000021_000000|He turned his eyes full of merriment along the passage.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000021_000002|The other two turned swiftly at his exclamation and stood motionless.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000021_000003|Their faces assumed an expression of consternation, an expression that deepened into awe.
train-clean-100/1363/139304/1363_139304_000022_000000|Suddenly Graham's knees bent beneath him, his arm against the pillar collapsed limply, he staggered forward and fell upon his face.
train-clean-100/1447/130550/1447_130550_000033_000000|Fastidious correctness of form
train-clean-100/1447/130550/1447_130550_000052_000000|Full of ardent affection and gratitude
train-clean-100/1447/130550/1447_130550_000070_000000|Guilty and baffled antagonists
train-clean-100/1447/130550/1447_130550_000085_000000|He poured bitter and biting ridicule on his discomfited opponents
train-clean-100/1447/130550/1447_130550_000096_000000|High and undiscouraged hope
train-clean-100/1447/130550/1447_130550_000102_000000|His mood was one of pure exaltation
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000003_000000|At dinner it was announced that the famous Tarantella would be danced in the lower hall of the hotel at nine o'clock, and the girls told Uncle john that they must not miss this famous sight, which is one of the most unique in Sorrento, or indeed in all Italy.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000004_000000|As they entered the pretty, circular hall devoted to the dance Louise gave a start of surprise.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000004_000001|A goodly audience had already assembled in the room, and among them the girl seemed to recognize an acquaintance, for after a brief hesitation she advanced and placed her hand in that of a gentleman who had risen on her entrance and hastened toward her.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000005_000000|He was a nice looking young fellow, Beth thought, and had a foreign and quite distinguished air.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000006_000000|Presently Louise turned with cheeks somewhat flushed and brought the gentleman to her party, introducing him to Uncle john and her cousins as Count Ferralti, whom she had once met in New York while he was on a visit to America.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000007_000000|The Count twirled his small and slender moustaches in a way that Patsy thought affected, and said in excellent English:
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000008_000000|"It delights me to meet mr Merrick and the young ladies.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000008_000001|May I express a hope that you are pleased with my beautiful country?"
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000009_000000|"Are you Italian?" asked Uncle john, regarding the young man critically.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000010_000000|"Surely, mr Merrick.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000010_000001|But I have resided much in New York, and may well claim to be an adopted son of your great city."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000011_000000|"New York adopts a good many," said Uncle john, drily.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000011_000001|"It has even been thoughtless enough to adopt me."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000012_000000|The dancers entered at that moment and the Americans were forced to seat themselves hastily so as not to obstruct the view of others.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000013_000000|The dances were unique and graceful, being executed by a troup of laughing peasants dressed in native costume, who seemed very proud of their accomplishment and anxious to please the throng of tourists present.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000013_000001|The Tarantella originated in Ischia, but Sorrento and Capri have the best dancers.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000014_000000|Afterward Uncle john and his nieces stood upon the terrace and watched the volcano rolling its dense clouds, mingled with sparks of red hot scoria, toward the sky.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000014_000001|The Count clung to Louise's side, but also tried to make himself agreeable to her cousins.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000014_000002|In their rooms that night Patsy told Beth that the young foreigner was "too highfalutin' to suit her," and Beth replied that his manners were so like those of their Cousin Louise that the two ought to get along nicely together.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000015_000000|Uncle john liked his nieces to make friends, and encouraged young men generally to meet them; but there was something in the appearance of this callow Italian nobleman that stamped his character as artificial and insincere.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000015_000001|He resolved to find out something about his antecedents before he permitted the young fellow to establish friendly relations with his girls.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000016_000001|That gave him an excuse to talk with the man, who spoke very good English and was exceedingly courteous to his guests-especially when they were American.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000018_000000|"Whom, sir?"
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000019_000000|"Ferralti-Count Ferralti.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000020_000000|"I-I did not know," he said, hesitatingly.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000020_000001|"The gentleman arrived last evening, and I had not yet learned his name.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000020_000002|Let me see," he turned to his list of guests, who register by card and not in a book, and continued: "Ah, yes; he has given his name as Ferralti, but added no title.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000020_000003|A count, did you say?"
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000021_000000|"Yes," replied Uncle john.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000022_000001|Then he remarked that the eruption of Vesuvius was waning and the trouble nearly over for this time.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000024_000000|"That I cannot tell you, Signor Merrick."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000025_000000|"Oh. Perhaps you know little about the nobility of your country."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000026_000000|"I!
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000026_000001|I know little of the nobility!" answered Floriano, indignantly.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000027_000000|"Yet you say you don't know the Ferralti family."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000028_000000|The proprietor reached for a book that lay above his desk.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000029_000001|Here is our record of nobility.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000029_000002|It is the same as the 'Blue Book' or the 'Peerage' of England.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000029_000003|Either fortunately or unfortunately-I cannot say-you have no need of such a book in America."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000030_000000|He turned the pages and ran his finger down the line of "f's."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000031_000000|"Find me, if you can, a Count Ferralti in the list."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000032_000001|He put on his glasses and looked again.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000032_000002|The name of Ferralti was no place in the record.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000035_000000|Uncle john whistled softly and walked away to the window.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000035_000001|The young man greeted him with a smile and a bow.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000036_000000|"I misunderstood your name last evening," he said.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000036_000001|"I thought you were Count Ferralti."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000037_000000|"And that is right, sir," was the prompt reply.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000037_000001|"Allow me to offer you my card."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000038_000000|Uncle john took the card and read:
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000040_000000|He carefully placed the card in his pocket book.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000043_000000|Uncle john walked away.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000043_000001|He was glad that he had not suspected the young man unjustly.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000043_000002|When an imposture is unmasked it is no longer dangerous.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000044_000000|He joined his nieces, who were all busily engaged in writing letters home, and remarked, casually:
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000045_000000|"You've been deceived in your Italian friend, Louise.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000045_000001|He is neither a count nor of noble family, although I suppose when you met him in New York he had an object in posing as a titled aristocrat."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000046_000000|The girl paused, examining the point of her pen thoughtfully.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000047_000000|"Are you sure, Uncle john?"
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000048_000000|"Quite sure, my dear.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000048_000001|I've just been through the list of Italian counts, and his name is not there.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000048_000002|Floriano, the proprietor, who knows every aristocrat in Italy, has never before heard of him."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000049_000001|"I wonder why he has tried to deceive us."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000050_000000|"Oh, the world is full of impostors; but when you are on to their game they are quite harmless.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000050_000001|Of course we won't encourage this young man in any way.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000050_000002|It will be better to avoid him."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000051_000000|"He-he seems very nice and gentlemanly," said Louise with hesitation.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000052_000000|The other girls exchanged glances, but made no remark.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000052_000001|Uncle john hardly knew what to say further.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000052_000002|He felt he was in an awkward position, for Louise was the most experienced in worldly ways of his three nieces and he had no desire to pose as a stern guardian or to deprive his girls of any passing pleasure they might enjoy.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000052_000003|Moreover, Louise being in love with that young Weldon her mother so strongly objected to, she would not be likely to care much for this Italian fellow, and mrs Merrick had enjoined him to keep her daughter's mind from dwelling on her "entanglement."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000053_000000|"Oh, well, my dear," he said to her, "you must act as you see fit.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000053_000001|I do not imagine we shall see much of this young man, in any event, and now that you are well aware of the fact that he is sailing under false colors, you will know how to handle him better than I can advise you."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000055_000000|"Well then, girls, what do you say to a stroll around the village?" asked their uncle.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000055_000001|"I'm told it's a proper place to buy silk stockings and inlaid wood work.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000055_000002|They come assorted, I suppose."
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000056_000000|Beth and Patsy jumped up with alacrity, but Louise pleaded that she had several more letters to write; so the others left her and passed the rest of the forenoon in rummaging among the quaint shops of Sorrento, staring at the statue of Tasso, and enjoying the street scenes so vividly opposed to those of America.
train-clean-100/1447/17506/1447_17506_000056_000001|It was almost their first glimpse of foreign manners and customs.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000007_000006|They both expected her to make trouble but were mistaken.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000012_000001|First there was the old thing in him.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000012_000006|Instead he prayed for it.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000013_000014|As he talked his left eyelid twitched.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000014_000007|When he awoke at dawn the barnyard back of the house also awoke.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000014_000008|In the house people stirred about.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000015_000003|"Four, five, six, seven," he said slowly, wetting his finger and making straight up and down marks on the window ledge.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000015_000011|"See, come here and look," cried the old man. "Grandfather Jesse's white mare has torn the black stocking she wears on her foot."
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000017_000010|"Wake up, little animal.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000020_000007|"Make a sign to me, God," he cried.
train-clean-100/1455/134435/1455_134435_000021_000007|"Take me away.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000012_000000|"The hand is not necessary," answered Nicholl, not at all confounded; "and as to the stone, let us suppose it to be a comet."
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000018_000000|"I think that we can answer," said Barbicane; "but according to my idea the question ought not to be put in that form.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000018_000001|I ask it to be put differently."
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000020_000000|"Here it is," continued Barbicane.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000023_000000|"And I answer in the negative," continued Barbicane.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000026_000000|"Without a doubt!" answered Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000027_000006|There remains but one hypothesis, that of a living race to which motion, which is life, is foreign."
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000029_000000|"Just so," said Barbicane, "which for us has no meaning."
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000034_000000|"Now," said Nicholl, "let us attack the second question, an indispensable complement of the first.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000034_000001|I ask the honorable commission, if the moon is not habitable, has she ever been inhabited, Citizen Barbicane?"
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000037_000001|The actual state of this cracked, twisted, and burst disc abundantly proves this.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000038_000000|"I believe it," said Nicholl.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000041_000000|"At the terrestrial poles they last six months," said Michel.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000046_000000|"And why?" asked Nicholl quickly.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000052_000001|Barbicane sought to restrain them.
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000056_000000|"By cooling?"
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000059_000000|"Most probably."
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000060_000000|"But when?"
train-clean-100/1455/138263/1455_138263_000063_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000003_000000|nine.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000007_000005|It was, in fact, the princess laughing.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000010_000000|"You naughty, naughty, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY man!" she cried.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000012_000000|"I'll tell papa."
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000016_000001|I pity you."
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000018_000000|"Put me up directly."
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000023_000000|"Come, then," said the prince.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000025_000000|"How am I to put you in?" "That is your business," she answered, quite snappishly.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000025_000001|"You took me out-put me in again."
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000026_000000|"Very well," said the prince; and, catching her up in his arms, he sprang with her from the rock.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000029_000000|"Is that what you call FALLING IN?"
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000033_000000|The princess did not appear to understand him, for she retorted his question:--
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000042_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000042_000003|But I don't care.
train-clean-100/150/126107/150_126107_000047_000000|"I wish I hadn't one either," rejoined the princess; "it is so stupid! I have a great mind," she continued, "to play them all a trick.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000002_000001|She did not care who the man was; that was nothing to her.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000002_000005|When she saw it she shrieked, and covered her face with her hands.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000002_000006|They bore her across to the stone where they had already placed a little boat for her.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000004_000000|In a few minutes the prince appeared.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000005_000000|"Here I am," said the prince.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000005_000001|"Put me in."
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000007_000002|Put me in."
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000010_000000|"Now you can go."
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000024_000000|"Princess!" said he.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000026_000001|I'm afloat!"
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000027_000000|And the little boat bumped against the stone.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000029_000000|"Well?" said she, without looking round.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000038_000000|"There, then," said she, holding out the wine to him.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000041_000002|But the prince felt better.
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000042_000001|You must sit and look at me, else I shall not be able to keep up."
train-clean-100/150/126112/150_126112_000053_000013|The princess gave a shriek, and sprang into the lake.
train-clean-100/150/132655/150_132655_000002_000000|THE CONCLUSION.
train-clean-100/150/132655/150_132655_000018_000000|"Hold your tongue," answered the Dervish.
train-clean-100/150/132655/150_132655_000028_000003|You know----"
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000001_000000|"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey." --Pope's Iliad
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000003_000004|It is enough."
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000004_000001|Slowly and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mingled with the throng that hovered nigh.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000005_000000|A knot of warriors soon entered the place again, and reissuing, they bore the senseless remains into the adjacent woods.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000006_000002|Though the return of Duncan was likely to remind them of his character, and the suspicious circumstances of his visit, it produced no visible sensation.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000007_000000|Without seeming to hesitate, he walked into the lodge, and took his seat with a gravity that accorded admirably with the deportment of his hosts. A hasty but searching glance sufficed to tell him that, though Uncas still remained where he had left him, David had not reappeared.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000007_000001|No other restraint was imposed on the former than the watchful looks of a young Huron, who had placed himself at hand; though an armed warrior leaned against the post that formed one side of the narrow doorway.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000008_000001|He would greatly have preferred silence and meditation to speech, when a discovery of his real condition might prove so instantly fatal.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000008_000002|Unfortunately for this prudent resolution, his entertainers appeared otherwise disposed.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000008_000003|He had not long occupied the seat wisely taken a little in the shade, when another of the elder warriors, who spoke the French language, addressed him:
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000009_000000|"My Canada father does not forget his children," said the chief; "I thank him.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000009_000002|Can the cunning stranger frighten him away?"
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000011_000000|"Spirits differ; some yield to the power of wisdom, while others are too strong."
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000012_000000|"My brother is a great medicine," said the cunning savage; "he will try?"
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000013_000000|A gesture of assent was the answer.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000013_000001|The Huron was content with the assurance, and, resuming his pipe, he awaited the proper moment to move.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000013_000004|The latter cast an impatient look at his neighbor, and felt his flesh creep with uncontrollable horror when he found himself in actual contact with Magua.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000014_000000|The sudden return of this artful and dreaded chief caused a delay in the departure of the Huron.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000016_000001|"Let 'Reed that bends' go on the hunting path; he will meet them."
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000017_000004|The former was rather depressed, than remarkable for the bearing of the natives; and the latter was such as was commonly worn by the ordinary men of the nation.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000021_000000|"The Delawares have been like bears after the honey pots, prowling around my village.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000021_000001|But who has ever found a Huron asleep?"
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000022_000000|The darkness of the impending cloud which precedes a burst of thunder was not blacker than the brow of Magua as he exclaimed:
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000023_000000|"The Delawares of the Lakes!"
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000025_000000|"Did my young men take his scalp?"
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000026_000000|"His legs were good, though his arm is better for the hoe than the tomahawk," returned the other, pointing to the immovable form of Uncas.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000027_000000|Instead of manifesting any womanish curiosity to feast his eyes with the sight of a captive from a people he was known to have so much reason to hate, Magua continued to smoke, with the meditative air that he usually maintained, when there was no immediate call on his cunning or his eloquence.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000027_000003|Near a minute these two bold and untamed spirits stood regarding one another steadily in the eye, neither quailing in the least before the fierce gaze he encountered.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000029_000001|The hated and yet respected name was repeated as by one voice, carrying the sound even beyond the limits of the lodge.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000029_000002|The women and children, who lingered around the entrance, took up the words in an echo, which was succeeded by another shrill and plaintive howl.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000030_000000|Magua caught the expression, and raising his arm, he shook it at the captive, the light silver ornaments attached to his bracelet rattling with the trembling agitation of the limb, as, in a tone of vengeance, he exclaimed, in English:
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000033_000001|Many of the Hurons understood the strange tongue in which the captive spoke, among which number was Magua.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000033_000002|This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000033_000004|However much his influence among his people had been impaired by his occasional and besetting weakness, as well as by his desertion of the tribe, his courage and his fame as an orator were undeniable.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000034_000000|He again recounted the events of the attack on the island at Glenn's, the death of his associates and the escape of their most formidable enemies.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000034_000005|Each dusky figure seemed a breathing statue, so motionless was the posture, so intense the attention of the individual.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000035_000002|One had never been known to follow the chase in vain; another had been indefatigable on the trail of their enemies.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000035_000003|This was brave, that generous.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000001|You know they are not.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000002|Their spirits are gone toward the setting sun, and are already crossing the great waters, to the happy hunting grounds.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000003|But they departed without food, without guns or knives, without moccasins, naked and poor as they were born.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000004|Shall this be? Are their souls to enter the land of the just like hungry Iroquois or unmanly Delawares, or shall they meet their friends with arms in their hands and robes on their backs?
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000006|They will look on their children with a dark eye, and say, 'Go! a Chippewa has come hither with the name of a Huron.' Brothers, we must not forget the dead; a red skin never ceases to remember.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000007|We will load the back of this Mohican until he staggers under our bounty, and dispatch him after my young men.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000036_000011|Let this Delaware die."
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000037_000007|The quick and ready motion of the chief was not entirely too late.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000038_000001|A glance told him that the blow had failed, and terror changed to admiration.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000038_000002|Uncas stood still, looking his enemy in the eye with features that seemed superior to emotion.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000038_000003|Marble could not be colder, calmer, or steadier than the countenance he put upon this sudden and vindictive attack.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000038_000004|Then, as if pitying a want of skill which had proved so fortunate to himself, he smiled, and muttered a few words of contempt in his own tongue.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000039_000001|Go! take him where there is silence; let us see if a Delaware can sleep at night, and in the morning die."
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000040_000001|It was only as the figure of Uncas stood in the opening of the door that his firm step hesitated.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000041_000000|Magua was content with his success, or too much occupied with his secret purposes to push his inquiries any further.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000042_000000|When the chief, who had solicited the aid of Duncan, finished his pipe, he made a final and successful movement toward departing.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000001|A thicket of brush skirted its foot, and it became necessary to proceed through a crooked and narrow path.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000002|The boys had resumed their sports in the clearing, and were enacting a mimic chase to the post among themselves.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000003|In order to render their games as like the reality as possible, one of the boldest of their number had conveyed a few brands into some piles of tree tops that had hitherto escaped the burning.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000005|At a little distance from a bald rock, and directly in its front, they entered a grassy opening, which they prepared to cross.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000006|Just then fresh fuel was added to the fire, and a powerful light penetrated even to that distant spot.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000008|The Indian paused, as if doubtful whether to proceed, and permitted his companion to approach his side.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000009|A large black ball, which at first seemed stationary, now began to move in a manner that to the latter was inexplicable.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000043_000011|Then even Duncan knew it, by its restless and sidling attitudes, which kept the upper part of its form in constant motion, while the animal itself appeared seated, to be a bear.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000044_000000|Duncan, who knew that the animal was often domesticated among the Indians, followed the example of his companion, believing that some favorite of the tribe had found its way into the thicket, in search of food.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000044_000001|They passed it unmolested.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000045_000000|Profiting by so easy a method of retreat, Duncan stepped after him, and was gladly closing the slight cover to the opening, when he felt it drawn from his hand by the beast, whose shaggy form immediately darkened the passage.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000045_000002|The bear growled frequently at his heels, and once or twice its enormous paws were laid on his person, as if disposed to prevent his further passage into the den.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000046_000000|How long the nerves of Heyward would have sustained him in this extraordinary situation, it might be difficult to decide, for, happily, he soon found relief.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000046_000001|A glimmer of light had constantly been in their front, and they now arrived at the place whence it proceeded.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000047_000002|Openings above admitted the light by day, and at night fires and torches supplied the place of the sun
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000047_000005|The latter approached her bedside, which was surrounded by females, in the center of whom Heyward was surprised to find his missing friend David.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000048_000000|A single look was sufficient to apprise the pretended leech that the invalid was far beyond his powers of healing.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000048_000001|She lay in a sort of paralysis, indifferent to the objects which crowded before her sight, and happily unconscious of suffering.
train-clean-100/1502/122615/1502_122615_000049_000000|Gamut, who had stood prepared to pour forth his spirit in song when the visitors entered, after delaying a moment, drew a strain from his pipe, and commenced a hymn that might have worked a miracle, had faith in its efficacy been of much avail.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000002_000000|The tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the temporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of warriors with the latter people.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000002_000001|Like their neighbors, they had followed Montcalm into the territories of the English crown, and were making heavy and serious inroads on the hunting grounds of the Mohawks; though they had seen fit, with the mysterious reserve so common among the natives, to withhold their assistance at the moment when it was most required.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000002_000004|As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000002_000005|The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000003_000002|The warriors were lounging in groups, musing more than they conversed and when a few words were uttered, speaking like men who deeply weighed their opinions.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000003_000003|The instruments of the chase were to be seen in abundance among the lodges; but none departed.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000003_000004|Here and there a warrior was examining his arms, with an attention that is rarely bestowed on the implements, when no other enemy than the beasts of the forest is expected to be encountered.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000004_000001|He was without arms, and his paint tended rather to soften than increase the natural sternness of his austere countenance.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000004_000002|When in full view of the Delawares he stopped, and made a gesture of amity, by throwing his arm upward toward heaven, and then letting it fall impressively on his breast.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000004_000006|He made, as he advanced, many courteous signs of greeting to the men he passed, neglecting to notice the women, however, like one who deemed their favor, in the present enterprise, of no importance.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000005_000000|His reception was grave, silent, and wary.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000007_000001|It is much used also by the whites.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000008_000000|"He is come," repeated Magua, bending his head with the dignity of an eastern prince.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000009_000000|The chief extended his arm and taking the other by the wrist, they once more exchanged friendly salutations.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000010_000000|During the short and frugal repast that followed, the conversation was extremely circumspect, and related entirely to the events of the hunt, in which Magua had so lately been engaged.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000010_000001|It would have been impossible for the most finished breeding to wear more of the appearance of considering the visit as a thing of course, than did his hosts, notwithstanding every individual present was perfectly aware that it must be connected with some secret object and that probably of importance to themselves.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000011_000000|"Is the face of my great Canada father turned again toward his Huron children?" demanded the orator of the Delawares.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000012_000000|"When was it ever otherwise?" returned Magua.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000012_000001|"He calls my people 'most beloved'."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000013_000000|The Delaware gravely bowed his acquiescence to what he knew to be false, and continued:
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000015_000000|"It is so; but they are now bright and dull; for the Yengeese are dead, and the Delawares are our neighbors."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000016_000000|The other acknowledged the pacific compliment by a gesture of the hand, and remained silent.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000016_000001|Then Magua, as if recalled to such a recollection, by the allusion to the massacre, demanded:
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000017_000000|"Does my prisoner give trouble to my brothers?"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000018_000000|"She is welcome."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000020_000000|"She is welcome," returned the chief of the latter nation, still more emphatically.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000021_000000|The baffled Magua continued silent several minutes, apparently indifferent, however, to the repulse he had received in this his opening effort to regain possession of Cora.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000023_000000|"The Lenape are rulers of their own hills," returned the other a little haughtily.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000024_000001|Justice is the master of a red skin.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000024_000002|Why should they brighten their tomahawks and sharpen their knives against each other? Are not the pale faces thicker than the swallows in the season of flowers?"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000025_000000|"Good!" exclaimed two or three of his auditors at the same time.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000026_000000|Magua waited a little, to permit his words to soften the feelings of the Delawares, before he added:
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000027_000001|Have not my brothers scented the feet of white men?"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000030_000000|"They will not find the Lenape asleep."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000031_000003|His nation would not go on the warpath, because they did not think it well, but their friends have remembered where they lived."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000032_000000|When he had thus announced his liberal intention, the crafty chief arose, and gravely spread his presents before the dazzled eyes of his hosts.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000032_000001|They consisted principally of trinkets of little value, plundered from the slaughtered females of William Henry.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000032_000002|In the division of the baubles the cunning Huron discovered no less art than in their selection.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000032_000003|While he bestowed those of greater value on the two most distinguished warriors, one of whom was his host, he seasoned his offerings to their inferiors with such well timed and apposite compliments, as left them no ground of complaint.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000032_000004|In short, the whole ceremony contained such a happy blending of the profitable with the flattering, that it was not difficult for the donor immediately to read the effect of a generosity so aptly mingled with praise, in the eyes of those he addressed.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000033_000000|This well judged and politic stroke on the part of Magua was not without instantaneous results.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000033_000001|The Delawares lost their gravity in a much more cordial expression; and the host, in particular, after contemplating his own liberal share of the spoil for some moments with peculiar gratification, repeated with strong emphasis, the words:
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000034_000000|"My brother is a wise chief.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000034_000001|He is welcome."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000035_000000|"The Hurons love their friends the Delawares," returned Magua.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000035_000001|"Why should they not?
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000035_000002|they are colored by the same sun, and their just men will hunt in the same grounds after death.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000035_000003|The red skins should be friends, and look with open eyes on the white men.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000035_000004|Has not my brother scented spies in the woods?"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000037_000000|"There have been strange moccasins about my camp.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000037_000001|They have been tracked into my lodges."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000039_000000|"It would not do.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000041_000001|Did not the Huron chief say he took women in the battle?"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000042_000003|Then they fled to the Delawares-for, say they, the Delawares are our friends; their minds are turned from their Canada father!"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000043_000001|The recent defection of the tribe had, as they well knew themselves, subjected the Delawares to much reproach among their French allies; and they were now made to feel that their future actions were to be regarded with jealousy and distrust.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000043_000003|Their distant villages, their hunting grounds and hundreds of their women and children, together with a material part of their physical force, were actually within the limits of the French territory.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000043_000004|Accordingly, this alarming annunciation was received, as Magua intended, with manifest disapprobation, if not with alarm.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000044_000002|But they love and venerate the great white chief."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000045_000001|When he is told a bloody Yengee smokes at your fire?
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000046_000000|"Where is the Yengee that the Delawares fear?" returned the other; "who has slain my young men?
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000046_000001|Who is the mortal enemy of my Great Father?"
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000050_000000|"A Huron never lies!" returned Magua, coldly, leaning his head against the side of the lodge, and drawing his slight robe across his tawny breast.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000050_000001|"Let the Delawares count their prisoners; they will find one whose skin is neither red nor pale."
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000051_000000|A long and musing pause succeeded.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000051_000001|The chief consulted apart with his companions, and messengers despatched to collect certain others of the most distinguished men of the tribe.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000052_000001|The news spread from mouth to mouth, until the whole encampment became powerfully agitated.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000052_000002|The women suspended their labors, to catch such syllables as unguardedly fell from the lips of the consulting warriors.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000053_000000|When the excitement had a little abated, the old men disposed themselves seriously to consider that which it became the honor and safety of their tribe to perform, under circumstances of so much delicacy and embarrassment.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000054_000003|He, therefore, left the lodge and walked silently forth to the place, in front of the encampment, whither the warriors were already beginning to collect.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000055_000000|It might have been half an hour before each individual, including even the women and children, was in his place.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000055_000003|Its number somewhat exceeded a thousand souls.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000056_000003|Until such a one chose to make some movement, no deeds in arms, no natural gifts, nor any renown as an orator, would have justified the slightest interruption.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000056_000005|The delay had already continued long beyond the usual deliberative pause that always preceded a conference; but no sign of impatience or surprise escaped even the youngest boy.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000057_000002|They were all aged, even beyond that period to which the oldest present had reached; but one in the center, who leaned on his companions for support, had numbered an amount of years to which the human race is seldom permitted to attain.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000057_000005|His dark, wrinkled countenance was in singular and wild contrast with the long white locks which floated on his shoulders, in such thickness, as to announce that generations had probably passed away since they had last been shorn.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000058_000000|The dress of this patriarch-for such, considering his vast age, in conjunction with his affinity and influence with his people, he might very properly be termed-was rich and imposing, though strictly after the simple fashions of the tribe.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000058_000004|His head, on the whole of which the hair had been permitted to grow, the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned, was encircled by a sort of plated diadem, which, in its turn, bore lesser and more glittering ornaments, that sparkled amid the glossy hues of three drooping ostrich feathers, dyed a deep black, in touching contrast to the color of his snow white locks.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000061_000000|The eyes of the old man were closed, as though the organs were wearied with having so long witnessed the selfish workings of the human passions.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000062_000001|After a suitable and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose, and, approaching the patriarch, they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to entreat a blessing.
train-clean-100/1502/122619/1502_122619_000063_000001|In a few minutes they reappeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all these solemn preparations toward the seat of judgment.
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train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000001_000000|SNOW WHITE; ROSE RED
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000002_000000|Just before Thanksgiving the affairs of the Simpsons reached what might have been called a crisis, even in their family, which had been born and reared in a state of adventurous poverty and perilous uncertainty.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000003_000000|Riverboro was doing its best to return the entire tribe of Simpsons to the land of its fathers, so to speak, thinking rightly that the town which had given them birth, rather than the town of their adoption, should feed them and keep a roof over their heads until the children were of an age for self support.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000003_000003|They were not exactly popular favorites, but they did receive certain undesirable morsels from the more charitable housewives.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000000|Life was rather dull and dreary, however, and in the chill and gloom of November weather, with the vision of other people's turkeys bursting with fat, and other people's golden pumpkins and squashes and corn being garnered into barns, the young Simpsons groped about for some inexpensive form of excitement, and settled upon the selling of soap for a premium.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000001|They had sold enough to their immediate neighbors during the earlier autumn to secure a child's handcart, which, though very weak on its pins, could be trundled over the country roads.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000002|With large business sagacity and an executive capacity which must have been inherited from their father, they now proposed to extend their operations to a larger area and distribute soap to contiguous villages, if these villages could be induced to buy.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000004|It was at this juncture that Clara Belle and Susan Simpson consulted Rebecca, who threw herself solidly and wholeheartedly into the enterprise, promising her help and that of Emma Jane Perkins.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000005|The premiums within their possible grasp were three: a bookcase, a plush reclining chair, and a banquet lamp.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000009|It looked to be about eight feet tall in the catalogue, and Emma Jane advised Clara Belle to measure the height of the Simpson ceilings; but a note in the margin of the circular informed them that it stood two and a half feet high when set up in all its dignity and splendor on a proper table, three dollars extra.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000004_000010|It was only of polished brass, continued the circular, though it was invariably mistaken for solid gold, and the shade that accompanied it (at least it accompanied it if the agent sold a hundred extra cakes) was of crinkled crepe paper printed in a dozen delicious hues, from which the joy dazzled agent might take his choice.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000005_000001|Clara Belle was rather a successful agent, but Susan, who could only say "thoap," never made large returns, and the twins, who were somewhat young to be thoroughly trustworthy, could be given only a half dozen cakes at a time, and were obliged to carry with them on their business trips a brief document stating the price per cake, dozen, and box.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000005_000002|Rebecca and Emma Jane offered to go two or three miles in some one direction and see what they could do in the way of stirring up a popular demand for the Snow White and Rose Red brands, the former being devoted to laundry purposes and the latter being intended for the toilet.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000006_000001|They had the soap company's circular from which to arrange a proper speech, and they had, what was still better, the remembrance of a certain patent medicine vender's discourse at the Milltown Fair.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000006_000002|His method, when once observed, could never be forgotten; nor his manner, nor his vocabulary.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000006_000003|Emma Jane practiced it on Rebecca, and Rebecca on Emma Jane.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000007_000001|It is called the Snow White and Rose Red Soap, six cakes in an ornamental box, only twenty cents for the white, twenty five cents for the red.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000007_000002|It is made from the purest ingredients, and if desired could be eaten by an invalid with relish and profit."
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000008_000000|"Oh, Rebecca, don't let's say that!" interposed Emma Jane hysterically. "It makes me feel like a fool."
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000009_000000|"It takes so little to make you feel like a fool, Emma Jane," rebuked Rebecca, "that sometimes I think that you must BE one I don't get to feeling like a fool so awfully easy; now leave out that eating part if you don't like it, and go on."
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000010_000000|"The Snow White is probably the most remarkable laundry soap ever manufactured.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000010_000001|Immerse the garments in a tub, lightly rubbing the more soiled portions with the soap; leave them submerged in water from sunset to sunrise, and then the youngest baby can wash them without the slightest effort."
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000011_000000|"BABE, not baby," corrected Rebecca from the circular.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000012_000000|"It's just the same thing," argued Emma Jane.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000013_000000|"Of course it's just the same THING; but a baby has got to be called babe or infant in a circular, the same as it is in poetry!
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000013_000001|Would you rather say infant?"
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000014_000000|"No," grumbled Emma Jane; "infant is worse even than babe.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000014_000001|Rebecca, do you think we'd better do as the circular says, and let Elijah or Elisha try the soap before we begin selling?"
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000015_000001|Oh! won't it be the greatest fun, Emma Jane?
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000015_000002|At some of the houses-where they can't possibly know me-I shan't be frightened, and I shall reel off the whole rigmarole, invalid, babe, and all.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000018_000001|These were lifted into the back of the wagon, and a happier couple never drove along the country road than Rebecca and her companion.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000018_000002|It was a glorious Indian summer day, which suggested nothing of Thanksgiving, near at hand as it was.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000018_000003|It was a rustly day, a scarlet and buff, yellow and carmine, bronze and crimson day.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000018_000004|There were still many leaves on the oaks and maples, making a goodly show of red and brown and gold. The air was like sparkling cider, and every field had its heaps of yellow and russet good things to eat, all ready for the barns, the mills, and the markets.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000019_000000|"Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest!"
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000021_000000|A gorgeous leaf blew into the wagon.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000022_000000|"Does color make you sort of dizzy?" asked Rebecca.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000023_000000|"No," answered Emma Jane after a long pause; "no, it don't; not a mite."
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000024_000000|"Perhaps dizzy isn't just the right word, but it's nearest.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000024_000002|If you could be a tree, which one would you choose?"
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000025_000000|Emma Jane had enjoyed considerable experience of this kind, and Rebecca had succeeded in unstopping her ears, ungluing her eyes, and loosening her tongue, so that she could "play the game" after a fashion.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000026_000000|"I'd rather be an apple tree in blossom,--that one that blooms pink, by our pig pen."
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000027_000000|Rebecca laughed.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000027_000003|"Then I could see so much more than your pink apple tree by the pig pen.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000027_000004|I could look at all the rest of the woods, see my scarlet dress in my beautiful looking glass, and watch all the yellow and brown trees growing upside down in the water.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000027_000006|Do they have green petticoats, I wonder?
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000028_000000|"I think it would be awful homely," said Emma Jane.
train-clean-100/1553/140047/1553_140047_000028_000001|"I'm going to have a white satin with a pink sash, pink stockings, bronze slippers, and a spangled fan."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000001_000000|mr
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000001_000001|ALADDIN
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000002_000001|They did not accompany each other to the doors of their chosen victims, feeling sure that together they could not approach the subject seriously; but they parted at the gate of each house, the one holding the horse while the other took the soap samples and interviewed any one who seemed of a coming on disposition.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000002_000002|Emma Jane had disposed of three single cakes, Rebecca of three small boxes; for a difference in their ability to persuade the public was clearly defined at the start, though neither of them ascribed either success or defeat to anything but the imperious force of circumstances.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000002_000003|Housewives looked at Emma Jane and desired no soap; listened to her description of its merits, and still desired none.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000002_000004|Other stars in their courses governed Rebecca's doings.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000002_000005|The people whom she interviewed either remembered their present need of soap, or reminded themselves that they would need it in the future; the notable point in the case being that lucky Rebecca accomplished, with almost no effort, results that poor little Emma Jane failed to attain by hard and conscientious labor.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000003_000000|"It's your turn, Rebecca, and I'm glad, too," said Emma Jane, drawing up to a gateway and indicating a house that was set a considerable distance from the road.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000003_000001|"I haven't got over trembling from the last place yet." (A lady had put her head out of an upstairs window and called, "Go away, little girl; whatever you have in your box we don't want any.") "I don't know who lives here, and the blinds are all shut in front.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000003_000002|If there's nobody at home you mustn't count it, but take the next house as yours."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000004_000000|Rebecca walked up the lane and went to the side door.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000004_000001|There was a porch there, and seated in a rocking chair, husking corn, was a good looking young man, or was he middle aged?
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000004_000002|Rebecca could not make up her mind. At all events he had an air of the city about him,--well shaven face, well trimmed mustache, well fitting clothes.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000004_000003|Rebecca was a trifle shy at this unexpected encounter, but there was nothing to be done but explain her presence, so she asked, "Is the lady of the house at home?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000005_000000|"I am the lady of the house at present," said the stranger, with a whimsical smile.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000005_000001|"What can I do for you?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000006_000000|"Have you ever heard of the-would you like, or I mean-do you need any soap?" queried Rebecca.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000007_000000|"Do I look as if I did?" he responded unexpectedly.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000008_000000|Rebecca dimpled.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000008_000001|"I didn't mean THAT; I have some soap to sell; I mean I would like to introduce to you a very remarkable soap, the best now on the market.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000008_000002|It is called the"--
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000009_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000009_000001|I must know that soap," said the gentleman genially.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000009_000002|"Made out of pure vegetable fats, isn't it?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000010_000000|"The very purest," corroborated Rebecca.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000011_000000|"No acid in it?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000012_000000|"Not a trace."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000013_000000|"And yet a child could do the Monday washing with it and use no force."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000014_000000|"A babe," corrected Rebecca
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000015_000000|"Oh! a babe, eh?
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000015_000001|That child grows younger every year, instead of older-wise child!"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000016_000000|This was great good fortune, to find a customer who knew all the virtues of the article in advance.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000016_000001|Rebecca dimpled more and more, and at her new friend's invitation sat down on a stool at his side near the edge of the porch.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000016_000003|Presently she forgot all about her silent partner at the gate and was talking as if she had known this grand personage all her life.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000017_000000|"I'm keeping house to day, but I don't live here," explained the delightful gentleman.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000017_000001|"I'm just on a visit to my aunt, who has gone to Portland.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000019_000001|"So you consider your childhood a thing of the past, do you, young lady?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000020_000000|"I can still remember it," answered Rebecca gravely, "though it seems a long time ago."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000022_000001|"What was your worst trouble?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000023_000000|"Lack of food and clothes principally."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000024_000000|"Oh!" exclaimed Rebecca sympathetically,--"mine was no shoes and too many babies and not enough books.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000025_000000|"I'm doing pretty well, thank you," said the man, with a delightful smile.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000027_000000|"Oh, I don't know about that; soap keeps, doesn't it?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000028_000000|"I'm not certain," said Rebecca conscientiously, "but I'll look in the circular-it's sure to tell;" and she drew the document from her pocket.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000029_000000|"What are you going to do with the magnificent profits you get from this business?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000030_000000|"We are not selling for our own benefit," said Rebecca confidentially. "My friend who is holding the horse at the gate is the daughter of a very rich blacksmith, and doesn't need any money.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000030_000002|We are trying to get a premium for some friends of ours."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000032_000000|"You needn't argue that point," laughed the man, as he stood up to get a glimpse of the "rich blacksmith's daughter" at the gate.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000032_000001|"I can see that they ought to have it if they want it, and especially if you want them to have it.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000032_000002|I've known what it was myself to do without a banquet lamp.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000032_000003|Now give me the circular, and let's do some figuring.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000033_000000|"If they sell two hundred more cakes this month and next, they can have the lamp by Christmas," Rebecca answered, "and they can get a shade by summer time; but I'm afraid I can't help very much after to day, because my aunt Miranda may not like to have me."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000034_000000|"I see.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000034_000001|Well, that's all right.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000034_000002|I'll take three hundred cakes, and that will give them shade and all."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000035_000000|Rebecca had been seated on a stool very near to the edge of the porch, and at this remark she made a sudden movement, tipped over, and disappeared into a clump of lilac bushes.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000035_000001|It was a very short distance, fortunately, and the amused capitalist picked her up, set her on her feet, and brushed her off.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000035_000002|"You should never seem surprised when you have taken a large order," said he; "you ought to have replied 'Can't you make it three hundred and fifty?' instead of capsizing in that unbusinesslike way."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000036_000000|"Oh, I could never say anything like that!" exclaimed Rebecca, who was blushing crimson at her awkward fall.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000036_000002|Are you sure you can afford it?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000037_000000|"If I can't, I'll save on something else," returned the jocose philanthropist.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000038_000000|"What if your aunt shouldn't like the kind of soap?" queried Rebecca nervously.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000040_000000|"Mine doesn't!" exclaimed Rebecca
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000041_000000|"Then there's something wrong with your aunt!"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000042_000000|"Or with me," laughed Rebecca.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000044_000000|"Rebecca Rowena Randall, sir."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000045_000000|"What?" with an amused smile.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000045_000001|"BOTH?
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000045_000002|Your mother was generous."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000048_000000|"I think I know already," answered Rebecca, with a bright glance.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000048_000003|She must be so tired waiting, and she will be so glad!"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000049_000001|Emma Jane! we are sold out!"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000050_000000|mr Aladdin followed smilingly to corroborate this astonishing, unbelievable statement; lifted all their boxes from the back of the wagon, and taking the circular, promised to write to the Excelsior Company that night concerning the premium.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000051_000000|"If you could contrive to keep a secret,--you two little girls,--it would be rather a nice surprise to have the lamp arrive at the Simpsons' on Thanksgiving Day, wouldn't it?" he asked, as he tucked the old lap robe cosily over their feet.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000053_000000|"Oh, don't mention it!" laughed mr Aladdin, lifting his hat.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000053_000001|"I was a sort of commercial traveler myself once,--years ago,--and I like to see the thing well done.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000053_000002|Good by Miss Rebecca Rowena!
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000054_000000|"Good by, mr Aladdin!
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000055_000001|"He raised his hat to us, and we not thirteen!
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000055_000002|It'll be five years before we're ladies."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000056_000000|"Never mind," answered Rebecca; "we are the BEGINNINGS of ladies, even now."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000057_000000|"He tucked the lap robe round us, too," continued Emma Jane, in an ecstasy of reminiscence.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000057_000001|"Oh! isn't he perfectly elergant?
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000057_000002|And wasn't it lovely of him to buy us out?
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000057_000003|And just think of having both the lamp and the shade for one day's work!
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000057_000004|Aren't you glad you wore your pink gingham now, even if mother did make you put on flannel underneath?
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000057_000005|You do look so pretty in pink and red, Rebecca, and so homely in drab and brown!"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000059_000001|"Everybody says you're awful bright and smart, and mother thinks you'll be better looking all the time as you grow older.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000059_000002|You wouldn't believe it, but I was a dreadful homely baby, and homely right along till just a year or two ago, when my red hair began to grow dark.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000060_000000|"I never thought to ask!" ejaculated Rebecca.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000060_000002|But I called him mr Aladdin because he gave us a lamp.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000061_000000|"Oh, Rebecca! how could you call him a nickname the very first time you ever saw him?"
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000062_000000|"Aladdin isn't a nickname exactly; anyway, he laughed and seemed to like it."
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000063_000000|By dint of superhuman effort, and putting such a seal upon their lips as never mortals put before, the two girls succeeded in keeping their wonderful news to themselves; although it was obvious to all beholders that they were in an extraordinary and abnormal state of mind.
train-clean-100/1553/140048/1553_140048_000064_000001|Rebecca had heard the news of its arrival, but waited until nearly dark before asking permission to go to the Simpsons', so that she might see the gorgeous trophy lighted and sending a blaze of crimson glory through its red crepe paper shade.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000007_000000|"Land, no, mother; there ain't no home'path 'bout Miss Parks-she drives all over the country."
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000010_000000|"It's a pity she's so plain looking," remarked mrs Cobb, blowing out the candle.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000011_000000|"PLAIN LOOKING, mother?" exclaimed her husband in astonishment.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000012_000001|Miss Dearborn gave her every sort of subject that she had ever been given herself: Cloud Pictures; Abraham Lincoln; Nature; Philanthropy; Slavery; Intemperance; Joy and Duty; Solitude; but with none of them did Rebecca seem to grapple satisfactorily.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000015_000003|'One opens a favorite book;' 'One's thoughts are a great comfort in solitude,' and so on."
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000020_000001|When her turn came to read she was obliged to confess she had written nothing.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000024_000000|Rebecca rose, overcome with secret laughter dread, and mortification; then in a low voice she read the couplet:--
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000028_000000|"You must stay after school and try again, Rebecca," she said, but she said it smilingly.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000030_000000|When Joy and Duty clash, 'T is Joy must go to smash."
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000031_000000|"That is better," Miss Dearborn answered, "though I cannot think 'going to smash' is a pretty expression for poetry."
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000033_000000|SOLITUDE
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000034_000003|All one's little household tasks keep one from being lonely.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000034_000006|One would fancy not.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000035_000000|r r r
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000037_000001|"I don't see what makes you do it.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000038_000000|"Because I was talking about 'household tasks' in the sentence before, and it IS one of my household tasks.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000039_000001|It is the cat, the chips, and the milk pail that I don't like."
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000041_000000|"Yes, I don't like a cow in a composition," said the difficult Miss Dearborn.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000044_000002|When did they chase you up the road, and what were you doing?"
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000045_000000|A sudden light broke upon Rebecca's darkness.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000046_000006|I knew Living would remember, too, so I took off my waterproof and wrapped it round my books for a baby; then I shouted, 'MY GOD!
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000046_000007|THE RIVER!' just like that-the same as Eliza did in the play; then I leaped from puddle to puddle, and Living and Emma Jane pursued me like the bloodhounds.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000046_000009|And Eliza wasn't swearing when she said 'My God! the river!' It was more like praying."
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000048_000000|"I wish sometimes that I could bridle Minnie's," murmured Rebecca, as she went to set the table for supper.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000050_000000|"I don't think she's like the rest of us," responded Jane thoughtfully and with some anxiety in her pleasant face; "but whether it's for the better or the worse I can't hardly tell till she grows up.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000051_000000|"Stuff an' nonsense!" said Miranda "Speak for yourself.
train-clean-100/1578/140045/1578_140045_000052_000000|"I know you do, Mirandy; but that don't MAKE you so," returned Jane with a smile.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000001_000000|THE BANQUET LAMP
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000003_000002|You never can let well enough alone, but want to be forever on the move."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000005_000001|If Abner was at home, I should think he'd been swappin' again," said Miss Miranda.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000007_000001|Well, you can go for an hour, and no more.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000007_000002|Remember it's as dark at six as it is at midnight Would you like to take along some Baldwin apples?
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000007_000003|What have you got in the pocket of that new dress that makes it sag down so?"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000008_000000|"It's my nuts and raisins from dinner," replied Rebecca, who never succeeded in keeping the most innocent action a secret from her aunt Miranda; "they're just what you gave me on my plate."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000009_000000|"Why didn't you eat them?"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000016_000002|This time it was a full set of furs for mrs Ladd; and to think we can remember the time he was a barefoot boy without two shirts to his back!
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000017_000000|"There's hope for him still, though," said Miss Jane smilingly; "for I don't s'pose he's more than thirty."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000018_000000|"He could get a wife in Riverboro if he was a hundred and thirty," remarked Miss Miranda.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000021_000002|mrs Ladd has it stacked up in the shed chamber."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000022_000001|"Well, there's one crop that never fails in Riverboro!"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000023_000000|"What's that?" asked Miss Lydia politely.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000024_000002|What child had wonderful eyes, except the same Rebecca? and finally, was there ever a child in the world who could make a man buy soap by the hundred cakes, save Rebecca?
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000026_000000|"Something awful has happened," panted Emma Jane.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000027_000000|"Don't tell me it's broken," exclaimed Rebecca.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000028_000000|"No! oh, no! not that!
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000029_000000|"OUR selling the three hundred cakes," corrected Rebecca; "you did as much as i"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000030_000001|I just sat at the gate and held the horse."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000031_000000|"Yes, but WHOSE horse was it that took us to North Riverboro?
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000032_000003|We never thought of the expense of keeping up the lamp, Rebecca."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000033_000001|I have a handful of nuts and raisins and some apples."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000034_000000|"I have peppermints and maple sugar," said Emma Jane.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000034_000001|"They had a real Thanksgiving dinner; the doctor gave them sweet potatoes and cranberries and turnips; father sent a spare rib, and mrs Cobb a chicken and a jar of mince meat."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000035_000000|At half past five one might have looked in at the Simpsons' windows, and seen the party at its height.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000035_000005|The brass glistened like gold, and the crimson paper shade glowed like a giant ruby.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000039_000001|"And, oh!
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000040_000001|mr Tubbs brought it over from North Riverboro and said somebody sent an order by mail for it."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000041_000001|"It was mr Aladdin," whispered Rebecca, as they ran down the path to the gate.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000042_000001|The Burnham sisters had gone and the two aunts were knitting.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000043_000000|"It was a heavenly party," she cried, taking off her hat and cape.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000046_000001|"I've got no patience with such foolish goin's on."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000048_000000|"Rebecca, who was it that sold the three hundred cakes of soap to mr Ladd in North Riverboro?"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000050_000000|"mr Ladd, in North Riverboro."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000051_000000|"Is that his real name?" queried Rebecca in astonishment.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000051_000001|"I didn't make a bad guess;" and she laughed softly to herself.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000052_000000|"I asked you who sold the soap to Adam Ladd?" resumed Miss Jane.
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000053_000000|"Adam Ladd! then he's a Ladd, too; what fun!"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000054_000000|"Answer me, Rebecca."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000055_000001|Emma Jane and I sold the soap to mr Ladd."
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000056_000000|"Did you tease him, or make him buy it?"
train-clean-100/1578/140049/1578_140049_000057_000001|He needed the soap dreadfully as a present for his aunt."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000002_000001|Did you bring us some wedding cake?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000005_000000|"Adventures!" she called back excitedly.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000011_000000|"There it is.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000017_000000|"Looks like a man's," said Conny.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000018_000000|"It is."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000019_000000|"Oh, Patty!
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000019_000002|Where'd you get it?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000023_000000|"Well?" they inquired in a breath.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000027_000000|"Jermyn Hilliard, Junior?" Priscilla asked breathlessly.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000029_000001|"J.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000031_000000|"Where on earth did you get it, Patty?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000032_000000|"Is it locked?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000034_000000|"What's in it?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000035_000000|"Oh, a dress suit, and collars, and-and things."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000036_000000|"Where'd you get it?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000038_000000|"Oh, tell us, please.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000038_000001|I think you're beastly!"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000039_000000|"Well-the glee club was last Thursday night."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000046_000000|"Better."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000047_000000|"Are those his real eyebrows or were they blacked?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000051_000000|"What did Mam'selle think of that?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000053_000001|"You surely didn't speak to him?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000054_000000|"Of course not.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000055_000000|"Oh!" Conny murmured disappointedly.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000056_000000|"Then what happened?" Priscilla asked.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000062_000000|"I told you to put it up," said Priscilla.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000065_000001|What's the matter with it?'
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000073_000001|Do you s'pose he opened it?" asked Conny.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000074_000000|"I'm afraid he did.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000075_000000|"I hope it looked all right?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000078_000000|"That was the best part of it!" Patty affirmed.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000080_000004|I had to walk without lifting my feet.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000081_000004|I felt as though I were flirting with my grandfather.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000086_000000|"But you didn't leave it."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000088_000000|"And what did you wear at the wedding?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000090_000000|"Did you tell the Dowager?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000092_000000|"What did she say?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000096_000001|"Where's some black silk, Patty?"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000100_000000|"Oh!" squealed Mae Mertelle.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000100_000001|"He wears blue silk suspenders."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000103_000000|"Why not?" bristled Patty.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000105_000000|"Young!--Wait till you see me with my hair done up."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000108_000000|A maid appeared at the door.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000109_000001|The gentleman is waiting."
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000110_000000|"Oh, Patty!" a gasp went around the room.
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000111_000000|"Do your hair up-quick!"
train-clean-100/1578/6379/1578_6379_000114_000004|There's the study bell."
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000003_000001|Thence, notwithstanding all they had endured, they proceeded to Bagdad.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000005_000002|Alas! it is I that have made you wretched! why did you not let me perish miserably, rather than afford me your generous relief?
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000005_000003|What melancholy return have you received for your care and respect?
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000008_000002|"Fetnah," said the caliph, without bidding her rise, "I think you charge me with violence and injustice.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000008_000004|Speak freely, you know the natural goodness of my disposition, and that I love to do justice."
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000010_000000|The caliph was not displeased with Fetnah for the freedom of these words; "But may I," said he, "rely on the assurance you give me of Ganem's virtue?" "Yes," replied Fetnah, "you may.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000010_000002|I went further yet: you know the tyranny of love: I felt some tender inclination rising in my breast.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000010_000003|He perceived it; but far from availing himself of my frailty, and notwithstanding the flame which consumed him, he still remained steady in his duty, and all that his passion could force from him were the words I have already repeated to your majesty, That which belongs to the master is forbidden to the slave.'"
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000012_000001|Was there any need of staying a whole month after my return, before you sent me word where you were?" "Commander of the true believers," answered Fetnah, "Ganem went abroad so very seldom, that you need not wonder we were not the first that heard of your return.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000014_000001|Fetnah concluded, that he had not been able to survive the pain of losing her.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000015_000001|She spend the whole day and the thousand pieces of gold in giving alms at the mosques, and returned to the palace in the evening.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000016_000003|Through all the rags that covered them, notwithstanding the impression the sun has made on their faces, I discovered a noble air, not to be commonly found in those people I relieve.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000016_000004|I carried them both to my house, and delivered them to my wife, who was of the same opinion with me. She caused her slaves to provide them good beds, whilst she herself led them to our warm bath, and gave them clean linen.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000019_000000|The caliph's favourite having dried up hers, said to Ganem's mother, "Be so kind as to tell us your misfortunes, and recount your story.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000020_000003|You are no longer his enemies.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000022_000000|Fetnah would have proceeded, but the syndic of the jewellers coming in interrupted her: "Madam," said he to her, "I come from seeing a very moving object, it is a young man, whom a camel driver had just carried to an hospital: he was bound with cords on a camel, because he had not strength enough to sit.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000024_000005|Ganem," added she, "it is not you that I address!
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000024_000007|The son of Abou Ayoub, however indisposed, would know the voice of Fetnah." At the name of Fetnah, Ganem (for it was really he) opened his eyes, sprang up, and knowing the caliph's favourite; "Ah! madam," said he, "by what miracle"
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000024_000008|He could say no more; such a sudden transport of joy seized him that he fainted away. Fetnah and the syndic did all they could to bring him to himself; but as soon as they perceived he began to revive, the syndic desired the lady to withdraw, lest the sight of her should heighten his disorder.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000025_000000|The young man having recovered, looked all around, and not seeing what he sought, exclaimed, "What is become of you, charming Fetnah?
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000026_000002|Fetnah then said, "Let us bless Heaven for having brought us all together.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000026_000004|This said, she embraced the mother and the daughter, and went away.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000030_000000|Matters being so ordered, the syndic announced Fetnah's coming to the sick man, who was so transported to see her, that he was again near fainting away, "Well, Ganem," said she, drawing near to his bed, "you have again found your Fetnah, whom you thought you had lost for ever." "Ah! madam," exclaimed he, eagerly interrupting her, "what miracle has restored you to my sight?
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000030_000001|I thought you were in the caliph's palace; he has doubtless listened to you.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000030_000002|You have dispelled his jealousy, and he has restored you to his favour."
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000031_000000|"Yes, my dear Ganem," answered Fetnah, "I have cleared myself before the commander of the true believers, who, to make amends for the wrong he has done you, bestows me on you for a wife." These last words occasioned such an excess of joy in Ganem, that he knew not for a while how to express himself, otherwise than by that passionate silence so well known to lovers.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000032_000002|They were at the door waiting for that moment.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000032_000005|Ganem's face was bathed with them, as well as his mother's and sisters; and Fetnah let fall abundance.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000033_000002|Fetnah also told them all the uneasiness of her imprisonment, how the caliph, having heard her talk in the tower, had sent for her into his closet, and how she had cleared herself.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000034_000000|This said, she went to the palace, and soon returned with a purse containing a thousand pieces of gold, which she delivered to the syndic, desiring him to buy apparel for the mother and daughter. The syndic, who was a man of a good taste, chose such as were very handsome, and had them made up with all expedition.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000035_000001|The mother and daughter were mounted on mules belonging to the palace, and whilst Fetnah on another mule led them by a bye way to the prince's court, Jaaffier conducted Ganem, and brought him into the hall of audience.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000036_000004|The caliph was highly pleased with Ganem's reply, and assigned him a considerable pension.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000036_000005|He then descended from his throne, and causing only Ganem and the grand vizier, follow him, retired into his own apartment.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000037_000000|Not questioning but that Fetnah was in waiting, with Abou Ayoub's widow and daughter, he caused them to be called in.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000037_000001|They prostrated themselves before him: he made them rise; and was so charmed by Jalib al Koolloob's beauty, that, after viewing her very attentively, he said, "I am so sorry for having treated your charms so unworthily, that I owe them such a satisfaction as may surpass the injury I have done.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000037_000002|I take you to wife; and by that means shall punish Zobeide, who shall become the first cause of your good fortune, as she was of your past sufferings.
train-clean-100/1594/135914/1594_135914_000038_000001|It was afterwards laid up in his library, and many copies being transcribed, it became public.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000002_000000|"Who's that?" peter Rabbit pricked up his long ears and stared up at the tops of the trees of the Old Orchard.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000003_000000|Instantly Jenny Wren popped her head out of her doorway.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000003_000001|She cocked her head on one side to listen, then looked down at peter, and her sharp little eyes snapped.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000004_000000|"I don't hear any strange voice," said she.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000004_000001|"The way you are staring, peter Rabbit, one would think that you had really heard something new and worth while."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000005_000000|Just then there were two or three rather sharp, squeaky notes from the top of one of the trees.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000005_000001|"There!" cried peter.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000005_000002|"There!
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000006_000001|"That's Rosebreast.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000006_000002|He and mrs Rosebreast have been here for quite a little while.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000007_000000|At that very instant mr Wren began to scold as only he and Jenny can. peter looked up at Jenny and winked slyly.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000007_000001|"And what anybody wants to scold like that for when they can sing as mr Wren can, is too much for me," retorted peter.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000008_000001|"If you don't know Rosebreast the Grosbeak, peter Rabbit, you certainly must have been blind and deaf ever since you were born.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000008_000002|Listen to that!
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000009_000000|peter listened.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000009_000002|One song was a little louder and clearer than the others because it came from a tree very close at hand, the very tree from which those squeaky notes had come just a few minutes before. peter suspected that that must be the song Jenny Wren meant.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000009_000003|He looked puzzled.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000009_000004|He was puzzled.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000009_000005|"Do you mean Welcome Robin's song?" he asked rather sheepishly, for he had a feeling that he would be the victim of Jenny Wren's sharp tongue.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000010_000000|"No, I don't mean Welcome Robin's song," snapped Jenny.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000010_000001|"What good are a pair of long ears if they can't tell one song from another?
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000010_000003|That's a better song than Welcome Robin's.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000010_000004|Welcome Robin's song is one of good cheer, but this one is of pure happiness.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000010_000005|I wouldn't have a pair of ears like yours for anything in the world, peter Rabbit."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000011_000001|"What are you laughing at?" demanded Jenny crossly.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000011_000002|"Don't you dare laugh at me!
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000011_000003|If there is any one thing I can't stand it is being laughed at."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000012_000002|Now you speak of it, Jenny, that song IS quite different from Welcome Robin's."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000013_000000|"Of course it is," retorted Jenny.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000013_000001|"That is Rosebreast singing up there, and there he is right in the top of that tree.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000014_000000|peter looked up to see a bird a little smaller than Welcome Robin.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000014_000001|His head, throat and back were black.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000014_000002|His wings were black with patches of white on them.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000014_000003|But it was his breast that made peter catch his breath with a little gasp of admiration, for that breast was a beautiful rose red.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000014_000004|The rest of him underneath was white.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000014_000005|It was Rosebreast the Grosbeak.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000015_000000|"Isn't he lovely!"' cried peter, and added in the next breath, "Who is that with him?"
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000016_000000|"mrs Grosbeak, of course.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000016_000001|Who else would it be?" sputtered Jenny rather crossly, for she was still a little put out because she had been laughed at.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000017_000000|"I would never have guessed it," said peter.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000017_000001|"She doesn't look the least bit like him."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000018_000000|This was quite true.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000018_000001|There was no beautiful rose color about mrs Grosbeak.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000018_000002|She was dressed chiefly in brown and grayish colors with a little buff here and there and with dark streaks on her breast.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000018_000003|Over each eye was a whitish line.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000018_000004|Altogether she looked more as if she might be a big member of the Sparrow family than the wife of handsome Rosebreast.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000018_000005|While Rosebreast sang, mrs Grosbeak was very busily picking buds and blossoms from the tree.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000019_000000|"What is she doing that for?" inquired peter.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000020_000000|"For the same reason that you bite off sweet clover blossoms and leaves," replied Jenny Wren tartly.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000021_000000|"Do you mean to say that they live on buds and blossoms?" cried peter. "I never heard of such a thing."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000022_000001|You can ask more silly questions than anybody of my acquaintance," retorted Jenny Wren.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000022_000002|"Of course they don't live on buds and blossoms.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000022_000003|If they did they would soon starve to death, for buds and blossoms don't last long.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000022_000005|You ask Farmer Brown's boy who helps him most in his potato patch, and he'll tell you it's the Grosbeaks. They certainly do love potato bugs.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000022_000007|Now run along, peter Rabbit, and don't bother me any more."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000000|Seeing Farmer Brown's boy coming through the Old Orchard peter decided that it was high time for him to depart.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000001|So he scampered for the Green Forest, lipperty lipperty lip.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000003|Fluttering on the ground was a bird than whom not even Glory the Cardinal was more beautiful.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000004|It was about the size of Redwing the Blackbird.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000005|Wings and tail were pure black and all the rest was a beautiful scarlet.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000006|It was Redcoat the Tanager.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000007|At first peter had eyes only for the wonderful beauty of Redcoat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000023_000009|Then quite suddenly it came over peter that something was wrong with Redcoat, and he hurried forward to see what the trouble might be.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000024_000000|Redcoat heard the rustle of Peter's feet among the dry leaves and at once began to flap and flutter in an effort to fly away, but he could not get off the ground.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000024_000001|"What is it, Redcoat?
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000024_000003|It is just peter Rabbit.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000024_000004|You don't have anything to fear from me," cried peter.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000025_000000|The look of terror which had been in the eyes of Redcoat died out, and he stopped fluttering and simply lay panting.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000026_000000|"Oh, peter," he gasped, "you don't know how glad I am that it is only you.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000026_000001|I've had a terrible accident, and I don't know what I am to do.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000026_000002|I can't fly, and if I have to stay on the ground some enemy will be sure to get me.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000026_000003|What shall I do, peter?
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000027_000000|Right away peter was full of sympathy.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000027_000001|"What kind of an accident was it, Redcoat, and how did it happen?" he asked.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000028_000000|"Broadwing the Hawk tried to catch me," sobbed Redcoat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000028_000001|"In dodging him among the trees I was heedless for a moment and did not see just where I was going.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000028_000002|I struck a sharp pointed dead twig and drove it right through my right wing."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000029_000000|Redcoat held up his right wing and sure enough there was a little stick projecting from both sides close up to the shoulder.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000029_000001|The wing was bleeding a little.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000030_000000|"Oh, dear, whatever shall I do, peter Rabbit?
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000030_000001|Whatever shall I do?" sobbed Redcoat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000031_000000|"Does it pain you dreadfully?" asked peter.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000032_000000|Redcoat nodded.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000032_000001|"But I don't mind the pain," he hastened to say.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000032_000002|"It is the thought of what MAY happen to me."
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000033_000001|She was dressed almost wholly in light olive green and greenish yellow.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000033_000002|She looked no more like beautiful Redcoat than did mrs Grosbeak like Rosebreast.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000034_000000|"Can't you fly up just a little way so as to get off the ground?" she cried anxiously.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000034_000001|"Isn't it dreadful, peter Rabbit, to have such an accident?
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000034_000002|We've just got our nest half built, and I don't know what I shall do if anything happens to Redcoat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000034_000004|Hide!" mrs Tanager flew off a short distance to one side and began to cry as if in the greatest distress.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000035_000000|Poor Redcoat, with the old look of terror in his eyes, fluttered along, trying to find something under which to hide.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000035_000002|peter heard the sound of heavy footsteps, and looking back, saw that Farmer Brown's boy was coming.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000035_000003|"Don't be afraid, Redcoat," he whispered.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000035_000004|"It's Farmer Brown's boy and I'm sure he won't hurt you. Perhaps he can help you." Then peter scampered off for a short distance and sat up to watch what would happen.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000036_000000|Of coarse Farmer Brown's boy saw Redcoat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000036_000001|No one with any eyes at all could have helped seeing him, because of that wonderful scarlet coat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000036_000003|Farmer Brown's boy understood instantly that something was wrong with one wing, and running forward, he caught Redcoat.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000037_000000|"You poor little thing.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000037_000001|You poor, beautiful little creature," said Farmer Brown's boy softly as he saw the cruel twig sticking through Redcoats' shoulder.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000037_000002|"We'll have to get that out right away," continued Farmer Brown's boy, stroking Redcoat ever so gently.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000038_000000|Somehow at that gentle touch Redcoat lost much of his fear, and a little hope sprang in his heart.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000038_000002|Then, doing his best to be careful and to hurt as little as possible, he worked the other part of the twig out from the under side.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000038_000003|Carefully he examined the wing to see if any bones were broken.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000038_000004|None were, and after holding Redcoat a few minutes he carefully set him up in a tree and withdrew a short distance.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000038_000005|Redcoat hopped from branch to branch until he was halfway up the tree.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000038_000006|Then he sat there for some time as if fearful of trying that injured wing. Meanwhile mrs Tanager came and fussed about him and talked to him and coaxed him and made as much of him as if he were a baby.
train-clean-100/1624/142933/1624_142933_000040_000000|"I knew Farmer Brown's boy would help him, and I'm so glad he found him," cried peter happily and started for the dear Old Briar patch.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000002_000000|Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000003_000001|She did everything about the house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything else.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000003_000002|Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an elephant.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000003_000003|Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, furniture, and people.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000003_000004|Her big face, dotted with red blotches, presented the appearance of a skimmer.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000003_000005|She had a beard.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000003_000007|She swore splendidly; she boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000001|His cunning began here; he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000004|His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000005|No one had ever succeeded in rendering him drunk.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000006|He smoked a big pipe.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000007|He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an old black coat.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000008|He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly enough, Saint Augustine.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000004_000009|He declared that he had "a system." In addition, he was a great swindler.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000005_000001|This rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being comfortably astride of both frontiers.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000005_000002|As for his prowess at Waterloo, the reader is already acquainted with that.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000007_000002|He allowed it to be thought that he was an educated man.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000008_000000|He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000008_000001|He did not disdain his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000009_000001|This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters into it.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000011_000001|He had something of the look of sailors, who are accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. Thenardier was a statesman.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000012_000000|Every new comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame Thenardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000012_000001|She was not even the mistress.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000012_000003|She worked; he created.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000012_000011|At certain moments she beheld him like a lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000013_000002|But her maternity stopped short with her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000016_000000|In this same year, eighteen twenty three, Thenardier was burdened with about fifteen hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000017_000000|Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, Thenardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized peoples,--hospitality.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000017_000001|Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted for his skill in shooting.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000017_000002|He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, which was particularly dangerous.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000021_000002|The man and the woman each had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows-this was the woman's; she went barefooted in winter-that was the man's doing.
train-clean-100/1624/168623/1624_168623_000024_000000|What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the midst of men all naked!
train-clean-100/163/122947/163_122947_000015_000008|Is not life a hundred times too short for us-to bore ourselves?
train-clean-100/163/122947/163_122947_000016_000003|But let us not be afraid!
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000005_000000|SIR THOMAS BROWNE
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000009_000000|Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000009_000004|These elders, our betters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy-of their good luck-and pity-for their inability to make use of it.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000010_000002|For them the orchard (a place elf haunted, wonderful!) simply produced so many apples and cherries: or it didn't, when the failures of Nature were not infrequently ascribed to us.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000010_000007|Perhaps, indeed, it was one of their best qualities that they spent the greater part of their time stuffily indoors.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000011_000000|To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000012_000001|Then brute force was pitilessly applied.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000013_000008|But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000014_000001|The Olympians are all past and gone.
train-clean-100/1737/142396/1737_142396_000014_000003|A saddening doubt, a dull suspicion, creeps over me.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000004_000000|She panted up anon, and dropped on the turf beside me.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000005_000000|"Where's Harold;" I asked presently.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000010_000001|"Come on and let's be surprised." But I could not help feeling that on this day of days even a grizzly felt misplaced and common.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000019_000000|"Why, there aren't any good lions," said Harold, hastily.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000020_000000|"Oh yes, there are, heaps and heaps," contradicted Edward.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000027_000000|Earth to earth!
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000027_000007|Humanity would have rejected it with scorn, Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognised and accepted it without a flicker of dissent.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000028_000001|"Take me for guide to day," he seemed to plead.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000028_000003|To day why not I, the trickster, the hypocrite?
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000028_000006|So we sheered off together, arm in arm, so to speak; and with fullest confidence I took the jigging, thwartwise course my chainless pilot laid for me.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000029_000002|As a rule this sort of thing struck me as the most pitiful tomfoolery.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000030_000001|From forth the vestry window projected two small legs, gyrating, hungry for foothold, with larceny-not to say sacrilege-in their every wriggle: a godless sight for a supporter of the Establishment.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000030_000003|Bill's coveted booty, too, I could easily guess at that; it came from the Vicar's store of biscuits, kept (as I knew) in a cupboard along with his official trappings.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000031_000002|Nature, who had accepted me for ally, cared little who had the world's biscuits, and assuredly was not going to let any friend of hers waste his time in playing policeman for Society.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000032_000002|Like a black pirate flag on the blue ocean of air, a hawk hung ominous; then, plummet wise, dropped to the hedgerow, whence there rose, thin and shrill, a piteous voice of squealing.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000034_000000|Further on, a hedgehog lay dead athwart the path-nay, more than dead; decadent, distinctly; a sorry sight for one that had known the fellow in more bustling circumstances.
train-clean-100/1737/142397/1737_142397_000036_000002|Harold, it further appeared, greatly coveting tadpoles, and top heavy with the eagerness of possession, had fallen into the pond. This, in itself, was nothing; but on attempting to sneak in by the back door, he had rendered up his duckweed bedabbled person into the hands of an aunt, and had been promptly sent off to bed; and this, on a holiday, was very much.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000000_000001|This may either be done in Shetland or German wool, and is very pretty in black Shetland wool.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000000_000002|Cast on three stitches; increase at the beginning of each row till you have twelve.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000001_000000|First pattern row:--Make one, knit two together, knit three, make one, knit one, make one, knit three, knit two together, knit one, make one.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000002_000000|Second row:--Seamed, making a stitch at the beginning.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000003_000000|Third row:--Make one, knit one, knit two together, knit two, make one, knit three, make one, knit two, knit two together, knit two.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000005_000000|Fifth row:--Make one, knit two, knit two together, knit one, make one, knit five, make one, knit one, knit two together, knit three.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000006_000000|Sixth row:--Seamed, making one at the beginning.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000007_000000|Seventh row:--Make one, knit three, knit two together, make one, knit seven, make one, knit two together, knit four.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000009_000000|Ninth row:--Make one, knit five, make one, knit three, knit two together, knit four, make one, and knit the remainder.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000010_000000|Tenth row:--Seamed, making one at the beginning.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000014_000000|Fourteenth row:--Seamed, make one at the beginning.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000015_000000|Fifteenth row:--Make one, knit two, knit two together, knit one, make one, knit five, make one, knit one, knit two together, asterisk knit two together, knit one, make one, knit five, make one, knit one, knit two together, and repeat from asterisk, knit those left at the end.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000016_000000|Sixteenth row:--Seamed, make one at the beginning.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000018_000000|Eighteenth row:--Seamed, make one at the beginning.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000019_000000|Nineteenth row:--Make one, knit five, make one, knit three, knit two together, knit four, make one, knit two together, make one, knit three, knit two together, knit four, make one, knit the rest.
train-clean-100/1737/146161/1737_146161_000021_000000|Twenty first row same as eleventh.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000003_000000|'Please tell it at once.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000004_000002|Emil's ship is lost, and as yet no news of him.'
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000005_000001|Tidings had been sent to the shipowners at Hamburg by some of the survivors, and telegraphed at once by Franz to his uncle.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000005_000003|Mrs Jo refused to believe it, stoutly insisting that Emil would outlive any storm and yet turn up safe and gay.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000009_000006|Teddy stood on his head literally, and tore about the neighbourhood on Octoo, like a second Paul Revere-only his tidings were good.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000013_000000|There was great scrubbing and dusting among the matrons as they set their houses in order not only for Class Day, but to receive the bride and groom, who were to come to them for the honeymoon trip.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000018_000002|Yet his success was far greater than Nat's, though only God and one good man saw it.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000019_000001|When he thought of it Dan felt as if he could not wait, but must burst that narrow cell and fly away, as the caddis worms he used to watch by the brookside shed their stony coffins, to climb the ferns and soar into the sky.
train-clean-100/1737/148989/1737_148989_000020_000002|I must get over this first.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000001_000000|A few days after Chebec and his wife started building their nest in the Old Orchard peter dropped around as usual for a very early call.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000001_000001|He found Chebec very busy hunting for materials for that nest, because, as he explained to peter, mrs Chebec is very particular indeed about what her nest is made of.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000001_000002|But he had time to tell peter a bit of news.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000002_000000|"My fighting cousin and my handsomest cousin arrived together yesterday, and now our family is very well represented in the Old Orchard," said Chebec proudly.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000003_000000|Slowly peter reached over his back with his long left hind foot and thoughtfully scratched his long right ear.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000003_000001|He didn't like to admit that he couldn't recall those two cousins of Chebec's.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000003_000002|"Did you say your fighting cousin?" he asked in a hesitating way.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000004_000001|"He is Scrapper the Kingbird, as of course you know.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000004_000002|The rest of us always feel safe when he is about."
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000006_000001|Of course, peter couldn't be left out of anything like that, and he scampered for the scene of trouble as fast as his legs could take him.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000007_000000|For a minute peter couldn't think what was the trouble with Redtail, and then he saw.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000008_000000|He was just a little smaller than Welcome Robin, and in comparison with him Redtail was a perfect giant.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000008_000001|But this seemed to make no difference to Scrapper, for that is who it was.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000008_000003|It is because of his fearlessness that he is called Kingbird.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000008_000006|But none, not even Bully the English Sparrow, was brave enough to join him in attacking big Redtail.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000009_000000|When he had succeeded in driving Redtail far enough from the Old Orchard to suit him, Scrapper flew back and perched on a dead branch of one of the trees, where he received the congratulations of all his feathered neighbors.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000009_000001|He took them quite modestly, assuring them that he had done nothing, nothing at all, but that he didn't intend to have any of the Hawk family around the Old Orchard while he lived there.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000009_000002|peter couldn't help but admire Scrapper for his courage.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000010_000001|While peter sat staring up at him Scrapper suddenly darted out into the air, and his bill snapped in quite the same way Chebec's did when he caught a fly.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000010_000003|It was a bee.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000011_000000|"Do you live on bees altogether?" asked peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000012_000000|"Bless your heart, peter, no," replied Scrapper with a chuckle.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000012_000001|"There wouldn't be any honey if I did.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000012_000006|They do no work at all.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000013_000000|peter knew better than to waste any effort trying to see that fly.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000013_000001|He knew that he couldn't have seen it had it been only one fourth that distance away.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000014_000000|"Are you going to build in the Old Orchard this year?" asked peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000015_000000|"Of course I am," declared Scrapper.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000015_000001|"I-"
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000016_000001|Blacky saw him coming and was wise enough to suddenly appear to have no interest whatever in the Old Orchard, turning away toward the Green Meadows instead.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000017_000000|peter didn't wait for Scrapper to return.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000017_000002|Just as he was leaving the far corner of the Old Orchard some one called him.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000017_000003|"peter!
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000017_000004|Oh, peter Rabbit!" called the voice.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000017_000005|peter stopped abruptly, sat up very straight, looked this way, looked that way and looked the other way, every way but the right way.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000018_000000|"Look up over your head," cried the voice, rather a harsh voice.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000018_000002|It was Cresty the Great Crested Flycatcher.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000018_000003|He was a wee bit bigger than Scrapper the Kingbird, yet not quite so big as Welcome Robin, and more slender.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000018_000004|His throat and breast were gray, shading into bright yellow underneath.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000018_000006|A pointed cap was all that was needed to make him quite distinguished looking.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000018_000007|He certainly was the handsomest as well as the largest of the Flycatcher family.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000019_000001|"I just want to ask one little favor of you."
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000020_000000|"What is it?" asked peter, who is always glad to do any one a favor.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000023_000000|"A cast off suit of clothes from any member of the Snake family," replied Cresty somewhat impatiently.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000023_000001|"Now don't forget, peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000023_000002|I've got to go house hunting, but you'll find me there or hereabouts, if it happens that you find one of those cast off Snake suits."
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000024_000000|Before peter could say another word Cresty had flown away.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000024_000001|peter hesitated, looking first towards the dear Old Briar patch and then towards Jenny Wren's house.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000024_000002|He just couldn't understand about those cast off suits of the Snake family, and he felt sure that Jenny Wren could tell him.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000024_000003|Finally curiosity got the best of him, and back he scampered, lipperty lipperty lip, to the foot of the tree in which Jenny Wren had her home.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000000|"Jenny!" called peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000001|"Jenny Wren!
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000002|Jenny Wren!" No one answered him. He could hear mr Wren singing in another tree, but he couldn't see him. "Jenny!
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000005|This time Jenny popped her head out, and her little eyes fairly snapped.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000006|"Didn't I tell you the other day, peter Rabbit, that I'm not to be disturbed?
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000008|Didn't I, peter Rabbit?
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000025_000009|Didn't I? Didn't I?"
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000026_000001|You certainly did, and I'm sorry to disturb you," replied peter meekly.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000028_000000|"Snake skins," replied peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000029_000001|Snake skins!" shrieked Jenny Wren.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000029_000004|Ugh!
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000030_000000|"You don't understand," cried peter hurriedly.
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000030_000001|"What I want to know is, why should Cresty the Flycatcher ask me to please let him know if I found any cast off suits of the Snake family?
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000030_000002|He flew away before I could ask him why he wants them, and so I came to you, because I know you know everything, especially everything concerning your neighbors."
train-clean-100/1743/142912/1743_142912_000031_000000|Jenny Wren looked as if she didn't know whether to feel flattered or provoked.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000003_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000005_000001|On his way he couldn't resist the temptation to run over to the Green Forest, which was just beyond the Old Orchard.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000005_000003|Hardly had he reached it when he heard a plaintive voice crying, "Pee wee!
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000005_000005|Pee wee!" peter chuckled happily.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000005_000007|"He usually is one of the last of the Flycatcher family to arrive.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000005_000008|I didn't expect to find him yet.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000005_000009|I wonder what has brought him up so early."
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000002|It ended just where it had started, on a dead twig of a tree in a shady, rather lonely part of the Green Forest.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000003|Almost at once he began to call his name in a rather sad, plaintive tone, "Pee wee! Pee wee!
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000004|Pee wee!"
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000005|But he wasn't sad, as peter well knew.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000006|It was his way of expressing how happy he felt.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000007|He was a little bigger than his cousin, Chebec, but looked very much like him.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000006_000009|The upper half of his bill was black, but the lower half was light.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000008_000000|Pewee nodded.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000009_000000|"If you please," peter inquired politely, "why do folks call you Wood Pewee?"
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000010_000000|Pewee chuckled happily.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000010_000002|It is so quiet and restful that I love it.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000010_000003|mrs Pewee and I are very retiring.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000012_000000|"Come as often as you like," replied Pewee.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000013_000000|Back in the Old Briar patch peter thought over all he had learned about the Flycatcher family, and as he recalled how they were forever catching all sorts of flying insects it suddenly struck him that they must be very useful little people in helping Old Mother Nature take care of her trees and other growing things which insects so dearly love to destroy.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000014_000000|But most of all peter thought about that queer request of Cresty's, and a dozen times that day he found himself peeping under old logs in the hope of finding a cast off coat of mr Black Snake.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000014_000001|It was such a funny thing for Cresty to ask for that Peter's curiosity would allow him no peace, and the next morning he was up in the Old Orchard before jolly mr Sun had kicked his bedclothes off.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000015_000002|Jenny couldn't keep her tongue still if she wanted to.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000016_000000|"Did you find any old clothes of the Snake family?" she demanded.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000016_000003|"Why they want it, goodness knows!
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000016_000005|Perhaps they think it will scare robbers away.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000016_000008|Ugh!"
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000017_000000|"By the way, where does Cresty build?" asked peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000019_000000|peter looked quite as surprised as he felt.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000019_000001|"Does Cresty make the hole?" he asked.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000020_000001|"Where are your eyes, peter?
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000020_000002|Did you ever see a Flycatcher with a bill that looked as if it could cut wood?" She didn't wait for a reply, but rattled on.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000020_000004|Look!
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000020_000006|That's good.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000020_000007|I like to see that.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000020_000012|But the Woodpeckers seem to like new houses best, which, as I said before, is a very good thing for the rest of us."
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000023_000000|peter grinned and looked foolish.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000024_000000|"And Skimmer the Tree Swallow," added Jenny.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000026_000000|Again Jenny Wren nodded.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000026_000004|Yellow Wing the flicker, who really is a Woodpecker, often uses an old house, but quite often makes a new one.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000026_000005|Then there are Killy the Sparrow Hawk and Spooky the Screech Owl."
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000027_000000|peter looked surprised.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000028_000000|"They certainly do, more's the pity!" snapped Jenny.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000028_000002|But they do, and an old house of Yellow Wing the Flicker suits either of them.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000028_000006|I've talked quite enough for one morning."
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000030_000000|Jenny paused and jerked her tail impatiently.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000031_000000|"Have you got two homes?" asked peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000032_000001|"What do you suppose I want of two homes?
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000032_000002|One is all I can take care of."
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000034_000000|Jenny Wren's eyes twinkled, and she laughed softly.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000034_000001|"mr Wren just has to be busy about something, bless his heart," said she.
train-clean-100/1743/142913/1743_142913_000034_000003|He's building that nest to take up his time and keep out of mischief.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000001_000002|peter scratched a long ear with a long hind foot, trying to think of some place to go.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000002_000000|"That's where I'll go!" exclaimed peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000002_000002|I'll just run over and pay my respects to Grandfather Frog, and to Redwing the Blackbird.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000002_000003|Redwing was one of the first birds to arrive, and I've neglected him shamefully."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000000|When peter thinks of something to do he wastes no time.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000001|Off he started, lipperty lipperty lip, for the Smiling Pool.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000002|He kept close to the edge of the Green Forest until he reached the place where the Laughing Brook comes out of the Green Forest on its way to the Smiling Pool in the Green Meadows.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000003|Bushes and young trees grow along the banks of the Laughing Brook at this point.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000004|The ground was soft in places, quite muddy.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000005|peter doesn't mind getting his feet damp, so he hopped along carelessly.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000006|From right under his very nose something shot up into the air with a whistling sound.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000007|It startled peter so that he stopped short with his eyes popping out of his head.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000008|He had just a glimpse of a brown form disappearing over the tops of some tall bushes.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000009|Then peter chuckled.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000003_000011|He scared me for a second."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000004_000001|"You scared him.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000004_000002|I saw you coming, but Longbill didn't."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000005_000000|peter turned quickly.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000005_000001|There was mrs Woodcock peeping at him from behind a tussock of grass.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000006_000000|"I didn't mean to scare him," apologized peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000006_000001|"I really didn't mean to.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000006_000002|Do you think he was really very much scared?"
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000007_000000|"Not too scared to come back, anyway," said Longbill himself, dropping down just in front of peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000007_000003|I am glad it is no one but you, peter, for I was having a splendid meal here, and I should have hated to leave it.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000007_000004|You'll excuse me while I go on eating, I hope.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000007_000005|We can talk between bites."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000001|But peter couldn't see a thing that looked good to eat.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000002|There wasn't even a bug or a worm crawling on the ground.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000003|Longbill took two or three steps in rather a stately fashion.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000006|But his bill was long enough to make up.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000007|His back was a mixture of gray, brown, black and buff, while his breast and under parts were a beautiful reddish buff.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000008|It was his head that made him look queer.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000008_000009|His eyes were very big and they were set so far back that peter wondered if it wasn't easier for him to look behind him than in front of him.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000009_000000|Suddenly Longbill plunged his bill into the ground.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000009_000001|He plunged it in for the whole length.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000009_000002|Then he pulled it out and peter caught a glimpse of the tail end of a worm disappearing down Longbill's throat.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000010_000001|"mrs Woodcock made some of them."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000011_000000|"And was there a worm in every one?" asked peter, his eyes very wide with interest.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000012_000000|Longbill nodded.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000013_000001|But the worms Welcome Robin got were always close to the surface, while these worms were so deep in the earth that peter couldn't understand how it was possible for any one to know that they were there.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000003|See here!" Longbill suddenly thrust his bill straight out in front of him and to Peter's astonishment he lifted the end of the upper half without opening the rest of his bill at all.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000004|"That's the way I get them," said he.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000005|"I can feel them when I reach them, and then I just open the top of my bill and grab them.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000006|I think there is one right under my feet now; watch me get him." Longbill bored into the ground until his head was almost against it.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000007|When he pulled his bill out, sure enough, there was a worm.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000008|"Of course," explained Longbill, "it is only in soft ground that I can do this.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000014_000009|That is why I have to fly away south as soon as the ground freezes at all."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000015_000000|"It's wonderful," sighed peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000015_000001|"I don't suppose any one else can find hidden worms that way."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000016_000000|"My cousin, Jack Snipe, can," replied Longbill promptly.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000017_000000|peter nodded.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000017_000001|"I do," said he.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000017_000002|"Now you speak of it, there is a strong family resemblance, although I hadn't thought of him as a relative of yours before.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000017_000004|I'm ever so glad to have seen you, and I'm coming over to call again the first chance I get."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000018_000000|So peter said good by and kept on down the Laughing Brook to the Smiling Pool.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000018_000001|Right where the Laughing Brook entered the Smiling Pool there was a little pebbly beach.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000018_000002|Running along the very edge of the water was a slim, trim little bird with fairly long legs, a long slender bill, brownish gray back with black spots and markings, and a white waistcoat neatly spotted with black.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000018_000003|Every few steps he would stop to pick up something, then stand for a second bobbing up and down in the funniest way, as if his body was so nicely balanced on his legs that it teetered back and forth like a seesaw.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000018_000004|It was Teeter the Spotted Sandpiper, an old friend of Peter's.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000018_000005|peter greeted him joyously.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000019_000000|"Peet weet!
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000019_000001|Peet weet!" cried Teeter, turning towards peter and bobbing and bowing as only Teeter can.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000019_000002|Before peter could say another word Teeter came running towards him, and it was plain to see that Teeter was very anxious about something.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000019_000003|"Don't move, peter Rabbit!
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000019_000004|Don't move!" he cried.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000020_000000|"Why not?" demanded peter, for he could see no danger and could think of no reason why he shouldn't move.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000020_000001|Just then mrs Teeter came hurrying up and squatted down in the sand right in front of peter.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000021_000000|"Thank goodness!" exclaimed Teeter, still bobbing and bowing.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000021_000001|"If you had taken another step, peter Rabbit, you would have stepped right on our eggs.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000021_000002|You gave me a dreadful start."
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000022_000000|peter was puzzled.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000022_000001|He showed it as he stared down at mrs Teeter just in front of him.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000022_000002|"I don't see any nest or eggs or anything," said he rather testily.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000023_000000|mrs Teeter stood up and stepped aside.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000023_000001|Then peter saw right in a little hollow in the sand, with just a few bits of grass for a lining, four white eggs with big dark blotches on them.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000023_000003|peter hastily backed away a few steps.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000023_000004|mrs Teeter slipped back on the eggs and settled herself comfortably.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000023_000005|It suddenly struck peter that if he hadn't seen her do it, he wouldn't have known she was there.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000025_000000|mrs Teeter chuckled softly.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000025_000003|The only time they are in danger is when somebody comes along, as you did, and is likely to step on them without seeing them.
train-clean-100/1743/142914/1743_142914_000025_000004|But that doesn't happen often."
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000000_000000|THE NATIVE INHABITANTS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000001_000000|The explorers and early settlers found a native race occupying nearly every portion of our continent.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000001_000001|These people had many characteristics in common and were all called Indians.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000001_000002|It is believed that they came originally from Asia, but their migration and scattering occurred so long ago that they have become divided into many groups, each having its own language and customs.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000002_000000|In the western portion of the country, where the surface is broken by numerous barriers, such as mountains and deserts, almost every valley was found to be occupied by a distinct group of Indians called a "tribe." The language of each tribe differed so much from the languages of adjoining tribes that they could with difficulty understand one another.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000002_000001|These tribes were almost continually at war.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000003_000000|The Indians upon the Pacific slope were generally found to be inferior in most respects to those living in the central and eastern portions of the continent.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000003_000001|One might suppose that the tribes possessing the fair and fertile valleys of California would be the most advanced in civilization, but such was not the case.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000003_000002|Many of them were among the most degraded upon the continent.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000003_000003|They seemed unable to adapt themselves to the white man and his ways, and in the older settled districts they have now nearly disappeared.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000003_000004|In the newer portions of the Northwest and along the coast toward Alaska the Indians have not yet come into so direct contact with the white men, and remain more nearly in their primitive condition.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000004_000000|When the Indians of central California were first seen, they wore but little clothing, and knew how to construct only the simplest dwellings for protection from the weather.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000004_000001|They did not cultivate the soil, nor did they hunt a great deal, although the country abounded with game.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000004_000003|The acorns were ground in stone mortars and made into soup or into a kind of bread.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000005_000000|It would seem natural that about San Francisco Bay the natives should have used canoes, but, according to early travellers, they had none.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000005_000001|When they wished to go out upon the water they built rafts of bundles of rushes or tules tied together.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000006_000000|At favorable points along the shore the Indians collected for their feasts, and these spots are now indicated by heaps of shells, in some places forming mounds of considerable size.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000006_000001|Many interesting implements have been dug from these mounds, or kitchen middens as they are sometimes called.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000006_000002|In the mountains the sites of the villages are marked by chips of obsidian (a volcanic glass used in making arrow tips) and by holes in the flat surfaces of granitic rocks near some spring or stream.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000006_000003|These holes were made for the purpose of grinding acorns or nuts.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000007_000000|Many of the Indian tribes developed great skill in the weaving of baskets, which they used for many different purposes.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000007_000001|The baskets are still made in some places, and are much sought after because of their beauty.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000008_000000|The Indians of northern California in building their homes dug round, shallow holes, over which poles were bent in the form of a half circle, and then tied together at the top.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000008_000001|Bark was laid upon the outside, and earth was thrown over the whole structure.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000010_000000|"Sweat houses" were built in much the same manner, and were used chiefly during the winter.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000010_000001|When an Indian wished to take a sweat, hot stones were placed in one of these houses, and after he had entered and all openings were closed, he poured water upon the stones until the room was filled with steam.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000010_000002|After enduring this process as long as he desired, the Indian came out and plunged into the cold water of a near by stream.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000010_000003|As may be imagined, such a bath often resulted disastrously to the weak or sick.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000011_000000|The fact that the California Indians could support themselves without any great exertion undoubtedly had the effect of making them indolent, while in the desert regions of the Great Basin the struggle for something to eat was so severe that it kept the natives in a degraded condition.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000013_000001|Where wood was abundant their homes were similar in some respects to those of the coast Indians north of the mouth of the Columbia.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000013_000002|Fish was their main article of diet.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000013_000005|After being partly dried they were packed in bales for winter use.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000013_000006|The fish thus prepared were considered very valuable and formed an article of trade with the tribes living farther from the river.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000014_000000|The Indians inhabiting the coast northward from the mouth of the Columbia were different in many respects from those farther south or inland.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000014_000001|They built better homes, took more pains with their clothing, were skilled in the making of canoes, and showed marked ability in navigating the stormy waters of the channels and sounds.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000017_000000|The Vancouver Island Indians are called Nootkas, from the name of an important tribe upon the west coast.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000017_000002|These two groups are very similar.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000017_000003|They live upon the shores of densely wooded, mountainous lands and travel little except by water.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000017_000004|Some of the canoes which these tribes construct are over fifty feet long and will easily carry from fifty to one hundred persons.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000017_000005|Such a canoe is hewn out of a single cedar log, and presents a very graceful appearance with its upward curving bow.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000017_000006|In these boats the Indians take trips of hundreds of miles.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000019_000000|A ride in one of the large canoes is an interesting experience. When a party starts out to visit the neighboring villages, carrying invitations to a festival, the men are gayly dressed, and shout and sing in unison as they ply their paddles.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000019_000001|The great canoe jumps up and onward like a living thing at every stroke of the paddles, which are dipped into the water all at once as the rowers keep time to their songs.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000020_000000|These Indians, as might be supposed, live largely upon fish.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000020_000001|Berries are abundant during the summer and are also much used for food. The clothing of the Indians was originally a sort of blanket made of the woven fibres of cedar bark, or more rarely, of the skins of animals, although among the northern tribes skins were used almost exclusively.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000022_000001|sixty four).
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000022_000002|This deformity is produced by binding a piece of board upon the forehead in babyhood and leaving it there while the head is growing.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000000|The villages are located in some protected spot where the canoes can lie in safety.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000001|The buildings are strung along the shore close under the edge of the thick forest and just above the reach of the waves at high tide.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000002|They are very solidly constructed, for these Indians do not move about as much as those farther south where the forests are less dense.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000004|This is sometimes two feet in diameter and from sixty to eighty feet long.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000005|It must require the united strength of many men to roll such a log into position.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000006|Upon the framework thus constructed split cedar boards are fastened, and the building is practically finished.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000007|Such a house is usually occupied by a number of families.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000023_000008|Upon Queen Charlotte Islands there is a dwelling of this kind large enough to hold seven hundred Indians.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000024_000000|The fronts of the houses are ornamented with figures hewn out of wood.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000024_000001|These represent men, birds and animals and have a religious significance.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000024_000002|Sometimes these figures are mounted upon the tops of tall poles.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000025_000000|The "totem pole" is a most interesting affair.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000025_000002|It is one of the finest upon the north coast.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000025_000003|The figures of animals and birds carved upon it represent the mythological ancestors of the family or clan in front of whose abode the pole stands.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000025_000004|The Indians often hunt similar animals to day, but believe that their ancestors had supernatural power which raised them above the ordinary creatures.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000026_000000|The Chinook Indians live upon the lower Columbia.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000026_000001|The name "chinook" has been given to a warm, dry wind which blows down the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and out upon the Great Plains.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000026_000002|This wind is so named because it blows from the direction of the Chinook Indians' country.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000026_000003|The "Chinook" jargon is a strange sort of mixed language with which nearly all the tribes of the Northwest are familiar.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000026_000004|It is formed of words from the Chinook language, together with others from different Indian languages, French Canadian, and English.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000026_000005|Through the influence of the trappers and traders the "Chinook" has come into wide use, so that by means of it conversation can be carried on with tribes speaking different languages.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000029_000000|Although there are so many different tribes, with great diversities of language, throughout the West, they were probably all derived from the same source.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000029_000001|As we go north the similarity between the coast Indians and the inhabitants of eastern Asia becomes more noticeable.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000029_000002|It seems almost certain that these American Indians originally came across the narrow strip of water separating Asia from America.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000030_000000|We do not know how long the Indians have occupied our country, but it has probably been several thousand years.
train-clean-100/1841/150351/1841_150351_000030_000001|Some of the main groups have undoubtedly been here longer than others.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000003_000000|nineteen
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000004_000000|Owl Friends
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000005_000000|"THERE'S no sense in wasting our time here," said Solomon Owl to his small cousin, Simon Screecher.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000005_000001|"It's a fine night.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000005_000002|The Mice will all be out sooner or later.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000005_000003|Let's go over and sit in that old oak on the edge of the meadow!"
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000006_000000|Simon Screecher was more than willing.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000007_000000|Solomon Owl stopped him quickly.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000008_000000|"Don't do that!" he said sharply.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000008_000001|"Do you want to scare the Mice?" Simon Screecher cut his whistle off right in the middle of it.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000009_000000|"I forgot," he murmured.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000009_000002|I don't think there are many Mice left on Farmer Green's place. It's my opinion that they've moved away-most of them.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000009_000003|Or maybe old Rough leg, the Hawk, has caught more than his share.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000010_000001|He was a person of few words.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000010_000002|If anybody asked his opinion he was ready to give it.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000010_000003|But he seldom gave any unsought advice.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000011_000000|"I've about made up my mind," said Simon Screecher, "that I'd move to some other neighborhood.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000011_000001|If I knew where there was good mousing I'd move to morrow."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000012_000000|While he was speaking, Solomon Owl started ever so slightly.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000013_000000|At that moment his cousin began to whistle again.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000014_000000|"Be quiet!" Solomon Owl thundered.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000014_000001|"If I'm not mistaken I heard a squeak.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000014_000002|But no Meadow Mouse will ever venture out of doors if you're going to whistle."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000015_000000|"I forgot," said Simon Screecher once more.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000017_000000|"That's the reason why you can't catch more Mice," Solomon Owl snapped; for he was angry.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000017_000002|But of course you can't surprise them if you tell them you're coming.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000018_000000|Simon Screecher was silenced for the time being.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000019_000000|And it wasn't long before Solomon Owl gave another start.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000020_000000|"There's that squeak again!" he whispered.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000020_000001|"I believe it is getting nearer, too."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000021_000000|Now, Master Meadow Mouse had a tunnel that led right beneath the tree where the two cousins were sitting.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000021_000001|And he had strolled that way after scurrying under the snow when he heard Solomon Owl laughing in the woods earlier in the evening.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000022_000000|It was he that Solomon heard.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000022_000001|It was he that stuck his head out of a hole in the snow and peeped up at the star sprinkled sky.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000023_000001|And he dived out of the old oak straight at Master Meadow Mouse.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000025_000000|"I didn't suppose that chap would be here as soon as this," he gasped. "He must have hurried over here from the woods.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000025_000001|He must be very hungry."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000027_000000|"Missed him-didn't you?" he inquired.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000028_000000|"Yes!"
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000029_000000|"Why didn't you grab him out of the snow?" Simon asked.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000029_000001|"What are your claws for?
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000029_000002|What's your beak for?"
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000030_000000|"I couldn't dig him out," Solomon Owl replied.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000030_000001|"The snow is three feet deep.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000030_000002|And it has seven different crusts, one under another."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000031_000000|"This is a hard winter," said Simon Screecher.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000031_000001|"I wish I'd gone South last fall.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000034_000000|twenty
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000035_000000|Eating a Tree
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000000|AS SIMON SCREECHER remarked to his cousin, Solomon Owl, it was a hard winter.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000001|The snow was deep.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000002|The days were cold.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000003|And the nights were colder.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000004|And, worst of all, food became scarce.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000005|It seemed as if there wasn't anything to eat anywhere except at the farm buildings, which Farmer Green had stuffed full of hay and grain during the summer and autumn.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000036_000006|Many of the forest folk stole down from Blue Mountain after nightfall and visited the farmyard in the hope of getting a bite of something or other.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000037_000001|He had stored away a stock of food.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000037_000002|But it hadn't been big enough.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000037_000003|And that was a great mistake.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000037_000004|Master Meadow Mouse promised himself that he would not repeat it another time.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000037_000005|Unfortunately, all the promises in the world wouldn't give him a square meal when he needed one.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000039_000000|"This is my first winter," Master Meadow Mouse explained.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000040_000000|"That's easy," his cousin answered.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000040_000001|"Get more!" And then he hurried away, for he had important business to attend to.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000041_000001|It was hard to follow his cousin through the winding galleries beneath the snow.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000041_000002|Several times Master Meadow Mouse took the wrong turn and had to retrace his steps. But at last he found his busy cousin again.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000042_000000|"You advised me to get more food," said Master Meadow Mouse.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000042_000001|"But you didn't tell me where to get it."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000043_000000|"In the orchard!" his cousin cried.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000043_000001|And then he hurried away again.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000044_000000|"I wish he'd wait a minute," Master Meadow Mouse grumbled as he tore after his cousin once more.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000044_000001|"I don't feel like running.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000045_000000|The cousin seemed surprised when Master Meadow Mouse overtook him.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000047_000001|"I've been chasing you.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000047_000002|I want you to tell me what I'll find to eat when I go to the orchard."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000048_000000|"That's easy," his cousin replied.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000048_000001|"Trees!" Having said those three words he dashed off again even faster than before.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000049_000000|"Trees!" Master Meadow Mouse echoed.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000049_000001|"I can't eat trees.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000049_000003|There must be something that my cousin forgot to explain.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000049_000004|So I suppose I'll have to run after him again and ask him what he meant."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000050_000000|The fourth time that Master Meadow Mouse found his cousin he took no chances.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000050_000001|He caught his cousin by his tail and held on firmly.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000051_000000|"You're not going to get away from me till I've found out what I want to know," he declared.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000051_000001|"How can I eat a tree?" Master Meadow Mouse demanded.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000052_000000|"You can't!" his cousin replied, struggling desperately to free himself, for he was too busy to stop long.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000053_000000|"Then explain what you mean!" Master Meadow Mouse cried.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000054_000000|"Eat the bark!" his cousin answered.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000055_000000|Then-and not till then-did Master Meadow Mouse let him go.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000056_000000|Master Meadow Mouse chased his cousin no more, but hurried away to Farmer Green's orchard, where he gnawed a ring all the way around one of the young fruit trees, at the top of the snow.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000056_000001|It was the first big meal he had enjoyed for weeks.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000056_000002|And he went home feeling that the winter was not so hard as he had thought, after all.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000057_000000|But Farmer Green didn't agree with him.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000057_000001|When he happened to go into the orchard one day, later, and saw tree after tree ruined, he was very, very much displeased.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000058_000000|"I ought to have put wire netting around those young trees," he told the hired man.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000058_000001|"This is what comes of a hard winter."
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000061_000000|twenty one
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000062_000000|A Cold Dip
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000000|IN one way peter Mink was like Master Meadow Mouse.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000001|He enjoyed swimming. And he spent a great deal of his time along the streams that threaded their way through Pleasant Valley.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000002|Sometimes peter dawdled on the banks of Swift River.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000003|Sometimes he lingered for days in the neighborhood of Black Creek.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000004|Nor did he disdain so small a stream as the brook that crossed the meadow.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000005|It was deep enough for a swim.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000006|And he knew that muskrats lived under its banks.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000063_000008|If it hadn't been for the meadow mice perhaps he wouldn't have visited the brook so often.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000064_000001|So he ran one of his many snow tunnels to the brook, making a little opening that led under the ice, where the water had fallen away and left a cavern.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000064_000002|Just because there was skating for Johnnie Green on top of the brook it mustn't be supposed that Master Meadow Mouse wasn't going to have a swim when he wanted one.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000065_000000|When peter Mink wandered along a stream in winter he preferred to travel under the ice, rather than walk upon the upper side of it.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000065_000001|It made little difference to him whether there was a dry strip along the edge of the stream, where he could steal silently along without wetting his feet.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000065_000002|When he found no place to walk, he swam.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000067_000000|To be sure, Master Meadow Mouse tried to be careful.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000067_000001|Before he crept from the end of his tunnel, he stuck his head out and looked up and down and all around.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000067_000002|He peeped under the bank of the brook.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000067_000003|He even stared into the water.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000067_000004|And then-if he saw nobody that was fiercer than Paddy Muskrat-only then would he venture to skip to the water's edge and plunge in.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000068_000000|To tell the truth, Master Meadow Mouse always felt safer when one of the Muskrat family happened to be taking a swim at the same time.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000068_000001|For the Muskrats all had a warning signal that told everybody when there was danger.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000068_000002|When one of them caught sight of peter Mink he never failed-if he was in the water-to give a loud slap upon the surface with his tail.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000069_000000|Master Meadow Mouse always had one ear that was listening for that slap. And when it sounded he never waited an instant, but darted into his tunnel without even stopping to shake the water off his coat.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000069_000001|He said that he could dry his coat after he reached home; while if he stopped to dry it at the edge of the brook perhaps he'd never get home at all.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000070_000000|You might think that now and then he would have said to himself, "Oh, I won't bother to look for peter Mink to day.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000070_000001|He must be miles away.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000070_000002|I'll step right out of my tunnel and have my swim without taking a look see first." But Master Meadow Mouse was never so lazy as that.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000070_000003|And the day came at last when it was well worth his while to take the little extra trouble of peeping out before he had his swim.
train-clean-100/1841/159771/1841_159771_000071_000000|For Master Meadow Mouse caught a glimpse of a snakelike head that darted out from under the bank of the brook and darted back again, out of sight.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000008_000000|THE SEEING HAND
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000009_000000|I
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000011_000001|He was rolling on the grass, with pleasure in every muscle and limb.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000011_000002|I wanted to catch a picture of him in my fingers, and I touched him as lightly as I would cobwebs; but lo, his fat body revolved, stiffened and solidified into an upright position, and his tongue gave my hand a lick!
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000011_000004|He loved it with his tail, with his paw, with his tongue.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000011_000005|If he could speak, I believe he would say with me that paradise is attained by touch; for in touch is all love and intelligence.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000000|This small incident started me on a chat about hands, and if my chat is fortunate I have to thank my dog star.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000001|In any case, it is pleasant to have something to talk about that no one else has monopolized; it is like making a new path in the trackless woods, blazing the trail where no foot has pressed before.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000003|But at the very outset we encounter a difficulty.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000004|You are so accustomed to light, I fear you will stumble when I try to guide you through the land of darkness and silence.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000005|The blind are not supposed to be the best of guides.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000006|Still, though I cannot warrant not to lose you, I promise that you shall not be led into fire or water, or fall into a deep pit.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000012_000007|If you will follow me patiently, you will find that "there's a sound so fine, nothing lives 'twixt it and silence," and that there is more meant in things than meets the eye.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000013_000001|In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000013_000002|All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000013_000003|It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000013_000004|The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000013_000005|With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000013_000006|Like Job, I feel as if a hand had made me, fashioned me together round about and moulded my very soul.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000014_000000|In all my experiences and thoughts I am conscious of a hand.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000014_000002|You might as well say that a sight which makes you glad, or a blow which brings the stinging tears to your eyes, is unreal as to say that those impressions are unreal which I have accumulated by means of touch.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000015_000000|Ideas make the world we live in, and impressions furnish ideas.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000015_000003|Remember that you, dependent on your sight, do not realize how many things are tangible.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000015_000004|All palpable things are mobile or rigid, solid or liquid, big or small, warm or cold, and these qualities are variously modified.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000015_000005|The coolness of a water lily rounding into bloom is different from the coolness of an evening wind in summer, and different again from the coolness of the rain that soaks into the hearts of growing things and gives them life and body.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000015_000007|The hardness of the rock is to the hardness of wood what a man's deep bass is to a woman's voice when it is low.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000015_000008|What I call beauty I find in certain combinations of all these qualities, and is largely derived from the flow of curved and straight lines which is over all things.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000017_000001|It symbolizes duty.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000017_000003|When I have something to do that must not be set aside, I feel as if I were going forward in a straight line, bound to arrive somewhere, or go on forever without swerving to the right or to the left.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000000|That is what it means.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000001|To escape this moralizing you should ask, "How does the straight line feel?"
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000002|It feels, as I suppose it looks, straight-a dull thought drawn out endlessly.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000003|Eloquence to the touch resides not in straight lines, but in unstraight lines, or in many curved and straight lines together.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000004|They appear and disappear, are now deep, now shallow, now broken off or lengthened or swelling.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000005|They rise and sink beneath my fingers, they are full of sudden starts and pauses, and their variety is inexhaustible and wonderful.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000018_000006|So you see I am not shut out from the region of the beautiful, though my hand cannot perceive the brilliant colours in the sunset or on the mountain, or reach into the blue depths of the sky.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000001|A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000002|When I think of hills, I think of the upward strength I tread upon.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000003|When water is the object of my thought, I feel the cool shock of the plunge and the quick yielding of the waves that crisp and curl and ripple about my body.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000004|The pleasing changes of rough and smooth, pliant and rigid, curved and straight in the bark and branches of a tree give the truth to my hand.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000007|My fingers are tickled to delight by the soft ripple of a baby's laugh, and find amusement in the lusty crow of the barnyard autocrat.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000008|Once I had a pet rooster that used to perch on my knee and stretch his neck and crow.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000019_000009|A bird in my hand was then worth two in the-barnyard.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000000|My fingers cannot, of course, get the impression of a large whole at a glance; but I feel the parts, and my mind puts them together.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000001|I move around my house, touching object after object in order, before I can form an idea of the entire house.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000002|In other people's houses I can touch only what is shown to me-the chief objects of interest, carvings on the wall, or a curious architectural feature, exhibited like the family album.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000003|Therefore a house with which I am not familiar has for me, at first, no general effect or harmony of detail.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000004|It is not a complete conception, but a collection of object impressions which, as they come to me, are disconnected and isolated.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000005|But my mind is full of associations, sensations, theories, and with them it constructs the house.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000020_000007|The silent worker is imagination which decrees reality out of chaos.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000021_000000|Without imagination what a poor thing my world would be!
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000021_000001|My garden would be a silent patch of earth strewn with sticks of a variety of shapes and smells.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000021_000002|But when the eye of my mind is opened to its beauty, the bare ground brightens beneath my feet, and the hedge row bursts into leaf, and the rose tree shakes its fragrance everywhere.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000021_000003|I know how budding trees look, and I enter into the amorous joy of the mating birds, and this is the miracle of imagination.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000022_000001|Although, compared with the life warm, mobile face of a friend, the marble is cold and pulseless and unresponsive, yet it is beautiful to my hand.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000022_000002|Its flowing curves and bendings are a real pleasure; only breath is wanting; but under the spell of the imagination the marble thrills and becomes the divine reality of the ideal. Imagination puts a sentiment into every line and curve, and the statue in my touch is indeed the goddess herself who breathes and moves and enchants.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000023_000000|It is true, however, that some sculptures, even recognized masterpieces, do not please my hand.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000023_000001|When I touch what there is of the Winged Victory, it reminds me at first of a headless, limbless dream that flies towards me in an unrestful sleep.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000023_000002|The garments of the Victory thrust stiffly out behind, and do not resemble garments that I have felt flying, fluttering, folding, spreading in the wind.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000024_000000|I find in a beautiful statue perfection of bodily form, the qualities of balance and completeness.
train-clean-100/1841/179183/1841_179183_000025_000000|So imagination crowns the experience of my hands.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000001_000000|THE FIRST DAY
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000002_000000|Mile after mile of the rough trail fell behind him, and still the pony shambled along at a loose trot or a swinging canter; the steep upgrades it took at a steady jog and where the slopes pitched sharply down, it wound among the rocks with a faultless sureness of foot.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000003_000000|Certainly the choice of Nash was well made.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000006_000000|"Bard?
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000006_000001|Who's he?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000007_000000|Logan considered the other with a sardonic smile.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000009_000001|I'm on my way to the A Circle y"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000010_000000|"Listen; I'm all for old man Drew.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000010_000001|You know that.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000010_000002|Tell me what Bard has on him?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000011_000000|"Never heard the name before.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000011_000001|Did he rustle a couple of your sheep?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000012_000000|Logan went on patiently: "I knew something was wrong when Drew was here yesterday but I didn't think it was as bad as this."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000015_000000|"That's damn queer.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000016_000000|"I don't suppose you know, eh?" queried Logan ironically.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000016_000001|"I don't suppose the old man described him before you started, maybe?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000018_000000|"When rocks turn into ham and eggs I'll trust you, Steve.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000018_000001|I'll tell you what I done to Bard, anyway.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000018_000004|I told him; sure I did.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000018_000006|There is a south trail, only it takes about three days to get to Eldara."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000019_000000|"Maybe you think that interests me.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000019_000001|It don't."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000021_000001|They look all right; they sound all right; but they don't mean nothin'.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000027_000000|"Hello, young feller."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000028_000000|"'Lo, stranger."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000030_000000|"Never better.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000031_000000|"No, you won't put him up.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000031_000001|I'll tend to that."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000033_000000|"That's it."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000034_000000|"But a sure goer, eh?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000035_000000|"Yep."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000036_000001|Having made sure that his mount was not "off his feed," Nash rolled a cigarette and strolled back to the house with the boy.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000037_000000|"Where's the folks?" he asked.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000038_000000|"Ma's sick, a little, and didn't get up to day.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000038_000002|But I can cook you up some chow."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000039_000000|"All right son.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000039_000001|I got a dollar here that'll buy you a pretty good store knife."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000040_000000|The boy flushed so red that by contrast his straw coloured hair seemed positively white.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000041_000000|"Maybe you want to pay me?" he suggested fiercely.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000041_000001|"Maybe you think we're squatters that run a hotel?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000043_000000|"Speakin' man to man, son, I didn't think that, but I thought I'd sort of feel my way."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000045_000001|This with crackers, formed the meal. He watched Nash eat for a moment of solemn silence and then the foreman looked up to catch a meditative chuckle from the youngster.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000046_000000|"Let me in on the joke, son."
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000047_000000|"Nothin'.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000048_000000|"What's he sore about?
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000048_000001|Come out short at poker lately?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000049_000000|"No; he lost a hoss.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000051_000000|Nash sipped his coffee and waited.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000051_000001|On the mountain desert one does not draw out a narrator with questions.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000055_000000|"Maybe.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000056_000000|The boy paused to remember and then with twinkling eyes he mimicked: "'That's very good of you, sir, but I'll only stop to make a trade with you-this horse and some cash to boot for a durable mount out of your corral.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000059_000002|It's the best hoss I've ever had.'
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000060_000000|"It was the best horse pa ever had, too.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000060_000005|I could ride him; anybody could ride him.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000061_000000|"He's what you call an eddicated bucker.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000061_000001|He don't fool around with no pauses.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000061_000004|In fact, he was known for it all around these parts.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000063_000001|What do you want to boot?'
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000065_000000|"'All right,' says the tenderfoot, 'here's the money.'
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000066_000000|"And he counts it out in pa's hand.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000067_000000|"He says: 'What a little beauty!
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000072_000001|Which maybe you sort of gather that he had to keep on performin', because the tenderfoot was still in the saddle.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000073_000000|"The minute he seen that he stopped fightin' and started off at a gallop the way the tenderfoot wanted him to go, which was over there.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000074_000001|But you're lookin' sort of sleepy, stranger?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000077_000000|"Maybe not, but the point is I didn't see it.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000077_000001|D'you mind if I turn in on that bunk over there?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000078_000001|"What time d'you want me to wake you up?"
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000079_000000|"Never mind; I wake up automatic.
train-clean-100/1867/148436/1867_148436_000080_000000|He stretched out on the blankets and was instantly asleep.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000002_000001|From the back it looked down on the lights glimmering on the black East River and across to the flare of Brooklyn; to the left the whole arc of the Fifty ninth Street Bridge was exposed.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000003_000000|Here they took up the vigil.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000004_000000|It was vastly wearying work.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000005_000001|"There she is now!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000006_000002|"That's not the one. She's all different, a pile different, Ronicky."
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000007_000000|Ronicky sighed.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000007_000002|"Go on back to sleep. I'll call you again if anything happens."
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000008_000003|Not a sign of Caroline Smith appeared even during the second day.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000009_000000|"It's proof that she ain't yonder," said Bill Gregg.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000010_000001|Ain't that right?
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000010_000003|It's just about our last chance, Bill.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000010_000004|We've done our hunting pretty near as well as we could. If we don't land her this trip, I'm about ready to give up."
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000011_000001|One week was decided on as a fair test.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000011_000002|If, at the end of that time, Caroline Smith did not come out of the house across the street they could conclude that she did not stay there.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000012_000002|When he called out softly, the sound brought Gregg, with one long leap out of the chair where he was sleeping, to the window.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000012_000003|There could be no shadow of a doubt about it.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000013_000000|She closed the door behind her and, walking to the top of the steps, paused there and looked up and down the street.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000015_000000|And so swift was that descent that, when the girl, idling down the steps across the street, came onto the sidewalk, Bill Gregg rushed out from the other side and ran toward her.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000021_000000|What a face it was!
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000021_000002|The nose was hooked like the nose of a bird of prey; the eyes were long and slanting like those of an Oriental.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000021_000003|The face was thin, almost fleshless, so that the bony jaw stood out like the jaw of a death's head.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000022_000003|Still he pleaded, and still she ordered him away.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000024_000000|If this were in her mind, however, it vanished instantly.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000027_000000|When Gregg opened the door Ronicky Doone blinked and drew in a deep breath at the sight of the poor fellow's face.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000029_000001|"It's ended," said Bill Gregg faintly.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000030_000001|"Bill, look me in the eye and tell me, man to man, that you're a liar!" He added: "Can you ever be happy without her, man?"
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000000|"Ain't there?
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000001|That's where you and me don't agree!
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000002|Why, Bill, look at the way things have gone!
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000004|Ain't that something done?
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000005|After you've done all that are you going to give up now?
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000006|Not you, Bill!
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000033_000007|You're going to buck up and go ahead full steam.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000034_000000|Bill Gregg smiled sourly.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000036_000001|'I don't remember any such name!'
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000037_000000|"That took the wind out of me.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000037_000001|I only had enough left to say: 'The gent that was writing those papers to the correspondence school to you from the West, the one you sent your picture to and-'
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000038_000000|"'Sent my picture to!' she says and looks as if the ground had opened under her feet.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000038_000001|'You're mad!' she says.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000039_000000|"D'you know why she looked back over her shoulder?"
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000040_000000|"Just for the reason I told you."
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000041_000000|"No, Bill.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000041_000003|He's the one who's kept her in that house.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000041_000005|Bill, what that girl told you didn't come out of her own head.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000041_000006|It come out of the head of the gent across the way.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000041_000007|When you turned your back on her she looked like she'd run after you and try to explain.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000042_000000|"Grinning?" asked Bill Gregg, grinding his teeth and starting from his chair.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000042_000001|"Was the skunk laughing at me?"
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000043_000000|"Sure!
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000043_000001|Every minute."
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000044_000000|Bill Gregg groaned.
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000044_000001|"I'll smash every bone in his ugly head."
train-clean-100/1867/154071/1867_154071_000045_000000|"Shake!" said Ronicky Doone.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000004_000000|Chapter Twelve
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000007_000000|"It was down in the cellar that we found the first tracks.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000008_000000|"That dropped him into the coal bin.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000008_000001|Did he get coal dust on his shoes?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000009_000000|"Right; and he didn't have sense enough to wipe it off."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000010_000000|"An amateur-a rank amateur!
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000010_000001|I told you!" said the man of the sneer, with satisfaction.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000010_000002|"You followed his trail?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000011_000000|"Up the stairs to the kitchen and down the hall and up to Harry's room."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000012_000000|"We already knew he'd gone there."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000013_000000|"But he left that room again and came down the hall."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000014_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000015_000000|"And where did it lead?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000016_000000|"Right to this room!"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000017_000001|The time had almost come for one desperate attempt to escape, and he was ready to shoot to kill.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000018_000000|A moment of pause had come, a pause which, in the imagination of Ronicky, was filled with the approach of both the men toward the door of the closet.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000020_000000|"I can show you the tracks."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000021_000002|I've been here for some time.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000021_000003|Go back and tell them to hunt some more.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000021_000004|Go up to the attic and search there.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000023_000000|"Now," said the man of the sneer, "tell me the whole of it, ruth."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000024_000000|Ronicky set his teeth.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000024_000001|Had the clever devil guessed at the truth so easily?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000025_000000|"Go on," the leader was repeating.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000025_000001|"Let me hear the whole truth."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000026_000000|"I-I-" stammered the girl, and she could say no more.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000000|The man of the sneer laughed unpleasantly.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000001|"Let me help you.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000002|It was somebody you met somewhere-on the train, perhaps, and you couldn't help smiling at him, eh?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000003|You smiled so much, in fact, that he followed you and found that you had come here.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000004|The only way he could get in was by stealth.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000005|Is that right?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000006|So he came in exactly that way, like a robber, but really only to keep a tryst with his lady love?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000027_000007|A pretty story, a true romance!
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000028_000000|"john--" began ruth Tolliver, her voice shaking.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000029_000000|"Tush," he broke in as smoothly as ever.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000029_000004|Do I gather the drift of the story fairly well? Finally you have him worked up to the right pitch.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000030_000000|"Yes," said the girl unevenly.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000030_000001|"That is-"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000031_000000|"Ah!" murmured the man of the sneer.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000031_000002|In that case-"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000032_000001|Now he pushed it open and stepped out.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000033_000000|He was brought up with a shock by the sight of Ronicky's big Colt, held at the hip and covering him with absolute certainty.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000033_000001|ruth Tolliver did not cry out, but every muscle in her face and body seemed to contract, as if she were preparing herself for the explosion.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000034_000002|He knew every line in that sharp profile.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000035_000001|A regular Apollo, my dear ruth."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000036_000000|He turned back to Ronicky Doone.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000037_000000|"The whole lot of it," said Ronicky, "though I wasn't playing my hand at eavesdropping.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000037_000001|I couldn't help hearing you, partner."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000038_000000|The man of the sneer looked him over leisurely.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000038_000001|"Western," he said at last, "decidedly Western.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000039_000000|"Are you staying long in the East, my friend?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000040_000001|"What do you think about it?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000041_000000|"Meaning that I'm liable to put an end to your stay?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000042_000000|"Maybe!"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000043_000000|"Tush, tush!
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000043_000001|I suppose ruth has filled your head with a lot of rot about what a terrible fellow I am.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000043_000002|But I don't use poison, and I don't kill with mysterious X rays.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000043_000003|I am, as you see, a very quiet and ordinary sort."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000044_000000|Ronicky Doone smiled again.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000044_000001|"You just oblige me, partner," he replied in his own soft voice.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000044_000003|Stand right where you are."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000046_000001|"I'd kill you like a snake, stranger, which I mostly think you are.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000046_000002|So step light, and step quick when I talk."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000047_000000|"Certainly," said the other, bowing.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000048_000000|She made a vague gesture of denial.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000049_000000|"Go ahead," said the leader.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000049_000001|"By the way, my name is john Mark."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000050_000000|"I'm Doone-some call me Ronicky Doone."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000051_000000|"I'm glad to know you, Ronicky Doone.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000051_000001|I imagine that name fits you. Now tell me the story of why you came to this house; of course it wasn't to see a girl!"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000052_000000|"You're wrong!
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000052_000001|It was."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000053_000000|"Ah?" In spite of himself the face of john Mark wrinkled with pain and suspicious rage.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000055_000000|Relief, wonder, and even a gleam of outright happiness shot into the eyes of john Mark.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000055_000002|You came for that?" Suddenly he laughed heartily, but there was a tremor of emotion in that laughter.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000056_000000|"I ask your pardon, my dear," said john Mark to ruth.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000056_000001|"I should have guessed.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000056_000002|You found him; he confessed why he was here; you took pity on him-and-" He brushed a hand across his forehead and was instantly himself, calm and cool.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000057_000001|It seems I've made an ass of myself, but I'll try to make up for it.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000057_000002|Now what about Caroline?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000058_000000|"Only one: I'm acting as his agent."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000059_000000|"And what do you expect?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000061_000000|"As much as that?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000061_000001|If you have to talk to her, why not do the talking here?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000062_000001|"I figure she'd think too much about you all the time."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000063_000000|"The basilisk, eh?" asked john Mark.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000063_000001|"Well, you are going to persuade her to go to Bill Gregg?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000064_000000|"You know the name, eh?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000065_000000|"Yes, I have a curious stock of useless information."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000067_000000|"But you can't expect me to assent to that?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000069_000000|"And why?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000069_000001|This Caroline Smith may be a person of great value to me."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000070_000000|"I have no doubt she is, but I got a good argument."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000072_000000|"The gun, partner."
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000073_000000|"And, if you couldn't get the girl-but see how absurd the whole thing is, Ronicky Doone!
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000073_000001|I send for the girl; I request her to go down with you to the street and take a walk, because you wish to talk to her. Heavens, man, I can't persuade her to go with a stranger at night! Surely you see that!"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000075_000000|"And, when you're on the streets with the girl, do you suppose I'll rest idle and let you walk away with her?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000076_000000|"Once we're outside of the house, Mark," said Ronicky Doone, "I don't ask no favors.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000076_000001|Let your men come on.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000076_000005|Is that square?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000078_000001|"You send for Caroline Smith; I'm to do the persuading to get her out of the house.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000078_000002|We're safe to the doors of the house; the minute we step into the street, you're free to do anything you want to get either of us. Will you shake on that?"
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000079_000000|For a moment the leader hesitated, then his fingers closed over the extended hand of Ronicky Doone and clamped down on them like so many steel wires contracting.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000079_000001|At the same time a flush of excitement and fierceness passed over the face of john Mark.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000079_000002|Ronicky Doone, taken utterly by surprise, was at a great disadvantage.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000079_000005|Where did john Mark get his sudden strength?
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000080_000000|"Well," said Ronicky, "we've shaken hands, and now you can do what you please!
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000080_000002|That brought a start from john Mark and a flash of eagerness, but he repressed the idea, after a single glance at the girl.
train-clean-100/1867/154075/1867_154075_000081_000000|"We've shaken hands," he admitted slowly, as though just realizing the full extent of the meaning of that act.
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000003_000002|The army cannot come into it, and to morrow it is to march on.'
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000005_000000|They said at last, 'What use was it our deserting?
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000009_000000|He gave them a little whip, saying, 'Whip and slash with this, and as much money as you want will jump up before you.
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000009_000001|You can then live as great lords, keep horses, and drive about in carriages.
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000013_000000|The two melancholy ones thought, 'That won't save us!' and they remained where they were.
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000016_000000|'I haven't had much luck to day,' he said, 'but I have a tight hold on three soldiers.'
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000017_000000|'Indeed! three soldiers!' said she.
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000020_000000|'I will tell you this.
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000020_000001|In the North Sea lies a dead sea cat-that shall be their roast meat; and the rib of a whale-that shall be their silver spoon; and the hollow foot of a dead horse-that shall be their wineglass.'
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000022_000000|'Did you pay attention to everything?'
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000023_000000|'Yes,' he replied, 'I know enough, and can help myself splendidly.'
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000025_000001|If you can tell me what you will get for your roast meat, you shall be free, and shall also keep the whip.'
train-clean-100/1898/145702/1898_145702_000031_000001|But the three soldiers took the little whip, whipped as much money as they wanted, and lived happily to their lives end.
train-clean-100/1898/145715/1898_145715_000013_000000|Now this Locrinos was a cruel monster who devoured everyone he came across, and especially enjoyed a chance of catching and eating any young girls.
train-clean-100/1898/145715/1898_145715_000019_000000|They were not allowed much time for their adieus; the Rainbow vanished, and the Princess, resolved to run all risks, started off at once, taking nothing with her but her dog, her cat, a sprig of myrtle, and the stone which the wife of Locrinos gave her.
train-clean-100/1898/145715/1898_145715_000020_000000|When Lagree became aware of her prisoner's flight she was furious, and set off at full speed in pursuit.
train-clean-100/1898/145715/1898_145715_000030_000001|She had no doubt (though really I cannot think why) that the moment had come in which to use the nut which had been given her.
train-clean-100/1898/145720/1898_145720_000011_000002|So, lay down your body here; your bow and arrows, your skin and your dog.
train-clean-100/1898/145720/1898_145720_000011_000003|They shall be kept for you safely.'
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000007_000000|Then the Prince said to her, 'You can hardly walk; I will put you on my horse and lead you home.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000010_000000|'Most certainly I would,' replied the Prince.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000011_000004|Now farewell, and heaven prosper your undertaking.' She handed him the little bell, and there disappeared hut and all, as though the earth had swallowed her up.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000014_000000|'No, I do not,' answered the old man.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000016_000003|But if you wish to see the Flower Queen's daughter go up the second mountain: the Dragon's old mother lives there, and she has a ball every night, to which the Flower Queen's daughter goes regularly.'
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000017_000001|He opened the big gate leading into the courtyard, and was just going to walk in, when seven dragons rushed on him and asked him what he wanted?
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000018_000000|The Prince replied, 'I have heard so much of the beauty and kindness of the Dragon's Mother, and would like to enter her service.'
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000019_000000|This flattering speech pleased the dragons, and the eldest of them said, 'Well, you may come with me, and I will take you to the Mother Dragon.'
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000020_000002|She was the ugliest woman under the sun, and, added to it all, she had three heads.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000020_000003|Her appearance was a great shock to the Prince, and so was her voice, which was like the croaking of many ravens.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000021_000000|The Prince answered at once, 'I have heard so much of your beauty and kindness, that I would very much like to enter your service.'
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000022_000000|'Very well,' said the Mother Dragon; 'but if you wish to enter my service, you must first lead my mare out to the meadow and look after her for three days; but if you don't bring her home safely every evening, we will eat you up.'
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000023_000000|The Prince undertook the task and led the mare out to the meadow.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000024_000000|But no sooner had they reached the grass than she vanished.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000024_000002|As he sat thus lost in thought, he noticed an eagle flying over his head.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000025_000002|I will summon all the eagles of the air together, and order them to catch the mare and bring her to you.' And with these words the King of the Eagles flew away.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000025_000006|Here, too, was the Flower Queen's beautiful daughter.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000029_000000|With these words the King of the Foxes disappeared, and in the evening many thousand foxes brought the mare to the Prince.
train-clean-100/1898/145724/1898_145724_000035_000000|'You are a brave youth, and I will make you my body servant.
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train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000007_000000|THIS little work was finished in the year eighteen o three, and intended for immediate publication.
train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000010_000000|Such was Catherine Morland at ten.
train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000010_000003|"Catherine grows quite a good looking girl-she is almost pretty today," were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds!
train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000012_000000|From Pope, she learnt to censure those who
train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000016_000000|From Thompson, that-
train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000020_000000|That
train-clean-100/19/198/19_198_000024_000005|This was strange indeed!
train-clean-100/19/227/19_227_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty
train-clean-100/19/227/19_227_000003_000000|Catherine took up her work directly, saying, in a dejected voice, that "her head did not run upon Bath-much."
train-clean-100/19/227/19_227_000004_000003|I did not quite like, at breakfast, to hear you talk so much about the French bread at Northanger."
train-clean-100/19/227/19_227_000005_000000|"I am sure I do not care about the bread.
train-clean-100/19/227/19_227_000008_000000|He was not ill inclined to obey this request, for, though his heart was greatly relieved by such unlooked for mildness, it was not just at that moment in his power to say anything to the purpose.
train-clean-100/19/227/19_227_000012_000000|john Thorpe had first misled him.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000004_000000|CHAPTER thirty one
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000005_000000|Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval sufficiently replete with incident.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000005_000002|She was alone on this occasion, in one of the smaller of the numerous rooms devoted by mrs Touchett to social uses, and there was that in her expression and attitude which would have suggested that she was expecting a visitor.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000005_000006|She wished rather to forestall his arrival by a process of conjecture, and to judge by the expression of her face this attempt gave her plenty to do.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000005_000007|Grave she found herself, and positively more weighted, as by the experience of the lapse of the year she had spent in seeing the world.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000007_000010|She was so fond of the spectacle of human life that she enjoyed even the aspect of gathering dusk in the London streets-the moving crowds, the hurrying cabs, the lighted shops, the flaring stalls, the dark, shining dampness of everything.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000007_000012|She made her way down to Rome without touching at Florence-having gone first to Venice and then proceeded southward by Ancona.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000007_000013|She accomplished this journey without other assistance than that of her servant, for her natural protectors were not now on the ground. Ralph Touchett was spending the winter at Corfu, and Miss Stackpole, in the September previous, had been recalled to America by a telegram from the Interviewer.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000007_000022|Madame Merle remarked that her friend was restless, but she added that she herself had always been consumed with the desire to visit Athens and Constantinople.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000007_000023|The two ladies accordingly embarked on this expedition, and spent three months in Greece, in Turkey, in Egypt.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000008_000003|Her conception of human motives might, in certain lights, have been acquired at the court of some kingdom in decadence, and there were several in her list of which our heroine had not even heard.
train-clean-100/1926/143879/1926_143879_000008_000009|A few days after her arrival Gilbert Osmond descended from Florence and remained three weeks, during which the fact of her being with his old friend Madame Merle, in whose house she had gone to lodge, made it virtually inevitable that he should see her every day.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000004_000004|He was a popular fellow, but no manager.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000005_000000|mrs Gardener was admittedly the best dressed woman in Black Hawk, drove the best horse, and had a smart trap and a little white and gold sleigh. She seemed indifferent to her possessions, was not half so solicitous about them as her friends were.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000005_000001|She was tall, dark, severe, with something Indian like in the rigid immobility of her face.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000005_000002|Her manner was cold, and she talked little.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000005_000003|Guests felt that they were receiving, not conferring, a favor when they stayed at her house.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000006_000000|When I stole into the parlor Anson Kirkpatrick, Marshall Field's man, was at the piano, playing airs from a musical comedy then running in Chicago. He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey, with friends everywhere, and a sweetheart in every port, like a sailor.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000006_000003|I learned that mrs Gardener had gone to Omaha to hear Booth and Barrett, who were to play there next week, and that Mary Anderson was having a great success in "A Winter's Tale," in London.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000008_000001|No ladies here?
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000010_000000|"She seems all right, gentlemen.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000010_000003|Now, gentlemen, I expect you've all got grand voices.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000012_000000|He was born in the Far South, on the d'Arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000012_000009|Whenever she caught him slipping away from the cabin, she whipped him unmercifully, and told him what dreadful things old mr d'Arnault would do to him if he ever found him near the "Big House." But the next time Samson had a chance, he ran away again.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000013_000001|The windows were open.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000013_000003|He heard the door close after them.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000013_000005|He could always detect the presence of any one in a room.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000013_000008|He thought about that, but he pulled in his other foot.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000014_000013|The doctor came and gave him opium.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000015_000001|They found he had absolute pitch, and a remarkable memory.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000015_000004|He wore his teachers out.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000015_000005|He could never learn like other people, never acquired any finish.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000015_000006|He was always a negro prodigy who played barbarously and wonderfully.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000016_000000|In the middle of a crashing waltz d'Arnault suddenly began to play softly, and, turning to one of the men who stood behind him, whispered, "Somebody dancing in there." He jerked his bullet head toward the dining room.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000017_000003|They separated and fled toward the kitchen, giggling.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000018_000000|Kirkpatrick caught Tiny by the elbows.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000019_000000|The girls, still laughing, were trying to escape.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000019_000001|Tiny looked alarmed. "mrs Gardener would n't like it," she protested.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000019_000002|"She'd be awful mad if you was to come out here and dance with us."
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000020_000001|Now, you're Lena, are you?--and you're Tony and you're Mary.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000020_000002|Have I got you all straight?"
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000022_000001|"You'll wake the cook, and there'll be the devil to pay for me.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000023_000000|"Oh, what do you care, Johnnie?
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000023_000002|Come along, nobody'll tell tales."
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000024_000000|Johnnie shook his head.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000025_000001|"Oh, we'll make it all right with Molly.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000025_000002|Get your back up, Johnnie."
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000027_000003|One of these city gentlemen, I bet! Now, you girls, you ain't goin' to let that floor get cold?"
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000028_000003|Mary Dusak was broad and brown of countenance, slightly marked by smallpox, but handsome for all that.
train-clean-100/1926/147979/1926_147979_000029_000003|I walked home with Antonia.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000002_000001|Since the scandal about the Swedish girl, Wick Cutter could never get his wife to stir out of Black Hawk without him.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000003_000000|The day after the Cutters left, Antonia came over to see us.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000003_000001|Grandmother noticed that she seemed troubled and distracted.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000004_000001|I could n't sleep much last night." She hesitated, and then told us how strangely mr Cutter had behaved before he went away.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000004_000005|She would be perfectly safe, he said, as he had just put a new Yale lock on the front door.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000005_000001|She had n't liked the way he kept coming into the kitchen to instruct her, or the way he looked at her.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000005_000002|"I feel as if he is up to some of his tricks again, and is going to try to scare me, somehow."
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000007_000000|Antonia turned to me eagerly.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000007_000002|I'd make up my bed nice and fresh for you.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000007_000004|I was afraid to leave the window open last night."
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000008_000001|I found that I slept there as well as anywhere, and when I got home in the morning, Tony had a good breakfast waiting for me.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000009_000000|The third night I spent at the Cutters', I awoke suddenly with the impression that I had heard a door open and shut.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000010_000000|The next thing I knew, I felt some one sit down on the edge of the bed.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000010_000001|I was only half awake, but I decided that he might take the Cutters' silver, whoever he was.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000010_000003|I held my breath and lay absolutely still.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000010_000004|A hand closed softly on my shoulder, and at the same moment I felt something hairy and cologne scented brushing my face.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000010_000006|I caught a handful of whiskers and pulled, shouting something.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000011_000001|Where is she, you nasty whelp, where is she?
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000011_000002|Under the bed, are you, hussy?
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000011_000003|I know your tricks! Wait till I get at you!
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000012_000000|So long as Cutter had me by the throat, there was no chance for me at all. I got hold of his thumb and bent it back, until he let go with a yell.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000014_000001|Her cry of fright awakened me. Truly, I was a battered object.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000014_000003|My lip was cut and stood out like a snout.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000014_000004|My nose looked like a big blue plum, and one eye was swollen shut and hideously discolored.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000014_000008|She seemed to understand, though I was too faint and miserable to go into explanations.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000014_000010|She spent the whole morning bathing and poulticing me, and rubbing me with arnica.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000014_000014|She had let me in for all this disgustingness.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000015_000001|The agent said his face was striped with court plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000016_000001|They found the place locked up, and they had to break the window to get into Antonia's bedroom.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000017_000001|There stood mrs Cutter,--locked out, for she had no key to the new lock-her head trembling with rage.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000017_000002|"I advised her to control herself, or she would have a stroke," grandmother said afterwards.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000019_000000|Then mrs Cutter told her story.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000019_000005|He bought her ticket and put her on the train.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000019_000006|She saw him slip a twenty dollar bill into her handbag with her ticket.
train-clean-100/1926/147987/1926_147987_000024_000000|Certainly Cutter liked to have his wife think him a devil.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000001_000000|After two years of training he went to sea, and entering the regions so well known to his imagination, found them strangely barren of adventure. He made many voyages.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000001_000001|He knew the magic monotony of existence between sky and water: he had to bear the criticism of men, the exactions of the sea, and the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread-but whose only reward is in the perfect love of the work.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000001_000002|This reward eluded him.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000001_000003|Yet he could not go back, because there is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000001_000004|Besides, his prospects were good.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000002_000001|That truth is not so often made apparent as people might think.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000003_000001|He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000003_000002|The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000003_000003|The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000003_000004|Jim saw nothing but the disorder of his tossed cabin.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000003_000005|He lay there battened down in the midst of a small devastation, and felt secretly glad he had not to go on deck.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000003_000006|But now and again an uncontrollable rush of anguish would grip him bodily, make him gasp and writhe under the blankets, and then the unintelligent brutality of an existence liable to the agony of such sensations filled him with a despairing desire to escape at any cost. Then fine weather returned, and he thought no more about It.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000004_000000|His lameness, however, persisted, and when the ship arrived at an Eastern port he had to go to the hospital.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000004_000001|His recovery was slow, and he was left behind.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000005_000002|There were perfumes in it, suggestions of infinite repose, the gift of endless dreams.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000000|Directly he could walk without a stick, he descended into the town to look for some opportunity to get home.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000001|Nothing offered just then, and, while waiting, he associated naturally with the men of his calling in the port.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000002|These were of two kinds.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000003|Some, very few and seen there but seldom, led mysterious lives, had preserved an undefaced energy with the temper of buccaneers and the eyes of dreamers.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000004|They appeared to live in a crazy maze of plans, hopes, dangers, enterprises, ahead of civilisation, in the dark places of the sea; and their death was the only event of their fantastic existence that seemed to have a reasonable certitude of achievement.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000005|The majority were men who, like himself, thrown there by some accident, had remained as officers of country ships.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000007|They were attuned to the eternal peace of Eastern sky and sea.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000008|They loved short passages, good deck chairs, large native crews, and the distinction of being white.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000006_000009|They shuddered at the thought of hard work, and led precariously easy lives, always on the verge of dismissal, always on the verge of engagement, serving Chinamen, Arabs, half castes-would have served the devil himself had he made it easy enough.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000007_000000|To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial than so many shadows.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000007_000002|In time, beside the original disdain there grew up slowly another sentiment; and suddenly, giving up the idea of going home, he took a berth as chief mate of the Patna.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000008_000000|The Patna was a local steamer as old as the hills, lean like a greyhound, and eaten up with rust worse than a condemned water tank.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000009_000001|Eight hundred men and women with faith and hopes, with affections and memories, they had collected there, coming from north and south and from the outskirts of the East, after treading the jungle paths, descending the rivers, coasting in praus along the shallows, crossing in small canoes from island to island, passing through suffering, meeting strange sights, beset by strange fears, upheld by one desire.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000009_000002|They came from solitary huts in the wilderness, from populous campongs, from villages by the sea.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000009_000003|At the call of an idea they had left their forests, their clearings, the protection of their rulers, their prosperity, their poverty, the surroundings of their youth and the graves of their fathers.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000011_000001|He walked slowly aboard, handsome and grave in his white gown and large turban.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000011_000002|A string of servants followed, loaded with his luggage; the Patna cast off and backed away from the wharf.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000012_000000|She was headed between two small islets, crossed obliquely the anchoring ground of sailing ships, swung through half a circle in the shadow of a hill, then ranged close to a ledge of foaming reefs.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000013_000000|She cleared the Strait, crossed the bay, continued on her way through the 'One degree' passage.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000013_000001|She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000013_000002|And under the sinister splendour of that sky the sea, blue and profound, remained still, without a stir, without a ripple, without a wrinkle-viscous, stagnant, dead.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000013_000003|The Patna, with a slight hiss, passed over that plain, luminous and smooth, unrolled a black ribbon of smoke across the sky, left behind her on the water a white ribbon of foam that vanished at once, like the phantom of a track drawn upon a lifeless sea by the phantom of a steamer.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000014_000001|The five whites on board lived amidships, isolated from the human cargo.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000014_000002|The awnings covered the deck with a white roof from stem to stern, and a faint hum, a low murmur of sad voices, alone revealed the presence of a crowd of people upon the great blaze of the ocean.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000014_000003|Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity.
train-clean-100/196/122150/196_122150_000015_000000|The nights descended on her like a benediction.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000000_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000000|A month or so afterwards, when Jim, in answer to pointed questions, tried to tell honestly the truth of this experience, he said, speaking of the ship: 'She went over whatever it was as easy as a snake crawling over a stick.' The illustration was good: the questions were aiming at facts, and the official Inquiry was being held in the police court of an Eastern port.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000002|Outside the court the sun blazed-within was the wind of great punkahs that made you shiver, the shame that made you burn, the attentive eyes whose glance stabbed.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000003|The face of the presiding magistrate, clean shaved and impassible, looked at him deadly pale between the red faces of the two nautical assessors.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000004|The light of a broad window under the ceiling fell from above on the heads and shoulders of the three men, and they were fiercely distinct in the half light of the big court room where the audience seemed composed of staring shadows.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000005|They wanted facts.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000006|Facts!
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000001_000007|They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000002_000000|'After you had concluded you had collided with something floating awash, say a water logged wreck, you were ordered by your captain to go forward and ascertain if there was any damage done.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000002_000001|Did you think it likely from the force of the blow?' asked the assessor sitting to the left.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000003_000000|'I did not,' said Jim. 'I was told to call no one and to make no noise for fear of creating a panic.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000003_000001|I thought the precaution reasonable.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000003_000002|I took one of the lamps that were hung under the awnings and went forward. After opening the forepeak hatch I heard splashing in there.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000003_000004|I knew then there must be a big hole below the water line.' He paused.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000004_000000|'Yes,' said the big assessor, with a dreamy smile at the blotting pad; his fingers played incessantly, touching the paper without noise.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000000|'I did not think of danger just then.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000001|I might have been a little startled: all this happened in such a quiet way and so very suddenly.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000002|I knew there was no other bulkhead in the ship but the collision bulkhead separating the forepeak from the forehold.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000003|I went back to tell the captain.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000004|I came upon the second engineer getting up at the foot of the bridge ladder: he seemed dazed, and told me he thought his left arm was broken; he had slipped on the top step when getting down while I was forward.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000005|He exclaimed, "My God!
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000007|His left arm hung by his side.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000008|I followed up in time to see the captain rush at him and knock him down flat on his back. He did not strike him again: he stood bending over him and speaking angrily but quite low.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000009|I fancy he was asking him why the devil he didn't go and stop the engines, instead of making a row about it on deck.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000010|I heard him say, "Get up!
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000005_000012|The engineer slid down the starboard ladder and bolted round the skylight to the engine room companion which was on the port side.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000006_000000|He spoke slowly; he remembered swiftly and with extreme vividness; he could have reproduced like an echo the moaning of the engineer for the better information of these men who wanted facts.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000006_000003|He was anxious to make this clear.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000006_000004|This had not been a common affair, everything in it had been of the utmost importance, and fortunately he remembered everything.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000007_000000|'The captain kept on moving here and there on the bridge; he seemed calm enough, only he stumbled several times; and once as I stood speaking to him he walked right into me as though he had been stone blind.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000007_000001|He made no definite answer to what I had to tell.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000007_000002|He mumbled to himself; all I heard of it were a few words that sounded like "confounded steam!" and "infernal steam!"--something about steam.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000007_000003|I thought . . .'
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000008_000000|He was becoming irrelevant; a question to the point cut short his speech, like a pang of pain, and he felt extremely discouraged and weary.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000008_000001|He was coming to that, he was coming to that-and now, checked brutally, he had to answer by yes or no
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000008_000002|He answered truthfully by a curt 'Yes, I did'; and fair of face, big of frame, with young, gloomy eyes, he held his shoulders upright above the box while his soul writhed within him.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000008_000003|He was made to answer another question so much to the point and so useless, then waited again.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000008_000004|His mouth was tastelessly dry, as though he had been eating dust, then salt and bitter as after a drink of sea water.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000000|Jim's eyes, wandering in the intervals of his answers, rested upon a white man who sat apart from the others, with his face worn and clouded, but with quiet eyes that glanced straight, interested and clear.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000001|Jim answered another question and was tempted to cry out, 'What's the good of this! what's the good!' He tapped with his foot slightly, bit his lip, and looked away over the heads.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000002|He met the eyes of the white man. The glance directed at him was not the fascinated stare of the others. It was an act of intelligent volition.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000003|Jim between two questions forgot himself so far as to find leisure for a thought.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000004|This fellow-ran the thought-looks at me as though he could see somebody or something past my shoulder.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000005|He had come across that man before-in the street perhaps. He was positive he had never spoken to him.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000006|For days, for many days, he had spoken to no one, but had held silent, incoherent, and endless converse with himself, like a prisoner alone in his cell or like a wayfarer lost in a wilderness.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000007|At present he was answering questions that did not matter though they had a purpose, but he doubted whether he would ever again speak out as long as he lived.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000008|The sound of his own truthful statements confirmed his deliberate opinion that speech was of no use to him any longer.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000009|That man there seemed to be aware of his hopeless difficulty.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000009_000010|Jim looked at him, then turned away resolutely, as after a final parting.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000010_000000|And later on, many times, in distant parts of the world, Marlow showed himself willing to remember Jim, to remember him at length, in detail and audibly.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000011_000000|Perhaps it would be after dinner, on a verandah draped in motionless foliage and crowned with flowers, in the deep dusk speckled by fiery cigar ends.
train-clean-100/196/122152/196_122152_000011_000001|The elongated bulk of each cane chair harboured a silent listener.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000000_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000001_000002|"You are an awful good sort to listen like this," he said.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000001_000003|"It does me good.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000001_000005|You don't" . . . words seemed to fail him.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000001_000006|It was a distinct glimpse.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000001_000007|He was a youngster of the sort you like to see about you; of the sort you like to imagine yourself to have been; of the sort whose appearance claims the fellowship of these illusions you had thought gone out, extinct, cold, and which, as if rekindled at the approach of another flame, give a flutter deep, deep down somewhere, give a flutter of light . . . of heat! . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000001_000010|It is so difficult-so awfully unfair-so hard to understand."
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000000|'The mists were closing again.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000001|I don't know how old I appeared to him-and how much wise.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000002|Not half as old as I felt just then; not half as uselessly wise as I knew myself to be.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000003|Surely in no other craft as in that of the sea do the hearts of those already launched to sink or swim go out so much to the youth on the brink, looking with shining eyes upon that glitter of the vast surface which is only a reflection of his own glances full of fire.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000005|What we get-well, we won't talk of that; but can one of us restrain a smile?
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000008|What wonder that when some heavy prod gets home the bond is found to be close; that besides the fellowship of the craft there is felt the strength of a wider feeling-the feeling that binds a man to a child.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000009|He was there before me, believing that age and wisdom can find a remedy against the pain of truth, giving me a glimpse of himself as a young fellow in a scrape that is the very devil of a scrape, the sort of scrape greybeards wag at solemnly while they hide a smile.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000010|And he had been deliberating upon death-confound him!
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000011|He had found that to meditate about because he thought he had saved his life, while all its glamour had gone with the ship in the night.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000002_000012|What more natural!
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000003_000001|It was the sort of thing one does not expect to happen to one.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000003_000002|It was not like a fight, for instance."
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000004_000000|'"It was not," I admitted.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000004_000001|He appeared changed, as if he had suddenly matured.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000005_000000|'"One couldn't be sure," he muttered.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000006_000001|You were not sure," I said, and was placated by the sound of a faint sigh that passed between us like the flight of a bird in the night.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000007_000000|'"Well, I wasn't," he said courageously.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000007_000001|"It was something like that wretched story they made up.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000007_000002|It was not a lie-but it wasn't truth all the same.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000007_000003|It was something. . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000007_000004|One knows a downright lie.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000007_000005|There was not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the right and the wrong of this affair."
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000008_000000|'"How much more did you want?" I asked; but I think I spoke so low that he did not catch what I said.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000008_000001|He had advanced his argument as though life had been a network of paths separated by chasms.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000009_000000|'"Suppose I had not-I mean to say, suppose I had stuck to the ship? Well.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000009_000001|How much longer?
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000009_000002|Say a minute-half a minute.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000009_000003|Come.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000009_000004|In thirty seconds, as it seemed certain then, I would have been overboard; and do you think I would not have laid hold of the first thing that came in my way-oar, life buoy, grating-anything?
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000009_000005|Wouldn't you?"
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000010_000000|'"And be saved," I interjected.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000000|'"I would have meant to be," he retorted.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000001|"And that's more than I meant when I" . . . he shivered as if about to swallow some nauseous drug . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000003|He fixed me with lowering eyes.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000004|"Don't you believe me?" he cried.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000006|Confound it!
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000007|You got me here to talk, and . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000008|You must! . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000009|You said you would believe." "Of course I do," I protested, in a matter of fact tone which produced a calming effect. "Forgive me," he said.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000011|I ought to have known . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000012|I am-I am-a gentleman too . . ." "Yes, yes," I said hastily.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000013|He was looking me squarely in the face, and withdrew his gaze slowly.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000014|"Now you understand why I didn't after all . . . didn't go out in that way.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000015|I wasn't going to be frightened at what I had done.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000016|And, anyhow, if I had stuck to the ship I would have done my best to be saved.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000017|Men have been known to float for hours-in the open sea-and be picked up not much the worse for it.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000011_000018|I might have lasted it out better than many others. There's nothing the matter with my heart." He withdrew his right fist from his pocket, and the blow he struck on his chest resounded like a muffled detonation in the night.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000012_000001|He meditated, with his legs slightly apart and his chin sunk.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000012_000002|"A hair's breadth," he muttered.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000012_000003|"Not the breadth of a hair between this and that.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000012_000004|And at the time . . ."
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000013_000000|'"It is difficult to see a hair at midnight," I put in, a little viciously I fear.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000013_000001|Don't you see what I mean by the solidarity of the craft?
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000013_000002|I was aggrieved against him, as though he had cheated me-me!--of a splendid opportunity to keep up the illusion of my beginnings, as though he had robbed our common life of the last spark of its glamour. "And so you cleared out-at once."
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000000|'"Jumped," he corrected me incisively.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000001|"Jumped-mind!" he repeated, and I wondered at the evident but obscure intention.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000002|"Well, yes!
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000003|Perhaps I could not see then.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000004|But I had plenty of time and any amount of light in that boat.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000005|And I could think, too.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000006|Nobody would know, of course, but this did not make it any easier for me.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000007|You've got to believe that, too. I did not want all this talk. . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000009|Yes . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000010|I won't lie . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000011|I wanted it: it is the very thing I wanted-there.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000012|Do you think you or anybody could have made me if I . . .
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000013|I am-I am not afraid to tell.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000014|And I wasn't afraid to think either.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000015|I looked it in the face.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000016|I wasn't going to run away.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000018|No! by heavens!
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000019|I was not going to give them that satisfaction.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000020|They had done enough.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000021|They made up a story, and believed it for all I know.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000022|But I knew the truth, and I would live it down-alone, with myself.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000023|I wasn't going to give in to such a beastly unfair thing.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000024|What did it prove after all?
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000025|I was confoundedly cut up. Sick of life-to tell you the truth; but what would have been the good to shirk it-in-in-that way?
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000026|That was not the way.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000014_000027|I believe-I believe it would have-it would have ended-nothing."
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000015_000000|'He had been walking up and down, but with the last word he turned short at me.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000016_000001|A pause ensued, and suddenly I felt myself overcome by a profound and hopeless fatigue, as though his voice had startled me out of a dream of wandering through empty spaces whose immensity had harassed my soul and exhausted my body.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000017_000001|Would have ended nothing," he muttered over me obstinately, after a little while.
train-clean-100/196/122159/196_122159_000017_000002|"No! the proper thing was to face it out-alone for myself-wait for another chance-find out . . ."'
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000001_000000|Chapter fifty four
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000002_000000|The Meeting on the Hill
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000003_000000|ADAM understood Dinah's haste to go away, and drew hope rather than discouragement from it.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000004_000000|"I wish I'd asked her to write to me, though," he thought.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000004_000002|She wants to be quite quiet in her old way for a while.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000004_000003|And I've no right to be impatient and interrupting her with my wishes.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000004_000004|She's told me what her mind is, and she's not a woman to say one thing and mean another.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000004_000005|I'll wait patiently."
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000000|That was Adam's wise resolution, and it throve excellently for the first two or three weeks on the nourishment it got from the remembrance of Dinah's confession that Sunday afternoon.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000001|There is a wonderful amount of sustenance in the first few words of love.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000002|But towards the middle of October the resolution began to dwindle perceptibly, and showed dangerous symptoms of exhaustion.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000003|The weeks were unusually long: Dinah must surely have had more than enough time to make up her mind.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000005|He treads the earth with a very elastic step as he walks away from her, and makes light of all difficulties.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000006|But that sort of glow dies out: memory gets sadly diluted with time, and is not strong enough to revive us.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000007|Adam was no longer so confident as he had been.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000008|He began to fear that perhaps Dinah's old life would have too strong a grasp upon her for any new feeling to triumph.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000009|If she had not felt this, she would surely have written to him to give him some comfort; but it appeared that she held it right to discourage him.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000010|As Adam's confidence waned, his patience waned with it, and he thought he must write himself.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000011|He must ask Dinah not to leave him in painful doubt longer than was needful.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000012|He sat up late one night to write her a letter, but the next morning he burnt it, afraid of its effect.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000005_000013|It would be worse to have a discouraging answer by letter than from her own lips, for her presence reconciled him to her will.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000006_000000|You perceive how it was: Adam was hungering for the sight of Dinah, and when that sort of hunger reaches a certain stage, a lover is likely to still it though he may have to put his future in pawn.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000007_000000|But what harm could he do by going to Snowfield?
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000007_000001|Dinah could not be displeased with him for it.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000007_000002|She had not forbidden him to go.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000007_000003|She must surely expect that he would go before long.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000007_000004|By the second Sunday in October this view of the case had become so clear to Adam that he was already on his way to Snowfield, on horseback this time, for his hours were precious now, and he had borrowed Jonathan Burge's good nag for the journey.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000009_000001|Adam could never cease to mourn over that mystery of human sorrow which had been brought so close to him; he could never thank God for another's misery.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000009_000002|And if I were capable of that narrow sighted joy in Adam's behalf, I should still know he was not the man to feel it for himself. He would have shaken his head at such a sentiment and said, "Evil's evil, and sorrow's sorrow, and you can't alter it's natur by wrapping it up in other words.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000009_000003|Other folks were not created for my sake, that I should think all square when things turn out well for me."
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000010_000002|We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can wish to return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete formula.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000011_000001|His feeling towards Dinah, the hope of passing his life with her, had been the distant unseen point towards which that hard journey from Snowfield eighteen months ago had been leading him.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000011_000002|Tender and deep as his love for Hetty had been-so deep that the roots of it would never be torn away-his love for Dinah was better and more precious to him, for it was the outgrowth of that fuller life which had come to him from his acquaintance with deep sorrow.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000011_000003|"It's like as if it was a new strength to me," he said to himself, "to love her and know as she loves me.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000012_000001|The scene looked less harsh in the soft October sunshine than it had in the eager time of early spring, and the one grand charm it possessed in common with all wide stretching woodless regions-that it filled you with a new consciousness of the overarching sky-had a milder, more soothing influence than usual, on this almost cloudless day.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000013_000006|"Perhaps that's the last hymn before they come away," Adam thought.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000013_000007|"I'll walk back a bit and turn again to meet her, farther off the village." He walked back till he got nearly to the top of the hill again, and seated himself on a loose stone, against the low wall, to watch till he should see the little black figure leaving the hamlet and winding up the hill.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000013_000008|He chose this spot, almost at the top of the hill, because it was away from all eyes-no house, no cattle, not even a nibbling sheep near-no presence but the still lights and shadows and the great embracing sky.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000000|She was much longer coming than he expected.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000001|He waited an hour at least watching for her and thinking of her, while the afternoon shadows lengthened and the light grew softer.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000002|At last he saw the little black figure coming from between the grey houses and gradually approaching the foot of the hill.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000003|Slowly, Adam thought, but Dinah was really walking at her usual pace, with a light quiet step.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000004|Now she was beginning to wind along the path up the hill, but Adam would not move yet; he would not meet her too soon; he had set his heart on meeting her in this assured loneliness.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000005|And now he began to fear lest he should startle her too much.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000014_000006|"Yet," he thought, "she's not one to be overstartled; she's always so calm and quiet, as if she was prepared for anything."
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000015_000000|What was she thinking of as she wound up the hill?
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000015_000002|On the verge of a decision we all tremble: hope pauses with fluttering wings.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000016_000001|Adam was glad, for, with the fine instinct of a lover, he felt that it would be best for her to hear his voice before she saw him.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000016_000002|He came within three paces of her and then said, "Dinah!" She started without looking round, as if she connected the sound with no place.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000016_000004|He knew quite well what was in her mind.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000016_000005|She was so accustomed to think of impressions as purely spiritual monitions that she looked for no material visible accompaniment of the voice.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000017_000001|What a look of yearning love it was that the mild grey eyes turned on the strong dark eyed man!
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000018_000000|And they walked on so in silence, while the warm tears fell.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000018_000002|It was Dinah who spoke first.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000019_000001|My soul is so knit to yours that it is but a divided life I live without you.
train-clean-100/1963/142393/1963_142393_000019_000002|And this moment, now you are with me, and I feel that our hearts are filled with the same love.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000000_000000|FISH SOUPS.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000001_000000|FISH STOCK.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000003_000001|Simmer for two hours; skim the liquor carefully, and strain it. When a richer stock is wanted, fry the vegetables and fish before adding the water.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000008_000002|Put in the fish, but do not let the soup boil, after it has been rubbed through the tammy.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000008_000003|If necessary, add seasoning.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000013_000000|THE CRAYFISH.--This is one of those fishes that were highly esteemed by the ancients.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000013_000001|The Greeks preferred it when brought from Alexandria, and the romans ate it boiled with cumin, and seasoned with pepper and other condiments.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000013_000003|More water would kill them, because the large quantity of air they require necessitates the water in which they are kept, to be continually renewed.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000016_000001|Simmer till the eels are tender, but do not break the fish.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000016_000002|Take them out carefully, mix the flour smoothly to a batter with the cream, bring it to a boil, pour over the eels, and serve.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000021_000000|LOBSTER SOUP.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000023_000003|Give one boil up, at the same time adding the tails cut in pieces.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000023_000004|Make the forcemeat balls with the remainder of the lobster, seasoned with mace, pepper, and salt, adding a little flour, and a few bread crumbs; moisten them with the egg, heat them in the soup, and serve.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000027_000000|OYSTER SOUP.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000030_000001|Take a pint of the stock, put in the beards and the liquor, which must be carefully strained, and simmer for one half an hour.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000030_000002|Take it off the fire, strain it again, and add the remainder of the stock with the seasoning and mace.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000037_000001|Put in the oysters, stir well, but do not let it boil, and serve very hot.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000041_000000|SEASON OF OYSTERS.--From April and May to the end of July, oysters are said to be sick; but by the end of August they become healthy, having recovered from the effects of spawning. When they are not in season, the males have a black, and the females a milky substance in the gill.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000041_000001|From some lines of Oppian, it would appear that the ancients were ignorant that the oyster is generally found adhering to rocks.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000041_000002|The starfish is one of the most deadly enemies of these bivalves.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000043_000000|PRAWN SOUP.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000045_000002|When it is well cooked, put in a few picked prawns; let them get thoroughly hot, and serve.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000045_000003|If not thick enough, put in a little butter and flour.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000050_000001|It is to be found on most of the sandy shores of Europe.
train-clean-100/1963/142776/1963_142776_000050_000002|The Isle of Wight is famous for shrimps, where they are potted; but both the prawns and the shrimps vended in London, are too much salted for the excellence of their natural flavour to be preserved.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000002_000000|THE CONFESSION OF ODETTE RIDER
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000003_000000|He could only gaze in stupified silence.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000006_000000|She nodded.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000012_000000|"I hope I didn't hurt you?
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000013_000000|She shook her head.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000016_000001|"I didn't suspect----"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000017_000002|She looked up at his words.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000018_000000|"I?
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000018_000001|On the bicycle?" she asked.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000018_000002|"No, it was not i"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000019_000000|"Not you?"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000020_000000|She shook her head.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000022_000000|"Who was it?" he asked.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000023_000000|She shook her head.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000024_000000|"May I have that please?"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000026_000000|After all, he had no right or title to this curious purse.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000029_000001|"I could help you.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000029_000002|I want to help you."
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000030_000000|She looked up at him.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000033_000000|"Because I love you," he said, and his voice shook.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000035_000001|She did not shrink back, she did not look surprised.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000038_000001|"Won't you please tell me?"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000045_000003|He walked to the door and unlocked it.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000049_000000|"Take it away with you."
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000051_000000|"Odette!
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000052_000003|Oh, I am afraid!"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000056_000000|"Ask me!"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000066_000000|"My promise," he said, "what promise?"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000068_000000|Tarling started.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000069_000000|"Do you mean to say----" he said hoarsely.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000075_000000|Tarling picked up the wallet from the table and looked at it.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000077_000002|"Unlock and read to night."
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000083_000000|"Here!"
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000084_000000|It was the girl's voice, surprisingly clear and steady.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000086_000000|Milburgh had gone too far.
train-clean-100/1963/147036/1963_147036_000088_000000|"THE CONFESSION OF ODETTE RIDER."
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000002_000000|"HE WILL NEVER FORGIVE"
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000003_000003|I quarreled with the circumstances but felt forced to submit.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000005_000004|But the papers give no news, and all the attempts of the police end in nothing.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000009_000000|"Then telephone to the doctor.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000010_000000|"Wait!
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000013_000002|I waited respectfully.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000014_000001|It is too soon.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000014_000003|I have not finished weighing my life against the good opinion of him I live for." Then faintly-"mrs
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000015_000000|"To New York," I finished.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000016_000001|"She has not sailed?"
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000020_000000|"No," I ventured to rejoin.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000020_000002|The word must come from you.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000025_000006|That I might-"
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000028_000000|"And did she?
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000028_000001|Was she-"
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000030_000000|At another time she might have resented these words, especially the last; but I had roused her curiosity, her panting eager curiosity, and she let them pass altogether unchallenged.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000038_000003|But this has been in my pocket for six years.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000039_000000|"Yesterday?"
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000039_000001|Her great eyes, haggard with suffering, rose to mine, then they fell on the bead which I had taken from my pocket.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000043_000002|Give my orders.
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000043_000007|You will go with me?"
train-clean-100/1970/10594/1970_10594_000044_000000|"With pleasure, madam."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000006_000000|CHAPTER FIFTEEN
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000007_000000|THE ANSWER
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000008_000000|The coroner and I drove out to the bridge that afternoon and I must admit I was mighty poor company.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000008_000001|Mary's unreasonableness, her stupid obstinacy, when she knew she was wrong and I was right, her willingness to break our friendship at the first opportunity, gave me little room to think of anything else.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000009_000000|That she should risk her reputation to run after that man was inexplicable, but it was just like a woman.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000009_000002|It has been true from Pandora to Pankhurst.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000010_000000|Well, if she could get along without me, I could get along without her. I'm the easiest going person in the world, but when it comes to allowing the girl you are practically engaged to, to make a fool of herself over another man, I won't stand for it.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000011_000000|These thoughts held my attention all the way out.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000014_000000|As he saw it the coroner gave a grunt of satisfaction.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000015_000000|"There's our tree."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000016_000000|We stopped the car and scrambled through the thorny bushes that lined the road.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000016_000003|When we reached the tree, the coroner examined the ground around it carefully.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000017_000000|"What did you expect to find here?" I asked.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000018_000000|"I didn't know what we might find.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000018_000001|If the man who fired those shots used this tree, I thought we might find an empty cartridge or two. There ought to be at least some broken twigs or something to show that he was up there, but I find nothing at all."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000019_000000|"Still, the fact that the tree is where it is, makes the theory plausible."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000020_000000|He shook his head.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000020_000001|"no
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000020_000003|Those bullet holes in the back of the car were fired from above and behind the machine.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000020_000004|They slanted down but not sidewise.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000020_000006|I'm sorry, for when I saw this tree, I thought we'd struck the right track."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000021_000000|"There's one thing I can't make out," I stated, "and that is the strange cry of my sister in her delirium.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000021_000001|'Look out, Jim!
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000021_000002|It's going to hit us,' she called out, and I would be willing to swear it had something to do with the murder."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000022_000000|The coroner thought a moment, then turned to me.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000023_000000|"What else did she say?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000024_000000|"Nothing that seemed to refer to the accident.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000024_000001|All the rest was apparently delirium.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000024_000002|She begged forgiveness for some fancied wrong, and repeated that a certain man was not guilty of dishonesty.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000024_000003|But her first weird cry had to do with the murder, I'm sure."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000025_000001|High overhead we heard the droning of an aeroplane and we both stopped to gaze at it.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000025_000002|Suddenly the coroner clapped me on the shoulder.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000026_000000|"I've got it!"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000028_000001|Who owns an aeroplane around here?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000029_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000029_000002|What's that got to do with it?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000030_000000|"Everything!
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000030_000002|The bullets fired from above and behind. The number of bullets fired.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000030_000004|It was done a hundred, yes, a thousand times in the war.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000030_000007|It is one of the simplest tricks of a pilot's repertoire.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000030_000008|Has Woods an aeroplane?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000031_000000|"He was a military pilot in the French army and is the head of an aeroplane firm, but I don't think he has an aeroplane here."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000032_000000|"He could get one easy enough."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000033_000000|"The clever devil!
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000033_000001|Look over there!
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000033_000003|He could have come down within fifty feet of the ground and followed that car, pumping bullets into it all the way.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000033_000004|He had absolutely everything in his favor."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000034_000000|For a moment I saw red as I pictured Jim, helpless before approaching death.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000035_000000|"Yes, but how are we going to prove it?" I asked.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000036_000000|"That's up to us now.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000036_000001|An aeroplane has such speed that it was easy for Woods to fashion an ingenious alibi to account for every minute of his time on the night of the murder, but there must be some holes in it; there always is in a manufactured alibi.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000037_000000|We jumped into my car and drove rapidly to the club.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000037_000001|I went into the house by the back way to avoid meeting people and asked for Jackson.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000042_000000|"When was the first time you did see him, Jackson?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000046_000000|"What time was he through dinner, do you know?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000047_000000|The darky scratched his head.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000057_000000|"Do you remember waiting on mr Frank Woods two weeks ago last Thursday night?" I asked.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000058_000000|The boy was trembling.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000058_000002|Finally he broke into a wail.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000061_000000|"What do you mean, George?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000063_000000|"Are you sure of that, George?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000065_000000|"What time was it when he came back?" I asked.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000068_000000|"Then mr Woods wasn't here all through dinner, Jackson?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000072_000001|Grogan, the old bartender was there alone.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000074_000000|"Only one or two of the gentlemen, sir.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000074_000001|There was mr Farnsworth and mr Brown and I think mr Woods."
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000075_000000|"Are you sure mr Woods was in here?"
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000076_000000|"Well, no, sir, not exactly.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000076_000001|I remember mr Farnsworth and mr Brown. There were probably some others.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000076_000002|The reason I think mr Woods was here was because he called my attention to the fact a few nights after the murder.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000076_000003|There were a few gentlemen in here and they were talking of mr Felderson's death.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000076_000004|mr Woods said, in view of the fact that the murderer hadn't been found, almost any one might be accused.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000078_000000|"Oh, his alibi is good of course, because he was around the club all that evening.
train-clean-100/1970/26100/1970_26100_000079_000000|I shook hands with him and left.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000001_000000|twelve.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000003_000000|The disciples went to the village, as Jesus told them, and there they found the donkey.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000003_000001|They untied it, and led it away.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000003_000002|Some of them put their clothes on the donkey's back, for a king must ride in comfort. Others spread their clothes out on the street, for a king should ride in state.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000004_000000|Jesus got on the donkey, and started for Jerusalem.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000004_000001|The disciples walked ahead.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000004_000002|When they had almost reached the city, the disciples began to shout.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000004_000004|But now they could tell the whole world, for Jesus wanted everyone to know.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000004_000005|They were glad that they did not have to be quiet any longer.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000005_000000|They shouted, "Hosanna!"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000005_000002|They shouted the words of a psalm: "'Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.'"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000006_000000|The city was crowded with travelers from all over Palestine, and from foreign countries too.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000006_000001|They were the pilgrims who had come for the Passover feast.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000007_000000|The crowds saw the procession coming.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000007_000001|They saw the donkey, and they remembered what the Scriptures said.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000007_000003|They heard the shouting, and they understood the words.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000008_000000|Some of the crowds began to shout with the disciples.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000008_000001|A great cry of "Hosanna!" went ringing down the street.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000008_000002|Everyone seemed to be saying it.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000008_000003|"Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Some cut branches from the trees, and waved them before the Messiah.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000008_000004|It was a royal welcome.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000010_000000|"What is there we can do?" they said to one another.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000010_000001|"Look, the whole world has gone after him!"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000013_000000|The excitement spread through the city.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000014_000000|"Who is this?" they asked.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000016_000001|This was his Father's house and his house.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000016_000002|These were his Father's people and his people.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000017_000000|The king for whom the Jews had been waiting had come at last to reign.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000018_000000|In the evening, Jesus and the disciples returned to Bethany to sleep.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000020_000000|The next day Jesus returned to Jerusalem and again went to the Temple. This time he carried a whip.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000021_000000|In the Court of the Gentiles the money was clinking as it had done when Jesus was a boy.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000021_000002|Others were selling doves for sacrifice.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000022_000000|Jesus strode down the room with the whip in his hand, and upset the tables where the money was.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000022_000001|When the men jumped up from their chairs, he drove them out of the Temple.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000022_000002|Then he drove the sheep and the cattle out after the men.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000023_000000|"It is written in the Scriptures: God's house shall be a house of prayer.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000023_000001|But you have made it into a den of thieves and robbers!" he cried.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000024_000000|This was too much for the priests of the temple, and all the important men who ruled Jerusalem.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000024_000001|The next day some of the rulers came to Jesus and said:
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000025_000000|"What right have you to do these things?
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000025_000001|Who told you that you could act like this?"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000027_000000|"I'll answer your question if you answer a question of mine.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000027_000001|When john the Baptist used to preach to you and baptize people, who gave him the right to do that?"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000031_000000|So all they said was, "We don't know-we can't tell."
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000032_000000|"Very well," Jesus retorted, "neither am I going to tell you what right I have to do these things!"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000033_000000|Every day that week, Jesus came and taught in the Temple.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000033_000001|Several times his enemies tried to trick him into saying something that would turn the people against him, but Jesus always had an answer which silenced them.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000033_000002|Once they came and asked, "Should we pay taxes to the romans?"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000034_000000|That was a hard question.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000034_000002|But if he said they should not pay the taxes-well, they could count on the Roman governor to settle with Jesus then.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000035_000000|"Show me a penny," Jesus replied.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000037_000001|There was a man's picture stamped on one side of it.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000037_000002|Jesus said, "Whose picture is that?"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000038_000000|"Why," they answered, "that is a picture of Caesar, the emperor of Rome."
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000039_000000|"All right," said Jesus, "do whatever your duty is to Caesar and his government.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000039_000001|You will have to decide about that for yourselves.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000039_000002|And also do your duty to God!"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000040_000001|And Jesus still had not said anything that he could be punished for.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000041_000000|But he said a great deal to make his enemies angry.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000042_000000|"Watch out for the scribes and the Pharisees," he told the people, "and don't be like them.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000043_000000|Turning to the Pharisees themselves, he went on:
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000044_000000|"Woe to you Pharisees!
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000044_000001|You are like graves with rotting bodies in them, which people walk over without knowing what is underneath. Nobody knows how bad you are.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000044_000002|You snakes!
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000044_000003|How can you escape the punishment which God is bringing upon you?"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000045_000000|He left the Pharisees and went into the Temple, where people were making their gifts to God.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000046_000000|Jesus called his disciples to him, and said:
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000047_000000|"I tell you, this poor widow has given more than all these rich people are giving.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000048_000000|With many words and stories he taught the people who thronged around him on the days of that week.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000048_000001|And this was the last story he ever told:
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000050_000001|Take the reward he has planned for you to have.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000050_000003|I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000050_000004|I was a stranger, and you took me into your homes.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000050_000005|I had nothing to wear, and you gave me clothes.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000050_000006|I was sick, and in prison, and you came to visit me!'
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000051_000000|"Then these people will be surprised, and say, 'Lord when did we ever do anything for you?'
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000053_000000|"Then I will say to others: 'Go away.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000053_000002|For I was hungry, and thirsty, and naked, and sick, and in prison, and you did nothing at all for me.'
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000054_000000|"These people will also be surprised.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000055_000000|"And I will say: 'Many poor people needed your help, and you did not help them.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000055_000001|When you failed them, you failed me.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000055_000002|And now it is too late!'"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000056_000001|They hated him, and they were afraid of him.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000056_000002|They were afraid of the romans too.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000057_000000|The priests and the rulers wanted to kill Jesus.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000057_000001|That was all they talked about.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000057_000002|But they did not know how it was to be done.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000057_000003|For whenever Jesus came to Jerusalem, great crowds gathered around him. None of the priests dared to lay a finger on him in the open.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000057_000004|The crowds would never let them.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000057_000005|It seemed to the people as if the Messiah might have come at last.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000058_000000|But something had to be done, the priests and the rulers said.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000058_000001|The week was going by.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000059_000000|"We shall have to do away with Jesus quietly," someone said.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000060_000000|"Yes," the others agreed, "we can't wait till the day of the Passover. If we should do anything to him on that day, there would be a riot."
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000061_000000|They were at their wits' end to know how to get rid of Jesus.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000061_000001|The craftiest men in Jerusalem could not think what to do.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000062_000000|There was a knock at the door.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000062_000001|It was one of Jesus' twelve disciples, who had come to see the priests and rulers.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000063_000000|His name?
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000064_000000|"What will you give me," Judas said, "if I turn Jesus over to you?"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000066_000000|"Thirty pieces of silver you shall have," they cried, "if you give us Jesus!"
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000067_000000|So for thirty pieces of silver Judas agreed to show them where Jesus was, at some time when there was no one around but the twelve disciples.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000068_000000|"Send soldiers when I tell you," Judas said.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000068_000001|"The other disciples will all be there, and the soldiers won't know which man to take.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000068_000002|But I will go up to Jesus and kiss him.
train-clean-100/1970/28415/1970_28415_000068_000003|The man I kiss will be the one you want."
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000009_000008|But to be called "a sweet cat!" Oh, Sara, Sara!
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000029_000003|Or else Uncle Roger is trying to fool us."
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000033_000000|"Well, here's the key-go and see for yourself," said peter.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000038_000000|"Perhaps it is Emily King's ghost," whispered Felix.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000045_000001|"No, it isn't Peg Bowen.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000045_000002|It's SOMETHING that WALKS."
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000047_000000|"Don't," cried Cecily hysterically.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000047_000004|Don't you!"
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000050_000000|All at once-something-leaped from the bough of a tree and alighted before us.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000051_000001|"Stay with us, old fellow."
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000063_000001|As he did so, clear and sweet, rang out ten bell like chimes.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000064_000000|"That's what I heard," cried peter.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000064_000001|"There's the bell!"
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000070_000001|"I shall tell it, too.
train-clean-100/198/126831/198_126831_000070_000002|I don't care if the joke is as much on myself as any one.
train-clean-100/198/129977/198_129977_000021_000002|Who is to dance?"
train-clean-100/198/129977/198_129977_000031_000000|"Oh, Edward!
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000004_000009|At the bottom of the street, however, she looked back again, and then, not at a window, but issuing from the door, she saw Miss Tilney herself.
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000005_000006|At length, however, he did look towards her, and he bowed-but such a bow!
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000010_000004|Perhaps you did not know I had been there."
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000011_000003|She was very much vexed, and meant to make her apology as soon as possible."
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000012_000001|If she felt such confidence in my good intentions, and could suppose it to be only a mistake, why should you be so ready to take offence?"
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000017_000001|Before they parted, however, it was agreed that the projected walk should be taken as soon as possible; and, setting aside the misery of his quitting their box, she was, upon the whole, left one of the happiest creatures in the world.
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000018_000001|What could they have to say of her?
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000019_000002|Stout, active-looks as young as his son.
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000019_000003|I have a great regard for him, I assure you: a gentleman like, good sort of fellow as ever lived."
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000021_000001|There are few people much about town that I do not know.
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000021_000006|But what do you think we have been talking of?
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000021_000007|You.
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000021_000008|Yes, by heavens!
train-clean-100/198/209/198_209_000023_000000|"And what do you think I said?"--lowering his voice-"well done, general, said I; I am quite of your mind."
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000012_000004|His Armour was made of pure Gold, enamell'd with Green.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000012_000009|The Esquires, who were the Attendants, ran to his Assistance, and with a Sneer remounted him.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000012_000010|The fourth Combatant catch'd hold of his Left Leg, and unhors'd him again.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000013_000000|The other Champions play'd their Parts much better; and all came off with Credit.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000013_000001|Some conquer'd two of their Antagonists, and others were so far successful as to get the better of three.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000013_000005|Those of the former white as Snow.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000014_000004|Victory! in favour of the Champion in white.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000014_000007|Now, behold the two Chieftains upon their Legs, commencing a new Trial of Skill! where they seem'd to get the better of each other alternately; for both were strong, and both were active.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000014_000013|The Queen was perfectly transported. The two Champions were reconducted to their separate Lodges, as the others had been before them, in Conformity to the Laws prescrib'd. Several Mutes were order'd to wait on the Champions, and carry them some proper Refreshment.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000016_000007|He grew quite out of Patience at last, and cut his Way thro' the insulting Mob, with his Rival's Sabre; but he did not know what Measures to pursue, or how to rectify so gross a Mistake.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000016_000013|He carried the Point so far at last, as to murmur at the unequal Dispensations of Divine Providence; and was tempted to believe, that all Occurrences were govern'd by a malignant Destiny, which never fail'd to oppress the Virtuous, and always crown'd the Actions of such Villains as the green Knight, with uncommon Success.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000016_000014|In one of his frantick Fits, he put on the green Armour, that had created him such a World of Disgrace.
train-clean-100/1992/141719/1992_141719_000016_000015|A Merchant happening to pass by, he sold it to him for a Trifle, and took in Exchange nothing more than a Mantle, and a Cap.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000001_000000|Chapter eight
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000002_000000|At five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000003_000001|His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing, and they prevented her feeling herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the others.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000003_000003|Miss Bingley was engrossed by mr Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for mr Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000004_000001|Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no beauty.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000005_000000|"She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000006_000000|"She did, indeed, Louisa.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000006_000001|I could hardly keep my countenance.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000006_000004|Her hair, so untidy, so blowsy!"
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000007_000000|"Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000008_000002|Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000010_000000|"Certainly not."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000012_000000|"It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing," said Bingley.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000015_000001|But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000018_000000|"That is capital," added her sister, and they both laughed heartily.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000020_000000|"But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world," replied Darcy.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000021_000000|To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar relations.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000022_000000|With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. She was still very poorly, and Elizabeth would not quit her at all, till late in the evening, when she had the comfort of seeing her sleep, and when it seemed to her rather right than pleasant that she should go downstairs herself.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000022_000001|On entering the drawing room she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000023_000000|"Do you prefer reading to cards?" said he; "that is rather singular."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000024_000001|She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000027_000000|Elizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards the table where a few books were lying.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000030_000000|"I am astonished," said Miss Bingley, "that my father should have left so small a collection of books.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000031_000000|"It ought to be good," he replied, "it has been the work of many generations."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000032_000000|"And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000033_000000|"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000034_000000|"Neglect!
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000035_000000|"I wish it may."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000037_000000|"With all my heart; I will buy Pemberley itself if Darcy will sell it."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000038_000000|"I am talking of possibilities, Charles."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000040_000000|Elizabeth was so much caught with what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card table, and stationed herself between mr Bingley and his eldest sister, to observe the game.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000041_000000|"Is Miss Darcy much grown since the spring?" said Miss Bingley; "will she be as tall as I am?"
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000042_000001|She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000043_000002|Such a countenance, such manners!
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000043_000003|And so extremely accomplished for her age!
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000043_000004|Her performance on the pianoforte is exquisite."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000046_000000|"Yes, all of them, I think.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000046_000001|They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000047_000000|"Your list of the common extent of accomplishments," said Darcy, "has too much truth.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000050_000000|"Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000051_000001|A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000052_000000|"All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000056_000000|mrs Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description, when mr Hurst called them to order, with bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000057_000001|But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art."
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000060_000000|Elizabeth joined them again only to say that her sister was worse, and that she could not leave her.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000060_000001|Bingley urged mr Jones being sent for immediately; while his sisters, convinced that no country advice could be of any service, recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent physicians.
train-clean-100/200/124139/200_124139_000060_000003|Bingley was quite uncomfortable; his sisters declared that they were miserable.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000001_000002|The note was immediately dispatched, and its contents as quickly complied with.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000001_000003|mrs Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000002_000000|Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, mrs Bennet would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000002_000001|She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of being carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000002_000002|After sitting a little while with Jane, on Miss Bingley's appearance and invitation, the mother and three daughters all attended her into the breakfast parlour.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000002_000003|Bingley met them with hopes that mrs Bennet had not found Miss Bennet worse than she expected.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000003_000000|"Indeed I have, sir," was her answer.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000003_000001|"She is a great deal too ill to be moved.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000003_000002|mr Jones says we must not think of moving her.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000004_000000|"Removed!" cried Bingley.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000004_000001|"It must not be thought of.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000005_000000|"You may depend upon it, Madam," said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, "that Miss Bennet will receive every possible attention while she remains with us."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000006_000000|mrs Bennet was profuse in her acknowledgments.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000007_000000|"I am sure," she added, "if it was not for such good friends I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I have ever met with.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000007_000003|I do not know a place in the country that is equal to Netherfield.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000008_000000|"Whatever I do is done in a hurry," replied he; "and therefore if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five minutes.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000009_000000|"That is exactly what I should have supposed of you," said Elizabeth.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000010_000000|"You begin to comprehend me, do you?" cried he, turning towards her.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000011_000000|"Oh! yes-I understand you perfectly."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000012_000000|"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000013_000001|It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000015_000000|"I did not know before," continued Bingley immediately, "that you were a studier of character.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000015_000001|It must be an amusing study."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000016_000001|They have at least that advantage."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000018_000000|"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000019_000000|"Yes, indeed," cried mrs Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a country neighbourhood.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000020_000000|Everybody was surprised, and Darcy, after looking at her for a moment, turned silently away.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000020_000001|mrs Bennet, who fancied she had gained a complete victory over him, continued her triumph.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000021_000001|The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is it not, mr Bingley?"
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000022_000000|"When I am in the country," he replied, "I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000023_000001|But that gentleman," looking at Darcy, "seemed to think the country was nothing at all."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000024_000001|"You quite mistook mr Darcy.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000024_000002|He only meant that there was not such a variety of people to be met with in the country as in the town, which you must acknowledge to be true."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000025_000001|I know we dine with four and twenty families."
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000026_000000|Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000026_000001|His sister was less delicate, and directed her eyes towards mr Darcy with a very expressive smile.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000027_000000|"Yes, she called yesterday with her father.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000028_000000|"Did Charlotte dine with you?"
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000029_000001|I fancy she was wanted about the mince pies.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000000|"Oh! dear, yes; but you must own she is very plain.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000001|Lady Lucas herself has often said so, and envied me Jane's beauty.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000002|I do not like to boast of my own child, but to be sure, Jane-one does not often see anybody better looking.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000003|It is what everybody says.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000004|I do not trust my own partiality.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000005|When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister in law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000031_000006|But, however, he did not.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000032_000000|"And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000032_000002|I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000035_000001|She longed to speak, but could think of nothing to say; and after a short silence mrs Bennet began repeating her thanks to mr Bingley for his kindness to Jane, with an apology for troubling him also with Lizzy.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000035_000003|She performed her part indeed without much graciousness, but mrs Bennet was satisfied, and soon afterwards ordered her carriage.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000036_000002|She was very equal, therefore, to address mr Bingley on the subject of the ball, and abruptly reminded him of his promise; adding, that it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
train-clean-100/200/124140/200_124140_000038_000003|I shall tell Colonel Forster it will be quite a shame if he does not."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000005_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000006_000000|Through Solway sands, through Taross moss, Blindfold, he knew the paths to cross: By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds. In Eske, or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or July's pride; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight or matin prime. --WALTER SCOTT.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000007_000000|All the members of the Wharton family laid their heads on their pillows that night, with a foreboding of some interruption to their ordinary quiet.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000008_000001|It was glittering with the opening brilliancy of one of those lovely, mild days, which occur about the time of the falling of the leaf; and which, by their frequency, class the American autumn with the most delightful seasons of other countries.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000008_000002|We have no spring; vegetation seems to leap into existence, instead of creeping, as in the same latitudes of the Old World; but how gracefully it retires!
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000008_000003|September, October, even November and December, compose the season for enjoyment in the open air; they have their storms, but they are distinct, and not of long continuance, leaving a clear atmosphere and a cloudless sky.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000009_000000|As nothing could be seen likely to interrupt the enjoyments and harmony of such a day, the sisters descended to the parlor, with a returning confidence in their brother's security, and their own happiness.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000013_000000|"Why," said the captain, laughing, "I do acknowledge a little inquietude myself-but how was it with you?" turning to his younger and evidently favorite sister, and tapping her cheek.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000013_000001|"Did you see banners in the clouds, and mistake Miss Peyton's Aeolian harp for rebellious music?"
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000016_000000|"Run-Massa Harry-run-if he love old Caesar, run-here come a rebel horse."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000017_000000|"Run!" repeated the British officer, gathering himself up in military pride.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000017_000001|"No, mr Caesar, running is not my trade." While speaking, he walked deliberately to the window, where the family were already collected in the greatest consternation.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000018_000001|In advance, with an officer, was a man attired in the dress of a countryman, who pointed in the direction of the cottage.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000019_000000|On reaching the road which led through the bottom of the valley, they turned their horses' heads to the north.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000021_000000|Two or three of the dragoons now dismounted and disappeared; in a few minutes, however, they returned to the yard, followed by Katy, from whose violent gesticulations, it was evident that matters of no trifling concern were on the carpet.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000021_000001|A short communication with the loquacious housekeeper followed the arrival of the main body of the troop, and the advance party remounting, the whole moved towards the Locusts with great speed.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000022_000000|As yet none of the family had sufficient presence of mind to devise any means of security for Captain Wharton; but the danger now became too pressing to admit of longer delay, and various means of secreting him were hastily proposed; but they were all haughtily rejected by the young man, as unworthy of his character.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000022_000001|It was too late to retreat to the woods in the rear of the cottage, for he would unavoidably be seen, and, followed by a troop of horse, as inevitably taken.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000023_000000|At length his sisters, with trembling hands, replaced his original disguise, the instruments of which had been carefully kept at hand by Caesar, in expectation of some sudden emergency.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000025_000000|Nothing remained now, but to meet the impending examination with as much indifference as the family could assume.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000025_000001|The leader of the horse dismounted, and, followed by a couple of his men, he approached the outer door of the building, which was slowly and reluctantly opened for his admission by Caesar.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000025_000002|The heavy tread of the trooper, as he followed the black to the door of the parlor, rang in the ears of the females as it approached nearer and nearer, and drove the blood from their faces to their hearts, with a chill that nearly annihilated feeling.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000026_000000|A man, whose colossal stature manifested the possession of vast strength, entered the room, and removing his cap, he saluted the family with a mildness his appearance did not indicate as belonging to his nature.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000026_000001|His dark hair hung around his brow in profusion, though stained with powder which was worn at that day, and his face was nearly hid in the whiskers by which it was disfigured.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000026_000002|Still, the expression of his eye, though piercing, was not bad, and his voice, though deep and powerful, was far from unpleasant.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000026_000003|Frances ventured to throw a timid glance at his figure as he entered, and saw at once the man from whose scrutiny Harvey Birch had warned them there was so much to be apprehended.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000027_000000|"You have no cause for alarm, ladies," said the officer, pausing a moment, and contemplating the pale faces around him.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000027_000001|"My business will be confined to a few questions, which, if freely answered, will instantly remove us from your dwelling."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000030_000000|"This gentleman-here-favored us with his company during the rain, and has not yet departed."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000031_000000|"This gentleman!" repeated the other, turning to Captain Wharton, and contemplating his figure for a moment until the anxiety of his countenance gave place to a lurking smile.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000031_000001|He approached the youth with an air of comic gravity, and with a low bow, continued, "I am sorry for the severe cold you have in your head, sir."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000032_000000|"I!" exclaimed the captain, in surprise; "I have no cold in my head."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000033_000000|"I fancied it then, from seeing you had covered such handsome black locks with that ugly old wig.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000033_000001|It was my mistake; you will please to pardon it."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000034_000001|The captain himself moved his hand involuntarily to his head, and discovered that the trepidation of his sisters had left some of his natural hair exposed.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000034_000002|The dragoon watched the movement with a continued smile, when, seeming to recollect himself, turning to the father, he proceeded,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000036_000000|"mr Harper," echoed the other, feeling a load removed from his heart, "yes, I had forgotten; but he is gone; and if there be anything wrong in his character, we are in entire ignorance of it; to me he was a total stranger."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000037_000000|"You have but little to apprehend from his character," answered the dragoon dryly.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000037_000001|"But he is gone-how-when-and whither?"
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000039_000003|In a few moments orders were given to some of the troops, and horsemen left the valley, at full speed, by its various roads.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000040_000001|He bowed again politely as he reentered the room, and walking up to Captain Wharton, said, with comic gravity,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000043_000000|"I cannot, without violating the truth, say it is," returned the dragoon.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000043_000001|"I prefer your ebony hair, from which you seem to have combed the powder with great industry.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000044_000000|"You appear so close an observer of things, I should like your opinion of it, sir," said Henry, removing the silk, and exhibiting the cheek free from blemish.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000045_000000|"Upon my word, you improve most rapidly in externals," added the trooper, preserving his muscles in inflexible gravity.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000046_000000|Young Wharton very composedly did as was required and stood an extremely handsome, well dressed young man.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000046_000001|The dragoon looked at him for a minute with the drollery that characterized his manner, and then continued,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000049_000000|The countenance of Lawton changed instantly, and his assumed quaintness vanished.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000049_000001|He viewed the figure of Captain Wharton, as he stood proudly swelling with a pride that disdained further concealment, and exclaimed with great earnestness,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000050_000000|"Captain Wharton, from my soul I pity you!"
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000051_000001|He is not a spy; nothing but a desire to see his friends prompted him to venture so far from the regular army in disguise.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000051_000002|Leave him with us; there is no reward, no sum, which I will not cheerfully pay."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000052_000000|"Sir, your anxiety for your friend excuses your language," said Lawton, haughtily; "but you forget I am a Virginian, and a gentleman." Turning to the young man, he continued, "Were you ignorant, Captain Wharton, that our pickets have been below you for several days?"
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000053_000000|"I did not know it until I reached them, and it was then too late to retreat," said Wharton sullenly.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000053_000001|"I came out, as my father has mentioned, to see my friends, understanding your parties to be at Peekskill, and near the Highlands, or surely I would not have ventured."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000054_000001|When treason reaches the grade of general officers, Captain Wharton, it behooves the friends of liberty to be vigilant."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000055_000000|Henry bowed to this remark in distant silence, but Sarah ventured to urge something in behalf of her brother.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000057_000000|"Dunwoodie!" exclaimed Frances, with a face in which the roses contended for the mastery with the paleness of apprehension.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000058_000000|Lawton regarded her with a mingled expression of pity and admiration; then shaking his head doubtingly, he continued,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000060_000001|Her dread on behalf of her brother was certainly greatly diminished; yet her form shook, her breathing became short and irregular, and her whole frame gave tokens of extraordinary agitation. Her eyes rose from the floor to the dragoon, and were again fixed immovably on the carpet-she evidently wished to utter something but was unequal to the effort.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000060_000002|Miss Peyton was a close observer of these movements of her niece, and advancing with an air of feminine dignity, inquired,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000062_000001|"Expresses are already on the road to announce to him our situation, and the intelligence will speedily bring him to this valley; unless, indeed, some private reasons may exist to make a visit particularly unpleasant."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000063_000000|"We shall always be happy to see Major Dunwoodie."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000064_000000|"Oh! doubtless; he is a general favorite, May I presume on it so far as to ask leave to dismount and refresh my men, who compose a part of his squadron?"
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000066_000000|The officers were invited to take their morning's repast at the family breakfast table, and having made their arrangements without, the invitation was frankly accepted.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000066_000001|None of the watchfulness, which was so necessary to their situation, was neglected by the wary partisan. Patrols were seen on the distant hills, taking their protecting circuit around their comrades, who were enjoying, in the midst of danger, a security that can only spring from the watchfulness of discipline and the indifference of habit.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000067_000001|The ladies left the table to their guests, who proceeded, without much superfluous diffidence, to do proper honors to the hospitality of mr Wharton.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000068_000000|At length Captain Lawton suspended for a moment his violent attacks on the buckwheat cakes, to inquire of the master of the house, if there was not a peddler of the name of Birch who lived in the valley at times.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000070_000000|"That is strange, too," said the trooper, looking at the disconcerted host intently, "considering he is your next neighbor; he must be quite domestic, sir; and to the ladies it must be somewhat inconvenient.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000070_000001|I doubt not that that muslin in the window seat cost twice as much as he would have asked them for it."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000072_000000|The two subalterns struggled to conceal their smiles; but the captain resumed his breakfast with an eagerness that created a doubt, whether he ever expected to enjoy another.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000072_000001|The necessity of a supply from the dominion of Dinah soon, however, afforded another respite, of which Lawton availed himself.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000073_000000|"I had a wish to break this mr Birch of his unsocial habits, and gave him a call this morning," he said.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000073_000001|"Had I found him within, I should have placed him where he would enjoy life in the midst of society, for a short time at least."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000074_000000|"And where might that be, sir?" asked mr Wharton, conceiving it necessary to say something.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000076_000000|"What is the offense of poor Birch?" asked Miss Peyton, handing the dragoon a fourth dish of coffee.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000077_000001|"If he is poor, King George is a bad paymaster."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000079_000000|"And congress a halter," continued the commanding officer commencing anew on a fresh supply of the cakes.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000081_000000|"If I catch him," cried the dragoon, while buttering another cake, "he will dangle from the limbs of one of his namesakes."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000082_000000|"He would make no bad ornament, suspended from one of those locusts before his own door," added the lieutenant.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000083_000000|"Never mind," continued the captain; "I will have him yet before I'm a major."
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000084_000003|In fact, no small part of the bitterness expressed by Captain Lawton against the peddler, arose from the unaccountable disappearance of the latter, when intrusted to the custody of two of his most faithful dragoons.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000085_000000|A twelvemonth had not yet elapsed, since Birch had been seen lingering near the headquarters of the commander in chief, and at a time when important movements were expected hourly to occur.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000085_000001|So soon as the information of this fact was communicated to the officer whose duty it was to guard the avenues of the American camp, he dispatched Captain Lawton in pursuit of the peddler.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000086_000000|Acquainted with all the passes of the hills, and indefatigable in the discharge of his duty, the trooper had, with much trouble and toil, succeeded in effecting his object.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000087_000000|Afterwards, neither woman nor peddler was to be found.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000088_000000|Captain Lawton never could forgive the deception; his antipathies to his enemies were not very moderate, but this was adding an insult to his penetration that rankled deeply.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000088_000002|The trooper rose instantly from the table, exclaiming,--
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000089_000000|"Quick, gentlemen, to your horses; there comes Dunwoodie," and, followed by his officers, he precipitately left the room.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000090_000000|With the exception of the sentinels left to guard Captain Wharton, the dragoons mounted, and marched out to meet their comrades.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000091_000000|None of the watchfulness necessary in a war, in which similarity of language, appearance, and customs rendered prudence doubly necessary, was omitted by the cautious leader.
train-clean-100/200/126784/200_126784_000091_000001|On getting sufficiently near, however, to a body of horse of more than double his own number, to distinguish countenances, Lawton plunged his rowels into his charger, and in a moment he was by the side of his commander.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000002_000000|SOME disorder had surely crept into the course of the elements, destroying their benignant influence.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000002_000001|The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury, and subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000003_000000|The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. Again in vengeance of his wrath he falls On their great hosts, and breaks their tottering walls; Arrests their navies on the ocean's plain, And whelms their strength with mountains of the main.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000004_000000|Their deadly power shook the flourishing countries of the south, and during winter, even, we, in our northern retreat, began to quake under their ill effects.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000005_000000|That fable is unjust, which gives the superiority to the sun over the wind. Who has not seen the lightsome earth, the balmy atmosphere, and basking nature become dark, cold and ungenial, when the sleeping wind has awoke in the east?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000005_000002|The clouds become thin; an arch is formed for ever rising upwards, till, the universal cope being unveiled, the sun pours forth its rays, re animated and fed by the breeze.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000007_000002|Alas, what will become of us?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000007_000003|It seems as if the giant waves of ocean, and vast arms of the sea, were about to wrench the deep rooted island from its centre; and cast it, a ruin and a wreck, upon the fields of the Atlantic.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000008_000000|What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000008_000001|Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000008_000002|Day by day we are forced to believe this.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000008_000003|He whom a scratch has disorganized, he who disappears from apparent life under the influence of the hostile agency at work around us, had the same powers as I-I also am subject to the same laws.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000010_000001|They insinuated themselves into the substances about them, and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000010_000002|Could we take integral parts of this power, and not be subject to its operation?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000010_000003|Could we domesticate a cub of this wild beast, and not fear its growth and maturity?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000011_000000|Thus we began to feel, with regard to many visaged death let loose on the chosen districts of our fair habitation, and above all, with regard to the plague.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000011_000001|We feared the coming summer.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000011_000002|Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000000|That the plague was not what is commonly called contagious, like the scarlet fever, or extinct small pox, was proved.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000001|It was called an epidemic. But the grand question was still unsettled of how this epidemic was generated and increased.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000002|If infection depended upon the air, the air was subject to infection.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000003|As for instance, a typhus fever has been brought by ships to one sea port town; yet the very people who brought it there, were incapable of communicating it in a town more fortunately situated.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000004|But how are we to judge of airs, and pronounce-in such a city plague will die unproductive; in such another, nature has provided for it a plentiful harvest?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000006|These reflections made our legislators pause, before they could decide on the laws to be put in force.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000012_000007|The evil was so wide spreading, so violent and immedicable, that no care, no prevention could be judged superfluous, which even added a chance to our escape.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000013_000000|These were questions of prudence; there was no immediate necessity for an earnest caution.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000013_000001|England was still secure.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000013_000002|France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000013_000003|Our vessels truly were the sport of winds and waves, even as Gulliver was the toy of the Brobdignagians; but we on our stable abode could not be hurt in life or limb by these eruptions of nature.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000013_000005|Yet a feeling of awe, a breathless sentiment of wonder, a painful sense of the degradation of humanity, was introduced into every heart.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000013_000006|Nature, our mother, and our friend, had turned on us a brow of menace.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000014_000000|These speculations were rife among us; yet not the less we proceeded in our daily occupations, and our plans, whose accomplishment demanded the lapse of many years.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000014_000001|No voice was heard telling us to hold!
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000014_000002|When foreign distresses came to be felt by us through the channels of commerce, we set ourselves to apply remedies.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000014_000003|Subscriptions were made for the emigrants, and merchants bankrupt by the failure of trade.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000014_000004|The English spirit awoke to its full activity, and, as it had ever done, set itself to resist the evil, and to stand in the breach which diseased nature had suffered chaos and death to make in the bounds and banks which had hitherto kept them out.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000000|At the commencement of summer, we began to feel, that the mischief which had taken place in distant countries was greater than we had at first suspected.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000002|Mexico laid waste by the united effects of storm, pestilence and famine.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000005|He had sought this office with eagerness, under the idea of turning his whole forces to the suppression of the privileged orders of our community.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000006|His measures were thwarted, and his schemes interrupted by this new state of things. Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000007|Trade was stopped by the failure of the interchange of cargoes usual between us, and America, India, Egypt and Greece.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000009|In vain our Protector and his partizans sought to conceal this truth; in vain, day after day, he appointed a period for the discussion of the new laws concerning hereditary rank and privilege; in vain he endeavoured to represent the evil as partial and temporary.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000015_000010|These disasters came home to so many bosoms, and, through the various channels of commerce, were carried so entirely into every class and division of the community, that of necessity they became the first question in the state, the chief subjects to which we must turn our attention.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000016_000002|Where late the busy multitudes assembled for pleasure or profit, now only the sound of wailing and misery is heard.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000016_000003|The air is empoisoned, and each human being inhales death, even while in youth and health, their hopes are in the flower.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000016_000004|We called to mind the plague of thirteen forty eight, when it was calculated that a third of mankind had been destroyed.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000016_000005|As yet western Europe was uninfected; would it always be so?
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000017_000000|O, yes, it would-Countrymen, fear not!
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000017_000004|It drinks the dark blood of the inhabitant of the south, but it never feasts on the pale faced Celt.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000017_000009|But in this mortal life extremes are always matched; the thorn grows with the rose, the poison tree and the cinnamon mingle their boughs.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000017_000010|Persia, with its cloth of gold, marble halls, and infinite wealth, is now a tomb.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000017_000011|The tent of the Arab is fallen in the sands, and his horse spurns the ground unbridled and unsaddled.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000018_000000|Our own distresses, though they were occasioned by the fictitious reciprocity of commerce, encreased in due proportion.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000018_000001|Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000018_000002|Such things, when they happen singly, affect only the immediate parties; but the prosperity of the nation was now shaken by frequent and extensive losses.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000003|He must aim no more at the dear object of his ambition; throwing his arms aside, he must for present ends give up the ultimate object of his endeavours.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000004|He came to Windsor to consult with us.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000005|Every day added to his difficulties; the arrival of fresh vessels with emigrants, the total cessation of commerce, the starving multitude that thronged around the palace of the Protectorate, were circumstances not to be tampered with.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000006|The blow was struck; the aristocracy obtained all they wished, and they subscribed to a twelvemonths' bill, which levied twenty per cent on all the rent rolls of the country.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000007|Calm was now restored to the metropolis, and to the populous cities, before driven to desperation; and we returned to the consideration of distant calamities, wondering if the future would bring any alleviation to their excess.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000008|It was August; so there could be small hope of relief during the heats.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000009|On the contrary, the disease gained virulence, while starvation did its accustomed work.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000019_000010|Thousands died unlamented; for beside the yet warm corpse the mourner was stretched, made mute by death.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000020_000001|These tidings were at first whispered about town; but no one dared express aloud the soul quailing intelligence.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000020_000006|Its obscurity of situation rendered it the more conspicuous: the diminutive letters grew gigantic to the bewildered eye of fear: they seemed graven with a pen of iron, impressed by fire, woven in the clouds, stamped on the very front of the universe.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000000|The English, whether travellers or residents, came pouring in one great revulsive stream, back on their own country; and with them crowds of Italians and Spaniards.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000001|Our little island was filled even to bursting.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000002|At first an unusual quantity of specie made its appearance with the emigrants; but these people had no means of receiving back into their hands what they spent among us.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000004|It was impossible to see these crowds of wretched, perishing creatures, late nurslings of luxury, and not stretch out a hand to save them.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000005|As at the conclusion of the eighteenth century, the English unlocked their hospitable store, for the relief of those driven from their homes by political revolution; so now they were not backward in affording aid to the victims of a more wide spreading calamity.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000006|We had many foreign friends whom we eagerly sought out, and relieved from dreadful penury.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000008|A little population occupied its halls.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000021_000009|The revenue of its possessor, which had always found a mode of expenditure congenial to his generous nature, was now attended to more parsimoniously, that it might embrace a wider portion of utility.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000022_000001|He addressed himself to the wealthy of the land; he made proposals in parliament little adapted to please the rich; but his earnest pleadings and benevolent eloquence were irresistible.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000022_000002|To give up their pleasure grounds to the agriculturist, to diminish sensibly the number of horses kept for the purposes of luxury throughout the country, were means obvious, but unpleasing.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000022_000004|The most luxurious were often the first to part with their indulgencies.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000022_000007|Chairs, as in olden time, and Indian palanquins were introduced for the infirm; but else it was nothing singular to see females of rank going on foot to places of fashionable resort.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000022_000009|Many of these, of high rank in their own countries, now, with hoe in hand, turned up the soil.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000022_000011|Experience demonstrated that in a year or two pestilence would cease; it were well that in the mean time we should not have destroyed our fine breeds of horses, or have utterly changed the face of the ornamented portion of the country.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000023_000001|The infection had now spread in the southern provinces of France.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000023_000002|But that country had so many resources in the way of agriculture, that the rush of population from one part of it to another, and its increase through foreign emigration, was less felt than with us.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000024_000003|Many of our visitors left us: those whose homes were far in the south, fled delightedly from our northern winter, and sought their native land, secure of plenty even after their fearful visitation.
train-clean-100/2002/139469/2002_139469_000024_000005|What the coming summer would bring, we knew not; but the present months were our own, and our hopes of a cessation of pestilence were high.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000008_000000|'Locked you up!' said Emily, with displeasure, 'Why do you permit Ludovico to lock you up?'
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000009_000000|'Holy Saints!' exclaimed Annette, 'how can I help it!
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000010_000000|'What, were they disputing, then?' said Emily.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000011_000001|I thought, when I saw them first, that all those fine silks and fine veils,--why, ma'amselle, their veils were worked with silver! and fine trimmings-boded no good-I guessed what they were!'
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000012_000000|'Good God!' exclaimed Emily, 'what will become of me!'
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000016_000002|All this I saw through the key hole.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000021_000000|'Would you, indeed, be glad?' said Emily, in a tone of mournful reproach.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000028_000000|'Credit them, ma'amselle! why all the world could not persuade me out of them.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000038_000001|'What had I but trouble to expect, when I condescended to reason with a baby!
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000038_000002|But I will be trifled with no longer: let the recollection of your aunt's sufferings, in consequence of her folly and obstinacy, teach you a lesson.--Sign the papers.'
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000040_000000|'Sign the papers,' said Montoni, more impatiently than before.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000043_000002|Neither the estates in Languedoc, or Gascony, shall be yours; you have dared to question my right,--now dare to question my power.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000043_000003|I have a punishment which you think not of; it is terrible!
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000043_000004|This night-this very night'--
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000051_000000|'Quit my presence!' cried Montoni.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000055_000000|'Obey my order,' repeated Montoni.
train-clean-100/2007/132570/2007_132570_000055_000001|'And for these fool's tricks-I will soon discover by whom they are practised.'
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000001_000000|A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER: THE USE OF A NAME
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000002_000004|There he leaned over the splendid bar and swallowed a glass of plain whiskey and purchased a couple of cigars, one of which he lighted. This to him represented in part high life-a fair sample of what the whole must be.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000003_000001|He was not a moneyed man.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000005_000000|"You don't say so," would be the reply.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000006_000000|"Why, yes, didn't you know that?
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000007_000000|When these things would fall upon Drouet's ears, he would straighten himself a little more stiffly and eat with solid comfort.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000008_000000|His preference for Fitzgerald and Moy's Adams Street place was another yard off the same cloth.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000008_000001|This was really a gorgeous saloon from a Chicago standpoint.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000011_000003|There was a class, however, too rich, too famous, or too successful, with whom he could not attempt any familiarity of address, and with these he was professionally tactful, assuming a grave and dignified attitude, paying them the deference which would win their good feeling without in the least compromising his own bearing and opinions.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000011_000004|There were, in the last place, a few good followers, neither rich nor poor, famous, nor yet remarkably successful, with whom he was friendly on the score of good fellowship.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000017_000000|"Friday," said Drouet.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000018_000000|"Glad of it," said Hurstwood, his black eyes lit with a warmth which half displaced the cold make believe that usually dwelt in them.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000018_000001|"What are you going to take?" he added, as the barkeeper, in snowy jacket and tie, leaned toward them from behind the bar.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000020_000000|"A little of the same for me," put in Hurstwood.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000024_000001|"Great old boy, isn't he?
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000024_000002|We had quite a time there together."
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000025_000000|The barkeeper was setting out the glasses and bottle before them, and they now poured out the draught as they talked, Drouet filling his to within a third of full, as was considered proper, and Hurstwood taking the barest suggestion of whiskey and modifying it with seltzer.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000034_000001|He was the picture of fastidious comfort.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000035_000004|Nevertheless, the fact that here men gather, here chatter, here love to pass and rub elbows, must be explained upon some grounds.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000036_000001|The many friends he met here dropped in because they craved, without, perhaps, consciously analysing it, the company, the glow, the atmosphere which they found.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000041_000001|"Who is he?"
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000042_000000|"That's Jules Wallace, the spiritualist."
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000043_000000|Drouet followed him with his eyes, much interested.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000045_000000|"Oh, I don't know," returned Hurstwood.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000045_000001|"He's got the money, all right," and a little twinkle passed over his eyes.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000047_000002|I wouldn't bother about it myself, though.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000047_000003|By the way," he added, "are you going anywhere to night?"
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000049_000000|"Well, you'd better be going.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000049_000001|It's half after eight already," and he drew out his watch.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000052_000001|I have something I want to show you," said Hurstwood.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000054_000000|"You haven't anything on hand for the night, have you?" added Hurstwood.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000057_000001|"By George, that's so, I must go and call on her before I go away."
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000058_000000|"Oh, never mind her," Hurstwood remarked.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000060_000000|"Twelve o'clock," said Hurstwood.
train-clean-100/2007/149877/2007_149877_000061_000000|"That's right," said Drouet, going out.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000000_000000|Little john and the Tanner of Blyth
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000001_000000|ONE FINE DAY, not long after Little john had left abiding with the Sheriff and had come back, with his worship's cook, to the merry greenwood, as has just been told, Robin Hood and a few chosen fellows of his band lay upon the soft sward beneath the greenwood tree where they dwelled.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000001_000001|The day was warm and sultry, so that while most of the band were scattered through the forest upon this mission and upon that, these few stout fellows lay lazily beneath the shade of the tree, in the soft afternoon, passing jests among themselves and telling merry stories, with laughter and mirth.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000003_000000|Suddenly Robin Hood smote his knee.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000004_000001|It must be looked to, and that in quick season.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000004_000002|Come, busk thee, Little john!
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000007_000000|"Nay," quoth Robin Hood, laughing louder than all.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000007_000001|"Heaven forbid that I should doubt thee, for I care for no taste of thy staff myself, Little john.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000007_000002|I must needs own that there are those of my band can handle a seven foot staff more deftly than I; yet no man in all Nottinghamshire can draw gray goose shaft with my fingers.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000007_000004|Bide thou here till I bring thee money to pay our good Hugh.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000007_000005|I warrant he hath no better customers in all Nottinghamshire than we." So saying, Robin left them and entered the forest.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000008_000000|Not far from the trysting tree was a great rock in which a chamber had been hewn, the entrance being barred by a massive oaken door two palms'-breadth in thickness, studded about with spikes, and fastened with a great padlock.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000010_000002|First he looked up and then he looked down, and then, tilting his cap over one eye, he slowly scratched the back part of his head.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000011_000000|Four merry wags were at the Blue Boar Inn; a butcher, a beggar, and two barefoot friars.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000011_000002|Right glad were they to welcome such a merry blade as Little john.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000011_000003|Fresh cans of ale were brought, and with jest and song and merry tales the hours slipped away on fleeting wings.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000011_000004|None thought of time or tide till the night was so far gone that Little john put by the thought of setting forth upon his journey again that night, and so bided at the Blue Boar Inn until the morrow.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000012_000000|Now it was an ill piece of luck for Little john that he left his duty for his pleasure, and he paid a great score for it, as we are all apt to do in the same case, as you shall see.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000014_000000|In the good town of Blyth there lived a stout tanner, celebrated far and near for feats of strength and many tough bouts at wrestling and the quarterstaff.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000015_000000|Now Arthur had been to Nottingham Town the day before Little john set forth on his errand, there to sell a halfscore of tanned cowhides.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000015_000001|At the dawn of the same day that Little john left the inn, he started from Nottingham, homeward for Blyth.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000015_000002|His way led, all in the dewy morn, past the verge of Sherwood Forest, where the birds were welcoming the lovely day with a great and merry jubilee.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000016_000000|"Now," quoth Arthur a Bland to himself, when he had come to that part of the road that cut through a corner of the forest, "no doubt at this time of year the dun deer are coming from the forest depths nigher to the open meadow lands.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000016_000002|Accordingly, quitting the path, he went peeping this way and that through the underbrush, spying now here and now there, with all the wiles of a master of woodcraft, and of one who had more than once donned a doublet of Lincoln green.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000018_000001|"Nay," quoth he again, after a time, "this matter must e'en be looked into." So, quitting the highroad, he also entered the thickets, and began spying around after stout Arthur a Bland.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000019_000000|So for a long time they both of them went hunting about, Little john after the Tanner, and the Tanner after the deer.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000019_000001|At last Little john trod upon a stick, which snapped under his foot, whereupon, hearing the noise, the Tanner turned quickly and caught sight of the yeoman.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000019_000002|Seeing that the Tanner had spied him out, Little john put a bold face upon the matter.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000020_000001|Who art thou that comest ranging Sherwood's paths?
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000021_000000|"Nay," quoth the Tanner boldly-for, though taken by surprise, he was not a man to be frightened by big words-"thou liest in thy teeth.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000021_000001|I am no thief, but an honest craftsman.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000021_000002|As for my countenance, it is what it is; and, for the matter of that, thine own is none too pretty, thou saucy fellow."
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000025_000000|"Marry come up with a murrain!" cried the Tanner, for he, too, had talked himself into a fume.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000025_000001|"Big words ne'er killed so much as a mouse. Who art thou that talkest so freely of cracking the head of Arthur a Bland?
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000025_000003|Now look to thyself, fellow!"
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000026_000000|"Stay!" said Little john.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000026_000001|"Let us first measure our cudgels.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000027_000000|"Nay, I pass not for length," answered the Tanner.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000027_000001|"My staff is long enough to knock down a calf; so look to thyself, fellow, I say again."
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000028_000000|So, without more ado, each gripped his staff in the middle, and, with fell and angry looks, they came slowly together.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000029_000001|So, being vexed to his heart by this, he set forth at dawn of day to seek Little john at the Blue Boar, or at least to meet the yeoman on the way, and ease his heart of what he thought of the matter.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000029_000004|"Surely," quoth he to himself, "that is Little John's voice, and he is talking in anger also.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000029_000005|Methinks the other is strange to my ears.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000029_000007|I must see to this matter, and that quickly."
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000030_000000|Thus spoke Robin Hood to himself, all his anger passing away like a breath from the windowpane, at the thought that perhaps his trusty right-hand man was in some danger of his life.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000031_000003|I fear me, though, there is but poor chance of my seeing such a pleasant sight." So saying, he stretched himself at length upon the ground, that he might not only see the sport the better, but that he might enjoy the merry sight at his ease.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000032_000001|At last Little john struck like a flash, and-"rap!"--the Tanner met the blow and turned it aside, and then smote back at Little john, who also turned the blow; and so this mighty battle began.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000032_000004|But Little john suffered the most, for he had become unused to such stiff labor, and his joints were not as supple as they had been before he went to dwell with the Sheriff.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000033_000000|All this time Robin Hood lay beneath the bush, rejoicing at such a comely bout of quarterstaff.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000034_000004|Then, raising his staff, stout Arthur dealt him another blow upon the ribs.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000035_000000|"Hold!" roared Little john.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000037_000000|"Stop!" roared Little john.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000037_000001|"Help!
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000044_000000|"And so thought I, also," cried Robin Hood, bursting out of the thicket and shouting with laughter till the tears ran down his cheeks.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000044_000005|"What may be thy name, good fellow?" said Robin, next, turning to the Tanner.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000046_000001|Thou didst break the crown of a friend of mine at the fair at Ely last October.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000046_000002|The folk there call him Jock o' Nottingham; we call him Will Scathelock.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000046_000004|His name is Little john, and mine Robin Hood."
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000047_000002|Let me help thee to thy feet, good Master Little john, and let me brush the dust from off thy coat."
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000049_000000|At this Robin laughed again, and, turning to the Tanner, he said, "Wilt thou join my band, good Arthur?
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000049_000001|For I make my vow thou art one of the stoutest men that ever mine eyes beheld."
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000050_000000|"Will I join thy band?" cried the Tanner joyfully.
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000050_000001|"Ay, marry, will I! Hey for a merry life!" cried he, leaping aloft and snapping his fingers, "and hey for the life I love!
train-clean-100/201/122255/201_122255_000050_000003|I will follow thee to the ends of the earth, good master, and not a herd of dun deer in all the forest but shall know the sound of the twang of my bowstring."
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight.
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000005_000001|If the solitude these mountains promise deceives me not, it is so; ah!
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000012_000001|And so, senora, or senor, or whatever you prefer to be, dismiss the fears that our appearance has caused you and make us acquainted with your good or evil fortunes, for from all of us together, or from each one of us, you will receive sympathy in your trouble."
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000019_000001|But to shorten the long recital of my woes, I will pass over in silence all the artifices employed by Don Fernando for declaring his passion for me.
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000019_000005|This offer, and their sound advice strengthened my resolution, and I never gave Don Fernando a word in reply that could hold out to him any hope of success, however remote.
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000020_000000|"All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite-for that is the name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it to be, you would not know of it now, because there would have been no occasion to tell you of it.
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000023_000002|But proceed; by and by I may tell you something that will astonish you as much as it will excite your compassion."
train-clean-100/201/127786/201_127786_000030_000001|Dorothea, however, did not interrupt her story, but went on in these words:
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000003_000000|The youngest of the three brothers, whose name was Ferko, was a beautiful youth, with a splendid figure, blue eyes, fair hair, and a complexion like milk and roses.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000003_000001|His two brothers were as jealous of him as they could be, for they thought that with his good looks he would be sure to be more fortunate than they would ever be.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000004_000001|Ferko fell fast asleep, but the other two remained awake, and the eldest said to the second brother, 'What do you say to doing our brother Ferko some harm?
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000004_000003|If we could only get him out of the way we might succeed better.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000005_000000|'I quite agree with you,' answered the second brother, 'and my advice is to eat up his loaf of bread, and then to refuse to give him a bit of ours until he has promised to let us put out his eyes or break his legs.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000006_000000|His eldest brother was delighted with this proposal, and the two wicked wretches seized Ferko's loaf and ate it all up, while the poor boy was still asleep.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000007_000000|When he did awake he felt very hungry and turned to eat his bread, but his brothers cried out, 'You ate your loaf in your sleep, you glutton, and you may starve as long as you like, but you won't get a scrap of ours.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000008_000000|Ferko was at a loss to understand how he could have eaten in his sleep, but he said nothing, and fasted all that day and the next night.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000008_000002|Then the cruel creatures laughed, and repeated what they had said the day before; but when Ferko continued to beg and beseech them, the eldest said at last, 'If you will let us put out one of your eyes and break one of your legs, then we will give you a bit of our bread.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000009_000000|At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before, and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens; then he could stand it no longer, and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000009_000001|When this was done he stretched out his hand eagerly for the piece of bread, but his brothers gave him such a tiny scrap that the starving youth finished it in a moment and besought them for a second bit.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000010_000000|But the more Ferko wept and told his brothers that he was dying of hunger, the more they laughed and scolded him for his greed.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000010_000001|So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day, but when night came his endurance gave way, and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000012_000000|Poor Ferko ate up the scrap of bread they had left him and wept bitterly, but no one heard him or came to his help.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000012_000001|Night came on, and the poor blind youth had no eyes to close, and could only crawl along the ground, not knowing in the least where he was going.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000012_000002|But when the sun was once more high in the heavens, Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him, and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000012_000003|He climbed to the top of a hill and lay down in the grass, and as he thought under the shadow of a big tree.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000012_000004|But it was no tree he leant against, but a gallows on which two ravens were seated.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000012_000005|The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down, 'Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood?'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000013_000000|'I should just think there was,' replied the other; 'many things that don't exist anywhere else in the world.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000013_000001|There is a lake down there below us, and anyone who bathes in it, though he were at death's door, becomes sound and well on the spot, and those who wash their eyes with the dew on this hill become as sharp sighted as the eagle, even if they have been blind from their youth.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000014_000000|'Well,' answered the first raven, 'my eyes are in no want of this healing bath, for, Heaven be praised, they are as good as ever they were; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago, so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again.' And so they flew away.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000016_000000|At last it began to grow dusk, and the sun sank behind the mountains; gradually it became cooler on the hill, and the grass grew wet with dew. Then Ferko buried his face in the ground till his eyes were damp with dewdrops, and in a moment he saw clearer than he had ever done in his life before.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000016_000001|The moon was shining brightly, and lighted him to the lake where he could bathe his poor broken legs.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000017_000000|Then Ferko crawled to the edge of the lake and dipped his limbs in the water.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000017_000002|He filled a bottle with the healing water, and then continued his journey in the best of spirits.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000018_000000|He had not gone far before he met a wolf, who was limping disconsolately along on three legs, and who on perceiving Ferko began to howl dismally.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000019_000000|'My good friend,' said the youth, 'be of good cheer, for I can soon heal your leg,' and with these words he poured some of the precious water over the wolf's paw, and in a minute the animal was springing about sound and well on all fours.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000019_000001|The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Ferko to do him a good turn if he should ever need it.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000020_000000|Ferko continued his way till he came to a ploughed field.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000020_000001|Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000021_000000|Ferko felt so sorry for the little beast that he spoke to it in the most friendly manner, and washed its small paws with the healing water.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000021_000001|In a moment the mouse was sound and whole, and after thanking the kind physician it scampered away over the ploughed furrows.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000022_000000|Ferko again proceeded on his journey, but he hadn't gone far before a queen bee flew against him, trailing one wing behind her, which had been cruelly torn in two by a big bird.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000022_000001|Ferko was no less willing to help her than he had been to help the wolf and the mouse, so he poured some healing drops over the wounded wing.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000022_000002|On the spot the queen bee was cured, and turning to Ferko she said, 'I am most grateful for your kindness, and shall reward you some day.' And with these words she flew away humming, gaily.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000023_000001|Here, he thought to himself, he might as well go straight to the palace and offer his services to the King of the country, for he had heard that the King's daughter was as beautiful as the day.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000024_000000|So he went to the royal palace, and as he entered the door the first people he saw were his two brothers who had so shamefully ill treated him.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000025_000000|No sooner had Ferko entered the palace than all eyes were turned on the handsome youth, and the King's daughter herself was lost in admiration, for she had never seen anyone so handsome in her life before.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000025_000001|His brothers noticed this, and envy and jealousy were added to their fear, so much so that they determined once more to destroy him.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000025_000002|They went to the King and told him that Ferko was a wicked magician, who had come to the palace with the intention of carrying off the Princess.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000027_000000|And turning to the two wicked brothers he said, 'Suggest something for him to do; no matter how difficult, he must succeed in it or die.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000028_000000|They did not think long, but replied, 'Let him build your Majesty in one day a more beautiful palace than this, and if he fails in the attempt let him be hung.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000029_000000|The King was pleased with this proposal, and commanded Ferko to set to work on the following day.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000029_000001|The two brothers were delighted, for they thought they had now got rid of Ferko for ever.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000029_000002|The poor youth himself was heart broken, and cursed the hour he had crossed the boundary of the King's domain.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000029_000003|As he was wandering disconsolately about the meadows round the palace, wondering how he could escape being put to death, a little bee flew past, and settling on his shoulder whispered in his ear, 'What is troubling you, my kind benefactor?
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000029_000004|Can I be of any help to you? I am the bee whose wing you healed, and would like to show my gratitude in some way.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000030_000000|Ferko recognised the queen bee, and said, 'Alas! how could you help me? for I have been set to do a task which no one in the whole world could do, let him be ever such a genius!
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000030_000001|To morrow I must build a palace more beautiful than the King's, and it must be finished before evening.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000031_000000|'Is that all?' answered the bee, 'then you may comfort yourself; for before the sun goes down to morrow night a palace shall be built unlike any that King has dwelt in before.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000032_000000|Early on the following day the whole town was on its feet, and everyone wondered how and where the stranger would build the wonderful palace. The Princess alone was silent and sorrowful, and had cried all night till her pillow was wet, so much did she take the fate of the beautiful youth to heart.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000033_000000|Ferko spent the whole day in the meadows waiting the return of the bee. And when evening was come the queen bee flew by, and perching on his shoulder she said, 'The wonderful palace is ready.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000033_000001|Be of good cheer, and lead the King to the hill just outside the city walls.' And humming gaily she flew away again.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000034_000000|Ferko went at once to the King and told him the palace was finished.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000034_000001|The whole court went out to see the wonder, and their astonishment was great at the sight which met their eyes.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000034_000002|A splendid palace reared itself on the hill just outside the walls of the city, made of the most exquisite flowers that ever grew in mortal garden.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000035_000000|This splendid palace had been built by the grateful queen bee, who had summoned all the other bees in the kingdom to help her.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000036_000001|But the two brothers had grown quite green with envy, and only declared the more that Ferko was nothing but a wicked magician.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000038_000000|Then the eldest brother replied, 'The corn has all been cut, but it has not yet been put into barns; let the knave collect all the grain in the kingdom into one big heap before to morrow night, and if as much as a stalk of corn is left let him be put to death.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000039_000001|But he could think of no way of escape.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000039_000002|The sun sank to rest and night came on, when a little mouse started out of the grass at Ferko's feet, and said to him, 'I'm delighted to see you, my kind benefactor; but why are you looking so sad?
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000039_000003|Can I be of any help to you, and thus repay your great kindness to me?'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000040_000001|Before to morrow night all the grain in the kingdom has to be gathered into one big heap, and if as much as a stalk of corn is wanting I must pay for it with my life.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000041_000000|'Is that all?' answered the mouse; 'that needn't distress you much.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000041_000001|Just trust in me, and before the sun sets again you shall hear that your task is done.' And with these words the little creature scampered away into the fields.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000042_000000|Ferko, who never doubted that the mouse would be as good as its word, lay down comforted on the soft grass and slept soundly till next morning.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000042_000001|The day passed slowly, and with the evening came the little mouse and said, 'Now there is not a single stalk of corn left in any field; they are all collected in one big heap on the hill out there.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000043_000002|For in a heap higher than the King's palace lay all the grain of the country, and not a single stalk of corn had been left behind in any of the fields.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000043_000004|The little mouse had summoned every other mouse in the land to its help, and together they had collected all the grain in the kingdom.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000044_000001|Only the beautiful Princess rejoiced over Ferko's success, and looked on him with friendly glances, which the youth returned.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000045_000000|The more the cruel King gazed on the wonder before him, the more angry he became, for he could not, in the face of his promise, put the stranger to death.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000045_000002|No matter how impossible it is, he must do it or die.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000046_000000|The eldest answered quickly, 'Let him drive all the wolves of the kingdom on to this hill before to morrow night.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000046_000001|If he does this he may go free; if not he shall be hung as you have said.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000047_000000|At these words the Princess burst into tears, and when the King saw this he ordered her to be shut up in a high tower and carefully guarded till the dangerous magician should either have left the kingdom or been hung on the nearest tree.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000048_000000|Ferko wandered out into the fields again, and sat down on the stump of a tree wondering what he should do next.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000048_000001|Suddenly a big wolf ran up to him, and standing still said, 'I'm very glad to see you again, my kind benefactor.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000048_000002|What are you thinking about all alone by yourself?
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000048_000003|If I can help you in any way only say the word, for I would like to give you a proof of my gratitude.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000050_000000|'If that's all you want done,' answered the wolf, 'you needn't worry yourself.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000050_000001|I'll undertake the task, and you'll hear from me again before sunset to morrow.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000050_000002|Keep your spirits up.' And with these words he trotted quickly away.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000051_000001|He lay down once more on the grass and soon fell fast asleep.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000052_000000|All the next day he spent wandering about the fields, and toward evening the wolf came running to him in a great hurry and said, 'I have collected together all the wolves in the kingdom, and they are waiting for you in the wood.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000052_000001|Go quickly to the King, and tell him to go to the hill that he may see the wonder you have done with his own eyes.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000052_000002|Then return at once to me and get on my back, and I will help you to drive all the wolves together.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000053_000000|Then Ferko went straight to the palace and told the King that he was ready to perform the third task if he would come to the hill and see it done.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000053_000001|Ferko himself returned to the fields, and mounting on the wolf's back he rode to the wood close by.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000054_000000|Quick as lightning the wolf flew round the wood, and in a minute many hundred wolves rose up before him, increasing in number every moment, till they could be counted by thousands.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000054_000001|He drove them all before him on to the hill, where the King and his whole Court and Ferko's two brothers were standing.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000054_000002|Only the lovely Princess was not present, for she was shut up in her tower weeping bitterly.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000055_000000|The wicked brothers stamped and foamed with rage when they saw the failure of their wicked designs.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000055_000001|But the King was overcome by a sudden terror when he saw the enormous pack of wolves approaching nearer and nearer, and calling out to Ferko he said, 'Enough, enough, we don't want any more.'
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000056_000000|But the wolf on whose back Ferko sat, said to its rider, 'Go on!
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000056_000001|go on!' and at the same moment many more wolves ran up the hill, howling horribly and showing their white teeth.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000057_000000|The King in his terror called out, 'Stop a moment; I will give you half my kingdom if you will drive all the wolves away.' But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands before him, so that everyone quaked with horror and fear.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000059_000000|But the wolf kept on encouraging Ferko, and said, 'Go on! go on!' So he led the wolves on, till at last they fell on the King and on the wicked brothers, and ate them and the whole Court up in a moment.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000060_000000|Then Ferko went straight to the palace and set the Princess free, and on the same day he married her and was crowned King of the country.
train-clean-100/2092/145706/2092_145706_000060_000001|And the wolves all went peacefully back to their own homes, and Ferko and his bride lived for many years in peace and happiness together, and were much beloved by great and small in the land.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000002_000001|Kletke.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000003_000000|Once upon a time there were three Princesses who were all three young and beautiful; but the youngest, although she was not fairer than the other two, was the most loveable of them all.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000004_000000|About half a mile from the palace in which they lived there stood a castle, which was uninhabited and almost a ruin, but the garden which surrounded it was a mass of blooming flowers, and in this garden the youngest Princess used often to walk.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000005_000000|One day when she was pacing to and fro under the lime trees, a black crow hopped out of a rose bush in front of her.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000005_000001|The poor beast was all torn and bleeding, and the kind little Princess was quite unhappy about it.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000005_000002|When the crow saw this it turned to her and said:
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000006_000000|'I am not really a black crow, but an enchanted Prince, who has been doomed to spend his youth in misery.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000006_000001|If you only liked, Princess, you could save me.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000006_000002|But you would have to say good bye to all your own people and come and be my constant companion in this ruined castle.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000006_000003|There is one habitable room in it, in which there is a golden bed; there you will have to live all by yourself, and don't forget that whatever you may see or hear in the night you must not scream out, for if you give as much as a single cry my sufferings will be doubled.'
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000007_000000|The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and hurried to the ruined castle, and took possession of the room with the golden bed.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000008_000000|When night approached she lay down, but though she shut her eyes tight sleep would not come.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000008_000001|At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the passage, and in a minute her door was flung wide open and a troop of strange beings entered the room.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000008_000002|They at once proceeded to light a fire in the huge fireplace; then they placed a great cauldron of boiling water on it.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000008_000003|When they had done this, they approached the bed on which the trembling girl lay, and, screaming and yelling all the time, they dragged her towards the cauldron.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000008_000004|She nearly died with fright, but she never uttered a sound.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000008_000005|Then of a sudden the cock crew, and all the evil spirits vanished.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000009_000001|It thanked the Princess most heartily for her goodness, and said that its sufferings had already been greatly lessened.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000010_000000|Now one of the Princess's elder sisters, who was very inquisitive, had found out about everything, and went to pay her youngest sister a visit in the ruined castle.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000010_000001|She implored her so urgently to let her spend the night with her in the golden bed, that at last the good-natured little Princess consented.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000010_000002|But at midnight, when the odd folk appeared, the elder sister screamed with terror, and from this time on the youngest Princess insisted always on keeping watch alone.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000011_000000|So she lived in solitude all the daytime, and at night she would have been frightened, had she not been so brave; but every day the crow came and thanked her for her endurance, and assured her that his sufferings were far less than they had been.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000012_000000|And so two years passed away, when one day the crow came to the Princess and said: 'In another year I shall be freed from the spell I am under at present, because then the seven years will be over.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000012_000001|But before I can resume my natural form, and take possession of the belongings of my forefathers, you must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.'
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000013_000000|The young Princess consented at once, and for a whole year she served as a maid; but in spite of her youth and beauty she was very badly treated, and suffered many things.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000013_000001|One evening, when she was spinning flax, and had worked her little white hands weary, she heard a rustling beside her and a cry of joy.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000013_000002|Then she saw a handsome youth standing beside her; who knelt down at her feet and kissed the little weary white hands.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000014_000000|'I am the Prince,' he said, 'who you in your goodness, when I was wandering about in the shape of a black crow, freed from the most awful torments.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000014_000001|Come now to my castle with me, and let us live there happily together.'
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000015_000000|So they went to the castle where they had both endured so much.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000015_000001|But when they reached it, it was difficult to believe that it was the same, for it had all been rebuilt and done up again.
train-clean-100/2092/145709/2092_145709_000015_000002|And there they lived for a hundred years, a hundred years of joy and happiness.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000003_000002|It was already too late.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000005_000002|The Guards of Monsieur the Cardinal are forever seeking quarrels with them, and for the honor of the corps even, the poor young men are obliged to defend themselves."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000009_000003|Justice before everything."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000011_000000|"Yes, sire, as they always do."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000012_000000|"And how did the thing happen?
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000012_000001|Let us see, for you know, my dear Captain, a judge must hear both sides."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000013_000000|"Good Lord!
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000022_000000|"Why, this is a victory!" cried the king, all radiant, "a complete victory!"
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000043_000000|"No, bring me all four together.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000044_000000|"Yes, sire."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000059_000000|"I?
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000068_000005|On guard!"
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000074_000003|They soon tired of the sport.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000093_000000|"Perfectly."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000094_000000|"Does he talk?"
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000095_000000|"With difficulty, but he can speak."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000105_000000|Louis the thirteenth appeared, walking fast.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000111_000000|"Bad, monsieur, bad!" replied the king; "I am bored."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000113_000000|"How!
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000131_000001|You accuse him, then?
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000135_000000|"What?"
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000137_000000|"What, then!
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000140_000000|"Undoubtedly."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000142_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000148_000000|"Tomorrow, then, sire?"
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000153_000000|"Awaken me!
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000154_000002|Speak, I am ready to obey."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000165_000003|"Ah!
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000167_000002|Go, Monsieur Duke, and return often.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000167_000003|Come in, Treville."
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000173_000000|"Quite contrite and repentant!
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000173_000003|In particular, there is one yonder of a Gascon look.
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000177_000000|"Truly!"
train-clean-100/211/122425/211_122425_000183_000001|Poor cardinal!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000009_000000|"And where is that letter?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000015_000001|Is it not some bad affair?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000022_000000|"Yes, go."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000029_000000|"You will take your musketoon and your pistols."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000030_000000|"There, now!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000030_000002|"I was sure of it-the cursed letter!"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000035_000000|"Yes, but I thought perhaps you had worn out all your courage the first time."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000039_000000|"Well, then, I count on you."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000050_000000|"Far from here?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000064_000000|"Not yet; wait a little!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000067_000001|When I am happy, I wish all the world to be so; but it appears that is not possible."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000068_000000|The young man departed, laughing at the joke, which he thought he alone could comprehend.
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000073_000001|You must look out for yourself."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000077_000000|"The devil!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000077_000006|Stop!"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000082_000000|"She gave it to me herself."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000083_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000085_000000|"How?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000089_000001|Imprudent, thrice imprudent!"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000101_000000|"Above all things be always on your guard.
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000102_000000|"But of what sort?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000104_000000|"What!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000108_000002|You are acquainted with the Scriptures?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000116_000000|"There again!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000119_000000|"What?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000120_000001|What the devil!
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000128_000000|"Ah, that's quite another thing; but promise me, if you should not be killed tonight, that you will go tomorrow."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000129_000000|"I promise it."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000130_000000|"Do you need money?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000131_000001|That, I think, is as much as I shall want."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000144_000000|"I?
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000144_000001|Not the least in the world."
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000146_000000|"But why this question?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000148_000000|"Bah!"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000150_000000|"And you found it?"
train-clean-100/211/122442/211_122442_000152_000000|"Indeed!"
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000003_000000|I think it was about a fortnight after that conversation in which my father had expressed his opinion, and given me the mysterious charge about the old oak cabinet in his library, as already detailed, that I was one night sitting at the great drawing room window, lost in the melancholy reveries of night, and in admiration of the moonlighted scene.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000005_000000|The air was still.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000005_000001|The silvery vapour hung serenely on the far horizon, and the frosty stars blinked brightly.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000005_000003|Fancies and regrets float mistily in the dream, and the scene affects us with a strange mixture of memory and anticipation, like some sweet old air heard in the distance.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000005_000004|As my eyes rested on those, to me, funereal but glorious woods, which formed the background of the picture, my thoughts recurred to my father's mysterious intimations and the image of the approaching visitor; and the thought of the unknown journey saddened me.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000007_000000|When my dear mamma died I was not nine years old; and I remember, two days before the funeral, there came to Knowl, where she died, a thin little man, with large black eyes, and a very grave, dark face.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000008_000000|He was shut up a good deal with my dear father, who was in deep affliction; and mrs Rusk used to say, 'It is rather odd to see him praying with that little scarecrow from London, and good mr Clay ready at call, in the village; much good that little black whipper snapper will do him!'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000010_000000|I remember feeling a sort of awe of this little dark man; but I was not afraid of him, for he was gentle, though sad-and seemed kind.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000010_000001|He led me into the garden-the Dutch garden, we used to call it-with a balustrade, and statues at the farther front, laid out in a carpet pattern of brilliantly coloured flowers.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000010_000005|I see ever so much.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000010_000008|Come, dear; let us be going.'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000011_000001|The way was in deep shadow, for the sun was near the horizon; but suddenly we turned to the left, and there we stood in rich sunlight, among the many objects he had described.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000015_000000|Thus entertained, though a little awfully, I accompanied the dark mysterious little 'whipper snapper' through the woodland glades.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000015_000002|At the sight the fountains of my grief reopened, and I cried bitterly, repeating, 'Oh! mamma, mamma, little mamma!' and so went on weeping and calling wildly on the deaf and the silent.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000015_000003|There was a stone bench some ten steps away from the tomb.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000016_000000|'Sit down beside me, my child,' said the grave man with the black eyes, very kindly and gently.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000016_000001|'Now, what do you see there?' he asked, pointing horizontally with his stick towards the centre of the opposite structure.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000018_000000|'Yes, a stone wall with pillars, too high for either you or me to see over. But----'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000020_000001|He says your mamma is not there.'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000021_000000|'She is taken away!' I cried, starting up, and with streaming eyes, gazing on the building which, though I stamped my feet in my distraction, I was afraid to approach.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000021_000002|Where is she?
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000021_000003|Where have they brought her to?'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000023_000003|So I can tell you now as I did then; and as we are both, I hope, walking on to the same place just as we did to the trees and cottage.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000025_000000|He leaned his elbow on his knee, and his forehead on his hand, which shaded his downcast eyes.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000025_000001|In that attitude he described to me a beautiful landscape, radiant with a wondrous light, in which, rejoicing, my mother moved along an airy path, ascending among mountains of fantastic height, and peaks, melting in celestial colouring into the air, and peopled with human beings translated into the same image, beauty, and splendour.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000026_000000|'Come, dear, let us go.'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000028_000000|'Home, I mean, dear.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000028_000001|We cannot walk to the place I have described.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000028_000002|We can only reach it through the gate of death, to which we are all tending, young and old, with sure steps.'
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000029_000000|'And where is the gate of death?' I asked in a sort of whisper, as we walked together, holding his hand, and looking stealthily.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000029_000001|He smiled sadly and said-
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000032_000000|Of these Swedenborgians, indeed, I know no more than I might learn from good mrs Rusk's very inaccurate talk.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000032_000001|Two or three of them crossed in the course of my early life, like magic lantern figures, the disk of my very circumscribed observation.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000032_000002|All outside was and is darkness.
train-clean-100/2136/5140/2136_5140_000032_000004|It is enough for me to know that their founder either saw or fancied he saw amazing visions, which, so far from superseding, confirmed and interpreted the language of the Bible; and as dear papa accepted their ideas, I am happy in thinking that they did not conflict with the supreme authority of holy writ.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000002_000000|Two little pieces of by play in which I detected her confirmed my unpleasant suspicion.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000002_000002|Her eyes were turned in the direction of the stairs, from which only she apprehended surprise.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000002_000004|She was devouring all that was passing there. I drew back into the shadow with a kind of disgust and horror.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000002_000005|She was transformed into a great gaping reptile.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000002_000006|I felt that I could have thrown something at her; but a kind of fear made me recede again toward my room. Indignation, however, quickly returned, and I came back, treading briskly as I did so.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000002_000008|Madame, I suppose, had heard me, for she was half-way down the stairs.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000003_000001|We shall have so pleasant walk.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000004_000000|At that moment the door of my father's study opened, and mrs Rusk, with her dark energetic face very much flushed, stepped out in high excitement.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000006_000000|Madame courtesied with a great smirk, that was full of intangible hate and insult.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000007_000000|'Better your own brandy, if drink you must!' exclaimed mrs Rusk.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000007_000001|'You may come to the store room now, or the butler can take it.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000008_000000|And off whisked mrs Rusk for the back staircase.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000009_000000|There had been no common skirmish on this occasion, but a pitched battle.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000010_000000|Madame had made a sort of pet of Anne Wixted, an underchambermaid, and attached her to her interest economically by persuading me to make her presents of some old dresses and other things.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000011_000003|Upon this, mrs Rusk impounded the flask; and, with Anne beside her, rather precipitately appeared before 'the Master.' He heard and summoned Madame.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000011_000004|Madame was cool, frank, and fluent.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000011_000005|The brandy was purely medicinal.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000011_000006|She produced a document in the form of a note.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000011_000007|Doctor Somebody presented his compliments to Madame de la Rougierre, and ordered her a table spoonful of brandy and some drops of laudanum whenever the pain of stomach returned.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000012_000001|Perhaps in their relations to men they are generally more trustworthy-perhaps woman's is the juster, and the other an appointed illusion.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000014_000001|Madame was in high spirits.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000014_000002|The air was sweet-the landscape charming-I, so good-everything so beautiful! Where should we go?
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000015_000000|I had made a resolution to speak as little as possible to Madame, I was so incensed at the treachery I had witnessed; but such resolutions do not last long with very young people, and by the time we had reached the skirts of the wood we were talking pretty much as usual.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000017_000000|'And for what?'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000018_000000|'Poor mamma is buried there.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000020_000000|I assented.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000021_000000|'My faith, curious reason; you say because poor mamma is buried there you will not approach!
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000021_000003|Let us come-even a little part of the way.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000022_000000|And so I yielded, though still reluctant.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000023_000000|There was a grass grown road, which we easily reached, leading to the sombre building, and we soon arrived before it.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000024_000001|She sat down on the little bank opposite, in her most languid pose-her head leaned upon the tips of her fingers.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000026_000000|'I am fatigue-maybe you will read it aloud to me slowly and solemnly, my dearest Maud?'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000027_000002|But it would not do: she saw that I had detected her, and she laughed aloud.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000028_000003|We regard them first for the oracle of the dead, and find them after only the folly of the living.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000028_000004|So I despise.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000029_000000|'Why?' said I, flushing and growing pale again.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000029_000001|I felt quite afraid of Madame, and confounded at the suddenness of all this.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000030_000001|How dark is this place!
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000030_000003|How high and thick are the trees all round! and nobody comes near.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000031_000000|And Madame rolled her eyes awfully, as if she expected to see something unearthly, and, indeed, looked very like it herself.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000032_000000|'Come away, Madame,' I said, growing frightened, and feeling that if I were once, by any accident, to give way to the panic that was gathering round me, I should instantaneously lose all control of myself.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000033_000000|'No, on the contrary, sit here by me.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000033_000002|I am not afraid of the dead people, nor of the ghosts.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000035_000001|But no, you are not afraid.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000036_000000|'Come away, Madame! you are trying to frighten me,' I said, in the childish anger which accompanies fear.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000036_000001|Madame laughed an ugly laugh, and said-
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000040_000000|'Very-the kindest darling.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000041_000000|This confidential talking with Madame, strange to say, implied no confidence; it resulted from fear-it was deprecatory.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000041_000001|I treated her as if she had human sympathies, in the hope that they might be generated somehow.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000043_000000|'Yes, a Doctor Bryerly, who remained a few days.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000043_000002|Do, pray.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000045_000000|'No-I think not.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000046_000000|'And what then is his disease?'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000049_000000|'But that doctor is a doctor in theology, I fancy.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000050_000001|Oh, yes-he is old man, and so uncertain life is.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000051_000000|'There is no need of haste, Madame; it is quite time enough when his health begins to fail.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000054_000001|No, no; you know everything.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000054_000002|Come, tell me all about-it is for your advantage, you know.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000054_000003|What is in his will, and when he wrote?'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000055_000000|'But, Madame, I really know nothing of it.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000055_000001|I can't say whether there is a will or not.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000055_000002|Let us talk of something else.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000059_000000|'I know nothing of papa's will.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000059_000001|You don't know, Madame, how you hurt me. Let us speak of something else.'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000061_000000|With which words she seized that joint, and laughing spitefully, she twisted it suddenly back.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000061_000001|I screamed while she continued to laugh.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000062_000000|'Will you tell?'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000063_000000|'Yes, yes! let me go,' I shrieked.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000064_000000|She did not release it immediately however, but continued her torture and discordant laughter.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000065_000001|What do you cry for, little fool?'
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000066_000000|'You've hurt me very much-you have broken my finger,' I sobbed.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000067_000001|What cross girl!
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000068_000001|She would not answer my questions, and affected to be very lofty and offended.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000069_000000|This did not last very long, however, and she soon resumed her wonted ways. And she returned to the question of the will, but not so directly, and with more art.
train-clean-100/2136/5143/2136_5143_000070_000001|How could it concern her?
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000002_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000005_000002|Did not she engage to make your dresses?'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000006_000000|'I-I really don't know; I rather think not.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000006_000001|She is my governess-a finishing governess, mrs Rusk says.'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000007_000006|I should so like to talk to her a little.'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000008_000000|'But she is ill,' I answered, and all this time I was ready to cry for vexation, thinking of my dress, which must be very absurd to elicit so much unaffected laughter from my experienced relative, and I was only longing to get away and hide myself before that handsome Captain returned.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000009_000000|'Ill! is she?
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000009_000001|what's the matter?'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000010_000000|'A cold-feverish and rheumatic, she says.'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000012_000000|'In her room, but not in bed.'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000013_000000|'I should so like to see her, my dear.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000013_000002|In fact, curiosity has nothing on earth to do with it.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000015_000000|'Very well, dear.'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000017_000000|As I went along the passage, I was thinking whether my dress could be so very ridiculous as my old cousin thought it, and trying in vain to recollect any evidence of a similar contemptuous estimate on the part of that beautiful and garrulous dandy.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000017_000001|I could not-quite the reverse, indeed. Still I was uncomfortable and feverish-girls of my then age will easily conceive how miserable, under similar circumstances, such a misgiving would make them.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000018_000000|It was a long way to Madame's room.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000018_000001|I met mrs Rusk bustling along the passage with a housemaid.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000020_000000|'Quite well, I believe,' answered the housekeeper, drily.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000020_000002|She eat enough for two to day.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000021_000000|Madame was sitting, or rather reclining, in a low arm chair, when I entered the room, close to the fire, as was her wont, her feet extended near to the bars, and a little coffee equipage beside her.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000021_000001|She stuffed a book hastily between her dress and the chair, and received me in a state of langour which, had it not been for mrs Rusk's comfortable assurances, would have frightened me.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000022_000000|'I hope you are better, Madame,' I said, approaching.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000024_000000|'And your cold, is it better?'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000025_000000|She shook her head languidly, her elbow resting on the chair, and three finger tips supporting her forehead, and then she made a little sigh, looking down from the corners of her eyes, in an interesting dejection.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000029_000000|And she winced and moaned, with her eyes closed and her hand pressed to the organ affected.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000030_000001|She was over acting; her transitions were too violent, and beside she forgot that I knew how well she could speak English, and must perceive that she was heightening the interest of her helplessness by that pretty tessellation of foreign idiom.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000030_000002|I there fore said with a kind of courage which sometimes helped me suddenly-
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000033_000000|And Madame shed some tears, which always came at call, and with her hand pressed to her ear, said very faintly,
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000037_000000|That, then, accounted for the rumble and smack of balls which I had heard as I passed the door.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000039_000000|'Very thoughtful of you, Monica!' said my father.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000040_000000|'Yes, and really, Austin, it is quite clear you ought to marry; you want some one to take this girl out, and look after her, and who's to do it? She's a dowdy-don't you see?
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000043_000000|'Yes, you may, but not for myself, Austin-I'm not worthy.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000043_000001|Do you remember little Kitty Weadon that I wanted you to marry eight and twenty years ago, or more, with a hundred and twenty thousand pounds?
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000044_000000|'I'm glad I was not the first,' said my father.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000045_000001|Her last husband, the Russian merchant, left her everything.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000045_000002|She has not a human relation, and she is in the best set.'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000046_000000|'You were always a match maker, Monica,' said my father, stopping, and putting his hand kindly on hers.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000046_000001|'But it won't do.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000049_000000|So my father, with a kind look at her, and a very tender one on me, went silently to the library, as he often did about that hour.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000050_000001|Nothing I dreaded more than a step mother.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000050_000002|Good mrs Rusk and Mary Quince, in their several ways, used to enhance, by occasional anecdotes and frequent reflections, the terrors of such an intrusion.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000050_000003|I suppose they did not wish a revolution and all its consequences at Knowl, and thought it no harm to excite my vigilance.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000051_000000|But it was impossible long to be vexed with Cousin Monica.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000052_000000|'You know, my dear, your father is an oddity,' she said.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000052_000002|You must not.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000052_000003|Cracky, my dear, cracky-decidedly cracky!'
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000053_000000|And she tapped the corner of her forehead, with a look so sly and comical, that I think I should have laughed, if the sentiment had not been so awfully irreverent.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000056_000003|Poor thing!
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000056_000004|Well, dear, I think I can cure that in five minutes.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000057_000000|So she lighted her candle in the lobby, and with a light and agile step she scaled the stairs, I following; and having found the remedies, we approached Madame's room together.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000058_000000|I think, while we were still at the end of the gallery, Madame heard and divined our approach, for her door suddenly shut, and there was a fumbling at the handle.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000058_000001|But the bolt was out of order.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000059_000000|Lady Knollys tapped at the door, saying-'we'll come in, please, and see you.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000060_000000|There was no answer; so she opened the door, and we both entered.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000062_000001|Cousin Monica set down her two little vials on the table, and, stooping again over the bed, began very gently with her fingers to lift the coverlet that covered her face.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000062_000002|Madame uttered a slumbering moan, and turned more upon her face, clasping the coverlet faster about her.
train-clean-100/2136/5147/2136_5147_000063_000001|We have come to relieve your ear. Pray let me see it.
train-clean-100/2159/179154/2159_179154_000008_000001|They are fast.
train-clean-100/2159/179154/2159_179154_000008_000003|Try.
train-clean-100/2159/179154/2159_179154_000012_000004|Then he stopped.
train-clean-100/2159/179154/2159_179154_000012_000006|He stood there, stooping, eyes set, and vacant, fast asleep.
train-clean-100/2159/179154/2159_179154_000014_000005|He sarcastically asked him if he "didn't want the earth."
train-clean-100/2159/179154/2159_179154_000019_000003|In doing this, he set his coat on fire, when he trampled it under foot.
train-clean-100/2159/179156/2159_179156_000013_000000|A slow movement was tried (the Valhalla motif).
train-clean-100/2159/179157/2159_179157_000006_000009|It crackled like a mighty fire.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000001_000000|three
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000002_000001|It seemed almost impossible for him to realize that there was scarcely anything he might wish to do which he could not do easily; in fact, I think it may be said that he did not fully realize it at all.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000002_000002|But at least he understood, after a few conversations with mr Havisham, that he could gratify all his nearest wishes, and he proceeded to gratify them with a simplicity and delight which caused mr Havisham much diversion.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000002_000003|In the week before they sailed for England he did many curious things.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000003_000000|"For I have to go to England and be a lord," explained Cedric, sweet temperedly.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000004_000001|"Once, when I fell down and cut my knee, she gave me an apple for nothing.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000004_000003|You know you always remember people who are kind to you."
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000006_000000|The interview with Dick was quite exciting.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000006_000001|Dick had just been having a great deal of trouble with Jake, and was in low spirits when they saw him.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000006_000004|The statement that his old friend had become a lord, and was in danger of being an earl if he lived long enough, caused Dick to so open his eyes and mouth, and start, that his cap fell off.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000006_000005|When he picked it up, he uttered a rather singular exclamation.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000007_000001|This plainly embarrassed his lordship a little, but he bore himself bravely.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000008_000002|I didn't think I was going to like it myself, but I like it better now I'm used to it.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000008_000003|The one who is the Earl now, he's my grandpapa; and he wants me to do anything I like.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000008_000004|He's very kind, if he IS an earl; and he sent me a lot of money by mr Havisham, and I've brought some to you to buy Jake out."
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000009_000001|He could not believe in his good luck any more easily than the apple woman of ancient lineage could believe in hers; he walked about like a boot black in a dream; he stared at his young benefactor and felt as if he might wake up at any moment.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000010_000001|I'm sorry I'm going away to leave you, but perhaps I shall come back again when I'm an earl.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000010_000002|And I wish you'd write to me, because we were always good friends.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000010_000003|And if you write to me, here's where you must send your letter." And he gave him a slip of paper.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000011_000000|Dick winked his eyes also, and yet they looked rather moist about the lashes.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000011_000001|He was not an educated boot black, and he would have found it difficult to tell what he felt just then if he had tried; perhaps that was why he didn't try, and only winked his eyes and swallowed a lump in his throat.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000012_000001|Then he winked his eyes again.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000014_000001|Gloom had settled upon mr Hobbs; he was much depressed in spirits.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000014_000002|When his young friend brought to him in triumph the parting gift of a gold watch and chain, mr Hobbs found it difficult to acknowledge it properly.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000014_000003|He laid the case on his stout knee, and blew his nose violently several times.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000015_000000|"There's something written on it," said Cedric,--"inside the case. I told the man myself what to say.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000015_000001|'From his oldest friend, Lord Fauntleroy, to mr Hobbs.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000015_000002|When this you see, remember me.' I don't want you to forget me."
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000016_000000|mr Hobbs blew his nose very loudly again.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000018_000000|"I shouldn't forget you, whoever I was among," answered his lordship. "I've spent my happiest hours with you; at least, some of my happiest hours.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000018_000001|I hope you'll come to see me sometime.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000018_000002|I'm sure my grandpapa would be very much pleased.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000018_000003|Perhaps he'll write and ask you, when I tell him about you.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000021_000000|At last all the preparations were complete; the day came when the trunks were taken to the steamer, and the hour arrived when the carriage stood at the door.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000021_000002|His mamma had been shut up in her room for some time; when she came down the stairs, her eyes looked large and wet, and her sweet mouth was trembling.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000021_000004|He knew something made them both sorry, though he scarcely knew what it was; but one tender little thought rose to his lips.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000022_000000|"We liked this little house, Dearest, didn't we?" he said.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000023_000000|"Yes-yes," she answered, in a low, sweet voice.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000024_000000|And then they went into the carriage and Cedric sat very close to her, and as she looked back out of the window, he looked at her and stroked her hand and held it close.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000026_000001|Some one was hurriedly forcing his way through this group and coming toward him.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000026_000003|It was Dick.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000026_000004|He came up to Cedric quite breathless.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000027_000000|"I've run all the way," he said.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000027_000002|Trade's been prime!
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000027_000003|I bought this for ye out o' what I made yesterday.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000027_000005|I lost the paper when I was tryin' to get through them fellers downstairs.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000027_000006|They didn't want to let me up. It's a hankercher."
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000028_000000|He poured it all forth as if in one sentence.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000028_000001|A bell rang, and he made a leap away before Cedric had time to speak.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000029_000000|"Good bye!" he panted.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000030_000001|He stood on the wharf and waved his cap.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000031_000000|Cedric held the handkerchief in his hand.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000032_000000|There was a great straining and creaking and confusion.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000032_000001|The people on the wharf began to shout to their friends, and the people on the steamer shouted back:
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000033_000000|"Good bye!
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000033_000001|Good bye!
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000033_000002|Good bye, old fellow!" Every one seemed to be saying, "Don't forget us.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000033_000003|Write when you get to Liverpool.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000033_000004|Good bye! Good bye!"
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000034_000000|Little Lord Fauntleroy leaned forward and waved the red handkerchief.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000035_000000|"Good bye, Dick!" he shouted, lustily.
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000035_000001|"Thank you!
train-clean-100/2182/181173/2182_181173_000035_000002|Good bye, Dick!"
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000001_000000|thirteen
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000002_000000|OF course, as soon as the story of Lord Fauntleroy and the difficulties of the Earl of Dorincourt were discussed in the English newspapers, they were discussed in the American newspapers.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000002_000001|The story was too interesting to be passed over lightly, and it was talked of a great deal.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000002_000002|There were so many versions of it that it would have been an edifying thing to buy all the papers and compare them.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000002_000003|mr Hobbs read so much about it that he became quite bewildered.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000002_000005|One said he was no relation to the Earl of Dorincourt at all, but was a small impostor who had sold newspapers and slept in the streets of New York before his mother imposed upon the family lawyer, who came to America to look for the Earl's heir.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000002_000009|They found out what an important personage an Earl of Dorincourt was, and what a magnificent income he possessed, and how many estates he owned, and how stately and beautiful was the Castle in which he lived; and the more they learned, the more excited they became.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000004_000000|But there really was nothing they could do but each write a letter to Cedric, containing assurances of their friendship and sympathy.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000004_000001|They wrote those letters as soon as they could after receiving the news; and after having written them, they handed them over to each other to be read.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000006_000004|So no more at present
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000007_000000|"DICK."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000009_000001|I believe its a put up job and them thats done it ought to be looked after sharp.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000009_000002|And what I write to say is two things.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000009_000003|Im going to look this thing up.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000010_000000|"yours truly,
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000011_000000|"SILAS HOBBS."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000013_000002|Blest if I didn't like that little feller fust rate."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000014_000000|The very next morning, one of Dick's customers was rather surprised. He was a young lawyer just beginning practice-as poor as a very young lawyer can possibly be, but a bright, energetic young fellow, with sharp wit and a good temper.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000014_000001|He had a shabby office near Dick's stand, and every morning Dick blacked his boots for him, and quite often they were not exactly water tight, but he always had a friendly word or a joke for Dick.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000015_000000|That particular morning, when he put his foot on the rest, he had an illustrated paper in his hand-an enterprising paper, with pictures in it of conspicuous people and things.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000015_000001|He had just finished looking it over, and when the last boot was polished, he handed it over to the boy.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000016_000000|"Here's a paper for you, Dick," he said; "you can look it over when you drop in at Delmonico's for your breakfast.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000016_000002|Fine young woman, too,--lots of hair,--though she seems to be raising rather a row.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000016_000003|You ought to become familiar with the nobility and gentry, Dick.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000016_000005|Hello!
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000017_000000|The pictures he spoke of were on the front page, and Dick was staring at one of them with his eyes and mouth open, and his sharp face almost pale with excitement.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000018_000000|"What's to pay, Dick?" said the young man.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000018_000001|"What has paralyzed you?"
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000019_000000|Dick really did look as if something tremendous had happened.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000019_000001|He pointed to the picture, under which was written:
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000020_000000|"Mother of Claimant (Lady Fauntleroy)."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000022_000000|"Her!" said Dick.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000024_000000|"Where did you meet her, Dick?" he said.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000024_000001|"At Newport?
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000025_000000|Dick actually forgot to grin.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000026_000000|"Never mind," he said.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000026_000001|"I know her!
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000027_000000|And in less than five minutes from that time he was tearing through the streets on his way to mr Hobbs and the corner store.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000028_000000|mr Hobbs could scarcely believe the evidence of his senses when he looked across the counter and saw Dick rush in with the paper in his hand.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000028_000001|The boy was out of breath with running; so much out of breath, in fact, that he could scarcely speak as he threw the paper down on the counter.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000029_000000|"Hello!" exclaimed mr Hobbs.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000030_000000|"Look at it!" panted Dick.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000030_000001|"Look at that woman in the picture!
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000030_000002|That's what you look at!
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000031_000000|mr Hobbs dropped into his seat.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000033_000000|"Done it!" cried Dick, with disgust.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000033_000004|It's BEN'S boy,--the little chap she hit when she let fly that plate at me."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000034_000000|Professor Dick Tipton had always been a sharp boy, and earning his living in the streets of a big city had made him still sharper.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000035_000000|mr Hobbs was almost overwhelmed by his sense of responsibility, and Dick was all alive and full of energy.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000036_000001|Let's ax him what we'd better do.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000037_000000|mr Hobbs was immensely impressed by this suggestion and Dick's business capacity.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000038_000000|"That's so!" he replied.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000038_000001|"This here calls for lawyers."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000039_000000|And leaving the store in the care of a substitute, he struggled into his coat and marched down town with Dick, and the two presented themselves with their romantic story in mr Harrison's office, much to that young man's astonishment.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000041_000000|"And," said mr Hobbs, "say what your time's worth a' hour and look into this thing thorough, and I'LL pay the damage,--Silas Hobbs, corner of Blank street, Vegetables and Fancy Groceries."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000042_000000|"Well," said mr Harrison, "it will be a big thing if it turns out all right, and it will be almost as big a thing for me as for Lord Fauntleroy; and, at any rate, no harm can be done by investigating. It appears there has been some dubiousness about the child.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000042_000002|The first persons to be written to are Dick's brother and the Earl of Dorincourt's family lawyer."
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000043_000000|And actually, before the sun went down, two letters had been written and sent in two different directions-one speeding out of New York harbor on a mail steamer on its way to England, and the other on a train carrying letters and passengers bound for California.
train-clean-100/2182/181183/2182_181183_000044_000000|And after the store was closed that evening, mr Hobbs and Dick sat in the back room and talked together until midnight.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000002_000000|It ofttimes requires heroic courage to face fruitless effort, to take up the broken strands of a life work, to look bravely toward the future, and proceed undaunted on our way.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000002_000001|But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000003_000000|Some years ago, it was proposed to send logs from Canada to New York, by a new method.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000003_000001|The ingenious plan of mr Joggins was to bind great logs together by cables and iron girders and to tow the cargo as a raft.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000003_000002|When the novel craft neared New York and success seemed assured, a terrible storm arose.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000003_000003|In the fury of the tempest, the iron bands snapped like icicles and the angry waters scattered the logs far and wide.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000003_000004|The chief of the Hydrographic Department at Washington heard of the failure of the experiment, and at once sent word to shipmasters the world over, urging them to watch carefully for these logs which he described; and to note the precise location of each in latitude and longitude and the time the observation was made.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000004_000000|Hundreds of captains, sailing over the waters of the earth, noted the logs, in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean, in the South Seas- for into all waters did these venturesome ones travel.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000004_000001|Hundreds of reports were made, covering a period of weeks and months.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000004_000002|These observations were then carefully collated, systematized and tabulated, and discoveries were made as to the course of ocean currents that otherwise would have been impossible.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000004_000003|The loss of the Joggins raft was not a real failure, for it led to one of the great discoveries in modern marine geography and navigation.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000005_000001|But their failure to transmute the baser metals into gold resulted in the birth of chemistry.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000005_000003|This was the success of failure, a wondrous process of Nature for the highest growth,--a mighty lesson of comfort, strength, and encouragement if man would only realize and accept it.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000006_000000|Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000006_000001|Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000006_000002|In discovering America Columbus failed absolutely.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000006_000003|His ingenious reasoning and experiment led him to believe that by sailing westward he would reach India.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000006_000006|But the discovery of America was a greater success than was any finding of a "back door" to India.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000007_000000|When David Livingstone had supplemented his theological education by a medical course, he was ready to enter the missionary field.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000007_000001|For over three years he had studied tirelessly, with all energies concentrated on one aim,--to spread the gospel in China.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000007_000003|Then word came from China that the "opium war" would make it folly to attempt to enter the country.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000007_000004|Disappointment and failure did not long daunt him; he offered himself as missionary to Africa,--and he was accepted.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000007_000005|His glorious failure to reach China opened a whole continent to light and truth.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000007_000006|His study proved an ideal preparation for his labors as physician, explorer, teacher and evangel in the wilds of Africa.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000008_000001|The failure spurred him to almost super human effort.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000008_000002|The masterpieces of Scotch historic fiction that have thrilled, entertained and uplifted millions of his fellow men are a glorious monument on the field of a seeming failure.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000009_000001|His brush strokes, put on in the early morning hours before going to his menial duties as a railway porter, in the dusk like that perpetuated on his canvas,--meant strength, food and medicine for the dying wife he adored.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000009_000002|The art failure that cast him into the depths of poverty unified with marvellous intensity all the finer elements of his nature.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000009_000003|This rare spiritual unity, this purging of all the dross of triviality as he passed through the furnace of poverty, trial, and sorrow gave eloquence to his brush and enabled him to paint as never before,--as no prosperity would have made possible.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000010_000000|Failure is often the turning point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000010_000001|It may not be financial success, it may not be fame; it may be new draughts of spiritual, moral or mental inspiration that will change us for all the later years of our life. Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000011_000000|Whether man has had wealth or poverty, failure or success, counts for little when it is past.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000011_000001|There is but one question for him to answer, to face boldly and honestly as an individual alone with his conscience and his destiny:
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000012_000000|"How will I let that poverty or wealth affect me?
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000012_000001|If that trial or deprivation has left me better, truer, nobler, then,--poverty has been riches, failure has been a success.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000013_000000|Failure is one of God's educators.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000013_000001|It is experience leading man to higher things; it is the revelation of a way, a path hitherto unknown to us.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000013_000002|The best men in the world, those who have made the greatest real successes look back with serene happiness on their failures.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000013_000003|The turning of the face of Time shows all things in a wondrously illuminated and satisfying perspective.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000014_000000|Many a man is thankful to day that some petty success for which he once struggled, melted into thin air as his hand sought to clutch it. Failure is often the rock bottom foundation of real success.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000015_000000|Our highest hopes, are often destroyed to prepare us for better things. The failure of the caterpillar is the birth of the butterfly; the passing of the bud is the becoming of the rose; the death or destruction of the seed is the prelude to its resurrection as wheat.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000015_000002|May this not be one of Nature's gentle showings to man of the times when he grows best, of the darkness of failure that is evolving into the sunlight of success.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000015_000003|Let us fear only the failure of not living the right as we see it, leaving the results to the guardianship of the Infinite.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000016_000000|If we think of any supreme moment of our lives, any great success, any one who is dear to us, and then consider how we reached that moment, that success, that friend, we will be surprised and strengthened by the revelation.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000016_000001|As we trace each one, back, step by step, through the genealogy of circumstances, we will see how logical has been the course of our joy and success, from sorrow and failure, and that what gives us most happiness to day is inextricably connected with what once caused us sorrow.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000018_000000|High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000018_000001|The rocky way may prove safer than the slippery path of smoothness.
train-clean-100/2196/170151/2196_170151_000018_000002|Birds cannot fly best with the wind but against it; ships do not progress in calm, when the sails flap idly against the unstrained masts.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000002_000000|Chapter twelve
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000003_000000|The Nature of Hypnosis
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000004_000001|The most that can be done at this time is to explore various views which are held by leading authorities at present. It can be said, however, that a majority of authorities agree that hypnosis ensues as a result of natural laws which have been incorporated in the human organism since the beginning of man as he is today.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000005_000001|Both names loom large in the history of hypnosis.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000005_000002|Mesmer, an eighteenth century physician, believed that hypnosis occurred as a result of "vital fluids" drawn from a magnet or lodestone and which drew their unique qualities from the sun, moon and stars.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000005_000004|The former (Mesmer) thought further that metal became imbued by the solar qualities, and his system is also known as metalogy by which he meant the proper application of metals.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000005_000005|Naturally, these theories have been largely abandoned today, although there are still a few who think that hypnosis is a form of hysteria.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000006_000000|Some pioneers, notably dr William s Kroger, a psychiatrically oriented obstetrician and gynecologist who limits his practice to hypnotherapy, believe hypnosis is a conviction phenomenon which produces results that parallel the phenomena produced at Lourdes and other religious healing shrines.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000006_000001|His formula is that faith, hope, belief and expectation, all catalyzed by the imagination, lead inevitably to hypnosis.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000006_000003|This fits in perfectly, of course, with the author's already discussed visual imagery technique which requires a high degree of imagination.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000006_000004|dr Kroger, like a few others, has proved to his own satisfaction that all hypnotic phenomena can be produced at a non hypnotic level.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000007_000000|A large number of hypnotists, including the author, has come to believe that hypnosis is a semantic problem in which words are the building blocks to success.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000007_000001|Not just any words, but words which "ring a bell" or tap the experiential background of the subject.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000007_000002|This is why "sleep" continues to be in the lexicon of the hypnotist even though hypnosis is the antithesis of sleep.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000007_000005|Words, of course, would be of little use without the added effect of his conditioned reflexology.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000008_000000|Probably the most widely held theory is that hypnosis is a transference phenomenon in which the prestige of the hypnotist and his relationship to the subject plays an important role.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000008_000001|This theory is bolstered by the fact that all schools of psychotherapy yield approximately the same results even though the methods differ.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000008_000002|This would logically indicate that the relationship between the therapist and the subject was the determining factor.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000008_000004|On the other hand, we know that a strong interpersonal relationship is necessary for hypnosis.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000009_000000|In the opening chapter of the book, I explained that hypnosis was a state of heightened suggestion in which the subject adopted an uncritical attitude, allowing him to accept suggestions and to take appropriate action.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000009_000001|This is excellent as far as it goes, but it does not explain how suggestion works.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000009_000002|This is the crux of the hypnotic dilemma and the answer is far from solved.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000009_000003|Hypnotists are much like those who use electricity every day of their lives, but have no idea of the nature of electricity.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000009_000004|It is enough for them to know it has been harnessed for their use.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000010_000000|If there is one thing virtually certain about hypnosis it is that some parts of the brain are inhibited and other parts expanded by the process.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000010_000001|Pin point concentration is given as the reason for this selective procedure which narrows the horizon of the subject to what the hypnotist (or he, himself) is saying, screening out all other stimuli. But why is this high order of concentration so easy under hypnosis when Asians, notably the Chinese, have been trying for centuries to concentrate on one subject for as long as four or five seconds.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000010_000002|We do not know the mechanics of this metamorphosis of an ordinary brain into an organ of concentrated power.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000010_000004|It is implied that the process may be atavistic.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000011_000000|One of the newer theories-one held by dr Lewis r Wolberg, a psychoanalyst-is that hypnosis is a psychosomatic process in that it is both physiological and psychological in character.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000011_000001|Physiologically, Wolberg believes that hypnosis represents an inhibition of the higher cortical centers, and a limitation of sensory channels such as takes place in sleep.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000011_000002|He also believes that the psychological process operates through transference.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000011_000003|Others agree that it is a transference process, but that it is more of an extension of the subject's own psychic processes which is enlarged to include the voice of the hypnotist or his own thoughts or voice.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000012_000001|This is a logical conclusion and it disperses any ideas that hypnotic patients become dependent on their therapists.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000013_000000|Milton v Kline, professor of psychology at Long Island University, postulates that hypnosis is primarily retrogressive.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000013_000001|He has written that the organism functions differently on various levels of behavior (regression), and that the behavior breaks down into component parts. The theory that regression can spotlight personality disorders found in more infantile states is also widely held.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000014_000001|This is a legitimate use of regression although it is not used so much these days to uncover past traumatic incidents.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000014_000002|Actually, regression, by duplicating the exact earlier age, manner of speech and thought, etc, makes us once more as little children, a condition to be desired for certain forms of therapy.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000015_000001|Others, primarily Europeans, have pointed out the analogy between the hypnotic state of animals and man.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000016_000000|Another widely held theory is that hypnosis is a state of dissociation, meaning that it constitutes a group of unconscious memories and activities which may be dredged up to replace the stream of consciousness.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000016_000001|Automaticism, of course, is inherently part of this view, and is presumed to negate volition.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000016_000002|Activity of the cerebrum, which controls the conscious and voluntary system, is rendered non operational.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000017_000001|Along the last named line, I believe that hypnotic suggestions have an autonomy of their own which supersede all else in the hypnotic situation.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000017_000002|There are many more theories I believe are partially correct, but the ones named will do for the purposes of this volume.
train-clean-100/2196/170379/2196_170379_000018_000000|In conclusion, the author would like to take issue with those who believe that it is the monotonous intonations of the therapist that cause the subject to lapse from the deeply relaxed state into true sleep.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000002_000013|Think its time to droop.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000002_000015|Then begin to talk about it.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000003_000002|Develop it and it will develop you. Quicken your mental throb with new ideas.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000003_000014|Grow something, create something, produce something and the law of youth will pervade your Being.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000004_000002|Rebuild destroyed tissue. Keep the system free of waste.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000004_000005|Think cheerfully.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000004_000010|It is fresh from the hand of God.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000004_000012|I will increase it unto the Perfect Day." Grow in each day, and make each day grow.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000004_000013|Check discord.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000005_000003|Adjust it until you do like it.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000005_000018|Put irresistible confidence, "I SHALL ACHIEVE," into your ardent desires. You will then love work.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000006_000015|Good cheer attracts good luck. Cheer up.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000006_000017|"Let thine heart cheer thee." Give it out let.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000006_000024|"A merry heart doeth good, like a medicine." To forget your sorrow begin to cultivate joy.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000006_000025|Keep away from sad people, or you will be sad.
train-clean-100/2196/174172/2196_174172_000009_000000|A quarrel between two people to settle things, is a good deal like a dog fight in a flower bed, the only things that get settled are the flowers.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000004_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000006_000003|Her mind leaped to enjoyment, then fell back stunned by the blow of quick remembrance, and Jane shut her eyes.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000007_000000|All beautiful sights brought this pang to her heart since the reading of that paragraph on the piazza of the Mena House Hotel.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000008_000000|An hour after she had read it, she was driving down the long straight road to Cairo; embarked at Alexandria the next day; landed at Brindisi, and this night and day travelling had brought her at last within sight of the shores of England.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000009_000000|That she was going to him, Jane knew; but she felt utterly unable to arrange how or in what way her going could be managed.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000009_000001|That it was a complicated problem, her common sense told her; though her yearning arms and aching bosom cried out: "O God, is it not simple?
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000009_000003|MY Garth!"
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000010_000000|But she knew an unbiased judgment, steadier than her own, must solve the problem; and that her surest way to Garth lay through the doctor's consulting room.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000010_000001|So she telegraphed to Deryck from Paris, and at present her mind saw no further than Wimpole Street.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000012_000001|His sight is hopelessly gone, but the injured parts were progressing favourably, and all fear of brain complications seemed over.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000013_000003|"Seven pence 'apenny of this stuff ain't much for carrying all that along, I DON'T think!" grumbled his mate; and Jane's young porter experienced the double joy of faith confirmed, and willing service generously rewarded.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000015_000000|"Here, my boy!
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000016_000000|She tore it open.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000016_000001|It was from the doctor.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000017_000000|"Welcome home.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000017_000001|Just back from Scotland.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000017_000003|Have coffee at Dover.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000017_000004|DERYCK."
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000019_000000|Then she turned to the window.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000019_000001|"Here, somebody!
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000019_000002|Fetch me a cup of coffee, will you?"
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000020_000000|Coffee was the last thing she wanted; but it never occurred to any one to disobey the doctor, even at a distance.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000021_000000|The young porter, who still stood sentry at the door of Jane's compartment, dashed off to the refreshment room; and, just as the train began to move, handed a cup of steaming coffee and a plate of bread and butter in at the window.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000022_000000|"Oh, thank you, my good fellow," said Jane, putting the plate on the seat, while she dived into her pocket.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000022_000001|"Here! you have done very well for me.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000022_000003|Coffee at a moment's notice should fetch a fancy price.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000023_000000|The train moved on, and the porter stood looking after it with tears in his eyes.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000023_000001|Over the first half crown he had said to himself: "Milk and new laid eggs." Now, as he pocketed the second, he added the other two things mentioned by the parish doctor: "Soup and jelly"; and his heart glowed.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000024_000001|She, also, had need of many things.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000024_000002|Not of half crowns; of those she had plenty.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000024_000003|But above all else she needed just now a wise, strong, helpful friend, and Deryck had not failed her.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000025_000001|How like him to think of the coffee; and oh, how like him to be coming to the station.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000026_000000|She took off her hat and leaned back against the cushions.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000026_000002|The turmoil of her soul was stilled; a great calm took its place, and Jane dropped quietly off to sleep.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000028_000000|The doctor was stationed exactly opposite the door when her carriage came to a standstill; mere chance, and yet, to Jane, it seemed so like him to have taken up his position precisely at the right spot on that long platform.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000029_000002|Then she saw behind him her aunt's footman, and her own maid, who had been given a place in the duchess's household.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000030_000000|"That is right, dear," he said.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000030_000001|"All fit and well, I can see.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000030_000004|I telephoned the duchess to send some of her people to meet your luggage, and not to expect you herself until dinner time, as you were taking tea with us. Was that right?
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000030_000005|This way.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000030_000006|Come outside the barrier.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000030_000007|What a rabble!
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000032_000002|WE were!' I feel tempted to wish, for one homicidal moment, that the earth would open her mouth and swallow them up.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000032_000005|Isn't she worth knowing?
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000032_000007|And New York harbour!
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000032_000008|Did you ever see anything to equal it, as you steam away in the sunset?"
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000033_000000|Jane gave a sudden sob; then turned to him, dry eyed.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000034_000000|"Is there no hope, Deryck?"
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000035_000001|"He will always be blind, dear.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000035_000002|But life holds other things beside sight.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000038_000000|Jane pulled off her gloves, swallowed suddenly, then gripped the doctor's knee.
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000038_000001|"Deryck-I love him."
train-clean-100/226/122538/226_122538_000040_000001|And here we are at Wimpole Street.
train-clean-100/226/131532/226_131532_000048_000000|'What!
train-clean-100/226/131533/226_131533_000015_000000|'Oh, Gilbert!'
train-clean-100/226/131533/226_131533_000032_000000|'Wouldn't what?--How do they know that I go there?'
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000004_000000|The fierce and warlike tribe, called the Huns, who had driven the Goths to seek new homes, came from Asia into Southeastern Europe and took possession of a large territory lying north of the River Danube.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000005_000002|But although he was young, he was very brave and ambitious, and he wanted to be a great and powerful king.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000006_000000|Not far from Attila's palace there was a great rocky cave in the mountains.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000007_000000|Many persons believed that he was a fortune teller, so people often went to him to inquire what was to happen to them.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000007_000001|One day, shortly after he became king, Attila went to the cave to get his fortune told.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000009_000001|I see you going from country to country, defeating armies and destroying cities until men call you the 'Fear of the World.' You heap up vast riches, but just after you have married the woman you love grim death strikes you down."
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000010_000000|With a cry of horror Attila fled from the cave.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000010_000002|But he was young and full of spirit, and very soon he remembered only what had been said to him about his becoming a great and famous conqueror and began to prepare for war.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000010_000003|He gathered together the best men from the various tribes of his people and trained them into a great army of good soldiers.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000012_000004|He then strapped it to his side and said he would always wear it.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000015_000001|He defeated the romans in several great battles and captured many of their cities.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000015_000002|The Roman Emperor Theodosius had to ask for terms of peace.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000015_000003|Attila agreed that there should be peace, but soon afterwards he found out that Theodosius had formed a plot to murder him.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000015_000004|He was so enraged at this that he again began war.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000016_000000|This made peace, but the peace did not last long.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000016_000004|The people had such dread of him that he was called the "Scourge of God" and the "Fear of the World."
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000017_000000|three
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000018_000001|Here the people bravely resisted the invaders. They shut their gates and defended themselves in every way they could.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000019_000000|Attila tried to take Orleans, but soon after he began to attack the walls he saw a great army at a distance coming towards the city.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000020_000001|The Visigoths after the death of Alaric had settled in parts of Gaul, and their king had now agreed to join the romans against the common enemy-the terrible Huns.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000020_000003|It was a fierce battle.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000020_000004|Both sides fought with the greatest bravery.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000020_000005|At first the Huns seemed to be winning.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000020_000006|They drove back the romans and Visigoths from the field, and in the fight Theodoric was killed.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000022_000001|He had taken command of the Visigoths when his father was killed, and now he led them on to fight.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000023_000000|When Attila reached his camp he had all his baggage and wagons gathered in a great heap.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000026_000000|Very soon, however, he was again on the war path.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000026_000004|Here they founded Venice.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000028_000001|He was now near the city, and they had no army strong enough to send against him.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000028_000004|It is also told that the apostles peter and Paul appeared to Attila in his camp and threatened him with death if he should attack Rome.
train-clean-100/2289/152253/2289_152253_000032_000002|They enclosed his body in three coffins-one of gold, one of silver, and one of iron-and they buried him at night, in a secret spot in the mountains.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000001_000002|The Roman emperor at the time of the plot was Valentinian the third.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000003_000000|Aetius advised Placidia to dismiss Boniface and call him home from Africa.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000003_000001|He said the count was a traitor, and that he was going to make war against Rome.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000003_000002|At the same time he wrote secretly to Count Boniface and told him that if he came to Rome the empress would put him to death.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000004_000000|Boniface believed this story, and he refused to return to Rome. He also sent a letter to Genseric, inviting him to come to Africa with an army.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000005_000000|Genseric was greatly delighted to receive the invitation from Boniface. He had long wanted to attack Rome and take from her some of the rich countries she had conquered, and now a good opportunity offered. So he got ready a great army of his brave Vandals, and they sailed across the Strait of Gibraltar to Africa.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000006_000002|He now regretted having invited the Vandals to Africa and tried to induce them to return to Spain, but Genseric sternly refused.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000008_000000|"Then," cried Boniface, "I will drive you back."
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000009_000002|At last they had to flee for safety to two or three towns which the Vandals had not yet taken.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000009_000003|One of these towns was Hippo.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000010_000000|Genseric captured this town after a siege of thirteen months.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000011_000001|Genseric continued his work of conquest until he took the city of Carthage, which he made the capital of his new kingdom in Africa.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000012_000001|He built great fleets and sailed over the Mediterranean, capturing trading vessels.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000014_000000|One day a Roman ship came to Carthage with a messenger from the Empress Eudoxia to Genseric.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000014_000001|Eudoxia was the widow of Valentinian the third.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000014_000002|After ruling several years, Valentinian had just been murdered by a Roman noble named Maximus, who had at once made himself emperor.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000016_000000|"Great king, I bring you a message from the Empress Eudoxia.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000016_000003|She wishes you to protect them against Maximus.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000016_000004|She invites you to come with an army to Rome and take the city.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000016_000005|She and her friends will help you as much as they can."
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000017_000000|With a cry of joy Genseric sprang to his feet and exclaimed:
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000018_000000|"Tell the empress that I accept her invitation.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000018_000002|I shall set out for Rome immediately.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000018_000003|I shall protect Eudoxia and her friends."
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000019_000001|When the Emperor Maximus heard that the Vandals were coming he prepared to flee from the city, and he advised the Senate to do the same.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000020_000000|Three days later Genseric and his army were at the gates of Rome. There was no one to oppose them, and they marched in and took possession of the city.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000020_000002|But since then Rome had become again grand and wealthy, so there was plenty for Genseric and his Vandals to carry away.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000020_000003|They spent fourteen days in the work of plunder.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000022_000002|One of the daughters was soon afterwards married to Genseric's eldest son, Hunneric.
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train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000024_000002|So he got together a great army and built a fleet of three hundred ships to carry his troops to Carthage.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000025_000000|But he first marched his men across the Alps, through Gaul, and down to the seaport of Carthagena in Spain, where his fleet was stationed.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000025_000001|He took this route because he expected to add to his forces as he went along.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000025_000002|Before sailing with his army for Carthage he wished very much to see with his own eyes what sort of people the Vandals were and whether they were so powerful at home as was generally believed.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000026_000000|So he dyed his hair and disguised himself in other ways and went to Carthage, pretending that he was a messenger or ambassador from the Roman emperor, coming to talk about peace.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000026_000001|Genseric received him with respect and entertained him hospitably, not knowing that he was the Emperor Majorian.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000026_000002|Of course peace was not made.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000027_000000|But Genseric did not wait for the Roman fleet to come to attack him in his capital.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000027_000001|When he got word that it was in the Bay of Carthagena, he sailed there with a fleet of his own and in a single day burned or sank nearly all the Roman ships.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000028_000001|Every year their ships went round the coasts from Asia Minor to Spain, attacking and plundering cities on their way and carrying off prisoners.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000029_000001|There were more than a thousand ships in this fleet and they carried a hundred thousand men.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000030_000000|Basilicus sailed with his ships to Africa and landed the army not far from Carthage. Genseric asked for a truce for five days to consider terms of peace, and the truce was granted.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000030_000001|But the cunning Vandal was not thinking of peace.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000030_000002|He only wanted time to carry out a plan he had made to destroy the Roman fleet.
train-clean-100/2289/152254/2289_152254_000032_000000|These boats were set on fire and floated against the Roman vessels, which also were soon on fire.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000001_000003|He was a bright, clever boy who had spent his life hitherto in a village, but was now eager to go out into the world to seek his fortune.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000002_000000|Some years before, this boy's uncle, who was named Justin, had gone to Constantinople and joined the Roman army.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000002_000001|He was so brave and so good a soldier that he soon came to be commander of the imperial guard which attended the emperor.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000004_000001|And when the boy appeared at the great man's house and told who he was, his uncle received him with much kindness.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000004_000002|He took him into his own family, and gave him the best education that could be had in the city.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000007_000000|One day a great change came for both uncle and nephew.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000007_000001|The emperor died; and the people chose Justin to succeed him.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000009_000000|After some years Justinus was advised by his nobles to take the young man, who had adopted the name of Justinian, to help him in ruling the empire.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000009_000001|Justinus agreed to this proposal, for he was now old and in feeble health, and not able himself to attend to the important affairs of government.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000010_000003|One of them was named Belisarius and the other Narses.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000012_000000|The victories of these two generals largely helped to make the reign of Justinian remarkable in history.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000013_000002|It took this fleet three months to make the voyage from Constantinople to Africa.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000013_000004|But in the time of Belisarius there were no steamships, and nothing was known of the power of steam for moving machinery. The ships or galleys were sailing vessels; and when there was no wind they could make no progress except by rowing.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000014_000000|When Belisarius reached Africa he left five men as a guard in each vessel, and with the body of his army he marched for some days along the coast.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000015_000000|About ten miles from Carthage he met a large army led by the brother of Gelimer.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000015_000001|A battle immediately took place, and the Vandals were utterly defeated.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000015_000002|Gelimer's brother was killed, and the king himself, who had followed with another army and joined the fight, was also defeated and fled from the field.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000015_000003|Belisarius then proceeded to Carthage and took possession of the city.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000017_000001|This was the end of the Vandal king in Africa.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000017_000002|In a short time Gelimer gave himself up to Belisarius, who took him to Constantinople.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000018_000003|But in a few months, Vit'i ges, king of the Goths, appeared with an army before the gates and challenged Belisarius and Narses to come out and fight.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000020_000000|But instead of having any thought of surrender, Belisarius was preparing his men for fight, and when they were ready he attacked Vitiges and defeated him.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000020_000001|Vitiges retired to Ravenna, and Belisarius quickly followed, and made such an assault on the city that it was compelled to surrender.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000020_000002|The Ostrogoth army was captured, and Vitiges was taken to Constantinople a prisoner.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000021_000000|Belisarius and Narses then went to Northern Italy, and, after a long war, conquered all the tribes there.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000021_000001|Thus the power of Justinian was established throughout the whole country, and the city of Rome was again under the dominion of a Roman emperor.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000023_000001|He erected great public buildings, which were not only useful but ornamental to the city.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000023_000003|The great temple still exists in all its beauty and grandeur, but is now used as a Mohammedan mosque.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000024_000001|He made many excellent new laws and reformed many of the old laws, so that he became famous as one of the greatest of the world's legislators.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000024_000002|For a long time the Roman laws had been difficult to understand.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000024_000003|There was a vast number of them, and different writers differed widely as to what the laws really were and what they meant. Justinian employed a great lawyer, named Trib o'ni an, to collect and simplify the principal laws.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000024_000004|The collection which he made was called the CODE OF JUSTINIAN.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000024_000005|It still exists, and is the model according to which most of the countries of Europe have made their laws.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000025_000001|It was he who first brought silk worms into Europe.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000026_000000|To the last year of his life Justinian was strong and active and a hard worker.
train-clean-100/2289/152257/2289_152257_000026_000001|He often worked or studied all day and all night without eating or sleeping.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000002_000002|They died when Mohammed was a child, and his uncle, a kind hearted man named A'bu Ta lib', took him home and brought him up.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000003_000000|When the boy grew old enough he took care of his uncle's sheep and camels.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000004_000001|He always spoke the truth and never broke a promise.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000004_000002|"I have given my promise," he would say, "and I must keep it." He became so well known in Mecca for being truthful and trustworthy that people gave him the name of El Amin, which means "the truthful."
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000005_000000|At this time he was only sixteen years of age; but the rich traders had so much confidence in him that they gave him important business to attend to, and trusted him with large sums of money.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000006_000000|Mohammed had no school education.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000006_000001|He could neither read nor write. But he was not ignorant.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000006_000002|He knew well how to do the work intrusted to him, and was a first rate man of business.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000010_000000|Mohammed waited to hear no more.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000010_000003|She said:
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000011_000001|They say that though you are so young you are a good caravan manager and can be trusted. Are you willing to take charge of my caravans and give your whole time and service to me?"
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000015_000000|As he was now the husband of a rich woman he did not need to work very hard.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000015_000001|He still continued to attend to his wife's business; but he did not make so many journeys as before.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000015_000002|He spent much of his time in thinking about religion.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000016_000001|Very few of them were Christians.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000017_000000|Mohammed was very earnest and serious.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000017_000001|In a cave on Mount Hira, near Mecca, he spent several weeks every year in prayer and religious meditation.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000017_000002|He declared that, while praying in his cave, he often had visions of God and heaven.
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train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000019_000000|When Mohammed returned home after the angel had first spoken to him, he told his wife of what he had seen and heard.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000020_000000|"There is but one God.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000020_000001|Mohammed is God's prophet."
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000021_000000|Mohammed then told the story to other members of his family.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000021_000002|Soon afterwards he began to preach to the people.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000021_000003|He spoke in the market and other public places.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000022_000000|Mohammed, however, paid no heed to the insults he received.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000023_000001|Then he would tell what he had seen in his vision.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000024_000000|After a time the number of his followers began to increase.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000024_000001|People came from distant parts of Arabia and from neighboring countries to hear him.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000026_000000|But the people of Mecca, Mohammed's own home, were nearly all opposed to him.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000026_000001|They would not believe what he preached, and they called him an impostor.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000026_000002|The people of the tribe to which he himself belonged were the most bitter against him.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000026_000003|They even threatened to put him to death as an enemy of the gods.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000027_000000|About this time Mohammed's uncle and wife died, and he had then hardly any friends in Mecca.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000027_000001|He therefore resolved to leave that city and go to Medina.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000027_000002|Numbers of the people there believed his doctrines and wished him to come and live among them.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000027_000004|With a few faithful companions he made his escape to Medina.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000030_000000|On his arrival in Medina the people received Mohammed with great rejoicing.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000030_000001|He lived there the remainder of his life.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000030_000002|A splendid church was built for him in Medina.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000030_000004|It means a place for prostration or prayer.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000033_000002|He gained many victories.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000033_000003|He marched against Mecca with an army of ten thousand men, and the city surrendered with little resistance.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000034_000001|He was buried in the mosque in which he had held religious services for so many years; and Medina has ever since been honored, because it contains the tomb of the Prophet.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000037_000001|This he does by going on the platform, or balcony, of the minaret, or tower, of the mosque and chanting in a loud voice such words as these:
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000038_000000|"Come to prayer, come to prayer.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000038_000001|There is no god but God.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000038_000003|I praise his perfection.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000038_000004|God is great."
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000039_000000|In Mecca there is a mosque called the Great Mosque.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000039_000001|It is a large enclosure in the form of a quadrangle, or square, which can hold thirty five thousand persons.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000039_000002|It is enclosed by arcades with pillars of marble and granite, and has nineteen gates, each with a minaret or pointed tower above it.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000041_000000|Within this enclosure is a famous building called the "Ka'a ba," or cube.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000041_000001|It is nearly a cube in shape.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000041_000004|It really is reddish brown in color.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000042_000000|Before the time of Mohammed the Ka'a ba was a pagan temple; but when he took possession of Mecca he made the old temple the centre of worship for his own religion.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000043_000000|After Mohammed died a person was appointed to be his successor as head of the Moslem church.
train-clean-100/2289/152258/2289_152258_000043_000002|In modern times the sultans or rulers of Turkey have been commonly regarded as the caliphs.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000001_000000|A New Proposition from Captain Nemo
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000002_000001|Right off, I observed a cluster of mountains about two thousand feet high, whose shapes were very whimsically sculpted. After our position fix, I reentered the lounge, and when our bearings were reported on the chart, I saw that we were off the island of Ceylon, that pearl dangling from the lower lobe of the Indian peninsula.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000003_000000|I went looking in the library for a book about this island, one of the most fertile in the world.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000003_000002|Reentering the lounge, I first noted the bearings of Ceylon, on which antiquity lavished so many different names.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000004_000000|Just then Captain Nemo and his chief officer appeared.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000007_000000|"Certainly, captain."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000008_000000|"Fine.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000008_000001|It's easily done.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000009_000000|The captain said a few words to his chief officer who went out immediately.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000010_000000|With the chart under my eyes, I looked for the Gulf of Mannar.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000010_000001|I found it by the ninth parallel off the northwestern shores of Ceylon.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000010_000003|To reach it we had to go all the way up Ceylon's west coast.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000011_000001|No doubt we'll be arriving a little early.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000012_000000|"You mean," I said, "that such primitive methods are still all that they use?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000014_000000|"Yet it strikes me that diving suits like yours could perform yeoman service in such work."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000015_000000|"Yes, since those poor fishermen can't stay long underwater. On his voyage to Ceylon, the Englishman Percival made much of a Kaffir who stayed under five minutes without coming up to the surface, but I find that hard to believe.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000016_000000|"Yes," I said, "it's a sad occupation, and one that exists only to gratify the whims of fashion.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000016_000001|But tell me, captain, how many oysters can a boat fish up in a workday?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000017_000001|It's even said that in eighteen fourteen, when the English government went fishing on its own behalf, its divers worked just twenty days and brought up seventy six million oysters."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000019_000000|"Hardly, professor.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000020_000000|"Only one penny to those poor people who make their employers rich! That's atrocious!"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000021_000000|"On that note, professor," Captain Nemo told me, "you and your companions will visit the Mannar oysterbank, and if by chance some eager fisherman arrives early, well, we can watch him at work."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000023_000000|"By the way, Professor Aronnax, you aren't afraid of sharks, are you?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000024_000000|"Sharks?" I exclaimed.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000026_000000|"Well?" Captain Nemo went on.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000027_000000|"I admit, captain, I'm not yet on very familiar terms with that genus of fish."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000028_000000|"We're used to them, the rest of us," Captain Nemo answered. "And in time you will be too.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000030_000000|If you're invited to hunt bears in the Swiss mountains, you might say: "Oh good, I get to go bear hunting tomorrow!" If you're invited to hunt lions on the Atlas plains or tigers in the jungles of India, you might say: "Ha!
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000030_000001|Now's my chance to hunt lions and tigers!" But if you're invited to hunt sharks in their native element, you might want to think it over before accepting.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000035_000000|As for Ned Land, I admit I felt less confident of his wisdom. Danger, however great, held a perennial attraction for his aggressive nature.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000036_000000|I went back to reading Sirr's book, but I leafed through it mechanically. Between the lines I kept seeing fearsome, wide open jaws.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000038_000001|"Your Captain Nemo-the devil take him-has just made us a very pleasant proposition!"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000039_000000|"Oh!" I said "You know about-"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000040_000001|He did so in the most cordial terms and conducted himself like a true gentleman."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000041_000000|"He didn't tell you anything else?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000042_000000|"Nothing, sir," the Canadian replied.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000042_000001|"He said you'd already discussed this little stroll."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000043_000000|"Indeed," I said.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000044_000000|"Not a one, mr Naturalist.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000044_000001|You will be going with us, right?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000045_000000|"Me?
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000045_000001|Why yes, certainly, of course!
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000045_000002|I can see that you like the idea, mr Land."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000046_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000048_000000|"Dangerous?" Ned Land replied.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000048_000001|"A simple trip to an oysterbank?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000049_000000|Assuredly, Captain Nemo hadn't seen fit to plant the idea of sharks in the minds of my companions.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000049_000001|For my part, I stared at them with anxious eyes, as if they were already missing a limb or two. Should I alert them?
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000049_000002|Yes, surely, but I hardly knew how to go about it.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000051_000000|"On the fishing itself?" I asked.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000051_000001|"Or on the occupational hazards that-"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000052_000000|"On the fishing," the Canadian replied.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000052_000001|"Before we tackle the terrain, it helps to be familiar with it."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000053_000000|"All right, sit down, my friends, and I'll teach you everything I myself have just been taught by the Englishman h c Sirr!"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000054_000000|Ned and Conseil took seats on a couch, and right off the Canadian said to me:
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000055_000000|"Sir, just what is a pearl exactly?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000059_000000|"Are mussels included too?" the Canadian asked.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000060_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000060_000001|The mussels of certain streams in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Saxony, Bohemia, and France."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000061_000000|"Good!" the Canadian replied.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000062_000000|"But," I went on, "for secreting pearls, the ideal mollusk is the pearl oyster Meleagrina margaritifera, that valuable shellfish.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000062_000001|Pearls result simply from mother of pearl solidifying into a globular shape. Either they stick to the oyster's shell, or they become embedded in the creature's folds.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000062_000002|On the valves a pearl sticks fast; on the flesh it lies loose.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000062_000003|But its nucleus is always some small, hard object, say a sterile egg or a grain of sand, around which the mother of pearl is deposited in thin, concentric layers over several years in succession."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000064_000000|"Yes, my boy.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000066_000000|"Did I say sharks?" I exclaimed hastily.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000068_000001|Thus they die in the open air, and by the end of ten days they've rotted sufficiently.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000068_000002|Next they're immersed in huge tanks of salt water, then they're opened up and washed. At this point the sorters begin their twofold task.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000069_000000|"Do the prices of these pearls differ depending on their size?" Conseil asked.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000070_000001|The finest pearls are called virgin pearls, or paragons; they form in isolation within the mollusk's tissue. They're white, often opaque but sometimes of opalescent transparency, and usually spherical or pear shaped.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000070_000002|The spherical ones are made into bracelets; the pear shaped ones into earrings, and since they're the most valuable, they're priced individually. The other pearls that stick to the oyster's shell are more erratically shaped and are priced by weight.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000070_000003|Finally, classed in the lowest order, the smallest pearls are known by the name seed pearls; they're priced by the measuring cup and are used mainly in the creation of embroidery for church vestments."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000072_000000|"No, my friend.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000072_000001|That task is performed with eleven strainers, or sieves, that are pierced with different numbers of holes. Those pearls staying in the strainers with twenty to eighty holes are in the first order.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000073_000001|And could master tell us the profits brought in by harvesting these banks of pearl oysters?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000074_000000|"According to Sirr's book," I replied, "these Ceylon fisheries are farmed annually for a total profit of three million man eaters."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000075_000000|"Francs!" Conseil rebuked.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000076_000000|"Yes, francs!
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000076_000001|three million francs!" I went on.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000076_000002|"But I don't think these fisheries bring in the returns they once did. Similarly, the Central American fisheries used to make an annual profit of four million francs during the reign of King Charles the fifth, but now they bring in only two thirds of that amount.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000078_000000|"Yes, my boy.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000080_000000|"Cleopatra," Conseil shot back.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000081_000000|"It must have tasted pretty bad," Ned Land added.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000082_000001|"But when a little glass of vinegar is worth one million five hundred thousand francs, its taste is a small price to pay."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000086_000000|"My gallant Ned," I replied, laughing, "those were artificial pearls, ordinary glass beads whose insides were coated with Essence of Orient."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000087_000001|"That Essence of Orient must sell for quite a large sum."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000088_000000|"As little as zero!
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000088_000001|It comes from the scales of a European carp, it's nothing more than a silver substance that collects in the water and is preserved in ammonia.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000088_000002|It's worthless."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000089_000000|"Maybe that's why Kate Tender married somebody else," replied mr Land philosophically.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000090_000000|"But," I said, "getting back to pearls of great value, I don't think any sovereign ever possessed one superior to the pearl owned by Captain Nemo."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000092_000000|"Exactly.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000094_000000|"Yes," I said, "two million francs, and no doubt all it cost our captain was the effort to pick it up."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000095_000000|"Ha!" Ned Land exclaimed.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000097_000000|"And why not?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000098_000000|"What good would a pearl worth millions do us here on the Nautilus?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000099_000000|"Here, no," Ned Land said.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000100_000000|"Oh! Elsewhere!" Conseil put in, shaking his head.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000101_000000|"In fact," I said, "mr
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000101_000001|Land is right.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000101_000002|And if we ever brought back to Europe or America a pearl worth millions, it would make the story of our adventures more authentic-and much more rewarding."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000102_000000|"That's how I see it," the Canadian said.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000104_000000|"No," I replied quickly, "especially if one takes certain precautions."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000105_000000|"What risks would you run in a job like that?" Ned Land said. "Swallowing a few gulps of salt water?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000106_000000|"Whatever you say, Ned." Then, trying to imitate Captain Nemo's carefree tone, I asked, "By the way, gallant Ned, are you afraid of sharks?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000107_000000|"Me?" the Canadian replied.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000107_000001|"I'm a professional harpooner! It's my job to make a mockery of them!"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000109_000000|"So it's an issue of . . . ?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000111_000000|"In the water?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000113_000001|You see, sir, these sharks are badly designed.
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000113_000002|They have to roll their bellies over to snap you up, and in the meantime . . ."
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000115_000001|What are your feelings about these man eaters?"
train-clean-100/229/130880/229_130880_000116_000001|"I'm afraid I must be frank with master."
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000002_000000|There can be no nobler cause for which to work than the peace of righteousness; and high honor is due those serene and lofty souls who with wisdom and courage, with high idealism tempered by sane facing of the actual facts of life, have striven to bring nearer the day when armed strife between nation and nation, between class and class, between man and man shall end throughout the world.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000002_000002|The men who have stood highest in our history, as in the history of all countries, are those who scorned injustice, who were incapable of oppressing the weak, or of permitting their country, with their consent, to oppress the weak, but who did not hesitate to draw the sword when to leave it undrawn meant inability to arrest triumphant wrong.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000003_000001|During our generation this seems to have been peculiarly the case among the men who have become obsessed with the idea of obtaining universal peace by some cheap patent panacea.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000004_000002|But as yet there has been only a rudimentary beginning of the development of international tribunals of justice, and there has been no development at all of any international police power.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000005_000001|Almost every great nation has inherited certain questions, either with other nations or with sections of its own people, which it is quite impossible, in the present state of civilization, to decide as matters between private individuals can be decided.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000005_000002|During the last century at least half of the wars that have been fought have been civil and not foreign wars.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000005_000003|There are big and powerful nations which habitually commit, either upon other nations or upon sections of their own people, wrongs so outrageous as to justify even the most peaceful persons in going to war.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000005_000004|There are also weak nations so utterly incompetent either to protect the rights of foreigners against their own citizens, or to protect their own citizens against foreigners, that it becomes a matter of sheer duty for some outside power to interfere in connection with them.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000005_000005|As yet in neither case is there any efficient method of getting international action; and if joint action by several powers is secured, the result is usually considerably worse than if only one Power interfered.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000002|It is almost useless to attempt to argue with these well intentioned persons, because they are suffering under an obsession and are not open to reason.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000004|They rarely try to prevent their fellow countrymen from insulting or wronging the people of other nations; but they always ardently advocate that we, in our turn, shall tamely submit to wrong and insult from other nations.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000005|As Americans their folly is peculiarly scandalous, because if the principles they now uphold are right, it means that it would have been better that Americans should never have achieved their independence, and better that, in eighteen sixty one, they should have peacefully submitted to seeing their country split into half a dozen jangling confederacies and slavery made perpetual.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000007|China has neither a fleet nor an efficient army.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000008|It is a huge civilized empire, one of the most populous on the globe; and it has been the helpless prey of outsiders because it does not possess the power to fight.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000009|Japan stands on a footing of equality with European and American nations because it does possess this power.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000006_000010|China now sees Japan, Russia, Germany, England and France in possession of fragments of her empire, and has twice within the lifetime of the present generation seen her capital in the hands of allied invaders, because she in very fact realizes the ideals of the persons who wish the United States to disarm, and then trust that our helplessness will secure us a contemptuous immunity from attack by outside nations.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000007_000000|The chief trouble comes from the entire inability of these worthy people to understand that they are demanding things that are mutually incompatible when they demand peace at any price, and also justice and righteousness.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000007_000001|I remember one representative of their number, who used to write little sonnets on behalf of the Mahdi and the Sudanese, these sonnets setting forth the need that the Sudan should be both independent and peaceful.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000007_000004|Peace came, well-being came, freedom from rape and murder and torture and highway robbery, and every brutal gratification of lust and greed came, only when the Sudan lost its independence and passed under English rule.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000007_000005|Yet this well meaning little sonneteer sincerely felt that his verses were issued in the cause of humanity.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000007_000006|Looking back from the vantage point of a score of years, probably every one will agree that he was an absurd person.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000007_000007|But he was not one whit more absurd than most of the more prominent persons who advocate disarmament by the United States, the cessation of up building the navy, and the promise to agree to arbitrate all matters, including those affecting our national interests and honor, with all foreign nations.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000008_000001|Many of them are, in the ordinary relations of life, good citizens.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000008_000002|They are exactly like the other good citizens who believe that enforced universal vegetarianism or anti vaccination is the panacea for all ills.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000008_000003|But in their particular case they are able to do harm because they affect our relations with foreign powers, so that other men pay the debt which they themselves have really incurred.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000008_000004|It is the foolish, peace at any price persons who try to persuade our people to make unwise and improper treaties, or to stop building up the navy.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000008_000005|But if trouble comes and the treaties are repudiated, or there is a demand for armed intervention, it is not these people who will pay anything; they will stay at home in safety, and leave brave men to pay in blood, and honest men to pay in shame, for their folly.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000009_000000|The trouble is that our policy is apt to go in zigzags, because different sections of our people exercise at different times unequal pressure on our government.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000009_000001|One class of our citizens clamors for treaties impossible of fulfilment, and improper to fulfil; another class has no objection to the passage of these treaties so long as there is no concrete case to which they apply, but instantly oppose a veto on their application when any concrete case does actually arise.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000009_000003|One class of our citizens indulges in gushing promises to do everything for foreigners, another class offensively and improperly reviles them; and it is hard to say which class more thoroughly misrepresents the sober, self respecting judgment of the American people as a whole.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000009_000004|The only safe rule is to promise little, and faithfully to keep every promise; to "speak softly and carry a big stick."
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000010_000003|In such event it can afford to pass its spare time in one continuous round of universal peace celebrations, and of smug self satisfaction in having earned the derision of all the virile peoples of mankind.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000010_000004|Those who advocate such a policy do not occupy a lofty position.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000010_000005|But at least their position is understandable.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000011_000004|In international affairs we are a short sighted people.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000011_000005|But I know my countrymen.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000011_000006|Down at bottom their temper is such that they will not permanently tolerate injustice done to them.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000011_000008|Such being the case, they will do well to remember that the surest of all ways to invite disaster is to be opulent, aggressive and unarmed.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000012_000000|Throughout the seven and a half years that I was President, I pursued without faltering one consistent foreign policy, a policy of genuine international good will and of consideration for the rights of others, and at the same time of steady preparedness.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000012_000001|The weakest nations knew that they, no less than the strongest, were safe from insult and injury at our hands; and the strong and the weak alike also knew that we possessed both the will and the ability to guard ourselves from wrong or insult at the hands of any one.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000000|It was under my administration that the Hague Court was saved from becoming an empty farce.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000001|It had been established by joint international agreement, but no Power had been willing to resort to it.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000003|I cordially sympathized with these views.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000004|On the recommendation of john Hay, I succeeded in getting an agreement with Mexico to lay a matter in dispute between the two republics before the Hague Court.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000005|This was the first case ever brought before the Hague Court.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000006|It was followed by numerous others; and it definitely established that court as the great international peace tribunal.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000008|We were of substantial service in bringing to a satisfactory conclusion the negotiations at Algeciras concerning Morocco.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000011|Under this treaty we are in honor bound to arbitrate the question of canal tolls for coastwise traffic between the Western and Eastern coasts of the United States.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000013_000014|I no less emphatically insist that it is our duty to keep the limited and sensible arbitration treaties which we have already made.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000001|The losses of life and of treasure were frightful.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000002|From all the sources of information at hand, I grew most strongly to believe that a further continuation of the struggle would be a very bad thing for Japan, and an even worse thing for Russia.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000004|Russia, in spite of her gigantic strength, was, in my judgment, apt to lose even more than she had already lost if the struggle continued.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000005|I deemed it probable that she would no more be able successfully to defend Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria than she had been able to defend Southern Manchuria and Korea.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000006|If the war went on, I thought it, on the whole, likely that Russia would be driven west of Lake Baikal.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000007|But it was very far from certain.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000008|There is no certainty in such a war.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000009|Japan might have met defeat, and defeat to her would have spelt overwhelming disaster; and even if she had continued to win, what she thus won would have been of no value to her, and the cost in blood and money would have left her drained white.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000014_000010|I believed, therefore, that the time had come when it was greatly to the interest of both combatants to have peace, and when therefore it was possible to get both to agree to peace.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000015_000000|I first satisfied myself that each side wished me to act, but that, naturally and properly, each side was exceedingly anxious that the other should not believe that the action was taken on its initiative.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000015_000002|Each assented to my proposal in principle.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000015_000003|There was difficulty in getting them to agree on a common meeting place; but each finally abandoned its original contention in the matter, and the representatives of the two nations finally met at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000015_000004|I previously received the two delegations at Oyster Bay on the u s s Mayflower, which, together with another naval vessel, I put at their disposal, on behalf of the United States Government, to take them from Oyster Bay to Portsmouth.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000016_000001|The chief difficulty came because of Japan's demand for a money indemnity.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000016_000002|I felt that it would be better for Russia to pay some indemnity than to go on with the war, for there was little chance, in my judgment, of the war turning out favorably for Russia, and the revolutionary movement already under way bade fair to overthrow the negotiations entirely.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000016_000006|The Germans held Paris and half of France, and gave up much territory in lieu of the indemnity, whereas the Japanese were still many thousand miles from Moscow, and had no territory whatever which they wished to give up.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000016_000008|The treaty of peace was finally signed.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000017_000001|The Japanese Government had been wise throughout, except in the matter of announcing that it would insist on a money indemnity.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000017_000002|Neither in national nor in private affairs is it ordinarily advisable to make a bluff which cannot be put through-personally, I never believe in doing it under any circumstances.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000017_000004|There were various mob outbreaks, especially in the Japanese cities; the police were roughly handled, and several Christian churches were burned, as reported to me by the American Minister.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000018_000001|I got no aid from either.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000018_000004|mr Meyer, who was, with the exception of mr White, the most useful diplomat in the American service, rendered literally invaluable aid by insisting upon himself seeing the Czar at critical periods of the transaction, when it was no longer possible for me to act successfully through the representatives of the Czar, who were often at cross purposes with one another.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000019_000000|As a result of the Portsmouth peace, I was given the Nobel Peace Prize. This consisted of a medal, which I kept, and a sum of forty thousand dollars, which I turned over as a foundation of industrial peace to a board of trustees which included Oscar Straus, Seth Low and john Mitchell.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000020_000000|I received another gift which I deeply appreciated, an original copy of Sully's "Memoires" of "Henry le Grand," sent me with the following inscription (I translate it roughly):
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000021_000000|PARIS, January, nineteen o six.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000022_000000|"The undersigned members of the French Parliamentary Group of International Arbitration and Conciliation have decided to tender President Roosevelt a token of their high esteem and their sympathetic recognition of the persistent and decisive initiative he has taken towards gradually substituting friendly and judicial for violent methods in case of conflict between Nations.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000025_000000|Of course what I had done in connection with the Portsmouth peace was misunderstood by some good and sincere people.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000025_000004|They will speak ill soon enough.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000003|If this country had not fought the Spanish War; if we had failed to take the action we did about Panama; all mankind would have been the loser.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000005|Until people get it firmly fixed in their minds that peace is valuable chiefly as a means to righteousness, and that it can only be considered as an end when it also coincides with righteousness, we can do only a limited amount to advance its coming on this earth.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000008|Hitherto peace has often come only because some strong and on the whole just power has by armed force, or the threat of armed force, put a stop to disorder.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000009|In a very interesting French book the other day I was reading how the Mediterranean was freed from pirates only by the "pax Britannica," established by England's naval force.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000010|The hopeless and hideous bloodshed and wickedness of Algiers and Turkestan was stopped, and could only be stopped, when civilized nations in the shape of Russia and France took possession of them.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000013|It was only the growth of the European powers in military efficiency that freed eastern Europe from the dreadful scourge of the Tartar and partially freed it from the dreadful scourge of the Turk.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000028_000015|To have the best nations, the free and civilized nations, disarm and leave the despotisms and barbarisms with great military force, would be a calamity compared to which the calamities caused by all the wars of the nineteenth century would be trivial.
train-clean-100/233/155990/233_155990_000030_000002|At any rate nothing useful can be done unless with the clear recognition that we object to putting peace second to righteousness.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000006_000004|We also had quantities of loose straps.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000007_000003|One man was sufficient to set up the tent in the stiffest breeze; I have come to the conclusion that the fewer poles a tent has, the easier it is to set up, which seems quite natural.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000007_000006|There was no question of this with our tents.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000010_000005|First the reindeer skins had to be bought in a raw state, and this was done for me by mr Zappfe at Tromsoe, Karasjok, and Kaatokeino.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000010_000011|We then went to work to make clothes after the pattern of the Netchelli Eskimo, and the sewing went on early and late -- thick anoraks and thin ones, heavy breeches and light, winter stockings and summer stockings.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000010_000016|It was easy to tie the end of the cover together like the mouth of the sack, and this kept the snow out of the bag during the day's march.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000010_000018|We attached great importance to having the bags made of the very best sort of skin, and took care that the thin skin of the belly was removed.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000011_000004|It is extraordinarily light and strong, and keeps the wind completely out.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000011_000008|The others consisted of trousers and jacket with hood.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000014_000000|Now, it is a fact that if one can wear soft foot gear exclusively the risk of frost bite is far less than if one is compelled to wear stiff boots; in soft foot gear, of course, the foot can move far more easily and keep warm.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000014_000005|I want the ski to be a part of oneself, so that one always has full command of them.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000014_000011|The sole was to be thick and stiff -- for we had to be prepared to use crampons -- but the uppers as soft as possible.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000016_000001|This all came complete from a firm in Stockholm.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000016_000003|There is never any trouble with this apparatus; it has come as near perfection as possible.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000017_000007|There could be no better recommendation than this.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000019_000002|The method is both simple and reliable.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000020_000001|There is not a speck of rust on needles, scissors, knives, or anything else, although they have been exposed to much damp.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000020_000002|Our own medical outfit, which was bought in Christiania, and according to the vendor's statement unusually well packed, became in a short time so damaged that the whole of it is now entirely spoilt.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000001|I have already spoken of the pemmican.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000003|Besides the pemmican, we had biscuits, milk powder, and chocolate.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000005|They were specially baked for us, and were made of oatmeal with the addition of dried milk and a little sugar; they were extremely nourishing and pleasant to the taste.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000007|These biscuits formed a great part of our daily diet, and undoubtedly contributed in no small degree to the successful result.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000008|Milk powder is a comparatively new commodity with us, but it deserves to be better known.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000009|It came from the district of Jaederen.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000011|We also took dried milk from a firm in Wisconsin; this milk had an addition of malt and sugar, and was, in my opinion, excellent; it also kept good the whole time.
train-clean-100/2384/152900/2384_152900_000021_000013|The whole supply was a very acceptable gift.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000003_000000|As the first twenty five years, more than half of the brief life of Jane Austen, were spent in the parsonage of Steventon, some description of that place ought to be given.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000003_000004|It is certainly not a picturesque country; it presents no grand or extensive views; but the features are small rather than plain.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000003_000005|The surface continually swells and sinks, but the hills are not bold, nor the valleys deep; and though it is sufficiently well clothed with woods and hedgerows, yet the poverty of the soil in most places prevents the timber from attaining a large size.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000003_000006|Still it has its beauties.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000003_000007|The lanes wind along in a natural curve, continually fringed with irregular borders of native turf, and lead to pleasant nooks and corners.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000003_000008|One who knew and loved it well very happily expressed its quiet charms, when he wrote
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000004_000000|True taste is not fastidious, nor rejects, Because they may not come within the rule Of composition pure and picturesque, Unnumbered simple scenes which fill the leaves Of Nature's sketch book.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000008_000000|But the chief beauty of Steventon consisted in its hedgerows.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000008_000005|The church itself-I speak of it as it then was, before the improvements made by the present rector-
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000012_000001|This was the cradle of her genius.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000012_000002|These were the first objects which inspired her young heart with a sense of the beauties of nature.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000012_000004|In that simple church she brought them all into subjection to the piety which ruled her in life, and supported her in death.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000013_000000|The home at Steventon must have been, for many years, a pleasant and prosperous one.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000013_000001|The family was unbroken by death, and seldom visited by sorrow.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000013_000006|They shared with the principal tenant the command of an excellent manor, and enjoyed, in this reflected way, some of the consideration usually awarded to landed proprietors.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000013_000011|The carriage, once bought, entailed little further expense; and the horses probably, like mr Bennet's, were often employed on farm work. Moreover, it should be remembered that a pair of horses in those days were almost necessary, if ladies were to move about at all; for neither the condition of the roads nor the style of carriage building admitted of any comfortable vehicle being drawn by a single horse.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000014_000002|I believe that Cassandra and Jane sometimes visited them there, and that Jane thus acquired the intimate knowledge of the topography and customs of Bath, which enabled her to write 'Northanger Abbey' long before she resided there herself.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000014_000003|After the death of their own parents, the two young Coopers paid long visits at Steventon.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000014_000004|Edward Cooper did not live undistinguished.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000014_000006|Jane Cooper was married from her uncle's house at Steventon, to Captain, afterwards Sir Thomas Williams, under whom Charles Austen served in several ships.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000014_000007|She was a dear friend of her namesake, but was fated to become a cause of great sorrow to her, for a few years after the marriage she was suddenly killed by an accident to her carriage.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000015_000001|This was the daughter of mr Austen's only sister, mrs Hancock.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000015_000006|Orders had been given by Buonaparte's government to detain all English travellers, but at the post houses mrs Henry Austen gave the necessary orders herself, and her French was so perfect that she passed everywhere for a native, and her husband escaped under this protection.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000016_000003|Jane was only twelve years old at the time of the earliest of these representations, and not more than fifteen when the last took place.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000016_000004|She was, however, an early observer, and it may be reasonably supposed that some of the incidents and feelings which are so vividly painted in the Mansfield Park theatricals are due to her recollections of these entertainments.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000017_000000|Some time before they left Steventon, one great affliction came upon the family.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000017_000003|He accompanied this friend to the West Indies, as chaplain to his regiment, and there died of yellow fever, to the great concern of his friend and patron, who afterwards declared that, if he had known of the engagement, he would not have permitted him to go out to such a climate.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000017_000004|This little domestic tragedy caused great and lasting grief to the principal sufferer, and could not but cast a gloom over the whole party.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000017_000005|The sympathy of Jane was probably, from her age, and her peculiar attachment to her sister, the deepest of all.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000018_000000|Of Jane herself I know of no such definite tale of love to relate.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000018_000002|The picture was drawn from the intuitive perceptions of genius, not from personal experience.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000018_000006|Many years after her death, some circumstances induced her sister Cassandra to break through her habitual reticence, and to speak of it.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000018_000007|She said that, while staying at some seaside place, they became acquainted with a gentleman, whose charm of person, mind, and manners was such that Cassandra thought him worthy to possess and likely to win her sister's love.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000018_000008|When they parted, he expressed his intention of soon seeing them again; and Cassandra felt no doubt as to his motives.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000018_000009|But they never again met.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000019_000000|Any description that I might attempt of the family life at Steventon, which closed soon after I was born, could be little better than a fancy piece.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000019_000002|Every hundred years, and especially a century like the last, marked by an extraordinary advance in wealth, luxury, and refinement of taste, as well as in the mechanical arts which embellish our houses, must produce a great change in their aspect.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000019_000004|Men soon forget the small objects which they leave behind them as they drift down the stream of life.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000020_000000|Nor does life's stream for observation stay; It hurries all too fast to mark their way.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000021_000000|Important inventions, such as the applications of steam, gas, and electricity, may find their places in history; but not so the alterations, great as they may be, which have taken place in the appearance of our dining and drawing rooms.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000021_000003|To record such little matters would indeed be 'to chronicle small beer.' But, in a slight memoir like this, I may be allowed to note some of those changes in social habits which give a colour to history, but which the historian has the greatest difficulty in recovering.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000022_000001|It was appropriated to solid food, rather than to flowers, fruits, and decorations.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000023_000000|The dinners too were more homely, though not less plentiful and savoury; and the bill of fare in one house would not be so like that in another as it is now, for family receipts were held in high estimation.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000025_000000|One house would pride itself on its ham, another on its game pie, and a third on its superior furmity, or tansey pudding.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000025_000002|Vegetables were less plentiful and less various.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000026_000000|But a still greater difference would be found in the furniture of the rooms, which would appear to us lamentably scanty.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000026_000002|A pianoforte, or rather a spinnet or harpsichord, was by no means a necessary appendage.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000026_000003|It was to be found only where there was a decided taste for music, not so common then as now, or in such great houses as would probably contain a billiard table.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000026_000004|There would often be but one sofa in the house, and that a stiff, angular, uncomfortable article. There were no deep easy chairs, nor other appliances for lounging; for to lie down, or even to lean back, was a luxury permitted only to old persons or invalids.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000026_000005|It was said of a nobleman, a personal friend of George the third. and a model gentleman of his day, that he would have made the tour of Europe without ever touching the back of his travelling carriage. But perhaps we should be most struck with the total absence of those elegant little articles which now embellish and encumber our drawing room tables.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000026_000007|A small writing desk, with a smaller work box, or netting case, was all that each young lady contributed to occupy the table; for the large family work basket, though often produced in the parlour, lived in the closet.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000027_000001|Many country towns had a monthly ball throughout the winter, in some of which the same apartment served for dancing and tea room.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000029_000000|To gallop all the country over, The last night's partner to behold, And humbly hope she caught no cold.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000030_000000|But the stately minuet still reigned supreme; and every regular ball commenced with it.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000030_000002|It abounded in formal bows and courtesies, with measured paces, forwards, backwards and sideways, and many complicated gyrations.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000030_000007|I have heard also of another curious proof of the respect in which this dance was held.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000030_000008|Gloves immaculately clean were considered requisite for its due performance, while gloves a little soiled were thought good enough for a country dance; and accordingly some prudent ladies provided themselves with two pairs for their several purposes.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000030_000009|The minuet expired with the last century: but long after it had ceased to be danced publicly it was taught to boys and girls, in order to give them a graceful carriage.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000031_000000|Hornpipes, cotillons, and reels, were occasionally danced; but the chief occupation of the evening was the interminable country dance, in which all could join.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000031_000001|This dance presented a great show of enjoyment, but it was not without its peculiar troubles.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000031_000004|We may rejoice that these causes of irritation no longer exist; and that if such feelings as jealousy, rivalry, and discontent ever touch celestial bosoms in the modern ball room they must arise from different and more recondite sources.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000032_000000|I am tempted to add a little about the difference of personal habits.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000032_000001|It may be asserted as a general truth, that less was left to the charge and discretion of servants, and more was done, or superintended, by the masters and mistresses.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000032_000002|With regard to the mistresses, it is, I believe, generally understood, that at the time to which I refer, a hundred years ago, they took a personal part in the higher branches of cookery, as well as in the concoction of home-made wines, and distilling of herbs for domestic medicines, which are nearly allied to the same art.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000032_000003|Ladies did not disdain to spin the thread of which the household linen was woven. Some ladies liked to wash with their own hands their choice china after breakfast or tea.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000032_000005|It was not so much that they had not servants to do all these things for them, as that they took an interest in such occupations.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000033_000002|Well dressed young men of my acquaintance, who had their coat from a London tailor, would always brush their evening suit themselves, rather than entrust it to the carelessness of a rough servant, and to the risks of dirt and grease in the kitchen; for in those days servants' halls were not common in the houses of the clergy and the smaller country gentry.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000033_000004|A young man who expected to have his things packed or unpacked for him by a servant, when he travelled, would have been thought exceptionally fine, or exceptionally lazy.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000033_000007|This was of the more importance, because, previous to the introduction of clipping, about the year eighteen twenty, it was a difficult and tedious work to make a long coated hunter dry and comfortable, and was often very imperfectly done.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000034_000001|Of course, they cannot be universally applicable.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000035_000000|I remember to have heard of only two little things different from modern customs.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000035_000003|I have been told that Sir Francis Austen, when seven years old, bought on his own account, it must be supposed with his father's permission, a pony for a guinea and a half; and after riding him with great success for two seasons, sold him for a guinea more.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000035_000005|The same authority informs me that his first cloth suit was made from a scarlet habit, which, according to the fashion of the times, had been his mother's usual morning dress.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000035_000006|If all this is true, the future admiral of the British Fleet must have cut a conspicuous figure in the hunting field.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000035_000008|This defence against wet and dirt is now seldom seen.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000036_000000|The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue eyed Patty takes the name.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000037_000000|But mortal damsels have long ago discarded the clumsy implement.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000037_000001|First it dropped its iron ring and became a clog; afterwards it was fined down into the pliant galoshe-lighter to wear and more effectual to protect-a no less manifest instance of gradual improvement than Cowper indicates when he traces through eighty lines of poetry his 'accomplished sofa' back to the original three legged stool.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000038_000000|As an illustration of the purposes which a patten was intended to serve, I add the following epigram, written by Jane Austen's uncle, mr Leigh Perrot, on reading in a newspaper the marriage of Captain Foote to Miss Patten:--
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000041_000000|Up to the beginning of the present century, poor women found profitable employment in spinning flax or wool.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000041_000004|The outstretched arms, the advanced foot, the sway of the whole figure backwards and forwards, produced picturesque attitudes, and displayed whatever of grace or beauty the work woman might possess.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000041_000006|I remember two such elegant little wheels in our own family.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000042_000000|It may be observed that this hand spinning is the most primitive of female accomplishments, and can be traced back to the earliest times. Ballad poetry and fairy tales are full of allusions to it.
train-clean-100/2391/145015/2391_145015_000042_000003|Heathen mythology celebrated it in the three Fates spinning and measuring out the thread of human life.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000007_000000|A white gloved arm, a voice, and a silvery laugh!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000008_000001|The words had formed themselves into a sort of singsong refrain that, for the last few days, had been running through his head.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000008_000003|And that was all he had ever seen of her, all that he had ever heard of her-except those letters, of course, each of which had outlined the details of some affair for the Gray Seal to execute.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000009_000000|Indeed, it seemed a great length of time now since he had heard from her even in that way, though it was not so many days ago, after all.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000010_000001|The Gray Seal!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000010_000002|Jimmie Dale the millionaire!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000010_000004|What if-Jimmie Dale smiled whimsically.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000010_000005|A burst of applause echoed through the house, the orchestra was playing, the lights were on, seats banged, there was the bustle of the rising audience, the play was at an end-and for the life of him he could not have remembered a single line of the last act!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000011_000000|The aisle at his elbow was already crowded with people on their way out. Jimmie Dale stooped down mechanically to reach for his hat beneath his seat-and the next instant he was standing up, staring wildly into the faces around him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000000|It had fallen at his feet-a white envelope.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000001|Hers!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000002|It was in his hand now, those slim, tapering, wonderfully sensitive fingers of Jimmie Dale, that were an "open sesame" to locks and safes, subconsciously telegraphing to his mind the fact that the texture of the paper-was hers.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000003|Hers!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000004|And she must be one of those around him-one of those crowding either the row of seats in front or behind, or one of those just passing in the aisle.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000005|It had fallen at his feet as he had stooped over for his hat-but from just exactly what direction he could not tell.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000006|His eyes, eagerly, hungrily, critically, swept face after face. Which one was hers?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000007|What irony!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000008|She, whom he would have given his life to know, for whom indeed he risked his life every hour of the twenty four, was close to him now, within reach-and as far removed as though a thousand miles separated them.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000012_000009|She was there-but he could not recognise a face that he had never seen!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000013_000000|With an effort, he choked back the bitter, impotent laugh that rose to his lips.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000013_000001|They were talking, laughing around him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000013_000003|He strained to catch, to individualise the tone sounds that floated in a medley about him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000013_000004|It was useless-of course-every effort that he had ever made to find her had been useless.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000013_000005|She was too clever, far too clever for that-she, too, would know that he could and would recognise her voice where he could recognise nothing else.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000014_000000|And then, suddenly, he realised that he was attracting attention.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000014_000002|Others, in the same row of seats as his own, were impatiently waiting to get by him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000014_000003|With a muttered apology, Jimmie Dale raised the seat of his chair, allowing these latter to pass him-and then, slipping the letter into his pocketbook, he snatched up his hat from the seat rack.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000015_000001|Knowing he was there, she would be on her guard; but in the lobby, among the crowd and unaware of his presence, there was the possibility that, if he could reach the entrance ahead of her, she, too, might be talking and laughing as she left the theatre. Just a single word, just a tone-that was all he asked.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000016_000000|The row of seats at whose end he stood was empty now, and, instead of stepping into the thronged aisle, he made his way across to the opposite side of the theatre.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000016_000002|The next moment he was lost in a jam of people in the lobby.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000017_000002|It was a voice now, her voice, that he was listening for; but, though it seemed that every faculty was strained and intent upon that one effort, his eyes, too, had in no degree relaxed their vigilance-and once, half grimly, half sardonically, he smiled to himself.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000017_000003|There would be an unexpected aftermath to this exodus of expensively gowned and bejewelled women with their prosperous, well groomed escorts!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000017_000004|There was the Wowzer over there-sleek, dapper, squirming in and out of the throng with the agility and stealth of a cat.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000018_000001|After all, he had known it in his heart of hearts all the time-it had always been the same-it was only one more occasion added to the innumerable ones that had gone before in which she had eluded him!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000019_000000|And now-there was the letter!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000019_000002|It was useless, futile, profitless, for the moment, at least, to disturb himself over his failure-there was the letter!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000019_000004|The letter-that was paramount now.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000019_000005|What new venture did the night hold in store for him?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000019_000006|What sudden emergency was the Gray Seal called upon to face this time-what role, unrehearsed, without warning, must he play?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000019_000008|Or would they carry in screaming headlines the announcement that the Gray Seal was caged and caught at last, and in three inch type tell the world that the Gray Seal was-Jimmie Dale!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000020_000000|A block down, he turned from Broadway out of the theatre crowds that streamed in both directions past him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000020_000001|The letter!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000020_000002|Almost feverishly now he was seeking an opportunity to open and read it unobserved; an eagerness upon him that mingled exhilaration at the lure of danger with a sense of premonition that, irritably, inevitably was with him at moments such as these.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000021_000001|People still passed by him-too many.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000021_000002|And then a cafe, just ahead, making a corner, gave him the opportunity that he sought. Away from the entrance, on the side street, the brilliant lights from the windows shone out on a comparatively deserted pavement.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000021_000004|The other had paused at the corner and was staring down the street.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000022_000001|"I wonder if it's just a fluke-or something else?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000023_000000|Jimmie Dale took a box of matches from his pocket.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000023_000001|The first would not light.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000023_000002|The second broke, and, with an exclamation of annoyance, he flung it away.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000024_000000|Jimmie Dale whistled softly to himself.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000024_000001|The second man was even better known than the first; there was not a crook in New York but would side step Lannigan of headquarters, and do it with amazing celerity-if he could!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000025_000000|"Something up!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000026_000000|The sentence was never finished.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000026_000002|The street seemed to rock about him-and he stared, like a man stricken, white to the lips, ahead of him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000026_000003|THE LETTER WAS GONE!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000026_000005|It had come at last-the pitcher had gone once too often to the well!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000027_000001|The crush in the theatre lobby-the pushing, the jostling, the close contact-the Wowzer, the slickest, cleverest pickpocket in the United States!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000027_000002|For a moment he could have laughed aloud in a sort of ghastly, defiant mockery-he himself had predicted an unexpected aftermath, had he not!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000028_000000|Aftermath!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000028_000002|An hour, two hours, and New York would be metamorphosed into a seething caldron of humanity bubbling with the news.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000028_000003|It seemed that he could hear the screams of the newsboys now shouting their extras; it seemed that he could see the people, roused to frenzy, swarming in excited crowds, snatching at the papers; he seemed to hear the mob's shouts swell in execration, in exultation-it seemed as though all around him had gone mad.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000028_000004|The mystery of the Gray Seal was solved!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000028_000005|It was Jimmie Dale, Jimmie Dale, Jimmie, Dale, the millionaire, the lion of society-and there was ignominy for an honoured name, and shame and disaster and convict stripes and sullen penitentiary walls-or death!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000028_000006|A felon's death-the chair!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000029_000000|He was running now, his hands clenched at his sides; his mind, working subconsciously, urging him onward in a blind, as yet unrealised, objectless way.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000029_000001|And then gradually impulse gave way to calmer reason, and he slowed his pace to a quick, less noticeable walk.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000029_000002|The Wowzer! That was it!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000029_000004|A merciless rage, cold, deadly, settled upon him.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000029_000006|There could be no doubt of that. Well, there would be a reckoning at least before the end!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000030_000001|But now, too, he was Jimmie Dale again; and, apart from the slightly outthrust jaw, the tight closed lips, impassive, debonair, composed.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000031_000000|There was yet a chance.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000031_000001|As Larry the Bat he knew every den and lair below the dead line, and he knew, too, the Wowzer's favourite haunts. There was yet a chance, only one in a thousand, it was true, almost too pitiful to be depended upon-but yet a chance.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000031_000002|The Wowzer had probably not worked alone, and he and his pal, or pals, would certainly not remain uptown either to examine or divide their spoils-they would wait until they were safe somewhere in one of their hell holes on the East Side.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000031_000003|If he could find the Wowzer, reach the man BEFORE THE LETTER WAS OPENED-Jimmie Dale's lips grew tighter.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000031_000004|THAT was the chance!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000031_000006|A chance!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000032_000000|Time passed.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000032_000001|His mind obsessed, Jimmie Dale's physical acts were almost wholly mechanical.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000032_000002|It was perhaps fifteen minutes since he had discovered the loss of the letter, and he was walking now through the heart of the Bowery.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000032_000003|Exactly how he had got there he could not have told; he had only a vague realisation that, following an intuitive sense of direction, he had lost not a second of time in making his way downtown.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000033_000000|And now he found himself hesitating at the corner of a cross street.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000033_000001|Two blocks east was that dark, narrow alleyway, that side door that made the entrance to the Sanctuary.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000033_000003|Time!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000033_000005|No; what was apparently the greater risk at least held out the only hope.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000034_000000|He went on again-his brain incessantly at work.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000034_000001|At the worst, there was one mitigating factor in it all.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000034_000002|He had no need to think of her. Whatever the ruin and disaster that faced him in the next few hours, she in any case was safe.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000034_000003|There was no clew to HER identity in the letter; and where he, for months on end, with even more to work upon, had failed at every turn to trace her, there was little fear that any one else would have any better success.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000034_000004|She was safe.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000034_000005|As for himself-that was different.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000040_000000|"Gimme a mug of suds," said Jimmie Dale, reaching for a match.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000042_000000|"Glad to know youse, cull!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000044_000000|"Nix!" said Jimmie Dale.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000044_000001|"I just blew in from Chicago.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000044_000002|Used to know de Wowzer dere.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000045_000000|"Sure, youse can!" returned the barkeeper heartily.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000045_000002|He beat it about fifteen minutes ago, him an' Dago Jim.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000045_000004|Know de place?"
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000046_000000|Jimmie Dale shook his head.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000047_000000|"I ain't much wise to New York," he explained.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000048_000002|"I guess youse won't bump yer head none gettin' around inside."
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000049_000000|Jimmie Dale nodded, grinned back, emptied his glass, and dug for a coin.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000050_000000|"Forget it!" observed the barkeeper cordially.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000051_000000|"T'anks!" said Jimmie Dale gratefully, as he turned away.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000000|Chang Foo's!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000002|Yes; he knew Chang Foo's-too well.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000003|Underground Chinatown-where a man's life was worth the price of an opium pill-or less!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000004|Mechanically his hand slipped into his pocket and closed over the automatic that nestled there.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000005|Once in-where he had to go-and the chances were even, just even, that was all, that he would ever get out.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000006|Again he was tempted to return to the Sanctuary and make the attempt as Larry the Bat.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000007|Larry the Bat was well enough known to enter Chang Foo's unquestioned, and-but again he shook his head and went on.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000052_000008|There was not time.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000001|What then?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000002|Once they knew the contents of that letter-what then?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000003|Buy them off for a larger amount than the many thousands offered for the capture of the Gray Seal?
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000004|Jimmie Dale gritted his teeth.
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000005|That meant blackmail from them all his life, an intolerable existence, impossible, a hell on earth-the slave, at the beck and call of two of the worst criminals in New York!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000007|God, if he could get that letter before it was opened-before they KNEW!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000008|If he could only get the chance to fight for it-against ANY odds!
train-clean-100/2416/152137/2416_152137_000053_000009|Life!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000001_000000|It was close upon one o'clock in the morning when Jimmie Dale stopped again-this time before a fashionable dwelling just off Central Park. And here, for perhaps the space of a minute, he surveyed the house from the sidewalk-watching, with a sort of speculative satisfaction, a man's shadow that passed constantly to and fro across the drawn blinds of one of the lower windows.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000001_000001|The rest of the house was in darkness.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000002_000000|"Yes," said Jimmie Dale, nodding his head, "I rather thought so.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000002_000001|The servants will have retired hours ago.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000002_000002|It's safe enough."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000003_000000|He ran quickly up the steps and rang the bell.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000003_000001|A door opened almost instantly, sending a faint glow into the hall from the lighted room; a hurried step crossed the hall-and the outer door was thrown back.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000004_000000|"Well, what is it?" demanded a voice brusquely.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000005_000000|It was quite dark, too dark for either to distinguish the other's features-and Jimmie Dale's hat was drawn far down over his eyes.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000006_000000|"I want to see mr Thomas h Carling, cashier of the Hudson Mercantile National Bank-it's very important," said Jimmie Dale earnestly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000007_000000|"I am mr Carling," replied the other.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000007_000001|"What is it?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000009_000000|"From headquarters-with a report," he said, in a low tone.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000010_000001|"Well, it's about time!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000010_000002|I've been waiting up for it-though I expected you would telephone rather than this.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000010_000003|Come in!"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000011_000000|"Thank you," said Jimmie Dale courteously-and stepped into the hall.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000012_000000|The other closed the front door.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000012_000001|"The servants are in bed, of course," he explained, as he led the way toward the lighted room.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000012_000002|"This way, please."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000013_000000|Behind the other, across the hall, Jimmie Dale followed and close at Carling's heels entered the room, which was fitted up, quite evidently regardless of cost, as a combination library and study.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000013_000001|Carling, in a somewhat pompous fashion, walked straight ahead toward the carved mahogany flat topped desk, and, as he reached it, waved his hand.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000014_000000|"Take a chair," he said, over his shoulder-and then, turning in the act of dropping into his own chair, grasped suddenly at the edge of the desk instead, and, with a low, startled cry, stared across the room.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000015_000000|Jimmie Dale was leaning back against the door that was closed now behind him-and on Jimmie Dale's face was a black silk mask.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000016_000000|For an instant neither man spoke nor moved; then Carling, spare built, dapper in evening clothes, edged back from the desk and laughed a little uncertainly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000017_000000|"Quite neat!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000017_000001|I compliment you!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000017_000002|From headquarters with a report, I think you said?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000018_000000|"Which I neglected to add," said Jimmie Dale, "was to be made in private."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000020_000000|"In private, eh?"--he seemed to be sparring for time, as he smiled.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000020_000001|"In private!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000020_000002|You've a strange method of securing privacy, haven't you?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000020_000003|A bit melodramatic, isn't it?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000020_000004|Perhaps you'll be good enough to tell me who you are?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000021_000000|Jimmie Dale smiled indulgently.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000022_000001|"My name is-Smith."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000023_000000|"Yes," said Carling.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000023_000001|"I am very stupid.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000023_000002|Thank you.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000023_000003|I-" he had reached the other side of the room now-and with a quick, sudden movement jerked his hand to the dial of the safe that stood against the wall.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000025_000000|"Please don't do that," said Jimmie Dale softly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000025_000001|"It's rather a good make, that safe.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000025_000002|I dare say it would take me half an hour to open it.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000025_000003|I was rather curious to know whether it was locked or not."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000026_000000|Carling's hand dropped to his side.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000027_000000|"So!" he sneered.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000027_000001|"That's it, is it!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000028_000000|"mr Carling," said Jimmie Dale, in a low, even tone, "unless you moderate your voice some one in the house might hear you-I am quite well aware of that.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000028_000001|But if that happens, if any one enters this room, if you make a move to touch a button, or in any other way attempt to attract attention, I'll drop you where you stand!" His hand, behind his back, extracted the key from the door lock, held it up for the other to see, then dropped it into his pocket-and his voice, cold before, rang peremptorily now.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000028_000002|"Come back to the desk and sit down in that chair!" he ordered.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000029_000000|For a moment Carling hesitated; then, with a half muttered oath, obeyed.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000030_000000|Jimmie Dale moved over, and stood in front of Carling on the other side of the desk-and stared silently at the immaculate, fashionably groomed figure before him.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000031_000000|Under the prolonged gaze, Carling's composure, in a measure at least, seemed to forsake him.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000031_000001|He began to drum nervously with his fingers on the desk, and shift uneasily in his chair.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000032_000000|And then, from first one pocket and then the other, Jimmie Dale took the two packages of banknotes, and, still with out a word, pushed them across the desk until they lay under the other's eyes.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000033_000000|Carling's fingers stopped their drumming, slid to the desk edge, tightened there, and a whiteness crept into his face.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000033_000001|Then, with an effort, he jerked himself erect in his chair.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000034_000000|"What's this?" he demanded hoarsely.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000035_000000|"About ten thousand dollars, I should say," said Jimmie Dale slowly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000035_000001|"I haven't counted it.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000035_000002|Your bank was robbed this evening at closing time, I understand?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000036_000000|"Yes!" Carling's voice was excited now, the colour back in his face. "But you-how-do you mean that you are returning the money to the bank?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000037_000000|"Exactly," said Jimmie Dale.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000038_000000|Carling was once more the pompous bank official.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000038_000001|He leaned back and surveyed Jimmie Dale critically with his little black eyes.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000039_000000|"Ah, quite so!" he observed.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000039_000001|"That accounts for the mask.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000039_000003|Under the circumstances, it is quite impossible that you should have stolen the money yourself, and-"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000040_000000|"I didn't," said Jimmie Dale.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000041_000000|"You found it-WHERE?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000042_000000|"In Moyne's home-up in Harlem."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000043_000000|"Moyne, eh?" Carling was alert, quick now, jerking out his words.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000043_000002|His pal?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000043_000003|Double crossing him, eh?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000043_000004|I suppose you want a reward-we'll attend to that, of course.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000043_000006|That's what we suspected.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000043_000008|"I'll telephone headquarters to make the arrest at once."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000044_000000|"Just a minute," interposed Jimmie Dale gravely.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000044_000001|"I want you to listen to a little story first."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000045_000000|"A story!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000045_000001|What has a story got to do with this?" snapped Carling.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000047_000000|"Oh, that's the game then, eh?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000047_000002|"Well, he should have thought of all that before!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000047_000003|It's quite useless for you to bring it up.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000047_000004|The man has had his chance already-a better chance than any one with his record ever had before. We took him into the bank knowing that he was an ex convict, but believing that we could make an honest man of him-and this is the result."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000048_000000|"And yet-"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000051_000001|"I won't have anything to do with it."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000052_000000|There was just an instant's silence; and then, with a strange, slow, creeping motion, as a panther creeps when about to spring, Jimmie Dale projected his body across the desk-far across it toward the other.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000053_000001|Your bank was robbed to night of one hundred thousand dollars.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000053_000002|There are ten thousand here.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000054_000000|"You lie!" Ashen to the lips, Carling had risen in his chair.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000054_000001|"You lie!" he cried.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000054_000004|I tell you, you lie!"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000055_000000|Jimmie Dale's lips parted ominously.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000056_000000|"Sit down!" he gritted between his teeth.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000057_000000|The white in Carling's face had turned to gray, his lips were working-mechanically he sank down again in his chair.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000058_000000|Jimmie Dale still leaned over the desk, resting his weight on his right elbow, the automatic in his right hand covering Carling.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000001|"There's just one reason, only one, that keeps me from putting a bullet through you while you sit there. We'll get to that in a moment.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000003|For the past four years, and God knows how many before that, you've gone the pace.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000004|The lavishness of this bachelor establishment of yours is common talk in New York-far in excess of a bank cashier's salary.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000005|But you were supposed to be a wealthy man in your own right; and so, in reality you were-once.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000008|What ARE you?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000009|Shall I tell you?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000059_000013|Why don't you tell me again that I lie-Carling?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000060_000000|But now the man made no answer.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000060_000001|He had sunk a little deeper in his chair-a dawning look of terror in the eyes that held, fascinated, on Jimmie Dale.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000000|"You cur!" said Jimmie Dale again.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000001|"You cur, with your devil's work!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000002|A year ago you saw this night coming-when you must have money, or face ruin and exposure.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000004|Your co officials were opposed to his appointment, but you, do you remember how you pleaded to give the man his chance-and in your hellish ingenuity saw your way then out of the trap!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000005|An ex convict from Sing Sing!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000006|It was enough, wasn't it?
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000061_000007|What chance had he!" Jimmie Dale paused, his left hand clenched until the skin formed whitish knobs over the knuckles.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000062_000000|Carling's tongue sought his lips, made a circuit of them-and he tried to speak, but his voice was an incoherent muttering.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000001|"I'm not sure enough myself-that I could keep my hands off you much longer.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000002|The actual details of how you stole the money to day do not matter-NOW.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000003|A little later perhaps in court-but not now.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000005|You brought the parcel home, put it in that safe there-and notified the president of the bank by telephone from here of the robbery, suggesting that police headquarters be advised at once.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000006|He told you to go ahead and act as you saw best.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000008|A little later in the evening, you took these two packages of banknotes from the rest, and with this steamship ticket-which you obtained yesterday while out at lunch by sending a district messenger boy with the money and instructions in a sealed envelope to purchase for you-you went up to the Moynes' flat in Harlem for the purpose of secreting them somewhere there.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000009|You pretended to be much disappointed at finding Moyne out-you had just come for a little social visit, to get better acquainted with the home life of your employees!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000063_000012|She left you there for a moment to answer the door-and you-you"--Jimmie Dale's voice choked again-"you blot on God's earth, you slipped the money and ticket under the child's mattress!"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000066_000000|"You were safe enough," he rasped on.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000066_000002|And it was safer, much more circumspect on your part, not to order the flat searched at once, but only as a last resort, as it were, after you had led the police to trail him all evening and still remain without a clew-and besides, of course, not until you had planted the evidence that was to damn him and wreck his life and home!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000066_000003|You were even generous in the amount you deprived yourself of out of the hundred thousand dollars-for less would have been enough.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000066_000006|He was an ex convict, a hardened criminal caught red handed with a portion of the proceeds of robbery-he had succeeded in hiding the remainder of it too cleverly, that was all."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000067_000000|Carling's face was ghastly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000067_000001|His hands went out again-again his tongue moistened his dry lips.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000067_000002|He whispered:
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000068_000000|"Isn't-isn't there some-some way we can fix this?"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000069_000000|And then Jimmie Dale laughed-not pleasantly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000070_000000|"Yes, there's a way, Carling," he said grimly.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000070_000001|"That's why I'm here." He picked up a sheet of writing paper and pushed it across the desk-then a pen, which he dipped into the inkstand, and extended to the other.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000070_000002|"The way you'll fix it will be to write out a confession exonerating Moyne."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000071_000000|Carling shrank back into his chair, his head huddling into his shoulders.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000073_000000|The automatic in Jimmie Dale's hand edged forward the fraction of an inch.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000074_000000|"I have not used this-yet.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000074_000001|You understand now why-don't you?" he said under his breath.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000075_000001|"I'm ruined-ruined as it is.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000077_000000|"Some other way-some other way!" Carling was babbling.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000077_000001|"Let me out of this-for God's sake, let me out of this!"
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000078_000000|"Carling," said Jimmie Dale hoarsely, "I stood beside a little bed to night and looked at a baby girl-a little baby girl with golden hair, who smiled as she slept."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000079_000000|Carling shivered, and passed a shaking hand across his face.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000080_000001|The automatic lifted until the muzzle was on a line with Carling's eyes.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000081_000000|Carling's hand reached out, still shaking, and took the pen; and his body, dragged limply forward, hung over the desk.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000081_000001|The pen spluttered on the paper-a bead of sweat spurting from the man's forehead dropped to the sheet.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000082_000001|A minute passed-another.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000082_000002|Carling's pen travelled haltingly across the paper then, with a queer, low cry as he signed his name, he dropped the pen from his fingers, and, rising unsteadily from his chair, stumbled away from the desk toward a couch across the room.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000083_000000|An instant Jimmie Dale watched the other, then he picked up the sheet of paper.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000084_000000|"I guess it's all up.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000084_000002|Moyne hadn't anything to do with it.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000084_000003|I stole the money myself from the bank to night. I guess it's all up.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000085_000000|"THOMAS h CARLING."
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000086_000000|From the paper, Jimmie Dale's eyes shifted to the figure by the couch-and the paper fluttered suddenly from his fingers to the desk. Carling was reeling, clutching at his throat-a small glass vial rolled upon the carpet.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000086_000001|And then, even as Jimmie Dale sprang forward, the other pitched head long over the couch-and in a moment it was over.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000087_000000|Presently Jimmie Dale picked up the vial-and dropped it back on the floor again.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000087_000001|There was no label on it, but it needed none-the strong, penetrating odor of bitter almonds was telltale evidence enough.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000087_000002|It was prussic, or hydrocyanic acid, probably the most deadly poison and the swiftest in its action that was known to science-Carling had provided against that "some day" in his confession!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000088_000001|He held them an instant, staring at them, then methodically began to tear them into little pieces, a strange, tired smile hovering on his lips.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000088_000002|The man was dead now-there would be disgrace enough for some one to bear, a mother perhaps-who knew!
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000089_000001|He opened it there.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000089_000002|Inside were nearly two dozen little packages of hundred dollar bills.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000089_000003|The other two packages that he had brought with him he added to the rest.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000089_000004|From his pocket he took out the thin metal insignia case, and with the tiny tweezers lifted up one of the gray coloured, diamond shaped paper seals.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000089_000005|He moistened the adhesive side, and, still holding it by the tweezers, dropped it on his handkerchief and pressed the seal down on the face of the topmost package of banknotes.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000090_000000|HUDSON MERCANTILE NATIONAL BANK,
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000092_000000|"District messenger-some way-in the morning," he murmured.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000093_000000|Jimmie Dale slipped his mask into his pocket, and, with the parcel under his arm, stepped to the door and unlocked it.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000093_000001|He paused for an instant on the threshold for a single, quick, comprehensive glance around the room-then passed on out into the street.
train-clean-100/2416/152139/2416_152139_000094_000000|At the corner he stopped to light a cigarette-and the flame of the match spurting up disclosed a face that was worn and haggard.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000004_000001|I was exhausted and drugged with lack of sleep.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000004_000003|Then I sought out Carter.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000004_000006|I told him what Snap and I had learned: the rays from the Moon, proving that Grantline had concentrated a considerable ore body.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000007_000001|Who was it?
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000009_000000|"Johnson is all right, Gregg."
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000010_000000|"Does he know anything about this Grantline affair?"
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000013_000000|The Captain ignored my questions.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000013_000002|Go to bed, Gregg, you need rest."
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000014_000000|I went to my cabin.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000014_000001|It was located aft, on the stern deck, near the stern watch tower.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000015_000001|I had slept heavily.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000016_000003|We were well on our course to Mars.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000016_000004|The Moon had dwindled to a pin point of light beside the crescent Earth.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000017_000001|We sat at the ends, with the passengers on each of the sides.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000019_000001|Big, handsome fellow, isn't he?
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000019_000002|And as pleasant as he is good looking.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000020_000002|His pointed face, accentuated by the pointed beard, was pallid.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000021_000000|"I am happy to meet you, sir." His voice was soft and deep.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000023_000000|A smile plucked at his thin, gray lips.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000025_000001|The ignorance-"
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000026_000002|And as a matter of fact-"
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000027_000001|"This is Sir Arthur Coniston, an English gentleman, lecturer and sky trotter-that is, he will be a sky trotter; he tells us he plans a number of voyages."
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000029_000001|Snap introduced him as Rance Rankin.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000029_000002|An American-a quiet, blond fellow of thirty five or forty.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000030_000000|I ordered my breakfast and let the argument go on.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000031_000001|"I love an argument.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000032_000000|"I mean to say, I think I said too much.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000032_000001|mr Rankin, you are more diplomatic."
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000033_000000|Rankin laughed.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000033_000002|"A theatrical entertainer.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000034_000000|"A nasty one!" the Englishman exclaimed.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000034_000001|"By Jove!
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000035_000002|There were still three seats vacant at our table; I wondered who would occupy them.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000035_000003|I soon learned the answer-for one seat at least.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000035_000004|Rankin said calmly:
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000036_000001|"The Venza, isn't that her name?
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000037_000001|It was good news.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000038_000001|"She's on the deck, having orange juice.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000039_000002|At the Captain's table I saw the objects of my search: George Prince and his sister, one on each side of the Captain.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000040_000003|She was dressed in Earth fashion-white blouse and dark jacket, wide, knee length trousers of gray, with a red sash her only touch of color.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000040_000004|She went past me, flashed me a smile.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000041_000001|I answered her greeting, and met George Prince's casual gaze.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000044_000001|"We did, didn't we?
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000044_000003|Explain it to them, Gregg.
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000048_000000|"mr
train-clean-100/2436/2476/2436_2476_000049_000000|They were brother and sister, these Martians.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000003_000001|Gregg, I'm getting like you-too fanciful.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000017_000003|Do you know, from Venus to Earth, and I have no doubt on all of Mars, no man will please me more."
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000019_000000|"Contract.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000019_000001|By the stars, what else?
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000019_000002|Of course, a chance to make a voyage with you-"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000024_000001|Sober.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000026_000001|Good money, Gregg.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000026_000004|At our table-a big, good looking blond American.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000027_000000|"That's what he told me.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000028_000002|Nice sort of fellow." She paused, then added, "If he's a professional entertainer, I'm a motor oiler."
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000029_000000|It startled me.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000029_000001|"Why do you say that?"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000031_000000|"Why do you look so furtive?" she retorted.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000033_000000|She leaned closer toward me.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000035_000003|By Satan, what a flow of words that devil driver can muster!
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000037_000000|"Come back, Gregg!
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000040_000000|"Excitement?"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000043_000005|Wild eyed, chasing a phantom-"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000044_000000|"You?"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000048_000000|"Wait!
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000048_000001|Venza, that prowler went through the smoking room!"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000051_000001|The purser looked up, followed the sound with his gaze.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000051_000005|Why?
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000051_000006|What's going on, that's what I want to know?"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000053_000003|And the purser acting innocent?
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000055_000002|Listen!
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000058_000003|A crooked game, of course.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000060_000002|They wanted to know what kind of a ship this was.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000061_000000|I gasped, "Venza!
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000061_000001|Softer-"
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000066_000001|I'll talk with him.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000066_000002|No!
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000070_000000|They came to the corner of the deck, but turned back.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000070_000001|Venza caught my look.
train-clean-100/2436/2477/2436_2477_000072_000001|Why we've hardly spoken!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000000_000001|The empty deck chairs stood about.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000000_000002|The scream was stilled, but now we heard a commotion inside-the rasp of opening cabin doors; questions from frightened passengers.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000002_000000|"Come on!" shouted Snap.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000002_000001|"In her stateroom,a twenty two!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000003_000000|dr Frank and I followed.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000004_000000|I shouted, "Go back to your rooms!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000004_000001|We want order here-keep back!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000005_000001|Both were closed.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000005_000002|dr Frank was in advance of Snap and me now.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000006_000000|"Was it from in there?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000007_000000|Carter dashed up.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000007_000001|He had a large heat ray projector in his hand.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000007_000002|He shoved us aside.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000007_000003|"Let me in first.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000007_000004|Is the door sealed?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000007_000005|Gregg, keep those passengers back!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000008_000000|The door was not sealed.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000008_000001|Carter burst into the room.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000008_000002|I heard him gasp, "Good God!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000009_000000|Snap and I shoved back three or four passengers.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000010_000000|"There's been an accident!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000010_000001|Get back, Gregg!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000010_000002|Snap, help me keep the crowd away." He shoved me forcibly.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000011_000000|From within, Carter was shouting, "Keep them out!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000011_000001|Where are you, Frank?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000011_000002|Come back here!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000011_000003|Send a flash for Balch!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000012_000000|dr Frank went back into the room and banged the cabin door upon Snap and me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000012_000002|Weapon in hand, Snap forced the panic stricken passengers back to their rooms.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000015_000000|I gazed around for her brother Miko, but did not see him.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000016_000002|Captain's orders."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000017_000001|Snap was threatening everybody with his cylinder.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000017_000002|Balch dashed up.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000017_000004|Where is Carter?"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000018_000000|"In there." I pounded on a twenty two.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000018_000001|It opened cautiously.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000018_000002|I could see only Carter, but I heard the murmuring voice of dr Frank through the interior connecting door to a twenty.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000019_000000|The Captain rasped, "Get out, Haljan!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000019_000001|Oh, is that you, Balch?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000019_000002|Come in." He admitted the older officer and slammed the door upon me again. And immediately reopened it.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000020_000000|"Gregg, keep the passengers quieted.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000020_000001|Tell them everything's all right. Miss Prince got frightened-that's all.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000020_000002|Then go to the turret.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000020_000003|Tell Blackstone what's happened."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000021_000000|"But I don't know what's happened."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000022_000000|Carter was grim and white.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000022_000003|dr Frank is trying ... don't stand there like an ass, man.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000022_000004|Get to the turret!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000022_000005|Verify our trajectory-no-wait...."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000023_000000|The Captain was almost incoherent.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000023_000001|"Wait a minute.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000023_000002|I don't mean that! Tell Snap to watch his radio room.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000023_000003|Arm yourselves and guard our weapons."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000024_000000|I stammered, "If ... if she dies ... will you flash us word?"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000025_000001|"I'll be there presently, Gregg."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000026_000000|He slammed the door upon me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000027_000001|The turmoil of the ship gradually quieted.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000027_000003|Anita hurt!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000027_000004|She might die ... murdered....
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000028_000000|Where was Miko?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000029_000000|Carter came into the chart room.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000029_000002|You look like a ghost."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000030_000000|"But-"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000031_000002|dr Frank and her brother are with her.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000031_000003|They're doing all they can." He told us what had happened.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000032_000000|"Wasn't it sealed?"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000034_000000|"Burst it?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000035_000001|The assailant opened it somehow, and assaulted Miss Prince-shot her in the chest with a heat ray.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000037_000001|But she did not see who did it.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000037_000002|Nor did Prince.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000040_000003|I entered cautiously, switched on the dimmer of the tube lights, and searched the room.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000040_000004|It had only a bunk, my tiny desk, a chair and clothes robe.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000041_000000|"Snap?"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000042_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000043_000001|Carter cut in on us from the chart room.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000043_000002|"Stop that, you fools!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000045_000001|Someone was tampering with my door!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000045_000003|But it had done its work-awakened me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000046_000002|I searched for it, pried it loose softly.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000047_000001|Alert.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000047_000003|In the darkness, cylinder in hand, I crept softly from the bunk.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000047_000004|Crouched at the door.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000048_000002|Upon impulse I reached for the door, jerked it open.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000049_000000|No one there!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000049_000003|A giant man.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000049_000004|Miko!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000050_000000|His electronized metallic robe burned my hands.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000050_000001|I lunged against him-I was almost as surprised as he.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000050_000003|The shock of my encounter, short circuited his robe; he materialized in the starlight.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000050_000004|A brief, savage encounter.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000050_000006|He had dropped his hydrogen torch, and tried to grip me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000051_000000|"So it's you!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000052_000000|"Quiet, Gregg Haljan!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000052_000001|I only want to talk."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000053_000001|It caught me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000054_000000|I fell helpless to the deck.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000057_000001|A white actinic light shot from it-caught us, bathed us. Snap had been awake; had heard the commotion of our encounter.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000058_000000|His voice rang shrilly: "Stop!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000058_000001|I'll shoot!" His warning siren rang out to alert the ship.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000058_000002|His spotlight clung to us.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000059_000000|Miko ran with me a few steps.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000059_000001|Then he cursed and dropped me; fled away.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000059_000002|I fell like a sack of carbide to the deck.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000060_000000|"He's all right now."
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000061_000000|I was in the chart room with Captain Carter, Snap and dr Frank bending over me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000062_000000|"Can you speak now, Gregg?"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000063_000000|I tried it.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000063_000003|I sat up, with dr Frank vigorously rubbing me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000064_000000|"I'm all right." I told them what had happened.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000066_000000|"Died!..." I leaped to my feet.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000067_000003|She repulsed him.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000068_000000|It struck me blank.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000069_000000|I heard myself stammering, "Why-why we must get him!" I gathered my wits; a surge of hate swept me; a wild desire for vengeance.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000070_000000|"Why, by God, where is he?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000070_000001|Why don't you go get him?
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000071_000000|"Easy, Gregg!" dr Frank gripped me.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000072_000000|The Captain said gently.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000073_000000|"I'll bring him in here to you!
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000073_000001|But I'll kill him, I tell you!"
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000074_000001|We don't want him killed, not attacked, even.
train-clean-100/2436/2481/2436_2481_000074_000002|Not yet.
train-clean-100/248/130652/248_130652_000015_000001|"Why did you ask the Gogoffs?
train-clean-100/248/130652/248_130652_000015_000003|She spoils the look of the room."
train-clean-100/248/130652/248_130652_000025_000000|"Very likely.
train-clean-100/248/130652/248_130652_000047_000000|"Check, old boy!"
train-clean-100/248/130697/248_130697_000016_000007|You will not forsake me?"
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000002_000000|PREFACE
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000003_000000|This book owes its origin to the fact that in the autumn of nineteen twenty one the authorities of Manchester College, Oxford invited me to deliver the inaugural course of a lectureship in religion newly established under the will of the late Professor Upton.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000003_000001|No conditions being attached to this appointment, it seemed a suitable opportunity to discuss, so far as possible in the language of the moment, some of the implicits which I believe to underlie human effort and achievement in the domain of the spiritual life.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000000|Since my subject is not the splendor of historic sanctity but the normal life of the Spirit, as it may be and is lived in the here and now, I have done my best to describe the character and meaning of this life in the ordinary terms of present day thought, and with little or no use of the technical language of mysticism.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000001|For the same reason, no attention has been given to those abnormal experiences and states of consciousness, which, too often regarded as specially "mystical," are now recognized by all competent students as representing the unfortunate accidents rather than the abiding substance of spirituality.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000002|Readers of these pages will find nothing about trances, Ecstasies and other rare psychic phenomena; which sometimes indicate holiness, and sometimes only disease.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000003|For information on these matters they must go to larger and more technical works.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000004|My aim here is the more general one, of indicating first the characteristic experiences-discoverable within all great religions-which justify or are fundamental to the spiritual life, and the way in which these experiences may be accommodated to the world view of the modern man: and next, the nature of that spiritual life as it appears in human history.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000005|The succeeding sections of the book treat in some detail the light cast on spiritual problems by mental analysis-a process which need not necessarily be conducted from the standpoint of a degraded materialism-and by recent work on the psychology of autistic thought and of suggestion.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000007|Finally, the last chapter attempts to place the fact of the life of the Spirit in its relation to the social order, and to indicate some of the results which might follow upon its healthy corporate development.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000008|It is superfluous to point out that each of these subjects needs, at least, a volume to itself: and to some of them I shall hope to return in the future.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000004_000009|Their treatment in the present work is necessarily fragmentary and suggestive; and is intended rather to stimulate thought, than to offer solutions.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000005_000000|Part of Chapter four has already appeared in "The Fortnightly Review" under the title "Suggestion and Religious Experience." Chapter eight incorporates several passages from an article on "Sources of Power in Human Life" originally contributed to the "Hubert Journal." These are reprinted by kind permission of the editors concerned.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000005_000001|My numerous debts to previous writers are obvious, and for the most part are acknowledged in the footnotes; the greatest, to the works of Baron Von Hugely, will be clear to all students of his writings.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000005_000002|Thanks are also due to my old friend William Scott Palmer, who read part of the manuscript and gave me much generous and valuable advice.
train-clean-100/250/140277/250_140277_000018_000000|seven.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000001_000000|ROSES AND THORNS
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000002_000001|HEMANS.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000000|Margaret was once more in her morning dress, travelling quietly home with her father, who had come up to assist at the wedding.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000002|If mrs Shaw had guessed at the real reason why mrs Hale did not accompany her husband, she would have showered down gowns upon her; but it was nearly twenty years since mrs Shaw had been the poor, pretty Miss Beresford, and she had really forgotten all grievances except that of the unhappiness arising from disparity of age in married life, on which she could descant by the half hour.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000004|mr Hale was one of the most delightful preachers she had ever heard, and a perfect model of a parish priest.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000006|Her mind and body ached now with the recollection of all she had done and said within the last forty eight hours.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000008|She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000009|Her eyes began to see, not visions of what had been, but the sight actually before her; her dear father leaning back asleep in the railway carriage.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000010|His blue black hair was grey now, and lay thinly over his brows.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000011|The bones of his face were plainly to be seen-too plainly for beauty, if his features had been less finely cut; as it was, they had a grace if not a comeliness of their own.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000012|The face was in repose; but it was rather rest after weariness, than the serene calm of the countenance of one who led a placid, contented life.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000003_000013|Margaret was painfully struck by the worn, anxious expression; and she went back over the open and avowed circumstances of her father's life, to find the cause for the lines that spoke so plainly of habitual distress and depression.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000004_000001|'Oh! if Frederick had but been a clergyman, instead of going into the navy, and being lost to us all!
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000004_000002|I wish I knew all about it.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000004_000003|I never understood it from Aunt Shaw; I only knew he could not come back to England because of that terrible affair. Poor dear papa! how sad he looks!
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000004_000004|I am so glad I am going home, to be at hand to comfort him and mamma.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000005_000000|She was ready with a bright smile, in which there was not a trace of fatigue, to greet her father when he awakened.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000005_000001|He smiled back again, but faintly, as if it were an unusual exertion.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000005_000002|His face returned into its lines of habitual anxiety.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000005_000003|He had a trick of half opening his mouth as if to speak, which constantly unsettled the form of the lips, and gave the face an undecided expression.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000005_000004|But he had the same large, soft eyes as his daughter,--eyes which moved slowly and almost grandly round in their orbits, and were well veiled by their transparent white eyelids. Margaret was more like him than like her mother.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000005_000006|If the look on her face was, in general, too dignified and reserved for one so young, now, talking to her father, it was bright as the morning,--full of dimples, and glances that spoke of childish gladness, and boundless hope in the future.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000000|It was the latter part of July when Margaret returned home.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000002|Its people were her people.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000004|Her out of doors life was perfect.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000005|Her in doors life had its drawbacks.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000006|With the healthy shame of a child, she blamed herself for her keenness of sight, in perceiving that all was not as it should be there.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000007|Her mother-her mother always so kind and tender towards her-seemed now and then so much discontented with their situation; thought that the bishop strangely neglected his episcopal duties, in not giving mr Hale a better living; and almost reproached her husband because he could not bring himself to say that he wished to leave the parish, and undertake the charge of a larger.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000008|He would sigh aloud as he answered, that if he could do what he ought in little Helstone, he should be thankful; but every day he was more overpowered; the world became more bewildering.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000006_000010|This did good for a time; but when the autumn drew on, and the weather became more changeable, her mother's idea of the unhealthiness of the place increased; and she repined even more frequently that her husband, who was more learned than mr Hume, a better parish priest than mr Houldsworth, should not have met with the preferment that these two former neighbours of theirs had done.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000007_000000|This marring of the peace of home, by long hours of discontent, was what Margaret was unprepared for.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000007_000001|She knew, and had rather revelled in the idea, that she should have to give up many luxuries, which had only been troubles and trammels to her freedom in Harley Street.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000007_000002|Her keen enjoyment of every sensuous pleasure, was balanced finely, if not overbalanced, by her conscious pride in being able to do without them all, if need were.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000007_000003|But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000007_000005|In the latter half of September, the autumnal rains and storms came on, and Margaret was obliged to remain more in the house than she had hitherto done.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000007_000006|Helstone was at some distance from any neighbours of their own standard of cultivation.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000008_000000|'It is undoubtedly one of the most out of the way places in England,' said mrs Hale, in one of her plaintive moods.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000009_000002|I'm glad we don't visit them.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000009_000003|I don't like shoppy people.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000009_000004|I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.'
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000010_000000|'You must not be so fastidious, Margaret, dear!' said her mother, secretly thinking of a young and handsome mr Gorman whom she had once met at mr Hume's.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000011_000000|'No!
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000011_000001|I call mine a very comprehensive taste; I like all people whose occupations have to do with land; I like soldiers and sailors, and the three learned professions, as they call them.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000011_000002|I'm sure you don't want me to admire butchers and bakers, and candlestick makers, do you, mamma?'
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000012_000000|'But the Gormans were neither butchers nor bakers, but very respectable coach builders.'
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000013_000000|'Very well.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000013_000001|Coach building is a trade all the same, and I think a much more useless one than that of butchers or bakers.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000013_000002|Oh! how tired I used to be of the drives every day in Aunt Shaw's carriage, and how I longed to walk!'
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000014_000000|And walk Margaret did, in spite of the weather.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000014_000001|She was so happy out of doors, at her father's side, that she almost danced; and with the soft violence of the west wind behind her, as she crossed some heath, she seemed to be borne onwards, as lightly and easily as the fallen leaf that was wafted along by the autumnal breeze.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000014_000002|But the evenings were rather difficult to fill up agreeably.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000014_000004|At one time they had tried backgammon as a resource; but as mr Hale grew to take an increasing interest in his school and his parishioners, he found that the interruptions which arose out of these duties were regarded as hardships by his wife, not to be accepted as the natural conditions of his profession, but to be regretted and struggled against by her as they severally arose.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000014_000005|So he withdrew, while the children were yet young, into his library, to spend his evenings (if he were at home), in reading the speculative and metaphysical books which were his delight.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000000|When Margaret had been here before, she had brought down with her a great box of books, recommended by masters or governess, and had found the summer's day all too short to get through the reading she had to do before her return to town.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000001|Now there were only the well bound little read English Classics, which were weeded out of her father's library to fill up the small book shelves in the drawing room.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000002|Thomson's Seasons, Hayley's Cowper, Middleton's Cicero, were by far the lightest, newest, and most amusing.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000003|The book shelves did not afford much resource. Margaret told her mother every particular of her London life, to all of which mrs Hale listened with interest, sometimes amused and questioning, at others a little inclined to compare her sister's circumstances of ease and comfort with the narrower means at Helstone vicarage.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000008|In one of the letters she had received before leaving Harley Street, her father had told her that they had heard from Frederick; he was still at Rio, and very well in health, and sent his best love to her; which was dry bones, but not the living intelligence she longed for.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000012|She remained with her, and was devoted to her interests; always considering herself as the good and protecting fairy, whose duty it was to baffle the malignant giant, mr Hale.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000013|Master Frederick had been her favorite and pride; and it was with a little softening of her dignified look and manner, that she went in weekly to arrange the chamber as carefully as if he might be coming home that very evening.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000014|Margaret could not help believing that there had been some late intelligence of Frederick, unknown to her mother, which was making her father anxious and uneasy.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000016|His spirits were always tender and gentle, readily affected by any small piece of intelligence concerning the welfare of others.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000017|He would be depressed for many days after witnessing a death bed, or hearing of any crime.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000015_000018|But now Margaret noticed an absence of mind, as if his thoughts were pre occupied by some subject, the oppression of which could not be relieved by any daily action, such as comforting the survivors, or teaching at the school in hope of lessening the evils in the generation to come.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000016_000001|And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000016_000002|The fern harvest was over, and now that the rain was gone, many a deep glade was accessible, into which Margaret had only peeped in July and August weather.
train-clean-100/250/142276/250_142276_000016_000004|Accordingly, she was busy preparing her board one morning, when Sarah, the housemaid, threw wide open the drawing room door and announced, 'mr
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000000_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000001_000000|MORNING CALLS
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000003_000000|mr Thornton had had some difficulty in working up his mother to the desired point of civility.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000003_000001|She did not often make calls; and when she did, it was in heavy state that she went through her duties.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000003_000002|Her son had given her a carriage; but she refused to let him keep horses for it; they were hired for the solemn occasions, when she paid morning or evening visits.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000003_000004|Yet Crampton was too far off for her to walk; and she had repeatedly questioned her son as to whether his wish that she should call on the Hales was strong enough to bear the expense of cab hire.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000003_000005|She would have been thankful if it had not; for, as she said, 'she saw no use in making up friendships and intimacies with all the teachers and masters in Milton; why, he would be wanting her to call on Fanny's dancing master's wife, the next thing!'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000005_000000|'Oh! you need not speak so hastily.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000005_000001|I am going to morrow.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000005_000002|I only wanted you exactly to understand about it.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000006_000000|'If you are going to morrow, I shall order horses.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000007_000000|'Nonsense, john.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000007_000001|One would think you were made of money.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000008_000000|'Not quite, yet.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000008_000001|But about the horses I'm determined.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000009_000000|'I never complained of it, I'm sure.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000010_000001|My mother is not given to complaints,' said he, a little proudly. 'But so much the more I have to watch over you.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000010_000002|Now as for Fanny there, a little hardship would do her good.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000000|'She is not made of the same stuff as you are, john.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000001|She could not bear it.' mrs Thornton was silent after this; for her last words bore relation to a subject which mortified her.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000002|She had an unconscious contempt for a weak character; and Fanny was weak in the very points in which her mother and brother were strong.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000004|A stranger, a careless observer might have considered that mrs Thornton's manner to her children betokened far more love to Fanny than to john.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000005|But such a one would have been deeply mistaken.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000007|She never called her son by any name but john; 'love,' and 'dear,' and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000011_000008|But her heart gave thanks for him day and night; and she walked proudly among women for his sake.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000012_000000|'Fanny dear I shall have horses to the carriage to day, to go and call on these Hales.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000012_000002|It's in the same direction, and she's always so glad to see you.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000012_000003|You could go on there while I am at mrs Hale's.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000013_000000|'Oh! mamma, it's such a long way, and I am so tired.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000014_000000|'With what?' asked mrs Thornton, her brow slightly contracting.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000015_000000|'I don't know-the weather, I think.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000015_000002|Couldn't you bring nurse here, mamma?
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000015_000003|The carriage could fetch her, and she could spend the rest of the day here, which I know she would like.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000016_000000|mrs Thornton did not speak; but she laid her work on the table, and seemed to think.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000017_000000|'It will be a long way for her to walk back at night!' she remarked, at last.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000018_000000|'Oh, but I will send her home in a cab.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000018_000001|I never thought of her walking.' At this point, mr Thornton came in, just before going to the mill.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000019_000000|'Mother!
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000019_000001|I need hardly say, that if there is any little thing that could serve mrs Hale as an invalid, you will offer it, I'm sure.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000020_000000|'If I can find it out, I will.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000020_000001|But I have never been ill myself, so I am not much up to invalids' fancies.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000021_000000|'Well! here is Fanny then, who is seldom without an ailment.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000021_000001|She will be able to suggest something, perhaps-won't you, Fan?'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000022_000000|'I have not always an ailment,' said Fanny, pettishly; 'and I am not going with mamma.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000023_000000|mr Thornton looked annoyed.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000023_000001|His mother's eyes were bent on her work, at which she was now stitching away busily.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000024_000000|'Fanny!
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000024_000001|I wish you to go,' said he, authoritatively.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000024_000002|'It will do you good, instead of harm.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000025_000000|He went abruptly out of the room after saying this.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000027_000000|'john always speaks as if I fancied I was ill, and I am sure I never do fancy any such thing.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000027_000001|Who are these Hales that he makes such a fuss about?'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000028_000000|'Fanny, don't speak so of your brother.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000028_000001|He has good reasons of some kind or other, or he would not wish us to go.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000028_000002|Make haste and put your things on.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000030_000000|mrs Thornton was shy.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000030_000001|It was only of late years that she had had leisure enough in her life to go into society; and as society she did not enjoy it.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000030_000002|As dinner giving, and as criticising other people's dinners, she took satisfaction in it.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000030_000003|But this going to make acquaintance with strangers was a very different thing.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000030_000004|She was ill at ease, and looked more than usually stern and forbidding as she entered the Hales' little drawing room.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000031_000000|Margaret was busy embroidering a small piece of cambric for some little article of dress for Edith's expected baby-'Flimsy, useless work,' as mrs Thornton observed to herself.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000031_000001|She liked mrs Hale's double knitting far better; that was sensible of its kind.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000031_000003|She made all these reflections as she was talking in her stately way to mrs Hale, and uttering all the stereotyped commonplaces that most people can find to say with their senses blindfolded.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000031_000004|mrs Hale was making rather more exertion in her answers, captivated by some real old lace which mrs Thornton wore; 'lace,' as she afterwards observed to Dixon, 'of that old English point which has not been made for this seventy years, and which cannot be bought.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000031_000005|It must have been an heir loom, and shows that she had ancestors.' So the owner of the ancestral lace became worthy of something more than the languid exertion to be agreeable to a visitor, by which mrs Hale's efforts at conversation would have been otherwise bounded.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000031_000006|And presently, Margaret, racking her brain to talk to Fanny, heard her mother and mrs Thornton plunge into the interminable subject of servants.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000032_000000|'I suppose you are not musical,' said Fanny, 'as I see no piano.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000033_000000|'I am fond of hearing good music; I cannot play well myself; and papa and mamma don't care much about it; so we sold our old piano when we came here.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000034_000000|'I wonder how you can exist without one.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000034_000001|It almost seems to me a necessary of life.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000035_000000|'Fifteen shillings a week, and three saved out of them!' thought Margaret to herself 'But she must have been very young.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000035_000001|She probably has forgotten her own personal experience.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000035_000002|But she must know of those days.' Margaret's manner had an extra tinge of coldness in it when she next spoke.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000036_000000|'You have good concerts here, I believe.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000037_000002|Too crowded, that is the worst.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000037_000003|The directors admit so indiscriminately.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000037_000004|But one is sure to hear the newest music there.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000037_000005|I always have a large order to give to Johnson's, the day after a concert.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000038_000000|'Do you like new music simply for its newness, then?'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000039_000001|You have been in London, of course.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000040_000000|'Yes,' said Margaret, 'I have lived there for several years.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000042_000000|'London and the Alhambra!'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000043_000000|'Yes! ever since I read the Tales of the Alhambra.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000043_000001|Don't you know them?'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000044_000000|'I don't think I do.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000044_000001|But surely, it is a very easy journey to London.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000045_000000|'Yes; but somehow,' said Fanny, lowering her voice, 'mamma has never been to London herself, and can't understand my longing.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000045_000001|She is very proud of Milton; dirty, smoky place, as I feel it to be.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000046_000000|'If it has been mrs Thornton's home for some years, I can well understand her loving it,' said Margaret, in her clear bell like voice.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000047_000000|'What are you saying about me, Miss Hale?
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000047_000001|May I inquire?'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000048_000000|Margaret had not the words ready for an answer to this question, which took her a little by surprise, so Miss Thornton replied:
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000050_000000|'Thank you,' said mrs Thornton.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000050_000001|'I do not feel that my very natural liking for the place where I was born and brought up,--and which has since been my residence for some years, requires any accounting for.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000051_000000|Margaret was vexed.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000051_000001|As Fanny had put it, it did seem as if they had been impertinently discussing mrs Thornton's feelings; but she also rose up against that lady's manner of showing that she was offended.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000052_000000|mrs Thornton went on after a moment's pause:
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000053_000000|'Do you know anything of Milton, Miss Hale?
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000053_000001|Have you seen any of our factories?
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000053_000002|our magnificent warehouses?'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000054_000000|'No!' said Margaret. 'I have not seen anything of that description as yet.' Then she felt that, by concealing her utter indifference to all such places, she was hardly speaking with truth; so she went on:
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000055_000000|'I dare say, papa would have taken me before now if I had cared.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000055_000001|But I really do not find much pleasure in going over manufactories.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000056_000000|'They are very curious places,' said mrs Hale, 'but there is so much noise and dirt always.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000056_000001|I remember once going in a lilac silk to see candles made, and my gown was utterly ruined.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000057_000000|'Very probably,' said mrs Thornton, in a short displeased manner.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000057_000001|'I merely thought, that as strangers newly come to reside in a town which has risen to eminence in the country, from the character and progress of its peculiar business, you might have cared to visit some of the places where it is carried on; places unique in the kingdom, I am informed.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000059_000000|'I think I should like to know all about them, if I were you,' replied Margaret quietly.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000060_000000|'Fanny!' said her mother, as they drove away, 'we will be civil to these Hales: but don't form one of your hasty friendships with the daughter. She will do you no good, I see.
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000060_000001|The mother looks very ill, and seems a nice, quiet kind of person.'
train-clean-100/250/142286/250_142286_000061_000001|'I thought I was doing my duty by talking to her, and trying to amuse her.'
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000004_000001|"Expecting American friends whom I'm so glad to find you know!" His knowledge of American friends was clearly an accident of which he was to taste the fruit to the last bitterness.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000004_000002|This apprehension, however, we hasten to add, enjoyed for him, in the immediate event, a certain merciful shrinkage; the immediate event being that, at Lancaster Gate, five minutes after his due arrival, prescribed him for eight thirty, mrs Stringham came in alone.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000004_000005|This was exactly, goodness knew, what he wanted to be; but he had never had it so largely and freely-SO supernaturally simply, for that matter-imputed to him as of easy achievement.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000004_000007|He would have liked as well to ask her how feasible she supposed it for a poor young man to resemble her at any point; but he had after all soon enough perceived that he was doing as she wished by letting his wonder show just a little as silly.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000004_000010|To spare him therefore she also avoided discussion; she kept him down by refusing to quarrel with him.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000004_000011|This was what she now proposed to him to enjoy, and his secret discomfort was his sense that on the whole it was what would best suit him.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000005_000001|"What do you offer, what do you offer?"--the place, however muffled in convenience and decorum, constantly hummed for him with that thick irony.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000005_000005|She welcomed him genially back from the States, as to his view of which her few questions, though not coherent, were comprehensive, and he had the amusement of seeing in her, as through a clear glass, the outbreak of a plan and the sudden consciousness of a curiosity.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000005_000006|She became aware of America, under his eyes, as a possible scene for social operations; the idea of a visit to the wonderful country had clearly but just occurred to her, yet she was talking of it, at the end of a minute, as her favourite dream.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000005_000007|He didn't believe in it, but he pretended to; this helped her as well as anything else to treat him as harmless and blameless.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000005_000008|She was so engaged, with the further aid of a complete absence of allusions, when the highest effect was given her method by the beautiful entrance of Kate.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000006_000000|That was the story-that she was always, for her beneficent dragon, under arms; living up, every hour, but especially at festal hours, to the "value" mrs Lowder had attached to her.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000006_000001|High and fixed, this estimate ruled on each occasion at Lancaster Gate the social scene; so that he now recognised in it something like the artistic idea, the plastic substance, imposed by tradition, by genius, by criticism, in respect to a given character, on a distinguished actress.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000006_000003|It was made up, the character, of definite elements and touches-things all perfectly ponderable to criticism; and the way for her to meet criticism was evidently at the start to be sure her make-up had had the last touch and that she looked at least no worse than usual.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000006_000005|Densher saw himself for the moment as in his purchased stall at the play; the watchful manager was in the depths of a box and the poor actress in the glare of the footlights.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000006_000006|But she PASSED, the poor performer-he could see how she always passed; her wig, her paint, her jewels, every mark of her expression impeccable, and her entrance accordingly greeted with the proper round of applause.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000007_000000|The drama, at all events, as Densher saw it, meanwhile went on-amplified soon enough by the advent of two other guests, stray gentlemen both, stragglers in the rout of the season, who visibly presented themselves to Kate during the next moments as subjects for a like impersonal treatment and sharers in a like usual mercy.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000007_000001|At opposite ends of the social course, they displayed, in respect to the "figure" that each, in his way, made, one the expansive, the other the contractile effect of the perfect white waistcoat.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000007_000003|Her companion, at the last moment, had been indisposed-positively not well enough, and so had packed her off, insistently, with excuses, with wild regrets.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000007_000007|Hadn't he more or less paved the way for her by his prompt recognition of her rarity, by preceding her, in a friendly spirit-as he had the "ear" of society-with a sharp flashlight or two?
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000008_000000|He met, poor Densher, these enquiries as he could, listening with interest, yet with discomfort; wincing in particular, dry journalist as he was, to find it seemingly supposed of him that he had put his pen-oh his "pen!"--at the service of private distinction.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000008_000001|The ear of society?--they were talking, or almost, as if he had publicly paragraphed a modest young lady.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000008_000002|They dreamt dreams, in truth, he appeared to perceive, that fairly waked HIM up, and he settled himself in his place both to resist his embarrassment and to catch the full revelation.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000008_000004|What touched him most nearly was that the occasion took on somehow the air of a commemorative banquet, a feast to celebrate a brilliant if brief career.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000008_000007|It was mrs Stringham, obviously, whose testimony would have been most invoked hadn't she been, as her friend's representative, rather confined to the function of inhaling the incense; so that Kate, who treated her beautifully, smiling at her, cheering and consoling her across the table, appeared benevolently both to speak and to interpret for her.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000009_000003|Her little dry New England brightness-he had "sampled" all the shades of the American complexity, if complexity it were-had its actual reasons for finding relief most in silence; so that before the subject was changed he perceived (with surprise at the others) that they had given her enough of it.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000009_000008|There WERE plenty of people who were nothing over there and yet were awfully taken up in England; just as-to make the balance right, thank goodness-they sometimes sent out beauties and celebrities who left the Briton cold.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000009_000012|She made it indeed effective for him by suddenly addressing him.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000009_000013|"You know nothing, sir-but not the least little bit-about my friend."
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000010_000000|He hadn't pretended he did, but there was a purity of reproach in mrs Stringham's face and tone, a purity charged apparently with solemn meanings; so that for a little, small as had been his claim, he couldn't but feel that she exaggerated.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000010_000002|"I certainly don't know enormously much-beyond her having been most kind to me, in New York, as a poor bewildered and newly landed alien, and my having tremendously appreciated it." To which he added, he scarce knew why, what had an immediate success.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000010_000003|"Remember, mrs Stringham, that you weren't then present."
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000011_000000|"Ah there you are!" said Kate with much gay expression, though what it expressed he failed at the time to make out.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000012_000000|"You weren't present THEN, dearest," mrs Lowder richly concurred.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000013_000002|He met mrs Stringham's, which affected him: with her he could on occasion clear it up-a sense produced by the mute communion between them and really the beginning, as the event was to show, of something extraordinary.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000013_000004|"Oh it's precisely my point that mr Densher CAN'T have had vast opportunities." And then she smiled at him.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000013_000005|"I wasn't away, you know, long."
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000015_000000|"Ah she's a thousand and one things!" replied the good lady, as if now to keep well with him.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000016_000000|He asked nothing better.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000016_000001|"She was off with you to these parts before I knew it.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000018_000000|"No, of course I didn't forget her.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000021_000001|"Well, the impression was as deep as you like.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000023_000002|Even the joke made mrs Stringham uneasy, and her mute communion with Densher, to which we have alluded, was more and more determined by it.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000023_000004|If she actually missed, at any rate, mrs Stringham's discomfort, that but showed how her own idea held her.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000023_000010|It was at all events characteristic, and what was of the essence of it was grist to his scribbling mill, matter for his journalising hand.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000023_000011|That hand already, in intention, played over it, the "motive," as a sign of the season, a feature of the time, of the purely expeditious and rough and tumble nature of the social boom.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000024_000001|He had supposed himself civilised; but if this was civilisation-!
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000024_000007|He HAD unearthed her, but it was they, all of them together, who had developed her.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000024_000008|She was always a charmer, one of the greatest ever seen, but she wasn't the person he had "backed."
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000025_000003|She was perfectly kind to Susie: it was as if she positively knew her as handicapped for any disagreement by feeling that she, Kate, had "type," and by being committed to admiration of type.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000025_000005|She would like-Milly had had it from her-to put Kate Croy in a book and see what she could so do with her.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000025_000007|It would be mrs Stringham's, however, she understood, because mrs Stringham, oddly, felt that with such stuff as the strange English girl was made of, stuff that (in spite of Maud Manningham, who was full of sentiment) she had never known, there was none other to be employed.
train-clean-100/2514/149482/2514_149482_000025_000009|He met it peacefully, a little perhaps as an example to mrs Stringham-"Oh as far on as you like!" This even had its effect: mrs Stringham appropriated as much of it as might be meant for herself.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000003_000001|We were safe.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000003_000002|But for how short a time!
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000004_000001|Is the bone broken?'
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000006_000000|He knelt, and rolled down the leg of my stocking; but though he only moved my foot ever so little, it caused me sharp pain, for feeling was coming back after the first numbness of the shot.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000010_000003|And yet, if thou fear'st not, I will still try it.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000010_000004|Just at the end of this flat ledge, farthest from where the bridle path leads down, but not a hundred yards from where we stand, there is a sheep track leading up the cliff.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000012_000002|For the Zigzag started off as a fair enough chalk path, but in a few paces narrowed down till it was but a whiter thread against the grey white cliff face, and afterwards turned sharply back, crossing a hundred feet direct above our heads.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000015_000000|'Tush!' he cried; 'it is thy heart that fails thee, and 'tis too late now to change counsel.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000015_000001|We have fifteen minutes yet to win or lose with, and if we gain the cliff top in that time we shall have an hour's start, or more, for they will take all that to search the under cliff.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000015_000002|And Maskew, too, will keep them in check a little, while they try to bring the life back to so good a man.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000015_000003|But if we fall, why, we shall fall together, and outwit their cunning.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000015_000005|In a minute I knew from Elzevir's steps that he had left the turf and was upon the chalk.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000016_000001|And then the path grew steeper and steeper, and Elzevir went slower and slower, till at last he spoke:
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000017_000000|'john, I am going to stop; but open not thy eyes till I have set thee down and bid thee.'
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000019_000001|But have a care to keep thy outer hand near to the inner, and the balance of thy body to the cliff, for there is no room to dance hornpipes here.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000021_000000|Then he told me to stop, for that the way grew wider and he would pick me up again.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000021_000003|I shut my eyes firm again, and thus we moved along another spell, mounting still and feeling the wind still freshening.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000022_000000|At length he said that we were come to the last turn of the path, and he must set me down once more.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000022_000003|But as I crept along, I relaxed care for a moment, and my eyes wandered from the cliff side and looked down.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000023_000000|Then I called out to Elzevir, and he, guessing what had come over me, cries to turn upon my side, and press my belly to the cliff.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000026_000000|Then Elzevir spoke.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000026_000002|Pluck up thy courage, keep thy eyes to the cliff, and forward.'
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000027_000000|Yet I could not, but answered: 'I cannot, I cannot; if I open my eyes, or move hand or foot, I shall fall on the rocks below.'
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000029_000001|And Elzevir, for all he was so strong, could not pull a helpless lump backwards up that path.
train-clean-100/2518/154825/2518_154825_000033_000000|Five minutes later Elzevir stepped on to the cliff top, with me upon his back.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000004_000002|The cliff face was gleaming white, the sea tawny inshore, but purest blue outside, with the straight sunpath across it, spangled and gleaming like a mackerel's back.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000006_000001|They will not be back for some time yet, and, when they come, will not think to search closely for us hereabouts; but that we cannot risk, and must get clear away.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000008_000004|Behind one of these walls, broken down in places, but held together with straggling ivy, and buttressed here and there with a bramble bush, Elzevir put me down at length and said, 'I am beat, and can carry thee no farther for this present, though there is not now much farther to go.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000011_000000|A minute later he said: 'The boy is coming straight for the wall; we shall have to show ourselves'; and while he spoke there was a rattle of falling stones, where the boy was partly climbing and partly pulling down the dry wall, and so Elzevir stood up.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000011_000001|The boy looked frightened, and made as if he would run off, but Elzevir passed him the time of day in a civil voice, and he stopped and gave it back.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000013_000000|'Scaring rooks for Farmer Topp,' was the answer.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000014_000002|Maybe you've seen a flask in walking through the furrows?'
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000015_000000|He whispered to me to lie still, so that it might not be perceived my leg was broken; and the boy replied:
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000016_000000|'No, I have seen no flask; but very like have not come the same way as you, being sent out here from Lowermoigne; and as for powder, I have little left, and must save that for the rooks, or shall get a beating for my pains.'
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000017_000000|'Come,' said Elzevir, 'give me a charge or two, and there is half a crown for thee.' And he took the coin out of his pocket and showed it.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000018_000000|The boy's eyes twinkled, and so would mine at so valuable a piece, and he took out from his pocket a battered cowskin flask.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000019_000000|No time was wasted in words; Elzevir had the flask in his pocket, and the boy was biting the crown.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000021_000000|'What! have you dropped your shot flask too?' asked the boy.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000027_000001|So we gained a sorry matchlock, slugs, and powder, and the boy walked off over the furrow, whistling with his hand in his pocket, and a guinea and a crown piece in his hand.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000029_000000|'Let us move on,' said Block; 'tis but a little distance now to go, and the heat is past already.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000030_000001|We had slept longer than we thought, for the sun was westering fast, and though the rest had refreshed me, my leg had grown stiff, and hurt the more in dangling when we started again.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000031_000000|Although I knew little of these quarries, and certainly was in evil plight to take note of anything at that time, yet afterwards I learnt much about them.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000031_000003|Then from the bottom of this shaft there spread out narrow passages or tunnels, mostly six feet high, but sometimes only three or four, and in these the marble is dug.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000035_000001|Once get to the bottom safe, and we can laugh at Posse, and hue and cry, and at the King's Crown itself.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000037_000002|Thus he came safe without stumble to the bottom of the pit.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000038_000000|When we got there all was dark, but he stepped off into a narrow opening on the right hand, and walked on as if he knew the way.
train-clean-100/2518/154826/2518_154826_000038_000002|Only twice did he set me down at a turning, while he took out his tinder box and lit a match; but at length the darkness became less dark, and I saw that we were in a large cave or room, into which the light came through some opening at the far end.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000001_000000|A prophetical Riddle.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000003_000000|No sooner was this enigmatical monument read over, but Gargantua, fetching a very deep sigh, said unto those that stood by, It is not now only, I perceive, that people called to the faith of the gospel, and convinced with the certainty of evangelical truths, are persecuted.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000000|The monk then said, What do you think in your conscience is meant and signified by this riddle?
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000003|It is the style of the prophet Merlin.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000005|The suborners of men are the makers of matches, which are commonly friends.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000008|The waters are the heats that the players take till they sweat again.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000009|The cords of the rackets are made of the guts of sheep or goats.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000010|The globe terrestrial is the tennis ball.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000011|After playing, when the game is done, they refresh themselves before a clear fire, and change their shirts; and very willingly they make all good cheer, but most merrily those that have gained.
train-clean-100/254/12312/254_12312_000004_000012|And so, farewell!
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train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000011_000001|The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our infallible remedy for seasickness is thrust upon every traveller we meet, even if he be no more than a casual acquaintance about to cross the Serpentine. So with our books.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000011_000002|There are dearly loved books of which we babble to a neighbour at dinner, insisting that she shall share our delight in them; and there are books, equally dear to us, of which we say nothing, fearing lest the praise of others should cheapen the glory of our discovery.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000011_000003|The books of "Saki" were, for me at least, in the second class.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000012_000000|It was in the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE that I discovered him (I like to remember now) almost as soon as he was discoverable.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000012_000003|james', I was not too proud to take some slight but pitying interest in men of other colleges.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000012_000004|The unusual name of a freshman up at WESTMINSTER attracted my attention; I read what he had to say; and it was only by reciting rapidly with closed eyes the names of our own famous alumni, beginning confidently with Barrie and ending, now very doubtfully, with myself, that I was able to preserve my equanimity.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000013_000000|Well, I discovered him, but only to the few, the favoured, did I speak of him.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000013_000001|It may have been my uncertainty (which still persists) whether he called himself Sayki, Sahki or Sakki which made me thus ungenerous of his name, or it may have been the feeling that the others were not worthy of him; but how refreshing it was when some intellectually blown up stranger said "Do you ever read Saki?" to reply, with the same pronunciation and even greater condescension: "Saki!
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000013_000002|He has been my favourite author for years!"
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000014_000000|A strange exotic creature, this Saki, to us many others who were trying to do it too.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000014_000001|For we were so domestic, he so terrifyingly cosmopolitan.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000014_000002|While we were being funny, as planned, with collar studs and hot water bottles, he was being much funnier with werwolves and tigers.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000014_000005|In our envy we may have wondered sometimes if it were not much easier to be funny with tigers than with collar studs; if Saki's careless cruelty, that strange boyish insensitiveness of his, did not give him an unfair start in the pursuit of laughter.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000014_000006|It may have been so; but, fortunately, our efforts to be funny in the Saki manner have not survived to prove it.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000015_000000|What is Saki's manner, what his magic talisman?
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000015_000001|Like every artist worth consideration, he had no recipe.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000015_000003|I do not think that he has that "mastery of the CONTE"--in this book at least-which some have claimed for him. Such mastery infers a passion for tidiness which was not in the boyish Saki's equipment.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000015_000005|Nor in his dialogue, delightful as it often is, funny as it nearly always is, is he the supreme master; too much does it become monologue judiciously fed, one character giving and the other taking.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000015_000006|But in comment, in reference, in description, in every development of his story, he has a choice of words, a "way of putting things" which is as inevitably his own vintage as, once tasted, it becomes the private vintage of the connoisseur.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000016_000000|Let us take a sample or two of "Saki, nineteen eleven."
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000018_000000|"Locate" is the pleasant word here.
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000018_000001|Still more satisfying, in the story of the man who was tattooed "from collar bone to waist line with a glowing representation of the Fall of Icarus," is the word "privilege":
train-clean-100/254/145458/254_145458_000020_000001|In both of them Clovis exercises, needlessly, his titular right of entry, but he can be removed without damage, leaving Saki at his best and most characteristic, save that he shows here, in addition to his own shining qualities, a compactness and a finish which he did not always achieve.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000001_000000|VANKA
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000003_000000|Nine year old Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprentice to the shoemaker Aliakhin for three months, did not go to bed the night before Christmas.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000003_000001|He waited till the master and mistress and the assistants had gone out to an early church service, to procure from his employer's cupboard a small phial of ink and a penholder with a rusty nib; then, spreading a crumpled sheet of paper in front of him, he began to write.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000004_000000|Before, however, deciding to make the first letter, he looked furtively at the door and at the window, glanced several times at the sombre ikon, on either side of which stretched shelves full of lasts, and heaved a heart rending sigh.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000005_000000|"Dear Grandfather Konstantin Makarych," he wrote, "I am writing you a letter.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000005_000002|I have no mamma or papa, you are all I have."
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000006_000003|All day he slept in the servants' kitchen or trifled with the cooks.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000006_000006|Beneath his deference and humbleness was hid the most inquisitorial maliciousness.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000006_000007|No one knew better than he how to sneak up and take a bite at a leg, or slip into the larder or steal a muzhik's chicken.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000006_000008|More than once they had nearly broken his hind legs, twice he had been hung up, every week he was nearly flogged to death, but he always recovered.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000008_000000|"Won't we take some snuff?" he asks, holding out his snuff box to the women.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000008_000001|The women take a pinch of snuff, and sneeze.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000009_000000|The old man goes into indescribable ecstasies, breaks into loud laughter, and cries:
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000010_000000|"Off with it, it will freeze to your nose!"
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000011_000001|Kashtanka sneezes, twitches her nose, and walks away offended.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000012_000000|Vanka sighs, dips his pen in the ink, and continues to write:
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000013_000002|The assistants tease me, send me to the tavern for vodka, make me steal the master's cucumbers, and the master beats me with whatever is handy.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000013_000003|Food there is none; in the morning it's bread, at dinner gruel, and in the evening bread again.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000013_000004|As for tea or sour cabbage soup, the master and the mistress themselves guzzle that. They make me sleep in the vestibule, and when their brat cries, I don't sleep at all, but have to rock the cradle.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000013_000005|Dear Grandpapa, for Heaven's sake, take me away from here, home to our village, I can't bear this any more...
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000013_000006|I bow to the ground to you, and will pray to God for ever and ever, take me from here or I shall die..."
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000015_000001|Dear Grandpapa, I can't bear this any more, it'll kill me...
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000016_000002|And there was one hook which would catch a sheat fish weighing a pound.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000016_000004|And in the meat shops there are woodcocks, partridges, and hares, but who shot them or where they come from, the shopman won't say.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000017_000000|"Dear Grandpapa, and when the masters give a Christmas tree, take a golden walnut and hide it in my green box.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000017_000001|Ask the young lady, Olga Ignatyevna, for it, say it's for Vanka."
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000018_000000|Vanka sighed convulsively, and again stared at the window.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000018_000001|He remembered that his grandfather always went to the forest for the Christmas tree, and took his grandson with him.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000018_000002|What happy times!
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000018_000003|The frost crackled, his grandfather crackled, and as they both did, Vanka did the same.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000018_000005|The young fir trees, wrapt in hoar frost, stood motionless, waiting for which of them would die. Suddenly a hare springing from somewhere would dart over the snowdrift...
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000018_000006|His grandfather could not help shouting:
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000019_000000|"Catch it, catch it, catch it!
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000019_000001|Ah, short tailed devil!"
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000020_000000|When the tree was down, his grandfather dragged it to the master's house, and there they set about decorating it.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000020_000001|The young lady, Olga Ignatyevna, Vanka's great friend, busied herself most about it.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000020_000002|When little Vanka's mother, Pelagueya, was still alive, and was servant woman in the house, Olga Ignatyevna used to stuff him with sugar candy, and, having nothing to do, taught him to read, write, count up to one hundred, and even to dance the quadrille.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000020_000003|When Pelagueya died, they placed the orphan Vanka in the kitchen with his grandfather, and from the kitchen he was sent to Moscow to Aliakhin, the shoemaker.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000021_000001|Have pity on a poor orphan, for here they beat me, and I am frightfully hungry, and so sad that I can't tell you, I cry all the time.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000021_000003|My life is a misfortune, worse than any dog's...
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000021_000004|I send greetings to Aliona, to one eyed Tegor, and the coachman, and don't let any one have my mouth organ.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000022_000000|Vanka folded his sheet of paper in four, and put it into an envelope purchased the night before for a kopek.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000022_000001|He thought a little, dipped the pen into the ink, and wrote the address:
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000024_000000|The shopman at the poulterer's, from whom he had inquired the night before, had told him that letters were to be put into post boxes, and from there they were conveyed over the whole earth in mail troikas by drunken post boys and to the sound of bells.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000024_000001|Vanka ran to the first post box and slipped his precious letter into the slit.
train-clean-100/254/27760/254_27760_000025_000000|An hour afterwards, lulled by hope, he was sleeping soundly.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000004_000000|By Daniel Defoe
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000005_000000|being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in sixteen sixty five.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000006_000001|It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000007_000001|But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from them was handed about by word of mouth only; so that things did not spread instantly over the whole nation, as they do now.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000007_000002|But it seems that the Government had a true account of it, and several councils were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000007_000003|Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true; till the latter end of November or the beginning of december sixteen sixty four when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of Drury Lane.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000007_000005|This they did; and finding evident tokens of the sickness upon both the bodies that were dead, they gave their opinions publicly that they died of the plague.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000007_000006|Whereupon it was given in to the parish clerk, and he also returned them to the Hall; and it was printed in the weekly bill of mortality in the usual manner, thus-
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000008_000001|Parishes infected, one.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000011_000001|For example:--
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000028_000000|Besides this, it was observed with great uneasiness by the people that the weekly bills in general increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when usually the bills are very moderate.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000029_000001|The last was esteemed a pretty high bill; but after this we found the bills successively increasing as follows:--
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000034_000001|It was, however, upon inquiry found that this Frenchman who died in Bearbinder Lane was one who, having lived in Long Acre, near the infected houses, had removed for fear of the distemper, not knowing that he was already infected.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000035_000000|This was the beginning of May, yet the weather was temperate, variable, and cool enough, and people had still some hopes.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000035_000003|The whole bill also was very low, for the week before the bill was but three hundred forty seven, and the week above mentioned but three hundred forty three.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000035_000005|So that now all our extenuations abated, and it was no more to be concealed; nay, it quickly appeared that the infection had spread itself beyond all hopes of abatement.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000036_000000|The next bill was from the twenty third of May to the thirtieth, when the number of the plague was seventeen.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000039_000000|Till this week the city continued free, there having never any died, except that one Frenchman whom I mentioned before, within the whole ninety seven parishes.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000041_000000|This was a very terrible and melancholy thing to see, and as it was a sight which I could not but look on from morning to night (for indeed there was nothing else of moment to be seen), it filled me with very serious thoughts of the misery that was coming upon the city, and the unhappy condition of those that would be left in it.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000046_000000|The first consideration was of great moment to me; my trade was a saddler, and as my dealings were chiefly not by a shop or chance trade, but among the merchants trading to the English colonies in America, so my effects lay very much in the hands of such.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000049_000001|Once I resolved to travel on foot with one servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldier's tent with us, and so lie in the fields, the weather being very warm, and no danger from taking cold.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000052_000000|It came very warmly into my mind one morning, as I was musing on this particular thing, that as nothing attended us without the direction or permission of Divine Power, so these disappointments must have something in them extraordinary; and I ought to consider whether it did not evidently point out, or intimate to me, that it was the will of Heaven I should not go.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000053_000000|These thoughts quite turned my resolutions again, and when I came to discourse with my brother again I told him that I inclined to stay and take my lot in that station in which God had placed me, and that it seemed to be made more especially my duty, on the account of what I have said.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000056_000001|I desired him to let me consider of it but till the next day, and I would resolve: and as I had already prepared everything as well as I could as to MY business, and whom to entrust my affairs with, I had little to do but to resolve.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000057_000000|I went home that evening greatly oppressed in my mind, irresolute, and not knowing what to do.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000057_000001|I had set the evening wholly-apart to consider seriously about it, and was all alone; for already people had, as it were by a general consent, taken up the custom of not going out of doors after sunset; the reasons I shall have occasion to say more of by and by.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000059_000000|This lay close to me, and my mind seemed more and more encouraged to stay than ever, and supported with a secret satisfaction that I should be kept.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000059_000002|Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000059_000004|Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
train-clean-100/26/495/26_495_000062_000001|The apprehensions of its being the infection went also quite away with my illness, and I went about my business as usual.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000004_000000|But the city itself began now to be visited too, I mean within the walls; but the number of people there were indeed extremely lessened by so great a multitude having been gone into the country; and even all this month of July they continued to flee, though not in such multitudes as formerly.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000008_000000|One day, being at that part of the town on some special business, curiosity led me to observe things more than usually, and indeed I walked a great way where I had no business.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000010_000002|It is true a vast many people fled, as I have observed, yet they were chiefly from the west end of the town, and from that we call the heart of the city: that is to say, among the wealthiest of the people, and such people as were unencumbered with trades and business.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000011_000001|All the old soldiers set up trades here, and abundance of families settled here.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000012_000000|I often thought that as Jerusalem was besieged by the romans when the Jews were assembled together to celebrate the Passover-by which means an incredible number of people were surprised there who would otherwise have been in other countries-so the plague entered London when an incredible increase of people had happened occasionally, by the particular circumstances above named.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000012_000001|As this conflux of the people to a youthful and gay Court made a great trade in the city, especially in everything that belonged to fashion and finery, so it drew by consequence a great number of workmen, manufacturers, and the like, being mostly poor people who depended upon their labour.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000013_000000|By this, however, the number of people in the whole may be judged of; and, indeed, I often wondered that, after the prodigious numbers of people that went away at first, there was yet so great a multitude left as it appeared there was.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000015_000000|In the first place, a blazing star or comet appeared for several months before the plague, as there did the year after another, a little before the fire.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000019_000003|Another ran about naked, except a pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that Josephus mentions, who cried, 'Woe to Jerusalem!' a little before the destruction of that city.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000019_000004|So this poor naked creature cried, 'Oh, the great and the dreadful God!' and said no more, but repeated those words continually, with a voice and countenance full of horror, a swift pace; and nobody could ever find him to stop or rest, or take any sustenance, at least that ever I could hear of.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000019_000005|I met this poor creature several times in the streets, and would have spoken to him, but he would not enter into speech with me or any one else, but held on his dismal cries continually.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000021_000000|Next to these public things were the dreams of old women, or, I should say, the interpretation of old women upon other people's dreams; and these put abundance of people even out of their wits.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000021_000001|Some heard voices warning them to be gone, for that there would be such a plague in London, so that the living would not be able to bury the dead.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000021_000003|And no wonder, if they who were poring continually at the clouds saw shapes and figures, representations and appearances, which had nothing in them but air, and vapour.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000021_000004|Here they told us they saw a flaming sword held in a hand coming out of a cloud, with a point hanging directly over the city; there they saw hearses and coffins in the air carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying unburied, and the like, just as the imagination of the poor terrified people furnished them with matter to work upon.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000021_000005|So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships, armies, battles in the firmament; Till steady eyes the exhalations solve, And all to its first matter, cloud, resolve.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000000|I could fill this account with the strange relations such people gave every day of what they had seen; and every one was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting them without breach of friendship, or being accounted rude and unmannerly on the one hand, and profane and impenetrable on the other.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000002|She described every part of the figure to the life, showed them the motion and the form, and the poor people came into it so eagerly, and with so much readiness; 'Yes, I see it all plainly,' says one; 'there's the sword as plain as can be.' Another saw the angel.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000003|One saw his very face, and cried out what a glorious creature he was!
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000004|One saw one thing, and one another.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000005|I looked as earnestly as the rest, but perhaps not with so much willingness to be imposed upon; and I said, indeed, that I could see nothing but a white cloud, bright on one side by the shining of the sun upon the other part.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000007|But the woman, turning upon me, looked in my face, and fancied I laughed, in which her imagination deceived her too, for I really did not laugh, but was very seriously reflecting how the poor people were terrified by the force of their own imagination.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000022_000008|However, she turned from me, called me profane fellow, and a scoffer; told me that it was a time of God's anger, and dreadful judgements were approaching, and that despisers such as I should wander and perish.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000023_000000|The people about her seemed disgusted as well as she; and I found there was no persuading them that I did not laugh at them, and that I should be rather mobbed by them than be able to undeceive them.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000023_000001|So I left them; and this appearance passed for as real as the blazing star itself.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000024_000000|Another encounter I had in the open day also; and this was in going through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by a row of alms houses.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000025_000001|He described the shape, the posture, and the movement of it so exactly that it was the greatest matter of amazement to him in the world that everybody did not see it as well as he.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000026_000000|I looked earnestly every way, and at the very moment that this man directed, but could not see the least appearance of anything; but so positive was this poor man, that he gave the people the vapours in abundance, and sent them away trembling and frighted, till at length few people that knew of it cared to go through that passage, and hardly anybody by night on any account whatever.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000028_000000|These things serve to show how far the people were really overcome with delusions; and as they had a notion of the approach of a visitation, all their predictions ran upon a most dreadful plague, which should lay the whole city, and even the kingdom, waste, and should destroy almost all the nation, both man and beast.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000029_000000|To this, as I said before, the astrologers added stories of the conjunctions of planets in a malignant manner and with a mischievous influence, one of which conjunctions was to happen, and did happen, in October, and the other in November; and they filled the people's heads with predictions on these signs of the heavens, intimating that those conjunctions foretold drought, famine, and pestilence.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000029_000001|In the two first of them, however, they were entirely mistaken, for we had no droughty season, but in the beginning of the year a hard frost, which lasted from December almost to March, and after that moderate weather, rather warm than hot, with refreshing winds, and, in short, very seasonable weather, and also several very great rains.
train-clean-100/26/496/26_496_000030_000000|Some endeavours were used to suppress the printing of such books as terrified the people, and to frighten the dispersers of them, some of whom were taken up; but nothing was done in it, as I am informed, the Government being unwilling to exasperate the people, who were, as I may say, all out of their wits already.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000008_000000|Some declared him crazy, others called him a monster.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000008_000005|In attempting to cross the distance from her camp to his, she had strayed and wandered about far into the night, and finally reached his cabin wet, shivering, and grief stricken, yet determined to push onward.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000008_000007|He stated that he offered her food, which she refused.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000016_000002|Sometimes home was where night overtook us.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000019_000002|Like a flash, she tossed the bundle from her head, sprang into the water, snatched Frances as she rose to the surface, and restored her to us without a word.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000019_000003|Before we had recovered sufficiently to speak, she was gone.
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000022_000000|"Grandpa, please give us a little piece of meat."
train-clean-100/2691/156745/2691_156745_000023_000001|Upon learning, he turned about, lifted a liver from a wooden peg and cut for each, a generous slice.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000006_000001|The only hotel keeper in the town sold his kettles and pans, closed his house, and departed.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000006_000002|Shopkeepers packed most of their supplies for immediate shipment, and raised the price of those left for home trade.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000006_000003|Men and half grown boys hardly took time to collect a meagre outfit before they were off with shovel and pan and "something big to hold the gold." A few families packed their effects into emigrant wagons and deserted house and lands for the luring gold fields.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000008_000000|Grandpa brought the news home, "California is ours.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000009_000000|Yet the women felt that their battles and trials had just begun, since they had suddenly become the sole home keepers, with limited ways and means to provide for the children and care for the stock and farms. Discouragement would have rendered the burdens of many too heavy to carry, had not "work together," and "help your neighbor," become the watchwords of the day.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000009_000001|No one was allowed to suffer through lack of practical sympathy.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000010_000001|Nights, she set her shoes handy, so that she could dress quickly when summoned to the sick; and dawn of day often marked her home coming.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000014_000001|Sometimes, we played on the way and made mistakes.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000015_000003|When late on the road, we saw coyotes sneaking out for their evening meal and heard the far away cry of the panther.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000015_000004|But we were not much afraid when it was light enough, so that imagination could not picture them creeping stealthily behind us.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000016_000003|Thus more friends came among us.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000017_000001|She searched us out, saying:
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000027_000000|He was as courteous to us as though we were grown ladies, shook hands, asked how we felt, begged us to be seated, and then stepped to a door and called, "Susan!
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000027_000002|A sweet voice answered, "Coming!"
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000028_000002|I was satisfied just to look at them and hear them speak.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000028_000003|At the close of our visit, with a knowing look, she took us to see what Aunt Lucy had baked.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000029_000002|The day he died, the flag swung lower on the staff.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000029_000005|We were deeply impressed.
train-clean-100/2691/156750/2691_156750_000030_000001|The coffin was covered with a flag, and upon it lay his chapeau, gauntlets, sash, and sword.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000002_000000|Captain Frisbie spent much time in Sonoma after Company H was disbanded, and observing ones remarked that the attraction was Miss Fannie Vallejo.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000003_000000|She anticipated the coming event with interest and pleasure, because the prolonged and brilliant festivities would afford her an opportunity to display her fancy and talent in butter modelling.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000005_000000|In exuberant delight we exclaimed, "Oh, grandma, how did you learn to make such wonderful things?"
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000006_000000|"I did not learn, it is a gift," she replied.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000008_000000|At that auspicious time, she was but eighteen years of age, and second cook in the principal tavern of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000009_000000|Five consecutive nights, she designed and modelled until the watchman's midnight cry drove her from work, and at three o'clock in the morning of the sixth day, she finished.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000009_000001|And what a centrepiece it was!
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000010_000002|Then she told how she heard a heavy thud by the kitchen fire, which made her rush back, only to discover that the head cook had fallen to the floor in a faint!
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000011_000000|She gave the quick call which brought the Frau Wirthin to the scene of confusion, where in mute agony, she looked from servant to servant, until, with hands clasped, and eyes full of tears, she implored, "Marie, take the higher place for the day, and with God's help, make no mistake."
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000013_000000|"Ah, Marie! the butter piece is so grand, it brings us into trouble. The great Emperor asks to see thee, and thou must come!"
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000014_000000|She told how poor, red faced, bewildered Marie dropped her ladle and stared at the speaker, then rolled down her sleeves while the Frau Wirthin tied her own best white apron around her waist, at the same time instructing her in the manner in which she must hold her dress at the sides, between thumb and forefinger, and spread the skirt wide, in making a low, reverential bow.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000014_000001|But Marie was so upset that she realized only that her heart was beating like a trip hammer, and her form shaking like an aspen leaf, while being led before those august personages.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000014_000002|Yet, after it was all over, she was informed that the Emperor and Empress had spoken kindly to her, and that she, herself, had made her bow and backed out of the room admirably for one in her position, and ought to feel that the great honor conferred upon her had covered with glory all the ills and embarrassments she had suffered.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000015_000000|To impress us more fully with the importance of that event, grandma had Georgia and me stand up on our cellar floor and learn to make that deferential bow, she by turns, taking the parts of the Frau Wirthin, the Emperor, and the Empress.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000016_000000|She now finished her modelling with a dainty centrepiece for the bride's table, and let me go with her when she carried it to the Vallejo mansion.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000016_000001|It gave great satisfaction; and while the family and guests were admiring it, Senora Vallejo took me by the hand, saying in her own musical tongue, "Come, little daughter, and play while you wait."
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000017_000000|She led me to a room that had pictures on the walls, and left me surrounded by toys.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000017_000001|But I could not play.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000017_000002|My eyes wandered about until they became riveted on one corner of the room, where stood a child's crib which looked like gold.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000017_000004|The bed was white, but the pillows were covered with pink silk and encased in slips of linen lawn, exquisite with rare needlework.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000018_000001|In fact, some of my sweetest memories of Sonoma are associated with these three Spanish homes.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000019_000002|Even he said that he feared that Jakie had stayed away too long.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000019_000003|After months of treatment, the doctor shook his head saying: "I have done my best with the medicines at hand.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000019_000004|The only thing that remains to be tried is a tea steeped from the nettle root. That may give relief."
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000020_000000|As soon as we could get ready after the doctor uttered those words, Georgia and I, equipped with hoe, large knife, and basket were on our way to the Sonoma River.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000020_000001|We had a full two miles and a half to walk, but did not mind that, because we were going for something that might take Jakie's pains away.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000020_000002|Georgia was to press down the nettle stems with a stick, while I cut them off and hoed up the roots.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000021_000000|The plants towered luxuriantly above our heads, making the task extremely painful.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000021_000001|No sooner would I commence operations than the branches, slipping from under the stick, would brush Georgia's face, and strike my hands and arms with stinging force, and by the time we had secured the required number of roots, we were covered with fiery welts.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000022_000001|This we did as speedily as possible, and succeeded none too soon; for as we reached the ground on the safe side, he stopped us, and angrily demanded the contents of our basket.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000022_000003|We obeyed with alacrity, for it was our first experience with a drunken Indian, and greatly alarmed us.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000023_000003|After the lawyer went away, grandma told us that Jakie had willed us each fifty dollars in gold, and the rest of his property to grandpa and herself.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000024_000000|Grandma put on deep mourning, but Georgia and I had only black sun bonnets, which we wore with heartfelt grief.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000025_000000|One day as I was returning from it with my empty pail, a tidy, black eyed woman came up to me and said,
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000027_000000|We took the seats shaded by the fence and she continued with unmistakable pride: "I can read and write quite a little, and me and the men belong to the same tribe.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000027_000001|We drove our band of cattle across the plains and over the Sierras, and have sold them for more than we expected to get.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000027_000004|Now, child, I tell the truth.
train-clean-100/2691/156755/2691_156755_000027_000006|I'm glad at seeing you, but am going away, wishing you wasn't so cut off from your own people."
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000001_000000|At length all differences were compromised.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000001_000001|It was determined that an attempt should be forthwith made on the western coast of Scotland, and that it should be promptly followed by a descent on England.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000003_000000|Monmouth was to command in England.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000003_000002|Ambitious hopes, which had seemed to be extinguished, revived in his bosom.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000004_000000|It was determined that two Englishmen, Ayloffe and Rumbold, should accompany Argyle to Scotland, and that Fletcher should go with Monmouth to England.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000004_000002|When Grey repeated with approbation what Wildman had said about Richmond and Richard, the well read and thoughtful Scot justly remarked that there was a great difference between the fifteenth century and the seventeenth.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000005_000002|Six thousand pounds had been expected thence.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000000|It is remarkable that the most illustrious and the most grossly injured man among the British exiles stood far aloof from these rash counsels. john Locke hated tyranny and persecution as a philosopher; but his intellect and his temper preserved him from the violence of a partisan. He had lived on confidential terms with Shaftesbury, and had thus incurred the displeasure of the court.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000002|In one point, however, he was vulnerable.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000003|He was a student of Christ Church in the University of Oxford.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000006|Locke had, at Oxford, abstained from expressing any opinion on the politics of the day.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000007|Spies had been set about him.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000011|When it was found that treachery could do nothing, arbitrary power was used.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000006_000012|After vainly trying to inveigle Locke into a fault, the government resolved to punish him without one.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000008_000002|A proclamation was accordingly issued directing that Scotland should be put into a state of defence.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000008_000005|john Murray, Marquess of Athol, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Argyleshire, and, at the head of a great body of his followers, occupied the castle of Inverary.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000008_000006|Some suspected persons were arrested.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000008_000007|Others were compelled to give hostages.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000009_000001|The King said that he had received from unquestionable sources intelligence of designs which were forming against the throne by his banished subjects in Holland.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000009_000002|Some of the exiles were cutthroats, whom nothing but the special providence of God had prevented from committing a foul murder; and among them was the owner of the spot which had been fixed for the butchery.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000010_000003|It seemed probable that he would consent to form a close alliance with the United Provinces and the House of Austria.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000010_000005|The personal interest of William was also on this occasion identical with the interest of his father in law.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000011_000000|But the case was one which required rapid and vigorous action; and the nature of the Batavian institutions made such action almost impossible. The Union of Utrecht, rudely formed, amidst the agonies of a revolution, for the purpose of meeting immediate exigencies, had never been deliberately revised and perfected in a time of tranquillity.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000011_000007|One of those boards sate at Amsterdam, was partly nominated by the authorities of that city, and seems to have been entirely animated by their spirit.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000012_000002|Excellent judges of character pronounced him to be the most shallow, fickle, passionate, presumptuous, and garrulous of men.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000012_000004|Then, instead of applying, as he should have done, to the States General, who sate close to his own door, he sent a messenger to the magistrates of Amsterdam, with a request that the suspected ships might be detained.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000012_000007|Skelton now addressed himself to the States General.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000012_000013|The Admiralty of Amsterdam made this error a plea for doing nothing; and, before the error could be rectified, the three ships had sailed.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000013_000003|But no effectual step was taken for the purpose of detaining him; and on the afternoon of the second of May he stood out to sea before a favourable breeze.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000014_000000|The voyage was prosperous.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000014_000001|On the sixth the Orkneys were in sight. Argyle very unwisely anchored off Kirkwall, and allowed two of his followers to go on shore there.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000014_000002|The Bishop ordered them to be arrested. The refugees proceeded to hold a long and animated debate on this misadventure: for, from the beginning to the end of their expedition, however languid and irresolute their conduct might be, they never in debate wanted spirit or perseverance.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000014_000003|Some were for an attack on Kirkwall.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000015_000000|This delay was full of danger.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000015_000001|It was speedily known at Edinburgh that the rebel squadron had touched at the Orkneys.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000015_000004|At Dunstaffnage he sent his second son Charles on Shore to call the Campbells to arms.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000015_000006|The herdsmen and fishermen were indeed ready to rally round Mac Callum More; but, of the heads of the clan, some were in confinement, and others had fled.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000015_000011|It was hinted that the late King had died by poison.
train-clean-100/27/123349/27_123349_000015_000012|A chief object of the expedition was declared to be the entire suppression, not only of Popery, but of Prelacy, which was termed the most bitter root and offspring of Popery; and all good Scotchmen were exhorted to do valiantly for the cause of their country and of their God.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000000_000002|But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000015_000001|And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000020_000001|Then Holofernes called the captains, and officers of the power of the Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, and the king commanded him, a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men on foot, and twelve thousand archers, horsemen.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000021_000001|And he made all his warlike preparations to go before with a multitude of innumerable camels, with all provisions sufficient for the armies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, without number.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000024_000001|And he went forth he and all the army, with the chariots, and horsemen, and archers, who covered the face of the earth, like locusts.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000026_000001|And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and pillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who were over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land of Cellon.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000032_000000|Judith Chapter three
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000034_000001|Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their ambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000037_000001|Let all we have be subject to thy law,
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000044_000001|And though they did these things, they could not for all that mitigate the fierceness of his heart:
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000049_000000|Judith Chapter four
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000057_000001|And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000059_000001|And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000062_000001|Remember Moses the servant of the Lord overcame Amalec that trusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in his shields, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not by fighting with the sword, but by holy prayers:
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000064_000001|So they being moved by this exhortation of his, prayed to the Lord, and continued in the sight of the Lord.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000072_000001|And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace?
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000079_000001|And when the Egyptians had cast them out from them, and the plague had ceased from them, and they had a mind to take them again, and bring them back to their service,
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000093_000001|But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their God, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we shall be a reproach to the whole earth.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000098_000000|Judith Chapter six
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000105_000001|And that thou mayst know that thou shalt experience these things together with them, behold from this hour thou shalt be associated to their people, that when they shall receive the punishment they deserve from my sword, thou mayst fall under the same vengeance.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000116_000001|Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000117_000001|And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000121_000000|The church...
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000121_000001|That is, the synagogue or place where they met for prayer.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000122_000000|Judith Chapter seven
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000123_000001|The distress of the besieged.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000125_000001|Now there were in his troops a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two and twenty thousand horsemen, besides the preparations of those men who had been taken, and who had been brought away out of the provinces and cities of all the youth.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000126_000001|All these prepared themselves together to fight against the children of Israel, and they came by the hillside to the top, which looketh toward Dothain, from the place which is called Belma, unto Chelmon, which is over against Esdrelon.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000127_000001|But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads, praying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his mercy upon his people.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000128_000001|And taking their arms of war, they posted themselves at the places, which by a narrow pathway lead directly between the mountains, and they guarded them all day and night.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000130_000001|Nevertheless there were springs not far from the walls, out of which they were seen secretly to draw water, to refresh themselves a little rather than to drink their fill.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000142_000001|We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity:
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000144_000001|That they may not say among the Gentiles: Where is their God?
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000147_000001|For perhaps he will put a stop to his indignation, and will give glory to his own name.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000148_000001|But if after five days be past there come no aid, we will do the things which you have spoken.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000149_000000|Judith Chapter eight
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000150_000000|The character of Judith: her discourse to the ancients.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000158_000001|And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great riches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000163_000001|This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000170_000001|For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but him.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000172_000001|And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000174_000001|So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000178_000001|But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which like servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction.
train-clean-100/27/124992/27_124992_000182_000001|So that which I intend to do prove ye if it be of God, and pray that God may strengthen my design.
train-clean-100/2764/36616/2764_36616_000035_000000|Pierre Aronnax
train-clean-100/2764/36616/2764_36616_000039_000000|Sir:
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000003_000000|mrs Poyser "Has Her Say Out"
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000013_000000|However, she said, "Your servant, sir," and curtsied with an air of perfect deference as she advanced towards him: she was not the woman to misbehave towards her betters, and fly in the face of the catechism, without severe provocation.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000014_000000|"Is your husband at home, mrs Poyser?"
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000016_000000|"Thank you; I will do so.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000016_000001|I want to consult him about a little matter; but you are quite as much concerned in it, if not more.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000016_000002|I must have your opinion too."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000017_000000|"Hetty, run and tell your uncle to come in," said mrs Poyser, as they entered the house, and the old gentleman bowed low in answer to Hetty's curtsy; while Totty, conscious of a pinafore stained with gooseberry jam, stood hiding her face against the clock and peeping round furtively.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000018_000002|"And you keep it so exquisitely clean, mrs Poyser.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000018_000003|I like these premises, do you know, beyond any on the estate."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000020_000000|"Not yet; I must see your dairy.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000020_000002|"I think I see the door open, there.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000020_000004|I don't expect that mrs Satchell's cream and butter will bear comparison with yours."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000021_000000|"I can't say, sir, I'm sure.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000021_000001|It's seldom I see other folks's butter, though there's some on it as one's no need to see-the smell's enough."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000022_000002|Thank you, that really is a pleasant sight.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000022_000003|Unfortunately, my slight tendency to rheumatism makes me afraid of damp: I'll sit down in your comfortable kitchen.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000022_000004|Ah, Poyser, how do you do?
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000023_000000|mr Poyser had just entered in shirt sleeves and open waistcoat, with a face a shade redder than usual, from the exertion of "pitching." As he stood, red, rotund, and radiant, before the small, wiry, cool old gentleman, he looked like a prize apple by the side of a withered crab.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000024_000000|"Will you please to take this chair, sir?" he said, lifting his father's arm chair forward a little: "you'll find it easy."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000025_000001|"Do you know, mrs Poyser-sit down, pray, both of you-I've been far from contented, for some time, with mrs Satchell's dairy management.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000025_000002|I think she has not a good method, as you have."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000027_000000|"And now, Poyser, as Satchell is laid up, I am intending to let the Chase Farm to a respectable tenant.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000032_000001|Now, the plan I'm thinking of is to effect a little exchange.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000032_000003|On the other hand, Poyser, you might let Thurle have the Lower and Upper Ridges, which really, with our wet seasons, would be a good riddance for you. There is much less risk in dairy land than corn land."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000033_000001|He was much too acute a man not to see through the whole business, and to foresee perfectly what would be his wife's view of the subject; but he disliked giving unpleasant answers.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000035_000000|"Say?
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000039_000000|"That difficulty-about the fetching and carrying-you will not have, mrs Poyser," said the squire, who thought that this entrance into particulars indicated a distant inclination to compromise on mrs Poyser's part.
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000041_000004|But I don't want to part with an old tenant like you."
train-clean-100/2817/142371/2817_142371_000045_000002|Meanwhile the bull dog, the black and tan terrier, Alick's sheep dog, and the gander hissing at a safe distance from the pony's heels carried out the idea of mrs Poyser's solo in an impressive quartet.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000001_000000|The Eve of the Trial
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000002_000000|AN upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it-one laid on the floor.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000002_000001|It is ten o'clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000003_000001|His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick bed.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000003_000002|His heavy black hair hangs over his forehead, and there is no active impulse in him which inclines him to push it off, that he may be more awake to what is around him.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000003_000004|He is roused by a knock at the door.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000005_000000|Adam rose from his chair with instinctive respect, as mr Irwine approached him and took his hand.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000006_000000|"I'm late, Adam," he said, sitting down on the chair which Bartle placed for him, "but I was later in setting off from Broxton than I intended to be, and I have been incessantly occupied since I arrived.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000006_000001|I have done everything now, however-everything that can be done to night, at least. Let us all sit down."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000007_000000|Adam took his chair again mechanically, and Bartle, for whom there was no chair remaining, sat on the bed in the background.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000009_000000|"Yes, Adam; I and the chaplain have both been with her this evening."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000012_000000|As mr Irwine paused, Adam looked at him with eager, questioning eyes.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000013_000003|Three or four days ago, before you were mentioned to her, when I asked her if there was any one of her family whom she would like to see-to whom she could open her mind-she said, with a violent shudder, 'Tell them not to come near me-I won't see any of them.'"
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000014_000003|She didn't seem agitated when I mentioned your name; she only said 'No,' in the same cold, obstinate way as usual. And if the meeting had no good effect on her, it would be pure, useless suffering to you-severe suffering, I fear.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000014_000004|She is very much changed..."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000015_000000|Adam started up from his chair and seized his hat, which lay on the table.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000015_000001|But he stood still then, and looked at mr Irwine, as if he had a question to ask which it was yet difficult to utter.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000015_000002|Bartle Massey rose quietly, turned the key in the door, and put it in his pocket.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000016_000000|"Is he come back?" said Adam at last.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000017_000000|"No, he is not," said mr Irwine, quietly.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000017_000002|I fear you have not been out again to day."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000018_000001|"You needn't be afraid of me. I only want justice.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000019_000001|"Arthur Donnithorne is not come back-was not come back when I left.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000020_000000|"But you don't mind about it," said Adam indignantly.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000021_000000|"Adam, he WILL know-he WILL suffer, long and bitterly.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000021_000005|No amount of torture that you could inflict on him could benefit her."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000024_000007|But think of this: if you were to obey your passion-for it IS passion, and you deceive yourself in calling it justice-it might be with you precisely as it has been with Arthur; nay, worse; your passion might lead you yourself into a horrible crime."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000026_000006|Remember what you told me about your feelings after you had given that blow to Arthur in the Grove."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000027_000000|Adam was silent: the last words had called up a vivid image of the past, and mr Irwine left him to his thoughts, while he spoke to Bartle Massey about old mr Donnithorne's funeral and other matters of an indifferent kind.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000028_000000|"He is come; he is in Stoniton to night.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000028_000002|His own mind is in a very perturbed state, and it is best he should not see you till you are calmer."
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000030_000000|"no
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000032_000000|"Yes, I did.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000032_000001|I had a conversation with her-she pleased me a good deal. And now you mention it, I wish she would come, for it is possible that a gentle mild woman like her might move Hetty to open her heart.
train-clean-100/2817/142380/2817_142380_000034_000002|God bless you.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty five.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000002_000000|CHARMING RESULTS.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000003_000000|Nearly a year went by.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000004_000000|Lady Isabel Carlyle had spent it on the continent-that refuge for such fugitives-now moving about from place to place with her companion, now stationary and alone.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000004_000001|Quite half the time-taking one absence with the other-he had been away from her, chiefly in Paris, pursuing his own course and his own pleasure.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000000|How fared it with Lady Isabel?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000001|Just as it must be expected to fare, and does fare, when a high principled gentlewoman falls from her pedestal.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000002|Never had she experienced a moment's calm, or peace, or happiness, since the fatal night of quitting her home.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000004|The very instant-the very night of her departure, she awoke to what she had done.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000005|The guilt, whose aspect had been shunned in the prospective, assumed at once its true frightful color, the blackness of darkness; and a lively remorse, a never dying anguish, took possession of her soul forever.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000006|Oh, reader, believe me!
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000007|Lady-wife-mother!
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000005_000008|Should you ever be tempted to abandon your home, so will you awake.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000006_000000|Poor thing-poor Lady Isabel!
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000006_000001|She had sacrificed husband, children, reputation, home, all that makes life of value to woman.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000006_000002|She had forfeited her duty to God, had deliberately broken his commandments, for the one poor miserable mistake of flying with Francis Levison.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000006_000004|Even in the first days of her departure, in the fleeting moments of abandonment, when it may be supposed she might momentarily forget conscience, it was sharply wounding her with its adder stings; and she knew that her whole future existence, whether spent with that man or without him, would be a dark course of gnawing retribution.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000000|Nearly a year went by, save some six or eight weeks, when, one morning in July, Lady Isabel made her appearance in the breakfast room.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000001|They were staying now at Grenoble.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000002|Taking that town on their way to Switzerland through Savoy, it had been Captain Levison's pleasure to halt in it.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000003|He engaged apartments, furnished, in the vicinity of the Place Grenette.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000005|Lady Isabel remonstrated; she wished to go farther on, where they might get quicker news from England; but her will now was as nothing.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000006|She was looking like the ghost of her former self.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000008|Her face was white and worn, her hands were thin, her eyes were sunken and surrounded by a black circle-care was digging caves for them.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000007_000009|A stranger might have attributed these signs to the state of her health; she knew better -knew that they were the effects of her wretched mind and heart.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000008_000000|It was very late for breakfast, but why should she rise early only to drag through another endless day?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000008_000001|Languidly she took her seat at the table, just as Captain Levison's servant, a Frenchman whom he had engaged in Paris, entered the room with two letters.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000009_000000|"Point de gazette, Pierre?" she said.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000011_000000|And all the time the sly fox had got the Times in his coat pocket.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000011_000002|It had been Captain Levison's recent pleasure that the newspapers should not be seen by Lady Isabel until he had over looked them.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000011_000003|You will speedily gather his motive.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000012_000001|It was known to her that mr Carlyle had not lost a moment in seeking a divorce and the announcement that it was granted was now daily expected.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000012_000002|She was anxious for it-anxious that Captain Levison should render her the only reparation in his power before the birth of her unhappy child.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000012_000004|She had become painfully aware of the fact that the man for whom she had chosen to sacrifice herself was bad, but she had not learned all his badness yet.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000013_000000|Captain Levison, unwashed, unshaven, with a dressing gown loosely flung on, lounged in to breakfast.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000013_000001|The decked out dandies before the world are frequently the greatest slovens in domestic privacy.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000014_000000|"Pierre says there are some letters," he began.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000014_000001|"What a precious hot day it is!"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000015_000000|"Two," was her short reply, her tone sullen as his.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000015_000001|For if you think my good reader, that the flattering words, the ardent expressions, which usually attend the first go off of these promising unions last out a whole ten months, you are in egregious error.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000015_000002|Compliments the very opposite to honey and sweetness have generally supervened long before.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000015_000003|Try it, if you don't believe me.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000016_000000|"Two letters," she continued, "and they are both in the same handwriting-your solicitors', I believe."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000018_000000|"Sir-We beg to inform you that the suit Carlyle vs Carlyle, is at an end.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000018_000001|The divorce was pronounced without opposition.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000018_000002|According to your request, we hasten to forward you the earliest intimation of the fact.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000019_000000|"We are, sir, faithfully yours,
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000020_000000|"MOSS and GRAB.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000021_000000|"F.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000022_000000|It was over, then, and all claim to the name of Carlyle was declared to have been forfeited by the Lady Isabel forever.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000022_000001|Captain Levison folded up the letter, and placed it securely in an inner pocket.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000023_000000|"Is there any news?" she asked.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000024_000000|"News!"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000025_000000|"Of the divorce, I mean?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000026_000000|"Tush!" was the response of Captain Levison, as if wishing to imply that the divorce was yet a far off affair, and he proceeded to open the other letter.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000027_000000|"Sir-After sending off our last, dated to day, we received tidings of the demise of Sir peter Levison, your grand uncle.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000027_000001|He expired this afternoon in town, where he had come for the benefit of medical advice.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000027_000002|We have much pleasure in congratulating you upon your accession to the title and estates, and beg to state that should it not be convenient to you to visit England at present, we will be happy to transact all necessary matters for you, on your favoring us with instructions.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000027_000003|And we remain, sir, most faithfully yours,
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000028_000000|"MOSS and GRAB.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000029_000000|"SIR FRANCIS LEVISON, Bart."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000030_000000|The outside of the letter was superscribed as the other, "F.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000031_000000|"At last, thank the pigs!" was the gentleman's euphonious expression, as he tossed the letter, open, on the breakfast table.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000032_000000|"The divorce is granted!" feverishly uttered Lady Isabel.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000033_000000|He made no reply, but seated himself to breakfast.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000034_000000|"May I read the letter?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000034_000001|Is it for me to read?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000035_000000|"For what else should I have thrown it there?" he said.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000036_000000|"A few days ago you put a letter, open on the table, I thought for me; but when I took it up you swore at me.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000036_000001|Do you remember it Captain Levison?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000037_000000|"You may drop that odious title, Isabel, which has stuck to me too long.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000037_000001|I own a better, now."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000038_000000|"What one, pray?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000039_000000|"You can look and see."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000040_000001|Sir Francis swallowed down his coffee, and rang the table hand bell-the only bell you generally meet with in France.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000041_000001|"I start for England in an hour."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000042_000000|"It is very well," Pierre responded; and departed to do it.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000042_000001|Lady Isabel waited till the man was gone, and then spoke, a faint flush of emotion in her cheeks.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000043_000000|"You do not mean what you say?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000043_000001|You will not leave me yet?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000044_000000|"I cannot do otherwise," he answered.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000045_000000|"Moss and Grab say they will act for you.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000045_000001|Had there been a necessity for your going, they would not have offered that."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000046_000001|Besides, I should not choose for the old man's funeral to take place without me."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000047_000000|"Then I must accompany you," she urged.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000048_000000|"I wish you would not talk nonsense, Isabel.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000048_000001|Are you in a state to travel night and day?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000048_000002|Neither would home be agreeable to you yet awhile."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000049_000000|She felt the force of the objections.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000049_000001|Resuming after a moment's pause- "Were you to go to England, you might not be back in time."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000051_000000|"Oh, how can you ask?" she rejoined, in a sharp tone of reproach; "you know too well.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000051_000001|In time to make me your wife when the divorce shall appear."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000053_000000|"Chance it! chance the legitimacy of the child?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000053_000001|You must assure that, before all things.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000054_000000|"Now don't put yourself in a fever, Isabel.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000054_000001|How many times am I to be compelled to beg that of you!
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000054_000002|It does no good.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000054_000003|Is it my fault, if I am called suddenly to England?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000055_000000|"Have you no pity for your child?" she urged in agitation.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000055_000001|"Nothing can repair the injury, if you once suffer it to come upon him.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000055_000002|He will be a by word amidst men throughout his life."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000056_000000|"You had better have written to the law lords to urge on the divorce," he returned.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000056_000001|"I cannot help the delay."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000057_000000|"There has been no delay; quite the contrary.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000057_000001|But it may be expected hourly now."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000058_000001|I shall be back in time."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000059_000000|He quitted the room as he spoke, and Lady Isabel remained in it, the image of despair.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000059_000001|Nearly an hour elapsed when she remembered the breakfast things, and rang for them to be removed.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000061_000000|"Pierre was making himself ready to attend monsieur to England."
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000062_000001|"Good bye, Isabel," said he, without further circumlocution or ceremony.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000064_000000|"Francis, have you any consideration left for me-any in the world?"
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000065_000001|Of course I have," he continued, in a peevish, though kind tone, as he took hold of her hands to raise her.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000066_000000|"No, not yet.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000067_000000|"I cannot wait," he replied, his tone changing to one of determination.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000068_000000|He broke from her and left the room, and in another minute had left the house, Pierre attending him.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000068_000001|A feeling, amounting to a conviction, rushed over the unhappy lady that she had seen him for the last time until it was too late.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000069_000000|She was right.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000069_000001|It was too late by weeks and months.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000070_000000|December came in.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000070_000001|The Alps were covered with snow; Grenoble borrowed the shade, and looked cold, and white, and sleety, and sloppy; the gutters, running through the middle of certain of the streets, were unusually black, and the people crept along especially dismal.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000070_000003|She had an invalid cap on, and a thick woolen invalid shawl, and she shook and shivered perpetually; though she had drawn so close to the wood fire that there was a danger of her petticoats igniting, and the attendant had frequently to spring up and interpose between them and the crackling logs.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000070_000004|Little did it seem to matter to Lady Isabel; she sat in one position, her countenance the picture of stony despair.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000071_000002|She had got so far about as to sit up in the windy chamber; and it seemed to be to her a matter of perfect indifference whether she ever got out of it.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000072_000000|This day she had partaken of her early dinner-such as it was, for her appetite failed-and had dozed asleep in the arm chair, when a noise arose from below, like a carriage driving into the courtyard through the porte cochere.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000072_000001|It instantly aroused her.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000072_000002|Had he come?
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000073_000000|"Who is it?" she asked of the nurse.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000075_000001|Another moment, and it was flung open.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000076_000000|Sir Francis Levison approached to greet her as he came in.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000076_000001|She waved him off, begging him, in a subdued, quiet tone, not to draw too near, as any little excitement made her faint now.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000076_000002|He took a seat opposite to her, and began pushing the logs together with his boot, as he explained that he really could not get away from town before.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000077_000000|"Why did you come now?" she quietly rejoined.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000078_000000|"Why did I come?" repeated he.
train-clean-100/2836/5354/2836_5354_000078_000001|"Are these all the thanks a fellow gets for travelling in this inclement weather?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000007_000002|I wish to deal with you quite unreservedly, without concealment, or deceit; I must request you so to deal with me."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000008_000000|"What do you mean by 'deal?'" he asked, settling the logs to his apparent satisfaction.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000009_000000|"To speak and act.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000009_000001|Let there be plain truth between us at this interview, if there never has been before."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000010_000000|"I don't understand you."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000011_000000|"Naked truth, unglossed over," she pursued, bending her eyes determinately upon him.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000011_000001|"It must be."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000012_000001|"It is you who have thrown out the challenge, mind."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000014_000000|"Of course I meant to do so when I gave the promise," he interrupted.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000014_000001|"But no sooner had I set my foot in London than I found myself overwhelmed with business, and away from it I could not get.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000014_000002|Even now I can only remain with you a couple of days, for I must hasten back to town."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000015_000000|"You are breaking faith already," she said, after hearing him calmly to the end.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000015_000001|"Your words are not words of truth, but of deceit.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000015_000002|You did not intend to be back in time for the marriage, or otherwise you would have caused it to take place ere you went at all."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000016_000000|"What fancies you do take up!" uttered Francis Levison.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000017_000000|"Some time subsequent to your departure," she quietly went on, "one of the maids was setting to rights the clothes in your dressing closet, and she brought me a letter she found in one of the pockets.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000017_000002|It contained the information that the divorce was pronounced."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000018_000000|She spoke so quietly, so apparently without feeling or passion, that Sir Francis was agreeably astonished.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000018_000001|He should have less trouble in throwing off the mask.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000018_000002|But he was an ill tempered man; and to hear that the letter had been found to have the falseness of his fine protestations and promises laid bare, did not improve his temper now.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000018_000003|Lady Isabel continued,--
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000019_000000|"It would have been better to have undeceived me then; to have told me that the hopes I was cherishing for the sake of the unborn child were worse than vain."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000020_000000|"I did not judge so," he replied.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000020_000001|"The excited state you then appeared to be in, would have precluded your listening to any sort of reason."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000021_000000|Her heart beat a little quicker; but she stilled it.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000022_000000|"You deem that it was not in reason that I should aspire to be the wife of Sir Francis Levison?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000023_000000|He rose and began kicking at the logs; with the heel of his boot this time.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000024_000000|"Well, Isabel, you must be aware that it is an awful sacrifice for a man in my position to marry a divorced woman."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000025_000000|The hectic flushed into her thin cheeks, but her voice sounded calm as before.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000026_000000|"When I expected or wished, for the 'sacrifice,' it was not for my own sake; I told you so then.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000026_000002|There he lies."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000027_000001|He did not take the trouble to look at it.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000028_000000|"I am the representative now of an ancient and respected baronetcy," he resumed, in a tone as of apology for his previous heartless words, "and to make you my wife would so offend all my family, that-"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000029_000000|"Stay," interrupted Lady Isabel, "you need not trouble yourself to find needless excuses.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000029_000001|Had you taken this journey for the purpose of making me your wife, were you to propose to do so this day, and bring a clergyman into the room to perform the ceremony, it would be futile.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000029_000002|The injury to the child can never be repaired; and, for myself, I cannot imagine any fate in life worse than being compelled to pass it with you."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000030_000000|"If you have taken this aversion to me, it cannot be helped," he coldly said, inwardly congratulating himself, let us not doubt, at being spared the work of trouble he had anticipated.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000030_000001|"You made commotion enough once about me making you reparation."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000031_000000|She shook her head.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000032_000000|"All the reparation in your power to make-all the reparation that the whole world can invent could not undo my sin.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000032_000001|It and the effects must lie upon me forever."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000033_000001|"You ladies should think of that beforehand."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000034_000001|"May heaven help all to do so who may be tempted as I was."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000035_000000|"If you mean that as a reproach to me, it's rather out of place," chafed Sir Francis, whose fits of ill temper were under no control, and who never, when in them, cared what he said to outrage the feelings of another.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000035_000001|"The temptation to sin, as you call it, lay not in my persuasions half so much as in your jealous anger toward your husband."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000036_000000|"Quite true," was her reply.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000037_000001|Since we are mutually on this complimentary discourse, it is of no consequence to smooth over facts."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000038_000000|"I do not understand what you would imply," she said, drawing her shawl round her with a fresh shiver.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000038_000001|"How on the wrong scent?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000039_000000|"With regard to your husband and that Hare girl.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000039_000001|You were blindly, outrageously jealous of him."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000041_000000|"And I say I think you are on the wrong scent.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000041_000001|I do not believe mr Carlyle ever thought of the girl-in that way."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000042_000000|"What do you mean?" she gasped.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000043_000000|"They had a secret between them-not of love-a secret of business; and those interviews they had together, her dancing attendance upon him perpetually, related to that, and that alone."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000044_000000|Her face was more flushed than it had been throughout the interview.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000044_000001|He spoke quietly now, quite in an equal tone of reasoning; it was his way when the ill temper was upon him: and the calmer he spoke, the more cutting were his words.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000044_000002|He need not have told her this.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000045_000000|"What was the secret?" she inquired, in a low tone.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000046_000000|"Nay, I can't explain all; they did not take me into their confidence.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000046_000001|They did not even take you; better, perhaps that they had though, as things have turned out, or seem to be turning.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000046_000002|There's some disreputable secret attaching to the Hare family, and Carlyle was acting in it, under the rose, for mrs Hare.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000046_000003|She could not seek out Carlyle herself, so she sent the young lady.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000046_000004|That's all I know."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000047_000000|"How did you know it?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000048_000000|"I had reason to think so."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000049_000000|"What reason?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000049_000001|I must request you to tell me."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000050_000000|"I overheard scraps of their conversation now and then in those meetings, and so gathered my information."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000051_000000|"You told a different tale to me, Sir Francis," was her remark, as she turned her indignant eyes toward him.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000053_000000|"All stratagems are fair in love and war."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000054_000001|Sir Francis broke it, pointing with his left thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the cradle.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000055_000000|"What have you named that young article there?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000056_000000|"The name which ought to have been his by inheritance-'Francis Levison,'" was her icy answer.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000057_000000|"Let's see-how old is he now?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000058_000000|"He was born on the last day of August."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000059_000000|Sir Francis threw up his arms and stretched himself, as if a fit of idleness had overtaken him; then advanced to the cradle and pulled down the clothes.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000060_000000|"Who is he like, Isabel?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000060_000001|My handsome self?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000061_000001|And then remembering the resolution marked out for herself, subsided outwardly into calmness again.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000063_000000|She made no reply.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000063_000001|Sir Francis put the clothes back over the sleeping child, returned to the fire, and stood a few moments with his back to it.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000065_000001|"These apartments are mine now; they have been transferred into my name, and they can never again afford you accommodation.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000065_000002|Will you be so obliging-I am not strong-as to hand me that writing case?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000066_000000|Sir Francis walked to the table she indicated, which was at the far end of the great barn of a room, and taking the writing case from it, gave it to her.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000067_000000|She reached her keys from the stand at her elbow, unlocked the case, and took from it some bank notes.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000068_000000|"I received these from you a month ago," she said.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000068_000001|"They came by post."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000069_000000|"And never had the grace to acknowledge them," he returned, in a sort of mock reproachful tone.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000070_000000|"Forty pounds.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000070_000001|That was the amount, was it not?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000071_000000|"I believe so."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000072_000000|"Allow me to return them to you.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000072_000001|Count them."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000073_000000|"Return them to me-for what?" inquired Sir Francis, in amazement.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000074_000001|Do not make my arm ache, holding out these notes to you so long!
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000074_000002|Take them!"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000076_000001|"I must confess I think it may be the wisest course, as things have come to this pass; for a cat and dog life, which would seemingly be ours, is not agreeable.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000076_000002|Remember, though, that it is your doing, not mine.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000076_000003|But you cannot think I am going to see you starve, Isabel.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000077_000000|"I beg of you to cease," she passionately interrupted.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000077_000001|"What do you take me for?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000078_000000|"Take you for!
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000078_000001|Why, how can you live?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000078_000002|You have no fortune-you must receive assistance from some one."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000079_000000|"I will not receive it from you.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000079_000002|In saying this, it ought to convince you that the topic may cease."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000080_000000|"Your husband!" sarcastically rejoined Sir Francis.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000080_000001|"Generous man!"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000081_000000|A flush, deep and painful, dyed her cheeks.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000081_000001|"I should have said my late husband.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000081_000002|You need not have reminded me of the mistake."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000082_000000|"If you will accept nothing for yourself, you must for the child.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000082_000002|I shall give you a few hundred a year with him."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000083_000000|She beat her hands before her, as if beating off the man and his words.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000083_000001|"Not a farthing, now or ever.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000083_000003|Whom do you take me for?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000083_000004|What do you take me for?" she repeated, rising in her bitter mortification.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000083_000005|"If you have put me beyond the pale of the world, I am still Lord Mount Severn's daughter!"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000084_000000|"You did as much toward putting yourself beyond its pale as-"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000085_000000|"Don't I know it?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000085_000001|Have I not said so?" she sharply interrupted.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000085_000002|And then she sat, striving to calm herself, clasping together her shaking hands.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000086_000000|"Well, if you will persist in this perverse resolution, I cannot mend it," resumed Sir Francis.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000086_000001|"In a little time you may probably wish to recall it; in which case a line, addressed to me at my banker's, will-"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000087_000000|Lady Isabel drew herself up.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000087_000001|"Put away those notes, if you please," she interrupted, not allowing him to finish his sentence.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000088_000000|He took out his pocket book and placed the bank notes within it.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000089_000000|"Your clothes-those you left here when you went to England-you will have the goodness to order Pierre to take away this afternoon.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000089_000001|And now, Sir Francis, I believe that is all: we will part."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000090_000001|Is that to be it?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000091_000001|"I wish you a good day."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000092_000000|"So you will not even shake hands with me, Isabel?"
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000093_000000|"I would prefer not."
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000094_000000|And thus they parted.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000094_000001|Sir Francis left the room, but not immediately the house.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000094_000003|Then he paid a visit to the landlord, and handed him, likewise a year's rent in advance, making the same remark.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000094_000004|After that, he ordered dinner at a hotel, and the same night he and Pierre departed on their journey home again, Sir Francis thanking his lucky star that he had so easily got rid of a vexatious annoyance.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000095_000000|And Lady Isabel?
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000095_000001|She passed her evening alone, sitting in the same place, close to the fire and the sparks.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000000|When Lady Isabel lay down to rest, she sank into a somewhat calmer sleep than she had known of late; also into a dream.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000001|She thought she was back at East Lynne-not back, in one sense, but that she seemed never to have gone away from it-walking in the flower garden with mr Carlyle, while the three children played on the lawn.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000002|Her arm was within her husband's, and he was relating something to her.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000003|What the news was, she could not remember afterward, excepting that it was connected with the office and old mr Dill, and that mr Carlyle laughed when he told it.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000004|They appeared to be interrupted by the crying of Archibald; and, in turning to the lawn to ask what was the matter, she awoke.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000005|Alas!
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000006|It was the actual crying of her own child which awoke her-this last child-the ill fated little being in the cradle beside her.
train-clean-100/2836/5355/2836_5355_000096_000007|But, for a single instant, she forgot recent events and doings, she believed she was indeed in her happy home at East Lynne, a proud woman, an honored wife.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000000_000003|They had undergone a remarkable change since our arrival at the Butcher's Shop; they now wandered about, fat, sleek, and contented, and their former voracity had completely disappeared.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000000_000004|As regards ourselves, a day or two longer made no difference; our most important article of diet, the pemmican, was practically left untouched, as for the time being dog had completely taken its place.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000000_000005|There was thus no great sign of depression to be noticed when we came back into the tent after finishing our work, and had to while away the time.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000000_000006|As I went in, I could descry Wisting a little way off kneeling on the ground, and engaged in the manufacture of cutlets.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000000_000008|The north-east wind whistled and howled, the air was thick with driving snow, and Wisting was not to be envied.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000000_000010|During the evening the wind moderated a little, and went more to the east; we went to sleep with the best hopes for the following day.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000000|saturday november twenty fifth, came; it was a grand day in many respects.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000001|I had already seen proofs on several occasions of the kind of men my comrades were, but their conduct that day was such that I shall never forget it, to whatever age I may live.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000002|In the course of the night the wind had gone back to the north, and increased to a gale.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000003|It was blowing and snowing so that when we came out in the morning we could not see the sledges; they were half snowed under.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000007|We had all taken a turn outside to look at the weather, and were sitting on our sleeping bags discussing the poor prospect.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000009|This is the fifth day, and it's blowing worse than ever." We all agreed.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000012|"Shall we try it?" No sooner was the proposal submitted than it was accepted unanimously and with acclamation.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000014|All the qualities that I most admire in a man were clearly shown at that juncture: courage and dauntlessness, without boasting or big words.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000001_000015|Amid joking and chaff, everything was packed, and then -- out into the blizzard.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000000|It was practically impossible to keep one's eyes open; the fine drift snow penetrated everywhere, and at times one had a feeling of being blind.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000001|The tent was not only drifted up, but covered with ice, and in taking it down we had to handle it with care. so as not to break it in pieces.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000002|The dogs were not much inclined to start, and it took time to get them into their harness, but at last we were ready.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000003|One more glance over the camping ground to see that nothing we ought to have with us had been forgotten.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000004|The fourteen dogs' carcasses that were left were piled up in a heap, and Hassel's sledge was set up against it as a mark.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000005|The spare sets of dog harness, some Alpine ropes, and all our crampons for ice work, which we now thought would not be required, were left behind.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000006|The last thing to be done was planting a broken ski upright by the side of the depot.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000007|It was Wisting who did this, thinking, presumably, that an extra mark would do no harm.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000002_000008|That it was a happy thought the future will show.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000003_000000|And then we were off: It was a hard pull to begin with, both for men and beasts, as the high sastrugi continued towards the south, and made it extremely difficult to advance.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000003_000002|We went on like this, slowly enough, but the main thing was that we made progress.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000003_000005|Meanwhile the sastrugi grew smaller and smaller, and finally they disappeared altogether, and the surface became quite flat.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000003_000008|The surface, which had become perfectly level, had the appearance at times of sinking; in any case, one would have thought so from the pace of the sledges.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000003_000010|The wind aft, no doubt, helped the pace somewhat, but it alone could not account for the change.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000004_000002|So far the incline had not been so great as to cause uneasiness, but if it seriously began to go downhill, we should have to stop and camp.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000004_000004|We might risk falling into some chasm before we had time to pull up.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000001|Strictly speaking, I should now have been going in advance, but the uneven surface at the start and the rapid pace afterwards had made it impossible to walk as fast the dogs could pull.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000003|Suddenly I saw Hanssen's dogs shoot ahead, and downhill they went at the wildest pace, Wisting after them.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000004|I shouted to Hanssen to stop, and he succeeded in doing so by twisting his sledge.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000005|The others, who were following, stopped when they came up to him.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000006|We were in the middle of a fairly steep descent; what there might be below was not easy to decide, nor would we try to find out in that weather.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000009|We trampled down a place for the tent in the loose snow, and soon got it up.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000010|It was not a long day's march that we had done -- eleven and three quarter miles -- but we had put an end to our stay at the Butcher's Shop, and that was a great thing.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000011|The boiling point test that evening showed that we were ten thousand three hundred feet above the sea, and that we had thus gone down six hundred twenty feet from the Butcher's.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000012|We turned in and went to sleep.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000005_000015|We therefore all slept with one eye open, and we knew well that nothing could happen without our noticing it.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000002|The sun showed as yet like a pat of butter, and had not succeeded in dispersing the thick mists; the wind had dropped somewhat, but was still fairly strong.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000003|This is, after all, the worst part of one's job -- turning out of one's good, warm sleeping bag, and standing outside for some time in thin clothes, watching the weather.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000004|We knew by experience that a gleam like this, a clearing in the weather, might come suddenly, and then one had to be on the spot.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000005|The gleam came; it did not last long, but long enough.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000007|The descent on the south was too abrupt, but on the south-east it was better and more gradual, and ended in a wide, level tract.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000011|Well content with our morning's work, we turned in again and slept till six a m, when we began our morning preparations.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000006_000012|The weather, which had somewhat improved during the night, had now broken loose again, and the north easter was doing all it could.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000007_000000|After putting ample brakes on the sledge runners, we started off downhill in a south easterly direction.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000007_000002|The descent was easy and smooth, and we reached the plain without any adventure.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000007_000007|If our progress was nevertheless slow and difficult, this was due to the wretched going, which was real torture to all of us.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000007_000008|A sledge journey through the Sahara could not have offered a worse surface to move over.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000008_000000|The weather improved in the course of the day, and when we camped in the afternoon it looked quite smiling.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000008_000003|The distance according to our three sledge meters was eighteen and a half miles; taking the bad going into consideration, we had reason to be well satisfied with it.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000008_000004|Our altitude came out at nine thousand four hundred seventy five feet above the sea, or a drop of eight hundred twenty five feet in the course of the day.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000008_000005|This surprised me greatly.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000008_000006|What did it mean?
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000008_000008|Something extraordinary must await us farther on, but, what?
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000009_000000|november twenty seventh did not bring us the desired weather; the night was filled with sharp gusts from the north; the morning came with a slack wind, but accompanied by mist and snowfall.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000009_000002|The surface remained about the same -- possibly rather more undulating.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000009_000004|Luckily for us, the snowfall of the last few days had filled these up, so as to present a level surface.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000009_000005|It was heavy going, though better than on the previous day.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000000|As we were advancing, still blindly, and fretting at the persistently thick weather, one of us suddenly called out: "Hullo, look there!" A wild, dark summit rose high out of the mass of fog to the east south-east.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000001|It was not far away -- on the contrary, it seemed threateningly near and right over us.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000002|We stopped and looked at the imposing sight, but Nature did not expose her objects of interest for long.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000008|We continued our course in the constant expectation of finding some surprise or other in our line of route.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000009|The air ahead of us was as black as pitch, as though it concealed something.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000010|It could not be a storm, or it would have been already upon us.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000010_000012|Our day's march was eighteen and a half miles.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000000|I see that my diary for november twenty eighth does not begin very promisingly: "Fog, fog -- and again fog.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000001|Also fine falling snow, which makes the going impossible.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000002|Poor beasts, they have toiled hard to get the sledges forward to day." But the day did not turn out so badly after all, as we worked our way out of this uncertainty and found out what was behind the pitch dark clouds.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000004|From this mass, right across our course, ran a great, ancient glacier; the sun shone down upon it and showed us a surface full of huge irregularities.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000005|On the side nearest to the mountain these disturbances were such that a hasty glance was enough to show us the impossibility of advancing that way.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000006|But right in our line of route -- straight on to the glacier -- it looked, as far as we could see, as though we could get along.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000007|The fog came and went, and we had to take advantage of the clear intervals to get our bearings.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000008|It would, no doubt, have been better if we could have halted, set up our tent, and waited for decently clear weather, so that we might survey the ground at our ease and choose the best way.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000011_000011|That question was unanswerable; possibly a week, or even a fortnight, and we had no time for that.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000012_000000|What we could see of the glacier appeared to be pretty steep; but it was only between the south and south-east, under the new land, that the fog now and again lifted sufficiently to enable us to see anything.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000012_000001|From the south round to the west the fog lay as thick as gruel.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000012_000003|It was to the south we had to go, and there it was possible to go forward a little way.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000012_000005|It was our intention to lighten our sledges before tackling the glacier; from the little we could see of it, it was plain enough that we should have stiff work.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000012_000006|It was therefore important to have as little as possible on the sledges.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000013_000000|We set to work at once to build the depot; the snow here was excellent for this purpose -- as hard as glass.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000013_000001|In a short time an immense erection of adamantine blocks of snow rose into the air, containing provisions for five men for six days and for eighteen dogs for five days.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000013_000002|A number of small articles were also left behind.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000014_000001|It appeared to be quite isolated, and to consist of four mountains; one of these -- Mount Helmer Hanssen -- lay separated from the rest.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000014_000003|Behind this group the air had been heavy and black the whole time, showing that more land must be concealed there.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000014_000008|For that matter, the site of the depot was so well marked by its position under the foot of the glacier that we agreed it would be impossible to miss it.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000015_000007|We examined the compass from time to time, and went forward cautiously.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000016_000004|We kept it going, however, by using the utmost caution.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000016_000005|Wisting came near to sounding the depth of one of these dangerous crevasses with sledge, dogs and all, as the bridge he was about to cross gave way.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000016_000006|Thanks to his presence of mind and a lightning like movement -- some would call it luck -- he managed to save himself.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000016_000007|In this way we worked up about two hundred feet, but then we came upon such a labyrinth of yawning chasms and open abysses that we could not move.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000016_000008|There was nothing to be done but to find the least disturbed spot, and set the tent there.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000017_000000|As soon as this was done Hanssen and I set out to explore.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000017_000001|We were roped, and therefore safe enough.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000017_000002|It required some study to find a way out of the trap we had run ourselves into.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000017_000008|Thank God we were not here while this was going on, I thought to myself, as I stood looking out over this battlefield; it must have been a spectacle like doomsday, and not on a small scale either.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000017_000009|To advance in that direction, then, was hopeless, but that was no great matter, since our way was to the south.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000018_000002|We saw well enough that this would be a difficult place to pass with sledges and dogs, but in default of anything better it would have to be done.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000018_000004|The fog prevented our seeing far, but the immediate surroundings were enough to convince us that with caution we could beat up farther.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000019_000001|The language we used about the glacier as we went was not altogether complimentary; we had endless tacking and turning to get on.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000019_000003|Can anyone be surprised that we called it the Devil's Glacier?
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000019_000004|At any rate, our companions acknowledged the justness of the name with ringing acclamations when we told them of it.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000020_000002|This formation -- like every -- thing else on the glacier was obviously very old, and for the most part filled with snow.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000021_000000|Our companions were no less pleased with the news we brought of our prospects.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000021_000001|Our altitude that evening was eight thousand six hundred fifty feet above the sea -- that is to say, at the foot of the glacier we had reached an altitude of eight thousand four hundred fifty feet, or a drop from the Butcher's of two thousand five hundred seventy feet.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000022_000007|The beacons we had put up came to our aid, and for our final success we owe a deep debt of gratitude to our prudence and thoughtfulness in adopting this expedient.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000024_000001|They had to drive with great circumspection and patience to grapple with the kind of ground we had before us; a slight mistake might be enough to send both sledge and dogs with lightning rapidity into the next world.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000024_000002|It took, nevertheless, a remarkably short time to cover the distance we had explored on the previous evening; before we knew it, we were at Hell's Gate.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000025_000002|This was the photographer, who, in passing over this snow bridge, struck his ski into it to try the strength of the support.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000025_000003|Close to the tracks can be seen an open piece of the crevasse; it is a pale blue at the top, but ends in the deepest black -- in a bottomless abyss.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000025_000005|The two small black figures in the distance, on the right, are Hassel and I, who are reconnoitring ahead.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000026_000001|But, taking into account all the turns and circuits we had been compelled to make, it was not so short after all.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000026_000005|It was a fairy landscape in blue and white, red and black, a play of colours that defies description.
train-clean-100/2843/152918/2843_152918_000027_000002|Some were sharp, but most were long and rounded.
train-clean-100/289/121665/289_121665_000015_000000|"But where is your crook?"
train-clean-100/289/121665/289_121665_000022_000000|"Of course; do not the sheep know you?"
train-clean-100/289/121665/289_121665_000049_000000|Nothing was left to each sheep but a wee little stump where a tail should be, and Little Bo Peep was so heart broken that she sat down beside them and sobbed bitterly.
train-clean-100/289/121665/289_121665_000072_000000|And now
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000002_000000|THE PEOPLE MARCH
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000003_000000|He became aware of someone urging a glass of clear fluid upon his attention, looked up and discovered this was a dark young man in a yellow garment.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000003_000001|He took the dose forthwith, and in a moment he was glowing.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000003_000003|This man was shouting close to his ear and yet what was said was indistinct because of the tremendous uproar from the great theatre.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000003_000004|Behind the man was a girl in a silvery grey robe, whom Graham, even in this confusion, perceived to be beautiful.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000003_000005|Her dark eyes, full of wonder and curiosity, were fixed on him, her lips trembled apart. A partially opened door gave a glimpse of the crowded hall, and admitted a vast uneven tumult, a hammering, clapping and shouting that died away and began again, and rose to a thunderous pitch, and so continued intermittently all the time that Graham remained in the little room.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000003_000006|He watched the lips of the man in black and gathered that he was making some explanation.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000004_000000|He stared stupidly for some moments at these things and then stood up abruptly; he grasped the arm of this shouting person.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000005_000000|"Tell me!" he cried.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000006_000000|The others came nearer to hear his words.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000007_000000|"They have told him nothing!" cried the girl.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000008_000000|"Tell me, tell me!" cried Graham.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000009_000001|You are owner of the world."
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000010_000000|He did not believe he heard aright.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000010_000001|He resisted the persuasion.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000010_000003|He lifted his voice again.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000010_000004|"I have been awake three days-a prisoner three days.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000011_000000|"Yes," said the younger man.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000012_000000|"And those who meet in the great hall with the white Atlas?
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000012_000001|How does it concern me?
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000012_000005|I have gone mad....
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000012_000007|Why should they try to drug me?"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000013_000000|"To keep you insensible," said the man in yellow.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000013_000001|"To prevent your interference."
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000015_000001|"The world is on your shoulders.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000015_000002|They rule it in your name."
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000017_000000|Graham stood, his intelligence clinging helplessly to the thing he had just heard.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000017_000001|"The Council," he repeated blankly, and then snatched at a name that had struck him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000019_000000|"In my name?--And you?
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000019_000001|Why is he not here?"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000020_000000|"He-has deputed us.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000020_000001|I am his brother-his half brother, Lincoln.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000020_000004|He is at the wind vane offices directing.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000021_000001|"They have ruled, crushed, tyrannised.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000021_000002|At last even-"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000022_000001|My name!
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000022_000002|Master?"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000023_000001|"No one expected you to wake.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000023_000002|No one expected you to wake.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000023_000003|They were cunning.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000023_000004|Damned tyrants!
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000025_000000|"Ostrog is at the wind vane offices ready-.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000026_000000|The man who had called himself Lincoln came close to him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000026_000002|Trust him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000026_000006|Then-"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000028_000000|"We have arms," cried Lincoln.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000028_000001|"We have plans.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000028_000002|A leader.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000028_000003|Their police have gone from the streets and are massed in the-" (inaudible).
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000029_000000|"Hear the people calling to you!"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000030_000000|Graham's mind was like a night of moon and swift clouds, now dark and hopeless, now clear and ghastly.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000030_000001|He was Master of the Earth, he was a man sodden with thawing snow.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000030_000003|The other side had imprisoned him, debated his death.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000030_000004|These shouting thousands beyond the little doorway had rescued him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000030_000005|But why these things should be so he could not understand.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000031_000000|The door opened, Lincoln's voice was swept away and drowned, and a rash of people followed on the heels of the tumult.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000031_000001|These intruders came towards him and Lincoln gesticulating.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000031_000002|The voices without explained their soundless lips.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000031_000003|"Show us the Sleeper, show us the Sleeper!" was the burden of the uproar.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000031_000004|Men were bawling for "Order!
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000031_000005|Silence!"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000032_000001|He met the wonder and expectation of the girl's eyes.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000032_000002|What did these people expect from him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000032_000003|He was dimly aware that the tumult outside had changed its character, was in some way beating, marching.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000032_000004|His own mind, too, changed.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000032_000006|But a moment that was near to panic passed.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000032_000007|He tried to make audible inquiries of what was required of him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000033_000000|Lincoln was shouting in his ear, but Graham was deafened to that.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000033_000002|He perceived what had happened to the uproar.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000033_000003|The whole mass of people was chanting together.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000033_000004|It was not simply a song, the voices were gathered together and upborne by a torrent of instrumental music, music like the music of an organ, a woven texture of sounds, full of trumpets, full of flaunting banners, full of the march and pageantry of opening war.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000033_000005|And the feet of the people were beating time-tramp, tramp.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000034_000001|He obeyed mechanically.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000034_000002|The strength of that chant took hold of him, stirred him, emboldened him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000035_000000|"Wave your arm to them," said Lincoln.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000035_000001|"Wave your arm to them."
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000036_000000|"This," said a voice on the other side, "he must have this." Arms were about his neck detaining him in the doorway, and a black subtly folding mantle hung from his shoulders.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000036_000001|He threw his arm free of this and followed Lincoln.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000036_000002|He perceived the girl in grey close to him, her face lit, her gesture onward.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000036_000004|He emerged in the alcove again.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000036_000005|Incontinently the mounting waves of the song broke upon his appearing, and flashed up into a foam of shouting. Guided by Lincoln's hand he marched obliquely across the centre of the stage facing the people.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000000|The hall was a vast and intricate space-galleries, balconies, broad spaces of amphitheatral steps, and great archways.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000001|Far away, high up, seemed the mouth of a huge passage full of struggling humanity.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000003|Individual figures sprang out of the tumult, impressed him momentarily, and lost definition again. Close to the platform swayed a beautiful fair woman, carried by three men, her hair across her face and brandishing a green staff.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000006|The multitude were beating time with their feet-marking time, tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000008|He raised his arm, and the roaring was redoubled.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000010|He waved his arm again and pointed to the archway, shouting "Onward!"
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000011|They were no longer marking time, they were marching; tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000012|In that host were bearded men, old men, youths, fluttering robed bare armed women, girls.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000015|A monstrous black banner jerked its way to the right.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000016|He perceived a blue clad negro, a shrivelled woman in yellow, then a group of tall fair haired, white faced, blue clad men pushed theatrically past him.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000017|He noted two Chinamen.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000018|A tall, sallow, dark haired, shining eyed youth, white clad from top to toe, clambered up towards the platform shouting loyally, and sprang down again and receded, looking backward.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000037_000019|Heads, shoulders, hands clutching weapons, all were swinging with those marching cadences.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000038_000000|Faces came out of the confusion to him as he stood there, eyes met his and passed and vanished.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000038_000001|Men gesticulated to him, shouted inaudible personal things.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000038_000002|Most of the faces were flushed, but many were ghastly white.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000038_000005|Strange and incredible meeting! As the broad stream passed before him to the right, tributary gangways from the remote uplands of the hall thrust downward in an incessant replacement of people; tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000038_000007|Men and women mingled in the ranks; tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp. The whole world seemed marching.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000038_000008|Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp; his brain was tramping.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000039_000000|Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp; at Lincoln's pressure he turned towards the archway, walking unconsciously in that rhythm, scarcely noticing his movement for the melody and stir of it.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000039_000001|The multitude, the gesture and song, all moved in that direction, the flow of people smote downward until the upturned faces were below the level of his feet.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000039_000002|He was aware of a path before him, of a suite about him, of guards and dignities, and Lincoln on his right hand.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000039_000003|Attendants intervened, and ever and again blotted out the sight of the multitude to the left.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000039_000006|He did not know whither he went; he did not want to know.
train-clean-100/2893/139310/2893_139310_000039_000007|He glanced back across a flaming spaciousness of hall.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000000|From the Business Quarter they presently passed by the running ways into a remote quarter of the city, where the bulk of the manufactures was done.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000001|On their way the platforms crossed the Thames twice, and passed in a broad viaduct across one of the great roads that entered the city from the North.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000002|In both cases his impression was swift and in both very vivid. The river was a broad wrinkled glitter of black sea water, overarched by buildings, and vanishing either way into a blackness starred with receding lights.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000003|A string of black barges passed seaward, manned by blue clad men.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000005|Here, too, the distinctive blue of the Labour Department was in abundance.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000007|One lank and very high carriage with longitudinal metallic rods hung with the dripping carcasses of many hundred sheep arrested his attention unduly.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000003_000008|Abruptly the edge of the archway cut and blotted out the picture.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000004_000000|Presently they left the way and descended by a lift and traversed a passage that sloped downward, and so came to a descending lift again.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000004_000002|Even the pretence of architectural ornament disappeared, the lights diminished in number and size, the architecture became more and more massive in proportion to the spaces as the factory quarters were reached.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000004_000003|And in the dusty biscuit making place of the potters, among the felspar mills, in the furnace rooms of the metal workers, among the incandescent lakes of crude Eadhamite, the blue canvas clothing was on man, woman and child.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000005_000001|The only people not in blue canvas were the overlookers of the work places and the orange clad Labour Police.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000005_000004|The burly labourers of the old Victorian times had followed that dray horse and all such living force producers, to extinction; the place of his costly muscles was taken by some dexterous machine.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000005_000005|The latter day labourer, male as well as female, was essentially a machine minder and feeder, a servant and attendant, or an artist under direction.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000006_000000|The women, in comparison with those Graham remembered, were as a class distinctly plain and flat chested.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000006_000002|To be brilliant physically or mentally, to be in any way attractive or exceptional, had been and was still a certain way of emancipation to the drudge, a line of escape to the Pleasure City and its splendours and delights, and at last to the Euthanasy and peace.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000006_000003|To be steadfast against such inducements was scarcely to be expected of meanly nourished souls.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000006_000004|In the young cities of Graham's former life, the newly aggregated labouring mass had been a diverse multitude, still stirred by the tradition of personal honour and a high morality; now it was differentiating into an instinct class, with a moral and physical difference of its own-even with a dialect of its own.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000007_000000|They penetrated downward, ever downward, towards the working places. Presently they passed underneath one of the streets of the moving ways, and saw its platforms running on their rails far overhead, and chinks of white lights between the transverse slits.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000007_000001|The factories that were not working were sparsely lighted; to Graham they and their shrouded aisles of giant machines seemed plunged in gloom, and even where work was going on the illumination was far less brilliant than upon the public ways.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000008_000001|They were high and dark, and rather cold. In the first a few men were making ornaments of gold filigree, each man at a little bench by himself, and with a little shaded light.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000008_000002|The long vista of light patches, with the nimble fingers brightly lit and moving among the gleaming yellow coils, and the intent face like the face of a ghost, in each shadow, had the oddest effect.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000009_000002|They assumed this on coming to work, but at night they were stripped and examined before they left the premises of the Department.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000009_000003|In spite of every precaution, the Labour policeman told them in a depressed tone, the Department was not infrequently robbed.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000010_000002|"This is what I wanted to see," said Graham; "this is what I wanted to see," trying to avoid a start at a particularly striking disfigurement.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000011_000000|"She might have done better with herself than that," said Asano.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000012_000000|Graham made some indignant comments.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000013_000000|"But, Sire, we simply could not stand that stuff without the purple," said Asano.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000013_000001|"In your days people could stand such crudities, they were nearer the barbaric by two hundred years."
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000014_000001|Looking over the parapet, Graham saw that beneath was a wharf under yet more tremendous archings than any he had seen.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000014_000002|Three barges, smothered in floury dust, were being unloaded of their cargoes of powdered felspar by a multitude of coughing men, each guiding a little truck; the dust filled the place with a choking mist, and turned the electric glare yellow.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000014_000003|The vague shadows of these workers gesticulated about their feet, and rushed to and fro against a long stretch of white washed wall.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000014_000004|Every now and then one would stop to cough.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000016_000000|"Stop that!" shouted one of the policemen, but the order was disobeyed, and first one and then all the white stained men who were working there had taken up the beating refrain, singing it defiantly-the Song of the Revolt.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000016_000001|The feet upon the planks thundered now to the rhythm of the song, tramp, tramp, tramp.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000016_000003|He made no further effort to stop the singing.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000017_000001|That walk left on Graham's mind a maze of memories, fluctuating pictures of swathed halls, and crowded vaults seen through clouds of dust, of intricate machines, the racing threads of looms, the heavy beat of stamping machinery, the roar and rattle of belt and armature, of ill lit subterranean aisles of sleeping places, illimitable vistas of pin point lights.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000017_000002|Here was the smell of tanning, and here the reek of a brewery, and here unprecedented reeks.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000017_000003|Everywhere were pillars and cross archings of such a massiveness as Graham had never before seen, thick Titans of greasy, shining brickwork crushed beneath the vast weight of that complex city world, even as these anemic millions were crushed by its complexity.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000018_000002|And then came a remote disorder.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000018_000003|But for the most part this remnant that worked, worked hopelessly.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000019_000002|Then a woman with a face of mute white terror, and another who gasped and shrieked as she ran.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000020_000000|"What has happened now?" said Graham, puzzled, for he could not understand their thick speech.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000020_000002|The Black Police are coming from South Africa....
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000020_000003|The Black Police.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000020_000004|The Black Police."
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000021_000001|"But how can they know?" asked Asano.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000022_000001|"Stop all work.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000022_000002|Stop all work," and a swarthy hunchback, ridiculously gay in green and gold, came leaping down the platforms toward him, bawling again and again in good English, "This is Ostrog's doing, Ostrog the Knave!
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000022_000003|The Master is betrayed." His voice was hoarse and a thin foam dropped from his ugly shouting mouth.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000022_000004|He yelled an unspeakable horror that the Black Police had done in Paris, and so passed shrieking, "Ostrog the Knave!"
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000023_000001|He looked up at the great cliff of buildings on either side, vanishing into blue haze at last above the lights, and down to the roaring tiers of platforms, and the shouting, running people who were gesticulating past.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000023_000003|"The Master is betrayed!"
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000024_000000|Suddenly the situation shaped itself in his mind real and urgent.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000025_000000|"It has come," he said.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000025_000001|"I might have known.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000025_000002|The hour has come."
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000026_000000|He thought swiftly.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000026_000001|"What am I to do?"
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000027_000000|"Go back to the Council House," said Asano.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000028_000000|"Why should I not appeal-?
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000028_000001|The people are here."
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000029_000000|"You will lose time.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000029_000002|But they will mass about the Council House.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000029_000004|Your strength is there-with them."
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000031_000000|"It sounds true," said Asano.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000032_000000|"Let us have the facts," said Graham.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000034_000000|Graham regarded him doubtfully and followed him.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000035_000001|The answers to his questions were in the thick, vulgar speech.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000036_000000|"What did he say?" asked Graham.
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000037_000001|He said a girl."
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000038_000000|"A girl?
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000038_000001|Not-?"
train-clean-100/2893/139322/2893_139322_000040_000001|"To your wards, to your wards.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000004_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000005_000000|CUPID AND PSYCHE
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000006_000000|A certain king and queen had three daughters.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000006_000001|The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000006_000002|The fame of her beauty was so great that strangers from neighboring countries came in crowds to enjoy the sight, and looked on her with amazement, paying her that homage which is due only to Venus herself.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000006_000003|In fact Venus found her altars deserted, while men turned their devotion to this young virgin.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000007_000001|In vain then did that royal shepherd, whose judgment was approved by Jove himself, give me the palm of beauty over my illustrious rivals, Pallas and Juno.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000007_000002|But she shall not so quietly usurp my honors.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000007_000003|I will give her cause to repent of so unlawful a beauty."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000008_000001|She points out Psyche to him and says, "My dear son, punish that contumacious beauty; give thy mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great; infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000009_000000|Cupid prepared to obey the commands of his mother.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000009_000001|There are two fountains in Venus's garden, one of sweet waters, the other of bitter.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000009_000002|Cupid filled two amber vases, one from each fountain, and suspending them from the top of his quiver, hastened to the chamber of Psyche, whom he found asleep.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000009_000003|He shed a few drops from the bitter fountain over her lips, though the sight of her almost moved him to pity; then touched her side with the point of his arrow.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000009_000004|At the touch she awoke, and opened eyes upon Cupid (himself invisible), which so startled him that in his confusion he wounded himself with his own arrow.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000009_000005|Heedless of his wound, his whole thought now was to repair the mischief he had done, and he poured the balmy drops of joy over all her silken ringlets.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000010_000000|Psyche, henceforth frowned upon by Venus, derived no benefit from all her charms.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000010_000002|Her two elder sisters of moderate charms had now long been married to two royal princes; but Psyche, in her lonely apartment, deplored her solitude, sick of that beauty which, while it procured abundance of flattery, had failed to awaken love.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000012_000004|I submit.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000013_000000|While Psyche stood on the ridge of the mountain, panting with fear and with eyes full of tears, the gentle Zephyr raised her from the earth and bore her with an easy motion into a flowery dale.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000013_000001|By degrees her mind became composed, and she laid herself down on the grassy bank to sleep.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000013_000003|She entered it, and in the midst discovered a fountain, sending forth clear and crystal waters, and fast by, a magnificent palace whose august front impressed the spectator that it was not the work of mortal hands, but the happy retreat of some god.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000013_000004|Drawn by admiration and wonder, she approached the building and ventured to enter.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000013_000005|Every object she met filled her with pleasure and amazement.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000013_000007|Proceeding onward, she perceived that besides the apartments of state there were others filled with all manner of treasures, and beautiful and precious productions of nature and art.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000014_000001|We whose voices you hear are your servants and shall obey all your commands with our utmost care and diligence. Retire, therefore, to your chamber and repose on your bed of down, and when you see fit repair to the bath.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000014_000002|Supper awaits you in the adjoining alcove when it pleases you to take your seat there."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000016_000000|She had not yet seen her destined husband.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000016_000002|She often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000016_000003|On the contrary he charged her to make no attempt to see him, for it was his pleasure, for the best of reasons, to keep concealed.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000016_000006|If you saw me, perhaps you would fear me, perhaps adore me, but all I ask of you is to love me.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000017_000000|This reasoning somewhat quieted Psyche for a time, and while the novelty lasted she felt quite happy.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000018_000000|So, calling Zephyr, she acquainted him with her husband's commands, and he, promptly obedient, soon brought them across the mountain down to their sister's valley.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000018_000001|They embraced her and she returned their caresses.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000018_000003|The view of these celestial delights caused envy to enter their bosoms, at seeing their young sister possessed of such state and splendor, so much exceeding their own.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000019_000001|Psyche replied that he was a beautiful youth, who generally spent the daytime in hunting upon the mountains.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000019_000002|The sisters, not satisfied with this reply, soon made her confess that she had never seen him.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000019_000003|Then they proceeded to fill her bosom with dark suspicions.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000019_000006|Provide yourself with a lamp and a sharp knife; put them in concealment that your husband may not discover them, and when he is sound asleep, slip out of bed, bring forth your lamp, and see for yourself whether what they say is true or not. If it is, hesitate not to cut off the monster's head, and thereby recover your liberty."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000020_000000|Psyche resisted these persuasions as well as she could, but they did not fail to have their effect on her mind, and when her sisters were gone, their words and her own curiosity were too strong for her to resist.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000020_000001|So she prepared her lamp and a sharp knife, and hid them out of sight of her husband.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000020_000004|Psyche, in vain endeavoring to follow him, fell from the window to the ground.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000020_000007|But go; return to your sisters, whose advice you seem to think preferable to mine.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000021_000001|She repaired thither and told them the whole story of her misfortunes, at which, pretending to grieve, those spiteful creatures inwardly rejoiced.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000022_000000|Psyche meanwhile wandered day and night, without food or repose, in search of her husband.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000022_000001|Casting her eyes on a lofty mountain having on its brow a magnificent temple, she sighed and said to herself, "Perhaps my love, my lord, inhabits there," and directed her steps thither.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000023_000000|She had no sooner entered than she saw heaps of corn, some in loose ears and some in sheaves, with mingled ears of barley. Scattered about, lay sickles and rakes, and all the instruments of harvest, without order, as if thrown carelessly out of the weary reapers' hands in the sultry hours of the day.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000024_000000|This unseemly confusion the pious Psyche put an end to, by separating and sorting everything to its proper place and kind, believing that she ought to neglect none of the gods, but endeavor by her piety to engage them all in her behalf.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000024_000001|The holy Ceres, whose temple it was, finding her so religiously employed, thus spoke to her: "O Psyche, truly worthy of our pity, though I cannot shield you from the frowns of Venus, yet I can teach you how best to allay her displeasure.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000024_000002|Go, then, and voluntarily surrender yourself to your lady and sovereign, and try by modesty and submission to win her forgiveness, and perhaps her favor will restore you the husband you have lost."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000026_000001|"Most undutiful and faithless of servants," said she, "do you at last remember that you really have a mistress?
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000026_000003|You are so ill favored and disagreeable that the only way you can merit your lover must be by dint of industry and diligence.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000028_000001|The leader of the ant hill, followed by whole hosts of his six legged subjects, approached the heap, and with the utmost diligence, taking grain by grain, they separated the pile, sorting each kind to its parcel; and when it was all done, they vanished out of sight in a moment.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000029_000000|Venus at the approach of twilight returned from the banquet of the gods, breathing odors and crowned with roses.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000030_000000|Next morning Venus ordered Psyche to be called and said to her, "Behold yonder grove which stretches along the margin of the water.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000030_000002|Go, fetch me a sample of that precious wool gathered from every one of their fleeces."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000031_000000|Psyche obediently went to the riverside, prepared to do her best to execute the command.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000032_000001|But I have another task for you.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000033_000001|But a voice from the tower said to her, "Why, poor unlucky girl, dost thou design to put an end to thy days in so dreadful a manner?
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000036_000000|But Cupid, being now recovered from his wound, and not able longer to bear the absence of his beloved Psyche, slipping through the smallest crack of the window of his chamber which happened to be left open, flew to the spot where Psyche lay, and gathering up the sleep from her body closed it again in the box, and waked Psyche with a light touch of one of his arrows.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000036_000001|"Again," said he, "hast thou almost perished by the same curiosity.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000036_000002|But now perform exactly the task imposed on you by my mother, and I will take care of the rest."
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000039_000000|The fable of Cupid and Psyche is usually considered allegorical. The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000039_000002|Psyche, then, is the human soul, which is purified by sufferings and misfortunes, and is thus prepared for the enjoyment of true and pure happiness.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000040_000000|In works of art Psyche is represented as a maiden with the wings of a butterfly, along with Cupid, in the different situations described in the allegory.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000041_000000|Milton alludes to the story of Cupid and Psyche in the conclusion of his "Comus":
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000047_000000|The story of Cupid and Psyche first appears in the works of Apuleius, a writer of the second century of our era.
train-clean-100/2910/131096/2910_131096_000047_000002|It is this that Keats alludes to in his "Ode to Psyche":
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000005_000000|"Fit for Drink"
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000006_000000|A country without a fit drink for cheese has no cheese fit for drink.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000007_000001|The classical Greek cheese has always been Feta, and no doubt this was the kind that Circe combined most suitably with wine to make a farewell drink for her lovers.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000007_000002|She put further sweetness and body into the stirrup cup by stirring honey and barley meal into it. Today we might whip this up in an electric mixer to toast her memory.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000008_000000|While a land flowing with milk and honey is the ideal of many, France, Italy, Spain or Portugal, flowing with wine and honey, suit a lot of gourmets better.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000008_000001|Indeed, in such vinous caseous places cheese is on the house at all wine sales for prospective customers to snack upon and thus bring out the full flavor of the cellared vintages.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000008_000002|But professional wine tasters are forbidden any cheese between sips.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000009_000002|Pommard and Port Salut seem to be made for each other, as do Chateau Margaux and Camembert.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000011_000002|Switzerland also has another cheese favorite at home-Trauben (grape cheese), named from the Neuchatel wine in which it is aged.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000014_000000|Red Cheshire with Light Tawny Port White Cheshire with Oloroso Sherry Blue Leicester with Old Vintage Port Green Roquefort with New Vintage Port
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000016_000001|This doctoring leads to fraudulent imitation, however, for either port or stout is put into counterfeit Cheshire cheese to make up for the richness it lacks.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000017_000001|When something more fiery is needed we can twirl the flecks of pure gold in a chalice of Eau de Vie de Danzig and nibble on legitimate Danzig cheese unadulterated.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000018_000000|Another perfect combination, if you can take it, is imported kuemmel with any caraway seeded cheese, or cream cheese with a handy saucer of caraway seeds.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000018_000002|This is further fortified with brandy, white wine and pepper. One regional tipple with such brutally strong cheese is black coffee laced with gin.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000019_000000|French la Jonchee is another potted thriller with not only coffee and rum mixed in during the making, but orange flower water, too.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000020_000000|In Italy white Gorgonzola is also put up in crocks with brandy.
train-clean-100/2911/12359/2911_12359_000020_000002|This is also true of our native Jersey Lightning and hard cider with their accompanying New York State cheese.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000002_000001|The true Iroquois, or Five Nations, extended through Central New York, from the Hudson to the Genesee.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000001|Here were Mohicans, Pequots, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, Massachusetts, Penacooks, thorns in the side of the Puritan.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000002|On the whole, these savages were favorable specimens of the Algonquin stock, belonging to that section of it which tilled the soil, and was thus in some measure spared the extremes of misery and degradation to which the wandering hunter tribes were often reduced.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000003|They owed much, also, to the bounty of the sea, and hence they tended towards the coast; which, before the epidemic, Champlain and Smith had seen at many points studded with wigwams and waving with harvests of maize.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000004|Fear, too, drove, them eastward; for the Iroquois pursued them with an inveterate enmity.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000005|Some paid yearly tribute to their tyrants, while others were still subject to their inroads, flying in terror at the sound of the Mohawk war cry.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000006|Westward, the population thinned rapidly; northward, it soon disappeared.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000005_000007|Northern New Hampshire, the whole of Vermont, and Western Massachusetts had no human tenants but the roving hunter or prowling warrior.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000006_000000|We have said that this group of tribes was relatively very populous; yet it is more than doubtful whether all of them united, had union been possible, could have mustered eight thousand fighting men.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000006_000001|To speak further of them is needless, for they were not within the scope of the Jesuit labors.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000006_000002|The heresy of heresies had planted itself among them; and it was for the apostle Eliot, not the Jesuit, to essay their conversion.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000010_000000|Landing at Boston, three years before a solitude, let the traveller push northward, pass the River Piscataqua and the Penacooks, and cross the River Saco.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000010_000001|Here, a change of dialect would indicate a different tribe, or group of tribes.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000012_000000|Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000012_000002|From Nova Scotia to the saint Lawrence, there was no population worthy of the name.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000012_000003|From the Gulf of saint Lawrence to Lake Ontario, the southern border of the great river had no tenants but hunters.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000013_000000|Ascending the saint Lawrence, it was seldom that the sight of a human form gave relief to the loneliness, until, at Quebec, the roar of Champlain's cannon from the verge of the cliff announced that the savage prologue of the American drama was drawing to a close, and that the civilization of Europe was advancing on the scene.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000013_000002|The fear of the Iroquois was everywhere; and as the voyager passed some wooded point, or thicket covered island, the whistling of a stone headed arrow proclaimed, perhaps, the presence of these fierce marauders.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000014_000004|Here all was changed.
train-clean-100/2911/15045/2911_15045_000014_000005|Populous towns, rude fortifications, and an extensive, though barbarous tillage, indicated a people far in advance of the famished wanderers of the Saguenay, or their less abject kindred of New England.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000004_000000|In a measure, the occupation of the Jesuits was gone.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000006_000000|Here, then, closes this wild and bloody act of the great drama of New France; and now let the curtain fall, while we ponder its meaning.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000007_000001|The guns and tomahawks of the Iroquois were the ruin of their hopes.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000007_000002|Could they have curbed or converted those ferocious bands, it is little less than certain that their dream would have become a reality.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000007_000004|Their habits of agriculture would have been developed, and their instincts of mutual slaughter repressed.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000007_000006|Unmolested by Indian enemies, and fed by a rich commerce, she would have put forth a vigorous growth.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000008_000000|Liberty may thank the Iroquois, that, by their insensate fury, the plans of her adversary were brought to nought, and a peril and a woe averted from her future.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000008_000001|They ruined the trade which was the life blood of New France; they stopped the current of her arteries, and made all her early years a misery and a terror.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000008_000002|Not that they changed her destinies. The contest on this continent between Liberty and Absolutism was never doubtful; but the triumph of the one would have been dearly bought, and the downfall of the other incomplete.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000009_000000|The Jesuits saw their hopes struck down; and their faith, though not shaken, was sorely tried.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000009_000001|The Providence of God seemed in their eyes dark and inexplicable; but, from the stand point of Liberty, that Providence is clear as the sun at noon.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000009_000002|Meanwhile let those who have prevailed yield due honor to the defeated.
train-clean-100/2911/15084/2911_15084_000010_000000|But now new scenes succeed, and other actors enter on the stage, a hardy and valiant band, moulded to endure and dare,--the Discoverers of the Great West.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000002_000000|THE TELL TALE HEART.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000003_000001|The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000003_000002|Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000003_000004|I heard many things in hell.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000003_000006|Hearken! and observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000001|Object there was none.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000002|Passion there was none.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000003|I loved the old man.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000006|For his gold I had no desire.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000008|yes, it was this!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000009|He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000004_000010|Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000000|Now this is the point.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000001|You fancy me mad.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000002|Madmen know nothing.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000004|You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000006|And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh so gently!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000007|And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000008|Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000010|It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000005_000014|So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000006_000000|Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000006_000002|Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers-of my sagacity.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000006_000003|I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000006_000004|To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000008_000000|I kept quite still and said nothing.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000008_000002|He was still sitting up in the bed listening;--just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000009_000004|I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000009_000006|His fears had been ever since growing upon him.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000009_000009|And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel-although he neither saw nor heard-to feel the presence of my head within the room.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000011_000000|It was open-wide, wide open-and I grew furious as I gazed upon it.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000011_000001|I saw it with perfect distinctness-all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000012_000001|I knew that sound well, too.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000012_000003|It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000000|But even yet I refrained and kept still.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000004|Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000006|The old man's terror must have been extreme!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000007|It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!--do you mark me well I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000009|But the beating grew louder, louder!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000010|I thought the heart must burst.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000012|The old man's hour had come!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000014|He shrieked once-once only.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000017|But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000018|This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000019|At length it ceased.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000020|The old man was dead.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000021|I removed the bed and examined the corpse.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000022|Yes, he was stone, stone dead.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000023|I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000024|There was no pulsation.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000013_000025|He was stone dead.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000014_000000|If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000014_000001|The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000014_000002|First of all I dismembered the corpse.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000015_000001|I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye-not even his-could have detected any thing wrong.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000015_000002|There was nothing to wash out-no stain of any kind-no blood spot whatever.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000015_000003|I had been too wary for that.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000016_000001|As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000016_000002|I went down to open it with a light heart,--for what had I now to fear?
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000016_000004|A shriek had been heard by a neighbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000017_000000|I smiled,--for what had I to fear?
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000017_000001|I bade the gentlemen welcome.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000017_000004|I took my visitors all over the house.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000017_000006|I led them, at length, to his chamber.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000017_000007|I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000018_000000|The officers were satisfied.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000018_000002|I was singularly at ease.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000018_000003|They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000018_000004|But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000018_000006|The ringing became more distinct:--It continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definiteness-until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000001|Yet the sound increased-and what could I do?
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000002|It was a low, dull, quick sound-much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000003|I gasped for breath-and yet the officers heard it not.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000004|I talked more quickly-more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000005|I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000006|Why would they not be gone?
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000008|Oh God! what could I do?
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000009|I foamed-I raved-I swore!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000011|It grew louder-louder-louder!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000012|And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000013|Was it possible they heard not?
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000014|Almighty God!--no, no!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000015|They heard!--they suspected!--they knew!--they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think.
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000019|I felt that I must scream or die! and now-again!--hark! louder!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000020|louder!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000021|louder!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000019_000022|louder!
train-clean-100/2911/7601/2911_7601_000020_000001|I admit the deed!--tear up the planks!
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000001_000000|OF A MIRROR AND A BELL
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000003_000000|[Even to day, in the courts of certain Japanese temples, you may see heaps of old bronze mirrors contributed for such a purpose.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000003_000001|The largest collection of this kind that I ever saw was in the court of a temple of the Jodo sect, at Hakata, in Kyushu: the mirrors had been given for the making of a bronze statue of Amida, thirty three feet high.]
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000003|Of course, if she could have offered the priests a certain sum of money in place of the mirror, she could have asked them to give back her heirloom.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000004|But she had not the money necessary.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000005|Whenever she went to the temple, she saw her mirror lying in the court yard, behind a railing, among hundreds of other mirrors heaped there together.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000006|She knew it by the Sho Chiku Bai in relief on the back of it,--those three fortunate emblems of Pine, Bamboo, and Plumflower, which delighted her baby eyes when her mother first showed her the mirror.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000007|She longed for some chance to steal the mirror, and hide it,--that she might thereafter treasure it always.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000008|But the chance did not come; and she became very unhappy,--felt as if she had foolishly given away a part of her life.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000004_000010|But she could not dare to speak of her pain to anybody.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000005_000000|Now, when all the mirrors contributed for the Mugenyama bell had been sent to the foundry, the bell founders discovered that there was one mirror among them which would not melt.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000005_000001|Again and again they tried to melt it; but it resisted all their efforts.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000005_000002|Evidently the woman who had given that mirror to the temple must have regretted the giving.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000005_000003|She had not presented her offering with all her heart; and therefore her selfish soul, remaining attached to the mirror, kept it hard and cold in the midst of the furnace.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000006_000000|Of course everybody heard of the matter, and everybody soon knew whose mirror it was that would not melt.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000006_000001|And because of this public exposure of her secret fault, the poor woman became very much ashamed and very angry.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000006_000002|And as she could not bear the shame, she drowned herself, after having written a farewell letter containing these words:--
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000007_000000|"When I am dead, it will not be difficult to melt the mirror and to cast the bell.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000007_000001|But, to the person who breaks that bell by ringing it, great wealth will be given by the ghost of me."
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000001|After the dead woman's mirror had been melted, and the bell had been successfully cast, people remembered the words of that letter.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000002|They felt sure that the spirit of the writer would give wealth to the breaker of the bell; and, as soon as the bell had been suspended in the court of the temple, they went in multitude to ring it.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000003|With all their might and main they swung the ringing beam; but the bell proved to be a good bell, and it bravely withstood their assaults. Nevertheless, the people were not easily discouraged.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000004|Day after day, at all hours, they continued to ring the bell furiously,--caring nothing whatever for the protests of the priests.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000005|So the ringing became an affliction; and the priests could not endure it; and they got rid of the bell by rolling it down the hill into a swamp.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000006|The swamp was deep, and swallowed it up,--and that was the end of the bell.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000008_000007|Only its legend remains; and in that legend it is called the Mugen Kane, or Bell of Mugen.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000009_000000|Now there are queer old Japanese beliefs in the magical efficacy of a certain mental operation implied, though not described, by the verb nazoraeru.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000010_000000|For example:--you cannot afford to build a Buddhist temple; but you can easily lay a pebble before the image of the Buddha, with the same pious feeling that would prompt you to build a temple if you were rich enough to build one.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000010_000001|The merit of so offering the pebble becomes equal, or almost equal, to the merit of erecting a temple...
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000010_000002|You cannot read the six thousand seven hundred and seventy one volumes of the Buddhist texts; but you can make a revolving library, containing them, turn round, by pushing it like a windlass.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000011_000000|The magical meanings could not all be explained without a great variety of examples; but, for present purposes, the following will serve.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000011_000003|That is another kind of mimetic magic expressed by the term nazoraeru.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000012_000000|After the bell had been rolled into the swamp, there was, of course, no more chance of ringing it in such wise as to break it.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000012_000003|While the pair were traveling together, Kajiwara one day found himself in great straits for want of money; and Umegae, remembering the tradition of the Bell of Mugen, took a basin of bronze, and, mentally representing it to be the bell, beat upon it until she broke it,--crying out, at the same time, for three hundred pieces of gold.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000015_000000|After this happening, the fame of the Mugen Kane became great; and many people followed the example of Umegae,--thereby hoping to emulate her luck.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000015_000001|Among these folk was a dissolute farmer who lived near Mugenyama, on the bank of the Oigawa.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000016_000000|Then, out of the ground before him, rose up the figure of a white robed woman, with long loose flowing hair, holding a covered jar.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000016_000001|And the woman said: "I have come to answer your fervent prayer as it deserves to be answered.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000016_000002|Take, therefore, this jar." So saying, she put the jar into his hands, and disappeared.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000017_000000|Into his house the happy man rushed, to tell his wife the good news.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000017_000001|He set down in front of her the covered jar,--which was heavy,--and they opened it together.
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000017_000002|And they found that it was filled, up to the very brim, with...
train-clean-100/2952/407/2952_407_000018_000000|But no!--I really cannot tell you with what it was filled.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000003_000001|For a long time he wandered about helplessly; and he was beginning to despair of finding shelter for the night, when he perceived, on the top of a hill lighted by the last rays of the sun, one of those little hermitages, called anjitsu, which are built for solitary priests.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000003_000002|It seemed to be in ruinous condition; but he hastened to it eagerly, and found that it was inhabited by an aged priest, from whom he begged the favor of a night's lodging.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000003_000003|This the old man harshly refused; but he directed Muso to a certain hamlet, in the valley adjoining where lodging and food could be obtained.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000004_000000|Muso found his way to the hamlet, which consisted of less than a dozen farm cottages; and he was kindly received at the dwelling of the headman.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000004_000001|Forty or fifty persons were assembled in the principal apartment, at the moment of Muso's arrival; but he was shown into a small separate room, where he was promptly supplied with food and bedding.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000004_000003|Presently the sliding screens were gently pushed apart; and a young man, carrying a lighted lantern, entered the room, respectfully saluted him, and said:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000005_000003|We make the proper offerings and prayers;--then we go away, leaving the corpse alone.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000005_000004|Strange things always happen in the house where a corpse has thus been left: so we think that it will be better for you to come away with us.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000005_000005|We can find you good lodging in the other village.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000005_000006|But perhaps, as you are a priest, you have no fear of demons or evil spirits; and, if you are not afraid of being left alone with the body, you will be very welcome to the use of this poor house. However, I must tell you that nobody, except a priest, would dare to remain here tonight."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000006_000000|Muso made answer:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000007_000001|But I am sorry that you did not tell me of your father's death when I came;--for, though I was a little tired, I certainly was not so tired that I should have found difficulty in doing my duty as a priest.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000007_000002|Had you told me, I could have performed the service before your departure.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000007_000003|As it is, I shall perform the service after you have gone away; and I shall stay by the body until morning.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000007_000004|I do not know what you mean by your words about the danger of staying here alone; but I am not afraid of ghosts or demons: therefore please to feel no anxiety on my account."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000008_000000|The young man appeared to be rejoiced by these assurances, and expressed his gratitude in fitting words.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000008_000001|Then the other members of the family, and the folk assembled in the adjoining room, having been told of the priest's kind promises, came to thank him,--after which the master of the house said:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000009_000000|"Now, reverend Sir, much as we regret to leave you alone, we must bid you farewell.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000009_000001|By the rule of our village, none of us can stay here after midnight.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000009_000002|We beg, kind Sir, that you will take every care of your honorable body, while we are unable to attend upon you.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000009_000003|And if you happen to hear or see anything strange during our absence, please tell us of the matter when we return in the morning."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000000|All then left the house, except the priest, who went to the room where the dead body was lying.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000001|The usual offerings had been set before the corpse; and a small Buddhist lamp-tomyo-was burning.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000002|The priest recited the service, and performed the funeral ceremonies,--after which he entered into meditation.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000004|But, when the hush of the night was at its deepest, there noiselessly entered a Shape, vague and vast; and in the same moment Muso found himself without power to move or speak.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000005|He saw that Shape lift the corpse, as with hands, devour it, more quickly than a cat devours a rat,--beginning at the head, and eating everything: the hair and the bones and even the shroud.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000006|And the monstrous Thing, having thus consumed the body, turned to the offerings, and ate them also.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000010_000007|Then it went away, as mysteriously as it had come.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000011_000000|When the villagers returned next morning, they found the priest awaiting them at the door of the headman's dwelling.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000011_000001|All in turn saluted him; and when they had entered, and looked about the room, no one expressed any surprise at the disappearance of the dead body and the offerings.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000011_000002|But the master of the house said to Muso:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000012_000002|Gladly we would have stayed with you, if it had been possible.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000012_000003|But the law of our village, as I told you last evening, obliges us to quit our houses after a death has taken place, and to leave the corpse alone.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000012_000004|Whenever this law has been broken, heretofore, some great misfortune has followed.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000012_000005|Whenever it is obeyed, we find that the corpse and the offerings disappear during our absence. Perhaps you have seen the cause."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000013_000001|No person seemed to be surprised by his narration; and the master of the house observed:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000014_000000|"What you have told us, reverend Sir, agrees with what has been said about this matter from ancient time."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000015_000000|Muso then inquired:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000016_000000|"Does not the priest on the hill sometimes perform the funeral service for your dead?"
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000017_000000|"What priest?" the young man asked.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000018_000000|"The priest who yesterday evening directed me to this village," answered Muso.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000018_000001|"I called at his anjitsu on the hill yonder.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000018_000002|He refused me lodging, but told me the way here."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000019_000000|The listeners looked at each other, as in astonishment; and, after a moment of silence, the master of the house said:--
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000020_000000|"Reverend Sir, there is no priest and there is no anjitsu on the hill. For the time of many generations there has not been any resident priest in this neighborhood."
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000021_000000|Muso said nothing more on the subject; for it was evident that his kind hosts supposed him to have been deluded by some goblin.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000021_000001|But after having bidden them farewell, and obtained all necessary information as to his road, he determined to look again for the hermitage on the hill, and so to ascertain whether he had really been deceived.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000021_000003|When he had done so, the hermit humbly bowed down before him, exclaiming:--"Ah!
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000021_000004|I am ashamed!--I am very much ashamed!--I am exceedingly ashamed!"
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000022_000000|"You need not be ashamed for having refused me shelter," said Muso. "You directed me to the village yonder, where I was very kindly treated; and I thank you for that favor.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000023_000001|I am ashamed only that you should have seen me in my real shape,--for it was I who devoured the corpse and the offerings last night before your eyes...
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000024_000000|"A long, long time ago, I was a priest in this desolate region.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000024_000001|There was no other priest for many leagues around.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000024_000002|So, in that time, the bodies of the mountain folk who died used to be brought here,--sometimes from great distances,--in order that I might repeat over them the holy service.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000024_000003|But I repeated the service and performed the rites only as a matter of business;--I thought only of the food and the clothes that my sacred profession enabled me to gain.
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000024_000005|Since then I have been obliged to feed upon the corpses of the people who die in this district: every one of them I must devour in the way that you saw last night...
train-clean-100/2952/408/2952_408_000025_000000|No sooner had the hermit uttered this petition than he disappeared; and the hermitage also disappeared at the same instant.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000006_000001|While yet a boy he had surpassed his teachers in the art of swordsmanship, in archery, and in the use of the spear, and had displayed all the capacities of a daring and skillful soldier.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000006_000003|But when the house of Kikuji came to ruin, Isogai found himself without a master.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000006_000004|He might then easily have obtained service under another daimyo; but as he had never sought distinction for his own sake alone, and as his heart remained true to his former lord, he preferred to give up the world.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000006_000005|So he cut off his hair, and became a traveling priest,--taking the Buddhist name of Kwairyo.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000007_000001|As in other years he had laughed at peril, so now also he scorned danger; and in all weathers and all seasons he journeyed to preach the good Law in places where no other priest would have dared to go.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000007_000002|For that age was an age of violence and disorder; and upon the highways there was no security for the solitary traveler, even if he happened to be a priest.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000008_000001|So he resigned himself to pass the night under the stars; and having found a suitable grassy spot, by the roadside, he lay down there, and prepared to sleep.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000008_000003|His body was iron; and he never troubled himself about dews or rain or frost or snow.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000009_000000|Scarcely had he lain down when a man came along the road, carrying an axe and a great bundle of chopped wood.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000009_000001|This woodcutter halted on seeing Kwairyo lying down, and, after a moment of silent observation, said to him in a tone of great surprise:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000010_000001|There are haunters about here,--many of them.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000010_000002|Are you not afraid of Hairy Things?"
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000011_000001|As for lonesome places, I like them: they are suitable for meditation.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000012_000001|This place has a bad name,--a very bad name.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000012_000003|Therefore, although my house is only a wretched thatched hut, let me beg of you to come home with me at once.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000012_000004|In the way of food, I have nothing to offer you; but there is a roof at least, and you can sleep under it without risk."
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000013_000001|The woodcutter guided him along a narrow path, leading up from the main road through mountain forest.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000013_000002|It was a rough and dangerous path,--sometimes skirting precipices,--sometimes offering nothing but a network of slippery roots for the foot to rest upon,--sometimes winding over or between masses of jagged rock.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000013_000004|The woodcutter led him to a shed at the back of the house, whither water had been conducted, through bamboo pipes, from some neighboring stream; and the two men washed their feet.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000013_000005|Beyond the shed was a vegetable garden, and a grove of cedars and bamboos; and beyond the trees appeared the glimmer of a cascade, pouring from some loftier height, and swaying in the moonshine like a long white robe.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000014_000001|They bowed low to the priest, and greeted him in the most respectful manner.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000014_000002|Kwairyo wondered that persons so poor, and dwelling in such a solitude, should be aware of the polite forms of greeting.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000015_000000|"From the kindness of your speech, and from the very polite welcome given me by your household, I imagine that you have not always been a woodcutter.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000015_000001|Perhaps you formerly belonged to one of the upper classes?"
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000016_000000|Smiling, the woodcutter answered:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000017_000000|"Sir, you are not mistaken.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000017_000002|My story is the story of a ruined life-ruined by my own fault.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000017_000003|I used to be in the service of a daimyo; and my rank in that service was not inconsiderable.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000017_000005|Retribution followed me; and I long remained a fugitive in the land.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000017_000006|Now I often pray that I may be able to make some atonement for the evil which I did, and to reestablish the ancestral home.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000017_000007|But I fear that I shall never find any way of so doing. Nevertheless, I try to overcome the karma of my errors by sincere repentance, and by helping as far as I can, those who are unfortunate."
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000019_000001|In the holy sutras it is written that those strongest in wrong doing can become, by power of good resolve, the strongest in right doing.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000019_000002|I do not doubt that you have a good heart; and I hope that better fortune will come to you.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000019_000003|To night I shall recite the sutras for your sake, and pray that you may obtain the force to overcome the karma of any past errors."
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000020_000000|With these assurances, Kwairyo bade the aruji good night; and his host showed him to a very small side room, where a bed had been made ready. Then all went to sleep except the priest, who began to read the sutras by the light of a paper lantern.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000020_000001|Until a late hour he continued to read and pray: then he opened a little window in his little sleeping room, to take a last look at the landscape before lying down.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000020_000002|The night was beautiful: there was no cloud in the sky: there was no wind; and the strong moonlight threw down sharp black shadows of foliage, and glittered on the dews of the garden.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000021_000000|For one instant he stood bewildered,--imagining a crime.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000021_000001|But in another moment he perceived that there was no blood, and that the headless necks did not look as if they had been cut.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000021_000003|And the book further says that when the head comes back and finds that its body has been moved, it will strike itself upon the floor three times,--bounding like a ball,--and will pant as in great fear, and presently die.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000021_000004|Now, if these be Rokuro Kubi, they mean me no good;--so I shall be justified in following the instructions of the book."...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000022_000002|Gently unbarring the door, he made his way to the garden, and proceeded with all possible caution to the grove beyond it.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000022_000003|He heard voices talking in the grove; and he went in the direction of the voices,--stealing from shadow to shadow, until he reached a good hiding place.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000022_000006|Presently the head of the aruji stopped eating and said:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000023_000001|I was foolish to talk to him as I did;--it only set him to reciting the sutras on behalf of my soul!
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000023_000002|To go near him while he is reciting would be difficult; and we cannot touch him so long as he is praying.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000023_000003|But as it is now nearly morning, perhaps he has gone to sleep...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000023_000004|Some one of you go to the house and see what the fellow is doing."
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000024_000000|Another head-the head of a young woman-immediately rose up and flitted to the house, lightly as a bat.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000024_000001|After a few minutes it came back, and cried out huskily, in a tone of great alarm:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000025_000001|But that is not the worst of the matter.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000027_000000|"Since my body has been moved, to rejoin it is not possible!
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000027_000004|AND THERE HE IS-behind that tree!--hiding behind that tree!
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000027_000005|See him!--the fat coward!"...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000028_000000|In the same moment the head of the aruji, followed by the other four heads, sprang at Kwairyo.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000028_000001|But the strong priest had already armed himself by plucking up a young tree; and with that tree he struck the heads as they came,--knocking them from him with tremendous blows.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000028_000004|Kwairyo, however, as quickly gripped the head by its topknot, and repeatedly struck it.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000028_000006|It was dead.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000028_000007|But its teeth still held the sleeve; and, for all his great strength, Kwairyo could not force open the jaws.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000029_000000|With the head still hanging to his sleeve he went back to the house, and there caught sight of the other four Rokuro Kubi squatting together, with their bruised and bleeding heads reunited to their bodies.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000029_000001|But when they perceived him at the back door all screamed, "The priest! the priest!"--and fled, through the other doorway, out into the woods.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000030_000000|Eastward the sky was brightening; day was about to dawn; and Kwairyo knew that the power of the goblins was limited to the hours of darkness.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000030_000003|After which he gathered together his few belongings, and leisurely descended the mountain to continue his journey.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000031_000003|As the Kwairyo, he only smiled and said nothing when they questioned him.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000031_000004|So, after having passed a night in prison, he was brought before the magistrates of the district.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000031_000005|Then he was ordered to explain how he, a priest, had been found with the head of a man fastened to his sleeve, and why he had dared thus shamelessly to parade his crime in the sight of people.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000033_000000|"Sirs, I did not fasten the head to my sleeve: it fastened itself there-much against my will.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000033_000001|And I have not committed any crime.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000033_000003|And he proceeded to relate the whole of the adventure,--bursting into another hearty laugh as he told of his encounter with the five heads.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000034_000001|They judged him to be a hardened criminal, and his story an insult to their intelligence.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000034_000002|Therefore, without further questioning, they decided to order his immediate execution,--all of them except one, a very old man.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000034_000003|This aged officer had made no remark during the trial; but, after having heard the opinion of his colleagues, he rose up, and said:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000035_000000|"Let us first examine the head carefully; for this, I think, has not yet been done.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000035_000001|If the priest has spoken truth, the head itself should bear witness for him...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000035_000002|Bring the head here!"
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000036_000000|So the head, still holding in its teeth the koromo that had been stripped from Kwairyo's shoulders, was put before the judges.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000036_000001|The old man turned it round and round, carefully examined it, and discovered, on the nape of its neck, several strange red characters.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000036_000002|He called the attention of his colleagues to these, and also bade them observe that the edges of the neck nowhere presented the appearance of having been cut by any weapon.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000036_000003|On the contrary, the line of leverance was smooth as the line at which a falling leaf detaches itself from the stem...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000036_000004|Then said the elder:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000037_000000|"I am quite sure that the priest told us nothing but the truth.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000037_000001|This is the head of a Rokuro Kubi.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000037_000002|In the book Nan ho i butsu shi it is written that certain red characters can always be found upon the nape of the neck of a real Rokuro Kubi.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000037_000003|There are the characters: you can see for yourselves that they have not been painted.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000037_000004|Moreover, it is well known that such goblins have been dwelling in the mountains of the province of Kai from very ancient time...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000037_000007|Perhaps you once belonged to the samurai class?"
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000038_000000|"You have guessed rightly, Sir," Kwairyo responded.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000039_000000|At the mention of that name, a murmur of admiration filled the court room; for there were many present who remembered it.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000039_000001|And Kwairyo immediately found himself among friends instead of judges,--friends anxious to prove their admiration by fraternal kindness.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000039_000003|When Kwairyo left Suwa, he was as happy as any priest is permitted to be in this transitory world.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000040_000000|And now it only remains to tell what became of the head.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000041_000000|A day or two after leaving Suwa, Kwairyo met with a robber, who stopped him in a lonesome place, and bade him strip.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000041_000001|Kwairyo at once removed his koromo, and offered it to the robber, who then first perceived what was hanging to the sleeve.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000041_000002|Though brave, the highwayman was startled: he dropped the garment, and sprang back.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000041_000006|Well, Sir priest, I suppose we are of the same calling; and I must say that I admire you!...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000041_000008|Will you sell it?
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000041_000009|You can have my robe in exchange for your koromo; and I will give you five ryo for the head."
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000042_000000|Kwairyo answered:--
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000043_000000|"I shall let you have the head and the robe if you insist; but I must tell you that this is not the head of a man.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000043_000001|It is a goblin's head.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000044_000000|"What a nice priest you are!" exclaimed the robber.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000044_000001|"You kill men, and jest about it!...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000044_000003|Here is my robe; and here is the money;--and let me have the head...
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000044_000004|What is the use of joking?"
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000045_000000|"Take the thing," said Kwairyo.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000045_000001|"I was not joking.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000046_000002|So he made up his mind to take back the head to the place from which it had come, and to bury it with its body.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000046_000003|He found his way to the lonely cottage in the mountains of Kai; but nobody was there, and he could not discover the body.
train-clean-100/2952/410/2952_410_000046_000004|Therefore he buried the head by itself, in the grove behind the cottage; and he had a tombstone set up over the grave; and he caused a Segaki service to be performed on behalf of the spirit of the Rokuro Kubi.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000005_000000|"Katy, is he gone?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000008_000000|"Hearts," repeated Katy, catching her breath.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000011_000001|He died about two hours and ten minutes before the cock crowed, as near as we can say." She was interrupted by the physician, who, approaching, inquired, with much interest, the nature of the disorder.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000011_000002|Glancing her eye over the figure of this new acquaintance, Katy instinctively adjusting her dress, replied,--
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000014_000001|My brothers told me, again and again, to ask for my money; but I always thought accounts between relations were easily settled."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000015_000000|"Were you related, then, to Birch?" asked Miss Peyton, observing her to pause.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000016_000000|"Why," returned the housekeeper, hesitating a little, "I thought we were as good as so.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000016_000001|I wonder if I have no claim on the house and garden; though they say, now it is Harvey's, it will surely be confiscated." Turning to Lawton, who had been sitting in one posture, with his piercing eyes lowering at her through his thick brows, in silence, "Perhaps this gentleman knows-he seems to take an interest in my story."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000031_000001|Who administered to the case?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000032_000000|"No one yet," said the housekeeper, with quickness.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000032_000001|"I expect he has made his last will and testament."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000034_000000|"It is doubtless wise to be prepared for death.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000035_000001|"And care thrown away I may well call it; for Harvey is quite too despisable to be any sort of compensation at present."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000038_000000|"Kindly, you may be certain," said Katy, rather tartly.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000039_000000|"The doctor means medically, madam," observed Captain Lawton, with a face that would have honored the funeral of the deceased.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000041_000000|"With simples," returned the surgeon.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000044_000000|"Oh!" cried the maiden, again correcting herself, "for the best of all reasons; there was none to be had, so I took care of him myself.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000052_000001|But it is my lot to meet with men, daily, who are equally perverse, and who show a still more culpable disrespect for the information that flows from the lights of science."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000065_000000|"If them lights he spoke of were what was called northern lights in these parts?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000069_000000|Katy drew up in evident displeasure, and prompt to vindicate her character for more lofty acquirements, she said,--
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000072_000001|The substance of her tale was, that a child who had been placed by the guardians of the poor in the keeping of Harvey, had, in the absence of its master, injured itself badly in the foot by a large needle.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000072_000003|The arrival of the peddler had altered the whole of this admirable treatment; and the consequences were expressed by Katy, as she concluded her narrative, by saying,--
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000074_000001|He was impelled, by a feeling that he could not conquer, however, to look Captain Lawton in the face.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000075_000000|Miss Peyton entered into the situation of things at the house of the peddler, with all the interest of her excellent feelings; she listened patiently while Katy recounted, more particularly, the circumstances of the past night as they had occurred.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000076_000000|"For, Miss Peyton," continued the housekeeper, after a pause to take breath, "I would have given up life before I would have given up that secret.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000079_000005|Some time was occupied in joint attentions to the comfort of the wounded officer, and the doctor retired to an apartment prepared for his own accommodation; here, within a few minutes, he was surprised by the entrance of Lawton.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000082_000000|"Does Captain Lawton want anything at my hands?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000084_000001|"But happily nothing is broken. It is wonderful how well you escaped!"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000085_000000|"I have been a tumbler from my youth, and I am past minding a few falls from a horse; but, Sitgreaves," he added with affection, and pointing to a scar on his body, "do you remember this bit of work?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000086_000000|"Perfectly well, Jack; it was bravely obtained, and neatly extracted; but don't you think I had better apply an oil to these bruises?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000087_000000|"Certainly," said Lawton, with unexpected condescension.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000089_000000|"Quite probable."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000092_000000|"It is now too late; but a dose of oil would carry off the humors famously."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000101_000000|"Quite."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000102_000000|"I agree with you as a whole; but as matter is infinitely divisible, so no case exists without an exception.
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000102_000001|Lawton, do you feel easy?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000103_000000|"Very."
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000104_000000|"It is not only cruel to the sufferer, but sometimes unjust to others, to take human life where a less punishment would answer the purpose. Now, Jack, if you were only-move your arm a little-if you were only-I hope you feel easier, my dear friend?"
train-clean-100/298/126790/298_126790_000105_000000|"Much."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000008_000001|The morning found them all restored, in some measure, to their former ease of body, with the exception of the youthful captain of dragoons, who had been so deeply regretted by Dunwoodie.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000010_000000|"Growing symptoms of a febrile pulse-no, no, my dear George, you must remain quiet and dumb; though your eyes look better, and your skin has even a moisture."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000012_000001|"The tongue is well, and the pulse begins to lower again.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000012_000006|"Your pulse even and soft, your skin moist, but your eye fiery, and cheek flushed.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000014_000001|If it be not to enable us to decide in such matters, of what avail the lights of science?
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000014_000003|Even that perverse fellow, john Lawton, could not behave with more obstinacy."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000020_000000|"Had it petticoats, George?"
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000022_000000|"It must have been Miss Jeanette Peyton-a lady of fine accomplishments, with-hem-with something of the kind of step you speak of-a very complacent eye; and as to the bloom, I dare say offices of charity can summon as fine a color to her cheeks, as glows in the faces of her more youthful nieces."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000024_000001|You must observe quiet, and prepare for a meeting with your own sister, who will be here within an hour."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000025_000000|"What, Isabella!
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000025_000001|And who sent for her?"
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000026_000000|"The major."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000030_000002|His case, young lady, exceeds my art to heal; and I take it Sir Henry Clinton is the best adviser he can apply to; though Major Dunwoodie has made the communication with his leech rather difficult."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000034_000000|"As respectfully as you please, my dear sister; there is but little danger of exceeding the truth."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000035_000001|"But I think mr Dunwoodie has taken a liberty that exceeds the rights of consanguinity; he has made our father's house a hospital."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000036_000000|"We ought to be grateful that none of the patients it contains are dearer to us."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000038_000001|If," she added, with a tremulous lip, "this dreadful suspicion that is affixed to his visit were removed, I could consider his wound of little moment."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000039_000000|"You now have the fruits of rebellion brought home to you; a brother wounded and a prisoner, and perhaps a victim; your father distressed, his privacy interrupted, and not improbably his estates torn from him, on account of his loyalty to his king."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000040_000000|Frances continued her walk in silence.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000040_000001|While facing the northern entrance to the vale, her eyes were uniformly fastened on the point where the road was suddenly lost by the intervention of a hill; and at each turn, as she lost sight of the spot, she lingered until an impatient movement of her sister quickened her pace to an even motion with that of her own.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000040_000004|In a few minutes the travelers approached the gate. It was thrown open by a dragoon who followed the carriage, and who had been the messenger dispatched by Dunwoodie to the father of Captain Singleton.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000040_000006|She was young, and of a light and fragile form, but of exquisite proportions.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000040_000007|Her eyes were large, full, black, piercing, and at times a little wild.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000040_000008|Her hair was luxuriant, and as it was without the powder it was then the fashion to wear, it fell in raven blackness. A few of its locks had fallen on her cheek, giving its chilling whiteness by the contrast a more deadly character.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000042_000000|The lady burst into a flood of tears.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000043_000000|The meeting between the brother and sister was warm, but, by an effort on the part of the lady, more composed than her previous agitation had given reason to expect.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000044_000001|"The excellent fellow is never weary of kind actions.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000046_000000|"Dunwoodie!
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000046_000002|I thought to have met him by the side of my brother's bed."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000047_000000|"He has duties that require his presence elsewhere; the English are said to be out by the way of the Hudson, and they give us light troops but little rest.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000047_000002|But, Isabella, the meeting has been too much for you; you tremble."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000049_000000|"Doubtless it is his duty.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000050_000000|"On the march, Isabella?" eagerly inquired her brother.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000053_000000|"If you can pardon the rudeness," said the wounded officer, making a feeble effort to raise his body, "I would request to have Captain Lawton's company for a moment."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000055_000000|"Lawton," said the youth, impatiently, as the trooper entered, "hear you from the major?"
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000058_000000|"And why not himself?"
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000059_000000|"That is a question the major can answer best; but you know the redcoats are abroad, and Dunwoodie commands in the county; these English must be looked to."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000064_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000071_000000|"She must be under twenty," said the other, quickly.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000072_000000|"It depends on the way you count.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000072_000001|If you begin at the heel of life, well; but if you reckon downward, as is most common, I think she is nearer forty."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000073_000001|"You must be silent!
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000077_000000|"Very true," replied the captain, kicking a slipper towards the bed. "Had we succeeded in getting a few good fires upon them in flank, we should have sent these brave Virginians to the right about."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000078_000001|"Then it was necessary to rout the guides, you know, and the movement gave them the best possible opportunity to charge."
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000081_000000|"At least they would have been, had they made an attack," said the captain, throwing the rest of his clothes within reach of the colonel.
train-clean-100/298/126791/298_126791_000084_000000|"True-true," cried the colonel, with animation.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000005_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000006_000000|OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000007_000001|They strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000007_000002|Nevertheless, among many other representations made to him, the housekeeper said to him, "In truth, master, if you do not keep still and stay quiet at home, and give over roaming mountains and valleys like a troubled spirit, looking for what they say are called adventures, but what I call misfortunes, I shall have to make complaint to God and the king with loud supplication to send some remedy."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000009_000000|Whereupon the housekeeper said, "Tell us, senor, at his Majesty's court are there no knights?"
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000010_000000|"There are," replied Don Quixote, "and plenty of them; and it is right there should be, to set off the dignity of the prince, and for the greater glory of the king's majesty."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000011_000000|"Then might not your worship," said she, "be one of those that, without stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his court?"
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000016_000000|"There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece," returned Don Quixote, "and I could tell you somewhat about birth that would astonish you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I refrain.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000017_000000|It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000021_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000022_000000|OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000024_000001|What has happened to you?
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000024_000002|One would think you heart broken."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000025_000000|"Nothing, Senor Samson," said she, "only that my master is breaking out, plainly breaking out."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000028_000000|"That I can well believe," replied the bachelor, "for they are so good and so fat, and so well bred, that they would not say one thing for another, though they were to burst for it.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000028_000001|In short then, mistress housekeeper, that is all, and there is nothing the matter, except what it is feared Don Quixote may do?"
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000039_000000|"Well, if you can't understand me," said Sancho, "I don't know how to put it; I know no more, God help me."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000041_000000|"I would bet," said Sancho, "that from the very first you understood me, and knew what I meant, but you wanted to put me out that you might hear me make another couple of dozen blunders."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000042_000000|"May be so," replied Don Quixote; "but to come to the point, what does Teresa say?"
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000044_000000|"And so say I," said Don Quixote; "continue, Sancho my friend; go on; you talk pearls to day."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000049_000000|"I see," said Sancho; "I'll bet I ought to have said proportion, and not promotion; but it is no matter, as your worship has understood me."
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000050_000000|"And so well understood," returned Don Quixote, "that I have seen into the depths of thy thoughts, and know the mark thou art shooting at with the countless shafts of thy proverbs.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000051_000001|The arch wag Samson came forward, and embracing him as he had done before, said with a loud voice, "O flower of knight errantry!
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000052_000001|See now who offers to become one; no less than the illustrious bachelor Samson Carrasco, the perpetual joy and delight of the courts of the Salamancan schools, sound in body, discreet, patient under heat or cold, hunger or thirst, with all the qualifications requisite to make a knight errant's squire!
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000052_000002|But heaven forbid that, to gratify my own inclination, I should shake or shatter this pillar of letters and vessel of the sciences, and cut down this towering palm of the fair and liberal arts.
train-clean-100/2989/138028/2989_138028_000055_000000|The curses which both housekeeper and niece poured out on the bachelor were past counting; they tore their hair, they clawed their faces, and in the style of the hired mourners that were once in fashion, they raised a lamentation over the departure of their master and uncle, as if it had been his death.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000005_000005|He has provided dancers too, not only sword but also bell dancers, for in his own town there are those who ring the changes and jingle the bells to perfection; of shoe dancers I say nothing, for of them he has engaged a host.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000008_000002|Why, then, should not he do the same who has to make the whole journey of life down to the final halting place of death, more especially when the companion has to be his companion in bed, at board, and everywhere, as the wife is to her husband?
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000008_000003|The companionship of one's wife is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been bought, may be returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable accident that lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you put it round your neck, turns into a Gordian knot, which, if the scythe of Death does not cut it, there is no untying.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000009_000001|He eats little and sleeps little, and all he eats is fruit, and when he sleeps, if he sleeps at all, it is in the field on the hard earth like a brute beast.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000009_000002|Sometimes he gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on the earth in such an abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed statue, with its drapery stirred by the wind.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000009_000003|In short, he shows such signs of a heart crushed by suffering, that all we who know him believe that when to morrow the fair Quiteria says 'yes,' it will be his sentence of death."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000014_000001|Why!
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000015_000002|I, sirs, for my sins have studied canon law at Salamanca, and I rather pique myself on expressing my meaning in clear, plain, and intelligible language."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000017_000000|"Look here, bachelor Corchuelo," returned the licentiate, "you have the most mistaken idea in the world about skill with the sword, if you think it useless."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000020_000000|"We shall soon see," replied Corchuelo, and getting off his ass briskly, he drew out furiously one of the swords the licentiate carried on his beast.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000021_000001|The other two of the company, the peasants, without dismounting from their asses, served as spectators of the mortal tragedy.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000021_000002|The cuts, thrusts, down strokes, back strokes and doubles, that Corchuelo delivered were past counting, and came thicker than hops or hail.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000021_000003|He attacked like an angry lion, but he was met by a tap on the mouth from the button of the licentiate's sword that checked him in the midst of his furious onset, and made him kiss it as if it were a relic, though not as devoutly as relics are and ought to be kissed.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000024_000000|During the remainder of the journey the licentiate held forth to them on the excellences of the sword, with such conclusive arguments, and such figures and mathematical proofs, that all were convinced of the value of the science, and Corchuelo cured of his dogmatism.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000026_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000030_000000|"Have done, thou glutton," said Don Quixote; "come, let us go and witness this bridal, and see what the rejected Basilio does."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000031_000000|"Let him do what he likes," returned Sancho; "be he not poor, he would marry Quiteria.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000031_000004|They won't give a pint of wine at the tavern for a good cast of the bar or a neat thrust of the sword.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000031_000005|Talents and accomplishments that can't be turned into money, let Count Dirlos have them; but when such gifts fall to one that has hard cash, I wish my condition of life was as becoming as they are.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000033_000000|"If your worship had a good memory," replied Sancho, "you would remember the articles of our agreement before we started from home this last time; one of them was that I was to be let say all I liked, so long as it was not against my neighbour or your worship's authority; and so far, it seems to me, I have not broken the said article."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000035_000000|Sancho did as his master bade him, and putting the saddle on Rocinante and the pack saddle on Dapple, they both mounted and at a leisurely pace entered the arcade.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000035_000003|Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins of over six gallons each, and all filled, as it proved afterwards, with generous wines.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000035_000007|The spices of different kinds did not seem to have been bought by the pound but by the quarter, and all lay open to view in a great chest.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000036_000000|Sancho observed all, contemplated all, and everything won his heart.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000040_000000|"Well then," said the cook, "take spoon and all; for Camacho's wealth and happiness furnish everything."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000046_000001|Interest then came forward and went through two more figures, and as soon as the tabors ceased, he said:
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000047_000000|But mightier than Love am I, Though Love it be that leads me on, Than mine no lineage is more high, Or older, underneath the sun To use me rightly few know how, To act without me fewer still, For I am Interest, and I vow For evermore to do thy will.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000048_000000|Interest retired, and Poetry came forward, and when she had gone through her figures like the others, fixing her eyes on the damsel of the castle, she said:
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000052_000001|All then mingled together, forming chains and breaking off again with graceful, unconstrained gaiety; and whenever Love passed in front of the castle he shot his arrows up at it, while Interest broke gilded pellets against it.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000055_000001|"Of course I have finished it," replied Sancho, "because I see your worship takes offence at it; but if it was not for that, there was work enough cut out for three days."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000057_000000|"At the rate we are going," said Sancho, "I'll be chewing clay before your worship dies; and then, maybe, I'll be so dumb that I'll not say a word until the end of the world, or, at least, till the day of judgment."
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000059_000000|"In good faith, senor," replied Sancho, "there's no trusting that fleshless one, I mean Death, who devours the lamb as soon as the sheep, and, as I have heard our curate say, treads with equal foot upon the lofty towers of kings and the lowly huts of the poor.
train-clean-100/2989/138035/2989_138035_000060_000000|"Say no more, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "don't try to better it, and risk a fall; for in truth what thou hast said about death in thy rustic phrase is what a good preacher might have said.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000002_000000|A FIGHT THAT WON FRIENDS
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000005_000001|With a shriek of fear the ape which held me leaped through the open window, but its mate closed in a terrific death struggle with my preserver, which was nothing less than my faithful watch thing; I cannot bring myself to call so hideous a creature a dog.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000007_000001|Presently I saw the great eyes of my beast bulging completely from their sockets and blood flowing from its nostrils. That he was weakening perceptibly was evident, but so also was the ape, whose struggles were growing momentarily less.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000012_000000|It is true I held the cudgel, but what could I do with it against his four great arms?
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000013_000001|He lay gasping upon the floor of the chamber, his great eyes fastened upon me in what seemed a pitiful appeal for protection.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000015_000002|Leaping over his prostrate body, I seized the cudgel and finished the monster before he could regain his feet.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000016_000000|As I delivered the blow a low laugh rang out behind me, and, turning, I beheld Tars Tarkas, Sola, and three or four warriors standing in the doorway of the chamber.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000018_000002|Evidently devoid of all the finer sentiments of friendship, love, or affection, these people fairly worship physical prowess and bravery, and nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000019_000001|She, on the contrary, was sober with apparent solicitude and, as soon as I had finished the monster, rushed to me and carefully examined my body for possible wounds or injuries.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000019_000002|Satisfying herself that I had come off unscathed she smiled quietly, and, taking my hand, started toward the door of the chamber.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000020_000001|They seemed to be deep in argument, and finally one of them addressed me, but remembering my ignorance of his language turned back to Tars Tarkas, who, with a word and gesture, gave some command to the fellow and turned to follow us from the room.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000021_000002|The bullet striking the wooden casing of the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the wood and masonry.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000022_000000|I then knelt down beside the fearsome looking thing, and raising it to its feet motioned for it to follow me.
train-clean-100/302/123504/302_123504_000022_000002|The warrior whose gun I had struck up looked enquiringly at Tars Tarkas, but the latter signed that I be left to my own devices, and so we returned to the plaza with my great beast following close at heel, and Sola grasping me tightly by the arm.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000002_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000005_000000|I was lying among a pile of sleeping silks and furs in the corner of a small room in which were several green warriors, and bending over me was an ancient and ugly female.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000006_000000|As I opened my eyes she turned to one of the warriors, saying,
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000007_000000|"He will live, O Jed."
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000008_000000|"'tis well," replied the one so addressed, rising and approaching my couch, "he should render rare sport for the great games."
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000009_000001|He was a huge fellow, terribly scarred about the face and chest, and with one broken tusk and a missing ear.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000009_000002|Strapped on either breast were human skulls and depending from these a number of dried human hands.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000010_000000|His reference to the great games of which I had heard so much while among the Tharks convinced me that I had but jumped from purgatory into gehenna.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000011_000000|After a few more words with the female, during which she assured him that I was now fully fit to travel, the jed ordered that we mount and ride after the main column.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000012_000000|I was strapped securely to as wild and unmanageable a thoat as I had ever seen, and, with a mounted warrior on either side to prevent the beast from bolting, we rode forth at a furious pace in pursuit of the column.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000013_000000|Just before dark we reached the main body of troops shortly after they had made camp for the night.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000014_000000|Like the jed who had brought me, he was frightfully scarred, and also decorated with the breastplate of human skulls and dried dead hands which seemed to mark all the greater warriors among the Warhoons, as well as to indicate their awful ferocity, which greatly transcends even that of the Tharks.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000015_000000|The jeddak, Bar Comas, who was comparatively young, was the object of the fierce and jealous hatred of his old lieutenant, Dak Kova, the jed who had captured me, and I could not but note the almost studied efforts which the latter made to affront his superior.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000017_000000|"I have brought a strange creature wearing the metal of a Thark whom it is my pleasure to have battle with a wild thoat at the great games."
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000018_000000|"He will die as Bar Comas, your jeddak, sees fit, if at all," replied the young ruler, with emphasis and dignity.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000019_000000|"If at all?" roared Dak Kova.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000019_000001|"By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000020_000000|Bar Comas eyed the defiant and insubordinate chieftain for an instant, his expression one of haughty, fearless contempt and hate, and then without drawing a weapon and without uttering a word he hurled himself at the throat of his defamer.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000022_000000|Bar Comas had much the better of the battle as he was stronger, quicker and more intelligent.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000022_000003|Victor and vanquished rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000023_000000|Bar Comas was stone dead, and only the most herculean efforts on the part of Dak Kova's females saved him from the fate he deserved.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000023_000001|Three days later he walked without assistance to the body of Bar Comas which, by custom, had not been moved from where it fell, and placing his foot upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler he assumed the title of Jeddak of Warhoon.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000024_000000|The dead jeddak's hands and head were removed to be added to the ornaments of his conqueror, and then his women cremated what remained, amid wild and terrible laughter.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000025_000000|The injuries to Dak Kova had delayed the march so greatly that it was decided to give up the expedition, which was a raid upon a small Thark community in retaliation for the destruction of the incubator, until after the great games, and the entire body of warriors, ten thousand in number, turned back toward Warhoon.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000026_000000|My introduction to these cruel and bloodthirsty people was but an index to the scenes I witnessed almost daily while with them.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000026_000001|They are a smaller horde than the Tharks but much more ferocious.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000027_000001|Food was brought me at intervals but owing to the utter darkness of the place I do not know whether I lay there days, or weeks, or months.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000027_000004|No sound reached me from the world above and no word would my jailer vouchsafe when my food was brought to me, although I at first bombarded him with questions.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000028_000000|Finally all the hatred and maniacal loathing for these awful creatures who had placed me in this horrible place was centered by my tottering reason upon this single emissary who represented to me the entire horde of Warhoons.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000029_000002|As he stooped to place my food upon the ground I swung the chain above my head and crashed the links with all my strength upon his skull.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000029_000003|Without a sound he slipped to the floor, stone dead.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000030_000001|Presently they came in contact with a small chain at the end of which dangled a number of keys.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000031_000000|As I was groping to remove the chain from about my victim's neck I glanced up into the darkness to see six pairs of gleaming eyes fixed, unwinking, upon me.
train-clean-100/302/123516/302_123516_000031_000001|Slowly they approached and slowly I shrank back from the awful horror of them.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000002_000000|As the great gate where I stood swung open my fifty Tharks, headed by Tars Tarkas himself, rode in upon their mighty thoats.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000002_000001|I led them to the palace walls, which I negotiated easily without assistance.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000006_000000|At the foot of the throne these two parties separated and halted, facing each other at opposite sides of the aisle.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000006_000001|Then came more dignitaries, and the officers of the palace and of the army, and finally two figures entirely muffled in scarlet silk, so that not a feature of either was discernible.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000006_000002|These two stopped at the foot of the throne, facing Than Kosis.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000008_000000|The object of the ceremony was clear to me; in another moment Dejah Thoris would be joined forever to the Prince of Zodanga.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000010_000001|"Look!"
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000013_000000|Thrusting Sab Than headlong from the platform, I drew Dejah Thoris to my side.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000015_000001|The woman!
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000015_000004|Kill her!"
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000020_000001|The jailers had all left to join the fighters in the throne room, so we searched the labyrinthine prison without opposition.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000021_000001|Guided by the sound, we soon found him helpless in a dark recess.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000022_000000|He was overjoyed at seeing me, and to know the meaning of the fight, faint echoes of which had reached his prison cell.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000027_000000|"Was there ever such a man!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000027_000002|Can it be that all Earth men are as you? Alone, a stranger, hunted, threatened, persecuted, you have done in a few short months what in all the past ages of Barsoom no man has ever done: joined together the wild hordes of the sea bottoms and brought them to fight as allies of a red Martian people."
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000028_000000|"The answer is easy, Dejah Thoris," I replied smiling.
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000028_000001|"It was not I who did it, it was love, love for Dejah Thoris, a power that would work greater miracles than this you have seen."
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000031_000001|That you are a princess does not abash me, but that you are you is enough to make me doubt my sanity as I ask you, my princess, to be mine."
train-clean-100/302/123523/302_123523_000033_000000|And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to john Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000013_000000|"Step up, lad," cried Silver.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000016_000002|"Where might you have got the paper?
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000016_000003|Why, hillo!
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000020_000000|"Dick, was it?
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000026_000000|"Oh," replied George, "you don't be under no kind of apprehension; WE'RE all square, we are.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000029_000007|But who done it?
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000031_000002|Sea! Gentlemen o' fortune!
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000033_000003|Ah!
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000033_000015|Kill that boy?
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000033_000018|Ah, well, there's a deal to say to number three.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000036_000001|j f, and a score below, with a clove hitch to it; so he done ever."
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000038_000002|How?
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000040_000000|"Fair!
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000040_000002|"You lost the ship; I found the treasure.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000041_000000|"Silver!" they cried.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000041_000002|Barbecue for cap'n!"
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000042_000000|"So that's the toon, is it?" cried the cook.
train-clean-100/307/127535/307_127535_000042_000003|And now, shipmates, this black spot?
train-clean-100/307/127539/307_127539_000017_000001|But just then-crack! crack!
train-clean-100/307/127539/307_127539_000020_000000|"Forward!" cried the doctor.
train-clean-100/311/124404/311_124404_000002_000001|It was my design to comprise in it all that, before I set myself to write it, I thought I knew of the nature of material objects.
train-clean-100/311/124404/311_124404_000002_000008|To this I likewise added much respecting the substance, the situation, the motions, and all the different qualities of these heavens and stars; so that I thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.
train-clean-100/311/124404/311_124404_000002_000010|I was not, however, disposed, from these circumstances, to conclude that this world had been created in the manner I described; for it is much more likely that God made it at the first such as it was to be.
train-clean-100/311/124404/311_124404_000003_000000|From the description of inanimate bodies and plants, I passed to animals, and particularly to man.
train-clean-100/311/124404/311_124404_000007_000003|And what can physicians conjecture from feeling the pulse unless they know that according as the blood changes its nature it can be rarefied by the warmth of the heart, in a higher or lower degree, and more or less quickly than before?
train-clean-100/311/124404/311_124404_000007_000013|Nor will this appear at all strange to those who are acquainted with the variety of movements performed by the different automata, or moving machines fabricated by human industry, and that with help of but few pieces compared with the great multitude of bones, muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, and other parts that are found in the body of each animal.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000001_000000|It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000001_000002|He did not speak about it at length, but said that he had written me a letter, not to be opened until after his death, containing instructions for publication.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000002_000004|But I would not wish that anything should be added to the memoir.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000002_000005|If you wish to say any word as from yourself, let it be done in the shape of a preface or introductory chapter." At the end there is a postscript: "The publication, if made at all, should be effected as soon as possible after my death." My father died on the sixth of December, eighteen eighty two.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000003_000000|It will be seen, therefore, that my duty has been merely to pass the book through the press conformably to the above instructions.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000003_000002|Additions of any other sort there have been none; the few footnotes are my father's own additions or corrections.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000003_000003|And I have made no alterations.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000005_000000|So much I would say by way of preface.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000006_000001|He continued to ride to the end of his life: he liked the exercise, and I think it would have distressed him not to have had a horse in his stable.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000006_000002|But he never spoke willingly on hunting matters.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000006_000003|He had at last resolved to give up his favourite amusement, and that as far as he was concerned there should be an end of it.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000007_000000|Every day, until his last illness, my father continued his work.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000007_000001|He would not otherwise have been happy.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000009_000001|Blackwood and Sons in eighteen eighty four.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000010_000000|In the summer of eighteen eighty my father left London, and went to live at Harting, a village in Sussex, but on the confines of Hampshire.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000010_000003|He went there in May of that year, and was then absent nearly a month.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000010_000004|This journey did him much good, for he found that the softer atmosphere relieved his asthma, from which he had been suffering for nearly eighteen months. In August following he made another trip to Ireland, but from this journey he derived less benefit.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000010_000005|He was much interested in, and was very much distressed by, the unhappy condition of the country.
train-clean-100/3112/9554/3112_9554_000010_000009|He could not rid his mind of the fact that he had a story already in the course of publication, but which he had not yet completed.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000004_000000|MY EDUCATION. eighteen fifteen to eighteen thirty four.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000005_000002|That I, or any man, should tell everything of himself, I hold to be impossible. Who could endure to own the doing of a mean thing?
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000007_000006|My father's clients deserted him.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000007_000007|He purchased various dark gloomy chambers in and about Chancery Lane, and his purchases always went wrong.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000009_000004|No doubt my appearance was against me.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000009_000006|But I could not look my feelings.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000009_000007|I do not doubt that I was dirty;--but I think that he was cruel.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000011_000008|Mine was only done a day or two before the holidays.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000011_000010|There were ever so many other punishments accumulated on our heads.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000011_000011|It broke my heart, knowing myself to be innocent, and suffering also under the almost equally painful feeling that the other three-no doubt wicked boys-were the curled darlings of the school, who would never have selected me to share their wickedness with them.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000013_000003|And it is one also for success in which a sufficient capital is indispensable.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000013_000004|He had no knowledge, and, when he took this second farm, no capital.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000014_000001|This was, I think, in eighteen twenty seven.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000014_000004|I have seen it since in the town of Cincinnati,--a sorry building!
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000014_000006|My mother went first, with my sisters and second brother.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000015_000001|There have been hot words between us, for perfect friendship bears and allows hot words.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000015_000003|But in those school days he was, of all my foes, the worst.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000015_000008|The result was that, as a part of his daily exercise, he thrashed me with a big stick.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000000|After a while my brother left Winchester and accompanied my father to America.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000001|Then another and a different horror fell to my fate. My college bills had not been paid, and the school tradesmen who administered to the wants of the boys were told not to extend their credit to me.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000002|Boots, waistcoats, and pocket handkerchiefs, which, with some slight superveillance, were at the command of other scholars, were closed luxuries to me.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000004|It is the nature of boys to be cruel.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000009|Of course I was ill dressed and dirty.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000011|And a worse thing came than the stoppage of the supplies from the shopkeepers. Every boy had a shilling a week pocket money, which we called battels, and which was advanced to us out of the pocket of the second master.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000012|On one awful day the second master announced to me that my battels would be stopped.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000017_000016|And now, when it came to the turn of any servant, he received sixty nine shillings instead of seventy, and the cause of the defalcation was explained to him.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000019_000002|And I was taken there with him.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000020_000002|I had not only no friends, but was despised by all my companions.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000020_000007|I was a sizar at a fashionable school, a condition never premeditated.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000020_000013|My tutor took me without the fee; but when I heard him declare the fact in the pupil room before the boys, I hardly felt grateful for the charity.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000020_000016|At last I was driven to rebellion, and there came a great fight,--at the end of which my opponent had to be taken home for a while.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000001|My elder brother-Tom as I must call him in my narrative, though the world, I think, knows him best as Adolphus-was at Oxford. My father and I lived together, he having no means of living except what came from the farm.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000004|Our table was poorer, I think, than that of the bailiff who still hung on to our shattered fortunes.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000005|The furniture was mean and scanty.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000007|Into the hay field on holidays I was often compelled to go,--not, I fear, with much profit. My father's health was very bad.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000009|But he was never idle unless when suffering.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000012|Under crushing disadvantages, with few or no books of reference, with immediate access to no library, he worked at his most ungrateful task with unflagging industry.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000021_000013|When he died, three numbers out of eight had been published by subscription; and are now, I fear, unknown, and buried in the midst of that huge pile of futile literature, the building up of which has broken so many hearts.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000022_000003|Of amusement, as far as I can remember, he never recognised the need.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000022_000005|I cannot bethink me of aught that he ever did for my gratification; but for my welfare,--for the welfare of us all,--he was willing to make any sacrifice.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000022_000008|In those days he never punished me, though I think I grieved him much by my idleness; but in passion he knew not what he did, and he has knocked me down with the great folio Bible which he always used.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000023_000004|I remembered constantly that address from dr Butler when I was a little boy.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000023_000006|dr Butler only became Dean of Peterborough, but his successor lived to be Archbishop of Canterbury.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000025_000004|There were exhibitions from Harrow-which I never got.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000025_000006|Once I made a futile attempt for a scholarship at Trinity, Oxford,--but failed again.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000026_000000|When I left Harrow I was all but nineteen, and I had at first gone there at seven.
train-clean-100/3112/9555/3112_9555_000027_000005|This position I achieved by gravitation upwards.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000001_000000|The valet, returning to the cottage, informed the count that Moscow was burning.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000003_000000|"Oh, how terrible," said Sonya returning from the yard chilled and frightened.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000003_000001|"I believe the whole of Moscow will burn, there's an awful glow!
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000003_000002|Natasha, do look!
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000005_000000|"Look, Natasha, how dreadfully it is burning!" said she.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000007_000000|And as if in order not to offend Sonya and to get rid of her, she turned her face to the window, looked out in such a way that it was evident that she could not see anything, and again settled down in her former attitude.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000008_000000|"But you didn't see it!"
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000009_000000|"Yes, really I did," Natasha replied in a voice that pleaded to be left in peace.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000010_000000|Both the countess and Sonya understood that, naturally, neither Moscow nor the burning of Moscow nor anything else could seem of importance to Natasha.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000011_000000|The count returned and lay down behind the partition.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000012_000000|"You are cold.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000012_000002|You'd better lie down," said the countess.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000013_000000|"Lie down?
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000014_000004|But after she had been told that she could not see him, that he was seriously wounded but that his life was not in danger, she ceased to ask questions or to speak at all, evidently disbelieving what they told her, and convinced that say what she might she would still be told the same.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000014_000005|All the way she had sat motionless in a corner of the coach with wide open eyes, and the expression in them which the countess knew so well and feared so much, and now she sat in the same way on the bench where she had seated herself on arriving.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000014_000006|She was planning something and either deciding or had already decided something in her mind.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000015_000000|"Natasha, undress, darling; lie down on my bed."
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000016_000000|A bed had been made on a bedstead for the countess only.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000016_000001|Madame Schoss and the two girls were to sleep on some hay on the floor.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000017_000000|"No, Mamma, I will lie down here on the floor," Natasha replied irritably and she went to the window and opened it.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000017_000002|She put her head out into the damp night air, and the countess saw her slim neck shaking with sobs and throbbing against the window frame.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000017_000004|She knew Prince Andrew was in the same yard as themselves and in a part of the hut across the passage; but this dreadful incessant moaning made her sob.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000017_000005|The countess exchanged a look with Sonya.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000018_000000|"Lie down, darling; lie down, my pet," said the countess, softly touching Natasha's shoulders.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000018_000001|"Come, lie down."
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000020_000000|When she had thrown off her dress and put on a dressing jacket, she sat down with her foot under her on the bed that had been made up on the floor, jerked her thin and rather short plait of hair to the front, and began replaiting it.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000020_000001|Her long, thin, practiced fingers rapidly unplaited, replaited, and tied up her plait.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000020_000002|Her head moved from side to side from habit, but her eyes, feverishly wide, looked fixedly before her.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000021_000000|"Natasha, you'd better lie in the middle," said Sonya.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000022_000001|"Do lie down," she added crossly, and buried her face in the pillow.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000023_000000|The countess, Madame Schoss, and Sonya undressed hastily and lay down.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000023_000001|The small lamp in front of the icons was the only light left in the room.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000024_000000|For a long time Natasha listened attentively to the sounds that reached her from inside and outside the room and did not move.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000026_000000|After a short silence the countess spoke again but this time no one replied.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000028_000000|As if to celebrate a victory over everybody, a cricket chirped in a crack in the wall.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000030_000002|The boards of the floor creaked.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000032_000001|The cold she felt refreshed her.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000032_000003|It was dark in there.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000034_000005|Yes, he was altogether like that.
train-clean-100/3168/173564/3168_173564_000035_000000|The valet sat up and whispered something.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000003_000002|But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000003_000004|The first night after they left Moscow had been fairly warm and he had remained in the caleche, but at Mytishchi the wounded man himself asked to be taken out and given some tea.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000003_000006|When he had been placed on his camp bed he lay for a long time motionless with closed eyes.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000003_000008|He felt Prince Andrew's pulse, and to his surprise and dissatisfaction found it had improved.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000004_000000|They gave Prince Andrew some tea.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000009_000000|"Mine, sir?
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000011_000000|"Couldn't one get a book?" he asked.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000019_000002|And those thoughts, though now vague and indefinite, again possessed his soul.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000019_000003|He remembered that he had now a new source of happiness and that this happiness had something to do with the Gospels.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000019_000007|A cricket chirped from across the passage; someone was shouting and singing in the street; cockroaches rustled on the table, on the icons, and on the walls, and a big fly flopped at the head of the bed and around the candle beside him, the wick of which was charred and had shaped itself like a mushroom.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000020_000002|A healthy man can tear himself away from the deepest reflections to say a civil word to someone who comes in and can then return again to his own thoughts.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000020_000004|All the powers of his mind were more active and clearer than ever, but they acted apart from his will.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000020_000006|At times his brain suddenly began to work with a vigor, clearness, and depth it had never reached when he was in health, but suddenly in the midst of its work it would turn to some unexpected idea and he had not the strength to turn it back again.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000021_000002|Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoin it was possible only for God.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000022_000001|At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000022_000002|He felt that he had to balance carefully (though it was difficult) so that this airy structure should not collapse; but nevertheless it kept collapsing and again slowly rising to the sound of whispered rhythmic music-"it stretches, stretches, spreading out and stretching," said Prince Andrew to himself.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000022_000003|While listening to this whispering and feeling the sensation of this drawing out and the construction of this edifice of needles, he also saw by glimpses a red halo round the candle, and heard the rustle of the cockroaches and the buzzing of the fly that flopped against his pillow and his face.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000022_000004|Each time the fly touched his face it gave him a burning sensation and yet to his surprise it did not destroy the structure, though it knocked against the very region of his face where it was rising.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000022_000005|But besides this there was something else of importance.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000022_000006|It was something white by the door-the statue of a sphinx, which also oppressed him.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000023_000001|That's enough, please leave off!" Prince Andrew painfully entreated someone.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000024_000000|"Yes-love," he thought again quite clearly.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000024_000001|"But not love which loves for something, for some quality, for some purpose, or for some reason, but the love which I-while dying-first experienced when I saw my enemy and yet loved him.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000024_000003|Now again I feel that bliss.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000024_000004|To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything, to love God in all His manifestations.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000024_000006|That is why I experienced such joy when I felt that I loved that man.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000025_000001|No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000025_000003|Yet how many people have I hated in my life?
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000025_000004|And of them all, I loved and hated none as I did her." And he vividly pictured to himself Natasha, not as he had done in the past with nothing but her charms which gave him delight, but for the first time picturing to himself her soul.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000000|"Oh, how oppressive this continual delirium is," thought Prince Andrew, trying to drive that face from his imagination.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000002|Prince Andrew wished to return to that former world of pure thought, but he could not, and delirium drew him back into its domain.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000004|Prince Andrew collected all his strength in an effort to recover his senses, he moved a little, and suddenly there was a ringing in his ears, a dimness in his eyes, and like a man plunged into water he lost consciousness.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000005|When he came to himself, Natasha, that same living Natasha whom of all people he most longed to love with this new pure divine love that had been revealed to him, was kneeling before him.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000006|He realized that it was the real living Natasha, and he was not surprised but quietly happy.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000008|Her face was pale and rigid.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000027_000009|Only in the lower part of it something quivered.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000029_000000|"You?" he said.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000031_000001|"Forgive me!"
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000037_000000|Those eyes, filled with happy tears, gazed at him timidly, compassionately, and with joyous love.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000037_000001|Natasha's thin pale face, with its swollen lips, was more than plain-it was dreadful.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000038_000001|Timokhin, who had not slept at all because of the pain in his leg, had long been watching all that was going on, carefully covering his bare body with the sheet as he huddled up on his bench.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000039_000000|"What's this?" said the doctor, rising from his bed.
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000039_000001|"Please go away, madam!"
train-clean-100/3168/173565/3168_173565_000040_000000|At that moment a maid sent by the countess, who had noticed her daughter's absence, knocked at the door.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000018_000000|A QUEER PLACE TO LIVE
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000019_000002|Though he owned the land where it stood, those that lived there thought they had every right to stay there as long as they pleased, without being disturbed.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000020_000001|It was a different sort of town, too, from the one where Farmer Green went each week.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000021_000001|There was a small stream, too, which was really the beginning of Swift River.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000026_000000|The dam was there still.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000026_000001|It was so old that trees were growing on it. And there was an odd thing about it: it was never finished.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000027_000000|If Brownie Beaver and his friends had neglected their dam, they would have waked up some day and found that their pond was empty; and without any water to hide their doorways they would have been safe no longer.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000028_000000|They would have had no place, either, to store their winter's food. For they were in the habit of cutting down trees and saving the bark and branches too, in order to have plenty to eat when cold weather came and the ice closed their pond.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000029_000000|Some of their food they carried into their houses through a straight hall which was made for that very purpose.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000029_000002|It was just like putting green things into a refrigerator, so they will keep.
train-clean-100/32/21625/32_21625_000030_000000|Now you see why Brownie Beaver would no more have thought of building his house on dry land than you would think of building one in a pond. Everybody likes his own way best.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000004_000000|A NEWFANGLED NEWSPAPER
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000005_000000|After mr Crow flew back to Pleasant Valley to gather news for him, Brownie Beaver carefully counted each day that passed.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000007_000001|At least, it seemed so to him.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000007_000002|Whenever he saw a bird soaring above the tree tops he couldn't help hoping it was mr Crow.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000008_000001|But mr Crow really came at last.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000008_000002|He lighted right on top of Brownie Beaver's house and called "Paper!" down the chimney-just like that!
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000009_000001|And in a wonderfully short time his head appeared above the water and he soon crawled up beside mr Crow.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000011_000001|Being a newspaper, he thought he ought to say nothing except what was news-not even "Good afternoon!"
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000014_000000|"Fatty Coon-" mr Crow said-"Fatty Coon was confined to his house by illness Tuesday night.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000016_000001|An enjoyable time was had by all-except the pig."
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000017_000000|"Pig?" Brownie Beaver asked.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000017_000001|"What pig?"
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000018_000000|"The pig they ate," said mr Crow.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000018_000001|And he went right on talking.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000018_000002|"On Thursday mr Woodchuck went to visit his cousins in the West.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000018_000003|mrs Woodchuck is worried."
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000020_000000|"She's afraid he's coming back again," mr Crow explained.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000021_000001|"What happened on Friday?"
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000022_000000|"Tommy Fox made a visit.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000022_000001|But he didn't have a good time at all," mr Crow reported, "and he left faster than he came."
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000024_000000|"At Farmer Green's hen house," mr Crow explained.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000026_000000|"Old dog Spot chased him," mr Crow replied.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000028_000000|"There you go again!" cried mr Crow.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000028_000001|"Another question!
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000030_000000|"Then-" said mr Crow-"then don't interrupt me again, please!
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000030_000001|I'll tell you all the news I've brought.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000030_000003|And then we can talk.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000030_000004|But not before!" he insisted.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000032_000001|Jimmy Rabbit almost cut off Frisky Squirrel's tail."
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000033_000000|mr Crow paused and looked at Brownie Beaver out of the corner of his eye.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000033_000001|He knew that Brownie would want to know what prevented the accident.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000036_000001|"You've done just as I told you not to.
train-clean-100/32/21631/32_21631_000036_000003|You see, you have a few things to learn about taking a newspaper." And 'he would give Brownie no more news that day.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000002_000000|A HOLIDAY
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000004_000000|So they stopped working, for once, and began to plan the celebration. They thought that there ought to be swimming races and tree felling contests.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000005_000001|Brownie Beaver himself passed his hat around to take up the votes.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000005_000002|And it was quickly found that every vote was for Brownie Beaver.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000005_000004|But no one seemed to care about that.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000008_000001|There were six, including Brownie Beaver, that took part in it.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000008_000004|And that caused some trouble, too, because some claimed that their trees were of harder wood than others-and more difficult to gnaw-while others complained that the bark of their trees tasted very bitter, and of course that made their task unpleasant.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000010_000000|After everybody crept out of his hiding place some time afterward (everyone had to hide for a while, you know), there was mr Crow sitting upon one of the fallen trees.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000011_000001|"You're not going to cut down the whole forest, I hope."
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000012_000001|And mr Crow began to laugh.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000013_000000|"What are you going to do next?" he asked.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000015_000000|mr Crow looked around.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000016_000000|"Say good by to him then," said mr Crow, "for you'll never see him again."
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000017_000000|"What do you mean?" Grandaddy Beaver asked.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000020_000000|"No doubt!" mr Crow remarked.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000020_000002|"In the second place," he continued, "the sign doesn't mean that hunting and fishing are to be stopped.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000020_000005|That's why he put up that sign.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000023_000000|But nobody cared to go.
train-clean-100/32/21634/32_21634_000023_000001|And the whole village seemed greatly disappointed, until Grandaddy Beaver made a short speech.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000002_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000003_000000|GOING TO THE SOUTH
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000005_000000|DICK WALKER, the slave speculator, who had purchased Currer and Althesa, put them in prison until his gang was made up, and then, with his forty slaves, started for the New Orleans market.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000005_000001|As many of the slaves had been brought up in Richmond, and had relations residing there, the slave trader determined to leave the city early in the morning, so as not to witness any of those scenes so common where slaves are separated from their relatives and friends, when about departing for the Southern market.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000005_000002|This plan was successful; for not even Clotel, who had been every day at the prison to see her mother and sister, knew of their departure.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000005_000003|A march of eight days through the interior of the state, and they arrived on the banks of the Ohio river, where they were all put on board a steamer, and then speedily sailed for the place of their destination.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000001|Few persons can arrive at anything like the age of a Negro, by mere observation, unless they are well acquainted with the race.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000002|Therefore the slave trader very frequently carried out this deception with perfect impunity.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000003|After the steamer had left the wharf, and was fairly on the bosom of the Father of Waters, Walker called his servant Pompey to him, and instructed him as to "getting the Negroes ready for market." Amongst the forty Negroes were several whose appearance indicated that they had seen some years, and had gone through some services.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000004|Their grey hair and whiskers at once pronounced them to be above the ages set down in the trader's advertisement.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000005|Pompey had long been with the trader, and knew his business; and if he did not take delight in discharging his duty, he did it with a degree of alacrity, so that he might receive the approbation of his master.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000008|It was on the second day of the steamer's voyage that Pompey selected five of the old slaves, took them in a room by themselves, and commenced preparing them for the market.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000006_000010|How old is you?" addressing himself to a man who, from appearance, was not less than forty.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000007_000000|"If I live to see next corn planting time I will either be forty five or fifty five, I don't know which."
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000013_000000|"Geemes," answered the man.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000014_000000|"Oh, Uncle Jim, is it?"
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000015_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000017_000000|"How old is you?" asked Pompey of a tall, strong looking man.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000018_000000|"I was twenty nine last potato digging time," said the man.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000022_000000|"Yes," responded Toby.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000000|Pompey gave each to understand how old he was to be when asked by persons who wished to purchase, and then reported to his master that the "old boys" were all right.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000001|At eight o'clock on the evening of the third day, the lights of another steamer were seen in the distance, and apparently coming up very fast.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000002|This was a signal for a general commotion on the Patriot, and everything indicated that a steamboat race was at hand.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000003|Nothing can exceed the excitement attendant upon a steamboat race on the Mississippi river.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000004|By the time the boats had reached Memphis, they were side by side, and each exerting itself to keep the ascendancy in point of speed.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000005|The night was clear, the moon shining brightly, and the boats so near to each other that the passengers were calling out from one boat to the other.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000006|On board the Patriot, the firemen were using oil, lard, butter, and even bacon, with the wood, for the purpose of raising the steam to its highest pitch.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000007|The blaze, mingled with the black smoke, showed plainly that the other boat was burning more than wood.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000008|The two boats soon locked, so that the hands of the boats were passing from vessel to vessel, and the wildest excitement prevailed throughout amongst both passengers and crew.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000009|At this moment the engineer of the Patriot was seen to fasten down the safety valve, so that no steam should escape.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000023_000010|This was, indeed, a dangerous resort.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000024_000000|The Patriot stopped to take in passengers, and still no steam was permitted to escape.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000024_000001|At the starting of the boat cold water was forced into the boilers by the machinery, and, as might have been expected, one of the boilers immediately exploded.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000024_000002|One dense fog of steam filled every part of the vessel, while shrieks, groans, and cries were heard on every hand.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000024_000003|The saloons and cabins soon had the appearance of a hospital.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000025_000000|It was now twelve o'clock at night, and instead of the passengers being asleep the majority were ambling in the saloons.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000026_000000|"Go call my boy, steward," said mr Smith, as he took his cards one by one from the table.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000026_000001|In a few moments a fine looking, bright eyed mulatto boy, apparently about fifteen years of age, was standing by his master's side at the table.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000026_000002|"I will see you, and five hundred dollars better," said Smith, as his servant Jerry approached the table.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000029_000000|"Then you bet the whole of the boy, do you?"
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000030_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000031_000000|"I call you, then," said Johnson, at the same time spreading his cards out upon the table.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000032_000000|"You have beat me," said Smith, as soon as he saw the cards. Jerry, who was standing on top of the table, with the bank notes and silver dollars round his feet, was now ordered to descend from the table.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000033_000000|"You will not forget that you belong to me," said Johnson, as the young slave was stepping from the table to a chair.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000034_000000|"No, sir," replied the chattel.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000035_000000|"Now go back to your bed, and be up in time to morrow morning to brush my clothes and clean my boots, do you hear?"
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000036_000000|"Yes, sir," responded Jerry, as he wiped the tears from his eyes.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000037_000000|Smith took from his pocket the bill of sale and handed it to Johnson; at the same time saying, "I claim the right of redeeming that boy, mr Johnson.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000037_000001|My father gave him to me when I came of age, and I promised not to part with him."
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000038_000000|"Most certainly, sir, the boy shall be yours, whenever you hand me over a cool thousand," replied Johnson.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000038_000001|The next morning, as the passengers were assembling in the breakfast saloons and upon the guards of the vessel, and the servants were seen running about waiting upon or looking for their masters, poor Jerry was entering his new master's stateroom with his boots.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000040_000001|He goes to bed at night the property of the man with whom he has lived for years, and gets up in the morning the slave of some one whom he has never seen before!
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000041_000000|On the fourth day, while at Natchez, taking in freight and passengers, Walker, who had been on shore to see some of his old customers, returned, accompanied by a tall, thin faced man, dressed in black, with a white neckcloth, which immediately proclaimed him to be a clergyman.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000041_000001|"I want a good, trusty woman for house service," said the stranger, as they entered the cabin where Walker's slaves were kept.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000042_000000|"Here she is, and no mistake," replied the trader.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000043_000000|"Stand up, Currer, my gal; here's a gentleman who wishes to see if you will suit him."
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000045_000000|"She is a rare cook, a good washer, and will suit you to a T, I am sure."
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000047_000001|Walker and the parson went into the saloon, talked over the matter, the bill of sale was made out, the money paid over, and the clergyman left, with the understanding that the woman should be delivered to him at his house.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000047_000002|It seemed as if poor Althesa would have wept herself to death, for the first two days after her mother had been torn from her side by the hand of the ruthless trafficker in human flesh.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000047_000003|On the arrival of the boat at Baton Rouge, an additional number of passengers were taken on board; and, amongst them, several persons who had been attending the races.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000047_000004|Gambling and drinking were now the order of the day.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000047_000006|However, nothing serious had occurred.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000047_000007|A man at one of the tables where they were gambling had been seen attempting to conceal a card in his sleeve, and one of the party seized his pistol and fired; but fortunately the barrel of the pistol was knocked up, just as it was about to be discharged, and the ball passed through the upper deck, instead of the man's head, as intended.
train-clean-100/32/4137/32_4137_000048_000000|"Our eyes are yet on Afric's shores, Her thousand wrongs we still deplore; We see the grim slave trader there; We hear his fettered victim's prayer; And hasten to the sufferer's aid, Forgetful of our own 'slave trade.'
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000004_000000|"Well, is she pretty?
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000005_000000|But on glancing at Rostov's face Ilyin stopped short.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000009_000000|"What decision have you been pleased to come to?" said he.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000011_000000|"Decision?
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000011_000001|What decision?
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000011_000002|Old dotard!..." cried he.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000014_000002|Dron was of this opinion, but as soon as he expressed it Karp and others attacked their ex Elder.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000016_000000|"We've been told to keep order, and that no one is to leave their homes or take away a single grain, and that's all about it!" cried another.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000019_000000|"That's it-not against it!
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000020_000000|The two tall peasants had their say.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000022_000000|"The Elder?
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000022_000001|What do you want with him?..." asked Karp.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000024_000001|"Where's the Elder?" he cried furiously.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000025_000000|"The Elder....
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000026_000000|"We don't riot, we're following the orders," declared Karp, and at that moment several voices began speaking together.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000027_000000|"It's as the old men have decided-there's too many of you giving orders."
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000028_000000|"Arguing?
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000028_000001|Mutiny!...
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000028_000003|Traitors!" cried Rostov unmeaningly in a voice not his own, gripping Karp by the collar.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000037_000000|"Why, we've not done any harm!
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000037_000001|We did it just out of foolishness.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000037_000002|It's all nonsense...
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000038_000000|"There!
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000038_000002|"It's wrong, lads!"
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000044_000001|"You know it has cost money!
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000044_000003|I don't like that way of doing things.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000044_000004|Let it all be done properly, according to rule.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000044_000005|Look here, put it under the bast matting and cover it with hay-that's the way!"
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000045_000001|"Don't catch up against it!
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000045_000002|It's heavy, lads-solid books."
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000048_000004|Good bye, Princess.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000055_000000|"Was it not fate that brought him to Bogucharovo, and at that very moment?" thought Princess Mary.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000056_000003|For himself personally Nicholas could not wish for a better wife: by marrying her he would make the countess his mother happy, would be able to put his father's affairs in order, and would even-he felt it-ensure Princess Mary's happiness.
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000057_000000|But Sonya?
train-clean-100/3214/167602/3214_167602_000057_000001|And his plighted word?
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000011_000004|How is it that we are staying on?"
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000018_000002|See!
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000019_000002|Didn't he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, 'whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair'? (How silly!) 'And honor and glory to whoever captures him,' he says.
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000023_000000|"Well then, sell it," said he.
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000023_000001|"What's to be done?
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000025_000002|The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchin as follows:
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000029_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000029_000001|Who is it?
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000031_000000|"He's cook to some prince."
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000033_000000|The clerk glanced round, evidently hoping that his joke would be appreciated.
train-clean-100/3214/167606/3214_167606_000043_000005|With what?
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000005_000000|"But, depend upon it, mr Collins," she added, "that Lizzy shall be brought to reason.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000007_000002|In everything else she is as good-natured a girl as ever lived.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000010_000001|"Of what are you talking?"
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000013_000000|"Speak to Lizzy about it yourself.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000013_000001|Tell her that you insist upon her marrying him."
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000014_000001|She shall hear my opinion."
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000018_000001|We now come to the point.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000019_000000|"Yes, or I will never see her again."
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000024_000000|Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did mrs Bennet give up the point.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000027_000001|"Pray do, my dear Miss Lucas," she added in a melancholy tone, "for nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000029_000004|I told you in the library, you know, that I should never speak to you again, and you will find me as good as my word.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000029_000006|Not that I have much pleasure, indeed, in talking to anybody.
train-clean-100/322/124146/322_124146_000029_000008|Nobody can tell what I suffer!
train-clean-100/322/124147/322_124147_000017_000000|"Yes, there can; for mine is totally different.
train-clean-100/322/124147/322_124147_000017_000001|Will you hear it?"
train-clean-100/322/124147/322_124147_000023_000000|"That is right.
train-clean-100/322/124147/322_124147_000045_000000|"Engaged to mr Collins!
train-clean-100/322/124147/322_124147_000045_000001|My dear Charlotte-impossible!"
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000002_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000003_000000|MEASURE
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000004_000000|ninety seven.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000005_000001|The strongest accent falls normally on the first beat in the measure.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000006_000000|Two essential characteristics are involved in the ordinary musical measure:
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000007_000000|(one) A group of even beats (or pulses), always felt, though not always actually sounded, one or more of these beats being stronger than the rest;
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000009_000000|The student will note the essential difference between rhythm and measure.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000009_000001|Rhythm is the regular recurrence of accent in a series of beats (or pulses), while measure is the grouping of these beats according to some specified system.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000009_000003|Rhythm is thus seen to be a fundamental thing, inherent in the music itself, while measure is to a certain extent at least an arbitrary grouping which musicians have adopted for practical purposes.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000010_000000|ninety eight.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000012_000000|ninety nine.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000012_000003|There are two main classes of simple measures, two beat measure, and three beat measure.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000012_000005|The principal compound measures are four beat and six beat, both being referred to as compound duple measures.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000012_000006|Five beat, seven beat, nine beat, and twelve beat measures are also classified as compound measures.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000013_000001|Perhaps the easiest way out of the difficulty is to admit that both may be true-but in different compositions.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000013_000003|Since, however, one cannot in the majority of cases distinguish between two beat and four beat measures, it will probably be best to leave the original classification intact and regard four beat measure as a compound variety.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000015_000000|one hundred.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000016_000000|one.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000019_000000|three.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000020_000000|four.
train-clean-100/3235/11599/3235_11599_000020_000002|In rapid tempi this is always taken as compound duple measure, a dotted quarter note having a beat.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000002_000000|GOING TO NOME.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000003_000001|An English family consisting of the mother, one son and a daughter were to accompany me, and we had spent weeks in making our preparations.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000003_000002|We were taking supplies of clothing, food, tents and bedding sufficient to last until some of our numerous plans of work after our arrival brought in returns.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000003_000003|My hope was to meet my father there, for he had written that he thought he should go to the new gold fields, where he could do beach mining.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000004_000000|I was not above doing any honest work, and felt confident that I could make my way if I could gain an entrance into that country.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000004_000001|The English people were all workers, and I had known them for ten years or more.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000005_000001|Paul," belonging to the Alaska Commercial Company, and was advertised to sail on May twenty fifth.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000005_000003|Paul" to May twenty sixth, and we left the dock on Saturday afternoon amid the cheers and hand waving of thousands of people who had come to see the big boat off for Nome.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000006_000001|Every stateroom was full; each seat at the tables occupied.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000006_000002|Not a foot of space above or below decks was left unused, but provision was made for all, and the ship was well manned.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000007_000000|I was now much gratified to learn that there were many on board whom I had met before; that the steward, stewardess and several of the waiters had been on duty on the steamer "Bertha" during my trip out from Alaska the fall before, while I was upon speaking terms with a dozen or more of the passengers with whom I had traveled from the same place.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000007_000001|Of passengers we had, all told, four hundred and eighty seven.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000007_000002|Of these thirty five were women.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000007_000003|There was only one child on board, and that was the little black eyed girl with her Eskimo mother and white father from Golovin Bay whom I had seen at saint Michael some months before, and who was now going back to her northern home.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000007_000004|She wore a sailor suit of navy blue serge, trimmed with white braid, and was as coy and cunning as ever, not speaking often to strangers, but laughing and running away to her mother when addressed.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000008_000001|I slept for hours each day and thoroughly enjoyed the trip.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000009_000001|We had preachers on board, as well as doctors, lawyers, merchants and miners, and there were women going to Nome to start eating houses, hotels and mercantile shops.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000009_000002|There were several Swedish missionaries; one, a zealous young woman from San Francisco, going to the Swedish Mission at Golovin Bay.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000010_000000|This young person was pretty and pleasant, and I was glad to make her acquaintance as well as that of three other women speaking the same tongue and occupying the next stateroom to mine.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000010_000001|The last named were going to start a restaurant in Nome.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000010_000002|As they were sociable, jolly, and good sailors for the most part, I enjoyed their society.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000010_000003|They had all lived in San Francisco for years, and though not related to each other, were firm friends of long standing and were uniting their little fortunes in the hope of making greater ones.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000011_000001|Little did I then think that these people, placed by a seeming chance in an adjoining stateroom, were to be my fellow workers and true friends, not only for the coming months in that Arctic land to which we were going, but, as the sequel will show, perhaps for years to come.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000012_000000|Not many days had passed when we found that we had on board what few steamers can boast of, and that was an orchestra of professional musicians among the waiters.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000012_000001|These were men going, with all the others, to seek their fortunes in the new gold fields, working their passage as waiters on the ship to Nome, where they intended to leave it.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000012_000002|Three evenings in the week these musicians, with the help of several singers on board, gave concerts in the dining salon, which, though impromptu, were very enjoyable.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000013_000000|A sweet and trained singer was the English girl of our company, and she sang many times, accompanied by the stringed instruments of the musicians, much to the delight of the assembled passengers.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000013_000001|When she sang, one evening, in her clear sympathetic voice the selection, "Oh, Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight," there was not a dry eye in the room, and the mind of many a man went back to his old home and praying mother in some far distant state, making him resolve to write oftener to her that she might be comforted with a knowledge of his whereabouts and welfare.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000013_000002|These evenings were sometimes varied by recitations from an elocutionist on board; and a practised clog dancer excited the risibles of the company to the extent that they usually shouted with laughter at his exhibition of flying heels.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000000|Day after day passed.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000001|Those who were continually seasick had diversion enough.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000002|It was useless for us to tell them a pathetic tale of some one, who, at some time, had been more ill than they, because they would not believe a word of it, and it was equally useless to recommend an antidote for mal de mer such as theirs.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000003|"No one was ever so ill before," they said.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000004|They knew they should die and be buried at sea, and hoped they would if that would put an end to their sufferings.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000005|We tried at last to give them comfort by recommending out of former experiences ship's biscuit, dry toast and pop corn as remedies, but only received black looks as our reward.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000006|We then concluded that a diet of tea, coffee and soup was exactly such a one as the fishes would recommend could they speak, these favorite and much used liquids keeping up a continual "swishing" in one's interior regions, and causing one to truthfully speak of the same as "infernal" instead of internal.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000014_000007|But they were all tree physical as well as free moral agents and decided these things for themselves.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000015_000000|At last we entered the Japan current and the weather was warmer and more enjoyable.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000015_000001|On Monday, June fourth, we saw from the deck a few drifting logs and a quantity of seaweed, and these, with the presence of gulls and goonies flying overhead, convinced us that we were nearing land.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000016_000000|We were not mistaken.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000016_000002|As we drew nearer and entered the harbor so well land locked, the sun dipped low into yellow red western waters, thereby casting long shadows aslant our pathway so delicately shaded in greens.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000017_000000|The little hamlet of Dutch Harbor nestled cosily at the foot of the mountains which bordered the bay, and here numbers of ships lay anchored at rest.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000017_000001|Passing along easily beyond another high mountain, we were soon at the dock of Unalaska, beside other great ships in port.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000017_000002|Both groups of craft were evidently waiting for the ice to clear from Behring Sea before proceeding on their way northward, and we counted sixteen ships of different kinds and sizes, the majority of them large steamers.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000017_000003|All were loaded with passengers and freight for Nome.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000017_000004|Scout boats had already been sent out to investigate and find, if possible, a passage through the ice fields, and the return of these scouts with good news was anxiously watched and waited for, as the most desired thing at that time was a speedy and safe landing on the supposedly golden beach sands of Nome.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000018_000003|Paul." All were well cared for and satisfied, as well they might be, with the service of the ship's men.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000019_000000|Leaving Unalaska the sun shone clear and cold upon the mountains where in places the sides looked black from the late fires started in the deep tundra by miscreants.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000019_000001|The tops of the mountains were covered with snow. Down deep gorges dashed mountain waters of melting snow and ice, hurrying to leap off gullied and rocky cliffs into the sea.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000019_000002|Their progress was never impeded.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000019_000003|No tree nor shrub obstructed the way with gnarled old trunks, twisted roots, or low hanging branches, for none grow in Unalaska, and the bold dignity and grandeur of the mountains is never diminished by these lesser objects.
train-clean-100/3235/28433/3235_28433_000020_000000|As our ship sailed out into Behring Sea we were closely followed by the steamer "George w Elder," whose master, an old friend of our captain, had decided to follow in our wake, he being less familiar than the latter with Alaskan waters, and having confidence in the ability of his friend to successfully pilot both ships to Cape Nome.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty six.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000002_000000|GOOD BYE TO GOLOVIN BAY.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000003_000000|On the morning of the twenty sixth of June I awoke to find that the ice had drifted out to sea in the night, eight days after Mollie and I had taken our twelve miles trip across the bay and return.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000003_000002|By the thirtieth of June schooners were coming into the bay with passengers and freight, and the coast steamers, "Elmore" and "Dora," had begun to make regular trips to and from Nome.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000004_000000|With them came mails from the outside, with newspapers and tidings of friends in the States.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000004_000001|Then our fingers trembled at opening our letters until we found that all our dear ones were well, and we heartily thanked the Lord.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000005_000000|Since the stone throwing episode the Marshal had been doing duty as watchman, sleeping during the day and guarding the house nights, the heavy iron "bracelets" in his inner coat pocket weighing scarcely more than the loaded revolver in his belt.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000006_000000|Our little sick girl being obliged now to keep her bed continually, with no more playing in the sand and sunshine, although her cough had left her, was still the same sweet, patient child she had been through all her illness, and my whole time was given to her.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000006_000001|Before one of the sunny south windows of the living room we placed her cot each morning, and here she received her numerous friends, both Eskimo and white, and their names were legion.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000006_000002|They came from the east, west, north and south, all sorry to know of her illness, and bringing presents with them.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000007_000000|Sometimes it was a little live bird or squirrel, a delicious salmon trout or wild fowl for her supper; sometimes it was candy, nuts, or fresh fruit from Nome, and with everything she was well pleased and joyous.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000007_000001|Friends soon came in from the outside, bringing city dolls dressed in ribbons and laces; there were tiny dishes, chairs, tables,--a hundred things dear to a little girl's heart, and all pleased her immensely, but all were laid quickly aside for a basket of wild flowers or mosses, for a fish, bird, animal or baby, showing plainly her taste for the things of nature in preference to art.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000007_000002|Her love for her birthplace, with its hills, streams and ocean is a sincere one, and, young as she is, and having seen the great city by the Golden Gate, with many of its wonders, she is happiest in Chinik.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000009_000000|During the month of July we eagerly watched the incoming steamers, and welcomed all new comers who landed in Chinik.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000009_000002|A few remained for the summer.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000009_000003|Here men built boats, and rowed away to Keechawik and Neukluk, carrying supplies for hunting or prospecting.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000010_000000|The captain's vegetable garden in the sand was growing rapidly, and was watched with eager eyes by everyone.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000010_000002|Nothing so delicious as their salads (for the French cooks had long ago gone, the hotel management being changed, and Mollie had a nice little kitchen of her own), and with fresh salmon trout, wild fowl, fresh meats and vegetables, we made up for many months of winter dieting.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000011_000000|All this time I longed to get away.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000011_000001|I was going each day to the hill top to watch for the steamers which would bring the letters for which I waited.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000011_000002|Affairs connected with my gold claims were, with much anxiety and trouble, arranged as well as possible, and when I boarded the steamer, I would carry with me, at least, three deeds to as many claims, with a fair prospect of others; but I could not decide to remain another winter.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000011_000003|I was determined to go to saint Michael, up the Yukon to Dawson, and "outside," and laid my plans accordingly.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000011_000004|Letters from my father and brother in Dawson had been received.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000013_000001|I wanted to take both with me, but, no, I could not.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000014_000000|The little girl's work was not ended.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000014_000002|Born as she was in a rough mining camp at the foot of the barren hills, she was given the Eskimo name of Yahkuk, meaning a little hill, and she, like an oasis in a desert place, is left here to cheer, love, and help others.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000015_000000|Many times I have seen evidence of the sweet and gentle influences going out from the life of little Yahkuk as she lies upon her cot of pain.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000015_000001|A tall, brown miner enters the living room, goes to the little bed by the window, speaks softly, and, bending over the tiny girl, kisses her.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000015_000002|Then her big, black eyes glance brightly into blue ones looking down from above, full red lips part in a cordial smile, while the one solitary dimple in the smooth, round cheek pricks its way still deeper, and small arms go up around his neck.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000015_000003|When the man turns, his face wears a soft and tender expression as though he were looking at some beautiful sight far away, and, perhaps, he is.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000015_000004|God grant that the sweet memory of that little child's kiss may be so lasting that all their lives, he and others, may be purer and better men.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000016_000000|When August came I sailed away.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000016_000001|The "Dora" had entered the bay in the morning and found my trunk packed and waiting; it was then only the work of a little time to make ready to leave.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000016_000002|To my good missionary friends I had already said good bye, and the captain and Mollie were kindly regretful.
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000016_000003|With tears in my eyes, but with real pain in my heart I bade Jennie good bye, and stepped into the little boat which was to carry me to the "Dora."
train-clean-100/3235/28452/3235_28452_000017_000001|Farewell to the moss covered hills and paths thickly bordered with blossoms.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000005_000000|That small frogs and toads, for instance, never have fallen from the sky, but were-"on the ground, in the first place"; or that there have been such falls-"up from one place in a whirlwind, and down in another."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000006_000000|Were there some especially froggy place near Europe, as there is an especially sandy place, the scientific explanation would of course be that all small frogs falling from the sky in Europe come from that center of frogeity.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000007_000000|To start with, I'd like to emphasize something that I am permitted to see because I am still primitive or intelligent or in a state of maladjustment:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000008_000000|That there is not one report findable of a fall of tadpoles from the sky.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000009_000000|As to "there in the first place":
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000014_000000|"A shower of frogs which darkened the air and covered the ground for a long distance is the reported result of a recent rainstorm at kansas city missouri."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000015_000000|As to having been there "in the first place":
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000018_000000|To start with I do not deny-positively-the conventional explanation of "up and down." I think that there may have been such occurrences.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000018_000001|I omit many notes that I have upon indistinguishables.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000018_000004|I add, however, that I have notes upon two other falls of tiny toads, in eighteen eighty three, one in France and one in Tahiti; also of fish in Scotland.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000018_000005|But in the phenomenon of the Apennines, the mixture seems to me to be typical of the products of a whirlwind.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000018_000009|But a whirlwind is thought of as a condition of chaos-quasi chaos: not final negativeness, of course-
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000020_000000|"A small pond in the track of the cloud was sucked dry, the water being carried over the adjoining fields together with a large quantity of soft mud, which was scattered over the ground for half a mile around."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000021_000001|Of all instances I have that attribute the fall of small frogs or toads to whirlwinds, only one definitely identifies or places the whirlwind.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000021_000002|Also, as has been said before, a pond going up would be quite as interesting as frogs coming down.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000021_000004|It seems to me that anybody who had lost a pond would be heard from.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000021_000006|And something that strikes my attention here is that these frogs are described as almost white.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000022_000000|I'm afraid there is no escape for us: we shall have to give to civilization upon this earth-some new worlds.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000023_000000|Places with white frogs in them.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000024_000000|Upon several occasions we have had data of unknown things that have fallen from-somewhere.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000024_000001|But something not to be overlooked is that if living things have landed alive upon this earth-in spite of all we think we know of the accelerative velocity of falling bodies-and have propagated-why the exotic becomes the indigenous, or from the strangest of places we'd expect the familiar.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000024_000002|Or if hosts of living frogs have come here-from somewhere else-every living thing upon this earth may, ancestrally, have come from-somewhere else.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000025_000000|I find that I have another note upon a specific hurricane:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000027_000000|After one of the greatest hurricanes in the history of Ireland, some fish were found "as far as fifteen yards from the edge of a lake."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000030_000000|The best known fall of fishes from the sky is that which occurred at Mountain Ash, in the Valley of Abedare, Glamorganshire, february eleventh eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000031_000001|There is nothing to conclude other than that hosts of data have been lost because orthodoxy does not look favorably upon such reports.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000032_000000|Those fishes-still alive-were exhibited at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000033_000000|He says that dr Gray's explanation is no doubt right.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000036_000000|If these fishes were not upon the ground in the first place, we base our objections to the whirlwind explanation upon two data:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000039_000000|That ten minutes later another fall of fishes occurred upon this same narrow strip of land.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000041_000001|In this letter the fishes are said to have been about four inches long, but there is some question of species.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000041_000002|I think, myself, that they were minnows and sticklebacks.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000041_000004|"The effect is stated to have been almost instantaneous death." "Some were placed in fresh water.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000041_000005|These seemed to thrive well." As to narrow distribution, we are told that the fishes fell "in and about the premises of mr Nixon." "It was not observed at the time that any fish fell in any other part of the neighborhood, save in the particular spot mentioned."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000044_000000|In this letter it is said that the largest fishes were five inches long, and that these did not survive the fall.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000048_000000|Altogether I think we have not a sense of total perdition, when we're damned with the explanation that someone soused someone else with a pailful of water in which were thousands of fishes four or five inches long, some of which covered roofs of houses, and some of which remained ten minutes in the air.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000048_000001|By way of contrast we offer our own acceptance:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000049_000000|That the bottom of a super geographical pond had dropped out.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000051_000000|These three factors indicate, somewhere not far aloft, a region of inertness to this earth's gravitation, of course, however, a region that, by the flux and variation of all things, must at times be susceptible-but, afterward, our heresy will bifurcate-
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000052_000000|In amiable accommodation to the crucifixion it'll get, I think-
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000053_000000|But so impressed are we with the datum that, though there have been many reports of small frogs that have fallen from the sky, not one report upon a fall of tadpoles is findable, that to these circumstances another adjustment must be made.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000054_000000|Apart from our three factors of indication, an extraordinary observation is the fall of living things without injury to them.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000054_000002|Something else apart from our three main interests is a phenomenon that looks like what one might call an alternating series of falls of fishes, whatever the significance may be:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000056_000000|A psycho tropism that arises here-disregarding serial significance-or mechanical, unintelligent, repulsive reflex-is that the fishes of India did not fall from the sky; that they were found upon the ground after torrential rains, because streams had overflowed and had then receded.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000058_000000|But also other areas, in which fishes-however they got there: a matter that we'll consider-remain and dry, or even putrefy, then sometimes falling by atmospheric dislodgment.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000060_000000|The word "found" is agreeable to the repulsions of the conventionalists and their concept of an overflowing stream-but, according to dr Buist, some of these fishes were "found" on the tops of haystacks.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000061_000001|A witness of this fall says:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000064_000000|That, according to testimony taken before a magistrate, a fall occurred, february nineteenth eighteen thirty, near Feridpoor, India, of many fishes, of various sizes-some whole and fresh and others "mutilated and putrefying." Our reflex to those who would say that, in the climate of India, it would not take long for fishes to putrefy, is-that high in the air, the climate of India is not torrid.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000064_000001|Another peculiarity of this fall is that some of the fishes were much larger than others.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000064_000002|Or to those who hold out for segregation in a whirlwind, or that objects, say, twice as heavy as others would be separated from the lighter, we point out that some of these fishes were twice as heavy as others.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000066_000000|"Some of the fish were fresh, but others were rotten and without heads."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000067_000000|"Among the number which I got, five were fresh and the rest stinking and headless."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000069_000000|According to dr Buist, some of these fishes weighed one and a half pounds each and others three pounds.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000070_000000|A fall of fishes at Futtepoor, India, may sixteenth eighteen thirty three:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000072_000000|India is far away: about eighteen thirty was long ago.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000074_000000|A correspondent writes, from the Dove Marine Laboratory, Cuttercoats, England, that, at Hindon, a suburb of Sunderland, august twenty fourth nineteen eighteen, hundreds of small fishes, identified as sand eels, had fallen-
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000076_000001|The sea is close to Hindon, but if you try to think of these fishes having described a trajectory in a whirlwind from the ocean, consider this remarkable datum:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000077_000000|That, according to witnesses, the fall upon this small area occupied ten minutes.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000078_000000|I cannot think of a clearer indication of a direct fall from a stationary source.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000079_000000|And:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000080_000000|"The fish were all dead, and indeed stiff and hard, when picked up, immediately after the occurrence."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000082_000000|I don't know how much the horse and the barn will help us to emerge: but, if ever anything did go up from this earth's surface and stay up-those damned things may have:
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000084_000000|In a tornado, in Wisconsin, may twenty third eighteen seventy eight, "a barn and a horse were carried completely away, and neither horse nor barn, nor any portion of either have since been found."
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000088_000000|They fell in a hailstorm.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000089_000003|As to discussion-not a word.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000089_000004|Or Science and its continuity with Presbyterianism-data like this are damned at birth.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000091_000000|Of all incredibilities that we have to choose from, I give first place to a notion of a whirlwind pouncing upon a region and scrupulously selecting a turtle and a piece of alabaster.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000091_000001|This time, the other mechanical thing "there in the first place" cannot rise in response to its stimulus: it is resisted in that these objects were coated with ice-month of May in a southern state.
train-clean-100/3240/131231/3240_131231_000091_000002|If a whirlwind at all, there must have been very limited selection: there is no record of the fall of other objects.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000000_000000|Then I think of a hurricane that occurred in the state of Mississippi weeks or months before may eleventh eighteen ninety four.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000001_000000|No-I don't look for it-and inevitably find it.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000003_000001|Other indications of long duration.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000004_000001|Theoretically the attraction of a magnet should decrease with the square of the distance, but the falling off is found to be almost abrupt at a short distance.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000008_000000|But the omnipresence of Heterogeneity-or living fishes, also-ponds of fresh water: oceans of salt water.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000009_000000|As to the Law of Gravitation, I prefer to take one simple stand:
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000010_000000|Orthodoxy accepts the correlation and equivalence of forces:
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000011_000000|Gravitation is one of these forces.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000012_000000|All other forces have phenomena of repulsion and of inertness irrespective of distance, as well as of attraction.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000015_000000|Or still simpler:
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000016_000000|Here are the data.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000019_000000|That never has a fall of tadpoles been reported;
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000020_000000|That never has a fall of full grown frogs been reported-
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000021_000000|Always frogs a few months old.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000022_000000|It sounds positive, but if there be such reports they are somewhere out of my range of reading.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000023_000000|But tadpoles would be more likely to fall from the sky than would frogs, little or big, if such falls be attributed to whirlwinds; and more likely to fall from the Super Sargasso Sea if, though very tentatively and provisionally, we accept the Super Sargasso Sea.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000024_000000|Before we take up an especial expression upon the fall of immature and larval forms of life to this earth, and the necessity then of conceiving of some factor besides mere stationariness or suspension or stagnation, there are other data that are similar to data of falls of fishes.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000026_000000|That small snails, of a land species, had fallen near Redruth, Cornwall, july eighth eighteen eighty six, "during a heavy thunderstorm": roads and fields strewn with them, so that they were gathered up by the hatful: none seen to fall by the writer of this account: snails said to be "quite different to any previously known in this district."
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000027_000001|Another correspondent writes that he had heard of the supposed fall of snails: that he had supposed that all such stories had gone the way of witch stories; that, to his astonishment, he had read an account of this absurd story in a local newspaper of "great and deserved repute."
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000030_000000|"As I suspected," says this correspondent, "I found that the snails were of a familiar land species"--that they had been upon the ground "in the first place."
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000031_000000|He found that the snails had appeared after the rain: that "astonished rustics had jumped to the conclusion that they had fallen."
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000032_000000|He met one person who said that he had seen the snails fall.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000036_000001|From this cloud, fell a torrential rain, in which were hundreds of mussels.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000038_000001|It then came to life.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000038_000002|Gray snake, about a foot long.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000039_000001|Our quasi reasoning upon this subject applies to all segregations so far considered.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000041_000000|That, in memphis tennessee, january fifteenth eighteen seventy seven, rather strictly localized, or "in a space of two blocks," and after a violent storm in which the rain "fell in torrents," snakes were found.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000041_000001|They were crawling on sidewalks, in yards, and in streets, and in masses-but "none were found on roofs or any other elevation above ground" and "none were seen to fall."
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000042_000000|If you prefer to believe that the snakes had always been there, or had been upon the ground in the first place, and that it was only that something occurred to call special attention to them, in the streets of Memphis, january fifteenth eighteen seventy seven--why, that's sensible: that's the common sense that has been against us from the first.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000043_000000|It is not said whether the snakes were of a known species or not, but that "when first seen, they were of a dark brown, almost black." Blacksnakes, I suppose.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000044_000000|If we accept that these snakes did fall, even though not seen to fall by all the persons who were out sight seeing in a violent storm, and had not been in the streets crawling loose or in thick tangled masses, in the first place:
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000045_000000|If we try to accept that these snakes had been raised from some other part of this earth's surface in a whirlwind:
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000048_000000|Then, near the place of origin, there would have been a fall of heavier objects that had been snatched up with the snakes-stones, fence rails, limbs of trees.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000048_000001|Say that the snakes occupied the next gradation, and would be the next to fall.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000050_000002|The usual whirlwind explanation is given-"but in what locality snakes exist in such abundance is yet a mystery."
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000051_000000|This matter of enormousness of numbers suggests to me something of a migratory nature-but that snakes in the United States do not migrate in the month of January, if ever.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000052_000000|As to falls or flutterings of winged insects from the sky, prevailing notions of swarming would seem explanatory enough: nevertheless, in instances of ants, there are some peculiar circumstances.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000054_000000|Fall of fishes, june thirteenth eighteen eighty nine, in Holland; ants, august first eighteen eighty nine, Strasbourg; little toads, august second eighteen eighty nine, Savoy.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000056_000000|However, our expression will be:
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000057_000000|That wingless, larval forms of life, in numbers so enormous that migration from some place external to this earth is suggested, have fallen from the sky.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000059_000003|Almost positively were there no other forms of insect life upon these glaciers, and there was no vegetation to support insect life, except microscopic organisms. Nevertheless the description of this probably polymorphic species fits a description of larvae said to have fallen in Switzerland, and less definitely fits another description.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000059_000004|There is no opposition here, if our data of falls are clear.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000062_000001|The occurrence is considered a great mystery, because the worms could not have come up from the ground, inasmuch as the ground was frozen at the time, and because they were reported from other places, also, in Norway.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000065_000001|The writer thinks that the worms had been brought to the surface of the ground by rain, which had fallen previously.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000067_000001|The crust of the snow has been covered two or three times with worms resembling the ordinary cut worms.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000067_000003|Again two species, or polymorphism.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000067_000005|Riley, it was not polymorphism, "but two distinct species"--which, because of our data, we doubt.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000067_000006|One kind was larger than the other: color differences not distinctly stated.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000070_000000|Larvae thought to have been of beetles, but described as "caterpillars," not seen to fall, but found crawling on the snow, after a snowstorm, at Warsaw, january twentieth eighteen fifty.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000073_000000|That, upon the last of January, eighteen ninety, there fell, in a great tempest, in Switzerland, incalculable numbers of larvae: some black and some yellow; numbers so great that hosts of birds were attracted.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000074_000001|If an exclusionist says that, in January, larvae were precisely and painstakingly picked out of frozen ground, in incalculable numbers, he thinks of a tremendous force-disregarding its refinements: then if origin and precipitation be not far apart, what becomes of an infinitude of other debris, conceiving of no time for segregation?
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000075_000000|If he thinks of a long translation-all the way from the south of France to Upper Savoy, he may think then of a very fine sorting over by differences of specific gravity-but in such a fine selection, larvae would be separated from developed insects.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000076_000000|As to differences in specific gravity-the yellow larvae that fell in Switzerland January, eighteen ninety, were three times the size of the black larvae that fell with them.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000076_000001|In accounts of this occurrence, there is no denial of the fall.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000079_000000|There's no escape from it.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000079_000001|We'll be persecuted for it.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000079_000002|Take it or leave it-
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000080_000000|Genesistrine.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000081_000001|Whether it's the planet Genesistrine, or the moon, or a vast amorphous region super jacent to this earth, or an island in the Super Sargasso Sea, should perhaps be left to the researches of other super-or extra-geographers.
train-clean-100/3240/131232/3240_131232_000082_000000|Not one instance have we of tadpoles that have fallen to this earth.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000003_000001|You're not going to be a poet or a professor, but a packer, and the place to take a post-graduate course for that calling is in the packing house.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000003_000002|Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000003_000003|The first are all theory; the second are all practice.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000003_000004|It's the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000004_000000|There's a chance for everything you have learned, from Latin to poetry, in the packing business, though we don't use much poetry here except in our street car ads., and about the only time our products are given Latin names is when the State Board of Health condemns them.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000004_000001|So I think you'll find it safe to go short a little on the frills of education; if you want them bad enough you'll find a way to pick them up later, after business hours.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000005_000001|I didn't expect you to carry off all the education in sight-I knew you'd leave a little for the next fellow. But I wanted you to form good mental habits, just as I want you to have clean, straight physical ones.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000006_000001|The Lord let us in on the ground floor, gave us corner lots, and then started in to improve the adjacent property.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000006_000002|We didn't have to know fractions to figure out our profits.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000006_000004|There are sixteen ounces to the pound still, but two of them are wrapping paper in a good many stores.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000006_000005|And there're just as many chances for a fellow as ever, but they're a little gun shy, and you can't catch them by any such coarse method as putting salt on their tails.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000007_000000|Thirty years ago, you could take an old muzzle loader and knock over plenty of ducks in the city limits, and Chicago wasn't Cook County then, either.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000007_000001|You can get them still, but you've got to go to Kankakee and take a hammerless along.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000007_000005|What we used to throw away is our profit.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000007_000006|It takes doctors, lawyers, engineers, poets, and I don't know what, to run the business, and I reckon that improvements which call for parsons will be creeping in next.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000007_000007|Naturally, a young man who expects to hold his own when he is thrown in with a lot of men like these must be as clean and sharp as a hound's tooth, or some other fellow's simply going to eat him up.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000008_000001|That was a good many years ago when the house was a much smaller affair. Jim's father had a lot of money till he started out to buck the universe and corner wheat.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000008_000002|And the boy took all the fancy courses and trimmings at college.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000008_000003|The old man was mighty proud of Jim.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000008_000005|But old Durham found out what every one learns who gets his ambitions mixed up with number two red-that there's a heap of it lying around loose in the country.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000008_000006|The bears did quick work and kept the cash wheat coming in so lively that one settling day half a dozen of us had to get under the market to keep it from going to everlasting smash.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000009_000001|It didn't take him long to decide that the Lord would attend to keeping up the visible supply of poetry, and that he had better turn his attention to the stocks of mess pork.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000009_000003|I told him I was sorry, but I couldn't do anything for him then; that we were letting men go, but I'd keep him in mind, and so on.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000009_000004|The fact was that I didn't think a fellow with Jim's training would be much good, anyhow.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000009_000005|But Jim hung on-said he'd taken a fancy to the house, and wanted to work for it.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000009_000006|Used to call by about twice a week to find out if anything had turned up.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000010_000000|Finally, after about a month of this, he wore me down so that I stopped him one day as he was passing me on the street.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000010_000001|I thought I'd find out if he really was so red hot to work as he pretended to be; besides, I felt that perhaps I hadn't treated the boy just right, as I had delivered quite a jag of that wheat to his father myself.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000011_000000|"Hello, Jim," I called; "do you still want that job?"
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000013_000000|"Well, I tell you how it is, Jim," I said, looking up at him-he was one of those husky, lazy moving six footers-"I don't see any chance in the office, but I understand they can use another good, strong man in one of the loading gangs."
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000014_000000|I thought that would settle Jim and let me out, for it's no joke lugging beef, or rolling barrels and tierces a hundred yards or so to the cars. But Jim came right back at me with, "Done.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000015_000000|That sporty way of answering, as if he was closing a bet, made me surer than ever that he was not cut out for a butcher.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000015_000001|But I told him, and off he started hot foot to find the foreman.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000016_000000|I forgot all about Jim until about three months later, when his name was handed up to me for a new place and a raise in pay.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000016_000003|It was just as I thought.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000016_000005|So I raised his salary, and made him an assistant timekeeper and checker.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000016_000006|Jim kept at this for three or four months, until his feet began to hurt him, I guess, and then he was out of a job again.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000016_000007|It seems he had heard something of a new machine for registering the men, that did away with most of the timekeepers except the fellows who watched the machines, and he kept after the Superintendent until he got him to put them in.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000016_000008|Of course he claimed a raise again for effecting such a saving, and we just had to allow it.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000017_000002|That was just before the general adoption of typewriters, when they were still in the experimental stage.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000017_000004|The first thing I knew he was sicking the agents for the new typewriting machine on to me, and he kept them pounding away until they had made me give them a trial.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000017_000005|Then it was all up with Mister Jim's job again.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000018_000000|Jim made two trips without selling enough to keep them working overtime at the factory, and then he came into my office with a long story about how we were doing it all wrong.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000018_000001|Said we ought to go for the consumer by advertising, and make the trade come to us, instead of chasing it up.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000019_000000|That was so like Jim that I just laughed at first; besides, that sort of advertising was a pretty new thing then, and I was one of the old timers who didn't take any stock in it.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000019_000001|But Jim just kept plugging away at me between trips, until finally I took him off the road and told him to go ahead and try it in a small way.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000020_000003|And he found them.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000020_000004|Seemed as if I couldn't get away from Graham's Extract, and whenever I saw it I gagged, for I knew it was costing me money that wasn't coming back; but every time I started to draw in my horns Jim talked to me, and showed me where there was a fortune waiting for me just around the corner.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000022_000000|Graham's Extract started out by being something that you could make beef tea out of-that was all.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000022_000002|It seemed there was nothing you could cook that didn't need a dash of it.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000022_000003|He kept me between a chill and a sweat all the time.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000022_000005|I remember one picture he got out showing sixteen cows standing between something that looked like a letter press, and telling how every pound or so of Graham's Extract contained the juice squeezed from a herd of steers.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000023_000000|He broke out in a new place every day, and every time he broke out it cost the house money.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000024_000000|That was where I caught the connection between a college education and business.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000024_000002|The fellow who hasn't had the training may be just as smart, but he's apt to paw the air when he's reaching for ideas.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000025_000000|I suppose you're asking why, if I'm so hot for education, I'm against this post-graduate course.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000025_000001|But habits of thought ain't the only thing a fellow picks up at college.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000026_000000|I see you've been elected President of your class.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000026_000001|I'm glad the boys aren't down on you, but while the most popular man in his class isn't always a failure in business, being as popular as that takes up a heap of time.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000026_000002|I noticed, too, when you were home Easter, that you were running to sporty clothes and cigarettes.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000026_000003|There's nothing criminal about either, but I don't hire sporty clerks at all, and the only part of the premises on which cigarette smoking is allowed is the fertilizer factory.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000027_000000|I simply mention this in passing.
train-clean-100/3242/67153/3242_67153_000027_000001|I have every confidence in your ultimate good sense, and I guess you'll see the point without my elaborating with a meat ax my reasons for thinking that you've had enough college for the present.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000004_000002|I never sell goods without knowing where I can find them when I want them, and if these fellows try to put their forefeet in the trough, or start any shoving and crowding, they're going to find me forgetting my table manners, too.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000004_000003|For when it comes to funny business I'm something of a humorist myself.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000004_000004|And while I'm too old to run, I'm young enough to stand and fight.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000005_000000|First and last, a good many men have gone gunning for me, but they've always planned the obsequies before they caught the deceased.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000005_000002|But the first essential of a quiet funeral is a willing corpse.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000005_000003|And I'm still sitting up and taking nourishment.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000006_000001|The first can't harm you and the second can't help you.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000008_000002|She was mighty grateful, you bet, and I didn't see her again for a fortnight.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000008_000005|So I threw in half a dozen cows to provide the refreshments.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000010_000000|I was too busy that morning to quarrel, so I sent word that I would fix it up; and when I was driving by there next day the painters were hard at work on it.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000011_000000|Graham's Extract: It Makes the Weak Strong.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000017_000002|Take her by and large, she was a pretty cool, calm cucumber.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000022_000003|But next day she came again and paid down four bits, and Clytie reckoned that that ought to fetch Bud sure.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000024_000002|Had he joined the church before he started?
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000025_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000026_000000|Then he'd have to look downstairs for him.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000027_000002|That fetched old Buck Williams' ghost on the jump, you bet, but he said he hadn't laid eyes on Bud yet. They hauled the Sweet By and By with a drag net, but they couldn't get a rap from him.
train-clean-100/3242/67168/3242_67168_000028_000001|For right there the old lady got up with a mighty set expression around her lips and marched out, muttering that it was just as she had thought all along-Bud wasn't there.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000001_000000|seven
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000002_000001|If the professor didn't mind, things were about that far along.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000003_000001|The door closed.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000003_000002|Quillan came back to his chair.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000005_000000|"Oh?" Trigger picked up the Puya glass.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000005_000001|She looked into it.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000005_000003|"Moving where?" she asked.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000006_000001|"Tell you about that later."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000007_000003|Then she smiled at Quillan.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000008_000000|"Major," she said, "how about a tiny little refill on that Puya-about half?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000013_000003|"What are you people doing?
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000014_000000|Holati Tate said, "That's about it.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000014_000002|Each group works at its specialties, and the information gets correlated." He paused.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000014_000003|"The Federation Council-they're the ones we're working for directly-the Council's biggest concern is the very delicate political situation that's involved.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000014_000005|They may be right."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000015_000000|"In what way?" Trigger asked.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000016_000000|"Well, suppose that key unit is lost and stays lost.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000018_000001|There seem to be too many basic factors missing.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000018_000003|And that could take a few centuries."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000019_000000|"Well," Trigger admitted, "I could get along without the things indefinitely."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000020_000001|"Weird beasties! But-let's see.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000024_000002|Now there's considerable doubt."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000026_000000|"That," said Commissioner Tate, "is only a little of it."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000027_000001|Somebody's got it."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000028_000000|"Very likely."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000029_000001|"Fayle's ship might have got wrecked accidentally, of course.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000031_000000|There was a little pause.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000032_000000|"That's a point the Council is nervous about," he said.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000033_000002|Right there on Harvest Moon!"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000034_000001|"It was Fayle."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000035_000002|"Holati, could those things ever become as valuable as people keep saying?
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000036_000002|What it seems to boil down to is that they might.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000036_000003|Which would be enough to tempt a lot of people to gamble very high for a chance to get control of the plasmoid process-and we know definitely that some people are gambling for it."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000039_000000|Trigger glanced down.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000039_000002|"You know," she said uncomfortably, "old Repulsive moved again while we were talking!
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000040_000002|That was around five minutes ago."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000041_000002|He does feel pleasant to touch.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000041_000003|Kitty cat pleasant!
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000041_000004|How did you get a lead through him?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000042_000002|It was just lying there in a cubicle.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000043_000001|"Wonderful!
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000044_000000|"Mantelish began to get results with it," the Commissioner said.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000044_000001|"One experiment was rather startling.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000044_000003|Nothing happened until he had finished.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000044_000004|Then he touched the plasmoid, and it fed the whole charge back to him. Apparently it was a fairly hefty dose."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000045_000000|She laughed delightedly.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000045_000001|"Good for Repulsive!
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000045_000002|Stood up for his rights, eh?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000046_000001|He became more cautious with it after that.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000046_000002|And then he learned something that should be important.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000048_000000|"Right.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000048_000002|He did the same thing in one more place and then quit.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000049_000002|What does Mantelish make of it?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000050_000001|The big one induces plasmoid activity, the little one modifies it.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000050_000003|But it seems to be more than a spare-which brings us to that first lead we got.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000051_000000|"When was that?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000052_000001|Before you and I left Manon.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000052_000006|The Feds got there, fast, and dead brained the raider.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000053_000000|"Uh huh," Trigger said, lost in thought.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000053_000003|Did they want to kill it or grab it?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000054_000000|The Commissioner looked at her.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000054_000001|"Grab it, was the dead brain report. Why?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000055_000000|"Just wondering.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000055_000001|Would make a difference, wouldn't it?
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000055_000002|Did they try again?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000057_000000|"And what's everybody concluded from that?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000058_000001|So they need it."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000059_000000|"In connection with the key unit?" Trigger asked.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000060_000000|"Probably."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000062_000002|Mantelish talks of something he calls proximity influence.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000063_000001|Right here on the table.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000064_000001|"Around forty.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000064_000003|It didn't make much difference.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000064_000005|Very expensive hired hands, but still just that.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000064_000006|Most of them didn't know a thing we could use.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000067_000000|There was a pause.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000068_000001|"It was in connection with our second lead."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000070_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000072_000001|"We haven't found out yet.
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000073_000000|"Is that one of the things you can't tell me about?"
train-clean-100/3242/8112/3242_8112_000074_000000|"I can tell you most of what I know at the moment," said the Commissioner.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000001_000000|Chapter eleven
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000002_000000|Administration Terrorism
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000003_000000|The Administration tried in another way to stop picketing.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000004_000001|So thought the Administration! To their great surprise, however, in the face of that reckless and extreme sentence, the longest picket line of the entire campaign formed at the White House in the late afternoon of november tenth.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000004_000002|Forty one women picketed in protest against this wanton persecution of their leader, as well as against the delay in passing the amendment.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000004_000003|Face to face with an embarrassing number of prisoners the Administration used its wits and decided to reduce the number to a manageable size before imprisoning this group.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000004_000004|Failing of that they tried still another way out.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000005_000000|In order to show how widely representative of the nation this group of pickets was, I give its personnel complete:
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000006_000000|First Group
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000007_000000|New York mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000009_000000|Elizabeth Hamilton, mrs Ella o Guilford, New York City; Miss Amy Juengling, Miss Hattie Kruger, Buffalo.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000010_000000|Second Group
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000011_000000|Massachusetts mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000011_000002|George Scott, Montclair. Pennsylvania mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000011_000003|Lawrence Lewis, Miss Elizabeth McShane, Miss Katherine Lincoln, Philadelphia.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000012_000000|Third Group
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000013_000000|California mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000013_000001|William Kent, Kentfield. Oregon Miss Alice Gram, Miss Betty Gram, Portland. Utah mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000013_000003|Eva Decker, Colorado Springs, mrs Genevieve Williams, Manitou.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000014_000000|Fourth Group
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000015_000001|Charles w Barnes, Indianapolis. Oklahoma mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000015_000002|Kate Stafford, Oklahoma City. Minnesota mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000015_000003|j h Short, Minneapolis. Iowa mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000016_000000|Fifth Group
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000017_000000|New York Miss Lucy Burns, New York City. District of Columbia mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000017_000001|Harvey Wiley. Louisiana mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000017_000002|Alice m Cosu, New Orleans. Maryland Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton; Miss Julia Emory, Baltimore. Florida mrs
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000018_000000|There were exceptionally dramatic figures in this group.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000020_000000|health but militant in spirit, said she had come to take her place with the women struggling for liberty in the same spirit that her revolutionary ancestor, Eliza Zane, had carried bullets to the fighters in the war for independence.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000022_000002|But their minds were too full of the political aspect of our offense to conceal it. "The truth of the situation is that the court has not been given power to meet it," the judge lamented.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000022_000003|"It is very, very puzzling I find you guilty of the offense charged, but will take the matter of sentence under advisement."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000024_000003|And so the forty one women returned to the White House gates to resume' their picketing.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000024_000004|They stood guard several minutes before the police, taken unawares, could summon sufficient force to arrest them, and commandeer enough cars to carry them to police headquarters.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000026_000000|out: "There was no disorder.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000026_000002|There were frequent references to the pluck of the silent sentinels."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000027_000000|The following morning the women were ordered by Judge Mullowny to "come back on Friday.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000027_000001|I am not yet prepared to try the case."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000028_000001|It had to stop picketing.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000028_000002|Whether this was done legally or illegally, logically or illogically, clumsily or dexterously, was of secondary importance.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000028_000003|Picketing must be stopped!
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000029_000001|Again they were arrested.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000029_000004|Miss Burns received six months.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000030_000001|He urged her, however, to pay her fine, hinting that jail might be too severe on her and might bring on death.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000033_000000|their sentences in the District Jail, where they would join Miss Paul and her companions, all save one were immediately sent to Occoquan workhouse.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000034_000000|It had been agreed that the demand to be treated as political prisoners, inaugurated by previous pickets, should be continued, and that failing to secure such rights they would unanimously refuse to eat food or do prison labor.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000035_000000|Any words of mine would be inadequate to tell the story of the prisoners' reception at the Occoquan workhouse.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000035_000001|The following is the statement of mrs Nolan, dictated upon her release, in the presence of mr Dudley Field Malone:
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000038_000000|I saw men begin to come upon the porch, but I didn't think anything about it.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000039_000000|Suddenly the door literally burst open and Whittaker burst in like a tornado; some men followed him.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000039_000001|We could see a crowd of them on the porch.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000039_000002|They were not in uniform.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000039_000003|They looked as much like tramps as anything.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000039_000005|mrs Lewis stood up.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000039_000007|She had hardly begun to speak, saying we demanded to be treated as political prisoners, when Whittaker said:
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000041_000000|A man sprang at me and caught me by the shoulder.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000041_000001|I am used to remembering a bad foot, which I have had for years, and I remember saying, "I'll come with you; don't drag me;
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000043_000001|I didn't have my feet on the ground.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000043_000002|I guess that saved me.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000044_000004|They were perfectly dark.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000044_000006|Mine was filthy.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000046_000000|I saw Dorothy Day brought in.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000046_000001|She is a frail girl.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000047_000001|Then I lost my balance and fell against the iron bed.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000047_000005|The walls and floors were brick or stone cemented over.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000047_000009|Her head struck the iron bed.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000047_000010|We thought she was dead.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000049_000000|I replied, "I am here."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000051_000000|mrs Cosu called out, "They have just thrown mrs Lewis in here, too."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000052_000001|We were so terrified we kept very still.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000053_000001|I went first.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000053_000002|I bade them both good by.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000055_000000|"You're posted," said i
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000057_000000|I said, "no"
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000060_000000|I think I made him think.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000060_000001|He motioned to the guard.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000061_000000|"Get a doctor to examine her," he said.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000062_000000|In the hospital cottage I was met by mrs Herndon and taken to a little room with two white beds and a hospital table.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000064_000000|I took off my coat and hat.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000067_000000|before.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000067_000005|They brought that, and I noticed they did not lock the door.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000067_000006|A negro trusty was there.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000067_000007|I fell back again into the same stupor.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000068_000000|The next day they brought me some toast and a plate of food, the first I had been offered in over thirty six hours.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000068_000002|It made me sick . . . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000068_000003|I was released on the sixth day and passed the dispensary as I came out.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000068_000006|I burst into tears as they led me away.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000070_000000|The day following their commitment to Occoquan mr O'Brien, of counsel, was directed to see the women, to ascertain their condition.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000070_000002|mr O'Brien was denied admission and forced to come back to Washington without any report whatsoever.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000071_000002|Admission was denied to all of them.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000072_000001|He brought news that unknown tortures were going on.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000075_000000|This week of brutality, which rivaled old Russia, if it did not outstrip it, was almost the blackest page in the Administration's cruel fight against women.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000076_000000|Here are some of the scraps of Miss Burn's day by day log, smuggled out of the workhouse.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000076_000001|Miss Burns is so gifted a writer that I feel apologetic for using these scraps in their raw form, but I know she will forgive me.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000077_000000|wednesday november fourteenth.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000077_000001|Demanded to see Superintendent Whittaker. Request refused.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000077_000002|mrs Herndon, the matron, said we would have to wait up all night.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000077_000004|He refused to hear our demand for political rights. Seized by guards from behind, flung off my feet, and shot out of the room.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000077_000005|All of us were seized by men guards and dragged to cells in men's part.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000077_000008|I was handcuffed all night and manacled to the bars part of the time for asking the others how they were, and was threatened with a straitjacket and a buckle gag.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000078_000000|thursday november sixteenth . . . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000078_000001|Asked for Whittaker, who came.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000078_000003|She is a little girl.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000078_000005|I was told to "shut up," and was again threatened with a straitjacket and a buckle gag.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000080_000001|Of the experience mrs Lewis wrote:-
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000081_000000|I was seized and laid on my back, where five people held me, a young colored woman leaping upon my knees, which seemed to break under the weight.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000081_000004|Finally the tube was withdrawn.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000081_000007|Previous to the feeding I had been forcibly examined by dr Gannon, I protesting that I wished a woman physician.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000082_000000|Of this experience, Miss Burns wrote on tiny scraps of paper:
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000002|Went there and found our clothes.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000003|Told we were to go to Washington.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000005|When we were dressed, dr Gannon appeared, and said he wished to examine us.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000006|Both refused.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000009|dr Gannon told me then I must be fed.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000010|Was stretched on bed, two doctors, matron, four colored prisoners present, Whittaker in hall.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000014|I turned and twisted my head all I could, but he managed to push it up.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000016|Tube drawn out covered with blood.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000017|Operation leaves one very sick.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000083_000018|Food dumped directly into stomach feels like a ball
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000085_000001|Left nostril, throat and muscles of neck very sore all night.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000085_000002|After this I was brought into the hospital in an ambulance.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000085_000004|Slept hardly at all.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000085_000005|This morning dr Ladd appeared with his tube.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000085_000009|We hear them outside now cracking eggs.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000086_000001|Each one was called to the mat and interrogated.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000087_000000|"Will you work?"-"Will you put on prison clothes?"
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000087_000001|"Will you eat?"-"Will you stop picketing?"-"Will you go without paying your fine and promise never to picket again?"
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000088_000001|The answer was definite and final. Their resistance was superb.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000089_000000|"One of the few warning incidents during the gray days of our imprisonment was the unexpected sympathy and understanding of one of the government doctors," wrote Miss Betty Gram of portland oregon.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000090_000000|"'This is the most magnificent sacrifice I have ever seen made for a principle [he said I never believed that American women would care so much about freedom.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000090_000003|She was fed after three days.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000090_000004|You girls are on your ninth day of hunger strike and your condition is critical.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000090_000005|It is a great pity that such women should be subjected to this treatment.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000090_000006|I hope that you will carry your point and force the hand of the government soon'."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000092_000001|Failing to secure this, she went daily to mr Tumulty's office asking if he himself would not intercede for her.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000093_000000|mrs john Winters Brannan was among the women who endured the "night of terror." mrs Brannan is the daughter of Charles a Dana, founder of the New York Sun and that great American patriot of liberty who was a trusted associate -and counselor of Abraham Lincoln.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000093_000002|This was her second term of imprisonment. She wrote a comprehensive affidavit of her experience.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000096_000002|The superintendent shouted to me, "Oh, no, you won't; don't talk about protest; I won't have any of that nonsense."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000098_000000|During all of this time, . . . Superintendent Whittaker was . . . directing the whole attack. . . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000102_000001|Instantly Superintendent Whittaker rushed forward, shouting at me, "Stop that; not another word from your
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000104_000000|mouth, or I will handcuff you, gag you and put you in a straitjacket. . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000107_000002|The guards acted brutal in the extreme, incited to their brutal conduct towards us, . . , by the superintendent.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000107_000003|I thought of the offense with which we had been charged,-merely that of obstructing traffic,-and felt that the treatment that we had received was out of all proportion to the offense with which we were charged, and that the superintendent, the matron and guards would not have dared to act towards us as they had acted unless they relied upon the support of higher authorities.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000107_000004|It seemed to me that everything had been done from the time we reached the workhouse to terrorize us, and my fear lest the extreme of outrage would be worked upon the young girls of our party became intense.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000108_000000|It is impossible for me to describe the terror of that night. . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000111_000001|I could not sleep, having a sense of constant danger . . . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000112_000005|The effect of this upon our nerves can better be imagined than described . . . .
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000117_000001|We decided to take the only course open to obtain a writ of habeas corpus.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000117_000004|This conservative, Southern judge said of the petition for the writ, "It is shocking and blood curdling."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000118_000001|Although the writ had been applied for in the greatest secrecy, a detective suddenly appeared to accompany mr O'Brien from Washington to Norfolk, during his stay in Norfolk, and back to Washington.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000118_000002|Telephone wires at our headquarters were tapped.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000119_000000|It was evident that the Administration was cognizant of every move in this procedure before it was executed.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000120_000000|"If you will only drop these proceedings, I can absolutely guarantee you that the prisoners will be removed from the workhouse to the jail in a week:"
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000121_000000|"In a week?
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000121_000002|"We cannot wait."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000122_000000|"But I tell you, you must not proceed."
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000123_000000|"Why this mysterious week?" we asked.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000123_000002|Why not instantly?"
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000127_000000|weakened condition and before the end of the week they hoped to increase their facilities for forcible feeding at the workhouse. They also wished to conceal the treatment of the women, the exposure of which would be inevitable in any court proceedings. And lastly, the Administration was anxious to avoid opening up the whole question of the legality of the very existence of the workhouse in Virginia.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000128_000000|Persons convicted in the District for acts committed in violation of District law were transported to Virginia alien territory to serve their terms.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000128_000003|They contended that sentence imposed upon a person for unlawful acts in the District should be executed in the District.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000129_000001|The Administration was alarmed.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000130_000000|We quickened our pace.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000131_000000|We began at once to serve the writ.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000131_000004|Counsel sought a deputy.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000131_000006|None could be reached by telephone.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000134_000000|the workhouse to the District, where he kept himself discreetly hidden for several days.
train-clean-100/3259/158083/3259_158083_000134_000002|All failed.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000001_000000|The Story of Roc, the Brazilian
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000004_000004|This story, however, I regard with a great deal of doubt; it has been told of Saladin and many other wicked and famous men, but I do not believe it is an easy thing to frighten a child into going to sleep.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000005_000004|It was his custom in the daytime to walk about, carrying a drawn cutlass, resting easily upon his arm, edge up, very much as a fine gentleman carries his high silk hat, and any one who should impertinently stare or endeavor to quell his high spirits in any other way, would probably have felt the edge of that cutlass descending rapidly through his physical organism.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000008_000004|There is nothing horrible that has ever been written or told about the buccaneer life, which could not have been told about Roc, the Brazilian.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000008_000005|He was a typical pirate.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000012_000000|When the pirate captain and his companions were brought before the Governor, he made no pretence of putting them to trial.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000012_000001|Buccaneers were outlawed by the Spanish, and were considered as wild beasts to be killed without mercy wherever caught.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000026_000000|But this downfall of a hero simply shows that Esquemeling, although he was a member of the piratical body, and was proud to consider himself a buccaneer, did not understand the true nature of a pirate.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000026_000001|Under the brutality, the cruelty, the dishonesty, and the recklessness of the sea robbers of those days, there was nearly always meanness and cowardice.
train-clean-100/332/128985/332_128985_000026_000002|Roc, as we have said in the beginning of this sketch, was a typical pirate; under certain circumstances he showed himself to have all those brave and savage qualities which Esquemeling esteemed and revered, and under other circumstances he showed those other qualities which Esquemeling despised, but which are necessary to make up the true character of a pirate.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000004_000000|PROLOGUE
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000005_000001|The clever Boccaccio talks with flattering courtesy to all women, both at the beginning and at the end of his opulent book.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000005_000002|The great Cervantes too, an old man in agony, but still genial and full of delicate wit, drapes the motley spectacle of his lifelike writings with the costly tapestry of a preface, which in itself is a beautiful and romantic painting.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000007_000000|But what shall my spirit bestow upon its offspring, which, like its parent, is as poor in poesy as it is rich in love?
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000008_000000|Just one word, a parting trope: It is not alone the royal eagle who may despise the croaking of the raven; the swan, too, is proud and takes no note of it.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000008_000001|Nothing concerns him except to keep clean the sheen of his white pinions.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000010_000000|CONFESSIONS OF AN AWKWARD MAN
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000011_000000|JULIUS TO LUCINDA
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000012_000001|A fresh, warm breath of life and love fanned me, rustling and stirring in all the branches of the verdant grove.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000012_000002|I gazed and enjoyed it all, the rich green, the white blossoms and the golden fruit.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000012_000003|And in my mind's eye I saw, too, in many forms, my one and only Beloved, now as a little girl, now as a young lady in the full bloom and energy of love and womanhood, and now as a dignified mother with her demure babe in her arms.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000012_000004|I breathed the spring and I saw clearly all about me everlasting youth.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000013_000010|And yet with calm presence of mind I watched for the slightest sign of joy in you, so that not one should escape me to impair the harmony.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000013_000011|I not only enjoyed, but I felt and enjoyed the enjoyment.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000014_000001|And so, alas, it is; and I should indeed feel very disconsolate about it if I could not cherish the hope that at least a part of it may soon be realized.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000014_000003|Well, I was standing by the window and looking out into the open; the morning certainly deserves to be called beautiful, the air is still and quite warm, and the verdure here before me is fresh.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000014_000004|And even as the wide land undulates in hills and dales, so the calm, broad, silvery river winds along in great bends and sweeps, until it and the lover's fantasy, cradled upon it like the swan, pass away into the distance and lose themselves in the immeasurable.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000014_000006|All the rest is readily explained by psychology.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000015_000001|I was just on the point of unfolding to you in clear and precise periods the exact and straightforward history of our frivolities and of my dulness.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000015_000002|I was going to expound to you, step by step, in accordance with natural laws, the misunderstandings that attack the hidden centre of the loveliest existence, and to confess to you the manifold effects of my awkwardness.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000015_000004|For me and for this book, however, for my love of it and for its inner development, there is no better adaptation of means to ends than this, namely, that right at the start I begin by abolishing what we call orderly arrangement, keep myself entirely aloof from it, frankly claiming and asserting the right to a charming confusion.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000015_000005|This is all the more necessary, inasmuch as the material which our life and love offers to my spirit and to my pen is so incessantly progressive and so inflexibly systematic.
train-clean-100/3374/298025/3374_298025_000016_000000|The selection is not difficult.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000002_000001|How faithfully and how simply you have sketched it, the old and daring idea of my dearest and most intimate purpose!
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000002_000003|Only here I see myself in harmonious completeness.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000002_000004|For your spirit, too, stands distinct and perfect before me, not as an apparition which appears and fades away again, but as one of the forms that endure forever.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000002_000005|It looks at me joyously out of its deep eyes and opens its arms to embrace my spirit.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000002_000006|The holiest and most evanescent of those delicate traits and utterances of the soul, which to one who does not know the highest seem like bliss itself, are merely the common atmosphere of our spiritual breath and life.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000003_000000|The words are weak and vague.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000003_000002|A great future beckons me on into the immeasurable; each idea develops a countless progeny.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000003_000003|The extremes of unbridled gayety and of quiet presentiment live together within me.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000003_000004|I remember everything, even the griefs, and all my thoughts that have been and are to be bestir themselves and arise before me.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000000|Oh, I should have thought it all a fairy tale that there could be such joy, such love as I now feel, and such a woman, who could be my most tender Beloved, my best companion, and at the same time a perfect friend.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000001|For it was in friendship especially that I sought for what I wanted, and for what I never hoped to find in any woman.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000004|For you all feeling is infinite and eternal; you recognize no separations, your being is an indivisible unity.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000005|That is why you are so serious and so joyous, why you regard everything in such a large and indifferent way; that is why you love me, all of me, and will surrender no part of me to the state, to posterity, or to manly pleasures.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000006|I am all yours; we are closest to each other and we understand each other.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000007|You accompany me through all the stages of manhood, from the utmost wantonness to the most refined spirituality.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000004_000008|In you alone I first saw true pride and true feminine humility.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000005_000000|The most extreme suffering, if it is only surrounded, without separating us, would seem to me nothing but a charming antithesis to the sublime frivolity of our marriage.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000005_000006|Gladly and lovingly would you descend into the burning abyss, even as the women of India do, impelled by a mad law, the cruel, constraining purpose of which desecrates and destroys the most delicate sanctities of the will.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000006_000000|On the other side, perhaps, longing will be more completely realized. I often wonder over it; every thought, and whatever else is fashioned within us, seems to be complete in itself, as single and indivisible as a person.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000006_000001|One thing crowds out another, and that which just now was near and present soon sinks back into obscurity.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000006_000002|And then again come moments of sudden and universal clarity, when several such spirits of the inner world completely fuse together into a wonderful wedlock, and many a forgotten bit of our ego shines forth in a new light and even illuminates the darkness of the future with its bright lustre.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000006_000005|And for him there come, too, moments of the profoundest and fullest consciousness, when all lives fall together and mingle and separate in a different way.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000006_000006|The time is coming when we two shall behold in one spirit that we are blossoms of one plant, or petals of one flower.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000000|Nothing can part us; and certainly any separation would only draw me more powerfully to you.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000001|I bethink me how at our last embrace, you vehemently resisting, I burst into simultaneous tears and laughter.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000003|But then my longing grew again irresistible, until on its wings I sank back into your arms.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000004|Suppose words or a human being to create a misunderstanding between us!
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000005|The poignant grief would be transient and quickly resolve itself into complete harmony.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000006|How could separation separate us, when presence itself is to us, as it were, too present?
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000007|We have to cool and mitigate the consuming fire with jests, and thus for us the most witty of the forms and situations of joy is also the most beautiful.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000008_000008|One among all is at once the wittiest and the loveliest: when we exchange roles and with childish delight try to see who can best imitate the other; whether you succeed best with the tender vehemence of a man, or I with the yielding devotion of a woman.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000009_000000|That was my dithyrambic fantasy on the loveliest situation in the loveliest of worlds.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000010_000000|I wanted first to demonstrate to you that there exists in the original and essential nature of man a certain awkward enthusiasm which likes to utter boldly that which is delicate and holy, and sometimes falls headlong over its own honest zeal and speaks a word that is divine to the point of coarseness.
train-clean-100/3374/298026/3374_298026_000011_000001|Meantime I will by no means make common cause with them, but will rather excuse and defend my liberty and audacity by means of the example of the little innocent Wilhelmina, since she too is a lady whom I love most tenderly.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000003_000000|Since the last letter from your sister-it is three days now-I have undergone the sufferings of an entire life, from the bright sunlight of glowing youth to the pale moonlight of sagacious old age.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000003_000001|Every little detail she wrote about your sickness, taken with what I had already gleaned from the doctor and had observed myself, confirmed my suspicion that it was far more dangerous than you thought; indeed no longer dangerous, but decided, past hope.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000004_000001|Everything was already past.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000004_000002|For a long time you had been wrapt in the bosom of the cold earth; flowers had started to grow on the beloved grave, and my tears had already begun to flow more gently. Mute and alone I stood, and saw nothing but the features I had loved and the sweet glances of the expressive eyes.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000004_000004|Then of a sudden the different memories all became confused; with unbelievable rapidity the outlines changed, reassumed their first form, and transformed themselves again and again, until the wild vision vanished.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000006_000002|And for that reason I suspect-if I am not mistaken, I have already imparted my suspicion to you-that the next life will be larger, and in the good as well as in the bad, stronger, wilder, bolder and more tremendous.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000008_000002|I hated everything earthly and was glad to see it all punished and destroyed.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000008_000003|I felt so alone and so strangely.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000008_000004|And as a delicate spirit often grows melancholy in the very lap of happiness over its own joy, and at the very acme of its existence becomes conscious of the futility of it all, so did I regard my suffering with mysterious pleasure.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000009_000003|It seemed to me that all was right so, and that your unavoidable death was nothing more than a gentle awakening after a light sleep.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000010_000001|Serious and yet charming, quite you and yet no longer you, the divine form irradiated by a wonderful light!
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000012_000000|Finally I became conscious that it was now nearly over.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000012_000002|My career was ended, but not completed.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000012_000004|I should have despaired, had I not perceived and idolized both in you, gracious Madonna, and you and your gentle godliness in myself.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000014_000000|Then I became conscious that I had been dreaming; I shuddered at all the significant suggestions and similarities, and stood anxiously by the boundless deep of this inward truth.
train-clean-100/3374/298032/3374_298032_000016_000000|And then I now know that death can also be felt as beautiful and sweet.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000002_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000003_000000|THE ADVENTURE OF THE CART
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000005_000000|"For thus it chanced one morn when all the court, Green suited, but with plumes that mock'd the May, Had been, their wont, a maying"
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000007_000001|So upon the morn they took their horses with the queen, and rode a maying in woods and meadows, as it pleased them, in great joy and delight.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000007_000003|Now this knight, Sir Maleagans, learned the queen's purpose, and that she had no men of arms with her but the ten noble knights all arrayed in green for maying; so he prepared him twenty men of arms, and a hundred archers, to take captive the queen and her knights.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000008_000000|"In the merry month of May, In a morn at break of day, With a troop of damsels playing, The Queen, forsooth, went forth a maying."
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000009_000000|--Old Song.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000010_000000|So when the queen had mayed, and all were bedecked with herbs, mosses, and flowers in the best manner and freshest, right then came out of a wood Sir Maleagans with eightscore men well harnessed, and bade the queen and her knights yield them prisoners.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000010_000002|Wilt thou shame thyself?
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000010_000004|Then they lashed together with swords till several were smitten to the earth.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000002|And when Sir Maleagans saw him so flee, he understood that it was by the queen's commandment for to warn Sir Launcelot.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000003|Then they that were best horsed chased him, and shot at him, but the child went from them all.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000005|And by the way Sir Maleagans laid in ambush the best archers that he had to wait for Sir Launcelot.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000007|Then within a while he came to a wood where was a narrow way; and there the archers were laid in ambush.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000008|And they shot at him and smote his horse so that he fell.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000009|Then Sir Launcelot left his horse and went on foot, but there lay so many ditches and hedges betwixt the archers and him that he might not meddle with them.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000010|"Alas! for shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! but it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward." Then Sir Launcelot went awhile and he was exceedingly cumbered by his armor, his shield, and his spear, and all that belonged to him.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000011_000011|Then by chance there came by him a cart that came thither to fetch wood.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000012_000000|Now at this time carts were little used except for carrying offal and for conveying criminals to execution.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000012_000001|But Sir Launcelot took no thought of anything but the necessity of haste for the purpose of rescuing the queen; so he demanded of the carter that he should take him in and convey him as speedily as possible for a liberal reward.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000012_000002|The carter consented, and Sir Launcelot placed himself in the cart and only lamented that with much jolting he made but little progress.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000012_000003|Then it happened Sir Gawain passed by and seeing an armed knight travelling in that unusual way he drew near to see who it might be.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000012_000004|Then Sir Launcelot told him how the queen had been carried off, and how, in hastening to her rescue, his horse had been disabled and he had been compelled to avail himself of the cart rather than give up his enterprise.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000012_000005|Then Sir Gawain said, "Surely it is unworthy of a knight to travel in such sort;" but Sir Launcelot heeded him not.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000013_000000|At nightfall they arrived at a castle and the lady thereof came out at the head of her damsels to welcome Sir Gawain.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000013_000001|But to admit his companion, whom she supposed to be a criminal, or at least a prisoner, it pleased her not; however, to oblige Sir Gawain, she consented.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000013_000002|At supper Sir Launcelot came near being consigned to the kitchen and was only admitted to the lady's table at the earnest solicitation of Sir Gawain.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000013_000003|Neither would the damsels prepare a bed for him.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000013_000004|He seized the first he found unoccupied and was left undisturbed.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000001|Sir Gawain thought it might be so, and became equally eager to depart.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000002|The lady of the castle supplied Sir Launcelot with a horse and they traversed the plain at full speed.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000003|They learned from some travellers whom they met, that there were two roads which led to the castle of Sir Maleagans.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000005|As evening approached he was met by a young and sportive damsel, who gayly proposed to him a supper at her castle.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000006|The knight, who was hungry and weary, accepted the offer, though with no very good grace.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000007|He followed the lady to her castle and ate voraciously of her supper, but was quite impenetrable to all her amorous advances.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000014_000009|The next day the fairy brought him on his road, and before parting gave him a ring, which she told him would by its changes of color disclose to him all enchantments, and enable him to subdue them.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000015_000000|Sir Launcelot pursued his journey, without being much incommoded except by the taunts of travellers, who all seemed to have learned, by some means, his disgraceful drive in the cart.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000015_000001|One, more insolent than the rest, had the audacity to interrupt him during dinner, and even to risk a battle in support of his pleasantry.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000015_000002|Launcelot, after an easy victory, only doomed him to be carted in his turn.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000016_000000|At night he was received at another castle, with great apparent hospitality, but found himself in the morning in a dungeon, and loaded with chains.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000016_000001|Consulting his ring, and finding that this was an enchantment, he burst his chains, seized his armor in spite of the visionary monsters who attempted to defend it, broke open the gates of the tower, and continued his journey.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000016_000002|At length his progress was checked by a wide and rapid torrent, which could only be passed on a narrow bridge, on which a false step would prove his destruction.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000016_000005|Launcelot was enfeebled by his wounds, and fought not with his usual spirit, and the contest for a time was doubtful; till Guenever exclaimed, "Ah, Launcelot! my knight, truly have I been told that thou art no longer worthy of me!" These words instantly revived the drooping knight; he resumed at once his usual superiority, and soon laid at his feet his haughty adversary.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000017_000000|He was on the point of sacrificing him to his resentment, when Guenever, moved by the entreaties of Brademagus, ordered him to withhold the blow, and he obeyed.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000018_000000|It seems that the story of the abominable cart, which haunted Launcelot at every step, had reached the ears of Sir Kay, who had told it to the queen, as a proof that her knight must have been dishonored.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000018_000001|But Guenever had full leisure to repent the haste with which she had given credit to the tale.
train-clean-100/3436/172162/3436_172162_000018_000002|Three days elapsed, during which Launcelot wandered without knowing where he went, till at last he began to reflect that his mistress had doubtless been deceived by misrepresentation, and that it was his duty to set her right.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000003_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000004_000000|PERCEVAL
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000000|The father and two elder brothers of Perceval had fallen in battle or tournaments, and hence, as the last hope of his family, his mother retired with him into a solitary region, where he was brought up in total ignorance of arms and chivalry.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000001|He was allowed no weapon but "a lyttel Scots spere," which was the only thing of all "her lordes faire gere" that his mother carried to the wood with her.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000002|In the use of this he became so skilful, that he could kill with it not only the animals of the chase for the table, but even birds on the wing.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000003|At length, however, Perceval was roused to a desire of military renown by seeing in the forest five knights who were in complete armor.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000004|He said to his mother, "Mother, what are those yonder?" "They are angels, my son," said she.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000005|"By my faith, I will go and become an angel with them." And Perceval went to the road and met them.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000008|"What is this?" demanded Perceval, touching the saddle.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000005_000010|Then he asked about all the accoutrements which he saw upon the men and the horses, and about the arms, and what they were for, and how they were used.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000006_000000|Then Perceval returned to his mother, and said to her, "Mother, those were not angels, but honorable knights." Then his mother swooned away.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000006_000001|And Perceval went to the place where they kept the horses that carried firewood and provisions for the castle, and he took a bony, piebald horse, which seemed to him the strongest of them.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000006_000003|When he came again to his mother, the countess had recovered from her swoon.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000006_000004|"My son," said she, "desirest thou to ride forth?" "Yes, with thy leave," said he.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000006_000008|If thou see a fair jewel, win it, for thus shalt thou acquire fame; yet freely give it to another, for thus thou shalt obtain praise.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000006_000009|If thou see a fair woman, pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love."
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000007_000000|After this discourse Perceval mounted the horse and taking a number of sharp pointed sticks in his hand he rode forth.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000007_000001|And he rode far in the woody wilderness without food or drink.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000007_000002|At last he came to an opening in the wood where he saw a tent, and as he thought it might be a church he said his pater noster to it.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000007_000003|And he went towards it; and the door of the tent was open.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000000|Perceval journeyed on till he arrived at Arthur's court.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000002|For when her page was serving the queen with a golden goblet, this knight struck the arm of the page and dashed the wine in the queen's face and over her stomacher. Then he said, "If any have boldness to avenge this insult to Guenever, let him follow me to the meadow." So the knight took his horse and rode to the meadow, carrying away the golden goblet.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000004|For it seemed to them that no one would have ventured on so daring an outrage unless he possessed such powers, through magic or charms, that none could be able to punish him.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000005|Just then, behold, Perceval entered the hall upon the bony, piebald horse, with his uncouth trappings.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000010|And the king's fool [Footnote: A fool was a common appendage of the courts of those days when this romance was written.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000011|A fool was the ornament held in next estimation to a dwarf.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000012|He wore a white dress with a yellow bonnet, and carried a bell or bawble in his hand.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000014|Now this damsel came up to Perceval and told him, smiling, that if he lived he would be one of the bravest and best of knights.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000015|"Truly," said Kay, "thou art ill taught to remain a year at Arthur's court, with choice of society, and smile on no one, and now before the face of Arthur and all his knights to call such a man as this the flower of knighthood;" and he gave her a box on the ear, that she fell senseless to the ground.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000017|So he turned his horse's head toward the meadow.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000018|And when he came there, the knight was riding up and down, proud of his strength and valor and noble mien.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000008_000020|"Ha, ha, lad!" said Perceval, "my mother's servants were not used to play with me in this wise; so thus will I play with thee." And he threw at him one of his sharp pointed sticks, and it struck him in the eye, and came out at the back of his head, so that he fell down lifeless.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000009_000001|Sir Owain unfastened the armor, and helped Perceval to put it on, and taught him how to put his foot in the stirrup, and use the spur; for Perceval had never used stirrup nor spur, but rode without saddle, and urged on his horse with a stick.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000010_000000|And Perceval rode forward.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000010_000001|And he came to a lake on the side of which was a fair castle, and on the border of the lake he saw a hoary headed man sitting upon a velvet cushion, and his attendants were fishing in the lake.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000010_000005|When it was time the tables were set, and they went to meat.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000010_000007|And when all the company saw this they began to weep and lament.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000010_000008|But for all that, the man did not break off his discourse with Perceval.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000010_000009|And as he did not tell him the meaning of what he saw, he forebore to ask him concerning it.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000012_000000|Now Arthur and his household were in search of Perceval, and by chance they came that way.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000012_000002|But Perceval was so intent upon his thought that he gave him no answer.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000012_000004|And when the youth returned to the king, and told how rudely he had been treated, Sir Kay said, "I will go myself." And when he greeted Perceval, and got no answer, he spoke to him rudely and angrily.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000012_000005|And Perceval thrust at him with his lance, and cast him down so that he broke his arm and his shoulder blade.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000013_000000|Then said Sir Gawain, surnamed the Golden Tongued, because he was the most courteous knight in Arthur's court: "It is not fitting that any should disturb an honorable knight from his thought unadvisedly; for either he is pondering some damage that he has sustained, or he is thinking of the lady whom best he loves.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000014_000001|I have also a message from Arthur unto thee, to pray thee to come and visit him.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000014_000002|And two men have been before on this errand." "That is true," said Perceval; "and uncourteously they came.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000014_000003|They attacked me, and I was annoyed thereat"
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000014_000007|"Gladly will I do so," answered Perceval.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000015_000000|So they went together to Arthur, and saluted him.
train-clean-100/3436/172171/3436_172171_000016_000001|And hereupon there came the queen and her handmaidens, and Perceval saluted them.
train-clean-100/3440/171006/3440_171006_000002_000000|CHAPTER ELEVENTH
train-clean-100/3440/171006/3440_171006_000033_000001|And with a graceful good night to the company, the little girl left the room.
train-clean-100/3440/171006/3440_171006_000035_000002|Has she any faults, Dinsmore?"
train-clean-100/3440/171006/3440_171006_000039_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000005_000001|I think your papa might have let you stay up a little longer; but he has promised that tonight-as we are to have the Christmas tree, and ever so much will be going on-you shall stay up till half past nine, if you like.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000005_000002|Aren't you glad?
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000005_000003|I'm sure I am."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000009_000000|"What are we going to do to day, Elsie?" asked Caroline.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000010_000000|"Whatever you all prefer," said Elsie.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000013_000000|She had an eager and growing thirst for knowledge, and was an apt scholar, whom any one with the least love for the profession might have delighted in teaching; and mr Dinsmore, a thorough scholar himself, and loving knowledge for its own sake-loving also his little pupil with all a father's fond, yearning affection-delighted in his task.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000014_000000|When Elsie left her father she found that the Carringtons had just arrived.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000018_000000|"Here are some dissected maps, Mary," replied Elsie, opening a drawer; "would you not like them?"
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000019_000000|"No, indeed, thank you; they are too much like lessons."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000020_000000|"Here are blocks; will you build houses?"
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000021_000001|I am too big for that; they are very nice for little children."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000022_000000|"Will you play jack stones? here are some smooth pebbles."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000024_000000|"Agreed!" said the others, "let's have a game."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000025_000000|So, Elsie having first set the little ones to building block houses, supplied Harry Carrington-an older brother of Lucy's-with a book, and two younger boys with dissected maps to arrange, the four girls sat down in a circle on the carpet and began their game.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000026_000001|Elsie left her game to try to make peace.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000029_000000|"Oh! Enna, won't you give them back?" said Elsie, coaxingly; "you know Flora is a visitor, and we must be very polite to her."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000030_000000|"No, I won't," returned Enna, flatly; "she's got enough now."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000031_000000|"No, I haven't; I can't build a house with those," Flora said, with another sob.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000032_000000|Elsie stood a moment looking much perplexed; then, with a brightening face, exclaimed in her cheerful, pleasant way, "Well, never mind, Flora, dear, I will get you my doll.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000033_000000|Elsie ran out of the room and was back again almost in a moment, with the doll in her arms.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000035_000000|"I won't break it, Elsie, indeed I won't," replied Flora, confidently; and Elsie sat down to her game again.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000037_000000|"Elsie," he said, as he caught sight of his little daughter, "go up to my dressing room."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000043_000000|"I don't know; nothing I guess," replied Lucy, indignantly.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000043_000001|"I do believe he's just the crossest man alive!
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000045_000000|"Strict!
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000048_000001|I consider it a very unladylike and slovenly trick."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000060_000000|She held up her face for a kiss, which he gave.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000062_000000|"No," said he, "I think you have been a very good girl for quite a long time.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000064_000000|Flora turned to her as she entered.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000067_000000|Kind mrs Brown, who had just finished helping her young charge all round, followed her to the window, "Never mind, dear," she said in her pleasant, cheery tone, patting Elsie's cheek and smoothing her hair "I've got some excellent glue, and I think I can stick it on again and make it almost as good as ever.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000067_000001|So come, sit down and eat your lunch, and don't fret any more."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000070_000000|"Doesn't your papa let you eat anything good, Elsie?" asked Mary Leslie across the table.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000070_000001|"He must be cross."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000074_000000|"Please don't ask me, Lucy," replied the little girl, blushing deeply. "Papa always has a good reason for what he does, and he is just the dearest, kindest, and best father that ever anybody had."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000078_000000|The motion was carried without a dissenting voice, and in a few moments they all set out, a very merry party, full of fun and frolic.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000078_000001|They had a very pleasant time, and returned barely in season to be dressed for dinner.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000079_000000|They dined by themselves in the nursery, but were afterward taken down to the drawing room.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000083_000001|"Ah!
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000083_000003|Well, I like to see it; blushes are very becoming.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000083_000007|mr Dinsmore"--to Elsie's papa, who just then came toward them-"you ought to be very proud of this child; she is the very image of yourself, and a perfect little beauty, too."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000090_000000|"No, papa," she said, "I do not mind, when people say such things, because I know the Bible says, 'Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain;' and in another place, 'He that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.' So I will try to keep away from that lady; shall I not, papa?"
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000092_000001|There was lurking within his breast a vague consciousness that her father needed such a safeguard, but had it not.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000093_000000|Lucy, who was standing at the window, turned quickly round.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000094_000000|"Come, girls," she said, "let us run out and see them off; they're bringing up the horses.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000094_000001|And see, there's Miss Adelaide in her riding dress and cap; how pretty she looks!
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000102_000000|"I wish you were, my pet; I always love to have you with me; but you know it wouldn't do; you have your little guests to entertain.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000102_000001|Good by, darling.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000106_000000|But at length tea being over, and all, both old and young, assembled as if by common consent in the drawing room, it began to be whispered about that their curiosity was now on the point of being gratified.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000108_000000|A large Christmas tree had been set up at the further end of the room, and, with its myriad of lighted tapers, and its load of toys and bonbons, interspersed with many a richer and more costly gift, made quite a display.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000109_000000|"Beautiful! beautiful!" cried the children, clapping their hands and dancing about with delight, while their elders, perhaps equally pleased, expressed their admiration after a more staid and sober fashion.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000113_000000|"From your papa," she said.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000113_000001|"Go and thank him: it is well worth it."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000126_000000|It was only a gold pencil.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000129_000000|"Keep it in your pocket, and use it every day, won't you, papa?"
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000130_000000|"Yes, my pet, I will; but I thought you said you had no present for me?"
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000134_000000|He put it in her hand, and ran away again.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000134_000001|Elsie looked up in her father's face inquiringly.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000137_000000|"No, dearest," he said; "for though I, too, am fond of sweet things, I will not eat them while I refuse them to you."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000138_000000|"Do, papa," she urged, "it would give me pleasure to see you enjoying it."
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000142_000000|"Is it half past nine already, papa?" she asked.
train-clean-100/3440/171009/3440_171009_000143_000000|"It is ten, my dear child, and high time you were in bed," he said, smiling at her look of astonishment.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000006_000000|CHAPTER five THE SMITING THING
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000007_000000|Silently we looked at each other, and silently we passed out of the courtyard.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000007_000002|The twilight was stealing upon the close clustered peaks.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000007_000003|Another hour, and their amethyst and purple mantles would drop upon them; snowfields and glaciers sparkle out in irised beauty; nightfall.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000008_000001|And to what myriads, it might be, of their kind?
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000008_000003|Of what powers?
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000009_000000|Quick on the screen of my mind flashed two pictures, side by side-the little four rayed print in the great dust of the crumbling ruin and its colossal twin on the breast of the poppied valley.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000010_000000|I turned aside, crept through the shattered portal and looked over the haunted hollow.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000015_000000|I dropped over the side, walked cautiously down the road up which but an hour or so before we had struggled so desperately; paced farther and farther with an increasing confidence and a growing wonder.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000017_000001|I looked back.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000019_000000|"It's all right," I shouted.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000019_000001|"The place is all right."
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000020_000000|I stumbled up the side; joined them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000021_000000|"It's empty," I cried.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000021_000001|"Get Martin and Chiu Ming quick!
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000021_000002|While the way's open-"
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000022_000000|A rifle shot rang out above us; another and another.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000023_000000|"They come!" he gasped.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000023_000001|"They come!"
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000024_000002|I caught the glint of helmets and corselets.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000024_000003|Those in the van were mounted, galloping two abreast upon sure footed mountain ponies.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000024_000004|Their short swords, lifted high, flickered.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000026_000000|Again Ventnor's rifle cracked.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000027_000000|"Dick," I cried, "rush ruth over to the tunnel mouth.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000027_000001|We'll follow.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000028_000000|I pushed the two over the rim of the hollow.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000029_000000|"Quick, Mart!" I shouted up the shattered stairway.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000029_000003|Hurry!"
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000030_000000|"All right.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000030_000001|Just a minute," he called.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000033_000000|"Chiu Ming's taking care of that," I gasped.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000034_000001|A good five hundred yards away were ruth and Drake, running straight to the green tunnel's mouth.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000035_000000|As we sped after him I looked back.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000036_000000|"Don't look back," grunted Ventnor.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000036_000003|Hope to God I judged the time right."
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000037_000000|We turned off the ruined way; raced over the sward.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000039_000000|"Right." My own breathing was growing labored, "WE'LL hold them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000039_000001|Drake can take care of ruth."
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000041_000000|"Very well," I gasped, irritated.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000042_000000|He reached out, touched me.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000043_000000|"You're right, Walter," he grinned.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000045_000001|Scattered prone among these were men and horses; others staggered, screaming.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000046_000000|"Timed to a second!" cried Ventnor.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000046_000002|Fuses and dynamite.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000047_000002|I saw Drake stop, raise his rifle, empty it before him, and, holding ruth by the hand, race back toward us.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000049_000000|"To the fissure!" shouted Ventnor.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000050_000003|They fell back, hesitated.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000050_000004|We sprang up, sped on.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000051_000000|All too short was the check, but once more we held them-and again.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000052_000000|Now ruth and Dick were a scant fifty yards from the crevice.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000052_000001|I saw him stop, push her from him toward it.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000053_000000|Now Chiu Ming was with them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000053_000001|ruth sprang to the pony, lifted from its back a rifle.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000053_000003|They huddled, wavered, broke for cover.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000054_000000|"A chance!" gasped Ventnor.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000055_000000|Behind us was a wolflike yelping.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000055_000001|The first pack had re-formed; had crossed the barricade the dynamite had made; was rushing upon us.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000056_000001|Over us whined the bullets from the covering guns.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000056_000002|Close were we now to the mouth of the fissure.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000057_000001|"We can't make it.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000058_000000|We threw ourselves down, facing them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000060_000002|Their arrows had ceased to fly.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000062_000002|He's got lots of ammunition on the pony.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000067_000000|Within the black background of the fissure stood a shape, an apparition, a woman-beautiful, awesome, incredible!
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000072_000000|The woman stepped from the crevice.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000073_000000|She looked at them, beckoned them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000074_000001|There stood the host that had poured down the mountain road, horsemen, spearsmen, pikemen-a full thousand of them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000084_000000|They swirled, eddied and formed a barricade between us and the armored men.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000085_000001|I heard the shouts of their captains; they rushed.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000092_000000|And then-it struck!
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000098_000001|They were like rats scampering in panic over the bottom of a great green bowl.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000104_000000|I heard a sigh from ruth; wrested my gaze from the hollow; turned.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000107_000000|They clustered close, their shields held before them.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000110_000002|This way!"
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000111_000002|I saw a spear thrown.
train-clean-100/3486/166424/3486_166424_000112_000001|It swept through them like a scythe through ripe grain.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000003_000001|"THE DRUMS OF DESTINY"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000004_000000|Slowly we descended that mount of desolation; lingeringly, as though the brooding eyes of Norhala were not yet sated with destruction.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000004_000001|Of human life, of green life, of life of any kind there was none.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000005_000000|Man and tree, woman and flower, babe and bud, palace, temple and home-Norhala had stamped flat.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000005_000001|She had crushed them within the rock-even as she had promised.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000006_000001|Now in the painful surges of awakening realization, of full human understanding of that inhuman annihilation, I turned to them for strength.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000006_000002|Faintly I wondered again at Ruth's scantiness of garb, her more than half nudity; dwelt curiously upon the red brand across Ventnor's forehead.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000007_000001|But in the eyes of ruth was none of this-sternly, coldly triumphant, indifferent to its piteousness as Norhala herself, she scanned the waste that less than an hour since had been a place of living beauty.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000008_000000|I felt a shock of repulsion.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000008_000001|After all, those who had been destroyed so ruthlessly could not ALL have been wholly evil.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000008_000002|Yet mother and blossoming maid, youth and oldster, all the pageant of humanity within the great walls were now but lines within the stone.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000009_000000|From Norhala, of course, I looked for no perception of any of this.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000009_000001|But from ruth--
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000010_000000|My reaction grew; the pity long withheld racing through me linked with a burning anger, a hatred for this woman who had been the directing soul of that catastrophe.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000011_000000|My gaze fell again upon the red brand.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000011_000003|It was the mark of-torture!
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000012_000000|"Martin," I cried.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000012_000002|What did they do to you?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000013_000001|"I suppose I ought to be grateful-although their intentions were not exactly-therapeutic-"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000014_000000|"They tortured him," Ruth's voice was tense, bitter; she spoke in Persian-for Norhala's benefit I thought then, not guessing a deeper reason.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000014_000001|"They tortured him.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000014_000003|And they promised him other agonies that would make him pray long for death.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000015_000000|"And me-me"--she raised little clenched hands-"me they stripped like a slave.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000015_000003|Before my eyes they tortured my brother. Norhala-they were evil, all evil!
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000015_000004|Norhala-you did well to slay them!"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000016_000000|She caught the woman's hands, pressed close to her.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000016_000002|And when she spoke the golden voice held more than returning echoes of the far away, faint chimings.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000017_000000|"It is done," she said.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000017_000001|"And it was well done-sister.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000017_000002|Now you and I shall dwell together in peace-sister.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000017_000003|Or if there be those in the world from which you came that you would have slain, then you and I shall go forth with our companies and stamp them out-even as I did these."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000019_000000|And at last it was twin sister of Norhala who looked upon her from the face of ruth!
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000021_000000|"Sister!" she whispered.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000021_000003|Or if it is your wish they shall go back to their world and I will guard them to its gates.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000022_000000|"But you and I, little sister, will dwell together-in the vastnesses-in the peace.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000022_000001|Shall it not be so?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000024_000002|Norhala-I am tired.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000026_000000|"ruth!" cried Drake-and sprang toward them.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000027_000000|"Wait," said Ventnor, and caught him by the arm as wrathfully, blindedly, he strove against the force that held him.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000027_000001|"Wait.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000027_000002|No use-now."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000029_000000|"Wait!" exclaimed Drake.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000030_000001|And as he struggled the Thing we rode halted.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000031_000000|We were lifted; between us and the woman and girl a cleft appeared; it widened into a rift.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000033_000000|Higher we rose; the three of us now upon the flat top of a tower upon whose counterpart fifty feet away and facing the homeward path, ruth and Norhala stood with white arms interlaced.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000034_000000|The serpent shape flashed toward us; it vanished beneath, merging into the waiting Thing.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000035_000000|Then slowly the Thing began to move; quietly it glided to the chasm it had blasted in the cliff wall.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000036_000000|We found it; then the precipices hid it.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000036_000001|Silently we streamed through the chasm, through the canyon and the tunnel-speaking no word, Drake's eyes fixed with bitter hatred upon Norhala, Ventnor brooding upon her always with that enigmatic sympathy.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000037_000000|There came to us as though from immeasurable distances, a faint, sustained thrumming-like the beating of countless muffled drums.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000037_000001|The Thing that carried us trembled-the sound died away.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000037_000002|The Thing quieted; it began its steady, effortless striding through the crowding trees-but now with none of that speed with which it had come, spurred forward by Norhala's awakened hate.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000039_000000|"No use, Drake," he said dreamily.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000041_000000|"Martin!
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000041_000001|What do you mean?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000042_000001|"We can do nothing, Goodwin-nothing. Whatever is to be steps forth now from the womb of Destiny."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000043_000001|Again the Thing trembled.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000044_000001|"The drums of destiny.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000044_000002|What is it they are heralding?
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000044_000003|A new birth of Earth and the passing of man?
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000044_000004|A new child to whom shall be given dominion-nay, to whom has been given dominion? Or is it-taps-for Them?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000045_000000|The drumming died as I listened-fearfully.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000045_000002|Motionless stood Norhala; and as motionless ruth.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000046_000000|"Martin," I cried once more, a dreadful doubt upon me.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000046_000001|"Martin-what do you mean?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000047_000000|"Whence did-They-come?" His voice was clear and calm, the eyes beneath the red brand clear and quiet, too.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000048_000001|Whence did They come?
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000048_000002|What are They?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000050_000000|"I do not forget," he said.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000050_000001|"At least not all do I forget of what I saw during that time when I seemed an atom outside space-as I told you, or think I told you, speaking with unthinkable effort through lips that seemed eternities away from me, the atom, who strove to open them.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000051_000000|"There were three-visions, revelations-I know not what to call them. And though each seemed equally real, of two of them, only one, I think, can be true; and of the third-that may some time be true but surely is not yet."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000052_000000|Through the air came a louder drum roll-in it something ominous, something sinister.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000052_000001|It swelled to a crescendo; abruptly ceased.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000053_000001|A geometric thought of the Great Cause, of God, if you will, made material.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000054_000000|"I seemed to draw closer to it.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000054_000001|And then I saw that over every facet patterns were traced; gigantic symmetrical designs; mathematical hieroglyphs.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000054_000003|In the patterns was an appalling harmony-as though all the laws from those which guide the atom to those which direct the cosmos were there resolved into completeness-totalled.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000056_000000|"The patterned symbols constantly changed form.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000056_000002|They were, in untold numbers-These!"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000057_000000|He pointed to the Thing that bore us.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000058_000001|And a fantastic notion came to me-fantasy it was, of course, yet built I know around a nucleus of strange truth.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000058_000002|It was"--his tone was half whimsical, half apologetic-"it was that this jeweled world was ridden by some mathematical god, driving it through space, noting occasionally with amused tolerance the very bad arithmetic of another Deity the reverse of mathematical-a more or less haphazard Deity, the god, in fact, of us and the things we call living.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000059_000000|"It had no mission; it wasn't at all out to do any reforming; it wasn't in the least concerned in rectifying any of the inaccuracies of the Other.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000059_000001|Only now and then it took note of the deplorable differences between the worlds it saw and its own impeccably ordered and tidy temple with its equally tidy servitors.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000060_000000|"Just an itinerant demiurge of supergeometry riding along through space on its perfectly summed up world; master of all celestial mechanics; its people independent of all that complex chemistry and labor for equilibrium by which we live; needing neither air nor water, heeding neither heat nor cold; fed with the magnetism of interstellar space and stopping now and then to banquet off the energy of some great sun"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000061_000000|A thrill of amazement passed through me; fantasy all this might be but-how, if so, had he gotten that last thought?
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000062_000000|"That passed," he went on, unnoticing.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000062_000001|"I saw vast caverns filled with the Things; working, growing, multiplying.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000063_000000|"But in those caverns, under countless orbs of many colored lights"--again the thrill of amaze shook me-"they grew.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000063_000002|They burst into it-into yellow, glowing sunlight.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000063_000005|And that picture passed."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000064_000000|His voice deepened.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000065_000001|I saw our Earth-I knew, Goodwin, indisputably, unmistakably that it was our earth.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000065_000002|But its rolling hills were leveled, its mountains were ground and shaped into cold and polished symbols-geometric, fashioned.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000066_000001|The very Polar ice was chiseled.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000066_000002|On the ordered plains were traced the hieroglyphs of the faceted world.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000066_000003|And on all Earth, Goodwin, there was no green life, no city, no trace of man. On this Earth that had been ours were only-These.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000067_000001|"Don't think that I accept them in their entirety. Part truth, part illusion-the groping mind dazzled with light of unfamiliar truths and making pictures from half light and half shadow to help it understand.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000068_000000|"But still-SOME truth in them.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000068_000002|But this I do know-that last vision was of a cataclysm whose beginnings we face now-this very instant."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000070_000000|And suddenly I saw that mount as Earth-the city as Earth's cities-its gardens and groves as Earth's fields and forests-and the vanished people of Cherkis seemed to expand into all humanity.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000071_000000|"But Martin," I stammered, fighting against choking, intolerable terror, "there was something else.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000071_000002|A hope-a PROMISE, that they would NOT conquer."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000072_000000|"I remember," he replied, "but not clearly.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000072_000001|There WAS something-a shadow upon them, a menace.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000072_000002|It was a shadow that seemed to be born of our own world-some threatening spirit of earth hovering over them.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000073_000000|"I cannot remember; it eludes me.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000073_000001|Yet it is because I remember but a little of it that I say those drums may not be-taps-for us."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000074_000000|As though his words had been a cue, the sounds again burst forth-no longer muffled nor faint.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000075_000000|The drumming did not die; it grew louder, more vehement; defiant and deafening.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000075_000001|Within the Thing under us a mighty pulse began to throb, accelerating rapidly to the rhythm of that clamorous roll.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000076_000000|I saw Norhala draw herself up, sharply; stand listening and alert.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000076_000001|Under me, the throbbing turned to an uneasy churning, a ferment.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000077_000000|"Drums?" muttered Drake.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000077_000002|It's drum fire.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000077_000004|But where could batteries like those come from?"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000078_000000|"Drums," whispered Ventnor.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000078_000001|"They ARE drums.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000078_000002|The drums of Destiny!"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000079_000000|Louder the roaring grew.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000079_000001|Now it was a tremendous rhythmic cannonading. The Thing halted.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000079_000002|The tower that upheld ruth and Norhala swayed, bent over the gap between us, touched the top on which we rode.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000080_000000|Gently the two were plucked up; swiftly they were set beside us.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000081_000000|Came a shrill, keen wailing-louder than ever I had heard before.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000081_000001|There was an earthquake trembling; a maelstrom swirling in which we spun; a swift sinking.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000082_000000|The Thing split in two.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000082_000002|Into it streamed, over it clicked, score upon score of cubes, building it higher and higher.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000082_000003|It lurched forward-away from us.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000083_000000|From Norhala came a single cry-resonant, blaring like a wrathful, golden trumpet.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000084_000000|The speeding shape halted, hesitated; it seemed about to return.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000084_000001|Crashed down upon us an abrupt crescendo of the distant drumming; peremptory, commanding.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000085_000000|Great gray eyes wide, filled with incredulous wonder, stunned disbelief, Norhala for an instant faltered.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000086_000001|Norhala's flaming hair crackled and streamed; about her body of milk and pearl-about Ruth's creamy skin-a radiant nimbus began to glow.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000087_000000|In the distance I saw a sapphire spark; knew it for Norhala's home.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000087_000002|Nor except for the trembling cubes that made the platform on which we stood, did the shrunken Thing carrying us hold any unit of the Metal Monster except its spheres and tetrahedrons-at least within its visible bulk.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000088_000000|The sapphire spark had grown to a glimmering azure marble.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000088_000001|Steadily we gained upon the pyramid.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000089_000000|The sapphire marble became a sapphire ball, a great globe.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000090_000000|The blue bubble was close; now it curved below us.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000090_000001|Gently we were lifted down; were set before its portal.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000090_000002|I looked up at the bulk that had carried us.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000091_000000|I had been right-built it was only of globe and pyramid; an inconceivably grotesque shape, it hung over us.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000094_000000|"I am afraid!" I heard her whisper.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000095_000000|She tightened her grasp upon dreaming ruth; motioned us to go within. We passed, silently; behind us she came, followed by three of the great globes, by a pair of her tetrahedrons.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000096_000000|Beside a pile of the silken stuffs she halted.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000096_000001|The girl's eyes dwelt upon hers trustingly.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000097_000001|"Afraid-for you!"
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000099_000000|"I am afraid, little sister," she whispered for the third time.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000099_000001|"Not yet can you go as I do-among the fires." She hesitated.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000099_000002|"Rest here until I return.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000099_000003|I shall leave these to guard you and obey you."
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000100_000001|They ranged themselves about ruth. Norhala kissed her upon both brown eyes.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000101_000000|"Sleep till I return," she murmured.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000102_000000|She swept from the chamber-with never a glance for us three.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000102_000001|I heard a little wailing chorus without, fast dying into silence.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000103_000000|Spheres and pyramids twinkled at us, guarding the silken pile whereon ruth lay asleep-like some enchanted princess.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000104_000000|Beat down upon the blue globe like hollow metal worlds, beaten and shrieking.
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000105_000000|The drums of Destiny!
train-clean-100/3486/166446/3486_166446_000106_000000|The drums of Doom!
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000002_000001|I remember very well that before quitting my chamber, I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000002_000002|At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000004_000000|This, then, was my first glimpse of the garden; but I had not time to look long, the portress, after having answered in the affirmative my question as to whether her mistress was at home, opened the folding doors of a room to the left, and having ushered me in, closed them behind me.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000005_000001|I had been so taken up with the contemplation of the pretty little salon that I had not noticed the entrance of a person into the larger room.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000007_000000|I approved her judgment.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000008_000001|It was a long, not very broad strip of cultured ground, with an alley bordered by enormous old fruit trees down the middle; there was a sort of lawn, a parterre of rose trees, some flower borders, and, on the far side, a thickly planted copse of lilacs, laburnums, and acacias.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000008_000002|It looked pleasant, to me-very pleasant, so long a time had elapsed since I had seen a garden of any sort.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000009_000002|Was it sagacity?--sense?
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000009_000003|Yes, I thought so; but I could scarcely as yet be sure.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000009_000004|I discovered, however, that there was a certain serenity of eye, and freshness of complexion, most pleasing to behold.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000011_000000|I remarked that I hoped she would find me worthy of her good opinion; that if I knew myself, I was incapable of betraying any confidence reposed in me.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000011_000006|I would rather have sat a little longer; what had I to return to but my small empty room?
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000011_000008|Reuter, especially now, when the twilight softened her features a little, and, in the doubtful dusk, I could fancy her forehead as open as it was really elevated, her mouth touched with turns of sweetness as well as defined in lines of sense.
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000011_000009|When I rose to go, I held out my hand, on purpose, though I knew it was contrary to the etiquette of foreign habits; she smiled, and said-
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000013_000000|"It is the privilege of my country, Mademoiselle," said I; "and, remember, I shall always claim it."
train-clean-100/3526/175658/3526_175658_000014_000000|She laughed a little, quite good naturedly, and with the sort of tranquillity obvious in all she did-a tranquillity which soothed and suited me singularly, at least I thought so that evening.
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train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000000|She sat at the base of the big tree-her little sunbonnet pushed back, her arms locked about her knees, her bare feet gathered under her crimson gown and her deep eyes fixed on the smoke in the valley below. Her breath was still coming fast between her parted lips.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000002|The mountains ran in limitless blue waves towards the mounting sun-but at birth her eyes had opened on them as on the white mists trailing up the steeps below her.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000003|Beyond them was a gap in the next mountain chain and down in the little valley, just visible through it, were trailing blue mists as well, and she knew that they were smoke.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000004|Where was the great glare of yellow light that the "circuit rider" had told about-and the leaping tongues of fire?
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000005|Where was the shrieking monster that ran without horses like the wind and tossed back rolling black plumes all streaked with fire?
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000006|For many days now she had heard stories of the "furriners" who had come into those hills and were doing strange things down there, and so at last she had climbed up through the dewy morning from the cove on the other side to see the wonders for herself.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000007|She had never been up there before.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000008|She had no business there now, and, if she were found out when she got back, she would get a scolding and maybe something worse from her step mother-and all that trouble and risk for nothing but smoke.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000009|So, she lay back and rested-her little mouth tightening fiercely.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000011|Beyond those white mists trailing up the hills, beyond the blue smoke drifting in the valley, those limitless blue waves must run under the sun on and on to the end of the world!
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000012|Her dead sister had gone into that far silence and had brought back wonderful stories of that outer world: and she began to wonder more than ever before whether she would ever go into it and see for herself what was there.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000013|With the thought, she rose slowly to her feet, moved slowly to the cliff that dropped sheer ten feet aside from the trail, and stood there like a great scarlet flower in still air.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000015|She drew a long breath and stirred uneasily-she'd better go home now-but the path had a snake like charm for her and still she stood, following it as far down as she could with her eyes.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000016|Down it went, writhing this way and that to a spur that had been swept bare by forest fires.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000012_000017|Along this spur it travelled straight for a while and, as her eyes eagerly followed it to where it sank sharply into a covert of maples, the little creature dropped of a sudden to the ground and, like something wild, lay flat.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000003|She had seen that it was a man, but she had dropped so quickly that she did not see the big, black horse that, unled, was following him.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000004|Now both man and horse had stopped.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000005|The stranger had taken off his gray slouched hat and he was wiping his face with something white.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000006|Something blue was tied loosely about his throat.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000008|His face was smooth and looked different, as did his throat and his hands.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000009|His breeches were tight and on his feet were strange boots that were the colour of his saddle, which was deep in seat, high both in front and behind and had strange long hooded stirrups.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000010|Starting to mount, the man stopped with one foot in the stirrup and raised his eyes towards her so suddenly that she shrank back again with a quicker throbbing at her heart and pressed closer to the earth.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000011|Still, seen or not seen, flight was easy for her, so she could not forbear to look again.
train-clean-100/3526/176651/3526_176651_000013_000012|Apparently, he had seen nothing-only that the next turn of the trail was too steep to ride, and so he started walking again, and his walk, as he strode along the path, was new to her, as was the erect way with which he held his head and his shoulders.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000000|On one side he had left the earth yellow with the coming noon, but it was still morning as he went down on the other side.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000001|The laurel and rhododendron still reeked with dew in the deep, ever shaded ravine. The ferns drenched his stirrups, as he brushed through them, and each dripping tree top broke the sunlight and let it drop in tent like beams through the shimmering undermist.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000003|Now and then he could see the same slender foot prints in the rich loam and he saw them in the sand where the first tiny brook tinkled across the path from a gloomy ravine. There the little creature had taken a flying leap across it and, beyond, he could see the prints no more.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000004|He little guessed that while he halted to let his horse drink, the girl lay on a rock above him, looking down. She was nearer home now and was less afraid; so she had slipped from the trail and climbed above it there to watch him pass.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000005|As he went on, she slid from her perch and with cat footed quiet followed him.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000006|When he reached the river she saw him pull in his horse and eagerly bend forward, looking into a pool just below the crossing.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000001_000007|There was a bass down there in the clear water-a big one-and the man whistled cheerily and dismounted, tying his horse to a sassafras bush and unbuckling a tin bucket and a curious looking net from his saddle.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000000|He was a "raider" sure, she thought now, and he was looking for a "moonshine" still, and the wild little thing in the bushes smiled cunningly-there was no still up that creek-and as he had left his horse below and his gun, she waited for him to come back, which he did, by and by, dripping and soaked to his knees.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000001|Then she saw him untie the queer "gun" on his saddle, pull it out of a case and-her eyes got big with wonder-take it to pieces and make it into a long limber rod.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000002|In a moment he had cast a minnow into the pool and waded out into the water up to his hips.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000003|She had never seen so queer a fishing pole-so queer a fisherman.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000004|How could he get a fish out with that little switch, she thought contemptuously?
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000005|By and by something hummed queerly, the man gave a slight jerk and a shining fish flopped two feet into the air.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000006|It was surely very queer, for the man didn't put his rod over his shoulder and walk ashore, as did the mountaineers, but stood still, winding something with one hand, and again the fish would flash into the air and then that humming would start again while the fisherman would stand quiet and waiting for a while-and then he would begin to wind again.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000007|In her wonder, she rose unconsciously to her feet and a stone rolled down to the ledge below her.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000008|The fisherman turned his head and she started to run, but without a word he turned again to the fish he was playing. Moreover, he was too far out in the water to catch her, so she advanced slowly-even to the edge of the stream, watching the fish cut half circles about the man.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000002_000010|He was pulling the bass to and fro now through the water, tiring him out-drowning him-stepping backward at the same time, and, a moment later, the fish slid easily out of the edge of the water, gasping along the edge of a low sand bank, and the fisherman reaching down with one hand caught him in the gills.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000004_000001|She merely stared him straight in the eye and he smiled again.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000005_000000|"Cat got your tongue?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000006_000000|Her eyes fell at the ancient banter, but she lifted them straightway and stared again.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000009_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000012_000000|And still she stared.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000013_000000|"Oh, well, of course, you can't talk, if the cat's got your tongue."
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000014_000000|The steady eyes leaped angrily, but there was still no answer, and he bent to take the fish off his hook, put on a fresh minnow, turned his back and tossed it into the pool.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000015_000000|"Hit hain't!"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000016_000000|He looked up again.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000017_000000|"I should say not," he said teasingly.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000019_000000|The fisherman laughed.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000019_000001|He was just becoming accustomed to the mountain etiquette that commands a stranger to divulge himself first.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000024_000000|He pulled, missed the strike, and wound in.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000024_000001|The minnow was all right, so he tossed it back again.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000025_000000|"That isn't your name," he said.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000027_000000|"Yes 'tis," he said, shaking his head affirmatively.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000029_000001|That was a queer name for the mountains, and the fisherman wondered if he had heard aright-June.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000030_000000|The little girl gave a shrill answering cry, but she did not move.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000032_000000|"Who's that-your Mammy?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000034_000000|"Good Lord!" said the fisherman, startled, and then he stopped-the words were as innocent on her lips as a benediction.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000035_000000|"Have you got a father?" Like a flash, her whole face changed.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000037_000000|"Where is he?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000038_000001|A giant mountaineer stood on the bank above him, with a Winchester in the hollow of his arm.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000039_000000|"How are you?" The giant's heavy eyes lifted quickly, but he spoke to the girl.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000041_000000|The girl shrank to the bushes, but she cried sharply back:
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000043_000000|"Shet up!"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000045_000001|For a moment there was silence and a puzzled frown gathered on the mountaineer's face.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000046_000000|"That's a bright little girl of yours-What did she mean by telling you not to hurt me?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000048_000000|"No-not in THESE mountains-why?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000048_000001|The fisherman looked around and was almost startled by the fierce gaze of his questioner.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000049_000000|"Stop that, please," he said, with a humourous smile.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000049_000001|"You make me nervous."
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000050_000000|The mountaineer's bushy brows came together across the bridge of his nose and his voice rumbled like distant thunder.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000052_000001|You can see I'm fishing, but why does everybody in these mountains want to know my name?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000053_000000|"You heerd me!"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000054_000000|"Yes." The fisherman turned again and saw the giant's rugged face stern and pale with open anger now, and he, too, grew suddenly serious.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000055_000000|"Suppose I don't tell you," he said gravely.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000055_000001|"What-"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000057_000000|The fisherman never moved and there was the click of a shell thrown into place in the Winchester and a guttural oath from the mountaineer's beard.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000059_000000|"Don't, Dad!" shrieked a voice from the bushes.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000059_000002|The mountaineer dropped the butt of his gun to the ground and laughed.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000062_000001|He had not moved hand or foot and he said nothing, but his mouth was set hard and his bewildered blue eyes had a glint in them that the mountaineer did not at the moment see.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000062_000002|He was leaning with one arm on the muzzle of his Winchester, his face had suddenly become suave and shrewd and now he laughed again:
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000064_000001|"john Hale, except to my friends." He looked hard at the old man.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000065_000001|Did you think you could scare me?" The mountaineer stared in genuine surprise.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000066_000000|"Twusn't no joke," he said shortly.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000066_000002|I reckon you don't know who I be?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000068_000000|"No use gittin' mad, young feller," he said coolly.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000068_000002|When you git through fishin' come up to the house right up the creek thar an' I'll give ye a dram."
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000069_000000|"Thank you," said the fisherman stiffly, and the mountaineer turned silently away.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000069_000001|At the edge of the bushes, he looked back; the stranger was still fishing, and the old man went on with a shake of his head.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000000|That very point Hale was debating with himself as he unavailingly cast his minnow into the swift water and slowly wound it in again.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000001|How did that old man know his name?
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000003|The little girl was a wonder: evidently she had muffled his last name on purpose-not knowing it herself-and it was a quick and cunning ruse.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000004|He owed her something for that-why did she try to protect him?
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000005|Wonderful eyes, too, the little thing had-deep and dark-and how the flame did dart from them when she got angry!
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000006|He smiled, remembering-he liked that.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000007|And her hair-it was exactly like the gold bronze on the wing of a wild turkey that he had shot the day before.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000071_000010|No, they had just come down to the creek and both they must know already.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000073_000002|She looked at the fisherman and his tackle with the naive wonder of a child, and then she said in a commanding undertone.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000074_000000|"Go on, Billy."
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000075_000001|He loved old people, and two kinder faces he had never seen-two gentler voices he had never heard.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000080_000003|When he got to the bare crest of a little rise, he could see up the creek a spiral of blue rising swiftly from a stone chimney.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000080_000004|Geese and ducks were hunting crawfish in the little creek that ran from a milk house of logs, half hidden by willows at the edge of the forest, and a turn in the path brought into view a log cabin well chinked with stones and plaster, and with a well built porch.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000080_000007|Down the rise and through a thicket he went, and as he approached the creek that came down past the cabin there was a shrill cry ahead of him.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000083_000000|Still there was no sound of ox or wagon and the voice sounded like a child's.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000083_000002|In the road across the creek was a chubby, tow haired boy with a long switch in his right hand, and a pine dagger and a string in his left.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000083_000003|Attached to the string and tied by one hind leg was a frog.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000083_000004|The boy was using the switch as a goad and driving the frog as an ox, and he was as earnest as though both were real.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000084_000004|The frog hopped several times.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000085_000002|For an instant he seemed terrified but he did not run.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000085_000003|Instead he stealthily shifted the pine dagger over to his right hand and the string to his left.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000086_000000|"Here, boy," said the fisherman with affected sternness: "What are you doing with that dagger?"
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000087_000000|The boy's breast heaved and his dirty fingers clenched tight around the whittled stick.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000089_000000|The fisherman threw back his head, and his peal of laughter did what his sternness failed to do.
train-clean-100/3526/176653/3526_176653_000089_000001|The little fellow wheeled suddenly, and his feet spurned the sand around the bushes for home-the astonished frog dragged bumping after him.
train-clean-100/3607/135982/3607_135982_000027_000000|Cards! cards!
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000001_000000|Laura went down stairs, knocked at/the study door, and entered, scarcely waiting for the response.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000001_000001|Senator Dilworthy was alone-with an open Bible in his hand, upside down.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000001_000002|Laura smiled, and said, forgetting her acquired correctness of speech,
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000002_000000|"It is only me."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000003_000000|"Ah, come in, sit down," and the Senator closed the book and laid it down.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000003_000001|"I wanted to see you.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000003_000002|Time to report progress from the committee of the whole," and the Senator beamed with his own congressional wit.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000004_000000|"In the committee of the whole things are working very well.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000004_000001|We have made ever so much progress in a week.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000004_000002|I believe that you and I together could run this government beautifully, uncle."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000005_000000|The Senator beamed again.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000006_000000|"Did you see Hopperson last night after the congressional prayer meeting?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000007_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000007_000001|He came.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000007_000002|He's a kind of-"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000008_000001|He's a fine man, a very fine man. I don't know any man in congress I'd sooner go to for help in any Christian work.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000008_000002|What did he say?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000009_000000|"Oh, he beat around a little.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000009_000001|He said he should like to help the negro, his heart went out to the negro, and all that-plenty of them say that but he was a little afraid of the Tennessee Land bill; if Senator Dilworthy wasn't in it, he should suspect there was a fraud on the government."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000010_000000|"He said that, did he?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000011_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000011_000001|And he said he felt he couldn't vote for it.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000011_000002|He was shy."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000012_000000|"Not shy, child, cautious.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000012_000001|He's a very cautious man.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000012_000002|I have been with him a great deal on conference committees.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000012_000003|He wants reasons, good ones. Didn't you show him he was in error about the bill?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000013_000000|"I did.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000013_000001|I went over the whole thing.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000013_000002|I had to tell him some of the side arrangements, some of the-"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000014_000000|"You didn't mention me?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000015_000000|"Oh, no I told him you were daft about the negro and the philanthropy part of it, as you are."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000016_000000|"Daft is a little strong, Laura.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000016_000001|But you know that I wouldn't touch this bill if it were not for the public good, and for the good of the colored race; much as I am interested in the heirs of this property, and would like to have them succeed."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000017_000000|Laura looked a little incredulous, and the Senator proceeded.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000018_000000|"Don't misunderstand me, I don't deny that it is for the interest of all of us that this bill should go through, and it will.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000018_000001|I have no concealments from you.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000018_000002|But I have one principle in my public life, which I should like you to keep in mind; it has always been my guide.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000018_000003|I never push a private interest if it is not Justified and ennobled by some larger public good.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000019_000000|The Senator spoke with feeling, and then added,
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000020_000000|"I hope you showed Hopperson that our motives were pure?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000021_000000|"Yes, and he seemed to have a new light on the measure: I think will vote for it."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000022_000000|"I hope so; his name will give tone and strength to it.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000022_000001|I knew you would only have to show him that it was just and pure, in order to secure his cordial support."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000023_000000|"I think I convinced him.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000023_000001|Yes, I am perfectly sure he will vote right now."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000024_000000|"That's good, that's good," said the Senator; smiling, and rubbing his hands.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000024_000001|"Is there anything more?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000025_000000|"You'll find some changes in that I guess," handing the Senator a printed list of names.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000025_000001|"Those checked off are all right."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000026_000001|"That's encouraging.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000026_000002|What is the 'C' before some of the names, and the 'B.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000027_000000|"Those are my private marks.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000027_000001|That 'C' stands for 'convinced,' with argument.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000027_000002|The 'B.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000027_000004|You see it stands before three of the honorable
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000027_000005|Committee.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000027_000006|I expect to see the chairman of the committee to day, mr Buckstone."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000028_000000|"So, you must, he ought to be seen without any delay.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000028_000002|If we secure him we shall have a favorable report by the committee, and it will be a great thing to be able to state that fact quietly where it will do good."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000029_000000|"Oh, I saw Senator Balloon"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000030_000000|"He will help us, I suppose?
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000030_000001|Balloon is a whole hearted fellow.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000030_000002|I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000030_000003|He puts on an air of levity sometimes, but there aint a man in the senate knows the scriptures as he does.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000030_000004|He did not make any objections?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000031_000000|"Not exactly, he said-shall I tell you what he said?" asked Laura glancing furtively at him.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000032_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000033_000000|"He said he had no doubt it was a good thing; if Senator Dilworthy was in it, it would pay to look into it."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000034_000000|The Senator laughed, but rather feebly, and said, "Balloon is always full of his jokes."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000035_000000|"I explained it to him.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000035_000001|He said it was all right, he only wanted a word with you,", continued Laura.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000035_000002|"He is a handsome old gentleman, and he is gallant for an old man."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000036_000000|"My daughter," said the Senator, with a grave look, "I trust there was nothing free in his manner?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000037_000000|"Free?" repeated Laura, with indignation in her face.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000037_000001|"With me!"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000038_000000|"There, there, child.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000038_000001|I meant nothing, Balloon talks a little freely sometimes, with men.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000038_000002|But he is right at heart.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000038_000003|His term expires next year and I fear we shall lose him."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000039_000000|"He seemed to be packing the day I was there.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000039_000001|His rooms were full of dry goods boxes, into which his servant was crowding all manner of old clothes and stuff: I suppose he will paint 'Pub.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000039_000002|Docs' on them and frank them home.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000039_000003|That's good economy, isn't it?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000040_000000|"Yes, yes, but child, all Congressmen do that.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000040_000001|It may not be strictly honest, indeed it is not unless he had some public documents mixed in with the clothes."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000041_000000|"It's a funny world.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000041_000001|Good bye, uncle.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000041_000002|I'm going to see that chairman."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000042_000001|Before she did that, however, she took out her note book and was soon deep in its contents; marking, dashing, erasing, figuring, and talking to herself.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000000|"Free!
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000001|I wonder what Dilworthy does think of me anyway?
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000003|Wouldn't Dilworthy open his eyes if he knew some of the things Balloon did say to me.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000004|There . . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000005|Hopperson's influence ought to count twenty . . . the sanctimonious old curmudgeon.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000006|Son in law . . . sinecure in the negro institution. . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000007|That about gauges him. . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000008|The three committeemen . . . sons in law.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000009|Nothing like a son in law here in Washington or a brother in law. . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000010|And everybody has 'em. . . .Let's see: . . . sixty one. . . . with places . . . twenty five . . . persuaded-it is getting on; . . . . we'll have two thirds of Congress in time . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000011|Dilworthy must surely know I understand him.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000012|Uncle Dilworthy . . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000013|Uncle Balloon!--Tells very amusing stories . . . when ladies are not present . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000015|There.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000016|I must find that chairman.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000017|Queer. . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000019|Seemed to be in love . . . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000020|I was sure of it.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000021|He promised to come here . . . and he hasn't. . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000022|Strange.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000023|Very strange . . . .
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000043_000024|I must chance to meet him to day."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000045_000000|While Laura is on her errand to find mr Buckstone, it may not be out of the way to remark that she knew quite as much of Washington life as Senator Dilworthy gave her credit for, and more than she thought proper to tell him.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000045_000001|She was acquainted by this time with a good many of the young fellows of Newspaper Row; and exchanged gossip with them to their mutual advantage.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000046_000000|They were always talking in the Row, everlastingly gossiping, bantering and sarcastically praising things, and going on in a style which was a curious commingling of earnest and persiflage.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000047_000000|It seems that they had got hold of the dry goods box packing story about Balloon, one day, and were talking it over when the Colonel came in.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000047_000001|The Colonel wanted to know all about it, and Hicks told him.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000047_000002|And then Hicks went on, with a serious air,
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000048_000001|And if you pay fifteen cents for registering it, the government will have to take extra care of it and even pay you back its full value if it is lost.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000048_000002|Isn't that so?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000049_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000049_000001|I suppose it's so.".
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000050_000000|"Well Senator Balloon put fifteen cents worth of stamps on each of those seven huge boxes of old clothes, and shipped that ton of second-hand rubbish, old boots and pantaloons and what not through the mails as registered matter!
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000050_000001|It was an ingenious thing and it had a genuine touch of humor about it, too.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000050_000002|I think there is more real talent among our public men of to day than there was among those of old times-a far more fertile fancy, a much happier ingenuity.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000050_000003|Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or john Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? Statesmen were dull creatures in those days.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000050_000004|I have a much greater admiration for Senator Balloon."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000051_000000|"Yes, Balloon is a man of parts, there is no denying it"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000052_000000|"I think so.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000052_000001|He is spoken of for the post of Minister to China, or Austria, and I hope will be appointed.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000052_000002|What we want abroad is good examples of the national character.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000053_000000|"john Jay and Benjamin Franklin were well enough in their day, but the nation has made progress since then.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000053_000001|Balloon is a man we know and can depend on to be true to himself."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000054_000000|"Yes, and Balloon has had a good deal of public experience.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000054_000002|He was governor of one of the territories a while, and was very satisfactory."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000055_000000|"Indeed he was.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000055_000001|He was ex officio Indian agent, too.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000055_000002|Many a man would have taken the Indian appropriation and devoted the money to feeding and clothing the helpless savages, whose land had been taken from them by the white man in the interests of civilization; but Balloon knew their needs better.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000055_000003|He built a government saw mill on the reservation with the money, and the lumber sold for enormous prices-a relative of his did all the work free of charge-that is to say he charged nothing more than the lumber would bring." "But the poor Injuns-not that I care much for Injuns-what did he do for them?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000056_000000|"Gave them the outside slabs to fence in the reservation with.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000056_000001|Governor Balloon was nothing less than a father to the poor Indians.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000056_000002|But Balloon is not alone, we have many truly noble statesmen in our country's service like Balloon.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000056_000003|The Senate is full of them.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000056_000004|Don't you think so Colonel?"
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000057_000001|I honor my country's public servants as much as any one can.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000057_000002|I meet them, Sir, every day, and the more I see of them the more I esteem them and the more grateful I am that our institutions give us the opportunity of securing their services.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000057_000003|Few lands are so blest."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000058_000000|"That is true, Colonel.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000058_000001|To be sure you can buy now and then a Senator or a Representative but they do not know it is wrong, and so they are not ashamed of it.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000058_000004|Sellers."
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000059_000001|That is what Dilworthy said.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000059_000002|And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to-to-bribery.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000059_000003|It is a harsh term.
train-clean-100/3607/29116/3607_29116_000059_000004|I do not like to use it."
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train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000012_000000|On the eighth of April, fourteen ninety two, in a bedroom of the Carneggi Palace, about three miles from Florence, were three men grouped about a bed whereon a fourth lay dying.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000016_000000|The man on the bed was Lorenzo the Magnificent, who at the beginning of the year had been attacked by a severe and deep seated fever, to which was added the gout, a hereditary ailment in his family.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000017_000000|It was not, however, without an inward fear, against which the praises of his friends availed nothing, that the pleasure seeker and usurper awaited that severe and gloomy preacher by whose words all Florence was stirred, and on whose pardon henceforth depended all his hope for another world.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000018_000000|Indeed, Savonarola was one of those men of stone, coming, like the statue of the Commandante, to knock at the door of a Don Giovanni, and in the midst of feast and orgy to announce that it is even now the moment to begin to think of Heaven.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000018_000002|There, where he was appointed by his superiors to give lessons in philosophy, the young novice had from the first to battle against the defects of a voice that was both harsh and weak, a defective pronunciation, and above all, the depression of his physical powers, exhausted as they were by too severe abstinence.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000019_000000|Savonarola from that time condemned himself to the most absolute seclusion, and disappeared in the depths of his convent, as if the slab of his tomb had already fallen over him.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000019_000001|There, kneeling on the flags, praying unceasingly before a wooden crucifix, fevered by vigils and penances, he soon passed out of contemplation into ecstasy, and began to feel in himself that inward prophetic impulse which summoned him to preach the reformation of the Church.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000000|Nevertheless, the reformation of Savonarola, more reverential than Luther's, which followed about five and twenty years later, respected the thing while attacking the man, and had as its aim the altering of teaching that was human, not faith that was of God.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000001|He did not work, like the German monk, by reasoning, but by enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000002|With him logic always gave way before inspiration: he was not a theologian, but a prophet.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000003|Yet, although hitherto he had bowed his head before the authority of the Church, he had already raised it against the temporal power.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000004|To him religion and liberty appeared as two virgins equally sacred; so that, in his view, Lorenzo in subjugating the one was as culpable as Pope Innocent the eighth in dishonouring the other.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000005|The result of this was that, so long as Lorenzo lived in riches, happiness, and magnificence, Savonarola had never been willing, whatever entreaties were made, to sanction by his presence a power which he considered illegitimate.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000006|But Lorenzo on his deathbed sent for him, and that was another matter.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000020_000007|The austere preacher set forth at once, bareheaded and barefoot, hoping to save not only the soul of the dying man but also the liberty of the republic.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000021_000000|Lorenzo, as we have said, was awaiting the arrival of Savonarola with an impatience mixed with uneasiness; so that, when he heard the sound of his steps, his pale face took a yet more deathlike tinge, while at the same time he raised himself on his elbow and ordered his three friends to go away.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000021_000001|They obeyed at once, and scarcely had they left by one door than the curtain of the other was raised, and the monk, pale, immovable, solemn, appeared on the threshold.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000021_000002|When he perceived him, Lorenzo dei Medici, reading in his marble brow the inflexibility of a statue, fell back on his bed, breathing a sigh so profound that one might have supposed it was his last.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000022_000000|The monk glanced round the room as though to assure himself that he was really alone with the dying man; then he advanced with a slow and solemn step towards the bed.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000022_000001|Lorenzo watched his approach with terror; then, when he was close beside him, he cried:
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000023_000000|"O my father, I have been a very great sinner!"
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000026_000000|"Your sins and also your crimes, God will forgive them all," replied Savonarola.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000026_000001|"God will forgive your vanities, your adulterous pleasures, your obscene festivals; so much for your sins.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000026_000003|Then at last, when he had finished, Lorenzo asked in a doubtful tone:
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000028_000000|"Everything," said Savonarola, "but on three conditions."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000029_000000|"What are they?" asked the dying man.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000030_000000|"The first," said Savonarola, "is that you feel a complete faith in the power and the mercy of God."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000031_000000|"My father," replied Lorenzo eagerly, "I feel this faith in the very depths of my heart."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000032_000000|"The second," said Savonarola, "is that you give back the property of others which you have unjustly confiscated and kept."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000033_000000|"My father, shall I have time?" asked the dying man.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000034_000000|"God will give it to you," replied the monk.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000035_000000|Lorenzo shut his eyes, as though to reflect more at his ease; then, after a moment's silence, he replied:
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000036_000000|"Yes, my father, I will do it."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000037_000000|"The third," resumed Savonarola, "is that you restore to the republic her ancient independence and her former liberty."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000038_000000|Lorenzo sat up on his bed, shaken by a convulsive movement, and questioned with his eyes the eyes of the Dominican, as though he would find out if he had deceived himself and not heard aright.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000038_000001|Savonarola repeated the same words.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000039_000000|"Never!
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000039_000001|never!" exclaimed Lorenzo, falling back on his bed and shaking his head,--"never!"
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000040_000000|The monk, without replying a single word, made a step to withdraw.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000041_000000|"My father, my father," said the dying man, "do not leave me thus: have pity on me!"
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000042_000000|"Have pity on Florence," said the monk.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000043_000000|"But, my father," cried Lorenzo, "Florence is free, Florence is happy."
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000046_000000|"It is not I who desire it; it is the Lord," replied Savonarola coldly.
train-clean-100/3664/11714/3664_11714_000047_000000|"Impossible, impossible!" murmured Lorenzo.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000002_000000|CHAMPION BUFFALO KILLER.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000003_000000|Shortly after the adventures mentioned in the preceding chapter, I had my celebrated buffalo hunt with Billy Comstock, a noted scout, guide and interpreter, who was then chief of scouts at Fort Wallace, Kansas. Comstock had the reputation, for a long time, of being a most successful buffalo hunter, and the officers in particular, who had seen him kill buffaloes, were very desirous of backing him in a match against me.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000003_000001|It was accordingly arranged that I should shoot him a buffalo killing match, and the preliminaries were easily and satisfactorily agreed upon.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000003_000002|We were to hunt one day of eight hours, beginning at eight o'clock in the morning, and closing at four o'clock in the afternoon.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000003_000003|The wager was five hundred dollars a side, and the man who should kill the greater number of buffaloes from on horseback was to be declared the winner.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000004_000000|The hunt took place about twenty miles east of Sheridan, and as it had been pretty well advertised and noised abroad, a large crowd witnessed the interesting and exciting scene.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000004_000001|An excursion party, mostly from saint Louis, consisting of about a hundred gentlemen and ladies, came out on a special train to view the sport, and among the number was my wife, with little baby Arta, who had come to remain with me for a while.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000005_000000|The buffaloes were quite plenty, and it was agreed that we should go into the same herd at the same time and "make a run," as we called it, each one killing as many as possible.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000005_000001|A referee was to follow each of us on horseback when we entered the herd, and count the buffaloes killed by each man.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000006_000000|We were fortunate in the first run in getting good ground.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000006_000001|Comstock was mounted on one of his favorite horses, while I rode old Brigham.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000007_000000|At last the time came to begin the match.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000007_000001|Comstock and I dashed into a herd, followed by the referees.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000007_000002|The buffaloes separated; Comstock took the left bunch and I the right.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000008_000000|On this morning the buffaloes were very accommodating, and I soon had them running in a beautiful circle, when I dropped them thick and fast, until I had killed thirty eight; which finished my run.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000009_000000|Comstock began shooting at the rear of the herd, which he was chasing, and they kept straight on.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000009_000001|He succeeded, however, in killing twenty three, but they were scattered over a distance of three miles, while mine lay close together.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000009_000002|I had "nursed" my buffaloes, as a billiard player does the balls when he makes a big run.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000010_000000|After the result of the first run had been duly announced, our saint Louis excursion friends-who had approached to the place where we had stopped-set out a lot of champagne, which they had brought with them, and which proved a good drink on a Kansas prairie, and a buffalo hunter was a good man to get away with it.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000011_000000|While taking a short rest, we suddenly spied another herd of buffaloes coming toward us.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000011_000001|It was only a small drove, and we at once prepared to give the animals a lively reception.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000011_000002|They proved to be a herd of cows and calves-which, by the way, are quicker in their movements than the bulls. We charged in among them, and I concluded my run with a score of eighteen, while Comstock killed fourteen.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000011_000003|The score now stood fifty six to thirty seven, in my favor.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000012_000000|Again the excursion party approached, and once more the champagne was tapped.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000012_000001|After we had eaten a lunch which was spread for us, we resumed the hunt.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000012_000002|Striking out for a distance of three miles, we came up close to another herd.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000012_000003|As I was so far ahead of my competitor in the number killed, I thought I could afford to give an extra exhibition of my skill. I had told the ladies that I would, on the next run, ride my horse without saddle or bridle.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000012_000004|This had raised the excitement to fever heat among the excursionists, and I remember one fair lady who endeavored to prevail upon me not to attempt it.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000013_000000|"That's nothing at all," said I; "I have done it many a time, and old Brigham knows as well as I what I am doing, and sometimes a great deal better."
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000014_000000|So, leaving my saddle and bridle with the wagons, we rode to the windward of the buffaloes, as usual, and when within a few hundred yards of them we dashed into the herd.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000014_000001|I soon had thirteen laid out on the ground, the last one of which I had driven down close to the wagons, where the ladies were.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000014_000002|It frightened some of the tender creatures to see the buffalo coming at full speed directly toward them; but when he had got within fifty yards of one of the wagons, I shot him dead in his tracks.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000014_000003|This made my sixty ninth buffalo, and finished my third and last run, Comstock having killed forty six.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000016_000003|After surrounding the two men they suddenly attacked them.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000016_000004|They killed, scalped and robbed Comstock; but Grover, although severely wounded, made his escape, owing to the fleetness of the excellent horse which he was riding.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000016_000005|This sad event occurred august twenty seventh eighteen sixty eight.]
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000017_000001|In this connection it will not be out of place to state that during the time I was hunting for the Kansas Pacific, I always brought into camp the best buffalo heads, and turned them over to the company, who found a very good use for them.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000018_000000|The end of the track finally reached Sheridan, in the month of May, eighteen sixty eight, and as the road was not to be built any farther just then, my services as a hunter were not any longer required.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000018_000001|At this time there was a general Indian war raging all along the western borders.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000018_000002|General Sheridan had taken up his headquarters at Fort Hayes, in order to be in the field to superintend the campaign in person.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000018_000003|As scouts and guides were in great demand, I concluded once more to take up my old avocation of scouting and guiding for the army.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000019_000000|Having no suitable place in which to leave my old and faithful buffalo hunter Brigham, and not wishing to kill him by scouting, I determined to dispose of him.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000019_000001|I was very reluctant to part with him, but I consoled myself with the thought that he would not be likely to receive harder usage in other hands than he had in mine.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000019_000002|I had several good offers to sell him; but at the suggestion of some gentlemen in Sheridan, all of whom were anxious to obtain possession of the horse, I put him up at a raffle, in order to give them all an equal chance of becoming the owner of the famous steed.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000019_000003|There were ten chances at thirty dollars each, and they were all quickly taken.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000000|Old Brigham was won by a gentleman-mr
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000001|Ike Bonham,--who took him to Wyandotte, Kansas, where he soon added new laurels to his already brilliant record.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000002|Although I am getting ahead of my story, I must now follow Brigham for a while.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000003|A grand tournament came off four miles from Wyandotte, and Brigham took part in it.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000004|As has already been stated, his appearance was not very prepossessing, and nobody suspected him of being anything but the most ordinary kind of a plug.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000005|The friends of the rider laughed at him for being mounted on such a dizzy looking steed.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000006|When the exercises-which were of a very tame character, being more for style than speed-were over, and just as the crowd were about to return to the city, a purse of two hundred fifty dollars was made up, to be given to the horse that could first reach Wyandotte, four miles distant.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000007|The arrangement was carried out, and Brigham was entered as one of the contestants for the purse.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000020_000008|Everybody laughed at mr Bonham when it became known that he was to ride that poky looking plug against the five thoroughbreds which were to take part in the race.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000021_000000|When all the preliminaries had been arranged, the signal was given, and off went the horses for Wyandotte.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000021_000001|For the first half mile several of the horses led Brigham, but on the second mile he began passing them one after the other, and on the third mile he was in advance of them all, and was showing them all the road at a lively rate.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000021_000002|On the fourth mile his rider let him out, and arrived at the hotel-the home station-in Wyandotte a long way ahead of his fastest competitor.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000022_000000|Everybody was surprised, as well as disgusted, that such a homely "critter" should be the winner.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000022_000001|Brigham, of course, had already acquired a wide reputation, and his name and exploits had often appeared in the newspapers, and when it was learned that this "critter" was none other than the identical buffalo hunting Brigham, nearly the whole crowd admitted that they had heard of him before, and had they known him in the first place they certainly would have ruled him out.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000023_000000|I finally lost track of Brigham, and for several years I did not know what had become of him.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000023_000002|The next day I rode out with mr Wilcox and took a look at the gallant old horse.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000023_000003|He was comfortably cared for in mr Wilcox's stable, and looked the same clever pony that he always was.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000023_000004|It seemed as if he almost remembered me, and I put my arms around his neck, as though he had been a long lost child.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000023_000005|mr Wilcox bought the horse at Wyandotte, from the gentleman who had won him at the raffle, and he intends to keep him as long as he lives.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000023_000006|I am grateful that he is in such good hands, and whenever I again visit Memphis I shall surely go and see Brigham if he is still alive.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000024_000000|But to return to the thread of my narrative, from which I have wandered. Having received the appointment of guide and scout, and having been ordered to report at Fort Larned, then commanded by Captain Dangerfield Parker, I saw it was necessary to take my family-who had remained with me at Sheridan, after the buffalo hunting match-to Leavenworth, and there leave them.
train-clean-100/3664/178355/3664_178355_000024_000001|This I did at once, and after providing them with a comfortable little home, I returned and reported for duty at Fort Larned.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty six.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000003_000000|General Ord, commanding the Department of the Platte at the time, and who had been out on the Alexis hunt, had some business to attend to at Fort McPherson, and I accepted his invitation to ride over to the post with him in an ambulance.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000003_000001|On the way thither he asked me how I would like to have an officer's commission in the regular army.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000003_000002|He said that General Sheridan and himself had had some conversation about the matter, and if I wanted a commission, one could easily be procured for me.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000003_000003|I thanked General Ord for his kindness, and said that although an officer's commission in the regular army was a tempting prize, yet I preferred to remain in the position I was then holding.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000004_000000|Having determined to visit New York, I acted upon General Sheridan's suggestion and wrote to General Stager, from whom in a few days I received my railroad passes.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000004_000001|Obtaining thirty days' leave of absence from the department, I struck out for the East.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000004_000002|On arriving in Chicago, in February, eighteen seventy two, I was met at the depot by Colonel m v
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000004_000003|Sheridan, who said that his brother, the General, had not yet returned, but had sent word that I was to be his and the Colonel's guest, at their house, while I remained in Chicago.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000005_000001|I was introduced to quite a number of the best people of the city, and was invited to several "swell" dinners.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000005_000002|I also accompanied General Sheridan-who meantime had returned to the city-to a ball at Riverside-an aristocratic suburb.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000007_000001|This was my first trip to the East, and I had not yet become accustomed to being stared at.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000007_000002|And besides this, the hundreds of questions which I was called upon to answer further embarrassed and perplexed me.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000008_000000|According to the route laid out for me by General Stager, I was to stop at Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Rochester on my way to New York, and he provided me with all the necessary railroad passes.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000008_000001|Just as I was about to leave Chicago I met Professor Henry a Ward, of Rochester, for whom during the previous year or two I had collected a large number of specimens of wild animals.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000008_000002|He was on his way to Rochester, and kindly volunteered to act as my guide until we reached that point.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000009_000001|Hecksher, who had been appointed as "a committee of one" to escort me to the Union Club, where james Gordon Bennett, Leonard w Jerome and others were to give me an informal reception, and where I was to make my headquarters during my visit in the great metropolis.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000009_000002|I had an elegant dinner at the club rooms, with the gentlemen who had been out on the September hunt, and other members of the club.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000010_000001|He was delighted to see me, and insisted on my becoming his guest.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000010_000002|He would listen to no excuses, and on introducing me to Messrs.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000010_000003|Overton and Blair, proprietors of the Brevoort, they also gave me a pressing invitation to make my home at their house.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000010_000004|I finally compromised the matter by agreeing to divide my time between the Union Club, the Brevoort House, and Ned Buntline's quarters.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000000|The next few days I spent in viewing the sights of New York, everything being new and startling, convincing me that as yet I had seen but a small portion of the world.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000001|I received numerous dinner invitations, as well as invitations to visit different places of amusement and interest; but as they came in so thick and fast, I soon became badly demoralized and confused.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000002|I found I had accepted invitations to dine at half a dozen or more houses on the same day and at the same hour.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000003|james Gordon Bennett had prepared a dinner for me, at which quite a large number of his friends were to be present, but owing to my confusion, arising from the many other invitations I had received, I forgot all about it, and dined elsewhere.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000004|This was "a bad break," but I did not learn of my mistake until next day, when at the Union Club House several gentlemen, among them Lawrence Jerome, inquired "where in the world I had been," and why I had not put in an appearance at Bennett's dinner.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000005|They said that Bennett had taken great pains to give me a splendid reception, that the party had waited till nine o'clock for me, and that my non arrival caused considerable disappointment.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000006|I apologized as well as I could, by saying that I had been out on a scout and had got lost, and had forgotten all about the dinner; and expressed my regret for the disappointment I had created by my forgetfulness.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000011_000007|August Belmont, the banker, being near said:
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000012_000000|"Never mind, gentlemen, I'll give Cody a dinner at my house."
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000013_000000|"Thank you, sir," said I; "I see you are determined that I shall not run short of rations while I am in the city.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000013_000001|I'll be there, sure."
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000014_000000|Both mr Jerome and mr Hecksher told me that I must not disappoint mr Belmont, for his dinners were splendid affairs.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000014_000001|I made a note of the date, and at the appointed time I was promptly at mr Belmont's mansion, where I spent a very enjoyable evening.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000015_000000|mr Bennett, who was among the guests, having forgiven my carelessness, invited me to accompany him to the Liederkranz masked ball, which was to take place in a few evenings, and would be a grand spectacle.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000015_000001|Together we attended the ball, and during the evening I was well entertained.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000015_000002|The dancers kept on their masks until midnight, and the merry and motley throng presented a brilliant scene, moving gracefully beneath the bright gas light to the inspiriting music.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000016_000000|Acting upon the suggestion of mr Bennett, I had dressed myself in my buckskin suit, and I naturally attracted considerable attention; especially when I took part in the dancing and exhibited some of my backwoods steps, which, although not as graceful as some, were a great deal more emphatic.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000016_000001|But when I undertook to do artistic dancing, I found I was decidedly out of place in that crowd, and I accordingly withdrew from the floor.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000017_000000|I occasionally passed an evening at Niblo's Garden, viewing the many beauties of "The Black Crook," which was then having its long run, under the management of Jarrett and Palmer, whose acquaintance I had made, and who extended to me the freedom of the theater.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000018_000001|The drama was called "Buffalo Bill, the King of Border Men." While I was in New York it was produced at the Bowery Theater; j b
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000018_000003|I was curious to see how I would look when represented by some one else, and of course I was present on the opening night, a private box having been reserved for me.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000018_000005|The drama was played smoothly, and created a great deal of enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000000|The audience, upon learning that the real "Buffalo Bill" was present, gave several cheers between the acts, and I was called on to come out on the stage and make a speech.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000001|mr Freleigh, the manager, insisted that I should comply with the request, and that I should be introduced to mr Studley.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000002|I finally consented, and the next moment I found myself standing behind the footlights and in front of an audience for the first time in my life.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000003|I looked up, then down, then on each side, and everywhere I saw a sea of human faces, and thousands of eyes all staring at me.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000004|I confess that I felt very much embarrassed-never more so in my life-and I knew not what to say.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000006|My utterances were inaudible even to the leader of the orchestra, mr Dean, who was sitting only a few feet in front of me. Bowing to the audience, I beat a hasty retreat into one of the canons of the stage.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000007|I never felt more relieved in my life than when I got out of the view of that immense crowd.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000008|That evening mr Freleigh offered to give me five hundred dollars a week to play the part of "Buffalo Bill" myself.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000010|I thanked him for the generous offer, which I had to decline owing to a lack of confidence in myself; or as some people might express it, I didn't have the requisite cheek to undertake a thing of that sort.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000019_000011|The play of "Buffalo Bill" had a very successful run of six or eight weeks, and was afterwards produced in all the principal cities of the country, everywhere being received with genuine enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000020_000000|I had been in New York about twenty days when General Sheridan arrived in the city.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000020_000001|I met him soon after he got into town.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000020_000003|This he willingly did, and then informed me that my services would soon be required at Fort McPherson, as there was to be an expedition sent out from that point.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000022_000000|Inviting us into the parlor, my uncle brought in the members of his family, among them an elderly lady, who was my grandmother, as he informed me.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000022_000001|He told me that my Aunt Eliza, his first wife, was dead, and that he had married a second time; Lizzie Guss, my cousin, I thought was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000022_000002|They were all very anxious to have us remain several days, but as I had some business to attend to in New York, I was obliged to return that day.
train-clean-100/3664/178366/3664_178366_000022_000003|Assuring them, however, that I would visit them again soon, I bade them adieu, and with Buntline took the train for New York.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000003_000000|--'twas shaped, Sir, like an ace of clubs.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000004_000000|--'tis a full inch, continued my grandfather, pressing up the ridge of his nose with his finger and thumb; and repeating his assertion-'tis a full inch longer, madam, than my father's-You must mean your uncle's, replied my great grandmother.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000005_000000|--My great grandfather was convinced.--He untwisted the paper, and signed the article.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000006_000000|Chapter two.twenty six.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000008_000000|My father, replied my grandfather, had no more nose, my dear, saving the mark, than there is upon the back of my hand.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000009_000000|--Now, you must know, that my great grandmother outlived my grandfather twelve years; so that my father had the jointure to pay, a hundred and fifty pounds half yearly-(on Michaelmas and Lady day,)--during all that time.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000011_000000|Defend me, gracious Heaven! from those persecuting spirits who make no allowances for these workings within us.--Never-O never may I lay down in their tents, who cannot relax the engine, and feel pity for the force of education, and the prevalence of opinions long derived from ancestors!
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000012_000001|He did his part however.--If education planted the mistake (in case it was one) my father watered it, and ripened it to perfection.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000019_000000|Now, my father, as I told you last year, detested all this-He pick'd up an opinion, Sir, as a man in a state of nature picks up an apple.--It becomes his own-and if he is a man of spirit, he would lose his life rather than give it up.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000020_000001|ex confesso, he will say-things were in a state of nature-The apple, is as much Frank's apple as John's.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000020_000002|Pray, mr Shandy, what patent has he to shew for it? and how did it begin to be his? was it, when he set his heart upon it?
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000020_000003|or when he gathered it? or when he chew'd it? or when he roasted it? or when he peel'd, or when he brought it home? or when he digested?--or when he-?--For 'tis plain, Sir, if the first picking up of the apple, made it not his-that no subsequent act could.
train-clean-100/3699/175950/3699_175950_000025_000000|Whilst I am worth one, to pay a weeder-thy path from thy door to thy bowling green shall never be grown up.--Whilst there is a rood and a half of land in the Shandy family, thy fortifications, my dear uncle Toby, shall never be demolish'd.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000009_000000|Yorick, for this reason, though he would often attack him-yet could never bear to do it with all his force.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000011_000000|--She has gained her point.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000013_000000|The hypothesis, like the rest of my father's, was plausible enough, and my uncle Toby had but a single word to object to it-in which Trim stood ready to second him-but my father had not drawn his conclusion-
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000018_000000|--Now, What do'st thou believe?
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000021_000000|By falling in love with a popish clergy woman; said Trim.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000022_000000|'twas a Beguine, said my uncle Toby.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000024_000000|My dear brother Toby,
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000033_000000|--A just medium prevents all conclusions.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000034_000001|Silence, and whatever approaches it, weaves dreams of midnight secrecy into the brain: For this cause, if thou canst help it, never throw down the tongs and poker.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000036_000000|--They are all books which excite laughter; and thou knowest, dear Toby, that there is no passion so serious as lust.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000037_000000|Stick a pin in the bosom of thy shirt, before thou enterest her parlour.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000042_000000|--Unless the breaking out of a fresh war-So wishing every thing, dear Toby, for best,
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000043_000000|I rest thy affectionate brother,
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000044_000000|Walter Shandy.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000046_000001|As the turning of the thin scarlet breeches was laid aside (at least for the present), there was nothing which should put it off beyond the next morning; so accordingly it was resolv'd upon, for eleven o'clock.
train-clean-100/3699/19401/3699_19401_000049_000000|I could like, said my mother, to look through the key hole out of curiosity-Call it by its right name, my dear, quoth my father-
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000007_000000|A temperate current of blood ran orderly through her veins in all months of the year, and in all critical moments both of the day and night alike; nor did she superinduce the least heat into her humours from the manual effervescencies of devotional tracts, which having little or no meaning in them, nature is oft times obliged to find one-And as for my father's example!
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000008_000000|The mistake in my father, was in attacking my mother's motive, instead of the act itself; for certainly key holes were made for other purposes; and considering the act, as an act which interfered with a true proposition, and denied a key hole to be what it was-it became a violation of nature; and was so far, you see, criminal.
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000009_000000|It is for this reason, an' please your Reverences, That key holes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000015_000000|As for the thin scarlet breeches, they had been unripp'd by the taylor between the legs, and left at sixes and sevens-
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000016_000001|It is enough they were held impracticable the night before, and as there was no alternative in my uncle Toby's wardrobe, he sallied forth in the red plush.
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000018_000000|--It looks well at least; quoth my father to himself.
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000020_000000|My uncle Toby turn'd his head more than once behind him, to see how he was supported by the corporal; and the corporal as oft as he did it, gave a slight flourish with his stick-but not vapouringly; and with the sweetest accent of most respectful encouragement, bid his honour 'never fear.'
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000024_000000|She cannot, quoth my uncle Toby, halting, when they had march'd up to within twenty paces of mrs Wadman's door-she cannot, corporal, take it amiss.--
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000026_000001|quoth my uncle Toby, facing quite about to the corporal.
train-clean-100/3699/19402/3699_19402_000034_000000|My uncle Toby look'd earnestly towards his cottage and his bowling green.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000001_000001|Nice distinctions are troublesome.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000001_000002|It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000002_000001|Moreover, Miss Phipps was conscious that if the Countess was not a disreputable person, she, Miss Phipps, had no compensating superiority in virtue to set against the other lady's manifest superiority in personal charms.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000002_000003|Miss Phipps, for her part, didn't like dressing for effect-she had always avoided that style of appearance which was calculated to create a sensation.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000003_000001|mr Bridmain, in fact, quadragenarian bachelor as he was, felt extremely well pleased to receive his sister in her widowhood, and to shine in the reflected light of her beauty and title.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000003_000003|mr Bridmain had put his neck under the yoke of his handsome sister, and though his soul was a very little one-of the smallest description indeed-he would not have ventured to call it his own.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000003_000004|He might be slightly recalcitrant now and then, as is the habit of long eared pachyderms, under the thong of the fair Countess's tongue; but there seemed little probability that he would ever get his neck loose.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000003_000005|Still, a bachelor's heart is an outlying fortress that some fair enemy may any day take either by storm or stratagem; and there was always the possibility that mr Bridmain's first nuptials might occur before the Countess was quite sure of her second.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000004_000002|She had had seven years of sufficiently happy matrimony with Czerlaski, who had taken her to Paris and Germany, and introduced her there to many of his old friends with large titles and small fortunes.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000004_000004|One of these conclusions was, that there were things more solid in life than fine whiskers and a title, and that, in accepting a second husband, she would regard these items as quite subordinate to a carriage and a settlement.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000004_000006|mr Bridmain's slow brain had adopted his sister's views, and it seemed to him that a woman so handsome and distinguished as the Countess must certainly make a match that might lift himself into the region of county celebrities, and give him at least a sort of cousinship to the quarter sessions.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000005_000000|All this, which was the simple truth, would have seemed extremely flat to the gossips of Milby, who had made up their minds to something much more exciting.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000005_000001|There was nothing here so very detestable.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000005_000002|It is true, the Countess was a little vain, a little ambitious, a little selfish, a little shallow and frivolous, a little given to white lies.--But who considers such slight blemishes, such moral pimples as these, disqualifications for entering into the most respectable society!
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000006_000001|So she began to feel that she had miscalculated the advantages of a neighbourhood where people are well acquainted with each other's private affairs.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000006_000002|Under these circumstances, you will imagine how welcome was the perfect credence and admiration she met with from mr and mrs Barton.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000006_000006|Let us do this one sly trick, says Ulysses to Neoptolemus, and we will be perfectly honest ever after-
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000009_000002|As for Milly, the Countess really loved her as well as the preoccupied state of her affections would allow.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000010_000000|Thus there was really not much affectation in her sweet speeches and attentions to mr and mrs Barton.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000010_000001|Still their friendship by no means adequately represented the object she had in view when she came to Milby, and it had been for some time clear to her that she must suggest a new change of residence to her brother.
train-clean-100/3699/47246/3699_47246_000011_000001|The Countess did actually leave Camp Villa before many months were past, but under circumstances which had not at all entered into her contemplation.
train-clean-100/3723/171115/3723_171115_000003_000000|one.
train-clean-100/3723/171115/3723_171115_000003_000001|In the mean time, Herod's affairs in Judea were in an ill state.
train-clean-100/3723/171115/3723_171115_000005_000000|three.
train-clean-100/3723/171115/3723_171115_000007_000000|five.
train-clean-100/3723/171115/3723_171115_000008_000000|six.
train-clean-100/3723/171631/3723_171631_000016_000001|It is always in action and motion, still busy, still pretending to do all, to furnish all the powers and faculties with all that they have; but if an enemy dare rise up against it, it is the soonest endangered, the soonest defeated of any part.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000006_000000|Chapter sixteen
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000009_000000|From that time, seeing that I could not change my mistress's life, I changed my own.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000009_000001|I wished above all not to leave myself time to think over the position I had accepted, for, in spite of myself, it was a great distress to me.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000009_000002|Thus my life, generally so calm, assumed all at once an appearance of noise and disorder.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000009_000003|Never believe, however disinterested the love of a kept woman may be, that it will cost one nothing.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000009_000004|Nothing is so expensive as their caprices, flowers, boxes at the theatre, suppers, days in the country, which one can never refuse to one's mistress.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000010_000000|As I have told you, I had little money.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000011_000000|It is worth forty thousand francs a year, and during the ten years that he has had it, he has paid off the security and put aside a dowry for my sister.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000011_000003|I came to Paris, studied law, was called to the bar, and, like many other young men, put my diploma in my pocket, and let myself drift, as one so easily does in Paris.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000012_000000|My expenses were very moderate; only I used up my year's income in eight months, and spent the four summer months with my father, which practically gave me twelve thousand francs a year, and, in addition, the reputation of a good son.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000012_000001|For the rest, not a penny of debt.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000013_000000|This, then, was my position when I made the acquaintance of Marguerite. You can well understand that, in spite of myself, my expenses soon increased.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000013_000001|Marguerite's nature was very capricious, and, like so many women, she never regarded as a serious expense those thousand and one distractions which made up her life.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000013_000002|So, wishing to spend as much time with me as possible, she would write to me in the morning that she would dine with me, not at home, but at some restaurant in Paris or in the country.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000013_000003|I would call for her, and we would dine and go on to the theatre, often having supper as well; and by the end of the evening I had spent four or five louis, which came to two or three thousand francs a month, which reduced my year to three months and a half, and made it necessary for me either to go into debt or to leave Marguerite.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000013_000004|I would have consented to anything except the latter.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000014_000000|Forgive me if I give you all these details, but you will see that they were the cause of what was to follow.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000014_000001|What I tell you is a true and simple story, and I leave to it all the naivete of its details and all the simplicity of its developments.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000016_000000|I began by borrowing five or six thousand francs on my little capital, and with this I took to gambling.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000016_000001|Since gambling houses were destroyed gambling goes on everywhere.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000016_000002|Formerly, when one went to Frascati, one had the chance of making a fortune; one played against money, and if one lost, there was always the consolation of saying that one might have gained; whereas now, except in the clubs, where there is still a certain rigour in regard to payments, one is almost certain, the moment one gains a considerable sum, not to receive it.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000016_000003|You will readily understand why.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000016_000004|Gambling is only likely to be carried on by young people very much in need of money and not possessing the fortune necessary for supporting the life they lead; they gamble, then, and with this result; or else they gain, and then those who lose serve to pay for their horses and mistresses, which is very disagreeable.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000018_000001|What else could I have done?
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000019_000001|Jealousy would have kept me awake, and inflamed my blood and my thoughts; while gambling gave a new turn to the fever which would otherwise have preyed upon my heart, and fixed it upon a passion which laid hold on me in spite of myself, until the hour struck when I might go to my mistress.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000019_000002|Then, and by this I knew the violence of my love, I left the table without a moment's hesitation, whether I was winning or losing, pitying those whom I left behind because they would not, like me, find their real happiness in leaving it.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000019_000003|For the most of them, gambling was a necessity; for me, it was a remedy.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000019_000004|Free of Marguerite, I should have been free of gambling.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000020_000000|Thus, in the midst of all that, I preserved a considerable amount of self possession; I lost only what I was able to pay, and gained only what I should have been able to lose.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000021_000000|For the rest, chance was on my side.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000021_000001|I made no debts, and I spent three times as much money as when I did not gamble.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000021_000002|It was impossible to resist an existence which gave me an easy means of satisfying the thousand caprices of Marguerite.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000021_000003|As for her, she continued to love me as much, or even more than ever.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000022_000000|As I told you, I began by being allowed to stay only from midnight to six o'clock, then I was asked sometimes to a box in the theatre, then she sometimes came to dine with me.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000022_000001|One morning I did not go till eight, and there came a day when I did not go till twelve.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000023_000000|But, sooner than the moral metamorphosis, a physical metamorphosis came about in Marguerite.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000023_000001|I had taken her cure in hand, and the poor girl, seeing my aim, obeyed me in order to prove her gratitude.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000023_000002|I had succeeded without effort or trouble in almost isolating her from her former habits.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000023_000003|My doctor, whom I had made her meet, had told me that only rest and calm could preserve her health, so that in place of supper and sleepless nights, I succeeded in substituting a hygienic regime and regular sleep.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000023_000004|In spite of herself, Marguerite got accustomed to this new existence, whose salutary effects she already realized.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000023_000006|She would come in tired, take a light supper, and go to bed after a little music or reading, which she had never been used to do.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000024_000000|At the end of six weeks the count was entirely given up, and only the duke obliged me to conceal my liaison with Marguerite, and even he was sent away when I was there, under the pretext that she was asleep and had given orders that she was not to be awakened.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000025_000000|The habit or the need of seeing me which Marguerite had now contracted had this good result: that it forced me to leave the gaming table just at the moment when an adroit gambler would have left it.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000027_000000|Just then, one fine day in summer, Marguerite was awakened by the sunlight pouring into her room, and, jumping out of bed, asked me if I would take her into the country for the whole day.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000028_000001|Duvernoy.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000029_000001|Duvernoy being needful on account of the old duke, Prudence was one of those women who seem made on purpose for days in the country.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000029_000002|With her unchanging good humour and her eternal appetite, she never left a dull moment to those whom she was with, and was perfectly happy in ordering eggs, cherries, milk, stewed rabbit, and all the rest of the traditional lunch in the country.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000030_000000|We had now only to decide where we should go.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000031_000000|"Do you want to go to the real country?" she asked.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000032_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000035_000004|Beyond that, Paris in the mist!
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000035_000005|As Prudence had told us, it was the real country, and, I must add, it was a real lunch.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000036_000000|It is not only out of gratitude for the happiness I owe it, but Bougival, in spite of its horrible name, is one of the prettiest places that it is possible to imagine.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000038_000000|People have always associated the country with love, and they have done well; nothing affords so fine a frame for the woman whom one loves as the blue sky, the odours, the flowers, the breeze, the shining solitude of fields, or woods.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000038_000001|However much one loves a woman, whatever confidence one may have in her, whatever certainty her past may offer us as to her future, one is always more or less jealous.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000038_000004|As for me, I experienced that more than most.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000039_000000|The courtesan disappeared little by little.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000039_000001|I had by me a young and beautiful woman, whom I loved, and who loved me, and who was called Marguerite; the past had no more reality and the future no more clouds. The sun shone upon my mistress as it might have shone upon the purest bride.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000039_000002|We walked together in those charming spots which seemed to have been made on purpose to recall the verses of Lamartine or to sing the melodies of Scudo.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000039_000003|Marguerite was dressed in white, she leaned on my arm, saying over to me again under the starry sky the words she had said to me the day before, and far off the world went on its way, without darkening with its shadow the radiant picture of our youth and love.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000040_000000|That was the dream that the hot sun brought to me that day through the leaves of the trees, as, lying on the grass of the island on which we had landed, I let my thought wander, free from the human links that had bound it, gathering to itself every hope that came in its way.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000041_000001|Climbing flowers clung about the doorway of this uninhabited house, mounting as high as the first story.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000042_000000|I looked at the house so long that I began by thinking of it as mine, so perfectly did it embody the dream that I was dreaming; I saw Marguerite and myself there, by day in the little wood that covered the hillside, in the evening seated on the grass, and I asked myself if earthly creatures had ever been so happy as we should be.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000044_000000|"Where?" asked Prudence.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000045_000000|"Yonder," and Marguerite pointed to the house in question.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000046_000000|"Ah, delicious!" replied Prudence.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000046_000001|"Do you like it?"
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000047_000000|"Very much."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000048_000000|"Well, tell the duke to take it for you; he would do so, I am sure.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000048_000001|I'll see about it if you like."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000049_000001|My dream vanished at the last words of Prudence, and brought me back to reality so brutally that I was still stunned with the fall.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000050_000000|"Yes, yes, an excellent idea," I stammered, not knowing what I was saying.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000051_000000|"Well, I will arrange that," said Marguerite, freeing my hand, and interpreting my words according to her own desire.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000051_000001|"Let us go and see if it is to let."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000052_000000|The house was empty, and to let for two thousand francs.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000053_000000|"Would you be happy here?" she said to me.
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000054_000000|"Am I sure of coming here?"
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000055_000000|"And for whom else should I bury myself here, if not for you?"
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000056_000000|"Well, then, Marguerite, let me take it myself."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000057_000001|You know perfectly well that I have no right to accept it save from one man. Let me alone, big baby, and say nothing."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000058_000000|"That means," said Prudence, "that when I have two days free I will come and spend them with you."
train-clean-100/374/180298/374_180298_000059_000000|We left the house, and started on our return to Paris, talking over the new plan.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000001_000000|Chapter seventeen
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000002_000000|Next day Marguerite sent me away very early, saying that the duke was coming at an early hour, and promising to write to me the moment he went, and to make an appointment for the evening.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000002_000001|In the course of the day I received this note:
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000003_000000|"I am going to Bougival with the duke; be at Prudence's to night at eight."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000004_000002|"Well, it is all settled," she said, as she entered.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000004_000003|"The house is taken?" asked Prudence.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000004_000004|"Yes; he agreed at once."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000005_000000|I did not know the duke, but I felt ashamed of deceiving him.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000006_000000|"But that is not all," continued Marguerite.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000007_000000|"What else is there?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000008_000000|"I have been seeing about a place for Armand to stay."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000009_000000|"In the same house?" asked Prudence, laughing.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000010_000003|I took it.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000010_000004|Was I right?" I flung my arms around her neck and kissed her.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000011_000000|"It will be charming," she continued.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000011_000002|I think, between ourselves, that he is enchanted with a caprice which will keep me out of Paris for a time, and so silence the objections of his family.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000011_000003|However, he has asked me how I, loving Paris as I do, could make up my mind to bury myself in the country.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000011_000004|I told him that I was ill, and that I wanted rest.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000011_000005|He seemed to have some difficulty in believing me. The poor old man is always on the watch.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000011_000007|Does all that suit you?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000012_000000|"Yes," I answered, trying to quiet the scruples which this way of living awoke in me from time to time.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000013_000000|"We went all over the house, and we shall have everything perfect.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000013_000001|The duke is going to look after every single thing.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000015_000000|"As soon as possible."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000016_000000|"Will you take your horses and carriage?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000017_000000|"I shall take the whole house, and you can look after my place while I am away."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000018_000000|A week later Marguerite was settled in her country house, and I was installed at Point du Jour.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000019_000000|Then began an existence which I shall have some difficulty in describing to you.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000019_000002|For a whole month there was not a day when Marguerite had not eight or ten people to meals.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000019_000003|Prudence, on her side, brought down all the people she knew, and did the honours of the house as if the house belonged to her.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000020_000000|The duke's money paid for all that, as you may imagine; but from time to time Prudence came to me, asking for a note for a thousand francs, professedly on behalf of Marguerite.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000020_000001|You know I had won some money at gambling; I therefore immediately handed over to Prudence what she asked for Marguerite, and fearing lest she should require more than I possessed, I borrowed at Paris a sum equal to that which I had already borrowed and paid back.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000020_000002|I was then once more in possession of some ten thousand francs, without reckoning my allowance.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000020_000004|The duke, who had taken the house in order that Marguerite might rest there, no longer visited it, fearing to find himself in the midst of a large and merry company, by whom he did not wish to be seen.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000021_000000|Marguerite rose from table, and joined the duke in the next room, where she tried, as far as possible, to induce him to forget the incident, but the old man, wounded in his dignity, bore her a grudge for it, and could not forgive her.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000021_000001|He said to her, somewhat cruelly, that he was tired of paying for the follies of a woman who could not even have him treated with respect under his own roof, and he went away in great indignation.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000022_000000|Since that day he had never been heard of.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000023_000000|In vain Marguerite dismissed her guests, changed her way of life; the duke was not to be heard of.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000023_000002|Marguerite could not be without me.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000023_000003|Not caring what the result might be, she publicly proclaimed our liaison, and I had come to live entirely at her house.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000023_000004|The servants addressed me officially as their master.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000024_000000|Prudence had strictly sermonized Marguerite in regard to her new manner of life; but she had replied that she loved me, that she could not live without me, and that, happen what might, she would not sacrifice the pleasure of having me constantly with her, adding that those who were not satisfied with this arrangement were free to stay away.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000024_000001|So much I had heard one day when Prudence had said to Marguerite that she had something very important to tell her, and I had listened at the door of the room into which they had shut themselves.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000025_000000|Not long after, Prudence returned again.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000025_000002|I had no doubt, from the way in which Marguerite came to meet her, that another similar conversation was going to take place, and I was anxious to hear what it was about.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000026_000000|"Well?" said Marguerite.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000027_000000|"Well, I have seen the duke."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000028_000000|"What did he say?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000029_000001|'Let Marguerite leave the young man,' he said to me, 'and, as in the past, I will give her all that she requires; if not, let her ask nothing more from me.'"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000030_000000|"And you replied?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000031_000000|"That I would report his decision to you, and I promised him that I would bring you into a more reasonable frame of mind.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000031_000001|Only think, my dear child, of the position that you are losing, and that Armand can never give you.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000031_000002|He loves you with all his soul, but he has no fortune capable of supplying your needs, and he will be bound to leave you one day, when it will be too late and when the duke will refuse to do any more for you.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000031_000003|Would you like me to speak to Armand?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000032_000000|Marguerite seemed to be thinking, for she answered nothing.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000032_000001|My heart beat violently while I waited for her reply.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000033_000000|"No," she answered, "I will not leave Armand, and I will not conceal the fact that I am living with him.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000033_000001|It is folly no doubt, but I love him. What would you have me do?
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000033_000002|And then, now that he has got accustomed to be always with me, he would suffer too cruelly if he had to leave me so much as an hour a day.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000033_000003|Besides, I have not such a long time to live that I need make myself miserable in order to please an old man whose very sight makes me feel old.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000033_000004|Let him keep his money; I will do without it."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000034_000000|"But what will you do?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000035_000000|"I don't in the least know."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000036_000000|Prudence was no doubt going to make some reply, but I entered suddenly and flung myself at Marguerite's feet, covering her hands with tears in my joy at being thus loved.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000037_000000|"My life is yours, Marguerite; you need this man no longer.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000037_000001|Am I not here?
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000037_000002|Shall I ever leave you, and can I ever repay you for the happiness that you give me?
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000037_000003|No more barriers, my Marguerite; we love; what matters all the rest?"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000038_000002|We will be happy; we will live quietly, and I will say good bye forever to the life for which I now blush.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000038_000003|You won't ever reproach me for the past? Tell me!"
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000039_000000|Tears choked my voice.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000040_000000|"Well," said she, turning to Prudence, and speaking in a broken voice, "you can report this scene to the duke, and you can add that we have no longer need of him."
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000041_000000|From that day forth the duke was never referred to.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000041_000001|Marguerite was no longer the same woman that I had known.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000041_000002|She avoided everything that might recall to me the life which she had been leading when I first met her.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000041_000003|Never did wife or sister surround husband or brother with such loving care as she had for me.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000041_000004|Her nature was morbidly open to all impressions and accessible to all sentiments.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000041_000005|She had broken equally with her friends and with her ways, with her words and with her extravagances.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000042_000000|Alas, we made haste to be happy, as if we knew that we were not to be happy long.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000043_000000|For two months we had not even been to Paris.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000044_000000|I passed whole days at the feet of my mistress.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000045_000000|Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000045_000001|There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon fly.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000045_000002|This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000047_000000|The duke wrote to her two or three times.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000047_000001|She recognised the writing and gave me the letters without reading them.
train-clean-100/374/180299/374_180299_000047_000002|Sometimes the terms of these letters brought tears to my eyes.
train-clean-100/3807/4923/3807_4923_000011_000003|It's liberty we require."
train-clean-100/3807/4923/3807_4923_000014_000001|"What, here?"
train-clean-100/3807/4923/3807_4923_000021_000002|He began to think that he was the victim of a nightmare.
train-clean-100/3807/4923/3807_4923_000028_000002|What do they mean to do next?"
train-clean-100/3807/4923/3807_4923_000029_000000|The answer came pat to the question.
train-clean-100/3807/4923/3807_4923_000029_000001|From the dark hull of the brig broke a flash and a report, and a musket ball cut the water beside them with a chirping noise.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000002_000000|CHAPTER ELEVEN
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000004_000000|OUR enjoyment of this first home did not last long.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000005_000000|In April of eighteen fifty three, the word had begun to pass around that we were to have a new Territory to embrace the country north of the Columbia River.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000005_000001|Its capital was to be on Puget Sound.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000005_000002|Here on the Columbia we should be away off to one side, out of touch with the people who would shortly become a great separate commonwealth.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000009_000000|Our expectations had been raised high by the glowing accounts of Puget Sound.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000009_000001|But a feeling of deep disappointment fell upon us when we could see in the foreground only bare, dismal mud flats, and beyond these a channel scarcely twice as wide as that of the great river we had left, bounded on either side by high, heavily timbered land.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000009_000002|We wished ourselves back at our cabin on the Columbia.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000010_000000|Should we turn around and go back?
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000010_000002|But what was the use of stopping here?
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000010_000003|We wanted a place to make a farm, and we could not do it on such forbidding land as this.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000010_000005|My first camp on Puget Sound was not cheerful.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000011_000000|Olympia at the time contained about one hundred inhabitants.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000011_000001|It had three stores, a hotel, a livery stable, a saloon, and one weekly newspaper.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000012_000000|We could not stay at Olympia.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000012_000001|We had pushed on past some good locations on the Chehalis, and farther south, without locating.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000012_000003|Oliver said no, and my better judgment also said no, though I was sorely pressed with a feeling of homesickness.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000013_000004|When I came to know the Indians better and saw their performances in these frail craft, my admiration for the canoes was even greater than my distrust had been.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000014_000000|Neither Oliver nor I had much experience in boating, and we had none in boat building.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000014_000001|However, when we had discarded the idea of taking a canoe, we set to work with a hearty good will to build us a skiff.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000014_000002|We made it out of light lumber, then easily obtained at Tumwater.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000015_000000|As in the trip across the Plains, we must provide our own transportation.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000015_000001|Here and there might be a vessel loading piles and square timber for the San Francisco market, but not a steamer was then plying on the Sound; there was not even a sailing craft that essayed to carry passengers.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000018_000000|We floated lazily with the tide, sometimes taking a few strokes with the oars, and at other times whistling for the wind.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000018_000001|The little town of Olympia to the south became dimmed by distance.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000018_000002|But we were no sooner fairly out of sight of the little village than the question came up which way to go.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000018_000003|What channel should we take?
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000019_000000|"Let the tide decide; that will carry us out toward the ocean."
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000020_000000|"No, we are drifting into another bay; that cannot be where we want to go."
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000021_000000|"Why, we are drifting right back almost in the same direction from which we came, but into another bay!
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000023_000000|"Yes, but I do not see any way out there."
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000025_000000|"The best thing we can do is to camp," said Oliver.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000026_000001|So our first night's camp was scarcely twelve miles from where we had started in the morning.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000026_000003|A beautiful pebbly beach extended almost to the water's edge even at low tide.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000026_000006|We felt so happy that we were almost glad the journey had been interrupted.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000028_000000|An encampment of Indians being near, a party of them soon visited our camp and began making signs for trade.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000030_000000|"What does she say, Oliver?"
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000031_000000|"I'm blessed if I know, but it looks as if she wanted to sell some clams."
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000032_000000|After considerable dickering, with signs and gestures and words many times repeated, we were able to impart the information that we wanted a lesson in cookery.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000032_000001|If she would show us how to cook the clams, we would buy some.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000032_000002|This brought some merriment in the camp.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000032_000003|The idea that there lived a person who did not know how to cook clams!
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000032_000004|Without saying by your leave or anything else, the motherly looking native woman began tearing down our camp fire.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000035_000000|"Let her alone, and see what she's up to," said Oliver, noticing that I was disturbed at such interference with my well laid plans for bread baking.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000036_000001|Upon these the clams were deposited.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000036_000002|They were covered with fine twigs, and upon the twigs earth was placed.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000041_000000|Thus began and ended our first lesson in the Chinook jargon, and our first experience with a clam bake.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000042_000000|This first clam bake gave us great encouragement.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000042_000001|We soon learned that the bivalves were to be found in almost unlimited quantity and were widely distributed.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000042_000002|The harvest was ready twice a day, when the tide was out, and we need have no fear of a famine even if cast away in some unfrequented place.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000044_000000|Without understanding her words, but knowing well what she meant, we fell to disposing of this, our first clam dinner.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000044_000002|The natives soon withdrew to their own camp.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000045_000000|Before retiring for the night, we repaid the visit.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000045_000002|We had been in Indian country for nearly a year, but with guns by our side, if not in our hands, during nearly half the time.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000045_000003|We had not stopped to study the Indian character.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000046_000000|We took a lesson in Chinook, and by signs and words held conversation until a late hour.
train-clean-100/3830/12529/3830_12529_000047_000000|We had made the Indians a present first, it is true; but we did not expect any return, except perhaps goodwill.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000007_000000|CHAPTER TWELVE
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000008_000000|CRUISING ABOUT ON PUGET SOUND
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000010_000000|As the tide and wind favored us, we did not stop.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000010_000001|Soon we came in sight of a fleet of seven vessels lying at anchor in a large bay, several miles in extent.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000010_000002|The sight of those seven vessels lying in the offing made a profound impression upon our minds.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000011_000000|Upon the eastern slope of the shores of this bay lay the two towns, Port Steilacoom, and Steilacoom City, both established in eighteen fifty one.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000011_000001|A far larger trade centered here than at any other point on Puget Sound, and we decided on a halt to make ourselves acquainted with the surroundings.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000011_000002|A mile and a half from the shore we found also Fort Steilacoom.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000011_000003|It was simply the camp of a company of United States soldiers, quartered in wooden shells of houses and log cabins.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000012_000000|Intense rivalry ran between the two towns, upper and lower Steilacoom, at this time.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000012_000001|As a result things were booming.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000012_000002|We were sorely tempted to accept the flattering offer of four dollars a day for common labor in a timber camp, but concluded not to be swerved from the search for a new homesite.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000013_000001|They seemed to be a listless lot, with no thought for the future, or even for the immediate present.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000013_000003|Here and there we saw a family industriously pursuing some object; but as a class they seemed to me the laziest set of people on earth.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000014_000000|That opinion was materially modified later, as I became better acquainted with their habits.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000014_000001|I have found just as industrious people, both men and women, among the Indians as among the whites.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000014_000002|The workers, it may be said, are less numerous among the men; the women are all industrious.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000015_000001|After a sober second thought, we realized that we had nothing to trade but labor; and we had not come as far as this to be laborers for hire.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000015_000002|We had come to find a place to make a farm, and a farm we were going to have.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000015_000003|Again we set about searching for claims, and the more we searched the less we liked the look of things.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000016_000002|As the sun shone warm and the tide was taking us rapidly in the direction we wanted to go, why shouldn't I doze a little too, even if we did miss some of the sightseeing?
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000018_000000|"It surely can't be," I responded, three quarters asleep.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000020_000000|We were wide awake now and gave chase.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000020_000001|Very soon we caught up with the animal and succeeded in throwing a rope over its horns.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000020_000002|By this time we had drifted into the Narrows, and we soon found we had something more important to do than to tow a deer.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000021_000001|Turning the deer loose, we pulled our best for the shore, and found shelter in an eddy.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000021_000002|A perpendicular bluff rose from the highwater mark, leaving no place for camp fire or bed.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000022_000001|It was our first introduction to a genuine tide rip.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000022_000003|A flat bottomed boat like our little skiff, we thought, could not stay afloat there very long.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000023_000000|Just then some Indian canoes came along, moving with the tide.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000023_000002|I have said well manned, but half the paddles, in fact, were wielded by women, and the post of honor, or that where most dexterity was required, was occupied by a woman.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000027_000001|We responded, partly in English and partly in Chinook, that we were, and besides that it was impossible for us to proceed against the strong current.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000031_000001|We hardly knew whether to camp in our boat or to start out on unknown waters in the dark.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000031_000002|Our Indian visitors made preparations to proceed on their journey, and assured us it was all right ahead.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000032_000000|Sure enough, a short pull with a favorable current brought us to the Narrows and into Commencement Bay, in sight of numerous camp fires in the distance.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000032_000001|I remember that camp quite vividly; though I cannot locate it exactly, I know that it was on the water front within the present limits of the large and thriving city of Tacoma.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000035_000002|The Indians told us that there were two other like obstructions a few miles farther up the river, and that the current was very strong.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000036_000001|It took a tugging of two days to go six miles.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000037_000003|Over these pack animals could pass, but wagon roads there were none; and whether a feasible route for one could be found, only time and labor could determine.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000038_000002|Oliver did not sing as usual while preparing for camp.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000038_000003|Neither did I have much to say; but I fell to work, mechanically preparing the much needed meal. We ate in silence and then went to sleep.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000039_000000|We had crossed the two great states of Illinois and Iowa, over hundreds of miles of unoccupied prairie land as rich as anything that ever "lay out of doors," on our way from Indiana to Oregon in search of land on which to make a home.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000039_000001|Here, at what we might call the end of our rope, we had found the land, but with conditions that seemed almost too adverse to overcome.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000040_000000|It was a discouraging outlook, even if there had been roads.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000040_000001|Such timber!
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000040_000002|It seemed an appalling undertaking to clear this land, the greater part of it being covered with a heavy growth of balm and alder trees and a thick tangle of underbrush besides.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000040_000003|When we fell asleep that night, it was without visions of new found wealth.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000042_000000|We lingered at the mouth of the river in doubt as to what best to do.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000042_000001|My thoughts went back to wife and baby in the lonely cabin on the Columbia River, and again to that bargain we had made before marriage, that we were going to be farmers.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000042_000002|How could we be farmers if we did not have land?
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000043_000000|With misgivings and doubts, on the fourth day Oliver and I loaded our outfit into our skiff and floated out on the receding tide, whither, we did not know.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000044_000000|As we drew off from the mouth of the Puyallup River, numerous parties of Indians were in sight.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000044_000001|Some were trolling for salmon, with a lone Indian in the bow of each canoe; others with poles were fishing for smelt; still others with nets seemed waiting for fisherman's luck.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000045_000000|Other parties were passing, those in each canoe singing a plaintive chant in minor key, accompanied by heavy strokes of the paddle handles against the sides of the canoe, as if to keep time.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000045_000001|There were some fine voices to be heard, and though there were but slight variations in the sounds or words, the Indians seemed never to tire in repeating, and I must confess we never tired of listening.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000048_000000|As we were not looking for a mill site or town site, we pushed on next day.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000048_000005|Fortune favored us, for we found a good sandy beach upon which to land, though we got a thorough drenching while so doing.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000051_000000|Here we were compelled to remain two or three days in a dismal camp, until the weather became more favorable.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000051_000001|Then launching our boat, we pulled for the head of Whidbey's Island, a few miles to the northwest.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000052_000000|Now I have a fish story to tell.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000052_000001|I have always been shy about telling it, lest some smart fellow should up and say I was drawing on my imagination: I am not.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000053_000000|When we had broken camp and were sailing along, we heard a dull sound like that often heard from the tide rips.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000054_000000|We could feel the fish striking against the boat in such vast numbers that they fairly moved it.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000056_000000|This camp did not prove so dreary as the last one, although it was more exposed to the swell of the big waters and the sweep of the wind.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000056_000002|As we afterwards ascertained, we could see the famous San Juan Island, later the bone of contention between our government and Great Britain, when the northern boundary of the United States was settled.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000057_000001|We did not know the exact location of the town.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000057_000002|Like the lost hunters, "we knew where we were, but we didn't know where any place else was." Not lost ourselves, the world was lost from us.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000058_000001|The other two were gracefully beating their way out against the stiff breeze to the open waters beyond.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000058_000002|What prettier sight is there than a full rigged vessel with all sails spread!
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000060_000002|The shining, pebbly beach in front, the clear, level spot adjoining, with the beautiful open and comparatively level plateau in the background, and two or three vessels at anchor in the foreground, made a picture of a perfect city site.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000061_000001|Many shacks and camps, at first mistaken for the white men's houses, were found to be occupied by natives.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000061_000002|They were a drunken, rascally rabble, spending their gains from the sale of fish and oil in a debauch that would last as long as their money held out.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000062_000001|They would often go out even to the open sea on their fishing excursions in canoes manned by thirty men or more.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000063_000001|We remembered the timber camps, the bustle and stir of the little new village, and the activity that we saw there, greater than anywhere else on the waters of the Sound.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000063_000002|Most of all, my thoughts would go on to the little cabin on the Columbia River.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000064_000000|Three days sufficed to land us back in the bay we sought, but the ships were gone.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000064_000001|Not a sailing craft of any kind was in sight of the little town, though the building activity was going on as before.
train-clean-100/3830/12530/3830_12530_000065_000000|The memory of those ships, however, remained with us and determined our minds on the important question where the trade center was to be.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000004_000000|CHAPTER THIRTEEN
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000006_000000|"CAN I get home tonight?" I asked myself.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000007_000001|I was well up the left bank of the Cowlitz River; how far I could not tell, for there were no milestones on the crooked, half obstructed trail leading downstream.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000007_000002|At best it would be a race with the sun, but the days were long, and the twilight was long, and I would camp that much nearer home if I made haste.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000008_000001|I had neither coat nor blanket. I wore a heavy woolen shirt, a slouch hat, and worn shoes; both hat and shoes gave ample ventilation.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000008_000002|Socks I had none; neither had I suspenders, an improvised belt taking their place.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000008_000003|I was dressed for the race and was eager for the trial.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000009_000002|We never thought of catching cold from lying on the ground or on cedar boughs, or from getting a good drenching.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000010_000000|After all, the cabin could not be reached, as the trail could not be followed at night.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000010_000001|Slackening pace at nightfall to cool my system gradually, I finally made my camp and slept as soundly as if on a bed of down.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000010_000002|My consolation was that the night was short and I could see to travel by three o'clock.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000011_000000|I do not look upon those years of camp and cabin life as years of hardship.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000011_000001|To be sure, our food was plain as well as our dress; our hours of labor were long and the labor itself was frequently severe; the pioneers appeared rough and uncouth.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000011_000002|Yet underlying all this there ran a vein of good cheer, of hopefulness.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000011_000004|The days were always too short, and interest in our work was always unabated.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000012_000000|The cabin could not be seen until the trail came quite near it.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000012_000003|She never finished milking that cow, nor did she ever milk any cow when her husband was at home.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000013_000001|Much of the conversation naturally centered on the question of our moving to a new home.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000014_000001|I saw them selling at that.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000014_000002|The butter you have there would bring you a dollar a pound as fast as you could weigh it out.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000016_000000|"Oh, almost everybody has to buy.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000017_000000|"Where do they get the money?"
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000018_000000|"Everybody seems to have money.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000018_000001|Some take it there with them.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000018_000002|Men working in the timber camps get four dollars a day and their board.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000018_000004|I was offered five cents a foot for piles.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000018_000005|If we had Buck and Dandy over there we could make twenty dollars a day putting in piles."
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000020_000000|"Off the government land, of course.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000020_000001|All help themselves to what they want.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000021_000000|"But what about the land for the claim?"
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000022_000000|That question was a stumper.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000022_000001|The little wife never lost sight of that bargain made before we were married.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000022_000002|Now I found myself praising a country for the agricultural qualities of which I could not say much. But if we could sell produce higher, might we not well lower our standard of an ideal farm?
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000022_000004|However, we decided to move, and began to prepare for the journey.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000023_000000|The wife, baby, bedding, ox yoke, and log chain were sent up the Cowlitz in a canoe.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000023_000001|Buck and Dandy and I took the trail.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000023_000002|On this occasion I was ill prepared for a cool night camp, having neither blanket nor coat.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000023_000003|I had expected to reach Hard Bread's Hotel, where the people in the canoe would stop overnight.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000023_000004|But I could not make it, so again I lay out on the trail.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000024_000000|I found that my wife had not fared any better than I had on the trail, and in fact not so well.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000024_000001|The floor of the cabin-that is, the hotel-was a great deal harder than the sand spit where I had passed the night.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000024_000002|I had plenty of pure, fresh air, while she, in a closed cabin and in the same room with many others, had neither fresh air nor freedom from creeping things that make life miserable.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000024_000003|With her shoes for a pillow, a shawl for covering, small wonder that she reported, "I did not sleep a wink last night."
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000026_000001|And such a road!
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000026_000002|However, we had one consolation,--it would be worse in winter than at that time.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000027_000001|Our cows were gone-given for provender to save the lives of the oxen during the deep December snow.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000027_000002|So when we took account of stock, we had the baby, Buck and Dandy, a tent, an ox yoke and chain, enough clothing and bedding to keep us comfortable, a very little food, and no money.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000027_000003|The money had all been expended on the canoe passage.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000029_000000|That great hearted pioneer, john r Jackson, did not hesitate a moment, stranger though I was, to say, "Yes, you can have two if you need them."
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000030_000000|Jackson had settled there eight years before, ten miles out from the landing, and now had an abundance around him.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000030_000001|Like all the earlier pioneers, he took a pride in helping others who came later.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000030_000002|He would not listen to our proceeding any farther before the next day.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000030_000003|He insisted on entertaining us in his comfortable cabin, and sent us on our way in the morning, rejoicing in plenty.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000031_000001|Here a camp must be established again.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000033_000001|I knew that smallpox was raging among the Indians, and that a camp where it was prevalent was less than a quarter of a mile away.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000033_000003|Could it be possible my folks had been taken sick and had been removed?
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000035_000003|God bless those earlier pioneers!
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000035_000004|They were all good to us, sometimes to the point of embarrassment, in their generous hospitality.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000036_000000|Oliver was to have had the cabin ready by the time I returned.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000036_000002|Not knowing what else to do, I paddled over to the town of Steilacoom.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000036_000003|There I found out where the boat and the provisions had been left, and after an earnest parley succeeded in getting possession.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000036_000004|With my canoe in tow I soon made my way back to where my little flock was, and speedily transferred all to the spot that was to be our island dwelling.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000036_000005|We set up our tent, and felt at home once more.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000038_000001|mount Rainier looked bigger and taller than ever.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000038_000003|Everything looked cheerful; everything interested us, especially the crows, with their trick of breaking clams by rising in the air and dropping them on the boulders. There were so many new things to observe that for a time we almost forgot that we were nearly out of provisions and money and did not know what had happened to Oliver.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000039_000001|Finding that the boat and provisions had been taken and seeing smoke in the bight, he surmised what had happened and came paddling across to the tent.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000039_000003|As a result of this work, he was able to exhibit a slug of California gold and other money that looked precious indeed in our eyes.
train-clean-100/3830/12531/3830_12531_000041_000000|It was in this same year, eighteen fifty three, that Congress cut off from Oregon the region that now comprises the state of Washington and all of Idaho north of the Snake River.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000001_000000|CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000002_000000|FINDING MY PEOPLE
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000003_000000|ON leaving my newly found friends I faced a discouraging prospect.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000003_000001|The start for the high, arid table lands bordering the Yakima valley cut me loose from all communication.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000003_000002|No more immigrants were met until I reached the main traveled route beyond the Columbia River.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000004_000001|As the sun rose, the heat became intolerable.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000004_000002|The dust, in places, brought vivid memories of the trip across the Plains.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000005_000000|Strive against it as I might, my eyes would strain at the horizon to catch a glimpse of the expected train.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000005_000001|Then an intolerable thirst seized upon me and compelled me to leave the road and descend into the valley for water.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000006_000002|Tethering my pony for his much needed dinner, I opened my sack of hard bread to count the contents; my store was half gone.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000006_000003|I lay down in the shade of a small tree near the spring to take an afternoon nap.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000006_000004|Rousing before sundown, refreshed, Bobby and I took the trail with new courage.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000007_000000|When night came, I could not find it in my heart to camp.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000007_000001|The cool of the evening invigorated the pony, and we pushed on.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000007_000002|Finding that the road could be followed, though but dimly seen, I kept on the trail until a late hour, when I unsaddled and hobbled the pony.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000008_000001|To make matters worse, his hobbles had become loosened, giving him free use of all his feet, and he was in no mood to take the trail again. Coaxing was of no avail, driving would do no good.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000008_000002|Taking an opportunity to seize his tail, I followed him around about over the plain and through the sage brush at a rapid gait; finally he slackened pace and I again became master.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000010_000001|When the trail was found, there was the saddle to look for, and this was located with some difficulty.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000011_000001|A few hundred yards of travel brought uneasiness, as it was evident that we were not on the regular trail.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000011_000002|Not knowing but this was some cut-off, I went on until the Columbia River bluff was reached and the great river was in sight, half a mile distant and several hundred feet lower.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000012_000000|The next incident that I remember vividly was my attempt to cross the Columbia, just below the mouth of the Snake River.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000012_000002|Their behavior was so in contrast to that of the Indians on the Sound that I could not help wondering what it meant.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000013_000001|I tethered my pony this time, and rolled myself up in the blanket, only to find myself fairly buried in the drifting sand in the morning.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000013_000002|It required a great effort to creep out of the blanket, and an even greater effort to free the blanket from the accumulated sand.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000013_000003|By this time the wind had gone down and comparative calm prevailed.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000015_000000|Then came the attempt to make myself heard across the wide river by the people of the fort.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000015_000001|I traveled up and down the river bank for half a mile or so, in the hope of catching a favorable breeze to carry my voice to the fort, yet all to no avail.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000015_000002|I sat upon the bank hopelessly discouraged, not knowing what to do.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000015_000003|I must have been two hours hallooing at the top of my voice, until I was hoarse from the violent effort.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000016_000000|Finally, while sitting there wondering what to do, I spied a blue smoke arising from a cabin on the other side.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000016_000001|Soon after I saw a man; he immediately responded to my renewed efforts to attract attention.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000016_000002|The trouble had been that the people were all asleep, while I was there in the early morning expending my breath for nothing.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000017_000000|The man was Shirley Ensign, of Olympia, who had established a ferry across the Columbia River and had lingered to set over belated immigrants, if any should come along.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000017_000001|He came across the river and gave me glad tidings.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000018_000000|But I could not wait there for them.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000018_000001|Procuring a fresh horse, I started out in a cheerful mood, determined to reach camp that night if I could possibly do so.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000018_000003|Dusk came on, and still no signs.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000019_000000|Rejoicing and outbursts of grief followed.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000019_000001|I inquired for my mother the first thing.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000019_000004|My younger brother also lay buried on the Plains, near Independence Rock.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000020_000000|When we came to consider how the party should proceed, I advised the over mountain trip.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000020_000001|But I cautioned them to expect some snow and much hard work.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000021_000000|"How long will it take?" they asked.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000022_000000|"About three weeks."
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000023_000000|This brought disappointment; they had thought they were about through with the journey.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000024_000000|"You came to stay with us, didn't you?"
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000025_000000|"I want to; but what about my wife and the two babies, at the island?"
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000026_000000|Father said some one must go and look after them.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000026_000001|So Oliver was sent ahead, while I was to take his place and help the immigrants through the Natchess Pass.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000027_000001|We made the trip across the divide in twenty two days without serious mishap or loss.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000027_000003|Every man literally "put his shoulder to the wheel." We were compelled often to take hold of the wheels to boost the wagons over the logs or to ease them down steep places.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000027_000006|I have often thought that some one ought to write a just tribute to their valor and patience, a book of their heroic deeds.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000028_000000|One day we encountered a newly fallen tree, cocked up on its own upturned roots, four feet from the ground.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000028_000001|Go around it we could not; to cut it out with our dulled, flimsy saw seemed an endless task.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000030_000002|As to this return trip, I can truly say for myself that it was not one of hardship.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000030_000003|I enjoyed overcoming the difficulties, and so did the greater number of the company.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000030_000004|Many of them, it is true, were weakened by the long trip across the Plains; but better food was obtainable, and the goal was near at hand.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000031_000001|Hundreds of cattle, sheep, and horses were quietly grazing, scattered over the landscape as far as one could see.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000031_000002|The spirits of the tired party rose as they looked upon this scene, indicating a contentment and prosperity in which they might participate if they so desired.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000032_000001|Great was the feasting, with clam bakes, huckleberry pies and puddings, venison for meat, and fresh vegetables from our garden, at which the newcomers could not cease from marveling.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000032_000002|The row of sweet peas that my wife had planted near the cabin helped to put heart into those travel weary pioneers; where flowers could be planted, a home could be made.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000033_000000|For a short time the little party halted to take breath and to look over the new country.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000033_000001|This rest, however, could not last long.
train-clean-100/3830/12535/3830_12535_000033_000002|Preparations must be made without delay for shelter from the coming storms of winter; the stock must be cared for, and other beginnings made for a new life of independence.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000002_000001|Enough has been told of what it did to furnish grounds for deducing what it was; but to deal with the regiment on the personal side is hardly possible within the limits of such a sketch as this, though it is a matter that cannot be entirely passed by.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000003_000000|Any body of men-a college class, a legislature, a regiment-is in character what its component members make it; in this case there was the material, which, furnished with worthy leadership-and it unquestionably had that-made up the organization whose not uneventful existence has been described.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000003_000002|In fact, to have passed the tests of so fierce a course of education gives them a title to a place thus apart.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000003_000003|The university man of to day, as the burden of the baccalaureate sermons so frequently testifies, is consigned to a special place of responsibility in life because of his training; these men surely earned one of special honor by reason of theirs, which was, too, not like the other, preparation alone, but also fulfilment.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000004_000001|A number of the officers and men were college graduates when they enlisted, and others gained degrees after the war ended; the list which follows is, however, necessarily incomplete; in fact, an absolutely correct list is no doubt hopelessly impossible.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000005_000000|Major james q Rice, who was killed at Winchester, was a member of the class of eighteen fifty at Wesleyan, and received from that institution the degree of Master of Arts in eighteen fifty five.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000005_000001|At the time of the regiment's formation he was conducting an academy in Goshen, and was enlisted as captain of a company which he had been active in recruiting.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000006_000000|Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Smith of Woodbury entered the Yale Law School in the class of eighteen fifty three, but did not graduate.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000007_000000|Judge Augustus h Fenn, Major and Brevet Colonel, came back from the war, having lost an arm at Cedar Creek, to take a course in the Law School at Harvard, and Yale made him a Master of Arts in eighteen eighty nine.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000007_000002|At the time of his death in eighteen ninety seven, he was a lecturer in the Yale Law School, and member of the Supreme Court of Errors.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000008_000000|reverend James Deane, Captain and Brevet Major, was a graduate of Williams in the class of eighteen fifty seven.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000008_000001|He was pastor of the Congregational church at East Canaan when the regiment was organized, and was one of its recruiting officers.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000009_000000|Adjutant Theodore f Vaill, the historian of the regiment, was a student before the war at Union College, but did not graduate.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000010_000000|Captain George s Williams, of New Milford, was a member of the class of eighteen fifty two at Yale for a time, and received a degree from Trinity in eighteen fifty five.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000011_000000|Surgeon Henry Plumb, and Assistant Surgeons Robert g Hazzard and john w Lawton were all graduates of the Yale Medical School, in the classes of eighteen sixty one, eighteen sixty two, and eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000011_000002|He was captain in a New York regiment in the early part of the war, and became afterward superintendent of the Buffalo State Hospital, and a recognized authority on insanity before his death in eighteen ninety four.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000012_000001|He was later connected with a church college in Missouri, where he died in eighteen ninety eight.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000013_000000|Captain William h Lewis junior, studied after the war at the Berkeley Divinity School, and has been for many years rector of saint John's Church in Bridgeport.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000015_000000|Corporal Francis j Young entered the Yale Medical School before the war, and returned after its close to take his degree in eighteen sixty six.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000017_000000|Sergeant Theodore c Glazier was a graduate of Trinity in the class of eighteen sixty, and was a tutor there when he enlisted.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000017_000001|He was later made colonel of a colored regiment, and served with credit in that capacity.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000018_000000|Corporal Edward c Hopson, a graduate of Trinity in eighteen sixty four, was killed at Cedar Creek.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000019_000000|Sergeant Garwood r Merwin, who had been a member of the class of eighteen sixty four at Yale, died at Alexandria in eighteen sixty three.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000020_000000|Sergeant Romulus c Loveridge, who had been entered in the class of eighteen sixty five at Yale, received a commission in a colored regiment.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000021_000000|Colonel Mackenzie graduated at West Point in eighteen sixty two, but he was never a resident of the county, or of Connecticut, and his only connection with either was through his commission from Governor Buckingham.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000023_000000|As a whole, the regiment was a body thoroughly representative not only of the army of which it was a fraction, an army as has been often said unlike any other the world has known, but also of the population from which it was drawn.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000023_000001|It was made up of men of almost all conditions of life and of widely different ages, though naturally with young men in a large majority; of mechanics from the Housatonic and Naugatuck valleys, and farmers' boys from the hills; of men of education and men of none.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000023_000002|Though the large addition to its numbers which the increase in size necessitated made it perhaps somewhat less homogeneous than at first, it did not greatly alter its essential characteristics.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000024_000001|The names of men of every sort and kind are found upon the rolls.
train-clean-100/3857/180923/3857_180923_000025_000000|A large part of these men came back after their service ended to resume the peaceful life of citizenship, and every town among us has known some of them ever since among its leading figures, while some in quarters far distant have also attained to honors and responsibilities, as the records show.
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train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000005_000001|As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000005_000002|I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000006_000000|w n p Barbellion.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000008_000001|It was a mild afternoon and great crowds of people were out. Sunday afternoon crowds.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000008_000002|They were not going anywhere,--they were just strolling up and down, staring at each other, and talking. There were thousands and thousands of them.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000014_000000|"Yes," I said, "those for example are distinctively simian.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000014_000001|Why should you feel disappointment at something inevitable?" And I went on to argue that it wasn't as though we were descended from eagles for instance, instead of (broadly speaking) from ape like or monkeyish beings.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000014_000002|Being of simian stock, we had simian traits. Our development naturally bore the marks of our origin.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000014_000005|What could you expect?
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000017_000000|But considering our simian descent, it has done very well.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000017_000002|Or who-unconsciously-still let it color their thinking.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000018_000000|There certainly seems to be a power at work in the world, by virtue of which every living thing grows and develops.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000018_000001|And it tends toward splendor.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000018_000002|Seeds become trees, and weak little nations grow great. But the push or the force that is doing this, the yeast as it were, has to work in and on certain definite kinds of material.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000018_000003|Because this yeast is in us there may be great and undreamed of possibilities awaiting mankind; but because of our line of descent there are also queer limitations.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000020_000000|In those distant invisible epochs before men existed, before even the proud missing link strutted around through the woods (little realizing how we his greatgrandsons would smile wryly at him much as our own descendants may shudder at us, ages hence) the various animals were desperately competing for power.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000020_000001|They couldn't or didn't live as equals.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000020_000002|Certain groups sought the headship.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000021_000000|Many strange forgotten dynasties rose, met defiance, and fell. In the end it was our ancestors who won, and became simian kings, and bequeathed a whole planet to us-and have never been thanked for it.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000022_000001|Familiar with the ways of evolution elsewhere in the universe, we naturally should have wondered what course it would take on this earth.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000022_000002|"Even in this out of the way corner of the Cosmos," we might have reflected, "and on this tiny star, it may be of interest to consider the trend of events." We should have tried to appraise the different species as they wandered around, each with its own set of good and bad characteristics.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000022_000003|Which group, we'd have wondered, would ever contrive to rule all the rest?
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000026_000000|Still-those frowsy, unlovely hordes of apes and monkeys were so completely lacking in signs of kingship; they were so flighty, too, in their ways, and had so little purpose, and so much love for absurd and idle chatter, that they would have struck us, we thought, as unlikely material.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000026_000001|Such traits, we should have reminded ourselves, persist.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000026_000002|They are not easily left behind, even after long stages; and they form a terrible obstacle to all high advancement.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000028_000001|Their smallness of size was not necessarily too much of a handicap.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000028_000002|They could have made poison their weapon for the subjugation of rivals. And in these orderly insects there are obviously a capacity for labor, and co-operative labor at that, which could carry them far. We all know that they have a marked genius: great gifts of their own.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000028_000003|In a civilization of super ants or bees, there would have been no problem of the hungry unemployed, no poverty, no unstable government, no riots, no strikes for short hours, no derision of eugenics, no thieves, perhaps no crime at all.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000029_000000|Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000030_000000|But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently: he just has his duties.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000031_000000|This quality may have something to do with their having groups wars. The egotism of their individual spirits is allowed scant expression, so the egotism of the groups is extremely ferocious and active.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000031_000003|And the ants commit atrocities in and after their battles that are-I wish I could truly say-inhuman.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000032_000000|But conversely, ants are absolutely unselfish within the community. They are skilful.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000032_000001|Ingenious.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000032_000003|The scientists speak of their paved streets, vaulted halls, their hundreds of different domesticated animals, their pluck and intelligence, their individual initiative, their chaste and industrious lives.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000032_000004|Darwin said the ant's brain was "one of the most marvelous atoms in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of man"--yes, of present day man, who for thousands and thousands of years has had so much more chance to develop his brain....
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000033_000000|When we think of these creatures as little men (which is all wrong of course) we see they have their faults.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000033_000001|To our eyes they seem too orderly, for instance.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000033_000002|Repressively so.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000033_000003|Their ways are more fixed than those of the old Egyptians, and their industry is painful to think of, it's hyper Chinese.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000033_000004|But we must remember this is a simian comment.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000033_000005|The instincts of the species that you and I belong to are of an opposite kind; and that makes it hard for us to judge ants fairly.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000034_000001|And instead of merely struggling with Nature for it, they also fight other ants.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000034_000002|The custom of plunder seems to be a part of most of their wars.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000034_000003|This has gone on for ages among them, and continues today.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000034_000004|Raids, ferocious combats, and loot are part of an ant's regular life.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000034_000005|Ant reformers, if there were any, might lay this to their property sense, and talk of abolishing property as a cure for the evil.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000036_000001|But this would have run against their strongest instincts.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000036_000002|The ant is knowing and wise; but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000037_000000|Even if such a race had somehow achieved self consciousness and reason, would they have been able therewith to rule their instincts, or to stop work long enough to examine themselves, or the universe, or to dream of any noble development?
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000037_000001|Probably not.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000037_000002|Reason is seldom or never the ruler: it is the servant of instinct.
train-clean-100/3857/182315/3857_182315_000038_000000|"Toil has brought you up from the ruck of things." Reason would have plausibly said, "it's by virtue of feverish toil that you have become what you are.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000000_000000|seven
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000001_000000|There are many other beasts that one might once have thought had a chance.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000002_000000|Some, like horses and deer, were not bold enough; or were stupid, like buffaloes.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000003_000000|Some had over trustful characters, like the seals; or exploitable characters, like cows, and chickens, and sheep.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000003_000001|Such creatures sentence themselves to be captives, by their lack of ambition.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000004_000001|They have more spirit.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000004_000005|And we have betrayed them by making under simians of them.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000004_000007|Loving us, they let us stop their developing in tune with their natures; and they've patiently tried ever since to adopt ways of ours.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000004_000008|They have done it, too; but of course they can't get far: it's not their own road.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000004_000010|They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000005_000001|The pig is remarkably intelligent and brave,--but he's gross; and grossness delays one's achievement, it takes so much time.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000005_000003|If super snake men had had banquets they would have been too vast to describe.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000005_000004|Each little snake family could have eaten a herd of cattle at Christmas.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000006_000000|Goats, then?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000006_000002|Wolves, whales, crows?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000007_000003|He had the best chance of all.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000007_000004|Wiser even than the lion, or the wisest of apes, his wisdom furthermore was benign where theirs was sinister. Consider his dignity, his poise and skill.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000007_000005|He was plastic, too.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000007_000011|What was it then, that put them out of the race?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000009_000000|And when they saw that they hadn't, and that the monkey men were getting ahead, were they too great minded and decent to exterminate their puny rivals?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000010_000000|It may have been their tolerance and patience that betrayed them. They wait too long before they resent an imposition or insult. Just as ants are too energetic and cats too shrewd for their own highest good, so the elephants suffer from too much patience.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000010_000001|Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,--such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,--but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000010_000002|Kings who won't lift their scepters must yield in the end; and, the worst of it is, to upstarts who snatch at their crowns.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000002|All species must surrender unconditionally-those are our terms-and come and live in barns alongside us; or on us, as parasites.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000003|The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000005|Some might be our friends.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000006|We don't wish it.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000007|We keep them all terrorized.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000009|It is not that we have planned this deliberately: but they know what we're like.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000011_000010|Race by race they have been slaughtered.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000012_000000|If we had been as strong as the elephants, we might have been kinder. When great power comes naturally to people, it is used more urbanely. We use it as parvenus do, because that's what we are.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000012_000001|The elephant, being born to it, is easy going, confident, tolerant.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000015_000001|Isn't it strange?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000015_000002|A tool, in the most primitive sense, is any object, lying around, that can obviously be used as an instrument for this or that purpose.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000015_000005|When an elephant plucks off a branch and swishes his flanks, and thus keeps away insects, he is using a tool.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000015_000007|If he once became a conscious user of tools he would of course go much further.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000016_000001|Think of the long epochs that passed before it entered our heads.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000017_000001|The lesson to be learned was simple: the reward was the rule of a planet. Yet only one species, our own, has ever had that much brains.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000019_000000|It is not necessarily stupid however, to fail to use tools.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000019_000001|To use tools involves using reason, instead of sticking to instinct. Now, sticking to instinct has its disadvantages, but so has using reason.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000019_000002|Whichever faculty you use, the other atrophies, and partly deserts you.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000019_000003|We are trying to use both.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000019_000004|But we still don't know which has the more value.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000022_000000|eight
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000023_000000|We have been considering which species was on the whole most finely equipped to be rulers, and thereafter achieve a high civilization; but that wasn't the problem.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000025_000000|The rhinoceros cares little for adaptability.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000025_000001|He slogs through the world.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000025_000002|But we! we are experts.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000025_000003|Adaptability is what we depend on. We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first, to her ways.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000025_000004|"We attain no power over nature till we learn natural laws, and our lordship depends on the adroitness with which we learn and conform."
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000026_000000|Adroitness however is merely an ability to win; back of it there must be some spur to make us use our adroitness.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000026_000001|Why don't we all die or give up when we're sick of the world?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000026_000002|Because the love of life is reenforced, in most energized beings, by some longing that pushes them forward, in defeat and in darkness.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000026_000003|All creatures wish to live, and to perpetuate their species, of course; but those two wishes alone evidently do not carry any race far.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000026_000004|In addition to these, a race, to be great, needs some hunger, some itch, to spur it up the hard path we lately have learned to call evolution.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000027_000000|With us is it curiosity?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000027_000001|endless interest in one's environment?
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000028_000001|By a master passion, I mean a passion that is really your master: some appetite which habitually, day in, day out, makes its subjects forget fatigue or danger, and sacrifice their ease to its gratification.
train-clean-100/3857/182317/3857_182317_000028_000002|That is the kind of hold that curiosity has on the monkeys.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000005_000000|FAMINE.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000005_000001|WAR. SUCCOR.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000006_000000|While the mutiny was brewing, one La Roche Ferriere had been sent out as an agent or emissary among the more distant tribes.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000006_000001|Sagacious, bold, and restless, he pushed his way from town to town, and pretended to have reached the mysterious mountains of Appalache.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000006_000002|He sent to the fort mantles woven with feathers, quivers covered with choice furs, arrows tipped with gold, wedges of a green stone like beryl or emerald, and other trophies of his wanderings.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000006_000003|A gentleman named Grotaut took up the quest, and penetrated to the dominions of Hostaqua, who, it was pretended, could muster three or four thousand warriors, and who promised, with the aid of a hundred arquebusiers, to conquer all the kings of the adjacent mountains, and subject them and their gold mines to the rule of the French.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000006_000006|But, as his sway verged towards despotism, his subjects took offence, and split his head with a hatchet.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000000|During the winter, Indians from the neighborhood of Cape Canaveral brought to the fort two Spaniards, wrecked fifteen years before on the southwestern extremity of the peninsula.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000001|They were clothed like the Indians,--in other words, were not clothed at all,--and their uncut hair streamed loose down their backs.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000003|They told of the King of Cabs, on whose domains they had been wrecked, a chief mighty in stature and in power. In one of his villages was a pit, six feet deep and as wide as a hogshead, filled with treasure gathered from Spanish wrecks on adjacent reefs and keys.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000004|The monarch was a priest too, and a magician, with power over the elements.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000005|Each year he withdrew from the public gaze to hold converse in secret with supernal or infernal powers; and each year he sacrificed to his gods one of the Spaniards whom the fortune of the sea had cast upon his shores.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000006|The name of the tribe is preserved in that of the river Caboosa.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000007_000007|In close league with him was the mighty Oathcaqua, dwelling near Cape Canaveral, who gave his daughter, a maiden of wondrous beauty, in marriage to his great ally.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000008_000001|Ottigny set forth on this fool's errand with thrice the force demanded.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000008_000002|Three hundred Thirnagoas and thirty Frenchmen took up their march through the pine barrens.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000008_000003|Outina's conjurer was of the number, and had wellnigh ruined the enterprise.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000008_000006|Again they moved forward, and soon encountered Potanou with all his host.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000008_000008|But no persuasion could induce Outina to follow up his victory.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000008_000009|He went home to dance round his trophies, and the French returned disgusted to Fort Caroline.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000009_000000|And now, in ample measure, the French began to reap the harvest of their folly.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000009_000001|Conquest, gold, and military occupation had alone been their aims.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000009_000002|Not a rod of ground had been stirred with the spade.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000009_000003|Their stores were consumed, and the expected supplies had not come.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000009_000004|The Indians, too, were hostile.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000009_000006|Yet in these, their dark and subtle neighbors, was their only hope.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000010_000000|May day came, the third anniversary of the day when Ribaut and his companions, full of delighted anticipation, had first explored the flowery borders of the saint John's.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000010_000002|If they had had any skill in hunting and fishing, the river and the woods would have supplied their needs; but in this point, as in others, they were lamentably unfit for the work they had taken in hand.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000011_000000|Had Coligny left them to perish?
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000011_000001|Or had some new tempest of calamity, let loose upon France, drowned the memory of their exile?
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000011_000002|In vain the watchman on the hill surveyed the solitude of waters.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000011_000003|A deep dejection fell upon them,--a dejection that would have sunk to despair could their eyes have pierced the future.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000012_000000|The Indians had left the neighborhood, but from time to time brought in meagre supplies of fish, which they sold to the famished soldiers at exorbitant prices.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000012_000002|If at any time they shewed unto the savages the excessive price which they tooke, these villaines would answere them roughly and churlishly: If thou make so great account of thy marchandise, eat it, and we will eat our fish: then fell they out a laughing, and mocked us with open throat."
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000013_000000|The spring wore away, and no relief appeared.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000013_000001|One thought now engrossed the colonists, that of return to France.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000013_000003|But these vessels were insufficient, and they prepared to build a new one.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000013_000004|The energy of reviving hope lent new life to their exhausted frames.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000014_000000|The colonists applied to Outina, who owed them two victories.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000014_000001|The result was a churlish message and a niggardly supply of corn, coupled with an invitation to aid him against an insurgent chief, one Astina, the plunder of whose villages would yield an ample supply.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000014_000002|The offer was accepted.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000015_000001|The commandant was forced to comply.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000015_000003|Having reached Outina's landing, they marched inland, entered his village, surrounded his mud plastered palace, seized him amid the yells and howlings of his subjects, and led him prisoner to their boats.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000015_000004|Here, anchored in mid stream, they demanded a supply of corn and beans as the price of his ransom.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000016_000000|The alarm spread.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000016_000001|Excited warriors, bedaubed with red, came thronging from all his villages.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000016_000003|Yet no ransom was offered, since, reasoning from their own instincts, they never doubted that, after the price was paid, the captive would be put to death.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000017_000001|In a rude chamber of Fort Caroline the sentinel stood his guard, pike in hand, while before him crouched the captive chief, mute, impassive, and brooding on his woes.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000017_000002|His old enemy, Satouriona, keen as a hound on the scent of prey, tried, by great offers, to bribe Laudonniere to give Outina into his hands; but the French captain refused, treated his prisoner kindly, and assured him of immediate freedom on payment of the ransom.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000018_000000|Meanwhile his captivity was bringing grievous affliction on his tribesmen; for, despairing of his return, they mustered for the election of a new chief.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000018_000001|Party strife ran high.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000018_000002|Some were for a boy, his son, and some for an ambitious kinsman.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000018_000003|Outina chafed in his prison on learning these dissentions; and, eager to convince his over hasty subjects that their chief still lived, he was so profuse of promises that he was again embarked and carried up the river.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000000|At no great distance from Lake George, a small affluent of the saint John's gave access by water to a point within six French leagues of Outina's principal town.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000001|The two barges, crowded with soldiers, and bearing also the captive Outina, rowed up this little stream.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000003|As they were deaf to all other terms, Laudonniere yielded, released his prisoner, and received in his place two hostages, who were fast bound in the boats.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000004|Ottigny and Arlac, with a strong detachment of arquebusiers, went to receive the promised supplies, for which, from the first, full payment in merchandise had been offered.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000005|On their arrival at the village, they filed into the great central lodge, within whose dusky precincts were gathered the magnates of the tribe. Council chamber, forum, banquet hall, and dancing hall all in one, the spacious structure could hold half the population.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000006|Here the French made their abode.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000008|Corn came in slowly, but warriors mustered fast.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000009|The village without was full of them.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000010|The French officers grew anxious, and urged the chiefs to greater alacrity in collecting the promised ransom. The answer boded no good: "Our women are afraid when they see the matches of your guns burning.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000019_000011|Put them out, and they will bring the corn faster."
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000020_000000|Outina was nowhere to be seen.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000020_000001|At length they learned that he was in one of the small huts adjacent.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000020_000002|Several of the officers went to him, complaining of the slow payment of his ransom.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000020_000003|The kindness of his captors at Fort Caroline seemed to have won his heart.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000020_000005|The peril was thickening hourly, and Ottigny resolved to regain the boats while there was yet time.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000000|On the twenty seventh of July, at nine in the morning, he set his men in order.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000001|Each shouldering a sack of corn, they marched through the rows of huts that surrounded the great lodge, and out betwixt the overlapping extremities of the palisade that encircled the town.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000002|Before them stretched a wide avenue, three or four hundred paces long, flanked by a natural growth of trees,--one of those curious monuments of native industry to which allusion has already been made.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000003|Here Ottigny halted and formed his line of march.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000004|Arlac, with eight matchlock men, was sent in advance, and flanking parties were thrown into the woods on either side.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000006|He was right.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000007|As Arlac's party reached the spot, the whole pack gave tongue at once.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000021_000009|They stood firm, and sent back their shot so steadily that several of the assailants were laid dead, and the rest, two or three hundred in number, gave way as Ottigny came up with his men.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000000|They moved on for a quarter of a mile through a country, as it seems, comparatively open, when again the war cry pealed in front, and three hundred savages bounded to the assault.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000001|Their whoops were echoed from the rear.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000002|It was the party whom Arlac had just repulsed, and who, leaping and showering their arrows, were rushing on again with a ferocity restrained only by their lack of courage.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000003|There was no panic among the French.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000007|With cries that imitated the yell of owls, the scream of cougars, and the howl of wolves, they ran up in successive bands, let fly their arrows, and instantly fell back, giving place to others.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000010|As they fell, the soldiers picked them up and broke them.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000022_000011|Thus, beset with swarming savages, the handful of Frenchmen pushed slowly onward, fighting as they went.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000023_000000|The Indians gradually drew off, and the forest was silent again.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000023_000002|Of the corn, two bags only had been brought off.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000024_000000|Famine and desperation now reigned at Fort Caroline.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000024_000001|The Indians had killed two of the carpenters; hence long delay in the finishing of the new ship.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000025_000001|A great ship was standing towards the river's mouth.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000025_000002|Then another came in sight, and another, and another. He despatched a messenger with the tidings to the fort below.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000026_000000|A doubt soon mingled with their joy.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000026_000001|Who were the strangers?
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000026_000002|Were they the friends so long hoped for in vain? or were they Spaniards, their dreaded enemies?
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000026_000003|They were neither.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000026_000004|The foremost ship was a stately one, of seven hundred tons, a great burden at that day.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000027_000001|They were the pioneers of that detested traffic destined to inoculate with its infection nations yet unborn, the parent of discord and death, filling half a continent with the tramp of armies and the clash of fratricidal swords.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000027_000002|Their chief was Sir john Hawkins, father of the English slave trade.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000028_000000|He had been to the coast of Guinea, where he bought and kidnapped a cargo of slaves.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000028_000001|These he had sold to the jealous Spaniards of Hispaniola, forcing them, with sword, matchlock, and culverin, to grant him free trade, and then to sign testimonials that he had borne himself as became a peaceful merchant.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000029_000000|Among the rugged heroes of the British marine, Sir john stood in the front rank, and along with Drake, his relative, is extolled as "a man borne for the honour of the English name....
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000030_000000|Hawkins came up the river in a pinnace, and landed at Fort Caroline, accompanied, says Laudonniere, "with gentlemen honorably apparelled, yet unarmed." Between the Huguenots and the English Puritans there was a double tie of sympathy.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000030_000001|Both hated priests, and both hated Spaniards. Wakening from their apathetic misery, the starveling garrison hailed him as a deliverer.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000030_000002|Yet Hawkins secretly rejoiced when he learned their purpose to abandon Florida; for although, not to tempt his cupidity, they hid from him the secret of their Appalachian gold mine, he coveted for his royal mistress the possession of this rich domain.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000030_000003|He shook his head, however, when he saw the vessels in which they proposed to embark, and offered them all a free passage to France in his own ships.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000031_000000|Laudonniere hesitated, and hereupon arose a great clamor.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000031_000001|A mob of soldiers and artisans beset his chamber, threatening loudly to desert him, and take passage with Hawkins, unless the offer were accepted.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000031_000002|The commandant accordingly resolved to buy the vessel.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000031_000003|The generous slaver, whose reputed avarice nowhere appears in the transaction, desired him to set his own price; and, in place of money, took the cannon of the fort, with other articles now useless to their late owners.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000032_000000|Before the English top sails had sunk beneath the horizon, the colonists bestirred themselves to depart.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000032_000001|In a few days their preparations were made.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000032_000002|They waited only for a fair wind.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000032_000003|It was long in coming, and meanwhile their troubled fortunes assumed a new phase.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000001|Again the fort was wild with excitement.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000002|Friends or foes, French or Spaniards, succor or death,--betwixt these were their hopes and fears divided.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000003|On the following morning, they saw seven barges rowing up the river, bristling with weapons, and crowded with men in armor.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000004|The sentries on the bluff challenged, and received no answer.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000005|One of them fired at the advancing boats, and still there was no response.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000006|Laudonniere was almost defenceless.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000007|He had given his heavier cannon to Hawkins, and only two field pieces were left.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000033_000008|They were levelled at the foremost boats, and the word to fire was about to be given, when a voice from among the strangers called out that they were French, commanded by Jean Ribaut.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000034_000001|Ribaut had been commissioned to sail with seven ships for Florida.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000035_000000|No longer in dread of the Spaniards, the colonists saluted the new comers with the cannon by which a moment before they had hoped to blow them out of the water.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000035_000002|Ribaut was present, conspicuous by his long beard, an astonishment to the Indians; and here, too, were officers, old friends of Laudonniere.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000035_000003|Why, then, had they approached in the attitude of enemies?
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000035_000004|The mystery was soon explained; for they expressed to the commandant their pleasure at finding that the charges made against him had proved false.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000035_000005|He begged to know more; on which Ribaut, taking him aside, told him that the returning ships had brought home letters filled with accusations of arrogance, tyranny, cruelty, and a purpose of establishing an independent command,--accusations which he now saw to be unfounded, but which had been the occasion of his unusual and startling precaution. He gave him, too, a letter from Admiral Coligny.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000035_000006|In brief but courteous terms, it required him to resign his command, and requested his return to France to clear his name from the imputations cast upon it.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000036_000000|Worn in body and mind, mortified and wounded, he soon fell ill again.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000037_000000|Stores were landed, tents were pitched, women and children were sent on shore, feathered Indians mingled in the throng, and the borders of the River of May swarmed with busy life.
train-clean-100/3879/173592/3879_173592_000037_000001|"But, lo, how oftentimes misfortune doth search and pursue us, even then when we thinke to be at rest!" exclaims the unhappy Laudonniere.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000002_000000|Phineas Finn returned from Tankerville to London in much better spirits than those which had accompanied him on his journey thither. He was not elected; but then, before the election, he had come to believe that it was quite out of the question that he should be elected.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000002_000001|And now he did think it probable that he should get the seat on a petition.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000002_000002|A scrutiny used to be a very expensive business, but under the existing law, made as the scrutiny would be in the borough itself, it would cost but little; and that little, should he be successful, would fall on the shoulders of mr Browborough.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000002_000003|Should he knock off eight votes and lose none himself, he would be member for Tankerville.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000002_000004|He knew that many votes had been given for Browborough which, if the truth were known of them, would be knocked off; and he did not know that the same could be said of any one of those by which he had been supported.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000002_000005|But, unfortunately, the judge by whom all this would be decided might not reach Tankerville in his travels till after Christmas, perhaps not till after Easter; and in the meantime, what should he do with himself?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000003_000000|As for going back to Dublin, that was now out of the question.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000003_000001|He had entered upon a feverish state of existence in which it was impossible that he should live in Ireland.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000003_000002|Should he ultimately fail in regard to his seat he must-vanish out of the world.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000003_000005|Of one club he had always remained a member, and he had already been re-elected a member of the Reform.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000003_000006|So he took up his residence once more at the house of a certain mr and mrs Bunce, in Great Marlborough Street, with whom he had lodged when he first became a member of Parliament.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000004_000000|"So you're at the old game, mr Finn?" said his landlord.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000005_000000|"Yes; at the old game.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000005_000001|I suppose it's the same with you?" Now mr Bunce had been a very violent politician, and used to rejoice in calling himself a Democrat.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000006_000000|"Pretty much the same, mr Finn.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000006_000001|I don't see that things are much better than they used to be.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000006_000002|They tell me at the People's Banner office that the lords have had as much to do with this election as with any that ever went before it."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000007_000000|"Perhaps they don't know much about it at the People's Banner office. I thought mr Slide and the People's Banner had gone over to the other side, Bunce?"
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000008_000000|"mr Slide is pretty wide awake whatever side he's on.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000008_000001|Not but what he's disgraced himself by what he's been and done now." mr Slide in former days had been the editor of the People's Banner, and circumstances had arisen in consequence of which there had been some acquaintance between him and our hero.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000008_000002|"I see you was hammering away at the Church down at Tankerville."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000010_000000|"You was all right, there, mr Finn.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000010_000001|I can't say as I ever saw very much in your religion; but what a man keeps in the way of religion for his own use is never nothing to me;--as what I keeps is nothing to him."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000011_000000|"I'm afraid you don't keep much, mr Bunce."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000013_000000|"No, indeed."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000014_000000|"But when we read of Churches as is called State Churches,--Churches as have bishops you and I have to pay for, as never goes into them-"
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000015_000000|"But we don't pay the bishops, mr Bunce."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000016_000000|"Oh yes, we do; because, if they wasn't paid, the money would come to us to do as we pleased with it.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000016_000001|We proved all that when we pared them down a bit.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000016_000002|What's an Ecclesiastical Commission?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000016_000004|You're right enough, mr Finn, you are, as far as churches go, and you was right, too, when you cut and run off the Treasury Bench.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000000|mr Bunce was a privileged person, and mrs Bunce made up for his apparent rudeness by her own affectionate cordiality.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000001|"Deary me, and isn't it a thing for sore eyes to have you back again!
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000002|I never expected this.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000004|But after all there's been betwixt you and us it wouldn't be natural to pass it by without one word; would it, mr Finn?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000007|That he didn't.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000011|If he'd drink it, which he never does, I think I'd bear it better than give it to that nasty Union.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000017_000012|And young Jack writes as well as his father, pretty nigh, mr Finn, which is a comfort,"--mr
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000001|Lord Chiltern for a few months had lived with him; and then there had arisen a quarrel, which he had for a time thought would dissolve his old life into ruin.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000002|Now Lord Chiltern was again his very intimate friend.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000004|Alas! alas! how soon might he now require that money lender's services!
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000005|And then he recollected how he had left these rooms to go into others, grander and more appropriate to his life when he had filled high office under the State.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000006|Would there ever again come to him such cause for migration?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000007|And would he again be able to load the frame of the looking glass over the fire with countless cards from Countesses and Ministers' wives?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000008|He had opened the oyster for himself once, though it had closed again with so sharp a snap when the point of his knife had been withdrawn.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000009|Would he be able to insert the point again between those two difficult shells?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000010|Would the Countesses once more be kind to him?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000011|Would drawing rooms be opened to him, and sometimes opened to him and to no other?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000012|Then he thought of certain special drawing rooms in which wonderful things had been said to him.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000013|Since that he had been a married man, and those special drawing rooms and those wonderful words had in no degree actuated him in his choice of a wife.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000014|He had left all those things of his own free will, as though telling himself that there was a better life than they offered to him.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000016|He had certainly sighed for the gauds which he had left.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000017|While his young wife was living he had kept his sighs down, so that she should not hear them; but he had been forced to acknowledge that his new life had been vapid and flavourless.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000019_000018|Now he had been tempted back again to the old haunts. Would the Countesses' cards be showered upon him again?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000000|One card, or rather note, had reached him while he was yet at Tankerville, reminding him of old days.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000001|It was from mrs Low, the wife of the barrister with whom he had worked when he had been a law student in London.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000002|She had asked him to come and dine with them after the old fashion in Baker Street, naming a day as to which she presumed that he would by that time have finished his affairs at Tankerville, intimating also that mr Low would then have finished his at North Broughton.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000003|Now mr Low had sat for North Broughton before Phineas left London, and his wife spoke of the seat as a certainty.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000004|Phineas could not keep himself from feeling that mrs Low intended to triumph over him; but, nevertheless, he accepted the invitation.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000005|They were very glad to see him, explaining that, as nobody was supposed to be in town, nobody had been asked to meet him.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000006|In former days he had been very intimate in that house, having received from both of them much kindness, mingled, perhaps, with some touch of severity on the part of the lady.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000007|But the ground for that was gone, and mrs Low was no longer painfully severe.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000008|A few words were said as to his great loss.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000009|mrs Low once raised her eyebrows in pretended surprise when Phineas explained that he had thrown up his place, and then they settled down on the question of the day.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000010|"And so," said mrs Low, "you've begun to attack the Church?"
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000020_000011|It must be remembered that at this moment mr Daubeny had not as yet electrified the minds of East Barsetshire, and that, therefore, mrs Low was not disturbed.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000021_000000|"You don't mean that I am guilty of throwing the first stone?" said Phineas.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000023_000000|"You haven't thrown the first stone," said mr Low; "but you have taken up the throwing at the first moment in which stones may be dangerous."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000024_000000|"No stones can be dangerous," said mrs Low.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000025_000000|"The idea of a State Church," said Phineas, "is opposed to my theory of political progress.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000025_000001|What I hope is that my friends will not suppose that I attack the Protestant Church because I am a Roman Catholic.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000025_000002|If I were a priest it would be my business to do so; but I am not a priest."
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000001|But neither did he nor did his wife for a moment abstain from attacking their guest in respect to his speeches at Tankerville.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000002|It seemed, indeed, to Phineas that as mrs Low was buckled up in such triple armour that she feared nothing, she might have been less loud in expressing her abhorrence of the enemies of the Church.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000003|If she feared nothing, why should she scream so loudly?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000004|Between the two he was a good deal crushed and confounded, and mrs Low was very triumphant when she allowed him to escape from her hands at ten o'clock.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000005|But, at that moment, nothing had as yet been heard in Baker Street of mr Daubeny's proposition to the electors of East Barsetshire!
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000006|Poor mrs Low!
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000026_000007|We can foresee that there is much grief in store for her, and some rocks ahead, too, in the political career of her husband.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000027_000000|Phineas was still in London, hanging about the clubs, doing nothing, discussing mr Daubeny's wonderful treachery with such men as came up to town, and waiting for the meeting of Parliament, when he received the following letter from Lady Laura Kennedy:--
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000028_000000|Dresden, november eighteenth, ----.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000029_000000|MY DEAR mr
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000029_000001|FINN,
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000030_000001|I cannot conceive of you as living any other life than that of the House of Commons, Downing Street, and the clubs.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000030_000003|And when I hear of you at Harrington Hall I know that you are on your way to the other things.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000031_000003|Violet does write, but tells me little or nothing of themselves. Her letters are very nice, full of anecdote, well written,--letters that are fit to be kept and printed; but they are never family letters.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000031_000007|You will have seen it all, and have enough of the feminine side of a man's character to be able to tell me how they are living. I am sure they are happy together, because Violet has more common sense than any woman I ever knew.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000000|And pray tell me about the affair at Tankerville.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000001|My cousin Barrington writes me word that you will certainly get the seat.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000002|He declares that mr Browborough is almost disposed not to fight the battle, though a man more disposed to fight never bribed an elector.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000003|But Barrington seems to think that you managed as well as you did by getting outside the traces, as he calls it.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000004|We certainly did not think that you would come out strong against the Church.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000006|For myself I hate to think of the coming severance; but if it must come, why not by your hands as well as by any other?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000032_000008|But, as Barrington says, a horse won't get oats unless he works steady between the traces.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000000|As to myself, what am I to say to you?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000002|We have a large furnished house outside the town, with a pleasant view and a pretty garden.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000003|He does-nothing.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000005|At home, as you know, not only did he take an active part in politics, but he was active also in the management of his own property. Now it seems to him to be almost too great a trouble to write a letter to his steward; and all this has come upon him because of me.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000006|He is here because he cannot bear that I should live alone.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000008|In truth the burden of idleness has now fallen upon him so heavily that he cannot shake it off.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000033_000009|He dreads that he may be called upon to do anything.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000001|I cannot but think of things as they were two or three years since.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000002|My father and my husband were both in the Cabinet, and you, young as you were, stood but one step below it.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000004|He was very poor.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000005|Papa thought all evil of him. Violet had refused him over and over again.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000006|He quarrelled with you, and all the world seemed against him.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000008|An ineffable misery fell upon me and upon my wretched husband.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000009|All our good things went from us at a blow.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000010|I and my poor father became as it were outcasts.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000012|He won his wife honestly;--did he not?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000013|And he has ever been honest.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000014|It is my pride to think I never gave him up.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000015|But the bitter part of my cup consists in this,--that as he has won what he has deserved, so have we.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000016|I complain of no injustice.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000034_000017|Our castle was built upon the sand.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000001|There is no one whom I can ask to tell me of him.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000002|That he did not attend during the last Session I do know, and we presume that he has now abandoned his seat.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000004|From time to time I am implored by him to return to my duty beneath his roof.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000005|He grounds his demand on no affection of his own, on no presumption that any affection can remain with me.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000006|He says no word of happiness.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000007|He offers no comfort.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000008|He does not attempt to persuade with promises of future care.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000009|He makes his claim simply on Holy Writ, and on the feeling of duty which thence ought to weigh upon me.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000010|He has never even told me that he loves me; but he is persistent in declaring that those whom God has joined together nothing human should separate.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000035_000012|Since that I am constrained to leave his letters unanswered.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000000|And now, my friend, could you not do for me a great kindness?
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000001|For a while, till the inquiry be made at Tankerville, your time must be vacant.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000003|I have told Papa that I should ask you, and he would be delighted.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000004|I cannot explain to you what it would be to me to be able to talk again to one who knows all the errors and all the efforts of my past life as you do. Dresden is very cold in the winter.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000005|I do not know whether you would mind that.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000006|We are very particular about the rooms, but my father bears the temperature wonderfully well, though he complains.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000036_000008|Do come if you can.
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000037_000000|Most sincerely yours,
train-clean-100/3879/174923/3879_174923_000038_000000|LAURA KENNEDY.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000006_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000016_000002|All looked up to them.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000017_000000|"Poor Miss Taylor!--I wish she were here again.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000023_000000|"The carriage!
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000024_000005|That was your doing, papa.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000024_000006|You got Hannah that good place.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000025_000000|"I am very glad I did think of her.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000025_000005|He will be able to tell her how we all are."
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000029_000000|"But you must have found it very damp and dirty.
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000029_000001|I wish you may not catch cold."
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000030_000000|"Dirty, sir!
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000030_000002|Not a speck on them."
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000031_000002|I wanted them to put off the wedding."
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000032_000002|How did you all behave?
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000032_000003|Who cried most?"
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000033_000001|'tis a sad business."
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000037_000000|"My dearest papa!
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000037_000002|What a horrible idea!
train-clean-100/39/121914/39_121914_000047_000005|What are you proud of?
train-clean-100/39/121915/39_121915_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/39/121915/39_121915_000005_000000|A complete change of life became desirable.
train-clean-100/39/121915/39_121915_000005_000001|He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.
train-clean-100/39/121915/39_121915_000009_000005|mr Woodhouse told me of it.
train-clean-100/39/121915/39_121915_000012_000002|She would be very glad to stay."
train-clean-100/39/121915/39_121915_000013_000003|He had been at the pains of consulting mr Perry, the apothecary, on the subject.
train-clean-100/39/121916/39_121916_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-100/39/121916/39_121916_000002_000002|He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.
train-clean-100/39/121916/39_121916_000004_000001|Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance.
train-clean-100/39/121916/39_121916_000015_000005|Ours are all apple tarts.
train-clean-100/39/121916/39_121916_000015_000007|I do not advise the custard.
train-clean-100/39/121916/39_121916_000015_000010|I do not think it could disagree with you."
train-clean-100/3947/13260/3947_13260_000008_000000|"It is true.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000004_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000019_000000|Rollin was relieved when Rachel spoke.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000019_000010|One thing I have found out.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000020_000000|Rollin spoke with enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000022_000000|Rollin trembled.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000022_000001|His agitation was greater than he could control. Rachel could not help seeing it.
train-clean-100/3947/13262/3947_13262_000022_000003|At last Rollin said: "I thank you.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000002_000000|As Bibbs came out of the New House, a Sunday trio was in course of passage upon the sidewalk: an ample young woman, placid of face; a black clad, thin young man, whose expression was one of habitual anxiety, habitual wariness and habitual eagerness.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000002_000001|He propelled a perambulator containing the third-and all three were newly cleaned, Sundayfied, and made fit to dine with the wife's relatives.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000003_000000|"How'd you like for me to be THAT young fella, mamma?" the husband whispered.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000003_000001|"He's one of the sons, and there ain't but two left now."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000004_000000|The wife stared curiously at Bibbs.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000006_000002|"He walks kind of slow and stooped over, like."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000008_000000|Mary, happening to glance from a window, saw Bibbs coming, and she started, clasping her hands together in a sudden alarm.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000008_000001|She met him at the door.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000009_000000|"Bibbs!" she cried.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000009_000001|"What is the matter?
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000009_000002|I saw something was terribly wrong when I-You look-" She paused, and he came in, not lifting his eyes to hers.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000009_000003|Always when he crossed that threshold he had come with his head up and his wistful gaze seeking hers.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000009_000004|"Ah, poor boy!" she said, with a gesture of understanding and pity.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000010_000000|He followed her into the room where they always sat, and sank into a chair.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000011_000000|"You needn't tell me," she said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000011_000002|Your father's won-you're going to do what he wants.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000011_000003|You've given up."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000012_000000|Still without looking at her, he inclined his head in affirmation.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000013_000002|"I can be glad of one thing, though it's selfish.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000013_000003|I can be glad you came straight to me.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000013_000004|It's more to me than even if you'd come because you were happy." She did not speak again for a little while; then she said: "Bibbs-dear-could you tell me about it?
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000013_000005|Do you want to?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000014_000000|Still he did not look up, but in a voice, shaken and husky he asked her a question so grotesque that at first she thought she had misunderstood his words.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000016_000000|"What did you say, Bibbs?" she asked, quietly.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000017_000000|His tone and attitude did not change.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000018_000000|Both of her hands leaped to her cheeks-she grew red and then white. She rose slowly and moved backward from him, staring at him, at first incredulously, then with an intense perplexity more and more luminous in her wide eyes; it was like a spoken question.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000018_000001|The room filled with strangeness in the long silence-the two were so strange to each other. At last she said:
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000019_000000|"What made you say that?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000021_000000|"Bibbs, look at me!" Her voice was loud and clear.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000021_000001|"What made you say that?
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000021_000002|Look at me!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000022_000000|He could not look at her, and he could not speak.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000023_000000|"What was it that made you?" she said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000023_000001|"I want you to tell me."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000024_000001|"You've given up-to your father," she said, slowly, "and then you came to ask me-" She broke off.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000024_000002|"Bibbs, do you want me to marry you?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000025_000000|"Yes," he said, just audibly.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000026_000000|"No!" she cried.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000026_000001|"You do not.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000026_000002|Then what made you ask me?
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000026_000003|What is it that's happened?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000027_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000028_000000|"Wait," she said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000028_000001|"Let me think.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000028_000002|It's something that happened since our walk this morning-yes, since you left me at noon.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000028_000003|Something happened that-" She stopped abruptly, with a tremulous murmur of amazement and dawning comprehension.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000028_000004|She remembered that Sibyl had gone to the New House.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000029_000000|Bibbs swallowed painfully and contrived to say, "I do-I do want you to-marry me, if-if-you could."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000030_000000|She looked at him, and slowly shook her head.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000030_000001|"Bibbs, do you-" Her voice was as unsteady as his-little more than a whisper.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000030_000002|"Do you think I'm-in love with you?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000032_000000|Somewhere in the still air of the room there was a whispered word; it did not seem to come from Mary's parted lips, but he was aware of it. "Why?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000033_000000|"I've had nothing but dreams," Bibbs said, desolately, "but they weren't like that.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000033_000003|She meant it to express Sibyl's extremity, you see.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000033_000004|But I hardly needed either of them to tell me.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000033_000005|I hadn't thought of myself as-well, not as particularly captivating!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000034_000000|Oddly enough, Mary's pallor changed to an angry flush.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000034_000001|"Those two!" she exclaimed, sharply; and then, with thoroughgoing contempt: "Lamhorn! That's like them!" She turned away, went to the bare little black mantel, and stood leaning upon it.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000035_000000|"To day."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000036_000000|Mary drew a deep breath.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000036_000001|"I think I'm beginning to understand-a little." She bit her lip; there was anger in good truth in her eyes and in her voice.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000036_000003|"Bibbs, do you know now why I stopped wearing my furs?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000037_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000038_000000|"I thought so!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000038_000001|Your sister in law told you, didn't she?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000039_000000|"I-I heard her say-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000040_000000|"I think I know what happened, now." Mary's breath came fast and her voice shook, but she spoke rapidly.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000040_000001|"You 'heard her say' more than that. You 'heard her say' that we were bitterly poor, and on that account I tried first to marry your brother-and then-" But now she faltered, and it was only after a convulsive effort that she was able to go on.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000040_000002|"And then-that I tried to marry-you!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000040_000004|What had I shown you of myself that could make you-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000042_000000|"Mary, Mary!" he cried, helplessly.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000042_000001|"Oh NO-you-you don't understand."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000043_000000|"I do, though!" she sobbed.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000043_000001|"I do!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000000|He came and stood beside her.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000001|"You kill me!" he said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000002|"I can't make it plain.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000004|It was always you that gave and I that took.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000005|I was the dependent-I did nothing but lean on you.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000006|We always talked of me, not of you.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000007|It was all about my idiotic distresses and troubles.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000008|I thought of you as a kind of wonderful being that had no mortal or human suffering except by sympathy.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000009|You seemed to lean down-out of a rosy cloud-to be kind to me.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000010|I never dreamed I could do anything for YOU!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000044_000011|I never dreamed you could need anything to be done for you by anybody.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000045_000001|"And you thought we were so-so desperate-you believed that I had-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000046_000000|"No!" he said, quickly.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000046_000001|"I didn't believe you'd done one kind thing for me-for that.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000046_000003|I said I couldn't make it plain!" he cried, despairingly.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000047_000000|"Wait!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000047_000002|"Help me up, Bibbs." Then, when she was once more upon her feet, she wiped her eyes and smiled upon him ruefully and faintly, but reassuringly, as if to tell him, in that way, that she knew he had not meant to hurt her.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000047_000003|And that smile of hers, so lamentable, but so faithfully friendly, misted his own eyes, for his shamefacedness lowered them no more.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000048_000000|"Let me tell you what you want to tell me," she said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000048_000001|"You can't, because you can't put it into words-they are too humiliating for me and you're too gentle to say them.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000048_000002|Tell me, though, isn't it true?
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000048_000003|You didn't believe that I'd tried to make you fall in love with me-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000049_000000|"Never!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000049_000001|Never for an instant!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000051_000000|"No, no, no!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000052_000000|"I believe it, Bibbs.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000052_000001|You thought that I was fond of you; you knew I cared for you-but you didn't think I might be-in love with you. But you thought that I might marry you without being in love with you because you did believe I had tried to marry your brother, and-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000054_000000|"Were desperately poor," she said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000054_000002|Bibbs, it was true: I did try to make Jim want to marry me.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000054_000003|I did!" And she sank down into the chair, weeping bitterly again.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000054_000004|Bibbs was agonized.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000055_000000|"Mary," he groaned, "I didn't know you COULD cry!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000000|"Listen," she said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000001|"Listen till I get through-I want you to understand.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000002|We were poor, and we weren't fitted to be.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000003|We never had been, and we didn't know what to do.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000005|And we couldn't DO anything. You might wonder why I didn't 'try to be a stenographer'--and I wonder myself why, when a family loses its money, people always say the daughters 'ought to go and be stenographers.' It's curious!--as if a wave of the hand made you into a stenographer.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000007|The poverty came on slowly, Bibbs, but at last it was all there-and I didn't know how to be a stenographer.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000008|I didn't know how to be anything except a well to do old maid or somebody's wife-and I couldn't be a well to do old maid.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000009|Then, Bibbs, I did what I'd been raised to know how to do.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000011|I did it openly, at least, and with a kind of decent honesty.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000013|I think I did mean to marry him.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000014|I had never cared for anybody, and I thought it might be there really WASN'T anything more than a kind of excited fondness.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000016|Something did stop me; it was your sister in law, Sibyl.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000017|She meant no harm-but she was horrible, and she put what I was doing into such horrible words-and they were the truth-oh!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000018|I SAW myself!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000020|But I couldn't!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000021|I left her, and I wrote to your brother-just a quick scrawl.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000022|I told him just what I'd done; I asked his pardon, and I said I would not marry him.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000023|I posted the letter, but he never got it. That was the afternoon he was killed.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000024|That's all, Bibbs.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000056_000025|Now you know what I did-and you know-ME!" She pressed her clenched hands tightly against her eyes, leaning far forward, her head bowed before him.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000057_000000|Bibbs had forgotten himself long ago; his heart broke for her.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000057_000001|"Couldn't you-Isn't there-Won't you-" he stammered.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000057_000002|"Mary, I'm going with father.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000057_000003|Isn't there some way you could use the money without-without-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000058_000000|She gave a choked little laugh.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000059_000000|"You gave me something to live for," he said.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000060_000000|"Not you-oh no!"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000061_000000|"You could forgive me, Mary?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000062_000000|"Oh, a thousand times!" Her right hand went out in a faltering gesture, and just touched his own for an instant.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000062_000001|"But there's nothing to forgive."
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000063_000000|"And you can't-you can't-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000064_000000|"Can't what, Bibbs?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000065_000000|"You couldn't-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000068_000001|"I can't, I can't!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000068_000002|Don't you SEE?"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000070_000000|"No, no! And you must go now, Bibbs; I can't bear any more-please-"
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000072_000000|"Never, never, never!" she cried, in a passion of tears.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000072_000001|"You mustn't come any more.
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000072_000002|I can't see you, dear!
train-clean-100/3982/178459/3982_178459_000072_000003|Never, never, never!"
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000001_000000|"As to the government of this city," said mr Newberry, leaning back in a leather armchair at the Mausoleum Club and lighting a second cigar, "it's rotten, that's all."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000006_000000|"A bum city solicitor," said mr Overend, "and an infernal grafter for treasurer."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000007_000000|"Yes," assented mr Newberry, and then, leaning forwards in his chair and looking carefully about the corridors of the club, he spoke behind his hand and said, "And the mayor's the biggest grafter of the lot.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000008_000001|"It's a tyranny," he said.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000014_000002|Not merely different in the matter of graft, but different, so mr Newberry said, in the calibre of the men.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000014_000005|Giants! he said, that was what they were.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000015_000000|But as for the present legislature-here mr Dick Overend sadly nodded assent in advance to what he knew was coming-as for the present legislature-well-mr
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000018_000000|There had come a moment-quite suddenly it seemed-when it occurred to everybody at the same time that the whole government of the city was rotten.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000018_000001|The word is a strong one.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000019_000001|Everybody felt it at once.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000019_000005|Twenty names are hard to remember, and as a matter of fact, at the moment when this wave of feeling struck the city, nobody knew or cared who were aldermen, anyway.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000020_000002|Nobody had ever really thought about them-that is to say, nobody on Plutoria Avenue.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000020_000003|Sometimes one saw a picture in the paper and wondered for a moment who the person was; but on looking more closely and noticing what was written under it, one said, "Oh, I see, an alderman," and turned to something else.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000023_000005|In Philadelphia they called it the spirit of William Penn.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000002|As soon as people began to look into the condition of things in the city they were horrified at what they found.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000004|Think of it!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000005|In a city with a hundred and fifty deaths a week, and sometimes even better, an undertaker sat on the council!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000007|And worse than that!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000009|In a city that consumed a thousand tons of meat every week!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000011|Imagine it!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000024_000013|The thing was monstrous.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000025_000000|So when mr Newberry said "It's worse than Russia!" he meant it, every word.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000033_000002|Let the boys know that just for a while the darker they keep the better."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000036_000000|"Well," said the heavy mayor, speaking slowly and cautiously and eyeing his henchman with quiet scrutiny, "you want to go pretty easy now, I tell you."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000040_000001|You don't say!"
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000041_000000|"It's a fact," repeated mr Fyshe.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000041_000001|"They take money.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000041_000003|And the fellow took it, took it like a shot."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000043_000000|"He did," said mr Fyshe.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000043_000001|"There ought to be a criminal law for that sort of thing."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000045_000000|"And the infernal insolence of them," mr Fyshe continued.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000045_000001|"I went down the next day to see the deputy assistant (about a thing connected with the same matter), told him what I wanted and passed a fifty dollar bill across the counter and the fellow fairly threw it back at me, in a perfect rage.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000045_000002|He refused it!"
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000046_000000|"Refused it," gasped mr Spillikins, "I say!"
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000049_000000|"It's a splendid movement!" said mr Fyshe (he was a leading shareholder and director of the Citizens' Light), "what a splendid thing to think that we shan't have to deal for our new franchise with a set of corrupt rapscallions like these present aldermen.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000049_000002|Said it was too long!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000049_000004|A hundred and fifty years (only a century and a half) too long for the franchise!
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000049_000006|Of course we knew what they wanted. They meant us to hand them over fifty dollars each to stuff into their rascally pockets."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000050_000000|"Outrageous!" said mr Furlong.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000051_000002|Just think of it!"
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000053_000000|"Certainly not," said mr Fyshe, very quietly and decidedly, looking at mr Furlong in a searching way as he spoke.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000055_000000|"You had thought, had you not, of offering it to the city?" said mr Fyshe.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000056_000000|"We did," said mr Furlong, "at a more or less nominal sum-four hundred thousand or whatever it might be.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000056_000001|We felt that for such a purpose, almost sacred as it were, one would want as little bargaining as possible."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000058_000000|"Our feeling was," went on mr Furlong, "that if the city wanted our land for the cemetery extension, it might have it at its own figure-four hundred thousand, half a million, in fact at absolutely any price, from four hundred thousand up, that they cared to put on it. We didn't regard it as a commercial transaction at all.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000058_000001|Our reward lay merely in the fact of selling it to them."
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000060_000001|"We thought, too, that our ground, having the tanneries and the chemical factory along the farther side of it, was an ideal place for-" he paused, seeking a mode of expressing his thought.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000064_000000|"Heart and soul," answered mr Fyshe.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000064_000002|He says that the city has been buying coal wholesale at the pit mouth at three fifty-utterly worthless stuff, he tells me.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000066_000000|"Abominable, is it not?" said mr Fyshe.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000066_000002|'Take your own case,' I said to him, 'how is it that you, a coal man, are not helping the city in this matter?
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000066_000003|Why don't you supply the city?' He shook his head, 'I wouldn't do it at three fifty,' he said.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000066_000005|If we get a new council in they may name their own figure.' 'Good,' I said.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000067_000000|Thus it was that the light broke and spread and illuminated in all directions.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000067_000002|mr Boulder, who owned, among other things, a stone quarry and an asphalt company, felt that the paving of the streets was a disgrace.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000069_000002|mr Rasselyer Brown, mr Furlong senior and others were there, not from special interest in the light or traction questions, but, as they said themselves, from pure civic spirit.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000069_000005|dr McTeague, blinking in the blue tobacco smoke, was there to stand for the church.
train-clean-100/3982/182255/3982_182255_000070_000000|"Isn't it fine," whispered mr Spillikins to mr Newberry, "to see a set of men like these all going into a thing like this, not thinking of their own interests a bit?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000002_000000|mr
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000003_000005|She had died and left one child.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000003_000009|And Archibald generally submitted, for the force of habit is strong.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000005_000001|His confidential clerk and manager stood near him.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000005_000002|It was mr Dill, a little, meek looking man with a bald head.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000007_000000|"Can I see mr Carlyle?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000008_000000|mr Dill rose from his seat and shook hands with her.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000009_000000|"Presently, Miss Barbara.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000009_000001|He is engaged just now.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000009_000002|The justices are with him."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000010_000002|He must not see me.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000011_000000|An ominous sound of talking; the justices were evidently coming forth.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000012_000001|"They are gone now, and the coast's clear, Miss Barbara."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000016_000002|mr Dill shut me into his room."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000018_000001|"It would be-it might be-death!"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000019_000001|"The doors are double doors; did you notice that they were?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000022_000000|"Richard!" repeated mr Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000022_000001|"At West Lynne!"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000023_000003|And, oh, Archibald!
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000023_000004|He says he is innocent."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000024_000002|"Sit down, Barbara," he said drawing her chair closer.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000025_000000|Barbara sat down again, but her manner was hurried and nervous.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000025_000002|It would look so peculiar to see me here; but mamma was too unwell to come herself-or rather, she feared papa's questioning, if he found out that she came."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000028_000000|"What Thorn?" asked mr Carlyle, suppressing all signs of incredulity.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000029_000000|"I don't know; a friend of Afy's, he said.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000029_000004|You are so clever, you can do anything."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000030_000000|mr Carlyle smiled.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000030_000002|Was this the purport of Richard's visit-to say this?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000032_000001|"If so, I must send to the bank.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000033_000000|"Not until evening.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000033_000001|Can you manage to see Richard?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000035_000000|"A farm laborer's, the best he could adopt about here, with large black whiskers.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000035_000002|And now," continued Barbara, "I want you to advise me; had I better inform mamma that Richard is here, or not?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000037_000002|Would it be advisable to acquaint her?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000040_000000|"It is only natural.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000041_000004|Can you devise any plan?
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000042_000001|He had dropped his eyelids in thought.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000042_000002|"Have you told me all?" he asked presently, lifting them.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000043_000000|"I think so."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000045_000001|"It-it might excite suspicions; some one might see me, too, and mention it to papa.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000045_000002|Neither ought you to send to our house."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000046_000000|"Well-contrive to be in the street at four this afternoon.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000046_000001|Stay, that's your dinner hour; be walking up the street at three, three precisely; I will meet you."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000049_000000|"Why-what on earth!" began she, "have you been with Archibald for?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000053_000000|Miss Carlyle did not believe a word.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000054_000001|A trifling matter, relating to a little money.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000054_000002|It's nothing, indeed."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000058_000001|A clerk answered it.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000059_000000|"Go to the Buck's Head.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000059_000001|If mr Hare and the other magistrates are there, ask them to step over to me."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000061_000002|Come at seven, not later, and you will find my father's old jar replenished with the best broadcut, and half a dozen churchwarden pipes.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000061_000003|Shall it be so?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000062_000000|The whole five accepted the invitation eagerly.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000065_000000|Soon after mr Carlyle was left alone another clerk entered.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000066_000000|"Miss Carlyle is asking to see you, sir, and Colonel Bethel's come again."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000067_000000|"Send in Miss Carlyle first," was the answer.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000067_000001|"What is it, Cornelia?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000068_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000068_000003|How can I give my orders?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000069_000000|"I thought business would have called me out, but I am not going now.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000069_000001|We will dine a little earlier, though, Cornelia, say a quarter before six.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000069_000002|I have invited-"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000070_000000|"What's up, Archibald?" interrupted Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000071_000000|"Up!
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000071_000002|I am very busy, Cornelia, and Colonel Bethel is waiting; I will talk to you at dinner time.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000071_000003|I have invited a party for to night."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000072_000000|"A party!" echoed Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000073_000000|"Four or five of the justices are coming in to smoke their pipes.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000074_000000|"They shan't come!" screamed Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000074_000001|"Do you think I'll be poisoned with tobacco smoke from a dozen pipes?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000076_000000|"Nor they either.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000076_000001|Clean curtains are just put up throughout the house, and I'll have no horrid pipes to blacken them."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000077_000001|"And now, Cornelia, I really must beg you to leave me."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000078_000001|"You are very clever, Archie, but you can't do me.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000078_000003|I ask you: to hear your opinion about the scrape the bench have got into, is yours.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000078_000005|I should like to know what you and Barbara do with a secret between you."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000079_000000|mr Carlyle knew her and her resolute expression well, and he took his course, to tell her the truth.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000080_000000|mr Carlyle bent forward and spoke in a whisper.
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000080_000002|Richard Hare has returned."
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000081_000001|"Richard Hare!
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000081_000002|Is he mad?"
train-clean-100/3983/5331/3983_5331_000083_000000|"Is he at their house?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000000_000001|Out upon you for a bold, bad man!"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000001_000003|Certain it is, that the ominous sound of "Duck him," was breathed forth by a voice, and it was caught up and echoed around.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000002_000000|"Duck him!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000002_000001|Duck him!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000002_000002|The pond be close at hand.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000002_000003|Let's give him a taste of his deservings!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000002_000006|Him put up for others at West Lynne!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000003_000002|They set upon him, twenty pairs of hands at least, strong, rough, determined hands; not to speak of the tagrag's help, who went in with cuffs, and kicks, and pokes, and taunts, and cheers, and a demoniac dance.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000004_000000|They dragged him through a gap in the hedge, a gap that no baby could have got through in a cool moment; but most of us know the difference between coolness and excitement.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000004_000001|The hedge was extensively damaged, but Justice Hare, to whom it belonged, would forgive that.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000004_000002|mr Drake and the lawyer-for the other was a lawyer-were utterly powerless to stop the catastrophe.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000004_000005|Had she interfered for his protection, she could not have been heard; and if she could have been, there's no knowing whether she would have done it.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000005_000002|One pulled him, another pushed him, a third shook him by the collar, half a dozen buffeted him, and all abused him.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000007_000000|"Mercy!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000007_000001|Mercy!" shrieked the victim, his knees bending and his teeth chattering-"a little mercy for the love of Heaven!"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000008_000001|Much he knows of Heaven!"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000010_000000|Out of the pea soup before he was quite dead, quite senseless.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000010_000002|The laborers, their duty done, walked coolly away; the tagrag withdrew to a safe distance, waiting for what might come next; and Miss Carlyle moved away also.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000010_000005|What did she think of his beauty now?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000010_000006|I know what she thought of her past folly.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000011_000000|Miss Carlyle never spoke a word.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000011_000002|"It's very odd," thought Miss Corny.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000012_000000|They were passing a spectacle shop, and Madame Vine had halted at the door, one foot on its step.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000013_000000|Miss Carlyle followed her in.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000013_000005|She put them on, there and then, Miss Carlyle's eyes searching her face inquisitively all the time.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000016_000000|"My eyes are not strong."
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000017_000001|But why wear colored glasses?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000018_000000|"I am accustomed to colored ones.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000019_000000|Miss Corny paused.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000022_000000|"Here!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000022_000001|Here!
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000022_000002|What's up?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000022_000003|What's this?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000023_000003|Quite a collection of gentlemen-mr
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000025_000000|Sir Francis Levison?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000025_000001|Could it be?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000025_000003|What on earth had put him into that state?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000031_000000|"You see him-my brother Archibald?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000032_000000|"I see him," faltered Lady Isabel.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000033_000000|"And you see him, that pitiful outcast, who is too contemptible to live?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000033_000001|Look at the two, and contrast them.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000033_000002|Look well."
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000034_000000|"Yes!" was the gaping answer.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000035_000001|Did she come to repentance, think you?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000036_000004|He objected.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000042_000003|He'd have burst with it, if he hadn't, I expect; I never saw a chap so excited.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000042_000004|peter cried."
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000043_000000|"Cried?" echoed Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000045_000001|"I didn't see her, and I was present."
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000047_000000|"What did she go into hysterics for?" again snapped Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000049_000000|"It wouldn't have done her harm had they ducked her too," was the angry response.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000050_000000|Joyce was silent.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000051_000000|"Joyce," resumed Miss Carlyle, abruptly changing the subject, "who does the governess put you in mind of?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000052_000001|"The governess?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000052_000002|Do you mean Madame Vine?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000058_000000|"I did to day," returned Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000058_000001|"And I can tell you, Joyce, that I was confounded at the likeness.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000058_000002|It is an extraordinary likeness.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000059_000001|Miss Carlyle turned to the earl.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000060_000000|"Was it a positively ascertained fact that Lady Isabel died?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000061_000000|The earl stared with all his might; he thought it the strangest question that ever was asked him.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000061_000002|Died?
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000061_000003|Certainly she died."
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000062_000000|"When the result of the accident was communicated to you, you made inquiry yourself into its truth, its details, I believe?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000063_000000|"It was my duty to do so.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000063_000001|There was no one else to undertake it."
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000064_000000|"Did you ascertain positively, beyond all doubt, that she did die?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000065_000000|"Of a surety I did.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000065_000001|She died in the course of the same night.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000066_000000|A pause.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000066_000002|But she returned to the charge, as if difficult to be convinced.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000067_000001|You are sure that she is dead?"
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000068_000000|"I am as sure that she is dead as that we are living," decisively replied the earl: and he spoke but according to his belief.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000071_000000|Convincing proofs; and Miss Carlyle lent her ear to them.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000074_000000|She arose; her face burning, her heart throbbing.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000076_000000|"There was no difference," she murmured, and then she took courage and spoke more openly.
train-clean-100/3983/5371/3983_5371_000078_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000004_000000|Chapter seventeen.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000004_000001|The Abbe's Chamber.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000006_000000|As he entered the chamber of his friend, Dantes cast around one eager and searching glance in quest of the expected marvels, but nothing more than common met his view.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000008_000000|"Look at this ray of light which enters by my window," said the abbe, "and then observe the lines traced on the wall.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000008_000001|Well, by means of these lines, which are in accordance with the double motion of the earth, and the ellipse it describes round the sun, I am enabled to ascertain the precise hour with more minuteness than if I possessed a watch; for that might be broken or deranged in its movements, while the sun and earth never vary in their appointed paths."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000009_000000|This last explanation was wholly lost upon Dantes, who had always imagined, from seeing the sun rise from behind the mountains and set in the Mediterranean, that it moved, and not the earth.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000009_000001|A double movement of the globe he inhabited, and of which he could feel nothing, appeared to him perfectly impossible.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000009_000002|Each word that fell from his companion's lips seemed fraught with the mysteries of science, as worthy of digging out as the gold and diamonds in the mines of Guzerat and Golconda, which he could just recollect having visited during a voyage made in his earliest youth.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000011_000000|The abbe smiled, and, proceeding to the disused fireplace, raised, by the help of his chisel, a long stone, which had doubtless been the hearth, beneath which was a cavity of considerable depth, serving as a safe depository of the articles mentioned to Dantes.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000013_000000|"Oh, your great work on the monarchy of Italy!"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000014_000000|Faria then drew forth from his hiding place three or four rolls of linen, laid one over the other, like folds of papyrus.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000014_000001|These rolls consisted of slips of cloth about four inches wide and eighteen long; they were all carefully numbered and closely covered with writing, so legible that Dantes could easily read it, as well as make out the sense-it being in Italian, a language he, as a Provencal, perfectly understood.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000015_000001|I wrote the word finis at the end of the sixty eighth strip about a week ago.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000015_000002|I have torn up two of my shirts, and as many handkerchiefs as I was master of, to complete the precious pages.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000015_000003|Should I ever get out of prison and find in all Italy a printer courageous enough to publish what I have composed, my literary reputation is forever secured."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000016_000000|"I see," answered Dantes.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000016_000001|"Now let me behold the curious pens with which you have written your work."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000017_000001|Dantes examined it with intense admiration, then looked around to see the instrument with which it had been shaped so correctly into form.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000018_000000|"Ah, yes," said Faria; "the penknife.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000018_000001|That's my masterpiece.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000018_000002|I made it, as well as this larger knife, out of an old iron candlestick." The penknife was sharp and keen as a razor; as for the other knife, it would serve a double purpose, and with it one could cut and thrust.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000019_000000|Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000020_000000|"As for the ink," said Faria, "I told you how I managed to obtain that-and I only just make it from time to time, as I require it."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000021_000000|"One thing still puzzles me," observed Dantes, "and that is how you managed to do all this by daylight?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000022_000000|"I worked at night also," replied Faria.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000023_000000|"Night!--why, for heaven's sake, are your eyes like cats', that you can see to work in the dark?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000024_000000|"Indeed they are not; but God has supplied man with the intelligence that enables him to overcome the limitations of natural conditions.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000025_000000|"You did?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000025_000001|Pray tell me how."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000026_000000|"I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil-here is my lamp." So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000027_000000|"But light?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000028_000000|"Here are two flints and a piece of burnt linen."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000029_000000|"And matches?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000031_000000|"You have not seen all yet," continued Faria, "for I did not think it wise to trust all my treasures in the same hiding place.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000031_000002|Behind the head of the bed, and concealed by a stone fitting in so closely as to defy all suspicion, was a hollow space, and in this space a ladder of cords between twenty five and thirty feet in length. Dantes closely and eagerly examined it; he found it firm, solid, and compact enough to bear any weight.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000032_000000|"Who supplied you with the materials for making this wonderful work?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000033_000000|"I tore up several of my shirts, and ripped out the seams in the sheets of my bed, during my three years' imprisonment at Fenestrelle; and when I was removed to the Chateau d'If, I managed to bring the ravellings with me, so that I have been able to finish my work here."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000034_000000|"And was it not discovered that your sheets were unhemmed?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000036_000000|"With what?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000037_000001|"I once thought," continued Faria, "of removing these iron bars, and letting myself down from the window, which, as you see, is somewhat wider than yours, although I should have enlarged it still more preparatory to my flight; however, I discovered that I should merely have dropped into a sort of inner court, and I therefore renounced the project altogether as too full of risk and danger.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000039_000000|"I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, "upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000039_000001|What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000040_000001|Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced-from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000041_000000|"No," replied Dantes.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000041_000001|"I know nothing.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000041_000002|Some of your words are to me quite empty of meaning.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000042_000001|"Well," said he, "but you had another subject for your thoughts; did you not say so just now?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000043_000000|"I did!"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000044_000000|"You have told me as yet but one of them-let me hear the other."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000045_000000|"It was this,--that while you had related to me all the particulars of your past life, you were perfectly unacquainted with mine."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000046_000000|"Your life, my young friend, has not been of sufficient length to admit of your having passed through any very important events."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000047_000000|"It has been long enough to inflict on me a great and undeserved misfortune.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000050_000000|"Come," said the abbe, closing his hiding place, and pushing the bed back to its original situation, "let me hear your story."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000052_000001|From this view of things, then, comes the axiom that if you visit to discover the author of any bad action, seek first to discover the person to whom the perpetration of that bad action could be in any way advantageous.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000052_000002|Now, to apply it in your case,--to whom could your disappearance have been serviceable?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000053_000001|I was a very insignificant person."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000054_000002|Well, these twelve thousand livres are his civil list, and are as essential to him as the twelve millions of a king.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000054_000003|Every one, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes' theory of pressure and impulsion.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000054_000004|But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000054_000005|Now let us return to your particular world.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000054_000006|You say you were on the point of being made captain of the Pharaon?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000055_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000057_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000058_000000|"Now, could any one have had any interest in preventing the accomplishment of these two things?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000058_000001|But let us first settle the question as to its being the interest of any one to hinder you from being captain of the Pharaon.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000059_000000|"I cannot believe such was the case.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000059_000001|I was generally liked on board, and had the sailors possessed the right of selecting a captain themselves, I feel convinced their choice would have fallen on me.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000059_000003|I had quarelled with him some time previously, and had even challenged him to fight me; but he refused."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000060_000001|And what was this man's name?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000062_000000|"What rank did he hold on board?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000063_000000|"He was supercargo."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000065_000000|"Not if the choice had remained with me, for I had frequently observed inaccuracies in his accounts."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000066_000000|"Good again!
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000067_000000|"No; we were quite alone."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000068_000000|"Could your conversation have been overheard by any one?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000069_000000|"It might, for the cabin door was open-and-stay; now I recollect,--Danglars himself passed by just as Captain Leclere was giving me the packet for the grand marshal."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000070_000001|Did you take anybody with you when you put into the port of Elba?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000071_000000|"Nobody."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000073_000000|"Yes; the grand marshal did."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000074_000000|"And what did you do with that letter?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000075_000000|"Put it into my portfolio."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000076_000000|"You had your portfolio with you, then?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000076_000001|Now, how could a sailor find room in his pocket for a portfolio large enough to contain an official letter?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000077_000000|"You are right; it was left on board."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000078_000000|"Then it was not till your return to the ship that you put the letter in the portfolio?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000082_000000|"So that when you went on board the Pharaon, everybody could see that you held a letter in your hand?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000083_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000084_000000|"Danglars, as well as the rest?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000085_000000|"Danglars, as well as others."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000086_000000|"Now, listen to me, and try to recall every circumstance attending your arrest.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000086_000001|Do you recollect the words in which the information against you was formulated?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000087_000000|"Oh yes, I read it over three times, and the words sank deeply into my memory."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000088_000000|"Repeat it to me."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000089_000001|This proof of his guilt may be procured by his immediate arrest, as the letter will be found either about his person, at his father's residence, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon.'" The abbe shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000089_000002|"The thing is clear as day," said he; "and you must have had a very confiding nature, as well as a good heart, not to have suspected the origin of the whole affair."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000090_000000|"Do you really think so?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000090_000001|Ah, that would indeed be infamous."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000094_000001|"Disguised."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000095_000000|"It was very boldly written, if disguised."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000096_000000|"Stop a bit," said the abbe, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation. Dantes drew back, and gazed on the abbe with a sensation almost amounting to terror.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000098_000000|"Simply because that accusation had been written with the left hand; and I have noticed that"--
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000099_000000|"What?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000100_000000|"That while the writing of different persons done with the right hand varies, that performed with the left hand is invariably uniform."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000103_000000|"Oh, yes, yes!"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000104_000000|"Now as regards the second question."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000106_000000|"Was there any person whose interest it was to prevent your marriage with Mercedes?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000109_000000|"Fernand."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000114_000000|"That is in strict accordance with the Spanish character; an assassination they will unhesitatingly commit, but an act of cowardice, never."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000120_000000|"Then it is Danglars."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000121_000000|"I feel quite sure of it now."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000122_000000|"Wait a little.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000122_000001|Pray, was Danglars acquainted with Fernand?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000124_000000|"What?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000125_000001|They were in earnest conversation.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000125_000002|Danglars was joking in a friendly way, but Fernand looked pale and agitated."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000127_000001|Stay!--stay!--How strange that it should not have occurred to me before!
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000127_000002|Now I remember quite well, that on the table round which they were sitting were pens, ink, and paper. Oh, the heartless, treacherous scoundrels!" exclaimed Dantes, pressing his hand to his throbbing brows.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000130_000001|"The ways of justice are frequently too dark and mysterious to be easily penetrated.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000131_000000|"Pray ask me whatever questions you please; for, in good truth, you see more clearly into my life than I do myself."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000132_000000|"In the first place, then, who examined you,--the king's attorney, his deputy, or a magistrate?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000133_000000|"The deputy."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000135_000000|"About six or seven and twenty years of age, I should say."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000136_000000|"So," answered the abbe.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000136_000001|"Old enough to be ambitions, but too young to be corrupt.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000136_000002|And how did he treat you?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000137_000000|"With more of mildness than severity."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000139_000000|"I did."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000141_000000|"He did appear much disturbed when he read the letter that had brought me into this scrape.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000141_000001|He seemed quite overcome by my misfortune."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000142_000000|"By your misfortune?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000143_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000144_000000|"Then you feel quite sure that it was your misfortune he deplored?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000145_000000|"He gave me one great proof of his sympathy, at any rate."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000146_000000|"And that?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000148_000000|"What? the accusation?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000149_000000|"No; the letter."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000150_000000|"Are you sure?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000151_000000|"I saw it done."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000152_000000|"That alters the case.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000153_000000|"Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000153_000001|Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000154_000000|"Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000155_000000|"Never mind; let us go on."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000156_000000|"With all my heart!
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000158_000000|"This action is somewhat too sublime to be natural."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000159_000000|"You think so?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000160_000001|To whom was this letter addressed?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000162_000000|"Now can you conceive of any interest that your heroic deputy could possibly have had in the destruction of that letter?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000164_000001|What was your deputy called?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000165_000000|"De Villefort!"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000165_000001|The abbe burst into a fit of laughter, while Dantes gazed on him in utter astonishment.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000168_000000|"I do."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000169_000001|And you tell me this magistrate expressed great sympathy and commiseration for you?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000170_000000|"He did."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000176_000000|Had a thunderbolt fallen at the feet of Dantes, or hell opened its yawning gulf before him, he could not have been more completely transfixed with horror than he was at the sound of these unexpected words.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000176_000001|Starting up, he clasped his hands around his head as though to prevent his very brain from bursting, and exclaimed, "His father!
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000176_000002|his father!"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000178_000000|When he regained his dungeon, he threw himself on his bed, where the turnkey found him in the evening visit, sitting with fixed gaze and contracted features, dumb and motionless as a statue.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000178_000001|During these hours of profound meditation, which to him had seemed only minutes, he had formed a fearful resolution, and bound himself to its fulfilment by a solemn oath.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000179_000000|Dantes was at length roused from his revery by the voice of Faria, who, having also been visited by his jailer, had come to invite his fellow sufferer to share his supper.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000179_000001|The reputation of being out of his mind, though harmlessly and even amusingly so, had procured for the abbe unusual privileges.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000179_000004|Dantes followed; his features were no longer contracted, and now wore their usual expression, but there was that in his whole appearance that bespoke one who had come to a fixed and desperate resolve.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000179_000005|Faria bent on him his penetrating eye: "I regret now," said he, "having helped you in your late inquiries, or having given you the information I did."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000182_000001|"Let us talk of something else," said he.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000184_000000|"You must teach me a small part of what you know," said Dantes, "if only to prevent your growing weary of me.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000184_000001|I can well believe that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000184_000003|"Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000184_000004|Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000185_000000|"Two years!" exclaimed Dantes; "do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000186_000001|Memory makes the one, philosophy the other."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000187_000000|"But cannot one learn philosophy?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000189_000000|"Well, then," said Dantes, "What shall you teach me first?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000189_000001|I am in a hurry to begin.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000189_000002|I want to learn."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000190_000002|He already knew Italian, and had also picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily comprehended the construction of all the others, so that at the end of six months he began to speak Spanish, English, and German.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000190_000003|In strict accordance with the promise made to the abbe, Dantes spoke no more of escape.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000190_000004|Perhaps the delight his studies afforded him left no room for such thoughts; perhaps the recollection that he had pledged his word (on which his sense of honor was keen) kept him from referring in any way to the possibilities of flight.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000190_000005|Days, even months, passed by unheeded in one rapid and instructive course.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000190_000007|Dantes observed, however, that Faria, in spite of the relief his society afforded, daily grew sadder; one thought seemed incessantly to harass and distract his mind.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000193_000000|"And yet the murder, if you choose to call it so, would be simply a measure of self preservation."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000194_000001|I could never agree to it."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000195_000000|"Still, you have thought of it?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000197_000000|"And you have discovered a means of regaining our freedom, have you not?" asked Dantes eagerly.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000201_000001|The young man, in reply, took up the chisel, bent it into the form of a horseshoe, and then as readily straightened it.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000202_000000|"And will you engage not to do any harm to the sentry, except as a last resort?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000203_000000|"I promise on my honor."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000205_000000|"And how long shall we be in accomplishing the necessary work?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000206_000000|"At least a year."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000209_000000|"We have lost a year to no purpose!" cried Dantes.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000211_000000|"Forgive me!" cried Edmond, blushing deeply.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000212_000001|Come, let me show you my plan." The abbe then showed Dantes the sketch he had made for their escape.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000213_000002|They had learned to distinguish the almost imperceptible sound of his footsteps as he descended towards their dungeons, and happily, never failed of being prepared for his coming.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000214_000001|At the end of fifteen months the level was finished, and the excavation completed beneath the gallery, and the two workmen could distinctly hear the measured tread of the sentinel as he paced to and fro over their heads.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000215_000001|Dantes was occupied in arranging this piece of wood when he heard Faria, who had remained in Edmond's cell for the purpose of cutting a peg to secure their rope ladder, call to him in a tone indicative of great suffering.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000215_000002|Dantes hastened to his dungeon, where he found him standing in the middle of the room, pale as death, his forehead streaming with perspiration, and his hands clinched tightly together.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000216_000000|"Gracious heavens!" exclaimed Dantes, "what is the matter?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000216_000001|what has happened?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000217_000000|"Quick!
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000217_000001|quick!" returned the abbe, "listen to what I have to say." Dantes looked in fear and wonder at the livid countenance of Faria, whose eyes, already dull and sunken, were surrounded by purple circles, while his lips were white as those of a corpse, and his very hair seemed to stand on end.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000218_000000|"Tell me, I beseech you, what ails you?" cried Dantes, letting his chisel fall to the floor.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000219_000000|"Alas," faltered out the abbe, "all is over with me.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000219_000001|I am seized with a terrible, perhaps mortal illness; I can feel that the paroxysm is fast approaching.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000219_000002|I had a similar attack the year previous to my imprisonment.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000219_000003|This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000219_000004|Go into my cell as quickly as you can; draw out one of the feet that support the bed; you will find it has been hollowed out for the purpose of containing a small phial you will see there half filled with a red looking fluid.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000219_000006|Who knows what may happen, or how long the attack may last?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000220_000000|In spite of the magnitude of the misfortune which thus suddenly frustrated his hopes, Dantes did not lose his presence of mind, but descended into the passage, dragging his unfortunate companion with him; then, half carrying, half supporting him, he managed to reach the abbe's chamber, when he immediately laid the sufferer on his bed.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000221_000000|"Thanks," said the poor abbe, shivering as though his veins were filled with ice.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000221_000002|On the other hand, the symptoms may be much more violent, and cause me to fall into fearful convulsions, foam at the mouth, and cry out loudly.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000221_000003|Take care my cries are not heard, for if they are it is more than probable I should be removed to another part of the prison, and we be separated forever.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000222_000000|"Perhaps!" exclaimed Dantes in grief stricken tones.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000224_000000|So sudden and violent was the fit that the unfortunate prisoner was unable to complete the sentence; a violent convulsion shook his whole frame, his eyes started from their sockets, his mouth was drawn on one side, his cheeks became purple, he struggled, foamed, dashed himself about, and uttered the most dreadful cries, which, however, Dantes prevented from being heard by covering his head with the blanket.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000224_000001|The fit lasted two hours; then, more helpless than an infant, and colder and paler than marble, more crushed and broken than a reed trampled under foot, he fell back, doubled up in one last convulsion, and became as rigid as a corpse.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000225_000000|Edmond waited till life seemed extinct in the body of his friend, then, taking up the knife, he with difficulty forced open the closely fixed jaws, carefully administered the appointed number of drops, and anxiously awaited the result.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000225_000002|Dantes began to fear he had delayed too long ere he administered the remedy, and, thrusting his hands into his hair, continued gazing on the lifeless features of his friend.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000225_000003|At length a slight color tinged the livid cheeks, consciousness returned to the dull, open eyeballs, a faint sigh issued from the lips, and the sufferer made a feeble effort to move.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000000|The sick man was not yet able to speak, but he pointed with evident anxiety towards the door.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000001|Dantes listened, and plainly distinguished the approaching steps of the jailer.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000002|It was therefore near seven o'clock; but Edmond's anxiety had put all thoughts of time out of his head.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000003|The young man sprang to the entrance, darted through it, carefully drawing the stone over the opening, and hurried to his cell.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000004|He had scarcely done so before the door opened, and the jailer saw the prisoner seated as usual on the side of his bed.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000005|Almost before the key had turned in the lock, and before the departing steps of the jailer had died away in the long corridor he had to traverse, Dantes, whose restless anxiety concerning his friend left him no desire to touch the food brought him, hurried back to the abbe's chamber, and raising the stone by pressing his head against it, was soon beside the sick man's couch.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000227_000006|Faria had now fully regained his consciousness, but he still lay helpless and exhausted.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000229_000000|"And why not?" asked the young man.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000229_000001|"Did you fancy yourself dying?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000230_000000|"No, I had no such idea; but, knowing that all was ready for flight, I thought you might have made your escape." The deep glow of indignation suffused the cheeks of Dantes.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000231_000000|"Without you?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000231_000001|Did you really think me capable of that?"
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000232_000000|"At least," said the abbe, "I now see how wrong such an opinion would have been.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000232_000002|I am fearfully exhausted and debilitated by this attack."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000233_000000|"Be of good cheer," replied Dantes; "your strength will return." And as he spoke he seated himself near the bed beside Faria, and took his hands.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000234_000000|"The last attack I had," said he, "lasted but half an hour, and after it I was hungry, and got up without help; now I can move neither my right arm nor leg, and my head seems uncomfortable, which shows that there has been a suffusion of blood on the brain.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000235_000001|And your third attack (if, indeed, you should have another) will find you at liberty.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000235_000002|We shall save you another time, as we have done this, only with a better chance of success, because we shall be able to command every requisite assistance."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000236_000002|None can fly from a dungeon who cannot walk."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000237_000000|"Well, we will wait,--a week, a month, two months, if need be,--and meanwhile your strength will return.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000237_000001|Everything is in readiness for our flight, and we can select any time we choose.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000237_000002|As soon as you feel able to swim we will go."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000238_000000|"I shall never swim again," replied Faria.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000238_000002|Lift it, and judge if I am mistaken." The young man raised the arm, which fell back by its own weight, perfectly inanimate and helpless.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000239_000002|Since the first attack I experienced of this malady, I have continually reflected on it.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000239_000003|Indeed, I expected it, for it is a family inheritance; both my father and grandfather died of it in a third attack.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000239_000004|The physician who prepared for me the remedy I have twice successfully taken, was no other than the celebrated Cabanis, and he predicted a similar end for me."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000240_000000|"The physician may be mistaken!" exclaimed Dantes.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000240_000001|"And as for your poor arm, what difference will that make?
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000240_000002|I can take you on my shoulders, and swim for both of us."
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000244_000001|"I accept.
train-clean-100/40/121026/40_121026_000245_000000|Dantes took the hand of the abbe in his, and affectionately pressed it.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty five
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000000|The visions of romance were over.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000001|Catherine was completely awakened. Henry's address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000003|Most bitterly did she cry.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000004|It was not only with herself that she was sunk-but with Henry.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000005|Her folly, which now seemed even criminal, was all exposed to him, and he must despise her forever.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000006|The liberty which her imagination had dared to take with the character of his father-could he ever forgive it?
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000008|She hated herself more than she could express.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000009|He had-she thought he had, once or twice before this fatal morning, shown something like affection for her.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000002_000010|But now-in short, she made herself as miserable as possible for about half an hour, went down when the clock struck five, with a broken heart, and could scarcely give an intelligible answer to Eleanor's inquiry if she was well.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000004_000002|Catherine dared not doubt beyond her own country, and even of that, if hard pressed, would have yielded the northern and western extremities.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000006_000003|james had protested against writing to her till his return to Oxford; and mrs Allen had given her no hopes of a letter till she had got back to Fullerton.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000006_000004|But Isabella had promised and promised again; and when she promised a thing, she was so scrupulous in performing it!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000006_000005|This made it so particularly strange!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000007_000000|For nine successive mornings, Catherine wondered over the repetition of a disappointment, which each morning became more severe: but, on the tenth, when she entered the breakfast room, her first object was a letter, held out by Henry's willing hand.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000007_000001|She thanked him as heartily as if he had written it himself.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000007_000002|"'tis only from james, however," as she looked at the direction.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000007_000003|She opened it; it was from Oxford; and to this purpose:
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000008_000000|"Dear Catherine,
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000000|"Though, God knows, with little inclination for writing, I think it my duty to tell you that everything is at an end between Miss Thorpe and me.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000001|I left her and Bath yesterday, never to see either again.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000002|I shall not enter into particulars-they would only pain you more.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000004|Thank God!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000005|I am undeceived in time! But it is a heavy blow!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000006|After my father's consent had been so kindly given-but no more of this.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000007|She has made me miserable forever!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000008|Let me soon hear from you, dear Catherine; you are my only friend; your love I do build upon.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000009|I wish your visit at Northanger may be over before Captain Tilney makes his engagement known, or you will be uncomfortably circumstanced.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000010|Poor Thorpe is in town: I dread the sight of him; his honest heart would feel so much.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000013|I cannot understand even now what she would be at, for there could be no need of my being played off to make her secure of Tilney.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000009_000014|We parted at last by mutual consent-happy for me had we never met!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000000|Catherine had not read three lines before her sudden change of countenance, and short exclamations of sorrowing wonder, declared her to be receiving unpleasant news; and Henry, earnestly watching her through the whole letter, saw plainly that it ended no better than it began.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000001|He was prevented, however, from even looking his surprise by his father's entrance.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000002|They went to breakfast directly; but Catherine could hardly eat anything.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000003|Tears filled her eyes, and even ran down her cheeks as she sat
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000004|The letter was one moment in her hand, then in her lap, and then in her pocket; and she looked as if she knew not what she did.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000005|The general, between his cocoa and his newspaper, had luckily no leisure for noticing her; but to the other two her distress was equally visible.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000006|As soon as she dared leave the table she hurried away to her own room; but the housemaids were busy in it, and she was obliged to come down again. She turned into the drawing room for privacy, but Henry and Eleanor had likewise retreated thither, and were at that moment deep in consultation about her.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000011_000007|She drew back, trying to beg their pardon, but was, with gentle violence, forced to return; and the others withdrew, after Eleanor had affectionately expressed a wish of being of use or comfort to her.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000012_000000|After half an hour's free indulgence of grief and reflection, Catherine felt equal to encountering her friends; but whether she should make her distress known to them was another consideration.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000012_000001|Perhaps, if particularly questioned, she might just give an idea-just distantly hint at it-but not more.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000012_000002|To expose a friend, such a friend as Isabella had been to her-and then their own brother so closely concerned in it! She believed she must waive the subject altogether.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000012_000003|Henry and Eleanor were by themselves in the breakfast room; and each, as she entered it, looked at her anxiously.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000012_000004|Catherine took her place at the table, and, after a short silence, Eleanor said, "No bad news from Fullerton, I hope?
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000013_000001|My letter was from my brother at Oxford."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000014_000000|Nothing further was said for a few minutes; and then speaking through her tears, she added, "I do not think I shall ever wish for a letter again!"
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000015_000000|"I am sorry," said Henry, closing the book he had just opened; "if I had suspected the letter of containing anything unwelcome, I should have given it with very different feelings."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000016_000000|"It contained something worse than anybody could suppose!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000017_000000|"To have so kind hearted, so affectionate a sister," replied Henry warmly, "must be a comfort to him under any distress."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000018_000000|"I have one favour to beg," said Catherine, shortly afterwards, in an agitated manner, "that, if your brother should be coming here, you will give me notice of it, that I may go away."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000019_000000|"Our brother!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000019_000001|Frederick!"
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000021_000000|Eleanor's work was suspended while she gazed with increasing astonishment; but Henry began to suspect the truth, and something, in which Miss Thorpe's name was included, passed his lips.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000022_000000|"How quick you are!" cried Catherine: "you have guessed it, I declare! And yet, when we talked about it in Bath, you little thought of its ending so.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000023_000000|"I hope, so far as concerns my brother, you are misinformed.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000023_000002|His marrying Miss Thorpe is not probable.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000023_000003|I think you must be deceived so far.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000023_000004|I am very sorry for mr Morland-sorry that anyone you love should be unhappy; but my surprise would be greater at Frederick's marrying her than at any other part of the story."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000024_000000|"It is very true, however; you shall read James's letter yourself. Stay-There is one part-" recollecting with a blush the last line.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000025_000000|"Will you take the trouble of reading to us the passages which concern my brother?"
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000026_000001|"I do not know what I was thinking of" (blushing again that she had blushed before); "james only means to give me good advice."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000027_000000|He gladly received the letter, and, having read it through, with close attention, returned it saying, "Well, if it is to be so, I can only say that I am sorry for it.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000027_000001|Frederick will not be the first man who has chosen a wife with less sense than his family expected.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000027_000002|I do not envy his situation, either as a lover or a son."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000028_000000|Miss Tilney, at Catherine's invitation, now read the letter likewise, and, having expressed also her concern and surprise, began to inquire into Miss Thorpe's connections and fortune.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000030_000000|"What was her father?"
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000031_000000|"A lawyer, I believe.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000031_000001|They live at Putney."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000032_000000|"Are they a wealthy family?"
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000000|"No, not very.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000001|I do not believe Isabella has any fortune at all: but that will not signify in your family.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000002|Your father is so very liberal! He told me the other day that he only valued money as it allowed him to promote the happiness of his children." The brother and sister looked at each other.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000003|"But," said Eleanor, after a short pause, "would it be to promote his happiness, to enable him to marry such a girl?
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000004|She must be an unprincipled one, or she could not have used your brother so.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000005|And how strange an infatuation on Frederick's side!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000033_000008|Frederick too, who always wore his heart so proudly!
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000034_000000|"That is the most unpromising circumstance, the strongest presumption against him.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000034_000001|When I think of his past declarations, I give him up. Moreover, I have too good an opinion of Miss Thorpe's prudence to suppose that she would part with one gentleman before the other was secured.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000034_000003|He is a deceased man-defunct in understanding.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000034_000005|Open, candid, artless, guileless, with affections strong but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000035_000000|"Such a sister in law, Henry, I should delight in," said Eleanor with a smile.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000036_000000|"But perhaps," observed Catherine, "though she has behaved so ill by our family, she may behave better by yours.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000036_000001|Now she has really got the man she likes, she may be constant."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000037_000001|I will get the Bath paper, and look over the arrivals."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000038_000000|"You think it is all for ambition, then?
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000038_000002|I cannot forget that, when she first knew what my father would do for them, she seemed quite disappointed that it was not more.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000038_000003|I never was so deceived in anyone's character in my life before."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000041_000000|"Your brother is certainly very much to be pitied at present; but we must not, in our concern for his sufferings, undervalue yours.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000041_000001|You feel, I suppose, that in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000041_000003|You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000041_000004|You feel that you have no longer any friend to whom you can speak with unreserve, on whose regard you can place dependence, or whose counsel, in any difficulty, you could rely on.
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000041_000005|You feel all this?"
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000042_000000|"No," said Catherine, after a few moments' reflection, "I do not-ought I? To say the truth, though I am hurt and grieved, that I cannot still love her, that I am never to hear from her, perhaps never to see her again, I do not feel so very, very much afflicted as one would have thought."
train-clean-100/40/222/40_222_000043_000000|"You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature. Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves."
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000011_000004|Help!"
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000013_000000|"Who are you-and where?"
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000014_000002|Can't make self heard.
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000014_000003|Can you help?"
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000015_000001|"Caught your message on deck.
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000020_000002|I talked with him over the pipe."
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000026_000000|They were crossing a short gallery when Slim abruptly signaled a halt.
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000027_000001|"It sounded like another call."
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000029_000000|"S M O T H E R I N G."
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000031_000004|It was locked.
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000045_000000|"Somebody shoved me-in that closet," he gasped, "and then-slammed and-locked-the door."
train-clean-100/4014/186175/4014_186175_000055_000000|He opened his left hand.
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000002_000000|THE DEATH OF THE SPY
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000005_000001|He was in his undershirt.
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000007_000001|He had disappeared when the sailor said to me, 'I think that was the fellow-the one that just went by.' Not wanting to arouse his suspicions, I ended the conversation with a casual remark, and then strolled away until I was out of the sailor's sight, and then hurried as fast as I could toward the engine room.
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000008_000001|I was groping my way along when I thought I heard steps just ahead of me.
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000019_000000|"Right!" cried Jerry.
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000023_000002|"A trifle heavy!
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000031_000000|"Oh, yes, you will," counseled Joe.
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000058_000001|"And what does this fellow do aboard the ship?"
train-clean-100/4014/186176/4014_186176_000061_000001|Then-
train-clean-100/4014/186179/4014_186179_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-100/4014/186179/4014_186179_000012_000002|Isn't that so, Hoskins?"
train-clean-100/4014/186179/4014_186179_000045_000000|"It's nothing," the youthful chauffeur replied.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000010_000000|Then, just as dawn was breaking, the infantry onslaught, participated in at some points by detachments of cavalry, began.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000019_000000|It was now well into the afternoon.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000021_000001|There their front-line ranks held firm, while the new formation was being effected behind them. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when this was complete.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000022_000000|Then, in concerted action, the lines opened at alternate points, and pairs, dozens, scores of the huge armored tanks rolled through, their big guns already blazing shells into the ranks of the disconcerted enemy.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000023_000000|Nothing could halt them.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000027_000000|The sun was setting, and soon, in great measure, at least, hostilities would be suspended for the night.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000032_000001|Whatever the morrow might bring, the night promised to be fairly quiet, while each side took account of stock and made necessary repairs, or altered their plans to meet the new situation.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000035_000002|At least that was the way it looked.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000038_000000|Still going at maximum speed, and now on a straight line toward the American side, without seeking a further height, the Taube several times wavered, and, a moment later, almost turned over.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000040_000000|Four American planes sailed off and upward to meet the oncoming German air armada.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000046_000000|"Who are you?"
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000049_000001|Well, the officer being a pretty good pilot, we decided to have that machine.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000050_000000|"But some other German aviators saw the affair, apparently recognized our uniforms, and hardly gave us time to make a decent start.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000051_000000|"Say," Jerry concluded, "they certainly did pebble us with machine-gun bullets!
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000054_000001|As he tore it open and read the brief note within, a pleased smile spread over his face.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000054_000002|From the same envelope he extracted three smaller ones.
train-clean-100/4014/186183/4014_186183_000055_000000|Opening them, the boys could hardly suppress their jubilation.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000002_000001|It was marked by an almost feverish gayety, as though, having apparently determined to pursue a policy dictated purely by self interest, the people wished to forget their anomalous position.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000002_000003|The vast number of war orders from abroad had brought prosperity into homes where it had long been absent.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000002_000004|Mills and factories took on new life. Labor was scarce and high.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000003_000000|It was a period of extravagance rather than pleasure.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000003_000001|People played that they might not think.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000003_000002|Washington, convinced that the nation would ultimately be involved, kept its secret well and continued to preach a neutrality it could not enforce.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000003_000003|War was to most of the nation a great dramatic spectacle, presented to them at breakfast and in the afternoon editions.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000003_000004|It furnished unlimited conversation at dinner parties, led to endless wrangles, gave zest and point to the peace that made those dinner parties possible, furnished an excuse for retrenchment here and there, and brought into vogue great bazaars and balls for the Red Cross and kindred activities.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000004_000000|But although the war was in the nation's mind, it was not yet in its soul.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000005_000000|Life went on much as before.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000005_000001|An abiding faith in the Allies was the foundation stone of its complacency.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000005_000002|The great six months battle of the Somme, with its million casualties, was resulting favorably.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000005_000003|On the east the Russians had made some gains.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000005_000004|There were wagers that the Germans would be done in the Spring.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000006_000001|Our peace was at a fearful cost.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000007_000000|And on the edge of this volcano America played.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000008_000000|When Graham Spencer left the mill that Tuesday afternoon, it was to visit Marion Hayden.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000009_000000|Three cars before the house showed that she already had callers, and indeed when the parlor maid opened the door a burst of laughter greeted him.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000009_000001|The Hayden house was a general rendezvous.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000009_000002|There were usually, by seven o'clock, whiskey and soda glasses and tea cups on most of the furniture, and half smoked cigarets on everything that would hold them, including the piano.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000011_000001|"I kept the library as long as I could.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000012_000000|Which they proceeded to do, quite amiably.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000013_000000|"Tommy!" Marion called, when she had settled herself.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000014_000000|"Yes," from a distance.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000016_000000|"No, Toots dear.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000016_000001|But I can, easily."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000017_000000|"Mother," Marion explained, "is getting awfully touchy about the piano. Well, do you remember half the pretty things you told me last night?"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000018_000000|"Not exactly.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000018_000001|But I meant them."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000019_000000|He looked up at her admiringly.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000020_000000|"Was I pretty awful last night?" he asked.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000021_000001|And-I imagine-rather indiscreet."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000022_000000|"Fine!
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000022_000001|What did I say?"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000023_000000|"You boasted, my dear young friend."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000024_000000|"Great Scott!
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000024_000001|I must have been awful."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000025_000000|"About the new war contracts."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000026_000000|"Oh, business!"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000027_000000|"But I found it very interesting.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000027_000001|You know, I like business.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000027_000002|And I like big figures.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000027_000003|Poor people always do.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000029_000000|Encouraged by her interest, he elaborated on the new work.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000029_000001|He even developed an enthusiasm for it, to his own surprise.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000029_000003|She knew every move of the game she was determining to play.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000030_000000|Marion Hayden, at twenty five, knew already what her little world had not yet realized, that such beauty as she had had was the beauty of youth only, and that that was going.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000030_000002|And, too, she had the far vision of the calculating mind. She knew that if the country entered the war, every eligible man she knew would immediately volunteer.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000031_000002|Her house was still a rendezvous, but it was for couples like the ones who had preempted the drawing room, the library and the music room that afternoon.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000031_000003|They met there, smoked her cigarets, made love in a corner, occasionally became engaged.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000031_000004|But she was of the game, no longer in it.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000032_000001|They brought or sent her tribute, flowers, candy, and cigarets.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000032_000002|She was enormously popular at dances.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000032_000004|Like Natalie Spencer's stupid party the night before.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000033_000000|So she watched Graham and listened.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000033_000002|Also he promised to be sole heir to a great business.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000033_000003|If the war only lasted long enough-
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000034_000001|"You're a partner, aren't you?"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000035_000000|He flushed slightly.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000036_000000|"Not yet.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000036_000001|But of course I shall be."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000038_000000|"I'll be awfully glad to."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000039_000000|"Very well.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000039_000002|You're an awful dear, you know."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000040_000001|Then, leaning rather heavily on him for support, she got to her feet.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000042_000001|He felt every inch a man.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000042_000002|He held himself very straight as he entered the house, and the boyish grin with which he customarily greeted the butler had given place to a dignified nod.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000043_000000|Natalie was in her dressing room.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000043_000002|Then she sent the maid away and herself cautiously closed the door into Clayton's room.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000044_000000|"I've got the money for you, darling," she said.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000044_000002|"Five hundred."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000045_000000|"I hate to take it, mother."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000046_000000|"Never mind about taking it.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000046_000001|Pay those bills before your father learns about them.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000046_000002|That's all."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000047_000000|He was divided between gratitude and indignation.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000047_000001|His new found maturity seemed to be slipping from him.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000047_000002|Somehow here at home they always managed to make him feel like a small boy.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000050_000000|"I'm accustomed to it," was her sole reply.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000050_000001|But her resigned voice brought her, as it always had, the ready tribute of the boy's sympathy. "Sit down, Graham, I want to talk to you."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000051_000000|He sat down, still uneasily fingering the roll of bills.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000051_000001|Just how far Natalie's methods threatened to undermine his character was revealed when, at a sound in Clayton's room, he stuck the money hastily into his pocket.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000052_000000|"Have you noticed a change in your father since he came back?"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000054_000000|"He's not sick, is he?"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000055_000000|"Not that.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000055_000001|But-he's different.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000055_000002|Graham, your father thinks we may be forced into the war."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000056_000000|"Good for us.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000056_000001|It's time, that's sure."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000058_000000|"Why, good heavens, mother," he began, "we should have been in it last May.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000058_000001|We should-"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000059_000000|She was holding out both hands to him, piteously.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000060_000000|"You wouldn't go, would you?"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000061_000000|"I might have to go," he evaded.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000062_000000|"You wouldn't, Graham.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000062_000002|All I have left to live for. You wouldn't need to go.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000063_000000|"He needs me the hell of a lot," the boy muttered.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000063_000001|But he went over and, stooping down, kissed her trembling face.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000064_000000|"Don't worry about me," he said lightly.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000064_000001|"I don't think we've got spine enough to get into the mix up, anyhow.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000064_000002|And if we have-"
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000065_000000|"You won't go.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000065_000001|Promise me you won't go."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000066_000000|When he hesitated she resorted to her old methods with both Clayton and the boy.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000066_000001|She was doing all she could to make them happy.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000066_000004|She had gone through all sorts of humiliation to get him that money, and this was the gratitude she received.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000067_000001|She was a really pathetic figure, crouched in her low chair, and shaken with terror.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000067_000003|She brought them to him instead, her small grievances, her elaborate extravagances, her disappointments.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000067_000004|It did not occur to him that she transferred to his young shoulders many of her own burdens.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000067_000005|He was only grateful for her confidence, and a trifle bewildered by it.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000067_000006|And she had helped him out of a hole just now.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000068_000000|"All right.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000068_000001|I promise," he said at last.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000068_000002|"But you're worrying yourself for nothing, mother."
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000069_000000|She was quite content then, cheered at once, consulted the jewelled watch on her dressing table and rang for the maid.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000070_000000|"Heavens, how late it is!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000070_000002|And, Graham, tell Buckham to do up a dozen dinner napkins in paper.
train-clean-100/4018/103416/4018_103416_000070_000003|Audrey Valentine has telephoned that she has just got in, and finds she hasn't enough.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000008_000001|The streets were nearly empty; and with the exception of some occasional burst of brawl or merriment from a beer shop, all was still.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000009_000001|Crossing this open ground they gained a suburb, but one of a very different description to that in which was situate the convent where they had parted with Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000009_000002|This one was populous, noisy, and lighted.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000009_000004|The bright and lively shops were crowded; and groups of purchasers were gathered round the stalls, that by the aid of glaring lamps and flaunting lanthorns, displayed their wares.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000010_000000|"Come, come, it's a prime piece," said a jolly looking woman, who was presiding at a stall which, though considerably thinned by previous purchasers, still offered many temptations to many who could not purchase.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000013_000000|"No butcher's meat to morrow for us, widow," said the man.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000014_000000|"And why not, neighbour?
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000015_000001|Those villains, Shuffle and Screw, have sarved me with another bate ticket: and a pretty figure too."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000017_000000|"And for small cops, too!
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000017_000001|Small cops be hanged!
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000018_000000|"You sent up for snicks!
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000019_000002|You can't come, and you can't go, but there's a fine; you're never paid wages, but there's a bate ticket.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000019_000003|I've heard they keep their whole establishment on factory fines."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000020_000002|Weal, indeed!
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000021_000001|His long, loose, white trousers gave him height; he had no waistcoat, but a pink silk handkerchief was twisted carelessly round his neck, and fastened with a very large pin, which, whatever were its materials, had unquestionably a very gorgeous appearance.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000022_000000|"Well, you need not be so fierce, Mother Carey," said the youth with an affected air of deprecation.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000024_000000|"Dying; she's only drunk," said the youth.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000027_000000|"Well, I never," said Mrs Carey.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000027_000001|"No; I never heard a thing like that!"
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000028_000000|"What, not when you cut up the jackass and sold it for veal cutlets, mother."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000029_000000|"Hold your tongue, Mr Imperence," said the widow.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000032_000000|"Why, Madam Carey, what has Dandy Mick done to thee?" said a good humoured voice, it came from one of two factory girls who were passing her stall and stopped.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000032_000001|They were gaily dressed, a light handkerchief tied under the chin, their hair scrupulously arranged; they wore coral neck laces and earrings of gold.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000035_000000|"Well, let it pass," said Mrs Carey.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000035_000001|"And where have you been this long time, my child; and who's your friend?" she added in a lower tone.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000036_000000|"Well, I have left Mr Trafford's mill," said the girl.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000037_000000|"That's a bad job," said Mrs Carey; "for those Traffords are kind to their people.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000038_000001|I can't stand a country life, Mrs Carey.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000038_000002|I must have company."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000040_000001|And those Traffords had so many schools."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000041_000001|But young persons-"
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000043_000000|"And what's that?" asked Mrs Carey with a sneer.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000046_000001|If you will take a dish of tea with us to morrow, we expect some friends."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000047_000000|"I take it kindly," said Mrs Carey; "and so you keep house together!
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000047_000001|All the children keep house in these days.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000047_000002|Times is changed indeed!"
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000048_000000|"And we shall be happy to see you, Mick; and Julia, if you are not engaged;" continued the girl; and she looked at her friend, a pretty demure girl, who immediately said, but in a somewhat faultering tone, "Oh! that we shall."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000049_000000|"And what are you going to do now, Caroline?" said Mick.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000051_000001|The moment I came out I bathed in the river, and then went home and dressed," he added in a satisfied tone; "and now I am going to the Temple.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000052_000000|"Well, that's delight," said Caroline.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000052_000005|I proposed to go with her-but two girls alone,--you understand me.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000052_000006|One does not like to be seen in these places, as if one kept no company."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000053_000000|"Very true," said Mick; "and now we'll be off.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000053_000001|Good night, widow."
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000054_000001|"To morrow evening!
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000054_000002|The Temple!" murmured Mrs Carey to herself.
train-clean-100/4018/107312/4018_107312_000054_000003|"I think the world is turned upside downwards in these parts.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000006_000000|"Perhaps I should rather say of your poor dear father," said Hatton, scanning Gerard with his clear blue eye, and then he added, "He was of great service to me in my youth, and one is not apt to forget such things."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000007_000000|"One ought not," said Gerard: "but it is a sort of memory, as I have understood, that is rather rare.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000007_000002|"This world has gone well with you, I am glad to hear and see."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000008_000000|"Qui laborat, orat," said Hatton in a silvery voice, "is the gracious maxim of our Holy Church; and I venture to believe my prayers and vigils have been accepted, for I have laboured in my time," and as he was speaking these words, he turned and addressed them to Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000010_000000|"Qui laborat, orat," said Sybil with a smile, "is the privilege of the people."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000013_000000|"I am sure that I should complain of no toil that would benefit you," said Hatton; and then addressing himself again to Gerard, he led him to a distant part of the room where they were soon engaged in earnest converse.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000013_000001|Morley at the same moment approached Sybil, and spoke to her in a subdued tone.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000013_000003|She rose and returned his salute with some ceremony; then hesitating while a soft expression came over her countenance, she held forth her hand, which he retained for a moment, and withdrew.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000014_000002|I was about to withdraw, when he asked me carelessly a question about your father; what he was doing, and whether he were married and had children.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000014_000003|This led to a very long conversation in which he suddenly seemed to take great interest.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000014_000004|At first he talked of writing to see your father, and I offered that Gerard should call upon him.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000014_000006|I thought, whatever might be the result, it must be a satisfaction to Gerard at last to see this man of whom he has talked and thought so much-and so we are here."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000016_000001|Their eyes had met: hers were kind and calm.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000017_000000|"And this Egremont," said Morley rather hurriedly and abruptly, and looking on the ground, "how came he here?
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000017_000001|When we discovered him yesterday your father and myself agreed that we should not mention to you the-the mystification of which we had been dupes."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000018_000001|"There is no wisdom like frankness.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000018_000004|Had he not accompanied me to this door and met my father, which precipitated an explanation on his part which he found had not been given by others, I might have remained in an ignorance which hereafter might have produced inconvenience."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000019_000001|"We have all of us opened ourselves too unreservedly before this aristocrat."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000020_000000|"I should hope that none of us have said to him a word that we wish to be forgotten," said Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000020_000001|"He chose to wear a disguise, and can hardly quarrel with the frankness with which we spoke of his order or his family.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000020_000002|And for the rest, he has not been injured from learning something of the feelings of the people by living among them."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000021_000001|He can walk into the government offices like themselves and tell his tale, for though one of the pseudo opposition, the moment the people move, the factions become united."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000022_000000|Sybil turned and looked at him, and then said, "And what could happen to morrow, that we should care for the government being acquainted with it or us?
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000022_000001|Do not they know everything?
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000022_000002|Do not you meet in their very sight?
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000022_000004|And why should anything happen that should make us apprehensive?"
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000023_000000|"All is very well at this moment," said Morley, "and all may continue well; but popular assemblies breed turbulent spirits, Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000023_000001|Your father takes a leading part; he is a great orator, and is in his element in this clamorous and fiery life.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000023_000002|It does not much suit me; I am a man of the closet.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000023_000003|This Convention, as you well know, was never much to my taste.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000023_000005|The spirit that would cure our ills must be of a deeper and finer mood."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000025_000001|The fact is, in active life one cannot afford to refine.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000025_000003|If I had refused to be a leader, I should not have prevented the movement; I should only have secured my own insignificance."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000026_000000|"But my father has not these fears; he is full of hope and exultation," said Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000026_000002|When I heard my father speak the other night, my heart glowed with emotion; my eyes were suffused with tears; I was proud to be his daughter; and I gloried in a race of forefathers who belonged to the oppressed and not to the oppressors."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000028_000000|"But your father, Sybil, stands alone," at length Morley replied; "surrounded by votaries who have nothing but enthusiasm to recommend them; and by emulous and intriguing rivals, who watch every word and action, in order that they may discredit his conduct, and ultimately secure his downfall."
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000029_000000|"My father's downfall!" said Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000029_000001|"Is he not one of themselves!
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000029_000002|And is it possible, that among the delegates of the People there can be other than one and the same object?"
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000031_000000|"You terrify me," said Sybil.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000031_000001|"I knew we had fearful odds to combat against.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000033_000000|At this moment Gerard and Hatton who were sitting in the remote part of the room rose together and advanced forward; and this movement interrupted the conversation of Sybil and Morley.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000033_000001|Before however her father and his new friend could reach them, Hatton as if some point on which he had not been sufficiently explicit, had occurred to him, stopped and placing his hand on Gerard's arm, withdrew him again, saying in a voice which could only be heard by the individual whom he addressed.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000033_000004|If money were the only difficulty, trust me, it should not be wanting; I owe much to the memory of your father, my good Gerard; I would fain serve you-and your daughter.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000033_000006|You would think me foolish; but I am alone in the world, and seeing you again, and talking of old times-I really am scarcely fit for business.
train-clean-100/4018/107338/4018_107338_000033_000007|Go, however, I must; I have an appointment at the House of Lords.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000003_000002|He called everybody a fool.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000012_000001|But when he cried they gave him milk out of the cocoanuts which he was very fond of.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000013_000001|They used to make their lemonade out of the juice of wild oranges, sweetened with honey which they got from the bees' nests in hollow trees.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000013_000003|They even got the Doctor some tobacco one day, when he had finished what he had brought with him and wanted to smoke.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000014_000000|At night they slept in tents made of palm leaves, on thick, soft beds of dried grass.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000017_000001|So all this time, while the Doctor and his animals were going along towards the Land of the Monkeys, thinking themselves quite safe, they were still being followed by the King's men.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000018_000000|One day Chee Chee climbed up a high rock and looked out over the tree tops.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000019_000000|And that same evening, sure enough, they saw Chee Chee's cousin and a lot of other monkeys, who had not yet got sick, sitting in the trees by the edge of a swamp, looking and waiting for them.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000021_000000|But the King's men, who were still following, had heard the noise of the monkeys cheering; and they at last knew where the Doctor was, and hastened on to catch him.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000027_000000|"It's all right!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000030_000000|"Golly!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000030_000001|How are we ever going to get across?"
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000031_000000|"Oh, dear!" said Gub Gub.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000031_000001|"The King's men are quite close now-Look at them!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000031_000002|I am afraid we are going to be taken back to prison again." And he began to weep.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000033_000000|"Boys-a bridge!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000033_000001|Quick!--Make a bridge!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000033_000003|Get lively!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000033_000004|A bridge!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000033_000005|A bridge!"
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000035_000000|But when he looked back at the cliff, there, hanging across the river, was a bridge all ready for him-made of living monkeys!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000036_000000|And the big one shouted to the Doctor, "Walk over!
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000036_000001|Walk over-all of you-hurry!"
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000037_000000|Gub Gub was a bit scared, walking on such a narrow bridge at that dizzy height above the river.
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000041_000002|You are the first to see the famous 'Bridge of Apes.'"
train-clean-100/403/126855/403_126855_000042_000000|And the Doctor felt very pleased.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000003_000000|"Charles Evremonde, called Darnay!"
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000010_000003|Of the men, the greater part were armed in various ways; of the women, some wore knives, some daggers, some ate and drank as they looked on, many knitted.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000010_000008|Under the President sat Doctor Manette, in his usual quiet dress.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000011_000000|Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain of Death.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000011_000001|It was nothing that the decree bore date since his return to France.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000012_000000|"Take off his head!" cried the audience.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000012_000001|"An enemy to the Republic!"
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000017_000000|Why not?
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000030_000002|Was that criminal in the eyes of the Republic?
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000034_000000|Doctor Manette was next questioned.
train-clean-100/403/128339/403_128339_000043_000000|"Lucie!
train-clean-100/403/216/403_216_000003_000000|"Does he?
train-clean-100/403/216/403_216_000016_000001|A woman in love with one man cannot flirt with another."
train-clean-100/403/216/403_216_000027_000000|"Well!
train-clean-100/403/216/403_216_000029_000005|He cannot think this-and you may be sure that he would not have you think it.
train-clean-100/403/216/403_216_000031_000002|Henry Tilney must know best.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000004_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000005_000000|Shortage of Air
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000006_000001|We were the Ice Bank's prisoners! The Canadian banged a table with his fearsome fist.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000006_000004|He pondered.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000006_000005|The Nautilus did not stir.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000007_000000|The captain then broke into speech:
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000008_000000|"Gentlemen," he said in a calm voice, "there are two ways of dying under the conditions in which we're placed."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000009_000000|This inexplicable individual acted like a mathematics professor working out a problem for his pupils.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000010_000000|"The first way," he went on, "is death by crushing.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000010_000001|The second is death by asphyxiation.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000010_000003|Therefore, let's concentrate on our chances of being crushed or asphyxiated."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000011_000000|"As for asphyxiation, captain," I replied, "that isn't a cause for alarm, because the air tanks are full."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000015_000000|"Which one?" I asked.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000016_000000|"Borings will tell us that.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000017_000000|"Can the panels in the lounge be left open?"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000018_000000|"Without ill effect.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000019_000000|Captain Nemo went out.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000019_000002|The Nautilus slowly settled and rested on the icy bottom at a depth of three hundred fifty meters, the depth at which the lower shelf of ice lay submerged.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000020_000000|"My friends," I said, "we're in a serious predicament, but I'm counting on your courage and energy."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000021_000000|"Sir," the Canadian replied, "this is no time to bore you with my complaints.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000021_000001|I'm ready to do anything I can for the common good."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000022_000000|"Excellent, Ned," I said, extending my hand to the Canadian.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000023_000000|"I might add," he went on, "that I'm as handy with a pick as a harpoon. If I can be helpful to the captain, he can use me any way he wants."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000024_000000|"He won't turn down your assistance.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000025_000001|I informed the captain of Ned's proposition, which was promptly accepted.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000027_000000|Some moments later, we saw a dozen crewmen set foot on the shelf of ice, among them Ned Land, easily recognized by his tall figure. Captain Nemo was with them.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000028_000000|Before digging into the ice, the captain had to obtain borings, to insure working in the best direction.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000028_000001|Long bores were driven into the side walls; but after fifteen meters, the instruments were still impeded by the thickness of those walls.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000028_000002|It was futile to attack the ceiling since that surface was the Ice Bank itself, more than four hundred meters high.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000028_000003|Captain Nemo then bored into the lower surface. There we were separated from the sea by a ten meter barrier. That's how thick the iceberg was.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000029_000000|Work began immediately and was carried on with tireless tenacity. Instead of digging all around the Nautilus, which would have entailed even greater difficulties, Captain Nemo had an immense trench outlined on the ice, eight meters from our port quarter. Then his men simultaneously staked it off at several points around its circumference.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000029_000002|But this hardly mattered so long as the lower surface kept growing thinner.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000030_000001|The Nautilus's chief officer supervised us.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000031_000000|The water struck me as unusually cold, but I warmed up promptly while wielding my pick.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000031_000001|My movements were quite free, although they were executed under a pressure of thirty atmospheres.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000032_000002|Meanwhile, after twelve hours had gone by, we had removed from the outlined surface area a slice of ice only one meter thick, hence about six hundred cubic meters. Assuming the same work would be accomplished every twelve hours, it would still take five nights and four days to see the undertaking through to completion.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000033_000000|"Five nights and four days!" I told my companions.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000033_000001|"And we have oxygen in the air tanks for only two days."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000034_000000|"Without taking into account," Ned answered, "that once we're out of this damned prison, we'll still be cooped up beneath the Ice Bank, without any possible contact with the open air!"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000035_000000|An apt remark.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000035_000001|For who could predict the minimum time we would need to free ourselves?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000035_000002|Before the Nautilus could return to the surface of the waves, couldn't we all die of asphyxiation?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000035_000003|Were this ship and everyone on board doomed to perish in this tomb of ice? It was a dreadful state of affairs.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000035_000004|But we faced it head on, each one of us determined to do his duty to the end.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000036_000000|During the night, in line with my forecasts, a new one meter slice was removed from this immense socket.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000037_000000|I didn't tell my two companions about this new danger. There was no point in dampening the energy they were putting into our arduous rescue work.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000037_000001|But when I returned on board, I mentioned this serious complication to Captain Nemo.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000038_000000|"I know," he told me in that calm tone the most dreadful outlook couldn't change.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000038_000003|We've got to get there first, that's all."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000039_000000|Get there first!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000039_000001|By then I should have been used to this type of talk!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000040_000000|For several hours that day, I wielded my pick doggedly. The work kept me going.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000040_000001|Besides, working meant leaving the Nautilus, which meant breathing the clean oxygen drawn from the air tanks and supplied by our equipment, which meant leaving the thin, foul air behind.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000041_000001|Oh, if only we had the chemical methods that would enable us to drive out this noxious gas! There was no lack of oxygen.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000041_000002|All this water contained a considerable amount, and after it was decomposed by our powerful batteries, this life giving elastic fluid could have been restored to us. I had thought it all out, but to no avail because the carbon dioxide produced by our breathing permeated every part of the ship. To absorb it, we would need to fill containers with potassium hydroxide and shake them continually.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000041_000003|But this substance was missing on board and nothing else could replace it.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000042_000000|That evening Captain Nemo was forced to open the spigots of his air tanks and shoot a few spouts of fresh oxygen through the Nautilus's interior. Without this precaution we wouldn't have awakened the following morning.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000043_000000|The next day, march twenty sixth, I returned to my miner's trade, working to remove the fifth meter.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000043_000001|The Ice Bank's side walls and underbelly had visibly thickened.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000043_000002|Obviously they would come together before the Nautilus could break free.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000043_000003|For an instant I was gripped by despair. My pick nearly slipped from my hands.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000043_000004|What was the point of this digging if I was to die smothered and crushed by this water turning to stone, a torture undreamed of by even the wildest savages! I felt like I was lying in the jaws of a fearsome monster, jaws irresistibly closing.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000044_000000|Supervising our work, working himself, Captain Nemo passed near me just then.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000045_000000|The captain understood and gave me a signal to follow him. We returned on board.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000046_000000|"Professor Aronnax," he told me, "this calls for heroic measures, or we'll be sealed up in this solidified water as if it were cement."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000047_000000|"Yes!" I said.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000047_000001|"But what can we do?"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000048_000000|"Oh," he exclaimed, "if only my Nautilus were strong enough to stand that much pressure without being crushed!"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000049_000000|"Well?" I asked, not catching the captain's meaning.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000050_000000|"Don't you understand," he went on, "that the congealing of this water could come to our rescue?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000050_000002|Aren't you aware that this force could be the instrument of our salvation rather than our destruction?"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000051_000000|"Yes, captain, maybe so.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000051_000001|But whatever resistance to crushing the Nautilus may have, it still couldn't stand such dreadful pressures, and it would be squashed as flat as a piece of sheet iron."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000052_000001|So we can't rely on nature to rescue us, only our own efforts.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000052_000002|We must counteract this solidification. We must hold it in check.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000052_000003|Not only are the side walls closing in, but there aren't ten feet of water ahead or astern of the Nautilus. All around us, this freeze is gaining fast."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000053_000000|"How long," I asked, "will the oxygen in the air tanks enable us to breathe on board?"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000055_000000|"After tomorrow," he said, "the air tanks will be empty!"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000056_000000|I broke out in a cold sweat.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000056_000003|It was now the twenty sixth. We had lived off the ship's stores for five days! And all remaining breathable air had to be saved for the workmen. Even today as I write these lines, my sensations are so intense that an involuntary terror sweeps over me, and my lungs still seem short of air!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000057_000000|Meanwhile, motionless and silent, Captain Nemo stood lost in thought. An idea visibly crossed his mind.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000057_000001|But he seemed to brush it aside. He told himself no
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000057_000002|At last these words escaped his lips:
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000058_000000|"Boiling water!" he muttered.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000059_000000|"Boiling water?" I exclaimed.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000060_000001|We're shut up in a relatively confined area. If the Nautilus's pumps continually injected streams of boiling water into this space, wouldn't that raise its temperature and delay its freezing?"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000061_000000|"It's worth trying!" I said resolutely.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000062_000000|"So let's try it, professor."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000064_000001|That was one degree gained. Two hours later the thermometer gave only minus four degrees.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000065_000000|After I monitored the operation's progress, double checking it with many inspections, I told the captain, "It's working."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000066_000000|"I think so," he answered me.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000066_000001|"We've escaped being crushed. Now we have only asphyxiation to fear."
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000068_000000|By the next day, march twenty seventh, six meters of ice had been torn from the socket.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000068_000003|Accordingly, that day it kept getting worse.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000069_000001|Near three o'clock in the afternoon, this agonizing sensation affected me to an intense degree. Yawns dislocated my jaws.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000069_000002|My lungs were gasping in their quest for that enkindling elastic fluid required for breathing, now growing scarcer and scarcer.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000069_000004|He held my hand, he kept encouraging me, and I even heard him mutter:
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000070_000000|"Oh, if only I didn't have to breathe, to leave more air for master!"
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000071_000000|It brought tears to my eyes to hear him say these words.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000072_000001|Arms grew weary, hands were rubbed raw, but who cared about exhaustion, what difference were wounds? Life sustaining air reached our lungs!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000072_000002|We could breathe! We could breathe!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000073_000000|And yet nobody prolonged his underwater work beyond the time allotted him.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000073_000001|His shift over, each man surrendered to a gasping companion the air tank that would revive him.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000073_000002|Captain Nemo set the example and was foremost in submitting to this strict discipline. When his time was up, he yielded his equipment to another and reentered the foul air on board, always calm, unflinching, and uncomplaining.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000074_000001|But the ship's air tanks were nearly empty.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000074_000002|The little air that remained had to be saved for the workmen.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000075_000000|When I returned on board, I felt half suffocated.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000075_000001|What a night! I'm unable to depict it.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000075_000002|Such sufferings are indescribable. The next day I was short winded.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000075_000003|Headaches and staggering fits of dizziness made me reel like a drunk.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000075_000005|Some crewmen were at their last gasp.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000076_000000|That day, the sixth of our imprisonment, Captain Nemo concluded that picks and mattocks were too slow to deal with the ice layer still separating us from open water-and he decided to crush this layer. The man had kept his energy and composure.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000076_000001|He had subdued physical pain with moral strength.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000076_000002|He could still think, plan, and act.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000077_000000|At his orders the craft was eased off, in other words, it was raised from its icy bed by a change in its specific gravity. When it was afloat, the crew towed it, leading it right above the immense trench outlined to match the ship's waterline. Next the ballast tanks filled with water, the boat sank, and was fitted into its socket.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000078_000000|Just then the whole crew returned on board, and the double outside door was closed.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000080_000000|We waited, we listened, we forgot our sufferings, we hoped once more. We had staked our salvation on this one last gamble.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000081_000001|We tilted.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000081_000002|The ice cracked with an odd ripping sound, like paper tearing, and the Nautilus began settling downward.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000083_000000|I couldn't answer him.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000083_000001|I clutched his hand.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000083_000002|I squeezed it in an involuntary convulsion.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000084_000000|All at once, carried away by its frightful excess load, the Nautilus sank into the waters like a cannonball, in other words, dropping as if in a vacuum!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000085_000000|Our full electric power was then put on the pumps, which instantly began to expel water from the ballast tanks. After a few minutes we had checked our fall.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000085_000001|The pressure gauge soon indicated an ascending movement.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000085_000002|Brought to full speed, the propeller made the sheet iron hull tremble down to its rivets, and we sped northward.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000086_000001|Another day?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000086_000002|I would be dead first!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000087_000000|Half lying on a couch in the library, I was suffocating. My face was purple, my lips blue, my faculties in abeyance. I could no longer see or hear.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000087_000001|I had lost all sense of time. My muscles had no power to contract.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000088_000000|I'm unable to estimate the hours that passed in this way. But I was aware that my death throes had begun.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000088_000001|I realized that I was about to die . . .
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000089_000000|Suddenly I regained consciousness.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000089_000002|Had we risen to the surface of the waves? Had we cleared the Ice Bank?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000090_000002|Instead of breathing it themselves, they had saved it for me, and while they were suffocating, they poured life into me drop by drop!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000090_000003|I tried to push the device away. They held my hands, and for a few moments I could breathe luxuriously.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000091_000000|My eyes flew toward the clock.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000091_000002|The Nautilus was traveling at the frightful speed of forty miles per hour.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000091_000003|It was writhing in the waters.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000092_000000|Where was Captain Nemo?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000092_000001|Had he perished?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000092_000002|Had his companions died with him?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000093_000001|Separating us from the open air was a mere tract of ice.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000093_000002|Could we break through it?
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000094_000000|Perhaps!
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000094_000001|In any event the Nautilus was going to try.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000094_000002|In fact, I could feel it assuming an oblique position, lowering its stern and raising its spur.
train-clean-100/405/130894/405_130894_000094_000003|The admission of additional water was enough to shift its balance.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000001_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000002_000000|From Cape Horn to the Amazon
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000003_000001|But I could breathe, I could inhale the life giving sea air.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000003_000002|Next to me my two companions were getting tipsy on the fresh oxygen particles. Poor souls who have suffered from long starvation mustn't pounce heedlessly on the first food given them.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000003_000003|We, on the other hand, didn't have to practice such moderation: we could suck the atoms from the air by the lungful, and it was the breeze, the breeze itself, that poured into us this luxurious intoxication!
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000004_000002|Let master have no fears about breathing.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000004_000003|There's enough for everyone."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000005_000000|As for Ned Land, he didn't say a word, but his wide open jaws would have scared off a shark.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000005_000001|And what powerful inhalations! The Canadian "drew" like a furnace going full blast.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000006_000000|Our strength returned promptly, and when I looked around, I saw that we were alone on the platform.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000006_000001|No crewmen. Not even Captain Nemo.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000006_000003|Not one of them had come up to enjoy the open air.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000007_000000|The first words I pronounced were words of appreciation and gratitude to my two companions.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000008_000001|Not a thing.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000008_000002|It was a question of simple arithmetic.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000008_000003|Your life is worth more than ours. So we had to save it."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000009_000001|Nobody could be better than a kind and generous man like yourself!"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000010_000000|"All right, all right!" the Canadian repeated in embarrassment.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000012_000000|"Not too much, to be candid with master.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000012_000002|Besides, when I saw master fainting, it left me without the slightest desire to breathe. It took my breath away, in a manner of . . ."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000014_000000|"My friends," I replied, very moved, "we're bound to each other forever, and I'm deeply indebted to you-"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000015_000000|"Which I'll take advantage of," the Canadian shot back.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000017_000000|"Yes," Ned Land went on.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000017_000001|"You can repay your debt by coming with me when I leave this infernal Nautilus."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000019_000000|"Yes," I replied, "because we're going in the direction of the sun, and here the sun is due north."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000020_000000|"Sure," Ned Land went on, "but it remains to be seen whether we'll make for the Atlantic or the Pacific, in other words, whether we'll end up in well traveled or deserted seas."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000021_000000|I had no reply to this, and I feared that Captain Nemo wouldn't take us homeward but rather into that huge ocean washing the shores of both Asia and America.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000021_000001|In this way he would complete his underwater tour of the world, going back to those seas where the Nautilus enjoyed the greatest freedom.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000021_000002|But if we returned to the Pacific, far from every populated shore, what would happen to Ned Land's plans?
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000022_000000|We would soon settle this important point.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000022_000001|The Nautilus traveled swiftly.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000022_000002|Soon we had cleared the Antarctic Circle plus the promontory of Cape Horn.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000023_000000|By then all our past sufferings were forgotten.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000023_000001|The memory of that imprisonment under the ice faded from our minds. We had thoughts only of the future.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000023_000003|The positions reported each day on the world map were put there by the chief officer, and they enabled me to determine the Nautilus's exact heading. Now then, that evening it became obvious, much to my satisfaction, that we were returning north by the Atlantic route.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000025_000000|"That's good news," the Canadian replied, "but where's the Nautilus going?"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000026_000000|"I'm unable to say, Ned."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000027_000000|"After the South Pole, does our captain want to tackle the North Pole, then go back to the Pacific by the notorious Northwest Passage?"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000029_000000|"Oh well," the Canadian said, "we'll give him the slip long before then."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000031_000000|"Especially once we've left him," Ned Land shot back.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000033_000000|"A first-class barometer, my friend."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000035_000000|Just then its peak appeared before us, standing out distinctly against the background of the skies.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000035_000001|This forecast fair weather. And so it proved.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000036_000002|Here seals and otters could indulge in a sumptuous meal, mixing meat from fish with vegetables from the sea, like the English with their Irish stews.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000037_000000|The Nautilus passed over these lush, luxuriant depths with tremendous speed.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000037_000001|Near evening it approached the Falkland Islands, whose rugged summits I recognized the next day.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000037_000002|The sea was of moderate depth.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000037_000005|Later Sir Richard Hawkins called them the Maidenland, after the Blessed Virgin.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000038_000000|In these waterways our nets brought up fine samples of algae, in particular certain fucus plants whose roots were laden with the world's best mussels.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000038_000001|Geese and duck alighted by the dozens on the platform and soon took their places in the ship's pantry. As for fish, I specifically observed some bony fish belonging to the goby genus, especially some gudgeon two decimeters long, sprinkled with whitish and yellow spots.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000039_000000|I likewise marveled at the numerous medusas, including the most beautiful of their breed, the compass jellyfish, unique to the Falkland seas. Some of these jellyfish were shaped like very smooth, semispheric parasols with russet stripes and fringes of twelve neat festoons.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000039_000001|Others looked like upside-down baskets from which wide leaves and long red twigs were gracefully trailing. They swam with quiverings of their four leaflike arms, letting the opulent tresses of their tentacles dangle in the drift. I wanted to preserve a few specimens of these delicate zoophytes, but they were merely clouds, shadows, illusions, melting and evaporating outside their native element.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000041_000001|Keeping to its northerly heading, it followed the long windings of South America.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000041_000002|By then we had fared sixteen thousand leagues since coming on board in the seas of Japan.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000042_000000|Near eleven o'clock in the morning, we cut the Tropic of Capricorn on the thirty seventh meridian, passing well out from Cape Frio.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000042_000001|Much to Ned Land's displeasure, Captain Nemo had no liking for the neighborhood of Brazil's populous shores, because he shot by with dizzying speed. Not even the swiftest fish or birds could keep up with us, and the natural curiosities in these seas completely eluded our observation.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000043_000003|The floor of this immense valley is made picturesque by mountains that furnish these underwater depths with scenic views. This description is based mostly on certain hand drawn charts kept in the Nautilus's library, charts obviously rendered by Captain Nemo himself from his own personal observations.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000044_000001|The Nautilus would do long, diagonal dives that took us to every level.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000045_000000|We cut the Equator.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000047_000000|Some zoophytes were dredged up by the chain of our trawl.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000051_000000|One of our nets had hauled up a type of very flat ray that weighed some twenty kilograms; with its tail cut off, it would have formed a perfect disk.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000051_000001|It was white underneath and reddish on top, with big round spots of deep blue encircled in black, its hide quite smooth and ending in a double lobed fin.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000052_000000|Instantly there he was, thrown on his back, legs in the air, his body half paralyzed, and yelling:
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000053_000001|Will you help me!"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000054_000000|For once in his life, the poor lad didn't address me "in the third person."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000055_000000|The Canadian and I sat him up; we massaged his contracted arms, and when he regained his five senses, that eternal classifier mumbled in a broken voice:
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000057_000000|"Yes, my friend," I answered, "it was an electric ray that put you in this deplorable state."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000059_000000|"How?"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000060_000000|"I'll eat it."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000061_000000|Which he did that same evening, but strictly as retaliation. Because, frankly, it tasted like leather.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000062_000001|Living in a conducting medium such as water, this bizarre animal can electrocute other fish from several meters away, so great is the power of its electric organ, an organ whose two chief surfaces measure at least twenty seven square feet.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000064_000000|"And do you know," I added, "what happened since man has almost completely wiped out these beneficial races? Rotting weeds have poisoned the air, and this poisoned air causes the yellow fever that devastates these wonderful countries. This toxic vegetation has increased beneath the seas of the Torrid Zone, so the disease spreads unchecked from the mouth of the Rio de la Plata to Florida!"
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000065_000001|By then, crowded with jellyfish, squid, and other devilfish, the oceans will have become huge centers of infection, because their waves will no longer possess "these huge stomachs that God has entrusted with scouring the surface of the sea."
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000066_000001|In essence, it was an issue of stocking the larder with excellent red meat, even better than beef or veal. Their hunting was not a fascinating sport.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000067_000000|The same day an odd fishing practice further increased the Nautilus's stores, so full of game were these seas. Our trawl brought up in its meshes a number of fish whose heads were topped by little oval slabs with fleshy edges.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000067_000001|These were suckerfish from the third family of the subbrachian Malacopterygia.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000067_000002|These flat disks on their heads consist of crosswise plates of movable cartilage, between which the animals can create a vacuum, enabling them to stick to objects like suction cups.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000068_000002|Right after catching them, our seamen dropped them in buckets of water.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000069_000000|Its fishing finished, the Nautilus drew nearer to the coast. In this locality a number of sea turtles were sleeping on the surface of the waves.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000069_000001|It would have been difficult to capture these valuable reptiles, because they wake up at the slightest sound, and their solid carapaces are harpoon proof.
train-clean-100/405/130895/405_130895_000069_000002|But our suckerfish would effect their capture with extraordinary certainty and precision. In truth, this animal is a living fishhook, promising wealth and happiness to the greenest fisherman in the business.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000003_000001|On seeing her husband, Anna raised her head and smiled, as though she had just waked up.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000004_000000|"You're not in bed?
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000004_000001|What a wonder!" she said, letting fall her hood, and without stopping, she went on into the dressing room.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000004_000002|"It's late, Alexey Alexandrovitch," she said, when she had gone through the doorway.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000005_000000|"Anna, it's necessary for me to have a talk with you."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000006_000001|She came out from behind the door of the dressing room, and looked at him.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000006_000002|"Why, what is it?
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000006_000003|What about?" she asked, sitting down.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000006_000004|"Well, let's talk, if it's so necessary.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000006_000005|But it would be better to get to sleep."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000007_000001|How simple and natural were her words, and how likely that she was simply sleepy!
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000007_000003|She felt that some unseen force had come to her aid and was supporting her.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000008_000000|"Anna, I must warn you," he began.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000009_000000|"Warn me?" she said.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000009_000001|"Of what?"
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000010_000000|She looked at him so simply, so brightly, that anyone who did not know her as her husband knew her could not have noticed anything unnatural, either in the sound or the sense of her words.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000010_000003|"But perhaps the key may yet be found," thought Alexey Alexandrovitch.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000011_000001|Your too animated conversation this evening with Count Vronsky" (he enunciated the name firmly and with deliberate emphasis) "attracted attention."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000012_000000|He talked and looked at her laughing eyes, which frightened him now with their impenetrable look, and, as he talked, he felt all the uselessness and idleness of his words.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000013_000000|"You're always like that," she answered, as though completely misapprehending him, and of all he had said only taking in the last phrase.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000014_000000|Alexey Alexandrovitch shivered, and bent his hands to make the joints crack.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000015_000000|"Oh, please, don't do that, I do so dislike it," she said.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000016_000000|"Anna, is this you?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, quietly making an effort over himself, and restraining the motion of his fingers.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000018_000000|Alexey Alexandrovitch paused, and rubbed his forehead and his eyes.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000018_000001|He saw that instead of doing as he had intended-that is to say, warning his wife against a mistake in the eyes of the world-he had unconsciously become agitated over what was the affair of her conscience, and was struggling against the barrier he fancied between them.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000019_000000|"This is what I meant to say to you," he went on coldly and composedly, "and I beg you to listen to it.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000019_000002|This evening it was not I observed it, but judging by the impression made on the company, everyone observed that your conduct and deportment were not altogether what could be desired."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000020_000000|"I positively don't understand," said Anna, shrugging her shoulders-"He doesn't care," she thought.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000020_000001|"But other people noticed it, and that's what upsets him."--"You're not well, Alexey Alexandrovitch," she added, and she got up, and would have gone towards the door; but he moved forward as though he would stop her.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000021_000000|His face was ugly and forbidding, as Anna had never seen him.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000021_000001|She stopped, and bending her head back and on one side, began with her rapid hand taking out her hairpins.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000022_000000|"Well, I'm listening to what's to come," she said, calmly and ironically; "and indeed I listen with interest, for I should like to understand what's the matter."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000023_000000|She spoke, and marveled at the confident, calm, and natural tone in which she was speaking, and the choice of the words she used.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000024_000000|"To enter into all the details of your feelings I have no right, and besides, I regard that as useless and even harmful," began Alexey Alexandrovitch.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000024_000003|Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000024_000004|That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000025_000000|"I don't understand a word.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000026_000001|"Perhaps I am mistaken, but believe me, what I say, I say as much for myself as for you.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000026_000002|I am your husband, and I love you."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000027_000001|She thought: "Love?
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000027_000003|If he hadn't heard there was such a thing as love, he would never have used the word.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000027_000004|He doesn't even know what love is."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000028_000000|"Alexey Alexandrovitch, really I don't understand," she said.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000029_000000|"Pardon, let me say all I have to say.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000029_000001|I love you.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000029_000002|But I am not speaking of myself; the most important persons in this matter are our son and yourself.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000029_000004|In that case, I beg you to forgive me. But if you are conscious yourself of even the smallest foundation for them, then I beg you to think a little, and if your heart prompts you, to speak out to me..."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000030_000000|Alexey Alexandrovitch was unconsciously saying something utterly unlike what he had prepared.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000031_000000|"I have nothing to say.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000031_000001|And besides," she said hurriedly, with difficulty repressing a smile, "it's really time to be in bed."
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000032_000000|Alexey Alexandrovitch sighed, and, without saying more, went into the bedroom.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000000|When she came into the bedroom, he was already in bed.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000001|His lips were sternly compressed, and his eyes looked away from her.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000003|She both feared his speaking and wished for it.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000004|But he was silent.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000005|She waited for a long while without moving, and had forgotten about him.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000006|She thought of that other; she pictured him, and felt how her heart was flooded with emotion and guilty delight at the thought of him. Suddenly she heard an even, tranquil snore.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000033_000007|For the first instant Alexey Alexandrovitch seemed, as it were, appalled at his own snoring, and ceased; but after an interval of two breathings the snore sounded again, with a new tranquil rhythm.
train-clean-100/4051/10927/4051_10927_000034_000000|"It's late, it's late," she whispered with a smile.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000004_000001|Now, who do you imagine these two voyagers turned out to be?
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000004_000002|Why, if you will believe me, they were the sons of that very Phrixus, who, in his childhood, had been carried to Colchis on the back of the golden fleeced ram.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000005_000000|When the princes understood whither the Argonauts were going, they offered to turn back, and guide them to Colchis.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000005_000001|At the same time, however, they spoke as if it were very doubtful whether Jason would succeed in getting the Golden Fleece.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000005_000002|According to their account, the tree on which it hung was guarded by a terrible dragon, who never failed to devour, at one mouthful, every person who might venture within his reach.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000006_000002|It would grieve us to the heart, if you and your nine and forty brave companions should be eaten up, at fifty mouthfuls, by this execrable dragon."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000007_000000|"My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000007_000002|But, in my view of the matter, the dragon is merely a pretty large serpent, who is not half so likely to snap me up at one mouthful as I am to cut off his ugly head, and strip the skin from his body.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000007_000003|At all events, turn back who may, I will never see Greece again, unless I carry with me the Golden Fleece."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000008_000000|"We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave comrades. "Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if the dragon is to make a breakfast of us, much good may it do him."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000010_000004|"Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?--Or do you meditate the discovery of unknown islands?--or what other cause has procured me the happiness of seeing you at my court?"
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000013_000000|"I have heard," rejoined the youth, "that a dragon lies beneath the tree on which the prize hangs, and that whoever approaches him runs the risk of being devoured at a mouthful."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000014_000000|"True," said the king, with a smile that did not look particularly good-natured.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000014_000001|"Very true, young man.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000014_000002|But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000014_000004|There is a furnace in each of their stomachs; and they breathe such hot fire out of their mouths and nostrils, that nobody has hitherto gone nigh them without being instantly burned to a small, black cinder.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000014_000005|What do you think of this, my brave Jason?"
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000015_000000|"I must encounter the peril," answered Jason, composedly, "since it stands in the way of my purpose."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000016_000001|They are an unruly set of reprobates, those sons of the dragon's teeth; and unless you treat them suitably, they will fall upon you sword in hand.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000016_000002|You and your nine and forty Argonauts, my bold Jason, are hardly numerous or strong enough to fight with such a host as will spring up."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000017_000000|"My master Chiron," replied Jason, "taught me, long ago, the story of Cadmus.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000018_000003|Well, Prince Jason," he continued, aloud, and as complaisantly as he could, "make yourself comfortable for to day, and to morrow morning, since you insist upon it, you shall try your skill at the plow."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000019_000000|While the king talked with Jason, a beautiful young woman was standing behind the throne.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000019_000001|She fixed her eyes earnestly upon the youthful stranger, and listened attentively to every word that was spoken; and when Jason withdrew from the king's presence, this young woman followed him out of the room.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000020_000002|If you will trust to me, I can instruct you how to tame the fiery bulls, and sow the dragon's teeth, and get the Golden Fleece."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000021_000000|"Indeed, beautiful princess," answered Jason, "if you will do me this service, I promise to be grateful to you my whole life long."' Gazing at Medea, he beheld a wonderful intelligence in her face.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000022_000001|Are you an enchantress?"
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000023_000000|"Yes, Prince Jason," answered Medea, with a smile, "you have hit upon the truth.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000023_000003|I am acquainted with some of your secrets, you perceive.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000023_000004|It is well for you that I am favorably inclined; for, otherwise, you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000026_000000|So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000027_000000|"Only be brave," added she, "and before daybreak the brazen bulls shall be tamed."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000028_000003|She gave him a basket, in which were the dragon's teeth, just as they had been pulled out of the monster's jaws by Cadmus, long ago.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000028_000004|Medea then led Jason down the palace steps, and through the silent streets of the city, and into the royal pasture ground, where the two brazen footed bulls were kept.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000028_000006|After entering the pasture, the princess paused and looked around.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000029_000001|It will be excellent sport, I assure you, when they catch a glimpse of your figure.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000029_000003|It makes a holiday in Colchis whenever such a thing happens.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000029_000004|For my part, I enjoy it immensely.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000029_000005|You cannot imagine in what a mere twinkling of an eye their hot breath shrivels a young man into a black cinder."
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000032_000001|At some distance before him he perceived four streams of fiery vapor, regularly appearing and again vanishing, after dimly lighting up the surrounding obscurity.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000032_000002|These, you will understand, were caused by the breath of the brazen bulls, which was quietly stealing out of their four nostrils, as they lay chewing their cuds.
train-clean-100/4051/11217/4051_11217_000033_000005|So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000000_000000|Greatly encouraged at finding himself not yet turned into a cinder, the young man awaited the attack of the bulls.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000000_000001|Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him into the air, he caught one of them by the horn, and the other by his screwed up tail, and held them in a gripe like that of an iron vice, one with his right hand, the other with his left.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000000_000004|And, ever since that time, it has been the favorite method of brave men, when danger assails them, to do what they call "taking the bull by the horns"; and to gripe him by the tail is pretty much the same thing-that is, to throw aside fear, and overcome the peril by despising it.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000000_000007|At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in breaking up the greensward; and, by the time that the moon was a quarter of her journey up the sky, the plowed field lay before him, a large tract of black earth, ready to be sown with the dragon's teeth.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000000_000008|So Jason scattered them broadcast, and harrowed them into the soil with a brush harrow, and took his stand on the edge of the field, anxious to see what would happen next.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000002_000000|"Whether sooner or later, it will be sure to come," answered the princess.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000002_000001|"A crop of armed men never fails to spring up, when the dragon's teeth have been sown."
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000003_000003|These bright objects sprouted higher, and proved to be the steel heads of spears.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000003_000004|Then there was a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass helmets, beneath which, as they grew farther out of the soil, appeared the dark and bearded visages of warriors, struggling to free themselves from the imprisoning earth.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000003_000005|The first look that they gave at the upper world was a glare of wrath and defiance.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000003_000007|Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000001|And how it would have rejoiced any great captain, who was bent on conquering the world, like Alexander or Napoleon, to raise a crop of armed soldiers as easily as Jason did!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000002|For a while, the warriors stood flourishing their weapons, clashing their swords against their shields, and boiling over with the red hot thirst for battle.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000003|Then they began to shout-"Show us the enemy!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000004|Lead us to the charge!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000005|Death or victory!" "Come on, brave comrades!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000007|At last, the front rank caught sight of Jason, who, beholding the flash of so many weapons in the moonlight, had thought it best to draw his sword.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000004_000009|Jason knew that it would be impossible to withstand this blood thirsty battalion with his single arm, but determined, since there was nothing better to be done, to die as valiantly as if he himself had sprung from a dragon's tooth.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000005_000000|Medea, however, bade him snatch up a stone from the ground.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000006_000000|"Throw it among them quickly!" cried she.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000007_000006|Victory!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000007_000007|Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his slain brethren.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000008_000001|That fierce and feverish fight was the only enjoyment which they had tasted on this beautiful earth.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000009_000001|"The world will always have simpletons enough, just like them, fighting and dying for they know not what, and fancying that posterity will take the trouble to put laurel wreaths on their rusty and battered helmets.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000009_000002|Could you help smiling, Prince Jason, to see the self conceit of that last fellow, just as he tumbled down?"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000011_000000|"You will think differently in the morning," said Medea.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000011_000001|"True, the Golden Fleece may not be so valuable as you have thought it; but then there is nothing better in the world; and one must needs have an object, you know.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000011_000002|Come!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000012_000001|Entering the presence chamber, he stood at the foot of the throne, and made a low obeisance.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000013_000000|"Your eyes look heavy, Prince Jason," observed the king; "you appear to have spent a sleepless night.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000013_000001|I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely, and have concluded not to get yourself scorched to a cinder, in attempting to tame my brazen lunged bulls."
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000014_000000|"That is already accomplished, may it please your majesty," replied Jason.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000016_000001|Had you acted fairly, you would have been, at this instant, a black cinder, or a handful of white ashes.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000016_000002|I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the Golden Fleece.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000017_000000|Jason left the king's presence in great sorrow and anger.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000018_000001|"Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trouble?"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000019_000000|"On the contrary," answered Jason, "he is very angry with me for taming the brazen bulls and sowing the dragon's teeth.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000019_000001|And he forbids me to make any more attempts, and positively refuses to give up the Golden Fleece, whether I slay the dragon or no"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000020_000000|"Yes, Jason," said the princess, "and I can tell you more.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000020_000002|But be of good courage.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000020_000003|The Golden Fleece you shall have, if it lies within the power of my enchantments to get it for you.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000020_000004|Wait for me here an hour before midnight."
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000021_000001|While they were crossing the pasture ground, the brazen bulls came towards Jason, lowing, nodding their heads, and thrusting forth their snouts, which, as other cattle do, they loved to have rubbed and caressed by a friendly hand.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000021_000003|Indeed, it had heretofore been a great inconvenience to these poor animals, that, whenever they wished to eat a mouthful of grass, the fire out of their nostrils had shriveled it up, before they could manage to crop it.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000023_000000|"Look yonder," she whispered.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000023_000001|"Do you see it?"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000026_000001|It is the Golden Fleece."
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000027_000000|Jason went onward a few steps farther, and then stopped to gaze.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000028_000001|"It has surely been dipped in the richest gold of sunset.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000028_000002|Let me hasten onward, and take it to my bosom."
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000029_000000|"Stay," said Medea, holding him back.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000029_000001|"Have you forgotten what guards it?"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000030_000000|To say the truth, in the joy of beholding the object of his desires, the terrible dragon had quite slipped out of Jason's memory.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000030_000001|Soon, however, something came to pass, that reminded him what perils were still to be encountered.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000030_000002|An antelope, that probably mistook the yellow radiance for sunrise, came bounding fleetly through the grove.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000031_000001|Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air, and reaching almost within arm's length of Prince Jason, it was a very hideous and uncomfortable sight.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000031_000002|The gape of his enormous jaws was nearly as wide as the gateway of the king's palace.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000032_000000|"Well, Jason," whispered Medea (for she was ill natured, as all enchantresses are, and wanted to make the bold youth tremble), "what do you think now of your prospect of winning the Golden Fleece?"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000033_000000|Jason answered only by drawing his sword, and making a step forward.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000035_000000|The dragon had probably heard the voices; for swift as lightning, his black head and forked tongue came hissing among the trees again, darting full forty feet at a stretch.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000035_000001|As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right down the monster's wide open throat. Immediately, with an outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle-flinging his tail up to the tip top of the tallest tree, and shattering all its branches as it crashed heavily down again-the dragon fell at full length upon the ground, and lay quite motionless.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000036_000000|"It is only a sleeping potion," said the enchantress to Prince Jason. "One always finds a use for these mischievous creatures, sooner or later; so I did not wish to kill him outright.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000036_000001|Quick!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000036_000003|You have won the Golden Fleece."
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000037_000000|Jason caught the fleece from the tree, and hurried through the grove, the deep shadows of which were illuminated as he passed by the golden glory of the precious object that he bore along.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000037_000001|A little way before him, he beheld the old woman whom he had helped over the stream, with her peacock beside her.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000037_000002|She clapped her hands for joy, and beckoning him to make haste, disappeared among the duskiness of the trees.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000037_000003|Espying the two winged sons of the North Wind (who were disporting themselves in the moonlight, a few hundred feet aloft), Jason bade them tell the rest of the Argonauts to embark as speedily as possible.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000037_000004|But Lynceus, with his sharp eyes, had already caught a glimpse of him, bringing the Golden Fleece, although several stone walls, a hill, and the black shadows of the Grove of Mars, intervened between.
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000039_000000|"Make haste, Prince Jason!
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000039_000001|For your life, make haste!"
train-clean-100/4051/11218/4051_11218_000040_000000|With one bound, he leaped aboard.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000055_000000|Still uncertain as to the purposes of the Republicans, the Democrats were moved to further action.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000056_000003|And so the Democratic Executive Committee began to spread abroad the news that its act was not really official, but merely reflected the "personal conviction" of the members present.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000057_000000|And so it went like a great game of chess.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000057_000002|The fact was that the pickets had moved the Democrats a step.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000057_000003|The Republicans had then attempted to
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000059_000001|Behind this matching of political wits by the two parties stood the faithful pickets compelling them both to act.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000060_000000|Simultaneously with these moves and counter moves in political circles, the people in all sections of this vast country began to speak their minds.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000060_000002|Even the South, the Administration's stronghold, sent fiery telegrams demanding action.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000060_000003|Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Maryland, Mississippi, as well as the West, Middle West, New England and the East the stream was endless.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000061_000000|Every time a new piece of legislation was passed; the war tax bill, food conservation or what not,-women from unex pected quarters sent to the Government their protest against the passage of measures so vital to women without women's consent, coupled with an appeal for the liberation of women. Club women, college women, federations of labor; various kinds of organizations sent protests to the Administration leaders.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000065_000000|The manifestations of popular approval of suffrage, the constant stream of protests to the Administration against its delay nationally, and the shame of having women begging at its gates, could result in only one of two things.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000065_000001|The Administration had little choice.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000065_000002|It must yield to this pressure from the people or it must suppress the agitation which was causing such interest. It must pass the amendment or remove the troublesome pickets.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000066_000000|It decided to remove the pickets.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000068_000000|Chapter three
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000069_000000|The First Arrests
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000070_000000|The Administration chose suppression.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000070_000001|They resorted to force in an attempt to end picketing.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000070_000005|This fact supplied us with a fresh angle of attack.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000072_000001|This occasion offered us the opportunity again to expose the Administration's weakness in claiming complete political democracy while women were still denied their political freedom.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000075_000000|with the visit of the Russian diplomats to the President.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000075_000001|As the car carrying the envoys passed swiftly through the gates of the White House there stood on the picket line two silent sentinels, Miss Lucy Burns of New York and mrs Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, both members of the National Executive Committee, with a great lettered banner which read:
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000076_000000|TO THE RUSSIAN ENVOYS
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000082_000001|In answering the criticism, Miss Paul publicly stated our position thus: "The intolerable conditions
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000084_000000|against which we protest can be changed in the twinkling of an eye.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000084_000001|The responsibility for our protest is, therefore, with the Administration and not with the women of America, if the lack of democracy at home weakens the Administration in its fight for democracy three thousand miles away."
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000085_000000|This was too dreadful.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000085_000001|A flurry at the gates of the Chief of the nation at such a time would never do.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000085_000002|Our allies in the crusade for democracy must not know that we had a day by day unrest at home.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000085_000003|Something must be done to stop this expose at once.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000085_000005|Had they no shame?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000085_000006|Was the fundamental weakness in our boast of pure and perfect democracy to be so wantonly displayed with impunity?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000086_000000|Of course it was embarrassing.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000086_000001|We meant it to be.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000086_000002|The truth must be told at all costs.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000086_000003|This was no time for manners.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000087_000000|Hurried conferences behind closed doors!
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000087_000002|Women could not advance on drawn bayonets.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000087_000003|And if they did . . .
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000087_000004|What a picture!
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000087_000006|I daresay political wisdom crept into the reasoning of others.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000088_000000|Closing the Woman's Party headquarters was discussed.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000088_000001|Perhaps a raid!
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000088_000002|And all for what?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000088_000003|Because women were holding banners asking for the precious principle at home that men were supposed to be dying for abroad.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000094_000000|"I warn you, you will be arrested if you attempt to picket again."
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000096_000000|News had spread through the city that the pickets were to be arrested.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000096_000002|To know that we were no longer wanted at the gates of the White House and that the police were no longer our "friends" was enough for the mob mind.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000097_000000|Some members of the crowd made sport of the women.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000097_000001|Others hurled cheap and childish epithets at them.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000098_000000|Thinking they had been mistaken in believing the pickets were to be arrested, and having grown weary of their strenuous sport, the crowd moved on its way.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000099_000000|Miss Burns and Miss Morey upon arriving at the police station, insisted, to the great surprise of all the officials, upon knowing the charge against them.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000099_000004|People could not be arrested for picketing.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000101_000001|Disorderly conduct?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000101_000003|Inciting to riot?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000101_000004|Impossible!
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000101_000005|The women had stood as silent sentinels holding the President's own eloquent words.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000102_000000|Doors opened and closed mysteriously.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000102_000002|Whispered conversations were heard. The book on rules and regulations was hopefully thumbed.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000103_000001|All carried banners with the same words of the President.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000103_000003|They were promptly arrested for "obstructing the traffic." They, too, were dismissed and their cases never tried.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000103_000005|When. however. women continued to picket in the face of arrest, the Administration quickened its advance into the venture of suppression.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000103_000006|It decided to bring the offenders to trial.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000105_000000|"Not a dollar of your fine will we pay," was the answer of the women.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000105_000001|"To pay a fine would be an admission of guilt.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000105_000002|We are innocent."
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000106_000000|The six women who were privileged to serve the first terms of imprisonment for suffrage in this country, were Miss Katherine Morey of Massachusetts, mrs Annie Arneil and Miss Mabel Vernon of Delaware, Miss Lavinia Dock of Pennsylvania, Miss Maud Jamison of Virginia, and Miss Virginia Arnold of
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000108_000000|North Carolina.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000109_000001|Champ Clark, late Democratic speaker of the House, is declaiming to a cheering crowd behind the White House, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." In front of the White House thirteen silent sentinels with banners bearing the same words, are arrested.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000109_000002|It would have been exceedingly droll if it had not been so tragic.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000109_000003|Champ Clark and his throng were not molested.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000110_000000|The trial of this group was delayed to give the jail authorities time to "vacate and tidy up," as one prisoner confided to Miss Joy Young.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000110_000001|It developed that "orders" had been received at the jail immediately after the arrests and before the trial, "to make ready for the suffragettes." What did it matter that their case had not yet been heard?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000110_000002|To jail they must go.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000111_000001|Were not the District Commissioners who gave orders to prepare the cells the direct appointees of President Wilson?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000111_000002|And was not the Chief of Police of the District of Columbia a direct appointee of these same commissioners?
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000112_000002|This tiny flame would scarcely be visible.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000115_000000|Meanwhile the President could proclaim through official channels his disinterestedness.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000118_000000|GEORGE CREEL, Chairman.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000119_000000|"Furnished without charge to all newspapers, post offices, government officials and agencies of a public character for the dissemination of official news of the United States Government."
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000120_000000|"Washington, july third nineteen seventeen.
train-clean-100/4088/158077/4088_158077_000121_000001|The official bulletin concludes with:
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000038_000001|More banners ,went out,-purple, white and gold ones.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000047_000001|Good!
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000048_000001|I read:
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000049_000000|"Six more women sentenced to day to thirty days in Occoquan workhouse."
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000052_000001|The motion of condemnation was put.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000071_000000|Four o'clock is the hour the Government clerks begin to swarm homewards.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000076_000000|At four o'clock the threatened arrests took place.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000088_000000|mr
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000093_000001|I quote this from his speech in the Senate august eighteenth nineteen seventeen:
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000094_000000|mr
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000101_000000|A BILL
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000110_000002|In some of the actions you must have been wrong.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000120_000002|The law gives you no such power.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000121_000000|no
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000125_000004|Why not now?
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000126_000005|But why not be among the first?
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000126_000006|Don't wait.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000128_000001|This, too, went to certain death.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000142_000000|Perhaps the inscriptions on the suffrage banners were not tactful.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000142_000001|It is sometimes awkward indeed to quote the President's speeches after the speeches have "grown cold." Also a too vigorous use of the word "democracy" is distasteful to some government dignitaries, it seems.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000147_000000|All this suffrage shouting in Washington has as its single object the attainment of President Wilson's material support for equal suffrage . . . .
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000148_000000|President Wilson's word would carry the question into Congress . . .
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000149_000000|Would there be any harm in letting Congress vote on a suffrage resolution?
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000149_000001|That would end the disturbance and it would make our shield of national justice somewhat brighter.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000150_000000|It looks like President Wilson's move.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000151_000001|Unwilling to pass the amendment, it continued to send women to prison.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000152_000001|On the same afternoon a slender line of women also "soldiers of freedom"-attempted to march in Washington.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000153_000000|As they attempted to take up their posts, two by two, in front of the Reviewing Stand, opposite the White House, they were gathered in and swept away by the police like common street criminals their golden banners scarcely flung to the breeze.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000154_000000|mr
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000157_000000|The Avenue was roped off on account of the parade.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000157_000001|There was hardly any one passing at the time; all traffic had been temporarily suspended, so there was none to obstruct.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000157_000002|But the Administration's policy must go on.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000157_000003|A few moments and Miss Lucy Branham of Maryland and mrs Pauline Adams of Virginia marched down the Avenue, their gay banners waving joyously in the autumn sun, to fill up the gap of the two comrades who had been arrested.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000158_000001|Still others advanced.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000158_000003|A fourth detachment was arrested in the middle of the Avenue on the trolley tracks.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000158_000004|But still they came.
train-clean-100/4088/158079/4088_158079_000160_000002|We originated, to put it in the vernacular, in a kick, and if it be unpatriotic to kick, why then the grown man is unlike the child.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000002_000000|The Flying Stars
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000003_000001|As an artist I had always attempted to provide crimes suitable to the special season or landscapes in which I found myself, choosing this or that terrace or garden for a catastrophe, as if for a statuary group.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000003_000002|Thus squires should be swindled in long rooms panelled with oak; while Jews, on the other hand, should rather find themselves unexpectedly penniless among the lights and screens of the Cafe Riche.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000003_000003|Thus, in England, if I wished to relieve a dean of his riches (which is not so easy as you might suppose), I wished to frame him, if I make myself clear, in the green lawns and grey towers of some cathedral town.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000004_000000|"Well, my last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000004_000001|I did it in a good old middle class house near Putney, a house with a crescent of carriage drive, a house with a stable by the side of it, a house with the name on the two outer gates, a house with a monkey tree.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000004_000002|Enough, you know the species.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000004_000003|I really think my imitation of Dickens's style was dexterous and literary.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000004_000004|It seems almost a pity I repented the same evening."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000005_000000|Flambeau would then proceed to tell the story from the inside; and even from the inside it was odd.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000005_000001|Seen from the outside it was perfectly incomprehensible, and it is from the outside that the stranger must study it.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000005_000002|From this standpoint the drama may be said to have begun when the front doors of the house with the stable opened on the garden with the monkey tree, and a young girl came out with bread to feed the birds on the afternoon of Boxing Day.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000005_000003|She had a pretty face, with brave brown eyes; but her figure was beyond conjecture, for she was so wrapped up in brown furs that it was hard to say which was hair and which was fur.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000005_000004|But for the attractive face she might have been a small toddling bear.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000006_000000|The winter afternoon was reddening towards evening, and already a ruby light was rolled over the bloomless beds, filling them, as it were, with the ghosts of the dead roses.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000006_000001|On one side of the house stood the stable, on the other an alley or cloister of laurels led to the larger garden behind.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000006_000003|Here she gave an exclamation of wonder, real or ritual, and looking up at the high garden wall above her, beheld it fantastically bestridden by a somewhat fantastic figure.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000007_000000|"Oh, don't jump, mr Crook," she called out in some alarm; "it's much too high."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000008_000000|The individual riding the party wall like an aerial horse was a tall, angular young man, with dark hair sticking up like a hair brush, intelligent and even distinguished lineaments, but a sallow and almost alien complexion.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000008_000002|Perhaps it was a symbol.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000009_000000|"I think I was meant to be a burglar," he said placidly, "and I have no doubt I should have been if I hadn't happened to be born in that nice house next door.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000009_000001|I can't see any harm in it, anyhow."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000010_000000|"How can you say such things!" she remonstrated.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000011_000000|"Well," said the young man, "if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000012_000000|"I never know what you will say or do next," she said.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000013_000000|"I don't often know myself," replied mr Crook; "but then I am on the right side of the wall now."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000014_000000|"And which is the right side of the wall?" asked the young lady, smiling.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000015_000000|"Whichever side you are on," said the young man named Crook.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000016_000000|As they went together through the laurels towards the front garden a motor horn sounded thrice, coming nearer and nearer, and a car of splendid speed, great elegance, and a pale green colour swept up to the front doors like a bird and stood throbbing.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000017_000001|I didn't know, Miss Adams, that your Santa Claus was so modern as this."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000018_000000|"Oh, that's my godfather, Sir Leopold Fischer.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000018_000001|He always comes on Boxing Day."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000019_000000|Then, after an innocent pause, which unconsciously betrayed some lack of enthusiasm, Ruby Adams added:
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000020_000000|"He is very kind."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000021_000000|john Crook, journalist, had heard of that eminent City magnate; and it was not his fault if the City magnate had not heard of him; for in certain articles in The Clarion or The New Age Sir Leopold had been dealt with austerely.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000021_000001|But he said nothing and grimly watched the unloading of the motor car, which was rather a long process.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000021_000002|A large, neat chauffeur in green got out from the front, and a small, neat manservant in grey got out from the back, and between them they deposited Sir Leopold on the doorstep and began to unpack him, like some very carefully protected parcel.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000022_000000|Long before this revelation was complete the two big doors of the porch had opened in the middle, and Colonel Adams (father of the furry young lady) had come out himself to invite his eminent guest inside.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000022_000001|He was a tall, sunburnt, and very silent man, who wore a red smoking cap like a fez, making him look like one of the English Sirdars or Pashas in Egypt. With him was his brother in law, lately come from Canada, a big and rather boisterous young gentleman farmer, with a yellow beard, by name james Blount.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000022_000002|With him also was the more insignificant figure of the priest from the neighbouring Roman Church; for the colonel's late wife had been a Catholic, and the children, as is common in such cases, had been trained to follow her.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000022_000003|Everything seemed undistinguished about the priest, even down to his name, which was Brown; yet the colonel had always found something companionable about him, and frequently asked him to such family gatherings.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000000|In the large entrance hall of the house there was ample room even for Sir Leopold and the removal of his wraps.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000001|Porch and vestibule, indeed, were unduly large in proportion to the house, and formed, as it were, a big room with the front door at one end, and the bottom of the staircase at the other.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000002|In front of the large hall fire, over which hung the colonel's sword, the process was completed and the company, including the saturnine Crook, presented to Sir Leopold Fischer.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000003|That venerable financier, however, still seemed struggling with portions of his well lined attire, and at length produced from a very interior tail coat pocket, a black oval case which he radiantly explained to be his Christmas present for his god daughter.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000004|With an unaffected vain glory that had something disarming about it he held out the case before them all; it flew open at a touch and half blinded them.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000005|It was just as if a crystal fountain had spurted in their eyes.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000006|In a nest of orange velvet lay like three eggs, three white and vivid diamonds that seemed to set the very air on fire all round them.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000023_000007|Fischer stood beaming benevolently and drinking deep of the astonishment and ecstasy of the girl, the grim admiration and gruff thanks of the colonel, the wonder of the whole group.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000024_000000|"I'll put 'em back now, my dear," said Fischer, returning the case to the tails of his coat.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000024_000002|They're the three great African diamonds called 'The Flying Stars,' because they've been stolen so often.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000024_000003|All the big criminals are on the track; but even the rough men about in the streets and hotels could hardly have kept their hands off them.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000024_000005|It was quite possible."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000025_000000|"Quite natural, I should say," growled the man in the red tie.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000025_000001|"I shouldn't blame 'em if they had taken 'em.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000025_000002|When they ask for bread, and you don't even give them a stone, I think they might take the stone for themselves."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000026_000000|"I won't have you talking like that," cried the girl, who was in a curious glow.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000026_000001|"You've only talked like that since you became a horrid what's his name.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000026_000002|You know what I mean.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000026_000003|What do you call a man who wants to embrace the chimney sweep?"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000027_000000|"A saint," said Father Brown.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000028_000000|"I think," said Sir Leopold, with a supercilious smile, "that Ruby means a Socialist."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000029_000000|"A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean a man who preserves jam.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000029_000001|Neither, I assure you, does a Socialist mean a man who desires a social evening with the chimney sweep.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000029_000002|A Socialist means a man who wants all the chimneys swept and all the chimney sweeps paid for it."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000030_000000|"But who won't allow you," put in the priest in a low voice, "to own your own soot."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000031_000000|Crook looked at him with an eye of interest and even respect.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000031_000001|"Does one want to own soot?" he asked.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000032_000001|"I've heard that gardeners use it.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000032_000002|And I once made six children happy at Christmas when the conjuror didn't come, entirely with soot-applied externally."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000033_000000|"Oh, splendid," cried Ruby.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000033_000001|"Oh, I wish you'd do it to this company."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000000|The boisterous Canadian, mr Blount, was lifting his loud voice in applause, and the astonished financier his (in some considerable deprecation), when a knock sounded at the double front doors.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000001|The priest opened them, and they showed again the front garden of evergreens, monkey tree and all, now gathering gloom against a gorgeous violet sunset.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000002|The scene thus framed was so coloured and quaint, like a back scene in a play, that they forgot a moment the insignificant figure standing in the door.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000003|He was dusty looking and in a frayed coat, evidently a common messenger.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000004|"Any of you gentlemen mr Blount?" he asked, and held forward a letter doubtfully.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000005|mr Blount started, and stopped in his shout of assent.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000034_000006|Ripping up the envelope with evident astonishment he read it; his face clouded a little, and then cleared, and he turned to his brother in law and host.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000035_000000|"I'm sick at being such a nuisance, colonel," he said, with the cheery colonial conventions; "but would it upset you if an old acquaintance called on me here tonight on business?
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000035_000001|In point of fact it's Florian, that famous French acrobat and comic actor; I knew him years ago out West (he was a French Canadian by birth), and he seems to have business for me, though I hardly guess what."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000036_000000|"Of course, of course," replied the colonel carelessly-"My dear chap, any friend of yours.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000036_000001|No doubt he will prove an acquisition."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000037_000000|"He'll black his face, if that's what you mean," cried Blount, laughing. "I don't doubt he'd black everyone else's eyes.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000037_000001|I don't care; I'm not refined.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000037_000002|I like the jolly old pantomime where a man sits on his top hat."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000038_000000|"Not on mine, please," said Sir Leopold Fischer, with dignity.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000039_000000|"Well, well," observed Crook, airily, "don't let's quarrel.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000039_000001|There are lower jokes than sitting on a top hat."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000040_000000|Dislike of the red tied youth, born of his predatory opinions and evident intimacy with the pretty godchild, led Fischer to say, in his most sarcastic, magisterial manner: "No doubt you have found something much lower than sitting on a top hat.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000040_000001|What is it, pray?"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000041_000000|"Letting a top hat sit on you, for instance," said the Socialist.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000000|"Now, now, now," cried the Canadian farmer with his barbarian benevolence, "don't let's spoil a jolly evening.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000001|What I say is, let's do something for the company tonight.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000002|Not blacking faces or sitting on hats, if you don't like those-but something of the sort.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000003|Why couldn't we have a proper old English pantomime-clown, columbine, and so on.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000004|I saw one when I left England at twelve years old, and it's blazed in my brain like a bonfire ever since.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000005|I came back to the old country only last year, and I find the thing's extinct.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000006|Nothing but a lot of snivelling fairy plays.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000007|I want a hot poker and a policeman made into sausages, and they give me princesses moralising by moonlight, Blue Birds, or something.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000042_000008|Blue Beard's more in my line, and him I like best when he turned into the pantaloon."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000043_000000|"I'm all for making a policeman into sausages," said john Crook.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000043_000001|"It's a better definition of Socialism than some recently given.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000043_000002|But surely the get up would be too big a business."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000044_000000|"Not a scrap," cried Blount, quite carried away.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000044_000001|"A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000044_000002|First, one can gag to any degree; and, second, all the objects are household things-tables and towel horses and washing baskets, and things like that."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000045_000000|"That's true," admitted Crook, nodding eagerly and walking about. "But I'm afraid I can't have my policeman's uniform?
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000045_000001|Haven't killed a policeman lately."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000046_000001|"Yes, we can!" he cried.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000046_000002|"I've got Florian's address here, and he knows every costumier in London.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000046_000003|I'll phone him to bring a police dress when he comes." And he went bounding away to the telephone.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000047_000000|"Oh, it's glorious, godfather," cried Ruby, almost dancing.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000047_000001|"I'll be columbine and you shall be pantaloon."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000048_000000|The millionaire held himself stiff with a sort of heathen solemnity.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000048_000001|"I think, my dear," he said, "you must get someone else for pantaloon."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000049_000000|"I will be pantaloon, if you like," said Colonel Adams, taking his cigar out of his mouth, and speaking for the first and last time.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000050_000000|"You ought to have a statue," cried the Canadian, as he came back, radiant, from the telephone.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000050_000001|"There, we are all fitted.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000050_000002|mr Crook shall be clown; he's a journalist and knows all the oldest jokes.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000050_000003|I can be harlequin, that only wants long legs and jumping about.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000050_000004|My friend Florian 'phones he's bringing the police costume; he's changing on the way.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000050_000005|We can act it in this very hall, the audience sitting on those broad stairs opposite, one row above another.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000000|How even such a banquet of bosh was got ready in the time remained a riddle.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000001|But they went at it with that mixture of recklessness and industry that lives when youth is in a house; and youth was in that house that night, though not all may have isolated the two faces and hearts from which it flamed.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000002|As always happens, the invention grew wilder and wilder through the very tameness of the bourgeois conventions from which it had to create.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000003|The columbine looked charming in an outstanding skirt that strangely resembled the large lamp shade in the drawing room.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000004|The clown and pantaloon made themselves white with flour from the cook, and red with rouge from some other domestic, who remained (like all true Christian benefactors) anonymous.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000005|The harlequin, already clad in silver paper out of cigar boxes, was, with difficulty, prevented from smashing the old Victorian lustre chandeliers, that he might cover himself with resplendent crystals.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000006|In fact he would certainly have done so, had not Ruby unearthed some old pantomime paste jewels she had worn at a fancy dress party as the Queen of Diamonds.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000007|Indeed, her uncle, james Blount, was getting almost out of hand in his excitement; he was like a schoolboy.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000008|He put a paper donkey's head unexpectedly on Father Brown, who bore it patiently, and even found some private manner of moving his ears.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000009|He even essayed to put the paper donkey's tail to the coat tails of Sir Leopold Fischer.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000010|This, however, was frowned down. "Uncle is too absurd," cried Ruby to Crook, round whose shoulders she had seriously placed a string of sausages.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000051_000011|"Why is he so wild?"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000052_000000|"He is harlequin to your columbine," said Crook.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000052_000001|"I am only the clown who makes the old jokes."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000054_000000|Father Brown, though he knew every detail done behind the scenes, and had even evoked applause by his transformation of a pillow into a pantomime baby, went round to the front and sat among the audience with all the solemn expectation of a child at his first matinee.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000054_000002|The pantomime was utterly chaotic, yet not contemptible; there ran through it a rage of improvisation which came chiefly from Crook the clown.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000054_000003|Commonly he was a clever man, and he was inspired tonight with a wild omniscience, a folly wiser than the world, that which comes to a young man who has seen for an instant a particular expression on a particular face.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000054_000005|At abrupt intervals in the outrageous performance he would hurl himself in full costume at the piano and bang out some popular music equally absurd and appropriate.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000055_000000|The climax of this, as of all else, was the moment when the two front doors at the back of the scene flew open, showing the lovely moonlit garden, but showing more prominently the famous professional guest; the great Florian, dressed up as a policeman.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000055_000001|The clown at the piano played the constabulary chorus in the "Pirates of Penzance," but it was drowned in the deafening applause, for every gesture of the great comic actor was an admirable though restrained version of the carriage and manner of the police.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000055_000003|Then it was that the strange actor gave that celebrated imitation of a dead man, of which the fame still lingers round Putney.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000055_000004|It was almost impossible to believe that a living person could appear so limp.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000056_000000|The athletic harlequin swung him about like a sack or twisted or tossed him like an Indian club; all the time to the most maddeningly ludicrous tunes from the piano.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000057_000000|At about this limit of mental anarchy Father Brown's view was obscured altogether; for the City magnate in front of him rose to his full height and thrust his hands savagely into all his pockets.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000057_000001|Then he sat down nervously, still fumbling, and then stood up again.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000057_000002|For an instant it seemed seriously likely that he would stride across the footlights; then he turned a glare at the clown playing the piano; and then he burst in silence out of the room.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000058_000000|The priest had only watched for a few more minutes the absurd but not inelegant dance of the amateur harlequin over his splendidly unconscious foe.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000058_000001|With real though rude art, the harlequin danced slowly backwards out of the door into the garden, which was full of moonlight and stillness.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000058_000002|The vamped dress of silver paper and paste, which had been too glaring in the footlights, looked more and more magical and silvery as it danced away under a brilliant moon.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000059_000000|He followed his summoner with increasing doubt, which was not dispelled by a solemn comicality in the scene of the study.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000059_000001|There sat Colonel Adams, still unaffectedly dressed as a pantaloon, with the knobbed whalebone nodding above his brow, but with his poor old eyes sad enough to have sobered a Saturnalia.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000059_000002|Sir Leopold Fischer was leaning against the mantelpiece and heaving with all the importance of panic.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000060_000000|"This is a very painful matter, Father Brown," said Adams.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000060_000001|"The truth is, those diamonds we all saw this afternoon seem to have vanished from my friend's tail coat pocket.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000060_000002|And as you-"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000061_000000|"As I," supplemented Father Brown, with a broad grin, "was sitting just behind him-"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000062_000000|"Nothing of the sort shall be suggested," said Colonel Adams, with a firm look at Fischer, which rather implied that some such thing had been suggested.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000062_000001|"I only ask you to give me the assistance that any gentleman might give."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000063_000000|"Which is turning out his pockets," said Father Brown, and proceeded to do so, displaying seven and sixpence, a return ticket, a small silver crucifix, a small breviary, and a stick of chocolate.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000064_000000|The colonel looked at him long, and then said, "Do you know, I should like to see the inside of your head more than the inside of your pockets.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000065_000000|"She has lately," cried out old Fischer, "opened her father's house to a cut throat Socialist, who says openly he would steal anything from a richer man.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000065_000001|This is the end of it.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000065_000002|Here is the richer man-and none the richer."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000066_000000|"If you want the inside of my head you can have it," said Brown rather wearily.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000066_000001|"What it's worth you can say afterwards.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000066_000002|But the first thing I find in that disused pocket is this: that men who mean to steal diamonds don't talk Socialism.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000066_000003|They are more likely," he added demurely, "to denounce it."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000067_000000|Both the others shifted sharply and the priest went on:
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000068_000000|"You see, we know these people, more or less.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000068_000001|That Socialist would no more steal a diamond than a Pyramid.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000068_000002|We ought to look at once to the one man we don't know.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000068_000003|The fellow acting the policeman-Florian.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000068_000004|Where is he exactly at this minute, I wonder."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000069_000000|The pantaloon sprang erect and strode out of the room.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000069_000001|An interlude ensued, during which the millionaire stared at the priest, and the priest at his breviary; then the pantaloon returned and said, with staccato gravity, "The policeman is still lying on the stage.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000069_000002|The curtain has gone up and down six times; he is still lying there."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000070_000000|Father Brown dropped his book and stood staring with a look of blank mental ruin.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000070_000001|Very slowly a light began to creep in his grey eyes, and then he made the scarcely obvious answer.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000071_000000|"Please forgive me, colonel, but when did your wife die?"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000072_000000|"Wife!" replied the staring soldier, "she died this year two months.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000072_000001|Her brother james arrived just a week too late to see her."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000073_000000|The little priest bounded like a rabbit shot.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000073_000001|"Come on!" he cried in quite unusual excitement.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000073_000002|"Come on!
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000073_000003|We've got to go and look at that policeman!"
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000074_000000|They rushed on to the now curtained stage, breaking rudely past the columbine and clown (who seemed whispering quite contentedly), and Father Brown bent over the prostrate comic policeman.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000075_000000|"Chloroform," he said as he rose; "I only guessed it just now."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000076_000000|There was a startled stillness, and then the colonel said slowly, "Please say seriously what all this means."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000077_000000|Father Brown suddenly shouted with laughter, then stopped, and only struggled with it for instants during the rest of his speech. "Gentlemen," he gasped, "there's not much time to talk.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000077_000001|I must run after the criminal.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000077_000002|But this great French actor who played the policeman-this clever corpse the harlequin waltzed with and dandled and threw about-he was-" His voice again failed him, and he turned his back to run.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000078_000000|"He was?" called Fischer inquiringly.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000079_000000|"A real policeman," said Father Brown, and ran away into the dark.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000080_000000|There were hollows and bowers at the extreme end of that leafy garden, in which the laurels and other immortal shrubs showed against sapphire sky and silver moon, even in that midwinter, warm colours as of the south.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000080_000001|The green gaiety of the waving laurels, the rich purple indigo of the night, the moon like a monstrous crystal, make an almost irresponsible romantic picture; and among the top branches of the garden trees a strange figure is climbing, who looks not so much romantic as impossible.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000080_000002|He sparkles from head to heel, as if clad in ten million moons; the real moon catches him at every movement and sets a new inch of him on fire.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000080_000003|But he swings, flashing and successful, from the short tree in this garden to the tall, rambling tree in the other, and only stops there because a shade has slid under the smaller tree and has unmistakably called up to him.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000081_000000|"Well, Flambeau," says the voice, "you really look like a Flying Star; but that always means a Falling Star at last."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000082_000000|The silver, sparkling figure above seems to lean forward in the laurels and, confident of escape, listens to the little figure below.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000083_000000|"You never did anything better, Flambeau.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000083_000001|It was clever to come from Canada (with a Paris ticket, I suppose) just a week after mrs Adams died, when no one was in a mood to ask questions.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000083_000003|Stealing the stones, I suppose, was nothing to you.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000083_000004|You could have done it by sleight of hand in a hundred other ways besides that pretence of putting a paper donkey's tail to Fischer's coat.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000083_000005|But in the rest you eclipsed yourself."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000084_000000|The silvery figure among the green leaves seems to linger as if hypnotised, though his escape is easy behind him; he is staring at the man below.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000000|"Oh, yes," says the man below, "I know all about it.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000001|I know you not only forced the pantomime, but put it to a double use.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000002|You were going to steal the stones quietly; news came by an accomplice that you were already suspected, and a capable police officer was coming to rout you up that very night.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000003|A common thief would have been thankful for the warning and fled; but you are a poet.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000004|You already had the clever notion of hiding the jewels in a blaze of false stage jewellery.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000005|Now, you saw that if the dress were a harlequin's the appearance of a policeman would be quite in keeping.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000006|The worthy officer started from Putney police station to find you, and walked into the queerest trap ever set in this world.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000008|Oh, you will never do anything better.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000085_000009|And now, by the way, you might give me back those diamonds."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000086_000000|The green branch on which the glittering figure swung, rustled as if in astonishment; but the voice went on:
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000000|"I want you to give them back, Flambeau, and I want you to give up this life.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000001|There is still youth and honour and humour in you; don't fancy they will last in that trade.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000002|Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000003|That road goes down and down.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000004|The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000005|Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime. Maurice Blum started out as an anarchist of principle, a father of the poor; he ended a greasy spy and tale bearer that both sides used and despised.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000006|Harry Burke started his free money movement sincerely enough; now he's sponging on a half starved sister for endless brandies and sodas.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000007|Lord Amber went into wild society in a sort of chivalry; now he's paying blackmail to the lowest vultures in London.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000008|Captain Barillon was the great gentleman apache before your time; he died in a madhouse, screaming with fear of the "narks" and receivers that had betrayed him and hunted him down.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000009|I know the woods look very free behind you, Flambeau; I know that in a flash you could melt into them like a monkey. But some day you will be an old grey monkey, Flambeau.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000087_000010|You will sit up in your free forest cold at heart and close to death, and the tree tops will be very bare."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000089_000000|"Your downward steps have begun.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000089_000001|You used to boast of doing nothing mean, but you are doing something mean tonight.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000089_000002|You are leaving suspicion on an honest boy with a good deal against him already; you are separating him from the woman he loves and who loves him.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000089_000003|But you will do meaner things than that before you die."
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000090_000000|Three flashing diamonds fell from the tree to the turf.
train-clean-100/412/126975/412_126975_000090_000001|The small man stooped to pick them up, and when he looked up again the green cage of the tree was emptied of its silver bird.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000001_000000|UDO BEHAVES LIKE A GENTLEMAN
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000002_000000|"And now," said Coronel, "we'd better decide what to do."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000003_000000|"But I don't mind what we do now," said Hyacinth happily.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000003_000001|"She may have the throne and Father and Udo, and-and anything else she can get, and I shan't mind a bit.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000004_000000|"That's what makes it so jolly.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000004_000001|We can do what we like, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't come off.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000004_000002|So just for fun let's think of something to pay her out."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000005_000000|"I feel I don't want to hurt anybody to day."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000006_000000|"All right, we won't hurt her, we'll humour her.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000006_000001|We will be her most humble obedient servants.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000006_000002|She shall have everything she wants."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000007_000000|"Including Prince Udo," smiled Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000008_000000|"That's a splendid idea.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000008_000002|It will annoy your father, but one can't please everybody.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000008_000003|Oh, I can see myself enjoying this."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000009_000000|They got up and wandered back along Wiggs's path, hand in hand.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000010_000000|"I'm almost afraid to leave the forest," said Hyacinth, "in case something happens."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000011_000000|"What should happen?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000012_000000|"I don't know; but all our life together has been in the forest, and I'm just a little afraid of the world."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000013_000000|"I will be very close to you always, Hyacinth."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000014_000000|"Be very close, Coronel," she whispered, and then they walked out together.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000015_000000|If any of the servants at the Palace were surprised to see Coronel, they did not show it.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000015_000001|After all, that was their business.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000016_000000|"Prince Coronel will be staying here," said the Princess.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000016_000003|But I get no assistance from Roger at this point; he pretends that he has a mind far above the gossip of the lower orders.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000017_000000|"I say," said Coronel, as they went up the grand staircase, "I am not a Prince, you know.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000017_000001|Don't say I have deceived you."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000019_000000|"My dear, I am a king among men to day, and you are my queen, but that's in our own special country of two."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000020_000000|"If you are so particular," said Hyacinth, with a smile, "Father will make you a proper Prince directly he comes back."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000021_000000|"Will he?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000021_000001|That's what I'm wondering.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000021_000002|You see he doesn't know yet about our little present to the Countess."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000022_000000|But it is quite time we got back to Belvane; we have left her alone too long.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000022_000001|It was more than Udo did.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000022_000002|Just now he was with her in her garden, telling her for the fifth time an extraordinarily dull story about an encounter of his with a dragon, apparently in its dotage, to which Belvane was listening with an interest which surprised even the narrator.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000024_000000|He stopped suddenly at the expression on Belvane's face.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000024_000001|She was looking over his shoulder at something behind him.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000025_000000|"Why, whoever is this?" she said, getting to her feet.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000026_000000|Before Udo had completely cleared his mind of his dragon, the Princess and Coronel were upon them.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000027_000000|"Ah, Countess, I thought we should find you together," said Hyacinth archly.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000027_000001|"Let me present to you my friend, the Duke Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000027_000002|Coronel, this is Countess Belvane, a very dear and faithful friend of mine. Prince Udo, of course, you know.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000028_000000|Coronel made a deep bow to the astonished Belvane.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000030_000000|"Your humble servant," he said.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000030_000002|Udo is one of my oldest friends"--he turned and clapped that bewildered Highness on the back-"aren't you, Udo? and I can think of no one more suitable in every way." He bowed again, and turned back to the Prince.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000030_000004|A different thing, Countess, from when I last saw him.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000030_000005|Let me see, that must have been just the day before he arrived in Euralia.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000031_000000|I think one of the things which made Belvane so remarkable was that she was never afraid of remaining silent when she was not quite sure what to say.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000032_000000|Meanwhile Udo, of course, blundered along gaily.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000033_000000|"We aren't exactly, Princess-I mean----What are you doing here, Coronel?--I didn't know, Princess, that you---- The Countess and I were just having a little-I was just telling her what you said about-How did you get here, Coronel?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000034_000000|"Shall we tell him?" said Coronel, with a smile at Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000035_000000|Hyacinth nodded.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000036_000000|"I rode," said Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000036_000001|"It's a secret," he added.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000037_000000|"But I didn't know that you----"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000038_000000|"We find that we have really known each other a very long time," explained Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000039_000000|"And hearing that there was to be a wedding," added Coronel----
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000040_000000|Belvane made up her mind.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000040_000002|If he stayed in Euralia as adviser-more than adviser she guessed-to Hyacinth, her own position would not be in much doubt. And as for the King, it might be months before he came back, and when he did come would he remember her?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000040_000003|But to be Queen of Araby was no mean thing.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000042_000000|"Say something, Udo," prompted Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000043_000001|Whatever his feelings for the Countess, he was not going to be rushed into a marriage.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000044_000000|"Oh, I'm so glad," said Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000044_000002|Wiggs and I have often talked about it together."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000045_000000|("What has happened to the child?" thought Belvane.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000046_000000|"There's no holding Udo once he begins," volunteered Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000046_000001|"He's the most desperate lover in Araby.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000047_000000|"My father will be so excited when he hears," said Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000047_000001|"You know, of course, that his Majesty comes back to morrow with all his army."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000048_000000|She did not swoon or utter a cry.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000048_000001|She did not plead the vapours or the megrims.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000048_000002|She took unflinching what must have been the biggest shock in her life.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000049_000000|"Then perhaps I had better see that everything is ready in the Palace," she said, "if your Royal Highness will excuse me." And with a curtsey she was gone.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000050_000000|Coronel exchanged a glance with Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000050_000001|"I'm enjoying this," he seemed to say.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000051_000000|"Well," she announced, "I must be going in, too.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000051_000001|There'll be much to see about."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000052_000000|Coronel was left alone with the most desperate lover in Araby.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000053_000000|"And now," said the Prince, "tell me what you are doing here."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000054_000000|Coronel put his arm in Udo's and walked him up and down the flagged path.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000055_000000|"Your approaching marriage," he said, "is the talk of Araby. Naturally I had to come here to see for myself what she was like.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000055_000001|My dear Udo, she's charming; I congratulate you."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000056_000000|"Don't be a fool, Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000056_000001|I haven't the slightest intention of marrying her."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000057_000000|"Then why have you told everybody that you are going to?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000060_000000|"I haven't the slightest intention-what do you keep clinging to my arm like this for?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000061_000000|"My dear Udo, I'm so delighted to see you again.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000062_000001|No, don't take my arm-we can talk quite well like this."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000063_000000|"I am sorry, Udo," said Coronel meekly; "we seem to have made a mistake.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000063_000001|But you must admit we found you in a very compromising position."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000064_000000|"It wasn't in the least compromising," protested Udo indignantly.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000064_000001|"As a matter of fact I was just telling her about that dragon I killed in Araby last year."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000066_000000|"Once more, I am not going to marry her."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000067_000000|"Well, you must please yourself, but you have compromised her severely with that story.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000067_000001|Poor innocent girl.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000067_000002|Well, let's forget about it. And now tell me, how do you like Euralia?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000068_000000|"I am returning to Araby this afternoon," said Udo stiffly.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000069_000001|I hope that nothing will happen to you on the way."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000070_000000|Udo, who was about to enter the Palace, turned round with a startled look.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000071_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000072_000000|"Well, something happened on the way here.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000072_000001|By the by, how did that happen?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000072_000002|You never told me."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000073_000000|"Your precious Countess, whom you expect me to marry."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000074_000000|"How very unkind of her.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000075_000000|Udo evidently hadn't thought of this.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000075_000001|He tried to show that he was not in the least frightened.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000076_000000|"She couldn't do anything.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000077_000000|"Yes, but of course the chance might come again.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000077_000002|She's clever, you know; and I should never feel quite safe if she were my enemy. . . .
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000077_000003|Lovely flowers, aren't they?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000077_000004|What's the name of this one?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000000|Udo dropped undecidedly into a seat.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000001|This wanted thinking out.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000002|The Countess-what was wrong with her, after all?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000003|And she evidently adored him.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000004|Of course that was not surprising; the question was, was it fair to disappoint one who had, perhaps, some little grounds for----? After all, he had been no more gallant than was customary from a Prince and a gentleman to a beautiful woman.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000006|Of course he ought to have left Euralia long ago.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000007|But he had stayed on, and-well, decidedly she was beautiful-perhaps he had paid rather too much attention to that.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000008|And he had certainly neglected the Princess a little.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000009|After all, again, why not marry the Countess?
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000010|It was absurd to suppose there was anything in Coronel's nonsense, but one never knew.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000012|No; certainly not.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000078_000014|The poor woman had misunderstood him, and she should not be disappointed.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000079_000000|"She seems fond of flowers," said Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000079_000001|"You ought to make the Palace garden look beautiful between you."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000080_000000|"Now, understand clearly, Coronel, I'm not in the least frightened by the Countess."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000081_000000|"My dear Udo, what a speech for a lover!
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000081_000001|Of course you're not.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000081_000002|After all, what you bore with such patience and dignity once, you can bear again."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000082_000000|"That subject is distasteful to me.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000082_000001|I must ask you not to refer to it.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000082_000002|If I marry the Countess----"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000083_000000|"You'll be a very lucky man," put in Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000083_000001|"I happen to know that the King of Euralia-however, she's chosen you, it seems.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000083_000002|Personally, I can't make out what she sees in you.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000083_000003|What is it?"
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000084_000000|"I should have thought it was quite obvious," said Udo with dignity. "Well, Coronel, I think perhaps you are right and that it's my duty to marry her."
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000085_000000|Coronel shook him solemnly by the hand.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000086_000000|"I congratulate your Royal Highness.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000086_000001|I will announce your decision to the Princess.
train-clean-100/4137/11701/4137_11701_000087_000000|Pity him, you lovers.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000005_000000|So far as is known, this was her only work, but she built up some reputation on it, and Belvane, who was a good judge, had a high opinion of her genius.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000006_000000|To be exact, there were only four hundred and ninety nine men.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000006_000001|Henry Smallnose, a bowman of considerable promise, had been left behind in the enemy's country, the one casualty of war.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000006_000002|While spying out the land in the early days of the invasion, he had been discovered by the Chief Armourer of Barodia at full length on the wet grass searching for tracks.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000006_000004|Henry, having caught a glimpse of the Chief Armourer's daughter, had accepted without any false pride, and had frequently dropped in to supper thereafter.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000006_000005|Now that the war was over, he found that he could not tear himself away. With King Merriwig's permission he was settling in Barodia, and with the Chief Armourer's permission he was starting on his new life as a married man.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000007_000000|As the towers of the castle came in sight, Merriwig drew a deep breath of happiness.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000007_000001|Home again!
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000007_000003|He gazed at each remembered landmark of his own beloved country, his heart overflowing with thankfulness.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000008_000000|How good to see Hyacinth again!
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000008_000001|Poor little Hyacinth left all alone; but there! she had had the Countess Belvane, a woman of great experience, to help her.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000008_000003|Should he risk it?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000008_000006|Life would be lonely in Euralia then, unless---- Should he risk it?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000010_000000|She was waiting for him at the gates of the castle.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000010_000001|She had wanted Coronel to wait with her, but he had refused.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000012_000000|"We must offer the good news to him gradually," he said.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000012_000001|"When a man has just come back from a successful campaign, he doesn't want to find a surprise like this waiting for him.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000012_000002|Just think-we don't even know why the war is over-he must be longing to tell you that.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000012_000004|Nothing much, I suppose?' then you can say----"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000013_000000|"Then I shall say, 'Nothing much; only Coronel.' And such a clever!"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000014_000000|"Oh, I have my ideas," said Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000014_000001|"Well, I'll be out of the way somewhere.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000014_000002|I think I'll go for a walk in the forest.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000014_000003|Or shall I stay here, in the Countess's garden, and amuse myself with Udo?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000014_000004|Anyhow, I'll give you an hour alone together first."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000015_000000|The cavalcade drew up in front of the castle.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000015_000001|Handkerchiefs fluttered to them from the walls; trumpets were blown; hounds bayed.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000015_000002|Down the steps came Hyacinth, all blue and gold, and flung herself into her father's arms.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000016_000000|"My dear child," said Merriwig as he patted her soothingly.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000016_000001|"There, there!
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000016_000002|It's your old father come back again.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000016_000004|There, there!" He patted her again, as though it were she and not himself who was in danger of breaking down.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000016_000006|My own little girl!"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000018_000000|"There, there, my child.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000019_000000|He took a step forward and addressed his troops.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000020_000003|I bid you all now return to your homes, and I hope that you will find as warm a welcome there as I have found in mine." Here he turned and embraced his daughter again; and if his eye travelled over her shoulder in the direction of Belvane's garden, it is a small matter, and one for which the architect of the castle, no doubt, was principally to blame.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000021_000001|Hyacinth and Merriwig went into the Palace.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000022_000000|"Now, Father," said Hyacinth later on, when Merriwig had changed his clothes and refreshed himself, "you've got to tell me all about it.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000022_000001|I can hardly believe it's really over."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000023_000001|It's all over," said Merriwig heartily.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000024_000000|"Do tell me, did the King of Barodia apologise?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000026_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000029_000000|"I don't think it hurt him very much, my dear.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000029_000002|See, I have brought these home for you."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000030_000000|He produced from his pocket a small packet in tissue paper.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000031_000000|"Oh, how exciting!
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000031_000001|Whatever can it be?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000032_000000|Merriwig unwrapped the paper, and disclosed a couple of ginger whiskers, neatly tied up with blue ribbon.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000033_000000|"Father!"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000035_000000|"There, you can see the place where Henry Smallnose's arrow bent it. By the way," he added, "Henry is marrying and settling down in Barodia.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000036_000000|"What am I going to do with them, Father?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000036_000001|I can't plant them in the garden."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000037_000000|"I thought we might run them up the flagstaff, as we did in Barodia."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000038_000000|"Isn't that a little unkind now that the poor man's dead?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000039_000000|Merriwig looked round him to see that there were no eavesdroppers.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000040_000000|"Can you keep a secret?" he asked mysteriously.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000041_000000|"Of course," said Hyacinth, deciding at once that it would not matter if she only told Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000042_000000|"Well, then, listen."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000043_000001|To Hyacinth he seemed the dearest of fathers and the most wonderful of kings.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000044_000000|And by and by the moment came of which Coronel had spoken.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000045_000001|Nothing much, I suppose?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000046_000000|He waited nervously, wondering if Hyacinth would realise that "all" was meant to include more particularly Belvane.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000047_000000|Hyacinth drew a stool up to her father's chair and sat down very close to him.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000050_000000|"It's rather serious, but it's rather nice.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000051_000001|Let me see, there were six or seven Princes who came about it only the other day. I sent them off on adventures of some kind, but-dear me, yes, they ought to have been back by now.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000051_000002|I suppose you haven't heard anything of them?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000052_000000|"No, Father," said Hyacinth, with a little smile.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000053_000001|No matter, dear, we can easily find you plenty more suitors.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000053_000002|Indeed, the subject has been very near my thoughts lately.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000053_000003|We'll arrange a little competition, and let them know in the neighbouring countries; there'll be no lack of candidates.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000053_000004|Let me see, there's that seven headed bull; he's getting a little old now, but he was good enough for the last one.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000053_000005|We might----"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000054_000000|"I don't want a suitor," said Hyacinth softly.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000054_000001|"I have one."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000055_000000|Merriwig leant forward with eagerness.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000056_000000|"My dear, this is indeed news.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000056_000001|Tell me all about it.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000056_000002|Upon what quest did you send him?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000057_000000|Hyacinth had felt this coming.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000057_000001|Had she lived in modern times she would have expected the question, "What is his income?" A man must prove his worth in some way.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000058_000000|"I haven't sent him away at all yet," she said; "he's only just come. He's been very kind to me, and I'm sure you'll love him."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000059_000001|Perhaps that bull I was speaking of---- By the way, who is he?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000061_000000|"Udo, of course.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000061_000001|Why didn't I think of him?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000061_000002|An excellent arrangement, my dear."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000062_000000|"It isn't Udo, I'm afraid, Father.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000062_000001|It's Coronel."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000063_000000|"And who might Coronel be?" said the King, rather sternly.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000064_000000|"He's-he's-well, he's---- Here he is, Father." She ran up to him impulsively as he came in at the door.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000064_000001|"Oh, Coronel, you're just in time; do tell Father who you are."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000065_000000|Coronel bowed profoundly to the King.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000066_000000|"Before I explain myself, your Majesty," he said, "may I congratulate your Majesty on your wonderful victory over the Barodians?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000066_000001|From the little I have gathered outside, it is the most remarkable victory that has ever occurred.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000066_000002|But of course I am longing to hear the full story from your Majesty's own lips.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000066_000003|Is it a fact that your Majesty made his way at dead of night to the King of Barodia's own tent and challenged him to mortal combat and slew him?" There was an eagerness, very winning, in his eyes as he asked it; he seemed to be envying the King such an adventure-an adventure after his own heart.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000067_000000|Merriwig was in an awkward position.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000067_000001|He wondered for a moment whether to order his daughter out of the room.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000067_000002|"Leave us, my child," he would say.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000067_000003|"These are matters for men to discuss." But Hyacinth would know quite well why she had been sent out, and would certainly tell Coronel the truth of the matter afterwards.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000069_000000|"There are certain state reasons," he said with dignity, "why that story has been allowed to get about."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000070_000001|I have no wish to----"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000071_000000|"But as you know so much, you may as well know all.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000071_000001|It happened like this." Once more he told the story of his midnight visit, and of the King's letter to him.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000073_000000|"So you like it," said Merriwig, trying to look modest.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000074_000000|"I love it."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000075_000000|"I knew he'd love it," put in Hyacinth.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000075_000001|"It's just the sort of story that Coronel would love.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000076_000001|In a little while Hyacinth and Coronel were seated eagerly at his feet, and he was telling once more the great story of his adventures.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000077_000000|"Well, well," said the King at the end of it, when he had received their tribute of admiration.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000077_000001|"Those are just a few of the little adventures that happen in war time." He turned to Coronel.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000078_000000|"Does that surprise your Majesty?"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000079_000000|"Well, no, it doesn't.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000079_000001|And she, I understand, wishes to marry you."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000080_000000|"Yes, please, Father."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000081_000000|"That," said Coronel simply, "is much more surprising."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000082_000000|Merriwig, however, was not so sure of that.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000082_000001|He liked the look of Coronel, he liked his manner, and he saw at once that he knew a good story-when he heard one.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000083_000000|"Of course," he said, "you'll have to win her."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000084_000000|"Anything your Majesty sets me to do.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000084_000001|It's as well," he added with a disarming smile, "that you cannot ask for the whiskers of the King of Barodia.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000085_000000|Truly an excellent young man.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000086_000000|"Well, we'll arrange something," said Merriwig, looking pleased. "Perhaps your Prince Udo would care to be a competitor too."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000089_000000|"Wait till he has seen them, my dear," said Merriwig with a chuckle.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000091_000000|"What?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000091_000001|You invited him here?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000091_000003|He came to stay with you and he never----"
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000092_000000|"His Royal Highness," put in Coronel, "has given his affections to another."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000093_000000|"Aha!
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000093_000001|So that's the secret.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000093_000002|Now I wonder if I can guess who she is. What do you say to the Princess Elvira of Tregong?
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000093_000003|I know his father had hopes in that direction."
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000094_000000|Hyacinth looked round at Coronel as if appealing for his support.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000094_000001|He took a step towards her.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000095_000000|"No, it's not the Princess Elvira," said Hyacinth, a little nervously.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000096_000000|The King laughed good humouredly.
train-clean-100/4137/11702/4137_11702_000098_000000|Hyacinth put out her hand, and Coronel pressed it encouragingly.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000004_000001|She was often both sarcastic and indifferent in her manner toward Sir Dugald.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000006_000000|A polite fiction by the way, as my lady was looking her best.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000008_000000|"Oh, mr Oglethorpe!" she cried out.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000008_000001|"I am so glad-" and then stopped, in a confusion and trepidation absolutely brilliant.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000009_000000|He came to the window, and looked in at her.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000010_000000|"Are you coming to see Priscilla?" he said.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000011_000001|She did not know what a struggle it cost him to face her thus carelessly all at once.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000012_000000|He did not even open the carriage door himself, but waited for the footman to do it.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000015_000001|But her manner was not changed in the least, and she welcomed her visitor with grave cordiality.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000015_000002|Poor little snuff colored Miss Elizabeth was delighted.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000015_000003|She was getting very fond of company in her old age, and had taken a great fancy to Theodora North.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000017_000001|Consequently, under stress of Miss Elizabeth, the carriage was fain to depart, much to the abasement of the fat, gray coachman, who felt himself much dishonored in finding he was compelled, not only to pay majestic calls to Broome street, but to acknowledge the humiliating fact of friendly visits.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000018_000000|"We must have a fire in the best parlor, my dear," chirped Elizabeth, ecstatically, when Theo's hat and jacket were being carried out of the room.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000018_000001|"Don't forget to tell Jane, Priscilla, and-" fumbling in her large side pocket, "here's the key of the preserve closet.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000018_000002|Quince preserve, my dear, and white currant jelly."
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000019_000000|Theodora was reminded of Downport that day, in a hundred ways.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000019_000001|The nice little company dinner reminded her of it; the solitary little roast fowl and the preserves and puddings; but the company dinners at Downport had always been detracted from by the sharp annoyance in Pam's face, and the general domestic bustle, and the total inadequacy of gravy and stuffing to the wants of the boys.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000020_000001|"My late lamented parents, at the respective ages of fifty and fifty seven.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000020_000002|My sister, Anastasia; my only brother, my sister in law, his wife; and my dear Priscilla, at seventeen years."
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000021_000001|It was a small picture, half life-size, and set in an oval frame of black walnut.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000021_000003|She had a pale, handsome, ungirlish face-a Minerva face-steady, grave, handsome eyes, and a fine head, unadorned, save with a classic knot of black brown hair.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000021_000004|The picture was not even younger looking than Priscilla was now.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000023_000000|"My dear," she said to Theodora, "that is the most beautiful face in London, to my old eyes.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000024_000000|"Oh, dear!" said Theodora, secretly conscious of a guilty sympathy for the giddy young person who ran counter to brother Benjamin's wishes, in the matter of military balls and blue satin slippers.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000025_000000|"Yes, my love!" Miss Elizabeth proceeded.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000026_000000|"Yes, ma'am," answered Theo, and as she spoke, she felt a curious, startled glow flash over her.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000026_000001|This was the first time an actual approach to the subject had been made in her presence.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000027_000003|Don't you think so?"
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000028_000000|"Yes, madame," Theo faltered, very unsteadily, indeed.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000029_000001|mr Denis Oglethorpe would be a rich man some of these days, and then what a happy life must Priscilla's be-so young, so beautiful, so beloved.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000031_000000|The day passed pleasantly enough, however, in a quiet way.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000031_000002|It was an Afghan Miss Elizabeth was making now; and when at tea time, mr Oglethorpe came, he found Theodora North sitting on the hearth, flushed with industrious anxiety, and thrown into reflected glow of brilliant Berlin wool, a beautiful young spider in a gorgeous Afghan web.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000032_000001|What would you advise me to get, Miss Gower?"
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000033_000004|She attended to Miss Elizabeth's octagon stitch, and left him to amuse Priscilla.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000033_000006|But when the carriage was announced, and she returned to the parlor, after an absence of a few minutes, drawing on her gloves, and buttoning her pretty jacket close up to her beautiful slender, dusky throat, Denis took his hat and accompanied her to the carriage.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000033_000007|He did not wait for the footman this time; but, after assisting her to get in, closed the door himself, and leaned against the open window for a moment.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000034_000000|"I want you to deliver a message to Lady Throckmorton for me," he said. "May I trouble you, Theodora?"
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000035_000000|She bent her head with an unpleasantly quickened heart beat.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000035_000001|It was very foolish, of course, but she felt as if something painful was going to happen, and nothing on earth could prevent it.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000036_000002|Be good enough to say to Lady Throckmorton that I regret deeply that I could not see her before going; but-but the news has been sudden, and my time is fully occupied; but I will write to her from my first stopping place."
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000038_000000|"Thank you," he replied, courteously, and then, after a short hesitation, began again, in the tone he used so often-the tone that might be jest or earnest.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000038_000001|"And now, there is something else, a subject upon which I wish to ask your unbiased opinion, my dear Theodora, before I say good bye.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000039_000000|Her quickened heart might almost have been running a life and death race with her leaping pulse, but she answered him almost steadily.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000040_000000|"Yes," she said to him.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000040_000001|"You are quite right.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000040_000002|He had better go away."
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000041_000000|"Thank you," he returned again.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000041_000002|This morning, when you spoke to me through the carriage window, you began to say something about being glad.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000041_000003|Were you going to say-"
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000041_000004|He broke off here, sharply.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000041_000005|"No!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000041_000006|"I will not ask you."
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000042_000001|"I was glad to see you.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000042_000002|And now, perhaps, you had better tell the coachman to drive on.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000042_000003|I will deliver your message to Lady Throckmorton; and as I shall not see you again, unless I am here in July-of course you will come back then-good bye, mr Oglethorpe."
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000043_000000|She gave him her hand through the carriage window, and, for a moment, he held it, to all appearance quite calm, as he looked down at the lovely face the flare of an adjacent gaslight revealed to him against a background of shadow.
train-clean-100/4160/11549/4160_11549_000044_000000|"Good bye," he said, and then released it.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000003_000000|THE SEPARATION.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000004_000001|He will not come back again until July, when he is to marry Miss Gower."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000007_000005|She thought over it for a long time, her handsome eyes brooding over the red coals, but after about half an hour she spoke out aloud to the silence of the room.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000008_000000|"He loved me," she said.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000008_000001|"He loved me-me.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000008_000002|Poor Priscilla!
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000009_000000|She was far more sorry for Priscilla than she was for herself, though it was Priscilla who had won the lover, and herself who had lost him forever.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000009_000003|The truth was that the curious enchantment of the day had not been altogether sad, and at seventeen one does not comprehend that fate can be wholly bitter, or that some turn in fortune is not in store for the future, however hopeless the present may seem.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000011_000000|The household seemed rather quiet after the change.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000011_000002|Lady Throckmorton missed him also, but she had the solace of her novels and her chocolate, which Theo had not.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000011_000003|Novels had been delightful at Downport, when they were read in hourly fear of the tasks that always interfered to prevent any indulgence; but in those days, for some reason, they were not as satisfactory as they appeared once, and so being thrown on her own resources, she succumbed to the very natural girlish weakness of feeling a sort of fascination for Broome street.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000011_000004|It was hard to resist Broome street, knowing that there must be news to be heard there, and so she gradually fell into the habit of paying visits, more to Miss Elizabeth Gower than to her niece.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000011_000005|The elder Miss Gower was always communicative, and always ready to talk about her favorites, and to Theo, in her half puzzled, half sad frame of mind, this was a curious consolation.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000011_000006|The two spent hours together, sometimes, in the tiny parlor, stumbling over Berlin wool difficulties, and now and then wandering to and fro, conversationally, from Priscilla to the octagon stitch, and from the octagon stitch to Denis.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000012_000001|But she was even more silent than she had seemed at first, Theo thought, and she was sure her pale, handsome face was paler, though, of course, that was easily to be accounted for by her lover's absence.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000013_000001|The first time Theo ever saw her display an interest in anybody, or in anything, was when she first heard Pamela's love story mentioned.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000014_000000|She was sitting at work near them, when Theo chanced to mention Arthur Brunwalde, and, to her surprise, Priscilla looked up from her desk immediately.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000015_000000|"He was your sister's lover, was he not?" she said, with an abrupt interest in the subject.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000016_000000|"Yes," answered Theo; "but he died, you know."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000018_000001|"mr Oglethorpe told me so."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000019_000000|Theo answered in the affirmative again.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000020_000000|"And poor Pam could not forget him," she added, her usual tender reverence for poor Pam showing itself in her sorrowing voice.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000021_000000|Priscilla got up from her chair, and, coming to the hearth, leaned against the low mantel, pen in hand.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000022_000000|"Is your sister like you?" she asked.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000023_000000|Her tone was such a strange one that Theo lifted her face with a faint, startled look.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000024_000000|"No," she replied, almost timidly.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000024_000002|We are not alike at all."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000025_000000|"I was not thinking of that," said Priscilla.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000025_000002|I think I was wondering most whether you would be as faithful as Pamela."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000026_000000|"That is a strange question," Miss Elizabeth interposed.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000027_000000|But Priscilla was looking straight at Theo's downcast eyes.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000028_000000|"But I think Theodora knows," she said, briefly.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000028_000001|"Are you like your sister in that, Theodora?
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000028_000002|I remember hearing mr Oglethorpe say once you would be."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000029_000000|Theo dropped her ivory crochet needle, and bent to pick it up, with a blurred vision and nervous fingers.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000030_000001|"I am not old enough to know yet."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000031_000000|"You are seventeen," said Priscilla.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000031_000001|"I knew at seventeen."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000033_000000|"If I knew that I loved any one.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000033_000002|"I should never love any one else."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000034_000000|From that time she fancied that Priscilla Gower liked her better than she had done before; at any rate, she took more notice of her, though she was never effusive, of course.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000035_000000|She talked to her oftener, and seemed to listen while she talked, even though she was busy at the time.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000037_000000|When Theo went into the little back bedroom that evening to put on her hat, Priscilla Gower went with her, and, as she stood before the dressing table buttoning her sacque, she was somewhat puzzled by the expression on her companion's face.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000037_000001|Priscilla had taken up her muff, and was stroking the white fur, her eyes downcast upon her hand as it moved to and fro, the ring upon its forefinger shining in the gaslight.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000038_000000|"I had a letter from mr Oglethorpe yesterday," Priscilla said, at last. "He is in Vienna now; he asked if you were well.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000038_000001|To night I shall answer him.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000038_000002|Have you any message to send?"
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000039_000000|"I?" said Theo.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000039_000001|It seemed to her so strange a thing for Miss Priscilla Gower to say, that her pronoun was almost an interjection.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000040_000000|"I thought, perhaps," said Priscilla, quietly, "that a message from you would gratify him, if you had one to send."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000041_000001|It was a feeling scarcely defined enough to allow her to decide whether it was real pain or only discomfort.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000042_000000|"I do not think I have any message to send," she replied.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000042_000001|"Thank you, Miss Priscilla."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000043_000000|She took her muff then, and went back to the parlor to kiss Miss Elizabeth, in a strange frame of mind.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000043_000001|She was beginning to feel more strangely concerning mr Denis Oglethorpe, and it was Priscilla Gower who had stirred her heart.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000043_000002|She found Lady Throckmorton waiting at home for her, to her surprise, in a new mood.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000043_000003|She had that evening received a letter from Denis herself, and it had suggested an idea to her.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000044_000000|"I have been thinking, Theo," she said, "that we might take a run over the Channel ourselves.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000044_000002|The last time I visited the Spas, my health improved greatly."
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000045_000001|She was a woman of caprices, and her caprices always ruled the day, as this one did, to Theo's great astonishment.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000045_000004|So when Theo broke into exclamations of pleasure and astonishment, she did not understand either her enthusiasm or her surprise.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000046_000001|Well, I think I have made up my mind about it.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000047_000001|She gave vent to no further exclamations. She would almost have been willing to give up the pleasure of the journey after that.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000047_000002|She was learning that it was best for her not to see Denis Oglethorpe again, and here it seemed that she must see him in spite of herself, even though she was conscientious enough to wish to do what was best, not so much because it was best for herself, as because it was just to Priscilla Gower.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000047_000004|She even wrote to Vienna, and told Denis that they were coming, herself and Theodora North, and he must wait and meet them if possible.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000048_000000|It was a great trial to Theodora, this.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000048_000002|She hoped he would have left Vienna before the letter reached him; she hoped he might go away in spite of it; she hoped it might never reach him at all.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000048_000004|Business had called him away, and Lady Throckmorton, of course, knew what such business was, and how imperative its demands were.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000049_000000|"He might have waited," Theo said to herself, with an unexpected, inconsistent feeling of wretchedness.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000049_000001|"I would have stayed anywhere to have seen him only for a minute.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000049_000002|He had no need to be so ready to go away." And then she found herself burning all over, as it were, in her shame at discovering how bold her thoughts had been.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000050_000000|Perhaps this was the first time she really awoke to a full consciousness of where she had drifted.
train-clean-100/4160/11550/4160_11550_000050_000001|The current had carried her along so far, and she had not been to blame, because she had not comprehended her danger; but now it was different.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000005_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000006_000000|A SUSPICIOUS ACCIDENT
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000007_000000|The Temple clock had announced in soft and confidential tones that it was a quarter to seven, in which statement it was stoutly supported by its colleague on our mantelpiece, and still there was no sign of Thorndyke.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000007_000002|I was burning with impatience to impart my news to him, and this fact, together with the ghostly proceedings of Polton, worked me up to a state of nervous tension that rendered either rest or thought equally impossible.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000008_000000|At this moment Polton made a silent appearance on the stairs leading from the laboratory, giving me quite a start; and I was about to retire into the room when my ear caught the tinkle of a hansom approaching from Paper Buildings.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000010_000000|"I do hope, sir, you're not much hurt?"
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000011_000000|I ran down the stairs and met Thorndyke coming up slowly with his right hand on Polton's shoulder.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000012_000000|"I am not really hurt at all," Thorndyke replied cheerily, "though very disreputable to look at.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000012_000002|"Dinner and a clothes brush are what I chiefly need." Nevertheless, he looked very pale and shaken when he came into the light on the landing, and he sank into his easy chair in the limp manner of a man either very weak or very fatigued.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000013_000000|"How did it happen?" I asked when Polton had crept away on tip toe to make ready for dinner.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000014_000000|Thorndyke looked round to make sure that his henchman had departed, and said-
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000015_000000|"A queer affair, Jervis; a very odd affair indeed.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000015_000003|Of course I went sprawling into the road right in front of the lorry.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000015_000004|The horses came stamping and sliding straight on to me, and, before I could wriggle out of the way, the hoof of one of them smashed in my hat-that was a new one that I came home in-and half stunned me.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000015_000005|Then the near wheel struck my head, making a dirty little scalp wound, and pinned down my sleeve so that I couldn't pull away my arm, which is consequently barked all the way down.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000015_000006|It was a mighty near thing, Jervis; another inch or two and I should have been rolled out as flat as a starfish."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000016_000000|"What became of the man?" I asked, wishing I could have had a brief interview with him.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000017_000001|An alcoholic apple woman picked me up and escorted me back to the hospital. It must have been a touching spectacle," he added, with a dry smile at the recollection.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000018_000000|"And I suppose they kept you there for a time to recover?"
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000020_000000|"You mean the man pushing you down in that way?"
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000023_000000|"No, of course not," he replied, but without much conviction, as it seemed to me; and I was about to pursue the matter when Polton reappeared, and my friend abruptly changed the subject.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000024_000001|The result was, on the whole, disappointing.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000026_000001|But it can hardly have been quite sudden and unforeseen."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000027_000000|"I should think not," Thorndyke agreed.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000027_000001|"A sudden slump often proves disastrous to the regular Stock Exchange gambler who is paying differences on large quantities of unpaid for stock.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000027_000003|It would be interesting to know for certain."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000028_000000|"It might have a considerable bearing on the present case, might it not?"
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000029_000000|"Undoubtedly," said Thorndyke.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000029_000001|"It might bear on the case in more ways than one.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000029_000002|But you have some special point in your mind, I think."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000030_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000032_000000|"On the supposition," I replied, "that mr Hornby was in actual pecuniary difficulties at the date of the robbery, it seems to me possible to construct a hypothesis as to the identity of the robber."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000034_000000|"It is a highly improbable one," I began with some natural shyness at the idea of airing my wits before this master of inductive method; "in fact, it is almost fantastic."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000035_000000|"Never mind that," said he.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000035_000001|"A sound thinker gives equal consideration to the probable and the improbable."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000036_000000|Thus encouraged, I proceeded to set forth the theory of the crime as it had occurred to me on my way home in the fog, and I was gratified to observe the close attention with which Thorndyke listened, and his little nods of approval at each point that I made.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000037_000000|When I had finished, he remained silent for some time, looking thoughtfully into the fire and evidently considering how my theory and the new facts on which it was based would fit in with the rest of the data.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000038_000000|"This theory of yours, Jervis, does great credit to your ingenuity.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000038_000002|You have really done a great thing, and I congratulate you; for you have emancipated yourself, at least to some extent, from the great finger print obsession, which has possessed the legal mind ever since Galton published his epoch making monograph.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000038_000003|In that work I remember he states that a finger print affords evidence requiring no corroboration-a most dangerous and misleading statement which has been fastened upon eagerly by the police, who have naturally been delighted at obtaining a sort of magic touchstone by which they are saved the labour of investigation.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000038_000004|But there is no such thing as a single fact that 'affords evidence requiring no corroboration.' As well might one expect to make a syllogism with a single premise." "I suppose they would hardly go so far as that," I said, laughing.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000039_000001|"But the kind of syllogism that they do make is this-
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000040_000000|"'The crime was committed by the person who made this finger print.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000041_000000|"'But john Smith is the person who made the finger print.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000042_000000|"'Therefore the crime was committed by john Smith.'"
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000043_000000|"Well, that is a perfectly good syllogism, isn't it?" I asked.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000044_000000|"Perfectly," he replied.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000044_000001|"But, you see, it begs the whole question, which is, 'Was the crime committed by the person who made this finger print?' That is where the corroboration is required."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000045_000000|"That practically leaves the case to be investigated without reference to the finger print, which thus becomes of no importance."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000046_000000|"Not at all," rejoined Thorndyke; "the finger print is a most valuable clue as long as its evidential value is not exaggerated.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000046_000001|Take our present case, for instance.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000046_000002|Without the thumb print, the robbery might have been committed by anybody; there is no clue whatever.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000000|"Yes, I see.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000001|Then you consider my theory of john Hornby as the perpetrator of the robbery as quite a tenable one?" "Quite," replied Thorndyke.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000002|"I have entertained it from the first; and the new facts that you have gathered increase its probability.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000003|You remember I said that four hypotheses were possible: that the robbery was committed either by Reuben, by Walter, by john Hornby, or by some other person.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000004|Now, putting aside the 'some other person' for consideration only if the first three hypotheses fail, we have left, Reuben, Walter, and john.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000006|The thumb print, however, transfers the suspicion to Reuben; but yet, as your theory makes evident, it does not completely clear john Hornby.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000047_000007|As the case stands, the balance of probabilities may be stated thus: john Hornby undoubtedly had access to the diamonds, and therefore might have stolen them.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000049_000000|"But john Hornby may have had access to the previously made thumb mark of Reuben, and may possibly have obtained it; in which case he is almost certainly the thief.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000050_000000|"As to Walter Hornby, he may have had the means of obtaining Reuben's thumb mark; but there is no evidence that he had access either to the diamonds or to mr Hornby's memorandum block.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000052_000000|"Yes," replied Thorndyke.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000052_000001|"Those are the points-with some others-and they are likely to remain unsettled.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000052_000002|Reuben's rooms have been searched by the police, who failed to find any skeleton or duplicate keys; but this proves nothing, as he would probably have made away with them when he heard of the thumb mark being found.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000052_000003|As to the other matter, I have asked Reuben, and he has no recollection of ever having made a thumb mark in blood.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000052_000004|So there the matter rests."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000053_000000|"And what about mr Hornby's liability for the diamonds?"
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000054_000000|"I think we may dismiss that," answered Thorndyke.
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000054_000002|He would not be liable at law."
train-clean-100/4160/14187/4160_14187_000055_000000|After my colleague retired, which he did quite early, I sat for a long time pondering upon this singular case in which I found myself involved. And the more I thought about it the more puzzled I became.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000001_000000|THE ROAD TO AMALFI
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000002_000000|The Hotel Victoria faces the bay of Naples.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000004_000000|"We don't want to ride," was the answer.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000005_000000|The cabman implored.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000005_000001|Certainly they must make the Amalfi drive, or to Massa Lubrense or Saint' Agata or at least Il Deserto!
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000005_000002|The others stood by to listen silently to the discussion, yielding first place to the victor in the race.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000006_000000|Uncle john was obdurate.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000007_000000|"All we want to day is to see the town," he declared, "We're not going to ride, but walk."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000008_000001|Surely you will see that."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000010_000001|It is good.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000010_000002|At what hour, to morrow, illustrissimo?"
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000011_000000|"Oh, don't bother me."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000012_000000|"We may as well drive to Amalfi to morrow," suggested Beth.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000012_000001|"It is the proper thing to do, Uncle."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000013_000000|"All right; we'll go, then."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000014_000000|"You take my carrozza, signore?" begged the cabman.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000016_000000|Instantly the crowd scampered back to the square, followed more leisurely by Uncle john and the girls.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000016_000001|There the uniformed vetturio stood beside the one modern carriage in the group.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000016_000002|It was new; it was glossy; it had beautiful, carefully brushed cushions; it was drawn by a pair of splendid looking horses.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000017_000000|"Is not bellissima, signore?" asked the man, proudly.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000018_000001|"Be ready to start at nine o'clock to morrow morning."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000019_000000|The man promised, whereat his confreres lost all interest in the matter and the strangers were allowed to proceed without further interruption.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000020_000000|They found out all about the Amalfi drive that evening, and were glad indeed they had decided to go.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000020_000001|Even Louise was pleased at the arrangement and as eager as the others to make the trip.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000021_000000|They had an early breakfast and were ready at nine o'clock; but when they came to the gate of the garden they found only a dilapidated carriage standing before it.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000022_000000|"Do you know where my rig is?" Uncle john asked the driver, at the same time peering up and down the road.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000023_000001|I am engage by you.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000023_000002|Is it not so?"
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000024_000000|mr Merrick looked at the driver carefully.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000024_000001|It was long legs, sure enough, but shorn of his beautiful regalia.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000025_000000|"Where's your uniform?" he asked.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000026_000001|The road is dusty, very; I must not ruin a nice dress when I work," answered the man, smiling unabashed.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000028_000001|I find me the carrozza is not easy; it is not perfect; it do not remain good for a long ride.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000028_000002|So I leave him home, for I am kind.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000028_000003|I do not wish the signorini bella to tire and weep.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000030_000000|"Only try, signore!
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000030_000001|Others may look; it is only you who must ride.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000030_000002|You will be much please when we return."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000031_000000|"Well, I suppose we may as well take it," said the little man, in a resigned tone.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000031_000001|"Hop in, my dears."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000032_000000|They entered the crazy looking vehicle and found the seats ample and comfortable despite the appearance of dilapidation everywhere prevalent. The driver mounted the box, cracked his whip, and the lean nags ambled away at a fair pace.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000034_000001|Stop, I say!" he yelled at the man, angrily.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000034_000002|But the fellow seemed suddenly deaf, and paid no heed.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000034_000003|He cracked his whip and rattled away through the streets without a glance behind him.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000035_000000|"We've been swindled, my dears," he said; "swindled most beautifully. But I suppose we may as well make the best of it."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000036_000000|"Better," agreed Patsy.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000036_000002|It may not be as pretty as the other, but I expect that one is only kept to make engagements with.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000036_000003|When it comes to actual use, we don't get it."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000037_000000|"That's true enough," he returned.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000037_000001|"But I'll get even with this rascal before I've done with him, never fear."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000038_000004|And perhaps one suffers more in Italy than in America, owing to the general lack of means to keep warm on cold days.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000039_000000|Italy is beautiful; it is charming and delightful; but seldom is this true in winter or early spring.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000040_000001|They passed through the picturesque lanes of Sorrento, climbed the further slope, and brought the carriage to the other side of the peninsula, where the girls obtained their first view of the Gulf of Salerno, with the lovely Isles of the Sirens lying just beneath them.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000043_000001|From that distance the boats drawn upon the sheltered beach seemed like mere toys.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000043_000003|But ever the road returned in a brief space to the edge of the sea cliff, and everywhere it was solid as the hills themselves, and seemingly as secure.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000044_000000|They had just sighted the ancient town of Positano and were circling a gigantic point of rock, when the great adventure of the day overtook them.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000044_000001|Without warning the wind came whistling around them in a great gale, which speedily increased in fury until it drove the blinded horses reeling against the low parapet and pushed upon the carriage as if determined to dash it over the precipice.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000045_000000|As it collided against the stone wall the vehicle tipped dangerously, hurling the driver from his seat to dive headforemost into the space beneath.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000046_000000|At this critical moment a mounted horseman, who unobserved had been following the party, dashed to their rescue.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000047_000000|Then Beth slipped from her seat to the flat top of the parapet, stepped boldly to where the reins were pulling upon the terrified horses, and seized them in her strong grasp.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000048_000000|"Hold fast," she called calmly to the driver, and began dragging him upward, inch by inch.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000051_000000|Uncle john leaped from the carriage, followed by Louise and Patsy.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000052_000000|"It is wonderful!" murmured Ferralti.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000053_000000|"Why, it's nothing at all," returned Beth, flushing; "we're trained to do such things in the gymnasium at Cloverton, and I'm much stronger than I appear to be."
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000055_000000|Uncle john had been observing the Count.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000055_000001|One of the young man's hands hung limp and helpless.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000056_000000|"Are you hurt, sir?" he asked.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000057_000000|Ferralti smiled, and his eyes rested upon Louise.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000058_000000|"A little, perhaps, mr Merrick; but it is unimportant.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000058_000001|The horses were frantic at the time and wrenched my wrist viciously as I tried to hold them.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000058_000002|I felt something snap; a small bone, perhaps.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000062_000000|Uncle john could not well refuse.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000064_000000|The driver had by now repaired a broken strap and found his equippage otherwise uninjured.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000065_000001|So the girls and their uncle climbed into the vehicle again and the driver mounted the box and cracked his whip with his usual vigor.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000067_000000|Count Ferralti rode at the side of the carriage but did not attempt much conversation.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000068_000000|Circling around the cliff beyond Positano the sun greeted them, shining from out a blue sky, and they wondered what had become of the bad weather they had so lately experienced.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000069_000000|From now on, past Prajano and into Amalfi, the day was brilliant and the temperature delightful.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000070_000000|From the arbored veranda of this charming retreat is obtained one of the finest views in Europe, and while the girls sat enjoying it Uncle john arranged with a pleasant faced woman (who had once lived in America) for their luncheon.
train-clean-100/4195/17507/4195_17507_000072_000000|"It was as I had feared: a small bone snapped.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty three.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000003_000000|Uncle john and mr Watson did not appear at dinner, being closeted in the former's room.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000003_000002|Indeed, the arrangements of the household had been considerably changed by the death of its mistress, and without any real head to direct them the servants were patiently awaiting the advent of a new master or mistress.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000003_000003|It did not seem clear to them yet whether Miss Patricia or Lawyer Watson was to take charge of Elmhurst: but there were few tears shed for Jane Merrick, and the new regime could not fail to be an improvement over the last.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000004_000000|At dinner the young folks chatted together in a friendly and eager manner concerning the events of the day.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000004_000002|The main subject of conversation was Aunt Jane's surprising act in annulling her last will and forcing Patricia to accept the inheritance when she did not want it.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000004_000004|But, as she was so generous, he would accept enough of his Uncle Tom's money to educate him as an artist and provide for himself an humble home.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000004_000005|Louise and Beth, having at last full knowledge of their cousin's desire to increase their bequests, were openly very grateful for her good will; although secretly they could not fail to resent Patsy's choice of the boy as the proper heir of his uncle's fortune.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000006_000001|Lawyer Watson and Uncle john were there, looking as grave as the important occasion demanded, and the former at once proceeded to relate the scene in James' room, his story of the death of Thomas Bradley, and the subsequent finding of the will.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000007_000002|mr Bradley having provided for that most fully.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000007_000003|For this reason the will I read to you yesterday is of no effect, and Kenneth Forbes inherits from his uncle, through his mother, all of the estate."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000008_000000|Blank looks followed mr Watson's statement.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000009_000000|"Good by to my five thousand," said Uncle john, with his chuckling laugh.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000009_000001|"But I'm much obliged to Jane, nevertheless."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000010_000000|"Don't we get anything at all?" asked Beth, with quivering lip.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000011_000000|"No, my dear," answered the lawyer, gently.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000011_000001|"Your aunt owned nothing to give you."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000012_000000|Patsy laughed.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000012_000001|She felt wonderfully relieved.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000013_000000|"Wasn't I the grand lady, though, with all the fortune I never had?" she cried merrily.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000014_000000|Louise smiled.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000015_000001|"I shall take the afternoon train to the city.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000016_000000|"I used mine," said Beth, bitterly.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000016_000001|"It's all I'll ever get, it seems." And then the thought of the Professor and his debts overcame her and she burst, into tears.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000017_000000|The boy sat doubled within his chair, so overcome by the extraordinary fortune that had overtaken him that he could not speak, nor think even clearly as yet.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000018_000000|Patsy tried to comfort Beth.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000019_000000|"Never mind, dear," said she.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000019_000001|"We're no worse off than before we came, are we?
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000019_000004|As far as she knew, she tried to be good to us."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000020_000000|"I'm going home today," said Beth, angrily drying her eyes.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000021_000000|"We'll all go home," said Patsy, cheerfully.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000022_000000|"For my part," remarked Uncle john, in a grave voice, "I have no home."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000023_000000|Patsy ran up and put her arm around his neck.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000024_000001|"Why, you're worse off than any of us. What's going to become of you, I wonder?"
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000025_000000|"I'm wondering that myself," said the little man, meekly.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000026_000001|You can stay here," said the boy, suddenly arousing from his apathy.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000027_000000|"No," replied Uncle john, "the Merricks are out of Elmhurst now, and it returns to its rightful owners.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000027_000001|You owe me nothing, my lad."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000028_000000|"But I like you," said Kenneth, "and you're old and homeless.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000028_000001|Stay at Elmhurst, and you shall always be welcome."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000029_000000|Uncle john seemed greatly affected, and wrung the boy's hand earnestly.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000029_000001|But he shook his head.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000030_000000|"I've wandered all my life," he said.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000030_000001|"I can wander yet."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000031_000000|"See here," exclaimed Patsy.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000031_000001|"We're all three your nieces, and we'll take care of you between us.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000031_000002|Won't we, girls?"
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000032_000000|Louise smiled rather scornfully, and Beth scowled.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000033_000001|But we shall be glad to assist Uncle john as far as we are able."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000034_000000|"Father can hardly support his own family," said the other; "but I will talk to my mother about Uncle john when I get home, and see what she says."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000035_000000|"Oh, you don't need to, indeed!" cried Patsy, in great indignation. "Uncle john is my dear mother's brother, and he's to come and live with the Major and me, as long as he cares to.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000035_000002|No, no! say nothing at all, sir!
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000035_000003|Come you shall, if I have to drag you; and if you act naughty I'll send for the Major to punish you!"
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000036_000000|Uncle John's eyes were moist.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000037_000000|"Thank you, my dear," said he; "but where's the money to come from?"
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000038_000000|"Money?
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000038_000001|Bah!" she said.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000038_000002|"Doesn't the Major earn a heap with his bookkeeping, and haven't I had a raise lately?
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000038_000003|Why, we'll be as snug and contented as pigs in clover.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000038_000004|Can you get ready to come with me today, Uncle john?"
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000039_000000|"Yes," he said slowly.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000039_000001|"I'll be ready, Patsy."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000041_000000|"It's so much easier than walking," she said to Uncle john, "that the common car is good enough," and the old man readily agreed with her.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000042_000000|Kenneth and mr Watson came to the station to see them off, and they parted with many mutual expressions of friendship and good will. Louise, especially, pressed an urgent invitation upon the new master of Elmhurst to visit her mother in New York, and he said he hoped to see all the girls again.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000042_000001|They were really like cousins to him, by this time.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000043_000001|As he rode beside Kenneth he said:
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000044_000000|"You ought to travel, and visit the art centers of Europe, and I shall try to find a competent tutor to go with you."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000045_000000|"Can't you go yourself?" asked the boy.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000046_000000|The lawyer hesitated.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000047_000000|"I'm getting old, and my clients are few and unimportant, aside from the Elmhurst interests," he said.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000047_000001|"Perhaps I can manage to go abroad with you."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000048_000000|"I'd like that," declared the boy.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000049_000000|"Of course.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000050_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000052_000000|"That may be," answered the boy.
train-clean-100/4195/186236/4195_186236_000052_000001|"But Patsy will be there, you know."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000004_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000005_000000|HOME AGAIN.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000007_000000|The girl caught sight of him outside the gates, his face red and beaming as a poppy in bloom and his snowy moustache bristling with eagerness.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000007_000001|At once she dropped her bundles and flew to the Major's arms, leaving the little man in her wake to rescue her belongings and follow after.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000008_000000|He could hardly see Patsy at all, the Major wrapped her in such an ample embrace; but bye and bye she escaped to get her breath, and then her eyes fell upon the meek form holding her bundles.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000009_000000|"Oh, Dad," she cried, "here's Uncle john, who has come to live with us; and if you don't love him as much as I do I'll make your life miserable!"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000010_000000|"On which account," said the Major, grasping the little man's hand most cordially, "I'll love Uncle john like my own brother.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000010_000001|And surely," he added, his voice falling tenderly, "my dear Violet's brother must be my own.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000010_000002|Welcome, sir, now and always, to our little home.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000010_000003|It's modest, sir; but wherever Patsy is the sun is sure to shine."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000013_000001|'twas the time of my life."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000014_000000|"And you're a dozen years younger, Major!" she cried, laughing, "and fit to dig into work like a pig in clover."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000015_000000|His face grew grave.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000016_000000|"But how about the money, Patsy dear?" he asked.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000016_000001|"Did you get nothing out of Jane Merrick's estate?"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000017_000000|"Not a nickle, Dad. 'twas the best joke you ever knew.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000017_000002|When she died she left me all she had in the world."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000018_000000|"Look at that, now!" said the Major, wonderingly.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000019_000002|Did you ever?"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000021_000000|"So I was rich for half a day, and then poor as ever."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000022_000000|"It didn't hurt you, did it?" asked the Major.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000022_000001|"You weren't vexed with disappointment, were you, Patsy?"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000023_000000|"Not at all, Daddy."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000025_000001|"Jane left five thousand to me, also, which I didn't get.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000025_000002|But I'm not sorry at all."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000026_000001|In your case, it won't matter.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000026_000002|Our house is yours, and there's plenty and to spare."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000027_000000|"Thank you," said Uncle john, his face grave but his eyes merry.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000028_000000|"Oh, Major!" cried Patsy, suddenly.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000028_000001|"There's Danny Reeves's restaurant.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000029_000000|So they stopped the car and descended, lugging all the parcels into the little restaurant, where they were piled into a chair while the proprietor and the waiters all gathered around Patsy to welcome her home.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000030_000000|My, how her eyes sparkled!
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000030_000001|She fairly danced for joy, and ordered the dinner with reckless disregard of the bill.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000032_000000|"Wasn't I there.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000032_000001|Patsy?" asked Uncle john, reproachfully.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000033_000000|"True, but now you're here; and our love, Uncle, has nothing to do with Elmhurst.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000033_000001|I'll bet a penny you liked it as little as I did."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000036_000000|But, after a merry meal and a good one, there was no bill at all when it was called for.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000037_000000|Danny Reeves himself came instead, and made a nice little speech, saying that Patsy had always brought good luck to the place, and this dinner was his treat to welcome her home.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000039_000000|"It's no palace," said Patsy, entering to throw down the bundles as soon as the Major unlocked the door, "but there's a cricket in the hearth, and it's your home, Uncle john, as well as ours."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000040_000000|Uncle john looked around curiously.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000040_000001|The place was so plain after the comparative luxury of Elmhurst, and especially of the rose chamber Patsy had occupied, that the old man could not fail to marvel at the girl's ecstatic joy to find herself in the old tenement again.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000041_000001|On the wails were a few colored prints from the Sunday newspapers and one large and fine photograph of a grizzled old soldier that Uncle john at once decided must represent "the Colonel."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000043_000000|"It's cozy enough, my child; and I thank you for my welcome," said he. "But may I enquire where on earth you expect to stow me in this rather limited establishment?"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000044_000000|"Where?
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000044_000001|Have you no eyes, then?" she asked, in astonishment.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000044_000003|Where, indeed!"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000046_000000|"And you can wash in my chamber," added the Major, with a grand air, "and hang your clothes on the spare hooks behind my door."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000047_000000|"I haven't many," said Uncle john, looking thoughtfully at his red bundle.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000048_000000|The Major coughed and turned the lamp a little higher.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000049_000000|"You'll find the air fine, and the neighborhood respectable," he said, to turn the subject.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000049_000002|Patsy gets our breakfast on the stove yonder, and we buy our lunches down town, where we work, and then dine at Danny Reeves's place.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000049_000003|A model home, sir, and a happy one, as I hope you'll find it."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000051_000000|"Of course; but don't spoil the lace curtains, dear," answered Patsy, mischievously.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000051_000001|And then, turning to her father, she exclaimed: "Oh, daddy!
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000052_000000|"That's as he may choose," said the Major, courteously.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000053_000000|"Couldn't we get him a job?" asked Patsy, wistfully.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000053_000002|But just to keep him out of mischief, and busy.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000053_000003|He can't hang around all day and be happy, I suppose."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000054_000000|"I'll look around," answered the Major, briskly, as if such a "job" was the easiest thing in the world to procure.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000054_000001|"And meantime-"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000055_000000|"Meantime," said Uncle john, smiling at them, "I'll look around myself."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000056_000000|"To be sure," agreed the Major.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000056_000001|"Between the two of us and Patsy, we ought to have no trouble at all."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000057_000000|There was a moment of thoughtful silence after this, and then Patsy said:
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000058_000000|"You know it won't matter, Uncle john, if you don't work.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000059_000000|"By the bye," added the Major, "if you have any money about you, which is just possible, sir, of course, you'd better turn it over to Patsy to keep, and let her make you an allowance.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000059_000001|That's the way I do-it's very satisfactory."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000061_000000|Uncle john shook his head, reproachfully, at the Major.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000062_000000|"A very bad habit, sir," he said.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000063_000002|And, after all, it's a wicked city to be carrying a fat pocketbook around in, as I've often observed."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000064_000000|"My pocketbook is not exactly fat," remarked Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000065_000000|"But you've money, sir, for I marked you squandering it on the train," said Patsy, severely.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000066_000000|Uncle john laughed and drew his chair up to the table.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000067_000000|"Seven dollars and forty two cents," she announced.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000067_000001|"Any more?"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000068_000000|Uncle john hesitated a moment, and then drew from an inner pocket of his coat a thin wallet.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000069_000000|"Good gracious!" she cried, delightedly.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000069_000001|"All this wealth, and you pleading poverty?"
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000070_000000|"I never said I was a pauper," returned Uncle john, complacently.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000071_000000|"You couldn't, and be truthful, sir," declared the girl.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000071_000001|"Why, this will last for ages, and I'll put it away safe and be liberal with your allowance.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000071_000002|Let me see," pushing the coins about with her slender fingers, "you just keep the forty two cents, Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000071_000003|It'll do for car fare and a bit of lunch now and then, and when you get broke you can come to me."
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000072_000000|"He smokes," observed the Major, significantly.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000073_000001|"And Bull Durham is only five cents a bag, and a bag ought to last a week.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000073_000002|And every Saturday night, sir, you shall have a cigar after dinner, with the Major.
train-clean-100/4195/186237/4195_186237_000074_000000|"Thank you, Patsy," said Uncle john, meekly, and gathered up his forty two cents.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty five
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000002_000000|UNCLE john ACTS QUEERLY.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000004_000001|To pass the time he turned into a small restaurant and had coffee and a plate of cakes, in spite of the fact that Patsy had so recently prepared coffee over the sheet iron stove and brought some hot buns from a near by bakery.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000004_000002|He was not especially hungry; but in sipping the coffee and nibbling the cakes he passed the best part of an hour.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000005_000002|Talk about the Major's extravagance: it could not be compared to Uncle John's.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000006_000000|Another hour was spent in looking in at the shop windows.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000006_000001|Then, suddenly noting the time.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000006_000003|Uncle john walked in, although the uniformed official at the door eyed him suspiciously.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000007_000000|"mr Marvin in?" he inquired, pleasantly.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000008_000000|"Not arrived yet," said the official, who wore a big star upon his breast.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000009_000000|"I'll wait," announced Uncle john, and sat down upon a leather covered bench.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000011_000000|Another hour passed.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000012_000000|Presently Uncle john jumped up and approached the official.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000013_000000|"Hasn't mr Marvin arrived yet?" he enquired, sharply.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000014_000000|"An hour ago," was the reply.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000015_000001|I want to see him."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000016_000000|"He's busy mornings.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000016_000002|He can't see you yet."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000017_000000|"Well, he will see me, and right away.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000017_000001|Tell him john Merrick is here."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000018_000000|"Your card, sir."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000019_000000|"I haven't any.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000019_000001|My name will do."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000020_000000|The official hesitated, and glanced at the little man's seedy garb and countryfied air.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000020_000001|But something in the angry glance of the shrewd eye made him fear he had made a mistake.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000020_000002|He opened a small door and disappeared.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000021_000000|In a moment the door burst open to allow egress to a big, red bearded man in his shirtsleeves, who glanced around briefly and then rushed at Uncle john and shook both his hands cordially.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000022_000000|"My dear mr Merrick!" he exclaimed, "I'm delighted and honored to see you here.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000022_000001|Come to my room at once.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000022_000002|A great surprise and pleasure, sir! Thomas, I'm engaged!"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000023_000000|This last was directed at the head of the amazed porter, who, as the door slammed in his face, nodded solemnly and remarked:
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000024_000001|Drat these 'ere billionaires! Why don't they dress like decent people?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000025_000000|Uncle john had been advised by Patsy where to go for a good cheap luncheon; but he did not heed her admonition.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000025_000001|Instead, he rode in a carriage beside the banker to a splendid club, where he was served with the finest dishes the chef could provide on short notice. Moreover, mr Marvin introduced him to several substantial gentlemen as "mr
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000025_000002|john Merrick, of Portland"; and each one bowed profoundly and declared he was "highly honored."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000026_000000|Yet Uncle john seemed in no way elated by this reception.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000028_000000|"It's john Merrick" passed from mouth to mouth, and the uniformed official strutted from one window to another, saying:
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000029_000000|"I showed him in myself.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000031_000000|But Uncle john waived it aside disdainfully.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000033_000001|In a moment the great Broadway crowd had swallowed up john Merrick, and five minutes later he was thoughtfully gazing into a shop window again.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000034_000000|By and bye he bethought himself of the time, and took a cab uptown.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000035_000001|Do you know you're ten minutes late?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000036_000000|"I'm sorry," he said, humbly; "but it's a long way here from downtown."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000037_000000|"Didn't you take a car?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000038_000000|"No, my dear."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000039_000000|"Why, you foolish old Uncle!
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000039_000001|Come in at once.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000039_000002|The Major has been terribly excited over you, and swore you should not be allowed to wander through the streets without someone to look after you.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000039_000003|But what could we do?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000040_000000|"I'm all right," declared Uncle john, cordially shaking hands with Patsy's father.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000040_000001|"Have you had a good day?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000041_000000|"Fine," said the Major.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000041_000001|"They'd missed me at the office, and were glad to have me back.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000041_000002|And what do you think?
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000041_000003|I've got a raise."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000042_000000|"Really?" said Uncle john, seeing it was expected of him.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000043_000000|"For a fact.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000043_000001|It's Patsy's doing, I've no doubt.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000043_000002|She wheedled the firm into giving me a vacation, and now they're to pay me twelve a week instead of ten."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000044_000000|"Is that enough?" asked Uncle john, doubtfully.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000045_000000|"More than enough, sir.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000045_000002|But I'm pretty tough, and mean to hold onto that twelve a week as long as possible."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000046_000000|"What pay do you get, Patsy?" asked Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000047_000000|"Almost as much as Daddy.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000047_000001|We're dreadfully rich, Uncle john; so you needn't worry if you don't strike a job yourself all at once."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000048_000000|"Any luck today, sir," asked the Major, tucking a napkin under his chin and beginning on the soup.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000049_000000|Uncle john shook his head.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000050_000000|"Of course not," said Patsy, quickly.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000050_000002|Don't hurry, Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000050_000003|Except that it'll keep you busy, there's no need for you to work at all."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000051_000000|"You're older than I am," suggested the Major, "and that makes it harder to break in.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000051_000001|But there's no hurry, as Patsy says."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000052_000000|Uncle john did not seem to be worrying over his idleness.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000053_000003|But he was happy and in good spirits and enjoyed his evening game of cribbage with the Major exceedingly.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000054_000000|"You must be nearly bankrupt, by this time," said Patsy on Tuesday evening.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000055_000000|"It's an expensive city to live in," sighed Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000057_000001|It's always harder to economize at first."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000058_000001|"Don't I pay my share of them?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000059_000000|"Your expenses are nothing at all," declared the Major, with a wave of his hand.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000060_000000|"But my dinners at Danny Reeves' place must cost a lot," protested Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000062_000001|The first whiff he took made Uncle john cough; but the Major smoked so gracefully and with such evident pleasure that his brother in law clung manfully to the cigar, and succeeded in consuming it to the end.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000063_000000|"Tomorrow is the day of rest," announced Patsy, "so we'll all go for a nice walk in the parks after breakfast."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000064_000000|"And we sleep 'till eight o'clock, don't we, Patsy?" asked the Major.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000065_000000|"Of course."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000066_000000|"And the eggs for breakfast?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000067_000001|You don't care for more than one, do you, Uncle john?"
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000068_000000|"No, my dear."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000069_000000|"It's our Sunday morning extra-an egg apiece.
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000069_000001|The Major is so fond of them."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000070_000000|"And so am I, Patsy."
train-clean-100/4195/186238/4195_186238_000071_000000|"And now we'll have our cribbage and get to bed early.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000000_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000000_000001|Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000001_000000|OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000003_000001|It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000003_000003|Don't they give you a thrill-several thrills?
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000003_000004|I'm going to decorate my room with them."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000004_000000|"Messy things," said Marilla, whose aesthetic sense was not noticeably developed.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000004_000002|Bedrooms were made to sleep in."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000005_000000|"Oh, and dream in too, Marilla.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000005_000001|And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000006_000000|"Mind you don't drop leaves all over the stairs then.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000007_000001|matthew was so good.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000007_000002|He never scolded a bit. He put the tea down himself and said we could wait awhile as well as not.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000007_000004|It was a beautiful fairy story, Marilla.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000008_000001|But you keep your wits about you this time.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000008_000002|And-I don't really know if I'm doing right-it may make you more addlepated than ever-but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000009_000001|"How perfectly lovely!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000009_000002|You ARE able to imagine things after all or else you'd never have understood how I've longed for that very thing.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000009_000003|It will seem so nice and grown uppish. No fear of my forgetting to put the tea to draw when I have company.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000009_000004|Oh, Marilla, can I use the rosebud spray tea set?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000010_000000|"No, indeed!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000010_000001|The rosebud tea set!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000010_000003|You know I never use that except for the minister or the Aids.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000011_000001|"And asking Diana if she takes sugar!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000011_000002|I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000011_000003|And then pressing her to take another piece of fruit cake and another helping of preserves.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000011_000004|Oh, Marilla, it's a wonderful sensation just to think of it.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000011_000005|Can I take her into the spare room to lay off her hat when she comes?
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000011_000006|And then into the parlor to sit?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000012_000002|But there's a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000013_000001|As a result just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody, Diana came over, dressed in HER second best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000014_000000|"How is your mother?" inquired Anne politely, just as if she had not seen mrs Barry picking apples that morning in excellent health and spirits.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000015_000000|"She is very well, thank you.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000015_000001|I suppose mr Cuthbert is hauling potatoes to the LILY SANDS this afternoon, is he?" said Diana, who had ridden down to mr Harmon Andrews's that morning in Matthew's cart.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000016_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000016_000001|Our potato crop is very good this year.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000016_000002|I hope your father's crop is good too."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000017_000000|"It is fairly good, thank you.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000017_000001|Have you picked many of your apples yet?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000018_000000|"Oh, ever so many," said Anne forgetting to be dignified and jumping up quickly.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000018_000001|"Let's go out to the orchard and get some of the Red Sweetings, Diana.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000018_000004|She said we could have fruit cake and cherry preserves for tea.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000018_000005|But it isn't good manners to tell your company what you are going to give them to eat, so I won't tell you what she said we could have to drink.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000018_000007|I love bright red drinks, don't you?
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000018_000008|They taste twice as good as any other color."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000019_000002|She had to sit with Gertie Pye and she hated it; Gertie squeaked her pencil all the time and it just made her-Diana's-blood run cold; Ruby Gillis had charmed all her warts away, true's you live, with a magic pebble that old Mary Joe from the Creek gave her.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000021_000001|Search revealed it away back on the top shelf.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000022_000000|"Now, please help yourself, Diana," she said politely.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000022_000002|I don't feel as if I wanted any after all those apples."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000023_000000|Diana poured herself out a tumblerful, looked at its bright red hue admiringly, and then sipped it daintily.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000024_000000|"That's awfully nice raspberry cordial, Anne," she said.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000025_000001|Take as much as you want.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000025_000002|I'm going to run out and stir the fire up.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000025_000003|There are so many responsibilities on a person's mind when they're keeping house, isn't there?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000026_000001|The tumblerfuls were generous ones and the raspberry cordial was certainly very nice.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000027_000002|It doesn't taste a bit like hers."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000001|"Marilla is a famous cook.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000004|The last time I made a cake I forgot to put the flour in.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000007|Oh, it was such a pathetic tale, Diana. The tears just rained down over my cheeks while I mixed the cake.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000008|But I forgot the flour and the cake was a dismal failure.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000010|Marilla was very cross and I don't wonder. I'm a great trial to her.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000011|She was terribly mortified about the pudding sauce last week.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000012|We had a plum pudding for dinner on Tuesday and there was half the pudding and a pitcherful of sauce left over.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000013|Marilla said there was enough for another dinner and told me to set it on the pantry shelf and cover it.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000015|I thought of it next morning and ran to the pantry. Diana, fancy if you can my extreme horror at finding a mouse drowned in that pudding sauce!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000016|I lifted the mouse out with a spoon and threw it out in the yard and then I washed the spoon in three waters.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000021|I tried to be as polite and dignified as I could be, for I wanted mrs Chester Ross to think I was a ladylike little girl even if I wasn't pretty.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000023|Diana, that was a terrible moment.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000024|I remembered everything and I just stood up in my place and shrieked out 'Marilla, you mustn't use that pudding sauce. There was a mouse drowned in it.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000025|I forgot to tell you before.' Oh, Diana, I shall never forget that awful moment if I live to be a hundred. mrs Chester Ross just LOOKED at me and I thought I would sink through the floor with mortification.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000026|She is such a perfect housekeeper and fancy what she must have thought of us.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000027|Marilla turned red as fire but she never said a word-then.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000028|She just carried that sauce and pudding out and brought in some strawberry preserves.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000029|She even offered me some, but I couldn't swallow a mouthful.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000030|It was like heaping coals of fire on my head.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000031|After mrs Chester Ross went away, Marilla gave me a dreadful scolding.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000028_000032|Why, Diana, what is the matter?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000029_000000|Diana had stood up very unsteadily; then she sat down again, putting her hands to her head.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000030_000000|"I'm-I'm awful sick," she said, a little thickly.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000030_000001|"I-I-must go right home."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000031_000000|"Oh, you mustn't dream of going home without your tea," cried Anne in distress.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000031_000001|"I'll get it right off-I'll go and put the tea down this very minute."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000032_000000|"I must go home," repeated Diana, stupidly but determinedly.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000033_000000|"Let me get you a lunch anyhow," implored Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000033_000001|"Let me give you a bit of fruit cake and some of the cherry preserves.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000033_000002|Lie down on the sofa for a little while and you'll be better.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000033_000003|Where do you feel bad?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000034_000000|"I must go home," said Diana, and that was all she would say.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000034_000001|In vain Anne pleaded.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000035_000001|"Oh, Diana, do you suppose that it's possible you're really taking the smallpox?
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000035_000002|If you are I'll go and nurse you, you can depend on that.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000035_000003|I'll never forsake you.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000035_000004|But I do wish you'd stay till after tea.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000035_000005|Where do you feel bad?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000037_000000|And indeed, she walked very dizzily.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000037_000002|Then she wept all the way back to Green Gables, where she sorrowfully put the remainder of the raspberry cordial back into the pantry and got tea ready for matthew and Jerry, with all the zest gone out of the performance.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000038_000001|Monday afternoon Marilla sent her down to mrs Lynde's on an errand.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000038_000003|Into the kitchen she dashed and flung herself face downward on the sofa in an agony.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000039_000000|"Whatever has gone wrong now, Anne?" queried Marilla in doubt and dismay.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000039_000001|"I do hope you haven't gone and been saucy to mrs Lynde again."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000040_000000|No answer from Anne save more tears and stormier sobs!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000041_000001|Sit right up this very minute and tell me what you are crying about."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000043_000000|"mrs Lynde was up to see mrs Barry today and mrs Barry was in an awful state," she wailed.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000043_000003|Oh, Marilla, I'm just overcome with woe."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000044_000000|Marilla stared in blank amazement.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000045_000000|"Set Diana drunk!" she said when she found her voice.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000045_000002|What on earth did you give her?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000046_000001|"I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk, Marilla-not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000046_000002|Oh, it sounds so-so-like mrs Thomas's husband!
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000047_000001|And at the same time Marilla recollected that she had put the bottle of raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the pantry as she had told Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000048_000000|She went back to the kitchen with the wine bottle in her hand.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000048_000001|Her face was twitching in spite of herself.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000049_000001|You went and gave Diana currant wine instead of raspberry cordial.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000049_000002|Didn't you know the difference yourself?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000000|"I never tasted it," said Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000001|"I thought it was the cordial.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000002|I meant to be so-so-hospitable.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000003|Diana got awfully sick and had to go home. mrs Barry told mrs Lynde she was simply dead drunk.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000004|She just laughed silly like when her mother asked her what was the matter and went to sleep and slept for hours.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000006|She had a fearful headache all day yesterday.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000050_000008|She will never believe but what I did it on purpose."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000051_000000|"I should think she would better punish Diana for being so greedy as to drink three glassfuls of anything," said Marilla shortly.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000051_000001|"Why, three of those big glasses would have made her sick even if it had only been cordial.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000051_000002|Well, this story will be a nice handle for those folks who are so down on me for making currant wine, although I haven't made any for three years ever since I found out that the minister didn't approve.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000052_000000|"I must cry," said Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000052_000001|"My heart is broken.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000052_000002|The stars in their courses fight against me, Marilla.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000052_000003|Diana and I are parted forever.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000053_000000|"Don't be foolish, Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000053_000001|mrs Barry will think better of it when she finds you're not to blame.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000053_000002|I suppose she thinks you've done it for a silly joke or something of that sort.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000054_000000|"My courage fails me at the thought of facing Diana's injured mother," sighed Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000054_000001|"I wish you'd go, Marilla.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000054_000002|You're so much more dignified than I am.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000054_000003|Likely she'd listen to you quicker than to me."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000055_000000|"Well, I will," said Marilla, reflecting that it would probably be the wiser course.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000055_000001|"Don't cry any more, Anne.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000055_000002|It will be all right."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000056_000000|Marilla had changed her mind about it being all right by the time she got back from Orchard Slope.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000056_000001|Anne was watching for her coming and flew to the porch door to meet her.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000057_000000|"Oh, Marilla, I know by your face that it's been no use," she said sorrowfully.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000057_000001|"mrs Barry won't forgive me?"
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000058_000001|"Of all the unreasonable women I ever saw she's the worst.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000058_000002|I told her it was all a mistake and you weren't to blame, but she just simply didn't believe me.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000058_000004|I just told her plainly that currant wine wasn't meant to be drunk three tumblerfuls at a time and that if a child I had to do with was so greedy I'd sober her up with a right good spanking."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000059_000000|Marilla whisked into the kitchen, grievously disturbed, leaving a very much distracted little soul in the porch behind her.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000059_000001|Presently Anne stepped out bareheaded into the chill autumn dusk; very determinedly and steadily she took her way down through the sere clover field over the log bridge and up through the spruce grove, lighted by a pale little moon hanging low over the western woods.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000059_000002|mrs Barry, coming to the door in answer to a timid knock, found a white lipped eager eyed suppliant on the doorstep.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000060_000000|Her face hardened.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000060_000001|mrs Barry was a woman of strong prejudices and dislikes, and her anger was of the cold, sullen sort which is always hardest to overcome.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000060_000002|To do her justice, she really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense, and she was honestly anxious to preserve her little daughter from the contamination of further intimacy with such a child.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000061_000000|"What do you want?" she said stiffly.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000063_000000|"Oh, mrs Barry, please forgive me.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000063_000001|I did not mean to-to-intoxicate Diana.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000063_000002|How could I? Just imagine if you were a poor little orphan girl that kind people had adopted and you had just one bosom friend in all the world.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000063_000004|I thought it was only raspberry cordial.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000063_000005|I was firmly convinced it was raspberry cordial.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000063_000006|Oh, please don't say that you won't let Diana play with me any more.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000064_000000|This speech which would have softened good mrs Lynde's heart in a twinkling, had no effect on mrs Barry except to irritate her still more.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000064_000001|She was suspicious of Anne's big words and dramatic gestures and imagined that the child was making fun of her.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000064_000002|So she said, coldly and cruelly:
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000065_000000|"I don't think you are a fit little girl for Diana to associate with. You'd better go home and behave yourself."
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000066_000000|Anne's lips quivered.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000067_000000|"Won't you let me see Diana just once to say farewell?" she implored.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000070_000000|"My last hope is gone," she told Marilla.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000070_000001|"I went up and saw mrs Barry myself and she treated me very insultingly.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000070_000002|Marilla, I do NOT think she is a well bred woman.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000071_000001|And indeed, when she told the whole story to matthew that night, she did laugh heartily over Anne's tribulations.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000072_000000|But when she slipped into the east gable before going to bed and found that Anne had cried herself to sleep an unaccustomed softness crept into her face.
train-clean-100/4214/7146/4214_7146_000073_000000|"Poor little soul," she murmured, lifting a loose curl of hair from the child's tear stained face.
train-clean-100/426/122819/426_122819_000016_000000|"What color are you going to have it?"
train-clean-100/426/122819/426_122819_000022_000003|You're not going yet, Anne?"
train-clean-100/426/122819/426_122819_000029_000000|"There must be some mistake . . . there must.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000002_000000|Facts and Fancies
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000003_000004|This afternoon little Jimmy Andrews was trying to spell 'speckled' and couldn't manage it.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000003_000005|'Well,' he said finally, 'I can't spell it but I know what it means.'
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000009_000001|Rose Bell says he was . . . also that William Tyndale WROTE the New Testament. Claude White says a 'glacier' is a man who puts in window frames!
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000011_000001|I couldn't get the older ones to do so, but the third class answered quite freely.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000011_000004|Annetta Bell's worst crime was 'eating some blueberries that grew in the graveyard.' Willie White had 'slid down the sheephouse roof a lot of times with his Sunday trousers on.' 'But I was punished for it 'cause I had to wear patched pants to Sunday School all summer, and when you're punished for a thing you don't have to repent of it,' declared Willie.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000012_000002|They were to write the letters on real note paper, seal them in an envelope, and address them to me, all without any assistance from other people.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000012_000004|Those compositions would atone for much.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000014_000000|Green gabels.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000018_000000|edward blake ClaY.'"
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000019_000003|It is just that he has not a great deal of tact or imagination."
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000021_000000|"'You told us to describe something strange we have seen.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000021_000004|It is painted blue.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000021_000005|That is what makes it strange.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000021_000006|It is built on the lower Carmody road.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000026_000000|"'Dearest teacher,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000028_000003|Your hair is like rippling gold.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000029_000004|I owe this all to you, my sweetest teacher.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000030_000003|I am thinking of you all the time. . . in the morning and at the noontide and at the twilight.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000031_000000|"'Dearest teacher, good night.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000031_000003|May God watch over you and protect you from all harm.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000032_000000|""Your afecksionate pupil,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000035_000003|I put "teacher" where he put "lady" and I put in something of my own when I could think of it and I changed some words.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000035_000007|You must be awful clever, teacher.'
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000037_000002|I do love you with all my heart.'
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000040_000000|"'Dear teacher,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000041_000004|The first night I was there we were at tea. I knocked over a jug and broke it.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000041_000008|That evening I fell downstairs and sprained my ankle and had to stay in bed for a week.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000041_000010|When I got better it was time to go home.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000042_000000|"'Yours respectfully,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000044_000000|"Willie White's began,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000045_000000|""Respected Miss,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000047_000000|"'I have kept the best for the last.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000049_000000|"'My dear teacher,
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000050_000001|I think the most interesting people I know are my rock people and I mean to tell you about them.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000050_000002|I have never told anybody about them except grandma and father but I would like to have you know about them because you understand things.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000051_000002|Now I can't go till spring, but they will be there, for people like that never change . . . that is the splendid thing about them.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000052_000000|"'Then there is the Golden Lady of the cave.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000053_000000|"'I always met the Twin Sailors at the Striped Rocks.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000053_000001|The youngest Twin Sailor is very good tempered but the oldest Twin Sailor can look dreadfully fierce at times.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000053_000002|I have my suspicions about that oldest Twin. I believe he'd be a pirate if he dared.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000053_000009|Think of that, teacher, I've been in the sunset.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000053_000013|We sailed into a great harbor, all the color of gold, and I stepped right out of the boat on a big meadow all covered with buttercups as big as roses.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000053_000014|I stayed there for ever so long.
train-clean-100/426/122821/426_122821_000054_000000|"'Your loving pupil Paul Irving.'
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000003_000000|A jonah Day
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000010_000001|"Why is this?"
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000016_000000|"Throw it into the fire," said Anne.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000021_000000|"Joseph, are you going to obey me or are you NOT?" said Anne.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000022_000003|Then he dodged back just in time.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000025_000000|It was a full hour before quiet was restored . . . but it was a quiet that might be felt.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000029_000000|Then a silence fell . . . a very creepy, uncomfortable silence.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000029_000002|But she decided not to.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000032_000001|She looked at Anthony Pye, and Anthony Pye looked back unabashed and unashamed.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000033_000000|"Anthony, was it you?"
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000038_000003|So all her boasts had come to this . . . she had actually whipped one of her pupils.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000038_000004|How Jane would triumph!
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000038_000005|And how mr Harrison would chuckle!
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000042_000004|I can't forget the expression in Paul Irving's eyes . . . he looked so surprised and disappointed.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000042_000005|Oh, Marilla, I HAVE tried so hard to be patient and to win Anthony's liking . . . and now it has all gone for nothing."
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000044_000001|We all make mistakes . . . but people forget them.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000044_000003|As for Anthony Pye, why need you care if he does dislike you?
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000045_000000|"I can't help it.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000047_000000|"Well, never mind.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000052_000001|She felt as guilty as if their positions were reversed; but to her unspeakable astonishment Anthony not only lifted his cap . . . which he had never done before . . . but said easily,
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000053_000001|Can I take those books for you, teacher?"
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000054_000001|Anthony smiled . . . no, if the truth must be told, Anthony GRINNED back.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000056_000000|"Well, Anne, I guess you've won over Anthony Pye, that's what.
train-clean-100/426/122822/426_122822_000057_000001|"It doesn't seem right.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000004_000000|CHAPTER fifteen-THE LANDSLIDE
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000005_000000|Gathered about the young inventor, the three men looked at the warning. The writing was poor, and it was evident that an attempt had been made to disguise it.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000005_000002|In fact, it was a very business like sort of warning.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000006_000000|"Rather odd," commented mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000006_000001|"Black paper and white ink."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000007_000000|"White ink is easy enough to make," stated mr Parker.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000007_000001|"I fancy they wanted it as conspicuous as possible."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000008_000000|"Yes," agreed Tom, "and this warning, together with the antics of the thing in white last night, shows that they are aware of our presence here, and perhaps know who we are.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000008_000001|We will have to be on our guard."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000009_000000|"Do you think that fellow Munson, whom we left in the forest, could have gotten here and warned them?" asked mr Damon.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000010_000000|"It's possible," admitted Tom, "but now let's see if the person who pinned this warning on our tent took any of our things."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000012_000000|"Well, we haven't had a great deal of success-so far," admitted Tom, as they sat about the fire, in the fast gathering dusk.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000012_000001|"I think, perhaps, we'd better try on the other side of the mountain to morrow.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000013_000000|"Good idea," commented mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000013_000001|"We'll do it, and move our camp.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000013_000002|I only hope those fellows don't find our airship and destroy it.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000014_000000|This contingency caused Tom some uneasiness.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000014_000001|He did not like to think that the unscrupulous men might damage the Red Cloud, that had been built only after hard labor.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000014_000002|But he knew he could accomplish nothing by worrying, and he tried to dismiss the matter from his mind.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000015_000000|They rather expected to see the thing in white again that night, but it did not appear, and morning came without anything having disturbed their heavy sleep, for they were tired from the day's tramp.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000016_000000|It took them the greater part of the day to make a circuit of the base of Phantom Mountain in order to get to a place where a sort of trail led upward.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000017_000000|"It's too late to do anything to night," decided Tom, as they set up the tent.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000017_000001|"We'll rest, and start the first thing in the morning."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000018_000001|"Where are you going, mr Parker?" he asked, as he saw the scientist tramping a little way up the side of the mountain.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000019_000000|"I am going to make some observations," was the answer, and no one paid any more attention to him for some time.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000019_000001|Supper was nearly ready when mr Parker returned.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000019_000002|His face wore a rather serious air, and mr Damon, noting it, asked laughingly:
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000020_000000|"Well, did you discover any volcanoes, that may erupt during the night, and scare us to death?"
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000021_000000|"No," replied mr Parker, calmly, "but there is every indication that we will soon have a terrific electrical storm.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000021_000001|From a high peak I caught a glimpse of one working this way across the mountains."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000022_000000|"Then we'd better fasten the tent well down," called Tom.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000023_000000|"There will not be much danger from wind," was mr Parker's opinion.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000024_000000|"From what then?" asked mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000025_000000|"From the discharges of lightning among these mountain peaks, which contain so much iron ore.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000026_000000|The fact that the scientist had not always made correct predictions was not now considered by his hearers, and Tom and the two men gazed at mr Parker in some alarm.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000027_000000|"Is there anything we can do to avoid it?" asked mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000028_000001|It will be here in less than half an hour."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000029_000000|"Then we'd better have supper," remarked Tom, practically, "and get ready for it.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000029_000001|Perhaps it may not be as bad as mr Parker fears."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000030_000000|"It will be bad enough," declared the gloomy scientist, and he seemed to find pleasure in his announcement.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000031_000000|The meal was soon over, and Tom busied himself in looking to the guy ropes of the tent, for he feared lest there might be wind with the storm.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000031_000001|That it was coming was evident, for now low mutterings of thunder could be heard off toward the west.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000032_000001|Fitful flashes of lightning could be seen forking across the sky in jagged chains of purple light.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000033_000000|"It's going to be a heavy storm," Tom admitted to himself.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000033_000001|"I hope lightning doesn't strike around here."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000034_000000|The storm came on rapidly, but there was a curious quietness in the air that was more alarming than if a wind had blown.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000034_000001|The campfire burned steadily, and there was a certain oppressiveness in the atmosphere.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000035_000000|It was now quite dark, save when the fitful lightning flashes came, and they illuminated the scene brilliantly for a few seconds.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000035_000001|Then, by contrast, it was blacker than ever.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000036_000000|Suddenly, as Tom was gazing up toward the peak of Phantom Mountain, he saw something that caused him to cry out in alarm.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000036_000001|He pointed upward, and whispered hoarsely:
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000037_000000|"The ghost again!
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000037_000001|There's our friend in white!"
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000038_000000|The others looked, and saw the same weird figure that had menaced them when they were encamped on the other side of the peak.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000039_000000|"They must have followed us," said mr Jenks, in a low voice.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000040_000000|Slowly the figure advanced, It waved the long white arms, as if in warning.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000040_000001|At times it would be only dimly visible in the blackness, then, suddenly it would stand out in bold relief as a great flash of fire split the clouds.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000041_000000|The thunder, meanwhile, had been growing louder and sharper, indicating the nearer approach of the storm.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000041_000001|Each lightning flash was followed in a second or two, by a terrific clap.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000041_000002|Still there was no wind nor rain, and the campfire burned steadily.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000043_000000|"That was a bad one," cried mr Damon, shouting so as to be heard above the echoes of the thunderclap.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000044_000000|Almost as he spoke there came another explosion, even louder than the one preceding.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000044_000001|A great ball of fire, pear shaped, leaped for the same spot in the mountain.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000045_000000|"There's a mass of iron ore there!" yelled mr Parker.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000045_000001|"The lightning is attracted to it!"
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000046_000000|His voice was swallowed up in the terrific crash that followed, and, as there came another flash of the celestial fire, the figure in white could be seen hurrying back up the mountain trail.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000046_000001|Evidently the electrical storm, with lightning bolts discharging so close, was too much for the "ghost."
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000047_000000|In another instant it looked as if the whole place about where the diamond seekers stood, was a mass of fire.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000048_000000|"We are in the midst of the storm!" cried mr Parker.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000048_000001|"We are standing on a mass of iron ore!
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000048_000002|Any minute may be our last!"
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000049_000000|But fate had not intended the adventurers for death by lightning.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000049_000002|They stood still-awed-not knowing what to do.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000050_000000|Then, once more, came a terrific clap!
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000050_000001|A great mass of fire, like some red hot ingot from a foundry, was hurled through the air, straight at the face of the mountain, and at the spot where the figure in white had stood but a few minutes before.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000051_000000|Instantly the earth trembled, as it had at Earthquake Island, but it was not the same.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000051_000001|It was over in a few seconds.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000051_000002|Then, as the diamond seekers looked, they saw in the glare of a score of lightning flashes that followed the one great clap, the whole side of the mountain slip away, and go crashing into the valley below.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000052_000000|"A landslide!" cried mr Parker.
train-clean-100/4267/287369/4267_287369_000052_000001|"That is the landslide which I predicted!
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000004_000001|mr Copley looked about in every direction, but neither horse nor vehicle was to be had for love or money.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000004_000002|At last we started to walk to the village, mr Copley so laden with our hand luggage that he resembled a pack mule.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000007_000000|'Edinburgh?
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000007_000001|Never!' she replied.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000009_000000|At this juncture Aunt Celia disappeared for a moment to ask the barmaid if, in her opinion, the constant consumption of malt liquors prevents a more dangerous indulgence in brandy and whisky.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000009_000001|She is gathering statistics, but as the barmaids can never collect their thoughts while they are drawing ale, Aunt Celia proceeds slowly.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000011_000000|'Are you?' asked mr Copley, taking out his pencil.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000012_000000|'Yes, I said so.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000012_000001|What are you doing?'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000013_000000|'Merely taking note of your statement, that's all.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000013_000001|Now, Miss Van Tyck' (of course Aunt Celia appeared at this delightful moment), 'I have a plan to propose.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000013_000002|I was here last summer with a couple of Harvard men, and we lodged at a farmhouse about a mile distant from the cathedral.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000013_000003|If you will step into the coffee room for an hour, I'll walk up to Farmer Hendry's and see if they will take us in.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000013_000004|I think we might be fairly comfortable.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000014_000000|'Can Aunt Celia have Apollinaris and black coffee after her morning bath?' I asked.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000015_000000|'I hope, Katharine,' said Aunt Celia majestically-'I hope that I can accommodate myself to circumstances.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000015_000001|If mr Copley can secure apartments for us, I shall be more than grateful.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000016_000000|So here we are, all lodging together in an ideal English farmhouse. There is a thatched roof on one of the old buildings, and the dairy house is covered with ivy, and Farmer Hendry's wife makes a real English curtsey, and there are herds of beautiful sleek Durham cattle, and the butter and cream and eggs and mutton are delicious, and I never, never want to go home any more.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000016_000001|I want to live here for ever and wave the American flag on Washington's birthday.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000017_000000|I am so happy that I feel as if something were going to spoil it all. Twenty years old to day!
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000018_000000|The cathedral is very beautiful in itself, and its situation is beyond all words of mine to describe.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000018_000001|I greatly admired the pulpit, which is supported by five pillars sunk into the backs of squashed lions; but mr Copley, when I asked him the period, said, 'Pure Brummagem!'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000019_000001|She arrives as soon as they can find room for her at the Three Tuns.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000023_000000|O child of fortune, thy name is j q Copley!
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000023_000001|How did it happen to be election time?
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000023_000002|Why did the inns chance to be full?
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000023_000003|How did Aunt Celia relax sufficiently to allow me to find her a lodging?
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000023_000004|Why did she fall in love with the lodging when found?
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000023_000005|I do not know.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000000|She was so beautiful on Sunday.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000001|She has been wearing her favourite browns and primroses through the week, but on Sunday she blossomed into blue and white, topped by a wonderful hat, whose brim was laden with hyacinths.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000002|She sat on the end of a seat in the nave, and there was a capped and gowned crowd of university students in the transept.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000003|I watched them and they watched her.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000004|She has the fullest, whitest eyelids, and the loveliest lashes.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000005|When she looks down I wish she might never look up, and when she looks up I am never ready for her to look down.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000006|If it had been a secular occasion, and she had dropped her handkerchief, seven eighths of the students would have started to pick it up-but I should have got there first!
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000024_000007|Well, all this is but a useless prelude, for there are facts to be considered-delightful, warm, breathing facts!
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000025_000000|We were coming home from evensong, Kitty and i (I am anticipating, for she was still 'Miss Schuyler' then, but never mind.) We were walking through the fields, while mrs Benedict and Aunt Celia were driving.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000025_000002|Kitty gave a shriek.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000025_000003|We chanced to be near a pair of low bars.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000025_000004|I hadn't been a college athlete for nothing.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000025_000007|Jack! save me!'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000026_000000|It was the first time she had called me 'Jack,' and I needed no second invitation.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000026_000001|I proceeded to save her, in the usual way, by holding her to my heart and kissing her lovely hair reassuringly as I murmured:
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000027_000000|'You are safe, my darling; not a hair of your precious head shall be hurt.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000027_000001|Don't be frightened.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000028_000000|She shivered like a leaf.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000029_000000|'I am frightened,' she said; 'I can't help being frightened.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000029_000001|He will chase us, I know.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000029_000002|Where is he?
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000029_000003|What is he doing now?'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000032_000000|'Yes, he is gone-she is gone, darling.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000032_000001|But don't move; it may come again.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000033_000001|I did not facilitate the preparations, and a moment of awkward silence ensued.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000034_000000|'Might I inquire,' I asked, 'if the dear little person at present reposing in my arms will stay there (with intervals for rest and refreshment) for the rest of her natural life?'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000035_000000|She withdrew entirely now, all but her hand, and her eyes sought the ground.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000036_000000|'I suppose I shall have to-that is, if you think-at least, I suppose you do think-at any rate, you look as if you were thinking-that this has been giving you encouragement.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000037_000000|'I do indeed-decisive, undoubted, bare faced encouragement.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000000|'I don't think I ought to be judged as if I were in my sober senses,' she replied.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000001|'I was frightened within an inch of my life.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000002|I told you this morning that I was dreadfully afraid of bulls, especially mad ones, and I told you that my nurse frightened me, when I was a child, with awful stories about them, and that I never outgrew my childish terror.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000003|I looked everywhere about.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000004|The barn was too far, the fence too high; I saw him coming, and there was nothing but you and the open country.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000005|Of course, I took you.
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000038_000006|It was very natural, I'm sure; any girl would have done it.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000039_000000|'To be sure,' I replied soothingly, 'any girl would have run after me, as you say.'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000041_000000|'Yes, darling, I thank you for saving my life, and I am willing to devote the remainder of it to your service as a pledge of my gratitude; but if you should take up life saving as a profession, dear, don't throw yourself on a fellow with-'
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000042_000000|'Jack!
train-clean-100/4267/72637/4267_72637_000042_000001|Jack!' she cried, putting her hand over my lips, and getting it well kissed in consequence.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000001_000000|BY SAM SLICK
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000002_000000|As we approached the inn at Amherst, the Clockmaker grew uneasy.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000002_000001|"It's pretty well on in the evening, I guess," said he, "and Marm Pugwash is as onsartin in her temper as a mornin' in April; it's all sunshine or all clouds with her, and if she's in one of her tantrums she'll stretch out her neck and hiss like a goose with a flock of goslin's.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000002_000002|I wonder what on airth Pugwash was a thinkin' on when he signed articles of partnership with that are woman; she's not a bad lookin' piece of furniture, neither, and it's a proper pity sich a clever woman should carry sich a stiff upper lip.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000002_000003|She reminds me of our old minister joshua Hopewell's apple trees.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000003_000003|That are row next the fence, I grafted it myself: I took great pains to get the right kind.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000003_000005|That are outward row I grafted myself with the choicest kind I could find, and I succeeded.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000003_000007|Well, the boys think the old minister's graftin' has all succeeded about as well as that row, and they sarch no further.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000003_000008|They snicker at my graftin', and I laugh in my sleeve, I guess, at their penetration.'
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000004_000000|"Now, Marm Pugwash is like the minister's apples, very temptin' fruit to look at, but desperate sour.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000004_000001|If Pugwash had a watery mouth when he married, I guess it's pretty puckery by this time.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000004_000002|However, if she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of 'soft sawder' that will take the frown out of her frontispiece and make her dial plate as smooth as a lick of copal varnish.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000004_000003|It's a pity she's such a kickin' devil, too, for she has good points,--good eye, good foot, neat pastern, fine chest, a clean set of limbs, and carries a good-But here we are.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000005_000000|When we entered the house, the travelers' room was all in darkness, and on opening the opposite door into the sitting room we found the female part of the family extinguishing the fire for the night.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000005_000001|mrs Pugwash had a broom in her hand, and was in the act (the last act of female housewifery) of sweeping the hearth.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000005_000002|The strong flickering light of the fire, as it fell upon her tall, fine figure and beautiful face, revealed a creature worthy of the Clockmaker's comments.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000006_000000|"Good evening, marm," said mr Slick.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000006_000001|"How do you do? and how's mr Pugwash?" "He!" said she: "why, he's been abed this hour.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000006_000002|You don't expect to disturb him this time of night, I hope?" "Oh, no," said mr Slick, "certainly not, and I am sorry to have disturbed you, but we got detained longer than we expected; I am sorry that-"
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000006_000003|"So am I," said she, "but if mr Pugwash will keep an inn when he has no occasion to, his family can't expect no rest."
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000000|Here the Clockmaker, seeing the storm gathering, stooped down suddenly, and, staring intently, held out his hand and exclaimed: "Well, if that ain't a beautiful child!
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000001|Come here, my little man, and shake hands along with me.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000002|Well, I declare, if that are little feller ain't the finest child I ever seed.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000003|What, not abed yet?
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000005|Stole them from mama, eh?
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000006|Well, I wish my old mother could see that child, it is such a treat.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000007|In our country," said he, turning to me, "the children are all as pale as chalk or as yaller as an orange.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000008|Lord! that are little feller would be a show in our country.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000010|"Black eyes,--let me see,--ah, mama's eyes, too, and black hair also; as I am alive, you are mama's own boy, the very image of mama." "Do be seated, gentlemen," said mrs Pugwash.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000012|Did you ever see," said he, again addressing me, "such a likeness between one human and another, as between this beautiful little boy and his mother?"
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000013|"I am sure you have had no supper," said mrs Pugwash to me; "you must be hungry, and weary, too.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000007_000014|I will get you a cup of tea." "I am sorry to give you so much trouble," said i "Not the least trouble in the world," she replied; "on the contrary, a pleasure."
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000008_000000|We were then shown into the next room, where the fire was now blazing up, but mr Slick protested he could not proceed without the little boy, and lingered behind to ascertain his age, and concluded by asking the child if he had any aunts that looked like mama.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000009_000000|As the door closed mr Slick said, "It's a pity she don't go well in gear.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000009_000003|Pugwash, I guess, don't understand the natur' of the crittur; she'll never go kind in harness for him.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000012_000000|"I never knowed but one case of a broken heart, and that was in t'other sex, one Washington Banks.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000012_000001|He was a sneezer.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000013_000000|"Well, when I last seed him he was all skin and bone, like a horse turned out to die.
train-clean-100/4267/78186/4267_78186_000013_000001|He was teetotally defleshed, a mere walkin' skeleton. 'I am dreadful sorry,' says I, 'to see you, Banks, lookin' so peaked. Why, you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs!
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000006_000001|He remained longer than usual with his bottle of port wine in the dining room; and when he went upstairs, he sat himself down and fell asleep, almost without a sign.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000007_000000|There had, however, been a few words spoken on the subject between mrs Roby and her niece which had served to prepare Emily for what was coming.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000007_000001|"Lopez has been to your father," said mrs Roby, in a voice not specially encouraging for such an occasion.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000007_000002|Then she paused a moment; but her niece said nothing, and she continued, "Yes,--and your father has been blaming me,--as if I had done anything!
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000007_000003|If he did not mean you to choose for yourself, why didn't he keep a closer look out?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000009_000000|"Well;--to speak fairly, I thought you had; and I have nothing to say against your choice.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000009_000001|As young men go, I think mr Lopez is as good as the best of them.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000009_000002|I don't know why you shouldn't have him.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000009_000003|Of course you'll have money, but then I suppose he makes a large income himself.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000009_000004|As to mr Fletcher, you don't care a bit about him."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000010_000000|"Not in that way, certainly."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000011_000000|"No doubt your papa will have it out with you just now; so you had better make up your mind what you will say to him.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000011_000001|If you really like the man, I don't see why you shouldn't say so, and stick to it.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000011_000003|It might probably be the case that the whole condition of her future life would depend on the way in which she might now "have it out" with her father.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000000|I would not wish the reader to be prejudiced against Miss Wharton by the not unnatural feeling which may perhaps be felt in regard to the aunt.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000001|mrs Roby was pleased with little intrigues, was addicted to the amusement of fostering love affairs, was fond of being thought to be useful in such matters, and was not averse to having presents given to her.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000002|She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000003|She was not an eligible companion for mr Wharton's daughter,--a matter as to which the father had not given himself proper opportunities of learning the facts.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000004|An aunt in his close neighbourhood was so great a comfort to him,--so ready and so natural an assistance to him in his difficulties!
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000005|But Emily Wharton was not in the least like her aunt, nor had mrs Wharton been at all like mrs Roby.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000006|No doubt the contact was dangerous.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000007|Injury had perhaps already been done.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000008|It may be that some slightest soil had already marred the pure white of the girl's natural character.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000012_000009|But if so, the stain was as yet too impalpable to be visible to ordinary eyes.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000013_000000|Emily Wharton was a tall, fair girl, with grey eyes, rather exceeding the average proportions as well as height of women.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000013_000001|Her features were regular and handsome, and her form was perfect; but it was by her manner and her voice that she conquered, rather than by her beauty,--by those gifts and by a clearness of intellect joined with that feminine sweetness which has its most frequent foundation in self denial.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000013_000002|Those who knew her well, and had become attached to her, were apt to endow her with all virtues, and to give her credit for a loveliness which strangers did not find on her face.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000013_000003|But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasion for such shining had arisen.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000013_000004|To those who were allowed to love her no woman was more lovable.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000013_000005|There was innate in her an appreciation of her own position as a woman, and with it a principle of self denial as a human being, which it was beyond the power of any mrs Roby to destroy or even to defile by small stains.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000014_000000|Like other girls she had been taught to presume that it was her destiny to be married, and like other girls she had thought much about her destiny.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000014_000001|A young man generally regards it as his destiny either to succeed or to fail in the world, and he thinks about that. To him marriage, when it comes, is an accident to which he has hardly as yet given a thought.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000014_000002|But to the girl the matrimony which is or is not to be her destiny contains within itself the only success or failure which she anticipates.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000014_000003|The young man may become Lord Chancellor, or at any rate earn his bread comfortably as a county court judge.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000014_000004|But the girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband;--a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000014_000005|Emily Wharton had doubtless thought about these things, and she sincerely believed that she had found the good man in Ferdinand Lopez.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000015_000000|The man, certainly, was one strangely endowed with the power of creating a belief.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000015_000001|When going to mr Wharton at his chambers he had not intended to cheat the lawyer into any erroneous idea about his family, but he had resolved that he would so discuss the questions of his own condition, which would probably be raised, as to leave upon the old man's mind an unfounded conviction that in regard to money and income he had no reason to fear question.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000015_000003|And mr Wharton had felt himself bound to abstain from allusion to such matters from an assured feeling that he could not in that direction plant an enduring objection.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000015_000004|In this way Lopez had carried his point with mr Wharton. He had convinced mrs Roby that among all the girl's attractions the greatest attraction for him was the fact that she was mrs Roby's niece.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000015_000005|He had made Emily herself believe that the one strong passion of his life was his love for her, and this he had done without ever having asked for her love.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000015_000007|On his own behalf it must be acknowledged that he did love the girl, as well perhaps as he was capable of loving any one;--but he had found out many particulars as to mr Wharton's money before he had allowed himself to love her.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000016_000000|As soon as mrs Roby had gathered up her knitting, and declared, as she always did on such occasions, that she could go round the corner without having any one to look after her, mr Wharton began.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000016_000001|"Emily, my dear, come here." Then she came and sat on a footstool at his feet, and looked up into his face.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000016_000002|"Do you know what I am going to speak to you about, my darling?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000017_000000|"Yes, papa; I think I do.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000017_000001|It is about-mr
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000017_000002|Lopez."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000018_000000|"Your aunt has told you, I suppose.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000018_000001|Yes; it is about mr Lopez.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000018_000002|I have been very much astonished to day by mr Lopez,--a man of whom I have seen very little and know less.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000018_000003|He came to me to day and asked for my permission-to address you." She sat perfectly quiet, still looking at him, but she did not say a word.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000019_000000|"Why of course, papa?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000020_000000|"Because he is a stranger and a foreigner.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000020_000001|Would you have wished me to tell him that he might come?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000021_000000|"Yes, papa." He was sitting on a sofa and shrank back a little from her as she made this free avowal.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000021_000001|"In that case I could have judged for myself.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000021_000002|I suppose every girl would like to do that."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000022_000000|"But should you have accepted him?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000023_000000|"I think I should have consulted you before I did that.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000023_000001|But I should have wished to accept him.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000023_000003|I have never said so before to any one.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000023_000004|I would not say so to you now, if he had not-spoken to you as he has done."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000024_000000|"Emily, it must not be."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000025_000000|"Why not, papa?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000025_000001|If you say it shall not be so, it shall not.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000025_000002|I will do as you bid me." Then he put out his hand and caressed her, stroking down her hair.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000025_000003|"But I think you ought to tell me why it must not be,--as I do love him."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000026_000000|"He is a foreigner."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000027_000000|"But is he?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000027_000001|And why should not a foreigner be as good as an Englishman?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000028_000000|"He has no relatives, no family, no belongings.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000028_000001|He is what we call an adventurer.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000028_000002|Marriage, my dear, is a most serious thing."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000029_000000|"Yes, papa, I know that."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000030_000000|"One is bound to be very careful.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000030_000001|How can I give you to a man I know nothing about,--an adventurer?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000030_000002|What would they say in Herefordshire?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000031_000000|"I don't know why they should say anything, but if they did I shouldn't much care."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000032_000000|"I should, my dear.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000032_000001|I should care very much.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000032_000002|One is bound to think of one's family.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000032_000003|Suppose it should turn out afterwards that he was-disreputable!"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000033_000000|"You may say that of any man, papa."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000034_000000|"But when a man has connexions, a father and mother, or uncles and aunts, people that everybody knows about, then there is some guarantee of security.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000034_000001|Did you ever hear this man speak of his father?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000035_000000|"I don't know that I ever did."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000036_000000|"Or his mother,--or his family?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000036_000001|Don't you think that is suspicious?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000037_000000|"I will ask him, papa, if you wish."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000038_000001|I would not wish that there should be opportunity for such asking.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000038_000002|If there has been intimacy between you, such information should have come naturally,--as a thing of course.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000038_000003|You have made him no promise?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000039_000000|"Oh no, papa."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000040_000000|"Nor spoken to him-of your regard for him?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000041_000000|"Never;--not a word.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000041_000001|Nor he to me,--except in such words as one understands even though they say nothing."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000042_000000|"I wish he had never seen you."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000043_000000|"Is he a bad man, papa?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000044_000000|"Who knows?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000044_000001|I cannot tell.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000044_000002|He may be ever so bad.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000044_000003|How is one to know whether a man be bad or good when one knows nothing about him?" At this point the father got up and walked about the room.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000045_000000|"Did you tell him so?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000046_000000|"Yes;--well; I don't know whether I said exactly that, but I told him that the whole thing must come to an end.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000046_000001|And it must.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000046_000002|Luckily it seems that nothing has been said on either side."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000047_000000|"But, papa-; is there to be no reason?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000048_000000|"Haven't I given reasons?
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000048_000001|I will not have my daughter encourage an adventurer,--a man of whom nobody knows anything.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000048_000002|That is reason sufficient."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000049_000000|"He has a business, and he lives with gentlemen.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000049_000001|He is Everett's friend.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000049_000002|He is well educated;--oh, so much better than most men that one meets.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000049_000003|And he is clever.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000050_000000|"I do not want to know him better."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000051_000000|"Is not that prejudice, papa?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000052_000000|"My dear Emily," said mr Wharton, striving to wax into anger that he might be firm against her, "I don't think that it becomes you to ask your father such a question as that.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000052_000001|You ought to believe that it is the chief object of my life to do the best I can for my children."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000053_000000|"I am sure it is."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000054_000000|"And you ought to feel that, as I have had a long experience in the world, my judgment about a young man might be trusted."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000055_000000|That was a statement which Miss Wharton was not prepared to admit. She had already professed herself willing to submit to her father's judgment, and did not now by any means contemplate rebellion against parental authority.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000055_000001|But she did feel that on a matter so vital to her she had a right to plead her cause before judgment should be given, and she was not slow to assure herself, even as this interview went on, that her love for the man was strong enough to entitle her to assure her father that her happiness depended on his reversal of the sentence already pronounced.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000055_000002|"You know, papa, that I trust you," she said.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000055_000003|"And I have promised you that I will not disobey you.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000055_000004|If you tell me that I am never to see mr Lopez again, I will not see him."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000056_000000|"You are a good girl.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000056_000001|You were always a good girl."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000057_000000|"But I think that you ought to hear me." Then he stood still with his hands in his trowsers pockets looking at her.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000057_000001|He did not want to hear a word, but he felt that he would be a tyrant if he refused.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000057_000002|"If you tell me that I am not to see him, I shall not see him.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000057_000003|But I shall be very unhappy.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000058_000000|"That is nonsense, Emily.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000058_000001|There is Arthur Fletcher."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000059_000001|If this is to be as you say, it will make me very, very wretched.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000059_000002|It is right that you should know the truth.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000060_000000|"It isn't only that; no one knows anything about him, or where to inquire even."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000061_000000|"I think you should inquire, papa, and be quite certain before you pronounce such a sentence against me.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000061_000001|It will be a crushing blow." He looked at her, and saw that there was a fixed purpose in her countenance of which he had never before seen similar signs.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000061_000002|"You claim a right to my obedience, and I acknowledge it.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000061_000003|I am sure you believe me when I promise not to see him without your permission."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000062_000000|"I do believe you.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000062_000001|Of course I believe you."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000063_000000|"But if I do that for you, papa, I think that you ought to be very sure, on my account, that I haven't to bear such unhappiness for nothing.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000063_000001|You'll think about it, papa,--will you not, before you quite decide?" She leaned against him as she spoke, and he kissed her. "Good night, now, papa.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000063_000002|You will think about it?"
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000064_000000|"I will.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000064_000002|Of course I will."
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000065_000000|And he began the process of thinking about it immediately,--before the door was closed behind her.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000065_000001|But what was there to think about? Nothing that she had said altered in the least his idea about the man.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000065_000002|He was as convinced as ever that unless there was much to conceal there would not be so much concealment.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000065_000003|But a feeling began to grow upon him already that his daughter had a mode of pleading with him which he would not ultimately be able to resist.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000065_000004|He had the power, he knew, of putting an end to the thing altogether.
train-clean-100/4297/13006/4297_13006_000065_000005|He had only to say resolutely and unchangeably that the thing shouldn't be, and it wouldn't be.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000003_000000|By the time that the Easter holidays were over,--holidays which had been used so conveniently for the making of a new government,--the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000003_000003|They were habitually indifferent to self exaltation, and allowed themselves to be thrust into this or that unfitting role, professing that the Queen's Government and the good of the country were their only considerations.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000003_000004|Lord Thrift made way for Sir Orlando Drought at the Admiralty, because it was felt on all sides that Sir Orlando could not join the new composite party without high place.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000003_000005|And the same grace was shown in regard to Lord Drummond, who remained at the Colonies, keeping the office to which he had been lately transferred under mr Daubeny.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000003_000006|And Sir Gregory Grogram said not a word, whatever he may have thought, when he was told that mr Daubeny's Lord Chancellor, Lord Ramsden, was to keep the seals.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000003_000007|Sir Gregory did, no doubt, think very much about it; for legal offices have a signification differing much from that which attaches itself to places simply political.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000000|The real struggle, however, lay in the appropriate distribution of the Rattlers and the Robys, the Fitzgibbons and the Macphersons among the subordinate offices of State.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000001|mr Macpherson and mr Roby, with a host of others who had belonged to mr Daubeny, were prepared, as they declared from the first, to lend their assistance to the Duke. They had consulted mr Daubeny on the subject, and mr Daubeny told them that their duty lay in that direction.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000002|At the first blush of the matter the arrangement took the form of a gracious tender from themselves to a statesman called upon to act in very difficult circumstances,--and they were thanked accordingly by the Duke, with something of real cordial gratitude.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000003|But when the actual adjustment of things was in hand, the Duke, having but little power of assuming a soft countenance and using soft words while his heart was bitter, felt on more than one occasion inclined to withdraw his thanks.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000004|He was astounded not so much by the pretensions as by the unblushing assertion of these pretensions in reference to places which he had been innocent enough to think were always bestowed at any rate without direct application.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000006|The old statesman laughed.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000004_000007|"To be told within the same half hour by two men that I had made promises to each of them inconsistent with each other!"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000005_000000|"Who were the two men?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000006_000000|"mr Rattler and mr Roby."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000007_000000|"I am assured that they are inseparable since the work was begun. They always had a leaning to each other, and now I hear they pass their time between the steps of the Carlton and Reform Clubs."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000008_000000|"But what am I to do?
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000008_000001|One must be Patronage Secretary, no doubt."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000009_000000|"They're both good, men in their way, you know."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000010_000001|It used not to be so.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000010_000002|Of course men were always anxious for office as they are now."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000011_000000|"Well; yes.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000011_000001|We've heard of that before to day, I think."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000012_000000|"But I don't think any man ever ventured to ask mr Mildmay."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000013_000000|"Time had done much for him in consolidating his authority, and perhaps the present world is less reticent in its eagerness than it was in his younger days.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000013_000001|I doubt, however, whether it is more dishonest, and whether struggles were not made quite as disgraceful to the strugglers as anything that is done now.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000000|But at last even the Rattlers and Robys were fixed, if not satisfied, and a complete list of the ministry appeared in all the newspapers. Though the thing had been long a doing, still it had come suddenly,--so that at the first proposition to form a coalition ministry, the newspapers had hardly known whether to assist or to oppose the scheme.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000001|There was no doubt, in the minds of all these editors and contributors, the teaching of a tradition that coalitions of this kind have been generally feeble, sometimes disastrous, and on occasions even disgraceful.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000002|When a man, perhaps through a long political life, has bound himself to a certain code of opinions, how can he change that code at a moment?
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000003|And when at the same moment, together with the change, he secures power, patronage, and pay, how shall the public voice absolve him?
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000004|But then again men, who have by the work of their lives grown into a certain position in the country, and have unconsciously but not therefore less actually made themselves indispensable either to this side in politics or to that, cannot free themselves altogether from the responsibility of managing them when a period comes such as that now reached.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000006|When it was first known that the Duke of Omnium had consented to make the attempt, they had both on one side and the other been loud in his praise, going so far as to say that he was the only man in England who could do the work.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000007|It was probably this encouragement which had enabled the new Premier to go on with an undertaking which was personally distasteful to him, and for which from day to day he believed himself to be less and less fit.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000014_000008|But when the newspapers told him that he was the only man for the occasion, how could he be justified in crediting himself in preference to them?
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000000|The work in Parliament began under the new auspices with great tranquillity.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000001|That there would soon come causes of hot blood,--the English Church, the county suffrage, the income tax, and further education questions,--all men knew who knew anything.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000002|But for the moment, for the month even, perhaps for the Session, there was to be peace, with full latitude for the performance of routine duties. There was so to say no opposition, and at first it seemed that one special bench in the House of Commons would remain unoccupied.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000003|But after a day or two,--on one of which mr Daubeny had been seen sitting just below the gangway,--that gentleman returned to the place usually held by the Prime Minister's rival, saying with a smile that it might be for the convenience of the House that the seat should be utilised.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000004|mr Gresham at this time had, with declared purpose, asked and obtained the Speaker's leave of absence and was abroad.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000005|Who should lead the House?
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000008|"It will never do," said mr Rattler to mr Roby.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000015_000009|"I don't mean to say anything against Drought, who has always been a very useful man to your party;--but he lacks something of the position."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000016_000000|"The fact is," said Roby, "that we've trusted to two men so long that we don't know how to suppose any one else big enough to fill their places.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000016_000001|Monk wouldn't have done.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000016_000002|The House doesn't care about Monk."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000017_000000|"I always thought it should be Wilson, and so I told the Duke.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000017_000001|He had an idea that it should be one of your men."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000018_000000|"I think he's right there," said Roby.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000018_000001|"There ought to be something like a fair division.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000018_000002|Individuals might be content, but the party would be dissatisfied.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000018_000003|For myself, I'd have sooner stayed out as an independent member, but Daubeny said that he thought I was bound to make myself useful."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000019_000000|"I told the Duke from the beginning," said Rattler, "that I didn't think that I could be of any service to him.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000019_000001|Of course, I would support him, but I had been too thoroughly a party man for a new movement of this kind.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000019_000002|But he said just the same!--that he considered I was bound to join him.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000019_000003|I asked Gresham, and when Gresham said so too, of course I had no help for it."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000020_000000|Neither of these excellent public servants had told a lie in this. Some such conversations as those reported had passed;--but a man doesn't lie when he exaggerates an emphasis, or even when he gives by a tone a meaning to a man's words exactly opposite to that which another tone would convey.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000020_000001|Or, if he does lie in doing so, he does not know that he lies.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000020_000002|mr Rattler had gone back to his old office at the Treasury and mr Roby had been forced to content himself with the Secretaryship at the Admiralty.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000020_000003|But, as the old Duke had said, they were close friends, and prepared to fight together any battle which might keep them in their present position.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000021_000000|Many of the cares of office the Prime Minister did succeed in shuffling off altogether on to the shoulders of his elder friend. He would not concern himself with the appointment of ladies, about whom he said he knew nothing, and as to whose fitness and claims he professed himself to be as ignorant as the office messenger.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000021_000002|The matter affected our Duke,--only in so far that he could not get out of his mind that strange application from his own wife.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000021_000004|The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000000|He perceived, however, in spite of the multiplicity of his official work, that his refusal sat heavily on his wife's breast, and that, though she spoke no further word, she brooded over her injury.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000001|And his heart was sad within him when he thought that he had vexed her,--loving her as he did with all his heart, but with a heart that was never demonstrative.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000002|When she was unhappy he was miserable, though he would hardly know the cause of his misery.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000003|Her ridicule and raillery he could bear, though they stung him; but her sorrow, if ever she were sorrowful, or her sullenness, if ever she were sullen, upset him altogether.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000005|He had expressly asked her for her sympathy in the business he had on hand,--thereby going much beyond his usual coldness of manner.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000006|She, with an eagerness which might have been expected from her, had promised that she would slave for him, if slavery were necessary.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000007|Then she had made her request, had been refused, and was now moody.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000022_000009|He had gone to her, up to her own room, before he dressed for dinner, having devoted much more time than as Prime Minister he ought to have done to a resolution that he would make things straight with her, and to the best way of doing it.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000023_000000|"So I am told.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000024_000000|"That's not so very long ago, Cora."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000025_000000|"Silverbridge is older now than I was then, and I think that makes it a very long time ago." Lord Silverbridge was the Duke's eldest son.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000026_000000|"But what does it matter?
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000026_000001|If she began her career in the time of George the Fourth, what is it to you?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000027_000000|"Nothing on earth,--only that she did in truth begin her career in the time of George the Third.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000027_000001|I'm sure she's nearer sixty than fifty."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000029_000000|"It's a pity she should not remember hers in the way she dresses," said the Duchess.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000030_000000|This was marvellous to him,--that his wife, who as Lady Glencora Palliser had been so conspicuous for a wild disregard of social rules as to be looked upon by many as an enemy of her own class, should be so depressed by not being allowed to be the Queen's head servant as to descend to personal invective!
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000030_000001|"I'm afraid," said he, attempting to smile, "that it won't come within the compass of my office to effect or even to propose any radical change in her Grace's apparel. But don't you think that you and I can afford to ignore all that?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000031_000000|"I can certainly.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000031_000001|She may be an antiquated Eve for me."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000032_000000|"I hope, Cora, you are not still disappointed because I did not agree with you when you spoke about the place for yourself."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000033_000000|"Not because you did not agree with me,--but because you did not think me fit to be trusted with any judgment of my own.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000033_000001|I don't know why I'm always to be looked upon as different from other women,--as though I were half a savage."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000034_000000|"You are what you have made yourself, and I have always rejoiced that you are as you are, fresh, untrammelled, without many prejudices which afflict other ladies, and free from bonds by which they are cramped and confined.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000034_000001|Of course such a turn of character is subject to certain dangers of its own."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000035_000000|"There is no doubt about the dangers.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000035_000001|The chances are that when I see her Grace I shall tell her what I think about her."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000036_000001|But do not let us quarrel about an old woman."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000038_000001|You do not know how constantly I carry you about with me."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000039_000000|"You carry a very unnecessary burden then," she said.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000039_000001|But he could tell at once from the altered tone of her voice, and from the light of her eye as he glanced into her face, that her anger about "The Robes" was appeased.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000040_000000|"I have done as you asked about a friend of yours," he said.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000041_000000|"What friend?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000042_000000|"mr
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000042_000001|Finn is to go to Ireland."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000043_000000|"Go to Ireland!--How do you mean?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000044_000000|"It is looked upon as being very great promotion.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000044_000001|Indeed I am told that he is considered to be the luckiest man in all the scramble."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000045_000000|"You don't mean as Chief Secretary?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000046_000000|"Yes, I do.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000046_000001|He certainly couldn't go as Lord Lieutenant."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000047_000000|"But they said that Barrington Erle was going to Ireland."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000048_000000|"Well; yes.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000048_000002|But mr Erle declined.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000048_000003|It seems that mr Erle is after all the one man in Parliament modest enough not to consider himself to be fit for any place that can be offered to him."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000049_000000|"Poor Barrington!
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000049_000001|He does not like the idea of crossing the Channel so often.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000049_000002|I quite sympathise with him.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000049_000003|And so Phineas is to be Secretary for Ireland!
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000049_000004|Not in the Cabinet?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000050_000000|"No;--not in the Cabinet.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000051_000000|"That is promotion, and I am glad!
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000051_000002|I hope they won't murder him, or anything of that kind.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000051_000003|They do murder people, you know, sometimes."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000052_000000|"He's an Irishman himself."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000053_000000|"That's just the reason why they should.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000053_000001|He must put up with that of course.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000053_000002|I wonder whether she'll like going.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000053_000003|They'll be able to spend money, which they always like, over there.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000053_000004|He comes backwards and forwards every week,--doesn't he?"
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000054_000000|"Not quite that, I believe."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000055_000001|I know you don't like her."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000056_000000|"I do like her.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000058_000000|"I have asked him to undertake the office," said the Duke solemnly, "because I am told that he is fit for it.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000058_000001|But I did have some pleasure in proposing it to him because I thought that it would please you."
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000059_000001|You can quite understand how necessary she is to me. But she is in truth the only woman in London to whom I can say what I think.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000060_000000|In this way the domestic peace of the Prime Minister was readjusted, and that sympathy and co-operation for which he had first asked was accorded to him.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000060_000001|It may be a question whether on the whole the Duchess did not work harder than he did.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000060_000002|She did not at first dare to expound to him those grand ideas which she had conceived in regard to magnificence and hospitality.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000060_000003|She said nothing of any extraordinary expenditure of money.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000060_000004|But she set herself to work after her own fashion, making to him suggestions as to dinners and evening receptions, to which he objected only on the score of time.
train-clean-100/4297/13009/4297_13009_000060_000005|"You must eat your dinner somewhere," she said, "and you need only come in just before we sit down, and go into your own room if you please without coming upstairs at all.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000002_000000|"'School is done, Now we'll have fun,"
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000004_000000|Tired teacher had dismissed them for eight whole weeks, and gone away to rest; the little school house was shut up, lessons were over, spirits rising fast, and vacation had begun.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000004_000001|The quiet town seemed suddenly inundated with children, all in such a rampant state that busy mothers wondered how they ever should be able to keep their frisky darlings out of mischief; thrifty fathers planned how they could bribe the idle hands to pick berries or rake hay; and the old folks, while wishing the young folks well, secretly blessed the man who invented schools.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000005_000000|The girls immediately began to talk about picnics, and have them, too; for little hats sprung up in the fields like a new sort of mushroom,--every hillside bloomed with gay gowns, looking as if the flowers had gone out for a walk; and the woods were full of featherless birds chirping away as blithely as the thrushes, robins, and wrens.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000006_000000|The boys took to base ball like ducks to water, and the common was the scene of tremendous battles, waged with much tumult, but little bloodshed.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000007_000000|Thorny was an excellent player, but, not being strong enough to show his prowess, he made Ben his proxy; and, sitting on the fence, acted as umpire to his heart's content.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000007_000001|Ben was a promising pupil, and made rapid progress; for eye, foot, and hand had been so well trained, that they did him good service now; and Brown was considered a first rate "catcher".
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000008_000001|Bab also longed to join in the fun, which suited her better than "stupid picnics" or "fussing over dolls;" but her heroes would not have her at any price; and she was obliged to content herself with sitting by Thorny, and watching with breathless interest the varying fortunes of "our side."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000009_000001|Thorny had gone out of town with his sister to pass the day, two of the best players did not appear, and the others were somewhat exhausted by the festivities, which began at sunrise for them.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000009_000002|So they lay about on the grass in the shade of the big elm, languidly discussing their various wrongs and disappointments.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000010_000000|"It's the meanest Fourth I ever saw.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000013_000000|"I wouldn't give two cents for such a slow old place as this.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000014_000000|"Catch me cuttin' away if I had such a chance as that!" answered Sam, trying to balance his bat on his chin and getting a smart rap across the nose as he failed to perform the feat.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000015_000000|"Much you know about it, old chap.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000015_000002|Then you are too big to begin, though you might do for a fat boy if Smithers wanted one," said Ben, surveying the stout youth, with calm contempt.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000016_000000|"Let's go in swimming, not loaf round here, if we can't play," proposed a red and shiny boy, panting for a game of leap frog in Sandy pond.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000017_000000|"May as well; don't see much else to do," sighed Sam, rising like a young elephant.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000019_000000|"Now, then, what's the matter?" demanded Ben, as the other came up grinning and puffing, but full of great news.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000020_000000|"Look here, read it!
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000021_000000|"Look out for the big show," read Sam.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000021_000002|Admission fifty cents, children half price. Don't forget day and date.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000023_000000|"Cricky! wouldn't I like to see that," said little Cyrus Fay, devoutly hoping that the cage, in which this pleasing spectacle took place, was a very strong one.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000024_000000|"You never would, it's only a picture!
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000024_000001|That, now, is something like," and Ben, who had pricked up his ears at the word "circus," laid his finger on a smaller cut of a man hanging by the back of his neck with a child in each hand, two men suspended from his feet, and the third swinging forward to alight on his head.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000027_000000|"Foot it with Billy.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000027_000001|It's only four miles, and we've got lots of time, so we can take it easy.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000028_000000|"Come on, Brown; you'll be a first rate fellow to show us round, as you know all the dodges," said Billy, anxious to get his money's worth.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000033_000000|Ben calmly produced a dollar bill and waved it defiantly before this doubter, observing with dignity:
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000034_000000|"I've got money enough to treat the whole crowd, if I choose to, which I don't."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000035_000001|We can buy some dinner and get a ride home, as like as not," said the amiable Billy, with a slap on the shoulder, and a cordial grin which made it impossible for Ben to resist.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000036_000000|"What are you stopping for?" demanded Sam, ready to be off, that they might "take it easy."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000037_000000|"Don't know what to do with Sancho.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000039_000000|"No, I won't; I don't like him.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000041_000000|Down it jumped and Came fluttering up, much elated at being summoned by the captain of the sacred nine.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000042_000000|"I want you to take Sanch home, and tell your mother I'm going to walk, and may be won't be back till sundown.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000043_000001|It was a mistake on Ben's part, for while his eyes were on his work Bab's were devouring the bill which Sam still held, and her suspicions were aroused by the boys' faces.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000044_000000|"Where are you going?
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000045_000001|You just catch hold of this and run along home.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000045_000002|Lock Sanch up for an hour, and tell your mother I'm all right," answered Ben, bound to assert his manly supremacy before his mates.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000047_000000|"Circus!
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000047_000001|Oh, Ben, do take me!" cried Bab, falling into a state of great excitement at the mere thought of such delight.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000048_000000|"You couldn't walk four miles," began Ben.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000049_000000|"Yes, I could, as easy as not."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000050_000000|"You haven't got any money."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000051_000000|"You have; I saw you showing your dollar, and you could pay for me, and Ma would pay it back."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000052_000000|"Can't wait for you to get ready."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000053_000000|"I'll go as I am.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000053_000001|I don't care if it is my old hat," and Bab jerked it on to her head.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000054_000000|"Your mother wouldn't like it."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000055_000000|"She won't like your going, either."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000056_000001|Miss Celia wouldn't care, and I'm going, any way."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000057_000000|"Do, do take me, Ben!
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000058_000000|"Don't you bother; we don't want any girls tagging after us," said Sam, walking off to escape the annoyance.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000059_000000|"I'll bring you a roll of chickerberry lozengers, if you won't tease," whispered kind hearted Billy, with a consoling pat on the crown of the shabby straw hat.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000060_000000|"When the circus comes here you shall go, certain sure, and Betty too," said Ben, feeling mean while he proposed what he knew was a hollow mockery.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000061_000000|"They never do come to such little towns; you said so, and I think you are very cross, and I won't take care of Sanch, so, now!" cried Bab, getting into a passion, yet ready to cry, she was so disappointed.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000062_000000|"I Suppose it wouldn't do-" hinted Billy, with a look from Ben to the little girl, who stood winking hard to keep the tears back.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000063_000000|"Of Course it wouldn't.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000063_000001|I'd like to see her walking eight miles.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000063_000002|I don't mind paying for her; it's getting her there and back.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000063_000004|No, Bab, you can't go. Travel right home and don't make a fuss.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000064_000000|Ben spoke very decidedly; and, taking Billy's arm, away they went, leaving poor Bab and Sanch to watch them out of sight, one sobbing, the other whining dismally.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000065_000000|Somehow those two figures seemed to go before Ben all along the pleasant road, and half spoilt his fun; for though he laughed and talked, cut canes, and seemed as merry as a grig, he could not help feeling that he ought to have asked leave to go, and been kinder to Bab.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000066_000000|"Perhaps mrs Moss would have planned somehow so we could all go, if I'd told her, I'd like to show her round, and she's been real good to me.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000066_000001|No use now.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000066_000002|I'll take the girls a lot of candy and make it all right."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000068_000000|It was very warm; and just outside of the town they paused by a wayside watering trough to wash their dusty faces, and cool off before plunging into the excitements of the afternoon.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000068_000002|A supply of gingerbread was soon bought; and, climbing the green bank above, they lay on the grass under a wild cherry tree, munching luxuriously, while they feasted their eyes at the same time on the splendors awaiting them; for the great tent, with all its flags flying, was visible from the hill.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000069_000001|I want to have a good go at every thing, especially the lions," said Sam, beginning on his last cookie.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000070_000000|"I heard 'em roar just now;" and Billy stood up to gaze with big eyes at the flapping canvas which hid the king of beasts from his longing sight.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000071_000000|"That was a cow mooing.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000071_000001|Don't you be a donkey, Bill.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000072_000000|"I wish you'd hurry up, Sam.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000072_000001|Folks are going in now.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000073_000000|"Hold on a minute, while I get one more drink.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000076_000000|Such a shabby, tired looking couple as they were!
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000076_000001|Bab with a face as red as a lobster and streaked with tears, shoes white with dust, playfrock torn at the gathers, something bundled up in her apron, and one shoe down at the heel as if it hurt her.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000076_000002|Sancho lapped eagerly, with his eyes shut; all his ruffles were gray with dust, and his tail hung wearily down, the tassel at half mast, as if in mourning for the master whom he had come to find.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000076_000003|Bab still held the strap, intent on keeping her charge safe, though she lost herself; but her courage seemed to be giving out, as she looked anxiously up and down the road, seeing no sign of the three familiar figures she had been following as steadily as a little Indian on the war trail.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000077_000001|We must have gone by them somewhere, for I don't see any one that way, and there isn't any other road to the circus, seems to me."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000079_000000|"It's only squirrels; don't mind, but come along and be good; for I 'm so tired, I don't know what to do!" sighed Bab, trying to pull him after her as she trudged on, bound to see the outside of that wonderful tent, even if she never got in.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000082_000000|"How dared you come after us, miss?" demanded Sam, as she looked calmly about her, and took a seat before she was asked.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000083_000000|"Sanch would come after Ben; I couldn't make him go home, so I had to hold on till he was safe here, else he'd be lost, and then Ben would feel bad."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000085_000000|"Now you expect to go to the circus, I suppose."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000086_000000|"Course I do.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000086_000001|Ben said he didn't mind paying, if I could get there without bothering him, and I have; and I'll go home alone.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000086_000003|Sanch will take care of me, if you won't," answered Bab, stoutly.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000087_000000|"What do you suppose your mother will say to you?" asked Ben, feeling much reproached by her last words.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000089_000000|"You'll catch it when you get home, Ben; so you'd better have a good time while you can," advised Sam, thinking Bab great fun, since none of the blame of her pranks would fall on him.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000089_000001|"What would you have done if you hadn't found us?" asked Billy, forgetting his impatience in his admiration for this plucky young lady.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000092_000000|"Oh, I'd ask somebody to pay for me.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000092_000001|I 'm so little, it wouldn't be much."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000093_000000|"Nobody would do it; so you'd have to stay outside, you see."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000094_000001|I thought of that, and planned how I'd fix it if I didn't find Ben.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000095_000001|You are a smart child, Bab; and if I had enough I'd take you in myself," said Billy, heartily; for, having sisters of his own, he kept a soft place in his heart for girls, especially enterprising ones.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000096_000000|"I'll take care of her.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000098_000000|"Are you hungry?" asked Billy, fishing out several fragments of gingerbread.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000100_000000|"Now, you wash your face and spat down your hair, and put your hat on straight, and then we'll go," commanded Ben, giving Sanch a roll on the grass to clean him.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000101_000000|Bab scrubbed her face till it shone; and, pulling down her apron to wipe it, scattered a load of treasures collected in her walk.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000101_000001|Some of the dead flowers, bits of moss, and green twigs fell near Ben, and one attracted his attention,--a spray of broad, smooth leaves, with a bunch of whitish berries on it.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000102_000000|"Where did you get that?" he asked, poking it with his foot.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000103_000000|"In a swampy place, coming along.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000103_000001|Sanch saw something down there; and I went with him, 'cause I thought may be it was a musk rat, and you'd like one if we could get him."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000105_000000|"No; only a snake, and I don't care for snakes.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000105_000001|I picked some of that, it was so green and pretty.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000105_000002|Thorny likes queer leaves and berries, you know," answered Bab, "spatting," down her rough locks.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000106_000000|"Well, he won't like that, nor you either; it's poisonous, and I shouldn't wonder if you'd got poisoned, Bab.
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000107_000000|"Will it break out on me 'fore I get to the circus?"
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000108_000000|"Not for a day or so, I guess; but it's bad when it does come."
train-clean-100/4340/15220/4340_15220_000109_000000|"I don't care, if I see the animals first.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000000_000001|A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000001_000000|Toward the end of summer, after a light, open winter, one may reach the summit of Mount Shasta without passing over much snow, by keeping on the crest of a long narrow ridge, mostly bare, that extends from near the camp ground at the timberline.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000001_000001|But on my first excursion to the summit the whole mountain, down to its low swelling base, was smoothly laden with loose fresh snow, presenting a most glorious mass of winter mountain scenery, in the midst of which I scrambled and reveled or lay snugly snowbound, enjoying the fertile clouds and the snow bloom in all their growing, drifting grandeur.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000002_000000|I had walked from Redding, sauntering leisurely from station to station along the old Oregon stage road, the better to see the rocks and plants, birds and people, by the way, tracing the rushing Sacramento to its fountains around icy Shasta.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000002_000001|The first rains had fallen on the lowlands, and the first snows on the mountains, and everything was fresh and bracing, while an abundance of balmy sunshine filled all the noonday hours.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000002_000004|They were then on their way south to their winter homes, leading their young full fledged and about as large and strong as the parents.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000002_000005|Squirrels, dry and elastic after the storms, were busy about their stores of pine nuts, and the latest goldenrods were still in bloom, though it was now past the middle of October.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000002_000006|The grand color glow-the autumnal jubilee of ripe leaves-was past prime, but, freshened by the rain, was still making a fine show along the banks of the river and in the ravines and the dells of the smaller streams.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000003_000000|At the salmon hatching establishment on the McCloud River I halted a week to examine the limestone belt, grandly developed there, to learn what I could of the inhabitants of the river and its banks, and to give time for the fresh snow that I knew had fallen on the mountain to settle somewhat, with a view to making the ascent.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000003_000001|A pedestrian on these mountain roads, especially so late in the year, is sure to excite curiosity, and many were the interrogations concerning my ramble.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000003_000002|When I said that I was simply taking a walk, and that icy Shasta was my mark, I was invariably admonished that I had come on a dangerous quest.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000003_000003|The time was far too late, the snow was too loose and deep to climb, and I should be lost in drifts and slides.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000003_000004|When I hinted that new snow was beautiful and storms not so bad as they were called, my advisers shook their heads in token of superior knowledge and declared the ascent of "Shasta Butte" through loose snow impossible.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000003_000005|Nevertheless, before noon of the second of November I was in the frosty azure of the utmost summit.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000004_000000|When I arrived at Sisson's everything was quiet.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000004_000002|My barometer and the sighing winds and filmy half transparent clouds that dimmed the sunshine gave notice of the approach of another storm, and I was in haste to be off and get myself established somewhere in the midst of it, whether the summit was to be attained or not.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000004_000003|Sisson, who is a mountaineer, speedily fitted me out for storm or calm as only a mountaineer could, with warm blankets and a week's provisions so generous in quantity and kind that they easily might have been made to last a month in case of my being closely snowbound.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000004_000004|Well I knew the weariness of snow climbing, and the frosts, and the dangers of mountaineering so late in the year; therefore I could not ask a guide to go with me, even had one been willing.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000004_000005|All I wanted was to have blankets and provisions deposited as far up in the timber as the snow would permit a pack animal to go.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000005_000001|The animals began to get discouraged, and after night and darkness came on they became entangled in a bed of rough lava, where, breaking through four or five feet of mealy snow, their feet were caught between angular boulders.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000005_000002|Here they were in danger of being lost, but after we had removed packs and saddles and assisted their efforts with ropes, they all escaped to the side of a ridge about a thousand feet below the timberline.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000006_000000|To go farther was out of the question, so we were compelled to camp as best we could.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000006_000001|A pitch pine fire speedily changed the temperature and shed a blaze of light on the wild lava slope and the straggling storm bent pines around us.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000006_000002|Melted snow answered for coffee, and we had plenty of venison to roast.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000006_000003|Toward midnight I rolled myself in my blankets, slept an hour and a half, arose and ate more venison, tied two days' provisions to my belt, and set out for the summit, hoping to reach it ere the coming storm should fall.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000006_000004|Jerome accompanied me a little distance above camp and indicated the way as well as he could in the darkness.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000006_000005|He seemed loath to leave me, but, being reassured that I was at home and required no care, he bade me good bye and returned to camp, ready to lead his animals down the mountain at daybreak.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000007_000001|When day dawned the clouds were crawling slowly and becoming more massive, but gave no intimation of immediate danger, and I pushed on faithfully, though holding myself well in hand, ready to return to the timber; for it was easy to see that the storm was not far off.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000007_000002|The mountain rises ten thousand feet above the general level of the country, in blank exposure to the deep upper currents of the sky, and no labyrinth of peaks and canyons I had ever been in seemed to me so dangerous as these immense slopes, bare against the sky.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000000|The frost was intense, and drifting snow dust made breathing at times rather difficult.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000001|The snow was as dry as meal, and the finer particles drifted freely, rising high in the air, while the larger portions of the crystals rolled like sand.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000002|I frequently sank to my armpits between buried blocks of loose lava, but generally only to my knees.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000003|When tired with walking I still wallowed slowly upward on all fours.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000004|The steepness of the slope-thirty five degrees in some places-made any kind of progress fatiguing, while small avalanches were being constantly set in motion in the steepest places.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000005|But the bracing air and the sublime beauty of the snowy expanse thrilled every nerve and made absolute exhaustion impossible.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000008_000006|I seemed to be walking and wallowing in a cloud; but, holding steadily onward, by half past ten o'clock I had gained the highest summit.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000009_000000|I held my commanding foothold in the sky for two hours, gazing on the glorious landscapes spread maplike around the immense horizon, and tracing the outlines of the ancient lava streams extending far into the surrounding plains, and the pathways of vanished glaciers of which Shasta had been the center.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000009_000001|But, as I had left my coat in camp for the sake of having my limbs free in climbing, I soon was cold.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000009_000002|The wind increased in violence, raising the snow in magnificent drifts that were drawn out in the form of wavering banners blowing in the sun
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000009_000003|Toward the end of my stay a succession of small clouds struck against the summit rocks like drifting icebergs, darkening the air as they passed, and producing a chill as definite and sudden as if ice water had been dashed in my face.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000009_000004|This is the kind of cloud in which snow flowers grow, and I turned and fled.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000010_000001|I reached camp about an hour before dusk, hollowed a strip of loose ground in the lee of a large block of red lava, where firewood was abundant, rolled myself in my blankets, and went to sleep.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000011_000000|Next morning, having slept little the night before the ascent and being weary with climbing after the excitement was over, I slept late.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000011_000001|Then, awaking suddenly, my eyes opened on one of the most beautiful and sublime scenes I ever enjoyed.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000012_000000|I gazed enchanted, but cold gray masses, drifting like dust on a wind swept plain, began to shut out the light, forerunners of the coming storm I had been so anxiously watching.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000012_000002|The storm side of my blankets was fastened down with stakes to reduce as much as possible the sifting in of drift and the danger of being blown away.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000012_000003|The precious bread sack was placed safely as a pillow, and when at length the first flakes fell I was exultingly ready to welcome them.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000012_000004|Most of my firewood was more than half rosin and would blaze in the face of the fiercest drifting; the winds could not demolish my bed, and my bread could be made to last indefinitely; while in case of need I had the means of making snowshoes and could retreat or hold my ground as I pleased.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000013_000001|The wind swept past in hissing floods, grinding the snow into meal and sweeping down into the hollows in enormous drifts all the heavier particles, while the finer dust was sifted through the sky, increasing the icy gloom.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000013_000002|But my fire glowed bravely as if in glad defiance of the drift to quench it, and, notwithstanding but little trace of my nest could be seen after the snow had leveled and buried it, I was snug and warm, and the passionate uproar produced a glad excitement.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000014_000000|Day after day the storm continued, piling snow on snow in weariless abundance.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000014_000002|During these calm intervals I replenished my fire-sometimes without leaving the nest, for fire and woodpile were so near this could easily be done-or busied myself with my notebook, watching the gestures of the trees in taking the snow, examining separate crystals under a lens, and learning the methods of their deposition as an enduring fountain for the streams.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000014_000003|Several times, when the storm ceased for a few minutes, a Douglas squirrel came frisking from the foot of a clump of dwarf pines, moving in sudden interrupted spurts over the bossy snow; then, without any apparent guidance, he would dig rapidly into the drift where were buried some grains of barley that the horses had left.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000014_000004|The Douglas squirrel does not strictly belong to these upper woods, and I was surprised to see him out in such weather.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000014_000005|The mountain sheep also, quite a large flock of them, came to my camp and took shelter beside a clump of matted dwarf pines a little above my nest.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000015_000000|The storm lasted about a week, but before it was ended Sisson became alarmed and sent up the guide with animals to see what had become of me and recover the camp outfit.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000015_000002|On the fifth day I returned to Sisson's, and from that comfortable base made excursions, as the weather permitted, to the Black Butte, to the foot of the Whitney Glacier, around the base of the mountain, to Rhett and Klamath Lakes, to the Modoc region and elsewhere, developing many interesting scenes and experiences.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000016_000000|But the next spring, on the other side of this eventful winter, I saw and felt still more of the Shasta snow.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000017_000000|On the twenty eighth of April [eighteen seventy five] I led a party up the mountain for the purpose of making a survey of the summit with reference to the location of the Geodetic monument.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000017_000001|On the thirtieth, accompanied by Jerome Fay, I made another ascent to make some barometrical observations, the day intervening between the two ascents being devoted to establishing a camp on the extreme edge of the timberline.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000017_000002|Here, on our red trachyte bed, we obtained two hours of shallow sleep broken for occasional glimpses of the keen, starry night.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000018_000000|The slight weariness of the ascent was soon rested away, and our glorious morning in the sky promised nothing but enjoyment.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000018_000001|At nine a m the dry thermometer stood at thirty four degrees in the shade and rose steadily until at one p m it stood at fifty degrees, probably influenced somewhat by radiation from the sun warmed cliffs.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000018_000002|A common bumblebee, not at all benumbed, zigzagged vigorously about our heads for a few moments, as if unconscious of the fact that the nearest honey flower was a mile beneath him.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000000|In the mean time clouds were growing down in Shasta Valley-massive swelling cumuli, displaying delicious tones of purple and gray in the hollows of their sun beaten bosses.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000001|Extending gradually southward around on both sides of Shasta, these at length united with the older field towards Lassen's Butte, thus encircling Mount Shasta in one continuous cloud zone.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000002|Rhett and Klamath Lakes were eclipsed beneath clouds scarcely less brilliant than their own silvery disks.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000004|The creative sun shone glorious on the vast expanse of cloudland; hill and dale, mountain and valley springing into existence responsive to his rays and steadily developing in beauty and individuality.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000005|One huge mountain cone of cloud, corresponding to Mount Shasta in these newborn cloud ranges, rose close alongside with a visible motion, its firm, polished bosses seeming so near and substantial that we almost fancied that we might leap down upon them from where we stood and make our way to the lowlands.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000006|No hint was given, by anything in their appearance, of the fleeting character of these most sublime and beautiful cloud mountains.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000019_000007|On the contrary they impressed one as being lasting additions to the landscape.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000020_000000|The weather of the springtime and summer, throughout the Sierra in general, is usually varied by slight local rains and dustings of snow, most of which are obviously far too joyous and life giving to be regarded as storms-single clouds growing in the sunny sky, ripening in an hour, showering the heated landscape, and passing away like a thought, leaving no visible bodily remains to stain the sky.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000020_000001|Snowstorms of the same gentle kind abound among the high peaks, but in spring they not unfrequently attain larger proportions, assuming a violence and energy of expression scarcely surpassed by those bred in the depths of winter.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000020_000002|Such was the storm now gathering about us.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000021_000001|Jerome peered at short intervals over the ridge, contemplating the rising clouds with anxious gestures in the rough wind, and at length declared that if we did not make a speedy escape we should be compelled to pass the rest of the day and night on the summit.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000021_000002|But anxiety to complete my observations stifled my own instinctive promptings to retreat, and held me to my work.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000021_000003|No inexperienced person was depending on me, and I told Jerome that we two mountaineers should be able to make our way down through any storm likely to fall.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000022_000000|Presently thin, fibrous films of cloud began to blow directly over the summit from north to south, drawn out in long fairy webs like carded wool, forming and dissolving as if by magic.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000022_000001|The wind twisted them into ringlets and whirled them in a succession of graceful convolutions like the outside sprays of Yosemite Falls in flood time; then, sailing out into the thin azure over the precipitous brink of the ridge they were drifted together like wreaths of foam on a river.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000022_000002|These higher and finer cloud fabrics were evidently produced by the chilling of the air from its own expansion caused by the upward deflection of the wind against the slopes of the mountain.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000022_000004|The sky speedily darkened, and just as I had completed my last observation and boxed my instruments ready for the descent, the storm began in serious earnest.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000022_000005|At first the cliffs were beaten with hail, every stone of which, as far as I could see, was regular in form, six sided pyramids with rounded base, rich and sumptuous looking, and fashioned with loving care, yet seemingly thrown away on those desolate crags down which they went rolling, falling, sliding in a network of curious streams.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000023_000000|After we had forced our way down the ridge and past the group of hissing fumaroles, the storm became inconceivably violent.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000023_000001|The thermometer fell twenty two degrees in a few minutes, and soon dropped below zero.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000023_000002|The hail gave place to snow, and darkness came on like night.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000023_000003|The wind, rising to the highest pitch of violence, boomed and surged amid the desolate crags; lightning flashes in quick succession cut the gloomy darkness; and the thunders, the most tremendously loud and appalling I ever heard, made an almost continuous roar, stroke following stroke in quick, passionate succession, as though the mountain were being rent to its foundations and the fires of the old volcano were breaking forth again.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000024_000000|Could we at once have begun to descend the snow slopes leading to the timber, we might have made good our escape, however dark and wild the storm.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000024_000001|As it was, we had first to make our way along a dangerous ridge nearly a mile and a half long, flanked in many places by steep ice slopes at the head of the Whitney Glacier on one side and by shattered precipices on the other.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000024_000002|Apprehensive of this coming darkness, I had taken the precaution, when the storm began, to make the most dangerous points clear to my mind, and to mark their relations with reference to the direction of the wind.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000024_000003|When, therefore, the darkness came on, and the bewildering drift, I felt confident that we could force our way through it with no other guidance.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000024_000004|After passing the "Hot Springs" I halted in the lee of a lava block to let Jerome, who had fallen a little behind, come up.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000024_000005|Here he opened a council in which, under circumstances sufficiently exciting but without evincing any bewilderment, he maintained, in opposition to my views, that it was impossible to proceed.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000025_000000|Our discussions ended, Jerome made a dash from the shelter of the lava block and began forcing his way back against the wind to the "Hot Springs," wavering and struggling to resist being carried away, as if he were fording a rapid stream.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000025_000001|After waiting and watching in vain for some flaw in the storm that might be urged as a new argument in favor of attempting the descent, I was compelled to follow.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000025_000003|We shall have to wait for sunshine, and when will it come?"
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000026_000000|The tempered area to which we had committed ourselves extended over about one fourth of an acre; but it was only about an eighth of an inch in thickness, for the scalding gas jets were shorn off close to the ground by the oversweeping flood of frosty wind.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000026_000001|And how lavishly the snow fell only mountaineers may know.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000026_000002|The crisp crystal flowers seemed to touch one another and fairly to thicken the tremendous blast that carried them.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000026_000003|This was the bloom time, the summer of the cloud, and never before have I seen even a mountain cloud flowering so profusely.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000027_000001|But the bloom of this fertile snow cloud grew and matured and fell to a depth of two feet in a few hours.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000027_000002|Some crystals landed with their rays almost perfect, but most of them were worn and broken by striking against one another, or by rolling on the ground.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000027_000003|The touch of these snow flowers in calm weather is infinitely gentle-glinting, swaying, settling silently in the dry mountain air, or massed in flakes soft and downy.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000027_000004|To lie out alone in the mountains of a still night and be touched by the first of these small silent messengers from the sky is a memorable experience, and the fineness of that touch none will forget. But the storm blast laden with crisp, sharp snow seems to crush and bruise and stupefy with its multitude of stings, and compels the bravest to turn and flee.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000028_000001|Up to the time the storm first broke on the summit its development was remarkably gentle.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000028_000002|There was a deliberate growth of clouds, a weaving of translucent tissue above, then the roar of the wind and the thunder, and the darkening flight of snow. Its subsidence was not less sudden.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000028_000003|The clouds broke and vanished, not a crystal was left in the sky, and the stars shone out with pure and tranquil radiance.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000029_000000|During the storm we lay on our backs so as to present as little surface as possible to the wind, and to let the drift pass over us.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000029_000001|The mealy snow sifted into the folds of our clothing and in many places reached the skin.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000029_000002|We were glad at first to see the snow packing about us, hoping it would deaden the force of the wind, but it soon froze into a stiff, crusty heap as the temperature fell, rather augmenting our novel misery.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000030_000000|When the heat became unendurable, on some spot where steam was escaping through the sludge, we tried to stop it with snow and mud, or shifted a little at a time by shoving with our heels; for to stand in blank exposure to the fearful wind in our frozen and broiled condition seemed certain death.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000030_000001|The acrid incrustations sublimed from the escaping gases frequently gave way, opening new vents to scald us; and, fearing that if at any time the wind should fall, carbonic acid, which often formed a considerable portion of the gaseous exhalations of volcanoes, might collect in sufficient quantities to cause sleep and death, I warned Jerome against forgetting himself for a single moment, even should his sufferings admit of such a thing.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000031_000000|Accordingly, when during the long, dreary watches of the night we roused from a state of half consciousness, we called each other by name in a frightened, startled way, each fearing the other might be benumbed or dead.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000031_000001|The ordinary sensations of cold give but a faint conception of that which comes on after hard climbing with want of food and sleep in such exposure as this.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000031_000002|Life is then seen to be a fire, that now smoulders, now brightens, and may be easily quenched.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000031_000003|The weary hours wore away like dim half forgotten years, so long and eventful they seemed, though we did nothing but suffer.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000031_000004|Still the pain was not always of that bitter, intense kind that precludes thought and takes away all capacity for enjoyment.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000000|Frozen, blistered, famished, benumbed, our bodies seemed lost to us at times-all dead but the eyes.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000001|For the duller and fainter we became the clearer was our vision, though only in momentary glimpses.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000002|Then, after the sky cleared, we gazed at the stars, blessed immortals of light, shining with marvelous brightness with long lance rays, near looking and new looking, as if never seen before.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000003|Again they would look familiar and remind us of stargazing at home.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000004|Oftentimes imagination coming into play would present charming pictures of the warm zone below, mingled with others near and far.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000005|Then the bitter wind and the drift would break the blissful vision and dreary pains cover us like clouds.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000032_000006|"Are you suffering much?" Jerome would inquire with pitiful faintness.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000033_000001|In about thirteen hours-every hour like a year-day began to dawn, but it was long ere the summit's rocks were touched by the sun No clouds were visible from where we lay, yet the morning was dull and blue, and bitterly frosty; and hour after hour passed by while we eagerly watched the pale light stealing down the ridge to the hollow where we lay.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000033_000002|But there was not a trace of that warm, flushing sunrise splendor we so long had hoped for.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000034_000001|Mountaineers, however, always find in themselves a reserve of power after great exhaustion.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000034_000002|It is a kind of second life, available only in emergencies like this; and, having proved its existence, I had no great fear that either of us would fail, though one of my arms was already benumbed and hung powerless.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000035_000000|At length, after the temperature was somewhat mitigated on this memorable first of May, we arose and began to struggle homeward.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000035_000001|Our frozen trousers could scarcely be made to bend at the knee, and we waded the snow with difficulty.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000035_000002|The summit ridge was fortunately wind swept and nearly bare, so we were not compelled to lift our feet high, and on reaching the long home slopes laden with loose snow we made rapid progress, sliding and shuffling and pitching headlong, our feebleness accelerating rather than diminishing our speed.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000035_000004|At ten a m we reached the timber and were safe.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000036_000001|After breaking a trail through the snow as far as possible he had tied his animals and walked up.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000036_000002|We had been so long without food that we cared but little about eating, but we eagerly drank the coffee he prepared for us.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000036_000003|Our feet were frozen, and thawing them was painful, and had to be done very slowly by keeping them buried in soft snow for several hours, which avoided permanent damage. Five thousand feet below the summit we found only three inches of new snow, and at the base of the mountain only a slight shower of rain had fallen, showing how local our storm had been, notwithstanding its terrific fury.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000036_000004|Our feet were wrapped in sacking, and we were soon mounted and on our way down into the thick sunshine-"God's Country," as Sisson calls the Chaparral Zone.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000036_000006|Violets appeared along the edges of the trail, and the chaparral was coming into bloom, with young lilies and larkspurs about the open places in rich profusion.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000036_000008|All my friends among the birds and plants seemed like OLD friends, and we felt like speaking to every one of them as we passed, as if we had been a long time away in some far, strange country.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000037_000000|In the afternoon we reached Strawberry Valley and fell asleep.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000037_000001|Next morning we seemed to have risen from the dead.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000037_000002|My bedroom was flooded with sunshine, and from the window I saw the great white Shasta cone clad in forests and clouds and bearing them loftily in the sky. Everything seemed full and radiant with the freshness and beauty and enthusiasm of youth.
train-clean-100/4362/15663/4362_15663_000037_000003|Sisson's children came in with flowers and covered my bed, and the storm on the mountaintop banished like a dream.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000003_000000|With reference to the development of fertile storms bearing snow and rain, the greater portion of the calendar springtime of Utah has been winter.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000003_000004|To me it seemed a cordial outpouring of Nature's love; but it is easy to differ with salt Latter Days in everything-storms, wives, politics, and religion.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000004_000001|Nevertheless, distant objects along the boundaries of the landscape were revealed with wonderful distinctness in this weird, subdued, cloud sifted light.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000004_000002|The mountains, in particular, with the forests on their flanks, their mazy lacelike canyons, the wombs of the ancient glaciers, and their marvelous profusion of ornate sculpture, were most impressively manifest.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000005_000001|Of these partial storms there were soon ten or twelve, arranged in two rows, while the main Jordan Valley between them lay as yet in profound calm.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000005_000002|At four thirty p m a dark brownish cloud appeared close down on the plain towards the lake, extending from the northern extremity of the Oquirrh Range in a northeasterly direction as far as the eye could reach.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000005_000004|Scarcely was it in plain sight ere it was upon us, racing across the Jordan, over the city, and up the slopes of the Wahsatch, eclipsing all the landscapes in its course-the bending trees, the dust streamers, and the wild onrush of everything movable giving it an appreciable visibility that rendered it grand and inspiring.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000007_000000|Notwithstanding the vaunted refining influences of towns, purity of all kinds-pure hearts, pure streams, pure snow-must here be exposed to terrible trials.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000007_000001|City Creek, coming from its high glacial fountains, enters the streets of this Mormon Zion pure as an angel, but how does it leave it?
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000007_000006|I should like to see how mr Young, the Lake Prophet, would meet such messengers.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000008_000000|But to return to the storm.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000008_000001|Toward the evening of the eighteenth it began to wither.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000008_000002|The snowy skirts of the Wahsatch Mountains appeared beneath the lifting fringes of the clouds, and the sun shone out through colored windows, producing one of the most glorious after storm effects I ever witnessed.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000008_000004|Surely nothing in heaven, nor any mansion of the Lord in all his worlds, could be more gloriously carpeted.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000008_000006|Earth and sky, round and round the entire landscape, was one ravishing revelation of color, infinitely varied and interblended.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000009_000000|I have seen many a glorious sunset beneath lifting storm clouds on the mountains, but nothing comparable with this.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000009_000001|I felt as if new arrived in some other far off world.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000009_000002|The mountains, the plains, the sky, all seemed new.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000009_000003|Other experiences seemed but to have prepared me for this, as souls are prepared for heaven.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000009_000005|The disbanding clouds lingered lovingly about the mountains, filling the canyons like tinted wool, rising and drooping around the topmost peaks, fondling their rugged bases, or, sailing alongside, trailed their lustrous fringes through the pines as if taking a last view of their accomplished work.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000009_000006|Then came darkness, and the glorious day was done.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000010_000001|They are covered with common sunshine.
train-clean-100/4397/15666/4397_15666_000010_000002|Down here on the banks of the Jordan, larks and redwings are swinging on the rushes; the balmy air is instinct with immortal life; the wild flowers, the grass, and the farmers' grain are fresh as if, like the snow, they had come out of heaven, and the last of the angel clouds are fleeing from the mountains.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000003_000000|Lilies are rare in Utah; so also are their companions the ferns and orchids, chiefly on account of the fiery saltness of the soil and climate.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000003_000001|You may walk the deserts of the Great Basin in the bloom time of the year, all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the snowy Wahsatch, and your eyes will be filled with many a gay malva, and poppy, and abronia, and cactus, but you may not see a single true lily, and only a very few liliaceous plants of any kind.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000003_000002|Not even in the cool, fresh glens of the mountains will you find these favorite flowers, though some of these desert ranges almost rival the Sierra in height. Nevertheless, in the building and planting of this grand Territory the lilies were not forgotten.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000003_000004|She considered the lilies, and, while planting the plains with sage and the hills with cedar, she has covered at least one mountain with golden erythroniums and fritillarias as its crowning glory, as if willing to show what she could do in the lily line even here.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000004_000000|Looking southward from the south end of Salt Lake, the two northmost peaks of the Oquirrh Range are seen swelling calmly into the cool sky without any marked character, excepting only their snow crowns, and a few weedy looking patches of spruce and fir, the simplicity of their slopes preventing their real loftiness from being appreciated.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000005_000000|While standing at their feet, the other day, shortly after my memorable excursion among the salt waves of the lake, I said: "Now I shall have another baptism.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000005_000001|I will bathe in the high sky, among cool wind waves from the snow." From the more southerly of the two peaks a long ridge comes down, bent like a bow, one end in the hot plains, the other in the snow of the summit.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000005_000002|After carefully scanning the jagged towers and battlements with which it is roughened, I determined to make it my way, though it presented but a feeble advertisement of its floral wealth. This apparent barrenness, however, made no great objection just then, for I was scarce hoping for flowers, old or new, or even for fine scenery.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000005_000003|I wanted in particular to learn what the Oquirrh rocks were made of, what trees composed the curious patches of forest; and, perhaps more than all, I was animated by a mountaineer's eagerness to get my feet into the snow once more, and my head into the clear sky, after lying dormant all winter at the level of the sea.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000007_000000|Two liliaceous plants in particular, Erythronium grandiflorum and Fritillaria pudica, are marvelously beautiful and abundant.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000007_000003|If the neighboring mountains are as rich in lilies, then this may well be called the Lily Range.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000008_000000|After climbing about a thousand feet above the plain I came to a picturesque mass of rock, cropping up through the underbrush on one of the steepest slopes of the mountain.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000008_000002|They were growing in a small, nestlike opening between the rock and the bushes, and both the erythronium and the fritillaria were in full flower.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000008_000003|These were the first of the species I had seen, and I need not try to tell the joy they made.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000009_000001|They extend horizontally in opposite directions, and form a beautiful glossy ground, over which the one large down looking flower is swung from a simple stem, the petals being strongly recurved, like those of Lilium superbum.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000009_000002|Occasionally a specimen is met which has from two to five flowers hung in a loose panicle.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000009_000003|People oftentimes travel far to see curious plants like the carnivorous darlingtonia, the fly catcher, the walking fern, etc
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000009_000004|I hardly know how the little bells I have been describing would be regarded by seekers of this class, but every true flower lover who comes to consider these Utah lilies will surely be well rewarded, however long the way.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000010_000000|Pushing on up the rugged slopes, I found many delightful seclusions-moist nooks at the foot of cliffs, and lilies in every one of them, not growing close together like daisies, but well apart, with plenty of room for their bells to swing free and ring.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000010_000002|In winter only the bulbs are alive, sleeping deep beneath the ground, like field mice in their nests; then the snow flowers fall above them, lilies over lilies, until the spring winds blow, and these winter lilies wither in turn; then the hiding erythroniums and fritillarias rise again, responsive to the first touches of the sun
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000011_000000|I noticed the tracks of deer in many places among the lily gardens, and at the height of about seven thousand feet I came upon the fresh trail of a flock of wild sheep, showing that these fine mountaineers still flourish here above the range of Mormon rifles.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000011_000001|In the planting of her wild gardens, Nature takes the feet and teeth of her flocks into account, and makes use of them to trim and cultivate, and keep them in order, as the bark and buds of the tree are tended by woodpeckers and linnets.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000012_000002|It seems to be quite abundant on many of the eastern mountains of the basin, and forms a marked feature of their upper forests.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000013_000001|The shorelines, marked by a ribbon of white sand, were seen sweeping around many a bay and promontory in elegant curves, and picturesque islands rising to mountain heights, and some of them capped with pearly cumuli.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000013_000002|And the wide prairie of water glowing in the gold and purple of evening presented all the colors that tint the lips of shells and the petals of lilies-the most beautiful lake this side of the Rocky Mountains.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000014_000000|Descending the mountain, I followed the windings of the main central glen on the north, gathering specimens of the cones and sprays of the evergreens, and most of the other new plants I had met; but the lilies formed the crowning glory of my bouquet-the grandest I had carried in many a day.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000014_000001|I reached the hotel on the lake about dusk with all my fresh riches, and my first mountain ramble in Utah was accomplished.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000015_000001|One of these lilies, the calochortus, several species of which are well known in California as the "Mariposa tulips," has received great consideration at the hands of the Mormons, for to it hundreds of them owe their lives.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000015_000002|During the famine years between eighteen fifty three and eighteen fifty eight, great destitution prevailed, especially in the southern settlements, on account of drouth and grasshoppers, and throughout one hungry winter in particular, thousands of the people subsisted chiefly on the bulbs of the tulips, called "sego" by the Indians, who taught them its use.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000016_000001|They have seen too much hard, repressive toil to admit of the development of lily beauty either in form or color.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000016_000002|In general they are thickset, with large feet and hands, and with sun browned faces, often curiously freckled like the petals of Fritillaria atropurpurea.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000016_000003|They are fruit rather than flower-good brown bread.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000016_000004|But down in the San Pitch Valley at Gunnison, I discovered a genuine lily, happily named Lily Young.
train-clean-100/4397/15668/4397_15668_000016_000006|Here I feel uneasy about the name of this lily, for the compositors have a perverse trick of making me say all kinds of absurd things wholly unwarranted by plain copy, and I fear that the "Lily of San Pitch" will appear in print as the widow of Sam Patch.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000001_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000002_000002|Their faces are doubtful in color, neither sickly nor quite healthy looking, and seamed with deep wrinkles like the bark of the spruces, but with no trace of anxiety.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000002_000003|Their clothing is full of rosin and never wears out.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000002_000004|A little of everything in the woods is stuck fast to these loggers, and their trousers grow constantly thicker with age.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000002_000007|Many a tree have these old axemen felled, but, round shouldered and stooping, they too are beginning to lean over.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000002_000008|Many of their companions are already beneath the moss, and among those that we see at work some are now dead at the top (bald), leafless, so to speak, and tottering to their fall.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000003_000000|A very different man, seen now and then at long intervals but usually invisible, is the free roamer of the wilderness-hunter, prospector, explorer, seeking he knows not what.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000003_000001|Lithe and sinewy, he walks erect, making his way with the skill of wild animals, all his senses in action, watchful and alert, looking keenly at everything in sight, his imagination well nourished in the wealth of the wilderness, coming into contact with free nature in a thousand forms, drinking at the fountains of things, responsive to wild influences, as trees to the winds.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000003_000003|Hungry at times and weary, he has corresponding enjoyment in eating and resting, and all the wilderness is home.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000003_000004|Some of these rare, happy rovers die alone among the leaves.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000003_000006|In these Washington wilds, living alone, all sorts of men may perchance be found-poets, philosophers, and even full blown transcendentalists, though you may go far to find them.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000004_000001|Nor in your walks in the woods will you be likely to see many of the wild animals, however far you may go, with the exception of the Douglas squirrel and the mountain goat.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000004_000002|The squirrel is everywhere, and the goat you can hardly fail to find if you climb any of the high mountains.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000004_000004|The elk and perhaps also the moose still exist in the most remote and inaccessible solitudes of the forest, but their numbers have been greatly reduced of late, and even the most experienced hunters have difficulty in finding them.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000004_000006|Many are killed every year, both for their flesh and skins.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000004_000007|The large brown species likes higher and opener ground.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000004_000008|He is a dangerous animal, a near relative of the famous grizzly, and wise hunters are very fond of letting him alone.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000005_000000|The towns of Puget Sound are of a very lively, progressive, and aspiring kind, fortunately with abundance of substance about them to warrant their ambition and make them grow.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000005_000001|Like young sapling sequoias, they are sending out their roots far and near for nourishment, counting confidently on longevity and grandeur of stature.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000005_000002|Seattle and Tacoma are at present far in the lead of all others in the race for supremacy, and these two are keen, active rivals, to all appearances well matched. Tacoma occupies near the head of the Sound a site of great natural beauty.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000005_000003|It is the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and calls itself the "City of Destiny." Seattle is also charmingly located about twenty miles down the Sound from Tacoma, on Elliott Bay.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000005_000004|It is the terminus of the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railroad, now in process of construction, and calls itself the "Queen City of the Sound" and the "Metropolis of Washington." What the populations of these towns number I am not able to say with anything like exactness.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000005_000006|Their edges run back for miles into the woods among the trees and stumps and brush which hide a good many of the houses and the stakes which mark the lots; so that, without being as yet very large towns, they seem to fade away into the distance.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000001|They are already towns "with all modern improvements, first-class in every particular," as is said of hotels. They have electric motors and lights, paved broadways and boulevards, substantial business blocks, schools, churches, factories, and foundries.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000002|The lusty, titanic clang of boiler making may be heard there, and plenty of the languid music of pianos mingling with the babel noises of commerce carried on in a hundred tongues.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000003|The main streets are crowded with bright, wide awake lawyers, ministers, merchants, agents for everything under the sun; ox drivers and loggers in stiff, gummy overalls; back slanting dudes, well tailored and shiny; and fashions and bonnets of every feather and color bloom gayly in the noisy throng and advertise London and Paris.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000005|The spirit of progress is in the air.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000006|Still it is hard to realize how much good work is being done here of a kind that makes for civilization-the enthusiastic, exulting energy displayed in the building of new towns, railroads, and mills, in the opening of mines of coal and iron and the development of natural resources in general.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000007|To many, especially in the Atlantic States, Washington is hardly known at all.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000008|It is regarded as being yet a far wild west-a dim, nebulous expanse of woods-by those who do not know that railroads and steamers have brought the country out of the wilderness and abolished the old distances.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000006_000009|It is now near to all the world and is in possession of a share of the best of all that civilization has to offer, while on some of the lines of advancement it is at the front.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000007_000001|It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything; therefore, however extravagant and high the brag ascending from Puget Sound, in most cases it is likely to appear pardonable and more.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000008_000003|The people, however, are in no wise discouraged, and ere long the loss will be gain, inasmuch as a better class of buildings, chiefly of brick, are being erected in place of the inflammable wooden ones, which, with comparatively few exceptions, were built of pitchy spruce.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000009_000000|With their own scenery so glorious ever on show, one would at first thought suppose that these happy Puget Sound people would never go sightseeing from home like less favored mortals.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000009_000003|Others will take the train to the Franklin and Newcastle or Carbon River coal mines for the sake of the thirty or forty mile rides through the woods, and a look into the black depths of the underworld.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000009_000004|Others again take the steamers for Victoria, Fraser River, or Vancouver, the new ambitious town at the terminus of the Canadian Railroad, thus getting views of the outer world in a near foreign country.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000009_000006|Green River is a small rocky stream with picturesque banks, and derives its name from the beautiful pale green hue of its waters.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000010_000000|Among the most interesting of all the summer rest and pleasure places is the famous "Hop Ranch" on the upper Snoqualmie River, thirty or forty miles eastward from Seattle.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000010_000002|On the portions most easily cleared some three hundred acres of hop vines have been planted and are now in full bearing, yielding, it is said, at the rate of about a ton of hops to the acre.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000011_000000|Perhaps enough of hops might be raised in Washington for the wants of all the world, but it would be impossible to find pickers to handle the crop.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000011_000002|Then they too grow rich and spend their money on red cloth and trinkets.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000011_000003|About a thousand Indians are required as pickers at the Snoqualmie ranch alone, and a lively and merry picture they make in the field, arrayed in bright, showy calicoes, lowering the rustling vine pillars with incessant song singing and fun.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000011_000004|Still more striking are their queer camps on the edges of the fields or over on the river bank, with the firelight shining on their wild jolly faces.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000011_000005|But woe to the ranch should fire water get there!
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000012_000001|From the hotel at the ranch village the road to the fall leads down the right bank of the river through the magnificent maple woods I have mentioned elsewhere, and fine views of the fall may be had on that side, both from above and below.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000012_000002|It is situated on the main river, where it plunges over a sheer precipice, about two hundred and forty feet high, in leaving the level meadows of the ancient lake basin.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000012_000003|In a general way it resembles the well-known Nevada Fall in Yosemite, having the same twisted appearance at the top and the free plunge in numberless comet shaped masses into a deep pool seventy five or eighty yards in diameter.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000012_000004|The pool is of considerable depth, as is shown by the radiating well beaten foam and mist, which is of a beautiful rose color at times, of exquisite fineness of tone, and by the heavy waves that lash the rocks in front of it.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000013_000002|The road leads through majestic woods with ferns ten feet high beneath some of the thickets, and across a gravelly plain deforested by fire many years ago.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000013_000003|Orange lilies are plentiful, and handsome shining mats of the kinnikinic, sprinkled with bright scarlet berries.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000014_000000|From a place called "Hunt's," at the end of the wagon road, a trail leads through lush, dripping woods (never dry) to Thuja and Mertens, Menzies, and Douglas spruces.
train-clean-100/4397/15678/4397_15678_000014_000001|The ground is covered with the best moss work of the moist lands of the north, made up mostly of the various species of hypnum, with some liverworts, marchantia, jungermannia, etc, in broad sheets and bosses, where never a dust particle floated, and where all the flowers, fresh with mist and spray, are wetter than water lilies.
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train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000005_000003|Written by her own hand for her private use, and now made public at the earnest desire of some friends, and for the benefit of the afflicted.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000005_000005|See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me, I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any can deliver out of my hand.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000006_000001|There were five persons taken in one house; the father, and the mother and a sucking child, they knocked on the head; the other two they took and carried away alive.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000006_000003|Another, seeing many of the Indians about his barn, ventured and went out, but was quickly shot down.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000007_000004|Some in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in their blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head, if we stirred out.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000007_000008|No sooner were we out of the house, but my brother in law (being before wounded, in defending the house, in or near the throat) fell down dead, whereat the Indians scornfully shouted, and hallowed, and were presently upon him, stripping off his clothes, the bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same (as would seem) through the bowels and hand of my dear child in my arms.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000007_000009|One of my elder sisters' children, named William, had then his leg broken, which the Indians perceiving, they knocked him on [his] head.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000007_000012|I hope she is reaping the fruit of her good labors, being faithful to the service of God in her place.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000007_000014|More than twenty years after, I have heard her tell how sweet and comfortable that place was to her.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000007_000015|But to return: the Indians laid hold of us, pulling me one way, and the children another, and said, "Come go along with us"; I told them they would kill me: they answered, if I were willing to go along with them, they would not hurt me.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000008_000000|Oh the doleful sight that now was to behold at this house!
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000008_000002|There were twelve killed, some shot, some stabbed with their spears, some knocked down with their hatchets.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000008_000003|When we are in prosperity, Oh the little that we think of such dreadful sights, and to see our dear friends, and relations lie bleeding out their heart blood upon the ground.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000008_000004|There was one who was chopped into the head with a hatchet, and stripped naked, and yet was crawling up and down.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000011_000000|Now away we must go with those barbarous creatures, with our bodies wounded and bleeding, and our hearts no less than our bodies.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000011_000002|There was hard by a vacant house (deserted by the English before, for fear of the Indians).
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000011_000003|I asked them whether I might not lodge in the house that night, to which they answered, "What, will you love English men still?"
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000011_000009|There remained nothing to me but one poor wounded babe, and it seemed at present worse than death that it was in such a pitiful condition, bespeaking compassion, and I had no refreshing for it, nor suitable things to revive it.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000014_000001|One of the Indians carried my poor wounded babe upon a horse; it went moaning all along, "I shall die, I shall die." I went on foot after it, with sorrow that cannot be expressed. At length I took it off the horse, and carried it in my arms till my strength failed, and I fell down with it.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000015_000002|Oh, I may see the wonderful power of God, that my Spirit did not utterly sink under my affliction: still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000016_000000|THE THIRD REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000017_000001|One of the Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him, with my poor sick babe in my lap.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000017_000005|The next day was the Sabbath.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000017_000006|I then remembered how careless I had been of God's holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God's sight; which lay so close unto my spirit, that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000017_000007|Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000017_000009|Hearing, I say, that I was in this Indian town, he obtained leave to come and see me.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000017_000010|He told me he himself was wounded in the leg at Captain Beer's fight; and was not able some time to go, but as they carried him, and as he took oaken leaves and laid to his wound, and through the blessing of God he was able to travel again.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000002|About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb departed this life on february eighteenth sixteen seventy five.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000003|It being about six years, and five months old.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000004|It was nine days from the first wounding, in this miserable condition, without any refreshing of one nature or other, except a little cold water.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000008|I went to take up my dead child in my arms to carry it with me, but they bid me let it alone; there was no resisting, but go I must and leave it.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000012|God having taken away this dear child, I went to see my daughter Mary, who was at this same Indian town, at a wigwam not very far off, though we had little liberty or opportunity to see one another.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000015|I had one child dead, another in the wilderness, I knew not where, the third they would not let me come near to: "Me (as he said) have ye bereaved of my Children, Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin also, all these things are against me." I could not sit still in this condition, but kept walking from one place to another.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000016|And as I was going along, my heart was even overwhelmed with the thoughts of my condition, and that I should have children, and a nation which I knew not, ruled over them.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000019|I had not seen him before, since the destruction of the town, and I knew not where he was, till I was informed by himself, that he was amongst a smaller parcel of Indians, whose place was about six miles off.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000020|With tears in his eyes, he asked me whether his sister Sarah was dead; and told me he had seen his sister Mary; and prayed me, that I would not be troubled in reference to himself.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000022|In this time of the absence of his master, his dame brought him to see me.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000023|I took this to be some gracious answer to my earnest and unfeigned desire.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000025|They began their din about a mile before they came to us. By their noise and hooping they signified how many they had destroyed (which was at that time twenty three).
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000028|I cannot but take notice of the wonderful mercy of God to me in those afflictions, in sending me a Bible.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000030|I was glad of it, and asked him, whether he thought the Indians would let me read?
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000018_000034|I do not desire to live to forget this Scripture, and what comfort it was to me.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000019_000001|There were now besides myself nine English captives in this place (all of them children, except one woman).
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000019_000003|They being to go one way, and I another, I asked them whether they were earnest with God for deliverance.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000019_000004|They told me they did as they were able, and it was some comfort to me, that the Lord stirred up children to look to Him.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000019_000007|I had my Bible with me, I pulled it out, and asked her whether she would read.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000020_000000|THE FOURTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000021_000000|And now I must part with that little company I had.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000021_000001|Here I parted from my daughter Mary (whom I never saw again till I saw her in Dorchester, returned from captivity), and from four little cousins and neighbors, some of which I never saw afterward: the Lord only knows the end of them.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000022_000000|Heart aching thoughts here I had about my poor children, who were scattered up and down among the wild beasts of the forest.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000022_000005|At this place we continued about four days.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000000|The occasion (as I thought) of their moving at this time was the English army, it being near and following them.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000003|Upon a Friday, a little after noon, we came to this river.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000005|In this travel, because of my wound, I was somewhat favored in my load; I carried only my knitting work and two quarts of parched meal.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000006|Being very faint I asked my mistress to give me one spoonful of the meal, but she would not give me a taste.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000007|They quickly fell to cutting dry trees, to make rafts to carry them over the river: and soon my turn came to go over.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000008|By the advantage of some brush which they had laid upon the raft to sit upon, I did not wet my foot (which many of themselves at the other end were mid leg deep) which cannot but be acknowledged as a favor of God to my weakened body, it being a very cold time.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000009|I was not before acquainted with such kind of doings or dangers.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000011|A certain number of us got over the river that night, but it was the night after the Sabbath before all the company was got over.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000024_000012|On the Saturday they boiled an old horse's leg which they had got, and so we drank of the broth, as soon as they thought it was ready, and when it was almost all gone, they filled it up again.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000025_000001|I was at this time knitting a pair of white cotton stockings for my mistress; and had not yet wrought upon a Sabbath day.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000025_000003|I told them it was the Sabbath day, and desired them to let me rest, and told them I would do as much more tomorrow; to which they answered me they would break my face.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000025_000006|The greatest number at this time with us were squaws, and they traveled with all they had, bag and baggage, and yet they got over this river aforesaid; and on Monday they set their wigwams on fire, and away they went.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000025_000008|God did not give them courage or activity to go over after us.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000026_000000|THE SIXTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000027_000000|On Monday (as I said) they set their wigwams on fire and went away.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000027_000001|It was a cold morning, and before us there was a great brook with ice on it; some waded through it, up to the knees and higher, but others went till they came to a beaver dam, and I amongst them, where through the good providence of God, I did not wet my foot.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000027_000003|We came that day to a great swamp, by the side of which we took up our lodging that night.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000027_000004|When I came to the brow of the hill, that looked toward the swamp, I thought we had been come to a great Indian town (though there were none but our own company).
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000027_000005|The Indians were as thick as the trees: it seemed as if there had been a thousand hatchets going at once.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000027_000007|Oh the experience that I have had of the goodness of God, to me and mine!
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000001|The swamp by which we lay was, as it were, a deep dungeon, and an exceeding high and steep hill before it.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000002|Before I got to the top of the hill, I thought my heart and legs, and all would have broken, and failed me.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000003|What, through faintness and soreness of body, it was a grievous day of travel to me.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000004|As we went along, I saw a place where English cattle had been.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000005|That was comfort to me, such as it was.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000007|That day, a little after noon, we came to Squakeag, where the Indians quickly spread themselves over the deserted English fields, gleaning what they could find.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000009|There came an Indian to them at that time with a basket of horse liver.
train-clean-100/4406/16882/4406_16882_000029_000010|I asked him to give me a piece.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000000_000000|THE EIGHTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000000|On the morrow morning we must go over the river, i e
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000001|Connecticut, to meet with King Philip.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000002|Two canoes full they had carried over; the next turn I myself was to go.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000003|But as my foot was upon the canoe to step in there was a sudden outcry among them, and I must step back, and instead of going over the river, I must go four or five miles up the river farther northward.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000007|We had husband and father, and children, and sisters, and friends, and relations, and house, and home, and many comforts of this life: but now we may say, as Job, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return: the Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." I asked him whether he would read.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000010|And His goodness in bringing to my hand so many comfortable and suitable scriptures in my distress.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000013|When I came ashore, they gathered all about me, I sitting alone in the midst.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000016|Although I had met with so much affliction, and my heart was many times ready to break, yet could I not shed one tear in their sight; but rather had been all this while in a maze, and like one astonished.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000018|I could hardly tell what to say: Yet I answered, they would kill me.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000020|Then I went to see King Philip.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000021|He bade me come in and sit down, and asked me whether I would smoke it (a usual compliment nowadays amongst saints and sinners) but this no way suited me.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000022|For though I had formerly used tobacco, yet I had left it ever since I was first taken.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000023|It seems to be a bait the devil lays to make men lose their precious time.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000001_000025|But I thank God, He has now given me power over it; surely there are many who may be better employed than to lie sucking a stinking tobacco pipe.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000002|I offered the money to my master, but he bade me keep it; and with it I bought a piece of horse flesh.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000003|Afterwards he asked me to make a cap for his boy, for which he invited me to dinner.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000004|I went, and he gave me a pancake, about as big as two fingers.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000005|It was made of parched wheat, beaten, and fried in bear's grease, but I thought I never tasted pleasanter meat in my life.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000007|Another asked me to knit a pair of stockings, for which she gave me a quart of peas.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000009|Hearing that my son was come to this place, I went to see him, and found him lying flat upon the ground.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000011|He answered me that he was not asleep, but at prayer; and lay so, that they might not observe what he was doing.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000014|I could scarce discern one wigwam from another.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000015|There was here one Mary Thurston of Medfield, who seeing how it was with me, lent me a hat to wear; but as soon as I was gone, the squaw (who owned that Mary Thurston) came running after me, and got it away again.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000002_000017|I put it in my pocket to keep it safe.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000003_000001|I was utterly hopeless of getting home on foot, the way that I came.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000003_000002|I could hardly bear to think of the many weary steps I had taken, to come to this place.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000004_000000|THE NINTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000000|But instead of going either to Albany or homeward, we must go five miles up the river, and then go over it.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000003|When I had done it, he would pay me nothing.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000006|When we were at this place, my master's maid came home; she had been gone three weeks into the Narragansett country to fetch corn, where they had stored up some in the ground.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000008|This was about the time that their great captain, Naananto, was killed in the Narragansett country. My son being now about a mile from me, I asked liberty to go and see him; they bade me go, and away I went; but quickly lost myself, traveling over hills and through swamps, and could not find the way to him.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000011|He showed me the way to my son.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000013|We bemoaned one another a while, as the Lord helped us, and then I returned again.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000014|When I was returned, I found myself as unsatisfied as I was before.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000005_000016|My son was ill, and I could not but think of his mournful looks, and no Christian friend was near him, to do any office of love for him, either for soul or body. And my poor girl, I knew not where she was, nor whether she was sick, or well, or alive, or dead.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000006_000004|I have sometime seen bear baked very handsomely among the English, and some like it, but the thought that it was bear made me tremble.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000006_000005|But now that was savory to me that one would think was enough to turn the stomach of a brute creature.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000008_000000|THE TENTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000009_000001|When they came to the place where they intended to lodge, and had pitched their wigwams, being hungry, I went again back to the place we were before at, to get something to eat, being encouraged by the squaw's kindness, who bade me come again.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000009_000002|When I was there, there came an Indian to look after me, who when he had found me, kicked me all along.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000009_000003|I went home and found venison roasting that night, but they would not give me one bit of it.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000009_000004|Sometimes I met with favor, and sometimes with nothing but frowns.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000011_000000|The next day in the morning they took their travel, intending a day's journey up the river.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000011_000001|I took my load at my back, and quickly we came to wade over the river; and passed over tiresome and wearisome hills.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000011_000002|One hill was so steep that I was fain to creep up upon my knees, and to hold by the twigs and bushes to keep myself from falling backward.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000012_000000|THE TWELFTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000013_000002|I ran out and catched it up, and put it into my pocket, and never let her see it afterward.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000013_000003|Then they packed up their things to be gone, and gave me my load.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000013_000004|I complained it was too heavy, whereupon she gave me a slap in the face, and bade me go; I lifted up my heart to God, hoping the redemption was not far off; and the rather because their insolency grew worse and worse.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000002|My spirit was, upon this, I confess, very impatient, and almost outrageous.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000005|Which stilled my spirit for the present.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000006|But a sore time of trial, I concluded, I had to go through, my master being gone, who seemed to me the best friend that I had of an Indian, both in cold and hunger, and quickly so it proved.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000009|I told them, I could not tell where to go, they bade me go look; I told them, if I went to another wigwam they would be angry, and send me home again.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000011|Then was I fain to stoop to this rude fellow, and to go out in the night, I knew not whither.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000013|I went to one wigwam, and they told me they had no room.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000014|Then I went to another, and they said the same; at last an old Indian bade me to come to him, and his squaw gave me some ground nuts; she gave me also something to lay under my head, and a good fire we had; and through the good providence of God, I had a comfortable lodging that night.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000017|We went in the morning to gather ground nuts, to the river, and went back again that night.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000014_000019|I told them the skin was off my back, but I had no other comforting answer from them than this: that it would be no matter if my head were off too.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000015_000000|THE THIRTEENTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000004|A squaw moved it down again, at which I looked up, and she threw a handful of ashes in mine eyes.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000007|I thought of the English army, and hoped for their coming, and being taken by them, but that failed.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000008|I hoped to be carried to Albany, as the Indians had discoursed before, but that failed also.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000009|I thought of being sold to my husband, as my master spake, but instead of that, my master himself was gone, and I left behind, so that my spirit was now quite ready to sink.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000012|So easy a thing it is with God to dry up the streams of Scripture comfort from us.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000013|Yet I can say, that in all my sorrows and afflictions, God did not leave me to have my impatience work towards Himself, as if His ways were unrighteous.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000015|Thomas Read.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000016|They all gathered about the poor man, asking him many questions.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000018|Whereupon I asked one of them, whether they intended to kill him; he answered me, they would not.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000020|He told me he saw him such a time in the Bay, and he was well, but very melancholy.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000016_000023|So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a liar from the beginning.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000017_000005|But I stepped out, and she struck the stick into the mat of the wigwam.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000017_000006|But while she was pulling of it out I ran to the maid and gave her all my apron, and so that storm went over.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000018_000001|He told me he was as much grieved for his father as for himself.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000003|He told me he was very sick of a flux, with eating so much blood.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000011|I told her I had got him to a fire in such a place.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000013|For her satisfaction I went along with her, and brought her to him; but before I got home again it was noised about that I was running away and getting the English youth, along with me; that as soon as I came in they began to rant and domineer, asking me where I had been, and what I had been doing? and saying they would knock him on the head.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000015|They told me I lied, and taking up a hatchet, they came to me, and said they would knock me down if I stirred out again, and so confined me to the wigwam.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000017|If I keep in, I must die with hunger, and if I go out, I must be knocked in head.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000018|This distressed condition held that day, and half the next.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000020|Then came an Indian to me with a pair of stockings that were too big for him, and he would have me ravel them out, and knit them fit for him.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000019_000021|I showed myself willing, and bid him ask my mistress if I might go along with him a little way; she said yes, I might, but I was not a little refreshed with that news, that I had my liberty again.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000020_000003|Which he did, and it seems tarried a little too long; for his master was angry with him, and beat him, and then sold him.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000020_000004|Then he came running to tell me he had a new master, and that he had given him some ground nuts already.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000020_000005|Then I went along with him to his new master who told me he loved him, and he should not want.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000021_000001|My mistress's papoose was sick, and it died that night, and there was one benefit in it-that there was more room.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000021_000002|I went to a wigwam, and they bade me come in, and gave me a skin to lie upon, and a mess of venison and ground nuts, which was a choice dish among them.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000021_000003|On the morrow they buried the papoose, and afterward, both morning and evening, there came a company to mourn and howl with her; though I confess I could not much condole with them.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000021_000004|Many sorrowful days I had in this place, often getting alone. "Like a crane, or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove, mine eyes ail with looking upward.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000021_000009|I cannot express to man the sorrow that lay upon my spirit; the Lord knows it.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000022_000000|THE FOURTEENTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000023_000006|Thus the Lord dealt mercifully with me many times, and I fared better than many of them.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000023_000007|In the morning they took the blood of the deer, and put it into the paunch, and so boiled it.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000023_000009|And yet they were so nice in other things, that when I had fetched water, and had put the dish I dipped the water with into the kettle of water which I brought, they would say they would knock me down; for they said, it was a sluttish trick.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000024_000000|THE FIFTEENTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000025_000000|We went on our travel.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000025_000002|We came to Banquang river again that day, near which we abode a few days.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000025_000004|I cannot but think what a wolvish appetite persons have in a starving condition; for many times when they gave me that which was hot, I was so greedy, that I should burn my mouth, that it would trouble me hours after, and yet I should quickly do the same again.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000025_000005|And after I was thoroughly hungry, I was never again satisfied.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000026_000000|THE SIXTEENTH REMOVAL
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000027_000000|We began this remove with wading over Banquang river: the water was up to the knees, and the stream very swift, and so cold that I thought it would have cut me in sunder.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000027_000007|In that time came a company of Indians to us, near thirty, all on horseback.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000028_000000|THE SEVENTEENTH REMOVE
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000029_000000|A comfortable remove it was to me, because of my hopes.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000029_000002|Now may I say with David "I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000029_000008|Now is my spirit revived again; though means be never so inconsiderable, yet if the Lord bestow His blessing upon them, they shall refresh both soul and body.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000031_000003|I went to see how she did, and she was well, considering her captive condition.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000031_000004|I would have tarried that night with her, but they that owned her would not suffer it.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000031_000008|Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself, and savory it was to my taste.
train-clean-100/4406/16883/4406_16883_000031_000010|Then I went home to my mistress's wigwam; and they told me I disgraced my master with begging, and if I did so any more, they would knock me in the head.
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000002_000000|BILLS OF EXCHANGE
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000016_000000|"No more do I!"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000017_000001|Is that so?"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000023_000001|Do you think she meant it?"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000024_000000|"No, I don't!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000027_000000|Falk pondered; after a while he resumed the conversation.
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000028_000001|Is she easily hurt?
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000030_000000|"Wouldn't she really?"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000031_000000|"You may depend upon it."
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000034_000002|What did you call it?"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000036_000000|"What rights do you mean?"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000042_000000|"The devil!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000044_000001|I should take jolly good care not to."
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000046_000000|"Take care!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000046_000001|You are going too far!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000046_000002|But, have you any meetings?
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000046_000004|Tell me?"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000049_000000|"At present only mrs Homan, the controller's wife, and Lady Rehnhjelm."
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000050_000000|"Rehnhjelm?
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000050_000001|A very good name!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000050_000002|I think I've heard it before.
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000060_000001|"Which bank do you prefer?
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000060_000002|I have bills on all with the exception of one."
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000067_000000|"Uniform?
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000069_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000070_000000|"Hold your tongue when I'm speaking!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000071_000000|"Did you...."
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000072_000000|"Hold your tongue and do as I tell you!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000072_000002|Of course you weren't, for there was no party.
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000073_000000|"No; not quite."
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000074_000003|No! Hold on! We'll postpone that!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000074_000005|You understand me!"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000077_000000|"We'll kick him out!"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000080_000000|"Hm-yes!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000082_000000|"That's ugly," he said.
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000083_000000|"What?
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000083_000001|And besides-one thing more!
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000083_000003|I guarantee such and such a sum; I must pay it-that's clear!"
train-clean-100/4441/76250/4441_76250_000084_000000|"Oh, no!"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000007_000001|It was impossible; he dressed and went to Falander's house.
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000008_000002|Rehnhjelm overwhelmed him with questions, but Falander refused to reply before ten o'clock.
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000012_000002|Did you sleep well?"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000021_000001|Won't you sit down?"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000029_000000|"A spider on the morrow: grief and sorrow."
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000030_000000|"Hm!"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000032_000001|"I hardly slept a wink."
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000039_000000|"I remember the book; I liked it very much.
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000039_000004|That's true enough, isn't it?"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000044_000000|"Here," he said, handing it to Agnes; "go home and rid the world of a monster."
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000045_000000|"What's that?" laughed Agnes, opening the box and taking out a six barrelled revolver.
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000045_000001|"I say, what a sweet thing!
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000045_000003|I believe it is loaded."
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000047_000000|"Lock it up," she said, "this is no toy, my friends."
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000053_000000|"What are you talking about?
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000053_000001|Shut the door!
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000054_000000|"I see, I have to speak more plainly.
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000054_000001|Where were you last night?"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000056_000001|You had supper with the manager!"
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000059_000000|"I say it's a lie!
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000061_000000|"Hadn't we better stop talking nonsense now and be off?
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000061_000002|Put on your hats and come."
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000069_000000|"Come along, let's be off," he said, spitting on the hearthstone.
train-clean-100/4441/76262/4441_76262_000076_000000|"Is she hurt?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000008_000000|"Thanks."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000010_000000|"Oh! Bad!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000011_000000|"And the notes?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000021_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000021_000002|I know them!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000025_000000|"A good subject!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000027_000000|"All right, old chap!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000027_000001|Go to sleep!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000029_000000|"Poor devil!" muttered Sellen, covering him up with his rug.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000032_000000|"No!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000035_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000035_000002|Is he asleep?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000037_000000|"Did he spend the night here?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000038_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000039_000001|It's beastly cold."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000040_000000|"Because I have no wood."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000041_000000|"Send for some then!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000041_000001|Where's the servant?
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000041_000002|I'll make her trot."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000045_000001|What's the floor packing?
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000045_000002|Earth or rubbish?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000049_000000|"I want it, and a pair of fire tongs."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000052_000000|"Confound you!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000054_000000|"But you can't do that sort of thing at Stockholm!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000055_000000|"Hang it all, I'm cold!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000055_000001|I must have a fire."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000056_000001|It shows too much!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000057_000002|But this is too hard."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000059_000000|"Miscreant!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000060_000000|"The rain's done it!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000061_000000|"I don't care who's done it!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000061_000001|Let's light a fire!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000063_000000|Levin had watched the scene, quiet, neutral, and polite.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000065_000000|"That's Falk," said Sellen, opening the door.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000066_000000|Falk entered, looking a little hectic.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000067_000000|"Do you want money?" said Borg to the newcomer, laying his hand on his breast pocket.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000068_000000|"What a question to ask," said Falk, looking at him doubtfully.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000069_000000|"How much do you want?
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000069_000001|I can let you have it."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000071_000001|Hm!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000071_000002|How much?
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000071_000003|The figure!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000071_000004|The amount!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000073_000000|"Good Lord, how modest you are," remarked Borg, and turned to Levin.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000075_000000|"I'd rather not!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000075_000002|But how is it to be paid back?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000076_000000|"Twelve crowns every sixth month, twenty four crowns per annum, in two instalments," said Levin promptly and firmly.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000077_000000|"Those are easy terms," replied Falk.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000078_000000|"From the Wheelwrights' Bank.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000080_000000|"Eight hundred crowns?" he asked.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000085_000000|"Oh, won't it!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000085_000002|"Go on, Falk, sign!"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000089_000000|"No, I'm a journalist," objected Falk.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000090_000000|"That's no good; you are registered as assessor, and as such you still figure in the directory."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000091_000000|"Did you look it up?"
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000092_000000|"One should be correct in matters of form," said Borg gravely.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000105_000000|"Don't do it, Falk," said Olle; "it'll end badly, there'll be trouble."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000106_000001|"Come here, Falk!
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000111_000000|"I'll give you an hour," said Borg.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000111_000001|"If you are not back with the money by then, I'll set the police on your track."
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000120_000000|"One takes up a fresh loan at the Tailors' Bank, for instance," replied Borg.
train-clean-100/4441/76263/4441_76263_000122_000000|"Because it's rotten!" answered Borg.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000001_000000|MY ADVENT ON MARS
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000002_000000|I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000002_000001|I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000002_000002|I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told me as plainly that I was upon Mars as your conscious mind tells you that you are upon Earth.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000002_000003|You do not question the fact; neither did i
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000003_000000|I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000003_000001|I seemed to be lying in a deep, circular basin, along the outer verge of which I could distinguish the irregularities of low hills.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000004_000000|It was midday, the sun was shining full upon me and the heat of it was rather intense upon my naked body, yet no greater than would have been true under similar conditions on an Arizona desert.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000004_000001|Here and there were slight outcroppings of quartz bearing rock which glistened in the sunlight; and a little to my left, perhaps a hundred yards, appeared a low, walled enclosure about four feet in height.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000004_000002|No water, and no other vegetation than the moss was in evidence, and as I was somewhat thirsty I determined to do a little exploring.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000005_000000|Springing to my feet I received my first Martian surprise, for the effort, which on Earth would have brought me standing upright, carried me into the Martian air to the height of about three yards.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000005_000002|Now commenced a series of evolutions which even then seemed ludicrous in the extreme.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000005_000003|I found that I must learn to walk all over again, as the muscular exertion which carried me easily and safely upon Earth played strange antics with me upon Mars.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000006_000000|Instead of progressing in a sane and dignified manner, my attempts to walk resulted in a variety of hops which took me clear of the ground a couple of feet at each step and landed me sprawling upon my face or back at the end of each second or third hop.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000006_000001|My muscles, perfectly attuned and accustomed to the force of gravity on Earth, played the mischief with me in attempting for the first time to cope with the lesser gravitation and lower air pressure on Mars.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000007_000001|I did fairly well at this and in a few moments had reached the low, encircling wall of the enclosure.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000009_000000|The roof of the enclosure was of solid glass about four or five inches in thickness, and beneath this were several hundred large eggs, perfectly round and snowy white.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000009_000001|The eggs were nearly uniform in size being about two and one half feet in diameter.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000010_000000|Five or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity. They seemed mostly head, with little scrawny bodies, long necks and six legs, or, as I afterward learned, two legs and two arms, with an intermediary pair of limbs which could be used at will either as arms or legs.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000010_000001|Their eyes were set at the extreme sides of their heads a trifle above the center and protruded in such a manner that they could be directed either forward or back and also independently of each other, thus permitting this queer animal to look in any direction, or in two directions at once, without the necessity of turning the head.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000011_000001|Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000012_000000|There was no hair on their bodies, which were of a very light yellowish green color.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000012_000001|In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000012_000002|Further, the heads of the adults are not so out of proportion to their bodies as in the case of the young.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000013_000000|The iris of the eyes is blood red, as in Albinos, while the pupil is dark.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000013_000001|The eyeball itself is very white, as are the teeth.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000013_000003|Against the dark background of their olive skins their tusks stand out in a most striking manner, making these weapons present a singularly formidable appearance.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000014_000000|Most of these details I noted later, for I was given but little time to speculate on the wonders of my new discovery.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000015_000000|Coming, as they did, over the soft and soundless moss, which covers practically the entire surface of Mars with the exception of the frozen areas at the poles and the scattered cultivated districts, they might have captured me easily, but their intentions were far more sinister. It was the rattling of the accouterments of the foremost warrior which warned me.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000016_000000|On such a little thing my life hung that I often marvel that I escaped so easily.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000016_000002|But the little sound caused me to turn, and there upon me, not ten feet from my breast, was the point of that huge spear, a spear forty feet long, tipped with gleaming metal, and held low at the side of a mounted replica of the little devils I had been watching.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000017_000000|But how puny and harmless they now looked beside this huge and terrific incarnation of hate, of vengeance and of death.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000017_000002|He sat his mount as we sit a horse, grasping the animal's barrel with his lower limbs, while the hands of his two right arms held his immense spear low at the side of his mount; his two left arms were outstretched laterally to help preserve his balance, the thing he rode having neither bridle or reins of any description for guidance.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000018_000000|And his mount!
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000018_000001|How can earthly words describe it!
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000019_000001|Its belly was white, and its legs shaded from the slate of its shoulders and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000019_000002|The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000019_000003|The highest type of man and one other animal, the only mammal existing on Mars, alone have well formed nails, and there are absolutely no hoofed animals in existence there.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000020_000000|Behind this first charging demon trailed nineteen others, similar in all respects, but, as I learned later, bearing individual characteristics peculiar to themselves; precisely as no two of us are identical although we are all cast in a similar mold.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000021_000000|Unarmed and naked as I was, the first law of nature manifested itself in the only possible solution of my immediate problem, and that was to get out of the vicinity of the point of the charging spear. Consequently I gave a very earthly and at the same time superhuman leap to reach the top of the Martian incubator, for such I had determined it must be.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000023_000000|I alighted upon the soft moss easily and without mishap, and turning saw my enemies lined up along the further wall.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000023_000001|Some were surveying me with expressions which I afterward discovered marked extreme astonishment, and the others were evidently satisfying themselves that I had not molested their young.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000024_000000|They were conversing together in low tones, and gesticulating and pointing toward me.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000024_000001|Their discovery that I had not harmed the little Martians, and that I was unarmed, must have caused them to look upon me with less ferocity; but, as I was to learn later, the thing which weighed most in my favor was my exhibition of hurdling.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000026_000000|My feat then was as marvelous upon Mars as it would have been upon Earth, and from desiring to annihilate me they suddenly looked upon me as a wonderful discovery to be captured and exhibited among their fellows.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000029_000000|These rifles were of a white metal stocked with wood, which I learned later was a very light and intensely hard growth much prized on Mars, and entirely unknown to us denizens of Earth.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000029_000001|The metal of the barrel is an alloy composed principally of aluminum and steel which they have learned to temper to a hardness far exceeding that of the steel with which we are familiar.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000029_000003|The theoretic effective radius of this rifle is three hundred miles, but the best they can do in actual service when equipped with their wireless finders and sighters is but a trifle over two hundred miles.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000030_000000|This is quite far enough to imbue me with great respect for the Martian firearm, and some telepathic force must have warned me against an attempt to escape in broad daylight from under the muzzles of twenty of these death dealing machines.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000031_000001|When they had covered perhaps two hundred yards they halted, and turning their mounts toward us sat watching the warrior by the enclosure.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000032_000000|He was the one whose spear had so nearly transfixed me, and was evidently the leader of the band, as I had noted that they seemed to have moved to their present position at his direction.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000032_000001|When his force had come to a halt he dismounted, threw down his spear and small arms, and came around the end of the incubator toward me, entirely unarmed and as naked as I, except for the ornaments strapped upon his head, limbs, and breast.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000034_000000|As the silence became painful I concluded to hazard a little conversation on my own part, as I had guessed that he was making overtures of peace.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000034_000001|The throwing down of his weapons and the withdrawing of his troop before his advance toward me would have signified a peaceful mission anywhere on Earth, so why not, then, on Mars!
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000035_000000|Placing my hand over my heart I bowed low to the Martian and explained to him that while I did not understand his language, his actions spoke for the peace and friendship that at the present moment were most dear to my heart.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000035_000001|Of course I might have been a babbling brook for all the intelligence my speech carried to him, but he understood the action with which I immediately followed my words.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000036_000000|Stretching my hand toward him, I advanced and took the armlet from his open palm, clasping it about my arm above the elbow; smiled at him and stood waiting.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000036_000002|At the same time he motioned his followers to advance.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000036_000003|They started toward us on a wild run, but were checked by a signal from him.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000036_000004|Evidently he feared that were I to be really frightened again I might jump entirely out of the landscape.
train-clean-100/446/123501/446_123501_000037_000000|He exchanged a few words with his men, motioned to me that I would ride behind one of them, and then mounted his own animal.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000001_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000003_000000|We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to rise very rapidly.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000003_000001|We were, as I was later to learn, nearing the edge of one of Mars' long dead seas, in the bottom of which my encounter with the Martians had taken place.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000005_000000|Upon closer observation I saw as we passed them that the buildings were deserted, and while not greatly decayed had the appearance of not having been tenanted for years, possibly for ages.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000005_000001|Toward the center of the city was a large plaza, and upon this and in the buildings immediately surrounding it were camped some nine or ten hundred creatures of the same breed as my captors, for such I now considered them despite the suave manner in which I had been trapped.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000006_000000|With the exception of their ornaments all were naked.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000006_000002|Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000006_000003|The adult females ranged in height from ten to twelve feet.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000009_000000|Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease, and possibly about twenty take the voluntary pilgrimage.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000009_000001|The other nine hundred and seventy nine die violent deaths in duels, in hunting, in aviation and in war; but perhaps by far the greatest death loss comes during the age of childhood, when vast numbers of the little Martians fall victims to the great white apes of Mars.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000012_000000|As we neared the plaza and my presence was discovered we were immediately surrounded by hundreds of the creatures who seemed anxious to pluck me from my seat behind my guard.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000012_000001|A word from the leader of the party stilled their clamor, and we proceeded at a trot across the plaza to the entrance of as magnificent an edifice as mortal eye has rested upon.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000013_000000|The building was low, but covered an enormous area.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000013_000001|It was constructed of gleaming white marble inlaid with gold and brilliant stones which sparkled and scintillated in the sunlight.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000013_000002|The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000014_000000|On the floor of this chamber, which was dotted with highly carved wooden desks and chairs, were assembled about forty or fifty male Martians around the steps of a rostrum.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000014_000001|On the platform proper squatted an enormous warrior heavily loaded with metal ornaments, gay colored feathers and beautifully wrought leather trappings ingeniously set with precious stones.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000014_000002|From his shoulders depended a short cape of white fur lined with brilliant scarlet silk.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000016_000000|Our party had halted at the entrance to the building, and at a sign from the leader I had been lowered to the ground.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000016_000001|Again locking his arm in mine, we had proceeded into the audience chamber.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000016_000002|There were few formalities observed in approaching the Martian chieftain.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000016_000003|My captor merely strode up to the rostrum, the others making way for him as he advanced.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000016_000004|The chieftain rose to his feet and uttered the name of my escort who, in turn, halted and repeated the name of the ruler followed by his title.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000017_000000|At the time, this ceremony and the words they uttered meant nothing to me, but later I came to know that this was the customary greeting between green Martians.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000017_000001|Had the men been strangers, and therefore unable to exchange names, they would have silently exchanged ornaments, had their missions been peaceful-otherwise they would have exchanged shots, or have fought out their introduction with some other of their various weapons.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000018_000000|My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas, was virtually the vice chieftain of the community, and a man of great ability as a statesman and warrior.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000018_000001|He evidently explained briefly the incidents connected with his expedition, including my capture, and when he had concluded the chieftain addressed me at some length.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000019_000000|I replied in our good old English tongue merely to convince him that neither of us could understand the other; but I noticed that when I smiled slightly on concluding, he did likewise.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000019_000001|This fact, and the similar occurrence during my first talk with Tars Tarkas, convinced me that we had at least something in common; the ability to smile, therefore to laugh; denoting a sense of humor.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000019_000002|But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men to blanch in horror.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000020_000001|The death agonies of a fellow being are, to these strange creatures, provocative of the wildest hilarity, while their chief form of commonest amusement is to inflict death on their prisoners of war in various ingenious and horrible ways.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000021_000001|The principal chieftain then evidently signified a desire to see me perform, and, motioning me to follow, he started with Tars Tarkas for the open plaza.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000023_000001|As he sunk to the floor I wheeled around with my back toward the nearest desk, expecting to be overwhelmed by the vengeance of his fellows, but determined to give them as good a battle as the unequal odds would permit before I gave up my life.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000024_000000|My fears were groundless, however, as the other Martians, at first struck dumb with wonderment, finally broke into wild peals of laughter and applause.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000024_000001|I did not recognize the applause as such, but later, when I had become acquainted with their customs, I learned that I had won what they seldom accord, a manifestation of approbation.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000025_000000|The fellow whom I had struck lay where he had fallen, nor did any of his mates approach him.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000025_000002|I did not, of course, know the reason for which we had come to the open, but I was not long in being enlightened.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000027_000000|Tars Tarkas and the chief exchanged a few words, and the former, calling to a young female among the throng, gave her some instructions and motioned me to accompany her.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000028_000000|My fair companion was about eight feet tall, having just arrived at maturity, but not yet to her full height.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000028_000001|She was of a light olive green color, with a smooth, glossy hide.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000028_000002|Her name, as I afterward learned, was Sola, and she belonged to the retinue of Tars Tarkas.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000028_000003|She conducted me to a spacious chamber in one of the buildings fronting on the plaza, and which, from the litter of silks and furs upon the floor, I took to be the sleeping quarters of several of the natives.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000030_000000|Sola motioned me to be seated upon a pile of silks near the center of the room, and, turning, made a peculiar hissing sound, as though signaling to someone in an adjoining room.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000030_000001|In response to her call I obtained my first sight of a new Martian wonder.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000030_000002|It waddled in on its ten short legs, and squatted down before the girl like an obedient puppy.
train-clean-100/446/123502/446_123502_000030_000003|The thing was about the size of a Shetland pony, but its head bore a slight resemblance to that of a frog, except that the jaws were equipped with three rows of long, sharp tusks.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000008_000000|The author is pleased to be able to present a sequel to "Aunt Jane's Nieces," the book which was received with so much favor last year.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000013_000000|EDITH VAN DYNE.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000014_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000016_000002|In a thick cushioned morris chair reclined the motionless form of Uncle john, a chubby little man in a gray suit, whose features were temporarily eclipsed by the newspaper that was spread carefully over them.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000017_000000|Major Doyle sat opposite, stiffly erect, with his admiring eyes full upon Patsy.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000017_000003|It was not that he admired so much the "piece" the girl was playing as the girl who was playing the "piece." His pride in Patsy was unbounded.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000017_000005|But then, Patsy could do anything, if she but tried.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000019_000000|"You've been asleep," she said.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000020_000000|"No, indeed; quite a mistake," replied the little man, seriously.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000020_000001|"I've only been thinking."
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000024_000001|Tell us of them, sir, and we'll prove the Major utterly wrong."
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000026_000000|"I'm going to Europe," he said.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000027_000000|The Major gave an involuntary start, and then turned to look at him curiously.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000028_000000|"And I'm going to take Patsy along," he continued, with a mischievous grin.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000029_000000|The Major frowned.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000030_000001|"You're dreaming again."
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000032_000002|But to take Patsy to Europe would be like pulling the Major's eye teeth or amputating his good right arm.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000032_000003|Worse; far worse!
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000033_000000|But he resolved not to submit without a struggle.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000034_000000|"Sir," said he, sternly-he always called his brother in law "sir" when he was in a sarcastic or reproachful mood-"I've had an idea for some time that you were plotting mischief.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000034_000002|I will ask you to explain to us, sir, the brutal suggestion you have just advanced."
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000035_000003|His affection for the little man increased mightily, but his respectful attitude promptly changed, and a chance to reprove or discomfit his absurdly rich brother in law was one of his most satisfactory diversions.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000038_000000|The "we" is explained by stating that the Major held an important position in the great banking house-a position mr Merrick had secured for him some months previously.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000039_000000|"That's it!" said Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000040_000000|The Major smiled grimly.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000041_000000|"That's Europe, right enough," he said.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000041_000005|She can't go a step, and you know it.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000041_000006|It's positive cruelty to her, sir, to suggest such a thing!"
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000042_000000|The Major's speech had a touch of the brogue when he became excited, but recovered when he calmed down.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000046_000000|Uncle john gave a snort of contempt.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000047_000002|And why?
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000050_000000|"That's right, daddy," she said.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000051_000001|Patsy and her father stared at one another with grave intentness. Then the Major drew out his handkerchief and mopped his brow.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000053_000000|"Yes, daddy; but I won't, of course."
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000055_000000|"Daddy!"
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000058_000000|"I won't go, daddy."
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000059_000000|"Oh, yes you will.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000060_000000|Uncle john emerged again.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000061_000000|"Your selfishness, my dear Major," said he, "is like the husk on a cocoanut.
train-clean-100/4481/17498/4481_17498_000061_000001|When you crack it there's plenty of milk within-and in your case it's the milk of human kindness.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000002_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000003_000000|UNCLE john MAKES PLANS
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000004_000003|Now, here I am with three nieces on my hands-"
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000005_000000|"You may say two, sir," interrupted the Major.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000005_000001|"Patsy can take care of herself."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000006_000000|"Hold your tongue," said Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000007_000001|They fairly danced.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000009_000000|His face fell.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000010_000000|"Not yet," he said.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000012_000000|"I'll telegraph her, and find out," said Uncle john.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000013_000000|"Do it to day," suggested the Major.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000014_000000|"I will."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000028_000000|His telegram to Elizabeth was characteristic:
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000029_000002|If so, take first train to New York, where I will look after your outfit.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000029_000003|Answer immediately."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000030_000001|He thought he could depend upon Beth.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000036_000000|"Doesn't the opera let out before midnight, the same as the theatres?" he asked.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000037_000000|"I believe so; but there is the supper, afterward, you know."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000038_000002|Singular, isn't it?"
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000039_000000|"Why, I never thought of it in that light."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000041_000000|"Quite well, thank you."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000048_000000|"Just what Patsy said.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000049_000000|"But the requirements of society-"
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000051_000000|This speech frightened the woman.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000051_000002|So she said, meekly:
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000053_000000|"You!"
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000056_000000|"But you'll want a chaperone for them."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000057_000000|"Why so?"
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000060_000004|A chaperone, indeed!"
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000061_000000|mrs Merrick held up her hands in horror.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000063_000009|And now, I'm off.
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000063_000010|Good morning, Martha."
train-clean-100/4481/17499/4481_17499_000065_000004|Really, it's an ill wind that blows no good!
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000003_000000|CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000004_000003|Let me go out today, and you look after the house by yourself.' 'Yes, yes,' answered the mouse, 'by all means go, and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000004_000005|She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000004_000006|Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town, looked out for opportunities, and then stretched herself in the sun, and licked her lips whenever she thought of the pot of fat, and not until it was evening did she return home. 'Well, here you are again,' said the mouse, 'no doubt you have had a merry day.' 'All went off well,' answered the cat.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000004_000008|'Top off!' cried the mouse, 'that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?' 'What does that matter,' said the cat, 'it is no worse than Crumb stealer, as your godchildren are called.'
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000005_000001|She said to the mouse: 'You must do me a favour, and once more manage the house for a day alone.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000005_000004|When she went home the mouse inquired: 'And what was the child christened?' 'Half done,' answered the cat.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000005_000005|'Half done!
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000006_000005|'He is called All gone.' 'All gone,' cried the mouse 'that is the most suspicious name of all!
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000006_000006|I have never seen it in print.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000006_000007|All gone; what can that mean?' and she shook her head, curled herself up, and lay down to sleep.
train-clean-100/458/126290/458_126290_000007_000001|'Alas!' said the mouse, 'now I see what has happened, now it comes to light!
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000005_000000|The forester climbed up, brought the child down, and thought to himself: 'You will take him home with you, and bring him up with your Lina.' He took it home, therefore, and the two children grew up together.
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000005_000001|And the one, which he had found on a tree was called Fundevogel, because a bird had carried it away.
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000007_000000|Early next morning the forester got up and went out hunting, and when he was gone the children were still in bed.
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000008_000000|The two children therefore got up, dressed themselves quickly, and went away.
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000008_000002|But when she came in, and went to the beds, both the children were gone.
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000009_000000|Then the cook sent three servants after them, who were to run and overtake the children.
train-clean-100/458/126294/458_126294_000009_000009|Then said Lina: 'Fundevogel, never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Then said Fundevogel: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Said Lina: 'Be a fishpond, and I will be the duck upon it.' The cook, however, came up to them, and when she saw the pond she lay down by it, and was about to drink it up.
train-clean-100/458/126305/458_126305_000004_000000|There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.
train-clean-100/458/126305/458_126305_000005_000000|Next morning when the cows were being driven out, the little peasant called the cow herd in and said: 'Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.' The cow herd said: 'All right,' and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture, and set it among the grass.
train-clean-100/458/126305/458_126305_000010_000003|The others were all obliged to retire to a distance, and when the peasant looked at the priest, he recognized the man who had been with the miller's wife.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000000_000000|Preface
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000002_000000|Preface
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000003_000000|I know no way in which a writer may more fittingly introduce his work to the public than by giving a brief account of who and what he is.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000003_000001|By this means some of the blame for what he has done is very properly shifted to the extenuating circumstances of his life.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000000|I was born at Swanmoor, Hants, England, on december thirtieth eighteen sixty nine.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000001|I am not aware that there was any particular conjunction of the planets at the time, but should think it extremely likely.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000002|My parents migrated to Canada in eighteen seventy six, and I decided to go with them.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000003|My father took up a farm near Lake Simcoe, in Ontario.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000004|This was during the hard times of Canadian farming, and my father was just able by great diligence to pay the hired men and, in years of plenty, to raise enough grain to have seed for the next year's crop without buying any.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000005|By this process my brothers and I were inevitably driven off the land, and have become professors, business men, and engineers, instead of being able to grow up as farm labourers.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000004_000006|Yet I saw enough of farming to speak exuberantly in political addresses of the joy of early rising and the deep sleep, both of body and intellect, that is induced by honest manual toil.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000000|I was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, of which I was head boy in eighteen eighty seven.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000001|From there I went to the University of Toronto, where I graduated in eighteen ninety one.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000002|At the University I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half dead, and knew nothing of the outside world.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000003|In this diligent pursuit of words I spent about sixteen hours of each day.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000004|Very soon after graduation I had forgotten the languages, and found myself intellectually bankrupt.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000005|In other words I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and, as such, I took to school teaching as the only trade I could find that need neither experience nor intellect.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000006|I spent my time from eighteen ninety one to eighteen ninety nine on the staff of Upper Canada College, an experience which has left me with a profound sympathy for the many gifted and brilliant men who are compelled to spend their lives in the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000005_000007|I have noted that of my pupils, those who seemed the laziest and the least enamoured of books are now rising to eminence at the bar, in business, and in public life; the really promising boys who took all the prizes are now able with difficulty to earn the wages of a clerk in a summer hotel or a deck hand on a canal boat.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000006_000001|I was soon appointed to a Fellowship in political economy, and by means of this and some temporary employment by McGill University, I survived until I took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in nineteen o three.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000006_000002|The meaning of this degree is that the recipient of instruction is examined for the last time in his life, and is pronounced completely full.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000006_000003|After this, no new ideas can be imparted to him.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000007_000000|From this time, and since my marriage, which had occurred at this period, I have belonged to the staff of McGill University, first as lecturer in Political Science, and later as head of the department of Economics and Political Science.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000007_000002|In point of leisure, I enjoy more in the four corners of a single year than a business man knows in his whole life.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000007_000003|I thus have what the business man can never enjoy, an ability to think, and, what is still better, to stop thinking altogether for months at a time.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000000|I have written a number of things in connection with my college life-a book on Political Science, and many essays, magazine articles, and so on.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000001|I belong to the Political Science Association of America, to the Royal Colonial Institute, and to the Church of England.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000002|These things, surely, are a proof of respectability.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000003|I have had some small connection with politics and public life.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000005|When I state that these lectures were followed almost immediately by the Union of South Africa, the Banana Riots in Trinidad, and the Turco Italian war, I think the reader can form some idea of their importance.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000006|In Canada I belong to the Conservative party, but as yet I have failed entirely in Canadian politics, never having received a contract to build a bridge, or make a wharf, nor to construct even the smallest section of the Transcontinental Railway.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000008_000007|This, however, is a form of national ingratitude to which one becomes accustomed in this Dominion.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000009_000000|Apart from my college work, I have written two books, one called "Literary Lapses" and the other "Nonsense Novels." Each of these is published by john Lane (London and New York), and either of them can be obtained, absurd though it sounds, for the mere sum of three shillings and sixpence.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000009_000001|Any reader of this preface, for example, ridiculous though it appears, could walk into a bookstore and buy both of these books for seven shillings.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000009_000002|Yet these works are of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000009_000003|The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter and gasping for air. Nothing but the intervention of the linotype machine-or rather, of the kind of men who operate it-made it possible to print these books.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000009_000004|Even now people have to be very careful in circulating them, and the books should never be put into the hands of persons not in robust health.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000010_000001|My own experience is exactly the other way.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000010_000002|The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000010_000003|There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000010_000004|But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000011_000000|In regard to the present work I must disclaim at once all intentions of trying to do anything so ridiculously easy as writing about a real place and real people.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000011_000001|Mariposa is not a real town.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000011_000003|You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels, and everywhere the sunshine of the land of hope.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000012_000001|To make him I clapped the gaiters of one ecclesiastic round the legs of another, added the sermons of a third and the character of a fourth, and so let him start on his way in the book to pick up such individual attributes as he might find for himself.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000012_000002|Mullins and Bagshaw and Judge Pepperleigh and the rest are, it is true, personal friends of mine.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000012_000003|But I have known them in such a variety of forms, with such alternations of tall and short, dark and fair, that, individually, I should have much ado to know them.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000012_000004|mr Pupkin is found whenever a Canadian bank opens a branch in a county town and needs a teller.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000012_000005|As for mr Smith, with his two hundred and eighty pounds, his hoarse voice, his loud check suit, his diamonds, the roughness of his address and the goodness of his heart,--all of this is known by everybody to be a necessary and universal adjunct of the hotel business.
train-clean-100/460/172357/460_172357_000013_000000|The inspiration of the book,--a land of hope and sunshine where little towns spread their square streets and their trim maple trees beside placid lakes almost within echo of the primeval forest,--is large enough.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000000_000001|The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000001_000000|It was not until the mining boom, at the time when everybody went simply crazy over the Cobalt and Porcupine mines of the new silver country near the Hudson Bay, that Jefferson Thorpe reached what you might call public importance in Mariposa.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000002_000000|Of course everybody knew Jeff and his little barber shop that stood just across the street from Smith's Hotel.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000002_000001|Everybody knew him and everybody got shaved there.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000003_000000|Mullins, the manager of the Exchange Bank, took his morning shave from Jeff as a form of resuscitation, with enough wet towels laid on his face to stew him and with Jeff moving about in the steam, razor in hand, as grave as an operating surgeon.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000004_000000|Then, as I think I said, mr Smith came in every morning and there was a tremendous outpouring of Florida water and rums, essences and revivers and renovators, regardless of expense.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000004_000001|What with Jeff's white coat and mr Smith's flowered waistcoat and the red geranium in the window and the Florida water and the double extract of hyacinth, the little shop seemed multi coloured and luxurious enough for the annex of a Sultan's harem.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000005_000000|But what I mean is that, till the mining boom, Jefferson Thorpe never occupied a position of real prominence in Mariposa.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000005_000001|You couldn't, for example, have compared him with a man like Golgotha Gingham, who, as undertaker, stood in a direct relation to life and death, or to Trelawney, the postmaster, who drew money from the Federal Government of Canada, and was regarded as virtually a member of the Dominion Cabinet.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000006_000000|Everybody knew Jeff and liked him, but the odd thing was that till he made money nobody took any stock in his ideas at all.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000006_000002|"Level headed" I think was the term; indeed in the speech of Mariposa, the highest form of endowment was to have the head set on horizontally as with a theodolite.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000007_000001|I believe it's something the same in other places too.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000008_000000|The barber shop, you will remember, stands across the street from Smith's Hotel, and stares at it face to face.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000009_000000|It is one of those wooden structures-I don't know whether you know them-with a false front that sticks up above its real height and gives it an air at once rectangular and imposing.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000009_000002|There is a red, white and blue post in front of the shop and the shop itself has a large square window out of proportion to its little flat face.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000010_000000|Painted on the panes of the window is the remains of a legend that once spelt BARBER SHOP, executed with the flourishes that prevailed in the golden age of sign painting in Mariposa.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000010_000001|Through the window you can see the geraniums in the window shelf and behind them Jeff Thorpe with his little black scull cap on and his spectacles drooped upon his nose as he bends forward in the absorption of shaving.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000011_000000|As you open the door, it sets in violent agitation a coiled spring up above and a bell that almost rings.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000011_000001|Inside, there are two shaving chairs of the heavier, or electrocution pattern, with mirrors in front of them and pigeon holes with individual shaving mugs.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000011_000002|There must be ever so many of them, fifteen or sixteen.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000011_000003|It is the current supposition of each of Jeff's customers that everyone else but himself uses a separate mug. One corner of the shop is partitioned off and bears the sign: HOT AND COLD BATHS, fifty CENTS.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000011_000005|Still, it lends distinction somehow, just as do the faded cardboard signs that hang against the mirror with the legends: TURKISH SHAMPOO, seventy five CENTS, and ROMAN MASSAGE, one dollar.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000012_000001|He may have, and it may have been that that turned his mind to investment.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000012_000002|But it's hard to see how he could.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000012_000003|A shave cost five cents, and a hair cut fifteen (or the two, if you liked, for a quarter), and at that it is hard to see how he could make money, even when he had both chairs going and shaved first in one and then in the other.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000013_000000|You see, in Mariposa, shaving isn't the hurried, perfunctory thing that it is in the city.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000013_000001|A shave is looked upon as a form of physical pleasure and lasts anywhere from twenty five minutes to three quarters of an hour.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000015_000001|It makes one drowsy just to think of it!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000016_000000|The conversation, of course, was the real charm of the place.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000016_000001|You see, Jefferson's forte, or specialty, was information.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000016_000003|Where he got it all, I don't know, but I am inclined to think it came more or less out of the newspapers.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000017_000000|In the city, people never read the newspapers, not really, only little bits and scraps of them.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000017_000001|But in Mariposa it's different.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000017_000002|There they read the whole thing from cover to cover, and they build up on it, in the course of years, a range of acquirement that would put a college president to the blush.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000018_000001|He had a kind of divination about it. There was a certain kind of man that Jeff would size up sideways as he stropped the razor, and in whose ear he would whisper: "I see where Saint Louis has took four straight games off Chicago,"--and so hold him fascinated to the end.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000019_000000|In the same way he would say to mr Smith: "I see where it says that this 'Flying Squirl' run a dead heat for the King's Plate."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000020_000000|To a humble intellect like mine he would explain in full the relations of the Keesar to the German Rich Dog.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000022_000001|It was probably in him from the start.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000023_000000|I suppose the most rudimentary form of his speculation was the hens. That was years ago.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000023_000001|He kept them out at the back of his house,--which itself stood up a grass plot behind and beyond the barber shop,--and in the old days Jeff would say, with a certain note of pride in his voice, that The Woman had sold as many as two dozen eggs in a day to the summer visitors.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000024_000001|I suppose a good many of us have felt just as Jeff did about our poor little earnings.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000024_000003|He did it too.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000025_000000|After that the hen house stood empty and The Woman had to throw away chicken feed every day, at a dead loss of perhaps a shave and a half. But it made no difference to Jeff, for his mind had floated away already on the possibilities of what he called "displacement" mining on the Yukon.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000026_000001|Why, no wonder; it seemed like the finger of Providence.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000026_000003|And right at our very doors!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000026_000004|You could see, as I saw, the night express going north every evening; for all one knew Rockefeller or Carnegie or anyone might be on it!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000026_000005|Here was the wealth of Calcutta, as the Mariposa Newspacket put it, poured out at our very feet.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000027_000000|So no wonder the town went wild!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000027_000001|All day in the street you could hear men talking of veins, and smelters and dips and deposits and faults,--the town hummed with it like a geology class on examination day.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000028_000000|The fever just caught the town and ran through it!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000028_000001|Within a fortnight they put a partition down Robertson's Coal and Wood Office and opened the Mariposa Mining Exchange, and just about every man on the Main Street started buying scrip.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000029_000000|They all went in.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000029_000001|Jim Eliot mortgaged the inside of the drug store and jammed it into Twin Tamagami.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000029_000002|Pete Glover at the hardware store bought Nippewa stock at thirteen cents and sold it to his brother at seventeen and bought it back in less than a week at nineteen.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000029_000003|They didn't care! They took a chance.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000029_000004|Judge Pepperleigh put the rest of his wife's money into Temiskaming Common, and Lawyer Macartney got the fever, too, and put every cent that his sister possessed into Tulip Preferred.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000030_000000|And even when young Fizzlechip shot himself in the back room of the Mariposa House, mr Gingham buried him in a casket with silver handles and it was felt that there was a Monte Carlo touch about the whole thing.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000031_000000|They all went in-or all except mr Smith.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000031_000002|He knew what it was to eat flour baked dampers under the lee side of a canoe propped among the underbrush, and to drink the last drop of whiskey within fifty miles.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000031_000004|But what he did do, was to buy up enough early potatoes to send fifteen carload lots into Cobalt at a profit of five dollars a bag.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000032_000000|mr Smith, I say, hung back.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000032_000001|But Jeff Thorpe was in the mining boom right from the start.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000032_000002|He bought in on the Nippewa mine even before the interim prospectus was out.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000034_000000|And right from the start he was confident of winning.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000034_000002|I don't say," he used to continue, with the scissors open and ready to cut, "that some of the greenhorns won't get bit.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000034_000003|But if a feller knows the country and keeps his head level, he can't lose."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000035_000000|Jefferson had looked at so many prospectuses and so many pictures of mines and pine trees and smelters, that I think he'd forgotten that he'd never been in the country.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000035_000001|Anyway, what's two hundred miles!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000036_000000|To an onlooker it certainly didn't seem so simple.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000036_000001|I never knew the meanness, the trickery, of the mining business, the sheer obstinate determination of the bigger capitalists not to make money when they might, till I heard the accounts of Jeff's different mines.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000036_000002|Take the case of Corona Jewel.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000037_000000|"She ain't been developed," Jeff would say.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000037_000002|She's full of it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000038_000000|Then he'd take a look at the pink and blue certificates of the Corona Jewel and slam the drawer on them in disgust.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000038_000001|Worse than that was the Silent Pine,--a clear case of stupid incompetence!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000038_000002|Utter lack of engineering skill was all that was keeping the Silent Pine from making a fortune for its holders.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000039_000000|"The only trouble with that mine," said Jeff, "is they won't go deep enough.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000039_000002|If they'd just go right into her good, they'd get it again.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000039_000003|She's down there all right."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000040_000000|But perhaps the meanest case of all was the Northern Star.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000040_000001|That always seemed to me, every time I heard of it, a straight case for the criminal law.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000040_000002|The thing was so evidently a conspiracy.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000041_000000|"I bought her," said Jeff, "at thirty two, and she stayed right there tight, like she was stuck.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000041_000002|This morning they've got her down to sixteen, but I don't mean to let go.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000041_000003|No, sir."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000042_000000|In another fortnight they shoved her, the same unscrupulous crowd, down to nine cents, and Jefferson still held on.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000042_000001|"They're working her down," he admitted, "but I'm holding her."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000043_000000|No conflict between vice and virtue was ever grimmer.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000044_000000|"She's at six," said Jeff, "but I've got her.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000044_000001|They can't squeeze me."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000046_000000|"They've got her down to three cents," said Jeff, "but I'm with her. Yes, sir, they think they can shove her clean off the market, but they can't do it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000046_000001|I've boughten in Johnson's shares, and the whole of Netley's, and I'll stay with her till she breaks."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000047_000000|So they shoved and pushed and clawed her down-that unseen nefarious crowd in the city-and Jeff held on to her and they writhed and twisted at his grip, and then-
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000048_000001|And Jeff stood there flushed and half staggered against the mirror of the little shop, with a bunch of mining scrip in his hand that was worth forty thousand dollars!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000049_000000|Excitement!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000049_000001|It was all over the town in a minutes.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000050_000001|Then at night there was a big oyster supper in Smith's caff, with speeches, and the Mariposa band outside.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000051_000000|And the queer thing was that the very next afternoon was the funeral of young Fizzlechip, and Dean Drone had to change the whole text of his Sunday sermon at two days' notice for fear of offending public sentiment.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000052_000000|But I think what Jeff liked best of it all was the sort of public recognition that it meant.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000053_000000|The whole thing was in the city papers a few days after with a photograph of Jeff, taken specially at Ed Moore's studio (upstairs over Netley's).
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000053_000001|It showed Jeff sitting among palm trees, as all mining men do, with one hand on his knee, and a dog, one of those regular mining dogs, at his feet, and a look of piercing intelligence in his face that would easily account for forty thousand dollars.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000054_000000|I say that the recognition meant a lot to Jeff for its own sake.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000054_000001|But no doubt the fortune meant quite a bit to him too on account of Myra.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000055_000000|Did I mention Myra, Jeff's daughter?
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000055_000001|Perhaps not.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000056_000001|As you saw her swinging up the street to the Telephone Exchange in a suit that was straight out of the Delineator and brown American boots, there was style written all over her,--the kind of thing that Mariposa recognised and did homage to.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000056_000003|And then when Myra would go off duty and Miss Cleghorn, who was sallow, would come on, the commercial men would be off again like autumn leaves.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000057_000000|It just shows the difference between people.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000058_000000|Mind you, I don't mean that Myra was merely flippant and worthless.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000058_000001|Not at all.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000058_000002|She was a girl with any amount of talent.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000058_000003|You should have heard her recite "The Raven," at the Methodist Social!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000058_000004|Simply genius!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000058_000005|And when she acted Portia in the Trial Scene of the Merchant of Venice at the High School concert, everybody in Mariposa admitted that you couldn't have told it from the original.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000059_000000|So, of course, as soon as Jeff made the fortune, Myra had her resignation in next morning and everybody knew that she was to go to a dramatic school for three months in the fall and become a leading actress.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000060_000001|The moment you begin to get that sort of thing it comes in quickly enough. Brains, you know, are recognized right away.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000060_000002|That was why, of course, within a week from this Jeff received the first big packet of stuff from the Cuban Land Development Company, with coloured pictures of Cuba, and fields of bananas, and haciendas and insurrectos with machetes and Heaven knows what.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000060_000003|They heard of him, somehow,--it wasn't for a modest man like Jefferson to say how.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000060_000005|If you're in it, you're in it, that's all!
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000060_000006|Jeff realized why it is that of course men like Carnegie or Rockefeller and Morgan all know one another.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000060_000007|They have to.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000061_000000|For all I know, this Cuban stuff may have been sent from Morgan himself. Some of the people in Mariposa said yes, others said no There was no certainty.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000062_000000|Anyway, they were fair and straight, this Cuban crowd that wrote to Jeff.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000062_000001|They offered him to come right in and be one of themselves.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000062_000002|If a man's got the brains, you may as well recognize it straight away.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000062_000003|Just as well write him to be a director now as wait and hesitate till he forces his way into it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000063_000001|I suppose in some financial circles they might have been slower, wanted guarantees of some sort, and so on, but these Cubans, you know, have got a sort of Spanish warmth of heart that you don't see in business men in America, and that touches you.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000063_000003|Just send the money whether by express order or by bank draft or cheque, they left that entirely to oneself, as a matter between Cuban gentlemen.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000064_000000|And they were quite frank about their enterprise-bananas and tobacco in the plantation district reclaimed from the insurrectos.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000064_000001|You could see it all there in the pictures-tobacco plants and the insurrectos-everything.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000064_000002|They made no rash promises, just admitted straight out that the enterprise might realise four hundred per cent. or might conceivably make less.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000064_000003|There was no hint of more.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000065_000000|So within a month, everybody in Mariposa knew that Jeff Thorpe was "in Cuban lands" and would probably clean up half a million by New Year's. You couldn't have failed to know it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000000|I liked it about Jeff that he didn't stop shaving.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000001|He went on just the same.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000002|Even when Johnson, the livery stable man, came in with five hundred dollars and asked him to see if the Cuban Board of Directors would let him put it in, Jeff laid it in the drawer and then shaved him for five cents, in the same old way.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000003|Of course, he must have felt proud when, a few days later, he got a letter from the Cuban people, from New York, accepting the money straight off without a single question, and without knowing anything more of Johnson except that he was a friend of Jeff's.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000004|They wrote most handsomely.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000005|Any friends of Jeff's were friends of Cuba.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000066_000006|All money they might send would be treated just as Jeff's would be treated.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000067_000000|One reason, perhaps, why Jeff didn't give up shaving was because it allowed him to talk about Cuba.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000067_000002|Perhaps you've felt it about people that you know.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000067_000003|Anyhow, they asked him about the climate, and yellow fever and what the negroes were like and all that sort of thing.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000068_000000|"This Cubey, it appears is an island," Jeff would explain.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000068_000001|Of course, everybody knows how easily islands lend themselves to making money,--"and for fruit, they say it comes up so fast you can't stop it." And then he would pass into details about the Hash enders and the resurrectos and technical things like that till it was thought a wonder how he could know it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000068_000002|Still, it was realized that a man with money has got to know these things.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000068_000004|They know just as much as Jeff did about the countries where they make it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000068_000005|It stands to reason.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000069_000001|Not quite.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000069_000003|I thought that perhaps getting so much money,--well, you know the way it acts on people in the larger cities.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000070_000000|In fact, I had perhaps borne him a grudge for what seemed to me his perpetual interest in the great capitalists.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000071_000000|"I see where this here Carnegie has give fifty thousand dollars for one of them observatories," he would say.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000073_000000|It was only by a sort of accident that I came to know that there was another side to Jefferson's speculation that no one in Mariposa ever knew, or will ever know now.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000074_000000|I knew it because I went in to see Jeff in his house one night.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000074_000001|The house,--I think I said it,--stood out behind the barber shop.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000074_000003|You could see the light of the lamp behind the blind, and through the screen door as you came along.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000074_000004|And it was here that Jefferson used to sit in the evenings when the shop got empty.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000076_000000|So this night,--I don't know just what it was in the paper that caused it,--Jeff laid down what he was reading and started to talk about Carnegie.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000078_000000|I may say in parentheses that it was a favourite method in Mariposa if you wanted to get at the real worth of a man, to imagine him clean sold up, put up for auction, as it were.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000078_000001|It was the only way to test him.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000079_000000|"And now look at 'em," Jeff went on.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000079_000001|"They make their money and what do they do with it?
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000079_000002|They give it away.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000079_000003|And who do they give it to?
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000079_000004|Why, to those as don't want it, every time.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000079_000006|Not a cent and never will."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000080_000000|"I tell you, boys," continued Jeff (there were no boys present, but in Mariposa all really important speeches are addressed to an imaginary audience of boys)--"I tell you, if I was to make a million out of this Cubey, I'd give it straight to the poor, yes, sir-divide it up into a hundred lots of a thousand dollars each and give it to the people that hadn't nothing."
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000081_000000|So always after that I knew just what those bananas were being grown for.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000082_000000|Indeed, after that, though Jefferson never spoke of his intentions directly, he said a number of things that seemed to bear on them.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000083_000000|But still,--what's the use of talking of what Jeff meant to do?
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000083_000001|Nobody knows or cares about it now.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000084_000000|The end of it was bound to come.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000084_000001|Even in Mariposa some of the people must have thought so.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000084_000003|And why was it that mr Smith wouldn't pay Billy, the desk clerk, his back wages when he wanted to put it into Cuba?
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000085_000002|It is strange how quiet these things look, the other way round.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000086_000002|That was Jeff's money-part of it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000088_000000|Well, that's how he walked.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000089_000000|And since that, though it's quite a little while ago, the shop's open till eleven every night now, and Jeff is shaving away to pay back that five hundred that Johnson, the livery man, sent to the Cubans, and-
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000090_000000|Pathetic?
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000090_000003|You don't know Mariposa.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000090_000004|Jeff has to work pretty late, but that's nothing-nothing at all, if you've worked hard all your lifetime.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000090_000005|And Myra is back at the Telephone Exchange-they were glad enough to get her, and she says now that if there's one thing she hates, it's the stage, and she can't see how the actresses put up with it.
train-clean-100/460/172359/460_172359_000091_000000|Anyway, things are not so bad.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000002_000001|The barricade had been not only repaired, but augmented.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000002_000002|They had raised it two feet.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000002_000005|The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the inside and a thicket on the outside.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000003_000000|The staircase of paving stones which permitted one to mount it like the wall of a citadel had been reconstructed.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000004_000000|The barricade had been put in order, the tap room disencumbered, the kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the fallen weapons re distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the rubbish swept up, corpses removed.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000006_000002|Still, only three or four took advantage of it.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000008_000000|LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES!
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000012_000001|The municipal guardsmen were attended to first.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000013_000000|In the tap room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and Javert bound to his post.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000018_000000|No repast had been possible.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000019_000001|He interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000021_000000|About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000021_000001|There were still thirty seven of them.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000022_000001|The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity in the pavement, had just been extinguished.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000022_000005|The sky was of that charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000022_000006|Birds flew about in it with cries of joy.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000022_000007|The lofty house which formed the back of the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy reflection.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000023_000002|It had the appearance of being afraid.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000023_000003|The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles."
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000024_000000|Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000026_000000|"What is the cat?" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000026_000001|"It is a corrective.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000026_000004|The cat is the erratum of the mouse.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000026_000005|The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected."
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000030_000000|"Caesar," said Combeferre, "fell justly.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000030_000005|Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus is an arbiter by the sword.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000030_000008|He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the better; the lesson is but the more exalted.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000030_000010|Caesar is stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000030_000011|One feels the God through the greater outrage."
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000033_000000|CHAPTER three-LIGHT AND SHADOW
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000035_000000|The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000035_000001|The manner in which they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000035_000002|They waited for it with a smile.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000035_000003|They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their cause.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000035_000005|They reckoned on it.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000035_000006|With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day which was at hand into three distinct phases.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000037_000000|All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of bees.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000038_000001|He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer darkness.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000039_000000|"The whole army of Paris is to strike.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000039_000002|There is the National Guard in addition.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000039_000003|I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the line, and the standard bearers of the sixth legion.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000041_000000|This moment was brief.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000043_000000|"So be it.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000043_000001|Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and let us all remain in it.
train-clean-100/4640/19187/4640_19187_000043_000002|Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000001_000000|CHAPTER four-MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000003_000000|"Long live death!
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000007_000002|Why sacrifice forty?"
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000008_000000|They replied:
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000009_000000|"Because not one will go away."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000010_000001|Vain glory is waste.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000010_000002|If the duty of some is to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000014_000001|The barricade is hemmed in."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000016_000002|'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to the barricade?' And they will look at your hands.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000016_000003|You smell of powder. Shot."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000018_000000|They emerged thence a moment later.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000018_000002|Combeferre followed, carrying the shoulder belts and the shakos.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000020_000001|Combeferre took the word.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000000|"Come," said he, "you must have a little pity.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000001|Do you know what the question is here?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000002|It is a question of women.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000003|See here.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000004|Are there women or are there not?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000005|Are there children or are there not?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000008|Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so do I-I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms of women wreathing their arms around me.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000009|Die, if you will, but don't make others die.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000014|When one supports one's relatives by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000015|That is deserting one's family.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000016|And those who have daughters!
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000017|what are you thinking of?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000019|And tomorrow?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000020|Young girls without bread-that is a terrible thing.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000025|Think of the street, think of the pavement covered with passers by, think of the shops past which women go and come with necks all bare, and through the mire.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000034|You say: 'I have a gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So much the worse is easily said.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000035|My friends, there is a morrow; you will not be here to morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings!
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000036|See, here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000039|Poor people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for themselves.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000042|He did not cry. You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000043|His breathing was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000044|He said nothing.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000045|If you spoke to him, he did not answer.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000046|He is dead.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000051|A sort of mud was found in his stomach.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000052|There were ashes in his teeth.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000054|Statistics show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty five per cent. I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns young girls, it concerns little children.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000055|Who is talking to you of yourselves?
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000056|We know well what you are; we know well that you are all brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each one of you clings to his share in the triumph.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000021_000059|There are other beings of whom you must think. You must not be egoists."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000022_000000|All dropped their heads with a gloomy air.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000023_000000|Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000025_000001|Despair, also, has its ecstasy.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000025_000003|He looked on at everything as from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000026_000000|But this moved him.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000026_000002|He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some one else.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000028_000001|Combeferre has said convincing things to you.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000028_000003|Let such leave the ranks."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000034_000001|Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke forth.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000035_000000|"Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be too late."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000036_000001|Do you yourselves designate those who are to go."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000037_000000|They obeyed.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000037_000001|After the expiration of a few minutes, five were unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000039_000000|There were only four uniforms.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000040_000000|"Well," began the five, "one must stay behind."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000043_000000|These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. The improbable was simple there.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000043_000001|These men did not astonish each other.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000046_000000|"Do you designate who is to remain."
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000048_000001|Still, at this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to his heart.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000048_000002|He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to become any paler.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000049_000000|He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history hovering over Thermopylae, cried to him:
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000051_000001|Then his glance dropped to the four uniforms.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000052_000000|At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other four.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000058_000000|At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his coat and flung it on the pile with the rest.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000064_000000|This guarantee satisfied every one.
train-clean-100/4640/19188/4640_19188_000066_000000|"Welcome, citizen."
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000011_000000|CHAPTER five-THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000013_000002|He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an inward look.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000014_000002|To conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. Reflect on what progress has already accomplished.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000014_000012|The real governed by the true, that is the goal. Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the intelligence.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000014_000039|Equality has an organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000014_000043|Yes, instruction! light!
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000014_000049|We affirm it on this barrier.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000014_000052|Here misery meets the ideal.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000015_000001|There was no applause; but they whispered together for a long time.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000016_000000|CHAPTER six-MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000018_000000|Let the reader recall the state of his soul.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000018_000002|His judgment was disturbed.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000019_000001|Why was he there?
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000020_000000|Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000023_000001|One of them wept as he took his leave.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000025_000000|He entered the tap room.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000025_000001|Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in meditation.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000027_000000|Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?"
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000028_000000|"Wait.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000028_000001|We need all our cartridges just at present."
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000029_000000|"Then give me a drink," said Javert.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000032_000001|"You are not tender to have left me to pass the night here.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000036_000000|Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a slender but stout whip cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000037_000000|By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets the hands, after passing between the legs.
train-clean-100/4640/19189/4640_19189_000038_000002|He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself to the remark: "It is perfectly simple."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000007_000001|Marius, at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight of Eponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000007_000002|Two days in succession-this was too much.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000008_000001|Up to that time, she had contented herself with watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to encounter him.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000008_000002|It was only on the evening before that she had attempted to address him.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000009_000000|So Eponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000009_000001|She saw him displace the bar and slip into the garden.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000013_000000|She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the bar, as though she were guarding it.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000013_000001|It was precisely at the point where the railing touched the neighboring wall.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000013_000002|There was a dim nook there, in which Eponine was entirely concealed.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000014_000000|She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without breathing, a prey to her thoughts.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000016_000000|"I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000017_000000|The passer by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into the black niche, and was greatly alarmed.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000017_000001|He redoubled his pace.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000020_000000|These men began to talk in a low voice.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000021_000000|"This is the place," said one of them.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000023_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000023_000001|In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him eat."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000024_000000|"Have you some putty to break the pane with?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000025_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000026_000000|"The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a ventriloquist.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000027_000000|"So much the better," said the second who had spoken.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000027_000001|"It won't screech under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000029_000000|Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000032_000000|The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000032_000001|He bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000033_000000|He recoiled and stammered:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000034_000000|"What jade is this?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000035_000000|"Your daughter."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000036_000000|It was, in fact, Eponine, who had addressed Thenardier.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000039_000000|"Ah, see here, what are you about there?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000039_000001|What do you want with us?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000039_000002|Are you crazy?" exclaimed Thenardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000041_000000|"I am here, little father, because I am here.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000041_000001|Isn't a person allowed to sit on the stones nowadays?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000041_000004|I told Magnon so.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000041_000005|There's nothing to be done here.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000041_000007|It's a long time since I've seen you!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000041_000008|So you're out?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000042_000000|Thenardier tried to disentangle himself from Eponine's arms, and grumbled:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000043_000000|"That's good.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000043_000001|You've embraced me.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000043_000002|Yes, I'm out.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000043_000003|I'm not in.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000043_000004|Now, get away with you."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000044_000000|But Eponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000045_000002|Tell me about it!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000045_000003|And my mother?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000045_000004|Where is mother?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000046_000000|Thenardier replied:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000047_000000|"She's well.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000047_000001|I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000048_000000|"I won't go, so there now," pouted Eponine like a spoiled child; "you send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had time to kiss you."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000054_000000|Eponine turned to the five ruffians.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000056_000000|"Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thenardier.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000056_000001|"But good day, good evening, sheer off! leave us alone!"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000059_000000|Eponine caught Montparnasse's hand.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000061_000001|I am the daughter of my father, perhaps.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000062_000000|It is remarkable that Eponine did not talk slang.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000062_000001|That frightful tongue had become impossible to her since she had known Marius.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000064_000003|Well, I have made inquiries; you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000064_000004|I swear to you that there is nothing in this house."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000065_000000|"There are lone women," said Guelemer.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000068_000000|And he pointed out to Eponine, across the tops of the trees, a light which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000068_000001|It was Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000069_000000|Eponine made a final effort.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000071_000000|"Go to the devil!" cried Thenardier.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000071_000001|"When we've turned the house upside down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or half farthings."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000072_000000|And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000073_000000|"My good friend, mr Montparnasse," said Eponine, "I entreat you, you are a good fellow, don't enter."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000075_000000|Thenardier resumed in his decided tone:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000076_000000|"Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000077_000000|Eponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and said:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000078_000000|"So you mean to enter this house?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000079_000000|"Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000080_000000|Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, and said in a firm, low voice:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000081_000000|"Well, I don't mean that you shall."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000082_000000|They halted in amazement.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000082_000001|The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. She went on:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000083_000000|"Friends!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000083_000002|This is not what you want.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000083_000004|In the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000085_000000|She shook her head and added:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000086_000000|"Beginning with my father!"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000087_000000|Thenardier stepped nearer.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000088_000000|"Not so close, my good man!" said she.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000089_000000|He retreated, growling between his teeth:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000090_000000|"Why, what's the matter with her?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000091_000000|And he added:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000092_000000|"Bitch!"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000093_000000|She began to laugh in a terrible way:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000000|"As you like, but you shall not enter here.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000002|There are six of you, what matters that to me?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000003|You are men.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000005|You don't frighten me.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000006|I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit me.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000007|If you approach, I'll bark.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000008|I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't care a straw for you.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000009|Go your way, you bore me!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000010|Go where you please, but don't come here, I forbid it!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000094_000012|I'll use kicks; it's all the same to me, come on!"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000095_000000|She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out laughing:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000096_000000|"Pardine!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000096_000002|I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be cold this winter.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000096_000004|What! Scare?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000096_000005|Oh, yes, much!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000096_000006|Because you have finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a big voice, forsooth!
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000097_000000|She fastened her intent gaze upon Thenardier and said:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000099_000000|Then she continued, as she cast her blood shot, spectre like eyes upon the ruffians in turn:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000101_000000|She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came from her weak and narrow chest like the death rattle.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000102_000000|She resumed:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000103_000000|"I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! There are six of you; I represent the whole world."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000104_000000|Thenardier made a movement towards her.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000105_000000|"Don't approach!" she cried.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000106_000000|He halted, and said gently:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000107_000000|"Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000107_000001|So you intend to hinder us in our work, my daughter?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000107_000003|Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000108_000000|"You bother me," said Eponine.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000110_000000|"Burst!"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000111_000000|So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and hummed:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000113_000000|She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she swung her foot with an air of indifference.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000113_000002|The neighboring street lantern illuminated her profile and her attitude.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000113_000003|Nothing more resolute and more surprising could be seen.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000114_000000|The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with furious and humiliated shrugs.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000115_000000|In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000116_000002|Is she in love with the dog?
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000116_000003|It's a shame to miss this, anyway.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000116_000004|Two women, an old fellow who lodges in the back yard, and curtains that ain't so bad at the windows.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000116_000005|The old cove must be a Jew.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000117_000000|"Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000117_000001|"Do the job.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000117_000002|I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us-"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000118_000000|He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of the lantern.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000119_000000|Thenardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest pleased.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000120_000000|Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, "put up the job," had not as yet spoken.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000120_000001|He seemed thoughtful.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000120_000002|He had the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he had plundered a police post simply out of bravado.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000123_000000|Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in various ways, and finally concluded to speak:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000124_000001|All that's bad.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000124_000002|Let's quit."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000125_000000|They went away.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000126_000000|As they went, Montparnasse muttered:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000129_000000|"I wouldn't.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000129_000001|I don't hit a lady."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000130_000000|At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:--
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000131_000000|"Where shall we go to sleep to night?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000132_000000|"Under Pantin [Paris]."
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000133_000000|"Have you the key to the gate, Thenardier?"
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000135_000000|Eponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the road by which they had come.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000135_000001|She rose and began to creep after them along the walls and the houses.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000135_000002|She followed them thus as far as the boulevard.
train-clean-100/4680/16026/4680_16026_000136_000000|There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, where they appeared to melt away.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000002_000000|BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000004_000001|He wished to die; the opportunity presented itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness offered him the key.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000004_000002|These melancholy openings which take place in the gloom before despair, are tempting.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000004_000003|Marius thrust aside the bar which had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I will go."
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000005_000000|Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to make a speedy end of all.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000006_000000|He set out at rapid pace.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000006_000001|He found himself most opportunely armed, as he had Javert's pistols with him.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000009_000001|There the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their half open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as usual.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000010_000001|In proportion as he left the Palais Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000010_000002|For the passers by now amounted to a crowd.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000010_000003|No one could be seen to speak in this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000011_000000|Near the fountain of the Arbre Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the midst of running water.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000001|This multitude undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000002|Its whisperings had the hoarse accent of a vibration.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000003|Although not one of them was walking, a dull trampling was audible in the mire.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000005|Only the solitary and diminishing rows of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000007|There could be descried piles of guns, moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000008|No curious observer passed that limit.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000009|There circulation ceased.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000012_000010|There the rabble ended and the army began.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000013_000000|Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000014_000000|After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of the troops; he found himself in something startling.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000014_000002|Entering a street was like entering a cellar.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000015_000000|He continued to advance.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000016_000000|He took a few steps.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000016_000001|Some one passed close to him at a run.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000016_000005|he could not have told.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000016_000006|It had passed and vanished.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000017_000002|It was an overturned wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving stones scattered and piled up.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000017_000004|He walked very near the street posts, and guided himself along the walls of the houses.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000017_000005|A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him that he could make out something white in front of him.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000017_000006|He approached, it took on a form.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000018_000000|Marius left the horses behind him.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000019_000000|This shot still betokened life.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000019_000001|From that instant forth he encountered nothing more.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000020_000000|The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000022_000000|CHAPTER two-AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000001|There the glance fell into an abyss.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000002|Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, and maintained order, that is to say, night.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000003|The necessary tactics of insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000004|At dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000005|The light was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000006|Hence nothing was stirring.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000024_000007|There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000025_000000|All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly drawing in and around the insurrection.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000026_000000|The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but darkness.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000002|All was over.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000003|No more light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. Where?
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000004|How?
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000006|No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000007|In this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into contact.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000008|The necessity was the same for both.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000009|The only possible issue thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000027_000010|A situation so extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000028_000000|Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were equal.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000028_000001|For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of flight.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000029_000000|It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should prove itself a revolution or a skirmish.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000029_000001|The Government understood this as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000030_000000|As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what men were about to do.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000030_000001|Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their melancholy folds.
train-clean-100/4680/16041/4680_16041_000030_000002|A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an immense winding sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000005_000000|There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than in the neighboring streets.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000006_000001|It was the reflection of the torch which was burning in the Corinthe barricade.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000006_000002|Marius directed his steps towards that red light.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000006_000004|He entered it.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000006_000005|The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not see him.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000006_000006|He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in search of, and he walked on tiptoe.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000007_000001|All this was ten fathoms distant from him.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000007_000002|It was the interior of the barricade.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000008_000000|The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of the wine shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000009_000000|Marius had but a step more to take.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000013_000000|He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he was about to fall.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000013_000001|Then he shuddered.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000014_000000|He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000015_000000|And then he fell to weeping bitterly.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000000|This was horrible.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000001|But what was he to do?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000002|Live without Cosette he could not.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000003|Since she was gone, he must needs die.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000004|Had he not given her his word of honor that he would die?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000005|She had gone knowing that; this meant that it pleased her that Marius should die.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000006|And then, it was clear that she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address!
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000007|What was the good of living, and why should he live now?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000009|should he slip away after having come and peeped into the barricade?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000010|slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I have had enough of it as it is.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000013|Should he be untrue at once to his love, to country, to his word?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000016_000014|Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of patriotism?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000017_000000|Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his head.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000000|All at once he raised it.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000001|A sort of splendid rectification had just been effected in his mind.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000002|There is a widening of the sphere of thought which is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to be near death.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000003|The vision of the action into which he felt that he was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more as lamentable, but as superb.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000004|The war of the street was suddenly transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the eye of his thought.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000005|All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000018_000006|He left none of them unanswered.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000000|Let us see, why should his father be indignant?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000001|Are there not cases where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000002|What was there that was degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about to begin?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000004|The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but of a holy idea.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000005|The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. But is it true that the country does wail?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000006|France bleeds, but liberty smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her wound.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000019_000007|And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of view, why do we speak of civil war?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000001|Is there a foreign war?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000004|Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. What have we to reproach that war with?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000005|War does not become a disgrace, the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000006|Then war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does one form of man despise another?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000009|the one is the defender, the other the liberator.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000010|Shall we brand every appeal to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a consideration?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000012|War of the streets?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000013|Why not?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000016|Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000019|Multitudes have a tendency to accept the master.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000020|Their mass bears witness to apathy. A crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000021|Men must be stirred up, pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them in terrible handfuls.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000022|They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000023|Hence the necessity of tocsins and wars.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000024|Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered with gloom by the right divine, Caesarian glory, force, fanaticism, irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs of the night.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000025|Down with the tyrant!
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000026|Of whom are you speaking?
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000028|No; no more than Louis the sixteenth.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000029|Both of them are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, then; all encroachments on man should be repressed.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000030|There is a divine right in Louis the sixteenth., there is because a Bourbon in Louis Philippe; both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it must be done, France being always the one to begin.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000031|When the master falls in France, he falls everywhere.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000033|These wars build up peace.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000034|An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. It must be cast down.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000020_000035|This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000021_000000|There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case-the soul,--and therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects and discuss theses.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000021_000002|This was the situation of Marius' mind.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000022_000000|As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his glance strayed to the interior of the barricade.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000022_000002|Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly attentive.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000022_000004|Below, by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving stones, this head could be vaguely distinguished.
train-clean-100/4680/16042/4680_16042_000022_000006|One would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were about to die.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000001_000000|CHAPTER two THE GHOST TOWN
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000002_000001|Mary's nettlesome brown pony was hard to quiet until Jerry reached out a strong brown hand and patted its head.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000003_000000|Mary lifted startled blue eyes.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000006_000001|Then to the cowboy she said in her practical matter of fact way, "Hurry along home to your milking, Jerry, and Dick, don't you bother to come with us.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000006_000002|Now that you're working on the Newcomb ranch you ought to be there.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000007_000000|Mary, not wishing to appear foolishly timid, said, in as courageous a voice as she could muster, "Of course we're not afraid.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000007_000001|Goodbye, boys, we'll see you tomorrow."
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000008_000002|The boys were sitting just where they had left them.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000008_000003|Jerry's sombrero and Dick's cap waved, then, feeling assured that the girls were all right, the boys went at a gallop down the road and across the desert valley to the Newcomb ranch which nestled at the base of the Chiricahua range.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000009_000000|"They're nice boys, aren't they?" Mary said.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000013_000000|Mary smiled faintly but it was evident that she was still thinking of the past, when she had been a little girl with golden curls that hung to her waist; a wonderfully pretty, wistful little girl.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000013_000001|When she spoke, she said, "It's only natural that Jerry should call me 'Little Sister.' Our mothers were like sisters when they were girl brides.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000013_000004|She didn't teach long though, for that very first vacation she married Jerry's cowboy father.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000013_000005|After that Mother and mrs Newcomb were good friends, naturally, being brides and neighbors."
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000015_000000|Mary, not heeding the interruption, kept on.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000015_000001|"When Jerry and I were little, we were playmates.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000016_000000|"Then you came East to boarding school and became like a sister to me," Dora said tenderly.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000019_000001|The girls could see a distant blue haze that was the smoke from the Douglas copper smelters.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000022_000000|"Why, of course.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000023_000000|"Because he had to do the milking," Mary replied simply.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000024_000000|Dora nodded.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000026_000000|Dora, seeing her friend's pale face, was sorry that she had wondered aloud.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000026_000002|"That's impossible!"
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000026_000003|Then to change the subject, she started another.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000026_000004|"Jerry didn't have time to tell us about the Evil Eye Turquoise, did he?"
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000027_000001|"I don't believe he will tell us about that.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000029_000000|She said no more about it just then, as they had reached the old ghost town of Gleeson.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000029_000002|On their right was the corner general store and post office.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000029_000005|Today the chairs were empty.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000030_000000|An old man, shriveled, gray bearded, unkempt, but with kind gray eyes, deep sunken under shaggy brows, stood in the open door.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000032_000000|The old man had shuffled into the dark well of his store.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000033_000000|"Good!" Dora exclaimed as she rode close to the porch.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000033_000001|"Thanks a lot," she called brightly up to the old man who was handing the packet down over the sagging wooden rail.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000034_000000|His friendly, toothless smile was directed at the smaller girl.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000035_000000|"Yes, mr Harvey.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000035_000001|Dick is mrs Farley's son." Mary took time, in a friendly way, to satisfy the old man's curiosity.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000035_000004|Her husband was a doctor and they lived back in Boston before he died."
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000037_000000|"Dick's working on the Newcomb ranch this summer," Mary said, as she started to ride on.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000038_000003|Bustin' broncs?"
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000039_000000|Mary smiled in appreciation of the old man's joke.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000039_000002|He's official fence mender just at present."
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000040_000000|Dora defended the absent boy.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000043_000003|The third adobe was neat and well kept.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000043_000004|In it lived the Lopez family.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000043_000005|Carmelita, the wife and mother, had long been cook for Mary Moore's father.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000044_000000|A bright, black eyed Mexican boy of about ten ran out to the road as the girls approached.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000044_000001|"Come on, Emanuel," Mary sang down to him.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000044_000002|"You may put up our horses and earn a dime."
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000046_000000|Mary glanced affectionately at the old place with its flower edged walk, its broad porch and adobe pillars.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000046_000002|Eight happy years they had spent together before her mother died.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000046_000003|After Mary had been taken East to school, her father had returned, and here he had spent the winters, going back to Sunnybank each summer to be with his little girl.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000047_000000|Hurrying up the steps, Mary skipped into a pleasant living room, where, near a wide window that was letting in a flood of light from the setting sun, sat her fine looking father, pale after his long illness, but growing stronger every day.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000048_000001|"You've waited up for me, haven't you?" She dropped to her knees beside the invalid chair and pressed her flushed face to his gray, drawn cheek.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000049_000000|Then, glancing up at the nurse who had appeared from her father's bedroom, she asked eagerly, "May I tell Dad an adventure we've had?"
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000050_000000|mrs Farley, middle aged, kind faced, shook her head, smiling down at the girl.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000050_000001|"Not tonight, please.
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000050_000002|Won't tomorrow do?"
train-clean-100/4788/294466/4788_294466_000051_000000|Mary sprang up, saying brightly, "I reckon it will have to." Then, stooping, she kissed her father as she whispered tenderly, "Rest well, darling.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000006_000001|It visibly takes the lead, it looks big and important, and it makes a great noise.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000006_000003|Still that blustering machine, which puffs and snorts, and drags a vast multitude in its wake, is moving along a track determined by a man hidden away from the public gaze.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000006_000004|A line of rail lies separated from an adjacent one, the pointsman moves a handle, and the foaming giant, that would, it may be, have sped on to his destruction and that of the passive crew who follow in his rear, is shunted to another line running in a different direction and to a more desirable goal.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000007_000003|Still it is his work in mental science which will, in our opinion, be in future looked upon as his great contribution to the progress of thought.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000007_000004|His work on political economy not only put into thorough repair the structure raised by Adam Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo, but raised it at least one story higher.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000007_000005|His inestimable "System of Logic" was a revolution.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000007_000007|Those who think this a disparagement of his work must have very little conception of the mass of original thought that still remains to mr Mill's credit, the great critical power that could gather valuable truths from so many discordant sources, and the wonderful synthetic ability required to weld these and his own contributions into one organic whole.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000008_000000|When mr Mill commenced his labors, the only logic recognized was the syllogistic.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000008_000002|It was even asserted confidently, that nothing more was to be expected,--that an inductive logic was impossible.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000008_000004|Here was a perfect paradise of question begging.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000008_000005|The ultimate major premise in every argument being assumed, it could of course be fashioned according to the particular conclusion it was called in to prove.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000008_000006|Thus an 'artificial ignorance,' as Locke calls it, was produced, which had the effect of sanctifying prejudice by recognizing so-called necessities of thought as the only bases of reasoning.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000009_000001|He demonstrated that the general type of reasoning is neither from generals to particulars, nor from particulars to generals, but from particulars to particulars.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000009_000004|Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition." We not only may, according to mr Mill, reason from some particular instances to others, but we frequently do so.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000009_000005|As, however, the instances which are sufficient to prove one fresh instance must be sufficient to prove a general proposition, it is most convenient to at once infer that general proposition, which then becomes a formula according to which (but not from which) any number of particular inferences may be made.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000009_000006|The work of deduction is the interpretation of these formulas, and therefore, strictly speaking, is not inferential at all.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000009_000007|The real inference was accomplished when the universal proposition was arrived at.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000010_000004|It was this, taken with his theory of the syllogism, which worked the great change.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000010_000006|As a systematic psychologist mr Mill has not done so much as either Professor Bain or mr Herbert Spencer.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000010_000007|The perfection of his method, its application, and the uprooting of prejudices which stood in its way,--this was the task to which mr Mill applied himself with an ability and success rarely matched and never surpassed.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000011_000000|The biggest lion in the path was the doctrine of so-called "necessary truth." This doctrine was especially obnoxious to him, as it set up a purely subjective standard of truth, and a standard-as he was easily able to show-varying according to the psychological history of the individual.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000011_000004|It is through this door that ontological belief was supposed to enter. "Things in themselves" were to be believed in because we could not help it.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000011_000005|Modern Noumenalists agree that we can know nothing more of "things in themselves" than their existence, but this they continue to assert with a vehemence only equalled by its want of meaning.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000012_000001|After reviewing, in an opening chapter, the various views which have been held respecting the relativity of human knowledge, and stating his own doctrine, he proceeds to judge by this standard the philosophy of the absolute and Sir William Hamilton's relation to it.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000012_000003|He acknowledged the force of mr Mill's argument, that "The Infinite" must include "a farrago of contradictions;" but so also, he said, does the Finite.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000012_000004|Now undoubtedly finite things, taken distributively, have contradictory attributes, but not as a class.
train-clean-100/4788/91208/4788_91208_000012_000005|Still less is there any one individual thing, "The Finite," in which these contradictory attributes inhere. But it was against a corresponding being, "The Infinite," that mr Mill was arguing.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000002_000002|Let us examine at what point in the descending series representative government ceases altogether to be admissible, either through its own unfitness or the superior fitness of some other regimen.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000003_000001|These were, one.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000003_000002|That the people should be willing to receive it.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000003_000005|three.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000003_000006|That they should be willing and able to fulfill the duties and discharge the functions which it imposes on them.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000004_000000|The willingness of the people to accept representative government only becomes a practical question when an enlightened ruler, or a foreign nation or nations who have gained power over the country, are disposed to offer it the boon.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000004_000003|The contrary case is not indeed unexampled; there has sometimes been a religious repugnance to any limitation of the power of a particular line of rulers; but, in general, the doctrine of passive obedience meant only submission to the will of the powers that be, whether monarchical or popular.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000004_000004|In any case in which the attempt to introduce representative government is at all likely to be made, indifference to it, and inability to understand its processes and requirements, rather than positive opposition, are the obstacles to be expected.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000004_000005|These, however, are as fatal, and may be as hard to be got rid of as actual aversion; it being easier, in most cases, to change the direction of an active feeling than to create one in a state previously passive.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000004_000006|When a people have no sufficient value for, and attachment to, a representative constitution, they have next to no chance of retaining it.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000004_000008|Unless, therefore, the authorities whose office it is to check the executive are backed by an effective opinion and feeling in the country, the executive has always the means of setting them aside or compelling them to subservience, and is sure to be well supported in doing so.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000001|The third is when the people want either the will or the capacity to fulfill the part which belongs to them in a representative constitution.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000002|When nobody, or only some small fraction, feels the degree of interest in the general affairs of the state necessary to the formation of a public opinion, the electors will seldom make any use of the right of suffrage but to serve their private interest, or the interest of their locality, or of some one with whom they are connected as adherents or dependents.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000003|The small class who, in this state of public feeling, gain the command of the representative body, for the most part use it solely as a means of seeking their fortune.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000005|When, however, the evil stops here, the price may be worth paying for the publicity and discussion which, though not an invariable, are a natural accompaniment of any, even nominal, representation.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000007|This benefit, however, is entirely dependent on the coexistence with the popular body of an hereditary king.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000008|If, instead of struggling for the favors of the chief ruler, these selfish and sordid factions struggled for the chief place itself, they would certainly, as in Spanish America, keep the country in a state of chronic revolution and civil war.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000005_000009|A despotism, not even legal, but of illegal violence, would be alternately exercised by a succession of political adventurers, and the name and forms of representation would have no effect but to prevent despotism from attaining the stability and security by which alone its evils can be mitigated or its few advantages realized.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000006_000001|There are others in which it possibly might exist, but in which some other form of government would be preferable.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000006_000002|These are principally when the people, in order to advance in civilization, have some lesson to learn, some habit not yet acquired, to the acquisition of which representative government is likely to be an impediment.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000007_000000|The most obvious of these cases is the one already considered, in which the people have still to learn the first lesson of civilization, that of obedience.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000007_000003|It would refuse its authority to all proceedings which would impose, on their savage independence, any improving restraint.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000007_000004|The mode in which such tribes are usually brought to submit to the primary conditions of civilized society is through the necessities of warfare, and the despotic authority indispensable to military command.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000007_000005|A military leader is the only superior to whom they will submit, except occasionally some prophet supposed to be inspired from above, or conjurer regarded as possessing miraculous power.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000007_000006|These may exercise a temporary ascendancy, but as it is merely personal, it rarely effects any change in the general habits of the people, unless the prophet, like Mohammed, is also a military chief, and goes forth the armed apostle of a new religion; or unless the military chiefs ally themselves with his influence, and turn it into a prop for their own government.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000000|A people are no less unfitted for representative government by the contrary fault to that last specified-by extreme passiveness, and ready submission to tyranny.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000002|On the contrary, many a people has gradually emerged from this condition by the aid of a central authority, whose position has made it the rival, and has ended by making it the master, of the local despots, and which, above all, has been single.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000004|Even when the king was scarcely so powerful as many of his chief feudatories, the great advantage which he derived from being but one has been recognized by French historians.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000006|At his hands, refuge and protection were sought from every part of the country against first one, then another of the immediate oppressors.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000007|His progress to ascendancy was slow; but it resulted from successively taking advantage of opportunities which offered themselves only to him.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000008|It was, therefore, sure; and, in proportion as it was accomplished, it abated, in the oppressed portion of the community, the habit of submitting to oppression.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000009|The king's interest lay in encouraging all partial attempts on the part of the serfs to emancipate themselves from their masters, and place themselves in immediate subordination to himself.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000010|Under his protection numerous communities were formed which knew no one above them but the king.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000011|Obedience to a distant monarch is liberty itself compared with the dominion of the lord of the neighboring castle; and the monarch was long compelled by necessities of position to exert his authority as the ally rather than the master of the classes whom he had aided in affecting their liberation.
train-clean-100/4788/94904/4788_94904_000008_000012|In this manner a central power, despotic in principle, though generally much restricted in practice, was mainly instrumental in carrying the people through a necessary stage of improvement, which representative government, if real, would most likely have prevented them from entering upon.
train-clean-100/481/123719/481_123719_000002_000012|And even more contemptible than that is my making this remark now.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000005_000003|I had not been treated like that even at school, though they all hated me.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000006_000001|This Zverkov had been all the time at school with me too.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000006_000015|I got the better of him on that occasion, but though Zverkov was stupid he was lively and impudent, and so laughed it off, and in such a way that my victory was not really complete; the laugh was on his side.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000026_000001|"It's not an official gathering."
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000032_000003|Please don't..."
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000033_000001|As he walked he began to stamp with his heels.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000038_000001|Of course I had better not go; of course, I must just snap my fingers at them.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000041_000001|But I will talk about that fellow, about that plague of mine, another time.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000043_000003|My schoolfellows met me with spiteful and merciless jibes because I was not like any of them.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000044_000007|I stole the brushes to clean them from the passage, being careful he should not detect it, for fear of his contempt.
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000044_000024|Oh, how I prayed for the day to pass quickly!
train-clean-100/481/123720/481_123720_000044_000026|At last my wretched little clock hissed out five.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000002_000000|Chapter two
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000003_000000|MILTON AND THE BLUE HILLS
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000005_000000|Milton-a town of dignity and distinction!
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000006_000004|But modern Milton is something more than this, as old Milton was something more than this.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000008_000001|The rounded summits of the Blue Hills, to which the eye is irresistibly attracted before entering the town which principally claims them, are the worn down stumps of ancient mountains, and although so leveled by the process of the ages, they are still the highest land near the coast from Maine to Mexico.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000008_000003|From them the Massachuset tribe about the Bay derived its name, signifying "Near the Great Hills," which name was changed by the English to Massachusetts, and applied to both bay and colony.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000008_000004|Although its Indian name has been taken from this lovely range, the loveliness remains.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000008_000006|The Great Blue Hill, especially-the one which bears an observatory on its summit-swims above one's head.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000010_000005|This is the view that the Governor so admired, and tradition tells us that when he was forced to return to England he walked on foot down the hill, shaking hands with his neighbors, patriot and Tory alike, with tears in his eyes as he left behind him the garden and the trees he had planted, and the house where he had so happily lived.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000010_000007|Here is the old, old garden, and although the ephemeral blossoms of the present springtime shine brightly forth, the box, full twenty feet high, speaks of another epoch.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000010_000008|Foxgloves lean against the "pleached alley," and roses clamber on a wall that doubtless bore the weight of their first progenitors.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000011_000002|The avenue, however, was never completed, as Belcher was appointed governor of, and transferred to, New Jersey shortly after.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000012_000000|Two other men of note, who, since the days of our years are but threescore and ten, chose that their days without number should be spent in the town they loved, were Wendell Phillips and Rimmer the sculptor, who are both buried at Milton.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000013_000000|Not only notable personages, but notable events have been engendered under the shadow of these hills.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000015_000000|How much of its success Milton attributes to its location-for one joins, indeed, a distinguished fellowship when one builds upon a hill, or on several hills, as Roman as well as Bostonian history testifies-can only be guessed by its tribute in the form of the Blue Hills Reservation.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000015_000001|This State recreation park and forest reserve of about four thousand acres-a labyrinth of idyllic footpaths and leafy trails, of twisting drives and walks that open out upon superb vistas, is now the property of the people of Massachusetts.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000015_000002|The granite quarry man-far more interested in the value of the stone that underlay the wooded slopes than in Ruskin's theory of its purifying effect upon the inhabitants-had already obtained a footing here, when, under the able leadership of Charles Francis Adams, the whole region was taken over by the State in eighteen ninety four.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000016_000000|As you pass through the Reservation-and if you are taking even the most cursory glimpse of Milton you must include some portion of this park-you will pass the open space where in the early days, when Milton country life was modeled upon English country life more closely than now, Malcolm Forbes raced upon his private track the horses he himself had bred.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000016_000002|You may see, too, a solitary figure with a scientist's stoop, or a tutor with a group of boys, making a first-hand study of a region which is full of interest to the geologist.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000017_000000|Circling thus around the base of the Great Blue Hill and irresistibly drawn closer and closer to it as by a magnet, one is impelled to make the ascent to the top-an easy ascent with its destination clearly marked by the Rotch Meteorological Observatory erected in eighteen eighty four by the late a Lawrence Rotch of Milton, who bequeathed funds for its maintenance.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000018_000002|But as the eye grows accustomed to the stretching distances, objects both near and far begin to appear.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000018_000004|We are six hundred and thirty five feet above the sea, on the highest coastland from Agamenticus, near York, Maine, to the Rio Grande, and the panorama thus unrolled is truly magnificent.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000018_000010|Facing nearly south, the long ridge of Manomet Hill in Plymouth, thirty three miles away, stands clear against the sky, while twenty six miles away, in Duxbury, one sees the Myles Standish Monument.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000018_000014|The next group to the right is in Lyndeboro.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000018_000015|At the right of Lyndeboro, and nearly over the Readville railroad stations, is Joe English Hill, and to complete the round, nearly north northwest are the summits of the Uncanoonuc Mountains, fifty nine miles away.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000019_000000|This, then, is the Great Blue Hill of Milton.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000019_000001|Those who are familiar with the State of Massachusetts-and New England-can stand here and pick out a hundred distinguishing landmarks, and those who have never been here before may find an unparalleled opportunity to see the whole region at one sweep of the eye.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000020_000000|From the point of view of topography the summit of Great Blue Hill is the place to reach.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000020_000001|But for the sense of mysterious beauty, for snatches of pictures one will never forget, the little vistas which open on the upward or the downward trail, framed by hanging boughs or encircled by a half frame of stone and hillside-these are, perhaps, more lovely.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000020_000004|So let us come down, for, after all, "Love is of the valley." Down again to the old town of Milton.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000020_000005|We have not half begun to wander over it: not half begun to hear the pleasant stories it has to tell. When one is as old as this-for Milton was discovered by a band from Plymouth who came up the Neponset River in sixteen twenty one--one has many tales to tell.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000021_000001|That peculiar odor of sweetness which drifts to us with a turn of the wind, comes from a chocolate mill whose trade mark of a neat handed maid with her little tray is known all over the civilized world.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000021_000002|And those mills stand upon the site of the first grist mill in New England to be run by water power.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000022_000000|All ground is historic ground in Milton.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000022_000001|That rollicking group of schoolboys yonder belongs to an academy, which, handsome and flourishing as it is to day, was founded as long ago as seventeen eighty seven.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000022_000002|That seems long ago, but there was a school in Milton before that: a school held in the first meeting house.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000022_000003|Nothing is left of this quaint structure but a small bronze bas relief, set against a stone wall, near its original site.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000022_000004|This early church and early school was a log cabin with a thatched roof and latticed windows, if one may believe the relief, but men of brains and character were taught there lessons which stood them and the colony in good stead.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000022_000005|One fancies the students' roving eyes may have occasionally strayed down the Indian trail directly opposite the old site-a trail which, although now attained to the proud rank of a lane, Churchill's Lane, still invites one down its tangled green way along the gray stone wall.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000023_000002|Yes, wherever one goes in Milton, either on foot to day or back through the chapters of three centuries ago, the Blue Hills dominate every event, and the Great Blue Hill floats above them all.
train-clean-100/4813/248638/4813_248638_000024_000000|"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help," chants the psalmist.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000004_000003|A strange procession, indeed, for a road originally marked by the moccasined feet of Indians, and widened gradually by the toilsome journeyings of rough Colonial carts and coaches.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000005_000001|Yes, New England has changed amazingly in the revolutions of three centuries, and here, under the shadow of this square plain building-Hingham's Old Ship Church-while we pause to watch the Sunday pageant of nineteen twenty, we can most easily call back the Sabbath rites, and the ideals which created those rites, three centuries ago.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000007_000004|The people are very proud of their new building.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000007_000006|The belfry is precisely in the center of the four sided pitched roof.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000007_000008|The original backless benches were replaced by box pews with narrow seats like shelves, hung on hinges around three sides, but part of the original pulpit remains and a few of the box pews.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000007_000009|In sixteen eighty one the interior, like the exterior, is sternly bare.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000009_000000|In the first place, they are well attended.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000009_000002|Every one is expected, nay, commanded, to come to church.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000009_000003|In fact, after the tolling of the last bell, the houses may all be searched-each ten families is under an inspector-if there is any question of delinquents hiding in them.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000009_000005|The congregation either waits for the minister and his wife outside the door, or stands until he has entered the pulpit.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000009_000007|The small boys are separated from their families and kept in order by tithing men who allow no wandering eyes or whispered words.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000010_000001|That they are interminable we know.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000010_000007|This performance alone sometimes takes an hour, as there is no organ, nor notes, and only a few copies of the Bay psalm Book, of which, by the way, a copy now would be worth many times its weight in gold.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000011_000000|After the morning service there is a noon intermission, in which the half frozen congregation stirs around, eats cold luncheons brought in baskets, and then returns to the next session.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000011_000002|There is no idle talk or play.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000011_000003|The sermon is discussed and the children forbidden to romp or laugh.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000012_000001|But is the message cheering?
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000012_000003|And yet, forlorn and tedious as the bleak service appears to us, there is no doubt that these stern faced men and women wrenched an almost mystical inspiration from it; that a weird fascination emanated from this morbid dwelling on sin and punishment, appealing to the emotions quite as vividly-although through a different channel-as the most elaborate ceremonial.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000012_000005|It was this high pitch, attained and sustained by our Puritan fathers, which produced a dramatic and sometimes terrible blend of personality.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000013_000001|It is easy to emphasize its absurdities, to ridicule the almost fanatical fervor which goaded men to harshness and inconsistency.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000013_000003|It was religious zeal which furnished this motive power.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000013_000008|Those whom it now tortures with its hot pincers of doubt and self reproach are sacrificed to a cause long since won."
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000014_000002|And this moral stamina has marked New England ever since, and marked her to her glory.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000015_000000|One cannot speak of Hingham churches-indeed, one cannot speak of Hingham-without admiring mention of the New North Church.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000015_000003|These two small galleries, between the roof and the choir loft, held for thirty years, in diminishing numbers, negroes and Indians.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000016_000000|Hingham, its Main Street-alas for the original name of "Bachelors Rowe"--arched by a double row of superb elms on either side, is incalculably rich in old houses, old traditions, old families.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000016_000001|Even motoring through, too quickly as motorists must, one cannot help being struck by the substantial dignity of the place, by the well kept prosperity of the houses, large and small, which fringe the fine old highway.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000016_000003|And why not, when the very house is still handsomely preserved, where the nameless nobleman, Francis Le Baron, was concealed between the floors, and, as we are told in mrs Austen's novel, very properly capped the climax by marrying his brave little protector, Molly Wilder? Why not, when the Lincoln family, ancestors of Abraham, has been identified with the town since its settlement?
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000016_000004|The house of Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who received the sword of Cornwallis at Yorktown, is still occupied by his descendants, its neat fence, many windows, two chimneys, and its two stories and a half proclaiming it a dwelling of repute.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000016_000005|Near by, descendants of Samuel Lincoln, the ancestor of Abraham, occupy part of another roomy ancient homestead.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000016_000007|In the spacious living room are seventeen panels, on the walls and in the doors, painted with charming old-fashioned skill by john Hazlitt, the brother of the English essayist.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000020_000000|Hingham changes.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000020_000001|There is a Roman Catholic Church in the very heart of that one-time Puritan stronghold: the New North is Unitarian, and Episcopalians, Baptists, and Second Adventists have settled down comfortably where once they would have been run out of town.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000020_000006|Even your voice repeats the words which those old patriarchs, well versed in Biblical lore, chose for their neighborhood names.
train-clean-100/4813/248641/4813_248641_000021_000000|"Which way to Egypt?" Is this an echo from that time when the Bible was the corner stone of Church and State, of home and school?
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000005_000000|There never was a prouder mamma than Madam Cluck when she led forth her family of eight downy little chicks.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000005_000003|Old Aunt Cockletop told her that she didn't, and predicted that 'those poor dears would come to bad ends.'
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000006_000001|The tragedy began with Chanty, who was the boldest little cockadoodle who ever tried to crow.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000006_000002|Before he had a feather to his bit of a tail, Chanty began to fight, and soon was known as the most quarrelsome chick in the farm yard.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000006_000003|Having pecked his brothers and sisters, he tried to do the same to his playmates, the ducklings, goslings, and young turkeys, and was so disagreeable that all the fowls hated him.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000006_000004|One day, a pair of bantams arrived,--pretty little white birds, with red crests and nice yellow feet.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000006_000005|Chanty thought he could beat mr Bantam easily, he was so small, and invited him to fight. mr b declined.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000007_000000|Downy and Snowball soon followed; for the two sweet little things would swing on the burdock leaves that grew over the brook.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000008_000001|What a nice time Speckle did have, to be sure; for the grasshoppers were lively and fat, and aunt was in an unusually amiable mood.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000009_000000|'Never run away from anything, but face danger and conquer it, like a brave chick,' said the old biddy, as she went clucking through the grass, with her gray turban wagging in the wind.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000009_000001|Speckle had hopped away from a toad with a startled chirp, which caused aunt to utter that remark.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000009_000002|The words had hardly left her beak, when a shadow above made her look up, give one loud croak of alarm, and then scuttle away, as fast as legs and wings could carry her.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000011_000000|'Aunty told me not to run.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000012_000000|It was a dreadful blow to mrs Cluck; and Aunt Cockletop didn't show herself for a whole day after that story was known, for every fowl in the yard twitted her with the difference between her preaching and her practice.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000015_000000|So he tried every day to fly and crow, and at last managed to get up; then how he did strut and rustle his feathers, while his playmates sat below and watched him.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000016_000000|'You'll fall and get hurt,' said his sister Blot.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000017_000000|'Hold your tongue, you ugly little thing, and don't talk to me.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000017_000002|Be quiet, down there, and hear if I can't do it as well as daddy.'
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000018_000000|The chicks stopped scratching and peeping, and sat in a row to hear Strut crow.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000018_000001|Perching himself on the beam, he tried his best, but only a droll 'cock a doodle doo' came of it, and all the chicks laughed.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000018_000002|That made Strut mad, and he resolved to crow, even if he killed himself doing it.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000018_000003|He gave an angry cluck, flapped his wings, and tried again.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000018_000004|Alas, alas, for poor Strut! he leaned so far forward in his frantic effort to get a big crow out, that he toppled over and fell bump on the hard barn floor, killing himself instantly.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000019_000000|For some time after this, mrs Cluck kept her three remaining little ones close to her side, watching over them with maternal care, till they were heartily tired of her anxious cluckings.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000019_000003|Peck was a glutton, eating everything she could find, and often making herself ill by gobbling too fast, and forgetting to eat a little gravel to help digest her food.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000020_000000|'Don't go out of the barn, children.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000020_000001|I'm going to lay an egg, and can't look after you just now,' said their mother one day.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000021_000000|'Yes, ma'am,' chirped the chickens; and then as she went rustling into the hay mow, they began to run about and enjoy themselves with all their might.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000021_000001|Peep found a little hole into the meal room, and slipped in, full of joy at the sight of the bags, boxes, and bins.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000021_000003|Sam never saw her, but shut down the cover of the bin as he passed, and left poor Peep to die.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000021_000004|No one knew what had become of her till some days later, when she was found dead in the meal, with her poor little claws sticking straight up as if imploring help.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000021_000005|Peck meanwhile got into mischief also; for, in her hunt for something good to eat, she strayed into the sheep shed, and finding some salt, ate as much as she liked, not knowing that salt is bad for hens.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000021_000006|Having taken all she wanted, she ran back to the barn, and was innocently catching gnats when her mamma came out of the hay mow with a loud.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000022_000000|'Where is Peep?' asked mrs Cluck.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000023_000001|She'--there Peck stopped suddenly, rolled up her eyes, and began to stagger about as if she was tipsy.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000024_000001|What's the matter with the chick?' cried mrs Cluck, in great alarm.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000025_000000|'Fits, ma'am,' answered Doctor Drake, who just then waddled by.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000027_000000|'Nothing, ma'am; it's fatal.' And the doctor waddled on to visit Dame Partlet's son, who was ill of the pip.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000028_000000|'My child, my child!
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000028_000001|don't flap and stagger so!
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000028_000003|Taste this mint leaf!
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000028_000004|Have a drop of water!
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000030_000002|They were very happy together till Thanksgiving drew near, when a dreadful pestilence seemed to sweep through the farm yard; for turkeys, hens, ducks, and geese fell a prey to it, and were seen by their surviving relatives featherless, pale, and stiff, borne away to some unknown place whence no fowl returned.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000031_000001|In the morning few remained, and Blot felt that she was a forlorn orphan, a thought which caused her to sit with her head under her wing for several hours, brooding over her sad lot, and longing to join her family in some safe and happy land, where fowls live in peace.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000033_000001|'I live at the red farm house over the hill, only I don't know which road to take.'
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000034_000001|Come at once, for night is coming on, and the snow will soon be too deep for us,' said Blot.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000036_000000|'Now I'm safe; thank you very much.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000036_000002|My mother will be glad to see you,' said the kit rubbing her soft white face against Blot's little black breast.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000037_000001|Faster and faster fell the snow darker and darker grew the night, and colder and colder became poor Blot's little feet as she waded through the drifts.
train-clean-100/4830/25898/4830_25898_000037_000003|Too stiff and weak to fly up, she crept as close as possible to the bright glow which shone across the door step, and with a shiver put her little head under her wing, trying to forget hunger, weariness, and the bitter cold, and wait patiently for morning.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000004_000000|The first thing I saw was a great American bison; and I was so glad to meet with any one from home, that I'd have patted him with pleasure if he had shown any cordiality toward me.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000004_000002|I did not blame him, for the poor fellow was homesick, doubtless, for his own wide prairies and the free life he had lost.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000004_000003|So I threw him some fresh clover, and went on to the pelicans.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000005_000000|I never knew before what handsome birds they were; not graceful, but with such snowy plumage, tinged with pale pink and faint yellow.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000006_000002|One lioness was ill, and lay on her bed, looking very pensive, while her mate moved restlessly about her, evidently anxious to do something for her, and much afflicted by her suffering.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000006_000003|I liked this lion very much, for, though the biggest, he was very gentle, and had a noble face.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000007_000000|The tigers were rushing about, as tigers usually are; some creeping noiselessly to and fro, some leaping up and down, and some washing their faces with their velvet paws.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000007_000001|All looked and acted so like cats that I wasn't at all surprised to hear one of them purr when the keeper scratched her head.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000007_000002|It was a very loud and large purr, but no fireside pussy could have done it better, and every one laughed at the sound.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000008_000000|There were pretty spotted leopards, panthers, and smaller varieties of the same species.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000008_000001|I sat watching them a long time, longing to let some of the wild things out for a good run, they seemed so unhappy barred in those small dens.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000009_000000|Suddenly the lions began to roar, the tigers to snarl, and all to get very much excited about something, sniffing at the openings, thrusting their paws through the bars, and lashing their tails impatiently.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000009_000001|I couldn't imagine what the trouble was, till, far down the line, I saw a man with a barrowful of lumps of raw meat.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000009_000002|This was their dinner, and as they were fed but once a day they were ravenous.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000009_000003|Such roars and howls and cries as arose while the man went slowly down the line, gave one a good idea of the sounds to be heard in Indian forests and jungles.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000009_000005|One lady had a fright, for the wind blew the end of her shawl within reach of a tiger's great claw, and he clutched it, trying to drag her nearer.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000010_000001|The tigers snarled and fought and tore and got so savage I was very grateful that they were safely shut up.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000010_000003|One little leopard was better bred than the others, for he went up on a shelf in the cage, and ate his dinner in a quiet, proper manner, which was an example to the rest.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000010_000004|The lions ate in dignified silence, all but my favourite, who carried his share to his sick mate, and by every gentle means in his power tried to make her eat.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000010_000006|He wouldn't touch his dinner, but lay down near her, with the lump between his paws, as if guarding it for her; and there I left him patiently waiting, in spite of his hunger, till his mate could share it with him.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000010_000007|As I took a last look at his fine old face, I named him Douglas, and walked away, humming to myself the lines of the ballad,--
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000011_000000|Douglas, Douglas, Tender and true.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000000|As a contrast to the wild beasts, I went to see the monkeys, who lived in a fine large house all to themselves.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000001|Here was every variety, from the great ugly chimpanzee to the funny little fellows who played like boys, and cut up all sorts of capers.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000003|He was a cross old party, and sat huddled up in the straw, scowling at every one, like an ill tempered old bachelor.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000005|One poor little chap had lost the curly end of his tail,--I'm afraid the gray one bit it off,--and kept trying to swing like the others, forgetting that the strong, curly end was what he held on with.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000006|He would run up the bare boughs, and give a jump, expecting to catch and swing, but the lame tail wouldn't hold him, and down he'd go, bounce on to the straw.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000007|At first he'd sit and stare about him, as if much amazed to find himself there; then he'd scratch his little round head and begin to scold violently, which seemed to delight the other monkeys; and, finally, he'd examine his poor little tail, and appear to understand the misfortune which had befallen him.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000012_000008|The funny expression of his face was irresistible, and I enjoyed seeing him very much, and gave him a bun to comfort him when I went away.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000013_000000|The snake house came next, and I went in, on my way to visit the rhinoceros family.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000013_000001|I rather like snakes, since I had a tame green one, who lived under the door step, and would come out and play with me on sunny days.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000013_000002|These snakes I found very interesting, only they got under their blankets and wouldn't come out, and I wasn't allowed to poke them; so I missed seeing several of the most curious.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000014_000001|I hope he hasn't got out,' I said to myself, thinking of a story I read once of a person in a menagerie, who turned suddenly and saw a great boa gliding towards him.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000014_000002|As I stood wondering if the big worm could be under the little flat blanket before me, the branch began to move all at once, and with a start, I saw a limb swing down to stare at me with the boa's glittering eyes.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000014_000003|He was so exactly the colour of the bare bough, and lay so still, I had not seen him till he came to take a look at me.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000014_000005|He was kind enough to take a promenade and show me his size, which seemed immense, as he stretched himself, and then knotted his rough grayish body into a great loop, with the fiery eyed head in the middle.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000014_000006|He was not one of the largest kind, but I was quite satisfied, and left him to his dinner of rabbits, which I hadn't the heart to stay and see him devour alive.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000015_000000|I was walking toward the camel's pagoda, when, all of a sudden, a long, dark, curling thing came over my shoulder, and I felt warm breath in my face.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000015_000002|He had politely tried to tell me to clear the way, which I certainly had done with all speed. Picking myself out of the hedge I walked beside him, examining his clumsy feet and peering up at his small, intelligent eye.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000015_000003|I'm very sure he winked at me, as if enjoying the joke, and kept poking his trunk into my pocket, hoping to find something eatable.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000017_000000|One of the curiosities was a sea cow, who lived in a tank of salt water, and came at the keeper's call to kiss him, and flounder on its flippers along the margin of the tank after a fish.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000017_000001|It was very like a seal, only much larger, and had four fins instead of two.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000017_000002|Its eyes were lovely, so dark and soft and liquid; but its mouth was not pretty, and I declined one of the damp kisses which it was ready to dispense at word of command.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000018_000000|The great polar bear lived next door, and spent his time splashing in and out of a pool of water, or sitting on a block of ice, panting, as if the mild spring day was blazing midsummer.
train-clean-100/4830/25904/4830_25904_000018_000001|He looked very unhappy, and I thought it a pity that they didn't invent a big refrigerator for him.
train-clean-100/4853/27670/4853_27670_000011_000001|Here were kept the stores for the crew.
train-clean-100/4853/27671/4853_27671_000001_000000|I QUIT THE WRECK.
train-clean-100/4853/27671/4853_27671_000015_000001|Indeed I understood that my only hope of deliverance lay in being picked up; and that, though by heading east I should be clinging to the stormy parts, I was more likely to meet with a ship hereabouts than by sailing into the great desolation of the north-west.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000013_000000|"Then sit down, Gloody, and make a clean breast of it."
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000015_000001|If I hadn't kept my temper, I might have killed him."
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000017_000000|"Flew into a furious rage.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000017_000003|I can't look you in the face, and tell you of it." He walked away to the window.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000017_000005|mr Roylake, he kicked me.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000017_000012|In two words, sir, if you mean to charge him before the magistrates with attempting your life, I'll take my Bible oath he did attempt it, and you may call me as your witness.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000017_000013|There!
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000020_000002|Very good.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000026_000001|"I didn't dare speak to you about it; you wouldn't have believed me.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000026_000003|The one way of putting a stop to murdering mischief (if murdering mischief it might be) was to trust Miss Cristel.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000031_000000|"And when you looked at Miss Cristel, and she was too busy with her brooch to notice you, was that another signal?"
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000038_000001|"Do you think he saw through it?
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000038_000003|He turned pale when he felt the floor shaken by your fall.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000045_000003|Had we any proof to justify us?
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000046_000000|Gloody at once acknowledged that we had no proof.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000046_000001|"I happened to look at the boat," he said, "and I missed the oars.
train-clean-100/4853/29413/4853_29413_000048_000000|"Nothing, sir."
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000015_000001|"I thought he had been killed.
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000015_000004|What a strange coincidence!"
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000016_000000|Pierre spoke rapidly and with animation.
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000020_000000|"But no, it can't be!" he thought.
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000020_000004|It suffused him, seized him, and enveloped him completely.
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000021_000002|He tried to hide his agitation.
train-clean-100/4859/22176/4859_22176_000022_000000|"No, it's only the unexpectedness of it," thought Pierre.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000001_000000|One matter connected with his management sometimes worried Nicholas, and that was his quick temper together with his old hussar habit of making free use of his fists.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000002_000001|Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the sound of cries and blows were heard.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000002_000002|On returning to lunch Nicholas went up to his wife, who sat with her head bent low over her embroidery frame, and as usual began to tell her what he had been doing that morning.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000002_000003|Among other things he spoke of the Bogucharovo elder.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000003_000000|"Such an insolent scoundrel!" he cried, growing hot again at the mere recollection of him.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000003_000001|"If he had told me he was drunk and did not see...
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000003_000002|But what is the matter with you, Mary?" he suddenly asked.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000006_000001|She never cried from pain or vexation, but always from sorrow or pity, and when she wept her radiant eyes acquired an irresistible charm.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000007_000000|The moment Nicholas took her hand she could no longer restrain herself and began to cry.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000008_000000|"Nicholas, I saw it... he was to blame, but why do you...
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000009_000000|Nicholas said nothing.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000009_000001|He flushed crimson, left her side, and paced up and down the room.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000009_000002|He understood what she was weeping about, but could not in his heart at once agree with her that what he had regarded from childhood as quite an everyday event was wrong.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000009_000003|"Is it just sentimentality, old wives' tales, or is she right?" he asked himself.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000010_000000|"Mary," he said softly, going up to her, "it will never happen again; I give you my word.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000010_000001|Never," he repeated in a trembling voice like a boy asking for forgiveness.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000011_000001|She took his hand and kissed it.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000013_000000|"Today-it was the same affair.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000013_000001|Oh, Mary, don't remind me of it!" and again he flushed.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000013_000002|"I give you my word of honor it shan't occur again, and let this always be a reminder to me," and he pointed to the broken ring.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000014_000001|But he did forget himself once or twice within a twelvemonth, and then he would go and confess to his wife, and would again promise that this should really be the very last time.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000015_000000|"Mary, you must despise me!" he would say.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000015_000001|"I deserve it."
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000016_000000|"You should go, go away at once, if you don't feel strong enough to control yourself," she would reply sadly, trying to comfort her husband.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000000|Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000001|He did not concern himself with the interests of his own class, and consequently some thought him proud and others thought him stupid.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000002|The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000003|In autumn he gave himself up to hunting with the same business like seriousness-leaving home for a month, or even two, with his hunt.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000004|In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000007|He would sit in his study with a grave air, reading-a task he first imposed upon himself as a duty, but which afterwards became a habit affording him a special kind of pleasure and a consciousness of being occupied with serious matters.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000008|In winter, except for business excursions, he spent most of his time at home making himself one with his family and entering into all the details of his children's relations with their mother.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000017_000009|The harmony between him and his wife grew closer and closer and he daily discovered fresh spiritual treasures in her.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000018_000000|From the time of his marriage Sonya had lived in his house.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000018_000001|Before that, Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sonya, blaming himself and commending her.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000018_000002|He had asked Princess Mary to be gentle and kind to his cousin.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000018_000003|She thoroughly realized the wrong he had done Sonya, felt herself to blame toward her, and imagined that her wealth had influenced Nicholas' choice.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000018_000004|She could not find fault with Sonya in any way and tried to be fond of her, but often felt ill will toward her which she could not overcome.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000020_000000|"You know," said Natasha, "you have read the Gospels a great deal-there is a passage in them that just fits Sonya."
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000021_000000|"What?" asked Countess Mary, surprised.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000022_000000|"'To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away.' You remember?
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000022_000001|She is one that hath not; why, I don't know.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000022_000002|Perhaps she lacks egotism, I don't know, but from her is taken away, and everything has been taken away.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000022_000004|Formerly I very much wanted Nicholas to marry her, but I always had a sort of presentiment that it would not come off.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000022_000005|She is a sterile flower, you know-like some strawberry blossoms.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000023_000000|Though Countess Mary told Natasha that those words in the Gospel must be understood differently, yet looking at Sonya she agreed with Natasha's explanation.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000023_000001|It really seemed that Sonya did not feel her position trying, and had grown quite reconciled to her lot as a sterile flower.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000023_000002|She seemed to be fond not so much of individuals as of the family as a whole.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000023_000003|Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000023_000004|She waited on the old countess, petted and spoiled the children, was always ready to render the small services for which she had a gift, and all this was unconsciously accepted from her with insufficient gratitude.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000024_000000|The country seat at Bald Hills had been rebuilt, though not on the same scale as under the old prince.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000025_000000|The buildings, begun under straitened circumstances, were more than simple.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000025_000001|The immense house on the old stone foundations was of wood, plastered only inside.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000025_000002|It had bare deal floors and was furnished with very simple hard sofas, armchairs, tables, and chairs made by their own serf carpenters out of their own birchwood.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000025_000003|The house was spacious and had rooms for the house serfs and apartments for visitors.
train-clean-100/4859/26870/4859_26870_000025_000006|The rest of the year life pursued its unbroken routine with its ordinary occupations, and its breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and suppers, provided out of the produce of the estate.
train-clean-100/4859/29340/4859_29340_000004_000005|But Napoleon's power suppressed the ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age.
train-clean-100/4859/29340/4859_29340_000005_000000|This curious contradiction is not accidental.
train-clean-100/4859/29340/4859_29340_000006_000000|To find component forces equal to the composite or resultant force, the sum of the components must equal the resultant.
train-clean-100/4859/29340/4859_29340_000006_000001|This condition is never observed by the universal historians, and so to explain the resultant forces they are obliged to admit, in addition to the insufficient components, another unexplained force affecting the resultant action.
train-clean-100/4859/29340/4859_29340_000007_000002|The historian evidently decomposes Alexander's power into the components: Talleyrand, Chateaubriand, and the rest-but the sum of the components, that is, the interactions of Chateaubriand, Talleyrand, Madame de Stael, and the others, evidently does not equal the resultant, namely the phenomenon of millions of Frenchmen submitting to the Bourbons.
train-clean-100/4859/29340/4859_29340_000009_000001|They see it in what is called culture-in mental activity.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000004_000000|CHRISTMAS REVIVED.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000005_000000|It was six o'clock in the morning of last Thursday (Christmas morning), when Nathan Stoddard, a young saddler, strode through the vacant streets of one of our New England towns, hastening to begin his work.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000005_000001|The town is an old-fashioned one, and although the observance of the ancient church festival is no longer frowned upon, as in years past, yet it has been little regarded, especially in the church of which Nathan is a member.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000005_000002|As the saddler mounted the steps of his shop, he felt the blood so rush along his limbs, and tingle in his fingers, that he could not forbear standing without the door for a moment, as if to enjoy the triumph of the warmth within him over the cold morning air.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000005_000003|The little stone church which Nathan attends stands in the same square with his shop, and nearly opposite.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000005_000004|It was closed, as usual on Christmas day, and a recent snow had heaped the steps and roof, and loaded the windows.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000005_000005|Nathan thought that it looked uncommonly beautiful in the softening twilight of the morning.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000006_000000|While Nathan stood musing, with his eyes fixed upon the church, he became suddenly conscious that another figure had entered the square upon the opposite side, and was walking hastily along.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000006_000001|He turned his eyes upon it, and was greatly surprised by its appearance.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000006_000003|He had hardly begun to speculate as to who the stranger could be, when he beheld him turn in between the posts by the path that leads to the church, tread lightly over the snow, and up the steps, and knock hastily and vigorously at the church door.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000007_000000|It was not without a creeping feeling of awe, mingled with his astonishment, that Nathan gazed upon the door through which this silent figure had vanished.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000007_000001|But he was not easily to be daunted.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000007_000002|He did not care to follow the steps of the stranger into the church; but he remembered a shed so placed against the building, near the farther end, that he had often, when a child, at some peril indeed, climbed upon its top, and looked into the church through a little window at one side of the pulpit.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000007_000003|For this he started; but he did not fail to run across the square and leap over the church gate at the top of his speed, in order to gather warmth and courage for the attempt.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000008_000000|When Nathan Stoddard climbed upon the old shed and pressed his face against the glass of the little church window, he had at first only a confused impression of many lamps and many figures in all parts of the church.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000008_000001|But as his vision grew more clear, he beheld a sight which could not amaze him less than the apparition that startled Tam o' Shanter as he glared through the darkness into the old Kirk of Alloway.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000008_000003|They were mounted upon benches and ladders, and boards laid along the tops of the pews, and were apparently just completing the decoration of the church, which was already dressed with green, with little trees in the corners, and with green letters upon the walls, and great wreaths about the pillars.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000008_000004|The whole party appeared full of life and cheerfulness, while the old man whom Nathan had seen enter stood near the door, looking quietly on, with a little girl holding his hand.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000009_000000|It was not until Nathan Stoddard had looked for some little time upon this spectacle that he began to feel that he was witness of any thing more than natural.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000009_000001|The whole party had so home like an air, and appeared so engaged with their pleasant occupation, that, notwithstanding their quaint dress, Nathan only thought how much he should like to share their company.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000009_000004|There was a strange beauty, too, about the old man's face.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000009_000007|Again and again he drew his hand across his brows, until he felt that he was near swooning, and like to fall; and he clung desperately to his hold. When the fit was over, he dared venture no more, but hastened to the ground.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000010_000001|But it was like some deep and holy experience that would lose its charm if it were spoken of to another.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000010_000002|So he went back to his shop, and sat looking upon the church, and watching, almost with dread, the doves that lighted upon its roof, and fluttered about, and beat their wings against its windows.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000011_000000|The minister of Nathan's parish was a young man by the name of Dudley; and it so happened that he had driven out, before light, on the morning we have spoken of, to visit a sick man at some distance.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000011_000001|In returning home, he had to pass along the rather unfrequented street which runs in the rear of his church, and close to it.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000011_000002|As he was driving rapidly along, his ear caught what seemed the peal of an organ.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000011_000004|Filled with astonishment, he put his horse upon its fastest trot, and drove round into the square, to the shop of Nathan Stoddard.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000012_000000|"There is music to day in our church, Nathan!" he cried to the young saddler.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000012_000002|He caught the horse by the head, and fastened him to a post before the door.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000012_000003|Then stepping to the side of the sleigh, he said to mr Dudley, "Come with me, Sir." mr Dudley looked upon the pale face and trembling lips of his parishioner, and followed in silence.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000000|Nathan sprang upon the shed at the side of the church, and scrambled up to the little window.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000002|"Look in, Sir," said Nathan, not venturing a glance himself.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000003|mr Dudley looked, and had not Nathan's arm been about his body he would have lost his hold, in sheer amazement.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000005|The singers' gallery was filled by a choir of girls and boys, while his own place in the pulpit was occupied by a white haired figure, whom he recognized as the original of a portrait which he had purchased and hung in his parlor at home for its singular beauty.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000006|It was said to be a portrait of a minister in the town, who lived in the last century, and is still remembered for his virtues.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000008|He was leaning over the great Bible, with his hands folded upon it, and his eyes seemingly filled with tears of pleasure and gratitude, and bent upon the choir.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000013_000009|mr Dudley listened intently, and could catch what seemed the words of some old Christmas carol:
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000015_000000|And he was so rapt with the sights and the sounds within, that it needed all Nathan's endeavors to uphold him.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000016_000000|By this time the sound of a gathering crowd below, which he had not heeded at first, was forced more and more upon his notice; and the anxious voice of his oldest deacon calling, "mr
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000016_000001|Dudley!
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000016_000003|mr Dudley hastened round to prevent their causing any disturbance to the congregation within; but he came only in time to see the door burst open, and to be borne in with the crowd.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000016_000004|All gazed about in wonder.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000016_000005|The congregation, indeed, were gone, and the preacher, and the choir; and the room was cold.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000016_000006|But there was a great green cross over the pulpit, and words along the walls, and festoons upon the galleries, and great wreaths, like vast green serpents, coiled about the cold pillars.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000017_000000|When mr Dudley reached his home, after the wonder had in part spent itself, he found that an enormous Christmas pie had been left at his door by a white haired old man dressed in black, about six in the morning, just after he had gone to visit his sick parishioner.
train-clean-100/4898/20016/4898_20016_000017_000001|The girl who received it reported the old man as saying, in a tremulous, but very kind voice, "Give your master the Christmas blessing of an old Puritan minister." How the meaning of this message would have been known to mr Dudley, had not the events we have told disclosed it, who can say?
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000002_000000|The most interesting of the short excursions we made from Fort Wrangell was the one up the Stickeen River to the head of steam navigation.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000004_000001|It is about three hundred and fifty miles long, and is navigable for small steamers a hundred and fifty miles to Glenora, and sometimes to Telegraph Creek, fifteen miles farther.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000004_000002|It first pursues a westerly course through grassy plains darkened here and there with groves of spruce and pine; then, curving southward and receiving numerous tributaries from the north, it enters the Coast Range, and sweeps across it through a magnificent canyon three thousand to five thousand feet deep, and more than a hundred miles long.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000004_000003|The majestic cliffs and mountains forming the canyon walls display endless variety of form and sculpture, and are wonderfully adorned and enlivened with glaciers and waterfalls, while throughout almost its whole extent the floor is a flowery landscape garden, like Yosemite.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000005_000005|The rich hazy sunshine streaming over the cliffs calls forth the last of the gentians and goldenrods; the groves and thickets and meadows bloom again as their leaves change to red and yellow petals; the rocks also, and the glaciers, seem to bloom like the plants in the mellow golden light.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000006_000001|We left Wrangell in the afternoon and anchored for the night above the river delta, and started up the river early next morning when the heights above the "Big Stickeen" Glacier and the smooth domes and copings and arches of solid snow along the tops of the canyon walls were glowing in the early beams.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000006_000002|We arrived before noon at the old trading post called "Buck's" in front of the Stickeen Glacier, and remained long enough to allow the few passengers who wished a nearer view to cross the river to the terminal moraine.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000006_000003|The sunbeams streaming through the ice pinnacles along its terminal wall produced a wonderful glory of color, and the broad, sparkling crystal prairie and the distant snowy fountains were wonderfully attractive and made me pray for opportunity to explore them.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000007_000001|It draws its sources from snowy mountains within fifteen or twenty miles of the coast, pours through a comparatively narrow canyon about two miles in width in a magnificent cascade, and expands in a broad fan five or six miles in width, separated from the Stickeen River by its broad terminal moraine, fringed with spruces and willows.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000007_000003|After the main trunk canyon was melted out, its side branches, drawing their sources from a height of three or four to five or six thousand feet, were cut off, and of course became separate glaciers, occupying cirques and branch canyons along the tops and sides of the walls.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000007_000004|The Indians have a tradition that the river used to run through a tunnel under the united fronts of the two large tributary glaciers mentioned above, which entered the main canyon from either side; and that on one occasion an Indian, anxious to get rid of his wife, had her sent adrift in a canoe down through the ice tunnel, expecting that she would trouble him no more.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000007_000005|But to his surprise she floated through under the ice in safety.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000009_000000|Thirty five miles above the Big Stickeen Glacier is the "Dirt Glacier," the second in size.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000001|Here, too, occurs a marked change in climate and consequently in forests and general appearance of the face of the country.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000002|On account of destructive fires the woods are younger and are composed of smaller trees about a foot to eighteen inches in diameter and seventy five feet high, mostly two leaved pines which hold their seeds for several years after they are ripe.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000003|The woods here are without a trace of those deep accumulations of mosses, leaves, and decaying trunks which make so damp and unclearable mass in the coast forests.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000005|The river bank cottonwoods are also smaller, and the birch and contorta pines mingle freely with the coast hemlock and spruce.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000006|The birch is common on the lower slopes and is very effective, its round, leafy, pale green head contrasting with the dark, narrow spires of the conifers and giving a striking character to the forest.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000008|There is another handsome spruce hereabouts, Picea alba, very slender and graceful in habit, drooping at the top like a mountain hemlock.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000009|I saw fine specimens a hundred and twenty five feet high on deep bottom land a few miles below Glenora.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000010_000010|The tops of some of them were almost covered with dense clusters of yellow and brown cones.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000013_000000|Although it was now twenty minutes past three and the days were getting short, I thought that by rapid climbing I could reach the summit before sunset, in time to get a general view and a few pencil sketches, and make my way back to the steamer in the night.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000015_000000|He proved to be a stout walker, and we made rapid progress across a brushy timbered flat and up the mountain slopes, open in some places, and in others thatched with dwarf firs, resting a minute here and there to refresh ourselves with huckleberries, which grew in abundance in open spots.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000015_000001|About half an hour before sunset, when we were near a cluster of crumbling pinnacles that formed the summit, I had ceased to feel anxiety about the mountaineering strength and skill of my companion, and pushed rapidly on.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000015_000002|In passing around the shoulder of the highest pinnacle, where the rock was rapidly disintegrating and the danger of slipping was great, I shouted in a warning voice, "Be very careful here, this is dangerous."
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000016_000000|mr Young was perhaps a dozen or two yards behind me, but out of sight.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000016_000003|I managed to get below him, touched one of his feet, and tried to encourage him by saying, "I am below you.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000016_000005|You can't slip past me and I will soon get you out of this."
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000017_000002|After narrowly scanning the cliff and making footholds, I managed to roll and lift him a few yards to a place where the slope was less steep, and there I attempted to set his arms.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000017_000003|I found, however, that this was impossible in such a place. I therefore tied his arms to his sides with my suspenders and necktie, to prevent as much as possible inflammation from movement.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000017_000006|After scrambling to an outstanding point that commands a view of it from top to bottom, to make sure that it was not interrupted by sheer precipices, I concluded that with great care and the digging of slight footholds he could be slid down to the glacier, where I could lay him on his back and perhaps be able to set his arms.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000017_000007|Accordingly, I cheered him up, telling him I had found a way, but that it would require lots of time and patience.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000017_000011|I therefore bound it closely to his side, and asked him if in his exhausted and trembling condition he was still able to walk.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000018_000000|"Yes," he bravely replied.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000019_000002|I now told him I would run down the mountain, hasten back with help from the boat, and carry him down in comfort.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000020_000000|"No, no," he said, "I can walk down.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000020_000001|Don't leave me."
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000021_000002|I therefore concluded to try to get him to the ship by short walks from one fire and resting place to another.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000021_000003|While he was resting I went ahead, looking for the best way through the brush and rocks, then returning, got him on his feet and made him lean on my shoulder while I steadied him to prevent his falling.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000021_000006|But strange to say, instead of coming down to help, they made haste to reproach him for having gone on a "wild goose chase" with Muir.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000022_000000|"These foolish adventures are well enough for mr Muir," they said, "but you, mr Young, have a work to do; you have a family; you have a church, and you have no right to risk your life on treacherous peaks and precipices."
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000023_000000|The captain, Nat Lane, son of Senator Joseph Lane, had been swearing in angry impatience for being compelled to make so late a start and thus encounter a dangerous wind in a narrow gorge, and was threatening to put the missionaries ashore to seek their lost companion, while he went on down the river about his business.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000023_000002|This is no time for preaching!
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000024_000000|He ran down to our help, and while I steadied my trembling companion from behind, the captain kindly led him up the plank into the saloon, and made him drink a large glass of brandy.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000024_000001|Then, with a man holding down his shoulders, we succeeded in getting the bone into its socket, notwithstanding the inflammation and contraction of the muscles and ligaments.
train-clean-100/4898/28461/4898_28461_000024_000002|mr Young was then put to bed, and he slept all the way back to Wrangell.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000002_000000|THE RETURN OF THE PORTFOLIO
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000004_000000|I betray no confidence in presenting this copy of his confession.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000004_000001|Time has passed since I first read it, and changes have occurred in the interval, which leave me free to exercise my own discretion, and to let the autobiography speak for itself.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000006_000000|Not one impression, but many impressions, troubled and confused my mind. Certain passages in the confession inclined me to believe that the writer was mad.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000006_000003|At another time, the picture of himself in his later years, and the defiant manner in which he presented it, almost made me regret that he had not died of the illness which had struck him deaf.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000006_000005|As strangers he and I had first met.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000006_000006|As strangers I was determined we should remain.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000007_000000|Having made up my mind, so far, the next thing to do (with the clock on the mantel piece striking midnight) was to go to bed.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000008_000000|I slept badly.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000009_000000|At the breakfast table, my stepmother and I met again.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000010_000002|What could her dear Gerard have been doing, out in the dark by himself, for all that time?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000011_000000|"For some part of the time," I answered, "I was catching moths in Fordwitch Wood."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000012_000001|Well?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000014_000000|mrs Roylake's fascinating smile disappeared when I mentioned the mill. She suddenly became a cold lady-I might even say a stiff lady.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000015_000000|"I can't congratulate you on the first visit you have paid in our neighborhood," she said.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000016_000000|I replied that I had met with the "bold girl" purely by accident, on her side as well as on mine; and then I started a new topic.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000016_000001|"Was it a pleasant dinner party last night?" I asked-as if the subject really interested me.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000017_000001|Society-provided it was not society at the mill-was always attractive as a topic of conversation.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000017_000002|"Your absence was the only drawback," she answered.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000017_000005|My dear Gerard! you look surprised.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000018_000000|I was obliged to acknowledge my ignorance.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000019_000000|mrs Roylake was shocked.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000019_000001|"At any rate," she resumed, "you have heard of their father, Lord Uppercliff?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000020_000001|Either I had forgotten Lord Uppercliff, during my long absence abroad, or I had never heard of him.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000021_000003|We will drive out after luncheon, and pay a round of visits." When this prospect was placed before me, I remembered having read in books of sensitive persons receiving impressions which made their blood run cold; I now found myself one of those persons, for the first time in my life.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000021_000005|She is married to the Honorable Captain Millbay, of the Navy, now away in his ship.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000021_000014|Well, I won't be in your way.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000021_000015|Go out on the terrace; your poor father always took his cigar on the terrace.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000021_000016|They say smoking leads to meditation; I leave you to meditate on Lady Lena.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000022_000000|She smiled, and kissed her hand, and fluttered out of the room.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000022_000001|Charming; perfectly charming.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000023_000000|I lit my cigar, but not on the terrace.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000023_000003|There was no other alternative.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000023_000004|The portfolio was a trust confided to me; the sooner I returned it to the writer of the confession-the sooner I told him plainly the conclusion at which I had arrived-the more at ease my mind would be.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000024_000001|I knocked at the door on the ancient side of the building.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000025_000003|His fleshless face would have looked like the face of a mummy, but for the restless brightness of his little watchful black eyes.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000026_000000|"Are you the young master, sir?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000026_000001|Ah, yes, yes; I thought so.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000026_000007|You being our landlord, we look to you to help us.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000026_000008|We are falling to pieces, as it were, on this old side of the house.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000026_000009|There's first drains----"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000027_000000|He proceeded to reckon up the repairs, counting with his fleshless thumb on his skinny fingers, when he was interrupted by a curious succession of sounds which began with whining, and ended with scratching at the cottage door.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000028_000000|In a minute after, the door was opened from without.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000028_000001|A brown dog, of the companionable retriever breed, ran in and fawned upon old Toller.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000028_000002|Cristel followed (from the kitchen garden), with a basket of vegetables on her arm.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000028_000003|Unlike the river and the cottage, she gained by being revealed in the brilliant sunlight.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000028_000004|I now saw, in their full beauty, the luster of her brown eyes, the warm rosiness of her dark complexion, the delightful vivacity of expression which was the crowning charm of her face.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000028_000005|She paused confusedly in the doorway, and tried to resist me when I insisted on relieving her of the basket.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000031_000000|"You see, sir, it's no use speaking to the bailiff.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000031_000002|He says, 'All right,' and he does nothing.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000032_000000|I tried to stop him by promising to speak to the bailiff myself.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000032_000001|On hearing this good news, mr Toller's gratitude became ungovernable: he was more eager than ever, and more eloquent than ever, in returning to the repairs.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000034_000000|His daughter interfered, and stopped him at the critical moment when he was actually offering his arm to conduct me in state across the kitchen. Cristel had just put her pretty brown hand over his mouth, and said, "Oh, father, do pray be quiet!" when we were all three disturbed by another interruption.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000035_000000|A second door communicating, as I concluded from its position, with the new cottage, was suddenly opened.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000035_000001|In the instant before the person behind it appeared, the dog looked that way-started up, frightened-and took refuge under the table.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000035_000002|At the next moment, the deaf Lodger walked into the room.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000035_000003|It was he beyond all doubt who had frightened the dog, forewarned by instinct of his appearance.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000036_000002|His personal attractions triumphed in the clear searching light.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000036_000005|I might have felt the same objection to the pale delicacy of his complexion, to the soft profusion of his reddish brown hair, to his finely shaped sensitive lips, but for two marked peculiarities in him which would have shown me to be wrong-that is to say: the expression of power about his head, and the signs of masculine resolution presented by his mouth and chin.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000037_000000|On entering the room, the first person, and the only person, who attracted his attention was Cristel.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000038_000000|He bowed, smiled, possessed himself abruptly of her hand, and kissed it. She tried to withdraw it from his grasp, and met with an obstinate resistance.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000038_000001|His gallantry addressed her in sweet words; and his voice destroyed their charm by the dreary monotony of the tone in which he spoke.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000038_000002|"On this lovely day, Cristel, Nature pleads for me.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000038_000005|My affliction is my happiness, when you say cruel things to me.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000038_000006|I live in my fool's paradise; I don't hear you." He tried to draw her nearer to him.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000038_000007|"Come, my angel; let me kiss you."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000040_000000|That fiercest anger which turns the face pale, was the anger that had possession of Cristel as she took refuge with her father.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000040_000001|"You asked me to bear with that man," she said, "because he paid you a good rent.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000041_000000|Old Toller astonished me.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000041_000001|He seemed to have caught the infection of his daughter's anger.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000041_000002|Placed between Cristel and his money, he really acted as if he preferred Cristel.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000041_000003|He hobbled up to his lodger, and shook his infirm fists, and screamed at the highest pitch of his old cracked voice: "Let her be, or I won't have you here no longer!
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000041_000004|You deaf adder, let her be!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000042_000001|"If you want to speak to me, write it!" he said, with rage and suffering in every line of his face.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000042_000002|He tore from his pocket his little book, filled with blank leaves, and threw it at Toller's head.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000042_000003|"Write," he repeated.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000042_000004|"If you murder me with your screeching again, look out for your skinny throat-I'll throttle you."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000043_000000|Cristel picked up the book.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000043_000003|"I'll write it myself."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000045_000002|I think I see it in your face.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000045_000003|There are some deaf people who can tell what is said by looking at the speaker's lips.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000045_000004|I am too stupid, or too impatient, or too wicked to be able to do that.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000045_000005|Write it for me, dear, and make me happy for the day."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000046_000000|Cristel was not attending to him, she was speaking to me.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000046_000002|He looked where she was looking-and discovered, for the first time, that I was in the room.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000049_000000|Cristel dropped his book on the table, and hurried to me in breathless surprise.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000049_000001|"He speaks as if he knew you!" she cried.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000049_000002|"What does it mean?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000051_000000|"Did you know him before that?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000052_000000|"no
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000052_000001|He was a perfect stranger to me."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000053_000000|He picked up his book from the table, and took his pencil out of Cristel's hand, while we were speaking.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000053_000001|"I want my answer," he said, handing me the book and the pencil.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000054_000000|"You find me here, because I don't wish to return to your side of the house."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000055_000000|"Is that the impression," he asked, "produced by what I allowed you to read?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000056_000000|I replied by a sign in the affirmative.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000056_000001|He inquired next if I had brought his portfolio with me.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000056_000002|I put it at once into his hand.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000057_000000|In some way unknown to me, I had apparently roused his suspicions.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000057_000003|His little restless black eyes followed the movements of his lodger's fingers, as they turned over leaf after leaf of the manuscript, with such eager curiosity and interest that I looked at him in surprise.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000057_000004|Finding that he had attracted my notice, he showed no signs of embarrassment-he seized the opportunity of asking for information.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000059_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000060_000000|"Did he want you to read it?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000061_000000|"He did."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000063_000001|On this ground, I declined to answer any more questions.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000063_000002|mr Toller went on with his questions immediately.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000064_000000|"Do you notice, sir, that he seems to set a deal of store by his writings?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000064_000001|Perhaps you can say what the value of them may be?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000065_000000|I shook my head.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000065_000001|"It won't do, mr Toller!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000066_000000|He tried again-I declare it positively, he tried again.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000066_000002|I've never seen his portfolio before.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000067_000000|"Spare your breath, mr Toller.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000067_000001|Once more, it won't do!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000068_000000|Cristel joined us, amazed at his pertinacity.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000069_000000|Her father seemed to have reasons of his own for following my example and declining to answer questions.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000069_000001|More polite, however, than I had been, he left his resolution to be inferred.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000070_000006|I beg your pardon, sir, did you speak?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000070_000007|No?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000070_000008|I beg your pardon again.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000070_000009|Yes, yes, Cristy, I'm noticing him; he's done with his writings.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000070_000011|You can see in his face he finds the tale of them correct. He's coming this way.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000070_000012|What's he going to do next?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000072_000000|"I have something to say to mr Roylake," he announced, with a haughty look at his landlord.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000072_000001|"Mind!
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000072_000003|That will do.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000072_000004|Get out of the way."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000073_000000|The old fellow received his dismissal with a low bow, and left the kitchen with a look at the Lodger which revealed (unless I was entirely mistaken) a sly sense of triumph.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000074_000000|The deaf man addressed me with a cold and distant manner.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000074_000002|"Will you follow me to my side of the cottage?" I shook my head.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000074_000003|"Very well," he resumed; "we will have it out, here.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000074_000004|When I trusted you with my confession last night, I left you to decide (after reading it) whether you would make an enemy of me or not. You remember that?" I nodded my head.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000074_000005|"Then I now ask you, mr Roylake: Which are we-enemies or friends?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000075_000000|I took the pencil, and wrote my reply:
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000076_000000|"Neither enemies nor friends.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000078_000000|"The only happy moments I have are my moments passed in your presence," he said.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000078_000001|"I shall trouble you no more for to day.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000078_000002|Give me a little comfort to take back with me to my solitude.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000078_000004|May I hope that you forgive me?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000079_000000|He held out his hand; it was not taken.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000079_000001|He waited a little, in the vain hope that she would relent: she turned away from him.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000080_000001|He opened the door that led to his side of the cottage-paused-and looked back at Cristel.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000080_000002|She took no notice of him.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000080_000003|As he moved again to the door and left us, the hysterical passion in him forced its way outward-he burst into tears.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000081_000000|The dog sprang up from his refuge under the table, and shook himself joyfully.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000081_000002|Shall I make another acknowledgment of weakness?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000081_000004|I communicated this view of the matter to Cristel.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000082_000000|The dog laid his head on her lap, asking to be caressed.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000083_000000|"I agree with this old friend, mr Gerard.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000083_000002|I have got to hate him, since that time-perhaps to despise him.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000083_000003|But the dog has never changed; he feels and knows there is something dreadful in that man.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000084_000000|"Of course!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000085_000000|"You won't think I am presuming on your kindness?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000086_000000|"You ought to know me better than that, Cristel!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000087_000002|Will you tell me what you wrote when you answered him?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000088_000000|I repeated what I had written, word for word.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000088_000001|It failed to satisfy her.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000090_000000|She was evidently in earnest.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000090_000002|In this state of embarrassment I took a young man's way out of the difficulty, and spoke lightly of a serious thing.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000091_000000|"I became acquainted with your deaf Lodger, Cristel, under ridiculous circumstances.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000091_000001|He saw us talking last night, and did me the honor to be jealous of me."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000092_000000|I had expected to see her blush.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000092_000001|To my surprise she turned pale, and vehemently remonstrated.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000093_000000|"Don't laugh, sir!
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000093_000003|Oh, what made you do that!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000094_000000|I described his successful appeal to my compassion-not very willingly, for it made me look (as I thought) like a weak person.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000095_000000|"There's the whole story," I concluded.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000095_000001|"Like a scene in a play, isn't it?"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000097_000000|"I tell you again, sir, this is no laughing matter.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000097_000002|You had better have roused the fury of a wild beast.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000097_000005|Leave us, mr Gerard-pray, pray leave us, and don't come near this place again till father has got rid of him."
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000098_000000|Did she think I was to be so easily frightened as that?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000099_000000|"My dear child," I said grandly, "do you really suppose I am afraid of that poor wretch?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000099_000002|Absurd, Cristel-absurd!"
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000101_000000|"Oh, sir, don't distress me by talking in that way!
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000101_000003|Pray don't think me bold; I don't know how to express myself.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000102_000001|It would have been an act of downright cruelty to persist in opposing her.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000102_000002|"I wouldn't distress you, Cristel, for the whole world," I said-and left her to conclude that I had felt the influence of her entreaties in the right way.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000102_000003|She tried to thank me; the tears rose in her eyes-she signed to me to leave her, poor soul, as if she felt ashamed of herself.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000102_000004|I was shocked; I was grieved; I was more than ever secretly resolved to go back to her.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000102_000005|When we said good bye-I have been told that I did wrong; I meant no harm-I kissed her.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000103_000000|Having traversed the short distance between the cottage and the wood, I remembered that I had left my walking stick behind me, and returned to get it.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000104_000000|Cristel was leaving the kitchen; I saw her at the door which communicated with the Lodger's side of the cottage.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000104_000001|Her back was turned towards me; astonishment held me silent.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000104_000002|She opened the door, passed through it, and closed it behind her.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000105_000001|Angry thoughts these-and surely thoughts unworthy of me?
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000105_000004|Absurd! contemptible!
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000105_000005|But I was still in such a vile temper that I determined to let Cristel know she had been discovered.
train-clean-100/5022/29405/5022_29405_000105_000006|Taking one of my visiting cards, I wrote on it: "I came back for my stick, and saw you go to him." After I had pinned this spiteful little message to the door, so that she might see it when she returned, I suffered a disappointment.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000001_000000|WARNED FOR THE LAST TIME!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000002_000002|I had accepted his invitation; and I had no other engagement to claim me: it would have been an act of meanness amounting to a confession of fear, if I had sent an excuse.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000002_000004|I felt vaguely uneasy; irritated by my own depression of spirits.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000002_000006|The meanest of all human infirmities is also the most universal; and the name of it is Self esteem.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000003_000000|It is perhaps only right to add that my patience had been tried by the progress of domestic events, which affected Lady Lena and myself-viewed as victims.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000004_000001|Even Lord Uppercliff (perhaps not yet taken into their confidence) noticed the proceedings of the two ladies, and seemed to be at a loss to understand them.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000006_000000|mrs Roylake talked as fluently as ever; exhausting one common place subject after another, without the slightest allusion to my lord's daughter, to my matrimonial prospects, or to my visits at the mill.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000006_000001|I was secretly annoyed, feeling that my stepmother's singular indifference to domestic interests of paramount importance, at other times, must have some object in view, entirely beyond the reach of my penetration.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000006_000002|If I had dared to commit such an act of rudeness, I should have jumped out of the carriage, and have told mrs Roylake that I meant to walk home.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000007_000002|Without any cause that I knew of to account for it, I was so restless that nothing I could do attracted me or quieted me.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000008_000000|Returning to the house, I tried to occupy myself with my collection of insects, sadly neglected of late.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000008_000001|Useless!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000008_000002|My own moths failed to interest me.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000009_000000|I went back to the garden.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000009_000002|She was yawning over it fearfully, when she discovered that I was looking at her.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000009_000004|"The most precious sermons, Gerard, that have been written in our time." I looked at the book; I opened the book; I recovered my presence of mind, and handed it back.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000010_000000|Which way did I turn my steps?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000011_000000|Men will wonder what possessed me-women will think it a proceeding that did me credit-I took the familiar road which led to the gloomy wood and the guilty river.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000011_000001|The longing in me to see Cristel again, was more than I could resist.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000011_000002|Not because I was in love with her; only because I had left her in distress.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000013_000001|She held out both hands to me.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000014_000002|I must positively make a sketch of the cottage by the mill-I mean, of course, the picturesque side of it.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000014_000003|That fine girl of Toller's was standing at the door.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000014_000006|Which do you admire-that gypsy complexion, or Lena's lovely skin?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000014_000007|Both, I have no doubt, at your age. Good bye."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000015_000000|When we had left each other, I thought of the absent Captain in the Navy who was Lady Rachel's husband.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000017_000001|I've had another row with that deaf devil-my new name for him, and I think it's rather clever.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000017_000004|Threatens, if any man attempts to take her away, he'll shoot her, and shoot the man, and shoot himself.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000017_000006|I'll be even with him.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000017_000007|You mark my words: I'll be even with him."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000018_000000|That old Toller-the most exasperating of men, judged by a quick temper-had irritated my friend into speaking rashly was plain enough. Nevertheless, I felt some anxiety (jealous anxiety, I am afraid) about Cristel.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000018_000001|After looking round the kitchen again, I asked where she was.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000019_000002|When I woke, and got home again just now, that was how I found her.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000019_000004|No, sir; our deaf devil is not to blame for this.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000019_000005|He has given Cristy no reason to complain of him.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000019_000006|She says so herself-and she never told a lie yet."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000020_000000|"But, mr Toller," I objected, "something must have happened to distress her.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000020_000001|Has she not told you what it is?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000021_000000|"Not she!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000021_000001|Obstinate about it.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000021_000002|Leaves me to guess.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000021_000004|You will ask me who the person is.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000022_000000|"But you mean to try?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000023_000000|"Yes; I mean to try."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000024_000001|Perhaps he was fatigued, or perhaps he had something else to think of.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000024_000002|I offered a suggestion.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000025_000000|"When we are in want of help," I said, "we sometimes find it, nearer than we had ventured to expect-at our own doors."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000026_000000|The ancient miller rose at that hint like a fish at a fly.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000029_000001|"I've got burdens on my mind," he explained, "or I should have thought of it too." Having done justice to his own abilities, he bustled out.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000029_000002|In less than a minute, he was back again in a state of breathless triumph.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000029_000003|"Gloody has seen the person," he announced; "and (what do you think, sir?) it's a woman!"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000030_000000|I beckoned to Gloody, waiting modestly at the door, to come in, and tell me what he had discovered.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000032_000000|Her parasol?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000033_000000|"How is it you are not sure of that?" I said.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000036_000000|"Miss Cristel." His face brightened with an expression of interest when he mentioned the miller's daughter.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000036_000001|He went on with his story without wanting questions to help him.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000036_000003|She walked in, sir, as if the place belonged to her."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000037_000000|I am not suspicious by nature, as I hope and believe.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000038_000000|"Did you notice the lady's dress?" I asked.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000040_000000|"Any particular color?" I went on.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000041_000000|"Not that I know of.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000041_000001|Dark green, I think."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000042_000000|"Any ornament in it?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000043_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000043_000001|A purple feather."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000045_000001|But, I was naturally desirous of discovering next what Lady Rachel had said; and I asked to speak with Cristel.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000045_000003|He led me to the door of his daughter's room; and stood close by, when I knocked softly, and begged that she would come out.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000046_000000|The tone of the poor girl's voice-answering, "Forgive me, sir; I can't do it"--convicted the she socialist (as I thought) of merciless conduct of some sort.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000047_000000|"I am afraid you are ill, Cristel?" was all I could find to say, under the double disadvantage of speaking through a door, and having a father listening at my side.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000048_000002|I don't mean to be rude, sir-pray be kinder to me than ever! pray let me be!"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000049_000000|I said I would return on the next day; and left the room with a sore heart.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000050_000000|Old Toller highly approved of my conduct.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000050_000001|He rubbed his fleshless hands, and whispered: "You'll get it out of Cristy to morrow, and I'll help you."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000051_000002|Having set him at ease, in that particular, I said: "You seem to be interested in Miss Cristel."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000053_000000|"How can I help it, sir?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000054_000001|I failed to see it myself in that light.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000055_000003|More wonderful still, at every fair opportunity that offered, she kept out of my way.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000056_000000|My next day's engagement being for seven o'clock in the evening, I put mrs Roylake's self control to a new test.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000056_000002|I left the house, followed by my stepmother's best wishes for a pleasant evening.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000057_000000|Hoping to speak with Cristel alone, I had arranged to reach the cottage before seven o'clock.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000003|Lovely interfusions of sobered color rested, faded, returned again, on the upper leaves of the foliage as they lightly moved.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000005|While my eyes followed the successive transformations of the view, as the hour advanced, tender and solemn influences breathed their balm over my mind. Days, happy days that were past, revived.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000007|We were tracing our way along our favorite woodland path; and we found a companion of tender years, hiding from us.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000009|My mother whispered to me-I thanked the little mill girl, and gave her a kiss.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000010|Did I feel the child's breath, in my day dream, still fluttering on my cheek?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000011|Was I conscious of her touch?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000012|I started, trembled, returned reluctantly to my present self.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000013|A visible hand touched my arm.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000058_000014|As I turned suddenly, a living breath played on my face.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000059_000000|I looked at her in silence.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000060_000000|Was this the dear Cristel so well known to me?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000060_000001|Or was it a mockery of her that had taken her place?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000062_000000|"You have surprised me," I answered.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000062_000002|What is it?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000063_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000064_000001|A dark flush discolored her face.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000064_000004|are you angry?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000064_000005|are you trying to startle me by acting a part?" I urged those questions on her, one after another; and I was loudly and confidently answered.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000065_000000|"I dare say I am excited, mr Gerard, by the honor that has been done me. You are going to keep your engagement, of course?
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000065_000001|Well, your friend, your favorite friend, has invited me to meet you.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000065_000002|No! that's not quite true.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000065_000003|I invited myself-the deaf gentleman submitted."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000066_000000|"Why did you invite yourself?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000067_000000|"Because a tea party is not complete without a woman."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000069_000000|"Is this Lady Rachel's doing?" I said.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000073_000000|"I can guess."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000075_000000|Her manner had become quieter; her face was more composed; her expression almost recovered its natural charm while she spoke of Lady Rachel.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000075_000001|I was stupefied.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000076_000000|"Try, sir, to forget it and forgive it," she resumed gently, "if I have misbehaved myself.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000078_000000|"Is the cause there?" I asked.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000079_000000|"No! no indeed!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000079_000001|I have not seen him; I have not heard from him.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000080_000000|"Have you seen Gloody to day?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000081_000004|What have you done, mr Gerard, to make him like you so well, in that short time?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000083_000002|I was on the point of putting the question, when she held up her hand, and said, "Hush!"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000084_000003|In the present direction of the wind, we could hear the striking of the church clock.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000084_000004|Cristel counted the strokes.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000085_000000|"Seven," she said.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000085_000001|"Are you determined to keep your engagement?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000086_000001|In his case I had failed to trace the motive.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000086_000002|I tried to discover it now.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000087_000000|"Tell me why I ought to break my engagement," I said.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000088_000000|"Remember what I told you at the spring," she answered.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000089_000000|The man she was speaking of turned the corner of the new cottage.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000089_000001|He waved his hand gaily, and approached us along the road.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000090_000002|It's too late now."
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000092_000000|I was left to decide for myself.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000093_000001|Useless to speculate on it!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000094_000000|Explain it who can-I knew that I was going to drink tea with him, and yet I was unwilling to advance a few steps, and meet him on the road!
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000095_000003|Shall we go to tea?"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000098_000000|I went in.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000098_000001|Old Toller was in the kitchen, smoking his pipe without appearing to enjoy it.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000100_000001|I was silent; I was awed.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000100_000002|Before I recovered myself, Cristel entered the kitchen.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000100_000003|Her father whispered, "Look at her!"
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000101_000000|Of the excitement which had disturbed-I had almost said, profaned-her beautiful face, not a vestige remained.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000101_000001|Pale, composed, resolute, she said, "I am ready," and led the way out.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000102_000000|The man whom she hated offered his arm.
train-clean-100/5022/29411/5022_29411_000102_000001|She took it!
train-clean-100/5049/25947/5049_25947_000015_000005|Then I remembered him.
train-clean-100/5049/25947/5049_25947_000018_000006|When we gathered up the corners of his blanket and lifted him, he tried to sit upright, and cried out, "You're taking me to the front, aren't you?
train-clean-100/5049/25947/5049_25947_000018_000007|You said you would.
train-clean-100/5049/25947/5049_25947_000020_000001|"Do you hear?
train-clean-100/5049/25947/5049_25947_000025_000005|He was dead, but he was not defeated.
train-clean-100/5049/25947/5049_25947_000048_000001|"Why, this is just like getting money from home."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000004_000004|Men were walking about the plain and talking.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000004_000005|Everybody seemed much excited.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000005_000001|"Eric killed the men in fair fight.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000005_000002|The judges outlawed him because they were afraid.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000005_000003|His foe Thorgest has many rich and powerful men to back him."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000006_000001|"Eric is a bloody man.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000011_000000|"He walks like Thor the Fearless."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000012_000000|"His story would make a fine song," one said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000012_000002|Always in a quarrel.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000012_000003|A man of many places-Norway, the north of Iceland, the west of Iceland, those little islands off the shore of Iceland.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000014_000000|"He is in a black temper," they said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000014_000001|"We should best not talk to him."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000015_000001|Eric got into the pilot's seat and they sailed off.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000015_000002|Soon they pulled the ship up on their own shore. Eric strolled into his house and called for supper.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000015_000003|When the drinking horns had been filled and emptied, Eric pulled himself up and smiled and shouted out so that the great room was full of his big voice:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000016_000000|"There is no friend like mead.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000018_000000|Then laughter and talking began in the hall because Eric's good temper had come back.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000018_000001|After a while Eric said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000019_000000|"Well, I must off somewhere.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000019_000001|I have been driven about from place to place, like a seabird in a storm.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000019_000004|She has shut Norway to me and now Iceland. Where will you go next, old comrade?" and he pulled out his sword and looked at it and smiled as the fire flashed on it.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000021_000000|"Is it so?" Eric cried, leaping up.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000021_000002|Who will go with me?"
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000025_000000|Eric sat down in his chair and laughed.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000027_000000|He jumped to his feet, and his face glowed.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000027_000001|Then he laughed as he looked at his men.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000029_000000|His men pounded on the tables and shouted:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000030_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000030_000001|Yes!
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000030_000002|Anywhere behind Eric!"
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000031_000004|Huge ships of ice sailed out from it and met him.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000032_000000|A great shout went up that shook the rafters.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000032_000001|Then the men sat and talked over plans.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000032_000002|While they sat, a stranger came into the hall.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000034_000000|"Hunted like a wolf from corner to corner of the world!" Eric cried angrily.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000035_000000|Then he laughed.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000036_000000|"But if I take my sport like a wolf, I must be hunted like one.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000036_000002|Well, we have done it before."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000038_000000|"I always liked the stars better than a smoky house fire," said one.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000039_000000|"Can no bad fortune spoil your good nature?" laughed Eric.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000039_000002|Let every man carry what he can."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000040_000001|Eric led his wife Thorhild and his two young sons, Thorstein and Leif.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000041_000000|"Thorgest is off.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000041_000001|Come to my house for a feast."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000042_000000|All this time they were making ready for the voyage, repairing the ship and filling it with stores.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000042_000001|Word of what Eric meant to do got out, and men laughed and said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000043_000000|"Is that not like Eric?
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000043_000001|What will he not do?"
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000044_000000|Some men liked the sound of it, and they came to Eric and said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000045_000000|"We will go with you to this strange land."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000046_000001|They took horses and cattle with them, and all kinds of tools and food.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000047_000002|So I will steer straight west.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000047_000003|We shall surely find something.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000047_000004|I do not know, either, how long we must go."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000049_000000|One day as Eric sat in the pilot's seat, he said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000051_000000|"Yes," shouted his men.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000052_000000|So they went on toward it.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000053_000000|"It sends out a cold breath," said one of the men.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000054_000000|They all wrapped their cloaks about them.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000055_000001|"The white mast stands as high as a hill."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000056_000000|"It must be giants that sail in it, frost giants," said another of the men.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000057_000000|But as they came nearer, Eric all at once laughed loudly and called out:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000058_000000|"By Thor, that Gunnbiorn was a foolish fellow.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000058_000001|Why, look!
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000058_000003|It is no ship, and there is no one on it."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000060_000000|"And you thought of frost giants!"
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000062_000000|"Yonder is a strange pilot," Eric laughed.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000064_000000|One day Eric said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000065_000000|"I see afar off an iceberg larger than any one yet.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000067_000001|He bore hard on the rudder, but he could not turn the ship.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000068_000002|It is carrying our ship away from this land.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000068_000003|I cannot make head against it. Out with the oars!"
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000072_000000|"Perhaps this river will carry us to a whirlpool and suck us under," the men said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000075_000003|When the men looked above the cliffs they saw a long line of white cutting the sky.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000076_000000|"It is a land of ice," they said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000077_000000|They sailed on south, all the time looking for a place to go ashore.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000081_000001|All the time the weather was growing colder. Eric's people kept themselves wrapped in their cloaks and put scarfs around their heads.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000082_000000|"And it is still summer!" Thorhild said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000082_000001|"What will it be in winter?"
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000083_000001|"We must not freeze here."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000084_000004|They ate the meat and wore the skins to keep them warm. The hardest thing was to get fuel for the fire.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000084_000005|No trees grew there.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000085_000002|I am tired of the darkness and the smoke and the cattle.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000086_000000|"Ah, cheer up, good wife!" Eric laughed.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000086_000001|"I smell better luck ahead."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000087_000001|When they came home they had this to tell:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000088_000000|"It is a country of ice, shining white.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000088_000002|Far off it looks flat, but when you walk upon it, there are great holes and cracks.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000089_000001|Sometimes the sun showed for an hour, sometimes for only a few minutes, sometimes it did not show at all for a week.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000090_000003|At last they found a place that Eric liked.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000091_000000|"Here I will build my house," he said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000092_000000|So they did and lived there that summer and pastured their cattle and cut hay for the winter and fished and hunted.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000093_000000|The next spring Eric said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000094_000000|"The land stretches far north.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000096_000001|"We cannot tell what might come between us.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000096_000002|Perhaps giants or dragons or strange men might come out of this inland ice and kill our people.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000096_000003|We must stay together."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000098_000000|One spring after they had been in that land for four years, Eric said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000099_000003|I will visit my friends in Iceland."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000100_000001|"Perhaps we can find play for them in Iceland."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000101_000000|"Now I have a plan," Eric suddenly said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000103_000001|Now we must have a name for our land.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000104_000000|His men laughed and said:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000105_000000|"It is a very white Greenland, but men will like the sound of it.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000105_000001|It is better than Iceland."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000107_000000|"Ah! Eric, it is good to hear your laugh again," they said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000109_000003|Come back with me and choose your land."
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000110_000001|Some men went because they thought it would be a great frolic to go to a new country.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000110_000002|Some went because they were poor in Iceland and thought:
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000112_000000|And some went because they loved Eric and wanted to be his neighbors.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000113_000001|But they met heavy storms, and some ships were wrecked, and the men drowned.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000113_000003|So of those thirty five ships only fifteen got to Greenland.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000114_000000|"Only the bravest and the luckiest men come here," Eric said.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000115_000000|Soon other houses were built along the fiords.
train-clean-100/5104/33406/5104_33406_000116_000000|"It is pleasant to sail along the coast now," said Eric.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000007_000002|One spring Leif said to his father:
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000008_000000|"I have never seen Norway, our mother land.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000010_000000|"It is right that you should go.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000011_000000|So he helped Leif fit out a boat and sent him off.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000011_000001|Leif sailed for months.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000011_000002|He passed Iceland and the Faroes and the Shetlands.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000011_000003|He stopped at all of these places and feasted his mind on the new things.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000014_000000|"I will go to the king," he said.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000015_000000|He had never seen a king.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000015_000001|There were no kings in Iceland or in Greenland.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000016_000000|Now the king was going to hold a feast at night, and Leif put on his most beautiful clothes to go to it.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000016_000002|He belted his jacket with a gold girdle.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000016_000003|He had shoes of scarlet with golden clasps.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000016_000006|On his head he put a knitted cap of bright colors.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000018_000001|"He is surely worth knowing.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000018_000002|His face is not the face of a fool.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000018_000003|He carries his head like a lord of men."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000020_000000|"I am glad to have you for a guest," the king said.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000022_000000|"From Greenland!" said the king.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000022_000004|Come up and speak with me."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000024_000001|You are a welcome guest."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000025_000001|When he started back in the spring, the king gave him two thralls as a parting gift.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000026_000000|"Let this gift show my love, Leif Ericsson," he said.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000026_000001|"For your sake I shall not forget Greenland."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000027_000003|They did not know where they were.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000028_000000|"Surely luck has brought us also to a new country.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000029_000000|So he steered for it.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000029_000001|As they came near, the men said:
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000030_000001|Surely this is a better country than Greenland or than Iceland either."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000034_000000|"There is no stone here as in Norway, but only good black dirt," Leif said.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000035_000000|The men were hungry and set about building a fire.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000036_000000|"There is no lack of fuel here," they said.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000037_000001|A German, named Tyrker, was with Leif.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000038_000000|Now one day they had been wandering about and all came back to camp at night except Tyrker.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000040_000001|Then Leif was angry.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000041_000001|"Why did you not keep together?
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000041_000003|Why did you not set out to look for him?
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000042_000000|Then he turned and started out to hunt for him.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000042_000001|His men followed, silent and ashamed.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000042_000003|He was laughing and talking to himself.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000044_000000|"Why are you so late?" he asked.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000046_000000|"I have not been so very far, but I have found something wonderful."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000047_000000|"What is it?" cried the men.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000048_000000|"I have found grapes growing wild," answered Tyrker, and he laughed, and his eyes shone.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000050_000000|Grapes do not grow in Greenland nor in Iceland nor even in Norway.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000051_000000|"Can I not tell grapes when I see them?" cried Tyrker.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000052_000000|"It is wonderful," Leif said.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000052_000002|You shall take us to them early in the morning, Tyrker."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000054_000000|"They are like food and drink," they cried.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000056_000002|We must start back.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000056_000004|The ship we will load with logs from these great trees.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000056_000006|Now half of you shall gather grapes for the next few days, and the other half shall cut timber."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000057_000000|So they did, and after a week sailed off.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000057_000002|As they looked back at the shore, Leif said:
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000058_000000|"I will call this country Wineland for the grapes that grow there."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000065_000000|The Greenlanders looked.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000066_000000|"Lumber! lumber!" they cried.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000067_000000|Then they saw the grapes and tasted them.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000068_000000|"Surely you must have plundered Asgard," they said, smacking their lips.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000069_000000|At the feast that night Eric said:
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000070_000000|"Leif shall sit in the place of honor."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000072_000000|"No man would ever need a cloak there.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000072_000003|The forests are without end.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000072_000004|The sea is full of fish."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000073_000001|They turned and talked to Leif's ship comrades who were scattered among them.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000074_000000|Leif noticed two strangers, an old man who sat at Eric's side and a young woman on the cross bench.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000074_000001|He turned to his brother Thorstein who sat next to him.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000075_000000|"Who are these strangers?" he asked.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000076_000001|"They landed here this spring.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000076_000008|But ill luck came, and he grew poor.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000076_000009|This hurt his pride.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000076_000010|'I will not stay in Iceland and be a beggar,' he said to himself.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000077_000000|"Then he got ready a great feast and invited all his friends.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000077_000003|For he said to himself, 'I will not leave in shame.
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000078_000002|I mean to marry her, if her father will permit it."
train-clean-100/5104/33407/5104_33407_000079_000002|But people could not forget his story.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000001_000000|fourteen
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000002_000000|THE ISLAND OF MARKEN
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000003_000000|When the boat was nearing the island of Marken, the little yellow cheese had been presented with all due formality to one of the sailors who had been specially kind in the matter of securing good seats for mr King's party, Polly and Phronsie having held a whispered conference in a retired nook, to come out of it bright and smiling.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000004_000001|"It made me happy in the first place because you thought of me, and then, just think, Pet, that poor sailor, how glad he will be to take it home."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000005_000000|"Will he, Polly?" asked Phronsie, in a rapture; "and do you think he has got any little girls?"
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000006_000001|And he looks hungry enough."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000008_000000|"Well, maybe he has some; we'll think so, anyway," Polly answered.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000008_000001|"Oh, see, Jasper is calling us."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000010_000000|"They want some stuivers," cried Jasper.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000011_000000|Whiz-spin-went the coins, to fall into the thick stubby grass on the bank.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000011_000002|So Jasper and Polly threw the bits next time in the other direction.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000011_000004|But some one of them always got the money.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000012_000000|"Dear me!
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000012_000001|they've eyes just like birds!" exclaimed Parson Henderson; "to think of finding anything in that thick grass."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000013_000000|"Let them alone for that," laughed old mr King; "their wits are sharpened by practice."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000014_000000|"Look out, Phronsie!" exclaimed Jasper.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000014_000001|"Your stuivers went into the water.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000014_000002|Here, I'll hold you up, then you can throw it farther.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000014_000003|There you go," swinging her to his shoulder.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000015_000000|"It did, it did," crowed Phronsie, from her high perch.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000015_000001|"It did, Jasper, go right straight down in the grass just like yours and Polly's."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000016_000000|"So it did, Pet.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000016_000001|Well, now, here is another."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000017_000000|"There's a little girl back there and she hasn't any," mourned Phronsie.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000018_000000|"To be sure," said Jasper.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000018_000001|"Well, we must give her some, and that's a fact." The small girl kept on at a dog trot along the bank, her eyes fixed on the wonderful people who tossed out such magic wealth, and holding out her arms and singing her shrill song.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000018_000002|But when the money was thrown, she was always a bit too late, and the other children, scrambling and scuffling, had pounced upon it, and had made off with it.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000019_000000|"Here, you boys, keep away; you've had enough; we're going to give this to the little girl," Jasper shouted to them as they threw coin after coin.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000020_000000|"They don't know what you are saying, my boy," said old mr King, laughing heartily at the performance, "and they wouldn't mind you in the least if they did."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000021_000000|"I suppose not," said Jasper in chagrin.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000021_000001|"Oh, the mean little beggars!"
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000022_000000|"Hold up your apron," screamed Polly to the little girl.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000023_000000|"That's a good idea," said Jasper.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000023_000001|"Why didn't we think of it before?"
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000024_000000|"She won't understand any better than the boys," said old mr King. "You forget, children, that these youngsters don't know our language."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000025_000000|"What a bother," exclaimed Jasper, "it is to have so many different languages, anyway!"
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000027_000001|And at last the little girl understood by gestures what she could not possibly get into her head by words, so she picked up the skirt of her gown in her sturdy little fists, and one, two, three clinking coins fell safely into it.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000027_000002|But the boys racing along in advance soon discovered this successful trick, and completely swarmed around her, howling dreadfully, so she hastened off, happy in her prize, which she huddled up in her gown as she ran.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000028_000000|"Isn't this just richness?" exclaimed Polly, gazing all about her in an ecstasy.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000028_000001|"Oh, Jasper, what pictures we'll take-and do see that woman's cap! and those pot hooks of hair over her eyes, and that funny, long dangling curl!"
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000029_000000|"Take care, Polly, you almost stepped off backward down the bank," warned Adela, pulling her back, as they got off the steamboat and stopped a bit to look around.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000030_000000|"Dear me, did I?" said Polly.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000030_000001|"Well, it's enough to make any one step backward to see such funny clothes; and they are hay making, Adela Gray, as sure as you live."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000031_000000|"Didn't you suppose they would be?" answered Adela, composedly.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000031_000001|"Why, that's one of the things I specially wanted to see."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000032_000000|"Yes, so did I," said Polly.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000032_000001|"Well, it's too, too splendid for anything.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000032_000002|I'm going to begin to take pictures right straight off." Then she stopped and looked at Adela.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000034_000000|"Yes, yes," said Polly, "I'd rather you did first; I truly had, Adela." She ran after her, for Adela had retreated down the bank, and made as if she were going to follow the party.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000034_000001|"Now, Adela, be good and listen to reason."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000036_000000|"Now that's too bad," mourned Polly, "for I'm afraid she'll keep away from me all the while we're on this island, and then I can't get a chance to give her my kodak at all."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000037_000000|"She had it at the 'Model Farm,'" said Jasper, by way of comfort, for Polly's face fell.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000038_000000|"Oh, that was nothing," said Polly, "such a little bit of a while doesn't count."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000039_000000|"Well, let us take pictures as fast as we can," suggested Jasper, "and then when we do come up with Adela, why you'll have yours done."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000041_000000|Jasper looked up.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000041_000001|"There, that's my last picture," he declared.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000041_000002|"At any rate, for now."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000042_000000|"Oh, one more!
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000042_000001|I must get a good picture of those girls raking hay." Polly ran off a few steps and sat down on a log to focus.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000042_000002|The Marken girls happened to look up, and immediately whirled around and presented their backs to her.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000045_000000|"Not so good as that," said Polly, sorrowfully.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000045_000001|"Well, it can't be helped." So she was just going to get up from her log, when the girls, thinking from her attitude that she had given up the idea of taking a picture of them, turned back to their work.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000045_000002|As quick as a flash Polly focussed again, and was just touching the button, when a hand came in front of her kodak, and she saw the grinning face of a Marken girl under its pot hook of hair and with the long, dangling curl on one side, close to her own.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000046_000001|"And don't you ever do that again." And the hand was withdrawn, and the girl clattered off as fast as she could run in her wooden shoes.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000047_000000|"I got them," said Polly, running back in triumph to Jasper.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000048_000000|"Yes, and I took a picture of the saucy girl while she was trying to stop yours," said Jasper.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000048_000001|"So she didn't do much harm, after all.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000048_000002|Oh, here is a splendid group!
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000048_000003|See them standing by that old tumble down house, Polly," he added excitedly.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000049_000000|"I thought you had taken your last picture, Jasper," said Polly, bursting into a laugh.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000050_000000|"Well, I had then, but I've begun again," said Jasper, recklessly.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000050_000001|He walked up to the group and held out his hand, then pointed to his kodak.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000050_000002|They smiled and nodded, showing all their teeth, and the mother took the littlest baby, for there seemed to be a very generous number of the smaller members of the family, and sat down with it in her lap on the rickety step.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000050_000003|Then they all drew up stiff as sticks, and didn't even wink.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000051_000000|"That's capital," said Jasper, in huge satisfaction, pouring the coins into the mother's lap, where they rolled underneath the fat baby.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000053_000000|"They are her daughter's wedding clothes," said mrs Fisher, "I do believe." For, the old woman was working fearfully hard to make them understand, and pointing first to the white garments and then to the young woman.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000053_000001|"Wedding clothes?" asked mrs Fisher, speaking very slowly.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000055_000000|Polly took the time to study her headgear.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000055_000001|"I think there is a round board under the cap," she confided to Jasper when once out of doors; "how else could they be pulled so tight?
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000055_000002|And they look as hard as a drum."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000056_000000|"I didn't investigate," he said, laughing.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000056_000001|"I'll leave that to you, Polly."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000057_000000|"Well, it's funny anyway," she said, "that all the women and girls dress alike in those queer gowns in two parts, and those embroidered jackets over their waists, and those caps and horrible pot hooks and long curls."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000058_000000|"It's well that we've got so many pictures, for the people at home would never believe our stories without them."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000059_000000|"And these houses," continued Polly, squinting up at a crooked row, "all colours-green stripes and black stripes-and, O dear me!
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000059_000001|Jasper King, just look at Phronsie!"
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000060_000000|Jasper followed the direction of Polly's finger.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000060_000001|There sat Phronsie on a grassy bank a little above them, with one of the fattest Marken babies in her lap.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000060_000002|A variegated group of natives was near by, watching her intently.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000061_000000|"Polly, I wish we had a baby just like this," sighed Phronsie, giving motherly pats to the stout little legs dangling down from her lap.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000062_000000|"Come, children,"--Grandpapa emerged from the little old house,--"we must hurry on, else we sha'n't get through this island.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000062_000001|Come, Phronsie-goodness me!" as he saw how she was occupied.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000063_000000|"May I carry her?" begged Phronsie, staggering to her feet-"she's mine"--and dragging the Marken baby up with her.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000064_000002|"Put her down, Phronsie; she's ever so much too heavy for you, dear." He put forth a protesting hand, but the tears ran down Phronsie's cheeks and fell on the baby's stiff white cap.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000065_000001|I'm afraid he will be sick, Phronsie, if he is unhappy."
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000066_000000|Phronsie dropped the pudgy little hand, and threw herself into old mr King's arms.
train-clean-100/5163/18515/5163_18515_000066_000001|"Don't be sick, Grandpapa," she wailed, struggling with her tears.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000002_000000|Why mr Cropper Changed His Mind
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000003_000000|"Well, Miss Maxwell, how did you get along today?" asked mr Baxter affably, when the new teacher came to the table.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000004_000000|She was a slight, dark girl, rather plain looking, but with a smart, energetic way.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000004_000001|mr Baxter approved of her; he "liked her style," as he would have said.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000005_000000|The summer term had just opened in the Maitland district.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000005_000001|esther Maxwell was a stranger, but she was a capable girl, and had no doubt of her own ability to get and keep the school in good working order. She smiled brightly at mr Baxter.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000006_000000|"Very well for a beginning.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000006_000001|The children seem bright and teachable and not hard to control."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000007_000000|mr Baxter nodded.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000007_000001|"There are no bad children in the school except the Cropper boys-and they can be good enough if they like.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000007_000002|Reckon they weren't there today?"
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000009_000001|Forewarned is forearmed, you know.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000009_000002|mr Cropper was opposed to our hiring you.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000009_000003|Not, of course, that he had any personal objection to you, but he is set against female teachers, and when a Cropper is set there is nothing on earth can change him.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000009_000004|He says female teachers can't keep order.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000009_000006|They know he'll back them up in secret, no matter what they do, just to prove his opinions.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000009_000007|Cropper is sly and slippery, and it is hard to corner him."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000010_000000|"Are the boys big?" queried esther anxiously.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000011_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000011_000001|Thirteen and fourteen and big for their age.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000011_000003|A man might, but they'd twist you around their fingers.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000011_000004|You'll have your hands full, I'm afraid.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000011_000005|But maybe they'll behave all right after all."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000012_000000|mr Baxter privately had no hope that they would, but esther hoped for the best.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000012_000001|She could not believe that mr Cropper would carry his prejudices into a personal application.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000012_000002|This conviction was strengthened when he overtook her walking from school the next day and drove her home.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000012_000004|He asked interestedly about her school and her work, hoped she was getting on well, and said he had two young rascals of his own to send soon.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000012_000005|esther felt relieved.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000012_000006|She thought that mr Baxter had exaggerated matters a little.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000013_000000|"That plum tree of mrs Charley's is loaded with fruit again this year," remarked mr Baxter at the tea table that evening.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000013_000001|"I came past it today on my way 'cross lots home from the woods.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000013_000002|There will be bushels of plums on it."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000014_000000|"I don't suppose poor mrs Charley will get one of them any more than she ever has," said mrs Baxter indignantly.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000014_000001|"It's a burning shame, that's what it is!
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000014_000002|I just wish she could catch the Croppers once."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000015_000000|"You haven't any proof that it is really them, Mary," objected her husband, "and you shouldn't make reckless accusations before folks."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000016_000001|And mrs Charley knows it too, although she can't prove it-more's the pity!
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000016_000002|I don't say Isaac Cropper steals those plums with his own hands.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000016_000003|But he knows who does-and the plums go into Mehitable Cropper's preserving kettle; there's nothing surer."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000000|"You see, Miss Maxwell, it's this way," explained mr Baxter, turning to esther.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000001|"mrs Charley Cropper's husband was Isaac's brother.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000002|They never got on well together, and when Charley died there was a tremendous fuss about the property.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000003|Isaac acted mean and scandalous clear through, and public opinion has been down on him ever since.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000006|There's a big plum tree growing on it close to the line fence.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000007|It's the finest one in Maitland.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000017_000008|But mrs Charley never gets a plum from it."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000018_000000|"But what becomes of them?" asked esther.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000019_000000|"They disappear," said mr Baxter, with a significant nod.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000019_000002|She has never been able to get a scrap of proof as to who took them, or she'd make it hot for them.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000020_000000|"I don't think mr Cropper would steal," protested esther.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000021_000002|I don't doubt that he is quite clear in his own mind that they are.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000021_000003|And he does hate mrs Charley.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000021_000004|I'd give considerable to see the old sinner fairly caught, but he is too deep."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000022_000000|"I think mr Baxter is too hard on mr Cropper," said esther to herself later on.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000022_000001|"He has probably some private prejudice against him."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000023_000000|But a month later she had changed her opinion.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000023_000001|During that time the Cropper boys had come to school.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000024_000000|At first esther had been inclined to like them.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000024_000001|They were handsome lads, with the same smooth way that characterized their father, and seemed bright and intelligent.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000024_000002|For a few days all went well, and esther felt decidedly relieved.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000025_000000|But before long a subtle spirit of insubordination began to make itself felt in the school.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000025_000001|esther found herself powerless to cope with it.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000025_000002|The Croppers never openly defied her, but they did precisely as they pleased.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000025_000003|The other pupils thought themselves at liberty to follow this example, and in a month's time poor esther had completely lost control of her little kingdom.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000025_000004|Some complaints were heard among the ratepayers and even mr Baxter looked dubious.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000025_000005|She knew that unless she could regain her authority she would be requested to hand in her resignation, but she was baffled by the elusive system of defiance which the Cropper boys had organized.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000000|One day she resolved to go to mr Cropper himself and appeal to his sense of justice, if he had any.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000001|It had been an especially hard day in school.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000002|When she had been absent at the noon hour all the desks in the schoolroom had been piled in a pyramid on the floor, books and slates interchanged, and various other pranks played.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000003|When questioned every pupil denied having done or helped to do it.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000004|Alfred and Bob Cropper looked her squarely in the eyes and declared their innocence in their usual gentlemanly fashion, yet esther felt sure that they were the guilty ones.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000006|But she did not.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000026_000007|Instead she set her mouth firmly, helped the children restore the room to order, and after school went up to Isaac Cropper's house.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000027_000000|That gentleman himself came in from the harvest field looking as courtly as usual, even in his rough working clothes.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000027_000001|He shook hands heartily, told her he was glad to see her, and began talking about the weather.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000027_000002|esther was not to be turned from her object thus, although she felt her courage ebbing away from her as it always did in the presence of the Cropper imperviousness.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000028_000000|"I have come up to see you about Alfred and Robert, mr Cropper," she said.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000028_000001|"They are not behaving well in school."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000029_000000|"Indeed!" mr Cropper's voice expressed bland surprise.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000029_000001|"That is strange.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000030_000000|"They refuse to obey my orders," said esther faintly.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000031_000004|Not that I disapprove of you personally-far from it.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000031_000005|I should be glad to see you succeed. But I have heard many complaints regarding the order in school at present."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000032_000000|"I had no trouble until your boys came," retorted esther, losing her temper a little, "and I believe that if you were willing to co-operate with me that I could govern them."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000033_000000|"Well, you see," said mr Cropper easily, "when I send my boys to school I naturally expect that the teacher will be capable of doing the work she has been hired to do."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000034_000000|"Then you refuse to help me?" said esther in a trembling voice.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000035_000000|"Why, my dear young lady, what can I do?
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000035_000004|But you are not going yet, Miss Maxwell?
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000035_000005|You need some refreshment after your long walk. mrs Cropper will bring you in something."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000036_000000|"No, thank you," said poor esther.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000036_000002|When she got home she shut herself up in her room and cried.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000036_000003|There was nothing for her to do but resign, she thought dismally.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000037_000000|On the following Saturday esther went for an afternoon walk, carrying her kodak with her.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000037_000002|esther went across lots to mrs Charley Cropper's house, intending to make a call.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000037_000003|But the house was locked up and evidently deserted, so she rambled past it to the back fields.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000037_000005|Just beyond her, with its laden boughs hanging over the line fence, was the famous plum tree. esther looked at it for a moment.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000037_000006|Then an odd smile gleamed over her face and she lifted her kodak.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000038_000000|Monday evening esther called on mr Cropper again.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000038_000001|After the preliminary remarks in which he indulged, she said, with seeming irrelevance, that Saturday had been a fine day.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000039_000000|"There was an excellent light for snapshots," she went on coolly.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000039_000003|I thought you would be interested in it."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000040_000000|She rose and placed the proof on the table before mr Cropper.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000040_000001|The plum tree came out clearly.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000040_000002|Bob and Alf Cropper were up among the boughs picking the plums.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000040_000003|On the ground beneath them stood their father with a basket of fruit in his hand.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000041_000001|His eyes had lost their unconcerned glitter, but his voice was defiant.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000042_000000|"The plums are mine by right," he said.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000043_000000|"Perhaps," said esther calmly, "but there are some who do not think so.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000043_000001|mrs Charley, for instance-she would like to see this proof, I think."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000000|"Don't show it to her," cried mr Cropper hastily.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000001|"I tell you, Miss Maxwell, the plums are mine.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000002|But I am tired of fighting over them and I had decided before this that I'd let her have them after this.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000003|It's only a trifle, anyhow.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000004|And about that little matter we were discussing the other night, Miss Maxwell.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000005|I have been thinking it over, and I admit I was somewhat unreasonable.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000044_000006|I'll talk to Alfred and Robert and see what I can do."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000045_000001|"The matter of the plums isn't my business and I don't wish to be involved in your family feuds, especially as you say that you mean to allow mrs Charley to enjoy her own in future.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000045_000002|As for the school, we will hope that matters will improve."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000046_000000|"You'll leave the proof with me, won't you?" said mr Cropper eagerly.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000047_000000|"Oh, certainly," said esther, smiling.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000047_000001|"I have the negative still, you know."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000048_000000|From that time out the Cropper boys were models of good behaviour and the other turbulent spirits, having lost their leaders, were soon quelled.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000048_000001|Complaint died away, and at the end of the term esther was re engaged.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000049_000000|"You seem to have won old Cropper over to your side entirely," mr Baxter told her that night.
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000049_000001|"He said at the meeting today that you were the best teacher we had ever had and moved to raise your salary. I never knew Isaac Cropper to change his opinions so handsomely."
train-clean-100/5163/39921/5163_39921_000050_000001|She knew it had taken a powerful lever to change mr Cropper's opinion, but she kept her own counsel.
train-clean-100/5192/19396/5192_19396_000026_000000|--The duce take it! said my uncle Toby.
train-clean-100/5192/19396/5192_19396_000029_000000|By all that is priestly!
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000002_000000|Chapter twenty
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000003_000000|The next day Olenin went alone to the spot where he and the old man startled the stag.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000003_000002|He had hardly stepped among the briers when the pheasants began to rise at every step (the old man had not shown him that place the day before as he meant to keep it for shooting from behind the screen).
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000003_000004|He called off his dog, uncocked his gun, put in a bullet above the small shot, and brushing away the mosquitoes with the wide sleeve of his Circassian coat he went slowly to the spot where they had been the day before.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000000|The day was perfectly clear, calm, and hot.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000001|The morning moisture had dried up even in the forest, and myriads of mosquitoes literally covered his face, his back, and his arms.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000002|His dog had turned from black to grey, its back being covered with mosquitoes, and so had Olenin's coat through which the insects thrust their stings.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000003|Olenin was ready to run away from them and it seemed to him that it was impossible to live in this country in the summer.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000004|He was about to go home, but remembering that other people managed to endure such pain he resolved to bear it and gave himself up to be devoured.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000005|And strange to say, by noontime the feeling became actually pleasant.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000006|He even felt that without this mosquito filled atmosphere around him, and that mosquito paste mingled with perspiration which his hand smeared over his face, and that unceasing irritation all over his body, the forest would lose for him some of its character and charm.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000007|These myriads of insects were so well suited to that monstrously lavish wild vegetation, these multitudes of birds and beasts which filled the forest, this dark foliage, this hot scented air, these runlets filled with turbid water which everywhere soaked through from the Terek and gurgled here and there under the overhanging leaves, that the very thing which had at first seemed to him dreadful and intolerable now seemed pleasant.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000008|After going round the place where yesterday they had found the animal and not finding anything, he felt inclined to rest.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000009|The sun stood right above the forest and poured its perpendicular rays down on his back and head whenever he came out into a glade or onto the road.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000011|Having found the traces of yesterday's stag he crept under a bush into the thicket just where the stag had lain, and lay down in its lair.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000012|He examined the dark foliage around him, the place marked by the stag's perspiration and yesterday's dung, the imprint of the stag's knees, the bit of black earth it had kicked up, and his own footprints of the day before.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000013|He felt cool and comfortable and did not think of or wish for anything.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000016|Here I sit, and around me stand old and young trees, one of them festooned with wild grape vines, and pheasants are fluttering, driving one another about and perhaps scenting their murdered brothers.' He felt his pheasants, examined them, and wiped the warm blood off his hand onto his coat.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000018|Here's some one we can eat!' They buzzed and stuck to him.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000004_000020|'Just as they, just as Daddy Eroshka, I shall live awhile and die, and as he says truly:
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000000|'But what though the grass does grow?' he continued thinking.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000001|'Still I must live and be happy, because happiness is all I desire.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000002|Never mind what I am-an animal like all the rest, above whom the grass will grow and nothing more; or a frame in which a bit of the one God has been set,--still I must live in the very best way.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000003|How then must I live to be happy, and why was I not happy before?' And he began to recall his former life and he felt disgusted with himself.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000004|He appeared to himself to have been terribly exacting and selfish, though he now saw that all the while he really needed nothing for himself.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000005|And he looked round at the foliage with the light shining through it, at the setting sun and the clear sky, and he felt just as happy as before.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000006|'Why am I happy, and what used I to live for?' thought he.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000007|'How much I exacted for myself; how I schemed and did not manage to gain anything but shame and sorrow!
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000008|and, there now, I require nothing to be happy;' and suddenly a new light seemed to reveal itself to him.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000009|'Happiness is this!' he said to himself.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000011|That is evident.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000012|The desire for happiness is innate in every man; therefore it is legitimate.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000013|When trying to satisfy it selfishly-that is, by seeking for oneself riches, fame, comforts, or love-it may happen that circumstances arise which make it impossible to satisfy these desires. It follows that it is these desires that are illegitimate, but not the need for happiness.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000014|But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances?
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000015|What are they?
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000016|Love, self sacrifice.' He was so glad and excited when he had discovered this, as it seemed to him, new truth, that he jumped up and began impatiently seeking some one to sacrifice himself for, to do good to and to love.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000017|'Since one wants nothing for oneself,' he kept thinking, 'why not live for others?' He took up his gun with the intention of returning home quickly to think this out and to find an opportunity of doing good.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000018|He made his way out of the thicket.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000019|When he had come out into the glade he looked around him; the sun was no longer visible above the tree tops.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000020|It had grown cooler and the place seemed to him quite strange and not like the country round the village.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000021|Everything seemed changed-the weather and the character of the forest; the sky was wrapped in clouds, the wind was rustling in the tree tops, and all around nothing was visible but reeds and dying broken down trees.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000022|He called to his dog who had run away to follow some animal, and his voice came back as in a desert.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000024|He grew frightened.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000025|He remembered the abreks and the murders he had been told about, and he expected every moment that an abrek would spring from behind every bush and he would have to defend his life and die, or be a coward.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000026|He thought of God and of the future life as for long he had not thought about them.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000028|'And is it worth while living for oneself,' thought he, 'when at any moment you may die, and die without having done any good, and so that no one will know of it?' He went in the direction where he fancied the village lay.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000029|Of his shooting he had no further thought; but he felt tired to death and peered round at every bush and tree with particular attention and almost with terror, expecting every moment to be called to account for his life.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000030|After having wandered about for a considerable time he came upon a ditch down which was flowing cold sandy water from the Terek, and, not to go astray any longer, he decided to follow it. He went on without knowing where the ditch would lead him.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000031|Suddenly the reeds behind him crackled.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000006_000032|He shuddered and seized his gun, and then felt ashamed of himself: the over excited dog, panting hard, had thrown itself into the cold water of the ditch and was lapping it!
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000000|He too had a drink, and then followed the dog in the direction it wished to go, thinking it would lead him to the village.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000001|But despite the dog's company everything around him seemed still more dreary.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000002|The forest grew darker and the wind grew stronger and stronger in the tops of the broken old trees.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000003|Some large birds circled screeching round their nests in those trees.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000004|The vegetation grew poorer and he came oftener and oftener upon rustling reeds and bare sandy spaces covered with animal footprints.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000006|Altogether his spirits became gloomy.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000007|Putting his hand behind him he felt his pheasants, and found one missing.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000008|It had broken off and was lost, and only the bleeding head and beak remained sticking in his belt.
train-clean-100/5322/7678/5322_7678_000007_000009|He felt more frightened than he had ever done before.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000001_000001|He heard Russian being spoken, and also heard the rapid smooth flow of the Terek, and a few steps farther in front of him saw the brown moving surface of the river, with the dim coloured wet sand of its banks and shallows, the distant steppe, the cordon watch tower outlined above the water, a saddled and hobbled horse among the brambles, and then the mountains opening out before him.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000001_000002|The red sun appeared for an instant from under a cloud and its last rays glittered brightly along the river over the reeds, on the watch tower, and on a group of Cossacks, among whom Lukashka's vigorous figure attracted Olenin's involuntary attention.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000000|Olenin felt that he was again, without any apparent cause, perfectly happy.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000002|He accosted the Cossacks, but not finding as yet any excuse for doing anyone a kindness, he entered the hut; nor in the hut did he find any such opportunity.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000003|The Cossacks received him coldly.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000004|On entering the mud hut he lit a cigarette.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000005|The Cossacks paid little attention to him, first because he was smoking a cigarette, and secondly because they had something else to divert them that evening.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000006|Some hostile Chechens, relatives of the abrek who had been killed, had come from the hills with a scout to ransom the body; and the Cossacks were waiting for their Commanding Officer's arrival from the village.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000007|The dead man's brother, tall and well shaped with a short cropped beard which was dyed red, despite his very tattered coat and cap was calm and majestic as a king.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000008|His face was very like that of the dead abrek.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000010|He was evidently a brave who had met Russians more than once before in quite other circumstances, and nothing about them could astonish or even interest him.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000011|Olenin was about to approach the dead body and had begun to look at it when the brother, looking up at him from under his brows with calm contempt, said something sharply and angrily.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000012|The scout hastened to cover the dead man's face with his coat.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000014|He began to speak to him, asking from what village he came, but the Chechen, scarcely giving him a glance, spat contemptuously and turned away.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000015|Olenin was so surprised at the Chechen not being interested in him that he could only put it down to the man's stupidity or ignorance of Russian; so he turned to the scout, who also acted as interpreter.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000016|The scout was as ragged as the other, but instead of being red haired he was black haired, restless, with extremely white gleaming teeth and sparkling black eyes.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000002_000017|The scout willingly entered into conversation and asked for a cigarette.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000003_000000|'There were five brothers,' began the scout in his broken Russian. 'This is the third brother the Russians have killed, only two are left. He is a brave, a great brave!' he said, pointing to the Chechen. 'When they killed Ahmet Khan (the dead brave) this one was sitting on the opposite bank among the reeds.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000003_000001|He saw it all.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000003_000002|Saw him laid in the skiff and brought to the bank.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000003_000003|He sat there till the night and wished to kill the old man, but the others would not let him.'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000004_000000|Lukashka went up to the speaker, and sat down.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000005_000000|'From there in the hills,' replied the scout, pointing to the misty bluish gorge beyond the Terek. 'Do you know Suuk su?
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000005_000001|It is about eight miles beyond that.'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000006_000001|'He is my kunak.'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000007_000000|'He is my neighbour,' answered the scout.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000008_000000|'He's a trump!' and Lukashka, evidently much interested, began talking to the scout in Tartar.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000000|Presently a Cossack captain, with the head of the village, arrived on horseback with a suite of two Cossacks.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000001|The captain-one of the new type of Cossack officers-wished the Cossacks 'Good health,' but no one shouted in reply, 'Hail!
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000002|Good health to your honour,' as is customary in the Russian Army, and only a few replied with a bow.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000003|Some, and among them Lukashka, rose and stood erect.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000004|The corporal replied that all was well at the outposts.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000005|All this seemed ridiculous: it was as if these Cossacks were playing at being soldiers.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000006|But these formalities soon gave place to ordinary ways of behaviour, and the captain, who was a smart Cossack just like the others, began speaking fluently in Tartar to the interpreter.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000009_000008|Then they approached the body.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000010_000000|'Which of you is luke Gavrilov?' asked the captain.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000012_000000|'I have reported your exploit to the Commander.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000012_000001|I don't know what will come of it.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000012_000003|Can you read?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000013_000000|'I can't.'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000014_000000|'But what a fine fellow to look at!' said the captain, again playing the commander.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000014_000001|'Put on your cap.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000014_000002|Which of the Gavrilovs does he come of? ... the Broad, eh?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000015_000000|'His nephew,' replied the corporal.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000016_000001|Well, lend a hand, help them,' he said, turning to the Cossacks.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000017_000001|He moved away from the corporal, and having put on his cap sat down beside Olenin.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000000|When the body had been carried to the skiff the brother Chechen descended to the bank.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000001|The Cossacks involuntarily stepped aside to let him pass.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000002|He jumped into the boat and pushed off from the bank with his powerful leg, and now, as Olenin noticed, for the first time threw a rapid glance at all the Cossacks and then abruptly asked his companion a question.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000003|The latter answered something and pointed to Lukashka.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000004|The Chechen looked at him and, turning slowly away, gazed at the opposite bank.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000005|That look expressed not hatred but cold contempt.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000018_000006|He again made some remark.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000020_000001|It's always the same,' replied the scout, evidently inventing, and he smiled, showing his white teeth, as he jumped into the skiff.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000000|The dead man's brother sat motionless, gazing at the opposite bank.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000001|He was so full of hatred and contempt that there was nothing on this side of the river that moved his curiosity.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000002|The scout, standing up at one end of the skiff and dipping his paddle now on one side now on the other, steered skilfully while talking incessantly.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000003|The skiff became smaller and smaller as it moved obliquely across the stream, the voices became scarcely audible, and at last, still within sight, they landed on the opposite bank where their horses stood waiting.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000004|There they lifted out the corpse and (though the horse shied) laid it across one of the saddles, mounted, and rode at a foot pace along the road past a Tartar village from which a crowd came out to look at them.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000005|The Cossacks on the Russian side of the river were highly satisfied and jovial.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000006|Laughter and jokes were heard on all sides.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000007|The captain and the head of the village entered the mud hut to regale themselves.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000021_000008|Lukashka, vainly striving to impart a sedate expression to his merry face, sat down with his elbows on his knees beside Olenin and whittled away at a stick.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000022_000000|'Why do you smoke?' he said with assumed curiosity.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000022_000001|'Is it good?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000023_000000|He evidently spoke because he noticed Olenin felt ill at ease and isolated among the Cossacks.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000024_000000|'It's just a habit,' answered Olenin. 'Why?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000025_000001|Look there now, the mountains are not far off,' continued Lukashka, 'yet you can't get there!
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000025_000002|How will you get back alone?
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000025_000003|It's getting dark.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000025_000004|I'll take you, if you like.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000025_000005|You ask the corporal to give me leave.'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000026_000001|He remembered Maryanka and the kiss he had heard by the gate, and he was sorry for Lukashka and his want of culture.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000026_000002|'What confusion it is,' he thought.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000026_000003|'A man kills another and is happy and satisfied with himself as if he had done something excellent.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000026_000004|Can it be that nothing tells him that it is not a reason for any rejoicing, and that happiness lies not in killing, but in sacrificing oneself?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000027_000000|'Well, you had better not meet him again now, mate!' said one of the Cossacks who had seen the skiff off, addressing Lukashka. 'Did you hear him asking about you?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000028_000000|Lukashka raised his head.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000029_000000|'My godson?' said Lukashka, meaning by that word the dead Chechen.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000030_000000|'Your godson won't rise, but the red one is the godson's brother!'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000032_000000|'What are you glad about?' asked Olenin. 'Supposing your brother had been killed; would you be glad?'
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000033_000000|The Cossack looked at Olenin with laughing eyes.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000033_000001|He seemed to have understood all that Olenin wished to say to him, but to be above such considerations.
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000034_000000|'Well, that happens too!
train-clean-100/5322/7679/5322_7679_000034_000001|Don't our fellows get killed sometimes?'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000005_000000|Chapter twenty two
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000006_000000|The Captain and the head of the village rode away, and Olenin, to please Lukashka as well as to avoid going back alone through the dark forest, asked the corporal to give Lukashka leave, and the corporal did so.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000006_000001|Olenin thought that Lukashka wanted to see Maryanka and he was also glad of the companionship of such a pleasant looking and sociable Cossack.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000006_000002|Lukashka and Maryanka he involuntarily united in his mind, and he found pleasure in thinking about them.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000006_000003|'He loves Maryanka,' thought Olenin, 'and I could love her,' and a new and powerful emotion of tenderness overcame him as they walked homewards together through the dark forest.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000006_000004|Lukashka too felt happy; something akin to love made itself felt between these two very different young men.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000007_000000|'By which gate do you enter?' asked Olenin.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000008_000000|'By the middle one.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000008_000002|After that you have nothing to fear.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000009_000000|Olenin laughed.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000010_000000|'Do you think I am afraid?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000010_000001|Go back, and thank you.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000011_000000|'It's all right!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000011_000002|And how can you help being afraid? Even we are afraid,' said Lukashka to set Olenin's self esteem at rest, and he laughed too.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000012_000000|'Then come in with me.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000012_000001|We'll have a talk and a drink and in the morning you can go back.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000013_000000|'Couldn't I find a place to spend the night?' laughed Lukashka. 'But the corporal asked me to go back.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000014_000000|'I heard you singing last night, and also saw you.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000015_000000|'Every one...' and luke swayed his head.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000017_000001|But I have not got a horse yet.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000018_000000|'Aren't you in the regular service?'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000019_000000|'Oh dear no! I've only just joined, and have not got a horse yet, and don't know how to get one.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000019_000001|That's why the marriage does not come off.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000020_000000|'And what would a horse cost?'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000021_000000|'We were bargaining for one beyond the river the other day and they would not take sixty rubles for it, though it is a Nogay horse.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000022_000000|'Will you come and be my drabant?' (A drabant was a kind of orderly attached to an officer when campaigning.) 'I'll get it arranged and will give you a horse,' said Olenin suddenly.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000022_000001|'Really now, I have two and I don't want both.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000023_000000|'How-don't want it?' Lukashka said, laughing.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000023_000001|'Why should you make me a present?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000023_000002|We'll get on by ourselves by God's help.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000024_000000|'No, really!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000024_000001|Or don't you want to be a drabant?' said Olenin, glad that it had entered his head to give a horse to Lukashka, though, without knowing why, he felt uncomfortable and confused and did not know what to say when he tried to speak.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000025_000000|Lukashka was the first to break the silence.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000027_000000|Olenin could not refrain from replying that he had not only one, but several houses.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000028_000000|'A good house?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000028_000001|Bigger than ours?' asked Lukashka good naturedly.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000029_000000|'Much bigger; ten times as big and three storeys high,' replied Olenin.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000031_000000|'I have a hundred horses, worth three or four hundred rubles each, but they are not like yours.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000031_000001|They are trotters, you know....
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000031_000002|But still, I like the horses here best.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000032_000000|'Well, and did you come here of your own free will, or were you sent?' said Lukashka, laughing at him.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000032_000001|'Look! that's where you lost your way,' he added, 'you should have turned to the right.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000034_000000|'I would go on an expedition any day,' said Lukashka. 'D'you hear the jackals howling?' he added, listening.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000036_000000|'What's there to be frightened about?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000036_000001|But I should like to join an expedition,' Lukashka repeated.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000036_000002|'How I want to!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000036_000003|How I want to!'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000037_000000|'Perhaps we may be going together.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000037_000001|Our company is going before the holidays, and your "hundred" too.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000038_000000|'And what did you want to come here for?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000038_000002|In your place I'd do nothing but make merry!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000039_000000|'I am a cadet, but have been recommended for a commission.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000040_000000|'Well, if you're not bragging about your home, if I were you I'd never have left it!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000040_000001|Yes, I'd never have gone away anywhere.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000040_000002|Do you find it pleasant living among us?'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000041_000000|'Yes, very pleasant,' answered Olenin.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000000|It had grown quite dark before, talking in this way, they approached the village.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000001|They were still surrounded by the deep gloom of the forest.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000002|The wind howled through the tree tops.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000003|The jackals suddenly seemed to be crying close beside them, howling, chuckling, and sobbing; but ahead of them in the village the sounds of women's voices and the barking of dogs could already be heard; the outlines of the huts were clearly to be seen; lights gleamed and the air was filled with the peculiar smell of kisyak smoke.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000004|Olenin felt keenly, that night especially, that here in this village was his home, his family, all his happiness, and that he never had and never would live so happily anywhere as he did in this Cossack village.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000005|He was so fond of everybody and especially of Lukashka that night.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000042_000006|On reaching home, to Lukashka's great surprise, Olenin with his own hands led out of the shed a horse he had bought in Groznoe-it was not the one he usually rode but another-not a bad horse though no longer young, and gave it to Lukashka.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000043_000000|'Why should you give me a present?' said Lukashka, 'I have not yet done anything for you.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000044_000000|'Really it is nothing,' answered Olenin. 'Take it, and you will give me a present, and we'll go on an expedition against the enemy together.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000045_000000|Lukashka became confused.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000047_000000|'Take it, take it!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000047_000001|If you don't you will offend me.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000047_000002|Vanyusha!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000047_000003|Take the grey horse to his house.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000048_000000|Lukashka took hold of the halter.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000049_000001|This is something unexpected, undreamt of.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000050_000000|Olenin was as happy as a boy of twelve.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000051_000000|'Tie it up here.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000051_000001|It's a good horse.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000051_000002|I bought it in Groznoe; it gallops splendidly!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000051_000003|Vanyusha, bring us some chikhir.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000051_000004|Come into the hut.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000052_000000|The wine was brought.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000052_000001|Lukashka sat down and took the wine bowl.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000053_000000|'God willing I'll find a way to repay you,' he said, finishing his wine.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000053_000001|'How are you called?'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000055_000001|We will be kunaks.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000055_000002|Now you must come to see us.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000055_000003|Though we are not rich people still we can treat a kunak, and I will tell mother in case you need anything-clotted cream or grapes-and if you come to the cordon I'm your servant to go hunting or to go across the river, anywhere you like!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000055_000004|There now, only the other day, what a boar I killed, and I divided it among the Cossacks, but if I had only known, I'd have given it to you.' 'That's all right, thank you!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000055_000005|But don't harness the horse, it has never been in harness.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000056_000000|'Why harness the horse?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000056_000001|And there is something else I'll tell you if you like,' said Lukashka, bending his head.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000056_000002|'I have a kunak, Girey Khan.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000056_000003|He asked me to lie in ambush by the road where they come down from the mountains.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000056_000004|Shall we go together?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000057_000000|'Yes, we'll go; we'll go some day.'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000058_000000|Lukashka seemed quite to have quieted down and to have understood Olenin's attitude towards him.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000058_000001|His calmness and the ease of his behaviour surprised Olenin, and he did not even quite like it.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000058_000002|They talked long, and it was late when Lukashka, not tipsy (he never was tipsy) but having drunk a good deal, left Olenin after shaking hands.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000059_000000|Olenin looked out of the window to see what he would do.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000059_000002|Then, having led the horse out of the gate, he suddenly shook his head, threw the reins of the halter over its head, sprang onto its back like a cat, gave a wild shout, and galloped down the street.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000059_000004|He was as delighted as a boy, and could not refrain from telling Vanyusha not only that he had given Lukashka the horse, but also why he had done it, as well as his new theory of happiness.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000060_000000|Lukashka rode home, jumped off the horse, and handed it over to his mother, telling her to let it out with the communal Cossack herd.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000060_000003|The old woman only shook her head at her son's story, and decided in her own mind that he had stolen it.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000060_000004|She therefore told the deaf girl to take it to the herd before daybreak.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000000|Lukashka went back alone to the cordon pondering over Olenin's action. Though he did not consider the horse a good one, yet it was worth at least forty rubles and Lukashka was very glad to have the present.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000001|But why it had been given him he could not at all understand, and therefore he did not experience the least feeling of gratitude.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000002|On the contrary, vague suspicions that the cadet had some evil intentions filled his mind.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000003|What those intentions were he could not decide, but neither could he admit the idea that a stranger would give him a horse worth forty rubles for nothing, just out of kindness; it seemed impossible.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000004|Had he been drunk one might understand it!
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000005|He might have wished to show off. But the cadet had been sober, and therefore must have wished to bribe him to do something wrong.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000006|'Eh, humbug!' thought Lukashka.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000007|'Haven't I got the horse and we'll see later on.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000009|He told no one how he had got the horse.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000010|To some he said he had bought it, to others he replied evasively.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000011|However, the truth soon got about in the village, and Lukashka's mother and Maryanka, as well as Elias Vasilich and other Cossacks, when they heard of Olenin's unnecessary gift, were perplexed, and began to be on their guard against the cadet.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000061_000012|But despite their fears his action aroused in them a great respect for his simplicity and wealth.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000062_000000|'Have you heard,' said one, 'that the cadet quartered on Elias Vasilich has thrown a fifty ruble horse at Lukashka?
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000062_000001|He's rich! ...'
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000063_000000|'Yes, I heard of it,' replied another profoundly, 'he must have done him some great service.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000063_000001|We shall see what will come of this cadet.
train-clean-100/5322/7680/5322_7680_000064_000000|'Those cadets are crafty, awfully crafty,' said a third.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000002_000003|Her life was quiet and monotonous, although hard-working; and while her hands mechanically found and did their accustomed labour, the thoughts that rose in her head always centred on Charley Kinraid, his ways, his words, his looks, whether they all meant what she would fain believe they did, and whether, meaning love at the time, such a feeling was likely to endure.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000002_000004|Her mother's story of crazy Nancy had taken hold of her; but not as a 'caution,' rather as a parallel case to her own.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000003_000002|By degrees both Hepburn and Coulson were introduced to distant manufacturers and wholesale dealers.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000004_000000|When Philip saw Sylvia she was always quiet and gentle; perhaps more silent than she had been a year ago, and she did not attend so briskly to what was passing around her.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000004_000001|She was rather thinner and paler; but whatever change there was in her was always an improvement in Philip's eyes, so long as she spoke graciously to him.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000004_000003|She liked him better, too, than she had done a year or two before, because he did not show her any of the eager attention which teased her then, although its meaning was not fully understood.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000005_000000|Things were much in this state when the frost broke, and milder weather succeeded.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000005_000003|The widow woman was to come and stay in the house, to keep Sylvia company, during her mother's absence.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000006_000005|The shops in the town were equally busy; stores had to be purchased by the whaling masters, warm clothing of all sorts to be provided.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000006_000006|These were the larger wholesale orders; but many a man, and woman, too, brought out their small hoards to purchase extra comforts, or precious keepsakes for some beloved one.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000006_000007|It was the time of the great half yearly traffic of the place; another impetus was given to business when the whalers returned in the autumn, and the men were flush of money, and full of delight at once more seeing their homes and their friends.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000007_000002|But it thus happened that they did not give the prompt assistance they were accustomed to render at such times; and Coulson had been away on some of the new expeditions devolving on him and Philip as future partners.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000007_000003|One evening after the shop was closed, while they were examining the goods, and comparing the sales with the entries in the day book, Coulson suddenly inquired-
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000010_000000|'Is he here again?' said Philip; 'I didn't see him.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000013_000000|'Why, what's up?' said Philip, surprised at William's unusual manner, and, at the same time, rather gratified to find a reflection of his own feelings about Kinraid.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000013_000001|Coulson's face was pale with anger, but for a moment or two he seemed uncertain whether he would reply or not.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000017_000000|Out of respect to him, Philip asked no more questions although there were many things that he fain would have known.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000017_000002|Their hearts were true and constant, whatever else might be their failings; and it is no new thing to 'damn the faults we have no mind to.' Philip wished that it was not so late, or that very evening he would have gone to keep guard over Sylvia in her mother's absence-nay, perhaps he might have seen reason to give her a warning of some kind.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000017_000003|But, if he had done so, it would have been locking the stable door after the steed was stolen.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000017_000004|Kinraid had turned his steps towards Haytersbank Farm as soon as ever he had completed his purchases.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000000|Sylvia sat in the house place, her back to the long low window, in order to have all the light the afternoon hour afforded for her work.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000001|A basket of her father's unmended stockings was on the little round table beside her, and one was on her left hand, which she supposed herself to be mending; but from time to time she made long pauses, and looked in the fire; and yet there was but little motion of flame or light in it out of which to conjure visions.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000002|It was 'redd up' for the afternoon; covered with a black mass of coal, over which the equally black kettle hung on the crook.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000004|Perhaps these bustling sounds prevented Sylvia from hearing approaching footsteps coming down the brow with swift advance; at any rate, she started and suddenly stood up as some one entered the open door.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000006|Now he stood there, bright and handsome as ever, with just that much timidity in his face, that anxiety as to his welcome, which gave his accost an added charm, could she but have perceived it.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000007|But she was so afraid of herself, so unwilling to show what she felt, and how much she had been thinking of him in his absence, that her reception seemed cold and still.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000008|She did not come forward to meet him; she went crimson to the very roots of her hair; but that, in the waning light, he could not see; and she shook so that she felt as if she could hardly stand; but the tremor was not visible to him.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000018_000010|But all she said was-
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000020_000001|Neither could keep quiet and silent long.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000020_000002|She felt his eyes were upon her, watching every motion, and grew more and more confused in her expression and behaviour.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000020_000005|She stooped to pick up the scattered stockings and ball of worsted, and so did he; and when they rose up, he had fast hold of her hand, and her face was turned away, half ready to cry.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000023_000000|Charley did not speak for a minute or so.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000023_000001|Then he said-
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000024_000004|'I may go back to where I came from,' he went on.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000025_000000|He made for the door.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000025_000001|He must have been pretty sure from some sign or other, or he would never have left it to her womanly pride to give way, and for her to make the next advance.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000026_000004|He asked her about her mother; not sorry in his heart at Bell Robson's absence.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000026_000005|He had intended if necessary to acknowledge his wishes and desires with regard to Sylvia to her parents; but for various reasons he was not sorry that circumstances had given him the chance of seeing her alone, and obtaining her promise to marry him without being obliged to tell either her father or her mother at present.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000027_000000|'There'll be no need o' that,' murmured Sylvia.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000028_000000|She was too dizzy with happiness to have attended much to his details of his worldly prospects, but at the sound of his tender words of love her eager heart was ready to listen.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000030_000000|'Not he,' said Sylvia, with some contempt in her tone.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000034_000000|Dolly Reid came in, and went out softly, unheeded by them.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000034_000001|But Sylvia's listening ears caught her father's voice, as he and Kester returned homewards from their day's work in the plough field; and she started away, and fled upstairs in shy affright, leaving Charley to explain his presence in the solitary kitchen to her father.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000035_000000|He came in, not seeing that any one was there at first; for they had never thought of lighting a candle.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000035_000001|Kinraid stepped forward into the firelight; his purpose of concealing what he had said to Sylvia quite melted away by the cordial welcome her father gave him the instant that he recognized him.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000036_000000|'Bless thee, lad!
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000037_000001|And, perhaps, the elder man was not unprepared for the communication that followed.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000037_000002|At any rate, it was not unwelcome.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000037_000004|He wound up with a chuckle, as the thought struck him that this great piece of business, of disposing of their only child, had been concluded while his wife was away.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000039_000000|For a time there was no answer.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000039_000001|Then a door was unbolted, and Sylvia said,
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000040_000000|'I can't come down again.
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000040_000001|I'm noan comin' down again to night.'
train-clean-100/5339/14133/5339_14133_000041_000000|Daniel laughed the more at this, especially when he caught Charley's look of disappointment.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000004_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000006_000001|Of the number of letters that arrived in Monkshaven, the Fosters, shopkeepers and bankers, had the largest share.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000007_000001|Several times Jeremiah came out of the parlour in which his brother john was sitting in expectant silence, and, passing through the shop, looked up and down the market place in search of the old lame woman, who was charitably employed to deliver letters, and who must have been lamer than ever this morning, to judge from the lateness of her coming.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000007_000002|Although none but the Fosters knew the cause of their impatience for their letters, yet there was such tacit sympathy between them and those whom they employed, that Hepburn, Coulson, and Hester were all much relieved when the old woman at length appeared with her basket of letters.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000008_000000|One of these seemed of especial consequence to the good brothers. They each separately looked at the direction, and then at one another; and without a word they returned with it unread into the parlour, shutting the door, and drawing the green silk curtain close, the better to read it in privacy.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000009_000001|But fortunately there was little doing in the shop.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000009_000002|Philip, indeed, was quite idle when john Foster opened the parlour door, and, half doubtfully, called him into the room.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000009_000003|As the door of communication shut the three in, Coulson felt himself a little aggrieved.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000009_000004|A minute ago Philip and he were on a level of ignorance, from which the former was evidently going to be raised. But he soon returned to his usual state of acquiescence in things as they were, which was partly constitutional, and partly the result of his Quaker training.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000010_000000|It was apparently by john Foster's wish that Philip had been summoned.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000010_000001|Jeremiah, the less energetic and decided brother, was still discussing the propriety of the step when Philip entered.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000012_000000|But the young man was there in presence; and John's will carried the day.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000013_000000|It seemed from his account to Philip (explanatory of what he, in advance of his brother's slower judgment, thought to be a necessary step), that the Fosters had for some time received anonymous letters, warning them, with distinct meaning, though in ambiguous terms, against a certain silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, with whom they had had straightforward business dealings for many years; but to whom they had latterly advanced money.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000013_000001|The letters hinted at the utter insolvency of this manufacturer.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000013_000002|They had urged their correspondent to give them his name in confidence, and this morning's letter had brought it; but the name was totally unknown to them, though there seemed no reason to doubt the reality of either it or the address, the latter of which was given in full.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000013_000003|Certain circumstances were mentioned regarding the transactions between the Fosters and this manufacturer, which could be known only to those who were in the confidence of one or the other; and to the Fosters the man was, as has been said, a perfect stranger.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000013_000004|Probably, they would have been unwilling to incur the risk they had done on this manufacturer Dickinson's account, if it had not been that he belonged to the same denomination as themselves, and was publicly distinguished for his excellent and philanthropic character; but these letters were provocative of anxiety, especially since this morning's post had brought out the writer's full name, and various particulars showing his intimate knowledge of Dickinson's affairs.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000014_000000|After much perplexed consultation, john had hit upon the plan of sending Hepburn to London to make secret inquiries respecting the true character and commercial position of the man whose creditors, not a month ago, they had esteemed it an honour to be.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000016_000000|As all this was being revealed to Philip, he sat apparently unmoved and simply attentive.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000016_000001|In fact, he was giving all his mind to understanding the probabilities of the case, leaving his own feelings in the background till his intellect should have done its work.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000016_000002|He said little; but what he did say was to the point, and satisfied both brothers.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000017_000000|Philip had the satisfaction of feeling himself employed on a mission which would call out his powers, and yet not exceed them.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000017_000001|In his own mind he forestalled the instructions of his masters, and was silently in advance of john Foster's plans and arrangements, while he appeared to listen to all that was said with quiet business like attention.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000018_000000|It was settled that the next morning he was to make his way northwards to Hartlepool, whence he could easily proceed either by land or sea to Newcastle, from which place smacks were constantly sailing to London.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000018_000002|Philip had never had so much in his hands before, and hesitated to take it, saying it was more than he should require; but they repeated, with fresh urgency, their warnings about the terrible high prices of London, till he could only resolve to keep a strict account, and bring back all that he did not expend, since nothing but his taking the whole sum would satisfy his employers.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000019_000000|When he was once more behind the counter, he had leisure enough for consideration as far as Coulson could give it him.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000019_000001|The latter was silent, brooding over the confidence which Philip had apparently received, but which was withheld from him.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000019_000005|Several times that day, as he perceived Coulson's jealous sullenness, he thought in his heart that the consequence of the excessive confidence for which Coulson envied him was a burden from which he would be thankful to be relieved.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000021_000000|'To Lunnon!' exclaimed Alice.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000022_000000|Hester said nothing.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000024_000000|'Luck!' said Alice, turning sharp round on him.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000024_000002|It's the Lord's doing, and luck's the devil's way o' putting it.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000025_000000|'It's none o' my doing,' said Philip; 'there's business to be done, and john Foster says I'm to do it; and I'm to start to morrow.'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000030_000000|'Philip knows,' said Hester, and then, somehow, her voice failed her and she stopped.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000031_000000|Philip paid no attention to this half uttered sentence; he was eager to tell Coulson, as far as he could do so without betraying his master's secret, how many drawbacks there were to his proposed journey, in the responsibility which it involved, and his unwillingness to leave Monkshaven: he said-
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000033_000000|'It's fine talking,' said Coulson, half mollified, and yet not caring to show it.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000035_000000|He took his cap and was gone, not heeding Alice's shrill inquiry as to his clothes and his ruffled shirt.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000035_000001|Coulson sat still, penitent and ashamed; at length he stole a look at Hester.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000037_000000|She lifted up those eyes, usually so soft and serene; now they were full of the light of indignation shining through tears.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000039_000000|She hastily got up and left the room.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000039_000001|Alice was away, looking up Philip's things for his journey.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000039_000002|Coulson remained alone, feeling like a guilty child, but dismayed by Hester's words, even more than by his own regret at what he had said.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000040_000001|He was chafed and excited by Coulson's words, and the events of the day.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000000|His feelings, disturbed on this one point, shook his judgment off its balance on another.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000001|The resolution he had deliberately formed of not speaking to Sylvia on the subject of his love till he could announce to her parents the fact of his succession to Fosters' business, and till he had patiently, with long continuing and deep affection, worked his way into her regard, was set aside during the present walk.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000002|He would speak to her of his passionate attachment, before he left, for an uncertain length of time, and the certain distance of London.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000004|He would be patient with her; he could not be patient himself.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000005|His heart beating, his busy mind rehearsing the probable coming scene, he turned into the field path that led to Haytersbank.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000006|Coming along it, and so meeting him, advanced Daniel Robson, in earnest talk with Charley Kinraid.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000008|The thought of poor dead Annie Coulson flashed into Philip's mind.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000009|Could he be playing the same game with Sylvia?
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000010|Philip set his teeth and tightened his lips at the thought of it.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000041_000011|They had stopped talking; they had seen him already, or his impulse would have been to dodge behind the wall and avoid them; even though one of his purposes in going to Haytersbank had been to bid his uncle farewell.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000042_000002|Secure and exultant, his broad, handsome, weather bronzed face was as great a contrast to Philip's long, thoughtful, sallow countenance, as his frank manner was to the other's cold reserve.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000043_000000|Daniel was deeply struck with the fact that he was talking to a man setting off for London at a day's notice.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000047_000000|'No, I shan't,' he replied, shortly.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000047_000001|'Liking has nought to do with it.'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000051_000000|Kinraid now seemed in a hurry; but Philip was stung with curiosity to ascertain his movements, and suddenly addressed him:
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000055_000000|He turned away, and began to whistle, as if he did not wish for any further conversation with his interrogator.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000055_000001|Philip, indeed, had nothing more to say to him: he had learned all he wanted to know.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000056_000000|'I'd like to bid good by to Sylvie.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000056_000001|Is she at home?' he asked of her father.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000058_000000|So they parted; but Philip had not gone many steps before his uncle called him back, Kinraid slowly loitering on meanwhile.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000058_000001|Robson was fumbling among some dirty papers he had in an old leather case, which he had produced out of his pocket.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000060_000000|'I'm not going by York; I'm going by a Newcastle smack.'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000062_000000|'I see,' said Philip: '"Robinson, Side, Newcastle, can give all requisite information."'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000064_000000|Philip promised to do his best, and to write word to Robson, who, satisfied with his willingness to undertake the commission, bade him go on and see if he could not find the lass.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000064_000001|Her father was right in saying that she might not have set out for Yesterbarrow.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000064_000002|She had talked about it to Kinraid and her father in order to cover her regret at her lover's accompanying her father to see some new kind of harpoon about which the latter had spoken.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000064_000003|But as soon as they had left the house, and she had covertly watched them up the brow in the field, she sate down to meditate and dream about her great happiness in being beloved by her hero, Charley Kinraid.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000064_000005|He loved her, and that was enough.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000067_000000|'Oh, yes,' said she.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000068_000001|It's clean gone out of my mind,' said Philip, with true regret.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000068_000003|Sylvia did not want his penitence, did not care for her ribbon, was troubled by his earnestness of manner-but he knew nothing of all that; he only knew that she whom he loved had asked him to do something for her, and he had neglected it; so, anxious to be excused and forgiven, he went on with the apology she cared not to hear.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000069_000000|If she had been less occupied with her own affairs, less engrossed with deep feeling, she would have reproached him, if only in jest, for his carelessness.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000069_000001|As it was, she scarcely took in the sense of his words.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000070_000000|'You see, Sylvie, I've had a deal to think on; before long I intend telling yo' all about it; just now I'm not free to do it.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000071_000000|Sylvia's galloping thoughts were pulled suddenly up by his silence; she felt that he wanted her to say something, but she could think of nothing besides an ambiguous-
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000072_000000|'Well?'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000075_000000|Surprise, and curiosity, and wonder; nothing more, as Philip's instinct told him.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000075_000001|But he reasoned that first correct impression away with ingenious sophistry.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000076_000000|'Not to live there: only to stay for some time.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000076_000001|I shall be back, I reckon, in a month or so.'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000078_000000|Suddenly a light shone down into Philip's mind.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000078_000001|His voice was changed as he spoke next.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000080_000000|She stooped for something she had dropped, and came up red as a rose.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000082_000000|'What then? and yo'r mother away.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000082_000001|He's no company for such as thee, at no time, Sylvie.'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000083_000001|At the time, in his agitation, he saw, but did not affix any meaning to it, that the half of some silver coin was among the contents thus turned over before the box was locked.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000000|'Sylvie, Sylvie,' cried poor Philip, as his offended cousin rushed past him, and upstairs to her little bedroom, where he heard the sound of the wooden bolt flying into its place.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000002|He sate still in despair, his head buried in his two hands.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000003|He sate till it grew dusk, dark; the wood fire, not gathered together by careful hands, died out into gray ashes.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000004|Dolly Reid had done her work and gone home.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000006|He knew he ought to be going home, for he had much to do, and many arrangements to make.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000007|Yet it seemed as though he could not stir.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000008|At length he raised his stiffened body, and stood up, dizzy.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000009|Up the little wooden stairs he went, where he had never been before, to the small square landing, almost filled up with the great chest for oat cake.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000091_000010|He breathed hard for a minute, and then knocked at the door of Sylvia's room.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000000|'Sylvie!
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000001|I'm going away; say good by.' No answer.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000002|Not a sound heard. 'Sylvie!' (a little louder, and less hoarsely spoken).
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000003|There was no reply.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000004|'Sylvie!
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000006|He waited patiently.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000007|Can she be wearied out, and gone to sleep, he wondered.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000008|Yet once again-'Good by, Sylvie, and God bless yo'!
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000092_000009|I'm sorry I vexed yo'.'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000093_000000|No reply.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000094_000000|With a heavy, heavy heart he creaked down the stairs, felt for his cap, and left the house.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000095_000001|Just at that moment the little casement window of Sylvia's room was opened, and she said-
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000096_000000|'Good by, Philip!'
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000097_000000|The window was shut again as soon as the words were spoken.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000097_000001|Philip knew the uselessness of remaining; the need for his departure; and yet he stood still for a little time like one entranced, as if his will had lost all power to compel him to leave the place.
train-clean-100/5339/14134/5339_14134_000097_000002|Those two words of hers, which two hours before would have been so far beneath his aspirations, had now power to re light hope, to quench reproach or blame.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000000_000002|They were looking for an earthly king, and the beautiful words spoken by the ancient prophets had no meaning to them.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000004_000001|fifteen.) But He saw that, even from a human standpoint, the nation could not be helped in this way, and that the Jews would only rebel against the romans to their destruction.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000015_000002|The Roman soldiers hesitated, but the Jews promised most faithfully to keep their word.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000024_000001|But a furious madness had possessed the people, and they refused to yield.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000025_000000|Josephus pleaded in vain.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000025_000001|He was not a Christian, but he could see plainly enough that God was no longer with His people.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000026_000000|'Ah, my countrymen,' he cried, 'we did nothing without God in the past, but now you are fighting against Him.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000028_000000|At last the end came.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000028_000001|The first wall fell, then the second and the third, until the Roman soldiers, now as mad as the Jews themselves, burst into the Holy City, hewing down the defenceless people at every step.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000033_000000|'These Jews are dangerous.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000042_000000|These explanations, all collected together, are called 'The Talmud.' Now the learned Jews grew so fond of their Talmud, that they declared a man to be a blockhead if he knew only the Scriptures and not the Talmud explanation.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000043_000000|'The law of Moses is like salt, but the Talmud is balmy spice,' they would say.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000046_000000|'The ink you write with must be of a pure black, made only from a mixture of soot, charcoal, and honey.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000046_000001|Though you know the whole Book of the Law by heart, you must not write a single word from memory, but raise your eyes to your copy, and pronounce the word aloud before trusting it to your pen.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000046_000003|If, after your copy has itself been examined, three corrections have to be made, that copy must be destroyed.'
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000048_000001|The letter 'A'--that is the Hebrew letter which stands for 'A'--occurs forty two thousand three hundred seventy seven times; the letter 'B' thirty five thousand two hundred eighteen, and so on.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000049_000001|Every sheet of parchment must contain an equal number of lines, and the breadth of each column had to be thirty letters wide.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000054_000000|Just so was it with the Hebrew copies of God's Word.
train-clean-100/5390/24512/5390_24512_000054_000001|Locked up in a dead language, kept close, away from the world, they were like the jar of wheat which could not grow.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000001_000000|UNCLE JOHN'S FARM.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000006_000000|"And it's true," asserted the other.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000022_000001|He wanted capital to patent the pump and put it on the market.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000027_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000028_000000|"It's gone, john; and you've got the farm.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000028_000001|The other fellows were too clever for my young friend, Joseph Wegg, and knocked out his patent."
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000029_000000|"I'm so sorry!" said Patsy, sympathetically.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000035_000000|"Somewhere at the north of the State, I believe."
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000049_000000|"Yes, my dear.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000049_000003|The farm's the thing.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000052_000000|"And have a cow and some pigs!" cried the girl.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000053_000000|"Pah!" said the Major, scornfully.
train-clean-100/5390/30096/5390_30096_000058_000000|"Perhaps so; at an expense that will add to your loss."
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000003_000000|Louise Merrick was the eldest of Uncle John's nieces, having just passed her eighteenth birthday.
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000018_000000|"Beth and Patsy have planned a tramp to the lake, and a row after water lilies."
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000025_000000|"I guessed it."
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000026_000000|As he appeared indisposed to say more on the subject she asked: "Did you sail with Captain Wegg?"
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000027_000000|"Partly, miss.
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000027_000001|Dan's already now.
train-clean-100/5390/30102/5390_30102_000035_000001|"How do you get to Miss Thompson's place?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000003_000000|BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000004_000000|CHAPTER one-THE sixteenth OF FEBRUARY, eighteen thirty three
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000005_000000|The night of the sixteenth to the seventeenth of February, eighteen thirty three, was a blessed night.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000005_000001|Above its shadows heaven stood open.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000005_000002|It was the wedding night of Marius and Cosette.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000006_000000|The day had been adorable.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000007_000000|It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000008_000000|The manner of marriage in eighteen thirty three was not the same as it is to day.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000010_000000|In eighteen thirty three, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000013_000000|The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now superannuated fashion, at m Gillenormand's house.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000014_000001|They could not get ready before the sixteenth of February.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000015_000000|Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it chanced that the sixteenth fell on Shrove Tuesday.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000016_000000|"Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000018_000000|Let us proceed.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000018_000001|Here goes for the sixteenth!
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000018_000002|Do you want to delay, Marius?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000020_000000|"Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000021_000001|It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even when the rest of creation is under an umbrella.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000022_000000|On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence of m Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty four thousand francs.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000023_000000|As the marriage was taking place under the regime of community of property, the papers had been simple.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000027_000000|We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the church.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000027_000001|One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding nosegay in its buttonhole.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000028_000002|It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to Saint Paul.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000028_000003|They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest way was to turn through the boulevard.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000028_000004|One of the invited guests observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of vehicles.--"Why?" asked m Gillenormand-"Because of the maskers."--"Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000028_000005|These young folks are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part of life.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000028_000006|This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000029_000000|They went by way of the boulevard.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000029_000001|The first wedding coach held Cosette and Aunt Gillenormand, m Gillenormand and Jean Valjean.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000029_000002|Marius, still separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the second.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000029_000004|Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry Andrew, Pantaloon and Clown persisted.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000029_000005|In the good humor of that winter of eighteen thirty three, Paris had disguised itself as Venice.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000029_000007|Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, there is no longer any Carnival.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000030_000000|The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with curious spectators.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000030_000007|In this gayety of Paris, England cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post chaise, harassed by a nickname from the populace, passed with great noise.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000032_000000|From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole line.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000033_000000|The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, and skirting the right side of the Boulevard.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000033_000002|Nearly at the same moment, the other file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000033_000003|At that point of the file there was a carriage load of maskers.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000034_000000|These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon loads of maskers are very familiar to Parisians.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000034_000001|If they were missing on a Shrove Tuesday, or at the Mid Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people would say: "There's something behind that.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000036_000000|Everything can be parodied, even parody.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000000|The tradition of carriage loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient days of the monarchy.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000001|The accounts of Louis the eleventh. allot to the bailiff of the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in the cross roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000002|Twenty of them ride in a carriage intended for six.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000003|They cling to the seats, to the rumble, on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000004|They even bestride the carriage lamps.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000005|They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a knot, and their legs hanging.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000006|The women sit on the men's laps.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000007|Far away, above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000037_000010|This carriage which has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000038_000000|A laughter that is too cynical to be frank.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000038_000001|In truth, this laughter is suspicious.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000038_000003|It is charged with proving the Carnival to the Parisians.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000039_000000|These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, set the philosopher to thinking.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000039_000001|There is government therein.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000039_000002|There one lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public women.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000001|But what can be done about it?
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000002|These be ribboned and be flowered tumbrils of mire are insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000003|The laughter of all is the accomplice of universal degradation.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000004|Certain unhealthy festivals disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000005|And populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000006|The King has Roquelaure, the populace has the Merry Andrew.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000008|There the Carnival forms part of politics.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000009|Paris,--let us confess it-willingly allows infamy to furnish it with comedy.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000010|She only demands of her masters-when she has masters-one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000011|She loved Nero.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000040_000012|Nero was a titanic lighterman.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000041_000001|The carriage load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the boulevard.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000043_000000|"A sham wedding," retorted another.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000043_000001|"We are the genuine article."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000044_000000|And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000045_000000|At the end of another minute, the carriage load of maskers had their hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous verbal attacks of the populace.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000047_000000|Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000047_000001|The gusts of rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low necked gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000048_000000|Here is their dialogue:
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000049_000000|"Say, now."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000050_000000|"What, daddy?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000051_000000|"Do you see that old cove?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000052_000000|"What old cove?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000053_000000|"Yonder, in the first wedding cart, on our side."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000055_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000056_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000061_000000|"Can you see the bride if you stoop down?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000062_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000063_000000|"And the bridegroom?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000064_000000|"There's no bridegroom in that trap."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000066_000000|"Unless it's the old fellow."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000067_000000|"Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000068_000000|"I can't."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000069_000000|"Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I know, and that I'm positive."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000070_000000|"And what good does it do to know him?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000071_000000|"No one can tell.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000071_000001|Sometimes it does!"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000072_000000|"I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000074_000000|"Know him, if you want to."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000075_000000|"How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000077_000000|"Where does that wedding come from?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000080_000000|"Well, what?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000081_000000|"There's one thing you ought to do."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000082_000000|"What's that?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000083_000000|"Get off of our trap and spin that wedding."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000084_000000|"What for?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000085_000000|"To find out where it goes, and what it is.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000085_000001|Hurry up and jump down, trot, my girl, your legs are young."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000086_000000|"I can't quit the vehicle."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000087_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000088_000000|"I'm hired."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000090_000000|"I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000091_000000|"That's true."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000092_000000|"If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will arrest me.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000093_000000|"Yes, I do."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000094_000000|"I'm bought by the government for to day."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000095_000000|"All the same, that old fellow bothers me."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000096_000000|"Do the old fellows bother you?
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000097_000000|"He's in the first carriage."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000098_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000099_000000|"In the bride's trap."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000100_000000|"What then?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000101_000000|"So he is the father."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000102_000000|"What concern is that of mine?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000103_000000|"I tell you that he's the father."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000104_000000|"As if he were the only father."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000105_000000|"Listen."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000106_000000|"What?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000107_000000|"I can't go out otherwise than masked.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000107_000001|Here I'm concealed, no one knows that I'm here.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000107_000002|But to morrow, there will be no more maskers.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000107_000003|It's Ash Wednesday.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000107_000004|I run the risk of being nabbed.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000107_000006|But you are free."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000108_000000|"Not particularly."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000110_000000|"Well, what of that?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000111_000000|"You must try to find out where that wedding party went to."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000112_000000|"Where it went?"
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000113_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000114_000000|"I know."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000119_000000|"Or elsewhere."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000120_000000|"It's free.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000120_000001|Wedding parties are at liberty."
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000121_000000|"That's not the point at all.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000122_000000|"I like that! that would be queer.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000122_000001|It's so easy to find out a wedding party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week afterwards.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000122_000002|A pin in a hay mow!
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000123_000000|"That don't matter.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000123_000001|You must try.
train-clean-100/5393/19218/5393_19218_000123_000002|You understand me, Azelma."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000004_000000|CHAPTER two-JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000005_000000|To realize one's dream.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000005_000001|To whom is this accorded?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000005_000002|There must be elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to ourselves; the angels vote.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000005_000003|Cosette and Marius had been elected.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000006_000000|Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and touching.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000006_000001|Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000007_000001|It was an exquisite candor expanding and becoming transfigured in the light.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000007_000002|One would have pronounced her a virgin on the point of turning into a goddess.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000009_000001|He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to the bride.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000010_000000|Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000000|"Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine day.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000001|I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000002|Henceforth, there must be no sadness anywhere.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000003|Pardieu, I decree joy!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000004|Evil has no right to exist.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000005|That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to the azure of the sky.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000006|Evil does not come from man, who is good at bottom.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000008|Good, here I am uttering demagogical words!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000011_000009|As far as I am concerned, I have no longer any political opinions; let all me be rich, that is to say, mirthful, and I confine myself to that."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000012_000001|She looked at Marius, she looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she feared that she should wake up from her dream.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000012_000002|Her amazed and uneasy air added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000013_000000|"My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000014_000000|And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic whisper: "So it is true.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000014_000001|My name is Marius.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000014_000002|I am Madame Thou."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000000|These two creatures were resplendent.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000002|They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty years old taken together.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000004|They did not see each other, they did not contemplate each other.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000005|Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius perceived Cosette on an altar.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000006|And on that altar, and in that glory, the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in intoxication.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000007|It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000008|How good it is to have suffered!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000015_000009|Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000016_000000|It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Marius, and with modesty in Cosette.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000017_000000|Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000017_000001|One possesses and one supposes.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000017_000002|One still has time before one to divine.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000017_000003|The emotion on that day, of being at mid day and of dreaming of midnight is indescribable.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000017_000004|The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the crowd, and inspired the passers by with cheerfulness.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000000|Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles du Calvaire.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000001|Marius, triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase up which he had been borne in a dying condition.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000002|The poor, who had trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000003|There were flowers everywhere.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000004|The house was no less fragrant than the church; after the incense, roses.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000005|They thought they heard voices carolling in the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a rising sun
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000006|All at once, the clock struck.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000019_000007|Marius glanced at Cosette's charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' glance, blushed to her very hair.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000020_000000|Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been invited; they pressed about Cosette.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000021_000001|Cosette did not recognize him.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000024_000000|Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000024_000001|She was in unison with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000024_000002|Happiness desires that all the world should be happy.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000025_000001|She caressed him with her smile.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000026_000000|A banquet had been spread in the dining room.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000027_000000|Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of a great joy.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000027_000001|Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000027_000002|They do not consent to be black.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000027_000003|The night, yes; the shadows, no
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000027_000004|If there is no sun, one must be made.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000028_000000|The dining room was full of gay things.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000028_000002|The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a flower.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000029_000000|In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes by Haydn.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000030_000000|Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing room, behind the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to nearly conceal him.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000030_000001|A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly roguish glance, she asked him:
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000031_000000|"Father, are you satisfied?"
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000032_000000|"Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!"
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000033_000000|"Well, then, laugh."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000034_000000|Jean Valjean began to laugh.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000035_000000|A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000036_000000|The guests, preceded by m Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered the dining room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the table.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000037_000001|M. Gillenormand took his seat.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000037_000002|The other arm chair remained empty.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000038_000000|They looked about for m Fauchelevent.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000039_000000|He was no longer there.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000041_000000|"Do you know where m Fauchelevent is?"
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000042_000000|"Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000042_000002|That he begged to be excused, that he would come to morrow. He has just taken his departure."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000000|That empty arm chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a moment.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000001|But, if m Fauchelevent was absent, m Gillenormand was present, and the grandfather beamed for two.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000003|This declaration sufficed.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000004|Moreover, what is an obscure corner in such a submersion of joy?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000005|Cosette and Marius were passing through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000006|And then, an idea occurred to m Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. Come hither, Marius.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000007|Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right to you.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000008|This armchair is for you.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000009|That is legal and delightful. Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000010|Marius took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, ended by being satisfied with it.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000011|From the moment when Marius took his place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God himself.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000043_000012|She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' foot.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000044_000000|The arm chair being occupied, m Fauchelevent was obliterated; and nothing was lacking.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000045_000000|And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000046_000000|At dessert, m Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of champagne in his hand-only half full so that the palsy of his eighty years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married pair.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000000|"You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000002|Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each other.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000003|I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be happy.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000004|In all creation, only the turtle doves are wise.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000005|Philosophers say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much smitten with each other as fiends.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000007|The philosophers talk stuff and nonsense.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000008|I should like to stuff their philosophy down their gullets again.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000009|Can there be too many perfumes, too many open rose buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green leaves, too much aurora in life?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000010|can people love each other too much? can people please each other too much?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000011|Take care, Estelle, thou art too pretty!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000012|Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000013|Fine stupidity, in sooth!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000014|Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too much, charm each other too much?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000015|Can one be too much alive, too happy? Moderate your joys.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000017|Down with the philosophers!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000018|Wisdom consists in jubilation.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000019|Make merry, let us make merry.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000020|Are we happy because we are good, or are we good because we are happy?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000021|Is the Sancy diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or because it weighs six hundred carats?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000023|Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000024|Let us obey the sun blindly.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000025|What is the sun?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000026|It is love.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000027|He who says love, says woman.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000029|Ask that demagogue of a Marius if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000030|And of his own free will, too, the coward!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000031|Woman!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000032|There is no Robespierre who keeps his place but woman reigns.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000033|I am no longer Royalist except towards that royalty.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000034|What is Adam?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000035|The kingdom of Eve.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000036|No 'eighty nine for Eve.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000038|Try.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000039|Why is it so solid?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000040|Because it is a gewgaw.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000041|Ah! you are the nineteenth century?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000042|Well, what then?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000043|And we have been as foolish as you.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000044|Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip gallant is called the cholera morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000045|In fact, the women must always be loved.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000046|I defy you to escape from that.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000047|These friends are our angels.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000048|Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too happy to re-enter it.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000049|Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the coquette of the abyss, the Celimene of the ocean, rise in the infinite, calming all here below?
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000050|The ocean is a rough Alcestis.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000051|Well, grumble as he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000052|That brute beast submits.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000053|We are all made so.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000054|Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000055|A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on your face!
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000056|Marius was fighting six months ago; to day he is married. That is well.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000057|Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000059|I, too, have had my dream, I, too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight soul.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000061|Love has the right to a long white beard.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000062|Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000063|For sixty centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000065|In this way he does more good than the devil does him harm.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000066|This craft was discovered in the days of the terrestrial paradise.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000067|The invention is old, my friends, but it is perfectly new.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000068|Profit by it.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000070|Manage so that, when you are with each other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000071|Cosette, let your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be your wife's tears.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000072|And let it never rain in your household.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000073|You have filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000074|Believe what I say to you.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000075|It is good sense.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000076|And good sense cannot lie.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000079|Saperlotte! the best way to adore God is to love one's wife.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000081|that's my catechism.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000083|The oath of Henri the fourth. places sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000086|My friends, long live women! I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be young.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000087|I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates me.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000088|I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000089|It is impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove like, to be dainty, to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that is the aim of life.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000090|There, let not that displease you which we used to think in our day, when we were young folks.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000047_000095|My children, receive an old man's blessing."
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000048_000000|The evening was gay, lively and agreeable.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000048_000001|The grandfather's sovereign good humor gave the key note to the whole feast, and each person regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000048_000002|They danced a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000048_000003|Goodman Days of Yore might have been invited to it.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000048_000004|However, he was present in the person of Father Gillenormand.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000049_000000|There was a tumult, then silence.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000050_000000|The married pair disappeared.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000052_000000|Here we pause.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000052_000001|On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel with his finger on his lips.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000053_000000|The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000000|There should be flashes of light athwart such houses.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000002|It is impossible that this sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to the infinite.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000003|Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being final, the human trinity proceeds from it.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000004|This birth of two souls into one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000005|The lover is the priest; the ravished virgin is terrified.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000006|Something of that joy ascends to God. Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal enters in.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000009|If at that supreme hour, the wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of wings.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000054_000010|Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000055_000001|There is no joy outside of these joys.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000055_000002|Love is the only ecstasy.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000055_000003|All the rest weeps.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000056_000001|Demand nothing more.
train-clean-100/5393/19219/5393_19219_000056_000002|There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000005_000001|The idea of every mode, in which the human body is affected by external bodies, must involve the nature of the human body, and also the nature of the external body.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000008_000000|Corollary two.--It follows, secondly, that the ideas, which we have of external bodies, indicate rather the constitution of our own body than the nature of external bodies.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000008_000001|I have amply illustrated this in the Appendix to Part one
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000009_000001|If the human body is affected in a manner which involves the nature of any external body, the human mind will regard the said external body as actually existing, or as present to itself, until the human body be affected in such a way, as to exclude the existence or the presence of the said external body.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000011_000000|Corollary.--The mind is able to regard as present external bodies, by which the human body has once been affected, even though they be no longer in existence or present.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000013_000000|Note.--We thus see how it comes about, as is often the case, that we regard as present many things which are not.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000013_000006|The former directly answers to the essence of Peter's own body, and only implies existence so long as peter exists; the latter indicates rather the disposition of Paul's body than the nature of peter, and, therefore, while this disposition of Paul's body lasts, Paul's mind will regard peter as present to itself, even though he no longer exists.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000013_000007|Further, to retain the usual phraseology, the modifications of the human body, of which the ideas represent external bodies as present to us, we will call the images of things, though they do not recall the figure of things.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000013_000009|I will here draw attention to the fact, in order to indicate where error lies, that the imaginations of the mind, looked at in themselves, do not contain error.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000013_000010|The mind does not err in the mere act of imagining, but only in so far as it is regarded as being without the idea, which excludes the existence of such things as it imagines to be present to it.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000016_000000|Note.--We now clearly see what Memory is.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000016_000005|Thus every man will follow this or that train of thought, according as he has been in the habit of conjoining and associating the mental images of things in this or that manner.
train-clean-100/5456/24741/5456_24741_000017_000001|The human mind has no knowledge of the body, and does not know it to exist, save through the ideas of the modifications whereby the body is affected.
train-clean-100/5456/58161/5456_58161_000013_000000|BY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
train-clean-100/5456/58161/5456_58161_000014_000002|Love!
train-clean-100/5456/58161/5456_58161_000014_000003|What times were those, Long ere the age of belles and beaux, And Brussels lace and silken hose, When, in the green Arcadian close, You married Psyche under the rose, With only the grass for bedding! Heart to heart, and hand to hand, You followed Nature's sweet command, Roaming lovingly through the land, Nor sighed for a Diamond Wedding.
train-clean-100/5456/58161/5456_58161_000016_000000|So thousands of years have come and gone, And still the moon is shining on, Still Hymen's torch is lighted; And hitherto, in this land of the West, Most couples in love have thought it best To follow the ancient way of the rest, And quietly get united.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000003_000000|BY ANNE VIRGINIA CULBERTSON
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000004_000000|When the children got home from the nutting expedition and had eaten supper, they sat around discontentedly, wishing every few minutes that their mother had returned.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000005_000000|"I wish mamma would come back," said Ned.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000007_000000|"Don't want to go to bed,"
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000007_000001|"I'm not sleepy," "Want to stay up," came in chorus from three pairs of lips.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000008_000000|"You chillen is wusser dan night owls," said the old woman.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000009_000000|The little procession moved upstairs, Coonie, the house boy, bringing up the rear with an armful of sticks and some fat splinters of lightwood, which were soon blazing with an oily sputter.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000009_000001|Coonie scented a story, and his bullet pate was bent over the fire an unnecessarily long time, as he blew valiant puffs upon the flames which no longer needed his assistance, and arranged and rearranged his skilfully piled sticks.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000010_000002|Now, den, e f y'all raidy, I gwine begin.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000024_000000|"And didn't he ever come back?" said Ned.
train-clean-100/5456/62014/5456_62014_000026_000000|"But how could they think an owl was a man?" asked Janey.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000000_000003|A voyage from New Orleans to Vicksburg and back, including stoppages, generally entitled the officers and crew to a month's wages.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000001_000000|It was my fate to take passage in this boat.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000001_000002|We had been out a little more than five days, and we were in hopes of seeing the bluffs of Natchez on the next day.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000002_000000|"Hallo, Colonel!
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000008_000001|We jogged on quietly-and seemed to be going at a good rate.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000009_000000|"How does that wood burn?" inquired the Captain of the mate, who was looking on at the game.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000011_000001|It's your deal)--Thompson, I say, we'd better take three or four cords at the next woodyard-it can't be more than six miles from here-(Two aces and a bragger, with the age!
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000012_000000|The game went on, and the paddles kept moving.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000012_000001|At eleven o'clock it was reported to the Captain that we were nearing the woodyard, the light being distinctly seen by the pilot on duty.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000013_000001|This pilot's beating us all to smash."
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000014_000000|The wooding completed, we paddled on again.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000015_000003|Still, with all these disadvantages, they continued playing-they wanted to learn the game.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000017_000001|This wood seems rather better than that we took in at Yellow Face's, but we're nearly out again, and must be looking out for more.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000017_000002|I saw a light just ahead on the right-shall we hail?"
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000021_000002|(Deal, sir, if you please; better luck next time.)"
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000024_000000|"Only about ten cords, sir," was the reply of the youthful salesman.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000025_000000|The Captain here told Thompson to take six cords, which would last till daylight-and again turned his attention to the game.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000026_000000|The pilots here changed places.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000028_000000|Day at length dawned.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000028_000002|It appears the two passengers, in their first lesson, had incidentally lost one hundred and twenty dollars.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000029_000000|I had risen and went out with the Captain, to enjoy a view of the bluffs.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000029_000002|We were nearing the shore, for the purpose of looking for wood, the banks being invisible from the middle of the river.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000032_000000|"Hallo yourself!" answered a squeaking female voice, which came from a woman with a petticoat over her shoulders in place of a shawl.
train-clean-100/5456/62043/5456_62043_000033_000000|"What's the price of wood?"
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000013_000000|CHAPTER twenty one.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000015_000001|He now felt that he might accept the stall without discredit to himself as a clergyman in doing so. Indeed, after what mr Sowerby had said, and after Lord Lufton's assent to it, it would have been madness, he considered, to decline it.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000021_000000|"The house will not be furnished, will it, Mark?" said his wife.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000032_000000|It was now the month of April, and the fields were beginning to look green, and the wind had got itself out of the east and was soft and genial, and the early spring flowers were showing their bright colours in the parsonage garden, and all things were sweet and pleasant.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000032_000004|The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000032_000005|At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000032_000008|She liked to rule, and she made people feel that she liked it.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000035_000003|What would the men do? and what-oh! what would become of the women?
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000037_000002|"She never told her love," nor did she allow concealment to "feed on her damask cheek." In all her employments, in her ways about the house, and her accustomed quiet mirth, she was the same as ever.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000037_000003|In this she showed the peculiar strength which God had given her.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000039_000000|"Well, no; I think not.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000039_000001|The pony carriage is wretched for three."
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000042_000000|"You had better say earlier, as he is always out about the parish."
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000043_000000|"Very well, say eleven.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000043_000001|It is parish business about which I am going, so it need not irk his conscience to stay in for me."
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000044_000000|"Well, Lucy, we must drive ourselves, that's all.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000046_000001|But she did not betray herself.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000047_000001|He was going very nicely."
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000048_000000|"I beg Puck's pardon.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000050_000001|Miss Grantly will have a large fortune, I believe."
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000053_000000|"I really think she is; not what I should call lovely, you know, but very beautiful.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000059_000000|"We'll take you to Barchester for that.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000062_000002|He ought to know that she is a mere automaton, cold, lifeless, spiritless, and even vapid.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000064_000000|"No, I could not.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000064_000002|It's horridly improper to care about such a thing, I have no doubt."
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000066_000003|I do like Lord Lufton very much; and I do dislike Griselda Grantly almost as much.
train-clean-100/5463/39173/5463_39173_000067_000002|And, Fanny, don't tell Mark to put me into a lunatic asylum.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000005_000001|Could we have looked into the innermost spirit of him and his life's partner, we should have seen that mixed with the pride of his poverty there was some feeling of disgrace that he was poor, but that with her, regarding this matter, there was neither pride nor shame. The realities of life had become so stern to her that the outward aspects of them were as nothing.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000007_000000|"Oh, yes; there is nothing here but this young gentleman's library," said Lucy, moving a pile of ragged, coverless books on to the table. "I hope he'll forgive me for moving them."
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000009_000000|"But some of them are mine," said the boy; "ain't they, Grace?"
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000010_000000|"And are you a great scholar?" asked Lucy, drawing the child to her.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000012_000000|"Greek Delectus and the irregular verbs!" And Lucy put up her hands with astonishment.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000015_000000|"It is all that I can give them," said mr Crawley, apologetically. "A little scholarship is the only fortune that has come in my way, and I endeavour to share that with my children."
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000016_000001|But, nevertheless, Grace was a pretty, simple looking girl, and clung to her ally closely, and seemed to like being fondled.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000018_000001|I suppose you have heard of his good fortune?"
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000019_000000|"Yes; I have heard of it," said mr Crawley, gravely.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000039_000000|"But he will have the house, will he not?"
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000046_000000|"Miss Robarts, I am afraid you must excuse me," said he, getting up and taking his hat and stick.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000053_000001|God has tried us with want, and for my children's sake I am glad of such relief."
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000055_000001|Dear mrs Robarts, you must not be surprised at him.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000063_000000|"I know that it is.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000065_000000|"It is a mistake.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000065_000001|But what can I do?
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000066_000000|"But you may get better preferment."
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000068_000001|Would it not be a good work?
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000071_000000|When they were again in the pony carriage, behind the impatient Puck, and were well away from the door, Fanny was the first to speak.
train-clean-100/5463/39174/5463_39174_000076_000001|"Of all my own acquaintance, mrs Crawley, I think, comes nearest to heroism."
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000004_000000|"He did not answer my question."
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000005_000000|"He is a man who does good by gun shots," said Combeferre.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000006_000000|Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against insurrections.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000006_000003|In that bourgeois and heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests had their paladins.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000006_000004|The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing from the bravery of the movement.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000006_000006|They shed their blood lyrically for the counting house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000007_000000|At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not extremely serious.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000008_000000|Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism [the barbarous name of the correct party].
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000010_000000|Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; and the first comer took it upon himself to save society.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000011_000001|A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000011_000003|Fierce Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the monarchy in Europe.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000011_000004|This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000012_000003|For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000013_000001|His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000013_000003|This movement, executed with more good will than strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000013_000004|Before it had traversed two thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the barricade.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000013_000006|This momentary hesitation gave the insurgents time to re load their weapons, and a second and very destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the corner of the street, its shelter.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000013_000007|A moment more, and it was caught between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000014_000000|The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape shot.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000014_000001|He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000016_000001|Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000016_000002|An empty cartridge box, a man killed, cannot be replaced.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000016_000006|This does happen sometimes.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000016_000007|Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular redoubts abound.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000016_000008|Paris quivers supremely, the quid divinum is given forth, a tenth of August is in the air, a twenty ninth of July is in the air, a wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, France.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000017_000000|CHAPTER thirteen-PASSING GLEAMS
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000018_000000|In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above all, intermittences of hope.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000020_000000|"Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems to me that Paris is waking up."
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000021_000000|It is certain that, on the morning of the sixth of June, the insurrection broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000021_000004|In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who will do us no more harm."
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000022_000000|He was put to the sword.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000022_000003|A child fourteen years of age was arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of cartridges.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000022_000004|Many posts were attacked.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000022_000005|At the entrance to the Rue Bertin Poiree, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General Cavaignac de Barague.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000024_000002|The troops broke in the doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manoeuvres by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000024_000003|This repression was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000025_000000|Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000029_000000|"We are hungry here.
train-clean-100/5514/19192/5514_19192_000029_000001|Are we really going to die like this, without anything to eat?"
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000004_000000|Courfeyrac, seated on a paving stone beside Enjolras, continued to insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles which is called grape shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he assailed it with a burst of irony.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000005_000000|"You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, you are wasting your row.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000005_000001|That's not thunder, it's a cough."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000008_000002|He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000008_000006|A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. Well, Enjolras has no woman.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000008_000008|It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice and as bold as fire."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000009_000000|Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000012_000000|And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added:
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000013_000000|"My name is Eight Pounder."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000014_000000|In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000014_000001|This was a second piece of ordnance.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000015_000000|The artillery men rapidly performed their manoeuvres in force and placed this second piece in line with the first.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000016_000000|This outlined the catastrophe.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000017_000000|A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers from the suburbs sustained the artillery.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000018_000002|The four cannons echoed each other mournfully.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000019_000000|The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000021_000000|The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, mingled with bursts of grape shot.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000022_000000|The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the interior, that is to say, this announced the assault.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000023_000000|The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and from the windows of the cabaret by grape shot, the attacking columns could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on the preceding evening, and, who knows?
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000023_000001|take it by surprise.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000025_000000|All were ready.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000025_000001|The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the cannons.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000025_000002|Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000026_000000|"Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000026_000001|"Success."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000027_000000|Enjolras shook his head and replied:
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000028_000000|"Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any cartridges left in the barricade."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000029_000000|It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000030_000000|CHAPTER fifteen-GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000031_000000|Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000032_000000|Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine shop, had made his way out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full cartridge boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the slope of the redoubt, into his basket.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000033_000000|"What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000034_000000|Gavroche raised his face:--
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000035_000000|"I'm filling my basket, citizen."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000036_000000|"Don't you see the grape shot?"
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000037_000000|Gavroche replied:
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000038_000001|What then?"
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000039_000000|Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!"
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000040_000000|"Instanter," said Gavroche.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000041_000000|And with a single bound he plunged into the street.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000042_000000|It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail of bodies.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000042_000001|Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, through the whole length of the street.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000042_000002|Twenty cartouches for Gavroche meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000043_000000|The smoke in the street was like a fog.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000043_000001|Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000043_000002|It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000043_000003|The combatants could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, short as it was.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000045_000001|He rifled the first seven or eight cartridge boxes without much danger.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000046_000000|He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to another, and emptied the cartridge box or cartouche as a monkey opens a nut.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000047_000000|They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000048_000000|On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder flask.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000049_000000|"For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000050_000000|By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade became transparent.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000051_000000|At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000052_000000|"Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000052_000001|"They are killing my dead men for me."
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000053_000000|A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third overturned his basket.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000055_000000|He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were firing, and sang:
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000057_000000|Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge box.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000057_000001|There a fourth bullet missed him, again.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000057_000002|Gavroche sang:
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000059_000000|A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000061_000000|Thus it went on for some time.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000000|It was a charming and terrible sight.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000001|Gavroche, though shot at, was teasing the fusillade.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000002|He had the air of being greatly diverted.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000003|It was the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000004|To each discharge he retorted with a couplet.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000005|They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000006|The National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000007|He lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made a bound, disappeared, re appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to the grape shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge boxes, and filling his basket.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000008|The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their eyes.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000009|The barricade trembled; he sang.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000010|He was not a child, he was not a man; he was a strange gamin fairy.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000011|He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000012|The bullets flew after him, he was more nimble than they.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000062_000013|He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; every time that the flat nosed face of the spectre approached, the urchin administered to it a fillip.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000063_000000|One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, finally struck the will o'-the wisp of a child.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000063_000001|Gavroche was seen to stagger, then he sank to the earth.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000064_000001|" 'tis the fault of . . .
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000065_000000|He did not finish.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000065_000001|A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him short.
train-clean-100/5514/19193/5514_19193_000065_000002|This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no more.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000002_000000|Chapter seven.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000004_000000|The stranger did not pay them the least attention; but Cropole approaching him respectfully, whispered, "Monsieur, the diamond has been valued."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000005_000001|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000006_000000|"Well, monsieur, the jeweler of s a r gives two hundred and eighty pistoles for it."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000007_000000|"Have you them?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000008_000000|"I thought it best to take them, monsieur; nevertheless, I made it a condition of the bargain, that if monsieur wished to keep his diamond, it should be held till monsieur was again in funds."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000011_000000|"Pay yourself," added the unknown.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000013_000000|A sad smile passed over the lips of the gentleman.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000014_000000|"Place the money on that trunk," said he, turning round and pointing to the piece of furniture.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000015_000000|Cropole deposited a tolerably large bag as directed, after having taken from it the amount of his reckoning.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000017_000000|The unknown asked for a glass of wine, broke off a morsel of bread, and did not stir from the window whilst he ate and drank.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000018_000000|Shortly after was heard a loud flourish of trumpets; cries arose in the distance, a confused buzzing filled the lower part of the city, and the first distinct sound that struck the ears of the stranger was the tramp of advancing horses.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000019_000000|"The king! the king!" repeated a noisy and eager crowd.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000020_000000|"The king!" cried Cropole, abandoning his guest and his ideas of delicacy, to satisfy his curiosity.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000023_000000|After a company of musketeers, a closely ranked troop of gentlemen, came the litter of monsieur le cardinal, drawn like a carriage by four black horses.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000023_000001|The pages and people of the cardinal marched behind.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000025_000000|The king then appeared, mounted upon a splendid horse of Saxon breed, with a flowing mane.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000025_000001|The young prince exhibited, when bowing to some windows from which issued the most animated acclamations, a noble and handsome countenance, illuminated by the flambeaux of his pages.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000026_000001|The pomp was of a military character.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000027_000000|Some of the courtiers-the elder ones, for instance-wore traveling dresses; but all the rest were clothed in warlike panoply.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000028_000000|When the king passed before him, the unknown, who had leant forward over the balcony to obtain a better view, and who had concealed his face by leaning on his arm, felt his heart swell and overflow with a bitter jealousy.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000029_000000|The noise of the trumpets excited him-the popular acclamations deafened him: for a moment he allowed his reason to be absorbed in this flood of lights, tumult, and brilliant images.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000031_000000|Then, before he had recovered from his sombre reverie, all the noise, all the splendor, had passed away.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000033_000000|"A handsome likeness!" said Pittrino.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000035_000001|But at that moment the voice of the stranger was heard from the window.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000037_000000|Cropole turned around, and, on seeing the old man, cleared a passage for him.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000038_000000|The window was instantly closed.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000040_000000|The stranger waited for him on the landing; he opened his arms to the old man, and led him to a seat.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000041_000001|"Sit down in your presence?--never!"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000042_000000|"Parry," cried the gentleman, "I beg you will; you come from England-you come so far.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000043_000000|"I have my reply to give your lordship, in the first place."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000045_000000|"My lord," said the old man, "do not hasten to alarm yourself; all is not lost, I hope.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000045_000001|You must employ energy, but more particularly resignation."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000046_000000|"Parry," said the young man, "I have reached this place through a thousand snares and after a thousand difficulties; can you doubt my energy?
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000046_000001|I have meditated this journey ten years, in spite of all counsels and all obstacles-have you faith in my perseverance?
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000048_000001|I do not despair, Parry; have you faith in my resignation?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000050_000000|"Let me know," said the stranger,--"disguise nothing from me-what has happened?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000051_000000|"My recital will be short, my lord; but in the name of Heaven do not tremble so."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000052_000001|Come, what did the general say to you?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000053_000000|"At first the general would not receive me."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000054_000000|"He took you for a spy?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000055_000000|"Yes, my lord; but I wrote him a letter."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000056_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000057_000000|"He read it, and received me, my lord."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000060_000000|"Well-then, Parry."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000061_000000|"Then the general sent me back the letter by an aide de camp, informing me that if I were found the next day within the circumscription of his command, he would have me arrested."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000062_000000|"Arrested!" murmured the young man.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000062_000001|"What! arrest you, my most faithful servant?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000063_000000|"Yes, my lord."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000064_000000|"And notwithstanding you had signed the name Parry?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000065_000000|"To all my letters, my lord; and the aide de camp had known me at saint James's and at Whitehall, too," added the old man with a sigh.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000066_000000|The young man leaned forward, thoughtful and sad.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000067_000001|"But, privately-between you and him-what did he do?
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000068_000001|These cavaliers conducted me, in great haste, to the little port of Tenby, threw me, rather than embarked me, into a little fishing boat, about to sail for Brittany, and here I am."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000069_000000|"Oh!" sighed the young man, clasping his neck convulsively with his hand, and with a sob.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000069_000001|"Parry, is that all?--is that all?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000070_000000|"Yes, my lord; that is all."
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000071_000000|After this brief reply ensued a long interval of silence, broken only by the convulsive beating of the heel of the young man on the floor.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000072_000000|The old man endeavored to change the conversation; it was leading to thoughts much too sinister.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000073_000001|What are these people crying 'Vive le Roi!' for?
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000074_000001|All these trumpets are his, all those gilded housings are his, all those gentlemen wear swords that are his.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000074_000002|His mother precedes him in a carriage magnificently encrusted with silver and gold.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000074_000003|Happy mother!
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000074_000004|His minister heaps up millions, and conducts him to a rich bride.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000074_000006|Vive le Roi!'"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000075_000000|"Well, well, my lord," said Parry, more uneasy at the turn the conversation had taken than at the other.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000076_000001|Parry, are there not examples in which a man of my condition should himself-"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000077_000000|"My lord, in the name of Heaven-"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000078_000000|"You are right, Parry; I am a coward, and if I do nothing for myself, what will God do?
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000078_000001|No, no; I have two arms, Parry, and I have a sword." And he struck his arm violently with his hand, and took down his sword, which hung against the wall.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000079_000000|"What are you going to do, my lord?"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000080_000000|"What am I going to do, Parry?
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000080_000001|What every one in my family does.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000080_000002|My mother lives on public charity, my sister begs for my mother; I have, somewhere or other, brothers who equally beg for themselves; and I, the eldest, will go and do as all the rest do-I will go and ask charity!"
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000082_000000|"My good Parry," said he, "order a fire, drink, eat, sleep, and be happy; let us both be happy, my faithful friend, my only friend.
train-clean-100/5561/39621/5561_39621_000082_000001|We are rich, as rich as kings!"
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000001_000000|A WOULD BE "LARK"
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000002_000002|The majority, however, appeared to be highly delighted over what they heard, one group standing near one of the windows, of which Eleanor was the center, laughed so loudly that they were sent to their seats.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000003_000001|Several times they caught sight of a folded paper being stealthily passed from one desk to another, but as to its contents they had no idea, as it was not handed to any one of them.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000004_000000|At recess there was more grouping and whispering, and Grace was puzzled and not a little hurt over the way in which she and her friends were ignored.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000004_000001|Such a thing had not happened since the basketball trouble the previous year.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000006_000000|"Here comes Mabel," said Jessica.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000009_000000|Mabel looked distressed for a moment then she said, "I wish I might tell you all about it, but I gave my word of honor before I read it that I wouldn't mention the contents to any one."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000010_000000|"Then, of course, we won't ask you," said Anne Pierson quickly.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000010_000001|"But tell us this much-is it about any of us?"
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000011_000000|"No," replied Mabel.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000011_000001|"It isn't.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000011_000002|It is something I was asked to sign."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000012_000000|"And did you sign it?" asked Jessica.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000013_000000|"I certainly did not," responded Mabel.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000013_000001|"It was----" she stopped, then flushed.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000013_000002|She had been on the point of telling.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000013_000004|"I can't bear to have secrets and not tell you."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000014_000001|"We don't want you to tell.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000014_000002|If it doesn't concern us we don't care, do we, girls?"
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000015_000000|"No, indeed," was the reply.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000016_000000|Just then the bell sounded and the girls returned to their seats with the riddle still unsolved.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000017_000000|On Wednesday, aside from a little more whispering and significant glances exchanged among the pupils, not a ripple disturbed the calm of the study hall.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000017_000001|It was therefore a distinct and not altogether pleasant surprise when Miss Thompson walked into the room, dismissed the senior class and requested the three lower classes to remain in their seats.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000018_000000|After the seniors had quietly left the study hall, Miss Thompson stood gravely regarding the rows of girls before her.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000018_000001|Her eyes wandered toward where Eleanor sat, looking bored and indifferent, and then she looked toward Grace, whose steady gray eyes were fixed on the principal's face with respectful attention.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000019_000000|"I don't believe Grace is guilty, at any rate," thought Miss Thompson; then she addressed the assembled girls.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000021_000000|Miss Thompson paused and a number of girls stirred uneasily in their seats, while a few glanced quickly toward Eleanor, who was looking straight ahead, the picture of innocence.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000022_000000|"You all know," continued the principal, "that it is strictly forbidden for any pupil to absent herself from school for the purpose of attending a circus, matinee or any public performance of this nature.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000022_000001|I have so severely disciplined pupils for this offence that for a long time no one has disobeyed me.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000022_000003|Such a decision is worse than disobedience-it is lawlessness.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000022_000005|Therefore, I intend to sift this matter to the bottom and find out what mischievous influence prompted this act of insubordination.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000023_000000|"Report says that this movement originated in the junior class, and that a paper has been circulated and signed by certain pupils, who pledged themselves to play truant and attend the matinee to morrow."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000024_000000|The eyes of Grace and her chums turned questioningly toward Mabel Allison, who nodded slightly in the affirmative.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000025_000002|Even Mabel had refused to sign.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000026_000000|"I have dismissed the senior class, because I have been assured of their entire ignorance of the plot.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000026_000001|What I insist upon knowing now, is who are the real culprits, beginning with the girl who originated the paper to the last one who signed it.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000026_000002|I am going to put every girl on her honor, and I expect absolutely truthful answers.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000026_000003|The girls who signed the paper I have mentioned will rise."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000027_000000|There was a moment of suspense, then Eleanor Savell proudly rose from her seat.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000027_000001|Her example was followed, until two thirds of the girls present were standing.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000027_000002|The principal stood silently regarding them with an expression of severity that was decidedly discomfitting.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000028_000000|"That will do," she said curtly, after they had stood for what seemed to them an age, but was really only a couple of minutes.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000029_000001|The girl who composed and wrote that agreement will now rise and explain herself."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000030_000000|Without hesitating, Eleanor rose and regarded the principal with an insolent smile.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000030_000001|"I wrote it, Miss Thompson," she said clearly.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000030_000003|I am sorry you found out about it, because it has spoiled all our fun."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000031_000000|There was a gasp of horror at Eleanor's assertion.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000031_000001|No one had ever before spoken so disrespectfully to their revered principal.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000032_000000|"Miss Savell," said the principal quietly, although her flashing eyes and set lips showed that she was very angry, "if you have that paper in your possession, bring it to me at once, and never answer me again as you did just now.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000032_000001|You are both disrespectful and impertinent."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000033_000000|But Miss Thompson's anger toward Eleanor was nothing compared with the tempest that the principal had aroused in Eleanor.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000033_000001|The latter flushed, then turned perfectly white with rage.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000033_000002|Still standing, she reached down, picked up a book from her desk and took from it a paper.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000033_000003|"This," she said, in a low tense voice, "is the paper you wish to see.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000033_000004|I do not choose to let you see it, therefore I shall destroy it."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000035_000000|Then she deliberately tore the offending paper into shreds and scattered them broadcast.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000036_000000|"I hope you understand that I am not afraid of you or any other teacher in this school," she continued.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000036_000001|"I have never been punished in my life, therefore I am not liable to give you the first opportunity.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000036_000003|As for the persons who told you about our plan, words cannot express my contempt for them, and right here I accuse Grace Harlowe and her sorority of getting the information from Mabel Allison yesterday and carrying it to you.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000037_000000|With these words, Eleanor angrily flung the book she held on the desk and walked down the aisle toward the door, but Miss Thompson barred her way.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000038_000000|"Stop, Miss Savell," she commanded.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000038_000002|I will not tolerate such behavior."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000042_000000|"Those girls who are not in any way implicated in this matter are dismissed," she said.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000043_000000|About one third of the girls arose and prepared to leave the study hall, the Phi Sigma Tau being among the number.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000043_000001|Grace motioned the girls to hurry.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000043_000004|For the first time since Eleanor had chosen to cut their acquaintance Grace was thoroughly angry with her.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000043_000005|She could not forgive Eleanor for having accused her and her friends of carrying tales before almost the entire school; therefore a forced apology would not appease her wounded pride. She drew a breath of relief when the eight girls were safely outside the study hall door.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000044_000000|"Hurry up," she said.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000044_000001|"We'll talk when we get outside school.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000044_000002|Don't stop for a minute.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000045_000000|The girls silently donned their wraps and fled from the building like fugitives from justice.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000045_000001|Once on the street a lively confab ensued, all talking at once.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000046_000000|"Let's take turns talking," cried Grace, laughing.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000046_000001|"We shall understand each other a little better."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000047_000000|"Now, what do you think of Miss Eleanor?" cried Nora.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000049_000000|"It was abominable," said Eva Allen.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000050_000000|The other girls expressed their disapproval in equally frank terms.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000051_000000|"I suppose it did look as though I told you girls," said Mabel Allison, who had joined them at the gate.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000051_000003|It was passed to me by mistake."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000052_000000|"Very likely," agreed Grace.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000055_000001|"She deserves to be punished.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000055_000002|The things she said to Miss Thompson were disgraceful, and I shall never forgive her for the way she spoke of us."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000056_000000|"I wouldn't say that, Grace," remarked Anne.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000057_000000|"It will have to be something remarkable in this instance," replied Grace grimly, as she bade the girls good bye.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000057_000001|"Remember, girls, basketball practice again to morrow, and the rest of the week.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000057_000002|Miss Thompson has promised me the gymnasium.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000057_000003|Please make it a point to be on hand."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000059_000001|They were spending a most uncomfortable half hour with Miss Thompson.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000059_000005|Miss Thompson had taken their names, but had not stated their punishment and it was certain that they would be made to feel the full weight of her displeasure.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000061_000000|Eleanor looked scornfully at the principal, and was silent.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000062_000000|"Do you intend to obey me, Miss Savell?" asked Miss Thompson.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000063_000000|Still there was no answer.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000064_000000|"Very well," continued Miss Thompson.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000064_000001|"Your silence indicates that you are still insubordinate.
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000064_000002|You may, therefore, choose between two things. You may apologize to me now, and to morrow to the girls you have accused of treachery, or you may leave this school, not to return to it unless permitted to do so by the Board of Education."
train-clean-100/5561/41615/5561_41615_000065_000000|Without a word Eleanor rose and walked haughtily out of the room.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000002_000000|THE JUNIORS FOREVER
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000003_000000|When the four classes assembled Thursday morning, every girl, with the exception of Eleanor, was in her seat.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000004_000000|After conducting opening exercises, Miss Thompson pronounced sentence on the culprits.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000004_000001|They were to forfeit their recess, library and all other privileges until the end of the term.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000004_000002|They must turn in two themes every week of not less than six hundred words on certain subjects to be assigned to them.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000004_000003|If, during this time, any one of them should be reported for a misdemeanor, they were to be suspended without delay.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000005_000000|Their penalty was far from light, but they had not been suspended, and so they resolved to endure it as best they might.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000006_000000|Grace Harlowe felt a load lifted from her mind when Miss Thompson publicly announced that she had not received any information from either Mabel Allison or the Phi Sigma Tau.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000007_000000|"Thank goodness, none of us were concerned in that affair," she told the members of her basketball team at recess.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000007_000001|"There are two girls on the sophomore and three on the freshman team whose basketball ardor will have to cool until after the mid year exams."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000011_000000|There was a burst of laughter from the girls at this effusion, in which Nora herself joined.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000012_000000|"What a delicate way of reminding me that I once was a freshman!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000013_000001|"She can spout poetry without trying."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000014_000000|"Small credit is due me," said Anne, smiling.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000014_000001|"Anyone can twist 'Annabel Lee' to suit the occasion."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000015_000000|"By the way, Anne," said Grace, "as you are a poet, you must compose a basketball song to day, and I'll see that the juniors all have copies. It's time we had one.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000015_000001|Let me see what would be a good tune?"
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000016_000000|"'Rally Round the Flag,'" suggested Miriam Nesbit.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000016_000001|"That has a dandy swing to it."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000017_000000|Grace hummed a few bars.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000018_000000|"The very thing," she exclaimed.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000018_000001|"Now, Anne, get busy at once.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000019_000001|Hippy, David and Reddy have a new one, too.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000019_000002|Reddy says it's 'marvelously extraordinary and appallingly great.'"
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000021_000000|"Wasn't it nice of Miss Thompson to exonerate us publicly?" asked Anne.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000022_000000|"She is always just," replied Grace.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000022_000001|"I can't understand how Eleanor could be so rude and disagreeable to her.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000022_000002|She has disliked Miss Thompson from the first."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000023_000000|"I wonder whether she apologized to Miss Thompson last night," mused Grace.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000024_000000|"I feel sure that she didn't, and I am just as sure that she won't get back until she does."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000025_000000|"We shall manage to exist if she doesn't," said Jessica dryly.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000025_000001|She felt a personal grudge against Eleanor for her accusation against Mabel, who had grown very dear to her and whom she mothered like a hen with one chicken.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000026_000001|"She can go to that, even though she is on bad terms with the school."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000027_000000|The recess bell cut short the conversation and the girls returned to their desks with far better ideas of the coming game than of the afternoon's lessons.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000028_000001|The spectators had not yet begun to arrive, as it was still early, so the girls indulged in a little warming up practice, did a few stunts and skipped about, overflowing with animal spirits.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000029_000000|Julia Crosby and Grace took turns sprinting around the gymnasium three times in succession, while Miriam Nesbit timed them, Grace finishing just two seconds ahead of Julia.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000030_000000|By a quarter of two the gallery was fairly well filled and by five minutes of two it was crowded.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000030_000003|The juniors had all received copies of the words and had learned them by heart.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000030_000004|They now sang with the utmost glee, and came out particularly strong on the chorus, which ran:
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000031_000000|"The juniors forever, hurrah, fans, hurrah! Our team is a winner, our captain's a star. And we'll drive the senior foe, from the basket every time. Shouting the war cry of the juniors."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000032_000000|There was a great clapping of hands from the admirers of the juniors at this effort, but the seniors promptly responded from the other end of the gallery to the tune of Dixie, with:
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000033_000000|"The seniors are the real thing. Hurrah!
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000033_000001|Hurrah! Our gallant team now takes its stand, And all the baskets soon will land. We shout, we sing, the praises of the seniors."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000034_000000|Hardly had the last notes died away, when the referee blew the whistle and the teams hustled to their positions.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000034_000001|Grace and Julia Crosby faced each other, beamed amiably and shook hands, then stood vigilant, eyes on the ball that the referee balanced in her hands.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000034_000002|Up it went, the whistle sounded and the two captains sprang straight for it.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000034_000003|Grace captured it, however, and sent it flying toward Miriam, who was so carefully guarded that she dared not attempt to make the basket, and after a feint managed to throw it to Nora, who tried for the basket at long range and missed.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000035_000000|There was a general scramble for the ball, and for five minutes neither team scored; then Marian Barber dropped a neat field goal, and soon after Grace scored on a foul.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000035_000001|The junior fans howled joyfully at the good work of their team.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000035_000002|The seniors did not intend to allow them to score again in a hurry.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000035_000003|They played such a close guarding game that, try as they might, the juniors made no headway.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000035_000005|This spurred the junior team on to greater effort, and Miriam made a brilliant throw to basket that brought forth an ovation from the gallery.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000035_000006|This ended the first half, with the score five to two in favor of the juniors.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000038_000000|"We shall win," said Miriam Nesbit confidently.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000038_000001|"I feel it in my bones."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000039_000000|"Let's hope that your bones are true prophets," laughed Marian Barber.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000040_000000|"O girls!" exclaimed Eva Allen from the open door, in which she had been standing looking up at the gallery.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000040_000001|"Eleanor is here.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000040_000002|She and her satellites are sitting away up on the back seat of the gallery."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000041_000000|"Where?" asked Nora, going to the door.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000041_000001|"Oh, yes, I see her.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000041_000002|She looks as haughty as ever.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000041_000003|It's a wonder she'd condescend to come and watch her mortal enemies play."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000042_000000|"I suppose she hopes we'll lose," said Marian Barber.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000042_000001|"That would fill her with joy."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000043_000000|"Then we'll see that she goes away in a gloomy frame of mind," said Nora, "for we're going to win, and don't you forget to remember it."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000044_000000|Just then the whistle blew, and there was a scramble for places.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000045_000001|Reddy circled about the victors almost too delighted for words.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000045_000002|He was filled with profound admiration for them.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000046_000000|"The boys' crack team couldn't have played a better game," he said solemnly, and the girls knew that he could pay them no higher compliment, for this team was considered invincible by the High School boys.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000047_000000|"Perhaps we'll challenge you some day, Reddy," said Grace mischievously.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000050_000000|"Glad to know that," said Grace.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000050_000001|"There were so many different kinds of noises I couldn't distinguish it."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000052_000000|"Oh, yes, girls, I intended telling you before this," replied Jessica. "Just before the last half started, Miss Thompson and Miss Kane came in and walked to the other end of the gallery.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000053_000000|"Hard to tell," said Nora.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000000|"They hissed Miss Thompson.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000001|Very softly, you may be sure," continued Jessica, "but it was hissing, just the same.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000002|For a wonder, she didn't hear it, but every girl in the junior class did.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000003|They were sitting down front on the same side as Eleanor's crowd.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000004|You know what a temper ruth Deane has and how ferocious she can look?
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000006|She talked for a moment to Edna and Eleanor.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000054_000007|They tossed their heads, but they didn't hiss any more."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000055_000000|"What did ruth say to them?" asked Grace curiously.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000055_000001|"It must have been something remarkable, or they wouldn't have subsided so suddenly."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000056_000000|"It was," giggled Jessica.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000056_000001|"She told them that if they didn't stop it instantly, the juniors would pick them up bodily, carry them downstairs to the classroom and lock them in until the game was over."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000057_000000|"How absurd!" exclaimed Grace.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000058_000000|"I don't know about that," said Nora O'Malley.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000058_000001|"ruth Deane is a terror when she gets fairly started.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000058_000002|Besides, she would have had both High Schools on her side.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000058_000003|Even the boys like Miss Thompson."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000059_000000|"It was an effectual threat at any rate," said Jessica.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000059_000001|"They left before the game was over.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000059_000002|Perhaps they were afraid of being waylaid."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000060_000000|"I suppose they couldn't bear to see us win," said Grace.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000060_000001|"But, O girls, I am so proud of our invincible team.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000060_000002|It was a great game and a well earned victory."
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000061_000000|"We ought to celebrate," said Miriam.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000061_000001|"Come on.
train-clean-100/5561/41616/5561_41616_000061_000002|Here we are at Stillman's."
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000001_000000|CHAPTER six-THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000002_000001|The doctor, on being consulted, declared that it might take place in February.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000002_000002|It was then December.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000002_000003|A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000003_000000|The grandfather was not the least happy of them all.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000003_000001|He remained for a quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000004_000000|"The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000007_000000|"No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring for us."
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000008_000000|Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged everything, made everything easy.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000009_000002|He extricated Cosette from all difficulties.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000009_000007|They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000009_000009|Cosette became in the eyes of the law, Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000011_000004|The young man arrived, the old man was effaced; such is life.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000013_000000|Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000024_000000|"Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000024_000002|Happiness is only the necessary.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000024_000005|Her heart and the Louvre.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000024_000008|Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn flowers, and add a hundred thousand francs income.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000024_000013|I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000024_000017|For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest."
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000007|The dreams of your bourgeois who set up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, ebony and calico.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000008|Make way!
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000012|There's the epoch for you.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000018|I belong to it.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000019|He who loves well lashes well.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000021|Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of the ancient manners.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000023|I regret the bride's garter.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000028|why did Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000029|With Cosette's garter, Homer would construct the Iliad.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000030|He would put in his poem, a loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000031|My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000033|But, in sooth! the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants to have its wedding also.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000038|People had no straps to their boots, they had no boots.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000042|One of the sides of that century was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! people amused themselves. To day, people are serious.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000046|Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000051|at being petty.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000052|Learn this: joy is not only joyous; it is great.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000054|Be grave in church, well and good.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000059|Be one of the gods.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000060|Ah! people might be sylphs.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000026_000065|The wedding is not the housekeeping.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000028_000000|--there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know nothing of such matters, deuce take it!"
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000029_000000|While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at each other.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000030_000001|Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding a millionairess.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000031_000002|You smell nothing of life.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000031_000003|Neither any bad, nor any good odor.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000032_000000|Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly spinster's indecision.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000032_000005|She had reserved her decision on this point.
train-clean-100/5652/19215/5652_19215_000033_000002|"It's an old plan of mine.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000002_000001|Therapy is always only the last step.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000002_000002|Diagnosis and observation have to precede, and an inquiry into the causes of the disease is essential, and in every one of these steps psychology may play its role. The means of psychodiagnostic are not less manifold than those of psychotherapy.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000002_000003|Moreover there the technique may be more complex and subtle.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000002_000004|The whole equipment of the modern laboratory ought to be put at its disposal.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000002_000005|Perceptions and associations, reactions and expressions ought to be examined with the same carefulness with which the conscientious physician examines the blood and the urine.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000003_000001|Too often he is entirely unconscious of the sources of trouble or else he has social reasons to deceive the world and himself, and ultimately the physician.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000003_000002|And yet no psychical treatment can start successfully so long as the patient is brooding on secret thoughts at the bottom of his mind.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000003_000003|The desire to hide them may often be itself a part of the disease.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000003_000006|Skill, tact, and experience are needed there.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000004_000000|As a matter of course, in the overwhelming mass of cases the frankness and the good will of the patient himself will support the physician and accordingly his examination is not obliged to trap the patient but simply to guide him to important points.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000005_000001|But one rule is common to all of them: never use psychotherapeutic methods in a schematic way like a rigid pattern.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000005_000003|Every element of a man's life history, impressions of early childhood, his love and his successes, his diseases and his distresses, his acquaintances and his reading, his talent, his character, his sincerity, his energy, his intelligence-everything-ought to determine the choice of the psychotherapeutic steps.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000005_000004|As it is entirely impossible to determine all those factors by any sufficient inquiry, most of the adjustment of method must be left to the instinct of the physician, in which wide experience, solid knowledge, tact, and sympathy ought to be blended. Even the way in which the patient reacts on the method will often guide the instinct of the well trained psychotherapist.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000006_000006|To prescribe drugs is always quicker than to influence the mind; to cure a morphinist by hyoscine needs less effort than to cure him by suggestion.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000009_000004|But if frequent pauses are made, and each short, the result is with many individuals the opposite.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000014_000005|This fundamental law of the relativity of psychical impressions controls our whole life.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000015_000004|This relativity of the mental reaction on the demands of life must always be in the foreground of the psychotherapeutic regime.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000015_000010|The intellectual worker ought to decrease his work, the overbusy society woman ought to stay in bed one day in the week, the man in the midst of the rush of life ought to cut down his obligations, but probably each of them does better to go on than simply to swear off altogether.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000016_000006|In the second place come games and sport, which may enter into their right if fatigue can be avoided.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000016_000007|Harmonious joyful company, as different as possible from the depressing company of the sanitariums, will add its pleasantness.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000017_000000|While the advice of the physician ought thus to emphasize the positive elements which work, not towards rest, but toward a harmonious mental activity, we must not forget some essential negative prescriptions. Everything is to be avoided which interferes with the night's sleep. Furthermore, in the first place, alcohol must be avoided.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000017_000006|Strong drinks like cocktails are absolutely to be excluded.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000018_000004|All is a matter of choice and adjustment to the particular needs in which all the personal factors of inherited constitution, acquired adjustments, social surroundings, temperament, and education, and the probable later development have to be most tactfully weighed.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000018_000005|Yet this general treatment may take and very often ought to take the opposite direction, not towards rest but towards work, not towards light distraction but towards serious effort, not towards reduction of engagements but towards energetic regulation.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000019_000003|A go as you please method characterizes our whole society from the kindergarten to the height of life.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000019_000004|We eulogize the principle of following the paths of own true interest and mean by that too often paths of least resistance.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000020_000001|This power is the act of attention. An attention which is trained and disciplined can hold its ideas against chance impulses.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000020_000008|Only the nervous system cannot so easily be adjusted to the new regime.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000021_000004|The boy may pass as all right if we meet him at a ball; only his tutor knows the whole misery.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000022_000000|Yet mere flippant excitement and superficial entertainment is nothing but a cheap counterfeit of what is needed.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000022_000001|Voluntary effort is needed, and this is the field where the psychotherapist must put in his most intelligent effort.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000022_000002|There is no one for whom there is not a chance for work in our social fabric.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000023_000002|To be sure, we must not forget that we have to deal here with a causal and not with a purposive point of view.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000023_000007|Again everything depends upon the experience and tact of the physician.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000024_000003|As soon as new faith in life is given, and given even where a sincere prognosis must be a sad one, a great and not seldom unexpected improvement is secured.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000025_000001|How psychotherapy is related to the church will interest us later.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000025_000003|But from such a causal point of view, we should not underestimate the manifold good which can come from the causal effect of religious and ethical ideas.
train-clean-100/5652/39938/5652_39938_000028_000001|The same effect which religion produces may thus be secured by any other deep interest: service for a great human cause, enthusiasm for a gigantic plan, even the prospect of a great personal success.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000005_000000|It was an inspiriting sight, this bright June morning, to see the crowds gathering round Braithwaite's statue.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000005_000003|It was through this alone that the false unity of the Church with its fantastic spiritual fraternity could be counteracted.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000005_000005|Thus he had preluded his speech on the Poor Law question, pointing to the true charity that existed among Masons apart from religious motive, and appealing to the famous benefactions on the Continent; and in the enthusiasm of the Bill's success the Order had received a great accession of members.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000006_000000|Old mrs Brand was in her best to day, and looked out with considerable excitement at the huge throng gathered to hear her son speak.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000006_000001|A platform was erected round the bronze statue at such a height that the statesman appeared to be one of the speakers, though at a slightly higher elevation, and this platform was hung with roses, surmounted by a sounding board, and set with a chair and table.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000013_000001|They had a religious ring; the unintelligent Christian could sing them without a qualm; yet their sense was plain enough-the old human creed that man was all.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000013_000003|The kingdom of God, it was said, lay within the human heart, and the greatest of all graces was Charity.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000018_000001|Then there came a retrospect, comparing the old state of England with the present.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000018_000002|Fifty years ago, the speaker said, poverty was still a disgrace, now it was so no longer.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000020_000000|The second part was to be a panegyric of Braithwaite, treating him as the Precursor of a movement that even now had begun.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000023_000000|Ah! he was working up now to his panegyric!
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000023_000004|What was that?
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000024_000000|There was a sharp crack, and the tiny gesticulating figure staggered back a step.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000025_000002|Then Oliver was forward again, pointing and crying out, for she could see his gestures; and she sank back quickly, the blood racing through her old veins, and her heart hammering at the base of her throat.
train-clean-100/5678/43301/5678_43301_000026_000000|"My dear, my dear, what is it?" she sobbed.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000007_000000|"He was a Catholic," explained the drawn faced Oliver.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000007_000001|"He must have come ready, for his repeater was found loaded.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000009_000000|"He was killed-trampled and strangled instantly," said Oliver.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000009_000001|"I did what I could: you saw me.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000011_000000|"I called out to them, mother, but they wouldn't hear me."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000012_000000|Mabel leaned forward---
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000014_000000|Oliver smiled at her.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000014_000001|He knew this tender trait in her.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000015_000000|"It would have been more perfect if they had not," she said.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000015_000001|Then she broke off and sat back.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000016_000000|"Why did he shoot just then?" she asked.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000019_000000|"I said that Braithwaite had done more for the world by one speech than Jesus and all His saints put together." He was aware that the knitting needles stopped for a second; then they went on again as before.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000020_000000|"But he must have meant to do it anyhow," continued Oliver.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000022_000000|"There was a rosary on him; and then he just had time to call on his God."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000023_000000|"And nothing more is known?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000024_000000|"Nothing more.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000024_000001|He was well dressed, though."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000025_000000|Oliver leaned back a little wearily and closed his eyes; his arm still throbbed intolerably.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000025_000001|But he was very happy at heart.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000025_000002|It was true that he had been wounded by a fanatic, but he was not sorry to bear pain in such a cause, and it was obvious that the sympathy of England was with him.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000025_000006|The huge electric placards over London had winked out the facts in Esperanto as Oliver stepped into the train at twilight.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000026_000001|Catholic assailant....
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000026_000002|Indignation of the country....
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000027_000000|He was pleased, too, that he honestly had done his best to save the man. Even in that moment of sudden and acute pain he had cried out for a fair trial; but he had been too late.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000027_000003|Oh! there was some passion and loyalty left in England!
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000029_000000|"Are you too tired to talk, my dear?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000030_000000|He opened his eyes.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000031_000001|What is it?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000032_000000|"What do you think will be the effect?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000034_000000|"The effect?" he said.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000034_000001|"It can be nothing but good.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000034_000002|It was time that something happened.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000034_000004|Well, I do not think I shall be again.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000034_000005|I have been afraid sometimes that we were losing all our spirit, and that the old Tories were partly right when they prophesied what Communism would do.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000034_000006|But after this---"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000035_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000036_000000|"Well; we have shown that we can shed our blood too.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000036_000001|It is in the nick of time, too, just at the crisis.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000036_000002|I don't want to exaggerate; it is only a scratch-but it was so deliberate, and-and so dramatic.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000036_000004|People won't forget it."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000038_000000|"You poor dear!" she said.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000038_000001|"Are you in pain?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000039_000000|"Not much.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000039_000001|Besides, Christ! what do I care?
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000040_000000|He knew he was feverish and irritable, and made a great effort to drive it down.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000041_000001|"If they would not be such heavy fools: they don't understand; they don't understand."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000042_000000|"Yes, Oliver?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000043_000000|"They don't understand what a glorious thing it all is Humanity, Life, Truth at last, and the death of Folly!
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000043_000001|But haven't I told them a hundred times?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000044_000000|She looked at him with kindling eyes.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000044_000001|She loved to see him like this, his confident, flushed face, the enthusiasm in his blue eyes; and the knowledge of his pain pricked her feeling with passion.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000044_000002|She bent forward and kissed him suddenly.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000045_000001|Oh, Oliver!"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000046_000000|He said nothing; but she could see what she loved to see, that response to her own heart; and so they sat in silence while the sky darkened yet more, and the click of the writer in the next room told them that the world was alive and that they had a share in its affairs.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000047_000000|Oliver stirred presently.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000048_000000|"Did you notice anything just now, sweetheart-when I said that about Jesus Christ?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000049_000000|"She stopped knitting for a moment," said the girl.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000050_000000|He nodded.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000051_000000|"You saw that too, then....
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000051_000001|Mabel, do you think she is falling back?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000052_000001|"Of course she looks back a little."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000053_000000|"But you don't think-it would be too awful!"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000055_000000|"No, no, my dear; you're excited and tired.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000055_000001|It's just a little sentiment....
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000057_000003|After all, she was brought up a Catholic."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000059_000001|She can't get it out of her head, even after fifty years.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000059_000002|Well, watch her, won't you?...
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000059_000003|By the way ..."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000060_000000|"Yes?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000061_000001|They say Felsenburgh's running the whole thing now.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000061_000002|The Empire is sending him everywhere- Tobolsk, Benares, Yakutsk-everywhere; and he's been to Australia."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000062_000000|Mabel sat up briskly.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000063_000000|"Isn't that very hopeful?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000064_000000|"I suppose so.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000064_000001|There's no doubt that the Sufis are winning; but for how long is another question.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000064_000002|Besides, the troops don't disperse."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000066_000000|"Europe is arming as fast as possible.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000066_000002|I must go."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000067_000000|"Your arm, my dear?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000068_000000|"My arm must get well.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000070_000000|"There is no more.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000070_000001|But it is just as certain as it can be that this is the crisis.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000070_000004|But if not---"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000071_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000072_000000|"If not, there will be a catastrophe such as never has been even imagined.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000072_000002|These new Benninschein explosives will make certain of that."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000073_000000|"But is it absolutely certain that the East has got them?"
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000074_000000|"Absolutely.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000074_000001|Benninschein sold them simultaneously to East and West; then he died, luckily for him."
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000075_000005|Military experts prophesied extravagantly, contradicting one another on vital points; the whole procedure of war was a matter of theory; there were no precedents with which to compare it.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000075_000006|It was as if archers disputed as to the results of cordite.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000076_000000|But imagination simply refused to speak.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000076_000005|But that was all.
train-clean-100/5678/43302/5678_43302_000076_000006|Not many speeches were made on the subject; it had been found inadvisable.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000001_000001|But there was nothing that alarmed her.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000001_000003|She asked the girl to read to her sometimes, and listened unblenching to whatever was offered her; she attended in the kitchen daily, organised varieties of food, and appeared interested in all that concerned her son.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000001_000005|He would be gone three days, he said.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000003_000000|"It is nothing, my dear," said the old lady tremulously; and she added the description of a symptom or two.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000007_000000|"There is no need to telegraph for mr Brand?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000013_000000|"Well, my dear?" she asked.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000016_000002|It was a peaceful Gospel; at least, it became peaceful as soon as the end had come.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000017_000000|So the girl went downstairs once more, with a quiet little ache at her heart that refused to be still.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000018_000002|She, too, herself would cease one day, let her see to it that the tone was pure and lovely.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000020_000000|"She is a little better, I think," said Mabel.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000020_000001|"She must be very quiet all day."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000022_000000|A couple of hours later, as Mabel went upstairs once more, she met mr Phillips coming down.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000023_000000|"mrs Brand sent for me," he said.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000023_000001|"She wished to know whether mr Oliver would be back to night."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000024_000000|"He will, will he not?
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000024_000001|You have not heard?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000025_000000|"mr Brand said he would be here for a late dinner.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000025_000001|He will reach London at nineteen."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000026_000000|"And is there any other news?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000027_000000|He compressed his lips.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000028_000000|"There are rumours," he said.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000028_000001|"mr Brand wired to me an hour ago."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000029_000000|He seemed moved at something, and Mabel looked at him in astonishment.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000030_000000|"It is not Eastern news?" she asked.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000032_000000|"You must forgive me, mrs Brand," he said.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000033_000000|She was not offended, for she trusted her husband too well; but she went on into the sick room with her heart beating.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000034_000000|The old lady, too, seemed excited.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000037_000000|"Don't excite yourself, mother.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000037_000001|Oliver will be back to night."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000039_000000|"Don't trouble about me, my dear," she said.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000039_000001|"I shall do very well now. He will be back to dinner, will he not?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000040_000000|"If the volor is not late.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000040_000001|Now, mother, are you ready for breakfast?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000041_000000|Mabel passed an afternoon of considerable agitation.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000041_000001|It was certain that something had happened.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000041_000002|The secretary, who breakfasted with her in the parlour looking on to the garden, had appeared strangely excited.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000043_000000|As she came in she took up the evening paper, but there was no news there except to the effect that the Convention would close that afternoon.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000044_000000|Twenty o'clock came, but there was no sign of Oliver.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000048_000001|He had often been later than this: he might have missed the volor he meant to catch; the Convention might have been prolonged; he might be exhausted, and think it better to sleep in Paris after all, and have forgotten to wire. He might even have wired to mr Phillips, and the secretary have forgotten to pass on the message.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000049_000000|She went at last, hopelessly, to the telephone, and looked at it.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000050_000000|Then, even as she turned away, the bell rang sharply, and a white label flashed into sight.--WHITEHALL.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000051_000000|She pressed the corresponding button, and, her hand shaking so much that she could scarcely hold the receiver to her ear, she listened.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000052_000000|"Who is there?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000054_000001|"Alone here."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000055_000001|Very well.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000055_000004|Can you hear?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000056_000000|"Yes, yes."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000057_000000|"The best has happened.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000057_000002|Felsenburgh has done it.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000057_000003|Now listen.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000057_000006|We are communicating with the Press. Come up here to me at once.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000057_000008|Can you hear?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000058_000000|"Oh, yes."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000059_000000|"Come then at once.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000059_000002|Tell no one.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000059_000004|In half an hour the way will be stopped."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000061_000000|"Yes?
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000061_000001|Quick."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000062_000000|"Mother is ill.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000062_000001|Shall I leave her?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000063_000000|"How ill?"
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000064_000001|The doctor has seen her."
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000065_000000|There was silence for a moment.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000068_000000|" ... Yes, you must come.
train-clean-100/5678/43303/5678_43303_000068_000001|Felsenburgh will be there."
train-clean-100/5688/41232/5688_41232_000003_000002|I am unclean!
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000003_000000|One hot summer day, a few months after the marriage, Juliet, returning to the consulate after a morning spent in very active exercise upon a tennis court, was met on the doorstep by Dora, the youngest of the Clarency Butchers, who was awaiting her approach in a high state of excitement.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000004_000002|Something you don't often get!"
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000006_000000|"Guess!"
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000007_000000|"A present?"
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000008_000000|"No; at least I suppose not; but there may be one inside."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000009_000000|"Inside?
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000012_000000|"Then why do you say it's something I don't often get?" asked Juliet suspiciously; "I often get letters.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000013_000003|You never did before since we've been here.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000013_000005|So does Margaret.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000014_000000|Margaret was the next sister.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000015_000001|As a matter of fact she was a good deal excited now; for what the child said was true enough.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000016_000000|It was a large envelope, addressed in a clerk's handwriting, and she came to the conclusion, as she tore it open, that it must be an advertisement from some shop.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000017_000000|"DEAR MADAM,--We shall esteem it a favour if you can make it convenient to call upon us one day next week, upon a matter of business connected with a member of your family.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000022_000001|'Something to your advantage!' Just what they put in the agony column when they leave you a fortune.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000025_000000|She departed with an injured air, and Juliet went to look for the consul.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000026_000000|"What is it?" he asked, as she put the envelope into his hand.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000027_000000|"Hullo, what's this?"
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000028_000000|He read it through carefully.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000029_000003|Well, well."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000031_000000|"Go?
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000031_000002|Why not?"
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000033_000000|"No, no; I see no reason to suppose such a thing.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000033_000001|I know the firm of Findlay and Ince quite well by name and reputation."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000035_000002|You are the child of a friend of hers.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000035_000003|That is all I know.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000035_000005|I often think that if she had lived she would have told you before now."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000036_000000|"If you promised her not to ask, I won't ask either," said Juliet loyally.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000036_000001|"But I hope they'll tell me.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000039_000000|"Oh well, I don't know.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000039_000001|In a few days.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000039_000002|You will hardly be ready to start to morrow, will you?"
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000040_000000|"I could be ready, easily," said Juliet.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000042_000000|"Not from you." Juliet put her arm through his.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000042_000001|"I could never find another father half as nice as the one I've got.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000043_000000|"I don't believe I shall be able to get on without my eldest daughter," he replied, half serious.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000044_000000|At this point Lady Byrne came into the room, and the news had to be retold for her benefit; the letter was produced again, and she joined heartily in the excitement it had caused.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000046_000000|"I would, like a shot," he replied, "but I can't possibly get away next week.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000046_000001|I've got a lot of work on hand just now.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000047_000000|Lady Byrne declared that it was impossible for her to do so: she had engagements, she said, for every day of the following week, which it was out of the question to break.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000047_000002|What she would do without Juliet to help her in preparing for them, she did not know, but at least it was obvious that some one must be there to receive his guests.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000048_000002|It is much better that they should learn to manage their own affairs; and Juliet is not such a ninny as you seem to think."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000049_000000|"I shall be perfectly all right by myself," Juliet protested.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000050_000000|Sir Arthur did not like it.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000051_000000|"Supposing she is detained in London," he said.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000052_000000|"What should detain her," demanded his wife, "unless it is the discovery of her parents?
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000052_000002|In any case, she can write, or cable to us when she has seen the solicitors, and it is no use providing for contingencies that will probably never arise."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000054_000000|On Monday morning she left Ostend, in the company of her maid.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000055_000000|It was a glorious August day.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000055_000002|Juliet enjoyed every moment of the journey; and would have been sorry when the crossing was over if she had not been so eager to set foot upon her native soil.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000058_000000|"I have been abroad during a considerable period," replied the person she addressed, a stern looking Scotchwoman who did not appear anxious to enter into conversation.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000060_000000|"You must be glad to be going home," she ventured.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000061_000000|"It's a far cry north to my home," said the Scotchwoman, thawing slightly.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000061_000002|I'll be stopping in the south with some friends.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000061_000003|The journey north is awful' expensive."
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000063_000001|"They'll be local men, I have nae doubt.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000064_000000|Juliet could get no enthusiasm out of her; and, look which way she might, she could not see any reflection on the faces of those around her of the emotions which stirred in her own breast.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000064_000002|They displayed anxiety enough to reach land; but, as far as she could see, what land it was they reached was a matter of indifference to them.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000064_000003|No doubt, she thought, when the ship stopped and they felt better, they would be more disposed to a sentimentality like hers.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000065_000000|She found her maid-who had been one of the most sea sick of those aboard-and assisted her ashore, put her into a carriage and ministered to her wants with the help of a tea basket containing the delicious novelty of English bread and butter.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000065_000002|She was to lodge at a small hotel in Jermyn Street; and on that first evening even this seemed perfect to her.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000066_000000|She got up at once and looked out of the window.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000066_000003|She felt that the weather was playing up to the occasion, as became this important morning of her life. For that it was important she did not doubt.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000066_000004|She was going to hear tremendous news that day; make wonderful discoveries about her birth; hear undreamt of things.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000066_000006|She was prepared for anything, or so she said to herself, however astounding; and, that being so, she was excited in proportion.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000067_000000|She dressed quickly, in the gayest humour, but with even more care than she usually bestowed upon her appearance; a subject to which she always gave the fullest attention.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000071_000000|"That very one," Juliet assured her, undaunted; and was arrayed in it, in spite of obvious disapproval.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000072_000000|After breakfast they went out, and, inquiring their way to Bond Street, flattened their noses against the shop windows to their mutual satisfaction.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000073_000000|They had it almost to themselves, for there were not many people left in that part of London; but more than one head was turned to gaze at the pretty girl in the garden party dress, who stood transfixed before shop after shop.
train-clean-100/5703/47198/5703_47198_000073_000002|The next twenty minutes were spent in cross examining the hotel porter as to the time it would take to drive to her destination, and, having decided to start at ten minutes to twelve, in wondering whether the quarter of an hour which had still to elapse would ever come to an end.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000004_000000|As the few passengers who were waiting for her crossed the short gangway, a shower burst over the loch and in a few minutes had driven every one into the little cabin, except the two or three men who constituted the officers and crew of the steamer.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000004_000001|One of these was in the act of slackening the rope by which the boat had been warped alongside, when a running, gesticulating figure appeared in the distance, shouting to them to wait for him.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000005_000000|Waited for accordingly he was; and in a few minutes Gimblet, rather out of breath after his run, hurried on board, and with a word of apology and thanks to the obliging skipper turned, like the other passengers, towards the shelter of the cabin.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000009_000000|The young lady was still in sight, making her way up the steep pitch of the main street, and the detective followed her discreetly, loitering before shop windows, as if fascinated by the display of Scottish homespuns, or samples of Royal Stewart tartan, and taking an extraordinary interest in fishing tackle and trout flies.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000010_000000|But, though the girl looked back more than once, the little man in the ulster who was so intent on picking his way between the puddles did not apparently provide her with any food for suspicion; and she made no attempt to see who was so carefully sheltered beneath the umbrella he carried.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000013_000000|From this position-not without its embarrassments, since a couple of barefooted children came instantly to the door, where they stood and stared at him unblinkingly-he saw the Russian advancing at a rapid pace across the moor; and, look where he would, could perceive no means of keeping up with her unobserved upon the bare side of the hill.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000014_000000|Just as he decided that the distance separating them had increased to an extent which warranted his continuing the chase, he joyfully saw her slacken her pace, and at the same moment a man, who must have been sitting behind a boulder beside the road, rose to his feet out of the heather, and came forward to meet her.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000014_000001|For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000014_000002|It is humiliating to relate that he recoiled before it when it was placed in his hand, and nearly fled again into the road.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000014_000003|However, he pulled himself together and held the proud proprietress, a gaunt, grey haired woman with knitting needles ever clicking in her dexterous hands, in conversation upon the theme of its unique beauties until the subject was exhausted to the point of collapse.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000015_000001|A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place; and though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity, and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000016_000000|At last, when for the twentieth time he put his nose round the doorpost, he saw that the pair had separated, and were walking in opposite directions, the girl continuing on her way, while the man returned to the town.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000018_000000|By the time he issued forth into the open air, his pockets full of packages, the stranger had passed the shop and was turning the corner of the next house.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000018_000001|To him, now, Gimblet devoted his powers of shadowing.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000019_000000|There was no great difficulty about it.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000021_000000|He kept, however, a strict eye on the door of the hotel, and after a quarter of an hour saw the object of his attentions emerge with fishing rod and basket, and cross the road directly towards him.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000021_000001|Gimblet had not been able to see his face before, but now he had a good look as he passed close beside him.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000022_000000|He was a tall, fair man, evidently a foreigner, but with nothing very striking about his appearance.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000022_000003|The detective turned his back while the fair man got in and pushed off into the loch.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000025_000001|The landlord was sorry, but the house was full.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000027_000000|"Indeed, I can well believe that," Gimblet assured him.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000027_000001|"I suppose you get a lot of tourists passing through, though, Americans, for instance?"
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000032_000001|"And there's troots tac.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000033_000000|"Dear me," said Gimblet, "just what my friend wants.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000033_000001|I'm sorry you can't take him in.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000033_000002|I must tell him to write in good time next year if he wants a room."
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000036_000000|He went first to the post office, where he registered and posted to Scotland Yard a packet he had brought with him.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000036_000001|Then, after asking his way of the sociable landlord of the hotel, he proceeded to the police station, a single storied stone building standing at the end of a side street.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000037_000000|Here he made himself known to the inspector, and imparted information which made that personage open his eyes considerably wider than was his custom.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000038_000000|"If you will bring one of your men, and come with me yourself," said Gimblet, at the conclusion of the interview, "I think I shall be able to convince you that a mistake has been made.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000040_000000|It was nearly three o'clock when they landed on the Inverashiel pier.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000041_000001|Gimblet conducted the men to the cottage, where Lady ruth anxiously awaited them.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000042_000000|"If you don't mind their staying here," he suggested to her, "while I go up to the castle and consult Lord Ashiel about a magistrate, it will be most convenient, on account of the distance."
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000000|"By all means," said Lady ruth.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000001|"I feel safer with them.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000002|I expect you will find Miss Byrne up there.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000003|She has not come in to lunch, and I think she probably met Mark and went to lunch at the castle.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000004|She ought to know better than to go to lunch alone with a young man, and I am just wondering if she has changed her mind and accepted him after all.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000005|Girls are kittle cattle, but I've got quite fond of that one, and I hope she's not forgotten poor David so soon.
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000043_000006|I really am feeling anxious about her."
train-clean-100/5703/47212/5703_47212_000044_000000|"I daresay she has only walked farther than she intended," said Gimblet, "or perhaps she came to a burn or some place she couldn't get over, and has had to go round a mile or two.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000001_000000|THE INDIAN IN COLLEGE AND THE PROFESSIONS
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000002_000000|It is the impression of many people who are not well informed on the Indian situation that book education is of little value to the race, particularly what is known as the higher education.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000002_000001|The contrary is true.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000002_000002|What we need is not less education, but more; more trained leaders to uphold the standards of civilization before both races.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000002_000003|Among Indian college and university graduates a failure is very rare; I am sure I have not met one, and really do not know of one.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000003_000000|The press is responsible for many popular errors.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000003_000003|Consequently its graduates must attend a higher preparatory school for several years before they can enter college.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000004_000001|They have had to adjust themselves to a new way of thinking, as well as a new language, before they could master such abstract ideas and problems as are presented by mathematics and the sciences.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000004_000002|Their own schools graduate them at a mature age and do not prepare them for college.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000006_000000|I wish to contradict the popular misconception that an educated Indian will necessarily meet with strong prejudice among his own people, or will be educated out of sympathy with them.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000006_000001|From their point of view, a particularly able or well equipped man of their race is a public blessing, and all but public property.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000006_000002|That was the old rule among us. Up to a very recent period an educated Indian could not succeed materially; he could not better himself, because the people required him to give unlimited free service, according to the old regime.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000006_000003|I have even known one to be killed by the continual demands upon him.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000007_000001|Every complaint was brought to him, as a matter of course; and he was expected to expose and redress every wrong.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000007_000003|No doubt he often invited attacks upon himself by a rashness born of his ardent sympathy for his fellow tribesmen.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000007_000004|In this matter I speak from personal experience as well as long observation.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000008_000001|They made him carry too heavy a burden, without much recompense save honor and respect.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000008_000002|But we have pretty well passed through that period, and the native graduates of our higher institutions have begun to show their strength and enlarge their views.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000009_000000|NO "INFERIOR RACE"
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000010_000000|It was declared without qualification by the Universal Races Congress at London in nineteen eleven that there is no inherently superior race, therefore no inferior race.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000010_000001|From every race some individuals have mastered the same curriculum and passed the same tests, and in some instances members of so-called "uncivilized" races have stood higher than the average "civilized" student; therefore they have the same inherent ability. Certain peoples have remained undeveloped because of their religion, philosophy, and form of government; in other words, because of the racial environment.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000010_000002|Change the environment, and the race is transformed. Certainly the American Indian has clearly demonstrated the truth of this assertion.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000011_000000|The very mention of the name "Indian" in earlier days would make the average white man's blood creep with thoughts of the war whoop and the scalping knife.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000011_000001|A little later it suggested chiefly feathers and paint and "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." To day the association is rather with the Carlisle school and its famous athletes; but to the thinking mind the name suggests deeper thoughts and higher possibilities.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000012_000001|It is a fact that the intelligent and educated Indian has no social prejudice to contend with.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000012_000002|His color is not counted against him.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000012_000003|He is received cordially and upon equal terms in school, college, and society.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000013_000000|dr Booker Washington is in the habit of saying jocosely that the negro blood is the strongest in the world, for one drop of it makes a "nigger" of a white man.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000013_000001|I would argue that the Indian blood is even stronger, for a half blood negro and Indian may pass for an Indian, and so be admitted to first-class hotels and even to high society.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000014_000000|Some of us have entered upon every known professional career, such as medicine, law, the ministry, education and the sciences, politics and higher business management, art and literature.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000015_000000|SOME NOTED INDIANS OF TO DAY
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000016_000001|He was brought to Chicago by the man who ransomed him, a reporter and photographer, and when his benefactor died, the boy became the protege of the Chicago Press Club.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000016_000002|A large portrait of him adorns the parlor of the club, showing him as the naked Indian captive of about four years old.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000017_000001|All this time, although receiving some aid from various sources, he largely supported himself.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000017_000002|After graduation dr Montezuma was sent by the Government as physician to an Indian agency in Montana, and later transferred to the Carlisle school.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000017_000003|In a few years he returned to Chicago and opened an office.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000017_000004|He has been a prominent physician there for a number of years, and was recently married to a lady of German descent.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000017_000005|He stands uncompromisingly for the total abolition of the reservation system and of the Indian Bureau, holding that the red man must be allowed to work out his own salvation.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000018_000000|One of the earliest practitioners of our race was dr Susan La Flesche Picotte of the Omaha tribe.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000018_000001|Having prepared at Hampton Institute and elsewhere, she entered the Philadelphia Medical College for Women.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000018_000002|When she had finished, she returned to her tribe, and was for some time in the Government service.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000018_000003|She has since taken up private practice and also had charge of a mission hospital.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000019_000002|The honorable
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000019_000003|Charles Curtis, Senator from Kansas, was a successful lawyer in Topeka when he was elected to the House of Representatives, and later to the United States Senate.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000019_000004|His mother is a Kaw Indian.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000019_000006|Senator Owen of Oklahoma is part Cherokee.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000019_000007|The whole country has come to realize his ability and influence.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000019_000008|Representative Carter of Oklahoma is also an Indian.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000020_000002|We all know that governors and other men of mark have proclaimed themselves descendants of Pocahontas; I have met several in the West and South.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000020_000005|They must know that many distinguished army officers as well as traders and explorers left sons and daughters among the American tribes, especially during the first half of the nineteenth century.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000020_000008|The boy was called Berthold, from the place of his birth. He was afterward sent to Yankton College, but I do not know what became of him.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000020_000009|As for those brilliant men, so many in number, who have the blood of both races in their veins, I will not pretend to claim for the Indian all the credit of their talents and energy.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000021_000000|In the ministry we have many able and devoted men-more than in any other profession.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000021_000001|The Presbyterian Church alone has thirty eight and the Episcopal Church about twenty, with a less number in several other denominations, and two Roman Catholic priests.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000021_000003|Frank Wright, a Choctaw, is well known as an evangelistic preacher and singer.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000023_000000|Bishop Whipple developed many able preachers, of whom perhaps the most accomplished was the reverend Charles Smith Cook, of the Yankton Sioux.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000023_000001|He was the son of a Sioux woman and a military officer.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000023_000002|mr Cook was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, and later from Seabury Divinity School.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000023_000004|Stationed at Pine Ridge at the time of the Wounded Knee massacre, he opened his church to the wounded Indian prisoners as an emergency hospital.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000023_000005|His much regretted death occurred a few months later.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000024_000001|Henry Roe Cloud, a Winnebago, graduated from Yale and Oberlin.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000024_000005|john Eastman, who passed but a short time in school, has not only been a successful preacher among the Sioux but for many years their trusted adviser and representative to look after their interests at the national capital.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000025_000001|It is the express policy of the Government to use the educated Indians, whenever possible, in promoting the advancement of their race; indeed some of the treaties include this stipulation.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000025_000004|At least two are superintendents of schools.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000025_000005|A number of young women, Carlisle graduates, have taken up trained nursing as a profession, and are practising successfully both among whites and Indians.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000026_000001|William Jones, a Sac and Fox quarter blood, was a graduate of Hampton and of Harvard University.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000026_000005|It was the Chicago Museum which sent him to the Philippine Islands, where he was murdered by the natives a few years ago.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000028_000000|In literature several writers of Indian blood have appeared during the past few years, and have won a measure of recognition.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000028_000001|Francis La Flesche, an Omaha, has collaborated with Miss Alice c Fetcher in ethnological work, and is also the author of a pleasing story of life in an Indian school called "The Middle Five." Zitkalasa, a Sioux (now mrs Bonney), attended a Western college, where she distinguished herself in an intercollegiate oratorical contest.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000028_000004|The Five Civilized Nations of Oklahoma can show many other writers and journalists.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000030_000000|In the athletic world this little race has no peer, as is sufficiently proven by their remarkable record in football, baseball, and track athletics.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000030_000002|"Why," said he, "if I did that, half the press of the country would attack me for developing the original war instincts and savagery of the Indian! The public would be afraid to come to our games!"
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000031_000000|"Major," I said, "that is exactly why I want you to do it.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000031_000001|We will prove that the Indian is a gentleman and a sportsman; he will not complain; he will do nothing unfair or underhand; he will play the game according to the rules, and will not swear-at least not in public!"
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000032_000000|Not long afterward the game was introduced at Carlisle, and I was asked by the General to visit Montana and the Dakotas to secure pupils for the school, and, incidentally, recruits for his football warriors.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000032_000001|The Indians' victory was complete.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000032_000002|These boys always fight the battle on its own merits; they play a clean game, and lose very few games during the season, although they meet all our leading universities, each on its own home grounds.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000033_000000|From the fleet Deerfoot to this day we boast the noted names of Longboat, Sockalexis, Bemus Pierce, Frank Hudson, Tewanima, Metoxen, Myers, Bender, and Jim Thorpe.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000033_000001|Thorpe is a graduate of the Carlisle school, and at the Olympic Games in Sweden in nineteen twelve he won the title of the greatest all round athlete in the world.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000035_000000|I have been asked why my race has not produced a Booker Washington. There are many difficulties in the way of efficient race leadership; one of them is the large number of different Indian tribes with their distinct languages, habits, and traditions, and with old tribal jealousies and antagonisms yet to be overcome.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000036_000001|Sherman Coolidge, my brother, john Eastman, and myself.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000036_000003|If such a society were formed, it would necessarily take many problems of the race under consideration, and the officials at Washington and in the field are sensitive to criticism, nor are they accustomed to allowing the Indian a voice in his own affairs.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000036_000005|Very few Indians are sufficiently independent of the Bureau to speak and act with absolute freedom.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000037_000002|f a McKenzie of the university arranged the course, and soon afterward he wrote me that he believed the time was now ripe to organize our society.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000037_000003|We corresponded with leading Indians and arranged a meeting at Columbus for the following April.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000037_000005|We organized as a committee, and issued a general call for a conference in October at the university, upon the cordial invitation of dr McKenzie and President Thompson.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000038_000001|The society has five hundred active and about the same number of associate members; the latter are white friends of the race who are in sympathy with our objects.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000038_000002|Our first president is Rev.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000039_000000|Of course the obstacles to complete success that I have referred to still exist, and there are others as well.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000039_000001|Our people have not been trained to work together harmoniously.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000039_000002|It is a serious question what principles we should stand for and what line of work we ought to undertake.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000039_000004|Or should we keep clear of these matters, avoid discussion of official methods and action, and simply aim at arousing racial pride and ambition along new lines, holding up a modern ideal for the support and encouragement of our youth?
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000039_000006|Or should we rather do intensive work among our people, looking especially toward their moral and social welfare?
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000040_000000|I stand for the latter plan.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000040_000001|Others think differently; and, as a matter of fact, a Washington office has been opened and much attention paid to governmental affairs.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000040_000002|It is a large task.
train-clean-100/5750/100289/5750_100289_000041_000000|OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN INDIANS
train-clean-100/5750/35690/5750_35690_000009_000017|Of alteratives and cordials no man doubts, be they simples or compounds.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000001_000000|Continuation of Fremont's Account of the Passage Through the Mountains.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000002_000000|"We had hard and doubtful labor yet before us, as the snow appeared to be heavier where the timber began further down, with few open spots. Ascending a height, we traced out the best line we could discover for the next day's march, and had at least the consolation to see that the mountain descended rapidly.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000002_000001|The day had been one of April; gusty, with a few occasional flakes of snow; which, in the afternoon enveloped the upper mountains in clouds.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000002_000002|We watched them anxiously, as now we dreaded a snow storm.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000002_000004|For us, as connected with the idea of summer, it had a singular charm; and we watched its progress with excited feelings until nearly sunset, when the sky cleared off brightly, and we saw a shining line of water directing its course towards another, a broader and larger sheet.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000002_000006|On the southern shore of what appeared to be the bay, could be traced the gleaming line where entered another large stream; and again the Buenaventura rose up in our mind.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000003_000000|"Carson had entered the valley along the southern side of the bay, but the country then was so entirely covered with water from snow and rain, that he had been able to form no correct impression of watercourses.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000004_000001|They appeared so near, that we judged them to be among the timber of some of the neighboring ridges; but, having them constantly in view day after day, and night after night, we afterwards found them to be fires that had been kindled by the Indians among the tulares, on the shore of the bay, eighty miles distant.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000005_000000|"Axes and mauls were necessary today to make a road through the snow. Going ahead with Carson to reconnoitre the road, we reached in the afternoon the river which made the outlet of the lake.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000005_000001|Carson sprang over, clear across a place where the stream was compressed among rocks, but the parfleche sole of my moccasin glanced from the icy rock, and precipitated me into the river.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000005_000002|It was some few seconds before I could recover myself in the current, and Carson, thinking me hurt, jumped in after me, and we both had an icy bath.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000005_000003|We tried to search a while for my gun, which had been lost in the fall, but the cold drove us out; and making a large fire on the bank, after we had partially dried ourselves we went back to meet the camp.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000006_000000|"The sky was clear and pure, with a sharp wind from the northeast, and the thermometer twenty below the freezing point.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000007_000001|In the course of the morning we struck a foot path, which we were generally able to keep; and the ground was soft to our animals feet, being sandy or covered with mould.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000007_000002|Green grass began to make its appearance, and occasionally we passed a hill scatteringly covered with it.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000007_000005|All along, the river was a roaring torrent, its fall very great; and, descending with a rapidity to which we had long been strangers, to our great pleasure oak trees appeared on the ridge, and soon became very frequent; on these I remarked unusually great quantities of mistletoe.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000008_000000|"The opposite mountain side was very steep and continuous-unbroken by ravines, and covered with pines and snow; while on the side we were travelling, innumerable rivulets poured down from the ridge.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000008_000002|They were forty to fifty feet high, and two in diameter, with a uniform tufted top; and the summer green of their beautiful foliage, with the singing birds, and the sweet summer wind which was whirling about the dry oak leaves, nearly intoxicated us with delight; and we hurried on, filled with excitement, to escape entirely from the horrid region of inhospitable snow, to the perpetual spring of the Sacramento.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000009_000001|We took with us some of the best animals, and my intention was to proceed as rapidly as possible to the house of mr Sutter, and return to meet the party with a supply of provisions and fresh animals.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000010_000000|"Near night fall we descended into the steep ravine of a handsome creek thirty feet wide, and I was engaged in getting the horses up the opposite hill, when I heard a shout from Carson, who had gone ahead a few hundred yards.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000011_000000|"Carson and I climbed one of the nearest mountains; the forest land still extended ahead, and the valley appeared as far as ever.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000011_000001|The pack horse was found near the camp, but Derosier did not get in.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000012_000000|"We began to be uneasy at Derosier's absence, fearing he might have been bewildered in the woods.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000012_000001|Charles Towns, who had not yet recovered his mind, went to swim in the river, as if it was summer, and the stream placid, when it was a cold mountain torrent foaming among the rocks. We were happy to see Derosier appear in the evening.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000012_000002|He came in, and sitting down by the fire, began to tell us where he had been.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000012_000003|He imagined he had been gone several days, and thought we were still at the camp where he had left us; and we were pained to see that his mind was deranged.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000012_000004|It appeared that he had been lost in the mountain, and hunger and fatigue, joined to weakness of body, and fear of perishing in the mountains had crazed him.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000012_000006|In the meantime mr Preuss continued on down the river, and unaware that we had encamped so early in the day, was lost.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000002|Among these, the prevailing tree was the evergreen oak (which, by way of distinction, we shall call the live oak); and with these, occurred frequently a new species of oak, bearing a long, slender acorn, from an inch to an inch and a half in length, which we now began to see formed the principal vegetable food of the inhabitants of this region.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000003|In a short distance we crossed a little rivulet, where were two old huts and near by were heaps of acorn hulls.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000004|The ground round about was very rich, covered with an exuberant sward of grass; and we sat down for a while in the shade of the oaks to let the animals feed.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000005|We repeated our shouts for mr Preuss; and this time we were gratified with an answer.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000006|The voice grew rapidly nearer, ascending from the river, but when we expected to see him emerge, it ceased entirely.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000007|We had called up some straggling Indian-the first we had met, although for two days back we had seen tracks-who, mistaking us for his fellows, had been only undeceived by getting close up.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000008|It would have been pleasant to witness his astonishment; he would not have been more frightened had some of the old mountain spirits they are so much afraid of suddenly appeared in his path.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000009|Ignorant of the character of these people, we had now additional cause of uneasiness in regard to mr Preuss; he had no arms with him, and we began to think his chance doubtful.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000011|At one of these orchard grounds, we encamped about noon to make an effort for mr Preuss.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000013_000012|One man took his way along a spur leading into the river, in hope to cross his trail, and another took our own back.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000014_000000|At the end of four days, mr Preuss surprised and delighted his friends by walking into camp.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000014_000001|He had lived on roots and acorns and was in the last stages of exhaustion.
train-clean-100/5778/12761/5778_12761_000015_000000|Shortly the advance party reached Sutter's Fort where they received the most hospitable treatment.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000001_000000|james McNEILL WHISTLER
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000002_000001|He meant to have it one of the best in the world.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000002_000002|So he called an officer into his council chamber and said: "Now take plenty of time to look about in the different countries, have all the men you want to help you, but find me, somewhere, an engineer that will lay out a perfect railroad line." Men appointed by this colonel traveled some months.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000002_000003|They visited many cities, wrote letters, and asked advice.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000002_000004|Then the colonel went back to the emperor and said: "The man you need to do this piece of work lives in the United States of America."
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000003_000000|"What's his name?" asked Nicolas.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000004_000000|"He is Major George Washington Whistler.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000004_000001|He is one of the founders of the city in which he lives, lowell massachusetts.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000004_000002|He is a distinguished army officer and a fine engineer."
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000005_000000|"He is named for a great officer," answered Nicolas, remembering our General Washington, and he dispatched a letter to the Lowell engineer.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000006_000000|The major made haste to start for Russia, because the honor was great, and the payment would be generous.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000006_000001|He left his boys and his wife behind, because he did not know just how comfortable he could make them in the far off country, but he told the boys to be good and to mind their mother.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000007_000000|These boys were named james McNeill, William, and Charles.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000007_000001|Their mother was a fine woman, but sometimes they wished she would not be quite so strict.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000007_000002|She used to say on Saturday afternoons: "Come, boys, empty your pockets and gather up your toys; we will put the knives and marbles away and get ready for Sunday." All day Sunday they were not allowed to read any book but the Bible.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000000|james was the oldest in the family.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000001|He was born in Lowell and was such a cunning baby that everybody wanted his picture.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000002|One of his uncles, who loved him dearly, used to say: "It's enough to make Sir joshua Reynolds (this was a great English painter, who had died years before) come out of his grave to paint Jimmie asleep!" Jimmie had delicate features and long, silky, brown curls that hung about his face.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000003|In among these was one white lock that dropped straight down over his forehead.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000004|This looked like a tiny feather.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000005|More than all his playthings he liked a pencil and paper.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000006|From the time he could scribble at all he drew pictures of everybody and everything in sight.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000008_000007|These pictures were very good, and when he was large enough to go to school the other children were apt to ask him to make animals and birds for them on the blackboard.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000009_000000|Major Whistler soon sent for his family to join him in Russia.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000009_000001|It was a long, hard voyage there, and poor little Charlie died on the way.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000009_000005|They went skating, dressed in handsome furs; they learned the folk and fancy dances, joined in the winter sports, and voted Russia a fine country.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000009_000006|Still their parents did not let them forget they were little Americans.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000010_000000|The climate did not agree with james, and every time he caught cold he had touches of rheumatism, so that often he had to stay in the house and have his feet put in hot water.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000010_000001|Instead of making a fuss about this, he used to call for pencil and paper and practise drawing feet until he could make very perfect ones.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000010_000003|That old, tiresome rheumatism kept bothering him, and by and by he had a long rheumatic fever.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000010_000004|He was a dear, patient boy, however, and afterwards declared he was almost glad he had it because some one who pitied the small invalid sent him a book of Hogarth's engravings.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000010_000005|I want you to be sure and remember about this gentleness and patience, because when he was older people often accused him of being cross and rude.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000010_000006|But at this time I am sure no one could have been nicer.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000011_000000|james was very careful of his mother, too.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000011_000001|One evening she had taken the boys in a carriage to see a big illumination.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000011_000002|Bands were playing and rockets flying.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000011_000003|The horses next their carriage were frightened, and reared and plunged as if they would hit the Whistler party.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000011_000004|james shoved his mother down on the seat behind him, and standing in front of her, beat the horses back from them.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000011_000005|He always was as polite to her as if she were the emperor's wife.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000000|The major worked too hard on the great railway and died before james was fifteen.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000001|The emperor was fond of the two boys and wanted them to stay on in Russia and be trained in the school for pages of the Court.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000002|But their mother said they must grow up in America and hurried back to her own land.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000003|She did not have much money to spend but thought james should go to West Point to get the military training his father had had.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000004|At this academy he found he did not like to draw maps and forts nearly as well as he did human figures and faces.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000005|Once, when he had been sent to Washington to draw maps for the Coast Survey, he forgot what he was about and filled up the nice, white margins with pert little dancing folks.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000012_000006|He was well scolded for this, I can tell you.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000013_000000|james was a tall, handsome young fellow at this time, and liked to go about to dancing parties in the evening.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000013_000001|He earned very little making maps and could not afford to buy the real, narrow tailed coat which was proper.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000014_000001|He worked quite steadily and people began to say: "I think young Whistler is going to do great things some day." But suddenly he packed up and went to London.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000016_000000|It was fortunate that james could go a long time without food, for it took nearly all he could earn from his pictures to buy paint and canvas for others.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000016_000001|I dare say that quite often when it was said: "james McNeill Whistler is growing rude and cross," the real truth of the matter was that james McNeill Whistler was hungry and worried.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000000|However, he began to make money at last, and just as life seemed bright, an art critic, mr john Ruskin, declared that the Whistler pictures, which were being bought at big prices, were poor-very poor!
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000001|mr Ruskin spoke, and what was worse, printed his opinion.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000002|"I never expected," he wrote, "to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face!" Well, it did not look for a while as if there was any more good luck in the world for james Whistler.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000004|There was a trial in London, and the court room was crowded.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000005|Some were there because they already owned Whistler pictures and wanted to find out if they had paid good money for bad pictures; others because they were warm friends of the artist or the critic; but even more men and women went to hear the sharp questions of the lawyers and the clever answers of Ruskin and Whistler.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000006|Whistler won the case.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000007|When the judge awarded one farthing for damages (this is only a quarter of a cent in our money!), Whistler laughed and hung the English farthing on his watch chain for a charm.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000008|mr Ruskin had to pay the costs of the trial, which had mounted up to nineteen hundred dollars.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000009|Some of his friends insisted on raising that sum for him.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000017_000010|One of them said it was worth nineteen hundred dollars to have heard the talk that went on in the court room.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000018_000000|Later, mr Whistler received much more than two hundred guineas for a single picture.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000018_000001|Two famous ones, of which we often see prints, are "Portrait of my Mother" and the Scotch writer, "Carlyle." james Whistler's mother lived to be an old woman, as one can guess from the picture, and her son loved her just as dearly as he did when he beat the prancing horses away from her, in Russia.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000018_000002|The French nation bought this portrait, and it hangs in the Luxembourg Museum, Paris.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000018_000003|The Scotch people wanted to own the portrait of Carlyle, and the city of Glasgow was glad to pay five thousand dollars for it.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000019_000000|mr Whistler married a woman who was herself an artist, and she was very proud of him.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000019_000001|"The Duet", one of his pictures, shows his wife and her sister at the piano.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000019_000002|Two portraits by this American artist hang in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, but most of them are owned in England.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000000|james Whistler was always kind to young artists and liked to have them sit by him while he worked.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000001|They were very proud to be noticed by him, for long before he died he had received all kinds of honors and medals from foreign academies; and France, Germany, and Italy made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor, a Commander, and a Chevalier.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000002|He loved art so well that he made water colors, pastels, etchings, and lithographs, as well as oil paintings.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000003|He did not get his fame without much hard work.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000004|You remember how many times he copied his own foot when he was a child.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000005|Well, he was just as patient and thorough when he was older.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000006|For a long time he made a practice of drawing a picture of himself every night before he went to bed.
train-clean-100/5778/54535/5778_54535_000020_000007|He traveled a great deal, painting views in many countries and studying the pictures of other artists.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000013_000000|A FIT COMPANION,--FOR ME AND MY SISTERS.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000014_000007|But on this Wednesday he received a letter, and,--as he told himself, merely in consequence of that letter,--he called at the attorney's house and asked for Miss Masters.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000015_000001|"I have brought you a letter from my aunt," he said.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000016_000001|I am so glad."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000017_000000|"She was writing to me and she put this under cover.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000017_000001|I know what it contains.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000017_000002|She wants you to go to her at Cheltenham for a month."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000019_000000|"Would you like to go?"
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000020_000000|"How should I not like to go?
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000020_000001|Lady Ushant is my dearest, dearest friend.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000023_000000|"Why not go?"
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000024_000003|If the old lady had altogether kept Mary it might have been very well; but she had not done so and mrs Masters had more than once said that that kind of thing must be all over;--meaning that Mary was to drop her intimacy with high born people that were of no real use.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000024_000006|"I don't think it will be possible, mr Morton."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000028_000000|"What do you mean by that, mr Morton?" she asked blushing up to her hair.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000028_000002|Ever since that walk her mind had been troubled by ideas as to what he would think about her, and now he was telling her what he thought.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000032_000000|"Of course I shall answer her."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000033_000000|"Perhaps you can let me know.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000034_000002|I can explain it all to her and she will understand me." She hardly meant to reproach him.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000034_000004|But he felt that she had reproached him.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000037_000000|Then it seemed as though there were nothing else for him but to go;--and yet he wanted to say some other word.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000039_000000|"If I did think that,--that-"
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000040_000000|"It does not signify in the least.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000040_000001|I only want Lady Ushant to understand that if I could possibly go to her I would rather do that than anything else in the world.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000040_000002|Because Lady Ushant is kind to me I needn't expect other people to be so." Reginald Morton was of course the "other people."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000041_000000|Then he paused a moment.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000041_000001|"I did so long," he said, "to walk round the old place with you the other day before these people came there, and I was so disappointed when you would not come with me."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000042_000000|"I was coming."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000043_000000|"But you went back with-that other man."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000044_000001|What was I to do?
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000047_000000|"I didn't say so at all."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000050_000000|"I don't say that.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000050_000001|But as you were too grand for our friend of course you were too grand for us."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000052_000000|"You don't think that, mr Morton."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000054_000002|He had come there ardently wishing that she might be allowed to go to his aunt, and resolved that he would take her himself if it were possible.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000054_000003|But now he almost thought that she had better not go.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000054_000005|If she meant to marry mr Twentyman what good could she get by associating with his aunt or with him?
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000055_000000|After that he walked straight out to Bragton.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000055_000001|He was of course altogether unconscious what grand things his cousin john had intended to do by him, had not the Honourable old lady interfered; but he had made up his mind that duty required him to call at the house.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000055_000002|So he walked by the path across the bridge and when he came out on the gravel road near the front door he found a gentleman smoking a cigar and looking around him.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000055_000003|It was mr Gotobed who had just returned from a visit which he had made, the circumstances of which must be narrated in the next chapter.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000055_000005|Reginald lifted his hat and assented.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000055_000006|"mr Morton, sir, I think is out with the ladies, taking a drive."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000056_000000|"I will leave a card then."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000058_000000|"Oh, mr Reginald, is that you?" said old mrs Hopkins taking the card.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000058_000001|"They are all out,--except herself." As he certainly did not wish to see "herself," he greeted the old woman and left his card.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000062_000001|Good morning to you."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000064_000001|That was the name I heard up there.
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000065_000000|"My name is Morton."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000067_000000|"I am mr john Morton's cousin."
train-clean-100/5789/57158/5789_57158_000068_000003|Good afternoon to you, sir." Then Reginald having thus done his duty returned home.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000005_000005|In all that misery the poor attorney had the worst of it.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000005_000006|Mary was free from her stepmother's zeal and her stepmother's persecution at any rate at night;--but the poor father was hardly allowed to sleep.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000005_000015|In all these disputes he never quite yielded.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000006_000004|If Mary must go to Cheltenham, why could she not go by herself, second class, like any other young woman?
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000007_000002|Her letter to Mary, though affectionate, was very short.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000008_000002|She was not excellent herself at the writing of letters, and therefore she got Dolly to be the scribe.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000011_000000|Your affectionate friend,
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000013_000007|He wrote a scrawl to Dolly,--"I'll come," and, having sent it off by the messenger, tried to trust that there might yet be ground for hope.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000014_000001|She had no new argument to offer,--except this last interposition of Providence in her favour.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000017_000000|"It has all been put off.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000017_000001|She shan't go at all if I can help it."
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000018_000000|"But why has it been put off, mrs Masters?"
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000019_000000|"Lady Ushant is coming to Bragton.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000024_000001|He stood for awhile scratching his head as he thought of it.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000031_000000|"That's why I speak open to you.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000031_000001|Don't you be afraid of her.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000033_000001|I say there ain't nobody;--nobody.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000033_000002|If anybody tells you that it's only just to put you off.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000033_000003|It's just poetry and books and rubbish.
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000033_000004|She wants to be a fine lady."
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000034_000000|"I'll make her a lady."
train-clean-100/5789/57195/5789_57195_000035_000003|That's the way to win her." Larry did go to the club and did think very much of it as he walked home.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000012_000002|A respectable capacity for marshaling facts was fortified in him by a copiousness of impressive language that made juries as clay in his hands and sometimes disguised a doubtful interpretation of the rules of evidence.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000014_000003|This was not an impression of hardness.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000015_000000|Her husband, she said, had come up to his bedroom about his usual hour for retiring on the Sunday night.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000015_000005|She had spoken to him.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000016_000000|"Did he say why?" the coroner asked.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000017_000000|"Yes," replied the lady, "he did explain why.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000018_000000|"Because-" the coroner insisted gently.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000024_000000|But it was not to be yet.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000025_000002|Is it the fact that there was an estrangement between you?"
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000026_000003|He had changed towards me; he had become very reserved and seemed mistrustful. I saw much less of him than before; he seemed to prefer to be alone.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000033_000005|She was ashamed of herself; she thought she could go through with it, but she had not expected those last questions.
train-clean-100/5789/70653/5789_70653_000033_000008|It shook me so to have to speak of that," she added simply, "and to keep from making an exhibition of myself took it out of me.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000000|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Ibrahim son of Al Mahdi continued: "Now when the housemaster heard my name he sprang to his feet and said, 'Indeed I wondered that such gifts should belong to any but the like of thee; and Fortune hath done me a good turn for which I cannot thank her too much.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000001|But, haply, this is a dream; for how could I hope that one of the Caliphate house should visit my humble home and carouse with me this night?' I conjured him to be seated; so he sat down and began to question me as to the cause of my visit in the most courteous terms.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000003|Begin with the sister;' and he answered, 'With joy and goodwill.' So she came down and he showed me her hand and behold, she was the owner of the hand and wrist.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000004|Quoth I, 'Allah make me thy ransom!
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000007|Never heard I of his like." And he bade Ibrahim bin al Mahdi bring him to court, that he might see him.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000009|And Allah is the Giver, the Bestower!
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000005_000010|Men also relate the tale of
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000006_000000|THE WOMAN WHOSE HANDS WERE CUT OFF FOR GIVING ALMS TO THE POOR.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000007_000000|A certain King once made proclamation to the people of his realm saying, "If any of you give alms of aught, I will verily and assuredly cut off his hand;" wherefore all the people abstained from alms deed, and none could give anything to any one.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000008_000000|When it was Three Hundred and Forty eighth Night
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000009_000002|Now this was the woman who had given two scones as an alms to the asker, and whose hands had been cut off therefor; and when the King married her, her fellow wives envied her and wrote to the common husband that she was an unchaste, having just given birth to the boy; so he wrote to his mother, bidding her carry the woman into the desert and leave her there.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000009_000003|The old Queen obeyed his commandment and abandoned the woman and her son in the desert; whereupon she fell to weeping for that which had befallen her and wailing with exceeding sore wail.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000009_000004|As she went along, she came to a river and knelt down to drink, being overcome with excess of thirst, for fatigue of walking and for grief; but, as she bent her head, the child which was at her neck fell into the water.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000009_000008|And men relate a tale of
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000010_000000|THE DEVOUT ISRAELITE.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000012_000000|When it was the Three Hundred and Forty ninth Night,
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000013_000000|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the man took the trencher and jar to the bazar, but none would buy them of him.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000013_000005|And men recount this story of
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000015_000001|Things being on this wise there came to me one day certain of my servants and said to me, 'At the door is a pilgrim wight, who seeketh admission to thee.' Quoth I, 'Admit him.' So he came in and behold, he was a Khorasani.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000016_000000|When it was the Three Hundred and Fiftieth Night,
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000017_000001|So I said to him, 'Allah give thee health!
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000017_000004|Answered he, 'O my lord, it is yet but the first third of the night and indeed we have hardly had time to rest.' I returned to my bed, but sleep was forbidden to me and I ceased not to awaken the boy, and he to put me off, till break of day, when he saddled me the mule, and I mounted and rode out, not knowing whither to go.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000017_000005|I threw the reins on the mule's shoulders and gave myself up to regrets and melancholy thoughts, whilst she fared on with me to the eastward of Baghdad.
train-clean-100/5808/48608/5808_48608_000017_000008|Succour Abu Hassan al Ziyadi.' I awoke a second time, but knowing thee not I went to sleep again; and he came to me a third time and still I knew thee not and went to sleep again.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000007_000000|fourteen
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000008_000000|FRANKENSTEIN
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000000|Five years is but a short time in the life of a man, and yet many things may happen therein.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000001|For instance, the whole way of a family's life may be changed.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000002|Good natures may be made into bad ones and out of a soul of faith grow a spirit of unbelief.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000003|The independence of respectability may harden into the insolence of defiance, and the sensitive cheek of modesty into the brazen face of shamelessness.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000004|It may be true that the habits of years are hard to change, but this is not true of the first sixteen or seventeen years of a young person's life, else Kitty Hamilton and Joe could not so easily have become what they were.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000005|It had taken barely five years to accomplish an entire metamorphosis of their characters.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000006|In Joe's case even a shorter time was needed.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000009_000007|He was so ready to go down that it needed but a gentle push to start him, and once started, there was nothing within him to hold him back from the depths. For his will was as flabby as his conscience, and his pride, which stands to some men for conscience, had no definite aim or direction.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000000|Hattie Sterling had given him both his greatest impulse for evil and for good.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000001|She had at first given him his gentle push, but when she saw that his collapse would lose her a faithful and useful slave she had sought to check his course.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000002|Her threat of the severance of their relations had held him up for a little time, and she began to believe that he was safe again.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000003|He went back to the work he had neglected, drank moderately, and acted in most things as a sound, sensible being.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000004|Then, all of a sudden, he went down again, and went down badly.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000005|She kept her promise and threw him over.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000006|Then he became a hanger on at the clubs, a genteel loafer.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000008|He did not work, and yet he lived and ate and was proud of his degradation.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000010|After some demur she received him upon his former footing.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000011|It was only for a few months.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000012|He fell again.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000013|For almost four years this had happened intermittently.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000014|Finally he took a turn for the better that endured so long that Hattie Sterling again gave him her faith.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000016|She warmed to him.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000017|She showed him that she was proud of him.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000018|He went forth at once to celebrate his victory.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000019|He did not return to her for three days.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000010_000020|Then he was battered, unkempt, and thick of speech.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000011_000000|She looked at him in silent contempt for a while as he sat nursing his aching head.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000012_000001|"You ought to be put under a glass case and placed on exhibition."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000013_000000|He groaned and his head sunk lower.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000014_000000|His helplessness, instead of inspiring her with pity, inflamed her with an unfeeling anger that burst forth in a volume of taunts.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000015_000002|Drunk half the time and half drunk the rest.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000015_000003|Well, you know what I told you the last time you got 'loaded'?
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000015_000004|I mean it too.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000017_000000|For the first time he looked up, and his eyes were full of tears-tears both of grief and intoxication.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000017_000001|There was an expression of a whipped dog on his face.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000019_000000|Her eyes blazed back at him, but she sang on insolently, tauntingly.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000020_000000|The very inanity of the man disgusted her, and on a sudden impulse she sprang up and struck him full in the face with the flat of her hand.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000020_000001|He was too weak to resist the blow, and, tumbling from the chair, fell limply to the floor, where he lay at her feet, alternately weeping aloud and quivering with drunken, hiccoughing sobs.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000022_000001|"Now, go, you drunken dog, and never put your foot inside this house again."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000024_000000|Sadness and Skaggsy were together at the club that night.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000024_000001|Five years had not changed the latter as to wealth or position or inclination, and he was still a frequent visitor at the Banner.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000024_000002|He always came in alone now, for Maudie had gone the way of all the half world, and reached depths to which mr Skaggs's job prevented him from following her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000024_000003|However, he mourned truly for his lost companion, and to night he was in a particularly pensive mood.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000025_000000|Some one was playing rag time on the piano, and the dancers were wheeling in time to the music.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000025_000001|Skaggsy looked at them regretfully as he sipped his liquor.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000025_000002|It made him think of Maudie.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000025_000003|He sighed and turned away.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000026_000000|"I tell you, Sadness," he said impulsively, "dancing is the poetry of motion."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000027_000000|"Yes," replied Sadness, "and dancing in rag time is the dialect poetry."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000028_000000|The reporter did not like this.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000028_000001|It savoured of flippancy, and he was about entering upon a discussion to prove that Sadness had no soul, when Joe, with blood shot eyes and dishevelled clothes, staggered in and reeled towards them.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000029_000000|"Drunk again," said Sadness.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000029_000002|Hullo there!" as the young man brought up against him; "take a seat." He put him in a chair at the table.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000029_000003|"Been lushin' a bit, eh?"
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000031_000000|"Oh, a hair of the dog.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000031_000002|Here, Jack!"
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000032_000000|They drank, and then, as if the whiskey had done him good, Joe sat up in his chair.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000033_000000|"Ha'ie 's throwed me down."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000034_000000|"Lucky dog!
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000034_000001|You might have known it would have happened sooner or later. Better sooner than never."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000035_000000|Skaggs smoked in silence and looked at Joe.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000037_000000|"I would n't if I were you.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000038_000000|"I 'm goin' to kill her." He paused and looked at them drowsily.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000038_000002|He never stole that money.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000040_000000|"By Jove!" he exclaimed, "did you hear that?
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000040_000001|Bet the chap stole it himself and 's letting the old man suffer for it.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000040_000002|Great story, ain't it? Come, come, wake up here.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000040_000004|What about your father?"
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000041_000000|"Father?
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000041_000003|What?"
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000042_000000|"Here, here, tell us about your father and the money.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000042_000001|If he did n't steal it, who did?"
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000043_000000|"Who did?
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000045_000000|"Yes, he does, a drunken man tells the truth."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000046_000000|"In some cases," said Sadness.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000049_000000|"Well," sneered Sadness, "you see drunken men tell the truth, and you don't seem to get much guilt out of our young friend.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000000|"Oh, you have?
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000001|Well, don't handle it carelessly; it might go off." And Sadness rose.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000002|The reporter sat thinking for a time and then followed him, leaving Joe in a drunken sleep at the table.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000003|There he lay for more than two hours.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000004|When he finally awoke, he started up as if some determination had come to him in his sleep.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000005|A part of the helplessness of his intoxication had gone, but his first act was to call for more whiskey.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000006|This he gulped down, and followed with another and another.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000007|For a while he stood still, brooding silently, his red eyes blinking at the light.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000051_000008|Then he turned abruptly and left the club.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000052_000000|It was very late when he reached Hattie's door, but he opened it with his latch key, as he had been used to do.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000052_000001|He stopped to help himself to a glass of brandy, as he had so often done before.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000052_000003|She was a light sleeper, and his step awakened her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000053_000000|"Who is it?" she cried in affright.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000056_000000|She sprang up in bed, glaring angrily at him.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000058_000000|"You put me out to night," he said.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000059_000000|"Yes, and I 'm going to do it again.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000060_000000|She started to rise, but he took a step towards her and she paused.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000060_000001|He looked as she had never seen him look before.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000060_000002|His face was ashen and his eyes like fire and blood.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000060_000004|He took another step towards her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000061_000000|"You put me out to night," he repeated, "like a dog."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000062_000000|His step was steady and his tone was clear, menacingly clear.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000062_000001|She shrank back from him, back to the wall.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000062_000002|Still his hands twitched and his eye held her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000062_000003|Still he crept slowly towards her, his lips working and his hands moving convulsively.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000063_000000|"Joe, Joe!" she said hoarsely, "what 's the matter?
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000063_000001|Oh, don't look at me like that."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000064_000000|The gown had fallen away from her breast and showed the convulsive fluttering of her heart.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000065_000000|He broke into a laugh, a dry, murderous laugh, and his hands sought each other while the fingers twitched over one another like coiling serpents.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000066_000000|"You put me out-you-you, and you made me what I am." The realisation of what he was, of his foulness and degradation, seemed just to have come to him fully.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000066_000001|"You made me what I am, and then you sent me away. You let me come back, and now you put me out."
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000067_000000|She gazed at him fascinated.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000067_000001|She tried to scream and she could not.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000067_000002|This was not Joe.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000067_000003|This was not the boy that she had turned and twisted about her little finger.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000067_000004|This was a terrible, terrible man or a monster.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000000|He moved a step nearer her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000001|His eyes fell to her throat.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000002|For an instant she lost their steady glare and then she found her voice.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000003|The scream was checked as it began.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000004|His fingers had closed over her throat just where the gown had left it temptingly bare.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000005|They gave it the caress of death. She struggled.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000006|They held her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000007|Her eyes prayed to his.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000008|But his were the fire of hell.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000009|She fell back upon her pillow in silence.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000010|He had not uttered a word.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000011|He held her.
train-clean-100/5808/54425/5808_54425_000068_000012|Finally he flung her from him like a rag, and sank into a chair.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000001_000000|THE SECOND VISIT TO THE GUESTWICK BRIDGE.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000002_000001|So much having been, as it were, settled, he was able to speak of his visit as a matter of course at the breakfast table, on the morning after the earl's dinner party. "I must get you to come round with me, Dale, and see what I am doing to the land," the earl said.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000002_000002|And then he proposed to order saddle horses.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000002_000003|But the squire preferred walking, and in this way they were disposed of soon after breakfast.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000000|john had it in his mind to get Bell to himself for half an hour, and hold a conference with her; but it either happened that Lady Julia was too keen in her duties as a hostess, or else, as was more possible, Bell avoided the meeting.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000001|No opportunity for such an interview offered itself, though he hung about the drawing room all the morning.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000003|But this he declined; and taking himself away hid himself about the place for the next hour and a half.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000004|During this time he considered much whether it would be better for him to ride or walk.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000005|If she should give him any hope, he could ride back triumphant as a field marshal.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000006|Then the horse would be delightful to him.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000009|"And she is not like other girls," he thought to himself.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000003_000010|"She won't care for my boots being dirty." So at last he elected to walk.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000004_000002|It's my belief they'll give most to those who ask for most.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000004_000004|But Eames took his advice as being in itself good, and resolved to act upon it.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000000|He had last seen her on the lawn behind the Small House, just at that time when her passion for Crosbie was at the strongest.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000001|Eames had gone thither impelled by a foolish desire to declare to her his hopeless love, and she had answered him by telling him that she loved mr Crosbie better than all the world besides.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000002|Of course she had done so, at that time; but, nevertheless, her manner of telling him had seemed to him to be cruel.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000003|And he also had been cruel.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000004|He had told her that he hated Crosbie,--calling him "that man," and assuring her that no earthly consideration should induce him to go into "that man's house." Then he had walked away moodily wishing him all manner of evil.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000006|Crosbie had lost his love!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000007|He had so proved himself to be a villain that his name might not be so much as mentioned!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000008|He had been ignominiously thrashed!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000005_000011|At any rate I have a right to tell her now."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000006_000000|When he reached Allington he did not go in through the village and up to the front of the Small House by the cross street, but turned by the church gate and passed over the squire's terrace, and by the end of the Great House through the garden.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000006_000002|"mr john, may I make so bold!" and Hopkins held out a very dirty hand, which Eames of course took, unconscious of the cause of this new affection.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000008_000003|He was wermin!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000008_000005|I hated him ollays; I did indeed, mr john, from the first moment when he used to be nigging away at them foutry balls, knocking them in among the rhododendrons, as though there weren't no flower blossoms for next year.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000008_000006|He never looked at one as though one were a Christian; did he, mr john?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000009_000000|"I wasn't very fond of him myself, Hopkins."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000010_000003|He wasn't a wholesome lover,--not like you are.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000010_000004|Tell me, mr john, did you give it him well when you got him?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000011_000000|Eames passed on over the little bridge, which seemed to be in a state of fast decay, unattended to by any friendly carpenter, now that the days of its use were so nearly at an end; and on into the garden, lingering on the spot where he had last said farewell to Lily.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000011_000001|He looked about as though he expected still to find her there; but there was no one to be seen in the garden, and no sound to be heard.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000011_000002|As every step brought him nearer to her whom he was seeking, he became more and more conscious of the hopelessness of his errand.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000011_000004|He would have turned back had he not been aware that his promise to others required that he should persevere.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000011_000005|He had said that he would do this thing, and he would be as good as his word.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000011_000006|But he hardly ventured to hope that he might be successful.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000012_000000|"My dear, there is john Eames," said mrs Dale, who had first seen him from the parlour window.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000013_000000|"Don't go, mamma."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000014_000000|"I don't know; perhaps it will be better that I should."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000015_000000|"No, mamma, no; what good can it do?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000015_000001|It can do no good.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000015_000002|I like him as well as I can like any one.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000015_000003|I love him dearly.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000015_000004|But it can do no good. Let him come in here, and be very kind to him; but do not go away and leave us.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000016_000001|"We are in terrible confusion, john, are we not?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000017_000000|"And so you are really going to live in Guestwick?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000018_000000|"Well, it looks like it, does it not?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000018_000001|But, to tell you a secret,--only it must be a secret; you must not mention it at Guestwick Manor; even Bell does not know;--we have half made up our minds to unpack all our things and stay where we are."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000019_000000|Eames was so intent on his own purpose, and so fully occupied with the difficulty of the task before him, that he could hardly receive mrs Dale's tidings with all the interest which they deserved. "Unpack them all again," he said.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000019_000002|Is Lily with you, mrs Dale?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000020_000000|"Yes, she is in the parlour.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000021_000000|"How do you do, john?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000021_000001|"How do you do, Lily?" We all know the way in which such meetings are commenced.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000021_000002|Each longed to be tender and affectionate to the other,--each in a different way; but neither knew how to throw any tenderness into this first greeting.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000021_000003|"So you're staying at the Manor House," said Lily.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000022_000000|"Yes; I'm staying there.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000022_000001|Your uncle and Bell came yesterday afternoon."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000024_000000|"Oh, yes; Mary told me.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000024_000001|I'm so glad of it.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000024_000002|I always liked dr Crofts very much.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000024_000003|I have not congratulated her, because I didn't know whether it was a secret.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000024_000004|But Crofts was there last night, and if it is a secret he didn't seem to be very careful about keeping it."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000025_000001|"I don't know that I am fond of such secrets." But as she said this, she thought of Crosbie's engagement, which had been told to every one, and of its consequences.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000026_000000|"Is it to be soon?" he asked.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000027_000000|"Well, yes; we think so.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000027_000001|Of course nothing is settled."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000028_000001|"james, who took, at any rate, a year or two to make his proposal, wanted to be married the next day afterwards."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000029_000000|"No, Lily; not quite that."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000030_000000|"Well, mamma, it was very nearly that.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000030_000001|He thought it could all be done this week.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000030_000003|I don't know anybody I should so much like for a brother.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000031_000000|"I'm sure we shall,--if he likes it.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000031_000001|That is, if I ever happen to see him.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000031_000002|I'll do anything for him I can if he ever comes up to London. Wouldn't it be a good thing, mrs Dale, if he settled himself in London?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000032_000000|"No, john; it would be a very bad thing.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000032_000001|Why should he wish to rob me of my daughter?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000000|She had certainly shown defective judgment in desiring her mother not to leave them alone; and of this mrs Dale soon felt herself aware. The thing had to be done, and no little precautionary measure, such as this of mrs Dale's enforced presence, would prevent it.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000001|Of this mrs Dale was well aware; and she felt, moreover, that john was entitled to an opportunity of pleading his own cause.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000003|But yet mrs Dale did not dare to get up and leave the room.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000004|Lily had asked her not to do so, and at the present period of their lives all Lily's requests were sacred.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000005|They continued for some time to talk of Crofts and his marriage; and when that subject was finished, they discussed their own probable,--or, as it seemed now, improbable,--removal to Guestwick.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000006|"It's going too far, mamma," said Lily, "to say that you think we shall not go.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000007|It was only last night that you suggested it. The truth is, john, that Hopkins came in and discoursed with the most wonderful eloquence.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000008|Nobody dared to oppose Hopkins.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000035_000009|He made us almost cry; he was so pathetic."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000036_000000|"He has just been talking to me, too," said john, "as I came through the squire's garden."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000038_000000|"Oh, I don't know; not much." john, however, remembered well, at this moment, all that the gardener had said to him.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000038_000001|Did she know of that encounter between him and Crosbie? and if she did know of it, in what light did she regard it?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000039_000000|They had sat thus for an hour together, and Eames was not as yet an inch nearer to his object.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000039_000002|It seemed to him as though he would be guilty of falsehood towards the earl if he did so.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000039_000003|Lord De Guest had opened his house to him, and had asked all the Dales there, and had offered himself up as a sacrifice at the cruel shrine of a serious dinner party, to say nothing of that easier and lighter sacrifice which he had made in a pecuniary point of view, in order that this thing might be done.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000039_000004|Under such circumstances Eames was too honest a man not to do it, let the difficulties in his way be what they might.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000040_000000|He had sat there for an hour, and mrs Dale still remained with her daughter.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000040_000001|Should he get up boldly and ask Lily to put on her bonnet and come out into the garden?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000040_000003|"I am going to walk back to Guestwick," said he.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000042_000000|"I was always fond of walking," he said.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000042_000001|"The earl wanted me to ride, but I prefer being on foot when I know the country, as I do here."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000043_000000|"Have a glass of wine before you go."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000044_000000|"Oh, dear, no I think I'll go back through the squire's fields, and out on the road at the white gate.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000044_000001|The path is quite dry now."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000046_000000|"Lily, I wonder whether you would come as far as that with me." As the request was made mrs Dale looked at her daughter almost beseechingly.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000046_000001|"Do, pray do," said he; "it is a beautiful day for walking."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000047_000000|The path proposed lay right across the field into which Lily had taken Crosbie when she made her offer to let him off from his engagement.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000047_000001|Could it be possible that she should ever walk there again with another lover?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000047_000002|"No, john," she said; "not to day, I think. I am almost tired, and I had rather not go out."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000048_000000|"It would do you good," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000049_000000|"I don't want to be done good to, mamma.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000049_000001|Besides, I should have to come back by myself."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000050_000000|"I'll come back with you," said Johnny.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000051_000000|"Oh, yes; and then I should have to go again with you.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000051_000001|But, john, really I don't wish to walk to day." Whereupon john Eames again put down his hat.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000052_000000|"Lily," said he; and then he stopped.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000052_000002|"Lily, I have come over here on purpose to speak to you.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000052_000003|Indeed, I have come down from London only that I might see you."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000054_000000|"Yes, I have.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000054_000001|You know well all that I have got to tell you.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000054_000003|Dear Lily!" and he put out his hand to her.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000057_000001|How can it be otherwise?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000058_000000|"But he is gone.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000059_000000|"I cannot change myself because he is changed.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000059_000001|If you are kind to me you will let that be enough."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000060_000000|"But you are so unkind to me!"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000061_000000|"No, no; oh, I would wish to be so kind to you!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000061_000003|Dear john, I will do anything,--everything for you but that."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000062_000000|"There is only one thing," said he, still holding her by the hand, but with his face turned from her.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000063_000000|"Nay; do not say so.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000063_000002|I could not have that one thing, and I was nearer to my heart's longings than you have ever been.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000063_000003|I cannot have that one thing; but I know that there are other things, and I will not allow myself to be broken hearted."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000065_000000|"Not stronger, but more certain.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000066_000000|"I wish it could be otherwise;--I wish it could be otherwise!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000068_000000|"Tell me that I may come again,--in a year," he pleaded.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000069_000000|"I cannot tell you so.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000069_000001|You may not come again,--not in this way.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000069_000002|Do you remember what I told you before, in the garden; that I loved him better than all the world besides?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000069_000003|It is still the same.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000070_000000|"But it will not be so for ever, Lily."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000071_000002|john, if you understand what it is to love, you will say nothing more of it.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000071_000003|I have spoken to you more openly about this than I have ever done to anybody, even to mamma, because I have wished to make you understand my feelings.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000071_000005|It is to me almost as though I had married him.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000071_000006|I am not blaming him, remember. These things are different with a man."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000072_000000|She had not dropped his hand, and as she made her last speech was sitting in her old chair with her eyes fixed upon the ground.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000072_000005|"I should be disgraced in my own eyes if I admitted the love of another man!" They were terrible words, but very easy to be understood.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000072_000006|mrs Dale had felt, from the first, that Eames was coming too soon, that the earl and the squire together were making an effort to cure the wound too quickly after its infliction; that time should have been given to her girl to recover.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000072_000007|But now the attempt had been made, and words had been forced from Lily's lips, the speaking of which would never be forgotten by herself.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000073_000000|"I knew that it would be so," said john.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000074_000002|We will think of each other, john, and pray for each other; and will always love one another.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000074_000003|When we do meet let us be glad to see each other.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000074_000005|You are so true and honest!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000074_000006|When you marry I will tell your wife what an infinite blessing God has given her."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000075_000000|"You shall never do that."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000076_000000|"Yes, I will.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000076_000001|I understand what you mean; but yet I will."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000077_000000|"Good by, mrs Dale," he said.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000078_000000|"Good by, john.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000078_000002|I would have loved you dearly as my son; and I will love you now." Then she put up her lips and kissed his face.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000079_000000|"And so will I love you," said Lily, giving him her hand again.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000080_000000|"Poor fellow!" said mrs Dale.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000081_000000|"They should not have let him come," said Lily.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000081_000001|"But they don't understand.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000082_000000|He made his way out by the front door, and through the churchyard, and in this way on to the field through which he had asked Lily to walk with him.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000082_000001|He hardly began to think of what had passed till he had left the squire's house behind him.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000082_000004|He had gone some half mile upon his way before he ventured to stand still and tell himself that he had failed in the great object of his life.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000083_000000|Yes; he had failed: and he acknowledged to himself, with bitter reproaches, that he had failed, now and for ever.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000083_000003|A conquering hero, indeed!
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000083_000004|How should he manage to sneak back among them all at the Manor House, crestfallen and abject in his misery?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000083_000005|Everybody knew the errand on which he had gone, and everybody must know of his failure.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000083_000006|How could he have been such a fool as to undertake such a task under the eyes of so many lookers on?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000083_000008|How could he escape at once out of the country,--back to London?
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000084_000000|He crossed the road at the end of the squire's property, where the parish of Allington divides itself from that of Abbot's Guest in which the earl's house stands, and made his way back along the copse which skirted the field in which they had encountered the bull, into the high woods which were at the back of the park.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000084_000002|That ride home along the high road and up to the Manor House stables would, under his present circumstances, have been almost impossible to him. As it was, he did not think it possible that he should return to his place in the earl's house.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000084_000006|There he stopped and stood a while with his broad hand spread over the letters which he had cut in those early days, so as to hide them from his sight.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000085_000000|It was not only of his late disappointment that he was thinking, but of his whole past life.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000085_000001|He was conscious of his hobbledehoyhood,--of that backwardness on his part in assuming manhood which had rendered him incapable of making himself acceptable to Lily before she had fallen into the clutches of Crosbie.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000085_000003|When he had thus stood upon the bridge for some quarter of an hour, he took out his knife, and, with deep, rough gashes in the wood, cut out Lily's name from the rail.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000086_000000|He had hardly finished, and was still looking at the chips as they were being carried away by the stream, when a gentle step came close up to him, and turning round, he saw that Lady Julia was on the bridge.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000087_000000|"Oh, Lady Julia!"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000088_000000|"Has she offended you?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000089_000000|"She has refused me, and it is all over."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000091_000002|Do you mean to cut it out from your heart?"
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000092_000000|"Never.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000092_000001|I would if I could, but I never shall."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000093_000000|"Keep to it as to a great treasure.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000093_000001|It will be a joy to you in after years, and not a sorrow.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000094_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000095_000000|"And, john;--I can understand her feeling now; and indeed, I thought all through that you were asking her too soon; but the time may yet come when she will think better of your wishes."
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000097_000000|"If you can be constant in your love you may win her yet.
train-clean-100/5867/48852/5867_48852_000098_000001|It was well for him that she had come upon him in his sorrow.
train-clean-100/587/41611/587_41611_000009_000003|I think it's a shame, too.
train-clean-100/587/41611/587_41611_000031_000005|David promised to get me the tickets.
train-clean-100/587/41611/587_41611_000034_000000|"Eleanor?" exclaimed Nora.
train-clean-100/587/41611/587_41611_000034_000001|"After what she has said to you!
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000015_000004|mr Southard is shaking hands with her."
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000022_000000|"She looks like the 'Vendetta' or the 'Camorra' or some other Italian vengeance agency, doesn't she?" said Nora with a giggle.
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000023_000000|Grace laughed in spite of herself at Nora's remark, but regretted it the next moment, for Eleanor saw the glances directed toward her and heard Nora's giggle.
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000023_000001|She turned white and half started toward Grace, then stopped, and, turning her back upon the Phi Sigma Tau, began talking to Edna Wright.
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000028_000001|"What do you suppose she's up to now?"
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000035_000002|Besides, Miss Pierson is too short.
train-clean-100/587/41619/587_41619_000036_000000|"What you say about appearance is quite true, Miss Savell," replied Miss Tebbs frankly.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000004_000000|Chapter fifteen
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000005_000000|mr Levice, sauntering down the garden path, saw the trio approaching. For a moment he did not recognize the gentleman in his summer attire. When he did, surprise, then pleasure, then a spirit of inquietude, took possession of him.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000005_000004|For old man as he was, he realized that dr Kemp's strong personality was such as would prove dangerously seductive to any woman whom he cared to honor with his favor; but with a "Get thee behind me, Satan" desire, he had put the question from him.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000006_000000|"This is a surprise, Doctor," he exclaimed cordially, opening the gate and extending his hand.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000007_000000|Kemp grasped his hand heartily.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000008_000000|"I am a sort of surprise party," he answered, swinging Ethel to the ground and watching her scamper off to the hotel; "and what is more," he continued, turning to him, "I have not brought a hamper, which makes one of me."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000010_000000|"How is she?" he asked, turning with him and catching a glimpse of Ruth's vanishing figure.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000011_000000|"Feeling quite well," replied Levice; "she is all impatience now for a delirious winter season."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000012_000000|"I thought so," laughed the doctor; "but if you take my advice, you will draw the bit slightly."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000013_000000|mrs Levice was delighted to see him; she said it was like the sight of a cable car in a desert.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000013_000001|He protested at such a stupendous comparison, and insisted that she make clear that the dummy was not included.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000013_000002|The short afternoon glided into evening, and dr Kemp went over to the hotel and dined at the Levices' table.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000014_000000|ruth, in a white wool gown, sat opposite him.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000014_000001|It was the first time he had dined with them; and he enjoyed a singular feeling over the situation.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000014_000002|He noticed that although mrs Levice kept up an almost incessant flow of talk, she ate a hearty meal, and that ruth, who was unusually quiet, tasted scarcely anything.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000014_000003|Her father also observed it, and resolved upon a course of strict surveillance.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000014_000004|He was glad to hear that the doctor had to leave on the early morning's train, though, of course, he did not say so.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000014_000005|As they strolled about afterward, he managed to keep his daughter with him and allowed Kemp to appropriate his wife.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000017_000002|Now, when he decidedly objected to moving, it would have been heartless not to go.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000018_000000|"Don't consider me," said the doctor, observing his hesitancy.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000020_000000|If she had promised to take care of ruth, it would have been more to his mind; but since his wife was there, what harm could accrue that his presence would prevent?
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000024_000000|"I should like to show my prowess to you, Miss Levice."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000025_000000|"In what?" she asked, somewhat dazed.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000030_000000|"As yet," corrected Kemp.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000030_000001|"Then will you wrap something about you and come down to the river?"
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000034_000000|If dr Kemp wished to row, he should row; and since the Jewish mrs Grundy was not on hand, anything harmlessly enjoyable was permissible.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000035_000000|ruth went indoors.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000035_000001|This was certainly something she had not bargained for.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000035_000003|She felt a positive contempt for herself that his presence should affect her as it did; she dared not look at him lest her heart should flutter to her eyes.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000035_000004|Probably the display amused him.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000035_000005|What was she to him anyway but a girl with whom he could flirt in his idle moments?
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000035_000006|Well (with a passionate fling of her arms), she would extinguish her uncontrollable little beater for the nonce; she would meet and answer every one of his long glances in kind.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000037_000000|"Hadn't you better put something over your shoulders?" he asked deferentially as she appeared.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000038_000000|"And disgust the night with lack of appreciation?"
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000042_000000|She held them lightly in place on her shoulder.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000043_000000|"Allow me," he said, placing his hand upon the oars.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000045_000000|"Indeed, no," she answered; "why should I?
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000046_000000|He gently lifted her resisting fingers one by one and raised the broad bone of contention to his shoulder.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000047_000001|As they approached the river, the faint susurra came to them, mingled with the sound of a guitar and some one singing in the distance.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000048_000000|"Others are enjoying themselves also," he remarked as their feet touched the pebbly beach.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000048_000002|ruth went straight to the little boat aground on the shore.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000049_000000|"It looks like a cockle shell," he said, as he put one foot in after shoving it off.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000049_000001|"Will you sit in the stern or the bow, mrs Levice?"
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000050_000000|"In the bow; I dislike to see dangers before we come to them."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000051_000000|He helped her carefully to her place; she thanked him laughingly for his exceptionally strong arm, and he turned to ruth.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000052_000000|"I was waiting for you to move from my place," she said in defiant mischief, standing motionless beside the boat.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000053_000000|"Your place?
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000053_000001|Ah, yes; now," he said, holding out his hand to her, "will you step in?"
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000054_000000|She took his hand and stepped in; they were both standing, and as the little bark swayed he made a movement to catch hold of her.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000055_000000|"You had better sit down," he said, motioning to the rower's seat.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000057_000000|"I shall sit beside you and use the other oar," he answered nonchalantly, smiling down at her.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000058_000000|With a half pleased feeling of discomfiture ruth seated herself in the stern, whereupon Kemp sat in the contested throne.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000059_000000|"You will have to excuse my turning my back on you, mrs Levice," he said pleasantly.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000061_000000|It was a tiny boat; and seated thus, Kemp's knees were not half a foot from Ruth's white gown.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000064_000001|His flannel shirt, low at the throat, showed his strong white neck rising like a column from his broad shoulders, and his dark face with the steady gray eyes looked across at her with grave sweetness.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000064_000002|She would have been glad enough to be able to turn from the short range of vision between them; but the stars and river afforded her good vantage ground, and on them she fixed her gaze.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000067_000000|She leaned a little farther forward, looking past Kemp.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000068_000000|"Mamma!"
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000069_000000|Then she straightened herself back in her seat.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000069_000001|Kemp, noting the sudden flush that had rushed to and from her cheek, turned halfway to look at mrs Levice.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000069_000003|Levice slept.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000070_000000|dr Kemp moved quietly back to his former position.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000071_000001|Against the black lace about her head her face shone like a cameo, her eyes were brown wells of starlight; she scarcely seemed to breathe, so still she sat, her slender hands loosely clasped in her lap.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000072_000000|dr Kemp sat opposite her-and mrs Levice slept.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000073_000000|Slowly and more slowly sped the tiny boat; long gentle strokes touched the water; and presently the oars lay idle in their locks,--they were unconsciously drifting.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000073_000001|The water dipped and lapped about the sides; the tender woman's voice across the water stole to them, singing of love; their eyes met-and mrs Levice slept.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000075_000000|"Doctor," called a startled voice, "row out; I am right under the trees."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000076_000000|They both started.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000076_000001|mrs Levice was, without doubt, awake.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000077_000000|"I do not care to be Absalomed; where were your eyes, ruth?" she complained, as Kemp pushed out with a happy, apologetic laugh.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000079_000000|"It must be time to sight home now," said her mother; "I am quite chilly."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000080_000000|In five minutes Kemp had grounded the boat and helped mrs Levice out. When he turned for ruth, she had already sprung ashore and had started up the slope; for the first time the oars lay forgotten in the bottom of the boat.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000081_000000|"Wait for us, ruth," called mrs Levice, and the slight white figure stood still till they came up.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000082_000000|"You are so slow," she said with a reckless little laugh; "I feel as if I could fly home."
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000083_000001|She could not yet meet his eyes again.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000085_000000|"There is nothing abroad here but the stars," she answered, flitting before them.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000086_000000|"And they are stanch, silent friends on such a night," remarked Kemp, softly.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000087_000000|She kept before them till they reached the gate, and stood inside of it as they drew near.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000089_000000|As she turned in at the gate, he held out his hand to ruth.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000091_000000|She raised her shy eyes for one brief second to his glowing ones; and he passed, a tall, dark figure, down the shadowy road.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000093_000000|But in the dark his lamb's eyes were mysteriously bright.
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000093_000001|Sleep!
train-clean-100/587/54108/587_54108_000093_000002|With this new crown upon her!
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000003_000000|Chapter sixty four.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000003_000001|The Beggar.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000004_000001|On his wife's request, m de Villefort was the first to give the signal of departure.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000004_000005|Andrea Cavalcanti found his tilbury waiting at the door; the groom, in every respect a caricature of the English fashion, was standing on tiptoe to hold a large iron gray horse.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000005_000002|He contemplated with unspeakable delight the large diamond which shone on the major's little finger; for the major, like a prudent man, in case of any accident happening to his bank notes, had immediately converted them into an available asset.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000005_000005|The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace, nil admirari, had contented himself with showing his knowledge by declaring in what lake the best lampreys were caught.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000005_000006|Then he had eaten some without saying a word more; Danglars, therefore, concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious descendant of the Cavalcanti, who most likely in Lucca fed upon trout brought from Switzerland, and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the count to bring the lampreys from Lake Fusaro, and the sterlet from the Volga.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000005_000007|Thus it was with much politeness of manner that he heard Cavalcanti pronounce these words, "To morrow, sir, I shall have the honor of waiting upon you on business."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000006_000000|"And I, sir," said Danglars, "shall be most happy to receive you." Upon which he offered to take Cavalcanti in his carriage to the Hotel des Princes, if it would not be depriving him of the company of his son.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000006_000001|To this Cavalcanti replied by saying that for some time past his son had lived independently of him, that he had his own horses and carriages, and that not having come together, it would not be difficult for them to leave separately.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000000|As for Andrea, he began, by way of showing off, to scold his groom, who, instead of bringing the tilbury to the steps of the house, had taken it to the outer door, thus giving him the trouble of walking thirty steps to reach it.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000001|The groom heard him with humility, took the bit of the impatient animal with his left hand, and with the right held out the reins to Andrea, who, taking them from him, rested his polished boot lightly on the step.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000002|At that moment a hand touched his shoulder.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000004|But instead of either of these, he saw nothing but a strange face, sunburnt, and encircled by a beard, with eyes brilliant as carbuncles, and a smile upon the mouth which displayed a perfect set of white teeth, pointed and sharp as the wolf's or jackal's.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000005|A red handkerchief encircled his gray head; torn and filthy garments covered his large bony limbs, which seemed as though, like those of a skeleton, they would rattle as he walked; and the hand with which he leaned upon the young man's shoulder, and which was the first thing Andrea saw, seemed of gigantic size.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000006|Did the young man recognize that face by the light of the lantern in his tilbury, or was he merely struck with the horrible appearance of his interrogator?
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000007|We cannot say; but only relate the fact that he shuddered and stepped back suddenly.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000007_000008|"What do you want of me?" he asked.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000008_000000|"Pardon me, my friend, if I disturb you," said the man with the red handkerchief, "but I want to speak to you."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000009_000000|"You have no right to beg at night," said the groom, endeavoring to rid his master of the troublesome intruder.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000010_000000|"I am not begging, my fine fellow," said the unknown to the servant, with so ironical an expression of the eye, and so frightful a smile, that he withdrew; "I only wish to say two or three words to your master, who gave me a commission to execute about a fortnight ago."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000011_000001|Speak quickly, friend."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000012_000001|I am very tired, and as I have not eaten so good a dinner as you, I can scarcely stand." The young man shuddered at this strange familiarity.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000012_000002|"Tell me," he said-"tell me what you want?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000014_000000|"Yes," said the man, thrusting his hands into his pockets, and looking impudently at the youth; "I have taken the whim into my head; do you understand, Master Benedetto?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000015_000000|At this name, no doubt, the young man reflected a little, for he went towards his groom, saying, "This man is right; I did indeed charge him with a commission, the result of which he must tell me; walk to the barrier, there take a cab, that you may not be too late." The surprised groom retired.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000015_000001|"Let me at least reach a shady spot," said Andrea.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000016_000000|"Oh, as for that, I'll take you to a splendid place," said the man with the handkerchief; and taking the horse's bit he led the tilbury where it was certainly impossible for any one to witness the honor that Andrea conferred upon him.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000017_000000|"Don't think I want the glory of riding in your fine carriage," said he; "oh, no, it's only because I am tired, and also because I have a little business to talk over with you."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000018_000000|"Come, step in," said the young man.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000021_000000|"'How,' do you ask?
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000022_000000|"How does that annoy you?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000023_000000|"It does not; on the contrary, I think it will answer my purpose."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000025_000000|"What fine words he uses!"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000027_000000|"Well, well, don't be angry, my boy; you know well enough what it is to be unfortunate; and misfortunes make us jealous.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000027_000001|I thought you were earning a living in Tuscany or Piedmont by acting as facchino or cicerone, and I pitied you sincerely, as I would a child of my own.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000027_000002|You know I always did call you my child."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000028_000000|"Come, come, what then?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000029_000000|"Patience-patience!"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000030_000000|"I am patient, but go on."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000031_000000|"All at once I see you pass through the barrier with a groom, a tilbury, and fine new clothes.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000031_000001|You must have discovered a mine, or else become a stockbroker."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000032_000000|"So that, as you confess, you are jealous?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000035_000000|"How can I help that, my boy?
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000035_000001|I speak to you when I can catch you.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000035_000002|You have a quick horse, a light tilbury, you are naturally as slippery as an eel; if I had missed you to night, I might not have had another chance."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000037_000001|"It was very polite of you."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000038_000000|"Come," said Andrea, "what do you want?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000039_000000|"You do not speak affectionately to me, Benedetto, my old friend, that is not right-take care, or I may become troublesome." This menace smothered the young man's passion.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000041_000000|"No, but I was brought up in Corsica; you are old and obstinate, I am young and wilful.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000041_000001|Between people like us threats are out of place, everything should be amicably arranged.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000042_000001|Your tilbury, your groom, your clothes, are not then hired?
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000043_000000|"Oh, you knew that well enough before speaking to me," said Andrea, becoming more and more excited.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000043_000001|"If I had been wearing a handkerchief like yours on my head, rags on my back, and worn out shoes on my feet, you would not have known me."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000044_000000|"You wrong me, my boy; now I have found you, nothing prevents my being as well dressed as any one, knowing, as I do, the goodness of your heart.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000044_000001|If you have two coats you will give me one of them.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000045_000000|"True," said Andrea.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000046_000000|"What an appetite you used to have!
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000046_000001|Is it as good now?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000048_000000|"How did you come to be dining with that prince whose house you have just left?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000049_000000|"He is not a prince; simply a count."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000051_000000|"Yes; but you had better not have anything to say to him, for he is not a very good tempered gentleman."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000052_000001|I have no design upon your count, and you shall have him all to yourself.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000053_000000|"Well, what do you want?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000054_000000|"I think that with a hundred francs a month"--
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000055_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000057_000000|"Upon a hundred francs!"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000058_000000|"Come-you understand me; but that with"--
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000059_000000|"With?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000060_000000|"With a hundred and fifty francs I should be quite happy."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000063_000000|"Apply to the steward on the first day of every month, and you will receive the same sum."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000064_000000|"There now, again you degrade me."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000066_000000|"By making me apply to the servants, when I want to transact business with you alone."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000067_000000|"Well, be it so, then.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000067_000001|Take it from me then, and so long at least as I receive my income, you shall be paid yours."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000068_000000|"Come, come; I always said you were a fine fellow, and it is a blessing when good fortune happens to such as you.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000068_000001|But tell me all about it?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000069_000000|"Why do you wish to know?" asked Cavalcanti.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000070_000000|"What? do you again defy me?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000071_000000|"No; the fact is, I have found my father."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000072_000000|"What? a real father?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000073_000000|"Yes, so long as he pays me"--
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000074_000000|"You'll honor and believe him-that's right.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000074_000001|What is his name?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000075_000000|"Major Cavalcanti."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000076_000000|"Is he pleased with you?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000077_000000|"So far I have appeared to answer his purpose."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000078_000000|"And who found this father for you?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000079_000000|"The Count of Monte Cristo."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000081_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000083_000000|"Well, I will mention you to him.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000083_000001|Meanwhile, what are you going to do?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000084_000000|"I?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000085_000000|"Yes, you."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000087_000000|"Since you interest yourself in my affairs, I think it is now my turn to ask you some questions."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000088_000002|That is what I want."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000089_000000|"Come, if you will only put this scheme into execution, and be steady, nothing could be better."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000090_000002|A peer of France?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000092_000000|"Major Cavalcanti is already one, perhaps; but then, hereditary rank is abolished."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000093_000001|And now that you have all you want, and that we understand each other, jump down from the tilbury and disappear."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000094_000000|"Not at all, my good friend."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000095_000000|"How?
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000095_000001|Not at all?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000096_000000|"Why, just think for a moment; with this red handkerchief on my head, with scarcely any shoes, no papers, and ten gold napoleons in my pocket, without reckoning what was there before-making in all about two hundred francs,--why, I should certainly be arrested at the barriers.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000096_000003|No, no, my boy; I prefer remaining honorably in the capital." Andrea scowled.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000096_000004|Certainly, as he had himself owned, the reputed son of Major Cavalcanti was a wilful fellow.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000096_000005|He drew up for a minute, threw a rapid glance around him, and then his hand fell instantly into his pocket, where it began playing with a pistol.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000096_000007|The two friends, as we see, were worthy of and understood one another.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000097_000000|"I will do my best," said the inn keeper of the Pont du Gard, shutting up his knife.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000100_000000|"But, tell me," said Andrea, "am I to remain bareheaded?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000102_000000|"Come, come; enough of this," said Cavalcanti.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000103_000001|"I hope I am not the cause."
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000104_000000|"Hush," said Andrea.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000104_000001|They passed the barrier without accident.
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000107_000000|"But what am I to do?"
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000108_000000|"You?
train-clean-100/60/121082/60_121082_000108_000001|Oh, you are young while I am beginning to get old.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000002_000000|"Oh, good morning, Uncle William," she called, in answer to the masculine voice that replied to her "Hullo."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000004_000000|"No, indeed-not if you want me."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000005_000000|"Well, I do, my dear." Uncle William's voice was troubled.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000005_000001|"I want you to go with me, if you can, to see a mrs Greggory.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000005_000002|She's got a teapot I want.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000005_000004|Will you go?"
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000006_000000|"Of course I will!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000006_000001|What time?"
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000007_000000|"Eleven if you can, at Park Street.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000007_000001|She's at the West End.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000007_000004|You see, she's just made up her mind to sell it, and asked him to find a customer.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000007_000005|I wouldn't trouble you, but he says they're peculiar-the daughter, especially-and may need some careful handling.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000008_000001|That she was one day to be mistress of the Strata and all it contained was still anything but "common" to her.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000010_000000|"I'll take the risk of that.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000011_000001|Well, I'll come.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000012_000000|"Yes; and thank you, my dear.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000012_000001|I tried to get Kate to go, too; but she wouldn't.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000012_000003|Kate leaves this afternoon, you know, and it's been so snowy she hasn't thought best to try to get over to the house.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000013_000000|"I'm afraid not," returned Billy, with a rueful laugh.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000014_000001|But when the shabby house on the narrow little street was reached, the man looked about him with a troubled frown.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000015_000000|"I declare, Billy, I'm not sure but we'd better turn back," he fretted. "I didn't mean to take you to such a place as this."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000017_000001|Of course you won't turn back.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000020_000000|mrs Greggory was a cripple.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000021_000000|Billy's eyes were brimming with pity and dismay.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000021_000002|She had tried not to seem to look about her; but there was not one detail of the bare little room, from its faded rug to the patched but spotless tablecloth, that was not stamped on her brain.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000024_000000|A curious expression, or rather, series of expressions crossed mrs Greggory's face.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000024_000001|Terror, joy, dismay, and relief seemed, one after the other to fight for supremacy.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000024_000002|Relief in the end conquered, though even yet there was a second hurriedly apprehensive glance toward the door before she spoke.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000025_000001|Yes, I'm so glad!--that is, of course I must be glad. I'll get it." Her voice broke as she pulled herself from her chair. There was only despairing sorrow on her face now.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000026_000000|The man rose at once.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000027_000003|What a beauty!"
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000028_000001|Near it set a tray like plate of the same ware and decoration.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000029_000001|"I don't like to-with these," she explained, tapping the crutches at her side.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000030_000000|With fingers that were almost reverent in their appreciation, the collector reached for the teapot.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000030_000001|His eyes sparkled.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000031_000000|"Billy, look, what a beauty!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000031_000001|And it's a Lowestoft, too, the real thing-the genuine, true soft paste!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000031_000002|And there's the tray-did you notice?" he exulted, turning back to the shelf.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000032_000000|"These pieces have been in our family for generations," said mrs Greggory with an accent of pride.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000032_000001|"You'll find them quite perfect, I think."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000033_000000|"Perfect!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000034_000000|"They are, then-valuable?" mrs Greggory's voice shook.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000035_000001|But you must know that."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000036_000000|"I have been told so.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000036_000002|My mother and my grandmother owned that teapot, sir." Again her voice broke.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000037_000000|William Henshaw cleared his throat.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000038_000000|"But, madam, if you do not wish to sell-" He stopped abruptly.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000039_000000|mrs Greggory gave a low cry.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000040_000000|"But I do-that is, I must.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000040_000002|"I can't do much at work that pays.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000041_000000|Billy turned away sharply.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000042_000000|"And so you see, I do very much wish to sell."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000043_000001|"Perhaps you will tell me what it would be worth to you," she concluded tremulously.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000044_000000|The collector's eyes glowed.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000044_000001|He picked up the teapot with careful rapture and examined it.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000044_000002|Then he turned to the tray.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000044_000003|After a moment he spoke.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000045_000000|"I have only one other in my collection as rare," he said.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000047_000000|"A hundred dollars?
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000047_000001|So much as that?" she cried almost joyously.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000047_000003|A quick step had sounded in the hall outside.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000047_000004|The next moment the door flew open and a young woman, who looked to be about twenty three or twenty four years old, burst into the room.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000048_000000|"Mother, only think, I've-"
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000048_000001|She stopped, and drew back a little. Her startled eyes went from one face to another, then dropped to the Lowestoft teapot in the man's hands.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000049_000000|"Mother, what is it?
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000049_000001|Who are these people?" she asked sharply.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000050_000000|Billy lifted her chin the least bit.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000050_000001|She was conscious of a feeling which she could not name: Billy was not used to being called "these people" in precisely that tone of voice.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000050_000003|He, also, was not in the habit of being referred to as "these people."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000051_000000|"My name is Henshaw, Miss-Greggory, I presume," he said quietly.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000052_000001|"This gentleman says he will be glad to buy it.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000055_000000|"Yes, dear, but that won't be necessary now.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000056_000000|William Henshaw frowned angrily-that was the man; but his eyes-the collector's eyes-sought the teapot longingly.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000057_000001|"You didn't wait to let me tell you.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000057_000003|He will give us-a hundred dollars."
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000058_000000|"A hundred dollars!" echoed the girl, faintly.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000059_000001|Billy, watching the little scene, with mingled emotions, saw the glance with which the girl swept the bare little room; and she knew that there was not a patch or darn or poverty spot in sight, or out of sight, which that glance did not encompass.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000060_000002|There was no doubt on that point.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000062_000000|Alice Greggory turned as if stung.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000064_000000|"Alice, Alice, my love!" protested the sweet faced cripple, agitatedly.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000065_000001|"I know how much you think of that teapot that was grandmother's.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000065_000002|I know what it cost you to make up your mind to sell it at all.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000066_000000|"Alice!" gasped mrs Greggory in dismayed horror.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000067_000000|With a little outward fling of her two hands Alice Greggory stepped back.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000067_000001|Her face had grown white again.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000068_000000|"I beg your pardon, of course," she said in a voice that was bitterly quiet.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000069_000001|His face showed very clearly that he did not know what to do, or what to say; but it showed, too, as clearly, that he longed to do something, or say something.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000069_000002|During the brief minute that he hesitated, however, Billy sprang forward.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000070_000001|And then-won't you keep it for me-here?
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000070_000002|I haven't the hundred dollars with me, but I'll send it right away.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000070_000003|You will let me do it, won't you?"
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000071_000000|It was an impulsive speech, and a foolish one, of course, from the standpoint of sense and logic and reasonableness; but it was one that might be expected, perhaps, from Billy.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000072_000000|mrs Greggory must have divined, in a way, the spirit that prompted it, for her eyes grew wet, and with a choking "Dear child!" she reached out and caught Billy's hand in both her own-even while she shook her head in denial.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000073_000000|Not so her daughter.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000073_000001|Alice Greggory flushed scarlet.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000074_000000|"Thank you," she said with crisp coldness; "but, distasteful as darns and patches are to us, we prefer them, infinitely, to-charity!"
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000075_000000|"Oh, but, please, I didn't mean-you didn't understand," faltered Billy.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000077_000000|"Oh, Alice, my dear," pleaded mrs Greggory again, feebly.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000078_000000|"Come, Billy!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000079_000000|Once down the long four flights of stairs and out on the sidewalk, William Henshaw drew a long breath.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000080_000000|"Well, by Jove!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000080_000001|Billy, the next time I take you curio hunting, it won't be to this place," he fumed.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000081_000000|"Wasn't it awful!" choked Billy.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000082_000000|"Awful!
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000082_000001|The girl was the most stubborn, unreasonable, vixenish little puss I ever saw.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000082_000006|It was the man who said this, not the collector.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000083_000001|"But that girl was so-so queer!" she sighed, with a frown.
train-clean-100/6000/55211/6000_55211_000083_000002|Billy was puzzled.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000007_000000|King O'Toole and His Goose
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000008_000001|Well, sir, you must know, as you didn't hear it afore, that there was a king, called King O'Toole, who was a fine old king in the old ancient times, long ago; and it was he that owned the churches in the early days.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000009_000003|The king was walkin' one mornin' by the edge of the lake, lamentin' his cruel fate, and thinking of drowning himself, that could get no diversion in life, when all of a sudden, turning round the corner, whom should he meet but a mighty decent young man coming up to him.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000013_000000|"True for you," says the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000013_000001|"I am King O'Toole," says he, "prince and plennypennytinchery of these parts," says he; "but how came ye to know that?" says he.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000017_000000|"Oh, no matter; I was given to understand it," says Saint Kavin.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000018_000000|After some more talk the king says, "What are you?"
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000022_000000|"Is it a tinker you are?" says the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000024_000000|My dear, at the word of making his goose as good as new, you'd think the poor old king's eyes were ready to jump out of his head.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000029_000000|"I will," says the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000031_000000|"Honour bright!" says King O'Toole, holding out his fist.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000035_000000|"And what do you say to me," says Saint Kavin, "for making her the like?"
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000038_000000|"And that I'm beholden to you," says the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000040_000000|"I will," says King O'Toole, "and you're welcome to it," says he, "though it's the last acre I have to give."
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000041_000000|"But you'll keep your word true," says the saint.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000042_000000|"As true as the sun," says the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000044_000000|When the king was as good as his word, Saint Kavin was pleased with him, and then it was that he made himself known to the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000044_000001|"And," says he, "King O'Toole, you're a decent man, for I only came here to try you.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000044_000002|You don't know me," says he, "because I'm disguised."
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000048_000000|"I am," says Saint Kavin.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000049_000000|"By Jabers, I thought I was only talking to a dacent boy," says the king.
train-clean-100/6000/86686/6000_86686_000050_000000|"Well, you know the difference now," says the saint.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000008_000000|Thomas De Quincey
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000010_000000|"Why callest thou me murderer, and not rather the wrath of God burning after the steps of the oppressor, and cleansing the earth when it is wet with blood?"
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000011_000001|No tragedy, indeed, among all the sad ones by which the charities of the human heart or of the fireside have ever been outraged, can better merit a separate chapter in the private history of German manners or social life than this unparalleled case.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000011_000002|And, on the other hand, no one can put in a better claim to be the historian than myself.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000000|I was at the time, and still am, a professor in that city and university which had the melancholy distinction of being its theater.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000001|I knew familiarly all the parties who were concerned in it, either as sufferers or as agents.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000003|Nothing, I can take upon myself to assert, was left undone of all that human foresight could suggest, or human ingenuity could accomplish.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000004|But observe the melancholy result: the more certain did these arrangements strike people as remedies for the evil, so much the more effectually did they aid the terror, but, above all, the awe, the sense of mystery, when ten cases of total extermination, applied to separate households, had occurred, in every one of which these precautionary aids had failed to yield the slightest assistance.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000005|The horror, the perfect frenzy of fear, which seized upon the town after that experience, baffles all attempt at description.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000006|Had these various contrivances failed merely in some human and intelligible way, as by bringing the aid too tardily- still, in such cases, though the danger would no less have been evidently deepened, nobody would have felt any further mystery than what, from the very first, rested upon the persons and the motives of the murderers.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000012_000008|The very police, instead of offering protection or encouragement, were seized with terror for themselves.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000013_000001|In that respect, therefore, I had an advantage, being upon the spot through the whole course of the affair, for giving a faithful narrative; as I had still more eminently, from the sort of central station which I occupied, with respect to all the movements of the case.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000013_000003|I was personally acquainted with every family of the slightest account belonging to the resident population; whether among the old local gentry, or the new settlers whom the late wars had driven to take refuge within our walls.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000014_000003|He is English by birth, nephew to the Earl of e, and heir presumptive to his immense estates.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000014_000005|He is himself one of the noblest looking of God's creatures.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000014_000007|During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty second year.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000014_000008|As to his accomplishments, they will speak for themselves; they are infinite, and applicable to every situation of life.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000014_000009|Greek is what he wants from you;--never ask about terms.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000015_000000|Two or three other letters followed; and at length it was arranged that mr Maximilian Wyndham should take up his residence at my monastic abode for one year.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000016_000000|The Russian secretary had latterly corresponded with me from a little German town, not more than ninety miles distant; and, as he had special couriers at his service, the negotiations advanced so rapidly that all was closed before the end of September.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000016_000001|And, when once that consummation was attained, I, that previously had breathed no syllable of what was stirring, now gave loose to the interesting tidings, and suffered them to spread through the whole compass of the town.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000016_000002|It will be easily imagined that such a story, already romantic enough in its first outline, would lose nothing in the telling.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000016_000004|Unparalleled was the impression made upon our stagnant society; every tongue was busy in discussing the marvelous young Englishman from morning to night; every female fancy was busy in depicting the personal appearance of this gay apparition.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000017_000001|The commonplace maxim is, that it is dangerous to raise expectations too high.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000017_000003|But in any case where the merit is transcendent of its kind, it is always useful to rack the expectation up to the highest point.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000017_000004|In anything which partakes of the infinite, the most unlimited expectations will find ample room for gratification; while it is certain that ordinary observers, possessing little sensibility, unless where they have been warned to expect, will often fail to see what exists in the most conspicuous splendor.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000017_000005|In this instance it certainly did no harm to the subject of expectation that I had been warned to look for so much.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000018_000000|These thoughts traveled with the rapidity of light through my brain, as at one glance my eye took in the supremacy of beauty and power which seemed to have alighted from the clouds before me. Power, and the contemplation of power, in any absolute incarnation of grandeur or excess, necessarily have the instantaneous effect of quelling all perturbation.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000018_000001|My composure was restored in a moment. I looked steadily at him.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000018_000002|We both bowed.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000019_000000|"Blending the nature of the star With that of summer skies;"
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000021_000000|Two months had now passed away since the arrival of mr Wyndham. He had been universally introduced to the superior society of the place; and, as I need hardly say, universally received with favor and distinction.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000021_000001|In reality, his wealth and importance, his military honors, and the dignity of his character, as expressed in his manners and deportment, were too eminent to allow of his being treated with less than the highest attention in any society whatever.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000021_000002|But the effect of these various advantages, enforced and recommended as they were by a personal beauty so rare, was somewhat too potent for the comfort and self possession of ordinary people; and really exceeded in a painful degree the standard of pretensions under which such people could feel themselves at their ease.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000021_000003|He was not naturally of a reserved turn; far from it.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000021_000005|But the profound melancholy which possessed him, from whatever cause it arose, necessarily chilled the native freedom of his demeanor, unless when it was revived by strength of friendship or of love.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000021_000006|The effect was awkward and embarrassing to all parties.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000000|Were there, then, no exceptions to this condition of awestruck admiration?
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000002|Never was there so victorious a conquest interchanged between two youthful hearts- never before such a rapture of instantaneous sympathy.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000003|I did not witness the first meeting of this mysterious Maximilian and this magnificent Margaret, and do not know whether Margaret manifested that trepidation and embarrassment which distressed so many of her youthful co rivals; but, if she did, it must have fled before the first glance of the young man's eye, which would interpret, past all misunderstanding, the homage of his soul and the surrender of his heart.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000004|Their third meeting I DID see; and there all shadow of embarrassment had vanished, except, indeed, of that delicate embarrassment which clings to impassioned admiration.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000005|On the part of Margaret, it seemed as if a new world had dawned upon her that she had not so much as suspected among the capacities of human experience.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000006|Like some bird she seemed, with powers unexercised for soaring and flying, not understood even as yet, and that never until now had found an element of air capable of sustaining her wings, or tempting her to put forth her buoyant instincts.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000022_000007|He, on the other hand, now first found the realization of his dreams, and for a mere possibility which he had long too deeply contemplated, fearing, however, that in his own case it might prove a chimera, or that he might never meet a woman answering the demands of his heart, he now found a corresponding reality that left nothing to seek.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000023_000001|But, if this had been little anticipated by many, far less had I, for my part, anticipated the unhappy revolution which was wrought in the whole nature of Ferdinand von Harrelstein.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000023_000003|Anxious that his son should go through a regular course of mathematical instruction, now becoming annually more important in all the artillery services throughout Europe, and that he should receive a tincture of other liberal studies which he had painfully missed in his own military career, the baron chose to keep his son for the last seven years at our college, until he was now entering upon his twenty third year.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000023_000004|For the four last he had lived with me as the sole pupil whom I had, or meant to have, had not the brilliant proposals of the young Russian guardsman persuaded me to break my resolution.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000023_000006|Early he had felt that in her hands lay his destiny; that she it was who must be his good or his evil genius.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000000|At first, and perhaps to the last, I pitied him exceedingly.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000001|But my pity soon ceased to be mingled with respect.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000002|Before the arrival of mr Wyndham he had shown himself generous, indeed magnanimous. But never was there so painful an overthrow of a noble nature as manifested itself in him.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000003|I believe that he had not himself suspected the strength of his passion; and the sole resource for him, as I said often, was to quit the city-to engage in active pursuits of enterprise, of ambition, or of science.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000006|Still he turned a deaf ear to the only practical counsel that had a chance for reaching his ears.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000007|Like a bird under the fascination of a rattlesnake, he would not summon up the energies of his nature to make an effort at flying away. "Begone, while it is time!" said others, as well as myself; for more than I saw enough to fear some fearful catastrophe.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000008|"Lead us not into temptation!" said his confessor to him in my hearing (for, though Prussians, the Von Harrelsteins were Roman Catholics), "lead us not into temptation!--that is our daily prayer to God.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000009|Then, my son, being led into temptation, do not you persist in courting, nay, almost tempting temptation.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000010|Try the effects of absence, though but for a month." The good father even made an overture toward imposing a penance upon him, that would have involved an absence of some duration.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000011|But he was obliged to desist; for he saw that, without effecting any good, he would merely add spiritual disobedience to the other offenses of the young man.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000012|Ferdinand himself drew his attention to THIS; for he said: "Reverend father! do not you, with the purpose of removing me from temptation, be yourself the instrument for tempting me into a rebellion against the church.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000024_000013|Do not you weave snares about my steps; snares there are already, and but too many." The old man sighed, and desisted.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000025_000000|Then came-But enough!
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000025_000001|From pity, from sympathy, from counsel, and from consolation, and from scorn-from each of these alike the poor stricken deer "recoiled into the wilderness;" he fled for days together into solitary parts of the forest; fled, as I still hoped and prayed, in good earnest and for a long farewell; but, alas!
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000026_000000|So stood matters among us.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000026_000001|January was drawing to its close; the weather was growing more and more winterly; high winds, piercingly cold, were raving through our narrow streets; and still the spirit of social festivity bade defiance to the storms which sang through our ancient forests.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000026_000003|And such was the rivalship which prevailed, that often one quarter of the year's income was spent upon these galas.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000026_000004|Nor was any ridicule thus incurred; for the costliness of the entertainment was understood to be an expression of OFFICIAL pride, done in honor of the city, not as an effort of personal display.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000026_000005|It followed, from the spirit in which these half yearly dances originated, that, being given on the part of the city, every stranger of rank was marked out as a privileged guest, and the hospitality of the community would have been equally affronted by failing to offer or by failing to accept the invitation.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000001|Upon the evening at which I am now arrived, the twenty second of January, eighteen sixteen, the whole city, in its wealthier classes, was assembled beneath the roof of a tradesman who had the heart of a prince.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000002|In every point our entertainment was superb; and I remarked that the music was the finest I had heard for years.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000003|Our host was in joyous spirits; proud to survey the splendid company he had gathered under his roof; happy to witness their happiness; elated in their elation.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000005|The accomplished guardsman outshone himself in brilliancy; even his melancholy relaxed.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000006|In fact, how could it be otherwise?
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000007|near to him sat Margaret Liebenheim-hanging upon his words-more lustrous and bewitching than ever I had beheld her.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000008|There she had been placed by the host; and everybody knew why.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000009|That is one of the luxuries attached to love; all men cede their places with pleasure; women make way.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000027_000010|Even she herself knew, though not obliged to know, why she was seated in that neighborhood; and took her place, if with a rosy suffusion upon her cheeks, yet with fullness of happiness at her heart.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000028_000000|The guardsman pressed forward to claim Miss Liebenheim's hand for the next dance; a movement which she was quick to favor, by retreating behind one or two parties from a person who seemed coming toward her.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000028_000001|The music again began to pour its voluptuous tides through the bounding pulses of the youthful company; again the flying feet of the dancers began to respond to the measures; again the mounting spirit of delight began to fill the sails of the hurrying night with steady inspiration.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000028_000002|All went happily.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000028_000003|Already had one dance finished; some were pacing up and down, leaning on the arms of their partners; some were reposing from their exertions; when-O heavens! what a shriek! what a gathering tumult!
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000000|Every eye was bent toward the doors-every eye strained forward to discover what was passing.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000001|But there, every moment, less and less could be seen, for the gathering crowd more and more intercepted the view;--so much the more was the ear at leisure for the shrieks redoubled upon shrieks.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000003|From her superior height she overlooked all the ladies at the point where she stood.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000004|In the center stood a rustic girl, whose features had been familiar to her for some months.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000005|She had recently come into the city, and had lived with her uncle, a tradesman, not ten doors from Margaret's own residence, partly on the terms of a kinswoman, partly as a servant on trial.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000006|At this moment she was exhausted with excitement, and the nature of the shock she had sustained.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000007|Mere panic seemed to have mastered her; and she was leaning, unconscious and weeping, upon the shoulder of some gentleman, who was endeavoring to soothe her.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000008|A silence of horror seemed to possess the company, most of whom were still unacquainted with the cause of the alarming interruption.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000029_000010|The distance was not great; and within five minutes several persons returned hastily, and cried out to the crowd of ladies that all was true which the young girl had said.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000001|Many ladies fainted; among them Miss Liebenheim-and she would have fallen to the ground but for Maximilian, who sprang forward and caught her in his arms.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000002|She was long of returning to herself; and, during the agony of his suspense, he stooped and kissed her pallid lips.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000003|That sight was more than could be borne by one who stood a little behind the group.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000004|He rushed forward, with eyes glaring like a tiger's, and leveled a blow at Maximilian.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000005|It was poor, maniacal Von Harrelstein, who had been absent in the forest for a week.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000006|Many people stepped forward and checked his arm, uplifted for a repetition of this outrage.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000007|One or two had some influence with him, and led him away from the spot; while as to Maximilian, so absorbed was he that he had not so much as perceived the affront offered to himself.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000030_000008|Margaret, on reviving, was confounded at finding herself so situated amid a great crowd; and yet the prudes complained that there was a look of love exchanged between herself and Maximilian, that ought not to have escaped her in such a situation.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000000|An examination went on that night before the magistrates, but all was dark; although suspicion attached to a negro named Aaron, who had occasionally been employed in menial services by the family, and had been in the house immediately before the murder.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000001|The circumstances were such as to leave every man in utter perplexity as to the presumption for and against him.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000002|His mode of defending himself, and his general deportment, were marked by the coolest, nay, the most sneering indifference.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000003|The first thing he did, on being acquainted with the suspicions against himself, was to laugh ferociously, and to all appearance most cordially and unaffectedly. He demanded whether a poor man like himself would have left so much wealth as lay scattered abroad in that house-gold repeaters, massy plate, gold snuff boxes-untouched?
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000004|That argument certainly weighed much in his favor.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000005|And yet again it was turned against him; for a magistrate asked him how HE happened to know already that nothing had been touched.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000006|True it was, and a fact which had puzzled no less than it had awed the magistrates, that, upon their examination of the premises, many rich articles of bijouterie, jewelry, and personal ornaments, had been found lying underanged, and apparently in their usual situations; articles so portable that in the very hastiest flight some might have been carried off.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000007|In particular, there was a crucifix of gold, enriched with jewels so large and rare, that of itself it would have constituted a prize of great magnitude.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000008|Yet this was left untouched, though suspended in a little oratory that had been magnificently adorned by the elder of the maiden sisters.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000009|There was an altar, in itself a splendid object, furnished with every article of the most costly material and workmanship, for the private celebration of mass.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000011|She had clasped the golden pillars which supported the altar-had turned perhaps her dying looks upon the crucifix; for there, with one arm still wreathed about the altar foot, though in her agony she had turned round upon her face, did the elder sister lie when the magistrates first broke open the street door.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000012|And upon the beautiful parquet, or inlaid floor which ran round the room, were still impressed the footsteps of the murderer.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000013|These, it was hoped, might furnish a clew to the discovery of one at least among the murderous band.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000014|They were rather difficult to trace accurately; those parts of the traces which lay upon the black tessellae being less distinct in the outline than the others upon the white or colored.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000031_000015|Most unquestionably, so far as this went, it furnished a negative circumstance in favor of the negro, for the footsteps were very different in outline from his, and smaller, for Aaron was a man of colossal build.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000032_000000|In six weeks or less from the date of this terrific event, the negro was set at liberty by a majority of voices among the magistrates.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000032_000001|In that short interval other events had occurred no less terrific and mysterious.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000032_000003|But now came a series of cases destined to fling this earliest murder into the shade.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000032_000004|Nobody could now be unprepared; and yet the tragedies, henceforward, which passed before us, one by one, in sad, leisurely, or in terrific groups, seemed to argue a lethargy like that of apoplexy in the victims, one and all.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000032_000005|The very midnight of mysterious awe fell upon all minds.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000000|Three weeks had passed since the murder at mr Weishaupt's-three weeks the most agitated that had been known in this sequestered city.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000001|We felt ourselves solitary, and thrown upon our own resources; all combination with other towns being unavailing from their great distance.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000005|But, as things were, no man could guess what it was that must make him obnoxious to the murderers.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000006|Imagination exhausted itself in vain guesses at the causes which could by possibility have made the poor Weishaupts objects of such hatred to any man.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000007|True, they were bigoted in a degree which indicated feebleness of intellect; but THAT wounded no man in particular, while to many it recommended them.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000008|True, their charity was narrow and exclusive, but to those of their own religious body it expanded munificently; and, being rich beyond their wants, or any means of employing wealth which their gloomy asceticism allowed, they had the power of doing a great deal of good among the indigent papists of the suburbs.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000009|As to the old gentleman and his wife, their infirmities confined them to the house.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000010|Nobody remembered to have seen them abroad for years.
train-clean-100/6019/3185/6019_3185_000033_000011|How, therefore, or when could they have made an enemy?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000001_000000|FIVE times mr Thomas Harmon vainly rang the bell of the Remsen mansion. While engaged upon the sixth variation he became aware of a face in the window, scrutinizing him.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000002_000000|"All right," called the face.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000003_000000|mr Harmon was then admitted through a crack scarcely adequate to his well set, muscular frame, to the presence of mr Jacob Remsen, who wore an expensive dressing gown and an expression of unutterable boredom.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000004_000000|"Laid up?" inquired mr Harmon, shaking hands.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000005_000000|"Bottled up," answered the young man gloomily.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000006_000000|"Can I help?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000007_000000|"Possibly.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000007_000001|Did you ever kill a subpoena server?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000008_000000|"Not yet."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000009_000000|"Care to try?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000010_000000|"What does the thing look like?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000011_000000|"Cast your eyes toward the Avenue and you'll see one."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000012_000000|"Hm!
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000012_000001|Not much to look at, is he?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000013_000000|"A worse looking one comes on at ten and stays all night."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000014_000000|"I see," said the visitor.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000014_000001|"It's a blockade."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000015_000000|"Hard and fast."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000016_000000|Among mr Harmon's many endearing virtues is this: he never asks questions about other people's troubles.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000016_000001|He now busied himself in thought.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000017_000000|"Haven't you any of your amateur theatrical duds here?" was the outcome of his cogitations.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000020_000000|"Oh, certainly!" assented the other with bitterness.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000020_000001|"Put on a suit of tights and dive out of the conservatory window disguised as Annette Kellerman, I suppose."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000022_000000|"Just this.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000022_000001|Friend Murphy on watch hauls out his little paper and on the chance of its being me, slaps the wrist of anybody who appears on those steps.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000022_000002|He'll do it to you when you go out."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000023_000000|"He didn't when I came in."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000024_000000|"No, he wouldn't, coming in."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000025_000000|"Then why not fool him by coming in?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000026_000000|"How the devil can I come in without going out?" demanded mr Remsen crossly, for confinement was beginning to tell upon his equable disposition.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000027_000000|"Simplest thing in the world if you'll be guided by me."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000028_000000|"Spill it."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000029_000000|"Merely a matter of distracting Friend Murphy's attention for ten seconds.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000029_000001|At the end of the ten seconds you will be seen going up the steps to the front door.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000029_000002|Presently you will be seen coming down again, unable to effect an entrance against the watchfulness of the faithful Connor.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000030_000000|"I get you.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000030_000001|I'm to be in disguise.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000030_000002|But how shall we get the process server off guard?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000031_000000|"Leave that to me."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000032_000000|The two conspirators elaborated their plan, built it up, revised it, tested it at every point, and pronounced it perfect.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000033_000000|"But we've forgotten one point," said Remsen at the end of the discussion.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000034_000000|"What's that?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000035_000000|"Where do I go when I get out?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000036_000000|"Where do you want to go?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000037_000000|"Anywhere out of the world."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000039_000001|I've got it.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000039_000002|Refuges furnished to order.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000039_000003|You've never been to my place in the mountains, have you?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000041_000000|"Boulder Brook on Lake Quam.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000041_000001|Plumb in the dead center of nowhere. Thirteen miles from a railroad.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000041_000002|Fishing and hunting on the premises."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000042_000000|"Reads like a real-estate man's prospectus," observed Remsen.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000000|"This year," pursued Harmon, "I'm keeping open house for a special reason.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000001|Two fellows I know are getting married to morrow.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000002|It's a double wedding.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000004|But they aren't onto that yet." Harmon's clear brown eyes twinkled.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000005|"One half won't know how the other half lives till they get there.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000006|I've loaned the place to both couples for a fortnight.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000007|It's a dead secret.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000008|Neither couple knows where the other is going.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000043_000009|They're on oath."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000044_000000|"They won't thank you when they meet across the dinner table."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000045_000000|"Oh, it isn't as bad as that.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000045_000001|They'll be a mile apart.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000045_000002|The Lees will be at the cottage.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000045_000003|They get off at Meredith and go in on the truck.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000045_000004|The Woods I'm sending to the Island.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000045_000006|Unless they all happen to take the same train, one pair won't even know the other is around until they meet up on the lake or in the woods."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000046_000000|"Sounds like a party."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000047_000000|"Doesn't it?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000047_000001|Want to join?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000048_000000|"What?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000048_000001|Butt in on a double bridal tour?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000048_000002|Excuse me with thanks."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000049_000000|"No butt in about it.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000049_000001|You can go to Laconia, get yourself a car from the garage, and motor to the Bungalow.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000049_000002|That's at the third corner of my little triangular piece of mountain and forest.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000050_000000|"Wouldn't know them if I did.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000050_000001|Any other agreeable surprises about the resort?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000051_000000|"no Oh, yes.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000051_000001|I nearly forgot.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000051_000003|Girl.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000051_000004|Tired out.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000051_000006|Don't know what it is or who she is, but she's up against it for a month's rest.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000051_000007|So Miss Greene wished her on Boulder Brook, and welcome."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000052_000003|Or the co-educational Club?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000052_000004|Or which one of the numerous institutions you maintain in your private city?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000053_000001|mrs Bond, my housekeeper, is looking after her.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000053_000002|Seclusion is her watchword.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000053_000003|If you see her, make a noise like a dry leaf and blow away.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000053_000004|You'll go, won't you?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000054_000000|Remsen meditated.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000054_000001|"It certainly seems made to order.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000054_000002|And it's mighty good of you, old man.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000054_000003|Yes, I'll just take you up on that."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000055_000000|"There's a train at nine o'clock in the morning.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000055_000001|To morrow?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000056_000000|"Make it the day after.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000056_000001|I've got some things to attend to."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000057_000000|"Now, about our jail breaking scheme?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000057_000001|I've got an amendment.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000057_000002|How would it be if the taxi I arrive in should catch fire at the psychological moment?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000058_000000|"Can it be done?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000059_000000|"Easily.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000059_000001|I'm not a manufacturer of chemicals for nothing."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000060_000000|"Great!
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000061_000000|"That's your best make-up, is it, Remsen?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000062_000000|"As good as any.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000062_000001|Fortified by my accent, it is most convincing.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000063_000000|"Who?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000065_000000|"Am I supposed to know him?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000066_000000|"Rather.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000066_000001|Not know a man with whom you toured for two months in Japan?" said Remsen reproachfully.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000067_000000|"Stupid of me," confessed Harmon, grinning.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000067_000002|Good old Roddy! Certainly.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000068_000000|"Right o, old thing!
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000068_000001|Be here at eight thirty.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000068_000002|Cheery o!" said his host Britishly.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000069_000000|Promptly at that hour, on the second morning thereafter, a taxicab swerved violently into the curbstone almost at the feet of the patient and vigilant Murphy, and stopped with an alarming scrunch of brakes. From its window emerged a heavy puff of smoke.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000069_000001|From its door emerged mr Thomas Harmon, who rolled upon the pavement apparently strangling. mr Murphy rushed to his aid.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000069_000002|When he was restored to his feet and his breath, and the taxi had ceased to imitate Fafnir the Dragon, a tall figure in an extremely English ulster (which had hastily emerged from the Remsen front door, rushed down ten steps, and leisurely climbed them again) was wrenching violently at the bell.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000069_000003|For a time mr Murphy regarded him disdainfully, then crossed over, held brief colloquy, and returned.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000070_000000|"Hot chance he's got of breaking in," he observed to mr Harmon.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000071_000000|"What is he making all the fuss about?" inquired that gentleman as the visitor again applied himself forcefully to the bell.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000072_000000|"Wants to see mr Remsen.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000072_000001|But the old bulldog of a butler won't let him put his nose inside the door.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000073_000000|"England?
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000073_000002|It was done almost as well as that accomplished actor, mr Jacob Remsen, could have done it.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000074_000002|"What on earth are you doing over here?"
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000074_000003|The bell ringer adjusted a monocle and ambled down the steps to shake hands.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000074_000004|"Well met, m'deah fellah!
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000074_000005|Perhaps you can tell me what's amiss with this beastly house."
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000075_000000|"I'll tell you," proffered the obliging and innocent mr Murphy.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000075_000001|He did so.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000076_000000|"Then I'll just go back and jolly well camp there till somebody jolly well lets me in," decided the caller.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000077_000000|Argument followed while the chauffeur burrowed into the mechanism of his car.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000077_000001|It ended by the Englishman bestowing two dollars upon mr Murphy to get a message to mr Remsen containing a protest and an address.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000077_000002|The two gentlemen then moved away in the extinguished taxi.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000078_000000|Tickets had been provided by the forethoughtful Harmon.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000078_000001|The fugitive was the first man in the parlor car.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000078_000002|Hardly had he settled when a young couple in suspiciously new apparel arrived, and were shown into Drawing Room "A," at the upper end of the car.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000078_000003|Shortly after, another couple, also glistening as to garb, entered and took possession of Drawing Room "B," at the lower end of the car.
train-clean-100/6064/300880/6064_300880_000079_000000|"Here we are, all of us," he said to himself, retiring discreetly behind his newspaper.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000002_000000|A SOPHOMORE
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000003_000000|When Edith's brother Philip came in from College to spend Saturday and Sunday, Edith's house was apt to be a rendezvous for the other girls. Not that Philip was likely to waste much time with mere girls.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000003_000001|Not he! He was a Harvard sophomore, and realized his own importance quite as much as the girls did.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000003_000002|But still there was always the chance that he would come into the room just for a minute, and tell them some of the latest Cambridge news.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000003_000003|He would have scorned to call it gossip.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000003_000004|If there was any one thing in the world he hated-so he said-it was girls' talk, this jabbering about nothing.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000004_000000|"And upon my word," he concluded, "I wasn't sorry, for the New York set is getting just unbearable.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000004_000002|I guess I'd show him that New York isn't the whole world."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000005_000000|"I should say not," exclaimed Nora; but Belle, who had some New York cousins, was silent.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000005_000001|Brenda, however, noticing Belle's expression, and not feeling disposed to side completely with Nora, said,
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000007_000000|"I didn't say so," replied Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000008_000000|"No, but that's what you mean, and I'm surprised, Philip Blair, that a boy should be so awfully one sided."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000009_000000|"Well, you'd better talk, Brenda Barlow," broke in Nora again.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000009_000001|"Just see the way you treat Julia.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000009_000002|If she'd been born in Boston----"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000010_000000|"I don't treat her," interrupted Brenda.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000012_000000|"Oh, I say," said Philip, from his place in front of the mantelpiece, "how queer girls are; do you always fight like this when you're together?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000013_000000|"We don't fight like you boys," answered Edith, good humoredly.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000013_000001|"We don't knock each other down and run the risk of breaking one another's noses."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000014_000000|Philip looked over his shoulder in the glass.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000014_000001|There was nothing the matter with his own shapely nose, and I doubt that he would have run any such risk as Edith suggested.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000014_000002|Perhaps this was the reason why Philip was not a fighter.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000014_000003|There was one good thing about the little disputes in which Brenda and Belle indulged.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000014_000004|They very seldom lasted long.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000014_000005|In the present instance the girls were ashamed of having shown temper before Philip.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000015_000000|"Oh, say, did you hear about the time Will Hardon had with the Dicky, last week?" he asked.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000016_000000|Nora nodded.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000016_000001|She, too, had a brother in College.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000017_000000|"What was it?" asked Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000018_000000|"How funny you are, Edith," said Belle.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000018_000001|"You never hear anything.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000018_000002|Hasn't anyone told you how the other fellows made him run blindfolded in his shirt sleeves down Beacon Street?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000019_000000|"No, really?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000020_000000|"Of course, really!"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000021_000000|"And then they led him up the steps into mrs Oxford's when she was giving an afternoon tea, and when they took the bandage off his eyes there he was in his shirt sleeves, without his hat, and his hair all tumbled, and everybody looking at him."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000022_000000|"Oh," said one girl, and "Ah," said another; and "How silly!" they all cried together.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000023_000000|"If girls amused themselves like that what fun you'd make of us!" said the practical Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000024_000000|"I shouldn't think there'd be much fun in making anybody uncomfortable."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000025_000000|"Oh, it gives a fellow a chance to show what kind of stuff he's made of," explained Philip, "whether he has good manners, and whether he's clever-and all that."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000026_000000|"There must be better ways of showing bravery," said the practical Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000027_000000|"We knew something about his manners."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000028_000000|"What?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000029_000000|"Why, when he saw where he was, he didn't run away, or flunk out.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000030_000000|"Wasn't he mad at the two fellows for taking him there?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000031_000000|"Of course not; that's a part of the thing.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000031_000001|Why, there are fellows in Cambridge who would go through fire and water, or stand on their heads in front of a pulpit for the sake of getting into the Dicky.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000031_000002|I tell you we make some of them suffer."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000032_000000|Philip said "we" with a rather important air, although he had belonged to the illustrious organization a very short time.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000034_000000|"If you went to College you'd see more use in them."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000035_000000|"I'm glad girls don't go to College."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000036_000000|"Oh, some do!"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000037_000000|"Not girls we know."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000039_000000|"Well, I declare," exclaimed Nora, "I'd like to know what difference it makes to them."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000040_000000|"Oh, they hate to see these girls going about with books, and trying to get into Harvard."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000041_000000|"Yes, trying to break down the walls," said Nora, sarcastically.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000043_000000|"Are you afraid they'd get ahead of you?" asked Edith, gently.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000044_000000|"Now, look here, Edith, I don't want you to talk that way," responded Philip with brotherly authority.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000044_000001|"There isn't any danger of girls getting ahead of us."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000046_000000|"Oh, yes, I've heard it too," interrupted Philip.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000046_000001|"I've heard that some professors say that their Annex classes do better work than ours,--but anybody can tell that that's all rot."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000047_000000|"I believe it's all perfectly true," said Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000048_000000|"Well, I wish myself that our English instructor hadn't such a fondness for reading themes to us that the girls have written.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000048_000001|He makes out that they are better than ours, but I can't say that I see it myself."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000049_000000|"Who gets the best marks?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000050_000000|"I'm sure I can't say.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000050_000002|But I wouldn't let a sister of mine go to College," he concluded inconsequently.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000051_000000|"It's a good thing Edith doesn't wish to go," said Nora; adding mischievously, "but Brenda Barlow's cousin Julia is going."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000053_000000|"Does Julia wear glasses, or look green?
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000054_000001|"She's about the nicest girl I know."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000055_000000|"Oh, she is lovely," added Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000056_000000|"A matter of opinion," murmured Belle under her breath.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000057_000000|"You don't mean to say you haven't seen her," cried Brenda in surprise.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000058_000000|"No, I haven't happened to," answered Philip.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000059_000000|"She's invited to my cooking party next week," said Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000059_000001|"You know that you've accepted too, so you'll see her."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000060_000000|"Oh, yes, by the way," said Philip, "what evening is it?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000061_000000|"Friday, of course," replied Nora, "so we can sit up late without thinking about school the next day."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000062_000000|"Well, you'll see me sure," said Philip.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000062_000001|"But see here, it's five o'clock now and I have an engagement down town."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000063_000000|Philip hurried off, bowing in a very grown up way to the group of girls. For whatever criticisms any one might make about Philip's indolence and disinclination to study, no one could deny that he had very good manners.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000063_000001|Though only about four years their senior, he seemed much older than Brenda and her friends.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000063_000002|Years before they had all been playmates together, but his two years in College had taken him away from them, and it was not often that he condescended to spend as long a time in their presence as had been the case this afternoon.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000064_000000|"Do you think that Philip looks very well, Edith," asked Belle when he had left the room.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000066_000000|"It seemed to me he was just a little pale."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000067_000000|"He is always pale," said Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000068_000000|"Do you suppose he sits up too late?" asked Brenda.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000070_000000|"How can you?" cried Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000070_000001|"How can you criticise Edith's brother?
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000070_000002|Don't let her do it, Edith."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000071_000000|"It doesn't trouble me," answered the placid Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000071_000001|"I know all about Philip, and he's good enough for me."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000072_000000|"That's right," said Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000072_000001|"Always stand up for your brother.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000072_000002|But I do think he might have better friends.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000072_000003|He really isn't very particular."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000073_000000|"Why, what do you mean?"
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000074_000000|"Oh, I don't know exactly, but I heard my brother talking the other day. He says there are two or three fellows just sponging off of Philip all the time, and Philip is too good-natured to say anything."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000075_000000|"I wonder how he'll like Julia," said Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000076_000000|"Oh, he won't like that kind of a girl," hastily interposed Belle.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000076_000001|"Boys never like a girl who studies; especially one who is going to College."
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000078_000000|"And Philip is one of the nicest young men I know," said Brenda, politely, turning to Edith.
train-clean-100/6064/56165/6064_56165_000078_000001|"But don't tell him I said so," she added with a blush.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000000_000000|thirteen
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000001_000000|GREAT EXPECTATIONS
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000002_000000|For a week before Thanksgiving there was great excitement among the schoolgirls on account of the approaching football game.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000002_000001|The "Four" were as excited as the others, although not so many of their own particular friends were in the Harvard team.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000002_000002|It was to be a game with Princeton, one of the great University matches, and for special reasons there was the deepest interest in the match.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000002_000003|Those girls who had brothers in college, or even cousins or friends, held themselves with more dignity than any of the others, and those who had relatives in the team "were too proud for anything," as Brenda said.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000002_000004|The game was to be played in Holmes' Field, and tickets were not easy to get, because the seats were far less numerous than now on the great Soldiers' Field.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000003_000000|Edith at this time became unusually popular, because it was known that her mother had given her permission to arrange a large party to accompany her to the game, and every girl was hoping for an invitation-every girl, at least who had not been invited elsewhere to go in some other party.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000007_000000|"Why, who is it?" cried Brenda, and "Who is it?" echoed Belle.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000008_000000|"I know that you can't guess."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000009_000000|"Oh, don't be silly, Nora, it wouldn't be worth while to guess about something you'll know all about so soon, except that you speak as if it were some one we might not care to have, and if that's the case, I declare it's too bad," said Belle.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000010_000000|"If it's anything like that," broke in Brenda, rather snappishly, "I will just tell Edith what I think."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000012_000000|"Oh," cried Belle, and "Ah," echoed Brenda.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000014_000000|"Well, I don't care," rejoined Brenda, "it's hard enough to have Julia tagging about everywhere, but why in the world we should have ruth Roberts, when we never see her anywhere except at school, I really cannot understand, and I don't see how you and Nora can like it either."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000016_000001|There isn't a bit of sense in knowing people that we'll never see when we're in society," responded Belle, while Brenda echoed, "Yes, that's what I think, too."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000017_000000|Nora smiled pleasantly, and her eyes looked brighter than ever under the rim of her brown felt hat, with its trimmings of lighter brown.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000017_000001|Nora's temper was not easily ruffled.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000017_000002|Then Belle added a final word.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000018_000000|"Oh, it's clear that this is all Julia's doings; ever since ruth went into her Latin class they have been awfully intimate.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000018_000001|But I don't see," turning rather snappishly towards Brenda, "why the rest of us have got to take up ruth Roberts just because your Cousin Julia is so devoted to her."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000019_000001|I should think that you would see that yourself."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000020_000000|"Oh, well," said Nora laughing, "the whole thing is not worth quarreling about.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000020_000001|I'm glad to hear you talk so sensibly, Brenda.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000020_000002|If you hadn't, I was going to tell Belle that it seems to me that Edith has a right to ask any one she wishes.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000020_000003|She is always very good to us all, and just think how many tickets her father has bought for this game!"
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000021_000000|"Yes, I know, but still----"
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000022_000001|"The least said, the soonest mended, and let us all go to the game with a crimson flag in each hand to wave for the winners."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000023_000000|"Crimson," cried Belle, "I am going to carry an orange scarf, and perhaps an orange flag."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000024_000000|"What for?
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000024_000001|why I never heard of such a thing!" exclaimed Nora.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000025_000000|"Nor I!" cried Brenda, "at a Harvard game!"
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000026_000000|"Isn't it a Princeton game, too," asked Belle, "two or three of the boys I used to know in New York are in that team, one of them is a kind of cousin of mine."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000027_000000|"Oh," said Nora, "I didn't know that you thought that people had to be so very devoted to cousins."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000028_000000|Even Belle herself could not help smiling at this, which was very appropriate, following so closely, as it did, her own remarks about Julia.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000029_000000|"You can see yourself that this is different," she answered.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000029_000001|"I should call it very impolite if there were no orange flags shown at the game."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000030_000000|"Well, you have the most ridiculous ideas, hasn't she, Brenda?"
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000032_000000|"I never said that Harvard was my side," interrupted Belle, "didn't I tell you that I have a cousin on the Princeton team."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000033_000001|Why, Belle, I cannot imagine your doing anything else."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000034_000000|"I'm not a child," responded Belle very crossly, walking away from Nora and Brenda, "I do not need to be told what to do."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000035_000000|What Nora or Brenda might have answered, I cannot say, for hardly had Belle disappeared within the house, when Edith herself appeared, with Julia and ruth.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000036_000000|ruth was a pretty and amiable girl, about Julia's age, and therefore a little older than "The Four." She had been in the school for two years before the coming of Julia, but in all that time she had had only a speaking acquaintance with the other girls.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000037_000003|She naturally was pleased at the prospect of going with the others, for like Julia, she had never seen a great football game.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000038_000000|No one who saw the hearty way in which Nora and Brenda greeted ruth, as she came up with Edith and Julia, could for a moment have imagined that she had been under discussion.
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000039_000001|Oh dear!
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000039_000002|I can hardly wait for Saturday."
train-clean-100/6064/56168/6064_56168_000041_000000|Then they gossiped a moment in a very harmless fashion about the prospects of Harvard, and Edith quoted one or two things that Philip had said, and Nora told them that her father was perfectly sure that the crimson would win, and as they trooped into the dressing room when the bell rang, Belle was surprised to see Brenda leaning on Ruth's arm.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000000_000000|Once upon a time saint Nicholas came down into the world to take a peep at the old place and see how things looked in the spring time.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000000_000001|On he stepped along the road to the town where he used to live, for he had a notion to find out whether things were going on nowadays as they one time did.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000000_000002|By and by he came to a cross road, and who should he see sitting there but Ill Luck himself.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000001_000000|Now, saint Nicholas had a pocketful of hazel nuts, which he kept cracking and eating as he trudged along the road, and just then he came upon one with a worm hole in it.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000001_000001|When he saw Ill Luck it came into his head to do a good turn to poor sorrowful man.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000002_000000|"Good morning, Ill Luck," says he.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000003_000000|"Good morning, saint Nicholas," says Ill Luck.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000004_000000|"You look as hale and strong as ever," says saint Nicholas.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000005_000000|"Ah, yes," says Ill Luck, "I find plenty to do in this world of woe."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000006_000000|"They tell me," says saint Nicholas, "that you can go wherever you choose, even if it be through a key hole; now, is that so?"
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000007_000000|"Yes," says Ill Luck, "it is."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000009_000000|"Yes," says Ill Luck, "I could indeed."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000010_000000|"I should like to see you," says saint Nicholas; "for then I should be of a mind to believe what people say of you."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000012_000000|Then what do you think saint Nicholas did?
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000013_000000|"So!" says saint Nicholas, "that's a piece of work well done." Then he tossed the hazel nut under the roots of an oak tree near by, and went his way.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000014_000000|And that is how this story begins.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000015_000001|The day was warm, and he was tired; so down he sat under the shade of the oak tree to rest his legs.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000015_000002|By and by he heard a little shrill voice piping and crying, "Let me out! let me out! let me out!"
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000016_000000|The Fiddler looked up and down, but he could see nobody.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000016_000001|"Who are you?" says he.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000017_000000|"I am Ill Luck!
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000017_000001|Let me out! let me out!"
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000018_000000|"Let you out?" says the Fiddler.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000018_000001|"Not I; if you are bottled up here it is the better for all of us;" and, so saying, he tucked his fiddle under his arm and off he marched.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000019_000000|But before he had gone six steps he stopped.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000020_000000|"Here I am," says Ill Luck-"here in this hazel nut, under the roots of the oak tree."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000021_000001|Then he began twisting and turning it in his fingers, looking first on one side and then on the other, and all the while Ill Luck kept crying, "Let me out! let me out!"
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000022_000000|It was not long before the Fiddler found the little wooden plug, and then nothing would do but he must take a peep inside the nut to see if Ill Luck was really there.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000023_000000|Plague take the Fiddler! say i
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000024_000000|"Listen," says Ill Luck.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000025_000000|By and by he came to a garden, and there he let the Fiddler drop on the soft grass below.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000025_000001|Then away he flew to attend to other matters of greater need.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000027_000000|Well, the Fiddler smoothed down his hair and brushed his clothes a bit, and off he went to see what was to be seen at the grand house at the end of the garden.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000028_000000|He entered the door, and nobody said no to him.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000028_000001|Then he passed through one room after another, and each was finer than the one he left behind. Many servants stood around; but they only bowed, and never asked whence he came.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000028_000003|The table was spread with a feast that smelled so good that it brought tears to the Fiddler's eyes and water to his mouth, and all the plates were of pure gold.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000028_000004|The little old man sat alone, but another place was spread, as though he were expecting some one.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000028_000005|As the Fiddler came in the little old man nodded and smiled.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000028_000006|"Welcome!" he cried; "and have you come at last?"
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000029_000000|"Yes," said the Fiddler, "I have.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000029_000001|It was Ill Luck that brought me."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000030_000001|Sit down to the table and eat; and when I have told you all, you will say it was not Ill Luck, but Good Luck, that brought you."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000031_000000|The Fiddler had his own mind about that; but, all the same, down he sat at the table, and fell to with knife and fork at the good things, as though he had not had a bite to eat for a week of Sundays.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000033_000000|"I am glad to hear it," says the Fiddler.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000034_000001|And this morning I said to myself that the first body that came to my house I would take for a son-or a daughter, as the case might be.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000034_000002|You are the first, and so you shall live with me as long as I live, and after I am gone everything that I have shall be yours."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000036_000001|As for the gold and silver and jewels-why, they were as plentiful in that house as dust in a mill!
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000036_000002|Everything the Fiddler wanted came to his hand. He lived high, and slept soft and warm, and never knew what it was to want either more or less, or great or small.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000037_000000|But by and by he began to wonder where all the good things came from. Then, before long, he fell to pestering the old man with questions about the matter.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000038_000000|At first the old man put him off with short answers, but the Fiddler was a master hand at finding out anything he wanted to know.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000038_000001|He dinned and drummed and worried until flesh and blood could stand it no longer.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000038_000002|So at last the old man said that he would show him the treasure house where all his wealth came from, and at that the Fiddler was tickled beyond measure.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000039_000002|The old man fitted the key to the lock and turned it.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000039_000003|He lifted the door, and then went down a steep flight of stone steps, and the Fiddler followed close at his heels.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000039_000004|Down below it was as light as day, for in the centre of the room hung a great lamp that shone with a bright light and lit up all the place as bright as day.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000039_000005|In the floor were set three great basins of marble: one was nearly full of silver, one of gold, and one of gems of all sorts.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000040_000000|"All this is mine," said the old man, "and after I am gone it shall be yours.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000040_000001|It was left to me as I will leave it to you, and in the meantime you may come and go as you choose and fill your pockets whenever you wish to.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000040_000002|But there is one thing you must not do: you must never open that door yonder at the back of the room.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000040_000003|Should you do so, Ill Luck will be sure to overtake you."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000041_000000|Oh no!
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000041_000001|The Fiddler would never think of doing such a thing as opening the door.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000041_000003|But since the old man had given him leave, he would just help himself to a few of the fine things.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000041_000004|So he stuffed his pockets full, and then he followed the old man up the steps and out into the sunlight again.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000042_000000|It took him maybe an hour to count all the money and jewels he had brought up with him.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000042_000001|After he had done that, he began to wonder what was inside of the little door at the back of the room.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000042_000002|First he wondered; then he began to grow curious; then he began to itch and tingle and burn as though fifty thousand I want to know nettles were sticking into him from top to toe.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000042_000003|At last he could stand it no longer.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000042_000004|"I'll just go down yonder," says he, "and peep through the key hole; perhaps I can see what is there without opening the door."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000043_000000|So down he took the key, and off he marched to the garden.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000043_000001|He opened the trap door, and went down the steep steps to the room below.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000043_000002|There was the door at the end of the room, but when he came to look there was no key hole to it.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000043_000006|Well, since I have come so far, it would be a pity to turn back without seeing more." So he opened the door and peeped in.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000044_000000|"Pooh!" said the Fiddler, "There's nothing there, after all," and he opened the door wide.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000045_000000|Before him was a great long passageway, and at the far end of it he could see a spark of light as though the sun were shining there.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000045_000001|He listened, and after a while he heard a sound like the waves beating on the shore.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000045_000002|"Well," says he, "this is the most curious thing I have seen for a long time.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000045_000003|Since I have come so far, I may as well see the end of it." So he entered the passageway, and closed the door behind him.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000045_000004|He went on and on, and the spark of light kept growing larger and larger, and by and by-pop! out he came at the other end of the passage.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000046_000000|Sure enough, there he stood on the sea shore, with the waves beating and dashing on the rocks.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000046_000001|He stood looking and wondering to find himself in such a place, when all of a sudden something came with a whiz and a rush and caught him by the belt, and away he flew like a bullet.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000047_000000|By and by he managed to screw his head around and look up, and there it was Ill Luck that had him.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000047_000001|"I thought so," said the Fiddler; and then he gave over kicking.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000048_000000|Well; on and on they flew, over hill and valley, over moor and mountain, until they came to another garden, and there Ill Luck let the Fiddler drop.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000049_000000|Swash!
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000050_000000|It was the garden of a royal castle, and all had been weeping and woe (though they were beginning now to pick up their smiles again), and this was the reason why:
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000051_000000|The king of that country had died, and no one was left behind him but the queen.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000051_000001|But she was a prize, for not only was the kingdom hers, but she was as young as a spring apple and as pretty as a picture; so that there was no end of those who would have liked to have had her, each man for his own.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000051_000002|Even that day there were three princes at the castle, each one wanting the queen to marry him; and the wrangling and bickering and squabbling that was going on was enough to deafen a body.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000052_000000|Swash!
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000052_000001|Down fell the Fiddler into the apple tree and down fell a dozen apples, popping and tumbling about the queen's ears.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000053_000000|The queen looked up and screamed, and the Fiddler climbed down.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000054_000000|"Where did you come from?" said she.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000055_000000|"Oh, Ill Luck brought me," said the Fiddler.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000056_000000|"Nay," said the queen, "do not say so.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000056_000001|You fell from heaven, for I saw it with my eyes and heard it with my ears.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000056_000002|I see how it is now.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000056_000003|You were sent hither from heaven to be my husband, and my husband you shall be. You shall be king of this country, half and half with me as queen, and shall sit on a throne beside me."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000057_000000|You can guess whether or not that was music to the Fiddler's ears.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000058_000000|So the princes were sent packing, and the Fiddler was married to the queen, and reigned in that country.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000059_000000|Well, three or four days passed, and all was as sweet and happy as a spring day.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000059_000001|But at the end of that time the Fiddler began to wonder what was to be seen in the castle.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000059_000002|The queen was very fond of him, and was glad enough to show him all the fine things that were to be seen; so hand in hand they went everywhere, from garret to cellar.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000061_000001|"What is behind that door?" said he.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000062_000000|"Ah! that," said the queen, "you must not ask or wish to know.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000062_000001|Should you open that door Ill Luck will be sure to overtake you."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000064_000000|Yes, that was a very fine thing to say; but before an hour had gone by the Fiddler's head began to hum and buzz like a beehive.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000065_000001|Away flew the Fiddler like a bullet, and there was Ill Luck carrying him by the belt again.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000065_000003|Suddenly Ill Luck let him drop, and down he fell-thump! bump!--on the hard ground.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000065_000005|there he was, under the oak tree whence he had started in the first place.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000065_000006|There lay his fiddle, just as he had left it.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000065_000007|He picked it up and ran his fingers over the strings-trum, twang! Then he got to his feet and brushed the dirt and grass from his knees. He tucked his fiddle under his arm, and off he stepped upon the way he had been going at first.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000066_000000|"Just to think!" said he, "I would either have been the richest man in the world, or else I would have been a king, if it had not been for Ill Luck."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000067_000000|And that is the way we all of us talk.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000072_000000|"Nay," said dr Faustus, "the story is not altogether of the man himself, but rather of a pupil who came to learn wisdom of him."
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000074_000000|"It hath no name," said dr Faustus.
train-clean-100/6078/54007/6078_54007_000076_000000|"It hath no name," said dr Faustus.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000002_000000|Once upon a time there was a servant who served a wise man, and cooked for him his cabbage and his onions and his pot herbs and his broth, day after day, time in and time out, for seven years.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000003_000000|In those years the servant was well enough contented, but no one likes to abide in the same place forever, and so one day he took it into his head that he would like to go out into the world to see what kind of a fortune a man might make there for himself.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000005_000001|There they began talking to one another, and the servant popped the pebble into his mouth to hear what they might say.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000006_000000|"Yonder is a traveller in the world," said the first raven.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000009_000000|"Why, thus," said the second.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000009_000002|If he would ask it of him, that man would lead him to the garden where the fruit of happiness grows."
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000011_000000|"What use?
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000012_000001|Up he scrambled, and away he went as fast as his legs could carry him.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000012_000002|On and on he travelled, until he came to the cross roads and the stone cross of which the raven spoke, and there, sure enough, sat the traveller.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000012_000003|He was clad in a weather stained coat, and he wore dusty boots, and the servant bade him good morning.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000014_000000|"Whither away, comrade," asked the traveller.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000016_000002|Do you agree to that?"
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000019_000000|So all the rest of that day they journeyed onward together, until, towards evening, they came to a town with high towers and steep roofs and tall spires.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000020_000000|Well, he played and played until, by and by, the door opened, and out came a serving man.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000021_000000|"Yes," said the travelling companion, "I would, for that is why I came hither."
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000023_000002|"Can you play good music, piper?" said he.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000024_000001|But before I blow my pipe I and my friend here must have something to eat and drink, for one cannot play well with an empty stomach."
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000025_000000|"So be it," said the young man; "sit down with me and eat and drink."
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000026_000000|So the two did without second bidding, and such food and drink the serving man had never tasted in his life before.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000026_000003|But suddenly everything went wrong; his wife and he fell out and quarrelled until there was no living together, and she had to go back to her old home.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000027_000001|He played and he played, and, after a while, one after another of those who listened to him began to get drowsy.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000027_000002|First they winked, then they shut their eyes, and then they nodded until all were as dumb as logs, and as sound asleep as though they would never waken again.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000027_000004|And all the while the serving man stood gaping like a fish to see what his comrade was about.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000029_000000|But the next day they jogged on together again until by and by they came to a great forest.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000030_000001|Up stepped the servant's comrade and knocked upon the door-rap!
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000030_000002|tap!
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000030_000003|tap!
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000030_000004|By and by it was opened a crack, and there stood an ugly old woman, blear eyed and crooked and gnarled as a winter twig. But the heart within her was good for all that.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000032_000000|And in he went, as he said, with the servant at his heels trembling like a leaf at what he had heard.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000033_000000|By and by in came the gang of thieves with a great noise and uproar, and down they sat to their supper.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000035_000000|As he spoke he drew from his pocket the ruby ring which he had stolen from the sorrowful young man's finger, and dropped it into the cup from which the robber captain drank.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000036_000001|In the house lived a poor man and his wife; and, though the two were as honest as the palm of your hand, and as good and kind as rain in spring time, they could hardly scrape enough of a living to keep body and soul together.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000037_000000|But the next morning, before the dawning of the day, the travelling companion was stirring again.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000038_000000|And strange work it was!
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000039_000003|In this cottage lived a widow and her only son, and they also made the travellers welcome, and set before them a good supper and showed them to a clean bed.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000040_000000|This time the travelling comrade did neither good nor ill to those of the house, but in the morning he told the widow whither they were going, and asked if she and her son knew the way to the garden where grew the fruit of happiness.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000042_000000|"That is good," said the servant's comrade, "and if he will do so I will pay him well for his trouble."
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000043_000000|So the young man put on his hat, and took up his stick, and off went the three, up hill and down dale, until by and by they came over the top of the last hill, and there below them lay the garden.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000044_000002|And in the middle of it grew a golden tree, and on it golden fruit.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000044_000003|The servant, who had travelled so long and so far, could see it plainly from where he stood, and he did not need to be told that it was the fruit of happiness.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000046_000002|"There!" cried the comrade, "that is your reward for your service!"
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000047_000003|Then-
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000049_000000|Thereupon, as he ended speaking, he struck his staff upon the ground. Instantly the earth trembled, and the sky darkened overhead until it grew as black as night.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000049_000002|Then the flaming fire flew away to heaven again, carrying him along with it.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000049_000003|After that the sky cleared once more, and, lo and behold!
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000049_000004|The garden and the torrent and all were gone, and nothing was left but a naked plain covered over with the bones of those who had come that way before, seeking the fruit which the travelling servant had sought.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000052_000000|The servant stood and stared like one bereft of wits.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000054_000000|Then the poor travelling servant began to thump his head.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000057_000001|There he beheld masons and carpenters hard at work hacking and hewing, and building a fine new house.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000058_000000|"So it was, and that is how I came to be rich now," said the one-time poor man.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000059_000002|The robbers are all dead and gone now, and I use the treasure that they left behind to entertain poor travellers like yourself.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000059_000003|The other day there came an angel hither, and with him he brought the ring of discord that breeds spite and rage and quarrelling.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000059_000004|He gave it to the captain of the band, and after he had gone the robbers fought for it with one another until they were all killed.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000060_000001|There, lo and behold! Instead of being dark and silent, as it was before, all was ablaze with light and noisy with the sound of rejoicing and merriment.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000060_000002|There happened to be one of the household standing at the door, and he knew the servant as the companion of that one who had stolen the ruby ring. Up he came and laid hold of the servant by the collar, calling to his companions that he had caught one of the thieves.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000061_000001|Rap! tap! tap!
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000061_000002|He knocked at the door, and the wise man who had been his master opened to him.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000062_000000|"I want to take service with you again," said the travelling servant.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000064_000001|For he is not the only one in the world who has come in sight of the fruit of happiness, and then jogged all the way back home again to cook cabbage and onions and pot herbs, and to make broth for wiser men than himself to sup.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000065_000000|That is the end of this story.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000066_000000|"I like your story, holy sir," said the Blacksmith who made Death sit in a pear tree.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000068_000000|"No offence," said the Blacksmith; "I meant not to speak ill of your story.
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000068_000001|Come, come, sir, will you not take a pot of ale with me?"
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000072_000002|Come, friend, let us have it."
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000073_000000|"Stop a bit," said Fortunatus; "what is this story mostly about?"
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000074_000000|"It is," said Ali Baba, "about two men betwixt whom there was-"
train-clean-100/6078/54013/6078_54013_000075_000000|Not a Pin to Choose.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000001_000001|Nor was it at all likely that these two fugitives, conscious as they were of their perilous situation, had gone straight to their real home in a vehicle hired on the public highway.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000001_000002|Hence, the driver's hope of finding them in the Rue de Bourgogne was purely chimerical.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000001_000004|In so doing, he obeyed a maxim which he had framed in his early days of meditation-a maxim intended to assure his after fame, and which ran as follows: "Always suspect that which seems probable; and begin by believing what appears incredible."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000002_000000|As soon as the vehicle was well under way, the young detective proceeded to ingratiate himself into the driver's good graces, being anxious to obtain all the information that this worthy was able to impart.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000004_000001|How did these two women attract your attention?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000005_000000|"Oh, it was very simple.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000005_000001|I had been having a most unfortunate day-six hours on a stand on the Boulevards, with the rain pouring all the time. It was simply awful.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000005_000002|At midnight I had not made more than a franc and a half for myself, but I was so wet and miserable and the horse seemed so done up that I decided to go home.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000005_000004|I did not pay any attention to them; for when a man is as old as I am, women-"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000006_000000|"Go on!" said Lecoq, who could not restrain his impatience.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000007_000000|"I had already passed them, when they began to call after me.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000007_000001|I pretended I did not hear them; but one of them ran after the cab, crying: 'A louis! a louis for yourself!' I hesitated for a moment, when the woman added: 'And ten francs for the fare!' I then drew up."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000009_000000|"As you may suppose," continued the coachman, "I wasn't inclined to trust two such suspicious characters, alone at that hour and in that part of the city.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000009_000001|So, just as they were about to get into the cab, I called to them: 'Wait a bit, my little friends, you have promised papa some sous; where are they?' The one who had called after the cab at once handed me thirty francs, saying: 'Above all, make haste!'"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000011_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000012_000000|"I mean what kind of women did they seem to be; what did you take them for?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000014_000000|"Ah! and how were they dressed?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000015_000000|"Like most of the girls who go to dance at the Rainbow.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000016_000000|"Which ran after you?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000017_000000|"The girl who was neatly dressed, the one who-"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000018_000001|"Now I think of it, I did notice something strange.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000018_000002|One of the two women called the other 'Madame' as large as life, while the other said 'thee' and 'thou,' and spoke as if she were somebody."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000020_000000|"Why, the dowdy one.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000020_000002|You should have seen her shake the prim looking girl, as if she had been a plum tree.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000020_000004|You will have time to faint when we get home; now come along.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000020_000005|And then she began to sob: 'Indeed, madame, indeed I can't!' she said, and really she seemed quite unable to move: in fact, she appeared to be so ill that I said to myself: 'Here is a young woman who has drunk more than is good for her!'"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000021_000000|These facts confirmed even if they corrected Lecoq's first suppositions. As he had suspected, the social position of the two women was not the same.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000021_000001|He had been mistaken, however, in attributing the higher standing to the woman wearing the shoes with the high heels, the marks of which he had so particularly noticed in the snow, with all the attendant signs of precipitation, terror, and weakness.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000021_000002|In reality, social preeminence belonged to the woman who had left the large, broad footprints behind her.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000021_000003|And not merely was she of a superior rank, but she had also shown superior energy.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000021_000004|Contrary to Lecoq's original idea, it now seemed evident that she was the mistress, and her companion the servant.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000022_000000|"Is that all, my good fellow?" he asked the driver, who during the last few minutes had been busy with his horses.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000024_000000|"Did you see her face?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000025_000000|"I just caught a glimpse of it."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000027_000000|So many questions at a time confused the driver.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000027_000001|"Stop a minute!" he replied.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000027_000002|"In my opinion she wasn't pretty, and I don't believe she was young, but she certainly was a blonde, and with plenty of hair too."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000028_000000|"Was she tall or short, stout or slender?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000029_000000|"Between the two."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000031_000000|"The deuce!
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000032_000000|"Would you recognize her if you met her again?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000034_000001|half-way down the street the driver pulled up, and, turning to Lecoq, exclaimed: "Here we are.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000034_000002|That's the house the hussies went into."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000035_000000|To draw off the silk handkerchief that served him as a muffler, to fold it and slip it into his pocket, to spring to the ground and enter the house indicated, was only the work of an instant for the young detective.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000037_000000|"To which one?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000038_000000|"Really, I don't exactly know."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000039_000000|In a moment the worthy dame imagined that this polite young man was making fun of her.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000039_000001|"You scamp-!" she began.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000040_000001|I must tell you that at about three o'clock in the morning, of the day before yesterday, I was quietly returning home, when two ladies, who were seemingly in a great hurry, overtook me and passed on.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000040_000002|One of them dropped this handkerchief, which I picked up.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000041_000000|"Many thanks for your kindness," said she, "but you can keep it.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000041_000001|We have no ladies in this house who are in the habit of coming home alone after midnight."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000043_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000043_000001|I had forgotten," exclaimed the old woman.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000043_000003|I pulled the string that opens the door and listened, but not hearing any one close the door or come upstairs, I said to myself: 'Some mischievous fellow has been playing a trick on me.' I slipped on my dress and went out into the hall, where I saw two women hastening toward the door.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000043_000004|Before I could reach them they slammed the door in my face.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000043_000005|I opened it again as quickly as I could and looked out into the street.
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000043_000006|But they were hurrying away as fast as they could."
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000044_000000|"In what direction?"
train-clean-100/6081/41997/6081_41997_000046_000001|"As I had supposed, they do not live here," he remarked to the driver.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000001_000000|When a mysterious crime has been perpetrated, or a great catastrophe has happened, and the identity of the victims has not been established, "a great day" invariably follows at the Morgue.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000001_000001|The attendants are so accustomed to the horrors of the place that the most sickly sight fails to impress them; and even under the most distressing circumstances, they hasten gaily to and fro, exchanging jests well calculated to make an ordinary mortal's flesh creep.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000001_000002|As a rule, they are far less interested in the corpses laid out for public view on the marble slabs in the principal hall than in the people of every age and station in life who congregate here all day long; at times coming in search of some lost relative or friend, but far more frequently impelled by idle curiosity.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000003_000001|Then, producing first his watch, and next his purse, he added: "We have been an hour and forty minutes, my good fellow, consequently I owe you-"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000004_000000|"Nothing at all," replied the driver, decidedly.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000005_000000|"But-"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000006_000002|It would only have served me right if the liquor I bought with it had given me the gripes.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000006_000003|Don't be uneasy about the score, and if you need a trap use mine for nothing, till you have caught the jades." As Lecoq's purse was low, he did not insist.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000006_000004|"You will, at least, take my name and address?" continued the driver.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000007_000000|"Certainly.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000008_000000|"All right, then.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000008_000002|I lodge at his place, because I have some small interest in the business, you see."
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000009_000000|The young detective was hastening away, when Papillon called him back. "When you leave the Morgue you will want to go somewhere else," he said, "you told me that you had another appointment, and that you were already late."
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000011_000000|"No matter.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000011_000001|I will wait for you at the corner of the bridge.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000012_000000|It would have been cruel to refuse such a request.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000013_000000|If there was a crowd on the roadway outside, it was because the gloomy building itself was crammed full of people.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000013_000002|As usual, he found among the mob a large number of girls and women; for, strange to say, the Parisian fair sex is rather partial to the disgusting sights and horrible emotions that repay a visit to the Morgue.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000014_000000|The shop and work girls who reside in the neighborhood readily go out of their way to catch a glimpse of the corpses which crime, accident, and suicide bring to this horrible place.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000014_000001|A few, the more sensitive among them, may come no further than the door, but the others enter, and after a long stare return and recount their impressions to their less courageous companions.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000015_000001|There was no fear of their doing so, however, on the morrow of the tragedy at Poivriere, for the mysterious murderer whose identity Lecoq was trying to establish had furnished three victims for their delectation.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000016_000001|Through the small arched windows a gray light stole in on the exposed bodies, bringing each muscle into bold relief, revealing the ghastly tints of the lifeless flesh, and imparting a sinister aspect to the tattered clothing hung around the room to aid in the identification of the corpses.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000016_000002|This clothing, after a certain time, is sold-for nothing is wasted at the Morgue.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000017_000000|However, Lecoq was too occupied with his own thoughts to remark the horrors of the scene.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000019_000000|"No one.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000019_000001|And yet, ever since opening, we have had an immense crowd.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000019_000002|If I were master here, on days like this, I would charge an admission fee of two sous a head, with half price for children.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000019_000003|It would bring in a round sum, more than enough to cover the expenses."
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000020_000001|"Excuse me," he interrupted, "didn't a detective come here this morning?"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000021_000000|"Yes, there was one here."
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000022_000001|I don't see him anywhere?"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000023_000000|The keeper glanced suspiciously at his eager questioner, but after a moment's hesitation, he ventured to inquire: "Are you one of them?"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000027_000000|The keeper's face brightened up.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000027_000001|"In that case," said he, "I have a letter for you, written by your comrade, who was obliged to go away. Here it is."
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000029_000001|This simple formula of politeness brought a faint smile to his lips.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000029_000003|Indeed, our hero accepted it as a token of unquestioning devotion which it would be his duty to repay with a master's kind protection toward his first disciple.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000029_000004|However, he had no time to waste in thought, and accordingly at once proceeded to peruse the note, which ran as follows:
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000030_000001|Suddenly I noticed that one of them turned as white as his shirt; and calling the attention of his companions to one of the unknown victims, he whispered: 'Gustave!'
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000031_000000|"His comrades put their hands over his mouth, and one of them exclaimed: 'What are you about, you fool, to mix yourself up with this affair!
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000031_000001|Do you want to get us into trouble?'
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000032_000000|"Thereupon they went out, and I followed them.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000032_000001|But the person who had first spoken was so overcome that he could scarcely drag himself along; and his companions were obliged to take him to a little restaurant close by.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000032_000002|I entered it myself, and it is there I write this letter, in the mean time watching them out of the corner of my eye.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000032_000005|a b s"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000035_000000|A friendly "hush!" was the only response.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000036_000002|d'Escorval is, of course, in his office?"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000037_000000|The man shook his head.
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000038_000000|"Why not!
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000038_000001|What do you mean?"
train-clean-100/6081/41998/6081_41998_000039_000000|"Last night, as he was alighting from his carriage, at his own door, he had a most unfortunate fall, and broke his leg."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000002_000001|He first of all proceeded to the Prefecture of Police, going the longest way round as a matter of course, but, on reaching his destination, he could find no one who had seen the young detective.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000004_000000|Lecoq smiled as he went up the stairs.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000004_000001|Was he not bringing with him the most potent of justifications?
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000004_000002|He thought of the agreeable surprise he had in store for the magistrate, and fancied he could picture the sudden brightening of that functionary's gloomy face.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000005_000000|And yet, fate so willed it that the doorkeeper's message and his urgent appeal that Lecoq should not loiter on the way, produced the most unfortunate results.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000005_000003|He instantly perceived his mistake and understood its consequences.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000006_000001|He must prevent any exchange of words between the two.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000006_000003|But the poor creature was quite overcome, and trembled like a leaf.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000006_000004|Her eyes were fixed upon her unworthy husband, and the happiness she felt at seeing him again shone plainly in her anxious gaze.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000006_000005|Just for one second; and then she caught his withering glance and heard his words of menace. Terror stricken, she staggered back, and then Lecoq seized her around the waist, and, lifting her with his strong arms, carried her out into the passage.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000009_000000|He paused; the door opened again, this time to admit the magistrate's messenger, who timidly, and with a rather guilty air, handed his master a note, and then withdrew.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000010_000002|He understood everything.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000012_000001|To the magistrate's proposal he carelessly nodded assent.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000014_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000015_000000|"She wished to embrace you, and you repulsed her."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000016_000000|"I didn't repulse her."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000017_000000|"You kept her at a distance at all events.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000017_000001|If you had a spark of affection in your nature, you would at least have looked at your child, which she held out to you.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000017_000002|Why did you behave in that manner?"
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000018_000000|"It wasn't the time for sentiment."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000019_000000|"You are not telling the truth.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000019_000001|You simply desired to attract her attention, to influence her evidence."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000020_000000|"I-I influence her evidence!
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000020_000001|I don't understand you."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000021_000000|"But for that supposition, your words would have been meaningless?"
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000022_000000|"What words?"
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000023_000000|The magistrate turned to his clerk: "Goguet," said he, "read the last remark you took down."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000027_000001|"Don't prevaricate any longer," he said.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000027_000003|That's evident.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000027_000005|What are you afraid of her telling us? Do you suppose the police are ignorant of your acquaintance with Lacheneur-of your conversation with him when he came in a cab to the corner of the waste ground near your mother's wine shop; and of the hopes of fortune you based upon his promises?
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000027_000006|Be guided by me; confess everything, while there is yet time; and abandon the present course which may lead you into serious danger.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000028_000001|He seemed confounded, and hung his head as if thoroughly abashed.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000028_000002|Still, he preserved an obstinate silence; and the magistrate finding that this last thrust had failed to produce any effect, gave up the fight in despair.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000028_000003|He rang the bell, and ordered the guard to conduct the witness back to prison, and to take every precaution to prevent him seeing his wife again.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000029_000001|"Ah, sir," said he, despondently, "to think that I didn't draw out of this woman everything she knew, when I might have done so easily.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000029_000003|I thought I was acting for the best-"
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000031_000000|"No, sir, no Since she has seen her husband, it is quite impossible to get her to speak.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000031_000001|She loves that rascal intensely, and he has a wonderful influence over her.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000032_000002|Not understanding his connection with the affair, she asked herself if her testimony might not prove his death warrant.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000032_000004|She swore that she had been misunderstood, that her words had been misconstrued; and vowed on her mother's memory, that she had never heard the name of Lacheneur before.
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000033_000002|"You may retire, my good woman," said he kindly, after a moment's pause, "but remember that your strange silence injures your husband far more than anything you could say."
train-clean-100/6081/42010/6081_42010_000034_000000|She left the room-or rather she rushed wildly from it as though only too eager to escape-and the magistrate and the detective exchanged glances of dismay and consternation.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000000|Towards seventeen o five, although Lady Josiana was twenty three and Lord David forty four, the wedding had not yet taken place, and that for the best reasons in the world.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000001|Did they hate each other?
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000002|Far from it; but what cannot escape from you inspires you with no haste to obtain it.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000003|Josiana wanted to remain free, David to remain young.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000004|To have no tie until as late as possible appeared to him to be a prolongation of youth. Middle aged young men abounded in those rakish times.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000005|They grew gray as young fops.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000006|The wig was an accomplice: later on, powder became the auxiliary.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000007|At fifty five Lord Charles Gerrard, Baron Gerrard, one of the Gerrards of Bromley, filled London with his successes.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000008|The young and pretty Duchess of Buckingham, Countess of Coventry, made a fool of herself for love of the handsome Thomas Bellasys, Viscount Falconberg, who was sixty seven.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000003_000011|Such were the models of the day.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000000|Josiana and David carried on a flirtation of a particular shade.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000001|They did not love, they pleased, each other.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000003|Why hasten the conclusion?
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000004|The novels of those days carried lovers and engaged couples to that kind of stage which was the most becoming.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000005|Besides, Josiana, while she knew herself to be a bastard, felt herself a princess, and carried her authority over him with a high tone in all their arrangements.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000006|She had a fancy for Lord David.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000004_000007|Lord David was handsome, but that was over and above the bargain.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000000|To be fashionable is everything.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000001|Caliban, fashionable and magnificent, would distance Ariel, poor.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000002|Lord David was handsome, so much the better. The danger in being handsome is being insipid; and that he was not.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000003|He betted, boxed, ran into debt.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000004|Josiana thought great things of his horses, his dogs, his losses at play, his mistresses.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000005|Lord David, on his side, bowed down before the fascinations of the Duchess Josiana-a maiden without spot or scruple, haughty, inaccessible, and audacious.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000006|He addressed sonnets to her, which Josiana sometimes read.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000007|In these sonnets he declared that to possess Josiana would be to rise to the stars, which did not prevent his always putting the ascent off to the following year. He waited in the antechamber outside Josiana's heart; and this suited the convenience of both.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000008|At court all admired the good taste of this delay.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000005_000009|Lady Josiana said, "It is a bore that I should be obliged to marry Lord David; I, who would desire nothing better than to be in love with him!"
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000000|Josiana was "the flesh." Nothing could be more resplendent.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000001|She was very tall-too tall.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000002|Her hair was of that tinge which might be called red gold.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000003|She was plump, fresh, strong, and rosy, with immense boldness and wit.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000004|She had eyes which were too intelligible.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000005|She had neither lovers nor chastity.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000006|She walled herself round with pride.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000007|Men! oh, fie! a god only would be worthy of her, or a monster.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000009|She disdained intrigues; but she would not have been displeased had she been supposed to have engaged in some, provided that the objects were uncommon, and proportioned to the merits of one so highly placed.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000010|She thought little of her reputation, but much of her glory.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000012|Josiana felt herself majestic and material.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000013|Hers was a cumbrous beauty.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000014|She usurped rather than charmed.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000015|She trod upon hearts. She was earthly.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000006_000017|She discoursed on Locke; she was polite; she was suspected of knowing Arabic.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000007_000000|To be "the flesh" and to be woman are two different things.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000007_000001|Where a woman is vulnerable, on the side of pity, for instance, which so readily turns to love, Josiana was not.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000007_000002|Not that she was unfeeling.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000007_000003|The ancient comparison of flesh to marble is absolutely false.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000007_000004|The beauty of flesh consists in not being marble: its beauty is to palpitate, to tremble, to blush, to bleed, to have firmness without hardness, to be white without being cold, to have its sensations and its infirmities; its beauty is to be life, and marble is death.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000008_000000|Flesh, when it attains a certain degree of beauty, has almost a claim to the right of nudity; it conceals itself in its own dazzling charms as in a veil.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000008_000001|He who might have looked upon Josiana nude would have perceived her outlines only through a surrounding glory.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000008_000003|She had the self possession of a goddess.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000008_000004|To have made her nudity a torment, ever eluding a pursuing Tantalus, would have been an amusement to her.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000001|In admiring her you felt yourself becoming a pagan and a lackey.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000002|Her origin had been bastardy and the ocean.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000003|She appeared to have emerged from the foam.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000004|From the stream had risen the first jet of her destiny; but the spring was royal.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000006|She was well read and accomplished.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000007|Never had a passion approached her, yet she had sounded them all.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000012|She was, in the insolence of high birth, tempting and inaccessible.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000013|Nevertheless, she might find it amusing to plan a fall for herself.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000014|She dwelt in a halo of glory, half wishing to descend from it, and perhaps feeling curious to know what a fall was like.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000015|She was a little too heavy for her cloud.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000016|To err is a diversion.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000017|Princely unconstraint has the privilege of experiment, and what is frailty in a plebeian is only frolic in a duchess.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000018|Josiana was in everything-in birth, in beauty, in irony, in brilliancy-almost a queen.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000009_000020|She regretted that Hercules was dead. She lived in some undefined expectation of a voluptuous and supreme ideal.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000010_000000|Morally, Josiana brought to one's mind the line-
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000012_000000|Hers was a noble neck, a splendid bosom, heaving harmoniously over a royal heart, a glance full of life and light, a countenance pure and haughty, and who knows?
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000012_000001|below the surface was there not, in a semi transparent and misty depth, an undulating, supernatural prolongation, perchance deformed and dragon like-a proud virtue ending in vice in the depth of dreams.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000014_000000|With all that she was a prude.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000015_000000|It was the fashion.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000001|Elizabeth was more than English-she was Anglican.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000002|Hence the deep respect of the Episcopalian Church for that queen-respect resented by the Church of Rome, which counterbalanced it with a dash of excommunication.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000003|In the mouth of Sixtus the fifth, when anathematizing Elizabeth, malediction turned to madrigal.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000005|Mary Stuart, less concerned with the church and more with the woman part of the question, had little respect for her sister Elizabeth, and wrote to her as queen to queen and coquette to prude: "Your disinclination to marriage arises from your not wishing to lose the liberty of being made love to." Mary Stuart played with the fan, Elizabeth with the axe.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000006|An uneven match.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000007|They were rivals, besides, in literature.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000017_000008|Mary Stuart composed French verses; Elizabeth translated Horace.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000018_000001|That which is biblical may well be Anglican.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000018_000002|Biblical precedent goes so far as to speak of a child who was called Ebnehaquem or Melilechet-that is to say, the Wise Man's son.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000019_000000|Why object to such manners?
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000020_000000|Nowadays England, whose Loyola is named Wesley, casts down her eyes a little at the remembrance of that past age.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000020_000001|She is vexed at the memory, yet proud of it.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000021_000000|These fine ladies, moreover, knew Latin.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000021_000002|Lady Jane Grey had carried fashion to the point of knowing Hebrew.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000021_000003|The Duchess Josiana Latinized. Then (another fine thing) she was secretly a Catholic; after the manner of her uncle, Charles the second., rather than her father, james the second.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000021_000005|Thus it was that while a Catholic amongst her intimate friends and the refined of both sexes, she was outwardly a Protestant for the benefit of the riffraff.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000022_000000|This is the pleasant view to take of religion.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000022_000001|You enjoy all the good things belonging to the official Episcopalian church, and later on you die, like Grotius, in the odour of Catholicity, having the glory of a mass being said for you by le Pere Petau.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000023_000000|Although plump and healthy, Josiana was, we repeat, a perfect prude.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000024_000000|At times her sleepy and voluptuous way of dragging out the end of her phrases was like the creeping of a tiger's paws in the jungle.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000025_000000|The advantage of prudes is that they disorganize the human race.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000025_000001|They deprive it of the honour of their adherence.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000025_000002|Beyond all, keep the human species at a distance.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000025_000003|This is a point of the greatest importance.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000026_000001|A pretension to divinity not admitted creates affectation.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000026_000002|In default of thunderclaps there is impertinence.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000026_000003|The temple shrivels into the boudoir.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000026_000004|Not having the power to be a goddess, she is an idol.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000002|Their kinship is visible in the fop.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000003|The subtile is derived from the sensual.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000004|Gluttony affects delicacy, a grimace of disgust conceals cupidity.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000005|And then woman feels her weak point guarded by all that casuistry of gallantry which takes the place of scruples in prudes.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000006|It is a line of circumvallation with a ditch.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000007|Every prude puts on an air of repugnance.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000008|It is a protection.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000027_000009|She will consent, but she disdains-for the present.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000028_000001|She felt such a leaning towards immodesty that she was a prude.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000028_000002|The recoils of pride in the direction opposed to our vices lead us to those of a contrary nature.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000028_000003|It was the excessive effort to be chaste which made her a prude.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000028_000004|To be too much on the defensive points to a secret desire for attack; the shy woman is not strait laced.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000028_000005|She shut herself up in the arrogance of the exceptional circumstances of her rank, meditating, perhaps, all the while, some sudden lapse from it.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000000|It was the dawn of the eighteenth century.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000001|England was a sketch of what France was during the regency.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000002|Walpole and Dubois are not unlike. Marlborough was fighting against his former king, james the second., to whom it was said he had sold his sister, Miss Churchill.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000003|Bolingbroke was in his meridian, and Richelieu in his dawn.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000004|Gallantry found its convenience in a certain medley of ranks.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000005|Men were equalized by the same vices as they were later on, perhaps, by the same ideas.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000006|Degradation of rank, an aristocratic prelude, began what the revolution was to complete.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000007|It was not very far off the time when Jelyotte was seen publicly sitting, in broad daylight, on the bed of the Marquise d'Epinay.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000029_000008|It is true (for manners re echo each other) that in the sixteenth century Smeton's nightcap had been found under Anne Boleyn's pillow.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000030_000001|Never, covering her frailty by her charms, and her weakness by her omnipotence, has she claimed absolution more imperiously.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000030_000002|In making the forbidden the permitted fruit, Eve fell; in making the permitted the forbidden fruit, she triumphs.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000030_000003|That is the climax.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000030_000004|In the eighteenth century the wife bolts out her husband.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000030_000005|She shuts herself up in Eden with Satan.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000030_000006|Adam is left outside.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000031_000000|three.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000032_000000|All Josiana's instincts impelled her to yield herself gallantly rather than to give herself legally.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000032_000001|To surrender on the score of gallantry implies learning, recalls Menalcas and Amaryllis, and is almost a literary act.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000033_000000|The maiden a sovereign, the wife a subject, such was the old English notion.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000033_000001|Josiana was deferring the hour of this subjection as long as she could.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000033_000002|She must eventually marry Lord David, since such was the royal pleasure.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000033_000003|It was a necessity, doubtless; but what a pity!
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000033_000004|Josiana appreciated Lord David, and showed him off.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000033_000005|There was between them a tacit agreement neither to conclude nor to break off the engagement. They eluded each other.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000034_000000|It is unbecoming to be married-fades one's ribbons and makes one look old.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000034_000001|An espousal is a dreary absorption of brilliancy.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000034_000002|A woman handed over to you by a notary, how commonplace!
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000035_000000|To make Love prosaically decent, how gross! to deprive it of all impropriety, how dull!
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000036_000000|Lord David was ripening.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000036_000001|Forty; 'tis a marked period.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000036_000002|He did not perceive this, and in truth he looked no more than thirty.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000036_000004|He possessed others.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000036_000005|He had mistresses.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000036_000006|On the other hand, Josiana had dreams.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000037_000000|The Duchess Josiana had a peculiarity, less rare than it is supposed. One of her eyes was blue and the other black.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000037_000001|Her pupils were made for love and hate, for happiness and misery.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000037_000002|Night and day were mingled in her look.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000038_000000|Her ambition was this-to show herself capable of impossibilities.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000038_000001|One day she said to Swift, "You people fancy that you know what scorn is." "You people" meant the human race.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000039_000000|She was a skin deep Papist.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000039_000002|She would have been a Puseyite in the present day.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000039_000004|She was extravagant in gold lace.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000039_000005|Sometimes she wore an embroidered cloth jacket like a bachelor.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000039_000006|She rode on a man's saddle, notwithstanding the invention of side saddles, introduced into England in the fourteenth century by Anne, wife of Richard the second.
train-clean-100/6147/34605/6147_34605_000039_000007|She washed her face, arms, shoulders, and neck, in sugar candy, diluted in white of egg, after the fashion of Castile.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000004_000004|The reaction against the wig was beginning.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000004_000013|He held his ground.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000004_000017|The first, intoxicated by the novelty, may ignore the danger; the second sees the abyss, and rushes into it.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000004_000018|Lord David flung himself into the abyss of no longer wearing a wig.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000006_000000|Lord David, then, did not wear a wig, and did wear cowhide boots.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000006_000001|Such great things made him a mark for public admiration.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000007_000008|All, moreover, had their coats turned the wrong way, for luck.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000007_000009|Lord David was a member of the Beefsteak Club, the Surly Club, and of the Splitfarthing Club, of the Cross Club, the Scratchpenny Club, of the Sealed Knot, a Royalist Club, and of the Martinus Scribblerus, founded by Swift, to take the place of the Rota, founded by Milton.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000008_000000|Though handsome, he belonged to the Ugly Club.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000008_000001|This club was dedicated to deformity.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000008_000002|The members agreed to fight, not about a beautiful woman, but about an ugly man.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000008_000004|This club was still in existence in the beginning of the nineteenth century, and Mirabeau was elected an honorary member.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000009_000000|Since the restoration of Charles the second. revolutionary clubs had been abolished.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000009_000002|To the republican clubs had succeeded monarchical clubs.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000010_000000|There was the Hell fire Club, where they played at being impious.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000010_000001|It was a joust of sacrilege.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000011_000000|There was the Butting Club, so called from its members butting folks with their heads.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000011_000001|They found some street porter with a wide chest and a stupid countenance.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000011_000002|They offered him, and compelled him, if necessary, to accept a pot of porter, in return for which he was to allow them to butt him with their heads four times in the chest, and on this they betted.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000011_000003|One day a man, a great brute of a Welshman named Gogangerdd, expired at the third butt.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000011_000004|This looked serious.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000000|There was the Fun Club.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000002|Fun is to farce what pepper is to salt.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000004|It was fun to cut a square hole in the Holbein at Hampton Court.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000005|Fun would have been proud to have broken the arm of the Venus of Milo.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000006|Under james the second. a young millionaire lord who had during the night set fire to a thatched cottage-a feat which made all London burst with laughter-was proclaimed the King of Fun.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000007|The poor devils in the cottage were saved in their night clothes.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000009|It was the rich who acted thus towards the poor.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000010|For this reason no complaint was possible.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000012|Those manners have not altogether disappeared.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000013|In many places in England and in English possessions-at Guernsey, for instance-your house is now and then somewhat damaged during the night, or a fence is broken, or the knocker twisted off your door.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000012_000014|If it were poor people who did these things, they would be sent to jail; but they are done by pleasant young gentlemen.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000000|The most fashionable of the clubs was presided over by an emperor, who wore a crescent on his forehead, and was called the Grand Mohawk.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000001|The Mohawk surpassed the Fun.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000002|Do evil for evil's sake was the programme.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000003|The Mohawk Club had one great object-to injure.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000004|To fulfil this duty all means were held good.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000005|In becoming a Mohawk the members took an oath to be hurtful.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000007|Every member of the Mohawk Club was bound to possess an accomplishment.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000010|The gentleman behind him chastised him for this by a prick of his sword, which made him spring round; another prick in the back warned the fellow that one of noble blood was behind him, and so on, each one wounding him in his turn.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000013_000011|When the man, closed round by the circle of swords and covered with blood, had turned and danced about enough, they ordered their servants to beat him with sticks, to change the course of his ideas.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000014_000000|Such were, towards the beginning of the eighteenth century, the pastimes of the rich idlers of London.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000014_000001|The idlers of Paris had theirs.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000015_000000|Lord David Dirry Moir brought into all these institutions his magnificent and liberal spirit.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000015_000001|Just like any one else, he would gaily set fire to a cot of woodwork and thatch, and just scorch those within; but he would rebuild their houses in stone.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000015_000002|He insulted two ladies.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000015_000003|One was unmarried-he gave her a portion; the other was married-he had her husband appointed chaplain.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000000|Cockfighting owed him some praiseworthy improvements.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000001|It was marvellous to see Lord David dress a cock for the pit.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000002|Cocks lay hold of each other by the feathers, as men by the hair.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000003|Lord David, therefore, made his cock as bald as possible.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000004|With a pair of scissors he cut off all the feathers from the tail and from the head to the shoulders, and all those on the neck.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000005|So much less for the enemy's beak, he used to say.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000016_000007|So much for the enemy's eyes, he would say.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000017_000000|Lord David attended prize fights, and was their living law.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000017_000001|On occasions of great performances it was he who had the stakes driven in and ropes stretched, and who fixed the number of feet for the ring.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000017_000004|All this science, however, did not render him a pedant, nor destroy his ease of manner in society.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000018_000001|Lord David was one of the few referees whom they dared not thrash.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000000|No one could train like him.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000001|The pugilist whose trainer he consented to become was sure to win.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000002|Lord David would choose a Hercules-massive as a rock, tall as a tower-and make him his child.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000004|In this he excelled.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000005|Having once adopted the Cyclops, he never left him.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000007|It was he who invented the athlete's admirable rules, afterwards reproduced by Morley.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000009|In the street he never allowed him to leave his sight, keeping him out of every danger-runaway horses, the wheels of carriages, drunken soldiers, pretty girls.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000010|He watched over his virtue.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000011|This maternal solicitude continually brought some new perfection into the pupil's education.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000012|He taught him the blow with the fist which breaks the teeth, and the twist of the thumb which gouges out the eye.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000019_000013|What could be more touching?
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000020_000000|Thus he was preparing himself for public life to which he was to be called later on.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000021_000000|Lord David Dirry Moir was passionately fond of open air exhibitions, of shows, of circuses with wild beasts, of the caravans of mountebanks, of clowns, tumblers, merrymen, open air farces, and the wonders of a fair. The true noble is he who smacks of the people.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000021_000004|They called him Tom Jim Jack.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000021_000005|Under this name he was famous and very popular amongst the dregs of the people.
train-clean-100/6147/34606/6147_34606_000021_000006|He played the blackguard in a masterly style: when necessary, he used his fists.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000000_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000001_000000|QUEEN ANNE.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000000|Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000001|An ordinary woman was Queen Anne.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000002|She was gay, kindly, august-to a certain extent.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000003|No quality of hers attained to virtue, none to vice.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000004|Her stoutness was bloated, her fun heavy, her good nature stupid.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000005|She was stubborn and weak.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000006|As a wife she was faithless and faithful, having favourites to whom she gave up her heart, and a husband for whom she kept her bed.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000007|As a Christian she was a heretic and a bigot.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000008|She had one beauty-the well-developed neck of a Niobe.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000009|The rest of her person was indifferently formed.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000010|She was a clumsy coquette and a chaste one.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000011|Her skin was white and fine; she displayed a great deal of it.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000013|She had a narrow forehead, sensual lips, fleshy cheeks, large eyes, short sight.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000014|Her short sight extended to her mind.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000015|Beyond a burst of merriment now and then, almost as ponderous as her anger, she lived in a sort of taciturn grumble and a grumbling silence.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000016|Words escaped from her which had to be guessed at.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000018|She liked surprises, which is extremely woman like. Anne was a pattern-just sketched roughly-of the universal Eve.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000019|To that sketch had fallen that chance, the throne.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000020|She drank.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000021|Her husband was a Dane, thoroughbred.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000022|A Tory, she governed by the Whigs-like a woman, like a mad woman.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000023|She had fits of rage.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000024|She was violent, a brawler. Nobody more awkward than Anne in directing affairs of state.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000025|She allowed events to fall about as they might chance.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000026|Her whole policy was cracked.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000027|She excelled in bringing about great catastrophes from little causes.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000028|When a whim of authority took hold of her, she called it giving a stir with the poker.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000003_000030|There was something of the Sphinx in this goose.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000000|She rather liked fun, teasing, and practical jokes.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000001|Could she have made Apollo a hunchback, it would have delighted her.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000002|But she would have left him a god.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000003|good-natured, her ideal was to allow none to despair, and to worry all.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000004|She had often a rough word in her mouth; a little more, and she would have sworn like Elizabeth.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000005|From time to time she would take from a man's pocket, which she wore in her skirt, a little round box, of chased silver, on which was her portrait, in profile, between the two letters q a; she would open this box, and take from it, on her finger, a little pomade, with which she reddened her lips, and, having coloured her mouth, would laugh.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000006|She was greedily fond of the flat Zealand gingerbread cakes.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000004_000007|She was proud of being fat.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000005_000000|More of a Puritan than anything else, she would, nevertheless, have liked to devote herself to stage plays.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000005_000001|She had an absurd academy of music, copied after that of France.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000005_000003|This Forteroche passed into England, and proposed to Queen Anne, who was immediately charmed by the idea, to build in London a theatre with machinery, with a fourth under stage finer than that of the King of France.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000005_000004|Like Louis the fourteenth., she liked to be driven at a gallop.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000007_000000|In Anne's time no meeting was allowed without the permission of two justices of the peace.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000007_000001|The assembly of twelve persons, were it only to eat oysters and drink porter, was a felony.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000007_000002|Under her reign, otherwise relatively mild, pressing for the fleet was carried on with extreme violence-a gloomy evidence that the Englishman is a subject rather than a citizen.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000007_000003|For centuries England suffered under that process of tyranny which gave the lie to all the old charters of freedom, and out of which France especially gathered a cause of triumph and indignation.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000008_000000|The laws against Ireland, emanating from Queen Anne, were atrocious. Anne was born in sixteen sixty four, two years before the great fire of London, on which the astrologers (there were some left, and Louis the fourteenth. was born with the assistance of an astrologer, and swaddled in a horoscope) predicted that, being the elder sister of fire, she would be queen.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000008_000002|She had the humiliation of having only Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, for godfather.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000008_000003|To be godchild of the Pope was no longer possible in England. A mere primate is but a poor sort of godfather.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000008_000006|Why was she a Protestant?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000009_000002|The English under that royalty born of a revolution possessed as much liberty as they could lay hands on between the Tower of London, into which they put orators, and the pillory, into which they put writers. Anne spoke a little Danish in her private chats with her husband, and a little French in her private chats with Bolingbroke.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000009_000003|Wretched gibberish; but the height of English fashion, especially at court, was to talk French.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000009_000006|Six farthings were struck during her reign.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000009_000008|Her father, james the second., was candid and cruel; she was brutal.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000010_000000|At the same time she was mild at bottom.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000010_000001|A contradiction which only appears such.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000010_000003|Heat sugar and it will boil.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000001|England liked feminine rulers.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000002|Why?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000003|France excludes them.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000004|There is a reason at once.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000005|Perhaps there is no other.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000007|As they will. Be it so.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000008|But there is nothing delicate in the reigns of these women. The lines are heavy.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000009|It is gross grandeur and gross good nature.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000010|As to their immaculate virtue, England is tenacious of it, and we are not going to oppose the idea.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000011_000011|Elizabeth was a virgin tempered by Essex; Anne, a wife complicated by Bolingbroke.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000012_000000|three.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000000|One idiotic habit of the people is to attribute to the king what they do themselves.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000001|They fight.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000002|Whose the glory?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000003|The king's.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000004|They pay.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000006|The king's.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000007|Then the people love him for being so rich.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000008|The king receives a crown from the poor, and returns them a farthing.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000011|How great is this myrmidon! he is on my back. A dwarf has an excellent way of being taller than a giant: it is to perch himself on his shoulders.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000012|But that the giant should allow it, there is the wonder; and that he should admire the height of the dwarf, there is the folly.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000013|Simplicity of mankind!
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000014|The equestrian statue, reserved for kings alone, is an excellent figure of royalty: the horse is the people.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000015|Only that the horse becomes transfigured by degrees.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000016|It begins in an ass; it ends in a lion.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000017|Then it throws its rider, and you have sixteen forty two in England and seventeen eighty nine in France; and sometimes it devours him, and you have in England sixteen forty nine, and in France seventeen ninety three.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000018|That the lion should relapse into the donkey is astonishing; but it is so.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000020|It had resumed the pack saddle, idolatry of the crown.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000021|Queen Anne, as we have just observed, was popular.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000022|What was she doing to be so?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000023|Nothing.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000024|Nothing!--that is all that is asked of the sovereign of England.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000028|Parliament having voted a patriotic loan of thirty four million francs of annuities, there had been a crush at the Exchequer to subscribe it.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000029|England was sending a squadron to the East Indies, and a squadron to the West of Spain under Admiral Leake, without mentioning the reserve of four hundred sail, under Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000031|It was the interval between Hochstadt and Ramillies, and the first of these victories was foretelling the second.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000033|She was bringing into her ports in triumph ten Spanish line of battle ships, and many a galleon laden with gold.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000035|It was felt that he was about to give up his hold over Acadia, saint Christopher, and Newfoundland, and that he would be but too happy if England would only tolerate the King of France fishing for cod at Cape Breton.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000036|England was about to impose upon him the shame of demolishing himself the fortifications of Dunkirk.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000037|Meanwhile, she had taken Gibraltar, and was taking Barcelona.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000038|What great things accomplished!
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000013_000039|How was it possible to refuse Anne admiration for taking the trouble of living at the period?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000000|From a certain point of view, the reign of Anne appears a reflection of the reign of Louis the fourteenth.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000002|Like him, she plays at a great reign; she has her monuments, her arts, her victories, her captains, her men of letters, her privy purse to pension celebrities, her gallery of chefs d'oeuvre, side by side with those of his Majesty.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000003|Her court, too, was a cortege, with the features of a triumph, an order and a march.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000004|It was a miniature copy of all the great men of Versailles, not giants themselves.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000005|In it there is enough to deceive the eye; add God save the Queen, which might have been taken from Lulli, and the ensemble becomes an illusion.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000006|Not a personage is missing.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000009|The whole is solemn and pompous, and the Windsor of the time has a faded resemblance to Marly.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000010|Still the whole was effeminate, and Anne's Pere Tellier was called Sarah Jennings.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000014_000012|Although the England of the period quarrels and fights France, she imitates her and draws enlightenment from her; and the light on the facade of England is French light.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000015_000000|A detail to be noted.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000015_000002|"He is the kind of king they want in France," said the English.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000015_000004|That favourable regard of the chains which bind their neighbours sometimes attains to enthusiasm for the despot next door.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000000|Queen Anne bore a little grudge to the Duchess Josiana, for two reasons. Firstly, because she thought the Duchess Josiana handsome.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000001|Secondly, because she thought the Duchess Josiana's betrothed handsome.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000003|One is sufficient for a queen.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000004|Let us add that she bore her a grudge for being her sister.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000005|Anne did not like women to be pretty.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000006|She considered it against good morals. As for herself, she was ugly.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000007|Not from choice, however.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000008|A part of her religion she derived from that ugliness.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000018_000010|To an ugly queen, a pretty duchess is not an agreeable sister.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000019_000000|There was another grievance, Josiana's "improper" birth.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000019_000004|It was an unpleasant resemblance. Josiana had a right to say to Anne, "My mother was at least as good as yours." At court no one said so, but they evidently thought it.
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000019_000006|Why this Josiana?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000019_000007|What had put it into her head to be born?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000019_000008|What good was a Josiana?
train-clean-100/6147/34607/6147_34607_000019_000009|Certain relationships are detrimental.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000002_000000|Pothier seems to think that property, like royalty, exists by divine right.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000002_000002|He begins in this way:--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000003_000001|For the human race he has created the earth and all its creatures, and has given it a control over them subordinate only to his own.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000004_000000|After this magnificent introduction, who would refuse to believe the human race to be an immense family living in brotherly union, and under the protection of a venerable father?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000004_000002|Are fathers unnatural, and children prodigal?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000005_000001|HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER MY FEET,--and I have not where to lay my head! MULTIPLY, he tells us through his interpreter, Pothier.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000006_000000|"The human race having multiplied, men divided among themselves the earth and most of the things upon it; that which fell to each, from that time exclusively belonged to him.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000007_000001|Men lived in a state of communism; whether positive or negative it matters little.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000007_000002|Then there was no property, not even private possession.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000007_000003|The genesis and growth of possession gradually forcing people to labor for their support, they agreed either formally or tacitly,--it makes no difference which,--that the laborer should be sole proprietor of the fruit of his labor; that is, they simply declared the fact that thereafter none could live without working.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000007_000004|It necessarily followed that, to obtain equality of products, there must be equality of labor; and that, to obtain equality of labor, there must be equality of facilities for labor.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000007_000005|Whoever without labor got possession, by force or by strategy, of another's means of subsistence, destroyed equality, and placed himself above or outside of the law.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000007_000006|Whoever monopolized the means of production on the ground of greater industry, also destroyed equality.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000008_000001|But in what thing?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000008_000002|Evidently IN THE PRODUCT, not IN THE SOIL. So the Arabs have always understood it; and so, according to Caesar and Tacitus, the Germans formerly held.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000009_000003|The original cultivators of the land, who were also the original makers of the law, were not as learned as our legislators, I admit; and had they been, they could not have done worse: they did not foresee the consequences of the transformation of the right of private possession into the right of absolute property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000010_000000|Let me call the attention of the writers on jurisprudence to their own maxims.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000011_000002|The field which I have cleared, which I cultivate, on which I have built my house, which supports myself, my family, and my livestock, I can possess: first.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000011_000005|By virtue of the social contract which assigns it to me as my share.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000012_000000|But none of these titles confer upon me the right of property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000012_000001|For, if I attempt to base it upon occupancy, society can reply, "I am the original occupant." If I appeal to my labor, it will say, "It is only on that condition that you possess." If I speak of agreements, it will respond, "These agreements establish only your right of use." Such, however, are the only titles which proprietors advance.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000012_000004|Why, then, has society recognized a right injurious to itself, where there is no producing cause?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000012_000005|Why, in according possession, has it also conceded property?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000012_000006|Why has the law sanctioned this abuse of power?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000013_000000|The German Ancillon replies thus:--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000014_000000|"Some philosophers pretend that man, in employing his forces upon a natural object,--say a field or a tree,--acquires a right only to the improvements which he makes, to the form which he gives to the object, not to the object itself.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000014_000001|Useless distinction!
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000014_000002|If the form could be separated from the object, perhaps there would be room for question; but as this is almost always impossible, the application of man's strength to the different parts of the visible world is the foundation of the right of property, the primary origin of riches."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000015_000000|Vain pretext!
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000015_000001|If the form cannot be separated from the object, nor property from possession, possession must be shared; in any case, society reserves the right to fix the conditions of property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000015_000003|This payment is not rent, it is an indemnity.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000016_000000|What sort of justice is it, then, which makes such laws as this:--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000017_000000|"Whereas, since labor so changes the form of a thing that the form and substance cannot be separated without destroying the thing itself, either society must be disinherited, or the laborer must lose the fruit of his labor; and
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000019_000000|"Therefore, the right of appropriation by labor shall never be admitted against individuals, but only against society."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000021_000000|The law is intended to protect men's mutual rights,--that is, the rights of each against each, and each against all; and, as if a proportion could exist with less than four terms, the law makers always disregard the latter.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000021_000001|As long as man is opposed to man, property offsets property, and the two forces balance each other; as soon as man is isolated, that is, opposed to the society which he himself represents, jurisprudence is at fault: Themis has lost one scale of her balance.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000023_000000|"How could this claim, made valid by occupation, become stable and permanent property, which might continue to stand, and which might be reclaimed after the first occupant had relinquished possession?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000024_000000|"Agriculture was a natural consequence of the multiplication of the human race, and agriculture, in its turn, favors population, and necessitates the establishment of permanent property; for who would take the trouble to plough and sow, if he were not certain that he would reap?"
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000025_000000|To satisfy the husbandman, it was sufficient to guarantee him possession of his crop; admit even that he should have been protected in his right of occupation of land, as long as he remained its cultivator.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000025_000001|That was all that he had a right to expect; that was all that the advance of civilization demanded.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000025_000003|who pretended to have it?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000026_000000|"Agriculture alone was not sufficient to establish permanent property; positive laws were needed, and magistrates to execute them; in a word, the civil State was needed.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000027_000000|"The multiplication of the human race had rendered agriculture necessary; the need of securing to the cultivator the fruit of his labor made permanent property necessary, and also laws for its protection.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000027_000001|So we are indebted to property for the creation of the civil State."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000028_000000|Yes, of our civil State, as you have made it; a State which, at first, was despotism, then monarchy, then aristocracy, today democracy, and always tyranny.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000029_000000|"Without the ties of property it never would have been possible to subordinate men to the wholesome yoke of the law; and without permanent property the earth would have remained a vast forest.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000030_000001|In this we see what a wonderful change has been effected in property, and to what an extent Nature has been altered by the civil laws."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000031_000001|It has literally CREATED a right outside of its own province.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000032_000000|It has sanctioned selfishness; it has indorsed monstrous pretensions; it has received with favor impious vows, as if it were able to fill up a bottomless pit, and to satiate hell!
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000032_000001|Blind law; the law of the ignorant man; a law which is not a law; the voice of discord, deceit, and blood!
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000032_000002|This it is which, continually revived, reinstated, rejuvenated, restored, re enforced-as the palladium of society-has troubled the consciences of the people, has obscured the minds of the masters, and has induced all the catastrophes which have befallen nations.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000033_000000|This it is which Christianity has condemned, but which its ignorant ministers deify; who have as little desire to study Nature and man, as ability to read their Scriptures.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000034_000000|But, indeed, what guide did the law follow in creating the domain of property?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000034_000001|What principle directed it?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000034_000002|What was its standard?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000035_000000|Would you believe it?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000035_000001|It was equality.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000036_000000|Agriculture was the foundation of territorial possession, and the original cause of property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000036_000003|Thus the soil came to be appropriated through need of the equality which is essential to public security and peaceable possession.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000036_000004|Undoubtedly the division was never geographically equal; a multitude of rights, some founded in Nature, but wrongly interpreted and still more wrongly applied, inheritance, gift, and exchange; others, like the privileges of birth and position, the illegitimate creations of ignorance and brute force,--all operated to prevent absolute equality.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000036_000005|But, nevertheless, the principle remained the same: equality had sanctioned possession; equality sanctioned property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000038_000000|It was not right that the soldier, on returning from an expedition, should find himself dispossessed on account of the services which he had just rendered to his country; his estate ought to be restored to him.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000040_000000|But what is there in common between these rude outlines of instinctive organization and the true social science?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000040_000001|How could these men, who never had the faintest idea of statistics, valuation, or political economy, furnish us with principles of legislation?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000041_000001|'This definition is not exact.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000041_000003|Comte, who has devoted half a volume to its definition, was in the beginning only the EXPRESSION OF A WANT, and the indication of the means of supplying it; and up to this time it has been nothing else.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000047_000000|They did not foresee....
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000047_000001|But why need I go farther?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000048_000000|The consequences are plain enough, and this is not the time to criticise the whole Code.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000049_000000|The history of property among the ancient nations is, then, simply a matter of research and curiosity.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000049_000002|Now, property is no exception to this rule: then the universal recognition of the right of property does not legitimate the right of property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000049_000003|Man is mistaken as to the constitution of society, the nature of right, and the application of justice; just as he was mistaken regarding the cause of meteors and the movement of the heavenly bodies.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000049_000004|His old opinions cannot be taken for articles of faith.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000049_000005|Of what consequence is it to us that the Indian race was divided into four classes; that, on the banks of the Nile and the Ganges, blood and position formerly determined the distribution of the land; that the Greeks and romans placed property under the protection of the gods; that they accompanied with religious ceremonies the work of partitioning the land and appraising their goods?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000052_000000|"The right of property is the most important of human institutions."...
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000054_000000|"The original cause of man's prosperity upon earth."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000055_000000|Because justice was supposed to be its principle.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000056_000000|"Property became the legitimate end of his ambition, the hope of his existence, the shelter of his family; in a word, the corner stone of the domestic dwelling, of communities, and of the political State."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000057_000000|Possession alone produced all that.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000058_000000|"Eternal principle,--"
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000059_000000|Property is eternal, like every negation,--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000061_000000|For that reason, every institution and every law based on property will perish.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000062_000000|"It is a boon as precious as liberty."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000063_000000|For the rich proprietor.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000064_000000|"In fact, the cause of the cultivation of the habitable earth."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000065_000000|If the cultivator ceased to be a tenant, would the land be worse cared for?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000066_000000|"The guarantee and the morality of labor."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000067_000000|Under the regime of property, labor is not a condition, but a privilege.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000068_000000|"The application of justice."
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000069_000000|What is justice without equality of fortunes?
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000069_000001|A balance with false weights.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000071_000000|A famished stomach knows no morality,--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000072_000000|"All public order,--"
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000073_000000|Certainly, the preservation of property,--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000075_000000|Corner stone of all which is, stumbling block of all which ought to be,--such is property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000076_000000|To sum up and conclude:--
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000077_000000|Not only does occupation lead to equality, it PREVENTS property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000077_000002|Finally, that, inasmuch as possession, in right, can never remain fixed, it is impossible, in fact, that it can ever become property.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000078_000000|Every occupant is, then, necessarily a possessor or usufructuary,--a function which excludes proprietorship.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000078_000001|Now, this is the right of the usufructuary: he is responsible for the thing entrusted to him; he must use it in conformity with general utility, with a view to its preservation and development; he has no power to transform it, to diminish it, or to change its nature; he cannot so divide the usufruct that another shall perform the labor while he receives the product.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000079_000002|The individual passes away, society is deathless.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000080_000000|What a profound disgust fills my soul while discussing such simple truths!
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000081_000000|ALL HAVE AN EQUAL RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY.
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000083_000000|This no code has ever expressed; this no constitution can admit!
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000084_000000|But I hear the exclamations of the partisans of another system: "Labor, labor! that is the basis of property!"
train-clean-100/6181/216552/6181_216552_000085_000001|This new basis of property is worse than the first, and I shall soon have to ask your pardon for having demonstrated things clearer, and refuted pretensions more unjust, than any which we have yet considered.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000002_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000003_000000|A BURDEN MAKES A ROUGH ROAD ROUGHER.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000004_000000|It was little more than four hours since the hooker had sailed from the creek of Portland, leaving the boy on the shore.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000005_000001|He was now almost naked.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000005_000002|The few rags which remained to him, hardened by the frost, were sharp as glass, and cut his skin.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000005_000003|He became colder, but the infant was warmer.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000005_000004|That which he lost was not thrown away, but was gained by her. He found out that the poor infant enjoyed the comfort which was to her the renewal of life.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000005_000005|He continued to advance.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000006_000001|At other times, his throat feeling as if it were on fire, he put a little snow in his mouth and sucked it; this for a moment assuaged his thirst, but changed it into fever-a relief which was an aggravation.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000007_000000|The storm had become shapeless from its violence.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000007_000001|Deluges of snow are possible.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000007_000002|This was one.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000007_000003|The paroxysm scourged the shore at the same time that it uptore the depths of ocean.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000007_000004|This was, perhaps, the moment when the distracted hooker was going to pieces in the battle of the breakers.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000008_000000|He travelled under this north wind, still towards the east, over wide surfaces of snow.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000008_000002|For a long time he had ceased to see the smoke.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000008_000003|Such indications are soon effaced in the night; besides, it was past the hour when fires are put out.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000008_000004|Or he had, perhaps, made a mistake, and it was possible that neither town nor village existed in the direction in which he was travelling.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000008_000005|Doubting, he yet persevered.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000009_000000|Two or three times the little infant cried.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000009_000001|Then he adopted in his gait a rocking movement, and the child was soothed and silenced.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000010_000000|The plain was unequal.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000010_000001|In the declivities into which it sloped the snow, driven by the wind into the dips of the ground, was so deep, in comparison with a child so small, that it almost engulfed him, and he had to struggle through it half buried.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000010_000002|He walked on, working away the snow with his knees.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000011_000001|Then he found the surface a sheet of ice.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000011_000002|The little girl's lukewarm breath, playing on his face, warmed it for a moment, then lingered, and froze in his hair, stiffening it into icicles.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000012_000000|He felt the approach of another danger.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000012_000001|He could not afford to fall.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000012_000003|He was overcome by fatigue, and the weight of the darkness would, as with the dead woman, have held him to the ground, and the ice glued him alive to the earth.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000013_000000|He had tripped upon the slopes of precipices, and had recovered himself; he had stumbled into holes, and had got out again.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000013_000001|Thenceforward the slightest fall would be death; a false step opened for him a tomb.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000013_000002|He must not slip.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000013_000003|He had not strength to rise even to his knees.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000013_000005|The little creature whom he carried made his progress fearfully difficult. She was not only a burden, which his weariness and exhaustion made excessive, but was also an embarrassment.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000014_000000|He was obliged to do without this balance.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000016_000000|This little infant was the drop causing the cup of distress to overflow.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000000|He advanced, reeling at every step, as if on a spring board, and accomplishing, without spectators, miracles of equilibrium.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000001|Let us repeat that he was, perhaps, followed on this path of pain by eyes unsleeping in the distances of the shadows-the eyes of the mother and the eyes of God.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000002|He staggered, slipped, recovered himself, took care of the infant, and, gathering the jacket about her, he covered up her head; staggered again, advanced, slipped, then drew himself up.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000003|The cowardly wind drove against him.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000005|He was, to all appearance, on the plains where Bincleaves Farm was afterwards established, between what are now called Spring Gardens and the Parsonage House.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000006|Homesteads and cottages occupy the place of waste lands.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000017_000007|Sometimes less than a century separates a steppe from a city.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000018_000000|Suddenly, a lull having occurred in the icy blast which was blinding him, he perceived, at a short distance in front of him, a cluster of gables and of chimneys shown in relief by the snow.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000018_000001|The reverse of a silhouette-a city painted in white on a black horizon, something like what we call nowadays a negative proof.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000018_000002|Roofs-dwellings-shelter!
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000018_000003|He had arrived somewhere at last.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000018_000004|He felt the ineffable encouragement of hope.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000019_000000|He hurried his steps.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000020_000000|At length, then, he was near mankind.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000020_000001|He would soon be amidst living creatures.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000020_000003|There glowed within him that sudden warmth-security; that out of which he was emerging was over; thenceforward there would no longer be night, nor winter, nor tempest.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000020_000004|It seemed to him that he had left all evil chances behind him. The infant was no longer a burden.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000020_000005|He almost ran.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000021_000000|His eyes were fixed on the roofs.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000021_000004|There were the chimneys of which he had seen the smoke.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000022_000000|No smoke arose from them now.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000022_000001|He was not long before he reached the houses.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000022_000002|He came to the outskirts of a town-an open street.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000022_000003|At that period bars to streets were falling into disuse.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000023_000000|The street began by two houses.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000023_000001|In those two houses neither candle nor lamp was to be seen; nor in the whole street; nor in the whole town, so far as eye could reach.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000023_000003|The walls were of mud, the roof was of straw, and there was more thatch than wall.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000023_000005|The hovel had but one door, which was like that of a dog kennel; and a window, which was but a hole.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000023_000007|At the side an inhabited pig sty told that the house was also inhabited.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000024_000001|It was also closed.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000025_000000|The boy did not hesitate.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000025_000001|He approached the great mansion.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000025_000002|The double folding door of massive oak, studded with large nails, was of the kind that leads one to expect that behind it there is a stout armoury of bolts and locks.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000025_000003|An iron knocker was attached to it.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000025_000004|He raised the knocker with some difficulty, for his benumbed hands were stumps rather than hands.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000025_000005|He knocked once.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000026_000000|No answer.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000027_000000|He struck again, and two knocks.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000028_000000|No movement was heard in the house.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000029_000000|He knocked a third time.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000030_000001|He saw that they were all asleep, and did not care to get up.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000031_000000|Then he turned to the hovel.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000031_000001|He picked up a pebble from the snow, and knocked against the low door.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000032_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000033_000000|He raised himself on tiptoe, and knocked with his pebble against the pane too softly to break the glass, but loud enough to be heard.
train-clean-100/6209/34599/6209_34599_000034_000000|No voice was heard; no step moved; no candle was lighted.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000001_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000002_000000|ANOTHER FORM OF DESERT.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000003_000000|It was Weymouth which he had just entered.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000003_000001|Weymouth then was not the respectable and fine Weymouth of to day.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000004_000000|Ancient Weymouth did not present, like the present one, an irreproachable rectangular quay, with an inn and a statue in honour of George the third.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000004_000001|This resulted from the fact that George the third. had not yet been born.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000004_000002|For the same reason they had not yet designed on the slope of the green hill towards the east, fashioned flat on the soil by cutting away the turf and leaving the bare chalk to the view, the white horse, an acre long, bearing the king upon his back, and always turning, in honour of George the third., his tail to the city.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000004_000003|These honours, however, were deserved.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000004_000004|George the third., having lost in his old age the intellect he had never possessed in his youth, was not responsible for the calamities of his reign.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000004_000006|Why not erect statues to him?
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000006_000000|The traveller who entered the tavern, now replaced by the hotel, instead of paying royally his twenty five francs for a fried sole and a bottle of wine, had to suffer the humiliation of eating a pennyworth of soup made of fish-which soup, by the bye, was very good.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000006_000001|Wretched fare!
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000007_000000|The deserted child, carrying the foundling, passed through the first street, then the second, then the third.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000007_000002|At intervals he knocked at the doors.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000007_000003|No one answered. Nothing makes the heart so like a stone as being warm between sheets. The noise and the shaking had at length awakened the infant.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000007_000004|He knew this because he felt her suck his cheek.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000007_000005|She did not cry, believing him her mother.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000008_000000|He was about to turn and wander long, perhaps, in the intersections of the Scrambridge lanes, where there were then more cultivated plots than dwellings, more thorn hedges than houses; but fortunately he struck into a passage which exists to this day near Trinity schools.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000008_000001|This passage led him to a water brink, where there was a roughly built quay with a parapet, and to the right he made out a bridge.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000009_000000|Weymouth, a hamlet, was then the suburb of Melcombe Regis, a city and port.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000009_000001|Now Melcombe Regis is a parish of Weymouth.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000009_000002|The village has absorbed the city.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000009_000003|It was the bridge which did the work.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000009_000004|Bridges are strange vehicles of suction, which inhale the population, and sometimes swell one river bank at the expense of its opposite neighbour.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000010_000000|The boy went to the bridge, which at that period was a covered timber structure.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000010_000003|His bare feet had a moment's comfort as they crossed them. Having passed over the bridge, he was in Melcombe Regis.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000011_000000|The bridge opened on a rather fine street called saint Thomas's Street.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000011_000001|He entered it.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000011_000002|Here and there were high carved gables and shop fronts.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000011_000003|He set to knocking at the doors again: he had no strength left to call or shout.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000000|At Melcombe Regis, as at Weymouth, no one was stirring.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000001|The doors were all carefully double locked, The windows were covered by their shutters, as the eyes by their lids.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000002|Every precaution had been taken to avoid being roused by disagreeable surprises.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000005|All its lethargies mingle their nightmares, its slumbers are a crowd, and from its human bodies lying prone there arises a vapour of dreams.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000006|Sleep has gloomy associates beyond this life: the decomposed thoughts of the sleepers float above them in a mist which is both of death and of life, and combine with the possible, which has also, perhaps, the power of thought, as it floats in space.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000007|Hence arise entanglements.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000008|Dreams, those clouds, interpose their folds and their transparencies over that star, the mind.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000010|Mysterious, diffused existences amalgamate themselves with life on that border of death, which sleep is. Those larvae and souls mingle in the air.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000011|Even he who sleeps not feels a medium press upon him full of sinister life.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000012|The surrounding chimera, in which he suspects a reality, impedes him.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000013|The waking man, wending his way amidst the sleep phantoms of others, unconsciously pushes back passing shadows, has, or imagines that he has, a vague fear of adverse contact with the invisible, and feels at every moment the obscure pressure of a hostile encounter which immediately dissolves.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000012_000014|There is something of the effect of a forest in the nocturnal diffusion of dreams.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000013_000000|This is what is called being afraid without reason.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000014_000000|What a man feels a child feels still more.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000015_000000|The uneasiness of nocturnal fear, increased by the spectral houses, increased the weight of the sad burden under which he was struggling.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000017_000001|His blows, on which he was expending his last energies, were jerky and without aim; now ceasing altogether for a time, now renewed as if in irritation.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000018_000000|One voice answered.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000019_000000|That of Time.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000020_000000|Three o'clock tolled slowly behind him from the old belfry of saint Nicholas.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000022_000000|That no inhabitant should have opened a lattice may appear surprising. Nevertheless that silence is in a great measure to be explained.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000022_000002|People would not even open their windows for fear of inhaling the poison.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000023_000000|The child felt the coldness of men more terribly than the coldness of night.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000023_000001|The coldness of men is intentional.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000023_000002|He felt a tightening on his sinking heart which he had not known on the open plains.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000023_000004|This was the summit of misery.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000023_000005|The pitiless desert he had understood; the unrelenting town was too much to bear.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000024_000000|The hour, the strokes of which he had just counted, had been another blow.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000024_000001|Nothing is so freezing in certain situations as the voice of the hour.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000024_000002|It is a declaration of indifference.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000024_000003|It is Eternity saying, "What does it matter to me?"
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000025_000001|However, the little infant leaned her head against his shoulder, and fell asleep again.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000026_000000|This blind confidence set him onwards again.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000026_000001|He whom all supports were failing felt that he was himself a basis of support.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000026_000002|Irresistible summons of duty!
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000027_000001|It is probable that he did not understand them.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000028_000003|It was a piece of waste land not built upon-probably the spot where Chesterfield Place now stands.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000028_000004|The houses ended there.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000028_000005|He perceived the sea to the right, and scarcely anything more of the town to his left.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000000|What was to become of him?
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000001|Here was the country again.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000002|To the east great inclined planes of snow marked out the wide slopes of Radipole.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000003|Should he continue this journey?
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000004|Should he advance and re-enter the solitudes? Should he return and re-enter the streets?
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000005|What was he to do between those two silences-the mute plain and the deaf city?
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000029_000006|Which of the two refusals should he choose?
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000030_000000|There is the anchor of mercy.
train-clean-100/6209/34600/6209_34600_000031_000000|All at once he heard a menace.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000003_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000004_000000|MISANTHROPY PLAYS ITS PRANKS.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000006_000000|It was enough to drive one back: he advanced.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000006_000001|To those to whom silence has become dreadful a howl is comforting.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000007_000000|That fierce growl reassured him; that threat was a promise.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000007_000001|There was there a being alive and awake, though it might be a wild beast.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000000|He turned the corner of a wall, and, behind in the vast sepulchral light made by the reflection of snow and sea, he saw a thing placed as if for shelter.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000001|It was a cart, unless it was a hovel.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000003|It had a roof-it was a dwelling.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000004|From the roof arose a funnel, and out of the funnel smoke.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000005|This smoke was red, and seemed to imply a good fire in the interior.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000006|Behind, projecting hinges indicated a door, and in the centre of this door a square opening showed a light inside the caravan.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000008_000007|He approached.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000009_000000|Whatever had growled perceived his approach, and became furious.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000009_000002|He heard a sharp sound, as of a chain violently pulled to its full length, and suddenly, under the door, between the hind wheels, two rows of sharp white teeth appeared.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000011_000000|The mouth was silent.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000012_000000|The head began again,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000013_000000|"Is any one there?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000014_000000|The child answered,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000015_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000016_000000|"Who?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000018_000000|"You?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000018_000001|Who are you? whence do you come?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000019_000000|"I am weary," said the child.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000020_000000|"What o'clock is it?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000021_000000|"I am cold."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000023_000000|"I am hungry."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000024_000000|The head replied,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000025_000000|"Every one cannot be as happy as a lord.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000025_000001|Go away."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000026_000000|The head was withdrawn and the window closed.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000027_000000|The child bowed his forehead, drew the sleeping infant closer in his arms, and collected his strength to resume his journey.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000027_000001|He had taken a few steps, and was hurrying away.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000028_000000|However, at the same time that the window closed the door had opened; a step had been let down; the voice which had spoken to the child cried out angrily from the inside of the van,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000029_000000|"Well! why do you not enter?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000030_000000|The child turned back.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000031_000000|"Come in," resumed the voice.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000032_000000|The child, at once repulsed and invited, remained motionless.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000033_000000|The voice continued,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000034_000000|"You are told to come in, you young rascal."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000035_000000|He made up his mind, and placed one foot on the lowest step.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000036_000001|He drew back.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000036_000002|The gaping jaws appeared.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000038_000000|The jaws retreated, the growling ceased.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000039_000000|"Come up!" continued the man.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000040_000000|The child with difficulty climbed up the three steps.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000040_000001|He was impeded by the infant, so benumbed, rolled up and enveloped in the jacket that nothing could be distinguished of her, and she was but a little shapeless mass.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000041_000000|He passed over the three steps; and having reached the threshold, stopped.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000000|No candle was burning in the caravan, probably from the economy of want. The hut was lighted only by a red tinge, arising from the opening at the top of the stove, in which sparkled a peat fire.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000001|On the stove were smoking a porringer and a saucepan, containing to all appearance something to eat.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000002|The savoury odour was perceptible.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000003|The hut was furnished with a chest, a stool, and an unlighted lantern which hung from the ceiling.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000004|Besides, to the partition were attached some boards on brackets and some hooks, from which hung a variety of things.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000005|On the boards and nails were rows of glasses, coppers, an alembic, a vessel rather like those used for graining wax, which are called granulators, and a confusion of strange objects of which the child understood nothing, and which were utensils for cooking and chemistry.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000042_000009|Everything in the caravan was indistinct and misty.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000043_000000|URSUS, PHILOSOPHER.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000044_000000|The child, in fact, was entering the house of Homo and Ursus.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000044_000001|The one he had just heard growling, the other speaking.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000045_000000|The child having reached the threshold, perceived near the stove a man, tall, smooth, thin and old, dressed in gray, whose head, as he stood, reached the roof.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000045_000001|The man could not have raised himself on tiptoe.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000049_000000|The child placed his burden carefully on the top of the chest, for fear of awakening and terrifying it.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000050_000000|The man continued,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000051_000003|Worthless vagabond! in the streets at this hour!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000051_000004|Who are you? Answer!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000051_000005|But no I forbid you to answer.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000051_000006|There!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000051_000007|You are cold.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000051_000008|Warm yourself as quick as you can," and he shoved him by the shoulders in front of the fire.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000052_000000|"How wet you are!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000052_000001|You're frozen through!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000052_000002|A nice state to come into a house!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000052_000003|Come, take off those rags, you villain!" and as with one hand, and with feverish haste, he dragged off the boy's rags which tore into shreds, with the other he took down from a nail a man's shirt, and one of those knitted jackets which are up to this day called kiss me quicks.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000053_000000|"Here are clothes."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000054_000001|The limbs having been rubbed, he next wiped the boy's feet.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000055_000000|"Come, you limb; you have nothing frost bitten!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000055_000003|Dress yourself!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000056_000000|The child put on the shirt, and the man slipped the knitted jacket over it.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000058_000000|The man kicked the stool forward and made the little boy sit down, again shoving him by the shoulders; then he pointed with his finger to the porringer which was smoking upon the stove.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000059_000000|"You are hungry; eat!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000060_000000|The man took from the shelf a crust of hard bread and an iron fork, and handed them to the child.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000061_000000|The boy hesitated.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000062_000000|"Perhaps you expect me to lay the cloth," said the man, and he placed the porringer on the child's lap.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000063_000000|"Gobble that up."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000064_000000|Hunger overcame astonishment.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000064_000001|The child began to eat.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000064_000002|The poor boy devoured rather than ate.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000064_000004|The man grumbled,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000000|"Not so quick, you horrid glutton!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000001|Isn't he a greedy scoundrel?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000003|You should see a lord sup.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000004|In my time I have seen dukes eat.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000005|They don't eat; that's noble.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000006|They drink, however.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000065_000007|Come, you pig, stuff yourself!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000066_000000|The absence of ears, which is the concomitant of a hungry stomach, caused the child to take little heed of these violent epithets, tempered as they were by charity of action involving a contradiction resulting in his benefit.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000066_000001|For the moment he was absorbed by two exigencies and by two ecstasies-food and warmth.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000067_000000|Ursus continued his imprecations, muttering to himself,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000001|His Majesty touched nothing.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000002|This beggar here browses: browses, a word derived from brute.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000005|I have played the flute to the hurricane.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000006|I have not pocketed a farthing; and now, to night, beggars drop in.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000007|Horrid place!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000008|There is battle, struggle, competition between the fools in the street and myself.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000009|They try to give me nothing but farthings.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000011|Well, to day I've made nothing.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000013|Eat away, hell born boy!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000014|Tear and crunch!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000015|We have fallen on times when nothing can equal the cynicism of spongers.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000016|Fatten at my expense, parasite!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000018|It is not appetite, it is ferocity.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000020|Perhaps he has the plague.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000021|Have you the plague, you thief?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000024|Let the populace die, but not my wolf.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000027|I have worked far into the night.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000029|I was to night, by hunger.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000030|I was alone.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000031|I made a fire.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000032|I had but one potato, one crust of bread, a mouthful of bacon, and a drop of milk, and I put it to warm.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000033|I said to myself, 'Good.' I think I am going to eat, and bang!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000034|this crocodile falls upon me at the very moment. He installs himself clean between my food and myself.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000037|You shark! how many teeth have you in your jaws?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000038|Guzzle, wolf cub; no, I withdraw that word.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000039|I respect wolves.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000040|Swallow up my food, boa.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000068_000042|'tis all one, though!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000069_000000|Just then a wail, touching and prolonged, arose in the hut.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000069_000001|The man listened.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000070_000000|"You cry, sycophant!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000070_000001|Why do you cry?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000071_000000|The boy turned towards him.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000071_000001|It was evident that it was not he who cried. He had his mouth full.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000072_000000|The cry continued.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000073_000000|The man went to the chest.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000074_000000|"So it is your bundle that wails!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000075_000000|He unrolled the jacket.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000075_000001|An infant's head appeared, the mouth open and crying.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000076_000003|Who is there?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000076_000005|Corporal, call out the guard! Another bang!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000076_000007|Don't you see it is thirsty?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000076_000008|Come! the little one must have a drink.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000076_000009|So now I shall not have even the milk!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000077_000000|He took down from the things lying in disorder on the shelf a bandage of linen, a sponge and a phial, muttering savagely, "What an infernal place!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000078_000000|Then he looked at the little infant.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000078_000002|This rough and sudden dressing made the infant angry.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000079_000000|"She mews relentlessly," said he.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000080_000001|"Come! take your supper, creature!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000080_000002|Let me suckle you," and he put the neck of the bottle to its mouth.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000081_000000|The little infant drank greedily.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000084_000000|"You are going to choke!" growled Ursus.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000084_000001|"A fine gobbler this one, too!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000085_000000|He drew away the sponge which she was sucking, allowed the cough to subside, and then replaced the phial to her lips, saying, "Suck, you little wretch!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000000|In the meantime the boy had laid down his fork.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000001|Seeing the infant drink had made him forget to eat.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000002|The moment before, while he ate, the expression in his face was satisfaction; now it was gratitude.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000003|He watched the infant's renewal of life; the completion of the resurrection begun by himself filled his eyes with an ineffable brilliancy.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000004|Ursus went on muttering angry words between his teeth.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000005|The little boy now and then lifted towards Ursus his eyes moist with the unspeakable emotion which the poor little being felt, but was unable to express.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000086_000006|Ursus addressed him furiously.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000087_000000|"Well, will you eat?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000088_000000|"And you?" said the child, trembling all over, and with tears in his eyes.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000088_000001|"You will have nothing!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000089_000000|"Will you be kind enough to eat it all up, you cub?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000091_000001|"What has it got to do with me?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000091_000002|Who speaks of me? Wretched little barefooted clerk of Penniless Parish, I tell you, eat it all up!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000091_000003|You are here to eat, drink, and sleep-eat, or I will kick you out, both of you."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000092_000000|The boy, under this menace, began to eat again.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000092_000001|He had not much trouble in finishing what was left in the porringer.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000092_000002|Ursus muttered, "This building is badly joined.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000092_000003|The cold comes in by the window pane." A pane had indeed been broken in front, either by a jolt of the caravan or by a stone thrown by some mischievous boy.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000092_000005|The blast entered there.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000093_000000|He was half seated on the chest.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000093_000001|The infant in his arms, and at the same time on his lap, was sucking rapturously at the bottle, in the happy somnolency of cherubim before their Creator, and infants at their mothers' breast.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000094_000000|"She is drunk," said Ursus; and he continued, "After this, preach sermons on temperance!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000001|What useful trouble Bishop Tillotson gives himself, thundering against excessive drinking.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000006|One cannot see clearly.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000007|That being over there abuses my hospitality.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000009|Comfort is wanting here.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000010|By Jove!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000015|Nothing sold all day.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000017|You are losing your time, old friend.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000018|Pack up your physic.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000019|Every one is well down here. It's a cursed town, where every one is well!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000022|Ice is night.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000023|What a hurricane!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000024|I can fancy the delight of those at sea.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000025|The hurricane is the passage of demons.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000032|My friends, get through the storm as best you can.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000033|I have enough to do to get through life.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000034|Come now, do I keep an inn, or do I not?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000038|I am given up to the voracity of travellers.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000041|I open them and find beggars inside. Is this fair?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000042|Besides, the laws are violated.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000043|Ah! vagabond with your vagabond child!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000044|Mischievous pick pocket, evil minded abortion, so you walk the streets after curfew?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000045|If our good king only knew it, would he not have you thrown into the bottom of a ditch, just to teach you better?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000049|Vagabonds are punished, honest folks who have houses are guarded and protected.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000050|Kings are the fathers of their people.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000052|You would have been whipped in the public street had you chanced to have been met, and quite right, too.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000053|There must be order in an established city.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000054|For my own part, I did wrong not to denounce you to the constable.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000056|I understand what is right and do what is wrong.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000057|O the ruffian! to come here in such a state!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000060|I shall have to burn an incredible amount of coals to dry up this lake-coals at twelve farthings the miners' standard!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000061|How am I going to manage to fit three into this caravan?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000062|Now it is over; I enter the nursery; I am going to have in my house the weaning of the future beggardom of England.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000063|I shall have for employment, office, and function, to fashion the miscarried fortunes of that colossal prostitute, Misery, to bring to perfection future gallows' birds, and to give young thieves the forms of philosophy.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000068|The sun is a chimney which sometimes smokes; so does my stove.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000069|My stove is no better than the sun
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000070|Yes, I should have made my fortune; my part would have been a different one-I should not be the insignificant fellow I am.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000075|But no-it is long.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000076|At intervals, that we should not become too discouraged, that we may have the stupidity to consent to bear our being, and not profit by the magnificent opportunities to hang ourselves which cords and nails afford, nature puts on an air of taking a little care of man-not to night, though.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000077|The rogue causes the wheat to spring up, ripens the grape, gives her song to the nightingale.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000078|From time to time a ray of morning or a glass of gin, and that is what we call happiness!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000096_000080|We have a destiny of which the devil has woven the stuff and God has sewn the hem. In the meantime, you have eaten my supper, you thief!"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000097_000000|In the meantime the infant whom he was holding all the time in his arms very tenderly whilst he was vituperating, shut its eyes languidly; a sign of repletion.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000097_000001|Ursus examined the phial, and grumbled,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000099_000000|He arose, and sustaining the infant with his left arm, with his right he raised the lid of the chest and drew from beneath it a bear skin-the one he called, as will be remembered, his real skin.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000099_000001|Whilst he was doing this he heard the other child eating, and looked at him sideways.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000100_000000|"It will be something to do if, henceforth, I have to feed that growing glutton.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000101_000000|He spread out, still with one arm, the bear skin on the chest, working his elbow and managing his movements so as not to disturb the sleep into which the infant was just sinking.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000102_000000|Then he laid her down on the fur, on the side next the fire.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000102_000001|Having done so, he placed the phial on the stove, and exclaimed,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000104_000000|He looked into the pot.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000104_000001|There were a few good mouthfuls of milk left in it; he raised it to his lips.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000104_000002|Just as he was about to drink, his eye fell on the little girl.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000104_000003|He replaced the pot on the stove, took the phial, uncorked it, poured into it all the milk that remained, which was just sufficient to fill it, replaced the sponge and the linen rag over it, and tied it round the neck of the bottle.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000105_000000|"All the same, I'm hungry and thirsty," he observed.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000108_000000|Behind the stove there was a jug with the spout off.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000108_000001|He took it and handed it to the boy.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000109_000000|"Will you drink?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000110_000000|The child drank, and then went on eating.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000111_000000|Ursus seized the pitcher again, and conveyed it to his mouth.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000111_000001|The temperature of the water which it contained had been unequally modified by the proximity of the stove.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000112_000000|He swallowed some mouthfuls and made a grimace.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000113_000001|Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000114_000000|In the meantime the boy had finished his supper.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000114_000001|The porringer was more than empty; it was cleaned out.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000114_000002|He picked up and ate pensively a few crumbs caught in the folds of the knitted jacket on his lap.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000115_000000|Ursus turned towards him.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000116_000003|Now that you are warmed and stuffed, you beast, take care of yourself.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000116_000004|You are going to answer my questions. Whence do you come?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000117_000000|The child replied,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000118_000000|"I do not know."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000119_000000|"How do you mean?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000120_000000|"I was abandoned this evening on the sea shore."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000121_000000|"You little scamp!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000121_000001|what's your name?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000121_000002|He is so good for nothing that his relations desert him."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000124_000000|"It is not my sister."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000125_000000|"It is not your sister?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000126_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000127_000000|"Who is it then?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000128_000000|"It is a baby that I found."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000129_000000|"Found?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000130_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000131_000000|"What! did you pick her up?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000132_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000133_000000|"Where?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000133_000001|If you lie I will exterminate you."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000134_000000|"On the breast of a woman who was dead in the snow."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000137_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000138_000000|"A league from here."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000139_000000|The arched brow of Ursus knitted and took that pointed shape which characterizes emotion on the brow of a philosopher.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000140_000000|"Dead!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000140_000001|Lucky for her!
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000140_000003|She is well off there.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000140_000004|In which direction?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000141_000000|"In the direction of the sea."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000142_000000|"Did you cross the bridge?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000143_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000144_000000|Ursus opened the window at the back and examined the view.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000145_000001|The snow was falling thickly and mournfully.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000147_000000|He went to the broken glass; he filled the hole with a rag; he heaped the stove with peat; he spread out as far as he could the bear skin on the chest; took a large book which he had in a corner, placed it under the skin for a pillow, and laid the head of the sleeping infant on it.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000148_000000|Then he turned to the boy.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000150_000000|The boy obeyed, and stretched himself at full length by the side of the infant.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000151_000000|Ursus rolled the bear skin over the two children, and tucked it under their feet.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000152_000000|He took down from a shelf, and tied round his waist, a linen belt with a large pocket containing, no doubt, a case of instruments and bottles of restoratives.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000153_000001|It was a dark lantern.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000153_000002|When lighted it still left the children in shadow.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000154_000000|Ursus half opened the door, and said,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000155_000001|I shall return.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000155_000002|Go to sleep."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000156_000000|Then letting down the steps, he called Homo.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000156_000001|He was answered by a loving growl.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000157_000001|The steps were replaced, the door was reclosed.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000158_000000|From without, a voice, the voice of Ursus, said,--
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000159_000000|"You, boy, who have just eaten up my supper, are you already asleep?"
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000160_000000|"No," replied the child.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000161_000000|"Well, if she cries, give her the rest of the milk."
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000162_000000|The clinking of a chain being undone was heard, and the sound of a man's footsteps, mingled with that of the pads of an animal, died off in the distance.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000162_000001|A few minutes after, both children slept profoundly.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000000|The little boy and girl, lying naked side by side, were joined through the silent hours, in the seraphic promiscuousness of the shadows; such dreams as were possible to their age floated from one to the other; beneath their closed eyelids there shone, perhaps, a starlight; if the word marriage were not inappropriate to the situation, they were husband and wife after the fashion of the angels.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000004|A betrothal perchance, perchance a catastrophe.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000006|It charms, it terrifies; who knows which?
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000007|It stays the pulse.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000008|Innocence is higher than virtue.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000009|Innocence is holy ignorance. They slept.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000011|They were warm.
train-clean-100/6209/34601/6209_34601_000163_000012|The nakedness of their bodies, embraced each in each, amalgamated with the virginity of their souls.
train-clean-100/625/132112/625_132112_000004_000008|"I says, 'Look up!
train-clean-100/625/132112/625_132112_000004_000009|If you don't look up you can't get up,'" remarks Jackson, philosophically. And he's gotten up.
train-clean-100/625/132112/625_132112_000007_000003|"I don't know,--what is it, Sam?"
train-clean-100/625/132112/625_132112_000007_000004|"All we make," answered Sam.
train-clean-100/625/132112/625_132112_000010_000007|Money!
train-clean-100/625/132112/625_132112_000014_000015|Then the sheriff came and took my mule and corn and furniture-" "Furniture?
train-clean-100/625/132118/625_132118_000006_000009|Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue?--for brown were his father's eyes, and his father's father's.
train-clean-100/625/132118/625_132118_000016_000003|In the poise of his little curl crowned head did there not sit all that wild pride of being which his father had hardly crushed in his own heart?
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000009_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000010_000001|When we rode over the brow of the hill within a mile of Surrey, and I saw the crescent shaped village, and the tall chimneys of our house on its outer edge, instead of my heart leaping for joy, as I had expected, a sudden indifference filled it.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000010_000003|When I entered the house, and saw mother in her old place, her surroundings unaltered, I suffered a disappointment. I had not had the power of transferring the atmosphere of my year's misery to Surrey.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000011_000001|I heard the wonted sound of the banging of doors.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000013_000000|Hepsey, rubbing her fingers against her thumb, remarked that she hoped learning had not taken away my appetite.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000013_000002|Is it best to cook more, mrs Morgeson, now that Cassandra has come?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000015_000000|"Don't you wish to see Arthur?" inquired mother; "he is getting his double teeth."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000016_000000|"Oh yes, and where's Veronica?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000018_000000|"Call her when supper is ready," replied mother, who asked me to come into the bedroom where Arthur was sleeping.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000019_000000|"I am afraid I make an idol of him, Cassy."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000020_000000|"Are you unhappy because you love him so well, mother, and feel that you must make expiation?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000021_000000|"Cassandra," she spoke with haste, "did you experience any shadow of a change during the revival at Barmouth?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000022_000000|"No more than the baby here did."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000024_000000|"But I never heard a word of grand'ther's prayers.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000025_000000|A smile crept into her blue eye, as she said: "My hearing him, or not, would make no difference, since God could hear and answer."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000026_000000|"Grand'ther does not like me; I never pleased him."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000000|She looked astonished, then reflective.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000001|It occurred to her that she, also, had been no favorite of his.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000002|She changed the subject.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000004|Temperance brought Arthur to the table half asleep, but he roused when she drummed on his plate with a spoon.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000005|Hepsey was stationed by the bannock, knife in hand, to serve it.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000006|As we began our meal, Veronica came in from the kitchen, with a plate of toasted crackers.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000007|She set the plate down, and gravely shook hands with me, saying she had concluded to live entirely on toast, but supposed I would eat all sorts of food, as usual.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000008|She had grown tall; her face was still long and narrow, but prettier, and her large, dark eyes had a slight cast, which gave her face an indescribable expression.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000009|Distant, indifferent, and speculative as the eyes were, a ray of fire shot into them occasionally, which made her gaze powerful and concentrated.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000010|I was within a month of sixteen, and Veronica was in her thirteenth year; but she looked as old as I did. She carefully prepared her toast with milk and butter, and ate it in silence.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000011|The plenty around me, the ease and independence, gave me a delightful sense of comfort.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000012|The dishes were odd, some of china, some of delf, and were continually moved out of their places, for we helped ourselves, although Temperance stayed in the room, ostensibly as a waiter.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000014|I looked round the room; nothing had been added to it, except red damask curtains, which were out of keeping with the old chintz covers.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000017|We left Veronica at the table, and mother resumed her conversation with me in a corner of the room.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000018|Presently Temperance came in with Charles, bringing fresh plates.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000027_000019|As soon as they began their supper, Veronica asked Temperance how the fish tasted.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000028_000000|"Is it salt?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000029_000000|"Middling."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000030_000000|"How is the bannock?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000031_000000|"Excellent.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000032_000000|"Temperance, is that pound cake, or sponge?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000033_000000|"Pound."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000034_000000|"Charles can eat it," Verry said with a sigh.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000035_000001|But he has not been here long; they are all so when they first come."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000036_000000|She then gave him a large slice of the cake.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000037_000001|Arthur played round the chair of mother, who looked happy and forgetful. After Temperance had rearranged the table for father's supper we were quiet.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000037_000002|I meditated how I could best amuse myself, where I should go, and what I should do, when Veronica, whom I had forgotten, interrupted my thoughts.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000038_000000|"Mother," she said, "eating toast does not make me better tempered; I feel evil still.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000038_000001|You know," turning to me, "that my temper is worse than ever; it is like a tiger's."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000039_000000|"Oh, Verry," said mother, "not quite so bad; you are too hard upon yourself."
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000040_000001|Can you forget you said such a thing?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000041_000000|"Verry, you drive me wild.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000041_000002|Say so to my own child?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000042_000000|Verry turned her face to the wall and said no more; but she had started a less pleasant train of thought.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000042_000001|It was changed again by Temperance coming with lights.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000042_000002|Though the tall brass lamps glittered like gold, their circle of light was small; the corners of the room were obscure.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000042_000003|mr Park, entering, retreated into one, and mother was obliged to forego the pleasure of undressing Arthur; so she sent him off with Temperance and Charles, whose duty it was to rock the cradle as long as his babyship required.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000043_000000|Soon after father came, and Hepsey brought in his hot supper; while he was eating it, Grandfather john Morgeson bustled in.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000043_000002|Her hand was pressed against her breast, as if she were repressing an inward voice which claimed her attention.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000043_000003|Leaning her head against her chair, she had quite pushed out her comb, her hair dropped on her shoulder, and looked like a brown, coiled serpent.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000043_000004|Veronica, who had been silently observing her, rose from the sofa, picked up the comb, and fastened her hair, without speaking.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000043_000005|As she passed she gave me a dark look.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000044_000001|Were you glad to see Cassy home again?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000045_000000|"Should I be glad?
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000046_000000|Grandfather pursed up his mouth, and turned toward mother, as if he would like to say: "You understand bringing up children, don't you?"
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000047_000000|She comprehended him, and, giving her head a slight toss, told Verry to go and play on the piano.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000049_000002|I promised him to go, wondering whether I should meet an ancient beau, Joe Bacon.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000049_000003|Mother retired; Verry still played.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000001|"By the way, you must take lessons in Milford; I wish you would learn to sing." I acquiesced, but I had no wish to learn to play.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000002|I could never perform mechanically what I heard now from Verry.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000004|Though the fire had gone out, the lamps winked brightly, and father, moving his cigar to the other side of his mouth, changed his regards from one lamp to the other, and said he thought I was growing to be an attractive girl.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000005|He asked me if I would take pains to make myself an accomplished one also?
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000006|I must, of course, be left to myself in many things; but he hoped that I would confide in him, if I did not ask his advice.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000007|A very strong relation of reserve generally existed between parent and child, instead of a confidential one, and the child was apt to discover that reserve on the part of the parent was not superiority, but cowardice, or indifference.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000008|"Let it not be so with us," was his conclusion.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000009|He threw away the stump of his cigar, and went to fasten the hall door.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000010|I took one of the brass lamps, proposing to go to bed.
train-clean-100/6272/70168/6272_70168_000050_000013|I pondered over what father had said; he had perceived something in me which I was not aware of.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000000|It was sunset when we arrived in Rosville, and found mr Morgeson waiting for us with his carriage at the station.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000001|From its open sides I looked out on a tranquil, agreeable landscape; there was nothing saline in the atmosphere.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000002|The western breeze, which blew in our faces, had an earthy scent, with fluctuating streams of odors from trees and flowers.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000003|As we passed through the town, Cousin Charles pointed to the Academy, which stood at the head of a green.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000004|Pretty houses stood round it, and streets branched from it in all directions.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000005|Flower gardens, shrubbery, and trees were scattered everywhere.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000002_000006|Rosville was larger and handsomer than Surrey.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000003_000000|"That is my house, on the right," he said.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000000|We drove into the yard, and a woman came out on the piazza to receive us.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000003|A servant came in for our bonnets and baskets. Cousin Alice begged us to take tea at once.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000007|The viands were as pretty as the dishes, the lamb chops were fragile; the bread was delicious, but cut in transparent slices, and the butter pat was nearly stamped through with its bouquet of flowers.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000008|This was all the feast except sponge cake, which felt like muslin in the fingers; I could have squeezed the whole of it into my mouth.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000009|Still hungry, I observed that Cousin Charles and Alice had finished; and though she shook her spoon in the cup, feigning to continue, and he snipped crumbs in his plate, I felt constrained to end my repast.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000012|The walls were covered with dark red velvet paper, the furniture was dark, the mantel and table tops were black marble, and the vases and candelabra were bronze.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000013|He directed mother's attention to the portraits of his children, explaining them, while I went to a table between the windows to examine the green and white sprays of some delicate flower I had never before seen.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000005_000014|Its fragrance was intoxicating.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000006_000000|"It will hardly bear touching," he said.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000006_000001|"By to morrow these little white bells will be dead."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000007_000000|I looked up at him.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000007_000001|"What a contrast!" I said.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000008_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000009_000000|"Here, in this room, and in you."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000010_000000|"And between you and me?"
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000011_000000|His face was serene, dark, and delicate, but to look at it made me shiver.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000011_000001|Mother came toward us, pleading fatigue as an excuse for retiring, and Cousin Charles called Cousin Alice, who went with us to our room.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000011_000002|In the morning, she said, we should see her three children. She never left them, she was so afraid of their being ill, also telling mother that she would do all in her power to make my stay in Rosville pleasant and profitable.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000011_000003|As a mother, she could appreciate her anxiety and sadness in leaving me.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000012_000000|"I hear Edward," said Alice.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000012_000001|"Good night."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000013_000000|Presently a girl, the same who had taken our bonnets, came in with a pitcher of warm water and a plate of soda biscuit.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000013_000001|She directed us where to find the apparel she had nicely smoothed and folded; took off the handsome counterpane, and the pillows trimmed with lace, putting others of a plainer make in their places; shook down the window curtains; asked us if we would have anything more, and quietly disappeared.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000013_000002|I offered mother the warm water, and appropriated the biscuits.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000013_000004|I ate every one, undressing meanwhile, and surveying the apartment.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000014_000000|"Cassy, mrs Morgeson is an excellent housekeeper."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000015_000000|"Yes," I said huskily, for the dry biscuit choked me.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000016_000000|"What would Temperance and Hepsey say to this?"
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000017_000000|"I think they would grumble, and admire.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000017_000001|Look at this," showing her the tassels of the inner window curtains done up in little bags.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000017_000002|"And the glass is pinned up with nice yellow paper; and here is a damask napkin fastened to the wall behind the washstand.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000017_000003|And everything stands on a mat.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000018_000000|"It is probably the chamber for visitors.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000019_000001|It was Byron, and turning over the leaves till I came to Don Juan, I read it through, and began Childe Harold, but the candle expired.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000019_000002|I struck out my hands through the palpable darkness, to find the bed without disturbing mother, whose soul was calmly threading the labyrinth of sleep.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000019_000003|I finished Childe Harold early in the morning, though, and went down to breakfast, longing to be a wreck!
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000020_000001|They were beautifully dressed, and their mother was tending and watching them.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000020_000002|The oldest was eight years, the youngest three months.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000020_000003|Cousin Alice gave us descriptions of their tastes and habits, dwelling with emphasis on those of the baby.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000020_000004|I drew from her conversation the opinion that she had a tendency to the rearing of children.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000020_000005|I was glad when Cousin Charles came in, looking at his watch.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000020_000006|"Send off the babies, Alice, and ring the bell for breakfast."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000021_000000|She sent out the two youngest, put little Edward in his chair, and breakfast began.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000022_000000|"mrs Morgeson," said Charles, "the horses will be ready to take you round Rosville.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000022_000001|We will call on dr Price, for you to see the kind of master Cassandra will have.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000022_000002|I have already spoken to him about receiving a new pupil."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000024_000000|Mother tried in vain to look hard hearted, and to persuade that it was good for me, but she lost her appetite, with the thought of losing me, which the mention of dr Price brought home.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000024_000003|I think also that the boiled eggs were smaller than any I had seen.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000024_000004|Cousin Alice gave unremitting attention to Edward, who ate as little as the rest.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000025_000000|"Mother," I said afterward, "I am afraid I am an animal.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000025_000001|Did you notice how little the Morgesons ate?"
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000026_000000|"I noticed how elegant their table appointments were, and I shall buy new china in Boston to morrow.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000026_000001|I wish Hepsey would not load our table as she does."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000027_000001|Now that I think of it, she was always making up some nice dish; tell her I remember it, will you?"
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000028_000002|Edward was delighted with their behavior, and for the first time I saw his father smile on him.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000029_000000|"These are fine brutes," he said, not taking his eyes from them; "but they are not equal to my mare, Nell.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000029_000001|Alice is afraid of her; but I hope that you, Cassandra, will ride with me sometimes when I drive her."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000030_000000|"Oh!" exclaimed mother, grasping my arm.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000031_000000|"You would, would you?" he said, taking out the whip, as the horses recoiled from a man who lay by the roadside, leaping so high that the harness seemed rattling from their backs.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000031_000002|He encouraged mother not to be afraid, looking keenly at me.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000031_000003|I looked back at him.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000032_000000|"How much worse is the mare, cousin Charles?"
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000033_000000|"You shall see."
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000034_000001|Morning prayers were over, and the scholars, some sixty boys and girls, were coming downstairs from the hall, to go into the rooms, each side of a great door.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000034_000002|dr Price was behind them.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000034_000003|He stopped when he saw us, an introduction took place, and he inquired for dr Snell, as an old college friend.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000034_000004|Locke Morgeson sounded familiarly, he said; a member of his mother's family named Somers had married a gentleman of that name.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000034_000006|I replied we knew that grandfather had married a Rachel Somers.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000034_000008|He then proposed our going to Miss Prior, the lady who had charge of the girls' department, and we followed him to her school room.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000035_000001|She was a dignified, kind looking woman, who asked me a few questions in such a pleasant, direct manner that I frankly told her I was eighteen years old, very ignorant, and averse from learning; but I did not speak loud enough for anybody beside herself to hear.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000036_000000|"Now," said mother, when we came away, "think how much greater your advantages are than mine have ever been.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000036_000001|How miserable was my youth! It is too late for me to make any attempt at cultivation.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000036_000002|I have no wish that way.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000037_000000|But her countenance fell when she heard that dr Price had been a Unitarian minister, and that there was no Congregational church in Rosville.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000038_000000|She went to Boston that Friday afternoon, anxious to get safely home with Veronica.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000038_000001|We parted with many a kiss and shake of the hand and last words.
train-clean-100/6272/70171/6272_70171_000038_000002|I cried when I went up to my room, for I found a present there-a beautiful workbox, and in it was a small Bible with my name and hers written on the fly leaf in large print like, but tremulous letters.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty four.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000001|We sat in state, to be condoled with and waited upon.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000004|It was put under rigorous funeral law, and inspected from garret to cellar.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000006|Every child in Surrey was allowed to come in, to look at the dead, with the idle curiosity of childhood.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000007|Veronica knew nothing of this.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000008|Her course was taken for granted; mine was imposed upon me. I remonstrated with Temperance, but she replied that it was all well meant, and always done.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000010|Bed time especially was their occasion. I was not allowed to undress alone.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000013|However, I was, in a measure, kept from myself during this interval.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000014|The matter is often subservient to the manner.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000015|Arthur's feelings were played upon also.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000016|He wept often, confiding to me his grief and his plans for the future.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000019|The kitchen was the focus of interest to him, for meals were prepared at all hours for comers and goers.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000020|Temperance told me that the mild and indifferent mourners were fond of good victuals, and she thought their hearts were lighter than their stomachs when they went away.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000021|She presided there and wrangled with Fanny, who seemed to have lost her capacity for doing anything steadily, except, as Temperance said, where father was concerned.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000002_000022|"It's a pity she isn't his dog; she might keep at his feet then.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000003_000001|She discussed the subject of the mourning with the Morgesons.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000003_000002|I acquiesced in all her arrangements, for she derived a simple comfort from these external tokens.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000003_000003|Veronica refused to wear the bonnet and veil and the required bombazine.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000003_000006|Mother hated it, too, for she had never worn out the garments made for Grand'ther Warren.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000004_000000|"She's a bigger child than ever," Temperance remarked, "and must have her way."
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000006_000000|"no"
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000007_000001|I could have made it myself for half the price.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000007_000003|I am going to put on my bonnet.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000008_000000|Somebody handed me gloves; my bonnet was tied, a handkerchief given to me, and the door opened.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000008_000001|In the passage I heard a knocking from Veronica's room, and crossed to learn what she wanted.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000010_000000|"How could you have done this?"
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000011_000000|"Because I have tried.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000012_000000|"Yes, the idea."
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000013_000000|But what a picture she had attempted to make!
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000014_000000|"Keep it; but don't work on it any more." And I put it away.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000014_000001|She was wan and languid, but collected.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000015_000001|Somebody must bury the dead.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000015_000002|Go.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000016_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000017_000000|"Good; I can walk through it once more."
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000019_000000|"You think I can go through with it, then?"
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000021_000001|Perhaps mother was always right about me too; she was against me."
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000000|The landing stair was full of people.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000002|All made way for me with a silent respect.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000003|Aunt Merce, when she saw me, put her hand on an empty chair, beside father, who sat by the coffin.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000004|Those passages in the Bible which contain the beautifully poetic images relating to the going of man to his long home were read, and to my ear they seemed to fall on the coffin in dull strife with its inmate, who mutely contradicted them.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000005|A discourse followed, which was calculated to harrow the feelings to the utmost.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000006|Arthur began to cry so nervously, that some considerate friend took him out, and Aunt Merce wept so violently that she grew faint, and caught hold of me.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000024_000007|I gave her the flacon of salts, which revived her; but I felt as father looked-stern, and anxious to escape the unprofitable trial.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000025_000000|As the coffin was taken out to the hearse, my heart twisted and palpitated, as if a command had been laid upon it to follow, and not leave her.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000025_000001|But I was imprisoned in the cage of Life-the Keeper would not let me go; her he had let loose.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000026_000000|We were still obliged to sit an intolerable while, till all present had passed before her for the last time.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000026_000001|When the hearse moved down the street, father, Arthur, and I were called, and assisted in our own chaise, as if we were helpless; the reins were put in father's hands, and the horse was led behind the hearse.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000026_000002|At last the word was given, and the long procession began to move through the street, which was deserted.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000026_000003|A cat ran out of a house, and scampered across the way; Arthur laughed, and father jumped nervously at the sound of his laugh.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000027_000000|The graveyard was a mile outside the village-a sandy plain where a few stunted pines transplanted from the woods near it struggled to keep alive.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000027_000002|It hung low over us.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000027_000003|I wished it to drop and blot out the vague nothings under it.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000027_000006|I was tracing the shape of one of those green patches when I felt father's arm tremble.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000027_000007|I shut my eyes, but could not close my ears to the sound of the spadeful of sand which fell on the coffin.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000028_000001|We must leave her to the creatures Veronica had seen.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000028_000002|I looked upward, to discern the shadowy reflection behind the gray haze of cloud, where she might have paused a moment on her eternal journey to the eternal world of souls.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000029_000000|It was the custom, and father took his hat off to thank his friends for their sympathy and attention.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000029_000001|His lips moved, but no words were audible.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000030_000000|The procession moved down the path again.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000030_000001|Arthur's hand was in mine; he stamped his feet firmly on the sand, as if to break the oppressive silence which no one seemed disposed to disturb.
train-clean-100/6272/70191/6272_70191_000031_000001|The duties of friendship and tradition had been fulfilled; the neighbors had gone home to their avocations.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000003_000000|The man halted on the crest of the hill and looked sombrely down into the long valley below.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000003_000001|It was evening, and although the hills around him were still in the light the valley was already filled with kindly, placid shadows.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000003_000002|A wind that blew across it from the misty blue sea beyond was making wild music in the rugged firs above his head as he stood in an angle of the weather grey longer fence, knee deep in bracken.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000003_000003|It had been by these firs he had halted twenty years ago, turning for one last glance at the valley below, the home valley which he had never seen since.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000003_000005|But high up their tops were green and caught the saffron light of the west.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000003_000006|He remembered that when a boy he had thought there was nothing more beautiful than the evening sunshine falling athwart the dark green fir boughs on the hills.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000004_000000|As he listened to the swish and murmur of the wind, the earth old tune with the power to carry the soul back to the dawn of time, the years fell away from him and he forgot much, remembering more.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000004_000002|He had called that longing by other names, but he knew it now for what it was when, hearing, he was satisfied.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000005_000001|Eagle eyes, quick to discern and unfaltering to pursue; jaw square and intrepid; mouth formed to keep secrets and cajole men to his will-a face that hid much and revealed little.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000005_000002|It told of power and intellect, but the soul of the man was a hidden thing.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000005_000003|Not in the arena where he had fought and triumphed, giving fierce blow for blow, was it to be shown; but here, looking down on the homeland, with the strength of the hills about him, it rose dominantly and claimed its own.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000005_000004|The old bond held.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000000|Should he go down to it?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000001|This was the question he asked himself.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000002|He had come back to it, heartsick of his idols of the marketplace.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000003|For years they had satisfied him, the buying and selling and getting gain, the pitting of strength and craft against strength and craft, the tireless struggle, the exultation of victory.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000006|Where were the ideals of his youth, the lofty aspirations that had upborne him then?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000007|Where was the eagerness and zest of new dawns, the earnestness of well filled, purposeful hours of labour, the satisfaction of a good day worthily lived, at eventide the unbroken rest of long, starry nights?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000008|Where might he find them again? Were they yet to be had for the seeking in the old valley?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000009|With the thought came a great yearning for home.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000010|He had had many habitations, but he realized now that he had never thought of any of these places as home.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000006_000011|That name had all unconsciously been kept sacred to the long, green, seaward looking glen where he had been born.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000000|So he had come back to it, drawn by a longing not to be resisted.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000001|But at the last he felt afraid.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000002|There had been many changes, of that he felt sure.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000003|Would it still be home?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000004|And if not, would not the loss be most irreparable and bitter?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000005|Would it not be better to go away, having looked at it from the hill and having heard the saga of the firs, keeping his memory of it unblurred, than risk the probable disillusion of a return to the places that had forgotten him and friends whom the varying years must certainly have changed as he had changed himself? No, he would not go down.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000006|It had been a foolish whim to come at all-foolish, because the object of his quest was not to be found there or elsewhere.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000007|He could not enter again into the heritage of boyhood and the heart of youth.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000009|He understood that he could not bring back to the old valley what he had taken from it.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000010|He had lost that intangible, all real wealth of faith and idealism and zest; he had bartered it away for the hard, yellow gold of the marketplace, and he realized at last how much poorer he was than when he had left that home valley.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000007_000011|His was a name that stood for millions, but he was beggared of hope and purpose.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000008_000000|No, he would not go down.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000008_000001|There was no one left there, unchanged and unchanging, to welcome him.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000008_000002|He would be a stranger there, even among his kin.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000008_000003|He would stay awhile on the hill, until the night came down over it, and then he would go back to his own place.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000009_000000|Down below him, on the crest of a little upland, he saw his old home, a weather grey house, almost hidden among white birch and apple trees, with a thick fir grove to the north of it.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000009_000001|He had been born in that old house; his earliest memory was of standing on its threshold and looking afar up to the long green hills.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000010_000000|"What is over the hills?" he had asked of his mother.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000010_000001|With a smile she had made answer,
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000011_000000|"Many things, laddie.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000011_000001|Wonderful things, beautiful things, heart breaking things."
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000012_000000|"Some day I shall go over the hills and find them all, Mother," he had said stoutly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000013_000000|She had laughed and sighed and caught him to her heart.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000013_000001|He had no recollection of his father, who had died soon after his son's birth, but how well he remembered his mother, his little, brown eyed, girlish faced mother!
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000014_000000|He had lived on the homestead until he was twenty.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000014_000001|He had tilled the broad fields and gone in and out among the people, and their life had been his life.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000014_000002|But his heart was not in his work.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000014_000003|He wanted to go beyond the hills and seek what he knew must be there.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000014_000004|The valley was too narrow, too placid.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000014_000005|He longed for conflict and accomplishment.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000015_000001|Stephen had been a good sort of a fellow, a bit slow and plodding, perhaps, bovinely content to dwell within the hills, never hearkening or responding to the lure of the beyond.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000015_000002|Yet it might be he had chosen the better part, to dwell thus on the land of his fathers, with a wife won in youth, and children to grow up around him.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000015_000004|Perhaps so.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000016_000000|He wondered where Joyce was now and whom she had married, for of course she had married.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000016_000004|How true and strong and womanly and gentle she had always been!
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000017_000000|When he left home he had meant to go back to her some day.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000017_000001|They had parted without pledge or kiss, yet he knew she loved him and that he loved her.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000017_000002|At first they corresponded, then the letters began to grow fewer.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000017_000004|The new, fierce, burning interests that came into his life crowded the old ones out. Boyhood's love was scorched up in that hot flame of ambition and contest.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000017_000005|He had not heard from or of Joyce for many years.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000017_000006|Now, again, he remembered as he looked down on the homeland fields.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000018_000000|The old places had changed little, whatever he might fear of the people who lived in them.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000018_000001|There was the school he had attended, a small, low eaved, white washed building set back from the main road among green spruces.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000018_000002|Beyond it, amid tall elms, was the old church with its square tower hung with ivy.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000018_000003|He felt glad to see it; he had expected to see a new church, offensively spick and span and modern, for this church had been old when he was a boy.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000018_000004|He recalled the many times he had walked to it on the peaceful Sunday afternoons, sometimes with his mother, sometimes with Joyce.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000019_000001|The stars came out singly and crystal clear over the far purple curves of the hills.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000019_000002|Suddenly, glancing over his shoulder, he saw through an arch of black fir boughs a young moon swung low in a lake of palely tinted saffron sky.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000019_000003|He smiled a little, remembering that in boyhood it had been held a good omen to see the new moon over the right shoulder.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000020_000000|Down in the valley the lights began to twinkle out here and there like earth stars.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000020_000001|He would wait until he saw the kitchen light from the window of his old home.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000020_000002|Then he would go.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000020_000004|Why was it lacking, that light he had so often hailed at dark, coming home from boyish rambles on the hills?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000020_000005|He felt anxious and dissatisfied, as if he could not go away until he had seen it.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000021_000000|When it was quite dark he descended the hill resolutely.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000021_000001|He must know why the homelight had failed him.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000021_000002|When he found himself in the old garden his heart grew sick and sore with disappointment and a bitter homesickness.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000021_000003|It needed but a glance, even in the dimness of the summer night, to see that the old house was deserted and falling to decay.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000021_000004|The kitchen door swung open on rusty hinges; the windows were broken and lifeless; weeds grew thickly over the yard and crowded wantonly up to the very threshold through the chinks of the rotten platform.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000022_000000|Cuthbert Marshall sat down on the old red sandstone step of the door and bowed his head in his hands.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000022_000001|This was what he had come back to-this ghost and wreck of his past!
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000022_000002|Oh, bitterness!
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000023_000002|Stephen came to it, a stout grizzled farmer, with a chubby boy on his shoulder.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000023_000004|Cuthbert was obliged to tell who he was.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000023_000005|He was made instantly and warmly welcome.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000023_000007|The boys and girls, too, soon made friends with him.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000023_000008|Yet he felt himself the stranger and the alien, whom the long, swift passing years had shut forever from his old place.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000024_000000|He and Stephen talked late that night, and in the morning he yielded to their entreaties to stay another day with them.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000024_000001|He spent it wandering about the farm and the old haunts of wood and stream.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000024_000002|Yet he could not find himself.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000024_000003|This valley had his past in its keeping, but it could not give it back to him; he had lost the master word that might have compelled it.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000025_000000|He asked Stephen fully about all his old friends and neighbours with one exception.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000025_000001|He could not ask him what had become of Joyce Cameron. The question was on his lips a dozen times, but he shrank from uttering it.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000026_000001|He walked slowly and dreamily, with his eyes on the far hills scarfed in the splendour of sunset.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000026_000002|So he had walked in the old days, but he had no dreams now of what lay beyond the hills, and Joyce would not be waiting among the firs.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000027_000000|The stile he remembered was gone, replaced by a little rustic gate.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000027_000001|As he passed through it he lifted his eyes and there before him he saw her, standing tall and gracious among the grey trees, with the light from the west falling over her face.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000027_000003|She had not changed; he realized that in the first amazed, incredulous glance.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000027_000004|Perhaps there were lines on her face, a thread or two of silver in the soft brown hair, but those splendid steady blue eyes were the same, and the soul of her looked out through them, true to itself, the staunch, brave, sweet soul of the maiden ripened to womanhood.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000028_000000|"Joyce!" he said, stupidly, unbelievingly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000029_000000|She smiled and put out her hand.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000029_000001|"I am glad to see you, Cuthbert," she said simply.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000029_000002|"Stephen's Mary told me you had come.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000029_000003|And I thought you would be over to see us this evening."
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000030_000000|She had offered him only one hand but he took both and held her so, looking hungrily down at her as a man looks at something he knows must be his salvation if salvation exists for him.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000031_000000|"Is it possible you are here still, Joyce?" he said slowly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000032_000000|She coloured slightly and pulled away her hands, laughing.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000032_000003|The twilight is so kind it hides that, but it is true.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000032_000005|Father and Mother will be glad to see you."
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000033_000000|"After a little," he said imploringly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000033_000001|"Let us stay here awhile first, Joyce.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000033_000003|Last night I stood on those hills yonder and looked down, but I meant to go away because I thought there would be no one left to welcome me.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000033_000004|If I had known you were here!
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000033_000005|You have lived here in the old valley all these years?"
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000034_000000|"All these years," she said gently, "I suppose you think it must have been a very meagre life?"
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000035_000000|"no
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000035_000003|One learns there-in time-but sometimes the lesson is learned too late.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000035_000005|The gist of the lesson is that I left happiness behind me in the old valley, when I went away from it, happiness and peace and the joy of living.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000035_000006|I did not miss these things for a long while; I did not even know I had lost them.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000035_000007|But I have discovered my loss."
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000036_000000|"Yet you have been a very successful man," she said wonderingly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000037_000000|"As the world calls success," he answered bitterly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000037_000001|"I have place and wealth and power.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000037_000002|But that is not success, Joyce.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000037_000003|I am tired of these things; they are the toys of grown up children; they do not satisfy the man's soul.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000037_000004|I have come back to the old valley seeking for what might satisfy, but I have little hope of finding it, unless-unless-"
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000038_000000|He was silent, remembering that he had forfeited all right to her help in the quest.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000038_000001|Yet he realized clearly that only she could help him, only she could guide him back to the path he had missed.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000038_000002|It seemed to him that she held in her keeping all the good of his life, all the beauty of his past, all the possibilities of his future.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000038_000003|Hers was the master word, but how should he dare ask her to utter it?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000000|They walked among the firs until the stars came out, and they talked of many things.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000001|She had kept her freshness of soul and her ideals untarnished.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000002|In the peace of the old valley she had lived a life, narrow outwardly, wondrously deep and wide in thought and aspiration. Her native hills bounded the vision of her eyes, but the outlook of the soul was far and unhindered.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000003|In the quiet places and the green ways she had found what he had failed to find-the secret of happiness and content.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000005|Oh, fool and blind that he had been!
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000006|While he had sought and toiled afar, the best that God had meant for him had been here in the home of youth.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000039_000007|When darkness came down through the firs he told her all this, haltingly, blunderingly, yearningly.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000040_000000|"Joyce, is it too late?
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000040_000001|Can you forgive my mistake, my long blindness? Can you care for me again-a little?"
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000041_000000|She turned her face upward to the sky between the swaying fir tops and he saw the reflection of a star in her eyes.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000041_000001|"I have never ceased to care," she said in a low tone.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000041_000003|It would have left life too empty.
train-clean-100/6367/65536/6367_65536_000041_000004|If my love means so much to you it is yours, Cuthbert-it always has been yours."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000001_000000|The Old Fellow's Letter
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000002_000002|Both Ruggles and I see that now, since we have had time to cool off, but at the moment we were in a fearful wax at the Old Fellow and were bound to hatch up something to get even with him.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000003_000000|Of course, the Old Fellow had another name, just as Ruggles has another name.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000003_000001|He is principal of the Frampton Academy-the Old Fellow, not Ruggles-and his name is George Osborne.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000003_000003|He is quite old-thirty six if he's a day, and whatever possessed Sylvia Grant-but there, I'm getting ahead of my story.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000000|Most of the Cads like the Old Fellow.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000001|Even Ruggles and I like him on the average.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000002|The girls are always a little provoked at him because he is so shy and absent minded, but when it comes to the point, they like him too.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000003|I heard Emma White say once that he was "so handsome"; I nearly whooped.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000004|Ruggles was mad because he's gone on Em.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000007|He is splendid: big six footer with magnificent muscles, red cheeks, and curly yellow hair.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000004_000010|There was a rumour running at large in the Academy that the Old Fellow wrote poetry, but he ran the mathematics and didn't make such a foozle of it as you might suppose, either.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000006_000000|Sylvia Grant did go down the street, however.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000006_000001|Ruggles, hanging halfway out of the window as usual, saw her, and called me to go and look.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000006_000002|Of course I went.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000006_000003|Sylvia Grant was always worth looking at.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000006_000005|As for brains, that is another thing altogether.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000006_000006|My private opinion is that Sylvia hadn't any, or she would never have preferred-but there, I'm getting on too fast again.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000007_000000|Sylvia was the Latin professor's daughter; she wasn't a Cad girl, of course.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000007_000001|She was over twenty and had graduated from it two years ago, but she was in all the social things that went on in the Academy; and all the unmarried professors, except the Old Fellow, were in love with her.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000007_000002|Micky had it the worst, and we had all made up our minds that Sylvia would marry Micky.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000007_000003|He was so handsome, we didn't see how she could help it.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000007_000004|I tell you, they made a dandy looking couple when they were together.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000008_000000|Well, as I said before, I toddled to the window to have a look at the fair Sylvia.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000008_000002|They were brownish, kind of, and she'd a spanking hat on with feathers and things in it.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000008_000003|Her hair was shining under it, all purply black, and she looked sweet enough to eat.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000008_000004|Then she saw Ruggles and me and she waved her hand and laughed, and her big blackish blue eyes sparkled; but she hadn't been laughing before, or sparkling either.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000009_000003|I thought it kind of mean of Sylvia to torment him so, when she knew he hated to have to talk to girls, but when I saw Micky scowling at the corner, I knew she was doing it to make him jealous.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000010_000000|Just across the square Sylvia met the Old Fellow and bowed.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000010_000001|He lifted his hat and passed on, but after a few steps he turned and looked back; he caught Sylvia doing the same thing, so he wheeled and came on, looking mighty foolish.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000011_000003|She'll give him a fearful snubbing, and we'll be revenged."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000012_000001|"I can't.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000012_000002|You'll have to, Ruggles.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000012_000003|You've had more practice."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000013_000000|Ruggles turned red.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000013_000001|I know he writes to Em White in vacations.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000014_000000|"I'll do my best," he said, quite meekly.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000014_000001|"That is, I'll compose it. But you'll have to copy it.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000014_000002|You can imitate the Old Fellow's handwriting so well."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000015_000000|"But look here," I said, an uncomfortable idea striking me, "what about Sylvia?
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000015_000002|For of course he'll tell her.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000015_000003|We haven't anything against her, you know."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000016_000000|"Oh, Sylvia won't care," said Ruggles serenely.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000016_000001|"She's the sort of girl who can take a joke.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000016_000003|She'll just laugh.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000016_000004|Besides, she doesn't like the Old Fellow a bit.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000016_000006|She's always so cool and stiff when he's about, not a bit like she is with the other professors."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000017_000000|Well, Ruggles wrote the letter.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000017_000003|I told him so, and made him own up.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000017_000006|Anyhow, that letter just filled the bill.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000017_000007|It was beautifully expressed.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000018_000000|I copied the letter out on heliotrope paper in my best imitation of the Old Fellow's handwriting and signed it, "Yours devotedly and imploringly, George Osborne." Then we mailed it that very evening.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000019_000001|Sylvia looked stunning.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000019_000002|She was all in white, with a string of pearls about her pretty round throat and a couple of little pink roses in her black hair.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000019_000003|I never saw her so smiling and bright; but she seemed quieter than usual, and avoided poor Micky so skilfully that it was really a pleasure to watch her.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000020_000000|"She's thinking of the letter," he said.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000021_000000|Ruggles and I never meant to listen, upon my word we didn't.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000021_000001|It was pure accident.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000021_000003|The room was quite empty, or they thought it was, and they sat down just on the other side of the flags.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000021_000004|They couldn't see us, but we could see them quite plainly.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000021_000006|As for the Old Fellow, he looked, as Em White would say, as Sphinx like as ever. I'd defy any man alive to tell from the Old Fellow's expression what he was thinking about or what he felt like at any time.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000022_000000|Then all at once Sylvia said softly, with her eyes cast down, "I received your letter, mr Osborne."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000023_000000|Any other man in the world would have jumped, or said, "My letter!!!" or shown surprise in some way.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000023_000002|He looked sideways at Sylvia for a moment and then he said kind of drily, "Ah, did you?"
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000024_000000|"Yes," said Sylvia, not much above a whisper.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000024_000001|"It-it surprised me very much.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000024_000002|I never supposed that you-you cared for me in that way."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000025_000001|His voice actually trembled.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000026_000001|"You see-I don't want you to help caring."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000028_000001|His eyes just blazed, but his face went white.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000028_000002|He bent forward and took her hand.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000029_000000|"Sylvia, do you mean that you-you actually care a little for me, dearest?
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000030_000000|"Of course I do," said Sylvia right out.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000030_000001|"I've always cared-ever since I was a little girl coming here to school and breaking my heart over mathematics, although I hated them, just to be in your class. Why-why-I've treasured up old geometry exercises you wrote out for me just because you wrote them.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000030_000002|But I thought I could never make you care for me.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000030_000003|I was the happiest girl in the world when your letter came today."
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000031_000000|"Sylvia," said the Old Fellow, "I've loved you for years.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000031_000002|I thought it quite useless to tell you of my love-before.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000031_000003|Will you-can you be my wife, darling?"
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000032_000000|At this point Ruggles and I differ as to what came next.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000032_000001|He asserts that Sylvia turned square around and kissed the Old Fellow.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000033_000000|Anyhow, there they both were, going on at the silliest rate about how much they loved each other and how the Old Fellow thought she loved Micky and all that sort of thing.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000033_000001|It was awful.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000033_000002|I never thought the Old Fellow or Sylvia either could be so spooney.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000033_000003|Ruggles and I would have given anything on earth to be out of that.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000034_000000|"Well, did you ever?" said Ruggles.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000035_000000|It was a girl's exclamation, but nothing else would have expressed his feelings.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000036_000000|"No, I never," I said.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000036_000002|It passes comprehension.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000036_000003|Did she-did she really promise to marry him, Ruggles?"
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000037_000000|"She did," said Ruggles gloomily.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000037_000001|"But, I say, isn't that Old Fellow game?
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000037_000002|Tumbled to the trick in a jiff; never let on but what he wrote the letter, never will let on, I bet.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000037_000003|Where does the joke come in, Polly, my boy?"
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000038_000000|"It's on us," I said, "but nobody will know of it if we hold our tongues.
train-clean-100/6367/74004/6367_74004_000039_000000|"Well, you know the Old Fellow isn't a bad sort after all," said Ruggles, "and he's really awfully gone on her.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000001_000000|sixteen: OUTWARD FORMS AND SYMBOLS MUST BE USED TO CONVEY INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTIONS
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000002_000001|One is the knowledge of things perceptible to the senses-that is to say, things which the eye, or ear, or smell, or taste, or touch can perceive, which are called objective or sensible.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000002_000002|So the sun, because it can be seen, is said to be objective; and in the same way sounds are sensible because the ear hears them; perfumes are sensible because they can be inhaled and the sense of smell perceives them; foods are sensible because the palate perceives their sweetness, sourness or saltness; heat and cold are sensible because the feelings perceive them. These are said to be sensible realities.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000001|For example, the power of intellect is not sensible; none of the inner qualities of man is a sensible thing; on the contrary, they are intellectual realities.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000002|So love is a mental reality and not sensible; for this reality the ear does not hear, the eye does not see, the smell does not perceive, the taste does not discern, the touch does not feel.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000003|Even ethereal matter, the forces of which are said in physics to be heat, light, electricity and magnetism, is an intellectual reality, and is not sensible.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000004|In the same way, nature, also, in its essence is an intellectual reality and is not sensible; the human spirit is an intellectual, not sensible reality.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000005|In explaining these intellectual realities, one is obliged to express them by sensible figures because in exterior existence there is nothing that is not material.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000006|Therefore, to explain the reality of the spirit-its condition, its station-one is obliged to give explanations under the forms of sensible things because in the external world all that exists is sensible.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000008|This is an intellectual or spiritual state, to explain which you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000003_000010|This exaltation and this progress are spiritual states and intellectual realities, but to explain them you are obliged to have recourse to sensible figures because in the exterior world there is nothing that is not sensible.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000004_000000|So the symbol of knowledge is light, and of ignorance, darkness; but reflect, is knowledge sensible light, or ignorance sensible darkness?
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000004_000001|No, they are merely symbols.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000004_000002|These are only intellectual states, but when you desire to express them outwardly, you call knowledge light, and ignorance darkness.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000005_000001|Thus in the Old Testament it is said that God appeared as a pillar of fire: this does not signify the material form; it is an intellectual reality which is expressed by a sensible image.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000006_000000|Christ says, "The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father." Was Christ within God, or God within Christ?
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000006_000001|No, in the name of God!
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000006_000002|On the contrary, this is an intellectual state which is expressed in a sensible figure.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000007_000000|We come to the explanation of the words of Baha'u'llah when He says: "O king!
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000007_000003|Sleeping and waking is passing from one state to another.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000007_000004|Sleeping is the condition of repose, and wakefulness is the condition of movement.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000007_000005|Sleeping is the state of silence; wakefulness is the state of speech.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000007_000006|Sleeping is the state of mystery; wakefulness is the state of manifestation.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000008_000000|For example, it is a Persian and Arabic expression to say that the earth was asleep, and the spring came, and it awoke; or the earth was dead, and the spring came, and it revived.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000008_000001|These expressions are metaphors, allegories, mystic explanations in the world of signification.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000009_000000|Briefly, the Holy Manifestations have ever been, and ever will be, Luminous Realities; no change or variation takes place in Their essence. Before declaring Their manifestation, They are silent and quiet like a sleeper, and after Their manifestation, They speak and are illuminated, like one who is awake.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000010_000000|seventeen: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000011_000000|Question.--How was Christ born of the Holy Spirit?
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000012_000000|Answer.--In regard to this question, theologians and materialists disagree. The theologians believe that Christ was born of the Holy Spirit, but the materialists think this is impossible and inadmissible, and that without doubt He had a human father.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000014_000000|The materialists believe that there must be marriage, and say that a living body cannot be created from a lifeless body, and without male and female there cannot be fecundation.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000014_000001|And they think that not only with man, but also with animals and plants, it is impossible.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000014_000002|For this union of the male and female exists in all living beings and plants.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000015_000000|Briefly, they say a man without a human father cannot be imagined.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000015_000002|For example, in former times the telegraph, which causes the East and the West to communicate, was unknown but not impossible; photography and phonography were unknown but not impossible."
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000016_000000|The materialists insist upon this belief, and the theologians reply: "Is this globe eternal or phenomenal?" The materialists answer that, according to science and important discoveries, it is established that it is phenomenal; in the beginning it was a flaming globe, and gradually it became temperate; a crust was formed around it, and upon this crust plants came into existence, then animals, and finally man.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000017_000000|The theologians say: "Then from your statement it has become evident and clear that mankind is phenomenal upon the globe, and not eternal.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000017_000001|Then surely the first man had neither father nor mother, for the existence of man is phenomenal.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000017_000003|As you admit that the first man came into existence without father or mother-whether it be gradually or at once-there can remain no doubt that a man without a human father is also possible and admissible; you cannot consider this impossible; otherwise, you are illogical.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000018_000000|eighteen: THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST IS DUE TO HIS PERFECTIONS
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000019_000001|If being without a father is a virtue, Adam is greater and more excellent than all the Prophets and Messengers, for He had neither father nor mother.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000019_000002|That which causes honor and greatness is the splendor and bounty of the divine perfections.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000019_000004|The substance of Adam's physical life was earth, but the substance of Abraham was pure sperm; it is certain that the pure and chaste sperm is superior to earth.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000020_000000|Furthermore, in the first chapter of the Gospel of john, verses twelve and thirteen, it is said: "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on His name:
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000022_000000|From these verses it is obvious that the being of a disciple also is not created by physical power, but by the spiritual reality.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000022_000001|The honor and greatness of Christ is not due to the fact that He did not have a human father, but to His perfections, bounties and divine glory.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000022_000002|If the greatness of Christ is His being fatherless, then Adam is greater than Christ, for He had neither father nor mother.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000022_000004|Moreover, the expression which john uses in regard to the disciples proves that they also are from the Heavenly Father.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000022_000005|Hence it is evident that the holy reality, meaning the real existence of every great man, comes from God and owes its being to the breath of the Holy Spirit.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000023_000001|Is it better for a man to be created from a living substance or from earth?
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000023_000002|Certainly it is better if he be created from a living substance.
train-clean-100/6385/220959/6385_220959_000023_000003|But Christ was born and came into existence from the Holy Spirit.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000006_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000007_000000|THE RESEMBLANCE OF A PALACE TO A WOOD.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000000|In palaces after the Italian fashion, and Corleone Lodge was one, there were very few doors, but abundance of tapestry screens and curtained doorways.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000001|In every palace of that date there was a wonderful labyrinth of chambers and corridors, where luxury ran riot; gilding, marble, carved wainscoting, Eastern silks; nooks and corners, some secret and dark as night, others light and pleasant as the day.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000002|There were attics, richly and brightly furnished; burnished recesses shining with Dutch tiles and Portuguese azulejos.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000003|The tops of the high windows were converted into small rooms and glass attics, forming pretty habitable lanterns.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000004|The thickness of the walls was such that there were rooms within them.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000005|Here and there were closets, nominally wardrobes.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000006|They were called "The Little Rooms."
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000008_000007|It was within them that evil deeds were hatched.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000002|In those elegant caverns princes and lords stored their plunder.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000005|They were gilded oubliettes, savouring both of the cloister and the harem.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000006|Their staircases twisted, turned, ascended, and descended.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000007|A zigzag of rooms, one running into another, led back to the starting point.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000009|A confessional was grafted on to an alcove.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000010|Perhaps the architects of "the little rooms," building for royalty and aristocracy, took as models the ramifications of coral beds, and the openings in a sponge.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000011|The branches became a labyrinth.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000012|Pictures turning on false panels were exits and entrances.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000014|The floors of these hives reached from the cellars to the attics.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000009_000016|Passages, niches, alcoves, and secret recesses.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000012_000001|He was burning to be off, to get outside, to see Dea again.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000012_000003|He strove to run; he was obliged to wander.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000012_000004|He thought that he had but one door to thrust open, while he had a skein of doors to unravel.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000012_000006|Then a crossway, with rooms on every side.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000013_000000|Not a living creature was to be seen.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000013_000001|He listened.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000013_000002|Not a sound.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000014_000000|At times he thought that he must be returning towards his starting point; then, that he saw some one approaching.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000014_000001|It was no one. It was only the reflection of himself in a mirror, dressed as a nobleman.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000014_000003|Impossible!
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000014_000004|Then he recognized himself, but not at once.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000015_000000|He explored every passage that he came to.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000016_000000|He examined the quaint arrangements of the rambling building, and their yet quainter fittings.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000016_000002|Everywhere-on the ceilings, on the walls, and on the very floors-were representations, in velvet or in metal, of birds, of trees; of luxuriant vegetation, picked out in reliefs of lacework; tables covered with jet carvings, representing warriors, queens, and tritons armed with the scaly terminations of a hydra.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000016_000003|Cut crystals combining prismatic effects with those of reflection.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000016_000004|Mirrors repeated the light of precious stones, and sparkles glittered in the darkest corners.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000016_000006|Everywhere was magnificence, at once refined and stupendous; if it was not the most diminutive of palaces, it was the most gigantic of jewel cases.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000016_000007|A house for Mab or a jewel for Geo.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000017_000001|He could not find one.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000017_000002|Impossible to make out his way.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000017_000004|Moreover, this was a labyrinth.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000017_000005|At each step he was stopped by some magnificent object which appeared to retard his exit, and to be unwilling to let him pass.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000017_000006|He was encompassed by a net of wonders.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000017_000007|He felt himself bound and held back.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000000|What a horrible palace! he thought.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000001|Restless, he wandered through the maze, asking himself what it all meant-whether he was in prison; chafing, thirsting for the fresh air.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000006|The rooms never came to an end.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000007|All was deserted, silent, splendid, sinister.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000008|It realized the fables of enchanted castles.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000009|Hidden pipes of hot air maintained a summer temperature in the building.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000010|It was as if some magician had caught up the month of June and imprisoned it in a labyrinth.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000011|There were pleasant odours now and then, and he crossed currents of perfume, as though passing by invisible flowers.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000012|It was warm.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000013|Carpets everywhere.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000018_000014|One might have walked about there, unclothed.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000019_000001|The view from each one was different.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000020_000000|It was still so early that there were no signs of life without.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000021_000000|He stood still and listened.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000022_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000022_000003|They shall not keep me here by force.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000022_000004|Woe to him who bars my exit!
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000022_000005|What is that great tower yonder?
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000022_000006|If there was a giant, a hell hound, a minotaur, to keep the gate of this enchanted palace, I would annihilate him.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000022_000007|If an army, I would exterminate it.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000023_000001|It was like dropping water.
train-clean-100/6385/34655/6385_34655_000023_000002|He was in a dark narrow passage, closed, some few paces further on, by a curtain.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000005_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000006_000000|A WATCH DOG MAY BE A GUARDIAN ANGEL.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000009_000000|Homo wagged his tail.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000009_000001|His eyes sparkled in the darkness.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000009_000002|He was looking earnestly at Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000010_000000|Then he began to lick his hands again.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000010_000001|For a moment Gwynplaine was like a drunken man, so great is the shock of Hope's mighty return.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000011_000001|What an apparition!
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000011_000003|But one was left to strike him-the thunderbolt of joy.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000011_000004|And it had just fallen upon him.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000011_000005|Certainty, or at least the light which leads to it, regained; the sudden intervention of some mysterious clemency possessed, perhaps, by destiny; life saying, "Behold me!" in the darkest recess of the grave; the very moment in which all expectation has ceased bringing back health and deliverance; a place of safety discovered at the most critical instant in the midst of crumbling ruins-Homo was all this to Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000011_000006|The wolf appeared to him in a halo of light.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000012_000001|He advanced a few steps, and then looked back to see if Gwynplaine was following him.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000013_000000|Gwynplaine was doing so.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000013_000001|Homo wagged his tail, and went on.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000014_000001|This slope shelved down to the Thames; and Gwynplaine, guided by Homo, descended it.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000015_000000|Homo turned his head now and then, to make sure that Gwynplaine was behind him.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000000|There are cases in which the dog feels that he should follow his master; others, in which he should precede him.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000001|Then the animal takes the direction of sense.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000002|His imperturbable scent is a confused power of vision in what is twilight to us.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000003|He feels a vague obligation to become a guide.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000005|Probably not.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000006|Perhaps he does.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000007|In any case, some one knows it for him.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000008|As we have already said, it often happens in life that some mighty help which we have held to have come from below has, in reality, come from above.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000017_000009|Who knows all the mysterious forms assumed by God?
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000018_000000|What was this animal?
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000018_000001|Providence.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000019_000000|Having reached the river, the wolf led down the narrow tongue of land which bordered the Thames.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000020_000000|Without noise or bark he pushed forward on his silent way.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000020_000001|Homo always followed his instinct and did his duty, but with the pensive reserve of an outlaw.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000021_000000|Some fifty paces more, and he stopped.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000021_000001|A wooden platform appeared on the right.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000021_000002|At the bottom of this platform, which was a kind of wharf on piles, a black mass could be made out, which was a tolerably large vessel.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000021_000003|On the deck of the vessel, near the prow, was a glimmer, like the last flicker of a night light.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000022_000001|It was a long platform, floored and tarred, supported by a network of joists, and under which flowed the river.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000022_000002|Homo and Gwynplaine shortly reached the brink.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000002|The paper boats made by children are of a somewhat similar shape.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000003|Under the decks were the cabins, the doors of which opened into the hold and were lighted by glazed portholes.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000004|In stowing the cargo a passage was left between the packages of which it consisted.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000005|These vessels had a mast on each deck.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000006|The foremast was called Paul, the mainmast peter--the ship being sailed by these two masts, as the Church was guided by her two apostles.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000007|A gangway was thrown, like a Chinese bridge, from one deck to the other, over the centre of the hold.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000008|In bad weather, both flaps of the gangway were lowered, on the right and left, on hinges, thus making a roof over the hold; so that the ship, in heavy seas, was hermetically closed.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000023_000011|The decks, fore and aft, were, as we have already said, without bulwarks.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000024_000000|About that time many events had occurred at sea, and amongst others, the defeat of the Baron de Pointi's eight ships off Cape Carnero, which had driven the whole French fleet into refuge at Gibraltar; so that the Channel was swept of every man of war, and merchant vessels were able to sail backwards and forwards between London and Rotterdam, without a convoy.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000025_000001|But one step to descend, and Homo in a bound, and Gwynplaine in a stride, were on board.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000026_000000|The deck was clear, and no stir was perceptible.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000026_000001|The passengers, if, as was likely, there were any, were already on board, the vessel being ready to sail, and the cargo stowed, as was apparent from the state of the hold, which was full of bales and cases.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000026_000002|But they were, doubtless, lying asleep in the cabins below, as the passage was to take place during the night.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000026_000003|In such cases the passengers do not appear on deck till they awake the following morning.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000026_000004|As for the crew, they were probably having their supper in the men's cabin, whilst awaiting the hour fixed for sailing, which was now rapidly approaching.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000026_000005|Hence the silence on the two decks connected by the gangway.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000027_000000|The wolf had almost run across the wharf; once on board, he slackened his pace into a discreet walk.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000027_000001|He still wagged his tail-no longer joyfully, however, but with the sad and feeble wag of a dog troubled in his mind.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000027_000002|Still preceding Gwynplaine, he passed along the after deck, and across the gangway.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000028_000000|Gwynplaine, having reached the gangway, perceived a light in front of him.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000028_000001|It was the same that he had seen from the shore.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000028_000002|There was a lantern on the deck, close to the foremast, by the gleam of which was sketched in black, on the dim background of the night, what Gwynplaine recognized to be Ursus's old four wheeled van.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000000|This poor wooden tenement, cart and hut combined, in which his childhood had rolled along, was fastened to the bottom of the mast by thick ropes, of which the knots were visible at the wheels.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000001|Having been so long out of service, it had become dreadfully rickety; it leant over feebly on one side; it had become quite paralytic from disuse; and, moreover, it was suffering from that incurable malady-old age.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000002|Mouldy and out of shape, it tottered in decay.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000006|The wheels were warped.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000007|The lining, the floor, and the axletrees seemed worn out with fatigue. Altogether, it presented an indescribable appearance of beggary and prostration.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000008|The shafts, stuck up, looked like two arms raised to heaven.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000029_000009|The whole thing was in a state of dislocation.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000030_000000|Does it not seem that the law and the will of nature would have dictated Gwynplaine's headlong rush to throw himself upon life, happiness, love regained?
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000030_000002|The gates of Paradise reopen; but before he enters he examines his ground.
train-clean-100/6385/34669/6385_34669_000031_000000|Gwynplaine, staggering under the weight of his emotion, looked around him, while the wolf went and lay down silently by his chain.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000004_000000|The Elusive Kate Ferris
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000005_000000|The mysterious Kate Ferris, who kept Priscilla on the verge of nervous prostration for a whole semester, entered upon her college career in an entirely unpremeditated and impromptu manner.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000005_000002|Georgie Merriles and Patty had just strolled home from the athletic field, where they had been witnessing the start of a paper chase cross country, in which Priscilla was impersonating a fox. As they entered the study, Georgie stopped to examine some loose sheets of paper which were impaled upon the door.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000006_000000|"What's this, Patty?"
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000007_000000|"Oh, that's the registration list for the German Club.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000007_000001|Priscilla's secretary, you know, and every one who wants to join comes here.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000007_000002|The study has been so full of freshmen all the time that I told her to hang it on the door and let them join outside; it works beautifully." Patty turned the leaves and ran her eyes down the list of sprawling signatures.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000007_000003|"It's a popular organization, isn't it?
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000007_000004|The freshmen are simply scrambling to get in."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000008_000000|"They're trying to show Fraeulein Scherin how much interest they take in the subject," Georgie laughed.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000009_000000|Patty picked up the pencil.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000009_000001|"Would you like to join?
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000009_000002|I know Priscilla would be gratified."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000010_000000|"No, thank you; I pay club dues enough already."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000011_000000|"I'm afraid I'm not exactly eligible myself, as I don't know any German. It's such a beautifully sharp pencil, though, that I hate not to write with it." Patty poised the pencil a moment, and abstractedly traced the name "Kate Ferris."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000012_000000|Georgie laughed.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000012_000001|"If there should happen to be a Kate Ferris in college, she would be surprised to find herself a member of the German Club," and the incident was forgotten.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000013_000000|A few days later the two came in from class, to find Priscilla and the president of the German Club sitting on the divan with their heads together, frantically turning the leaves of the catalogue.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000014_000000|"She isn't a sophomore," the president announced.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000014_000002|Look again."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000015_000000|"I've gone over this list three times, and there isn't a single Ferris down."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000016_000000|Georgie and Patty exchanged glances and inquired the trouble.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000017_000000|"A girl named Kate Ferris has registered for the German Club, and we've gone through all the classes, and there simply isn't any such girl in college."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000018_000000|"Possibly a special," Patty suggested.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000019_000000|"Of course!
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000019_000001|Why didn't we think of that?" And Priscilla turned to the list of special students.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000019_000002|"No; she isn't here."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000020_000000|"Let me look"; and Patty ran her eyes down the column.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000020_000001|"You've mistaken the name," she remarked, handing the book back with a shrug.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000021_000000|Priscilla produced the registration list, and triumphantly exhibited an unmistakable Kate Ferris.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000022_000000|"They forgot to put her in the catalogue."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000023_000000|"I never knew them to make such a mistake before," said the president, dubiously.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000023_000001|"I don't believe we'd better put her in the roll book till we find out who she is."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000024_000000|"Then you'll hurt her feelings," said Georgie.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000024_000001|"Freshmen are terribly sensitive about being slighted."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000025_000000|"Oh, very well; it doesn't matter." And Kate Ferris was accordingly enrolled in the club records.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000026_000000|Several weeks later Priscilla was engaged in laboriously turning the minutes of the last meeting into grammatical German, and as she closed the dictionary and grammar with a sigh of relief, she remarked to Patty: "Do you know, it's very queer about that Kate Ferris.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000026_000001|She hasn't paid her dues, and, as far as I can make out, she hasn't attended a single meeting.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000026_000003|I don't believe she's in college any more."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000027_000000|"You might as well," said Patty, and she listlessly watched Priscilla as she scratched out the name with a penknife.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000027_000001|Patty never made the mistake of over acting.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000028_000000|The next morning, as Priscilla came in from a class, she found a note on her door block, written in the perpendicular characters of Kate Ferris. It ran:
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000029_000001|Am sorry to have missed so many meetings, but have not been able to attend classes lately.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000029_000002|KATE FERRIS.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000030_000000|Priscilla exhibited the note to the president as a tangible proof that Kate Ferris still existed, and reinscribed the name in the roll book.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000031_000000|A few weeks later she found a second note on her door block:
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000032_000000|DEAR MISS POND: As I am very busy with my class work, I find that I have not time to attend the German Club meetings, and so have decided to resign.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000032_000001|I left my letter of resignation on the bookcase.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000033_000000|KATE FERRIS.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000034_000000|As Priscilla scratched the name out of the roll book again she remarked to Patty: "I am glad this Kate Ferris has left the club at last.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000034_000001|She has caused me more trouble than all the rest of the members put together."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000035_000000|The next morning a third note appeared on the block:
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000036_000001|So I shall be much obliged if you will not present my letter at the meeting after all, as I have decided to follow her advice.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000037_000000|KATE FERRIS.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000038_000000|Priscilla tossed the note to Patty with a groan, and getting out the roll book, she turned to the F's and reenrolled Kate Ferris.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000039_000000|Patty sympathetically watched the process over her shoulder.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000039_000001|"The book is getting so thin in that spot," she laughed, "that Kate Ferris is actually coming through on the other side.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000039_000002|If she changes her mind many more times there won't be anything left."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000040_000000|"I'm going to ask Fraeulein Scherin about her," Priscilla declared. "She's made me so much trouble that I'm curious to see what she looks like."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000041_000001|"I have so many freshmen," she apologized, "I cannot all of them with their queer names remember."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000043_000000|Priscilla kept hearing about the girl on all sides, but could never catch a glimpse of her.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000043_000002|Her name was posted on the bulletin board for having library books that were overdue.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000043_000003|She even wrote a paper for one of the German Club meetings (Georgie was not a facile German scholar, and it had required a whole Saturday); but owing to the fact that she was suddenly called out of town, she did not read it in person.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000044_000000|A month or two after Kate Ferris's advent, Priscilla had friends visiting her from New York, for whom she gave a tea in the study.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000045_000000|"I am going to invite Kate Ferris," she announced.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000046_000001|"I should like to find out myself."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000047_000000|The invitation was despatched, and on the next day Priscilla received a formal acceptance.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000048_000000|"It's strange that she should send an acceptance for a tea," she remarked as she read it, "but I'm glad to get it, anyway.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000049_000000|On the evening of the tea, after the guests had gone and the furniture had been moved back, the weary hostesses, in somewhat rumpled evening dresses (a considerable crush results when fifty are entertained in a room whose utmost capacity is fifteen), were reentertaining one or two friends on the lettuce sandwiches and cakes the obliging guests had failed to consume.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000049_000001|The company and the clothes having passed in review, the conversation flagged a little, and Georgie suddenly asked: "Was Kate Ferris here?
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000050_000000|"That's so!" Patty exclaimed.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000050_000001|"I didn't see her, either.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000050_000002|She's the most abnormally inconspicuous person I ever heard of.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000050_000003|What did she look like, Pris?"
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000051_000000|Priscilla knit her brows.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000051_000001|"She couldn't have come.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000051_000002|I kept watching for her all the evening.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000051_000004|I'm growing positively morbid over the girl; I begin to think she's invisible."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000052_000000|"I begin to think so myself," said Patty.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000053_000000|The next morning's mail brought a bunch of violets and an apology from Kate Ferris.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000054_000000|"It's positively uncanny!" Priscilla declared.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000054_000001|"I shall go to the registrar and tell her that this Kate Ferris is neither down in the catalogue nor the college directory, and find out where she lives."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000055_000000|"Don't do anything reckless," Georgie pleaded.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000055_000001|"Take what the gods send and be grateful."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000056_000000|But Priscilla was as good as her word, and she returned from the registrar's office flushed and defiant.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000056_000001|"She insists that there isn't any such person in college, and that I must have made a mistake in the name!
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000056_000002|Did you ever hear anything so absurd?"
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000057_000000|"That seems to me the only reasonable explanation," Patty agreed amicably.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000057_000001|"Perhaps it is Harris instead of Ferris."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000058_000000|Priscilla faced her ominously.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000058_000001|"You read the name yourself.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000058_000002|It was as plain as printing."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000059_000000|"We're all liable to make mistakes," Patty murmured soothingly.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000060_000000|"Do you know," said Georgie, "I begin to think it's all a hallucination, and that there really isn't any Kate Ferris.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000060_000001|It's strange, of course, but not any stranger than some of those cases you read about in psychology."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000061_000000|"Hallucinations don't send flowers," said Priscilla, hotly; and she stalked out of the room, leaving Patty and Georgie to review the campaign.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000062_000000|"I'm afraid it's gone far enough," said Georgie.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000063_000000|"I'm afraid so," sighed Patty.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000063_000001|"It's been very entertaining, but she is really getting sensitive on the subject, and I don't dare mention Kate Ferris's name when we're alone."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000064_000000|"Shall we tell her?"
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000065_000000|Patty shook her head.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000065_000001|"Not just now-I shouldn't dare.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000065_000002|She believes in corporal punishment."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000066_000000|A few days later Priscilla received another note directed in the hand she had come to dread.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000066_000001|She threw it into the waste basket unopened; but, curiosity prevailing, she drew it out again and read it:
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000067_000000|DEAR MISS POND: As I have been obliged to leave college on account of my health, I inclose my resignation to the German Club.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000067_000001|I thank you very sincerely for your kindness to me this year, and shall always look back upon our friendship as one of the happiest memories of my college life.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000069_000000|When Patty came in she found Priscilla silently and grimly scratching a hole into the roll book where Kate Ferris's name had been.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000070_000000|"Changed her mind again?" Patty asked pleasantly.
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000071_000000|"She's left college," Priscilla snapped, "and don't you ever mention her name to me again."
train-clean-100/6415/100596/6415_100596_000072_000000|Patty sighed sympathetically and remarked to the room in general: "It's sort of pathetic to have your whole college life summed up in a hole in the German Club archives.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000002_000000|I can not imagine any pleasant job so full of pangs, or any painful job so full of pleasures, as the task of conducting a newspaper column.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000003_000001|He soon outgrows this, and is disheartened because too many people notice it, and he imagines that all see the paltriness of it as plainly as he does.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000003_000002|There is nothing so amazing to him as to find that any one really enjoys his "stuff." Poor soul, he remembers how he groaned over it at his desk.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000003_000003|He remembers the hours he sat with lack lustre eye and addled brain, brooding at the sluttish typewriter. He remembers the flush of shame that tingled him as he walked sadly homeward, thinking of some atrocious inanity he had sent upstairs to the composing room.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000003_000004|It is a job that engenders a healthy humility.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000004_000000|I had always wanted to have a try at writing a column.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000004_000001|Heaven help me, I think I had an idea that I was born for the job.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000004_000002|I may as well be candid.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000004_000003|There was a time when I seriously thought of inserting the following ad in a Philadelphia newspaper.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000004_000004|I find a memorandum of it in my scrap book:
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000005_000000|HUMORIST: Young and untamed, lineal descendent of Eugene Field, Frank Stockton, and Francois Rabelais, desires to run a column in a Philadelphia newspaper.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000005_000001|A guaranteed circulation getter.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000006_000000|Said Humorist can also supply excellent veins of philosophy, poetry, satire, uplift, glad material and indiscriminate musings. Remarkable opportunity for any newspaper desiring a really unusual editorial feature.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000006_000001|Address HUMORIST, etc
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000007_000000|So besotted was I, I would have paid to have this printed if I had not been counselled by an older and wiser head.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000008_000001|This lasts about a week.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000008_000002|He then learns, in secret, to take it rather seriously.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000008_000003|He has to deal with the most elusive and grotesque material he knows-his own mind; and the unhappy creature, everlastingly probing himself in the hope of discovering what is so rare in minds (a thought), is likely to end in a ferment of bitterness.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000008_000005|If you have to be endlessly speculating, watching, and making mental notes, your brain gears soon get a hot box.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000008_000006|The original of all paragraphers-ecclesiastes--came very near ending as a complete cynic; though in what f p a would call his "lastline," he managed to wriggle into a more hopeful mood.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000009_000000|The first valuable discovery that the colyumist is likely to make is that all minds are very much the same.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000009_000001|The doctors tell us that all patent medicines are built on a stock formula-a sedative, a purge, and a bitter.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000009_000002|If you are to make steady column topers out of your readers, your daily dose must, as far as possible, average up to that same prescription.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000009_000003|If you employ the purge all the time, or the sedative, or the acid, your clients will soon ask for something with another label.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000010_000001|It is hard to get the colyumist to admit this, for he fears spoofing worse than the devil; but it is eminently true.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000010_000002|If I were the owner of a newspaper, I think I would have painted up on the wall of the local room the following words from isaiah, the best of all watchwords for all who write:
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000011_000000|Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000001|This is all a part of the great and salutary human instinct against work.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000002|When people see a man toiling, they have an irresistible impulse to crowd round and stop him.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000003|They seem to imagine that he has been put there on purpose to help them solve their problems, to find a job for their friend from Harrisburg, or to tell them how to find a publisher for their poems.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000004|Unhappily, their victim being merely human, is likely to grow a bit snappish under infliction.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000005|Yet now and then he gets a glimpse into a human vexation so sincere, so honest, and so moving that he turns away from the typewriter with a sigh.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000006|He wonders how one dare approach the chronicling of this muddled panorama with anything but humility and despair.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000007|Frank Harris once said of Oscar Wilde: "If England insists on treating her criminals like this, she doesn't deserve to have any." Similarly, if the public insists on bringing its woes to its colyumists, it doesn't deserve to have any colyumists.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000012_000008|Then the battered jester turns again to his machine and ticks off something like this:
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000014_000000|Of course there are good days, too.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000014_000002|When Governor Hobby of Texas issues a call for the state cavalry.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000014_000004|When a big jewellery firm in the city puts out a large ad-
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000015_000000|Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company Watches for Women Of Superior Design and Perfection of Movement
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000016_000000|all that one needs to do to that is to write over it the caption
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000017_000000|SO DO WE ALL
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000000|The more a colyumist is out on the streets, making himself the reporter of the moods and oddities of men, the better his stuff will be.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000001|It seems to me that his job ought to be good training for a novelist, as it teaches him a habit of human sensitiveness.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000002|He becomes filled with an extraordinary curiosity about the motives and purposes of the people he sees.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000003|The other afternoon I was very much struck by the unconscious pathos of a little, gentle eyed old man who was standing on Chestnut Street studying a pocket notebook.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000004|His umbrella leaned against a shop window, on the sill of which he had laid a carefully rolled up newspaper.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000005|By his feet was a neat leather brief case, plumply filled with contents not discernible.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000006|There he stood (a sort of unsuccessful Cyrus Curtis), very diminutive, his gray hair rather long abaft his neck, his yellowish straw hat (with curly brim) tilted backward as though in perplexity, his timid and absorbed blue eyes poring over his memorandum book which was full of pencilled notes.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000007|He had a slightly unkempt, brief beard and whiskers, his cheek bones pinkish, his linen a little frayed.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000008|There was something strangely pathetic about him, and I would have given much to have been able to speak to him.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000009|I halted at a window farther down the street and studied him; then returned to pass him again, and watched him patiently.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000019_000010|He stood quite absorbed, and was still there when I went on.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000020_000000|That is just one of the thousands of vivid little pictures one sees on the city streets day by day.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000020_000002|It is a task not a whit less worthy, less painful, or less baffling than that of the most conscientious novelist.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000020_000004|It is heart racking to struggle day by day, amid incessant interruption and melee, to snatch out of the hurly burly some shreds of humour or pathos or (dare one say?) beauty, and phrase them intelligibly.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000021_000000|But it is fun.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000021_000001|One never buys a package of tobacco, crosses a city square, enters a trolley car or studies a shop window without trying, in a baffled, hopeless way, to peer through the frontage of the experience, to find some glimmer of the thoughts, emotions, and meanings behind.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000021_000002|And in the long run such a habit of inquiry must bear fruit in understanding and sympathy.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000021_000003|Joseph Conrad (who seems, by the way, to be more read by newspaper men than any other writer) put very nobly the pinnacle of all scribblers' dreams when he said that human affairs deserve the tribute of "a sigh which is not a sob, a smile which is not a grin."
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000022_000000|So much, with apology, for the ideals of the colyumist, if he be permitted to speak truth without fear of mockery.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000022_000002|He may yearn desperately to compose a really thrilling poem that will speak his passionate soul; to churn up from the typewriter some lyric that will rock with blue seas and frantic hearts; he finds himself allaying the frenzy with some jovial sneer at Henry Ford or a yell about the High Cost of Living.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000022_000003|Poor soul, he is like one condemned to harangue the vast, idiotic world through a keyhole, whence his anguish issues thin and faint.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000022_000004|Yet who will say that all his labour is wholly vain?
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000022_000005|Perhaps some day the government will crown a Colyumist Laureate, some majestic sage with ancient patient blue eyes and a snowy beard nobly stained with nicotine, whose utterances will be heeded with shuddering respect.
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000022_000007|And in that day
train-clean-100/6415/111615/6415_111615_000023_000000|The meanest paragraph that blows will give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for sneers.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000000_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000001_000000|A THUNDER CLAP.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000002_000000|Blasi, the lounger, stood in his doorway in the clear sunshine of this lovely summer morning, both hands plunged deep into his pockets as was his wont, and looked about him as if to see whether everything in the outer world was the same as yesterday.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000003_000000|Judith came out to the well, carrying her water jug on her head.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000004_000000|"Look out, Blasi, you are losing something," she cried.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000004_000001|Blasi looked on the ground, turned about, and searched behind and before.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000005_000000|"I don't see anything," he said, and stuffed his hands deeper into his pockets.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000006_000000|"It's always so with me," said Judith, "when I've lost anything, I can't see it."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000008_000000|"That's all the thanks I get for telling you that you are losing something, and I was just going to make you a present that is worth more than five francs to a fellow like you."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000009_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000009_000001|Show it to me," said Blasi, with more animation.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000010_000000|"First I will tell you something, and then you shall have it," replied Judith.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000010_000002|Isn't that so?"
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000011_000000|"Well, suppose it is," said Blasi, angrily.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000011_000001|"Now give me what you promised me."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000012_000000|"I gave it to you this very minute.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000012_000001|I said you'd better take your hands out of your pockets, and then your earnings would run in.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000012_000002|That's good advice and worth more than five francs.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000013_000000|"What stuff!
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000013_000001|No one ever knows how to take you," grumbled Blasi.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000014_000000|"It wouldn't help you to take me, if you did not take your hands out too," said Judith, "but never mind, I have really something good for you," and Judith motioned to him to come nearer.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000014_000001|"Would you like to have a nice well washed shirt for Sunday?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000014_000002|I will do one up for you if you will tell me something."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000015_000000|That was an offer worth listening to.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000015_000002|He had no one to wash for him.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000015_000003|His mother was dead, and his father had enough else to spend for, without the washing for a grown up son.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000015_000004|Blasi's money went for other things than washing, and he was not fond of doing it for himself.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000016_000001|"Come a little nearer to the well; no one knows who may be behind those trees.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000016_000002|Now listen; Can you tell me what is going wrong with Dietrich?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000016_000004|Something has happened to Dietrich."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000000|"Yes, and keeps on happening; all sorts of things, too.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000001|But Jost can tell you more than I can.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000002|They sit together in the Rehbock half the night and more, too; long after everybody else has gone, there they sit in the little back room.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000003|At first they do just as other people do, they drink a little and then a little more, and Dietrich pays.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000004|But that's nothing to what it costs him afterwards.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000005|They do something with paper, he and Jost. Sometimes it is a lottery and then again something that they call speculating.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000006|I don't understand anything about it.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000007|Somebody comes over from Fohrensee and explains it to them.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000008|He does not belong there; but I guess you have seen him; he has fiery red hair, and red beard and red face.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000009|He has business in Fohrensee once a week, and lives the rest of the time down in the city; and he arranges everything down there, and then brings the account of gains and losses up to them; but it's a good deal more loss than gain.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000010|Dietrich puts in more money every time.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000011|Jost has nothing to put in but promises.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000012|He tells Dietrich all the time that presently the winnings will begin to flow in, and says that at first a fellow must expect to lose, so as to win all the more in the end, and that bye and bye it will all come back; with interest, of course.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000013|The red haired man says yes to it all.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000014|Whenever I want to put something in, and ask Dietrich to lend me a little to try with, Jost acts as if he were the lord and master of the whole concern, and 'donkey' is the mildest name he calls me.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000017_000015|I am just waiting though, till I can trip him up, and I'll do it with a vengeance too, so that he won't forget it all his life long."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000018_000000|"Now that is a good idea," said Judith.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000018_000002|Now you have told me enough.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000018_000003|Bring me your shirt on Saturday, and I'll wash it for you."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000019_000000|Judith lifted her water jug and was turning away, but Blasi detained her.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000020_000001|Do you think she will have him?"
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000021_000000|The question seemed to interest Judith, for she stood stock still.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000022_000001|what do you mean?"
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000023_000000|"I mean Veronica and Jost.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000023_000001|Do you think she will take him?" As Blasi spoke he came slowly nearer to Judith.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000023_000002|"He has been saying some things lately, that made me think so."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000025_000000|"I know what you mean," he went on, "but I am not so very stupid as you think.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000025_000001|It certainly means something, when she is so changed.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000025_000002|Jost says that she knows all that Dietrich has been about, and she is hot with anger against him because he has not told her about it himself.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000025_000003|Jost says that if he only mentions Dietrich's name before her she looks like a wild cat in a moment, and he says too that he has noticed for some time, that she has no objection to letting Dietrich see that she can get along very well without his help, and you know that she is capable of anything when she's angry."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000028_000000|Judith walked along, talking aloud to herself,
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000029_000000|"Yes, she is! she is! she is capable of anything when she is angry!"
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000001|He was her prime, favorite and she meant to do well by him.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000002|She liked Veronica because she was such a steady girl at her needle, and because she would have nothing to say to any one but Dietrich.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000003|This very reserve however, was rather distasteful to Judith as regarded herself, but she liked it towards others.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000004|She had planned it all out that Dietrich should marry Veronica soon after the confirmation, that they should set up a pretty little establishment, and be her beloved neighbors. She meant to be their intimate friend and helper, to go freely in and out of their house, and to stand god mother now and then.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000005|She would leave her property to the little ones.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000006|Now all this fine air castle was overthrown and all her plans spoiled.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000030_000007|Judith bounced violently into the kitchen and set her jug down with such a bang that the water spurted up into the air.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000031_000000|"And no one can get a word out of her, either; it is exactly as if all the oil had been burned out."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000031_000001|This last remark referred to Gertrude, who had greatly altered during the last few months.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000031_000002|She had no longer the cheerful expression that she had always been noted for.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000031_000003|She had grown very quiet and silent.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000031_000004|She even avoided her old and well tried friend Judith, and if the latter showed a disposition to talk about her household matters or her children's future, Gertrude would give her to understand that she had no time to stop to talk.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000032_000000|Gertrude knew where Dietrich spent his evenings.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000032_000001|She had expostulated with him about it more than once.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000032_000002|He had answered that he must keep on there for awhile, till a certain undertaking which he had started with Jost was fairly under way.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000032_000003|He assured her that this affair was certain to turn out all right, and that she herself would be surprised and satisfied at the result.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000032_000004|He knew from some one who understood it, that it could not fail. He had to draw large sums several times for himself and also for Jost, but he was sanguine that in a short time it would all be paid back, with interest.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000032_000006|Still she was haunted daily by a growing uneasiness, which was not diminished when she perceived that Veronica was gradually drawing away from her.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000034_000001|Poor Gertrude!
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000035_000000|One night after she had gone to her room she heard her son leave the house with hasty steps.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000035_000001|It had become a regular thing now.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000035_000002|She had often said to herself, "Ah! how much longer will this go on?" but she tried hard to believe that it would soon come to an end, and her son would resume his former orderly and happy mode of life.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000035_000003|But this evening she was so anxious that she could not stay in her bedroom.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000035_000004|She went down into the garden.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000000|The moon peeped out from between the flying clouds, and shone peacefully down upon the trees and the neat flower beds.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000001|Gertrude seated herself upon a small bench under the apple tree, and gazed about the garden, all illuminated by the moonbeams.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000002|She had planted it all and cared for it with her own hands.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000003|She had done this as she did everything, carefully and with great painstaking, and it was all for her son's sake.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000004|His should be the pleasure and the profit of all.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000005|Why could he not be happy in it now?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000006|Why was she so worried about him?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000007|Dietrich was walking in steep and dangerous paths; that she was sure of, but he knew the straight road and would not his steps turn back to it again?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000009|She recalled the evening of the day when her husband was borne from the house to his burial.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000036_000010|She had taken the children by the hand and, stupefied with pain, was about to put them to bed, but Dieterli objected, saying,
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000037_000000|"No, mother, no; it is not good to go to bed before you say your prayers."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000038_000000|Did her boy ever pray now?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000038_000001|"Oh, Dieterli, my son, you are wandering away, but you know the way home," she said to herself, and she folded her hands in prayer, for her habit was to lay all her troubles before God, her Supporter and Comforter.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000039_000000|At this moment, she heard through the stillness loud shouts and cries, first at a distance, then nearer and nearer, until they grew into a wild tumult.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000039_000002|A vague fear seized Gertrude.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000039_000003|Three fellows shouting and calling, passed on the other side of the hedge; she recognized one of the voices.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000041_000000|There was no answer; Jost did not or would not, hear.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000041_000001|He ran faster than before, and the second fellow ran too.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000041_000002|The last one paused a little; it was Blasi.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000041_000003|He said hastily:
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000042_000000|"He isn't coming yet awhile.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000042_000001|You can go to bed;" and was making off.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000043_000000|"Oh do tell me what has happened," said Gertrude, white with terror. "Don't leave me so, but tell me, Blasi, why Dietrich hasn't come home with the rest of you?"
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000044_000000|Blasi had too much respect for Dietrich's mother to run away from her when she put a direct question to him, although he would fain have escaped.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000045_000000|"There has been a row at the Rehbock.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000045_000001|Two men were killed.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000045_000002|Some one stole the cattle dealer's money bag-"
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000046_000000|"Is Dietrich killed?
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000046_000001|Speak out!" broke in Gertrude, trembling.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000047_000000|"No; he struck about him bravely, till one of the fellows got enough of it, and lay dead on the ground; and then he made off."
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000048_000000|With this Blasi ran on.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000049_000000|Gertrude mounted wearily to her room as if her last day was come.
train-clean-100/6415/116629/6415_116629_000049_000001|She sat down upon her bed, and when the morning light filled the room, still she sat there listening in trembling anxiety, as she had listened through all the long night; in vain.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000001_000000|Chapter Nine-I Become an r m c
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000002_000000|In the course of ten days I recovered sufficiently from my injuries to attend school, where, for a little while, I was looked upon as a hero, on account of having been blown up.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000002_000001|What don't we make a hero of?
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000002_000002|The distraction which prevailed in the classes the week preceding the Fourth had subsided, and nothing remained to indicate the recent festivities, excepting a noticeable want of eyebrows on the part of Pepper Whitcomb and myself.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000003_000000|In August we had two weeks' vacation.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000003_000001|It was about this time that I became a member of the Rivermouth Centipedes, a secret society composed of twelve of the Temple Grammar School boys.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000003_000002|This was an honor to which I had long aspired, but, being a new boy, I was not admitted to the fraternity until my character had fully developed itself.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000004_000000|It was a very select society, the object of which I never fathomed, though I was an active member of the body during the remainder of my residence at Rivermouth, and at one time held the onerous position of f c, First Centipede.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000004_000001|Each of the elect wore a copper cent (some occult association being established between a cent apiece and a centipedes suspended by a string round his neck).
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000004_000003|As soon as I ascertained the existence of a boys' club, of course I was ready to die to join it.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000005_000000|The initiation ceremony took place in Fred Langdon's barn, where I was submitted to a series of trials not calculated to soothe the nerves of a timorous boy.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000005_000001|Before being led to the Grotto of Enchantment-such was the modest title given to the loft over my friend's wood house-my hands were securely pinioned, and my eyes covered with a thick silk handkerchief. At the head of the stairs I was told in an unrecognizable, husky voice, that it was not yet too late to retreat if I felt myself physically too weak to undergo the necessary tortures.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000005_000002|I replied that I was not too weak, in a tone which I intended to be resolute, but which, in spite of me, seemed to come from the pit of my stomach.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000006_000000|"It is well!" said the husky voice.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000007_000000|I did not feel so sure about that; but, having made up my mind to be a Centipede, a Centipede I was bound to be.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000007_000001|Other boys had passed through the ordeal and lived, why should not I?
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000008_000001|The unknown voice then directed me to take ten steps forward and stop at the word halt.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000008_000002|I took ten steps, and halted.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000009_000000|"Stricken mortal," said a second husky voice, more husky, if possible, than the first, "if you had advanced another inch, you would have disappeared down an abyss three thousand feet deep!"
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000010_000000|I naturally shrunk back at this friendly piece of information.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000010_000001|A prick from some two pronged instrument, evidently a pitchfork, gently checked my retreat.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000010_000002|I was then conducted to the brink of several other precipices, and ordered to step over many dangerous chasms, where the result would have been instant death if I had committed the least mistake.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000010_000003|I have neglected to say that my movements were accompanied by dismal groans from different parts of the grotto.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000011_000000|Finally, I was led up a steep plank to what appeared to me an incalculable height.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000011_000004|A second pistol shot was heard, the something I stood on sunk with a crash beneath my feet and I fell two miles, as nearly as I could compute it. At the same instant the handkerchief was whisked from my eyes, and I found myself standing in an empty hogshead surrounded by twelve masked figures fantastically dressed.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000011_000006|I scarcely need say that there were no vestiges to be seen of the fearful gulfs over which I had passed so cautiously.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000011_000009|This concluded the ceremony.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000011_000010|With a merry shout the boys threw off their masks, and I was declared a regularly installed member of the r m c
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000012_000000|I afterwards had a good deal of sport out of the club, for these initiations, as you may imagine, were sometimes very comical spectacles, especially when the aspirant for centipedal honors happened to be of a timid disposition.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000012_000002|One of our subsequent devices-a humble invention of my own-was to request the blindfolded candidate to put out his tongue, whereupon the First Centipede would say, in a low tone, as if not intended for the ear of the victim, "Diabolus, fetch me the red hot iron!" The expedition with which that tongue would disappear was simply ridiculous.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000013_000001|Any member had a right to call a meeting.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000013_000002|Each boy who failed to report himself was fined one cent.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000013_000003|Whenever a member had reasons for thinking that another member would be unable to attend, he called a meeting.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000013_000004|For instance, immediately on learning the death of Harry Blake's great grandfather, I issued a call.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000013_000005|By these simple and ingenious measures we kept our treasury in a flourishing condition, sometimes having on hand as much as a dollar and a quarter.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000014_000000|I have said that the society had no special object.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000014_000001|It is true, there was a tacit understanding among us that the Centipedes were to stand by one another on all occasions, though I don't remember that they did; but further than this we had no purpose, unless it was to accomplish as a body the same amount of mischief which we were sure to do as individuals.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000015_000001|People who went trustfully to sleep in Currant Square opened their eyes in Honeysuckle Terrace. Jones's Avenue at the north end had suddenly become Walnut Street, and Peanut Street was nowhere to be found.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000016_000000|Having tearfully disclaimed to my grandfather all knowledge of the transaction, I disappeared from the family circle, and was not apprehended until late in the afternoon, when the Captain dragged me ignominiously from the haymow and conducted me, more dead than alive, to the office of justice Clapham.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000016_000001|Here I encountered five other pallid culprits, who had been fished out of divers coal bins, garrets, and chicken coops, to answer the demands of the outraged laws. (Charley Marden had hidden himself in a pile of gravel behind his father's house, and looked like a recently exhumed mummy.)
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000017_000001|The trick, as was afterwards proved, had been played by a party of soldiers stationed at the fort in the harbor.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000017_000002|We were indebted for our arrest to Master Conway, who had slyly dropped a hint, within the hearing of Selectman Mudge, to the effect that "young Bailey and his five cronies could tell something about them signs." When he was called upon to make good his assertion, he was considerably more terrified than the Centipedes, though they were ready to sink into their shoes.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000018_000000|At our next meeting it was unanimously resolved that Conway's animosity should not be quietly submitted to.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000018_000001|He had sought to inform against us in the stagecoach business; he had volunteered to carry Pettingil's "little bill" for twenty four icecreams to Charley Marden's father; and now he had caused us to be arraigned before justice Clapham on a charge equally groundless and painful.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000018_000002|After much noisy discussion, a plan of retaliation was agreed upon.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000019_000000|There was a certain slim, mild apothecary in the town, by the name of Meeks.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000019_000001|It was generally given out that mr Meeks had a vague desire to get married, but, being a shy and timorous youth, lacked the moral courage to do so.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000019_000002|It was also well known that the Widow Conway had not buried her heart with the late lamented.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000019_000003|As to her shyness, that was not so clear.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000019_000004|Indeed, her attentions to mr Meeks, whose mother she might have been, were of a nature not to be misunderstood, and were not misunderstood by anyone but mr Meeks himself.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000020_000000|The widow carried on a dress making establishment at her residence on the corner opposite Meeks's drug store, and kept a wary eye on all the young ladies from Miss Dorothy Gibbs's Female Institute who patronized the shop for soda water, acid drops, and slate pencils.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000020_000001|In the afternoon the widow was usually seen seated, smartly dressed, at her window upstairs, casting destructive glances across the street-the artificial roses in her cap and her whole languishing manner saying as plainly as a label on a prescription, "To be Taken Immediately!" But mr Meeks didn't take.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000021_000003|We disliked the widow not so much for her sentimentality as for being the mother of Bill Conway; we disliked mr Meeks, not because he was insipid, like his own syrups, but because the widow loved him.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000021_000004|Bill Conway we hated for himself.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000022_000000|Late one dark Saturday night in September we carried our plan into effect.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000023_000000|Wanted, a Sempstress!
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000024_000000|The naughty cleverness of the joke (which I should be sorry to defend) was recognized at once.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000024_000001|It spread like wildfire over the town, and, though the mortar and the placard were speedily removed, our triumph was complete.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000024_000002|The whole community was on the broad grin, and our participation in the affair seemingly unsuspected.
train-clean-100/6437/66172/6437_66172_000025_000000|It was those wicked soldiers at the fort!
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000003_000000|Chapter Ten-I Fight Conway
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000004_000000|There was one person, however, who cherished a strong suspicion that the Centipedes had had a hand in the business; and that person was Conway. His red hair seemed to change to a livelier red, and his sallow cheeks to a deeper sallow, as we glanced at him stealthily over the tops of our slates the next day in school.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000004_000001|He knew we were watching him, and made sundry mouths and scowled in the most threatening way over his sums.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000005_000000|Conway had an accomplishment peculiarly his own-that of throwing his thumbs out of joint at will.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000005_000001|Sometimes while absorbed in study, or on becoming nervous at recitation, he performed the feat unconsciously. Throughout this entire morning his thumbs were observed to be in a chronic state of dislocation, indicating great mental agitation on the part of the owner.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000005_000002|We fully expected an outbreak from him at recess; but the intermission passed off tranquilly, somewhat to our disappointment.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000006_000000|At the close of the afternoon session it happened that Binny Wallace and myself, having got swamped in our Latin exercise, were detained in school for the purpose of refreshing our memories with a page of mr Andrews's perplexing irregular verbs.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000006_000002|I followed shortly after, and, on stepping into the playground, saw my little friend plastered, as it were, up against the fence, and Conway standing in front of him ready to deliver a blow on the upturned, unprotected face, whose gentleness would have stayed any arm but a coward's.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000007_000000|Seth Rodgers, with both hands in his pockets, was leaning against the pump lazily enjoying the sport; but on seeing me sweep across the yard, whirling my strap of books in the air like a sling, he called out lustily, "Lay low, Conway!
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000007_000001|Here's young Bailey!"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000008_000000|Conway turned just in time to catch on his shoulder the blow intended for his head.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000008_000001|He reached forward one of his long arms-he had arms like a windmill, that boy-and, grasping me by the hair, tore out quite a respectable handful.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000008_000002|The tears flew to my eyes, but they were not the tears of defeat; they were merely the involuntary tribute which nature paid to the departed tresses.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000009_000000|In a second my little jacket lay on the ground, and I stood on guard, resting lightly on my right leg and keeping my eye fixed steadily on Conway's-in all of which I was faithfully following the instructions of Phil Adams, whose father subscribed to a sporting journal.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000010_000000|Conway also threw himself into a defensive attitude, and there we were, glaring at each other motionless, neither of us disposed to risk an attack, but both on the alert to resist one.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000011_000000|It was a custom with the larger pupils to return to the playground after school, and play baseball until sundown.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000011_000001|The town authorities had prohibited ball playing on the Square, and, there being no other available place, the boys fell back perforce on the school yard.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000011_000002|Just at this crisis a dozen or so of the Templars entered the gate, and, seeing at a glance the belligerent status of Conway and myself, dropped bat and ball, and rushed to the spot where we stood.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000012_000000|"Is it a fight?" asked Phil Adams, who saw by our freshness that we had not yet got to work.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000013_000000|"Yes, it's a fight," I answered, "unless Conway will ask Wallace's pardon, promise never to hector me in future-and put back my hair!"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000014_000000|This last condition was rather a staggerer.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000016_000000|"Then the thing must go on," said Adams, with dignity.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000016_000001|"Rodgers, as I understand it, is your second, Conway?
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000016_000002|Bailey, come here.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000016_000003|What's the row about?"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000018_000000|"No, I wasn't," interrupted Conway; "but I was going to because he knows who put Meeks's mortar over our door.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000019_000000|"O, by George!" I cried, reddening at the insult.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000020_000000|"Cool is the word," said Adams, as he bound a handkerchief round my head, and carefully tucked away the long straggling locks that offered a tempting advantage to the enemy.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000020_000002|He then loosened my gallowses (braces), and buckled them tightly above my hips.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000021_000000|Conway regarded these business like preparations with evident misgiving, for he called Rodgers to his side, and had himself arrayed in a similar manner, though his hair was cropped so close that you couldn't have taken hold of it with a pair of tweezers.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000022_000000|"Is your man ready?" asked Phil Adams, addressing Rodgers.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000023_000000|"Ready!"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000025_000000|Behold us once more face to face, like David and the Philistine.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000025_000001|Look at us as long as you may; for this is all you shall see of the combat. According to my thinking, the hospital teaches a better lesson than the battle field.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000025_000002|I will tell you about my black eye, and my swollen lip, if you will; but not a word of the fight.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000026_000000|You'll get no description of it from me, simply because I think it would prove very poor reading, and not because I consider my revolt against Conway's tyranny unjustifiable.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000027_000001|I might have shielded myself by appealing to mr Grimshaw; but no boy in the Temple Grammar School could do that without losing caste. Whether this was just or not doesn't matter a pin, since it was so-a traditionary law of the place.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000027_000003|I should have lacked the spirit of a hen if I had not resented it finally.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000027_000004|I am glad that I faced Conway, and asked no favors, and got rid of him forever.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000027_000005|I am glad that Phil Adams taught me to box, and I say to all youngsters: Learn to box, to ride, to pull an oar, and to swim.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000027_000006|The occasion may come round, when a decent proficiency in one or the rest of these accomplishments will be of service to you.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000029_000000|"Learn to box, then, as you learn to play cricket and football.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000029_000001|Not one of you will be the worse, but very much the better, for learning to box well.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000029_000002|Should you never have to use it in earnest there's no exercise in the world so good for the temper, and for the muscles of the back and legs.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000030_000000|"As for fighting, keep out of it, if you can, by all means.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000030_000001|When the time comes, if ever it should, that you have to say 'Yes' or 'No' to a challenge to fight, say 'No' if you can-only take care you make it plain to yourself why you say 'no' It's a proof of the highest courage, if done from true Christian motives.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000030_000002|It's quite right and justifiable, if done from a simple aversion to physical pain and danger.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000030_000003|But don't say 'No' because you fear a licking and say or think it's because you fear God, for that's neither Christian nor honest.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000030_000004|And if you do fight, fight it out; and don't give in while you can stand and see."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000031_000000|And don't give in when you can't! see!
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000031_000001|For I could stand very little, and see not at all (having pommelled the school pump for the last twenty seconds), when Conway retired from the field.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000032_000000|Convinced of my error, I accepted his congratulations, with those of the other boys, blandly and blindly.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000032_000001|I remember that Binny Wallace wanted to give me his silver pencil case.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000032_000002|The gentle soul had stood throughout the contest with his face turned to the fence, suffering untold agony.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000033_000000|A good wash at the pump, and a cold key applied to my eye, refreshed me amazingly.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000033_000001|Escorted by two or three of the schoolfellows, I walked home through the pleasant autumn twilight, battered but triumphant.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000033_000002|As I went along, my cap cocked on one side to keep the chilly air from my eye, I felt that I was not only following my nose, but following it so closely, that I was in some danger of treading on it.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000033_000003|I seemed to have nose enough for the whole party.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000033_000004|My left cheek, also, was puffed out like a dumpling.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000033_000005|I couldn't help saying to myself, "If this is victory, how about that other fellow?"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000034_000000|"Tom," said Harry Blake, hesitating.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000035_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000037_000000|"No was he, though?"
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000038_000000|"I am sure of it."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000039_000000|"Then he must have seen all the row."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000040_000000|"Shouldn't wonder."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000042_000000|"Well, it can't be helped now," I reflected.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000043_000000|"--As the monkey said when he fell out of the cocoanut tree," added Charley Marden, trying to make me laugh.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000044_000000|It was early candle light when we reached the house.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000044_000001|Miss Abigail, opening the front door, started back at my hilarious appearance.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000044_000002|I tried to smile upon her sweetly, but the smile, rippling over my swollen cheek, and dying away like a spent wave on my nose, produced an expression of which Miss Abigail declared she had never seen the like excepting on the face of a Chinese idol.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000045_000001|Captain Nutter, as the recognized professional warrior of our family, could not consistently take me to task for fighting Conway; nor was he disposed to do so; for the Captain was well aware of the long continued provocation I had endured.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000046_000000|"Ah, you rascal!" cried the old gentleman, after hearing my story.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000046_000001|"Just like me when I was young-always in one kind of trouble or another.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000046_000002|I believe it runs in the family."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000048_000000|"They'll be handy to have in the house," says Miss Abigail, grimly.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000049_000000|Of course, so great a breach of discipline was not to be passed over by mr Grimshaw.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000049_000001|He had, as we suspected, witnessed the closing scene of the fight from the school room window, and the next morning, after prayers, I was not wholly unprepared when Master Conway and myself were called up to the desk for examination.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000049_000002|Conway, with a piece of court plaster in the shape of a Maltese cross on his right cheek, and I with the silk patch over my left eye, caused a general titter through the room.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000050_000000|"Silence!" said mr Grimshaw, sharply.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000051_000000|As the reader is already familiar with the leading points in the case of Bailey versus Conway, I shall not report the trial further than to say that Adams, Marden, and several other pupils testified to the fact that Conway had imposed on me ever since my first day at the Temple School. Their evidence also went to show that Conway was a quarrelsome character generally.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000051_000001|Bad for Conway.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000051_000002|Seth Rodgers, on the part of his friend, proved that I had struck the first blow.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000051_000003|That was bad for me.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000052_000000|"If you please, sir," said Binny Wallace, holding up his hand for permission to speak, "Bailey didn't fight on his own account; he fought on my account, and, if you please, sir, I am the boy to be blamed, for I was the cause of the trouble."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000053_000000|This drew out the story of Conway's harsh treatment of the smaller boys. As Binny related the wrongs of his playfellows, saying very little of his own grievances, I noticed that mr Grimshaw's hand, unknown to himself perhaps, rested lightly from time to time on Wallace's sunny hair.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000000|"Every boy in this school knows that it is against the rules to fight.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000001|If one boy maltreats another, within school bounds, or within school hours, that is a matter for me to settle.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000003|I disapprove of tale bearing, I never encourage it in the slightest degree; but when one pupil systematically persecutes a schoolmate, it is the duty of some head boy to inform me.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000004|No pupil has a right to take the law into his own hands.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000005|If there is any fighting to be done, I am the person to be consulted.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000006|I disapprove of boys' fighting; it is unnecessary and unchristian.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000007|In the present instance, I consider every large boy in this school at fault, but as the offence is one of omission rather than commission, my punishment must rest only on the two boys convicted of misdemeanor.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000008|Conway loses his recess for a month, and Bailey has a page added to his Latin lessons for the next four recitations.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000054_000009|I now request Bailey and Conway to shake hands in the presence of the school, and acknowledge their regret at what has occurred."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000055_000000|Conway and I approached each other slowly and cautiously, as if we were bent upon another hostile collision.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000055_000001|We clasped hands in the tamest manner imaginable, and Conway mumbled, "I'm sorry I fought with you."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000056_000000|"I think you are," I replied, drily, "and I'm sorry I had to thrash you."
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000057_000000|"You can go to your seats," said mr Grimshaw, turning his face aside to hide a smile.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000057_000001|I am sure my apology was a very good one.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000058_000000|I never had any more trouble with Conway.
train-clean-100/6437/66173/6437_66173_000058_000003|Miss Abigail's sanitary stores, including a bottle of opodeldoc, were never called into requisition.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000004_000000|nineteen twenty two
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000005_000000|Patrick Deasey described himself as a "philosopher, psychologist, and humorist."
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000005_000001|It was partly because Patrick delighted in long words, and partly to excuse himself for being full of the sour cream of an inhuman curiosity.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000005_000003|At first, when Deasey retired from the police force with a pension and an heiress with three hundred pounds, and time hung heavy on his hands, he would try to satisfy this craving through the medium of a host of small flirtations with everybody's maid.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000005_000004|In this way he could inform himself exactly how many loaves were taken by the Sweeneys for a week's consumption, as compared with those which were devoured by all the Cassidys; for whom the bottles at the Presbytery went in by the back door; and what was the real cause of the quarrel between the twin Miss McInerneys.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000006_000000|But these were but blackbird scratchings, as it were, upon the deep soil of the human heart.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000006_000001|What Deasey cared about was what he called "the secrets of the soul."
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000007_000000|"Never met a man," he was wont to say, "with no backstairs to his mind! And the quieter, decenter, respectabler, innocenter a man looked-like enough!--the darker those backstairs!"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000008_000000|It was up these stairs he craved to go.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000008_000001|To ring at the front door of ordinary intercourse was not enough for him.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000008_000003|It was the plan which made him ultimately describe himself as a humorist.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000008_000004|He would wait until the bar was deserted by all but the one lingering victim whom his trained eye had picked out.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000010_000000|Sometimes he would allude to a "certain document," or "incriminating facts," or "certain letters"--he would ring the changes on these three, according to the sex and temperament with which he had to deal.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000010_000001|But always, whatever the words, whatever the nature or sex, the shot would tell.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000010_000002|First came the little start, the straightened figure, the pallor or flush, the shamed and suddenly lit eyes, and then-
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000011_000000|"Who told you, mr Deasey, sir?" Or "Where did you get the letter?"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000012_000000|"Ah, now, that would be telling!" Deasey would make reply.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000014_000001|As a rule, from the type that demanded the letter back, he only caught sight of the tip of the secret's ears.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000014_000002|From those-they were nearly always the women-who swiftly asked if he hadn't destroyed the letters, he caught shame faced gleams of the truth.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000016_000000|Indeed, it was curiously instructive how john Jamieson laid down a causeway of gleaming stepping stones, so that Deasey might cross lightly over the turgid waters of his victims' souls.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000016_000001|At the words, accompanied by john Jamieson-"A certain dark page of your past history-help yourself, me boy!--has been inadvertently revealed to me, but is for ever sacred in me breast!"--it was strange to see how, from the underworld of the man's mind, there would trip out the company of misshapen hobgoblins and gnomes which had been locked away in darkness, maybe, this many a year.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000017_000000|"Well-how would I get the time to clane the childer and to wash their heads, and I working all the day at curing stinkin' hides!
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000017_000001|'twas Herself should have got it, and Herself alone!"...
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000018_000000|Or-
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000019_000001|I only give the man a little push-that way!--and he fell over on the side, and busted all his veins!"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000020_000000|Or-
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000022_000000|But there were some confessions, haltingly patchy and inadequate, but hauntingly suggestive, which Deasey could neither piece out on the spot, nor yet unravel in the small hours of the night.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000023_000000|"Well, the way of it was, you see, he put it up the chimbley, but when the chimbley sweepers come he transferred it in his weskit to my place, and I dropped it down the well.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000023_000001|They found it when they let the bucket down, but I wasn't his accomplice at all, 'twas only connivance with me!"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000024_000000|When he had spoken of the chimney and the well Deasey concluded at once it was a foully murdered corpse.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000024_000001|But then, again, you could not well conceal a corpse in someone's waistcoat; and gold coins would melt or be mislaid amongst the loose bricks of a sooty chimney.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000024_000002|Deasey had craved for corpses, but nothing so grim as that had risen to his whisky bait until he tried the same old game on mrs Geraghty.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000024_000003|What subtle instinct was it that had prompted him to add to the first unvarying words: "But all that is now past and over, and safe beneath the mouldering clay!"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000025_000001|At her refusal Deasey was struck with the most respectful compassion; until that hour he had never known one single lacerated soul decline this consolation.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000027_000001|"To look at you, ye'd think ma'am ye could never kill a fly!"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000028_000000|And respectfully he passed the peppermints.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000029_000005|'Twould madden you!"
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000031_000000|"It was so," said the widow.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000034_000000|This touch of the grey feet laid a spell on Deasey's hankering morbidity.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000036_000000|"Nature, I s'pose!" replied the white haired widow.
train-clean-100/6454/107462/6454_107462_000037_000000|"'twas never found out, from that hour to this, who done it!" muttered the Widow Geraghty, "but, may the Divvle skelp me if I touch one drop of chucken tea again!"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000005_000000|CHRISTMAS WAITS IN BOSTON.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000007_000000|I always give myself a Christmas present.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000007_000001|And on this particular year the present was a Carol party,--which is about as good fun, all things consenting kindly, as a man can have.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000008_000000|Many things must consent, as will appear.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000008_000001|First of all there must be good sleighing,--and second, a fine night for Christmas eve.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000008_000002|Ours are not the carollings of your poor shivering little East Angles or South Mercians, where they have to plod round afoot in countries where they do not know what a sleigh ride is.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000009_000000|I had asked Harry to have sixteen of the best voices in the chapel school to be trained to eight or ten good Carols without knowing why.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000009_000001|We did not care to disappoint them if a February thaw setting in on the twenty fourth of December should break up the spree before it began.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000009_000005|So it was that when I came down with Lycidas to the chapel at seven o'clock, I found Harry had gathered there his eight pretty girls and his eight jolly boys, and had them practising for the last time,
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000010_000000|"Carol, carol, Christians, Carol joyfully; Carol for the coming Of Christ's nativity."
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000011_000000|I think the children had got inkling of what was coming, or perhaps Harry had hinted it to their mothers.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000011_000003|Not much matter indeed, for they were perfect enough in it before midnight.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000012_000000|Lycidas and I tumbled in on the back seat, each with a child in his lap to keep us warm; I was flanked by Sam Perry, and he by john Rich, both of the mercurial age, and therefore good to do errands.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000012_000001|Harry was in front somewhere flanked in likewise, and the twelve other children lay in miscellaneously between, like sardines when you have first opened the box.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000012_000002|I had invited Lycidas, because, besides being my best friend, he is the best fellow in the world, and so deserves the best Christmas eve can give him.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000012_000003|Under the full moon, on the snow still white, with sixteen children at the happiest, and with the blessed memories of the best the world has ever had, there can be nothing better than two or three such hours.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000013_000000|"First, driver, out on Commonwealth Avenue.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000013_000001|That will tone down the horses.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000013_000002|Stop on the left after you have passed Fairfield Street." So we dashed up to the front of Haliburton's palace, where he was keeping his first Christmas tide.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000013_000003|And the children, whom Harry had hushed down for a square or two, broke forth with good full voice under his strong lead in
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000014_000000|"Shepherd of tender sheep,"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000000|singing with all that unconscious pathos with which children do sing, and starting the tears in your eyes in the midst of your gladness.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000001|The instant the horses' bells stopped, their voices began.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000002|In an instant more we saw Haliburton and Anna run to the window and pull up the shades, and, in a minute more, faces at all the windows.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000003|And so the children sung through Clement's old hymn.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000004|Little did Clement think of bells and snow, as he taught it in his Sunday school there in Alexandria.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000005|But perhaps to day, as they pin up the laurels and the palm in the chapel at Alexandria, they are humming the words, not thinking of Clement more than he thought of us.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000015_000006|As the children closed with
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000017_000000|Haliburton came running out, and begged me to bring them in.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000017_000001|But I told him, "No," as soon as I could hush their shouts of "Merry Christmas;" that we had a long journey before us, and must not alight by the way. And the children broke out with
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000018_000000|"Hail to the night, Hail to the day,"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000019_000000|rather a favorite,--quicker and more to the childish taste perhaps than the other,--and with another "Merry Christmas" we were off again.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000020_000000|Off, the length of Commonwealth Avenue, to where it crosses the Brookline branch of the Mill Dam,--dashing along with the gayest of the sleighing parties as we came back into town, up Chestnut Street, through Louisburg Square,--we ran the sleigh into a bank on the slope of Pinckney Street in front of Walter's house,--and, before they suspected there that any one had come, the children were singing
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000021_000000|"Carol, carol, Christians, Carol joyfully."
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000022_000000|Kisses flung from the window; kisses flung back from the street.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000022_000001|"Merry Christmas" again with a good will, and then one of the girls began
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000023_000000|"When Anna took the baby, And pressed his lips to hers"--
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000024_000000|and all of them fell in so cheerily.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000024_000001|O dear me! it is a scrap of old Ephrem the Syrian, if they did but know it!
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000024_000002|And when, after this, Harry would fain have driven on, because two carols at one house was the rule, how the little witches begged that they might sing just one song more there, because mrs Alexander had been so kind to them, when she showed them about the German stitches.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000024_000003|And then up the hill and over to the North End, and as far as we could get the horses up into Moon Court, that they might sing to the Italian image man who gave Lucy the boy and dog in plaster, when she was sick in the spring.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000024_000005|Then the Italian image man heard for the first time in his life
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000025_000000|"Now is the time of Christmas come,"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000026_000000|and
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000028_000000|And then we came up Hanover Street and stopped under mr Gerry's chapel, where they were dressing the walls with their evergreens, and gave them
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000029_000000|"Hail to the night, Hail to the day";
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000030_000000|and so down State Street and stopped at the Advertiser office, because, when the boys gave their "Literary Entertainment," mr Hale put in their advertisement for nothing, and up in the old attic there the compositors were relieved to hear
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000031_000000|"Nor war nor battle sound,"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000032_000000|and
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000033_000000|"The waiting world was still."
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000035_000000|"King of glory, king of peace!" "Hear the song, and see the Star!" "Welcome be thou, heavenly King!" "Was not Christ our Saviour?"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000036_000001|O, we went to twenty places that night, I suppose!
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000036_000002|We went to the grandest places in Boston, and we went to the meanest.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000036_000003|Everywhere they wished us a merry Christmas, and we them.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000036_000004|Everywhere a little crowd gathered round us, and then we dashed away far enough to gather quite another crowd; and then back, perhaps, not sorry to double on our steps if need were, and leaving every crowd with a happy thought of
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000037_000000|"The star, the manger, and the Child!"
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000038_000000|At nine we brought up at my house, D Street, three doors from the corner, and the children picked their very best for Polly and my six little girls to hear, and then for the first time we let them jump out and run in.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000038_000001|Polly had some hot oysters for them, so that the frolic was crowned with a treat.
train-clean-100/6454/120342/6454_120342_000038_000002|There was a Christmas cake cut into sixteen pieces, which they took home to dream upon; and then hoods and muffs on again, and by ten o'clock, or a little after, we had all the girls and all the little ones at their homes.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000013_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000014_000000|THE LETTERS CHANGE HANDS AGAIN
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000015_000000|What seemed at the moment an incomprehensible puzzle had, as we afterwards learned, a very simple explanation.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000015_000001|One of the g s directors, mr Baldwin, who had come in on mr Camp's car, was the owner of a great cattle ranch near Rock Butte.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000015_000002|When the train had been held at that station for a few minutes, Camp went to the conductor, demanded the cause for the delay, and was shown my telegram.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000015_000003|Seeing through the device, the party had at once gone to this ranch, where the owner, Baldwin, mounted them, and it was their dust cloud we had seen as they rode up to Ash Forks.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000015_000004|To make matters more serious, Baldwin had rounded up his cowboys and brought them along with him, in order to make any resistance impossible.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000016_000000|I made no objection to the sheriff serving the paper, though it nearly broke my heart to see Madge's face.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000016_000001|To cheer her I said, suggestively, "They've got me, but they haven't got the letters, Miss Cullen.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000017_000001|mr Cullen and Albert tried to come too, but all outsiders were excluded by order of the "court." I was told to show cause why I should not forthwith produce the letters, and answered that I asked an adjournment of the case so that I might be heard by counsel.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000017_000002|It was denied, as was to have been expected; indeed, why they took the trouble to go through the forms was beyond me.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000018_000000|"It very appropriately means 'contempt of the court,' your honor."
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000019_000000|"I'll give you a stiff term, young man," he said.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000020_000000|"It will take just one day to have habeas corpus proceedings in a United States court, and one more to get the papers here," I rejoined pleasantly.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000021_000000|Seeing that I understood the moves too well to be bluffed, the judge, mr Camp, and the lawyer held a whispered consultation.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000021_000001|My surprise can be imagined when, at its conclusion, mr Camp said,--
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000023_000000|I couldn't make out this new move, and puzzled over it, while Judge Wilson ordered my commitment.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000023_000001|But the next step revealed the object, for the lawyer then asked for a search warrant to look for stolen property.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000023_000002|The judge was equally obliging, and began to fill one out on the instant.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000024_000001|And when I saw the judge finish off his signature with a flourish, I played a pretty desperate card.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000025_000000|"You're just too late, gentlemen," I said, pointing out the side window of the saloon.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000025_000001|"There come the cavalry."
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000026_000000|The three conspirators jumped to their feet and bolted for the window; even the sheriff turned to look.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000026_000002|I made a dash for the door, and as I went through it I grabbed the key and locked them in.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000026_000003|When I turned to do so I saw the lot struggling up from the floor, and, knowing that it wouldn't take them many seconds to find their way out through the window, I didn't waste much time in watching them.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000027_000000|Camp, Baldwin, and the judge had left their horses just outside the saloon, and there they were still patiently standing, with their bridles thrown over their heads, as only Western horses will stand.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000027_000001|It didn't take me long to have those bridles back in place, and as I tossed each over the peak of the Mexican saddle I gave two of the ponies slaps which started them off at a lope across the railroad tracks.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000027_000002|I swung myself into the saddle of the third, and flicked him with the loose ends of the bridle in a way which made him understand that I meant business.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000029_000000|Before I had ridden a hundred feet I realized that I had a done up horse under me, and, considering that he had covered over forty miles that afternoon in pretty quick time, it was not surprising that there wasn't very much go left in him.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000029_000001|I knew that Baldwin's cowboys could get new mounts in plenty without wasting many minutes, and that then they would overhaul me in very short order.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000030_000000|Ash Forks, like all Western railroad towns, is one long line of buildings running parallel with the railway tracks.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000030_000001|Two hundred feet, therefore, brought me to the edge of the town, and I wheeled my pony and rode down behind the rear of the buildings. In turning, I looked back, and saw half a dozen mounted men already in pursuit, but I lost sight of them the next moment.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000030_000002|As soon as I reached a street leading back to the railroad I turned again, and rode towards it, my one thought being to get back, if possible, to the station, and put the letters into the railroad agent's safe.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000031_000000|When I reached the main street I saw that my hope was futile, for another batch of cowboys were coming in full gallop towards me, very thoroughly heading me off in that direction.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000031_000001|To escape them, I headed up the street away from the station, with the pack in close pursuit.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000031_000002|They yelled at me to hold up, and I expected every moment to hear the crack of revolvers, for the poorest shot among them would have found no difficulty in dropping my horse at that distance if they had wanted to stop me.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000031_000003|It isn't a very nice sensation to keep your ears pricked up in expectation of hearing the shooting begin, and to know that any moment may be your last.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000031_000004|I don't suppose I was on the ragged edge more than thirty seconds, but they were enough to prove to me that to keep one's back turned to an enemy as one runs away takes a deal more pluck than to stand up and face his gun.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000031_000005|Fortunately for me, my pursuers felt so sure of my capture that not one of them drew a bead on me.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000032_000000|The moment I saw that there was no escape, I put my hand in my breast pocket and took out the letters, intending to tear them into a hundred pieces.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000032_000001|But as I did so I realized that to destroy United States mail not merely entailed criminal liability, but was off color morally.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000032_000002|I faltered, balancing the outwitting of Camp against State's prison, the doing my best for Madge against the wrong of it.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000032_000003|I think I'm as honest a fellow as the average, but I have to confess that I couldn't decide to do right till I thought that Madge wouldn't want me to be dishonest, even for her.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000033_000000|I turned across the railroad tracks, and cut in behind some freight cars that were standing on a siding.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000033_000001|This put me out of view of my pursuers for a moment, and in that instant I stood up in my stirrups, lifted the broad leather flap of the saddle, and tucked the letters underneath it, as far in as I could force them.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000033_000002|It was a desperate place in which to hide them, but the game was a desperate one at best, and the very boldness of the idea might be its best chance of success.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000034_000000|I was now heading for the station over the ties, and was surprised to see Fred Cullen with Lord Ralles on the tracks up by the special, for my mind had been so busy in the last hour that I had forgotten that Fred was due.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000034_000001|The moment I saw him, I rode towards him, pressing my pony for all he was worth.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000034_000002|My hope was that I might get time to give Fred the tip as to where the letters were; but before I was within speaking distance Baldwin came running out from behind the station, and, seeing me, turned, called back and gesticulated, evidently to summon some cowboys to head me off.
train-clean-100/6454/93938/6454_93938_000034_000004|I threw the papers towards Fred and Lord Ralles, shouting, "Hide them!" Fred was quick as a flash, and, grabbing them off the ground, sprang up the steps of my car and ran inside, just escaping a bullet from my pursuers.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000003_000000|One day Genzaburo, intent on ridding himself of the grief he felt at his separation from O Koyo, went to the Yoshiwara, and, going into a house of entertainment, ordered a feast to be prepared, but, in the midst of gaiety, his heart yearned all the while for his lost love, and his merriment was but mourning in disguise.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000003_000001|At last the night wore on; and as he was retiring along the corridor, he saw a man of about forty years of age, with long hair, coming towards him, who, when he saw Genzaburo, cried out, "Dear me! why this must be my young lord Genzaburo who has come out to enjoy himself."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000004_000000|Genzaburo thought this rather strange; but, looking at the man attentively, recognized him as a retainer whom he had had in his employ the year before, and said-
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000005_000000|"This is a curious meeting: pray, what have you been about since you left my service?
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000006_000000|"Well, sir, since I parted from you I have been earning a living as a fortune teller at Kanda, and have changed my name to Kaji Sazen.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000006_000001|I am living in a poor and humble house; but if your lordship, at your leisure, would honour me with a visit-"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000007_000000|"Well, it's a lucky chance that has brought us together, and I certainly will go and see you; besides, I want you to do something for me.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000007_000001|Shall you be at home the day after to morrow?"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000008_000000|"Certainly, sir, I shall make a point of being at home."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000009_000000|"Very well, then, the day after to morrow I will go to your house."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000010_000001|And now, as it is getting late, I will take my leave for to night."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000011_000000|"Good night, then.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000011_000001|We shall meet the day after to morrow." And so the two parted, and went their several ways to rest.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000012_000000|On the appointed day Genzaburo made his preparations, and went in disguise, without any retainers, to call upon Sazen, who met him at the porch of his house, and said, "This is a great honour!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000013_000000|"Pray," replied Genzaburo, "don't make any ceremony for me.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000013_000001|Don't put yourself to any trouble on my account."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000014_000000|And so he passed in, and Sazen called to his wife to prepare wine and condiments; and they began to feast.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000017_000000|"No, indeed!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000017_000001|I don't know what your lordship wishes of me; but, at any rate, I cannot receive this money.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000017_000002|I really must beg your lordship to take it back again."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000018_000000|But Genzaburo pressed it upon him by force, and at last he was obliged to accept the money.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000019_000000|Sazen listened patiently to his story, and, after reflecting for a while, replied, "Well, sir, it's not a difficult matter to set right: and yet it will require some little management.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000021_000001|Of course I knew that the daughter of an Eta was no fitting match for a nobleman; so when Chokichi came and told me the errand upon which he had been sent, I had no alternative but to announce to my daughter that she must give up all thought of his lordship.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000021_000002|Since that time she has been fretting and pining and starving for love.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000021_000003|But when I tell her what you have just said, how glad and happy she will be!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000021_000005|Would you like something to eat?"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000022_000000|"Thank you, I have no appetite."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000023_000000|"Well, at any rate, I have some news for you that will make you happy. A messenger has come from my lord Genzaburo, for whom your heart yearns."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000024_000000|At this O Koyo, who had been crouching down like a drooping flower, gave a great start, and cried out, "Is that really true?
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000024_000001|Pray tell me all about it as quickly as possible."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000025_000000|"The story which Chokichi came and told us, that his lordship wished to break off the connection, was all an invention.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000025_000001|He has all along been wishing to meet you, and constantly urged Chokichi to bring you a message from him.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000025_000002|It is Chokichi who has been throwing obstacles in the way.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000025_000003|At last his lordship has secretly sent a man, called Kaji Sazen, a fortune teller, to arrange an interview between you.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000025_000004|So now, my child, you may cheer up, and go to meet your lover as soon as you please."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000026_000000|When O Koyo heard this, she was so happy that she thought it must all be a dream, and doubted her own senses.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000027_000000|Kihachi in the meanwhile rejoined Sazen in the other room, and, after telling him of the joy with which his daughter had heard the news, put before him wine and other delicacies.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000027_000001|"I think," said Sazen, "that the best way would be for O Koyo to live secretly in my lord Genzaburo's house; but as it will never do for all the world to know of it, it must be managed very quietly; and further, when I get home, I must think out some plan to lull the suspicions of that fellow Chokichi, and let you know my idea by letter.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000029_000001|Pray, let me tell you all about it."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000030_000000|"Indeed! what can it be?"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000032_000000|When Chokichi heard this, he was thunderstruck, and exclaimed, "Can this really be true!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000032_000001|And when I think that it was I who first introduced her to my lord, I am ashamed to look you in the face."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000033_000000|"Oh, say not so: misfortunes are the punishment due for our misdeeds in a former state of existence.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000033_000001|I bear you no ill will.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000034_000000|"You amaze me!" replied the other.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000036_000000|At last, Chokichi, after much persuasion, and greatly to his own distress, was obliged to accept the money; and when Kihachi had carried out all Sazen's instructions, he returned home, laughing in his sleeve.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000038_000000|In the meanwhile Sazen, who did not for a moment suspect what had happened, when the day which had been fixed upon by him and Genzaburo arrived, made O Koyo put on her best clothes, smartened up his house, and got ready a feast against Genzaburo's arrival.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000038_000001|The latter came punctually to his time, and, going in at once, said to the fortune teller, "Well, have you succeeded in the commission with which I entrusted you?"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000039_000000|At first Sazen pretended to be vexed at the question, and said, "Well, sir, I've done my best; but it's not a matter which can be settled in a hurry.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000040_000000|But Genzaburo, when he heard that he was not to meet O Koyo, lost heart entirely, and made up his mind to go home again.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000040_000002|Genzaburo gave a great start, and, turning to Sazen, said, "Well, you certainly are a first rate hand at keeping up a hoax.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000040_000003|However, I cannot sufficiently praise the way in which you have carried out my instructions."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000041_000001|But as it is a long time since you have met the young lady, you must have a great deal to say to one another; so I will go downstairs, and, if you want anything, pray call me." And so he went downstairs and left them.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000042_000001|How happy it makes me to see you again!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000042_000003|Poor thing! have you been unhappy?" And O Koyo, with the tears starting from her eyes for joy, hid her face; and her heart was so full that she could not speak.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000042_000004|But Genzaburo, passing his hand gently over her head and back, and comforting her, said, "Come, sweetheart, there is no need to sob so.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000042_000005|Talk to me a little, and let me hear your voice."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000044_000000|"Yes," replied Genzaburo, "I too have suffered much;" and so they told one another their mutual griefs, and from that day forth they constantly met at Sazen's house.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000045_000000|One day, as they were feasting and enjoying themselves in an upper storey in Sazen's house, Chokichi came to the house and said, "I beg pardon; but does one Master Sazen live here?"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000046_000000|"Certainly, sir: I am Sazen, at your service.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000046_000001|Pray where are you from?"
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000047_000000|"Well, sir, I have a little business to transact with you.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000050_000000|Sazen was not a little taken aback at this; however, he put on an innocent face, as though he had never heard of Chokichi before, and said, "I never heard of such a thing!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000050_000002|To think of such a shameless villain coming and asking to be friends with me, forsooth!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000051_000001|Why, I thought you must be one of us."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000052_000000|"Insolent knave!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000052_000001|Begone as fast as possible."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000053_000000|"Well, since you say that I defile your house, you had better get rid of O Koyo as well.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000053_000001|I suppose she must equally be a pollution to it."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000054_000000|This put Sazen rather in a dilemma; however, he made up his mind not to show any hesitation, and said, "What are you talking about?
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000054_000001|There is no O Koyo here; and I never saw such a person in my life."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000055_000001|Just wait a little."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000056_000000|And as he pretended to leave the house, Sazen, at his wits' end, cried out, "Stop! stop!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000056_000001|I want to speak to you.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000056_000002|Pray, stop and listen quietly.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000056_000004|Come! let us talk over matters a little.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000057_000000|Chokichi laughed disdainfully.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000057_000001|"I am ready to talk with you; but I don't want any money.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000059_000001|No, indeed!
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000059_000002|I will not take a fraction less than a hundred; and if I cannot get them I will report the whole matter at once."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000061_000000|Chokichi consenting to this, the pair left the house together.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000062_000000|Now Sazen, who as a Ronin wore a long dirk in his girdle, kept looking out for a moment when Chokichi should be off his guard, in order to kill him; but Chokichi kept his eyes open, and did not give Sazen a chance.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000062_000001|At last Chokichi, as ill luck would have it, stumbled against a stone and fell; and Sazen, profiting by the chance, drew his dirk and stabbed him in the side; and as Chokichi, taken by surprise, tried to get up, he cut him severely over the head, until at last he fell dead.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000062_000003|The following day, Chokichi's body was found by the police; and when they examined it, they found nothing upon it save a paper, which they read, and which proved to be the very letter which Sazen had sent to Kihachi, and which Chokichi had picked up.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000062_000004|The matter was immediately reported to the governor, and, Sazen having been summoned, an investigation was held.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000062_000005|Sazen, cunning and bold murderer as he was, lost his self possession when he saw what a fool he had been not to get back from Chokichi the letter which he had written, and, when he was put to a rigid examination under torture, confessed that he had hidden O Koyo at Genzaburo's instigation, and then killed Chokichi, who had found out the secret.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000063_000000|NOTE
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000064_000004|Be not disinclined, however, to punish any such who give rise to disputes, or who overstep the boundaries of their own classes and are disobedient to existing laws."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000065_000002|They never marry out of their own fraternity, but remain apart, a despised and shunned race.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000066_000001|Thus their race is polluted and accursed, and they are hated accordingly.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000068_000000|When Minamoto no Yoritomo was yet a child, his father, Minamoto no Yoshitomo, fought with Taira no Kiyomori, and was killed by treachery: so his family was ruined; and Yoshitomo's concubine, whose name was Tokiwa, took her children and fled from the house, to save her own and their lives.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000068_000001|But Kiyomori, desiring to destroy the family of Yoshitomo root and branch, ordered his retainers to divide themselves into bands, and seek out the children.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000068_000002|At last they were found; but Tokiwa was so exceedingly beautiful that Kiyomori was inflamed with love for her, and desired her to become his own concubine.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000068_000003|Then Tokiwa told Kiyomori that if he would spare her little ones she would share his couch; but that if he killed her children she would destroy herself rather than yield to his desire.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000068_000004|When he heard this, Kiyomori, bewildered by the beauty of Tokiwa, spared the lives of her children, but banished them from the capital.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000069_000002|And when they also died, the care of the child fell to his mother's kinsmen, and he grew up to be a peasant.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000070_000001|And Yoritomo became the chief of all the noble houses in Japan, and first established the government of the country.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000071_000000|But the princely line of Yoritomo came to an end in three generations, and the house of Hojo was all powerful in the land.
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000072_000000|Now it happened that the head of the house of Hojo heard that a descendant of Yoritomo was living as a peasant in the land, so he summoned him and said:--
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000073_000001|I will promote you to the rank of Samurai."
train-clean-100/6476/57446/6476_57446_000075_000000|But my lord Hojo was angry at this, and, thinking to punish the peasant for his insolence, said:--
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000001_000001|THE ASSEMBLING OF THE HEROES AND THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000002_000000|First there came the youths Castor and Polydeuces.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000002_000001|They came riding on white horses, two noble looking brothers.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000002_000002|From Sparta they came, and their mother was Leda, who, after the twin brothers, had another child born to her-Helen, for whose sake the sons of many of Jason's friends were to wage war against the great city of Troy.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000003_000000|And then there came one who had both welcome and reverence from Jason; this one came without spear or bow, bearing in his hands a lyre only. He was Orpheus, and he knew all the ways of the gods and all the stories of the gods; when he sang to his lyre the trees would listen and the beasts would follow him.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000003_000001|It was Chiron who had counseled Orpheus to go with Jason; Chiron the centaur had met him as he was wandering through the forests on the Mountain Pelion and had sent him down into Iolcus.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000004_000000|Then there came two men well skilled in the handling of ships-Tiphys and Nauplius.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000004_000001|Tiphys knew all about the sun and winds and stars, and all about the signs by which a ship might be steered, and Nauplius had the love of Poseidon, the god of the sea.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000005_000000|Afterward there came, one after the other, two who were famous for their hunting.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000005_000001|No two could be more different than these two were.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000005_000002|The first was Arcas.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000005_000003|He was dressed in the skin of a bear; he had red hair and savage looking eyes, and for arms he carried a mighty bow with bronze tipped arrows.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000005_000004|The folk were watching an eagle as he came into the city, an eagle that was winging its way far, far up in the sky. Arcas drew his bow, and with one arrow he brought the eagle down.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000006_000000|The other hunter was a girl, Atalanta.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000006_000001|Tall and brighthaired was Atalanta, swift and good with the bow.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000006_000002|She had dedicated herself to Artemis, the guardian of the wild things, and she had vowed that she would remain unwedded.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000006_000003|All the heroes welcomed Atalanta as a comrade, and the maiden did all the things that the young men did.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000007_000000|There came a hero who was less youthful than Castor or Polydeuces; he was a man good in council named Nestor.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000007_000001|Afterward Nestor went to the war against Troy, and then he was the oldest of the heroes in the camp of Agamemnon.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000008_000001|Both were still youthful and neither had yet achieved any notable deed.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000009_000000|Another who came was Admetus; afterward he became a famous king.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000009_000001|The God Apollo once made himself a shepherd and he kept the flocks of King Admetus.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000010_000000|And there came two brothers, twins, who were a wonder to all who beheld them.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000010_000002|These two brothers had on their ankles wings that gleamed with golden scales; their black hair was thick upon their shoulders, and it was always being shaken by the wind.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000011_000002|Under a great stone the king had hidden it before Theseus was born.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000011_000003|Before he had grown out of his boyhood Theseus had been able to raise the stone and draw forth his father's sword.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000012_000000|On the day that the messengers had set out to bring through Greece the word of Jason's going forth in quest of the Golden Fleece the woodcutters made their way up into the forests of Mount Pelion; they began to fell trees for the timbers of the ship that was to make the voyage to far Colchis.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000013_000000|Great timbers were cut and brought down to Pagasae, the harbor of Iolcus.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000013_000001|On the night of the day he had helped to bring them down Jason had a dream.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000013_000002|He dreamt that she whom he had seen in the forest ways and afterward by the River Anaurus appeared to him.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000014_000000|He went to the city's gate and he met such a man.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000014_000001|Argus was his name. He told Jason that a dream had sent him to the city of Iolcus.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000014_000002|Jason welcomed him and lodged him in the king's palace, and that day the word went through the city that the building of the great ship would soon be begun.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000015_000000|But not with the timbers brought from Mount Pelion did Argus begin. Walking through the palace with Jason he noted a great beam in the roof.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000015_000002|A sacred power was in the beam, and from it the prow of the ship should be fashioned.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000016_000000|Then all along the waterside came the noise of hammering; in the street where the metalworkers were came the noise of beating upon metals as the smiths fashioned out of bronze armor for the heroes and swords and spears.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000016_000001|Every day, under the eyes of Argus the master, the ship that had in it the beam from Zeus's grove was built higher and wider.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000016_000002|And those who were building the ship often felt going through it tremors as of a living creature.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000017_000000|When the ship was built and made ready for the voyage a name was given to it-the Argo it was called.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000017_000002|All was ready for the voyage, and now Jason went with his friends to view the ship before she was brought into the water.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000018_000000|Argus the master was on the ship, seeing to it that the last things were being done before Argo was launched.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000018_000001|Very grave and wise looked Argus-Argus the builder of the ship.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000018_000002|And wonderful to the heroes the ship looked now that Argus, for their viewing, had set up the mast with the sails and had even put the oars in their places.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000018_000003|Wonderful to the heroes Argo looked with her long oars and her high sails, with her timbers painted red and gold and blue, and with a marvelous figure carved upon her prow.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000018_000005|He saw a figure standing by the mast; for a moment he looked on it, and then the figure became shadowy.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000019_000000|Then mast and sails were taken down and the oars were left in the ship, and the Argo was launched into the water.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000019_000001|The heroes went back to the palace of King Pelias to feast with the king's guests before they took their places on the ship, setting out on the voyage to far Colchis.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000021_000000|Around these figures were heads of snakes, heads with black jaws and glittering eyes, twelve heads such as might affright any man.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000021_000001|And on other parts of the shield were shown the horses of Ares, the grim god of war.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000022_000003|The awful figure of the Darkness of Death was shown there, too, with mournful eyes and the dust of battles upon her shoulders.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000023_000000|All in wonder the heroes gazed on the great shield, telling each other that only one man in all the world could carry it-Heracles the son of Zeus.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000023_000001|Could it be that Heracles had come amongst them?
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000023_000002|They went into the feasting hall and they saw one there who was tall as a pine tree, with unshorn tresses of hair upon his head.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000023_000004|He turned to them a smiling face with smiling eyes.
train-clean-100/6476/96661/6476_96661_000023_000005|Heracles!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000014_000000|Chapter five
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000015_000000|So, then, all was explained by the submarine explosion of this torpedo. Cyrus Harding could not be mistaken, as, during the war of the Union, he had had occasion to try these terrible engines of destruction.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000015_000001|It was under the action of this cylinder, charged with some explosive substance, nitro glycerine, picrate, or some other material of the same nature, that the water of the channel had been raised like a dome, the bottom of the brig crushed in, and she had sunk instantly, the damage done to her hull being so considerable that it was impossible to refloat her.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000015_000002|The "Speedy" had not been able to withstand a torpedo that would have destroyed an ironclad as easily as a fishing boat!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000016_000000|Yes! all was explained, everything-except the presence of the torpedo in the waters of the channel!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000017_000001|Who this beneficent stranger is, whose intervention has, so fortunately for us, been manifested on many occasions, I cannot imagine. What his object can be in acting thus, in concealing himself after rendering us so many services, I cannot understand: But his services are not the less real, and are of such a nature that only a man possessed of prodigious power, could render them.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000017_000002|Ayrton is indebted to him as much as we are, for, if it was the stranger who saved me from the waves after the fall from the balloon, evidently it was he who wrote the document, who placed the bottle in the channel, and who has made known to us the situation of our companion.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000017_000004|Therefore, whoever he may be, whether shipwrecked, or exiled on our island, we shall be ungrateful, if we think ourselves freed from gratitude towards him.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000017_000005|We have contracted a debt, and I hope that we shall one day pay it."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000018_000000|"You are right in speaking thus, my dear Cyrus," replied Gideon Spilett. "Yes, there is an almost all powerful being, hidden in some part of the island, and whose influence has been singularly useful to our colony. I will add that the unknown appears to possess means of action which border on the supernatural, if in the events of practical life the supernatural were recognizable.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000018_000002|Was it he who threw us that bottle, when the vessel made her first cruise?
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000018_000003|Was it he who threw Top out of the lake, and killed the dugong?
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000018_000005|If it was he, he possesses a power which renders him master of the elements."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000019_000000|The reporter's reasoning was just, and every one felt it to be so.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000020_000000|"Yes," rejoined Cyrus Harding, "if the intervention of a human being is not more questionable for us, I agree that he has at his disposal means of action beyond those possessed by humanity.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000020_000001|There is a mystery still, but if we discover the man, the mystery will be discovered also.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000020_000003|What is your opinion on the matter?"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000021_000000|"My opinion," said Pencroft, "is that, whoever he may be, he is a brave man, and he has my esteem!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000022_000000|"Be it so," answered Harding, "but that is not an answer, Pencroft."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000023_000000|"Master," then said Neb, "my idea is, that we may search as long as we like for this gentleman whom you are talking about, but that we shall not discover him till he pleases."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000024_000000|"That's not bad, what you say, Neb," observed Pencroft.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000025_000000|"I am of Neb's opinion," said Gideon Spilett, "but that is no reason for not attempting the adventure.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000025_000001|Whether we find this mysterious being or not, we shall at least have fulfilled our duty towards him."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000026_000000|"And you, my boy, give us your opinion," said the engineer, turning to Herbert.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000029_000000|"But, Pencroft," answered Spilett, "you are describing a picture of the Creator."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000030_000000|"Possibly, mr Spilett," replied the sailor, "but that is how I imagine him!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000031_000000|"And you, Ayrton?" asked the engineer.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000032_000000|"Captain Harding," replied Ayrton, "I can give you no better advice in this matter.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000032_000001|Whatever you do will be best; when you wish me to join you in your researches, I am ready to follow you.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000033_000000|"I thank you, Ayrton," answered Cyrus Harding, "but I should like a more direct answer to the question I put to you.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000033_000002|Speak, therefore."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000034_000001|Perhaps he is alone. Perhaps he is suffering.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000034_000002|Perhaps he has a life to be renewed.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000034_000003|I, too, as you said, have a debt of gratitude to pay him.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000034_000004|It was he, it could be only he who must have come to Tabor Island, who found there the wretch you knew, and who made known to you that there was an unfortunate man there to be saved.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000034_000005|Therefore it is, thanks to him, that I have become a man again.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000034_000006|No, I will never forget him!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000035_000001|"We will begin our researches as soon as possible.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000035_000002|We will not leave a corner of the island unexplored.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000035_000003|We will search into its most secret recesses, and will hope that our unknown friend will pardon us in consideration of our intentions!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000036_000001|Before putting their project of exploring the yet unknown parts of the island into execution, they wished to get all possible work finished.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000036_000002|It was also the time for collecting the various vegetables from the Tabor Island plants.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000036_000003|All was stowed away, and happily there was no want of room in Granite House, in which they might have housed all the treasures of the island.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000036_000004|The products of the colony were there, methodically arranged, and in a safe place, as may be believed, sheltered as much from animals as from man.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000037_000000|There was no fear of damp in the middle of that thick mass of granite. Many natural excavations situated in the upper passage were enlarged either by pick axe or mine, and Granite House thus became a general warehouse, containing all the provisions, arms, tools, and spare utensils-in a word, all the stores of the colony.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000038_000000|As to the guns obtained from the brig, they were pretty pieces of ordnance, which, at Pencroft's entreaty, were hoisted by means of tackle and pulleys, right up into Granite House; embrasures were made between the windows, and the shining muzzles of the guns could soon be seen through the granite cliff.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000038_000001|From this height they commanded all Union Bay.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000038_000002|It was like a little Gibraltar, and any vessel anchored off the islet would inevitably be exposed to the fire of this aerial battery.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000039_000000|"Captain," said Pencroft one day, it was the eighth of November, "now that our fortifications are finished, it would be a good thing if we tried the range of our guns."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000040_000000|"Do you think that is useful?" asked the engineer.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000041_000001|Without that how are we to know to what distance we can send one of those pretty shot with which we are provided?"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000042_000000|"Try them, Pencroft," replied the engineer.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000044_000000|"I believe so.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000045_000001|In the fabrication of these pieces, everything depends on employing a metal with the highest possible power of resistance, and steel is incontestably that metal of all others which resists the best.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000045_000002|I have, therefore, reason to believe that our guns will bear without risk the expansion of the pyroxyle gas, and will give excellent results."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000046_000000|"We shall be a great deal more certain of that when we have tried them!" answered Pencroft.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000047_000000|It is unnecessary to say that the four cannons were in perfect order. Since they had been taken from the water, the sailor had bestowed great care upon them.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000047_000001|How many hours he had spent, in rubbing, greasing, and polishing them, and in cleaning the mechanism!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000047_000002|And now the pieces were as brilliant as if they had been on board a frigate of the United States Navy.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000050_000001|The shot, passing over the islet, fell into the sea at a distance which could not be calculated with exactitude.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000051_000000|The second gun was pointed at the rocks at the end of Flotsam Point, and the shot striking a sharp rock nearly three miles from Granite House, made it fly into splinters.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000051_000001|It was Herbert who had pointed this gun and fired it, and very proud he was of his first shot.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000051_000002|Pencroft only was prouder than he!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000051_000003|Such a shot, the honor of which belonged to his dear boy.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000052_000000|The third shot, aimed this time at the downs forming the upper side of Union Bay, struck the sand at a distance of four miles, then having ricocheted: was lost in the sea in a cloud of spray.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000053_000000|For the fourth piece Cyrus Harding slightly increased the charge, so as to try its extreme range.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000055_000001|All the pirates in the Pacific have only to present themselves before Granite House!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000055_000002|Not one can land there now without our permission!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000056_000000|"Believe me, Pencroft," replied the engineer, "it would be better not to have to make the experiment."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000057_000000|"Well," said the sailor, "what ought to be done with regard to those six villains who are roaming about the island?
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000057_000001|Are we to leave them to overrun our forests, our fields, our plantations?
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000057_000002|These pirates are regular jaguars, and it seems to me we ought not to hesitate to treat them as such!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000057_000003|What do you think, Ayrton?" added Pencroft, turning to his companion.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000058_000000|Ayrton hesitated at first to reply, and Cyrus Harding regretted that Pencroft had so thoughtlessly put this question.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000059_000000|"I have been one of those jaguars, mr Pencroft.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000059_000001|I have no right to speak."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000060_000000|And with a slow step he walked away.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000061_000000|Pencroft understood.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000062_000001|"Poor Ayrton!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000062_000002|He has as much right to speak here as any one!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000063_000000|"Yes," said Gideon Spilett, "but his reserve does him honor, and it is right to respect the feeling which he has about his sad past."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000064_000001|I would rather bite my tongue off than cause Ayrton any pain!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000064_000002|But to return to the question.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000064_000003|It seems to me that these ruffians have no right to any pity, and that we ought to rid the island of them as soon as possible."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000065_000000|"Is that your opinion, Pencroft?" asked the engineer.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000066_000000|"Quite my opinion."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000067_000000|"And before hunting them mercilessly, you would not wait until they had committed some fresh act of hostility against us?"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000068_000000|"Isn't what they have done already enough?" asked Pencroft, who did not understand these scruples.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000069_000000|"They may adopt other sentiments!" said Harding, "and perhaps repent."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000071_000000|"Pencroft, think of Ayrton!" said Herbert, taking the sailor's hand.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000071_000001|"He became an honest man again!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000072_000000|Pencroft looked at his companions one after the other.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000072_000001|He had never thought of his proposal being met with any objection.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000072_000002|His rough nature could not allow that they ought to come to terms with the rascals who had landed on the island with Bob Harvey's accomplices, the murderers of the crew of the "Speedy," and he looked upon them as wild beasts which ought to be destroyed without delay and without remorse.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000073_000001|"Everybody is against me!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000073_000002|You wish to be generous to those villains!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000073_000003|Very well; I hope we mayn't repent it!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000075_000001|If they each lay hid in a corner, and each fired at one of us, they would soon be masters of the colony!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000076_000000|"Why have they not done so?" said Herbert.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000076_000001|"No doubt because it was not their interest to do it.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000076_000002|Besides, we are six also."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000077_000000|"Well, well!" replied Pencroft, whom no reasoning could have convinced. "Let us leave these good people to do what they like, and don't think anything more about them!"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000080_000000|"Pencroft," said the engineer, "you have always shown much deference to my advice; will you, in this matter, yield to me?"
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000081_000000|"I will do as you please, Captain Harding," answered the sailor, who was not at all convinced.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000082_000000|"Very well, wait, and we will not attack them unless we are attacked first."
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000000|Thus their behavior towards the pirates was agreed upon, although Pencroft augured nothing good from it.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000001|They were not to attack them, but were to be on their guard.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000002|After all, the island was large and fertile. If any sentiment of honesty yet remained in the bottom of their hearts, these wretches might perhaps be reclaimed.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000003|Was it not their interest in the situation in which they found themselves to begin a new life?
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000004|At any rate, for humanity's sake alone, it would be right to wait.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000006|Hitherto they had only wild beasts to guard against, and now six convicts of the worst description, perhaps, were roaming over their island.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000008|No matter!
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000009|At present, the colonists had reason on their side against Pencroft.
train-clean-100/6529/62554/6529_62554_000083_000010|Would they be right in the future?
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000003_000000|Chapter seven
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000005_000000|"They have killed him!" he cried.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000005_000002|They have killed him!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000008_000000|"He lives," said he, "but he must be carried-"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000011_000000|"In a moment," said Harding.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000012_000000|And he ran round the left corner of the palisade.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000012_000001|There he found a convict, who aiming at him, sent a ball through his hat.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000016_000000|Neither the engineer nor the reporter could calm him.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000016_000002|They could not speak.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000019_000000|Herbert was deadly pale, and his pulse so feeble that Spilett only felt it beat at long intervals, as if it was on the point of stopping.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000022_000000|The contusion, or rather the contused wound appeared,--an oval below the chest between the third and fourth ribs.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000024_000000|Herberts back was covered with blood from another contused wound, by which the ball had immediately escaped.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000026_000000|"But the heart?" asked Harding.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000027_000000|"The heart has not been touched; if it had been, Herbert would be dead!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000028_000000|"Dead!" exclaimed Pencroft, with a groan.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000030_000000|"No, Pencroft," replied Cyrus Harding, "no!
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000030_000001|He is not dead.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000030_000002|His pulse still beats.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000030_000003|He has even uttered a moan.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000030_000004|But for your boy's sake, calm yourself.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000030_000005|We have need of all our self possession."
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000031_000000|"Do not make us lose it, my friend."
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000032_000000|Pencroft was silent, but a reaction set in, and great tears rolled down his cheeks.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000034_000001|Now, what styptics, what antiphlogistics ought to be employed?
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000038_000000|"He must not be moved." said Gideon Spilett.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000039_000000|"What! can't we carry him to Granite House?" asked Pencroft.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000040_000000|"No, Pencroft," replied the reporter.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000041_000000|"I'll pay the villains off!" cried the sailor, shaking his fist in a menacing manner.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000044_000001|I am in terrible perplexity.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000044_000002|You must aid me with your advice, your experience!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000045_000001|"Judge coolly.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000045_000002|Think only of this: Herbert must be saved!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000060_000002|Had he resisted, and been overcome in the struggle?
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000060_000004|Gideon Spilett, at the moment he scaled the palisade, had clearly seen some one of the convicts running along the southern spur of Mount Franklin, towards whom Top had sprung.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000061_000002|Nor could they see traces of any struggle, any devastation, either in the hut, or in the palisade.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000061_000003|The ammunition only, with which Ayrton had been supplied, had disappeared with him.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000065_000000|"Yes," answered the reporter, "but now we have the right to be merciless!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000072_000000|"Ah, if the telegraph still acted, he might be warned!
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000072_000001|But that is impossible now!
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000072_000002|As to leaving Pencroft and Herbert here alone, we could not do it!
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000074_000002|He will be sure to come!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000077_000000|While the engineer thought, his eyes fell on Top, who, going backwards and forwards seemed to say,--
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000078_000000|"Am not I here?"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000080_000000|The animal sprang at his master's call.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000081_000000|"Yes, Top will go," said the reporter, who had understood the engineer.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000083_000000|"Quick!" said Harding.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000083_000001|"Quick!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000085_000000|"Herbert wounded.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000085_000005|Reply by Top."
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000086_000001|It was folded and fastened to Top's collar in a conspicuous position.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000087_000000|"Top, my dog," said the engineer, caressing the animal, "Neb, Top!
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000087_000001|Neb! Go, go!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000088_000000|Top bounded at these words.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000088_000001|He understood, he knew what was expected of him.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000088_000002|The road to the corral was familiar to him.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000090_000000|"Neb, Top!
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000091_000000|Top sprang forwards, then almost immediately disappeared.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000092_000000|"He will get there!" said the reporter.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000093_000000|"Yes, and he will come back, the faithful animal!"
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000094_000000|"What o'clock is it?" asked Gideon Spilett.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000095_000000|"Ten."
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000096_000001|We will watch for his return."
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000097_000002|Herbert was still in a sleep.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000097_000004|Spilett, seeing there was nothing he could do at that moment, busied himself in preparing some nourishment, while attentively watching that part of the enclosure against the hill, at which an attack might be expected.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000101_000000|The engineer opened the gate, and seeing smoke a hundred feet off in the wood, he fired in that direction.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000102_000000|Almost immediately Top bounded into the corral, and the gate was quickly shut.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000104_000001|I will not stir.
train-clean-100/6529/62556/6529_62556_000104_000002|Poor mr Herbert!"
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000000_000001|The sleepers open their eyes and raise themselves on their elbows.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000000_000002|Then the shepherd hears a warning voice which comes and goes like the wind, saying: "If the horn is blown once again, the world will be upset altogether".
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000002_000001|One kingdom had its capital at Hamath and another at Carchemish on the Euphrates.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000002_000004|The tribes round the shores of Lake Van had asserted themselves and extended their sphere of influence.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000002_000006|The northern frontier of Assyria was continually menaced by groups of independent hill States which would have been irresistible had they operated together against a common enemy, but were liable to be extinguished when attacked in detail.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000003_000004|Accustomed for generations to desert warfare, they were fearless warriors.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000003_000005|Their armies had great mobility, being composed mostly of mounted infantry, and were not easily overpowered by the Assyrian forces of footmen and charioteers. Indeed, it was not until cavalry was included in the standing army of Assyria that operations against the Aramaeans were attended with permanent success.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000004_000001|The former had raided North Syria and apparently penetrated as far as the Mediterranean coast.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000004_000002|In consequence he came into conflict with Babylonia, but he ultimately formed an alliance with that kingdom.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000004_000004|In the north he had to drive back invading bands of the Muski.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000006_000002|Like his father, Ashur natsir pal fought against the Muski, whose power was declining.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000007_000001|He had come from the neighbouring Aramaean State of Bit Adini, and was preparing, it would appear, to form a powerful confederacy against the Assyrians.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000008_000000|When Ashur natsir pal approached Suru, a part of its population welcomed him.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000008_000002|These he disposed of with characteristic barbarity. Some were skinned alive and some impaled on stakes, while others were enclosed in a pillar which the king had erected to remind the Aramaeans of his determination to brook no opposition.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000008_000003|Akhiababa the pretender was sent to Nineveh with a few supporters; and when they had been flayed their skins were nailed upon the city walls.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000000|Another revolt broke out in the Kirkhi district between the upper reaches of the Tigris and the southwestern shores of Lake Van.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000001|It was promoted by the Nairi tribes, and even supported by some Assyrian officials.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000002|Terrible reprisals were meted out to the rebels.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000003|When the city of Kinabu was captured, no fewer than three thousand prisoners were burned alive, the unfaithful governor being flayed.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000004|The city of Damdamusa was set on fire.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000005|Then Tela was attacked.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000009_000006|Ashur natsir pal's own account of the operations runs as follows:--
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000010_000003|Their booty and possessions, cattle, sheep, I carried away; many captives I burned with fire.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000010_000005|I reared a column of the living and a column of heads.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000011_000000|The Assyrian war lord afterwards forced several Nairi kings to acknowledge him as their overlord.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000012_000000|For several years the great conqueror engaged himself in thus subduing rebellious tribes and extending his territory.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000012_000003|Assyrian colonies were established in various districts for strategical purposes, and officials supplanted the petty kings in certain of the northern city States.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000013_000000|The Aramaeans of Mesopotamia gave much trouble to Ashur natsir pal. Although he had laid a heavy hand on Suru, the southern tribes, the Sukhi, stirred up revolts in Mesopotamia as the allies of the Babylonians.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000013_000003|The Assyrian war lord, however, proved to be too powerful a rival.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000013_000004|He achieved so complete a victory that he captured the Babylonian general and three thousand of his followers.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000014_000002|He also extended and redecorated the royal palace at Nineveh, and devoted much attention to the temples.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000015_000000|Tribute poured in from the subject States.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000015_000001|The mountain and valley tribes in the north furnished in abundance wine and corn, sheep and cattle and horses, and from the Aramaeans of Mesopotamia and the Syro Cappadocian Hittites came much silver and gold, copper and lead, jewels and ivory, as well as richly decorated furniture, armour and weapons.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000015_000002|Artists and artisans were also provided by the vassals of Assyria.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000015_000003|There are traces of Phoenician influence in the art of this period.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000000|Ashur natsir pal's great palace at Kalkhi was excavated by Layard, who has given a vivid description of the verdant plain on which the ancient city was situated, as it appeared in spring.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000001|"Its pasture lands, known as the 'Jaif', are renowned", he wrote, "for their rich and luxuriant herbage.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000002|In times of quiet, the studs of the Pasha and of the Turkish authorities, with the horses of the cavalry and of the inhabitants of Mosul, are sent here to graze....
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000003|Flowers of every hue enamelled the meadows; not thinly scattered over the grass as in northern climes, but in such thick and gathering clusters that the whole plain seemed a patchwork of many colours.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000005|In the evening, after the labour of the day, I often sat at the door of my tent, giving myself up to the full enjoyment of that calm and repose which are imparted to the senses by such scenes as these....
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000006|As the sun went down behind the low hills which separate the river from the desert-even their rocky sides had struggled to emulate the verdant clothing of the plain-its receding rays were gradually withdrawn, like a transparent veil of light from the landscape.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000007|Over the pure cloudless sky was the glow of the last light.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000008|In the distance and beyond the Zab, Keshaf, another venerable ruin, rose indistinctly into the evening mist.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000009|Still more distant, and still more indistinct, was a solitary hill overlooking the ancient city of Arbela.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000010|The Kurdish mountains, whose snowy summits cherished the dying sunbeams, yet struggled with the twilight.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000011|The bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle, at first faint, became louder as the flocks returned from their pastures and wandered amongst the tents.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000016_000012|Girls hurried over the greensward to seek their fathers' cattle, or crouched down to milk those which had returned alone to their well remembered folds.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000018_000000|Layard excavated the emperor's palace and dispatched to London, among other treasures of antiquity, the sublime winged human headed lions which guarded the entrance, and many bas reliefs.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000019_000000|The Assyrian sculptures of this period lack the technical skill, the delicacy and imagination of Sumerian and Akkadian art, but they are full of energy, dignified and massive, and strong and lifelike.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000019_000002|Assyrian art found expression in delineating the outward form rather than in striving to create a "thing of beauty" which is "a joy for ever".
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000020_000001|No fewer than thirty two expeditions were recorded on his famous black obelisk.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000021_000000|As Shalmaneser was the first Assyrian king who came into direct touch with the hebrews, it will be of interest here to review the history of the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah, as recorded in the Bible, because of the light it throws on international politics and the situation which confronted Shalmaneser in Mesopotamia and Syria in the early part of his reign.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000022_000000|After Solomon died, the kingdom of his son Rehoboam was restricted to Judah, Benjamin, Moab, and Edom.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000023_000001|Jeroboam established the religion of the Canaanites and made "gods and molten images".
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000023_000002|He was condemned for his idolatry by the prophet Ahijah, who declared, "The Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000025_000000|Rehoboam was succeeded by his son Abijah, who shattered the power of Jeroboam, defeating that monarch in battle after he was surrounded as Rameses the second had been by the Hittite army.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000025_000001|"The children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000025_000003|Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000025_000004|And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000026_000000|Ere Jeroboam died, however, "Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000026_000001|And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000026_000002|For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000026_000003|And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers and to do the law and the commandment.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000026_000004|Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000029_000001|Judah was nominally subject to Egypt, which, however, was weakened by internal troubles, and therefore unable either to assert its authority in Judah or help its king to resist the advance of the Israelites.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000031_000001|He waged war against Israel, and Baasha was compelled to abandon the building of the fortifications at Ramah.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000032_000000|Judah and Israel thus became subject to Damascus, and had to recognize the king of that city as arbiter in all their disputes.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000033_000000|After reigning about twenty four years, Baasha of Israel died in eight eighty six b c and was succeeded by his son Elah who came to the throne "in the twenty and sixth year of Asa".
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000034_000001|He reigned only "seven days in Tirzah". The army was "encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000036_000001|He was followed by his son Ahab, who ascended the throne "in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah....
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000037_000000|Ahab was evidently an ally of Sidon as well as a vassal of Damascus, for he married the notorious princess Jezebel, the daughter of the king of that city State.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000038_000002|The Israelites issued forth from Samaria and scattered the attacking force.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000038_000003|"And Israel pursued them: and Ben hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horseman.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000038_000005|In the following year Ben hadad fought against the Israelites at Aphek, but was again defeated.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000039_000000|In eight fifty four b c
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000039_000003|Thereafter the Assyrian monarch turned towards the south-west and attacked the Hittite State of Hamath and the Aramaean State of Damascus.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000040_000000|Four years after Ahab began to reign, Asa died at Jerusalem and his son Jehoshaphat was proclaimed king of Judah.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000041_000002|Apparently Israel and Judah desired to throw off the yoke of Damascus, which was being kept constantly on the defence by Assyria.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000041_000005|After a reign of two years Ahaziah was succeeded by Joram.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000042_000000|Jehoshaphat did not again come into conflict with Damascus.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000042_000001|He devoted himself to the development of his kingdom, and attempted to revive the sea trade on the Persian gulf which had flourished under Solomon.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000043_000003|The former, the rightful heir, appealed for help to Shalmaneser, and that monarch at once hastened to assert his authority in the southern kingdom.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000043_000004|In eight fifty one b c
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000044_000000|Marduk zakir shum afterwards reigned over Babylonia as the vassal of Assyria, and Shalmaneser, his overlord, made offerings to the gods at Babylon, Borsippa, and Cuthah.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000045_000000|In the following year Shalmaneser had to lead an expedition into northern Mesopotamia and suppress a fresh revolt in that troubled region.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000045_000001|But the western allies soon gathered strength again, and in eight forty six b c he found it necessary to return with a great army, but was not successful in achieving any permanent success, although he put his enemies to flight.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000046_000000|The resisting power of the Syrian allies, however, was being greatly weakened by internal revolts, which may have been stirred up by Assyrian emissaries.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000046_000001|Edom threw off the yoke of Judah and became independent.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000046_000002|Jehoram, who had married Athaliah, a royal princess of Israel, was dead.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000046_000006|And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel....
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000048_000000|The watchman on the tower of Jezreel saw Jehu and his company approaching and informed Joram, who twice sent out a messenger to enquire, "Is it peace?" Neither messenger returned, and the watchman informed the wounded monarch of Israel, "He came even unto them, and cometh not again; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously".
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000049_000000|King Joram went out himself to meet the famous charioteer, but turned to flee when he discovered that he came as an enemy.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000049_000001|Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram through the heart.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000049_000002|Ahaziah endeavoured to conceal himself in Samaria, but was slain also.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000051_000000|The time seemed ripe for Assyrian conquest.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000051_000001|In eight forty three b c
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000051_000003|His first objective was Aleppo, where he was welcomed.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000052_000001|Shalmaneser's soldiers meanwhile wasted and burned cities without number, and carried away great booty.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000055_000001|His sphere of influence was therefore confined to North Syria.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000055_000002|He found it more profitable, indeed, to extend his territories into Asia Minor.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000059_000000|In time Jehoiada stirred up a revolt against the Baal worshipping queen of Judah.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000060_000001|Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000061_000001|For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the Lord.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000062_000000|"And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord's people.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000063_000000|When Jehu of Israel died, he was succeeded by Jehoahaz.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000064_000002|The kingdom of Urartu was growing more and more powerful.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000065_000000|In eight twenty nine b c the great empire was suddenly shaken to its foundations by the outbreak of civil war.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000066_000000|After four years of civil war Shalmaneser died.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000066_000001|His chosen heir, Shamshi Adad the seventh, had to continue the struggle for the throne for two more years.
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000068_000003|The Babylonian camp was captured, and the prisoners taken by the Assyrians included five thousand footmen, two hundred horsemen, and one hundred chariots
train-clean-100/6531/61334/6531_61334_000069_000002|For over half a century after this disaster Babylonia was a province of Assyria.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000001_000001|It stimulated financial support, and the second airship was taken in hand.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000001_000002|But misfortune still pursued him.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000001_000003|Accidents were of almost daily occurrence.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000001_000005|So soon as one trouble was overcome another made itself manifest.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000001_000006|The result was that the whole of the money collected by his hard work was expended before the ship could take to the air.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000001_000007|A further crash and blasting of cherished hopes appeared imminent, but at this moment another Royal personage came to the inventor's aid.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000002_000000|The King of Wurtemberg took a personal interest in his subject's uphill struggle, and the Wurtemberg Government granted him the proceeds of a lottery.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000002_000002|With this capital a third ship was taken in hand, and in nineteen o five it was launched.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000002_000004|The airship was four hundred fourteen feet in length by thirty eight feet in diameter, was equipped with seventeen gas balloons having an aggregate capacity of three hundred sixty seven thousand cubic feet of hydrogen, was equipped with two eighty five horse power motors driving four propellers, and displaced nine tons.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000002_000005|All the imperfections incidental to the previous craft had been eliminated, while the ship followed improved lines in its mechanical and structural details.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000003_000000|The trials with this vessel commenced on november thirtieth nineteen o five, but ill luck had not been eluded.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000003_000002|A strong wind caught the ungainly airship, she dipped her nose into the water, and as the motor was set going she was driven deeper into the lake, the vessel only being saved by hurried deflation.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000004_000001|The trials were fairly satisfactory, but inconclusive.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000004_000002|One of the motors went wrong, and the longitudinal stability was found to be indifferent.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000004_000003|The vessel was brought down, and was to be anchored, but the Fates ruled otherwise.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000004_000004|A strong wind caught her during the night and she was speedily reduced to indistinguishable scrap.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000005_000000|Despite catastrophe the inventor wrestled gamely with his project.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000005_000001|The lessons taught by one disaster were taken to heart, and arrangements to prevent the recurrence thereof incorporated in the succeeding craft. Unfortunately, however, as soon as one defect was remedied another asserted itself.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000005_000002|It was this persistent revelation of the unexpected which caused another period of indifference towards his invention. Probably nothing more would have been heard of the Zeppelin after this last accident had it not been for the intervention of the Prussian Government at the direct instigation of the Kaiser, who had now taken Count Zeppelin under his wing.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000006_000000|Another craft was built, larger than its predecessors, and equipped with two motors developing one hundred seventy horse power.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000006_000002|On june twentieth nineteen o eight, at eight twenty six a m the craft ascended and remained aloft for twelve hours, during which time it made an encouraging circular tour.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000007_000000|The crucial test was essayed on august fifth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000007_000002|Then a slight mishap demanded attention, but was speedily repaired, and was ignored officially as being too trivial to influence the main issue.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000007_000003|Victory appeared within measurable distance: the arduous toil of many patient years was about to be rewarded.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000007_000004|The airship was within sight of home when it had to descend owing to the development of another motor fault.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000007_000005|But as it approached the ground, Nature, as if infuriated at the conquest, rose up in rebellion.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000007_000006|A sudden squall struck the unwieldy monster.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000008_000000|It was a catastrophe that would have completely vanquished many an inventor, but the Count was saved the gall of defeat.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000008_000001|His flight, which was remarkable, inasmuch as he had covered three hundred eighty miles within twenty four hours, including two unavoidable descents, struck the Teuton imagination.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000008_000002|The seeds so carefully planted by the "Most High of Prussia" now bore fruit. The German nation sympathised with the indomitable inventor, appreciated his genius, and promptly poured forth a stream of subscriptions to enable him to build another vessel.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000008_000003|The intimation that other Powers had approached the Count for the acquisition of his idea became known far and wide, together with the circumstance that he had unequivocally refused all offers.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000008_000004|He was striving for the Fatherland, and his unselfish patriotism appealed to one and all.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000001|He could forge ahead untrammelled by anxiety and worry.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000002|Another Zeppelin was built and it created a world's record.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000003|It remained aloft for thirty eight hours, during which time it covered six hundred ninety miles, and, although it came to grief upon alighting, by colliding with a tree, the final incident passed unnoticed.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000004|Germany was in advance of the world.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000006|Here was a means of obtaining the mastery of the air: a formidable engine of invasion and aerial attack had been perfected.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000007|Consequently the Grand Idea must be supported with unbounded enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000009_000008|The Count was hailed by his august master as "The greatest German of the twentieth century," and in this appreciation the populace wholeheartedly concurred.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000010_000000|Although the Zeppelin was accepted as a perfect machine it has never been possible to disperse the atmosphere of disaster with which it has been enveloped from the first.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000010_000003|Unshaken by this adverse criticism, Germany rests assured that by means of its Zeppelins it will achieve that universal supremacy which it is convinced is its Destiny.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000011_000000|This blind child like faith has been responsible for the establishment and development of the Zeppelin factories.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000011_000001|At Friedrichshafen the facilities are adequate to produce two of these vessels per month, while another factory of a similar capacity has been established at Berlin. Unfortunately such big craft demand large docks to accommodate them, and in turn a large structure of this character constitutes an easy mark for hostile attack, as the raiding airmen of the Allies have proved very convincingly.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000012_000000|But the Zeppelin must not be under rated.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000012_000002|It is quite true that each astounding achievement has been attended by an equally stupendous accident, but that is accepted as a mere incidental detail by the faithful Teutonic nation.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000012_000003|Many vivid prophecies of the forthcoming flights by Zeppelin have been uttered, and it is quite probable that more than one will be fulfilled, but success will be attributable rather to accident than design.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000013_000000|Although the Zeppelin is the main stake of the German people in matters pertaining to aerial conquest, other types of airships have not been ignored, as related in another chapter.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000013_000001|They have been fostered upon a smaller but equally effective scale.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000014_000000|The Parseval is pronounced by experts to be the finest expression of aeronautical engineering so far as Teuton effort is concerned.
train-clean-100/6563/285357/6563_285357_000014_000001|Certainly it has placed many notable flights to its credit.
train-clean-100/6563/63821/6563_63821_000003_000006|He could show you a newspaper of almost every month-nay, almost every week, since newspapers were first published in America.
train-clean-100/6563/63821/6563_63821_000005_000001|Not at all.
train-clean-100/6563/63821/6563_63821_000015_000002|The war ended.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifty four
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000002_000000|Sunday After the Battle
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000003_000000|The mansion of Sir Pitt Crawley, in Great Gaunt Street, was just beginning to dress itself for the day, as Rawdon, in his evening costume, which he had now worn two days, passed by the scared female who was scouring the steps and entered into his brother's study.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000003_000001|Lady Jane, in her morning gown, was up and above stairs in the nursery superintending the toilettes of her children and listening to the morning prayers which the little creatures performed at her knee. Every morning she and they performed this duty privately, and before the public ceremonial at which Sir Pitt presided and at which all the people of the household were expected to assemble.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000004_000000|A book of family sermons, one of which Sir Pitt was in the habit of administering to his family on Sunday mornings, lay ready on the study table, and awaiting his judicious selection.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000004_000001|And by the sermon book was the Observer newspaper, damp and neatly folded, and for Sir Pitt's own private use.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000004_000002|His gentleman alone took the opportunity of perusing the newspaper before he laid it by his master's desk.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000005_000000|Poor Rawdon took up the paper and began to try and read it until his brother should arrive.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000005_000001|But the print fell blank upon his eyes, and he did not know in the least what he was reading.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000006_000001|He started when he saw poor Rawdon in his study in tumbled clothes, with blood shot eyes, and his hair over his face.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000007_000001|"Don't be frightened, Pitt.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000007_000002|I'm not drunk.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000007_000003|Shut the door; I want to speak to you."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000008_000000|Pitt closed the door and came up to the table, where he sat down in the other arm chair-that one placed for the reception of the steward, agent, or confidential visitor who came to transact business with the Baronet-and trimmed his nails more vehemently than ever.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000009_000000|"Pitt, it's all over with me," the Colonel said after a pause.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000009_000001|"I'm done."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000001|"I warned you a thousand times.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000002|I can't help you any more.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000003|Every shilling of my money is tied up.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000004|Even the hundred pounds that Jane took you last night were promised to my lawyer to morrow morning, and the want of it will put me to great inconvenience.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000005|I don't mean to say that I won't assist you ultimately.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000006|But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000008|You must come to a compromise.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000010_000010|There was George Kitely, Lord Ragland's son, went through the Court last week, and was what they call whitewashed, I believe.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000012_000000|"What is the matter, then?" said Pitt, somewhat relieved.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000013_000002|That dear good wife of yours has always been good to him; and he's fonder of her than he is of his . . .--Damn it.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000013_000003|Look here, Pitt-you know that I was to have had Miss Crawley's money.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000013_000005|But for this I might have been quite a different man.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000013_000006|I didn't do my duty with the regiment so bad.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000014_000000|"After the sacrifices I have made, and the manner in which I have stood by you, I think this sort of reproach is useless," Sir Pitt said. "Your marriage was your own doing, not mine."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000015_000001|"That's over now." And the words were wrenched from him with a groan, which made his brother start.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000017_000000|"I wish I was," Rawdon replied.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000017_000001|"If it wasn't for little Rawdon I'd have cut my throat this morning-and that damned villain's too."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000018_000001|The Colonel told his senior briefly, and in broken accents, the circumstances of the case. "It was a regular plan between that scoundrel and her," he said.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000018_000002|"The bailiffs were put upon me; I was taken as I was going out of his house; when I wrote to her for money, she said she was ill in bed and put me off to another day.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000018_000003|And when I got home I found her in diamonds and sitting with that villain alone." He then went on to describe hurriedly the personal conflict with Lord Steyne.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000018_000004|To an affair of that nature, of course, he said, there was but one issue, and after his conference with his brother, he was going away to make the necessary arrangements for the meeting which must ensue.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000019_000000|The elder brother was much affected, and shook Rawdon's hand with a cordiality seldom exhibited by him.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000019_000002|"Thank you, brother," said he.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000019_000003|"I know I can trust your word."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000020_000000|"I will, upon my honour," the Baronet said.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000020_000001|And thus, and almost mutely, this bargain was struck between them.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000021_000000|Then Rawdon took out of his pocket the little pocket book which he had discovered in Becky's desk, and from which he drew a bundle of the notes which it contained.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000021_000001|"Here's six hundred," he said-"you didn't know I was so rich.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000022_000001|"Not that," Rawdon said.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000022_000002|"I hope to put a bullet into the man whom that belongs to." He had thought to himself, it would be a fine revenge to wrap a ball in the note and kill Steyne with it.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000002|The door of the dining room happened to be left open, and the lady of course was issuing from it as the two brothers passed out of the study.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000003|She held out her hand to Rawdon and said she was glad he was come to breakfast, though she could perceive, by his haggard unshorn face and the dark looks of her husband, that there was very little question of breakfast between them.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000004|Rawdon muttered some excuses about an engagement, squeezing hard the timid little hand which his sister in law reached out to him.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000005|Her imploring eyes could read nothing but calamity in his face, but he went away without another word.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000006|Nor did Sir Pitt vouchsafe her any explanation.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000007|The children came up to salute him, and he kissed them in his usual frigid manner. The mother took both of them close to herself, and held a hand of each of them as they knelt down to prayers, which Sir Pitt read to them, and to the servants in their Sunday suits or liveries, ranged upon chairs on the other side of the hissing tea urn.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000023_000008|Breakfast was so late that day, in consequence of the delays which had occurred, that the church bells began to ring whilst they were sitting over their meal; and Lady Jane was too ill, she said, to go to church, though her thoughts had been entirely astray during the period of family devotion.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000024_000002|But Colonel Crawley only took out a card and enjoined him particularly to send it in to Lord Steyne, and to mark the address written on it, and say that Colonel Crawley would be all day after one o'clock at the Regent Club in saint James's Street-not at home.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000024_000003|The fat red faced man looked after him with astonishment as he strode away; so did the people in their Sunday clothes who were out so early; the charity boys with shining faces, the greengrocer lolling at his door, and the publican shutting his shutters in the sunshine, against service commenced.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000026_000000|Captain Macmurdo, a veteran officer and Waterloo man, greatly liked by his regiment, in which want of money alone prevented him from attaining the highest ranks, was enjoying the forenoon calmly in bed.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000027_000000|His room was hung round with boxing, sporting, and dancing pictures, presented to him by comrades as they retired from the regiment, and married and settled into quiet life.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000028_000000|When Rawdon told the Captain he wanted a friend, the latter knew perfectly well on what duty of friendship he was called to act, and indeed had conducted scores of affairs for his acquaintances with the greatest prudence and skill.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000030_000000|"It's about-about my wife," Crawley answered, casting down his eyes and turning very red.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000031_000000|The other gave a whistle.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000032_000000|"Is there no way out of it, old boy?" the Captain continued in a grave tone.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000032_000001|"Is it only suspicion, you know, or-or what is it?
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000033_000002|I told him he was a liar and a coward, and knocked him down and thrashed him."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000034_000000|"Serve him right," Macmurdo said.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000035_000000|Rawdon answered it was Lord Steyne.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000036_000000|"The deuce! a Marquis! they said he-that is, they said you-"
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000038_000001|"What the deuce was the good of my telling you what any tom fools talked about?"
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000000|"You don't know how fond I was of that one," Rawdon said, half inarticulately.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000002|I gave up everything I had to her.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000003|I'm a beggar because I would marry her.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000004|By Jove, sir, I've pawned my own watch in order to get her anything she fancied; and she she's been making a purse for herself all the time, and grudged me a hundred pound to get me out of quod." He then fiercely and incoherently, and with an agitation under which his counsellor had never before seen him labour, told Macmurdo the circumstances of the story.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000005|His adviser caught at some stray hints in it.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000006|"She may be innocent, after all," he said.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000040_000008|Steyne has been a hundred times alone with her in the house before."
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000043_000000|In a postscript the Captain stated that he had in his possession a bank note for a large amount, which Colonel Crawley had reason to suppose was the property of the Marquis of Steyne.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000043_000001|And he was anxious, on the Colonel's behalf, to give up the note to its owner.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000044_000000|By the time this note was composed, the Captain's servant returned from his mission to Colonel Crawley's house in Curzon Street, but without the carpet bag and portmanteau, for which he had been sent, and with a very puzzled and odd face.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000045_000001|The landlord's come in and took possession.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000045_000002|The servants was a drinkin' up in the drawingroom.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000045_000003|They said-they said you had gone off with the plate, Colonel"--the man added after a pause-"One of the servants is off already.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000047_000001|How he sat the kicker to be sure!
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000047_000002|didn't he?"
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000048_000000|"That he did, old boy," said the good-natured Captain.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000049_000000|Little Rawdon was then sitting, one of fifty gown boys, in the Chapel of Whitefriars School, thinking, not about the sermon, but about going home next Saturday, when his father would certainly tip him and perhaps would take him to the play.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000050_000000|"He's a regular trump, that boy," the father went on, still musing about his son.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000050_000002|And-dash it-old chap, give him these gold sleeve buttons: it's all I've got." He covered his face with his black hands, over which the tears rolled and made furrows of white. mr Macmurdo had also occasion to take off his silk night cap and rub it across his eyes.
train-clean-100/669/129061/669_129061_000052_000000|This, as he was about to meet a lord, Captain Macmurdo performed with particular care.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000000_000000|CHAPTER sixty seven
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000001_000000|Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000003_000000|She found herself suddenly and unexpectedly in snug comfortable quarters, surrounded by friends, kindness, and good-natured simple people such as she had not met with for many a long day; and, wanderer as she was by force and inclination, there were moments when rest was pleasant to her.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000003_000002|She picketed her steed, hung up her weapons, and warmed herself comfortably by his fire.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000004_000000|So, pleased herself, she tried with all her might to please everybody; and we know that she was eminent and successful as a practitioner in the art of giving pleasure.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000004_000001|As for Jos, even in that little interview in the garret at the Elephant Inn, she had found means to win back a great deal of his good will.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000004_000002|In the course of a week, the civilian was her sworn slave and frantic admirer.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000004_000004|He asked little parties and invented festivities to do her honour.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000005_000001|The French Minister was as much charmed with her as his English rival.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000005_000002|The German ladies, never particularly squeamish as regards morals, especially in English people, were delighted with the cleverness and wit of mrs Osborne's charming friend, and though she did not ask to go to Court, yet the most august and Transparent Personages there heard of her fascinations and were quite curious to know her.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000005_000005|Jos's house never was so pleasant since he had a house of his own as Rebecca caused it to be.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000006_000000|As for Emmy, who found herself not in the least mistress of her own house, except when the bills were to be paid, Becky soon discovered the way to soothe and please her.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000006_000001|She talked to her perpetually about Major Dobbin sent about his business, and made no scruple of declaring her admiration for that excellent, high minded gentleman, and of telling Emmy that she had behaved most cruelly regarding him.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000007_000001|Having at first disliked Becky for being the means of dismissing him from the presence of her mistress, she was reconciled to mrs Crawley subsequently, because the latter became William's most ardent admirer and champion.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000007_000005|And as she looked at her husband's portrait of nights, it no longer reproached her-perhaps she reproached it, now William was gone.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000008_000001|She was very distraite, nervous, silent, and ill to please.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000008_000003|She grew pale and ill.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000010_000001|She told him that she thought Major William was the best man in all the world-the gentlest and the kindest, the bravest and the humblest.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000010_000003|"Why, when your papa was a little boy," she said, "he often told me that it was William who defended him against a tyrant at the school where they were; and their friendship never ceased from that day until the last, when your dear father fell."
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000011_000002|When I'm in the Army, won't I hate the French?--that's all."
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000012_000001|The artless woman had made a confidant of the boy.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000013_000002|When a traveller talks to you perpetually about the splendour of his luggage, which he does not happen to have with him, my son, beware of that traveller!
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000013_000003|He is, ten to one, an impostor.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000014_000001|It seemed to them of no consequence whether Becky had a quantity of very fine clothes in invisible trunks; but as her present supply was exceedingly shabby, Emmy supplied her out of her own stores, or took her to the best milliner in the town and there fitted her out.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000014_000002|It was no more torn collars now, I promise you, and faded silks trailing off at the shoulder.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000014_000004|But if she did not indulge-the courier did: that rascal Kirsch could not be kept from the bottle, nor could he tell how much he took when he applied to it.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000014_000005|He was sometimes surprised himself at the way in which mr Sedley's Cognac diminished.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000015_000000|At last the much bragged about boxes arrived from Leipzig; three of them not by any means large or splendid; nor did Becky appear to take out any sort of dresses or ornaments from the boxes when they did arrive.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000015_000002|It was the portrait of a gentleman in pencil, his face having the advantage of being painted up in pink.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000015_000003|He was riding on an elephant away from some cocoa nut trees and a pagoda: it was an Eastern scene.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000017_000000|"I bought it," said Becky in a voice trembling with emotion; "I went to see if I could be of any use to my kind friends.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000017_000001|I have never parted with that picture-I never will."
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000021_000004|They have been absent from England fourteen years, having been embarked the year after Waterloo, in which glorious conflict they took an active part, and having subsequently distinguished themselves in the Burmese war.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000023_000001|The correspondence between George and his guardian had not ceased by any means: William had even written once or twice to her since his departure, but in a manner so unconstrainedly cold that the poor woman felt now in her turn that she had lost her power over him and that, as he had said, he was free.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000023_000002|He had left her, and she was wretched.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000023_000003|The memory of his almost countless services, and lofty and affectionate regard, now presented itself to her and rebuked her day and night.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000001|William had spent it all out.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000006|It was a fond mistake.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000007|Isn't the whole course of life made up of such?
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000008|And suppose I had won her, should I not have been disenchanted the day after my victory?
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000009|Why pine, or be ashamed of my defeat?"
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000010|The more he thought of this long passage of his life, the more clearly he saw his deception.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000011|"I'll go into harness again," he said, "and do my duty in that state of life in which it has pleased Heaven to place me.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000012|I will see that the buttons of the recruits are properly bright and that the sergeants make no mistakes in their accounts.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000015|I am done.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000024_000018|What had that little mrs Crawley to say to him?
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000025_000002|The Transparent reigning family took too to the waters, or retired to their hunting lodges. Everybody went away having any pretensions to politeness, and of course, with them, Doctor von Glauber, the Court Doctor, and his Baroness.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000026_000001|Emmy did not care where she went much.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000026_000002|Georgy jumped at the idea of a move.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000026_000003|As for Becky, she came as a matter of course in the fourth place inside of the fine barouche mr Jos had bought, the two domestics being on the box in front.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000026_000004|She might have some misgivings about the friends whom she should meet at Ostend, and who might be likely to tell ugly stories-but bah! she was strong enough to hold her own.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000026_000006|That incident of the picture had finished him.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000026_000007|Becky took down her elephant and put it into the little box which she had had from Amelia ever so many years ago. Emmy also came off with her Lares-her two pictures-and the party, finally, were, lodged in an exceedingly dear and uncomfortable house at Ostend.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000028_000000|Some of mrs Rawdon Crawley's acquaintances, however, acknowledged her readily enough,--perhaps more readily than she would have desired. Among those were Major Loder (unattached), and Captain Rook (late of the Rifles), who might be seen any day on the Dike, smoking and staring at the women, and who speedily got an introduction to the hospitable board and select circle of mr Joseph Sedley.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000029_000001|We must have the bones in, or, dammy, I'll split.' What could the Major mean, Mamma?"
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000030_000002|"I'm sure I can't tell what he meant." His presence and that of his friend inspired the little lady with intolerable terror and aversion.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000030_000003|They paid her tipsy compliments; they leered at her over the dinner table.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000031_000001|A couple of ruffians were fighting for this innocent creature, gambling for her at her own table, and though she was not aware of the rascals' designs upon her, yet she felt a horror and uneasiness in their presence and longed to fly.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000032_000001|Not he.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000032_000002|He was slow of movement, tied to his Doctor, and perhaps to some other leading strings. At least Becky was not anxious to go to England.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000035_000001|She laid down the cup of tea.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000036_000000|"Thank you," said Amelia.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000037_000000|"Listen to me, Amelia," said Becky, marching up and down the room before the other and surveying her with a sort of contemptuous kindness.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000037_000001|"I want to talk to you.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000037_000002|You must go away from here and from the impertinences of these men.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000037_000006|I know everybody.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000037_000009|You must have a husband, you fool; and one of the best gentlemen I ever saw has offered you a hundred times, and you have rejected him, you silly, heartless, ungrateful little creature!"
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000038_000000|"I tried-I tried my best, indeed I did, Rebecca," said Amelia deprecatingly, "but I couldn't forget-"; and she finished the sentence by looking up at the portrait.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000039_000000|"Couldn't forget HIM!" cried out Becky, "that selfish humbug, that low bred cockney dandy, that padded booby, who had neither wit, nor manners, nor heart, and was no more to be compared to your friend with the bamboo cane than you are to Queen Elizabeth.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000039_000001|Why, the man was weary of you, and would have jilted you, but that Dobbin forced him to keep his word.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000039_000002|He owned it to me.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000039_000003|He never cared for you.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000040_000001|It's false!
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000040_000002|Rebecca," cried out Amelia, starting up.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000041_000000|"Look there, you fool," Becky said, still with provoking good humour, and taking a little paper out of her belt, she opened it and flung it into Emmy's lap.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000042_000000|Emmy did not hear her; she was looking at the letter.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000043_000002|Who shall analyse those tears and say whether they were sweet or bitter?
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000043_000004|"There is nothing to forbid me now," she thought.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000043_000005|"I may love him with all my heart now. Oh, I will, I will, if he will but let me and forgive me." I believe it was this feeling rushed over all the others which agitated that gentle little bosom.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000044_000000|Indeed, she did not cry so much as Becky expected-the other soothed and kissed her-a rare mark of sympathy with mrs Becky.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000044_000001|She treated Emmy like a child and patted her head.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000044_000002|"And now let us get pen and ink and write to him to come this minute," she said.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000046_000001|Neither spoke much, except now and then, when the boy said a few words to his timid companion, indicative of sympathy and protection.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000048_000002|It was that signal, sure enough.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000049_000000|But though the steamer was under way, he might not be on board; he might not have got the letter; he might not choose to come.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000050_000000|The boat followed the smoke into sight.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000050_000001|Georgy had a dandy telescope and got the vessel under view in the most skilful manner.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000051_000000|Emmy tried to look through the telescope over George's shoulder, but she could make nothing of it.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000052_000000|George took the glass again and raked the vessel.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000052_000001|"How she does pitch!" he said.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000052_000003|There's only two people on deck besides the steersman.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000052_000008|Of course he would come; what could he do else but come?
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000052_000009|She knew he would come.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000053_000000|The ship came swiftly nearer and nearer.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000053_000002|She would have liked to kneel down and say her prayers of thanks there.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000053_000003|Oh, she thought, she would be all her life saying them!
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000054_000001|That young scapegrace George had fled too, and as the gentleman in the old cloak lined with red stuff stepped on to the shore, there was scarcely any one present to see what took place, which was briefly this:
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000067_000002|For wherever mr Joseph Sedley went, she travelled likewise, and that infatuated man seemed to be entirely her slave.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000069_000002|He found his brother in law in a condition of pitiable infirmity-and dreadfully afraid of Rebecca, though eager in his praises of her.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000069_000004|She had been a daughter to him.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000070_000000|The Colonel's brow darkened at this.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000074_000000|"You are not in debt, then?
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000077_000000|Jos clasped his hands and cried, "He would go back to India.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000078_000000|"Then, why not come away with me?" said Dobbin in reply; but Jos had not the courage.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000078_000002|He must go now.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000080_000003|The money was paid, and her character established, but Colonel Dobbin sent back his share of the legacy to the insurance office and rigidly declined to hold any communication with Rebecca.
train-clean-100/669/129074/669_129074_000082_000004|Her life is her answer to them.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000005_000000|The lawn fete was a tremendous success, and every farmer's wife was proud of her satin badge bearing the monogram: "W.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000005_000001|p l," and the words: "FORBES FOR REPRESENTATIVE."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000006_000000|Certain edibles, such as charlotte russe, Spanish cream, wine jellies and mousses, to say nothing of the caviars and anchovies, were wholly unknown to them; but they ate the dainties with a wise disregard of their inexperience and enjoyed them immensely.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000007_000000|The old butler was a general in his way, and in view of the fact that the staff of servants at Elmhurst was insufficient to cope with such a throng, he allowed Louise to impress several farmers' daughters into service, and was able to feed everyone without delay and in an abundant and satisfactory manner.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000008_000000|After luncheon began the speech making, interspersed with music by the band.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000009_000000|Louise made the preliminary address, and, although her voice was not very strong, the silent attention of her hearers permitted her to be generally understood.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000010_000000|She called attention to the fact that this campaign was important because it promised more beautiful and attractive houses for the farmers and townsmen alike.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000003|Yet the people tamely submitted to this imposition because they knew no way to avoid it.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000004|When mr Forbes began his campaign to restore the homesteads to their former beauty and dignity, a cry was raised against him.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000005|But this was because the farmers did not understand how much this reform meant to them.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000006|So we gave them an object lesson.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000007|We painted out all the signs in this section at our own expense, that you might see how much more beautiful your homes are without them.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000008|We believe that none of you will ever care to allow advertising signs on your property again, and that the quiet refinement of this part of the country will induce many other places to follow our example, until advertisers are forced to confine themselves to newspapers, magazines and circulars, their only legitimate channels.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000011_000009|This much mr Forbes has already done for you, and he will now tell you what else, if he is elected, he proposes to do."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000012_000000|Kenneth then took the platform and was welcomed with a hearty cheer.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000012_000001|He modestly assured them that a Representative in the State Legislature could accomplish much good for his district if he honestly desired to do so.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000012_000002|That was what a Representative was for-to represent his people.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000012_000003|It was folly to elect any man who would forget that duty and promote only his own interests through the position of power to which the people had appointed him.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000012_000005|They needed more school houses for their children, and many other things which he hoped to provide as their Representative.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000013_000000|During this oration Beth happened to glance up at the house, and her sharp eyes detected the maid, Eliza, standing shielded behind the half closed blind of an upper window and listening to, as well as watching, the proceedings below.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000014_000000|Her first impulse was to denounce the maid at once, and have her discharged; but the time was not opportune, so she waited until the festivities were ended.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000015_000000|It had been a great day for the families of the neighboring farmers, and they drove homeward in the late afternoon full of enthusiasm over the royal manner in which they had been entertained and admiration for the girls who had provided the fun and feasting.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000015_000001|Indeed, there were more kindly thoughts expressed for the inhabitants of Elmhurst than had ever before been heard in a single day in the history of the county, and the great and the humble seemed more closely drawn together.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000016_000000|When the last guest had departed Beth got her cousins and Kenneth together and told them of her discovery of the spy.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000018_000000|"Now that we know her secret," she said, "the girl cannot cause us more real harm, and there may be a way to circumvent this unscrupulous Hopkins and turn the incident to our own advantage.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000018_000001|Let's think it over carefully before we act."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000019_000003|I'd like to study her a little."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000020_000000|"It was absurd to connect her with Lucy Rogers," observed Kenneth, "for there is nothing in her character to remind one of the unhappy girl."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000021_000000|"Except her looks," added Beth.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000021_000001|"She's the living image of mrs Rogers."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000022_000001|"It is probably a mere coincidence.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000024_000000|"Then keep her, my dear," decided Kenneth.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000024_000002|The most she can do is to report our movements to mr Hopkins, and there's no great harm in that."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000025_000000|So the matter was left, for the time; and as if to verify Beth's suspicions Eliza was seen to leave the grounds after dusk and meet mr Hopkins in the lane.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000025_000001|They conversed together a few moments, and then the maid calmly returned and went to her room.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000000|The next day mr Hopkins scattered flaring hand bills over the district which were worded in a way designed to offset any advantage his opponent had gained from the lawn fete of the previous day.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000001|They read: "Hopkins, the Man of the Times, is the Champion of the Signs of the Times.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000002|Forbes, who never earned a dollar in his life, but inherited his money, is trying to take the dollars out of the pockets of the farmers by depriving them of the income derived by selling spaces for advertising signs.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000004|The farmers can't eat beauty; they want money.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000005|Therefore they are going to vote for the Honorable Erastus Hopkins for Representative." Then followed an estimate of the money paid the farmers of the district by the advertisers during the past five years, amounting to several thousands of dollars in the aggregate.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000006|The circular ended in this way: "Hopkins challenges Forbes to deny these facts.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000026_000007|Hopkins is willing to meet Forbes before the public at any time and place he may select, to settle this argument in joint debate."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000027_000000|The girls accepted the challenge at once.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000027_000001|Within two days every farmer had received a notice that mr Forbes would meet mr Hopkins at the Fairview Opera House on Saturday afternoon to debate the question as to whether advertising signs brought good or evil to the community.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000028_000000|The campaign was now getting hot.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000028_000001|Because of the activity of the opposing candidates every voter in the district had become more or less interested in the fight, and people were taking one side or the other with unusual earnestness.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000029_000000|mr Hopkins was not greatly pleased that his challenge had been accepted.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000029_000001|He had imagined that the Forbes party would ignore it and leave him the prestige of crowing over his opponent's timidity.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000029_000002|But he remembered how easily he had subdued Kenneth at the school house meeting before the nominations, and had no doubt of his ability to repeat the operation.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000030_000000|He was much incensed against the girls who were working for Kenneth Forbes, for he realized that they were proving an important factor in the campaign.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000030_000001|He even attributed to them more than they deserved, for Uncle John's telling activities were so quietly conducted that he was personally lost sight of entirely by mr Hopkins.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000031_000000|mr Hopkins had therefore become so enraged that, against the advice of his friends, he issued a circular sneering at "Women in Politics." The newspapers having been subsidized by the opposition so early in the game, mr Hopkins had driven to employ the circular method of communicating with the voters.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000031_000001|Scarcely a day passed now that his corps of distributors did not leave some of his literature at every dwelling in the district.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000032_000000|His tirade against the girls was neither convincing nor in good taste. He asked the voters if they were willing to submit to "petticoat government," and permit a "lot of boarding school girls, with more boldness than modesty" to dictate the policies of the community.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000032_000001|"These frizzle headed females," continued the circular, "are trying to make your wives and daughters as rebellious and unreasonable as they are themselves; but no man of sense will permit a woman to influence his vote.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000032_000002|It is a disgrace to this district that mr Forbes allows his girlish campaign to be run by a lot of misses who should be at home darning stockings; or, if they were not able to do that, practicing their music lessons."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000033_000000|"Good!" exclaimed shrewd Miss Patsy, when she read this circular.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000033_000001|"If I'm not much mistaken, mr Hopkins has thrown a boomerang.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000033_000002|Every woman who attended the fete is now linked with us as an ally, and every one of them will resent this foolish circular."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000034_000000|"I'm sorry," said Kenneth, "that you girls should be forced to endure this.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000034_000001|I feared something like it when you insisted on taking a hand in the game."
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000035_000000|But they laughed at him and at mr Hopkins, and declared they were not at all offended.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000037_000002|They have merely gone to work in a business like manner and used their wits and common sense in educating the voters.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000038_000000|And Uncle john was right.
train-clean-100/6818/68772/6818_68772_000038_000001|There had been no loss of dignity by any one of the three, and their evident refinement, as well as their gentleness and good humor, had until now protected them from any reproach.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000004_000000|THE STRANGER AT THE DOOR
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000005_000000|mrs Collingwood remained a long time up stairs,--so long, indeed, that the girls began to be rather uneasy, fearing that she had fainted, or perhaps was ill, or overcome-they knew not what.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000006_000000|"Do you think we ought to go up?" asked Cynthia, anxiously.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000006_000001|"Perhaps she needs help."
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000007_000000|"No, I think she just wants to be by herself.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000007_000001|It was fine of you, Cynthia, to send her up alone!
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000007_000002|I really don't believe I'd have thought of it."
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000008_000000|At length they heard her coming slowly down, and presently she reentered the drawing room.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000008_000001|They could see that she was much moved, and had evidently been crying.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000008_000002|She did not speak to them at once, but went and stood by the mantel, looking up long and earnestly at the portrait of the twins.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000009_000000|"My babies!" they heard her murmur unconsciously, aloud.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000009_000001|At last, however, she came to them, and sat down once more between them on the sofa.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000009_000002|They wondered nervously what she was going to say.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000011_000000|"There are some things, however, that perhaps you do not know, and, after what you have done for me, you deserve to.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000011_000001|I was married when I was a very young girl-only seventeen.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000011_000002|I was a Southerner, but my husband came from the North, and brought me up North here to live.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000011_000003|I always hated it-this Northern life-and, though I loved my husband dearly, I hated his devotion to it.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000011_000004|We never agreed about those questions.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000011_000006|I planned that when they were both old enough, they should marry in the South and live there-and my husband and I with them.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000012_000000|"But, in this life, things seldom turn out as we plan.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000012_000001|My little girl died before she was three; and I had scarcely become reconciled to this grief when my husband was also taken from me.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000012_000002|So I centered all my hopes on my son-on Fairfax.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000012_000005|And I felt sure that he would see things differently when he was older.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000013_000000|"I wished to send him to a Southern college, but he begged me to send him to Harvard.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000013_000001|As his heart was so set on it, I couldn't deny him, thinking that even this would make little difference in the end.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000013_000002|Then came the crisis in the country's affairs, and the Confederacy was declared.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000013_000005|But I little knew him!
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000014_000002|That afternoon, shortly after he arrived, we had our interview.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000014_000003|I have always possessed the most violent temper a mortal had to struggle with.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000014_000004|And in those earlier years, when I got into a rage, it blinded me to everything else, to every other earthly consideration.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000015_000004|He came several times, knocked at my door, and begged me to see him, but I would not. Heaven forgive me!-- I would not!
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000016_000001|If I had-" Just at this point, they were all startled by a loud knock, coming from the direction of the front door.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000017_000000|"I guess I'd better go," said Joyce.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000018_000000|"I think I did.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000019_000000|"That's it, then.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000019_000001|Some one has seen it open, and has stopped to inquire if everything is all right." She hurried away to the front door, and, after an effort, succeeded in pulling it open.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000019_000002|A man-a complete stranger to her-stood outside.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000019_000003|They regarded each other with mutual surprise.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000020_000001|"But perhaps you can inform me-is any one living in this house at present?"
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000021_000000|"Why, no!" replied Joyce, rather confusedly.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000021_000001|"That is-no, the house is empty, except just-just to day!"
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000022_000000|"Oh! er-I see!
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000022_000001|The fact is," the stranger went on, "I was passing here and noticed this outer door open, which seemed a little queer.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000022_000002|I used to know the people who lived here-very well indeed-and I have been wondering whether the house was still in their possession.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000022_000003|It seemed to be untenanted." At his mention of knowing the family, Joyce looked him over with considerably more interest.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000022_000004|He was tall, straight and robust, though rather verging on the elderly.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000022_000005|His iron gray hair was crisply curly, and his dark eyes twinkled out from under bushy gray brows.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000023_000000|"Oh! did you know the family, the-the-"
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000024_000000|"Collingwoods!" he supplemented, with his twinkling smile.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000024_000001|"Yes, I knew them-quite intimately.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000024_000002|Might I, perhaps, if it would not be intruding, come in just a moment to look once more at the old place?
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000024_000003|That is," he added hastily, seeing her hesitate, "only if it would be entirely convenient!
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000024_000004|I do not know, of course, why the house is open.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000024_000005|Perhaps people are-are about to purchase it."
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000025_000000|Joyce was, for a moment, tongue tied with perplexity.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000025_000001|She hated to refuse the simple wish of this pleasant stranger, yet how was she to comply with it, considering the presence of mrs Collingwood, and the almost unexplainable position of herself and Cynthia?
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000025_000002|What would he think of it all!
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000026_000000|"There is one of the family here to day on-on business," she said, at last.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000026_000001|"If you will give me your name, I will ask if-that person would like to see you."
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000028_000000|"I do not remember any one named Calthorpe, and I scarcely feel that I can see a stranger now.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000028_000001|But we must not be inhospitable.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000029_000000|"If you care to look around the drawing room, you will be most welcome," she announced politely.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000029_000001|He accepted the invitation gratefully, and entered with her.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000029_000002|At the first glance, however, he started back slightly, as with a shock of surprise.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000030_000001|"These candles-everything-everything just the same as though it were yesterday!"
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000031_000000|"Did you often come here?" inquired Joyce.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000031_000001|"You must be very well acquainted with the house!"
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000032_000001|I came often.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000032_000002|I was almost like an inmate." He began to wander slowly about the room, examining the pictures.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000033_000000|"Then you must have known young mr Fairfax very well," suggested Joyce. "That's he, on the right in the picture." The stranger eyed her curiously.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000034_000002|Tell me, are you a-a relative?" This confused Joyce anew.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000035_000001|"But I have been told a good deal about them."
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000036_000000|"An unhappy family!" was his only comment, and he continued his tour around the room.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000036_000001|In front of the old, square, open piano he paused again, and fingered the silk scarf that had, at some long ago date, been thrown carelessly upon it.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000037_000000|"There never was a sweetheart like this mother fair of mine!--"
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000038_000001|Her eyes were wide and staring, her features almost gray in color.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000039_000001|The stranger gazed at her with a fixed look.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000040_000000|"Arthur- Arthur Calthorpe!" he faltered.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000042_000000|They drew toward each other unconsciously, as though moving in a dream.
train-clean-100/6818/76332/6818_76332_000046_000000|The two girls, who had been watching this scene with amazement unutterable, saw the strange pair gaze, for one long moment, into each other's eyes.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000001_000000|CHAPTER NINETY NINE.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000002_000000|ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000003_000000|After its second involuntary recess-less prolonged than the first-the Court has once more resumed its functions under the great evergreen oak.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000005_000000|From the golden brightness, displayed by them at noon, they have changed to a lurid red-as if there was anger in the sky!
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000006_000000|It is but an accident of the atmosphere-the portent of an approaching storm.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000007_000000|For all this, it is remarked as singular, that a storm should be coming at the time: since it symbolises the sentiment of the spectators, who look on with sullenness in their hearts, and gloom in their glances.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000008_000000|It would seem as if Heaven's wrath was acting in concert with the passions of Earth!
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000010_000000|In the place late occupied by him another stands.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000010_000001|Cassius Calhoun is now the prisoner at the bar!
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000012_000000|The judge is the same, the jury the same, and the spectators as before; though with very different feelings in regard to the criminality of the accused.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000014_000001|The evidence is already before them; and though entirely circumstantial-as in most cases of murder-the circumstances form a chain irresistibly conclusive and complete.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000016_000000|The motive both for the murder and the mutilation: for the testimony of Gerald has been confirmed by a subsequent examination of the dead body. The surgeon of the cantonment has pronounced the two distinct, and that Henry Poindexter's death must have ensued, almost instantaneously after his receiving the shot.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000017_000000|Why should Cassius Calhoun have killed his own cousin?
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000018_000000|No one can answer these questions, save the murderer himself.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000018_000001|No one expects him to do so-save to his Maker.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000022_000000|He starts at the invitation-falling, as it does, like a death knell upon his ear.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000023_000001|Despairingly: when on the faces that encircle him he sees not one wearing an expression of sympathy.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000024_000000|There is not even pity.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000024_000001|All appear to frown upon him.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000027_000000|His demeanour is completely changed.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000028_000000|And not strange that he should.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000029_000000|He feels that there is no chance of escape; that he is standing by the side of his coffin-on the edge of an Eternity too terrible to contemplate.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000030_000000|To a conscience like his, it cannot be otherwise than appalling.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000031_000000|All at once a light is seen to flask into his eyes-sunken as they are in the midst of two livid circles.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000033_000000|The spectators, guessing his intention, stand breathlessly observing him.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000034_000000|There is silence even among the cicadas.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000035_000000|It is broken by the formalised interrogatory of the judge?
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000037_000000|"No!" he replies, "I have not.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000037_000002|I acknowledge that I have forfeited my life, and deserve to lose it."
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000040_000000|The declaration is answered by a cry from the crowd.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000043_000000|"I know that I've got to die," proceeds the prisoner, with an air of seeming recklessness.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000044_000000|"After what I've confessed, it would be folly in me to expect pardon; and I don't.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000044_000003|I did take his life, as I've told you. You are all asking why, and conjecturing about the motive.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000044_000004|There was none."
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000046_000000|No one speaks, or in any way attempts interruption.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000047_000000|"You wonder at that.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000049_000000|"Yes, by mistake; and God knows I was sorry enough, on discovering that I had made it.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000049_000001|I didn't know myself till long after."
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000050_000000|The condemned man looks up, as if in hopes that he has touched a chord of mercy.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000050_000001|There is no sign of it, on the faces that surround him-still solemnly austere.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000051_000001|I did.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000051_000002|Nor am I going to deny who it was.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000055_000002|It was sure enough; and poor Henry dropped from his horse.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000056_000000|The "sensation" again expresses itself in shuddering and shouts-the latter prolonged into cries of retribution-mingled with that murmuring which proclaims a story told.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000058_000002|I don't, by God!"
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000059_000001|Its meaning is made clear by the act that accompanies it.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000060_000000|While speaking he has kept his right hand under the left breast of his coat.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000060_000001|Along with the oath it comes forth, holding a revolver.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000061_000000|The spectators have just time to see the pistol-as it glints under the slanting sunbeams-when two shots are heard in quick succession.
train-clean-100/6836/61803/6836_61803_000062_000000|With a like interval between, two men fall forward upon their faces; and lie with their heads closely contiguous!
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000000_000000|CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000001_000000|JOY.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000004_000000|Though saddened by the series of tragedies so quickly transpiring, she was but human; and, being woman, who can blame her for giving way to the subdued happiness that succeeded?
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000004_000001|Not i Not you, if you speak truly.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000005_000000|The passion that controlled her may not be popular under a strictly Puritan standard.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000006_000000|Do not reproach the young Creole, because this passion was paramount in her soul.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000006_000001|Do not blame her for feeling pleasure amidst moments that should otherwise have been devoted to sadness.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000006_000002|Nor, that her happiness was heightened, on learning from the astonished spectators, how her lover's life had been preserved-as it might seem miraculously.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000007_000000|The aim of the assassin had been true enough.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000008_000000|Not harmlessly, however: since it struck one of the spectators standing too close to the spot.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000010_000000|The stunning shock-with the mental and corporeal excitement-long sustained-did not fail to produce its effect; and the mind of Maurice Gerald once more returned to its delirious dreaming.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000012_000000|When again restored to consciousness, it was to discover that the fair vision of his dreams was no vision at all, but a lovely woman-the loveliest on the Leona, or in all Texas if you like-by name Louise Poindexter.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000013_000001|The spirit of the aristocratic planter-steeped in sorrow, and humiliated by misfortune-had become purged of its false pride; though it needed not this to make him willingly acquiesce in an alliance, which, instead of a "nobody," gave him a nobleman for his son.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000013_000002|Such, in reality, was Sir Maurice Gerald-erst known as Maurice the mustanger!
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000014_000000|In Texas the title would have counted for little; nor did its owner care to carry it.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000014_000001|But, by a bit of good fortune-not always attendant on an Irish baronetcy-it carried along with it an endowment-ample enough to clear Casa del Corvo of the mortgage held by the late Cassius Calhoun, and claimed by his nearest of kin.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000015_000000|This was not Woodley Poindexter: for after Calhoun's death, it was discovered that the ex captain had once been a Benedict; and there was a young scion of his stock-living in New Orleans-who had the legal right to say he was his son!
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000017_000000|After a visit to his native land-including the European tour-which was also that of his honeymoon-Sir Maurice, swayed by his inclinations, once more returned to Texas, and made Casa del Corvo his permanent home.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000018_000000|The "blue eyed colleen" of Castle Ballagh must have been a myth-having existence only in the erratic fancy of Phelim.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000018_000001|Or it may have been the bud of a young love, blighted ere it reached blooming-by absence, oft fatal to such tender plants of passion?
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000019_000000|Whether or no, Louise Poindexter-Lady Gerald she must now be called- during her sojourn in the Emerald Isle saw nothing to excite her to jealousy.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000020_000000|Only once again did this fell passion take possession of her spirit; and then only in the shape of a shadow soon to pass away.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000023_000000|To the question, "Who has done this?" she was only able to answer, "Diaz-Diaz!"
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000026_000000|It was succeeded by a strong sympathy for the ill fated Isidora; whose story she now better comprehended.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000026_000001|She even assisted her lord in the saddling of his red bay steed, and encouraged him in the pursuit of the assassin.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000030_000000|As they stood gazing upon the remains of the villain, and his victim- the swarth ruffian dangling from the branch above, and the fair form lying underneath-the hearts of the Texans were touched-as perhaps they had never been before.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000031_000000|There was a strange thought passing through their minds; a sadness independent of that caused by the spectacle of a murder.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000032_000000|Beautiful, even in death, was Isidora.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000032_000001|Such features as she possessed, owe not everything to the light of life.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000032_000002|That voluptuous shape-the true form divine-may be admired in the cold statue.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000033_000000|Men stood gazing upon her dead body-long gazing-loth to go away-at length going with thoughts not altogether sacred!
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000035_000000|In the physical world Time is accounted the destroyer; though in the moral, it is oft the restorer.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000038_000000|For all this, there are those who could conduct you to an ancient hacienda-still known as Casa del Corvo.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000039_000000|Once there, you would become the recipient of a hospitality, unequalled in European lands.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000040_000000|You would have for your host one of the handsomest men in Texas; for your hostess one of its most beautiful women-both still this side of middle life.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000042_000000|You would find this old gentleman very proud upon many points: but more especially of his beautiful daughter-the mistress of the mansion-and the half dozen pretty prattlers who cling to his skirts, and call him their "dear grandpa."
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000043_000000|Leaving him for a time, you would come in contact with two other individuals attached to the establishment.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000045_000000|Since we last saw him, the gay Pluto has become tamed down to a staid and sober Benedict-black though he be.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000046_000000|Florinda-now the better half of his life-has effected the transformation.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000048_000000|During the course of the meal-but much more over the wine-you will hear talk of "Zeb Stump the hunter."
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000049_000000|You may not often see him.
train-clean-100/6836/61804/6836_61804_000050_000000|While sojourning at Casa del Corvo, you may get hints of a strange story connected with the place-now almost reduced to a legend.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000000_000002|A remnant of some Indian tribe still lingers around here and gathers huckleberries for the market, two squaws being in the village purchasing supplies for their camp in the swamps.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000001_000002|"Jumbo" goes all right when mounted, but, being unable to mount without aid, he seldom ventures abroad by himself for fear of having to foot it back.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000000|At ten o'clock in the morning, july seventeenth, I bowl across the boundary line into Ohio.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000003|A fat, phlegmatic looking baby is peacefully reposing in a cradle, which is simply half a monster pumpkin scooped out and dried; it is the most intensely rustic cradle in the world.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000004|Surely, this youngster's head ought to be level on agricultural affairs, when he grows up, if anybody's ought.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000005|From Napoleon my route leads up the Maumee River and canal, first trying the tow path of the latter, and then relinquishing it for the very fair wagon road.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000006|The Maumee River, winding through its splendid rich valley, seems to possess a peculiar beauty all its own, and my mind, unbidden, mentally compares it with our old friend, the Humboldt.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000007|The latter stream traverses dreary plains, where almost nothing but sagebrush grows; the Maumee waters a smiling valley, where orchards, fields, and meadows alternate with sugar maple groves, and in its fair bosom reflects beautiful landscape views, that are changed and rebeautified by the master hand of the sun every hour of the day, and doubly embellished at night by the moon.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000002_000013|The western half is kept in rather poor repair these days; but from Fremont eastward it is splendid wheeling.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000003_000007|Prominent among them stands the old Garfield homestead — a fine farm of one hundred and sixty five acres, at present managed by mrs Garfield's brother.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000003_000008|Smiling villages nestling amid stately groves, rearing white church spires from out their green, bowery surroundings, dot the low, broad, fertile shore land to the left; the gleaming waters of Lake Erie here and there glisten like burnished steel through the distant interspaces, and away beyond stretches northward, like a vast mirror, to kiss the blue Canadian skies.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000003_000010|Splendid is the road and delightful the country coming east from Girard; even the red brick school houses are embowered amid leafy groves; and so it continues with ever varying, ever pleasing beauty to Erie, after which the highway becomes hardly so good.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000000|Twenty four hours after entering Pennsylvania I make my exit across the boundary into the Empire State.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000001|The roads continue good, and after dinner I reach Westfield, six miles from the famous Lake Chautauqua, which beautiful hill and forest embowered sheet of water is popularly believed by many of its numerous local admirers to be the highest navigable lake in the world.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000002|If so, however, Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains comes next, as it is about six thousand feet above the level of the sea, and has three steamers plying on its waters.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000005|No wheelman has ever yet rode up this hill, save the muscular and gritty captain of the Fredonia Club, though several have attempted the feat.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000006|From the top my road ahead is plainly visible for miles, leading through the broad and smiling Cattaraugus Valley that is spread out like a vast garden below, through which Cattaraugus Creek slowly winds its tortuous way.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000009|Leaving the bicycle at "Isham's "-who volunteers some slight repairs I take a flying visit by rail to see Niagara Falls, returning the same evening to enjoy the proffered hospitality of a genial member of the Buffalo Bicycle Club.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000012|A small but frolicsome party of them on top of the Washington monument, "heaved a sigh " from their whistles, at a comrade passing along the street below, when a corpulent policeman, naturally mistaking it for a signal from a brother "cop," hastened to climb the five hundred feet or thereabouts of ascent up the monument.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000013|When he arrived, puffing and perspiring, to the summit, and discovered his mistake, the wheelmen say he made such awful use of the Queen's English that the atmosphere had a blue, sulphurous tinge about it for some time after.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000015|Stopping over night at LeBoy, in company with the president and captain of the LeBoy Club, I visit the State fish hatchery at Mumford next morning, and ride on through the Genesee Valley, finding fair roads through the valley, though somewhat hilly and stony toward Canandaigua.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000004_000016|Inquiring the best road to Geneva I am advised of the superiority of the one leading past the poor house.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000000|"Down a romantic Swiss glen, where scores of sylvan nooks and rippling rills invite one to cast about for fairies and sprites," is the word descriptive of my route from Marcellus next morning.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000001|Once again, on nearing the Camillus outlet from the narrow vale, I hear the sound of Sunday bells, and after the church bell less Western wilds, it seems to me that their notes have visited me amid beautiful scenes, strangely often of late.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000002|Arriving at Camillus, I ask the name of the sparkling little stream that dances along this fairy glen like a child at play, absorbing the sun rays and coquettishly reflecting them in the faces of the venerable oaks that bend over it like loving guardians protecting it from evil.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000004|Sometimes the burden of this sulphurous profanity is aimed at me, sometimes at the inoffensive bicycle, or both of us collectively, but oftener is it directed at the unspeakable mule, who is really the only party to blame.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000008|At Rome I enter the famous and beautiful Mohawk Valley, a place long looked forward to with much pleasurable anticipation, from having heard so often of its natural beauties and its interesting historical associations.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000010|Of the first assertion I have nothing to say, having passed through a dozen "garden spots of the world " on this tour across America; but there is no gainsaying the fact that the Mohawk Valley, as viewed from this vantage spot, is wonderfully beautiful.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000012|From the elevated road bed I cast a longing, lingering look down the Hudson Valley, that stretches away southward like a heaven born dream, and sigh at the impossibility of going two ways at once.
train-clean-100/6836/76549/6836_76549_000005_000016|It is at Otis, in the midst of these hills, that I first become acquainted with the peculiar New England dialect in its native home.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000003_000000|When the Corporal, followed by Billy, entered the gloomy hall of the Castle, they found two or three country people conversing in a low but eager voice together, who speedily turned towards them, to learn if the doctor had come.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000007_000000|"He's getting weaker and weaker, sir; I believe he's sinking.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000012_000001|"Leave me, Craggs-leave me alone with him."
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000014_000000|"Is it fever?" asked the sick man, in a faint but unfaltering accent.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000023_000000|"What do you mean by this, Craggs?" said the Viscount, trembling with passion.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000036_000000|"What do you think of him?" asked the Corporal, eagerly.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000037_000001|"He's a sanguineous temperament, and he'll bear the lancet.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000037_000002|It's just like weatherin' a point at say.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000039_000003|There's chaps, ay, and far from stupid ones either, that could n't compose you ten hexameters if ye'd put them on a hot griddle for it; and there's others that would talk rhyme rather than rayson!
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000041_000000|"Have you seen my father?
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000041_000001|What do you think of him?" asked he, eagerly.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000044_000000|"What could I do, sir?" was the answer; "it was this fellow or nothing."
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000046_000000|"Don't be hasty, your honor," said Billy, submissively, "and don't be unjust.
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000048_000000|"I took a bleeding from him, little short of sixteen ounces, from the temporial," said Billy, proudly, "and I'll give him now a concoction of meadow saffron with a pinch of saltpetre in it, to cause diaphoresis, d'ye mind?
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000048_000004|Watch what's coming, look out and see which way the mischief is brewin', and make your preparations. That's the great study of physic."
train-clean-100/6848/252322/6848_252322_000049_000000|The boy listened patiently and even attentively to this speech, and when Billy had concluded, he turned to the Corporal and said, "Look to him, Craggs, and let him have his supper, and when he has eaten it send him to my room."
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000004_000000|"Didn't I tell you how it would be?" said Billy, as he re-entered the kitchen, now crowded by the workpeople, anxious for tidings of the sick man.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000005_000000|"Musha, but I 'm glad," muttered one; "he 'd be a great loss to us."
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000009_000001|"I'll have to be up at the office for the bags at six o'clock."
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000011_000000|"Sorra taste of it," muttered another; "there's a sea runnin' outside now that would swamp a life boat."
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000018_000000|"Spoke like a British Grenadier," cried Billy, with enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000025_000000|"Or a song would be better," observed another.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000027_000002|By Jove! how they did sing-all together, like the swell of a church organ."
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000028_000000|"Yes, you're right," said Billy, but evidently yielding an unwilling assent to this doctrine.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000029_000000|"And which is best, Billy?" asked one of the company.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000032_000001|Now for it, Billy.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000034_000001|In the present case, it is but fair to say, there was neither comment nor impatience; on the contrary, they seemed to accept these convulsive throes of sound as an earnest of the grand flood of melody that was coming.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000034_000002|That Billy was occupied with other thoughts than those of tuning was, however, apparent, for his lips continued to move rapidly; and at moments he was seen to beat time with his foot, as though measuring out the rhythm of a verse.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000046_000000|"You're right, there, Jim Morris," said he, turning suddenly round towards one of the company; "you never said a truer thing than that. The poetic temperament is riches to a poor man.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000046_000003|I can bestow kingdoms.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000049_000000|"Well, one evening-it was in August-I came down by a narrow path to the side of a lake, where there was a stone seat, put up to see the view from, and in front was three wooden steps of stairs going down into the water, where a boat might come in.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000049_000002|Well, I put down my pack in the leaves, for I did n't like to see or think of it, and I stretched myself down at the water's edge, and I fell into a fit of musing.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000049_000005|And from musing I fell off asleep; and it was the sound of voices near that first awoke me!
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000050_000001|I never listened to such a voice before, so soft, so sweet, so musical, and the words came droppin' down, like the clear water filterin' over a rocky ledge, and glitterin' like little spangles over moss and wild flowers.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000053_000000|"The Lord forgive me, but when he came to the last words and said, 'useful light,' I couldn't restrain myself, but broke out, 'That's mighty like a bull, anyhow, and reminds me of the ould song,--
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000055_000000|"Before I knew where I was, the boat glided in to the steps, and a tall man, a little stooped in the shoulders, stood before me.
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000056_000000|"'Is it you,' said he, with a quiet laugh, 'that accuses Pope of a bull?'
train-clean-100/6848/252323/6848_252323_000060_000000|"'With brains reduced a doable debt to pay, To dream by night, sell Sheffield ware by day.'
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000001_000003|And although mr Lake was a man of vast activities and complicated engagements he was coming now to Europe for the express purpose of seeing v v and having things out with her fully and completely because, in spite of all that had happened, she made such an endless series of delays in coming to America.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000002_000001|Years of business experience, mitigated only by such exercise as the game of poker affords, had intensified an instinctive inexpressiveness.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000002_000002|Under the most solitary circumstances old Grammont was still inexpressive, and the face that stared at the ceiling of his cabin and the problem of his daughter might have been the face of a pickled head in a museum, for any indication it betrayed of the flow of thought within.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000002_000003|He lay on his back and his bent knees lifted the bed clothes into a sharp mountain.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000003_000002|Why didn't the girl confide in her father at least about these things?
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000003_000003|What was afoot?
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000003_000006|With her fortune and his-you could buy the world.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000003_000010|In itself that wasn't a thing to break her father's heart.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000004_000000|What did matter was not whether she threw Lake over but what she threw him over for.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000004_000002|But if it was for some other lover, some good looking, worthless impostor, some European title or suchlike folly-!
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000000|At the thought of a lover for v v a sudden flood of anger poured across the old man's mind, behind the still mask of his face.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000001|It infuriated him even to think of v v, his little v v, his own girl, entertaining a lover, being possibly-most shameful thought-IN LOVE!
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000002|Like some ordinary silly female, sinking to kisses, to the deeds one could buy and pay for.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000005|He fought against it as a possibility.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000006|Once some woman in New York had ventured to hint something to him of some fellow, some affair with an artist, Caston; she had linked this Caston with v v's red cross nursing in Europe....
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000007|Old Grammont had made that woman sorry she spoke.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000008|Afterwards he had caused enquiries to be made about this Caston, careful enquiries. It seems that he and v v had known each other, there had been something.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000010|When old Grammont's enquiry man had come back with his report, old Grammont had been very particular about that.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000012|Old Grammont had struck the table sharply and the eyes that looked out of his mask had blazed.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000005_000014|"Absolutely nothing, Sir," said the agent, suddenly white to the lips....
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000006_000001|That affair was all right, quite all right.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000006_000002|Of course it was all right.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000006_000005|If there had been any talk that fact answered it.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000006_000006|And now that Lake had served his purpose old Grammont did not care in the least if he was shelved.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000006_000007|v v could stand alone.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000007_000005|In previous meditations on his daughter's outlook old Grammont had found much that was very suggestive in the precedent of Queen Victoria.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000007_000008|How could one do it?
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000010_000000|One was left at the mercy of v v's character....
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000011_000000|"I ought to see more of her," he thought.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000011_000001|"She gets away from me.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000011_000003|It is duty, his protective duty to them.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000011_000009|It would be pleasant to go about with her on his right hand in Paris, HIS girl, straight and lovely, desirable and unapproachable,--above that sort of nonsense, above all other masculine subjugation.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000013_000000|His mind grew calmer.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000013_000003|They'd be like sweethearts together, he and his girl.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000014_000000|Old Grammont dozed off into dreamland.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000015_000000|Section five
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000016_000000|The imaginations of mr Gunter Lake, two days behind mr Grammont upon the Atlantic, were of a gentler, more romantic character.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000017_000000|An interminable speech unfolded itself.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000017_000007|Protect, guard, cherish...."
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000018_000001|Until at last a day would come....
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000020_000000|Section six
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000021_000002|The London people think he will be off Falmouth in four days' time.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000021_000004|He's arranged that.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000021_000007|I must wire them where I can pick up a telegram to morrow."
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000023_000000|His plans were already quite clear.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000023_000001|He explained that he wanted her first to see Shaftesbury, a little old Wessex town that was three or four hundred years older than Salisbury, perched on a hill, a Saxon town, where Alfred had gathered his forces against the Danes and where Canute, who had ruled over all Scandinavia and Iceland and Greenland, and had come near ruling a patch of America, had died.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000023_000002|It was a little sleepy place now, looking out dreamily over beautiful views.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000023_000003|They would lunch in Shaftesbury and walk round it.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000024_000003|Rome will be poorly represented, but that may come the day after at Bath.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000024_000004|And the next day too I want to show you something of our old River Severn. We will come right up to the present if we go through Bristol.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000024_000007|It was the good men of Bristol, by the bye, with their trade from Africa to America, who gave you your colour problem.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000024_000008|Bristol we may go through to morrow and Gloucester, mother of I don't know how many American Gloucesters.
train-clean-100/6848/76049/6848_76049_000025_000000|"It was not only from England that America came," said Miss Grammont.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000006_000000|PREFACE.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000007_000000|The following letter served as a preface to the first edition of this memoir:--
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000010_000000|"GENTLEMEN,--In the course of your debate of the ninth of May, eighteen thirty three, in regard to the triennial pension established by Madame Suard, you expressed the following wish:--
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000012_000000|"I now propose, gentlemen, to discharge this duty.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000013_000002|Thenceforth I understood with how worthy and honorable a society I had to deal: my regard for its enlightenment, my recognition of its benefits, my enthusiasm for its glory, were unbounded.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000015_000000|"Since that time, metaphysics and moral science have been my only studies; my perception of the fact that these sciences, though badly defined as to their object and not confined to their sphere, are, like the natural sciences, susceptible of demonstration and certainty, has already rewarded my efforts.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000016_000000|"But, gentlemen, of all the masters whom I have followed, to none do I owe so much as to you.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000016_000001|Your co-operation, your programmes, your instructions, in agreement with my secret wishes and most cherished hopes, have at no time failed to enlighten me and to point out my road; this memoir on property is the child of your thought.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000017_000000|"In eighteen thirty eight, the Academy of Besancon proposed the following question: TO WHAT CAUSES MUST WE ATTRIBUTE THE CONTINUALLY INCREASING NUMBER OF SUICIDES, AND WHAT ARE THE PROPER MEANS FOR ARRESTING THE EFFECTS OF THIS MORAL CONTAGION?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000018_000000|"Thereby it asked, in less general terms, what was the cause of the social evil, and what was its remedy?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000018_000001|You admitted that yourselves, gentlemen when your committee reported that the competitors had enumerated with exactness the immediate and particular causes of suicide, as well as the means of preventing each of them; but that from this enumeration, chronicled with more or less skill, no positive information had been gained, either as to the primary cause of the evil, or as to its remedy.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000019_000000|"In eighteen thirty nine, your programme, always original and varied in its academical expression, became more exact.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000019_000001|The investigations of eighteen thirty eight had pointed out, as the causes or rather as the symptoms of the social malady, the neglect of the principles of religion and morality, the desire for wealth, the passion for enjoyment, and political disturbances.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000020_000000|"In a Christian tongue you asked, gentlemen, what was the true system of society.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000020_000002|This argument did not meet with your approbation, since, without denying the relation pointed out by the competitor, you judged, and rightly gentlemen, that the principle of equality of conditions not being demonstrated, the ideas of the author were nothing more than hypotheses.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000021_000000|"Finally, gentlemen, this fundamental principle of equality you presented for competition in the following terms: THE ECONOMICAL AND MORAL CONSEQUENCES IN FRANCE UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, AND THOSE WHICH SEEM LIKELY TO APPEAR IN FUTURE, OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE EQUAL DIVISION OF HEREDITARY PROPERTY BETWEEN THE CHILDREN.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000022_000000|"Instead of confining one to common places without breadth or significance, it seems to me that your question should be developed as follows:--
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000025_000000|"Can equality, by the right of succession, be preserved between citizens, as well as between cousins and brothers?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000025_000001|In a word, can the principle of succession become a principle of equality?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000026_000000|"To sum up all these ideas in one inclusive question: What is the principle of heredity?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000026_000002|What is property?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000027_000000|"Such, gentlemen, is the object of the memoir that I offer you to day.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000029_000000|"My purpose in this work is the application of method to the problems of philosophy; every other intention is foreign to and even abusive of it.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000030_000000|"I have spoken lightly of jurisprudence: I had the right; but I should be unjust did I not distinguish between this pretended science and the men who practise it.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000031_000000|"I have been pitiless in my criticism of the economists: for them I confess that, in general, I have no liking.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000031_000002|Whoever, knowing them, pardons them, may read them.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000032_000000|"I have severely blamed the learned Christian Church: it was my duty. This blame results from the facts which I call attention to: why has the Church decreed concerning things which it does not understand?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000032_000001|The Church has erred in dogma and in morals; physics and mathematics testify against her.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000032_000002|It may be wrong for me to say it, but surely it is unfortunate for Christianity that it is true.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000032_000003|To restore religion, gentlemen, it is necessary to condemn the Church.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000000|"Perhaps you will regret, gentlemen, that, in giving all my attention to method and evidence, I have too much neglected form and style: in vain should I have tried to do better.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000001|Literary hope and faith I have none. The nineteenth century is, in my eyes, a genesic era, in which new principles are elaborated, but in which nothing that is written shall endure.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000002|That is the reason, in my opinion, why, among so many men of talent, France to day counts not one great writer.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000003|In a society like ours, to seek for literary glory seems to me an anachronism.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000004|Of what use is it to invoke an ancient sibyl when a muse is on the eve of birth? Pitiable actors in a tragedy nearing its end, that which it behooves us to do is to precipitate the catastrophe.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000005|The most deserving among us is he who plays best this part.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000033_000006|Well, I no longer aspire to this sad success!
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000034_000001|I have aspired to your suffrages and sought the title of your pensioner, hating all which exists and full of projects for its destruction; I shall finish this investigation in a spirit of calm and philosophical resignation.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000035_000000|"It is for you now, gentlemen, whose mission and character are the proclamation of the truth, it is for you to instruct the people, and to tell them for what they ought to hope and what they ought to fear.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000035_000001|The people, incapable as yet of sound judgment as to what is best for them, applaud indiscriminately the most opposite ideas, provided that in them they get a taste of flattery: to them the laws of thought are like the confines of the possible; to day they can no more distinguish between a savant and a sophist, than formerly they could tell a physician from a sorcerer.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000036_000000|"May you, gentlemen, desire equality as I myself desire it; may you, for the eternal happiness of our country, become its propagators and its heralds; may I be the last of your pensioners!
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000036_000001|Of all the wishes that I can frame, that, gentlemen, is the most worthy of you and the most honorable for me.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000038_000000|"Your pensioner,
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000039_000000|"P.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000040_000000|Two months after the receipt of this letter, the Academy, in its debate of august twenty fourth, replied to the address of its pensioner by a note, the text of which I give below:--
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000041_000001|He is of the opinion that the society owes it to justice, to example, and to its own dignity, to publicly disavow all responsibility for the anti social doctrines contained in this publication.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000043_000001|That the pensioner be charged, in case he should publish a second edition of his book, to omit the dedication;
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000045_000000|"These three propositions, put to vote, are adopted."
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000049_000000|"PARIS, may first eighteen forty one.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000050_000002|I am very glad that you have modified somewhat the rudeness of form which gave to a work of such gravity the manner and appearance of a pamphlet; for you quite frightened me, sir, and your talent was needed to reassure me in regard to your intentions.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000050_000004|This proposition, now coming into notice-PROPERTY IS ROBBERY!--was of a nature to repel from your book even those serious minds who do not judge by appearances, had you persisted in maintaining it in its rude simplicity.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000050_000005|But if you have softened the form, you are none the less faithful to the ground work of your doctrines; and although you have done me the honor to give me a share in this perilous teaching, I cannot accept a partnership which, as far as talent goes, would surely be a credit to me, but which would compromise me in all other respects.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000000|"I agree with you in one thing only; namely, that all kinds of property get too frequently abused in this world.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000001|But I do not reason from the abuse to the abolition,--an heroic remedy too much like death, which cures all evils.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000002|I will go farther: I will confess that, of all abuses, the most hateful to me are those of property; but once more, there is a remedy for this evil without violating it, all the more without destroying it.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000003|If the present laws allow abuse, we can reconstruct them. Our civil code is not the Koran; it is not wrong to examine it.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000004|Change, then, the laws which govern the use of property, but be sparing of anathemas; for, logically, where is the honest man whose hands are entirely clean?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000005|Do you think that one can be a robber without knowing it, without wishing it, without suspecting it?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000007|Is property, then, in your eyes a thing so simple and so abstract that you can re knead and equalize it, if I may so speak, in your metaphysical mill?
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000010|I believe, then, that you have handled property as Rousseau, eighty years ago, handled letters, with a magnificent and poetical display of wit and knowledge.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000051_000011|Such, at least, is my opinion.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000052_000005|But see to it, sir, that ere long they do not come, in spite of you, to seek for ammunition in this formidable arsenal, and that your vigorous metaphysics falls not into the hands of some sophist of the market place, who might discuss the question in the presence of a starving audience: we should have pillage for conclusion and peroration.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000053_000000|"I feel as deeply as you, sir, the abuses which you point out; but I have so great an affection for order,--not that common and strait laced order with which the police are satisfied, but the majestic and imposing order of human societies,--that I sometimes find myself embarrassed in attacking certain abuses.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000053_000002|In pruning an old tree, we guard against destruction of the buds and fruit.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000053_000003|You know that as well as any one.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000053_000005|The terms by which you characterize the fanatics of our day are strong enough to reassure the most suspicious imaginations as to your intentions; but you conclude in favor of the abolition of property!
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000053_000006|You wish to abolish the most powerful motor of the human mind; you attack the paternal sentiment in its sweetest illusions; with one word you arrest the formation of capital, and we build henceforth upon the sand instead of on a rock.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000053_000007|That I cannot agree to; and for that reason I have criticised your book, so full of beautiful pages, so brilliant with knowledge and fervor!
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000054_000000|"I wish, sir, that my impaired health would permit me to examine with you, page by page, the memoir which you have done me the honor to address to me publicly and personally; I think I could offer some important criticisms.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000054_000001|For the moment, I must content myself with thanking you for the kind words in which you have seen fit to speak of me.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000054_000002|We each possess the merit of sincerity; I desire also the merit of prudence.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000054_000004|I try to serve and enlighten them, whereas some endeavor to mislead them.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000054_000005|You have not written directly for them.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000054_000006|You have issued two magnificent manifestoes, the second more guarded than the first; issue a third more guarded than the second, and you will take high rank in science, whose first precept is calmness and impartiality.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000055_000000|"Farewell, sir!
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000057_000001|So much controversy fatigues and wearies me.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000057_000005|Honest people can at least understand one another.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000058_000001|To gain the victory for one's cause, it does not suffice simply to overthrow a principle generally recognized, which has the indisputable merit of systematically recapitulating our political theories; it is also necessary to establish the opposite principle, and to formulate the system which must proceed from it.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000058_000002|Still further, it is necessary to show the method by which the new system will satisfy all the moral and political needs which induced the establishment of the first.
train-clean-100/6880/216547/6880_216547_000058_000003|On the following conditions, then, of subsequent evidence, depends the correctness of my preceding arguments:--
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000005_000000|'Listen to that tiger!' remarked the king.
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000006_000000|'Tiger?' replied the queen.
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000006_000002|It was only a jackal.'
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000007_000000|'I tell you it was a tiger,' said the king.
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000010_000000|'Nonsense!' snapped the queen.
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000012_000000|'As you like,' answered the queen, 'there isn't any doubt which it was.'
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000051_000002|Help me! help me!'
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000063_000002|Help me! help me!'
train-clean-100/6925/80680/6925_80680_000081_000000|'In prison,' replied the farmer; 'if your majesty will clear this court of the jackals I will explain.'
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000004_000000|As the name of Florence Nightingale became world famous at the close of the Crimean War more than sixty years ago, the name of another English nurse who suffered martyrdom in the World War will go down into history with the lustre of glory and self sacrifice surrounding it.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000005_000001|Her father was an English minister of the old school who was rector of a single parish in Norwich for more than half a century.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000005_000002|Edith and her sister were brought up in strict conformance with church ideas and were taught the value of leading useful lives and the glory of self sacrifice.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000005_000003|As was customary at the time when she was a young girl she received her education on the continent, attending school in the city of Brussels in Belgium.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000005_000004|She then returned to her home and remained there until, when twenty one years old and resolved to give her life to some useful and benevolent occupation, she decided to become a trained nurse and went to London to study that calling.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000006_000000|She studied at the London Hospital-a place, we are told, where the hardest and most difficult conditions prevailed, and where the nurses were worked to the limit of their strength.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000006_000003|Her regular duties were severe enough but she used a large part of her scanty leisure for such purposes as these.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000007_000000|In nineteen o six Edith Cavell left the English hospitals, where she had made a reputation for herself, and went back to Brussels, where she took a position as matron in a Medical and Surgical Home.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000008_000001|She was popular everywhere in the Belgian capital, and although Protestant, she gained the praise of the Roman Catholic priests for the generous and unselfish work that she performed.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000009_000001|Her father had died by this time, but her mother was close to her heart and she saw her as often as she could.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000010_000000|"I may be looked on as an old maid," she is reported as saying, "but with my work and my mother I am a very happy one, and desire nothing more as long as I have these two."
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000011_000001|She wrote a letter commenting on the German army when it swept through Belgium-and in it she voiced her pity for the tired, footsore German soldiers,--who were later to slay her.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000011_000002|Brussels became a part of the German Empire and a tyrannical governor came there to establish his headquarters, issuing proclamations threatening the Belgians with death for minor offenses, and filling Brussels with spies and intrigue.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000011_000004|He granted it, for the quiet English nurse made an impression upon him.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000011_000005|We are told that the arrogant German formed a high opinion of her-so much so that he secretly determined to keep her under the strictest supervision!
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000000|From that time on spies dogged her tracks.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000001|She cared for the wounded German soldiers and nursed a number of German officers, as well as the Belgians who were in her care, but this made no difference to the authorities.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000002|They were determined to detect her in some crime and punish her.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000003|It was not fitting, they thought, that an enemy should be engaged in works of mercy, even though they themselves might benefit thereby.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000004|And soon spies began to come to the Governor with tales and fabrications of the crimes that she had been committing in their eyes. They bore witness that she had given an overcoat to a Frenchman who was cold and hungry-and the Frenchman later escaped over the Dutch frontier.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000005|Once she gave a glass of water to a Belgian soldier.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000006|She had given money to poor people, perhaps to soldiers.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000012_000007|But the main reason that the Germans hated her was because she was held in great affection by the people of Brussels.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000013_000001|A blow was the only response when she tried to expostulate.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000013_000002|She was taken to prison and placed in solitary confinement.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000013_000003|Her arrest was shrouded with the most careful secrecy, for the Germans did not want to have the representatives of neutral governments, such as the United States, know of the affair or of what they proposed to do.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000014_000000|But word of her plight did reach England through a traveler, and at once the British Government requested the American Ambassador, dr Page, to get what information he could from Brand Whitlock, the American Minister in Belgium.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000014_000001|He went at once to the German authorities, but they evaded his questions and waited ten days before giving him a reply.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000015_000000|This was the German statement.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000015_000001|If what they said were true, there was still no cause for killing the unfortunate woman in their power, for she was not accused at any time of having been a spy.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000015_000002|But they had planned to try her for her life, and mr Whitlock soon guessed this, in spite of the fact that the Germans kept their preparations from him so far as possible.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000016_000000|An American lawyer, mr de Leval, was requested by mr Whitlock to take Miss Cavell's case and do whatever was possible in her behalf.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000016_000001|He was not allowed to see the prisoner-and was not even allowed to look at the documents in the case until the trial began.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000016_000004|All these promises were broken.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000016_000006|He never informed them that the death sentence had been imposed.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000016_000007|He never came to see them afterward.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000016_000008|And when they sought him for an explanation and for assistance, he had disappeared.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000017_000001|It was only from a private source that mr de Leval learned that the trial was under way, and that the death sentence had been given.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000017_000003|She was dressed in her nurse's uniform and wore the badge of the Red Cross.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000018_000000|When mr Whitlock learned that she had been tried and sentenced to death he did everything possible to secure her pardon, or at least a moderation of the punishment.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000019_000000|"My dear Baron:
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000020_000000|"I am too ill to present my request to you in person, but I appeal to your generosity of heart to support it and save this unfortunate woman from death.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000020_000001|Have pity on her.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000021_000000|"BRAND WHITLOCK."
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000022_000000|All through the day the American Legation sent message after message to the German authorities asking for information.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000022_000004|Von Bissing to mitigate the sentence, and at eleven in the evening he was told that Von Bissing refused to do anything to save Miss Cavell's life.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000023_000001|She told him that she was not in the least afraid of death and willingly gave her life for her country.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000023_000002|Her words resembled those of Florence Nightingale that have been quoted elsewhere in this book.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000023_000003|Death, she said, was well known to her, and she had seen it so often that it was not strange or fearful to her.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000024_000001|She wore an English flag over her bosom. Only Germans were witnesses of the execution, but the German chaplain who attended said that she died like a heroine.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000025_000000|When her death became known, the entire civilized world was shocked and horrified.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000025_000001|In England this murder did more to stimulate recruiting than anything else up to that time.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000025_000002|All day long lines of men waited to sign the papers of enlistment, and in Miss Cavell's home town every eligible man was sworn into the army.
train-clean-100/696/92939/696_92939_000026_000001|After the execution they refused to return the body.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000001_000000|The two were alone in the grassy courtyard of the ruined castle.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000001_000001|The rest of the picnic party had wandered away from them, or they from it. Out of the green grown mound of fallen masonry by the corner of the chapel a great may bush grew, silvered and pearled on every scented, still spray.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000001_000002|The sky was deep, clear, strong blue above, and against the blue, the wallflowers shone bravely from the cracks and crevices of ruined arch and wall and buttress.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000002_000000|"They shine like gold," she said.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000003_000000|"Do you want some?" he said, and on the instant his hand had found a strong jutting stone, his foot a firm ledge-and she saw his figure, grey flannel against grey stone, go up the wall towards the yellow flowers.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000004_000000|"Oh, don't!" she cried.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000000|Then she stopped, because he was already some twelve feet from the ground, and she knew that one should not speak to a man who is climbing ruined walls.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000001|So she clasped her hands and waited, and her heart seemed to go out like a candle in the wind, and to leave only a dark, empty, sickening space where, a moment before, it had beat in anxious joy.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000002|For she loved him, had loved him these two years, had loved him since the day of their first meeting.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000003|And that was just as long as he had loved her.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000004|But he had never told his love.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000005|There is a code of honour, right or wrong, and it forbids a man with an income of a hundred and fifty a year to speak of love to a girl who is reckoned an heiress.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000006|There are plenty who transgress the code, but they are in all the other stories.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000007|He drove his passion on the curb, and mastered it.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000008|Yet the questions-Does she love me?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000009|Does she know I love her?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000010|Does she wonder why I don't speak? and the counter questions-Will she think I don't care?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000011|Doesn't she perhaps care at all?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000012|Will she marry someone else before I've earned the right to try to make her love me? afforded a see saw of reflection, agonising enough, for those small hours of wakefulness when we let our emotions play the primitive games with us.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000013|But always the morning brought strength to keep to his resolution.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000014|He saw her three times a year, when Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer brought her to stay with an aunt, brought him home to his people for holidays.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000015|And though he had denied himself the joy of speaking in words, he had let his eyes speak more than he knew.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000016|And now he had reached the wallflowers high up, and was plucking them and throwing them down so that they fell in a wavering bright shower round her feet.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000017|She did not pick them up.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000005_000018|Her eyes were on him; and the empty place where her heart used to be seemed to swell till it almost choked her.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000000|He was coming down now.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000001|He was only about twenty five feet from the ground.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000002|There was no sound at all but the grating of his feet as he set them on the stones, and the movement, now and then, of a bird in the ivy.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000003|Then came a rustle, a gritty clatter, loud falling stones: his foot had slipped, and he had fallen.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000005|He was moving along now, slowly-hanging by his hands; now he grasped an ivy root-another-and pulled himself up till his knee was on the moulding of the arch.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000006|She would never have believed anyone who had told her that only two minutes had been lived between the moment of his stumble and the other moment when his foot touched the grass and he came towards her among the fallen wallflowers.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000006_000007|She was a very nice girl and not at all forward, and I cannot understand or excuse her conduct.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000007_000000|Even then he tried to be strong.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000008_000000|"Don't!" he said tenderly, "don't worry.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000008_000001|It's all right-I was a fool. Pull yourself together-there's someone coming."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000009_000000|"I don't care," she said, for the touch of his cheek, pressed against her hair, told her all that she wanted to know.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000009_000001|"Let them come, I don't care!
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000009_000002|Oh, how could you be so silly and horrid?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000009_000003|Oh, thank God, thank God!
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000009_000004|Oh, how could you?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000010_000000|Of course, a really honourable young man would have got out of the situation somehow.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000010_000001|He didn't.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000010_000002|He accepted it, with his arms round her and his lips against the face where the tears now ran warm and salt.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000011_000000|The picture was charming, too-a picture to wring the heart of the onlooker with envy, or sympathy, according to his nature.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000011_000001|But there was only one onlooker, a man of forty, or thereabouts, who paused for an instant under the great gate of the castle and took in the full charm and meaning of the scene.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000011_000002|He turned away, and went back along the green path with hell in his heart.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000011_000003|The other two were in Paradise.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000011_000005|Two miles away he stopped and lit a pipe.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000001|I ought to be glad.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000002|Anyway, I can't stop it." Perhaps he swore a little.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000003|If he did, the less precise and devotional may pardon him.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000004|He had loved the Girl since her early teens, and it was only yesterday's post that had brought him the appointment that one might marry on.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000005|The appointment had come through her father, for whom the Onlooker had fagged at Eton.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000006|He went back to London, hell burning briskly.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000012_000007|Moral maxims and ethereal ideas notwithstanding, it was impossible for him to be glad that she was happy-like that.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000001|So he took next day a much earlier train than was at all pleasant, and called on her father to explain his position and set forth his prospects.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000002|His coming was heralded by a letter from her.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000003|One must not quote it-it is not proper to read other people's letters, especially letters to a trusted father, from a child, only and adored.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000004|Its effect may be indicated briefly.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000005|It showed the father that the Girl's happiness had had two long years in which to learn to grow round the thought of the young man, whom he now faced for the first time.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000006|Odd, for to the father he seemed just like other young men.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000007|It seemed to him that there were so many more of the same pattern from whom she might have chosen.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000008|And many of them well off, too.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000009|However, the letter lay in the prosperous pocket book in the breast of the father's frock coat, and the Lover was received as though that letter were a charm to ensure success.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000013_000010|A faulty, or at least a slow working, charm, however, for the father did not lift a bag of gold from his safe and say: "Take her, take this also-be happy"--he only consented to a provisional engagement, took an earnest interest in the young man's affairs, and offered to make his daughter an annual allowance on her marriage.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000014_000000|"At my death she will have more," he said, "for, of course, I have insured my life.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000014_000001|You, of course, will insure yours."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000015_000000|"Of course I will," the Lover echoed warmly; "does it matter what office?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000016_000000|"Oh, any good office-the Influential, if you like.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000016_000001|I'm a director, you know."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000017_000000|The young man made a reverent note of the name, and the interview seemed played out.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000018_000000|"It's a complicated nuisance," the father mused; "it isn't even as if I knew anything of the chap.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000018_000001|I oughtn't to have allowed the child to make these long visits to her aunt.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000018_000002|Or I ought to have gone with her.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000018_000003|But I never could stand my sister Fanny.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000018_000004|Well, well," and he went back to his work with the plain unvarnished heartache of the anxious father-not romantic and pretty like the lover's pangs, but as uncomfortable as toothache, all the same.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000019_000000|He had another caller that afternoon; he whom we know as the Onlooker came to thank him for the influence that had got him the appointment as doctor to the Influential Insurance Company.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000020_000000|The father opened his heart to the Onlooker-and the Onlooker had to bear it.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000020_000001|It was an hour full of poignant sentiments.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000020_000002|The only definite thought that came to the Onlooker was this-"I must hold my tongue.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000020_000003|I must hold my tongue." He held it.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000021_000000|Three days later he took up his new work.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000021_000001|And the very first man who came to him for medical examination was the man in whose arms he had seen the girl he loved.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000022_000000|The Onlooker asked the first needful questions automatically.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000022_000001|To himself he was saying: "The situation is dramatically good; but I don't see how to develop the action.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000023_000000|The Onlooker had never done anything wronger than you have done, my good reader, and he never expected to meet a giant temptation, any more than you do.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000023_000002|On the other hand, Apollyon may be waiting for one round the corner of the next street.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000023_000003|The devil was waiting for the Onlooker in the answers to his careless questions-"Father alive?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000023_000005|What did he die of?" For the answer was "Heart," and in it the devil rose and showed the Onlooker the really only true and artistic way to develop the action in this situation, so dramatic in its possibilities.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000023_000006|The illuminative flash of temptation was so sudden, so brilliant, that the Doctor Onlooker closed his soul's eyes and yielded without even the least pretence of resistance.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000024_000000|He took his stethoscope from the table, and he felt as though he had picked up a knife to stab the other man in the back.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000024_000001|As, in fact, he had.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000025_000000|Ten minutes later, the stabbed man was reeling from the Onlooker's consulting room.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000026_000000|He walked down the street, certain words ringing in his ears-"Heart affected-probably hereditary weakness.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000026_000001|No office in the world would insure you."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000027_000000|And so it was all over-the dreams, the hopes, the palpitating faith in a beautiful future.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000027_000001|His days might be long, they might be brief; but be his life long or short, he must live it alone.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000027_000002|He had a little fight with himself as he went down Wimpole Street; then he hailed a hansom, and went and told her father, who quite agreed with him that it was all over.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000028_000000|Then the Lover went and told the Girl.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000028_000002|She said it, of course, with her dear arms round his neck.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000029_000000|"I won't give you up just because you're ill," she said; "why, you want me more than ever!"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000030_000000|"But I may die at any moment."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000031_000000|"So may I! And you may live to be a hundred-I'll take my chance.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000032_000000|"It's impossible," he said, "it's no good.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000032_000001|I must set my teeth and bear it.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000032_000002|And you-I hope it won't be as hard for you as it will for me."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000034_000000|His smile struck her dumb.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000000|"Because I won't; because it's wrong.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000001|My father ought never to have married.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000002|He had no right to bring me into the world to suffer like this. It's a crime.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000003|And I'll not be a criminal.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000004|Not even for you-not even for you.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000005|You'll forgive me-won't you?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000036_000006|I didn't know-and-oh, what's the use of talking?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000037_000000|Yet they talked for hours.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000037_000003|It was for the last time-the last, last time.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000037_000004|There was really a third at that interview.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000038_000000|They parted.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000039_000000|And now the Onlooker dared not meet her-dared not call at the house as he had used to do.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000039_000001|At last-the father pressed him-he went.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000039_000002|He met her. And it was as though he had met the ghost of her whom he had loved.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000039_000003|Her eyes had blue marks under them, her chin had grown more pointed, her nose sharper.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000039_000004|There was a new line on her forehead, and her eyes had changed.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000041_000000|"I suppose it was you who saw him, by the way," said he, "a tall, well set-up young fellow-dark-not bad looking."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000042_000000|"I-I don't remember," lied the Onlooker, with the eyes of his memory on the white face of the man he had stabbed.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000043_000000|Now the Lover and the Onlooker had each his own burden to bear.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000043_000002|He worked still, though there was now nothing to work for more; he worked as he had never worked in his life, because he knew that if he did not take to work he should take to drink or worse devils, and he set his teeth and swore that her Lover should not be degraded.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000043_000003|He knew that she loved him, and there was a kind of fierce pain pleasure-like that of scratching a sore-in the thought that she was as wretched as he was, that, divided in all else, they were yet united in their suffering.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000043_000005|But it didn't.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000043_000007|Then he had to wake up.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000043_000008|And that was bad.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000000|But the Onlooker was no dreamer, and he saw her about three times a week.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000001|He saw how the light of life that his lying lips had blown out was not to be rekindled by his or any man's breath.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000002|He saw her slenderness turn to thinness, the pure, healthy pallor of her rounded cheek change to a sickly white, covering a clear cut mask of set endurance.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000003|And there was no work that could shut out that sight-no temptation of the world, the flesh, or the devil to give him even the relief of a fight.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000004|He had no temptations; he had never had but the one.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000005|His soul was naked to the bitter wind of the actual; and the days went by, went by, and every day he knew more and more surely that he had lied and thrown away his soul, and that the wages of sin were death, and no other thing whatever.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000044_000006|And gradually, little by little, the whole worth of life seemed to lie in the faint, far chance of his being able to undo the one triumphantly impulsive and unreasoning action of his life.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000045_000000|But there are some acts that there is no undoing.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000046_000000|And at last, out of hell, the Onlooker reached out his hands and caught at prayer.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000046_000001|He caught at it as a drowning man catches at a white gleam in the black of the surging sea about him-it may be a painted spar, it may be empty foam.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000046_000002|The Onlooker prayed.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000047_000000|And that very evening he ran up against the Lover at the Temple Station, and he got into the same carriage with him.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000048_000000|He said, "Excuse me.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000048_000001|You don't remember me?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000049_000000|"I'm not likely to have forgotten you," said the Lover.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000050_000000|"I fear my verdict was a great blow.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000050_000001|You look very worried, very ill. News like that is a great shock."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000052_000000|"Are you still going on with your usual work?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000053_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000054_000000|"Speaking professionally, I think you are wrong.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000054_000001|You lessen your chances of life!
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000054_000002|Why don't you try a complete change?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000055_000000|"Because-if you must know, my chances of life have ceased to interest me."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000056_000000|The Lover was short with the Onlooker; but he persisted.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000057_000000|"Well, if one isn't interested in one's life, one may be interested in one's death-or the manner of it.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000057_000001|In your place, I should enlist.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000058_000000|That roused the Lover, as it was meant to do.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000059_000000|"I don't really know what business it is of yours, sir," he said; "but it's your business to know that they wouldn't pass a man with a heart like mine."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000060_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000060_000001|They're not so particular just now.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000060_000002|They want men.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000060_000003|I should try it if I were you.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000060_000004|If you don't have a complete change you'll go all to pieces.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000060_000005|That's all."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000061_000000|The Onlooker got out at the next station.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000061_000001|Short of owning to his own lie, he had done what he could to insure its being found out for the lie it was-or, at least, for a mistake.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000061_000003|You will have to eat your lie. Yes-though it will smash your life and ruin you socially and professionally.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000061_000004|You will have to tell him you lied-and tell him why. You will never let him go to South Africa without telling him the truth-and you know it."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000062_000000|"Well-you know best, I suppose," he said to himself.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000063_000000|"But are you perfectly certain?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000064_000000|"Perfectly.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000064_000001|I tell you, man, you're sound's a bell, and a fine fathom of a young man ye are, too.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000064_000002|Certain?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000064_000004|Yer hairt's as sound's a roach. T'other man must ha' been asleep when ye consulted him.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000064_000005|Ye'll mak' a fine soldier, my lad."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000065_000000|"I think not," said the Lover-and he went out from the presence.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000065_000001|This time he reeled like a man too drunk to care how drunk he looks.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000066_000000|He drove in cabs from Harley Street to Wimpole Street, and from Wimpole Street to Brooke Street-and he saw Sir William this and Sir Henry that, and mr The other thing, the great heart specialist.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000067_000000|And then he bought a gardenia, and went home and dressed himself in his most beautiful frock coat and his softest white silk tie, and put the gardenia in his button hole-and went to see the Girl.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000068_000000|"Looks like as if he was going to a wedding," said his landlady.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000069_000000|When he had told the Girl everything, and when she was able to do anything but laugh and cry and cling to him with thin hands, she said-
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000070_000000|"Dear-I do so hate to think badly of anyone.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000070_000001|But do you really think that man was mistaken?
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000070_000002|He's very, very clever."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000071_000000|"My child-Sir Henry-and Sir William and mr--"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000072_000003|Thank God!
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000072_000004|Oh, thank God!
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000072_000005|I mean, don't you think he may have lied to you to prevent your-marrying me?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000073_000000|"But why should he?"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000074_000000|"He asked me to marry him three weeks ago.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000074_000002|I do hate to be suspicious-but-it is odd.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000074_000003|And then his trying to get you to South Africa.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000074_000005|He wanted you to get killed.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000074_000006|Oh, how can people be so cruel!"
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000075_000000|"I believe you're right," said the Lover thoughtfully; "I couldn't have believed that a man could be base like that, through and through.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000076_000000|"You ought to expose him."
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000077_000000|"Not I-we'll just cut him.
train-clean-100/696/93314/696_93314_000077_000001|That's all I'll trouble to do.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000001_000000|"That was a great success," said mrs Munger, as they drove away.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000001_000001|Annie said nothing, and she added, "Don't you think so?"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000002_000000|"Well, I confess," said Annie, "I don't see how, exactly.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000002_000001|Do you mean with regard to mr Gerrish?"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000003_000000|"Oh no; I don't care anything about him," said mrs Munger, touching her pony with the tip of her whip lash.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000003_000001|"He's an odious little creature, and I knew that he would go for the dance and supper because mr Peck was opposed to them.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000003_000002|He's one of the anti Peck party in his church, and that is the reason I spoke to him.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000003_000003|But I meant the other gentlemen.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000003_000004|You saw how they took it."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000004_000000|"I saw that they both made fun of it," said Annie.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000005_000000|"Yes; that's just the point.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000005_000001|It's so fortunate they were frank about it.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000005_000002|It throws a new light on it; and if that's the way nice people are going to look at it, why, we must give up the idea.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000005_000003|I'm quite prepared to do so.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000005_000004|But I want to see mrs Wilmington first."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000006_000000|"mrs Munger," said Annie uneasily, "I would rather not see mrs Wilmington with you on this subject; I should be of no use."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000007_000001|"As mrs Wilmington's old friend, you will have the greatest influence with her."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000008_000000|"But I don't know that I wish to influence her in favour of the supper and dance; I don't know that I believe in them," said Annie, cowed and troubled by the affair.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000009_000001|I will put the case to her."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000010_000000|She checked the pony before the bar which the flagman at the railroad crossing had let down, while a long freight train clattered deafeningly by, and then drove bumping and jouncing across the tracks.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000011_000000|"Oh yes," said Annie, with a smile.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000011_000001|"Social perdition at the least.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000012_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000012_000002|mr Wilmington has built a very fine house on this side, and there are several pretty Queen Anne cottages going up."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000013_000000|They drove along under the elms which here stood somewhat at random about the wide, grassless street, between the high, windowy bulks of the shoe shops and hat shops.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000013_000001|The dust gradually freed itself from the cinders about the tracks, and it hardened into a handsome, newly made road beyond the houses of the shop hands.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000013_000002|They passed some open lots, and then, on a pleasant rise of ground, they came to a stately residence, lifted still higher on its underpinning of granite blocks.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000013_000003|It was built in a Boston suburban taste of twenty years ago, with a lofty mansard roof, and it was painted the stone grey colour which was once esteemed for being so quiet. The lawn before it sloped down to the road, where it ended smoothly at the brink of a neat stone wall.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000013_000004|A black asphalt path curved from the steps by which you mounted from the street to the steps by which you mounted to the heavy portico before the massive black walnut doors.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000015_000000|"Why, Annie," she said, "how glad I am to see you!
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000015_000001|And you too, mrs Munger.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000015_000003|She moved lazily about and got them into chairs, and was not resentful when mrs Munger broke out with "How hot you have it!" "Have we? We had the furnace lighted yesterday, and we've been in all the morning, and so we hadn't noticed.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000016_000000|The young fellow bowed silently, and Annie instantly took a dislike to him, his heavy jaw, long eyes, and low forehead almost hidden under a thick bang.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000016_000001|He sat down cornerwise on a chair, and listened, with a scornful thrust of his thick lips, to their talk.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000017_000001|She opened her budget with all her robust authority, and once more put Annie to shame.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000017_000002|When she came to the question of the invited supper and dance, and having previously committed mrs Wilmington in favour of the general scheme, asked her what she thought of that part, mr Jack Wilmington answered for her-
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000018_000000|"I should think you had a right to do what you please about it.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000018_000001|It's none of the hands' business if you don't choose to ask them."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000019_000000|"Yes, that's what any one would think-in the abstract," said mrs Munger.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000020_000001|You let your aunty speak for herself.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000020_000002|I don't know about not letting the hands stay to the dance and supper, mrs Munger.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000020_000003|You know I might feel 'put upon.' I used to be one of the hands myself.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000020_000004|Yes, Annie, there was a time after you went away, and after father died, when I actually fell so low as to work for an honest living."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000021_000000|"I think I heard, Lyra," said Annie; "but I had forgotten." The fact, in connection with what had been said, made her still more uncomfortable.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000022_000000|"Well, I didn't work very hard, and I didn't have to work long.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000022_000001|But I was a hand, and there's no use trying to deny it.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000022_000002|As mr Putney says, he and I have our record, and we don't have to make any pretences.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000022_000003|And the question is, whether I ought to go back on my fellow hands."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000023_000001|You were not brought up to it; it was just temporary; and besides-"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000024_000000|"And besides, there was mr Wilmington, I know.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000024_000001|He was very opportune.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000024_000002|I might have been a hand at this moment if mr Wilmington had not come along and invited me to be a head-the head of his house.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000026_000000|"Yes," mrs Munger broke in; "but they were not your beginnings, mrs Wilmington; they were your incidents-your accidents."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000027_000000|"It's very pretty of you to say so, mrs Munger," drawled mrs Wilmington. "But I guess I must oppose the little invited dance and supper, on principle.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000027_000001|We all like to be consistent, as Annie says-even if we're inconsistent in the attempt," she added, with a laugh.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000028_000001|As I said to Miss Kilburn on our way here, 'if mrs Wilmington is opposed to them, we'll drop them.'"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000029_000000|"Oh, am I such an influential person?" said mrs Wilmington, with a shrug. "It's rather awful-isn't it, Annie?"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000030_000000|"Not at all!" mrs Munger answered for Annie.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000030_000001|"We've just been talking the matter over with mr Putney and dr Morrell, and they're both opposed. You're merely the straw that breaks the camel's back, mrs Wilmington."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000031_000001|That's a great relief."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000033_000000|"Well, I must think about that, and I must ask mr Wilmington.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000033_000001|Jack," she called over her shoulder to the young man at the window, "do you think your uncle would approve of me as Juliet's Nurse?"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000035_000000|"Well," said mrs Wilmington, with another laugh, "I'll think it over, mrs Munger."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000036_000000|"Thank you," said mrs Munger.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000036_000001|"And now we must really be going," she added, pulling out her watch by its leathern guard.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000037_000000|"Not till you've had lunch," said mrs Wilmington, rising with the ladies. "You must stay.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000037_000001|Annie, I shall not excuse you."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000038_000000|"Well," said mrs Munger, complying without regard to Annie, "all this diplomacy is certainly very exhausting."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000039_000001|"Will you join us, Jack?"
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000040_000000|"No; I'm going to the office," said the nephew, bowing himself out of the room.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000041_000000|"Jack's learning to be superintendent," said mrs Wilmington, lifting her teasing voice to make him hear her in the hall, "and he's been spending the whole morning here."
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000042_000000|In the richly appointed dining room-a glitter of china and glass and a mass of carven oak-the table was laid for two.
train-clean-100/7059/77897/7059_77897_000043_000000|"Put another plate, Norah," said mrs Wilmington carelessly.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000002_000000|twelve.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000003_000002|She asked her how she ever came to take up the Social Union, and answered for her that of course it had the attraction of the theatricals, and went on to talk of her sister's part in them.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000006_000002|I've just got my new phaeton, and I drove up at once to crush you with it.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000006_000003|Isn't it a beauty?"
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000007_000000|"You're too late, Lyra," said Annie.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000007_000001|"I've just come from the Northwicks, and another crushing beauty has got in ahead of your phaeton."
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000009_000000|"Why is that girl going to take part in the theatricals?
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000010_000000|"I didn't know that people took part in theatricals for that, Annie.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000010_000001|I thought they wanted to please themselves and mortify others.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000012_000000|"Well, I don't know; they're opposites.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000012_000002|I want you to take a drive with me, and try my new phaeton," said Lyra, coming out.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000013_000000|Annie now looked at it with that irresolution of hers, and Lyra commanded: "Get right in.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000013_000001|We'll go down to the Works.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000013_000002|You've never met my husband yet; have you, Annie?"
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000014_000000|"No, I haven't, Lyra.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000014_000002|He seems to have been perpetually just gone to town, or not got back."
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000015_000000|"Well, he's really at home now.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000015_000001|And I don't mean at the house, which isn't home to him, but the Works.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000015_000002|You've never seen the Works either, have you?"
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000016_000000|"No, I haven't."
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000017_000000|"Well, then, we'll just go round there, and kill two birds with one stone. I ought to show off my new phaeton to mr Wilmington first of all; he gave it to me.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000017_000001|It would be kind of conjugal, or filial, or something.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000020_000001|It was not imposingly large, but, as mrs Wilmington caused Annie to observe, it was as big as the hat shops and as ugly as the shoe shops.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000023_000000|"George, I want to introduce you to Miss Kilburn."
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000024_000003|I've often heard my wife speak of your old days together at Hatboro'."
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000025_000000|They fenced with some polite feints of interest in each other, the old man standing beside his writing table, and staying himself with a shaking hand upon it.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000026_000000|Lyra interrupted them.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000027_000000|"Oh-oh-decidedly!
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000027_000001|I'll go with you, with great pleasure.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000027_000004|At the outer office door they encountered Jack Wilmington.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000028_000000|"I'll show them through," he said to his uncle; and the old man assented with, "Well, perhaps you'd better, Jack," and went back to his room.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000029_000000|The Wilmington Stocking Mills spun their own threads, and the first room was like what Annie had seen before in cotton factories, with a faint smell of oil from the machinery, and a fine snow of fluff in the air, and catching to the white washed walls and the foul window sashes.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000029_000001|The tireless machines marched back and forth across the floor, and the men who watched them with suicidal intensity ran after them barefooted when they made off with a broken thread, spliced it, and then escaped from them to their stations again.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000029_000002|In other rooms, where there was a stunning whir of spindles, girls and women were at work; they looked after Lyra and her nephew from under cotton frowsed bangs; they all seemed to know her, and returned her easy, kindly greetings with an effect of liking.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000029_000004|But her mind wandered to the men and women who were operating it, and who seemed no more a voluntary part of it than all the rest, except when Jack Wilmington curtly ordered them to do this or that in illustration of some point he was explaining.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000029_000005|She wearied herself, as people do in such places, in expressing her wonder at the ingenuity of the machinery; it was a relief to get away from it all into the room, cool and quiet, where half a dozen neat girls were counting and stamping the stockings with different numbers.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000030_000000|When they left the mill she asked Annie to come home to tea with her, saying, as if from a perception of her dislike for the young fellow, that Jack was going to Boston.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000031_000002|She talked freely of her marriage, not as if it were like others, but for what it was. She showed Annie over the house, and she ended with a display of the rich dresses which he was always buying her, and which she never wore, because she never went anywhere.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000032_000002|She said she studied music a little, and confessed that she read a good deal, novels mostly, though the library was handsomely equipped with well bound general literature.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000033_000000|At moments it all seemed no harm; at others, the luxury in which this life was so contentedly sunk oppressed Annie like a thick, close air.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000036_000000|"Don't you think, Annie, we'd better refer him to mr Peck?
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000040_000000|"Oh, it's at the rehearsals, you know, that the fun is, and then it don't matter what part you have."
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000041_000001|She was sure that she ought not to like Lyra if she did not approve of her, and that she ought not to have gone home to tea with her and spent the evening with her unless she fully respected her.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000041_000002|But she had to own to herself that she did like her, and enjoyed hearing her soft drawl.
train-clean-100/7059/77900/7059_77900_000041_000003|She tried to think how Jack Wilmington's having gone to Boston for the evening made it somehow less censurable for her to spend it with Lyra, even if she did not approve of her.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000002_000000|CALIFORNIA AND AMERICA
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000000|The moving picture captains of industry, like the California gold finders of eighteen forty nine, making colossal fortunes in two or three years, have the same glorious irresponsibility and occasional need of the sheriff.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000002|Around Los Angeles the greatest and most characteristic moving picture colonies are being built.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000003|Each photoplay magazine has its California letter, telling of the putting up of new studios, and the transfer of actors, with much slap you on the back personal gossip.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000004|This is the outgrowth of the fact that every type of the photoplay but the intimate is founded on some phase of the out of doors.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000005|Being thus dependent, the plant can best be set up where there is no winter.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000006|Besides this, the Los Angeles region has the sea, the mountains, the desert, and many kinds of grove and field. Landscape and architecture are sub tropical.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000003_000007|But for a description of California, ask any traveller or study the background of almost any photoplay.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000004_000000|If the photoplay is the consistent utterance of its scenes, if the actors are incarnations of the land they walk upon, as they should be, California indeed stands a chance to achieve through the films an utterance of her own.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000004_000001|Will this land furthest west be the first to capture the inner spirit of this newest and most curious of the arts?
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000004_000002|It certainly has the opportunity that comes with the actors, producers, and equipment.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000004_000003|Let us hope that every region will develop the silent photographic pageant in a local form as outlined in the chapter on Progress and Endowment.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000004_000004|Already the California sort, in the commercial channels, has become the broadly accepted if mediocre national form. People who revere the Pilgrim Fathers of sixteen twenty have often wished those gentlemen had moored their bark in the region of Los Angeles rather than Plymouth Rock, that Boston had been founded there.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000004_000005|At last that landing is achieved.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000005_000000|Patriotic art students have discussed with mingled irony and admiration the Boston domination of the only American culture of the nineteenth century, namely, literature.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000005_000001|Indianapolis has had her day since then, Chicago is lifting her head.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000005_000002|Nevertheless Boston still controls the text book in English and dominates our high schools.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000005_000003|Ironic feelings in this matter on the part of western men are based somewhat on envy and illegitimate cussedness, but are also grounded in the honest hope of a healthful rivalry.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000005_000005|Whatever may be said of the patriarchs, from Oliver Wendell Holmes to amos Bronson Alcott, they were true sons of the New England stone fences and meeting houses.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000005_000006|They could not have been born or nurtured anywhere else on the face of the earth.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000006_000002|Yet there is a difference.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000007_000000|The present day man in the street, man about town Californian has an obvious magnificence about him that is allied to the eucalyptus tree, the pomegranate.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000007_000001|California is a gilded state.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000007_000002|It has not the sordidness of gold, as has Wall Street, but it is the embodiment of the natural ore that the ragged prospector finds.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000007_000003|The gold of California is the color of the orange, the glitter of dawn in the Yosemite, the hue of the golden gate that opens the sunset way to mystic and terrible Cathay and Hindustan.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000008_000001|He declares it is as though it were painted on a Brobdingnagian piece of gilt paper, and he who dampens his finger and thrusts it through finds an alkali valley on the other side, the lonely prickly pear, and a heap of ashes from a deserted camp fire.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000008_000002|He says the citizens of this state lack the richness of an aesthetic and religious tradition.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000008_000003|He says there is no substitute for time.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000008_000004|But even these things make for coincidence.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000008_000007|It is thrillingly possible for the state and the art to acquire spiritual tradition and depth together.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000009_000000|Part of the thinness of California is not only its youth, but the result of the physical fact that the human race is there spread over so many acres of land.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000009_000002|They shout their statistics across the Rockies and the deserts to New York.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000009_000004|His fellow feeling is for the opposite coast line.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000009_000006|Then he tries gestures, and becomes flamboyant, rococo.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000010_000000|These are the defects of the motion picture qualities also.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000010_000002|As an institution it advertises itself with the sweeping gesture.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000010_000003|It has the same passion for coast line.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000010_000005|When, in the hands of masters, they become sources of strength, they will be a different set of virtues from those of New England.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000011_000000|There is no more natural place for the scattering of confetti than this state, except the moving picture scene itself.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000011_000001|Both have a genius for gardens and dancing and carnival.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000012_000004|But the Californian cannot shout "orange blossoms, orange blossoms; heliotrope, heliotrope!" He cannot boom forth "roseleaves, roseleaves" so that he does their beauties justice.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000012_000005|Here is where the photoplay can begin to give him a more delicate utterance.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000012_000006|And he can go on into stranger things and evolve all the Splendor Films into higher types, for the very name of California is splendor.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000012_000007|The California photo playwright can base his Crowd Picture upon the city worshipping mobs of San Francisco.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000012_000008|He can derive his Patriotic and Religious Splendors from something older and more magnificent than the aisles of the Romanesque, namely: the groves of the giant redwoods.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000013_000000|The campaign for a beautiful nation could very well emanate from the west coast, where with the slightest care grow up models for all the world of plant arrangement and tree luxury.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000013_000001|Our mechanical East is reproved, our tension is relaxed, our ugliness is challenged every time we look upon those garden paths and forests.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000014_000000|It is possible for Los Angeles to lay hold of the motion picture as our national text book in Art as Boston appropriated to herself the guardianship of the national text books of Literature.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000014_000002|Edwin Markham, the dean of American singers, Clark Ashton Smith, the young star treader, George Sterling, that son of Ancient Merlin, have in their songs the seeds of better scenarios than California has sent us.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000014_000004|These poems are The Night Sentries and Tidal King of Nations.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000015_000001|Then there is the lovely unforgotten Nora May French and the austere Edward Rowland Sill.
train-clean-100/7059/88364/7059_88364_000016_000001|He has invented the new printing.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000001_000000|Section six
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000002_000000|After twenty four eventful hours our two students of human motives found themselves together again by the fireplace in the Old George smoking room.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000002_000001|They had resumed their overnight conversation, in a state of considerable tension.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000003_000000|"If you find the accommodation of the car insufficient," said Sir Richmond in a tone of extreme reasonableness, and I admit it is, we can easily hire a larger car in a place like this.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000004_000000|I would not care if you hired an omnibus, said dr Martineau.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000005_000000|"But if you consider it scandalous-and really, Martineau, really!
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000006_000000|"Thought is one matter.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000006_000001|Rash, inconsiderate action quite another.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000008_000000|"We might drop Belinda," he suggested turning to his friend and speaking in low, confidential tones.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000008_000001|"She is quite a manageable person.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000008_000002|Quite. She could-for example-be left behind with the luggage and sent on by train.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000009_000001|For a moment he had a wild hope that his companion would agree, and then he perceived that the doctor's silence meant only the preparation of an ultimatum.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000010_000000|"I object to Miss Grammont and that side of the thing, more than I do to Miss Seyffert."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000011_000000|Sir Richmond said nothing.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000012_000000|"It may help you to see this affair from a slightly different angle if I tell you that twice today Miss Seyffert has asked me if you were a married man."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000013_000000|"And of course you told her I was."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000014_000000|"On the second occasion."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000015_000000|Sir Richmond smiled again.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000016_000000|"Frankly," said the doctor, "this adventure is altogether uncongenial to me.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000016_000002|This highway coupling-"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000017_000001|Her manners suggest a person of considerable self control.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000017_000002|And knowing less of me than you do, she probably regards me as almost as safe as-a maiden aunt say.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000017_000003|I'm twice her age.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000017_000004|We are a party of four. There are conventions, there are considerations....
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000019_000000|"I want to go on talking to Miss Grammont for a day or so," Sir Richmond admitted.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000021_000000|There were some moments of silence.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000022_000000|"I am really very sorry to find myself in this dilemma," said Sir Richmond with a note of genuine regret in his voice.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000023_000000|"It is not a dilemma," said dr Martineau, with a corresponding loss of asperity.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000023_000001|"I grant you we discover we differ upon a question of taste and convenience.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000025_000000|"I could have wished," said the doctor, "that these ladies had happened a little later...."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000026_000000|The matter was settled.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000026_000001|Nothing more of a practical nature remained to be said.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000026_000002|But neither gentleman wished to break off with a harsh and bare decision.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000027_000000|"When the New Age is here," said Sir Richmond, "then, surely, a friendship between a man and a woman will not be subjected to the-the inconveniences your present code would set about it?
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000027_000001|They would travel about together as they chose?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000028_000001|In these matters.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000028_000005|In matters of property, economics and public conduct it will probably be just the reverse.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000028_000007|But we are not living in a new age yet; we are living in the patched up ruins of a very old one.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000028_000008|And you-if you will forgive me-are living in the patched up remains of a life that had already had its complications.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000028_000011|This affair, if it goes on for a few days more, may involve very serious consequences indeed, with which I, for one, do not wish to be involved."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000029_000000|Sir Richmond, upon the hearthrug, had a curious feeling that he was back in the head master's study at Caxton.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000030_000000|dr Martineau went on with a lucidity that Sir Richmond found rather trying, to give his impression of Miss Grammont and her position in life.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000031_000000|"She is," he said, "manifestly a very expensively educated girl.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000031_000001|And in many ways interesting.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000031_000002|I have been watching her.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000031_000003|I have not been favoured with very much of her attention, but that fact has enabled me to see her in profile.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000031_000004|Miss Seyffert is a fairly crude mixture of frankness, insincerity and self explanatory egotism, and I have been able to disregard a considerable amount of the conversation she has addressed to me.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000031_000005|Now I guess this Miss Grammont has had no mother since she was quite little."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000032_000000|"Your guesses, doctor, are apt to be pretty good," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000033_000000|"You know that?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000034_000000|"She has told me as much."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000035_000003|I don't think there has been any stepmother, either friendly or hostile? There hasn't been.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000035_000004|I thought not.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000036_000000|Sir Richmond nodded.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000037_000000|"I suppose her father adores and neglects her, and whenever she has wanted a companion or governess butchered, the thing has been done.... These business Americans, I am told, neglect their womenkind, give them money and power, let them loose on the world....
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000037_000001|It is a sort of moral laziness masquerading as affection....
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000037_000002|Still I suppose custom and tradition kept this girl in her place and she was petted, honoured, amused, talked about but not in a harmful way, and rather bored right up to the time when America came into the war.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000037_000003|Theoretically she had a tremendously good time."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000038_000000|"I think this must be near the truth of her biography," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000040_000000|"You don't mean-?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000041_000000|"No, I don't.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000041_000004|That is the sort of thing that gratifies a silly woman extremely.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000041_000005|Miss Grammont is not silly and all this homage and facile approval probably bored her more than she realized.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000041_000009|Those who seek find."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000042_000000|"What do you think she found?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000043_000000|"What would a rich girl find out there in America?
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000043_000001|I don't know.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000043_000002|I haven't the material to guess with.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000044_000000|"In America I suppose there is at least an equal variety, made up of rather different types.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000044_000004|And that somehow the war came to alter the look of that promise.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000045_000000|"How?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000002|But for this young woman I am convinced this expedition to Europe has meant experience, harsh educational experience and very profound mental disturbance.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000003|There have been love experiences; experiences that were something more than the treats and attentions and proposals that made up her life when she was sheltered over there.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000004|And something more than that.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000006|The war has turned an ugly face to her.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000008|Perhaps she has seen people she knew killed.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000009|Perhaps the man has been killed.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000010|Or she has met with cowardice or cruelty or treachery where she didn't expect it.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000011|She has been shocked out of the first confidence of youth.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000012|She has ceased to take the world for granted. It hasn't broken her but it has matured her.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000013|That I think is why history has become real to her.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000014|Which so attracts you in her.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000015|History, for her, has ceased to be a fabric of picturesque incidents; it is the study of a tragic struggle that still goes on.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000046_000017|She is a very grown up young woman.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000047_000000|"It's just that," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000047_000001|"It's just that.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000047_000003|You see the interest of her."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000000|"I see a lot more than that.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000001|You don't know what an advantage it is to be as I am, rather cold and unresponsive to women and unattractive and negligible-negligible, that is the exact word-to them.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000003|Because she looks back at you.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000004|I have the privilege of the negligible-which is a cool head.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000005|Miss Grammont has a startled and matured mind, an original mind.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000006|Yes.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000007|And there is something more to be said.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000048_000008|Her intelligence is better than her character."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000049_000000|"I don't quite see what you are driving at."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000050_000000|"The intelligence of all intelligent women is better than their characters.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000050_000002|Miss Grammont has an impulsive and adventurous character.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000050_000003|And as I have been saying she was a spoilt child, with no discipline....
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000050_000005|She is very much at loose ends.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000050_000006|You-on account of the illness of that rather forgotten lady, Miss Martin Leeds-" "Aren't you rather abusing the secrets of the confessional?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000002|Look at the thing frankly.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000004|Can you deny it?
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000005|My dear sir, don't we both know that ever since we left London you have been ready to fall in love with any pretty thing in petticoats that seemed to promise you three ha'porth of kindness.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000008|Miss Grammont being a woman is a little more selective than that.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000012|You carry marriage and entanglements lightly.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000013|With an air of being neither married nor entangled.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000051_000014|She is quite prepared to fall in love with you."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000052_000000|"But you don't really think that?" said Sir Richmond, with an ill concealed eagerness.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000053_000000|dr Martineau rolled his face towards Sir Richmond.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000053_000001|"These miracles-grotesquely-happen," he said.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000053_000002|"She knows nothing of Martin Leeds....
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000053_000003|You must remember that....
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000054_000000|"And then," he added, "if she and you fall in love, as the phrase goes, what is to follow?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000055_000000|There was a pause.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000056_000000|Sir Richmond looked at his toes for a moment or so as if he took counsel with them and then decided to take offence.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000057_000000|"Really!" he said, "this is preposterous.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000057_000001|You talk of falling in love as though it was impossible for a man and woman to be deeply interested in each other without that.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000057_000002|And the gulf in our ages-in our quality!
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000057_000003|From the Psychologist of a New Age I find this amazing.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000057_000004|Are men and women to go on for ever-separated by this possibility into two hardly communicating and yet interpenetrating worlds?
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000057_000005|Is there never to be friendship and companionship between men and women without passion?"
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000058_000001|For such people as you two anyhow.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000058_000002|And at present the world is not prepared to tolerate friendship and companionship WITH that accompaniment.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000058_000003|That is the core of this situation."
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000059_000000|A pause fell between the two gentlemen.
train-clean-100/7067/76047/7067_76047_000059_000001|They had smoothed over the extreme harshness of their separation and there was very little more to be said.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000009_000000|CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000010_000000|COMPANIONSHIP
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000012_000000|"Well," said dr Martineau, extending his hand to Sir Richmond on the Salisbury station platform, "I leave you to it."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000013_000000|His round face betrayed little or no vestiges of his overnight irritation.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000014_000000|"Ought you to leave me to it?" smiled Sir Richmond.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000015_000000|"I shall be interested to learn what happens."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000016_000000|"But if you won't stay to see!"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000017_000000|"Now Sir, please," said the guard respectfully but firmly, and dr Martineau got in.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000018_000000|Sir Richmond walked thoughtfully down the platform towards the exit.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000019_000000|"What else could I do?" he asked aloud to nobody in particular.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000020_000000|For a little while he thought confusedly of the collapse of his expedition into the secret places of his own heart with dr Martineau, and then his prepossession with Miss Grammont resumed possession of his mind.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000020_000001|dr Martineau was forgotten.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000021_000000|Section two
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000022_000000|For the better part of forty hours, Sir Richmond had either been talking to Miss Grammont, or carrying on imaginary conversations with her in her absence, or sleeping and dreaming dreams in which she never failed to play a part, even if at times it was an altogether amazing and incongruous part.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000022_000001|And as they were both very frank and expressive people, they already knew a very great deal about each other.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000023_000000|For an American Miss Grammont was by no means autobiographical.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000023_000001|She gave no sketches of her idiosyncrasies, and she repeated no remembered comments and prophets of her contemporaries about herself.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000023_000002|She either concealed or she had lost any great interest in her own personality.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000023_000003|But she was interested in and curious about the people she had met in life, and her talk of them reflected a considerable amount of light upon her own upbringing and experiences.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000023_000004|And her liking for Sir Richmond was pleasingly manifest.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000023_000005|She liked his turn of thought, she watched him with a faint smile on her lips as he spoke, and she spread her opinions before him carefully in that soft voice of hers like a shy child showing its treasures to some suddenly trusted and favoured visitor.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000024_000000|Their ways of thought harmonized.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000024_000001|They talked at first chiefly about the history of the world and the extraordinary situation of aimlessness in a phase of ruin to which the Great War had brought all Europe, if not all mankind.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000024_000002|The world excited them both in the same way; as a crisis in which they were called upon to do something-they did not yet clearly know what.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000024_000003|Into this topic they peered as into some deep pool, side by side, and in it they saw each other reflected.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000025_000000|The visit to Avebury had been a great success.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000025_000002|Its delight was particularly manifest in the cream and salad it produced for lunch.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000025_000003|Both Miss Grammont and Miss Seyffert displayed an intelligent interest in their food.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000025_000004|After lunch they had all gone out to the stones and the wall.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000026_000000|Sir Richmond and Miss Grammont had walked round the old circumvallation together, but Belinda Seyffert had strayed away from them, professing an interest in flowers.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000026_000001|It was not so much that she felt they had to be left together that made her do this as her own consciousness of being possessed by a devil who interrupted conversations.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000027_000000|When Miss Grammont was keenly interested in a conversation, then Belinda had learnt from experience that it was wiser to go off with her devil out of the range of any temptation to interrupt.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000028_000000|"You really think," said Miss Grammont, "that it would be possible to take this confused old world and reshape it, set it marching towards that new world of yours-of two hundred and fifty million fully developed, beautiful and happy people?"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000029_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000029_000001|Nobody is doing anything with the world except muddle about. Why not give it a direction?"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000031_000000|"Obdurate clay with a sort of recalcitrant, unintelligent life of its own."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000032_000001|"I believe what you say is possible.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000032_000002|If people dare."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000033_000000|"I am tired of following little motives that are like flames that go out when you get to them.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000033_000001|I am tired of seeing all the world doing the same.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000033_000002|I am tired of a world in which there is nothing great but great disasters.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000033_000003|Here is something mankind can attempt, that we can attempt."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000034_000000|"And will?"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000035_000000|"I believe that as Mankind grows up this is the business Man has to settle down to and will settle down to."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000036_000000|She considered that.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000037_000000|"I've been getting to believe something like this.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000037_000001|But-... it frightens me.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000038_000000|"So we just live like pigs.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000038_000001|Sensible little piggywiggys.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000038_000002|I've got a Committee full of that sort of thing.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000038_000003|We live like little modest pigs. And let the world go hang.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000039_000000|"Not quite that!"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000040_000000|"Well!
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000040_000001|How do you put it?"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000041_000002|We want bright little lives of our own."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000043_000000|"We have a right to life-and happiness.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000000|"First," said Sir Richmond, "as much right as a pig has to food.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000001|But whether we get life and happiness or fail to get them we human beings who have imaginations want something more nowadays....
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000002|Of course we want bright lives, of course we want happiness.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000003|Just as we want food, just as we want sleep.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000004|But when we have eaten, when we have slept, when we have jolly things about us-it is nothing.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000005|We have been made an exception of-and got our rations.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000006|The big thing confronts us still.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000007|It is vast, I agree, but vast as it is it is the thing we have to think about.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000008|I do not know why it should be so, but I am compelled by something in my nature to want to serve this idea of a new age for mankind.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000009|I want it as my culminating want.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000010|I want a world in order, a disciplined mankind going on to greater things.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000044_000011|Don't you?"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000045_000000|"Now you tell me of it," she said with a smile, "I do."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000046_000000|"But before-?"
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000047_000000|"no
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000047_000001|You've made it clear.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000047_000002|It wasn't clear before."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000048_000000|"I've been talking of this sort of thing with my friend dr Martineau. And I've been thinking as well as talking.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000048_000001|That perhaps is why I'm so clear and positive."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000049_000000|"I don't complain that you are clear and positive.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000049_000002|It's refreshing to meet you."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000000|"I found it refreshing to meet Martineau." A twinge of conscience about dr Martineau turned Sir Richmond into a new channel.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000001|"He's a most interesting man," he said.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000002|"Rather shy in some respects.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000003|Devoted to his work.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000004|And he's writing a book which has saturated him in these ideas. Only two nights ago we stood here and talked about it.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000006|The world, he believes, is entering upon a new phase in its history, the adolescence, so to speak, of mankind.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000007|It is an idea that seizes the imagination.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000008|There is a flow of new ideas abroad, he thinks, widening realizations, unprecedented hopes and fears.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000009|There is a consciousness of new powers and new responsibilities.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000011|It is giving history a new and more intimate meaning for us.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000050_000012|It is bringing us into directer relation with public affairs,--making them matter as formerly they didn't seem to matter. That idea of the bright little private life has to go by the board."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000051_000000|"I suppose it has," she said, meditatively, as though she had been thinking over some such question before.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000052_000000|"The private life," she said, "has a way of coming aboard again."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000053_000000|Her reflections travelled fast and broke out now far ahead of him.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000054_000000|"You have some sort of work cut out for you," she said abruptly.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000055_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000055_000001|Yes, I have."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000056_000000|"I haven't," she said.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000057_000000|"So that I go about," she added, "like someone who is looking for something.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000057_000001|I'd like to know if it's not jabbing too searching a question at you-what you have found."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000058_000000|Sir Richmond considered.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000058_000001|"Incidentally," he smiled, "I want to get a lasso over the neck of that very forcible and barbaric person, your father.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000058_000002|I am doing my best to help lay the foundation of a scientific world control of fuel production and distribution.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000058_000003|We have a Fuel Commission in London with rather wide powers of enquiry into the whole world problem of fuel.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000058_000004|We shall come out to Washington presently with proposals."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000059_000000|Miss Grammont surveyed the landscape.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000059_000002|So many of our big business men in America are.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000059_000003|He'll lash out at you."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000060_000000|"I don't mind if only he lashes out openly in the sight of all men."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000061_000000|She considered and turned on Sir Richmond gravely.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000062_000000|"Tell me what you want to do to him.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000062_000001|You find out so many things for me that I seem to have been thinking about in a sort of almost invisible half conscious way.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000062_000002|I've been suspecting for a long time that Civilization wasn't much good unless it got people like my father under some sort of control.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000062_000003|But controlling father-as distinguished from managing him!" She reviewed some private and amusing memories.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000062_000004|"He is a most intractable man."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000063_000000|Section three
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000001|She had had plentiful opportunities for observation in their homes and her own.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000002|Gunter Lake, the big banker, she knew particularly well, because, it seemed, she had been engaged or was engaged to marry him.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000003|"All these people," she said, "are pushing things about, affecting millions of lives, hurting and disordering hundreds of thousands of people.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000004|They don't seem to know what they are doing.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000005|They have no plans in particular....
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000006|And you are getting something going that will be a plan and a direction and a conscience and a control for them?
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000064_000007|You will find my father extremely difficult, but some of our younger men would love it.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000000|"And," she went on; "there are American women who'd love it too.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000001|We're petted.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000002|We're kept out of things.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000003|We aren't placed.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000004|We don't get enough to do.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000005|We're spenders and wasters-not always from choice.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000006|While these fathers and brothers and husbands of ours play about with the fuel and power and life and hope of the world as though it was a game of poker. With all the empty unspeakable solemnity of the male.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000065_000007|And treat us as though we ought to be satisfied if they bring home part of the winnings.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000066_000000|"That can't go on," she said.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000067_000000|Her eyes went back to the long, low, undulating skyline of the downs. She spoke as though she took up the thread of some controversy that had played a large part in her life.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000067_000001|"That isn't going on," she said with an effect of conclusive decision.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000000|Sir Richmond recalled that little speech now as he returned from Salisbury station to the Old George after his farewell to Martineau.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000001|He recalled too the soft firmness of her profile and the delicate line of her lifted chin.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000002|He felt that this time at any rate he was not being deceived by the outward shows of a charming human being.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000003|This young woman had real firmness of character to back up her free and independent judgments.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000004|He smiled at the idea of any facile passion in the composition of so sure and gallant a personality.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000005|Martineau was very fine minded in many respects, but he was an old maid; and like all old maids he saw man and woman in every encounter.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000006|But passion was a thing men and women fell back upon when they had nothing else in common.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000007|When they thought in the pleasantest harmony and every remark seemed to weave a fresh thread of common interest, then it wasn't so necessary.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000008|It might happen, but it wasn't so necessary....
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000009|If it did it would be a secondary thing to companionship.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000068_000010|That's what she was,--a companion.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000070_000000|Her views about America and about her own place in the world seemed equally fresh and original to Sir Richmond.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000000|"I realize I've got to be a responsible American citizen," she had said. That didn't mean that she attached very much importance to her recently acquired vote.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000001|She evidently classified voters into the irresponsible who just had votes and the responsible who also had a considerable amount of property as well.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000002|She had no illusions about the power of the former class.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000003|It didn't exist.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000004|They were steered to their decisions by people employed, directed or stimulated by "father" and his friends and associates, the owners of America, the real "responsible citizens." Or they fell a prey to the merely adventurous leading of "revolutionaries." But anyhow they were steered.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000005|She herself, it was clear, was bound to become a very responsible citizen indeed.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000006|She would some day, she laughed, be swimming in oil and such like property.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000007|Her interest in Sir Richmond's schemes for a scientific world management of fuel was therefore, she realized, a very direct one.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000071_000008|But it was remarkable to find a young woman seeing it like that.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000072_000000|Father it seemed varied very much in his attitude towards her.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000072_000001|He despised and distrusted women generally, and it was evident he had made it quite clear to her how grave an error it was on her part to persist in being a daughter and not a son.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000072_000002|At moments it seemed to Sir Richmond that she was disposed to agree with father upon that.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000072_000005|"After all," he would reflect as he hesitated over the practicability of his life's ideal, "there was Hetty Green."
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000073_000001|She had been entrusted at first to a harvester concern independent of mr Grammont, because he feared his own people wouldn't train her hard.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000073_000002|She had worked for ordinary wages and ordinary hours, and at the end of the day, she mentioned casually, a large automobile with two menservants and a trustworthy secretary used to pick her out from the torrent of undistinguished workers that poured out of the Synoptical Building.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000073_000003|This masculinization idea had also sent her on a commission of enquiry into Mexico.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000073_000004|There apparently she had really done responsible work.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000074_000000|But upon the question of labour mr Grammont was fierce, even for an American business man, and one night at a dinner party he discovered his daughter displaying what he considered an improper familiarity with socialist ideas.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000074_000002|Generally it would seem Miss Grammont liked him, and she had a way of speaking about him that suggested that in some way mr Lake had been rather hardly used and had acquired merit by his behaviour under bad treatment. There was some story, however, connected with her war services in Europe upon which Miss Grammont was evidently indisposed to dwell.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000074_000003|About that story Sir Richmond was left at the end of his Avebury day and after his last talk with dr Martineau, still quite vaguely guessing.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000000|So much fact about Miss Grammont as we have given had floated up in fragments and pieced itself together in Sir Richmond's mind in the course of a day and a half.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000001|The fragments came up as allusions or by way of illustration.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000002|The sustaining topic was this New Age Sir Richmond fore shadowed, this world under scientific control, the Utopia of fully developed people fully developing the resources of the earth.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000003|For a number of trivial reasons Sir Richmond found himself ascribing the project of this New Age almost wholly to dr Martineau, and presenting it as a much completer scheme than he was justified in doing.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000004|It was true that dr Martineau had not said many of the things Sir Richmond ascribed to him, but also it was true that they had not crystallized out in Sir Richmond's mind before his talks with dr Martineau.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000005|The idea of a New Age necessarily carries with it the idea of fresh rules of conduct and of different relationships between human beings.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000075_000006|And it throws those who talk about it into the companionship of a common enterprise. To morrow the New Age will be here no doubt, but today it is the hope and adventure of only a few human beings.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000076_000000|So that it was natural for Miss Grammont and Sir Richmond to ask: "What are we to do with such types as father?" and to fall into an idiom that assumed a joint enterprise.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000076_000001|They had agreed by a tacit consent to a common conception of the world they desired as a world scientifically ordered, an immense organization of mature commonsense, healthy and secure, gathering knowledge and power for creative adventures as yet beyond dreaming.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000076_000002|They were prepared to think of the makers of the Avebury dyke as their yesterday selves, of the stone age savages as a phase, in their late childhood, and of this great world order Sir Richmond foresaw as a day where dawn was already at hand.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000076_000003|And in such long perspectives, the states, governments and institutions of to day became very temporary looking and replaceable structures indeed.
train-clean-100/7067/76048/7067_76048_000076_000004|Both these two people found themselves thinking in this fashion with an unwonted courage and freedom because the other one had been disposed to think in this fashion before.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000003_000000|The success of "The Masked Circe" in last year's Royal Academy was incontestable, not only for the intrinsic beauty of the picture, but from the fact that the personal charms of a handsome woman were perpetuated without compromising her features.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000003_000001|Woman's vanity often outruns her natural diffidence, and the consciousness of her great beauty stifles the conscience of modesty.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000004_000000|Visitors to the Academy know the picture.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000004_000001|Circe, seated on a throne, with her back to a great circular mirror, presents a half draped figure of marvellous delicate colouring and beauty of outline.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000004_000002|One hand holds aloft a golden wine goblet, and the other a tapering wand, while upon the tesselated pavement before the dais purple grapes and yellow roses have been strewn.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000004_000003|The black hair of the daughter of Perseis falls in profusion about her bare shoulders, and strays over her breast, but her features are hidden by a half mask of black silk.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000005_000000|Of the thousands who have gazed upon it in admiration, none knows the somewhat remarkable story connected with it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000006_000000|The studio of my old friend, Dick Carruthers, the man who painted it, is on Campden Hill, Kensington, within a few hundred yards of where I reside, and in the centre of an aesthetic artistic colony.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000006_000001|We have been chums for years, for on many occasions he has displayed his talent as a black and white artist in illustrating my articles and stories in various magazines.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000006_000002|He is a popular painter, and as handsome a man as ever had a picture "on the line."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000007_000001|I was glad of a chat after a hard day's work at my writing table, but his companionship had one drawback.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000007_000002|He drivelled over a girl he loved, and was forever suggesting that I might take her as a character and drag her into the novel upon which I was engaged.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000008_000000|One day he drew a cabinet photograph carefully from his pocket, and placed it upon the blotting pad before me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000009_000000|The girl he loved!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000009_000001|Bah!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000009_000002|I knew her, though I did not tell him so.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000009_000003|She was a dark haired, pink and white beauty that flitted through artistic Bohemia like a butterfly in a hothouse.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000009_000005|I remembered the first time I saw Ethel Broughton, fully five years before.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000009_000006|She wore a soiled pink wrapper, her satin slippers were trodden down at heel, and she had a bottle of champagne at her elbow.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000010_000000|The result of this interview was but natural.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000010_000001|Dazzled by her beauty, I sympathised with her, endeavoured to cheer her, and concluded by falling violently in love with her.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000010_000002|At that time I was writing numbers of dramatic criticisms, and I confess I used what weight my opinions possessed for the purpose of her advancement.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000010_000003|It is needless to refer to the smooth and uninterrupted course of our love.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000011_000000|But, alas! those halcyon days were all too brief.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000011_000001|Suddenly the scales fell from my eyes.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000011_000002|A scene occurred between us-and we parted.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000012_000000|To think that sin should lie for years in the blood, just as arsenic does in a corpse!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000013_000000|When I discovered that Dick Carruthers was wasting the very honest and ardent emotions of his heart at this feverish fairy's shrine, I resolved to take him aside, and, without admitting that I knew her, give him a verbal drubbing.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000013_000001|I did so, but he bit his moustache fiercely, and turned upon me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000015_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000015_000001|I know the type-"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000017_000000|"Very well, Dick, old chap, forget my words," I said.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000017_000001|"I approach your idol in the properly reverential spirit."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000018_000000|"You shall see her before long." His gaze grew bright, soft, and vague, as one who catches glimpses of the floating garments of supernatural mysteries.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000018_000002|Only an artist can appreciate her beauty."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000019_000000|I saw that words were of no avail.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000020_000000|One night, not long after I had expressed my sentiments to him regarding his infatuation, I entered his studio, and found his goddess seated by the fire, with her shapely feet upon the fender, sipping kummel from a tiny glass, and holding a lighted cigarette between her dainty fingers.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000021_000000|Dick flung down his palette, and came forward to introduce me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000021_000002|As I seated myself, and she poured me out a liqueur, I caught her glancing furtively at me under her long lashes.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000021_000005|Yet, as she turned her beautiful face towards me, I was struck by the complete effect of physical and moral frailty that she presented.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000022_000000|She expressed pleasure at meeting me, remarking that she had read my last novel, and had been keenly interested in it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000023_000000|When I had briefly acknowledged the compliment she paid me, she said-
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000024_000000|"One thing always strikes me in reading your stories.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000024_000001|Your women are inevitably false and fickle.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000024_000002|Perhaps, however, you write from personal experience of the failings of my sex," she laughed.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000025_000000|Glancing sharply at her, I saw that her eyes did not waver.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000026_000000|"It is true I once knew a woman who proved false and infamous," I replied, with some emphasis.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000027_000000|"And you avenge yourself by reviling all of us.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000027_000001|It is really too bad!" she said, pouting like a spoiled child.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000029_000000|But I succeeded in turning the conversation into another channel.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000000|Unlocking a drawer in my writing table, I took out a packet of letters that still emitted a stale odour of violets.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000003|It was a cold, formal note, merely a few lines of hurried scrawl, and read: "You are right.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000004|I have been false to you.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000005|Think no more of me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000006|By the time you receive this I shall be on my way to New York; nevertheless, you will be always remembered by yours unworthily- Ethel." Bitter memories of the past overwhelmed me; but at last, growing impatient, and tossing the letters back into the drawer, I strove to forget.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000007|The clock had struck two, and my reading lamp was burning low and sputtering when I rose to retire for the night.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000030_000008|I confess that my frame of mind surprised me, inasmuch as I actually found myself still loving her.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000032_000001|I hope I don't disturb you."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000033_000000|Looking up from my work, I saw Ethel.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000034_000000|"Not at all.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000034_000001|Pray sit down," I said coldly, motioning her to an armchair.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000034_000002|"To what do I owe the honour of this visit?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000035_000000|She pulled off her long gloves, and let her sealskin cape fall at her feet, while I put down my pen, and, rising, stood with my back to the fire.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000038_000000|"No," I said sternly.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000038_000001|"Last night I told you that a woman had embittered my life.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000038_000002|The woman I referred to was yourself."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000039_000000|"Ah," she said, striving to suppress a sob, "Forgive me!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000039_000001|I-I was mad then.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000039_000002|I loved you; but I did not apprehend the consequence."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000040_000001|What nonsense to speak of it, when through your baseness I have been almost ruined.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000040_000002|Think of your actions on the day before you left me; how you took from that drawer a signed blank cheque, with which you drew six hundred pounds,--nearly all the money I possessed,--and then fled with your lover.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000040_000003|Is that the way a woman shows her affection?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000041_000000|Her head was bowed in humiliation.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000042_000000|"Forgive me, Harold," she said, with intense earnestness.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000043_000000|I shook my head sadly.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000044_000001|"At least I am honest.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000044_000002|My object in coming this afternoon was to repay the money I-I borrowed." And she drew forth an envelope from her pocket and handed it to me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000045_000000|"There are notes for six hundred pounds," she added, as I took it and felt the crisp paper inside.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000046_000000|"How did you obtain it?" I asked, hesitating to receive it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000047_000000|"I have earned it honestly, every penny," she replied.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000047_000002|During the years that have gone I have many, many times wondered what had become of you, for in your writings I read plainly how soured and embittered you had become."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000048_000000|"And where is Oranmore?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000049_000000|"Dead.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000049_000001|He contracted typhoid while we were playing in San Francisco, and it terminated fatally."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000050_000000|"Ethel," I said gravely, taking her hand in mine, "you have fascinated Dick Carruthers, my friend; and you will treat him as you treated me."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000051_000000|"No, no I love him," she said in a fierce half whisper, adding, "Keep secret the fact that we loved one another, and I swear before Heaven I will be true to him.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000051_000001|If he marries me, he shall never have cause for regret-never!"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000052_000000|"Suppose I told him?
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000052_000001|What would he think of you?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000053_000000|"You will not!" she cried, clinging to me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000053_000001|"You are too honourable for that.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000053_000002|Promise to keep my secret!"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000054_000000|"For the present I will preserve silence," I answered, my heart softening towards her.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000054_000001|"But I cannot promise that I will never tell him."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000056_000000|"Well, I should suggest that of Circe-the woman who broke men's hearts," I replied, mischievously.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000057_000001|I shall be able to assume that character well," she said, with a grim smile.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000057_000002|"I will tell him."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000058_000000|Spring came and went, but I saw very little of Dick.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000058_000002|Whenever he paid flying visits to London, however, he always looked me up, but, strangely enough, never mentioned Ethel. Nevertheless, I ascertained that they frequently met.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000059_000000|At the close of a blue summer's day, when the dreamy, golden haze wrapped the city in a mystic charm, I called at the studio, having heard that he had returned, and was settling down to work.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000060_000000|When I entered, Dick was standing before his easel, pipe in mouth and crayon in hand, busily sketching; while on the raised "throne" before him sat Ethel, radiant and beautiful.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000060_000001|A tender smile played about her lips.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000060_000002|It seemed as though a happiness-full, complete, perfectly satisfying-had taken possession of her, and lifted her out of herself- out of the world even.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000061_000000|"Welcome, old fellow!" Dick cried, turning to shake hands with me. "Behold my Circe!" and he waved his hand in the direction of his model. "Ethel will not sit for any other subject.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000061_000001|It hardly does her justice- does it?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000062_000000|"It is a strange fancy of mine," she explained, when I had greeted her. "I'm sure the dress is very becoming-isn't it?" And she waved the goblet she was holding above her head.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000063_000000|"Your pose is perfect, dear.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000063_000001|Please don't alter it," urged the artist; who, advancing to his easel again, continued the free, rapid outline.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000065_000000|Presently she reappeared, and we went to dine together at a restaurant in Piccadilly, afterwards visiting a theatre, and spending a very pleasant evening.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000066_000000|Poor Dick!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000066_000001|I was sorry that he was so infatuated.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000066_000002|He was such a large hearted, honest fellow, that I felt quite pained when I anticipated the awakening that must inevitably come sooner or later.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000066_000003|He knew absolutely nothing of her past, and was quite ignorant that she had been a popular actress.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000067_000000|In the months that followed, I visited the studio almost daily, and watched the growth of the picture.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000068_000000|The face was a lifelike portrait.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000069_000000|The fair model herself was charmed with it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000069_000001|Woman's vanity always betrays itself over her picture.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000071_000000|"Ah, Harold!" she cried, jumping up as I entered the room.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000071_000001|"I was amusing myself until your return.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000071_000002|I-I have something to tell you."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000072_000000|"Well, what is it?" I asked, rather surprised.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000073_000000|"Cannot you guess?
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000073_000001|Dick has asked me to become his wife," she said in a low tone.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000074_000000|"The thing's impossible!" I cried warmly.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000074_000001|"I will not allow it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000074_000002|You may be friends, but he shall never marry you."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000075_000000|"How cruel you are!" she said, with a touch of sadness.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000075_000001|"But, after all, your apprehensions are groundless.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000076_000000|"Refused?
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000076_000001|Why?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000077_000000|"For reasons of my own," she replied in a harsh, strained voice.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000078_000000|"You are at least sensible, Ethel," I said.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000078_000001|"It is gratifying to know that you recognise the impossibility of such an union."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000079_000001|She nodded, but did not reply.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000081_000000|A dry, grey day in March.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000081_000003|I have always been thankful that the happy writer of books has no such ordeal to face.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000081_000004|He never reads his new romance to his friends, nor do his well wishers applaud in advance. Reviewers have first tilt at "advance copies," and very properly.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000082_000000|From morn till eve on "Show Sunday," Campden Hill is always blocked by the carriages of the curious, and studios are besieged by fashionable crowds, whose chatter and laughter mingles pleasantly with the clinking of tea cups.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000082_000001|On this occasion, as on previous ones, I assisted Dick to receive his visitors, but unfortunately Ethel had been taken suddenly unwell, and could not attend.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000083_000000|My anticipations proved correct.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000083_000001|"Circe" was voted an unqualified success.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000084_000000|A scrap of conversation I overheard in the course of the afternoon, however, caused me to ponder.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000085_000000|An elderly man, evidently a foreigner, wearing the violet ribbon of the French Academy in his buttonhole, was standing with a young girl in the crowd around the easel.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000086_000001|That face!" the girl cried, when her eyes fell upon the canvas.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000087_000001|Come away, Zelie; let us go."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000088_000000|I heard no more, for they turned and left.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000088_000001|Having acted as eavesdropper, I could hardly question them.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000088_000002|Nevertheless, I was sorely puzzled.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000090_000000|"Look!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000090_000001|Read that!"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000091_000000|In surprise I glanced up from my work of romance weaving on the following morning, and saw Dick, pale and agitated, standing at my elbow.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000092_000001|A glance was sufficient to recognise that the sprawly writing was Ethel's.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000093_000000|Taking it up, I eagerly read the following lines it contained:--
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000094_000002|It was foolish for us to have loved, therefore forget me.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000095_000000|"Ethel."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000096_000000|"I warned you against your infatuation, old fellow," I said seriously.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000098_000000|"Forget her," I argued.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000098_000001|"She is worthless and vain; why make yourself miserable?"
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000099_000001|But it is all over," he added bitterly.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000099_000002|"I shall think no more of her."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000101_000000|That evening I called at Dick's house, but was informed by his housekeeper that he had packed his bag and departed, stating that he would not return for at least a month, perhaps longer.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000101_000001|When I entered the studio, gloomy in the twilight, I was astonished to find that the "Circe" had been removed from the easel, and that it was standing in a corner with its face to the wall.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000103_000000|The colour was not dry, therefore I was enabled to remove the greater portion of it with a silk handkerchief, but I saw with regret that the tints of the forehead had been irretrievably ruined, rendering the picture valueless.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000104_000000|The days went by.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000104_000001|The limit for sending in to the Academy was approaching; but Dick did not write, and I could only wonder vaguely where he was wandering.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000104_000002|It was a great pity, I thought, that such a fine work should not be exhibited.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000104_000003|Yet the wilful obliteration had utterly spoiled it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000105_000000|While sitting in his studio musing one day, it suddenly occurred to me that if the flaw upon the forehead could be hidden, it might, after all, be sent for the inspection of the hanging committee.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000106_000000|Taking it up, I examined it minutely in the light.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000106_000001|The idea of placing a half mask upon the face suggested itself, and without delay I proceeded to carry it into effect.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000107_000000|The effect produced was startling, and none could have been more astonished at the result of my daubing than myself.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000108_000000|A few days later, I dispatched it to the Academy, and waited patiently for the opening day, when I experienced the mingled surprise and satisfaction of seeing it hung "upon the line."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000109_000000|The "Masked Circe" was pronounced one of the pictures of the year. Thousands admired it.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000109_000002|A stray copy of an English newspaper containing a notice of his work, which Dick picked up in a hotel, however, caused him to return.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000110_000000|He burst into my room unceremoniously one morning, still attired in his travelling ulster.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000110_000001|I saw that he was haggard eyed and wild looking. From his conversation, I knew that time had not healed the wound in his heart.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000111_000000|"I shall never be able to thank you sufficiently, old chap, for touching up my daub.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000111_000002|I-I shall find her some day; then she will return to me."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000112_000000|"Still thinking of her?" I observed reproachfully.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000113_000000|"Yes; always, always," he replied, shaking his head sorrowfully.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000113_000001|"I-I cannot forget."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000114_000000|Dick's popularity steadily increased; lucrative commissions poured in upon him, and he settled down to such hard, methodical work, that I began to think he had forgotten the woman who had enmeshed him.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000116_000001|"You masked her, and it is only fair that you should have a word in the bargain.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000116_000002|You must come too."
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000117_000000|At first I hesitated, but at length acquiesced.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000118_000000|That evening the Count received us in the library of his country mansion, and congratulated Dick warmly upon his masterpiece.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000118_000001|It was evident that he meant to secure it at any cost, therefore the price was soon arranged; and before we had been there half an hour, my companion had a cheque for four figures in his pocket.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000120_000000|"Dinner will be ready almost immediately," he said.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000120_000001|"You must stay.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000121_000000|A few moments later the door opened, and there was the rustle of a silken train.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000122_000000|"Ah, here's the Countess!" exclaimed the millionaire, stepping forward to introduce us.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000124_000000|"Ethel!
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000124_000001|You?" we both cried in amazement.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000125_000000|"Dick!" she gasped.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000126_000000|She reeled backwards, and before we could save her, fell senseless to the floor.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000127_000000|A few words of excuse and explanation, and we left the Count, who, kneeling beside his wife and endeavouring to resuscitate her, was completely mystified at the strange recognition.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000128_000000|Inquiries showed that the Count had met her while travelling in America, and had married her.
train-clean-100/7078/271888/7078_271888_000128_000001|Since that time they had apparently lived happily, and not a breath of scandal had besmirched her fair name.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000001_000000|Rubezahl
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000002_000010|Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rubezahl soon left him, and went to be shepherd to his next neighbour.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000003_000006|When he understood this he flew down again in a great hurry into the thicket, and took the form of a handsome young man-that was the best way-and he fell in love with the girl then and there.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000003_000008|On this particular morning the fancy took them to wander off again into the wood.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000004_000001|To the right and left of the waterfall opened out a wonderful grotto, its walls and arches glittering with many coloured rock crystals, while in every niche were spread out strange fruits and sweetmeats, the very sight of which made the princess long to taste them.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000005_000000|At last, when they were quite weary, the princess cried out suddenly that nothing would content her but to bathe in the marble pool, which certainly did look very inviting; and they all went gaily to this new amusement.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000006_000001|They even sprang into the water and tried to dive after her, but in vain; they only floated like corks in the enchanted pool, and could not keep under water for a second.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000009_000006|But the princess felt no such happiness; in spite of all the magic delights around her she was sad, though she tried to seem content for fear of displeasing the gnome.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000009_000010|Who is there I can find for her to talk to?'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000011_000002|Take this little many coloured wand, and with a touch give to each root the form you desire to see.'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000012_000000|With this he left her, and the princess, without an instant's delay, opened the basket, and touching a turnip, cried eagerly: 'Brunhilda, my dear Brunhilda! come to me quickly!' And sure enough there was Brunhilda, joyfully hugging and kissing her beloved princess, and chattering as gaily as in the old days.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000014_000000|And now all went cheerfully in the castle.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000016_000000|'Malicious Sprite,' she cried, 'why do you begrudge me my playmates --the greatest delight of my lonely hours?
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000017_000000|'Sweetest and fairest of damsels,' cried the gnome, 'do not be angry; everything that is in my power I will do-but do not ask the impossible. So long as the sap was fresh in the roots the magic staff could keep them in the forms you desired, but as the sap dried up they withered away.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000017_000002|The great green patch in the garden will prove you with a more lively company.'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000018_000000|So saying the gnome took himself off.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000019_000000|'You are trying to tease me,' she cried, as soon as she saw him.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000019_000001|'Where have you hidden the basket?
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000020_000000|'Dear queen of my heart,' answered he, 'I pray you to forgive my carelessness.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000020_000001|I promised more than I could perform.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000020_000003|Have patience for a little, and then without fail you shall have your puppets to play with.'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000021_000000|Almost before the gnome had finished, the disappointed princess turned away, and marched off to her own apartments, without deigning to answer him.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000022_000002|Thus fostered they grew and flourished marvellously, and promised a goodly crop.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000024_000001|He imagined that she was too young and inexperienced to care for him; but that was a mistake, for the truth was that another image already filled her heart.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000025_000001|Day by day the princess pulled up some of them, and made experiments with them, conjuring up now this longed for person, and now that, just for the pleasure of seeing them as they appeared; but she really had another purpose in view.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000026_000000|One day she changed a tiny turnip into a bee, and sent him off to bring her some news of her lover.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000028_000000|So the bee spread his shining wings and flew away to do as he was bidden; but before he was out of sight a greedy swallow made a snatch at him, and to the great grief of the princess her messenger was eaten up then and there.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000029_000000|After that, by the power of the wonderful wand she summoned a cricket, and taught him this greeting:
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000030_000000|'Hop, little cricket, to Ratibor, and chirp in his ear that I love him only, but that I am held captive by the gnome in his palace under the mountains.'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000032_000000|These two unlucky ventures did not prevent the princess from trying once more.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000033_000000|This time she changed the turnip into a magpie.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000034_000000|'Flutter from tree to tree, chattering bird,' said she, 'till you come to Ratibor, my love.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000036_000000|Now Prince Ratibor was still spending his life in wandering about the woods, and not even the beauty of the spring could soothe his grief.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000039_000000|Thereupon he caught up a great stone, and would have hurled it at the magpie, if it had not at that moment uttered the name of the princess.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000041_000001|All his gloom and misery vanished in a moment, and he anxiously questioned the welcome messenger as to the fate of the princess.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000042_000000|But the magpie knew no more than the lesson he had learnt, so he soon fluttered away; while the prince hurried back to his castle to gather together a troop of horsemen, full of courage for whatever might befall.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000043_000001|She left off treating the gnome with coldness and indifference; indeed, there was a look in her eyes which encouraged him to hope that she might some day return his love, and the idea pleased him mightily.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000043_000002|The next day, as soon as the sun rose, she made her appearance decked as a bride, in the wonderful robes and jewels which the fond gnome had prepared for her.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000043_000004|In these magnificent garments she went to meet the gnome upon the great terrace.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000044_000000|'Loveliest of maidens,' he stammered, bowing low before her, 'let me gaze into your dear eyes, and read in them that you will no longer refuse my love, but will make me the happiest being the sun shines upon.'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000045_000000|So saying he would have drawn aside her veil; but the princess only held it more closely about her.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000046_000000|'Your constancy has overcome me,' she said; 'I can no longer oppose your wishes.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000047_000000|'Why tears, beloved one?' cried the gnome anxiously; 'every tear of yours falls upon my heart like a drop of molten gold.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000047_000001|Greatly as I desire your love, I do not ask a sacrifice.'
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000048_000001|My heart answers to your tenderness, and yet I am fearful.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000048_000002|A wife cannot always charm, and though YOU will never alter, the beauty of mortals is as a flower that fades.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000049_000000|'Ask some proof, sweetheart,' said he.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000050_000001|'Then give me just one proof of your goodness.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000050_000002|Go! count the turnips in yonder meadow.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000050_000003|My wedding feast must not lack guests.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000050_000004|They shall provide me with bride maidens too.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000051_000001|He skipped along among the turnips as nimble as a grasshopper, and had soon counted them all; but, to be quite certain that he had made no mistake, he thought he would just run over them again.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000051_000002|This time, to his great annoyance, the number was different; so he reckoned them for the third time, but now the number was not the same as either of the previous ones!
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000052_000001|She had a fine fresh turnip hidden close at hand, which she changed into a spirited horse, all saddled and bridled, and, springing upon its back, she galloped away over hill and dale till she reached the Thorny Valley, and flung herself into the arms of her beloved Prince Ratibor.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000053_000001|He felt very well satisfied with himself as he crossed the mossy lawn to the place where he had left her; but, alas! she was no longer there.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000054_000000|He searched every thicket and path, he looked behind every tree, and gazed into every pond, but without success; then he hastened into the palace and rushed from room to room, peering into every hole and corner and calling her by name; but only echo answered in the marble halls-there was neither voice nor footstep.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000056_000000|Furiously did the enraged gnome fling two great clouds together, and hurl a thunderbolt after the flying maiden, splintering the rocky barriers which had stood a thousand years.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000056_000002|He passed through the gardens which for him had lost their charm, and the sight of the princess's footprints on the golden sand of the pathway renewed his grief.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000056_000003|All was lonely, empty, sorrowful; and the forsaken gnome resolved that he would have no more dealings with such false creatures as he had found men to be.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000057_000000|Thereupon he stamped three times upon the earth, and the magic palace, with all its treasures, vanished away into the nothingness out of which he had called it; and the gnome fled once more to the depths of his underground kingdom.
train-clean-100/7113/86041/7113_86041_000058_000000|While all this was happening, Prince Ratibor was hurrying away with his prize to a place of safety.
train-clean-100/7148/82991/7148_82991_000014_000003|In that year the young prince espoused Catherine of Arragon, our present queen, and soon afterwards died; whereupon the old king, not liking-for he loved his treasure better than his own flesh-to part with her dowry, gave her to his second son, Henry, our gracious sovereign, whom God preserve!
train-clean-100/7148/82991/7148_82991_000031_000000|"A foolish wish," cried Bryan.
train-clean-100/7148/82991/7148_82991_000031_000001|"Why, Mark, you are clean crazed!"
train-clean-100/7148/82991/7148_82991_000036_000000|Awed by Mark's determined manner, the bystanders kept aloof.
train-clean-100/7148/82991/7148_82991_000039_000001|"Yield, fellow!"
train-clean-100/7148/82991/7148_82991_000045_000002|To the castle!
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000004_000000|THE DURABILITY OF FRAGILE THINGS.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000005_000000|Destiny sometimes proffers us a glass of madness to drink.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000005_000001|A hand is thrust out of the mist, and suddenly hands us the mysterious cup in which is contained the latent intoxication.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000006_000000|Gwynplaine did not understand.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000007_000000|He looked behind him to see who it was who had been addressed.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000009_000000|The wapentake and the justice of the quorum approached Gwynplaine and took him by the arms.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000009_000001|He felt himself placed in the chair which the sheriff had just vacated.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000009_000002|He let it be done, without seeking an explanation.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000010_000000|When Gwynplaine was seated, the justice of the quorum and the wapentake retired a few steps, and stood upright and motionless, behind the seat.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000012_000000|"In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000014_000000|"Has been wickedly deserted on the desert coast of Portland, with the intention of allowing him to perish of hunger, of cold, and of solitude, a child ten years old.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000015_000000|"That child was sold at the age of two years, by order of his most gracious Majesty, King james the Second.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000016_000000|"That child is Lord Fermain Clancharlie, the only legitimate son of Lord Linnaeus Clancharlie, Baron Clancharlie and Hunkerville, Marquis of Corleone in Sicily, a peer of England, and of Ann Bradshaw, his wife, both deceased.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000016_000001|That child is the inheritor of the estates and titles of his father.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000017_000000|"That child was brought up, and trained to be a mountebank at markets and fairs.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000018_000000|"He was sold at the age of two, after the death of the peer, his father, and ten pounds sterling were given to the king as his purchase money, as well as for divers concessions, tolerations, and immunities.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000025_000000|"This fact is the result of his youth, and the slight powers of memory he could have had when he was bought and sold, being then barely two years old.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000028_000002|He is imprisoned in the dungeon of Chatham.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000030_000000|"We, the undersigned, brought up and kept, for eight years, for professional purposes, the little lord bought by us of the king.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000032_000000|"Now, we have sworn secrecy to the king, but not to God.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000033_000001|And may the Holy Virgin aid us, Amen.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000033_000002|And we attach our signatures."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000034_000000|The sheriff interrupted, saying,--"Here are the signatures.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000034_000001|All in different handwritings."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000037_000000|The sheriff, after a pause, resumed, a "note written in the same hand as the text and the first signature," and he read,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000041_000000|The sheriff turned the parchment, and raised it in his right hand, to expose it to the light.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000044_000000|Gwynplaine was as a man on whose head a tile falls from the palace of dreams.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000045_000000|He began to speak, like one who speaks unconsciously.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000000|"Gernardus, yes, the doctor.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000001|An old, sad looking man.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000002|I was afraid of him.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000003|Gaizdorra, Captain, that means chief.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000004|There were women, Asuncion, and the other.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000006|His name was Capgaroupe.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000046_000007|He used to drink out of a flat bottle on which there was a name written in red."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000047_000000|"Behold it," said the sheriff.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000048_000000|He placed on the table something which the secretary had just taken out of the bag.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000048_000001|It was a gourd, with handles like ears, covered with wicker. This bottle had evidently seen service, and had sojourned in the water. Shells and seaweed adhered to it.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000048_000003|There was a ring of tar round its neck, showing that it had been hermetically sealed.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000048_000004|Now it was unsealed and open.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000048_000005|They had, however, replaced in the flask a sort of bung made of tarred oakum, which had been used to cork it.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000049_000000|"It was in this bottle," said the sheriff, "that the men about to perish placed the declaration which I have just read.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000049_000001|This message addressed to justice has been faithfully delivered by the sea."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000050_000000|The sheriff increased the majesty of his tones, and continued,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000051_000000|"In the same way that Harrow Hill produces excellent wheat, which is turned into fine flour for the royal table, so the sea renders every service in its power to England, and when a nobleman is lost finds and restores him."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000053_000000|"On this flask, as you say, there is a name written in red."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000054_000000|He raised his voice, turning to the motionless prisoner,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000055_000001|Such are the hidden channels by which truth, swallowed up in the gulf of human actions, floats to the surface."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000056_000000|The sheriff took the gourd, and turned to the light one of its sides, which had, no doubt, been cleaned for the ends of justice.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000056_000001|Between the interstices of wicker was a narrow line of red reed, blackened here and there by the action of water and of time.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000058_000000|Then the sheriff, resuming that monotonous tone of voice which resembles nothing else, and which may be termed a judicial accent, turned towards the sufferer.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000059_000001|Then, the parchment being read to you which was contained, folded and enclosed within it, you would say no more; and in the hope, doubtless, that the lost child would never be recovered, and that you would escape punishment, you refuse to answer.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000060_000000|"This is the fourth day, and that which is legally set apart for the confrontation, and he who was deserted on the twenty ninth of January, one thousand six hundred and ninety, having been brought into your presence, your devilish hope has vanished, you have broken silence, and recognized your victim."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000061_000000|The prisoner opened his eyes, lifted his head, and, with a voice strangely resonant of agony, but which had still an indescribable calm mingled with its hoarseness, pronounced in excruciating accents, from under the mass of stones, words to pronounce each of which he had to lift that which was like the slab of a tomb placed upon him.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000061_000001|He spoke,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000000|"I swore to keep the secret.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000001|I have kept it as long as I could.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000002|Men of dark lives are faithful, and hell has its honour.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000003|Now silence is useless.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000004|So be it!
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000005|For this reason I speak.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000006|Well-yes; 'tis he!
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000062_000007|We did it between us-the king and I: the king, by his will; I, by my art!"
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000063_000000|And looking at Gwynplaine,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000064_000000|"Now laugh for ever!"
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000065_000000|And he himself began to laugh.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000066_000000|This second laugh, wilder yet than the first, might have been taken for a sob.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000067_000000|The laughed ceased, and the man lay back.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000067_000001|His eyelids closed.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000068_000000|The sheriff, who had allowed the prisoner to speak, resumed,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000070_000000|He gave the secretary time to write, and then said,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000074_000000|The sheriff placed the parchment on the table, laid down his spectacles, took up the nosegay, and said,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000076_000000|By a sign the justice of the quorum set in motion the man dressed in leather.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000077_000000|This man, who was the executioner's assistant, "groom of the gibbet," the old charters call him, went to the prisoner, took off the stones, one by one, from his chest, and lifted the plate of iron up, exposing the wretch's crushed sides.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000077_000001|Then he freed his wrists and ankle bones from the four chains that fastened him to the pillars.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000078_000000|The prisoner, released alike from stones and chains, lay flat on the ground, his eyes closed, his arms and legs apart, like a crucified man taken down from a cross.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000081_000000|The groom of the gibbet took up a hand and let it go; the hand fell back.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000081_000001|The other hand, being raised, fell back likewise.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000082_000000|The groom of the gibbet seized one foot and then the other, and the heels fell back on the ground.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000083_000000|The fingers remained inert, and the toes motionless.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000083_000001|The naked feet of an extended corpse seem, as it were, to bristle.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000084_000002|They did not close again; the glassy eyeballs remained fixed.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000085_000000|The doctor rose up and said,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000086_000000|"He is dead."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000087_000000|And he added,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000088_000000|"He laughed; that killed him."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000089_000000|"'tis of little consequence," said the sheriff.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000089_000001|"After confession, life or death is a mere formality."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000091_000000|"A corpse to be carried away to night."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000092_000000|The wapentake acquiesced by a nod.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000093_000000|And the sheriff added,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000094_000000|"The cemetery of the jail is opposite."
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000095_000000|The wapentake nodded again.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000096_000000|The sheriff, holding in his left hand the nosegay and in his right the white wand, placed himself opposite Gwynplaine, who was still seated, and made him a low bow; then assuming another solemn attitude, he turned his head over his shoulder, and looking Gwynplaine in the face, said,--
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000098_000000|And he bowed to him.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000099_000000|The serjeant on the right, the doctor, the justice of the quorum, the wapentake, the secretary, all the attendants except the executioner, repeated his salutation still more respectfully, and bowed to the ground before Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000100_000000|"Ah," said Gwynplaine, "awake me!"
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000101_000000|And he stood up, pale as death.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000102_000000|"I come to awake you indeed," said a voice which had not yet been heard.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000103_000000|A man came out from behind the pillars.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000104_000000|He was rather old than young, and very precise.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000105_000000|He saluted Gwynplaine with ease and respect-with the ease of a gentleman in waiting, and without the awkwardness of a judge.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000000|"Yes," he said; "I have come to awaken you.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000001|For twenty five years you have slept.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000002|You have been dreaming.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000003|It is time to awake.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000004|You believe yourself to be Gwynplaine; you are Clancharlie.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000005|You believe yourself to be one of the people; you belong to the peerage.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000007|You believe yourself a player; you are a senator.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000008|You believe yourself poor; you are wealthy. You believe yourself to be of no account; you are important.
train-clean-100/7178/34644/7178_34644_000106_000009|Awake, my lord!"
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000002_000000|THE WAIF KNOWS ITS OWN COURSE.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000003_000000|All this had occurred owing to the circumstance of a soldier having found a bottle on the beach.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000003_000001|We will relate the facts.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000003_000002|In all facts there are wheels within wheels.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000004_000000|One day one of the four gunners composing the garrison of Castle Calshor picked up on the sand at low water a flask covered with wicker, which had been cast up by the tide.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000004_000001|This flask, covered with mould, was corked by a tarred bung.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000004_000002|The soldier carried the waif to the colonel of the castle, and the colonel sent it to the High Admiral of England.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000005_000000|Barkilphedro, having uncorked and emptied the bottle, carried it to the queen.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000005_000001|The queen immediately took the matter into consideration.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000001|Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, a Catholic peer, who is hereditary Earl Marshal of England, had sent word by his deputy Earl Marshal, Henry Howard, Earl Bindon, that he would agree with the Lord Chancellor.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000002|The Lord Chancellor was William Cowper.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000005|Lord William Cowper is celebrated for having, with reference to the affair of Talbot Yelverton, Viscount Longueville, propounded this opinion: That in the English constitution the restoration of a peer is more important than the restoration of a king.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000006|The flask found at Calshor had awakened his interest in the highest degree.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000008|Here was a case of the restoration of a peer.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000009|Search was made.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000010|Gwynplaine, by the inscription over his door, was soon found.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000011|Neither was Hardquanonne dead.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000014|Hardquanonne was still in prison at Chatham.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000015|They had only to put their hands on him.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000016|He was transferred from Chatham to London.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000018|The facts were found to be correct.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000006_000019|They obtained from the local archives at Vevey, at Lausanne, the certificate of Lord Linnaeus's marriage in exile, the certificate of his child's birth, the certificate of the decease of the father and mother; and they had duplicates, duly authenticated, made to answer all necessary requirements.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000000|All this was done with the most rigid secrecy, with what is called royal promptitude, and with that mole like silence recommended and practised by Bacon, and later on made law by Blackstone, for affairs connected with the Chancellorship and the state, and in matters termed parliamentary.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000003|Why should james the second., whose credit required the concealment of such acts, have allowed that to be written which endangered their success?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000004|The answer is, cynicism-haughty indifference.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000005|Oh! you believe that effrontery is confined to abandoned women?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000008|To commit a crime and emblazon it, there is the sum total of history.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000010|Often when it would be to a man's greatest advantage to escape from the hands of the police or the records of history, he would seem to regret the escape so great is the love of notoriety.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000012|Observe the design!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000017|A man commits a bad action, and places his mark upon it.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000018|To fill up the measure of crime by effrontery, to denounce himself, to cling to his misdeeds, is the insolent bravado of the criminal.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000007_000019|Christina seized Monaldeschi, had him confessed and assassinated, and said,--
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000008_000000|"I am the Queen of Sweden, in the palace of the King of France."
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000000|There is the tyrant who conceals himself, like Tiberius; and the tyrant who displays himself, like Philip the second.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000001|One has the attributes of the scorpion, the other those rather of the leopard.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000002|james the second. was of this latter variety.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000003|He had, we know, a gay and open countenance, differing so far from Philip.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000004|Philip was sullen, james jovial.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000005|Both were equally ferocious.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000006|james the second. was an easy minded tiger; like Philip the second., his crimes lay light upon his conscience.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000007|He was a monster by the grace of God.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000008|Therefore he had nothing to dissimulate nor to extenuate, and his assassinations were by divine right.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000009|He, too, would not have minded leaving behind him those archives of Simancas, with all his misdeeds dated, classified, labelled, and put in order, each in its compartment, like poisons in the cabinet of a chemist.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000009_000010|To set the sign manual to crimes is right royal.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000010_000000|Every deed done is a draft drawn on the great invisible paymaster.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000011_000000|Queen Anne, in one particular unfeminine, seeing that she could keep a secret, demanded a confidential report of so grave a matter from the Lord Chancellor-one of the kind specified as "report to the royal ear." Reports of this kind have been common in all monarchies.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000011_000001|At Vienna there was "a counsellor of the ear"--an aulic dignitary.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000011_000003|He who whispers to the emperor.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000000|William, Baron Cowper, Chancellor of England, whom the queen believed in because he was short sighted like herself, or even more so, had committed to writing a memorandum commencing thus: "Two birds were subject to Solomon-a lapwing, the hudbud, who could speak all languages; and an eagle, the simourganka, who covered with the shadow of his wings a caravan of twenty thousand men.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000001|Thus, under another form, Providence," etc
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000002|The Lord Chancellor proved the fact that the heir to a peerage had been carried off, mutilated, and then restored.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000003|He did not blame james the second., who was, after all, the queen's father.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000004|He even went so far as to justify him.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000005|First, there are ancient monarchical maxims.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000008|Secondly, there is a royal right of mutilation.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000010|The eyes of dukes of the blood royal have been plucked out for the good of the kingdom.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000011|Certain princes, too near to the throne, have been conveniently stifled between mattresses, the cause of death being given out as apoplexy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000012|Now to stifle is worse than to mutilate.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000013|The King of Tunis tore out the eyes of his father, Muley Assem, and his ambassadors have not been the less favourably received by the emperor.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000014|Hence the king may order the suppression of a limb like the suppression of a state, etc
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000015|It is legal.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000016|But one law does not destroy another.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000017|"If a drowned man is cast up by the water, and is not dead, it is an act of God readjusting one of the king.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000018|If the heir be found, let the coronet be given back to him.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000012_000019|Thus was it done for Lord Alla, King of Northumberland, who was also a mountebank.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000013_000001|And on this point the chancellor, as constitutional keeper of the royal conscience, based the royal decision.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000013_000004|In the mind of the Lord Chancellor, however, the recognition of Gwynplaine by Hardquanonne was indubitable.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000015_000000|The reinstatement of Lord Fermain Clancharlie was, moreover, a very simple affair, the heir being legitimate, and in the direct line.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000016_000000|In cases of doubtful descent, and of peerages in abeyance claimed by collaterals, the House of Lords must be consulted.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000016_000004|There was no point to submit to the House, and the Queen, assisted by the Lord Chancellor, had power to recognize and admit the new peer.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000017_000000|Barkilphedro managed everything.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000018_000000|The affair, thanks to him, was kept so close, the secret was so hermetically sealed, that neither Josiana nor Lord David caught sight of the fearful abyss which was being dug under them.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000018_000001|It was easy to deceive Josiana, entrenched as she was behind a rampart of pride.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000018_000002|She was self isolated.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000018_000003|As to Lord David, they sent him to sea, off the coast of Flanders.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000018_000004|He was going to lose his peerage, and had no suspicion of it. One circumstance is noteworthy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000019_000000|It happened that at six leagues from the anchorage of the naval station commanded by Lord David, a captain called Halyburton broke through the French fleet.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000019_000001|The Earl of Pembroke, President of the Council, proposed that this Captain Halyburton should be made vice admiral.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000020_000001|A hideous husband for her sister, and a fine step for Lord David.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000020_000002|Mischief and kindness combined.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000021_000000|Her Majesty was going to enjoy a comedy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000021_000001|Besides, she argued to herself that she was repairing an abuse of power committed by her august father. She was reinstating a member of the peerage.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000021_000002|She was acting like a great queen; she was protecting innocence according to the will of God that Providence in its holy and impenetrable ways, etc, etc
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000021_000003|It is very sweet to do a just action which is disagreeable to those whom we do not like.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000000|To know that the future husband of her sister was deformed, sufficed the queen.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000001|In what manner Gwynplaine was deformed, and by what kind of ugliness, Barkilphedro had not communicated to the queen, and Anne had not deigned to inquire.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000002|She was proudly and royally disdainful.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000003|Besides, what could it matter?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000004|The House of Lords could not but be grateful.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000005|The Lord Chancellor, its oracle, had approved.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000007|Royalty on this occasion had shown itself a good and scrupulous guardian of the privileges of the peerage.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000022_000008|Whatever might be the face of the new lord, a face cannot be urged in objection to a right.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000023_000000|The queen was then at Windsor-a circumstance which placed a certain distance between the intrigues of the court and the public.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000023_000001|Only such persons as were absolutely necessary to the plan were in the secret of what was taking place.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000023_000002|As to Barkilphedro, he was joyful-a circumstance which gave a lugubrious expression to his face.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000023_000003|If there be one thing in the world which can be more hideous than another, 'tis joy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000024_000001|He seemed but little surprised, for astonishment is the attribute of a little mind.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000024_000002|Besides, was it not all due to him, who had waited so long on duty at the gate of chance?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000024_000003|Knowing how to wait, he had fairly won his reward.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000025_000001|At heart we may admit that he was very much astonished.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000025_000002|Any one who could have lifted the mask with which he covered his inmost heart even before God would have discovered this: that at the very time Barkilphedro had begun to feel finally convinced that it would be impossible-even to him, the intimate and most infinitesimal enemy of Josiana-to find a vulnerable point in her lofty life.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000025_000003|Hence an access of savage animosity lurked in his mind. He had reached the paroxysm which is called discouragement.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000025_000004|He was all the more furious, because despairing.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000025_000005|To gnaw one's chain-how tragic and appropriate the expression!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000025_000006|A villain gnawing at his own powerlessness!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000026_000000|Barkilphedro was perhaps just on the point of renouncing not his desire to do evil to Josiana, but his hope of doing it; not the rage, but the effort.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000026_000001|But how degrading to be thus baffled!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000026_000002|To keep hate thenceforth in a case, like a dagger in a museum!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000026_000003|How bitter the humiliation!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000027_000000|All at once to a certain goal-Chance, immense and universal, loves to bring such coincidences about-the flask of Hardquanonne came, driven from wave to wave, into Barkilphedro's hands.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000027_000002|What words could express his devilish delight!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000001|That co-operation had continued for fifteen years.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000002|Mysterious efforts!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000004|The waves transmitted from one to another the floating bottle.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000006|What trouble the abyss must have taken! Thus that which Gernardus had flung into darkness, darkness had handed back to Barkilphedro.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000007|The message sent to God had reached the devil. Space had committed an abuse of confidence, and a lurking sarcasm which mingles with events had so arranged that it had complicated the loyal triumph of the lost child's becoming Lord Clancharlie with a venomous victory: in doing a good action, it had mischievously placed justice at the service of iniquity.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000008|To save the victim of james the second. was to give a prey to Barkilphedro.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000009|To reinstate Gwynplaine was to crush Josiana. Barkilphedro had succeeded, and it was for this that for so many years the waves, the surge, the squalls had buffeted, shaken, thrown, pushed, tormented, and respected this bubble of glass, which bore within it so many commingled fates.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000010|It was for this that there had been a cordial co-operation between the winds, the tides, and the tempests-a vast agitation of all prodigies for the pleasure of a scoundrel; the infinite co operating with an earthworm!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000028_000011|Destiny is subject to such grim caprices.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000029_000000|Barkilphedro was struck by a flash of Titanic pride.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000029_000001|He said to himself that it had all been done to fulfil his intentions.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000029_000002|He felt that he was the object and the instrument.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000030_000000|But he was wrong.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000030_000001|Let us clear the character of chance.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000031_000001|Ocean had made itself father and mother to an orphan, had sent the hurricane against his executioners, had wrecked the vessel which had repulsed the child, had swallowed up the clasped hands of the storm beaten sailors, refusing their supplications and accepting only their repentance; the tempest received a deposit from the hands of death.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000032_000001|This is what he did not see.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000032_000002|He did not believe that it had all been done for Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000032_000003|He fancied that it had been effected for Barkilphedro, and that he was well worth the trouble. Thus it is ever with Satan.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000033_000001|Fifteen years is nothing.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000033_000003|That amphora had been floating fifteen hundred years.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000034_000000|Whatever appearance of indifference Barkilphedro tried to exhibit, his wonder had equalled his joy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000034_000003|The fragments of the event which was to satisfy his hate were spread out within his reach.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000034_000004|He had nothing to do but to pick them up and fit them together-a repair which it was an amusement to execute.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000034_000005|He was the artificer.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000000|Gwynplaine!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000003|Like every one else, he had been to see the Laughing Man.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000004|He had read the sign nailed up against the Tadcaster Inn as one reads a play bill that attracts a crowd.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000005|He had noted it.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000009|Here was the destruction of the edifice which made the existence of Josiana.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000010|A sudden earthquake.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000011|The lost child was found. There was a Lord Clancharlie; David Dirry Moir was nobody.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000012|Peerage, riches, power, rank-all these things left Lord David and entered Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000013|All the castles, parks, forests, town houses, palaces, domains, Josiana included, belonged to Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000014|And what a climax for Josiana!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000015|What had she now before her?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000016|Illustrious and haughty, a player; beautiful, a monster.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000017|Who could have hoped for this?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000018|The truth was that the joy of Barkilphedro had become enthusiastic.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000019|The most hateful combinations are surpassed by the infernal munificence of the unforeseen.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000020|When reality likes, it works masterpieces.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000035_000021|Barkilphedro found that all his dreams had been nonsense; reality were better.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000036_000000|The change he was about to work would not have seemed less desirable had it been detrimental to him.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000036_000001|Insects exist which are so savagely disinterested that they sting, knowing that to sting is to die. Barkilphedro was like such vermin.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000037_000003|Protector of whom?
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000037_000004|Of a peer of England.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000037_000007|His ugliness would please the queen in the same proportion as it displeased Josiana.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000037_000008|Advancing by such favour, and assuming grave and modest airs, Barkilphedro might become a somebody.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000037_000009|He had always been destined for the church.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000037_000010|He had a vague longing to be a bishop.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000038_000000|Meanwhile he was happy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000039_000000|Oh, what a great success! and what a deal of useful work had chance accomplished for him!
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000039_000001|His vengeance-for he called it his vengeance-had been softly brought to him by the waves.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000039_000002|He had not lain in ambush in vain.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000040_000001|Josiana was about to be dashed against Barkilphedro, to his intense villainous ecstasy.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000041_000000|He was clever in the art of suggestion, which consists in making in the minds of others a little incision into which you put an idea of your own.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000041_000001|Holding himself aloof, and without appearing to mix himself up in the matter, it was he who arranged that Josiana should go to the Green Box and see Gwynplaine.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000041_000003|The appearance of the mountebank, in his low estate, would be a good ingredient in the combination; later on it would season it.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000042_000000|He had quietly prepared everything beforehand.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000042_000001|What he most desired was something unspeakably abrupt.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000042_000002|The work on which he was engaged could only be expressed in these strange words-the construction of a thunderbolt.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000043_000000|All preliminaries being complete, he had watched till all the necessary legal formalities had been accomplished.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000043_000001|The secret had not oozed out, silence being an element of law.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000044_000000|The confrontation of Hardquanonne with Gwynplaine had taken place. Barkilphedro had been present.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000044_000001|We have seen the result.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000045_000000|The same day a post chaise belonging to the royal household was suddenly sent by her Majesty to fetch Lady Josiana from London to Windsor, where the queen was at the time residing.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000046_000001|She was obliged to set out at once, and to leave her residence in London, Hunkerville House, for her residence at Windsor, Corleone Lodge.
train-clean-100/7178/34645/7178_34645_000048_000001|Josiana entered her house feeling very spiteful, supped in a bad humour, had the spleen, dismissed every one except her page, then dismissed him, and went to bed while it was yet daylight.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000001_000001|As an excuse I talked over cases with him, but he seldom volunteered an opinion, often was obviously uninterested.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000001_000002|Truth to tell, I was not there for his opinion, but to see his granddaughter.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000002_000000|My association with Christopher Quarles has, however, led to the solution of some strange mysteries, and, since my own achievements are sufficiently well known, I may confine myself to those cases which, single handed, I should have failed to solve.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000002_000001|I know that in many of them I was credited with having unraveled the mystery, but this was only because Professor Quarles persisted in remaining in the background.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000002_000002|If I did the spade work, the deductions were his.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000003_000000|They were all cases with peculiar features in them, and it was never as a detective that Quarles approached them.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000003_000001|He was often as astonished at my acumen in following a clew as I was at his marvelous theories, which seemed so absurd to begin with yet proved correct in the end.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000004_000000|Perhaps his curious power was never more noticeable than in the case of the Withan murder.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000006_000001|By evening the clouds had gone, the moon sailed in a clear sky, and, looking round to find the cause of his horse's unusual behavior, the farmer saw a man lying on a heap of snow under the opposite hedge.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000008_000000|It was not until some days later that the case came into my hands, and in the interval the local authorities had not been idle.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000008_000002|It seemed probable that the murderer had come upon his victim secretly, that the foul deed had been committed with horrible expedition, otherwise the victim, although not a strong man, would have made some struggle for his life, and apparently no struggle had taken place.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000009_000000|Footprints, nearly obliterated, were traceable to a wood on the opposite side of the road, but no one seemed to have left the wood in any direction.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000010_000001|There were many fantastic answers to the question.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000011_000001|It was not found, however, and the countryside was in a state bordering on panic.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000012_000000|For a few days the Withan murder seemed unique in atrocities, and then came a communication from the French police.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000012_000002|In this case also the head was missing, and nothing had been found upon the body to identify the victim.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000012_000003|He was well dressed, and a man who would be likely to carry papers with him, but nothing was found, and the murder had remained a mystery.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000013_000000|These were the points known and conjectured when the case came into my hands, and my investigations added little to them.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000014_000000|One point, however, impressed me.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000014_000001|I felt convinced that the man's clothes, which were shown to me, had not been made in England.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000014_000002|They were poor, worn almost threadbare, but they had once been fairly good, and the cut was not English.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000014_000003|That it was French I could not possibly affirm, but it might be, and so I fashioned a fragile link with the Normandy crime.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000015_000000|On this occasion I went to Quarles with the object of interesting him in the Withan case, and he forestalled me by beginning to talk about it the moment I entered the room.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000017_000000|I went carefully through the case point by point, and he made no comment until I had finished.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000018_000000|"The foreign cut of the clothes may be of importance," he said.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000018_000001|"I am not sure.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000019_000000|"No, it runs beside the road for two or three hundred yards."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000021_000000|"No; it was near the Withan end of it that the dead man was found."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000022_000000|"Any traces that the head was carried to the wood?"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000023_000001|The ground in the wood was searched at the time, and I have been over it carefully since.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000023_000002|Through one part of the wood there runs a ditch, which is continued as a division between two fields which form part of the farm land behind the wood.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000023_000003|By walking along this the murderer might have left the wood without leaving tracks behind him."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000024_000001|And where would that ditch lead him?"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000025_000000|"Eventually to the high road, which runs almost at right angles to the Withan road."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000026_000000|"Much water in the ditch?" asked Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000027_000000|"Half a foot when I went there.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000028_000000|"There was a moon that night, wasn't there?"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000029_000000|"Full, or near it," I returned.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000031_000000|"That night.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000032_000000|"A man who had walked a considerable distance in a ditch would be wet and muddy," said Zena, "and if he were met on the road carrying a bag he would arrest attention."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000033_000000|"Why carrying a bag?" asked Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000034_000000|"With the head in it," she answered.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000035_000000|"That's another good point, Wigan," chuckled Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000036_000000|"Of course, the head may be buried in the wood," said Zena.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000037_000000|Quarles looked at me inquiringly.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000038_000001|"One or two doubtful places I had dug up.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000038_000002|I think the murderer must have taken the head with him."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000039_000000|"To bury somewhere else?" asked Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000042_000001|The likeness between the two crimes can hardly be a coincidence."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000044_000000|"January the seventeenth."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000047_000000|"Wigan, it would be interesting to know if a similar murder occurred anywhere in the intervening year at that date," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000048_000000|"You have a theory, professor?"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000049_000002|I never mention my theories until I have some facts to support them.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000052_000000|A few days later Quarles telegraphed me to meet him at Kings Cross, and we traveled North together.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000053_000000|"Wait," he said when I began to question him.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000053_000001|"I am not sure yet.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000053_000002|My theory seems absurd.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000053_000003|We are going to find out if it is."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000054_000000|We took rooms at a hotel in Medworth, Quarles explaining that our investigations might take some days.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000055_000001|The next afternoon he arranged a drive.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000057_000000|"Five or six miles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000057_000001|The road winds a lot.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000057_000002|It's a deal nearer as the crow flies."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000058_000000|"You need not wait for us, driver.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000058_000001|My friend and I are going to walk back."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000059_000000|The coachman pocketed his money and drove away.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000060_000000|"Couldn't keep him waiting all night, as we may have to do," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000061_000000|After walking along the road for about a mile Quarles scrambled through a hedge into a wood by the roadside.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000062_000000|"We're trespassers, but we must take our chance.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000064_000000|"I do sometimes," he said, tapping his pocket.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000064_000001|"We might come up against danger if my theory is correct.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000064_000002|If I tell you to shoot-shoot, and quickly.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000064_000003|Your life is likely to depend upon it.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000064_000004|And keep your ears open to make sure no one is following us."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000065_000000|He had become keen, like a dog on the trail, and, old as he was, seemed incapable of fatigue.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000066_000000|We were trespassers in a private park.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000066_000001|To our right was a large house, only partially seen through its screen of trees, but it was evidently mellow with age.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000066_000002|To our left, toward what was evidently the extremity of the park, was hilly ground, which had been allowed to run wild.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000067_000000|To this Quarles pointed.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000068_000000|"That is our way," he said.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000068_000001|"We'll use what cover we can."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000069_000000|We plunged into the wood again, and were soon in the wilderness, forcing our way, sometimes with considerable difficulty, through the undergrowth.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000069_000001|Once or twice the professor gave me a warning gesture, but he did not speak.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000069_000002|He had evidently some definite goal, and I was conscious of excitement as I followed him.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000071_000000|"I said I wasn't certain," he whispered when our path had led us into a damp hollow which looked as if it had not been visited by man for centuries.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000072_000000|He was going forward again.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000072_000001|The hollow was surrounded by perpendicular walls of sand and chalk; it was a pit, in fact, which Nature had filled with vegetation.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000074_000000|In a corner of the wall, or, to be more precise, filling up a rent in it, was a shed, roughly built, but with a door secured by a very business like lock.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000075_000000|"I think the shed is climbable," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000076_000000|It was not much help he wanted.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000076_000001|In a few moments we were on the roof.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000077_000000|"As I thought," he said.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000077_000001|"Do you see?"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000078_000000|The shed, with its slanting roof, served to block a narrow, overgrown path between two precipitous chalk walls.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000079_000000|"We'll go carefully," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000079_000001|"There may be worse than poachers' traps here."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000080_000000|Without help from me he dropped from the roof, and I followed him.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000081_000000|The natural passage was winding, and about fifty yards long, and opened into another pit of some size.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000081_000001|A pit I call it, but it was as much a cave as a pit, part of it running deeply into the earth, and only about a third of it being open to the sky.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000081_000002|The cave part had a rough, sandy floor, and here was a long shed of peculiar construction. It was raised on piles, about eight feet high; the front part formed a kind of open veranda, the back part being closed in.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000082_000000|"As I expected," said Quarles, with some excitement.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000082_000001|"We must get onto the veranda for a moment.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000082_000002|I think we are alone here, but keep your ears open."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000084_000000|"We'll get away quickly," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000088_000001|"We can do that later.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000088_000002|I'm tired, Wigan; but it was safer not to keep the carriage."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000089_000001|He was always as secret as the grave until he had proved his theory, and then he seemed anxious to forget the whole affair, and shrank from publicity.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000089_000002|That is how it came about that I obtained credit which I did not deserve.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000090_000000|"We go there again this evening," he said after lunch next day; "so a restful afternoon will suit us."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000091_000000|It was getting dark when we set out, and again Quarles's unerring sense of locality astonished me.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000092_000000|"I think we are first, but great care is necessary," he whispered.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000093_000000|We crept forward and concealed ourselves among the scrub vegetation which grew in that part of the pit which was open to the sky.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000093_000001|It was dark, the long shed barely discernible, but the professor was particular about our position.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000094_000000|"We may have to creep a little nearer presently," he whispered.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000094_000001|"From here we can do so.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000095_000001|Moonlight was presently above us, throwing the cave part of the pit into greater shadow than ever.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000096_000000|I cannot attempt to say how long we had waited in utter silence when Quarles touched my arm.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000096_000001|Someone was coming, and with no particular stealth.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000096_000004|I heard him moving about for some time.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000096_000007|In the dark he had evidently got fuel, and had started a fire on the stone slab.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000097_000000|As the flames brightened I watched his restless figure.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000097_000002|I caught a glimpse of white hair, but he took no position in which I could see his face clearly.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000098_000000|From somewhere at the back of the shed he pushed forward a block of wood, and, standing on this, he fixed something to the short chain I had noted yesterday.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000099_000000|Then the man moved the wooden block to the side of the fire and sat down facing us, the flickering flames throwing a red glow over him.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000100_000000|"Wigan, do you see?" whispered Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000101_000000|"Not clearly."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000102_000001|Carefully."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000103_000000|From our new point of view I looked again.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000103_000001|The man's face was familiar, but just then I could not remember who he was.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000104_000000|Tied together, and secured in a network of string, were five or six human heads, blackened, shriveled faces, which seemed to grin horribly as they swung deeply from side to side, lit up by the flicker of the flames.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000106_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000109_000000|"On the bench yesterday.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000110_000000|For an hour-two, three, I don't know how long-that horrible bundle swung over the fire, and the man sat on his block of wood, staring straight before him.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000110_000001|I had a great desire to rush from my hiding place and seize him, and I waited, expecting some further revelation, listening for other footsteps.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000110_000003|The fire flickered lower and went out.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000111_000000|In the darkness before the dawn the man moved about the shed again, and presently I heard him go.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000113_000000|His calmness almost exasperated me, but he would answer no questions until we had returned to our hotel and had breakfast.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000114_000002|Why should a head be required?
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000114_000006|I found such a man in Sir Henry Buckingham.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000114_000007|I told you I was not certain of my theory.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000114_000010|Yet his history coincided with my theory.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000115_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000116_000001|"His mother was eccentric.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000117_000000|"How have you learnt all this?"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000118_000001|Another point, both these murders happened at the time of the full moon.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000119_000000|"You think----"
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000120_000000|"I think there would have been other heads missing if he had been," Quarles answered.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000120_000004|Now this year he was in England; illness had kept him to his house yonder, but he was well enough to get out at the fatal time, and the insane desire proved irresistible.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000120_000005|He was cunning too.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000120_000007|That would account for the foreign cut of his clothes.
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000120_000009|He realized that he was a stranger, and attacked him."
train-clean-100/7190/90542/7190_90542_000121_000000|"But the head?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000002_000000|However obscure a mystery may be, there is always some point or circumstance which, if rightly interpreted, will lead to its solution. Even in those crimes which have never been elucidated this point exists, only it has never been duly appreciated.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000003_000000|His almost superhuman power of recognizing this key clew was the foundation of Christopher Quarles's success, and his solution of the mysterious burglaries which caused such speculation for a time was not the least of his achievements.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000004_000000|Sir Joseph Maynard, the eminent physician of Harley Street, had given a small dinner party one evening.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000004_000001|The guests left early, and soon after midnight the household had retired.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000005_000000|Neither Sir Joseph nor Lady Maynard nor any of the servants were disturbed during the night, but next morning it was found that burglars had entered.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000005_000001|They had got in by a passage window at the back-not a very difficult matter-and had evidently gone to the dining room and helped themselves to spirits from a tantalus which was on the sideboard.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000005_000002|Three glasses, with a little of the liquor left in them, were on the table, and near them were some biscuit crumbs. There were several silver articles on the sideboard, but these had not been touched.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000006_000000|The burglars appeared to have given all their attention to Sir Joseph's room, which was in a state of confusion.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000006_000001|Two cupboards and every drawer had been turned out and the contents thrown about in all directions.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000006_000002|A safe which stood in a corner had been broken open.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000006_000005|All this silver was upon the floor, also the bag of money intact.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000007_000000|So far as Sir Joseph could tell, not a thing had been taken.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000007_000001|Half a dozen cigarette ends had been thrown down upon the carpet, and a small box containing some round counters lay broken by the writing table.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000008_000000|This was the obvious explanation, but it did not satisfy me.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000008_000001|I questioned Sir Joseph about his papers.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000008_000002|Had he any document which, for private or public reasons, someone might be anxious to obtain?
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000008_000003|He said he had not, was inclined to laugh at my question, and proceeded to inform me that he had no family skeleton, had no part in any Government secret, had never been in touch with any mysterious society, and had no papers giving any valuable details of scientific experiments upon which he was engaged.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000009_000000|Of course the thieves might have been disturbed, but there were certain points against this idea.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000009_000001|No one had moved about the house during the night, so apparently there had been nothing to disturb them.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000009_000002|The silver on the floor was scattered, not gathered together ready to take away as I should have expected to find it, and it looked as if it had been thrown aside carelessly, as though it were not what the thieves were in search of; and surely, had they left in a hurry, the bag of money would have been taken.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000009_000003|Moreover, the cigarette ends and the dirty glasses suggested a certain leisurely method of going to work, and men of this kind would not be easily frightened.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000010_000000|The cigarette ends puzzled me.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000010_000001|They were of a cheap American brand, had not been taken from Sir Joseph's box, which contained only Turkish ones, and, although they had apparently been thrown down carelessly, there was no ash upon the carpet nor anywhere else.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000010_000003|If my idea were correct, it would mean that they had been put there on purpose to mislead.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000011_000001|Only one had been drunk out of, and probably a little of the liquid had been emptied out of this into the other two.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000012_000000|This was the story I told to Professor Quarles and his granddaughter. I went to him at once, feeling that the case was just one of those in which his theoretical method was likely to be useful.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000013_000000|That he was interested was shown by our adjournment to the empty room, and he did not ask a question until I had finished my story.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000014_000000|"What is the opinion you have formed about it, Wigan?" he said.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000015_000000|"I think there was only one burglar, but for some reason he thought it important that it should be believed there were more."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000016_000000|"A very important point, and a reasonable conclusion, I fancy," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000016_000001|"If you are right, it narrows the sphere of inquiry-narrows it very much, taken with the other facts of the case."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000017_000000|"Exactly," I answered.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000017_000001|"There is a suggestion to my mind of amateurishness in the affair.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000017_000002|I grant the safe was not a difficult one to break open, but it had not been done in a very expert manner.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000017_000003|The cigarette ends, the dirty glasses, and the biscuit crumbs seem to me rather gratuitous deceptions, and----"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000018_000000|"Wait," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000018_000001|"You assume a little too much.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000018_000002|They would have deceived nine men out of ten-you happen to be the tenth man.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000018_000004|Assuming this to be the work of an amateur, to what definite point does it lead you?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000019_000000|"To this question," I replied.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000019_000001|"Did Sir Joseph Maynard burgle his own house?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000020_000000|"Why should you think so?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000021_000000|"His manner was curious.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000021_000001|Then there is only his own statement that nothing has been taken.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000023_000000|"The amateur constantly overlooks the obvious," I answered.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000024_000000|The professor shook his head.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000026_000000|"I think that would entirely depend on the man's temperament, professor."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000027_000000|"That may be true, but we have also got to consider the man's character.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000028_000000|"Sudden temptation or necessity may subvert the highest character," I answered.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000028_000001|"You know that as well as I do.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000028_000002|When I questioned Sir Joseph about his papers his manner seemed curious, as I have said.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000030_000000|His often repeated statement that she helped him by her questions had never impressed me very greatly.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000030_000001|When a mystery was cleared up, it was easy to say that Zena had put him on the right road, and I considered it a whim of his more than anything else.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000032_000001|"It creeps into my brain."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000033_000000|"The counters were in a heap," I said.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000035_000000|"No, that would have scattered them more.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000035_000001|They were round, and might have fallen over after having been put one upon another as one gathers coppers together when counting a number of them.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000035_000002|Sir Joseph picked them up and put them on the writing table while he was talking to me."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000036_000000|"Did that strike you as significant?" asked Quarles.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000037_000000|"I cannot say it did.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000037_000001|The floor was covered with things, and I fancy they happened to be in his way, that was all."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000038_000001|We must wait; for the moment there is nothing to be done."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000039_000000|I had become so accustomed to Quarles jumping to some sudden conclusion that I was disappointed.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000039_000002|Naturally I was not idle during the next few days, but at the end of them I had learnt nothing.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000040_000000|Then the unexpected happened.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000040_000001|On consecutive nights two doctors' houses were burgled.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000040_000002|The first was in Kensington.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000040_000003|dr Wheatley had taken some part in local politics which had made him unpopular with certain people, and he was inclined to consider the burglary one of revenge rather than intended robbery.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000040_000004|Nothing had been stolen, but everything in his room was in disorder, and a small and unique inlaid cabinet with a secret spring lock had been smashed to pieces.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000041_000001|He had several cabinets in his room containing specimens, and everything had been turned on to the floor and damaged more or less.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000041_000002|In fact, although nothing had been taken, the damage was considerable.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000041_000003|On the night of the burglary dr Wood was away from home, only servants being in the house.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000041_000005|It seemed, however, that the burglar must have heard her moving about and had been prepared to defend himself, for a revolver, loaded in every chamber, was found on one of the cabinets.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000041_000006|Apparently, having put it ready for use, he had forgotten to take it away.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000042_000000|The doctor was furious at the wanton destruction of his specimens, and, being irascible and suspicious, fancied the revolver was merely a blind and that the culprit was some jealous medical man.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000044_000000|"The unexpected has happened," I said.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000045_000000|"No, no; the expected," he said impatiently, and he pointed to a heap of newspapers.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000045_000001|"I've read every report, but tell me yourself-every detail."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000046_000000|I did so.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000047_000000|"The same brand of cigarettes?" he asked.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000048_000000|"No, but all cheap American ones."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000049_000001|You still think that?
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000049_000002|Nothing has happened to make you change that opinion?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000050_000000|"No, I hold to the one man theory."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000051_000000|"And you are right," he snapped.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000051_000001|"I admit I might not have got upon the right track had you not made that discovery.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000052_000000|"It did not seem to help you to a theory," I answered.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000053_000000|"True.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000053_000002|Had the thief found what he was looking for?
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000053_000003|Much depended upon the answer.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000054_000001|If the thief had not found what he wanted, he would continue his search, I argued.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000054_000003|It might implicate Sir Joseph, it might not.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000054_000004|That is why I said we must wait.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000054_000005|The thief has tried again-twice.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000054_000006|Now, what is he looking for?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000055_000000|"Presumably something a doctor is likely to have," I said.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000057_000000|"Nor counters, I suppose," I interrupted.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000058_000002|Whatever it is the thief is seeking for, he is desperately anxious to obtain it-witness his two attempts on consecutive nights."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000059_000000|"You forget that days have elapsed since Sir Joseph's was broken into."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000060_000000|"Forget?
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000060_000001|Nonsense!" said the professor sharply.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000060_000003|It means that opportunity has been lacking.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000060_000005|And that is where the counters help me-or I think they do."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000061_000000|"How?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000062_000000|"Call for me to morrow morning; we are going to pay a visit together. We may be too late, but I hope not.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000065_000000|It was like Christopher Quarles to raise my curiosity, and then to leave it unsatisfied.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000065_000001|It was his way of showing that he was my superior-at least, it always impressed me like this.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000065_000003|Yet I owe him much, and there is no gainsaying his marvelous deductions.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000067_000002|Imagination carries one to the hills, and shows something of that truth which lies behind what we call truth."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000068_000000|I found him ready and waiting for me next morning, as eager to be on the trail as a dog in leash.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000069_000004|We don't want to have to commit burglary ourselves in order to catch the thief."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000070_000000|"Why do you expect this particular doctor will be visited?" I asked.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000072_000000|dr Tresman was a man in the prime of life, and evidently believed himself capable of dealing with any thieves who visited him.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000072_000001|I told him that the man we expected was no ordinary thief.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000073_000002|Of course you may keep watch, and I shall be within call should you want help."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000074_000000|"You had better leave it to us, doctor," said Quarles, who, for the purpose of this interview, posed as my assistant.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000075_000000|"Come, now, if it means a rough and tumble, I should back myself against you," laughed Tresman, drawing himself up to his full inches.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000077_000000|"For all that, you may be glad of my muscle when it comes to the point," was the answer.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000079_000000|We had decided that the most likely means of entry was by a window at the end of the hall, and we expected our prey to enter the room by the door.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000079_000002|We were anxious to reproduce the circumstances of the burglary at Sir Joseph Maynard's as nearly as possible, for Quarles declared it was impossible to say what significance there might be in the man's every action.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000080_000001|Nothing happened.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000082_000000|He showed no disappointment, nor any sign that his theory had received a shock.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000083_000000|The next night we were on the watch again, concealed as before.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000084_000000|By arrangement, the house retired to rest early.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000084_000001|So slowly did time go that half the night seemed to have passed when I heard a neighboring church clock strike one, and almost directly afterward the door of the room was opened stealthily and was shut again.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000085_000000|Until that moment I had not heard a sound in the house, and I was not certain that anyone had entered the room even now, until I saw a tiny disk, the end of a ray of light, on the wall.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000085_000002|The next moment he almost trod upon me.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000085_000004|It was discovery from without that he was afraid of.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000085_000005|The ray from his lantern swung about the room for a moment, then he switched on the electric light.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000086_000003|Then he broke off a piece of biscuit, crumbled it in his hands, and scattered the crumbs beside the glasses.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000086_000004|The cigarette box he did not touch, but he took some cigarette ends from his pocket and threw them on the floor.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000086_000005|These preliminaries seemed stereotyped ones, and he appeared glad to be done with them.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000000|There was a curious eagerness in his face as he bent down and opened his bag, taking a thin chisel from it, and from his hip pocket he took a revolver.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000001|His method was systematic.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000003|If a drawer were locked, he pried it open.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000004|He laid the revolver ready to his hand upon the piece of furniture he was examining.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000006|Some of the contents he hardly looked at.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000007|Indeed, most of the contents did not interest him.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000087_000008|But now and then his attention was closer, and at intervals he seemed puzzled, standing quite still, his hands raised, a finger touching his head, almost as a low comedian does when he wishes the audience to realize that he is in deep thought.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000088_000000|For some time I could not make out what kind of article it was to which he gave special attention, but presently noticed that anything in ivory or bone interested him, especially if it were circular.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000088_000001|I remembered the counters in Sir Joseph's room, and wished we had thought to place some in here to see what he would have done with them.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000089_000000|Watching him closely, I was aware that he became more irritable as he proceeded.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000089_000001|One small cabinet, which might possess a secret hiding place, he broke with the chisel, and I noticed that whenever a drawer was locked his scrutiny of the contents was more careful.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000089_000002|He evidently expected that the man he was robbing would value the thing he was looking for, and would be likely to hide it securely.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000090_000000|He had worked round half the room when he suddenly stopped, and, with a quick movement, took up the revolver.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000090_000001|I had not heard a sound in the house, but he had.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000090_000002|There was no sign of doubt in his attitude, which was of a most uncompromising character.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000090_000003|He did not make any movement to switch off the light, he did not attempt to conceal himself.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000090_000004|He just raised his arm and pointed the revolver toward the door, on a level at which the bullet would strike the head of a man of average height.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000091_000000|The handle was turned, and the door began to open.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000091_000001|The next five seconds were full of happenings.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000091_000002|For just a fraction of time I realized that the burglar meant to shoot the intruder without a word of warning, and for a moment I seemed unable to utter a sound.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000091_000003|Then I shouted:
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000092_000000|"Back for your life!"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000094_000000|"Quickly, Wigan!" Quarles cried.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000095_000000|I had dashed aside the curtain, and I threw myself upon the burglar just in time to prevent his picking up his weapon with his left hand. He struggled fiercely, and I was glad of Tresman's help in securing him, although the doctor had come perilously near to losing his life by his unexpected intrusion.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000098_000000|"Something in bone or ivory."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000099_000001|"Thank heaven that fool Tresman didn't come sooner!
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000099_000002|We might have missed much that was interesting.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000099_000003|You noted how keen he was with every piece of bone he could find, how irritable he was growing.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000099_000004|The counters, Wigan, they were the clew.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000099_000005|But I did not understand their significance at first."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000100_000000|"I do not understand the case now," I confessed, "except that we have caught a mad burglar."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000002|That was my first question, as I told you.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000004|He did, and visited two other doctors.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000005|Round counters-doctors.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000006|There was the link.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000007|I daresay you know, Wigan, there is an annual published giving particulars of all the hospitals, with the names of the medical staff, consulting surgeons and physicians, and so forth.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000009|It could not be chance that the burglar had visited these men in exact order, so I argued that he would next go to dr Tresman.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000011|He was looking for something of which a doctor at this hospital had robbed him, as he imagined, and, not knowing which doctor, looked at this annual and began at the first name.
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000101_000014|Did you see how he touched his head several times to night?"
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000102_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-100/7190/90543/7190_90543_000103_000000|"That gives the explanation, I think," said Quarles.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000003_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000004_000000|STORM BOUND AT ERIE.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000005_000000|We were somewhat jaded by the time Monday morning came, for Sunday brought not only no relief, but repetitions of many of the most horrible of these "tales of a wayside inn."
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000005_000001|It was with no slight sense of relief that we paid our modest bill and at last broke away from such ghastly associations.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000005_000002|An involuntary shudder overcame me, as we passed the head of the island at the foot of our host's orchard, which he had described as a catch basin for human floaters.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000006_000000|Our course still lay among large, densely wooded islands,--many of them wholly given up to maples and willows,--and deep cuts through sun baked mudbanks, the color of adobe; but occasionally there are low, gloomy bottoms, heavily forested, and strewn with flood wood, while beyond the land rises gradually into prairie stretches.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000006_000001|In the bottoms the trees are filled with flocks of birds,--crows, hawks, blackbirds, with stately blue herons and agile plovers foraging on the long gravel spits which frequently jut far into the stream; ducks are frequently seen sailing near the shores; while divers silently dart and plunge ahead of the canoe, safely out of gunshot reach.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000006_000002|A head wind this morning made rowing more difficult, by counteracting the influence of the current.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000007_000000|We were at Lyndon at eleven o'clock.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000007_000001|There is a population of about two hundred, clustered around a red paper mill.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000007_000002|The latter made a pretty picture standing out on the bold bank, backed by a number of huge stacks of golden straw.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000007_000003|We met here the first rapids worthy of record; also an old, abandoned mill dam, in the last stages of decay, stretching its whitened skeleton across the stream, a harbor for driftwood.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000007_000005|We went through the centre of the channel thus made, with a swoop that gave us an impetus which soon carried our vessel out of sight of Lyndon and its paper mill and straw stacks.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000008_000000|Prophetstown, five miles below, is prettily situated in an oak grove on the southern bank.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000008_000001|Only the gables of a few houses can be seen from the river, whose banks of yellow clay and brown mud are here twenty five feet high.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000008_000004|It was at "the prophet's town," as White Cloud's village was known in pioneer days, that Black Hawk rested upon his ill fated journey up the Rock, and from here, at the instigation of the wizard, he bade the United States soldiery defiance.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000009_000000|There are rapids, almost continually, from a mile above Prophetstown to Erie, ten miles below.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000010_000001|Here, the high banks had receded, with several miles of heavily wooded, boggy bottoms intervening.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000010_000002|Floods had held high carnival, and the aspect of the country was wild and deserted.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000010_000003|The cut-off was an ugly looking channel; but where our informant had gone through, with his unwieldy hulk, we considered it safe to venture with a canoe, so readily responsive to the slightest paddle stroke.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000010_000005|It was a scene of howling desolation, rack and ruin upon every hand.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000010_000006|The muddy torrent, at a velocity of fully eight miles an hour, went eddying and whirling and darting and roaring among the gnarled and blackened stumps, the prostrate trees, the twisted roots, the huge bowlders which studded its course.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000010_000008|With eyes strained for obstructions, we turned and twisted through the labyrinth, jumping along at a breakneck speed; and, when we finally rejoined the main river below, were grateful enough, for the run had been filled with continuous possibilities of a disastrous smash up, miles away from any human habitation.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000011_000000|The thunder storm which had been threatening since early morning, soon burst upon us with a preliminary wind blast, followed by drenching rain.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000011_000001|Running ashore on the lee bank, we wrapped the canvas awning around the baggage, and made for a thick clump of trees on the top of an island mudbank, where we stood buttoned to the neck in rubber coats.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000011_000003|Looking up, we saw for the first time a small tent on the opposite shore, a quarter of a mile away, in front of which was a man shouting to us and beckoning us over.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000011_000004|It was getting uncomfortably muddy under the trees, which had not long sufficed as an umbrella, and the rubber coats were not warranted to withstand a deluge, so we accepted the invitation with alacrity and paddled over through the pelting storm.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000012_000000|Our host was a young fisherman, who helped us and our luggage up the slimy bank to his canvas quarters, which we found to be dry, although odorous of fish.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000012_000001|While the storm raged without, the young man, who was a simple hearted fellow, confided to us the details of his brief career.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000012_000003|The phenomenal powers of observation displayed by this first born youth were reported with much detail by the fond father, who sat crouched upon a boat sail in one corner of the little tent, his head between his knees, and smoking vile tobacco in a blackened clay pipe.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000012_000004|It seemed that his wife was a ferryman's daughter, and her father had besought his son in law to follow the same steady calling.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000012_000007|In the course of our conversation I learned that the ferrymen, who are more numerous on the lower than on the upper Rock, pay an annual license fee of five dollars each, in consideration of which they are guarantied a monopoly of the business at their stands, no other line being allowed within one mile of an existing ferry.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000013_000000|Within an hour and a half the storm had apparently passed over, and we continued our journey.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000013_000001|But after supper another shower and a stiff head wind came up, and we were well bedraggled by the time a ferry landing near the little village of Erie was reached.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000014_000000|The ferryman, a good-natured young athlete, was landing a farm wagon and team as we pulled in upon the muddy roadway.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000015_000000|We assured him that with these muddy swamp roads, and in our wet condition, nothing but absolute necessity would induce us to take a mile's tramp.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000015_000001|The parley ended in our being directed to a small farm house a quarter of a mile inland, where luckless travelers, belated on the dreary bottoms, were occasionally kept.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000015_000002|Making the canoe fast for the night, we strung our baggage packs upon the paddle which we carried between us, and set out along a devious way, through a driving mist which blackened the twilight into dusk, to find this place of public entertainment.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000016_000000|It is a little, one story, dilapidated farm house, standing a short distance from the country road, amid a clump of poplar trees.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000016_000001|Forcing our way through the hingeless gate, the violent removal of which threatened the immediate destruction of several lengths of rickety fence, we walked up to the open front door and applied for shelter.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000017_000000|"Yes, ma'am; we sometimes keeps tavern, ma'am," replied a large, greasy looking, black haired woman of some forty years, as, her hands folded within her up turned apron, she courtesied to W----.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000018_000001|There was huddled together an odd, slouchy combination of articles of shabby furniture and cheap decorations, peculiar, in the country, to all three classes of rooms, the evidences of poverty, shiftlessness, and untasteful pretentiousness upon every side.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000018_000002|A huge, wheezy old cabinet organ was set diagonally in one corner, and upon this, as we entered, a young woman was pounding and paddling with much vigor, while giving us sidelong glances of curiosity.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000018_000003|She was a neighbor, on an evening visit, decked out in a smart jockey cap, with a green ostrich tip and bright blue ribbons, and gay in a new calico dress,--a yellow field thickly planted to purple pineapples.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000019_000000|W---- confessed her inability, chiefly from lack of practice in the art of incessantly working the pedals.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000020_000001|It's all in gettin' the bellers to work even like.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000020_000002|There's a good many what kin learn the playin' part of it without no teacher; but there has to be lessons to learn the bellers.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000020_000003|Don't ye have no orgin, when ye're at home?" she asked sharply, as if to guage the social standing of the new guest.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000021_000000|W---- modestly confessed to never having possessed such an instrument.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000023_000002|Seven feet square, with a broad, roped bedstead occupying the entire length, a bedside space of but two feet wide was left.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000023_000003|Much of this being filled with butter firkins, chains, a trunk, and a miscellaneous riff raff of household lumber, the standing room was restricted to two feet square, necessitating the use of the bed as a dressing place, after the fashion of a sleeping car bunk.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000023_000004|This cubby hole of a room was also the wardrobe for the women of the household, the walls above the bed being hung nearly two feet deep with the oddest collection of calico and gingham gowns, bustles, hoopskirts, hats, bonnets, and winter underwear I think I had ever laid eyes on.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000024_000000|Much of this condition of affairs was not known, however, until next morning; for it was as dark as Egypt within, except for a few faint rays of light which came straggling through the cracks in the board partition separating us from the sitting room candle.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000024_000001|We had no sooner crossed the threshold of our little box than the creaky old cleat door was gently closed upon us and buttoned by our hostess upon the outside, as the only means of keeping it shut; and we were left free to grope about among these mysteries as best we might.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000025_000000|Repressing our mirth, we assured our good hostess that we would have a due regard for our personal safety.
train-clean-100/7226/86964/7226_86964_000025_000001|The window, not at first discernible, proved to be a hole in the wall, some two feet square, which brought in little enough fresh air, at the best.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000001_000000|THE LAST DAY OUT.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000002_000002|The husband, whom we had not met before, was a short, smooth faced, voluble, overgrown boy sort of man.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000002_000003|The mother was dumpy, coarse, and good-natured.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000002_000005|The old grandmother, with a face like parchment and one gleaming eye, sat in a low rocking chair by the stove, crooning over a corn cob pipe and using the wood box for a cuspadore.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000002_000006|She had a vinegary, slangy tongue, and being somewhat deaf, would break in upon the conversation with remarks sharper than they were pat.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000003_000000|With our host, a glib and rapid talker in a swaggering tone, one could not but be much amused, as he exhibited a degree of self appreciation that was decidedly refreshing.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000003_000001|He had been a veteran in the War of the Rebellion, he proudly assured us, and pointed with his knife to his discharge paper, which was hung up in an old looking glass frame by the side of the clock.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000005_000000|"Were you wounded, sir?" asked W----, sympathetically.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000006_000000|"No, I wa'n't hurt at all,--that is, so to speak, wounded.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000008_000006|I tol' the cap'n what I wanted, but he said as how I was more use a takin' keer of the supplies.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000008_000007|That cap'n hadn't no enterprise 'bout him.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000009_000000|The old woman had been listening eagerly to this narrative, evidently quite proud of her boy's achievements, but not hearing all that had been said.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000009_000001|She now broke out, in shrill, high notes,--
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000011_000000|"Ah! you were in the cavalry service, then?" I said to our landlord, by way of helping along the conversation.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000012_000000|There was a momentary silence, broken by Simple Simon, who wiped his knife on his tongue, and made a wild attack on the butter dish.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000015_000000|It was quite evident that the breakfast we were eating was a special spread in honor of probably the only guests the quondam tavern had had these many months.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000015_000001|Canoeists must not be too particular about the fare set before them; but on this occasion we were able to swallow but a few mouthfuls of the repast and our lunch basket was drawn on as soon as we were once more afloat.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000015_000002|It is a great pity that so many farmers' wives are the wretched cooks they are.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000015_000004|This bill of fare, warranted to destroy the best of appetites, will be recognized by too many of my readers as that to be found at the average American farm house, although we all doubtless know of some magnificent exceptions, which only prove the rule.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000015_000006|It is no wonder that country boys drift to the cities, where they can obtain properly cooked food and live like rational beings.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000016_000000|The river continues to widen as we approach the junction with the Mississippi,--thirty nine miles below Erie,--and to assume the characteristics of the great river into which it pours its flood.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000016_000001|The islands increase in number and in size, some of them being over a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth; the bottoms frequently resolve themselves into wide morasses, thickly studded with great elms, maples, and cotton woods, among which the spring flood has wrought direful destruction.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000016_000002|The scene becomes peculiarly desolate and mournful, often giving one the impression of being far removed from civilization, threading the course of some hitherto unexplored stream. Penetrate the deep fringe of forest and morass on foot, however, and smiling prairies are found beyond, stretching to the horizon and cut up into prosperous farms.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000016_000003|The river is here from a half to three quarters of a mile broad, but the shallows and snags are as numerous as ever and navigation is continually attended with some danger of being either grounded or capsized.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000017_000000|Now and then the banks become firmer, with charming vistas of high, wooded hills coming down to the water's edge; broad savannas intervene, decked out with variegated flora, prominent being the elsewhere rare atragene Americana, the spider wort, the little blue lobelia, and the cup weed.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000017_000001|These savannas are apparently overflowed in times of exceptionally high water; and there are evidences that the stream has occasionally changed its course, through the sunbaked banks of ashy gray mud, in years long past.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000018_000000|At Cleveland, a staid little village on an open plain, which we reached soon after the dinner hour, there is an unused mill dam going to decay.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000018_000001|In the centre, the main current has washed out a breadth of three or four rods, through which the pent up stream rushes with a roar and a hundred whirlpools.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000018_000002|It is an ugly crevasse, but a careful examination showed the passage to be feasible, so we retreated an eighth of a mile up stream, took our bearings, and went through with a speed that nearly took our breath away and appeared to greatly astonish a half dozen fishermen idly angling from the dilapidated apron on either side.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000018_000003|It was like going through Cleveland on the fast mail.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000019_000000|Fourteen miles above the mouth of the Rock, is the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad bridge, with Carbon Cliff on the north and Coloma on the south, each one mile from the river.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000019_000002|We began to deem it worth while to inquire about the condition of affairs at the mouth.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000019_000004|Stopping to question them, we found them both well informed as to the railway time tables of the vicinity and the topography of the lower river.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000019_000007|The present landing was the last chance to strike a railway, except at Milan, twelve miles below.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000020_000001|Taking a final spurt down to a ferry landing a quarter of a mile beyond, on the south bank, we beached our canoe at five o five p m, having voyaged two hundred and sixty seven miles in somewhat less than seven days and a half.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000020_000002|Leaving W---- to gossip with the ferryman's wife, who came down to the bank with an armful of smiling twins, to view a craft so strange to her vision, I went up into the country to engage a team to take our boat upon its last portage.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000020_000003|After having been gruffly refused by a churlish farmer, who doubtless recognized no difference between a canoeist and a tramp, I struck a bargain with a negro cultivating a cornfield with a span of coal black mules, and in half an hour he was at the ferry landing with a wagon.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000020_000004|Washing out the canoe and chaining in the oars and paddle, we lifted it into the wagon box, piled our baggage on top, and set off over the hills and fields to Coloma, W---- and I trudging behind the dray, ankle deep in mud, for the late rains had well moistened the black prairie soil.
train-clean-100/7226/86965/7226_86965_000020_000005|It was a unique and picturesque procession.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000001_000000|Let us halt at this phase in the development of the thing to consider certain other changes which were on the point of appearance, and why they were on the point of appearance.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000002_000000|In the first place, if advertisement had come to be the stand by of a newspaper, the Capitalist owning the sheet would necessarily consider his revenue from advertisement before anything else.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000003_000000|He was compelled then to respect his advertisers as his paymasters.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000004_000000|An individual newspaper owner might, for instance, have the greatest possible dislike for the trade in patent medicines.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000004_000002|He might himself have suffered acute physical pain through the imprudent absorption of one of those quack drugs.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000004_000003|But he certainly could not print an article against them, nor even an article describing how they were made, without losing a great part of his income, directly; and, perhaps, indirectly, the whole of it, from the annoyance caused to other advertisers, who would note his independence and fear friction in their own case.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000004_000004|He would prefer to retain his income, persuade his readers to buy poison, and remain free (personally) from touching the stuff he recommended for pay.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000005_000000|As with patent medicines so with any other matter whatsoever that was advertised.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000005_000002|He chose the former course.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000007_000000|There is always this psychological, or, if you will, artistic element in exchange.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000008_000000|In pure Economics exchange is exactly balanced by the respective advantages of the exchangers; just as in pure dynamics you have the parallelogram of forces.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000009_000001|He would not advertise in papers which he thought might by their publication of opinion ultimately hurt Capitalism as a whole; still less in those whose opinions might affect his own private fortune adversely.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000009_000002|Stupid (like all people given up to gain), he was muddle headed about the distinction between a large circulation and a circulation small, but appealing to the rich.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000009_000003|He would refuse advertisements of luxuries to a paper read by half the wealthier class if he had heard in the National Liberal Club, or some such place, that the paper was "in bad taste."
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000012_000002|For another, there was no clear cut distinction between the Capitalism that owned newspapers and the Capitalism that advertised.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000012_000003|The same man who owned "The Daily Times" was a shareholder in Jones's Soap or Smith's Pills.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000012_000006|The type is the common modern type.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000012_000007|Parliament is full of it, and it runs newspapers only as one of its activities-all of which need the suggestion of advertisement.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000013_000000|The newspaper owner and the advertiser, then, were intermixed.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000013_000001|But on the balance the advertising interest being wider spread was the stronger, and what you got was a sort of imposition, often quite conscious and direct, of advertising power over the Press; and this was, as I have said, not only negative (that was long obvious) but, at last, positive.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000017_000000|But there is now a graver corruption at work even than this always negative and sometimes positive power of the advertiser.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000018_000000|It is the advent of the great newspaper owner as the true governing power in the political machinery of the State, superior to the officials in the State, nominating ministers and dismissing them, imposing policies, and, in general, usurping sovereignty-all this secretly and without responsibility.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000019_000002|It was undreamt of but a few years ago.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000019_000003|It is already to day the capital fact of our whole political system.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000019_000004|A Prime Minister is made or deposed by the owner of a group of newspapers, not by popular vote or by any other form of open authority.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000020_000000|No policy is attempted until it is ascertained that the newspaper owner is in favour of it.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000020_000001|Few are proffered without first consulting his wishes.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000020_000002|Many are directly ordered by him.
train-clean-100/7264/92310/7264_92310_000021_000000|How did such a catastrophe come about?
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000001_000001|I am right.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000001_000003|The new governing Press is an oligarchy which still works "in with" the just less new parliamentary oligarchy.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000003_000000|Under certain forms of arbitrary government in Continental Europe ministers once made use of picked and rare newspapers to express their views, and these newspapers came to be called "The Official Press." It was a crude method, and has been long abandoned even by the simpler despotic forms of government.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000003_000001|Nothing of that kind exists now, of course, in the deeper corruption of modern Europe-least of all in England.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000004_000001|This gives them so distinct a character, of parliamentary falsehood, and that falsehood is so clearly dictated by their connection with executive power that they merit the title "Official."
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000005_000000|The regime under which we are now living is that of a Plutocracy which has gradually replaced the old Aristocratic tradition of England. This Plutocracy-a few wealthy interests-in part controls, in part is expressed by, is in part identical with the professional politicians, and it has in the existing Capitalist Press an ally similar to that "Official Press" which continental nations knew in the past.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000007_000000|Is not everything which the regime desires to be suppressed, suppressed?
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000008_000001|The current simulacrum of criticism apparently attacking some portion of the regime, never deals with matters vital to its prestige.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000008_000002|On the contrary, it deliberately side tracks any vital discussion that sincere conviction may have forced upon the public, and spoils the scent with false issues.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000009_000001|Its remedy was an opposition to be headed by a lawyer.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000011_000000|Another clamours for the elimination of enemy financial power in the affairs of this country, and yet says not a word upon the auditing of the secret Party Funds!
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000012_000004|They do not really criticize.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000012_000005|They serve a clique whom they should expose, and denounce and betray the generality-that is the State-for whose sake the salaried public servants should be perpetually watched with suspicion and sharply kept in control.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000014_000001|They know that their old power of observation over public servants has slipped from them. They suspect that the known gross corruption of Public life, and particularly of the House of Commons, is entrenched behind a conspiracy of silence on the part of those very few who have the power to inform them.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000015_000000|This transitional state of affairs (for I hope to show that it is only transitional) is a very great evil.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000015_000001|It warps and depletes public information.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000015_000002|It prevents the just criticism of public servants.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000015_000004|There are, among such gutter snipes, thousands whose luck ends in the native gutter, half a dozen whose luck lands them into millions, one or two at most who, on the top of such a career go crazy with the ambition of the parvenu and propose to direct the State.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000017_000000|Here I touch the core of my matter.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000021_000000|"The New Age" was, I think, the pioneer in the matter.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000021_000001|It still maintains a pre-eminent position.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000021_000004|Their number will increase.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000022_000000|With this I pass from the just denunciation of evil to the exposition of what is good.
train-clean-100/7264/92314/7264_92314_000023_000000|I propose to examine the nature of that movement which I call "The Free Press," to analyse the disabilities under which it suffers, and to conclude with my conviction that it is, in spite of its disabilities, not only a growing force, but a salutary one, and, in a certain measure, a conquering one.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000002_000000|A
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000005_000001|The "organs of opinion" professed a genteel ignorance of that idea which was most widespread, most intense, and most formative.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000006_000001|But such a Free Press in defence of religion (the pioneer of all the Free Press) arose in Ireland and in France and elsewhere.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000012_000002|"Later," these founders of the Free Press seemed to say, "we may convert the mass to our views, but, for the moment, we are admittedly a clique: an exceptional body with the penalties attaching to such." They said this although the whole life of France is at least as Catholic as the life of Great Britain is Plutocratic, or the life of Switzerland Democratic.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000013_000000|The first Propagandists, then, did not stand up to the Official Press as equals.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000013_000001|They crept in as inferiors, or rather as open ex centrics. For Victorian England and Third Empire France falsely proclaimed the "representative" quality of the Official Press.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000015_000002|From the Socialist point of view the leading fact about the insincerity of the great official papers is that this insincerity is Capitalist; just as from a Catholic point of view the leading fact about it was, and is, that it is anti Catholic.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000016_000000|Though, however, certain of the Socialist Free Papers thus boldly took up a standpoint of moral equality with the others, their attitude was exceptional.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000017_000000|The great Dailies were thought grey; not wicked-only general and vague.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000017_000001|The Free Press in its beginnings did not attack as an enemy.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000017_000002|It only timidly claimed to be heard.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000017_000004|It was humble.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000017_000005|And there went with it a mass of ex centric stuff.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000018_000002|You have the Single tax papers.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000020_000000|Now from this fact arises a consideration of great importance to our subject.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000027_000002|True, the editor, being revocable and poor, could not pretend to full political power.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000028_000002|It had disappeared by the nineteen hundreds.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000029_000000|The editor became (and now is) a mere mouthpiece of the proprietor. Editors succeed each other rapidly.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000029_000003|It came quickly but thoroughly.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000029_000004|At last-like most rapid developments-it exceeded itself.
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000031_000001|To distort, to lie?
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000032_000000|C
train-clean-100/7264/92316/7264_92316_000040_000001|Only a small number of people were acquainted with such particular truths.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000001_000011|His position should be clearly understood; for in the vast labor which lay before the abolition party different tasks fell to different men.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000001_000031|The conservative, conscienceless respectability of wealth was, as is usually the case with it in the annals of the Anglo Saxon race, quite in the wrong and predestined to well merited defeat.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000002_000000|But it is time to resume the narrative and to let mr Adams's acts-of which after all it is possible to give only the briefest sketch, selecting a few of the more striking incidents-tell the tale of his Congressional life.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000003_000002|At the next session of Congress they concluded to try to stop it, and their ingenious scheme was to make Congress shot proof, so to speak, against such missiles.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000003_000004|But in a moment mr Glascock, of Georgia, moved that the petition be not received.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000004_000000|On february eighth eighteen thirty six, this novel scheme for shutting off petitions against slavery immediately upon their presentation was referred to a select committee of which mr Pinckney was chairman.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000004_000001|On may eighteenth this committee reported in substance: one.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000004_000002|That Congress had no power to interfere with slavery in any State; two.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000004_000010|Such was the beginning of the famous "gag" which became and long remained-afterward in a worse shape-a standing rule of the House.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000004_000013|They had assumed an untenable position.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000005_000003|The clerk, by direction of the Speaker, thereupon called his name.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000006_000005|The mere presentation of an odious petition may seem in itself to be a simple task; but to find himself in a constant state of antagonism to a powerful, active, and vindictive majority in a debating body, constituted of such material as then made up the House of Representatives, wore hardly even upon the iron temper and inflexible disposition of mr Adams.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000006_000007|The severe pressure against him begat only the more severe counter pressure upon his part.
train-clean-100/7278/104730/7278_104730_000008_000003|There is no such man in the House."
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000003_000000|AFTER THE SERMON.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000004_000000|As the sermon drew to a close, and the mist of his emotion began to disperse, individual faces of his audience again dawned out on the preacher's ken.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000004_000005|Small was the suspicion in the Abbey Church of Olaston that morning, that the well-known successful man of business was weeping.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000004_000006|Who could once have imagined another reason for the laying of that round, good humoured, contented face down on the book board, than pure drowsiness from lack of work day interest!
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000004_000007|Yet there was a human soul crying out after its birthright.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000005_000001|At times indeed he felt as if he were speaking to him immediately-and to him only; at others, although then he saw her no more than him, that he was comforting the sister individually, in holding out to her brother the mighty hope of a restored purity.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000005_000003|True it was already fading away, but the eyes had wept, the glow yet hung about cheek and forehead, and the firm mouth had forgotten itself into a tremulous form, which the stillness of absorption had there for the moment fixed.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000006_000001|And the snake said: "Why, then, did he not speak like that to my Leopold?
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000006_000003|Or, if he fancied he must speak of confession, why did he not speak of it in plain honest terms, instead of suggesting the idea of it so that the poor boy imagined it came from his own spirit, and must therefore be obeyed as the will of God?"
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000007_000000|So said the snake, and by the time Helen had walked home with her aunt, the glow had sunk from her soul, and a gray wintry mist had settled down upon her spirit.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000007_000003|Had she not done enough?
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000007_000004|Would even her father require more of her than she had already done and endured?
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000008_000001|His eyes followed her as she walked across to the dressing room, and the tears rose and filled them, but he said nothing.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000008_000003|As she repassed him to go to the drawing room, she did indeed say a word of kindness; but it was in a forced tone, and was only about his dinner! His eyes over flowed, but he shut his lips so tight that his mouth grew grim with determination, and no more tears came.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000009_000001|How far she mistook, or how far she knew or suspected that she spoke falsely, I will not pretend to know. But although she spoke as she did, there was something, either in the curate or in the sermon, that had quieted her a little, and she was less contemptuous in her condemnation of him than usual.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000010_000000|Happily both for himself and others, the curate was not one of those who cripple the truth and blind their own souls by
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000012_000000|and hence, in proportion as he roused the honest, he gave occasion to the dishonest to cavil and condemn.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000012_000001|Imagine saint Paul having a prevision of how he would be misunderstood, AND HEEDING IT!--what would then have become of all those his most magnificent outbursts?
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000012_000004|To explain to him who loves not, is but to give him the more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000012_000005|Let a man have truth in the inward parts, and out of the abundance of his heart let his mouth speak. If then he should have ground to fear honest misunderstanding, let him preach again to enforce the truth for which he is jealous, and if it should seem to any that the two utterances need reconciling, let those who would have them consistent reconcile them for themselves.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000013_000000|The reason of George Bascombe's absence from church that morning was, that, after an early breakfast, he had mounted Helen's mare, and set out to call on mr Hooker before he should have gone to church.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000013_000001|Helen expected him back to dinner, and was anxiously looking for him.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000013_000002|So also was Leopold, but the hopes of the two were different.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000014_000000|At length the mare's hoofs echoed through all Sunday Glaston, and presently George rode up.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000014_000001|The groom took his horse in the street, and he came into the drawing room.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000014_000002|Helen hastened to meet him.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000015_000000|"Well, George?" she said, anxiously.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000016_000000|"Oh, it's all right!--will be at least, I am sure.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000016_000002|"I'll just run and show myself to Leopold: he must not suspect that I am of your party and playing him false.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000017_000000|The words jarred sorely on Helen's ear.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000019_000000|"Why not to morrow?" said Leopold.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000019_000001|"I am quite able."
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000020_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000020_000002|And he wanted a run after the hounds to morrow.
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000020_000003|So we judged it better put off till Tuesday."
train-clean-100/7278/246956/7278_246956_000021_000000|Leopold gave a sigh, and said no more.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000001_000000|GEORGE w CHILDS.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000003_000000|Every portion is interesting.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000003_000002|Alas! how unhomelike and barren are some of the newspaper offices, where gifted men toil from morning till night, with little time for sleep, and still less for recreation.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000004_000001|"He refused to reduce the rate of payment of his compositors, notwithstanding that the Typographical Union had formerly sanctioned a reduction, and notwithstanding that the reduced scale was operative in every printing office in Philadelphia except his own.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000004_000003|That his employes, in a formal interview with him, expressed their willingness to accept the reduced rates, simply augments the generosity of his act." Strikes among laborers would be few and far between if employers were like George w Childs.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000005_000004|This is indeed practical Christianity.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000007_000000|But after seeing the admirable provision made for his workmen, we must enter the private office of mr Childs.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000007_000002|He listens courteously to any requests, and then bids you make yourself at home in this elegant office, that certainly has no superior in the world, perhaps no rival.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000008_000000|The room itself in the Queen Anne style, with exquisite wood carving, marble tiles, brass ornaments, and painted glass, is a gem.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000008_000005|It was made for Joseph Potts, who paid six hundred and forty dollars for it.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000008_000006|The Spanish Minister in seventeen seventy eight offered eight hundred for it, that he might present it to his sovereign.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000008_000007|mr Childs has about fifty rare clocks in his various homes, one of these costing six thousand dollars.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000010_000000|After a delightful hour spent in looking at these choice things, mr Childs bids us take our choice of some rare china cups and saucers.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000010_000001|We choose one dainty with red birds, and carry it away as a pleasant remembrance of a princely giver, in a princely apartment.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000011_000000|mr Childs has had a most interesting history.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000011_000002|At fourteen he came to Philadelphia, poor, but with courage and a quick mind, and found a place to work in a bookstore.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000011_000003|Here he remained for four years, doing his work faithfully, and to the best of his ability.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000011_000004|At the end of these years he had saved a few hundred dollars, and opened a little store for himself in the Ledger Building, where the well-known newspaper, the "Public Ledger," was published.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000012_000000|He was ambitious, as who is not, that comes to prominence; and one day he made the resolution that he would sometime be the owner of this great paper and its building!
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000012_000002|Besides, he was never idle, he was economical, his habits were the best, and why should not such a boy succeed?
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000013_000000|In three years, when he was twenty one, he had become the head of a publishing house,--Childs and Peterson.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000013_000002|He brought out Kane's "Arctic Expedition," from which the author, dr Kane, realized seventy thousand dollars.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000013_000003|Two hundred thousand copies of Peterson's "Familiar Science" were sold.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000015_000000|The opportunity came in December, eighteen sixty four.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000015_000003|He bought the property, doubled the subscription rates, lowered the advertising, excluded everything questionable from the columns of his paper, made his editorials brief, yet comprehensive, until under his judicious management the journal reached the large circulation of ninety thousand daily.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000015_000004|For ten years he has given the "Ledger Almanac" to every subscriber, costing five thousand dollars annually.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000015_000005|The yearly profits, it is stated, have been four hundred thousand dollars.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000015_000006|All this has not been accomplished without thought and labor.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000016_000000|Fortune, of course, had come, and fame.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000017_000001|The wood work is carved ebony with gold, the bookshelves six feet high on every side, and the ceiling built in sunken panels, blue and gold.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000022_000001|Dom Pedro of Brazil sent, in eighteen seventy six, a work on his empire, with his picture and his autograph.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000022_000003|The album of mrs Childs contains the autographs of a great number of the leading men and women of the world.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000023_000000|One could linger here for days, but we must see the lovely country seat called "Wootton," some distance out from the city.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000023_000001|The house is in Queen Anne style, surrounded by velvety lawns, a wealth of evergreen and exquisite plants, brought over from South America and Africa.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000023_000002|The farm adjoining is a delight to see.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000023_000004|The beautiful grounds are open every Thursday to visitors.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000025_000000|With all this elegance, befitting royalty, mr Childs has been a constant and generous giver.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000025_000002|He gave ten thousand dollars for a Centennial Exposition.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000025_000003|He has been one of General Grant's most generous helpers; yet while doing for the great, he does not forget the unknown.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000025_000004|He gives free excursions to poor children, a dinner annually to the newsboys, and aids hundreds who are in need of an education.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000027_000000|mr Childs has come to eminence by energy, integrity, and true faith in himself.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000027_000002|He has proved to all other American boys that worth and honest dealing will win success, in a greater or less degree.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000027_000004|Childs is a wonderful man.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000027_000007|Like man in the classification of animals, he forms a genus in himself.
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000028_000000|mr Childs died at three o one a m
train-clean-100/7278/91083/7278_91083_000028_000002|He was nearly sixty five years of age.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000000_000000|Chapter eleven
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000001_000002|Darkness then came over me and troubled me, but hardly had I felt this when, by opening my eyes, as I now suppose, the light poured in upon me again.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000001_000004|The light became more and more oppressive to me, and the heat wearying me as I walked, I sought a place where I could receive shade.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000001_000005|This was the forest near Ingolstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook resting from my fatigue, until I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000002_000000|"It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000002_000001|Before I had quitted your apartment, on a sensation of cold, I had covered myself with some clothes, but these were insufficient to secure me from the dews of night.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000003_000002|[The moon] I gazed with a kind of wonder.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000004_000001|I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink and the trees that shaded me with their foliage.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000004_000004|Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant songs of the birds but was unable. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000005_000000|"The moon had disappeared from the night, and again, with a lessened form, showed itself, while I still remained in the forest.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000006_000001|In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000006_000003|I examined the materials of the fire, and to my joy found it to be composed of wood.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000006_000004|I quickly collected some branches, but they were wet and would not burn.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000006_000009|I covered it carefully with dry wood and leaves and placed wet branches upon it; and then, spreading my cloak, I lay on the ground and sank into sleep.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000008_000005|A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000009_000001|This was a new sight to me, and I examined the structure with great curiosity.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000009_000002|Finding the door open, I entered.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000009_000005|His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000010_000003|The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000010_000007|No wood, however, was placed on the earth, which formed the floor, but it was dry; and although the wind entered it by innumerable chinks, I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000013_000002|I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000013_000008|She followed, and they disappeared.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000014_000002|In one corner, near a small fire, sat an old man, leaning his head on his hands in a disconsolate attitude.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000016_000000|"The old man had, in the meantime, been pensive, but on the appearance of his companions he assumed a more cheerful air, and they sat down to eat.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000016_000001|The meal was quickly dispatched.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000016_000003|One was old, with silver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry, yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.
train-clean-100/730/358/730_358_000016_000004|The old man returned to the cottage, and the youth, with tools different from those he had used in the morning, directed his steps across the fields.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000002_000000|Chapter twelve
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000003_000000|"I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000003_000001|I thought of the occurrences of the day.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000004_000001|The young woman arranged the cottage and prepared the food, and the youth departed after the first meal.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000005_000000|"This day was passed in the same routine as that which preceded it. The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000005_000002|Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000006_000000|"They were not entirely happy.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000006_000001|The young man and his companion often went apart and appeared to weep.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000006_000002|I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000006_000003|If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000006_000004|Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy?
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000006_000006|What did their tears imply?
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000007_000000|"A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000007_000002|They often, I believe, suffered the pangs of hunger very poignantly, especially the two younger cottagers, for several times they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000008_000000|"This trait of kindness moved me sensibly.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000010_000001|She uttered some words in a loud voice, and the youth joined her, who also expressed surprise.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000011_000000|"By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000011_000001|I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000011_000002|I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000011_000003|This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it. But I was baffled in every attempt I made for this purpose.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000012_000006|It was not thus with Felix.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000012_000007|He was always the saddest of the group, and even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000013_000000|"I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000013_000003|In the day, I believe, he worked sometimes for a neighbouring farmer, because he often went forth and did not return until dinner, yet brought no wood with him.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000014_000000|"This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000014_000001|I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that possible when I did not even understand the sounds for which they stood as signs?
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000016_000001|From this time Felix was more employed, and the heart moving indications of impending famine disappeared.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000017_000001|This frequently took place, but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000018_000000|"My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000018_000003|When I returned, as often as it was necessary, I cleared their path from the snow and performed those offices that I had seen done by Felix.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000019_000001|I thought (foolish wretch!) that it might be in my power to restore happiness to these deserving people.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000019_000002|When I slept or was absent, the forms of the venerable blind father, the gentle Agatha, and the excellent Felix flitted before me.
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000021_000003|Happy, happy earth!
train-clean-100/730/359/730_359_000021_000004|Fit habitation for gods, which, so short a time before, was bleak, damp, and unwholesome.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000001_000000|Chapter thirteen
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000003_000001|It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000004_000001|Felix replied in a cheerful accent, and the old man was recommencing his music when someone tapped at the door.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000005_000001|Agatha asked a question, to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000005_000003|On hearing this word, Felix came up hastily to the lady, who, when she saw him, threw up her veil, and I beheld a countenance of angelic beauty and expression.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000006_000002|She did not appear to understand him, but smiled.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000006_000003|He assisted her to dismount, and dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000007_000006|The stranger learned about twenty words at the first lesson; most of them, indeed, were those which I had before understood, but I profited by the others.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000008_000001|When they separated Felix kissed the hand of the stranger and said, 'Good night sweet Safie.' He sat up much longer, conversing with his father, and by the frequent repetition of her name I conjectured that their lovely guest was the subject of their conversation.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000008_000002|I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000009_000000|"The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so entrancingly beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000010_000000|"When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000010_000001|She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000016_000001|Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000017_000001|I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000018_000002|A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000018_000003|And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000018_000006|When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me.
train-clean-100/730/360/730_360_000019_000000|"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000002_000001|The prisoners, in their expressive language, have named it the "Lions' Den," probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars, and sometimes the keepers also.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000002_000002|It is a prison within a prison; the walls are double the thickness of the rest.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000002_000003|The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000002_000004|The court yard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely, when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000002_000005|On this paved yard are to be seen,--pacing to and fro from morning till night, pale, careworn, and haggard, like so many shadows,--the men whom justice holds beneath the steel she is sharpening.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000002_000006|There, crouched against the side of the wall which attracts and retains the most heat, they may be seen sometimes talking to one another, but more frequently alone, watching the door, which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage, or to throw in another outcast from society.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000003_000001|And yet, frightful though this spot may be, it is looked upon as a kind of paradise by the men whose days are numbered; it is so rare for them to leave the Lions' Den for any other place than the barrier Saint Jacques or the galleys!
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000004_000000|In the court which we have attempted to describe, and from which a damp vapor was rising, a young man with his hands in his pockets, who had excited much curiosity among the inhabitants of the "Den," might be seen walking.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000004_000001|The cut of his clothes would have made him pass for an elegant man, if those clothes had not been torn to shreds; still they did not show signs of wear, and the fine cloth, beneath the careful hands of the prisoner, soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000004_000002|He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000004_000003|Some of the inmates of the "Lions' Den" were watching the operations of the prisoner's toilet with considerable interest.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000004_000004|"See, the prince is pluming himself," said one of the thieves.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000006_000000|"He looks like a big bug," said another; "dresses in fine style.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000006_000002|Oh, what larks!" Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket, against which one of the keepers was leaning.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000006_000003|"Come, sir," he said, "lend me twenty francs; you will soon be paid; you run no risks with me.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000006_000005|Come, I beseech you, lend me twenty francs, so that I may buy a dressing gown; it is intolerable always to be in a coat and boots!
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000006_000006|And what a coat, sir, for a prince of the Cavalcanti!"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000006_000007|The keeper turned his back, and shrugged his shoulders; he did not even laugh at what would have caused any one else to do so; he had heard so many utter the same things,--indeed, he heard nothing else.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000007_000000|"Come," said Andrea, "you are a man void of compassion; I'll have you turned out." This made the keeper turn around, and he burst into a loud laugh.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000007_000001|The prisoners then approached and formed a circle.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000008_000000|"Of course-of course," said the prisoners;--"any one can see he's a gentleman!"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000009_000000|"Well, then, lend him the twenty francs," said the keeper, leaning on the other shoulder; "surely you will not refuse a comrade!"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000010_000000|"I am no comrade of these people," said the young man, proudly, "you have no right to insult me thus."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000011_000004|"Let us horsewhip the fine gentleman!" said others.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000000|But Andrea, turning towards them, winked his eyes, rolled his tongue around his cheeks, and smacked his lips in a manner equivalent to a hundred words among the bandits when forced to be silent.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000002|He was immediately recognized as one of them; the handkerchief was thrown down, and the iron heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000003|Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right; that he intended to be civil, in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience,--and the mob retired.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000006|Suddenly a voice was heard at the wicket.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000007|"Benedetto!" exclaimed an inspector.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000008|The keeper relaxed his hold.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000009|"I am called," said Andrea.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000013_000010|"To the visitors' room!" said the same voice.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000014_000000|"You see some one pays me a visit.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000014_000003|"Everything," he said, "proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person,--this sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family and an illustrious name awarded to me, gold showered down upon me, and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000014_000005|The hand which has retreated for a while will be again stretched forth to save me at the very moment when I shall think myself sinking into the abyss.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000014_000006|Why should I risk an imprudent step?
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000014_000007|It might alienate my protector.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000015_000001|The unfortunate youth was intrepid in the attack, and rude in the defence.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000015_000003|It was at this moment of discomfort that the inspector's voice called him to the visiting room.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000015_000004|Andrea felt his heart leap with joy.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000016_000000|"Ah," said Andrea, deeply affected.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000018_000000|"You-you?" said the young man, looking fearfully around him.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000019_000000|"Do you not recognize me, unhappy child?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000020_000000|"Silence,--be silent!" said Andrea, who knew the delicate sense of hearing possessed by the walls; "for heaven's sake, do not speak so loud!"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000022_000000|"Oh, yes."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000024_000000|"Read?" he said.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000025_000000|"What is that?" asked Andrea.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000026_000000|"An order to conduct you to a room, and to leave you there to talk to me."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000027_000001|Then he mentally added,--"Still my unknown protector!
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000027_000002|I am not forgotten.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000027_000003|They wish for secrecy, since we are to converse in a private room.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000029_000000|"Now," said the steward, "what have you to tell me?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000031_000000|"You speak first."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000032_000000|"Oh, no
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000032_000001|You must have much to tell me, since you have come to seek me."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000033_000000|"Well, be it so.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000033_000001|You have continued your course of villany; you have robbed-you have assassinated."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000034_000000|"Well, I should say!
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000034_000001|If you had me taken to a private room only to tell me this, you might have saved yourself the trouble.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000034_000002|I know all these things.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000034_000003|But there are some with which, on the contrary, I am not acquainted.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000034_000004|Let us talk of those, if you please.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000034_000005|Who sent you?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000036_000001|Let us dispense with useless words.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000036_000002|Who sends you?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000037_000000|"No one."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000038_000000|"How did you know I was in prison?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000040_000003|Come, let us talk a little about my father."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000041_000000|"Who, then, am I?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000042_000002|Come, speak, my worthy Corsican, speak!"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000043_000000|"What do you wish me to say?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000044_000000|"I will help you.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000044_000001|You were speaking of the Champs Elysees just now, worthy foster father."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000045_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000046_000000|"Well, in the Champs Elysees there resides a very rich gentleman."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000047_000000|"At whose house you robbed and murdered, did you not?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000048_000000|"I believe I did."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000049_000000|"The Count of Monte Cristo?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000053_000000|"Bah," said Andrea, a little overcome, by the solemnity of Bertuccio's manner, "why not?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000054_000000|"Because the person who bears it is too highly favored by heaven to be the father of such a wretch as you."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000055_000000|"Oh, these are fine words."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000056_000000|"And there will be fine doings, if you do not take care."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000057_000000|"Menaces-I do not fear them.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000057_000001|I will say"--
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000058_000001|"Do you think you have to do with galley slaves, or novices in the world?
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000058_000002|Benedetto, you are fallen into terrible hands; they are ready to open for you-make use of them.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000059_000000|"My father-I will know who my father is," said the obstinate youth; "I will perish if I must, but I will know it.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000059_000001|What does scandal signify to me?
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000059_000002|What possessions, what reputation, what 'pull,' as Beauchamp says,--have I?
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000059_000003|You great people always lose something by scandal, notwithstanding your millions.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000059_000004|Come, who is my father?"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000060_000000|"I came to tell you."
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000061_000000|"Ah," cried Benedetto, his eyes sparkling with joy.
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000062_000000|"And so closes our interview," said Andrea to the worthy steward; "I wish the troublesome fellow were at the devil!"
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000064_000000|"Good!
train-clean-100/7302/86814/7302_86814_000065_000003|"Can I be deceived?" he murmured, as he stepped into the oblong and grated vehicle which they call "the salad basket." "Never mind, we shall see!
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000008_000001|The Judge.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000011_000001|He had been obliged to seclude himself more than ever, to evade the enormous number of applications presented to him for the purpose of obtaining tickets of admission to the court on the day of trial.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000016_000000|The next day, Monday, was the first sitting of the assizes.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000016_000002|The magistrate had slept for a short time while the lamp sent forth its final struggles; its flickerings awoke him, and he found his fingers as damp and purple as though they had been dipped in blood.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000016_000004|In the clover fields beyond the chestnut trees, a lark was mounting up to heaven, while pouring out her clear morning song.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000016_000007|The curtain was drawn, and yet the image of his father was so vivid to his mind that he addressed the closed window as though it had been open, and as if through the opening he had beheld the menacing old man.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000016_000008|"Yes," he murmured,--"yes, be satisfied."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000017_000000|His head dropped upon his chest, and in this position he paced his study; then he threw himself, dressed as he was, upon a sofa, less to sleep than to rest his limbs, cramped with cold and study.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000017_000001|By degrees every one awoke.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000018_000000|"What are you bringing me?" said he.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000019_000000|"A cup of chocolate."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000020_000000|"I did not ask for it.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000020_000001|Who has paid me this attention?"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000021_000000|"My mistress, sir.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000021_000001|She said you would have to speak a great deal in the murder case, and that you should take something to keep up your strength;" and the valet placed the cup on the table nearest to the sofa, which was, like all the rest, covered with papers.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000021_000002|The valet then left the room.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000021_000004|It might have been thought that he hoped the beverage would be mortal, and that he sought for death to deliver him from a duty which he would rather die than fulfil.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000025_000000|"Where to?"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000026_000000|"To the Palais."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000027_000000|"What to do?"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000028_000000|"My mistress wishes much to be present at the trial."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000029_000001|"Tell your mistress," he at length answered, "that I wish to speak to her, and I beg she will wait for me in her own room."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000030_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000031_000000|"Then come to dress and shave me."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000032_000000|"Directly, sir." The valet re appeared almost instantly, and, having shaved his master, assisted him to dress entirely in black.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000032_000001|When he had finished, he said,--
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000034_000001|At the door he paused for a moment to wipe his damp, pale brow.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000034_000002|He then entered the room.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000034_000003|Madame de Villefort was sitting on an ottoman and impatiently turning over the leaves of some newspapers and pamphlets which young Edward, by way of amusing himself, was tearing to pieces before his mother could finish reading them.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000034_000004|She was dressed to go out, her bonnet was placed beside her on a chair, and her gloves were on her hands.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000035_000001|Have you been working all night?
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000035_000002|Why did you not come down to breakfast?
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000036_000001|His father went up to him, took him in his arms, and kissed his forehead.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000036_000002|"Go," he said: "go, my child." Edward ran out.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000037_000000|"Madame, where do you keep the poison you generally use?" said the magistrate, without any introduction, placing himself between his wife and the door.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000038_000001|"Monsieur," she said, "I-I do not understand you." And, in her first paroxysm of terror, she had raised herself from the sofa, in the next, stronger very likely than the other, she fell down again on the cushions.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000040_000000|"It is not for you to interrogate, but to answer."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000041_000001|It was terrible to behold the frightful pallor of that woman, the anguish of her look, the trembling of her whole frame.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000042_000000|"You do not answer, madame!" exclaimed the terrible interrogator.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000042_000001|Then he added, with a smile yet more terrible than his anger, "It is true, then; you do not deny it!" She moved forward.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000042_000003|"You have accomplished these different crimes with impudent address, but which could only deceive those whose affections for you blinded them.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000043_000001|"Oh, sir," she stammered, "I beseech you, do not believe appearances."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000044_000001|Can you be a coward,--you who have had the courage to witness the death of two old men and a young girl murdered by you?"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000045_000000|"Sir! sir!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000046_000001|Have you, then, who have calculated everything with such nicety, have you forgotten to calculate one thing-I mean where the revelation of your crimes will lead you to? Oh, it is impossible-you must have saved some surer, more subtle and deadly poison than any other, that you might escape the punishment that you deserve.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000047_000000|"I understand," he said, "you confess; but a confession made to the judges, a confession made at the last moment, extorted when the crime cannot be denied, diminishes not the punishment inflicted on the guilty!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000048_000001|Twice you have pronounced that word!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000049_000000|"Certainly.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000049_000001|Did you hope to escape it because you were four times guilty?
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000049_000002|Did you think the punishment would be withheld because you are the wife of him who pronounces it?--No, madame, no; the scaffold awaits the poisoner, whoever she may be, unless, as I just said, the poisoner has taken the precaution of keeping for herself a few drops of her deadliest potion." Madame de Villefort uttered a wild cry, and a hideous and uncontrollable terror spread over her distorted features.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000049_000003|"Oh, do not fear the scaffold, madame," said the magistrate; "I will not dishonor you, since that would be dishonor to myself; no, if you have heard me distinctly, you will understand that you are not to die on the scaffold."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000050_000000|"No, I do not understand; what do you mean?" stammered the unhappy woman, completely overwhelmed.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000050_000001|"I mean that the wife of the first magistrate in the capital shall not, by her infamy, soil an unblemished name; that she shall not, with one blow, dishonor her husband and her child."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000052_000000|"Well, madame, it will be a laudable action on your part, and I will thank you for it!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000053_000000|"You will thank me-for what?"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000054_000000|"For what you have just said."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000055_000000|"What did I say?
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000055_000001|Oh, my brain whirls; I no longer understand anything. Oh, my God, my God!" And she rose, with her hair dishevelled, and her lips foaming.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000056_000000|"Have you answered the question I put to you on entering the room?--where do you keep the poison you generally use, madame?" Madame de Villefort raised her arms to heaven, and convulsively struck one hand against the other.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000056_000001|"No, no," she vociferated, "no, you cannot wish that!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000058_000000|"Oh, mercy, mercy, monsieur!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000059_000000|"What I require is, that justice be done.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000059_000002|To you I will say, 'Have you not, madame, put aside some of the surest, deadliest, most speedy poison?'"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000060_000000|"Oh, pardon me, sir; let me live!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000062_000000|"Reflect that I am your wife!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000063_000000|"You are a poisoner."
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000064_000000|"In the name of heaven!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000065_000000|"No!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000066_000000|"In the name of the love you once bore me!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000067_000000|"No, no!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000068_000000|"In the name of our child!
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000069_000000|"No, no, no, I tell you; one day, if I allow you to live, you will perhaps kill him, as you have the others!"
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000070_000002|Madame de Villefort fell at her husband's feet.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000070_000003|He approached her.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000070_000005|"Do you understand me?" he said.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000070_000007|If I find you alive on my return, you shall sleep to night in the conciergerie." Madame de Villefort sighed; her nerves gave way, and she sunk on the carpet.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000070_000008|The king's attorney seemed to experience a sensation of pity; he looked upon her less severely, and, bowing to her, said slowly, "Farewell, madame, farewell!" That farewell struck Madame de Villefort like the executioner's knife.
train-clean-100/7302/86815/7302_86815_000070_000009|She fainted.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000004_000000|In compliance with your request, I have the honor to state, succinctly, the circumstances connected with my acquaintance with the late Madame Ossoli, your deceased sister, during her residence in Rome.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000005_000000|In the month of April, eighteen forty nine, Rome, as you are no doubt aware, was placed in a state of siege by the approach of the French army.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000005_000002|Among these was to be seen every variety of age, sentiment, and condition,--striplings and blanched heads; wild, visionary enthusiasts; grave, heroic men, who, in the struggle for freedom, had ventured all, and lost all; nobles and beggars; bandits, felons and brigands.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000005_000003|Great excitement naturally existed; and, in the general apprehension which pervaded all classes, that acts of personal violence and outrage would soon be committed, the foreign residents, especially, found themselves placed in an alarming situation.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000006_000000|On the thirtieth of April the first engagement took place between the French and Roman troops, and in a few days subsequently I visited several of my countrymen, at their request, to concert measures for their safety.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000006_000002|She received me with much kindness, and thus an acquaintance commenced.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000007_000000|In the engagements which succeeded between the Roman and French troops, the wounded of the former were brought into the city, and disposed throughout the different hospitals, which were under the superintendence of several ladies of high rank, who had formed themselves into associations, the better to ensure care and attention to those unfortunate men.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000008_000000|The weather was intensely hot; her health was feeble and delicate; the dead and dying were around her in every stage of pain and horror; but she never shrank from the duty she had assumed.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000008_000001|Her heart and soul were in the cause for which those men had fought, and all was done that Woman could do to comfort them in their sufferings.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000008_000005|And in a letter which I received not long since from this lady, who was gaining the bread of an exile by teaching languages in Constantinople, she alludes with much feeling to the support afforded by Miss Fuller to the republican party in Italy.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000008_000006|Here, in Rome, she is still spoken of in terms of regard and endearment, and the announcement of her death was received with a degree of sorrow not often bestowed upon a foreigner, especially one of a different faith.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000009_000000|On the twenty ninth of June, the bombardment from the French camp was very heavy, shells and grenades falling in every part of the city.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000009_000001|In the afternoon of the thirtieth, I received a brief note from Miss Fuller, requesting me to call at her residence.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000009_000002|I did so without delay, and found her lying on a sofa, pale and trembling, evidently much exhausted.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000009_000005|It was not to be expected, she said, that he could escape the dangers of another night, such as the last; and therefore it was her intention to remain with him, and share his fate.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000009_000007|The packet which she placed in my possession, contained, she said, the certificates of her marriage, and of the birth and baptism of her child.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000009_000008|After a few words more, I took my departure, the hour she named having nearly arrived.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000010_000000|Happily, the cannonading was not renewed that night, and at dawn of day she returned to her apartments, with her husband by her side.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000011_000001|During this period I received several letters from her, all of which, though reluctant to part with them, I enclose to your address in compliance with your request.
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000012_000000|I am, Madame, very respectfully,
train-clean-100/7312/92432/7312_92432_000013_000000|Your obedient servant,
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000042_000000|"But, excellency"--said Pastrini, still striving to gain his point.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000043_000000|"Now go," returned Franz, "or I shall go myself and bargain with your affettatore, who is mine also; he is an old friend of mine, who has plundered me pretty well already, and, in the hope of making more out of me, he will take a less price than the one I offer you; you will lose the preference, and that will be your fault."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000044_000000|"Do not give yourselves the trouble, excellency," returned Signor Pastrini, with the smile peculiar to the Italian speculator when he confesses defeat; "I will do all I can, and I hope you will be satisfied."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000045_000000|"And now we understand each other."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000047_000000|"In an hour."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000048_000000|"In an hour it will be at the door."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000049_000000|An hour after the vehicle was at the door; it was a hack conveyance which was elevated to the rank of a private carriage in honor of the occasion, but, in spite of its humble exterior, the young men would have thought themselves happy to have secured it for the last three days of the Carnival.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000049_000001|"Excellency," cried the cicerone, seeing Franz approach the window, "shall I bring the carriage nearer to the palace?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000050_000001|Franz was the "excellency," the vehicle was the "carriage," and the Hotel de Londres was the "palace." The genius for laudation characteristic of the race was in that phrase.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000051_000001|"Where do your excellencies wish to go?" asked he.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000001|The day was passed at Saint Peter's alone.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000002|Suddenly the daylight began to fade away; Franz took out his watch-it was half past four.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000003|They returned to the hotel; at the door Franz ordered the coachman to be ready at eight.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000005|He was to leave the city by the Porta del Popolo, skirt the outer wall, and re-enter by the Porta San Giovanni; thus they would behold the Colosseum without finding their impressions dulled by first looking on the Capitol, the Forum, the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, and the Via Sacra.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000006|They sat down to dinner. Signor Pastrini had promised them a banquet; he gave them a tolerable repast.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000007|At the end of the dinner he entered in person.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000052_000009|"Excellency," said Pastrini, "I am delighted to have your approbation, but it was not for that I came."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000054_000000|"No; and your excellencies will do well not to think of that any longer; at Rome things can or cannot be done; when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000055_000000|"It is much more convenient at Paris,--when anything cannot be done, you pay double, and it is done directly."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000056_000000|"That is what all the French say," returned Signor Pastrini, somewhat piqued; "for that reason, I do not understand why they travel."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000057_000002|"But," said Franz, in his turn interrupting his host's meditations, "you had some motive for coming here, may I beg to know what it was?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000059_000000|"I have."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000060_000000|"You intend visiting Il Colosseo."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000062_000000|"It is the same thing.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000062_000001|You have told your coachman to leave the city by the Porta del Popolo, to drive round the walls, and re-enter by the Porta San Giovanni?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000063_000000|"These are my words exactly."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000064_000000|"Well, this route is impossible."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000065_000000|"Impossible!"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000066_000000|"Very dangerous, to say the least."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000067_000000|"Dangerous!--and why?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000068_000000|"On account of the famous Luigi Vampa."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000071_000000|"I have not that honor."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000073_000000|"Never."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000074_000000|"Well, then, he is a bandit, compared to whom the Decesaris and the Gasparones were mere children."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000076_000000|"I forewarn you, Signor Pastrini, that I shall not believe one word of what you are going to tell us; having told you this, begin."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000077_000000|"Once upon a time"--
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000078_000000|"Well, go on." Signor Pastrini turned toward Franz, who seemed to him the more reasonable of the two; we must do him justice,--he had had a great many Frenchmen in his house, but had never been able to comprehend them.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000078_000001|"Excellency," said he gravely, addressing Franz, "if you look upon me as a liar, it is useless for me to say anything; it was for your interest!"--
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000079_000000|"Albert does not say you are a liar, Signor Pastrini," said Franz, "but that he will not believe what you are going to tell us,--but I will believe all you say; so proceed."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000080_000000|"But if your excellency doubt my veracity"--
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000081_000000|"Signor Pastrini," returned Franz, "you are more susceptible than Cassandra, who was a prophetess, and yet no one believed her; while you, at least, are sure of the credence of half your audience.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000081_000001|Come, sit down, and tell us all about this Signor Vampa."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000084_000000|"This," replied Signor Pastrini, "that you will go out by one, but I very much doubt your returning by the other."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000085_000000|"Why?" asked Franz.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000086_000000|"Because, after nightfall, you are not safe fifty yards from the gates."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000088_000000|"Count," returned Signor Pastrini, hurt at Albert's repeated doubts of the truth of his assertions, "I do not say this to you, but to your companion, who knows Rome, and knows, too, that these things are not to be laughed at."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000090_000000|"And pray," asked Franz, "where are these pistols, blunderbusses, and other deadly weapons with which you intend filling the carriage?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000091_000000|"Not out of my armory, for at Terracina I was plundered even of my hunting knife."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000092_000000|"I shared the same fate at Aquapendente."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000093_000000|"Do you know, Signor Pastrini," said Albert, lighting a second cigar at the first, "that this practice is very convenient for bandits, and that it seems to be due to an arrangement of their own." Doubtless Signor Pastrini found this pleasantry compromising, for he only answered half the question, and then he spoke to Franz, as the only one likely to listen with attention.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000093_000001|"Your excellency knows that it is not customary to defend yourself when attacked by bandits."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000095_000000|"No, for it would be useless.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000095_000001|What could you do against a dozen bandits who spring out of some pit, ruin, or aqueduct, and level their pieces at you?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000097_000000|The inn keeper turned to Franz with an air that seemed to say, "Your friend is decidedly mad."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000099_000000|"Well, Signor Pastrini," said Franz, "now that my companion is quieted, and you have seen how peaceful my intentions are, tell me who is this Luigi Vampa.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000100_000000|"You could not apply to any one better able to inform you on all these points, for I knew him when he was a child, and one day that I fell into his hands, going from Ferentino to Alatri, he, fortunately for me, recollected me, and set me free, not only without ransom, but made me a present of a very splendid watch, and related his history to me."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000103_000000|"Here it is," said he.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000105_000000|"Let us hear the history," said Franz, motioning Signor Pastrini to seat himself.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000106_000000|"Your excellencies permit it?" asked the host.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000108_000000|The host sat down, after having made each of them a respectful bow, which meant that he was ready to tell them all they wished to know concerning Luigi Vampa.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000109_000000|"A young man?
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000109_000001|he is only two and twenty;--he will gain himself a reputation."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000111_000000|"Yes, and at his age, Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon, who have all made some noise in the world, were quite behind him."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000112_000000|"So," continued Franz, "the hero of this history is only two and twenty?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000113_000000|"Scarcely so much."
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000114_000000|"Is he tall or short?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000117_000000|"Go on, Signor Pastrini," continued Franz, smiling at his friend's susceptibility.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000117_000001|"To what class of society does he belong?"
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000001|When quite a child, the little Vampa displayed a most extraordinary precocity.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000003|The child accepted joyfully. Every day Luigi led his flock to graze on the road that leads from Palestrina to Borgo; every day, at nine o'clock in the morning, the priest and the boy sat down on a bank by the wayside, and the little shepherd took his lesson out of the priest's breviary.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000004|At the end of three months he had learned to read.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000005|This was not enough-he must now learn to write.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000008|At the end of three months he had learned to write.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000009|The curate, astonished at his quickness and intelligence, made him a present of pens, paper, and a penknife.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000010|This demanded new effort, but nothing compared to the first; at the end of a week he wrote as well with this pen as with the stylus.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000011|The curate related the incident to the Count of San Felice, who sent for the little shepherd, made him read and write before him, ordered his attendant to let him eat with the domestics, and to give him two piastres a month.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000118_000012|With this, Luigi purchased books and pencils. He applied his imitative powers to everything, and, like Giotto, when young, he drew on his slate sheep, houses, and trees.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000001|The two children met, sat down near each other, let their flocks mingle together, played, laughed, and conversed together; in the evening they separated the Count of San Felice's flock from those of Baron Cervetri, and the children returned to their respective farms, promising to meet the next morning.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000002|The next day they kept their word, and thus they grew up together.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000003|Vampa was twelve, and Teresa eleven.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000004|And yet their natural disposition revealed itself.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000005|Beside his taste for the fine arts, which Luigi had carried as far as he could in his solitude, he was given to alternating fits of sadness and enthusiasm, was often angry and capricious, and always sarcastic.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000007|His disposition (always inclined to exact concessions rather than to make them) kept him aloof from all friendships.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000008|Teresa alone ruled by a look, a word, a gesture, this impetuous character, which yielded beneath the hand of a woman, and which beneath the hand of a man might have broken, but could never have been bended.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000009|Teresa was lively and gay, but coquettish to excess.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000010|The two piastres that Luigi received every month from the Count of San Felice's steward, and the price of all the little carvings in wood he sold at Rome, were expended in ear rings, necklaces, and gold hairpins.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000011|So that, thanks to her friend's generosity, Teresa was the most beautiful and the best attired peasant near Rome.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000012|The two children grew up together, passing all their time with each other, and giving themselves up to the wild ideas of their different characters. Thus, in all their dreams, their wishes, and their conversations, Vampa saw himself the captain of a vessel, general of an army, or governor of a province.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000013|Teresa saw herself rich, superbly attired, and attended by a train of liveried domestics.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000119_000014|Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000120_000000|"One day the young shepherd told the count's steward that he had seen a wolf come out of the Sabine mountains, and prowl around his flock.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000120_000001|The steward gave him a gun; this was what Vampa longed for.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000120_000002|This gun had an excellent barrel, made at Breschia, and carrying a ball with the precision of an English rifle; but one day the count broke the stock, and had then cast the gun aside.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000120_000003|This, however, was nothing to a sculptor like Vampa; he examined the broken stock, calculated what change it would require to adapt the gun to his shoulder, and made a fresh stock, so beautifully carved that it would have fetched fifteen or twenty piastres, had he chosen to sell it.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000120_000004|But nothing could be farther from his thoughts.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000120_000006|In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon, which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner terrible, often makes him feared.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000000|"One evening a wolf emerged from a pine wood hear which they were usually stationed, but the wolf had scarcely advanced ten yards ere he was dead.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000001|Proud of this exploit, Vampa took the dead animal on his shoulders, and carried him to the farm.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000002|These exploits had gained Luigi considerable reputation.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000003|The man of superior abilities always finds admirers, go where he will.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000005|And yet the two young people had never declared their affection; they had grown together like two trees whose roots are mingled, whose branches intertwined, and whose intermingled perfume rises to the heavens.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000006|Only their wish to see each other had become a necessity, and they would have preferred death to a day's separation.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000007|Teresa was sixteen, and Vampa seventeen.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000009|The brigands have never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000121_000010|Sometimes a chief is wanted, but when a chief presents himself he rarely has to wait long for a band of followers.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000002|Many young men of Palestrina, Frascati, and Pampinara had disappeared.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000003|Their disappearance at first caused much disquietude; but it was soon known that they had joined Cucumetto.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000004|After some time Cucumetto became the object of universal attention; the most extraordinary traits of ferocious daring and brutality were related of him.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000006|The bandit's laws are positive; a young girl belongs first to him who carries her off, then the rest draw lots for her, and she is abandoned to their brutality until death relieves her sufferings.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000007|When their parents are sufficiently rich to pay a ransom, a messenger is sent to negotiate; the prisoner is hostage for the security of the messenger; should the ransom be refused, the prisoner is irrevocably lost.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000008|The young girl's lover was in Cucumetto's troop; his name was Carlini.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000009|When she recognized her lover, the poor girl extended her arms to him, and believed herself safe; but Carlini felt his heart sink, for he but too well knew the fate that awaited her.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000010|However, as he was a favorite with Cucumetto, as he had for three years faithfully served him, and as he had saved his life by shooting a dragoon who was about to cut him down, he hoped the chief would have pity on him.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000122_000011|He took Cucumetto one side, while the young girl, seated at the foot of a huge pine that stood in the centre of the forest, made a veil of her picturesque head dress to hide her face from the lascivious gaze of the bandits.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000000|"It so happened that night that Cucumetto had sent Carlini to a village, so that he had been unable to go to the place of meeting.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000001|Cucumetto had been there, however, by accident, as he said, and had carried the maiden off.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000002|Carlini besought his chief to make an exception in Rita's favor, as her father was rich, and could pay a large ransom.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000005|Twelve hours' delay was all that was granted-that is, until nine the next morning.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000006|The instant the letter was written, Carlini seized it, and hastened to the plain to find a messenger.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000007|He found a young shepherd watching his flock.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000009|The boy undertook the commission, promising to be in Frosinone in less than an hour.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000010|Carlini returned, anxious to see his mistress, and announce the joyful intelligence.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000011|He found the troop in the glade, supping off the provisions exacted as contributions from the peasants; but his eye vainly sought Rita and Cucumetto among them.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000012|He inquired where they were, and was answered by a burst of laughter.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000013|A cold perspiration burst from every pore, and his hair stood on end.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000014|He repeated his question.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000016|At the sight of Carlini, Cucumetto rose, a pistol in each hand.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000017|The two brigands looked at each other for a moment-the one with a smile of lasciviousness on his lips, the other with the pallor of death on his brow.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000018|A terrible battle between the two men seemed imminent; but by degrees Carlini's features relaxed, his hand, which had grasped one of the pistols in his belt, fell to his side.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000019|Rita lay between them.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000123_000020|The moon lighted the group.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000124_000000|"'Well,' said Cucumetto, 'have you executed your commission?'
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000125_000000|"'Yes, captain,' returned Carlini.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000125_000001|'At nine o'clock to morrow Rita's father will be here with the money.'--'It is well; in the meantime, we will have a merry night; this young girl is charming, and does credit to your taste.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000125_000002|Now, as I am not egotistical, we will return to our comrades and draw lots for her.'--'You have determined, then, to abandon her to the common law?' said Carlini.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000126_000000|"'Why should an exception be made in her favor?'
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000127_000000|"'I thought that my entreaties'--
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000128_000000|"'What right have you, any more than the rest, to ask for an exception?'--'It is true.'--'But never mind,' continued Cucumetto, laughing, 'sooner or later your turn will come.' Carlini's teeth clinched convulsively.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000129_000000|"'Now, then,' said Cucumetto, advancing towards the other bandits, 'are you coming?'--'I follow you.'
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000130_000000|"Cucumetto departed, without losing sight of Carlini, for, doubtless, he feared lest he should strike him unawares; but nothing betrayed a hostile design on Carlini's part.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000130_000001|He was standing, his arms folded, near Rita, who was still insensible.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000130_000002|Cucumetto fancied for a moment the young man was about to take her in his arms and fly; but this mattered little to him now Rita had been his; and as for the money, three hundred piastres distributed among the band was so small a sum that he cared little about it.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000130_000003|He continued to follow the path to the glade; but, to his great surprise, Carlini arrived almost as soon as himself.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000130_000004|'Let us draw lots! let us draw lots!' cried all the brigands, when they saw the chief.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000000|"Their demand was fair, and the chief inclined his head in sign of acquiescence.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000002|The names of all, including Carlini, were placed in a hat, and the youngest of the band drew forth a ticket; the ticket bore the name of Diovolaccio.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000004|A large wound, extending from the temple to the mouth, was bleeding profusely. Diovalaccio, seeing himself thus favored by fortune, burst into a loud laugh.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000008|Her head hung back, and her long hair swept the ground.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000009|As they entered the circle, the bandits could perceive, by the firelight, the unearthly pallor of the young girl and of Diavolaccio.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000013|A knife was plunged up to the hilt in Rita's left breast.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000014|Every one looked at Carlini; the sheath at his belt was empty.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000016|No other of the bandits would, perhaps, have done the same; but they all understood what Carlini had done.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000018|At midnight the sentinel gave the alarm, and in an instant all were on the alert.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000019|It was Rita's father, who brought his daughter's ransom in person.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000020|'Here,' said he, to Cucumetto, 'here are three hundred piastres; give me back my child.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000022|The old man obeyed.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000131_000024|Cucumetto stopped at last, and pointed to two persons grouped at the foot of a tree.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000001|The old man remained motionless; he felt that some great and unforeseen misfortune hung over his head.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000002|At length he advanced toward the group, the meaning of which he could not comprehend.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000004|The old man recognized his child, and Carlini recognized the old man.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000005|'I expected thee,' said the bandit to Rita's father.--'Wretch!' returned the old man, 'what hast thou done?' and he gazed with terror on Rita, pale and bloody, a knife buried in her bosom.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000006|A ray of moonlight poured through the trees, and lighted up the face of the dead.--'Cucumetto had violated thy daughter,' said the bandit; 'I loved her, therefore I slew her; for she would have served as the sport of the whole band.' The old man spoke not, and grew pale as death.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000008|These were the first tears the man of blood had ever wept.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000009|'Now,' said the old man, 'aid me to bury my child.' Carlini fetched two pickaxes; and the father and the lover began to dig at the foot of a huge oak, beneath which the young girl was to repose.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000010|When the grave was formed, the father kissed her first, and then the lover; afterwards, one taking the head, the other the feet, they placed her in the grave.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000011|Then they knelt on each side of the grave, and said the prayers of the dead.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000012|Then, when they had finished, they cast the earth over the corpse, until the grave was filled.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000013|Then, extending his hand, the old man said; 'I thank you, my son; and now leave me alone.'--'Yet'--replied Carlini.--'Leave me, I command you.' Carlini obeyed, rejoined his comrades, folded himself in his cloak, and soon appeared to sleep as soundly as the rest.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000014|It had been resolved the night before to change their encampment.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000015|An hour before daybreak, Cucumetto aroused his men, and gave the word to march.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000016|But Carlini would not quit the forest, without knowing what had become of Rita's father.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000017|He went toward the place where he had left him.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000018|He found the old man suspended from one of the branches of the oak which shaded his daughter's grave. He then took an oath of bitter vengeance over the dead body of the one and the tomb of the other.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000019|But he was unable to complete this oath, for two days afterwards, in an encounter with the Roman carbineers, Carlini was killed.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000020|There was some surprise, however, that, as he was with his face to the enemy, he should have received a ball between his shoulders. That astonishment ceased when one of the brigands remarked to his comrades that Cucumetto was stationed ten paces in Carlini's rear when he fell.
train-clean-100/7367/86737/7367_86737_000132_000022|They told ten other stories of this bandit chief, each more singular than the other.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000003_000000|mr
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000003_000001|BERNARD SHAW
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000004_000000|mr Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000004_000001|In the opinion of many people, it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria Hungary, Turkey, and mr Shaw.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000004_000002|mr Shaw's gift of infuriating people is unfailing.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000004_000003|He is one of those rare public men who can hardly express an opinion on potato culture-and he does express an opinion on everything-without making a multitude of people shake their fists in impotent anger.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000004_000005|He has gone about, like a pickpocket of illusions, from the world of literature to the world of morals, and from the world of morals to the world of politics, and, everywhere he has gone, an innumerable growl has followed him.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000005_000001|He has never founded a church, however, because he has always been able to laugh at his disciples as unfeelingly as at anybody else.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000005_000002|He has courted unpopularity as other men have courted popularity.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000005_000006|But this is only the Billingsgate of our exasperation.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000005_000007|mr Shaw is not a bore, whatever else he may be.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000005_000008|He has succeeded in the mere business of interesting us beyond any other writer of his time.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000006_000000|He has succeeded in interesting us largely by inventing himself as a public figure, as Oscar Wilde and Stevenson did before him.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000006_000001|Whether he could have helped becoming a figure, even if he had never painted that elongated comic portrait of himself, it is difficult to say.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000006_000002|Probably he was doomed to be a figure just as dr Johnson was.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000007_000000|His critics often accuse him, in regard to the invention of the Shaw myth, of having designed a poster rather than painted a portrait.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000007_000001|And mr Shaw always hastens to agree with those who declare he is an advertiser in an age of advertisement.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000000|Stop advertising myself!
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000001|On the contrary, I must do it more than ever.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000002|Look at Pears's Soap.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000003|There is a solid house if you like, but every wall is still plastered with their advertisements.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000004|If I were to give up advertising, my business would immediately begin to fall off.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000005|You blame me for having declared myself to be the most remarkable man of my time.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000006|But the claim is an arguable one.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000008_000007|Why should I not say it when I believe that it is true?
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000009_000000|One suspects that there is as much fun as commerce in mr Shaw's advertisement.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000009_000002|He is something of a natural peacock. He is in the line of all those tramps and stage Irishmen who have gone through! life with so fine a swagger of words.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000009_000003|This only means that in his life he is an artist.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000001|The mistake his depreciators make, however, is in thinking that his story ends here.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000002|The truth about mr Shaw is not quite so simple as that.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000004|His Broadbent is as wonderful a figure as his George Bernard Shaw.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000005|Not that his portraiture is always faithful.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000006|He sees men and women too frequently in the refracting shallows of theories.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000007|He is a doctrinaire, and his characters are often comic statements of his doctrines rather than the reflections of men and women.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000008|"When I present true human nature," he observes in one of the many passages in which he justifies himself, "the audience thinks it is being made fun of.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000009|In reality I am simply a very careful writer of natural history." One is bound to contradict him.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000010|mr Shaw often thinks he is presenting true human nature when he is merely presenting his opinions about human nature-the human nature of soldiers, of artists, of women.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000010_000011|Or, rather, when he is presenting a queer fizzing mixture of human nature and his opinions about it.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000000|This may be sometimes actually a virtue in his comedy.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000001|Certainly, from the time of Aristophanes onwards, comedy has again and again been a vehicle of opinions as well as a branch of natural history.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000002|But it is not always a virtue.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000005|Amen, Amen," these sentences are no more natural or naturalistic than the death bed utterances in one of mr g r
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000006|Sims's ballads.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000008|There is a similar falsification in the same play in the characterization of the newspaper man who is present at Dubedat's death and immediately afterwards is anxious to interview the widow.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000009|"Do you think," he asks, "she would give me a few words on 'How it Feels to be a Widow?' Rather a good title for an article, isn't it?" These sentences are bad because into an atmosphere of more or less naturalistic comedy they simply introduce a farcical exaggeration of mr Shaw's opinion of the incompetence and impudence of journalists.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000010|mr Shaw's comedies are repeatedly injured by a hurried alteration of atmosphere in this manner.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000011|Comedy, as well as tragedy, must create some kind of illusion, and the destruction of the illusion, even for the sake of a joke, may mean the destruction of laughter.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000012|But, compared with the degree of reality in his characterization, the proportion of unreality is not overwhelming.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000011_000013|It has been enormously exaggerated.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000013_000000|Nine people out of ten harp on mr Shaw's errors.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000013_000001|It is much more necessary that we should recognize that, amid all his falsifications, doctrinal and jocular, he has a genuine comic sense of character.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000013_000003|"declare that Bernard Shaw does depict characters.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000014_000000|In Shaw's plays the characters are less representative of vices or passions than those of Moliere, and more representative of class, profession, or sect.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000014_000001|Moliere depicts the miser, the jealous man, the misanthrope, the hypocrite; whereas Shaw depicts the bourgeois, the rebel, the capitalist, the workman, the Socialist, the doctor. A few only of these latter types are given us by Moliere.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000015_000003|It contains, it must be confessed, a great deal that is not new to English readers, but then so do all books about mr Shaw.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000016_000000|The true things it contains, however, make it worth reading.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000017_000000|In Shaw's work we find few studied jests, few epigrams even, except those which are the necessary outcome of the characters and the situations.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000017_000001|He does not labour to be witty, nor does he play upon words....
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000018_000000|mr Shaw was at one time commonly regarded as a wit of the school of Oscar Wilde.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000018_000001|That view, I imagine, is seldom found nowadays, but even now many people do not realize that humour, and not wit, is the ruling characteristic of mr Shaw's plays.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000018_000002|He is not content with witty conversation about life, as Wilde was: he has an actual comic vision of human society.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000019_000000|His humour, it is true, is not the sympathetic humour of Elia or Dickens; but then neither was Moliere's.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000019_000002|"Moliere and Shaw," as he puts it with quaint seriousness, "appear to be unaware of what a father is, what a father is worth."
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000000|The defence of mr Shaw, however, does not depend on any real or imaginary resemblance of his plays to Moliere's.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000001|His joy and his misery before the ludicrous spectacle of human life are his own, and his expression of them is his own.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000002|He has studied with his own eyes the swollen bellied pretences of preachers and poets and rich men and lovers and politicians, and he has derided them as they have never been derided on the English stage before.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000003|He has derided them with both an artistic and a moral energy.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000004|He has brought them all into a Palace of Truth, where they have revealed themselves with an unaccustomed and startling frankness.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000005|He has done this sometimes with all the exuberance of mirth, sometimes with all the bitterness of a satirist.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000006|Even his bitterness is never venomous, however.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000007|He is genial beyond the majority of inveterate controversialists and propagandists.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000008|He does not hesitate to wound and he does not hesitate to misunderstand, but he is free from malice.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000020_000010|It is like a grin in church, a laugh at a marriage service.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000021_000000|It is this that has caused all the trouble about mr Shaw's writings on the war.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000021_000001|He saw, not the war so much as the international diplomacy that led up to the war, under the anti romantic and satirical comic vision.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000021_000002|I do not mean that he was not intensely serious in all that he wrote about the war.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000021_000003|But his seriousness is essentially the seriousness of (in the higher sense of the word) the comic artist, of the disillusionist.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000021_000004|He sees current history from the absolutely opposite point of view, say, to the lyric poet.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000022_000000|The fact is, in war time more than at any other time, people dread the vision of the satirist and the sceptic.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000022_000001|It is a vision of only one half of the truth, and of the half that the average man always feels to be more or less irrelevant.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000022_000002|And, even at this, it is not infallible.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000022_000003|This is not to disparage mr Shaw's contributions to the discussion of politics.
train-clean-100/7402/59171/7402_59171_000022_000004|That contribution has been brilliant, challenging, and humane, and not more wayward than the contribution of the partisan and the sentimentalist.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000000_000000|THE LOST HALF HOUR
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000001_000000|Once upon a time there was an old widow woman who had three sons: the first two were clever enough, but the third, Bobo by name, was little better than a silly simpleton.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000001_000001|All his mother's scoldings and beatings-and she smacked the poor lad soundly a dozen times a day-did him no good whatever.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000002_000000|Now it came to pass that one morning Princess Zenza, the ruler of the land, happened to pass by the cottage and heard Bobo being given a terrible tongue lashing.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000002_000002|On hearing her story, it occurred to the Princess that so silly a lad might amuse her; so she gave the mother a golden florin, and took poor silly Bobo with her to be her page.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000005_000001|Courtiers, footmen, lackeys, turnspits even, were forever sending him off on ridiculous errands.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000005_000002|Now he would be sent to find a white craw's feather or a spray of yellow bluebells; now he was ordered to look for a square wheel or a glass of dry water.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000006_000000|Tilda, the kitchen maid, was as sweet and pretty as she was kind and good.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000006_000001|She was said to be the daughter of an old crane who had come to the castle one day, asking for help.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000007_000000|One pleasant mid summer morning, when Bobo had been nearly a year at the castle, Princess Zenza overslept half an hour and did not come down to breakfast at the usual time.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000007_000001|When she did get up, she found her court waiting for her in the castle gardens.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000007_000002|As she came down the steps of the garden terrace, the Princess looked up at the castle clock to see how late she was, and said to her lady in waiting,--
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000008_000000|"Dear me-why, I've lost half an hour this morning!"
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000009_000000|At these words, Bobo, who was in attendance, pricked up his ears and said,--
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000010_000000|"Please, Your Highness, perhaps I can find it."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000011_000000|At this idea of finding a lost half hour, the Princess laughed, and found herself echoed by the company.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000012_000000|"Shall we send Bobo in search of the lost half hour?" said the Princess to the courtiers.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000013_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000013_000001|Yes!" cried the courtiers.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000013_000002|"Bobo shall look for the lost half hour."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000014_000001|"I'll give him my old hat," said another.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000015_000000|And so, in less time than it takes to tell about it, poor simpleton Bobo was made ready for his journey.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000017_000000|"What, off again?" said the little kitchen maid.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000018_000000|"The Princess has lost a half hour and I am going in search of it," said Bobo, proudly.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000018_000001|And he told how the Princess herself had commanded him to seek the half hour through the world, and promised to bring Tilda a splendid present when he returned.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000021_000000|"Good bye, Bobo," cried the assembled courtiers, who were almost beside themselves with laughter at the simpleton and his errand.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000022_000000|So Bobo rode over the hills and far away.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000022_000001|Every now and then he would stop a passer by and ask him if he had seen a lost half hour.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000023_000000|The first person whom he thus questioned was an old man who was wandering down the high road that leads from the Kingdom of the East to the Kingdom of the West.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000024_000000|"A lost half hour?" said the old man.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000024_000001|"I've lost something much more serious, I've lost my reputation.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000024_000003|It was very dignified and wore tortoise shell glasses."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000025_000000|But Bobo had to answer "No," and the old man wandered on again.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000026_000000|Another day the simpleton encountered a tall, dark, fierce kind of fellow, who answered his polite question with a scream of rage.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000027_000000|"A half hour," he roared.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000027_000001|"No, I have n't seen your half hour; I would n't tell you if I had; what's more, I don't want to see it.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000027_000003|I've lost my temper.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000027_000005|Answer me, you silly, have you seen a lost temper anywhere?
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000027_000006|It's about the size of a large melon and has sharp little points."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000030_000000|"A lost half hour?" said the King.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000030_000002|Would you mind asking, as you go through the world, for news of my little daughter?" (Here the poor old King took out a great green handkerchief and wiped his eyes.) "She was stolen by the fairies on midsummer eve fifteen years ago.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000030_000003|Find her, worthy Bobo, and an immense reward will be yours."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000031_000000|So Bobo left the proud city of Zizz, and once again rode over the hills and far away.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000031_000001|But never a sign of the lost half hour did he find, although he asked thousands of people.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000031_000002|His faithful white horse died, and he continued his way on foot.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000033_000000|"No," said the sailors, "but we are going to the Isles of Iron; suppose you go with us.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000033_000001|The lost half hour may be there."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000034_000000|So Bobo went aboard the ship, and sailed out upon the dark sea.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000035_000002|Though pounded and battered by the foaming waves, the simpleton at length managed to reach the beach, and took refuge in a crevice of the cliff during the stormy night.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000036_000000|When the dawn broke, all sign of the ship had disappeared.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000036_000002|There was not a house, a road, or a path to be seen.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000036_000003|Suddenly Bobo noticed a strange little door in the bark of a great lonely tree, and, opening this door, he discovered a little cupboard in which were a pair of wooden shoes.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000036_000004|Above the shoes was a card, saying simply,--
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000038_000002|So Bobo obediently let the shoes guide him.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000039_000000|For two days Bobo walked inland toward the great mountain.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000040_000000|Bobo arrived at twilight.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000041_000000|He found himself in a beautiful garden, lying between the castle walls and the rising slopes of a great mountain.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000041_000001|Strange to say, not a living creature was to be seen, and though there were lights in the castle, there was not even a warder at the gate.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000041_000002|Suddenly a great booming bell struck seven o'clock; Bobo began to hear voices and sounds; and then, before the humming of the bell had died away, a youth mounted on a splendid black horse dashed at lightning speed out of the castle and disappeared in the wood.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000041_000003|An old man with a white beard, accompanied by eleven young men, whom Bobo judged, from their expressions, to be brothers,--stood by the gate to see the horseman ride away.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000042_000000|Plucking up courage, Bobo came forward, fell on his knee before the old man, and told his story.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000043_000001|I am Father Time himself, and these are my twelve sons, the Hours.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000043_000002|Every day, one after the other, they ride for an hour round the whole wide world.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000043_000003|Seven O'clock has just ridden forth.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000043_000004|Yes, you shall have the lost half hour, but you must look after my sons' horses for the space of a whole year."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000044_000000|To this Bobo willingly agreed.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000044_000001|So Twelve O'Clock, who was the youngest of the Hours, took him to the stables and showed him the little room in the turret that he was to have.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000044_000002|And thus for a year Bobo served Father Time and his sons.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000044_000003|He took such good care of the great black horses of the Hours of the Night, and the white horses of the Hours of the Day, that they were never more proud and strong, nor their coats smoother and more gleaming.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000045_000000|When the year was up, Bobo again sought out Father Time.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000046_000000|"You have served faithfully and well," said Father Time.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000046_000001|"Here is your reward." And, with these words, he placed in Bobo's hands a small square casket made of ebony.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000046_000002|"The half hour lies inside.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000046_000003|Don't try to peek at it or open the box until the right time has come.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000046_000004|If you do, the half hour will flyaway and disappear forever."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000047_000001|"I, too, have a gift for thee.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000047_000002|Drink this cup of water to the last drop." And the youth handed the simpleton a silver cup full to the brim of clear shining water.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000048_000000|Now this water was the water of wisdom, and when Bobo had drunk it, he was no longer a simpleton.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000048_000001|And being no longer a simpleton, he remembered the man who had lost his reputation, the man who had lost his temper, and the king whose daughter had been stolen by the fairies.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000049_000000|"Tell the first," said Father Time, "that his reputation has been broken into a thousand pieces which have been picked up by his neighbors and carried home.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000049_000001|If he can persuade his neighbors to give them up, he should be able to piece together a pretty good reputation again.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000049_000002|As for the man who lost his temper, tell him that it is to be found in the grass by the roadside close by the spot where you first met him.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000049_000003|As for the missing daughter, she is the kitchen maid in Princess Zenza's palace, who is known as Tilda."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000050_000000|So Bobo thanked Father Time, and at noon, Twelve O'Clock placed him behind him on the white charger, and hurried away.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000050_000001|So fast they flew that Bobo, who was holding the ebony casket close against his heart, was in great danger of falling off.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000051_000000|On the second morning of his journey, he happened to see far ahead of him on the highway the unfortunate aged man who had lost his reputation. To him, therefore, Bobo repeated the counsel of Father Time, and sent him hurrying home to his neighbors' houses.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000051_000001|Of the man who had lost his temper, Bobo found no sign.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000051_000002|In the grass by the roadside, however, he did find the lost temper-a queer sort of affair like a melon of fiery red glass all stuck over with uneven spines and brittle thorns.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000051_000003|Bobo, with great goodness of heart, took along this extraordinary object, in the hope of finding its angry possessor.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000052_000000|Farther on, the lad encountered Tilda's father, the unhappy King, and delivered his message.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000052_000001|The joy of the monarch knew no bounds, and Bobo, the one-time simpleton, became on the spot Lord Bobo of the Sapphire Hills, Marquis of the Mountains of the Moon, Prince of the Valley of Golden Apples, and Lord Seneschal of the proud City of Zizz-in a word, the greatest nobleman in all Fairyland.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000052_000002|Then, having got together a magnificent cohort of dukes, earls, and counts, all in splendid silks, and soldiers in shining armor, the delighted King rode off to claim his missing daughter from Princess Zenza.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000053_000000|So on they rode, the harnesses jingling, the bridle bells ringing, and the breastplates of the armed men shining in the sun
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000053_000001|After a week of almost constant progress (for the King was so anxious to see his beloved daughter that he would hardly give the cavalcade time to rest), they came to the frontiers of Princess Zenza's kingdom.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000054_000000|Strange to say, black mourning banners hung from the trees, and every door in the first village which the travelers saw was likewise hung with black streamers.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000054_000001|On the steps of one of the cottages sat an old woman, all alone and weeping with all her might.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000055_000000|"What is the matter, my good woman?" said the King.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000000|"O sir," said the peasant woman, "evil days have fallen upon our unhappy kingdom.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000001|Three days ago a terrible dragon alighted in the gardens of the palace and sent word to Princess Zenza that if within three days she did not provide him with someone brave enough to go home with him and cook his meals and keep his cavern tidy, he would burn our fields with his fiery breath.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000002|Yet who, I ask you, would be housekeeper for a dragon? Suppose he did n't like the puddings you made for him-why, he might eat you up!
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000003|All would have been lost had not a brave little kitchen maid named Tilda volunteered to go.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000004|It is for her that we are mourning.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000006|It is almost two now.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000056_000008|Alas!"
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000057_000000|Hardly were the words out of her mouth, when the town bell struck twice, solemnly and sadly.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000058_000000|"Quick!
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000058_000002|We may save her yet."
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000059_000000|But they knew in their hearts that they were too late, and that poor Tilda had given herself to the dragon.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000059_000001|And so it proved.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000059_000002|In spite of his mad dash, Bobo, who had spurred on ahead, arrived exactly half an hour late.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000059_000003|The monstrous dragon with Tilda in his claws was just a little smoky speck far down the southern sky.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000059_000004|Princess Zenza and her court stood by wringing their jeweled hands.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000060_000000|Suddenly Bobo thought of the half hour.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000060_000001|He had arrived half an hour late, but he could have that half hour back again!
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000060_000002|Things should be exactly as they were half an hour before.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000061_000000|He opened the cover of the ebony box.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000061_000001|Something like a winged white flame escaped from it, and flew hissing through the air to the sun
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000061_000002|As for the sun itself, turning round like a cartwheel and hissing like ten thousand rockets, it rolled back along the sky to the east.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000061_000004|And, sure enough, there was brave little Tilda standing alone in a great field waiting for the dragon to come and take her away. Lumbering heavily along like a monstrous turtle, and snorting blue smoke, the dragon was advancing toward her.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000062_000000|Bobo ran down into the field and stood beside Tilda, ready to defend her to the end.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000063_000001|Suddenly, angered by the sight of Bobo and his drawn sword, he roared angrily, but continued to approach. Bobo struck at him with his sword.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000063_000002|The blade broke upon his steely scales.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000063_000003|The dragon roared again.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000063_000004|Now just as the dragon's mouth was its widest, Bobo who had been searching his pockets desperately, hurled into it the lost temper.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000064_000000|There was a perfectly terrific bang! as if a million balloons had blown up all at once.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000064_000001|For the dragon had blown up.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000064_000002|The lost temper had finished him.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000064_000003|Only one fragment of him, a tiny bit of a claw, was ever found.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000065_000001|Then Tilda's father took her in his arms, and told her that she was a real princess. The Grand Cross of the Order of the Black Cat was conferred upon Bobo by Princess Zenza, who also asked his pardon for having treated him so shabbily.
train-clean-100/7402/90848/7402_90848_000065_000002|This Bobo gave readily.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000002_000002|We may safely assume it was not slow in adopting the rude keyboard ascribed by tradition to Pan pipes, and applied to the portable organ of early Christian communities.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000003_000001|Two or more strings of equal length are now divided and set in motion by flat metal wedges, attached to the key levers, and called tangents, because they touched the strings.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000003_000002|In response to the demand for increased range, as many as twenty keys were brought to act on a few strings, commanding often three octaves.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000003_000004|The keyed monochord gained the name clavichord.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000003_000005|Its box like case was first placed on a table, later on its own stand, and increased in elegance.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000003_000006|Not until the eighteenth century was each key provided with a separate string.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000004_000002|In the year fifteen twenty nine, Pietro Bembo, a grave theoretician, wrote to his daughter Helena, at her convent school: "As to your request to be allowed to learn the clavier, I answer that you cannot yet, owing to your youth, understand that playing is only suited for volatile, frivolous women; whereas I desire you to be the most lovable maiden in the world.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000004_000003|Also, it would bring you but little pleasure or renown if you should play badly; while to play well you would be obliged to devote ten or twelve years to practice, without being able to think of anything else.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000004_000004|Consider a moment whether this would become you.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000004_000005|If your friends wish you to play in order to give them pleasure, tell them you do not desire to make yourself ridiculous in their eyes, and be content with your books and your domestic occupations."
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000005_000001|With the Virgin Queen it was a prime favorite, although not named expressly for her as the flattering fashion of the time led many to assume.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000005_000002|If she actually did justice to some of the airs with variations in the "Queen Elizabeth Virginal Book," she must indeed have been proficient on the instrument.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000005_000003|Quaint dr Charles Burney (seventeen twenty six to eighteen fourteen) declares, in his "History of Music," that no performer of his day could play them without at least a month's practice.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000006_000000|The clavier gave promise of its destined career in the Elizabethan age. Shakespeare immortalized it, and William Byrd (fifteen forty six to sixteen twenty three) became the first clavier master.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000006_000002|Byrd was the more intimate, delicate, spiritual intellect; Bull the untamed genius, the brilliant executant, the less exquisitely refined artist.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000006_000003|It is significant that these two types stand together on the threshold of clavier art." Bull had gained his degree at Oxford, the founding of whose chair of music is popularly attributed to Alfred the Great.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000007_000000|As early as the year fourteen hundred claviers had appeared whose strings were plucked by quills attached to jacks at the end of the key levers.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000007_000001|To this group belonged the virginal, or virginals, the clavicembalo, the harpsichord, or clavecin, and the spinet.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000007_000002|Stops were added, as in the organ, that varied effects might be produced, and a second keyboard was often placed above the first.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000007_000003|The case was either rectangular, or followed the outlines of the harp, a progenitor of this clavier type.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000007_000004|It was often highly ornamented, and handsomely mounted.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000007_000005|Each string from the first had its due length and was tuned to its proper note.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000008_000000|The secular music principle of the sixteenth century that called into active being the orchestra led also to a desire for richer musical expression in home and social life than the fashionable lute afforded, and the clavier advanced in favor.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000008_000001|In France, by fifteen thirty, the dance, that promoter of pure instrumental music, was freely transcribed for the clavier.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000008_000002|Little more than a century later, Jean Baptiste Lully (sixteen thirty three to sixteen eighty seven) extensively employed the instrument in the orchestration of his operas, and wrote solo dances for it.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000009_000001|In it he directs scholars how to avoid a harsh tone, and how to form a legato style.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000009_000002|He advises parents to select teachers on whom implicit reliance may be placed, and teachers to keep the claviers of beginners under lock and key that there may be no practicing without supervision.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000009_000003|His suggestions deserve consideration to day.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000010_000000|He was the first to encourage professional clavier playing among women. His daughter Marguerite was the first woman appointed official court clavier player.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000010_000003|Jean Philippe Rameau (sixteen eighty three to seventeen sixty four) continued Couperin's work.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000011_000000|What is generally recognized as the first period of clavier virtuosity begins with the Neapolitan Domenico Scarlatti (sixteen eighty three to seventeen fifty seven), and Johann Sebastian Bach (sixteen eighty five to seventeen fifty), the German of Germans.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000011_000001|The style of Scarlatti is peculiarly the product of Italian love of beautiful tone, and what he wrote, though without depth of motive, kept well in view the technical possibilities of the harpsichord.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000011_000002|His "Cat's Fugue," and his one movement sonatas still appear on concert programmes.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000011_000003|In a collection of thirty sonatas he explained his purpose in these words: "Amateur, or professor, whoever thou art, seek not in these compositions for any profound feeling.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000012_000000|In Germany, with grand old Father Bach, the keyboard instrument was found capable of mirroring a mighty soul.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000013_000003|His "Well Tempered Clavichord" has been called the pianist's Sacred Book.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000014_000000|Forkel, his biographer, has finely said that Bach considered the voices of his fugues a select company of persons conversing together.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000014_000002|A highly characteristic motive, or theme, as significant as the noblest "typical phrase," developing into equally characteristic progressions and cadences, is a striking feature of the Bach fugue.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000014_000003|His "Suites" exalted forever the familiar dance tunes of the German people.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000015_000000|As a teacher he was genial, kind, encouraging and in every respect a model.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000015_000003|When pupils were discouraged he reminded them how hard he had always been compelled to work, and assured them that equal industry would lead them to success.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000015_000004|He gave the thumb its proper place on the keyboard, and materially improved fingering.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000015_000005|Tranquillity and poetic beauty being prime essentials of his playing, he preferred to the more brilliant harpsichord, or spinet, the clavichord, whose thrilling, tremulous tone, owing to its construction, was exceedingly sensitive to the player's touch.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000015_000006|The early hammer clavier, or pianoforte, invented in seventeen eleven, by the Italian Cristofori, who derived the hammer idea from the dulcimer, did not attract him because of its extreme crudeness. Nevertheless, it was destined to develop into the musical instrument essential to the perfect interpretation of his clavier music.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000016_000000|His son and pupil, Philipp Emanuel Bach (seventeen fourteen to seventeen eighty eight), proceeding on the principles established by his illustrious father, prepared the way for the modern pianist.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000016_000001|His important theoretical work, "The True Art of Clavier Playing," was pronounced by Haydn the school of schools for all time.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000016_000002|It was highly extolled by Mozart, and to it Clementi ascribed his knowledge and skill.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000016_000003|In his compositions he was an active agent in the crystallization of the sonata form.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000016_000004|From him Haydn gained much that he later transferred to the orchestra.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000017_000003|Mozart brought into use its special features, showed its capacity for tone shading and for the reflection of sentiment, and may well be said to have launched it on its career. Tradition declares that his hand was fashioned for clavier keys, and that its graceful movements afforded the eye no less pleasure than the ear.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000017_000004|His noble technique, based on his profound study of the Bachs, was spiritualized by his own glowing fancy.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000017_000005|In his playing, as in his compositions, every note was a pearl of great price.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000017_000006|With his piano concertos he showed how clavier and orchestra may converse earnestly together without either having its individuality marred.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000017_000007|The same equilibrium is maintained in his piano and violin sonatas and his other concerted chamber music, amid all their persuasive and eloquent discourse.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000018_000000|Clementi, born in Rome, passed most of his life in London, where he attracted many pupils.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000018_000001|Without great creative genius, he occupied himself chiefly with the technical problems of the pianoforte.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000018_000002|He opened the way for the sonority of tone and imposing diction of the modern style.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000018_000005|Taking upon himself the management of an English piano factory, he extended the keyboard, in seventeen ninety three, to five and a half octaves. Seven octaves were not reached until eighteen fifty one.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000018_000006|His "Gradus ad Parnassum" became the parent of Etude literature.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000018_000007|Carl Tausig said: "There is but one god in technique, Bach, and Clementi is his prophet."
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000019_000000|Losing the spirituality of a Mozart the Viennese school was destined to degenerate into empty bravura playing.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000019_000003|The Clementi school was continued in that familiar writer of Etudes, Johann Baptist Cramer (seventeen seventy one to eighteen fifty eight), and began to show respect for the damper pedal.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000019_000004|Its most eminent virtuoso was john Field (seventeen eighty two to eighteen thirty seven) of Dublin.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000020_000001|Every accent of his dramatic music was embodied in his piano compositions.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000020_000004|Amid his storm and stress, whispering and listening, his awakening of the soul, an original naturalism of piano playing was recognized, side by side with the naturalism of his creative art.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000022_000001|Advanced knowledge of acoustics and improved methods of construction have made it the magnificent instrument we know in concert hall and home, and to which we now apply the more intimate name, piano.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000022_000003|As a photograph may convey to the home an excellent conception of a master painting in some distant art gallery, so the piano, in addition to the musical creations it has inspired, may present to the domestic circle intelligent reproductions of mighty choral, operatic and instrumental works.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000023_000000|Piano composers and virtuosos rapidly increase.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000023_000002|His scheme of a dialogue, in the opening adagio of his "Invitation to the Dance," followed by an entrancing waltz and a grave concluding dialogue, betokens what he might have accomplished for the piano had he lived longer.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000023_000003|Franz Schubert (seventeen ninety seven to eighteen twenty eight) and Robert Schumann (eighteen ten to eighteen fifty six) were the evangelists par excellence of the new romantic school.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000023_000004|Schubert, closely allied in spirit to the master builder, Beethoven, was unsurpassed in the refinement of his musical sentiment.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000023_000005|The melody flooding his soul beautified his piano compositions, to which only a delicate touch may do justice.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000024_000000|The romantic temperament of Robert Schumann was nurtured on German romantic literature and music.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000024_000003|The dreamy fervor and the glowing fire of an impassioned nature may be felt in his works, but also many times the lack of balance that belongs with the malady by which he was assailed.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000025_000001|To her he dedicated his creative power.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000025_000004|Madame Schumann had acquired a splendid foundation for her career through the wise guidance of her father, whose pedagogic ideas every piano student might consider with profit.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000025_000005|Her playing was distinguished by its musicianly intelligence and fine artistic feeling.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000025_000006|Earnest simplicity surrounded her public and her private life, and the element of personal display was wholly foreign to her.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000025_000007|She was the ideal woman, artist and teacher who remained in active service until a short time before her death, in eighteen ninety six.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000026_000001|Felix Mendelssohn (eighteen o nine to eighteen forty seven), in his work for the piano, adapted to drawing room use technical devices of his day, and in his "Songs without Words" gave a decisive short story form to piano literature.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000026_000002|His playing is described as possessing an organ firmness of touch without organ ponderosity, and having an expression that moved deeply without intoxicating.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000026_000003|Living in genial surroundings, he was never forced to struggle, and although he climbed through flowery paths, he never reached the goal he longed for until his heart broke.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000000|Delicate, sensitive, fastidious, Frederic Chopin (eighteen o nine to eighteen forty nine) delivered his musical message with persuasive eloquence through the medium of the piano.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000001|It was his chosen comrade.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000002|With it he exchanged the most subtle confidences.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000003|Gaining a profound knowledge of its resources he raised it to an independent power.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000004|Polish patriotism steeped in Parisian elegance shaped his genius, and his compositions portray the emotions of his people in exquisitely polished tonal language.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000005|Spontaneous as was his creative power he was most painstaking in regard to the setting of his musical ideas and would often devote weeks to re writing a single page that every detail might be perfect.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000027_000009|"Let all who aspire follow him in his flights toward regions sublime."
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000028_000000|The man who, by his demands on the piano, induced improvements in its manufacture that materially increased its sonority and made it available for the modern idea, was Franz Liszt (eighteen eleven to eighteen eighty six).
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000028_000003|Like the wandering children of nature who had filled the dreams of his childhood, he became a wanderer and marched a conqueror, radiant with triumphs, through the musical world.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000028_000004|Chopin, who shrank from concert playing, once said to him: "You are destined for it.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000028_000005|You have the force to overwhelm, control, compel the public."
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000000|The bewitching tones of the gipsy violinist, Bihary, had fallen on his boyish ears "like drops of some fiery, volatile essence," stimulating him to effort.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000002|All his early realistic and revolutionary ideas found vent in his pianistic achievements.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000003|He gained marvelous fulness of chord power, great dynamic variety, and numerous unexpected solutions of the tone problem.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000004|Many technical means of expression were invented by him, and a wholly new fingering was required for his purposes.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000005|He taught the use of a loose wrist, absolute independence of the fingers and a new manipulation of the pedals.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000006|To carry out his designs the third or sustaining pedal became necessary. His highest ambition, in his own words, was "to leave to piano players the foot prints of attained advance." In eighteen thirty nine he ventured on the first pure piano recital ever given in the concert hall.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000029_000007|His series of performances in this line, covering the entire range of piano literature, in addition to his own compositions, given entirely without notes, led the public to expect playing by heart from all other artists.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000031_000002|But for him, my dear friend, Franz Liszt, you might not have had a note from me to day."
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000032_000000|A rival of Liszt in the concert field, especially before a Parisian public, was Sigismund Thalberg (eighteen twelve to eighteen seventy one), who visited this country in eighteen fifty five and literally popularized the piano in America.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000032_000004|He possessed a well trained, fascinating mechanism, with scales, chords, arpeggios and octaves that were marvels of neatness and accuracy, and a tone that was mellow and liquid, though lacking in warmth.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000032_000005|His operatic transcriptions, in which a central melody is enfolded in arabesques, chords and running passages, have long since become antiquated, but his art of singing on the piano and many of his original studies still remain valuable to the pianist.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000033_000000|When Liszt and Thalberg were in possession of the concert platform, they occupied the attention of cartoonists as fully as Paderewski at a later date.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000033_000001|Liszt, his hair floating wildly, was represented as darting through the air on wide stretched pinions with keyboards attached-a play on Fluegel, the German for grand piano.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000033_000002|Thalberg, owing to his dignified repose, was caricatured as posing in a stiff, rigid manner before a box of keys.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000034_000000|Rubinstein and Von Buelow offer two more contrasting personalities.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000034_000001|Anton Rubinstein (eighteen thirty to eighteen ninety four) was the impressionist, the subjective artist, who re created every composition he played.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000034_000004|Hans von Buelow (eighteen thirty to eighteen ninety four) was the objective artist, whose scholarly attainments and musicianly discernment unraveled the most tangled web of phrasing and interpretation.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000034_000006|As a piano virtuoso, a teacher, a conductor and an editor of musical works, he was a marked educational factor in music.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000035_000000|In his youth Johannes Brahms (eighteen thirty three to eighteen ninety seven), the great apostle of modern intellectual music, made his debut before the musical world as a brilliant and versatile pianist.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000035_000001|Once, when about to play in public Beethoven's magnificent Kreutzer Sonata, with Remenyi, who was the first to recognize his genius, he discovered that the piano was half a tone below concert pitch, and rather than spoil the effect by having the violin tuned down, the boy of nineteen unhesitatingly transposed the piano part which he was playing from memory into a higher key.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000035_000003|Schumann, on making his acquaintance, proclaimed the advent of a genius who wrote music in which the spirit of the age found its consummation, and who, at the piano, unveiled wonders.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000035_000004|By others he has been called the greatest contrapuntist after Bach, the greatest architectonist after Beethoven, the man of creative power who assimilated the older forms and invested them with a new life entirely his own.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000035_000005|His piano works are a rich addition to the pianist's store, but whoever would unveil their beautiful proportions, all aglow as they are with sacred fire, must have taken a master's degree.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000036_000000|Two pupils of Liszt stand out prominently-Carl Tausig (eighteen forty one to eighteen seventy one) and Eugene D'Albert (eighteen sixty four- ----).
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000036_000001|The first was distinguished by his extraordinary sense for style, and was thought to surpass his master in absolute flawlessness of technique.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000036_000003|peter Iljitch Tschaikowsky (eighteen forty to eighteen ninety three), the distinguished representative of the modern Russian school, was an original, dramatic and fertile composer and wrote for the piano some of his highly colored and very characteristic music.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000038_000000|Perhaps the most famous piano teacher of recent times is Theodore Leschetitzky, of Vienna.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000038_000001|His method is that of common sense, based on keen analytical faculties, and he never trains the hand apart from the musical sense.
train-clean-100/7447/91186/7447_91186_000039_000000|The great tidal wave set in motion by the piano has swept over the civilized world, carrying with it hosts of accomplished pianists.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000003_000000|"The piano bard, the piano rhapsodist, the piano mind, the piano soul is Chopin," said Rubinstein.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000003_000001|"Tragic, romantic, lyric, heroic, dramatic, fantastic, soulful, sweet, dreamy, brilliant, grand, simple, all possible expressions are found in his compositions and all are sung by him on his instrument."
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000004_000000|In these few, bold strokes one who knew him by virtue of close art and race kinship, presents an incomparable outline sketch of the Polish tone poet who explored the harmonic vastness of the pianoforte and made his own all its mystic secrets.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000005_000000|Born and bred on Poland's soil, son of a French father and a Polish mother, Frederic Chopin (eighteen o nine to eighteen forty nine) combined within himself two natures, each complementing the other, both uniting to form a personality not understood by every casual observer.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000005_000001|He is described as kind, courteous, possessed of the most captivating grace and ease of manner, now inclined to languorous melancholy, now scintillating with a joyous vivacity that was contagious.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000005_000002|His sensitive nature, like the most exquisitely constructed sounding board, vibrated with the despairing sadness, the suppressed wrath, and the sublime fortitude of the brave, haughty, unhappy people he loved, and with his own homesickness when afar from his cherished native land.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000006_000000|Patriot and tone poet in every fibre of his being, his genius inevitably claimed as its own the soul's divinest language, pure music, unfettered by words.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000006_000001|The profound reserve of his nature made it peculiarly agreeable to him to gratify the haunting demands of his lyric muse through the medium of the one musical instrument that lends itself in privacy to the exploitation of all the mysteries of harmony.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000006_000002|Strong conviction in regard to his own calling and clear perception of the hidden powers and future mission of the piano early compelled him to consecrate to it his unfaltering devotion.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000006_000003|He evolved from its more intimate domain effects in sympathy with those of the orchestra, yet purely individual.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000006_000004|He enriched it with new melodic, harmonic and rhythmic devices adapted to itself alone, and endowed it with a warmth of tone coloring that spiritualized it for all time.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000007_000000|To the piano he confided all the conflicts that raged within him, all the courage and living hope that sustained him.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000007_000001|In giving tonal form to the deep things of the soul, which are universal in their essence and application, he embodied universal rather than merely individual emotional experiences, and thus unbared what was most sacred to himself without jarring on the innate reticence which made purely personal confidences impossible.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000007_000002|Although his mode of expression was peculiarly his own, he had received a strong impulse from the popular music of Poland.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000007_000004|They were his earliest models; on them were builded his first themes.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000007_000006|The national tonality became to him a vehicle to be freighted with his own individual conceptions.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000008_000000|"I should like to be to my people what Uhland was to the Germans," he once said to a friend.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000008_000001|He addressed himself to the heart of this people and immortalized its joys, sorrows and caprices by the force of his splendid art.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000008_000003|True art softens the harshest accents of suffering by placing superior to it some elevating idea.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000008_000004|So in the most melancholy strains of his music one who heeds well may detect the presence of a lofty ideal that uplifts and strengthens the travailing soul.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000008_000005|It has been said of him that he had a sad heart but a joyful mind.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000009_000001|"From Zwyny and Elsner even the greatest dunce must learn something," he is quoted as saying.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000009_000002|Neither of these men attempted to hamper his free growth by rigid technical restraints.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000009_000003|Their guidance left him master of his own genius, at liberty to "soar like the lark into the ethereal blue of the skies." He respected them both.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000009_000004|A revering affection was cherished by him for Elsner, to whom he owed his sense of personal responsibility to his art, his habits of serious study and his intimate acquaintance with Bach.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000010_000000|There is food for thought in the fact that this Prince Charming of the piano, whose magic touch awakened the Sleeping Beauty of the instrument of wood and wires, never had a lesson in his life from a mere piano specialist.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000010_000001|Liszt once said Chopin was the only pianist he ever knew that could play the violin on the piano.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000010_000003|In the same way he had listened to the human voice, and determined that the song of his own instrument should be heard.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000010_000004|Those who give ear to the piano alone will never learn the secret of calling forth its supreme eloquence.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000011_000000|We can see and hear this "Raphael of Music" at the piano, so many and so eloquent have been the descriptions given of his playing.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000011_000001|It is easy to fancy him sweeping the ivory keys with his gossamer touch that enveloped with ethereal beauty the most unaccustomed of his complicated chromatic modulations.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000012_000000|And what an example he has left for teachers.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000012_000001|Delicately strung as he was, he must often have endured tortures from the best of his pupils, but so thoroughly was he consecrated to his art that he never faltered in his efforts to lift those who confided in him to the aerial heights he had found.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000012_000002|A vivid picture of his method of teaching is given in the lectures on "Frederic Chopin's Works and Their Proper Interpretation," by the Pole, Jean Kleczynski.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000013_000000|The basis of this method consisted in refinement of touch, for the attainment of which a natural, easy position of the hand was considered by Chopin a prime requisite.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000013_000001|He prepared each hand with infinite care before permitting any attempt at the reproduction of musical ideas.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000013_000002|In order to place it to advantage he caused it to be thrown lightly on the keyboard so that the five fingers rested on the notes E, F sharp, G sharp, A sharp and B, and without change of position required the practice of exercises calculated to insure independence.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000014_000000|He was exceedingly particular about arpeggio work, and insisted upon the repetition of every note and passage until all harshness and roughness of tone were eliminated.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000014_000001|"Is that a dog barking?" he was known to exclaim to an unlucky pupil whose attack in the opening arpeggio of a Clementi study lacked the desired quality.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000014_000002|A very independent use of the thumb was prescribed by him.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000014_000003|He never hesitated about placing it on a black key when convenient, and had it passed by muscle action alone in scales and broken chords whose zealous practice in different forms of touch, accent, rhythm and tone were demanded by him.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000016_000000|By precept and example he advocated frequent playing of the preludes and fugues of Bach as a means of cultivating musical intelligence, muscular independence and touch and tone discrimination.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000016_000001|His musical heroes were Bach and Mozart, for they represented to him nature, strong individuality and poetry in music.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000016_000002|At one time he undertook to write a method or school of piano playing, but never progressed beyond the opening sentences.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000016_000004|Those of his contemporaries who have harkened with rapture to his playing have declared that he alone could adequately interpret his tone creations, or make perfectly intelligible his method.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000016_000006|The elect few have come into touch with his vision of beauty, but it has been mercilessly misinterpreted by thousands of ruthless aspirants to musical honors, in the schoolroom, the students' recital and the concert hall.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000017_000001|Whoever approaches him with weak sentimentalism will miss altogether his dignity and strength.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000017_000003|The highest type of artist and human being is thus represented.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000017_000004|To interpret him requires simplicity, purity of style, refined technique, poetic imagination and genuine sentiment-not fitful, fictitious sentimentality.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000000|In regard to the much discussed tempo rubato of Chopin many and fatal blunders have been made.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000001|Players without number have gone stumbling over the piano keys with a tottering, spasmodic gait, serenely fancying they are heeding the master's design.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000002|Reckless, out of time playing disfigures what is meant to express the fluctuation of thought, the soul's agitation, the rolling of the waves of time and eternity.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000003|The rubato, from rubare, to rob, represents a pliable movement that is certainly as old as the Greek drama in declamation, and was employed in intoning the Gregorian chant.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000004|The recitative of the sixteenth century gave it prominence, and it passed into instrumental music.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000005|Indications of it in Bach are too often neglected.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000006|Beethoven used it effectively. Chopin appropriated it as one of his most potent auxiliaries.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000008|"You see that tree," exclaimed Liszt; "its leaves tremble with every breath of the wind, but the tree remains unshaken-that is the rubato." There are storms to which even the tree yields.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000018_000009|To realize them, to divine the laws which regulate the undulating, tempest tossed rubato, requires highly matured artistic taste and absolute musical control.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000019_000000|Too sensitive to enjoy playing before miscellaneous audiences whose unsympathetic curiosity, he declared, paralyzed him, Chopin was at his best when interpreting music in private, for a choice circle of friends or pupils, or when absorbed in composition.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000019_000001|It is not too much to say for him that he ushered in a new era for his chosen instrument, spiritualizing its timbre, liberating it from traditional orchestral and choral effects, and elevating it to an independent power in the world of music.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000020_000000|In melody and general conception his tone poems sprang spontaneously from his glowing fancy, but they were subjected to the most severe tests before they were permitted to go out into the world.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000020_000003|An accentuation like the ringing of distant bells is frequently heard in his music.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000020_000004|To him bell tones were ever ringing, reminding him of home, summoning him to the heights.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000021_000001|In the sonatas and concertos he sees the princely Pole bravely carrying his banner amid classical currents.
train-clean-100/7447/91187/7447_91187_000022_000000|Unquestionably the poetry of Chopin is of the most exquisite lyric character, his leadership is supreme.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000002_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000003_000000|PSYCHIC INCOME
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000000|one.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000002|Wants recur for the same reason that they first arose.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000003|No impression on the nerves or on the senses is lasting.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000004|Man's senses were developed for the purpose of bringing him into relation with the outer world, of enabling him to survive in his struggle with the forces of nature.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000005|So, when a good has been enjoyed, the utility to that person of that thing or service for that particular moment, falls, it may be even to zero.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000007|The best results in reading or eating come from taking the right amount day by day.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000006_000008|But it is a need in the life of men that wants should recur after a time, otherwise there would be no motive for action.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000008_000002|We may liken man's life to a journey in which the supplies of food are gotten at the stations.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000008_000004|This constant inflow of goods is one of the fundamental needs of life.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000008_000005|The savage dimly understands this need.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000008_000006|Even the birds and the beasts adjust their lives to it either by travel or by toil.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000008_000007|The spring and autumn migrations to new feeding grounds are the attempts of the bird to gratify this series of wants as they arise.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000008_000008|The ant, the bee, and the squirrel anticipate, and work to fill their storehouses against the days of need.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000010_000000|three.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000010_000002|The nature of the acquisition of objective incomes may, in some cases, be different if viewed from the social and individual standpoints.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000010_000003|Society, as a whole, may be said to acquire income only when goods are produced; individuals may acquire income by gift, bequest, theft, or other modes of transfer from other individuals.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000011_000000|We should not understand that either social or private objective incomes include only material goods, for many utilities and labor services that never take on a material or money expression are included in either case.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000011_000001|Indeed, we are close here to the conception of psychic income which is to be developed more fully.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000013_000001|Usually many of these subtler utilities are overlooked and omitted from the recognized money income.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000013_000002|In this day the use of money is so common that we are sometimes led to ignore the value of things to which the money expression is not given.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000013_000003|The money income is merely the money expression of the value of currently acquired goods, and it is the only medium through which such varied sources of gratification can be compared.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000015_000002|In order to produce some goods technically, men make use of other goods.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000015_000003|While they are storing up a supply of wood or coal it may be looked upon as the income, but they may burn it to help grow hothouse plants.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000015_000004|While they gather flowers with one hand, they destroy fuel with the other.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000015_000005|Only the net increase in value can be accounted income in the second period.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000015_000006|The goods that come into a man's possession in any period are of many sorts: to get some he has destroyed many previously existing goods; while to get others he has not needed to use up the accumulations of the past or to mortgage the future.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000015_000007|The one kind is gross, the other net income.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000017_000000|five.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000017_000002|But many things existing which could be used to secure a gratification are not in fact treated as consumption goods.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000017_000003|A crop of corn is not all income.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000017_000004|In a time of famine it could be used, but seed corn was saved from last year, and some must be kept for next year.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000019_000000|Further, in the economic world there is much wealth that never can gratify any want directly; many forms of wealth never can be consumption goods.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000019_000001|It is true that everything called wealth is expected to contribute sooner or later in some way to the sum of gratifications.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000019_000002|It is for that reason it is called wealth.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000019_000003|It is, however, a mere figure of speech to say indirect want gratifiers become want gratifying goods.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000019_000005|A machine making cloth for next year is gratifying wants only in a metaphorical sense.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000019_000006|A field used to produce food is not a direct want gratifier until it is transformed into a residence site, a playground, or a tennis court.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000020_000000|It is necessary therefore to recognize the distinction between present and future incomes.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000020_000001|The value of the mass of wealth in possession and yielding income, rests in large part upon its power of contributing to income in some future period.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000020_000002|Thus, any durable good may be looked upon as embodying a series of incomes ranging from present to future in varying degrees.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000020_000003|This will be fully considered under the subject of capital.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000022_000000|six.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000022_000002|The income is "funded" because it corresponds to an abiding fund of wealth.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000022_000003|The income arising from current labor is unfunded, because there is no permanent fund of accumulated wealth corresponding to it.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000023_000001|If it is part of the sum of goods that flows in, that is newly available for the man's use, it is income.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000023_000002|But funded income is the more abiding, for income from wages stops when the man dies or fails to perform his work, while the income from wealth continues after he ceases to be active.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000023_000003|Thus, families with equal incomes may differ greatly in wealth, the one depending entirely on salaries, the other on rents.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000024_000002|INCOME AS A SERIES OF GRATIFICATIONS
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000000|one.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000002|Things outside of men cannot be feelings, they can only call out or occasion feeling, and it is the attainment of pleasurable conditions in mind or soul that is the aim of all economic activity.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000003|Material income and immaterial income are both related to and reducible to psychic income.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000004|Some portions at least of the objective incomes of goods are continually by use becoming subjective incomes of enjoyment.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000006|There was a long-standing dispute in economic literature regarding the difference between productive and unproductive labor. Productive labor was said to be that which embodied itself in abiding material form.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000007|The distinction led to some peculiar puzzles and paradoxes.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000008|The bartender mixing drinks, adds to the value of those ingredients; in a minute that value is dissipated.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000009|According to the distinction in question, he is a productive laborer because his services are embodied in material form, whereas the lecturer is regarded as an unproductive laborer because the results of his labor are not embodied in material form.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000010|But whether or not the service has for a moment embodied itself in material form is of no essential economic import.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000012|The distinction in question is not now made by economists, all labor that contributes to value being regarded as productive.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000013|But a similar distinction is inconsistently preserved by many writers in the case of material things.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000014|A building used as a factory is called productive, but used by the owner as a dwelling it is called unproductive because the service it renders does not appear in material form.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000027_000015|But the use of the house, or that of land for a school ground or campus, secures a certain gratification, an immaterial good.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000029_000002|The business man always is trying to trace a causal relation between things that do not and cannot themselves directly satisfy wants, and things that do.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000029_000003|The vineyard has no value to Tantalus, unable to reach its fruit.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000029_000004|A captive, chained to a rock, attaches value only to the things within his reach.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000029_000005|Men living in savagery and ignorance starve amid the possibilities of plenty.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000029_000006|Chained by their ignorance and improvidence to a little spot of earth, they do not see clearly, either in time or space, the economic relations about them.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000000|three.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000004|With increased intelligence the economic life of man expands, and he attaches importance to things which at the present moment have not, and cannot have, the slightest influence on his immediate gratification.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000005|The extension of man's view works a momentous change in his economic estimates.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000006|Of the thousands of forms of matter in the world, only a comparatively few ever will make an immediate gratifying impression on man's senses.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000007|But many of them are so connected in his thought by chains of association with pleasures or uses, that almost instinctively and most intensely he attaches an importance to them.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000008|In most cases it would require close thought to see that the service attributed directly to them was but a reflection of that performed by some other good.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000031_000009|Thus, more and more, the estimates placed by men on goods come to depend on knowledge and foresight, and not on immediate impressions and feelings.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000033_000002|Often the complex nature of the problem is ignored.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000033_000003|If one discusses the trading of a bushel of grain, to be used by a hungry man for food, for a sheep to be kept for breeding, or for wool to be made into cloth next year, he may overlook the difference in the grade of wants compared.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000033_000004|In this case, a gratification of the present moment is compared with a gratification of a very different kind at a future time.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000033_000005|The problem involved is complex because of differences in time, in place, and in the nature of the want gratifiers.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000033_000006|The student should endeavor to reduce the problem of value to its simplest form by considering first the exchange, at the present moment, of immediately enjoyable goods.
train-clean-100/7505/258958/7505_258958_000033_000007|The logical starting point in the theory of value is in those goods that are in closest touch with feeling, and on this basis may be built up an explanation of values in which reason and forethought have a greater part.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000001_000000|INCREASE OF RENT BEARERS AND OF RENTS
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000004_000000|one.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000004_000002|The increase of rents is due to two causes: changes in the agents by which they become more efficient technically, or more numerous; and changes taking place outside of the agents, affecting the utility of the products.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000004_000003|The first of these will be considered in this section.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000005_000000|The increase of the efficiency of agents is usually the aim of the individual producer, and thus is brought about an increase of the stock of wealth.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000005_000001|In some cases, however, improvements such as the dredging of harbors or as the protecting of forests, are made by men collectively through the agency of governments.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000005_000002|Somewhere, however, the desire for these changes must arise in the minds of individuals.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000005_000004|This end, therefore, must be in itself desirable, and social organization must be such as to present a motive to the men to make the needed effort.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000007_000002|Other tracts less fertile, or for some reason less available, are ditched, tiled, and diked, and fertilizers are carried up steep hillsides to make a soil upon the very crags.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000007_000003|In commerce and transportation, new ways are opened by canals, railroads, and tunnels. An isthmian canal will raise the efficiency of ships plying between New York and San Francisco, enabling them to carry a greater amount of freight within a year.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000007_000005|By the building of wharves, the dredging of harbors, and by many other methods, indirect agents are constantly growing in number and efficiency.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000009_000000|three.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000009_000002|A machine is an arrangement of material things through which force may be indirectly applied to move matter.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000009_000003|No fast line divides machinery as regards form, purpose, or cause of value, from the artificially improved natural agents that we have been discussing.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000009_000004|Just as a field is drained, plowed, and cultivated to fit it better to yield a crop, so is the iron ore shaped into a form called a machine, better fitted to cut, carve, and weave as man wills. Machines are merely adaptations of natural resources.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000000|Increase in machinery may be either in quality or quantity.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000001|The two causes have in most cases the same result.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000002|If the quality or efficiency of looms is doubled, it is as if their number had grown in like proportion.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000003|In its economic function the beast of burden may not illogically be classed with inanimate machines.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000004|The horses in America have been remarkably improved of recent years by the importation of thoroughbred stock from Europe.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000005|Ten or fifteen years ago the number of horses in the United States was found to have decreased, and there was much comment on this evidence of a declining industry.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000006|It was not at once recognized that there was embodied in horse flesh more horse power than ever before, as a single Norman horse has the strength of several Mexican mustangs.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000011_000007|Numbers alone are not the measure of efficiency.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000013_000003|The log, once started through the mill, is carried automatically from one machine to another until it emerges as a roll of paper or as a box of tooth picks, ready for use.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000013_000004|In an American watch factory one man tends twelve or fifteen automatic machines.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000013_000005|A small brass rod is fed automatically to the machine; a piece is cut off, is picked up by a human like metal hand; is put into a lathe, and shifted or held firmly while it goes through fifteen or twenty processes; and then is dropped into a box where it is ready for the "assembling" of the watch.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000013_000006|As the machinery improves, factories making allied products are grouped to make a system still more efficient.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000014_000000|As the number of agents increases they are distributed so as to be where most useful to the owner.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000014_000001|A man having two umbrellas keeps one at his office and the other at home; a student having two books of the same kind keeps one at his room and the other at the university; a farmer having two hoes keeps one at the barn and the other in a distant field, and by this distribution the agents are increased in efficiency.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000016_000000|The aim of a progressive society is to enlarge the environment, and constantly to adapt it better to the service of wants.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000016_000001|This is done largely by mechanical agents, which capture the natural forces of the world, put them into the right place at the right time, and make them do the right thing, or which group and relate the materials of the world in the right ways.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000016_000002|Some of the groupings in the chemical and physical world that do not fit man's purposes may be made to do so.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000016_000003|The world in this way becomes more and more a great workshop, better and better adjusted to man's wants.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000018_000000|five.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000018_000004|Improved types of machinery more or less rapidly displace the older, less efficient types, which, therefore, more or less completely lose their rent bearing power long before they are physically worn out.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000018_000005|When improvements in agriculture that are applicable to a considerable area of land take place, and the product thus is increased and cheapened, the poorer land is abandoned.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000018_000006|Inventions and improvements thus gradually becoming common property, increase the free goods and free uses not bearing rent and open to every one.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000018_000007|One who improves the quality of a machine or the economy of a process may thus unintentionally injure some of the owners of low rent agents, while unintentionally increasing the welfare of the mass of men for whom the margin of utilization is thus lifted.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000019_000001|two. EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN RAISING THE RENTS OF INDIRECT AGENTS
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000021_000000|one.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000021_000002|As changes in the conditions of society may reduce rents, so other changes may increase them.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000021_000003|Agents of the same kind may diminish in number, either absolutely or relatively.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000021_000004|If some of the competing machines are destroyed, the rents of the machines that remain rise, while if new supplies are found, either in nature or by improved industrial processes, the rents of the older agents fall.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000023_000002|Such a lucky find has lifted the mortgage from a farm in eastern Pennsylvania, from which, in two or three years, has been taken feldspar exceeding in value the agricultural products of the same land in the last fifty years.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000023_000003|The discovery of building stone, coal, natural gas, or oil land may make the annual rent (or royalty) of land tenfold its former total value.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000023_000004|Fitness to produce nettles is not ordinarily a virtue in land, but the discovery that certain fields produce a superior quality of the nettle used for heckling cloth, causes them to take on a new value.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000023_000005|A mineral spring, because of the supposed or proved healing properties of its waters, may be as good as a mine to the owner.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000023_000006|Peculiar fitness for the cultivation of celery may convert marsh land into a substantial source of income.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000024_000000|Social changes are constantly causing agents to shift from lower to higher uses.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000024_000001|As population grows and groups about new industries, farm land is used for residence lots, and in turn for business purposes. Rents therefore rise, and this rise is reflected in the higher selling value of the land.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000024_000002|If a new demand arises for the product of any machine, its rent rises, although it may continue to turn out the same product as measured by number or quantity.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000024_000003|For, if consumers increase, a given supply of agents becomes relatively smaller than before.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000026_000000|three.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000026_000002|An urgent demand for special machinery raises quickly its rent and value.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000026_000003|It is said that lace machinery is sometimes thrown out of use for several years, until a sudden renewal of the demand for lace causes the rental to equal, in two years, more than the original cost.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000026_000005|Such prosperous periods are the opportunity of the business man and of the promoter to sell the factory at its highest price.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000028_000000|A rise in the value of any agent at once causes an attempt to duplicate it or to find a substitute for it; this attempt, if successful, puts a check or sets a limit to the rise.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000028_000001|In this search for new devices the man who can see most quickly and clearly has a key to wealth.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000028_000002|Some kinds of agents, as rare minerals or tools that can be produced only by highly skilled labor, cannot be increased rapidly in number and remain high in price for a long period; and favorably located building sites illustrate the same principle.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000028_000003|In some cases, it is true, the demand may be due to some temporary cause, as in a period of unsound land speculation, but usually the growing value of location is due to a steady and abiding change in population or business.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000030_000002|This evidently is only a special illustration of the principle just stated, where it is not easy to find a substitute for certain agents.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000030_000003|Public franchises entitle the owners to special, sometimes exclusive, privileges, and protect them legally from competition.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000030_000004|Not all franchises are valuable; many street railways are unfortunate ventures, the earnings being insufficient to pay expenses, to say nothing of interest on the investment.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000030_000005|But when they pay greatly, their high value is due to the impossibility of competition.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000030_000006|The cars, mules, dynamos, steam engines, and other agents combined to furnish transportation, have a special earning power because other similar agents are forbidden to be used in that market.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000032_000000|five.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000032_000002|In some cases powerful or wealthy men can bring about social changes in entirely legitimate ways.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000032_000003|The owner of a large factory, moving it into the country, may buy up surrounding land and found a city, converting pasture lands and corn fields into valuable building lots.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000032_000004|Again, social changes are produced immorally, if not illegitimately, when wealthy men or influential politicians cause laws to be passed which inure to their advantage but which may ruin many other citizens.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000034_000000|In most cases, however, social changes are impersonally caused.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000034_000001|The individual owner who profits by them is powerless to affect the result. He can only adapt his conduct in some measure so as to reap an advantage.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000034_000002|He can strive to increase the number and quality and to get control of such agents as he foresees will yield higher rents.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000034_000004|The term "unearned increment" has been frequently used in recent years.
train-clean-100/7505/258964/7505_258964_000034_000005|It is often assumed to be a peculiar thing, sharply in contrast to other changes in value.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000000_000000|Our authorities on Iroquois traditions, though numerous enough, are not so satisfactory.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000001_000000|The brothers quarrelled, and finally came to blows; the former using the horns of a stag, the latter the wild rose.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000001_000001|He of the weaker weapon was very naturally discomfited and sorely wounded.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000001_000002|Fleeing for life, the blood gushed from him at every step, and as it fell turned into flint stones.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000001_000003|The victor returned to his grandmother, and established his lodge in the far east, on the borders of the great ocean, whence the sun comes.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000001_000004|In time he became the father of mankind, and special guardian of the Iroquois.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000003_000000|So strong is the resemblance Ioskeha bears to Michabo, that what has been said in explanation of the latter will be sufficient for both.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000003_000001|Yet I do not imagine that the one was copied or borrowed from the other.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000003_000002|We cannot be too cautious in adopting such a conclusion.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000003_000003|The two nations were remote in everything but geographical position.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000003_000006|Yet this is not Algonkin theology; nor is it at all related to that of the Iroquois.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000003_000007|It is the story of Sarama in the Rig Veda, and was written in Sanscrit, under the shadow of the Himalayas, centuries before Homer.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000004_000000|Such uniformity points not to a common source in history, but in psychology.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000004_000001|Man, chiefly cognizant of his soul through his senses, thought with an awful horror of the night which deprived him of the use of one and foreshadowed the loss of all.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000005_000000|"From night to light, From night to heavenly light;"
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000006_000001|Who shall say that his instinct led him here astray?
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000006_000003|Do not all those marvellous and subtle forces known to the older chemists as the imponderable elements, without which not even the inorganic crystal is possible, proceed from the rays of light?
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000007_000001|To the east, therefore, should these nations have pointed as their original dwelling place.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000007_000002|This they did in spite of history.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000007_000003|Cusic, who takes up the story of the Iroquois a thousand years before the Christian era, locates them first in the most eastern region they ever possessed.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000007_000005|It reminds one of the white twin of Iroquois legend, and illustrates how the color white came to be intimately associated with the morning light and its beneficent effects.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000007_000008|All these sentiments were linked to the dawn.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000007_000009|Language itself is proof of it.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000000|Even the complicated mythology of Peru yields to the judicious application of these principles of interpretation.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000001|Its peculiar obscurity arises from the policy of the Incas to blend the religions of conquered provinces with their own.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000003|They were without flesh or blood, impalpable, invisible, and incredibly swift of foot.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000004|Con first possessed the land, but Pachacama attacked and drove him to the north.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000005|Irritated at his defeat he took with him the rain, and consequently to this day the sea coast of Peru is largely an arid desert.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000009|He was more than that, for in their creed he was creator and possessor of all things.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000008_000010|Lands and herds were assigned to other gods to support their temples, and offerings were heaped on their altars, but to him none.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000001|He himself constructed these luminaries and placed them in the sky, and then peopled the earth with its present inhabitants.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000002|From the lake he journeyed westward, not without adventures, for he was attacked with murderous intent by the beings whom he had created.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000003|When, however, scorning such unequal combat, he had manifested his power by hurling the lightning on the hill sides and consuming the forests, they recognized their maker, and humbled themselves before him.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000005|At last he disappeared in the western ocean.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000006|Four personages, companions or sons, were closely connected with him.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000007|They rose together with him from the lake, or else were his first creations.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000009_000010|King Manco, however, was a real character, the Rudolph of Hapsburg of their reigning family, and flourished about the eleventh century.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000010_000000|There is a general resemblance between this story and that of Michabo. Both precede and create the sun, both journey to the west, overcoming opposition with the thunderbolt, both divide the world between the four winds, both were the fathers, gods, and teachers of their nations.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000010_000001|Nor does it cease here.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000010_000002|Michabo, I have shown, is the white spirit of the Dawn.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000010_000004|The dawn rises above the horizon as the snowy foam on the surface of a lake.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000011_000000|"Light Sprang from the deep, and from her native east To journey through the airy gloom began."
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000012_000000|The central figure of Toltec mythology is Quetzalcoatl.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000012_000003|But many insist that he was at first a man, some deified king.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000013_000000|His emblematic name, the Bird Serpent, and his rebus and cross at Palenque, I have already explained.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000013_000002|The same dualism reappears in him that has been noted in his analogues elsewhere; He is both lord of the eastern light and the winds.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000014_000004|For the wind and the light both depart when the gloaming draws near, or when the clouds spread their dark and shadowy webs along the mountains, and pour the vivifying rain upon the fields.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000015_000001|Wherever he went all manner of singing birds bore him company, emblems of the whistling breezes.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000015_000002|When he finally disappeared in the far east, he sent back four trusty youths who had ever shared his fortunes, "incomparably swift and light of foot," with directions to divide the earth between them and rule it till he should return and resume his power.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000015_000004|The arrows which he shot transfixed great trees, the stones he threw levelled forests, and when he laid his hands on the rocks the mark was indelible. Yet as thus emblematic of the thunder storm, he possessed in full measure its better attributes.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000015_000005|By shaking his sandals he gave fire to men, and peace, plenty, and riches blessed his subjects.
train-clean-100/7505/83618/7505_83618_000016_000000|His symbols were the bird, the serpent, the cross, and the flint, representing the clouds, the lightning, the four winds, and the thunderbolt.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000002_000000|ELIZABETH'S ROMANCE
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000003_000000|CAMP CLOUDCREST, september twelfth nineteen fourteen.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000004_000001|CONEY,--
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000005_000000|I find I can't write to you as often as I at first intended; but I've a chance to day, so I will not let it pass unused.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000005_000001|We are in the last camp, right on the hunting ground, in the "midst of the fray." We have said good bye to dear Elizabeth, and I must tell you about her because she really comes first.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000006_000000|To begin with, the morning we left the Holts, Elizabeth suggested that we three women ride in the buckboard, so I seated myself on a roll of bedding in the back part.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000006_000002|The sky was clear blue, with a few fleecy clouds drifting lazily past.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000006_000003|The mountains on one side were crested; great crags and piles of rock crowned them as far as we could see; timber grew only about halfway up.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000006_000005|And the stately pines kept whispering and murmuring; it almost seemed as if they were chiding the quaking aspens for being frivolous.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000008_000000|mrs O'Shaughnessy said, "Tut, tut, 'tis nothing at all we've done. 'tis a comfort you've been, hasn't she, mrs Stewart?"
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000000|I could heartily agree; and Elizabeth went on, "The way I have been received and the way we all treated mrs Holt will be the greatest help to me in becoming what I hope to become, a real Westerner.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000002|Years ago, before I was through school, I was to have been married; but I lost my mother just then and was left the care of my paralytic father.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000004|I felt that it wouldn't be right.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000005|Poor father couldn't speak, but his eyes told me how grateful he was to stay.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000006|We had our little home and father had his pension, and I was able to get a small school near us.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000007|I could take care of father and teach also.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000008|We were very comfortably situated, and in time became really happy.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000009_000009|Although I seldom heard from Wallace, his letters were well worth waiting for, and I knew he was doing well.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000010_000000|"Eighteen months ago father died,--gently went to sleep.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000010_000001|I waited six months and then wrote to Wallace, but received no reply.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000010_000002|I have written him three times and have had no word.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000010_000003|I could bear it no longer and have come to see what has become of him.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000010_000004|If he is dead, may I stay on with one of you and perhaps get a school?
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000010_000005|I want to live here always."
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000011_000000|"But, darlint," said mrs O'Shaughnessy, "supposin' it's married your man is?"
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000012_000000|"Wallace may have changed his mind about me, but he would not marry without telling me.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000012_000001|If he is alive he is honorable."
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000014_000000|"I just didn't have the courage to.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000014_000001|I should never have told you what I have, only I think I owe it to you, and it was easier because of the Holts.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000014_000002|I am so glad we met them."
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000015_000001|After a while I got on to the wagon with mr Stewart and told him Elizabeth's story so that he could inquire about the man.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000015_000002|Soon we came to the crossing on Green River.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000015_000003|Just beyond the ford we could see the game warden's cabin, with the stars and stripes fluttering gayly in the fresh morning breeze.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000016_000001|He rode down to meet us, to inspect our license and to tell us about our privileges and our duties as good woodsmen.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000016_000002|He also issues licenses in case hunters have neglected to secure them before coming.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000016_000003|mrs O'Shaughnessy had refused to get a license when we did.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000016_000004|She said she was not going to hunt; she told us we could give her a small piece of "ilk" and that would do; so we were rather surprised when she purchased two licenses, one a special, which would entitle her to a bull elk.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000017_000001|Happiness had taken a new clutch upon my heart.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000017_000002|I looked back, expecting to see Elizabeth all smiles, but if you will believe me the foolish girl was sobbing as if her heart was broken.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000017_000003|mrs O'Shaughnessy drew her head down upon her shoulder and was trying to quiet her.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000017_000005|Staying on the wagon occupied all my attention for a while.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000017_000006|Several miles were passed when we came in sight of a beautiful cabin, half hidden in a grove of pines beyond the river.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000017_000007|mr Stewart said we might as well "noon" as soon as we came to a good place, and then he would ride across and see mr White.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000018_000000|Just as we rounded the hill a horseman came toward us.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000018_000001|A splendid fellow he was, manly strength and grace showing in every line.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000018_000002|The road was narrow against the hillside and he had to ride quite close, so I saw his handsome face plainly.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000020_000000|mr Stewart is the queerest man: instead of letting me enjoy the tableau, he solemnly drove on, saying he would not want any one gawking at him if he were the happy man.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000020_000001|Anyway, he couldn't urge Chub fast enough to prevent my seeing and hearing what I've told you. Besides that, I saw that Elizabeth's hat was on awry, her hair in disorder, and her eyes red.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000020_000002|It was disappointing after she had been so careful to look nicely.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000021_000001|We had just got the coffee boiling when the lovers came up, Elizabeth in the saddle, "learning to ride," and he walking beside her holding her hand.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000021_000002|How happy they were!
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000021_000003|The rest of us were mighty near as foolish as they.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000021_000004|They were going to start immediately after dinner, on horseback, for the county seat, to be married.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000021_000005|After we had eaten, Elizabeth selected a few things from her trunk, and mr Stewart and mr White drove the buckboard across the river to leave the trunk in its new home.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000021_000006|While they were gone we helped Elizabeth to dress.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000022_000000|Dear Elizabeth, she was glad to get away, I suspect!
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000022_000001|She and her Wallace made a fine couple as they rode away in the golden September afternoon.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000023_000000|Well, we felt powerfully reduced in numbers, but about three o'clock that afternoon we came upon mr Struble and mr Haynes waiting beside the road for us.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000023_000001|They had come to pilot us into camp, for there would be no road soon.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000024_000000|Such a way as we came over!
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000024_000001|Such jolting and sliding!
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000024_000002|I begged to get off and walk; but as the whole way was carpeted by strawberry vines and there were late berries to tempt me to loiter, I had to stay on the wagon.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000025_000000|mr Struble drove for mrs O'Shaughnessy, and I could hear her imploring all the saints to preserve us from instant death.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000025_000001|I kept shutting my eyes, trying not to see the terrifying places, and opening them again to see the beauty spread everywhere, until mr Stewart said, "It must make you nervous to ride over mountain roads.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000026_000000|It had been decided to go as far as we could with the wagons and then set camp; from there the hunters would ride horseback as far up as they could and then climb.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000026_000004|They went to work setting up tents and unloading wagons with a hearty good will.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000027_000000|We are camped just on the edge of the pines.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000027_000001|Back of us rises a big pine clad mountain; our tents are set under some big trees, on a small plateau, and right below us is a valley in which grass grows knee high and little streams come from every way.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000027_000002|Trout scurry up stream whenever we go near.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000027_000003|We call the valley Paradise Valley because it is the horses' paradise.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000027_000005|We have a beautiful place: it is well sheltered; there is plenty of wood, water, and feed; and, looking eastward down the valley, snow covered, crag topped mountains delight the eye.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000001|mr Struble has already killed a fine "spike" elk for camp eating.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000002|We camped in a bunch, and we have camp stoves so that in case of rain or snow we can stay indoors.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000003|Just now we have a huge camp fire around which we sit in the evening, telling stories, singing, and eating nuts of the pinon pine.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000004|Then too the whole country is filled with those tiny little strawberries.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000005|We have to gather all day to get as much as we can eat, but they are delicious.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000006|Yesterday we had pie made of wild currants; there are a powerful lot of them here.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000008|Altogether this is one of the most delightful places imaginable.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000009|The men are not very anxious to begin hunting.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000011|It is cool up here, but going back across the desert it will be warm for a while yet.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000028_000012|Still, when they see elk every day it is a great temptation to try a shot.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000001|I don't know what that is, but if it is a fossil he won't get it, for the soil is too deep.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000002|The students are jolly, likable fellows, but they can talk of nothing but strata and formation.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000003|I heard one of them say he would be glad when some one killed a bear, as he had heard they were fine eating, having strata of fat alternating with strata of lean.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000004|mr Haynes is a quiet fellow, just interested in hunting.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000005|mr Struble is the big man of the party; he is tall and strong and we find him very pleasant company. Then there is dr Teschall; he is a quiet fellow with an unexpected smile.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000006|He is so reserved that I felt that he was kind of out of place among the rest until I caught his cordial smile.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000007|He is so slight that I don't see how he will stand the hard climbing, not to mention carrying the heavy gun.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000008|They are using the largest caliber sporting guns,--murderous looking things.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000009|That is, all except mr Harkrudder, the picture man.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000029_000010|He looks to be about forty years old, but whoops and laughs like he was about ten.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000030_000001|He is just the kind, quiet good mon that he has always been since I have known him.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000031_000001|I don't think I shall be able to tell you of any great exploits I make with the gun.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000031_000002|I fired one that mr Stewart carries, and it almost kicked my shoulder off.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000031_000004|I know she would not shoot one of those big guns for a dozen elk; besides that, she is very tender hearted and will never harm anything herself, although she likes to join our hunts.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000032_000000|I think you must be tired of this letter, so I am going to say good night, my friend.
train-clean-100/7511/102419/7511_102419_000033_000000|e r s
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000002_000000|seven
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000003_000000|THE HUNT
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000004_000000|CAMP CLOUDCREST, october sixth nineteen fourteen.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000005_000001|CONEY,--
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000006_000002|I haven't one thing.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000006_000004|I have been neglecting you shamefully, I think.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000006_000006|So I will spend this snowy day in writing to you.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000000|On the night of september thirtieth, there was the most awful thunderstorm I ever witnessed,--flash after flash of the most blinding lightning, followed by deafening peals of thunder; and as it echoed from mountain to mountain the uproar was terrifying.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000001|I have always loved a storm; the beat of hail and rain, and the roar of wind always appeal to me; but there was neither wind nor rain,--just flash and roar.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000002|Before the echo died away among the hills another booming report would seem to shiver the atmosphere and set all our tinware jangling.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000003|We are camped so near the great pines that I will confess I was powerfully afraid. Had the lightning struck one of the big pines there would not have been one of us left.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000005|We had gone to bed, but I couldn't remain there; so I sat on the wagon seat with Jerrine beside me. Something struck the guy ropes of the tent, and I was so frightened I was too weak to cry out.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000006|I thought the big tree must have fallen. In the lulls of the storm I could hear the men's voices, high and excited.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000007|They, too, were up.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000008|It seemed to me that the storm lasted for hours; but at last it moved off up the valley, the flashes grew to be a mere glimmer, and the thunder mere rumbling.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000011|Next morning the horses could not be found; the storm had frightened them, and they had tried to go home.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000007_000012|The men had to find them, and as it took most of the day, we had to put off our hunt.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000008_000000|We were up and about next morning in the first faint gray light.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000008_000001|While the men fed grain to the horses and saddled them, we prepared a hasty breakfast.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000008_000002|We were off before it was more than light enough for us to see the trail.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000000|Dawn in the mountains-how I wish I could describe it to you!
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000001|If I could only make you feel the keen, bracing air, the exhilarating climb; if I could only paint its beauties, what a picture you should have!
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000002|Here the colors are very different from those of the desert.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000003|I suppose the forest makes it so.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000004|The shadows are mellow, like the colors in an old picture-greenish amber light and a blue gray sky. Far ahead of us we could see the red rim rock of a mountain above timber line.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000005|The first rays of the sun turned the jagged peaks into golden points of a crown.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000006|In Oklahoma, at that hour of the day, the woods would be alive with song birds, even at this season; but here there are no song birds, and only the snapping of twigs, as our horses climbed the frosty trail, broke the silence.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000007|We had been cautioned not to talk, but neither mrs O'Shaughnessy nor I wanted to.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000009_000008|Afterwards, when we compared notes, we found that we both had the same thought: we both felt ashamed to be out to deal death to one of the Maker's beautiful creatures, and we were planning how we might avoid it.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000010_000000|The sun was well up when we reached the little park where we picketed our horses.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000010_000001|Then came a long, hard climb.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000010_000003|Then too, we had to keep up with the men, and we didn't find that easy to do.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000010_000004|At last we reached the top and sat down on some boulders to rest a few minutes before we started down to the hunting ground, which lay in a cuplike valley far below us.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000011_000001|To our right rose mile after mile of red cliffs. As the last of the quaking asp leaves have fallen, there were no golden groves.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000011_000002|In their places stood silvery patches against the red background of the cliffs.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000011_000003|High overhead a triangle of wild geese harrowed the blue sky.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000012_000000|I was plumb out of breath, but men who are most gallant elsewhere are absolutely heartless on a hunt.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000012_000001|I was scarcely through panting before we began to descend.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000012_000002|We received instructions as to how we should move so as to keep out of range of each other's guns; then mr Haynes and myself started one way, and mr Struble and mrs O'Shaughnessy the other.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000012_000003|We were to meet where the valley terminated in a broad pass.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000012_000004|We felt sure we could get a chance at what elk there might be in the valley.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000012_000005|We were following fresh tracks, and a little of the hunter's enthusiasm seized me.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000000|We had not followed them far when three cows and a "spike" came running out of the pines a little ahead of us.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000001|Instantly mr Haynes's gun flew to his shoulder and a deafening report jarred our ears.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000002|He ran forward, but I stood still, fascinated by what I saw.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000005|At the report of the gun two huge blocks of stone almost as large as a house detached themselves and fell.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000006|At the same instant one of the quaking asp groves began to move slowly.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000008|I shut them a moment, but when I looked the grove was moving faster.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000013_000009|It slid swiftly, and I could plainly hear the rattle of stones falling against stones, until with a muffled roar the whole hillside fell into the stream.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000014_000000|mr Haynes came running back.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000014_000002|Are you hurt?
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000015_000000|I waved my hand weakly toward where the great mound of tangled trees and earth blocked the water.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000015_000001|"Why," he said, "that is only a landslide, not an earthquake.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000015_000003|Come on up here and see my fine elk."
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000016_000000|I sat on a log watching him dress his elk.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000016_000001|We have found it best not to remove the skin, but the elk have to be quartered so as to load them on to a horse.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000016_000002|mrs O'Shaughnessy and mr Struble came out of the woods just then.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000016_000003|They had seen a big bunch of elk headed by a splendid bull, but got no shot, and the elk went out of the pass.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000016_000004|They had heard our shot, and came across to see what luck.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000017_000001|mr Haynes told her.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000017_000002|They had heard the noise, but had thought it thunder. mr Haynes told me that if I would "chirk up" he would give me his elk teeth.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000017_000003|Though I don't admire them, they are considered valuable; however, his elk was a cow, and they don't have as nice teeth as do bulls.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000018_000000|We had lunch, and the men covered the elk with pine boughs to keep the camp robbers from pecking it full of holes.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000018_000001|Next day the men would come with the horses and pack it in to camp.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000018_000002|We all felt refreshed; so we started on the trail of those that got away.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000019_000000|For a while walking was easy and we made pretty good time; then we had a rocky hill to get over.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000019_000001|We had to use care when we got into the timber; there were marshy places which tried us sorely, and windfall so thick that we could hardly get through.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000019_000002|We were obliged to pick our way carefully to avoid noise, and we were all together, not having come to a place where it seemed better to separate.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000019_000003|We had about resolved to go to our horses when we heard a volley of shots.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000020_000002|That means that the elk will pass here in a short time and we may get a shot.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000020_000003|The elk will be here long before the men, since the men have no horses; so let's hurry and get placed along the only place they can get out.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000020_000004|We'll get our limit."
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000021_000001|We were all on one side, and mr Haynes said to me, "Rest your gun on that rock and aim at the first rib back of the shoulder.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000021_000002|If you shoot haphazard you may cripple an elk and let it get away to die in misery.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000021_000003|So make sure when you fire."
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000022_000000|It didn't seem a minute before we heard the beat of their hoofs and a queer panting noise that I can't describe.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000022_000002|I heard the report of guns, and he tumbled in a confused heap.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000022_000003|He tried to rise, but others coming leaped over him and knocked him down.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000022_000004|Some more shots, and those behind turned and went back the way they had come.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000024_000000|So I fired my Krag, but next I found myself picking myself up and wondering who had struck me and for what.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000024_000001|I was so dizzy I could scarcely move, but I got down to where the others were excitedly admiring the two dead elk that they said were the victims of mrs O'Shaughnessy's gun.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000024_000006|I thought old Goliar had hit me a biff with a blackthorn shilaley," she remarked.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000026_000000|The men worked as fast as they could at the elk, and we helped as much as we could, but it was dark before we reached camp.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000026_000001|Supper was ready, but I went to bed at once.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000026_000004|It has been snowing for a long time, but Clyde says he will take me hunting when it stops.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000027_000000|mr Murry is an old time acquaintance of mrs O'Shaughnessy's.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000027_000002|mrs O'Shaughnessy has not seen him for years,--didn't know he lived up here.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000027_000003|He had seen the game warden from whom she had procured her license, and so hunted up our camp.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000027_000005|His nose, however, seems to upset the original plan, for it is long and thin and bent slightly to one side.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000027_000006|His neck is long and his Adam's apple seems uncertain as to where it belongs.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000027_000007|At supper Jerrine watched it as if fascinated until I sent her from the table and went out to speak to her about gazing.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000028_000000|"Why, mamma," she said, "I had to look; he has swallowed something that won't go either up or down, and I'm 'fraid he'll choke."
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000029_000000|Although I can't brag about mr Murry's appearance, I can about his taste, for he admires mrs O'Shaughnessy.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000030_000000|As he got up from supper the first night he was with us, he said, "Mary Ellen, I have a real treat and surprise for you.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000030_000001|Just wait a few minutes, an' I'll bet you'll be happy."
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000031_000001|He seated himself and took from the bundle-an accordion!
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000031_000003|He did what mr Struble said was doling a doleful tune.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000031_000004|Every one took it good naturedly, but he kept doling the doleful until little by little the circle thinned.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000032_000000|Our tent is as comfortable as can be.
train-clean-100/7511/102420/7511_102420_000032_000001|Now that it is snowing, we sit around the stoves, and we should have fine times if Professor Glenholdt could have a chance to talk; but we have to listen to "Run, Nigger, Run" and "The Old Gray Hoss Come A tearin' Out The Wilderness." I'll sing them to you when I come to Denver.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000001_000000|The Pond
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000002_000001|The ribald call it the hippopotamus pond, tracing a resemblance between it and the bath of the hippopotamus at the Zoo, beneath the waters of which, if you particularly desire to point the hippopotamus out to somebody, he always lies hidden.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000002_000002|To the rest of us it is known simply as "the pond"--a designation which ignores the existence of several neighbouring ponds, the gifts of nature, and gives the whole credit to the handiwork of man.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000002_000003|For "the pond" is just a small artificial affair of cement, entirely unpretentious.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000003_000001|high.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000003_000004|This seems to me to give a much fairer indication of the rain that has fallen than do the official figures in the newspapers.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000003_000006|It speaks much for my friend Aldenham's breadth of view that he understood this, and planned the pond accordingly.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000000|A most necessary thing in a country house is that there should be a recognized meeting place, where the people who have been writing a few letters after breakfast may, when they have finished, meet those who have no intention of writing any, and arrange plans with them for the morning.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000002|We wander down to the pond together, and perhaps find Brown and Miss Smith there.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000003|"A lot of rain in the night," says Brown.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000005|By and by two or three others stroll up, and we all make measurements together.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000007|But, anyhow, it is fairly fine now, and what about a little lawn tennis?
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000008|Or golf?
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000009|Or croquet?
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000010|Or---?
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000004_000011|And so the arrangements for the morning are made.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000005_000000|And they can be made more readily out of doors; for-supposing it is fine-the fresh air calls you to be doing something, and the sight of the newly marked tennis lawn fills you with thoughts of revenge for your accidental defeat the evening before.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000005_000001|But indoors it is so easy to drop into a sofa after breakfast, and, once there with all the papers, to be disinclined to leave it till lunch time.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000005_000002|A man or woman as lazy as this must not be rushed.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000005_000003|Say to such a one, "Come and play," and the invitation will be declined.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000005_000004|Say, "Come and look at the pond," and the worst sluggard will not refuse such gentle exercise.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000000|All this for those delightful summer days when there are fine intervals; but consider the advantages of the pond when the rain streams down in torrents from morning till night.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000001|How tired we get of being indoors on these days, even with the best of books, the pleasantest of companions, the easiest of billiard tables. Yet if our hostess were to see us marching out with an umbrella, how odd she would think us.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000003|It must be nearly full.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000004|Won't you come too?" And with any luck she comes.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000005|And you know, it even reconciles us a little to these streaming days to reflect that it all goes to fill the pond.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000006|For there is ever before our minds that great moment in the future when the pond is at last full.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000008|Aldenham may know, but we his guests do not.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000009|Some think there will be merely a flood over the surrounding paths and the kitchen garden, but for myself I believe that we are promised something much bigger than that.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000010|A man with such a broad and friendly outlook towards rain gauges will be sure to arrange something striking when the great moment arrives.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000011|Some sort of fete will help to celebrate it, I have no doubt; with an open air play, tank drama, or what not.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000006_000012|At any rate we have every hope that he will empty the pond as speedily as possible so that we may watch it fill again.
train-clean-100/7517/100429/7517_100429_000007_000000|I must say that he has been a little lucky in his choice of a year for inaugurating the pond.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000003_000000|A Household Book
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000004_000000|Once on a time I discovered Samuel Butler; not the other two, but the one who wrote The Way of All Flesh, the second best novel in the English language.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000004_000001|I say the second best, so that, if you remind me of Tom Jones or The Mayor of Casterbridge or any other that you fancy, I can say that, of course, that one is the best. Well, I discovered him, just as Voltaire discovered habakkuk, or your little boy discovered Shakespeare the other day, and I committed my discovery to the world in two glowing articles.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000004_000002|Not unnaturally the world remained unmoved.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000004_000003|It knew all about Samuel Butler.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000005_000000|Last week I discovered a Frenchman, Claude Tillier, who wrote in the early part of last century a book called Mon Oncle Benjamin, which may be freely translated My Uncle Benjamin. (I read it in the translation.) Eager as I am to be lyrical about it, I shall refrain.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000005_000001|I think that I am probably safer with Tillier than with Butler, but I dare not risk it.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000005_000002|The thought of your scorn at my previous ignorance of the world famous Tillier, your amused contempt because I have only just succeeded in borrowing the classic upon which you were brought up, this is too much for me. Let us say no more about it.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000005_000003|Claude Tillier-who has not heard of Claude Tillier?
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000005_000005|Let us pass on to another book.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000000|For I am going to speak of another discovery; of a book which should be a classic, but is not; of a book of which nobody has heard unless through me.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000001|It was published some twelve years ago, the last published book of a well-known writer.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000003|I LOVE his books!" and you will mention SO AND SO, and its equally famous sequel SUCH AND SUCH. But when I ask you if you have read MY book, you will profess surprise, and say that you have never heard of it.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000004|"Is it as good as SO AND SO and SUCH AND SUCH?" you will ask, hardly believing that this could be possible.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000005|"Much better," I shall reply-and there, if these things were arranged properly, would be another ten per cent, in my pocket.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000006|But, believe me, I shall be quite content with your gratitude.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000007|Well, the writer of my book is Kenneth Grahame.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000008|You have heard of him?
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000009|Good, I thought so.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000010|The books you have read are The Golden Age. and Dream Days.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000011|Am I not right?
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000012|Thank you.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000013|But the book you have not read- my book-is The Wind in the Willows.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000014|Am I not right again?
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000006_000015|Ah, I was afraid so.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000007_000000|The reason why I knew you had not read it is the reason why I call it "my" book.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000007_000001|For the last ten or twelve years I have been recommending it.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000007_000002|Usually I speak about it at my first meeting with a stranger.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000007_000003|It is my opening remark, just as yours is something futile about the weather.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000007_000004|If I don't get it in at the beginning, I squeeze it in at the end.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000007_000006|Should I ever find myself in the dock, and one never knows, my answer to the question whether I had anything to say would be, "Well, my lord, if I might just recommend a book to the jury before leaving." mr Justice Darling would probably pretend that he had read it, but he wouldn't deceive me.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000000|For one cannot recommend a book to all the hundreds of people whom one has met in ten years without discovering whether it is well known or not.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000003|But most of them were in your position-great admirers of the author and his two earlier famous books, but ignorant thereafter.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000004|I had their promise before they left me, and waited confidently for their gratitude.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000005|No doubt they also spread the good news in their turn, and it is just possible that it reached you in this way, but it was to me, none the less, that your thanks were due.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000006|For instance, you may have noticed a couple of casual references to it, as if it were a classic known to all, in a famous novel published last year.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000007|It was I who introduced that novelist to it six months before.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000008|Indeed, I feel sometimes that it was I who wrote The Wind in the Willows, and recommended it to Kenneth Grahame ... but perhaps I am wrong here, for I have not the pleasure of his acquaintance.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000008_000009|Nor, as I have already lamented, am I financially interested in its sale, an explanation which suspicious strangers require from me sometimes.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000009_000000|I shall not describe the book, for no description would help it. But I shall just say this; that it is what I call a Household Book.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000009_000001|By a Household Book I mean a book which everybody in the household loves and quotes continually ever afterwards; a book which is read aloud to every new guest, and is regarded as the touchstone of his worth.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000009_000002|But it is a book which makes you feel that, though everybody in the house loves it, it is only you who really appreciate it at its true value, and that the others are scarcely worthy of it.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000009_000003|It is obvious, you persuade yourself, that the author was thinking of you when he wrote it.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000010_000000|Well, of course, you will order the book at once.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000010_000002|When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, still less on the genius of Kenneth Grahame.
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000010_000003|You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. ...
train-clean-100/7517/100437/7517_100437_000010_000004|You may be worthy; I do not know.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000001_000000|At the Bookstall
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000002_000000|I have often longed to be a grocer.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000002_000003|We grocers only put the currants out for show, and so that we may run our fingers through them luxuriously when business is slack.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000002_000004|I have a good line in shortbreads, madam, if I can find the box, but no currants this evening, I beg you.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000003_000000|Yes, to be a grocer is to live well; but, after all, it is not to see life.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000003_000001|A grocer, in as far as it is possible to a man who sells both scented soap and pilchards, would become narrow.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000003_000002|We do not come into contact with the outside world much, save through the medium of potted lobster, and to sell a man potted lobster is not to have our fingers on his pulse.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000003_000003|Potted lobster does not define a man.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000003_000004|All customers are alike to the grocer, provided their money is good.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000003_000006|That is rather for one's old age. While one is young, and interested in persons rather than in things, there is only one profession to follow-the profession of bookstall clerk.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000004_000000|To be behind a bookstall is indeed to see life.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000004_000002|The answer came to me just as I got into my train- Ask the man behind the bookstall.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000004_000003|He would know.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000004_000004|Yes, and he would know who bought all his papers and books and pamphlets, and to know this is to know something about the people in the world.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000004_000005|You cannot tell a man by the lobster he eats, but you can tell something about him by the literature he reads.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000005_000000|For instance, I once occupied a carriage on an eastern line with, among others, a middle aged woman.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000005_000001|As soon as we left Liverpool Street she produced a bag of shrimps, grasped each individual in turn firmly by the head and tail, and ate him.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000005_000002|When she had finished, she emptied the ends out of the window, wiped her hands, and settled down comfortably to her paper.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000005_000003|What paper? You'll never guess; I shall have to tell you-The Morning Post. Now doesn't that give you the woman?
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000005_000004|The shrimps alone, no; the paper alone, no; but the two to gether.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000005_000005|Conceive the holy joy of the bookstall clerk as she and her bag of shrimps- yes, he could have told at once they were shrimps-approached and asked for The Morning Post.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000006_000000|The day can never be dull to the bookstall clerk.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000006_000001|I imagine him assigning in his mind the right paper to each customer.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000006_000002|This man will ask for Golfing-wrong, he wants Cage Birds; that one over there wants The Motor-ah, well, The Auto Car, that's near enough.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000006_000003|Soon he would begin to know the different types; he would learn to distinguish between the patrons of The Dancing Times and of The Vote, The Era and The Athenaeum.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000006_000006|What a life!
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000000|But he has other things than papers to sell.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000002|Our bookstall clerk doesn't wait to be asked.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000003|As soon as this gentleman approaches, he whips out the book, dusts it, and places it before the raconteur.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000004|He recognizes also at a glance the sort of silly ass who is always losing his indiarubber umbrella ring.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000006|If he is wrong the first time, he never fails to recover with his second.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000007|"Bulger, sir.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000007_000008|One of our greatest soldiers."
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000008_000000|I thought of these things last Monday, and definitely renounced the idea of becoming a grocer; and as I wandered round the bookstall, thinking, I came across a little book, sixpence in cloth, a shilling in leather, called proverbs and Maxims.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000008_000001|It contained some thousands of the best thoughts in all languages, such as have guided men along the path of truth since the beginning of the world, from "What ho, she bumps!" to "Ich dien," and more.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000008_000002|The thought occurred to me that an interesting article might be extracted from it, so I bought the book.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000008_000003|Unfortunately enough I left it in the train before I had time to master it.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000008_000004|I shall be at the bookstall next Monday and I shall have to buy another copy.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000008_000005|That will be all right; you shan't miss it.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000009_000000|But I am wondering now what the bookstall clerk will make of me. A man who keeps on buying proverbs and Maxims.
train-clean-100/7517/100442/7517_100442_000009_000001|Well, as I say, they see life.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty THE SCHOONER
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000004_000000|Marguerite's aching heart stood still.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000004_000001|She felt, more than she heard, the men on the watch preparing for the fight.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000004_000002|Her senses told her that each, with sword in hand, was crouching, ready for the spring.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000006_000000|Marguerite as she heard, felt that her very life was slipping away, as if when that voice drew nearer, when that singer became entrapped . . .
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000012_000000|"Percy, my husband, for God's sake fly!
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000012_000002|Armand! why don't you fire?"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000015_000001|The men had sprung to their feet, there was no need for further silence on their part; the very cliffs echoed the poor, heart broken woman's screams.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000017_000000|"Into it, my men, and let no one escape from that hut alive!"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000019_000000|The door was partially open; one of the soldiers pushed it further, but within all was darkness, the charcoal fire only lighting with a dim, red light the furthest corner of the hut.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000024_000001|Quick, in every direction!"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000028_000000|"But I ordered you just now, when the woman screamed, to rush in and let no one escape."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000030_000000|"You think?--You? . . ." said Chauvelin, almost choking with fury, "and you let them go . . ."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000031_000001|We waited."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000039_000000|"Hush! what was that?"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000040_000000|All three men listened attentively.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000048_000002|He must have remained behind, and was even now hiding somewhere about the cliffs; the patrols were still about, he would still be sighted, no doubt.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000053_000000|"Bring the light in here!" he commanded eagerly, as he once more entered the hut.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000055_000000|"Pick that up," said Chauvelin to the sergeant, pointing to this white scrap, "and bring it to me."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000057_000000|"Read it, sergeant," said the latter curtly.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000061_000002|They know it.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000061_000004|Do not delay-and obey these instructions implicitly."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000063_000000|But the latter had not waited an instant.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000065_000000|"There is a creek in a direct line from the 'Chat Gris'?"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000066_000001|I know it well."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000067_000000|"The Englishman is hoping to reach that creek.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000067_000002|At any rate, there is a chance to get him yet.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000069_000000|Within a few minutes their running footsteps had died away in the distance.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000072_000000|The cleverest woman in Europe, the elegant and fashionable Lady Blakeney, who had dazzled London society with her beauty, her wit and her extravagances, presented a very pathetic picture of tired out, suffering womanhood, which would have appealed to any, but the hard, vengeful heart of her baffled enemy.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000077_000000|"Ah! by the bye! where is the Jew?"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000078_000000|"Close by here, citoyen," said Desgas; "I gagged him and tied his legs together as you commanded."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000080_000000|His face in the silvery light of the moon looked positively ghastly with terror: his eyes were wide open and almost glassy, and his whole body was trembling, as if with ague, while a piteous wail escaped his bloodless lips.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000081_000000|"Bring the cowardly brute here," commanded Chauvelin.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000084_000000|"Answer!" he again commanded, as the Jew with trembling lips seemed too frightened to speak.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000085_000000|"Yes, your Honour," stammered the poor wretch.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000088_000000|"There is no 'but.' I said, do you remember?"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000090_000000|"What was the bargain?"
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000096_000000|A low moan escaped from the Jew's trembling lips.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000097_000000|"But," added Chauvelin, with slow emphasis, "if you deceived me in your promise, you were to have a sound beating, one that would teach you not to tell lies."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000099_000003|Here," he added, turning to the soldiers, "the buckle end of your two belts to this confounded Jew."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000101_000001|But don't kill him," he added drily.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000105_000000|Chauvelin had not given up all hope.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000107_000001|He smiled.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000109_000000|Against a rock, on a hard bed of stone, lay the unconscious figure of Marguerite Blakeney, while some few paces further on, the unfortunate Jew was receiving on his broad back the blows of two stout leather belts, wielded by the stolid arms of two sturdy soldiers of the Republic.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000110_000000|"That will do," commanded Chauvelin, as the Jew's moans became more feeble, and the poor wretch seemed to have fainted away, "we don't want to kill him."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000112_000001|I'll follow."
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000113_000000|He walked up to where Marguerite lay, and looked down into her face.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000116_000001|Her heart was broken with cruel anguish.
train-clean-100/7635/105409/7635_105409_000118_000000|"I, myself," concluded Chauvelin, "must now very reluctantly leave you. AU REVOIR, fair lady.
train-clean-100/7635/105661/7635_105661_000003_000000|HENRY the eighth.
train-clean-100/7635/105661/7635_105661_000009_000003|The supreme head of the church was a foreign potentate, guided by interests always different from those of the community, sometimes contrary to them.
train-clean-100/7635/105661/7635_105661_000011_000001|The ecclesiastical privileges, during barbarous times, had served as a check on the despotism of kings.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000002_000001|He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts ever lavished upon him by fortune.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000002_000002|From his cradle to his grave, a gale of the blandest prosperity bore him along.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000002_000004|I mean it as synonymous with happiness.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000002_000006|In the brief existence of Ellison, I fancy, that I have seen refuted the dogma-that in man's physical and spiritual nature, lies some hidden principle, the antagonist of Bliss.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000003_000002|The ideas of my friend may be summed up in a few words.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000003_000003|He admitted but four unvarying laws, or rather elementary principles, of Bliss.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000003_000004|That which he considered chief, was (strange to say!) the simple and purely physical one of free exercise in the open air.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000003_000005|"The health," he said, "attainable by other means than this is scarcely worth the name." He pointed to the tillers of the earth-the only people who, as a class, are proverbially more happy than others-and then he instanced the high ecstasies of the fox hunter.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000003_000006|His second principle was the love of woman.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000000|I have said that Ellison was remarkable in the continuous profusion of good gifts lavished upon him by Fortune.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000001|In personal grace and beauty he exceeded all men.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000002|His intellect was of that order to which the attainment of knowledge is less a labor than a necessity and an intuition.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000003|His family was one of the most illustrious of the empire.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000004|His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000006|It appears that about one hundred years prior to mr Ellison's attainment of his majority, there had died, in a remote province, one mr Seabright Ellison.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000007|This gentlemen had amassed a princely fortune, and, having no very immediate connexions, conceived the whim of suffering his wealth to accumulate for a century after his decease.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000009|Many futile attempts had been made to set aside this singular bequest; their ex post facto character rendered them abortive; but the attention of a jealous government was aroused, and a decree finally obtained, forbidding all similar accumulations.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000004_000010|This act did not prevent young Ellison, upon his twenty first birth day, from entering into possession, as the heir of his ancestor, Seabright, of a fortune of four hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000000|When it had become definitely known that such was the enormous wealth inherited, there were, of course, many speculations as to the mode of its disposal.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000001|The gigantic magnitude and the immediately available nature of the sum, dazzled and bewildered all who thought upon the topic.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000002|The possessor of any appreciable amount of money might have been imagined to perform any one of a thousand things.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000004|But, for the inconceivable wealth in the actual possession of the young heir, these objects and all ordinary objects were felt to be inadequate.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000005|Recourse was had to figures; and figures but sufficed to confound.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000006|It was seen, that even at three per cent, the annual income of the inheritance amounted to no less than thirteen millions and five hundred thousand dollars; which was one million and one hundred and twenty five thousand per month; or thirty six thousand, nine hundred and eighty six per day, or one thousand five hundred and forty one per hour, or six and twenty dollars for every minute that flew.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000007|Thus the usual track of supposition was thoroughly broken up.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000005_000008|Men knew not what to imagine.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000006_000000|I was not surprised, however, to perceive that he had long made up his mind upon a topic which had occasioned so much of discussion to his friends.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000006_000001|Nor was I greatly astonished at the nature of his decision.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000006_000002|In the widest and noblest sense, he was a poet.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000006_000003|He comprehended, moreover, the true character, the august aims, the supreme majesty and dignity of the poetic sentiment.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000006_000004|The proper gratification of the sentiment he instinctively felt to lie in the creation of novel forms of Beauty.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000006_000006|Or it might have been that he became neither the one nor the other, in pursuance of an idea of his which I have already mentioned-the idea, that in the contempt of ambition lay one of the essential principles of happiness on earth. Is it not, indeed, possible that while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is invariably above that which is termed ambition?
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000007_000000|mr Ellison became neither musician nor poet; although no man lived more profoundly enamored both of Music and the Muse.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000007_000001|Under other circumstances than those which invested him, it is not impossible that he would have become a painter.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000007_000003|And I have now mentioned all the provinces in which even the most liberal understanding of the poetic sentiment has declared this sentiment capable of expatiating.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000000|"Its adaptation to the eyes which were to behold it upon earth." In his explanation of this phraseology, mr Ellison did much towards solving what has always seemed to me an enigma.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000001|I mean the fact (which none but the ignorant dispute,) that no such combinations of scenery exist in Nature as the painter of genius has in his power to produce.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000002|No such Paradises are to be found in reality as have glowed upon the canvass of Claude.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000003|In the most enchanting of natural landscapes, there will always be found a defect or an excess-many excesses and defects.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000004|While the component parts may exceed, individually, the highest skill of the artist, the arrangement of the parts will always be susceptible of improvement.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000006|In all other matters we are justly instructed to regard Nature as supreme.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000007|With her details we shrink from competition.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000010|No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000011|Byron, who often erred, erred not in saying, I've seen more living beauty, ripe and real, than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000013|Having, I say, felt its truth here.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000015|The mathematics afford no more absolute demonstrations, than the sentiment of his Art yields to the artist.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000017|Yet his reasons have not yet been matured into expression.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000018|It remains for a more profound analysis than the world has yet seen, fully to investigate and express them.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000020|Let a composition be defective, let an emendation be wrought in its mere arrangement of form; let this emendation be submitted to every artist in the world; by each will its necessity be admitted.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000008_000021|And even far more than this, in remedy of the defective composition, each insulated member of the fraternity will suggest the identical emendation.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000009_000001|It was mr Ellison who first suggested the idea that what we regarded as improvement or exaltation of the natural beauty, was really such, as respected only the mortal or human point of view; that each alteration or disturbance of the primitive scenery might possibly effect a blemish in the picture, if we could suppose this picture viewed at large from some remote point in the heavens.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000010_000000|In the course of our discussion, my young friend took occasion to quote some passages from a writer who has been supposed to have well treated this theme.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000000|"There are, properly," he writes, "but two styles of landscape gardening, the natural and the artificial.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000001|One seeks to recall the original beauty of the country, by adapting its means to the surrounding scenery; cultivating trees in harmony with the hills or plain of the neighboring land; detecting and bringing into practice those nice relations of size, proportion and color which, hid from the common observer, are revealed everywhere to the experienced student of nature.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000002|The result of the natural style of gardening, is seen rather in the absence of all defects and incongruities-in the prevalence of a beautiful harmony and order, than in the creation of any special wonders or miracles.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000003|The artificial style has as many varieties as there are different tastes to gratify.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000005|There are the stately avenues and retirements of Versailles; Italian terraces; and a various mixed old English style, which bears some relation to the domestic Gothic or English Elizabethan architecture.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000007|This is partly pleasing to the eye, by the show of order and design, and partly moral.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000008|A terrace, with an old moss covered balustrade, calls up at once to the eye, the fair forms that have passed there in other days.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000011_000009|The slightest exhibition of art is an evidence of care and human interest."
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000000|"From what I have already observed," said mr Ellison, "you will understand that I reject the idea, here expressed, of 'recalling the original beauty of the country.' The original beauty is never so great as that which may be introduced.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000001|Of course, much depends upon the selection of a spot with capabilities.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000003|That the true 'result of the natural style of gardening is seen rather in the absence of all defects and incongruities, than in the creation of any special wonders or miracles,' is a proposition better suited to the grovelling apprehension of the herd, than to the fervid dreams of the man of genius.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000004|The merit suggested is, at best, negative, and appertains to that hobbling criticism which, in letters, would elevate Addison into apotheosis.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000005|In truth, while that merit which consists in the mere avoiding demerit, appeals directly to the understanding, and can thus be foreshadowed in Rule, the loftier merit, which breathes and flames in invention or creation, can be apprehended solely in its results.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000006|Rule applies but to the excellences of avoidance-to the virtues which deny or refrain.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000007|Beyond these the critical art can but suggest.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000012_000010|The sophists of the negative school, who, through inability to create, have scoffed at creation, are now found the loudest in applause.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000013_000001|'A mixture of pure art in a garden scene, adds to it a great beauty.' This is just; and the reference to the sense of human interest is equally so.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000013_000002|I repeat that the principle here expressed, is incontrovertible; but there may be something even beyond it.
train-clean-100/7780/274562/7780_274562_000013_000005|In the most rugged of wildernesses-in the most savage of the scenes of pure Nature-there is apparent the art of a Creator; yet is this art apparent only to reflection; in no respect has it the obvious force of a feeling.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000005_000000|The two friends were looking on all the while, and one of them, raising his voice, shouted out, "Hallo! you boys! what are you doing with that fox?"
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000006_000000|The eldest of the boys replied, "We're going to take him home and sell him to a young man in our village.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000006_000001|He'll buy him, and then he'll boil him in a pot and eat him."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000007_000000|"Well," replied the other, after considering the matter attentively, "I suppose it's all the same to you whom you sell him to.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000012_000000|"Oh, we'll sell him for that, sir.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000012_000001|How shall we hand him over to you?"
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000014_000000|The man's friend, upon this, said to him: "Well, certainly you have got queer tastes.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000014_000001|What on earth are you going to keep the fox for?"
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000015_000000|"How very unkind of you to speak of my tastes like that.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000015_000001|If we had not interfered just now, the fox's cub would have lost its life.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000015_000003|How could I stand by and see life taken?
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000015_000005|I thought you were intimate enough with me to know my heart; but to day you have accused me of being eccentric, and I see how mistaken I have been in you.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000015_000006|However, our friendship shall cease from this day forth."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000017_000002|I thought that you might wish to use the cub as a sort of decoy to lead the old ones to you, that you might pray them to bring prosperity and virtue to your house.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000017_000003|When I called you eccentric just now, I was but trying your heart, because I had some suspicions of you; and now I am truly ashamed of myself."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000018_000000|And as he spoke, still bowing, the other replied: "Really! was that indeed your thought?
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000020_000000|"Look there!
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000020_000001|the old foxes have come back, out of fear for their cub's safety.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000020_000002|Come, we will set it free!" And with these words they untied the string round the cub's neck, and turned its head toward the spot where the old foxes sat; and as the wounded foot was no longer painful, with one bound it dashed to its parents' side and licked them all over for joy, while they seemed to bow their thanks, looking toward the two friends.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000021_000001|He was married, and this union had brought him one son, who had reached his tenth year, but had been attacked by a strange disease which defied all the physicians' skill and drugs.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000021_000002|At last a famous physician prescribed the liver taken from a live fox, which, as he said, would certainly effect a cure.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000021_000003|If that were not forthcoming, the most expensive medicine in the world would not restore the boy to health.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000021_000004|When the parents heard this, they were at their wits' end.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000021_000005|However, they told the state of the case to a man who lived on the mountains.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000021_000007|We don't care what price we might have to pay for a fox's liver; pray, buy one for us at any expense." So they pressed him to exert himself on their behalf; and he, having promised faithfully to execute the commission, went his way.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000022_000000|In the night of the following day there came a messenger, who announced himself as coming from the person who had undertaken to procure the fox's liver; so the master of the house went out to see him.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000023_000001|Last night the fox's liver that you required fell into his hands; so he sent me to bring it to you." With these words the messenger produced a small jar, adding, "In a few days he will let you know the price."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000024_000000|When he had delivered his message, the master of the house was greatly pleased and said, "Indeed, I am deeply grateful for this kindness, which will save my son's life."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000026_000000|"We must make a present to the messenger."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000027_000000|"Indeed, sir, I've already been paid for my trouble."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000028_000000|"Well, at any rate, you must stop the night here."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000029_000000|"Thank you, sir: I've a relation in the next village whom I have not seen for a long while, and I will pass the night with him;" and so he took his leave, and went away.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000030_000000|The parents lost no time in sending to let the physician know that they had procured the fox's liver.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000030_000001|The next day the doctor came and compounded a medicine for the patient, which at once produced a good effect, and there was no little joy in the household.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000031_000001|The doctor prepared the medicine, and now our boy can get up and walk about the room; and it's all owing to your goodness."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000032_000000|"Wait a bit!" cried the guest, who did not know what to make of the joy of the two parents.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000032_000001|"The commission with which you entrusted me about the fox's liver turned out to be a matter of impossibility, so I came to day to make my excuses; and now I really can't understand what you are so grateful to me for."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000034_000000|"I really am perfectly unaware of having sent you a fox's liver: there must be some mistake here.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000034_000001|Pray inquire carefully into the matter."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000035_000000|"Well, this is very strange.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000037_000001|Last spring, when I was taking out my cub to play, it was carried off by some boys, and only saved by your goodness.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000037_000002|The desire to requite this kindness pierced me to the quick.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000037_000003|At last, when calamity attacked your house, I thought I might be of use to you.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000037_000004|Your son's illness could not be cured without a liver taken from a live fox, so to repay your kindness I killed my cub and took out its liver; then its sire, disguising himself as a messenger, brought it to your house."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000038_000000|And as she spoke, the fox shed tears; and the master of the house, wishing to thank her, moved in bed, upon which his wife awoke and asked him what was the matter; but he too, to her great astonishment, was biting the pillow and weeping bitterly.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000040_000000|At last he sat up in bed and said: "Last spring, when I was out on a pleasure excursion, I was the means of saving the life of a fox's cub, as I told you at the time.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000040_000001|The other day I told mr So and so that, although my son were to die before my eyes, I would not be the means of killing a fox on purpose, but asked him, in case he heard of any hunter killing a fox, to buy it for me.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000040_000002|How the foxes came to hear of this I don't know; but the foxes to whom I had shown kindness killed their own cub and took out the liver; and the old dog fox, disguising himself as a messenger from the person to whom we had confided the commission, came here with it.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000040_000004|Hence it was that, in spite of myself, I was moved to tears."
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000044_000001|The affairs of the Buddhist or imported religion are under the care of the family of Kanjuji.
train-clean-100/7794/295947/7794_295947_000045_000000|The saints who are alluded to above are the saints of the whole country, as distinct from those who for special deeds are locally worshipped.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000002_000000|It is a common saying among men that to forget favours received is the part of a bird or a beast: an ungrateful man will be ill spoken of by all the world.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000002_000001|And yet even birds and beasts will show gratitude; so that a man who does not requite a favour is worse even than dumb brutes. Is not this a disgrace?
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000003_000001|He had not even a child to wait upon him, but prepared his food with his own hands.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000003_000003|Although the fame of his virtue did not reach far, yet his neighbours respected and revered him, and often brought him food and raiment; and when his roof or his walls fell out of repair, they would mend them for him; so for the things of this world he took no thought.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000005_000001|I pray you to let me enter and warm myself at the fire of your cottage, that I may live through this bitter night."
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000006_000000|When the priest heard what a helpless state the beast was reduced to, he was filled with pity and said:
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000007_000000|"That's a very slight matter: make haste and come in and warm yourself."
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000008_000000|The badger, delighted with so good a reception, went into the hut, and squatting down by the fire began to warm itself; and the priest, with renewed fervour, recited his prayers and struck his bell before the image of Buddha, looking straight before him.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000009_000000|After two hours the badger took its leave, with profuse expressions of thanks, and went out; and from that time forth it came every night to the hut.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000009_000001|As the badger would collect and bring with it dried branches and dead leaves from the hills for firewood, the priest at last became very friendly with it, and got used to its company; so that if ever, as the night wore on, the badger did not arrive, he used to miss it, and wonder why it did not come.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000009_000003|When this practice had gone on for ten years, one day the badger said to the priest, "Through your reverence's kindness for all these years, I have been able to pass the winter nights in comfort.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000009_000004|Your favours are such that during all my life, and even after my death, I must remember them.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000009_000005|What can I do to requite them?
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000009_000006|If there is anything that you wish for, pray tell me."
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000010_000004|Food and raiment I receive by the favour of the villagers, so I take no heed for those things.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000010_000007|Yet I would not get this money by violent or unlawful means; I only think of what might be if I had it.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000010_000008|So you see, since you have expressed such kind feelings toward me, I have told you what is on my mind." When the priest had done speaking, the badger leant its head on one side with a puzzled and anxious look, so much so that the old man was sorry he had expressed a wish which seemed to give the beast trouble, and tried to retract what he had said.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000010_000010|I, who am a priest, ought not to entertain such thoughts, or to want money; so pray pay no attention to what I have said;" and the badger, feigning assent to what the priest had impressed upon it, returned to the hills as usual.
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000012_000000|After three years had gone by, one night the old man heard a voice near his door calling out, "Your reverence! your reverence!"
train-clean-100/7794/295948/7794_295948_000017_000000|"Indeed," replied the priest, "I cannot choose but tell this story.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000001|One day the eldest son went out hunting, and, when he got outside the town, up sprang a hare out of a bush, and he after it, and hither and thither, till the hare fled into a water mill, and the prince after it.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000002|But it was not a hare, but a dragon, and it waited for the prince and devoured him.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000003|When several days had elapsed and the prince did not return home, people began to wonder why it was that he was not to be found.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000004|Then the middle son went hunting, and as he issued from the town, a hare sprang out of a bush, and the prince after it, and hither and thither, till the hare fled into the water mill and the prince after it; but it was not a hare, but a dragon, which waited for and devoured him.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000007|When he issued from the town, again up sprang a hare out of a bush, and the prince after it, and hither and thither, till the hare fled into the water mill.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000008|But the prince did not choose to follow it, but went to find other game, saying to himself: "When I return I shall find you." After thus he went for a long time up and down the hill, but found nothing, and then returned to the water mill; but when he got there, there was only an old woman in the mill.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000009|The prince invoked God in addressing her: "God help you, old woman!"
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000010|The old woman replied: "God help you, my son!"
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000011|Then the prince asked her: "Where, old woman, is my hare?" She replied: "My son, that was not a hare, but a dragon.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000012|It kills and throttles many people." Hearing this, the prince was somewhat disturbed, and said to the old woman: "What shall we do now?
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000013|Doubtless my two brothers also have perished here." The old woman answered: "They have indeed; but there's no help for it.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000014|Go home, my son, lest you follow them." Then he said to her: "Dear old woman, do you know what?
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000015|I know that you will be glad to liberate yourself from that pest." The old woman interrupted him: "How should I not?
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000016|It captured me, too, in this way, but now I have no means of escape." Then he proceeded: "Listen well to what I am going to say to you.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000017|Ask it whither it goes and where its strength is; then kiss all that place where it tells you its strength is, as if from love, till you ascertain it, and afterward tell me when I come." Then the prince went off to the palace, and the old woman remained in the water mill.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000018|When the dragon came in, the old woman began to question it: "Where in God's name have you been?
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000019|Whither do you go so far?
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000020|You will never tell me whither you go." The dragon replied: "Well, my dear old woman, I do go far." Then the old woman began to coax it: "And why do you go so far?
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000021|Tell me where your strength is.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000023|The dragon began to give an account in detail: "My strength is a long way off, and you cannot go thither.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000025|Then he left his home, and disguised himself; he put shepherd's boots to his feet, took a shepherd's staff in his hand, and went into the world.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000027|On going into the town he began to inquire who wanted a shepherd.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000028|The citizens told him that the emperor did.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000029|Then he went straight to the emperor.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000030|After he announced himself, the emperor admitted him into his presence, and asked him: "Do you wish to keep sheep?"
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000031|He replied: "I do, illustrious crown!" Then the emperor engaged him, and began to inform and instruct him: "There is here a lake, and alongside of the lake very beautiful pasture, and when you call the sheep out, they go thither at once, and spread themselves round the lake; but whatever shepherd goes off there, that shepherd returns back no more.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000036|When he arrived at the town, the whole town assembled as to see a wondrous sight because he had come, whereas previously no shepherd had been able to come from the lake.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000037|The next day the prince got ready again, and went with his sheep straight to the lake.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000038|But the emperor sent two grooms after him to go stealthily and see what he did, and they placed themselves on a high hill whence they could have a good view.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000041|But when the afternoon heat came on, the dragon said: "Let me go, prince, that I may moisten my parched head in the lake, and may toss you to the sky." The prince replied: "Come, dragon, don't talk nonsense; if I had the emperor's daughter to kiss me on the forehead, I would toss you still higher." Thereupon the dragon suddenly left hold of him, and went off into the lake.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000045|"But," said he, "to morrow you must go with the shepherd to the lake and kiss him on the forehead." When she heard this she burst into tears and began to entreat her father.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000002_000047|I assure you, in God's name, that he is able to overcome the dragon, only go to morrow with him to see whether he will free us from this mischief which has destroyed so many people."
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000000|When, on the morrow, the day dawned and the sun came forth, up rose the shepherd, up rose the maiden too, to begin to prepare for going to the lake.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000001|The shepherd was cheerful, more cheerful than ever, but the emperor's daughter was sad and shed tears.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000002|The shepherd comforted her: "Lady sister, I pray you, do not weep, but do what I tell you.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000004|Come out to single combat with me; let us measure ourselves once more, unless you're a woman!" The dragon replied: "I will, prince; now, now!" Erelong, there was the dragon! it was huge, it was terrible, it was disgusting! When it came out, they seized each other by the middle, and wrestled a summer's day till afternoon.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000006|Then he swung the dragon, and tossed it high into the air, and when it fell to the ground it burst into pieces.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000007|But as it burst into pieces, out of it sprang a wild boar, and started to run away.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000008|But the prince shouted to his shepherd dogs: "Hold it!
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000009|don't let it go!" and the dogs sprang up and after it, caught it, and soon tore it to pieces. But out of the boar flew a pigeon, and the prince loosed the falcon, and the falcon caught the pigeon and brought it into the prince's hands.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000010|The prince said to it: "Tell me now, where are my brothers?"
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000003_000013|Cut these three wands up from below, and strike with them upon their root; an iron door will immediately open into a large vault. In that vault are many people, old and young, rich and poor, small and great, wives and maidens, so that you could settle a populous empire; there, too, are your brothers." When the pigeon had told him all this, the prince immediately wrung its neck.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000004_000001|After the shepherd had thus obtained the dragon's head, twilight began to approach.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000004_000002|He washed himself nicely, took the falcon on his shoulder, the hounds behind him, and the bagpipes under his arm, played as he went, drove the sheep, and proceeded to the emperor's palace, with the damsel at his side still in terror.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000004_000007|When they were in the neighbourhood of the water mill, the prince halted his attendants, went inside, cut up the three wands, and struck the root with them, and the iron door opened at once.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000004_000008|In the vault was a vast multitude of people.
train-clean-100/7794/295955/7794_295955_000004_000009|The prince ordered them to come out one by one, and go whither each would, and stood himself at the door.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000000_000000|Chapter twenty three
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000001_000000|It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000002_000000|The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000002_000001|The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000003_000000|I had been calm during the day, but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects, a thousand fears arose in my mind.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000003_000001|I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000003_000003|What is it you fear?"
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000001|But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000002|It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000003|As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000005|Great God!
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000006|Why did I not then expire!
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000008|She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000009|Everywhere I turn I see the same figure-her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000011|Alas!
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000012|Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000006_000013|For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000007_000000|When I recovered I found myself surrounded by the people of the inn; their countenances expressed a breathless terror, but the horror of others appeared only as a mockery, a shadow of the feelings that oppressed me.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000007_000005|While I still hung over her in the agony of despair, I happened to look up.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000007_000006|The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000007_000008|A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000008_000000|The report of the pistol brought a crowd into the room.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000008_000003|After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000009_000001|In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened; my eyes wandered round the room as if to seek something that I had lost.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000010_000002|I was bewildered, in a cloud of wonder and horror.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000000|There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in torrents.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000001|However, it was hardly morning, and I might reasonably hope to arrive by night.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000005|If I looked up, I saw scenes which were familiar to me in my happier time and which I had contemplated but the day before in the company of her who was now but a shadow and a recollection.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000006|Tears streamed from my eyes.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000008|Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000010|A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000011|But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event?
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000013|Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left desolate.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000014|My own strength is exhausted, and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000015|I arrived at Geneva.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000011_000016|My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000012_000000|What then became of me?
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000012_000001|I know not; I lost sensation, and chains and darkness were the only objects that pressed upon me.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000012_000003|Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation and was then released from my prison.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000012_000004|For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000014_000001|The magistrate listened to me with attention and kindness.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000016_000002|The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood." My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000016_000003|I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000017_000000|The magistrate appeared at first perfectly incredulous, but as I continued he became more attentive and interested; I saw him sometimes shudder with horror; at others a lively surprise, unmingled with disbelief, was painted on his countenance.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000017_000001|When I had concluded my narration I said, "This is the being whom I accuse and for whose seizure and punishment I call upon you to exert your whole power.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000017_000004|He, however, answered mildly, "I would willingly afford you every aid in your pursuit, but the creature of whom you speak appears to have powers which would put all my exertions to defiance.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000017_000005|Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude?
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000018_000000|"I do not doubt that he hovers near the spot which I inhabit, and if he has indeed taken refuge in the Alps, he may be hunted like the chamois and destroyed as a beast of prey.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000018_000001|But I perceive your thoughts; you do not credit my narrative and do not intend to pursue my enemy with the punishment which is his desert." As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the magistrate was intimidated.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000018_000002|"You are mistaken," said he.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000018_000003|"I will exert myself, and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000019_000000|"That cannot be; but all that I can say will be of little avail.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000019_000002|My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000020_000001|But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000020_000002|He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.
train-clean-100/78/368/78_368_000021_000001|Cease; you know not what it is you say."
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000003_000000|Chapter twenty four
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000004_000000|My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000005_000000|My first resolution was to quit Geneva forever; my country, which, when I was happy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adversity, became hateful.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000006_000002|As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father reposed.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000006_000003|I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000006_000004|Everything was silent except the leaves of the trees, which were gently agitated by the wind; the night was nearly dark, and the scene would have been solemn and affecting even to an uninterested observer.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000007_000000|The deep grief which this scene had at first excited quickly gave way to rage and despair.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000007_000003|For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000008_000003|You have determined to live, and I am satisfied."
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000009_000000|I darted towards the spot from which the sound proceeded, but the devil eluded my grasp.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000009_000001|Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000010_000000|I pursued him, and for many months this has been my task.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000011_000001|Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000011_000002|The snows descended on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000011_000003|To you first entering on life, to whom care is new and agony unknown, how can you understand what I have felt and still feel?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000012_000000|I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the daemon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000012_000001|In other places human beings were seldom seen, and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my path.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000000|My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000001|O blessed sleep!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000003|Deprived of this respite, I should have sunk under my hardships.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000004|During the day I was sustained and inspirited by the hope of night, for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved country; again I saw the benevolent countenance of my father, heard the silver tones of my Elizabeth's voice, and beheld Clerval enjoying health and youth.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000005|Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000006|What agonizing fondness did I feel for them!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000008|At such moments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the daemon more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000009|What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000010|Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated my fury.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000011|"My reign is not yet over"--these words were legible in one of these inscriptions-"you live, and my power is complete.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000013_000012|Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000014_000000|Scoffing devil!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000014_000002|Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000015_000000|As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000015_000002|The rivers were covered with ice, and no fish could be procured; and thus I was cut off from my chief article of maintenance.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000015_000004|One inscription that he left was in these words: "Prepare!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000015_000005|Your toils only begin; wrap yourself in furs and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred."
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000016_000000|My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000016_000002|How unlike it was to the blue seasons of the south!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000016_000003|Covered with ice, it was only to be distinguished from land by its superior wildness and ruggedness.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000016_000004|The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000016_000005|I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000017_000000|Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000017_000001|I know not whether the fiend possessed the same advantages, but I found that, as before I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day's journey in advance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000017_000002|With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000017_000003|I inquired of the inhabitants concerning the fiend and gained accurate information.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000017_000004|A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000020_000001|Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000020_000002|Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000021_000000|But this was not the time for delay; I disencumbered the dogs of their dead companion, gave them a plentiful portion of food, and after an hour's rest, which was absolutely necessary, and yet which was bitterly irksome to me, I continued my route.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000022_000002|I pressed on, but in vain.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000022_000006|I had no conception that vessels ever came so far north and was astounded at the sight.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000022_000007|I quickly destroyed part of my sledge to construct oars, and by these means was enabled, with infinite fatigue, to move my ice raft in the direction of your ship.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000022_000009|I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pursue my enemy.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000022_000011|You took me on board when my vigour was exhausted, and I should soon have sunk under my multiplied hardships into a death which I still dread, for my task is unfulfilled.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000023_000000|Oh!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000023_000002|If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000023_000003|And do I dare to ask of you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone? No; I am not so selfish.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000023_000006|His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend like malice.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000024_000000|Walton, in continuation.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000026_000000|You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000026_000001|Sometimes, seized with sudden agony, he could not continue his tale; at others, his voice broken, yet piercing, uttered with difficulty the words so replete with anguish.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000027_000003|Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000027_000005|"Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000027_000007|Peace, peace!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000027_000009|"Since you have preserved my narration," said he, "I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity."
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000028_000000|Thus has a week passed away, while I have listened to the strangest tale that ever imagination formed.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000028_000004|The only joy that he can now know will be when he composes his shattered spirit to peace and death.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000029_000000|Our conversations are not always confined to his own history and misfortunes.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000029_000001|On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000029_000002|His eloquence is forcible and touching; nor can I hear him, when he relates a pathetic incident or endeavours to move the passions of pity or love, without tears.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000029_000004|He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000030_000000|"When younger," said he, "I believed myself destined for some great enterprise.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000030_000001|My feelings are profound, but I possessed a coolness of judgment that fitted me for illustrious achievements.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000030_000006|Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000030_000007|I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000030_000009|Oh!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000030_000011|I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000031_000002|Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000031_000004|A sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shown early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be contemplated with suspicion.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000032_000000|september second
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000033_000000|My beloved Sister,
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000034_000001|I am surrounded by mountains of ice which admit of no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000034_000003|There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000035_000000|And what, Margaret, will be the state of your mind?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000035_000002|Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair and yet be tortured by hope.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000035_000003|Oh!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000035_000004|My beloved sister, the sickening failing of your heart felt expectations is, in prospect, more terrible to me than my own death.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000036_000000|But you have a husband and lovely children; you may be happy.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000036_000001|Heaven bless you and make you so!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000037_000000|My unfortunate guest regards me with the tenderest compassion.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000037_000001|He endeavours to fill me with hope and talks as if life were a possession which he valued.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000037_000004|These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000038_000000|september fifth
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000039_000000|A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000040_000000|We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000040_000002|Frankenstein has daily declined in health; a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes, but he is exhausted, and when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000041_000000|I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny. This morning, as I sat watching the wan countenance of my friend-his eyes half closed and his limbs hanging listlessly-I was roused by half a dozen of the sailors, who demanded admission into the cabin.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000041_000001|They entered, and their leader addressed me.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000041_000003|They insisted, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise that if the vessel should be freed I would instantly direct my course southwards.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000042_000001|I had not despaired, nor had I yet conceived the idea of returning if set free.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000042_000003|I hesitated before I answered, when Frankenstein, who had at first been silent, and indeed appeared hardly to have force enough to attend, now roused himself; his eyes sparkled, and his cheeks flushed with momentary vigour.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000042_000006|Are you, then, so easily turned from your design?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000042_000007|Did you not call this a glorious expedition?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000043_000001|Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000043_000006|Oh!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000043_000008|Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000043_000009|This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000043_000010|Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000043_000013|I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if they strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000044_000001|Yet I fear such will be my fate; the men, unsupported by ideas of glory and honour, can never willingly continue to endure their present hardships.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000045_000000|september seventh
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000046_000000|The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000047_000000|september twelfth
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000048_000000|It is past; I am returning to England.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000048_000001|I have lost my hopes of utility and glory; I have lost my friend.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000049_000000|september ninth, the ice began to move, and roarings like thunder were heard at a distance as the islands split and cracked in every direction.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000049_000004|Frankenstein, who was dozing, awoke and asked the cause of the tumult.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000049_000005|"They shout," I said, "because they will soon return to England."
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000050_000000|"Do you, then, really return?"
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000052_000002|I am weak, but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength." Saying this, he endeavoured to spring from the bed, but the exertion was too great for him; he fell back and fainted.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000053_000003|In the meantime he told me that my friend had certainly not many hours to live.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000054_000000|His sentence was pronounced, and I could only grieve and be patient.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000054_000001|I sat by his bed, watching him; his eyes were closed, and I thought he slept; but presently he called to me in a feeble voice, and bidding me come near, said, "Alas!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000054_000004|In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000055_000001|My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000055_000005|When actuated by selfish and vicious motives, I asked you to undertake my unfinished work, and I renew this request now, when I am only induced by reason and virtue.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000056_000001|But the consideration of these points, and the well balancing of what you may esteem your duties, I leave to you; my judgment and ideas are already disturbed by the near approach of death.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000056_000002|I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be misled by passion.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000057_000000|"That he should live to be an instrument of mischief disturbs me; in other respects, this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, is the only happy one which I have enjoyed for several years.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000057_000002|Farewell, Walton!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000058_000000|His voice became fainter as he spoke, and at length, exhausted by his effort, he sank into silence.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000058_000001|About half an hour afterwards he attempted again to speak but was unable; he pressed my hand feebly, and his eyes closed forever, while the irradiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000059_000000|Margaret, what comment can I make on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000059_000001|What can I say that will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000059_000002|All that I should express would be inadequate and feeble.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000059_000004|But I journey towards England, and I may there find consolation.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000060_000000|I am interrupted.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000060_000001|What do these sounds portend?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000060_000002|It is midnight; the breeze blows fairly, and the watch on deck scarcely stir.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000060_000003|Again there is a sound as of a human voice, but hoarser; it comes from the cabin where the remains of Frankenstein still lie.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000060_000004|I must arise and examine. Good night, my sister.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000061_000000|Great God! what a scene has just taken place!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000061_000002|I hardly know whether I shall have the power to detail it; yet the tale which I have recorded would be incomplete without this final and wonderful catastrophe.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000061_000004|Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe-gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000061_000005|As he hung over the coffin, his face was concealed by long locks of ragged hair; but one vast hand was extended, in colour and apparent texture like that of a mummy.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000061_000006|When he heard the sound of my approach, he ceased to utter exclamations of grief and horror and sprung towards the window.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000061_000008|I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000063_000003|What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000063_000008|I attempted to speak, but the words died away on my lips.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000063_000009|The monster continued to utter wild and incoherent self reproaches.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000063_000010|At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000064_000000|"Your repentance," I said, "is now superfluous.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000065_000000|"And do you dream?" said the daemon.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000065_000001|"Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000065_000002|He," he continued, pointing to the corpse, "he suffered not in the consummation of the deed.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000065_000003|Oh!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000000|"After the murder of Clerval I returned to Switzerland, heart broken and overcome.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000001|I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror; I abhorred myself.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000003|I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000006|Nay, then I was not miserable.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000008|Evil thenceforth became my good.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000009|Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000066_000010|The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000067_000001|"Wretch!" I said.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000067_000002|"It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000067_000003|You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000067_000004|Hypocritical fiend!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000000|"Oh, it is not thus-not thus," interrupted the being.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000001|"Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000002|Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000003|No sympathy may I ever find.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000004|When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000005|But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000006|I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000007|Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000008|I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000068_000010|No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000069_000000|"You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000069_000002|For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000069_000003|They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000069_000004|Was there no injustice in this?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000069_000010|Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000070_000000|"But it is true that I am a wretch.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000070_000001|I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000071_000001|You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000072_000001|My work is nearly complete.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000072_000002|Neither yours nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000072_000003|Do not think that I shall be slow to perform this sacrifice.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000072_000005|I shall die.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000073_000001|Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000073_000002|Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000074_000000|"Farewell!
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000074_000003|If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000075_000002|I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
train-clean-100/78/369/78_369_000075_000004|My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000002_000000|A BROKEN WINDOW, AND GLORIOUS NEWS
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000003_000001|Look who's coming out of the house on the rampage, will you!" cried Bluff Masters, as the front door was flung open and an excited man hurried down the steps toward the spot where the four chums stood breathing hard after their recent exertions.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000005_000001|"Here are lots of witnesses to prove it came from the other side."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000006_000000|"Little he'll care about that," Bluff told him.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000006_000001|"He must have seen us in the fight, and that settles it.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000006_000002|Frank, you talk with him.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000007_000001|Upon Frank's shoulders was laid the burden of extricating them from numerous mishaps.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000007_000002|But Frank rather liked being made the scapegoat; he certainly faced the angry old miser of Centerville without showing a sign of alarm.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000008_000000|"Now you've gone and done it, you young rapscallions!" cried Isaac Chase, so excited that he could hardly control his trembling voice.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000010_000000|Bluff rubbed the side of his head at seeing this, as though wondering whether the missile that had struck him there had also been loaded in that way.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000011_000000|"We're sorry, mr Chase, that your window was broken," said Frank steadily; "it was an accident, I give you my word about that.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000011_000001|I happened to dodge a ball fired from the other side, and it went through the glass."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000012_000000|"What!
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000012_000001|You here in this rowdy business, Frank Langdon!" exclaimed the other, as though more than surprised.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000013_000000|"As to that, mr Chase, I will tell my father all about it as soon as he comes home from the bank.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000013_000002|My father was a boy himself once, not like some people who forget that they once used to play themselves."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000014_000000|"Don't be impudent to me, boy!" snapped the old miser angrily.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000015_000001|I'm sure that is all you could expect from us."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000016_000000|"That's a measly shame, Frank!" objected Bluff impetuously.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000017_000001|"You only ducked, Frank, when you saw it headed your way.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000017_000003|It isn't fair for you to pay the bill.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000017_000004|Let him go after Andy."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000018_000000|"No, I prefer settling the account myself, and not having any trouble about it," Frank told his objecting chums.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000018_000001|"Besides, we've had enough fun out of the business to stand a little expense like that.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000018_000002|The innocent often have to suffer for the guilty."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000019_000000|Some of the bystanders at this point tried to convince mr Chase that Frank was entirely innocent of the whole transaction; but the miser, acting on the principle that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," declined to let the generous offer Frank had made slip from his grasp.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000020_000001|I shall expect him to fulfill his offer, which you heard him make, mr Jenkins and mr Mole.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000020_000002|The sooner that window pane is replaced the better I shall be pleased.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000020_000003|That's enough."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000021_000000|With that he turned his back upon the group and hurried to reenter his house, as though fearful lest some of the spectators might endeavor to shame him out of accepting pay from an innocent party.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000022_000000|Frank and his three comrades stood talking with some of those who had gathered when the crash of broken glass, followed by angry words in the high pitched voice of the miser, drew attention to the scene of action.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000023_000000|"Come, let's be moving along, fellows," Bluff finally remarked.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000023_000001|It galled him to think they had been made the scapegoats by Andy Lasher and his set, though he knew only too well that once Frank's mind was made up to pay for the broken window nothing could change him.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000025_000000|"I expect to have a good many orders like that, Frank, before the day is over," remarked the dealer, laughingly.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000025_000002|A ball went wide of the mark, did it, and picked out the window of Miser Chase's house to smash?"
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000026_000000|"But the trouble is, none of us threw it!" burst out Jerry, determined that the true facts should be known at any rate, even if they did have to foot the bill.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000026_000001|"Andy Lasher hid a stone in his last ball, and expected to do Frank damage, for he shied it straight at his head; but Frank dodged, and bang went the glass!"
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000027_000001|But then Frank says we were in the crowd that was fighting, and it wasn't fair that mr Chase, who was an innocent party, should suffer from our fun.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000027_000002|So I reckon we'll have to put our hands in our pockets and pay your bill, mr Benchley."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000028_000000|The hardware man nodded his head.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000028_000001|There was a twinkle in his eye as he observed Frank Langdon.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000028_000002|He knew the sort of reputation Frank had in Centerville, although the latter had not been a resident there much more than three years, having come from away off in Maine at the time his father took the local bank over.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000029_000000|"Believe me, I'll let you boys off as lightly as I can, and not lose by it," was what he told them.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000029_000001|"I like the manly way you stand up and take hard knocks.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000029_000002|If I had a boy, I'd want him to be just your style, Frank."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000030_000000|As the four chums went away, Jerry chuckled.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000031_000000|"That was as neat a compliment as you ever had paid you, Frank, do you know it?" he asked the other.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000032_000000|Frank smiled, but he did not look displeased.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000033_000000|"I'm glad mr Benchley has such a good opinion of the outdoor chums," he remarked, "for he meant every one of you, as well as me, when he said that.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000034_000000|"That's so," Bluff declared sturdily, "and we've had lots of dandy vacations in the past, too.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000034_000001|What's bothering me is where we ought to go to spend this unexpected time that's been given to us through the fire at the college."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000035_000000|"We'll figure all that out in a day or so, never fear," Will observed.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000036_000000|"Yes," added Jerry, "leave it to Frank, and he'll arrange the details. Chances are we'll be dropping in to see how old Jesse Wilcox is getting on with his muskrat trapping.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000036_000001|I think I'd enjoy another turn up there in the woods."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000037_000001|Just the thought of it gives me a warm feeling around my heart."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000038_000000|"Same here," Bluff told him cheerfully; "I never feel happier than when I smell the woods and get on the trail of game.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000038_000001|That glorious spell we had out on mr Mabie's ranch among the Rockies has haunted me ever since."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000039_000000|They talked it over as they sauntered in the direction of their homes. It happened that Will Milton's house was the first they came to.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000040_000000|"I saw the postman come out of our gate," Will commented.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000040_000001|"I wonder if he brought Uncle Felix the letter he's been expecting for some days. You see, he's got a bad attack of rheumatism; yet he says he must try to get away Down East on some very important business.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000040_000002|Between you and me, he never will be able to do it for days or weeks, he's that doubled up."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000041_000000|"Run in, if you feel like it, Will," Frank told him.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000041_000001|"We'll wait out here for you."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000042_000000|"Yes," added Jerry, as if it might be an afterthought, "and while you're about it, Will, just mention to Uncle Felix that there are four husky boys around, with considerable time to burn just now, and if he wants anybody to take that trip for him we might be coaxed into doing it, if he'd stand for expenses."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000043_000000|At that all of them laughed, as though they considered it a joke.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000043_000001|Will left them shying a few snowballs at a tin can Bluff had set on a fence post.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000045_000000|"Oh, well, I noticed a lot of dodging being done," commented Frank; "and only for that all of us might have made more bull's eyes."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000046_000001|"A hard snowball can sting like fun when it catches you there."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000047_000000|"Yes, look at my right cheek, if you want to prove that," Bluff advised them.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000047_000001|"I got caught there, and it keeps on burning like a hot iron.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000047_000003|They must have fixed up a lot of ammunition that way before they tackled us."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000048_000000|"Seems to me Will's a long time coming out again," complained Jerry. "He's always so much taken up with that photography of his that any old time he's liable to remember something and go to work at it, forgetting all about his chums, who may be kicking their heels in the back yard waiting for him."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000049_000000|"Oh, I don't think he's quite that forgetful!" laughed Frank.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000049_000001|"You know he said Uncle Felix, who loaned us his houseboat to make that trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans, was expecting some important mail to day.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000049_000002|Perhaps he's held Will up to tell him about something. You know Uncle Felix thinks heaps of our chum; yes, and of all the rest of us in the bargain."
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000050_000000|"There he comes!" exclaimed Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000051_000000|"And, say, he seems to be in a terrible hurry," added Jerry, beginning to show a touch of excitement himself.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000051_000001|"Look at him waving his hat over his head?
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000051_000002|And do you see how he's grinning from ear to ear?
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000051_000003|Now what d'ye reckon can have happened?"
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000052_000000|"Oh, Uncle Felix, don't I love you!" muttered Bluff, as if a sudden brilliant idea had come into his mind.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000053_000000|"What's Uncle Felix got to do with it?" demanded Jerry.
train-clean-100/7800/283478/7800_283478_000055_000000|Will came hurrying up, and when he spoke his words gave them a thrill.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000001_000000|DID TEDDY KNOW?
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000002_000000|"Well, wouldn't that jar you?" remarked Bluff, as he heard what was contained in the brief communication from the lumberman.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000003_000000|"Tried to burn down the camp at Lumber Run, did they?" burst out Jerry.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000003_000001|"Well, if you asked me my opinion, I'd have to admit that I didn't like the looks of a few of those lumberjacks."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000005_000000|"Why, who else would try to turn on mr Darrel that way, and burn his shanties down just when winter is setting in?" asked Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000006_000000|"We can only give a guess at that," Frank told him.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000007_000001|"After all, I wouldn't put it past him, Frank."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000008_000000|"Who-what-where-how?" demanded Will, apparently confused, and not able to understand what all these strange hints portended.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000009_000000|"We had a specimen of his nasty temper, you know," continued Bluff. "Yes, twice now we've heard him tear around like a bull in a china shop."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000010_000000|"Oh! now I tumble to what you mean," cried Will, who did not often use any sort of slang, and must therefore have been unusually excited to fall into the habit.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000010_000001|"It's Bill-Bill Nackerson!"
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000011_000000|Frank nodded his head.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000012_000000|"He's the only party around that we know of who would be mean enough to try to set buildings on fire, just to get even with a man he disliked," he observed.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000014_000000|"That's what we did," asserted Will.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000014_000002|Why, he might have been the death of some of them!"
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000015_000000|"Whoever started the fire didn't care a hoot whether it hurt or not, I think," Bluff gave as his opinion.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000016_000000|Frank noticed that the head had disappeared from alongside the open door.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000016_000001|Evidently Teddy had heard enough.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000016_000003|Perhaps he had suspected that the others brought news of some startling character.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000017_000000|Frank did not tell all of his chums about what he had seen.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000017_000001|At the same time it gave him food for much serious thought.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000018_000000|"I wouldn't be at all surprised if Teddy knew something about that fire business," he mentioned to Bluff, a short time later, when they walked together down to the spot where the mink tracks had been seen, as the latter had shown more or less interest in the habits of these little animals.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000020_000000|"He heard strangers talking outside when those two loggers came up," Frank continued, "and even dragged himself to the door to listen.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000020_000001|I saw his head, though after a bit, when we had talked matters over, he went back to the fire again."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000021_000000|"See here, Frank, you don't think Teddy could have set that fire, I hope?" demanded Bluff, uneasily.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000022_000000|"Oh! no, it isn't so bad as that," he was assured.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000023_000000|"The big coward!" muttered Bluff, clenching his fists and shaking his head, as though he would like nothing better than to get in a blow at the bully.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000024_000000|"My opinion, as far as I have any, is about like this," Frank continued.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000024_000001|"After Nackerson struck Teddy the boy happened to overhear him boasting about what he meant to do to the camp at Lumber Run."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000025_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000026_000000|"You've got it about straight, Bluff," Frank admitted.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000026_000001|"Of course, I'm only guessing all this, remember.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000027_000000|Bluff was not slow of comprehension.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000027_000001|He saw what Frank's plan was, and while he may not have entirely agreed with such a course, there was no disposition to interfere.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000028_000000|"You know best how to work it, Frank," he said simply.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000028_000001|"I'll keep as mum as an oyster till you give me the tip that it's time to speak. Just as you say, Teddy couldn't have been the one to put the match to the camp over at Lumber Run.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000028_000002|When Nackerson had gone away, perhaps with one of his pals who agreed to stand back of him, that's the time Teddy lit out."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000029_000000|"He struck it pretty hard at first, getting caught in that trap," Frank mused; "but when you come right down to facts I guess it was just as well that it happened to him."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000030_000000|"Huh! that's a queer thing to say," remonstrated Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000030_000001|"Getting hung up in an old bear trap a blessing in disguise, was it?
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000030_000002|I'd like to know how you figure that out, Frank."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000031_000000|"This way," explained the other.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000031_000001|"If he had missed connections with that trap Teddy would have reached the skunk farm only to meet with disappointment."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000032_000000|"Sure he would, because Old Joe, as he called the fur farmer, had pulled up stakes and gone to town for some weeks," Bluff admitted.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000034_000002|We never know when we're well off, do we?
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000035_000000|Frank was always accommodating, especially when anything connected with his knowledge of nature was concerned.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000035_000001|He loved to watch the small woods folk when they did not suspect his presence, and learn more and more of their interesting habits.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000036_000000|So that day passed.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000036_000001|Another, and yet a third found the boys enjoying themselves to the limit.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000036_000002|Teddy was showing decided signs of improvement.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000036_000003|He could get around fairly well by now, Jerry having cut him a walking stick, with a crook at the end.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000036_000004|He was beginning to get over the nervousness that had shown itself for a whole day following his advent in the new camp.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000037_000000|Perhaps the boy had feared that Nackerson might come storming along, and insist on his returning to his duties as cook.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000037_000001|He feared the brutal sportsman more than ever, now that he had found such a fine harbor of refuge with the outdoor chums.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000037_000002|To go back to that other drudgery would have been torture.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000038_000000|As soon as he was able to get around he insisted on taking charge of the cooking.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000038_000001|And the boys soon learned that Teddy could manage splendidly.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000038_000002|He had to be shown very little so as to suit their tastes; and none of them regretted in the least that they had extended a helping hand toward one in distress.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000039_000000|A new life was opening up to Teddy.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000039_000001|He had never before come in contact with such an agreeable lot of companions and every hour of the day he tried to prove himself grateful.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000040_000000|Still, he did not mention a word about what he might possibly know of the dastardly deed, when some one attempted to fire the logging camp. Frank often saw a worried expression come over the boy's face, and at such times he suspected that Teddy was puzzling his brain as to just what his duty might be.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000040_000001|He did not like to betray his kinsman, and yet felt that it was not right to refrain from taking someone into his confidence.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000041_000000|"He may speak sooner or later," Frank told himself; "and if he does, it will not be the reward of a hundred dollars for information that will make him tell."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000042_000000|On the second day, about noon, some of the boys were busy near the cabin, laying in an extra supply of firewood.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000042_000001|Frank had an idea they would be visited by a big snowfall before twenty four hours had passed.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000043_000000|"Of course that's only a hazard, fellows," he told Bluff and Jerry, who were helping him add to the handy heap close to the door of the cabin, "but there does seem to be a feeling of dampness in the air, for all it's so cold; and the sun, you notice, shines through a sort of hazy curtain."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000045_000000|"We've got off pretty fortunately so far about storms," Bluff went on, as he threw another armful of fuel on the already huge pile.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000046_000001|That was a lucky shot you made yesterday, Bluff. The buckshot shell did the business, too, for after you fired both barrels the buck went down with a crash."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000048_000000|"If we don't get another while we're up here in the Big Woods," said Jerry, suppressing the natural twinge of jealousy he felt, "we ought to be satisfied with our bag.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000048_000001|And Will is just wild over the bully pictures he's accumulating every day and night."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000049_000000|"It does seem as though he had met with nothing but success, so far," Frank admitted.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000049_000001|"I hope he gets that prize the railroads are offering. So far as I can tell he has a dandy collection already, and we've got some time ahead of us still."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000050_000000|"By the way, where is Will now?" asked Bluff,
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000051_000002|I think myself it would be a fine woods picture, and add to his collection."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000052_000000|"Speaking of angels, and you're most sure to hear their wings," chuckled Jerry; "for there's Will coming this way now."
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000053_000000|"And on the run, too!" added Frank.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000053_000001|"He looks excited, fellows.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000053_000002|I wonder what he's run across now?"
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000054_000000|Will was almost out of breath.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000054_000001|They could see that his face was red from his exertions, but filled with excitement as well; while his eyes were, as Bluff expressed it, "sticking out of his head!"
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000055_000000|"Oh! what a whopper!" he gasped, as he drew near the spot where they stood.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000056_000000|"What's that?" demanded Frank, wondering what was coming now.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000058_000000|"Horns, Will?" Bluff fired at him; "cows have horns, deer carry antlers!"
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000059_000001|"That's what they were, sticking away up over his head that was like a mule's.
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000059_000002|But I snapped him before he turned and trotted off!"
train-clean-100/7800/283492/7800_283492_000060_000000|"What trotted off?" shrilled Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000003_000000|THE BIG MOOSE
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000004_000000|"A bull moose, you say, Will?" echoed Bluff, his face lighting up with sudden energy.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000005_000001|"I know what you're thinking, Bluff, and that I wouldn't know a bull moose if I saw one.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000005_000002|But you're away off in your guess.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000005_000003|I've so longed to meet up with one when I had my camera with me that I've been picturing how he'd look.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000006_000000|"How did it happen, Will?" asked Frank.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000007_000000|"I was sitting as still as anything," the other related, "after I'd got two dandy snaps at that funny squirrel family playing around the tree where they have their home, and was hoping for another whack at them to complete the set, when all at once I heard a whiffing sound."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000009_000000|"Oh, I looked up to see what had made that queer sound, and there he was, just standing and looking straight at me!
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000009_000001|I was nearly scared to death at first, for he looked nearly as big as a barn.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000009_000002|Then I knew it must be a bull moose; and the next thing I found myself taking his picture."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000010_000000|"Did he run away then?" asked Frank.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000011_000000|"Turned and trotted off, as if he didn't care whether school kept or not," Will continued.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000011_000001|"I even had the nerve to shoot him again as he was going.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000011_000002|And don't I hope that first picture turns out good!
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000011_000003|It was a remarkable pose, if only the focus was right."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000012_000000|He started toward the cabin door as though anxious to develop his roll of film and discover what success his labor had resulted in.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000012_000001|Bluff caught him by the arm.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000013_000000|"Wait just a minute or two, Will," he pleaded.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000013_000001|"Tell us some more. Where did all this happen?"
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000016_000000|"If only you'll hold your horses until I can develop this film, you shall see for yourself whether I know a stag from a bull moose," he was told by the indignant photographer, as the latter broke away and vanished inside the cabin.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000017_000000|Bluff turned to Frank.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000018_000000|"Let's all take a look," he suggested.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000019_000000|"I was just going to say the same myself," Jerry added, being evidently quite as much interested as Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000020_000000|Frank was more than willing.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000020_000001|He did not feel that they could entirely depend on the evidence of Will, who may have been so startled by the sudden coming of some animal that his imagination worked overtime.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000021_000000|"I hope it wasn't just a mule that strayed away from some lumber camp," he told the others, as they hurried off; but not before Bluff and Jerry had darted inside the cabin and reappeared, carrying their guns.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000023_000000|"Well, chances are it was a bull moose," Frank admitted; "but we'll soon know."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000024_000000|"That light snow falling last night was in our favor, for the tracks will show up well," suggested Jerry.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000025_000000|"Here's the place," Frank told them, a short time afterward.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000026_000000|"Yes, and here's where Will made himself a seat," added Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000026_000001|"He fixed it so he could sit comfortably, and not have to frighten the family of bushy tails by moving.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000027_000000|"Yes," said Jerry, "which would make it over there that the thing showed up.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000027_000001|Let's take a look at the ground, and see if Will was dreaming or not."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000028_000000|Before half a minute had passed, Frank was pointing to certain marks plainly seen in the inch and more of snow that had fallen on the previous night, perhaps as a sort of forerunner of the coming storm.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000029_000000|"There you are, fellows!" he announced.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000030_000000|All stared hard at the monstrous tracks.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000030_000001|Bluff even got down on hands and knees in order to see better.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000031_000000|"It was a moose, all right, Frank!" said Jerry.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000032_000000|"From the prints made by its big split hoofs, I'm pretty sure of that," Frank asserted; "I'm beginning to believe Will was not so far out of the way, after all, when he said it might be the giant of all Maine moose!"
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000033_000000|Bluff got up again, shaking his head.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000034_000000|"Oh, the meanest luck that ever was!" he lamented.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000034_000001|"Why couldn't I have taken a notion to step out here with Will, to watch the way he took the pictures of that squirrel family?
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000034_000003|Think how easy I could have dropped him, with such a short distance between.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000034_000004|It's cruel, that's what it is!"
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000035_000000|Jerry clapped him on the shoulder.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000037_000000|"You'll have to count me out of that deal," Frank told them.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000037_000001|"You remember that I sprained my ankle yesterday, and a long walk would lay me up.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000037_000002|If anybody goes, it will have to be you two."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000039_000000|"I dare you!" he said.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000040_000000|"No need of that," came the reply, "because I'd be willing to start after that moose alone, and follow him for a week, if I thought I could get a fair crack at him in the end."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000042_000000|They shook hands on the bargain, and so it was ratified.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000044_000000|"The sooner the better, so as to keep his lead cut down as much as we can," he was told by Bluff, after which they both turned toward Frank, for, after all, it would be from this quarter that the signal to start must eventually come.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000045_000000|"No need of rushing off as though you were crazy," Frank told them. "Will says the moose didn't act as though it was badly frightened by seeing him, so it isn't likely it will cover a great many miles before stopping again.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000045_000001|Lunch must be nearly ready.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000045_000002|You must stop long enough to eat a lot, because there's no telling when you may get another square meal."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000046_000000|Bluff glanced quickly at Frank.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000047_000000|"Oh, we won't get lost!" he said loftily.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000048_000000|"I wasn't thinking so much of that as the chance of a blizzard coming down on you," Frank continued.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000048_000001|"Be sure to take along an extra supply of matches.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000048_000002|I'll see to it that each of you has something to help make out a meal or so.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000048_000003|It won't weigh heavy; but if you do need it you'll thank me for it."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000049_000000|Bluff and Jerry may have considered Frank a bit too old womanish, making all that fuss over just going off on a little chase after a wandering moose.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000050_000000|Frank, however, understood what a blizzard meant up there in Maine.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000050_000001|He had been in one or two himself, and would not care to repeat certain experiences that had come his way, unless well provided against hunger and bitter cold.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000051_000000|The three soon reached the cabin.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000051_000002|Will was too busy working at his developing tank to sit down with the rest.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000052_000000|"Plenty of time when I get through with this," he told them.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000052_000001|"Give me five minutes more to get this film in fresh water and then I'll come."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000053_000000|Bluff and Jerry were hurrying as fast as they could.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000053_000001|Frank had redeemed his promise to see that there was something put up in small shape that would help out for supper, in case they were delayed.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000053_000002|He also thrust several small boxes of safety matches into each of their coats, and made sure Bluff had his compass.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000054_000000|"Well," said Will, stepping forward and holding up a dripping film, "take a peep at this, will you, and tell me if I know what I'm talking about or not!"
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000055_000000|As soon as the boys saw the splendid negative, in clear cut lights and shadows, they burst into a chorus of cries.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000056_000000|"It's a moose, all right, Will!" Frank told the proud photographer.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000057_000000|"And sure a whopper, just as you said!" added Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000058_000000|"We take it all back," Jerry vowed.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000058_000001|"After this, we'll own up that you know a bull moose from a mule or a buck deer every time."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000059_000000|"That's going to be a prize picture, all right!"
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000060_000000|Those last words from Frank made Will very proud.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000061_000000|"I believe myself that I never got such splendid effects!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000061_000001|"Why, I warrant you can see every hair on his head.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000061_000002|Just look how I got him square in the middle of my plate!
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000061_000003|It's better to be born lucky than rich, any day."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000062_000000|"I'm done eating," announced Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000063_000000|"Couldn't cram another bite down, after seeing that picture!" Jerry proclaimed, as he darted over to the corner where his rifle stood, and began to buckle on the webbed belt filled with cartridges.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000065_000000|He hovered about the pair, and constantly warned them against carelessness.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000066_000001|We would feel pretty sorry if anything happened to mar our holiday up here."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000067_000000|"Frank, you can depend on us to be careful," Bluff told him earnestly. "But for goodness' sake don't worry about us.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000067_000001|We're not the 'Babes in the Woods,' you know.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000067_000002|If I do say it myself, we've had our eyeteeth cut for some time.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000067_000003|There never was such a bully chance to get a big moose, and we want to do our level best.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000067_000004|Look for us when we come.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000067_000005|If we don't show up by night, why, chances are we found ourselves so far away that we concluded to make camp."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000068_000000|Bluff and Jerry shook hands gravely all around, even with Teddy.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000069_000000|"Good luck, and I hope you get him!" said that individual, meaning every word, for he had already come to care a great deal for these jolly boys who had been the means of helping him over a very rough place in the road.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000070_000000|"Got everything now?" asked Bluff.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000071_000000|"I should hope so," grunted Jerry.
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000071_000001|"We'd be pack horses if we tried to carry any more truck along."
train-clean-100/7800/283493/7800_283493_000072_000001|Well, so long, boys, and we all wish you success."
train-clean-100/7859/102518/7859_102518_000006_000001|The Persian replied with the threat that he would put the Prophet in chains when he had leisure.
train-clean-100/7859/102518/7859_102518_000010_000004|The romans drove the enemy back to the very gates of their camp, but a last charge, headed by the fierce warrior Khaled, broke their firm array when a victory seemed almost assured.
train-clean-100/7859/102518/7859_102518_000011_000002|Most of its population were massacred.
train-clean-100/7859/102518/7859_102518_000011_000004|He could do nothing; Emesa and Heliopolis were sacked before his eyes, and after an inglorious campaign he hurried to Jerusalem, took the "True Cross" from its sanctuary, where he had replaced it in triumph five years before, and retired to Constantinople.
train-clean-100/7859/102518/7859_102518_000018_000004|"Theme" meant both the corps and the district which it defended, and the corps commander was also the provincial governor.
train-clean-100/7859/102518/7859_102518_000023_000000|Constantine the fourth., known as Pogonatus, "the Bearded," reigned for seventeen years, of which more than half were spent in one long struggle with the Saracens.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000001_000001|THE FIRST ANARCHY.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000003_000000|Ere he had reached his twenty first year Justinian had plunged into war with the Bulgarians.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000003_000001|He attacked them suddenly, inflicted several defeats on their king, and took no less than thirty thousand prisoners, whom he sent over to Asia, and forced to enlist in the army of Armenia.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000003_000003|Justinian refused to receive them, and declared war.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000004_000000|His second venture in the field was disastrous: his unwilling recruits from Bulgaria deserted to the enemy, when he met the Saracens at Sebastopolis in Cilicia, and the Roman army was routed with great slaughter.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000004_000001|The two subsequent campaigns were equally unsuccessful, and the troops of the Caliph harried Cappadocia far and wide.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000005_000000|Justinian's wars depleted his treasury; yet he persisted in plunging into expensive schemes of building at the same time, and was driven to collect money by the most reckless extortion.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000005_000002|Both were violent and cruel: Theodotus is said to have hung recalcitrant tax payers up by ropes above smoky fires till they were nearly stifled.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000005_000003|Stephanus thrashed and stoned every one who fell into his hands; he is reported to have actually administered a whipping to the empress dowager during the absence of her son, and Justinian did not punish him when he returned.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000006_000000|While the emperor's financial expedients were making him hated by the moneyed classes, he was rendering himself no less unpopular in the army.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000007_000000|After his ill success in the Saracen war, he began to execute or imprison his officers, and to decimate his beaten troops: to be employed by him in high command was almost as dangerous as it was to be appointed a general in chief during the dictatorship of Robespierre.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000008_000002|As he parted from his friends he exclaimed that his days were numbered, and that he should be expecting the order for his execution to arrive at any moment.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000009_000001|A mob joined him, he seized the Cathedral of saint Sophia, and then marched on the palace.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000010_000002|He held the throne barely three years, amid constant revolts at home and defeats abroad.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000013_000002|They enlisted in their scheme Tiberius Apsimarus, who commanded the imperial fleet in the Aegean, and proclaimed him emperor when he joined them with his galleys.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000013_000003|The troops of Leontius betrayed the gates of the capital to the followers of the rebel admiral, and Apsimarus seized Constantinople.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000013_000005|Accordingly the nose of Leontius was slit, and he was placed in confinement in a monastery.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000014_000002|The people and army were out of hand, the ephemeral emperor could count on no loyalty, and any shock was sufficient to upset his precarious throne.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000015_000004|With this prince the exile so ingratiated himself that he received in marriage his sister, who was baptized and christened Theodora.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000015_000006|The emperor learnt of the plot through his wife, and saved himself by the bold expedient of going at once to one of the two Khazar chiefs and asking for a secret interview.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000016_000000|This gave him time to escape, and he fled in a fishing boat out into the Euxine with a few friends and servants who had followed him into exile. While they were out at sea a storm arose, and the boat began to fill.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000016_000001|One of his companions cried to Justinian to make his peace with God, and pardon his enemies ere he died.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000016_000002|But the Emperor's stern soul was not bent by the tempest.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000016_000004|The boat weathered the storm, and Justinian survived to carry out his cruel oath.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000017_000001|But they were soon to find out that they had erred in submitting to the exile, and should have resisted him at all hazards. Justinian came back in a relentless mood, bent on nothing but revenging his mutilated nose and his ten years of exile.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000018_000000|After this strange exhibition the two ex emperors were beheaded.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000018_000001|Their execution began a reign of terror, for Justinian had his oath to keep, and was set on wreaking vengeance on every one who had been concerned in his deposition.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000018_000003|Then he set to work to hunt out meaner victims: many prominent citizens of Constantinople were sown up in sacks and drowned in the Bosphorus.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000018_000004|Soldiers were picked out by the dozen and beheaded.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000018_000006|The chief men were caught and sent to the capital, where Justinian had them bound to spits and roasted.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000019_000001|In a few years he had made himself so much detested that it might be said that he had been comparatively popular in the days of his first reign.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000021_000000|The six years which followed were purely anarchical.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000021_000003|It required a hero to restore the machinery of government and evolve order out of chaos.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000022_000000|To replace Justinian by Philippicus was only to substitute King Log for King Stork.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000022_000001|The new emperor was a mere man of pleasure, and spent his time in personal enjoyment, letting affairs of state slide on as best they might.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000022_000002|In less than two years he was upset by a conspiracy which placed on the throne Artemius Anastasius, his own chief secretary.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000022_000005|More merciful than any of his ephemeral predecessors, Theodosius the third. dismissed Anastasius unharmed, after compelling him to take holy orders.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000023_000001|"The affairs both of the realm and the city were neglected and decaying, civil education was disappearing, and military discipline dissolved." The Bulgarian and Saracen commenced once more to ravage the frontier provinces, and every year their ravages penetrated further inland.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000024_000002|After inducing the Saracens, more by craft than force, to raise the siege of Amorium, Leo disowned his allegiance to the incapable Theodosius and marched toward the Bosphorus.
train-clean-100/7859/102519/7859_102519_000025_000000|The unfortunate emperor, who had not coveted the throne he occupied, nor much desired to retain it, allowed his army to risk one engagement with the troops of Leo.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000001_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000009_000004|Dangerous revolts broke out in Greece and Italy, and were not put down without much fighting.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000013_000002|Where Leo had chastised the adherents of superstition with whips Constantine chastised them with scorpions.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000014_000002|At this time Pope Stephen, when attacked by the same enemy, sent for aid to Pipin the Frank, instead of calling on the Emperor, and for the future the papacy was for all practical purposes dependent on the Franks and not on the empire.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000015_000004|We are told that he compelled many of their inmates to marry by force of threats; others were exiled to Cyprus by the hundred; not a few were flogged and imprisoned, and a certain number of prominent men were put to death.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000017_000001|The Empress Irene was clever, domineering, and popular.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000017_000006|Constantine was neither precocious nor unfilial, but in his twenty second year he rebelled against his mother's dictation, and took his place at the helm of the state.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000017_000007|Irene had actually striven to oppose him by armed force, but he pardoned her, and after secluding her for a short time, restored her to her former dignity.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000022_000003|But it was not till eight hundred that the final breach took place.
train-clean-100/7859/102521/7859_102521_000022_000004|The Iconoclastic controversy had prepared the way for it, while the fact that a woman sat on the imperial throne served as a good excuse for the Pope's action.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000008_000000|PREFACE.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000009_000001|The publication comes at an appropriate time, when there is an awakening of interest in the Irish language, and in Irish lore of every kind, unparalleled in our history.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000010_000000|But the book has a further mission.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000010_000001|There are many English and many Anglo Irish people who think, merely from ignorance, that Ireland was a barbarous and half savage country before the English came among the people and civilised them.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000010_000002|This book, so far as it finds its way among the two classes above mentioned, will, I fancy, open their eyes.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000011_000000|But there were, and are, Englishmen better informed about our country. More than three hundred years ago the great English poet, Edmund Spenser, lived for some time in Ireland, and made himself well acquainted with its history.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000013_000000|But it is better not to pursue these observations farther here, as it would be only anticipating what will be found in the body of the book.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000014_000000|This book is the last of a series of three, of which the second is abridged from the first, and the third from both.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000017_000000|This Third book-"The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation"--gives in simple, plain language, an account of the condition of the country in the olden time; but as it is here to speak for itself, I need not describe it further.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000017_000001|For all the statements it contains, full and satisfactory authorities will be found in the two larger works.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000018_000000|I have done my best to make all three readable and interesting, as well as instructive.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000019_000000|The ordinary history of our country has been written by many, and the reader has a wide choice.
train-clean-100/8014/112586/8014_112586_000019_000001|But in the matter of our Social History he has no choice at all.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000000_000000|An oval face, broad above and narrow below, golden hair, fair skin, white, delicate, and well formed hands with slender tapering fingers: these were considered as marking the type of beauty and of high family descent; they were the Marks of Aristocracy.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000000_000001|To these natural advantages the people added by the usual artificial means.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000000_000002|Among the higher classes the finger nails were kept carefully cut and rounded.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000000_000003|It was considered shameful for a man of position to have rough unkempt nails. Crimson coloured finger nails were greatly admired; and ladies sometimes dyed them this colour.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000001_000001|An entry in Cormac's Glossary plainly indicates that the blush of the cheeks was sometimes heightened by a colouring matter obtained from the alder tree: and the sprigs and berries of the elder were applied to the same purpose.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000001_000002|Among Greek and Roman ladies the practice was very general of painting the cheeks, eyebrows, and other parts of the face.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000002_000001|The hair was combed daily after a bath.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000002_000002|The heroes of the Fena of Erin, before sitting down to their dinner after a hard day's hunting, always took a bath and carefully combed their long hair.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000003_000003|In nearly all the figures of the Book of Kells, for example (seventh or eighth century), the hair is combed and dressed with the utmost care, so beautifully adjusted indeed that it could have been done only by skilled professional hairdressers, and must have occupied much time.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000003_000005|I do not find mentioned anywhere that the Irish dyed their hair, as was the custom among the Greeks and romans.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000004_000000|The men were as particular about the beard as about the hair.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000004_000001|The fashion of wearing the beard varied.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000004_000003|Nearly all have a mustache, in most cases curled up and pointed at the ends as we often see now.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000005_000000|From what precedes it will be understood that combs were in general use with men as well as with women; and many specimens of combs are now found in the remains of ancient dwellings.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000006_000000|Bathing was very usual, at least among the upper classes, and baths and the use of baths are constantly mentioned in the old tales and other writings.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000006_000001|In every public hostel, in every monastery, and in every high class house, there was a bath, with its accompaniments.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000006_000002|Soap was used both in bathing and washing.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000007_000002|Silk and satin, which were of course imported, were much worn among the higher classes.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000007_000003|The furs of animals, such as seals, otters, badgers, foxes, etc, were much used for capes and jackets, and for the edgings of various garments, so that skins of all the various kinds were valuable.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000007_000004|They formed, too, an important item of everyday traffic, and they were also exported.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000008_000000|The ancient Irish loved bright colours.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000008_000002|Even the single outer cloak was often striped, spotted, or chequered in various colours.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000008_000003|King Domnall, in the seventh century, on one occasion sent a many coloured tunic to his foster son Prince Congal: like Joseph's coat of many colours.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000009_000000|A very common article of dress was a large cloak, generally without sleeves, varying in length, but commonly covering the whole person from the shoulders down.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000009_000002|A short cape was often worn on the shoulders, sometimes carrying a hood to cover the head.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000009_000003|The outer covering of the general run of the peasantry was just one loose sleeved coat or mantle, generally of frieze, which covered them down to the ankles; and which they wore winter and summer.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000009_000005|The over garments were fastened by brooches, pins, buttons, girdles, strings, and loops, many of them beautifully made and ornamented.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000010_000001|When terminating below the ankles it was held down by a slender strap passing under the foot.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000010_000002|Like other Irish garments it was generally striped or speckled in various colours.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000013_000001|Married women usually had the head covered either with a hood or with a long web of linen wreathed round and round in several folds.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000013_000002|The veil was in constant use among the higher classes, and when not actually worn was usually carried, among other small articles, in a lady's ornamental hand bag.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000014_000000|Shoes were often made of untanned hide stitched with thongs, with several layers for a sole.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000014_000001|But there was a more shapely shoe, made of fully tanned leather, having serviceable sole and heel, and often ornamented with patterns stamped in.
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000015_000000|The Irish were excessively fond of personal ornaments, which among the higher classes were made of expensive materials, such as gold, silver, gems, white bronze, etc
train-clean-100/8014/112602/8014_112602_000016_000002|Thin circular gold plates were also worn fastened on the breast: and as for brooches, they were of all shapes and sizes, some plain, simple, and cheap, some of gold or other expensive material, of elaborate workmanship.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000005_000001|"Suffer not," they said, "that we, who are Tuscans by birth, should remain any more in poverty and exile.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000005_000002|And take heed also to thyself and thine own kingdom if thou permit this new fashion of driving forth kings to go unpunished.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000005_000004|But when men heard of his coming, so mighty a city was Clusium in those days, and so great the fame of King Porsenna, there was such fear as had never been before.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000005_000005|Nevertheless they were steadfastly purposed to hold out.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000007_000000|There was a certain hill which men called Janiculum on the side of the river, and this hill King Porsenna took by a sudden attack.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000007_000002|Do ye therefore break it down with axe and fire as best ye can.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000007_000003|In the meanwhile I, so far as one man may do, will stay the enemy." And as he spake he ran forward to the farther end of the bridge and made ready to keep the way against the enemy.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000007_000005|So these three for a while stayed the first onset of the enemy; and the men of Rome meanwhile brake down the bridge.
train-clean-100/8014/280382/8014_280382_000007_000009|Nor did such valor fail to receive due honor from the city.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000003_000000|SEVERAL ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000004_000000|In order to economize time and space, with a view to giving an account of as many of the travelers as possible, it seems expedient, where a number of arrivals come in close proximity to each other, to report them briefly, under one head.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000005_000001|In outward appearance Henry was uninteresting.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000005_000002|As he asserted, and as his appearance indicated, he had experienced a large share of "rugged" usage.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000005_000003|Being far in the South, and in the hands of a brutal "Captain of a small boat," chances of freedom or of moderate treatment, had rarely ever presented themselves in any aspect.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000006_000000|He fled from Beaufort, North Carolina.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000002|Their attachment to each other was evidently true.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000003|They were both owned by a farmer, who went by the name of David Stewart, and resided in Maryland.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000005|She, however, was not blessed with good health, though she was not favored any more on that account.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000006|Charles' affection for his wife, on seeing how hard she had to labor when not well, aroused him to seek their freedom by flight.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000007|He resolved to spare no pains, to give himself no rest until they were both free.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000009|Left two sisters in bondage.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000007_000010|Margaret was about the same age as her husband, a nice looking brown skinned woman; worth five hundred dollars.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000008_000002|The order of the day was literally, as far as colored men were concerned: "No rights which white men were bound to respect."
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000009_000002|Chaskey is about twenty four years of age, quite black, medium size, sound body and intelligent appearance, nevertheless he resembled a "farm hand" in every particular.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000009_000003|His master was known by the name of Major james h Gales, and he was the owner of a farm with eighteen men, women and children, slaves to toil for him.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000009_000004|The Major in disposition was very abusive and profane, though old and grey headed. His wife was pretty much the same kind of a woman as he was a man; one who delighted in making the slaves tremble at her bidding.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000009_000007|He had a wife and one child.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000009_000008|In escaping, he was obliged to leave them both.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000010_000000|William Henry was about twenty years of age, and belonged to Doctor b Grain, of Baltimore, who hired him out to a farmer.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000010_000001|Not relishing the idea of having to work all his life in bondage, destitute of all privileges, he resolved to seek a refuge in Canada.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000010_000002|He left his mother, four sisters and two brothers.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000011_000000|james is twenty four years of age, well made, quite black and pretty shrewd.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000012_000001|To select his own master was a privilege not allowed; privileges of all kinds were rare with him.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000012_000002|So he resolved to flee.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000012_000003|Left his mother, three sisters and five brothers in slavery.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000012_000004|He was a member of "Albany Chapel," at Massey's Cross Roads, and a slave of dr b Crain.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000012_000006|The separation was painful, as was everything belonging to the system of Slavery.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000013_000000|These were all gladly received by the Vigilance Committee, and the hand of friendship warmly extended to them; and the best of counsel and encouragement was offered; material aid, food and clothing were also furnished as they had need, and they were sent on their way rejoicing to Canada.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000014_000002|His wife was also a very "close woman." They had four children growing up to occupy their places as oppressors. Stephen was not satisfied to serve either old or young masters any longer, and made up his mind to leave the first opportunity.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000014_000003|Before this watchful and resolute purpose the way opened, and he soon found it comparatively easy to find his way from Maryland to Pennsylvania, and likewise into the hands of the Vigilance Committee, to whom he made known fully the character of the place and people whence he had fled, the dangers he was exposed to from slave hunters, and the strong hope he cherished of reaching free land soon.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000014_000004|Being a young man of promise, Stephen was advised earnestly to apply his mind to seek an education, and to use every possible endeavor to raise himself in the scale of manhood, morally, religiously and intellectually; and he seemed to drink in the admonitions thus given with a relish.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000014_000005|After recruiting, and all necessary arrangements had been made for his comfort and passage to Canada, he was duly forwarded.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000014_000007|Stephen's parents were dead; one brother was the only near relative he left in chains.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000015_000003|His master he describes thus-
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000018_000002|Uneducated as he was, he was too sensible to believe that Webster had any God given right to his manhood.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000018_000005|Staying to wear the yoke, he felt would rather make it worse instead of better for all concerned.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000019_000000|Luther Dorsey is about nineteen years of age, rather smart, black, well made and well calculated for a Canadian.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000019_000002|This Schriner was described as a "low chunky man, with grum look, big mouth, etc," and was a member of the German Reformed Church.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000019_000003|"Don't swear, though might as well; he was so bad other ways."
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000020_000000|Luther was a member of the Methodist church at Jones Hill.
train-clean-100/8051/118101/8051_118101_000020_000001|Left his father in chains; his mother had wisely escaped to Canada years back, when he was but a boy.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000002_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000003_000000|WAR BREAD
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000004_000000|Bread is the staff of life for all nations.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000004_000001|But "bread" does not necessarily mean the wheat loaf.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000004_000003|Bread has always been whatever cereal happened to be convenient.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000004_000004|Even such unbreadlike food as rice is to some races what bread is to us.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000005_000001|Partly because wheat bread has been easy to get and we have grown to like the taste, but chiefly because wheat flour gives the lightest loaf.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000005_000002|To understand why, make a dough with a little white flour and water and then gently knead it in cold water.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000005_000005|Wheat is the only one of the cereals that has much gluten; rye has a little and the others practically none.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000006_000000|Gluten seems to be essential to the making of a light, yeast raised loaf.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000006_000001|Products raised with baking powder, for which our standard of lightness is different-"quick breads" like biscuits and muffins and cakes-do not require the gluten and can easily be made from substitute cereals.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000006_000002|But for our ordinary loaf of bread, at least some wheat seems to be almost essential, though with skill in the making, rye can be made to serve in its place.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000006_000004|The durability is a very important consideration; crumbly corn bread cannot be distributed by bakers nor served to armies.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000007_000000|OUR PRESENT PROBLEM, THEREFORE, IS TO MAKE THE MOST EFFECTIVE POSSIBLE USE OF OUR WHEAT GLUTEN, TO MAKE IT GO AS FAR AS POSSIBLE IN OUR BREADS.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000007_000001|BOTH BAKERS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS HAVE THEIR SHARE IN SOLVING THE PROBLEM.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000008_000000|THE BAKERS' REGULATIONS.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000008_000001|VICTORY BREAD
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000009_000000|The bakers have co operated loyally.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000009_000001|Probably no other food industry has been more vitally affected by the war.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000009_000003|This means practically all the commercial bakers of the country, and many hotels, clubs, and institutions.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000009_000004|About two fifths of the bread in the United States is made in bakeries and three fifths in the home.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000009_000005|The bakeries have used thirty five million barrels of flour each year, so the importance of this field for conservation is plain.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000000|The amount of wheat flour they are now permitted to have has been reduced: at present eighty per cent of their last year's quantity, or, if they are pastry and cracker bakers, seventy per cent.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000001|They must make no bread wholly of wheat flour.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000002|Some substitute must be mixed with the wheat.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000003|When the regulation went into effect in February, nineteen eighteen, twenty per cent was required and later, twenty five per cent.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000004|In pies and cakes there must be at least one third substitute.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000005|The amounts of sugar and fat used are limited.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000006|Even the sizes of the loaves are fixed, so that the extravagance of making and handling all sorts of fancy shapes and sizes may be avoided.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000010_000007|Bread must not be sold to the retailer at unreasonable prices.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000011_000000|Victory bread is bread made in accordance with these regulations. The name "Victory" was chosen as representing the idea underlying the conservation of wheat.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000011_000001|The name is really a present to the Food Administration, having been used by two large firms who gave up all rights to their trade mark.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000012_000000|Hotels and restaurants are required to make or serve bread containing at least as much of the wheat substitutes as Victory bread.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000012_000001|They may not serve more than two ounces of bread and other wheat products to a guest at a meal.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000012_000003|That means, of course, that only through intelligent effort can they serve yeast bread.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000014_000000|UNTIL THE WHEAT SUPPLY INCREASES AND THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION LESSENS RESTRICTIONS, USE NO WHEAT AT ALL IF YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO WITHOUT. Remember that you can make delicious muffins and other quick breads from the substitute flours.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000014_000001|And you need no bread at all at some meals.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000014_000002|An extra potato or a serving of rice can be eaten instead of the usual two slices of bread and the body will be supplied with the same amount of energy.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000014_000003|Do not be the slave of old food habits.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000014_000004|WHEN ALL EUROPE IS EATING TO KEEP ALIVE, FASTIDIOUSNESS AND FOOD "NOTIONS" MUST PLAY NO PART IN THE DIETARY.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000015_000001|Hundreds in crowded city quarters have no facilities of their own for baking.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000015_000002|Women doing their share in factories and workshops cannot get up earlier to make corn bread for breakfast.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000015_000003|Victory bread must be saved for them.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000015_000005|This includes wheat in the form of bread, pastry, macaroni, crackers, noodles, and breakfast foods.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000017_000000|FLOUR AND BREAD IN THE ALLIED COUNTRIES
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000018_000000|All the Allied countries have been stretching their meagre wheat supply to the limit and are enforcing the most stringent regulations.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000019_000000|The flour is required to be of high extraction-ordinarily from eighty one per cent to ninety per cent, decidedly higher than our seventy four per cent.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000019_000001|Even with this coarse, gray flour a large percentage of substitute must be mixed, usually twenty five per cent.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000019_000002|In England there are local regulations on the use of mashed potato in bread.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000019_000003|Their bread must be twelve hours old before it is sold, so that people will not be tempted to eat too much.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000019_000004|The result is seldom palatable.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000020_000000|Both England and France have subsidized bread; the Government has set a price below cost and itself makes up the difference to the baker. England has appropriated two hundred million dollars for the purpose.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000021_000000|Bread rations are in force in both France and Italy.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000021_000001|France has recently put her whole people on a rigorous ration which limits them to two thirds of the amount of bread that they have been accustomed to.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000021_000004|Rations are not a guarantee that the amount mentioned will be forthcoming; they only permit one to have it if it can be obtained.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000023_000000|England has compulsory rations for meat and butter or margarine and sugar, but not for bread.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000023_000001|Her bread system is voluntary like ours, but much more detailed.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000023_000002|The voluntary ration allows one half pound of bread a day for sedentary and unoccupied women and larger allowances up to a little over a pound for men doing heavy labor.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000023_000003|Waste of any kind is very heavily punished-one woman was fined five hundred dollars for throwing away stale bread.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000024_000001|The answers are many.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000024_000004|But they must have enough wheat to make a durable loaf of bread at the bakeshops, where for generations all the baking has been done.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000024_000005|The French housewife has no facilities for bread making and the French woman does not know how and has not the time to learn.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000025_000000|WHY WE IN THE UNITED STATES DO NOT HAVE BREAD CARDS
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000026_000000|Some people, disturbed either selfishly or patriotically by the failure of a neighbor to conserve wheat, have asked why the Food Administration trusts to voluntary methods, why it does not ration the country.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000027_000000|Rationing may come yet, but any such system bristles with difficulties.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000027_000002|Fifty per cent of the population could not be restrained in their consumption by rationing, for they are either producers or live in intimate contact with the producer.
train-clean-100/8051/119902/8051_119902_000027_000003|A wheat ration which would be fair for the North might actually increase the consumption in the South.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000004_000000|CONTAINING THE SECOND PART OF THE REIGN OF peter THE HEADSTRONG, AND HIS GALLANT ACHIEVEMENTS ON THE DELAWARE.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000005_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000006_000001|The gallant warrior starts from soft repose-from golden visions and voluptuous ease; where, in the dulcet "piping time of peace," he sought sweet solace after all his toils.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000006_000003|To manhood roused, he spurns the amorous flute, doffs from his brawny back the robe of peace, and clothes his pampered limbs in panoply of steel.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000006_000004|O'er his dark brow, where late the myrtle waved, where wanton roses breathed enervate love, he rears the beaming casque and nodding plume; grasps the bright shield, and shakes the ponderous lance; or mounts with eager pride his fiery steed, and burns for deeds of glorious chivalry.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000007_000000|But soft, worthy reader!
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000008_000000|Methinks I at this moment behold him in my imagination; or rather, I behold his goodly portrait, which still hangs in the family mansion of the Stuyvesants, arrayed in all the terrors of a true Dutch general.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000009_000000|In the preceding chapter we have spoken of the founding of Fort Casimir, and of the merciless warfare waged by its commander upon cabbages, sunflowers, and pumpkins, for want of better occasion to flesh his sword. Now it came to pass that higher up the Delaware, at his stronghold of Tinnekonk, resided one Jan Printz, who styled himself Governor of New Sweden.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000009_000002|He had a garrison after his own heart at Tinnekonk, guzzling, deep drinking swashbucklers, who made the wild woods ring with their carousals.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000010_000000|No sooner did this robustious commander hear of the erection of Fort Casimir, than he sent a message to Van Poffenburgh, warning him off the land, as being within the bounds of his jurisdiction.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000011_000000|To this General Van Poffenburgh replied that the land belonged to their High Mightinesses, having been regularly purchased of the natives as discoverers from the Manhattoes, as witness the breeches of their land measurer, Ten Broeck.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000012_000000|To this the governor rejoined that the land had previously been sold by the Indians to the Swedes, and consequently was under the petticoat government of her Swedish majesty, Christina; and woe be to any mortal that wore a breeches who should dare to meddle even with the hem of her sacred garment.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000013_000000|I forbear to dilate upon the war of words which was kept up for some time by these windy commanders; Van Poffenburgh, however, had served under William the Testy, and was a veteran in this kind of warfare.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000013_000001|Governor Printz, finding he was not to be dislodged by these long shots, now determined upon coming to closer quarters.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000013_000002|Accordingly he descended the river in great force and fume, and erected a rival fortress just one Swedish mile below Fort Casimir, to which he gave the name of Helsenburg.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000014_000000|And now commenced a tremendous rivalry between these two doughty commanders, striving to outstrut and outswell each other, like a couple of belligerent turkey cocks.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000014_000001|There was a contest who should run up the tallest flag staff and display the broadest flag; all day long there was a furious rolling of drums and twanging of trumpets in either fortress, and, whichever had the wind in its favor, would keep up a continual firing of cannon, to taunt its antagonist with the smell of gunpowder.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000015_000000|On all these points of windy warfare the antagonists were well matched; but so it happened that the Swedish fortress being lower down the river, all the Dutch vessels, bound to Fort Casimir with supplies, had to pass it.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000015_000001|Governor Printz at once took advantage of this circumstance, and compelled them to lower their flags as they passed under the guns of his battery.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000016_000001|To heighten his vexation, Governor Printz, who, as has been shown, was a huge trencherman, took the liberty of having the first rummage of every Dutch merchant ship, and securing to himself and his guzzling garrison all the little round Dutch cheeses, all the Dutch herrings, the gingerbread, the sweetmeats, the curious stone jugs of gin, and all the other Dutch luxuries, on their way for the solace of Fort Casimir.
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000016_000002|It is possible he may have paid to the Dutch skippers the full value of their commodities, but what consolation was this to Jacobus Van Poffenburgh and his garrison, who thus found their favorite supplies cut off, and diverted into the larders of the hostile camps?
train-clean-100/8051/295385/8051_295385_000016_000003|For some time this war of the cupboard was carried on to the great festivity and jollification of the Swedes, while the warriors of Fort Casimir found their hearts, or rather their stomachs, daily failing them.
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000017_000000|"Well!"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000022_000000|"Except to day, and the day before yesterday."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000027_000001|He was a clever fellow, although of a very odd complexion, which was the same color as your olives.
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000030_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000031_000000|"I have no doubt of it; but what do you think of his mode of reasoning?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000042_000000|"Well, what does his hare do, then?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000043_000001|La Fontaine's hare thinks."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000059_000000|"What is it?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000063_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000064_000000|"I should do something rash."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000065_000001|Tell me."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000070_000001|Get angry if you like, or call me names, if you prefer it; but, the deuce is in it.
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000074_000002|And the blue devils make people get thin.
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000075_000001|Come, explain, explain."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000077_000000|"I?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000086_000000|"Very well, monsieur, I accept it; for I know that when you give your word of honor, it is sacred."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000098_000001|"I don't pass my life in thinking."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000113_000000|"Tell me how you console yourself."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000118_000000|"Quite so."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000119_000000|"It is miraculous."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000122_000000|"You think so?--follow my example, then."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000123_000000|"It is a very tempting one."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000132_000001|You have noticed it, then?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000135_000000|"That being understood then, proceed."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000137_000000|"On the fifteenth and thirtieth of every month."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000140_000000|"Have you ever given it a thought, why I was absent?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000157_000000|"I was not bored; yet since you have been talking to me, I feel more animated."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000167_000000|"When?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000168_000000|"To morrow."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000169_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000172_000000|"Do you like the country?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000175_000000|"That is as may be."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000177_000000|"Good."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000179_000000|"Is it possible?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000182_000000|"Exactly; to Fontainebleau."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000191_000000|"Did we not fix to morrow?"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000193_000000|"Agreed, by all means."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000195_000000|"The best I have."
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000196_000000|"No; I prefer the gentlest of all; I never was a very good rider, as you know, and in my grocery business I have got more awkward than ever; besides-"
train-clean-100/8063/274112/8063_274112_000197_000000|"Besides what?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000002_000000|Chapter four.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000003_000001|But the grocer had a heart of gold, ever mindful of the good old times-a trait that carries youth into old age.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000005_000001|In the midst of his despair, he approached Porthos, who blocked up the whole of the passage leading from the back shop to the shop itself.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000008_000000|"Very well," said Porthos, "it does not trouble me in the least."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000011_000000|"What about?" inquired Porthos.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000015_000000|"Which?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000018_000000|"There is no doubt at all of it, monsieur."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000023_000001|what an honor!"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000025_000001|The two others got under the counters, fearing Porthos might have a taste for human flesh.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000033_000000|"What cheese?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000034_000000|"The Dutch cheese, inside which a rat had made his way, and we found only the rind left."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000038_000000|As soon as they had finished eating they set off.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000038_000004|Porthos had all the taste and pride of a landed proprietor.
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000040_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000063_000000|"Good lad, good lad!
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000063_000001|How many acres of park have you got?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000064_000000|"Of park?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000066_000000|"Whereabouts, monsieur?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000066_000001|"At your chateau."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000068_000000|"What have you got, then?" inquired Porthos, "and why do you call it a country seat?"
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000071_000001|I have rooms for a couple of friends, that's all."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000073_000000|"In the first place, they can walk about the king's forest, which is very beautiful."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000078_000000|"Because I don't know where it ends; and, also, because it is full of poachers."
train-clean-100/8063/274115/8063_274115_000080_000000|"Because they hunt my game, and I hunt them-which, in these peaceful times, is for me a sufficiently pleasing picture of war on a small scale."
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000006_000001|"Oh! they shall have as much as they like."
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000007_000001|A few oats and a good bed-nothing more."
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000008_000000|"Some bran and water for my horse," said Porthos, "for it is very warm, I think."
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000009_000006|The table was laid for two persons.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000015_000000|"Life, monsieur," said Planchet, laughing, "is capital which a man ought to invest as sensibly as he possibly can."
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000017_000000|Planchet turned to his housekeeper.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000017_000001|"You have before you," he said to her, "the two gentlemen who influenced the greatest, gayest, grandest portion of my life.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000020_000000|"I am from Antwerp," said the lady.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000022_000000|"You should not call her madame," said D'Artagnan.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000031_000000|Porthos began to curl the other side of his mustache.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000031_000001|"The deuce," thought D'Artagnan, "can Porthos have any intentions in that quarter?"
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000032_000001|Porthos's heart began to expand as he said, "I am hungry," and he sat himself beside Madame Truchen, whom he looked at in the most killing manner.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000034_000001|While this was going on, the three men, Porthos especially, ate and drank gloriously,--it was wonderful to see them.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000034_000002|The ten full bottles were ten empty ones by the time Truchen returned with the cheese.
train-clean-100/8063/274116/8063_274116_000035_000002|D'Artagnan, whom nothing ever escaped, remarked how much redder Truchen's left cheek was than her right.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000001_000000|Chapter six.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000002_000008|The latter, to show that she bore no ill will, approached Porthos, upon whom she conferred the same favor.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000002_000009|Porthos embraced Madame Truchen, heaving an enormous sigh.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000005_000000|"I am a great stickler for a good view myself," said Porthos.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000008_000001|I had four windows here, but I bricked up two."
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000009_000000|"Let us go on," said D'Artagnan.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000015_000001|"But what is that I see out there,--crosses and stones?"
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000018_000000|"I should not like that," said Porthos.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000021_000000|"Oh, I don't deny that."
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000027_000000|"That is exactly the reason," said Planchet, timidly, "why I feel it does me good to contemplate a few dead."
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000035_000000|"Yes," said Porthos; "I see a man."
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000043_000000|"Yes, I will join you presently."
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000045_000000|"Not yet."
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000048_000001|The two bearers of the corpse had unfastened the straps by which they carried the litter, and were letting their burden glide gently into the open grave.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000053_000001|The cavalier kneels at the beginning, the young lady by and by gets tamed down, and then it is she who has to supplicate.
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000053_000002|Who is this lady?
train-clean-100/8063/274117/8063_274117_000055_000004|I ought to know that figure and peculiar style of walk." As he ran, the sound of his spurs and of his boots upon the hard ground of the street made a strange jingling noise; a fortunate circumstance in itself, which he was far from reckoning upon.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000000_000000|From somewhere out on the black, heaving Atlantic, the rapid, muffled popping of a speed boat's exhaust drifted clearly through the night.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000001_000002|Rum runners, seeking out their hidden port with their cargo of contraband from Cuba.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000001_000003|Heading fearlessly through the darkness, fighting the high seas, still running after the storm of a day or so before, daring a thousand dangers for the sake of the straw packed bottles they carried.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000001_000004|Sea bronzed men, with hard, flat muscles and fearless eyes; ready guns slapping their thighs as they-
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000002_000001|Brushing the cigarette ashes from my smoking jacket, I crossed the room and snatched up the receiver.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000003_000000|"Hello!" I snapped ungraciously into the mouthpiece.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000003_000001|It was after eleven by the ship's clock on the mantel, and if-
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000004_000000|"Taylor?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000004_000002|"Get in your car and come down here as fast as possible.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000005_000000|"What's the matter?" I managed to interrupt him.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000005_000001|"Burglars?" I had never heard Mercer speak in that high pitched, excited voice before; his usual speech was slow and thoughtful, almost didactic.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000006_000001|If it weren't urgent, I wouldn't be calling you, you know.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000006_000002|Will you come?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000007_000000|"You bet!" I said quickly, feeling rather a fool for ragging him when he was in such deadly earnest.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000007_000001|"Have-"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000008_000000|The receiver snapped and crackled; Mercer had hung up the instant he had my assurance that I would come.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000009_000000|I threw off the smoking jacket and pulled on a woolen golfing sweater, for the wind was brisk and sharpish.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000010_000001|Mercer picked the place up for me at a song.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000013_000001|Both of them bore corroded bronze plates, "The Billows," the name given The Monstrosity by the original owner, a newly rich munitions manufacturer.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000014_000000|The structure itself loomed up before me in a few seconds, a rambling affair with square shouldered balconies and a great deal of wrought iron work, after the most flamboyant Spanish pattern.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000014_000001|It was ablaze with light.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000014_000002|Apparently every bulb in the place was burning.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000015_000000|Just a few yards beyond the surf boomed hollowly on the smooth, shady shore, littered now, I knew, by the pitiful spoils of the storm.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000016_000001|Before I could leap from the car, the broad front door, with its rounded top and circular, grilled window, was flung wide, and Mercer came running to meet me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000017_000000|He was wearing a bathrobe, hastily flung on over a damp bathing suit, his bare legs terminating in a pair of disreputable slippers.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000018_000000|"Fine, Taylor!" he greeted me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000018_000001|"I suppose you're wondering what it's all about.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000018_000002|I don't blame you.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000018_000003|But come in, come in!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000019_000000|"Her?" I asked, startled.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000019_000001|"You're not in love, by any chance, and bringing me down here like this merely to back up your own opinion of them eyes and them lips, Mercer?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000020_000000|He laughed excitedly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000021_000000|"You'll see, you'll see!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000021_000002|And I want you to help, and not admire.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000021_000003|There are only Carson and myself here, you know, and the job's too big for the two of us." He hurried me across the broad concrete porch and into the house.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000021_000004|"Throw the cap anywhere and come on!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000022_000000|Too much amazed to comment further, I followed my friend.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000022_000001|This was a Warren Mercer I did not know.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000022_000002|Usually his clean cut, olive tinted face was a polite mask that seldom showed even the slightest trace of emotion.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000022_000003|His eyes, dark and large, smiled easily, and shone with interest, but his almost beautiful mouth, beneath the long slim mustache, always closely cropped, seldom smiled with his eyes.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000023_000000|But it was his present excited speech that amazed me most.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000023_000001|Mercer, during all the years I had known him, had never been moved before to such tempestuous outbursts of enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000023_000002|It was his habit to speak slowly and thoughtfully, in his low, musical voice; even in the midst of our hottest arguments, and we had had many of them, his voice had never lost its calm, unhurried gentleness.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000025_000000|The laboratory, brilliantly illuminated, was littered, as usual, with apparatus of every description.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000025_000001|Along one wall were the retorts, scales, racks, hoods and elaborate set ups, like the articulated glass and rubber bones of some weird prehistoric monster, that demonstrated Mercer's taste for this branch of science.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000025_000003|The other end of the room was nearly all glass, and opened onto the patio and the swimming pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000027_000000|"Now you'll see why I called you here," he said tensely.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000027_000001|"You can judge for yourself whether the trip was worth while.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000027_000002|Here she is!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000028_000000|With a gesture he flung open the door, and I stared, following his glance, down at the great tiled swimming pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000029_000000|It is difficult for me to describe the scene.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000029_000001|The patio was not large, but it was beautifully done.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000031_000000|The pool-and its occupant.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000032_000000|We were standing at one side of the pool, near the center.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000032_000001|Directly opposite us, seated on the bottom of the pool, was a human figure, nude save for a great mass of tawny hair that fell about her like a silken mantle.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000033_000000|I tore myself away from the staring, curious eyes of the figure.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000034_000000|"In God's name, Mercer, what is it?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000034_000001|Porcelain?" I asked hoarsely.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000034_000002|The thing had an indescribably eery effect.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000035_000000|He laughed wildly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000036_000000|"Porcelain?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000037_000001|The figure was moving.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000037_000003|The great cloud of corn colored hair floated down about it, falling below the knees.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000038_000000|Fascinated, I watched her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000038_000001|Her eyes, startlingly large and dark in the strangely white face, were fixed on mine.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000038_000002|There was nothing sinister in the gaze, yet I felt my body shaking as though in the grip of a terrible fear.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000038_000003|I tried to look away, and found myself unable to move.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000038_000004|I felt Mercer's tense, sudden grip upon my arm, but I did not, could not, look at him.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000039_000001|He laughed, an excited, high pitched laugh that irritated me in some subtle way.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000040_000000|She was smiling, and looking up into my eyes.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000040_000001|She was very close now, within a few feet of us.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000040_000002|She came still closer, until she was at my very feet as I stood on the raised ledge that ran around the edge of the pool, her head thrown back, staring straight up at me through the water.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000042_000000|Mercer literally jerked me away from the edge of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000043_000000|"What do you think of her, Taylor?" he asked, his dark eyes dancing with excitement.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000044_000000|"Tell me about it," I said, shaking my head dazedly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000045_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000045_000001|I think so.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000045_000002|As human as you or i I'll tell you all I know, and then you can judge for yourself.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000045_000004|But first slip on a bathing suit."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000046_000000|I didn't argue the matter.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000047_000000|"Late this afternoon I decided to go for a little walk along the beach," Mercer began.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000049_000000|"She was laying face down in the water, motionless, her head towards the sea, one arm stretched out before her, and her long hair wrapped around her like a half transparent cloak.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000050_000000|"I ran up and lifted her from the water.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000050_000001|Her body was cold, and deathly white, although her lips were faintly pink, and her heart was beating, faintly but steadily.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000051_000000|"Like most people in an emergency.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000051_000003|So I picked her up in my arms and brought her to the house as quickly as I could.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000051_000004|She seemed to be reviving, for she was struggling and gasping when I got here with her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000052_000000|"I placed her on the bed in the guest room and poured her a stiff drink of Scotch-half a tumblerful, I believe.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000052_000001|Lifting up her head, I placed the glass to her lips.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000052_000003|She did not seem to drink it, but sucked it out of the glass in a single amazing gulp-that's the only word for it.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000052_000004|The next instant she was off the bed, her face a perfect mask of hate and agony.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000054_000000|"Webbed?" I asked, startled.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000055_000000|"Webbed," nodded Mercer solemnly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000055_000001|"As are her feet.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000055_000002|But listen, Taylor. I was amazed, and not a little rattled when she came for me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000055_000004|For a moment she ran after me, rather awkwardly and heavily, but swiftly, nevertheless.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000055_000005|Then she saw the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000056_000000|"Apparently forgetting that I existed, she leaped into the water, and as I approached a moment later I could see her breathing deeply and gratefully, a smile of relief upon her features, as she lay upon the bottom of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000056_000001|Breathing, Taylor, on the bottom of the pool!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000056_000002|Under eight feet of water!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000057_000000|"And then what, Mercer?" I reminded him, as he paused, apparently lost in thought.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000058_000001|I put on my bathing suit and dived into the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000058_000002|Well, she came at me like a shark, quick as a flash, her teeth showing, her hands tearing like claws through the water.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000058_000003|I turned, but not quickly enough to entirely escape.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000058_000005|Through the rent three deep, jagged scratches were clearly visible.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000059_000000|"She managed to claw me, just once," Mercer resumed, wrapping the robe about him again.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000059_000001|"Then I got out and called on Carson for help.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000059_000002|I put him into a bathing suit, and we both endeavored to corner her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000060_000000|"The harder we tried, the more determined I became.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000060_000001|She would sit there, calm and placid, until one of us entered the water.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000060_000002|Then she became a veritable fury.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000060_000003|It was maddening.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000061_000000|"At last I thought of you.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000061_000001|I phoned, and here we are!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000062_000000|"But, Mercer, it's a nightmare!" I protested.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000063_000000|Mercer paused a moment, staring at me oddly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000064_000000|"The human race," he said gravely, "came up out of sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000064_000001|The human race as we know it.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000065_000000|"What do you mean.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000065_000001|Mercer?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000065_000002|'Some may have gone back?' I don't get it."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000066_000000|Mercer shook his head, but made no other reply until we stood again on the edge of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000067_000000|The girl was standing where we had left her, and as she looked up into my face, she smiled again, and made a quick gesture with one hand.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000067_000001|It seemed to me that she invited me to join her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000068_000000|"I believe she likes you, Taylor," said Mercer thoughtfully.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000068_000001|"You're light, light skin, light hair.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000068_000002|Carson and I are both very dark, almost swarthy.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000068_000003|And in that white bathing suit-yes, I believe she's taken a fancy to you!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000069_000000|Mercer's eyes were dancing.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000070_000000|"If she has," he went on, "it'll make our work very easy."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000071_000000|"What work?" I asked suspiciously.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000071_000001|Mercer, always an indefatigable experimenter, was never above using his friends in the benefit of science.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000071_000002|And some of his experiments in the past had been rather trying, not to say exciting.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000072_000000|"I think I have what you call my thought telegraph perfected, experimentally," he explained rapidly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000072_000001|"I fell asleep working on it at three o'clock, or thereabouts, this morning, and some tests with Carson seem to indicate that it is a success.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000072_000002|I should have called you to morrow, for further test.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000073_000000|"And what do you plan to do now?" I asked eagerly, glancing down at the beautiful pale face that glimmered up at me through the clear water of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000074_000000|"Why, try it on her!" exclaimed Mercer with mounting enthusiasm.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000074_000001|"Don't you see, Taylor?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000074_000002|If it will work on her, and we can direct her thoughts, we can find out her history, the history of her people!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000074_000003|We'll add a page to scientific history-a whole big chapter!--that will make us famous. Man this is so big it's swept me off my feet!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000074_000004|Look!" And he held out a thin, aristocratic brown hand before my eyes, a hand that shook with nervous excitement.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000075_000000|"I don't blame you," I said quickly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000075_000002|Let's get busy.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000075_000003|What can I do?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000076_000000|Mercer reached around the door into the laboratory and pressed a button.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000077_000000|"For Carson," he explained.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000077_000001|"We'll need his help.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000077_000002|In the meantime, we'll look over the set-up.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000077_000003|The apparatus is strewn all over the place."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000078_000000|He had not exaggerated.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000078_000001|The set-up consisted of a whole bank of tubes, each one in its own shielding copper box.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000078_000003|On the end of the table nearest the door was still another panel, the smallest of the lot, bearing only a series of jacks along one side, and in the center a switch with four contact points.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000078_000004|A heavy, snaky cable led from this panel to the maze of apparatus further on.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000079_000000|"This is the control panel," explained Mercer.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000079_000001|"The whole affair, you understand, is in laboratory form.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000079_000003|Put the different antennae plug into these jacks.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000079_000004|Like this."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000080_000000|He picked up a weird, hastily built contrivance composed of two semi-circular pieces of spring brass, crossed at right angles.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000080_000001|On all four ends were bright silvery electrodes, three of them circular in shape, one of them elongated and slightly curved.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000080_000002|With a quick, nervous gesture, Mercer fitted the thing to his head, so that the elongated electrode pressed against the back of his neck, extending a few inches down his spine.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000080_000003|The other three circular electrodes rested on his forehead and either side of his head.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000081_000000|"Now," he directed, "you put on this one"--he adjusted a second contrivance upon my head, smiling as I shrank from the contact of the cold metal on my skin-"and think!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000082_000000|He moved the switch from the position marked "Off" to the second contact point, watching me intently, his dark eyes gleaming.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000083_000001|Very nice old chap, Carson, impressive even in his bathing suit.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000083_000002|Mercer was mighty lucky to have a man like Carson....
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000084_000000|Something seemed to tick suddenly, somewhere deep in my consciousness.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000085_000000|"Yes, that's very true: Carson is a most decent sort of chap." The words were not spoken.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000085_000002|What-I glanced at Mercer, and he laughed aloud with pleasure and excitement.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000086_000000|"It worked!" he cried.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000086_000001|"I received your thought regarding Carson, and then turned the switch so that you received my thought.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000086_000002|And you did!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000087_000000|Rather gingerly I removed the thing from my head and laid it on the table.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000088_000000|"It's wizardry, Mercer!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000000|"It will, I know it will!--if we can get her to wear one of these," replied Mercer confidently.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000001|"I have only three of them; I had planned some three cornered experiments with you, Carson, and myself.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000002|We'll leave Carson out of to night's experiment, however, for we'll need him to operate this switch.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000003|You see, as it is now wired only one person transmits thoughts at a time.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000004|The other two receive.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000007|And so on.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000008|I'll lengthen these leads so that we can run them out into the pool, and then we'll be ready. Somehow we must induce her to wear one of these things, even if we have to use force.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000089_000009|I'm sure the three of us can handle her."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000090_000000|"We should be able to," I smiled.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000090_000001|She was such a slim, graceful, almost delicate little thing; the thought that three strong men might not be able to control her seemed almost amusing.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000091_000001|"And what's more, I hope you don't."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000092_000000|I watched him in silence as he spliced and securely taped the last connection.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000093_000000|"All set," he nodded.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000093_000001|"Carson, will you operate the switch for us?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000093_000002|I believe everything is functioning properly." He surveyed the panel of instruments hastily, assuring himself that every reading was correct. Then, with all three of the devices he called antennae in his hand, their leads plugged into the control panel, he led the way to the side of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000095_000001|She seemed to propel herself with a sudden mighty thrust of her feet against the bottom; she darted through the water with the speed of an arrow, yet stopped as gently as though she had merely floated there.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000096_000000|As she looked up, her eyes unmistakably sought mine, and her smile seemed warm and inviting.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000096_000001|She made again that strange little gesture of invitation.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000097_000000|With an effort I glanced at Mercer.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000097_000001|There was something devilishly fascinating about the girl's great, dark, searching eyes.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000098_000000|"I'm going in," I said hoarsely.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000099_000000|I headed directly towards the heavy bronze ladder that led to the bottom of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000099_000001|I had two reasons in mind.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000099_000002|I would need something to keep me under water, with my lungs full of air, and I could get out quickly if it were necessary.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000100_000000|Quickly as I shot to the ladder she was there before me, a dim, wavering white shape, waiting.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000101_000001|She came closer, walking with the airy grace I had noted before, and my heart pounded against my ribs as she raised one long, slim arm towards me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000102_000001|Perhaps, I thought quickly, this was, with her, a sign of greeting.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000104_000001|I looked down.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000104_000002|The girl was watching me, and there was no smile on her face now.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000105_000001|Then, filling my lungs with air again, I pulled myself, by means of the ladder, to the bottom of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000106_000000|The strange creature thrust her face close to mine as my feet touched bottom, and for the first time I saw her features distinctly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000107_000001|As I had already noticed, her eyes were of unusual size, and I saw now that they were an intense shade of blue, with a pupil of extraordinary proportion. Her nose was well shaped, but the nostrils were slightly flattened, and the orifices were rather more elongated than I had ever seen before.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000107_000002|The mouth was utterly fascinating, and her teeth, revealed by her engaging smile, were as perfect as it would be possible to imagine.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000108_000000|The great mane of hair which enveloped her was, as I have said, tawny in hue, and almost translucent, like the stems of some seaweeds I have seen.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000108_000002|They were barely noticeable, for they were as transparent as the fins of a fish, but they were there, extending nearly to the last joint of each finger.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000109_000000|As her face came close to my own, I became aware of the humming, crooning sound I had heard before, louder this time.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000109_000002|I smiled back at her and shook my head. She seemed to understand, for the sound ceased, and she studied me with a little thoughtful frown, as though trying to figure out some other method of communication.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000110_000000|I pointed upward, for I was feeling the need for fresh air again, and slowly mounted the ladder.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000110_000001|This time she did not grasp me, but watched me intently, as though understanding what I did, and the reasons for it.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000111_000000|"Bring one of your gadgets over here, Mercer," I called across the pool. "I think I'm making progress."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000112_000001|Through the water the girl watched him, evident dislike in her eyes.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000113_000000|"You won't be able to stay in the water with her," explained Mercer rapidly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000113_000001|"The salt water would short the antennae, you see.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000113_000002|Try to get her to wear one, and then you get your head out of water, and don yours. And remember, she won't be able to communicate with us by words-we'll have to get her to convey her thoughts by means of mental pictures.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000113_000003|I'll try to impress that on her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000113_000004|Understand?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000114_000000|I nodded, and picked up one of the instruments.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000114_000001|"Fire when ready, Gridley," I commented, and sank again to the bottom of the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000118_000001|Then, gesturing toward my own head again, and pointing upward. I climbed the ladder.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000122_000000|I could sense Mercer's thoughts now.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000122_000001|He was picturing himself walking long the shore, with the stormy ocean in the background.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000122_000003|I saw him run up to the pool and lift the slim, pale figure in his arms.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000124_000000|I looked down at the girl.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000124_000001|She was frowning, and her eyes were very wide.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000125_000001|Then I saw again the beach, with the girl's figure in the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000125_000002|The picture grew hazy; I realized Mercer was trying to picture the bottom of the sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000125_000003|Then he pictured again the girl lying in the pool, and once again the sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000125_000004|I was aware of the soft little tick in the center of my brain that announced that the switch had been moved to another contact point.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000126_000000|I glanced down at her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000126_000001|She was staring up at me with her great, curious eyes, and I sensed, through the medium of the instrument I wore, that she was thinking of me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000126_000003|I realized that I saw myself, in short, as she saw me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000126_000004|I smiled back at her, and shook my head.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000127_000000|A strange, dim whirl of pictures swept through my consciousness.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000127_000001|I was on the bottom of the ocean.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000128_000000|All around were strange structures of jagged coral, roughly circular as to base, and rounded on top, resembling very much the igloos of the Eskimos.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000128_000002|Around many of them grew clusters of strange and colorful seaweeds that waved their banners gently, as though some imperceptible current dallied with them in passing.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000129_000000|Here and there figures moved, slim white figures that strolled along the narrow street, or at times shot overhead like veritable torpedoes.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000130_000002|Both sexes were slim, and there was a remarkable uniformity of size and appearance.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000132_000001|She was walking slowly away from the cluster of coral structures. Once or twice she paused, and seemed to hold conversation with others of the strange people, but each time she moved on.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000133_000000|The coral structures grew smaller and poorer.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000134_000000|Sauntering dreamily, she moved away from the ancient derelict.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000134_000001|Suddenly a dim shadow swept across the sand at her feet, and she arrowed from the spot like a white, slim meteor.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000134_000002|But behind her darted a black and swifter shadow-a shark!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000135_000000|Like a flash she turned and faced the monster.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000135_000001|Something she had drawn from her girdle shone palely in her hand.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000135_000002|It was a knife of whetted stone or bone.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000136_000000|Darting swiftly downward her feet spurned the yellow sand, and she shot at her enemy with amazing speed.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000136_000001|The long blade swept in an arc, ripped the pale belly of the monster just as he turned to dart away.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000137_000000|A great cloud of blood dyed the water.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000137_000001|The white figure of the girl shot onward through the scarlet flood.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000138_000000|Blinded, she did not see that the jutting ribs of the ancient ship were in her path.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000138_000001|I seemed to see her crash, head on, into one of the massive timbers, and I cried out involuntarily, and glanced down at the girl in the water at my feet.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000139_000000|Her eyes were glowing.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000140_000002|The impressions grew wilder, swirled, grew gray and indistinct.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000140_000003|Then I had a view of Mercer's face, so terribly distorted it was barely recognizable. Then a kaleidoscopic maze of inchoate scenes, shot through with flashes of vivid, agonizing colors.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000140_000004|The girl was thinking of her suffering, taken out of her native element.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000140_000005|In trying to save her, Mercer had almost killed her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000140_000006|That, no doubt, was why she hated him.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000143_000000|My heart was pounding.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000143_000002|I forgot, for the moment, who and what I was.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000143_000003|I remembered only that a note had been sounded that awoke an echo of a long forgotten instinct.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000144_000000|I think I kissed her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000144_000002|Her great, weirdly blue eyes seemed to bore into my brain.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000145_000000|I forgot time and space.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000145_000001|I saw only that pale, smiling face and those great dark eyes.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000145_000002|Then, strangling, I tore myself from her embrace and shot to the surface.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000146_000001|I was weak and shaking when I finished, but my head was clear.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000147_000000|Mercer was bending over me; speaking softly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000148_000000|"I was watching, old man," he said gently.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000148_000001|"I can imagine what happened. A momentary, psychic fusing of an ancient, long since broken link.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000148_000002|You, together with all mankind, came up out of the sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000148_000003|But there is no retracing the way."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000149_000000|I nodded, my head bowed on my streaming chest.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000150_000000|"Sorry, Mercer," I muttered.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000150_000001|"Something got into me.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000150_000003|I can't describe it...."
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000151_000001|It helped jerk me back to the normal.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000152_000000|"You've got your feet on the ground again, Taylor," he commented soothingly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000152_000002|Shall we carry on?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000153_000000|"There's more you'd like to learn?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000153_000001|That you think she can give us?" I asked hesitantly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000154_000000|"I believe," replied Mercer, "that she can give us the history of her people, if we can only make her understand what we wish.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000154_000001|God!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000154_000002|If we only could!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000155_000000|"We can try, old timer," I said, a bit shakenly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000156_000000|Mercer hurried back to the other side of the pool, and I adjusted my head set again, smiling down at the girl.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000157_000000|I was conscious of the little click that told me the switch had been moved.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000157_000001|Mercer was ready to get his message to her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000158_000000|Fixing my eyes on the girl pleadingly, I settled myself by the edge of the pool to await the second and more momentous part of our experiment.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000159_000000|The vision was vague, for Mercer was picturing his thoughts with difficulty.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000159_000001|But I seemed to see again the floor of the ocean, with the vague light filtering down from above, and soft, monstrous growths waving their branches lazily in the flood.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000160_000000|From the left came a band of men and women, looking around as though in search of some particular spot.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000161_000000|Then the band set to work.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000161_000001|Coral growth were dragged to the spot.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000161_000002|The foundation for one of the semi-circular houses was laid.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000161_000003|The scene swirled and cleared again.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000161_000004|The house was completed.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000162_000001|The houses were left behind. Before my consciousness now was only a vague and shadowy expanse of ocean floor, and in the sand dim imprints that marked where the strange people had trod, the vague footprints disappearing in the gloom in the direction from which the little weary band had come.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000162_000002|To me, at least, it was quite clear that Mercer was asking whence they came.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000162_000003|Would it be as clear to the girl?
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000163_000001|There were persons there, seated on stone or coral chairs, padded with marine growths.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000163_000002|One of the occupants of the room was a very old man; his face was wrinkled, and his hair was silvery.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000163_000003|With him were a man and a woman, and a little girl.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000163_000004|Somehow I seemed to recognize the child as the girl in the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000165_000000|The scene faded.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000165_000002|Then, gradually, it cleared somewhat.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000165_000003|I sensed the fact that what I saw now was what the old man was telling, and that the majestic, swirling mist was the turning back of time.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000166_000000|Here was no ocean bottom, but land, rich tropical jungle.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000166_000001|Strange exotic trees and dense growths of rank undergrowth choked the earth.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000166_000002|The trees were oddly like undersea growths, which puzzled me for an instant.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000167_000000|There was a gray haze of mist everywhere.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000167_000001|The leaves were glistening with condensed moisture; swift drops fell incessantly to the soaking ground below.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000168_000000|Into the scene roamed a pitiful band of people.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000169_000000|They searched ceaselessly for something, and I guessed that something was food.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000170_000000|At last they came to the edge of the sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000170_000002|At first they ate the food raw, tearing the flesh from the shells.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000170_000003|Then they made what I understood was a fire, although the girl was able to visualize it only as a bright red spot that flickered.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000171_000001|Then the scene cleared again.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000172_000000|I saw that same shore line, but the people had vanished.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000174_000000|This was not the same band I had seen at first.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000174_000001|These were a slimmer race, and whereas the first band had been exceedingly swarthy, these were very fair.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000175_000001|In a few seconds they rose and ran into the water, plunged into it as though they welcomed its embrace, and disappeared.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000175_000002|Then again the vision was swallowed up by the swirling mists of time.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000176_000000|When the scene cleared again, it showed the bottom of the sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000176_000003|The band approached, seemed to talk with those there, and moved on.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000177_000000|I saw them capture and kill fish for food, saw them carve the thick, spongy hearts from certain giant growths and eat them.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000179_000002|Dimly, I could see there a low couch, piled high with soft marine growths.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000181_000000|Others, after a time, joined them in their search, which spread out to the floor of the ocean, away from the dwellings.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000181_000001|One party came to the gaunt skeleton of the ancient wreck, and found the scattered, fresh picked bones of the shark the girl had killed.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000181_000002|The man and the woman came up, and I looked closely into their faces.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000181_000003|The woman's features were torn with grief; the man's lips were set tight with suffering.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000182_000000|A milling mass of white forms shot through the water in every direction, searching.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000182_000001|It seemed that they were about to give up the search when suddenly, from out of the watery gloom, there shot a slim white figure-the girl!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000183_000000|Straight to the mother and father she came, gripping the shoulder of each with frantic joy.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000183_000001|They returned the caress, the crowd gathered around them, listening to her story as they moved slowly, happily, towards the distant city.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000184_000000|Instead of a picture, I was conscious then of a sound, like a single pleading word repeated softly, as though someone said "Please!
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000184_000001|Please! Please!" over and over again.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000184_000002|The sound was not at all like the English word.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000184_000003|It was a soft, musical beat, like the distant stroke of a mellow gong, but it had all the pleading quality of the word it seemed to bring to mind.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000185_000000|I looked down into the pool.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000185_000002|Her eyes met mine and I knew that I had not misunderstood.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000186_000000|I threw off the instrument on my head, and dropped down beside her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000186_000001|With both hands I grasped her shoulders, and, smiling, I nodded my head vigorously.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000187_000000|She understood, I know she did.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000187_000001|I read it in her face.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000187_000002|When I climbed the ladder again, she looked after me, smiling confidently.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000188_000000|Although I had not spoken to her, she had read and accepted the promise.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000189_000000|Mercer stared at me silently, grimly, as I told him what I wished. Whatever eloquence I may have, I used on him, and I saw his cold, scientific mind waver before the warmth of my appeal.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000190_000000|"We have no right to keep her from her people," I concluded.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000190_000001|"You saw her mother and father, saw their suffering, and the joy her return would bring.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000190_000002|You will, Mercer-you will return her to the sea?"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000191_000001|Then he lifted his dark eyes to mine, and smiled, rather wearily.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000192_000000|"It is the only thing we can do, Taylor," he said quietly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000192_000002|And you promised her, Taylor, whether you spoke your promise or not." His smile deepened a bit.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000193_000000|And so, just as the dawn was breaking, we took her to the shore.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000193_000001|I carried her, unresisting, trustful, in my arms, while Mercer bore a huge basin of water, in which her head was submerged, so that she might not suffer.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000194_000000|Still in our bathing suits we waded out into the ocean, until the waves splashed against our faces.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000194_000001|Then I lowered her into the sea.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000194_000002|Crouching there, so that the water was just above the tawny glory of her hair, she gazed up at us.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000194_000003|Two slim white hands reached towards us, and with one accord, Mercer and I bent towards her.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000194_000004|She gripped both our shoulders with a gentle pressure, smiling at us.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000195_000002|With a last swift, smiling glance up into my face, she turned.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000195_000004|She was gone....
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000198_000000|"Man came up from the sea," he said slowly, "and some men went back to it.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000198_000001|They were forced back to the teeming source from whence they came, for lack of food.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000198_000002|You saw that, Taylor-saw her forebears become amphibians, like the now extinct Dipneusta and Ganoideii, or the still existing Neoceratodus, Polypterus and Amia.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000198_000003|Then their lungs became, in effect, gills, and they lost their power of breathing atmospheric air, and could use only air dissolved in water.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000199_000000|"A whole people there beneath the waves that land man never dreamed of-except, perhaps, the sailors of olden days, with their tales of mermaids, which we are accustomed to laugh at in our wisdom!"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000200_000001|"I would think-"
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000201_000000|"You saw why," interrupted Mercer grimly.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000201_000002|Death is the signal for a feast.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000201_000005|The differences between these people and ourselves would not be noticeable to a casual observer.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000202_000000|"No, Taylor, we have been party to what was close to a miracle.
train-clean-100/8088/284756/8088_284756_000203_000000|I did not reply.
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train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000007_000000|sixteen eighty eight
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000021_000000|{sixteen twenty five.} No sooner had Charles taken into his hands the reins of government, than he showed an impatience to assemble the great council of the nation; and he would gladly, for the sake of despatch, have called together the same parliament which had sitten under his father, and which lay at that time under prorogation.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000021_000001|But being told that this measure would appear unusual, he issued writs for summoning a new parliament on the seventh of May; and it was not without regret that the arrival of the princess Henrietta, whom he had espoused by proxy, obliged him to delay, by repeated prorogations, their meeting till the eighteenth of June, when they assembled at Westminster for the despatch of business.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000021_000004|His discourse to the parliament was full of simplicity and cordiality.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000023_000001|They knew that all the money granted by the last parliament had been expended on naval and military armaments; and that great anticipations were likewise made on the revenues of the crown.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000023_000002|They were not ignorant that Charles was loaded with a large debt, contracted by his father, who had borrowed money both from his own subjects and from foreign princes.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000023_000003|They had learned by experience, that the public revenue could with difficulty maintain the dignity of the crown, even under the ordinary charges of government.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000023_000004|They were sensible, that the present war was very lately the result of their own importunate applications and entreaties, and that they had solemnly engaged to support their sovereign in the management of it.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000023_000005|They were acquainted with the difficulty of military enterprises directed against the whole house of Austria; against the king of Spain, possessed of the greatest riches and most extensive dominions of any prince in Europe; against the emperor Ferdinand, hitherto the most fortunate monarch of his age, who had subdued and astonished Germany by the rapidity of his victories.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000026_000001|So numerous an assembly, composed of persons of various dispositions, was not, it is probable, wholly influenced by the same motives; and few declared openly their true reason.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000026_000002|We shall, therefore, approach nearer to the truth, if we mention all the views which the present conjuncture could suggest to them.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000027_000000|It is not to be doubted, but spleen and ill will against the duke of Buckingham had an influence with many.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000027_000002|His influence over the modesty of Charles exceeded even that which he had acquired over the weakness of james; nor was any public measure conducted but by his counsel and direction.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000027_000003|His vehement temper prompted him to raise suddenly, to the highest elevation, his flatterers and dependants; and upon the least occasion of displeasure, he threw them down with equal impetuosity and violence.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000028_000000|However the ill humor of the commons might have been increased by these considerations, we are not to suppose them the sole motives.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000028_000001|The last parliament of james, amidst all their joy and festivity, had given him a supply very disproportioned to his demand, and to the occasion.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000028_000002|And as every house of commons which was elected during forty years, succeeded to all the passions and principles of their predecessors, we ought rather to account for this obstinacy from the general situation of the kingdom during that whole period, than from any circumstances which attended this particular conjuncture.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000029_000000|The nation was very little accustomed at that time to the burden of taxes, and had never opened their purses in any degree for supporting their sovereign.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000029_000001|Even Elizabeth, notwithstanding her vigor and frugality, and the necessary wars in which she was engaged, had reason to complain of the commons in this particular; nor could the authority of that princess, which was otherwise almost absolute, ever extort from them the requisite supplies.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000029_000003|In this view, likewise, the sinking of the value of subsidies must be considered as a loss to the king.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000029_000004|The parliament, swayed by custom, would not augment their number in the same proportion.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000030_000000|The Puritanical party, though disguised, had a great authority over the kingdom; and many of the leaders among the commons had secretly embraced the rigid tenets of that sect.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000030_000001|All these were disgusted with the court, both by the prevalence of the principles of civil liberty essential to their party, and on account of the restraint under which they were held by the established hierarchy.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000030_000002|In order to fortify himself against the resentment of james, Buckingham had affected popularity, and entered into the cabals of the Puritans: but, being secure of the confidence of Charles, he had since abandoned this party; and on that account was the more exposed to their hatred and resentment.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000030_000003|Though the religious schemes of many of the Puritans, when explained, appear pretty frivolous, we are not thence to imagine that they were pursued by none but persons of weak understandings.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000032_000004|In this dilemma, men of such aspiring geniuses, and such independent fortunes, could not long deliberate: they boldly embraced the side of freedom, and resolved to grant no supplies to their necessitous prince, without extorting concessions in favor of civil liberty.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000032_000005|The end they esteemed beneficent and noble; the means, regular and constitutional.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000032_000006|To grant or refuse supplies was the undoubted privilege of the commons.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000032_000007|And as all human governments, particularly those of a mixed frame, are in continual fluctuation, it was as natural, in their opinion, and allowable, for popular assemblies to take advantage of favorable incidents, in order to secure the subject, as for monarchs, in order to extend their own authority.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000033_000001|Strongly prejudiced in favor of the duke, whom he had heard so highly extolled in parliament, he could not conjecture the cause of so sudden an alteration in their opinions.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000033_000002|And when the war which they themselves had so earnestly solicited, was at last commenced, the immediate desertion of their sovereign could not but seem very unaccountable.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000033_000004|Those lofty ideas of monarchical power which were very commonly adopted during that age, and to which the ambiguous nature of the English constitution gave so plausible an appearance, were firmly rivetted in Charles; and however moderate his temper, the natural and unavoidable prepossessions of self love, joined to the late uniform precedents in favor of prerogative, had made him regard his political tenets as certain and uncontroverted.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000033_000006|So atrocious in his eyes was such a design, that he seems even unwilling to impute it to the commons; and though he was constrained to adjourn the parliament by reason of the plague, which at that time raged in London, he immediately reassembled them at Oxford, and made a new attempt to gain from them some supplies in such an urgent necessity.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000034_000000|Charles now found himself obliged to depart from that delicacy which he had formerly maintained.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000037_000000|To these reasons the commons remained inexorable.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000042_000002|These the French court had pretended they would employ against the Genoese, who, being firm and useful allies to the Spanish monarchy, were naturally regarded with an evil eye, both by the king of France and of England.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000042_000010|As the duke knew that authority alone would not suffice, he employed much art and many subtleties to engage them to obedience; and a rumor which was spread, that peace had been concluded between the French king and the Hugonots, assisted him in his purpose.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000042_000012|Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who commanded one of the vessels, broke through and returned to England.
train-clean-100/8095/274345/8095_274345_000044_000002|Great murmurs and discontents still prevailed in parliament.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000004_000001|It consisted of eighty vessels, great and small; and carried an board an army of ten thousand men.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000004_000002|Sir Edward Cecil, lately created Viscount Wimbleton, was intrusted with the command.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000004_000003|He sailed immediately for Cadiz, and found the bay full of Spanish ships of great value.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000004_000004|He either neglected to attack these ships or attempted it preposterously.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000004_000005|The army was landed, and a fort taken; but the undisciplined soldiers, finding store of wine, could not be restrained from the utmost excesses.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000004_000006|Further stay appearing fruitless, they were reembarked; and the fleet put to sea with an intention of intercepting the Spanish galleons.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000005_000001|Though the ill success of his enterprises diminished his authority, and showed every day more plainly the imprudence of the Spanish war; though the increase of his necessities rendered him more dependent, and more exposed to the encroachments of the commons, he was resolved to try once more that regular and constitutional expedient for supply.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000005_000002|Perhaps, too, a little political art, which at that time he practised, was much trusted to.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000009_000002|The supply was only voted by the commons.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000009_000004|Under color of redressing grievances, which during this short reign could not be very numerous, they were to proceed in regulating and controlling every part of government which displeased them; and if the king either cut them short in this undertaking, or refused compliance with their demands, he must not expect any supply from the commons.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000015_000000|As long as james lived, Bristol, secure of the concealed favor of that monarch, had expressed all duty and obedience; in expectation that an opportunity would offer of reinstating himself in his former credit and authority.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000015_000001|Even after Charles's accession he despaired not.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000015_000002|He submitted to the king's commands of remaining at his country seat, and of absenting himself from parliament.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000015_000003|Many trials he made to regain the good opinion of his master; but finding them all fruitless, and observing Charles to be entirely governed by Buckingham, his implacable enemy, he resolved no longer to keep any measures with the court.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000016_000003|Provoked at these repeated instances of vigor, which the court denominated contumacy, Charles ordered his attorney general to enter an accusation of high treason against him.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000016_000006|From the whole, the great imprudence of the duke evidently appears, and the sway of his ungovernable passions; but it would be difficult to collect thence any action which, in the eye of the law, could be deemed a crime, much less could subject him to the penalty of treason.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000024_000000|It is remarkable that the commons, though so much at a loss to find articles of charge against Buckingham, never adopted Bristol's accusation, or impeached the duke for his conduct in the Spanish treaty, the most blamable circumstance in his whole life.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000025_000002|The history of England had never hitherto afforded one instance where any great movement or revolution had proceeded from the lower house.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000025_000003|And as their rank, both considered in a body and as individuals, was but the second in the kingdom, nothing less than fatal experience could engage the English princes to pay a due regard to the inclinations of that formidable assembly.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000026_000000|The earl of Suffolk, chancellor of the university of Cambridge, dying about this time, Buckingham, though lying under impeachment was yet, by means of court interest, chosen in his place.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000032_000000|Besides a more stately style which Charles in general affected to this parliament than to the last, he went so far, in a message, as to threaten the commons that, if they did not furnish him with supplies, he should be obliged to try new "counsels." This language was sufficiently clear: yet lest any ambiguity should remain, Sir Dudley Carleton, vice chamberlain, took care to explain it.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000032_000001|"I pray you, consider," said he, "what these new counsels are, or may be.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000032_000002|I fear to declare those that I conceive.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000032_000005|A precarious liberty, the commons thought, which was to be preserved by unlimited complaisance, was no liberty at all.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000032_000006|And it was necessary, while yet in their power, to secure the constitution by such invincible barriers, that no king or minister should ever, for the future, dare to speak such a language to any parliament, or even entertain such a project against them.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000033_000001|Charles alleged, as the reason of this measure, certain seditious expressions, which, he said, had, in their accusation of the duke, dropped from these members.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000039_000000|The ill humor of the commons, thus wantonly irritated by the court, and finding no gratification in the legal impeachment of Buckingham, sought other objects on which it might exert itself.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000039_000001|The never failing cry of Popery here served them in stead.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000039_000003|He had promised to the last house of commons a redress of this religious grievance: but he was apt, in imitation of his father, to imagine that the parliament, when they failed of supplying his necessities, had, on their part, freed him from the obligation of a strict performance.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000039_000004|A new odium, likewise, by these representations, was attempted to be thrown upon Buckingham.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000039_000005|His mother, who had great influence over him, was a professed Catholic; his wife was not free from suspicion: and the indulgence given to Catholics was of course supposed to proceed entirely from his credit and authority.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000044_000002|This article, together with the new impositions laid on merchandise by james, constituted near half of the crown revenues; and by depriving the king of these resources, they would have reduced him to total subjection and dependence.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000000|All the other complaints against him were mere pretences.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000001|A little before, he was the idol of the people.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000002|No new crime had since been discovered.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000003|After the most diligent inquiry, prompted by the greatest malice, the smallest appearance of guilt could not be fixed upon him. What idea, he asked, must all mankind entertain of his honor, should he sacrifice his innocent friend to pecuniary considerations?
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000004|What further authority should he retain in the nation, were he capable, in the beginning of his reign, to give, in so signal an instance, such matter of triumph to his enemies, and discouragement to his adherents?
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000005|To day the commons pretend to wrest his minister from him: to morrow they will attack some branch of his prerogative.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000006|By their remonstrances, and promises, and protestations, they had engaged the crown in a war. As soon as they saw a retreat impossible, without waiting for new incidents, without covering themselves with new pretences, they immediately deserted him, and refused him all reasonable supply.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000008|To such deep perfidy, to such unbounded usurpations, it was necessary to oppose a proper firmness and resolution.
train-clean-100/8095/274346/8095_274346_000048_000009|All encroachments on supreme power could only be resisted successfully on the first attempt.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000001_000000|At the time when Charles married by proxy the princess Henrietta, the duke of Buckingham had been sent to France, in order to grace the nuptials, and conduct the new queen into England.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000001_000002|The beauty of his person, the gracefulness of his air, the splendor of his equipage, his fine taste in dress, festivals, and carousals, corresponded to the prepossessions entertained in his favor: the affability of his behavior, the gayety of his manners, the magnificence of his expense, increased still further the general admiration which was paid him.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000003_000000|But his great success at Paris proved as fatal as his former failure at Madrid.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000004_000003|But a priest, past middle age, of a severe character, and occupied in the most extensive plans of ambition or vengeance, was but an unequal match, in that contest, for a young courtier, entirely disposed to gayety and gallantry.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000004_000005|When the duke was making preparations for a new embassy to Paris, a message was sent him from Louis, that he must not think of such a journey.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000009_000000|Soubize, who, with his brother, the duke of Rohan, was the leader of the Hugonot faction, was at that time in London, and strongly solicited Charles to embrace the protection of these distressed religionists.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000010_000000|Though Charles probably bore but small favor to the Hugonots, who so much resembled the Puritans in discipline and worship, in religion and politics, he yet allowed himself to be gained by these arguments, enforced by the solicitations of Buckingham.
train-clean-100/8095/274348/8095_274348_000010_000001|A fleet of a hundred sail, and an army of seven thousand men, were fitted out for the invasion of France, and both of them intrusted to the command of the duke, who was altogether unacquainted both with land and sea service.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000001_000000|A DROLL FOX TRAP
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000002_000000|By c a Stephens
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000004_000000|There were red foxes, "cross grays," and "silver grays;" even black foxes were reported.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000004_000001|These animals were the pests of the farm yards, and made havoc with the geese, cats, turkeys, and chickens.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000004_000003|Their sharp, cur like barks used often to rouse us, and of a dark evening we would hear them out in the fields, "mousing" around the stone heaps, making a queer, squeaking sound like a mouse, to call the real mice out of their grass nests inside the stone heaps. This, indeed, is a favorite trick of Reynard.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000005_000000|At the time of my story, my friend Tom Edwards (ten years of age) and myself were in the turkey business, equal partners.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000005_000001|We owned a flock of thirty one turkeys.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000006_000000|All went well till the last week in October, when, on taking the census one morning, a turkey was found to be missing; the thirty one had become thirty since nightfall the previous evening. It was the first one we had lost.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000007_000000|We proceeded to look for traces.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000007_000001|Our suspicions were divided.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000007_000002|Tom thought it was "the Twombly boys," nefarious Sam in particular.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000007_000003|I thought it might have been an owl.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000007_000006|It was, as we regarded it, one of those unfortunate occurrences which no care on our part could have well foreseen, and a casualty such as turkey raisers are unavoidably heirs to, and we bore our loss with resignation.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000008_000000|This theory received something of a check when our flock counted only twenty nine the next morning.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000008_000001|There were more fox tracks, and a great many more feathers under the tree.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000008_000002|This put a new and altogether ugly aspect on the matter.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000008_000003|No algebra was needed to figure the outcome of the turkey business at this rate, together with our prospective profits, in the light of this new fact.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000008_000004|It was clear that something must be done, and at once, too, or ruin would swallow up the poultry firm.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000009_000000|Rightly or wrongly, we attributed the mischief to a certain "silver gray" that had several times been seen in the neighborhood that autumn.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000010_000000|It would take far too much space to relate in detail the plans we laid and put in execution to catch that fox during the next two weeks.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000010_000001|I recollect that we set three traps for him to no purpose, and that we borrowed a fox hound to hunt him with, but merely succeeded in running him to the burrow in a neighboring rocky hill side, whence we found it quite impossible to dislodge the wily fellow.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000012_000001|This dilemma of ours developed Tom's genius.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000014_000000|"But how?" I asked.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000014_000002|He brought a two bushel basket and went out into the fields.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000016_000000|They did, certainly; they savored as strongly of mice as Tom's question of bad grammar.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000017_000000|"And don't foxes catch mice?" demanded Tom, confidently.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000020_000000|Full of wonder and curiosity, I retired to the stump.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000020_000004|Instantly two spry brown hands from out the nest clutched me with a most vengeful grip.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000020_000005|As a fox, I struggled tremendously.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000020_000006|But Tom overcame me forthwith, choked me nearly black in the face, then, in dumb show, knocked my head with a stone.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000021_000000|"D'ye see, now!" he demanded.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000022_000000|I saw.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000023_000000|"But a fox would bite you," I objected.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000024_000000|"Let him bite," said Tom.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000024_000001|"I'll resk him when once I get these two bread hooks on him.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000025_000000|That night we set ourselves to put the stratagem in operation.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000025_000001|With the dusk we stole out into the field where the stone heaps were, and where we had oftenest heard foxes bark.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000025_000002|Selecting a nook in the edge of a clump of raspberry briars which grew about a great pine stump, Tom lay down, and I covered him up completely with the contents of the big basket.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000025_000003|He then practiced squeaking and rustling several times to be sure that all was in good trim.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000025_000004|His squeaks were perfect successes-made by sucking the air sharply betwixt his teeth.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000026_000000|"Now be off," said Tom, "and don't come poking around, nor get in sight, till you hear me holler."
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000027_000000|Thus exhorted, I went into the barn and established myself at a crack on the back side, which looked out upon the field where Tom was ambushed.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000029_000000|An hour passed.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000029_000001|Tom must have grown pretty tired of squeaking.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000029_000003|I could see objects at a little distance through the crack, but could not see so far as the stump.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000030_000000|What woke me was a noise-a sharp suppressed yelp.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000030_000002|A sound of scuffling and tumbling on the ground at some distance assisted my wandering wits, and I rushed out of the barn and ran toward the field.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000030_000003|As I ran, two or three dull whacks came to my ear.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000031_000000|"Got him, Tom?" I shouted, rushing up.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000033_000000|"Bite ye?" I exclaimed, after satisfying myself that the fox was dead.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000034_000000|"Some," said Tom; and that was all I could get from him that night.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000035_000000|We took the fox to the house and lighted a candle.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000035_000001|It was the "silver gray."
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000036_000002|His left hand was bitten through the palm, and badly swollen.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000036_000004|These numerous bites, however, were followed by no serious ill effects.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000037_000000|The next day, Tom told me that the fox had suddenly plunged into the grass, that he had caught hold of one of its hind legs, and that they had rolled over and over in the grass together.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000037_000001|He owned to me that when the fox bit him on the chin, he let go of the brute, and would have given up the fight, but that the fox had then actually attacked him.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000038_000000|Considering the fact that a fox is a very active, sharp biting animal, and that this was an unusually large male, I have always thought Tom got off very well.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000038_000001|I do not think that he ever cared to make a fox trap of himself again, however.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000039_000000|We sold the fox skin in the village, and received thirteen dollars for it, whereas a common red fox skin is worth no more than three dollars.
train-clean-100/8098/275181/8098_275181_000040_000000|How, or by what wiles that fox got the turkeys out of the high butternut, is a secret-one that perished with him.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000005_000000|From Willoughby we went to Cleveland.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000005_000001|My route through the beautiful city lay along one of the finest residence streets in America-the famous Euclid avenue.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000006_000000|From there we marched to Superior street, where cheers greeted us on every hand.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000007_000000|We two were engaged to appear at the Star Theatre Wednesday evening, and when I rode out on to the stage the house shook with laughter and cheers.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000007_000001|I made a short address and announced that I would sell photos of Mac A'Rony and his master at the door.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000008_000000|That theatre put me way ahead financially.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000008_000001|Thursday morning I called on the Mayor, Mark Hanna and Senator Garfield, and added the autographs of all three to my album.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000008_000003|I went and enjoyed myself.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000009_000000|Next day I reached the village of Bedford by seven p m, only making thirteen miles; and the following night I put up at a cozy inn at Cuyahoga Falls.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000009_000001|We three had covered eighteen miles that day; it seemed twice the distance.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000009_000002|I was almost frozen.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000010_000000|"Yes, pretty chilly," I returned, politely.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000012_000000|"Pretty cold, hain't it, Professor?"
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000013_000000|"You bet," said Pod, icily.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000015_000000|"'Course it's cold!" I answered, acridly.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000017_000000|Then a woman drove past and tossed me the comforting reminder: "Don't you find it awfully cold?" I did not reply to the last two.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000018_000002|It sounded like, "Won't you come in and warm, and have lunch," I hesitated a moment in the biting wind, then retraced my steps and called to the lad: "What's that you said?"
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000019_000000|"It's a cold day!" yelled the scamp.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000020_000000|I was mad enough to unload my Winchester.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000020_000003|The human volcano was now ready to burst.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000020_000005|I shouted several times before the rig stopped.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000022_000001|I have tramped nearly twenty miles without stopping to warm or eat; and I resolved to let the next fellow have the same dose I have been taking half hourly all day.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000022_000002|Now, if you are satisfied that it is a cold day, I will bid you good night."
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000023_000000|With this I returned to my companions, somewhat warmer physically, but cooler in spirit.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000024_000001|The village dates back to pioneer days.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000026_000000|The citizens expected my arrival, and Market street teemed with excitement.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000026_000001|In front of two hotels, a block apart, stood their proprietors waving hats and arms, and calling to me to be their guest.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000026_000002|I was puzzled to know which invitation to accept.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000026_000003|While deliberating, one of the landlords approached, and taking my arm, led me to his comfortable hostelry, where he royally entertained me and my animals.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000027_000000|The pageant that celebrated the departure of William McKinley to the seat of Government was a fair estimate of the regard in which his fellow citizens held him.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000027_000001|Canton did him honor.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000027_000002|I witnessed the leave taking at his house, his ride to the train in the coach drawn by four greys under escort of a band, and heard him deliver his farewell address from the rear platform of his private car.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000028_000001|I was successful, beyond my hopes and expectations, securing fine pictures of his study and parlor.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000028_000002|The President's inauguration at Washington called forth a deafening demonstration.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000029_000000|I returned to Massillon, and at four p m, set out for Dalton over the muddiest, stickiest red clay roads I ever encountered.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000029_000001|I saw a meadow lark on the first of March; this day I heard blue birds and robins singing gaily.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000029_000002|It looked as though spring had come to stay.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000030_000000|I expected that day to reach Dalton, only eight miles distant, but the mud prevented me.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000030_000001|I put my foot in it-the genuine red and yellow mixture of real Ohio clay.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000030_000002|It was so deep, and sticky, and liberally diluted with thawed frost that once I was compelled to crawl along the top of a rail fence two hundred feet and more, and drag my jackass.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000030_000003|At dusk I had covered only three miles.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000030_000005|A store loomed into view shortly; I was elated. According to the sign over the entrance, the younger generation was the ruling power.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000030_000007|He said the town hadn't reached the hotel stage of development yet, but that he would gladly take me in, provided I'd sleep with his clerk in the garret.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000031_000000|I found the store full of loungers, who patronized the chairs, soap and starch boxes, mackerel kits and counter, forming a silent circle round a towering stove in the center.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000031_000001|The village treasurer wore a "boiled shirt" and brass collar buttons, but no collar or coat.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000031_000003|These rural men eyed me with suspicion until I mentioned Mac A'Rony.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000031_000004|Then there was a rush to the door.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000031_000005|As it swung open, in leaped my great dog; at once the crowd surged back to the stove.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000033_000000|"No," I said.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000033_000001|"He has killed a bull, chewed up a ram, made Thanks giving mince meat of several dogs, chased a pig up a tree, and only this morning ate two chickens and a duck and chased a farmer into his hay loft.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000033_000002|But he doesn't bite."
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000035_000001|I was sorry, too.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000035_000003|pure), a pint of corned oysters (light weight), some crackers, and leaf lard, to take the place of butter, and a cake of bitter chocolate.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000035_000004|I left a few things unmolested; such as soap, cornstarch, cloves, baking powder and stove polish.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000036_000000|My assorted supper went down all right until I tackled the chocolate.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000036_000001|Chocolate is a favorite beverage of mine; besides, I wanted a hot drink.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000036_000005|If not, don't let your curiosity get the better of you.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000037_000001|I first ate the cake of chocolate, then some sugar, and drank two dippersful of hot water,--then shook myself.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000037_000002|That mixture might suit my stomach, I thought, but it doesn't delight my palate.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000037_000005|Something within was sizzling and brewing and steaming; gas and steam choked me.
train-clean-100/8098/278252/8098_278252_000037_000007|The yeast cake came to mind; then I knew the cause.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000003_000001|At that time in Cripple Creek, several boys ranging from a day to six weeks old, whose destinies were thought to be promising, were afflicted with my master's ponderous name.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000004_000000|A little green eyed Irish girl, five days old, was named Pythagorina Podina Mulgarry.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000004_000001|The happy father called personally on Pod and asked him to act as godfather at the baptismal service, Sunday afternoon.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000004_000003|He said the babe was an unruly child, and kicked so frantically when the priest took her in his arms that two flatirons were tied to its feet to keep them down.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000004_000005|So when the priest was handed the tiny thing in swaddling clothes and held it over the barrel that served as the font, the poor girl was frightened and squirmed, and suddenly slipped out of the priest's arms into the barrel and sank out of sight.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000005_000000|Pod said the scene was without a parallel; he was soaked to his equator; the half christened, half drowned Pythagorina Podina was picked up from the flood with a tablespoon, and the ceremony finished; then she was rolled on the barrel to get all the water out of her, and put to bed with hot flatirons at her feet to prevent croup and mumps.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000005_000001|Then the wake broke up.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000005_000002|I don't believe the child understood a word that the priest said; Pod didn't.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000000|That night he got up a fine supper, and invited some old friends. He bought a big porterhouse steak, thick and tender, and personally broiled it on his patent folding stove.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000002|Pod didn't say anything, though, but just forked it on to the platter and scraped off some dry grass and a sliver and a bug, and carved it up and generously put it on the ladies' plates.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000003|The ladies looked at the dog, and then at Pod, not knowing which to thank, then feeling sensitive about accepting the best part of the steak, insisted upon Pod's having one of their pieces and Coonskin the other; and both men being kind and gallant accepted the compliment, and all fell to eating.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000004|But the guests didn't eat much.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000005|They said they had just had dinner.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000006|You could see plainly from their appetites that they were telling the truth. After supper Don feasted on the tougher parts of the steak, and we donks were fed the scraps of potatoes and bread and tin tomato and peach cans.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000006_000007|When the banquet was over the guests went home.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000007_000000|Pod devoted Monday morning to business, and took in a good stock of supplies, and after lunch we set out on the trail to Florisant, about twenty miles away.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000007_000001|About six o'clock we went into camp on the margin of a famous petrified forest.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000007_000002|Pod objected at first, because of the scarcity of fire wood.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000008_000000|"Lots of petrified wood chips lying around," I remarked; "and they'll last.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000008_000001|Ordinary wood burns up too fast."
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000009_000001|And Coonskin went to work gathering petrified wood for the supper fire.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000009_000002|"The only trouble will be in starting the fire," said Pod.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000009_000003|"Just as soon as it's once going, it ought to burn smoothly enough-might pour coal oil on the chips. What do you say, Coonskin?"
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000010_000000|Coonskin's opinion didn't benefit Pod much.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000010_000001|His hard wood fire wasn't very satisfactory, but with some dry brush the men got the meal under way.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000010_000002|Next morning we visited the noted petrified stump, measuring upwards of forty five feet in circumference.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000010_000004|It has been estimated by various ornithologists, botanists and entomologists that the stump is millions of years old.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000010_000005|I think they were guessing at it, for I couldn't see the rings, and even if I had seen them with a telescope a fellow couldn't live long enough to count them.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000011_000000|We journeyed until ten at night, stopping at Florisant only a few minutes to buy a crate of peaches.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000011_000001|Several times I had a suspicion that we had been misdirected.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000013_000000|"What do you say?" Pod inquired, turning to Coonskin.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000014_000000|"I think best to go through the woods," said the valet.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000015_000001|Our tramp through the forest I cannot soon forget.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000015_000003|Coonskin said he was an experienced woodman, and would blaze the trees so we would get out again.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000015_000005|He lagged behind to do the blazing; and pretty soon I smelt smoke.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000015_000006|The Professor snuffed.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000016_000000|"Smells as if the woods were on fire somewhere," hinted Pod.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000017_000002|Fortunately for us the wind wasn't blowing strong, but we had to change our course some, and hustle faster, for the blazing trail chased us.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000017_000003|Coonskin learned a new lesson, and turned down the corner of the page so he'd recollect it.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000017_000004|After Pod had explained the meaning of the word "blaze" in this case, the fellow was more put out than the fire.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000018_000000|At length we struck a trail which led to a couple of cabins in the canyon.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000018_000001|A board sign informed us it was simply Turkey Creek.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000018_000002|I couldn't see any turkeys, but there was good pasturage around.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000019_000000|It was three o'clock when we donks were picketed and allowed to graze.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000019_000001|Then Coonskin went fishing.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000019_000002|He said he had seen some trout in the stream; by supper time he had caught a nice mess.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000019_000003|Pod said he would fry the fish, and went at it so enthusiastically that he forgot to put the bag of corn meal back in its place.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000019_000006|It was comical how those two men puzzled their brains about that missing commodity. When Coonskin detected some meal stamped in the ground, Pod pointed at me and said, "That's the thief, there."
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000020_000000|Next morning, Coonskin was the first to return from fishing, and looked much excited.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000020_000001|When Pod returned he told him he had seen huge bear tracks; he was going bear hunting.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000020_000002|Pod laughed at him.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000021_000001|That was my experience in the woods of Wisconsin.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000021_000004|A silvertip would be a boon to you, Prof; its skin would fetch fifty dollars or more. Let's look for bear."
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000022_000000|"What would you do if you saw a bear?" Pod asked.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000023_000000|"Well, now leave that to me," said Coonskin.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000024_000000|Pod looked at me and I looked at Pod; I hadn't anything to say on the subject; it didn't interest me as much as it did Coonskin.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000024_000001|Pod went fishing that afternoon with a gun, and took the whole arsenal along with him, including the axe.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000025_000000|Somewhere about five o'clock Pod came into camp with a good mess of trout.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000025_000003|The shouting sounded nearer every second, and I soon distinguished Coonskin's voice.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000025_000004|Pod got up from the ground excitedly.
train-clean-100/8098/278278/8098_278278_000026_000000|"Coonskin's in trouble, plain enough," said Pod aloud to himself, "I must run to his aid." So he started on a trot down stream to the bend, and then quickly turned, falling all over himself, and ran toward the cabins faster than I ever saw him run before or since.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000001_000000|It all seemed so rapid and uncalculated after that-the events that took place in this little modern room at the top of Putney Hill between midnight and sunrise-that dr Silence was hardly able to follow and remember it all.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000001_000001|It came about with such uncanny swiftness and terror; the light was so uncertain; the movements of the black cat so difficult to follow on the dark carpet, and the doctor himself so weary and taken by surprise-that he found it almost impossible to observe accurately, or to recall afterwards precisely what it was he had seen or in what order the incidents had taken place.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000001_000003|It was like the reflections from a score of mirrors placed round the walls at different angles.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000001_000004|Nor could he make out at the time why the size of the room seemed to have altered, grown much larger, and why it extended away behind him where ordinarily the wall should have been.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000002_000000|It was all so confused and confusing, as though the little room he knew had become merged and transformed into the dimensions of quite another chamber, that came to him, with its host of cats and its strange distances, in a sort of vision.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000004_000000|At first he was only aware that the dog was repeating his short dangerous bark from time to time, snapping viciously at the empty air, a foot or so from the ground.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000004_000001|Once, indeed, he sprang upwards and forwards, working furiously with teeth and paws, and with a noise like wolves fighting, but only to dash back the next minute against the wall behind him.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000004_000002|Then, after lying still for a bit, he rose to a crouching position as though to spring again, snarling horribly and making short half circles with lowered head.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000004_000003|And Smoke all the while meowed piteously by the window as though trying to draw the attack upon himself.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000000|Then it was that the rush of the whole dreadful business seemed to turn aside from the dog and direct itself upon his own person.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000001|The collie had made another spring and fallen back with a crash into the corner, where he made noise enough in his savage rage to waken the dead before he fell to whining and then finally lay still.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000002|And directly afterwards the doctor's own distress became intolerably acute.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000003|He had made a half movement forward to come to the rescue when a veil that was denser than mere fog seemed to drop down over the scene, draping room, walls, animals and fire in a mist of darkness and folding also about his own mind.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000004|Other forms moved silently across the field of vision, forms that he recognised from previous experiments, and welcomed not.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000005|Unholy thoughts began to crowd into his brain, sinister suggestions of evil presented themselves seductively.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000006|Ice seemed to settle about his heart, and his mind trembled.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000007|He began to lose memory-memory of his identity, of where he was, of what he ought to do.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000008|The very foundations of his strength were shaken.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000005_000009|His will seemed paralysed.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000006_000001|The dimensions of the place altered and shifted.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000006_000002|He was in a much larger space.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000006_000004|The deeps within were too troubled for healing power to come out of them.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000007_000000|It was glamour, of course, he realised afterwards, the strong glamour thrown upon his imagination by some powerful personality behind the veil; but at the time he was not sufficiently aware of this and, as with all true glamour, was unable to grasp where the true ended and the false began.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000007_000001|He was caught momentarily in the same vortex that had sought to lure the cat to destruction through its delight, and threatened utterly to overwhelm the dog through its terror.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000000|There came a sound in the chimney behind him like wind booming and tearing its way down.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000001|The windows rattled.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000002|The candle flickered and went out.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000003|The glacial atmosphere closed round him with the cold of death, and a great rushing sound swept by overhead as though the ceiling had lifted to a great height.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000004|He heard the door shut.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000005|Far away it sounded.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000006|He felt lost, shelterless in the depths of his soul.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000007|Yet still he held out and resisted while the climax of the fight came nearer and nearer....
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000008|He had stepped into the stream of forces awakened by Pender and he knew that he must withstand them to the end or come to a conclusion that it was not good for a man to come to.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000008_000009|Something from the region of utter cold was upon him.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000009_000000|And then quite suddenly, through the confused mists about him, there slowly rose up the Personality that had been all the time directing the battle.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000009_000001|Some force entered his being that shook him as the tempest shakes a leaf, and close against his eyes-clean level with his face-he found himself staring into the wreck of a vast dark Countenance, a countenance that was terrible even in its ruin.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000010_000000|For ruined it was, and terrible it was, and the mark of spiritual evil was branded everywhere upon its broken features.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000010_000001|Eyes, face and hair rose level with his own, and for a space of time he never could properly measure, or determine, these two, a man and a woman, looked straight into each other's visages and down into each other's hearts.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000011_000000|And john Silence, the soul with the good, unselfish motive, held his own against the dark discarnate woman whose motive was pure evil, and whose soul was on the side of the Dark Powers.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000012_000000|It was the climax that touched the depth of power within him and began to restore him slowly to his own.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000012_000001|He was conscious, of course, of effort, and yet it seemed no superhuman one, for he had recognised the character of his opponent's power, and he called upon the good within him to meet and overcome it.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000012_000002|The inner forces stirred and trembled in response to his call.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000012_000003|They did not at first come readily as was their habit, for under the spell of glamour they had already been diabolically lulled into inactivity, but come they eventually did, rising out of the inner spiritual nature he had learned with so much time and pain to awaken to life.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000012_000004|And power and confidence came with them.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000012_000006|By ceasing to resist, and allowing the deadly stream to pour into him unopposed, he used the very power supplied by his adversary and thus enormously increased his own.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000013_000002|He knew-provided he was not first robbed of self control-how vicariously to absorb these evil radiations into himself and change them magically into his own good purposes.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000013_000003|And, since his motive was pure and his soul fearless, they could not work him harm.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000015_000000|Yet the struggle was severe, and in spite of the freezing chill of the air, the perspiration poured down his face.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000015_000001|Then, by slow degrees, the dark and dreadful countenance faded, the glamour passed from his soul, the normal proportions returned to walls and ceiling, the forms melted back into the fog, and the whirl of rushing shadow cats disappeared whence they came.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000016_000000|And with the return of the consciousness of his own identity john Silence was restored to the full control of his own will power.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000016_000001|In a deep, modulated voice he began to utter certain rhythmical sounds that slowly rolled through the air like a rising sea, filling the room with powerful vibratory activities that whelmed all irregularities of lesser vibrations in its own swelling tone.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000016_000002|He made certain sigils, gestures and movements at the same time.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000016_000003|For several minutes he continued to utter these words, until at length the growing volume dominated the whole room and mastered the manifestation of all that opposed it.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000016_000004|For just as he understood the spiritual alchemy that can transmute evil forces by raising them into higher channels, so he knew from long study the occult use of sound, and its direct effect upon the plastic region wherein the powers of spiritual evil work their fell purposes.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000016_000005|Harmony was restored first of all to his own soul, and thence to the room and all its occupants.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000017_000000|And, after himself, the first to recognise it was the old dog lying in his corner.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000017_000001|Flame began suddenly uttering sounds of pleasure, that "something" between a growl and a grunt that dogs make upon being restored to their master's confidence.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000017_000002|dr Silence heard the thumping of the collie's tail against the floor.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000017_000003|And the grunt and the thumping touched the depth of affection in the man's heart, and gave him some inkling of what agonies the dumb creature had suffered.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000000|Next, from the shadows by the window, a somewhat shrill purring announced the restoration of the cat to its normal state.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000001|Smoke was advancing across the carpet.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000002|He seemed very pleased with himself, and smiled with an expression of supreme innocence.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000003|He was no shadow cat, but real and full of his usual and perfect self possession.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000004|He marched along, picking his way delicately, but with a stately dignity that suggested his ancestry with the majesty of Egypt.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000005|His eyes no longer glared; they shone steadily before him, they radiated, not excitement, but knowledge.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000018_000006|Clearly he was anxious to make amends for the mischief to which he had unwittingly lent himself owing to his subtle and electric constitution.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000019_000000|Still uttering his sharp high purrings he marched up to his master and rubbed vigorously against his legs.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000019_000002|He turned his head towards the corner where the collie still lay, thumping his tail feebly and pathetically.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000020_000000|john Silence understood.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000020_000001|He bent down and stroked the creature's living fur, noting the line of bright blue sparks that followed the motion of his hand down its back.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000020_000002|And then they advanced together towards the corner where the dog was.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000021_000000|Smoke went first and put his nose gently against his friend's muzzle, purring while he rubbed, and uttering little soft sounds of affection in his throat.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000021_000001|The doctor lit the candle and brought it over.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000021_000002|He saw the collie lying on its side against the wall; it was utterly exhausted, and foam still hung about its jaws.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000021_000003|Its tail and eyes responded to the sound of its name, but it was evidently very weak and overcome.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000021_000004|Smoke continued to rub against its cheek and nose and eyes, sometimes even standing on its body and kneading into the thick yellow hair.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000021_000005|Flame replied from time to time by little licks of the tongue, most of them curiously misdirected.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000022_000000|But dr Silence felt intuitively that something disastrous had happened, and his heart was wrung.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000022_000001|He stroked the dear body, feeling it over for bruises or broken bones, but finding none.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000022_000003|And all the while Smoke meowed piteously.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000023_000000|Then john Silence began to understand.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000024_000000|"Flame, old man! come!"
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000025_000000|At any other time the dog would have been upon him in an instant, barking and leaping to the shoulder.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000025_000001|And even now he got up, though heavily and awkwardly, to his feet.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000025_000002|He started to run, wagging his tail more briskly.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000025_000004|Smoke trotted close at his side, trying his very best to guide him.
train-clean-100/8108/274318/8108_274318_000025_000005|But it was useless.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000003_000001|Apollo himself had given him his golden harp, and on it he played music of such wondrous power and beauty that rocks, trees and beasts would follow to hear him.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000003_000002|Jason had persuaded Orpheus to accompany the Argonauts when they went to fetch back the golden fleece, for he knew that the perils of the way would be lightened by song.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000003_000003|To the sound of his lyre the Argo had floated down to the sea, and he played so sweetly when they passed the rocks of the Sirens that the dreadful monsters sang their most alluring strains in vain.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000004_000000|Orpheus wedded the fair nymph Eurydice, whom he loved dearly, and who returned his love.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000004_000001|But at their marriage the omens were not favorable. Hymen, the marriage god, came to it with a gloomy countenance and the wedding torches smoked and would not give forth a cheerful flame.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000005_000000|Indeed the happiness of Orpheus and Eurydice was to be but short-lived.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000005_000003|He could not believe that he had lost her for ever, but prayed day and night without ceasing to the gods above to restore her to him.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000005_000004|When they would not listen, he resolved to make one last effort to win her back.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000005_000005|He would go down to the Lower World and seek her among the dead, and try whether any prayer or persuasion could move Pluto to restore his beloved.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000006_000001|This was the road by which Hercules descended when he went to carry off Cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the threshold of Pluto. Undaunted by the terrors of the place, Orpheus passed through this gate and down a dark and dismal road to the kingdom of the dead.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000006_000002|Here he came in safety through the crowd of ghosts and phantoms, and stood at last before the throne of Pluto and Proserpina.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000006_000003|Then he touched the chords of his lyre and chanted these words:
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000000|"Great lords of the world below the earth, to which all we mortals must one day come, grant me to tell a simple tale and declare unto you the truth.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000001|Not to look upon the blackness of Tartarus have I come hither, nor yet to bind in chains the snaky heads on Cerberus.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000002|It is my wife I seek.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000003|A viper's sting has robbed her of the years that were her due.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000004|I should have borne my loss, indeed I tried to bear it, but I was overcome by Love, a god well known in the world above, and I think not without honor in your kingdom, unless the story of Proserpina's theft be a lying tale.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000005|I beseech you, by the realms of the dead, by mighty Chaos and the silence of your vast kingdom, revoke the untimely doom of Eurydice.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000006|All our lives are forfeit to you.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000007|'tis but a short delay, and late or soon we all hasten towards one goal.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000008|Hither all our footsteps tend.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000009|This is our last home, yours is the sole enduring rule over mankind.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000010|She too, when she shall have lived her allotted term of years, will surely come under your sway.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000011|Till then, I implore you, let her be mine.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000007_000012|But if the Fates refuse a husband's prayers, I am resolved never to return hence.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000009_000000|Thus he prayed and touched his harp in tune with his words.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000009_000003|Never yet had such sweet strains been heard in the world of gloom.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000009_000004|Then, for the first time, tears moistened the cheeks of the Furies, and even the king and queen of the dead were moved to pity. They summoned Eurydice, and she came, yet halting from her recent wound.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000010_000000|"Take her," says Pluto, "and lead her back to the light.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000010_000001|But she must follow you at a distance, nor must you once turn round to look upon her till you have passed beyond these realms.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000010_000002|Else the boon we grant you will be but vain."
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000011_000000|A steep path led upward from the realm of darkness, and the way was hard to find through the gloom.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000011_000001|In silence Orpheus led on, till the goal was close at hand and the welcoming light of the upper air began to penetrate the darkness.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000011_000002|Then a sudden fear struck his heart.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000011_000005|Dimly he saw her, but for the last time, for a power she could not resist drew her back.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000011_000006|Orpheus stretched out his arms and tried to seize her, but he only clasped the empty air.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000012_000001|Seven days he sat on the further bank without food or drink, nourished by his tears and grief.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000013_000000|For three years he wandered among the mountains of Thrace, finding his only consolation in the music of his lyre, for he shunned all men and women and would have no bride after Eurydice.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000014_000000|One day he sat down to rest on a grassy hill in the sunshine, and played and sang to beguile his sorrow.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000014_000001|As he played, the coolness of shady branches seemed all about him, and looking up he found himself in the midst of a wood.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000015_000000|Suddenly a great noise was heard of laughter and shouting and merry making.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000015_000001|For this was one of the feasts of Bacchus, and the women were celebrating his rites, wandering over the mountains with dance and revel.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000015_000002|When they saw Orpheus they set up a shout of derision. "See," they cried, "the wretched singer who mocks at women and will have no bride but the dead.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000015_000003|Come, let us kill him, and show that no man shall despise us unpunished."
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000016_000000|With these words they began to throw wands and stones at him, but even the lifeless objects were softened by the music, and fell harmlessly to the ground.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000016_000002|Now at last the shots took effect, and in their fury the women fell upon him, dealing blow on blow.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000016_000003|Orpheus fell lifeless to the ground.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000017_000000|But he was not to die unwept.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000017_000002|Only the pitiless revelers knew no remorse.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000017_000003|They seized the singer's head and threw it with his lyre into the river Hebrus.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000017_000004|There it floated down stream and, strange to tell, the chords gave forth a lament, and the lifeless tongue uttered words.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000018_000000|But the shade of the dead singer went down to Hades, and found entrance at last.
train-clean-100/8108/280354/8108_280354_000018_000001|Thus Orpheus and Eurydice were re united, and won in death the bliss that was denied them in life.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000002_000000|After the death of Baldur, Loki never again ventured to intrude himself into the presence of the gods.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000003_000000|"The world is large, and I am very clever," said Loki to himself, as he turned his back upon Asgard, and wandered out into Manheim; "there is no end to the thick woods, and no measure for the deep waters; neither is there any possibility of counting the various forms under which I shall disguise myself.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000005_000000|Then he tried to escape the watchful eye by disguising himself under various shapes.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000006_000000|Tired at last of seeking what he could nowhere find, Loki built himself a house near a narrow, glittering river which, lower down flashed from a high rock into the sea below.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000006_000001|He took care that his house should have four doors in it, that he might look out on every side and catch the first glimpse of the gods when they came, as he knew they would come, to take him away.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000006_000002|Here his wife, Siguna, and his two sons, Ali and Nari, came to live with him.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000007_000000|Siguna was a kind woman, far too good and kind for Loki.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000008_000001|The sight of them coming all together-beautiful, and noble, and free-pierced Loki with a pang that was worse than death.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000008_000002|He rose without daring to look again, threw his net on a fire that burned on the floor, and, rushing to the side of the little river, he turned himself into a salmon, swam down to the deepest, stillest pool at the bottom, and hid himself between two stones.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000008_000004|He ordered his sons to make a new net, and to cast it into the water, and drag out whatever living thing they could find there.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000008_000005|It was done as he desired.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000009_000002|They themselves divided into two bands.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000009_000003|Thor waded down the river to the waterfall; the other gods stood in a group below.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000009_000004|Loki swam backwards and forwards between them.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000009_000005|First he thought he would dart out into the sea, and then that he would spring over the net back again into the river.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000009_000006|This last seemed the easiest way of escape, and with the greatest speed he attempted it.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000009_000010|One by one they turned their faces from him; for, in looking at him, they seemed to see over again the death of Baldur the Beloved.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000010_000000|You were told that there were high rocks looking over the sea near Loki's house.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000010_000001|One of these, higher than the rest, had midway four projecting stones, and to these the gods resolved to bind Loki so that he should never again be able to torment the inhabitants of Manheim or Asgard by his evil doings.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000010_000002|Thor proposed to return to Asgard, to bring a chain with which to bind the prisoner; but Odin assured him that he had no need to take such a journey.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000010_000003|"Loki," he said, "has already forged for himself a chain stronger than any you can make.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000010_000004|While we have been occupied in catching him, his two sons, Ali and Nari, transformed into wolves by their evil passions, have fought with and destroyed each other.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000010_000005|With their sinews we must make a chain to bind their father, and from that he can never escape."
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000011_000001|A rope was made of the dead wolves' sinews, and as soon as it touched Loki's body it turned into bands of iron and bound him immovably to the rock.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000011_000002|Secured in this manner the gods left him.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000013_000000|But his punishment did not end here.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000013_000001|A snake, whose fangs dropped poison, glided to the top of the rock and leaned his head over to peer at Loki.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000013_000002|The eyes of the two met and fixed each other.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000013_000003|The serpent could never move away afterwards; but every moment a burning drop from his tongue fell down on Loki's shuddering face.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000014_000000|In all the world there was only one who pitied him.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000014_000001|His kind wife ever afterwards stood beside him and held a cup over his head to catch the poison.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000014_000002|When the cup was full, she was obliged to turn away to empty it, and the deadly drops fell again on Loki's face.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000014_000003|He shuddered and shrank from them, and the whole earth trembled.
train-clean-100/8108/280359/8108_280359_000014_000004|So will he lie bound till the Twilight of the Gods be here.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000001_000000|JEFF THE INQUISITIVE
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000000|His treatment of his crew made him one of the most popular officers in the whole fleet.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000001|He entered into all of their sports and sympathized with the discomforts of forecastle life.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000002|He was fond of animal pets, and always welcomed the arrival of a new one.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000003|At the time of which I am writing, his ship carried quite a collection of tame birds and four footed favorites.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000004|Among them was a singular little character, known as "Jeff." He was a perfectly black pig of the "Racer Razor Back" order, which, at that time, were plentiful in the coast sections of the more southern of the slave holding States.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000005|They were called "racers" because of their long legs, slender bodies, and great capacity for running; and "Razor Backs" on account of the prominence of the spinal column.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000006|The origin of this particular species of the porcine tribe is unknown, but there is a tradition to the effect that their progenitors were a part of the drove that came to the coast of Florida with De Soto when he started on the march which ended with the discovery of the Mississippi River.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000004_000007|History records the fact that a large number of animals were brought from Spain for food, and that a considerable number of them succeeded in getting away from the expedition soon after the landing was effected.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000006_000000|He was an ill conditioned little mite that had probably been abandoned by a heartless mother, possibly while escaping from the prospective mess kettle of a Confederate picket.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000007_000000|In those days Confederate pickets were not very particular as to the quality or kind of food, and I have a suspicion that even a "Razor Back" would have been a welcome addition to their meal.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000000|When "Jeff" was brought on board, his pitiful condition excited the active sympathy of all, from the commander down to the smallest powder monkey, and numerous were the suggestions made as to the course of treatment for the new patient.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000001|The doctor was consulted, and after a careful diagnosis, decided there was no organic disease: want of parental care, want of nourishment and exposure, were held responsible for "Jeff's" unfavorable condition.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000002|It was decided to put him on a light diet of milk, which proved an immediate success, for, within forty eight hours after his first meal, the patient became as lively as possible.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000003|As days and weeks went on, there appeared an improvement of appetite that was quite phenomenal, but no accumulation of flesh.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000004|His legs and body grew longer; and, with this lengthening of parts, there came a development of intellectual acuteness that was particularly surprising.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000005|He attached himself to each individual of the ship.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000006|He had no favorites, but was hail fellow well met with all.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000007|He developed all the playful qualities of a puppy and reasoned out a number of problems in his own way.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000008_000008|His particular admirers declared that he learned the meaning of the different whistles of the boatswain: that he knew when the meal pennant was hoisted to the peak; could tell when the crew was beat to quarters for drill, and often proved the correctness of this knowledge by scampering off to take his place by one particular gun division, which seemed to have taken his fancy.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000009_000002|In this act of courtesy he is always accompanied by the officer of the deck, and often by others that may happen to be at hand.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000009_000004|It may be said of him, generally, that he was overflowing with spirits, and took an active interest in all the daily routine work of his ship.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000010_000000|He had a most pertinacious way of poking his nose into all sorts of affairs, not at all after the manner of the usual pig, but more like a village gossip who wants to know about everything that is going on in the neighborhood.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000011_000000|In the gradual development of "Jeff's" character, it was discovered that he had none of the usual well-known traits of the pig.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000011_000001|He was more like a petted and pampered dog, was playful, good-natured, and expressed pleasure, pain, anger, and desire, with various squeals and grunts, delivered with a variety of intonations that were very easily interpreted.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000011_000002|He was never so happy as when in the lap of one of the sailors, having his back stroked.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000011_000003|His pleasure upon those occasions was evinced by the emission of frequent good-natured grunts and looking up into the face of the friendly stroker.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000012_000001|Except in speech and appearance he was the counterpart of a happy, good-natured, and well cared for household dog-possibly, however, rather more intelligent than the average canine pet.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000013_000000|The Fourth of July, eighteen sixty two, was a gala day at Roanoke Island.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000013_000002|Colors were flying, bands playing, drums beating, patriotic steam was up to high pressure.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000013_000003|The good old day, so dear to the hearts of Americans, was made more glorious by the exchange of camp hospitalities and an indulgence in such simple hilarity as the occasion seemed to require; but "Jeff" was not forgotten.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000013_000004|Early in the morning he was bathed and scrubbed, more than to his heart's content, and then patriotically decorated.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000013_000005|In his right ear was a red ribbon, in his left a white one; around his neck another of blue.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000014_000000|Thus adorned he was brought on shore to pay me a visit, and as he came through my door he appeared to be filled with the pride of patriotism and a realization of the greatness of the occasion.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000015_000000|During this triumphant march over the island an incident occurred which developed the slumbering instinct of the swamp "racer." In a second, as it were, and seemingly without cause, "Jeff" was seen to move off at a tremendous pace at right angles with the line of march.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000015_000001|He was seen after he had run a few yards to make a great jump, and then remain in his tracks.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000015_000002|The pursuing party found him actively engaged in demolishing a moccasin, which he had crushed by jumping and landing with his feet upon its head and back.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000015_000003|Hogs of this particular kind are famous snake killers-a big rattler or a garter snake is all the same to them.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000015_000004|They advance to the attack with the greatest impetuosity, and a feast upon snake is the usual reward of exceptional bravery.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000016_000000|"Jeff" was a confirmed lover of good eating, and in time paid the usual penalty for over indulgence of his very piggish appetite. While the meal pennant was up, it was his habit to go from one fore castle mess to another, and to insist upon having rather more than his share of the choice morsels from each.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000016_000001|In a short time he came to the repair shop very much the worse for wear, with an impaired digestion and a cuticle that showed unmistakable evidence of scurvy.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000016_000002|For the first he was put upon short rations; for the second, sand baths on shore were prescribed.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000016_000003|Under this treatment poor "Jeff" lost all his buoyancy of spirits and his habitual friskiness, and became sad and dejected, but bore his troubles with patience.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000016_000004|He took to the sand baths at once, and gave forth many disgruntled grunts when lifted out of them.
train-clean-100/8123/275193/8123_275193_000017_000000|The last time I saw "Jeff," in eighteen sixty two, he was buried up to his ears in the cool sands of the Roanoke Island shore, with eyes upturned and looking like a very sad pig, but I fear none the wiser for his offenses against the rights of a well regulated digestion.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000002_000000|THE BUTTERFLY'S CHILDREN
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000003_000000|By mrs Alfred Gatty
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000000|"Let me hire you as a nurse for my poor children," said a Butterfly to a quiet Caterpillar, who was strolling along a cabbage leaf in her odd lumbering way.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000001|"See these little eggs," continued the Butterfly; "I don't know how long it will be before they come to life, and I feel very sick and poorly, and if I should die, who will take care of my baby Butterflies when I am gone?
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000004|You must give them early dew, and honey from the flowers, and you must let them fly about only a little way at first; for, of course, one can't expect them to use their wings properly all at once.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000005|Dear me! it is a sad pity you cannot fly yourself.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000006|But I have no time to look for another nurse now, so you will do your best, I hope.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000007|Dear! dear!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000008|I cannot think what made me come and lay my eggs on a cabbage leaf!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000009|What a place for young Butterflies to be born upon!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000011|Here, take this gold dust from my wings as a reward.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000004_000012|Oh, how dizzy I am!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000005_000000|And with these words the Butterfly drooped her wings and died; and the green Caterpillar, who had not had the opportunity of even saying Yes or No to the request, was left standing alone by the side of the Butterfly's eggs.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000006_000000|"A pretty nurse she has chosen, indeed, poor lady!" exclaimed she, "and a pretty business I have in hand!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000006_000001|Why, her senses must have left her or she never would have asked a poor crawling creature like me to bring up her dainty little ones!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000006_000002|Much they'll mind me, truly, when they feel the gay wings on their backs, and can fly away out of my sight whenever they choose!"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000007_000000|However, there lay the eggs on the cabbage leaf; and the green Caterpillar had a kind heart, so she resolved to do her best.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000007_000001|But she got no sleep that night, she was so very anxious.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000007_000002|She made her back quite ache with walking all night round her young charges, for fear any harm should happen to them; and in the morning says she to herself-
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000008_000000|"Two heads are better than one.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000008_000001|I will consult some wise animal upon the matter, and get advice.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000008_000002|How should a poor crawling creature like me know what to do without asking my betters?"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000009_000000|But still there was a difficulty-whom should the Caterpillar consult?
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000009_000001|There was the shaggy Dog who sometimes came into the garden.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000009_000002|But he was so rough!--he would most likely whisk all the eggs off the cabbage leaf with one brush of his tail.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000009_000003|There was the Tom Cat, to be sure, who would sometimes sit at the foot of the apple tree, basking himself and warming his fur in the sunshine; but he was so selfish and indifferent!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000010_000000|Now in the neighbouring corn field their lived a Lark, and the Caterpillar sent a message to him, to beg him to come and talk to her, and when he came she told him all her difficulties, and asked him what she was to do to feed and rear the little creatures so different from herself.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000011_000000|"Perhaps you will be able to inquire and hear something about it next time you go up high," observed the Caterpillar, timidly.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000012_000000|The Lark said, "Perhaps he should;" but he did not satisfy her curiosity any further.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000012_000001|Soon afterwards, however, he went singing upwards into the bright, blue sky.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000012_000002|By degrees his voice died away in the distance, till the green Caterpillar could not hear a sound. So she resumed her walk round the Butterfly's eggs, nibbling a bit of the cabbage leaf now and then as she moved along.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000013_000000|"What a time the Lark has been gone!" she cried, at last.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000013_000001|"I wonder where he is just now!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000013_000002|I would give all my legs to know!" And the green Caterpillar took another turn round the Butterfly's eggs.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000014_000000|At last the Lark's voice began to be heard again.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000014_000001|The Caterpillar almost jumped for joy, and it was not long before she saw her friend descend with hushed note to the cabbage bed.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000015_000000|"News, news, glorious news, friend Caterpillar!" sang the Lark; "but the worst of it is, you won't believe me!"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000016_000000|"I believe everything I am told," observed the Caterpillar, hastily.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000017_000000|"Well, then, first of all, I will tell you what these little creatures are to eat.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000017_000001|What do you think it is to be?
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000017_000002|Guess!"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000019_000000|"No such thing, old lady!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000019_000001|Something simpler than that.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000020_000000|"I can get at nothing quite easily but cabbage leaves," murmured the Caterpillar, in distress.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000021_000000|"Excellent! my good friend," cried the Lark, exultingly; "you have found it out.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000021_000001|You are to feed them with cabbage leaves."
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000022_000001|"It was their dying mother's last request that I should do no such thing."
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000023_000000|"Their dying mother knew nothing about the matter," persisted the lark; "but why do you ask me, and then disbelieve what I say?
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000023_000001|You have neither faith nor trust."
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000024_000000|"Oh, I believe everything I am told," said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000025_000000|"Nay, but you do not," replied the Lark; "you won't believe me even about the food, and yet that is but a beginning of what I have to tell you.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000025_000001|Why, Caterpillar, what do you think those little eggs will turn out to be?"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000026_000000|"Butterflies, to be sure," said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000028_000000|"I thought the Lark had been wise and kind," observed the mild green Caterpillar, once more beginning to walk around the eggs, "but I find that he is foolish and saucy instead.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000029_000000|"I would tell you if you would believe me," sang the Lark, descending once more.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000030_000000|"I believe everything I am told," reiterated the Caterpillar, with as grave a face as if it were a fact.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000031_000000|"Then I'll tell you something else," cried the Lark; "for the best of my news remains behind.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000032_000000|"Wretched bird!" exclaimed the Caterpillar, "you jest with my inferiority-now you are cruel as well as foolish.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000032_000001|Go away!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000032_000002|I will ask your advice no more."
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000033_000000|"I told you you would not believe me!" cried the Lark, nettled in his turn.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000034_000001|But to tell me that Butterflies' eggs are Caterpillars, and that Caterpillars leave off crawling and get wings, and become Butterflies!--Lark! you are too wise to believe such nonsense yourself, for you know it is impossible."
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000036_000000|"Nonsense!" shouted the Caterpillar, "I know what's possible, and what's not possible, according to my experience and capacity, as well as you do.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000036_000001|Look at my long green body and these endless legs, and then talk to me about having wings and a painted feathery coat! Fool!--"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000037_000000|"And fool you!" cried the indignant Lark.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000037_000001|"Fool, to attempt to reason about what you cannot understand!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000037_000002|Do you not hear how my song swells with rejoicing as I soar upwards to the mysterious wonder world above?
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000038_000000|"That is what you call-"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000040_000000|"How am I to learn Faith?" asked the Caterpillar.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000041_000000|At that moment she felt something at her side.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000041_000001|She looked round-eight or ten little green Caterpillars were moving about, and had already made a show of a hole in the cabbage leaf.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000041_000002|They had broken from the Butterfly's eggs!
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000042_000000|Shame and amazement filled our green friend's heart, but joy soon followed; for, as the first wonder was possible, the second might be so too.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000042_000002|And the Caterpillar talked all the rest of her life to her relations of the time when she should be a Butterfly.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000043_000000|But none of them believed her.
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000043_000001|She nevertheless had learnt the Lark's lesson of faith, and when she was going into her chrysalis grave, she said-
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000044_000000|"I shall be a Butterfly some day!"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000045_000000|But her relations thought her head was wandering, and they said, "Poor thing!"
train-clean-100/8123/275209/8123_275209_000046_000000|And when she was a Butterfly, and was going to die again, she said-
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000001_000000|THE BEECH AND THE OAK
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000003_000001|There were no towns then with houses and streets, and church steeples domineering over everything.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000004_000000|There were no schools, for there were not many boys, and those that there were learnt from their father to shoot with the bow and arrow, to hunt the stag in his covert, to kill the bear in order to make clothes out of his skin, and to rub two pieces of wood together till they caught fire.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000004_000001|When they knew this perfectly, they had finished their education.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000005_000000|There were no railways either, and no cultivated fields, no ships on the sea, no books, for there was nobody who could read them.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000006_000000|There was scarcely anything except Trees.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000006_000001|But Trees there were in plenty.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000007_000000|They all knew each other, for they belonged to a great family, and were proud of it.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000009_000000|And they were right.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000009_000001|There were only a few human beings there in those days, and those that there were were nothing better than wild animals.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000009_000002|The Bear, the Wolf, and the Fox went out hunting, while the Stag grazed by the edge of the fen.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000009_000003|The Field Mouse sat outside his hole and ate acorns, and the Beaver built his artistic houses by the river banks.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000010_000000|One day the Bear came trudging along and lay down at full breadth under a great Oak Tree, "Are you there again, you robber?" said the Oak, and shook a lot of withered leaves down over him.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000011_000000|"You should not squander your leaves, my old friend," said the Bear, licking his paws.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000011_000001|"That is all the shade you can give against the sun"
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000012_000000|"If you are not pleased with me, you can go," answered the Oak proudly.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000000|"True," muttered the Bear.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000001|"That is just what is so sickening.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000002|I have been for a little tour abroad, I may tell you, and am just a little bit spoilt.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000003|It was in a land down towards the south-there I took a nap under the Beech Trees.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000004|They are tall, slim Trees, not crooked old things like you.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000005|And their tops are so dense that the sunbeams cannot creep through them.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000013_000006|It was a real pleasure there to take a midday nap, I assure you."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000014_000000|"Beech Trees?" said the Oak inquisitively.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000014_000001|"What are they?"
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000015_000001|"But I don't want to chatter any more with you just now. I have had to trot a mile on account of a confounded hunter who struck me on one of my hind legs with an arrow.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000016_000000|"What on earth can those Trees be?" said one of them.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000017_000000|"It is, of course, a mere story; the Bear wishes to impose upon us," said the other.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000019_000000|But by his side stood an old gnarled Tree, who gave the Little Oak a clout on the head with one of his lowest boughs.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000019_000001|"Hold your tongue," he said, "and don't talk till you have something to talk about.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000019_000003|But so far as ever I can see, there is nothing but Oak Trees."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000020_000000|The Little Oak was shamefaced, and held his tongue; and the other big Trees spoke to one another in low whispers, for they had great respect for the old one.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000021_000000|But the Bear got up and rubbed his eyes.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000021_000002|When I come back I will bring some Beech nuts with me, and I vow you will all turn yellow with jealousy when you see how pretty the new Trees are."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000022_000000|Then he made off.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000022_000001|But the Oaks talked the whole day long one to another about the funny Trees he had told them about.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000022_000002|"If they come, I will kill them," said the Little Oak Tree, but directly afterwards he got one on the head from the Old Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000023_000000|"If they come, you shall treat them politely, you young dog," said he.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000023_000001|"But they will not come."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000024_000000|But in this the Old Oak was wrong, for they did come.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000025_000000|Towards autumn the Bear came back and lay; down under the Old Oak. "My friends down there wish me to present their compliments," he said, and he picked some funny things out of his shaggy coat.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000025_000001|"Here you may see what I have for you."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000026_000000|"What is it?" asked the Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000028_000000|"It is a pity I cannot stay and see how angry you will be," he growled, "but those confounded human beings have begun to press one so hard.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000028_000001|The day before yesterday they killed my wife and one of my brothers, and I must see about finding a place where I can live in peace.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000028_000002|There is scarcely a spot left where a self respecting Bear can stay.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000028_000003|Goodbye, you old, gnarled Oak Trees!"
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000029_000000|When the Bear had shambled off, the Trees looked at one another anxiously.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000030_000000|"Let us see what comes of it," said the Old Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000031_000000|And after this they composed themselves to rest.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000031_000001|The winter came and tore all their leaves off them, the snow lay high over the whole land, and every Tree stood deep in his own thoughts and dreamt of the spring.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000032_000000|And when the spring came the grass stood green, and the birds began singing where they left off last.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000032_000001|The flowers came up in multitudes from the earth, and everything looked fresh and gay.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000032_000002|The Oak Trees alone stood with leafless boughs.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000033_000000|"It is the most dignified thing to come last!" they said to one another.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000033_000001|"The kings of the wood do not come till the whole company is assembled."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000034_000000|But at last they came.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000034_000001|All the leaves burst forth from the swollen buds, and the Trees looked at one another and complimented one another on their beauty.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000034_000002|The Little Oak had grown ever so much.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000034_000003|He was very proud of it, and he thought that he had now the right to join in the conversation.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000034_000004|"Nothing has come yet of the Bear's Beech Trees," he said jeeringly, at the same time glancing anxiously up at the Old Oak, who used to give him one on the head.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000035_000000|The Old Oak heard what he said very plainly, and the other Trees also; but they said nothing.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000035_000001|Not one of them had forgotten what the Bear had told them, and every morning when the sun came out they peeped down to look for the Beeches.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000036_000000|And one day the little shoots did at last burst forth from the earth.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000037_000000|"Oh, how pretty they are!" said the Great Oak, and stooped his crooked boughs still more, so that they could get a good view of them.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000037_000001|"You are welcome among us," said the Old Oak, and graciously inclined his head to them.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000037_000002|"You shall be my foster-children, and be treated just as well as my own."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000038_000000|"Thanks," said the Little Beeches, and they said no more.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000039_000000|But the Little Oak could not bear the strange Trees.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000039_000001|"It is dreadful the way you shoot up into the air," he said in vexation. "You are already half as tall as I am.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000039_000002|But I beg you to take notice that I am much older, and of good family besides."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000040_000000|The Beeches laughed with their little, tiny green leaves, but said nothing.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000041_000000|"Shall I bend my branches a little aside so that the sun can shine better on you?" the Old Tree asked politely.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000042_000000|"Many thanks," answered the Beeches.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000042_000001|"We can grow very nicely in the shade."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000043_000000|And the whole summer passed by, and another summer after that, and still more summers.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000043_000001|The Beeches went on growing, and at last quite overtopped the Little Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000044_000000|"Keep your leaves to yourself," cried the Oak; "you overshadow me, and that is what I can't endure.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000045_000000|The Beeches only laughed and went on growing.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000045_000001|At last they closed together over the Little Oak's head, and then he died.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000046_000000|But the Old Oak took his foster children under his protection.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000046_000001|"It serves him right," he said.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000046_000002|"He is paid out for his boasting.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000046_000004|But now you must behave yourselves, Little Beeches, or I will give you a clout on the head."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000047_000000|Years went by, and the Beeches went on growing, and they grew till they were tall young Trees, which reached up among the branches of the Old Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000048_000000|"You begin to be rather pushing," the Old Tree said.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000048_000001|"You should try to grow a little broader, and stop this shooting up into the air.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000048_000002|Just see where your branches are soaring.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000048_000003|Bend them properly, as you see us do.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000048_000004|How will you be able to hold out when a regular storm comes?
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000048_000005|I assure you the Wind gives one's head a good shaking. My old boughs have creaked many a time; and what do you think will become of the flimsy finery that you stick up in the air?"
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000049_000001|"This is the way it's done where we come from, and we are perhaps as good as you are."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000050_000000|"That is not a polite way of speaking to an old Tree with moss on his boughs," said the Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000050_000002|If you have a spark of honourable feeling alive in you, be good enough to move your leaves a little to one side.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000050_000003|There have been scarcely any buds on my lowest branches this year, you overshadow me so."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000051_000000|"I don't quite understand how that concerns us," answered the Beeches.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000051_000001|"Every one has quite enough to do to look after himself. If he is equal to his work, and has luck, it turns out well for him; if not, he must be prepared to go to the wall.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000052_000000|Then the Oak's lowest branch died, and he began to be seriously alarmed.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000052_000001|"You are pretty things," he said, "if this is the way you reward me for my hospitality.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000052_000002|When you were little I let you grow at my feet, and sheltered you against the storm, I let the sun shine on you as much as ever he would, and I treated you as if you were my own children.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000052_000003|And in return for all this you stifle me."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000053_000000|"Stuff and nonsense!" said the Beeches.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000053_000001|So they put forth flowers and fruit, and when the fruit was ripe the Wind shook the boughs and scattered it round far and wide.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000054_000000|"You are quick people like me," said the Wind.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000054_000001|"I like you for it, and am glad to do you a good turn." And the Fox rolled on the ground at the foot of the Beech Trees and got his fur full of the prickly fruits, and ran with them far out into the country.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000054_000002|The Bear did the same, and grinned into the bargain at the Old Oak while he lay and rested in the shadow of the Beeches.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000054_000003|The Field Mouse was beside himself with joy over his new food, and thought that Beech nuts tasted much nicer than acorns.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000054_000004|All round new little Beech Trees shot up, which grew just as fast as their parents, and looked as green and as happy as if they did not know what an uneasy conscience was.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000055_000000|But the Old Oak gazed sadly out over the wood.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000055_000001|The light green Beech leaves were peeping out everywhere, and the Oaks were sighing and bewailing their distress to one another.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000055_000002|"They are taking our strength out of us," they said, and shook as much as the Beeches around would let them.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000055_000003|"The land is ours no longer." One bough died after another, and the Storm broke them off and cast them on the ground.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000055_000004|The Old Oak had now only a few leaves left at the very top. "The end is near," he said gravely.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000056_000000|By this time there were many more human beings in the land than there were before, and they made haste to hew down the Oaks while there were still some remaining.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000057_000000|"Oak timber is better than Beech timber," they said.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000058_000000|"At last we get a little appreciation," said the old Oak, "but we have to pay for it with our lives."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000059_000000|Then he said to the Beech Trees,--"What was I thinking of when I helped you on in your young days?
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000059_000001|What an old stupid I was!
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000059_000002|Before that, we Oak Trees were lords in the land; and now every year I see my brothers around me perishing in the fight against you.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000059_000003|It will soon be all over with me, and not one of my acorns has sprouted under your shade.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000059_000004|But before I die I should like to know the name you give to such conduct."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000060_000001|It is competition which rules the world."
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000061_000000|"I do not know these foreign words of yours," said the Oak.
train-clean-100/8123/275216/8123_275216_000061_000001|"I call it mean ingratitude." And then he died.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000001_000000|Every measure pursued by the commons, and, still more, every attempt made by their partisans, were full of the most inveterate hatred against the hierarchy, and showed a determined resolution of subverting the whole ecclesiastical establishment.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000005_000002|This principle, which prevails so much among zealots, never displayed itself so openly as during the transactions of this whole period.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000007_000000|But, notwithstanding these efforts of the commons, they could not expect the concurrence of the upper house either to this law, or to any other which they should introduce for the further limitation of royal authority.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000007_000001|The majority of the peers adhered to the king, and plainly foresaw the depression of nobility, as a necessary consequence of popular usurpations on the crown.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000007_000005|But the tide of popularity seized many, and carried them wide of the most established maxims of civil policy.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000007_000007|These men, finding that their credit ran high with the nation, ventured to encourage those popular disorders, which, they vainly imagined, they possessed authority sufficient to regulate and control.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000008_000000|In order to obtain a majority in the upper house, the commons had recourse to the populace, who on other occasions had done them such important service.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000011_000000|They ordered halberts to be brought into the hall where they assembled, and thus armed themselves against those conspiracies with which, they pretended, they were hourly threatened.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000011_000001|As stories of plots, however ridiculous, were willingly attended to, and were dispersed among the multitude, to whose capacity they were well adapted.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000011_000002|Beale, a tailor, informed the commons that, walking in the fields, he had hearkened to the discourse of certain persons unknown to him, and had heard them talk of a most dangerous conspiracy.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000011_000003|A hundred and eight ruffians, as he learned, had been appointed to murder a hundred and eight lords and commoners, and were promised rewards for these assassinations, ten pounds for each lord, forty shillings for each commoner.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000012_000001|Multitudes flocked towards Westminster, and insulted the prelates and such of the lords as adhered to the crown.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000017_000002|By way of reproach, these gentlemen gave the rabble the appellation of Roundheads, on account of the short cropped hair which they wore: these called the others Cavaliers.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000018_000000|Meanwhile the tumults still continued, and even increased about Westminster and Whitehall.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000018_000003|For this reason they protested against all laws, votes, and resolutions, as null and invalid, which should pass during the time of their constrained absence.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000018_000004|This protestation, which, though just and legal, was certainly ill timed, was signed by twelve bishops, and communicated to the king, who hastily approved of it.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000018_000005|As soon as it was presented to the lords, that house desired a conference with the commons, whom they informed of this unexpected protestation.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000018_000006|The opportunity was seized with joy and triumph.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000018_000008|No man in either house ventured to speak a word in their vindication; so much displeased was every one at the egregious imprudence of which they had been guilty.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000025_000000|When the commons employed in their remonstrance language so severe and indecent, they had not been actuated entirely by insolence and passion; their views were more solid and profound.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000026_000001|When he considered all these increasing acts of insolence in the commons, he was apt to ascribe them in a great measure to his own indolence and facility.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000026_000002|The queen and the ladies of the court further stimulated his passion, and represented that, if he exerted the vigor and displayed the majesty of a monarch, the daring usurpations of his subjects would shrink before him.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000028_000000|Herbert, attorney general, appeared in the house of peers and in his majesty's name entered an accusation of high treason against Lord Kimbolton and five commoners, Hollis, Sir Arthur Hazlerig, Hambden, Pym, and Strode.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000030_000000|The whole world stood amazed at this important accusation, so suddenly entered upon without concert, deliberation, or reflection.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000030_000003|These five members, at least Pym, Hambden and Hollis, are the very heads of the popular party; and if these be taken off, what fate must be expected by their followers, who are, many of them, accomplices in the same treason?
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000030_000004|The punishment of leaders is ever the last triumph over a broken and routed party; but surely was never before attempted, in opposition to a faction, during the full tide of its power and success.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000031_000000|But men had not leisure to wonder at the indiscretion of this measure: their astonishment was excited by new attempts, still more precipitate and imprudent.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000031_000001|A serjeant at arms, in the king's name, demanded of the house the five members: and was sent back without any positive answer. Messengers were employed to search for them, and arrest them.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000031_000002|Their trunks, chambers, and studies were sealed and locked.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000032_000001|He was accompanied by his ordinary retinue, to the number of above two hundred, armed as usual, some with halberts, some with walking swords.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000032_000002|The king left them at the door, and he himself advanced alone through the hall, while all the members rose to receive him.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000035_000001|Yesterday I sent a serjeant at arms to demand some who, by my order, were accused of high treason.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000035_000002|Instead of obedience, I received a message.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000035_000003|I must here declare to you, that though no king that ever was in England could be more careful of your privileges than I shall be, yet in cases of treason no person has privilege.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000035_000005|Well, since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect that you will send them to me as soon as they return.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000035_000006|But I assure you, on the word of a king, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a fair and legal way; for I never meant any other.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000036_000000|When the king was looking around for the accused members, he asked the speaker, who stood below, whether any of these persons were in the house.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000036_000001|The speaker, falling on his knee, prudently replied, "I have, sir, neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the house is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am.
train-clean-100/8226/274369/8226_274369_000041_000000|That evening the accused members, to show the greater apprehension, removed into the city, which was their fortress.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000000_000001|You speak of jealousies and fears.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000000_000002|Lay your hands on your hearts, and ask yourselves whether I may not likewise be disturbed with fears and jealousies, and if so, I assure you that this message has nothing lessened them.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000001_000000|"As to the militia, I thought so much of it before I gave that answer, and am so much assured that the answer is agreeable to what in justice or reason you can ask, or I in honor grant, that I shall not alter it in any point.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000003_000000|"What would you have?
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000003_000003|I do not ask what you have done for me.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000004_000001|All this considered, there is a judgment of Heaven upon this nation if these distractions continue.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000015_000001|The small interval of time which had passed since the fatal accusation of the members, had been sufficient to open the eyes of many, and to recover them from the astonishment with which at first they had been seized.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000017_000003|So obvious indeed was the king's present inability to invade the constitution, that the fears and jealousies which operated on the people, and pushed them so furiously to arms, were undoubtedly not of a civil, but of a religious nature.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000000|Each party was now willing to throw on its antagonist the odium of commencing a civil war; but both of them prepared for an event which they deemed inevitable.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000004|To determine his choice in the approaching contests, every man hearkened with avidity to the reasons proposed on both sides.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000005|The war of the pen preceded that of the sword, and daily sharpened the humors of the opposite parties.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000006|Besides private adventurers without number, the king and parliament themselves carried on the controversy by messages, remonstrances, and declarations; where the nation was really the party to whom all arguments were addressed.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000007|Charles had here a double advantage.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000009|Lord Falkland had accepted the office of secretary; a man who adorned the purest virtue, with the richest gifts of nature, and the most valuable acquisitions of learning.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000020_000010|By him, assisted by the king himself, were the memorials of the royal party chiefly composed.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000024_000000|Though these writings were of consequence, and tended much to reconcile the nation to Charles, it was evident that they would not be decisive, and that keener weapons must determine the controversy.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000024_000001|To the ordinance of the parliament concerning the militia, the king opposed his commissions of array.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000024_000002|The counties obeyed the one or the other, according as they stood affected.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000025_000000|The magazine of Hull contained the arms of all the forces levied against the Scots; and Sir john Hotham, the governor, though he had accepted of a commission from the parliament, was not thought to be much disaffected to the church and monarchy.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000025_000001|Charles therefore entertained hopes that if he presented himself at Hull before the commencement of hostilities, Hotham, overawed by his presence, would admit him with his retinue; after which he might easily render himself master of the place.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000025_000003|He shut the gates, and refused to receive the king, who desired leave to enter with twenty persons only.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000032_000001|Within ten days, vast quantities of plate were brought to their treasurers.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000032_000002|Hardly were there men enough to receive it, or room sufficient to stow it; and many with regret were obliged to carry back their offerings, and wait till the treasurers could find leisure to receive them; such zeal animated the pious partisans of the parliament, especially in the city.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000036_000000|Meanwhile the splendor of the nobility with which the king was environed much eclipsed the appearance at Westminster.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000036_000001|Lord Keeper Littleton, after sending the great seal before him, had fled to York.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000036_000003|Near the moiety, too, of the lower house absented themselves from counsels which they deemed so full of danger.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000036_000004|The commons sent up an impeachment against nine peers, for deserting their duty in parliament.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000036_000005|Their own members, also, who should return to them, they voted not to admit till satisfied concerning the reason of their absence.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000040_000000|The queen, disposing of the crown jewels in Holland, had been enabled to purchase a cargo of arms and ammunition.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000040_000001|Part of these, after escaping many perils, arrived safely to the king.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000040_000002|His preparations were not near so forward as those of the parliament.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000040_000003|In order to remove all jealousy, he had resolved that their usurpations and illegal pretensions should be apparent to the whole world; and thought that to recover the confidence of the people was a point much more material to his interest, than the collecting of any magazines, stores, or armies which might breed apprehensions of violent or illegal counsels.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000040_000005|He now prepared himself for defence.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000040_000008|From the mixed character, indeed, of Charles, arose in part the misfortunes in which England was at this time involved.
train-clean-100/8226/274371/8226_274371_000042_000001|Charles accordingly resolved to support his authority by arms.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000006_000000|--NED KNOWLES.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000007_000001|My acquaintance with Ritzner commenced at the magnificent Chateau Jung, into which a train of droll adventures, not to be made public, threw a place in his regard, and here, with somewhat more difficulty, a partial insight into his mental conformation.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000007_000002|In later days this insight grew more clear, as the intimacy which had at first permitted it became more close; and when, after three years of the character of the Baron Ritzner von Jung.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000000|I remember the buzz of curiosity which his advent excited within the college precincts on the night of the twenty fifth of June.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000001|I remember still more distinctly, that while he was pronounced by all parties at first sight "the most remarkable man in the world," no person made any attempt at accounting for his opinion.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000002|That he was unique appeared so undeniable, that it was deemed impertinent to inquire wherein the uniquity consisted.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000003|But, letting this matter pass for the present, I will merely observe that, from the first moment of his setting foot within the limits of the university, he began to exercise over the habits, manners, persons, purses, and propensities of the whole community which surrounded him, an influence the most extensive and despotic, yet at the same time the most indefinite and altogether unaccountable.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000004|Thus the brief period of his residence at the university forms an era in its annals, and is characterized by all classes of people appertaining to it or its dependencies as "that very extraordinary epoch forming the domination of the Baron Ritzner von Jung." then of no particular age, by which I mean that it was impossible to form a guess respecting his age by any data personally afforded.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000006|He was by no means a handsome man-perhaps the reverse.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000007|The contour of his face was somewhat angular and harsh.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000008|His forehead was lofty and very fair; his nose a snub; his eyes large, heavy, glassy, and meaningless.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000009|About the mouth there was more to be observed.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000008_000010|The lips were gently protruded, and rested the one upon the other, after such a fashion that it is impossible to conceive any, even the most complex, combination of human features, conveying so entirely, and so singly, the idea of unmitigated gravity, solemnity and repose.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000009_000000|It will be perceived, no doubt, from what I have already said, that the Baron was one of those human anomalies now and then to be found, who make the science of mystification the study and the business of their lives.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000009_000002|I quaintly termed the domination of the Baron Ritzner von Jung, ever rightly entered into the mystery which overshadowed his character.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000009_000003|I truly think that no person at the university, with the exception of myself, ever suspected him to be capable of a joke, verbal or practical:--the old bull dog at the garden gate would sooner have been accused,--the ghost of Heraclitus,--or the wig of the Emeritus Professor of Theology.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000009_000004|This, too, when it was evident that the most egregious and unpardonable of all conceivable tricks, whimsicalities and buffooneries were brought about, if not directly by him, at least plainly through his intermediate agency or connivance.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000009_000007|The adroitness, too, was no less worthy of observation by which he contrived to shift the sense of the grotesque from the creator to the created-from his own person to the absurdities to which he had given rise.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000009_000008|In no instance before that of which I speak, have I known the habitual mystific escape the natural consequence of his manoevres-an attachment of the ludicrous to his own character and person.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000010_000000|Upon one occasion we had protracted our sitting until nearly daybreak, and an unusual quantity of wine had been drunk.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000010_000001|The company consisted of seven or eight individuals besides the Baron and myself.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000010_000002|Most of these were young men of wealth, of high connection, of great family pride, and all alive with an exaggerated sense of honor.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000010_000003|They abounded in the most ultra German opinions respecting the duello.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000010_000004|To these Quixotic notions some recent Parisian publications, backed by three or four desperate and fatal conversation, during the greater part of the night, had run wild upon the all-engrossing topic of the times.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000011_000000|Looking around me during a pause in the Baron's discourse (of which my readers may gather some faint idea when I say that it bore resemblance to the fervid, chanting, monotonous, yet musical sermonic manner of Coleridge), I perceived symptoms of even more than the general interest in the countenance of one of the party.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000011_000001|This gentleman, whom I shall call Hermann, was an original in every respect-except, perhaps, in the single particular that he was a very great fool.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000011_000002|He contrived to bear, however, among a particular set at the university, a reputation for deep metaphysical thinking, and, I believe, for some logical talent.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000011_000003|As a duellist he had acquired who had fallen at his hands; but they were many.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000011_000004|He was a man of courage undoubtedly.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000011_000007|To Ritzner, ever upon the lookout for the grotesque, his peculiarities had for a long time past afforded food for mystification.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000000|As the former proceeded in his discourse, or rather monologue I perceived the excitement of the latter momently increasing.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000001|At length he spoke; offering some objection to a point insisted upon by r, and giving his reasons in detail.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000002|To these the Baron replied at length (still maintaining his exaggerated tone of sentiment) and concluding, in what I thought very bad taste, with a sarcasm and a sneer.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000003|The hobby of Hermann now took the bit in his teeth.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000004|This I could discern by the studied hair splitting farrago of his rejoinder.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000005|His last words I distinctly remember.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000012_000006|"Your opinions, allow me to say, Baron von Jung, although in the main correct, are, in many nice points, discreditable to yourself and to the university of which you are a member.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000000|As Hermann completed this equivocal sentence, all eyes were turned upon the Baron.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000001|He became pale, then excessively red; then, dropping his pocket handkerchief, stooped to recover it, when I caught a glimpse of his countenance, while it could be seen by no one else at the table. It was radiant with the quizzical expression which was its natural character, but which I had never seen it assume except when we were alone together, and when he unbent himself freely.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000003|For a moment I even fancied that I had misconceived him, and that he was in sober earnest.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000004|He appeared to be stifling with passion, and his face was cadaverously white.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000005|For a short time he remained silent, apparently striving to master his emotion.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000008|Some courtesy, nevertheless, is due to the presence of this company, and to yourself, at this moment, as my guest.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000013_000011|This being done, there will be no difficulty whatever. I shall discharge this decanter of wine at your image in yonder mirror, and thus fulfil all the spirit, if not the exact letter, of resentment for your insult, while the necessity of physical violence to your real person will be obviated."
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000014_000000|With these words he hurled the decanter, full of wine, against the mirror which hung directly opposite Hermann; striking the reflection of his person with great precision, and of course shattering the glass into fragments.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000014_000001|The whole company at once started to their feet, and, with the exception of myself and Ritzner, took their departure.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000014_000002|As Hermann went out, the Baron whispered me that I should follow him and make an offer of my services.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000014_000003|To this I agreed; not knowing precisely what to make of so ridiculous a piece of business.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000002|After a tiresome harangue in his ordinary style, he took down from his book shelves a number of musty volumes on the subject of the duello, and entertained me for a long time with their contents; reading aloud, and commenting earnestly as he read.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000003|I can just remember the titles of some of the works.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000004|There were the "Ordonnance of Philip le Bel on Single Combat"; the "Theatre of Honor," by Favyn, and a treatise "On the Permission of Duels," by Andiguier.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000005|He displayed, also, with much pomposity, Brantome's "Memoirs of Duels,"--published at Cologne, sixteen sixty six, in the types of Elzevir-a precious and unique vellum paper volume, with a fine margin, and bound by Derome.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000007|Having finished the chapter, he closed the book, and demanded what I thought necessary to be done. I replied that I had entire confidence in his superior delicacy of feeling, and would abide by what he proposed.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000008|With this answer he seemed flattered, and sat down to write a note to the Baron.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000015_000009|It ran thus:
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000016_000000|Sir,--My friend, m p-, will hand you this note.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000016_000002|In the event of your declining this request, mr p will be happy to arrange, with any friend whom you may appoint, the steps preliminary to a meeting.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000017_000000|With sentiments of perfect respect,
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000018_000000|Your most humble servant,
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000020_000000|To the Baron Ritzner von Jung,
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000021_000001|Having perused the cartel, he wrote the following reply, which I carried to Hermann.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000022_000000|SIR,--Through our common friend, mr p, I have received your note of this evening.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000022_000001|Upon due reflection I frankly admit the propriety of the explanation you suggest.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000023_000000|With sentiments of profound respect,
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000024_000000|Your most obedient servant,
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000025_000000|VON JUNG.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000027_000001|Having finished reading, he begged me, with the blandest of all possible smiles, to be seated, while he made reference to the treatise in question.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000027_000002|Turning to the passage specified, he read it with great care to himself, then closed the book, and desired me, in my character of confidential acquaintance, to express to the Baron von Jung his exalted sense of his chivalrous behavior, and, in that of second, to assure him that the explanation offered was of the fullest, the most honorable, and the most unequivocally satisfactory nature.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000028_000000|Somewhat amazed at all this, I made my retreat to the Baron.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000028_000002|I did so, but to little purpose, not being able to gather the least particle of meaning.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000028_000005|The key to the whole was found in leaving out every second and third word alternately, when there appeared a series of ludicrous quizzes upon a single combat as practised in modern times.
train-clean-100/8238/274553/8238_274553_000029_000001|Upon this hint he proceeded.
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train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000003_000000|HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000006_000000|BY
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000000|The humorous ghost is distinctly a modern character.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000001|In early literature wraiths took themselves very seriously, and insisted on a proper show of respectful fear on the part of those whom they honored by haunting.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000002|A mortal was expected to rise when a ghost entered the room, and in case he was slow about it, his spine gave notice of what etiquette demanded. In the event of outdoor apparition, if a man failed to bare his head in awe, the roots of his hair reminded him of his remissness.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000003|Woman has always had the advantage over man in such emergency, in that her locks, being long and pinned up, are less easily moved-which may explain the fact (if it be a fact!) that in fiction women have shown themselves more self possessed in ghostly presence than men.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000004|Or possibly a woman knows that a masculine spook is, after all, only a man, and therefore may be charmed into helplessness, while the feminine can be seen through by another woman and thus disarmed.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000005|The majority of the comic apparitions, curiously enough, are masculine.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000007|Or maybe the reason lies in the fact that men have written most of the comic or satiric ghost stories, and have chivalrously spared the gentler shades.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000008|And there are very few funny child ghosts-you might almost say none, in comparison with the number of grown ups.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000022_000010|There are a few instances, as in the case of the ghost baby mentioned later, but very few.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000023_000000|Ancient ghosts were a long faced lot.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000023_000001|They didn't know how to play at all.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000023_000002|They had been brought up in stern repression of frivolities as haunters-no matter how sportive they may have been in life-and in turn they cowed mortals into a servile submission.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000023_000003|No doubt they thought of men and women as mere youngsters that must be taught their place, since any living person, however senile, would be thought juvenile compared with a timeless spook.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000000|But in these days of individualism and radical liberalism, spooks as well as mortals are expanding their personalities and indulging in greater freedom.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000001|A ghost can call his shade his own now, and exhibit any mood he pleases.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000002|Even young female wraiths, demanding latchkeys, refuse to obey the frowning face of the clock, and engage in light-hearted ebullience to make the ghost of mrs Grundy turn a shade paler in horror.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000003|Nowadays haunters have more fun and freedom than the haunted.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000004|In fact, it's money in one's pocket these days to be dead, for ghosts have no rent problems, and dead men pay no bills.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000006|And suppose a ghost brought into court demanded trial by a jury of his peers?
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000024_000007|No-manifestly death has compensations not connected with the consolations of religion.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000000|The marvel is that apparitions were so long in realizing their possibilities, in improving their advantages.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000001|The specters in classic and medieval literature were malarial, vaporous beings without energy to do anything but threaten, and mortals never would have trembled with fear at their frown if they had known how feeble they were.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000004|Now it takes more than that to produce a panic.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000005|The up-to-date ghost keeps his skeleton in a garage or some place where it is cleaned and oiled and kept in good working order.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000006|The modern wraith has sold his sheet to the old clo'es man, and dresses as in life.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000007|Now the ghost has learned to have a variety of good times, and he can make the living squirm far more satisfyingly than in the past.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000008|The spook of to day enjoys making his haunted laugh even while he groans in terror.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000025_000009|He knows that there's no weapon, no threat, in horror, to be compared with ridicule.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000000|Think what a solemn creature the Gothic ghost was!
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000002|His sole appeal was to the spinal column.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000003|The ghost of to day touches the funny bone as well.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000004|He adds new horrors to being haunted, but new pleasures also.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000005|The modern specter can be a joyous creature on occasion, as he can be, when he wishes, fearsome beyond the dreams of classic or Gothic revenant.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000006|He has a keen sense of humor and loves a good joke on a mortal, while he can even enjoy one on himself.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000007|Though his fun is of comparatively recent origin-it's less than a century since he learned to crack a smile-the laughing ghost is very much alive and sportively active.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000008|Some of these new spooks are notoriously good company.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000009|Many Americans there are to day who would court being haunted by the captain and crew of Richard Middleton's Ghost Ship that landed in a turnip field and dispensed drink till they demoralized the denizens of village and graveyard alike.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000026_000010|After that show of spirits, the turnips in that field tasted of rum, long after the ghost ship had sailed away into the blue.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000027_000000|The modern spook is possessed not only of humor but of a caustic satire as well.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000027_000003|Suppose each one of us were to be haunted by his own inane utterances?
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000027_000006|I should think that some of the futile, laggard messenger boy ghosts that one reads about nowadays would blush with shame before the wholesome raillery of the porgy fisherman.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000028_000000|The modern humorous ghost satirizes everything from the old-fashioned specter (he's very fond of taking pot shots at him) to the latest psychic manifestations.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000028_000001|He laughs at ghosts that aren't experts in efficiency haunting, and he has a lot of fun out of mortals for being scared of specters.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000028_000002|He loves to shake the lugubrious terrors of the past before you, exposing their hollow futility, and he contrives to create new fears for you magically while you are laughing at him.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000029_000000|The new ghost hates conventionality and uses the old thrills only to show what dead batteries they come from.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000029_000001|His really electrical effects are his own inventions.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000029_000002|He needs no dungeon keeps and monkish cells to play about in-not he!
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000029_000003|He demands no rag nor bone nor clank of chain of his old equipment to start on his career.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000030_000000|The new ghost has a more nimble and versatile tongue as well as wit.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000030_000003|Or perhaps the authors were doubtful as to the dialogue of shades, and compromised on a few stately ejaculations as being safely phantasmal speaking parts.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000030_000004|But compare that usage with the rude freedom of some modern spooks, as john Kendrick Bangs's spectral cook of Bangletop, who lets fall her h's and twists grammar in a rare and diverting manner.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000030_000006|Think of having always-and always-to speak a dead language!
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000031_000003|The French and English selections in this volume are sufficient to prove the contrary.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000031_000005|There are various English stories of whimsical haunting, some of actual spooks and some of the hoax type.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000032_000001|In that we have a conventional young bachelor, engaged to a charming girl, who is entangled in social complications and made to suffer mental torment because, without his consent, he has been chosen as the nurse and guardian of a ghost baby that cradles after him wherever he goes.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000032_000002|This is a rich story almost spoiled by being poorly told.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000000|The stories by Eden Phillpotts and Richard Middleton in this collection show the diversity of the English humor as associated with apparitions, and are entertaining in themselves.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000002|This travesty on the conventional traditions of the wraith is preposterously delightful, one of the cleverest ghost stories in our language.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000003|Zangwill has written engagingly of spooks, with a laughable story about Samuel Johnson.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000004|And there are others.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000005|But the fact remains that in spite of conceded and admirable examples, the humorous ghost story is for the most part American in creation and spirit. Washington Irving might be said to have started that fashion in skeletons and shades, for he has given us various comic haunters, some real and some make believe.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000006|Frank r Stockton gave his to funny spooks with a riotous and laughing pen.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000008|john Kendrick Bangs has made the darker regions seem comfortable and homelike for us, and has created ghosts so human and so funny that we look forward to being one-or more.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000009|We feel downright neighborly toward such specters as the futile "last ghost" Nelson Lloyd evokes for us, as we appreciate the satire of Rose O'Neill's sophisticated wraith.
train-clean-100/8238/283452/8238_283452_000033_000011|The field is still comparatively limited, but a number of Americans have done distinctive work in it.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000000_000004|Roger Scurvilegs frankly breaks down over it.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000001_000000|Let us describe it calmly.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000002_000002|He was wondering if Princess Hyacinth had an attendant of surpassing beauty, or a dragon of surpassing malevolence-if, in fact, there were any adventures in Euralia for a humble fellow like himself.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000003_000000|"Coronel!" said a small voice behind him.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000005_000001|"Isn't it time we were starting?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000006_000000|"We aren't starting," said the voice.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000007_000000|"What's the matter?
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000007_000001|What are you hiding in the bushes for? Whatever's the matter, Udo?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000008_000000|"I'm not very well."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000009_000000|"My poor Udo, what's happened?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000010_000001|"I command you!"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000011_000000|Coronel stopped.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000014_000000|"Coronel," said an unhappy voice at last, "I think I'm coming out."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000016_000000|"Yes, I am coming out, Coronel," said the voice.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000016_000001|"But you mustn't be surprised if I don't look very well.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000016_000002|I'm-I'm-Coronel, here I am," said Udo pathetically and he stepped out.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000017_000000|Coronel didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000018_000000|Poor Prince Udo!
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000021_000000|Coronel decided that it was an occasion for tact.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000022_000000|"Ah, here you are," he said cheerfully.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000023_000000|"Don't be a fool, Coronel," said Udo, almost crying.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000024_000001|A tail!
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000024_000002|Well, think of that!"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000026_000000|"This is not a time for tact," he said.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000026_000001|"Tell me what I look like."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000027_000000|Coronel considered for a moment.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000028_000000|"Really frankly?" he asked.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000030_000000|"Then, frankly, your Royal Highness looks-funny."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000034_000000|"I was afraid so," he said.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000034_000001|"That's the cruel part about it.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000034_000002|Had I been a lion there would have been a certain pathetic splendour about my position.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000034_000003|Isolated-cut off-suffering in regal silence." He waved an explanatory paw.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000034_000004|"Even in the most hideous of beasts there might be a dignity." He meditated for a moment.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000034_000005|"Have you ever seen a yak, Coronel?" he asked.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000035_000000|"Never."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000036_000002|One does not laugh at a yak, Coronel, and where one does not laugh one may come to love. . . .
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000036_000003|What does my head look like?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000037_000000|"It looks-striking."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000038_000000|"I haven't seen it, you see."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000042_000000|"How did it happen?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000043_000000|"I don't know, Coronel.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000043_000001|I just went to sleep, and woke up feeling rather funny, and----"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000043_000003|"It was that old woman did it.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000043_000004|You mark my words, Coronel; she did it."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000045_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000045_000001|I was very polite to her.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000045_000002|Don't you remember my saying to you, 'Be polite to her, because she's probably a fairy!' You see, I saw through her disguise at once.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000045_000003|Coronel, what shall we do?
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000045_000004|Let's hold a council of war and think it over."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000046_000000|So they held a council of war.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000047_000000|Prince Udo put forward two suggestions.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000049_000000|The second was that Coronel should go back that afternoon and kill the old woman.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000050_000000|Coronel pointed out that as she had turned Prince Udo into-into a-a-("Quite so," said Udo)--it was likely that she alone could turn him back again, and that in that case he had better only threaten her.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000055_000000|"Really, I don't know.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000055_000001|Perhaps because I'm too unimportant."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000056_000000|"Yes, that must be it." He began to feel a little brighter. "Obviously, that's it." He caressed a whisker with one of his paws. "They were afraid of me."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000057_000000|He began to look so much happier that Coronel thought it was a favourable moment in which to withdraw.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000059_000000|"Yes, yes, you may leave me."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000060_000000|"And shall I find you here when I come back?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000061_000001|"Obviously."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000062_000000|"And if I don't?"
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000063_000000|"Then return to the Palace."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000064_000000|"Good bye, your Royal Highness."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000066_000000|"Good bye, good bye."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000067_000002|Spasm after spasm shook him.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000068_000000|"I couldn't have stayed with him a moment longer," he thought.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000068_000001|"I should have burst.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000068_000003|However, we'll soon get him all right."
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000069_000000|That evening he reached the place where the cottage had stood, but it was gone.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000069_000001|Next morning he rode back to the wood.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000069_000002|Udo was gone too. He returned to the Palace, and began to think it out.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000070_000000|Left to himself Udo very soon made up his mind.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000070_000001|There were three courses open to him.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000072_000000|This he rejected at once.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000074_000002|How awkward for everybody!
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000076_000001|The Princess Hyacinth had called for him.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000076_000002|What devotion it showed if he came to her even now-in his present state of bad health! She was in trouble: enchanters, wizards, what nots.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000076_000003|Already, then, he had suffered in her service-so at least he would say, and so possibly it might be.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000076_000004|Coronel had thought him-funny; but women had not much sense of humour as a rule.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000076_000005|Probably as a child Hyacinth had kept rabbits . . . or lambs.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000076_000007|Women like to feel that there is something fierce, untamable in the man they love; well, there it was.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000077_000000|It was not as if he had Coronel with him.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000079_000000|To Euralia then with all dispatch.
train-clean-100/83/11691/83_11691_000080_000000|He trotted off.
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000004_000004|The lobster trees appeared the richest, but the crab and oysters were the tallest.
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000004_000005|The periwinkle is a kind of shrub; it grows at the foot of the oyster tree, and twines round it as the ivy does the oak.
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000004_000007|As she sank she fell upon her side, and forced a very large lobster tree out of its place.
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000004_000008|It was in the spring, when the lobsters were very young, and many of them being separated by the violence of the shock, they fell upon a crab tree which was growing below them; they have, like the farina of plants, united, and produced a fish resembling both.
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000004_000010|Add to this, my situation was in other respects very unpleasant; I met many large fish, who were, if I could judge by their open mouths, not only able, but really wished to devour us; now, as my Rosinante was blind, I had these hungry gentlemen's attempts to guard against, in addition to my other difficulties.
train-clean-100/83/3054/83_3054_000005_000000|"As we drew near the Dutch shore, and the body of water over our heads did not exceed twenty fathoms, I thought I saw a human figure in a female dress then lying on the sand before me with some signs of life; when I came close I perceived her hand move: I took it into mine, and brought her on shore as a corpse.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000004_000000|Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. The enigma was more impenetrable than ever.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000005_000002|The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters u f were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named Ursule.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000005_000003|This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000006_000001|There he stood, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the abominable things viewed at such close quarters.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000006_000002|He waited, in the hope of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000008_000000|Nearly half an hour passed in this manner.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000009_000000|All at once, Thenardier addressed the prisoner:
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000012_000000|"My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000012_000001|I think that the Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you should keep her.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000012_000003|My wife will go and hunt her up with your letter.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000012_000007|If you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's all."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000013_000000|The prisoner uttered not a syllable.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000013_000001|After a pause, Thenardier continued:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000016_000001|You see that our intentions are not evil."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000017_000000|Terrible images passed through Marius' mind.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000017_000001|What!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000017_000003|One of those monsters was to bear her off into the darkness?
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000017_000004|Whither?
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000017_000005|And what if it were she!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000018_000000|It was clear that it was she.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000018_000001|Marius felt his heart stop beating.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000019_000001|Discharge the pistol?
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000020_000000|Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself restrained.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000022_000000|Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the most heart breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000023_000000|The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the den.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000024_000000|In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase was heard to open and shut again.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000025_000000|The prisoner made a movement in his bonds.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000027_000000|He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thenardier woman did in fact rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000028_000000|"False address!"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000032_000000|She paused, choking, then went on:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000001|That old fellow has duped you!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000002|You are too good, you see!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000003|If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters to begin with!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000005|He would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where he keeps his shiners!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000006|That's the way I should have managed matters! People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider than women!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000008|It's nothing but a big carriage gate!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000010|And after all that racing and fee to the coachman and all!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000033_000011|I spoke to both the porter and the portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000035_000000|She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000036_000000|While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thenardier had seated himself on the table.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000037_000000|For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000039_000001|What did you expect to gain by that?"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000040_000000|"To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000040_000001|The prisoner was only attached to the bed now by one leg.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000042_000002|These hideous and delicate products of wonderful art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons in language.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000042_000004|This can be screwed together and unscrewed at will; it is a box.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000042_000005|In this box he hides a watch spring, and this watch spring, properly handled, cuts good sized chains and bars of iron.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000044_000000|As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he had not cut the bonds of his left leg.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000045_000000|The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000046_000003|I tied that paw for him."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000047_000000|In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000048_000000|"You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not choose to say-"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000049_000000|He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000050_000000|"See here."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000051_000000|At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000052_000000|The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar to chambers of torture filled the hovel.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000055_000000|With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000056_000000|"Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000058_000000|The prisoner resumed:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000059_000000|"Do what you please with me." He was disarmed.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000062_000000|At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy conducted in a low tone:--
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000063_000000|"There is only one thing left to do."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000064_000000|"Cut his throat."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000065_000000|"That's it."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000066_000000|It was the husband and wife taking counsel together.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000067_000000|Thenardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and took out the knife.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000067_000002|For the last hour he had had two voices in his conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the other crying to him to rescue the prisoner.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000067_000004|Up to that moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of possibility had presented itself.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000069_000000|Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of despair.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000069_000001|All at once a shudder ran through him.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000070_000000|At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000071_000000|"THE BOBBIES ARE HERE."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000072_000000|An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000073_000000|He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of the den.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000074_000000|It was high time.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000074_000001|Thenardier had conquered his last fears or his last scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000075_000000|"Something is falling!" cried the Thenardier woman.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000076_000000|"What is it?" asked her husband.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000077_000000|The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000077_000001|She handed it to her husband.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000079_000000|"Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? Through the window, of course."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000081_000000|Thenardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000082_000001|The devil!"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000084_000000|"Quick!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000084_000001|The ladder!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000084_000002|Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000085_000000|"Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thenardier woman.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000086_000000|"We haven't the time."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000088_000000|"Through the window," replied Thenardier.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000089_000000|The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, three times rapidly without uttering a word.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000090_000000|This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on board ship.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000093_000000|As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thenardier cried:
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000095_000000|And he rushed headlong to the window.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000097_000000|"Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000098_000000|"After us!" yelled the ruffians.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000100_000000|"Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down first."
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000102_000002|What a pack of boobies!
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000102_000004|Draw lots, do you?
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000102_000007|Thrown into a hat!--"
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000103_000000|"Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold.
train-clean-100/83/9960/83_9960_000104_000001|It was Javert.
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train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000007_000004|Under which happier circumstances you might-if of an observing turn of mind and not too much of a housewife to be inhuman-have given the central figure of this story less cursory attention.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000008_000000|Now if you had noticed anything about him, it would have been chiefly to notice how little he was noticeable.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000008_000002|He was of a pallid complexion, hair of a kind of dirty fairness, greyish eyes, and a skimpy, immature moustache under his peaked indeterminate nose. His features were all small, but none ill shaped.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000008_000006|So, I say, he would have presented himself to your superficial observation.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000009_000000|But real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000009_000001|Literature is revelation. Modern literature is indecorous revelation.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000009_000002|It is the duty of the earnest author to tell you what you would not have seen-even at the cost of some blushes.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000009_000003|And the thing that you would not have seen about this young man, and the thing of the greatest moment to this story, the thing that must be told if the book is to be written, was-let us face it bravely-the Remarkable Condition of this Young Man's Legs.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000000|Let us approach the business with dispassionate explicitness.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000001|Let us assume something of the scientific spirit, the hard, almost professorial tone of the conscientious realist.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000003|And so to our revelation.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000004|On the internal aspect of the right ankle of this young man you would have observed, ladies and gentlemen, a contusion and an abrasion; on the internal aspect of the left ankle a contusion also; on its external aspect a large yellowish bruise.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000006|Proceeding up the left leg in a spiral manner, an unnatural hardness and redness would have been discovered on the upper aspect of the calf, and above the knee and on the inner side, an extraordinary expanse of bruised surface, a kind of closely stippled shading of contused points.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000007|The right leg would be found to be bruised in a marvellous manner all about and under the knee, and particularly on the interior aspect of the knee.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000008|So far we may proceed with our details. Fired by these discoveries, an investigator might perhaps have pursued his inquiries further-to bruises on the shoulders, elbows, and even the finger joints, of the central figure of our story.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000009|He had indeed been bumped and battered at an extraordinary number of points.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000010_000011|Even in literature one must know where to draw the line.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000011_000001|One might fancy that he had been sitting with his nether extremities in some complicated machinery, a threshing machine, say, or one of those hay making furies.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000011_000004|One large bruise on the shin is even more characteristic of the 'prentice cyclist, for upon every one of them waits the jest of the unexpected treadle.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000011_000005|You try at least to walk your machine in an easy manner, and whack!--you are rubbing your shin.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000011_000006|So out of innocence we ripen.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000011_000007|Two bruises on that place mark a certain want of aptitude in learning, such as one might expect in a person unused to muscular exercise.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000011_000008|Blisters on the hands are eloquent of the nervous clutch of the wavering rider.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000012_000000|The revelation is made.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000012_000002|Then you descry dimly through the dusk the central figure of this story sitting by the roadside and rubbing his leg at some new place, and his friend, sympathetic (but by no means depressed), repairing the displacement of the handle bar.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000013_000000|Thus even in a shop assistant does the warmth of manhood assert itself, and drive him against all the conditions of his calling, against the counsels of prudence and the restrictions of his means, to seek the wholesome delights of exertion and danger and pain.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000013_000001|And our first examination of the draper reveals beneath his draperies-the man!
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000013_000002|To which initial fact (among others) we shall come again in the end.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000015_000001|The central figure of our story is now going along behind the counter, a draper indeed, with your purchases in his arms, to the warehouse, where the various articles you have selected will presently be packed by the senior porter and sent to you.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000015_000003|Near him is an apprentice, apprenticed to the same high calling of draper's assistant, a ruddy, red haired lad in a very short tailless black coat and a very high collar, who is deliberately unfolding and refolding some patterns of cretonne.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000015_000007|But to tell the truth, neither is thinking of the mechanical duties in hand.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000015_000008|The assistant is dreaming of the delicious time-only four hours off now-when he will resume the tale of his bruises and abrasions.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000015_000010|He inclines rather to street fighting against revolutionaries-because then she could see him from the window.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000016_000000|Jerking them back to the present comes the puffy little shop walker, with a paper in his hand.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000016_000001|The apprentice becomes extremely active.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000017_000001|"They're going fairly well, sir.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000018_000000|The shop walker brings up parallel to the counter.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000018_000001|"Any particular time when you want your holidays?" he asks.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000019_000000|Hoopdriver pulls at his skimpy moustache.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000019_000001|"No-Don't want them too late, sir, of course."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000021_000001|His face is eloquent of conflicting considerations.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000021_000002|Can he learn it in a week?
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000021_000003|That's the question. Otherwise Briggs will get next week, and he will have to wait until September-when the weather is often uncertain.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000021_000004|He is naturally of a sanguine disposition.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000021_000005|All drapers have to be, or else they could never have the faith they show in the beauty, washability, and unfading excellence of the goods they sell you.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000021_000006|The decision comes at last. "That'll do me very well," said mr Hoopdriver, terminating the pause.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000022_000000|The die is cast.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000024_000000|three
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000025_000000|At supper that night, holiday talk held undisputed sway.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000025_000002|"I?" said Hoopdriver when the question came to him.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000025_000003|"Why, cycling, of course."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000026_000000|"You're never going to ride that dreadful machine of yours, day after day?" said Miss Howe of the Costume Department.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000027_000000|"I am," said Hoopdriver as calmly as possible, pulling at the insufficient moustache.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000027_000001|"I'm going for a Cycling Tour.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000027_000002|Along the South Coast."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000028_000000|"Well, all I hope, mr Hoopdriver, is that you'll get fine weather," said Miss Howe.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000028_000001|"And not come any nasty croppers."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000030_000000|"You stow it," said mr Hoopdriver, looking hard and threateningly at the junior apprentice, and suddenly adding in a tone of bitter contempt,--"Jampot."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000031_000000|"I'm getting fairly safe upon it now," he told Miss Howe.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000032_000000|At other times Hoopdriver might have further resented the satirical efforts of the apprentice, but his mind was too full of the projected Tour to admit any petty delicacies of dignity.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000032_000004|Briggs had never been on a cycle in his life, but he felt Hoopdriver's inexperience and offered such advice as occurred to him.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000033_000000|"Have the machine thoroughly well oiled," said Briggs, "carry one or two lemons with you, don't tear yourself to death the first day, and sit upright.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000033_000001|Never lose control of the machine, and always sound the bell on every possible opportunity.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000033_000002|You mind those things, and nothing very much can't happen to you, Hoopdriver-you take my word."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000034_000000|He would lapse into silence for a minute, save perhaps for a curse or so at his pipe, and then break out with an entirely different set of tips.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000035_000000|"Avoid running over dogs, Hoopdriver, whatever you do.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000035_000002|Never let the machine buckle-there was a man killed only the other day through his wheel buckling-don't scorch, don't ride on the foot path, keep your own side of the road, and if you see a tramline, go round the corner at once, and hurry off into the next county-and always light up before dark.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000035_000003|You mind just a few little things like that, Hoopdriver, and nothing much can't happen to you-you take my word."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000036_000000|"Right you are!" said Hoopdriver.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000036_000001|"Good night, old man."
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000037_000001|Hoopdriver rode off into Dreamland on his machine, and was scarcely there before he was pitched back into the world of sense again.--Something-what was it?
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000038_000001|It's fatal," a voice that came from round a fitful glow of light, was saying.
train-clean-100/831/130739/831_130739_000038_000003|You mind just a few little things like that-"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000001_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000002_000000|The ostler (being a fool) rushed violently down the road vociferating after them.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000002_000001|Then he returned panting to the Vicuna Hotel, and finding a group of men outside the entrance, who wanted to know what was UP, stopped to give them the cream of the adventure.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000002_000002|That gave the fugitives five minutes.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000002_000004|There were also moral remarks and other irrelevant contributions.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000002_000005|There were conflicting ideas of telling the police and pursuing the flying couple on a horse.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000002_000006|That made ten minutes.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000003_000000|"It wasn't that one at all, miss," said the ostler, "I'd SWEAR"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000004_000000|"Well, that's mr Beaumont," said the barmaid, "--anyhow."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000005_000000|Their conversation hung comatose in the air, switched up by Bechamel. They listened together.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000005_000001|His feet stopped.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000005_000002|Turned.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000005_000004|Down the passage to the bedroom.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000005_000005|Stopped again.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000006_000000|"Poor chap!" said the barmaid.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000008_000000|After a pause Bechamel went back to the dining room.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000008_000001|They heard a chair creak under him.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000008_000002|Interlude of conversational eyebrows.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000009_000000|"I'm going up," said Stephen, "to break the melancholy news to him."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000010_000000|Bechamel looked up from a week old newspaper as, without knocking, Stephen entered.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000010_000001|Bechamel's face suggested a different expectation.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000010_000002|"Beg pardon, sir," said Stephen, with a diplomatic cough.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000011_000000|"Well?" said Bechamel, wondering suddenly if Jessie had kept some of her threats.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000011_000001|If so, he was in for an explanation.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000011_000002|But he had it ready.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000011_000003|She was a monomaniac.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000011_000004|"Leave me alone with her," he would say; "I know how to calm her."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000012_000000|"mrs Beaumont," said Stephen.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000013_000000|"WELL?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000014_000000|"Has gone."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000015_000001|"Gone!" he said with a half laugh.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000016_000000|"Gone, sir.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000016_000001|On her bicycle."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000017_000000|"On her bicycle!
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000017_000001|Why?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000018_000000|"She went, sir, with Another Gentleman."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000020_000000|"Another gentleman in brown, sir.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000020_000001|Went into the yard, sir, got out the two bicycles, sir, and went off, sir-about twenty minutes ago."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000021_000000|Bechamel stood with his eyes round and his knuckle on his hips.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000021_000002|But as yet he seemed merely stunned.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000022_000000|"Brown clothes?" he said.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000022_000001|"And fairish?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000023_000000|"A little like yourself, sir-in the dark.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000023_000001|The ostler, sir, Jim Duke-"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000024_000001|Then, with infinite fervour, he said-But let us put in blank cartridge-he said, "------!"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000025_000000|"I might have thought!"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000026_000000|He flung himself into the armchair.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000027_000000|"Damn her," said Bechamel, for all the world like a common man.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000027_000001|"I'll chuck this infernal business!
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000029_000001|"Let 'em GO.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000029_000002|Who cares?
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000029_000003|And I wish him luck.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000030_000000|Stephen was too surprised to say anything but "Bourbon, sir?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000031_000000|"Go on," said Bechamel.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000032_000000|Stephen's sympathies changed at once.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000032_000005|And his only ray of hope was that it seemed more probable, after all, that the girl had escaped through her stepmother.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000032_000006|In which case the business might be hushed up yet, and the evil hour of explanation with his wife indefinitely postponed.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000032_000008|He started up in a gusty frenzy with a vague idea of pursuit, and incontinently sat down again with a concussion that stirred the bar below to its depths.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000032_000009|He banged the arms of the chair with his fist, and swore again.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000033_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000033_000001|THE MOONLIGHT RIDE
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000000|And so the twenty minutes' law passed into an infinity.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000002|How they rode!
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000003|How their hearts beat together and their breath came fast, and how every shadow was anticipation and every noise pursuit!
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000004|For all that flight mr Hoopdriver was in the world of Romance.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000005|Had a policeman intervened because their lamps were not lit, Hoopdriver had cut him down and ridden on, after the fashion of a hero born.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000007|And she by the side of him!
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000008|He had seen her face in shadow, with the morning sunlight tangled in her hair, he had seen her sympathetic with that warm light in her face, he had seen her troubled and her eyes bright with tears.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000034_000009|But what light is there lighting a face like hers, to compare with the soft glamour of the midsummer moon?
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000035_000000|The road turned northward, going round through the outskirts of Bognor, in one place dark and heavy under a thick growth of trees, then amidst villas again, some warm and lamplit, some white and sleeping in the moonlight; then between hedges, over which they saw broad wan meadows shrouded in a low lying mist.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000035_000001|They scarcely heeded whither they rode at first, being only anxious to get away, turning once westward when the spire of Chichester cathedral rose suddenly near them out of the dewy night, pale and intricate and high.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000035_000002|They rode, speaking little, just a rare word now and then, at a turning, at a footfall, at a roughness in the road.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000036_000001|He looked sideways at her as she sat beside him with her ankles gracefully ruling the treadles.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000036_000002|Now the road turned westward, and she was a dark grey outline against the shimmer of the moon; and now they faced northwards, and the soft cold light passed caressingly over her hair and touched her brow and cheek.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000037_000000|There is a magic quality in moonshine; it touches all that is sweet and beautiful, and the rest of the night is hidden.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000037_000001|It has created the fairies, whom the sunlight kills, and fairyland rises again in our hearts at the sight of it, the voices of the filmy route, and their faint, soul piercing melodies.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000037_000005|Overhead, riding serenely through the spacious blue, is the mother of the silence, she who has spiritualised the world, alone save for two attendant steady shining stars.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000037_000006|And in silence under her benign influence, under the benediction of her light, rode our two wanderers side by side through the transfigured and transfiguring night.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000038_000000|Nowhere was the moon shining quite so brightly as in mr Hoopdriver's skull.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000038_000001|At the turnings of the road he made his decisions with an air of profound promptitude (and quite haphazard).
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000038_000002|"The Right," he would say. Or again "The Left," as one who knew.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000038_000003|So it was that in the space of an hour they came abruptly down a little lane, full tilt upon the sea.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000038_000006|They dismounted abruptly.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000038_000007|Stunted oaks and thorns rose out of the haze of moonlight that was tangled in the hedge on either side.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000040_000000|"Where are we?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000041_000000|"SAFE."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000042_000000|"But WHERE?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000043_000000|"Chichester Harbour." He waved his arm seaward as though it was a goal.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000044_000000|"Do you think they will follow us?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000045_000000|"We have turned and turned again."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000046_000000|It seemed to Hoopdriver that he heard her sob.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000046_000001|She stood dimly there, holding her machine, and he, holding his, could go no nearer to her to see if she sobbed for weeping or for want of breath.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000046_000002|"What are we to do now?" her voice asked.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000047_000000|"Are you tired?" he asked.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000048_000000|"I will do what has to be done."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000049_000000|The two black figures in the broken light were silent for a space.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000049_000001|"Do you know," she said, "I am not afraid of you.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000049_000003|And I do not even know your name!"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000050_000000|He was taken with a sudden shame of his homely patronymic.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000050_000001|"It's an ugly name," he said.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000050_000002|"But you are right in trusting me.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000050_000004|This is nothing."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000051_000000|She caught at her breath.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000051_000001|She did not care to ask why.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000051_000002|But compared with Bechamel!--"We take each other on trust," she said.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000051_000003|"Do you want to know-how things are with me?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000052_000000|"That man," she went on, after the assent of his listening silence, "promised to help and protect me.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000052_000001|I was unhappy at home-never mind why.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000052_000002|A stepmother-Idle, unoccupied, hindered, cramped, that is enough, perhaps.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000052_000004|I wanted to come out into the world, to be a human being-not a thing in a hutch.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000052_000005|And he-"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000053_000000|"I know," said Hoopdriver.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000055_000000|"I will do anything," said Hoopdriver.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000056_000000|She thought.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000056_000001|"You cannot imagine my stepmother.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000056_000003|I could not describe her-"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000057_000000|"I am entirely at your service.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000057_000001|I will help you with all my power."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000058_000000|"I have lost an Illusion and found a Knight errant." She spoke of Bechamel as the Illusion.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000059_000000|mr Hoopdriver felt flattered.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000059_000001|But he had no adequate answer.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000060_000001|You are tired, you know.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000060_000002|And we can't wander all night-after the day we've had."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000061_000000|"That was Chichester we were near?" she asked.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000063_000000|"Yes?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000064_000000|"We could stop there together-"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000065_000000|She took a minute to answer.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000065_000002|He bent down to his own, and struck a match on his shoe.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000065_000004|How could she ever have thought him common or absurd?
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000066_000000|"But you must tell me your name-brother," she said,
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000067_000001|Who would be Hoopdriver on a night like this?
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000068_000000|"But the Christian name?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000069_000000|"Christian name?
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000069_000001|MY Christian name.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000069_000002|Well-Chris."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000069_000003|He snapped his lamp and stood up.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000070_000000|She came round obediently and took his machine, and for a moment they stood face to face.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000070_000001|"My name, brother Chris," she said, "is Jessie."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000071_000000|He looked into her eyes, and his excitement seemed arrested.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000071_000001|"JESSIE," he repeated slowly.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000071_000002|The mute emotion of his face affected her strangely. She had to speak.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000072_000000|He opened his mouth and shut it again, and, with a sudden wincing of his features, abruptly turned and bent down to open the lantern in front of her machine.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000072_000001|She looked down at him, almost kneeling in front of her, with an unreasonable approbation in her eyes.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000073_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000074_000001|It seemed at first as though everyone had gone to bed, but the Red Hotel still glowed yellow and warm.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000076_000000|"Quite a misunderstanding," said Hoopdriver, with splendid readiness. "My sister had gone to Bognor But I brought her back here.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000076_000001|I've took a fancy to this place.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000076_000002|And the moonlight's simply dee vine."
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000077_000000|"We've had supper, thenks, and we're tired," said mr Hoopdriver.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000077_000001|"I suppose you won't take anything,--Jessie?"
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000078_000000|The glory of having her, even as a sister! and to call her Jessie like that!
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000078_000001|But he carried it off splendidly, as he felt himself bound to admit.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000078_000002|"Good night, Sis," he said, "and pleasant dreams.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000078_000004|he told himself.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000079_000000|So gallantly did mr Hoopdriver comport himself up to the very edge of the Most Wonderful Day of all.
train-clean-100/831/130746/831_130746_000079_000001|It had begun early, you will remember, with a vigil in a little sweetstuff shop next door to the Angel at Midhurst.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000000|A powerful and wealthy king, having lost his wife, was so inconsolable, that he shut himself up for eight entire days, in a little cabinet, where he spent his time in knocking his head against the wall, until the courtiers were afraid he would kill himself!
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000001|They accordingly placed stuffed mattresses over every wall, and allowed all his subjects, who desired, to pay him a visit, trusting that something would be said to alleviate his grief.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000002|But neither grave nor lively discourse made any impression upon him; he scarcely heard what was spoken.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000003|At last there presented herself before him a lady, covered from head to foot in a long crape veil, who wept and sobbed so much that the king noticed her.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000004|She told him that she did not come, like the rest, to console him, but rather to encourage his grief.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000005|She herself had lost the best of husbands, and here she began to weep so profusely, that it was a wonder her eyes were not melted out of her head.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000006|The king began to weep in company, and to talk to her of his dear wife-she did the same of her dear husband: in fact they talked so much, that they talked their sorrow quite away.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000007|Then, lifting up her veil, she showed lovely blue eyes and dark eyelashes.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000008|The king noticed her more and more-he spoke less and less of the departed queen; by and by he ceased to speak of her at all.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000002_000009|The end was, that he courted the inconsolable lady in the black veil, and married her.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000003_000002|Indeed, she was altogether ugly and disagreeable; and when contrasted with Florina, the difference between the two made the mother so envious, that she and Troutina spared no pains to make the princess's life unhappy, and to speak ill of her to her father.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000004_000000|One day the king observed that both girls were now old enough to be married, and that he intended to choose for one of them the first prince who visited his court.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000005_000000|"Be it so," said the queen; "and as my daughter is older, handsomer, and more amiable than yours, she shall have the first choice." The king disputed nothing; indeed, he never did-the queen ruled him in all things.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000006_000000|Some time after, news came that King Charming would shortly arrive, and that he was as charming as his name.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000007_000000|"But, madam, is there not another princess called Florina?"
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000008_000000|They pointed to the corner where Florina was hidden, and she came out, blushing so much, that the young king was dazzled with her beauty, in spite of her shabby gown.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000008_000001|He rose, and made her a profound reverence, paying her besides so many elegant compliments, that the queen became very much displeased.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000008_000002|King Charming took no heed, but conversed with Florina for three hours without stopping.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000009_000000|Meantime King Charming eagerly awaited her re appearance, but he saw her no more; and by the queen's orders, every one about him spoke all the evil they could of poor Florina, but he refused to believe one word.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000009_000002|I will rather suppose that she is maligned by her stepmother and by Troutina, who is so ugly herself that no wonder she bears envy towards the fairest woman in the world."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000010_000001|"Ah, would I had been sent here before I saw this amiable prince, who was so kind to me!
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000010_000002|It is to prevent my meeting him again, that the queen treats me so cruelly.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000011_000002|Each arrow was a diamond, a finger's length, and the chain was of pearls, each weighing a pound. When the young king received this very handsome present, he was much perplexed, until they told him it came from the princess whom he had lately seen, and who requested him to be her knight.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000012_000000|"Florina!" cried he, enchanted.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000013_000000|"No, Troutina."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000014_000000|"Then I am sorry I cannot accept the honour," replied King Charming. "A monarch is surely at liberty to form his own engagements.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000015_000000|Civil as this answer was, it irritated the queen and her daughter exceedingly; and when, since in all his audiences with their majesties he never saw Florina, he at last inquired where the younger princess was, the queen answered fiercely, that she was shut up in prison, and would remain there till Troutina was married.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000016_000000|"And for what reason?" asked King Charming.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000017_000000|"I do not know; and if I did, I would not tell you," replied the queen, more angrily than ever; so that King Charming quitted her presence as soon as ever he could.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000018_000000|When he was alone, he sent for one of his attendants, whom he trusted very much, and begged him to gain information from some court lady about the princess Florina.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000018_000001|This scheme succeeded so well, that Florina was persuaded to promise she would speak to him for a few moments next night, from a small window at the bottom of the tower. But the faithless lady in waiting betrayed her to the queen, who locked her up in her chamber, and determined to send her own daughter to the window instead.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000018_000002|The night was so dark that King Charming never found out the difference, but made to Troutina all the tender speeches that he meant for Florina, offering her his crown and his heart, and ending by placing his own ring on her finger, as a pledge of eternal fidelity.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000018_000003|He also made her agree to fly with him next night, in a chariot drawn by winged frogs, of which a great magician, one of his friends, had made him a present.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000019_000000|Next night Troutina, thickly veiled, quitted the palace by a secret door.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000019_000001|King Charming met her, received her in his arms, and vowed to love her for ever.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000019_000002|Then he lifted her into the fairy chariot, and they sailed about in the air for some hours.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000019_000003|But as he was not likely to wish to sail about for ever, he at last proposed that they should descend to earth, and be married.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000019_000004|Troutina agreed with all her heart, but wished that the ceremony should be performed at her godmother's, the fairy Soussio.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000019_000005|So they entered together into the fairy palace, and she told her godmother privately how all had happened, and how she had won King Charming, begging the fairy to pacify him when he found out his mistake.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000020_000000|"My child," replied the godmother, "that is more easily said than done; he is too deeply in love with Florina."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000021_000000|Meantime the king was left waiting in a chamber with diamond walls, so thin and transparent, that through them he saw Troutina and Soussio conversing together.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000021_000001|He stood like a man in a dream: "What! am I betrayed?
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000021_000002|Has this enemy to my peace carried away my dear Florina?"
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000022_000000|How great was his despair, when Soussio said to him in a commanding voice, "King Charming, behold the princess Troutina, to whom you have promised your faith: marry her immediately!"
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000023_000000|"Do you think me a fool?" cried the king; "I have promised her nothing.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000023_000001|She is-"
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000025_000000|"I will respect you as much as a fairy deserves to be respected, if you will only give me back my princess."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000026_000000|"Am not I she?" said Troutina.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000026_000001|"It was to me you gave this ring; to me you spoke at the window."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000027_000000|"I have been wickedly deceived!" cried the king; "come, my winged frogs, we will depart immediately."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000028_000000|"You cannot," said Soussio; and, touching him, he found himself fixed as if his feet were glued to the pavement.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000029_000000|"You may turn me into stone!" exclaimed he; "but I will love no one, except Florina."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000030_000000|Soussio employed persuasions, threats, promises, entreaties.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000031_000000|At length, Soussio, quite worn out, said, "Choose seven years of penitence and punishment, or marry my goddaughter."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000032_000000|"I choose," answered the king; "and I will not marry your goddaughter."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000033_000000|"Then fly out of this window, in the shape of a Blue Bird."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000034_000000|Immediately the king's figure changed.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000034_000002|He began to speak in a singing voice, and then uttering a doleful cry, fled away as far as possible from the fatal palace of Soussio.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000035_000000|But, though he looked only a blue bird, the king was his own natural self still, and remembered all his misfortunes, and did not cease to lament for his beautiful Florina.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000035_000001|Flying from tree to tree, he sang melancholy songs about her and himself, and wished he were dead many a time.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000036_000000|The fairy Soussio sent back Troutina to her mother, who was furious. "Florina shall repent having pleased King Charming!" cried she; and dressing her own daughter in rich garments, with a gold crown on her head, and King Charming's ring on her finger, she took her to the tower.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000036_000001|"Florina, your sister is come to see and bring you marriage presents, for she is now the wife of King Charming."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000037_000000|Florina, doubting no more her lover's loss, fell down in a swoon, and the queen immediately went to tell her father that she was mad for love, and must be watched closely lest she should in some way disgrace herself.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000037_000001|The king said, her stepmother might do with her exactly what she pleased.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000038_000000|When the princess recovered from her swoon, she began to weep, and wept all night long, sitting at the open window of her tower.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000038_000002|Next night, it was broad moonlight, and then he saw clearly the figure of a young girl, weeping sore, and knew that it was his beloved Florina.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000039_000000|When she paused in her lamentations, "Adorable princess," said he, "why do you mourn?
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000039_000001|Your troubles are not without remedy."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000040_000000|"Who speaks to me so gently?" asked she.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000041_000000|"A king, who loves you, and will never love any other."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000042_000000|So saying he flew up to the window, and at first frightened the princess very much, for she could not understand such an extraordinary thing as a bird who talked in words like a man, yet kept still the piping voice of a nightingale.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000042_000001|But soon she began stroking his beautiful plumage, and caressing him.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000043_000000|"Who are you, charming bird?"
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000044_000000|"You have spoken my name.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000044_000001|I am King Charming, condemned to be a bird for seven years, because I will not renounce you."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000045_000000|"Ah! do not deceive me.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000045_000001|I know you have married Troutina.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000045_000002|She came to visit me with your diamonds on her neck, and your ring on her finger, wearing the golden crown and royal mantle which you had given her, while I was laden with iron chains."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000046_000001|They conversed till daybreak, and promised faithfully every night to meet again thus.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000047_000000|Meantime the princess could not sleep for thinking of her Blue Bird. "Suppose sportsmen should shoot him, or eagles and kites attack him, and vultures devour him just as if he were a mere bird and not a great king?
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000047_000001|What should I do if I saw his poor feathers scattered on the ground, and knew that he was no more?" So she grieved all day long.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000048_000000|The beautiful Blue Bird, hid in a hollow tree, spent the hours in thinking of his princess.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000048_000001|"How happy I am to have found her again, and found her so engaging and so sweet." And as he wished to pay her all the attentions that a lover delights in, he flew to his own kingdom, entered his palace by an open window, and sought for some diamond ear rings, which he brought back in his beak, and, when night came, offered them to Florina.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000048_000003|Rumours went about that the place was haunted, and no one would go near the spot.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000048_000004|Thus, for two years, Florina spent her time, and never once regretted her captivity.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000048_000005|Her Blue Bird visited her every night, and they loved one another dearly.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000048_000006|And though she saw nobody and he lived in the hollow of a tree, they always found plenty to say to one another.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000049_000000|The malicious queen tried with all her might to get Troutina married, but in vain.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000049_000001|Nobody would have her.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000049_000002|"If it were Florina, now," said the kings, or the kings' ambassadors, "we should be most happy to sign the contract."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000050_000002|But we will find her out and punish her."
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000051_000000|The mother and daughter finished talking so late that it was midnight before they reached Florina's apartment.
train-clean-100/8312/279790/8312_279790_000051_000002|He perched on the window sill, and she sat at the window, and they were singing together a duet, which the queen heard outside.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000002_000001|But he would not.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000002_000002|He had seen the queen and Troutina, and though he could not defend his princess, he refused to leave her.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000002_000003|The two rushed upon her like furies.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000002_000004|Her wonderful beauty and her splendid jewels startled them.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000003_000000|"I found them," replied Florina, and refused to answer more.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000004_000000|"Some one has given them to you that you might join in treason against your father and the kingdom.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000005_000000|"Am I likely to do this?
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000005_000001|I, a poor princess, kept in captivity for two years, with you as my gaoler?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000006_000000|"In captivity," repeated the queen.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000006_000001|"Why, then, do you dress yourself so fine, and adorn your chamber with flowers?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000007_000000|"I have leisure enough: I may just as well spend some of it in adorning myself, instead of bemoaning my misfortune-innocent as I am."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000008_000000|"Innocent, indeed!" cried the queen, and began to search the room.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000008_000001|In it she found all King Charming's presents-diamonds, rubies, emeralds, amethysts-in short, jewels without end.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000008_000002|Meantime, from the window the Blue Bird, who had the eye of a lynx, sang aloud, "Beware, Florina!"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000009_000000|"You see, madam," said Florina, "even the spirits of the air take pity upon me."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000010_000000|"I see that you are in league with demons; but your father shall judge you;" and, very much frightened, the queen left her, and went to hold counsel with Troutina as to what was to be done.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000010_000001|They agreed to put in Florina's chamber a waiting maid, who should watch her from morning till night.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000010_000002|When the princess learnt this she was in great grief.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000011_000001|What will he do? What shall I do?" And she melted into floods of tears.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000012_000000|She dared not open the window, though she heard continually his wings fluttering round it.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000012_000001|For more than a month she waited; but the serving maid watched her night and day.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000012_000002|At last, overcome with weariness, the girl fell asleep, and then Florina opened her little window, and sang in a low voice-
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000013_000000|"Blue Bird, Blue Bird, Come to my side."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000000|The Blue Bird flew to the window sill, and they lavished on one another a hundred caresses, and talked together till dawn.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000001|Next night it happened the same, till they began to hope that the waiting maid, who seemed to enjoy her sleep so much, would sleep every night to come.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000002|But on the third night, hearing a noise, she wakened, and saw by the light of the moon the Princess Florina sitting at the window with a beautiful Blue Bird, who warbled in her ear and touched her gently with his beak.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000003|The spy listened and heard all their conversation, very much astonished that a princess could be so fond of a mere bird.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000004|When day came she related all to the queen and Troutina, who concluded that the bird could be no other than King Charming.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000005|They sent the girl back, told her to express no curiosity, but to feign sleep, and to go to bed earlier than usual.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000014_000006|Then the poor deceived princess opened her little window, and sang her usual song-
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000015_000000|"Blue Bird, Blue Bird, Come to my side."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000016_000000|But no Blue Bird appeared.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000016_000001|The queen had caused sharp knives to be hung outside the hollow of the tree: he flew against them and cut his feet and wings, till he dropped down, covered with blood.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000017_000000|"Oh, Florina, come to my help!" sighed he, "But she is dead, I know, and I will die also."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000019_000000|The king recognised the voice of his best friend: whereupon the magician took him out of the hollow tree, healed his wounds, and heard all his history.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000019_000001|He persuaded King Charming that, overcome with fear and cruel treatment, Florina must have betrayed him.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000020_000000|"Then do as you will with me!" cried the king.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000020_000002|I shall at least be safe there for the five years that are to be endured."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000022_000000|"Why can I not return and govern it as before?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000023_000000|"I fear," replied his friend, "that the thing is difficult.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000023_000001|Who would obey a Blue Bird?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000024_000000|"Ah, that is too true!" cried the king, sadly, "People only judge by the outside."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000025_000000|Meantime Florina, overcome with grief, fell dangerously sick, and in her sickness she kept singing, day and night, her little song-
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000026_000000|"Blue Bird, Blue Bird, Come to my side."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000027_000000|But no one regarded her.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000028_000000|At last a sudden change took place in her fortunes.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000028_000001|The king her father died, and the people, who knew she was his heir, began to inquire, with one accord, where was the Princess Florina?
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000028_000002|They assailed the palace in crowds, demanding her for their sovereign.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000028_000003|The riot became so dangerous that Troutina and her mother fled away to the fairy Soussio.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000028_000004|Then the populace stormed the tower, rescued the sick and almost dying princess, and crowned her as their queen.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000029_000000|The exceeding care that was taken of her, and her longing to live in order to see again her Blue Bird, restored Florina's health, and gave her strength to call a council and arrange all the affairs of her kingdom.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000029_000001|Then she departed by night, and alone, to go over the world in search of her Blue Bird.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000030_000000|The magician, who was King Charming's friend, went to the fairy Soussio, whom he knew, for they had quarrelled and made it up again, as fairies and magicians do, many times within the last five or six hundred years.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000030_000001|She received him civilly, and asked him what he wanted. He tried to make a bargain with her but could effect nothing, unless King Charming would consent to marry Troutina.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000030_000002|The enchanter found this bride so ugly that he could not advise.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000031_000000|Under these circumstances the magician thought it best to agree with Soussio that King Charming should be restored to his kingdom and his natural shape for six months, on condition that Troutina should remain in his palace, and that he should try to like her and marry her.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000031_000001|If not, he was to become again a Blue Bird.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000032_000000|Meanwhile the Queen Florina, in a peasant's dress, with a straw hat on her head, and a canvas sack on her shoulder, began her journey: sometimes on horseback, sometimes on foot, sometimes by sea, sometimes by land, wandering; evermore after her beloved King Charming.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000032_000001|One day, stopping beside a fountain, she let her hair fall loose, and dipped her weary feet in the cool water, when an old woman, bent, and leaning on a stick, came by.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000033_000000|"My pretty maiden, what are you doing here all alone?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000034_000000|"Good mother," replied the queen, "I have too many troubles to be pleasant company for anybody."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000035_000000|"Tell me your troubles, and I may be able to soften them."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000036_000000|Florina obeyed, and told her whole history, and how she was travelling over the world in search of the Blue Bird.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000036_000001|The little woman listened attentively, and then, in the twinkling of an eye, became, instead of an old woman, a beautiful fairy.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000037_000000|"Incomparable Florina, the king you seek is no longer a bird; my sister Soussio has restored him to his proper shape, and he reigns in his own kingdom.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000037_000001|Do not afflict yourself; happiness will yet be yours. Take these four eggs, and whenever you are in trouble, break them, and see what ensues." So saying, the fairy vanished.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000000|Florina, greatly comforted, put the eggs in her sack, and turned her steps towards the country of King Charming.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000001|She walked eight days and nights without stopping, and then came to a mountain made entirely of ivory, and nearly perpendicular.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000002|Despairing of ever climbing it, she sank down at the foot, prepared to die there, when she bethought herself of the eggs.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000003|"Let me see," said she, "if the fairy has deceived me or not." So she broke one, and inside it were little hooks of gold, which she fitted on her feet and hands, and by means of which she climbed the mountain with ease.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000004|Arrived at the summit she found new difficulties; for the valley below was one large smooth mirror, in which sixty thousand women stood admiring themselves.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000005|They had need, for the charm of the mirror was that each saw herself therein, not as she was, but as she wished to be; and the grimaces they made were enough to cause a person to die of laughter.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000006|Not one of them had ever gained the top of the mountain; and when they saw Florina there, they all burst into angry outcries, "How has this woman got up the hill?
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000038_000007|If she descends upon our mirror her first footstep will crack it into a thousand pieces."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000039_000001|"Now, my pretty pigeons," said she, "will you convey me to the palace of King Charming?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000039_000002|The obedient pigeons did so, flying day and night till they reached the city gates; when the queen dismissed them with a sweet kiss, which was worth more than her crown.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000040_000000|How her heart beat as she entered, and begged to see the king!
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000040_000001|"You!" cried the servants mocking.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000040_000002|"Little peasant girl, your eyes are not half good enough to see the king.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000040_000003|Besides, he is going to morrow to the temple with the Princess Troutina, whom he has at last agreed to marry."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000042_000000|She neither ate nor slept, but rose with the dawn, and pushed her way through the guards to the temple, where she saw two thrones, one for King Charming, and the other for Troutina.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000042_000001|They arrived shortly; he more charming and she more repulsive than ever.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000042_000002|Knitting her brows, Troutina exclaimed, "What creature is that who dares approach so near my golden throne?"
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000043_000000|"I am a poor peasant girl," said Florina.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000044_000000|"These are pretty trinkets," said Troutina; and going up to the king she asked him what he thought of them.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000044_000001|At sight of the ornaments he turned pale, remembering those he had given to Florina.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000045_000000|"These bracelets are worth half my kingdom; I did not think there had been more than one pair in the world."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000047_000000|"As you will; your bargains are cheap enough," replied Troutina, laughing: and when she laughed she showed teeth like the tusks of a wild boar.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000048_000000|Now the king, when he was a Blue Bird, had informed Florina about this Chamber of Echoes, where every word spoken could be heard in his own chamber; she could not have chosen a better way of reproaching him for his infidelity.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000048_000001|But vain were her sobs and complainings; the king had taken opium to lull his grief; he slept soundly all night long.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000048_000002|Next day, Florina was in great disquietude.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000048_000003|Could he have really heard her, and been indifferent to her sorrow; or had he not heard her at all? She determined to buy another night in the Chamber of Echoes; but she had no more jewels to tempt Troutina; so she broke the third egg.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000048_000004|Out of it came a chariot of polished steel, inlaid with gold, drawn by six green mice, the coachman being a rose coloured rat, and the postilion a grey one.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000048_000005|Inside the carriage sat little puppets, who behaved themselves just like live ladies and gentlemen.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000049_000000|When Troutina went to walk in the palace garden, Florina awaited her in a green alley, and made the mice gallop, and the ladies and gentlemen bow, till the princess was delighted, and ready to buy the curiosity at any price.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000049_000001|Again Florina exacted permission to pass the night in the Chamber of Echoes; and again the king, undisturbed by her lamentation, slept without waking till dawn.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000050_000000|The third day, one of the palace valets, passing her by, said, "You stupid peasant girl, it is well the king takes opium every night, or you would disturb him by that terrible sobbing of yours."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000051_000000|"Does he so?" said the queen, now comprehending all.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000051_000001|"Then if you will promise to night to keep the opium cup out of his way, these pearls and diamonds," and she took a handful of them from her sack, "shall assuredly be yours."
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000052_000000|The valet promised; and then Florina broke her fourth egg, out of which came a pie composed of birds, which, though they had been plucked, baked, and made ready for the table, sang as beautifully as birds that are alive.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000052_000001|Troutina, charmed with this marvellous novelty, bought it at the same price as the rest, adding generously a small piece of gold.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000053_000000|When all the palace were asleep, Florina for the last time, hoping King Charming would hear her, called upon him with all sorts of tender expressions, reminding him of their former vows, and their two years of happiness.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000053_000001|"What have I done to thee, that thou shouldst forget me and marry Troutina?" sobbed she; and the king, who this time was wide awake, heard her.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000053_000002|He could not make out whose voice it was, or whence it came, but it somehow reminded him of his dearest Florina, whom he had never ceased to love.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000053_000004|Then he rose up, dressed himself hastily, and went in search of her.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000053_000006|For what was the good of all their love when they were still in the power of the fairy Soussio?
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000054_000000|But at this moment appeared the friendly enchanter, with a fairy still greater than Soussio, the one who had given Florina the four eggs. They declared that their united power was stronger than Soussio's, and that the lovers should be married without further delay.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000055_000000|When this news reached Troutina, she ran to the Chamber of Echoes, and there beheld her beautiful rival, whom she had so cruelly afflicted. But the moment she opened her mouth to speak, her wicked tongue was silenced for ever; for the magician turned her into a trout, which he flung out of the window into the stream that flowed through the castle garden.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000056_000000|As for King Charming and Queen Florina, delivered out of all their sorrows, and given to one another, their joy was quite inexpressible, and it lasted to the end of their lives.
train-clean-100/8312/279791/8312_279791_000057_000001|This family likeness may be traced in the fairy tales of all countries.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000000_000000|TWO LITTLE CRAYFISHES QUARREL
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000001_000000|The day after the Eels left, the pond people talked of nothing else.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000001_000001|It was not that they were so much missed, for the Eels, you know, do not swim around in the daytime.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000001_000002|They lie quietly in the mud and sleep or talk.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000001_000003|It is only at night that they are really lively.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000001_000004|Still, as the Mother Mud Turtle said, "They had known that they were there, and the mud seemed empty without them."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000002_000000|The larger people had been sorry to have them go, and some of them felt that without the Eels awake and stirring, the pond was hardly a safe place at night.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000003_000000|"I think it is a good deal safer," remarked a Minnow, who usually said what she thought.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000004_000000|"Why didn't you ask them?" said a Stickleback.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000005_000000|"Why?" replied the Minnow.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000006_000000|"I have heard some queer things about the Eels myself," said the Stickleback, "but I have never felt much afraid of them.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000006_000001|I suppose I am braver because I wear so many of my bones on the outside."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000007_000000|Just then a Wise Old Crayfish came along walking sidewise.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000008_000000|The Crayfish stuck his tail into the mud.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000008_000001|He often did this when he was surprised.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000008_000002|It seemed to help him think.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000008_000003|When he had thought for a while, he waved his big pinching claws and said, "It would be better for me not to tell what I think.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000008_000004|I used to live near them."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000009_000000|This showed that the Wise Old Crayfish had been well brought up, and knew he should not say unpleasant things about people if he could help it.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000009_000002|That was when he was teaching some young Crayfishes, his pupils.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000009_000003|Their mother had brought up a large family, and was not strong.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000009_000004|She had just cast the shell which she had worn for a year, and now she was weak and helpless until the new one should harden on her.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000010_000000|While their mother was so weak, the Wise Old Crayfish amused the children, and taught them things which all Crayfishes should know.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000010_000002|It made no difference to them which way they came.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000010_000003|They were restless pupils, and their teacher could not keep them from looking behind them.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000010_000004|Each one had so many eyes that he could look at the teacher with a few, and at the other little Crayfishes with a few more, and still have a good many eyes left with which to watch the Tadpoles.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000010_000006|They had good ears, and there were also fine smelling bristles growing from their heads.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000010_000007|The Wise Old Crayfish sometimes said that each of his pupils should sit in a circle of six teachers, so that he might be taught on all sides at once.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000011_000000|"That is the way in which children should learn," he said, "all around at once.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000011_000001|But I do the best I can, and I at least teach one side of each."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000012_000000|This evening the Wise Old Crayfish was very sleepy.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000012_000002|When he tried to walk, his eight legs stumbled over each other, and the weak way in which he waved his pinching claw legs showed how tired he was.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000013_000000|After he had told his pupils the best way to hold their food with their pinching claws, and had explained to them how it was chewed by the teeth in their stomachs, one mischievous little fellow called out, "I want to know about the Eels.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000013_000001|My mother would never let me go near them, and now they've moved away, and I won't ever see them, and I think it's just horrid."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000014_000000|"Eels, my children," said their teacher, "are long, slender, sharp nosed, slippery people, with a fringe of fins along their backs, and another fringe along their bellies.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000014_000001|They breathe through very small gill openings in the backs of their heads.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000014_000002|They have large mouths, and teeth in their mouths, and they are always sticking out their lower jaws."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000015_000000|"And how do-" began the Biggest Little Crayfish.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000018_000001|The Biggest Little Crayfish had beaten.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000019_000000|"I'd like to see them running on the land," said the saucy one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000020_000001|"That's all you know!
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000020_000002|They don't run on land."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000021_000000|"Well, I guess they do," replied the saucy one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000021_000001|"I know as much about it as you do!"
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000022_000000|"Eels swim.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000022_000001|They don't run," said the biggest one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000022_000002|"Guess I know!"
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000023_000000|"Well, they don't swim in air," said the saucy one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000023_000002|So there!"
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000024_000000|"Well, I've seen the Wild Ducks swim in it!
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000024_000001|They swim with their legs in the water, and with their wings in the air," said the biggest one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000025_000000|"I don't believe it," said the saucy one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000025_000001|"Anyhow, Eels run on land."
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000026_000000|"Eels swim on land," said the biggest one.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000027_000000|"Eels run!"
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000028_000000|"Eels swim!"
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000031_000000|Then the two little Crayfishes, who had been talking louder and louder and becoming more and more angry, glared at each other, and jerked their feelers, and waved their pinching claws in a very, very ugly way.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000033_000000|They did not notice a great green and yellow person swimming gently toward them, and they did not know that the Eels had come back to live in the old pond again.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000033_000001|Mother Eel opened her big mouth very wide.
train-clean-100/8324/286681/8324_286681_000034_000000|"There!" said she.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000001_000000|THE LUCKY MINK
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000002_000002|In the winter, when food was not so plentiful and their youngest children were old enough to come with them, they visited there every day.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000002_000003|It was not far from their home.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000003_000001|Then the fathers and mothers were very busy, for in each home there were four or five or six children, hungry and restless, and needing to be taught many things.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000004_000003|When they hunted on land, they could tell by smelling just which way to go for their food.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000005_000001|The fur was darker on their backs than on the under part of their bodies, and their tapering, bushy tails were almost black.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000005_000002|Their under jaws were white, and they were very proud of them.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000005_000003|Perhaps it was because they had so little white fur that they thought so much of it.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000005_000004|You know that is often the way-we think most of those things which are scarce or hard to get.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000006_000000|There was one old Mink by the river who had a white tip on his tail, and that is something which many people have never seen.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000006_000001|It is even more uncommon than for Minks to have white upper lips, and that happens only once in a great while.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000006_000002|This Mink was a bachelor, and nobody knew why. Some people said it was because he was waiting to find a wife with a white tip on her tail, yet that could not have been, for he was too wise to wait for something which might never happen.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000006_000003|However it was he lived alone, and fished and hunted just for himself.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000006_000004|He could dive more quickly, stay under water longer, and hunt by scent better than any other Mink round there.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000006_000005|His fur was sleeker and more shining than that of his friends, and it is no wonder that the sisters of his friends thought that he ought to marry.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000007_000000|When the Minks visited together, somebody was sure to speak of the Bachelor's luck.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000007_000001|They said that, whatever he did, he was always lucky. "It is all because of a white tip on his tail," they said.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000007_000002|"That makes him lucky."
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000008_000001|Once the Bachelor heard them wishing this, and he smiled and showed his beautiful teeth, and told them that it was not the tip of his tail but his whole body that made him lucky.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000010_000000|There was a family of young Minks who lived at the foot of the waterfall, where the water splashed and dashed in the way they liked best.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000010_000001|There were four brothers and two sisters in this family, and the brothers were bigger than the sisters (as Mink Brothers always are), although they were all the same age.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000010_000004|He wished to be just like him in every way but one; he did not want to be a bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000011_000001|Big Brother stood it very patiently for a while; then he snarled at them, and showed his teeth without smiling, and said he would fight anybody who spoke another word about it.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000011_000002|Minks are very brave and very fierce, and never know when to stop if they have begun to fight; so, after that, nobody dared tease Big Brother by saying anything more about the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000011_000003|Sometimes they did look at his tail and smile, but they never spoke, and he pretended not to know what they meant by it.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000012_000000|A few days after this, the Bachelor was caught in a trap-a common, clumsy, wooden trap, put together with nails and twine.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000012_000001|It was not near the river, and none of his friends would have found him, if Big Brother had not happened along.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000012_000002|He could hardly believe what he saw.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000012_000004|He hurried up to where the trap was.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000014_000000|"No," said the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000014_000001|"I can't.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000014_000002|The best way to get out is not to get in-and I've gotten in."
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000015_000000|"Can't you do something with your lucky tail to make the trap open?" asked Big Brother.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000016_000000|"I could do something with my teeth," answered the Bachelor, "if they were only where the tip of my tail is.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000016_000001|Why are Minks always walking into traps?" He was trying hard not to be cross, but his eyes showed how he felt, and that was very cross indeed.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000017_000000|Then Big Brother became much excited.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000017_000001|"I have good teeth," said he, "Tell me what to do."
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000018_000000|"If you will help me out," said the Bachelor, "I will give you my luck."
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000019_000000|"And what shall I do with the tail I have?" asked the young Mink, who thought that the Bachelor was to give him his white tipped tail.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000020_000000|"Never mind now," answered the Bachelor, and he told the young Mink just where to gnaw.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000020_000002|The Bachelor was too brave to groan or make a fuss, when he knew there was anybody around to hear. Big Brother's mouth became very sore, and his stomach became very empty, but still he kept at work.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000021_000000|"Now try it," said he, after he had gnawed for quite a while.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000021_000001|The Bachelor backed out as far as he could, but his body stuck in the hole. "You are rumpling your beautiful fur," cried the young Mink.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000022_000000|"Never mind the fur," answered the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000022_000001|"I can smooth that down afterward.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000022_000002|You will have to gnaw a little on this side." And he raised one of his hind feet to show where he meant.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000022_000003|It was a beautiful hindfoot, thickly padded, and with short partly webbed toes, and no hair at all growing between them.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000022_000004|The claws were short, sharp, and curved.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000023_000001|"Now try it," said he.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000023_000002|The Bachelor backed carefully out through the opening and stood there, looking tired and hungry and very much rumpled.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000024_000000|"You are a fine young Mink," said he.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000025_000000|They went to the river bank and had a good dinner.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000025_000001|The Bachelor ate more than Big Brother, for his mouth was not sore.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000025_000002|But Big Brother was very happy.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000025_000004|It was the custom among his people to want to marry the best looking and strongest.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000025_000006|It is very hard for a young Mink to have the one he loves choose somebody else, just because the other fellow has the bushiest tail, or the longest fur, or the thickest pads on his feet.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000026_000000|"Now," said the Bachelor, "we will talk about luck.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000026_000001|We will go to a place where nobody can hear what we say." They found such a place and lay down.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000026_000002|The Bachelor rolled over three times and smoothed his fur; he was still so tired from being in the trap.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000026_000003|Then he looked at the young Mink very sharply.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000026_000004|"So you want my tail?" said he.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000027_000000|"You said you would give me your luck," answered Big Brother, "and everybody knows that your luck is in your tail."
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000028_000000|The Bachelor smiled.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000028_000001|"What will you do with the tail you have?" said he.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000029_000000|"I don't know," answered Big Brother.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000031_000000|"Oh, no," answered Big Brother.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000032_000000|"Well, how will you put my tail in place of yours?" asked the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000033_000000|"I don't know," answered the young Mink, "but you are so wise that I thought you might know some way." He began to feel discouraged, and to think that the Bachelor's offer didn't mean very much after all.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000034_000000|"Don't you think?" said the Bachelor slowly, "don't you think that, if you could have my luck, you could get along pretty well with your own tail?"
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000035_000000|"Why, yes," said the young Mink, who had begun to fear he was not going to get anything.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000035_000001|"Yes, but how could that be?"
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000036_000000|The Bachelor smiled again.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000036_000001|"I always tell people," said he, "that my luck is not in my tail, and they never believe it.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000038_000000|"That is enough," answered the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000038_000002|Then you will have good luck when theirs is poor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000038_000004|You can beat in every fight.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000038_000005|You can have sleek, shining fur when theirs is dull.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000039_000000|The more the young Mink thought about it, the happier he became.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000039_000001|"I don't see that I am to have your luck after all," said he.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000040_000000|"Of course," answered the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000040_000001|"Then it is a kind of luck that cannot be lost.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000040_000002|If I carried mine in the tip of my tail, somebody might bite it off and leave me unlucky."
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000041_000000|Big Brother kept the secret, and worked until he had learned to be as lucky as the Bachelor.
train-clean-100/8324/286682/8324_286682_000041_000002|It is said that one of their sons has a white tipped tail, but that may not be so.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000001_000000|THE PLAYFUL MUSKRATS
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000002_000000|One warm day in winter, when some of the pussy willows made a mistake and began to grow because they thought spring had come, a party of Muskrats were visiting in the marsh beside the pond.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000002_000001|All around them were their winter houses, built of mud and coarse grasses.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000002_000002|These homes looked like heaps of dried rushes, unless one went close to them.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000002_000003|If one did that, he could plainly see what they were; and if one happened to be a Muskrat, and could dive and go into them through their watery doorways, he would find under the queer roof of each, a warm, dry room in which to pass the cold days.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000003_000000|"Fine weather!" said every Muskrat to his neighbor.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000003_000001|"Couldn't sleep all of such a day as this." They spoke in that way, you know, because they usually sleep in the daytime and are awake at night.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000004_000000|"We wish it would always be warm weather," said the young Muskrats. "What's the use of winter?"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000005_000000|"Hard to tell," answered one Muskrat, who had lived in the marsh longer than the rest.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000005_000001|"Hard to tell: I know it always gives me a good appetite, though." Then all the Muskrats laughed.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000005_000002|They were a jolly, good-natured company, and easy to get along with.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000005_000003|The other pond people liked them much better than they did their neighbors, the Minks.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000005_000004|The Wild Ducks who nested in the sedges, were quite willing that the young Muskrats should play with their children, and the Mud Hens were not afraid of them.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000005_000005|Mud Hens cannot bear Minks.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000006_000001|In spring and summer, when they can find fresh grasses and young rushes, or a few parsnips, carrots, and turnips from the farmers' fields, other animals are quite safe.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000006_000002|In the winter they live mostly on roots.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000007_000000|"Fine day!" screamed the Gulls, as they swept through the air.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000007_000001|"Pity the Frogs don't come out to enjoy it!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000000|"Yes, great pity," chuckled the old Muskrat.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000001|"How glad you would be to see them!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000002|He smiled all around his little mouth and showed his gnawing teeth.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000003|He knew that the Frogs were better off asleep in the mud at the bottom of the pond, than they would be sitting in the sunshine with a few hungry Gulls above them.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000004|The Turtles were sleeping all winter, too, in the banks of the pond.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000005|The Eels were lying at the bottom, stupid and drowsy, and somewhere the Water Adders were hidden away, dreaming of spring.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000006|Of all the birds who lived by the water, only the Gulls were there, and they were not popular.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000008_000007|It is true that they helped keep the pond sweet and clean, and picked up and carried away many things which made the shore untidy, still, they were rude, and talked too loudly, and wore their feathers in such a way that they looked like fine large birds, when really they were lean and skinny and small.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000009_000000|Fifteen young Muskrats, all brothers and sisters, and all born the summer before, started off to look at the old home where they were children together.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000010_000000|It doesn't mean so much to Muskrats to be brothers and sisters as it does to some people, still they remembered that they were related, and they played more with each other than with those young Muskrats who were only their cousins or friends.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000010_000001|Their mother was very proud of them, and loved to watch them running around on their short legs, and to hear them slap their long, scaly tails on the water when they dove.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000010_000002|They had short, downy fur, almost black on the back, soft gray underneath, and a reddish brown everywhere else.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000010_000003|There was very little fur on their tails or on their feet, and those parts were black.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000011_000000|These fifteen children had been fairly well brought up, but you can see that their mother had many cares; so it is not strange if they sometimes behaved badly.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000011_000001|In some other families, where there were only nine or ten babies all the season, they had been brought up more strictly.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000011_000002|Like all young Muskrats, they were full of fun, and there were few pleasanter sights than to see them frolicking on a warm moonlight evening, when they looked like brown balls rolling and bounding around on the shore or plunging into the water.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000011_000003|If they had all been exactly the same age, it would have been even pleasanter, for the oldest five would put on airs and call the others "the children"; and the next five would call the youngest five "babies"; although they were all well grown.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000011_000004|There was no chance for the youngest five to call other Muskrats "babies," so when they were warm and well fed and good-natured they laughed and said, "Who cares?" When they were cold and hungry, they slapped their tails on the ground or on the water and said, "Don't you think you're smart!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000012_000001|Their father sometimes slapped them with his tail.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000012_000002|Teasing is not so very bad, you know, although it is dreadfully silly, but when people begin by teasing they sometimes get to saying things in earnest-even really hateful, mean things.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000012_000003|And that was what made the Muskrat father and mother stop it whenever they could.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000013_000000|Now the whole fifteen crowded around the old summer home, and some of them went in one way, and some of them went in another, for every Muskrat's summer house has several burrows leading to it.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000013_000001|When they reached the old nest at the end, all of them tried to get in at once, and they pushed each other around with their broad little heads, scrambled and clutched and held on with their strong little feet.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000013_000002|Five of them said, "It's our turn first.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000013_000003|We're the oldest." And five more said, "Well, it's our turn next anyway, 'cause we're next oldest." The others said, "You might give up to us, because we're the youngest."
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000014_000000|They pushed and scrambled some more, and one of the youngest children said to one of the oldest, "Well, I don't care.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000014_000001|I'm just as big as you are" (which was so).
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000014_000002|And the older one answered back, "Well, you're not so good looking" (which was also true).
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000015_000001|What had been a lovely frolic became an unpleasant, disgraceful quarrel, and they said such things as these:
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000016_000000|"'Fore I'd make such a fuss!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000018_000000|"Oh, yes.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000018_000001|You're big enough, but you're just as homely as you can be.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000018_000002|So there!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000019_000000|"Quit poking me!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000020_000000|"You slapped your tail on my back!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000021_000000|"I'm going to tell on you fellows!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000022_000000|"I dare you to!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000023_000000|"Won't you catch it though!"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000024_000000|And many more things which were even worse.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000024_000001|Think of it.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000024_000002|Fifteen young Muskrats who really loved each other, talking like that because they couldn't decide whether the oldest or the youngest or the half-way-between brothers and sisters should go first into the old nest. And it didn't matter a bit who was oldest or who was youngest, and it never would have happened had it not been for their dreadful habit of teasing.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000025_000001|Then they kept still and listened to their mother.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000025_000002|She told them that they should leave the place at once, and not one of them should even set foot in the old nest.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000025_000003|"Suppose somebody had gotten hurt," she said.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000025_000004|This made the young Muskrats look very sober, for they knew that the Muskrat who is hurt in winter never gets well.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000026_000000|After she had let them think about this for a while, she said, "I shall punish you all for this." Then there was no quarrel among her children to see who should have the first turn-not at all.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000027_000000|One young Muskrat said, "Aren't you going to let us play any more?"
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000028_000001|"I shall let you play all the rest of the day, but I shall choose the games.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000028_000002|The oldest five will play 'Mud Turtles in winter,' the next five will play 'Frogs in winter,' and the youngest five will play 'Snakes in winter.' The way to play these games is to lie perfectly still in some dark place and not say a word."
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000029_000000|The young Muskrats looked at each other sorrowfully.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000029_000001|They thought it sounded very much the same as being sent to bed for being naughty.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000029_000002|They did not dare say anything, for they knew that, although their mother was gentle, as Muskrats are most of the time, she could be very severe.
train-clean-100/8324/286683/8324_286683_000029_000003|So they went away quietly to play what she had told them they must.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000005_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000007_000000|IN THE AFTERMATH of this storm, we were thrown back to the east. Away went any hope of
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000008_000000|escaping to the landing places of New York or the saint Lawrence. In despair, poor Ned went into seclusion like Captain Nemo.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000009_000000|As I said, the Nautilus veered to the east.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000009_000001|To be more accurate, I should have said to the northeast.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000011_000001|These banks are the result of marine sedimentation, an extensive accumulation of organic waste brought either from the equator by the Gulf Stream's current, or from the North Pole by the countercurrent of cold water that skirts the American coast. Here, too, erratically drifting chunks collect from the ice breakup. Here a huge boneyard forms from fish, mollusks, and zoophytes dying over it by the billions.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000012_000002|But to the south there is a deep, suddenly occurring depression, a three thousand-meter pit.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000016_000000|Because Newfoundland is simply an underwater peak, you could call these cod mountain fish.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000016_000001|While the Nautilus was clearing a path through their tight ranks, Conseil couldn't refrain from making this comment:
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000017_000000|"Mercy, look at these cod!" he said.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000017_000001|"Why, I thought cod were flat, like dab or sole!"
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000019_000001|"But what crowds of them!
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000019_000002|What swarms!"
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000020_000000|"Bah!
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000021_000000|"I'll go all out," Conseil replied.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000021_000001|"five hundred thousand."
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000024_000001|But it would be less work to believe me. Besides, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Americans, Danes, and Norwegians catch these cod by the thousands.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000024_000002|They're eaten in prodigious quantities, and without the astonishing fertility of these fish, the seas would soon be depopulated of them.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000026_000000|"Count what?"
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000027_000001|But I'll make one comment."
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000028_000000|"What's that?"
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000029_000000|"If all their eggs hatched, just four codfish could feed England, America, and Norway."
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000032_000000|Instead of continuing north, the Nautilus took an easterly heading, as if to go along this plateau on which the telegraph cable rests, where multiple soundings have given the contours of the terrain with the utmost accuracy.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000035_000000|Now then, on may twenty fifth while submerged to a depth of three thousand eight hundred thirty six meters, the Nautilus lay in precisely the locality where this second cable suffered the rupture that ruined the undertaking. It happened six hundred thirty eight miles from the coast of Ireland.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000036_000001|The daring Cyrus Field, who had risked his whole fortune to promote this undertaking, called for a new bond issue.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000036_000002|It sold out immediately.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000036_000003|Another cable was put down under better conditions.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000037_000000|The operation proceeded apace.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000038_000000|By july twenty third the Great Eastern was lying no farther than eight hundred kilometers from Newfoundland when it received telegraphed news from Ireland of an armistice signed between Prussia and Austria after the Battle of Sadova.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000038_000001|Through the mists on the twenty seventh, it sighted the port of Heart's Content.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000038_000002|The undertaking had ended happily, and in its first dispatch, young America addressed old Europe with these wise words so rarely understood: "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to men of good will."
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000039_000000|I didn't expect to find this electric cable in mint condition, as it looked on leaving its place of manufacture.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000039_000001|The long snake was covered with seashell rubble and bristling with foraminifera; a crust of caked gravel protected it from any mollusks that might bore into it.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000040_000000|Besides, on this well chosen plateau, the cable never lies at depths that could cause a break.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000040_000002|Then we returned to the locality where the eighteen sixty three accident had taken place.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000042_000000|Would Captain Nemo head up north and beach us on the British Isles? no Much to my surprise, he went back down south and returned to European seas.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000042_000001|As we swung around the Emerald Isle, I spotted Cape Clear for an instant, plus the lighthouse on Fastnet Rock that guides all those thousands of ships setting out from Glasgow or Liverpool.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000043_000000|An important question then popped into my head.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000043_000001|Would the Nautilus dare to tackle the English Channel?
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000043_000002|Ned Land (who promptly reappeared after we hugged shore) never stopped questioning me. What could I answer him?
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000043_000003|Captain Nemo remained invisible. After giving the Canadian a glimpse of American shores, was he about to show me the coast of France?
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000044_000000|But the Nautilus kept gravitating southward.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000045_000000|If it was going to enter the English Channel, it clearly needed to head east.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000046_000000|All day long on may thirty first, the Nautilus swept around the sea in a series of circles that had me deeply puzzled.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000046_000001|It seemed to be searching for a locality that it had some trouble finding. At noon Captain Nemo himself came to take our bearings. He didn't address a word to me.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000046_000003|Was it our proximity to these European shores?
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000046_000005|If so, what did he feel?
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000046_000006|Remorse or regret? For a good while these thoughts occupied my mind, and I had a hunch that fate would soon give away the captain's secrets.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000047_000000|The next day, june first, the Nautilus kept to the same tack. It was obviously trying to locate some precise spot in the ocean. Just as on the day before, Captain Nemo came to take the altitude of the sun
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000047_000001|The sea was smooth, the skies clear.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000047_000002|Eight miles to the east, a big steamship was visible on the horizon line. No flag was flapping from the gaff of its fore and aft sail, and I couldn't tell its nationality.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000049_000000|I was on the platform just then.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000049_000001|After determining our position, the captain pronounced only these words:
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000051_000000|He went down the hatch.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000052_000000|I returned to the lounge.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000053_000000|Some minutes later it stopped at a depth of eight hundred thirty three meters and came to rest on the seafloor.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000054_000000|The ceiling lights in the lounge then went out, the panels opened, and through the windows I saw, for a half mile radius, the sea brightly lit by the beacon's rays.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000055_000000|I looked to port and saw nothing but the immenseness of these tranquil waters.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000057_000000|What ship was this?
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000059_000003|On july fourth seventeen seventy nine, as a member of the squadron under Admiral d'Estaing, it assisted in the capture of the island of Grenada.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000059_000004|On september fifth seventeen eighty one, under the Count de Grasse, it took part in the Battle of Chesapeake Bay.
train-clean-100/839/130898/839_130898_000059_000008|Sir, today is june first eighteen sixty eight, or the thirteenth day in the Month of Pasture.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000000_000000|THE DANCE OF THE SAND HILL CRANES
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000001_000000|One fine day in spring, a great flock of Sand hill Cranes came from the south.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000001_000001|They were flying high and quietly because the weather was bright. If it had been stormy, or if they had been flying by night, as they usually did, they would have stayed nearer the ground, and their leader would have trumpeted loudly to let his followers know which way he was going.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000001_000002|They would also have trumpeted, but more softly, to tell him that they were coming after.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000002_000000|They were a fine company to look upon, orderly, strong, and dignified. Their long necks were stretched out straight ahead, their long legs straight behind, and they beat the air with slow, regular strokes of the strong wings.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000002_000001|As they came near the pond, they flew lower and lower, until all swept down to the earth and alighted, tall and stately, by the edge of the water.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000003_000000|They had eaten nothing for several days, and were soon hunting for food, some on land, and some in the water, for they had stopped to feed and rest.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000003_000001|Those who hunted in the water, did so very quietly.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000003_000002|A Crane would stand on one leg, with his head against his breast, so quietly that one might think him asleep: but as soon as anything eatable came near, he would bend his body, stretch out his neck, open his long, slender bill, and swallow it at one gulp.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000003_000003|Then he would seem to fall asleep again.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000004_000001|They were those who thought of staying there for the summer.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000005_000000|When the flock arose to fly on again, eight Cranes stayed behind.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000005_000001|They watched their friends fly away, and stood on the ground with their necks and bills uplifted and mouths open, while they trumpeted or called out, "Good bye!
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000005_000002|Stop for us in the fall!"
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000005_000003|The flying Cranes trumpeted back, "We will!
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000005_000004|Don't forget us!"
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000006_000000|That night they slept near together, as they had done when with the large flock, and one Crane kept awake to watch for danger while the others tucked their heads under their wings.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000006_000001|They were fine looking, even when they slept, and some people never look well unless they are awake.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000006_000002|They were brownish gray, with no bright markings at all, and their long legs gave them a very genteel look.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000006_000003|The tops of their heads were covered with warty red skin, from which grew short black feathers that looked more like hairs.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000007_000000|One morning, when the Cranes awakened, a fine young fellow began to strut up and down before the rest, bowing low, and leaping high into the air, and every now and then whooping as loudly as he could.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000007_000001|The Gulls, who had spent the winter by the pond, screamed to each other, "The Crane dance has begun!" Even the Frogs, who are afraid of Cranes, crept quietly near to look on.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000008_000000|It was not long before another young Crane began to skip and hop and circle around, drooping his wings and whooping as he went.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000008_000001|Every Crane danced, brothers, and sisters, and all, and as they did so, they looked lovingly at each other, and admired the fine steps and enjoyed the whooping.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000008_000002|This went on until they were so tired they could hardly stand, and had to stop to eat and rest.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000009_000000|When they were eating, the young fellow who had begun the dance, stalked up to the sister of one of his friends, as she stood in the edge of the pond, gracefully balanced on one leg.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000009_000001|She did not turn her head towards him, although, having such a long and slender neck, she could have done so with very little trouble.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000009_000002|She stood with her head on her breast and looked at the water.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000009_000003|After a while, he trumpeted softly, as though he were just trying his voice.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000009_000004|Then she gave a pretty little start, and said, "Oh, are you here?
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000009_000005|How you did frighten me!"
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000010_000000|"I am sorry," he said.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000010_000001|"I did not want to frighten you." And he looked at her admiringly.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000011_000001|"Of course I am not frightened now that I know who it is."
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000012_000000|Then they stood and fished for a long time without saying anything.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000012_000001|When she flew away, she said, "That is a very pleasant fishing place." He stood on the other leg for a while, and thought how sweet her voice sounded as she said it.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000012_000002|Then he thought that, if she liked the place so well, she might come there again the next day.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000012_000003|He wondered why he could not come too, although everybody knows that a Crane catches more if he fishes alone.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000013_000002|As she stalked off toward the pond, she passed him, and she said over her shoulder, "I should think you would be hungry.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000013_000003|I am almost starved." After she had gone, he wondered why she had said that.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000013_000004|If he had been an older Crane, and understood the ways of the world a little better, he would have known that she meant, "Aren't you coming to that fishing place?
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000013_000005|I am going now." Still, although he was such a young Crane and had never danced until this year, he began to think that she liked him and enjoyed having him near.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000013_000006|So he flew off to the fishing place where he had seen her the day before, and he stalked along to where she was, and stood close to her while she fished.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000015_000000|That pleased him, of course, because Cranes think that big mouthfuls are the best kind, so he tipped his head to one side, and watched his neck as the mouthful slid down to his stomach.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000015_000001|He could see it from the outside, a big bunch slowly moving downward.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000015_000002|He often did this while he was eating.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000015_000004|He pitied short necked people.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000015_000006|I can take bigger mouthfuls than that.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000015_000007|You ought to see what big mouthfuls I can take."
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000016_000000|She changed, and stood on her other leg.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000016_000001|"I saw you dancing this morning," she said.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000016_000002|Now it was not at all queer that she should have seen him dancing, for all the eight Cranes had danced together, but he thought it very wonderful.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000017_000000|"Did you notice to whom I bowed?" he asked.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000017_000001|He was so excited that his knees shook, and he had to stand on both legs at once to keep from falling.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000018_000000|"To my sister?" she asked carelessly, as she drew one of her long tail feathers through her beak.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000019_000000|"No," said he.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000019_000001|"I bowed to her sister." He thought that was a very clever thing to say.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000019_000002|But she suddenly raised her head, and said, "There! I have forgotten something," and flew off, as she had done the day before.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000019_000003|He wondered what it was.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000019_000004|Long afterward he asked her what she had forgotten and she said she couldn't remember-that she never could remember what she had forgotten.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000020_000000|It made him feel very badly to have her leave him so.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000020_000001|He wanted a chance to tell her something, yet, whenever he tried to, it seemed to stick in his bill.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000020_000002|He began to fear that she didn't like him; and the next time the Cranes danced he didn't bow to her so much, but he strutted and leaped and whooped even more.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000020_000003|And she strutted and leaped and whooped almost as loudly as he.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000020_000004|When they were all tired out and had stopped dancing, she said to him, "I am so tired!
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000020_000005|Let us go off into the woods and rest."
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000021_000000|You may be very sure he was glad to go, and as he stalked off with her, he led the way to a charming nesting place.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000021_000001|He didn't know just how to tell what he wanted to, but he had seen another Crane bowing to her, and was afraid she might marry him if he was not quick.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000021_000002|Now he pointed with one wing to this nesting place, and said, "How would you like to build a nest there?"
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000022_000000|She looked where he had pointed, "I?" she said.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000023_000000|"Let me help you," he said.
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000023_000001|"I want to marry and have a home."
train-clean-100/8419/286667/8419_286667_000025_000001|They were very, very happy, and after a while-but that is another story.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000001_000000|THE CLEVER WATER ADDER
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000002_000001|The Snapping Turtle was left to himself a great deal until the day when he and Belostoma drove away the boys.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000002_000002|After that his neighbors began to understand him better and he was less grumpy, so that those who wore shells were soon quite fond of him.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000000|Belostoma did not have many friends among the smaller people, and only a few among the larger ones.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000001|They said that he was cruel, and that he had a bad habit of using his stout sucking tube to sting with.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000002|Still, Belostoma did not care; he said, "A Giant Water Bug does not always live in the water.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000004|After that, I shall fly away on my wedding trip.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000005|mrs Belostoma may go with me, if she feels like doing so after laying her eggs here.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000006|I shall go anyway.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000007|And I shall flutter and sprawl around the light, and sting people who bother me, and have a happy time." That was Belostoma's way.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000003_000009|And perhaps that was so.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000004_000000|With the Water Adders it was different.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000004_000001|They were good-natured enough, yet the Mud Turtles and Snapping Turtle were the only ones who ever called upon them and found them at home.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000004_000002|The small people without shells were afraid of them, and the Clams and Pond Snails never called upon any one.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000004_000003|The Minnows said they could not bear the looks of the Adders-they had such ugly mouths and such quick motions.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000004_000004|The larger fishes kept away on account of their children, who were small and tender.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000005_000000|One might think that the Sand Hill Cranes, the Fish Hawks, and the other shore families would have been good friends for them, but when they called, the Adders were always away.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000005_000001|People said that the Adders were afraid of them.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000006_000000|The Yellow Brown Frog wished that the Adders could be scared, badly scared, some time: so scared that a chilly feeling would run down their backs from their heads clear to the tips of their tails.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000006_000001|"I wish," said he, "that the chilly feeling would be big enough to go way through to their bellies.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000006_000002|Their bellies are only the front side of their backs, anyway," he added, "because they are so thin." Of course this was a dreadful wish to make, but people said that one of the Adders had frightened the Yellow Brown Frog so that he never got over it, and this was the reason he felt so.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000007_000001|She could swim very fast, could creep, glide, catch hold of things with her tail, hang herself from the branch of a tree, lift her head far into the air, leap, dart, bound, and dive. All her family could do these things, but she could do them a little the best.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000008_000000|One day she was hanging over the pond in a very graceful position, with her tail twisted carelessly around a willow branch.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000008_000001|The Snapping Turtle and a Mud Turtle Father were in the shallow water below her.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000008_000002|Her slender forked tongue was darting in and out of her open mouth.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000008_000003|She was using her tongue in this way most of the time.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000008_000004|"It is useful in feeling of things," she said, "and then, I have always thought it quite becoming." She could see herself reflected in the still water below her, and she noticed how prettily the dark brown of her back shaded into the white of her belly.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000009_000000|The Snapping Turtle felt cross to day, and had come to see if a talk with her would not make him feel better.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000009_000001|The Mud Turtle was tired of having the children sprawl around him, and of mrs Mud Turtle telling about the trouble she had to get the right kind of food.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000010_000000|The Clever Water Adder spoke first of the weather.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000010_000001|"It must be dreadfully hot for the shore people," she said.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000011_000001|"How they must wish for shells!"
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000012_000001|"What for?
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000012_000002|To fly with?
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000012_000003|Let them come in swimming with their children, if they are warm and tired."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000013_000000|The Water Adder laughed in her snaky way, and showed her sharp teeth.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000013_000001|"I have heard," she said, "that when the Wild Ducks bring their children here to swim, they do not always take so many home as they brought."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000014_000001|The Mud Turtle smiled. "I have heard," she went on, "that when young Ducks dive head first, they are quite sure to come up again, but that when they dive feet first, they never come up."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000016_000000|"Oh, nothing," replied the Water Adder, swinging her head back and forth and looking at the scales on her body.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000017_000000|"I know what you mean," said the Snapping Turtle, "and you know what you mean, but I have to eat something, and if I am swimming under the water and a Duckling paddles along just above me and sticks his foot into my mouth, I am likely to swallow him before I think."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000018_000000|The Water Adder saw that he was provoked by what she had said, so she talked about something else.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000018_000001|"I think the Ducks spoil their children," said she.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000018_000002|"They make such a fuss over them, and they are not nearly so bright as my children.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000018_000003|Why, mine hatch as soon as the eggs are laid, and go hunting at once.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000018_000004|They are no trouble at all."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000019_000000|"I never worry about mine," said the Mud Turtle, "although their mother thinks it is not safe for them all to sleep at once, as they do on a log in the sunshine."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000020_000000|"It isn't," said the Adder decidedly.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000020_000001|"I never close my eyes.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000020_000002|None of us Adders do.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000020_000003|Nobody can ever say that we close our eyes to danger." They couldn't shut their eyes if they wanted to, because they had no eyelids, but she did not speak of that.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000020_000004|"How stupid people are," she said.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000021_000000|"Most of them," remarked the Turtles.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000022_000000|"All of them," she said, "except us Adders and the Turtles.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000022_000001|I even think that some of the Turtles are a little queer, don't you?"
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000023_000000|"We have thought so," said the Mud Turtle.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000024_000000|"They certainly are," agreed the Snapping Turtle, who was beginning to feel much better natured.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000025_000000|"What did you say?" asked the Adder who, like all her family, was a little deaf.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000026_000000|"Ouch!" exclaimed the Snapping Turtle.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000026_000001|"Ouch!
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000026_000002|Ouch!"
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000027_000000|"What is the matter?" asked the Mud Turtle.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000028_000001|Then they swam away, pushing themselves quickly through the water with swift strokes of their hairy oar legs.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000031_000000|"Reach your tail with your head?" asked the Water Adder in her sweetest voice.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000031_000001|"Nothing is easier." And she wound herself around the willow branch in another graceful position, and took the tip of her tail daintily between her teeth.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000034_000000|"What a rude person she is!" they said.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000034_000001|"Always trying to show how much more clever she is than other people.
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000034_000002|We would rather be stupid and polite."
train-clean-100/8419/286676/8419_286676_000035_000000|After a while the Snapping Turtle said, "But then, you know, we are not stupid."
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000003_000000|In all the meadow there was nobody who could tell such interesting stories as the old Tree Frog.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000003_000001|Even the Garter Snake, who had been there the longest, and the old Cricket, who had lived in the farm yard, could tell no such exciting tales as the Tree Frog.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000003_000002|All the wonderful things of which he told had happened before he came to the meadow, and while he was still a young Frog.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000003_000003|None of his friends had known him then, but he was an honest fellow, and they were sure that everything he told was true: besides, they must be true, for how could a body ever think out such remarkable tales from his own head?
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000004_000000|When he first came to his home by the elm tree he was very thin, and looked as though he had been sick.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000004_000001|The Katydids who stayed near said that he croaked in his sleep, and that, you know, is not what well and happy Frogs should do.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000005_000000|One day when many of the meadow people were gathered around him, he told them his story.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000005_000001|"When I was a little fellow," he said, "I was strong and well, and could leap farther than any other Frog of my size.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000005_000002|I was hatched in the pond beyond the farm house, and ate my way from the egg to the water outside like any other Frog.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000005_000003|Perhaps I ought to say, 'like any other Tadpole,' for, of course, I began life as a Tadpole.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000005_000005|We were all in a hurry to be Frogs, and often talked of what we would do and how far we would travel when we were grown.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000006_000000|"Oh, how happy we were then!
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000006_000001|I remember the day when my hind legs began to grow, and how the other Tadpoles crowded around me in the water and swam close to me to feel the two little bunches that were to be legs.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000008_000000|"I did have when I was a Tadpole," said the Tree Frog.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000008_000001|"I had a beautiful, wiggly little tail with which to swim through the waters of the pond; but as my legs grew larger and stronger, my tail grew littler and weaker, until there wasn't any tail left.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000008_000004|Some of the other Frogs started with me, but they stopped along the way, and at last I was alone.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000000|"I was a bold young fellow, and when I saw a great white thing among the trees up yonder, I made up my mind to see what it was.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000001|There was a great red thing in the yard beside it, but I liked the white one better.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000002|I hopped along as fast as I could, for I did not then know enough to be afraid.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000003|I got close up to them both, and saw strange, big creatures going in and out of the red thing-the barn, as I afterward found it was called.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000004|The largest creatures had four legs, and some of them had horns. The smaller creatures had only two legs on which to walk, and two other limbs of some sort with which they lifted and carried things.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000005|The queerest thing about it was, that the smaller creatures seemed to make the larger ones do whatever they wanted them to.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000006|They even made some of them help do their work.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000007|You may not believe me, but what I tell you is true.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000009_000008|I saw two of the larger ones tied to a great load of dried grass and pulling it into the barn.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000010_000000|"As you may guess, I stayed there a long time, watching these strange creatures work.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000010_000003|There I rested until sunset, and then began my evening song. While I was singing, one of the people from the house came out and found me.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000010_000004|She picked me up and carried me inside.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000010_000005|Oh, how frightened I was!
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000010_000006|My heart thumped as though it would burst, and I tried my best to get away from her.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000010_000007|She didn't hurt me at all, but she would not let me go.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000011_000000|"She put me in a very queer prison.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000011_000001|At first, when she put me down on a stone in some water, I did not know that I was in prison.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000011_000002|I tried to hop away, and-bump! went my head against something.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000011_000003|Yet when I drew back, I could see no wall there.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000011_000004|I tried it again and again, and every time I hurt my head.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000011_000005|I tell you the truth, my friends, those walls were made of something which one could see through."
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000012_000000|"Wonderful!" exclaimed all the meadow people; "wonderful, indeed!"
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000000|"And at the top," continued the Tree Frog, "was something white over the doorway into my prison.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000001|In the bottom were water and a stone, and from the bottom to the top was a ladder.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000002|There I had to live for most of the summer.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000003|I had enough to eat; but anybody who has been free cannot be happy shut in.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000004|I watched my chance, and three times I got out when the little door was not quite closed.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000005|Twice I was caught and put back.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000006|In the pleasant weather, of course, I went to the top of the ladder, and when it was going to rain I would go down again.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000013_000007|Every time that I went up or down, those dreadful creatures would put their faces up close to my prison, and I could hear a roaring sound which meant they were talking and laughing.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000014_000001|After they stopped hunting, the wind blew the door open, and I hopped out."
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000015_000000|"You don't say!" exclaimed a Grasshopper.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000016_000002|It seemed to me that just stretching my legs was enough to make me wild with joy.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000016_000003|Well, I came right here, and you were all kind to me, but for a long time I could not sleep without dreaming that I was back in prison, and I would croak in my sleep at the thought of it."
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000017_000000|"I heard you," cried the Katydid, "and I wondered what was the matter."
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000018_000000|"Matter enough," said the Tree Frog.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000018_000001|"It makes my skin dry to think of it now.
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000018_000002|And, friends, the best way I can ever repay your kindness to me, is to tell you to never, never, never, never go near the farm house."
train-clean-100/8419/293469/8419_293469_000019_000000|And they all answered, "We never will."
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000002_000000|THE DIGNIFIED WALKING STICKS.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000003_000000|Three Walking Sticks from the forest had come to live in the big maple tree near the middle of the meadow.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000003_000001|Nobody knew exactly why they had left the forest, where all their sisters and cousins and aunts lived. Perhaps they were not happy with their relatives.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000003_000002|But then, if one is a Walking Stick, you know, one does not care so very much about one's family.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000000|These Walking Sticks had grown up the best way they could, with no father or mother to care for them.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000001|They had never been taught to do anything useful, or to think much about other people.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000002|When they were hungry they ate some leaves, and never thought what they should eat the next time that they happened to be hungry.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000003|When they were tired they went to sleep, and when they had slept enough they awakened.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000004|They had nothing to do but to eat and sleep, and they did not often take the trouble to think.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000005|They felt that they were a little better than those meadow people who rushed and scrambled and worked from morning until night, and they showed very plainly how they felt.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000004_000006|They said it was not genteel to hurry, no matter what happened.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000005_000000|One day the Tree Frog was under the tree when the large Brown Walking Stick decided to lay some eggs.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000006_000000|"A place?" said the Brown Walking Stick, waving her long and slender feelers to and fro.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000006_000001|"A place?
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000006_000002|Oh, no! I think they will hatch where they are.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000006_000003|It is too much trouble to find a place."
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000007_000001|"Some mothers do not think it too much trouble to be careful where they lay eggs."
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000008_000000|"That may be," said the Brown Walking Stick, "but they do not belong to our family." She spoke as if those who did not belong to her family might be good but could never be genteel.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000008_000002|She thought the meadow people very common.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000009_000000|The Five Legged Walking Stick looked much like his sister.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000009_000001|He had the same long, slender body, the same long feelers, and the same sort of long, slender legs.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000009_000002|If you had passed them in a hay field, you would surely have thought each a stem of hay, unless you happened to see them move.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000009_000003|The other Walking Stick, their friend, was younger and green.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000009_000004|You would have thought her a blade of grass.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000010_000000|It is true that the brother had the same kind of legs as his sister, but he did not have the same number.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000010_000001|When he was young and green he had six, then came a dreadful day when a hungry Nuthatch saw him, flew down, caught him, and carried him up a tree.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000010_000002|He knew just what to expect, so when the Nuthatch set him down on the bark to look at him, he unhooked his feet from the bark and tumbled to the ground.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000010_000003|The Nuthatch tried to catch him and broke off one of his legs, but she never found him again, although she looked and looked and looked and looked.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000010_000004|That was because he crawled into a clump of ferns and kept very still.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000011_000000|His sister came and looked at him and said, "Now if you were only a Spider it would not be long before you would have six legs again."
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000012_000002|His relatives all waved their feelers, one at a time, and said, "Ah, he has the true Walking Stick spirit!" Then they paid no more attention to him, and after a while he and his sister and their green little friend left the forest for the meadow.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000013_000000|On the day when the grass was cut, they had sat quietly in their trees and looked genteel.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000013_000001|Their feelers were held quite close together, and they did not move their feet at all, only swayed their bodies gracefully from side to side.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000013_000002|Now they were on the ground, hunting through the flat piles of cut grass for some fresh and juicy bits to eat.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000013_000003|The Tree Frog was also out, sitting in a cool, damp corner of the grass rows.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000013_000004|The young Grasshoppers were kicking up their feet, the Ants were scrambling around as busy as ever, and life went on quite as though neither men nor Horses had ever entered the meadow.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000015_000002|Then there was a great scrambling and the Crickets frolicked with them.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000015_000004|She did not quite wish it, you understand, and would never have thought of it if she had turned brown.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000016_000000|"Ah," said the Five Legged Walking Stick, "what scrambling!
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000016_000001|How very common!"
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000017_000000|"Yes, indeed!" said his sister.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000017_000001|"Why can't they learn to move slowly and gracefully?
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000017_000002|Perhaps they can't help being fat, but they might at least act genteel."
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000018_000000|"What is it to be genteel?" asked a Grasshopper suddenly.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000019_000000|"Why," said the Five Legged Walking Stick, "it is just to be genteel.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000019_000001|To act as you see us act, and to----"
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000021_000000|The Walking Sticks looked very uncomfortable, and the brother and sister could not think of anything to say.
train-clean-100/8419/293473/8419_293473_000021_000001|It was the young green one who spoke at last.
train-clean-100/8425/246962/8425_246962_000007_000000|HELEN AND THE CURATE.
train-clean-100/8425/287387/8425_287387_000004_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-100/8425/291444/8425_291444_000001_000000|TO THE PUBLIC.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000006_000000|Dark, with crumbling railing and planks, The bridge leads into the sunset. Across it many lonely figures, Their eyes a flare with the sunset, Their faces glowing with its colors, Tramp past me through the evening.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000012_000000|The crowd thins, the players are alone; In their faith's raucous monotone, Loud with gaudy angels, tinsel cherubim, A drum pounds out the hymn.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000013_000000|INCARNATION
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000022_000000|Monotonously the solemn reeds Waved to our passing; Ahead the canal shimmered, blotched green by the water weeds. With a grinding swing And see saw of sound, The steamer slunk down the canal.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000024_000000|That night from a dingy hotel room, I saw the moon, like a golden gong, Redly loom Across the lake; like a golden gong In a temple, which a priest ere long Will strike into throbbing song, To wake some silent twinkling city to prayer. The lake waves were flakes of red gold, Burnished to copper, Gold, red as the tangled gleam Of sunlight in your hair.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000033_000000|NIGHT PIECE
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000034_000000|A silver web has the moon spun, A silver web upon all the sky, Where the frail stars quiver, every one Like tangled gnats that hum and die.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000038_000000|And that other night, When the river rippled with faint spears Of street lights vaguely reflected.
train-clean-100/8425/292520/8425_292520_000038_000001|Grey The evening, like an opal; low, A grey moon shrouded in sea fog: Air pregnant with spring; rasp of my steps Beside the lapping water; within The dark.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000003_000000|ADVICE IN THE DARK.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000004_000000|It was some moments before either of them spoke, and it did not help Wingfold that she sat clouded by a dark coloured veil.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000005_000000|"You must not fear to trust me because I doubt my ability to help you. I can at least assure you of my sympathy.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000006_000000|"Can you tell me," she said, from behind more veils than that of lace, "how to get rid of a haunting idea?"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000007_000001|"Such things sometimes arise merely from the state of the health, and there the doctor is the best help."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000008_000001|The curate paused, but, receiving no assistance, ventured on again.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000009_000000|"If it be a thought of something past and gone, for which nothing can be done, I think activity in one's daily work must be the best aid to endurance."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000011_000000|"I'm not sure about that."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000012_000000|"He wouldn't heed you."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000013_000000|"Perhaps not."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000014_000000|"What would you do then?"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000016_000000|"Then give me some food-some hope, I mean, and try me again.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000016_000001|Without that, I don't care about duty or life or anything."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000017_000000|"Tell me, then, what is the matter; I MAY be able to hint at some hope," said Wingfold, very gently.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000017_000001|"Do you call yourself a Christian?"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000020_000001|"Because then I could have said, you know where to go for comfort.--Might it not be well however to try if there is any to be had from him that said 'COME UNTO ME, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST?'"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000021_000000|"I can do nothing with that.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000021_000004|Yesterday, when I got alone in the park, I prayed aloud: I thought that perhaps, even if he might not be able to read what was in my heart, he might be able to hear my voice.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000022_000000|She tried hard, but could not prevent a sob.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000023_000000|"Will you not tell me something about it?" said the curate, yet more gently.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000023_000002|"Perhaps Jesus has begun to give you help, though you do not know it yet," he said, "His help may be on the way to you, or even with you, only you do not recognize it for what it is.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000023_000003|I have known that kind of thing. Tell me some fact or some feeling I can lay hold of.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000023_000004|Possibly there is something you ought to do and are not doing, and that is why you cannot rest.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000025_000000|"Suppose it were a great wrong that had been done, and that was the unendurable thought?
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000025_000001|SUPPOSE, I say, that was what made me miserable!"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000026_000000|"Then you must of course make all possible reparation," answered Wingfold at once.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000027_000000|"But if none were possible-what then?"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000029_000000|"At least," he said at length, "you could confess the wrong, and ask forgiveness."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000031_000000|Again the curate took time to reply.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000032_000002|Still I have something more to say, and hesitate only because it may imply more confidence than I dare profess, and of all things I dread untruth.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000032_000004|In the strength of this much of conscious truth I venture to say-that no crime can be committed against a creature without being committed also against the creator of that creature; therefore surely the first step for anyone who has committed such a crime must be to humble himself before God, confess the sin, and ask forgiveness and cleansing.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000032_000005|If there is anything in religion at all it must rest upon an actual individual communication between God and the creature he has made; and if God heard the man's prayer and forgave him, then the man would certainly know it in his heart and be consoled-perhaps by the gift of humility."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000033_000000|"Then you think confession to God is all that is required?"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000036_000000|"Then to forgive and console me."
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000037_000000|"Alas! alas! that he will not hear of.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000037_000001|He would rather be punished than consoled.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000037_000002|I fear for his brain.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000038_000000|She had gone much farther than she had intended; but the more doubtful help became, the more she was driven by the agony of a perishing hope to search the heart of Wingfold.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000039_000000|Again the curate pondered.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000040_000000|"Are you sure," he said at length, "that the person of whom you speak is not neglecting something he ought to do-something he knows perhaps?"
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000041_000000|He had come back to the same with which he started.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000043_000000|"I speak from experience," the curate went on-"from what else could I speak?
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000043_000001|I know that so long as we hang back from doing what conscience urges, there is no peace for us.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000043_000002|I will not say our prayers are not heard, for mr Polwarth has taught me that the most precious answer prayer can have, lies in the growing strength of the impulse towards the dreaded duty, and in the ever sharper stings of the conscience.
train-clean-100/8465/246940/8465_246940_000045_000000|Her voice had sunk almost to a groan.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000001|She had sought the door of Paradise, and the door of hell had been opened to her!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000002|If the frightful idea which, she did not doubt, had already suggested itself to Leopold, should now be encouraged, there was nothing but black madness before her!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000003|Her Poldie on the scaffold!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000005|Then she remembered how pleased and consoled he had been when she said something about their dying together, and that reassured her a little: no, she was certain Leopold would never yield himself to public shame!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000006|But she must take care that foolish, extravagant curate should not come near him.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000007|There was no knowing to what he might persuade him!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000003_000008|Poor Poldie was so easily led by any show of nobility-anything that looked grand or self sacrificing!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000000|Helen's only knowledge of guilt came from the pale image of it lifted above her horizon by the refraction of her sympathy.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000001|She did not know, perhaps never would understand the ghastly horror of conscious guilt, besides which there is no evil else.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000003|Then indeed, if there be no God, or one that has not an infinite power of setting right that which has gone wrong with his work, then indeed welcome the faith, for faith it may then be called, of such as say there is no hereafter!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000006|Strange it is and true that in publicity itself lies some relief from the gnawing of the worm-as if even a cursing humanity were a barrier of protection between the torn soul and its crime.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000007|It flees to its kind for shelter from itself.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000008|Hence, I imagine, in part, may the coolness of some criminals be accounted for.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000004_000009|Their quietness is the relief brought by confession-even confession but to their fellows. Is it that the crime seems then lifted a little from their shoulders, and its weight shared by the ace?
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000005_000001|But instead of such words of gentle might, like those of the man of whom he was so fond of talking, he had only spoken drearily of duty, hinting at a horror that would plunge the whole ancient family into a hell of dishonour and contempt!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000005_000006|It was all his mother's fault-the fault of her race-and of the horrible drug her people had taught him to take!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000005_000007|And was he to go and confess it, and be tried for it, and be-?
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000005_000008|Great God!--And here was the priest actually counselling what was worse than any suicide!
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000006_000001|It was impossible he should suspect the crime of which her brother had been guilty, and therefore could not know the frightful consequences of such a confession as he had counselled.
train-clean-100/8465/246942/8465_246942_000006_000004|No; she would venture no farther. Sooner would she go to George Bascombe-from whom she not only could look for no spiritual comfort, but whose theories were so cruel against culprits of all sorts!
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000002_000000|A HAUNTED SOUL.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000004_000000|She started when she saw him: some change had passed on him since the morning!
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000004_000002|Or was it only in her eyes-was she but reading in his face the agony she had herself gone through that day?
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000005_000000|"Helen, Helen!" he cried as she entered the room, "come here, close to me."
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000008_000000|"What was that, Poldie?" asked Helen with a pang of fear.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000009_000003|Don't you think he might be able to do something?"
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000011_000000|"Something or other-I don't know what exactly," returned Leopold.--"Oh Helen!" he broke out with a cry, stifled by the caution that had grown habitual to both of them, "is there no help of any kind anywhere?
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000011_000002|I could trust the man that said such things as those you told me.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000011_000003|That I could!--Oh!
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000012_000000|Helen felt herself grow white.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000012_000001|She turned away, and pretended to search for something she had dropped.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000013_000000|"I don't think he would be of the slightest use to you," she said, still stooping.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000014_000001|But that was a foolish fancy, and must be resisted!
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000015_000000|"Not if I told him everything?" Leopold hissed from between his teeth in the struggle to keep down a shriek.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000016_000000|"No, not if you told him everything," she answered, and felt like a judge condemning him to death.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000018_000000|Helen had not yet thought of asking herself whether her love to her brother was all clear love, and nowise mingled with selfishness-whether in the fresh horror that day poured into the cup that had seemed already running over, it was of her brother only she thought, or whether threatened shame to herself had not a part in her misery.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000018_000002|What had he done but utter common places and truisms about duty?
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000018_000004|So he lay and moaned, and she sat crushed and speechless with despairing misery.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000019_000000|All at once Leopold sat straight up, his eyes fixed and flaming, his face white: he looked like a corpse possessed by a spirit of fear and horror.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000019_000002|Surely, she thought afterwards, she must have been that moment in the presence of something unearthly!
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000019_000003|Her physical being was wrenched from her control, and she must simply sit and wait until the power or influence, whichever it might be, should pass away.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000019_000006|The same moment she was free; the horror had departed from her own atmosphere too, and she made haste to restore him.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000019_000007|But in all she did for him, she felt like the executioner who gives restoratives to the wretch that has fainted on the rack or the wheel.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000019_000008|What right had SHE, she thought, to multiply to him his moments of torture?
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000020_000000|There is so much passes in us of which our consciousness takes no grasp,--or but with such a flitting touch as scarcely to hand it over to the memory-that I feel encouraged to doubt whether ever there was a man absolutely without hope.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000020_000001|That there have been, alas, are many, who are aware of no ground of hope, nay even who feel no glimmer in them of anything they can call hope, I know; but I think in them all is an underlying unconscious hope.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000020_000002|I think that not one in all the world has more than a shadowy notion of what hopelessness means.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000020_000003|Perhaps utter hopelessness is the outer darkness.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000022_000000|"I saw her!" he said, in a voice that sounded as if it came from the grave, and she heard it in her heart.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000023_000000|"Nonsense, dear Poldie! it was all fancy-nothing more," she returned, in a voice almost as hollow as his; and the lightness of the words uttered in such a tone jarred dismayfully on her own ear.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000024_000000|"Fancy!" he repeated; "I know what fancy is as well as any man or woman born: THAT was no fancy.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000026_000000|"Let her come then, Poldie!
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000026_000002|She shall know that a sister's love is stronger than the hate of a jilt-even if you did kill her.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000026_000003|Before God, Poldie, I would after all rather be you than she.
train-clean-100/8465/246943/8465_246943_000027_000000|But Leopold seemed not to hear a word she said, and lay with his face to the wall.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000002_000000|SLEEP.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000003_000003|No wonder if with such a feeling in his breast Wingfold walked softly, and his face glistened!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000003_000004|He was not aware that the tears stood in his eyes, but Helen saw them.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000004_000000|"You know all!" she faltered.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000005_000000|"I do.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000005_000002|I wish to be alone."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000006_000000|She led the way down the stair, and walked with him through the garden. Wingfold did not speak.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000007_000000|"You don't think very badly of my poor brother, do you, mr Wingfold?" said Helen, meekly.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000008_000000|"It is a terrible fate," he returned.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000008_000002|I do hope his mind will soon be more composed.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000008_000003|I think he knows where alone he can find rest.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000008_000005|Into the life I hope your brother will enter."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000009_000000|"I am so glad you don't hate him."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000010_000000|"Hate him!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000010_000001|Who but a demon could hate him?"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000011_000000|Helen lifted a grateful look from eyes that swam in tears.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000011_000001|The terror of his possible counsel for the moment vanished.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000011_000002|He could never tell him to give himself up!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000013_000000|"The dwarf!" exclaimed Helen, shuddering at the remembrance of what she had gone through at the cottage.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000014_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000014_000001|That man's soul is as grand and beautiful and patient as his body is insignificant and distorted and troubled.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000014_000002|He is the wisest and best man I have ever known.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000015_000000|"I must ask Leopold," returned Helen, who, the better the man was represented, felt the more jealous and fearful of the advice he might give.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000015_000001|Her love and her conscience were not yet at one with each other.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000016_000000|They parted at the door from the garden, and she returned to the sick room.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000017_000000|She paused, hesitating to enter.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000017_000001|All was still as the grave.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000017_000002|She turned the handle softly and peeped in: could it be that Wingfold's bearing had communicated to her mind a shadow of the awe with which he had left the place where perhaps a soul was being born again?
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000017_000003|Leopold did not move. Terror laid hold of her heart.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000017_000004|She stepped quickly in, and round the screen to the side of the bed.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000017_000005|There, to her glad surprise, he lay fast asleep, with the tears not yet dried upon his face.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000019_000000|"When did you come into the room?" he said.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000020_000000|"A minute ago," she answered.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000021_000000|"I did not hear you," he returned.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000022_000000|"No, you were asleep."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000023_000000|"Not I! mr Wingfold is only just gone."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000024_000000|"I have let him out on the meadow since."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000025_000000|Leopold stared, looked half alarmed, and then said,
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000026_000000|"Did God make me sleep, Helen?"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000027_000000|She did not answer.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000027_000001|The light of a new hope in his eye, as if the dawn had begun at last to break over the dark mountains, was already reflected from her heart.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000028_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000028_000001|Helen," he said, "that IS a good fellow, SUCH a good fellow!"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000029_000001|Had the curate been a man she liked, she would not perhaps have minded it so much.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000030_000000|"You will be able to do without me now," she said sadly.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000030_000001|"I never could understand taking to people at first sight!"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000000|"Some people are made so, I suppose, Helen.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000001|I know I took to you at first sight!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000002|I shall never forget the first time I saw you-when I came to this country a lonely little foreigner,--and you, a great beautiful lady, for such you seemed to me, though you have told me since you were only a great gawky girl-I know that could never have been-you ran to meet me, and took me in your arms, and kissed me.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000003|I was as if I had crossed the sea of death and found paradise in your bosom!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000004|I am not likely to forget you for mr Wingfold, good and kind and strong as he is!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000005|Even SHE could not make me forget you, Helen.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000007|I wish you liked him better!--but you will in time.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000031_000008|You see he's not one to pay young ladies compliments, as I have heard some parsons do; and he may be a little-no, not unpolished, not that-that's not what I mean-but unornamental in his manners!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000033_000000|"That is true," returned Leopold; "but then he came to me with his door open, and let me walk in.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000033_000001|It doesn't take long to know a man then.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000033_000002|He hasn't got a secret like us, Helen," he added, sadly.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000034_000000|"What did he say to you?"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000035_000000|"Much what he said to you from the pulpit the other day, I should think."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000036_000001|For all his hardness and want of sympathy, the curate had yet had regard to her entreaties, and was not going to put any horrid notions about duty and self sacrifice into the poor boy's head!
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000037_000000|"He's coming again to morrow," added Leopold, almost gleefully, "and then perhaps he will tell me more, and help me on a bit!"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000038_000000|"Did he tell you he wants to bring a friend with him?"
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000040_000000|"I can't see the good of taking more people into our confidence."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000041_000000|"Why should he not do what he thinks best, Helen?
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000041_000001|You don't interfere with the doctor-why should you with him?
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000041_000002|When a man is going to the bottom as fast as he can, and another comes diving after him-it isn't for me to say how he is to take hold of me.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000041_000003|No, Helen; when I trust, I trust out and out."
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000042_000000|Helen sighed, thinking how ill that had worked with Emmeline.
train-clean-100/8465/246947/8465_246947_000043_000001|But when Leopold uttered himself thus, she felt that the current of events had seized her, and that she could only submit to be carried along.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000000_000000|THE SLOW LITTLE MUD TURTLE
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000001_000000|When the twenty little Mud Turtles broke their egg shells one hot summer day, and poked their way up through the warm sand in which they had been buried, they looked almost as much alike as so many raindrops.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000001_000001|The Mother Turtle who was sunning herself on the bank near by, said to her friends, "Why!
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000001_000002|There are my children!
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000001_000003|Did you ever see a finer family?
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000001_000004|I believe I will go over and speak to them."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000002_000000|Most of the young Mud Turtles crawled quickly out of the sand and broken shells, and began drying themselves in the sunshine.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000002_000001|One slow little fellow stopped to look at the broken shells, stubbed one of his front toes on a large piece and then sat down until it should stop aching. "Wait for me!" he called out to his brothers and sisters.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000002_000002|"I'm coming in a minute."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000003_000000|The other little Turtles waited, but when his toe was comfortable again and he started toward them, he met a very interesting Snail and talked a while with him.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000003_000001|"Come on," said the Biggest Little Turtle.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000003_000003|He can catch up."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000004_000000|So they sprawled along until they came to a place where they could sit in a row on an old log, and they climbed onto it and sat just close enough together and not at all too close.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000004_000001|Then the Slow Little Turtle came hurrying over the sand with a rather cross look in his eyes and putting his feet down a little harder than he needed to-quite as though he were out of patience about something.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000004_000002|"Why didn't you Turtles wait for me?" he grumbled.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000006_000000|Just then the Mother Turtle came up.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000007_000000|The little Mud Turtles looked at each other and didn't say a word.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000007_000001|This was not because they were rude or bashful, but because they did not know what to say.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000008_000000|She drew a long Mud Turtle breath and answered her own question.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000008_000001|"Yes," she said, "you certainly are, for I saw you scrambling out of the sand a little while ago, and you came from the very place where I laid my eggs and covered them during the first really warm nights this year.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000008_000002|I was telling your father only yesterday that it was about time for you to hatch.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000008_000003|The sun has been so hot lately that I was sure you would do well."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000009_000000|The Mother Turtle stretched her head this way and that until there was hardly a wrinkle left in her neck skin, she was so eager to see them all.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000009_000001|"Why are you not up here with your brothers and sisters?" she asked suddenly of the Slow Little Turtle, who was trying to make a place for himself on the log.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000010_000000|"They didn't wait for me," he said.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000010_000001|"I was coming right along but they wouldn't wait.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000011_000003|"I thought you were when I heard you trying to make the others wait.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000011_000004|It is too bad."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000012_000000|She looked so stern that the Slow Little Turtle didn't dare finish what he had begun to say, yet down in his little Turtle heart he thought, "Now they are going to catch it!"
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000012_000001|He was sure his mother was going to scold the other Turtle children for leaving him.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000012_000002|He wanted to see what they would do, so he looked out of his right eye at the ten brothers and sisters on that side, and out of his left eye at the nine brothers and sisters on that side.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000012_000003|He could do this very easily, because his eyes were not on the front of his head like those of some people, but one on each side.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000013_000001|"The first year I had only a few children, the next year I had more, and so it has gone-every year a few more children than the year before-until now I never know quite how many I do have.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000013_000002|But there is always one Slow Little Turtle who lags behind and wants the others to wait for him.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000013_000003|That makes him miss his share of good things, and then he is quite certain to be cross and think it is somebody else's fault."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000014_000000|The Slow Little Turtle felt the ten brothers and sisters on his right side looking at him out of their left eyes, and the nine brothers and sisters on his left side looking at him out of their right eyes.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000014_000001|He drew in his head and his tail and his legs, until all they could see was his rounded upper shell, his shell side walls, and the yellow edge of his flat lower shell.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000014_000002|He would have liked to draw them in too, but of course he couldn't do that.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000015_000000|"I did hope," said the Mother Turtle, "that I might have one family without such a child in it.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000015_000001|I cannot help loving even a slow child who is cross, if he is hatched from one of my eggs, yet it makes me sad-very, very sad."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000016_000001|And you," she added, turning to his brothers and sisters, "must be patient with him.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000016_000002|We shall not have him with us long."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000017_000000|"What do you mean?" asked the Slow Little Turtle, peeping out from between his shells.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000017_000001|"I'm not going away."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000018_000000|"You do not want to," said his mother, "but you will not be with us long unless you learn to keep up with the rest.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000018_000001|Something always happens to pond people who are too slow.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000018_000003|I remember so well my first slow child-and how he-" She began to cry, and since she could not easily get her forefeet to her eyes, she sprawled to the pond and swam off with only her head and a little of her upper shell showing above the water.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000019_000000|The Slow Little Turtle was really frightened by what his mother had said, and for a few days he tried to keep up with the others.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000019_000001|Nothing happened to him, and so he grew careless and made people wait for him just because he was not quite ready to go with them, or because he wanted to do this or look at that or talk to some other person.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000019_000003|It is all right, you know, to be a Land Tortoise when your father and mother are Land Tortoises, and these cousins of the Turtles look so much like them that some people cannot tell them apart.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000019_000004|That is because they forget that the Tortoises live on land, have higher back shells, and move very, very slowly. Turtles live more in the water and can move quickly if they will.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000019_000005|This is why other Turtles sometimes make fun of a slow brother by calling him a Land Tortoise.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000020_000000|One beautiful sunshiny afternoon, when most of the twenty little Turtles were sitting on a floating log by the edge of the pond, their mother was with some of her friends on another log near by.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000020_000001|She looked often at her children, and thought how handsome their rounded up back shells were in the sunshine with the little red and yellow markings showing on the black.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000020_000002|She could see their strong little pointed tails too, and their webbed feet with a stout claw on each toe.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000020_000003|She was so proud that she could not help talking about them.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000021_000000|"Yes," said a fine old fellow who was floating near her, "a row of their mothers!" He was a Turtle whom she had never liked very well, but now she began to think that he was rather agreeable after all.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000021_000001|She was just noticing how beautifully the skin wrinkled on his neck, when she heard a splash and saw two terrible great two legged animals wading into the pond from the shore.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000022_000000|"Boys!" she cried, "Boys!" And she sprawled off the end of her log and slid into the water, all her friends following her.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000022_000001|The Biggest Little Turtle saw these great animals coming toward him.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000022_000002|He sprawled off the end of his log and slid into the water, and all his brothers and sisters followed him except the Slow Little Turtle.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000023_000000|Then one of these great animals stooped over and picked him up, and held him bottom side uppermost and rapped on that side, which was flat; and on the other side, which was rounded; and stared at him with two great eyes.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000023_000001|Next the other great animal took him and turned him over and rapped on his shells and stared at him.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000023_000004|He was thinking over and over, "Something has happened!
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000024_000000|The boys carried him to the edge of the meadow and put him down on the grass.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000024_000001|He lay perfectly still for a long, long time, and when he thought they had forgotten about him he tried to run away.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000024_000002|Then they laughed and picked him up again, and one of them took something sharp and shiny and cut marks into his upper shell.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000024_000003|This did not really give him pain, yet, as he said afterward, "It hurts almost as much to think you are going to be hurt, as it does to be hurt."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000025_000000|It was not until the sun went down that the boys let the Slow Little Turtle go.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000025_000001|Then he was very, very tired, but he wanted so much to get back to his home in the pond that he started at once by moonlight.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000025_000002|This was the first time he had ever seen the moon, for, except when they are laying eggs, Turtles usually sleep at night.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000025_000004|You know the Tree Frog had been carried away when he was young, before he came to live with the meadow people, so he knew how to be sorry for the Slow Little Turtle.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000026_000000|The Tree Frog hopped along ahead to show the way, and the Turtle followed until they reached a place from which they could see the pond. "Good night!" said the Tree Frog.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000027_000000|"Good night!" said the Turtle.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000027_000001|"I wish I might help you some time."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000028_000000|"Never mind me," said the Tree Frog.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000028_000003|At the edge of the pond the Slow Little Turtle found his nineteen brothers and sisters sound asleep.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000028_000004|"I'm here!" he cried joyfully, poking first one and then another of them with his head.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000029_000000|The Biggest Little Turtle moved without awakening.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000029_000001|"I tell you I'm not hungry," he murmured.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000029_000002|"I don't want to get up." And again he fell fast asleep.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000030_000002|When he did open his eyes, his relatives were sitting around looking at him, and he remembered all that had happened before he slept.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000030_000003|"Does my shell look very bad?" he cried. "I wish I could see it.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000030_000004|Oh, I am so glad to get back!
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000030_000006|Never!"
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000031_000000|His mother came and leaned her shell lovingly against his.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000031_000001|"If you will only learn to keep up with your brothers and sisters," she said "I shall not be sorry that the boys carried you off."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000032_000000|"You just wait and see," said the Slow Little Turtle.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000032_000001|And he was as good as his word.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000032_000002|After that he was always the first to slip from the log to the water if anything scared them; and when, one day, a strange Turtle from another pond came to visit, he said to the Turtles who had always lived there, "Why do you call that young fellow with the marked shell 'The Slow Little Turtle?' He is the quickest one in his family."
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000033_000000|The pond people looked at each other and laughed.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000033_000001|"That is queer!" they said.
train-clean-100/8468/286673/8468_286673_000033_000002|"After this we will call him 'The Quick Little Turtle.'"
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000004_000001|He was very solicitous for their welfare, and that the colored people who were free should be enlightened and educated. He opened a Sunday school for colored adults, which was numerously attended, in West Broadway, New York, and with a few others, devoted the most of the Sabbath to their teaching.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000004_000002|When he and his brother Arthur, assembled the seventy anti slavery agents, who were thereafter, like "firebrands," scattered all over the land, they held their meetings in this room.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000004_000003|These agents were entertained by abolitionists in the city, and many of us had two or three of them in each of our families for a couple of weeks.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000004_000004|They went out all over the land, and were instrumental in diffusing more truth, perhaps, about the dreadful system of American Slavery, than was accomplished in any other way.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000005_000000|The "Vigilance Committee," for aiding and befriending fugitives, of which I was treasurer for many years, had no better or warmer friend than he.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000005_000001|He was almost always at their meetings, which were known only to "the elect," for we dared not hold them too publicly, as we almost always had some of the travelers toward the "north star" present, whose masters or their agents were frequently in the city, in hot pursuit.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000005_000002|At first, we sent them to Canada, but after a while, sent them only to Syracuse, and the centre of the State.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000006_000000|In eighteen thirty four, I think, was the first rioting, the sacking of mr Tappan's house, in Rose Street.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000006_000001|The mob brought all his furniture out, and piling it up in the street, set it on fire. The family were absent at the time.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000007_000000|Through mr Tappan's influence and extensive correspondence abroad, many remittances came for the help of the "Vigilance Committee," from England and Scotland, and at one time, an extensive invoice of useful and fancy articles, in several large boxes, was received from the Glasgow ladies, sufficient to furnish a large bazaar or fair, which was held in Brooklyn, for the benefit of the Committee.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000008_000000|Although lately afflicted by disease, mr Tappan still lives in the enjoyment of all his faculties, and a good measure of health, and in his advanced years, sees now some of the great results of his life-long efforts for the restoration and maintenance of human rights.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000009_000001|Original American abolitionists, who met the scorn and odium, the imputed shame and obloquy, the frowns and cold shoulders which they bore through all the dark days of Slavery, now see and feel their reward in some measure; to be completed only, when they shall hear the plaudit: "Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000010_000000|ANTHONY LANE.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000011_000000|New York, november eighth eighteen seventy one.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000012_000000|mr Lane, mr Tappan's personal friend who labored with him in the Anti Slavery Cause, and especially in the Vigilance Committee for many years, from serious affection of his eyes was not prepared to furnish as full a sketch of his (mr
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000012_000001|t's) labors as was desirable.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000012_000002|mr Tappan was, therefore, requested to furnish a few reminiscences from his own store house, which he kindly did as follows:
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000013_000001|However, feeling somewhat relieved to day, from my paralysis, owing to the cheering sunshine and the favor of my Almighty Preserver, I will try to do what I can, in dictating a few anecdotes to my amanuensis, which may afford you and your readers some gratification.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000014_000000|These facts I must give without reference to date, as I will not tax my memory with perhaps a vain attempt to narrate them in order.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000016_000000|Abolitionists, white and colored, both in slave and free States, entered into extensive correspondence, set their wits at work to devise various expedients for the relief from bondage and transmission to the free States and to Canada, of many of the most enterprising bondmen and bondwomen.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000017_000000|one.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000017_000001|I recollect that one morning on reaching my office (that of the treasurer of the American Missionary Association), my assistant told me that in the inner room were eighteen fugitives, men, women and children, who had arrived that morning from the South in one company.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000017_000002|On going into the room, I saw them lying about on the bales and boxes of clothing destined for our various missionary stations, fatigued, as they doubtless were, after their sleepless and protracted struggle for freedom.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000018_000000|On inquiry, I learned that they had come from a southern city. After most extraordinary efforts, it seemed that they had while in Slavery, secretly banded together, and put themselves under the guidance of an intrepid conductor, whom they had hired to conduct them without the limits of the city, in the evening, when the police force was changed.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000018_000001|They came through Pennsylvania and New Jersey to my office.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000018_000002|The agent of the Underground Rail Road in New York, took charge of them, and forwarded them to Albany, and by different agencies to Canada.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000019_000002|In answer to my inquiries, this girl told me the name of the southern city, and the names of the persons who had held her as a slave, and the mode of her escape, etc
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000019_000003|"I was walking near the water," she said, "when a white sailor spoke to me, and after a few questions, offered to hide me on board his vessel and conduct me safely to New York, if I would come to him in the evening.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000019_000004|I did so, and was hid and fed by him, and on landing at New York, he conducted me to mrs Smith's house, where I am now staying."
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000021_000000|To my inquiry, have you parents living, and also brothers and sisters, she replied: "There is no child but myself." "Were not your parents kind to you, and did you not love them?" "Yes I love them very much."
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000000|One Sunday morning, I received a letter, informing me that an officer belonging to savannah georgia, had started for New York, in pursuit of two young men, of nineteen or twenty, who had been slaves of one of the principal physicians of the place, and who had escaped and were supposed to be in New York.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000001|The letter requested me to find them and give them warning.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000002|As there was no time to be lost, I concluded to go over to New York, notwithstanding the doubtfulness of attempting to find them in so large a city.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000003|I wrote notices to be read in the colored churches and colored Sabbath schools, which I delivered in person.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000004|I then went to the colored school, superintended by Rev. c b Bay.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000005|I stated my errand to him, with a description of the young men.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000023_000006|"Why," said he, "I must have one of them in my school." He took me to a class where I found one of the young men, to whom I gave the needful information.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000024_000002|He added, "I thought it right to say this." I then spoke to the crowd.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000024_000003|"My father," said I, "has long been one of your first doctors, and do you think it right for him to sell my mother and his children in this way?"
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000025_000001|We soon made our escape, and are now both in the city.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000025_000002|I am a blacksmith, and have worked six months in one shop, in New York, with white journeymen, not one of whom believes, I suppose, that I am a colored man."
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000026_000000|It was not surprising, for so fair was his complexion, that with the aid of a brown wig, after he had cut off his hair, he was completely disguised.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000026_000001|He soon notified his brother, who lived in another part of the city, and both put themselves out of harm's way.
train-clean-100/8468/294887/8468_294887_000026_000002|They were remarkably fine young men, and it seemed a special Providence that I should find them in such a large city, and direct them to escape from their pursuer, within one hour after I left my house in Brooklyn.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000003_000000|MOTHER MAGPIE'S MISCHIEF
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000004_000000|Old Mother Magpie was about the busiest character in the forest.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000004_000001|But you must know that there is a great difference between being busy and being industrious.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000005_000000|She was always full of everybody's business but her own-up and down, here and there, everywhere but in her own nest, knowing everyone's affairs, telling what everybody had been doing or ought to do, and ready to cast her advice gratis at every bird and beast of the woods.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000007_000000|"Depend upon it, my dear," Mother Magpie would say, "that this way of building your nest, swinging like an old empty stocking from a bough, isn't at all the thing.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000007_000001|I never built one so in my life, and I never have headaches.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000007_000002|Now you complain always that your head aches whenever I call upon you.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000007_000003|It's all on account of this way of swinging and swaying about in such an absurd manner."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000008_000000|"But, my dear," piped mrs Oriole timidly, "the Orioles always have built in this manner, and it suits our constitution."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000009_000000|"A fiddle on your constitution!
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000009_000001|How can you tell what agrees with your constitution unless you try?
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000009_000002|You own you are not well; you are subject to headaches; and every physician will tell you that a tilting motion disorders the stomach and acts upon the brain.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000009_000003|Ask old dr Kite.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000009_000004|I was talking with him about your case only yesterday, and says he, 'mrs
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000009_000005|Magpie, I perfectly agree with you.'"
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000010_000000|"But my husband prefers this style of building."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000011_000000|"That's only because he isn't properly instructed.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000011_000001|Pray, did you ever attend dr Kite's lectures on the nervous system?"
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000012_000000|"No, I have no time to attend lectures.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000013_000001|I shall speak to him about it.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000013_000002|My husband always sits regularly half the time, that I may have time to go about and exercise."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000014_000000|"O mrs Magpie, pray don't speak to my husband; he will think I've been complaining."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000015_000000|"No, no, he won't.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000015_000001|Let me alone.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000015_000002|I understand just how to say the thing.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000016_000000|"But I tell you, mrs Magpie, I don't want any interference between my husband and me, and I will not have it," says mrs Oriole, with her little round eyes flashing with indignation.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000017_000000|"Don't put yourself in a passion, my dear; the more you talk, the more sure I am that your nervous system is running down, or you wouldn't forget good manners in this way.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000017_000001|You'd better take my advice, for I understand just what to do,"--and away sails Mother Magpie; and presently young Oriole comes home all in a flutter.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000018_000000|"I say, my dear, if you will persist in gossiping over our private family matters with that old Mother Magpie-"
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000019_000000|"My dear, I don't gossip.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000019_000001|She comes and bores me to death with talking, and then goes off and mistakes what she has been saying for what I said."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000020_000000|"But you must CUT her."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000021_000000|"I try to, all I can; but she won't BE cut."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000022_000000|"It's enough to make a bird swear," said Tommy Oriole.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000023_000000|Tommy Oriole, to say the truth, had as good a heart as ever beat under bird's feathers; but then he had a weakness for concerts and general society, because he was held to be, by all odds, the handsomest bird in the woods, and sung like an angel; and so the truth was he didn't confine himself so much to the domestic nest as Tom Titmouse or Billy Wren.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000024_000000|"The fact is," quoth Tommy, "I am a society bird, and Nature has marked out for me a course beyond the range of the commonplace, and my wife must learn to accommodate.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000024_000001|If she has a brilliant husband, whose success gratifies her ambition and places her in a distinguished public position, she must pay something for it.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000024_000003|To say the truth, my wife was all well enough content till old Mother Magpie interfered.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000024_000004|It is quite my duty to take strong ground, and show that I cannot be dictated to."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000025_000000|So, after this, Tommy Oriole went to rather more concerts, and spent less time at home than ever he did before, which was all that Mother Magpie effected in that quarter.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000025_000001|I confess this was very bad in Tommy; but then birds are no better than men in domestic matters, and sometimes will take the most unreasonable courses, if a meddlesome Magpie gets her claw into their nest.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000026_000001|She bustled off down to Water Dock Lane, where, as we said in a former narrative, lived the old music teacher, dr Bullfrog. The poor old doctor was a simple minded, good, amiable creature, who had played the double bass and led the forest choir on all public occasions since nobody knows when.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000026_000002|Latterly some youngsters had arisen who sneered at his performances as behind the age.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000026_000004|They pulled the young checkerberry before it even had time to blossom, rooted up the sassafras shrubs and gnawed their roots, fired off guns at the birds, and on several occasions, when old dr Bullfrog was leading a concert, had dashed in and broken up the choir by throwing stones.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000027_000000|This was not the worst of it.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000027_000002|"There you go, Paddy go donk, Paddy go donk -umph-chunk," some rascal of a boy would shout, while poor old Bullfrog's yellow spectacles would be bedewed with tears of honest indignation.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000029_000000|"Well, neighbour, how unreasonable people are!
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000029_000001|Who would have thought that the youth of our generation should have no more consideration for established merit?
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000030_000000|"I really don't understand you, ma'am," said poor dr Bullfrog.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000031_000000|"What! you haven't heard of a committee that is going to call on you, to ask you to resign the care of the parish music?"
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000032_000000|"Madam," said dr Bullfrog, with all that energy of tone for which he was remarkable, "I don't believe it,--I CAN'T believe it.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000032_000001|You must have made a mistake."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000033_000000|"I mistake!
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000033_000001|No, no, my good friend; I never make mistakes.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000033_000002|What I know, I know certainly.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000034_000000|"Bless me, we shall all be ruined!" said mrs Bullfrog; "my poor husband-"
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000035_000000|"Oh, as to that, if you take things in time, and listen to my advice," said Mother Magpie, "we may yet pull you through.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000035_000001|You must alter your style a little,--adapt it to modern times.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000035_000002|Everybody now is a little touched with the operatic fever, and there's Tommy Oriole has been to New Orleans and brought back a touch of the artistic.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000036_000000|"Dear madam, consider my voice.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000036_000001|I never could hit the high notes."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000037_000000|"How do you know?
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000037_000001|It's all practice; Tommy Oriole says so.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000037_000002|Just try the scales.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000037_000003|As to your voice, your manner of living has a great deal to do with it.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000037_000004|I always did tell you that your passion for water injured your singing.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000037_000006|Come up on the bank and learn to perch, as we birds do.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000038_000000|And so poor mr Bullfrog was persuaded to forego his pleasant little cottage under the cat tails, where his green spectacles and honest round back had excited, even in the minds of the boys, sentiments of respect and compassion.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000038_000001|He came up into the garden, and established himself under a burdock, and began to practise Italian scales.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000039_000000|The result was, that poor old dr Bullfrog, instead of being considered as a respectable old bore, got himself universally laughed at for aping fashionable manners.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000040_000000|But the tragedy for the poor old music teacher grew even more melancholy in its termination; for one day, as he was sitting disconsolately under a currant bush in the garden, practising his poor old notes in a quiet way, THUMP came a great blow of a hoe, which nearly broke his back.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000041_000001|"Here, here, Wasp, my boy."
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000042_000000|What a fright for a poor, quiet, old Bullfrog, as little wiry, wicked Wasp came at him, barking and yelping.
train-clean-100/8468/295198/8468_295198_000042_000001|He jumped with all his force sheer over a patch of bushes into the river, and swam back to his old home among the cat tails.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000003_000000|CHAPTER nine-A WARNING BY WIRELESS
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000004_000000|Rapidly the airship ascended, and, when it was high over the town of Shopton, Tom headed the craft due west.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000004_000001|Looking down he tried to descry Mary Nestor, in her carriage, but the trees were in the way, their interlocking branches hiding the girl.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000004_000002|Tom did see crowds of other persons, though, thronging the streets of Shopton, for, though the young inventor had made many flights, there was always a novelty about them, that brought out the curious.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000005_000000|"A good start, Tom Swift," complimented mr Parker.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000005_000001|"Is it always as easy as this?"
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000006_000000|"Starting always is," was the answer, "though, as the Irishman said, coming down isn't sometimes quite so comfortable."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000007_000000|"Bless my gizzard!
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000007_000001|That's so," cried the eccentric mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000007_000002|"Can we vol plane to earth in the Red Cloud, Tom?"
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000008_000000|"Yes, but not as easily as in the Butterfly.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000008_000001|However I hope we will not have to.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000008_000002|Now, mr Damon, if you will just take charge of the steering apparatus for a minute, I want to go aft."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000009_000000|"What for?"
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000011_000000|mr Damon, who knew how to operate the Red Cloud, was soon guiding her on the course, while Tom made his way to the rear compartments, through the motor room, where the stores of supplies and food were kept.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000011_000001|He made a careful examination, looking from an after window, and even going out on a small, open platform, but could discover nothing wrong.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000012_000000|"I guess Rad was just capering about without any special object," mused Tom, but it was not long after this that they learned to their dismay, that the colored man had had a method in his madness.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000013_000000|On his way back through the motor room Tom looked to the machinery, and adjusted some of the auxiliary oil feeders.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000013_000001|The various pieces of apparatus were working well, though the engine had not yet been speeded up to its limit.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000013_000002|Tom wanted it to "warm-up" first.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000014_000000|"Everything all right?" asked mr Damon, as Tom rejoined them in the pilot house, which was just forward of the living room in the main cabin.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000015_000001|But I'll set the automatic steering gear now, mr Damon, and then you will be relieved."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000016_000000|mr Jenks was gazing off toward the west-to where he hoped to discover the secret of Phantom Mountain.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000017_000000|"How do you like it?" asked Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000018_000000|"It's great," replied the diamond man.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000018_000001|"I've never been in an airship before, and it's different than what I expected; but it's great!
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000018_000003|I hope we can find them."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000019_000001|Airships are not quite numerous enough for that, yet, though they may soon become so.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000020_000000|Tom and the others devoted several hours to arranging their staterooms and bunks, and getting their clothing stowed away, and when this was done mr Parker and mr Jenks sat gazing off into space.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000021_000000|"It's hard to realize that we are really in an airship," observed the diamond man.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000021_000001|"At first I thought I would be frightened, but I'm not a bit.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000021_000002|It doesn't seem as if anything could happen."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000022_000000|"Something is likely to happen soon," said mr Parker, suddenly, as he gazed at some weather instruments on the cabin wall.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000023_000001|Don't say that!" cried mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000023_000002|"What is it?"
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000024_000000|"I think, from my observations, that we will soon have a hurricane," said the scientific man.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000024_000001|"There is every indication of it;" and he seemed quite delighted at the prospect of his prediction coming true.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000025_000000|"A hurricane!" cried mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000026_000000|"Oh, I think there will be no danger," spoke Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000026_000001|"If it comes on to blow we will ascend or descend out of the path of the storm.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000026_000002|This craft is not like the ill fated Whizzer.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000027_000000|"I'm glad to hear that," remarked mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000027_000001|"It would be too bad to be wrecked before we got to Phantom Mountain."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000028_000000|"Well, I predict that we will have a bad storm," insisted mr Parker, and Tom could not help wishing that the scientist would keep his gloomy forebodings to himself.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000029_000000|However the storm had not developed up to noon, when Tom, with mr Damon's help, served a fine meal in the dining room.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000029_000001|In the afternoon the speed of the ship was increased, and by night they had covered several hundred miles.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000029_000002|Through the darkness the Red Cloud kept on, making good time.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000029_000003|Tom got up, occasionally, to look to the machinery, but it was all automatically controlled, and an alarm bell would sound in his stateroom when anything went wrong.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000030_000000|"Bless my napkin!" exclaimed mr Damon the next morning, as they sat down to a breakfast of fruit, ham and eggs and fragrant coffee, "this is living as well as in a hotel, and yet we are-how far are we above the earth, Tom?" he asked, turning to the young inventor.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000031_000000|"About two miles now.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000031_000001|I just sent her up, as I thought I detected that storm mr Parker spoke of."
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000032_000000|"I told you it would come," declared the scientist, and there was a small hurricane below them that morning, but only the lower edge of it caught the Red Cloud, and when Tom sent her up still higher she found a comparatively quiet zone, where she slid along at good speed.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000033_000000|That afternoon Tom busied himself about some wires and a number of complicated pieces of apparatus which were in one corner of the main cabin.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000034_000000|"What are you doing now?" asked mr Jenks, who had been talking with mr Parker, and showing that scientist some of the manufactured diamonds.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000035_000000|"Getting our wireless apparatus in shape," answered the lad.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000035_000001|"I should have done it before, but I had so much to do that I couldn't get at it. I'm going to send off some messages.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000036_000000|As he worked away, he also made up his mind to send another message, in care of his father, for there was a receiving station in the Swift home. And to whom this message was addressed Tom did not say, but we fancy some of our readers can guess.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000037_000000|Finally, after several hours of work, the wireless was in shape to send and receive messages.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000037_000001|Tom pulled over the lever, and a crackling sound was heard, as the electricity leaped from the transmitters into space. Then he clamped the receiver on his ear.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000038_000001|"Has anybody any messages they wish sent?" For, with the courtesy of a true host he was ready to serve his guests before he forwarded his own wireless notes.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000039_000001|But this is great!
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000040_000000|mr Jenks had no one to whom he wanted to send any word, but mr Parker wish to wire to a fellow scientist the result of some observations made in the upper air.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000041_000000|Tom noted all the messages down, and then, when all was in readiness he began to call his home station.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000041_000001|He knew that either his father or mr Jackson, the engineer, could receive the wireless.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000042_000001|I."--his home station call-than he started and a look of surprise came over his face.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000043_000000|"They're calling us!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000044_000000|"Who is?" asked mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000045_000001|He-he's been trying to get us ever since we started, but I didn't have the wireless in shape to receive messages. Oh, I hope it's not too late!"
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000046_000001|Bless my soul, too late for what?" gasped mr Damon, somewhat alarmed by Tom's manner.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000047_000000|The lad did not answer at once.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000047_000002|On his face there was a look of worriment.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000048_000000|"Father has just sent me a message," he said.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000049_000000|"What is it?" asked mr Jenks, rising from his seat.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000050_000000|"The mysterious man is aboard the airship-hidden away!" cried Tom. "That's what Eradicate was trying to call to our attention as we started off.
train-clean-100/8580/287363/8580_287363_000050_000001|Eradicate saw his face at a rear window, and tried to warn us!
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten-DROPPING THE STOWAWAY
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000002_000000|Tom's excited announcement startled mr Damon and the others as much as if the young inventor had informed them that the airship had exploded and was about to dash with them to the earth.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000002_000001|The men leaped to their feet, and stared at the lad.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000004_000000|"Are you sure that message is straight?" asked mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000004_000001|"Did Eradicate see the man?"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000005_000001|"The man is hidden away on board now-probably among the stores and supplies."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000006_000000|"Bless my tomato sauce!" exploded mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000007_000000|"We must get him out at once!" declared mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000008_000000|"I knew something would happen on this voyage," came from mr Parker.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000008_000001|"I predicted it from the first!"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000009_000000|Tom thought considerable, but he did not answer the scientist just then.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000009_000001|Another communication was coming to him by wireless.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000009_000002|He listened intently.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000010_000000|"Father says," the lad told his companions "that Eradicate only had a glimpse of the man at the last moment.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000011_000001|What's to be done?" inquired mr Damon, looking around helplessly.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000012_000000|"We must get him out, that's all," decided mr Jenks; with vigor.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000012_000001|"Get him out and drop him overboard!"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000013_000000|"Drop him overboard!" cried mr Parker, in horror.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000014_000001|"That man is one of my enemies.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000014_000002|He has been sent by the band of diamond makers hidden among the mountains, to spy on me, and, if possible, prevent me from seeking to discover their secret.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000014_000004|Then, when he failed, the man must have sneaked into the shed, and hidden himself in the ship.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000014_000005|We must get rid of him, or he may wreck the Red Cloud!"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000015_000000|"That's so!" cried Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000015_000001|"We must try to capture him.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000015_000002|I think we had better-" the lad paused, and again listened to the wireless message. "Father says Eradicate saw the man have a gun, so we must be careful," the young inventor translated the dots and dashes.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000016_000000|"Bless my powder horn!" exploded mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000017_000000|"We shall have to proceed cautiously then," spoke mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000017_000001|"If he is like any others in the gang he is a desperate man."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000018_000000|"Better sneak up on him then, if we can," proposed mr Parker.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000018_000001|"There are enough of us to cope with one man, even if he is armed.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000019_000000|"Yes," was the hesitating answer, "but I don't want to use them if I can help it.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000019_000001|Not only because of the danger, and a dislike of shedding blood, but because a stray bullet might pierce the gas bag and damage the ship."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000020_000000|"That's so," agreed mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000020_000001|"Well, I guess if we go at it the right way we can capture him without any shooting.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000020_000002|But we must talk more quietly-we ought to have whispered-he may have heard us."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000021_000000|"I don't think so," replied Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000021_000001|"The storeroom is far enough off so that he couldn't hear us.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000021_000003|So, unless he heard the wireless working, and suspects something from that, he probably doesn't know that we are aware of his presence aboard."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000022_000000|"But why do you think he has remained quiet all this while, Tom?" asked mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000024_000000|"And do you really believe he would destroy the Red Cloud?" asked mr Parker.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000025_000000|"I think that all he is waiting for is a favorable chance," declared the diamond seeker.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000025_000001|"He would destroy the craft, and us too, if he could prevent us from discovering the secret of Phantom Mountain, I believe."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000026_000000|"Then we must get ahead of him," decided Tom, quietly.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000026_000001|"I have just flashed to dad a message, telling him that we will heed his warning.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000026_000002|Now to capture the stowaway!"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000027_000000|"And while we're about it, give him a good scare when we do get him," suggested mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000028_000000|"How?" asked Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000029_000000|"Threaten to drop him overboard.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000029_000001|Perhaps that will make him tell how he happened to get in our ship, and what are the plans of the gang of diamond makers.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000029_000002|We may get valuable information that way."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000030_000000|"I don't believe you can scare such fellows much," was Tom's opinion, but it was agreed to try.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000031_000000|"How are you going to capture him?" asked mr Parker.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000031_000001|"If he has a gun it won't be any too easy to go in the storeroom, and drag him out."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000032_000000|"We'll have to use a little strategy," decided Tom, and then they discussed several plans.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000032_000002|They would discuss various dishes, and mr Damon was to express a preference for something in the food line, the box containing which, was well back in the room.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000032_000003|This would give the two a chance to penetrate to the far end of the apartment, without arousing the suspicions of the hidden man, who, doubtless, would be listening to the conversation.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000033_000001|"Jump before he has a chance to use his gun.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000033_000003|I'll have some ropes ready, and we'll tie him up, and-well, we'll decide later what to do with him."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000034_000000|"All right.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000034_000001|I'm ready as soon as you are, Tom," said the eccentric man. "Come ahead."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000035_000000|They went softly to the storeroom, and listened at the door.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000036_000000|"I wonder if he's really here?" whispered mr Damon.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000037_000000|"We'll soon find out," answered Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000037_000001|"Let's go in."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000041_000000|"Then I'll help you get it out!
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000042_000000|He and Tom moved cautiously back among the boxes and barrels.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000042_000001|They were glancing about with eager eyes.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000042_000003|The lad saw a dark figure moving, as if to get farther out of sight.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000043_000000|"I've got him!" cried Tom, making a dive for the shadow.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000045_000000|"Catch him, mr Damon!" he cried.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000046_000002|He, too, had been knocked down by the fleeing man.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000047_000000|"Look out, mr Jenks!" cried Tom, to warn those on guard at the door of the storeroom.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000048_000000|There was the report of a gun, some excited shouts, and when Tom could scramble to his feet, and rush out, he beheld mr Parker calmly sitting on a struggling man, while mr Jenks held a gun, that was still smoking.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000049_000000|"We caught him!" cried the scientist.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000050_000000|"Anybody hurt?" asked Tom, anxiously.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000051_000000|"No, I knocked up his gun as he fired," explained mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000051_000001|"Where are the ropes, Tom?"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000052_000000|The cords were produced and the man, who had now ceased to struggle, was tightly bound.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000052_000001|He uttered not a word, but he smiled grimly when mr Damon remarked:
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000053_000000|"I guess I'll go back in the storeroom, Tom, and see how much food he ate."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000054_000000|"Oh, I guess he didn't take much," declared the lad.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000054_000001|"He wasn't there long enough."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000055_000000|"Well, Farley Munson, so it's you, is it?" asked mr Jenks, as he surveyed the prisoner.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000056_000000|"Do you know him?" asked Tom, in some surprise.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000057_000000|"He was in with the diamond makers," said mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000057_000001|"He was one of those who took me to the secret cave.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000057_000002|But it will be the last time he ever goes there.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000057_000003|How high up are we, Tom?"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000058_000000|"About two miles.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000058_000001|Why?"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000059_000000|"I guess that will be far enough to let him fall," went on the diamond seeker.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000059_000001|"Come on, mr Damon, help me throw him overboard!"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000060_000000|"You-you're not going to throw me over-with the airship two miles high; are you?" gasped the man.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000061_000000|"Will you tell us what we want to know, if we don't?" asked mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000062_000000|"What do you want to know?"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000063_000000|"How you got aboard, and what your object was in coming."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000064_000000|"That's easy enough.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000064_000002|Finally I saw it, when that colored man went to feed his mule, and I slipped in, and hid in the airship.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000064_000004|I had food and water, so I didn't touch any of yours," and he looked at mr Damon, who seemed much relieved.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000065_000000|"And what was your object?" demanded mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000066_000000|"I wanted to prevent you from going to Phantom Mountain."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000067_000000|"How?"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000068_000000|"By destroying the airship if need be.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000068_000001|But I hoped to accomplish it by other means.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000069_000000|"And if we refuse?" asked Tom.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000070_000000|"Then you'll have to take what comes!"
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000071_000000|"But not from you!" exclaimed mr Jenks.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000071_000001|"We're going to get rid of you."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000073_000000|"Oh, don't worry," said mr Jenks, quickly, "we're not going to toss you overboard.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000073_000001|We're not as desperate as your crowd.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000073_000002|But we're going to get rid of you, and then go on before you can send any word to your confederates.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000073_000003|We'll put you off in the most lonesome spot we can find, and I guess you'll be some time getting back to civilization.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000073_000004|By that time we'll have the secret of the diamonds."
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000074_000001|And he would say nothing more, though by threats and promises mr Jenks tried to get from him something about the men in with him, and where the cave of the diamonds was located.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000075_000000|Heavily bound with ropes the man was locked in a small closet, to be kept there until a favorable spot was reached for letting him go.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000075_000001|mr Jenks' plan, of dropping him down in some place where he would have difficulty in sending on word to his confederates was considered a good one.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000076_000000|Three days later, in crossing over a lonely region, near the Nebraska National Forest, Farley Munson, which was one of the names the spy went by, was dropped off the airship, when it was sent down to within a few feet of the earth.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000077_000000|"It will take you some time to get to a telegraph office," said mr Jenks, as a package of food, and a flask of water was tossed down to the stowaway.
train-clean-100/8580/287364/8580_287364_000077_000001|He shook his fist at those in the airship, and shouted after them:
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000003_000000|MUCH TO ALTER.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000004_000000|At the same moment Constance Channing was traversing the Boundaries, on her way to Lady Augusta Yorke's, where she had, some days since, commenced her duties.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000004_000001|It took her scarcely two minutes to get there, for the houses were almost within view of each other.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000004_000002|Constance would willingly have commenced the daily routine at an earlier hour.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000004_000003|Lady Augusta freely confessed that to come earlier would be useless, for she could not get her daughters up.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000004_000004|Strictly speaking, Lady Augusta did not personally try to get them up, for she generally lay in bed herself.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000005_000000|"That is one of the habits I must alter in the children," thought Constance.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000006_000000|She entered, took off her things in the room appropriated to her, and passed into the schoolroom.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000006_000001|It was empty, though the children ought to have been there, preparing their lessons.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000006_000002|Fanny came running in, her hair in curl papers, some bread and butter in her hand.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000007_000000|"Carry has not finished her breakfast, Miss Channing," quoth she.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000007_000001|"She was lazy this morning!"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000008_000001|"Why did you come down half dressed, my dear?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000009_000000|"I am quite dressed," responded Fanny.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000009_000001|"My frock's on, and so is my pinafore."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000010_000000|"And these?" said Constance, touching the curl papers.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000011_000000|"Oh, Martha got up late, and said she had no time to take them out.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000011_000001|It will keep in curl all the better, Miss Channing; and perhaps I am going to the missionary meeting with mamma."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000012_000000|Constance rang the bell.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000012_000002|Lady Augusta was wont to say that she had too much expense with her boys to keep many servants; and the argument was a true one.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000013_000000|"Be so kind as to take the papers out of Miss Fanny's hair.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000013_000001|And let it be done in future, Martha, before she comes to me."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000014_000000|Gently as the words were spoken, there was no mistaking that the tone was one of authority, and not to be trifled with.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000014_000001|Martha withdrew with the child.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000014_000002|And, just then, Caroline came in, full of eagerness.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000015_000000|"Miss Channing, mamma says she shall take one of us to the missionary meeting, whichever you choose to fix upon.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000015_000001|Mind you fix upon me!
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000015_000003|She is too young to go."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000016_000000|"It is expected to be a very interesting meeting," observed Constance, making no reply to Miss Caroline's special request.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000016_000001|"A gentleman who has lived for some years amongst the poor heathens is to give a history of his personal experiences.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000016_000002|Some of the anecdotes are beautiful."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000017_000000|"Who told you they were?" asked Caroline.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000018_000000|"mr Yorke," replied Constance, a pretty blush rising to her cheek.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000018_000001|"He knows the lecturer well.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000018_000002|You would be pleased to hear them."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000019_000000|"It is not for that I wish to go," said Caroline.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000020_000000|"Then why do you wish so much to attend this one?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000021_000000|"Because I shall wear my new dress.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000021_000001|I have not had it on yet.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000021_000003|I was in such a passion."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000022_000000|Constance wondered where she should begin.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000022_000001|There was so much to do; so much to alter in so many ways.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000022_000002|To set to work abruptly would never answer.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000022_000003|It must be commenced gradually, almost imperceptibly, little by little.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000023_000000|"Caroline, do you know that you have disobeyed me?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000024_000000|"In what way, Miss Channing?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000025_000000|"Did I not request you to have that exercise written out?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000026_000000|"I know," said Caroline, with some contrition.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000026_000001|"I intended to write it out this morning before you came; but somehow I lay in bed."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000027_000000|"If I were to come to you every morning at seven o'clock, would you undertake to get up and be ready for me?" asked Constance.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000028_000000|Caroline drew a long face.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000028_000001|She did not speak.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000029_000000|"My dear, you are fifteen."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000030_000000|"Well?" responded Caroline.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000031_000001|Deficient in many ways, Caroline: in goodness, in thoughtfulness, and in other desirable qualities; and greatly so in education.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000031_000002|Annabel, who is a year younger than you, is twice as advanced."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000032_000000|"Annabel says you worry her into learning."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000033_000000|"Annabel is fond of talking nonsense; but she is a good, loving child at heart.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000034_000000|Caroline burst into tears.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000034_000001|"I should do better if mamma were not so cross with me, Miss Channing.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000034_000002|I always do anything that William Yorke asks me; and I will do anything for you."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000035_000000|Constance kissed her.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000035_000001|"Then will you begin by rising early, and being ready for me at seven?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000036_000000|"Yes, I will," answered Caroline.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000037_000000|"Of course not," said Constance.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000037_000001|"My time now belongs to you."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000038_000001|She said something about it."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000039_000000|"Does she?
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000039_000001|I should very much like to go."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000040_000000|Lady Augusta came in and proffered the invitation to Constance to accompany them.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000040_000001|Constance then spoke of giving the children the extra two hours, from seven to nine: it was really necessary, she said, if she was to do her duty by them.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000041_000000|"How very conscientious you are!" laughed Lady Augusta, her tone savouring of ridicule.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000042_000000|Constance coloured almost to tears with her emotion.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000042_000001|"I am responsible to One always, Lady Augusta.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000042_000002|I may not make mine only eye service."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000043_000000|"You will never put up with our scrambling breakfast, Miss Channing.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000043_000001|The boys are so unruly; and I do not get up to it half my time."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000044_000001|I should prefer to do so.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000044_000002|And I will be here again at ten."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000045_000000|"Whatever time do you get up?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000046_000000|"Not very early," answered Constance.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000046_000001|"Hitherto I have risen at seven, summer and winter.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000046_000002|Dressing and reading takes me just an hour; for the other hour I find plenty of occupation.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000046_000003|We do not breakfast until nine, on account of Tom and Charley.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000046_000004|I shall rise at six now, and come here at seven."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000047_000000|"Very well," said Lady Augusta.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000047_000001|"I suppose this will only apply to the summer months.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000047_000002|One of the girls shall go with us to day; whichever deserves it best."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000048_000000|"You are not leaving one of them at home to make room for me, I hope, Lady Augusta?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000049_000002|People might say they took up the room of grown up persons."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000051_000000|"No," said Caroline, sharply; "Miss Channing will fix upon me."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000052_000000|"I shall obey Lady Augusta, and decide upon the one who shall best merit it," smiled Constance.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000052_000001|"It will be only right to do so."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000053_000000|"Suppose we are both good, and merit it equally?" suggested Fanny.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000055_000000|Alas for poor Caroline's resolution!
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000055_000002|Not only idleness, temper also.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000056_000000|"How shall you get on with them, Constance?" the Rev.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000056_000002|"Have the weeds destroyed the good seed?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000057_000000|"Not quite destroyed it," replied Constance, though she sighed sadly as she spoke, as if nearly losing heart for the task she had undertaken. "There is so much ill to undo.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000057_000002|I think, perhaps, if I could keep her wholly with me for a twelvemonth or so, watching over her constantly, a great deal might be effected."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000059_000001|"Do not be impatient, or it will seem to be further off still.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000060_000000|They had been speaking in an undertone, standing together at a window, apart from the rest.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000060_000001|mr Channing was lying on his sofa underneath the other window, and now spoke to mr Yorke.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000061_000000|"You had a treat, I hear, at the meeting to day?"
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000062_000000|"We had, indeed, sir," replied mr Yorke, advancing to take a seat near him.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000062_000001|"It is not often we have the privilege of listening to so eloquent a speaker as dr Lamb.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000062_000002|His experience is great, and his whole heart was in his subject.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000062_000003|I should like to bring him here to call upon you."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000064_000000|"I think it is possible that his experience in another line may be of service to you," continued mr Yorke.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000065_000000|"I have heard so."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000066_000000|"His complaint was rheumatism, very much, as I fancy, the same sort of rheumatism that afflicts you.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000066_000001|He told me he came to Europe with very little hope: he feared his complaint had become chronic and incurable. But he has been restored in a wonderful manner, and is in sound health again."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000067_000000|"And what remedies did he use?" eagerly asked mr Channing.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000068_000000|"A three months' residence at some medicinal springs in Germany.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000068_000001|Nothing else.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000068_000003|It is the very thing, you see, sir, that has been ordered for you."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000070_000000|"I was mentioning your case to him," observed mr Yorke.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000070_000002|He is a doctor, you know.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000071_000000|At that moment mr Galloway entered: the subject was continued.
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000072_000001|"Think of all that is at stake!
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000072_000002|Renewed health, exertion, happiness!
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000072_000003|Arthur, you did not urge it by a single word."
train-clean-100/8609/262281/8609_262281_000073_000001|Hamish and his difficulties were the dark shadow; though he could not tell this to mr Yorke.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000001_000001|So little seemed to fall to the duty of the churchwarden that I regarded the neglect as a trifle, and was remiss in setting it right.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000001_000002|I had, therefore, to suffer, as was just.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000001_000003|Indeed, Mr Brownrigg was not the man to have power in his hands unchecked.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000002_000000|I had so far recovered that I was able to rise about noon and go into my study, though I was very weak, and had not yet been out, when one morning Mrs Pearson came into the room and said,--
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000005_000000|"Oh, sir, I know you would be vexed if you hadn't been told," he exclaimed, "and I am sure you will not be angry with me for troubling you."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000006_000000|"What is the matter, Tom?" I said.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000006_000001|"I assure you I shall not be angry with you."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000008_000000|"What church rate?" I cried, starting up from the sofa.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000008_000001|"I never heard of a church rate."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000009_000000|Now, before I go farther, it is necessary to explain some things.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000009_000002|I confess I was rather pleased; for I wanted my people to feel that the church was their property, and that it was their privilege, if they could regard it as a blessing to have the church, to keep it in decent order and repair.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000009_000004|But Mr Brownrigg, who, I must say, had taken more pains than might have been expected of him to make himself acquainted with the legalities of his office, did not fail to call a vestry, to which, as usual, no one had responded; whereupon he imposed a rate according to his own unaided judgment.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000009_000005|This, I believe, he did during my illness, with the notion of pleasing me by the discovery that the repairs had been already effected according to my mind.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000009_000006|Nor did any one of my congregation throw the least difficulty in the churchwarden's way.--And now I must refer to another circumstance in the history of my parish.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000000|I think I have already alluded to the fact that there were Dissenters in Marshmallows.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000001|There was a little chapel down a lane leading from the main street of the village, in which there was service three times every Sunday.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000002|People came to it from many parts of the parish, amongst whom were the families of two or three farmers of substance, while the village and its neighbourhood contributed a portion of the poorest of the inhabitants.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000003|A year or two before I came, their minister died, and they had chosen another, a very worthy man, of considerable erudition, but of extreme views, as I heard, upon insignificant points, and moved by a great dislike to national churches and episcopacy.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000004|This, I say, is what I had made out about him from what I had heard; and my reader will very probably be inclined to ask, "But why, with principles such as yours, should you have only hearsay to go upon?
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000005|Why did you not make the honest man's acquaintance?
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000010_000007|I daresay, likewise, that the natural SHELLINESS of the English had something to do with it.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000011_000001|The porcine head of the churchwarden was not on his shoulders by accident, nor without significance.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000012_000000|But I did not wait to understand all this now.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000012_000001|It was enough for me that Tom bore witness to the fact that at that moment proceedings were thus driven to extremity.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000012_000002|I rang the bell for my boots, and, to the open mouthed dismay of Mrs Pearson, left the vicarage leaning on Tom's arm.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000012_000004|Hurrying on in more terror than I can well express lest I should be too late, I reached Mr Templeton's house just as a small mahogany table was being hoisted into a spring cart which stood at the door.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000013_000000|"Put that table down directly."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000015_000001|"But, bless my soul, how ill you look!"
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000016_000000|Without answering him-for I was more angry with him than I ought to have been-I repeated-
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000017_000000|"Put that table down, I tell you."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000018_000000|They did so.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000019_000000|"Now," I said, "carry it back into the house."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000021_000000|"Yes," I said, "as right as the devil would have it."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000022_000000|"I assure you, sir, I have done everything according to law."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000023_000000|"I'm not so sure of that.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000025_000000|"I did not think you would stand upon ceremony about it, sir.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000025_000001|You never seemed to care for business."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000027_000000|"I didn't expect you would turn against your own churchwarden in the execution of his duty, sir," he said in an offended tone.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000028_000000|"I would have paid the church rate for the whole parish ten times over before such a thing should have happened.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000029_000000|"It's my property, now," interposed the broker.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000030_000000|I turned to Mr Brownrigg.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000032_000000|"Twenty shillings," returned he, sulkily, "and it won't pay expenses."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000033_000000|"Twenty shillings!" I exclaimed; "for a table that cost three times as much at least!--What do you expect to sell it for?"
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000034_000000|"That's my business," answered the broker.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000036_000000|"FIFTY PER CENT. will be, I think, profit enough even on such a transaction."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000037_000000|"I did not offer you the table," returned the broker.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000037_000001|"I am not bound to sell except I please, and at my own price."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000038_000000|"Possibly.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000038_000003|I assure you I will prosecute you myself.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000038_000004|You take up that money, or I will.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000038_000005|It will go to pay counsel, I give you my word, if you do not take it to quench strife."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000047_000001|I have-"
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000003|Are there not countless modes of saying the truth?
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000004|You have some of them.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000005|I hope I have some.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000006|People will hear you who will not hear me.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000007|Preach to them in the name and love of God, Mr Templeton.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000008|Speak that you do know and testify that you have seen.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000095_000009|You and I will help each other, in proportion as we serve the Master.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000097_000000|"If people could only meet, and look each other in the face," said Mr Templeton at length, "they might find there was not such a gulf between them as they had fancied."
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000098_000000|And so we parted.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000099_000000|Now I do not write all this for the sake of the church rate question.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000099_000001|I write it to commemorate the spirit in which Mr Templeton met me.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000100_000000|After this Mr Templeton and I found some opportunities of helping each other.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000100_000002|Once he came to me about a legal difficulty in connexion with the deed of trust of his chapel; and although I could not help him myself, I directed him to such help as was thorough and cost him nothing.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000101_000000|I need not say he never became a churchman, or that I never expected he would.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000101_000002|The Church was his grandmother, not his mother, and he had not made any acquaintance with her till comparatively late in life.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000103_000000|It was long before another church rate was levied in Marshmallows.
train-clean-100/8609/283227/8609_283227_000103_000002|But, having heard of it, he called himself upon the churchwarden-Mr Brownrigg still-and offered the money cheerfully.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000008_000000|It was the last day of the inquest, and to many it bade fair to be the least interesting.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000008_000002|But as these faces were those of Agnes Halliday and Amabel Page, he soon recognised that his own judgment was not at fault, and that notwithstanding outward appearances and the languid interest shown in the now lagging proceedings, the moment presaged an event full of unseen but vital consequence.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000010_000000|Next moment the door opened, and Frederick and his father came in.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000010_000002|What did it mean?
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000010_000003|Sweetwater, noting it, and the vivid contrast it offered to Frederick's air of depression, felt that his return had been well timed.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000014_000002|But no man can furnish what he does not possess, and the few final minutes before noon passed by without any addition being made to the facts which had already been presented for general consideration.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000015_000000|As the witness sat down the clock began to strike.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000015_000001|As the slow, hesitating strokes rang out, Sweetwater saw Frederick yield to a sudden but most profound emotion.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000015_000002|The old fear, which we understand, if Sweetwater did not, had again seized the victim of Amabel's ambition, and under her eye, which was blazing full upon him now with a fell and steady purpose, he found his right hand stealing toward the left in the significant action she expected.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000015_000003|Better to yield than fall headlong into the pit one word of hers would open.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000015_000004|He had not meant to yield, but now that the moment had come, now that he must at once and forever choose between a course that led simply to personal unhappiness and one that involved not only himself, but those dearest to him, in disgrace and sorrow, he felt himself weaken to the point of clutching at whatever would save him from the consequences of confession.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000015_000005|Moral strength and that tenacity of purpose which only comes from years of self control were too lately awakened in his breast to sustain him now.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000017_000000|"Let me be put on my oath.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000018_000000|The coroner was astounded; everyone was astounded.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000018_000001|No one had expected anything from him, and instinctively every eye turned towards Amabel to see how she was affected by his action.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000021_000001|mr Frederick Sutherland, will you take the stand?"
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000023_000000|"Go!" he whispered, but in so thrilling a tone it was heard to the remotest corner of the room.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000023_000002|I could not bear it.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000023_000003|You could not bear it. Later, if you will wait for me in one of these rooms, I will repeat my tale in your ears, but go now.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000023_000004|It is my last entreaty."
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000024_000000|There was a silence; no one ventured a dissent, no one so much as made a gesture of disapproval.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000024_000001|Then mr Sutherland struggled to his feet, cast one last look around him, and disappeared through a door which had opened like magic before him.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000024_000002|Then and not till then did Frederick move forward.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000025_000000|The moment was intense.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000026_000000|"I have obtruded myself into this inquiry and now ask to be heard by this jury, because no man knows more than I do of the manner and cause of Agatha Webb's death.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000027_000000|It was more, infinitely more, than anyone there had expected.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000029_000002|dr Talbot, and you, gentlemen of the jury, in the face of God and man, I here declare that mrs Webb, in my presence and before my eyes, gave to herself the blow which has robbed us all of a most valuable life.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000029_000003|She was not murdered."
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000030_000000|It was a solemn assertion, but it failed to convince the crowd before him.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000030_000001|As by one impulse men and women broke into a tumult.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000030_000003|She was too good!
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000030_000004|It's all calumny!
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000031_000000|"I have made an assertion," said he, "before God and before this jury. To make it seem a credible one I shall have to tell my own story from the beginning.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000031_000001|Am I allowed to do so, mr Coroner?"
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000032_000000|"You are," was the firm response.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000033_000002|Why, then, I should have thought of going to her in the great strait in which I found myself on that day, I cannot say.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000033_000004|Still, this would not seem to be reason enough for me to intrude upon her late at night with a plea for a large loan of money, had I not been in a desperate condition of mind, which made any attempt seem reasonable that promised relief from the unendurable burden of a pressing and disreputable debt.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000033_000006|Miss Page, who will, I am sure, pardon the introduction of her name into this narrative, has taken pains to declare to you that in the expedition she herself made into town that evening, she followed some person's steps down hill.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000033_000007|This is very likely true, and those steps were probably mine, for after leaving the house by the garden door, I came directly down the main road to the corner of the lane running past mrs Webb's cottage.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000033_000008|Having already seen from the hillside the light burning in her upper windows, I felt encouraged to proceed, and so hastened on till I came to the gate on High Street.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000034_000000|"I had expected to find a jovial group of friends in her little ground parlour, or at least to hear the sound of merry voices and laughter in the rooms above; but no sounds of any sort awaited me; indeed the house seemed strangely silent for one so fully lighted, and, astonished at this, I pushed the door ajar at my left and looked in.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000034_000001|An unexpected and pitiful sight awaited me.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000034_000002|Seated at a table set with abundance of untasted food, I saw the master of the house with his head sunk forward on his arms, asleep.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000034_000003|The expected guests had failed to arrive, and he, tired out with waiting, had fallen into a doze at the board.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000035_000000|"This was a condition of things for which I was not prepared.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000035_000003|Yet how could I hope to lure her down stairs without noise?
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000037_000000|"'No, no, Frederick!
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000037_000001|You don't know what you are doing.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000037_000002|If you want my money, take it; if you want my life, I will give it to you with my own hand.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000037_000003|Don't stain yours-don't-'
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000038_000000|"I did not understand her.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000039_000000|"'Give, then!
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000039_000001|I want hundreds-thousands-now, now, to save myself! Disgrace, shame, prison await me if I don't have them.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000039_000003|Her blood and Batsy's shriek from the adjoining room swam through my consciousness, and then she fell, as I supposed, dead upon the floor, and I, in scarcely better case, fell also.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000040_000000|"This, as God lives, is the truth concerning the wound found in the breast of this never to be forgotten woman."
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000043_000000|"Must have fallen when we did, for I never heard her voice after the first scream.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000043_000001|But I shall speak of her again.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000043_000003|When I came to myself, and that must have been very soon, I found that the blow of which I had been such a horrified witness had not yet proved fatal.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000043_000004|The eyes I had seen close, as I had supposed, forever, were now open, and she was looking at me with a smile that has never left my memory, and never will.
train-clean-100/8629/261139/8629_261139_000044_000004|Take them and let them pave your way to a better life.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000002_000000|Impossible!
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000002_000001|Incredible!
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000003_000001|But there was no outburst.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000003_000003|Seeing this, and realising his opportunity, Frederick at once entered into the explanations for which each heart there panted.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000004_000000|"This will be overwhelming news to him who has cared for me since infancy.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000004_000001|You have heard him call me son; with what words shall I overthrow his confidence in the truth and rectitude of his long buried wife and make him know in his old age that he has wasted years of patience upon one who was not of his blood or lineage?
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000004_000002|The wonder, the incredulity you manifest are my best excuse for my long delay in revealing the secret entrusted to me by this dying woman."
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000005_000000|An awed silence greeted these words.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000006_000000|Frederick's voice broke as he proceeded in his self imposed task.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000007_000000|"The astounding fact which I have just communicated to you was made known by my mother, with the dagger still plunged in her breast.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000007_000001|She would not let me draw it out.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000007_000004|I knelt before her in anguish.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000008_000000|"It is a sacred story to me, and if you must know it, let it be from her own words in the letters she left behind her.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000008_000003|Finally, she gave me a key, and pointing out where the money lay hidden, bade me carry it away as her last gift, together with the package of letters I would find with it.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000008_000006|I promised, and with perfect peace in her face, she pointed to the dagger in her breast.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000009_000004|Then I lifted her and laid her where you found her, on the sofa.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000011_000000|"Oh, the fairy tale!"
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000015_000000|"When I left my dead mother's side I was in such a state of mind that I passed with scarcely so much as a glance the room where my new found father sat sleeping.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000015_000003|But I did not turn away.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000017_000001|This feeling was shared by others, and a reaction set in in Frederick's favour, which even affected the officials who were conducting the inquiry.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000018_000000|Of the questions and answers which now passed between him and the various members of the jury I need give no account.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000019_000004|For, however other people might feel, she did not for a moment believe his story.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000019_000005|She had not a pure enough heart to do so.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000019_000006|To her all self sacrifice was an anomaly.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000019_000007|No woman of the mental or physical strength of Agatha Webb would plant a dagger in her own breast just to prevent another person from committing a crime, were he lover, husband, or son.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000019_000009|Yet how thrilling it had been to hear him plead his cause so well!
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000019_000010|It was almost worth the loss of her revenge to meet his look of hate, and dream of the possibility of turning it later into the old look of love.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000020_000002|She must let impulse have its way.
train-clean-100/8629/261140/8629_261140_000021_000000|Happily, she took the right stand at first.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000002_000001|The want of principle and of honour in most of them disgusted him in his better moments; nevertheless he was content to enjoy himself in their company.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000002_000002|He was even ashamed, when they boasted of their misdoings, to seem more innocent than they, and would pretend to be worse than he really was, lest his prestige should suffer in their eyes.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000002_000003|There were moments when he loathed it all, and longed for the old life, with its innocent pleasures; but it is hard to turn back on the downhill road.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000003_000000|He tells us how he went one night with a band of these wild companions to rob the fruit tree of a poor neighbour.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000003_000001|It was laden with pears, but they were not very good; they did not care to eat them, and threw them to the pigs.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000003_000002|It was not schoolboy greed that prompted the theft, but the pure delight of doing evil, of tricking the owner of the garden.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000003_000003|There was the wild excitement, too, of the daring; the fear that they might be caught in the act.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000003_000004|He was careful to keep such escapades a secret from his mother, but Monica was uneasy, knowing what might be expected from the companions her son had chosen.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000004_000000|Patricius was altogether unable to give Augustine the help that he needed.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000004_000001|The Christian ideals of life and conduct were new to him as yet; the old pagan ways seemed only natural.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000004_000002|He was scarcely likely to be astonished at the fact that his son's boyhood was rather like what his own had been.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000004_000003|He was standing, it is true, on the threshold of the Church, but her teaching was not yet clear to him.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000004_000004|His own feet were not firm enough in the ways of Christ to enable him to stretch a steadying hand to another.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000005_000000|His mother was failing fast; the end could not be far off.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000005_000001|Monica was devoting herself heart and soul to the old woman, who clung to her with tender affection, and was never happy in her absence.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000000|Patricius watched them together, and marvelled at the effects of the grace of Baptism.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000001|Was that indeed his mother, he asked himself, that gentle, patient old woman, so thoughtful for others, so ready to give up her own will?
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000002|She had used to be violent and headstrong like himself, resentful and implacable in her dislikes, but now she was more like Monica than like him.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000003|That was Monica's way, though; her sweetness and patience seemed to be catching.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000004|She was like the sunshine, penetrating everywhere with its light and warmth.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000006|Catechumen though he was, the old temper would often flash out still.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000007|Self conquest was the hardest task that he had ever undertaken, and sometimes he almost lost heart, and was inclined to give it up altogether.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000008|Then Monica would gently remind him that with God's help the hardest things were possible, and they would kneel and pray together, and Patricius would take heart again for the fight.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000009|She had a wonderful gift for giving people courage; Patricius had noticed that before.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000010|He supposed it was because she was so full of sympathy, and always made allowances.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000011|And then she seemed to think-to be sure, even-that if one went on trying, failures did not matter, God did not mind them; and that was a very comforting reflection for poor weak people like himself.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000006_000012|To go on trying was possible even for him, although he knew he could not always promise himself success.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000007_000001|All his efforts had not succeeded in saving the sum required for his first year at Carthage.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000007_000002|He had discovered that it would cost a good deal more than he had at first supposed, and it was difficult to see where the money was to come from.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000008_000000|It was at this moment that Romanianus, a wealthy and honourable citizen of Tagaste, who knew the poverty of his friend, came forward generously and put his purse at Patricius's disposal.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000008_000001|The sum required was offered with such delicacy that it could not be declined.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000008_000002|Augustine was sure to bring glory on his native town, said Romanianus; it was an honour to be allowed to help in his education.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000009_000000|Monica was almost glad to see her son depart.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000009_000001|The old boyish laziness had given way to a real zeal for learning and thirst after knowledge. The idle life at home was certainly the worst thing for him.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000009_000002|Hard work and the pursuit of wisdom might steady his wild nature and bring him back to God.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000009_000003|It was her only hope now, as with prayers and tears she besought of Him to watch over her son.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000010_000000|But Monica did not know Carthage.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000010_000001|If it was second only to Rome for its culture and its schools, it almost rivalled Rome in its corruption.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000010_000003|The bloody combats between men and beasts, the gladiatorial shows that delighted the romans, were free to all who chose to frequent the amphitheatre of Carthage.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000010_000004|Such plays as the romans delighted in, impossible to describe, were acted in the theatre.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000011_000000|There was neither discipline nor order in the schools.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000011_000001|The wealthier students gloried in their bad reputation.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000011_000002|They were young men of fashion who were capable of anything, and who were careful to let others know it.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000011_000003|They went by the name of "smashers" or "upsetters," from their habit of raiding the schools of professors whose teaching they did not approve, and breaking everything on which they could lay hands.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000011_000004|They treated new comers with coarse brutality, but Augustine seems in some manner to have escaped their enmity.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000011_000005|Perhaps a certain dignity in the young man's bearing, or perhaps his brilliant gifts, won their respect, for he surpassed them all in intelligence, and speedily outstripped them in class.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000012_000000|Augustine was eager for knowledge and eager for enjoyment.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000012_000002|"My God," he cried in later years, "with what bitter gall didst Thou in Thy great mercy sprinkle those pleasures of mine!" He could not forget; and at Tagaste his mother was weeping and praying for her son.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000000|Patricius prayed with her; he understood at last.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000001|Every day the germs of a noble nature that had lain so long dormant within him were gaining strength and life.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000002|Every day his soul was opening more and more to the understanding of spiritual things, while Monica watched the transformation with a heart that overflowed with gratitude and love.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000003|The sorrows of the past were all forgotten in the joy of the present, that happy union at the feet of Christ.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000004|There was but one cause for sadness-Patricius's health was failing.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000005|His mother had already shown him the joys of a Christian deathbed.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000006|She had passed away smiling, with their hands in hers, and the name of Jesus on her lips.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000007|The beautiful prayers of the Church had gone down with the departing soul to the threshold of the new life, and had followed it into eternity.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000013_000008|She seemed close to them still in the light of that wonderful new Faith, and to be waiting for them in their everlasting home.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000014_000000|But Monica's happiness was to be short-lived, for it seemed that Patricius would soon rejoin his mother.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000014_000001|He did not deceive himself. He spoke of his approaching death to Monica, and asked her to help him to make a worthy preparation for Baptism, which he desired to receive as soon as possible.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000014_000002|With the simplicity and trustfulness of a child, he looked to her for guidance, and did all that she desired.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000000|The ceremony over, he turned to his wife and smiled.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000001|A wonderful peace possessed him.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000002|The old life, with all its stains, had passed from him in those cleansing waters; the new life was at hand.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000003|Once more he asked her to forgive him all the pain he had caused her, all that he had made her suffer.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000004|No, she must not grieve, he told her; the parting would be but for a little while, the meeting for all eternity.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000005|She had been his angel, he said; he owed all his joy to her.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000006|It was her love, her patience, that had done it all.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000007|She had shown him the beauty of goodness and made him love it.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000008|He thanked her for all that she had been to him, all that she had shown him, all that she had done for him.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000015_000009|Her tears fell on his face, her loving arms supported him; her sweet voice, broken with weeping, spoke words of hope and comfort.
train-clean-100/8630/305212/8630_305212_000016_000000|On the threshold of that other world Monica bade farewell to her husband, and one more soul that she had won for Christ went out into a glorious eternity.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000002_000001|MONICA LIVED IN THE DAYS OF HER WIDOWHOOD, AND HOW SHE PUT ALL HER TRUST IN GOD
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000003_000000|Patricius had not much in the way of worldly goods to leave to his wife.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000003_000001|She needed little, it is true, for herself, but there was Augustine.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000003_000002|Would it be possible for her, even if she practised the strictest economy, to keep him at Carthage, where he was doing so well?
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000000|Romanianus divined her anxiety, and hastened to set it at rest.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000002|This would settle the question of lodging.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000003|For the rest, continued Romanianus, as an old friend of Patricius he had the right to befriend his son, and Monica must grant him the privilege of acting a father's part to Augustine until he was fairly launched in life.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000004|He had a child of his own, a young son called Licentius.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000005|If Monica would befriend his boy, they would be quits.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000006|The gratitude of both mother and son towards this generous friend and benefactor lasted throughout their lives.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000004_000007|Licentius was to feel its effects more than once.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000005_000000|"You it was, Romanianus," wrote Augustine in his Confessions, "who, when I was a poor young student in Carthage, opened to me your house, your purse, and still more your heart.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000005_000001|You it was who, when I had the sorrow to lose my father, comforted me by your friendship, helped me with your advice, and assisted me with your fortune."
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000006_000002|There were certain good works which the Church gave to Christian widows to perform.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000006_000003|The hospitals, for instance, were entirely in their hands. They were small as yet, built according to the needs of the moment from the funds of the faithful, and held but few patients.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000006_000004|These devoted women succeeded each other at intervals in their task of washing and attending to the sick, watching by their beds and cleaning their rooms.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000007_000000|It was a happy moment for Monica when her turn came to serve the sick.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000007_000001|She would kiss their sores for very pity as she washed and dressed them, and their faces grew bright at her coming.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000007_000002|They called her "mother."
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000007_000003|It seemed such a natural name to give her, for she was a mother to them all, and gave them a mother's love.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000007_000004|To some of the poor creatures, friendless slaves as they often were, who had known little sympathy or tenderness in their hard lives, it was a revelation of Christianity which taught them more than hours of preaching could have done.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000008_000000|But there was other work besides that at the hospital.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000008_000001|There were the poor to be helped, the hungry to be fed, the naked to be clothed.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000008_000002|She would gather the orphan children at her knee to teach them the truths of their Faith.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000008_000003|When they were very poor, she would keep them in her own house, feed them at her own table, and clothe them with her own hands.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000008_000004|"If I am a mother to these motherless ones," she would say to herself, "He will have mercy and give me back my boy; if I teach them to know and love Him as a Father, He will watch over my son."
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000009_000000|It was a custom of the time on the feasts of saints and martyrs to make a pilgrimage to their tombs, with a little basket of food and wine.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000009_000001|This was laid on the grave, after which the faithful would partake of what they had brought, while they thought and spoke of the noble lives of God's servants who had gone before.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000009_000002|The custom was abolished not long after on account of the abuses which had arisen, but Monica observed it to the end.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000009_000003|She scarcely tasted of her offering herself, but gave it all away to the poor.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000009_000004|Often, indeed, she went cold and hungry that they might be clothed and fed.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000000|Her love of prayer, too, could now find full scope.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000001|Every morning found her in her place in church for the Holy Sacrifice; every evening she was there again, silent, absorbed in God.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000002|The place where she knelt was often wet with her tears; the time passed by unheeded. Patricius, her husband, was safe in God's hands; but Augustine, her eldest born, her darling, in what dark paths was he wandering?
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000003|And yet in her heart of hearts there was a deep conviction that no sad news of his life at Carthage could shake.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000004|His was not the nature to find contentment in the things of earth.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000005|He was born to something higher.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000010_000006|His noble heart, his strong intelligence, would bring him back to God.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000000|And yet, and yet ... her heart sank as she thought of graces wasted, of conscience trampled underfoot, of light rejected.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000001|No, there was no hope anywhere but with God.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000002|In Him she would trust, and in Him alone. He was infinite in mercy, and strong to save.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000003|He had promised that He would never fail those who put their trust in Him.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000004|At His feet, and at His feet alone, Monica poured out her tears and her sorrow.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000005|With others she was serene and hopeful as of old, even joyous, always ready to help and comfort.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000011_000006|It was said of her after her death that no one had such a gift of helping others as she.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000000|Augustine, meanwhile, at Carthage, was justifying all the hopes that had been formed of him.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000001|He had even greater gifts, it seemed, than eloquence, feeling, and wit.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000002|He was at the head of his class in rhetoric.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000003|His master had spoken to him of a certain treatise of Aristotle which he would soon be called upon to study.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000004|It was so profound, he said, that few could understand it, even with the help of the most learned professors.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000005|Augustine, eager to make acquaintance with this wonderful work, procured it at once and read it.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000012_000006|It seemed to him perfectly simple; it was unnecessary, he found, to ask a single explanation.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000013_000000|It was the same with geometry, music, every science he took up.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000013_000001|This young genius of nineteen only discovered there were difficulties in the way when he had to teach others, and realized how hard it was to make them understand what was so exceedingly simple to himself.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000014_000000|There was something strangely sympathetic and attractive about Augustine.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000014_000002|He had a gift of making true and faithful friends, a charm in conversation that drew his young companions and even older men to his side.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000015_000000|A more worldly mother than Monica would have been thoroughly proud of her son.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000015_000001|Faith and virtue were alone weak and faint in that soul that could so ill do without them; but to her they were the one essential thing; the rest did not matter.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000017_000000|"One thing cooled my ardour," he goes on to say; "it was that the Name of Christ was not there, and this Name, by Thy mercy, Lord, of Thy Son, my Saviour, my heart had drawn in with my mother's milk, and kept in its depths, and every doctrine where this Name did not appear, fluent, elegant, and truth like though it might be, could not master me altogether."
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000018_000000|He then turned to the Holy Scriptures, but they appeared to him inferior in style to Cicero.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000018_000001|"My pride," he writes, "despised the manner in which the things are said, and my intelligence could not discover the hidden sense.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000019_000000|It was at this moment that he came in contact with the Manicheans, whose errors attracted him at once.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000019_000001|This extraordinary heresy had begun in the East, and had spread all over the civilized world.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000019_000002|Its followers formed a secret society, with signs and passwords, grades and initiations.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000019_000003|To impose on Christians they used Christian words for doctrines that were thoroughly unchristian.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000020_000000|Perhaps the most remarkable thing about them was their hatred of the Church.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000020_000001|Augustine, who remained amongst them for nine years, thus describes them when writing to a friend:
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000021_000000|"Thou knowest, Honoratus, that for this reason alone did we fall into the hands of these men-namely, that they professed to free us from all errors, and bring us to God by pure reason alone, without that terrible principle of authority.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000021_000001|For what else induced me to abandon the faith of my childhood and follow these men for almost nine years, but their assertion that we were terrified by superstition into a faith blindly imposed upon our reason, while they urged no one to believe until the truth was fully discussed and proved?
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000021_000002|Who would not be seduced by such promises, especially if he were a proud, contentious young man, thirsting for truth, such as they then found me?"
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000022_000000|That was what the Manicheans promised.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000023_000000|"They incessantly repeated to me, 'Truth, truth,' but there was no truth in them.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000024_000000|So much for their doctrines; as for the teachers themselves, he found them "carnal and loquacious, full of insane pride."
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000025_000000|The great charm of Manicheism to Augustine was that it taught that a man was not responsible for his sins.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000025_000001|This doctrine was convenient to one who could not find the strength to break with his bad habits.
train-clean-100/8630/305213/8630_305213_000026_000000|"Such was my mind," he sums up later, looking back on this period of his life, "so weighed down, so blinded by the flesh, that I was myself unknown to myself."
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000007_000000|Song that as greatly doth transcend our Muses, Our Sirens, in those dulcet clarions, As primal splendour that which is reflected.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000008_000000|And as are spanned athwart a tender cloud Two rainbows parallel and like in colour, When Juno to her handmaid gives command,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000010_000000|And make the people here, through covenant God set with Noah, presageful of the world That shall no more be covered with a flood,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000011_000000|In such wise of those sempiternal roses The garlands twain encompassed us about, And thus the outer to the inner answered.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000012_000000|After the dance, and other grand rejoicings, Both of the singing, and the flaming forth Effulgence with effulgence blithe and tender,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000013_000000|Together, at once, with one accord had stopped, (Even as the eyes, that, as volition moves them, Must needs together shut and lift themselves,)
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000014_000000|Out of the heart of one of the new lights There came a voice, that needle to the star Made me appear in turning thitherward.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000015_000000|And it began: "The love that makes me fair Draws me to speak about the other leader, By whom so well is spoken here of mine.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000016_000000|'tis right, where one is, to bring in the other, That, as they were united in their warfare, Together likewise may their glory shine.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000017_000000|The soldiery of Christ, which it had cost So dear to arm again, behind the standard Moved slow and doubtful and in numbers few,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000018_000000|When the Emperor who reigneth evermore Provided for the host that was in peril, Through grace alone and not that it was worthy;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000019_000000|And, as was said, he to his Bride brought succour With champions twain, at whose deed, at whose word The straggling people were together drawn.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000020_000000|Within that region where the sweet west wind Rises to open the new leaves, wherewith Europe is seen to clothe herself afresh,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000021_000000|Not far off from the beating of the waves, Behind which in his long career the sun Sometimes conceals himself from every man,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000022_000000|Is situate the fortunate Calahorra, Under protection of the mighty shield In which the Lion subject is and sovereign.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000024_000000|And when it was created was his mind Replete with such a living energy, That in his mother her it made prophetic.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000025_000000|As soon as the espousals were complete Between him and the Faith at holy font, Where they with mutual safety dowered each other,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000027_000000|And that he might be construed as he was, A spirit from this place went forth to name him With His possessive whose he wholly was.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000028_000000|Dominic was he called; and him I speak of Even as of the husbandman whom Christ Elected to his garden to assist him.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000029_000000|Envoy and servant sooth he seemed of Christ, For the first love made manifest in him Was the first counsel that was given by Christ.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000030_000000|Silent and wakeful many a time was he Discovered by his nurse upon the ground, As if he would have said, 'For this I came.'
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000031_000000|O thou his father, Felix verily! O thou his mother, verily Joanna, If this, interpreted, means as is said!
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000033_000000|He in short time became so great a teacher, That he began to go about the vineyard, Which fadeth soon, if faithless be the dresser;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000035_000000|Not to dispense or two or three for six, Not any fortune of first vacancy, 'Non decimas quae sunt pauperum Dei,'
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000036_000000|He asked for, but against the errant world Permission to do battle for the seed, Of which these four and twenty plants surround thee.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000037_000000|Then with the doctrine and the will together, With office apostolical he moved, Like torrent which some lofty vein out presses;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000038_000000|And in among the shoots heretical His impetus with greater fury smote, Wherever the resistance was the greatest.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000039_000000|Of him were made thereafter divers runnels, Whereby the garden catholic is watered, So that more living its plantations stand.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000042_000000|But still the orbit, which the highest part Of its circumference made, is derelict, So that the mould is where was once the crust.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000043_000000|His family, that had straight forward moved With feet upon his footprints, are turned round So that they set the point upon the heel.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000044_000000|And soon aware they will be of the harvest Of this bad husbandry, when shall the tares Complain the granary is taken from them.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000046_000000|'Twill not be from Casal nor Acquasparta, From whence come such unto the written word That one avoids it, and the other narrows.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000048_000000|Here are Illuminato and Agostino, Who of the first barefooted beggars were That with the cord the friends of God became.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000050_000000|Nathan the seer, and metropolitan Chrysostom, and Anselmus, and Donatus Who deigned to lay his hand to the first art;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000052_000000|To celebrate so great a paladin Have moved me the impassioned courtesy And the discreet discourses of Friar Thomas,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000053_000000|And with me they have moved this company."
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000057_000000|Let him the Wain imagine unto which Our vault of heaven sufficeth night and day, So that in turning of its pole it fails not;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000058_000000|Let him the mouth imagine of the horn That in the point beginneth of the axis Round about which the primal wheel revolves,--
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000062_000000|Because it is as much beyond our wont, As swifter than the motion of the Chiana Moveth the heaven that all the rest outspeeds.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000064_000000|The singing and the dance fulfilled their measure, And unto us those holy lights gave need, Growing in happiness from care to care.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000065_000000|Then broke the silence of those saints concordant The light in which the admirable life Of God's own mendicant was told to me,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000070_000000|And hence at what I said above dost wonder, When I narrated that no second had The good which in the fifth light is enclosed.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000072_000000|That which can die, and that which dieth not, Are nothing but the splendour of the idea Which by his love our Lord brings into being;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000073_000000|Because that living Light, which from its fount Effulgent flows, so that it disunites not From Him nor from the Love in them intrined,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000076_000000|And these contingencies I hold to be Things generated, which the heaven produces By its own motion, with seed and without.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000078_000000|Therefore it happens, that the selfsame tree After its kind bears worse and better fruit, And ye are born with characters diverse.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000079_000000|If in perfection tempered were the wax, And were the heaven in its supremest virtue, The brilliance of the seal would all appear;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000081_000000|If then the fervent Love, the Vision clear, Of primal Virtue do dispose and seal, Perfection absolute is there acquired.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000083_000000|So that thine own opinion I commend, That human nature never yet has been, Nor will be, what it was in those two persons.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000085_000000|But, that may well appear what now appears not, Think who he was, and what occasion moved him To make request, when it was told him, 'Ask.'
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000086_000000|I've not so spoken that thou canst not see Clearly he was a king who asked for wisdom, That he might be sufficiently a king;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000089_000000|Whence, if thou notest this and what I said, A regal prudence is that peerless seeing In which the shaft of my intention strikes.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000090_000000|And if on 'rose' thou turnest thy clear eyes, Thou'lt see that it has reference alone To kings who're many, and the good are rare.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000091_000000|With this distinction take thou what I said, And thus it can consist with thy belief Of the first father and of our Delight.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000094_000000|Because it happens that full often bends Current opinion in the false direction, And then the feelings bind the intellect.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000098_000000|Nor yet shall people be too confident In judging, even as he is who doth count The corn in field or ever it be ripe.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000099_000000|For I have seen all winter long the thorn First show itself intractable and fierce, And after bear the rose upon its top;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000100_000000|And I have seen a ship direct and swift Run o'er the sea throughout its course entire, To perish at the harbour's mouth at last.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000101_000000|Let not Dame Bertha nor Ser Martin think, Seeing one steal, another offering make, To see them in the arbitrament divine;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000102_000000|For one may rise, and fall the other may."
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000104_000000|From centre unto rim, from rim to centre, In a round vase the water moves itself, As from without 'tis struck or from within.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000106_000000|Because of the resemblance that was born Of his discourse and that of Beatrice, Whom, after him, it pleased thus to begin:
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000107_000000|"This man has need (and does not tell you so, Nor with the voice, nor even in his thought) Of going to the root of one truth more.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000109_000000|And if it do remain, say in what manner, After ye are again made visible, It can be that it injure not your sight."
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000111_000000|So, at that orison devout and prompt, The holy circles a new joy displayed In their revolving and their wondrous song.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000113_000000|The One and Two and Three who ever liveth, And reigneth ever in Three and Two and One, Not circumscribed and all things circumscribing,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000114_000000|Three several times was chanted by each one Among those spirits, with such melody That for all merit it were just reward;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000115_000000|And, in the lustre most divine of all The lesser ring, I heard a modest voice, Such as perhaps the Angel's was to Mary,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000116_000000|Answer: "As long as the festivity Of Paradise shall be, so long our love Shall radiate round about us such a vesture.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000117_000000|Its brightness is proportioned to the ardour, The ardour to the vision; and the vision Equals what grace it has above its worth.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000118_000000|When, glorious and sanctified, our flesh Is reassumed, then shall our persons be More pleasing by their being all complete;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000119_000000|For will increase whate'er bestows on us Of light gratuitous the Good Supreme, Light which enables us to look on Him;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000120_000000|Therefore the vision must perforce increase, Increase the ardour which from that is kindled, Increase the radiance which from this proceeds.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000121_000000|But even as a coal that sends forth flame, And by its vivid whiteness overpowers it So that its own appearance it maintains,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000122_000000|Thus the effulgence that surrounds us now Shall be o'erpowered in aspect by the flesh, Which still to day the earth doth cover up;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000124_000000|So sudden and alert appeared to me Both one and the other choir to say Amen, That well they showed desire for their dead bodies;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000126_000000|And lo! all round about of equal brightness Arose a lustre over what was there, Like an horizon that is clearing up.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000130_000000|But Beatrice so beautiful and smiling Appeared to me, that with the other sights That followed not my memory I must leave her.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000131_000000|Then to uplift themselves mine eyes resumed The power, and I beheld myself translated To higher salvation with my Lady only.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000132_000000|Well was I ware that I was more uplifted By the enkindled smiling of the star, That seemed to me more ruddy than its wont.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000133_000000|With all my heart, and in that dialect Which is the same in all, such holocaust To God I made as the new grace beseemed;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000134_000000|And not yet from my bosom was exhausted The ardour of sacrifice, before I knew This offering was accepted and auspicious;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000137_000000|Thus constellated in the depths of Mars, Those rays described the venerable sign That quadrants joining in a circle make.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000139_000000|But he who takes his cross and follows Christ Again will pardon me what I omit, Seeing in that aurora lighten Christ.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000140_000000|From horn to horn, and 'twixt the top and base, Lights were in motion, brightly scintillating As they together met and passed each other;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000142_000000|Across the sunbeam move, wherewith is listed Sometimes the shade, which for their own defence People with cunning and with art contrive.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000143_000000|And as a lute and harp, accordant strung With many strings, a dulcet tinkling make To him by whom the notes are not distinguished,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000144_000000|So from the lights that there to me appeared Upgathered through the cross a melody, Which rapt me, not distinguishing the hymn.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000145_000000|Well was I ware it was of lofty laud, Because there came to me, "Arise and conquer!" As unto him who hears and comprehends not.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000147_000000|Perhaps my word appears somewhat too bold, Postponing the delight of those fair eyes, Into which gazing my desire has rest;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000149_000000|Can me excuse, if I myself accuse To excuse myself, and see that I speak truly: For here the holy joy is not disclosed,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000150_000000|Because ascending it becomes more pure.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000152_000000|A will benign, in which reveals itself Ever the love that righteously inspires, As in the iniquitous, cupidity,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000154_000000|How unto just entreaties shall be deaf Those substances, which, to give me desire Of praying them, with one accord grew silent?
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000155_000000|'tis well that without end he should lament, Who for the love of thing that doth not last Eternally despoils him of that love!
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000156_000000|As through the pure and tranquil evening air There shoots from time to time a sudden fire, Moving the eyes that steadfast were before,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000162_000000|Thus that effulgence; whence I gave it heed; Then round unto my Lady turned my sight, And on this side and that was stupefied;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000163_000000|For in her eyes was burning such a smile That with mine own methought I touched the bottom Both of my grace and of my Paradise!
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000165_000000|Nor did it hide itself from me by choice, But by necessity; for its conception Above the mark of mortals set itself.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000166_000000|And when the bow of burning sympathy Was so far slackened, that its speech descended Towards the mark of our intelligence,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000167_000000|The first thing that was understood by me Was "Benedight be Thou, O Trine and One, Who hast unto my seed so courteous been!"
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000168_000000|And it continued: "Hunger long and grateful, Drawn from the reading of the mighty volume Wherein is never changed the white nor dark,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000169_000000|Thou hast appeased, my son, within this light In which I speak to thee, by grace of her Who to this lofty flight with plumage clothed thee.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000171_000000|And therefore who I am thou askest not, And why I seem more joyous unto thee Than any other of this gladsome crowd.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000173_000000|But that the sacred love, in which I watch With sight perpetual, and which makes me thirst With sweet desire, may better be fulfilled,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000174_000000|Now let thy voice secure and frank and glad Proclaim the wishes, the desire proclaim, To which my answer is decreed already."
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000177_000000|For in the Sun, which lighted you and burned With heat and radiance, they so equal are, That all similitudes are insufficient.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000178_000000|But among mortals will and argument, For reason that to you is manifest, Diversely feathered in their pinions are.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000179_000000|Whence I, who mortal am, feel in myself This inequality; so give not thanks, Save in my heart, for this paternal welcome.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000182_000000|Then said to me: "That one from whom is named Thy race, and who a hundred years and more Has circled round the mount on the first cornice,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000184_000000|Florence, within the ancient boundary From which she taketh still her tierce and nones, Abode in quiet, temperate and chaste.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000185_000000|No golden chain she had, nor coronal, Nor ladies shod with sandal shoon, nor girdle That caught the eye more than the person did.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000186_000000|Not yet the daughter at her birth struck fear Into the father, for the time and dower Did not o'errun this side or that the measure.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000190_000000|And him of Nerli saw, and him of Vecchio, Contented with their simple suits of buff And with the spindle and the flax their dames.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000196_000000|Did Mary give me, with loud cries invoked, And in your ancient Baptistery at once Christian and Cacciaguida I became.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000197_000000|Moronto was my brother, and Eliseo; From Val di Pado came to me my wife, And from that place thy surname was derived.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000198_000000|I followed afterward the Emperor Conrad, And he begirt me of his chivalry, So much I pleased him with my noble deeds.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000200_000000|There by that execrable race was I Released from bonds of the fallacious world, The love of which defileth many souls,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000205_000000|Truly thou art a cloak that quickly shortens, So that unless we piece thee day by day Time goeth round about thee with his shears!
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000206_000000|With 'You,' which Rome was first to tolerate, (Wherein her family less perseveres,) Yet once again my words beginning made;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000207_000000|Whence Beatrice, who stood somewhat apart, Smiling, appeared like unto her who coughed At the first failing writ of Guenever.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000211_000000|Tell me about the sheepfold of Saint john, How large it was, and who the people were Within it worthy of the highest seats."
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000212_000000|As at the blowing of the winds a coal Quickens to flame, so I beheld that light Become resplendent at my blandishments.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000213_000000|And as unto mine eyes it grew more fair, With voice more sweet and tender, but not in This modern dialect, it said to me:
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000216_000000|My ancestors and I our birthplace had Where first is found the last ward of the city By him who runneth in your annual game.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000217_000000|Suffice it of my elders to hear this; But who they were, and whence they thither came, Silence is more considerate than speech.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000218_000000|All those who at that time were there between Mars and the Baptist, fit for bearing arms, Were a fifth part of those who now are living;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000220_000000|O how much better 'twere to have as neighbours The folk of whom I speak, and at Galluzzo And at Trespiano have your boundary,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000223_000000|Some who turn Florentines, and trade and discount, Would have gone back again to Simifonte There where their grandsires went about as beggars.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000225_000000|Ever the intermingling of the people Has been the source of malady in cities, As in the body food it surfeits on;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000227_000000|If Luni thou regard, and Urbisaglia, How they have passed away, and how are passing Chiusi and Sinigaglia after them,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000230_000000|And as the turning of the lunar heaven Covers and bares the shores without a pause, In the like manner fortune does with Florence.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000231_000000|Therefore should not appear a marvellous thing What I shall say of the great Florentines Of whom the fame is hidden in the Past.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000232_000000|I saw the Ughi, saw the Catellini, Filippi, Greci, Ormanni, and Alberichi, Even in their fall illustrious citizens;
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000234_000000|Near to the gate that is at present laden With a new felony of so much weight That soon it shall be jetsam from the bark,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000237_000000|Mighty already was the Column Vair, Sacchetti, Giuochi, Fifant, and Barucci, And Galli, and they who for the bushel blush.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000240_000000|So likewise did the ancestors of those Who evermore, when vacant is your church, Fatten by staying in consistory.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000241_000000|The insolent race, that like a dragon follows Whoever flees, and unto him that shows His teeth or purse is gentle as a lamb,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000242_000000|Already rising was, but from low people; So that it pleased not Ubertin Donato That his wife's father should make him their kin.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000243_000000|Already had Caponsacco to the Market From Fesole descended, and already Giuda and Infangato were good burghers.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000245_000000|Each one that bears the beautiful escutcheon Of the great baron whose renown and name The festival of Thomas keepeth fresh,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000246_000000|Knighthood and privilege from him received; Though with the populace unites himself To day the man who binds it with a border.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000247_000000|Already were Gualterotti and Importuni; And still more quiet would the Borgo be If with new neighbours it remained unfed.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000251_000000|But it behoved the mutilated stone Which guards the bridge, that Florence should provide A victim in her latest hour of peace.
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000253_000000|With all these families beheld so just And glorious her people, that the lily Never upon the spear was placed reversed,
train-clean-100/87/121553/87_121553_000254_000000|Nor by division was vermilion made."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000002_000004|Lucy had a high temper, which had been kept in subjection during the life of Sir Simon. But now that she tasted the sweets of power she was not disposed to allow Julius to treat her as he chose.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000003_000001|She saw that she had gone too far and had given Durham an inkling as to the possibility of Michael having masqueraded as Bernard. The housekeeper had thought her position unassailable, knowing that she had married Walter Gore; and although there was a flaw in the circumstances upon which she built her claim, yet she trusted to her own cleverness to conceal this from the too clever lawyer.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000003_000002|But, apart from this, the fact that he suspected someone of passing himself off as Bernard startled her, and opened an abyss at her feet.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000003_000003|On leaving the office she judged it best to lower her crest for the moment and to wait patiently to see what would transpire.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000003_000004|mrs Gilroy was a well educated woman and very astute, therefore she hoped to gain her ends by craft if not by force.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000003_000005|So far she had failed, but she did not intend to abandon her claim for one failure.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000004_000002|No one could have been meeker, and although Miss Randolph did not like or trust the woman, she had no fault to find with her in any way.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000005_000000|Lucy suffered severely from the shock of Sir Simon's tragic death, and from the supposed death of Sir Bernard.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000005_000001|In fact, the matter so preyed on her nerves that she became prostrate, and dr Payne had to be called in. He was a handsome and popular young doctor who had practiced in Hurseton.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000005_000002|As this was the first time he had been called to the Hall, he was naturally very pleased, and was very attentive.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000006_000000|"A complete rest is what you need," he said to Miss Randolph.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000006_000003|Shall I ask Miss Malleson to come over."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000007_000000|"Is she cheerful?" asked Lucy languidly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000007_000001|"I fear not, doctor.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000008_000000|"Probably, but she bears up wonderfully.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000008_000002|Was she very much attached to mr Gore?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000009_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000009_000001|I never saw a more attached couple.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000009_000002|Did you ever meet him?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000010_000002|I often visit her, not professionally, for she is as healthy as a trout in a pond."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000011_000000|"Is Alice-Miss Malleson also well?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000012_000000|"In very good health, and appears resigned to her loss."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000013_000000|"I should have thought she would have felt it more," said Lucy, perplexed.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000013_000001|"Alice has such a tender heart."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000014_000000|dr Payne was doubtful.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000014_000001|So far as he saw, Miss Malleson was remarkably cheerful under her sorrow.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000015_000000|"I shall write a note to her to day," said Lucy.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000015_000001|"I am very fond of her, and we get on very well together.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000015_000003|I wish Bernard had lived, so that he could have married her."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000016_000000|"From what I read in the papers it is just as well mr Gore did not live," said Payne, rising to take his leave.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000017_000001|"If he was guilty.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000017_000002|There it is, doctor.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000017_000004|Bernard had a high temper, but he could not always control it, and was a kind hearted boy.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000018_000000|"How are you sure, my dear Lucy?" asked a third voice, and she looked up to see Julius standing in the doorway.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000018_000001|He came forward.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000018_000003|But I have just come in.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000018_000004|dr Payne, I hope I see you well."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000019_000000|"Quite well," said the doctor, who did not like Beryl, thinking him, in schoolboy phrase, "a sneak." "I am just going, mr Beryl."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000020_000000|"Are you ill, Lucy?" asked Beryl, with affection.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000021_000000|"I have an attack of nerves," she replied pettishly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000022_000000|"It is just as well he did die, though."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000024_000000|He departed smiling, and they heard him gallop off.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000024_000002|"Why do you think Bernard is innocent?" he asked.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000025_000000|"Because, if he is guilty, his action gives the lie to his whole life, Julius," she replied, raising herself on her elbow.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000029_000000|"So far as I am concerned I should like to break the engagement, Julius. We were never suited to one another."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000030_000000|Beryl's vanity was hurt.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000030_000001|"Why did you accept me then?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000031_000000|"What else could I do?
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000031_000001|It was Sir Simon's wish that we should marry, and, owing to my circumstances, I had no choice in the matter.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000031_000002|During his life I was merely a puppet.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000031_000003|But you do not care for me."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000032_000001|I swear I do."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000033_000000|"Although you swore for an hour, I should never believe you.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000034_000000|Beryl did not deny the charge.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000035_000000|"no Bernard and I are like brother and sister.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000035_000001|But he is dead, so you need not cast stones at his memory."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000038_000000|Julius stared at the fire.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000038_000001|"I can't understand Durham's attitude," he said evasively.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000038_000003|No man could have lived in the cold and the fog.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000039_000000|"mr Durham requires proof of the death," rejoined Lucy, sharply; "and until then, he is bound to administer the estate according to the will. As Bernard's body has not been found, there is always a chance that he may have escaped."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000040_000000|"I sincerely trust not."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000042_000000|"On the contrary, I speak for his good.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000042_000001|What's the use of his coming to life when he must suffer for his crime?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000046_000000|"I am not hard hearted," snapped Beryl.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000046_000001|"I always do good-"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000048_000000|"Not always.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000050_000001|This boy is a grandson of Lord Conniston's housekeeper, mrs Moon."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000053_000000|"I have met him once.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000053_000001|He seems to be a most delightful fellow."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000054_000001|"Conniston is a scamp.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000054_000002|I heard he enlisted in the Lancers."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000055_000001|Every man worth calling a man should go to the front."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000056_000000|"Perhaps you would like me to go," sneered Julius.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000057_000000|"You would never have the pluck," said Lucy, quickly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000058_000000|"Lucy, if you talk to me like that-" began Beryl, and then restrained himself with an effort.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000058_000001|"It is no use our quarrelling.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000058_000002|Let me show you that I am not so careless of others or so hard hearted as I seem to be. Miss Plantagenet wants a page.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000058_000004|He was a messenger boy at a tobacconist called Taberley, and Lord Conniston got him turned out of the situation."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000059_000000|"I don't believe that."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000060_000001|The boy told me himself.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000060_000002|He will tell you if you like to see him."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000061_000000|"I don't want to see him.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000061_000001|Lord Conniston is too kind a man to behave in that way.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000062_000000|"And that makes him perfect in your eyes," said Beryl, looking savage. "See here, Lucy, Conniston has left the army-so you see he is not so brave as you think."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000063_000000|"He left so as to seek after Bernard," said Lucy, quickly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000063_000001|"mr Durham told me so."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000064_000000|"To seek after Bernard," said Julius, slowly, "and I believe Bernard may be alive after all."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000065_000000|"In which case you would give him up to the police."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000068_000000|"I might help him to escape.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000068_000001|I don't want to see him hanged."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000071_000002|But I am hoping against hope," said Lucy, rising.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000072_000000|"They will find it difficult to prove that," sneered Beryl, with a white face.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000076_000000|"I have a right to a portion of the estate."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000077_000001|"Bernard is the owner of Gore Hall and of all the property, and of the title also.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000079_000002|I never loved you, but I have always tried to see the best side of you.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000080_000000|"But Lucy-"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000081_000001|I give you back your ring-here it is!" She wrenched it from her finger.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000081_000002|"Now leave the house, mr Beryl.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000081_000003|I am mistress here."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000082_000000|Julius looked at the ring which she had thrown at his feet, and laughed. "You take a high tone," he said sneeringly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000083_000001|You do not get it."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000084_000000|"Nor you either.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000085_000000|"Would I be better off if I married you?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000086_000001|I have not much money now, but I will have some-a great deal some day."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000087_000000|"By blackmailing Bernard," said Lucy, indignantly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000088_000000|Julius picked up the ring and slipped it into his waistcoat pocket calmly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000088_000001|"We don't know that Bernard is alive.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000088_000002|But the fact of Conniston leaving the army and from Durham's attitude I shrewdly suspect he is, and in hiding.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000089_000000|"The lesser portion.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000090_000000|"All I can get," rejoined Beryl, quietly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000090_000001|"And you have refused to share my fortune with me."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000091_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000091_000001|I will have nothing to do with you.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000091_000002|And remember that if I catch you plotting I will tell mr Durham."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000092_000001|"I am not afraid of Durham.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000093_000000|"He is innocent."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000094_000001|There he paused to utter a final insulting speech.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000094_000002|"I don't know whether you intend to marry Bernard or Lord Conniston," he said, "but I wish, which ever it is, joy of a spitfire."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000097_000000|She was angry with herself because she felt that in speaking of Conniston she had colored.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000097_000002|Lucy thought-but it matters little what she thought.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000097_000003|All she knew was that her engagement to Julius, which had always weighed on her conscience, was at an end.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000097_000006|He has shown his hand too plainly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000097_000007|I will put mr Durham on his guard, and"--here she blushed-"and Lord Conniston."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000098_000000|Julius, walking towards the Bower, was also angry with himself.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000098_000001|As Lucy thought, he had shown his hand too clearly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000098_000003|I should have done so had she not goaded me into speech.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000098_000004|She will tell Durham and that interfering Conniston and put them on their guard.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000098_000005|Well"--he laughed and looked at the small boy trotting beside him-"I am equal to both."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000099_000000|The boy was a handsome, innocent looking little fellow, rather undersized.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000099_000001|With his clear skin, his fair hair and wide blue eyes he looked like the conventional picture of a cherub.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000099_000003|But his mind had not yet had time to work on his face, and the mask of his childhood-for he was only thirteen-concealed his evil nature successfully.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000099_000004|In a few years, when his passions worked their way through the mask, his face, now so smooth and innocent, would be wrinkled and sinful.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000099_000006|But at present he looked charmingly innocent, although he already knew much more about life than was good for him.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000101_000000|Jerry tossed his fair curls and looked roguish.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000101_000001|"Oh, that's all right, mr Beryl.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000101_000003|They think I'm a kind of Holy Bill, and I let them think so.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000101_000004|It pays."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000102_000000|"Jerry, you are a young scamp of the worst."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000103_000000|The boy chuckled as though he had received a compliment.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000103_000001|"I like doing things," he explained frankly; "it's fun.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000103_000003|If it hadn't been for Victoria-the girl I told you about-I should have left long before.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000103_000004|I'm going to marry her."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000106_000000|Julius took it from him.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000106_000002|She is most respectable."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000107_000001|"Lord! what a bore stopping with her will be.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000109_000000|"I'm fly," said Master Moon, and began whistling.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000110_000000|Julius looked at him with satisfaction.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000110_000003|If Bernard were alive-as Julius began to suspect-he would come to one of these three people, and then Jerry would at once become aware of the fact.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000111_000000|Miss Berengaria was as usual in the garden looking after the well-being of some white chrysanthemums.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000111_000001|She raised her head when she saw her visitors, and a look of annoyance crossed her face when she saw mr Beryl.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000111_000003|As it was, and with great diplomacy-so great that it deceived even the astute Beryl-she asked him to come into the house.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000111_000004|Luckily Alice was out of the way, having gone to pay a visit.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000111_000005|But she was expected back momentarily, and Miss Berengaria wished to get rid of Julius before the girl returned.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000111_000006|She might be able to conceal her real feelings, but Alice being so young and impulsive might show her dislike too plainly and put Beryl on his guard.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000112_000001|"What a pretty lad!"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000113_000000|"He is a lad I wish you to help," said Beryl, blandly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000115_000000|"I love fowls," said Jerry sweetly, and looking as innocent as a babe, "and dogs and things like that."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000116_000001|Who is he, mr Beryl?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000118_000001|"I lived with grandmother at Cove Castle."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000119_000000|"That's Lord Conniston's place," said Miss Berengaria, more perplexed than ever.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000119_000001|"What were you doing there?"
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000120_000000|"I lived with grandmother.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000122_000000|"His lordship got me a situation at a tobacconist's," said the child like Moon, "and then he got me turned off."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000123_000000|"Why?
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000126_000000|Jerry in answer to a look of Beryl's began to weep ostentatiously.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000127_000001|His lordship was so angry that he got me turned off, saying I was ungrateful."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000128_000000|"You should always hold your tongue," said Miss Berengaria, angrily. "You had no right to tell what Lord Conniston wished kept secret.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000128_000001|It was only a freak on his part.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000128_000002|He left the army at my request."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000129_000000|"At your request?" said Julius, looking at her directly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000130_000002|"Let us keep to the matter in hand.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000131_000000|"Yes, sweet lady."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000132_000000|"Don't talk like that, child.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000132_000001|Call me ma'am."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000133_000001|"mr Beryl-such a kind gentleman, ma'am-said you would help me."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000135_000000|Jerry thrust his tongue in his cheek, but Julius answered, "I can vouch for his honesty," he said.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000135_000001|"But he talks too much."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000137_000001|"The kind gentleman got them for me, ma'am."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000138_000001|"Well, you can stay here, boy.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000138_000002|Go to the kitchen and tell the servants to give you something to eat."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000139_000000|Jerry grinned, and ducked towards the door.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000139_000001|"Good bye, Jerry," said Beryl, kindly.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000139_000002|"Don't forget me."
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000140_000002|Yes, ma'am, I'm going," and Jerry in answer to an imperative wave of his new mistress's hand disappeared.
train-clean-100/8747/293952/8747_293952_000140_000003|Miss Berengaria turned to Beryl.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000002_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000003_000000|HOW EMANCIPATION CAME TO PASS
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000004_000002|In his first school "composition," on "Cruelty to Animals," his stepsister remembers this sentence: "An ant's life is as sweet to it as ours is to us."
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000005_000000|As you have read on an earlier page, when Abe grew to be a big, strong boy he saved a drunken man from freezing in the mud, by carrying him to a cabin, building a fire, and spent the rest of the night warming and sobering him up.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000005_000001|Instead of leaving the drunkard to the fate the other fellows thought he deserved, Abe Lincoln, through pity for the helpless, rescued a fellow being not only from mud and cold but also from a drunkard's grave.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000005_000003|Thus Abe helped him throw off the shackles of drink and made a man of him.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000010_000003|It cannot be.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000010_000005|Let none attempt it.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000010_000006|In solemn awe we pronounce the name and, in its naked, deathless splendor, leave it shining on."
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000011_000000|It was young Lincoln's patriotic love for George Washington which did so much to bring about, in time, a double emancipation from white slavery and black.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000012_000000|Once, as President, he said to a boy who had just signed the temperance pledge:
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000013_000000|"Now, Sonny, keep that pledge and it will be the best act of your life."
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000014_000000|President Lincoln was true and consistent in his temperance principles. In March, eighteen sixty four, he went by steamboat with his wife and "Little Tad," to visit General Grant at his headquarters at City Point, Virginia.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000016_000000|"'I am not feeling very well.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000021_000003|He recognized his close relationship with the black man, and the bitterest name his enemies called him-worse in their minds than "fool," "clown," "imbecile" or "gorilla"--was a "Black Republican." That terrible phobia against the negro only enlisted Abraham Lincoln's sympathies the more.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000021_000004|He appeared in court in behalf of colored people, time and again.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000024_000000|THE QUESTION OF EMANCIPATION
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000026_000000|The other party did not wish the matter tampered with, as cheap labor was necessary for raising cotton, sugar and other products on which the living of millions of people depended.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000027_000000|The extreme Abolitionists, who wished slavery abolished, whether or no, sent men to tell the President that if he did not free the slaves he was a coward and a turncoat, and they would withhold their support from the Government and the Army.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000030_000000|To declare all the slaves down South freed, when the Government could not enforce such a statement and could not even win a battle, would be absurd.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000031_000001|He patiently explained to them that his declaring them free would not make them free.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000033_000001|"Here I am, studying this question, day and night, and God has placed it upon me, too.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000034_000001|They could not know, for mr Lincoln dared not tell them, that he had the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket waiting for a Federal victory before he could issue it!
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000035_000000|THE PROCLAMATION
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000036_000001|At last the time had come to announce the freeing of the slaves that they might help in winning their liberties.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000038_000000|Now the "chance to hit that thing"--the inhuman monster of human slavery-had come, and he was going to "hit it hard."
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000039_000000|He called the Cabinet together.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000039_000001|Edwin m Stanton, the Secretary of War, has described the scene:
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000040_000004|It was a little book.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000040_000005|He finally turned to us and said:
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000041_000000|"'Gentlemen, did you ever read anything from "Artemus Ward?" Let me read you a chapter that is very funny.'
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000042_000000|"Not a member of the Cabinet smiled; as for myself, I was angry, and looked to see what the President meant.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000043_000000|"'Well,' he said, 'let's have another chapter.'
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000046_000000|"He then put his hand in his tall hat that sat upon the table, and pulled out a little paper.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000047_000001|I have prepared a little paper of much significance.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000047_000002|I have made up my mind that this paper is to issue; that the time is come when it should issue; that the people are ready for it to issue.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000048_000000|"'It is due to my Cabinet that you should be the first to hear and know of it, and if any of you have any suggestions to make as to the form of this paper or its composition, I shall be glad to hear them.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000048_000001|But the paper is to issue.'
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000050_000000|Secretary Stanton continued: "I have always tried to be calm, but I think I lost my calmness for a moment, and with great enthusiasm I arose, approached the President, extended my hand and said:
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000051_000000|"'mr
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000051_000001|President, if the reading of chapters of "Artemus Ward" is a prelude to such a deed as this, the book should be filed among the archives of the nation, and the author should be canonized.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000051_000002|Henceforth I see the light and the country is saved.'
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000054_000000|"And as I look back upon it, I think the President was right."
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000055_000000|It was a fitting fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed that:
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000056_000000|"All men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000058_000000|At noon on the first of January, eighteen sixty three, William h Seward, Secretary of State, with his son Frederick, called at the White House with the Emancipation document to be signed by the President.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000058_000001|It was just after the regular New Year's Day reception.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000059_000000|mr Lincoln seated himself at his table, took up the pen, dipped it in the ink, held the pen a moment, then laid it down.
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000059_000002|Turning to his Secretary of State, he said, to explain his hesitation:
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000061_000000|"'He hesitated.'"
train-clean-100/8770/295462/8770_295462_000062_000000|Turning back to the table, he took the pen again and wrote, deliberately and firmly, the "Abraham Lincoln" with which the world is now familiar. Looking up at the Sewards, father and son, he smiled and said, with a sigh of relief:
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000005_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000007_000000|THE BATTLE
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000008_000002|If Lee had been victorious there, he might have destroyed Philadelphia and New York.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000008_000004|This would have changed the grand result of the war.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000009_000000|In point of numbers, bravery and genius, the battle of Gettysburg was the greatest that had ever been fought up to that time.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000009_000001|Glorious as this was, the greatest glory of Gettysburg lay in the experiences and utterances of one man, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000010_000000|It came at a terrible time in the progress of the war, when everything seemed to be going against the Union.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000010_000001|There had been four disastrous defeats-twice at Bull Run, followed by Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000010_000002|Even the battle of Antietam, accounted victory enough for the President to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, proved to be a drawn battle, with terrific losses on both sides.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000010_000003|Lee was driven back from Maryland then, it is true, but he soon won the great battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and had made his way north into Pennsylvania.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000011_000000|The night after the battle of Chancellorsville (fought may second and three d, eighteen sixty three), was the darkest in the history of the Civil War.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000011_000001|President Lincoln walked the floor the whole night long, crying out in his anguish, "O what will the country say!"
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000015_000000|But Lincoln's spirits were bound to rise.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000018_000000|"I will tell you how it was.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000022_000000|Not long after the conflict at Gettysburg a movement was on foot to devote a large part of that battle ground to a national cemetery.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000023_000002|The President was asked, if he could, to come and make a few dedicatory remarks, but mr Everett was to be the chief speaker of the occasion.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000024_000001|As this printed address covered two newspaper pages, mr Lincoln struck an attitude and quoted from a speech by Daniel Webster:
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000026_000000|During the forenoon of the eighteenth, Secretary john Hay was anxious lest the President be late for the special Presidential train, which was to leave at noon for Gettysburg.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000029_000000|He reached out, took her up and kissed her, saying:
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000030_000000|"You're a sweet little rosebud yourself.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000031_000000|About noon on the nineteenth of November, the distinguished party arrived in a procession and took seats on the platform erected for the exercises.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000031_000002|There were fifteen thousand people waiting, some of whom had been standing in the sun for hours.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000031_000003|It was a warm day and a Quaker woman near the platform fainted.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000034_000001|When that modest woman "came to," she saw fifteen thousand pairs of eyes watching her while the President of the United States was fanning her tenderly.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000035_000000|This was too much for her.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000035_000001|She gasped:
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000036_000000|"I feel-better-now.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000036_000001|I want to go-back to-my husband!"
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000037_000002|I had an awful time pulling you up out of there, and I couldn't stick you back again!"
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000038_000000|A youth who stood near the platform in front of the President says that, while mr Everett was orating, mr Lincoln took his "little speech," as he called it, out of his pocket, and conned it over like a schoolboy with a half learned lesson.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000038_000001|The President had put the finishing touches on it that morning.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000038_000002|As it was expected that the President would make a few offhand remarks, no one seems to have noticed its simple grandeur until it was printed in the newspapers.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000039_000001|The fact that the President was speaking was sufficient, no matter what he said.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000040_000000|That afternoon there was a patriotic service in one of the churches which the President decided to attend.
train-clean-100/8770/295463/8770_295463_000040_000002|Those who planned the dedication did not think the poor cobbler was of much account.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000003_000000|LIEUTENANT TAD LINCOLN, PATRIOT
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000004_000001|A word from his father would melt the lad to tears and submission, or bring him out of a nervous tantrum with his small round face wreathed with smiles, and a chuckling in his throat of "Papa day, my papa day!" No one knew exactly what the boy meant by papa day.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000004_000002|It was his pet name for the dearest man on earth, and it was his only way of expressing the greatest pleasure his boyish heart was able to hold.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000008_000001|Many laughed, but some spectators thought the boy ought to be punished for such a treasonable outbreak on the part of a President's boy in a soldier's uniform.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000009_000000|"If he don't know any better than that," said one man, "he should be taught better.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000011_000003|He takes our part.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000011_000004|We will fight for him; yes, we will die for him."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000012_000001|That was the meaning of their song as they trooped to the front at his call:
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000013_000000|"We are coming, Father Abraham; Three hundred thousand more."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000014_000001|Going always with the President, he had heard his "Papa day" say of several youths condemned to be shot for sleeping at their post or some like offense:
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000016_000000|"Give the boys a chance," was Abraham Lincoln's motto.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000016_000004|"With malice toward none, with charity for all," was the rule of his life in the backwoods as well as in the National Capital.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000017_000003|But it hurt him deep in his heart to know that some of his beloved children misunderstood him so that they were willing to kill him!
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000020_000000|mr
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000020_000001|LINCOLN'S LAST SPEECH AND HOW TAD HELPED
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000021_000000|A few days after the war ended at Appomattox, a great crowd came to the White House to serenade the President.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000021_000001|It was Tuesday evening, april eleventh eighteen sixty five.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000021_000002|mr Lincoln had written a short address for the occasion.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000021_000003|The times were so out of joint and every word was so important that the President could not trust himself to speak off hand.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000022_000000|A friend stepped out on the northern portico with him to hold the candle by which mr Lincoln was to read his speech.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000022_000001|Little Tad was with his father, as usual, and when the President had finished reading a page of his manuscript he let it flutter down, like a leaf, or a big white butterfly, for Tad to catch.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000022_000002|When the pages came too slowly the boy pulled his father's coat tail, piping up in a muffled, excited tone:
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000023_000000|"Give me 'nother paper, Papa day."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000024_000000|To the few in the front of the crowd who witnessed this little by play it seemed ridiculous that the President of the United States should allow any child to behave like that and hamper him while delivering a great address which would wield a national, if not world-wide influence. But little Tad did not trouble his father in the least.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000024_000001|It was a part of the little game they were constantly playing together.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000026_000001|The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army (at Appomattox) give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression cannot be restrained.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000026_000002|In the midst of this, however, He from whom all blessings flow must not be forgotten.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000026_000003|A call for national thanksgiving is being prepared and will be duly promulgated."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000028_000000|Then he went on outlining a policy of peace and friendship toward the South-showing a spirit far higher and more advanced than that of the listening crowd.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000029_000000|"Give us 'Dixie,' boys; play 'Dixie.' We have a right to that tune now."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000030_000000|There was a moment of silence.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000030_000001|Some of the people gasped, as they had done when they saw Tad waving the Confederate flag at the window.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000031_000000|As mr Lincoln came in through the door after speaking to the crowd, mrs Lincoln-who had been, with a group of friends, looking on from within-exclaimed to him:
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000032_000000|"You must not be so careless.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000036_000000|"Tom Pen, Tom Pen, they have killed Papa day!
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000036_000001|They have killed my Papa day!"
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000037_000003|Tad, of course, could not comprehend why any one could be so cruel and wicked as to wish to murder his darling Papa day, who loved every one so!
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000038_000000|He wandered through the empty rooms, aching with loneliness, murmuring softly to himself:
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000039_000000|"Papa day, where's my Papa day.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000039_000001|I'm tired-tired of playing alone.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000039_000002|I want to play together.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000039_000003|Please, Papa day, come back and play with your little Tad."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000040_000000|Young though he was he could not sleep long at night.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000040_000004|When the man spoke to comfort him, Tad would find out his terrible mistake, that his father was not with him.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000042_000000|"Papa day, where's my Papa day?"
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000043_000000|"Your papa's gone 'way off"--said his companion, his voice breaking with emotion-"gone to heaven."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000045_000000|"Yes, yes, I'm sure he's happy there, Taddie dear; now go to sleep."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000046_000000|"Papa day's happy.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000047_000000|Then he fell into his first sweet sleep since that terrible night.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000049_000002|But the heart of little Tad had been broken.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000050_000002|For this, as for all the inequities the great heart of the White House was prepared.
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000051_000000|"With malice toward none; with charity for all."
train-clean-100/8770/295465/8770_295465_000052_000000|THE END
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000003_000000|War is to day the final arbiter in the affairs of men, and it is as yet the final test of the worth whileness of peoples.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000003_000001|Tested thus, the Korean fails.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000004_000001|The fields lay untouched.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000004_000003|Little or nothing was to be purchased.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000004_000005|In many a lonely village not an ounce nor a grain of anything could be bought, and yet there might be standing around scores of white garmented, stalwart Koreans, smoking yard long pipes and chattering, chattering-ceaselessly chattering.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000004_000006|Love, money, or force could not procure from them a horseshoe or a horseshoe nail.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000005_000001|"Upso," cursed word, which means "Have not got."
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000006_000000|They had tramped probably forty miles that day, down from their hiding places, just for a "look see," and forty miles back they would cheerfully tramp, chattering all the way over what they had seen.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000007_000002|The air above had been rent by screaming projectiles.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000008_000001|And here, in the thick of it all, a man was ploughing.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000008_000002|Green things were growing-young onions-and the man who was weeding them paused from his labour long enough to sell me a handful.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000008_000005|They were clad in blue. Pigtails hung down their backs.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000002|The previous day the Russians had been there, a bloody battle had been fought, and to day the Japanese were there-but what was that to talk about?
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000003|Everybody was busy.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000006|Everywhere a toiling population was in evidence.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000009|Twilight fell and deepened, and still the ploughs went up and down the fields, the sowers following after.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000011|Everybody worked.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000012|Everything worked.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000009_000014|I was in China.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000005|I was in China.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000007|It was the thick of war. But it did not matter.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000008|The work of Antung went on just the same.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000009|The shops were wide open; the streets were lined with pedlars.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000010|One could buy anything; get anything made.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000012|I bought condensed milk, bitter, canned vegetables, bread, and cake.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000013|I repeat it, cake-good cake.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000014|I bought knives, forks, and spoons, granite ware dishes and mugs.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000019|A servant returned with corn beef in tins, a bottle of port, another of cognac, and beer, blessed beer, to wash out from my throat the dust of an army.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000010_000020|It was the land of Canaan.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000011_000000|The Korean is the perfect type of inefficiency-of utter worthlessness. The Chinese is the perfect type of industry.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000011_000001|For sheer work no worker in the world can compare with him.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000011_000002|Work is the breath of his nostrils.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000011_000005|Liberty to him epitomizes itself in access to the means of toil.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000011_000007|Work is what he desires above all things, and he will work at anything for anybody.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000012_000005|Nay, war itself bears fruits whereof he may pick.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000013_000000|The Chinese is no coward.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000013_000003|He proceeds at once to offer them for sale.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000013_000008|What if there be twenty other soldiers jostling about him?
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000014_000000|Nor is the Chinese the type of permanence which he has been so often designated.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000015_000003|So far as the business man is concerned he has grasped far more clearly the Western code of business, the Western ethics of business, than has the Japanese.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000015_000005|As yet, the Japanese business man has failed to understand this. When he has signed a time contract and when changing conditions cause him to lose by it, the Japanese merchant cannot understand why he should live up to his contract.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000001|He is an indefatigable worker.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000002|He is not dead to new ideas, new methods, new systems.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000003|Under a capable management he can be made to do anything.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000004|Truly would he of himself constitute the much heralded Yellow Peril were it not for his present management.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000005|This management, his government, is set, crystallized.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000006|It is what binds him down to building as his fathers built.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000016_000007|The governing class, entrenched by the precedent and power of centuries and by the stamp it has put upon his mind, will never free him.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000017_000000|Comes now the Japanese.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000020_000000|The late disturbance in the Far East marked the clashing of the dreams, for the Slav, too, is dreaming greatly.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000020_000001|Granting that the Japanese can hurl back the Slav and that the two great branches of the Anglo Saxon race do not despoil him of his spoils, the Japanese dream takes on substantiality.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000021_000002|He is only forty five millions, and so fast does the economic exploitation of the planet hurry on the planet's partition amongst the Western peoples that, before he could attain the stature requisite to menace, he would see the Western giants in possession of the very stuff of his dream.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000022_000002|Under a capable management he will go far.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000022_000007|He thinks with the same thought symbols as does the Chinese, and he thinks in the same peculiar grooves.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000022_000008|He goes on where we are balked by the obstacles of incomprehension.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000022_000009|He takes the turning which we cannot perceive, twists around the obstacle, and, presto! is out of sight in the ramifications of the Chinese mind where we cannot follow.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000023_000000|The Chinese has been called the type of permanence, and well he has merited it, dozing as he has through the ages.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000024_000001|We are in the midst of our own.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000024_000002|The Slav is just girding himself up to begin.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000025_000001|It is not the nature of life to believe itself weak.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000025_000002|There is such a thing as race egotism as well as creature egotism, and a very good thing it is.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000025_000003|In the first place, the Western world will not permit the rise of the yellow peril.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000025_000005|The Western world is warned, if not armed, against the possibility of it.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000026_000001|From the West he has borrowed all our material achievement and passed our ethical achievement by.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000026_000004|A marvellous imitator truly, but imitating us only in things material.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000026_000005|Things spiritual cannot be imitated; they must be felt and lived, woven into the very fabric of life, and here the Japanese fails.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000000|It required no revolution of his nature to learn to calculate the range and fire a field gun or to march the goose step.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000001|It was a mere matter of training.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000002|Our material achievement is the product of our intellect.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000003|It is knowledge, and knowledge, like coin, is interchangeable.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000004|It is not wrapped up in the heredity of the new born child, but is something to be acquired afterward.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000006|Our soul stuff is not a coin to be pocketed by the first chance comer.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000008|The leopard cannot change its spots, nor can the Japanese, nor can we.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000027_000009|We are thumbed by the ages into what we are, and by no conscious inward effort can we in a day rethumb ourselves.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000028_000001|Though we have strayed often and far from righteousness, the voices of the seers have always been raised, and we have harked back to the bidding of conscience.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000028_000002|The colossal fact of our history is that we have made the religion of Jesus Christ our religion.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000028_000003|No matter how dark in error and deed, ours has been a history of spiritual struggle and endeavour.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000029_000001|"It seems to me that they have no soul," was her answer.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000030_000000|This must not be taken to mean that the Japanese is without soul.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000030_000002|There was no feel, no speech, no recognition.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000030_000003|This Western soul did not dream that the Eastern soul existed, it was so different, so totally different.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000032_000000|Measured by what religion means to us, the Japanese is a race without religion.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000032_000002|As one Japanese has written:
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000033_000000|"Our reflection brought into prominence not so much the moral as the national consciousness of the individual. . . .
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000033_000001|To us the country is more than land and soil from which to mine gold or reap grain-it is the sacred abode of the gods, the spirit of our forefathers; to us the Emperor is more than the Arch Constable of a Reichsstaat, or even the Patron of a Kulturstaat; he is the bodily representative of heaven on earth, blending in his person its power and its mercy."
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000000|The religion of Japan is practically a worship of the State itself. Patriotism is the expression of this worship.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000001|The Japanese mind does not split hairs as to whether the Emperor is Heaven incarnate or the State incarnate.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000002|So far as the Japanese are concerned, the Emperor lives, is himself deity.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000003|The Emperor is the object to live for and to die for. The Japanese is not an individualist.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000004|He has developed national consciousness instead of moral consciousness.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000006|Only exists the honour of the State, which is his honour.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000007|He does not look upon himself as a free agent, working out his own personal salvation.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000034_000009|He has a "sense of calm trust in fate, a quiet submission to the inevitable, a stoic composure in sight of danger or calamity, a disdain of life and friendliness with death." He relates himself to the State as, amongst bees, the worker is related to the hive; himself nothing, the State everything; his reasons for existence the exaltation and glorification of the State.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000035_000000|The most admired quality to day of the Japanese is his patriotism.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000035_000002|"For God, my country, and the Czar!" cries the Russian patriot; but in the Japanese mind there is no differentiation between the three.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000035_000004|The patriotism of the Japanese is blind and unswerving loyalty to what is practically an absolutism.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000035_000005|The Emperor can do no wrong, nor can the five ambitious great men who have his ear and control the destiny of Japan.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000000|No great race adventure can go far nor endure long which has no deeper foundation than material success, no higher prompting than conquest for conquest's sake and mere race glorification.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000001|To go far and to endure, it must have behind it an ethical impulse, a sincerely conceived righteousness.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000002|But it must be taken into consideration that the above postulate is itself a product of Western race egotism, urged by our belief in our own righteousness and fostered by a faith in ourselves which may be as erroneous as are most fond race fancies.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000003|So be it.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000004|The world is whirling faster to day than ever before.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000005|It has gained impetus. Affairs rush to conclusion.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000006|The Far East is the point of contact of the adventuring Western people as well as of the Asiatic.
train-clean-100/8797/294123/8797_294123_000036_000007|We shall not have to wait for our children's time nor our children's children.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000000|Outside, through the grimy surgery window over a foreground of blackened brick and slate, a line of enormous chimneys like Cyclopean pillars upheld the lowering, dun coloured cloud bank.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000001|For six days in the week they spouted smoke, but to day the furnace fires were banked, for it was Sunday.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000003|There was nothing in the surroundings to cheer a desponding soul, but it was more than his dismal environment which weighed upon the medical assistant.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000004|His trouble was deeper and more personal.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000005|The winter session was approaching.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000007|He had prospered exceedingly by the support of the local Church interest, and the rule of his life was never by word or action to run a risk of offending the sentiment which had made him. His standard of respectability and of dignity was exceedingly high, and he expected the same from his assistants.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000008|His appearance and words were always vaguely benevolent.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000009|A sudden impulse came over the despondent student.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000000_000010|He would test the reality of this philanthropy.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000002_000000|The doctor's appearance was not encouraging.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000003_000000|"Yes, mr Montgomery?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000005_000000|"So you have told me."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000006_000000|"It is very important to me, sir."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000007_000000|"Naturally."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000008_000000|"The fees, dr Oldacre, would amount to about sixty pounds."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000009_000000|"I am afraid that my duties call me elsewhere, mr Montgomery."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000010_000000|"One moment, sir!
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000010_000003|Or, if you like, I will work it off after I am qualified."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000011_000000|The doctor's lips had thinned into a narrow line.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000011_000001|His eyes were raised again, and sparkled indignantly.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000012_000000|"Your request is unreasonable, mr Montgomery.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000012_000001|I am surprised that you should have made it.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000012_000002|Consider, sir, how many thousands of medical students there are in this country.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000012_000004|Am I to provide for them all? Or why should I make an exception in your favour?
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000012_000005|I am grieved and disappointed, mr Montgomery, that you should have put me into the painful position of having to refuse you." He turned upon his heel, and walked with offended dignity out of the surgery.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000000|The student smiled bitterly, and turned to his work of making up the morning prescriptions.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000001|It was poor and unworthy work-work which any weakling might have done as well, and this was a man of exceptional nerve and sinew.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000002|But, such as it was, it brought him his board and One pound a week-enough to help him during the summer months and let him save a few pounds towards his winter keep.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000005|dr Oldacre would not advance them.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000007|His brains were fairly good, but brains of that quality were a drug in the market.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000008|He only excelled in his strength, and where was he to find a customer for that?
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000013_000009|But the ways of Fate are strange, and his customer was at hand.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000014_000001|Montgomery looked up, for the voice was a loud and rasping one.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000014_000002|A young man stood at the entrance- a stocky, bull necked young miner, in tweed Sunday clothes and an aggressive neck tie.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000016_000001|At first it had enraged him, but after a time he had grown callous to it, and accepted it as it was meant.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000016_000002|But this was something different.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000016_000003|It was insolence-brutal, overbearing insolence, with physical menace behind it.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000018_000000|"Barton.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000000|Montgomery smiled.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000001|A pleasant sense of relief thrilled softly through him.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000002|What blessed safety valve was this through which his jangled nerves might find some outlet.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000003|The provocation was so gross, the insult so unprovoked, that he could have none of those qualms which take the edge off a man's mettle.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000004|He finished sealing the bottle upon which he was occupied, and he addressed it and placed it carefully in the rack. "Look here!" said he, turning round to the miner, "your medicine will be made up in its turn and sent down to you.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000005|I don't allow folk in the surgery.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000019_000006|Wait outside in the waiting room if you wish to wait at all."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000021_000000|"I shouldn't advise you to fasten a quarrel upon me." Montgomery was speaking in the hard, staccato voice of a man who is holding himself in with difficulty.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000021_000001|"You'll save trouble if you'll go quietly.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000021_000002|If you don't you'll be hurt.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000021_000003|Ah, you would?
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000021_000004|Take it, then!"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000022_000001|Luck was with the assistant.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000022_000002|That single whizzing uppercut, and the way in which it was delivered, warned him that he had a formidable man to deal with.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000023_000000|The miner's head had come with a crash against the corner of the surgery shelves, and he had dropped heavily on to the ground.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000023_000001|There he lay with his bandy legs drawn up and his hands thrown abroad, the blood trickling over the surgery tiles.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000024_000000|"Had enough?" asked the assistant, breathing fiercely through his nose.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000025_000000|But no answer came.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000025_000002|And then the danger of his position came upon Montgomery, and he turned as white as his antagonist. A Sunday, the immaculate dr Oldacre with his pious connection, a savage brawl with a patient; he would irretrievably lose his situation if the facts came out.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000025_000004|Without money for his classes, and without a situation-what was to become of him?
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000025_000005|It was absolute ruin.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000026_000000|But perhaps he could escape exposure after all.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000026_000002|He sat up at last with a gasp and a scowl.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000028_000000|"Thou hit me hard!
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000028_000001|I could stan' such fly flappin' all day.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000029_000000|Montgomery gladly made it up and handed it to the miner.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000030_000001|"Won't you stay awhile and rest?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000032_000000|The assistant, looking after him, saw him rolling, with an uncertain step, down the street, until a friend met him, and they walked on arm in arm.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000032_000002|There was no reason why the doctor should know anything about it.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000032_000003|He wiped the blood from the floor, put the surgery in order, and went on with his interrupted task, hoping that he had come scathless out of a very dangerous business.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000033_000000|Yet all day he was aware of a sense of vague uneasiness, which sharpened into dismay when, late in the afternoon, he was informed that three gentlemen had called and were waiting for him in the surgery. A coroner's inquest, a descent of detectives, an invasion of angry relatives-all sorts of possibilities rose to scare him.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000033_000001|With tense nerves and a rigid face he went to meet his visitors.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000000|They were a very singular trio.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000003|The second was Purvis, the publican, owner of the chief beer shop, and well known as the local bookmaker.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000004|He was a coarse, clean shaven man, whose fiery face made a singular contrast with his ivory white bald head.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000005|He had shrewd, light blue eyes with foxy lashes, and he also leaned forward in silence from his chair, a fat, red hand upon either knee, and stared critically at the young assistant.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000006|So did the third visitor, Fawcett, the horse breaker, who leaned back, his long, thin legs, with their boxcloth riding gaiters, thrust out in front of him, tapping his protruding teeth with his riding whip, with anxious thought in every line of his rugged, bony face.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000007|Publican, exquisite, and horse breaker were all three equally silent, equally earnest, and equally critical.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000034_000008|Montgomery seated in the midst of them, looked from one to the other.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000035_000000|"Well, gentlemen?" he observed, but no answer came.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000037_000000|"No," said the horse breaker, at last.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000037_000001|"no
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000037_000002|It's off.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000038_000000|"Stand oop, lad; let's see thee standin'." It was the publican who spoke.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000038_000001|Montgomery obeyed.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000038_000002|He would learn all about it, no doubt, if he were patient.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000038_000003|He stood up and turned slowly round, as if in front of his tailor.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000039_000000|"It's off!
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000039_000001|It's off!" cried the horse breaker.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000040_000001|"You can drop out if you like, Fawcett, but I'll see this thing through, if I have to do it alone.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000040_000002|I don't hedge a penny.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000040_000003|I like the cut of him a great deal better than I liked Ted Barton."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000041_000000|"Look at Barton's shoulders, mr Wilson."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000042_000000|"Lumpiness isn't always strength.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000042_000001|Give me nerve and fire and breed. That's what wins."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000044_000000|"He's ten good pund on the light side," growled the horse breaker.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000046_000000|"A hundred and thirty."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000048_000000|"Well, the Master doesn't scale much more than that."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000049_000000|"A hundred and seventy five."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000050_000000|"That was when he was hog fat and living high.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000050_000001|Work the grease out of him and I lay there's no great difference between them.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000050_000002|Have you been weighed lately, mr Montgomery?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000051_000000|It was the first direct question which had been asked him.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000051_000001|He had stood in the midst of them like a horse at a fair, and he was just beginning to wonder whether he was more angry or amused.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000052_000000|"I am just eleven stone," said he.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000053_000000|"I said that he was a welter weight."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000054_000000|"But suppose you was trained?" said the publican.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000055_000000|"I am always in training."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000057_000000|The young Cantab put his fingers on the assistant's upper arm, then with his other hand on his wrist, he bent the forearm sharply, and felt the biceps, as round and hard as a cricket ball, spring up under his fingers.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000058_000000|"Feel that!" said he.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000059_000000|The publican and horse breaker felt it with an air of reverence.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000059_000001|"Good lad!
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000059_000002|He'll do yet!" cried Purvis.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000060_000000|"Gentlemen," said Montgomery, "I think that you will acknowledge that I have boon very patient with you.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000060_000001|I have listened to all that you have to say about my personal appearance, and now I must really beg that you will have the goodness to tell me what is the matter."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000062_000000|"That's easy done, mr Montgomery," said the fat voiced publican. "But before sayin' anything we had to wait and see whether, in a way of speakin', there was any need for us to say anything at all.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000062_000001|mr Wilson thinks there is.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000063_000000|"I thought him too light built, and I think so now," said the horse breaker, still tapping his prominent teeth with the metal head of his riding whip.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000064_000000|"Which I do."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000065_000000|"And you, Purvis?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000066_000000|"I ain't one to go back, Fawcett."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000067_000000|"Well, I'll stan' to my share of the purse."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000068_000000|"And well I knew you would," said Purvis, "for it would be somethin' new to find Isaac Fawcett as a spoil sport.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000068_000001|Well, then, we will make up the hundred for the stake among us, and the fight stands-always supposin' the young man is willin'."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000069_000001|"We've begun at the wrong end, I know, but we'll soon straighten it out, and I hope that you will see your way to falling in with our views.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000069_000002|In the first place, you remember the man whom you knocked out this morning?
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000069_000003|He is Barton-the famous Ted Barton."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000070_000000|"I'm sure, sir, you may well be proud to have outed him in one round," said the publican.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000070_000001|"Why, it took Morris, the ten stone six champion, a deal more trouble than that before he put Barton to sleep.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000071_000000|"I never heard of Ted Barton, beyond seeing the name on a medicine label," said the assistant.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000073_000000|Montgomery looked at them in bewilderment.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000074_000000|"For goodness' sake, gentlemen, tell me what it is you want me to do!" he cried.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000076_000000|"But why?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000077_000000|"Because Ted Barton was to have fought him next Saturday.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000077_000001|He was the champion of the Wilson coal pits, and the other was the Master of the iron folk down at the Croxley smelters.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000077_000004|If you can lick Ted Barton you may lick the Master of Croxley, but if you don't we're done, for there's no one else who is in the same street with him in this district.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000078_000001|But then there came a sudden revulsion.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000078_000004|But a chill of doubt came over him.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000078_000005|"How can I fight for the coal pits?" said he.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000079_000000|"Eh, lad, but thou art!" cried old Purvis.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000080_000000|"Yes, that's right enough," said the Cantab.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000080_000001|"It would be a very sporting thing of you, mr Montgomery, if you would come to our help when we are in such a hole.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000080_000002|Of course, you might not like to take the hundred pounds; but I have no doubt that, in the case of your winning, we could arrange that it should take the form of a watch or piece of plate, or any other shape which might suggest itself to you.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000080_000003|You see, you are responsible for our having lost our champion, so we really feel that we have a claim upon you."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000081_000001|It is very unexpected.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000081_000002|I am afraid the doctor would never consent to my going-in fact, I am sure that he would not."
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000082_000000|"But he need never know-not before the fight, at any rate.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000083_000000|The adventure and the profit would either of them have attracted Montgomery.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000083_000001|The two combined were irresistible.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000083_000002|"Gentlemen," said he, "I'll do it!"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000084_000000|The three sprang from their seats.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000084_000001|The publican had seized his right hand, the horse dealer his left, and the Cantab slapped him on the back.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000085_000000|"Good lad! good lad!" croaked the publican.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000086_000000|"It is the most sporting thing I ever heard of in my life," said young Wilson.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000086_000001|"By George, sir, if you pull it off, you've got the constituency in your pocket, if you care to stand.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000086_000002|You know the out house in my garden?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000087_000000|"Next the road?"
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000088_000000|"Exactly.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000088_000001|I turned it into a gymnasium for Ted Barton.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000088_000002|You'll find all you want there: clubs, punching ball, bars, dumb bells, everything. Then you'll want a sparring partner.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000088_000003|Ogilvy has been acting for Barton, but we don't think that he is class enough.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000088_000004|Barton bears you no grudge. He's a good hearted fellow, though cross grained with strangers.
train-clean-100/8838/298545/8838_298545_000088_000005|He looked upon you as a stranger this morning, but he says he knows you now.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000000|The medical assistant sat for a time in the surgery turning it over a little in his mind.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000002|It was true that his teacher was long past his prime, slow upon his feet, and stiff in his joints, but even so he was still a tough antagonist; but Montgomery had found at last that he could more than hold his own with him.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000004|He had been exhorted to go in for the Amateur Championships, but he had no particular ambition in that direction.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000006|There was his whole record, and was it enough to encourage him to stand up to the Master of Croxley?
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000008|After all, what did it matter?
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000009|If he won, there was the money, which meant so much to him.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000001_000010|If he lost, it would only mean a thrashing.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000003_000000|"You don't go to service, I observe, mr Montgomery" said he, coldly.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000004_000000|"No, sir; I have had some business to detain me."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000005_000000|"It is very near to my heart that my household should set a good example.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000007_000000|"I believe that to be the correct term.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000007_000001|One of my patients tells me that it is the talk of the district.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000007_000002|A local ruffian, a patient of ours, by the way, matched against a pugilist over at Croxley. I cannot understand why the law does not step in and stop so degrading an exhibition.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000007_000003|It is really a prize fight."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000009_000001|They contend for a sum of money.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000009_000002|It seems dreadful and almost incredible-does it not?--to think that such scenes can be enacted within a few miles of our peaceful home.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000009_000003|But you will realise, mr Montgomery, that while there are such influences for us to counteract, it is very necessary that we should live up to our highest."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000010_000000|The doctor's sermon would have had more effect if the assistant had not once or twice had occasion to test his highest, and come upon it at unexpectedly humble elevations.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000010_000001|It is always so particularly easy to "compound for sins we're most inclined to by damning those we have no mind to." In any case, Montgomery felt that of all the men concerned in such a fight-promoters, backers, spectators-it is the actual fighter who holds the strongest and most honourable position.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000010_000002|His conscience gave him no concern upon the subject.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000010_000003|Endurance and courage are virtues, not vices, and brutality is, at least, better than effeminacy.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000011_000000|There was a little tobacco shop at the corner of the street, where Montgomery got his bird's eye and also his local information, for the shopman was a garrulous soul, who knew everything about the affairs of the district.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000011_000001|The assistant strolled down there after tea and asked, in a casual way, whether the tobacconist had ever heard of the Master of Croxley.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000012_000000|"Heard of him!
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000013_000000|The sheet of the paper which he held up was a lake of print around an islet of illustration.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000013_000001|The latter was a coarse wood cut of a pugilist's head and neck set in a cross barred jersey.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000013_000002|It was a sinister but powerful face, the face of a debauched hero, clean shaven, strongly eye browed, keen eyed, with huge, aggressive jaw, and an animal dewlap beneath it.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000013_000003|The long, obstinate cheeks ran flush up to the narrow, sinister eyes.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000013_000004|The mighty neck came down square from the ears and curved outwards into shoulders, which had lost nothing at the hands of the local artist.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000013_000005|Above was written "Silas Craggs," and beneath, "The Master of Croxley."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000014_000002|If he hadn't broke his leg he'd have been champion of England."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000015_000000|"Broke his leg, has he?"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000016_000000|"Yes, and it set badly.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000016_000002|But his arms-well, if they was both stropped to a bench, as the sayin' is, I wonder where the champion of England would be then."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000017_000000|"I'll take this with me," said Montgomery; and putting the paper into his pocket he returned home.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000018_000000|It was not a cheering record which he read there.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000018_000001|The whole history of the Croxley Master was given in full, his many victories, his few defeats.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000019_000000|Born in eighteen fifty seven (said the provincial biographer), Silas Craggs, better known in sporting circles as the Master of Croxley, is now in his fortieth year.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000020_000000|"Hang it, I'm only twenty three!" said Montgomery to himself, and read on more cheerfully.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000000|Having in his youth shown a surprising aptitude for the game, he fought his way up among his comrades, until he became the recognised champion of the district and won the proud title which he still holds.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000001|Ambitious of a more than local fame, he secured a patron, and fought his first fight against Jack Barton, of Birmingham, in may eighteen eighty, at the old Loiterers' Club.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000003|At this period it looked as if the very highest honours of the ring were within the reach of the young Yorkshireman, but he was laid upon the shelf by a most unfortunate accident.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000004|The kick of a horse broke his thigh, and for a year he was compelled to rest himself.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000007|Undismayed by his reverses, the Master adapted the style of his fighting to his physical disabilities and resumed his career of victory-defeating Norton (the black), Hobby Wilson, and Levi Cohen, the latter a heavy weight.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000008|Conceding two stone, he fought a draw with the famous Billy McQuire, and afterwards, for a purse of fifty pounds, he defeated Sam Hare at the Pelican Club, London.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000009|In eighteen ninety one a decision was given against him upon a foul when fighting a winning fight against Jim Taylor, the Australian middle weight, and so mortified was he by the decision, that he withdrew from the ring.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000011|The latest of these ambitious souls comes from the Wilson coal pits, which have undertaken to put up a stake of one hundred pounds and back their local champion.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000021_000012|There are various rumours afloat as to who their representative is to be, the name of Ted Barton being freely mentioned; but the betting, which is seven to one on the Master against any untried man, is a fair reflection of the feeling of the community.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000000|Montgomery read it over twice, and it left him with a very serious face. No light matter this which he had undertaken; no battle with a rough and tumble fighter who presumed upon a local reputation. The man's record showed that he was first-class--or nearly so.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000001|There were a few points in his favour, and he must make the most of them. There was age-twenty three against forty.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000002|There was an old ring proverb that "Youth will be served," but the annals of the ring offer a great number of exceptions.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000003|A hard veteran full of cool valour and ring craft, could give ten or fifteen years and a beating to most striplings.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000004|He could not rely too much upon his advantage in age. But then there was the lameness; that must surely count for a great deal.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000005|And, lastly, there was the chance that the Master might underrate his opponent, that he might be remiss in his training, and refuse to abandon his usual way of life, if he thought that he had an easy task before him.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000007|Meanwhile, if his opponent were the best man who ever jumped the ropes into a ring, his own duty was clear.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000008|He must prepare himself carefully, throw away no chance, and do the very best that he could.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000009|But he knew enough to appreciate the difference which exists in boxing, as in every sport, between the amateur and the professional.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000010|The coolness, the power of hitting, above all the capability of taking punishment, count for so much.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000011|Those specially developed, gutta percha like abdominal muscles of the hardened pugilist will take without flinching a blow which would leave another man writhing on the ground.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000022_000012|Such things are not to be acquired in a week, but all that could be done in a week should be done.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000023_000000|The medical assistant had a good basis to start from.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000023_000002|His muscular development was finely hard, but his power came rather from that higher nerve energy which counts for nothing upon a measuring tape.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000023_000003|He had the well curved nose and the widely opened eye which never yet were seen upon the face of a craven, and behind everything he had the driving force, which came from the knowledge that his whole career was at stake upon the contest.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000023_000004|The three backers rubbed their hands when they saw him at work punching the ball in the gymnasium next morning; and Fawcett, the horse breaker, who had written to Leeds to hedge his bets, sent a wire to cancel the letter, and to lay another fifty at the market price of seven to one.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000024_000000|Montgomery's chief difficulty was to find time for his training without any interference from the doctor.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000024_000001|His work took him a large part of the day, but as the visiting was done on foot, and considerable distances had to be traversed, it was a training in itself.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000024_000003|Barton was full of admiration for his cleverness and quickness, but doubtful about his strength.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000024_000004|Hard hitting was the feature of his own style, and he exacted it from others.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000025_000004|Happen thou'lt pull through yet." He chuckled with joy when Montgomery knocked him into a corner.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000025_000007|Do it again, lad, do it again!"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000026_000000|The only part of Montgomery's training which came within the doctor's observation was his diet, and that puzzled him considerably.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000027_000001|Such fads are not to be encouraged in one's youth.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000027_000002|Why do you eat toast with every meal?"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000028_000000|"I find that it suits me better than bread, sir."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000029_000000|"It entails unnecessary work upon the cook.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000029_000001|I observe, also, that you have turned against potatoes."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000030_000000|"Yes, sir; I think that I am better without them."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000031_000000|"And you no longer drink your beer?"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000032_000000|"No, sir."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000033_000000|"These causeless whims and fancies are very much to be deprecated, mr Montgomery.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000034_000000|"No doubt, sir, but at present I prefer to do without them."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000035_000000|They were sitting alone at lunch, and the assistant thought that it would be a good opportunity of asking leave for the day of the fight.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000036_000000|"I should be glad if you could let me have leave for Saturday, dr Oldacre."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000037_000000|"It is very inconvenient upon so busy a day."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000038_000000|"I should do a double day's work on Friday so as to leave everything in order.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000038_000001|I should hope to be back in the evening."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000039_000000|"I am afraid I cannot spare you, mr Montgomery."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000040_000000|This was a facer.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000040_000001|If he could not get leave he would go without it.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000041_000000|"You will remember, dr Oldacre, that when I came to you it was understood that I should have a clear day every month.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000041_000001|I have never claimed one.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000042_000000|dr Oldacre gave in with a very bad grace.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000042_000002|Do you still insist?"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000043_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000044_000000|"Very good.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000044_000001|Have your way."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000045_000000|The doctor was boiling over with anger, but Montgomery was a valuable assistant-steady, capable, and hardworking-and he could not afford to lose him.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000045_000001|Even if he had been prompted to advance those class fees, for which his assistant had appealed, it would have been against his interests to do so, for he did not wish him to qualify, and he desired him to remain in his subordinate position, in which he worked so hard for so small a wage.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000045_000002|There was something in the cool insistence of the young man, a quiet resolution in his voice as he claimed his Saturday, which aroused his curiosity.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000047_000000|"No, sir.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000048_000000|"In the country?"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000049_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000050_000000|"You are very wise.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000050_000001|You will find a quiet day among the wild flowers a very valuable restorative.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000051_000000|"I am going over Croxley way."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000052_000000|"Well, there is no prettier country when once you are past the iron works.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000052_000002|I should recommend a visit to the ruins of saint Bridget's Church, a very interesting relic of the early Norman era. By the way, there is one objection which I see to your going to Croxley on Saturday.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000052_000004|You may find yourself molested by the blackguards whom it will attract."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000053_000000|"I will take my chance of that, sir," said the assistant.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000054_000000|On the Friday night, which was the last night before the fight, Montgomery's three backers assembled in the gymnasium and inspected their man as he went through some light exercises to keep his muscles supple.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000054_000002|The three walked round him and exulted.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000055_000000|"He's simply ripping!" said the undergraduate.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000057_000000|"Happen he's a trifle on the fine side," said the publican.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000057_000001|"Runs a bit light at the loins, to my way of thinking'."
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000058_000000|"What weight to day?"
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000059_000000|"Ten stone eleven," the assistant answered.
train-clean-100/8838/298546/8838_298546_000060_000002|"I hear that the Master will scale a hundred and sixty odd at the ring side."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000005_000000|CHAPTER thirty six.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000006_000000|CALM PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSIONS
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000007_000000|Here I end what I may call my log, happily saved from the wreck, and I resume my narrative as before.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000008_000000|What happened when the raft was dashed upon the rocks is more than I can tell.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000008_000001|I felt myself hurled into the waves; and if I escaped from death, and if my body was not torn over the sharp edges of the rocks, it was because the powerful arm of Hans came to my rescue.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000009_000000|The brave Icelander carried me out of the reach of the waves, over a burning sand where I found myself by the side of my uncle.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000010_000000|Then he returned to the rocks, against which the furious waves were beating, to save what he could.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000010_000001|I was unable to speak.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000010_000002|I was shattered with fatigue and excitement; I wanted a whole hour to recover even a little.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000011_000001|A few overhanging rocks afforded us some shelter from the storm.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000011_000002|Hans prepared some food, which I could not touch; and each of us, exhausted with three sleepless nights, fell into a broken and painful sleep.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000012_000000|The next day the weather was splendid.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000012_000001|The sky and the sea had sunk into sudden repose.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000013_000000|"Well, my boy," he cried, "have you slept well?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000014_000000|Would not any one have thought that we were still in our cheerful little house on the Koenigstrasse and that I was only just coming down to breakfast, and that I was to be married to Graeuben that day?
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000015_000000|Alas! if the tempest had but sent the raft a little more east, we should have passed under Germany, under my beloved town of Hamburg, under the very street where dwelt all that I loved most in the world. Then only forty leagues would have separated us!
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000015_000001|But they were forty leagues perpendicular of solid granite wall, and in reality we were a thousand leagues asunder!
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000016_000000|All these painful reflections rapidly crossed my mind before I could answer my uncle's question.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000017_000000|"Well, now," he repeated, "won't you tell me how you have slept?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000018_000000|"Oh, very well," I said.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000018_000001|"I am only a little knocked up, but I shall soon be better."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000019_000001|You are only a little bit tired."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000020_000000|"But you, uncle, you seem in very good spirits this morning."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000021_000000|"Delighted, my boy, delighted.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000021_000001|We have got there."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000022_000000|"To our journey's end?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000023_000000|"No; but we have got to the end of that endless sea.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000023_000001|Now we shall go by land, and really begin to go down!
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000023_000002|down!
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000023_000003|down!"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000024_000000|"But, my dear uncle, do let me ask you one question."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000025_000000|"Of course, Axel."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000026_000000|"How about returning?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000027_000000|"Returning?
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000027_000001|Why, you are talking about the return before the arrival."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000028_000000|"No, I only want to know how that is to be managed."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000029_000000|"In the simplest way possible.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000029_000001|When we have reached the centre of the globe, either we shall find some new way to get back, or we shall come back like decent folks the way we came.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000029_000002|I feel pleased at the thought that it is sure not to be shut against us."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000030_000000|"But then we shall have to refit the raft."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000032_000000|"Then, as to provisions, have we enough to last?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000033_000000|"Yes; to be sure we have.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000033_000001|Hans is a clever fellow, and I am sure he must have saved a large part of our cargo.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000033_000002|But still let us go and make sure."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000034_000000|We left this grotto which lay open to every wind.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000034_000001|At the same time I cherished a trembling hope which was a fear as well.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000034_000002|It seemed to me impossible that the terrible wreck of the raft should not have destroyed everything on board.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000034_000003|On my arrival on the shore I found Hans surrounded by an assemblage of articles all arranged in good order.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000034_000004|My uncle shook hands with him with a lively gratitude.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000035_000000|Not that we had suffered no losses.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000035_000001|For instance, our firearms; but we might do without them.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000035_000002|Our stock of powder had remained uninjured after having risked blowing up during the storm.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000036_000000|"Well," cried the Professor, "as we have no guns we cannot hunt, that's all."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000037_000000|"Yes, but how about the instruments?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000038_000000|"Here is the aneroid, the most useful of all, and for which I would have given all the others.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000038_000001|By means of it I can calculate the depth and know when we have reached the centre; without it we might very likely go beyond, and come out at the antipodes!"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000039_000000|Such high spirits as these were rather too strong.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000040_000000|"But where is the compass?
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000040_000001|I asked.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000041_000000|"Here it is, upon this rock, in perfect condition, as well as the thermometers and the chronometer.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000041_000001|The hunter is a splendid fellow."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000042_000001|We had all our instruments.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000042_000002|As for tools and appliances, there they all lay on the ground-ladders, ropes, picks, spades, etc
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000043_000000|Still there was the question of provisions to be settled, and I asked-"How are we off for provisions?"
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000046_000000|I ought by this time to have been quite accustomed to my uncle's ways; yet there was always something fresh about him to astonish me.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000047_000001|As for the raft, I will recommend Hans to do his best to repair it, although I don't expect it will be of any further use to us."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000048_000000|"How so?" I cried.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000049_000000|"An idea of my own, my lad.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000049_000001|I don't think we shall come out by the way that we went in."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000050_000000|I stared at the Professor with a good deal of mistrust.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000050_000001|I asked, was he not touched in the brain?
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000050_000002|And yet there was method in his madness.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000051_000000|"And now let us go to breakfast," said he.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000052_000000|I followed him to a headland, after he had given his instructions to the hunter.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000052_000001|There preserved meat, biscuit, and tea made us an excellent meal, one of the best I ever remember.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000052_000002|Hunger, the fresh air, the calm quiet weather, after the commotions we had gone through, all contributed to give me a good appetite.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000053_000000|Whilst breakfasting I took the opportunity to put to my uncle the question where we were now.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000054_000000|"That seems to me," I said, "rather difficult to make out."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000055_000000|"Yes, it is difficult," he said, "to calculate exactly; perhaps even impossible, since during these three stormy days I have been unable to keep any account of the rate or direction of the raft; but still we may get an approximation."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000057_000000|"You mean Axel Island.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000057_000001|Don't decline the honour of having given your name to the first island ever discovered in the central parts of the globe."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000058_000000|"Well," said I, "let it be Axel Island.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000059_000000|"Very well," answered my uncle; "let us start from that point and count four days' storm, during which our rate cannot have been less than eighty leagues in the twenty four hours."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000060_000000|"That is right; and this would make three hundred leagues more."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000061_000001|Surely, Axel, it may vie in size with the Mediterranean itself."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000062_000000|"Especially," I replied, "if it happens that we have only crossed it in its narrowest part.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000063_000002|Perhaps we have deviated."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000064_000000|"No, I think not.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000064_000001|Our course has been the same all along, and I believe this shore is south-east of Port Graeuben."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000065_000000|"Well," replied my uncle, "we may easily ascertain this by consulting the compass.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000065_000001|Let us go and see what it says."
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000066_000000|The Professor moved towards the rock upon which Hans had laid down the instruments.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000066_000001|He was gay and full of spirits; he rubbed his hands, he studied his attitudes.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000066_000002|I followed him, curious to know if I was right in my estimate.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000066_000003|As soon as we had arrived at the rock my uncle took the compass, laid it horizontally, and questioned the needle, which, after a few oscillations, presently assumed a fixed position. My uncle looked, and looked, and looked again.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000066_000004|He rubbed his eyes, and then turned to me thunderstruck with some unexpected discovery.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000067_000000|"What is the matter?" I asked.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000068_000001|An exclamation of astonishment burst from me.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000068_000002|The north pole of the needle was turned to what we supposed to be the south.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000068_000003|It pointed to the shore instead of to the open sea!
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000068_000004|I shook the box, examined it again, it was in perfect condition.
train-clean-100/887/123289/887_123289_000068_000005|In whatever position I placed the box the needle pertinaciously returned to this unexpected quarter.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000002_000000|How shall I describe the strange series of passions which in succession shook the breast of Professor Liedenbrock?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000002_000001|First stupefaction, then incredulity, lastly a downright burst of rage. Never had I seen the man so put out of countenance and so disturbed. The fatigues of our passage across, the dangers met, had all to be begun over again.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000002_000002|We had gone backwards instead of forwards!
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000003_000000|But my uncle rapidly recovered himself.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000004_000000|"Aha! will fate play tricks upon me?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000004_000001|Will the elements lay plots against me?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000004_000002|Shall fire, air, and water make a combined attack against me?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000004_000003|Well, they shall know what a determined man can do.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000004_000004|I will not yield.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000004_000005|I will not stir a single foot backwards, and it will be seen whether man or nature is to have the upper hand!"
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000005_000000|Erect upon the rock, angry and threatening, Otto Liedenbrock was a rather grotesque fierce parody upon the fierce Achilles defying the lightning.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000005_000001|But I thought it my duty to interpose and attempt to lay some restraint upon this unmeasured fanaticism.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000006_000000|"Just listen to me," I said firmly.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000007_000000|I was able to develop this series of unanswerable reasons for ten minutes without interruption; not that the Professor was paying any respectful attention to his nephew's arguments, but because he was deaf to all my eloquence.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000008_000000|"To the raft!" he shouted.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000009_000000|Such was his only reply.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000010_000000|Hans was finishing the repairs of the raft.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000010_000001|One would have thought that this strange being was guessing at my uncle's intentions.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000010_000002|With a few more pieces of surturbrand he had refitted our vessel.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000010_000003|A sail already hung from the new mast, and the wind was playing in its waving folds.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000011_000000|The Professor said a few words to the guide, and immediately he put everything on board and arranged every necessary for our departure. The air was clear-and the north-west wind blew steadily.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000000|What could I do?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000001|Could I stand against the two?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000002|It was impossible?
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000003|If Hans had but taken my side!
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000004|But no, it was not to be.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000005|The Icelander seemed to have renounced all will of his own and made a vow to forget and deny himself.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000006|I could get nothing out of a servant so feudalised, as it were, to his master.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000012_000007|My only course was to proceed.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000013_000000|I was therefore going with as much resignation as I could find to resume my accustomed place on the raft, when my uncle laid his hand upon my shoulder.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000014_000000|"We shall not sail until to morrow," he said.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000015_000000|I made a movement intended to express resignation.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000017_000001|In fact we were not upon the north shore of the sea.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000018_000000|"Now let us start upon fresh discoveries," I said.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000000|And leaving Hans to his work we started off together.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000001|The space between the water and the foot of the cliffs was considerable.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000002|It took half an hour to bring us to the wall of rock.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000003|We trampled under our feet numberless shells of all the forms and sizes which existed in the earliest ages of the world.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000004|I also saw immense carapaces more than fifteen feet in diameter.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000005|They had been the coverings of those gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene period, of which the modern tortoise is but a miniature representative.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000019_000007|I was therefore led to the conclusion that at one time the sea must have covered the ground on which we were treading.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000020_000000|This might up to a certain point explain the existence of an ocean forty leagues beneath the surface of the globe.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000020_000001|But in my opinion this liquid mass would be lost by degrees farther and farther within the interior of the earth, and it certainly had its origin in the waters of the ocean overhead, which had made their way hither through some fissure.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000020_000003|Perhaps even this water, subjected to the fierce action of central heat, had partly been resolved into vapour.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000022_000000|We were therefore walking upon sedimentary soil, the deposits of the waters of former ages.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000022_000002|Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000022_000003|To him this was important.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000023_000000|We had traversed the shores of the Liedenbrock sea for a mile when we observed a sudden change in the appearance of the soil.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000023_000001|It seemed upset, contorted, and convulsed by a violent upheaval of the lower strata.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000023_000002|In many places depressions or elevations gave witness to some tremendous power effecting the dislocation of strata.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000025_000000|We moved with difficulty across these granite fissures and chasms mingled with silex, crystals of quartz, and alluvial deposits, when a field, nay, more than a field, a vast plain, of bleached bones lay spread before us.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000025_000001|It seemed like an immense cemetery, where the remains of twenty ages mingled their dust together.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000025_000002|Huge mounds of bony fragments rose stage after stage in the distance.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000025_000003|They undulated away to the limits of the horizon, and melted in the distance in a faint haze.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000025_000004|There within three square miles were accumulated the materials for a complete history of the animal life of ages, a history scarcely outlined in the too recent strata of the inhabited world.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000027_000000|I stood amazed.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000027_000001|My uncle had uplifted his long arms to the vault which was our sky; his mouth gaping wide, his eyes flashing behind his shining spectacles, his head balancing with an up and down motion, his whole attitude denoted unlimited astonishment.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000027_000003|Fancy an enthusiastic bibliomaniac suddenly brought into the midst of the famous Alexandrian library burnt by Omar and restored by a miracle from its ashes! just such a crazed enthusiast was my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000029_000000|"Axel!
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000029_000001|Axel! a human head!"
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000030_000000|"A human skull?" I cried, no less astonished.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000031_000000|"Yes, nephew.
train-clean-100/887/123290/887_123290_000031_000002|Ah!
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000004_000000|CHAPTER thirty eight.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000005_000000|THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000006_000000|To understand this apostrophe of my uncle's, made to absent French savants, it will be necessary to allude to an event of high importance in a palaeontological point of view, which had occurred a little while before our departure.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000007_000001|It was the first fossil of this nature that had ever been brought to light.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000007_000002|Not far distant were found stone hatchets and flint arrow heads stained and encased by lapse of time with a uniform coat of rust.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000008_000000|The noise of this discovery was very great, not in France alone, but in England and in Germany.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000009_000000|Therefore the genuineness of a fossil human relic of the quaternary period seemed to be incontestably proved and admitted.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000011_000000|We knew all these details, but we were not aware that since our departure the question had advanced to farther stages.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000012_000000|Nor was this all.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000012_000001|Fresh discoveries of remains in the pleiocene formation had emboldened other geologists to refer back the human species to a higher antiquity still.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000012_000002|It is true that these remains were not human bones, but objects bearing the traces of his handiwork, such as fossil leg bones of animals, sculptured and carved evidently by the hand of man.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000014_000000|Such then was the state of palaeontological science, and what we knew of it was sufficient to explain our behaviour in the presence of this stupendous Golgotha.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000014_000001|Any one may now understand the frenzied excitement of my uncle, when, twenty yards farther on, he found himself face to face with a primitive man!
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000000|It was a perfectly recognisable human body.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000002|It might be so.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000003|But this dried corpse, with its parchment like skin drawn tightly over the bony frame, the limbs still preserving their shape, sound teeth, abundant hair, and finger and toe nails of frightful length, this desiccated mummy startled us by appearing just as it had lived countless ages ago.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000004|I stood mute before this apparition of remote antiquity.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000005|My uncle, usually so garrulous, was struck dumb likewise.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000006|We raised the body.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000015_000007|We stood it up against a rock.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000001|Eminent geologists have denied his existence, others no less eminent have affirmed it.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000003|I am quite aware that science has to be on its guard with discoveries of this kind.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000005|I have heard the tale of the kneepan of Ajax, the pretended body of Orestes claimed to have been found by the Spartans, and of the body of Asterius, ten cubits long, of which Pausanias speaks.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000006|I have read the reports of the skeleton of Trapani, found in the fourteenth century, and which was at the time identified as that of Polyphemus; and the history of the giant unearthed in the sixteenth century near Palermo.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000007|You know as well as I do, gentlemen, the analysis made at Lucerne in fifteen seventy seven of those huge bones which the celebrated dr Felix Plater affirmed to be those of a giant nineteen feet high.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000008|I have gone through the treatises of Cassanion, and all those memoirs, pamphlets, answers, and rejoinders published respecting the skeleton of Teutobochus, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a sandpit in the Dauphine, in sixteen thirteen.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000017_000010|I have perused a writing, entitled Gigan-"
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000018_000000|Here my uncle's unfortunate infirmity met him-that of being unable in public to pronounce hard words.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000019_000000|"The pamphlet entitled Gigan-"
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000022_000000|It was not to be done.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000022_000001|The unlucky word would not come out.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000023_000000|"Gigantosteologie," at last the Professor burst out, between two words which I shall not record here.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000025_000000|"Yes, gentlemen, I know all these things, and more.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000025_000001|I know that Cuvier and Blumenbach have recognised in these bones nothing more remarkable than the bones of the mammoth and other mammals of the post tertiary period.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000025_000002|But in the presence of this specimen to doubt would be to insult science.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000025_000003|There stands the body!
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000025_000005|It is not a mere skeleton; it is an entire body, preserved for a purely anthropological end and purpose."
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000026_000000|I was good enough not to contradict this startling assertion.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000027_000001|But I do not possess that valuable solvent.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000001|It is the white race, our own.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000002|The skull of this fossil is a regular oval, or rather ovoid.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000003|It exhibits no prominent cheekbones, no projecting jaws.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000004|It presents no appearance of that prognathism which diminishes the facial angle.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000006|It is nearly ninety degrees.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000007|But I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that this specimen of the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000029_000008|Don't smile, gentlemen."
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000030_000000|Nobody was smiling; but the learned Professor was frequently disturbed by the broad smiles provoked by his learned eccentricities.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000031_000002|I make no rash assertions; but there is the man surrounded by his own works, by hatchets, by flint arrow heads, which are the characteristics of the stone age.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000031_000003|And unless he came here, like myself, as a tourist on a visit and as a pioneer of science, I can entertain no doubt of the authenticity of his remote origin."
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000034_000000|Another remarkable thing.
train-clean-100/887/123291/887_123291_000035_000001|Then one very serious question arose presently which we scarcely dared to suggest. Had all those creatures slided through a great fissure in the crust of the earth, down to the shores of the Liedenbrock sea, when they were dead and turning to dust, or had they lived and grown and died here in this subterranean world under a false sky, just like inhabitants of the upper earth?
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000004_000005|I will look into it-cost me what it may, I will look into it-and directly too-by daylight.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000005_000006|With this spirit she sprang forward, and her confidence did not deceive her. Her resolute effort threw back the lid, and gave to her astonished eyes the view of a white cotton counterpane, properly folded, reposing at one end of the chest in undisputed possession!
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000009_000002|The general's good humour increased.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000012_000006|It was not absolutely ebony and gold; but it was japan, black and yellow japan of the handsomest kind; and as she held her candle, the yellow had very much the effect of gold.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000012_000010|Alarmed, but not discouraged, she tried it another way; a bolt flew, and she believed herself successful; but how strangely mysterious!
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000013_000006|Her heart fluttered, her knees trembled, and her cheeks grew pale.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000014_000003|A lamp could not have expired with more awful effect.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000014_000007|In the pause which succeeded, a sound like receding footsteps and the closing of a distant door struck on her affrighted ear.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000014_000008|Human nature could support no more.
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000014_000014|What could it contain?
train-clean-100/89/218/89_218_000014_000017|Till she had made herself mistress of its contents, however, she could have neither repose nor comfort; and with the sun's first rays she was determined to peruse it.
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000000_000003|This was the only comfort that occurred.
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000002_000002|"But we have a charming morning after it," she added, desiring to get rid of the subject; "and storms and sleeplessness are nothing when they are over.
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000002_000003|What beautiful hyacinths!
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000002_000004|I have just learnt to love a hyacinth."
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000003_000001|By accident or argument?"
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000006_000002|Mamma says I am never within."
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000011_000000|"Is it a pretty place?" asked Catherine.
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000015_000001|Why was Miss Tilney embarrassed?
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000026_000000|It was a narrow winding path through a thick grove of old Scotch firs; and Catherine, struck by its gloomy aspect, and eager to enter it, could not, even by the general's disapprobation, be kept from stepping forward.
train-clean-100/89/219/89_219_000033_000000|"A mother would have been always present.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000000_000000|THIRTEENTH LECTURE
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000001_000000|THE DREAM
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000003_000002|So we called the mode of expression of the dream work the archaic or regressive.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000004_000001|I trust this will be true, but this work has not, up to the present time, been undertaken.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000005_000001|You probably all know from your own experiences the peculiar amnesia, that is, loss of memory, concerning childhood.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000005_000002|I mean the fact that the first years, to the fifth, sixth or eighth, have not left the same traces in our memory as have later experiences.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000005_000005|The child is able to speak well at the age of two, it soon shows that it can become adjusted to the most complicated psychic situations, and makes remarks which years later are retold to it, but which it has itself entirely forgotten.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000006_000001|Our memory deals selectively with its later materials, with impressions which come to us in later life.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000006_000006|For this reason I have called these childhood memories "disguise memories," memories used to conceal; by means of careful analysis one is able to develop out of them everything that is forgotten.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000007_000004|Beautiful examples of this occur in literature, and I myself can present such an example.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000007_000006|He was a one eyed man, short in stature, stout, his head deeply sunk into his neck.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000007_000007|I concluded from the content that he was a physician.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000008_000002|After we have interpreted such a dream for the dreamer and he, in the most favorable circumstances does not attack the interpretation itself, he almost always asks the question whence such a wish comes, since it seems foreign to him and he feels conscious of just the opposite sensations. We need not hesitate to point out this origin.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000008_000003|These evil wish impulses have their origin in the past, often in a past which is not too far away.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000009_000003|You will wish to conclude therefrom that such wishes and such dreams cannot occur if such changes in the relationship to a person have not taken place; if such relationship was always of the same character.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000010_000001|You say: "Granted this death wish was present at some time or other, and is substantiated by memory, yet this is no explanation.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000010_000002|It is long outlived, to day it can be present only in the unconscious and as an empty, emotionless memory, but not as a strong impulse.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000010_000003|Why should it be recalled by the dream at all!"
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000010_000004|This question is justified.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000010_000006|But I must remain within the bounds of our discussion and practice restraint. Prepare yourselves for the temporary abstention.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000010_000007|Let us be satisfied with the circumstantial proof that this outlived wish can be shown to act as a dream stimulator and let us continue the investigation to see whether or not other evil wishes admit of the same derivation out of the past.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000011_000002|As often as someone has been in our way in life-and how often must this happen in the complicated relationships of life-the dream is ready to do away with him, be he father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, etc
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000011_000006|For the child loves itself first, and later learns to love others, to sacrifice something of its ego for another.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000012_000006|Expressions such as "I don't want him!
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000012_000007|Let the stork take him away again," are very usual.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000012_000008|Subsequently every opportunity is made use of to disparage the new arrival, and even attempts to do him bodily harm, direct attacks, are not unheard of.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000012_000010|If the difference in age is greater, the new child may awaken certain sympathies as an interesting object, as a sort of living doll, and if the difference is eight years or more, motherly impulses, especially in the case of girls, may come into play.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000013_000003|I believe it was Bernard Shaw who said: "If there is anyone who hates a young English lady more than does her mother, it is her elder sister." There is something about this saying, however, that arouses our antipathy.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000013_000004|We can, at a pinch, understand hatred of brothers and sisters, and rivalry among them, but how may feelings of hatred force their way into the relationship between daughter and mother, parents and children?
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000014_000000|This relationship is without doubt the more favorable, even when looked at from the viewpoint of the child.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000014_000001|This is in accord with our expectation; we find it much more offensive for love between parents and children to be lacking than for love between brothers and sisters.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000014_000004|The motives for this are everywhere known and disclose a tendency to separate those of the same sex, daughter from mother, father from son.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000014_000008|Impatient waiting for the death of the father grows to heights approximating tragedy in the case of a successor to the throne.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000014_000009|Less strained is the relationship between father and daughter, mother and son.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000015_000001|Because there is an unmistakable disposition to deny their significance in life, and to set forth the ideal demanded by society as a fulfilled thing much oftener than it really is fulfilled.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000015_000002|But it is preferable for psychology to speak the truth, rather than that this task should be left to the cynic.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000016_000000|It is not to be wondered at that in the case of a large number of people the dream discloses the wish for the removal of the parents, especially the parent of the same sex.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000016_000003|Sachs).
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000016_000005|The reason for this is that the deepest and most uniform motive for becoming unfriendly, especially between persons of the same sex, has already made its influence felt in earliest childhood.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000017_000000|I mean the love rivalry, with the especial emphasis of the sex character.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000017_000004|In addition, children frequently react to the Oedipus idea through stimulation by the parents, who in the placing of their affection are often led by sex differences, so that the father prefers the daughter, the mother the son; or again, where the marital affection has cooled, and this love is substituted for the outworn love.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000018_000002|According to my unchanged conviction there is nothing to deny and nothing to make more palatable.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000018_000003|One should accept the fact, recognized by the Greek myth itself, as inevitable destiny.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000018_000004|On the other hand, it is interesting that this Oedipus complex, cast out of life, was yielded up to poetry and given the freest play.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000019_000001|Thus we are moved to study the development of sex life in the child also, and we discover the following from a number of sources: In the first place, it is a mistake to deny that the child has a sexual life, and to take it for granted that sexuality commences with the ripening of the genitals at the time of puberty.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000019_000004|None of these limitations exist in the beginning, but are gradually built up in the course of development and education.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000019_000005|The little child is free from them.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000019_000006|He knows no unbridgable chasm between man and animal; the arrogance with which man distinguishes himself from the animal is a later acquisition.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000019_000008|The child may, then, be called "polymorphus perverse," and if he makes but slight use of all these impulses, it is, on the one hand, because of their lesser intensity as compared to later life, and on the other hand, because the bringing up of the child immediately and energetically suppresses all his sexual expressions.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000019_000009|This suppression continues in theory, so to say, since the grown ups are careful to control part of the childish sex expressions, and to disguise another part by misrepresenting its sexual nature until they can deny the whole business.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000020_000000|Especially noteworthy among these forbidden wishes are those of incest, i e, those directed towards sexual intercourse with parents and brothers and sisters.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000020_000001|You know what antipathy society feels toward such intercourse, or at least pretends to feel, and what weight is laid on the prohibitions directed against it.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000020_000005|Psychoanalytic research has incontrovertibly shown that the incestuous love choice is rather the first and most customary choice, and that not until later is there any resistance, the source of which probably is to be found in the individual psychology.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000021_000000|Let us sum up what our plunge into child psychology has given us toward the understanding of the dream.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000021_000003|The estranging impression that there is so much evil in man, begins to weaken.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000021_000004|This frightful evil is simply the original, primitive, infantile side of psychic life, which we may find in action in children, which we overlook partly because of the slightness of its dimensions, partly because it is lightly considered, since we demand no ethical heights of the child. Since the dream regresses to this stage, it seems to have made apparent the evil that lies in us.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000021_000005|But it is only a deceptive appearance by which we have allowed ourselves to be frightened.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000021_000006|We are not so evil as we might suspect from the interpretation of dreams.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000022_000002|Many things are taking place there that are not reasonable, and so it happens that we are ashamed of such dreams, and unreasonably.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000022_000004|Just think of the scandalized opinion of the fine old lady about her uninterpreted dream of "services of love." The problem is not yet solved, and it is still possible that upon further study of the evil in the dream we shall come to some other decision and arrive at another valuation of human nature.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000023_000000|As a result of the whole investigation we grasp two facts, which, however, disclose only the beginnings of new riddles, new doubts.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000023_000001|First: the regression of dream work is not only formal, it is also of greater import.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000023_000002|It not only translates our thoughts into a primitive form of expression, but it reawakens the peculiarities of our primitive psychic life, the ancient predominance of the ego, the earliest impulses of our sexual life, even our old intellectual property, if we may consider the symbolic relations as such.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000023_000004|But the latent dream thoughts, which we have solved by means of the dream interpretation, are not of this realm.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000023_000006|Still they are unconscious; how does one solve this contradiction?
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000023_000011|The time will soon come, however, when we shall clothe the unconscious character of the latent dream thought with another name, which shall differentiate it from the unconscious out of the realm of the infantile.
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000024_000002|And if they must, because of the dream censorship, disguise themselves through old forms of expression which are no longer comprehensible, what is the use of giving new life to old, long outgrown psychic stimuli, wishes and character types, that is, why the material regression in addition to the formal?
train-clean-100/8975/270782/8975_270782_000024_000003|The only satisfactory answer would be this, that only in this manner can a dream be built up, that dynamically the dream stimulus can be satisfied only in this way.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000006_000000|From The Independent Journal.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000006_000001|wednesday march twelfth seventeen eighty eight.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000008_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000009_000000|THE mode of appointment of the Chief Magistrate of the United States is almost the only part of the system, of any consequence, which has escaped without severe censure, or which has received the slightest mark of approbation from its opponents.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000010_000000|It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000011_000000|It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000011_000001|A small number of persons, selected by their fellow citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000012_000002|But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000012_000003|The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000012_000004|And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000000|Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000001|These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000002|How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000003|But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000004|They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000005|And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000006|No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000008|Their transient existence, and their detached situation, already taken notice of, afford a satisfactory prospect of their continuing so, to the conclusion of it.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000013_000010|Nor would it be found easy suddenly to embark them, dispersed as they would be over thirteen States, in any combinations founded upon motives, which though they could not properly be denominated corrupt, might yet be of a nature to mislead them from their duty.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000015_000001|But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that, in such a contingency, the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who in their opinion may be best qualified for the office.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000016_000000|The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000016_000002|It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000016_000004|Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says:
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000017_000000|"For forms of government let fools contest-That which is best administered is best,"--yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000018_000000|The Vice President is to be chosen in the same manner with the President; with this difference, that the Senate is to do, in respect to the former, what is to be done by the House of Representatives, in respect to the latter.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000019_000000|The appointment of an extraordinary person, as Vice President, has been objected to as superfluous, if not mischievous.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000019_000001|It has been alleged, that it would have been preferable to have authorized the Senate to elect out of their own body an officer answering that description.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000019_000002|But two considerations seem to justify the ideas of the convention in this respect.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000019_000004|And to take the senator of any State from his seat as senator, to place him in that of President of the Senate, would be to exchange, in regard to the State from which he came, a constant for a contingent vote.
train-clean-100/909/131041/909_131041_000019_000006|It is remarkable that in this, as in most other instances, the objection which is made would lie against the constitution of this State.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000009_000000|From the New York Packet.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000011_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000012_000001|This has relation to two objects: to the personal firmness of the executive magistrate, in the employment of his constitutional powers; and to the stability of the system of administration which may have been adopted under his auspices.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000012_000004|This remark is not less applicable to a political privilege, or honor, or trust, than to any article of ordinary property.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000012_000007|In either case, feebleness and irresolution must be the characteristics of the station.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000013_000003|It is a just observation, that the people commonly INTEND the PUBLIC GOOD.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000015_000002|It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another to be dependent on the legislative body.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000015_000003|The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000015_000005|In governments purely republican, this tendency is almost irresistible.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000015_000006|The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000016_000001|Another answer, perhaps more obvious, though not more conclusive, will result from the consideration of the influence of the legislative body over the people; which might be employed to prevent the re-election of a man who, by an upright resistance to any sinister project of that body, should have made himself obnoxious to its resentment.
train-clean-100/909/131044/909_131044_000018_000003|He might, then, hazard with safety, in proportion to the proofs he had given of his wisdom and integrity, and to the title he had acquired to the respect and attachment of his fellow citizens.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000004_000001|wednesday march nineteenth seventeen eighty eight.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000006_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000007_000001|The actual conduct of foreign negotiations, the preparatory plans of finance, the application and disbursement of the public moneys in conformity to the general appropriations of the legislature, the arrangement of the army and navy, the directions of the operations of war-these, and other matters of a like nature, constitute what seems to be most properly understood by the administration of government.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000008_000000|With a positive duration of considerable extent, I connect the circumstance of re eligibility.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000009_000000|Nothing appears more plausible at first sight, nor more ill founded upon close inspection, than a scheme which in relation to the present point has had some respectable advocates-I mean that of continuing the chief magistrate in office for a certain time, and then excluding him from it, either for a limited period or forever after.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000009_000001|This exclusion, whether temporary or perpetual, would have nearly the same effects, and these effects would be for the most part rather pernicious than salutary.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000010_000001|There are few men who would not feel much less zeal in the discharge of a duty when they were conscious that the advantages of the station with which it was connected must be relinquished at a determinate period, than when they were permitted to entertain a hope of obtaining, by meriting, a continuance of them.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000011_000000|Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000015_000000|A fourth ill effect of the exclusion would be the banishing men from stations in which, in certain emergencies of the state, their presence might be of the greatest moment to the public interest or safety.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000015_000003|Without supposing the personal essentiality of the man, it is evident that a change of the chief magistrate, at the breaking out of a war, or at any similar crisis, for another, even of equal merit, would at all times be detrimental to the community, inasmuch as it would substitute inexperience to experience, and would tend to unhinge and set afloat the already settled train of the administration.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000016_000000|A fifth ill effect of the exclusion would be, that it would operate as a constitutional interdiction of stability in the administration.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000016_000003|The contrary is the usual course of things.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000016_000004|And we need not be apprehensive that there will be too much stability, while there is even the option of changing; nor need we desire to prohibit the people from continuing their confidence where they think it may be safely placed, and where, by constancy on their part, they may obviate the fatal inconveniences of fluctuating councils and a variable policy.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000017_000000|These are some of the disadvantages which would flow from the principle of exclusion.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000018_000001|Unless the exclusion be perpetual, there will be no pretense to infer the first advantage.
train-clean-100/909/131045/909_131045_000019_000000|As to the second supposed advantage, there is still greater reason to entertain doubts concerning it.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000004_000000|Common sense and popular philosophy are as dualistic as it is possible to be.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000004_000001|Thoughts, we all naturally think, are made of one kind of substance, and things of another.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000004_000002|Consciousness, flowing inside of us in the forms of conception or judgment, or concentrating itself in the shape of passion or emotion, can be directly felt as the spiritual activity which it is, and known in contrast with the space filling objective 'content' which it envelopes and accompanies.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000005_000001|In Section seven. of [the first essay], I treated of this class of experiences very inadequately, because I had to be so brief.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000005_000002|I now return to the subject, because I believe that, so far from invalidating my general thesis, these phenomena, when properly analyzed, afford it powerful support.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000006_000000|The central point of the pure experience theory is that 'outer' and 'inner' are names for two groups into which we sort experiences according to the way in which they act upon their neighbors.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000006_000002|Here whatever is hard interferes with the space its neighbors occupy.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000006_000003|It dents them; is impenetrable by them; and we call the hardness then a physical hardness.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000007_000001|To her offspring a tigress is tender, but cruel to every other living thing-both cruel and tender, therefore, at once.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000007_000003|It is thus both energetic and inert; and the same is true (if you vary the associates properly) of every other piece of experience.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000007_000004|It is only towards certain specific groups of associates that the physical energies, as we call them, of a content are put forth. In another group it may be quite inert.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000008_000000|It is possible to imagine a universe of experiences in which the only alternative between neighbors would be either physical interaction or complete inertness.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000008_000002|When active, it would figure in the physical, and when inactive, in the mental group.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000009_000000|But the universe we live in is more chaotic than this, and there is room in it for the hybrid or ambiguous group of our affectional experiences, of our emotions and appreciative perceptions.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000009_000001|In the paragraphs that follow I shall try to show:
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000010_000000|(one) That the popular notion that these experiences are intuitively given as purely inner facts is hasty and erroneous; and
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000011_000001|Classifications depend on our temporary purposes.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000011_000003|In the two cases their contexts are apt to be different.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000011_000005|Thus would these experiences, so far from being an obstacle to the pure experience philosophy, serve as an excellent corroboration of its truth.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000000|First of all, then, it is a mistake to say, with the objectors whom I began by citing, that anger, love and fear are affections purely of the mind.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000002|We can say that we are aware of a painful place, filling a certain bigness in our organism, or we can say that we are inwardly in a 'state' of pain.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000007|We discover beauty just as we discover the physical properties of things.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000008|Training is needed to make us expert in either line.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000010|Shall we say an 'agreeable degree of heat,' or an 'agreeable feeling' occasioned by the degree of heat?
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000011|Either will do; and language would lose most of its esthetic and rhetorical value were we forbidden to project words primarily connoting our affections upon the objects by which the affections are aroused.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000012|The man is really hateful; the action really mean; the situation really tragic-all in themselves and quite apart from our opinion.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000012_000013|We even go so far as to talk of a weary road, a giddy height, a jocund morning or a sullen sky; and the term 'indefinite' while usually applied only to our apprehensions, functions as a fundamental physical qualification of things in Spencer's 'law of evolution,' and doubtless passes with most readers for all right.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000000|Psychologists, studying our perceptions of movement, have unearthed experiences in which movement is felt in general but not ascribed correctly to the body that really moves.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000002|When clouds float by the moon, it is as if both clouds and moon and we ourselves shared in the motion.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000003|In the extraordinary case of amnesia of the Rev.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000006|A piece of experience of a determinate sort is there, but there at first as a 'pure' fact.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000008|Something like this is true of every experience, however complex, at the moment of its actual presence.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000009|Let the reader arrest himself in the act of reading this article now.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000013_000012|At the moment, it is there for neither; later we shall probably judge it to have been there for both.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000014_000000|With the affectional experiences which we are considering, the relatively 'pure' condition lasts.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000014_000001|In practical life no urgent need has yet arisen for deciding whether to treat them as rigorously mental or as rigorously physical facts.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000014_000002|So they remain equivocal; and, as the world goes, their equivocality is one of their great conveniences.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000015_000001|The common sense stage of thought is a perfectly definite practical halting place, the place where we ourselves can proceed to act unhesitatingly.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000015_000002|On this stage of thought things act on each other as well as on us by means of their secondary qualities.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000015_000004|It is the very light of the arc lamp which displaces the darkness of the midnight street, etc
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000015_000005|By engendering and translocating just these qualities, actively efficacious as they seem to be, we ourselves succeed in altering nature so as to suit us; and until more purely intellectual, as distinguished from practical, needs had arisen, no one ever thought of calling these qualities subjective.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000016_000000|Even the primary qualities are undergoing the same fate.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000016_000001|Hardness and softness are effects on us of atomic interactions, and the atoms themselves are neither hard nor soft, nor solid nor liquid.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000017_000000|There is no original spirituality or materiality of being, intuitively discerned, then; but only a translocation of experiences from one world to another; a grouping of them with one set or another of associates for definitely practical or intellectual ends.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000018_000001|They are undeniable parts of pure experience; yet, while common sense and what I call radical empiricism stand for their being objective, both rationalism and the usual empiricism claim that they are exclusively the 'work of the mind'--the finite mind or the absolute mind, as the case may be.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000019_000000|Turn now to those affective phenomena which more directly concern us.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000020_000001|The beauty of a thing or its value is no force that can be plotted in a polygon of compositions, nor does its 'use' or 'significance' affect in the minutest degree its vicissitudes or destiny at the hands of physical nature.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000020_000002|Chemical 'affinities' are a purely verbal metaphor; and, as I just said, even such things as forces, tensions, and activities can at a pinch be regarded as anthropomorphic projections.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000020_000003|So far, then, as the physical world means the collection of contents that determine in each other certain regular changes, the whole collection of our appreciative attributes has to be treated as falling outside of it.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000020_000004|If we mean by physical nature whatever lies beyond the surface of our bodies, these attributes are inert throughout the whole extent of physical nature.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000021_000000|Why then do men leave them as ambiguous as they do, and not class them decisively as purely spiritual?
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000022_000000|The reason would seem to be that, although they are inert as regards the rest of physical nature, they are not inert as regards that part of physical nature which our own skin covers.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000022_000001|It is those very appreciative attributes of things, their dangerousness, beauty, rarity, utility, etc, that primarily appeal to our attention.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000022_000003|The 'interesting' aspects of things are thus not wholly inert physically, though they be active only in these small corners of physical nature which our bodies occupy.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000022_000004|That, however, is enough to save them from being classed as absolutely non objective.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000023_000001|It is by the interest and importance that experiences have for us, by the emotions they excite, and the purposes they subserve, by their affective values, in short, that their consecution in our several conscious streams, as 'thoughts' of ours, is mainly ruled.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000023_000002|Desire introduces them; interest holds them; fitness fixes their order and connection.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000024_000001|If 'physical' and 'mental' meant two different kinds of intrinsic nature, immediately, intuitively, and infallibly discernible, and each fixed forever in whatever bit of experience it qualified, one does not see how there could ever have arisen any room for doubt or ambiguity.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000024_000002|But if, on the contrary, these words are words of sorting, ambiguity is natural.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000024_000003|For then, as soon as the relations of a thing are sufficiently various it can be sorted variously.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000024_000005|The sun caresses it, and the zephyr wooes it as if it were a bed of roses.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000025_000000|Our body itself is the palmary instance of the ambiguous.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000025_000001|Sometimes I treat my body purely as a part of outer nature.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000025_000002|Sometimes, again, I think of it as 'mine,' I sort it with the 'me,' and then certain local changes and determinations in it pass for spiritual happenings.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000025_000004|It surely can be nothing intrinsic in the individual experience.
train-clean-100/911/128684/911_128684_000025_000005|It is their way of behaving towards each other, their system of relations, their function; and all these things vary with the context in which we find it opportune to consider them.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000002_000001|"He is alive" said she "but a long time ago a rhinoceros carried him off on its horn." Then the boy vowed that he would go in search of his father and made his mother put him up provisions for the journey; and he started off taking with him an iron bow and a big bundle of arrows.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000003_000000|He journeyed on all day and at nightfall he came to a village; there he went up to the house of an old woman to ask for a bed.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000003_000002|The old woman was called Hutibudi; and she and the boy sat up late talking together and then they lay down to sleep; but in the middle of the night he heard the old woman crunching away trying to bite his bow to pieces.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000003_000003|He asked her what she was eating: "Some pulse I got from the village headman," "Give me a little to try" he begged.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000003_000005|Then he told her that a good cure for toothache was to bite on a white stone and she believed him and the next morning got a piece of white quartz and began to bite on it; but this only broke her teeth and made her mouth bleed so that the pain was worse than before: then the boy jeered at her and said.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000003_000006|"Did you think, Grannie, that you could bite my iron bow and arrows?"
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000006_000000|and they drank and went away.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000006_000001|Then various kinds of birds came and after them a great herd of rhinceroses and among them was one which had the dried up body of the boy's father stuck on its horn.
train-clean-100/911/130578/911_130578_000006_000002|The boy was rather frightened and sang
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000001_000000|Tom, the Piper's Son
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000003_000000|Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig and away he run; The pig was eat and Tom was beat And Tom ran crying down the street.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000004_000000|There was not a worse vagabond in Shrewsbury than old Barney the piper.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000004_000001|He never did any work except to play the pipes, and he played so badly that few pennies ever found their way into his pouch.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000004_000002|It was whispered around that old Barney was not very honest, but he was so sly and cautious that no one had ever caught him in the act of stealing, although a good many things had been missed after they had fallen into the old man's way.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000005_000000|Barney had one son, named Tom; and they lived all alone in a little hut away at the end of the village street, for Tom's mother had died when he was a baby.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000005_000001|You may not suppose that Tom was a very good boy, since he had such a queer father; but neither was he very bad, and the worst fault he had was in obeying his father's wishes when Barney wanted him to steal a chicken for their supper or a pot of potatoes for their breakfast.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000005_000002|Tom did not like to steal, but he had no one to teach him to be honest, and so, under his father's guidance, he fell into bad ways.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000006_000000|One morning
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000007_000000|Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Was hungry when the day begun; He wanted a bun and asked for one, But soon found out that there were none.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000008_000000|"What shall we do?" he asked his father
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000009_000000|"Go hungry," replied Barney, "unless you want to take my pipes and play in the village.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000009_000001|Perhaps they will give you a penny."
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000010_000000|"No," answered Tom, shaking his head; "no one will give me a penny for playing; but Farmer Bowser might give me a penny to stop playing, if I went to his house.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000010_000001|He did last week, you know."
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000012_000000|So Tom took his father's pipes and walked over the hill to Farmer Bowser's house; for you must know that
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000013_000000|Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Learned to play when he was young; But the only tune that he could play Was "Over the hills and far away."
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000014_000000|And he played this one tune as badly as his father himself played, so that the people were annoyed when they heard him, and often begged him to stop.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000015_000000|When he came to Farmer Bowser's house, Tom started up the pipes and began to play with all his might.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000015_000001|The farmer was in his woodshed, sawing wood, so he did not hear the pipes; and the farmer's wife was deaf, and could not hear them.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000015_000002|But a little pig that had strayed around in front of the house heard the noise, and ran away in great fear to the pigsty.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000016_000000|Then, as Tom saw the playing did no good, he thought he would sing also, and therefore he began bawling, at the top of his voice,
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000017_000000|"Over the hills, not a great ways off, The woodchuck died with the whooping cough!"
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000018_000000|The farmer had stopped sawing to rest, just then; and when he heard the singing he rushed out of the shed, and chased Tom away with a big stick of wood.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000018_000001|The boy went back to his father, and said, sorrowfully, for he was more hungry than before,
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000019_000000|"The farmer gave me nothing but a scolding; but there was a very nice pig running around the yard."
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000020_000000|"How big was it?" asked Barney.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000021_000000|"Oh, just about big enough to make a nice dinner for you and me."
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000023_000000|Tom knew very well what he meant by that, so he laid down the pipes, and went back to the farmer's house.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000025_000000|The piper was very glad to see the pig, and said to Tom,
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000026_000000|"You are a good son, and the pig is very nice and fat.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000026_000001|We shall have a dinner fit for a king."
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000027_000000|It was not long before the piper had the pig killed and cut into pieces and boiling in the pot.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000027_000001|Only the tail was left out, for Tom wanted to make a whistle of it, and as there was plenty to eat besides the tail his father let him have it.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000028_000000|The piper and his son had a fine dinner that day, and so great was their hunger that the little pig was all eaten up at one meal!
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000030_000000|Now Farmer Bowser, when he had finished sawing the wood, found it was time to feed the pig, so he took a pail of meal and went to the pigsty.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000030_000001|But when he came to the sty there was no pig to be seen, and he searched all round the place for a good hour without finding it.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000031_000000|"Piggy, piggy, piggy!" he called, but no piggy came, and then he knew his pig had been stolen.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000031_000001|He was very angry, indeed, for the pig was a great pet, and he had wanted to keep it till it grew very big.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000032_000000|So he put on his coat and buckled a strap around his waist, and went down to the village to see if he could find out who had stolen his pig.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000033_000000|Up and down the street he went, and in and out the lanes, but no traces of the pig could he find anywhere.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000033_000001|And that was no great wonder, for the pig was eaten by that time and its bones picked clean.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000034_000000|Finally the farmer came to the end of the street where the piper lived in his little hut, and there he saw Tom sitting on a bench and blowing on a whistle made from a pig's tail.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000035_000000|"Where did you get that tail?" asked the farmer.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000036_000000|"I found it," said naughty Tom, beginning to be frightened.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000037_000000|"Let me see it," demanded the farmer; and when he had looked at it carefully he cried out,
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000038_000000|"This tail belonged to my little pig, for I know very well the curl at the end of it!
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000038_000001|Tell me, you rascal, where is the pig?"
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000039_000000|Then Tom fell in a tremble, for he knew his wickedness was discovered.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000040_000000|"The pig is eat, your honor," he answered.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000041_000000|The farmer said never a word, but his face grew black with anger, and, unbuckling the strap that was about his waist, he waved it around his head, and whack! came the strap over Tom's back.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000042_000000|"Ow, ow!" cried the boy, and started to run down the street.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000044_000000|It was dark before he came back to his home, and his father was still asleep; so Tom crept into the hut and went to bed.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000044_000001|But he had received a good lesson and never after that could the old piper induce him to steal.
train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000045_000000|When Tom showed by his actions his intention of being honest he soon got a job of work to do, and before long he was able to earn a living more easily, and a great deal more honestly, than when he stole the pig to get a dinner and suffered a severe beating as a punishment.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000002_000000|"Oh, Little Bun Rabbit, so soft and so shy, Say, what do you see with your big, round eye?" "On Christmas we rabbits," says Bunny so shy, "Keep watch to see Santa go galloping by."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000003_000000|Little Dorothy had passed all the few years of her life in the country, and being the only child upon the farm she was allowed to roam about the meadows and woods as she pleased.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000003_000001|On the bright summer mornings Dorothy's mother would tie a sun bonnet under the girl's chin, and then she romped away to the fields to amuse herself in her own way.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000000|She came to know every flower that grew, and to call them by name, and she always stepped very carefully to avoid treading on them, for Dorothy was a kind hearted child and did not like to crush the pretty flowers that bloomed in her path.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000001|And she was also very fond of all the animals, and learned to know them well, and even to understand their language, which very few people can do.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000002|And the animals loved Dorothy in turn, for the word passed around amongst them that she could be trusted to do them no harm.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000003|For the horse, whose soft nose Dorothy often gently stroked, told the cow of her kindness, and the cow told the dog, and the dog told the cat, and the cat told her black kitten, and the black kitten told the rabbit when one day they met in the turnip patch.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000006_000000|Dorothy herself was afraid she might frighten him away, so she kept very quiet for a time, leaning silently against a tree and smiling encouragement at her timorous companion until the rabbit became reassured and blinked his big eyes at her thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000006_000001|For he was as much interested in the little girl as she in him, since it was the first time he had dared to meet a person face to face.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000007_000000|Finally Dorothy ventured to speak, so she asked, very softly and slowly,
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000008_000000|"Oh, Little Bun Rabbit, so soft and so shy, Say, what do you see with your big, round eye?"
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000009_000000|"Many things," answered the rabbit, who was pleased to hear the girl speak in his own language; "in summer time I see the clover leaves that I love to feed upon and the cabbages at the end of the farmer's garden.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000009_000001|I see the cool bushes where I can hide from my enemies, and I see the dogs and the men long before they can see me, or know that I am near, and therefore I am able to keep out of their way."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000010_000000|"Is that the reason your eyes are so big?" asked Dorothy.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000011_000000|"I suppose so," returned the rabbit; "you see we have only our eyes and our ears and our legs to defend ourselves with.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000011_000001|We cannot fight, but we can always run away, and that is a much better way to save our lives than by fighting."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000012_000000|"Where is your home, bunny?" enquired the girl.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000013_000000|"I live in the ground, far down in a cool, pleasant hole I have dug in the midst of the forest.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000013_000001|At the bottom of the hole is the nicest little room you can imagine, and there I have made a soft bed to rest in at night.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000013_000002|When I meet an enemy I run to my hole and jump in, and there I stay until all danger is over."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000014_000000|"You have told me what you see in summer," continued Dorothy, who was greatly interested in the rabbit's account of himself, "but what do you see in the winter?"
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000015_000000|"In winter we rabbits," said Bunny so shy, "Keep watch to see Santa go galloping by."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000016_000000|"And do you ever see him?" asked the girl, eagerly.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000000|"Oh, yes; every winter.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000001|I am not afraid of him, nor of his reindeer. And it is such fun to see him come dashing along, cracking his whip and calling out cheerily to his reindeer, who are able to run even swifter than we rabbits.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000003|I like to see the toys, for they are so bright and pretty, and every year there is something new amongst them.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000004|Once I visited Santa, and saw him make the toys."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000018_000000|"Oh, tell me about it!" pleaded Dorothy.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000019_000000|"It was one morning after Christmas," said the rabbit, who seemed to enjoy talking, now that he had overcome his fear of Dorothy, "and I was sitting by the road side when Santa Claus came riding back in his empty sleigh.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000019_000001|He does not come home quite so fast as he goes, and when he saw me he stopped for a word.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000020_000000|"'You look very pretty this morning, Bun Rabbit,' he said, in his jolly way; 'I think the babies would love to have you to play with.'
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000021_000000|"'I do n't doubt it, your honor,' I answered; 'but they 'd soon kill me with handling, even if they did not scare me to death; for babies are very rough with their playthings.'
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000022_000000|"'That is true,' replied Santa Claus; 'and yet you are so soft and pretty it is a pity the babies can't have you.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000000|"Of course I consented, for we all like to please old Santa, and a minute later I had jumped into the sleigh beside him and we were dashing away at full speed toward his castle.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000001|I enjoyed the ride very much, but I enjoyed the castle far more; for it was one of the loveliest places you could imagine.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000002|It stood on the top of a high mountain and is built of gold and silver bricks, and the windows are pure diamond crystals.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000004|Santa Claus lives there all alone, except for old Mother Hubbard, who cooks the meals for him; and her cupboard is never bare now, I can promise you!
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000005|At the top of the castle there is one big room, and that is Santa's work shop, where he makes the toys.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000006|On one side is his work bench, with plenty of saws and hammers and jack knives; and on another side is the paint bench, with paints of every color and brushes of every size and shape.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000007|And in other places are great shelves, where the toys are put to dry and keep new and bright until Christmas comes and it is time to load them all into his sleigh.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000024_000000|"After Mother Hubbard had given me a good dinner, and I had eaten some of the most delicious clover I have ever tasted, Santa took me up into his work room and sat me upon the table.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000025_000000|"'If I can only make rabbits half as nice as you are,' he said, 'the little ones will be delighted.' Then he lit a big pipe and began to smoke, and soon he took a roll of soft fur from a shelf in a corner and commenced to cut it out in the shape of a rabbit.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000025_000001|He smoked and whistled all the time he was working, and he talked to me in such a jolly way that I sat perfectly still and allowed him to measure my ears and my legs so that he could cut the fur into the proper form.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000026_000001|And again he said, 'Good gracious! the ears are too short entirely!' So he had to get a needle and thread and sew on more fur to the ears, so that they might be the right size.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000026_000002|But after a time it was all finished, and then he stuffed the fur full of sawdust and sewed it up neatly; after which he put in some glass eyes that made the toy rabbit look wonderfully life like.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000026_000003|When it was all done he put it on the table beside me, and at first I did n't know whether I was the live rabbit or the toy rabbit, we were so much alike.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000028_000000|"So he immediately began to make another, and this time he cut the fur just the right size, so that it was even better than the first rabbit.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000029_000000|"'I must put a squeak in it,' said Santa.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000030_000000|"So he took a box of squeaks from a shelf and put one into the rabbit before he sewed it up.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000030_000001|When it was all finished he pressed the toy rabbit with his thumb, and it squeaked so naturally that I jumped off the table, fearing at first the new rabbit was alive.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000030_000002|Old Santa laughed merrily at this, and I soon recovered from my fright and was pleased to think the babies were to have such pretty playthings.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000031_000000|"'After this,' said Santa Claus, 'I can make rabbits without having you for a pattern; but if you like you may stay a few days longer in my castle and amuse yourself."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000032_000000|"I thanked him and decided to stay.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000032_000001|So for several days I watched him making all kinds of toys, and I wondered to see how quickly he made them, and how many new things he invented.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000033_000000|"'I almost wish I was a child,' I said to him one day, 'for then I too could have playthings.'
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000034_000000|"'Ah, you can run about all day, in summer and in winter, and enjoy yourself in your own way,' said Santa; 'but the poor little children are obliged to stay in the house in the winter and on rainy days in the summer, and then they must have toys to amuse them and keep them contented."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000035_000000|"I knew this was true, so I only said, admiringly, 'You must be the quickest and the best workman in all the world, Santa.'
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000036_000000|"'I suppose I am,' he answered; 'but then, you see, I have been making toys for hundreds of years, and I make so many it is no wonder I am skillful.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000037_000000|"'Oh, no,' said I, 'I prefer to run by myself, for I can easily find the way and I want to see the country.'
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000038_000000|"'If that is the case,' replied Santa, 'I must give you a magic collar to wear, so that you will come to no harm.'
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000039_000000|"So, after Mother Hubbard had given me a good meal of turnips and sliced cabbage, Santa Claus put the magic collar around my neck and I started for home.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000039_000001|I took my time on the journey, for I knew nothing could harm me, and I saw a good many strange sights before I got back to this place again."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000040_000000|"But what became of the magic collar?" asked Dorothy, who had listened with breathless interest to the rabbit's story.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000041_000000|"After I got home," replied the rabbit, "the collar disappeared from around my neck, and I knew Santa had called it back to himself again. He did not give it to me, you see; he merely let me take it on my journey to protect me.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000041_000001|The next Christmas, when I watched by the road side to see Santa, I was pleased to notice a great many of the toy rabbits sticking out of the loaded sleigh.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000041_000002|The babies must have liked them, too, for every year since I have seen them amongst the toys.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000042_000000|"Santa never forgets me, and every time he passes he calls out, in his jolly voice,
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000043_000000|"'A merry Christmas to you, Bun Rabbit!
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000043_000001|The babies still love you dearly.'"
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000044_000000|The Rabbit paused, and Dorothy was just about to ask another question when Bunny raised his head and seemed to hear something coming.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000045_000000|"What is it?" enquired the girl.
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000046_000001|So good bye, Dorothy; I hope we shall meet again, and then I will gladly tell you more of my adventures."
train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000047_000000|The next instant he had sprung into the wood, and all that Dorothy could see of him was a gray streak darting in and out amongst the trees.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000000|The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000001|In a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day, and walk out sometimes.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000002|I could join with Diana and Mary in all their occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when and where they would allow me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000003|There was a reviving pleasure in this intercourse, of a kind now tasted by me for the first time-the pleasure arising from perfect congeniality of tastes, sentiments, and principles.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000000|I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000001|They loved their sequestered home.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000004|I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000005|I saw the fascination of the locality.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000007|These details were just to me what they were to them-so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000000|Indoors we agreed equally well.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000001|They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000002|I devoured the books they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000003|Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000000|If in our trio there was a superior and a leader, it was Diana. Physically, she far excelled me: she was handsome; she was vigorous.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000001|In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000002|I could talk a while when the evening commenced, but the first gush of vivacity and fluency gone, I was fain to sit on a stool at Diana's feet, to rest my head on her knee, and listen alternately to her and Mary, while they sounded thoroughly the topic on which I had but touched.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000003|Diana offered to teach me German.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000004|I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000005|Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection-of the strongest kind-was the result.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000006|They discovered I could draw: their pencils and colour boxes were immediately at my service.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000007|My skill, greater in this one point than theirs, surprised and charmed them.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000008|Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000009|Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000008_000001|One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000009_000000|No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions: rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over, take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty-I scarcely know in which light he regarded it. Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000009_000001|He would then say, with a peculiar smile, more solemn than cheerful-
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000010_000000|"And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000011_000000|Diana and Mary's general answer to this question was a sigh, and some minutes of apparently mournful meditation.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000012_000000|But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000000|Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000001|I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000002|I wish I could describe that sermon: but it is past my power.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000003|I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000016_000000|Meantime a month was gone.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000018_000000|"Yes; I wish to know whether you have heard of any service I can offer myself to undertake?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000019_000000|"I found or devised something for you three weeks ago; but as you seemed both useful and happy here-as my sisters had evidently become attached to you, and your society gave them unusual pleasure-I deemed it inexpedient to break in on your mutual comfort till their approaching departure from Marsh End should render yours necessary."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000020_000000|"And they will go in three days now?" I said.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000021_000000|"Yes; and when they go, I shall return to the parsonage at Morton: Hannah will accompany me; and this old house will be shut up."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000022_000000|I waited a few moments, expecting he would go on with the subject first broached: but he seemed to have entered another train of reflection: his look denoted abstraction from me and my business.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000022_000001|I was obliged to recall him to a theme which was of necessity one of close and anxious interest to me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000023_000000|"What is the employment you had in view, mr Rivers?
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000023_000001|I hope this delay will not have increased the difficulty of securing it."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000024_000000|"Oh, no; since it is an employment which depends only on me to give, and you to accept."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000025_000000|He again paused: there seemed a reluctance to continue.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000025_000001|I grew impatient: a restless movement or two, and an eager and exacting glance fastened on his face, conveyed the feeling to him as effectually as words could have done, and with less trouble.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000026_000001|Before I explain, recall, if you please, my notice, clearly given, that if I helped you, it must be as the blind man would help the lame.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000026_000002|I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father's debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew trees and holly bushes in front.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000026_000003|I am obscure: Rivers is an old name; but of the three sole descendants of the race, two earn the dependant's crust among strangers, and the third considers himself an alien from his native country-not only for life, but in death.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000027_000001|He resumed-
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000028_000000|"And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000028_000002|I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him-the scantier the meed his toil brings-the higher the honour.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000028_000003|His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles-their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000029_000000|"Well?" I said, as he again paused-"proceed."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000030_000000|He looked at me before he proceeded: indeed, he seemed leisurely to read my face, as if its features and lines were characters on a page.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000031_000000|"I believe you will accept the post I offer you," said he, "and hold it for a while: not permanently, though: any more than I could permanently keep the narrow and narrowing-the tranquil, hidden office of English country incumbent; for in your nature is an alloy as detrimental to repose as that in mine, though of a different kind."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000000|"I will; and you shall hear how poor the proposal is,--how trivial-how cramping.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000001|I shall not stay long at Morton, now that my father is dead, and that I am my own master.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000002|I shall leave the place probably in the course of a twelve month; but while I do stay, I will exert myself to the utmost for its improvement.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000003|Morton, when I came to it two years ago, had no school: the children of the poor were excluded from every hope of progress.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000004|I established one for boys: I mean now to open a second school for girls.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000005|I have hired a building for the purpose, with a cottage of two rooms attached to it for the mistress's house.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000006|Her salary will be thirty pounds a year: her house is already furnished, very simply, but sufficiently, by the kindness of a lady, Miss Oliver; the only daughter of the sole rich man in my parish-mr
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000007|Oliver, the proprietor of a needle factory and iron foundry in the valley.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000008|The same lady pays for the education and clothing of an orphan from the workhouse, on condition that she shall aid the mistress in such menial offices connected with her own house and the school as her occupation of teaching will prevent her having time to discharge in person.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000034_000000|He put the question rather hurriedly; he seemed half to expect an indignant, or at least a disdainful rejection of the offer: not knowing all my thoughts and feelings, though guessing some, he could not tell in what light the lot would appear to me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000035_000000|"I thank you for the proposal, mr Rivers, and I accept it with all my heart."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000000|"But you comprehend me?" he said.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000001|"It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls-cottagers' children-at the best, farmers' daughters.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000002|Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000003|What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind-sentiments-tastes?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000037_000000|"Save them till they are wanted.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000037_000001|They will keep."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000038_000000|"You know what you undertake, then?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000039_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000041_000000|"And when will you commence the exercise of your function?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000042_000000|"I will go to my house to morrow, and open the school, if you like, next week."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000043_000000|"Very well: so be it."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000044_000000|He rose and walked through the room.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000044_000001|Standing still, he again looked at me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000044_000002|He shook his head.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000045_000000|"What do you disapprove of, mr Rivers?" I asked.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000046_000000|"You will not stay at Morton long: no, no!"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000047_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000047_000001|What is your reason for saying so?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000048_000000|"I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000049_000000|"I am not ambitious."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000050_000000|He started at the word "ambitious." He repeated, "no
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000050_000001|What made you think of ambition?
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000050_000003|I know I am: but how did you find it out?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000051_000000|"I was speaking of myself."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000052_000000|"Well, if you are not ambitious, you are-" He paused.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000053_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000000|"I was going to say, impassioned: but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000001|I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000002|I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content," he added, with emphasis, "to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains-my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven bestowed, paralysed-made useless.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000003|You hear now how I contradict myself.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000004|I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service-I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000005|Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000055_000000|He left the room.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000055_000001|In this brief hour I had learnt more of him than in the whole previous month: yet still he puzzled me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000000|"He will sacrifice all to his long framed resolves," she said: "natural affection and feelings more potent still.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000002|You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000003|It is right, noble, Christian: yet it breaks my heart!" And the tears gushed to her fine eyes.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000004|Mary bent her head low over her work.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000058_000000|"We are now without father: we shall soon be without home and brother," she murmured.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000059_000000|At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that "misfortunes never come singly," and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000059_000002|He entered.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000060_000000|"Our uncle john is dead," said he.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000061_000000|Both the sisters seemed struck: not shocked or appalled; the tidings appeared in their eyes rather momentous than afflicting.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000062_000000|"Dead?" repeated Diana.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000063_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000064_000000|She riveted a searching gaze on her brother's face.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000064_000001|"And what then?" she demanded, in a low voice.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000065_000000|"What then, Die?" he replied, maintaining a marble immobility of feature. "What then?
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000065_000001|Why-nothing.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000065_000002|Read."
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000000|He threw the letter into her lap.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000001|She glanced over it, and handed it to Mary.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000002|Mary perused it in silence, and returned it to her brother.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000003|All three looked at each other, and all three smiled-a dreary, pensive smile enough.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000067_000001|We can yet live," said Diana at last.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000068_000000|"At any rate, it makes us no worse off than we were before," remarked Mary.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000071_000000|For some minutes no one spoke.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000071_000001|Diana then turned to me.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000000|"Jane, you will wonder at us and our mysteries," she said, "and think us hard hearted beings not to be more moved at the death of so near a relation as an uncle; but we have never seen him or known him.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000001|He was my mother's brother.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000002|My father and he quarrelled long ago.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000003|It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000004|Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000005|My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000006|He was never married, and had no near kindred but ourselves and one other person, not more closely related than we.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000008|He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000073_000000|This explanation given, the subject was dropped, and no further reference made to it by either mr Rivers or his sisters.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000073_000001|The next day I left Marsh End for Morton.
train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000073_000002|The day after, Diana and Mary quitted it for distant B .
train-clean-360/1001/134708/1001_134708_000013_000000|For man of you, your characteristic race, Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature, Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined, uncheck'd by wall or roof, Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure, Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time, To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last, To disappear, to serve.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000002_000000|THE BLACK PRINCE
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000003_000000|BY the edge of the river they stopped and said farewell.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000005_000000|Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone, Polynesia said,
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000006_000000|"We must tread softly and talk low as we go through the land of the Jolliginki.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000006_000001|If the King should hear us, he will send his soldiers to catch us again; for I am sure he is still very angry over the trick I played on him."
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000007_000000|"What I am wondering," said the Doctor, "is where we are going to get another boat to go home in....
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000007_000002|'Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.'"
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000008_000000|One day, while they were passing through a very thick part of the forest, Chee Chee went ahead of them to look for cocoanuts.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000008_000001|And while he was away, the Doctor and the rest of the animals, who did not know the jungle paths so well, got lost in the deep woods.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000000|Chee Chee, when he could not see them anywhere, was terribly upset.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000001|He climbed high trees and looked out from the top branches to try and see the Doctor's high hat; he waved and shouted; he called to all the animals by name.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000002|But it was no use.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000003|They seemed to have disappeared altogether.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000010_000000|Indeed they had lost their way very badly.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000010_000001|They had strayed a long way off the path, and the jungle was so thick with bushes and creepers and vines that sometimes they could hardly move at all, and the Doctor had to take out his pocket knife and cut his way along.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000010_000003|There seemed no end to their troubles; and nowhere could they come upon a path.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000011_000000|At last, after blundering about like this for many days, getting their clothes torn and their faces covered with mud, they walked right into the King's back garden by mistake.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000011_000001|The King's men came running up at once and caught them.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000001|"So you are caught again!
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000002|This time you shall not escape.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000003|Take them all back to prison and put double locks on the door.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000004|This White Man shall scrub my kitchen floor for the rest of his life!"
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000014_000000|So the Doctor and his pets were led back to prison and locked up.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000014_000001|And the Doctor was told that in the morning he must begin scrubbing the kitchen floor.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000016_000000|"This is a great nuisance," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000017_000002|Then Gub Gub began to cry again.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000019_000000|This was always a very bad sign with Polynesia.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000019_000001|Whenever she said nothing and blinked her eyes, it meant that somebody had been making trouble, and she was thinking out some way to put things right.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000019_000002|People who made trouble for Polynesia or her friends were nearly always sorry for it afterwards.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000020_000000|Presently she spied Chee Chee swinging through the trees still looking for the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000020_000001|When Chee Chee saw her, he came into her tree and asked her what had become of him.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000021_000001|"We lost our way in the jungle and blundered into the palace garden by mistake."
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000023_000000|"It was all that stupid pig's fault," said Polynesia.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000023_000002|And I was kept so busy catching him and bringing him back, that I turned to the left, instead of the right, when we reached the swamp.--Sh!--Look!
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000024_000000|And there, sure enough, was Prince Bumpo, the King's son, opening the garden gate.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000024_000001|He carried a book of fairy tales under his arm.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000024_000002|He came strolling down the gravel walk, humming a sad song, till he reached a stone seat right under the tree where the parrot and the monkey were hiding.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000025_000000|Chee Chee and Polynesia watched him, keeping very quiet and still.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000028_000000|Then the parrot, talking in a small, high voice like a little girl, said aloud,
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000029_000000|"Bumpo, some one might turn thee into a white prince perchance."
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000030_000000|The King's son started up off the seat and looked all around.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000031_000002|Strange!"
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000032_000001|For 'tis I, Tripsitinka, the Queen of the Fairies, that speak to thee.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000033_000000|"Oh tell me, Fairy Queen," cried Bumpo, clasping his hands in joy, "who is it can turn me white?"
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000034_000003|Go to him, brave Bumpo, secretly, when the sun has set; and behold, thou shalt be made the whitest prince that ever won fair lady!
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000034_000004|I have said enough.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000035_000000|"Farewell!" cried the Prince.
train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000035_000001|"A thousand thanks, good Tripsitinka!"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000003_000000|MEDICINE AND MAGIC
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000005_000000|She found Gub Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking smells that came from the palace kitchen. She told the pig to bring the Doctor to the window because she wanted to speak to him.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000005_000001|So Gub Gub went and woke the Doctor who was taking a nap.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000006_000001|And you've got to find some way to turn him white.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000007_000001|"But it isn't so easy to turn a black man white.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000008_000000|"I don't know anything about that," said Polynesia impatiently.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000008_000004|He'll do anything for you if you change his color.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000008_000005|It is your only chance to get out of prison."
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000009_000000|"Well, I suppose it MIGHT be possible," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000010_000000|Well, that night Prince Bumpo came secretly to the Doctor in prison and said to him,
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000000|"White Man, I am an unhappy prince.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000004|But when she saw my face she cried out, 'Oh, he's black!' And she ran away and wouldn't marry me-but went to sleep again somewhere else.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000005|So I came back, full of sadness, to my father's kingdom.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000007|So I come to you for help.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000008|If you will turn me white, so that I may go back to The Sleeping Beauty, I will give you half my kingdom and anything besides you ask."
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000013_000000|"No," said Bumpo.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000013_000002|I must be a white prince."
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000014_000000|"You know it is very hard to change the color of a prince," said the Doctor-"one of the hardest things a magician can do.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000014_000001|You only want your face white, do you not?"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000015_000000|"Yes, that is all," said Bumpo.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000017_000000|"Yes, all over," said Bumpo-"and I would like my eyes blue too, but I suppose that would be very hard to do."
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000000|"Yes, it would," said the Doctor quickly.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000001|"Well, I will do what I can for you.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000003|I might have to try two or three times.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000004|You have a strong skin-yes?
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000006|Now come over here by the light-Oh, but before I do anything, you must first go down to the beach and get a ship ready, with food in it, to take me across the sea.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000020_000000|When he came back and said that it was done, the Doctor asked Dab Dab to bring a basin.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000020_000001|Then he mixed a lot of medicines in the basin and told Bumpo to dip his face in it.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000022_000000|He held it there a long time-so long that the Doctor seemed to get dreadfully anxious and fidgety, standing first on one leg and then on the other, looking at all the bottles he had used for the mixture, and reading the labels on them again and again.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000022_000001|A strong smell filled the prison, like the smell of brown paper burning.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000023_000000|At last the Prince lifted his face up out of the basin, breathing very hard.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000026_000000|Bumpo begged that he might keep the looking glass, as it was the only one in the Kingdom of Jolliginki, and he wanted to look at himself all day long.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000027_000000|Then the Prince, taking a bunch of copper keys from his pocket, undid the great double locks.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000027_000001|And the Doctor with all his animals ran as fast as they could down to the seashore; while Bumpo leaned against the wall of the empty dungeon, smiling after them happily, his big face shining like polished ivory in the light of the moon.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000028_000000|When they came to the beach they saw Polynesia and Chee Chee waiting for them on the rocks near the ship.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000029_000000|"I feel sorry about Bumpo," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000030_000004|But I had to do something, didn't I?--I couldn't possibly scrub the King's kitchen for the rest of my life.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000030_000005|It was such a dirty kitchen!--I could see it from the prison window.--Well, well!--Poor Bumpo!"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000031_000000|"Oh, of course he will know we were just joking with him," said the parrot.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000032_000002|Serve him right, if he does turn black again!
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000032_000003|I hope it's a dark black."
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000033_000000|"But HE didn't have anything to do with it," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000033_000002|And who knows?--he may stay white after all."
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000035_000000|"Still, he had a good heart," said the Doctor-"romantic, of course-but a good heart.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000035_000001|After all, 'handsome is as handsome does.'"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000036_000000|"I don't believe the poor booby found The Sleeping Beauty at all," said Jip, the dog.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000036_000003|I wonder who he'll go and kiss this time.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000036_000004|Silly business!"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000038_000000|And when the Doctor stood upon the boat, he looked over the side across the water.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000040_000000|But even while he was wondering, they heard a strange whispering noise, high in the air, coming through the night.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000040_000001|And the animals all stopped saying Good by and listened.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000041_000001|It seemed to be coming nearer to them-a sound like the Autumn wind blowing through the leaves of a poplar tree, or a great, great rain beating down upon a roof.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000042_000000|And Jip, with his nose pointing and his tail quite straight, said,
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000043_000000|"Birds!--millions of them-flying fast-that's it!"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000044_000000|And then they all looked up.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000044_000003|There were so many that for a little they covered the whole moon so it could not shine, and the sea grew dark and black-like when a storm cloud passes over the sun
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000045_000000|And presently all these birds came down close, skimming over the water and the land; and the night sky was left clear above, and the moon shone as before.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000045_000002|When they began to settle on the sands, along the ropes of the ship-anywhere and everywhere except the trees-the Doctor could see that they had blue wings and white breasts and very short, feathered legs.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000046_000000|And in the silent moonlight john Dolittle spoke:
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000047_000001|It will be nearly Summer when we get home.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000047_000002|For these are the swallows going back. Swallows, I thank you for waiting for us.
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000047_000005|Pull up the anchor and set the sail!"
train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000048_000000|When the ship moved out upon the water, those who stayed behind, Chee Chee, Polynesia and the crocodile, grew terribly sad.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000004_000000|SAILING homeward, the Doctor's ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000004_000002|And it was here that the Barbary pirates lived.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000005_000000|These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to wait for sailors to be shipwrecked on their shores.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000005_000001|And often, if they saw a boat passing, they would come out in their fast sailing ships and chase it.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000005_000003|Then they used to make the people they had caught write home to their friends for money.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000007_000001|"I have a feeling it isn't a friendly ship.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000008_000000|Jip, who was lying near taking a nap in the sun, began to growl and talk in his sleep.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000009_000000|"I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled-"underdone roast beef-with brown gravy over it."
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000010_000000|"Good gracious!" cried the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000010_000001|"What's the matter with the dog? Is he SMELLING in his sleep-as well as talking?"
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000012_000000|"But what is he smelling?" asked the Doctor.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000015_000000|"Oh, yes, he could," said Dab Dab.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000016_000000|Then Jip, still fast asleep, began to growl again and his lip curled up angrily, showing his clean, white teeth.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000017_000001|I smell trouble.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000017_000003|I want to help him.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000017_000005|Then he barked, loud, and woke himself up with a surprised look on his face.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000000|"See!" cried Dab Dab.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000001|"That boat is nearer now.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000002|You can count its three big sails-all red.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000004|I wonder who they are."
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000019_000000|"They are bad sailors," said Jip; "and their ship is very swift.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000020_000000|"Well, we must put up more sails on our boat," said the Doctor, "so we can go faster and get away from them.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000021_000000|The dog hurried downstairs and dragged up every sail he could find.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000023_000000|"This is a poor ship the Prince gave us," said Gub Gub, the pig-"the slowest he could find, I should think.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000023_000002|Look how near they are now!-- You can see the mustaches on the faces of the men-six of them.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000023_000003|What are we going to do?"
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000025_000000|When the swallows heard this, they all came down on to the Doctor's ship; and they told him to unravel some pieces of long rope and make them into a lot of thin strings as quickly as he could.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000025_000001|Then the ends of these strings were tied on to the front of the ship; and the swallows took hold of the strings with their feet and flew off, pulling the boat along.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000026_000000|And although swallows are not very strong when only one or two are by themselves, it is different when there are a great lot of them together.
train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000028_000000|And all the animals on the ship began to laugh and dance about in the rushing air, for when they looked back at the pirates' ship, they could see that it was growing smaller now, instead of bigger.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000001_000000|Chapter eight THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000008_000001|The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000010_000000|It was not, she knew, that night had come, but something as dark as night had come.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000010_000002|It had not come, but it had sent that shiver through the sea to say that it was coming.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000011_000000|There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners' Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000012_000001|But she was a young mother and she did not know this; she thought you simply must stick to your rule about half an hour after the mid day meal.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000012_000004|She stood over them to let them have their sleep out.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000013_000001|peter sprang erect, as wide awake at once as a dog, and with one warning cry he roused the others.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000015_000000|"Pirates!" he cried.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000018_000000|The boat drew nearer.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000018_000001|It was the pirate dinghy, with three figures in her, Smee and Starkey, and the third a captive, no other than Tiger Lily.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000018_000003|She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting ground?
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000020_000000|In the gloom that they brought with them the two pirates did not see the rock till they crashed into it.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000021_000000|"Luff, you lubber," cried an Irish voice that was Smee's; "here's the rock.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000023_000001|Wendy was crying, for it was the first tragedy she had seen.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000023_000002|peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000026_000000|"The captain!" said the pirates, staring at each other in surprise.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000029_000000|"Set her free," came the astonishing answer.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000032_000000|"But, captain-"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000037_000000|Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter's cleverness; but she knew that he would be elated also and very likely crow and thus betray himself, so at once her hand went out to cover his mouth.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000037_000001|But it was stayed even in the act, for "Boat ahoy!" rang over the lagoon in Hook's voice, and this time it was not peter who had spoken.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000040_000000|Now Wendy understood.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000041_000001|In the light of the lantern Wendy saw his hook grip the boat's side; she saw his evil swarthy face as he rose dripping from the water, and, quaking, she would have liked to swim away, but peter would not budge.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000041_000002|He was tingling with life and also top heavy with conceit.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000043_000000|The two pirates were very curious to know what had brought their captain to them, but he sat with his head on his hook in a position of profound melancholy.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000047_000000|"And yet a third time he sighs," said Smee.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000048_000000|Then at last he spoke passionately.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000049_000000|"The game's up," he cried, "those boys have found a mother."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000050_000000|Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000051_000000|"O evil day!" cried Starkey.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000052_000000|"What's a mother?" asked the ignorant Smee.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000053_000001|"He doesn't know!" and always after this she felt that if you could have a pet pirate Smee would be her one.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000054_000000|peter pulled her beneath the water, for Hook had started up, crying, "What was that?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000057_000000|There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when-but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000058_000000|Smee, much impressed, gazed at the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, "If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging about here to help peter."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000059_000000|Hook winced.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000061_000000|"Captain," said Smee, "could we not kidnap these boys' mother and make her our mother?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000065_000000|"What was that?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000066_000000|But they could see nothing.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000068_000000|"And there is my hook.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000069_000001|By this time they were on the rock, and suddenly Hook remembered Tiger Lily.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000070_000000|"Where is the redskin?" he demanded abruptly.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000071_000000|He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was one of the moments.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000072_000000|"That is all right, captain," Smee answered complacently; "we let her go."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000073_000000|"Let her go!" cried Hook.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000074_000000|"'twas your own orders," the bo'sun faltered.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000075_000000|"You called over the water to us to let her go," said Starkey.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000077_000000|"It is passing queer," Smee said, and they all fidgeted uncomfortably. Hook raised his voice, but there was a quiver in it.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000078_000000|"Spirit that haunts this dark lagoon to night," he cried, "dost hear me?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000079_000000|Of course peter should have kept quiet, but of course he did not.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000079_000001|He immediately answered in Hook's voice:
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000082_000001|Speak!" Hook demanded.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000083_000000|"I am james Hook," replied the voice, "captain of the JOLLY ROGER."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000084_000000|"You are not; you are not," Hook cried hoarsely.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000085_000000|"Brimstone and gall," the voice retorted, "say that again, and I'll cast anchor in you."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000086_000001|"If you are Hook," he said almost humbly, "come tell me, who am I?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000087_000000|"A codfish," replied the voice, "only a codfish."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000088_000000|"A codfish!" Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000089_000000|"Have we been captained all this time by a codfish!" they muttered.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000090_000000|They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000090_000001|Against such fearful evidence it was not their belief in him that he needed, it was his own.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000090_000003|"Don't desert me, bully," he whispered hoarsely to it.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000091_000000|In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000094_000000|"And another name?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000096_000000|"Vegetable?" asked Hook.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000097_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000098_000000|"Mineral?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000100_000000|"Animal?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000102_000000|"Man?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000104_000000|"Boy?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000105_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000107_000000|"No!"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000109_000000|To Wendy's pain the answer that rang out this time was "Yes."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000111_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000112_000000|"Are you here?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000113_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000114_000000|Hook was completely puzzled.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000114_000001|"You ask him some questions," he said to the others, wiping his damp brow.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000115_000000|Smee reflected.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000115_000001|"I can't think of a thing," he said regretfully.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000116_000000|"Can't guess, can't guess!" crowed peter.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000116_000001|"Do you give it up?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000118_000000|"Yes, yes," they answered eagerly.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000122_000000|"Now we have him," Hook shouted.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000123_000000|He leaped as he spoke, and simultaneously came the gay voice of peter.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000124_000000|"Are you ready, boys?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000000|The fight was short and sharp.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000001|First to draw blood was john, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000002|There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate's grasp.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000004|The dinghy drifted away.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000132_000001|Hook rose to the rock to breathe, and at the same moment peter scaled it on the opposite side.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000132_000002|The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000133_000002|After all, he was the only man that the Sea Cook had feared.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000134_000000|It was then that Hook bit him.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000000|Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed peter.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000001|It made him quite helpless.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000002|He could only stare, horrified.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000003|Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000005|After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000006|No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except peter.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000137_000003|"They must be swimming back or flying," the boys concluded.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000137_000004|They were not very anxious, because they had such faith in peter.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000139_000000|"Help, help!"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000140_000001|With a last effort peter pulled her up the rock and then lay down beside her.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000141_000001|peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000146_000000|"Shall we swim or fly, peter?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000151_000000|"What is it?" she asked, anxious about him at once.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000152_000000|"I can't help you, Wendy.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000152_000002|I can neither fly nor swim."
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000153_000000|"Do you mean we shall both be drowned?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000155_000002|As they sat thus something brushed against peter as light as a kiss, and stayed there, as if saying timidly, "Can I be of any use?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000156_000000|It was the tail of a kite, which Michael had made some days before.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000157_000000|"Michael's kite," peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000158_000000|"It lifted Michael off the ground," he cried; "why should it not carry you?"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000159_000000|"Both of us!"
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000161_000000|"Let us draw lots," Wendy said bravely.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000162_000000|"And you a lady; never." Already he had tied the tail round her.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000162_000001|She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a "Good bye, Wendy," he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight.
train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000164_000000|peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last.
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train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000002_000000|THE PARADISE MYSTERY
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000003_000000|By j s Fletcher
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000004_000000|CHAPTER one ONLY THE GUARDIAN
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000000|American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000001|Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old world peace.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000002|There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed by tall elms and giant beeches, rises the vast fabric of the thirteenth century Cathedral, its high spire piercing the skies in which rooks are for ever circling and calling.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000003|The time worn stone, at a little distance delicate as lacework, is transformed at different hours of the day into shifting shades of colour, varying from grey to purple: the massiveness of the great nave and transepts contrasts impressively with the gradual tapering of the spire, rising so high above turret and clerestory that it at last becomes a mere line against the ether.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000004|In morning, as in afternoon, or in evening, here is a perpetual atmosphere of rest; and not around the great church alone, but in the quaint and ancient houses which fence in the Close.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000007_000001|In some lights he looked no more than forty: a strong light betrayed the fact that his dark hair had a streak of grey in it, and was showing a tendency to whiten about the temples.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000007_000002|A strong, intellectually superior man, this, scrupulously groomed and well dressed, as befitted what he really was-a medical practitioner with an excellent connection amongst the exclusive society of a cathedral town.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000008_000000|The second person of the three was a boy of apparently seventeen-a well built, handsome lad of the senior schoolboy type, who was devoting himself in business like fashion to two widely differing pursuits-one, the consumption of eggs and bacon and dry toast; the other, the study of a Latin textbook, which he had propped up in front of him against the old-fashioned silver cruet.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000008_000001|His quick eyes wandered alternately between his book and his plate; now and then he muttered a line or two to himself.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000009_000000|It was not difficult to see that the third member of the party, a girl of nineteen or twenty, was the boy's sister.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000009_000001|Each had a wealth of brown hair, inclining, in the girl's case to a shade that had tints of gold in it; each had grey eyes, in which there was a mixture of blue; each had a bright, vivid colour; each was undeniably good looking and eminently healthy.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000010_000000|While the boy learnt the last lines of his Latin, and the doctor turned over the newspaper, the girl read a letter-evidently, from the large sprawling handwriting, the missive of some girlish correspondent.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000010_000001|She was deep in it when, from one of the turrets of the Cathedral, a bell began to ring.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000010_000002|At that, she glanced at her brother.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000011_000001|"You'll have to hurry."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000012_000002|And Dick Bewery, without a word, bolted half his coffee, snatched up his book, grabbed at a cap which lay with more books on a chair close by, and vanished through the open window.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000012_000003|The doctor laughed, laid aside his newspaper, and handed his cup across the table.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000013_000000|"I don't think you need bother yourself about Dick's ever being late, Mary," he said.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000013_000002|Dick could get to any given point in just about one fourth of the time that I could, for instance-moreover, he has a cunning knowledge of every short cut in the city."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000014_000000|Mary Bewery took the empty cup and began to refill it.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000015_000000|"I don't like him to be late," she remarked.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000015_000001|"It's the beginning of bad habits."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000016_000001|"He's pretty free from anything of that sort, you know.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000016_000002|I haven't even suspected him of smoking, yet."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000017_000000|"That's because he thinks smoking would stop his growth and interfere with his cricket," answered Mary.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000017_000001|"He would smoke if it weren't for that."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000000|"That's giving him high praise, then," said Ransford.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000001|"You couldn't give him higher!
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000003|An excellent thing-and most unusual, I fancy.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000004|Most people-don't!"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000019_000000|He took his refilled cup, rose from the table, and opened a box of cigarettes which stood on the mantelpiece.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000019_000001|And the girl, instead of picking up her letter again, glanced at him a little doubtfully.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000020_000000|"That reminds me of-of something I wanted to say to you," she said. "You're quite right about people not repressing their inclinations.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000020_000001|I-I wish some people would!"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000021_000000|Ransford turned quickly from the hearth and gave her a sharp look, beneath which her colour heightened.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000021_000001|Her eyes shifted their gaze away to her letter, and she picked it up and began to fold it nervously.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000022_000000|"Bryce?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000023_000000|The girl nodded her face showing distinct annoyance and dislike.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000023_000001|Before saying more, Ransford lighted a cigarette.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000024_000001|"Since last time?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000000|"Twice," she answered.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000001|"I didn't like to tell you-I've hated to bother you about it.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000002|But-what am I to do?
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000003|I dislike him intensely-I can't tell why, but it's there, and nothing could ever alter the feeling. And though I told him-before-that it was useless-he mentioned it again-yesterday-at mrs Folliot's garden party."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000000|"Confound his impudence!" growled Ransford.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000002|It's useless trifling with anything like that.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000003|I gave him a quiet hint before.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000004|And since he won't take it-all right!"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000027_000000|"But-what shall you do?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000027_000001|"Not-send him away?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000028_000001|"Don't you trouble yourself about it-I'm not at all keen about him.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000028_000002|He's a clever enough fellow, and a good assistant, but I don't like him, personally-never did."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000029_000000|"I don't want to think that anything that I say should lose him his situation-or whatever you call it," she remarked slowly.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000029_000001|"That would seem-"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000000|"No need to bother," interrupted Ransford.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000001|"He'll get another in two minutes-so to speak.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000003|The fellow must be an ass!
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000004|When I was young-"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000031_000000|He stopped short at that, and turning away, looked out across the garden as if some recollection had suddenly struck him.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000032_000000|"When you were young-which is, of course, such an awfully long time since!" said the girl, a little teasingly.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000032_000001|"What?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000033_000000|"Only that if a woman said No-unmistakably-once, a man took it as final," replied Ransford.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000033_000001|"At least-so I was always given to believe. Nowadays-"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000034_000000|"You forget that mr Pemberton Bryce is what most people would call a very pushing young man," said Mary.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000034_000002|But-if you must speak to him-and I really think you must!--will you tell him that he is not going to get-me?
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000034_000003|Perhaps he'll take it finally from you-as my guardian."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000035_000000|"I don't know if parents and guardians count for much in these degenerate days," said Ransford.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000035_000001|"But-I won't have him annoying you. And-I suppose it has come to annoyance?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000036_000001|"It's-irritating!"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000037_000000|"All right," said Ransford quietly.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000037_000001|"I'll speak to him.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000037_000002|There's going to be no annoyance for you under this roof."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000038_000000|The girl gave him a quick glance, and Ransford turned away from her and picked up his letters.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000039_000000|"Thank you," she said.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000039_000001|"But-there's no need to tell me that, because I know it already.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000039_000002|Now I wonder if you'll tell me something more?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000040_000000|Ransford turned back with a sudden apprehension.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000041_000000|"Well?" he asked brusquely.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000041_000001|"What?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000000|"When are you going to tell me all about-Dick and myself?" she asked. "You promised that you would, you know, some day.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000001|And-a whole year's gone by since then.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000002|And-Dick's seventeen!
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000004|Will he, now?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000043_000000|Ransford laid down his letters again, and thrusting his hands in his pockets, squared his shoulders against the mantelpiece.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000044_000001|"I'm just twenty-do you really think I shall be any wiser in twelve months?
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000044_000002|Of course I shan't!"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000045_000000|"You don't know that," he replied.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000045_000001|"You may be-a great deal wiser."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000046_000000|"But what has that got to do with it?" she persisted.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000047_000000|She was looking at him with a certain amount of demand-and Ransford, who had always known that some moment of this sort must inevitably come, felt that she was not going to be put off with ordinary excuses.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000047_000001|He hesitated-and she went on speaking.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000048_000000|"You know," she continued, almost pleadingly.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000048_000001|"We don't know anything-at all.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000000|"Once or twice, lately-yes," replied Mary.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000001|"It's only natural." She laughed a little-a forced laugh.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000002|"They say," she went on, "that it doesn't matter, nowadays, if you can't tell who your grandfather was-but, just think, we don't know who our father was-except that his name was john Bewery.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000003|That doesn't convey much."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000051_000001|"I told you-always have told you-that he was an early friend of mine, a man of business, who, with your mother, died young, and I, as their friend, became guardian to you and Dick.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000051_000002|Is-is there anything much more that I could tell?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000052_000000|"There's something I should very much like to know-personally," she answered, after a pause which lasted so long that Ransford began to feel uncomfortable under it.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000052_000001|"Don't be angry-or hurt-if I tell you plainly what it is.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000052_000003|It's this-have we been dependent on you?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000053_000000|Ransford's face flushed and he turned deliberately to the window, and for a moment stood staring out on his garden and the glimpses of the Cathedral.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000053_000001|And just as deliberately as he had turned away, he turned back.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000000|"No!" he said.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000001|"Since you ask me, I'll tell you that.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000002|You've both got money-due to you when you're of age.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000003|It-it's in my hands.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000004|Not a great lot-but sufficient to-to cover all your expenses. Education-everything.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000006|Perhaps I ought to have told you all that before, but-I didn't think it necessary.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000007|I-I dare say I've a tendency to let things slide."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000055_000000|"You've never let things slide about us," she replied quickly, with a sudden glance which made him turn away again.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000055_000001|"And I only wanted to know-because I'd got an idea that-well, that we were owing everything to you."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000056_000000|"Not from me!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000057_000001|"But-don't you understand? I-wanted to know-something.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000057_000002|Thank you.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000057_000003|I won't ask more now."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000000|"I've always meant to tell you-a good deal," remarked Ransford, after another pause.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000001|"You see, I can scarcely-yet-realize that you're both growing up!
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000002|You were at school a year ago.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000003|And Dick is still very young. Are-are you more satisfied now?" he went on anxiously.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000004|"If not-"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000059_000000|"I'm quite satisfied," she answered.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000059_000001|"Perhaps-some day-you'll tell me more about our father and mother?--but never mind even that now.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000059_000002|You're sure you haven't minded my asking-what I have asked?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000060_000000|"Of course not-of course not!" he said hastily.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000060_000002|And-but we'll talk again.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000060_000003|I must get into the surgery-and have a word with Bryce, too."
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000061_000001|"Wouldn't that solve the difficulty?"
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000062_000000|Ransford shook his head and made no answer.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000062_000002|He was alone there when he had shut the door-and he relieved his feelings with a deep groan.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000000|"Heaven help me if the lad ever insists on the real truth and on having proofs and facts given to him!" he muttered.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000001|"I shouldn't mind telling her, when she's a bit older-but he wouldn't understand as she would. Anyway, thank God I can keep up the pleasant fiction about the money without her ever knowing that I told her a deliberate lie just now. But-what's in the future?
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000002|Here's one man to be dismissed already, and there'll be others, and one of them will be the favoured man.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000003|That man will have to be told!
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000004|And-so will she, then.
train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000006|She's no idea of it-and she shan't have; I must-must continue to be-only the guardian!"
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000002_000000|THE NEW WORLD
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000003_000000|How long I slept I do not know.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000003_000002|The cannibals beckoned to us from the peak, and we landed between the two volcanoes.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000004_000000|In the midst of this I awoke.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000004_000001|It was with a sudden start, and I looked all around in speechless bewilderment.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000009_000005|I had crossed the antarctic circle; I had been borne onward for an immense distance.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000009_000008|I had reached the antarctic pole.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000010_000008|Whatever the true one might be, I was utterly unable to form a conjecture.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000011_000000|But I had no time for such speculations as these.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000000|So I hesitated, yet what could I do?
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000001|My hunger was beginning to be insupportable.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000003|To go back was impossible.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000006|No; return was impossible.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000010|I must land here, venture among these people, and trust in that Providence which had hitherto sustained me.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000013_000003|After some hesitation I concluded to make signals to her, so as to attract attention; for, now that I had resolved to venture among the people here, I was anxious to end my suspense as soon as possible. So I continued rowing, and gradually drew nearer.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000014_000001|Their hair was black and straight, their features were quite regular, and their general expression was one of great gentleness.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000014_000003|With their half closed eyes they blinked at me, and then one who appeared to be their chief spoke to me.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000015_000004|Their costume varied.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000016_000001|They looked at me, examining me all over, inspecting my gun, pistol, coat, trousers, boots, and hat, and talking all the time among themselves.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000016_000002|They did not touch me, but merely showed the natural curiosity which is felt at the sight of a foreigner who has appeared unexpectedly.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000016_000003|There was a scrupulous delicacy and a careful and even ceremonious politeness in their attitude toward me which was at once amazing and delightful.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000001|He led the way to the cabin, where, opening the door, he entered, and I followed, after which the others came in also and then the door was shut.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000003|There were no windows whatever, and only one or two slight crevices through which the light came.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000005|There was a large table and seats.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000008|The food was of different kinds-some tasting like goose, others like turkey, others like partridge.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000018_000001|I noticed that the eyes of my new friends no longer blinked; they were wide open; and, so far as I could make them out, their faces were much improved.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000000|After the repast they brought me water in a basin, and all stood around me.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000002|Then the chief, who had stood looking on with a smile on his face took off his rich furred mantle and handed it to me.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000005|Then they offered me various drinks, of which I tasted several kinds.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000007|I now wished to show my generous entertainers that I was grateful; so I raised my cup, bowed to all of them, particularly the chief, and drank their health.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000008|They all watched this ceremony with very sober faces, and I could not quite make out whether they took my meaning or not.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000021_000003|I followed, and the rest came after.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000021_000011|Their wings were short, and evidently could not be used for flight; their beaks were like that of a sea gull; each one had a man on his back, and was harnessed to a car.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000001|Our road constantly ascended, and at length we came to a crossing.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000002|This was a wide terrace at the slope of the mountain; on the lower side was a row of massive stone edifices with pyramidal roofs, while on the upper there were portals which seemed to open into excavated caverns. Here, too, on either side arose the giant ferns, overarching and darkening the terrace with their deep shadow.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000004|We continued on our way without stopping, and passed several successive terraces like the first, with the same caverns on the upper side and massive edifices on the lower, until at last the ascent ended at the fifth terrace, and here we turned to the left. Now the view became more varied.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000005|The tree ferns arose on either side, arching overhead; on my right were the portals that opened into caverns, on my left solid and massive houses, built of great blocks of stone, with pyramidal roofs.
train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000023_000002|We now went on until we reached the central portal of the range of caverns, and here we stopped.
train-clean-360/1025/75365/1025_75365_000002_000002|A king has a great opportunity to make himself loved.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000008_000000|The Blue Light Drug Store is downtown, between the Bowery and First Avenue, where the distance between the two streets is the shortest.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000008_000001|The Blue Light does not consider that pharmacy is a thing of bric a brac, scent and ice cream soda.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000009_000001|It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric. To this day pills are made behind its tall prescription desk-pills rolled out on its own pill tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill boxes.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000009_000002|The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000011_000000|Ikey roomed and breakfasted at mrs Riddle's two squares away.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000011_000002|The circumlocution has been in vain-you must have guessed it-Ikey adored Rosy.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000012_000000|The fly in Ikey's ointment (thrice welcome, pat trope!) was Chunk McGowan.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000013_000001|But he was no outfielder as Ikey was; he picked them off the bat. At the same time he was Ikey's friend and customer, and often dropped in at the Blue Light Drug Store to have a bruise painted with iodine or get a cut rubber plastered after a pleasant evening spent along the Bowery.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000017_000001|"I guess already that you have been stuck in the ribs with a knife.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000017_000002|I have many times told you those Dagoes would do you up."
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000018_000000|mr McGowan smiled.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000018_000002|"Not any Dagoes.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000018_000003|But you've located the diagnosis all right enough-it's under my coat, near the ribs.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000019_000000|Ikey's left forefinger was doubled over the edge of the mortar, holding it steady.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000020_000002|One day she says she will; the same evenin' she says nixy.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000020_000003|We've agreed on to night, and Rosy's stuck to the affirmative this time for two whole days.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000020_000004|But it's five hours yet till the time, and I'm afraid she'll stand me up when it comes to the scratch."
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000022_000000|mr McGowan looked ill at ease and harassed-a condition opposed to his usual line of demeanour.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000022_000001|He made a patent medicine almanac into a roll and fitted it with unprofitable carefulness about his finger.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000023_000005|McGowan ceased, a prey to his doubts.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000024_000000|"I don't see then yet," said Ikey, shortly, "what makes it that you talk of drugs, or what I can be doing about it."
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000025_000001|"For a week he hasn't let Rosy step outside the door with me.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000026_000000|"You will excuse me, Chunk," said Ikey.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000026_000001|"I must make a prescription that is to be called for soon."
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000028_000000|Ikey's lip beneath his nose curled with the scorn of superior enlightenment; but before he could answer, McGowan continued:
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000029_000000|"Tim Lacy told me he got some once from a croaker uptown and fed 'em to his girl in soda water.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000029_000002|They was married in less than two weeks."
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000030_000000|Strong and simple was Chunk McGowan.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000002|At eight Rosy goes to bed with a headache.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000003|At nine old Parvenzano lets me through to his back yard, where there's a board off Riddle's fence, next door.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000006|It's all dead easy if Rosy don't balk when the flag drops.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000007|Can you fix me one of them powders, Ikey?"
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000035_000000|"Chunk," said he, "it is of drugs of that nature that pharmaceutists must have much carefulness.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000035_000001|To you alone of my acquaintance would I intrust a powder like that.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000036_000001|There he crushed to a powder two soluble tablets, each containing a quarter of a grain of morphia.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000036_000003|Taken by an adult this powder would insure several hours of heavy slumber without danger to the sleeper. This he handed to Chunk McGowan, telling him to administer it in a liquid if possible, and received the hearty thanks of the backyard Lochinvar.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000037_000002|mr Riddle was a stout man, brick dusty of complexion and sudden in action.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000000|"Much obliged," he said, briefly, to Ikey.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000001|"The lazy Irish loafer!
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000002|My own room's just above Rosy's.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000003|I'll just go up there myself after supper and load the shot gun and wait.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000042_000002|She's up at the flat-she cooked eggs this mornin' in a blue kimono-Lord! how lucky I am!
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000042_000003|You must pace up some day, Ikey, and feed with us.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000042_000004|I've got a job down near the bridge, and that's where I'm heading for now."
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000043_000000|"The-the-powder?" stammered Ikey.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000044_000000|"Oh, that stuff you gave me!" said Chunk, broadening his grin; "well, it was this way.
train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000044_000001|I sat down at the supper table last night at Riddle's, and I looked at Rosy, and I says to myself, 'Chunk, if you get the girl get her on the square-don't try any hocus pocus with a thoroughbred like her.' And I keeps the paper you give me in my pocket.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000003_000000|THE CALIPH, CUPID AND THE CLOCK
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000000|Prince Michael, of the Electorate of Valleluna, sat on his favourite bench in the park.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000001|The coolness of the September night quickened the life in him like a rare, tonic wine.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000002|The benches were not filled; for park loungers, with their stagnant blood, are prompt to detect and fly home from the crispness of early autumn.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000003|The moon was just clearing the roofs of the range of dwellings that bounded the quadrangle on the east. Children laughed and played about the fine sprayed fountain.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000004|In the shadowed spots fauns and hamadryads wooed, unconscious of the gaze of mortal eyes.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000005|A hand organ-Philomel by the grace of our stage carpenter, Fancy-fluted and droned in a side street.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000007|And above the trees shone the great, round, shining face of an illuminated clock in the tower of an antique public building.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000006_000000|Prince Michael sat on his favourite bench and smiled.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000006_000001|It was a diverting thought to him that he was wealthy enough to buy every one of those close ranged, bulky, window lit mansions that faced him, if he chose.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000006_000006|For he had tasted of the fruit of the tree of life, and, finding it bitter in his mouth, had stepped out of Eden for a time to seek distraction close to the unarmoured, beating heart of the world.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000007_000000|These thoughts strayed dreamily through the mind of Prince Michael, as he smiled under the stubble of his polychromatic beard.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000007_000002|He found in altruism more pleasure than his riches, his station and all the grosser sweets of life had given him.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000007_000003|It was his chief solace and satisfaction to alleviate individual distress, to confer favours upon worthy ones who had need of succour, to dazzle unfortunates by unexpected and bewildering gifts of truly royal magnificence, bestowed, however, with wisdom and judiciousness.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000008_000000|And as Prince Michael's eye rested upon the glowing face of the great clock in the tower, his smile, altruistic as it was, became slightly tinged with contempt.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000008_000002|The comings and goings of people in hurry and dread, controlled by the little metal moving hands of a clock, always made him sad.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000000|"I beg your pardon for addressing you," he said, "but I perceive that you are disturbed in mind.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000001|If it may serve to mitigate the liberty I have taken I will add that I am Prince Michael, heir to the throne of the Electorate of Valleluna.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000002|I appear incognito, of course, as you may gather from my appearance.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000003|It is a fancy of mine to render aid to others whom I think worthy of it.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000012_000000|The young man looked up brightly at the Prince.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000012_000002|He laughed, and even then it did not.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000012_000003|But he accepted the momentary diversion.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000013_000000|"Glad to meet you, Prince," he said, good humouredly.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000014_000001|He was often rebuffed but never offensively.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000014_000002|His courteous manner and words forbade that.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000015_000001|I have observed you looking persistently at that clock.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000016_000001|"I carry a watch except when I've got my radiant rags on."
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000017_000001|"I am a master of philosophy, a graduate in art, and I hold the purse of a Fortunatus.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000017_000002|There are few mortal misfortunes that I cannot alleviate or overcome.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000017_000004|I beg of you to accept my advice or aid.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000018_000000|The young man glanced at the clock again and frowned darkly.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000018_000002|The shades were drawn, and the lights in many rooms shone dimly through them.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000019_000000|"Ten minutes to nine!" exclaimed the young man, with an impatient gesture of despair.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000020_000000|"Remain!" commanded Prince Michael, in so potent a voice that the disturbed one wheeled around with a somewhat chagrined laugh.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000022_000000|"Sit down," said the Prince calmly.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000022_000002|If you will so far confide in me I would ask you to relate to me your story."
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000023_000000|The young man threw himself upon the bench with a reckless laugh.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000000|"Your Royal Highness, I will," he said, in tones of mock deference.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000001|"Do you see yonder house-the one with three upper windows lighted?
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000003|I had been doing wrong, my dear Prince-I had been a naughty boy, and she had heard of it.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000004|I wanted to be forgiven, of course-we are always wanting women to forgive us, aren't we, Prince?"
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000000|"'I want time to think it over,' said she.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000001|'There is one thing certain; I will either fully forgive you, or I will never see your face again. There will be no half-way business.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000002|At half past eight,' she said, 'at exactly half past eight you may be watching the middle upper window of the top floor.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000003|If I decide to forgive I will hang out of that window a white silk scarf.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000004|You will know by that that all is as was before, and you may come to me.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000006|The time for the signal to appear has passed twenty three minutes ago.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000007|Do you wonder that I am a little disturbed, my Prince of Rags and Whiskers?"
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000026_000000|"Let me repeat to you," said Prince Michael, in his even, well modulated tones, "that women are the natural enemies of clocks.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000026_000001|Clocks are an evil, women a blessing.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000000|"Never, on your principality!" exclaimed the young man, hopelessly.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000001|"You don't know Marian-of course.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000002|She's always on time, to the minute.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000003|That was the first thing about her that attracted me.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000004|I've got the mitten instead of the scarf.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000007|The jig's up.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000008|I'll try Jack's ranch awhile and top off with the Klondike and whiskey.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000028_000000|Prince Michael smiled his enigmatic, gentle, comprehending smile and caught the coat sleeve of the other.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000000|"Wait," he said solemnly, "till the clock strikes.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000001|I have wealth and power and knowledge above most men, but when the clock strikes I am afraid.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000002|Stay by me until then.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000003|This woman shall be yours.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000004|You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000006|But there must be no clocks in that palace-they measure our follies and limit our pleasures.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000007|Do you agree to that?"
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000031_000000|He glanced again at the clock in the tower.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000031_000001|The hands stood at three minutes to nine.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000032_000000|"I think," said Prince Michael, "that I will sleep a little.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000032_000001|The day has been fatiguing."
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000034_000001|"Come to me when your marriage day is set and I will give you a cheque for the money."
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000035_000001|"It doesn't look as if I would need that palace on the Hudson, but I appreciate your offer, just the same."
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000036_000001|His battered hat rolled from the bench to the ground.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000036_000002|The young man lifted it, placed it over the frowsy face and moved one of the grotesquely relaxed limbs into a more comfortable position.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000037_000000|Sonorous and startling came the stroke of nine from the clock tower.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000037_000001|The young man sighed again, turned his face for one last look at the house of his relinquished hopes-and cried aloud profane words of holy rapture.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000041_000000|"Twenty nine and a half minutes past eight, sir."
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000042_000000|And then, from habit, he glanced at the clock in the tower, and made further oration.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000043_000000|"By George! that clock's half an hour fast!
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000043_000002|This watch of mine never varies a-"
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000045_000001|The park was deserted save for one dilapidated figure that sprawled, asleep, on a bench.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000045_000002|They stopped and gazed upon it.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000046_000000|"It's Dopy Mike," said one.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000046_000001|"He hits the pipe every night.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000046_000002|Park bum for twenty years.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000047_000000|The other policeman stooped and looked at something crumpled and crisp in the hand of the sleeper.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000048_000001|"He's doped out a fifty dollar bill, anyway.
train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000048_000002|Wish I knew the brand of hop that he smokes."
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000006_000000|Chapter ten
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000007_000000|A SUCCESSOR
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000008_000000|Some of the Reverend Frank Milvey's brethren had found themselves exceedingly uncomfortable in their minds, because they were required to bury the dead too hopefully.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000008_000001|But, the Reverend Frank, inclining to the belief that they were required to do one or two other things (say out of nine and thirty) calculated to trouble their consciences rather more if they would think as much about them, held his peace.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000009_000000|Indeed, the Reverend Frank Milvey was a forbearing man, who noticed many sad warps and blights in the vineyard wherein he worked, and did not profess that they made him savagely wise.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000009_000001|He only learned that the more he himself knew, in his little limited human way, the better he could distantly imagine what Omniscience might know.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000010_000000|Wherefore, if the Reverend Frank had had to read the words that troubled some of his brethren, and profitably touched innumerable hearts, in a worse case than Johnny's, he would have done so out of the pity and humility of his soul.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000011_000000|There was grief in the aristocratic house, and there was joy in the Bower.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000011_000002|And why go beating about Brentford bushes, seeking orphans forsooth who had established no claims upon you and made no sacrifices for you, when here was an orphan ready to your hand who had given up in your cause, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker?
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000012_000000|Mr Wegg chuckled, consequently, when he heard the tidings.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000012_000001|Nay, it was afterwards affirmed by a witness who shall at present be nameless, that in the seclusion of the Bower he poked out his wooden leg, in the stage ballet manner, and executed a taunting or triumphant pirouette on the genuine leg remaining to him.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000013_000000|john Rokesmith's manner towards Mrs Boffin at this time, was more the manner of a young man towards a mother, than that of a Secretary towards his employer's wife.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000013_000002|The completeness of his sympathy with her fancy for having a little john Harmon to protect and rear, he had shown in every act and word, and now that the kind fancy was disappointed, he treated it with a manly tenderness and respect for which she could hardly thank him enough.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000014_000000|'But I do thank you, Mr Rokesmith,' said Mrs Boffin, 'and I thank you most kindly.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000014_000001|You love children.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000015_000000|'I hope everybody does.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000017_000000|john Rokesmith replied, 'Some among us supply the short comings of the rest.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000017_000001|You have loved children well, Mr Boffin has told me.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000018_000001|You speak rather sadly, Mr Rokesmith.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000019_000000|'Do I?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000020_000000|'It sounds to me so.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000020_000001|Were you one of many children?' He shook his head.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000021_000000|'An only child?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000022_000000|'No there was another.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000025_000000|'And the rest of your relations?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000026_000001|I never heard of any.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000027_000001|She paused at the door a moment, hesitating whether to remain or retire; perplexed by finding that she was not observed.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000028_000000|'Now, don't mind an old lady's talk,' said Mrs Boffin, 'but tell me.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000029_000001|Why do you ask me?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000030_000000|'Why, for this reason.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000030_000001|Sometimes you have a kind of kept down manner with you, which is not like your age.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000030_000002|You can't be thirty?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000031_000000|'I am not yet thirty.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000032_000000|Deeming it high time to make her presence known, Bella coughed here to attract attention, begged pardon, and said she would go, fearing that she interrupted some matter of business.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000033_000000|'No, don't go,' rejoined Mrs Boffin, 'because we are coming to business, instead of having begun it, and you belong to it as much now, my dear Bella, as I do.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000034_000000|Rokesmith departed on that errand, and presently returned accompanied by Mr Boffin at his jog trot.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000034_000001|Bella felt a little vague trepidation as to the subject matter of this same consultation, until Mrs Boffin announced it.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000001|Now, you see, what I want to talk about, is this.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000002|Mr and Mrs Milvey have sent me the kindest note possible (which Mr Rokesmith just now read to me out aloud, for I ain't good at handwritings), offering to find me another little child to name and educate and bring up.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000003|Well.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000004|This has set me thinking.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000037_000000|'--This has set me thinking, I say,' repeated Mrs Boffin, cordially beaming under the influence of her husband's compliment, 'and I have thought two things.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000037_000002|It's an unfortunate name, and I fancy I should reproach myself if I gave it to another dear child, and it proved again unlucky.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000038_000000|'Now, whether,' said Mr Boffin, gravely propounding a case for his Secretary's opinion; 'whether one might call that a superstition?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000039_000001|It has now this new unfortunate association connected with it.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000039_000002|The name has died out.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000039_000003|Why revive it? Might I ask Miss Wilfer what she thinks?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000040_000000|'It has not been a fortunate name for me,' said Bella, colouring-'or at least it was not, until it led to my being here-but that is not the point in my thoughts.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000040_000001|As we had given the name to the poor child, and as the poor child took so lovingly to me, I think I should feel jealous of calling another child by it.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000041_000000|'And that's your opinion?' remarked Mr Boffin, observant of the Secretary's face and again addressing him.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000042_000000|'I say again, it is a matter of feeling,' returned the Secretary.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000043_000000|'Now, give us your opinion, Noddy,' said Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000044_000000|'My opinion, old lady,' returned the Golden Dustman, 'is your opinion.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000045_000000|'Then,' said Mrs Boffin, 'we agree not to revive john Harmon's name, but to let it rest in the grave.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000045_000001|It is, as Mr Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000045_000002|Well; and so I come to the second thing I have thought of.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000046_000000|'Hear, hear!' cried Mr Boffin.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000047_000001|I meant that, I am sure, as much as I still mean it.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000047_000002|But this little death has made me ask myself the question, seriously, whether I wasn't too bent upon pleasing myself. Else why did I seek out so much for a pretty child, and a child quite to my liking?
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000047_000003|Wanting to do good, why not do it for its own sake, and put my tastes and likings by?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000048_000000|'Perhaps,' said Bella; and perhaps she said it with some little sensitiveness arising out of those old curious relations of hers towards the murdered man; 'perhaps, in reviving the name, you would not have liked to give it to a less interesting child than the original.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000048_000001|He interested you very much.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000049_000000|'Well, my dear,' returned Mrs Boffin, giving her a squeeze, 'it's kind of you to find that reason out, and I hope it may have been so, and indeed to a certain extent I believe it was so, but I am afraid not to the whole extent.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000049_000001|However, that don't come in question now, because we have done with the name.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000050_000000|'Laid it up as a remembrance,' suggested Bella, musingly.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000051_000000|'Much better said, my dear; laid it up as a remembrance.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000052_000000|'Not pretty then?' said Bella.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000053_000000|'No,' returned Mrs Boffin, stoutly.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000054_000000|'Nor prepossessing then?' said Bella.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000055_000000|'No,' returned Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000055_000002|That's as it may happen. A well disposed boy comes in my way who may be even a little wanting in such advantages for getting on in life, but is honest and industrious and requires a helping hand and deserves it.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000055_000003|If I am very much in earnest and quite determined to be unselfish, let me take care of HIM.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000056_000000|Here the footman whose feelings had been hurt on the former occasion, appeared, and crossing to Rokesmith apologetically announced the objectionable Sloppy.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000057_000000|The four members of Council looked at one another, and paused.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000057_000001|'Shall he be brought here, ma'am?' asked Rokesmith.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000058_000000|'Yes,' said Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000058_000001|Whereupon the footman disappeared, reappeared presenting Sloppy, and retired much disgusted.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000059_000000|The consideration of Mrs Boffin had clothed Mr Sloppy in a suit of black, on which the tailor had received personal directions from Rokesmith to expend the utmost cunning of his art, with a view to the concealment of the cohering and sustaining buttons.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000059_000001|But, so much more powerful were the frailties of Sloppy's form than the strongest resources of tailoring science, that he now stood before the Council, a perfect Argus in the way of buttons: shining and winking and gleaming and twinkling out of a hundred of those eyes of bright metal, at the dazzled spectators.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000059_000002|The artistic taste of some unknown hatter had furnished him with a hatband of wholesale capacity which was fluted behind, from the crown of his hat to the brim, and terminated in a black bunch, from which the imagination shrunk discomfited and the reason revolted.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000062_000000|'Have you just come, Sloppy?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000063_000000|'Yes, mum.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000065_000000|'No, mum.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000065_000001|But I mean to it.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000066_000000|'How are the two poor little Minders?' asked Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000067_000000|'Striking right out, mum, and coming round beautiful.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000069_000000|'Sloppy.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000070_000000|'Yes, mum.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000071_000000|'Come forward, Sloppy.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000071_000001|Should you like to dine here every day?'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000073_000000|'Yes.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000000|'Oh, mum!--But there's Mrs Higden,' said Sloppy, checking himself in his raptures, drawing back, and shaking his head with very serious meaning. 'There's Mrs Higden.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000001|Mrs Higden goes before all.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000003|And she must be turned for, must Mrs Higden.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000004|Where would Mrs Higden be if she warn't turned for!' At the mere thought of Mrs Higden in this inconceivable affliction, Mr Sloppy's countenance became pale, and manifested the most distressful emotions.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000075_000001|It shall be seen to.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000075_000002|If Betty Higden can be turned for all the same, you shall come here and be taken care of for life, and be made able to keep her in other ways than the turning.'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000000|'Even as to that, mum,' answered the ecstatic Sloppy, 'the turning might be done in the night, don't you see?
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000001|I could be here in the day, and turn in the night.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000002|I don't want no sleep, I don't.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000003|Or even if I any ways should want a wink or two,' added Sloppy, after a moment's apologetic reflection, 'I could take 'em turning.
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000004|I've took 'em turning many a time, and enjoyed 'em wonderful!'
train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000077_000000|On the grateful impulse of the moment, Mr Sloppy kissed Mrs Boffin's hand, and then detaching himself from that good creature that he might have room enough for his feelings, threw back his head, opened his mouth wide, and uttered a dismal howl.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000001_000000|BOOK THE THIRD -- A LONG LANE
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000002_000000|Chapter one
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000003_000000|LODGERS IN QUEER STREET
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000004_000002|Even in the surrounding country it was a foggy day, but there the fog was grey, whereas in London it was, at about the boundary line, dark yellow, and a little within it brown, and then browner, and then browner, until at the heart of the City-which call Saint Mary Axe-it was rusty black.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000005_000001|But the light went out, and the main door opened, and Riah came forth with a bag under his arm.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000006_000001|But the eyes of this history can follow him westward, by Cornhill, Cheapside, Fleet Street, and the Strand, to Piccadilly and the Albany.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000007_000000|Arrived at the house in which his master's chambers were on the second floor, Riah proceeded up the stairs, and paused at Fascination Fledgeby's door.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000007_000001|Making free with neither bell nor knocker, he struck upon the door with the top of his staff, and, having listened, sat down on the threshold.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000007_000002|It was characteristic of his habitual submission, that he sat down on the raw dark staircase, as many of his ancestors had probably sat down in dungeons, taking what befell him as it might befall.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000008_000000|After a time, when he had grown so cold as to be fain to blow upon his fingers, he arose and knocked with his staff again, and listened again, and again sat down to wait.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000008_000001|Thrice he repeated these actions before his listening ears were greeted by the voice of Fledgeby, calling from his bed, 'Hold your row!--I'll come and open the door directly!' But, in lieu of coming directly, he fell into a sweet sleep for some quarter of an hour more, during which added interval Riah sat upon the stairs and waited with perfect patience.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000009_000000|At length the door stood open, and Mr Fledgeby's retreating drapery plunged into bed again.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000009_000001|Following it at a respectful distance, Riah passed into the bed chamber, where a fire had been sometime lighted, and was burning briskly.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000010_000000|'Why, what time of night do you mean to call it?' inquired Fledgeby, turning away beneath the clothes, and presenting a comfortable rampart of shoulder to the chilled figure of the old man.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000012_000001|Then it must be precious foggy?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000013_000000|'Very foggy, sir.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000016_000000|With a plunge of enjoyment, Fledgeby settled himself afresh.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000017_000000|'Any snow, or sleet, or slush, or anything of that sort?' he asked.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000018_000000|'No, sir, no Not quite so bad as that.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000018_000001|The streets are pretty clean.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000019_000001|'But you're always bragging about something.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000019_000002|Got the books there?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000021_000000|'All right.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000022_000000|With another comfortable plunge, Mr Fledgeby fell asleep again.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000022_000002|He was roused by Mr Fledgeby's appearing erect at the foot of the bed, in Turkish slippers, rose coloured Turkish trousers (got cheap from somebody who had cheated some other somebody out of them), and a gown and cap to correspond.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000022_000003|In that costume he would have left nothing to be desired, if he had been further fitted out with a bottomless chair, a lantern, and a bunch of matches.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000023_000001|You ain't asleep. Catch a weasel at it, and catch a Jew!'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000025_000000|'Not you!' returned Fledgeby, with a cunning look.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000026_000000|The old man shook his head, gently repudiating the imputation, and suppressed a sigh, and moved to the table at which Mr Fledgeby was now pouring out for himself a cup of steaming and fragrant coffee from a pot that had stood ready on the hob.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000026_000001|It was an edifying spectacle, the young man in his easy chair taking his coffee, and the old man with his grey head bent, standing awaiting his pleasure.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000027_000000|'Now!' said Fledgeby. 'Fork out your balance in hand, and prove by figures how you make it out that it ain't more.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000027_000001|First of all, light that candle.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000028_000000|Riah obeyed, and then taking a bag from his breast, and referring to the sum in the accounts for which they made him responsible, told it out upon the table.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000028_000001|Fledgeby told it again with great care, and rang every sovereign.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000030_000001|'May I take the liberty to say something?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000031_000000|'You may,' Fledgeby graciously conceded.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000032_000000|'Do you not, sir-without intending it-of a surety without intending it-sometimes mingle the character I fairly earn in your employment, with the character which it is your policy that I should bear?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000033_000000|'I don't find it worth my while to cut things so fine as to go into the inquiry,' Fascination coolly answered.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000034_000000|'Not in justice?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000035_000000|'Bother justice!' said Fledgeby.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000036_000000|'Not in generosity?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000037_000001|'That's a good connexion!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000037_000002|Bring out your vouchers, and don't talk Jerusalem palaver.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000038_000000|The vouchers were produced, and for the next half hour Mr Fledgeby concentrated his sublime attention on them.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000039_000000|'Next,' said Fledgeby, 'concerning that bill broking branch of the business; the branch I like best.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000039_000001|What queer bills are to be bought, and at what prices?
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000039_000002|You have got your list of what's in the market?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000040_000000|'Sir, a long list,' replied Riah, taking out a pocket book, and selecting from its contents a folded paper, which, being unfolded, became a sheet of foolscap covered with close writing.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000041_000001|'Queer Street is full of lodgers just at present!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000041_000002|These are to be disposed of in parcels; are they?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000042_000000|'In parcels as set forth,' returned the old man, looking over his master's shoulder; 'or the lump.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000043_000000|'Half the lump will be waste paper, one knows beforehand,' said Fledgeby. 'Can you get it at waste paper price?
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000043_000001|That's the question.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000044_000000|Riah shook his head, and Fledgeby cast his small eyes down the list. They presently began to twinkle, and he no sooner became conscious of their twinkling, than he looked up over his shoulder at the grave face above him, and moved to the chimney piece.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000044_000001|Making a desk of it, he stood there with his back to the old man, warming his knees, perusing the list at his leisure, and often returning to some lines of it, as though they were particularly interesting.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000044_000003|He took none that could be detected, but, aware of his employer's suspicions, stood with his eyes on the ground.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000045_000000|Mr Fledgeby was thus amiably engaged when a step was heard at the outer door, and the door was heard to open hastily.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000045_000001|'Hark!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000045_000002|That's your doing, you Pump of Israel,' said Fledgeby; 'you can't have shut it.' Then the step was heard within, and the voice of Mr Alfred Lammle called aloud, 'Are you anywhere here, Fledgeby?' To which Fledgeby, after cautioning Riah in a low voice to take his cue as it should be given him, replied, 'Here I am!' and opened his bedroom door.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000046_000000|'Come in!' said Fledgeby.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000046_000003|Can't I make ANY terms with you on my friend's part, Mr Riah?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000047_000000|'I am but the representative of another, sir,' returned the Jew in a low voice.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000047_000001|'I do as I am bidden by my principal.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000047_000003|It is not my profit that arises therefrom.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000048_000000|'Ha ha!' laughed Fledgeby.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000048_000001|'Lammle?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000049_000000|'Ha ha!' laughed Lammle. 'Yes.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000049_000001|Of course.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000049_000002|We know.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000050_000000|'Devilish good, ain't it, Lammle?' said Fledgeby, unspeakably amused by his hidden joke.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000054_000000|'He is only the representative of another!' cried Fledgeby. 'Does as he is told by his principal!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000055_000001|Saint Mary Axe, or of somebody: which is far from our intention.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000056_000001|Having closed it on him, Fledgeby returned to Lammle, standing with his back to the bedroom fire, with one hand under his coat skirts, and all his whiskers in the other.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000058_000000|'How do you know it?' demanded Lammle.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000059_000000|'Because you show it,' replied Fledgeby in unintentional rhyme.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000060_000000|'Well then; there is,' said Lammle; 'there IS something wrong; the whole thing's wrong.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000062_000000|'I tell you, Fledgeby,' repeated Lammle, with a sweep of his right arm, 'the whole thing's wrong.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000063_000000|'What game's up?' demanded Fledgeby, as slowly as before, and more sternly.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000064_000001|OUR game.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000065_000000|Fledgeby took a note from his extended hand and read it aloud.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000065_000001|'Alfred Lammle, Esquire.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000065_000002|Sir: Allow Mrs Podsnap and myself to express our united sense of the polite attentions of Mrs Alfred Lammle and yourself towards our daughter, Georgiana.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000068_000000|'Perhaps,' suggested Fledgeby, after reflecting with a very discontented brow, 'somebody has been giving you a bad character.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000070_000001|A certain remembrance connected with that feature operating as a timely warning, he took it thoughtfully between his thumb and forefinger, and pondered; Lammle meanwhile eyeing him with furtive eyes.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000071_000000|'Well!' said Fledgeby. 'This won't improve with talking about.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000075_000000|'No,' said Fledgeby; 'provided you have brought my promissory note in your pocket, and now hand it over.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000076_000000|Lammle produced it, not without reluctance.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000076_000001|Fledgeby looked at it, identified it, twisted it up, and threw it into the fire.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000076_000002|They both looked at it as it blazed, went out, and flew in feathery ash up the chimney.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000078_000000|'No,' said Fledgeby.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000080_000000|'Yes.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000081_000000|'Fledgeby, my hand.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000000|Mr Fledgeby took it, saying, 'And if we ever find out who did this, we'll mark that person.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000001|And in the most friendly manner, let me mention one thing more.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000002|I don't know what your circumstances are, and I don't ask.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000003|You have sustained a loss here.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000007|Never fall into his hands, Lammle, I beg of you as a friend!'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000084_000001|I didn't like his eye.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000084_000003|Of course if you are sure that you have no personal security out, which you may not be quite equal to meeting, and which can have got into his hands, it must have been fancy.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000084_000004|Still, I didn't like his eye.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000085_000000|The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000086_000000|'But I mustn't keep him waiting too long,' said Fledgeby, 'or he'll revenge it on my unfortunate friend.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000086_000001|How's your very clever and agreeable wife?
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000087_000000|'I showed her the letter.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000090_000000|'Oh!--She lays it upon me, then?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000000|'Don't break out, Lammle,' urged Fledgeby, in a submissive tone, 'because there's no occasion.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000001|I only asked a question.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000002|Then she don't lay it upon me?
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000003|To ask another question.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000093_000000|'No, sir.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000094_000001|'My compliments to her.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000094_000002|Good bye!'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000095_000000|They shook hands, and Lammle strode out pondering.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000096_000000|'You have a pair of whiskers, Lammle, which I never liked,' murmured Fledgeby, 'and which money can't produce; you are boastful of your manners and your conversation; you wanted to pull my nose, and you have let me in for a failure, and your wife says I am the cause of it.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000100_000001|Now a word about affairs that are not exactly mine. Where is she?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000102_000000|'Oho!' said Fledgeby. 'Didn't expect it!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000103_000000|Showing that he was taken by surprise, the old man looked at his master with some passing confusion, which the master highly enjoyed.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000105_000000|'No, sir.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000107_000000|'No, sir.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000108_000000|'Where is she then?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000109_000000|Riah bent his eyes upon the ground, as if considering whether he could answer the question without breach of faith, and then silently raised them to Fledgeby's face, as if he could not.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000110_000000|'Come!' said Fledgeby. 'I won't press that just now.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000110_000001|But I want to know this, and I will know this, mind you.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000110_000002|What are you up to?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000111_000000|The old man, with an apologetic action of his head and hands, as not comprehending the master's meaning, addressed to him a look of mute inquiry.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000113_000000|'O, sir!' expostulated Riah.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000113_000001|'O, sir, sir, sir!'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000114_000000|'Then why,' retorted Fledgeby, with some slight tinge of a blush, 'don't you out with your reason for having your spoon in the soup at all?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000115_000000|'Sir, I will tell you the truth.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000115_000001|But (your pardon for the stipulation) it is in sacred confidence; it is strictly upon honour.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000116_000000|'Honour too!' cried Fledgeby, with a mocking lip.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000116_000002|Cut away.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000117_000000|'It is upon honour, sir?' the other still stipulated, with respectful firmness.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000118_000000|'Oh, certainly.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000118_000001|Honour bright,' said Fledgeby.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000119_000000|The old man, never bidden to sit down, stood with an earnest hand laid on the back of the young man's easy chair.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000119_000001|The young man sat looking at the fire with a face of listening curiosity, ready to check him off and catch him tripping.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000120_000000|'Cut away,' said Fledgeby. 'Start with your motive.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000121_000000|'Sir, I have no motive but to help the helpless.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000122_000000|Mr Fledgeby could only express the feelings to which this incredible statement gave rise in his breast, by a prodigiously long derisive sniff.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000124_000000|'Did you?' said Fledgeby, distrustfully.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000124_000001|'Well.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000124_000002|Perhaps you did, though.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000125_000000|'The better I knew her, the more interest I felt in her fortunes.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000125_000001|They gathered to a crisis.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000125_000002|I found her beset by a selfish and ungrateful brother, beset by an unacceptable wooer, beset by the snares of a more powerful lover, beset by the wiles of her own heart.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000126_000000|'She took to one of the chaps then?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000000|'Sir, it was only natural that she should incline towards him, for he had many and great advantages.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000002|Perils were closing round her, and the circle was fast darkening, when I-being as you have said, sir, too old and broken to be suspected of any feeling for her but a father's-stepped in, and counselled flight.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000003|I said, "My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight." She answered, she had had this in her thoughts; but whither to fly without help she knew not, and there were none to help her.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000004|I showed her there was one to help her, and it was i And she is gone.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000128_000000|'What did you do with her?' asked Fledgeby, feeling his cheek.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000129_000000|'I placed her,' said the old man, 'at a distance;' with a grave smooth outward sweep from one another of his two open hands at arm's length; 'at a distance-among certain of our people, where her industry would serve her, and where she could hope to exercise it, unassailed from any quarter.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000130_000000|Fledgeby's eyes had come from the fire to notice the action of his hands when he said 'at a distance.' Fledgeby now tried (very unsuccessfully) to imitate that action, as he shook his head and said, 'Placed her in that direction, did you?
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000130_000001|Oh you circular old dodger!'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000131_000000|With one hand across his breast and the other on the easy chair, Riah, without justifying himself, waited for further questioning.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000131_000001|But, that it was hopeless to question him on that one reserved point, Fledgeby, with his small eyes too near together, saw full well.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000132_000000|'Lizzie,' said Fledgeby, looking at the fire again, and then looking up. 'Humph, Lizzie.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000132_000002|I'll be more communicative with you.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000132_000003|The other name's Hexam.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000134_000001|Has he anything to do with the law?'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000136_000000|'I thought so.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000139_000000|'Wrayburn.'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000000|'By Jupiter!' cried Fledgeby.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000001|'That one, is it?
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000004|Got a beard besides, and presumes upon it.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000006|Go on and prosper!'
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000142_000001|Left alone, Mr Fledgeby locked his outer door, and came back to his fire.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000143_000000|'Well done you!' said Fascination to himself.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000143_000001|'Slow, you may be; sure, you are!' This he twice or thrice repeated with much complacency, as he again dispersed the legs of the Turkish trousers and bent the knees.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000144_000000|'A tidy shot that, I flatter myself,' he then soliloquised.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000144_000001|'And a Jew brought down with it!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000145_000002|Having got behind the hedge, and put him in the light, I took a shot at him and brought him down plump.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000146_000000|Another dry twist in place of a smile, made his face crooked here.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000147_000000|'As to Christians,' proceeded Fledgeby, 'look out, fellow Christians, particularly you that lodge in Queer Street!
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000147_000001|I have got the run of Queer Street now, and you shall see some games there.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000148_000000|With this apostrophe Mr Fledgeby appropriately proceeded to divest himself of his Turkish garments, and invest himself with Christian attire.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000148_000001|Pending which operation, and his morning ablutions, and his anointing of himself with the last infallible preparation for the production of luxuriant and glossy hair upon the human countenance (quacks being the only sages he believed in besides usurers), the murky fog closed about him and shut him up in its sooty embrace.
train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000148_000002|If it had never let him out any more, the world would have had no irreparable loss, but could have easily replaced him from its stock on hand.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000002_000000|The gates of the Monastery stood wide open, the world lay beyond, and all was ready for departure.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000002_000001|Baron Conrad and his men at arms sat foot in stirrup, the milk white horse that had been brought for Otto stood waiting for him beside his father's great charger.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000003_000000|"Farewell, Otto," said the good old Abbot, as he stooped and kissed the boy's cheek.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000004_000000|"Farewell," answered Otto, in his simple, quiet way, and it brought a pang to the old man's heart that the child should seem to grieve so little at the leave taking.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000005_000000|"Farewell, Otto," said the brethren that stood about, "farewell, farewell."
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000006_000000|Then poor brother john came forward and took the boy's hand, and looked up into his face as he sat upon his horse.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000006_000001|"We will meet again," said he, with his strange, vacant smile, "but maybe it will be in Paradise, and there perhaps they will let us lie in the father's belfry, and look down upon the angels in the court yard below."
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000007_000000|"Aye," answered Otto, with an answering smile.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000009_000000|Down the steep winding pathway they rode, and out into the great wide world beyond, upon which Otto and brother john had gazed so often from the wooden belfry of the White Cross on the hill.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000011_000000|"Nay," said Otto; "we had no horse to ride, but only to bring in the harvest or the grapes from the further vineyards to the vintage."
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000013_000000|"Nay," said Otto, with a smile, "I am not afeared."
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000014_000001|But perhaps Otto's thought of fear and Baron Conrad's thought of fear were two very different matters.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000015_000000|The afternoon had passed by the time they had reached the end of their journey.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000015_000001|Up the steep, stony path they rode to the drawbridge and the great gaping gateway of Drachenhausen, where wall and tower and battlement looked darker and more forbidding than ever in the gray twilight of the coming night.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000015_000002|Little Otto looked up with great, wondering, awe struck eyes at this grim new home of his.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000016_000000|The next moment they clattered over the drawbridge that spanned the narrow black gulph between the roadway and the wall, and the next were past the echoing arch of the great gateway and in the gray gloaming of the paved court yard within.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000017_000000|Otto looked around upon the many faces gathered there to catch the first sight of the little baron; hard, rugged faces, seamed and weather beaten; very different from those of the gentle brethren among whom he had lived, and it seemed strange to him that there was none there whom he should know.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000018_000000|As he climbed the steep, stony steps to the door of the Baron's house, old Ursela came running down to meet him.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000018_000002|"My little child," she cried, and then fell to sobbing as though her heart would break.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000020_000000|His new home was all very strange and wonderful to Otto; the armors, the trophies, the flags, the long galleries with their ranges of rooms, the great hall below with its vaulted roof and its great fireplace of grotesquely carved stone, and all the strange people with their lives and thoughts so different from what he had been used to know.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000021_000000|And it was a wonderful thing to explore all the strange places in the dark old castle; places where it seemed to Otto no one could have ever been before.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000023_000000|It was the chapel into which Otto had made his way, now long since fallen out of use excepting as a burial place of the race.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000024_000000|At another time he clambered up into the loft under the high peaked roof, where lay numberless forgotten things covered with the dim dust of years.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000024_000001|There a flock of pigeons had made their roost, and flapped noisily out into the sunlight when he pushed open the door from below. Here he hunted among the mouldering things of the past until, oh, joy of joys! in an ancient oaken chest he found a great lot of worm eaten books, that had belonged to some old chaplain of the castle in days gone by.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000024_000002|They were not precious and beautiful volumes, such as the Father Abbot had showed him, but all the same they had their quaint painted pictures of the blessed saints and angels.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000025_000000|Again, at another time, going into the court yard, Otto had found the door of Melchior's tower standing invitingly open, for old Hilda, Schwartz Carl's wife, had come down below upon some business or other.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000000|Then upon the shaky wooden steps Otto ran without waiting for a second thought, for he had often gazed at those curious buildings hanging so far up in the air, and had wondered what they were like.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000001|Round and round and up and up Otto climbed, until his head spun.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000002|At last he reached a landing stage, and gazing over the edge and down, beheld the stone pavement far, far below, lit by a faint glimmer of light that entered through the arched doorway.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000003|Otto clutched tight hold of the wooden rail, he had no thought that he had climbed so far.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000028_000000|Then Otto turned and crept down the stairs, frightened at the height to which he had climbed.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000029_000000|At the doorway he met Mother Hilda.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000030_000000|Old Ursela seemed nearer to the boy than anyone else about the castle, excepting it was his father, and it was a newfound delight to Otto to sit beside her and listen to her quaint stories, so different from the monkish tales that he had heard and read at the monastery.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000031_000000|But one day it was a tale of a different sort that she told him, and one that opened his eyes to what he had never dreamed of before.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000032_000000|The mellow sunlight fell through the window upon old Ursela, as she sat in the warmth with her distaff in her hands while Otto lay close to her feet upon a bear skin, silently thinking over the strange story of a brave knight and a fiery dragon that she had just told him.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000032_000001|Suddenly Ursela broke the silence.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000034_000000|"Nay," said Otto, "but tell me, Ursela, how it was."
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000036_000000|Otto listened with eyes that grew wider and wider, though not all with wonder; he no longer lay upon the bear skin, but sat up with his hands clasped.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000036_000001|For a moment or two after the old woman had ended her story, he sat staring silently at her.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000036_000002|Then he cried out, in a sharp voice, "And is this truth that you tell me, Ursela? and did my father seek to rob the towns people of their goods?"
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000037_000002|Ah! me, those day's are all gone now." And she fetched a deep sigh.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000037_000003|"Then we lived in plenty and had both silks and linens and velvets besides in the store closets and were able to buy good wines and live in plenty upon the best.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000037_000005|But there is one comfort in it all, and that is that our good Baron paid back the score he owed the Trutz Drachen people not only for that, but for all that they had done from the very first."
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000039_000000|Poor little Otto had never dreamed that such cruelty and wickedness could be.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000039_000001|He listened to the old woman's story with gaping horror, and when the last came and she told him, with a smack of her lips, how his father had killed his enemy with his own hand, he gave a gasping cry and sprang to his feet.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000040_000000|"Oh, father!" he cried, "oh, father!
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000041_000000|"Aye," said the Baron, grimly, "it is true enough, and I think me I have killed many more than one.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000041_000001|But what of that, Otto?
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000043_000001|Once he reached out his hand as though to stroke the boy's hair, but drew it back again.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000044_000000|Turning angrily upon the old woman, "Ursela," said he, "thou must tell the child no more such stories as these; he knowest not at all of such things as yet.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000045_000000|That night the father and son sat together beside the roaring fire in the great ball.
train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000046_000000|Otto looked for a while into his father's face.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000001_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000001_000001|In the House of the Dragon Scorner.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000002_000001|Such was the little baron's prison in Trutz Drachen.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000002_000002|Fastened to a bolt and hanging against the walls, hung a pair of heavy chains with gaping fetters at the ends.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000002_000003|They were thick with rust, and the red stain of the rust streaked the wall below where they hung like a smear of blood. Little Otto shuddered as he looked at them; can those be meant for me, he thought.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000003_000001|No sound from without was to be heard in that gloomy cell of stone, for the window pierced the outer wall, and the earth and its noises lay far below.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000004_000000|Suddenly a door crashed without, and the footsteps of men were heard coming along the corridor.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000004_000001|They stopped in front of Otto's cell; he heard the jingle of keys, and then a loud rattle of one thrust into the lock of the heavy oaken door.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000004_000002|The rusty bolt was shot back with a screech, the door opened, and there stood Baron Henry, no longer in his armor, but clad in a long black robe that reached nearly to his feet, a broad leather belt was girdled about his waist, and from it dangled a short, heavy hunting sword.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000006_000000|The two stood for a moment looking into the room, and Otto, his pale face glimmering in the gloom, sat upon the edge of the heavy wooden bench or bed, looking back at them out of his great blue eyes.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000006_000001|Then the two entered and closed the door behind them.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000007_000000|"Dost thou know why thou art here?" said the Baron, in his deep, harsh voice.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000008_000000|"Nay," said Otto, "I know not."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000009_000000|"So?" said the Baron.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000012_000000|"Nay, dear Lord Baron, I know not," said poor little Otto, and began to weep.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000013_000000|The Baron stood for a moment or two looking gloomily upon him, as the little boy sat there with the tears running down his white face.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000014_000002|Catch the boy, Casper, and hold him."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000015_000000|As the man in the mail shirt stepped toward little Otto, the boy leaped up from where he sat and caught the Baron about the knees.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000015_000001|"Oh! dear Lord Baron," he cried, "do not harm me; I am only a little child, I have never done harm to thee; do not harm me."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000018_000000|Baron Henry and the other came forth from the cell, carefully closing the wooden door behind them.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000019_000000|Otto lay upon the hard couch in his cell, covered with a shaggy bear skin.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000019_000001|His face was paler and thinner than ever, and dark rings encircled his blue eyes.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000019_000002|He was looking toward the door, for there was a noise of someone fumbling with the lock without.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000020_000000|Since that dreadful day when Baron Henry had come to his cell, only two souls had visited Otto.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000020_000001|One was the fellow who had come with the Baron that time; his name, Otto found, was Casper.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000020_000003|The other visitor was the leech or doctor, a thin, weasand little man, with a kindly, wrinkled face and a gossiping tongue, who, besides binding wounds, bleeding, and leeching, and administering his simple remedies to those who were taken sick in the castle, acted as the Baron's barber.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000021_000001|At last the bolts grated back, there was a pause, and then the door opened a little way, and Otto thought that he could see someone peeping in from without. By and by the door opened further, there was another pause, and then a slender, elfish looking little girl, with straight black hair and shining black eyes, crept noiselessly into the room.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000022_000000|She stood close by the door with her finger in her mouth, staring at the boy where he lay upon his couch, and Otto upon his part lay, full of wonder, gazing back upon the little elfin creature.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000023_000000|She, seeing that he made no sign or motion, stepped a little nearer, and then, after a moment's pause, a little nearer still, until, at last, she stood within a few feet of where he lay.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000026_000001|Why, I thought that thou wert a great tall fellow at least, and here thou art a little boy no older than Carl Max, the gooseherd." Then, after a little pause-"My name is Pauline, and my father is the Baron.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000026_000002|I heard him tell my mother all about thee, and so I wanted to come here and see thee myself: Art thou sick?"
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000027_000000|"Yes," said Otto, "I am sick."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000028_000000|"And did my father hurt thee?"
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000030_000000|Little Pauline stood looking seriously at him for a while.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000030_000002|And then, at her childish pity, he began crying in earnest.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000031_000000|This was only the first visit of many from the little maid, for after that she often came to Otto's prison, who began to look for her coming from day to day as the one bright spot in the darkness and the gloom.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000033_000000|One day the little maid sat for a long while silent after he had ended speaking.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000033_000001|At last she drew a deep breath.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000034_000000|"Yes," said Otto, "all are true."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000035_000000|"And do they never go out to fight other priests?"
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000036_000000|"No," said Otto, "they know nothing of fighting."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000037_000000|"So!" said she.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000040_000001|I saw her the night thy father hurt me so, for I could not sleep and my head felt as though it would break asunder.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000041_000000|"But where did she come from, Otto?" said the little girl.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000042_000000|"From paradise, I think," said Otto, with that patient seriousness that he had caught from the monks, and that sat so quaintly upon him.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000043_000001|When I was sick my mother bade Gretchen carry me to a far part of the house, because I cried and so troubled her.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000045_000000|"Mine hath often struck me," said Pauline.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000046_000000|One day little Pauline came bustling into Otto's cell, her head full of the news which she carried.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000046_000002|There he had seen the Baron Conrad and six of his men, and that they were eating one of the swine that they had killed and roasted.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000046_000003|Maybe," said she, seating herself upon the edge of Otto's couch; "maybe my father will kill thy father, and they will bring him here and let him lie upon a black bed with bright candles burning around him, as they did my uncle Frederick when he was killed."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000047_000000|"God forbid!" said Otto, and then lay for a while with his hands clasped.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000047_000001|"Dost thou love me, Pauline?" said he, after a while.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000048_000000|"Yes," said Pauline, "for thou art a good child, though my father says that thy wits are cracked."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000049_000000|"Mayhap they are," said Otto, simply, "for I have often been told so before.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000051_000000|"Then listen, Pauline," said Otto; "if I go not away from here I shall surely die.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000052_000000|"Why dost thou cry, Otto?" said she, after a while.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000053_000000|"Because," said he, "I am so sick, and I want my father to come and take me away from here."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000054_000001|"If thy father takes thee away, thou canst not tell me any more stories."
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000055_000001|Dear Pauline, canst thou not tell my father where I am, that he may come here and take me away before I die?"
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000057_000000|"And for my sake, wilt thou tell him, Pauline?" said Otto.
train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000059_000000|"Yes," said Otto, very seriously, "I will promise."
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000000_000000|THE SINGLE TAX.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000001_000000|This idea was first formulated by mr Henry George in eighteen seventy nine, and has grown steadily in favor.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000001_000002|They hold that this is the only rightful source of public revenue, and they would therefore abolish all taxation-local, state and national-except a tax upon the rental value of land exclusive of its improvements, the revenue thus raised to be divided among local, state and general governments, as the revenue from certain direct taxes is now divided between local and state governments.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000002_000000|The single tax would not fall on all land, but only on valuable land, and on that in proportion to its value.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000002_000001|It would thus be a tax, not on use or improvements, but on ownership of land, taking what would otherwise go to the landlord as owner.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000003_000000|In accordance with the principle that all men are equally entitled to the use of the earth, they would solve the transportation problem by public ownership and control of all highways, including the roadbeds of railroads, leaving their use equally free to all.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000004_000001|It would call upon men to contribute for public expenses in proportion to the natural opportunities they monopolize, and make it unprofitable for speculators to hold land unused or only partly used, thus opening to labor unlimited fields of employment, solving the labor problem and abolishing involuntary poverty.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000005_000000|THE MYSTERIES OF HYPNOTISM.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000006_000000|A Compend of the General Claims Made by Professional Hypnotists.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000001|It may be transmitted from one person to another.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000002|The transmitting force is the concentrated effort of will power, which sends the magnetic current through the nerves of the operator to the different parts of the body of his subject.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000004|Its action in general should be soothing and quieting upon the nervous system; stimulating to the circulation of the blood, the brain and other vital organs of the body of the subject.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000005|It is the use and application of this power or force that constitutes hypnotism.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000008_000001|From the intelligent operator using it to overcome disease, a patient experiences a soothing influence that causes a relaxation of the muscles, followed by a pleasant, drowsy feeling which soon terminates in refreshing sleep.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000009_000001|No one was ever induced to commit any crime under hypnosis, that could not have been induced to do the same thing much easier without hypnosis.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000010_000000|The hypnotic state is a condition of mind that extends from a comparatively wakeful state, with slight drowsiness, to complete somnambulism, no two subjects, as a rule, ever presenting the same characteristics.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000011_000000|The operator, to be successful, must have control of his own mind, be in perfect health and have the ability to keep his mind concentrated upon the object he desires to accomplish with his subject.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000012_000000|HOW TO CARE FOR A PIANO. By William h Damon
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000000|The most important thing in the preservation of a piano is to avoid atmospheric changes and extremes and sudden changes of temperature. Where the summer condition of the atmosphere is damp all precautions possible should be taken to avoid an entirely dry condition in winter, such as that given by steam or furnace heat.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000005|Plants in the room are desirable and vessels of water of any kind will be of assistance.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000006|The most potent means of avoiding extreme dryness is to place a single loaf bread pan half full of water in the lower part of the piano, taking out the lower panel and placing it on either side of the pedals inside.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000008|In cases where stove heat is used these precautions are not necessary.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000000|The action of a piano, like any other delicate piece of machinery, should be carefully examined, and, if necessary, adjusted each time it is tuned.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000001|The hammers need occasional and careful attention to preserve original tone quality and elasticity.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000003|This is ruinous to both the action and tuning.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000004|When not in use the music rack and top should be closed to exclude dust.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000005|The keyboard need never be closed, as the ivory needs both light and ventilation and will eventually turn yellow unless left open.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000000|The case demands careful treatment to preserve its beauty and polish, Never use anything other than a soft piece of cotton cloth or cheese cloth to dust it with.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000001|Never wipe it with a dry chamois skin or silk cloth.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000002|Silk is not as soft as cotton and will scratch.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000003|A dry chamois skin picks up the dust and grit and gradually scours off the fine finish.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000004|In dusting never use a feather duster, nor rub the piano hard with anything.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000005|The dust should be whipped off, and not rubbed into the varnish.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000006|If the piano is dingy, smoky or dirty looking, it should be washed carefully with lukewarm water with a little ammonia in it to soften it.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000007|Never use soap.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000008|Use nothing but a small, soft sponge and a chamois skin.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000009|Wipe over a small part at a time with the sponge, following quickly with the wet chamois skin wrung out of the same water. This will dry it immediately and leave it as beautiful and clean as new. Never use patent polishes.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000010|If your piano needs polishing employ a competent polisher to give it a hand rubbing friction polish.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000017_000000|[Transcriber's Note: The highest point in New Guinea is Puncak Jaya (Mount Carstensz or the Carstensz Pyramid), at sixteen thousand twenty three feet.]
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000020_000001|Scald this with new milk heated to the boiling point and mix to the thickness of mush.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000020_000002|This can be made in a cup.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000000|"In the morning, when all is ready, take a one gallon stone jar and into this put one scant cupful of new milk.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000001|Add a level teaspoonful of salt and one of sugar.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000002|Scald this with three cupfuls of water heated to the boiling point.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000003|Reduce to a temperature of one hundred and eight degrees with cold water, using a milk thermometer to enable you to get exactly the right temperature.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000005|It should rise at least an inch and a half.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000006|When it has raised mix to a stiff dough, make into loaves and put into pans.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000007|Do not let the heat get out of the dough while working. Grease the loaves well on top and set your bread where it will be warm and rise.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000008|After the loaves rise bake in a medium oven for one hour and ten minutes.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000009|When you take the loaves from the oven wrap them in a bread cloth."
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000023_000000|Take twelve ounces of dislike, one pound of resolution, two grains of common sense, two ounces of experience, a large sprig of time, and three quarts of cooling water of consideration.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000023_000001|Set them over a gentle fire of love, sweeten it with sugar of forgetfulness, skim it with the spoon of melancholy, put it in the bottom of your heart, cork it with the cork of clean conscience.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000023_000002|Let it remain and you will quickly find ease and be restored to your senses again.
train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000024_000000|These things can be had of the apothecary at the house of Understanding next door to Reason, on Prudent street.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000001_000000|DOING BUSINESS WITH A BANK
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000000|In opening your account with a bank it is proper that you should first be introduced to the cashier, or some other official.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000001|If you are engaged in business, that officer will inquire as to your particular business or calling, your address, etc, and unless he is already satisfied on this point, he may make inquiries as to your business standing.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000002|This being satisfactory, he will hand you a passbook, and some deposit tickets, whereupon you make your first deposit, entering the amount on the ticket.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000003|You will then be asked to write your signature in a book provided for that purpose, or upon a card to be filed away for reference.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000003_000000|The Signature.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000004_000002|john h Smith or john Henry Smith, but whatever form you adopt should be used all the time. Once having adopted the form, it should be maintained in exactly that way.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000004_000004|In that case, supposing you had adopted the form j Henry Smith for your regular signature, and the check is made payable to john h Smith, you should first write on the back of that check "john h Smith," and immediately under this you should place your regular signature.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000006_000000|When making a deposit, always use the deposit ticket provided by the bank, filling it out yourself in ink.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000006_000001|From this ticket, which is first checked up by the receiving teller, the amount of your deposit is placed to your credit.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000007_000000|How to Avoid Mistakes.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000008_000001|Sometimes the requirements of the banks may seem arbitrary and troublesome, but reflection will show that they safeguard the depositor as well as the bank.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000008_000002|The simple rules here laid down will enable anyone who has business with a bank to do so with the least trouble and with absolute safety.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000009_000000|How to Make Out a Check.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000010_000001|The stub of your check book will furnish a permanent memorandum, and when the check is canceled and returned to you by the bank, it is an indisputable evidence that the debt has been paid, or that the remittance has been made.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000011_000000|[Illustration: A Check Properly Drawn.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000011_000001|The name and amount are against the left side of their fields.]
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000012_000000|The first facsimile shows a check properly made.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000012_000001|It will be seen, in the first place, that this check is written very plainly, and that there is no room for the insertion of extra figures or words.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000012_000002|The writing of the amount commences as nearly as possible to the extreme left of the check. The figures are written close together and there is no space between the first figure and the dollar mark.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000013_000001|If you have made a mistake, tear a blank check from the back of your check book and use that in place of the one spoiled.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000014_000000|Some business men allow their clerks to fill out checks on the typewriter.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000014_000001|This is ill advised for two reasons: First, it is much easier to alter a typewritten check than one filled in with a pen; in the second place, a teller, in passing on the genuineness of a check, takes into consideration the character of the handwriting in the body of the check as well as in the signature.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000014_000002|The typewritten characters offer no clue to individuality.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000015_000000|Never mail a check drawn to "Bearer." Remember that if your check is made payable to "Bearer" or to "john Smith or Bearer" it may be cashed by anybody who happens to have it.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000017_000000|If you make your check payable say, to William Armstrong or order, nobody but William Armstrong, or some one to whom he indorses the check, can collect the amount, and if through fraud or otherwise some one not entitled to it gets the money which the check calls for, the responsibility is not yours, but the bank's.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000017_000001|It is for that reason that bankers and business men use such great care in accepting checks.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000018_000000|[Illustration: A Check Carelessly Drawn.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000018_000001|The text and numbers for the amount is in the center of their fields, leaving of space for extra text.]
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000019_000000|[Illustration: The Same Check "Raised".
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000021_000000|Checks or drafts received by you should be deposited as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000021_000001|Should you receive a check for a considerable amount and have no convenient bank account, you should go to the bank on which the check is drawn and have the cashier certify it by stamping "Accepted" or "Certified" across the face over his signature.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000021_000002|That formality makes the paper as good as money so long as the bank accepting it is solvent.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000023_000000|Paying Notes and Acceptances.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000024_000001|Whether it or other banks hold them for collection, they will be presented to your bank when due.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000025_000001|Banks will not pay notes or drafts without instructions.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000027_000000|Exchange.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000028_000000|"Exchange" means funds in other cities made available by bankers' drafts on such places.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000028_000001|These drafts afford the safest and cheapest means for remitting money.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000028_000002|Drafts on New York are worth their face value practically all over the United States in settlement of accounts.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000029_000000|Collections.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000030_000000|A draft is sometimes the most convenient form for collecting an account. The prevalence of the custom is due to the fact that most men will wait to be asked to pay a debt.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000030_000001|If a draft is a time draft it is accepted by the person on whom it is drawn by writing his name and date across the face.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000030_000002|This makes it practically a note, to be paid at maturity.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000032_000000|Borrowing.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000033_000000|Banks are always willing to loan their funds to responsible persons within reasonable limits.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000033_000001|That is what they exist for.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000034_000000|The customer should not hesitate, when occasion requires, to offer to the bank for discount such paper as may come into his hands in the course of business, if, in his opinion, the paper is good.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000034_000001|At the same time he should not be offended if his bank refuses to take it even without giving reasons.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000035_000000|Indorsing Checks, etc
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000001|The proper way to indorse a check or draft-this also applies to notes and other negotiable paper-is to write your name upon the back about one inch from the top.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000003|The end which is then farthest from you is the top.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000004|If, however, the check, draft or note has already been indorsed by another person, you should write your name directly under the other indorsement, even if that is on the wrong end.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000005|If your own name on the face of the check, draft or note is misspelled, or has the wrong initials, but if the paper is clearly intended for you, you should first write your name as it appears on the face, and under it your regular signature.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000006|You should indorse every check you deposit, even though it be payable to bearer.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000037_000000|Mistakes in Banking.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000039_000000|One wrong word, or figure, or letter-the right thing in the wrong way or the wrong place-the scratch of an eraser or the alteration of a word-or any one of these things, in the making or cashing of a check, is liable to become as expensive as a racing automobile.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000040_000000|The paying teller of a bank, says mr Woods, must keep his eyes open for new dangers as well as old ones.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000040_000001|The cleverest crooks in the country are pitting their brains against his.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000040_000002|After he has learned the proper guard for all the well-known tricks and forgeries it is still possible that an entirely new combination may leave him minus cash and plus experience.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000041_000000|But it is not the unique and novel swindle that is most dangerous, either to a bank or an individual.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000041_000001|It is the simple, ordinary mistake or the time worn trick that makes continuous trouble.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000041_000002|Apparently, every new generation contains a number of dishonest people who lay the same traps, and a number of careless people who fall into these traps in the same old way.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000042_000000|Check Raising Made Easy.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000043_000000|One of the first lessons, for instance, that a depositor should learn before he is qualified to own a check book is to commence writing the amount as near as possible to the extreme left of the check.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000043_000001|Those who forget this are often reminded of it in a costly way.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000043_000002|Some one "raises" their checks by writing another figure in front of the proper amount. "Five hundred" might be "raised" to "twenty five hundred" in this way, even by an unskilled forger.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000044_000000|The highest court has recently decided that a bank cannot be held responsible, when it pays a "raised" check, if the maker of the check failed in the first place to write it out correctly.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000045_000000|Altered Words and Figures.
train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000046_000000|The altered check is the bane of the paying teller's profession, and it is the general practice in conservative banks to accept no checks or other paper which shows signs of erasure or alteration in either words or figures.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000004_000000|By Lucretia p Hale
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000014_000001|It would not take so long to write as a letter, and would not be so expensive.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000014_000002|But could they get the whole subject on a postal?
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000015_000000|mr Peterkin believed there could be no difficulty, there was but one question:--
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000016_000000|Shall the adventures of the Peterkin family be published?
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000018_000001|Their card had been addressed to the lady from Philadelphia, with the number of her street.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000019_000000|"Publish them, of course."
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000020_000000|And in time came the answer of the lady from Philadelphia:--"Yes, of course; publish them."
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000023_000000|THIS was mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000023_000001|It was a mistake.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000023_000003|It tasted bad.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000025_000001|He could turn things into almost gold.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000026_000001|He came near throwing his crucible-that was the name of his melting pot-at their heads.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000026_000002|But he didn't.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000000|First he looked at the coffee, and then stirred it.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000003|Then he added some tartaric acid and some hypersulphate of lime.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000004|But no; it was no better.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000005|"I have it!" exclaimed the chemist,--"a little ammonia is just the thing!" No, it wasn't the thing at all.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000029_000000|Then he tried, each in turn, some oxalic, cyanic, acetic, phosphoric, chloric, hyperchloric, sulphuric, boracic, silicic, nitric, formic, nitrous nitric, and carbonic acids.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000029_000001|mrs Peterkin tasted each, and said the flavor was pleasant, but not precisely that of coffee.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000030_000001|The chemist was not discouraged.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000031_000000|The chemist said that all he had done ought to have taken out the salt.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000031_000003|He should like to be paid, and go.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000031_000007|He sat himself down to do it.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000032_000005|They knew her by her hat.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000032_000006|It was steeple crowned, without any vane.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000032_000007|They saw her digging with her trowel round a sassafras bush.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000033_000000|There she stopped, and stuffed her huge pockets with some of all the kinds of herbs.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000034_000000|Meanwhile mrs Peterkin was getting quite impatient for her coffee.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000035_000002|mrs
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000001|Then she tried a little flagroot and snakeroot, then some spruce gum, and some caraway and some dill, some rue and rosemary, some sweet marjoram and sour, some oppermint and sappermint, a little spearmint and peppermint, some wild thyme, and some of the other tame time, some tansy and basil, and catnip and valerian, and sassafras, ginger, and pennyroyal.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000002|The children tasted after each mixture, but made up dreadful faces.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000003|mrs Peterkin tasted, and did the same.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000004|The more the old woman stirred, and the more she put in, the worse it all seemed to taste.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000037_000001|She believed the coffee was bewitched.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000037_000003|And all she would take for pay was five cents in currency.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000038_000000|Then the family were in despair, and all sat and thought a great while. It was growing late in the day, and mrs Peterkin hadn't had her cup of coffee.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000038_000001|At last Elizabeth Eliza said, "They say that the lady from Philadelphia, who is staying in town, is very wise.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000038_000002|Suppose I go and ask her what is best to be done." To this they all agreed, it was a great thought, and off Elizabeth Eliza went.
train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000040_000001|"Why didn't we think of that?" said Elizabeth Eliza; and they all went back to their mother, and she had her cup of coffee.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000002_000000|ELIZABETH ELIZA had a present of a piano, and she was to take lessons of the postmaster's daughter.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000005_000000|How could Elizabeth Eliza open it?
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000005_000001|How could she reach the keys to play upon it?
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000008_000000|It was very pleasant, too, moonlight evenings.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000009_000000|So did Elizabeth Eliza, only she had to have her back to the moon.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000012_000000|One day, when she was talking with the lady from Philadelphia, she spoke of this trouble.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000016_000000|"Why did we not think of that before?" said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000018_000003|"It comes from books," said one of the family.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000018_000004|"People who have a great many books are very wise." Then they counted up that there were very few books in the house,--a few school books and mrs Peterkin's cook book were all.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000021_000000|"Let us think how we shall get one," said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000025_000000|"That's the book case part," said Elizabeth Eliza; "but where are the books?"
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000028_000000|"Yes," said Solomon john, "books will make us wise, but first I must make a book."
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000029_000000|So they went into the parlor, and sat down to make a book.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000029_000001|But there was no ink.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000030_000000|What should he do for ink?
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000030_000002|So they decided to make some. The little boys said they could find some nutgalls up in the woods. So they all agreed to set out and pick some.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000030_000003|mrs Peterkins put on her cape bonnet, and the little boys got into their india rubber boots, and off they went.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000033_000002|But it was already dark.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000033_000004|They set out in procession for the poultry yard.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000033_000005|When they got there, the fowls were all at roost, so they could look at them quietly.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000035_000000|But there were no geese!
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000035_000002|"No geese but ourselves," said mrs Peterkin, wittily, as they returned to the house. The sight of this procession roused up the village.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000036_000000|After the crowd had dispersed, Solomon john sat down to think of his writing again.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000036_000003|The bookseller was just shutting up his shop.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000037_000000|So Solomon john sat down again, but there was no paper.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000037_000001|And now the bookstore was shut up.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000047_000000|Elizabeth Eliza shook the reins, and pulled them, and then she clucked to the horse; and mrs Peterkin clucked; and the little boys whistled and shouted; but still the horse would not go.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000048_000000|"We shall have to whip him," said Elizabeth Eliza.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000050_000000|So they tried this, but the horse would not stir.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000054_000000|"I have tried the whip," said Elizabeth Eliza.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000056_000000|"We might make those," said mrs Peterkin, thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000057_000000|"We have got plenty of cream," said Elizabeth Eliza.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000061_000000|They carried some out to the horse, who swallowed it down very quickly.
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000062_000000|"That is just what he wanted," said mrs Peterkin; "now he will certainly go!"
train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000065_000000|The little boys jumped out as quickly as they could; they were eager to go and ask the lady from Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000002_000001|This was at dinner time.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000003_000002|mr Peterkin sat down to cut the ham.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000003_000008|Nobody had what he could eat.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000004_000000|It was a rule of the Peterkin family, that no one should eat any of the vegetables without some of the meat; so now, although the children saw upon their plates apple sauce and squash and tomato and sweet potato and sour potato, not one of them could eat a mouthful, because not one was satisfied with the meat.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000007_000000|"What shall be done now?" said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000009_000000|At last said mrs Peterkin, rather uncertainly, "Suppose we ask the lady from Philadelphia what is best to be done."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000010_000000|But mr Peterkin said he didn't like to go to her for everything; let the children try and eat their dinner as it was.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000011_000000|And they all tried, but they couldn't.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000011_000001|"Very well, then." said mr Peterkin, "let them go and ask the lady from Philadelphia."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000012_000000|"All of us?" cried one of the little boys, in the excitement of the moment.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000013_000000|"Yes," said mrs Peterkin, "only put on your india rubber boots." And they hurried out of the house.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000014_000001|Agamemnon and Elizabeth Eliza told her all the difficulty, and the lady from Philadelphia said, "But why don't you give the slices of fat to those who like the fat, and the slices of lean to those who like the lean?"
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000015_000002|"Why didn't we think of that?" said they, and ran home to tell their mother.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000001|All had seated themselves at the dinner table, and Amanda had gone to take out the dinner she had sent up from the kitchen on the dumb waiter.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000002|But something was the matter; she could not pull it up.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000003|There was the dinner, but she could not reach it.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000004|All the family, in turn, went and tried; all pulled together, in vain; the dinner could not be stirred.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000018_000000|"No dinner!" exclaimed Agamemnon.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000020_000000|At last mr Peterkin said, "I am not proud.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000021_000001|All consented to this.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000021_000002|Each one went down, taking a napkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000022_000001|Amanda went to the dumb waiter for the dinner, but she could not move it down.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000024_000000|"What is there for dinner?" asked mr Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000025_000000|"Roast turkey," said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000027_000000|"Squash, tomato, potato, and sweet potato," mrs Peterkin continued.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000028_000000|"Sweet potato!" exclaimed both the little boys.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000029_000000|"I am very glad now that I did not have cranberry," said mrs Peterkin, anxious to find a bright point.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000030_000000|"Let us sit down and think about it," said mr Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000032_000000|"Let us hear it," said mr Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000033_000000|"The turkey," said Agamemnon, "must be just above the kitchen door.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000033_000001|If I had a ladder and an axe, I could cut away the plastering and reach it."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000034_000000|"That is a great idea," said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000035_000000|"If you think you could do it," said mr Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000036_000000|"Would it not be better to have a carpenter?" asked Elizabeth Eliza.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000037_000000|"A carpenter might have a ladder and an axe, and I think we have neither," said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000038_000000|"A carpenter!
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000038_000001|A carpenter!" exclaimed the rest.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000039_000000|It was decided that mr Peterkin, Solomon john, and the little boys should go in search of a carpenter.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000040_000000|Agamemnon proposed that, meanwhile, he should go and borrow a book; for he had another idea.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000041_000000|"This affair of the turkey," he said, "reminds me of those buried cities that have been dug out,--Herculaneum, for instance."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000042_000000|"Oh, yes," interrupted Elizabeth Eliza, "and Pompeii."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000043_000001|Now, I should like to know how they did it; and I mean to borrow a book and read.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000043_000002|I think it was done with a pickaxe."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000044_000001|But when mr Peterkin reached the carpenter's shop, there was no carpenter to be found there.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000046_000000|"Happy man," exclaimed mr Peterkin, "he has a dinner to eat!"
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000047_000000|They went to the carpenter's house, but found he had gone out of town for a day's job.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000050_000000|Time passed on, and the question arose about tea.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000050_000002|A part of the family thought it would not do; the rest wanted tea.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000052_000000|"Oh, yes," said mrs Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000053_000000|"Let us try to think what she would advise us," said mr Peterkin.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000054_000000|"I wish she were here," said Elizabeth Eliza.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000055_000000|"I think," said mr Peterkin, "she would say, let them that want tea have it; the rest can go without."
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000056_000000|So they had tea, and, as it proved, all sat down to it.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000058_000000|They asked him to bring a ladder, axes and pickaxe.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000059_000000|When the matter was explained to him, he went into the dining room, looked into the dumb waiter, untwisted a cord, and arranged the weight, and pulled up the dinner.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000060_000000|There was a family shout.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000061_000000|"The trouble was in the weight," said the carpenter.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000062_000000|"That is why it is called a dumb waiter," Solomon john explained to the little boys.
train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000063_000000|The dinner was put upon the table.
train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000000_000000|The Whigs saw that their time was come.
train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000005_000001|Sidney sounded Halifax. Shrewsbury took his part with a courage and decision which, at a later period, seemed to be wanting to his character.
train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000006_000002|The brow, the eye, and the mouth of Halifax indicated a powerful intellect and an exquisite sense of the ludicrous; but the expression was that of a sceptic, of a voluptuary, of a man not likely to venture his all on a single hazard, or to be a martyr in any cause.
train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000006_000007|He had passed years in a prison.
train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000007_000001|The whole plan was opened to him; and he approved of it. But in a few days he began to be unquiet.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000002_000002|He was still detached, an astonished spectator, still but half involved in life.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000002_000007|What is the danger?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000003_000000|"We have our troubles," said Howard.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000003_000002|And, in fact, your appearance, your waking just now, has a sort of connexion-"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000004_000000|He spoke jerkily, like a man not quite sure of his breathing.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000004_000001|He stopped abruptly.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000005_000000|"I don't understand," said Graham.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000006_000000|"It will be clearer later," said Howard.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000008_000003|Anything.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000008_000005|Your counting, I understand, is different."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000010_000002|What place is it?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000012_000000|"Was it a social trouble-that-in the great roadway place?
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000012_000001|How are you governed?
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000013_000000|"Several," said Howard.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000014_000000|"Several?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000015_000000|"About fourteen."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000017_000000|"Very probably not.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000017_000002|To tell you the truth, I don't understand it myself very clearly.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000017_000004|You will, perhaps-bye and bye.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000019_000005|This Howard, it seemed, was a person of importance.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000021_000002|He asked Howard to slacken his speed.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000025_000000|"I want to see more of that," cried Graham, resisting.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000029_000000|As they crossed the gallery he heard a whisper from below, "The Sleeper," and was aware of a turning of heads, a hum of observation.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000031_000001|Then he stopped.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000036_000000|"Orders, Sire."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000037_000000|"Whose orders?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000038_000000|"Our orders, Sire."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000039_000000|Graham looked his exasperation.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000044_000000|"Oh!" said Graham, and after an equally ineffectual attempt at the other man, went to the railing and stared at the distant men in white, who stood watching him and whispering together.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000045_000000|The Council?
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000045_000004|And why should he be brought to them, and be looked at strangely and spoken of inaudibly? Howard appeared beneath, walking quickly across the polished floor towards them.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000048_000001|The two men in red stopped on either side of this door.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000051_000000|"You must understand," began Howard abruptly, avoiding Graham's eyes, "that our social order is very complex.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000052_000000|He stopped.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000053_000000|"Yes?" said Graham.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000055_000000|"Yes?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000056_000000|"Things have come to such a pass that, in fact, it is advisable to seclude you here."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000057_000000|"Keep me prisoner!" exclaimed Graham.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000058_000000|"Well-to ask you to keep in seclusion."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000059_000001|"This is strange!" he said.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000060_000000|"No harm will be done you."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000061_000000|"No harm!"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000062_000000|"But you must be kept here-"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000064_000000|"Precisely."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000065_000001|Begin.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000067_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000070_000002|Your awakening-no one expected your awakening.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000071_000000|"What council?"
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000072_000000|"The Council you saw."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000073_000000|Graham made a petulant movement.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000073_000001|"This is not right," he said.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000073_000002|"I should be told what is happening."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000074_000000|"You must wait.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000074_000001|Really you must wait."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000000|"That is better," said Howard.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000003|For a space.
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000004|While I attend the discussion in the Council....
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000005|I am sorry."
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000078_000002|There was an inkling of some vast inheritance already in his mind-a vast inheritance perhaps misapplied-of some unprecedented importance and opportunity. What had he to do?
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000078_000003|And this room's secluded silence was eloquent of imprisonment!
train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000081_000003|For a moment he did not perceive this was himself.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000007_000002|But this thing before him was not a book as he understood it.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000014_000003|And they had spoken of the Sleeper; it had not really struck him vividly at the time that he was the Sleeper.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000017_000005|The music was unfamiliar.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000019_000006|Something snapped.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000022_000001|But here was no Utopia, no Socialistic state.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000024_000000|He began to talk to himself.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000024_000012|"Steady!"
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000025_000001|"This new world," he said.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000033_000000|"It is not that.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000036_000000|"Am I a fool?"
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000037_000000|"Certainly not."
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000039_000000|"You were never expected to act at all.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000039_000005|And-but it is too complex.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000039_000006|We dare not suddenly---while you are still half awake."
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000041_000000|Howard pulled his lip.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000042_000002|Is that it?"
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000044_000002|It will be ill.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000044_000003|I am alive.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000044_000007|I am a man come back to life.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000047_000004|Is there any sort of company?"
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000048_000000|He paused meaningly.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000049_000000|"Yes," said Graham thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000052_000000|"That," said Howard, "I am afraid-But-"
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000054_000000|"What do you mean by company?"
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000055_000004|We think it no scandal.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000056_000000|Graham stopped dead.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000057_000000|"It would pass the time," said Howard.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000059_000000|Graham hesitated.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000061_000007|There is a city, a multitude-.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000064_000001|He stopped.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000067_000005|He clung to his anger-because he was afraid of fear.
train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000070_000001|But what do they want?
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000003_000001|He had dressed himself in cool white clothes, and was passing through the hall on his way to the council chamber, when a number of young nobles suddenly appeared before him, and one amongst them stepped forward and spoke.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000004_000000|'Sire, this morning we were all playing tennis in the court, the prince and this gentleman with the rest, when there broke out some dispute about the game.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000007_000000|'Yes, sire, he had arms; he always carries a dagger in his belt.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000008_000001|Then he came back, his face white and stern.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000010_000000|The young man raised his head as if to reply, but the king would not listen, and commanded his guards to put him under arrest, adding, however, that if the prisoner wished to visit any part of the city, he was at liberty to do so properly guarded, and in fifteen days he would be brought to trial before the highest judges in the land.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000011_000001|By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him going about to seek counsel from wise men of all sorts, as to how he might escape death, but no one could help him, for none could find any excuse for the blow he had given to the prince.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000012_000000|The fourteenth night had come, and in despair the prisoner went out to take his last walk through the city.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000012_000001|He wandered on hardly knowing where he went, and his face was so white and desperate that none of his companions dared speak to him.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000013_000001|But there is none that can answer that question save only I myself, if you will promise to do all I ask.'
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000016_000000|'You will not need to do that,' answered the old woman, 'you have only got to marry me, and you will soon be free.'
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000017_000001|Oh, no, it is quite impossible.'
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000018_000000|He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from her eyes made him feel uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000018_000001|However, all she said was:
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000020_000004|But at length, breathless and exhausted, he reached her side, and gasped out:
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000021_000000|'Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will thankfully accept the offer you made me.'
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000023_000000|The hall was full to overflowing when the prisoner entered it, and all marvelled at the brightness of his face.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000023_000001|The king inquired if he had any excuse to plead for the high treason he had committed by striking the heir to the throne, and, if so, to be quick in setting it forth.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000023_000002|With a low bow the youth made answer in a clear voice:
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000025_000001|The queen saw this, and likewise that your love was going from her, and thought night and day of some plan that might put an end to this evil.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000025_000002|At length, when you were away fighting in distant countries, she decided what she would do, and adopted in secret the baby of a poor quarryman, sending a messenger to tell you that you had a son.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000025_000003|No one suspected the truth except a priest to whom the queen confessed the truth, and in a few weeks she fell ill and died, leaving the baby to be brought up as became a prince.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000025_000004|And now, if your highness will permit me, I will speak of myself.'
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000027_000001|You were in a part of the country which you did not know, so seeing an orchard all pink and white with apple blossoms, and a girl tossing a ball in one corner, you went up to her to ask your way.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000027_000004|She only thought you a poor knight, and agreed that as you wished it, the marriage should be kept secret.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000029_000002|That, sire, I can now tell you,' and the young man paused and looked at the king, who coloured deeply.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000033_000000|Therefore one by one they all knelt before him and took the oath, and a message was sent to the false prince, forbidding him ever again to appear at court, though a handsome pension was granted him.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000039_000000|For the next few weeks little was seen of the prince, who spent all his days in hunting, and trying to forget the old wife at home.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000042_000001|Now I must tell you who I am, and what befell to cause me to take the shape of an old woman.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000044_000003|To this he replied that as my misfortune resulted from a spell, this was rather difficult, but he would do his best, and at any rate he could promise that before my fifteenth birthday I should be freed from the enchantment if I could get a man who would swear to marry me as I was.
train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000046_000000|'That is my history, and now you must beg the king to send messengers at once to Granada, to inform my father of our marriage, and I think,' she added with a smile, 'that he will not refuse us his blessing.'
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000006_000000|'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter?'
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000007_000001|However, after a night's rest he was in a better temper, and thought that he might be more lucky the third time, so back he went to the old place.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000008_000000|'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter?' he said to the youngest.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000009_000000|'Indeed I will wed thee; a pretty creature is the hoodie,' answered she, and on the morrow they were married.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000013_000000|By and bye they had a son, and very pleased they both were.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000013_000001|But in the night soft music was heard stealing close towards the house, and every man slept, and the mother slept also.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000015_000001|So they set out in a coach which was big enough to hold them, and had not gone very far when the hoodie suddenly said:
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000019_000007|And when the sun rose she got up, and left the house, in search of the hoodie.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000027_000000|With the first spoonful he took up the ring, and a thrill ran through him; in the second he beheld the feather and rose from his chair.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000028_000000|'Who has cooked this feast?' asked he, and the real cook, who had come back from the race, was brought before him.
train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000030_000002|Still, at last they were over, and they went back the way she had come, and stopped at the three houses in order to take their little sons to their own home.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000001|The prisoner expected that he would be at no expense that day, for like an economical man he had concealed half of his fowl and a piece of the bread in the corner of his cell.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000003|He struggled against his thirst till his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth; then, no longer able to resist, he called out.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000004|The sentinel opened the door; it was a new face.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000005|He thought it would be better to transact business with his old acquaintance, so he sent for Peppino.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000007|"What do you want?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000015_000000|"Come, my friend," said Danglars, seeing that he made no impression on Peppino, "you will not refuse me a glass of wine?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000018_000000|"They are all the same price."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000020_000000|"Twenty five thousand francs a bottle."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000023_000000|"It is possible such may be the master's intention."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000024_000000|"The master?--who is he?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000027_000000|"Here."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000030_000000|"You sent for me?" he said to the prisoner.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000031_000000|"Are you, sir, the chief of the people who brought me here?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000032_000001|What then?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000033_000000|"How much do you require for my ransom?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000034_000000|"Merely the five million you have about you." Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000034_000002|If you deprive me of that, take away my life also."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000035_000000|"We are forbidden to shed your blood."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000039_000000|"Yes, a chief."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000045_000000|"Probably."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000047_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000048_000000|"Two millions?--three?--four?
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000048_000001|Come, four?
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000050_000000|"Take all, then-take all, I tell you, and kill me!"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000051_000000|"Come, come, calm yourself.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000051_000001|You will excite your blood, and that would produce an appetite it would require a million a day to satisfy.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000051_000002|Be more economical."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000053_000000|"Then you must suffer hunger."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000057_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000059_000000|"Ah, that is a different thing."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000000|"As your excellency pleases," said Vampa, as he left the cell.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000001|Danglars, raving, threw himself on the goat skin.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000004|What could be his intentions towards him?
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000006|But to die?
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000007|For the first time in his life, Danglars contemplated death with a mixture of dread and desire; the time had come when the implacable spectre, which exists in the mind of every human creature, arrested his attention and called out with every pulsation of his heart, "Thou shalt die!"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000000|From this time the prisoner resolved to suffer no longer, but to have everything he wanted.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000001|At the end of twelve days, after having made a splendid dinner, he reckoned his accounts, and found that he had only fifty thousand francs left.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000003|He who for so long a time had forgotten God, began to think that miracles were possible-that the accursed cavern might be discovered by the officers of the Papal States, who would release him; that then he would have fifty thousand remaining, which would be sufficient to save him from starvation; and finally he prayed that this sum might be preserved to him, and as he prayed he wept.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000004|Three days passed thus, during which his prayers were frequent, if not heartfelt.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000005|Sometimes he was delirious, and fancied he saw an old man stretched on a pallet; he, also, was dying of hunger.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000064_000003|But Peppino did not answer.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000064_000004|On the fifth day he dragged himself to the door of the cell.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000065_000000|"Are you not a Christian?" he said, falling on his knees.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000065_000002|Oh, my former friends, my former friends!" he murmured, and fell with his face to the ground.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000066_000000|"Here I am," said Vampa, instantly appearing; "what do you want?"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000067_000000|"Take my last gold," muttered Danglars, holding out his pocket book, "and let me live here; I ask no more for liberty-I only ask to live!"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000069_000000|"Oh, yes, yes, cruelly!"
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000072_000000|"Yes; those who have died of hunger."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000073_000002|"Yes," he said, "there have been some who have suffered more than I have, but then they must have been martyrs at least."
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000075_000000|"Of what must I repent?" stammered Danglars.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000082_000004|And now eat and drink; I will entertain you to night.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000082_000005|Vampa, when this man is satisfied, let him be free." Danglars remained prostrate while the count withdrew; when he raised his head he saw disappearing down the passage nothing but a shadow, before which the bandits bowed.
train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000082_000006|According to the count's directions, Danglars was waited on by Vampa, who brought him the best wine and fruits of Italy; then, having conducted him to the road, and pointed to the post chaise, left him leaning against a tree.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000001_000000|The Beast with Five Fingers
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000002_000000|BY w f
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000002_000001|HARVEY
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000000|When I was a little boy I once went with my father to call on Adrian Borlsover.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000001|I played on the floor with a black spaniel while my father appealed for a subscription.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000002|Just before we left my father said, "mr Borlsover, may my son here shake hands with you?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000003|It will be a thing to look back upon with pride when he grows to be a man."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000005_000001|He spoke to me kindly, and hoped that I should always try to please my father.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000005_000002|Then he placed his right hand on my head and asked for a blessing to rest upon me.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000005_000003|"Amen!" said my father, and I followed him out of the room, feeling as if I wanted to cry.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000006_000000|"That old gentleman, Jim," said he, "is the most wonderful man in the whole town.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000007_000000|"But I saw his eyes," I said.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000007_000001|"They were ever so black and shiny; they weren't shut up like Nora's puppies.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000007_000002|Can't he see at all?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000008_000000|And so I learnt for the first time that a man might have eyes that looked dark and beautiful and shining without being able to see.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000011_000000|That was the only time I saw Adrian Borlsover.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000011_000002|But for a week I prayed that those dark tender eyes might see.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000012_000000|"His spaniel may have puppies," I said in my prayers, "and he will never be able to know how funny they look with their eyes all closed up. Please let old mr Borlsover see."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000013_000000|Adrian Borlsover, as my father had said, was a wonderful man.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000013_000001|He came of an eccentric family.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000013_000002|Borlsovers' sons, for some reason, always seemed to marry very ordinary women, which perhaps accounted for the fact that no Borlsover had been a genius, and only one Borlsover had been mad.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000014_000000|Adrian was an authority on the fertilization of orchids.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000014_000002|Occasionally he would relieve one or other of the local clergy.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000014_000004|"An excellent proof," he would add, "of the truth of the doctrine of direct verbal inspiration."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000015_000000|Adrian Borlsover was exceedingly clever with his hands.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000015_000001|His penmanship was exquisite.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000015_000002|He illustrated all his scientific papers, made his own woodcuts, and carved the reredos that is at present the chief feature of interest in the church at Borlsover Conyers.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000001|In a wonderfully short time he had adapted himself to the new conditions of life.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000002|He quickly learned to read Braille.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000004|The mere passing of his long supple fingers over a flower was sufficient means for its identification, though occasionally he would use his lips.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000005|I have found several letters of his among my father's correspondence.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000006|In no case was there anything to show that he was afflicted with blindness and this in spite of the fact that he exercised undue economy in the spacing of lines.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000007|Towards the close of his life the old man was credited with powers of touch that seemed almost uncanny: it has been said that he could tell at once the color of a ribbon placed between his fingers.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000008|My father would neither confirm nor deny the story.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000018_000001|His elder brother George had married late in life, leaving one son, Eustace, who lived in the gloomy Georgian mansion at Borlsover Conyers, where he could work undisturbed in collecting material for his great book on heredity.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000019_000000|Like his uncle, he was a remarkable man.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000019_000001|The Borlsovers had always been born naturalists, but Eustace possessed in a special degree the power of systematizing his knowledge.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000021_000000|Uncle and nephew saw little of each other.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000021_000001|The visits of Eustace were confined to a week in the summer or autumn: long weeks, that dragged almost as slowly as the bath chair in which the old man was drawn along the sunny sea front.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000021_000004|Both men possessed, too, the reticence the Borlsovers had always shown, and which their enemies sometimes called hypocrisy.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000000|Two years before his death Adrian Borlsover developed, unknown to himself, the not uncommon power of automatic writing.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000001|Eustace made the discovery by accident.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000002|Adrian was sitting reading in bed, the forefinger of his left hand tracing the Braille characters, when his nephew noticed that a pencil the old man held in his right hand was moving slowly along the opposite page.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000003|He left his seat in the window and sat down beside the bed.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000023_000001|B, for Borlsover.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000023_000002|Honesty is the Best Policy.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000023_000003|Beautiful Belinda Borlsover."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000024_000000|"What curious nonsense!" said Eustace to himself.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000027_000000|He went along the promenade, but stopped at the first shelter, and seating himself in the corner best protected from the wind, he examined the book at leisure.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000027_000002|The whole thing, in fact, had the appearance of a copy book, and on a more careful scrutiny Eustace thought that there was ample evidence to show that the handwriting at the beginning of the book, good though it was was not nearly so good as the handwriting at the end.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000000|But on his return he was at first disappointed.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000001|His uncle, he thought, looked older.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000002|He was listless too, preferring others to read to him and dictating nearly all his letters.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000003|Not until the day before he left had Eustace an opportunity of observing Adrian Borlsover's new found faculty.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000030_000000|The old man, propped up in bed with pillows, had sunk into a light sleep.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000030_000001|His two hands lay on the coverlet, his left hand tightly clasping his right.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000030_000002|Eustace took an empty manuscript book and placed a pencil within reach of the fingers of the right hand.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000031_000001|Almost immediately it began to write.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000034_000000|"Never you mind," wrote the hand of Adrian.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000035_000000|"Is it my uncle who is writing?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000036_000000|"Oh, my prophetic soul, mine uncle."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000037_000000|"Is it anyone I know?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000042_000000|"Where shall you not?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000043_000000|Instead of speaking his next question, Borlsover wrote it.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000043_000001|"What is the time?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000044_000001|Then, picking up the pencil, they wrote:
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000000|"Ten minutes before four.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000001|Put your book away, Eustace.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000002|Adrian mustn't find us working at this sort of thing.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000003|He doesn't know what to make of it, and I won't have poor old Adrian disturbed.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000046_000000|Adrian Borlsover awoke with a start.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000000|"I've been dreaming again," he said; "such queer dreams of leaguered cities and forgotten towns.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000001|You were mixed up in this one, Eustace, though I can't remember how.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000002|Eustace, I want to warn you.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000003|Don't walk in doubtful paths.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000004|Choose your friends well.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000005|Your poor grandfather----"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000049_000000|"It's too late, Adrian," he read.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000049_000001|"We're friends already; aren't we, Eustace Borlsover?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000050_000000|On the following day Eustace Borlsover left.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000050_000001|He thought his uncle looked ill when he said good by, and the old man spoke despondently of the failure his life had been.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000000|"Nonsense, uncle!" said his nephew.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000001|"You have got over your difficulties in a way not one in a hundred thousand would have done.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000002|Every one marvels at your splendid perseverance in teaching your hand to take the place of your lost sight.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000003|To me it's been a revelation of the possibilities of education."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000005|Marry some good, sensible girl.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000006|And if by any chance I don't see you again, my will is at my solicitor's.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000007|I've not left you any legacy, because I know you're well provided for, but I thought you might like to have my books.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000008|Oh, and there's just one other thing.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000009|You know, before the end people often lose control over themselves and make absurd requests.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000011|Good by!" and he held out his hand.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000012|Eustace took it.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000014|There was, too, in its touch a subtle sense of intimacy.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000057_000000|"Poor old fellow!" he said.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000057_000001|"I wonder where I shall find room for all his books."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000058_000000|The question occurred to him again with greater force when three days later he found himself standing in the library at Borlsover Conyers, a huge room built for use, and not for beauty, in the year of Waterloo by a Borlsover who was an ardent admirer of the great Napoleon.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000058_000001|It was arranged on the plan of many college libraries, with tall, projecting bookcases forming deep recesses of dusty silence, fit graves for the old hates of forgotten controversy, the dead passions of forgotten lives.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000058_000002|At the end of the room, behind the bust of some unknown eighteenth century divine, an ugly iron corkscrew stair led to a shelf lined gallery. Nearly every shelf was full.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000059_000001|"I suppose that it will be necessary to have the billiard room fitted up with book cases."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000060_000000|The two men met for the first time after many weeks in the dining room that evening.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000000|"Hullo!" said Eustace, standing before the fire with his hands in his pockets.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000001|"How goes the world, Saunders?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000002|Why these dress togs?" He himself was wearing an old shooting jacket.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000004|"The world," said Saunders, "goes the same as usual, confoundedly slow.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000005|The dress togs are accounted for by an invitation from Captain Lockwood to bridge."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000062_000000|"How are you getting there?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000063_000000|"I've told your coachman to drive me in your carriage.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000063_000001|Any objection?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000064_000000|"Oh, dear me, no! We've had all things in common for far too many years for me to raise objections at this hour of the day."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000000|"You'll find your correspondence in the library," went on Saunders. "Most of it I've seen to.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000001|There are a few private letters I haven't opened.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000002|There's also a box with a rat, or something, inside it that came by the evening post.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000003|Very likely it's the six toed albino.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000004|I didn't look, because I didn't want to mess up my things but I should gather from the way it's jumping about that it's pretty hungry."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000066_000000|"Oh, I'll see to it," said Eustace, "while you and the Captain earn an honest penny."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000000|"We'll have all the lights on at any rate," he said, as he turned the switches.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000001|"And, Morton," he added, when the butler brought the coffee, "get me a screwdriver or something to undo this box.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000003|What is it?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000004|Why are you dawdling?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000069_000000|"If you please, sir, when the postman brought it he told me that they'd bored the holes in the lid at the post office.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000070_000000|"It's culpably careless of the man, whoever he was," said Eustace, as he removed the screws, "packing an animal like this in a wooden box with no means of getting air.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000070_000001|Confound it all!
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000070_000003|Now I suppose I shall have to get one myself."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000071_000001|As he came back into the library with an empty cage in his hand he heard the sound of something falling, and then of something scuttling along the floor.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000072_000000|"Bother it!
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000072_000001|The beast's got out.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000000|To search for it did indeed seem hopeless.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000002|Eustace resolved to go on quietly reading.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000003|Very likely the animal might gain confidence and show itself.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000005|There were still the private letters.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000074_000000|What was that?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000074_000001|Two sharp clicks and the lights in the hideous candelabra that hung from the ceiling suddenly went out.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000001|Then he stopped.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000002|There was a noise at the other end of the room, as if something was crawling up the iron corkscrew stair.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000003|"If it's gone into the gallery," he said, "well and good." He hastily turned on the lights, crossed the room, and climbed up the stair.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000004|But he could see nothing.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000005|His grandfather had placed a little gate at the top of the stair, so that children could run and romp in the gallery without fear of accident.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000006|This Eustace closed, and having considerably narrowed the circle of his search, returned to his desk by the fire.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000076_000001|There was no sense of intimacy about the room.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000076_000003|They made the room feel cold, in spite of the heavy red damask curtains and great gilt cornices.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000077_000000|With a crash two heavy books fell from the gallery to the floor; then, as Borlsover looked, another and yet another.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000000|"Very well; you'll starve for this, my beauty!" he said.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000002|Go on! Chuck them down!
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000004|The letter was from the family solicitor.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000005|It spoke of his uncle's death and of the valuable collection of books that had been left to him in the will.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000079_000003|He wished his body to be embalmed (he gave us the address of the man we were to employ-Pennifer, Ludgate Hill), with orders that his right hand was to be sent to you, stating that it was at your special request.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000079_000004|The other arrangements as to the funeral remained unaltered."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000080_000000|"Good Lord!" said Eustace; "what in the world was the old boy driving at?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000080_000001|And what in the name of all that's holy is that?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000081_000001|Someone had pulled the cord attached to one of the blinds, and it had rolled up with a snap.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000081_000002|Someone must be in the gallery, for a second blind did the same.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000000|"I haven't got to the bottom of this yet," said Eustace, "but I will do before the night is very much older," and he hurried up the corkscrew stair.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000002|Quickly he stole on tiptoe in the dim moonshine in the direction of the noise, feeling as he went for one of the switches.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000003|His fingers touched the metal knob at last.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000004|He turned on the electric light.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000001|Eustace stared at it in utter astonishment.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000002|It was moving quickly, in the manner of a geometer caterpillar, the fingers humped up one moment, flattened out the next; the thumb appeared to give a crab like motion to the whole.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000003|While he was looking, too surprised to stir, the hand disappeared round the corner Eustace ran forward.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000004|He no longer saw it, but he could hear it as it squeezed its way behind the books on one of the shelves.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000007|In his fear lest it should escape him again, he seized the first book that came to his hand and plugged it into the hole.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000008|Then, emptying two shelves of their contents, he took the wooden boards and propped them up in front to make his barrier doubly sure.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000000|"I wish Saunders was back," he said; "one can't tackle this sort of thing alone." It was after eleven, and there seemed little likelihood of Saunders returning before twelve.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000001|He did not dare to leave the shelf unwatched, even to run downstairs to ring the bell.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000002|Morton the butler often used to come round about eleven to see that the windows were fastened, but he might not come.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000003|Eustace was thoroughly unstrung.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000004|At last he heard steps down below.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000085_000000|"Morton!" he shouted; "Morton!"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000086_000000|"Sir?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000089_000000|"Well, bring me some brandy, and hurry up about it.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000089_000001|I'm up here in the gallery, you duffer."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000090_000000|"Thanks," said Eustace, as he emptied the glass.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000090_000001|"Don't go to bed yet, Morton.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000090_000002|There are a lot of books that have fallen down by accident; bring them up and put them back in their shelves."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000091_000001|That beast in the box got out, and I've been chasing it all over the place."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000092_000002|I think that's the carriage, sir; I'll go and call mr Saunders."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000093_000001|"All right, Morton, you can go now.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000093_000002|I'm up here, Saunders."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000000|"What's all the row?" asked Saunders, as he lounged forward with his hands in his pockets.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000001|The luck had been with him all the evening.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000002|He was completely satisfied, both with himself and with Captain Lockwood's taste in wines.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000003|"What's the matter?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000004|You look to me to be in an absolute blue funk."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000095_000000|"That old devil of an uncle of mine," began Eustace-"oh, I can't explain it all.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000095_000002|But I've got it cornered behind these books.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000095_000003|You've got to help me catch it."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000096_000000|"What's up with you, Eustace?
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000097_000000|"It's no game, you silly idiot!
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000097_000001|If you don't believe me take out one of those books and put your hand in and feel."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000098_000000|"All right," said Saunders; "but wait till I've rolled up my sleeve.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000098_000001|The accumulated dust of centuries, eh?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000000|"There's something there right enough," he said.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000001|"It's got a funny stumpy end to it, whatever it is, and nips like a crab.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000003|"Shove in a book quickly.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000004|Now it can't get out."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000100_000000|"What was it?" asked Eustace.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000101_000000|"It was something that wanted very much to get hold of me.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000101_000002|Give me some brandy."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000103_000000|"What about a landing net?"
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000000|"No good.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000001|It would be too smart for us.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000002|I tell you, Saunders, it can cover the ground far faster than I can walk.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000003|But I think I see how we can manage it.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000000|It certainly seemed to be the best plan.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000001|One by one, as they took out the books, the space behind grew smaller and smaller.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000003|Once they caught sight of fingers pressing outward for a way of escape.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000004|At last they had it pressed between the two big books.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000106_000001|"It seems to be a hand right enough, too.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000106_000002|I suppose this is a sort of infectious hallucination.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000106_000003|I've read about such cases before."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000107_000000|"Infectious fiddlesticks!" said Eustace, his face white with anger; "bring the thing downstairs.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000107_000001|We'll get it back into the box."
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000108_000000|It was not altogether easy, but they were successful at last.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000108_000001|"Drive in the screws," said Eustace, "we won't run any risks.
train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000109_000001|"Now let's hear more about your uncle."
train-clean-360/1058/133263/1058_133263_000004_000003|This, if I am not mistaken, is a great error.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000001_000000|It was early evening of a day in the late fall and the Winesburg County Fair had brought crowds of country people into town.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000001_000005|The dust rolled away over the fields and the departing sun set it ablaze with colors.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000000|Pushing his way through the crowds in Main Street, young George Willard concealed himself in the stairway leading to Doctor Reefy's office and looked at the people.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000002|Thoughts kept coming into his head and he did not want to think.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000003|He stamped impatiently on the wooden steps and looked sharply about.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000005|Have I done all this waiting for nothing?" he muttered.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000000|George Willard, the Ohio village boy, was fast growing into manhood and new thoughts had been coming into his mind.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000002|He was about to leave Winesburg to go away to some city where he hoped to get work on a city newspaper and he felt grown up.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000003|The mood that had taken possession of him was a thing known to men and unknown to boys.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000004|He felt old and a little tired.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000006|To his mind his new sense of maturity set him apart, made of him a half tragic figure.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000007|He wanted someone to understand the feeling that had taken possession of him after his mother's death.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000000|There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000002|The boy is walking through the street of his town.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000003|He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000004|Ambitions and regrets awake within him.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000005|Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000006|From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000007|If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000010|He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000012|The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000013|Already he hears death calling.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000016|He wants, most of all, understanding.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000000|When the moment of sophistication came to George Willard his mind turned to Helen White, the Winesburg banker's daughter.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000002|Now he wanted to see her for another purpose.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000003|He wanted to tell her of the new impulses that had come to him.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000004|He had tried to make her think of him as a man when he knew nothing of manhood and now he wanted to be with her and to try to make her feel the change he believed had taken place in his nature.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000000|As for Helen White, she also had come to a period of change.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000002|She was no longer a girl and hungered to reach into the grace and beauty of womanhood.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000003|She had come home from Cleveland, where she was attending college, to spend a day at the Fair.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000005|During the day she sat in the grand stand with a young man, one of the instructors from the college, who was a guest of her mother's.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000007|At the Fair she was glad to be seen in his company as he was well dressed and a stranger.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000008|She knew that the fact of his presence would create an impression.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000009|During the day she was happy, but when night came on she began to grow restless.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000010|She wanted to drive the instructor away, to get out of his presence.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000011|While they sat together in the grand stand and while the eyes of former schoolmates were upon them, she paid so much attention to her escort that he grew interested.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000012|"A scholar needs money. I should marry a woman with money," he mused.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000008_000000|Helen White was thinking of George Willard even as he wandered gloomily through the crowds thinking of her. She remembered the summer evening when they had walked together and wanted to walk with him again.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000008_000001|She thought that the months she had spent in the city, the going to theaters and the seeing of great crowds wandering in lighted thoroughfares, had changed her profoundly.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000000|The summer evening together that had left its mark on the memory of both the young man and woman had, when looked at quite sensibly, been rather stupidly spent. They had walked out of town along a country road.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000001|Then they had stopped by a fence near a field of young corn and George had taken off his coat and let it hang on his arm.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000002|"Well, I've stayed here in Winesburg-yes-I've not yet gone away but I'm growing up," he had said.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000003|"I've been reading books and I've been thinking.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000010_000000|"Well," he explained, "that isn't the point.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000010_000001|Perhaps I'd better quit talking."
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000000|The confused boy put his hand on the girl's arm.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000001|His voice trembled.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000002|The two started to walk back along the road toward town.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000003|In his desperation George boasted, "I'm going to be a big man, the biggest that ever lived here in Winesburg," he declared.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000007|You see the point.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000000|The boy's voice failed and in silence the two came back into town and went along the street to Helen White's house.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000002|Speeches he had thought out came into his head, but they seemed utterly pointless.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000003|"I thought-I used to think-I had it in my mind you would marry Seth Richmond.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000004|Now I know you won't," was all he could find to say as she went through the gate and toward the door of her house.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000013_000005|In a room above one of the stores, where a dance was to be held, the fiddlers tuned their instruments.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000013_000009|He wanted to run away by himself and think.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000014_000006|"I wasn't afraid, I knew I had 'em beat all the time.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000017_000006|"Your life is still bound up with the life of this town?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000017_000007|"There are people here in whom you are interested?" To the girl his voice sounded pompous and heavy.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000001|In the darkness she stopped and stood trembling.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000004|"George!
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000005|Where are you, George?" she cried, filled with nervous excitement.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000009|He stopped and stared stupidly.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000010|"Come on," he said and took hold of her hand.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000012|Dry leaves rustled under foot.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000020_000001|It has never been painted and the boards are all warped out of shape.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000020_000002|The Fair Ground stands on top of a low hill rising out of the valley of Wine Creek and from the grand stand one can see at night, over a cornfield, the lights of the town reflected against the sky.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000021_000000|George and Helen climbed the hill to the Fair Ground, coming by the path past Waterworks Pond.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000021_000002|What he felt was reflected in her.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000022_000000|In youth there are always two forces fighting in people.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000022_000002|Sensing his mood, Helen walked beside him filled with respect.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000027_000010|In some way chastened and purified by the mood they had been in, they became, not man and woman, not boy and girl, but excited little animals.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000028_000002|Once, running swiftly forward, Helen tripped George and he fell.
train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000028_000003|He squirmed and shouted.
train-clean-360/1061/142358/1061_142358_000006_000000|NOTWITHSTANDING mr Craig's prophecy, the dark blue cloud dispersed itself without having produced the threatened consequences.
train-clean-360/1061/142358/1061_142358_000012_000000|But it was Adam's strength, not its correlative hardness, that influenced his meditations this morning.
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train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000004_000000|BY
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000014_000000|It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000015_000000|They had intended to name the baby Lucy, if it were a girl; but they hadn't expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named-the whole family agreed in that.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000016_000000|They were consulting about it in the nursery.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000018_000000|Hugh, the "hitherto baby," if that is a possible term, sat in one corner and said nothing, but felt, in some mysterious way, that his nose was out of joint; for there was a newer baby now, a possibility he had never taken into consideration; and the "first girl," too, a still higher development of treason, which made him actually green with jealousy.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000020_000001|She was a person of so great decision of character that she would have blushed at such a thing; she said that to let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling about without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000020_000002|She also said that if one could not make up one's mind in twenty four hours it was a sign that-but I will not repeat the rest, as it might prejudice you against the most charming woman in the world.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000023_000000|Meanwhile dear mrs Bird lay in her room, weak, but safe and happy with her sweet girl baby by her side and the heaven of motherhood opening before her.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000023_000001|Nurse was making gruel in the kitchen, and the room was dim and quiet.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000024_000001|It was the boy choir singing Christmas anthems. Higher and higher rose the clear, fresh voices, full of hope and cheer, as children's voices always are.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000024_000002|Fuller and fuller grew the burst of melody as one glad strain fell upon another in joyful harmony:
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000028_000000|mrs Bird thought, as the music floated in upon her gentle sleep, that she had slipped into heaven with her new baby, and that the angels were bidding them welcome.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000029_000000|She opened her eyes and drew the baby closer.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000029_000001|It looked like a rose dipped in milk, she thought, this pink and white blossom of girlhood, or like a pink cherub, with its halo of pale yellow hair, finer than floss silk.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000032_000000|"Why, my baby," whispered mrs Bird in soft surprise, "I had forgotten what day it was.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000032_000001|You are a little Christmas child, and we will name you 'Carol'--mother's little Christmas Carol!"
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000033_000000|"What!" said mr Bird, coming in softly and closing the door behind him.
train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000035_000000|"I think it is a charming name, dear heart, and that it sounds just like you, and I hope that, being a girl, this baby has some chance of being as lovely as her mother," at which speech from the baby's papa, mrs Bird, though she was as weak and tired as she could be, blushed with happiness.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000005_000004|She talked little as a rule; but, in the pungent country phrase she never spoke but she said something.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000009_000001|"You're late this evening.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000009_000002|Keep any of the youngsters in?
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000011_000000|"Well, you've missed Alexander Tracy.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000011_000006|But he met his match in mr West.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000011_000009|It's effective.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000012_000000|"Perhaps I met mr Tracy," said Eric.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000013_000004|No, sir!
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000013_000005|Mother, pass the biscuits to the Master."
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000015_000000|"Neil-Neil Gordon."
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000019_000000|"Well, Master, it was this way.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000020_000007|Anyhow, they kept the baby.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000020_000009|He's always lived there.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000020_000014|But folks hereabouts don't like him.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000026_000001|They never go away anywheres, except to church-they never miss that-and nobody goes there.
train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000028_000005|And they kept talking TO mrs Foster and AT each other.
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000009_000000|On such a night as this I saw the last crew go Out of a world too beautiful to leave. Only a chosen few Beside the crew Were gathered on the pier; And in the ebb and flow Of dark and moon, we saw them fare Straight past the row of coffins Where the fifth crew lay Waiting their last short voyage Across the bay.
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000013_000000|And as each body spent out of its ebbing store Of strength and hope, I felt the forward thrust, At first so sure, Fail in its rhythm, Falter slow, And slower- Hang an endless moment- Till in a rush came fear- Fear of the sea, that it might win again, Gathering one crew more, Making them pay in vain.
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000014_000000|Then through the horror of it, like a clear Sweet wind among the stars, I felt the lift And drive of heart and will Working their miracles until Spent muscles tensed again to offer all In one transcendent gift.
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000015_000000|three
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000020_000000|Out of the blackness wave on livid wave Leapt into being-thundered to our feet; Counting the moments for us, beat by beat, Until the last and smallest dwindled past, Trailing its pallor like a winding sheet Over the last crew and its chosen grave.
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000023_000000|There would be eight of them. Here in the gathering light Were waiting eight women or more Who were destined forever to pay, Who never again would laugh back Into the eyes of life In the old glad, confident way. Each huddled dumbly to each; But eyes could not lift from the sea, Only hands touched in the dawn.
train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000025_000000|Brave, but with quivering lips, Each alone in the press of the crowd, Was saying it over and over.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000003_000000|"Here is April come!" said she, "I get quite anxious about you.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000003_000001|June will soon be here."
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000004_000000|"But I have never fixed on June or any other month-merely looked forward to the summer in general."
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000005_000000|"But have you really heard of nothing?"
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000009_000003|A cousin of mr Suckling, mrs Bragge, had such an infinity of applications; every body was anxious to be in her family, for she moves in the first circle. Wax candles in the schoolroom!
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000009_000004|You may imagine how desirable!
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000011_000000|"Trouble!
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000011_000002|You are afraid of giving me trouble; but I assure you, my dear Jane, the Campbells can hardly be more interested about you than I am.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000011_000003|I shall write to mrs Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look out for any thing eligible."
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000014_000002|There are places in town, offices, where inquiry would soon produce something-Offices for the sale-not quite of human flesh-but of human intellect."
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000015_000000|"Oh! my dear, human flesh!
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000017_000000|"Something that would do!" repeated mrs Elton.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000020_000000|"You may well class the delight, the honour, and the comfort of such a situation together," said Jane, "they are pretty sure to be equal; however, I am very serious in not wishing any thing to be attempted at present for me.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000022_000000|In this style she ran on; never thoroughly stopped by any thing till mr Woodhouse came into the room; her vanity had then a change of object, and Emma heard her saying in the same half whisper to Jane,
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000023_000006|How do you like it?--Selina's choice-handsome, I think, but I do not know whether it is not over trimmed; I have the greatest dislike to the idea of being over trimmed-quite a horror of finery.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000023_000007|I must put on a few ornaments now, because it is expected of me.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000023_000011|Do you think it will look well?"
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000024_000001|He had returned to a late dinner, and walked to Hartfield as soon as it was over.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000024_000002|He had been too much expected by the best judges, for surprize-but there was great joy.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000025_000001|He gave her a letter, it was from Frank, and to herself; he had met with it in his way, and had taken the liberty of opening it.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000026_000000|"Read it, read it," said he, "it will give you pleasure; only a few lines-will not take you long; read it to Emma."
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000000|"Well, he is coming, you see; good news, I think.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000002|As to her illness, all nothing of course.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000004|They will stay a good while when they do come, and he will be half his time with us.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000006|Have you finished it?
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000008|Put it up, put it up; we will have a good talk about it some other time, but it will not do now.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000029_000000|mrs Weston was most comfortably pleased on the occasion.
train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000030_000000|mr Weston, however, too eager to be very observant, too communicative to want others to talk, was very well satisfied with what she did say, and soon moved away to make the rest of his friends happy by a partial communication of what the whole room must have overheard already.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000001_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000002_000000|THE MOONLIGHT INTERVIEW.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000005_000000|"Barbara," was the whispered, eager answer, "don't you recognize me?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000006_000002|In spite of his smock frock and his straw wisped hat, and his false whiskers, black as Erebus, she knew him for her brother.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000008_000000|"Did you know me, Barbara?" was his rejoinder.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000009_000001|A thought crossed my mind that it might be some one from you, and even that made me sick with terror.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000009_000003|"If you are discovered, it is certain death; death-upon-you know!"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000010_000000|"Upon the gibbet," returned Richard Hare.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000010_000001|"I do know it, Barbara."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000011_000000|"Then why risk it?
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000012_000001|"I have been working in London ever since-"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000013_000000|"In London!" interrupted Barbara.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000014_000002|Perhaps my mother can let me have it; it is what I have come to ask for."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000015_000001|What at?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000016_000000|"In a stable yard."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000017_000000|"A stable yard!" she uttered, in a deeply shocked tone.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000017_000001|"Richard!"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000018_000000|"Did you expect it would be as a merchant, or a banker, or perhaps as secretary to one of her majesty's ministers-or that I was a gentleman at large, living on my fortune?" retorted Richard Hare, in a tone of chafed anguish, painful to hear.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000018_000001|"I get twelve shillings a week, and that has to find me in everything!"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000019_000000|"Poor Richard, poor Richard!" she wailed, caressing his hand and weeping over it.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000020_000000|"I did not commit it at all," he replied.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000021_000000|"What!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000023_000002|"You surely do not mean to throw the guilt on Bethel?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000024_000000|"Bethel!" lightly returned Richard Hare.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000024_000001|"He had nothing to do with it.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000026_000001|"The truth as to what he is may come out, some time.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000026_000002|Not that I wish it to come out; the man has done no harm to me, and he may go on poaching with impunity till doomsday for all I care.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000027_000000|"Richard," interrupted his sister, in a hushed voice, "mamma entertains one fixed idea, which she cannot put from her.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000028_000001|Why should she think so?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000029_000000|"How the conviction arose at first, I cannot tell you; I do not think she knows herself.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000031_000000|"And-you say that you were not?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000032_000000|"I was not even at the cottage at the time; I swear it to you.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000032_000001|The man who did the deed was Thorn."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000033_000000|"Thorn!" echoed Barbara, lifting her head.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000034_000000|"I don't know who.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000034_000001|I wish I did; I wish I could unearth him.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000034_000002|He was a friend of Afy's."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000035_000000|Barbara threw back her neck with a haughty gesture.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000035_000001|"Richard!"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000036_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000037_000000|"You forget yourself when you mention that name to me."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000038_000000|"Well," returned Richard.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000039_000000|"Quite.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000039_000003|Richard's.' I think the woman did it heedlessly, not maliciously, to provoke papa; she was a good servant, and had been with us three years you know.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000039_000005|Papa took an oath-did you hear of it?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000040_000000|"What oath?
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000040_000001|He takes many."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000000|"This was a solemn one, Richard.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000001|After the delivery of the verdict, he took an oath in the justice room, in the presence of his brother magistrates, that if he could find you he would deliver you up to justice, and that he would do it, though you might not turn up for ten years to come.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000002|You know his disposition, Richard, and therefore may be sure he will keep it.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000003|Indeed, it is most dangerous for you to be here."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000042_000001|"If my health was delicate, causing my poor mother to indulge me, ought that to have been a reason for his ridiculing me on every possible occasion, public and private?
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000042_000003|Barbara, I must be allowed an interview with my mother."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000043_000000|Barbara Hare reflected before she spoke.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000044_000000|"Why can't she come out to me as you have done?
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000044_000001|Is she up, or in bed?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000045_000000|"It is impossible to think of it to night," returned Barbara in an alarmed tone.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000046_000000|"It is hard to have been separated from her for eighteen months, and to go back without seeing her," returned Richard.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000046_000001|"And about the money?
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000046_000002|It is a hundred pounds that I want."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000047_000001|I am terrified for your safety.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000048_000000|"Who is to prove it?
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000049_000000|"Is he a myth?" said Barbara, in a low voice.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000050_000001|"So, even you doubt me?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000051_000002|And you know that he is true as steel."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000052_000001|Where is it they suppose that I am, Barbara?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000053_000001|A report arose that you had been seen at Liverpool, in an Australian bound ship, but we could not trace it to any foundation."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000054_000000|"It had none.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000055_000000|"Working in a stable yard?"
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000056_000000|"I could not do better.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000056_000001|I was not brought up to anything, and I did understand horses.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000057_000001|"Be silent for your life," she whispered, "here's papa."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000058_000001|The latter walked on; the former came in.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000058_000002|The brother and sister cowered together, scarcely daring to breathe; you might have heard Barbara's heart beating.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000058_000003|mr Hare closed the gate and walked on up the path.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000059_000000|"I must go, Richard," said Barbara, hastily; "I dare not stay another minute.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000060_000002|Barbara, we are here alone in the still night, with God above us; as truly as that you and I must sometime meet Him face to face, I told you the truth.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000060_000003|It was Thorn murdered Hallijohn, and I had nothing whatever to do with it."
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000061_000001|"Let me in, papa," she called out.
train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000064_000000|"I went down to the gate to look for you," she panted, "and had-had- strolled over to the side path.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000003_000001|Serve with melted butter or Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000005_000001|Drain, wipe dry, and soak for an hour in a marinade of oil and vinegar.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000011_000000|Cut the fish into cutlets, dredge with flour, dip into egg and crumbs, and saute in a frying pan.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000011_000001|Drain off the fat, add a little flour and cook to a smooth paste.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000011_000002|Add boiling water to make a sauce, and cook until thick, stirring constantly.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000013_000000|Cut sturgeon steaks into small cutlets.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000013_000001|Dip into egg and crumbs, fry in fat to cover, and serve with any preferred sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000017_000000|Skin a large cut of sturgeon, parboil for fifteen minutes, drain, and cool.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000017_000001|Rub with a marinade of oil and vinegar, cover, and bake with enough water to keep from burning.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000017_000002|Serve with Caper Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000000|Skin a six pound cut of sturgeon, soak in salted water for an hour, drain, and parboil in fresh water.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000001|Make a stuffing of bread crumbs, chopped salt pork, sweet herbs, and enough melted butter to make a smooth paste.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000002|Score the upper side of the fish deeply and fill the gashes with the stuffing.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000004|Serve with Drawn Butter Sauce, seasoned with capers and catsup.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000000|Cover a buttered baking pan with thin slices of salt pork.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000001|Sprinkle with chopped carrot, turnip, and onion, and lay a thick cut of sturgeon upon it.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000002|Season the fish with salt, pepper, and lemon juice, and cover with thin slices of pork.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000004|Dredge with seasoned flour after each basting, and add more boiling water if necessary.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000005|After the fish has cooked for an hour, remove the pork, and drop it into the pan.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000006|Pour a wineglassful of Sherry over the fish, spread with butter, and dredge thickly with flour.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000007|Bake until the fish is a rich brown color.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000008|Take out the pork and add enough boiling water to the liquid in the pan to make the required quantity of sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000009|Thicken with butter and flour cooked together, strain, and serve with the fish.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000024_000000|STURGEON A l a CARDINAL
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000025_000001|Add an onion, four cloves, a blade of mace, a sliced carrot, and a bunch of sweet herbs.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000000|Skin and clean a five pound cut of sturgeon, and tie into shape with strings.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000002|Add red wine and white stock in equal parts to cover.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000003|Simmer until done, drain, and keep warm.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000004|Take enough of the strained liquid to make a sauce, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000005|Take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of anchovy essence, a dash of paprika, two tablespoonfuls of butter, and the juice of a lemon.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000006|Pour over the fish and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000028_000000|STURGEON A l a NORMANDY
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000029_000000|Remove the skin from a five pound cut of sturgeon, cover with thin slices of salt pork, and tie into shape with a string.
train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000029_000002|Cover and cook slowly for an hour, basting with the liquid frequently. When done, drain the fish, and keep warm.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000001_000000|Salt the fish and dip in equal parts of flour and corn meal, thoroughly mixed.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000002_000000|FRIED BROOK TROUT
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000005_000000|Remove the fillets from slices of sea trout, dip in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000005_000001|Serve with Tartar Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000007_000000|Boil and cool a trout and divide into fillets, removing the bone. Season with lemon juice, chopped onion, and minced parsley, and cover with a very thick Cream Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000007_000001|Dip into crumbs, then into beaten egg, then into crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with any preferred sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000008_000000|FRIED TROUT WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000010_000000|TROUT WITH REMOULADE SAUCE
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000011_000000|Saute a small trout in butter, drain on brown paper, and serve with Remoulade Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000012_000000|FILLETS OF TROUT A L'AURORE
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000013_000000|Saute the fillets of a cleaned trout in butter, seasoning with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000015_000000|Scrape and clean the trout, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered baking dish.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000015_000002|Bake, basting frequently.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000015_000003|Thicken the liquid with butter and flour cooked together, pour over the fish, and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000000|Clean a large sea or lake trout.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000002|Cook the stuffing for ten minutes, using as little water as possible.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000003|Stuff the fish, put into a buttered baking pan with enough hot water to keep from burning.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000004|Cover the fish with thin slices of salt pork and bake until done, adding more hot water if required.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000006|Season with salt and pepper, add a few capers, pour around the fish, and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000000|Stuff a large sea or lake trout with mashed potatoes, seasoning with butter, pepper, salt, and grated onion.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000001|Butter a baking pan and cover the bottom with thin slices of tomatoes.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000002|Lay the fish upon it, sprinkle with salt and pepper, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and enough water to keep from burning.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000003|Bake until done and serve with the tomatoes and sliced hard boiled eggs.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000021_000000|Clean and score small trout, dip in seasoned melted butter, and put in a buttered baking pan.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000021_000002|Serve with any preferred sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000023_000001|Put in a buttered baking pan, sprinkle with minced parsley, and pour over half a cupful of stock to which two tablespoonfuls of butter have been added.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000023_000002|Bake for half an hour, basting as required.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000025_000000|Soak a cupful of bread crumbs in milk, squeeze dry, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, the yolk of an egg, and pepper, salt, thyme, and lemon juice to season.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000025_000001|Stuff the fish, sew up, put in a buttered baking pan, dredge with flour, dot with butter, and bake.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000027_000001|Cover with buttered paper and bake, basting with the liquid.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000029_000000|Take the fillets from a three pound trout and bake for ten minutes in a buttered baking pan.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000029_000002|Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and add two tablespoonfuls of butter, broken into bits.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000029_000003|Pour the sauce over the fillets and bake for fifteen minutes longer.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000000|Split and bone the cleaned fish and put in a buttered baking pan skin side down.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000001|Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and crumbs, and put into the oven.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000002|Cover the bones and trimmings with cold water, adding two tablespoonfuls of butter, a sliced onion, and two cupfuls of stock. Boil for half an hour, strain, add a can of mushrooms, chopped, and enough crumbs to thicken.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000003|Season with salt, pepper, and anchovy paste.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000033_000000|Put half a dozen cleaned trout in a buttered baking dish with half a glassful of white wine, and a finely chopped shallot.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000033_000002|Add also a small chopped onion, two shallots, twice the quantity of mushrooms, and a bean of garlic, all minced and fried in butter.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000033_000003|Season with salt, pepper, minced parsley, and lemon juice; pour over the fish and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000034_000000|BAKED TROUT WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000035_000000|Butter a baking dish, sprinkle with bread crumbs, lay a sea trout upon it, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, squeeze over the juice of half a lemon, and bake, adding enough water to keep from burning. Brown a tablespoonful of flour in butter, add the liquid drained from the fish, one cupful each of mushroom and oyster liquor, and a wineglassful of Madeira.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000035_000001|Cook until thick, stirring constantly, take from the fire, and add a few cooked oysters, shrimps, and mushrooms.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000035_000002|Season with salt and pepper and serve separately.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000036_000000|BAKED TROUT WITH POLISH SAUCE
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000037_000002|Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake slowly until done.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000037_000003|Melt one and one half cupfuls of butter and add a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and three hard boiled eggs chopped very fine.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000037_000004|Serve the sauce separately.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000038_000000|STUFFED TROUT
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000039_000001|Put in a buttered baking dish, lay in the fish, season with salt and pepper, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, pour over a little white wine, and bake in the oven.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000039_000002|Serve in the dish in which they were baked.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000041_000000|Stuff trout with seasoned crumbs, cover each one with a thin slice of salt pork, and wrap in buttered paper, fastening the papers securely; bake and serve in the papers.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000043_000001|Lay a very thin slice of salt pork on each fish and wrap in buttered paper.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000043_000002|Bake in a hot oven.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000043_000003|Remove the string and serve in the paper.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000044_000000|TROUT IN CASES
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000045_000000|Clean, parboil, and trim the fish, wrap in buttered paper, bake, and serve with Fine Herb Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000047_000000|Boil and skin the fish, put on a serving dish, cover with Allemande Sauce, and the chopped yolks of hard boiled eggs.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000047_000001|Brown in the oven and serve with Aurora Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000049_000000|Prepare six trout according to directions given in the recipe for Trout with Shrimp Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000049_000001|Serve with one cupful of Spanish Sauce, adding two chopped truffles, half a dozen chopped mushrooms, a dozen chopped olives, and three tablespoonfuls of stewed and strained tomato.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000049_000002|Pour over the fish and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000000|Stuff cleaned trout with chopped oysters or seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered baking dish.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000001|Add half a wineglassful of white wine, a sprig of celery, a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme, two cloves, and salt and pepper to season.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000002|Bake in the oven, basting frequently. Take up the fish, strain the liquid, and add it to a cupful of Spanish Sauce, with a chopped truffle, four cooked mushrooms, chopped, and a dozen cooked oysters.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000003|Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000053_000000|Boil, skin, trim the fish, cover with very thick Cream Sauce and let cool.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000055_000001|Broil carefully.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000055_000003|Pour over the fish and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000059_000000|Stuff a cleaned trout through the mouth with butter mixed with finely chopped sweet herbs.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000061_000000|Boil a large sea trout in salted water, drain, skin, and serve with Italian Sauce, seasoned with butter, anchovy paste, nutmeg, and lemon juice.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000063_000002|Strain over the fish, garnish with olives, and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000065_000000|Stuff a large trout with seasoned crumbs, and cover it with Claret, adding mushrooms, parsley, chopped onion, thyme, a bay leaf, pepper corns, and mace to season.
train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000065_000001|Drain the fish and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling to one cupful.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000001_000000|BOILED TURBOT
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000002_000001|With a sharp knife score the black skin in a straight line from head to tail.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000003_000000|BROILED TURBOT
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000004_000000|Clean a small turbot and marinate for an hour in seasoned oil and vinegar or lemon juice.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000006_000000|Soak the fish for four hours in a marinade of oil and lemon juice, seasoned with sliced carrot, onion, bay leaf, thyme, parsley, and garlic.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000006_000003|Take up the fish, and add the remainder of the bottle of wine to the liquid.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000006_000005|Pour over the fish and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000007_000000|BAKED TURBOT
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000008_000000|Rub a small cleaned turbot with melted butter, sprinkle with minced parsley, powdered mace, and salt and pepper to season.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000008_000001|Let stand for an hour and put into a buttered baking dish.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000010_000000|Reheat cold flaked turbot in a Bechamel Sauce, adding a few cooked oysters.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000011_000000|TURBOT AU BEURRE NOIR
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000012_000000|Cut cold cooked turbot into small fillets.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000012_000001|Brown half a cupful of butter, add tarragon vinegar to taste, and pepper, salt, and minced parsley to season.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000012_000002|Reheat the fish in the sauce and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000000|Cook together three tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add a quart of cream and cook until thick, stirring constantly.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000001|Season with pepper, salt, minced parsley, and grated onion.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000002|Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of cold cooked turbot flaked fine, cover with sauce, and repeat until the dish is full, having sauce on top.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000004|Sprinkle with chopped eggs and parsley.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000018_000000|Remove the skin, fat, and bone from cold turbot, and flake fine with a fork.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000018_000003|Cook until thick, stirring constantly.
train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000018_000004|Season with salt and pepper and rub through a sieve.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000001_000000|Clean and dry the fish, cut into fillets, dip in seasoned crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs, and fry quickly in fat to cover.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000001_000001|Serve with Tartar Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000003_000001|Garnish with lemon and parsley and serve with Tartar Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000005_000000|Put a cleaned and split whitefish on a wire broiler, season with salt and cayenne, lay a few thin slices of bacon on top, put the broiler on a baking pan, and cook in the oven without turning. Put on a platter, add a little butter, and rub hard boiled eggs through a sieve over the fish.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000005_000001|Garnish with parsley and lemon.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000007_000001|Pour over melted butter and serve.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000009_000000|Clean and split a large fish, remove the bone, and put in a buttered baking pan skin side down.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000009_000002|Serve with any preferred sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000000|Make a stuffing of one and one half cupfuls of dry bread crumbs, seasoning with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000001|Add a heaping tablespoonful of butter and one egg well beaten.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000002|Stuff the fish and sew it up.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000003|Put in a buttered baking pan, pour in one cupful of vinegar, and bake until done, basting with butter and hot water.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000013_000000|Dip the fillets of whitefish in beaten egg, then in crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs, and lastly in beaten egg.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000013_000001|Bake in a buttered dripping pan for twenty five minutes and serve with Cream Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000014_000000|BAKED FILLETS OF WHITEFISH
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000015_000000|Cut a large cleaned whitefish into fillets, removing as much as possible of the bone.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000015_000002|Bake in a thickly buttered baking dish, drain on brown paper, garnish with fried parsley, and serve with Parsley Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000016_000000|BAKED WHITEFISH A l a BORDEAUX
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000017_000000|Stuff a large whitefish with seasoned crumbs, put into a buttered baking pan, rub with butter, dredge with seasoned flour, add one cupful of Claret, and bake.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000018_000000|STUFFED WHITEFISH
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000019_000000|Make a stuffing of bread crumbs, seasoning with salt, pepper, sweet herbs, and melted butter.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000019_000001|Add a beaten egg to bind, stuff the fish, and sew up.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000019_000002|Bake slowly, basting with melted butter and water, and serve with Tartar Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000020_000000|STUFFED WHITEFISH WITH OYSTER SAUCE
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000021_000002|Pour over a Cream Sauce to which cooked oysters and a little lemon juice and minced parsley have been added.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000000|Cook the fish until done in boiling salted water, drain, and remove the large bones.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000002|Season with salt, pepper, grated onion, minced parsley, and grated nutmeg, take from the fire and add half a cupful of butter.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000003|Add also the white of an egg well beaten.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000004|Put the fish on a serving dish, spread the sauce over it and brown in the oven.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000025_000001|Put into a buttered baking pan, sprinkle with chopped onion and minced parsley, seasoning with grated nutmeg, salt, and pepper.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000025_000002|Cover with Cream Sauce to which three tablespoonfuls of butter have been added, and put into a hot oven for ten or fifteen minutes.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000027_000000|Boil a whitefish in salted water and flake fine with a fork.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000027_000003|Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of fish, cover with sauce, season with grated nutmeg, and repeat until the dish is full.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000027_000004|Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000000|Skin and bone the fish, cut into small squares, and season with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000002|Cook until thick, stirring constantly, seasoning with salt, pepper, lemon juice, minced parsley, grated onion, and a tablespoonful of vinegar.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000003|Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of the fish, cover with sauce, and repeat until the dish is full.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000004|Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000030_000000|WHITEFISH A l a MAITRE D'HOTEL
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000032_000000|WHITEFISH A l a POINT SHIRLEY
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000033_000000|Clean, split, and bone the fish, and put into a buttered baking pan, skin side down.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000033_000001|Season with salt, red pepper, and lemon juice, add enough boiling water to keep from burning, and bake.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000033_000002|Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000035_000000|Butter a fish plank and tack a large cleaned and split whitefish on it, skin side down.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000035_000001|Rub with butter, season with salt and pepper, and cook in the oven or under a gas flame.
train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000035_000002|Put a border of mashed potato mixed with the beaten white of egg around the fish, using a pastry tube and forcing bag.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000001_000000|BROTHER SQUARE TOES
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000002_000000|Philadelphia
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000003_000000|If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. There's little left indeed of the city you will read of, And all the folk I write about have died. Now few will understand if you mention Talleyrand, Or remember what his cunning and his skill did. And the cabmen at the wharf do not know Count Zinnendorf, Nor the Church in Philadelphia he builded.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000004_000000|It is gone, gone, gone with lost Atlantis (Never say I didn't give you warning). In Seventeen Ninety three 'twas there for all to see, But it's not in Philadelphia this morning.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000006_000000|It is gone, gone, gone with Thebes the Golden (Never say I didn't give you warning). In Seventeen Ninety four 'twas a famous dancing floor- But it's not in Philadelphia this morning.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000009_000000|Brother Square Toes
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000010_000000|It was almost the end of their visit to the seaside.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000010_000001|They had turned themselves out of doors while their trunks were being packed, and strolled over the Downs towards the dull evening sea.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000010_000002|The tide was dead low under the chalk cliffs, and the little wrinkled waves grieved along the sands up the coast to Newhaven and down the coast to long, grey Brighton, whose smoke trailed out across the Channel.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000000|They walked to The Gap, where the cliff is only a few feet high.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000002|The Coastguard cottages are a little farther on, and an old ship's figurehead of a Turk in a turban stared at them over the wall.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000003|'This time tomorrow we shall be at home, thank goodness,' said Una.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000004|'I hate the sea!'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000012_000001|'The edges are the sorrowful parts.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000013_000000|Cordery, the coastguard, came out of the cottage, levelled his telescope at some fishing boats, shut it with a click and walked away.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000014_000000|'half-way to Newhaven,'said Dan.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000014_000001|'Then he'll meet the Newhaven coastguard and turn back.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000014_000002|He says if coastguards were done away with, smuggling would start up at once.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000015_000000|A voice on the beach under the cliff began to sing:
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000017_000000|Feet scrabbled on the flinty path.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000017_000001|A dark, thin faced man in very neat brown clothes and broad toed shoes came up, followed by Puck.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000020_000002|But his dark beady brown eyes still twinkled merrily in his lean face, and the children felt that they did not suit the straight, plain, snuffy brown coat, brown knee breeches, and broad brimmed hat.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000022_000000|'Oh, but it is, though,' said Una quickly.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000023_000000|'Aren't you English?' said Dan.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000024_000003|She was an Aurette, of course.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000024_000004|We Lees mostly marry Aurettes.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000029_000000|'Then where did you live?' said Una.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000031_000000|'Ah!' said Puck, squatted by the windlass.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000031_000001|'I remember a piece about the Lees at Warminghurst, I do:
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000032_000000|'There was never a Lee to Warminghurst That wasn't a gipsy last and first.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000034_000001|'Admettin' that's true,' he said, 'my gipsy blood must be wore pretty thin, for I've made and kept a worldly fortune.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000035_000001|'No, in the tobacco trade.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000037_000000|'I'm sorry; but there's all sorts of tobacconists,' Pharaoh replied. 'How far out, now, would you call that smack with the patch on her foresail?' He pointed to the fishing boats.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000038_000000|'A scant mile,' said Puck after a quick look.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000039_000001|It's seven fathom under her-clean sand.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000040_000000|'"That means war again, when we was only just getting used to the peace," says Dad.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000040_000001|"Why can't King George's men and King Louis' men do on their uniforms and fight it out over our heads?"
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000041_000000|'"Me too, I wish that," says Uncle Aurette.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000041_000003|You look out for yours."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000043_000001|"I'll be slipping off now before your Revenue cutter comes.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000043_000004|By the time we'd fished up the kegs the fog came down so thick Dad judged it risky for me to row 'em ashore, even though we could hear the ponies stamping on the beach.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000000|'Presently I heard guns.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000002|He didn't go naked about the seas after dark.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000003|Then come more, which I reckoned was Captain Giddens in the Revenue cutter.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000004|He was open handed with his compliments, but he would lay his guns himself.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000006|I hadn't time to call or think.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000008|I kicked back on our gunwale as it went under and slipped through that port into the French ship-me and my fiddle.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000046_000000|'Didn't anybody see you come in?' said Dan.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000047_000002|The crew was standing by their guns up above.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000047_000003|I rolled on to a pile of dunnage in the dark and I went to sleep.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000047_000007|They had been up all night clearing for action on account of hearing guns in the fog.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000048_000000|'"What!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000049_000002|Bompard, he liked it.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000049_000006|I used to play the fiddle between 'em, sitting on the capstan.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000049_000011|I always helped drink any healths that was proposed-specially Citizen Danton's who'd cut off King Louis' head.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000051_000001|"You've missed it all.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000051_000002|We're sailing next week."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000053_000000|'"If that's your trouble," says old Pierre, "you go straight ashore. None'll hinder you.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000053_000001|They're all gone mad on these coasts-French and American together.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000000|'My legs was pretty tottly, but I made shift to go on deck, which it was like a fair.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000001|The frigate was crowded with fine gentlemen and ladies pouring in and out.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000003|They shouted, "Down with England!"--"Down with Washington!"--"Hurrah for France and the Republic!" I couldn't make sense of it.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000004|I wanted to get out from that crunch of swords and petticoats and sit in a field.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000005|One of the gentlemen said to me, "Is that a genuine cap o' Liberty you're wearing?" 'twas Aunt Cecile's red one, and pretty near wore out.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000006|"Oh yes!" I says, "straight from France." "I'll give you a shilling for it," he says, and with that money in my hand and my fiddle under my arm I squeezed past the entry port and went ashore.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000007|It was like a dream-meadows, trees, flowers, birds, houses, and people all different!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000010|They all was the fashion in the city.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000013|He was a horseback behaving as if the place belonged to him-and commanding all and sundry to fight the British.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000014|But I'd heard that before.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000019|A man told me he was a real Red Indian called Red Jacket, and I followed him into an alley way off Race Street by Second Street, where there was a fiddle playing.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000020|I'm fond o' fiddling.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000022|Hearing what the price was I was going to have some too, but the Indian asked me in English if I was hungry.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000024|I must have looked a sore scrattel.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000026|We walked into a dirty little room full of flutes and fiddles and a fat man fiddling by the window, in a smell of cheese and medicines fit to knock you down.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000029|The Indian never moved an eyelid.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000055_000000|'"Pick up the pills!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000055_000001|Pick up the pills!" the fat man screeches.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000056_000001|The fat man went back to his fiddling.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000057_000001|"I brought the boy to be fed, not hit."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000058_000001|"Himmel!" he says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000058_000005|Why are you not Gert Schwankfelder?"
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000059_000000|'"I don't know," I said.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000060_000000|'Says the Indian, "He is hungry, Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000060_000001|Christians always feed the hungry.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000060_000002|So I bring him."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000061_000000|'"You should have said that first," said Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000062_000000|'"You like pills-eh?" says Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000062_000001|"No," I says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000063_000001|"What's those?"
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000064_000000|'"Calomel," I says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000065_000000|'"Right," he says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000065_000002|You like to fiddle?" he says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000067_000001|"What note is this?" drawing his bow across.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000069_000000|'"My brother," he says to the Indian.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000069_000001|"I think this is the hand of Providence!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000069_000003|Now look at this boy and say what you think."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000070_000000|'The Indian looked me over whole minutes-there was a musical clock on the wall and dolls came out and hopped while the hour struck.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000070_000001|He looked me over all the while they did it.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000071_000000|'"Good," he says at last.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000071_000001|"This boy is good."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000000|'"Good, then," says Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000001|"Now I shall play my fiddle and you shall sing your hymn, brother.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000002|Boy, go down to the bakery and tell them you are young Gert Schwankfelder that was.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000004|If you ask any questions you shall hear from me."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000073_000001|He wasn't at all surprised when I told him I was young Gert Schwankfelder that was.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000073_000002|He knew Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000073_000003|His wife she walked me into the back yard without a word, and she washed me and she cut my hair to the edge of a basin, and she put me to bed, and oh! how I slept-how I slept in that little room behind the oven looking on the flower garden!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000074_000000|'I like Toby,' said Una.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000075_000000|'Who was he?' said Puck.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000076_000000|'Apothecary Tobias Hirte,' Pharaoh replied.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000076_000001|'One Hundred and Eighteen, Second Street-the famous Seneca Oil man, that lived half of every year among the Indians.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000000|'Then why did he keep her in Davy Jones's locker?' Dan asked.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000001|'That was his joke.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000002|He kept her under David Jones's hat shop in the "Buck" tavern yard, and his Indian friends kept their ponies there when they visited him.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000003|I looked after the horses when I wasn't rolling pills on top of the old spinet, while he played his fiddle and Red Jacket sang hymns. I liked it.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000006|The women wore long eared caps and handkerchiefs.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000008|I carried Toby's fiddle, and he played pretty much as he chose all against the organ and the singing.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000078_000000|'How very queer!' said Una.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000000|Pharaoh's eyes twinkled.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000003|Being a boy, it seemed to me it had lasted for ever, and was going on for ever.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000005|As soon as the dancing clock struck midnight that Sunday-I was lying under the spinet-I heard Toby's fiddle.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000007|Liberty and Independence for Ever!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000000|'I rubbed my eyes, and fetched 'em out of the "Buck" stables.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000001|Red Jacket was there saddling his, and when I'd packed the saddle bags we three rode up Race Street to the Ferry by starlight.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000002|So we went travelling. It's a kindly, softly country there, back of Philadelphia among the German towns, Lancaster way.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000003|Little houses and bursting big barns, fat cattle, fat women, and all as peaceful as Heaven might be if they farmed there.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000005|Him and his long hilted umberell was as well known as the stage coaches.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000006|He took orders for that famous Seneca Oil which he had the secret of from Red Jacket's Indians, and he slept in friends' farmhouses, but he would shut all the windows; so Red Jacket and me slept outside.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000007|There's nothing to hurt except snakes-and they slip away quick enough if you thrash in the bushes.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000081_000000|'I'd have liked that!' said Dan.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000000|'I'd no fault to find with those days.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000002|He's something to listen to.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000003|And there's a smell of wild grape vine growing in damp hollows which you drop into, after long rides in the heat, which is beyond compare for sweetness.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000008|And so we jogged 'into dozy little Lebanon by the Blue Mountains, where Toby had a cottage and a garden of all fruits.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000012|The Senecas are a seemly, quiet people, and they'd had trouble enough from white men-American and English-during the wars, to keep 'em in that walk.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000013|They lived on a Reservation by themselves away off by their lake.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000014|Toby took me up there, and they treated me as if I was their own blood brother.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000015|Red Jacket said the mark of my bare feet in the dust was just like an Indian's and my style of walking was similar.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000016|I know I took to their ways all over.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000084_000000|'Sometimes I think it did,' Pharaoh went on.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000084_000003|They gave me a side name which means "Two Tongues," because, d'ye see, I talked French and English.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000004|They always called him Big Hand, for he was a large fisted man, and he was all of their notion of a white chief.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000009|Cornplanter used to meet him at Epply's-the great dancing place in the city before District Marshal William Nichols bought it.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000011|I came at it by degrees, after I was adopted into the tribe.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000013|Toby wanted peace so as he could go about the Reservation buying his oils. But most of the white men wished for war, and they was angry because the President wouldn't give the sign for it.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000014|The newspaper said men was burning Guy Fawkes images of General Washington and yelling after him in the streets of Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000015|You'd have been astonished what those two fine old chiefs knew of the ins and outs of such matters.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000017|Toby used to read the Aurora newspaper.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000086_000000|'I hate politics, too,' said Una, and Pharaoh laughed.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000087_000002|One hot evening late in August, Toby was reading the newspaper on the stoop and Red Jacket was smoking under a peach tree and I was fiddling.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000087_000003|Of a sudden Toby drops his Aurora.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000088_000000|'"I am an oldish man, too fond of my own comforts," he says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000088_000001|"I will go to the Church which is in Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000088_000002|My brother, lend me a spare pony.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000089_000000|'"Good!" says Red Jacket, looking at the sun
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000089_000001|"My brother shall be there.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000090_000000|'I went to pack the saddle bags.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000090_000001|Toby had cured me of asking questions. He stopped my fiddling if I did.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000092_000000|'"Get off," says Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000092_000003|I wish He hadn't."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000093_000001|When I picked up the paper to wrap his fiddle strings in, I spelled out a piece about the yellow fever being in Philadelphia so dreadful every one was running away.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000093_000002|I was scared, for I was fond of Toby.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000093_000003|We never said much to each other, but we fiddled together, and music's as good as talking to them that understand.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000094_000000|'Did Toby die of yellow fever?'Una asked.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000000|'Not him!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000001|There's justice left in the world still.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000004|Down at heart all Indians reckon digging a squaw's business, and neither him nor Cornplanter, when he relieved watch, was a hard task Master.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000006|When I found Toby didn't die the minute he reached town, why, boylike, I took him off my mind and went with my Indians again.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000008|'But it's best,' he went on suddenly, 'after the first frosts.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000017|Besides, I wasn't exactly dressed for it.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000096_000000|'D'you mean you were dressed like an Indian?'Dan demanded.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000097_000000|Pharaoh looked a little abashed.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000098_000001|'Go on, Brother Square toes.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000003|My silly head was banged often enough by low branches, but they slipped through like running elk.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000004|We had evening hymn singing every night after they'd blown their pipe smoke to the quarters of heaven.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000005|Where did we go?
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000006|I'll tell you, but don't blame me if you're no wiser.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000009|From Williams Ferry, across the Shanedore, over the Blue Mountains, through Ashby's Gap, and so south-east by south from there, till we found the President at the back of his own plantations.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000010|I'd hate to be trailed by Indians in earnest.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000101_000000|'"Citizen-citizen!" the fellow spits in.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000101_000001|"I, at least, am a Republican!"
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000102_000002|No gentleman!
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000000|'The others all assembled round Big Hand then, and, in their way, they said pretty much what Genet had said.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000002|The French was searching American ships on pretence they was helping England, but really for to steal the goods.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000004|His gentlemen put this very clear to Big Hand.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000007|They wouldn't say whether that was right or wrong; they only wanted Big Hand to turn it over in his mind.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000008|He did-for a while.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000105_000000|'No, nor yet was it what you might call swearing.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000105_000002|He asked them half a dozen times over whether the United States had enough armed ships for any shape or sort of war with any one.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000000|'Everybody laughed except him.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000001|"Oh, General, you mistake us entirely!" they says.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000003|"But I know my duty.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000004|We must have peace with England."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000107_000000|'"At any price?" says the man with the rook's voice.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000108_000000|'"At any price," says he, word by word.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000108_000001|"Our ships will be searched-our citizens will be pressed, but-"
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000109_000000|'"Then what about the Declaration of Independence?" says one.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000110_000000|'"Deal with facts, not fancies," says Big Hand.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000111_000000|'"But think of public opinion," another one starts up.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000111_000001|"The feeling in Philadelphia alone is at fever heat."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000112_000000|'He held up one of his big hands.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000112_000001|"Gentlemen," he says-slow he spoke, but his voice carried far-"I have to think of our country.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000112_000002|Let me assure you that the treaty with Great Britain will be made though every city in the Union burn me in effigy."
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000113_000000|'"At any price?" the actor like chap keeps on croaking.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000114_000000|'"The treaty must be made on Great Britain's own terms.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000116_000001|'Why it's what you-what we-it's the Sachems' way of sprinkling the sacred corn meal in front of-oh! it's a piece of Indian compliment really, and it signifies that you are a very big chief.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000117_000001|First he says quite softly, "My brothers know it is not easy to be a chief." Then his voice grew.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000120_000000|'His gentlemen were waiting, so they didn't delay him, only Cornplanter says, using his old side name, "Big Hand, did you see us among the timber just now?"
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000121_000000|'"Surely," says he.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000121_000001|"You taught me to look behind trees when we were both young." And with that he cantered off.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000123_000000|Pharaoh stood up as though he had finished.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000124_000000|'Yes,' said Puck, rising too.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000124_000001|'And what came out of it in the long run?'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000000|'Let me get at my story my own way,'was the answer.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000001|'Look! it's later than I thought.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000002|That Shoreham smack's thinking of her supper.' The children looked across the darkening Channel.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000004|When they turned round The Gap was empty behind them.
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000126_000000|'I expect they've packed our trunks by now,' said Dan. 'This time tomorrow we'll be home.'
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000127_000000|IF-
train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000128_000000|If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000003_000000|THEY journeyed for three and a half months.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000005_000000|She felt strong.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000007_000001|The nobility of good sense.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000007_000005|It's a new start.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000014_000003|The wet snow drenched their gloves; the water underfoot splashed their itching ankles.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000014_000004|They scuffled inch by inch for three blocks.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000020_000000|"No, but----"
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000026_000001|The driver stopped at a corner.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000027_000001|Their coats were soaked through.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000028_000000|Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000029_000002|Stripped of summer leaves the houses were hopeless-temporary shelters.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000030_000000|Kennicott chuckled, "By golly, look down there!
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000030_000002|And look!
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000030_000005|Chicken tight and dog tight.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000032_000001|They got the feed store all fixed up, and a new sign on it, black and gold.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000035_000000|Kennicott chuckled, "Look who's coming!
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000037_000000|"Perhaps I should never have gone away.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000037_000002|I wish they would get it over!
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000044_000000|"Does he like carrots yet?" replied Carol.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000048_000002|Nothing had changed.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000051_000000|He was standing before the furnace.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000054_000000|She smiled at him.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000055_000000|She saw a pencil mark on a window sill.
train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000057_000000|The Sam Clarks called that evening and encouraged her to describe the missions.
train-clean-360/1100/135264/1100_135264_000000_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/1100/135264/1100_135264_000002_000003|The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh bells sounded on it.
train-clean-360/1100/135264/1100_135264_000027_000002|But it's not in the power of my gift.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000000_000001|"Where's the laundry key kept?"
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000001_000000|"It's kept in the door," Liddy snapped.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000001_000001|"That whole end of the cellar is kept locked, so nobody can get at the clothes, and then the key's left in the door?
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000001_000002|so that unless a thief was as blind as-as some detectives, he could walk right in."
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000004_000000|"That's the door," she said sulkily.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000004_000001|"The key's in it."
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000005_000000|But the key was not in it.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000005_000001|mr Jamieson shook it, but it was a heavy door, well locked.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000005_000003|When he stood up his face was exultant.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000006_000000|"It's locked on the inside," he said in a low tone.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000007_000000|"Lord have mercy!" gasped Liddy, and turned to run.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000008_000000|"Liddy," I called, "go through the house at once and see who is missing, or if any one is.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000013_000000|"There's somebody locked in the laundry," I panted.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000014_000002|What have you locked in the laundry?"
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000015_000002|If you came out for air, you'd better put on your overshoes." And then I noticed that Gertrude was limping-not much, but sufficiently to make her progress very slow, and seemingly painful.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000017_000000|"I fell over the carriage block," she explained.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000017_000002|He-he ought to be here."
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000000|As I went down the drive, my thoughts were busy.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000005|If the fugitive had come from outside the house, how did he get in?
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000006|If it was some member of the household, who could it have been?
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000009|Gertrude and her injured ankle!
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000000|I tried to put the thought away, but it would not go.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000001|If Gertrude had been on the circular staircase that night, why had she fled from mr Jamieson?
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000004|The mystery seemed to deepen constantly.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000006|And yet, every way I turned I seemed to find something that pointed to such a connection.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000025_000000|"I-I think he's in bed, ma'm."
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000026_000000|"Get him up," I said, "and for goodness' sake open the door, Thomas. I'll wait for Warner."
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000029_000002|But my attention was busy with the room below.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000030_000001|It was filled with gold topped bottles and brushes, and it breathed opulence, luxury, femininity from every inch of surface.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000030_000002|How did it get there?
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000030_000004|He was completely but somewhat incongruously dressed, and his open, boyish face looked abashed.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000032_000002|Warner, whose bag is this?"
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000033_000000|He was in the doorway by this time, and he pretended not to hear.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000034_000000|"Warner," I called, "come back here.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000034_000001|Whose bag is this?"
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000036_000000|"It's-it belongs to Thomas," he said, and fled up the drive.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000037_000000|To Thomas!
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000037_000002|However, I put the bag in the back of my mind, which was fast becoming stored with anomalous and apparently irreconcilable facts, and followed Warner to the house.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000041_000004|At the door he was to force, Warner put down his tools and looked at it.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000041_000005|Then he turned the handle.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000041_000006|Without the slightest difficulty the door opened, revealing the blackness of the drying room beyond!
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000043_000000|"Gone!" he said.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000043_000001|"Confound such careless work!
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000043_000002|I might have known."
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000000|It was true enough.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000001|We got the lights on finally and looked all through the three rooms that constituted this wing of the basement. Everything was quiet and empty.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000003|The basket had been overturned, but that was all.
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000004|mr Jamieson examined the windows: one was unlocked, and offered an easy escape. The window or the door?
train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000005|Which way had the fugitive escaped?
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000007_000001|It is somewhat lacking in actuality, and the picturesque style in which it is written rather contributes to this effect, lending the story beauty but robbing it of truth.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000007_000003|The hero of the poem is a young clergyman of the muscular Christian school:
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000010_000000|A gallant fish, all flashing in the sun In silver mail inlaid with scarlet gems, His back thick sprinkled as a leopard's hide With rich brown spots, and belly of bright gold.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000011_000000|They naturally fall in love with each other and marry, and for many years David Westren leads a perfectly happy life.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000011_000001|Suddenly calamity comes upon him, his wife and children die and he finds himself alone and desolate. Then begins his struggle.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000011_000004|He finds no comfort in contemplating Leviathan:
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000012_000000|As if we lacked reminding of brute force, As if we never felt the clumsy hoof, As if the bulk of twenty million whales Were worth one pleading soul, or all the laws That rule the lifeless suns could soothe the sense Of outrage in a loving human heart! Sublime? majestic?
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000000|mr Hayes states the problem of life extremely well, but his solution is sadly inadequate both from a psychological and from a dramatic point of view.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000001|David Westren ultimately becomes a mild Unitarian, a sort of pastoral Stopford Brooke with leanings towards Positivism, and we leave him preaching platitudes to a village congregation.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000002|However, in spite of this commonplace conclusion there is a great deal in mr Hayes's poem that is strong and fine, and he undoubtedly possesses a fair ear for music and a remarkable faculty of poetical expression.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000003|Some of his descriptive touches of nature, such as
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000014_000000|In meeting woods, whereon a film of mist Slept like the bloom upon the purple grape,
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000015_000000|are very graceful and suggestive, and he will probably make his mark in literature.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000017_000000|Lift thee o'er thy 'here' and 'now,' Look beyond thine 'I' and 'thou,'
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000000|are excessively tedious.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000001|But when mr Rodd leaves the problem of the Unconditioned to take care of itself, and makes no attempt to solve the mysteries of the Ego and the non Ego, he is very pleasant reading indeed. A Mazurka of Chopin is charming, in spite of the awkwardness of the fifth line, and so are the verses on Assisi, and those on San Servolo at Venice.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000002|These last have all the brilliancy of a clever pastel.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000003|The prettiest thing in the whole volume is this little lyric on Spring:
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000020_000000|We do not care for 'palely fair' in the first line, and the repetition of the word 'strikes' is not very felicitous, but the grace of movement and delicacy of touch are pleasing.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000021_000000|The Wind, by mr james Ross, is a rather gusty ode, written apparently without any definite scheme of metre, and not very impressive as it lacks both the strength of the blizzard and the sweetness of Zephyr.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000021_000001|Here is the opening:
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000023_000000|Nothing could be much worse than this, and if the line 'Where fierce hyaenas seek their awful feast' is intended to frighten us, it entirely misses its effect.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000023_000001|The ode is followed by some sonnets which are destined, we fear, to be ludibria ventis.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000023_000002|Immortality, even in the nineteenth century, is not granted to those who rhyme 'awe' and 'war' together.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000024_000000|mr Isaac Sharp's Saul of Tarsus is an interesting, and, in some respects, a fine poem.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000025_000000|Saul of Tarsus, silently, With a silent company, To Damascus' gates drew nigh.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000026_000000|And his eyes, too, and his mien Were, as are the eagles, keen; All the man was aquiline-
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000000|are two strong, simple verses, and indeed the spirit of the whole poem is dignified and stately.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000001|The rest of the volume, however, is disappointing.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000002|Ordinary theology has long since converted its gold into lead, and words and phrases that once touched the heart of the world have become wearisome and meaningless through repetition.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000003|If Theology desires to move us, she must re write her formulas.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000028_000000|There is something very pleasant in coming across a poet who can apostrophise Byron as
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000030_000000|and can speak of Longfellow as a 'mighty Titan.' Reckless panegyrics of this kind show a kindly nature and a good heart, and mr Mackenzie's Highland Daydreams could not possibly offend any one.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000030_000001|It must be admitted that they are rather old-fashioned, but this is usually the case with natural spontaneous verse.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000031_000000|The Story of the Cross, an attempt to versify the Gospel narratives, is a strange survival of the Tate and Brady school of poetry.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000031_000001|mr Nash, who styles himself 'a humble soldier in the army of Faith,' expresses a hope that his book may 'invigorate devotional feeling, especially among the young, to whom verse is perhaps more attractive than to their elders,' but we should be sorry to think that people of any age could admire such a paraphrase as the following:
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000032_000000|Foxes have holes, in which to slink for rest, The birds of air find shelter in the nest; But He, the Son of Man and Lord of all, Has no abiding place His own to call.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000034_000001|By Alfred Hayes, m a
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000038_000000|(five) Highland Daydreams.
train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000039_000000|(six) The Story of the Cross.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000000|mr Ian Hamilton's Ballad of Hadji is undeniably clever.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000001|Hadji is a wonderful Arab horse that a reckless hunter rides to death in the pursuit of a wild boar, and the moral of the poem-for there is a moral-seems to be that an absorbing passion is a very dangerous thing and blunts the human sympathies.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000002|In the course of the chase a little child is drowned, a Brahmin maiden murdered, and an aged peasant severely wounded, but the hunter cares for none of these things and will not hear of stopping to render any assistance.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000003|Some of the stanzas are very graceful, notably one beginning
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000004_000000|Yes-like a bubble filled with smoke- The curd white moon upswimming broke The vacancy of space;
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000005_000000|but such lines as the following, which occur in the description of the fight with the boar-
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000006_000000|I hung as close as keepsake locket On maiden breast-but from its socket He wrenched my bridle arm,
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000000|are dreadful, and 'his brains festooned the thorn' is not a very happy way of telling the reader how the boar died.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000001|All through the volume we find the same curious mixture of good and bad.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000002|To say that the sun kisses the earth 'with flame moustachoed lip' is awkward and uncouth, and yet the poem in which the expression occurs has some pretty lines.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000003|mr Ian Hamilton should prune.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000005|The volume is nicely printed, but mr Strang's frontispiece is not a great success, and most of the tail pieces seem to have been designed without any reference to the size of the page.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000008_000001|It is heavy, abstract and prosaic, and shows how intolerably dull a man can be who has the best intentions and the most earnest beliefs.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000008_000002|In the rest of the volume, where mr Catty does not take himself quite so seriously, there are some rather pleasing things.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000008_000003|The sonnet on Shelley's room at University College would be admirable but for the unmusical character of the last line.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000009_000000|Green in the wizard arms Of the foam bearded Atlantic, An isle of old enchantment, A melancholy isle, Enchanted and dreaming lies; And there, by Shannon's flowing In the moonlight, spectre thin, The spectre Erin sits.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000011_000000|are the first and last stanzas of mr Todhunter's poem The Banshee.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000011_000001|To throw away the natural grace of rhyme from a modern song is, as mr Swinburne once remarked, a wilful abdication of half the power and half the charm of verse, and we cannot say that mr Todhunter has given us much that consoles us for its loss.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000011_000003|It is an interesting specimen of poetic writing but it is not a perfect work of art.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000013_000000|has, of course, an archaeological interest, but has no artistic value at all.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000013_000001|Indeed, from the point of view of art, the few little poems at the end of the volume are worth all the ambitious pseudo epics that mr Todhunter has tried to construct out of Celtic lore.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000013_000002|A Bacchic Day is charming, and the sonnet on the open air performance of The Faithfull Shepherdesse is most gracefully phrased and most happy in conception.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000000|mr Peacock is an American poet, and Professor Thomas Danleigh Supplee, a m, p h d, f r s, who has written a preface to his Poems of the Plains and Songs of the Solitudes, tells us that he is entitled to be called the Laureate of the West.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000001|Though a staunch Republican, mr Peacock, according to the enthusiastic Professor, is not ashamed of his ancestor King William of Holland, nor of his relatives Lord and Lady Peacock who, it seems, are natives of Scotland.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000003|His poems seem to be extremely popular, and have been highly praised, the Professor informs us, by Victor Hugo, the Saturday Review and the Commercial Advertiser.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000004|The preface is the most amusing part of the book, but the poems also are worth studying.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000005|The Maniac, The Bandit Chief, and The Outlaw can hardly be called light reading, but we strongly recommend the poem on Chicago:
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000015_000000|Chicago! great city of the West! All that wealth, all that power invest; Thou sprang like magic from the sand, As touched by the magician's wand.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000016_000001|The opening lines of The Vendetta also deserve mention:
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000017_000000|When stars are glowing through day's gloaming glow, Reflecting from ocean's deep, mighty flow, At twilight, when no grim shadows of night, Like ghouls, have stalked in wake of the light.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000018_000000|The first line is certainly a masterpiece, and, indeed, the whole volume is full of gems of this kind.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000018_000001|The Professor remarks in his elaborate preface that mr Peacock 'frequently rises to the sublime,' and the two passages quoted above show how keenly critical is his taste in these matters and how well the poet deserves his panegyric.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000019_000001|He has a placid, pleasant way of writing, and, indeed, his verses cannot do any harm, though he really should not publish such attempts at metrical versions of the Psalms as the following:
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000021_000000|The 'literary culture' that produced these lines is, we fear, not of a very high order.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000022_000000|'I study Poetry simply as a fine art by which I may exercise my intellect and elevate my taste,' wrote the late mr George Morine many years ago to a friend, and the little posthumous volume that now lies before us contains the record of his quiet literary life.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000022_000002|They are often distinguished by a grave and chastened beauty of style, and their solemn cadences have something of the 'grand manner' about them.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000024_000000|(two) Poems in the Modern Spirit, with The Secret of Content.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000027_000000|(five) Holiday Recreations and Other Poems.
train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000028_000000|(six) Poems.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000006_000001|And the woman, after that, lived all alone, and said to herself, "I have done my duty to the world, and now shall rest quietly for the balance of my life.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000007_000000|She lived in a peculiar little house, that looked something like this picture.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000008_000000|It was not like most of the houses you see, but the old woman had it built herself, and liked it, and so it did not matter to her how odd it was.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000010_000000|This misfortune ruined all the old woman's dreams of quiet; but the next day the children arrived-three boys and two girls-and she made the best of it and gave them the beds her own daughters had once occupied, and her own cot as well; and she made a bed for herself on the parlor sofa.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000011_000000|The youngsters were like all other children, and got into mischief once in awhile; but the old woman had much experience with children and managed to keep them in order very well, while they quickly learned to obey her, and generally did as they were bid.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000012_000000|But scarcely had she succeeded in getting them settled in their new home when Margaret, another of her daughters, died, and sent four more children to her mother to be taken care of.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000013_000000|The old woman scarcely knew where to keep this new flock that had come to her fold, for the house was already full; but she thought the matter over and finally decided she must build an addition to her house.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000014_000000|So she hired a carpenter and built what is called a "lean to" at the right of her cottage, making it just big enough to accommodate the four new members of her family.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000016_000000|But the old woman continued to look after them, as well as she was able, until Sarah, her third daughter, also died, and three more children were sent to their grandmother to be brought up.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000017_000001|She sent for the carpenter again, and had him build another addition to her house, as the picture shows.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000018_000000|Then she put three new cots in the new part for the babies to sleep in, and when they arrived they were just as cozy and comfortable as peas in a pod.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000020_000000|And now, to make the matter worse, her fourth daughter, who had been named Abigail, suddenly took sick and died, and she also had four small children that must be cared for in some way.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000021_000000|The old woman, having taken the other twelve, could not well refuse to adopt these little orphans also.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000023_000000|Once more she sent for the carpenter, and bade him build a third addition to the house; and when it was completed she added four more cots to the dozen that were already in use.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000023_000001|The house presented a very queer appearance now, but she did not mind that so long as the babies were comfortable.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000024_000000|"I shall not have to build again," she said; "and that is one satisfaction.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000025_000001|But the old woman did not complain at this; her time was too much taken up with the babies for her to miss the grass and the flowers.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000026_000000|It cost so much money to clothe them that she decided to dress them all alike, so that they looked like the children of a regular orphan asylum.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000026_000002|But it was a good and wholesome diet, and the children thrived and grew fat upon it.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000029_000000|"At your house," the stranger replied; "it looks for all the world like a big shoe!"
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000031_000000|"Why, yes.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000032_000000|"Never mind," said the woman; "it may be a shoe, but it is full of babies, and that makes it differ from most other shoes."
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000034_000001|And some were naughty and had to be whipped; and some were dirty and had to be washed; and some were good and had to be kissed. It was "Gran'ma, do this!" and "Gran'ma, do that!" from morning to night, so that the poor grandmother was nearly distracted.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000034_000002|The only peace she ever got was when they were all safely tucked in their little cots and were sound asleep; for then, at least, she was free from worry and had a chance to gather her scattered wits.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000035_000000|"There are so many children," she said one day to the baker man, "that I often really do n't know what to do!"
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000038_000000|The baker man came every day to the shoe house, and brought two great baskets of bread in his arms for the children to eat with their milk and their broth.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000040_000001|Then a flight of arrows came from the bushes, and although they were blunt and could do him no harm they rattled all over his body; and one hit his nose, and another his chin, while several stuck fast in the loaves of bread.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000041_000000|Altogether, the baker man was terribly frightened; and when all the sixteen small Indians rushed from the bushes and flourished their tomahawks, he took to his heels and ran down the hill as fast as he could go!
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000042_000000|When the grandmother returned she asked,
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000043_000000|"Where is the bread for your supper?"
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000044_000000|The children looked at one another in surprise, for they had forgotten all about the bread.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000044_000001|And then one of them confessed, and told her the whole story of how they had frightened the baker man for saying he would send them to the poor house.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000045_000000|"You are sixteen very naughty children!" exclaimed the old woman; "and for punishment you must eat your broth without any bread, and afterwards each one shall have a sound whipping and be sent to bed."
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000047_000000|But she kept her promise, and made them eat their broth without any bread; for, indeed, there was no bread to give them.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000049_000000|They cried some, of course, but they knew very well they deserved the punishment, and it was not long before all of them were sound asleep.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000050_000000|They took care not to play any more tricks on the baker man, and as they grew older they were naturally much better behaved.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000051_000000|Before many years the boys were old enough to work for the neighboring farmers, and that made the woman's family a good deal smaller.
train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000051_000001|And then the girls grew up and married, and found homes of their own, so that all the children were in time well provided for.
train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000008_000001|How glorious!
train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000008_000002|What was it?
train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000033_000000|"I love them," said Dorothy.
train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000039_000003|Never tell me that Friday isn't unlucky."
train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000042_000001|She felt oddly like crying.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000002_000000|Chapter thirty seven
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000004_000000|"I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000005_000000|"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000006_000000|"It's easy for you to be serene.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000006_000002|I'm not-and when I think of that horrible paper tomorrow I quail.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000006_000003|If I should fail in it what would Jo say?"
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000007_000001|How did you get on in Greek today?"
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000001|Perhaps it was a good paper and perhaps it was bad enough to make Homer turn over in his grave.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000002|I've studied and mulled over notebooks until I'm incapable of forming an opinion of anything.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000003|How thankful little Phil will be when all this examinating is over."
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000011_000000|"Words aren't made-they grow," said Anne.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000015_000000|"You don't act as if you were by times," said Aunt Jamesina severely.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000016_000000|"Oh, Aunt Jimsie, haven't we been pretty good girls, take us by and large, these three winters you've mothered us?" pleaded Phil.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000018_000000|"But I mistrust you haven't any too much sense yet.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000018_000001|It's not to be expected, of course.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000021_000000|"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000022_000000|"Oh, yes.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000023_000000|"We've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic," said Phil.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000024_000001|When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000026_000000|"I think," said Anne slowly, "that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000026_000001|Summing up, I think that is what Redmond has given me."
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000028_000000|"Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum and substance is that you can learn-if you've got natural gumption enough-in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000028_000001|Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000028_000002|It's a matter I was always dubious about before."
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000029_000000|"But what about people who haven't natural gumption, Aunt Jimsie?"
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000030_000001|If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000030_000002|It's their misfortune not their fault, poor souls.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000030_000003|But those of us who have some gumption should duly thank the Lord for it."
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000031_000000|"Will you please define what gumption is, Aunt Jimsie?" asked Phil.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000032_000000|"No, I won't, young woman.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000032_000002|So there is no need of defining it."
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000033_000002|Priscilla took Honors in Classics, and Phil in Mathematics. Stella obtained a good all round showing.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000033_000003|Then came Convocation.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000034_000000|"This is what I would once have called an epoch in my life," said Anne, as she took Roy's violets out of their box and gazed at them thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000034_000001|She meant to carry them, of course, but her eyes wandered to another box on her table.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000002|She knew he was studying very hard, aiming at High Honors and the Cooper Prize, and he took little part in the social doings of Redmond.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000003|Anne's own winter had been quite gay socially. She had seen a good deal of the Gardners; she and Dorothy were very intimate; college circles expected the announcement of her engagement to Roy any day.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000005|Yet just before she left Patty's Place for Convocation she flung Roy's violets aside and put Gilbert's lilies of the valley in their place.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000006|She could not have told why she did it.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000036_000002|It was of one strange, unaccountable pang that spoiled this long expected day for her and left in it a certain faint but enduring flavor of bitterness.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000037_000000|The Arts graduates gave a graduation dance that night.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000037_000001|When Anne dressed for it she tossed aside the pearl beads she usually wore and took from her trunk the small box that had come to Green Gables on Christmas day. In it was a thread like gold chain with a tiny pink enamel heart as a pendant.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000038_000000|She and Phil walked to Redmond together.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000039_000001|Did you hear anything of it?"
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000041_000000|"I think it's true," said Phil lightly.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000001|In the darkness she felt her face burning.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000002|She slipped her hand inside her collar and caught at the gold chain.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000003|One energetic twist and it gave way.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000005|Her hands were trembling and her eyes were smarting.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000000|"Moody Spurgeon MacPherson called here tonight after you left," said Aunt Jamesina, who had sat up to keep the fire on.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000001|"He didn't know about the graduation dance.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000002|That boy ought to sleep with a rubber band around his head to train his ears not to stick out.
train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000004|It was I who suggested it to him and he took my advice, but he never forgave me for it."
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000000|During June the meetings of those who were in the secret were frequent. At length, on the last day of the month, the day on which the Bishops were pronounced not guilty, the decisive step was taken.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000001|A formal invitation, transcribed by Sidney but drawn up by some person more skilled than Sidney, in the art of composition, was despatched to the Hague.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000003|If his Highness would appear in the island at the head of some troops, tens of thousands would hasten to his standard.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000006|The officers were discontented; and the common soldiers shared that aversion to Popery which was general in the class from which they were taken.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000007|In the navy Protestant feeling was still stronger.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000008|It was important to take some decisive step while things were in this state.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000009|The enterprise would be far more arduous if it were deferred till the King, by remodelling boroughs and regiments, had procured a Parliament and an army on which he could rely.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000010|The conspirators, therefore, implored the Prince to come among them with as little delay as possible.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000012|On one point they thought it their duty to remonstrate with his Highness.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000013|He had not taken advantage of the opinion which the great body of the English people had formed respecting the late birth.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000014|He had, on the contrary, sent congratulations to Whitehall, and had thus seemed to acknowledge that the child who was called Prince of Wales was rightful heir of the throne.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000015|This was a grave error, and had damped the zeal of many.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000016|Not one person in a thousand doubted that the boy was supposititious; and the Prince would be wanting to his own interests if the suspicious circumstances which had attended the Queen's confinement were not put prominently forward among his reasons for taking arms.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000000|This paper was signed in cipher by the seven chiefs of the conspiracy, Shrewsbury, Devonshire, Danby, Lumley, Compton, Russell and Sidney. Herbert undertook to be their messenger.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000001|His errand was one of no ordinary peril.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000002|He assumed the garb of a common sailor, and in this disguise reached the Dutch coast in safety, on the Friday after the trial of the Bishops.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000003|He instantly hastened to the Prince.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000004|Bentinck and Dykvelt were summoned, and several days were passed in deliberation.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000005|The first result of this deliberation was that the prayer for the Prince of Wales ceased to be read in the Princess's chapel.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000000|From his wife William had no opposition to apprehend.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000001|Her understanding had been completely subjugated by his; and, what is more extraordinary, he had won her entire affection.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000004|He had done all in his power to disturb her domestic happiness, and had established a system of spying, eavesdropping, and talebearing under her roof.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000006|She had ventured to intercede with him on behalf of her old friend and preceptor Compton, who, for refusing to commit an act of flagitious injustice, had been suspended from his episcopal functions; but she had been ungraciously repulsed.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000009|He had conspired with Tyrconnel and with France against Mary's rights, and had made arrangements for depriving her of one at least of the three crowns to which, at his death, she would have been entitled.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000011|That she should love such a father was impossible. Her religious principles, indeed, were so strict that she would probably have tried to perform what she considered as her duty, even to a father whom she did not love.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000012|On the present occasion, however, she judged that the claim of james to her obedience ought to yield to a claim more sacred.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000014|This is the undoubted rule even when the husband is in the wrong; and to Mary the enterprise which William meditated appeared not only just, but holy.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000005_000000|But, though she carefully abstained from doing or saying anything that could add to his difficulties, those difficulties were serious indeed. They were in truth but imperfectly understood even by some of those who invited him over, and have been but imperfectly described by some of those who have written the history of his expedition.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000000|The obstacles which he might expect to encounter on English ground, though the least formidable of the obstacles which stood in the way of his design, were yet serious.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000001|He felt that it would be madness in him to imitate the example of Monmouth, to cross the sea with a few British adventurers, and to trust to a general rising of the population.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000002|It was necessary, and it was pronounced necessary by all those who invited him over, that he should carry an army with him.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000003|Yet who could answer for the effect which the appearance of such an army might produce?
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000004|The government was indeed justly odious.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000005|But would the English people, altogether unaccustomed to the interference of continental powers in English disputes, be inclined to look with favour on a deliverer who was surrounded by foreign soldiers?
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000006|If any part of the royal forces resolutely withstood the invaders, would not that part soon have on its side the patriotic sympathy of millions?
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000007|A defeat would be fatal to the whole undertaking.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000000|These considerations might well have made William uneasy; even if all the military means of the United Provinces had been at his absolute disposal.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000004|The States General could not make war or peace, could not conclude any alliance or levy any tax, without the consent of the States of every province.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000005|The States of a province could not give such consent without the consent of every municipality which had a share in the representation.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000006|Every municipality was, in some sense, a sovereign state, and, as such, claimed the right of communicating directly with foreign ambassadors, and of concerting with them the means of defeating schemes on which other municipalities were intent.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000007|In some town councils the party which had, during several generations, regarded the influence of the Stadtholders with jealousy had great power.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000009|Propositions brought forward by the Stadtholder as indispensable to the security of the commonwealth, sanctioned by all the provinces except Holland, and sanctioned by seventeen of the eighteen town councils of Holland, had repeatedly been negatived by the single voice of Amsterdam.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000010|The only constitutional remedy in such cases was that deputies from the cities which were agreed should pay a visit to the city which dissented, for the purpose of expostulation.
train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000011|The number of deputies was unlimited: they might continue to expostulate as long as they thought fit; and meanwhile all their expenses were defrayed by the obstinate community which refused to yield to their arguments.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000002_000002|So Whitefoot found a hole in a stump near by and decided to camp out there for a few days.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000002_000004|So the next morning both were on hand when school opened.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000003_000000|"I told you yesterday that I would tell you about some of Danny's cousins," began Old Mother Nature just as Chatterer the Red Squirrel, who was late, came hurrying up quite out of breath.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000003_000002|Yet, strange to say, they are not called Mice at all, but Lemmings.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000003_000003|However, they belong to the Mouse family.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000007_000002|It covers the ground just as grass does here.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000007_000004|To migrate is to move from one part of the country to another.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000008_000002|They form a great army and push ahead, regardless of everything.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000008_000004|Of course, they eat everything eatable in their path."
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000009_000001|I don't envy those cousins up there in the Far North a bit.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000010_000002|I ought to have sent word to him to be here this morning."
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000000|Hardly were the words out of Old Mother Nature's mouth when something landed in the leaves almost at her feet and right in the middle of school.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000004|peter Rabbit bolted for a hollow log.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000005|Striped Chipmunk vanished in a hole under an old stump.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000006|Johnny Chuck backed up against the trunk of a tree and made ready to fight.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000007|Only Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Prickly Porky the Porcupine, who were sitting in trees, kept their places. You see they felt quite safe.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000013_000004|Her eyes twinkled.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000000|Before he could reply Johnny Chuck began to chuckle.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000002|Now, as you know, laughter is catching.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000003|In a minute or so everybody was laughing, and no one but Johnny Chuck knew what the joke was.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000004|At last peter Rabbit stopped laughing long enough to ask Johnny what he was laughing at.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000016_000000|When they were through laughing Nimbleheels answered Old Mother Nature's questions.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000016_000003|He thought that if it was a good thing for Danny it would be a good thing for him, so he had come.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000017_000002|"He went right over my head, and I was sitting up at that!"
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000019_000001|"Hop up on that log side of your Cousin Whitefoot, where all can see you."
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000000|Nimbleheels hopped up beside Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, and as the two little cousins sat side by side they were not unlike in general appearance, though of the two Whitefoot was the prettier.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000002|Like Whitefoot he was white underneath.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000003|His ears were much smaller than those of Whitefoot.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000004|But the greatest differences between the two were in their hind legs and tails.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000021_000002|Whitefoot possessed a long tail, but the tail of Nimbleheels was much longer, slim and tapering.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000022_000001|When I say this, I mean the greatest ground jumper.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000022_000004|By the way, both Nimbleheels and Whitefoot have small pockets in their cheeks. Tell us where you live, Nimbleheels."
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000023_000001|But I like best to be among the weeds because they are tall and keep me well hidden, and also because they furnish me plenty to eat.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000024_000000|"Do you make your home under the ground?" asked Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000025_000003|I have little storerooms down there too, in which I put seeds, berries and nuts. Then when I do wake up I have plenty to eat."
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000026_000001|Like Johnny Chuck he gets very fat before going to sleep.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000027_000001|This way and that way he went in great leaps.
train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000028_000001|His jumping is done only in times of danger.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000002_000000|"Lord!" said Adam, pausing with a chair under either arm, "Lord, mr Belloo sir,--I wonder what Miss Anthea will say?" with which remark he strode off with the two chairs to set them in their accustomed places.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000003_000000|Seldom indeed had the old hall despite its many years, seen such a running to and fro, heard such a patter of flying feet, such merry voices, such gay, and heart felt laughter.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000003_000001|For here was Miss Priscilla, looking smaller than ever, in a great arm chair whence she directed the disposal and arrangement of all things, with quick little motions of her crutch stick.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000004_000000|"Lord!" exclaimed Adam again, balanced now upon a ladder, and pausing to wipe his brow with one hand and with a picture swinging in the other, "Lord! what ever will Miss Anthea say, mr Belloo sir!"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000005_000000|"Ah!" nodded Bellew thoughtfully, "I wonder!"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000008_000000|"Which means," said Bellew, smiling down into Miss Priscilla's young, bright eyes, "that you don't know."
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000010_000000|"But!" nodded Bellew, "yes, I understand."
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000011_000002|Pride!--with a capital P!"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000012_000000|"Yes, she is very proud."
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000014_000000|"I rose this morning-very early, mr Bellew,--Oh! very early!" said Miss Priscilla, following Adam's laden figure with watchful eyes, "couldn't possibly sleep, you see.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000014_000001|So I got up,--ridiculously early,--but, bless you, she was before me!"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000015_000000|"Ah!"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000016_000000|"Oh dear yes!--had been up-hours!
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000017_000003|such great, big tears,--and so very quiet!
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000017_000004|When she heard my little stick come tapping along she tried to hide them,--I mean her tears, of course, mr Bellew, and when I drew her dear, beautiful head down into my arms, she-tried to smile.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000018_000000|"Threw a kiss-from a minstrel's gallery, to a most unworthy individual, Aunt Priscilla?"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000019_000000|"Threw you a kiss, mr Bellew,--I had to,--the side board you know,--on her knees-you understand?"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000020_000000|"I understand!"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000022_000000|And when the hall was, once more, its old, familiar, comfortable self, when the floor had been swept of its litter, and every trace of the sale removed,--then Miss Priscilla sighed, and Bellew put on his coat.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000023_000000|"When do you expect-she will come home?" he enquired, glancing at the grandfather clock in the corner.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000024_000000|"Well, if she drove straight back from Cranbrook she would be here now,--but I fancy she won't be so very anxious to get home to day,--and may come the longest way round; yes, it's in my mind she will keep away from Dapplemere as long as ever she can."
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000025_000000|"And I think," said Bellew, "Yes, I think I'll take a walk.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000000|"The Sergeant!" said Miss Priscilla, "let me see,--it is now a quarter to six, it should take you about fifteen minutes to the village, that will make it exactly six o'clock.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000001|You will find the Sergeant just sitting down in the chair on the left hand side of the fire place,--in the corner,--at the 'King's Head,' you know.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000003|I am glad you are going," she went on, "because to day is-well, a day apart, mr Bellew.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000004|You will find the Sergeant at the 'King's Head,'--until half past seven."
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000027_000000|"Then I will go to the 'King's Head,'" said Bellew.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000027_000001|"And what message do you send him?"
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000002|For the most part, too, she drove in silence seemingly deaf to Small Porges' flow of talk, which was also very unlike in her.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000003|But before her eyes were visions of her dismantled home, in her ears was the roar of voices clamouring for her cherished possessions,--a sickening roar, broken, now and then, by the hollow tap of the auctioneer's cruel hammer.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000004|And, each time the clamouring voices rose, she shivered, and every blow of the cruel hammer seemed to fall upon her quivering heart.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000005|Thus, she was unwontedly deaf and unresponsive to Small Porges, who presently fell into a profound gloom, in consequence; and thus, she held in the eager mare who therefore, shied, and fidgeted, and tossed her head indignantly.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000033_000000|But, slowly as they went, they came within sight of the house, at last, with its quaint gables, and many latticed windows, and the blue smoke curling up from its twisted chimneys,--smiling and placid as though, in all this great world, there were no such thing to be found as-an auctioneer's hammer.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000035_000000|Very slowly, for her, Anthea climbed down from the high dog cart, aiding Small Porges to earth, and with his hand clasped tight in hers, and with lips set firm, she turned and entered the hall.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000035_000001|But, upon the threshold, she stopped, and stood there utterly still, gazing, and gazing upon the trim orderliness of everything.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000000|But Small Porges had seen, and stood aghast, and Miss Priscilla had seen, and now hurried forward with a quick tap, tap of her stick.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000001|As she came, Anthea raised her head, and looked for one who should have been there, but was not.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000002|And, in that moment, instinctively she knew how things came to be as they were,--and, because of this knowledge, her cheeks flamed with a swift, burning colour, and with a soft cry, she hid her face in Miss Priscilla's gentle bosom.
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000003|Then, while her face was yet hidden there, she whispered:
train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000037_000000|"Tell me-tell me-all about it."
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000004_000000|CHAPTER thirty four
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000006_000000|It was almost too much happiness to bear.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000006_000001|Oliver felt stunned and stupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000007_000002|Looking round, he saw that it was a post chaise, driven at great speed; and as the horses were galloping, and the road was narrow, he stood leaning against a gate until it should have passed him.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000008_000000|As it dashed on, Oliver caught a glimpse of a man in a white nightcap, whose face seemed familiar to him, although his view was so brief that he could not identify the person.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000008_000001|In another second or two, the nightcap was thrust out of the chaise window, and a stentorian voice bellowed to the driver to stop: which he did, as soon as he could pull up his horses.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000008_000002|Then, the nightcap once again appeared: and the same voice called Oliver by his name.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000009_000000|'Here!' cried the voice.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000009_000002|Miss Rose!
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000011_000000|Giles popped out his nightcap again, preparatory to making some reply, when he was suddenly pulled back by a young gentleman who occupied the other corner of the chaise, and who eagerly demanded what was the news.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000012_000000|'In a word!' cried the gentleman, 'Better or worse?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000013_000000|'Better-much better!' replied Oliver, hastily.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000014_000000|'Thank Heaven!' exclaimed the gentleman.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000014_000001|'You are sure?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000015_000000|'Quite, sir,' replied Oliver.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000015_000001|'The change took place only a few hours ago; and mr Losberne says, that all danger is at an end.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000016_000000|The gentleman said not another word, but, opening the chaise door, leaped out, and taking Oliver hurriedly by the arm, led him aside.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000017_000000|'You are quite certain?
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000017_000001|There is no possibility of any mistake on your part, my boy, is there?' demanded the gentleman in a tremulous voice. 'Do not deceive me, by awakening hopes that are not to be fulfilled.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000018_000000|'I would not for the world, sir,' replied Oliver. 'Indeed you may believe me.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000018_000002|I heard him say so.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000019_000000|The tears stood in Oliver's eyes as he recalled the scene which was the beginning of so much happiness; and the gentleman turned his face away, and remained silent, for some minutes.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000020_000000|All this time, mr Giles, with the white nightcap on, had been sitting on the steps of the chaise, supporting an elbow on each knee, and wiping his eyes with a blue cotton pocket handkerchief dotted with white spots.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000020_000001|That the honest fellow had not been feigning emotion, was abundantly demonstrated by the very red eyes with which he regarded the young gentleman, when he turned round and addressed him.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000021_000000|'I think you had better go on to my mother's in the chaise, Giles,' said he.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000021_000001|'I would rather walk slowly on, so as to gain a little time before I see her.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000021_000002|You can say I am coming.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000022_000000|'I beg your pardon, mr Harry,' said Giles: giving a final polish to his ruffled countenance with the handkerchief; 'but if you would leave the postboy to say that, I should be very much obliged to you.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000022_000001|It wouldn't be proper for the maids to see me in this state, sir; I should never have any more authority with them if they did.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000023_000000|'Well,' rejoined Harry Maylie, smiling, 'you can do as you like.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000024_000000|mr Giles, reminded of his unbecoming costume, snatched off and pocketed his nightcap; and substituted a hat, of grave and sober shape, which he took out of the chaise.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000024_000001|This done, the postboy drove off; Giles, mr Maylie, and Oliver, followed at their leisure.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000025_000000|As they walked along, Oliver glanced from time to time with much interest and curiosity at the new comer.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000025_000001|He seemed about five and twenty years of age, and was of the middle height; his countenance was frank and handsome; and his demeanor easy and prepossessing.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000025_000002|Notwithstanding the difference between youth and age, he bore so strong a likeness to the old lady, that Oliver would have had no great difficulty in imagining their relationship, if he had not already spoken of her as his mother.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000026_000000|mrs Maylie was anxiously waiting to receive her son when he reached the cottage.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000026_000001|The meeting did not take place without great emotion on both sides.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000028_000000|'I did,' replied mrs Maylie; 'but, on reflection, I determined to keep back the letter until I had heard mr Losberne's opinion.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000032_000000|'I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said mrs Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000032_000001|If I did not feel this, and know, besides, that a changed behaviour in one she loved would break her heart, I should not feel my task so difficult of performance, or have to encounter so many struggles in my own bosom, when I take what seems to me to be the strict line of duty.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000033_000000|'This is unkind, mother,' said Harry. 'Do you still suppose that I am a boy ignorant of my own mind, and mistaking the impulses of my own soul?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000034_000000|'I think, my dear son,' returned mrs Maylie, laying her hand upon his shoulder, 'that youth has many generous impulses which do not last; and that among them are some, which, being gratified, become only the more fleeting.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000035_000000|'Mother,' said the young man, impatiently, 'he would be a selfish brute, unworthy alike of the name of man and of the woman you describe, who acted thus.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000036_000000|'You think so now, Harry,' replied his mother.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000000|'And ever will!' said the young man.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000002|On Rose, sweet, gentle girl!
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000003|my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000004|I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000038_000000|'Harry,' said mrs Maylie, 'it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000038_000001|But we have said enough, and more than enough, on this matter, just now.'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000039_000000|'Let it rest with Rose, then,' interposed Harry.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000039_000001|'You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000040_000000|'I will not,' rejoined mrs Maylie; 'but I would have you consider-'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000041_000001|I have considered, ever since I have been capable of serious reflection.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000041_000002|My feelings remain unchanged, as they ever will; and why should I suffer the pain of a delay in giving them vent, which can be productive of no earthly good?
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000041_000003|No!
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000043_000000|'There is something in your manner, which would almost imply that she will hear me coldly, mother,' said the young man.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000045_000000|'How then?' urged the young man.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000045_000001|'She has formed no other attachment?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000046_000000|'No, indeed,' replied his mother; 'you have, or I mistake, too strong a hold on her affections already.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000047_000000|'What do you mean?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000048_000000|'That I leave you to discover,' replied mrs Maylie. 'I must go back to her.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000048_000001|God bless you!'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000049_000000|'I shall see you again to night?' said the young man, eagerly.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000051_000000|'You will tell her I am here?' said Harry.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000052_000000|'Of course,' replied mrs Maylie.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000053_000001|You will not refuse to do this, mother?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000055_000001|The former now held out his hand to Harry Maylie; and hearty salutations were exchanged between them.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000055_000002|The doctor then communicated, in reply to multifarious questions from his young friend, a precise account of his patient's situation; which was quite as consolatory and full of promise, as Oliver's statement had encouraged him to hope; and to the whole of which, mr Giles, who affected to be busy about the luggage, listened with greedy ears.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000056_000000|'Have you shot anything particular, lately, Giles?' inquired the doctor, when he had concluded.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000057_000000|'Nothing particular, sir,' replied mr Giles, colouring up to the eyes.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000058_000000|'Nor catching any thieves, nor identifying any house breakers?' said the doctor.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000060_000000|'Well,' said the doctor, 'I am sorry to hear it, because you do that sort of thing admirably.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000060_000001|Pray, how is Brittles?'
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000062_000000|'That's well,' said the doctor.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000062_000001|'Seeing you here, reminds me, mr Giles, that on the day before that on which I was called away so hurriedly, I executed, at the request of your good mistress, a small commission in your favour.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000063_000002|At this, the two women servants lifted up their hands and eyes, and supposed that mr Giles, pulling out his shirt frill, replied, 'No, no'; and that if they observed that he was at all haughty to his inferiors, he would thank them to tell him so.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000063_000003|And then he made a great many other remarks, no less illustrative of his humility, which were received with equal favour and applause, and were, withal, as original and as much to the purpose, as the remarks of great men commonly are.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000065_000002|The melancholy which had seemed to the sad eyes of the anxious boy to hang, for days past, over every object, beautiful as all were, was dispelled by magic.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000065_000005|Men who look on nature, and their fellow men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000065_000006|The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000000|It is worthy of remark, and Oliver did not fail to note it at the time, that his morning expeditions were no longer made alone.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000002|If Oliver were behindhand in these respects, he knew where the best were to be found; and morning after morning they scoured the country together, and brought home the fairest that blossomed.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000003|The window of the young lady's chamber was opened now; for she loved to feel the rich summer air stream in, and revive her with its freshness; but there always stood in water, just inside the lattice, one particular little bunch, which was made up with great care, every morning.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000004|Oliver could not help noticing that the withered flowers were never thrown away, although the little vase was regularly replenished; nor, could he help observing, that whenever the doctor came into the garden, he invariably cast his eyes up to that particular corner, and nodded his head most expressively, as he set forth on his morning's walk.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000005|Pending these observations, the days were flying by; and Rose was rapidly recovering.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000067_000000|Nor did Oliver's time hang heavy on his hands, although the young lady had not yet left her chamber, and there were no evening walks, save now and then, for a short distance, with mrs Maylie.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000067_000001|He applied himself, with redoubled assiduity, to the instructions of the white headed old gentleman, and laboured so hard that his quick progress surprised even himself.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000000|The little room in which he was accustomed to sit, when busy at his books, was on the ground floor, at the back of the house.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000001|It was quite a cottage room, with a lattice window: around which were clusters of jessamine and honeysuckle, that crept over the casement, and filled the place with their delicious perfume.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000002|It looked into a garden, whence a wicket gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond, was fine meadow land and wood.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000003|There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000069_000000|One beautiful evening, when the first shades of twilight were beginning to settle upon the earth, Oliver sat at this window, intent upon his books.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000069_000001|He had been poring over them for some time; and, as the day had been uncommonly sultry, and he had exerted himself a great deal, it is no disparagement to the authors, whoever they may have been, to say, that gradually and by slow degrees, he fell asleep.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000070_000000|There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000070_000002|Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon incidental to such a state.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000071_000000|Oliver knew, perfectly well, that he was in his own little room; that his books were lying on the table before him; that the sweet air was stirring among the creeping plants outside.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000071_000001|And yet he was asleep. Suddenly, the scene changed; the air became close and confined; and he thought, with a glow of terror, that he was in the Jew's house again. There sat the hideous old man, in his accustomed corner, pointing at him, and whispering to another man, with his face averted, who sat beside him.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000072_000000|'Hush, my dear!' he thought he heard the Jew say; 'it is he, sure enough.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000073_000000|'He!' the other man seemed to answer; 'could I mistake him, think you? If a crowd of ghosts were to put themselves into his exact shape, and he stood amongst them, there is something that would tell me how to point him out.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000076_000000|It was but an instant, a glance, a flash, before his eyes; and they were gone.
train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000076_000001|But they had recognised him, and he them; and their look was as firmly impressed upon his memory, as if it had been deeply carved in stone, and set before him from his birth.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000001_000000|CHAPTER forty one
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000002_000000|CONTAINING FRESH DISCOVERIES, AND SHOWING THAT SUPRISES, LIKE MISFORTUNES, SELDOM COME ALONE
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000003_000000|Her situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and difficulty.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000003_000001|While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver's history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed, had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000003_000002|Her words and manner had touched Rose Maylie's heart; and, mingled with her love for her young charge, and scarcely less intense in its truth and fervour, was her fond wish to win the outcast back to repentance and hope.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000000|They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000001|It was now midnight of the first day.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000002|What course of action could she determine upon, which could be adopted in eight and forty hours?
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000003|Or how could she postpone the journey without exciting suspicion?
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000005_000000|mr Losberne was with them, and would be for the next two days; but Rose was too well acquainted with the excellent gentleman's impetuosity, and foresaw too clearly the wrath with which, in the first explosion of his indignation, he would regard the instrument of Oliver's recapture, to trust him with the secret, when her representations in the girl's behalf could be seconded by no experienced person.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000005_000001|These were all reasons for the greatest caution and most circumspect behaviour in communicating it to mrs Maylie, whose first impulse would infallibly be to hold a conference with the worthy doctor on the subject.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000005_000002|As to resorting to any legal adviser, even if she had known how to do so, it was scarcely to be thought of, for the same reason.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000006_000000|Disturbed by these different reflections; inclining now to one course and then to another, and again recoiling from all, as each successive consideration presented itself to her mind; Rose passed a sleepless and anxious night.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000006_000001|After more communing with herself next day, she arrived at the desperate conclusion of consulting Harry.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000007_000000|'If it be painful to him,' she thought, 'to come back here, how painful it will be to me!
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000007_000001|But perhaps he will not come; he may write, or he may come himself, and studiously abstain from meeting me-he did when he went away.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000007_000002|I hardly thought he would; but it was better for us both.' And here Rose dropped the pen, and turned away, as though the very paper which was to be her messenger should not see her weep.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000008_000000|She had taken up the same pen, and laid it down again fifty times, and had considered and reconsidered the first line of her letter without writing the first word, when Oliver, who had been walking in the streets, with mr Giles for a body guard, entered the room in such breathless haste and violent agitation, as seemed to betoken some new cause of alarm.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000009_000000|'What makes you look so flurried?' asked Rose, advancing to meet him.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000010_000000|'I hardly know how; I feel as if I should be choked,' replied the boy. 'Oh dear!
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000010_000001|To think that I should see him at last, and you should be able to know that I have told you the truth!'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000011_000000|'I never thought you had told us anything but the truth,' said Rose, soothing him.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000011_000001|'But what is this?--of whom do you speak?'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000012_000000|'I have seen the gentleman,' replied Oliver, scarcely able to articulate, 'the gentleman who was so good to me-mr
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000012_000001|Brownlow, that we have so often talked about.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000013_000000|'Where?' asked Rose.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000000|'Getting out of a coach,' replied Oliver, shedding tears of delight, 'and going into a house.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000001|I didn't speak to him-I couldn't speak to him, for he didn't see me, and I trembled so, that I was not able to go up to him.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000002|But Giles asked, for me, whether he lived there, and they said he did.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000004|Oh, dear me, dear me!
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000005|What shall I do when I come to see him and hear him speak again!'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000015_000001|She very soon determined upon turning the discovery to account.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000000|'Quick!' she said.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000001|'Tell them to fetch a hackney coach, and be ready to go with me.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000002|I will take you there directly, without a minute's loss of time.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000003|I will only tell my aunt that we are going out for an hour, and be ready as soon as you are.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000000|Oliver needed no prompting to despatch, and in little more than five minutes they were on their way to Craven Street.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000001|When they arrived there, Rose left Oliver in the coach, under pretence of preparing the old gentleman to receive him; and sending up her card by the servant, requested to see mr Brownlow on very pressing business.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000002|The servant soon returned, to beg that she would walk upstairs; and following him into an upper room, Miss Maylie was presented to an elderly gentleman of benevolent appearance, in a bottle green coat.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000003|At no great distance from whom, was seated another old gentleman, in nankeen breeches and gaiters; who did not look particularly benevolent, and who was sitting with his hands clasped on the top of a thick stick, and his chin propped thereupon.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000018_000000|'Dear me,' said the gentleman, in the bottle green coat, hastily rising with great politeness, 'I beg your pardon, young lady-I imagined it was some importunate person who-I beg you will excuse me.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000018_000001|Be seated, pray.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000019_000000|'mr Brownlow, I believe, sir?' said Rose, glancing from the other gentleman to the one who had spoken.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000020_000000|'That is my name,' said the old gentleman.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000020_000001|'This is my friend, mr Grimwig.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000020_000002|Grimwig, will you leave us for a few minutes?'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000021_000000|'I believe,' interposed Miss Maylie, 'that at this period of our interview, I need not give that gentleman the trouble of going away. If I am correctly informed, he is cognizant of the business on which I wish to speak to you.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000022_000001|mr Grimwig, who had made one very stiff bow, and risen from his chair, made another very stiff bow, and dropped into it again.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000023_000000|'I shall surprise you very much, I have no doubt,' said Rose, naturally embarrassed; 'but you once showed great benevolence and goodness to a very dear young friend of mine, and I am sure you will take an interest in hearing of him again.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000024_000000|'Indeed!' said mr Brownlow.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000025_000000|'Oliver Twist you knew him as,' replied Rose.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000027_000001|He drew his chair nearer to Miss Maylie's, and said,
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000028_000000|'Do me the favour, my dear young lady, to leave entirely out of the question that goodness and benevolence of which you speak, and of which nobody else knows anything; and if you have it in your power to produce any evidence which will alter the unfavourable opinion I was once induced to entertain of that poor child, in Heaven's name put me in possession of it.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000030_000000|'He is a child of a noble nature and a warm heart,' said Rose, colouring; 'and that Power which has thought fit to try him beyond his years, has planted in his breast affections and feelings which would do honour to many who have numbered his days six times over.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000031_000000|'I'm only sixty one,' said mr Grimwig, with the same rigid face.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000031_000001|'And, as the devil's in it if this Oliver is not twelve years old at least, I don't see the application of that remark.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000032_000000|'Do not heed my friend, Miss Maylie,' said mr Brownlow; 'he does not mean what he says.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000033_000000|'Yes, he does,' growled mr Grimwig.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000034_000000|'No, he does not,' said mr Brownlow, obviously rising in wrath as he spoke.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000035_000000|'He'll eat his head, if he doesn't,' growled mr Grimwig.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000036_000000|'He would deserve to have it knocked off, if he does,' said mr Brownlow.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000037_000000|'And he'd uncommonly like to see any man offer to do it,' responded mr Grimwig, knocking his stick upon the floor.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000038_000000|Having gone thus far, the two old gentlemen severally took snuff, and afterwards shook hands, according to their invariable custom.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000039_000000|'Now, Miss Maylie,' said mr Brownlow, 'to return to the subject in which your humanity is so much interested.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000040_000000|Rose, who had had time to collect her thoughts, at once related, in a few natural words, all that had befallen Oliver since he left mr Brownlow's house; reserving Nancy's information for that gentleman's private ear, and concluding with the assurance that his only sorrow, for some months past, had been not being able to meet with his former benefactor and friend.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000041_000000|'Thank God!' said the old gentleman.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000041_000001|'This is great happiness to me, great happiness.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000041_000002|But you have not told me where he is now, Miss Maylie.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000042_000000|'He is waiting in a coach at the door,' replied Rose.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000043_000000|'At this door!' cried the old gentleman.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000043_000001|With which he hurried out of the room, down the stairs, up the coachsteps, and into the coach, without another word.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000044_000000|When the room door closed behind him, mr Grimwig lifted up his head, and converting one of the hind legs of his chair into a pivot, described three distinct circles with the assistance of his stick and the table; sitting in it all the time.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000044_000001|After performing this evolution, he rose and limped as fast as he could up and down the room at least a dozen times, and then stopping suddenly before Rose, kissed her without the slightest preface.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000001|'Don't be afraid.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000002|I'm old enough to be your grandfather. You're a sweet girl.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000003|I like you.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000004|Here they are!'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000046_000000|In fact, as he threw himself at one dexterous dive into his former seat, mr Brownlow returned, accompanied by Oliver, whom mr Grimwig received very graciously; and if the gratification of that moment had been the only reward for all her anxiety and care in Oliver's behalf, Rose Maylie would have been well repaid.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000047_000000|'There is somebody else who should not be forgotten, by the bye,' said mr Brownlow, ringing the bell.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000047_000001|'Send mrs Bedwin here, if you please.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000048_000000|The old housekeeper answered the summons with all dispatch; and dropping a curtsey at the door, waited for orders.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000049_000000|'Why, you get blinder every day, Bedwin,' said mr Brownlow, rather testily.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000050_000000|'Well, that I do, sir,' replied the old lady.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000050_000001|'People's eyes, at my time of life, don't improve with age, sir.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000051_000000|'I could have told you that,' rejoined mr Brownlow; 'but put on your glasses, and see if you can't find out what you were wanted for, will you?'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000052_000000|The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000052_000001|But Oliver's patience was not proof against this new trial; and yielding to his first impulse, he sprang into her arms.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000053_000000|'God be good to me!' cried the old lady, embracing him; 'it is my innocent boy!'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000054_000000|'My dear old nurse!' cried Oliver.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000055_000000|'He would come back-I knew he would,' said the old lady, holding him in her arms.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000055_000001|'How well he looks, and how like a gentleman's son he is dressed again!
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000000|Leaving her and Oliver to compare notes at leisure, mr Brownlow led the way into another room; and there, heard from Rose a full narration of her interview with Nancy, which occasioned him no little surprise and perplexity.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000001|Rose also explained her reasons for not confiding in her friend mr Losberne in the first instance.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000002|The old gentleman considered that she had acted prudently, and readily undertook to hold solemn conference with the worthy doctor himself.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000003|To afford him an early opportunity for the execution of this design, it was arranged that he should call at the hotel at eight o'clock that evening, and that in the meantime mrs Maylie should be cautiously informed of all that had occurred.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000004|These preliminaries adjusted, Rose and Oliver returned home.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000057_000000|Rose had by no means overrated the measure of the good doctor's wrath. Nancy's history was no sooner unfolded to him, than he poured forth a shower of mingled threats and execrations; threatened to make her the first victim of the combined ingenuity of Messrs.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000057_000001|Blathers and Duff; and actually put on his hat preparatory to sallying forth to obtain the assistance of those worthies.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000057_000002|And, doubtless, he would, in this first outbreak, have carried the intention into effect without a moment's consideration of the consequences, if he had not been restrained, in part, by corresponding violence on the side of mr Brownlow, who was himself of an irascible temperament, and party by such arguments and representations as seemed best calculated to dissuade him from his hotbrained purpose.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000058_000001|'Are we to pass a vote of thanks to all these vagabonds, male and female, and beg them to accept a hundred pounds, or so, apiece, as a trifling mark of our esteem, and some slight acknowledgment of their kindness to Oliver?'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000059_000000|'Not exactly that,' rejoined mr Brownlow, laughing; 'but we must proceed gently and with great care.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000060_000000|'Gentleness and care,' exclaimed the doctor.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000061_000000|'Never mind where,' interposed mr Brownlow. 'But reflect whether sending them anywhere is likely to attain the object we have in view.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000062_000000|'What object?' asked the doctor.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000063_000000|'Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000064_000000|'Ah!' said mr Losberne, cooling himself with his pocket handkerchief; 'I almost forgot that.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000065_000000|'You see,' pursued mr Brownlow; 'placing this poor girl entirely out of the question, and supposing it were possible to bring these scoundrels to justice without compromising her safety, what good should we bring about?'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000066_000000|'Hanging a few of them at least, in all probability,' suggested the doctor, 'and transporting the rest.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000068_000000|'How?' inquired the doctor.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000002|That can only be done by stratagem, and by catching him when he is not surrounded by these people.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000003|For, suppose he were apprehended, we have no proof against him.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000004|He is not even (so far as we know, or as the facts appear to us) concerned with the gang in any of their robberies.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000005|If he were not discharged, it is very unlikely that he could receive any further punishment than being committed to prison as a rogue and vagabond; and of course ever afterwards his mouth would be so obstinately closed that he might as well, for our purposes, be deaf, dumb, blind, and an idiot.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000070_000000|'Then,' said the doctor impetuously, 'I put it to you again, whether you think it reasonable that this promise to the girl should be considered binding; a promise made with the best and kindest intentions, but really-'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000000|'Do not discuss the point, my dear young lady, pray,' said mr Brownlow, interrupting Rose as she was about to speak.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000001|'The promise shall be kept.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000002|I don't think it will, in the slightest degree, interfere with our proceedings.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000004|She cannot be seen until next Sunday night; this is Tuesday.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000005|I would suggest that in the meantime, we remain perfectly quiet, and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000072_000000|Although mr Losberne received with many wry faces a proposal involving a delay of five whole days, he was fain to admit that no better course occurred to him just then; and as both Rose and mrs Maylie sided very strongly with mr Brownlow, that gentleman's proposition was carried unanimously.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000073_000000|'I should like,' he said, 'to call in the aid of my friend Grimwig.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000074_000000|'I have no objection to your calling in your friend if I may call in mine,' said the doctor.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000075_000000|'We must put it to the vote,' replied mr Brownlow, 'who may he be?'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000077_000000|Rose blushed deeply, but she did not make any audible objection to this motion (possibly she felt in a hopeless minority); and Harry Maylie and mr Grimwig were accordingly added to the committee.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000078_000000|'We stay in town, of course,' said mrs Maylie, 'while there remains the slightest prospect of prosecuting this inquiry with a chance of success.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000078_000001|I will spare neither trouble nor expense in behalf of the object in which we are all so deeply interested, and I am content to remain here, if it be for twelve months, so long as you assure me that any hope remains.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000079_000000|'Good!' rejoined mr Brownlow.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000079_000002|Believe me, I make this request with good reason, for I might otherwise excite hopes destined never to be realised, and only increase difficulties and disappointments already quite numerous enough.
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000079_000003|Come! Supper has been announced, and young Oliver, who is all alone in the next room, will have begun to think, by this time, that we have wearied of his company, and entered into some dark conspiracy to thrust him forth upon the world.'
train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000080_000000|With these words, the old gentleman gave his hand to mrs Maylie, and escorted her into the supper room.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000003_000000|In this age of the arduous pursuit of peace, prosperity and pleasure, the smallest contribution to the gaiety, if not to the wisdom, of nations can scarcely be unwelcome.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000003_000001|With this in mind, the author has prepared "The Foolish Dictionary," not in serious emulation of the worthier-and wordier-works of Webster and Worcester, but rather in the playful spirit of the parodist, who would gladly direct the faint rays from his flickering candle of fun to the shrine of their great memories.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000004_000000|With half a million English words to choose from, modesty has been the watchword, and the author has confined himself to the treatment of only about half a thousand.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000004_000001|How wise, flippant, sober or stupid, this treatment has been, it is for the reader alone to judge. However, if from epigram, derivative or pure absurdity, there be born a single laugh between the lids, the laborer will accredit himself worthy of his hire.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000005_000000|In further explanation it should be said that some slight deference has been made to other wits, and the definitions include a few quotations from the great minds of the past and present.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000005_000001|As for the rest, the jury will please acknowledge a plea of guilty from
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000009_000000|It's a long lane that has no ashbarrel.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000010_000000|A
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000011_000000|Distilled waters run deep.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000015_000001|Hence, water tankard, or "water wagon."
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000028_000000|A political office known as the Crook's Road to Wealth.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000030_000004|Pain, just the same.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000031_000001|Contains twenty six letters and only three syllables.
train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000040_000001|Often shy on meal tickets but strong on technique and the price of tripe sandwiches.
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000003_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000003|Why, thou must wrest it from its present possessor!
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000006|Dost thou long for power?
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000011|Again, on how slight and perishable a possession do they rely who set before themselves bodily excellences!
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000012|Can ye ever surpass the elephant in bulk or the bull in strength?
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000014|Look upon the infinitude, the solidity, the swift motion, of the heavens, and for once cease to admire things mean and worthless.
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000005_000000|SONG eight.
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000006_000000|HUMAN FOLLY.
train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000011_000000|What curse shall I call down On hearts so dull?
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000000_000001|APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000006_000000|sixty seven.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000007_000001|"I did that," says my memory.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000007_000002|"I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000008_000000|sixty nine.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000010_000000|seventy one.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000016_000000|seventy six.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000019_000000|seventy nine.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000021_000000|eighty one.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000024_000001|Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she-forgets how to charm.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000026_000000|eighty six.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000029_000000|eighty nine.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000030_000000|ninety.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000035_000000|ninety five.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000036_000000|ninety six.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000036_000001|One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000037_000000|ninety seven.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000037_000001|What?
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000037_000002|A great man?
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000039_000000|ninety nine.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000040_000000|one hundred.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000042_000002|"What!
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000042_000005|Or-or---"
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000063_000001|Even concubinage has been corrupted-by marriage.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000090_000001|Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr play; and around God everything becomes-what? perhaps a "world"?
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000093_000001|What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000094_000001|Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000096_000001|Insanity in individuals is something rare-but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000098_000001|Not only our reason, but also our conscience, truckles to our strongest impulse-the tyrant in us.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000106_000001|One may indeed lie with the mouth; but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000107_000001|To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame-and something precious.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000111_000001|Pity has an almost ludicrous effect on a man of knowledge, like tender hands on a Cyclops.
train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000112_000001|One occasionally embraces some one or other, out of love to mankind (because one cannot embrace all); but this is what one must never confess to the individual.
train-clean-360/1160/134674/1160_134674_000002_000007|But the haughty monarch was incapable of the magnanimity which dares to acknowledge a fault.
train-clean-360/1160/134674/1160_134674_000002_000014|He reviled, in the most intemperate language, their baseness, their ingratitude, their insolence.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000005_000000|OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000006_000001|Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000006_000003|The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000007_000000|Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000007_000001|Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000008_000000|In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest, they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000008_000004|Disease, nay even misfortune would be death, for though neither might be mortal, yet either would disable him from living, and reduce him to a state in which he might rather be said to perish than to die.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000010_000002|In this first parliament every man, by natural right, will have a seat.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000011_000003|And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this (not on the unmeaning name of king) depends the STRENGTH OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE HAPPINESS OF THE GOVERNED.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000013_000003|But that it is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise, is easily demonstrated.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000014_000000|Absolute governments (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, that they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs, know likewise the remedy, and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000015_000000|I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of the English constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new republican materials.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000016_000000|FIRST.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000016_000001|The remains of monarchical tyranny in the person of the king.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000017_000000|SECONDLY.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000018_000001|The new republican materials, in the persons of the commons, on whose virtue depends the freedom of England.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000020_000000|To say that the constitution of England is a UNION of three powers reciprocally CHECKING each other, is farcical, either the words have no meaning, or they are flat contradictions.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000021_000000|To say that the commons is a check upon the king, presupposes two things.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000022_000000|FIRST.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000022_000001|That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000023_000000|SECONDLY.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000023_000001|That the commons, by being appointed for that purpose, are either wiser or more worthy of confidence than the crown.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000024_000000|But as the same constitution which gives the commons a power to check the king by withholding the supplies, gives afterwards the king a power to check the commons, by empowering him to reject their other bills; it again supposes that the king is wiser than those whom it has already supposed to be wiser than him.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000026_000001|HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK?
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000026_000002|Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000028_000000|That the crown is this overbearing part in the English constitution needs not be mentioned, and that it derives its whole consequence merely from being the giver of places and pensions is self evident; wherefore, though we have been wise enough to shut and lock a door against absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.
train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000029_000001|Individuals are undoubtedly safer in England than in some other countries, but the WILL of the king is as much the LAW of the land in Britain as in France, with this difference, that instead of proceeding directly from his mouth, it is handed to the people under the more formidable shape of an act of parliament.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000003_000000|Keimer and I liv'd on a pretty good familiar footing, and agreed tolerably well, for he suspected nothing of my setting up.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000003_000002|We therefore had many disputations.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000004_000004|He agreed to try the practice, if I would keep him company.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000004_000005|I did so, and we held it for three months.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000004_000009|He invited me and two women friends to dine with him; but, it being brought too soon upon table, he could not resist the temptation, and ate the whole before we came.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000006_000003|Ralph was ingenious, genteel in his manners, and extremely eloquent; I think I never knew a prettier talker.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000009_000002|When the time of our meeting drew nigh, Ralph called on me first, and let me know his piece was ready.
train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000009_000004|He then show'd me his piece for my opinion, and I much approv'd it, as it appear'd to me to have great merit.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000003_000000|fifteen
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000004_000000|QUARRELS WITH THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNORS
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000000|In my journey to Boston this year, I met at New York with our new governor, mr Morris, just arriv'd there from England, with whom I had been before intimately acquainted.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000003|I said, "No; you may, on the contrary, have a very comfortable one, if you will only take care not to enter into any dispute with the Assembly." "My dear friend," says he, pleasantly, "how can you advise my avoiding disputes?
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000004|You know I love disputing; it is one of my greatest pleasures; however, to show the regard I have for your counsel, I promise you I will, if possible, avoid them." He had some reason for loving to dispute, being eloquent, an acute sophister, and, therefore, generally successful in argumentative conversation.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000005|He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with one another for his diversion, while sitting at table after dinner; but I think the practice was not wise; for, in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000006_000001|I had my share of it; for, as soon as I got back to my seat in the Assembly, I was put on every committee for answering his speeches and messages, and by the committees always desired to make the drafts.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000008_000000|One afternoon, in the height of this public quarrel, we met in the street.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000008_000001|"Franklin," says he, "you must go home with me and spend the evening; I am to have some company that you will like;" and, taking me by the arm, he led me to his house.
train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000013_000003|They voted an aid of ten thousand pounds, to be laid out in provisions.
train-clean-360/1160/139730/1160_139730_000002_000000|SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
train-clean-360/1160/139730/1160_139730_000004_000002|I say much practice, for my house was continually full, for some time, with people who came to see these new wonders.
train-clean-360/1160/139730/1160_139730_000013_000002|This engag'd the public attention everywhere.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000001_000001|Forward were the crew; some asleep, others smoking, others playing cards.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000001_000004|The fourth member of the party, Melick, was seated near the mainmast, folding some papers in a peculiar way.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000001_000005|His occupation at length attracted the roving eyes of Featherstone, who poked forth his head from his hammock, and said in a sleepy voice:
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000002_000001|By Jove! you're the only one aboard that's busy.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000002_000002|What are you doing?"
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000003_000000|"Paper boats," said Melick, in a business like tone.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000004_000000|"Paper boats!
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000004_000002|"What for?"
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000005_000001|"Anything to kill time, you know."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000006_000000|"By Jove!" exclaimed Featherstone again, raising himself higher in his hammock, "that's not a bad idea.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000006_000002|By Jove! glowious! glowious!
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000006_000003|I say, Oxenden, did you hear that?"
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000008_000000|"Oh, I mean a race with these paper boats.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000008_000001|We can bet on them, you know."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000009_000000|At this Featherstone sat upright, with his legs dangling out of the hammock.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000010_000000|"By Jove!" he exclaimed again.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000010_000002|So we can.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000010_000003|Do you know, Melick, old chap, I think that's a wegular piece of inspiration. A wegatta! and we can bet on the best boat."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000012_000000|"Well, you know, that's the fun of it," said Melick, who went solemnly on as he spoke, folding his paper boats; "that's the fun of it.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000012_000001|For you see if there was a wind we should be going on ourselves, and the regatta couldn't come off; but, as it is, the water is just right. You pick out your boat, and lay your bet on her to race to some given point."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000013_000000|"A given point?
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000014_000000|"Oh, easily enough; something or anything-a bubble'll do, or we can pitch out a bit of wood."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000015_000000|Upon this Featherstone descended from his perch, and came near to examine the proceedings, while the other two, eager to take advantage of the new excitement, soon joined him.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000015_000001|By this time Melick had finished his paper boats.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000015_000002|There were four of them, and they were made of different colors, namely, red, green, yellow, and white.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000016_000000|"I'll put these in the water," said Melick, "and then we can lay our bets on them as we choose.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000016_000001|But first let us see if there is anything that can be taken as a point of arrival.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000016_000002|If there isn't anything, I can pitch out a bit of wood, in any direction which may seem best."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000017_000000|Saying this, he went to the side, followed by the others, and all looked out carefully over the water.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000018_000000|"There's a black speck out there," said Oxenden.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000019_000001|"That'll do.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000019_000002|I wonder what it is?"
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000020_000001|"Probably the spar of some ship."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000022_000000|"Oh, it's a spar," said Melick.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000022_000001|"It's one end of it, the rest is under water."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000023_000000|The spot thus chosen was a dark, circular object, about a hundred yards away, and certainly did look very much like the extremity of some spar, the rest of which was under water.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000024_000001|After this the four stood watching the little fleet in silence.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000024_000003|Gradually they drew apart, the green one drifting astern, the yellow one remaining under the vessel, while the red and the white were carried out in the direction where they were expected to go, with about a foot of space between them.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000025_000000|"Two to one on the red!" cried Featherstone, betting on the one which had gained the lead.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000027_000000|Oxenden made the same bet, which was taken by Melick and the doctor.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000028_000001|All took part in this; the excitement rose high and the betting went on merrily.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000028_000002|At length it was noticed that the white was overhauling the red.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000028_000003|The excitement grew intense; the betting changed its form, but was still kept up, until at last the two paper boats seemed blended together in one dim spot which gradually faded out of sight.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000000|It was now necessary to determine the state of the race, so Featherstone ordered out the boat.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000001|The four were soon embarked, and the men rowed out toward the point which had been chosen as the end of the race.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000003|An animated discussion arose about this.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000004|Some of the bets were off, but others remained an open question, and each side insisted upon a different view of the case.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000005|In the midst of this, Featherstone's attention was drawn to the dark spot already mentioned as the goal of the race.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000030_000001|"Pull up, lads, a little; let's see what it is.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000030_000002|It doesn't look to me like a spar."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000031_000000|The others, always on the lookout for some new object of interest, were attracted by these words, and looked closely at the thing in question.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000031_000001|The men pulled.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000031_000002|The boat drew nearer.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000033_000000|"It's not a spar," said Melick, who was at the bow.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000001|He failed to get it, and did no more than touch it.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000002|It moved easily and sank, but soon came up again.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000003|A second time he grasped at it, and with both hands. This time he caught it, and then lifted it out of the water into the boat.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000004|These proceedings had been watched with the deepest interest; and now, as this curious floating thing made its appearance among them, they all crowded around it in eager excitement.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000035_000000|"It looks like a can of preserved meat," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000036_000000|"It certainly is a can," said Melick, "for it's made of metal; but as to preserved meat, I have my doubts."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000037_000000|The article in question was made of metal and was cylindrical in shape.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000037_000001|It was soldered tight and evidently contained something.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000037_000003|The nature of the metal was not easily perceptible, for it was coated with slime, and covered over about half its surface with barnacles and sea weed.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000038_000000|"It's some kind of preserved meat," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000038_000001|"Perhaps something good-game, I dare say-yes, Yorkshire game pie.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000038_000002|They pot all sorts of things now."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000039_000002|It must have been floating for ages."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000040_000001|So come, let's open it, and see what sort of diet the antediluvians had."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000042_000000|Melick shook his head.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000043_000001|It's odd, too.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000043_000003|I never saw anything like it before.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000044_000000|"By Jove!" cried Featherstone, "this is getting exciting.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000044_000001|Let's go back to the yacht and open it."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000046_000001|"I'm certain of that. It has come in good time.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000047_000000|"You may have my share, then," said Oxenden.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000048_000000|"Meat cans," said Melick, "are never so large as that."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000049_000000|"Oh, I don't know about that," said the doctor, "they make up pretty large packages of pemmican for the arctic expeditions."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000051_000000|"Copper!" exclaimed Oxenden.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000051_000001|"Is it copper?"
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000052_000000|"Look for yourselves," said Melick, quietly.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000053_000000|They all looked, and could see, where the knife had cut into the vessel, that it was as he said.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000053_000001|It was copper.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000054_000000|"It's foreign work," said Melick.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000054_000001|"In England we make tin cans for everything.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000054_000002|It may be something that's drifted out from Mogadore or some port in Morocco."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000000|By this time they had reached the yacht and hurried aboard.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000001|All were eager to satisfy their curiosity.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000002|Search was made for a cold chisel, but to no purpose.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000003|Then Featherstone produced a knife which was used to open sardine boxes, but after a faithful trial this proved useless. At length Melick, who had gone off in search of something more effective, made his appearance armed with an axe.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000004|With this he attacked the copper cylinder, and by means of a few dexterous blows succeeded in cutting it open.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000005|Then he looked in.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000057_000000|"What do you see?" asked Featherstone.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000058_000000|"Something," said Melick, "but I can't quite make it out."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000059_000000|"If you can't make it out, then shake it out," said Oxenden.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000060_000000|Upon this Melick took the cylinder, turned it upside down, shook it smartly, and then lifted it and pounded it against the deck.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000060_000001|This served to loosen the contents, which seemed tightly packed, but came gradually down until at length they could be seen and drawn forth. Melick drew them forth, and the contents of the mysterious copper cylinder resolved themselves into two packages.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000061_000001|What could they be?
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000062_000000|One of the packages was very much larger than the other.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000062_000001|It was enclosed in wrappers made of some coarse kind of felt, bound tight with strong cords.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000062_000003|This Melick seized and began to open.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000063_000000|"Wait a minute," said Featherstone.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000063_000001|"Let's make a bet on it.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000064_000000|"Done," said Oxenden.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000065_000000|Melick opened the package, and it was seen that Featherstone had lost. There were no jewels, but one or two sheets of something that looked like paper.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000065_000001|It was not paper, however, but some vegetable product which was used for the same purpose.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000065_000003|These sheets were covered with writing.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000066_000001|"Why, this is English!"
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000067_000000|At this the others crowded around to look on, and Featherstone in his excitement forgot that he had lost his bet.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000067_000001|There were three sheets, all covered with writing-one in English, another in French, and a third in German.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000068_000000|It was as follows:
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000069_000000|"To the finder of this:
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000000|"Sir,--I am an Englishman, and have been carried by a series of incredible events to a land from which escape is as impossible as from the grave.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000001|I have written this and committed it to the sea, in the hope that the ocean currents may bear it within the reach of civilized man.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000002|Oh, unknown friend! whoever you are.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000003|I entreat you to let this message be made known in some way to my father, Henry More, Keswick, Cumberland, England, so that he may learn the fate of his son.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000071_000000|"ADAM MORE."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000073_000000|"This other package must be the manuscript," said Oxenden, "and it'll tell all about it."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000074_000000|"Such a manuscript'll be better than meat," said the doctor, sententiously.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000075_000000|Melick said nothing, but, opening his knife, he cut the cords and unfolded the wrapper.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000075_000001|He saw a great collection of leaves, just like those of the letter, of some vegetable substance, smooth as paper, and covered with writing.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000076_000000|"It looks like Egyptian papyrus," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000076_000001|"That was the common paper of antiquity."
train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000077_000001|"Let's have the contents of the manuscript.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000000|The boat drifted on.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000001|The light given by the aurora and the low moon seemed to grow fainter; and as I looked behind I saw that the distant glow from the volcanic fires had become more brilliant in the increasing darkness.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000002|The sides of the channel grew steeper, until at last they became rocky precipices, rising to an unknown height.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000003|The channel itself grew narrower, till from a width of two miles it had contracted to a tenth of those dimensions; but with this lessening width the waters seemed to rush far more swiftly.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000004|Here I drifted helplessly, and saw the gloomy, rocky cliffs sweep past me as I was hurled onward on the breast of the tremendous flood.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000005|I was in despair. The fate of Agnew had prepared me for my own, and I was only thankful that my fate, since it was inevitable, would be less appalling.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000006|Death seemed certain, and my chief thought now was as to the moment when it would come.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000007|I was prepared.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000005_000000|As I went on, the precipices rose higher and seemed to overhang, the channel grew narrower, the light grew fainter, until at last all around me grew dark.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000005_000001|I was floating at the bottom of a vast chasm, where the sides seemed to rise precipitously for thousands of feet, where neither watery flood nor rocky wall was visible, and where, far above, I could see the line of sky between the summits of the cliffs, and watch the glowing stars.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000005_000003|So I thought; and with these thoughts I drifted on, I cannot tell how long, until at length there appeared a vast black mass, where the open sky above me terminated, and where the lustre of the stars and the light of the heavens were all swallowed up in utter darkness.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000000|This, then, I thought, is the end.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000001|Here, amid this darkness, I must make the awful plunge and find my death I fell upon my knees in the bottom of the boat and prayed.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000002|As I knelt there the boat drew nearer, the black mass grew blacker.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000003|The current swept me on.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000004|There were no breakers; there was no phosphorescent sparkle of seething waters, and no whiteness of foam.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000005|I thought that I was on the brink of some tremendous cataract a thousand times deeper than Niagara; some fall where the waters plunged into the depths of the earth; and where, gathering for the terrific descent, all other movements-all dashings and writhings and twistings-were obliterated and lost in the one overwhelming onward rush.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000006|Suddenly all grew dark-dark beyond all expression; the sky above was in a moment snatched from view; I had been flung into some tremendous cavern; and there, on my knees, with terror in my heart, I waited for death.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000000|The moments passed, and death delayed to come.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000001|The awful plunge was still put off; and though I remained on my knees and waited long, still the end came not.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000002|The waters seemed still, the boat motionless. It was borne upon the surface of a vast stream as smooth as glass; but who could tell how deep that stream was, or how wide?
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000003|At length I rose from my knees and sank down upon the seat of the boat, and tried to peer through the gloom.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000005|Nothing was visible.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000006|It was the very blackness of darkness.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000007|I listened, but heard nothing save a deep, dull, droning sound, which seemed to fill all the air and make it all tremulous with its vibrations.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000008|I tried to collect my thoughts.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000001|It was faint glow that at first caught my gaze; and, on turning to see it better, I saw a round red spot glowing like fire.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000002|I had not seen this before.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000003|It looked like the moon when it rises from behind clouds, and glows red and lurid from the horizon; and so this glowed, but not with the steady light of the moon, for the light was fitful, and sometimes flashed into a baleful brightness, which soon subsided into a dimmer lustre.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000005|This, then, I thought, was to be the end of my voyage; this was my goal-a pit of fire, into which I should be hurled!
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000006|Would it be well, I thought, to wait for such a fate, and experience such a death agony?
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000007|Would it not be better for me to take my own life before I should know the worst?
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000008|I took my pistol and loaded it, so as to be prepared, but hesitated to use it until my fate should be more apparent.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000009|So I sat, holding my pistol, prepared to use it, watching the light, and awaiting the time when the glowing fires should make all further hope impossible.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000010|But time passed, and the light grew no brighter; on the contrary, it seemed to grow fainter.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000014|All the time it continued to grow fainter, and it seemed certain that I was moving away from it rather than toward it.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000017|I saw that I was still moving on away from that light as before, and that its changing position was due to the turning of the boat as the water drifted it along, now stern foremost, now sidewise, and again bow foremost.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000018|From this it seemed plainly evident that the waters had borne me into some vast cavern of unknown extent, which went under the mountains-a subterranean channel, whose issue I could not conjecture.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000020|But the old theory of the flow of water through the earth had taken hold of me and could not be shaken off.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000021|I knew some scientific men held the opinion that the earth's interior is a mass of molten rock and pent up fire, and that the earth itself had once been a burning orb, which had cooled down at the surface; yet, after all, this was only a theory, and there were other theories which were totally different.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000023|These, I knew, were only the creations of fiction; yet, after all, it seemed possible that the earth might contain vast hollow spaces in its interior-realms of eternal darkness, caverns in comparison with which the hugest caves on the surface were but the tiniest cells.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000024|I was now being borne on to these.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000025|In that case there might be no sudden plunge, after all.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000000|There was no possible way of forming any estimate as to speed.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000001|All was dark, and even the glow behind was fading away; nor could I make any conjecture whatever as to the size of the channel.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000002|At the opening it had been contracted and narrow; but here it might have expanded itself to miles, and its vaulted top might reach almost to the summit of the lofty mountains.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000003|While sight thus failed me, sound was equally unavailing, for it was always the same-a sustained and unintermittent roar, a low, droning sound, deep and terrible, with no variations of dashing breakers or rushing rapids or falling cataracts.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000004|Vague thoughts of final escape came and went; but in such a situation hope could not be sustained.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000006|That seemed to me to be my last sight of earthly things. After this nothing was left.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000001|I struck a match.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000004|I loaded both barrels of the rifle, keeping my pistol for another purpose, and then fired one of them.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000005|There was a tremendous report, that rang in my ears like a hundred thunder volleys, and rolled and reverberated far along, and died away in endless echoes.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000007|I saw a wide expanse of water, black as ink-a Stygian pool; but no rocks were visible, and it seemed as though I had been carried into a subterranean sea.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000000|I loaded the empty barrel and waited.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000001|The flash of light had revealed nothing, yet it had distracted my thoughts, and the work of reloading was an additional distraction.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000002|Anything was better than inaction.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000003|I did not wish to waste my ammunition, yet I thought that an occasional shot might serve some good purpose, if it was only to afford me some relief from despair.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000000|And now, as I sat with the rifle in my hands, I was aware of a sound-new, exciting, different altogether from the murmur of innumerable waters that filled my ears, and in sharp contrast with the droning echoes of the rushing flood.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000002|I heard quick, heavy pantings, as of some great living thing; and with this there came the noise of regular movements in the water, and the foaming and gurgling of waves.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000003|It was as though some living, breathing creature were here, not far away, moving through these midnight waters; and with this discovery there came a new fear-the fear of pursuit.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000005|This new fear aroused me to action.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000007|So I stood up with my rifle and listened, with all my soul in my sense of hearing.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000008|The sounds arose more plainly.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000009|They had come nearer.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000010|They were immediately in front.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000011|I raised my rifle and took aim.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000013|For there full before me I saw, though but for an instant, a tremendous sight.
train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000014|It was a vast monster, moving in the waters against the stream and toward the boat.
train-clean-360/1175/126221/1175_126221_000003_000000|Deprived of the objects of both intellect and emotion, he could not proceed to his work.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000007_000000|"And what good would that do?" said Fritz, the swineherd.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000009_000001|"How shall I find the Baron Conrad to bear a message to him, when our Baron has been looking for him in vain for two days past?"
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000011_000000|"I will have nothing to do with it!" said Fritz, and he got up from the wooden block whereon he was sitting and stumped out of the house.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000011_000001|But, then, Katherine had heard him talk in that way before, and knew, in spite of his saying "no," that, sooner or later, he would do as she wished.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000013_000000|Rap tap tap!
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000014_000000|Presently, with a click, a little square wicket that pierced the door was opened, and a woman's face peered out through the iron bars.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000015_000000|The one eyed Hans whipped off his leathern cap.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000020_000000|Hans held up a necklace of blue and white beads that glistened like jewels in the sun, and from them hung a gorgeous filigree cross.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000026_000000|"The necklace," said the girl, in a frightened whisper.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000027_000001|"It's thine," said he, "and now wilt thou not help me to a trade?"
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000030_000004|Thou hussy!
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000032_000000|He settled the cap more firmly upon his head, spat upon his hands, and once more stooping in the fireplace, gave a leap, and up the chimney he went with a rattle of loose mortar and a black trickle of soot.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000033_000000|By and by footsteps sounded outside the door.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000037_000000|Suddenly a shower of mortar came rattling down the chimney.
train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000037_000002|Bang! the door was clapped to and away they scurried like a flock of frightened rabbits.
train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000009_000004|But Falada observed everything, and laid it all to heart.
train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000016_000003|Then she spoke:
train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000025_000000|Then a puff of wind came and blew Curdken's hat far away, so that he had to run after it; and when he returned she had long finished putting up her golden locks, and he couldn't get any hair; so they watched the geese till it was dark.
train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000027_000000|"'Oh!
train-clean-360/119/121722/119_121722_000000_000001|Note, Women who have captivated men.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000001_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000002_000000|THE GUN CLUB
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000003_000001|Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000004_000000|But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000004_000002|In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000005_000000|This fact need surprise no one.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000000|Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000002|Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000004|The inventor of a new cannon associated himself with the caster and the borer.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000005|Thus was formed the nucleus of the "Gun Club." In a single month after its formation it numbered one thousand eight hundred thirty three effective members and thirty thousand five hundred sixty five corresponding members.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000009_000000|The Gun Club once founded, it is easy to conceive the result of the inventive genius of the Americans.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000009_000001|Their military weapons attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000013_000000|Some few of the more advanced and inveterate theorists set themselves again to work upon calculations regarding the laws of projectiles.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000013_000001|They reverted invariably to gigantic shells and howitzers of unparalleled caliber.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000014_000000|"This is horrible!" said Tom Hunter one evening, while rapidly carbonizing his wooden legs in the fireplace of the smoking room; "nothing to do! nothing to look forward to!
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000014_000002|When again shall the guns arouse us in the morning with their delightful reports?"
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000015_000001|"It was delightful once upon a time! One invented a gun, and hardly was it cast, when one hastened to try it in the face of the enemy!
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000015_000003|But now the generals are gone back to their counters; and in place of projectiles, they despatch bales of cotton.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000018_000000|"Fact!" replied he.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000018_000001|"Still, what is the use of so many studies worked out, so many difficulties vanquished?
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000018_000002|It's mere waste of time!
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000020_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000025_000000|"And why not?" demanded the colonel.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000026_000000|"Because their ideas of progress in the Old World are contrary to our American habits of thought.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000031_000000|"Undoubtedly," replied Tom Hunter, stamping his crutch with fury.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000035_000000|"Bah!" growled Bilsby between the four teeth which the war had left him; "that will never do!"
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000036_000000|"By Jove!" cried j t Maston, "he mustn't count on my vote at the next election!"
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000039_000000|"In that case we will accompany you," cried the others.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000040_000000|Matters were in this unfortunate condition, and the club was threatened with approaching dissolution, when an unexpected circumstance occurred to prevent so deplorable a catastrophe.
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000041_000000|On the morrow after this conversation every member of the association received a sealed circular couched in the following terms:
train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000042_000000|BALTIMORE, october third. The president of the Gun Club has the honor to inform his colleagues that, at the meeting of the fifth instant, he will bring before them a communication of an extremely interesting nature.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000002_000000|PRESIDENT BARBICANE'S COMMUNICATION
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000003_000002|They overflowed into the adjoining rooms, down the narrow passages, into the outer courtyards.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000003_000003|There they ran against the vulgar herd who pressed up to the doors, each struggling to reach the front ranks, all eager to learn the nature of the important communication of President Barbicane; all pushing, squeezing, crushing with that perfect freedom of action which is so peculiar to the masses when educated in ideas of "self government."
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000004_000000|On that evening a stranger who might have chanced to be in Baltimore could not have gained admission for love or money into the great hall.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000004_000001|That was reserved exclusively for resident or corresponding members; no one else could possibly have obtained a place; and the city magnates, municipal councilors, and "select men" were compelled to mingle with the mere townspeople in order to catch stray bits of news from the interior.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000005_000000|Nevertheless the vast hall presented a curious spectacle. Its immense area was singularly adapted to the purpose. Lofty pillars formed of cannon, superposed upon huge mortars as a base, supported the fine ironwork of the arches, a perfect piece of cast iron lacework.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000005_000003|Models of cannon, bronze castings, sights covered with dents, plates battered by the shots of the Gun Club, assortments of rammers and sponges, chaplets of shells, wreaths of projectiles, garlands of howitzers- in short, all the apparatus of the artillerist, enchanted the eye by this wonderful arrangement and induced a kind of belief that their real purpose was ornamental rather than deadly.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000006_000000|At the further end of the saloon the president, assisted by four secretaries, occupied a large platform.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000006_000001|His chair, supported by a carved gun carriage, was modeled upon the ponderous proportions of a thirty two-inch mortar.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000006_000002|It was pointed at an angle of ninety degrees, and suspended upon truncheons, so that the president could balance himself upon it as upon a rocking chair, a very agreeable fact in the very hot weather.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000009_000001|Bold in his conceptions, he contributed powerfully to the progress of that arm and gave an immense impetus to experimental researches.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000014_000000|The meeting felt that the president was now approaching the critical point, and redoubled their attention accordingly.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000015_000000|"For some months past, my brave colleagues," continued Barbicane, "I have been asking myself whether, while confining ourselves to our own particular objects, we could not enter upon some grand experiment worthy of the nineteenth century; and whether the progress of artillery science would not enable us to carry it out to a successful issue.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000016_000000|A thrill of excitement ran through the meeting.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000018_000000|"There is no one among you, my brave colleagues, who has not seen the Moon, or, at least, heard speak of it.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000019_000000|"Three cheers for the Moon!" roared the Gun Club, with one voice.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000020_000001|Selenographic charts have been constructed with a perfection which equals, if it does not even surpass, that of our terrestrial maps.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000020_000002|Photography has given us proofs of the incomparable beauty of our satellite; all is known regarding the moon which mathematical science, astronomy, geology, and optics can learn about her.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000020_000003|But up to the present moment no direct communication has been established with her."
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000022_000000|"Permit me," he continued, "to recount to you briefly how certain ardent spirits, starting on imaginary journeys, have penetrated the secrets of our satellite.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000022_000005|He then distinctly perceived caverns frequented by hippopotami, green mountains bordered by golden lace work, sheep with horns of ivory, a white species of deer and inhabitants with membranous wings, like bats.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000022_000008|This journey, like all previous ones, was purely imaginary; still, it was the work of a popular American author- I mean Edgar Poe!"
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000023_000000|"Cheers for Edgar Poe!" roared the assemblage, electrified by their president's words.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000000|"I have now enumerated," said Barbicane, "the experiments which I call purely paper ones, and wholly insufficient to establish serious relations with the Queen of the Night.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000001|Nevertheless, I am bound to add that some practical geniuses have attempted to establish actual communication with her.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000002|Thus, a few days ago, a German geometrician proposed to send a scientific expedition to the steppes of Siberia.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000006|It is reserved for the practical genius of Americans to establish a communication with the sidereal world.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000007|The means of arriving thither are simple, easy, certain, infallible- and that is the purpose of my present proposal."
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000025_000001|There was not a single person in the whole audience who was not overcome, carried away, lifted out of himself by the speaker's words!
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000027_000000|As soon as the excitement had partially subsided, Barbicane resumed his speech in a somewhat graver voice.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000000|At these words a murmur of amazement escaped from a thousand panting chests; then succeeded a moment of perfect silence, resembling that profound stillness which precedes the bursting of a thunderstorm.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000001|In point of fact, a thunderstorm did peal forth, but it was the thunder of applause, or cries, and of uproar which made the very hall tremble.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000002|The president attempted to speak, but could not.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000003|It was fully ten minutes before he could make himself heard.
train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000030_000001|"I have looked at the question in all its bearings, I have resolutely attacked it, and by incontrovertible calculations I find that a projectile endowed with an initial velocity of twelve thousand yards per second, and aimed at the moon, must necessarily reach it.
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000002_000000|EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNICATION
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000003_000001|It was a scene of indescribable confusion and uproar.
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000005_000002|People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary.
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000005_000003|In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000007_000001|The Yankees all turned their gaze toward her resplendent orb, kissed their hands, called her by all kinds of endearing names.
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000009_000000|About two a m, however, the excitement began to subside. President Barbicane reached his house, bruised, crushed, and squeezed almost to a mummy.
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000010_000003|What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid?
train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000012_000000|From that day forward Impey Barbicane became one of the greatest citizens of the United States, a kind of Washington of science. A single trait of feeling, taken from many others, will serve to show the point which this homage of a whole people to a single individual attained.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000001_000000|PLEASANT MEADOWS
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000002_000001|Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well beloved cats at first, and in time with doll's sewing, which had fallen sadly behind hand.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000003_000000|As Christmas approached, the usual mysteries began to haunt the house, and Jo frequently convulsed the family by proposing utterly impossible or magnificently absurd ceremonies, in honor of this unusually merry Christmas.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000004_000003|The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000004_000004|Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000005_000000|THE JUNGFRAU TO BETH
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000009_000000|Accept a ribbon red, I beg, For Madam Purrer's tail, And ice cream made by lovely Peg, A Mont Blanc in a pail.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000010_000000|Their dearest love my makers laid Within my breast of snow. Accept it, and the Alpine maid, From Laurie and from Jo.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000011_000000|How Beth laughed when she saw it, how Laurie ran up and down to bring in the gifts, and what ridiculous speeches Jo made as she presented them.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000012_000000|"I'm so full of happiness, that if Father was only here, I couldn't hold one drop more," said Beth, quite sighing with contentment as Jo carried her off to the study to rest after the excitement, and to refresh herself with some of the delicious grapes the 'Jungfrau' had sent her.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000014_000000|"I'm sure I am," echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000015_000000|"Of course I am!" cried Meg, smoothing the silvery folds of her first silk dress, for mr Laurence had insisted on giving it.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000016_000001|Half an hour after everyone had said they were so happy they could only hold one drop more, the drop came.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000018_000003|mrs March was the first to recover herself, and held up her hand with a warning, "Hush! Remember Beth."
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000019_000000|But it was too late.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000019_000001|The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father's arms.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000020_000000|It was not at all romantic, but a hearty laugh set everybody straight again, for Hannah was discovered behind the door, sobbing over the fat turkey, which she had forgotten to put down when she rushed up from the kitchen.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000020_000001|As the laugh subsided, mrs March began to thank mr Brooke for his faithful care of her husband, at which mr Brooke suddenly remembered that mr March needed rest, and seizing Laurie, he precipitately retired.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000020_000002|Then the two invalids were ordered to repose, which they did, by both sitting in one big chair and talking hard.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000021_000000|mr March told how he had longed to surprise them, and how, when the fine weather came, he had been allowed by his doctor to take advantage of it, how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000021_000003|Jo saw and understood the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea, muttering to herself as she slammed the door, "I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!"
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000022_000001|The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000023_000000|mr Laurence and his grandson dined with them, also mr Brooke, at whom Jo glowered darkly, to Laurie's infinite amusement.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000023_000001|Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000023_000003|A sleigh ride had been planned, but the girls would not leave their father, so the guests departed early, and as twilight gathered, the happy family sat together round the fire.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000024_000000|"Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000024_000001|Do you remember?" asked Jo, breaking a short pause which had followed a long conversation about many things.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000025_000000|"Rather a pleasant year on the whole!" said Meg, smiling at the fire, and congratulating herself on having treated mr Brooke with dignity.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000027_000000|"I'm glad it's over, because we've got you back," whispered Beth, who sat on her father's knee.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000028_000001|But you have got on bravely, and I think the burdens are in a fair way to tumble off very soon," said mr March, looking with fatherly satisfaction at the four young faces gathered round him.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000029_000000|"How do you know?
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000029_000001|Did Mother tell you?" asked Jo.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000030_000000|"Not much.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000030_000001|Straws show which way the wind blows, and I've made several discoveries today."
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000032_000002|A burnt offering has been made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than blisters, and I'm sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000032_000004|I'm proud to shake this good, industrious little hand, and hope I shall not soon be asked to give it away."
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000033_000000|If Meg had wanted a reward for hours of patient labor, she received it in the hearty pressure of her father's hand and the approving smile he gave her.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000034_000000|"What about Jo?
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000036_000002|Her face is rather thin and pale just now, with watching and anxiety, but I like to look at it, for it has grown gentler, and her voice is lower.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000036_000003|She doesn't bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person in a motherly way which delights me.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000036_000004|I rather miss my wild girl, but if I get a strong, helpful, tenderhearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000037_000000|Jo's keen eyes were rather dim for a minute, and her thin face grew rosy in the firelight as she received her father's praise, feeling that she did deserve a portion of it.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000038_000000|"Now, Beth," said Amy, longing for her turn, but ready to wait.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000039_000001|But recollecting how nearly he had lost her, he held her close, saying tenderly, with her cheek against his own, "I've got you safe, my Beth, and I'll keep you so, please God."
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000041_000000|"I observed that Amy took drumsticks at dinner, ran errands for her mother all the afternoon, gave Meg her place tonight, and has waited on every one with patience and good humor.
train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000043_000002|I made the music for Father, because he likes the verses."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000002_000001|News travels quickly through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows, for the little people who live there are great gossips.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000002_000002|So it was not surprising that Striped Chipmunk heard all about Old Mother Nature's school.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000003_000002|"What have you come for, Striped Chipmunk?"
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000004_000000|"I've come to try to learn.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000004_000001|Will you let me stay, Mother Nature?" replied Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000005_000000|"Of course I'll let you stay," cried Old Mother Nature heartily. "I am glad you have come, especially glad you have come today, because to day's lesson is to be about you and your cousins.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000005_000001|Now, peter Rabbit, what are the differences between Striped Chipmunk and his cousins, the Tree Squirrels?"
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000006_000001|"He is smaller than they are," began peter.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000007_000001|"Go on," said she.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000000|"He wears a striped coat," continued peter.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000001|"The stripes are black and yellowish white and run along his sides, a black stripe running down the middle of his back.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000002|The rest of his coat is reddish brown above and light underneath.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000003|His tail is rather thin and flat.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000004|I never see him in the trees, so I guess he can't climb."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000009_000000|"Oh, yes, I can," interrupted Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000009_000001|"I can climb if I want to, and I do sometimes, but prefer the ground."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000010_000000|"Go on, peter," said Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000011_000000|"He seems to like old stone walls and rock piles," continued peter, "and he is one of the brightest, liveliest, merriest and the most lovable of all my friends."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000012_000000|"Thank you, peter," said Striped Chipmunk softly.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000013_000001|"That is one of his secrets.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000013_000002|But I know it is in the ground.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000014_000000|"Very good, peter," said Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000014_000001|"But there are two very important differences which you have not mentioned.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000014_000002|Striped Chipmunk has a big pocket on the inside of each cheek, while his cousins of the trees have no pockets at all."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000015_000000|"Of course," cried peter.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000015_000001|"I don't see how I came to forget that. I've laughed many times at Striped Chipmunk with those pockets stuffed with nuts or seeds until his head looked three times bigger than it does now.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000015_000002|Those pockets must be very handy."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000016_000000|"They are," replied Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000016_000001|"I couldn't get along without them.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000017_000000|"And the other great difference," said Old Mother Nature, "is that Striped Chipmunk sleeps nearly all winter, just waking up occasionally to pop his head out on a bright day to see how the weather is.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000017_000002|Supposing, Striped Chipmunk, you tell us where and how you make your home."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000000|"I make my home down in the ground," replied Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000001|"I dig a tunnel just big enough to run along comfortably.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000002|Down deep enough to be out of reach of Jack Frost I make a nice little bedroom with a bed of grass and leaves, and I make another little room for a storeroom in which to keep my supply of seeds and nuts. Sometimes I have more than one storeroom.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000003|Also I have some little side tunnels."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000019_000000|"But why is it I never have been able to find the entrance to your tunnel?" asked peter, as full of curiosity as ever.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000020_000000|"Because I have it hidden underneath the stone wall on the edge of the Old Orchard," replied Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000021_000000|"But even then, I should think that all the sand you must have taken out would give your secret away," cried peter.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000000|Striped Chipmunk chuckled happily.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000001|It was a throaty little chuckle, pleasant to hear.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000002|"I looked out for that," said he.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000004|I took it all out through another hole some distance away, a sort of back door, and then closed it up solidly.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000005|If you please, Mother Nature, if I am not a Ground Squirrel, who is?"
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000023_000001|He likes best the flat, open country.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000023_000002|He is called Spermophile because that means seed eater, and he lives largely on seeds, especially on grain.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000000|"Seek Seek's family are the true Ground Squirrels.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000001|Please remember that they never should be called Gophers, for they are not Gophers. One of the smallest members of the family is just about your size, Striped Chipmunk, and he also wears stripes, only he has more of them than you have, and they are broken up into little dots.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000002|He is called the Thirteen lined Spermophile.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000004|All the family do this, and all of them sleep through the winter.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000001|They are called Gray Ground Squirrels and sometimes Gray Gophers.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000002|One of the largest of these is the California Ground Squirrel.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000003|He has a big, bushy tail, very like Happy Jack's.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000005|This particular member of the family is quite as much at home among rocks and tree roots as in open ground.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000006|He climbs low trees for fruit and nuts, but prefers to stay on the ground.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000007|Now just remember that the Chipmunks are Rock Squirrels and their cousins the Spermophiles are Ground Squirrels.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000008|Now who of you has seen Timmy the Flying Squirrel lately?"
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000027_000000|"I haven't," said Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000028_000000|"I haven't," said Happy Jack.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000030_000000|"I have," spoke up Jumper the Hare.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000030_000002|My, I wish I could fly the way he can!"
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000031_000000|Old Mother Nature shook her head disapprovingly.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000031_000001|"Jumper," said she, "what is wrong with your eyes?
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000031_000002|When did you ever see Timmy fly?"
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000032_000000|"Last night," insisted Jumper stubbornly.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000000|"Oh, no, you didn't," retorted Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000001|"You didn't see him fly, for the very good reason that he cannot fly any more than you can.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000002|You saw him simply jump.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000003|Just remember that the only animals in this great land who can fly are the Bats.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000034_000000|"When he's flying, I mean jumping, he looks as if he had wings," insisted Jumper stubbornly.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000000|"That is simply because I have given him a fold of skin between the front and hind leg on each side," explained Old Mother Nature. "When he jumps he stretches his legs out flat, and that stretches out those two folds of skin until they look almost like wings. This is the reason he can sail so far when he jumps from a high place.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000001|You've seen a bird, after flapping its wings to get going, sail along with them outstretched and motionless.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000002|Timmy does the same thing, only he gets going by jumping.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000004|His tail helps him to keep his balance.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000005|If there is anything in the way, he can steer himself around it.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000006|When he reaches the tree he is jumping for he shoots up a little way and lands on the trunk not far above the ground.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000037_000001|Timmy likes the night, especially the early evening, and doesn't like the light of day."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000038_000000|"How big is he?" asked Happy Jack, and looked a little sheepish as if he were a wee bit ashamed of not being acquainted with one of his own cousins.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000000|"He is, if anything, a little smaller than Striped Chipmunk," replied Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000002|His coat is a soft yellowish brown above; beneath he is all white.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000004|He has very large, dark, soft eyes, especially suited for seeing at night.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000005|Then, he is very lively and dearly loves to play.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000006|By nature he is gentle and lovable."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000040_000000|"Does he eat nuts like his cousins?" asked peter Rabbit.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000000|"He certainly does," replied Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000001|"Also he eats grubs and insects.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000002|He dearly loves a fat beetle.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000003|He likes meat when he can get it."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000042_000000|"Where does he make his home?" peter inquired.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000043_000002|He makes a comfortable nest of bark lining, grass, and moss, or any other soft material he can find.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000043_000003|Occasionally he builds an outside nest high up in a fork in the branches of a tree.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000043_000004|He likes to get into old buildings."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000044_000000|"Does he have many enemies?" asked Happy Jack.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000045_000000|"The same enemies the rest of you have," replied Old Mother Nature. "But the one he has most reason to fear is Hooty the Owl, and that is the one you have least reason to fear, because Hooty seldom hunts by day."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000046_000000|"Does he sleep all winter?" piped up Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000047_000000|"Not as you do," said Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000047_000001|"In very cold weather he sleeps, but if he happens to be living where the weather does not get very cold, he is active all the year around.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000047_000002|Now I guess this is enough about the Squirrel family."
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000048_000000|"You've forgotten Johnny Chuck," cried peter.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000001|"So I have," said she.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000002|"That will never do, never in the world.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000003|Johnny and his relatives, the Marmots, certainly cannot be overlooked.
train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000004|We will take them for our lesson to morrow.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000002_000000|INTRODUCTION
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000003_000001|In former times every woman who gave birth to a child or passed through a miscarriage was exposed to grave danger of infection or child bed fever; but at present-thanks to the recognition of the bacterial origin of the disease and of its identity with wound infection-this danger can be practically eliminated by the rigid observance of surgical cleanliness and aseptic technique.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000003_000003|Furthermore, a careful examination some weeks before the expected date of confinement enables us to recognize the existence of abnormal presentations and of disproportion between the size of the mother's pelvis and that of the child's head.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000003_000004|Timely recognition of such conditions makes appropriate treatment possible and practically insures a successful outcome; while tardy recognition is frequently followed by disastrous results.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000000|These few examples give some idea of the benefits of prophylaxis in the practice of obstetrics.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000001|Prospective mothers should understand not only that there is an advantage in taking such precautions, but that they may be risking their lives, or at least their future well-being, unless they insist upon competent medical attention.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000002|It is true, of course, that pregnancy and childbirth are generally normal processes, but they are not always so.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000003|Fortunately, most of the abnormalities give timely warning of their occurrence, and in most instances may be relieved by comparatively simple measures; or, if not, they afford indications for treatment which should lead to a happy termination. The recognition of the existence of such conditions, however, is not always easy, and their ideal treatment requires careful training and sometimes the utmost nicety of judgment.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000004|Consequently, if prospective mothers wish to be assured of the best care, they should be cautious in the choice of their medical attendant.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000005|As the ordinary layman has no means of determining the real qualifications of a physician, the choice should not be made upon the advice of casual acquaintances; but, instead, the family physician should be consulted, who, should he feel unwilling to assume the responsibility of the case, will be able to recommend a thoroughly competent substitute.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000005_000000|From my own experience as a teacher and consultant, I state without hesitation that in no other branch of medicine or surgery are graver emergencies encountered than in certain obstetrical complications whose treatment involves the greatest responsibility and requires the highest order of ability to insure a successful outcome for the mother and her child.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000005_000001|For these reasons a physician should be chosen only after mature deliberation, and his services should be esteemed much more highly than is usually the case.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000000|In order that the principles of prevention may receive their fullest application during pregnancy, labor, and the lying in period, it is also advisable that intelligent women should possess some knowledge of the Reproductive Process in human beings.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000001|This information is imparted by Doctor Slemons' book, which I can thoroughly recommend to prospective mothers.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000002|The subject matter has been carefully chosen, and the author has wisely refrained from giving advice with regard to treatment which can be satisfactorily directed only after careful study by a physician.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000003|At the same time he has given a clear account of the physiology of pregnancy and labor, and has laid down sound rules for the guidance of the patient.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000007_000000|One of the most important facts emphasized by Doctor Slemons is the value of medical supervision for several weeks after the child is born; this precaution contributes greatly toward a rapid and complete convalescence.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000007_000001|During the lying in period the physician should supervise the care of the mother and the child, should insist upon the necessity for maternal nursing, and should keep the mother under observation until perfectly normal conditions are regained.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000008_000000|Although there have been notable advances in the science and in the art of obstetrics since the middle of the eighteenth century, a great many fundamental facts must yet be learned.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000008_000001|For example, we are almost totally ignorant of the stimulus which causes the mother to fall into labor approximately two hundred eighty days after the last normal menstruation.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000009_000001|Firstly, that the advance of the science of obstetrics, and consequently improvements in its practice, must depend greatly upon the cooperation of intelligent women.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000009_000002|They must come to realize that they will secure the best treatment only as they demand the highest standard of excellence from their attendants; and they can aid in securing this for their poorer sisters and their children by interesting themselves in obstetrical charities.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000000|Secondly, they must realize that real progress in the science of obstetrics can be expected to proceed only from well equipped clinics connected with strong universities, and in charge of thoroughly trained and broad minded men.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000001|As yet such institutions scarcely exist in this country.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000002|Women who are anxious to promote the welfare of their sex can find no better way of doing so than by bringing this need to the attention of wealthy men interested in philanthropy and education.
train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000003|Furthermore, they should bear in mind that most of our important discoveries would not have been made had animal experimentation not been available, as it is solely by this means that modern surgical and obstetrical technique has been brought to its present degree of perfection; and further progress can scarcely be expected without its aid.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000008_000000|"Paper?"
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000009_000000|"Yes, paper.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000015_000003|I'm going to have that paper."
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000018_000000|"Look here, I give you one more chance," he squeaked; "if you don't-"
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000021_000000|His manner changed.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000022_000001|Here, Sergeant!"
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000026_000002|I knew what that meant.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000035_000000|"A small paper," he said eagerly.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000036_000000|The woman looked at me.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000036_000002|I knew that kind of look-I'd seen it at the Cruelty.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000040_000000|Me?
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000041_000000|What?
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000044_000000|Risk!
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000047_000001|"It's been disagreeable but I'm obliged to you for-why, where's my purse!
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000054_000000|I looked at her with respect; it was both real and feigned.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000060_000000|"I must have lost it."
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000064_000000|Oh, that admirable woman!
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000067_000000|And still I lingered.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000068_000000|But there was nothing for it.
train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000072_000000|Oh, we were friends, we two!
train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000006_000002|Although the pills were but twenty five cents per box, they were soon sold to such a great extent, that tons of huge cases filled with the "purely vegetable pill" were sent from the new and extensive manufactory every week.
train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000012_000000|"The laws of life are written upon the face of Nature.
train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000017_000002|He was delighted.
train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000019_000000|"Oh!" I replied, "I always bought my pills at the drug stores."
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000006_000000|ZIP AT THE CANDY PULL
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000000|That evening the doctor had no calls to make, so Zip was left to amuse himself as best he could.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000002|Looking up, he saw that the house was lighted more than was usual, and he knew right away that they must be having a little dance or a children's party of some kind.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000003|Just then he thought he got a whiff of boiling molasses.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000004|He stuck his nose up in the air and gave a long sniff.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000005|Yes, it was molasses he smelled!
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000008_000000|"They are having a candy pull.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000008_000001|That's what is going on!
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000000|But alas!
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000001|He was so busy gazing up at the lighted windows to see what was going on inside the house, that he neglected to look where he was stepping, and the first thing he knew, he was standing with all four feet in a pan of hot molasses candy.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000003|The candy was just in that state of cooling when the top is a little hard and the bottom is soft and sticky.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000004|So when he tried to lift his feet, the candy pulled up from the bottom of the pan and made long, stringy ends, but did not leave his feet.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000005|Instead it got between his toes and held him still faster.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000006|He tried to bite it off, but instead of coming off, it only stuck to his teeth and he found himself sticking to the pan with his mouth as well as his feet.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000007|Indeed, he was held securely by the sticky, stringy candy.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000008|Just then he thought he heard the children coming to see if their sweets were cool.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000000|Yes, they were surely coming!
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000001|He could not stand it to have these children he saw every day find him in such a fix.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000002|He would never hear the last of it.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000003|So he made a frantic effort to loosen himself.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000004|In doing this he pulled backwards so far that his feet slipped somehow, and he sat down in the candy.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000006|For his four feet, mouth, one ear and tail were all sticking to the pan of candy.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000007|As the children began to come down the back steps, he gave one yelp, doubled himself up and began to roll, so that what the children saw was a big ball of molasses candy rolling down the sloping walk.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000008|All they could see in the semi darkness was the candy, for Zip was too balled up to show a bit of dog sticking out of the soft mess.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000012_000000|The children ran after it, screaming with laughter, but when they caught up to the rolling ball and discovered their well-known, mischievous Zip rolled up so tight he was helpless, they clapped their hands with delight. He looked so crestfallen and funny that they forgave him on the spot for the loss of their candy.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000013_000000|"I know the best way to get the sticky stuff off," said Helen Hardway, the little girl who was giving the party.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000013_000001|"Let's put him in the bath tub and soak it off."
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000014_000000|"Just the very thing!" one of the boys replied.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000014_000001|"Wait till I get something to wrap him in so I won't get all stuck up with the candy."
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000015_000000|On hearing this, Zip began to struggle and squirm, for he had visions of hot water and soapsuds in his eyes, with each one of the children feeling it was their duty to give him an extra scrub.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000016_000000|"Here, you Zip, keep still, or you'll slip out of the apron you're wrapped in and get my best suit all sticky," called the little boy who held him in his arms and was carrying him up to the bathroom.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000017_000001|One of the boys gave it a jerk to loosen it, but sad to relate, he gave too vigorous a pull and Zip dropped from the boy's arms, not into the tub, but at one side and by a mighty effort he gave himself two rolls which brought him to the head of the stairs.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000017_000002|Another roll sent him tumbling bumpety bump down the long flight that led to the kitchen.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000018_000000|The sudden appearance of a hamper apparently on legs coming toward her, surprised her, but nothing like the queer thing that was rolling about her feet, and which she could not see for the big tray in her hands.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000018_000001|She could not seem to escape it, and finally she stumbled and fell, sending the glasses of delicious lemonade flying in all directions.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000019_000000|Hearing a noise on the back stairs, as if the house was falling, mrs Hardway went to see what the trouble was, and opened the kitchen door just in time to receive a full glass of lemonade squarely on the chest.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000000|When the waitress stumbled, she fell on Zip, pinning him under her.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000001|In his roll down the stairs, he had lost some of the candy, so that now his mouth and nose were free, though he was minus a tooth and several of his long smeller whiskers.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000002|Now he began to howl as if being killed.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000003|This brought more of the guests to the spot, and you would have laughed could you have seen their faces when first they peered into the kitchen, which looked as if a cyclone had struck it.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000021_000000|A few feet from the door was the maid, sitting with limbs outspread, too dazed to move, while from under the corner of her skirt rolled a big, sticky ball of some kind that howled as it rolled.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000021_000001|Beyond him was an overturned hamper of soiled clothes, with stockings, collars, sheets and petticoats spilling out of it.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000021_000002|At the other end of the room stood mrs Hardway, wiping the lemonade off her dress, while all over the place were slices of lemon and pieces of fruit and Maraschino cherries.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000023_000001|He was so afraid of being drowned before the water would soak off the candy and when the children tried to pull it off it nearly killed him with pain, for it took all the little fine hairs of his coat with it.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000024_000000|The window of the bathroom was open and the doctor, coming out on his front porch to look at the sky before retiring, heard Zip howling somewhere across the street.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000024_000001|He was crying in such a pitiful, frightened manner that the doctor knew he must be fast somewhere or hurt so he could not get home.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000024_000002|Consequently he hurried across the street to see where his pet was, with the worried Tabby close at his heels.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000000|The doctor made the circuit of the house and stable yard but could find no Zip.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000002|He knocked repeatedly but no one answered.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000003|As he still heard Zip howling and several people were talking all at once, he made bold to open the door and step in.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000004|What he saw you already know.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000005|As by this time the children had started to bathe Zip, the doctor was told to go right upstairs.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000006|When he appeared in the door all the children stopped laughing and stepped back to give him a chance to see Zip.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000026_000000|And this is what he saw.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000027_000000|Just one of Zip's eyes stuck out of a hole where the candy had dropped off, and his poor little tail stuck out like a handle on the other side of the ball.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000027_000001|That was all that could be seen of Zip at that moment, for in his numerous rolls, the candy had spread all over him until he was no longer a dog with legs but just one round ball of molasses candy.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000001|The children had never thought that the poor dog could not move his head to keep out of the water.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000002|Now the doctor hurriedly took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and in a jiffy had Zip and the molasses ball in his hands and was holding it so that the water could not get to Zip's head.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000003|Then with one hand he gently threw the water upon the candy until it began to loosen and fall off.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000004|First he released the little dog's head, which had been bent down between his fore legs.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000005|As the candy began to loosen and drop off, first one black ear stood up and then the other, and last the little legs began to shoot out.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000006|All this made the children laugh to see what appeared to be a big ball of candy develop into a little dog.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000007|At last when Zip was entirely clean and had been wrapped in a big bath towel to dry, Doctor Elsworth apologized to Helen for his little dog spoiling her candy pull.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000008|But she declared that he had given them more fun than if he had not come over, and the molasses had cooled and they had had a regular candy pull.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000030_000002|Besides, the doctor had been her family physician for years, and they were all very, very fond of him as well as of Zip.
train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000030_000003|It was hard to think of the doctor without Zip, as they were always together.
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000000_000000|Hell is paved with good intentions-also asbestos.
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000011_000001|In the United States, only Twain.
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000014_000001|Both halves are eminently successful.
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000016_000001|"Hello, Central!
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000028_000002|A swift kick for the people.
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000038_000000|Time and tide wait for no man-But time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000045_000000|Breaking the hair brush on the disobedient scion, then making him pay for a new one.
train-clean-360/122/121730/122_121730_000000_000001|At sea, the king of the elements; on shore, a mere surf.
train-clean-360/122/121730/122_121730_000053_000000|A never present help in time of trouble.
train-clean-360/122/121730/122_121730_000059_000001|For example, Progress and Congress.
train-clean-360/122/121734/122_121734_000009_000002|Good for countrymen.
train-clean-360/122/121734/122_121734_000038_000001|Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000001_000003|While baking prepare the filling.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000002_000001|Bake in one loaf.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000008_000001|When light beat in a little at a time, a half cupful milk and a teaspoonful vanilla.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000011_000003|Bake about twenty minutes, take from pan and cool.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000015_000001|Add one cup of milk, one well beaten egg, three tablespoons of melted butter and a teaspoon of vanilla or lemon flavoring or a level teaspoon of mixed spices.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000015_000002|Beat hard and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven about half an hour.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000024_000002|Bake, when cool, together with jelly, having the dark layer in the center.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000025_000002|Make a boiled icing.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000032_000003|Bake slowly.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000034_000003|Place them on a floured baking sheet and cook in a quick oven.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000036_000003|Do not slice this cake, but cut through the crust with a sharp knife and break apart.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000041_000004|Serve hot. If any are left over, split, toast and butter them.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000043_000003|Fry in deep hot fat.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000044_000003|Bake in a hot oven, then split and butter.
train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000046_000002|Take a part at a time, roll half an inch thick, cut in rings and fry.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000001_000000|THE Sunday was a bright Sunday in autumn, clear and cool, when early in the morning Sissy and Rachael met, to walk in the country.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000003_000000|Though the green landscape was blotted here and there with heaps of coal, it was green elsewhere, and there were trees to see, and there were larks singing (though it was Sunday), and there were pleasant scents in the air, and all was over arched by a bright blue sky.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000003_000002|Under their feet, the grass was fresh; beautiful shadows of branches flickered upon it, and speckled it; hedgerows were luxuriant; everything was at peace.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000003_000003|Engines at pits' mouths, and lean old horses that had worn the circle of their daily labour into the ground, were alike quiet; wheels had ceased for a short space to turn; and the great wheel of earth seemed to revolve without the shocks and noises of another time.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000004_000000|They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes, sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten that it dropped at a touch of the foot, sometimes passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000004_000001|They followed paths and tracks, however slight.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000005_000001|They had seen no one, near or distant, for a long time; and the solitude remained unbroken.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000006_000000|As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000006_000001|She got up to look at it.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000006_000005|Here are footsteps too.—O Rachael!'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000007_000000|She ran back, and caught her round the neck.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000007_000001|Rachael had already started up.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000008_000000|'What is the matter?'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000000|'I don't know.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000001|There is a hat lying in the grass.' They went forward together.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000002|Rachael took it up, shaking from head to foot.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000003|She broke into a passion of tears and lamentations: Stephen Blackpool was written in his own hand on the inside.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000010_000000|'O the poor lad, the poor lad!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000010_000001|He has been made away with.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000011_000000|'Is there—has the hat any blood upon it?' Sissy faltered.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000012_000000|They were afraid to look; but they did examine it, and found no mark of violence, inside or out.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000012_000002|They looked fearfully about them, without moving, but could see nothing more.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000012_000003|'Rachael,' Sissy whispered, 'I will go on a little by myself.'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000013_000000|She had unclasped her hand, and was in the act of stepping forward, when Rachael caught her in both arms with a scream that resounded over the wide landscape.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000013_000001|Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000014_000000|'O, my good Lord!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000014_000002|Down there!' At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000015_000000|'Rachael, dear Rachael, good Rachael, for the love of Heaven, not these dreadful cries!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000015_000001|Think of Stephen, think of Stephen, think of Stephen!'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000016_000000|By an earnest repetition of this entreaty, poured out in all the agony of such a moment, Sissy at last brought her to be silent, and to look at her with a tearless face of stone.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000017_000000|'Rachael, Stephen may be living.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000017_000001|You wouldn't leave him lying maimed at the bottom of this dreadful place, a moment, if you could bring help to him?'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000018_000000|'No, no, no!'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000019_000000|'Don't stir from here, for his sake!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000019_000001|Let me go and listen.'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000020_000000|She shuddered to approach the pit; but she crept towards it on her hands and knees, and called to him as loud as she could call.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000020_000003|She did this, twenty, thirty times.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000021_000000|The wide prospect, so beautiful in its stillness but a few minutes ago, almost carried despair to her brave heart, as she rose and looked all round her, seeing no help.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000021_000001|'Rachael, we must lose not a moment.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000021_000005|Think of Stephen, think of Stephen!'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000022_000000|She knew by Rachael's face that she might trust her now.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000023_000001|Don't stop for breath.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000024_000001|One of the men was in a drunken slumber, but on his comrade's shouting to him that a man had fallen down the Old Hell Shaft, he started out to a pool of dirty water, put his head in it, and came back sober.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000025_000001|Then a horse was found; and she got another man to ride for life or death to the railroad, and send a message to Louisa, which she wrote and gave him.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000027_000002|In the midst of this, Rachael returned; and with her party there was a surgeon, who brought some wine and medicines.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000028_000000|There being now people enough present to impede the work, the sobered man put himself at the head of the rest, or was put there by the general consent, and made a large ring round the Old Hell Shaft, and appointed men to keep it.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000029_000002|It was five o'clock in the afternoon of the bright autumnal Sunday, before a candle was sent down to try the air, while three or four rough faces stood crowded close together, attentively watching it: the man at the windlass lowering as they were told.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000029_000003|The candle was brought up again, feebly burning, and then some water was cast in.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000030_000001|The signal was given and the windlass stopped, with abundant rope to spare.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000030_000003|But the surgeon who held the watch, declared five minutes not to have elapsed yet, and sternly admonished them to keep silence.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000031_000000|The rope came in tight and strained; and ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and all eyes were fastened on the pit.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000031_000001|The sobered man was brought up and leaped out briskly on the grass.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000032_000000|When he said 'Alive!' a great shout arose and many eyes had tears in them.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000033_000000|'But he's hurt very bad,' he added, as soon as he could make himself heard again.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000033_000001|'Where's doctor?
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000033_000002|He's hurt so very bad, sir, that we donno how to get him up.'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000035_000003|As these were made, they were hung upon an arm of the pitman who had last come up, with instructions how to use them: and as he stood, shown by the light he carried, leaning his powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people, he was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000035_000004|It was dark now, and torches were kindled.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000036_000000|It appeared from the little this man said to those about him, which was quickly repeated all over the circle, that the lost man had fallen upon a mass of crumbled rubbish with which the pit was half choked up, and that his fall had been further broken by some jagged earth at the side.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000036_000002|He had come straight away from his work, on being written to, and had walked the whole journey; and was on his way to mr Bounderby's country house after dark, when he fell.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000036_000004|The Old Hell Shaft, the pitman said, with a curse upon it, was worthy of its bad name to the last; for though Stephen could speak now, he believed it would soon be found to have mangled the life out of him.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000037_000003|Every one waited with his grasp set, and his body bent down to the work, ready to reverse and wind in.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000037_000004|At length the signal was given, and all the ring leaned forward.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000039_000003|That gently done, he called to him Rachael and Sissy.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000040_000000|They gave him drink, moistened his face with water, and administered some drops of cordial and wine.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000048_000003|A muddle!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000050_000003|He would'n ha' suspect'n me.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000050_000004|But look up yonder, Rachael!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000050_000005|Look aboove!'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000053_000000|'It ha' shined upon me,' he said reverently, 'in my pain and trouble down below.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000053_000006|But in our judgments, like as in our doins, we mun bear and forbear.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000058_000001|'Shall I bring him to you?'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000060_000000|Louisa returned with her father.
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000061_000001|This I leave to yo.'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000062_000000|mr Gradgrind was troubled and asked how?
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000067_000002|We may walk toogether t'night, my dear!'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000068_000000|'I will hold thy hand, and keep beside thee, Stephen, all the way.'
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000069_000000|'Bless thee!
train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000069_000001|Will soombody be pleased to coover my face!'
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000000_000000|Chapter forty six.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000007_000000|Then, throwing himself back in his carriage, Danglars called out to his coachman, in a voice that might be heard across the road, "To the Chamber of Deputies."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000003|Ali," cried he, striking at the same time on the brazen gong.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000004|Ali appeared.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000005|"Summon Bertuccio," said the count.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000008|"I did," replied the count.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000010_000000|"Then how comes it," said Monte Cristo with a frown, "that, when I desired you to purchase for me the finest pair of horses to be found in Paris, there is another pair, fully as fine as mine, not in my stables?" At the look of displeasure, added to the angry tone in which the count spoke, Ali turned pale and held down his head.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000012_000001|Then offer him double that sum; a banker never loses an opportunity of doubling his capital."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000014_000000|"At five o'clock," replied the count.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000015_000000|"I beg your excellency's pardon," interposed the steward in a deprecating manner, "for venturing to observe that it is already two o'clock."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000023_000006|The steward entered.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000031_000000|"And the yacht."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000034_000000|"And the steamboat?"
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000040_000004|I took the trouble this morning to call on the pretended count-if he were a real count he wouldn't be so rich. But, would you believe it, 'He was not receiving.' So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000040_000006|But," pursued Danglars with one of his sinister smiles, "an order for unlimited credit calls for something like caution on the part of the banker to whom that order is given.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000040_000009|'They laugh best who laugh last!'"
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000042_000000|The count bowed.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000044_000000|Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000045_000000|"So much so," replied Monte Cristo, "that while you call yourself baron you are not willing to call anybody else count."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000053_000000|"Indeed?"
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000070_000000|"By what right, sir?"
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000081_000000|"Whatever you say, my dear count; I am at your orders."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000083_000000|"Oh, my dear count," exclaimed Danglars, "I never for an instant entertained such a feeling towards you."
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000087_000001|"How would you like to have it?
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000087_000002|in gold, silver, or notes?"
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000091_000002|If you will permit me, I shall be happy to show you my picture gallery, composed entirely of works by the ancient masters-warranted as such.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000091_000003|Not a modern picture among them.
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000097_000000|"And alone?"
train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000106_000000|"Ah, ha, you are acquainted with the young viscount, are you?"
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000002_000000|It will be recollected by the reader that peter, before he set out on his tour, took every possible precaution to guard against the danger of disturbances in his dominions during his absence.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000002_000001|The Princess Sophia was closely confined in her convent.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000002_000003|Moscow itself was garrisoned with troops selected expressly with reference to their supposed fidelity to his interests, and the men who were to command them, as well as the great civil officers to whom the administration of the government was committed during his absence, were appointed on the same principle.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000000|But, notwithstanding all these precautions, peter did not feel entirely safe.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000004|At such times he would utter most dreadful imprecations against those who should dare to oppose him, and would work himself up into such a fury as to give those who conversed with him an exceedingly unfavorable opinion of his temper and character.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000005|The ugly aspect which his countenance and demeanor exhibited at such times was greatly aggravated by a nervous affection of the head and face which attacked him, particularly when he was in a passion, and which produced convulsive twitches of the muscles that drew his head by jerks to one side, and distorted his face in a manner that was dreadful to behold.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000007|However this may have been, the affection seemed to increase as he grew older, and as the attacks of it were most decided and violent when he was in a passion, they had the effect, in connection with his coarse and dreadful language and violent demeanor, to make him appear at such times more like some ugly monster of fiction than like a man.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000004_000000|The result, in respect to the conduct of his enemies during his absence, was what he feared.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000004_000001|After he had been gone away for some months they began to conspire against him.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000005_000001|Their plan was, first, to take possession of the city by means of the Guards, who were to be recalled for this purpose from their distant posts, and by their assistance to murder all the foreigners.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000000|In executing this plan, negotiations were first cautiously opened with the Guards, and they readily acceded to the proposals made to them.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000003|The government-that is, the regency that peter had left in charge-sent out deputies, who attempted to pacify them, but could not succeed.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000004|The Guards insisted that they would go with their complaints to Moscow.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000006|The number of men was about ten thousand.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000007|They pretended that they were only going to the city to represent their case themselves directly to the government, and then to march back again in a peaceable manner.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000009|They could not depend upon the rumors which came to them at so great a distance, and they were determined to inform themselves on the spot whether he were alive or dead, and when he was coming home.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000000|The deputies returned with all speed to Moscow, and reported that the Guards were on their march in full strength toward the city.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000001|The whole city was thrown into a state of consternation.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000002|Many of the leading families, anticipating serious trouble, moved away.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000003|Others packed up and concealed their valuables.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000004|The government, too, though not yet suspecting the real design of the Guards in the movement which they were making, were greatly alarmed.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000008_000000|General Gordon came up with the rebels about forty miles from Moscow.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000002|But the Guards refused to be satisfied.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000003|They were determined, they said, to march to Moscow.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000004|They wished to ascertain for themselves whether peter was dead or alive, and if alive, what had become of him.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000005|They therefore were going on, and, if General Gordon and his troops attempted to oppose them, they would fight it out and see which was the strongest.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000000|In civil commotions of this kind occurring in any of the ancient non Protestant countries in Europe, it is always a question of the utmost moment which side the Church and the clergy espouse.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000001|It is true that the Church and the clergy do not fight themselves, and so do not add any thing to the physical strength of the party which they befriend, but they add enormously to its moral strength, that is, to its confidence and courage.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000004|But if they have the Church and the clergy on their side, this state of things is quite changed.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000005|The sanction of religion-the thought that they are fighting in the cause of God and of duty, nerves their arms, and gives them that confidence in the result which is almost essential to victory.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000000|It was so in this case.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000004|It is not that they are really opposed to improvement itself for its own sake, but that they are so afraid of change.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000005|They call themselves Conservatives, and wish to preserve every thing as it is.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000006|They hate the process of pulling down.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000007|Now, if a thing is good, it is better, of course, to preserve it; but, on the other hand, if it is bad, it is better that it should be pulled down.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000009|If it is good, let it stand.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000010|If it is bad, let it be destroyed.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000012_000000|In the case of Peter's proposed improvements and reforms the Church and the clergy were Conservatives of the most determined character.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000013_000000|It was this sympathy on the part of the clergy which gave the officers and soldiers of the Guards their courage and confidence in daring to persist in their march to Moscow in defiance of the army of General Gordon, brought out to oppose them.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000000|The two armies approached each other.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000001|General Gordon, as is usual in such cases, ordered a battery of artillery which he had brought up in the road before the Guards to fire, but he directed that the guns should be pointed so high that the balls should go over the heads of the enemy. His object was to intimidate them.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000002|But the effect was the contrary.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000005|They were fighting for the honor of his cause and for the defense of his holy religion, and they might rely upon it that he would not suffer them to be harmed.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000015_000000|But these assurances of the priests proved, unfortunately for the poor Guards, to be entirely unfounded.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000015_000002|A furious battle followed, in which the Guards were entirely defeated.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000015_000003|Two or three thousand of them were killed, and all the rest were surrounded and made prisoners.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000016_000002|After enduring their tortures as long as human nature could bear them, they confessed that the movement was a concerted one, made in connection with a conspiracy within the city, and that the object was to subvert the present government, and to liberate the Princess Sophia and place her upon the throne.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000000|It was in this state of the affair that the tidings of what had occurred reached peter in Vienna, as is related in the last chapter.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000001|He immediately set out on his return to Moscow in a state of rage and fury against the rebels that it would be impossible to describe.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000003|From the agony of these sufferers he extorted the names of innumerable victims, who, as fast as they were named, were seized and put to death.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000008|It is said that peter took such a savage delight in these punishments, that he executed many of the victims with his own hands.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000010|He took a drink of brandy after each execution while the officers were bringing forward the next man.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000012|This story is almost too horrible to be believed, but, unfortunately, it comports too well with the general character which peter has always sustained in the opinion of mankind in respect to the desperate and reckless cruelty to which he could be aroused under the influence of intoxication and anger.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000019_000000|About two thousand of the Guards were beheaded.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000019_000002|They covered more than an acre of ground.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000019_000003|Here they were allowed to lie all the remainder of the winter, as long, in fact, as the flesh continued frozen, and then, when the spring came on, they were thrown together into a deep ditch, dug to receive them, and thus were buried.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000021_000000|As for the Princess Sophia, she was still in the convent where peter had placed her, the conspirators not having reached the point of liberating her before their plot was discovered.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000021_000001|peter, however, caused the three authors of the address, which was to have been made to Sophia, calling upon her to assume the crown, to be sent to the convent, and there hung before Sophia's windows.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000022_000000|Such were the horrible means by which peter attempted to strike terror into his subjects, and to put down the spirit of conspiracy and rebellion.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000022_000003|The rebellion was completely suppressed, and all open opposition to the progress of the Czar's proposed improvements and reforms ceased.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000023_000000|The Princess Sophia, worn out with the agitations and dangers through which she had passed, and crushed in spirit by the dreadful scenes to which her brother had exposed her, now determined to withdraw wholly from the scene.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000023_000001|She took the veil in the convent where she was confined, and went as a nun into the cloisters with the other sisters.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000023_000002|The name that she assumed was Marpha.
train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000024_000000|Of course, all her ambitious aspirations were now forever extinguished, and the last gleam of earthly hope faded away from her mind.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000006_000000|So he set a train of negotiations on foot for making a long truce with the Turks, not wishing to have two wars on his hands at the same time. When he had accomplished this object, he formed a league with the kingdoms of Poland and Denmark to make war upon Sweden.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000006_000001|So exactly were all his plans laid, that the war with Sweden was declared on the very next day after the truce of the Turks was concluded.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000007_000000|The King of Sweden at this time was Charles the twelfth.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000010_000000|Narva, as appears by the map, is situated on the sea coast, near the frontier-much nearer than Riga.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000010_000002|He also calculated that when Narva was in his hands the way would be open for him to advance on Riga.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000010_000003|Indeed, at the same time while he was commencing the siege of Narva, his ally, the King of Poland, advanced from his own dominions to Riga, and was now prepared to attack that city at the same time that the Czar was besieging Narva.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000011_000001|The only cause of quarrel which peter pretended to have against the king was the uncivil treatment which he had received at the hands of the Governor of Riga in refusing to allow him to see the fortifications when he passed through that city on his tour.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000011_000003|Still, the negotiations had not been closed, and the government of Sweden had no idea that the misunderstanding would lead to war.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000011_000006|The preparations were made with great dispatch, and the fleet sailed for Riga.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000012_000000|The news, too, of this war occasioned great dissatisfaction among the governments of western Europe.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000012_000001|The government of Holland was particularly displeased, on account of the interference and interruption which the war would occasion to all their commerce in the Baltic.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000012_000004|Riga was a very important commercial port, and there were a great many wealthy Dutch merchants there, whose interests the Dutch government were very anxious to protect.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000013_000001|Augustus, for that was the name of the King of Poland, finding that now, since so great a force had arrived to succor and strengthen the place, there was no hope for success in any of his operations against it, concluded to make a virtue of necessity, and so he drew off his army, and sent word to the Dutch government that he did so in compliance with their wishes.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000014_000000|The King of Sweden had, of course, nothing now to do but to advance from Riga to Narva and attack the army of the Czar.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000015_000003|The person whom the Czar had made commander in chief at the siege of Narva was a German officer.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000015_000004|His name was General Croy.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000016_000000|General Croy had been many weeks before Narva at the time when the King of Sweden arrived at Riga, but he had made little progress in taking the town.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000016_000001|The place was strongly fortified, and the garrison, though comparatively weak, defended it with great bravery.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000001|Although his army was very much smaller than that of the Russians, he immediately set out on his march to Narva; but, instead of moving along the regular roads, and so falling into the ambuscade which the Russians had laid for him, he turned off into back and circuitous by ways, so as to avoid the snare altogether.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000002|It was in the dead of winter, and the roads which he followed, besides being rough and intricate, were obstructed with snow, and the Russians had thought little of them, so that at last, when the Swedish army arrived at their advanced posts, they were taken entirely by surprise.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000003|The advanced posts were driven in, and the Swedes pressed on, the Russians flying before them, and carrying confusion to the posts in the rear.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000004|The surprise of the Russians, and the confusion consequent upon it, were greatly increased by the state of the weather; for there was a violent snow storm at the time, and the snow, blowing into the Russians' faces, prevented their seeing what the numbers were of the enemy so suddenly assaulting them, or taking any effectual measures to restore their own ranks to order when once deranged.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000018_000000|When at length the Swedes, having thus driven in the advanced posts, reached the Russian camp itself, they immediately made an assault upon it.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000018_000001|The camp was defended by a rampart and by a double ditch, but on went the assaulting soldiers over all the obstacles, pushing their way with their bayonets, and carrying all before them.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000018_000002|The Russians were entirely defeated and put to flight.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000019_000001|Indeed, the officers do not wish to arrest them until it is sure that the enemy is so completely overwhelmed that their rallying again is utterly impossible.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000019_000002|In this case twenty thousand of the Russian soldiers were left dead upon the field.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000019_000003|The Swedes, on the other hand, lost only two or three thousand.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000020_000000|Besides those who were killed, immense numbers were taken prisoners. General Croy, and all the other principal generals in command, were among the prisoners.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000021_000000|The number of prisoners was so very great that it was not possible for the Swedes to retain them, on account of the expense and trouble of feeding them, and keeping them warm at that season of the year; so they determined to detain the officers only, and to send the men away.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000021_000002|They cut their clothes in such a manner that they could only be prevented from falling off by being held together by both hands; and the weather was so cold-the ground, moreover, being covered with snow-that the men could only save themselves from perishing by keeping their clothes around them.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000022_000000|In this pitiful plight the whole body of prisoners were driven off, like a flock of sheep, by a small body of Swedish soldiery, for a distance of about a league on the road toward Russia, and then left to find the rest of the way themselves.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000023_000001|He said that he expected to be beaten at first by the Swedes.
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000023_000002|"They have beaten us once," said he, "and they may beat us again; but they will teach us in time to beat them."
train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000024_000001|He set about raising recruits in all parts of the empire.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000004_000000|At the time of the death of Alexis the Czar's hopes in respect to a successor fell upon his little son, peter Petrowitz, the child of Catharine, who was born about the time of the death of Alexis's wife, when the difficulties between himself and Alexis were first beginning to assume an alarming form.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000004_000001|This child was now about three years old, but he was of a very weak and sickly constitution, and the Czar watched him with fear and trembling.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000004_000002|His apprehensions proved to be well founded, for about a year after the unhappy death of Alexis he also died.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000000|peter was entirely overwhelmed with grief at this new calamity.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000001|He was seized with the convulsions to which he was subject when under any strong excitement, his face was distorted, and his neck was twisted and stiffened in a most frightful manner.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000002|In ordinary attacks of this kind Catharine had power to soothe and allay the spasmodic action of the muscles, and gradually release her husband from the terrible gripe of the disease, but now he would not suffer her to come near him.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000003|He could not endure it, for the sight of her renewed so vividly the anguish that he felt for the loss of their child, that it made the convulsions and the suffering worse than before.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000006_000000|It is said that on this occasion peter shut himself up alone for three days and three nights in his own chamber, where he lay stretched on the ground in anguish and agony, and would not allow any body to come in.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000006_000003|At length the Czar allowed the door to be opened, and the minister, with all the senators, came together into the room.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000006_000004|The sudden appearance of so many persons, and the boldness of the minister in taking this decided step, made such an impression on the mind of the Czar as to divert his mind for the moment from his grief, and he allowed himself to be led forth and to be persuaded to take some food.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000003|He had no farther serious difficulty with the opponents of his policy, though he was always under apprehensions that difficulties might arise after his death.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000004|He had the right, according to the ancient constitution of the monarchy, to designate his own successor, choosing for this purpose either one of his sons or any other person.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000005|And now, since both his sons were dead, his mind revolved anxiously the question what provision he should make for the government of the empire after his decease.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000006|He finally concluded to leave it in the hands of Catharine herself, and, to prepare the way for this, he resolved to cause her to be solemnly crowned empress during his lifetime.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000009_000000|This declaration, printed forms of which were sent all over the kingdom, was signed by the people very readily.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000009_000002|It was generally supposed that a certain Prince Naraskin would be appointed to the succession.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000010_000001|In this proclamation peter cited many instances from history in which great sovereigns had raised their consorts to a seat on the throne beside them, and then he recapitulated the great services which Catharine had rendered to him and to the state, which made her peculiarly deserving of such an honor.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000010_000005|He therefore declared his intention of joining her with himself in the supreme power, and to celebrate this event by a solemn coronation.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000012_000003|The steps of the altar, and all that part of the pavement of the church over which the Czarina would have to walk in the performance of the ceremonies, were covered with rich tapestry embroidered with gold, and the seats on which the bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries were to sit were covered with crimson cloth.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000013_000001|This platform, with the steps leading to it, was carpeted with crimson velvet, and it was surmounted by a splendid canopy made of silk, embroidered with gold.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000013_000002|The canopy was ornamented, too, on every side with fringes, ribbons, tufts, tassels, and gold lace, in the richest manner.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000014_000000|When the appointed hour arrived the procession was formed at the royal palace, and moved toward the Cathedral through a dense and compact mass of spectators that every where thronged the way.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000014_000001|Every window was filled, and the house tops, wherever there was space for a footing, were crowded.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000014_000002|There were troops of guards mounted on horseback and splendidly caparisoned-there were bands of music, and heralds, and great officers of state, bearing successively, on cushions ornamented with gold and jewels, the imperial mantle, the globe, the sceptre, and the crown.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000016_000002|His death took place on the twenty eighth of January, seventeen twenty five.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000018_000000|Thus was brought to an end the earthly personal career of peter the Great.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000019_000000|Notwithstanding the stern severity of Peter's character, the terrible violence of his passions, and the sort of savage grandeur which marked all his great determinations and plans, there was a certain vein of playfulness running through his mind; and, when he was in a jocose or merry humor, no one could be more jocose and merry than he.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000000|It was only two years before his death that a striking instance of this occurred.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000002|This skiff was built at Moscow, where it remained for twenty or thirty years, an object all this time, in Peter's mind, of special affection and regard.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000003|At length, when the naval power of the empire was firmly established, peter conceived the idea of removing this skiff from Moscow to Petersburg, and consecrating it solemnly there as a sort of souvenir to be preserved forever in commemoration of the small beginnings from which all the naval greatness of the empire had sprung.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000004|The name which he had given to the skiff was The Little Grandfather, the name denoting that the little craft, frail and insignificant as it was, was the parent and progenitor of all the great frigates and ships of the line which were then at anchor in the Roads about Cronstadt and off the mouth of the Neva.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000021_000000|A grand ceremony was accordingly arranged for the "consecration of the Little Grandfather." The little vessel was brought in triumph from Moscow to Petersburg, where it was put on board a sort of barge or galliot to be taken to Cronstadt.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000021_000001|All the great officers of state and all the foreign ministers were invited to be present at the consecration. The company embarked on board yachts provided for them, and went down the river following the Little Grandfather, which was borne on its galliot in the van-drums beating, trumpets sounding, and banners waving all the way.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000000|The next day the whole fleet, which had been collected in the bay for this purpose, was arranged in the form of an amphitheatre.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000002|The emperor went on board of it.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000003|He was accompanied by the admirals and vice admirals of the fleet, who were to serve as crew.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000004|The admiral stationed himself at the helm to steer, and the vice admirals took the oars.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000005|These grand officials were not required, however, to do much hard work at rowing, for there were two shallops provided, manned by strong men, to tow the skiff.
train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000006|In this way the skiff rowed to and fro over the sea, and then passed along the fleet, saluted every where by the shouts of the crews upon the yards and in the rigging, and by the guns of the ships. Three thousand guns were discharged by the ships in these salvos in honor of their humble progenitor.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000001_000001|Beauchamp.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000002_000003|Caderousse's knife, dark lantern, bunch of keys, and clothing, excepting the waistcoat, which could not be found, were deposited at the registry; the corpse was conveyed to the morgue.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000003_000001|It was expected that this wedding would shortly take place, as the young man was received at the banker's as the betrothed.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000003_000004|The baron adored Count Andrea Cavalcanti: not so Mademoiselle Eugenie Danglars.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000004_000003|He cherished the thought of the duel, hoping to conceal its true cause even from his seconds.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000005_000002|He found Beauchamp pacing the room; on perceiving him Beauchamp stopped.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000009_000000|"I will facilitate it by repeating the question, 'Will you, or will you not, retract?'"
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000011_000000|"What must then be done?"
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000016_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000017_000000|"Impossible!"
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000018_000001|Will you believe the government of a republic, a kingdom, and an empire?" Albert cast his eyes on the passport, then raised them in astonishment to Beauchamp.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000019_000001|I took a week to go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty eight hours to stay there; that makes three weeks.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000020_000000|"What circumlocution!
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000022_000000|"You hesitate?"
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000023_000000|"Yes,--I fear."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000024_000002|Acknowledge it, Beauchamp; your courage cannot be doubted."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000026_000000|Albert turned frightfully pale; he endeavored to speak, but the words died on his lips.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000027_000000|"But what?"
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000028_000000|"The paragraph was correct, my friend."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000029_000000|"What?
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000029_000001|That French officer"--
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000030_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000031_000000|"Fernand?"
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000032_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000036_000004|After a moment's mournful silence, his heart overflowed, and he gave way to a flood of tears.
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000045_000003|Oh, Beauchamp, Beauchamp, how shall I now approach mine?
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000048_000001|Let no trace of emotion be visible on your countenance, bear your grief as the cloud bears within it ruin and death-a fatal secret, known only when the storm bursts. Go, my friend, reserve your strength for the moment when the crash shall come."
train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000053_000000|"Why do you ask me now?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000001_000000|Chapter eighty seven.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000001_000001|The Challenge.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000002_000000|"Then," continued Beauchamp, "I took advantage of the silence and the darkness to leave the house without being seen.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000002_000006|I rely on your friendship to assist me, Beauchamp, if contempt has not banished it from your heart."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000003_000000|"Contempt, my friend?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000003_000001|How does this misfortune affect you?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000003_000003|Review your life, Albert; although it is only just beginning, did a lovely summer's day ever dawn with greater purity than has marked the commencement of your career?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000005_000000|"Be it so," said Beauchamp; "if you must have me descend to earth, I submit; and if you will seek your enemy, I will assist you, and I will engage to find him, my honor being almost as deeply interested as yours."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000007_000000|"Well, listen, Morcerf."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000010_000000|"Tell me; satisfy my impatience."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000012_000000|"Say on."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000015_000000|"'How, and why?'
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000016_000000|"'Because a fortnight since I was questioned on the same subject.'
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000018_000000|"'Whose name is'--
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000019_000000|"'Danglars.'"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000021_000000|"Make inquiries, Albert, but do not be angry without reason; make inquiries, and if it be true"--
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000022_000000|"Oh, yes, if it be true," cried the young man, "he shall pay me all I have suffered."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000025_000001|Act prudently."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000026_000000|"Oh, do not fear; besides, you will accompany me.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000027_000002|Let us go immediately." They sent for a cabriolet.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000027_000008|You appear to forget yourself sadly."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000028_000000|"No, sir," said Albert, coldly; "there are circumstances in which one cannot, except through cowardice,--I offer you that refuge,--refuse to admit certain persons at least."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000033_000001|Is it my fault that your father has dishonored himself?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000034_000000|"Yes, miserable wretch!" cried Morcerf, "it is your fault." Danglars retreated a few steps.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000034_000003|Have I travelled in that country?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000035_000001|"No; it is not you who have directly made this exposure and brought this sorrow on us, but you hypocritically provoked it."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000036_000000|"I?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000037_000001|How came it known?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000038_000000|"I suppose you read it in the paper in the account from Yanina?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000039_000000|"Who wrote to Yanina?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000040_000000|"To Yanina?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000041_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000044_000000|"One only?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000046_000000|"I, doubtless, wrote.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000048_000000|"I, indeed?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000049_000000|"Who, then, urged you to write?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000049_000001|Tell me."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000053_000000|"The Count of Monte Cristo told you to write to Yanina?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000055_000000|"I accuse no one, sir," said Danglars; "I relate, and I will repeat before the count what I have said to you."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000056_000000|"Does the count know what answer you received?"
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000057_000000|"Yes; I showed it to him."
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000059_000002|In short, why should I have any more to do with the affair?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000001|Danglars defended himself with the baseness, but at the same time with the assurance, of a man who speaks the truth, at least in part, if not wholly-not for conscience' sake, but through fear. Besides, what was Morcerf seeking?
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000003|And, in addition to this, everything forgotten or unperceived before presented itself now to his recollection.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000004|Monte Cristo knew everything, as he had bought the daughter of Ali Pasha; and, knowing everything, he had advised Danglars to write to Yanina.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000007|Lastly, he had taken Albert to Normandy when he knew the final blow was near.
train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000009|Albert took Beauchamp aside, and communicated these ideas to him.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000003_000003|Also I beseech your good grace that I may take my leave at my lady, your daughter, and at all the barons and knights.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000003_000004|I will well, said the king.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000004_000002|And therewithal she wept heartily.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000005_000001|And if there be any that will proffer me wrong, or say of me wrong or shame behind my back, say it now or never, and here is my body to make it good, body against body.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000006_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000008_000004|Then King Mark understood that and was jealous, for King Mark loved her passingly well.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000009_000003|And with this answer the dwarf departed.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000009_000005|Now, said King Mark, go where thou wilt, and upon pain of death that thou say no word that thou spakest with me; so the dwarf departed from the king.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000011_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000015_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000017_000001|So when Bleoberis was gone with this lady, King Mark and all the court was wroth that she was away.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000018_000001|Then was King Mark heavy thereof, and all the court.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000019_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000020_000005|Whereby ask ye it? said Sir Tristram.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000021_000002|When Sir Sagramore saw his fellow have such a fall he marvelled what knight he might be.
train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000021_000003|And he dressed his spear with all his might, and Sir Tristram against him, and they came together as the thunder, and there Sir Tristram smote Sir Sagramore a strong buffet, that he bare his horse and him to the earth, and in the falling he brake his thigh.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000003_000000|forty eight A FAMILY AFFAIR
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000000|Athos had invented the phrase, family affair.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000001|A family affair was not subject to the investigation of the cardinal; a family affair concerned nobody.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000002|People might employ themselves in a family affair before all the world.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000003|Therefore Athos had invented the phrase, family affair.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000005_000000|Aramis had discovered the idea, the lackeys.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000006_000000|Porthos had discovered the means, the diamond.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000007_000000|D'Artagnan alone had discovered nothing-he, ordinarily the most inventive of the four; but it must be also said that the very name of Milady paralyzed him.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000008_000000|Ah! no, we were mistaken; he had discovered a purchaser for his diamond.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000010_000000|D'Artagnan would have been at the height of his wishes if he had not constantly seen Milady like a dark cloud hovering in the horizon.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000011_000000|After breakfast, it was agreed that they should meet again in the evening at Athos's lodging, and there finish their plans.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000012_000000|D'Artagnan passed the day in exhibiting his Musketeer's uniform in every street of the camp.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000013_000000|In the evening, at the appointed hour, the four friends met.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000014_000000|Everyone offered his own.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000014_000001|Athos talked of the discretion of Grimaud, who never spoke a word but when his master unlocked his mouth.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000014_000003|Aramis, confiding in the address of Bazin, made a pompous eulogium on his candidate.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000015_000000|These four virtues disputed the prize for a length of time, and gave birth to magnificent speeches which we do not repeat here for fear they should be deemed too long.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000016_000000|"Unfortunately," said Athos, "he whom we send must possess in himself alone the four qualities united."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000017_000000|"But where is such a lackey to be found?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000018_000000|"Not to be found!" cried Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000018_000001|"I know it well, so take Grimaud."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000020_000000|"Take Bazin."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000022_000000|"Gentlemen," said Aramis, "the principal question is not to know which of our four lackeys is the most discreet, the most strong, the most clever, or the most brave; the principal thing is to know which loves money the best."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000023_000000|"What Aramis says is very sensible," replied Athos; "we must speculate upon the faults of people, and not upon their virtues.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000024_000000|"Doubtless," said Aramis, "for we not only require to be well served in order to succeed, but moreover, not to fail; for in case of failure, heads are in question, not for our lackeys-"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000025_000000|"Speak lower, Aramis," said Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000026_000000|"That's wise-not for the lackeys," resumed Aramis, "but for the master-for the masters, we may say.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000026_000001|Are our lackeys sufficiently devoted to us to risk their lives for us?
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000026_000002|no"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000027_000000|"My faith," said d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000001|"They will promise everything for the sake of the money, and on the road fear will prevent them from acting.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000002|Once taken, they will be pressed; when pressed, they will confess everything.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000003|What the devil!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000004|we are not children.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000006|A passport for embarkation must be obtained; and the party must be acquainted with English in order to ask the way to London.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000007|Really, I think the thing very difficult."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000030_000000|"Not at all," cried d'Artagnan, who was anxious the matter should be accomplished; "on the contrary, I think it very easy.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000030_000001|It would be, no doubt, parbleu, if we write to Lord de Winter about affairs of vast importance, of the horrors of the cardinal-"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000031_000000|"Speak lower!" said Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000032_000000|"--of intrigues and secrets of state," continued d'Artagnan, complying with the recommendation.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000032_000002|I will write to him, then, nearly in these terms."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000033_000000|"Let us see," said Athos, assuming in advance a critical look.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000034_000000|"Monsieur and dear friend-"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000035_000001|Dear friend to an Englishman," interrupted Athos; "well commenced!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000035_000002|Bravo, d'Artagnan!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000036_000000|"Well, perhaps.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000036_000001|I will say, then, Monsieur, quite short."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000040_000000|"Well, then, we will put simply, My Lord, do you remember a certain little enclosure where your life was spared?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000000|"My dear d'Artagnan, you will never make anything but a very bad secretary.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000001|Where your life was spared!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000003|that's unworthy.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000004|A man of spirit is not to be reminded of such services.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000005|A benefit reproached is an offense committed."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000042_000000|"The devil!" said d'Artagnan, "you are insupportable.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000042_000001|If the letter must be written under your censure, my faith, I renounce the task."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000043_000000|"And you will do right.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000043_000001|Handle the musket and the sword, my dear fellow. You will come off splendidly at those two exercises; but pass the pen over to Monsieur Abbe.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000043_000002|That's his province."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000045_000000|"Well, so be it," said d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000046_000000|"I ask no better," said Aramis, with that ingenious air of confidence which every poet has in himself; "but let me be properly acquainted with the subject.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000046_000001|I have heard here and there that this sister in law was a hussy.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000046_000002|I have obtained proof of it by listening to her conversation with the cardinal."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000047_000000|"Lower!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000047_000001|SACRE BLEU!" said Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000048_000000|"But," continued Aramis, "the details escape me."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000049_000000|"And me also," said Porthos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000050_000000|D'Artagnan and Athos looked at each other for some time in silence.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000050_000001|At length Athos, after serious reflection and becoming more pale than usual, made a sign of assent to d'Artagnan, who by it understood he was at liberty to speak.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000054_000000|"Bah!" cried Porthos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000054_000002|What do you say-that she wanted to have her brother in law killed?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000055_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000056_000000|"She was married?" asked Aramis.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000057_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000058_000000|"And her husband found out that she had a fleur de lis on her shoulder?" cried Porthos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000060_000000|These three yeses had been pronounced by Athos, each with a sadder intonation.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000061_000000|"And who has seen this fleur de lis?" inquired Aramis.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000062_000000|"d'Artagnan and i Or rather, to observe the chronological order, I and d'Artagnan," replied Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000063_000000|"And does the husband of this frightful creature still live?" said Aramis.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000064_000000|"He still lives."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000065_000000|"Are you quite sure of it?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000066_000000|"I am he."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000067_000000|There was a moment of cold silence, during which everyone was affected according to his nature.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000068_000000|"This time," said Athos, first breaking the silence, "d'Artagnan has given us an excellent program, and the letter must be written at once."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000069_000002|The chancellor himself would be puzzled how to write such a letter, and yet the chancellor draws up an official report very readily.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000069_000003|Never mind!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000069_000004|Be silent, I will write."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000070_000000|Aramis accordingly took the quill, reflected for a few moments, wrote eight or ten lines in a charming little female hand, and then with a voice soft and slow, as if each word had been scrupulously weighed, he read the following:
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000001|As you have several times since declared yourself the friend of that person, he thinks it his duty to respond to that friendship by sending you important information.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000002|Twice you have nearly been the victim of a near relative, whom you believe to be your heir because you are ignorant that before she contracted a marriage in England she was already married in France.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000003|But the third time, which is the present, you may succumb. Your relative left La Rochelle for England during the night.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000004|Watch her arrival, for she has great and terrible projects.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000005|If you require to know positively what she is capable of, read her past history on her left shoulder."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000000|"Well, now that will do wonderfully well," said Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000001|"My dear Aramis, you have the pen of a secretary of state.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000002|Lord de Winter will now be upon his guard if the letter should reach him; and even if it should fall into the hands of the cardinal, we shall not be compromised.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000003|But as the lackey who goes may make us believe he has been to London and may stop at Chatellerault, let us give him only half the sum promised him, with the letter, with an agreement that he shall have the other half in exchange for the reply.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000004|Have you the diamond?" continued Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000000|"I have what is still better.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000001|I have the price;" and d'Artagnan threw the bag upon the table.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000002|At the sound of the gold Aramis raised his eyes and Porthos started.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000003|As to Athos, he remained unmoved.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000074_000000|"How much in that little bag?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000077_000000|"It appears so," said Athos, "since here they are.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000077_000001|I don't suppose that our friend d'Artagnan has added any of his own to the amount."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000078_000000|"But, gentlemen, in all this," said d'Artagnan, "we do not think of the queen.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000078_000001|Let us take some heed of the welfare of her dear Buckingham.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000078_000002|That is the least we owe her."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000079_000000|"That's true," said Athos; "but that concerns Aramis."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000080_000000|"Well," replied the latter, blushing, "what must I say?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000081_000000|"Oh, that's simple enough!" replied Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000082_000000|Aramis resumed his pen, reflected a little, and wrote the following lines, which he immediately submitted to the approbation of his friends.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000083_000000|"My dear cousin."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000084_000001|"This clever person is your relative, then?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000085_000000|"Cousin german."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000086_000000|"Go on, to your cousin, then!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000000|"My dear Cousin, His Eminence, the cardinal, whom God preserve for the happiness of France and the confusion of the enemies of the kingdom, is on the point of putting an end to the hectic rebellion of La Rochelle. It is probable that the succor of the English fleet will never even arrive in sight of the place.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000002|His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000003|He would extinguish the sun if the sun incommoded him.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000004|Give these happy tidings to your sister, my dear cousin.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000005|I have dreamed that the unlucky Englishman was dead.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000006|I cannot recollect whether it was by steel or by poison; only of this I am sure, I have dreamed he was dead, and you know my dreams never deceive me.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000007|Be assured, then, of seeing me soon return."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000089_000001|You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000089_000002|There is nothing now to do but to put the address to this letter."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000091_000000|He folded the letter fancifully, and took up his pen and wrote:
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000093_000000|The three friends looked at one another and laughed; they were caught.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000000|"Now," said Aramis, "you will please to understand, gentlemen, that Bazin alone can carry this letter to Tours.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000001|My cousin knows nobody but Bazin, and places confidence in nobody but him; any other person would fail.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000002|Besides, Bazin is ambitious and learned; Bazin has read history, gentlemen, he knows that Sixtus the Fifth became Pope after having kept pigs.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000004|You can understand that a man who has such views will never allow himself to be taken, or if taken, will undergo martyrdom rather than speak."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000095_000003|If your arrangements at Tours are your arrangements, Aramis, those of London are mine.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000095_000005|With that you may be satisfied he can make his way, both going and returning."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000096_000002|Will that do?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000097_000000|"My dear Athos," said Aramis, "you speak like Nestor, who was, as everyone knows, the wisest among the Greeks."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000099_000001|The matter had been named to him by d'Artagnan, who in the first place pointed out the money to him, then the glory, and then the danger.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000101_000000|"Well, but then you will not be able to fulfill your commission," said d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000102_000000|"You will give me a copy this evening, which I shall know by heart tomorrow."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000103_000000|D'Artagnan looked at his friends, as if to say, "Well, what did I tell you?"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000104_000000|"Now," continued he, addressing Planchet, "you have eight days to get an interview with Lord de Winter; you have eight days to return-in all sixteen days.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000106_000001|Remember, if you talk, if you babble, if you get drunk, you risk your master's head, who has so much confidence in your fidelity, and who answers for you.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000106_000002|But remember, also, that if by your fault any evil happens to d'Artagnan, I will find you, wherever you may be, for the purpose of ripping up your belly."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000108_000000|"And I," said Porthos, rolling his large eyes, "remember, I will skin you alive."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000109_000000|"Ah, monsieur!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000110_000000|"And I," said Aramis, with his soft, melodius voice, "remember that I will roast you at a slow fire, like a savage."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000111_000000|"Ah, monsieur!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000112_000001|We will not venture to say whether it was from terror created by the threats or from tenderness at seeing four friends so closely united.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000113_000000|D'Artagnan took his hand.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000115_000000|It was decided that Planchet should set out the next day, at eight o'clock in the morning, in order, as he had said, that he might during the night learn the letter by heart.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000115_000001|He gained just twelve hours by this engagement; he was to be back on the sixteenth day, by eight o'clock in the evening.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000116_000000|In the morning, as he was mounting his horse, d'Artagnan, who felt at the bottom of his heart a partiality for the duke, took Planchet aside.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000117_000001|"When you have given the letter to Lord de Winter and he has read it, you will further say to him: Watch over his Grace Lord Buckingham, for they wish to assassinate him.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000000|The four friends, during the period of these two absences, had, as may well be supposed, the eye on the watch, the nose to the wind, and the ear on the hark.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000001|Their days were passed in endeavoring to catch all that was said, in observing the proceeding of the cardinal, and in looking out for all the couriers who arrived.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000002|More than once an involuntary trembling seized them when called upon for some unexpected service.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000003|They had, besides, to look constantly to their own proper safety; Milady was a phantom which, when it had once appeared to people, did not allow them to sleep very quietly.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000123_000000|The four friends exchanged a joyful glance; half of the work was done. It is true, however, that it was the shorter and easier part.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000124_000000|Aramis, blushing in spite of himself, took the letter, which was in a large, coarse hand and not particular for its orthography.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000126_000000|"What does you mean by boor Michon?" said the Swiss, who was chatting with the four friends when the letter came.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000127_000000|"Oh, pardieu, less than nothing," said Aramis; "a charming little seamstress, whom I love dearly and from whose hand I requested a few lines as a sort of keepsake."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000129_000000|Aramis read the letter, and passed it to Athos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000132_000000|"My cousin,
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000133_000000|"My sister and I are skillful in interpreting dreams, and even entertain great fear of them; but of yours it may be said, I hope, every dream is an illusion.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000133_000002|Take care of yourself, and act so that we may from time to time hear you spoken of.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000135_000000|"And what dream does she mean?" asked the dragoon, who had approached during the reading.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000137_000000|"Well, pardieu!" said Aramis, "it was only this: I had a dream, and I related it to her."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000139_000000|"You are very fortunate," said Athos, rising; "I wish I could say as much!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000140_000000|"Neffer," replied the Swiss, enchanted that a man like Athos could envy him anything.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000140_000001|"Neffer, neffer!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000141_000000|D'Artagnan, seeing Athos rise, did likewise, took his arm, and went out.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000000|But, as we have said, Bazin had not, by his fortunate return, removed more than a part of the uneasiness which weighed upon the four friends. The days of expectation are long, and d'Artagnan, in particular, would have wagered that the days were forty four hours.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000001|He forgot the necessary slowness of navigation; he exaggerated to himself the power of Milady.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000003|Still further, his confidence in the worthy Picard, at one time so great, diminished day by day.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000004|This anxiety became so great that it even extended to Aramis and Porthos.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000000|"Really," said Athos to them, "you are not men but children, to let a woman terrify you so!
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000001|And what does it amount to, after all?
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000002|To be imprisoned.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000003|Well, but we should be taken out of prison; Madame Bonacieux was released.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000004|To be decapitated?
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000005|Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that-for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000147_000000|"But if he does not come?" said d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000148_000000|"Well, if he does not come, it will be because he has been delayed, that's all.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000148_000001|He may have fallen from his horse, he may have cut a caper from the deck; he may have traveled so fast against the wind as to have brought on a violent catarrh.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000148_000003|Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000149_000000|"That's all very well," replied d'Artagnan; "but I am tired of fearing when I open a fresh bottle that the wine may come from the cellar of Milady."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000150_000000|"You are very fastidious," said Athos; "such a beautiful woman!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000151_000000|"A woman of mark!" said Porthos, with his loud laugh.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000152_000000|Athos started, passed his hand over his brow to remove the drops of perspiration that burst forth, and rose in his turn with a nervous movement he could not repress.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000000|The day, however, passed away; and the evening came on slowly, but finally it came.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000001|The bars were filled with drinkers.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000004|They were playing together, as usual, when seven o'clock sounded; the patrol was heard passing to double the posts.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000005|At half past seven the retreat was sounded.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000155_000001|"Come, gentlemen," said he, "they are beating the tattoo.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000155_000002|Let us to bed!"
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000156_000002|Aramis mumbled verses to himself, and Porthos from time to time pulled a hair or two from his mustache, in sign of despair.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000157_000000|But all at once a shadow appeared in the darkness the outline of which was familiar to d'Artagnan, and a well-known voice said, "Monsieur, I have brought your cloak; it is chilly this evening."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000160_000001|He promised to be back by eight o'clock, and eight is striking.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000165_000000|"That's well," said Athos, "let us go home and read it."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000166_000001|He wished to hasten their steps; but Athos took his arm and passed it under his own, and the young man was forced to regulate his pace by that of his friend.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000168_000000|It contained half a line, in a hand perfectly British, and with a conciseness as perfectly Spartan:
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000169_000000|Thank you; be easy.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000170_000000|d'Artagnan translated this for the others.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000171_000000|Athos took the letter from the hands of d'Artagnan, approached the lamp, set fire to the paper, and did not let go till it was reduced to a cinder.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000174_000000|"Well!" cried d'Artagnan, "tell us all about it."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000177_000000|"So be it," said d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000177_000001|"Go to bed, Planchet, and sleep soundly."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000178_000000|"My faith, monsieur! that will be the first time I have done so for sixteen days."
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000179_000000|"And me, too!" said d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000181_000000|"And me, too!" said Aramis.
train-clean-360/126/125084/126_125084_000002_000003|A thick cloak, gathered by a belt at the waist, enwraps the stalwart figure.
train-clean-360/126/125084/126_125084_000008_000002|Aaron founded a settlement.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty five.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000005_000000|In that snug anchorage he found his fleet awaiting him-the four ships which had been separated in that gale off the Lesser Antilles, and some seven hundred men composing their crews.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000005_000002|Guns were fired in his honour and the ships made themselves gay with bunting. The town, aroused by all this noise in the harbour, emptied itself upon the jetty, and a vast crowd of men and women of all creeds and nationalities collected there to be present at the coming ashore of the great buccaneer.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000006_000001|His mood was taciturn; his face grim and sneering.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000009_000000|At first the buccaneers jumped to the conclusion that Wolverstone was following with some rare prize of war, but gradually from the reduced crew of the Arabella a very different tale leaked out to stem their satisfaction and convert it into perplexity.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000009_000001|Partly out of loyalty to their captain, partly because they perceived that if he was guilty of defection they were guilty with him, and partly because being simple, sturdy men of their hands, they were themselves in the main a little confused as to what really had happened, the crew of the Arabella practised reticence with their brethren in Tortuga during those two days before Wolverstone's arrival.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000012_000000|The sight of the Arabella at anchor in the bay had at first amazed him as he sailed round the rocky headland that bore the fort.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000015_000000|Dyke repeated his question.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000015_000001|This time Wolverstone answered him.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000017_000000|"But I see the Arabella."
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000018_000000|"Of course, since there she rides.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000018_000001|What else was you expecting?"
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000019_000000|"Expecting?" Dyke stared at him, open mouthed.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000019_000001|"Was you expecting to find the Arabella here?"
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000020_000000|Wolverstone looked him over in contempt, then laughed and spoke loud enough to be heard by all around him.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000020_000001|"Of course.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000021_000001|Wolverstone congratulated himself upon the discretion he had used with Dyke.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000001|"It's not his way to be sounding his own praises.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000002|Why, it was like this.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000004|The Captain damned his soul to hell for answer.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000006|So I goes to him, and 'accept this poxy commission,' says I; 'turn King's man and save your neck and ours.' He took me at my word, and the London pimp gave him the King's commission on the spot, and Bishop all but choked hisself with rage when he was told of it.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000007|But happened it had, and he was forced to swallow it.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000009|But Bishop didn't trust us.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000010|He knew too much.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000013|But that hound Bishop had passed the word, and the fort kept a sharp lookout.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000014|In the end, though it took a fortnight, Blood bubbled him.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000016|His game-as he'd secretly told me-was to follow and give chase.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000023_000000|There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000023_000001|He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000024_000000|Having delivered himself of his decoction of fact and falsehood, and thereby added one more to the exploits of peter Blood, he enquired where the Captain might be found.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000024_000001|Being informed that he kept his ship, Wolverstone stepped into a boat and went aboard, to report himself, as he put it.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000025_000001|As Wolverstone came in, the Captain raised bloodshot eyes to consider him.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000025_000002|A moment they sharpened in their gaze as he brought his visitor into focus.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000025_000003|Then he laughed, a loose, idiot laugh, that yet somehow was half a sneer.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000026_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000026_000001|The Old Wolf!" said he.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000026_000002|"Got here at last, eh?
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000000|Old Wolverstone stared at him in sombre silence.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000001|He had looked with untroubled eye upon many a hell of devilment in his time, but the sight of Captain Blood in this condition filled him with sudden grief.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000003|It was his only expression for emotion of all kinds.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000004|Then he rolled forward, and dropped into a chair at the table, facing the Captain.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000029_000001|"Rum, from Jamaica." He pushed bottle and glass towards Wolverstone.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000031_000000|"I'm asking you what ails you?" he bawled.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000033_000000|"I've done it," said Wolverstone.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000035_000001|The Captain steadied himself to grasp it.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000037_000001|"Meanwhile ye'll please to remember the tale I've told, and say nothing that'll make me out a liar.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000039_000001|"We'll talk again to morrow."
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000040_000002|Rum was in itself an effect, and not by any means the cause of the Captain's listless apathy.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000040_000004|He cursed all things that daggled petticoats, and, knowing his world, waited for the sickness to pass.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000041_000000|But it did not pass.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000041_000002|His friends at Government House, bewildered at this change in him, sought to reclaim him.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000042_000000|Later, as the rainy season approached its end, he was sought by his captains with proposals of remunerative raids on Spanish settlements. But to all he manifested an indifference which, as the weeks passed and the weather became settled, begot first impatience and then exasperation.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000043_000000|Christian, who commanded the Clotho, came storming to him one day, upbraiding him for his inaction, and demanding that he should take order about what was to do.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000044_000001|Christian departed fuming, and on the morrow the Clotho weighed anchor and sailed away, setting an example of desertion from which the loyalty of Blood's other captains would soon be unable to restrain their men.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000045_000002|Neither backward nor forward could he move, it seemed.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000046_000001|He had entirely lost the almost foppish concern for his appearance, and was grown careless and slovenly in his dress.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000047_000000|Wolverstone, the only one who held the clue to this degeneration, ventured once-and once only-to beard him frankly about it.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000049_000000|The blue eyes glared at him from under the jet black eyebrows, and something of their old fire began to kindle in them.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000001|That's not the Old Wolf's way.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000002|If there's no other expedition'll tempt you, why not Port Royal?
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000003|What a plague do it matter if it is an English settlement?
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000004|It's commanded by Colonel Bishop, and there's no lack of rascals in your company'd follow you to hell if it meant getting Colonel Bishop by the throat.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000005|It could be done, I tell you.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000007|There's enough plunder in the town to tempt the lads, and there's the wench for you.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000052_000001|And Wolverstone, in terror before that fury, went out without another word.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000052_000002|The subject was not raised again, and Captain Blood was left to his idle abstraction.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000058_000000|"You have a good force here under your command, my Captain," said he.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000065_000000|"News has reached us from France that there is war with Spain."
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000000|"I am speaking officially, my Captain.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000001|I am not alluding to unofficial skirmishes, and unofficial predatory measures which we have condoned out here.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000002|There is war-formally war-between France and Spain in Europe.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000005|I have letters from him desiring me to equip a supplementary squadron and raise a body of not less than a thousand men to reenforce him on his arrival.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000068_000000|Blood looked at him with a faint kindling of interest.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000068_000001|"You are offering to take us into the French service?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000068_000002|"On what terms, monsieur?"
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000069_000000|"With the rank of Capitaine de Vaisseau for yourself, and suitable ranks for the officers serving under you.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000069_000001|You will enjoy the pay of that rank, and you will be entitled, together with your men, to one tenth share in all prizes taken."
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000070_000000|"My men will hardly account it generous.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000070_000001|They will tell you that they can sail out of here to morrow, disembowel a Spanish settlement, and keep the whole of the plunder."
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000071_000002|So that the one tenth in this case may be equal to more than the whole in the other."
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000072_000000|Captain Blood considered.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000073_000000|"I will consult my officers," he said; and he sent for them.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000074_000004|For one fifth of the prizes, the officers would answer for their men; not for less.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000075_000001|He had his instructions.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000075_000002|It was taking a deal upon himself to exceed them.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000075_000003|The buccaneers were firm.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000076_000000|After that followed days of activity in Tortuga, refitting the ships, boucanning meat, laying in stores.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000076_000001|In these matters which once would have engaged all Captain Blood's attention, he now took no part. He continued listless and aloof.
train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000076_000003|But his consent remained passive.
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000010_000000|"Goodness gracious!" cried Betsy.
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000036_000000|"Brother!
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000036_000001|Brother!"
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000041_000000|"Free!
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000043_000000|"Do you know what they have done to me?" came the answer through the closed door.
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000044_000000|"no Tell me, Brother, what have they done?"
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000047_000000|"She was right!
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000050_000000|"Poor Brother!" repeated Shaggy.
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000060_000000|Shaggy looked at the little square of cloth and shook his head.
train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000064_000001|Then it closed again.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty six.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000000_000002|DODSON AND FOGG
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000001_000001|Lastly, the two vixenish ladies and the heavy gentleman were giving the driver contradictory directions, all tending to the one point, that he should stop at mrs Bardell's door; which the heavy gentleman, in direct opposition to, and defiance of, the vixenish ladies, contended was a green door and not a yellow one.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000002_000000|'Stop at the house with a green door, driver,' said the heavy gentleman.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000003_000000|'Oh!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000005_000000|'Now vere am I to pull up?' inquired the driver.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000005_000001|'Settle it among yourselves.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000009_000000|'Aggrawatin' thing!' said the vixenish lady last mentioned, darting a withering glance at the heavy gentleman.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000010_000000|'My dear, it's not my fault,' said the gentleman.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000011_000000|'Don't talk to me, you creetur, don't,' retorted the lady.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000011_000001|'The house with the red door, cabmin.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000011_000002|Oh!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000012_000000|'You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Raddle,' said the other little woman, who was no other than mrs Cluppins. 'What have I been a doing of?' asked mr Raddle.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000013_000000|'Don't talk to me, don't, you brute, for fear I should be perwoked to forgit my sect and strike you!' said mrs Raddle.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000014_000003|The whole edge of the thing had been taken off-it was flatter than walking.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000015_000000|'Well, Tommy,' said mrs Cluppins, 'how's your poor dear mother?'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000016_000000|'Oh, she's very well,' replied Master Bardell. 'She's in the front parlour, all ready.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000016_000001|I'm ready too, I am.' Here Master Bardell put his hands in his pockets, and jumped off and on the bottom step of the door.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000018_000000|'mrs
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000018_000001|Sanders is going, she is,' replied Tommy; 'I'm going too, I am.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000019_000000|'Drat the boy,' said little mrs Cluppins. 'He thinks of nobody but himself.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000019_000001|Here, Tommy, dear.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000021_000000|'Who else is a goin', lovey?' said mrs Cluppins, in an insinuating manner.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000022_000000|'Oh! mrs Rogers is a goin',' replied Master Bardell, opening his eyes very wide as he delivered the intelligence.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000023_000000|'What?
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000023_000001|The lady as has taken the lodgings!' ejaculated mrs Cluppins.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000024_000000|Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty five times, to imply that it was the lady lodger, and no other.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000025_000000|'Bless us!' said mrs Cluppins.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000025_000001|'It's quite a party!'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000027_000000|'What is there, Tommy?' said mrs Cluppins coaxingly.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000028_000001|Come, Tommy, tell your dear Cluppy.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000029_000000|'Mother said I wasn't to,' rejoined Master Bardell, 'I'm a goin' to have some, I am.' Cheered by this prospect, the precocious boy applied himself to his infantile treadmill, with increased vigour.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000032_000000|'It's put me all over in such a tremble, Betsy,' replied mrs Raddle. 'Raddle ain't like a man; he leaves everythink to me.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000033_000000|This was scarcely fair upon the unfortunate mr Raddle, who had been thrust aside by his good lady in the commencement of the dispute, and peremptorily commanded to hold his tongue.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000034_000000|'Ah, poor thing!' said mrs Rogers, 'I know what her feelin's is, too well.' 'Ah, poor thing! so do I,' said mrs Sanders; and then all the ladies moaned in unison, and said they knew what it was, and they pitied her from their hearts, they did.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000034_000001|Even the lodger's little servant, who was thirteen years old and three feet high, murmured her sympathy.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000036_000000|'Ah, what has decomposed you, ma'am?' inquired mrs Rogers.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000037_000000|'I have been a good deal flurried,' replied mrs Raddle, in a reproachful manner.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000037_000001|Thereupon the ladies cast indignant glances at mr Raddle.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000040_000000|All the ladies concurred in this opinion; so mr Raddle was pushed out of the room, and requested to give himself an airing in the back yard. Which he did for about a quarter of an hour, when mrs Bardell announced to him with a solemn face that he might come in now, but that he must be very careful how he behaved towards his wife.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000041_000000|'Why, mrs Rogers, ma'am,' said mrs Bardell, 'you've never been introduced, I declare!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000041_000001|mr Raddle, ma'am; mrs Cluppins, ma'am; mrs Raddle, ma'am.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000042_000000|'Which is mrs Cluppins's sister,' suggested mrs Sanders.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000043_000000|'Oh, indeed!' said mrs Rogers graciously; for she was the lodger, and her servant was in waiting, so she was more gracious than intimate, in right of her position.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000043_000001|'Oh, indeed!'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000044_000000|mrs Raddle smiled sweetly, mr Raddle bowed, and mrs Cluppins said, 'she was sure she was very happy to have an opportunity of being known to a lady which she had heerd so much in favour of, as mrs Rogers.' A compliment which the last named lady acknowledged with graceful condescension.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000045_000000|'Well, mr Raddle,' said mrs Bardell; 'I'm sure you ought to feel very much honoured at you and Tommy being the only gentlemen to escort so many ladies all the way to the Spaniards, at Hampstead.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000046_000001|'Indeed, to tell you the truth, I said, as we was a coming along in the cabrioily-'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000049_000001|mrs Bardell was unanimously voted into the chair, and mrs Rogers being stationed on her right hand, and mrs Raddle on her left, the meal proceeded with great merriment and success.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000050_000000|'How sweet the country is, to be sure!' sighed mrs Rogers; 'I almost wish I lived in it always.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000051_000000|'Oh, you wouldn't like that, ma'am,' replied mrs Bardell, rather hastily; for it was not at all advisable, with reference to the lodgings, to encourage such notions; 'you wouldn't like it, ma'am.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000052_000000|'Oh!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000053_000000|'Perhaps I am, ma'am.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000053_000001|Perhaps I am,' sighed the first floor lodger.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000054_000000|'For lone people as have got nobody to care for them, or take care of them, or as have been hurt in their mind, or that kind of thing,' observed mr Raddle, plucking up a little cheerfulness, and looking round, 'the country is all very well.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000054_000001|The country for a wounded spirit, they say.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000055_000000|Now, of all things in the world that the unfortunate man could have said, any would have been preferable to this.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000055_000001|Of course mrs Bardell burst into tears, and requested to be led from the table instantly; upon which the affectionate child began to cry too, most dismally.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000056_000000|'Would anybody believe, ma'am,' exclaimed mrs Raddle, turning fiercely to the first floor lodger, 'that a woman could be married to such a unmanly creetur, which can tamper with a woman's feelings as he does, every hour in the day, ma'am?'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000057_000000|'My dear,' remonstrated mr Raddle, 'I didn't mean anything, my dear.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000058_000000|'You didn't mean!' repeated mrs Raddle, with great scorn and contempt. 'Go away.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000058_000001|I can't bear the sight on you, you brute.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000059_000000|'You must not flurry yourself, Mary Ann,' interposed mrs Cluppins.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000059_000001|'You really must consider yourself, my dear, which you never do.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000059_000002|Now go away, Raddle, there's a good soul, or you'll only aggravate her.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000061_000000|mrs Sanders, who, according to custom, was very busy with the bread and butter, expressed the same opinion, and mr Raddle quietly retired.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000062_000001|But that description of fainting fits, which is contagious among ladies, seldom lasts long; so when he had been well kissed, and a little cried over, mrs Bardell recovered, set him down again, wondering how she could have been so foolish, and poured out some more tea.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000063_000000|It was at this moment, that the sound of approaching wheels was heard, and that the ladies, looking up, saw a hackney coach stop at the garden gate.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000064_000000|'More company!' said mrs Sanders.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000065_000000|'It's a gentleman,' said mrs Raddle.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000066_000001|Surely mr Pickwick can't have paid the damages.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000067_000000|'Or hoffered marriage!' said mrs Cluppins.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000068_000000|'Dear me, how slow the gentleman is,'exclaimed mrs Rogers.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000068_000001|'Why doesn't he make haste!'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000069_000000|As the lady spoke these words, mr Jackson turned from the coach where he had been addressing some observations to a shabby man in black leggings, who had just emerged from the vehicle with a thick ash stick in his hand, and made his way to the place where the ladies were seated; winding his hair round the brim of his hat, as he came along.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000069_000001|'Is anything the matter?
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000070_000000|'Nothing whatever, ma'am,' replied mr Jackson.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000070_000002|mrs Rogers whispered mrs Raddle that he was really an elegant young man.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000071_000000|'I called in Goswell Street,' resumed mr Jackson, 'and hearing that you were here, from the slavey, took a coach and came on.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000072_000000|'Lor!' ejaculated that lady, starting at the sudden nature of the communication.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000073_000000|'Yes,' said mr Jackson, biting his lip.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000073_000001|'It's very important and pressing business, which can't be postponed on any account.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000073_000003|I've kept the coach on purpose for you to go back in.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000075_000000|The ladies agreed that it WAS very strange, but were unanimously of opinion that it must be very important, or Dodson and Fogg would never have sent; and further, that the business being urgent, she ought to repair to Dodson and Fogg's without any delay.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000076_000000|There was a certain degree of pride and importance about being wanted by one's lawyers in such a monstrous hurry, that was by no means displeasing to mrs Bardell, especially as it might be reasonably supposed to enhance her consequence in the eyes of the first floor lodger.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000077_000000|'But won't you refresh yourself after your walk, mr Jackson?' said mrs Bardell persuasively.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000079_000000|'Oh, ask your friend to come here, Sir,' said mrs Bardell. 'Pray ask your friend here, Sir.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000080_000000|'Why, thank'ee, I'd rather not,' said mr Jackson, with some embarrassment of manner.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000080_000001|'He's not much used to ladies' society, and it makes him bashful.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000080_000002|If you'll order the waiter to deliver him anything short, he won't drink it off at once, won't he!--only try him!' mr Jackson's fingers wandered playfully round his nose at this portion of his discourse, to warn his hearers that he was speaking ironically.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000081_000000|The waiter was at once despatched to the bashful gentleman, and the bashful gentleman took something; mr Jackson also took something, and the ladies took something, for hospitality's sake.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000081_000001|mr Jackson then said he was afraid it was time to go; upon which, mrs Sanders, mrs Cluppins, and Tommy (who it was arranged should accompany mrs Bardell, leaving the others to mr Raddle's protection), got into the coach.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000082_000000|'Isaac,' said Jackson, as mrs Bardell prepared to get in, looking up at the man with the ash stick, who was seated on the box, smoking a cigar.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000083_000000|'Well?'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000084_000000|'This is mrs Bardell.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000086_000000|mrs Bardell got in, mr Jackson got in after her, and away they drove. mrs Bardell could not help ruminating on what mr Jackson's friend had said.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000086_000001|Shrewd creatures, those lawyers.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000086_000002|Lord bless us, how they find people out!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000087_000000|'Sad thing about these costs of our people's, ain't it,' said Jackson, when mrs Cluppins and mrs Sanders had fallen asleep; 'your bill of costs, I mean.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000088_000000|'I'm very sorry they can't get them,' replied mrs Bardell. 'But if you law gentlemen do these things on speculation, why you must get a loss now and then, you know.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000090_000000|'Yes.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000091_000000|'Certainly,' replied Jackson drily.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000091_000002|Quite.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000092_000000|On they drove, and mrs Bardell fell asleep.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000092_000001|She was awakened, after some time, by the stopping of the coach.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000093_000000|'Bless us!' said the lady.'Are we at Freeman's Court?'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000094_000000|'We're not going quite so far,' replied Jackson.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000094_000001|'Have the goodness to step out.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000095_000000|mrs Bardell, not yet thoroughly awake, complied.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000096_000000|'Now, ladies,' cried the man with the ash stick, looking into the coach, and shaking mrs Sanders to wake her, 'Come!' Rousing her friend, mrs Sanders alighted.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000096_000001|mrs Bardell, leaning on Jackson's arm, and leading Tommy by the hand, had already entered the porch.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000096_000002|They followed.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000097_000000|The room they turned into was even more odd looking than the porch.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000097_000001|Such a number of men standing about!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000097_000002|And they stared so!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000098_000000|'What place is this?' inquired mrs Bardell, pausing.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000099_000000|'Only one of our public offices,' replied Jackson, hurrying her through a door, and looking round to see that the other women were following. 'Look sharp, Isaac!'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000100_000000|'Safe and sound,' replied the man with the ash stick.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000100_000001|The door swung heavily after them, and they descended a small flight of steps.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000101_000000|'Here we are at last.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000102_000000|'What do you mean?' said mrs Bardell, with a palpitating heart.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000002|It was their duty in the way of business, to take you in execution for them costs; but they were anxious to spare your feelings as much as they could.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000003|What a comfort it must be, to you, to think how it's been done!
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000004|This is the Fleet, ma'am. Wish you good night, mrs Bardell.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000005|Good night, Tommy!'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000104_000000|As Jackson hurried away in company with the man with the ash stick another man, with a key in his hand, who had been looking on, led the bewildered female to a second short flight of steps leading to a doorway.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000104_000001|mrs Bardell screamed violently; Tommy roared; mrs Cluppins shrunk within herself; and mrs Sanders made off, without more ado.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000105_000000|'Don't bother the woman,' said the turnkey to Weller; 'she's just come in.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000000|'A prisoner!' said Sam, quickly replacing his hat.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000001|'Who's the plaintives?
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000002|What for?
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000003|Speak up, old feller.'
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000108_000002|I want him directly.
train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000108_000003|I see some good in this.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000000_000001|IS CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO MATTERS OF BUSINESS, AND THE TEMPORAL ADVANTAGE OF DODSON AND FOGG-mr
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000000_000002|WINKLE REAPPEARS UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES-mr
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000000_000003|PICKWICK'S BENEVOLENCE PROVES STRONGER THAN HIS OBSTINACY
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000001_000002|mr Lowten had still to be ferreted out from the back parlour of the Magpie and Stump; and Job had scarcely accomplished this object, and communicated Sam Weller's message, when the clock struck ten.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000002_000000|'There,' said Lowten, 'it's too late now.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000002_000001|You can't get in to night; you've got the key of the street, my friend.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000003_000001|'I can sleep anywhere.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000003_000002|But won't it be better to see mr Perker to night, so that we may be there, the first thing in the morning?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000004_000001|Summoning the cab of most promising appearance, he directed the driver to repair to Montague Place, Russell Square.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000005_000000|mr Perker had had a dinner party that day, as was testified by the appearance of lights in the drawing room windows, the sound of an improved grand piano, and an improvable cabinet voice issuing therefrom, and a rather overpowering smell of meat which pervaded the steps and entry.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000006_000000|'Now, Lowten,' said little mr Perker, shutting the door,'what's the matter?
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000006_000001|No important letter come in a parcel, is there?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000007_000000|'No, Sir,' replied Lowten.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000007_000001|'This is a messenger from mr Pickwick, Sir.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000008_000000|'From Pickwick, eh?' said the little man, turning quickly to Job. 'Well, what is it?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000009_000000|'Dodson and Fogg have taken mrs Bardell in execution for her costs, Sir,' said Job.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000010_000000|'No!' exclaimed Perker, putting his hands in his pockets, and reclining against the sideboard.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000012_000000|'By Jove!' said Perker, taking both hands out of his pockets, and striking the knuckles of his right against the palm of his left, emphatically, 'those are the cleverest scamps I ever had anything to do with!'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000015_000001|When they had in some measure recovered from their trance of admiration, Job Trotter discharged himself of the rest of his commission.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000015_000002|Perker nodded his head thoughtfully, and pulled out his watch.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000016_000001|'Sam is quite right.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000016_000002|Tell him so.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000016_000003|Will you take a glass of wine, Lowten?' 'No, thank you, Sir.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000000|As Lowten DID mean yes, he said no more on the subject, but inquired of Job, in an audible whisper, whether the portrait of Perker, which hung opposite the fireplace, wasn't a wonderful likeness, to which Job of course replied that it was.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000001|The wine being by this time poured out, Lowten drank to mrs Perker and the children, and Job to Perker.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000002|The gentleman in the plush shorts and cottons considering it no part of his duty to show the people from the office out, consistently declined to answer the bell, and they showed themselves out.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000003|The attorney betook himself to his drawing room, the clerk to the Magpie and Stump, and Job to Covent Garden Market to spend the night in a vegetable basket.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000019_000000|Punctually at the appointed hour next morning, the good humoured little attorney tapped at mr Pickwick's door, which was opened with great alacrity by Sam Weller.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000020_000002|I rather think the gov'nor wants to have a word and a half with you, Sir.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000023_000000|Perker nodded and smiled.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000024_000000|mr Samuel Weller looked at the little lawyer, then at mr Pickwick, then at the ceiling, then at Perker again; grinned, laughed outright, and finally, catching up his hat from the carpet, without further explanation, disappeared.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000025_000000|'What does this mean?' inquired mr Pickwick, looking at Perker with astonishment.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000025_000001|'What has put Sam into this extraordinary state?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000026_000000|'Oh, nothing, nothing,' replied Perker. 'Come, my dear Sir, draw up your chair to the table.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000026_000001|I have a good deal to say to you.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000027_000000|'What papers are those?' inquired mr Pickwick, as the little man deposited on the table a small bundle of documents tied with red tape.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000028_000000|'The papers in Bardell and Pickwick,' replied Perker, undoing the knot with his teeth.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000031_000000|'No, I do not indeed,' replied mr Pickwick.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000032_000000|'Sorry for that,' resumed Perker, 'because it will form the subject of our conversation.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000033_000000|'I would rather that the subject should be never mentioned between us, Perker,' interposed mr Pickwick hastily.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000000|'Pooh, pooh, my dear Sir,' said the little man, untying the bundle, and glancing eagerly at mr Pickwick out of the corners of his eyes.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000001|'It must be mentioned.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000002|I have come here on purpose.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000003|Now, are you ready to hear what I have to say, my dear Sir?
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000004|No hurry; if you are not, I can wait.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000007|There!' Hereupon, the little man threw one leg over the other, and made a show of beginning to read with great composure and application.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000035_000000|'Well, well,' said mr Pickwick, with a sigh, but softening into a smile at the same time.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000035_000001|'Say what you have to say; it's the old story, I suppose?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000036_000000|'With a difference, my dear Sir; with a difference,' rejoined Perker, deliberately folding up the paper and putting it into his pocket again. 'mrs
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000036_000001|Bardell, the plaintiff in the action, is within these walls, Sir.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000037_000000|'I know it,' was mr Pickwick's reply.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000038_000000|'Very good,' retorted Perker.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000038_000001|'And you know how she comes here, I suppose; I mean on what grounds, and at whose suit?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000039_000000|'Yes; at least I have heard Sam's account of the matter,' said mr Pickwick, with affected carelessness.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000040_000000|'Sam's account of the matter,' replied Perker, 'is, I will venture to say, a perfectly correct one.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000040_000001|Well now, my dear Sir, the first question I have to ask, is, whether this woman is to remain here?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000041_000000|'To remain here!' echoed mr Pickwick.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000043_000001|'It rests with Dodson and Fogg; you know that very well.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000044_000000|'I know nothing of the kind,' retorted Perker firmly.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000044_000001|'It does NOT rest with Dodson and Fogg; you know the men, my dear Sir, as well as I do.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000044_000002|It rests solely, wholly, and entirely with you.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000045_000000|'With me!' ejaculated mr Pickwick, rising nervously from his chair, and reseating himself directly afterwards.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000046_000000|The little man gave a double knock on the lid of his snuff box, opened it, took a great pinch, shut it up again, and repeated the words, 'With you.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000047_000000|'I say, my dear Sir,' resumed the little man, who seemed to gather confidence from the snuff-'I say, that her speedy liberation or perpetual imprisonment rests with you, and with you alone.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000048_000000|mr Pickwick, whose face had been undergoing most surprising changes during this speech, and was evidently on the verge of a strong burst of indignation, calmed his wrath as well as he could.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000048_000001|Perker, strengthening his argumentative powers with another pinch of snuff, proceeded-
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000049_000000|'I have seen the woman, this morning.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000050_000000|'If I pay her costs for her,' said mr Pickwick indignantly.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000050_000001|'A valuable document, indeed!'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000051_000000|'No "if" in the case, my dear Sir,' said Perker triumphantly.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000051_000001|'There is the very letter I speak of.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000052_000000|'Is this all you have to say to me?' inquired mr Pickwick mildly.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000000|'Not quite,' replied Perker.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000002|I do mean to say, however, that the whole facts, taken together, will be sufficient to justify you, in the minds of all reasonable men.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000003|And now, my dear Sir, I put it to you.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000004|This one hundred and fifty pounds, or whatever it may be-take it in round numbers-is nothing to you.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000005|A jury had decided against you; well, their verdict is wrong, but still they decided as they thought right, and it IS against you.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000055_000001|Who is that?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000056_000000|'Me, Sir,' replied Sam Weller, putting in his head.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000057_000000|'I can't speak to you just now, Sam,' said mr Pickwick. 'I am engaged at this moment, Sam.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000059_000000|'I can't see any lady,' replied mr Pickwick, whose mind was filled with visions of mrs Bardell.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000061_000000|'Who is it?' inquired mr Pickwick.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000063_000000|'I suppose I must,' said mr Pickwick, looking at Perker.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000065_000000|As Sam Weller spoke, he threw the door open, and there rushed tumultuously into the room, mr Nathaniel Winkle, leading after him by the hand, the identical young lady who at Dingley Dell had worn the boots with the fur round the tops, and who, now a very pleasing compound of blushes and confusion, and lilac silk, and a smart bonnet, and a rich lace veil, looked prettier than ever.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000066_000000|'Miss Arabella Allen!' exclaimed mr Pickwick, rising from his chair.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000067_000001|'mrs
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000067_000002|Winkle.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000069_000001|'Can you forgive my imprudence?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000002|'Why, my dear girl,' said mr Pickwick, 'how has all this come about?
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000003|Come!
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000004|Sit down, and let me hear it all.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000005|How well she looks, doesn't she, Perker?' added mr Pickwick, surveying Arabella's face with a look of as much pride and exultation, as if she had been his daughter.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000071_000000|'Delightful, my dear Sir,' replied the little man.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000072_000001|'I shall not forget your exertions in the garden at Clifton.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000074_000000|'Mary, my dear, sit down,' said mr Pickwick, cutting short these compliments.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000075_000000|Arabella looked bashfully at her lord and master, who replied, 'Only three days.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000076_000000|'Only three days, eh?' said mr Pickwick. 'Why, what have you been doing these three months?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000077_000000|'Ah, to be sure!' interposed Perker; 'come, account for this idleness. You see mr Pickwick's only astonishment is, that it wasn't all over, months ago.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000078_000001|And when I had persuaded her, it was a long time more before we could find an opportunity.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000078_000003|And is your brother acquainted with all this, my dear?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000079_000000|'Oh, no, no,' replied Arabella, changing colour.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000079_000001|'Dear mr Pickwick, he must only know it from you-from your lips alone.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000079_000002|He is so violent, so prejudiced, and has been so-so anxious in behalf of his friend, mr Sawyer,' added Arabella, looking down, 'that I fear the consequences dreadfully.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000000|'Ah, to be sure,' said Perker gravely.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000001|'You must take this matter in hand for them, my dear sir.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000003|You must prevent mischief, my dear Sir.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000004|Hot blood, hot blood.' And the little man took a warning pinch, and shook his head doubtfully.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000081_000000|'You forget, my love,' said mr Pickwick gently, 'you forget that I am a prisoner.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000000|'No, indeed I do not, my dear Sir,' replied Arabella. 'I never have forgotten it.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000001|I have never ceased to think how great your sufferings must have been in this shocking place.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000003|If my brother hears of this, first, from you, I feel certain we shall be reconciled.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000004|He is my only relation in the world, mr Pickwick, and unless you plead for me, I fear I have lost even him.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000005|I have done wrong, very, very wrong, I know.'Here poor Arabella hid her face in her handkerchief, and wept bitterly.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000083_000000|mr Pickwick's nature was a good deal worked upon, by these same tears; but when mrs Winkle, drying her eyes, took to coaxing and entreating in the sweetest tones of a very sweet voice, he became particularly restless, and evidently undecided how to act, as was evinced by sundry nervous rubbings of his spectacle glasses, nose, tights, head, and gaiters.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000085_000000|mr Tupman and mr Snodgrass arrived, most opportunely, in this stage of the pleadings, and as it was necessary to explain to them all that had occurred, together with the various reasons pro and con, the whole of the arguments were gone over again, after which everybody urged every argument in his own way, and at his own length.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000087_000000|At three o'clock that afternoon, mr Pickwick took a last look at his little room, and made his way, as well as he could, through the throng of debtors who pressed eagerly forward to shake him by the hand, until he reached the lodge steps.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000087_000001|He turned here, to look about him, and his eye lightened as he did so.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000087_000002|In all the crowd of wan, emaciated faces, he saw not one which was not happier for his sympathy and charity.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000089_000000|'Very good, my dear Sir,' replied Perker, looking hard at Jingle. 'You will see me again, young man, to morrow.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000089_000001|I hope you may live to remember and feel deeply, what I shall have to communicate, Sir.'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000090_000000|Jingle bowed respectfully, trembled very much as he took mr Pickwick's proffered hand, and withdrew.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000091_000000|'Job you know, I think?' said mr Pickwick, presenting that gentleman.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000000|'I know the rascal,' replied Perker good humouredly.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000001|'See after your friend, and be in the way to morrow at one.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000002|Do you hear?
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000003|Now, is there anything more?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000093_000001|'You have delivered the little parcel I gave you for your old landlord, Sam?'
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000094_000000|'I have, Sir,' replied Sam.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000095_000000|As mr Pickwick uttered this adieu, the crowd raised a loud shout.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000095_000001|Many among them were pressing forward to shake him by the hand again, when he drew his arm through Perker's, and hurried from the prison, far more sad and melancholy, for the moment, than when he had first entered it.
train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000097_000000|'Sir,' called out mr Weller to his master.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000003_000000|POETRY AND PRISON
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000004_000000|(Pall Mall Gazette, january third eighteen eighty nine.)
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000000|Prison has had an admirable effect on mr Wilfrid Blunt as a poet.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000002|Their subject was not of high or serious import.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000004|'Imprisonment,' says mr Blunt in his preface, 'is a reality of discipline most useful to the modern soul, lapped as it is in physical sloth and self indulgence.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000005|Like a sickness or a spiritual retreat it purifies and ennobles; and the soul emerges from it stronger and more self-contained.' To him, certainly, it has been a mode of purification.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000007|They are, of course, intensely personal in expression.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000009|But the personality that they reveal has nothing petty or ignoble about it.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000010|The petulant cry of the shallow egoist which was the chief characteristic of the Love Sonnets of Proteus is not to be found here.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000011|In its place we have wild grief and terrible scorn, fierce rage and flame like passion. Such a sonnet as the following comes out of the very fire of heart and brain:
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000006_000000|God knows, 'twas not with a fore reasoned plan I left the easeful dwellings of my peace, And sought this combat with ungodly Man, And ceaseless still through years that do not cease Have warred with Powers and Principalities. My natural soul, ere yet these strifes began, Was as a sister diligent to please And loving all, and most the human clan.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000000|God knows it.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000001|And He knows how the world's tears Touched me.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000002|And He is witness of my wrath, How it was kindled against murderers Who slew for gold, and how upon their path I met them.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000003|Since which day the World in arms Strikes at my life with angers and alarms.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000008_000000|And this sonnet has all the strange strength of that despair which is but the prelude to a larger hope:
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000009_000000|I thought to do a deed of chivalry, An act of worth, which haply in her sight Who was my mistress should recorded be And of the nations.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000009_000001|And, when thus the fight Faltered and men once bold with faces white Turned this and that way in excuse to flee, I only stood, and by the foeman's might Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000011_000000|The sonnet beginning
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000012_000000|A prison is a convent without God- Poverty, Chastity, Obedience Its precepts are:
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000013_000000|is very fine; and this, written just after entering the gaol, is powerful:
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000014_000000|Naked I came into the world of pleasure, And naked come I to this house of pain. Here at the gate I lay down my life's treasure, My pride, my garments and my name with men. The world and I henceforth shall be as twain, No sound of me shall pierce for good or ill These walls of grief.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000014_000001|Nor shall I hear the vain Laughter and tears of those who love me still.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000015_000000|Within, what new life waits me!
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000015_000002|Yet, Lord of Might, Still in Thy light my spirit shall see light.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000016_000001|Literature is not much indebted to mr Balfour for his sophistical Defence of Philosophic Doubt which is one of the dullest books we know, but it must be admitted that by sending mr Blunt to gaol he has converted a clever rhymer into an earnest and deep thinking poet.
train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000016_000002|The narrow confines of the prison cell seem to suit the 'sonnet's scanty plot of ground,' and an unjust imprisonment for a noble cause strengthens as well as deepens the nature.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000000|If any one could point out an intermediate and yet a tenable position between the complete independence and the entire subjection of the public expression of opinion, I should perhaps be inclined to adopt it; but the difficulty is to discover this position.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000001|If it is your intention to correct the abuses of unlicensed printing and to restore the use of orderly language, you may in the first instance try the offender by a jury; but if the jury acquits him, the opinion which was that of a single individual becomes the opinion of the country at large.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000002|Too much and too little has therefore hitherto been done.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000005|Too much has still been done to recede, too little to attain your end; you must therefore proceed.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000006|If you establish a censorship of the press, the tongue of the public speaker will still make itself heard, and you have only increased the mischief.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000007|The powers of thought do not rely, like the powers of physical strength, upon the number of their mechanical agents, nor can a host of authors be reckoned like the troops which compose an army; on the contrary, the authority of a principle is often increased by the smallness of the number of men by whom it is expressed.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000008|The words of a strong minded man, which penetrate amidst the passions of a listening assembly, have more power than the vociferations of a thousand orators; and if it be allowed to speak freely in any public place, the consequence is the same as if free speaking was allowed in every village.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000009|The liberty of discourse must therefore be destroyed as well as the liberty of the press; this is the necessary term of your efforts; but if your object was to repress the abuses of liberty, they have brought you to the feet of a despot.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000010|You have been led from the extreme of independence to the extreme of subjection without meeting with a single tenable position for shelter or repose.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000000|There are certain nations which have peculiar reasons for cherishing the liberty of the press, independently of the general motives which I have just pointed out.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000001|For in certain countries which profess to enjoy the privileges of freedom every individual agent of the Government may violate the laws with impunity, since those whom he oppresses cannot prosecute him before the courts of justice.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000002|In this case the liberty of the press is not merely a guarantee, but it is the only guarantee, of their liberty and their security which the citizens possess.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000003|If the rulers of these nations propose to abolish the independence of the press, the people would be justified in saying: Give us the right of prosecuting your offences before the ordinary tribunals, and perhaps we may then waive our right of appeal to the tribunal of public opinion.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000002_000000|But in the countries in which the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people ostensibly prevails, the censorship of the press is not only dangerous, but it is absurd.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000002_000001|When the right of every citizen to co-operate in the government of society is acknowledged, every citizen must be presumed to possess the power of discriminating between the different opinions of his contemporaries, and of appreciating the different facts from which inferences may be drawn.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000002_000003|The first newspaper over which I cast my eyes, upon my arrival in America, contained the following article:
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000003_000002|He succeeded at the time, but the hour of retribution approaches, and he will be obliged to disgorge his winnings, to throw aside his false dice, and to end his days in some retirement, where he may curse his madness at his leisure; for repentance is a virtue with which his heart is likely to remain forever unacquainted.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000004_000000|It is not uncommonly imagined in France that the virulence of the press originates in the uncertain social condition, in the political excitement, and the general sense of consequent evil which prevail in that country; and it is therefore supposed that as soon as society has resumed a certain degree of composure the press will abandon its present vehemence.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000004_000001|I am inclined to think that the above causes explain the reason of the extraordinary ascendency it has acquired over the nation, but that they do not exercise much influence upon the tone of its language.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000004_000002|The periodical press appears to me to be actuated by passions and propensities independent of the circumstances in which it is placed, and the present position of America corroborates this opinion.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000001|In America, as in France, it constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that it is at the same time indispensable to the existence of freedom, and nearly incompatible with the maintenance of public order.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000002|Its power is certainly much greater in France than in the United States; though nothing is more rare in the latter country than to hear of a prosecution having been instituted against it.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000003|The reason of this is perfectly simple: the Americans, having once admitted the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, apply it with perfect consistency.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000004|It was never their intention to found a permanent state of things with elements which undergo daily modifications; and there is consequently nothing criminal in an attack upon the existing laws, provided it be not attended with a violent infraction of them.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000005|They are moreover of opinion that courts of justice are unable to check the abuses of the press; and that as the subtilty of human language perpetually eludes the severity of judicial analysis, offences of this nature are apt to escape the hand which attempts to apprehend them.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000006|They hold that to act with efficacy upon the press it would be necessary to find a tribunal, not only devoted to the existing order of things, but capable of surmounting the influence of public opinion; a tribunal which should conduct its proceedings without publicity, which should pronounce its decrees without assigning its motives, and punish the intentions even more than the language of an author.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000007|Whosoever should have the power of creating and maintaining a tribunal of this kind would waste his time in prosecuting the liberty of the press; for he would be the supreme master of the whole community, and he would be as free to rid himself of the authors as of their writings.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000008|In this question, therefore, there is no medium between servitude and extreme license; in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000009|To expect to acquire the former and to escape the latter is to cherish one of those illusions which commonly mislead nations in their times of sickness, when, tired with faction and exhausted by effort, they attempt to combine hostile opinions and contrary principles upon the same soil.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000006_000000|The small influence of the American journals is attributable to several reasons, amongst which are the following:
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000001|The Anglo Americans have enjoyed this liberty ever since the foundation of the settlements; moreover, the press cannot create human passions by its own power, however skillfully it may kindle them where they exist.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000002|In America politics are discussed with animation and a varied activity, but they rarely touch those deep passions which are excited whenever the positive interest of a part of the community is impaired: but in the United States the interests of the community are in a most prosperous condition.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000003|A single glance upon a French and an American newspaper is sufficient to show the difference which exists between the two nations on this head.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000004|In France the space allotted to commercial advertisements is very limited, and the intelligence is not considerable, but the most essential part of the journal is that which contains the discussion of the politics of the day.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000005|In America three quarters of the enormous sheet which is set before the reader are filled with advertisements, and the remainder is frequently occupied by political intelligence or trivial anecdotes: it is only from time to time that one finds a corner devoted to passionate discussions like those with which the journalists of France are wont to indulge their readers.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000000|It has been demonstrated by observation, and discovered by the innate sagacity of the pettiest as well as the greatest of despots, that the influence of a power is increased in proportion as its direction is rendered more central.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000001|In France the press combines a twofold centralization; almost all its power is centred in the same spot, and vested in the same hands, for its organs are far from numerous.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000002|The influence of a public press thus constituted, upon a sceptical nation, must be unbounded.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000003|It is an enemy with which a Government may sign an occasional truce, but which it is difficult to resist for any length of time.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000000|Neither of these kinds of centralization exists in America.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000001|The United States have no metropolis; the intelligence as well as the power of the country are dispersed abroad, and instead of radiating from a point, they cross each other in every direction; the Americans have established no central control over the expression of opinion, any more than over the conduct of business.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000002|These are circumstances which do not depend on human foresight; but it is owing to the laws of the Union that there are no licenses to be granted to printers, no securities demanded from editors as in France, and no stamp duty as in France and formerly in England.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000003|The consequence of this is that nothing is easier than to set up a newspaper, and a small number of readers suffices to defray the expenses of the editor.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000010_000000|The number of periodical and occasional publications which appears in the United States actually surpasses belief.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000010_000001|The most enlightened Americans attribute the subordinate influence of the press to this excessive dissemination; and it is adopted as an axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000010_000003|The Governments of Europe seem to treat the press with the courtesy of the knights of old; they are anxious to furnish it with the same central power which they have found to be so trusty a weapon, in order to enhance the glory of their resistance to its attacks.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000000|In America there is scarcely a hamlet which has not its own newspaper. It may readily be imagined that neither discipline nor unity of design can be communicated to so multifarious a host, and each one is consequently led to fight under his own standard.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000001|All the political journals of the United States are indeed arrayed on the side of the administration or against it; but they attack and defend in a thousand different ways.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000002|They cannot succeed in forming those great currents of opinion which overwhelm the most solid obstacles.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000003|This division of the influence of the press produces a variety of other consequences which are scarcely less remarkable.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000004|The facility with which journals can be established induces a multitude of individuals to take a part in them; but as the extent of competition precludes the possibility of considerable profit, the most distinguished classes of society are rarely led to engage in these undertakings.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000005|But such is the number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000007|The will of the majority is the most general of laws, and it establishes certain habits which form the characteristics of each peculiar class of society; thus it dictates the etiquette practised at courts and the etiquette of the bar.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000008|The characteristics of the French journalist consist in a violent, but frequently an eloquent and lofty, manner of discussing the politics of the day; and the exceptions to this habitual practice are only occasional.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000012_000000|Nothing can be more deplorable than this abuse of the powers of thought; I shall have occasion to point out hereafter the influence of the newspapers upon the taste and the morality of the American people, but my present subject exclusively concerns the political world.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000012_000001|It cannot be denied that the effects of this extreme license of the press tend indirectly to the maintenance of public order.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000012_000002|The individuals who are already in the possession of a high station in the esteem of their fellow citizens are afraid to write in the newspapers, and they are thus deprived of the most powerful instrument which they can use to excite the passions of the multitude to their own advantage.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000014_000000|The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000015_000000|But although the press is limited to these resources, its influence in America is immense.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000015_000001|It is the power which impels the circulation of political life through all the districts of that vast territory.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000015_000002|Its eye is constantly open to detect the secret springs of political designs, and to summon the leaders of all parties to the bar of public opinion. It rallies the interests of the community round certain principles, and it draws up the creed which factions adopt; for it affords a means of intercourse between parties which hear, and which address each other without ever having been in immediate contact.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000015_000003|When a great number of the organs of the press adopt the same line of conduct, their influence becomes irresistible; and public opinion, when it is perpetually assailed from the same side, eventually yields to the attack.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000017_000000|The opinions established in the United States under the empire of the liberty of the press are frequently more firmly rooted than those which are formed elsewhere under the sanction of a censor.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000001|But the general principles of the Government are more stable, and the opinions most prevalent in society are generally more durable than in many other countries.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000002|When once the Americans have taken up an idea, whether it be well or ill founded, nothing is more difficult than to eradicate it from their minds.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000003|The same tenacity of opinion has been observed in England, where, for the last century, greater freedom of conscience and more invincible prejudices have existed than in all the other countries of Europe.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000005|The nations amongst which this liberty exists are as apt to cling to their opinions from pride as from conviction. They cherish them because they hold them to be just, and because they exercised their own free will in choosing them; and they maintain them not only because they are true, but because they are their own.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000006|Several other reasons conduce to the same end.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000000|It was remarked by a man of genius that "ignorance lies at the two ends of knowledge." Perhaps it would have been more correct to have said, that absolute convictions are to be met with at the two extremities, and that doubt lies in the middle; for the human intellect may be considered in three distinct states, which frequently succeed one another.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000001|A man believes implicitly, because he adopts a proposition without inquiry.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000002|He doubts as soon as he is assailed by the objections which his inquiries may have aroused.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000003|But he frequently succeeds in satisfying these doubts, and then he begins to believe afresh: he no longer lays hold on a truth in its most shadowy and uncertain form, but he sees it clearly before him, and he advances onwards by the light it gives him.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000021_000000|When the liberty of the press acts upon men who are in the first of these three states, it does not immediately disturb their habit of believing implicitly without investigation, but it constantly modifies the objects of their intuitive convictions.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000021_000001|The human mind continues to discern but one point upon the whole intellectual horizon, and that point is in continual motion.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000021_000002|Such are the symptoms of sudden revolutions, and of the misfortunes which are sure to befall those generations which abruptly adopt the unconditional freedom of the press.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000022_000000|The circle of novel ideas is, however, soon terminated; the touch of experience is upon them, and the doubt and mistrust which their uncertainty produces become universal.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000022_000001|We may rest assured that the majority of mankind will either believe they know not wherefore, or will not know what to believe.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000023_000000|It has been remarked that in times of great religious fervor men sometimes change their religious opinions; whereas in times of general scepticism everyone clings to his own persuasion.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000023_000001|The same thing takes place in politics under the liberty of the press.
train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000023_000002|In countries where all the theories of social science have been contested in their turn, the citizens who have adopted one of them stick to it, not so much because they are assured of its excellence, as because they are not convinced of the superiority of any other.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000001_000001|This Chronicle still subsists, and from what I observed, when I was abroad, has a more extensive circulation upon the Continent than any of the English newspapers.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000004_000002|The reason (said he) why I wish for it, is this: when dr Madden came to London, he submitted that work to my castigation; and I remember I blotted a great many lines, and might have blotted many more, without making the poem worse.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000009_000000|About this period he was offered a living of considerable value in Lincolnshire, if he were inclined to enter into holy orders.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000015_000000|'SIR,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000018_000000|'What relation there is between the Welch and Irish language, or between the language of Ireland and that of Biscay, deserves enquiry.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000018_000001|Of these provincial and unextended tongues, it seldom happens that more than one are understood by any one man; and, therefore, it seldom happens that a fair comparison can be made.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000018_000002|I hope you will continue to cultivate this kind of learning, which has too long lain neglected, and which, if it be suffered to remain in oblivion for another century, may, perhaps, never be retrieved.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000019_000000|'Your most obliged,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000021_000000|'SAM.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000021_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000022_000000|'London, april ninth seventeen fifty seven.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000023_000001|THOMAS WARTON.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000024_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000027_000000|'I long to see you all, but cannot conveniently come yet.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000027_000001|You might write to me now and then, if you were good for any thing.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000027_000005|I am,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000029_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000030_000000|'[London,] june twenty first seventeen fifty seven.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000036_000004|Your's is the only letter of goodwill that I have received; though, indeed, I am promised something of that sort from Sweden.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000039_000001|May I enquire after her?
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000041_000000|'Your most obliged,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000043_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000000|'I must indeed have slept very fast, not to have been awakened by your letter.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000001|None of your suspicions are true; I am not much richer than when you left me; and, what is worse, my omission of an answer to your first letter, will prove that I am not much wiser.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000002|But I go on as I formerly did, designing to be some time or other both rich and wise; and yet cultivate neither mind nor fortune.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000003|Do you take notice of my example, and learn the danger of delay.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000004|When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty nine, what I now am.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000000|'But you do not seem to need my admonition.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000001|You are busy in acquiring and in communicating knowledge, and while you are studying, enjoy the end of study, by making others wiser and happier.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000002|I was much pleased with the tale that you told me of being tutour to your sisters.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000004|It sometimes, indeed, happens, that some supervenient cause of discord may overpower this original amity; but it seems to me more frequently thrown away with levity, or lost by negligence, than destroyed by injury or violence.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000054_000001|mrs Langton is as wise as Sibyl, and as good; and will live, if my wishes can prolong life, till she shall in time be as old.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000061_000000|'Your affectionate, humble servant,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000062_000000|'SAM.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000062_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000063_000000|'january ninth seventeen fifty eight.'
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000064_000000|'TO mr
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000064_000001|BURNEY, AT LYNNE, NORFOLK.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000065_000000|'SIR,
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000069_000000|'I have, likewise, enclosed twelve receipts; not that I mean to impose upon you the trouble of pushing them, with more importunity than may seem proper, but that you may rather have more than fewer than you shall want.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000069_000001|The proposals you will disseminate as there shall be an opportunity.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000071_000001|I have not the collection by me, and therefore cannot draw out a catalogue of my own parts, but will do it, and send it.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000082_000001|It has more variety of real life, and greater facility of language.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000082_000004|mr Langton having signified a wish to read it, 'Sir, (said he) you shall not do more than I have done myself.' He then folded it up and sent it off.
train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000083_000003|In this series of essays he exhibits admirable instances of grave humour, of which he had an uncommon share.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000000|This was a slight that at another time Captain Blood would not have borne for a moment.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000001|But at present, in his odd frame of mind, and its divorcement from piracy, he was content to smile his utter contempt of the French General.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000003|Resentment smouldered amongst them for a while, to flame out violently at the end of that week in Cartagena.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000004|It was only by undertaking to voice their grievance to the Baron that their captain was able for the moment to pacify them.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000000|He found him in the offices which the Baron had set up in the town, with a staff of clerks to register the treasure brought in and to cast up the surrendered account books, with a view to ascertaining precisely what were the sums yet to be delivered up.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000001|The Baron sat there scrutinizing ledgers, like a city merchant, and checking figures to make sure that all was correct to the last peso.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000002|A choice occupation this for the General of the King's Armies by Sea and Land.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000003|He looked up irritated by the interruption which Captain Blood's advent occasioned.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000004_000001|"I must speak frankly; and you must suffer it.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000004_000002|My men are on the point of mutiny."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000006_000001|If there is a mutiny, you and your captains shall be held personally responsible.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000007_000000|Blood contained himself with difficulty.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000000|"You may define our positions as you please," said he.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000001|"But I'll remind you that the nature of a thing is not changed by the name you give it. I am concerned with facts; chiefly with the fact that we entered into definite articles with you.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000002|Those articles provide for a certain distribution of the spoil.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000003|My men demand it.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000004|They are not satisfied."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000009_000000|"Of what are they not satisfied?" demanded the Baron.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000011_000000|A blow in the face could scarcely have taken the Frenchman more aback. He stiffened, and drew himself up, his eyes blazing, his face of a deathly pallor.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000011_000001|The clerks at the tables laid down their pens, and awaited the explosion in a sort of terror.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000012_000001|Then the great gentleman delivered himself in a voice of concentrated anger.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000012_000002|"Do you really dare so much, you and the dirty thieves that follow you?
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000012_000003|God's Blood!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000013_000000|"I will remind you," said Blood, "that I am speaking not for myself, but for my men.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000013_000001|It is they who are not satisfied, they who threaten that unless satisfaction is afforded them, and promptly, they will take it."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000014_000001|"Let them attempt it, and...."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000015_000000|"Now don't be rash.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000016_000000|"God give me patience!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000016_000001|How can we share the spoil before it has been completely gathered?"
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000017_000000|"My men have reason to believe that it is gathered; and, anyway, they view with mistrust that it should all be housed aboard your ships, and remain in your possession.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000017_000001|They say that hereafter there will be no ascertaining what the spoil really amounts to."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000018_000000|"But-name of Heaven!--I have kept books.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000018_000001|They are there for all to see."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000000|"They do not wish to see account books.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000002|They want to view the treasure itself.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000003|They know-you compel me to be blunt-that the accounts have been falsified.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000005|The men know-and they are very skilled in these computations-that it exceeds the enormous total of forty millions.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000006|They insist that the treasure itself be produced and weighed in their presence, as is the custom among the Brethren of the Coast."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000020_000000|"I know nothing of filibuster customs." The gentleman was disdainful.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000021_000000|"But you are learning quickly."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000022_000000|"What do you mean, you rogue?
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000022_000001|I am a leader of armies, not of plundering thieves."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000023_000000|"Oh, but of course!" Blood's irony laughed in his eyes.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000024_000001|Am I to understand that you are threatening me?"
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000025_000001|I warn you of the trouble that a little prudence may avert.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000025_000002|You do not know on what a volcano you are sitting. You do not know the ways of buccaneers.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000000|That shifted the basis of the argument to less hostile ground.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000002|He gave it with an extreme ill grace, and only because Blood made him realize at last that to withhold it longer would be dangerous.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000003|In an engagement, he might conceivably defeat Blood's followers.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000004|But conceivably he might not.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000005|And even if he succeeded, the effort would be so costly to him in men that he might not thereafter find himself in sufficient strength to maintain his hold of what he had seized.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000028_000001|But when the next dawn broke over Cartagena, they had the explanation of it.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000028_000003|The French ships were gone.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000029_000000|The two parties were fused into one by their common fury, and before the exhibition of it the inhabitants of that ill fated town were stricken with deeper terror than they had yet known since the coming of this expedition.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000031_000000|"We must follow," he declared.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000031_000001|"Follow and punish."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000000|At first that was the general cry.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000001|Then came the consideration that only two of the buccaneer ships were seaworthy-and these could not accommodate the whole force, particularly being at the moment indifferently victualled for a long voyage.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000003|After all, there would be a deal of treasure still hidden in Cartagena.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000004|They would remain behind to extort it whilst fitting their ships for sea.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000005|Let Blood and Hagthorpe and those who sailed with them do as they pleased.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000001|Blood was reduced to despair.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000002|If he went off now, Heaven knew what would happen to the town, the temper of those whom he was leaving being what it was.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000003|Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000004|Unable to reach a decision, his own men and Hagthorpe's took the matter off his hands, eager to give chase to Rivarol.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000005|Not only was a dastardly cheat to be punished but an enormous treasure to be won by treating as an enemy this French commander who, himself, had so villainously broken the alliance.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000034_000000|When Blood, torn as he was between conflicting considerations, still hesitated, they bore him almost by main force aboard the Arabella.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000035_000000|Within an hour, the water casks at least replenished and stowed aboard, the Arabella and the Elizabeth put to sea upon that angry chase.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000036_000001|I found him sitting alone in his cabin, his head in his hands, torment in the eyes that stared straight before him, seeing nothing."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000037_000002|Surely 't isn't the thought of Rivarol!"
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000000|"No," said Blood thickly.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000001|And for once he was communicative.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000002|It may well be that he must vent the thing that oppressed him or be driven mad by it.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000003|And Pitt, after all, was his friend and loved him, and, so, a proper man for confidences.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000004|"But if she knew!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000005|If she knew!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000006|O God!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000007|I had thought to have done with piracy; thought to have done with it for ever.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000009|Think of Cartagena!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000010|Think of the hell those devils will be making of it now!
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000011|And I must have that on my soul!"
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000039_000000|"Nay, peter--'t isn't on your soul; but on Rivarol's.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000039_000002|What could you have done to prevent it?"
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000040_000000|"I would have stayed if it could have availed."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000041_000001|So why repine?"
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000042_000000|"There is more than that to it," groaned Blood.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000042_000001|"What now?
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000042_000003|Loyal service with France has led to this; and that is equally impossible hereafter. What to live clean, I believe the only thing is to go and offer my sword to the King of Spain."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000043_000000|But something remained-the last thing that he could have expected-something towards which they were rapidly sailing over the tropical, sunlit sea.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000043_000001|All this against which he now inveighed so bitterly was but a necessary stage in the shaping of his odd destiny.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000044_000000|Setting a course for Hispaniola, since they judged that thither must Rivarol go to refit before attempting to cross to France, the Arabella and the Elizabeth ploughed briskly northward with a moderately favourable wind for two days and nights without ever catching a glimpse of their quarry.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000045_000002|The wind, to which they were sailing very close, was westerly, and it bore to their ears a booming sound which in less experienced ears might have passed for the breaking of surf upon a lee shore.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000046_000000|"Guns!" said Pitt, who stood with Blood upon the quarter deck.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000046_000001|Blood nodded, listening.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000047_000000|"Ten miles away, perhaps fifteen-somewhere off Port Royal, I should judge," Pitt added.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000047_000002|"Does it concern us?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000000|"Guns off Port Royal... that should argue Colonel Bishop at work.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000001|And against whom should he be in action but against friends of ours I think it may concern us.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000002|Anyway, we'll stand in to investigate.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000003|Bid them put the helm over."
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000049_000000|Close hauled they tacked aweather, guided by the sound of combat, which grew in volume and definition as they approached it.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000049_000001|Thus for an hour, perhaps.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000049_000002|Then, as, telescope to his eye, Blood raked the haze, expecting at any moment to behold the battling ships, the guns abruptly ceased.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000050_000000|They held to their course, nevertheless, with all hands on deck, eagerly, anxiously scanning the sea ahead.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000050_000001|And presently an object loomed into view, which soon defined itself for a great ship on fire.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000050_000002|As the Arabella with the Elizabeth following closely raced nearer on their north westerly tack, the outlines of the blazing vessel grew clearer. Presently her masts stood out sharp and black above the smoke and flames, and through his telescope Blood made out plainly the pennon of saint George fluttering from her maintop.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000051_000000|"An English ship!" he cried.
train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000053_000000|They took in sail and hove to as they came up with the drifting boats, laden to capacity with survivors.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000001_000000|Chapter two.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000001_000001|The Lair of the Wolf
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000002_000001|The words came in a cold snarl that curdled the hearer's blood.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000004_000001|The speaker leaned forward, his fist pounding emphasis on the rude table between them.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000004_000002|He was a tall, rangy built man, supple as a leopard and with a lean, cruel, predatory face.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000004_000003|His eyes danced and glittered with a kind of reckless mockery.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000005_000000|The fellow spoken to replied sullenly, "This Solomon Kane is a demon from Hell, I tell you."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000006_000001|Dolt!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000007_000001|Ask the mountain wolves that tore the flesh from their dead bones.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000007_000002|Where does this Kane hide?
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000007_000003|We have searched the mountains and the valleys for leagues, and we have found no trace.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000008_000000|The Wolf strummed impatiently upon the table.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000008_000001|His keen face, despite lines of wild living and dissipation, was the face of a thinker.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000008_000002|The superstitions of his followers affected him not at all.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000009_000000|"Faugh!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000009_000001|I say again.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000009_000002|The fellow has found some cavern or secret vale of which we do not know where he hides in the day."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000000|"And at night he sallies forth and slays us," gloomily commented the other.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000002|The first we know of this man is when we find Jean, the most desperate bandit unhung, nailed to a tree with his own dagger through his breast, and the letters s l k carved upon his dead cheeks.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000005|By the demons of perdition, it seems he met him!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000006|For we found his sword pierced corpse upon a cliff.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000007|What now? Are we all to fall before this English fiend?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000000|"True, our best men have been done to death by him," mused the bandit chief.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000001|"Soon the rest return from that little trip to the hermit's; then we shall see.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000002|Kane can not hide forever.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000003|Then-ha, what was that?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000000|The two turned swiftly as a shadow fell across the table.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000001|Into the entrance of the cave that formed the bandit lair, a man staggered.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000002|His eyes were wide and staring; he reeled on buckling legs, and a dark red stain dyed his tunic.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000003|He came a few tottering steps forward, then pitched across the table, sliding off onto the floor.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000013_000000|"Hell's devils!" cursed the Wolf, hauling him upright and propping him in a chair.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000014_000001|All dead!"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000015_000000|"How?
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000015_000001|Satan's curses on you, speak!"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000015_000002|The Wolf shook the man savagely, the other bandit gazing on in wide eyed horror.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000016_000001|"I stayed outside-to watch-the others went in-to torture the hermit-to make him reveal-the hiding place-of his gold."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000017_000000|"Yes, yes!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000017_000001|Then what?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000017_000002|The Wolf was raging with impatience.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000018_000000|"Then the world turned red-the hut went up in a roar and a red rain flooded the valley-through it I saw-the hermit and a tall man clad all in black-coming from the trees-"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000019_000000|"Solomon Kane!" gasped the bandit.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000019_000001|"I knew it!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000019_000002|I-"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000020_000000|"Silence, fool!" snarled the chief.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000020_000001|"Go on!"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000021_000000|"I fled-Kane pursued-wounded me-but I outran-him-got-here- first-"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000022_000000|The man slumped forward on the table.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000023_000000|"Saints and devils!" raged the Wolf.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000023_000001|"What does he look like, this Kane?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000024_000000|"Like-Satan-"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000025_000000|The voice trailed off in silence.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000000|"Like Satan!" babbled the other bandit.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000001|"I told you!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000002|'tis the Horned One himself!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000003|I tell you-"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000027_000000|He ceased as a frightened face peered in at the cave entrance.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000028_000000|"Kane?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000029_000001|"Keep close watch, La Mon; in a moment the Rat and I will join you."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000030_000000|The face withdrew and Le Loup turned to the other.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000031_000001|"You, I, and that thief La Mon are all that are left.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000031_000002|What would you suggest?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000033_000000|"You are right.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000033_000001|Let us take the gems and gold from the chests and flee, using the secret passageway."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000034_000000|"And La Mon?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000035_000000|"He can watch until we are ready to flee.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000035_000001|Then-why divide the treasure three ways?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000036_000000|A faint smile touched the Rat's malevolent features.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000036_000001|Then a sudden thought smote him.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000037_000000|"He," indicating the corpse on the floor, "said, 'I got here first.' Does that mean Kane was pursuing him here?" And as the Wolf nodded impatiently the other turned to the chests with chattering haste.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000000|The chests were empty, their treasure lying in a shimmering mass upon the bloodstained floor.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000001|The Wolf stopped and listened.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000002|Outside was silence.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000003|There was no moon, and Le Loup's keen imagination pictured the dark slayer, Solomon Kane, gliding through the blackness, a shadow among shadows.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000004|He grinned crookedly; this time the Englishman would be foiled.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000040_000000|"There is a chest yet unopened," said he, pointing.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000041_000000|The Rat, with a muttered exclamation of surprize, bent over the chest indicated.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000041_000001|With a single, catlike motion, the Wolf sprang upon him, sheathing his dagger to the hilt in the Rat's back, between the shoulders.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000041_000002|The Rat sagged to the floor without a sound.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000042_000000|"Why divide the treasure two ways?" murmured Le Loup, wiping his blade upon the dead man's doublet.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000042_000001|"Now for La mon"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000043_000000|He stepped toward the door; then stopped and shrank back.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000000|A tall man, as tall as Le Loup he was, clad in black from head to foot, in plain, close fitting garments that somehow suited the somber face.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000001|Long arms and broad shoulders betokened the swordsman, as plainly as the long rapier in his hand.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000003|A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000004|Eyes, large, deep set and unblinking, fixed their gaze upon the bandit, and looking into them, Le Loup was unable to decide what color they were.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000005|Strangely, the mephistophelean trend of the lower features was offset by a high, broad forehead, though this was partly hidden by a featherless hat.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000046_000000|That forehead marked the dreamer, the idealist, the introvert, just as the eyes and the thin, straight nose betrayed the fanatic.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000046_000001|An observer would have been struck by the eyes of the two men who stood there, facing each other.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000046_000002|Eyes of both betokened untold deeps of power, but there the resemblance ceased.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000048_000000|The eyes of the man in black, on the other hand, deep set and staring from under prominent brows, were cold but deep; gazing into them, one had the impression of looking into countless fathoms of ice.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000049_000000|Now the eyes clashed, and the Wolf, who was used to being feared, felt a strange coolness on his spine.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000049_000001|The sensation was new to him-a new thrill to one who lived for thrills, and he laughed suddenly.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000051_000000|"I am Solomon Kane." The voice was resonant and powerful.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000051_000001|"Are you prepared to meet your God?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000053_000000|"No doubt I stated my inquiry wrongly," Kane said grimly.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000053_000001|"I will change it: Are you prepared to meet your master, the Devil?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000000|"Your last question is easily answered, sir," Kane replied.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000001|"I myself had the tale spread that the hermit possessed a store of gold, knowing that would draw your scum as carrion draws vultures.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000002|For days and nights I have watched the hut, and tonight, when I saw your villains coming, I warned the hermit, and together we went among the trees back of the hut.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000003|Then, when the rogues were inside, I struck flint and steel to the train I had laid, and flame ran through the trees like a red snake until it reached the powder I had placed beneath the hut floor.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000004|Then the hut and thirteen sinners went to Hell in a great roar of flame and smoke.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000005|True, one escaped, but him I had slain in the forest had not I stumbled and fallen upon a broken root, which gave him time to elude me."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000058_000001|Yet tell me this: Why have you followed me as a wolf follows deer?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000059_000001|You know the details better than i There was a girl there, a mere child, who, hoping to escape your lust, fled up the valley; but you, you jackal of Hell, you caught her and left her, violated and dying.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000059_000002|I found her there, and above her dead form I made up my mind to hunt you down and kill you."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000060_000001|"Yes, I remember the wench.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000061_000000|"Le Loup, take care!" Kane exclaimed, a terrible menace in his voice, "I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000062_000000|The tone, and more especially the unexpected oath, coming as it did from Kane, slightly sobered Le Loup; his eyes narrowed and his hand moved toward his rapier.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000062_000001|The air was tense for an instant; then the Wolf relaxed elaborately.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000063_000000|"Who was the girl?" he asked idly.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000063_000001|"Your wife?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000066_000000|"That, sir, is my own affair; it is sufficient that I do so."
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000067_000000|Kane could not have explained, even to himself, nor did he ever seek an explanation within himself.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000067_000001|A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000068_000001|There on the floor is the equivalent to an emperor's ransom.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000069_000000|Kane leaned forward, a terrible brooding threat growing in his cold eyes.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000069_000001|He seemed like a great condor about to launch himself upon his victim.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000070_000000|"Sir, do you assume me to be as great a villain as yourself?"
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000071_000000|Suddenly Le Loup threw back his head, his eyes dancing and leaping with a wild mockery and a kind of insane recklessness.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000071_000001|His shout of laughter sent the echoes flying.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000072_000001|No, you fool, I do not class you with myself!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000073_000000|"Shades of death!
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000073_000001|Shall I waste time in parleying with this base scoundrel!" Kane snarled in a voice suddenly blood thirsting, and his lean frame flashed forward like a bent bow suddenly released.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000074_000000|At the same instant Le Loup with a wild laugh bounded backward with a movement as swift as Kane's.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000074_000001|His timing was perfect; his back flung hands struck the table and hurled it aside, plunging the cave into darkness as the candle toppled and went out.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000075_000000|Kane's rapier sang like an arrow in the dark as he thrust blindly and ferociously.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000076_000001|The taunt came from somewhere in front of him, but Kane, plunging toward the sound with the savage fury of baffled wrath, caromed against a blank wall that did not yield to his blow.
train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000076_000002|From somewhere seemed to come an echo of a mocking laugh.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000000_000000|APPENDIX
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000001_000002|We shall present these together with our reply as they appeared on the Sunday Programs of the Independent Religious Society.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000000|Criticism is welcome.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000001|If the criticism is just, it prevents us from making the same mistake twice; if it is unjust, it gives us an opportunity to correct the error our critic has fallen into.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000002|No one's knowledge is perfect.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000003|But the question is, does a teacher suppress the facts?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000004|Does he insist on remaining ignorant of the facts?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000003_000000|FROM THE SUNDAY PROGRAMS
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000005_000000|Now that the debate on one of the most vital questions of modern religious thought-The Historicity of Jesus-is in print, a few further reflections on some minor points in dr Crapsey's argument may add to the value of the published copy.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000006_000000|REV. dr
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000007_000000|ANSWER: The only way this question can be settled is by appealing to history.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000007_000001|Mithraism is a variant religion, which at one time spread over the Roman Empire and came near outclassing Christianity.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000008_000000|Religions, as well as their variations, appear as new branches do upon an old tree.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000009_000000|But the popular imagination craves a Maker for the Universe, a founder for Rome, a first man for the human race, and a great chief as the starter of the tribe.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000010_000000|Because Mohammed is historical, it does not follow that Moses is also historical.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000011_000000|REV. dr
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000013_000000|REV. dr
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000014_000000|ANSWER: But in the same sentence the doctor takes all this back by adding: "There are a great many things in his history that are not historical." If so, then we do not possess "a very distinctly outlined history," but at best a mixture of fact and fiction.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000015_000000|REV. dr
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000000|ANSWER: How long was "the time from the opening of Jesus' public career until the time that it closed?"--One year!--according to the three gospels.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000001|It sounds quite a period to speak of "following his public career" from beginning to end, especially when compared with Caesar's, until it is remembered that the entire public career of Jesus covers the space of only one year.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000003|With the exception of one year, his whole life is hid in impenetrable darkness.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000004|We know nothing of his childhood, nothing of his old age, if he lived to be old, and of his youth, we know just enough to fill up a year.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000005|Under the circumstances, there is no comparison between the public career of a Caesar or a Socrates covering from fifty to seventy years of time, and that of a Jesus of whose life only one brief year is thrown upon the canvas.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000018_000000|REV. dr
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000020_000000|But if the 'Christ' which the hebrews expected was "purely mythical," what makes the same 'Christ' in the supposed Tacitus passage historical?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000021_000003|William Tell is a myth-not the name, but the man the name stands for.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000021_000005|To answer that Jesus is historical, but The Anointed is not, is to evade the question.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000022_000000|When Mosheim declares that "The prevalent opinion among early Christians was that Christ existed in appearance only," he could not have meant by 'Christ' only a title.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000024_000001|The Hebrew illusion said, Christ was coming; the Christian illusion says, Christ has come.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000026_000000|The minister of the South Congregational Church, who heard the debate, has publicly called your lecturer an "unscrupulous sophist," who "practices imposition upon a popular audience" and who "put forth sentence after sentence which every scholar present knew to be a perversion of the facts so outrageous as to be laughable."
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000028_000000|Invited by several people to prove these charges, the Reverend replies: "In the absence of any full report of what he (M.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000029_000000|One instance, however, he is able to remember which "when it fell upon my ears," he writes, "it struck me with such amazement, that it completely drove from my mind a series of most astonishing statements of various sorts which had just preceded it."
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000030_000000|We refrain from commenting on the excuse given to explain so significant a failure of memory.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000031_000000|And what was the statement which, while it crippled his memory, it did not moderate his zeal?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000032_000000|This is his most serious complaint.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000032_000001|Does it justify hasty language?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000033_000001|All church historians admit the existence of sects that denied the New Testament Jesus-the Gnostics, the Essenes, the Ebionites, the Marcionites, the Cerinthians, etc
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000034_000000|As the debate is now in print, further comment on this would not be necessary.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000035_000000|Incidents like the above, however, should change every lukewarm rationalist into a devoted soldier of truth and honor.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000036_000000|To us, more important than anything presented on this subject, is this evidence of the existence of a very early dispute among the first disciples of Jesus on the question of whether he was real or merely an apparition.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000036_000002|As early as John's time, if he is the writer of the epistle, Jesus' historicity was questioned.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000037_000000|The gospel of john also hints at the existence in the primitive church of Christians who did not accept the reality of Jesus.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000038_000000|three
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000040_000000|The strength of a given criticism is determined by asking: Does it in any way impair the soundness of the argument against which it is directed?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000040_000001|Critics have discovered mistakes in Darwin and Haeckel, but are these mistakes of such a nature as to prove fatal to the theory of evolution?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000041_000002|It is the blow that disables which counts.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000042_000000|To charge that we have said 'Gospel,' where we should have said 'Epistle,' or 'Trullum' instead of 'Trullo'; that it was not Barnabas, but Nicholas who denied the Gospel Jesus, and that there were variations of this denial, does not at all disprove the fact that, according to the Christian scriptures themselves, among the apostolic followers there were those to whom Jesus Christ was only a phantom.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000043_000001|Was ever such a view entertained of Caesar, Socrates or of any other historical character?
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000045_000000|"The Apostle john never made any such complaint.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000045_000001|Critical scholarship is pretty well agreed that he did not write the epistles ascribed to him."
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000047_000001|In his recent letter he denies that the apostle ever made such a complaint.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000048_000000|john did not write the epistles, then, which the Christian church for two thousand years, and at a cost of millions of dollars, and at the greater sacrifice of truth and progress has been proclaiming to the world as the work of the inspired john!
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000049_000002|Our desire, in engaging in this argument, is to turn the thought and love of the world from a mythical being, to humanity, which is both real and present.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000050_000001|Paul tells us that he lived in Jerusalem at a time when Jesus must have been holding the attention of the city; yet he never met him." To this the clergyman replies:
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000051_000000|"Paul tells us nothing of the kind.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000051_000002|john did not write the epistles, and Paul's speech in the Book of Acts was put into his mouth!
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000053_000000|In other words, only those passages in the bible are authentic which the clergy quote; those which the rationalists quote are spurious.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000055_000001|I personally believe Jesus lived.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000055_000002|But I have no proof for this beyond my feeling that the movement with which the name is associated could even for Paul not have taken its nomenclature without a personal substratum.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000055_000004|The News reports the Rabbi as saying, "But we know through the Rabbinical Books that Jesus lived."
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000056_000001|The editor promised to locate the responsibility for the contradiction.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000057_000001|But it is with pleasure that the Independent Religious Society gives Rabbi Hirsch this opportunity to explain his position.
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000057_000003|It is a stock argument and not to the point."
train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000057_000004|This is extraordinary; and as the Rabbi does not question the statement, we infer that it is a correct report of what he said.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000002_000001|w e Barton, of Oak Park, is one of the ablest Congregational ministers in the West.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000002_000002|He has recently expressed himself on the Mangasarian Crapsey Debate.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000003_000000|The Reverend gentleman begins by an uncompromising denial of our statements, and ends by virtually admitting all that we contend for. This morning we will write of his denials; next Sunday, of his admissions.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000004_000000|"mr Mangasarian," says dr Barton, "has not given evidence of his skill as a logician or of his accuracy in the use of history." Then he proceeds to apologize, in a way, for the character of his reply to our argument, by saying that "mr
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000004_000001|Mangasarian's arguments, fortunately, do not require to be taken very seriously, for they are not in themselves serious."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000005_000000|Notwithstanding this protest, dr Barton proceeds to do his best to reply to our position.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000006_000001|Yet Paul never seems to have met Jesus, or to have heard of his teachings or miracles.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000007_000000|The above reply, we are compelled to say, much to our regret, is not even honest.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000007_000001|Without actually telling any untruths, it suggests indirectly two falsehoods: First, that Jesus was not much in Jerusalem-that he was there only on a few occasions; and that, therefore, it is not strange that Paul did not see him or hear of his preaching or miracles; and second, that Paul was absent from the city when Jesus was there.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000007_000002|The question is not how often Jesus visited Jerusalem, but how conspicuous was the part he played there.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000008_000000|The Reverend debater attempts to belittle the Jerusalem career of Jesus, by suggesting that he was not there much, when according to the Gospels, it was in that city that his ministry began and culminated.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000009_000001|We say Paul gives not a single quotation to prove that he knew of a teaching Jesus.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000010_000001|There is not a single miracle, parable or moral teaching attributed to Jesus in the Gospels of which Paul seems to possess any knowledge whatever.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000011_000000|Nor is it true that it is of no consequence that "Paul seldom quotes the words of Jesus." For it proves that the Gospel Jesus was unknown to Paul, and that he was created at a later date.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000012_000000|Once more; we say that the only Jesus Paul knew was the one he met in a trance on his way to Damascus.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000012_000001|To this the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park replies in the same we do not care to explain style.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000012_000002|He says: "Nor is it of consequence that Paul values comparatively lightly, having known him in the flesh."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000013_000001|The clergyman's words, however, convey the impression that Paul knew Jesus in the flesh, but he valued that, knowledge "comparatively lightly," that is to say, he did not think much of it.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000013_000002|And dr Barton is one of the foremost divines of the country.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000016_000001|After two thousand years, it is still uncertain to whom we are indebted for the story of Jesus.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000016_000002|What, in dr Barton's opinion, could have influenced the framers of the life of Jesus to suppress their identity?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000001|"At the very least, four of Paul's epistles are genuine," says the same clergyman.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000002|Only four?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000003|Paul has thirteen epistles in the bible, and of only four of them is dr Barton certain.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000004|What are the remaining nine doing in the Holy Bible?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000005|And which 'four' does the clergyman accept as doubtlessly "genuine?" Only yesterday all thirteen of Paul's letters were infallible, and they are so still wherever no questions are asked about them.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000006|It is only where there is intelligence and inquiry that "four of them" at least are reliable.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000007|As honesty and culture increase, the number of inspired epistles decreases.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000000|three.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000002|We wonder how many kinds of flesh there are according to dr Barton.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000004|The good man controls his appetites and passions, but his flesh is not any different from anybody else's.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000006|Our point is, that if the New Testament is reliable, in the time of the apostles themselves, the Gnostics, an influential body of Christians, denied that Jesus was any more than an imaginary existence.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000009|How does the Reverend Barton like the conclusion to which his own reasoning leads him?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000003|The doctor admits the charge, except that he calls it by another name.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000004|The difference between fiction and forgery is this: the former is, what it claims to be; the latter is a lie parading as a truth.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000005|Fiction is honest because it does not try to deceive.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000006|Forgery is dishonest because its object is to deceive.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000007|If the Gospel was a novel, no one would object to its mythology, but pretending to be historical, it must square its claims with the facts, or be branded as a forgery.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000020_000002|It concedes all that higher criticism contends for.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000020_000003|We are not sure either of Jesus' words or of his character, intimates the Reverend preacher.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000020_000004|Precisely.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000021_000000|In commenting on our remark that in the eighth century "Pope Hadrian called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," dr Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people's right to think of Jesus as a man from that decree is not to be characterized by any polite term." Our neighbor, in the first place, misquotes us in his haste.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000023_000000|seven
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000000|"In answer to your query, which I received, I beg to give the following statement.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000001|Facts, not theories.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000002|The date of your own letter nineteen o eight tells what?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000003|one thousand nine hundred eight years after what?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000004|The looking forward of the world to Him."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000026_000000|reverend Shayler has an original way of proving the historicity of Jesus. Every time we date our letters, suggests the clergyman, we prove that Jesus lived.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000026_000001|The ancient Greeks reckoned time by the Olympiads, which fact, according to this interesting clergyman, ought to prove that the Olympic games were instituted by the God Heracles or Hercules, son of Zeus; the Roman Chronology began with the building of Rome by Romulus, which by the same reasoning would prove that Romulus and Remus, born of Mars, and nursed by a she wolf, are historical.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000027_000001|This date prevailed in many countries until seventeen forty five.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000027_000003|According to this clergyman, scientists, instead of studying the crust of the earth and making geological investigations to ascertain the probable age of the earth, ought to look at the date in the margin of the bible which tells exactly the world's age.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000028_000000|reverend Shayler continues: "The places where he was born, labored and died are still extant, and have no value apart from such testimony."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000029_000000|While this is amusing, we are going to deny ourselves the pleasure of laughing at it; we will do our best to give it a serious answer.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000029_000001|If the existence of such a country as Palestine proves that Jesus is real, the existence of Switzerland must prove that William Tell is historical; and the existence of an Athens must prove that Athene and Apollo really lived; and from the fact that there is an England, reverend Shayler would prove that Robin Hood and his band really lived in eleven sixty.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000031_000000|"A line of apostles and bishops coming right down from him by his appointment to Anderson of Chicago," shows that Jesus is historical. It does, but only to Episcopalians.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000031_000001|The Catholics and the other sects do not believe that Anderson is a descendant of Jesus.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000031_000002|Did the priests of Baal or Moloch prove that these beings existed?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000033_000001|Your own church began with Henry the Eighth in fifteen thirty four, with persecution and murder, when the king, his hands wet with the blood of his own wives and ministers, made himself the supreme head of the church in England.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000033_000003|Gibbon writes of Constantine that "the same year of his reign in which he convened the council of Nice was polluted by the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000034_000000|But our clerical neighbor from Oak Park has one more argument: "Why is Sunday observed instead of Saturday?" Well, why?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000034_000003|If Jesus rose at all, he rose on a certain day, and the apostles must have known the date.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000034_000004|Why then is there a different date every year?
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000035_000000|reverend Shayler concludes: "Haven't time to go deeper now," and he intimates that to deny his 'facts' is either to be a fool or a "liar." We will not comment on this.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000036_000000|eight
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000037_000000|One of our Sunday programs, the other day, found its way into a church.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000037_000001|It went farther; it made its appearance in the pulpit.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000038_000001|"This, too, just as though Paul never bore testimony."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000039_000000|This gave the clergyman a splendid opportunity to present in clear and convincing form the evidence for the reality of Jesus.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000039_000001|But one thing prevented him:--the lack of evidence.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000040_000000|Therefore, after announcing the subject, he dismissed it, by remarking that Paul's testimony was enough.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000041_000001|Morton Culver Hartzell, in a letter, offers the same argument.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000041_000002|"Let mr Mangasarian first disprove Paul," he writes.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000041_000003|The argument in a nutshell is this: Jesus is historical because he is guaranteed by Paul.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000043_000001|Let us see how much the church scholars themselves know about Paul:
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000047_000001|Edwin Hatch, d d, Vice Principal, saint Mary Hall, Oxford, England.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000048_000001|But we are satisfied to rest the case on orthodox admissions alone.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000050_000000|Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though we do not know much about Paul.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000051_000001|Goldwin Smith to exclaim: "Jesus has flown.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000051_000002|I believe the legend of Jesus was made by many minds working under a great religious impulse-one man adding a parable, another an exhortation, another a miracle story;"--and George Eliot to write: "The materials for a real life of Christ do not exist."
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000052_000000|In the effort to untie the Jesus knot by Paul, the church has increased the number of knots to two.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000052_000001|In other words, the church has proceeded on the theory that two uncertainties make a certainty.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000055_000000|Speaking in this city, Rev.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000055_000001|w h Wray Boyle of Lake Forest, declared that unbelief was responsible for the worst crimes in history.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000055_000002|He mentioned the placing.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000059_000000|The story of a "nude woman," etc, is pure fiction, and that the two murders were caused by unbelief is mere assumption.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000059_000001|To help his creed, the preacher resorts to fable.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000060_000001|Her innocent blood stained the hands of the clergy, who also handle the Holy Sacraments.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000060_000002|She was murdered not by a crazed individual but by the orders of the bishop of Alexandria.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000060_000003|How does the true story of Hypatia compare with the fable of "a nude woman placed on a pedestal in the city of Paris?" The Reverend must answer, or never tell an untruth again.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000061_000000|Hypatia was murdered in church, and by the clergy, because she was not orthodox.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000063_000000|three. james CLEMENT, a Catholic, assassinated Henry the third.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000063_000001|For this act the clergy placed his portrait on the altar in the churches between two great lighted candle sticks.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000065_000001|Sisera, a heathen, having lost a battle, begged for shelter at the tent of Jael, a friendly woman, but of the Bible faith.
train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000065_000003|The tired warrior fell asleep from great weariness. Then Jael picked a tent peg and with a hammer in her hand "walked softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground...So he died."
train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000001_000002|But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000005_000001|"At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead.
train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000005_000004|Why, look you, she may cover it with a brooch, or such like heathenish adornment, and so walk the streets as brave as ever!"
train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000007_000001|"This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die; is there not law for it?
train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000008_000001|That is the hardest word yet!
train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000015_000001|"Make way, good people-make way, in the King's name!" cried he.
train-clean-360/1296/138074/1296_138074_000064_000000|"What is it?"
train-clean-360/1296/138074/1296_138074_000066_000000|"Why shouldn't she?"
train-clean-360/1296/138074/1296_138074_000083_000000|"Really?"
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000005_000000|GREETINGS
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000006_000000|"This is all?" Jack said.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000010_000000|The message stared up at them cryptically.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000012_000001|Can you hear me?
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000013_000001|Then a voice came whispering through the static.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000014_000000|"We need your co ordinates in order to tell," Tiger said.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000014_000001|"Who are you?"
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000016_000002|"Check these out fast," he told Jack.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000017_000002|We are all dying, but if you must have a contract to come...."
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000018_000001|"We're coming.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000019_000002|A planet calling for help, with no Hospital Earth contract!"
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000020_000000|"They sound desperate," Dal said.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000022_000003|Tiger was right; this was almost too good to be true.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000028_000001|Says it's an Earth type planet, and not much else.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000028_000002|Gives reference to the full report in the Confederation files.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000032_000000|"Contract!" Jack said.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000032_000001|"It doesn't even say there are any people there. Not a word about any kind of life form."
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000036_000000|Jack stared at him.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000036_000002|We can't do that, they'd skin us alive.
train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000038_000000|Tiger got the request off while Jack and Dal strapped down for the conversion to Koenig drive.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000005_000001|But things were different now.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000012_000000|"I did not!" the Black Doctor snapped.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000020_000002|What do you think?
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000021_000002|The Black Doctor looked up, and beamed.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000024_000000|dr Arnquist laughed.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000025_000000|"My name?"
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000026_000000|"You didn't know that you were a guinea pig, did you?" the Black Doctor said.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000029_000000|The Black Doctor smiled.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000032_000005|What about you?
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000032_000006|What are your plans?
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000032_000007|What do you propose to do now that you have that star on your collar?"
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000033_000000|They talked then about the future.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000034_000000|"Then go along," dr Arnquist said, "with my congratulations and blessing.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000036_000004|But now I think I've changed my mind."
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000037_000000|He reached out and placed Fuzzy gently in the Black Doctor's hand.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000037_000001|"I want you to keep him," he said.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000037_000002|"I don't think I'll need him any more. I'll miss him, but I think it would be better if I don't have him now. Be good to him, and let me visit him once in a while."
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000038_000000|The Black Doctor looked at Dal, and then lifted Fuzzy up to his own shoulder.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000038_000001|For a moment the little creature shivered as if afraid.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000038_000002|Then he blinked twice at Dal, trustingly, and snuggled in comfortably against the Black Doctor's neck.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000040_000003|He was a Star Surgeon from Hospital Earth.
train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000041_000001|He pulled his scarlet cape tightly around his throat.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000000_000000|Then out from among the trees marched Private Files, bearing the banner of Oogaboo, which fluttered from a long pole.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000000_000001|This pole he stuck in the ground just in front of the well and then he cried in a loud voice:
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000001_000000|"I hereby conquer this territory in the name of Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, and all the inhabitants of the land I proclaim her slaves!"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000003_000000|"Is the coast clear, Private Files?"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000004_000000|"There is no coast here," was the reply, "but all's well."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000006_000002|Spare us, and we will be your slaves forever!"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000008_000000|Files turned around and, seeing the strangers for the first time, examined them with much curiosity.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000010_000000|"Permit us to introduce ourselves," replied Shaggy, stepping forward. "This is Tik Tok, the Clockwork Man-who works better than some meat people.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000011_000001|I'm sorry I've conquered you."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000012_000000|"But you haven't conquered us yet," called Betsy indignantly.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000013_000000|"No," agreed Files, "that is a fact.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000013_000001|But if my officers will kindly command me to conquer you, I will do so at once, after which we can stop arguing and converse more at our ease."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000014_000000|The officers had by this time risen from their knees and brushed the dust from their trousers.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000016_000000|"That's all right," replied Shaggy.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000018_000000|"We'll see about that," retorted the Queen, angrily.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000018_000001|"Advance, Private Files, and bind the enemy hand and foot!"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000019_000000|But Private Files looked at pretty Betsy and fascinating Polychrome and the beautiful Rose Princess and shook his head.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000020_000000|"It would be impolite, and I won't do it," he asserted.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000021_000000|"You must!" cried Ann.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000021_000001|"It is your duty to obey orders."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000024_000000|All this noise annoyed Hank, who had been eyeing the Army of Oogaboo with strong disfavor.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000024_000001|The mule now dashed forward and began backing upon the officers and kicking fierce and dangerous heels at them.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000025_000000|Betsy laughed joyously at the comical rout of the "noble army," and Polychrome danced with glee.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000026_000000|"Private Files, I command you to do your duty!" she cried again, and then she herself ducked to escape the mule's heels-for Hank made no distinction in favor of a lady who was an open enemy.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000026_000001|Betsy grabbed her champion by the forelock, however, and so held him fast, and when the officers saw that the mule was restrained from further attacks they crept fearfully back and picked up their discarded swords.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000027_000000|"Private Files, seize and bind these prisoners!" screamed the Queen.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000028_000000|"No," said Files, throwing down his gun and removing the knapsack which was strapped to his back, "I resign my position as the Army of Oogaboo. I enlisted to fight the enemy and become a hero, but if you want some one to bind harmless girls you will have to hire another Private."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000031_000000|"Nonsense," said Files.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000032_000000|"Indeed you haven't!" retorted the Queen.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000032_000001|"If you resign it will break up my Army, and then I cannot conquer the world." She now turned to the officers and said: "I must ask you to do me a favor.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000032_000002|I know it is undignified in officers to fight, but unless you immediately capture Private Files and force him to obey my orders there will be no plunder for any of us.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000033_000000|The prospect of this awful fate so frightened the officers that they drew their swords and rushed upon Files, who stood beside Shaggy, in a truly ferocious manner.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000034_000000|Quite disconcerted by this unexpected effect of the Magnet, Shaggy disengaged himself from the Queen's encircling arms and quickly hid the talisman in his pocket.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000034_000001|The adventurers from Oogaboo were now his firm friends, and there was no more talk about conquering and binding any of his party.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000035_000001|To conquer the world, as you have set out to do, you must conquer everyone under its surface as well as those upon its surface, and no one in all the world needs conquering so much as Ruggedo."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000039_000000|"Of course," answered Shaggy.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000040_000000|"Ah!" exclaimed General Apple, heaving a deep sigh, "that would be plunder worth our while.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000040_000001|Let's conquer him, Your Majesty."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000041_000000|The Queen looked reproachfully at Files, who was sitting next to the lovely Princess and whispering in her ear.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000042_000001|I have plenty of brave officers, indeed, but no private soldier for them to command.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000042_000002|Therefore I cannot conquer Ruggedo and win all his wealth."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000043_000000|"Why don't you make one of your officers the Private?" asked Shaggy; but at once every officer began to protest and the Queen of Oogaboo shook her head as she replied:
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000044_000000|"That is impossible.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000044_000002|They are exceptionally brave in commanding others to fight, but could not themselves meet the enemy and conquer."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000045_000000|"Very true, Your Majesty," said Colonel Plum, eagerly.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000045_000001|"There are many kinds of bravery and one cannot be expected to possess them all.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000047_000000|"You see," said Ann, "how helpless I am.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000047_000001|Had not Private Files proved himself a traitor and a deserter, I would gladly have conquered this Ruggedo; but an Army without a private soldier is like a bee without a stinger."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000000|"I am not a traitor, Your Majesty," protested Files.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000001|"I resigned in a proper manner, not liking the job.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000002|But there are plenty of people to take my place.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000003|Why not make Shaggy Man the private soldier?"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000049_000000|"He might be killed," said Ann, looking tenderly at Shaggy, "for he is mortal, and able to die.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000049_000001|If anything happened to him, it would break my heart."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000050_000000|"It would hurt me worse than that," declared Shaggy.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000051_000000|This prospect was so tempting that the officers began whispering together and presently Colonel Cheese said: "Your Majesty, by combining our brains we have just evolved a most brilliant idea.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000051_000001|We will make the Clockwork Man the private soldier!"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000052_000000|"Who?
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000052_000001|Me?" asked Tik Tok.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000053_000000|"At that time you had no gun," said Polychrome.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000055_000000|"I'll keep you wound up, Tik Tok," promised Betsy.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000056_000002|And, since a private soldier seems to be necessary to this Army, Tik Tok is the only one of our party fitted to undertake the job."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000057_000000|"What must I do?" asked Tik Tok.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000058_000001|"When the officers command you to do anything, you must do it; that is all."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000059_000000|"And that's enough, too," said Files.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000064_000000|Then Ann strapped the knapsack to Tik Tok's copper back and said: "Now we are ready to march to Ruggedo's Kingdom and conquer it.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000064_000001|Officers, give the command to march."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000069_000000|Tik Tok looked at them and then around him in surprise.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000070_000000|"Fall in what?
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000070_000001|The well?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000071_000000|"No," said Queen Ann, "you must fall in marching order."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000073_000000|"Shoulder your gun and stand ready to march," advised Files; so Tik Tok held the gun straight and stood still.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000074_000000|"What next?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000078_000000|"But this is absurd!" said Ann with a frown.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000078_000001|"If we can't get to Ruggedo, it is certain that we can't conquer him."
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000080_000000|"Well, then, get busy and discover it," snapped the Queen.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000081_000001|They all stood looking from one road to another in perplexity.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000082_000000|Files and the Rose Princess, who had by this time become good friends, advanced a little way along one of the roads and found that it was bordered by pretty wild flowers.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000085_000000|"Of course," said Files.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000086_000000|She looked more closely at the flowers.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000086_000001|There were hundreds of white daisies, golden buttercups, bluebells and daffodils growing by the roadside, and each flower head was firmly set upon its slender but stout stem.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000086_000002|There were even a few wild roses scattered here and there and perhaps it was the sight of these that gave the Princess courage to ask the important question.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000087_000000|She dropped to her knees, facing the flowers, and extended both her arms pleadingly toward them.
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000088_000000|"Tell me, pretty cousins," she said in her sweet, gentle voice, "which way will lead us to the Kingdom of Ruggedo, the Nome King?"
train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000090_000000|"That's it!" cried Files joyfully.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000002_000000|Chapter Ten
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000003_000000|A Terrible Tumble Through a Tube
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000004_000001|But no one suspected any especial danger until after they had entered Ruggedo's cavern, and so they were journeying along in quite a contented manner when Tik Tok, who marched ahead, suddenly disappeared.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000005_000000|The officers thought he must have turned a corner, so they kept on their way and all of them likewise disappeared-one after another. Queen Ann was rather surprised at this, and in hastening forward to learn the reason she also vanished from sight.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000006_000000|Betsy Bobbin had tired her feet by walking, so she was now riding upon the back of the stout little mule, facing backward and talking to Shaggy and Polychrome, who were just behind.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000006_000001|Suddenly Hank pitched forward and began falling and Betsy would have tumbled over his head had she not grabbed the mule's shaggy neck with both arms and held on for dear life.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000000|All around was darkness, and they were not falling directly downward but seemed to be sliding along a steep incline.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000001|Hank's hoofs were resting upon some smooth substance over which he slid with the swiftness of the wind.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000002|Once Betsy's heels flew up and struck a similar substance overhead.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000003|They were, indeed, descending the "Hollow Tube" that led to the other side of the world.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000000|After several minutes had passed and no harm had befallen them, Betsy gained courage.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000001|She could see nothing at all, nor could she hear anything except the rush of air past her ears as they plunged downward along the Tube.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000002|Whether she and Hank were alone, or the others were with them, she could not tell.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000004|There was Tik Tok, flat upon his back and sliding headforemost down the incline.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000005|And there were the Officers of the Army of Oogaboo, all tangled up in a confused crowd, flapping their arms and trying to shield their faces from the clanking swords, which swung back and forth during the swift journey and pommeled everyone within their reach.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000011_000000|"This is awful, Hank!" cried Betsy in a loud voice, and Queen Ann heard her and called out: "Are you safe, Betsy?"
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000013_000000|"Don't ask her that, please don't!" said Shaggy, who was not too far away to overhear them.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000014_000000|"Why?" said Betsy.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000018_000000|"Be patient and you'll find out, my dear," said Polychrome.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000018_000001|"But isn't this an odd experience?
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000019_000000|"How do you know we're in the center of the earth?" asked Betsy, her voice trembling a little through nervousness.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000020_000001|"I have often heard of this passage, which was once built by a Magician who was a great traveler.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000020_000002|He thought it would save him the bother of going around the earth's surface, but he tumbled through the Tube so fast that he shot out at the other end and hit a star in the sky, which at once exploded."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000021_000000|"The star exploded?" asked Betsy wonderingly.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000023_000000|"And what became of the Magician?" inquired the girl.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000024_000001|"But I don't think it matters much."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000025_000000|"It matters a good deal, if we also hit the stars when we come out," said Queen Ann, with a moan.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000026_000000|"Don't worry," advised Polychrome.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000027_000001|"Couldn't you manage to fall all by yourself, my dear?"
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000028_000000|"I'll try," laughed the Rainbow's Daughter.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000029_000000|All this time they were swiftly falling through the Tube, and it was not so easy for them to talk as you may imagine when you read their words.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000029_000001|But although they were so helpless and altogether in the dark as to their fate, the fact that they were able to converse at all cheered them, considerably.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000031_000001|Then, just as they began to fear the Tube would never end, Tik Tok popped out into broad daylight and, after making a graceful circle in the air, fell with a splash into a great marble fountain.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000032_000000|Out came the officers, in quick succession, tumbling heels over head and striking the ground in many undignified attitudes.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000033_000001|"What can all this mean?"
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000034_000000|For answer, Queen Ann sailed up from the Tube, took a ride through the air as high as the treetops, and alighted squarely on top of the Peculiar Person's head, smashing a jeweled crown over his eyes and tumbling him to the ground.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000035_000000|The mule was heavier and had Betsy clinging to his back, so he did not go so high up.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000035_000001|Fortunately for his little rider he struck the ground upon his four feet.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000036_000002|But as yet the only inhabitant to greet them was the Peculiar Person just mentioned, who had shaken off the grasp of the officers without effort and was now trying to pull the battered crown from off his eyes.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000037_000000|Shaggy, who was always polite, helped him to do this and when the man was free and could see again he looked at his visitors with evident amazement.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000038_000001|"Where did you come from and how did you get here?"
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000039_000000|Betsy tried to answer him, for Queen Ann was surly and silent.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000040_000000|"I can't say, exac'ly where we came from, cause I don't know the name of the place," said the girl, "but the way we got here was through the Hollow Tube."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000041_000000|"Don't call it a 'hollow' Tube, please," exclaimed the Peculiar Person in an irritated tone of voice.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000041_000001|"If it's a tube, it's sure to be hollow."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000042_000000|"Why?" asked Betsy.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000043_000000|"Because all tubes are made that way.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000043_000001|But this Tube is private property and everyone is forbidden to fall into it."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000044_000000|"We didn't do it on purpose," explained Betsy, and Polychrome added: "I am quite sure that Ruggedo, the Nome King, pushed us down that Tube."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000045_000000|"Ha! Ruggedo!
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000045_000001|Did you say Ruggedo?" cried the man, becoming much excited.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000046_000000|"That is what she said," replied Shaggy, "and I believe she is right. We were on our way to conquer the Nome King when suddenly we fell into the Tube."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000047_000000|"Then you are enemies of Ruggedo?" inquired the peculiar Person.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000048_000000|"Not exac'ly enemies," said Betsy, a little puzzled by the question, "'cause we don't know him at all; but we started out to conquer him, which isn't as friendly as it might be."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000049_000000|"True," agreed the man.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000049_000001|He looked thoughtfully from one to another of them for a while and then he turned his head over his shoulder and said: "Never mind the fire and pincers, my good brothers.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000049_000002|It will be best to take these strangers to the Private Citizen."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000050_000000|"Very well, Tubekins," responded a Voice, deep and powerful, that seemed to come out of the air, for the speaker was invisible.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000051_000000|All our friends gave a jump, at this.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000051_000001|Even Polychrome was so startled that her gauze draperies fluttered like a banner in a breeze.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000052_000000|But soon they gained courage to look more closely at the Peculiar Person.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000052_000001|As he was a type of all the inhabitants of this extraordinary land whom they afterward met, I will try to tell you what he looked like.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000000|His face was beautiful, but lacked expression.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000001|His eyes were large and blue in color and his teeth finely formed and white as snow.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000002|His hair was black and bushy and seemed inclined to curl at the ends.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000003|So far no one could find any fault with his appearance.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000004|He wore a robe of scarlet, which did not cover his arms and extended no lower than his bare knees.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000005|On the bosom of the robe was embroidered a terrible dragon's head, as horrible to look at as the man was beautiful.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000006|His arms and legs were left bare and the skin of one arm was bright yellow and the skin of the other arm a vivid green.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000007|He had one blue leg and one pink one, while both his feet-which showed through the open sandals he wore-were jet black.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000054_000000|Betsy could not decide whether these gorgeous colors were dyes or the natural tints of the skin, but while she was thinking it over the man who had been called "Tubekins" said:
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000055_000000|"Follow me to the Residence-all of you!"
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000056_000000|But just then a Voice exclaimed: "Here's another of them, Tubekins, lying in the water of the fountain."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000057_000000|"Gracious!" cried Betsy; "it must be Tik Tok, and he'll drown."
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000058_000000|"Water is a bad thing for his clockworks, anyway," agreed Shaggy, as with one accord they all started for the fountain.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000058_000001|But before they could reach it, invisible hands raised Tik Tok from the marble basin and set him upon his feet beside it, water dripping from every joint of his copper body.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000059_000001|He next made an attempt to walk but after several awkward trials found he could not move his joints.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000060_000000|Peals of jeering laughter from persons unseen greeted Tik Tok's failure, and the new arrivals in this strange land found it very uncomfortable to realize that there were many creatures around them who were invisible, yet could be heard plainly.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000061_000000|"Shall I wind him up?" asked Betsy, feeling very sorry for Tik Tok.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000063_000000|At once an oil can appeared before him, held on a level with his eyes by some unseen hand.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000063_000001|Shaggy took the can and tried to oil Tik Tok's joints.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000063_000002|As if to assist him, a strong current of warm air was directed against the copper man which quickly dried him.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000064_000000|"Come!" commanded Tubekins, and turning his back upon them he walked up the path toward the castle.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000065_000000|"Shall we go?" asked Queen Ann, uncertainly; but just then she received a shove that almost pitched her forward on her head; so she decided to go.
train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000065_000001|The officers who hesitated received several energetic kicks, but could not see who delivered them; therefore they also decided-very wisely-to go.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000003_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000004_000000|"I'm so glad you've come back!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000005_000001|"We are not in danger at present," she said, "but one never knows when one will be, so we must move; and that will be more dangerous than staying where we are."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000006_000000|"Then let us stay," said Dot.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000000|"That won't do," replied the Kangaroo.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000001|"This is the conclusion I have jumped to.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000002|If we stay here, the Blacks might come this way and their dingo dogs hunt us to death.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000003|To get to a safe place we must pass their camp.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000004|That is a little risky, but we must go that way.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000005|We can do this easily if the dogs don't get scent of us, as all the Blacks are prancing about and making a noise, having a kind of game in fact, and they are so amused that we ought to get past quite safely.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000006|I've done it many times before at night."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000008_000000|Dot looked round to say good bye to the Koala, but the little animal had heard the Kangaroo speak of Blacks, and that word suggested to its empty little head that it must keep its skin whole, so, without waiting to be polite to Dot, it had sneaked up its gum tree and was well out of sight.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000009_000000|Without wasting time, Dot settled in the Kangaroo's pouch, and they started upon their perilous way.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000010_000000|For some distance the Kangaroo hopped along boldly, with an occasional warning to Dot to shut her eyes as they plunged through the bushes; but after crossing a watercourse, and climbing a stiff hill, she whispered that they must both keep quite silent, and told Dot to listen as she stopped for a moment.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000011_000001|"Their camp is over there," said the Kangaroo, "that is the sound of their game."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000012_000000|"Can't we go some other way?" asked Dot.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000012_000002|We shall have to pass quite close to their playground." So in perfect silence they went on.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000000|If they had gone on their way it is possible that they would have slipped past the Blacks without danger.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000001|But although the Kangaroo is as timid an animal as any in the bush, it is also very curious, and Dot's Kangaroo wished to peep at the corroboree.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000002|She whispered to Dot that it would be nice for a little Human to see some other Humans after being so long amongst bush creatures, and said, also, that there would be no great danger in hopping to a rock that would command a view of the open ground where the corroboree was being held.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000003|Of course Dot thought this would be great fun, so the Kangaroo took her to the rock, where they peeped through the trees and saw before them the weird scene and dance.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000000|Dot nearly screamed with fright at the sight.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000001|She had thought she would see a few Black folk, not a crowd of such terrible people as she beheld. They did not look like human beings at all, but like dreadful demons, they were so wicked and ugly in appearance.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000002|The men who were dancing were without clothes, but their black bodies were painted with red and white stripes, and bits of down and feathers were stuck on their skin. Some had only white stripes over the places where their bones were, which made them look like skeletons flitting before the fire, or in and out of the surrounding darkness.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000003|The dancing men were divided from the rest of the tribe by a row of fires, which, burning brightly, lit the horrid scene with a lurid red light.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000004|The firelight seemed to make the ferocious faces of the tribe still more hideous.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000006|Sometimes the women would cease beating the skin bags to clap their hands and strike their sides, yelling the words of the corroboree song, as the painted figures, like fiends and skeletons, danced before the row of fires.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000019_000000|It was a terrifying sight to Dot.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000019_000001|"Oh, Kangaroo!" she whispered, "they are dreadful, horrid creatures."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000021_000000|"But white Humans are not like that," said Dot.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000022_000000|"All Humans are the same underneath, they all kill kangaroos," said the Kangaroo.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000022_000001|"Look there! they are playing at killing us in their dance."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000023_000000|Dot looked once more at the hideous figures as they left the fire and began acting like actors.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000023_000001|One of the Blackfellows had come from a little bower of trees, and wore a few skins so arranged as to make him look as much like a kangaroo as possible, whilst he worked a stick which he pretended was a kangaroo's tail, and hopped about.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000024_000000|"What an idea of a kangaroo!" sniffed Dot's friend, "why, a real kangaroo would have smelt or heard those Humans, and have bounded away far out of sight by now."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000025_000000|"But it's all sham," said Dot; "the Black man couldn't be a real kangaroo."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000001|"Humans think themselves so clever," she continued, "but just see what bad kangaroos they make-such a simple thing to do, too!
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000002|But their legs bend the wrong way for jumping, and that stick isn't any good for a tail, and it has to be worked with those big, clumsy arms.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000003|Just see, too, how those skins fit!
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000004|Why it's enough to make a kangaroo's sides split with laughter to see such foolery!" Dot's friend peeped at the Black's acting with the contempt to be expected of a real kangaroo, who saw human beings pretending to be one of those noble animals.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000005|Dot thought the Kangaroo had never looked so grand before.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000006|She was so tall, so big, and yet so graceful: a really beautiful creature.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000027_000001|"Well, I forgive their killing such a silly creature!
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000027_000002|There wasn't a jump in it."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000028_000000|After more dancing to the singing and noise of the on lookers, a Blackfellow came from the little bower in the dim background, with a battered straw hat on, and a few rags tied round his neck and wrist, in imitation of a collar and cuffs.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000029_000000|"Now this is better!" said the Kangaroo, with a smile.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000000|Dot thought that if men behaved like that in towns it must be very strange.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000001|She had not seen any like the acting Blackfellow at her cottage home.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000002|But she did not say anything, for it was quite clear in her little mind that Blackfellows, kangaroos, and willy wagtails had a very poor opinion of white people.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000003|She felt that they must all be wrong; but, all the same, she sometimes wished she could be a noble kangaroo, and not a despised human being.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000031_000000|"I wish I were not a little white girl," she whispered to the Kangaroo.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000032_000000|The gentle animal patted her kindly with her delicate black hands.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000000|"You are as nice now as my baby kangaroo," she said sadly, "but you will have to grow into a real white Human.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000001|For some reason there have to be all sorts of creatures on the earth.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000002|There are hawks, snakes, dingoes and humans, and no one can tell for what good they exist.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000003|They must have dropped on to this world by mistake for another, where there could only have been themselves.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000004|After all," said the kind animal, "it wouldn't do for every one to be a kangaroo, for I doubt if there would be enough grass; but you may become an improved Human."
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000036_000000|"Never do what?" enquired Dot, anxious to know all that she should do, so as to be improved.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000037_000000|"Never, never eat kangaroo tail soup!" said the Kangaroo, solemnly.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000039_000001|Perhaps this was because the kangaroo cannot think, but it quickly jumped to the conclusion that they were in danger.
train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000040_000000|Whilst they had been peeping at the corroboree, and talking, the dingo dogs that had been prowling around the camp, had caught scent of the Kangaroo; and, following the trail, had set up an angry snapping and howling.
train-clean-360/1316/132782/1316_132782_000012_000008|I hardly see my way.
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000003_000004|He importuned his priests for comfort, prayed, confessed, and communicated: but his faith was weak; and he owned that, in spite of all his devotions, the strong terrors of death were upon him.
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000004_000006|He then withdrew, and left them to deliberate unrestrained by his presence.
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000007_000002|Three of these bodies consisted of Tories.
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000008_000004|His victory, by relieving the nation from the strong dread of Popish tyranny, had deprived him of half his influence.
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000010_000006|Their old theory, sound or unsound, was at least complete and coherent.
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000010_000010|For what satisfactory guarantee could he give?
train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000011_000011|james could not be King in effect: but he must still continue to be King in semblance.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000004_000000|BOOK two.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000002|So it befell on a time when King Arthur was at London, there came a knight and told the king tidings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king's true liege people.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000003|If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate but that he were mightily withstood.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000004|It is truth, said the knight, for I saw the host myself.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000005|Well, said the king, let make a cry, that all the lords, knights, and gentlemen of arms, should draw unto a castle called Camelot in those days, and there the king would let make a council general and a great jousts.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000007_000001|And when she came before King Arthur, she told from whom she came, and how she was sent on message unto him for these causes.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000007_000002|Then she let her mantle fall that was richly furred; and then was she girt with a noble sword whereof the king had marvel, and said, Damosel, for what cause are ye girt with that sword? it beseemeth you not.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000007_000005|Then Arthur took the sword by the sheath and by the girdle and pulled at it eagerly, but the sword would not out.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000008_000000|Sir, said the damosel, you need not to pull half so hard, for he that shall pull it out shall do it with little might.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000008_000005|By my faith, said Arthur, here are good knights, as I deem, as any be in the world, but their grace is not to help you, wherefore I am displeased.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000009_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000002|And so he went privily into the court, and saw this adventure, whereof it raised his heart, and he would assay it as other knights did, but for he was poor and poorly arrayed he put him not far in press.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000004|And as the damosel took her leave of Arthur and of all the barons, so departing, this knight Balin called unto her, and said, Damosel, I pray you of your courtesy, suffer me as well to assay as these lords; though that I be so poorly clothed, in my heart meseemeth I am fully assured as some of these others, and meseemeth in my heart to speed right well.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000006|And then she said unto the knight, Sir, it needeth not to put me to more pain or labour, for it seemeth not you to speed there as other have failed.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000007|Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000009|Then Balin took the sword by the girdle and sheath, and drew it out easily; and when he looked on the sword it pleased him much.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000013|Nay, said Balin, for this sword will I keep, but it be taken from me with force.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000011_000000|Anon after, Balin sent for his horse and armour, and so would depart from the court, and took his leave of King Arthur.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000011_000004|Then the most part of the knights of the Round Table said that Balin did not this adventure all only by might, but by witchcraft.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000012_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000013_000001|And she came on horseback, richly beseen, and saluted King Arthur, and there asked him a gift that he promised her when she gave him the sword.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000013_000003|The name of it, said the lady, is Excalibur, that is as much to say as Cut steel.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000013_000006|I will ask none other thing, said the lady.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000000|Then Balin took up the head of the lady, and bare it with him to his hostelry, and there he met with his squire, that was sorry he had displeased King Arthur and so they rode forth out of the town.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000001|Now, said Balin, we must depart, take thou this head and bear it to my friends, and tell them how I have sped, and tell my friends in Northumberland that my most foe is dead.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000006|In King Arthur's court, said Balin.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000009|Then the king buried her richly.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000015_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000016_000004|Say not so, said they.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000016_000005|She hath a brother, a passing good knight of prowess and a full true man; and this damosel loved another knight that held her to paramour, and this good knight her brother met with the knight that held her to paramour, and slew him by force of his hands.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000018_000001|This was the cause that the damosel came into this court.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000019_000003|Peradventure, said Balin, it had been better to have holden you at home, for many a man weeneth to put his enemy to a rebuke, and oft it falleth to himself.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000020_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000002|And therewith she took the sword from her love that lay dead, and fell to the ground in a swoon.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000003|And when she arose she made great dole out of measure, the which sorrow grieved Balin passingly sore, and he went unto her for to have taken the sword out of her hand, but she held it so fast he might not take it out of her hand unless he should have hurt her, and suddenly she set the pommel to the ground, and rove herself through the body.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000006|Then Balan said, I little weened to have met with you at this sudden adventure; I am right glad of your deliverance out of your dolorous prisonment, for a man told me, in the castle of Four Stones, that ye were delivered, and that man had seen you in the court of King Arthur, and therefore I came hither into this country, for here I supposed to find you.
train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000007|Anon the knight Balin told his brother of his adventure of the sword, and of the death of the Lady of the Lake, and how King Arthur was displeased with him.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000000|Now go we hence, said Balin, and well be we met.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000003|For I would wit it, said the dwarf.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000006|As for that, said Balin, I fear not greatly, but I am right heavy that I have displeased my lord King Arthur, for the death of this knight.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000007|So as they talked together, there came a king of Cornwall riding, the which hight King Mark.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000003_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000004|Then said Merlin to Balin, Thou hast done thyself great hurt, because that thou savest not this lady that slew herself, that might have saved her an thou wouldest.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000008|Therewith Merlin vanished away suddenly.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000010|First, said the king, tell me your name.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000014|We have little to do, said the two knights, to tell thee.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000019|Ah! said Balin, ye are Merlin; we will be ruled by your counsel.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000020|Come on, said Merlin, ye shall have great worship, and look that ye do knightly, for ye shall have great need.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000021|As for that, said Balin, dread you not, we will do what we may.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000005_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000006_000003|Abide, said Merlin, here in a strait way ye shall meet with him; and therewith he showed Balin and his brother where he rode.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000007_000002|Then said he thus: Knights full of prowess, slay me not, for by my life ye may win, and by my death ye shall win nothing.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000007_000005|By whom? said King Arthur.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000007_000016|But, sir, are ye purveyed, said Merlin, for to morn the host of Nero, King Rience's brother, will set on you or noon with a great host, and therefore make you ready, for I will depart from you.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000000|In the meanwhile came one to King Lot, and told him while he tarried there Nero was destroyed and slain with all his people.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000003|Now what is best to do?
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000004|said King Lot of Orkney; whether is me better to treat with King Arthur or to fight, for the greater part of our people are slain and destroyed?
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000009|Alas he might not endure, the which was great pity, that so worthy a knight as he was one should be overmatched, that of late time afore had been a knight of King Arthur's, and wedded the sister of King Arthur; and for King Arthur lay by King Lot's wife, the which was Arthur's sister, and gat on her Mordred, therefore King Lot held against Arthur.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000011_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000000|SO at the interment came King Lot's wife Margawse with her four sons, Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000004|All this made Merlin by his subtle craft, and there he told the king, When I am dead these tapers shall burn no longer, and soon after the adventures of the Sangreal shall come among you and be achieved.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000005|Also he told Arthur how Balin the worshipful knight shall give the dolorous stroke, whereof shall fall great vengeance.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000007|As for Pellinore, said Merlin, he will meet with you soon; and as for Balin he will not be long from you; but the other brother will depart, ye shall see him no more.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000008|By my faith, said Arthur, they are two marvellous knights, and namely Balin passeth of prowess of any knight that ever I found, for much beholden am I unto him; would God he would abide with me.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000010|So after, for great trust, Arthur betook the scabbard to Morgan le Fay his sister, and she loved another knight better than her husband King Uriens or King Arthur, and she would have had Arthur her brother slain, and therefore she let make another scabbard like it by enchantment, and gave the scabbard Excalibur to her love; and the knight's name was called Accolon, that after had near slain King Arthur.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000013_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000000|WITHIN a day or two King Arthur was somewhat sick, and he let pitch his pavilion in a meadow, and there he laid him down on a pallet to sleep, but he might have no rest.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000007|Sir, said Balin, I pray you make you ready, for ye must go with me, or else I must fight with you and bring you by force, and that were me loath to do.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000012|That shall I do, said Balin, and that I make vow unto knighthood; and so he departed from this knight with great sorrow.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000013|So King Arthur let bury this knight richly, and made a mention on his tomb, how there was slain Herlews le Berbeus, and by whom the treachery was done, the knight Garlon.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000015_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000007|And as they came by an hermitage even by a churchyard, there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000009|Alas, said Balin, it is not the first despite he hath done me; and there the hermit and Balin buried the knight under a rich stone and a tomb royal.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000013|Then he went up into the tower, and leapt over walls into the ditch, and hurt him not; and anon he pulled out his sword and would have foughten with them.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000015|Well, said Balin, she shall bleed as much as she may bleed, but I will not lose the life of her whiles my life lasteth.
train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000016|And so Balin made her to bleed by her good will, but her blood helped not the lady.
train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000003_000011|There is, consequently, such a Being; that is, there is a Deity.
train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000009_000000|In such a chain, too, or succession of objects, each part is caused by that which preceded it, and causes that which succeeds it.
train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000009_000004|Did I show you the particular causes of each individual in a collection of twenty particles of matter, I should think it very unreasonable, should you afterwards ask me, what was the cause of the whole twenty.
train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000010_000001|It is observed by arithmeticians, that the products of nine, compose always either nine, or some lesser product of nine, if you add together all the characters of which any of the former products is composed.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000000_000004|They rose up against the first magistrate merely in order to assert the supremacy of the law.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000000_000005|They were for the most part strongly attached to the Church established by law.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000001_000000|In Scotland the course of events was very different.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000002_000000|William saw that he must not think of paying to the laws of Scotland that scrupulous respect which he had wisely and righteously paid to the laws of England.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000002_000001|It was absolutely necessary that he should determine by his own authority how that Convention which was to meet at Edinburgh should be chosen, and that he should assume the power of annulling some judgments and some statutes.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000002_000002|He accordingly summoned to the parliament house several Lords who had been deprived of their honours by sentences which the general voice loudly condemned as unjust; and he took on himself to dispense with the Act which deprived Presbyterians of the elective franchise.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000003_000000|The consequence was that the choice of almost all the shires and burghs fell on Whig candidates.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000003_000001|The defeated party complained loudly of foul play, of the rudeness of the populace, and of the partiality of the presiding magistrates; and these complaints were in many cases well founded.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000000|Nor was it only at the elections that the popular feeling, so long and so severely compressed, exploded with violence.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000002|Unhappily throughout a large part of Scotland the clergy of the Established Church were, to use the phrase then common, rabbled. The morning of Christmas day was fixed for the commencement of these outrages.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000003|For nothing disgusted the rigid Covenanter more than the reverence paid by the prelatist to the ancient holidays of the Church. That such reverence may be carried to an absurd extreme is true.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000004|But a philosopher may perhaps be inclined to think the opposite extreme not less absurd, and may ask why religion should reject the aid of associations which exist in every nation sufficiently civilised to have a calendar, and which are found by experience to have a powerful and often a salutary effect.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000007|To these austere fanatics a holiday was an object of positive disgust and hatred.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000005_000001|Each band marched to the nearest manse, and sacked the cellar and larder of the minister, which at that season were probably better stocked than usual.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000005_000004|He was then carried to the market place, and exposed during some time as a malefactor.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000006_000002|About two hundred curates-so the episcopal parish priests were called-were expelled.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000006_000003|The graver Covenanters, while they applauded the fervour of their riotous brethren, were apprehensive that proceedings so irregular might give scandal, and learned, with especial concern, that here and there an Achan had disgraced the good cause by stooping to plunder the Canaanites whom he ought only to have smitten.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000000|The Scottish Bishops, in great dismay, sent the Dean of Glasgow to plead the cause of their persecuted Church at Westminster.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000002|But, though he had, at the request of a large number of the noblemen and gentlemen of Scotland, taken on himself provisionally the executive administration of that kingdom, the means of maintaining order there were not at his command.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000003|He had not a single regiment north of the Tweed, or indeed within many miles of that river.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000006|But this proclamation, not being supported by troops, was very little regarded.
train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000008|It was a Sunday; but to rabble a congregation of prelatists was held to be a work of necessity and mercy.
train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000001_000000|CLOVER BLOSSOM.
train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000007_000000|"Ah, that is very lovely," cried the Elves, gathering round little Sunbeam as she ceased, to place a garland in her hair and praise her song.
train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000008_000000|"Now," said the Queen, "call hither Moon light and Summer Wind, for they have seen many pleasant things in their long wanderings, and will gladly tell us them."
train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000009_000000|"Most joyfully will we do our best, dear Queen," said the Elves, as they folded their wings beside her.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000005_000000|Rice.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000006_000000|As a rule rice is badly cooked in the average American home.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000008_000000|In the first place, very few know how to cook just plain boiled rice. Many know that there is a way of preparing it so that when done it will be a fluffy mass of separate grains, but they have no idea how to go about making it look like this.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000009_000000|The process is very simple.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000009_000001|Always use the unpolished rice.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000010_000000|fifty two.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000010_000001|Plain Boiled Rice.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000000|For every cup of rice have about eight cups of water.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000001|Do not add the rice until the water is boiling briskly.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000002|Then throw in the rice, and give it an occasional stir until the water begins to boil again.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000003|After that it need not be stirred.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000000|Cook until a grain feels soft when rubbed between the thumb and finger, then turn into a colander.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000001|Drain off the water and pour over the rice several cups of cold water.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000002|Drain that off, too, and place the rice where it can have moist heat for a while before serving.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000004|Rice served with curry is always prepared in this way.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000005|It may be served in place of potatoes with meat, and may also be used as a basis for many inexpensive and attractive dishes, just as macaroni and spaghetti are.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000000|There is one objection, however, to rice prepared in this way.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000002|In India this is not the case, for every ounce of rice water is there carefully saved. It is used in various ways.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000003|Usually it is fed to the babies and weaker children.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000004|Often it is given to ducks and fowl to fatten them, and sometimes it is put into the curry pot.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000000|There is another method of preparing rice which is almost as satisfactory, and by which all the nutrition is retained.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000001|That is by cooking it in a regular rice boiler.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000002|Put just enough water over the rice to well cover it.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000003|After the water in the lower vessel has boiled a while, if the rice seems a little dry, add more water.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000004|Cook until the rice is soft, then turn the fire very low, so that the water in the lower vessel does not boil but retains its heat.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000015_000000|fifty three.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000015_000001|Baby's Pesh Pash.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000016_000000|This is the first solid food that babies of English or American parents in India are allowed.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000017_000001|Shred it finely and return to the broth.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000017_000002|Cook a tablespoonful of rice in this broth and shredded mutton.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000017_000003|Cook slowly and let every grain swell to its utmost.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000018_000000|fifty four.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000018_000001|Pullao.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000000|Pullao is the most festive dish in India.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000001|It stands for all that roast turkey does in this country.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000002|At weddings, feasts, and holidays it is the chief dish.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000003|Among the Hindustani Christians it is the Christmas dinner. Sometimes it is served with rivers of hot curry flowing over it, but often it is eaten without the curry.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000004|In India it is usually made with chicken, but any kind of meat does nicely.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000000|For chicken pullao, take a good fat hen, not too old, cut up and stew until almost tender.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000001|Put a little bag of "mixed spices," such as are used in making pickles, on to cook with the fowl.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000003|When the chicken is nearly done, add the fried rice and onions to the chicken and chicken broth.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000004|Put all in a rice boiler if you have it and cook slowly until the rice is done. Retain the spices.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000005|If rice boiler is used there should be at least two inches of broth above the mixture.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000006|If you have no rice boiler, but must boil it on the stove, more broth will be required.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000007|In the latter case do not cook until it becomes soggy.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000008|Cook until the broth is absorbed, then steam.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000021_000001|When the pullao is ready to be served, pile on a platter, then strew thickly over the pullao the fried onions, almonds, and raisins.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000022_000000|fifty five.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000022_000001|Beef or Mutton Pullao.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000000|Very delicious pullao may be made from the cheapest cuts of beef and mutton.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000001|Get about two pounds of beef or mutton, cut in bits.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000002|Cook until it is very tender.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000003|Boil with this a little bag of mixed spices and two onions.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000005|Two cups of rice will be the right amount to use with two pounds of meat. Use the same method that is used in making chicken pullao.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000024_000000|fifty six.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000000|Fry three onions, six tomatoes, two peppers or pimentos together.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000001|They must all be cut into small bits.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000002|In another pan fry a cup of rice in a very little oil or crisco.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000003|After the rice has browned a little, add the two together, turn into a rice boiler or steamer and cook until rice is tender.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000004|A half cupful of grated or diced cheese is an improvement to this dish.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000005|In case tomatoes are not in season, a can of tomatoes, or, better, a large sized can of tomato soup will do nicely.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000006|In that case fry the onions and peppers and rice together.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000026_000000|fifty seven.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000026_000001|Pea Pullao.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000027_000001|Pour over the mixture a half cupful of milk or cream; add a tablespoonful of butter or crisco, and cook in a rice boiler or steamer until the peas are nicely done.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000028_000000|fifty eight.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000028_000001|Cocoanut Rice.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000029_000001|A ten cent tin of Baker's cocoanut does very nicely if one doesn't care to prepare the fresh cocoanut.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000029_000002|Boil the rice and cocoanut together, being sure to add to the water the cocoanut milk.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000029_000003|There should be about three inches of liquid above the rice.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000030_000000|fifty nine.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000000|A very nice way of making hash is to use rice instead of potatoes.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000001|Take cold meat and gravy and stew together with onion.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000002|When the onion is nearly done, add to the broth the rice.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000003|A quarter as much uncooked rice as there is meat is a good proportion.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000004|Cook all together until rice is thoroughly done.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000005|Be sure and have plenty of liquid to start with.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000032_000000|sixty.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000032_000001|Rice Cutlets.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000034_000001|Fried Rice (Parsi).
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000035_000000|(A fine dish for a missionary tea.)
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000000|Fry a cup of uncooked rice and a cup of brown sugar in a tablespoonful of butter or crisco.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000001|Cook until the sugar melts and begins to bubble; then quickly add two cups of boiling water.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000003|It can hardly be cooked too much.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000004|Remove from the fire, pour over all a half ounce of rose water and stir well.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000005|Press in plates and sprinkle well with minced almonds, or any kind of nuts will do.
train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000007|When cold, cut into squares and serve like fudge.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000000_000000|ENTREES
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000002_000000|Sweetbreads with Mushrooms
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000000|Lay half a dozen sweetbreads in cold water for twelve hours, changing the water several times.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000001|Then boil them five minutes, drop into cold water, remove the skin and lard with fat bacon.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000002|Put them in a saucepan with a pint of stock, two small onions and one carrot chopped, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, salt, pepper, cayenne, and a little mace.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000003|Stew until tender.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000000|Serve with a mushroom sauce, made as follows: Take a small bottle of mushrooms or one dozen fresh mushrooms sliced and boil them five minutes in water and lime juice.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000001|Drain and place in a stew pan with two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour and a pint of well seasoned stock or gravy.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000002|Cook until the sauce is reduced one half.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000003|Pour over the hot sweetbreads.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000005_000000|Terrapin
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000000|Boil the terrapin for one hour, and clean carefully.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000001|Rub into a paste the yolks of six hard boiled eggs, half the white of one egg chopped, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of flour, three whole cloves, salt, pepper, cayenne and mace.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000003|Cook slowly for twenty minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000004|Add three glasses of sherry and madeira and allow it to boil once, when it is ready to serve.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000007_000000|Frogs a la Poulette
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000000|Joint the hind legs and backs of twelve frogs; put in a closely covered saucepan with some truffles, a small can of mushrooms sliced, a glass of white wine, salt, white pepper, cayenne, mace and four ounces of butter.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000001|Stew gently fifteen minutes, stirring once or twice. If then tender, add one teaspoonful cornstarch rubbed into one ounce of butter.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000002|Let it cook two minutes, take from the fire and stir in the yolks of six eggs beaten well with one half cup of cream.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000003|Place this mixture where it will keep hot without cooking.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000004|Cut the crust from a loaf of bread, scoop out the center, brush with butter and brown in the oven.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000005|Pour the frogs legs and sauce into the bread cup, garnish with mushrooms and truffles.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000000|Simmer a calves' head for two hours.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000001|Tie the brains in a cloth, put them in the saucepan with the head and cook two hours longer.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000002|Then extract the bones and cut the meat in pieces, return it to the saucepan without the brains, adding two ounces of butter, two dozen stoned olives, one dozen cloves, salt, pepper, cayenne, and a cup of white wine.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000003|Cook for one hour, then add the brains cut in bits, the shaved peel and piece of one lemon and three hard boiled eggs sliced. Cook thirty minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000004|Thicken the sauce with flour rubbed into butter and serve with the calves' head.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000000|Trim twelve lamb chops very closely and fry lightly in six ounces of butter.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000001|Remove them and in the same butter place two onions, sliced, four green peppers minced, one can of mushrooms minced, and two stalks of celery chopped; salt, pepper, cayenne, and the juice of a lime. Cook until these ingredients are soft.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000002|Stir in six ounces of flour. Then add two cups of milk and cook until the mixture is thick and smooth.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000003|Dust a plate with cracker crumbs and on this place a spoonful of the fried mixture.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000004|Place a chop on top of this, cover it with another spoonful of the mixture and dust with cracker crumbs.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000005|Repeat with each chop, and when cold roll each in beaten egg and cracker crumbs, and fry a light brown.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000014_000000|Boil four calves' feet until tender.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000014_000003|Then remove from the fire and beat in the yolks of two eggs which have been mixed with the juice of a lime and a tablespoonful of water.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000014_000005|When cold cut into slices, brush with egg and bread crumbs and fry in butter until a light brown.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000015_000000|Puree of Chestnuts with Chops
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000016_000000|Boil chestnuts in salted water for twenty minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000016_000001|Shell them, season with salt and pepper, add a piece of butter and wet with milk.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000016_000002|Mash through a colander and heap lightly on a platter, arranging broiled chops around the puree.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000017_000000|Lamb Chops a la Nesselrode
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000000|Trim carefully one dozen young lamb chops.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000002|Then add a glass of sherry and stir it well before adding also a cup of rice, four cups of stock, several sweet Chili peppers chopped and some salt.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000003|Cook for half an hour or until pasty.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000005|Then with a biscuit cutter, cut it into rounds about the size of a chop.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000006|On each one of these rounds place a chop and cover the top with Bechamel sauce.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000007|When cold dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry a light brown.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000019_000000|A good recipe for the Bechamel sauce is the following: One ounce of butter browned with one ounce of flour.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000019_000001|To this add half a glass of sherry, some finely chopped truffles, one cup and a half of stock, salt and pepper, and cook for ten minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000019_000002|Add the juice of a lime, take from the fire and stir in the well beaten yolks of two eggs.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000020_000000|Devil Chops
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000021_000000|Make a dressing of the following ingredients mixed together: One ounce of butter, one teaspoonful of made mustard, one half teaspoonful of French mustard, one teaspoonful of grated horseradish, one teaspoonful of chutney, a little Chili vinegar, the juice of one lime, salt, pepper and cayenne.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000021_000001|Rub this on the chops and broil rare.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000021_000002|Serve the remaining sauce over them in a very hot dish.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000000|Fry one dozen lamb chops in butter and set aside to cool.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000001|Put in a stew pan two ounces of butter with half a can of mushrooms, one small onion and a teaspoonful of parsley, all minced fine; salt, pepper, cayenne and a little mace.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000002|Cook this gently for ten minutes and add a cup of milk thickened with flour and butter, the juice of a lemon and one teaspoonful of sugar.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000003|Cook a few minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000004|Take from the fire and add the yolks of four eggs well beaten.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000005|Cover the chops with this and set aside to cool.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000006|Brush them with the well beaten yolk of an egg, sprinkle with fine bread crumbs, and fry in butter to a light brown. Serve with green peas in the center of the dish.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000024_000000|Lamb Cutlets a la Condi
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000025_000000|Lard lamb cutlets with strips of truffle, anchovy and gherkin.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000025_000002|Put this on each side of the cutlets and cover with crepinette.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000025_000004|Serve with a browned veal gravy and sliced lemon.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000026_000000|Eggs with Tomatoes
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000000|Fry in two ounces of butter two small dry onions and two green peppers, chopped.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000001|Add half a dozen tomatoes peeled and cut up, salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000002|Simmer fifteen minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000003|Add the corn cut from half a dozen ears, and cook fifteen minutes longer.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000004|Pour the mixture into a baking dish, and break over it six eggs.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000005|Place in the oven until set.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000028_000000|Macaroni a la Rossini
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000000|Cook a pint or less of macaroni in well salted water; drain and put into a stew pan, with a little good gravy.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000001|Simmer very slowly until the gravy is all absorbed, shaking the pan occasionally.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000002|Put a layer of the macaroni in a baking dish, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and sliced truffles mixed with a little good sauce espagnole.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000003|Fill the dish and on the top layer put truffles.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000004|Place in the oven a few minutes and serve with grated Parmesan cheese on a separate dish.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000030_000000|Timbale of Macaroni for Twelve Persons
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000000|Boil one half pound of macaroni in water for five minutes.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000001|Cut in inch length pieces and simmer for twenty minutes in one quart of milk, being careful that it does not boil.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000002|Season with salt, pepper, mace and cayenne.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000003|Add one cup of cream, stir until very smooth, add the beaten yolks of eight eggs and one can of mushrooms sliced.
train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000004|Stir well and then add the macaroni with one pound of sweetbreads, cut in small pieces and two dozen Eastern oysters.
train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000018_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000018_000001|Good again!" he cried.
train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000018_000002|"We'll have the first decent breakfast we've had this year.
train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000030_000004|The mind, like the body, grows quickly hard, simple, uncomplex.
train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000031_000000|Some folk, of course, who talk glibly about the simple life when it is safely out of reach, betray themselves in camp by for ever peering about for the artificial excitements of civilisation which they miss.
train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000042_000000|"I declare, Hubbard, you're tanned like an aboriginal, and you look like one, too," laughed Maloney.
train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000014_000001|"But what makes you think the creature is starved?"
train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000014_000002|He asked the question with his eyes straight on the other's face.
train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000020_000002|I propose a swim and then bed.
train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000026_000000|"Exactly," he said.
train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000031_000001|"The wind's gusty and we've got hardly any ballast."
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000004_000003|Suddenly the prince said to me, "Cousin, we have no time to lose; be so kind as to conduct this lady to a certain spot, where you will find a dome like tomb, newly built.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000007_000001|At the top, however, he looked at me.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000007_000002|"My cousin," he exclaimed, "I do not know how to thank you for your kindness.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000007_000003|Farewell."
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000008_000001|"I don't understand."
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000009_000000|"No matter," he replied, "go back by the path that you came."
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000014_000000|My persecutor, however, did not stop here.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000014_000001|He shut me up in a large case and ordered his executioner to carry me into a desert place, to cut off my head, and then to abandon my body to the birds of prey.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000018_000000|"My dear nephew," he said, "your story gives me some hope.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000020_000002|However, we passed through the smoke into a large chamber, which at first seemed quite empty.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000021_000000|This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle did not show so much surprise as anger.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000027_000001|It was sunset, and I paused for a little to look about me, and to decide which way to turn my steps.
train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000030_000000|"I am satisfied," replied Zobeida; "you can go when you like."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000005_000000|"Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000006_000001|I was taught first to read and write, and then to learn the Koran, which is the basis of our holy religion, and the better to understand it, I read with my tutors the ablest commentators on its teaching, and committed to memory all the traditions respecting the Prophet, which have been gathered from the mouth of those who were his friends.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000006_000002|I also learnt history, and was instructed in poetry, versification, geography, chronology, and in all the outdoor exercises in which every prince should excel.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000007_000002|However, as was my duty, I took with me ten camels, laden with rich presents for the Sultan.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000008_000004|I managed to jump off without any injury, and looked about to see if I was pursued.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000009_000001|Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000011_000002|The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving me consolation, only increased my trouble.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000012_000000|"Beware," he said, "of telling any one what you have told me, for the prince who governs the kingdom is your father's greatest enemy, and he will be rejoiced to find you in his power."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000016_000000|This counsel was very distasteful to me, but I thought I could not do otherwise than adopt it.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000016_000001|So the next morning I set out with a company of poor wood cutters, to whom the tailor had introduced me.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000001|I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ring fastened to a trapdoor of the same metal.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000002|I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a staircase, which I hastily made up my mind to go down, carrying my hatchet with me by way of protection.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000003|When I reached the bottom I discovered that I was in a huge palace, as brilliantly lighted as any palace above ground that I had ever seen, with a long gallery supported by pillars of jasper, ornamented with capitals of gold.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000004|Down this gallery a lady came to meet me, of such beauty that I forgot everything else, and thought only of her.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000018_000000|To save her all the trouble possible, I hastened towards her, and bowed low.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000020_000000|"A man, madam," I replied; "I have nothing to do with genii."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000023_000003|For a long while I did nothing but weep, and would not suffer the genius to come near me; but time teaches us submission, and I have now got accustomed to his presence, and if clothes and jewels could content me, I have them in plenty.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000026_000000|"What you ask is impossible," she answered; "but stay here with me instead, and we can be happy, and all you will have to do is to betake yourself to the forest every tenth day, when I am expecting my master the genius.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000027_000002|Awful though you think him, he shall feel the weight of my arm, and I herewith take a solemn vow to stamp out the whole race."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000028_000001|"If you do, it will be the ruin of both of us," said she; "I know genii much better than you." But the wine I had drunk had confused my brain; I gave one kick to the talisman, and it fell into a thousand pieces.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000029_000002|"Princess!" I cried, "what is happening?"
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000031_000001|But I was too late.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000031_000002|The palace opened and the genius appeared, who, turning angrily to the princess, asked indignantly,
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000033_000000|"A pain in my heart," she replied hastily, "obliged me to seek the aid of this little bottle.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000033_000001|Feeling faint, I slipped and fell against the talisman, which broke.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000034_000000|"You are an impudent liar!" cried the genius.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000035_000000|"I never saw them before," she answered, "and you came in such a hurry that you may have picked them up on the road without knowing it." To this the genius only replied by insults and blows.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000036_000001|While I was thus indulging my grief my host entered, and said, "There is an old man downstairs who has brought your hatchet and slippers, which he picked up on the road, and now restores to you, as he found out from one of your comrades where you lived.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000037_000000|"I am a genius," he said, "the son of the daughter of Eblis, prince of the genii.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000037_000002|When he touched the ground, he rapped it with his foot; it opened, and we found ourselves in the enchanted palace, in the presence of the beautiful princess of the Ebony Isle. But how different she looked from what she was when I had last seen her, for she was lying stretched on the ground covered with blood, and weeping bitterly.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000039_000000|She lifted up her eyes slowly, and looked sadly at me.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000042_000000|"Very well," said the genius, drawing his sword, "take this, and cut off his head."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000045_000001|"How should I, when I never saw her before?"
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000046_000000|"Cut her head off," then, "if she is a stranger to you, and I shall believe you are speaking the truth, and will set you at liberty."
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000047_000001|But the look of gratitude she gave me shook my courage, and I flung the sabre to the earth.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000050_000001|The genius, however, paid no attention to my prayers, but said sternly, "That is the way in which a genius treats the woman who has betrayed him.
train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000051_000001|"O genius!" I cried, "as you wish to spare my life, be generous, and spare it altogether.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000004_000000|STUDY two
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000005_000000|MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS ACTS.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000009_000000|And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eye, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000016_000001|Do they thereby commit a sin?
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000016_000005|Is the act necessarily wrong in itself?
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000020_000001|Most primitive peoples defined it as failure to perform certain ceremonial acts, or to bring tribute to the gods.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000020_000003|The Hebrew people were the first to define right and wrong in terms of personal life and service.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000020_000006|The temptation came from within rather than from without, and the responsibility of not choosing the best rested with the individual.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000021_000001|One god, Ormuzd, was the embodiment of light and goodness. The other, Ahriman, represented darkness and evil.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000021_000002|They traced all sin to the direct influence of Ahriman and the evil spirits that attended him.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000022_000000|three.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000006|The serpent's words represent the natural inclinations that were struggling in the mind of the woman against her sense of duty. Note that in the story the temptation did not come to man through his appetite or his curiosity or his esthetic sense but through his wife whom God had given him.
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000009|Are they thereby excused?
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000011|How far did her experience reflect common human experience?
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000012|What was the real nature of her act?
train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000025_000002|The Hebrew word for sin (which means to miss the mark placed before each individual) vividly and aptly describes the real nature of sin.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000001_000002|When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his nobles to council, and presently sent ambassadors to Harold, calling on him to keep his oath and resign the Crown.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000001_000006|The Pope sent to Normandy a consecrated banner, and a ring containing a hair which he warranted to have grown on the head of Saint peter.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000001_000007|He blessed the enterprise; and cursed Harold; and requested that the Normans would pay 'Peter's Pence'--or a tax to himself of a penny a year on every house-a little more regularly in future, if they could make it convenient.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000002_000001|This brother, and this Norwegian King, joining their forces against England, with Duke William's help, won a fight in which the English were commanded by two nobles; and then besieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge upon the river Derwent to give them instant battle.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000003_000000|He found them drawn up in a hollow circle, marked out by their shining spears.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000003_000001|Riding round this circle at a distance, to survey it, he saw a brave figure on horseback, in a blue mantle and a bright helmet, whose horse suddenly stumbled and threw him.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000004_000000|'Who is that man who has fallen?' Harold asked of one of his captains.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000005_000000|'The King of Norway,' he replied.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000006_000000|'He is a tall and stately king,' said Harold, 'but his end is near.'
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000007_000000|He added, in a little while, 'Go yonder to my brother, and tell him, if he withdraw his troops, he shall be Earl of Northumberland, and rich and powerful in England.'
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000010_000000|'Seven feet of earth for a grave,' replied the captain.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000011_000000|'No more?' returned the brother, with a smile.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000013_000000|'Ride back!' said the brother, 'and tell King Harold to make ready for the fight!'
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000014_000000|He did so, very soon.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000015_000001|They had been tossed about by contrary winds, and some of their ships had been wrecked.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000015_000003|But they had once more made sail, led by the Duke's own galley, a present from his wife, upon the prow whereof the figure of a golden boy stood pointing towards England.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000015_000004|By day, the banner of the three Lions of Normandy, the diverse coloured sails, the gilded vans, the many decorations of this gorgeous ship, had glittered in the sun and sunny water; by night, a light had sparkled like a star at her mast head.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000000|Harold broke up the feast and hurried to London.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000001|Within a week, his army was ready.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000002|He sent out spies to ascertain the Norman strength.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000003|William took them, caused them to be led through his whole camp, and then dismissed.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000004|'The Normans,' said these spies to Harold, 'are not bearded on the upper lip as we English are, but are shorn.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000005|They are priests.' 'My men,' replied Harold, with a laugh, 'will find those priests good soldiers!'
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000017_000000|'The Saxons,' reported Duke William's outposts of Norman soldiers, who were instructed to retire as King Harold's army advanced, 'rush on us through their pillaged country with the fury of madmen.'
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000019_000000|Some proposals for a reconciliation were made, but were soon abandoned. In the middle of the month of October, in the year one thousand and sixty six, the Normans and the English came front to front.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000019_000001|All night the armies lay encamped before each other, in a part of the country then called Senlac, now called (in remembrance of them) Battle.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000020_000000|On an opposite hill, in three lines, archers, foot soldiers, horsemen, was the Norman force.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000020_000002|The English answered with their own battle cry, 'God's Rood!
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000020_000003|Holy Rood!' The Normans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000021_000000|There was one tall Norman Knight who rode before the Norman army on a prancing horse, throwing up his heavy sword and catching it, and singing of the bravery of his countrymen.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000021_000002|Another English Knight rode out, and he fell too.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000021_000003|But then a third rode out, and killed the Norman.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000000|The English, keeping side by side in a great mass, cared no more for the showers of Norman arrows than if they had been showers of Norman rain. When the Norman horsemen rode against them, with their battle axes they cut men and horses down.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000001|The Normans gave way.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000002|The English pressed forward.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000003|A cry went forth among the Norman troops that Duke William was killed.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000004|Duke William took off his helmet, in order that his face might be distinctly seen, and rode along the line before his men.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000005|This gave them courage.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000006|As they turned again to face the English, some of their Norman horse divided the pursuing body of the English from the rest, and thus all that foremost portion of the English army fell, fighting bravely.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000007|The main body still remaining firm, heedless of the Norman arrows, and with their battle axes cutting down the crowds of horsemen when they rode up, like forests of young trees, Duke William pretended to retreat.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000008|The eager English followed.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000009|The Norman army closed again, and fell upon them with great slaughter.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000023_000001|Shoot upward, Norman archers, that your arrows may fall down upon their faces!'
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000024_000000|The sun rose high, and sank, and the battle still raged.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000024_000001|Through all the wild October day, the clash and din resounded in the air.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000024_000002|In the red sunset, and in the white moonlight, heaps upon heaps of dead men lay strewn, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000025_000001|His brothers were already killed.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000025_000004|The English broke and fled.
train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000025_000005|The Normans rallied, and the day was lost.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000000|On their journey back to Portray, the ladies were almost too tired for talking; and Sir Griffin was sulky.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000001|Sir Griffin had as yet heard nothing about Greystock's adventure, and did not care to be told. But when once they were at the castle, and had taken warm baths, and glasses of sherry, and got themselves dressed and had come down to dinner, they were all very happy.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000009|And she had by heart every kind word that Lord George had said to her,--and she loved the sweet, pleasant, Corsair like intimacy that had sprung up between them.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000013|It was all delightful;--and so much more delightful because mrs Carbuncle had not gone quite so well as she liked to go, and because Lucinda had fallen into the water.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000005_000003|"Yes." "Well?"
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000005_000004|"He proposed; but of course I could not answer him when I was wet through." There had been but a moment, and in that moment this was all that Lucinda would say.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000006_000000|"Now I don't mean to stir again," said Lizzie, throwing herself into a corner of a sofa, "till somebody carries me to bed.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000008_000000|"You only killed one fox," said mr Emilius, pretending a delightfully clerical ignorance, "and on Monday you killed four.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000010_000000|"About ten, perhaps," said Lord George.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000011_000000|"I'm sure it was thirty," said Lizzie, forgetting her fatigue in her energy.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000013_000000|"It was just whatever is best," said Lizzie.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000013_000001|"I know Frank's friend, mr Nappie, said it was twenty.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000014_000000|"I thought so," said Frank; "but I couldn't take the liberty myself."
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000017_000000|"I felt that blow," said Frank.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000018_000000|"I shall always call you Cousin Greystockings," said Lizzie.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000019_000001|If the horse had been on the roadside, he or his men could have protected him.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000020_000000|"It was cruel," said Frank.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000021_000000|"If it had happened to me, I should have been very angry," said mrs Carbuncle.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000022_000000|"But Frank wouldn't have had a horse at all," said Lizzie, "unless he had taken mr Nappie's."
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000023_000001|"There's something in that, certainly; but, still, I agree with mrs Carbuncle.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000023_000003|I can't conceive anything so terrible.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000026_000000|"He'd send you grey stockings instead," said Lizzie.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000027_000002|But these Corsairs are known to be dangerous, and it would not be wise that she should sacrifice any future prospect of importance on behalf of a feeling, which, no doubt, was founded on poetry, but which might too probably have no possible beneficial result.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000027_000005|In a ride across the country the Corsair was all that a Corsair should be; but knowing, as she did, but very little of the Corsair, she could not afford to throw over her cousin for his sake.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000030_000000|"It was a matter of course.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000031_000000|"I did like it;--and so did you.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000032_000000|"Certainly not."
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000033_000001|She did not look into his face as she asked this question, but stood with her eyes fixed on the stair carpet.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000034_000000|"Indeed no"
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000035_000000|"Good night, Frank."
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000036_000000|"Good night, Lizzie." Then she went, and he returned to a room below which had been prepared for purposes of tobacco and soda water and brandy.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000037_000000|"Why, Griff, you're rather out of sorts to night," said Lord George to his friend, before Frank had joined them.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000038_000001|I don't like young women when they're damp and smell of mud."
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000040_000000|"How would you like me to ask you questions?
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000040_000003|And if you don't, what do you mean to do; and all the rest of it?"
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000041_000000|"As for marrying the widow, I should like to know the facts first. As to mrs c, she wouldn't object in the least.
train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000042_000000|"I wonder if he'd take a twenty pound note if I sent it to him," said Frank, when they broke up for the night.
train-clean-360/1343/158796/1343_158796_000002_000000|Quints or Semitenths
train-clean-360/1343/158796/1343_158796_000006_000000|"I think so," said mr Palliser.
train-clean-360/1343/158796/1343_158796_000008_000000|"But squint is an easier," said mr Gresham, with all a prime minister's jocose authority.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000003_000001|Without pockets in which to carry the seeds, I am afraid some of them would never be able to store up enough food for winter," began Old Mother Nature, as soon as everybody was on hand the next morning.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000004_000000|"I wouldn't be without my pockets for any thing," spoke up Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000005_000000|Old Mother Nature smiled.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000005_000002|"But there are others who have even greater need of pockets, and among them are the Pocket Mice.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000005_000004|All of these pretty little fellows live in the dry parts of the Far West and Southwest in the same region where Longfoot the Kangaroo Rat lives.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000001|He weighs less than an ounce and is a dear little fellow.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000002|His back and sides are yellow, and beneath he is white.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000004|In each cheek is a pocket opening from the outside, and these pockets are lined with hair. He is called Silky Pocket Mouse because of the fineness and softness of his coat.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000005|He has some larger cousins, one of them being a little bigger than Nibbler the House Mouse.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000006|Neighbors and close relatives are the Spiny Pocket Mice."
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000007_000000|"Do they have spines like Prickly Porky?" demanded peter Rabbit.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000000|Old Mother Nature laughed.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000001|"I don't wonder you ask," said she. "I think it is a foolish name myself, for they haven't any spines at all.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000003|The smallest of the Spiny Pocket Mice is about the size of Nibbler the House Mouse and the largest is twice as big.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000004|They are more slender than their Silky cousins, and their tails are longer in proportion to their size and have little tufts of hair at the ends.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000005|Of course, they have pockets in their cheeks.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000009_000002|By day the entrances are closed with earth from inside, for the Mice are active only at night. Sometimes the burrows are hidden under bushes, and sometimes they are right out in the open.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000000|"Another Mouse of the West looks almost enough like Whitefoot to be a member of his branch of the family.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000001|He has a beautiful yellowish brown coat and white waistcoat, and his feet are white. But his tail is short in comparison with Whitefoot's and instead of being slim is quite thick.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000002|His fur is like velvet.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000003|He is called the Grasshopper Mouse."
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000011_000000|"Is that because he eats Grasshoppers?" asked peter Rabbit at once.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000000|"You've guessed it," laughed Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000001|"He is very, very fond of Grasshoppers and Crickets.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000002|He eats many kinds of insects, Moths, Flies, Cutworms, Beetles, Lizards, Frogs and Scorpions. Because of his fondness for the latter he is called the Scorpion Mouse in some sections.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000003|He is fond of meat when he can get it. He also eats seeds of many kinds.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000004|He is found all over the West from well up in the North to the hot dry regions of the Southwest. When he cannot find a convenient deserted burrow of some other animal, he digs a home for himself and there raises several families each year.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000005|In the early evening he often utters a fine, shrill, whistling call note.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000013_000000|"Another little member of the Mouse family found clear across the country is the Harvest Mouse.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000013_000002|In fact, he is one of the smallest of the entire family.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000013_000003|In appearance he is much like Nibbler, but his coat is browner and there are fine hairs on his tail.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000000|"As a rule he does little harm to man, for his food is chiefly seeds of weeds, small wild fruits and parts of wild plants of no value to man.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000002|But this does not happen often.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000003|The most interesting thing about this little Mouse is the way he builds his home.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000004|Sometimes he uses a hole in a tree or post and sometimes a deserted birds' nest, but more frequently he builds a nest for himself-a little round ball of grass and other vegetable matter.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000005|This is placed in thick grass or weeds close to the ground or in bushes or low trees several feet from the ground.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000015_000001|Inside is a warm, soft bed made of milkweed or cattail down, the very nicest kind of a bed for the babies.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000016_000000|"Now this is all about the native Mice and-what is it, peter?"
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000018_000000|"How impatient some little folks are and how fearful that their curiosity will not be satisfied," remarked Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000018_000001|"As I was saying, this is all about our native Mice; that is, the Mice who belong to this country.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000018_000002|And now we come to Nibbler the House Mouse, who, like Robber the Brown Rat, has no business here at all, but who has followed man all over the world and like Robber has become a pest to man."
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000019_000000|peter Rabbit looked rather sheepish when he discovered that Old Mother Nature hadn't for gotten, and resolved that in the future he would hold his tongue.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000020_000000|"Have any of you seen Nibbler?" asked Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000021_000000|"I have," replied Danny Meadow Mouse.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000021_000001|"Once I was carried to Farmer Brown's barn in a shock of corn and I found Nibbler living in the barn."
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000022_000001|"Probably other members of his family were. He is perfectly at home in any building put up by man, just as is Robber the Rat.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000022_000002|Because of his small size he can go where Robber cannot.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000022_000004|He eats all sorts of food, but spoils more for man, by running about over it, than he eats.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000000|"It is largely because of Robber the Rat and Nibbler that men keep the Cats you all hate so.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000001|A Cat is Nibbler's worst enemy.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000002|Nibbler is slender and graceful, with a long, hairless tail and ears of good size.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000003|He is very timid, ready to dart into his hole at the least sound.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000024_000000|"If mr and mrs Nibbler are living in a house, their nest is made of scraps of paper, cloth, wool and other soft things stolen from the people who live in the house.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000024_000001|In getting this material they often do great damage.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000024_000002|If they are living in a barn, they make their nest of hay and any soft material they can find.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000025_000000|"While Nibbler prefers to live in or close to the homes of men, he sometimes is driven out and then takes to the fields, especially in summer.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000025_000001|There he lives in all sorts of hiding places, and isn't at all particular what the place is, if it promises safety and food can be obtained close by.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000025_000003|Man brought him here and now he is here to stay and quite as much at home as if he belonged here the way the rest of you do.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000026_000001|I suspect these are the only ones in whom you take any interest, and so you will not care to come to school any more.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000027_000000|"No, marm," answered Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel, who, you remember, had laughed at peter Rabbit for wanting to go to school.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000027_000002|Isn't that so?" Happy Jack turned to the others and every one nodded, even Prickly Porky.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000028_000000|"There is one little fellow living right near here who looks to me as if he must be a member of the Mouse family, but he isn't like any of the Mice you have told us about," continued Happy Jack.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000028_000001|"He is so small he can hide under a leaf.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000029_000001|"He isn't a Mouse.
train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000029_000002|He isn't even a Rodent.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000004_000001|You see, all felt they must be there so that they might learn all they possibly could about one they so feared.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000005_000000|"Striped Chipmunk," said Old Mother Nature, "you know something about Shadow the Weasel, tell us what you know."
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000006_000000|"I know I hate him!" declared Striped Chipmunk, and all the others nodded their heads in agreement.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000006_000001|"I don't know a single good thing about him," he continued, "but I know plenty of bad things.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000006_000003|Any hole I can get into he can.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000007_000000|"What did he look like?" asked Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000000|"Like a snake on legs," declared Striped Chipmunk.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000002|He was about as long as Chatterer the Red Squirrel but looked longer because of his slim body and long neck.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000003|He was brown above and white below.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000004|His front feet were white, and his hind feet rather whitish, but not clear white.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000005|His short, round tail was black at the end.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000008|I don't like to think about him!"
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000009_000001|Striped Chipmunk is all wrong, excepting about the end of his tail," interrupted Jumper the Hare.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000009_000002|"He was all white, every bit of him but the end of his tail, that was black."
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000010_000000|"Striped Chipmunk is quite right and so are you," declared Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000010_000001|"Striped Chipmunk saw him in summer and you saw him in winter. He changes his coat according to season, just as you do yourself, Jumper.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000014_000000|"You are lucky to be alive," declared Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000015_000000|"I know it," replied Striped Chipmunk and shivered again.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000015_000001|"I know it.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000016_000001|"He was hunting me just the same way, running with his nose in the snow and following every twist and turn I had made.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000016_000002|But for that black tipped tail I wouldn't have seen him until too late."
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000017_000000|"Pooh!" exclaimed Jimmy Skunk.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000018_000001|"I may be ever so much bigger, but he is so quick I wouldn't stand the least chance in the world.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000018_000002|When I suspect Shadow is about, I go somewhere else, the farther the better.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000018_000003|If I could climb a tree like Chatterer, it would be different."
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000000|"No, it wouldn't!" interrupted Chatterer.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000004|He had found a hole in a certain tree where I was living, and it was just luck that I wasn't at home when he called.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000005|I was just returning when he popped out.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000006|I ran for my life."
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000020_000000|"He is the most awful fellow in all the Great World," declared Whitefoot the Wood Mouse.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000021_000001|"A lot you know about the Great World," he said.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000000|"I just know, that's all," retorted Whitefoot in a very positive though squeaky voice.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000004|I can forgive them for that.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000005|Every one must eat to live.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000006|But Shadow hunts me even when his stomach is so full he cannot eat another mouthful.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000007|That fellow just loves to kill. He takes pleasure in it.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000023_000000|"Whitefoot is right," declared Old Mother Nature, and she spoke sadly.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000023_000002|He is hot blooded, quick tempered and fearless.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000024_000000|"Hasn't he any enemies?" asked peter Rabbit.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000025_000003|You see he moves so quickly, dodging out of sight in a flash, that whoever catches him must be quick indeed.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000025_000008|It is because of his wonderful ability to disappear in an instant that he is called Shadow.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000000|"Shadow is known as the Common Weasel, Short tailed Weasel, Brown Weasel, Bonaparte Weasel and Ermine, and is found all over the forested parts of the northern part of the country.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000001|A little farther south in the East is a cousin very much like him called the New York Weasel.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000003|His smallest cousin is the Least Weasel. The latter is not much longer than a Mouse.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000004|In winter he is all white, even the tip of his tail.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000005|In summer he is a purer white underneath than his larger cousins.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000027_000001|He is about the size of Billy Mink, but instead of the rich dark brown of Billy's coat his coat is a creamy yellow.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000027_000002|His feet are black and so is the tip of his tail.
train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000028_000001|Robber, as you know, is big and savage and always ready for a fight when cornered.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000002_000000|STORY OF THE THREE CALENDERS, SONS OF SULTANS; AND OF THE FIVE LADIES OF BAGDAD.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000003_000000|In the reign of Caliph Haroon al Rusheed, there was at Bagdad, a porter, who, notwithstanding his mean and laborious business, was a fellow of wit and good humour.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000004_000000|In a short time the lady stopped before a gate that was shut, and knocked: a Christian, with a venerable long white beard, opened it; and she put money into his hand, without speaking; but the Christian, who knew what she wanted, went in, and in a little time, brought a large jug of excellent wine.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000005_000001|As she went by a butcher's stall, she made him weigh her twenty five pounds of his best meat, which she ordered the porter to put also into his basket.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000005_000002|At another shop, she took capers, tarragon, cucumbers, sassafras, and other herbs, preserved in vinegar: at another, she bought pistachios, walnuts, filberts, almonds, kernels of pine apples, and such other fruits; and at another, all sorts of confectionery.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000006_000000|She then went to a druggist, where she furnished herself with all manner of sweet scented waters, cloves, musk, pepper, ginger, and a great piece of ambergris, and several other Indian spices; this quite filled the porter's basket, and she ordered him to follow her.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000006_000001|They walked till they came to a magnificent house, whose front was adorned with fine columns, and had a gate of ivory. There they stopped, and the lady knocked softly.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000007_000002|Just as he was about to ask her some questions upon this head, another lady came to open the gate, and appeared to him so beautiful, that he was perfectly surprised, or rather so much struck with her charms, that he had nearly suffered his basket to fall, for he had never seen any beauty that equalled her.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000008_000001|"Pray, Sister," said the beautiful portress, "come in, what do you stay for?
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000012_000000|The porter was well satisfied with the money he had received; but when he ought to have departed, he could not summon sufficient resolution for the purpose.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000014_000000|The ladies fell a laughing at the porter's reasoning; after which Zobeide gravely addressed him, "Friend, you presume rather too much; and though you do not deserve that I should enter into any explanation with you, I have no objection to inform you that we are three sisters, who transact our affairs with so much secrecy that no one knows any thing of them.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000014_000001|We have but too much reason to be cautious of acquainting indiscreet persons with our counsel; and a good author that we have read, says, Keep thy own secret, and do not reveal it to any one.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000014_000003|If thy own breast cannot keep thy counsel, how canst thou expect the breast of another to be more faithful?'"
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000015_000000|"My ladies," replied the porter, "by your very air, I judged at first that you were persons of extraordinary merit, and I conceive that I am not mistaken.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000003|Soon after, the ladies took their places, and made the porter sit down by them, who was overjoyed to see himself seated with three such admirable beauties.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000005|That as the wind bears with it the sweet scents of the purfumed places over which it passes, so the wine he was going to drink, coming from her fair hands, received a more exquisite flavour than it naturally possessed.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000006|The song pleased the ladies much, and each of them afterwards sung one in her turn.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000007|In short, they were all very pleasant during the repast, which lasted a considerable time, and nothing was wanting that could serve to render it agreeable.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000008|The day drawing to a close, Safie spoke in the name of the three ladies, and said to the porter, "Arise, it is time for you to depart." But the porter, not willing to leave good company, cried, "Alas! ladies, whither do you command me to go in my present condition?
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000009|What with drinking and your society, I am quite beside myself.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000021_000000|The porter went and read these words, written in large characters of gold: "He who speaks of things that do not concern him, shall hear things that will not please him." Returning again to the three sisters, "Ladies," said he, "I swear to you that you shall never hear me utter a word respecting what does not relate to me, or wherein you may have any concern."
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000022_000001|When they were all in the best humour possible, they heard a knocking at the gate.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000023_000002|There are three calenders at our gate, at least they appear to be such by their habit; but what will surprise you is, they are all three blind of the right eye, and have their heads, beards, and eye brows shaved.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000023_000004|They care not what place we put them in, provided they may be under shelter; they would be satisfied with a stable.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000023_000006|But I cannot without laughing think of their amusing and uniform figure." Here Safie laughed so heartily, that the two sisters and the porter could not refrain from laughing also.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000025_000000|At their entrance they made a profound obeisance to the ladies, who rose up to receive them, and told them courteously that they were welcome, that they were glad of the opportunity to oblige them, and to contribute towards relieving the fatigues of their journey, and at last invited them to sit down with them.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000028_000000|"Honest man," said the calender, "do not put yourself in a passion; we should be sorry to give you the least occasion; on the contrary, we are ready to receive your commands." Upon which, to put an end to the dispute, the ladies interposed, and pacified them.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000028_000001|When the calenders were seated, the ladies served them with meat; and Safie, being highly pleased with them, did not let them want for wine.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000029_000001|Each man took the instrument he liked, and all three together began to play a tune The ladies, who knew the words of a merry song that suited the air, joined the concert with their voices; but the words of the song made them now and then stop, and fall into excessive laughter.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000030_000000|In the height of this diversion, when the company were in the midst of their jollity, a knocking was heard at the gate; Safie left off singing, and went to see who it was.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000030_000001|The caliph Haroon al Rusheed was frequently in the habit of walking abroad in disguise by night, that he might discover if every thing was quiet in the city, and see that no disorders were committed.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000001|The vizier, in vain represented to him that the noise proceeded from some women who were merry making, that without question their heads were warm with wine, and that it would not be proper he should expose himself to be affronted by them: besides, it was not yet an unlawful hour, and therefore he ought not to disturb them in their mirth.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000002|"No matter," said the caliph, "I command you to knock." Jaaffier complied; Safie opened the gate, and the vizier, perceiving by the light in her hand, that she was an incomparable beauty, with a very low salutation said, "We are three merchants of Mossoul, who arrived here about ten days ago with rich merchandise, which we have in a warehouse at a caravan serai, where we have also our lodging.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000004|Night being come on, and the music and dancers making a great noise, the watch, passing by, caused the gate to be opened and some of the company to be taken up; but we had the good fortune to escape by getting over the wall.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000005|Being strangers, and somewhat overcome with wine, we are afraid of meeting that or some other watch, before we get home to our khan.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000033_000000|Safie made the business known to her sisters, who considered for some time what to do: but being naturally of a good disposition, and having granted the same favour to the three calenders, they at last consented to let them in.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000034_000000|The caliph, his grand vizier, and the chief of the eunuchs, being introduced by the fair Safie, very courteously saluted the ladies and the calenders.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000034_000003|But before I proceed farther, I hope you will not take it ill if we desire one favour of you." "Alas!" said the vizier, "what favour?
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000035_000001|We are not censorious, nor impertinently curious; it is enough for us to notice affairs that concern us, without meddling with what does not belong to us." Upon this they all sat down, and the company being united, they drank to the health of the new comers.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000036_000000|While the vizier, entertained the ladies in conversation, the caliph could not forbear admiring their extraordinary beauty, graceful behaviour, pleasant humour, and ready wit; on the other hand, nothing struck him with more surprise than the calenders being all three blind of the right eye.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000043_000001|She went towards Safie and opened the case, from whence she took a lute, and presented it to her: and after some time spent in tuning it, Safie began to play, and accompanying the instrument with her voice, sung a song about the torments that absence creates to lovers, with so much sweetness, that it charmed the caliph and all the company.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000045_000001|However, this gave her no ease, for she fell into a fit.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000049_000003|We shall be still more to blame, if any mischief befall us; for it is not likely that they would have extorted such a promise from us, without knowing themselves to be in a condition to punish us for its violation."
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000051_000000|The next business was to settle who should carry the message.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000051_000003|What are you disputing about?"
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000054_000002|The frightened porter interrupted her thus: "In the name of heaven, do not put me to death for another man's crime.
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000058_000001|Those who tell us their history, and the occasion of their coming, do them no hurt, let them go where they please; but do not spare those who refuse to give us that satisfaction."
train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000060_000002|This, madam, is my history."
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000001|I went regularly every year to see my uncle, at whose court I amused myself for a month or two, and then returned again to my father's.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000002|These journeys cemented a firm and intimate friendship between the prince my cousin and myself.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000003|The last time I saw him, he received me with greater demonstrations of tenderness than he had done at any time before; and resolving one day to give me a treat, he made great preparations for that purpose.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000004|We continued a long time at table, and after we had both supped; "Cousin," said he, "you will hardly be able to guess how I have been employed since your last departure from hence, about a year past.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000006|But first you are to promise me upon oath, that you will keep my secret, according to the confidence I repose in you."
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000004_000001|I very readily took the oath required of me: upon which he said to me, "Stay here till I return, I will be with you in a moment; and accordingly he came with a lady in his hand, of singular beauty, and magnificently apparelled: he did not intimate who she was, neither did I think it would be polite to enquire.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000004_000002|We sat down again with this lady at table, where we continued some time, conversing upon indifferent subjects; and now and then filling a glass to each other's health.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000004_000003|After which the prince said, "Cousin, we must lose no time; therefore pray oblige me by taking this lady along with you, and conducting her to such a place, where you will see a tomb newly built in form of a dome: you will easily know it; the gate is open; enter it together, and tarry till I come, which will be very speedily."
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000005_000001|We were scarcely got thither, when we saw the prince following us, carrying a pitcher of water, a hatchet, and a little bag of mortar.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000006_000000|The hatchet served him to break down the empty sepulchre in the middle of the tomb; he took away the stones one after another, and laid them in a corner; he then dug up the ground, where I saw a trap door under the sepulchre, which he lifted up, and underneath perceived the head of a staircase leading into a vault.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000006_000001|Then my cousin, speaking to the lady, said, "Madam, it is by this way that we are to go to the place I told you of:" upon which the lady advanced, and went down, and the prince began to follow; but first turning to me, said, "My dear cousin, I am infinitely obliged to you for the trouble you have taken; I thank you.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000007_000001|As I returned to my uncle's palace, the vapours of the wine got up into my head; however, I reached my apartment, and went to bed.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000007_000004|I was sensibly afflicted, and went to the public burying place, where there were several tombs like that which I had seen: I spent the day in viewing them one after another, but could not find that I sought for, and thus I spent four days successively in vain.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000008_000000|You must know, that all this while the sultan my uncle was absent, and had been hunting for several days; I grew weary of waiting for him, and having prayed his ministers to make my apology at his return, left his palace, and set out towards my father's court.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000009_000000|I arrived at my father's capital, where, contrary to custom, I found a numerous guard at the gate of the palace, who surrounded me as I entered.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000011_000000|But the usurper's cruelty did not stop here; he ordered me to be shut up in a machine, and commanded the executioner to carry me into the country, to cut off my head, and leave me to be devoured by birds of prey.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000012_000000|Being in such a condition, I could not travel far at a time; I retired to remote places during the day, and travelled as far by night as my strength would allow me.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000013_000000|I gave him a long detail of the tragical cause of my return, and of the sad condition he saw me in.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000014_000000|His majesty listened to me with some sort of comfort, and when I had done, "Nephew," said he, "what you tell me gives me some hope.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000017_000000|From this antechamber we came into another, very large, supported by columns, and lighted by several branched candlesticks.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000017_000003|The sultan went up, and opening the curtains, perceived the prince his son and the lady in bed together, but burnt and changed to cinder, as if they had been thrown into a fire, and taken out before they were consumed.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000019_000002|This tenderness increased as they grew in years, and to such a height, that I dreaded the end of it.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000019_000004|But that unfortunate creature had swallowed so much of the poison, that all the obstacles which by my prudence I could lay in the way served only to inflame her love.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000021_000000|After a while, casting his eyes upon me, "Dear nephew," cried he, embracing me, "if I have lost that unworthy son, I shall happily find in you what will better supply his place." The reflections he made on the doleful end of the prince and princess his daughter made us both weep afresh.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000026_000001|"I shall move him to compassion," said I to myself, "by the relation of my uncommon misfortunes, and without doubt he will take pity on a persecuted prince, and not suffer me to implore his assistance in vain."
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000028_000001|But good fortune having brought us to your gate, we made bold to knock, when you received us with so much kindness, that we are incapable of rendering suitable thanks.
train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000028_000002|"This, madam," said he, "is, in obedience to your commands, the account I was to give how I lost my right eye, wherefore my beard and eye brows are shaved, and how I came to be with you at this time."
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000003|He put an end to differences, he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000004|Every one took him for the judge, and with good reason.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000005|It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000006|It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole district.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000005_000000|One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct kept him on the alert and uneasy.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000006_000002|In any case, I am not his dupe."
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000008_000000|His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000010_000000|Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000012_000003|On the contrary, our souls being realities and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000013_000002|Having made this reservation, let us pass on.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000017_000002|He observed that society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000017_000003|He entered the police; he succeeded there.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000017_000004|At forty years of age he was an inspector.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000018_000000|During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the South.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000020_000004|As for the rest, he had very little skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000000|This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000006|He was stoical, serious, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000007|His glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000008|His whole life hung on these two words: watchfulness and supervision.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000009|He had introduced a straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000012|And he would have done it with that sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000014|It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000022_000002|His brow was not visible; it disappeared beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000023_000000|In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000023_000001|This could be recognized by some emphasis in his speech.
train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000027_000003|He did not even put a question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the world.
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000010_000000|"Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released!
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000013_000000|"Is there a physician present?"
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000017_000014|But, pardon me, you cannot understand what I am saying.
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000017_000018|Do not, at least, condemn this man!
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000033_000001|That was clear.
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000034_000000|It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible at the moment.
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000036_000004|He traversed the crowd slowly.
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000038_000000|Then he addressed the audience:--
train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000039_000000|"All of you, all who are present-consider me worthy of pity, do you not?
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000004|Good God!" "He has been arrested." "Arrested!"
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000005|"In prison, in the city prison, while waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well!
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000006|I suspected as much.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000007|That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came across.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000008|I always thought there was some evil history back of all that."
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000008_000000|One old lady, a subscriber to the Drapeau Blanc, made the following remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:--
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000009_000001|It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!"
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000013_000000|It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold!
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000014_000000|At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at the candle which was burning there.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000015_000000|The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a shriek which she confined to her throat.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000020_000000|She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in respect towards the beginning.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000021_000000|He finished her thought.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000022_000001|"I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000029_000001|From a cupboard he pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000029_000002|In the strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000029_000003|He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000031_000000|There came two taps at the door.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000034_000000|She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled in her hand.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000034_000001|The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000036_000000|The paper was not folded.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000038_000000|She read:--
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000040_000000|The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few inarticulate sounds.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000045_000000|A man responded:--
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000049_000000|The door opened.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000050_000000|Javert entered.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000055_000000|It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000055_000001|This was impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000055_000002|In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass through.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000056_000000|On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000057_000000|But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him imperiously in the opposite direction.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000058_000000|This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000058_000001|Javert knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000060_000000|A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though she should faint.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000063_000000|"Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; you have not seen a certain person-a man-this evening?
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000063_000001|He has escaped; we are in search of him-that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?"
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000064_000000|The sister replied:--
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000066_000001|She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000002|It has been established by the testimony of two or three carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed in a blouse.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000003|Where had he obtained that blouse?
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000004|No one ever found out. But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000005|Perhaps that was the one.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000071_000000|One last word about Fantine.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000072_000000|We all have a mother,--the earth.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000072_000001|Fantine was given back to that mother.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000073_000001|Who was concerned, after all?
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000073_000002|A convict and a woman of the town.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000073_000003|That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000074_000003|She was thrown into the public grave.
train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000074_000004|Her grave resembled her bed.
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000002_000000|Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000005_000000|Accidents which perpetually deflect our vagrant attention
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000006_000000|Across the gulf of years
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000007_000000|Administering a little deft though veiled castigation
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000008_000000|Affected an ironic incredulity
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000009_000000|Affecting a tone of gayety
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000010_000000|After a first moment of reluctance
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000011_000000|After an eternity of resolutions, doubts, and indecisions
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000012_000000|Aghast at his own helplessness
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000016_000000|All embrowned and mossed with age
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000017_000000|All her gift of serene immobility brought into play
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000018_000000|All hope of discreet reticence was ripped to shreds
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000019_000000|All the lesser lights paled into insignificance
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000021_000000|All the place is peopled with sweet airs
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000022_000000|All the sky was mother of pearl and tender
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000027_000000|All was instinctive and spontaneous
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000034_000000|An air half quizzical and half deferential
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000035_000000|An air of affected civility
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000037_000000|An air of inimitable, scrutinizing, superb impertinence
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000039_000000|An air of uncanny familiarity
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000043_000000|An answering glow of gratitude
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000044_000000|An antagonist worth her steel
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000045_000000|An artful stroke of policy
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000049_000000|An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000050_000000|An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000054_000000|An eager and thirsty ear
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000059_000000|An eternity of silence oppressed him
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000060_000000|An expression of mildly humorous surprise
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000061_000000|An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000062_000000|An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000065_000000|An impenetrable screen of foliage
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000066_000000|An impersonal and slightly ironic interest
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000069_000000|An increased gentleness of aspect
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000072_000000|An inexpressible fervor of serenity
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000081_000000|An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000088_000000|An unsuspected moral obtuseness
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000090_000000|And day peers forth with her blank eyes
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000091_000000|And what is all this pother about?
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000094_000000|Appalled in speechless disgust
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000095_000000|Appealing to the urgent temper of youth
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000096_000000|Apprehensive solicitude about the future
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000097_000000|Ardent words of admiration
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000099_000000|Artless and unquestioning devotion
train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000100_000000|As if smitten by a sudden spasm
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000004_000000|Join us, please, when you have time
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000005_000000|Just trust to the inspiration of the moment
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000006_000000|Justify it if you can
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000008_000000|Let me persuade you
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000009_000000|Let me say how deeply indebted I feel for your kindness
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000010_000000|Let me speak frankly
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000014_000000|Many thanks-how kind and good you are!
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000015_000000|May I ask to whom you allude?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000016_000000|May I be privileged to hear it?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000017_000000|May I speak freely?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000020_000000|Most dangerous!
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000021_000000|My attitude would be one of disapproval
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000023_000000|My idea of it is quite the reverse
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000029_000000|No, I am speaking seriously
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000030_000000|No, I don't understand it
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000031_000000|Not at all
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000034_000000|Now is it very plain to you?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000035_000000|Now you are flippant
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000039_000000|Of course I am delighted
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000041_000000|Of course you will do what you think best
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000043_000000|Oh, do not form an erroneous impression
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000045_000000|Oh, that's mere quibbling
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000047_000000|Oh, that was a manner of speaking
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000048_000000|Oh, yes, I quite admit that
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000049_000000|Oh, yes, you may take that for granted
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000052_000000|On the contrary, I agree with you thoroughly
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000054_000000|One assumption you make I should like to contest
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000056_000000|One must be indulgent under the circumstances
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000057_000000|One thing I beg of you
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000060_000000|Pardon me, I meant something different
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000062_000000|Perhaps not in the strictest sense
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000064_000000|Perhaps you think me ungrateful
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000066_000000|Please continue to be frank
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000070_000000|Pray don't apologize
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000072_000000|Pray go on!
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000073_000000|Precisely, that is just what I meant
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000077_000000|Quibbling, I call it
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000078_000000|Quite so
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000083_000000|Really?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000084_000000|Really-you must go?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000087_000000|Relatively speaking
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000091_000000|Shall we have a compact?
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000094_000000|She seems uncommonly appreciative
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000096_000000|Show me that the two cases are analogous
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000098_000000|So I inferred
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000099_000000|So much the better for me
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000103_000000|Speaking with all due respect
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000104_000000|Still, you might make an exception
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000105_000000|Strangely it's true
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000106_000000|Such conduct seems to me unjustifiable
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000107_000000|Surely there can be no question about that
train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000108_000000|Surely we can speak frankly
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000009_000000|I do, indeed, recollect
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000012_000000|I do not argue
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000014_000000|I do not at this moment remember
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000015_000000|I do not believe it possible
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000016_000000|I do not belong to those who
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000017_000000|I do not choose to consume
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000018_000000|I do not complain of
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000020_000000|I do not contend
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000021_000000|I do not countenance for a moment
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000024_000000|I do not desire to call in question
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000025_000000|I do not desire to put too much emphasis
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000026_000000|I do not despair of surmounting
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000027_000000|I do not disguise the fact
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000029_000000|I do not fail to admire
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000030_000000|I do not fear a contradiction
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000032_000000|I do not forget the practical necessity
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000034_000000|I do not imagine
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000035_000000|I do not in the least degree
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000041_000000|I do not know with what correctness
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000043_000000|I do not mean now to go further than
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000044_000000|I do not mean to impute
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000047_000000|I do not myself pretend to be
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000049_000000|I do not, of course, deny
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000050_000000|I do not pretend to argue
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000051_000000|I do not propose to take up your time
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000052_000000|I do not question for a moment
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000053_000000|I do not recount all
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000056_000000|I do not see how it is possible
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000057_000000|I do not see much difference between
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000058_000000|I do not seek to palliate
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000059_000000|I do not speak exclusively
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000060_000000|I do not stop to discuss
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000063_000000|I do not think it possible
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000065_000000|I do not think myself obliged to dwell
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000066_000000|I do not think that I need further discuss
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000067_000000|I do not think this at all an exaggeration
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000069_000000|I do not think you will often hear
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000071_000000|I do not vouch for
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000072_000000|I do not want to discourage you
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000077_000000|I dwell with pleasure on the considerations
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000085_000000|I especially hail with approval
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000086_000000|I even add this
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000090_000000|I fear lest I may
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000091_000000|I fearlessly appeal
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000094_000000|I feel bound to add my expression
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000095_000000|I feel constrained to declare
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000098_000000|I feel it a proud privilege
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000099_000000|I feel keenly myself impelled by every duty
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000100_000000|I feel only a great emotion of gratitude
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000101_000000|I feel respect and admiration
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000102_000000|I feel some explanation is due
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000104_000000|I feel tempted to introduce here
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000105_000000|I feel that I have a special right to
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000106_000000|I feel that it is not true
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000107_000000|I feel the greatest satisfaction
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000108_000000|I feel the task is far beyond my power
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000109_000000|I fervently trust
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000110_000000|I find it difficult to utter in words
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000111_000000|I find it more easy
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000112_000000|I find my reference to this
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000113_000000|I find myself called upon to say something
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000116_000000|I find no fault with
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000118_000000|I flatter myself
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000119_000000|I, for my part, would rather
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000120_000000|I, for one, greatly doubt
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000121_000000|I forbear to inquire
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000122_000000|I foresaw the consequence
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000123_000000|I fully recognize
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000125_000000|I give you, in conclusion, this sentence
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000126_000000|I go further
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000127_000000|I grant all this
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000129_000000|I gratefully accept
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000130_000000|I greatly deplore
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000131_000000|I had a kind of hope
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000132_000000|I had almost said
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000133_000000|I had in common with others
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000134_000000|I had occasion to criticize
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000135_000000|I happen to differ
train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000136_000000|I hardly dare to dwell longer
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000010_000000|I have a dark suspicion
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000013_000000|I have a profound pity for those
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000014_000000|I have a right to consider
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000015_000000|I have a strong belief
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000016_000000|I have a very high respect for
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000020_000000|I have all but finished
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000023_000000|I have already stated, and now repeat
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000024_000000|I have always been under the impression
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000029_000000|I have anticipated the objection
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000031_000000|I have attempted thus hastily
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000032_000000|I have barely touched some of the points
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000034_000000|I have been asked several times
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000043_000000|I have been requested to say a word
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000044_000000|I have been told by an eminent authority
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000047_000000|I have been trying to show
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000048_000000|I have before me the statistics
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000049_000000|I have but one more word to add
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000050_000000|I have demonstrated to you
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000051_000000|I have depicted
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000054_000000|I have felt it almost a duty to
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000055_000000|I have found great cause for wonder
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000058_000000|I have generally observed
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000059_000000|I have gone so far as to suggest
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000079_000000|I have long been of the conviction
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000081_000000|I have never whispered a syllable
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000083_000000|I have no doubt whatever
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000098_000000|I have not accustomed myself
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000100_000000|I have not been able to deny
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000101_000000|I have not particularly referred to
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000105_000000|I have not time to present
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000107_000000|I have noticed of late years
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000108_000000|I have now explained to you
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000109_000000|I have now made bold to touch upon
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000110_000000|I have now rather more than kept my word
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000111_000000|I have now said all that occurs to me
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000113_000000|I have often been struck with the resemblance
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000114_000000|I have often lingered in fancy
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000115_000000|I have one step farther to go
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000116_000000|I have only partially examined
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000117_000000|I have partly anticipated
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000120_000000|I have pride and pleasure in quoting
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000121_000000|I have racked this brain of mine
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000122_000000|I have read with great regret
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000123_000000|I have said and I repeat
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000126_000000|I have scant patience
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000135_000000|I have still two comments to make
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000139_000000|I have the honor to propose
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000141_000000|I have thought it incumbent on me
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000142_000000|I have thought it right on this day
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000145_000000|I have thus been led by my feelings
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000149_000000|I have touched very cursorily
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000150_000000|I have tried to convey to you
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000151_000000|I have undertaken to speak
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000152_000000|I have very much less feeling of
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000153_000000|I have watched with some attention
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000154_000000|I have witnessed the extraordinary
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000156_000000|I have yet to learn
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000162_000000|I hold it to be clearly expedient
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000164_000000|I hold the maxim no less applicable
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000166_000000|I hold to the principle
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000167_000000|I hope by this time we are all convinced
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000169_000000|I hope I have expressed myself explicitly
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000175_000000|I hope not to occupy more than a few minutes
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000177_000000|I hope the day may be far distant
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000178_000000|I hope the time may come again
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000179_000000|I hope to be excused if
train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000181_000000|I hope we may forget
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000003_000000|S
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000004_000000|Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000005_000000|Sadness prevailed among her moods
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000006_000000|Scorched with the lightning of momentary indignation
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000007_000000|Scorning such paltry devices
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000008_000000|Scotched but not slain
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000009_000000|Scrupulous morality of conduct
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000010_000000|Seem to swim in a sort of blurred mist before the eyes
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000011_000000|Seething with suppressed wrath
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000012_000000|Seize on greedily
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000014_000000|Serenity beamed from his look
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000015_000000|Serenity of paralysis and death
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000016_000000|Seriousness lurked in the depths of her eyes
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000017_000000|Served to recruit his own jaded ideas
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000018_000000|Set anew in some fresh and appealing form
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000019_000000|Setting all the sane traditions at defiance
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000020_000000|Shadowy vistas of sylvan beauty
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000021_000000|She affected disdain
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000022_000000|She assented in precisely the right terms
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000023_000000|She bandies adjectives with the best
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000024_000000|She challenged his dissent
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000025_000000|She cherished no petty resentments
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000026_000000|She curled her fastidious lip
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000027_000000|She curled her lip with defiant scorn
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000028_000000|She did her best to mask her agitation
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000030_000000|She disclaimed fatigue
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000031_000000|She fell into a dreamy silence
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000032_000000|She fell into abstracted reverie
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000033_000000|She felt herself carried off her feet by the rush of incoherent impressions
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000034_000000|She flushed an agitated pink
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000035_000000|She forced a faint quivering smile
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000036_000000|She frowned incomprehension
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000037_000000|She had an air of restrained fury
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000038_000000|She had an undercurrent of acidity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000039_000000|She hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000040_000000|She lingered a few leisurely seconds
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000041_000000|She nodded mutely
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000042_000000|She nourished a dream of ambition
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000043_000000|She permitted herself a delicate little smile
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000044_000000|She poured out on him the full opulence of a proud recognition
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000046_000000|She recaptured herself with difficulty
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000047_000000|She regarded him stonily out of flint blue eyes
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000048_000000|She sat eyeing him with frosty calm
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000049_000000|She seemed the embodiment of dauntless resolution
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000050_000000|She seemed wrapped in a veil of lassitude
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000051_000000|She shook hands grudgingly
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000052_000000|She softened her frown to a quivering smile
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000053_000000|She spoke with hurried eagerness
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000054_000000|She spoke with sweet severity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000055_000000|She stilled and trampled on the inward protest
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000056_000000|She stood her ground with the most perfect dignity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000057_000000|She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000058_000000|She swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000059_000000|She thrived on insincerity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000060_000000|She twitted him merrily
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000061_000000|She was both weary and placated
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000062_000000|She was conscious of a tumultuous rush of sensations
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000063_000000|She was demure and dimly appealing
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000064_000000|She was exquisitely simple
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000065_000000|She was gripped with a sense of suffocation and panic
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000066_000000|She was in an anguish of sharp and penetrating remorse
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000067_000000|She was oppressed by a dead melancholy
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000068_000000|She was stricken to the soul
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000069_000000|She wore an air of wistful questioning
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000070_000000|Sheer superfluity of happiness
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000071_000000|Sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000072_000000|Silence fell
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000073_000000|Singing lustily as if to exorcise the demon of gloom
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000074_000000|Skirmishes and retreats of conscience
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000075_000000|Slender experience of the facts of life
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000076_000000|Slope towards extinction
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000077_000000|Slow the movement was and tortuous
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000078_000000|Slowly disengaging its significance from the thicket of words
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000080_000000|Soar into a rosy zone of contemplation
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000082_000000|Solitary and sorely smitten souls
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000083_000000|Some dim remembered and dream like images
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000084_000000|Some exquisite refinement in the architecture of the brain
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000085_000000|Some flash of witty irrelevance
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000086_000000|Something curiously suggestive and engaging
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000087_000000|Something eminently human beaconed from his eyes
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000088_000000|Something full of urgent haste
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000089_000000|Something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000090_000000|Something that seizes tyrannously upon the soul
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000091_000000|Sore beset by the pressure of temptation
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000092_000000|Specious show of impeccability
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000093_000000|Spectacular display of wrath
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000094_000000|Spur and whip the tired mind into action
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000095_000000|Stale and facile platitudes
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000096_000000|Stamped with unutterable and solemn woe
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000097_000000|Startled into perilous activity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000098_000000|Startling leaps over vast gulfs of time
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000099_000000|Stem the tide of opinion
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000100_000000|Stern emptying of the soul
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000101_000000|Stimulated to an ever deepening subtlety
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000102_000000|Stirred into a true access of enthusiasm
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000105_000000|Strange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000106_000000|Stripped to its bare skeleton
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000108_000000|Struck by a sudden curiosity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000109_000000|Struck dumb with strange surprise
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000110_000000|Stung by his thoughts, and impatient of rest
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000111_000000|Stung by the splendor of the prospect
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000112_000000|Subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000113_000000|Sublime indifference to contemporary usage and taste
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000114_000000|Submission to an implied rebuke
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000115_000000|Subtle indications of great mental agitation
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000117_000000|Such things as the eye of history sees
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000118_000000|Such was the petty chronicle
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000120_000000|Suddenly overawed by a strange, delicious shyness
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000121_000000|Suddenly smitten with unreality
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000122_000000|Suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000123_000000|Suffered to languish in obscurity
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000124_000000|Sugared remonstrances and cajoleries
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000125_000000|Suggestions of veiled and vibrant feeling
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000126_000000|Summer clouds floating feathery overhead
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000127_000000|Sunk in a phraseological quagmire
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000128_000000|Sunk into a gloomy reverie
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000129_000000|Sunny silence broods over the realm of little cottages
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000130_000000|Supreme arbiter of conduct
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000131_000000|Susceptibility to fleeting impressions
train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000132_000000|Sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000001_000000|It is a curious fact
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000002_000000|It is a great pleasure to meet you
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000003_000000|It is a huge undertaking
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000006_000000|It is a rather melancholy thought
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000011_000000|It is an admirable way of putting it
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000012_000000|It is an error of taste
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000013_000000|It is an extreme case, but the principle is sound
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000014_000000|It is an ingenious theory
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000015_000000|It is an uncommonly fine description
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000016_000000|It is extremely interesting, I can assure you
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000017_000000|It is for you to decide
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000018_000000|It is historically true
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000020_000000|It is incredible!
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000022_000000|It is inexplicable
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000023_000000|It is interesting, as a theory
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000026_000000|It is most unfortunate
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000027_000000|It is my deliberately formed opinion
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000028_000000|It is my opinion you are too conscientious
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000029_000000|It is nevertheless true
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000031_000000|It is not always fair to judge by appearances
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000032_000000|It is not so unreasonable as you think
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000033_000000|It is often very misleading
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000034_000000|It is one of the grave problems of the day
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000035_000000|It is only a fancy of mine
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000036_000000|It is perfectly defensible
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000037_000000|It is perfectly trite
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000038_000000|It is permissible to gratify such an impulse
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000040_000000|It is quite an easy matter
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000041_000000|It is quite conceivable
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000042_000000|It is quite too absurd
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000044_000000|It is really impressive
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000045_000000|It is really most callous of you to laugh
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000046_000000|It is sheer madness
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000047_000000|It is sickening and so insufferably arrogant
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000048_000000|It is simply a coincidence
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000049_000000|It is the most incomprehensible thing in the world
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000050_000000|It is to you that I am indebted for all this
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000051_000000|It is true, I am grieved to say
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000052_000000|It is true none the less
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000053_000000|It is very amusing
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000054_000000|It is very far from being a fiction
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000055_000000|It is very good of you to do this for my pleasure
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000057_000000|It is very splendid of you
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000058_000000|It is wanton capriciousness
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000059_000000|It is your privilege to think so
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000060_000000|It's a difficult and delicate matter to discuss
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000061_000000|It's a matter of immediate urgency
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000062_000000|It's absolute folly
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000063_000000|It's absurd-it's impossible
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000064_000000|It's all nonsense
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000065_000000|It's as logical as it can be under the circumstances
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000066_000000|It's been a strange experience for you
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000067_000000|It's deliciously honest
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000068_000000|It's going to be rather troublesome
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000069_000000|It's inconceivable that it should ever be necessary
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000070_000000|It's mere pride of opinion
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000071_000000|It's my chief form of recreation
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000072_000000|It's not a matter of vast importance
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000073_000000|It's past my comprehension
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000074_000000|It's quite wonderful how logical and simple you make it
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000075_000000|It's really very perplexing
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000079_000000|It's the natural sequence
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000080_000000|It's too melancholy
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000081_000000|It's very wonderful
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000082_000000|It makes it all quite interesting
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000083_000000|It may sound strange to you
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000085_000000|It must be fascinating
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000089_000000|It seems entirely wonderful to me
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000090_000000|It seems incredible
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000091_000000|It seems like a distracting dream
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000092_000000|It seems preposterous
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000093_000000|It seems the height of absurdity
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000094_000000|It seems to me that you have a perfect right to do so
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000095_000000|It seems unspeakably funny to me
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000098_000000|It should not be objectionable
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000099_000000|It sounds plausible
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000101_000000|It sounds rather appalling
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000103_000000|It strikes me as rather pathetic
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000104_000000|It was an unpardonable liberty
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000107_000000|It was not unkindly meant
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000108_000000|It was peculiarly unfortunate
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000109_000000|It was really an extraordinary experience
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000113_000000|It will create a considerable sensation
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000114_000000|It will divert your thoughts from a mournful subject
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000115_000000|It will give me pleasure to do it
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000117_000000|It would be ill advised
train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000118_000000|It would interest me very much
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000001_000000|An accidental encounter
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000005_000000|An air of artificial constraint
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000006_000000|An air of round eyed profundity
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000008_000000|An almost excessive exactness
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000010_000000|An ample and imposing structure
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000012_000000|An appreciable menace
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000013_000000|An ardent and gifted youth
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000014_000000|An arid dictum
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000015_000000|An artful and malignant enemy
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000026_000000|An entirely negligible quantity
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000028_000000|An eternal and imperishable example
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000032_000000|An expression at once confident and appealing
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000035_000000|An honest and unquestioning pride
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000039_000000|An immeasurable advantage
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000041_000000|An imperturbable demeanor and steadiness of mind
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000044_000000|An incongruous spectacle
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000045_000000|An incredible mental agility
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000047_000000|An indescribable frankness and simplicity of character
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000049_000000|An indomitable and unselfish soul
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000051_000000|An inevitable factor of human conduct
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000052_000000|An inexhaustible copiousness and readiness of speech
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000053_000000|An insatiable appetite for trifles
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000054_000000|An insatiable voracity
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000056_000000|An intentional breach of politeness
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000057_000000|An interchange of civilities
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000058_000000|An intolerable deal of guesswork
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000063_000000|An itching propensity for argument
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000064_000000|An object of indestructible interest
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000065_000000|An obnoxious member of society
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000066_000000|An ominous lull and silence
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000067_000000|An open and violent rupture
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000075_000000|An unpatriotic and ignoble act
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000076_000000|An unreasoning form of coercion
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000080_000000|Announced in a tone of pious satisfaction
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000082_000000|Anticipated with lively expectation
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000083_000000|Apparent rather than real
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000084_000000|Appeal to a tardy justice
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000085_000000|Appreciably above the level of mediocrity
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000086_000000|Arbitrary assumption of power
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000087_000000|Ardently and enthusiastically convinced
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000089_000000|Arrayed with scrupulous neatness
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000090_000000|Arrogance and untutored haughtiness
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000091_000000|As an impartial bystander
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000092_000000|As belated as they are fallacious
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000093_000000|As by a secret of freemasonry
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000094_000000|As odious as it is absurd
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000095_000000|As ridiculous as it was unnecessary
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000096_000000|As we scan the vague unknown
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000097_000000|Assailed by poignant doubts
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000099_000000|Assumed almost heroic proportions
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000102_000000|At the mercy of small prejudices
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000103_000000|Attained by rigorous self restraint
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000104_000000|Attended by insuperable difficulties
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000105_000000|Averted by some happy stroke of fortune
train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000106_000000|Await the sentence of impartial posterity
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000002_000000|B
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000003_000000|Bandied to and fro
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000004_000000|Based on a fundamental error
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000005_000000|Beguile the tedium of the journey
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000006_000000|Bemoaning and bewailing his sad fortune
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000007_000000|Beset with external dangers
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000008_000000|Betrayed into deplorable error
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000009_000000|Bewildering multiplication of details
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000011_000000|Blended with courage and devotion
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000012_000000|Blind leaders of the blind
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000013_000000|Blunt the finer sensibilities
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000014_000000|Blustering desire for publicity
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000015_000000|Bound up with impossibilities and absurdities
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000016_000000|Breathed an almost exaggerated humility
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000019_000000|Brilliant display of ingenious argument
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000020_000000|Bring odium upon the individual
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000021_000000|Brisk directness of speech
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000022_000000|Brutal recognition of failure
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000023_000000|Bursts of unpremeditated frankness
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000025_000000|But that is beside the mark
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000026_000000|But this is a digression
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000027_000000|By a curious perversity of fate
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000028_000000|By a happy turn of thinking
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000029_000000|By a whimsical diversion
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000030_000000|By common consent
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000031_000000|By means of crafty insinuations
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000032_000000|By no means inconsolable
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000033_000000|By temperament incompatible
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000034_000000|By the common judgment of the thinking world
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000035_000000|By the sheer centripetal force of sympathy
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000036_000000|By virtue of a common understanding
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000038_000000|C
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000039_000000|Calculated to create disgust
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000040_000000|Calm strength and constancy
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000042_000000|Capacity for urbanity and moderation
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000043_000000|Carried into port by fair winds
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000044_000000|Caught unawares by a base impulse
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000045_000000|Ceaseless tramp of humanity
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000047_000000|Championing the cause of religious education
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000048_000000|Chastened and refined by experience
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000049_000000|Checked by the voice of authority
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000050_000000|Cherished the amiable illusion
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000051_000000|Cherishing a huge fallacy
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000052_000000|Childishly inaccurate and absurd
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000053_000000|Chivalrous loyalty and high forbearance
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000054_000000|Clever and captivating eloquence
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000055_000000|Coarse and glittering ostentation
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000056_000000|Coherent and continuous trend of thought
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000058_000000|Common ground of agreement
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000059_000000|Complicated and infinitely embittered
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000060_000000|Conceded from a sense of justice
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000061_000000|Conceived with imperfect knowledge
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000062_000000|Concentrated and implacable resolve
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000063_000000|Conditions of unspeakable humiliation
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000064_000000|Conducive to well-being and efficiency
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000065_000000|Confused rumblings presaging a different epoch
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000066_000000|Constrained by the sober exercise of judgment
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000068_000000|Continuous and stubborn disregard
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000069_000000|Contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000070_000000|Couched in terms of feigned devotion
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000071_000000|Credulous and emotionally extravagant
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000073_000000|Criticized with unsparing vigor
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000074_000000|Crude undigested masses of suggestion
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000076_000000|Cynically repudiate all obligations
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000077_000000|D
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000079_000000|Dangerously near snobbery
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000080_000000|Darkly insinuating what may possibly happen
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000081_000000|Dazzled by their novelty and brilliance
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000082_000000|Debased by common use
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000084_000000|Deeply engrossed in congenial work
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000085_000000|Deeply moved as well as keenly stung
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000086_000000|Deeply rooted in the heart of humanity
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000087_000000|Defiant of analysis and rule
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000089_000000|Degenerated into deadness and formality
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000090_000000|Degrading and debasing curiosity
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000091_000000|Deliberate and cautious reflection
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000092_000000|Delicacy of perception and quick tact
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000094_000000|Dense to the point of stupidity
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000098_000000|Devoid of hysteria and extravagance
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000099_000000|Dexterous modes of concealment
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000103_000000|Diffidence overwhelmed him
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000104_000000|Diffusing beneficent results
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000105_000000|Dignified by deliberation and privacy
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000106_000000|Dimly implying some sort of jest
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000107_000000|Discreditable and insincere support
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000108_000000|Disdaining the guidance of reason
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000109_000000|Disenchanting effect of time and experience
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000110_000000|Disfigured by glaring faults
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000111_000000|Disguised in sentimental frippery
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000112_000000|Dispel all anxious concern
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000113_000000|Displayed enormous power and splendor
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000115_000000|Distracted by contending desires
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train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000119_000000|Dominated by no prevailing taste or fashion
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000120_000000|Doomed by inexorable fate
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000121_000000|Doomed to impermanence and transiency
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000122_000000|Draw back in distrust and misgiving
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000123_000000|Dreaded and detested rival
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000125_000000|Due to historical perspective
train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000126_000000|Dull and trite commonplaces
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train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000005_000000|Haughtiness and arrogance were largely attributed to him
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train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000017_000000|He drank of the spirit of the universe
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000018_000000|He drew near to a desperate resolve
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000020_000000|He felt an unaccountable loathing
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000021_000000|He felt the ironic rebound of her words
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000023_000000|He flushed crimson
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000026_000000|He gave her a baffled stare
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000027_000000|He gave himself to a sudden day dream
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000033_000000|He held his breath in admiring silence
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000034_000000|He laughed away my protestations
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000041_000000|He mused a little while in grave thought
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000044_000000|He paused, stunned and comprehending
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train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000058_000000|He threw a ton's weight of resolve upon his muscles
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000065_000000|He was born to a lively and intelligent patriotism
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train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000067_000000|He was discreetly silent
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000068_000000|He was empty of thought
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000073_000000|He was most profoundly skeptical
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000074_000000|He was nothing if not grandiloquent
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000075_000000|He was quaking on the precipice of a bad bilious attack
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000081_000000|Her blank gaze chilled you
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train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000084_000000|Her eyes dilated with pain and fear
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000089_000000|Her haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000092_000000|Her heart fluttered with a vague terror
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000093_000000|Her heart pounded in her throat
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000097_000000|Her interest flagged
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000098_000000|Her life had dwarfed her ambitions
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train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000113_000000|Her stumbling ignorance which sought the road of wisdom
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000114_000000|Her thoughts outstripped her erring feet
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000119_000000|Her voice trailed off vaguely
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000123_000000|His accents breathed profound relief
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000127_000000|His conscience leapt to the light
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000129_000000|His curiosity is quenched
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000133_000000|His eyes literally blazed with savage fire
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000136_000000|His face caught the full strength of the rising wind
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000137_000000|His face dismissed its shadow
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000141_000000|His face torn with conflict
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000149_000000|His heart rebuked him
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000150_000000|His heart was full of enterprise
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000151_000000|His impatient scorn expired
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000152_000000|His last illusions crumbled
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000155_000000|His mind echoed with words
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000159_000000|His mouth quivered with pleasure
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000171_000000|His thoughts galloped
train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000184_000000|Hope was far and dim
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000002_000000|I remember a reference made
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000003_000000|I remember an intimation
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000006_000000|I remember to have heard
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000007_000000|I repeat, I am not speaking
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000009_000000|I respectfully counsel
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000010_000000|I respectfully submit
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000011_000000|I rest my opinion on
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000014_000000|I rise to thank you
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000015_000000|I rise with some trepidation
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000017_000000|I return you my most grateful thanks
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000018_000000|I said a little way back
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000020_000000|I said that I thought
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000021_000000|I salute with profound reverence
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000022_000000|I sanction with all my heart
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000023_000000|I saw an ingenious argument the other day
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000026_000000|I say it is extremely important
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000027_000000|I say it most confidently
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000028_000000|I say no more of these things
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000031_000000|I say this is no disparagement of
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000033_000000|I say without fear of contradiction
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000034_000000|I see around me
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000037_000000|I see no exception
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000039_000000|I see no reason for doubting
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000043_000000|I set out with saying
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000044_000000|I shall add a few words
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000046_000000|I shall ask you to look very closely
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000051_000000|I shall consider myself privileged
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000052_000000|I shall desist from
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000053_000000|I shall endeavor to be guided
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000056_000000|I shall here use the word to denote
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000058_000000|I shall invite you to follow me
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000059_000000|I shall just give the summary of
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000061_000000|I shall never cease to be grateful
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000062_000000|I shall not acknowledge
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000063_000000|I shall not attempt a detailed narrative
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000064_000000|I shall not end without appealing
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000065_000000|I shall not enlarge upon
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000066_000000|I shall not force into the discussion
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000069_000000|I shall not tax your patience
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000070_000000|I shall not undertake to prophesy
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000073_000000|I shall now proceed to show
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000074_000000|I shall often have to advert to
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000075_000000|I shall pass by all this
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000080_000000|I shall show that I am not
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000081_000000|I shall speak first about
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000083_000000|I shall take a broader view of the subject
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000084_000000|I shall take it for granted here
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000085_000000|I shall therefore endeavor
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000087_000000|I shall waste no time in refuting
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000090_000000|I should be surprised if
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000091_000000|I should be the last man to deny
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000094_000000|I should have forfeited my own self respect
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000097_000000|I should like to go a step farther
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000098_000000|I should like to refer to two events
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000100_000000|I should like to day to examine briefly
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000101_000000|I should much prefer
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000102_000000|I should not be satisfied with myself
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000103_000000|I should think it too absurd
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000105_000000|I shudder at the doctrine
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000110_000000|I solemnly declare
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000114_000000|I speak from no little personal observation
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000115_000000|I speak of this to show
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000117_000000|I speak the secret feeling of this company
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000118_000000|I speak what I know when I say
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000119_000000|I speak wholly without authority
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000120_000000|I speak with feeling upon this point
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000123_000000|I speak within the hearing of
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000127_000000|I submit it to every candid mind
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000133_000000|I suppose it to be entirely true
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000136_000000|I suppose there is no one here
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000137_000000|I suppose we are all of one opinion
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000140_000000|I take a broader and bolder position
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000141_000000|I take it for granted
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000142_000000|I take leave to say
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000147_000000|I take two views of
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000148_000000|I tell him in reply
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000149_000000|I tell you, gentlemen
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000151_000000|I thank you for having allowed me
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000154_000000|I thank you for your most generous greeting
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000155_000000|I thank you for your thoughtful courtesy
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000156_000000|I thank you from the bottom of my heart
train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000157_000000|I thank you very gratefully
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000004_000000|I think I am not the first to utter
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000005_000000|I think I can claim a purpose
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000008_000000|I think I have rightly spoken
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000011_000000|I think it is not too much to say
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000012_000000|I think it is quite right
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000019_000000|I think it will be granted
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000020_000000|I think no Wise man can be indifferent
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000021_000000|I think, on the contrary
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000024_000000|I think that I can explain
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000026_000000|I think that, in these last years
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000027_000000|I think that none of us will deny
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000029_000000|I think there is no call on me to listen
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000030_000000|I think we are justified
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000033_000000|I think we may ask in reply
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000035_000000|I think we may say, therefore
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000036_000000|I think we may well be proud of
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000038_000000|I think we must draw a distinction
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000044_000000|I think when we look back upon
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000046_000000|I think you will all agree
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000050_000000|I tremble at the task
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000060_000000|I use very plain language
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000066_000000|I very confidently submit
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000081_000000|I was not slow to accept and believe
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000083_000000|I was overwhelmed
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000085_000000|I was very much interested
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000086_000000|I was very much thrilled
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000089_000000|I will accept the general proposition
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000092_000000|I will ask you to accompany me
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000094_000000|I will dwell a little longer
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000095_000000|I will endeavor in a brief way
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000098_000000|I will enlarge no further
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000103_000000|I will illustrate this point by
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000106_000000|I will not allude
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000108_000000|I will not attempt to note
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000110_000000|I will not condescend to
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000119_000000|I will now consider with you
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000122_000000|I will only speak to one point
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000133_000000|I will take the precaution to add
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000138_000000|I will venture to express the hope
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000142_000000|I wish at the outset
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000143_000000|I wish emphatically to reaffirm
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000145_000000|I wish it first observed
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000146_000000|I wish rather to call your attention
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000148_000000|I wish to ask if you honestly and candidly believe
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000150_000000|I wish to begin my statement
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000152_000000|I wish to do full justice to
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000153_000000|I wish to draw your attention
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000154_000000|I wish to express my profound gratification
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000162_000000|I wish you to observe
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000163_000000|I would also gratefully acknowledge
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000166_000000|I would enter a protest
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000167_000000|I would further point out to you
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000171_000000|I would not be understood as belittling
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000177_000000|I would suggest first of all
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000180_000000|I would urge upon you
train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000181_000000|I would venture to point out
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000004_000000|From the New York Packet.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000005_000000|HAMILTON
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000006_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000007_000000|THE tendency of the principle of legislation for States, or communities, in their political capacities, as it has been exemplified by the experiment we have made of it, is equally attested by the events which have befallen all other governments of the confederate kind, of which we have any account, in exact proportion to its prevalence in those systems.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000008_000000|This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be styled the parent of anarchy: It has been seen that delinquencies in the members of the Union are its natural and necessary offspring; and that whenever they happen, the only constitutional remedy is force, and the immediate effect of the use of it, civil war.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000000|It remains to inquire how far so odious an engine of government, in its application to us, would even be capable of answering its end.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000002|It would rarely happen that the delinquency to be redressed would be confined to a single member, and if there were more than one who had neglected their duty, similarity of situation would induce them to unite for common defense.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000003|Independent of this motive of sympathy, if a large and influential State should happen to be the aggressing member, it would commonly have weight enough with its neighbors to win over some of them as associates to its cause.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000004|Specious arguments of danger to the common liberty could easily be contrived; plausible excuses for the deficiencies of the party could, without difficulty, be invented to alarm the apprehensions, inflame the passions, and conciliate the good will, even of those States which were not chargeable with any violation or omission of duty.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000005|This would be the more likely to take place, as the delinquencies of the larger members might be expected sometimes to proceed from an ambitious premeditation in their rulers, with a view to getting rid of all external control upon their designs of personal aggrandizement; the better to effect which it is presumable they would tamper beforehand with leading individuals in the adjacent States.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000006|If associates could not be found at home, recourse would be had to the aid of foreign powers, who would seldom be disinclined to encouraging the dissensions of a Confederacy, from the firm union of which they had so much to fear.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000008|The suggestions of wounded pride, the instigations of irritated resentment, would be apt to carry the States against which the arms of the Union were exerted, to any extremes necessary to avenge the affront or to avoid the disgrace of submission.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000009|The first war of this kind would probably terminate in a dissolution of the Union.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000000|This may be considered as the violent death of the Confederacy.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000001|Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form. It is not probable, considering the genius of this country, that the complying States would often be inclined to support the authority of the Union by engaging in a war against the non complying States.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000002|They would always be more ready to pursue the milder course of putting themselves upon an equal footing with the delinquent members by an imitation of their example.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000003|And the guilt of all would thus become the security of all.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000004|Our past experience has exhibited the operation of this spirit in its full light.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000005|There would, in fact, be an insuperable difficulty in ascertaining when force could with propriety be employed.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000007|The pretense of the latter would always be at hand.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000008|And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000011_000000|It seems to require no pains to prove that the States ought not to prefer a national Constitution which could only be kept in motion by the instrumentality of a large army continually on foot to execute the ordinary requisitions or decrees of the government.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000011_000001|And yet this is the plain alternative involved by those who wish to deny it the power of extending its operations to individuals.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000011_000002|Such a scheme, if practicable at all, would instantly degenerate into a military despotism; but it will be found in every light impracticable.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000000|The result of these observations to an intelligent mind must be clearly this, that if it be possible at any rate to construct a federal government capable of regulating the common concerns and preserving the general tranquillity, it must be founded, as to the objects committed to its care, upon the reverse of the principle contended for by the opponents of the proposed Constitution.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000001|It must carry its agency to the persons of the citizens.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000002|It must stand in need of no intermediate legislations; but must itself be empowered to employ the arm of the ordinary magistrate to execute its own resolutions.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000003|The majesty of the national authority must be manifested through the medium of the courts of justice.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000004|The government of the Union, like that of each State, must be able to address itself immediately to the hopes and fears of individuals; and to attract to its support those passions which have the strongest influence upon the human heart.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000005|It must, in short, possess all the means, and have aright to resort to all the methods, of executing the powers with which it is intrusted, that are possessed and exercised by the government of the particular States.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000015_000000|The plausibility of this objection will vanish the moment we advert to the essential difference between a mere NON COMPLIANCE and a DIRECT and ACTIVE RESISTANCE.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000015_000003|The State leaders may even make a merit of their surreptitious invasions of it on the ground of some temporary convenience, exemption, or advantage.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000000|But if the execution of the laws of the national government should not require the intervention of the State legislatures, if they were to pass into immediate operation upon the citizens themselves, the particular governments could not interrupt their progress without an open and violent exertion of an unconstitutional power.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000001|No omissions nor evasions would answer the end.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000002|They would be obliged to act, and in such a manner as would leave no doubt that they had encroached on the national rights. An experiment of this nature would always be hazardous in the face of a constitution in any degree competent to its own defense, and of a people enlightened enough to distinguish between a legal exercise and an illegal usurpation of authority.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000004|If the judges were not embarked in a conspiracy with the legislature, they would pronounce the resolutions of such a majority to be contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional, and void.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000000|If opposition to the national government should arise from the disorderly conduct of refractory or seditious individuals, it could be overcome by the same means which are daily employed against the same evil under the State governments.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000001|The magistracy, being equally the ministers of the law of the land, from whatever source it might emanate, would doubtless be as ready to guard the national as the local regulations from the inroads of private licentiousness.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000003|And as to those mortal feuds which, in certain conjunctures, spread a conflagration through a whole nation, or through a very large proportion of it, proceeding either from weighty causes of discontent given by the government or from the contagion of some violent popular paroxysm, they do not fall within any ordinary rules of calculation.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000004|When they happen, they commonly amount to revolutions and dismemberments of empire.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000005|No form of government can always either avoid or control them.
train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000006|It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.
train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000008_000003|"Yonder we maun be this night," quo' the bull; "for my auld brither lives yonder"; and presently they were at the place.
train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000010_000007|At length they set the stranger damosel to wark; and whenever she began the stains came out pure and clean, but the auld wife made the knight believe it was her dochter had washed the sarks.
train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000010_000009|So she bethought her of her apple, and breaking it, found it filled with gold and precious jewelry, the richest she had ever seen.
train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000012_000000|Next day she kentna what to do for grief.
train-clean-360/1390/130493/1390_130493_000015_000000|Tethered to earth
train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000021_000000|The lights winked
train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000082_000000|The preternatural pomposities of the pulpit
train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000087_000000|The purple vaulted night
train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000102_000000|The rosy twilight of boyhood
train-clean-360/1390/130495/1390_130495_000058_000000|They escaped the baffled eye
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000003_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000005_000000|Once on a time, Zarathustra also cast his fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000005_000001|The work of a suffering and tortured God, did the world then seem to me.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000006_000000|The dream-and diction-of a God, did the world then seem to me; coloured vapours before the eyes of a divinely dissatisfied one.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000007_000000|Good and evil, and joy and woe, and I and thou-coloured vapours did they seem to me before creative eyes.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000007_000001|The creator wished to look away from himself,--thereupon he created the world.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000008_000001|Intoxicating joy and self forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000009_000000|This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image-an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:--thus did the world once seem to me.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000010_000000|Thus, once on a time, did I also cast my fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000010_000001|Beyond man, forsooth?
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000011_000000|Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000012_000000|A man was he, and only a poor fragment of a man and ego.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000012_000002|And verily, it came not unto me from the beyond!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000000|What happened, my brethren?
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000001|I surpassed myself, the suffering one; I carried mine own ashes to the mountain; a brighter flame I contrived for myself.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000002|And lo!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000003|Thereupon the phantom WITHDREW from me!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000014_000000|To me the convalescent would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms: suffering would it now be to me, and humiliation.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000016_000000|Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000017_000001|It was the body which despaired of the body-it groped with the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000018_000000|Believe me, my brethren!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000018_000001|It was the body which despaired of the earth-it heard the bowels of existence speaking unto it.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000019_000000|And then it sought to get through the ultimate walls with its head-and not with its head only-into "the other world."
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000020_000000|But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000021_000000|Verily, it is difficult to prove all being, and hard to make it speak. Tell me, ye brethren, is not the strangest of all things best proved?
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000022_000000|Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being-this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000025_000000|A new pride taught me mine ego, and that teach I unto men: no longer to thrust one's head into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to the earth!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000027_000000|The sick and perishing-it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000028_000000|From their misery they sought escape, and the stars were too remote for them.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000028_000001|Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness!" Then they contrived for themselves their by paths and bloody draughts!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000029_000000|Beyond the sphere of their body and this earth they now fancied themselves transported, these ungrateful ones.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000029_000001|But to what did they owe the convulsion and rapture of their transport?
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000029_000002|To their body and this earth.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000030_000000|Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000030_000002|May they become convalescents and overcomers, and create higher bodies for themselves!
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000031_000000|Neither is Zarathustra indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God; but sickness and a sick frame remain even in his tears.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000032_000000|Many sickly ones have there always been among those who muse, and languish for God; violently they hate the discerning ones, and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000033_000000|Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, indeed, were delusion and faith something different.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000033_000001|Raving of the reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000034_000000|Too well do I know those godlike ones: they insist on being believed in, and that doubt is sin.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000034_000001|Too well, also, do I know what they themselves most believe in.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000035_000000|Verily, not in backworlds and redeeming blood drops: but in the body do they also believe most; and their own body is for them the thing in itself.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000036_000000|But it is a sickly thing to them, and gladly would they get out of their skin.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000036_000001|Therefore hearken they to the preachers of death, and themselves preach backworlds.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000037_000000|Hearken rather, my brethren, to the voice of the healthy body; it is a more upright and pure voice.
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000038_000000|More uprightly and purely speaketh the healthy body, perfect and square built; and it speaketh of the meaning of the earth.--
train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000039_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000003_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000004_000002|Tarry yet a little and hearken unto me.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000005_000000|"He who seeketh may easily get lost himself.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000005_000001|All isolation is wrong": so say the herd.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000005_000002|And long didst thou belong to the herd.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000006_000000|The voice of the herd will still echo in thee.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000006_000001|And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000007_000000|Lo, that pain itself did the same conscience produce; and the last gleam of that conscience still gloweth on thine affliction.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000008_000001|Then show me thine authority and thy strength to do so!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000000|Art thou a new strength and a new authority?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000001|A first motion?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000002|A self rolling wheel?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000003|Canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000010_000000|Alas! there is so much lusting for loftiness!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000010_000001|There are so many convulsions of the ambitions!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000010_000002|Show me that thou art not a lusting and ambitious one!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000011_000000|Alas! there are so many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows: they inflate, and make emptier than ever.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000012_000000|Free, dost thou call thyself?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000012_000001|Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000013_000000|Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000013_000001|Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000014_000000|Free from what?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000014_000002|Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000015_000000|Canst thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good, and set up thy will as a law over thee?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000015_000001|Canst thou be judge for thyself, and avenger of thy law?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000016_000000|Terrible is aloneness with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star projected into desert space, and into the icy breath of aloneness.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000020_000000|There are feelings which seek to slay the lonesome one; if they do not succeed, then must they themselves die!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000020_000001|But art thou capable of it-to be a murderer?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000021_000000|Hast thou ever known, my brother, the word "disdain"?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000021_000001|And the anguish of thy justice in being just to those that disdain thee?
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000022_000000|Thou forcest many to think differently about thee; that, charge they heavily to thine account.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000022_000001|Thou camest nigh unto them, and yet wentest past: for that they never forgive thee.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000023_000000|Thou goest beyond them: but the higher thou risest, the smaller doth the eye of envy see thee.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000023_000001|Most of all, however, is the flying one hated.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000024_000000|"How could ye be just unto me!"--must thou say-"I choose your injustice as my allotted portion."
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000025_000000|Injustice and filth cast they at the lonesome one: but, my brother, if thou wouldst be a star, thou must shine for them none the less on that account!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000026_000000|And be on thy guard against the good and just!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000026_000001|They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue-they hate the lonesome ones.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000027_000000|Be on thy guard, also, against holy simplicity!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000027_000001|All is unholy to it that is not simple; fain, likewise, would it play with the fire-of the fagot and stake.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000028_000000|And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000028_000001|Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000029_000000|To many a one mayest thou not give thy hand, but only thy paw; and I wish thy paw also to have claws.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000030_000000|But the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be; thou waylayest thyself in caverns and forests.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000031_000000|Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way to thyself!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000031_000001|And past thyself and thy seven devils leadeth thy way!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000032_000000|A heretic wilt thou be to thyself, and a wizard and a sooth sayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000034_000000|Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the creating one: a God wilt thou create for thyself out of thy seven devils!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000036_000000|To create, desireth the loving one, because he despiseth!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000036_000001|What knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged to despise just what he loved!
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000038_000000|With my tears, go into thine isolation, my brother.
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000038_000001|I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.--
train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000039_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000007_000000|It seems evident, that, when the mind looks forward to discover the event, which may result from the throw of such a dye, it considers the turning up of each particular side as alike probable; and this is the very nature of chance, to render all the particular events, comprehended in it, entirely equal.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000007_000003|If we allow, that belief is nothing but a firmer and stronger conception of an object than what attends the mere fictions of the imagination, this operation may, perhaps, in some measure, be accounted for.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000007_000004|The concurrence of these several views or glimpses imprints the idea more strongly on the imagination; gives it superior force and vigour; renders its influence on the passions and affections more sensible; and in a word, begets that reliance or security, which constitutes the nature of belief and opinion.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000001|The case is the same with the probability of causes, as with that of chance.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000002|There are some causes, which are entirely uniform and constant in producing a particular effect; and no instance has ever yet been found of any failure or irregularity in their operation.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000007|Though we give the preference to that which has been found most usual, and believe that this effect will exist, we must not overlook the other effects, but must assign to each of them a particular weight and authority, in proportion as we have found it to be more or less frequent.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000009|Here then it seems evident, that, when we transfer the past to the future, in order to determine the effect, which will result from any cause, we transfer all the different events, in the same proportion as they have appeared in the past, and conceive one to have existed a hundred times, for instance, another ten times, and another once.
train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000011|Let any one try to account for this operation of the mind upon any of the received systems of philosophy, and he will be sensible of the difficulty.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000001|All our reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on a species of Analogy, which leads us to expect from any cause the same events, which we have observed to result from similar causes.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000002|Where the causes are entirely similar, the analogy is perfect, and the inference, drawn from it, is regarded as certain and conclusive: nor does any man ever entertain a doubt, where he sees a piece of iron, that it will have weight and cohesion of parts; as in all other instances, which have ever fallen under his observation.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000003|But where the objects have not so exact a similarity, the analogy is less perfect, and the inference is less conclusive; though still it has some force, in proportion to the degree of similarity and resemblance.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000005|We shall make trial of this, with regard to the hypothesis, by which we have, in the foregoing discourse, endeavoured to account for all experimental reasonings; and it is hoped, that this new point of view will serve to confirm all our former observations.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000004_000003|The ignorance and inexperience of the young are here plainly distinguishable from the cunning and sagacity of the old, who have learned, by long observation, to avoid what hurt them, and to pursue what gave ease or pleasure.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000004_000004|A horse, that has been accustomed to the field, becomes acquainted with the proper height which he can leap, and will never attempt what exceeds his force and ability.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000004_000005|An old greyhound will trust the more fatiguing part of the chace to the younger, and will place himself so as to meet the hare in her doubles; nor are the conjectures, which he forms on this occasion, founded in any thing but his observation and experience.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000005_000001|Is it not experience, which renders a dog apprehensive of pain, when you menace him, or lift up the whip to beat him?
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000005_000002|Is it not even experience, which makes him answer to his name, and infer, from such an arbitrary sound, that you mean him rather than any of his fellows, and intend to call him, when you pronounce it in a certain manner, and with a certain tone and accent?
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000007_000002|For if there be in reality any arguments of this nature, they surely lie too abstruse for the observation of such imperfect understandings; since it may well employ the utmost care and attention of a philosophic genius to discover and observe them.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000008_000001|Has not the same custom the same influence on all?
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000009_000000|We shall here endeavour briefly to explain the great difference in human understandings: After which the reason of the difference between men and animals will easily be comprehended.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000010_000001|When we have lived any time, and have been accustomed to the uniformity of nature, we acquire a general habit, by which we always transfer the known to the unknown, and conceive the latter to resemble the former.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000010_000002|By means of this general habitual principle, we regard even one experiment as the foundation of reasoning, and expect a similar event with some degree of certainty, where the experiment has been made accurately, and free from all foreign circumstances.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000010_000003|It is therefore considered as a matter of great importance to observe the consequences of things; and as one man may very much surpass another in attention and memory and observation, this will make a very great difference in their reasoning.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000011_000001|Where there is a complication of causes to produce any effect, one mind may be much larger than another, and better able to comprehend the whole system of objects, and to infer justly their consequences.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000012_000001|One man is able to carry on a chain of consequences to a greater length than another.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000013_000001|Few men can think long without running into a confusion of ideas, and mistaking one for another; and there are various degrees of this infirmity.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000014_000001|The circumstance, on which the effect depends, is frequently involved in other circumstances, which are foreign and extrinsic.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000014_000002|The separation of it often requires great attention, accuracy, and subtilty.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000015_000001|The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000016_000001|When we reason from analogies, the man, who has the greater experience or the greater promptitude of suggesting analogies, will be the better reasoner.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000018_000001|After we have acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation enlarge much more the sphere of one man's experience and thought than those of another.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000019_000000|It would be easy to discover many other circumstances that make a difference in the understandings of men.
train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000020_000002|These we denominate Instincts, and are so apt to admire as something very extraordinary, and inexplicable by all the disquisitions of human understanding.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000002_000001|Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000003_000001|Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000003_000002|He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000004_000001|There is no fire like passion; there is no losing throw like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness higher than rest.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000006_000001|Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000007_000001|He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000008_000001|The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000009_000001|He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000011_000000|Chapter sixteen.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000011_000001|Pleasure
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000012_000001|He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000013_000001|Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000014_000001|Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000015_000001|From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000020_000001|He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000023_000001|In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on his return.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000024_000000|Chapter seventeen.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000024_000001|Anger
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000025_000001|Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000025_000002|No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000026_000001|He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000034_000001|Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000034_000002|Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000035_000002|Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000037_000001|The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000038_000000|Chapter eighteen.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000038_000001|Impurity
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000039_000001|Thou art now like a sear leaf, the messengers of death (Yama) have come near to thee; thou standest at the door of thy departure, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000040_000001|Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000041_000001|Thy life has come to an end, thou art come near to death (Yama), there is no resting place for thee on the road, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000042_000001|Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000042_000002|When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth and decay.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000044_000001|As the impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from it, destroys it; thus do a transgressor's own works lead him to the evil path.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000047_000001|But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the greatest taint.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000047_000002|O mendicants! throw off that taint, and become taintless!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000048_000001|Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero, a mischief maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000049_000001|But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000051_000001|And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000052_000001|O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!
train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000055_000001|There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000001_000000|The morrow brought a very sober looking morning, the sun making only a few efforts to appear, and Catherine augured from it everything most favourable to her wishes.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000001_000002|She applied to mr Allen for confirmation of her hopes, but mr Allen, not having his own skies and barometer about him, declined giving any absolute promise of sunshine. She applied to mrs Allen, and mrs Allen's opinion was more positive. "She had no doubt in the world of its being a very fine day, if the clouds would only go off, and the sun keep out."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000002_000001|dear, I do believe it will be wet," broke from her in a most desponding tone.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000004_000000|"No walk for me today," sighed Catherine; "but perhaps it may come to nothing, or it may hold up before twelve."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000005_000000|"Perhaps it may, but then, my dear, it will be so dirty."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000006_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000006_000001|That will not signify; I never mind dirt."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000007_000000|"No," replied her friend very placidly, "I know you never mind dirt."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000009_000000|"So it does indeed.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000009_000001|If it keeps raining, the streets will be very wet."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000010_000000|"There are four umbrellas up already.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000011_000001|I would much rather take a chair at any time."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000012_000000|"It was such a nice looking morning!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000013_000000|"Anybody would have thought so indeed.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000013_000002|I hope mr Allen will put on his greatcoat when he goes, but I dare say he will not, for he had rather do anything in the world than walk out in a greatcoat; I wonder he should dislike it, it must be so comfortable."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000014_000001|Catherine went every five minutes to the clock, threatening on each return that, if it still kept on raining another five minutes, she would give up the matter as hopeless.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000014_000002|The clock struck twelve, and it still rained.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000014_000003|"You will not be able to go, my dear."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000000|"I do not quite despair yet.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000001|I shall not give it up till a quarter after twelve.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000002|This is just the time of day for it to clear up, and I do think it looks a little lighter.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000003|There, it is twenty minutes after twelve, and now I shall give it up entirely.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000017_000000|It was too dirty for mrs Allen to accompany her husband to the pump room; he accordingly set off by himself, and Catherine had barely watched him down the street when her notice was claimed by the approach of the same two open carriages, containing the same three people that had surprised her so much a few mornings back.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000000|"Isabella, my brother, and mr Thorpe, I declare!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000001|They are coming for me perhaps-but I shall not go-I cannot go indeed, for you know Miss Tilney may still call." mrs Allen agreed to it.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000002|john Thorpe was soon with them, and his voice was with them yet sooner, for on the stairs he was calling out to Miss Morland to be quick.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000003|"Make haste!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000004|Make haste!" as he threw open the door.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000000|"To Bristol!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000002|But, however, I cannot go with you today, because I am engaged; I expect some friends every moment." This was of course vehemently talked down as no reason at all; mrs Allen was called on to second him, and the two others walked in, to give their assistance.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000003|"My sweetest Catherine, is not this delightful?
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000007|Oh!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000008|I am in such ecstasies at the thoughts of a little country air and quiet!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000009|So much better than going to the Lower Rooms.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000020_000000|"I doubt our being able to do so much," said Morland.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000000|"You croaking fellow!" cried Thorpe.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000001|"We shall be able to do ten times more.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000002|Kingsweston!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000003|Aye, and Blaize Castle too, and anything else we can hear of; but here is your sister says she will not go."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000022_000000|"Blaize Castle!" cried Catherine.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000022_000001|"What is that?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000023_000000|"The finest place in England-worth going fifty miles at any time to see."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000024_000000|"What, is it really a castle, an old castle?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000025_000000|"The oldest in the kingdom."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000026_000000|"But is it like what one reads of?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000031_000000|"Not go!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000032_000000|"I cannot go, because"--looking down as she spoke, fearful of Isabella's smile-"I expect Miss Tilney and her brother to call on me to take a country walk.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000032_000001|They promised to come at twelve, only it rained; but now, as it is so fine, I dare say they will be here soon."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000033_000000|"Not they indeed," cried Thorpe; "for, as we turned into Broad Street, I saw them-does he not drive a phaeton with bright chestnuts?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000034_000000|"I do not know indeed."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000038_000000|"Did you indeed?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000039_000000|"Did upon my soul; knew him again directly, and he seemed to have got some very pretty cattle too."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000040_000001|But I suppose they thought it would be too dirty for a walk."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000041_000000|"And well they might, for I never saw so much dirt in my life.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000041_000002|It has not been so dirty the whole winter; it is ankle deep everywhere."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000042_000000|Isabella corroborated it: "My dearest Catherine, you cannot form an idea of the dirt; come, you must go; you cannot refuse going now."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000044_000000|"Yes, yes, every hole and corner."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000045_000000|"But then, if they should only be gone out for an hour till it is dryer, and call by and by?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000046_000000|"Make yourself easy, there is no danger of that, for I heard Tilney hallooing to a man who was just passing by on horseback, that they were going as far as Wick Rocks."
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000047_000000|"Then I will.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000049_000001|mrs Allen was not inattentive to it: "Well, my dear," said she, "suppose you go." And in two minutes they were off.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000050_000001|She could not think the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagement, without sending her any message of excuse.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000050_000002|It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000050_000004|On the other hand, the delight of exploring an edifice like Udolpho, as her fancy represented Blaize Castle to be, was such a counterpoise of good as might console her for almost anything.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000051_000000|They passed briskly down Pulteney Street, and through Laura Place, without the exchange of many words.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000051_000001|Thorpe talked to his horse, and she meditated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap doors.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000051_000002|As they entered Argyle Buildings, however, she was roused by this address from her companion, "Who is that girl who looked at you so hard as she went by?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000052_000000|"Who?
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000052_000001|Where?"
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000000|"On the right-hand pavement-she must be almost out of sight now." Catherine looked round and saw Miss Tilney leaning on her brother's arm, walking slowly down the street.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000001|She saw them both looking back at her. "Stop, stop, mr Thorpe," she impatiently cried; "it is Miss Tilney; it is indeed.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000002|How could you tell me they were gone?
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000004|Still, however, and during the length of another street, she entreated him to stop.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000005|"Pray, pray stop, mr Thorpe.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000006|I cannot go on.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000008|I must go back to Miss Tilney." But mr Thorpe only laughed, smacked his whip, encouraged his horse, made odd noises, and drove on; and Catherine, angry and vexed as she was, having no power of getting away, was obliged to give up the point and submit. Her reproaches, however, were not spared.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000010|How could you say that you saw them driving up the Lansdown Road?
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000011|I would not have had it happen so for the world.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000012|They must think it so strange, so rude of me!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000013|To go by them, too, without saying a word! You do not know how vexed I am; I shall have no pleasure at Clifton, nor in anything else.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000014|I had rather, ten thousand times rather, get out now, and walk back to them.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000054_000002|She listened reluctantly, and her replies were short.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000054_000006|It will never do.
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000063_000004|I wonder whether it will be a full ball or not!
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000064_000004|Why were not they more punctual? It was dirty, indeed, but what did that signify?
train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000064_000008|What a delightful hand you have got!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000006_000000|Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness in every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on a matter of the utmost importance, hastened Catherine, in the happiest state of confidence and curiosity, to Edgar's Buildings.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000006_000001|The two youngest Miss Thorpes were by themselves in the parlour; and, on Anne's quitting it to call her sister, Catherine took the opportunity of asking the other for some particulars of their yesterday's party.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000007_000001|It appeared that Blaize Castle had never been thought of; and, as for all the rest, there was nothing to regret for half an instant.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000008_000000|"She will never forgive me, I am sure; but, you know, how could I help it?
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000009_000004|It sees through everything."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000010_000000|Catherine replied only by a look of wondering ignorance.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000000|"Nay, my beloved, sweetest friend," continued the other, "compose yourself.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000001|I am amazingly agitated, as you perceive.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000002|Let us sit down and talk in comfort.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000003|Well, and so you guessed it the moment you had my note? Sly creature!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000004|Oh!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000006|Your brother is the most charming of men.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000008|But what will your excellent father and mother say?
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000009|Oh!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000011|When I think of them I am so agitated!"
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000012_000002|Can you-can you really be in love with james?"
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000000|This bold surmise, however, she soon learnt comprehended but half the fact.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000001|The anxious affection, which she was accused of having continually watched in Isabella's every look and action, had, in the course of their yesterday's party, received the delightful confession of an equal love. Her heart and faith were alike engaged to james.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000002|Never had Catherine listened to anything so full of interest, wonder, and joy.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000003|Her brother and her friend engaged!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000005|The strength of her feelings she could not express; the nature of them, however, contented her friend.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000016_000000|"You are so like your dear brother," continued Isabella, "that I quite doted on you the first moment I saw you.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000018_000001|Oh!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000018_000002|Catherine, the many sleepless nights I have had on your brother's account!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000018_000004|I am grown wretchedly thin, I know; but I will not pain you by describing my anxiety; you have seen enough of it.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000019_000000|Catherine felt that nothing could have been safer; but ashamed of an ignorance little expected, she dared no longer contest the point, nor refuse to have been as full of arch penetration and affectionate sympathy as Isabella chose to consider her.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000022_000000|"Indeed, Isabella, you are too humble.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000023_000003|Had I the command of millions, were I mistress of the whole world, your brother would be my only choice."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000025_000000|"For my own part," said Isabella, "my wishes are so moderate that the smallest income in nature would be enough for me.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000025_000002|A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000026_000000|"Richmond!" cried Catherine.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000026_000001|"You must settle near Fullerton.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000027_000003|I will not allow myself to think of such things, till we have your father's answer.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000027_000004|Morland says that by sending it tonight to Salisbury, we may have it tomorrow. Tomorrow?
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000029_000004|"Indeed, Morland, I must drive you away.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000029_000007|For heaven's sake, waste no more time.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000029_000008|There, go, go-I insist on it."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000031_000001|But when it did come, where could distress be found?
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000031_000002|"I have had no difficulty in gaining the consent of my kind parents, and am promised that everything in their power shall be done to forward my happiness," were the first three lines, and in one moment all was joyful security.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000032_000002|It was "dear john" and "dear Catherine" at every word; "dear Anne and dear Maria" must immediately be made sharers in their felicity; and two "dears" at once before the name of Isabella were not more than that beloved child had now well earned.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000033_000001|But for particulars Isabella could well afford to wait.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000033_000002|The needful was comprised in mr Morland's promise; his honour was pledged to make everything easy; and by what means their income was to be formed, whether landed property were to be resigned, or funded money made over, was a matter in which her disinterested spirit took no concern.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000033_000004|She saw herself at the end of a few weeks, the gaze and admiration of every new acquaintance at Fullerton, the envy of every valued old friend in Putney, with a carriage at her command, a new name on her tickets, and a brilliant exhibition of hoop rings on her finger.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000034_000001|"Well, Miss Morland," said he, on finding her alone in the parlour, "I am come to bid you good bye." Catherine wished him a good journey. Without appearing to hear her, he walked to the window, fidgeted about, hummed a tune, and seemed wholly self occupied.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000035_000001|He made no answer; but after a minute's silence burst out with, "A famous good thing this marrying scheme, upon my soul!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000037_000000|"Do you?
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000037_000001|That's honest, by heavens!
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000037_000002|I am glad you are no enemy to matrimony, however.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000039_000000|"And then you know"--twisting himself about and forcing a foolish laugh-"I say, then you know, we may try the truth of this same old song."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000040_000000|"May we?
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000040_000003|I dine with Miss Tilney today, and must now be going home."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000041_000000|"Nay, but there is no such confounded hurry.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000041_000002|Not but that I shall be down again by the end of a fortnight, and a devilish long fortnight it will appear to me."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000043_000000|"That is kind of you, however-kind and good-natured.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000044_000001|Good morning to you."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000045_000000|"But I say, Miss Morland, I shall come and pay my respects at Fullerton before it is long, if not disagreeable."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000047_000000|"And I hope-I hope, Miss Morland, you will not be sorry to see me."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000048_000000|"Oh! dear, not at all.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000049_000000|"That is just my way of thinking.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000050_000001|And as to most matters, to say the truth, there are not many that I know my own mind about."
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000051_000001|My notion of things is simple enough.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000051_000003|Fortune is nothing.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000000|"Very true.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000001|I think like you there.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000002|If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000005|And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000007|We shall be very glad to see you at Fullerton, whenever it is convenient." And away she went.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000008|It was not in the power of all his gallantry to detain her longer.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000009|With such news to communicate, and such a visit to prepare for, her departure was not to be delayed by anything in his nature to urge; and she hurried away, leaving him to the undivided consciousness of his own happy address, and her explicit encouragement.
train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000053_000000|The agitation which she had herself experienced on first learning her brother's engagement made her expect to raise no inconsiderable emotion in mr and mrs Allen, by the communication of the wonderful event.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000001_000000|RINALDO AND BAYARD
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000000|CHARLEMAGNE was overwhelmed with grief at the loss of so many of his bravest warriors at the disaster of Roncesvalles, and bitterly reproached himself for his credulity in resigning himself so completely to the counsels of the treacherous Count Gan.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000001|Yet he soon fell into a similar snare when he suffered his unworthy son, Charlot, to acquire such an influence over him, that he constantly led him into acts of cruelty and injustice that in his right mind he would have scorned to commit.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000002|Rinaldo and his brothers, for some slight offence to the imperious young prince, were forced to fly from Paris, and to take shelter in their castle of Montalban; for Charles had publicly said, if he could take them he would hang them all.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000003|He sent numbers of his bravest knights to arrest them, but all without success.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000003_000000|At last Charles himself raised a great army, and went in person to compel the paladin to submit.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000004_000001|His brothers had been taken prisoners in a skirmish, and his only hope of saving their lives was in making terms with the king.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000000|So he sent a messenger, offering to yield himself and his castle if the king would spare his and his brothers' lives.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000001|While the messenger was gone Rinaldo, impatient to learn what tidings he might bring, rode out to meet him.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000003|Then he sat down, and, as he waited, he fell asleep.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000005|Just then came along some country people, who said to one another, "Look, is not that the great horse Bayard that Rinaldo rides?
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000006|Let us take him, and carry him to King Charles, who will pay us well for our trouble." They did so, and the king was delighted with his prize, and gave them a present that made them rich to their dying day.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000000|When Rinaldo woke he looked round for his horse, and, finding him not, he groaned, and said, "O unlucky hour that I was born! how fortune persecutes me!" So desperate was he that he took off his armor and his spurs, saying, "What need have I of these, since Bayard is lost?" While he stood thus lamenting, a man came from the thicket, seemingly bent with age.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000001|He had a long beard hanging over his breast, and eyebrows that almost covered his eyes.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000002|He bade Rinaldo good day.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000003|Rinaldo thanked him, and said, "A good day I have hardly had since I was born." Then said the old man, "Signor Rinaldo, you must not despair, for God will make all things turn to the best." Rinaldo answered, "My trouble is too heavy for me to hope relief.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000004|The king has taken my brothers, and means to put them to death.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000005|I thought to rescue them by means of my horse Bayard, but while I slept some thief has stolen him." The old man replied, "I will remember you and your brothers in my prayers.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000006|I am a poor man, have you not something to give me?" Rinaldo said, "I have nothing to give," but then he recollected his spurs.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000007|He gave them to the beggar, and said, "Here, take my spurs.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000008|They are the first present my mother gave me when my father, Count Aymon, dubbed me knight.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000009|They ought to bring you ten pounds."
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000007_000000|The old man took the spurs, and put them into his sack, and said, "Noble sir, have you nothing else you can give me?" Rinaldo replied, "Are you making sport of me?
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000007_000001|I tell you truly if it were not for shame to beat one so helpless, I would teach you better manners." The old man said, "Of a truth, sir, if you did so you would do a great sin.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000000|The pilgrim took the mantle, folded it up, and put it into his bag. Then a third time he said to Rinaldo, "Sir, have you nothing left to give me that I may remember you in my prayers?"
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000002|When Rinaldo heard that he stayed his hand, and gazed doubtingly on the old man, who now threw aside his disguise, and appeared to be indeed Malagigi.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000003|"Dear cousin," said Rinaldo, "pray forgive me.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000004|I did not know you.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000005|Next to God, my trust is in you.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000006|Help my brothers to escape out of prison, I entreat you.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000009_000001|They looked like two pilgrims, very old and poor.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000009_000003|Malagigi said to Rinaldo, "I will go meet the monks, and see what news I can learn."
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000011_000000|Malagigi then hastened back to Rinaldo, and told him what he had learned.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000012_000000|The morning of the feast day Rinaldo and Malagigi came to the place where the sports were to be held.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000012_000001|Malagigi gave Rinaldo his spurs back again, and said, "Cousin, put on your spurs, for you will need them." "How shall I need them," said Rinaldo, "since I have lost my horse?" Yet he did as Malagigi directed him.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000013_000000|When the two had taken their stand on the border of the field among the crowd the princes and ladies of the court began to assemble.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000013_000001|When they were all assembled the king came also, and Charlot with him, near whom the horse Bayard was led, in the charge of grooms, who were expressly enjoined to guard him safely.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000013_000003|It seems to be worth a hundred ducats." "That is true," said Charlot; "Let us go and ask where they got it." So they rode to the place where the pilgrims stood, and Charlot stopped Bayard close to them.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000015_000000|Then the king said to Malagigi, "Give me a morsel from your cup, that I may be cleared of my sins." Malagigi answered, "Illustrious lord, I dare not do it, unless you will forgive all who have at any time offended you.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000015_000002|These two shall never live in my kingdom again.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000015_000003|If I catch them I will certainly have them hanged. But tell me, pilgrim, who is that man who stands beside you?" "He is deaf, dumb, and blind," said Malagigi.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000016_000000|When this was done, the king said to Charlot, "Son, I request that you will let this sick pilgrim sit on your horse, and ride if he can, for by so doing he will be healed of all his infirmities." Charlot replied, "That will I gladly do." So saying, he dismounted, and the servants took the pilgrim in their arms, and helped him on the horse.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000017_000001|"Yes," said Rinaldo, "I am healed of all my infirmities." When the king heard it he said to Bishop Turpin, "My lord bishop, we must celebrate this with a procession, with crosses and banners, for it is a great miracle."
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000002|Malagigi pretended to be in great alarm.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000003|"O noble king and master," he cried, "my poor companion is run away with; he will fall and break his neck." The king ordered his knights to ride after the pilgrim, and bring him back, or help him if need were.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000004|They did so, but it was in vain.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000005|Rinaldo left them all behind him, and kept on his way till he reached Montalban.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000006|Malagigi was suffered to depart, unsuspected, and he went his way, making sad lamentation for the fate of his comrade, who he pretended to think must surely be dashed to pieces.
train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000019_000000|Malagigi did not go far, but having changed his disguise, returned to where the king was, and employed his best art in getting the brothers of Rinaldo out of prison.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000004_000001|In a second I clapped spurs into my tricycle and was off.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000007_000000|"The stag!
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000007_000001|The stag!" I cried.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000008_000000|"Let go of me," I cried, "we shall lose the stag.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000009_000001|In an instant I was free.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000012_000001|And for fear he would make for the hedge and jump over it, not minding me, I jerked out my handkerchief and shook it at him.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000012_000003|He turned sharp to the right, dashed up the hill, cleared a hedge and was gone.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000013_000003|It was trembling all over and fairly tired to death.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000016_000000|"Don't you touch that deer," said I-my voice was so husky I could hardly speak-"don't you see it's surrendered?
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000016_000002|The man's eyes looked as if they would burst out of his head.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000025_000001|Your mother-"
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000026_000000|"Confound my mother!" yelled the man.
train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000031_000004|He had been to Chedcombe, and was coming back.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000002_000000|"And you say they are gone?" cried Mary Louise in surprise, as she came down to breakfast the next morning and found the table laid for one and old Eben waiting to serve her.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000004_000000|"There is no night train," said the girl, seating herself thoughtfully at the table.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000004_000001|"How could they go, Uncle?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000006_000000|"I understand, Uncle Eben."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000007_000000|She reflected upon this seemingly unnecessary secrecy as she ate her breakfast.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000008_000000|"What are you and Aunt Polly going to do, Uncle?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000010_000001|Since the move was inevitable, she would be glad to go to Miss Stearne as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000010_000002|She helped Aunt Polly pack her trunk and suit case, afterwards gathering into a bundle the things she had forgotten or overlooked, all of which personal belongings Uncle Eben wheeled over to the school.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000010_000003|Then she bade the faithful servitors good bye, promising to call upon them at their humble home, and walked slowly over the well-known path to Miss Stearne's establishment, where she presented herself to the principal.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000011_000000|It being Saturday, Miss Stearne was seated at a desk in her own private room, where she received Mary Louise and bade her sit down.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000000|Miss Stearne was a woman fifty years of age, tall and lean, with a deeply lined face and a tendency to nervousness that was increasing with her years.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000001|She was a very clever teacher and a very incompetent business woman, so that her small school, of excellent standing and repute, proved difficult to finance.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000002|In character Miss Stearne was temperamental enough to have been a genius.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000003|She was kindly natured, fond of young girls and cared for her pupils with motherly instincts seldom possessed by those in similar positions.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000005|Not always were her rules and regulations dictated by good judgment.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000006|Therefore her girls usually found as much fault as other boarding school girls are prone to do, and with somewhat more reason.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000007|On the other hand, no one could question the principal's erudition or her skill in imparting her knowledge to others.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000000|"Sit down, Mary Louise," she said to the girl.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000001|"This is an astonishing change in your life, is it not?
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000002|Colonel Weatherby came to me last evening and said he had been suddenly called away on important matters that would brook no delay, and that your mother was to accompany him on the journey.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000003|He begged me to take you in as a regular boarder and of course I consented.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000004|You have been one of my most tractable and conscientious pupils and I have been proud of your progress.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000005|But the school is quite full, as you know; so at first I was uncertain that I could accommodate you here; but Miss Dandler, my assistant, has given up her room to you and I shall put a bed for her in my own sleeping chamber, so that difficulty is now happily arranged.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000006|I suppose your family left Beverly this morning, by the early train?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000014_000000|"They have gone," replied Mary Louise, non committally.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000015_000000|"You will be lonely for a time, of course, but presently you will feel quite at home in the school because you know all of my girls so well. It is not like a strange girl coming into a new school.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000015_000001|And remember, Mary Louise, that you are to come to me for any advice and assistance you need, for I promised your grandfather that I would fill your mother's place as far as I am able to do so."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000016_000000|Mary Louise reflected, with a little shock of pain, that her mother had never been very near to her and that Miss Stearne might well perform such perfunctory duties as the girl had been accustomed to expect.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000016_000001|But no one could ever take the place of Gran'pa Jim.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000017_000000|"Thank you, Miss Stearne," she said.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000017_000001|"I am sure I shall be quite contented here.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000017_000002|Is my room ready?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000018_000000|"Yes; and your trunk has already been placed in it.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000018_000001|Let me know, my dear, if there is anything you need."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000019_000000|Mary Louise went to her room and was promptly pounced upon by Dorothy Knerr and Sue Finley, who roomed just across the hall from her and were delighted to find she was to become a regular boarder.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000019_000001|They asked numerous questions as they helped her to unpack and settle her room, but accepted her conservative answers without comment.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000020_000000|At the noon luncheon Mary Louise was accorded a warm reception by the assembled boarders and this cordial welcome by her school mates did much to restore the girl to her normal condition of cheerfulness.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000020_000001|She even joined a group in a game of tennis after luncheon and it was while she was playing that little Miss Dandler came with, a message that Mary Louise was wanted in Miss Stearne's room at once.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000021_000000|"Take my racquet," she said to Jennie Allen; "I'll be back in a minute."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000022_000000|When she entered Miss Stearne's room she was surprised to find herself confronted by the same man whom she and her grandfather had encountered in front of Cooper's Hotel the previous afternoon-the man whom she secretly held responsible for this abrupt change in her life.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000022_000001|The principal sat crouched over her desk as if overawed by her visitor, who stopped his nervous pacing up and down the room as the girl appeared.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000023_000000|"This is Mary Louise Burrows," said Miss Stearne, in a weak voice.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000026_000000|"I do not know to whom you refer," she answered quietly.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000027_000000|"Aren't you his granddaughter?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000028_000000|"I am the granddaughter of Colonel james Weatherby, sir."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000029_000000|"It's all the same; Hathaway or Weatherby, the scoundrel can't disguise his personality.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000029_000001|Where is he?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000030_000000|She did not reply.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000032_000000|"Miss Stearne," Mary Louise said, turning to the principal, "unless you request your guest to be more respectful I shall leave the room."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000033_000000|"Not yet you won't," said the man in a less boisterous tone.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000033_000001|"Don't annoy me with your airs, for I'm in a hurry.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000033_000002|Where is Hathaway-or Weatherby-or whatever he calls himself?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000034_000000|"I do not know."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000035_000000|"You don't, eh?
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000036_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000037_000000|"I don't believe you.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000037_000001|Where did he go?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000039_000000|He uttered a growl and then threw back his coat, displaying a badge attached to his vest.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000000|"I'm a federal officer," he asserted with egotistic pride, "a member of the Government's Secret Service Department.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000001|I've been searching for james j Hathaway for nine years, and so has every man in the service. Last night I stumbled upon him by accident, and on inquiring found he has been living quietly in this little jumping off place.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000002|I wired the Department for instructions and an hour ago received orders to arrest him, but found my bird had flown.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000004|No nonsense, girl!
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000005|The Federal Government's not to be trifled with.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000006|Tell me where to find your grandfather."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000041_000000|"If you have finished your insolent remarks," she answered with spirit, "I will go away.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000041_000001|You have interrupted my game of tennis."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000042_000000|He gave a bark of anger that made her smile, but as she turned away he sprang forward and seized her arm, swinging her around so that she again faced him.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000043_000000|"Great Caesar, girl!
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000043_000001|Don't you realize what you're up against?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000044_000001|"I seem to be in the power of a brute.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000044_000002|If a law exists that permits you to insult a girl, there must also be a law to punish you.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000044_000003|I shall see a lawyer and try to have you properly punished for this absolute insolence."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000045_000000|He regarded her keenly, still frowning, but when he spoke again he had moderated both his tone and words.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000046_000000|"I do not intend to be insolent, Miss Burrows, but I have been greatly aggravated by your grandfather's unfortunate escape and in this emergency every moment is precious if I am to capture him before he gets out of America, as he has done once or twice before.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000046_000003|It is your duty, as a loyal subject of the United States, to assist an officer of the law by every means in your power, especially when he is engaged in running down a criminal.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000046_000004|Therefore, whether you dislike to or not, you must tell me where to find your grandfather."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000047_000000|"My grandfather is not a criminal, sir."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000048_000000|"The jury will decide that when his case comes to trial.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000048_000002|Where is he?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000049_000000|"I do not know," she persisted.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000050_000000|"He-he left by the morning train, which goes west," stammered Miss Stearne, anxious to placate the officer and fearful of the girl's stubborn resistance.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000051_000001|I was at the station myself-two miles from this forsaken place-to make sure that Hathaway didn't skip while I was waiting for orders.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000051_000002|Therefore, he is either hidden somewhere in Beverly or he has sneaked away to an adjoining town.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000051_000003|The old serpent is slippery as an eel; but I'm going to catch him, this time, as sure as fate, and this girl must give me all the information she can."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000053_000000|He began to pace the room again, casting at her shrewd and uncertain glances.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000054_000000|"He didn't say where he was going?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000058_000000|"What DID he say?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000059_000000|"That he was going away and would arrange with Miss Stearne for me to board at the school."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000000|"Huh!
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000001|I see.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000002|Foxy old guy.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000003|Knew I would question you and wouldn't take chances.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000062_000000|"I thought not." He turned toward the principal.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000062_000001|"How about this girl's board money?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000062_000002|"When did he say he'd send it?"
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000000|"Foxy old boy!
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000001|Seemed to think of everything.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000004|Keep the secret.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000005|If nothing gets out, Hathaway may think the coast is clear and it's safe for him to come back.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000006|In that case I-or someone appointed by the Department-will get a chance to nab him.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000007|That's all.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000066_000000|"It-it's-dreadful!" stammered the teacher, shrinking back with a moan.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000067_000000|"It would be, if it were true," said the girl.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000067_000001|"But Gran'pa Jim is no criminal, we all know.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000067_000002|He's the best man that ever lived, and the whole trouble is that this foolish officer has mistaken him for someone else. I heard him, with my own ears, tell the man he was mistaken."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000068_000000|Miss Stearne reflected.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000069_000000|"Then why did your grandfather run away?" she asked.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000070_000001|Presently she realized that a logical explanation of her grandfather's action was impossible with her present knowledge.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000071_000000|"I cannot answer that question, Miss Stearne," she admitted, candidly, "but Gran'pa Jim must have had some good reason."
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000072_000000|There was unbelief in the woman's eyes-unbelief and a horror of the whole disgraceful affair that somehow included Mary Louise in its scope.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000072_000001|The girl read this look and it confused her.
train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000072_000002|She mumbled an excuse and fled to her room to indulge in a good cry.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000003_000005|For instance, I once dreamt about a kind of swimming bath where the bathers suddenly separated in all directions; at one place on the edge a person stood bending towards one of the bathers as if to drag him out.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000003_000010|First of all came the little episode from the time of my courting, of which I have already spoken; the pressure of a hand under the table gave rise in the dream to the "under the table," which I had subsequently to find a place for in my recollection.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000004_000001|The dream work proceeds like Francis Galton with his family photographs.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000004_000002|The different elements are put one on top of the other; what is common to the composite picture stands out clearly, the opposing details cancel each other.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000005_000000|When there is nothing in common between the dream thoughts, the dream work takes the trouble to create a something, in order to make a common presentation feasible in the dream.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000007_000007|I will not pursue the further result of the thought.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000007_000011|The dream work is peculiarly adept at representing two contradictory conceptions by means of the same mixed image.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000010_000001|There is evidence of a third factor, which deserves careful consideration.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000017_000005|Small wonder, says the dream thought, if this person is grateful to me for this-this love is not cost free.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000020_000001|The first dream thoughts which are unravelled by analysis frequently strike one by their unusual wording.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000026_000000|The causal connection between two ideas is either left without presentation, or replaced by two different long portions of dreams one after the other.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000030_000002|In the latter case they appear obscure, intricate, incoherent.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000030_000003|When the dream appears openly absurd, when it contains an obvious paradox in its content, it is so of purpose.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000030_000005|As this explanation is in entire disagreement with the view that the dream owes its origin to dissociated, uncritical cerebral activity, I will emphasize my view by an example:
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000031_000002|He complains very bitterly of this at a dinner party, but his respect for Goethe has not diminished through this personal experience.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000031_000004|Goethe died in eighteen thirty two.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000034_000005|The derogatory reception of my friend's work had made a deep impression upon me.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000034_000006|In my judgment, it contained a fundamental biological discovery which only now, several years later, commences to find favor among the professors.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000035_000003|It seemed to me that this view had something in it, because the unfortunate youth afterwards mutilated his genital organs.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000036_000000|The first person in the dream thoughts behind the ego was my friend who had been so scandalously treated.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000038_000005|A trait, after the manner of the find in the Lido, forces itself upon me here.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000039_000003|Its mode of action thus consists in so cooerdinating the parts of the dream that these coalesce to a coherent whole, to a dream composition.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000040_000000|The motives for this part of the dream work are easily gauged.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000043_000001|If we keep closely to the definition that dream work denotes the transference of dream thoughts to dream content, we are compelled to say that the dream work is not creative; it develops no fancies of its own, it judges nothing, decides nothing.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000044_000000|It is, perhaps, not superfluous to support these assertions by examples:
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000050_000000|three.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000051_000001|Her husband tells her, Elise L---- and her fiance had intended coming, but could only get some cheap seats, three for one florin fifty kreuzers, and these they would not take.
train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000052_000001|Whence came the one florin fifty kreuzers?
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000005_000000|"It's beastly expensive at the Astor," said Mike.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000006_000000|"The place has that drawback also.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000007_000000|"On Fourth Avenue," said Billy Windsor, "you can get quite good flats very cheap.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000007_000001|Furnished, too.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000007_000004|I don't know if you mind that?"
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000008_000003|Are you with me, Comrade Jackson?"
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000009_000000|"All right," said Mike.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000012_000001|Don't say I didn't warn you.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000012_000002|If you've got the nerve, read on."
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000013_000003|His mouth was wide, his jaw prominent.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000015_000000|"mr Windsor?" he said to the company at large.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000017_000002|His face lit up.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000007|More, he was the founder and originator of it.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000021|Bat had accepted the offer.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000023|Shamrock Hall became a place of joy and order; and-more important still-the nucleus of the Groome Street Gang had been formed.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000024|The work progressed.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000026|Small thieves, pickpockets and the like, flocked to mr Jarvis as their tribal leader and protector and he protected them.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000025_000000|"Pipe de collar," said mr Jarvis, touching the cat's neck.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000025_000001|"Mine, mister."
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000028_000000|"There's a basket here, if you want it," said Billy.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000029_000000|"Nope.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000029_000001|Here, kit."
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000030_000000|mr Jarvis stooped, and, still whistling softly, lifted the cat.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000031_000001|"Obliged," he added.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000033_000000|"Shake!" he said.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000034_000000|Billy did so.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000036_000001|"Obliged.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000037_000000|p smith nodded approvingly.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000000|"And rightly," he said.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000001|"Rightly, Comrade Jarvis.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000005|No diner out can afford to be without such a cat.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000006|Such a cat spells death to boredom."
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000001|"Any time you're in bad.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000003|Groome Street.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000004|Bat Jarvis.
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000005|Good night. Obliged."
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000042_000001|"Not garrulous, perhaps, but what of that?
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000044_000002|I guess there's no harm done by getting him grateful."
train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000045_000002|Comrade Jackson, here is one for you.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000003_000000|THE HONEYED WORD
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000005_000003|Five brows were corrugated with wrathful lines.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000007_000001|I am observed!" he murmured.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000008_000000|The words broke the spell.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000009_000000|"Are you the acting editor of this paper?"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000021_000000|There was a pause.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000022_000000|"Where is mr Windsor?"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000024_000000|"When will he return?"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000028_000000|"So did I," chimed in the rest.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000034_000000|"If it is in my power to do so, it shall be done, Comrade-I have not the pleasure of your name."
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000038_000001|We are both at a loss to make head or tail of it."
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000041_000000|"It is an outrage.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000041_000004|Who is w Windsor?
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000041_000005|Where is mr Wilberfloss?"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000042_000001|It seemed that that was what they all wanted to know: Who was w Windsor?
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000045_000000|The Reverend Edwin's frosty face thawed into a bleak smile.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000048_000000|"Where's this fellow Windsor?
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000052_000002|I write 'Moments of Mirth.'"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000060_000001|You don't know.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000062_000000|"Where is mr White?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000063_000000|The point was well received.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000070_000008|But-"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000075_000000|"I fear that there is nothing to be done, except wait.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000076_000000|"Ten weeks!"
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000080_000003|He cannot brook interference.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000082_000000|"I guess I can wait," he said.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000083_000002|That is the watch word.
train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000083_000005|Our tissues require restoring.
train-clean-360/1417/1539/1417_1539_000066_000000|"You're up against a big proposition."
train-clean-360/1417/1539/1417_1539_000068_000001|The man behind is a big bug."
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000002_000000|CHAPTER five.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000003_000000|George awoke next morning with a misty sense that somehow the world had changed.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000003_000002|Then he sat up in bed with a jerk.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000003_000003|He had remembered that he was in love.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000000|There was no doubt about it.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000002|He felt young and active.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000004|The sun was shining.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000005|Even the sound of someone in the street below whistling one of his old compositions, of which he had heartily sickened twelve months before, was pleasant to his ears, and this in spite of the fact that the unseen whistler only touched the key in odd spots and had a poor memory for tunes.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000006|George sprang lightly out of bed, and turned on the cold tap in the bath room.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000005_000000|It had come at last.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000000|George had never been in love before.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000001|Not really in love.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000004|During the last five years women had found him more or less cold.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000008|Some had kicked about their musical numbers, some about their love scenes; some had grumbled about their exit lines, others about the lines of their second act frocks.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000009|They had kicked in a myriad differing ways-wrathfully, sweetly, noisily, softly, smilingly, tearfully, pathetically and patronizingly; but they had all kicked; with the result that woman had now become to George not so much a flaming inspiration or a tender goddess as something to be dodged-tactfully, if possible; but, if not possible, by open flight.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000007_000000|The psychological effect of such a state of things is not difficult to realize.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000007_000001|Take a man of naturally quixotic temperament, a man of chivalrous instincts and a feeling for romance, and cut him off for five years from the exercise of those qualities, and you get an accumulated store of foolishness only comparable to an escape of gas in a sealed room or a cellarful of dynamite.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000007_000002|A flicker of a match, and there is an explosion.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000008_000000|This girl's tempestuous irruption into his life had supplied flame for George.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000008_000001|Her bright eyes, looking into his, had touched off the spiritual trinitrotoluol which he had been storing up for so long. Up in the air in a million pieces had gone the prudence and self restraint of a lifetime.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000009_000001|In the first place, he did not know the girl's name.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000009_000005|This thing wanted thinking over.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000001|His faith in his luck sustained him.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000003|He had gained much; it now remained for him to push his success to the happy conclusion.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000004|The driver of Luck must be replaced by the spoon-or, possibly, the niblick-of Ingenuity.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000005|To fail now, to allow this girl to pass out of his life merely because he did not know who she was or where she was, would stamp him a feeble adventurer.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000006|A fellow could not expect Luck to do everything for him.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000007|He must supplement its assistance with his own efforts.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000001|Well, nothing much, if it came to that, except the knowledge that she lived some two hours by train out of London, and that her journey started from Waterloo Station.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000002|What would Sherlock Holmes have done?
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000003|Concentrated thought supplied no answer to the question; and it was at this point that the cheery optimism with which he had begun the day left George and gave place to a grey gloom.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000004|A dreadful phrase, haunting in its pathos, crept into his mind.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000005|"Ships that pass in the night!"
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000006|It might easily turn out that way.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000007|Indeed, thinking over the affair in all its aspects as he dried himself after his tub, George could not see how it could possibly turn out any other way.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000012_000000|He dressed moodily, and left the room to go down to breakfast. Breakfast would at least alleviate this sinking feeling which was unmanning him.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000012_000001|And he could think more briskly after a cup or two of coffee.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000013_000000|He opened the door.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000013_000001|On a mat outside lay a letter.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000014_000001|It was also in pencil, and strange to him.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000014_000002|He opened the envelope.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000015_000000|"Dear mr Bevan" (it began).
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000016_000000|With a sudden leap of the heart he looked at the signature.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000018_000000|"DEAR mr
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000018_000001|BEVAN,
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000019_000001|I had to.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000019_000002|I saw Percy driving up in a cab, and knew that he must have followed us. He did not see me, so I got away all right.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000020_000000|"Thank you ever so much again for all your wonderful kindness.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000000|What a girl!
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000002|The resource of her, to think of pawning that brooch!
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000003|The sweetness of her to bother to send him a note!
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000004|More than ever before was he convinced that he had met his ideal, and more than ever before was he determined that a triviality like being unaware of her name and address should not keep him from her. It was not as if he had no clue to go upon.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000006|It narrowed the thing down absurdly.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000008|Especially a man with luck like his.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000000|Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000001|From such masterful spirits she turns away.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000002|But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000003|On George, hopefully watching for something to turn up, she smiled almost immediately.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000025_000003|This particular happening the writer had apparently considered worthy of being dignified by rhyme.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000026_000000|"THE PEER AND THE POLICEMAN."
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000000|"Outside the 'Carlton,' 'tis averred, these stirring happenings occurred.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000002|The day was fair, the sky was blue, and everything was peaceful too, when suddenly a well dressed gent engaged in heated argument and roundly to abuse began another well dressed gentleman.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000003|His suede gloved fist he raised on high to dot the other in the eye.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000005|'What means this conduct? Prithee stop!' exclaimed that admirable slop.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000006|With which he placed a warning hand upon the brawler's collarband.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000008|No subject here for flippant jest.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000010|Let us be brief.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000012|He gave the constable a punch just where the latter kept his lunch.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000013|The constable said 'Well!
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000014|Well!
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000016|But British Justice is severe alike on pauper and on peer; with even hand she holds the scale; a thumping fine, in lieu of gaol, induced Lord b to feel remorse and learn he mustn't punch the Force."
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000000|George's mutton chop congealed on the plate, untouched.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000001|The French fried potatoes cooled off, unnoticed.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000002|This was no time for food. Rightly indeed had he relied upon his luck.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000003|It had stood by him nobly.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000005|He paid his bill and left the restaurant.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000029_000001|Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and what the book with its customary curtness called "one d."--Patricia Maud.
train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000030_000001|In the pocket closest to his throbbing heart was a single ticket to Belpher.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000000_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000000|The gift of hiding private emotion and keeping up appearances before strangers is not, as many suppose, entirely a product of our modern civilization.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000001|Centuries before we were born or thought of there was a widely press agented boy in Sparta who even went so far as to let a fox gnaw his tender young stomach without permitting the discomfort inseparable from such a proceeding to interfere with either his facial expression or his flow of small talk.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000003|But, while this feat may be said to have established a record never subsequently lowered, there is no doubt that almost every day in modern times men and women are performing similar and scarcely less impressive miracles of self restraint.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000004|Of all the qualities which belong exclusively to Man and are not shared by the lower animals, this surely is the one which marks him off most sharply from the beasts of the field.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000005|Animals care nothing about keeping up appearances.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000006|Observe Bertram the Bull when things are not going just as he could wish.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000007|He stamps.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000008|He snorts.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000009|He paws the ground.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000010|He throws back his head and bellows.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000011|He is upset, and he doesn't care who knows it.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000012|Instances could be readily multiplied.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000013|Deposit a charge of shot in some outlying section of Thomas the Tiger, and note the effect.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000002_000000|In the days which followed Lord Marshmoreton's visit to George at the cottage, not a few of the occupants of Belpher Castle had their mettle sternly tested in this respect; and it is a pleasure to be able to record that not one of them failed to come through the ordeal with success.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000000|Lord Belpher, for example, though he limped rather painfully, showed nothing of the baffled fury which was reducing his weight at the rate of ounces a day.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000001|His uncle Francis, the Bishop, when he tackled him in the garden on the subject of Intemperance-for Uncle Francis, like thousands of others, had taken it for granted, on reading the report of the encounter with the policeman and Percy's subsequent arrest, that the affair had been the result of a drunken outburst-had no inkling of the volcanic emotions that seethed in his nephew's bosom.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000002|He came away from the interview, indeed, feeling that the boy had listened attentively and with a becoming regret, and that there was hope for him after all, provided that he fought the impulse.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000003|He little knew that, but for the conventions (which frown on the practice of murdering bishops), Percy would gladly have strangled him with his bare hands and jumped upon the remains.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000000|Lord Belpher's case, inasmuch as he took himself extremely seriously and was not one of those who can extract humour even from their own misfortunes, was perhaps the hardest which comes under our notice; but his sister Maud was also experiencing mental disquietude of no mean order.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000001|Everything had gone wrong with Maud. Barely a mile separated her from George, that essential link in her chain of communication with Geoffrey Raymond; but so thickly did it bristle with obstacles and dangers that it might have been a mile of No Man's Land.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000002|Twice, since the occasion when the discovery of Lord Marshmoreton at the cottage had caused her to abandon her purpose of going in and explaining everything to George, had she attempted to make the journey; and each time some trifling, maddening accident had brought about failure.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000003|Once, just as she was starting, her aunt Augusta had insisted on joining her for what she described as "a nice long walk"; and the second time, when she was within a bare hundred yards of her objective, some sort of a cousin popped out from nowhere and forced his loathsome company on her.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000000|Foiled in this fashion, she had fallen back in desperation on her second line of attack.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000001|She had written a note to George, explaining the whole situation in good, clear phrases and begging him as a man of proved chivalry to help her.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000002|It had taken up much of one afternoon, this note, for it was not easy to write; and it had resulted in nothing.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000003|She had given it to Albert to deliver and Albert had returned empty handed.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000007_000000|"No answer!
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000007_000001|But there must be an answer!"
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000008_000002|He had not even bothered to read it.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000008_000003|A deep, dangerous, dastardly stripling this, who fought to win and only to win.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000008_000004|The ticket marked "R.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000000|Maud could not understand it.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000001|That is to say, she resolutely kept herself from accepting the only explanation of the episode that seemed possible.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000002|In black and white she had asked George to go to London and see Geoffrey and arrange for the passage-through himself as a sort of clearing house-of letters between Geoffrey and herself.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000003|She had felt from the first that such a request should be made by her in person and not through the medium of writing, but surely it was incredible that a man like George, who had been through so much for her and whose only reason for being in the neighbourhood was to help her, could have coldly refused without even a word.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000004|And yet what else was she to think?
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000005|Now, more than ever, she felt alone in a hostile world.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000010_000000|Yet, to her guests she was bright and entertaining.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000000|Albert, I am happy to say, was thoroughly miserable.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000001|The little brute was suffering torments.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000002|He was showering anonymous Advice to the Lovelorn on Reggie Byng-excellent stuff, culled from the pages of weekly papers, of which there was a pile in the housekeeper's room, the property of a sentimental lady's maid-and nothing seemed to come of it.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000003|Every day, sometimes twice and thrice a day, he would leave on Reggie's dressing table significant notes similar in tone to the one which he had placed there on the night of the ball; but, for all the effect they appeared to exercise on their recipient, they might have been blank pages.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000012_000000|The choicest quotations from the works of such established writers as "Aunt Charlotte" of Forget Me Not and "Doctor Cupid", the heart expert of Home Chat, expended themselves fruitlessly on Reggie.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000013_000001|So far from rendering himself indispensable to Maud by constant little attentions, Reggie, to the disgust of his backer and supporter, seemed to spend most of his time with Alice Faraday.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000013_000002|On three separate occasions had Albert been revolted by the sight of his protege in close association with the Faraday girl-once in a boat on the lake and twice in his grey car.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000013_000003|It was enough to break a boy's heart; and it completely spoiled Albert's appetite-a phenomenon attributed, I am glad to say, in the Servants' Hall to reaction from recent excesses.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000014_000002|He works in his rose garden with a new vim, whistling or even singing to himself stray gay snatches of melodies popular in the 'eighties.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000015_000000|Hear him now as he toils.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000015_000001|He has a long garden implement in his hand, and he is sending up the death rate in slug circles with a devastating rapidity.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000017_000000|And the boom is a death knell.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000017_000001|As it rings softly out on the pleasant spring air, another stout slug has made the Great Change.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000018_000000|It is peculiar, this gaiety.
train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000018_000001|It gives one to think.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000001_000000|Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000002_000001|Considering what they had been through, they never would come again.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000002_000002|His heart sank until he had palpitation in his wading boots.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000003_000000|Stretching the length of the limb, he thought deeply, though he was not thinking of Black Jack or Wessner.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000003_000001|Would the Bird Woman and the Angel come again?
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000003_000002|No other woman whom he ever had known would.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000000|What were the people in the big world like?
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000001|His knowledge was so very limited.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000002|There had been people at the Home, who exchanged a stilted, perfunctory kindness for their salaries.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000004|They made him feel they cared that he was there, and that they would have been glad to see him elsewhere.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000000|Now here was another class, that had all they needed of the world's best and were engaged in doing work that counted.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000001|They had things worth while to be proud of; and they had met him as a son and brother.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000002|With them he could, for the only time in his life, forget the lost hand that every day tortured him with a new pang.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000003|What kind of people were they and where did they belong among the classes he knew?
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000004|He failed to decide, because he never had known others similar to them; but how he loved them!
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000006_000000|In the world where he was going soon, were the majority like them, or were they of the hypocrite and bun throwing classes?
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000000|He had forgotten the excitement of the morning and the passing of time when distant voices aroused him, and he gently lifted his head.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000001|Nearer and nearer they came, and as the heavy wagons rumbled down the east trail he could hear them plainly.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000002|The gang were shouting themselves hoarse for the Limberlost guard.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000003|Freckles did not feel that he deserved it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000004|He would have given much to be able to go to the men and explain, but to McLean only could he tell his story.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000000|At the sight of Freckles the men threw up their hats and cheered.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000001|McLean shook hands with him warmly, but big Duncan gathered him into his arms and hugged him as a bear and choked over a few words of praise.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000002|The gang drove in and finished felling the tree.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000003|McLean was angry beyond measure at this attempt on his property, for in their haste to fell the tree the thieves had cut too high and wasted a foot and a half of valuable timber.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000009_000000|When the last wagon rolled away, McLean sat on the stump and Freckles told the story he was aching to tell.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000009_000001|The Boss scarcely could believe his senses.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000009_000002|Also, he was much disappointed.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000010_000000|"I have been almost praying all the way over, Freckles," he said, "that you would have some evidence by which we could arrest those fellows and get them out of our way, but this will never do.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000010_000001|We can't mix up those women in it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000011_000000|"No, indeed; nor the Angel, either, sir," said Freckles.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000012_000000|"The Angel?" queried the astonished McLean.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000014_000000|"I know her father well," said McLean at last, "and I have often seen her.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000015_000001|The man isn't made who wouldn't lay down the life of him for her.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000016_000000|"Did you say she handled one of the revolvers?" asked McLean.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000000|"She scared all the breath out of me body," admitted Freckles.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000001|"Seems that her father has taught her to shoot.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000002|The Bird Woman told her distinctly to lie low and blaze away high, just to help scare them.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000004|I never saw much shooting, but if that wasn't the nearest to miss I ever want to see!
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000005|Scared the life near out of me body with the fear that she'd drop one of them.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000018_000000|"Now, will they come back?" asked McLean.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000000|"Of course!" said Freckles.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000001|"They're not going to be taking that.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000002|You could stake your life on it, they'll be coming back.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000003|At least, Black Jack will.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000004|Wessner may not have the pluck, unless he is half drunk.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000005|Then he'd be a terror.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000006|And the next time-" Freckles hesitated.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000020_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000022_000001|As soon as I feel that we have the rarest of the stuff out below, we will come.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000022_000003|It won't do to leave you here longer alone.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000022_000004|Jack has been shooting twenty years to your one, and it stands to reason that you are no match for him.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000000|"No one, sir," said Freckles emphatically.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000002|I'll just be getting wind of them, and then make tracks for you.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000003|I'll need to come like lightning, and Duncan has no extra horse, so I'm thinking you'd best get me one-or perhaps a wheel would be better.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000004|I used to do extra work for the Home doctor, and he would let me take his bicycle to ride around the place.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000006|A wheel would cost less and be faster than a horse, and would take less care.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000007|I believe, if you are going to town soon, you had best pick up any kind of an old one at some second-hand store, for if I'm ever called to use it in a hurry there won't be the handlebars left after crossing the corduroy."
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000024_000000|"Yes," said McLean; "and if you didn't have a first-class wheel, you never could cross the corduroy on it at all."
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000000|As they walked to the cabin, McLean insisted on another guard, but Freckles was stubbornly set on fighting his battle alone.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000002|If the Bird Woman was going to give up the Little Chicken series, he would yield to the second guard, solely for the sake of her work and the presence of the Angel in the Limberlost.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000003|He did not propose to have a second man unless it were absolutely necessary, for he had been alone so long that he loved the solitude, his chickens, and flowers.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000004|The thought of having a stranger to all his ways come and meddle with his arrangements, frighten his pets, pull his flowers, and interrupt him when he wanted to study, so annoyed him that he was blinded to his real need for help.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000026_000000|With McLean it was a case of letting his sober, better judgment be overridden by the boy he was growing so to love that he could not endure to oppose him, and to have Freckles keep his trust and win alone meant more than any money the Boss might lose.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000027_000000|The following morning McLean brought the wheel, and Freckles took it to the trail to test it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000001|In the excitement of yesterday all of them had forgotten it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000002|He went and picked it up, oh! so carefully, gazing at it with hungry eyes, but touching it only to carry it to his case, where he hung it on the shining handlebar of the new wheel and locked it among his treasures.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000003|Then he went to the trail, with a new expression on his face and a strange throbbing in his heart.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000004|He was not in the least afraid of anything that morning.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000029_000000|What Black Jack's next move would be he could not imagine, but that there would be a move of some kind was certain.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000029_000001|The big bully was not a man to give up his purpose, or to have the hat swept from his head with a bullet and bear it meekly.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000029_000002|Moreover, Wessner would cling to his revenge with a Dutchman's singleness of mind.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000001|She had stepped in one mucky spot and left a sharp impression.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000002|The afternoon sun had baked it hard, and the horses' hoofs had not obliterated any part of it, as they had in so many places.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000003|Freckles stood fascinated, gazing at it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000005|He would not have ventured a caress on her hat any more than on her person, but this was different. Surely a footprint on a trail might belong to anyone who found and wanted it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000006|He stooped under the wires and entered the swamp.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000000|When he reached his room, he tenderly laid the hat upon his bookshelf, and to wear off his awkwardness, mounted his wheel and went spinning on trail again.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000001|It was like flying, for the path was worn smooth with his feet and baked hard with the sun almost all the way.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000002|When he came to the bark, he veered far to one side and smiled at it in passing.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000003|Suddenly he was off the wheel, kneeling beside it.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000004|He removed his hat, carefully lifted the bark, and gazed lovingly at the imprint.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000000|"I wonder what she was going to say of me voice," he whispered.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000001|"She never got it said, but from the face of her, I believe she was liking it fairly well.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000003|That's what they all thought at the Home.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000004|Well, if it is, I'll just shut me eyes, think of me little room, the face of her watching, and the heart of her beating, and I'll raise them.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000005|Damn them, if singing will do it, I'll raise them from the benches!"
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000033_000000|With this dire threat, Freckles knelt, as at a wayside spring, and deliberately laid his lips on the footprint.
train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000033_000001|Then he arose, appearing as if he had been drinking at the fountain of gladness.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000004_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000005_000004|They seldom come nearer to it than planting time, harvest time, cherry time, spring time, or fall time.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000005_000008|I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000006_000001|She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000007_000001|He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000007_000002|The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000001|She was hired by a mr Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from my home.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000005|She was with me in the night.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000010|I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000011|She was gone long before I knew any thing about it.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000000|I have had two masters.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000003|He was generally called Captain Anthony-a title which, I presume, he acquired by sailing a craft on the Chesapeake Bay. He was not considered a rich slaveholder.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000010|It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000012|He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000013|I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000017|I was quite a child, but I well remember it.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000020|It struck me with awful force.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000022|It was a most terrible spectacle.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000013_000000|This occurrence took place very soon after I went to live with my old master, and under the following circumstances.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000013_000001|Aunt Hester went out one night,--where or for what I do not know,--and happened to be absent when my master desired her presence.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000013_000004|Why master was so careful of her, may be safely left to conjecture.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000005|She now stood fair for his infernal purpose.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000006|Her arms were stretched up at their full length, so that she stood upon the ends of her toes.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000008|I was so terrified and horror stricken at the sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not venture out till long after the bloody transaction was over.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000009|I expected it would be my turn next.
train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000010|It was all new to me. I had never seen any thing like it before.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000001_000000|My master's family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000001_000007|The principal products raised upon it were tobacco, corn, and wheat.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000001_000011|Their names were peter, Isaac, Rich, and Jake.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000005_000009|His career was short.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000006_000001|He was a very different man.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000007_000001|All the mechanical operations for all the farms were performed here.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000007_000009|He was called the smartest and most trusty fellow, who had this honor conferred upon him the most frequently.
train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000008_000006|Especially would they do this, when leaving home.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000001|He died while on a visit to see his daughter at Hillsborough.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000002|Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000004|I was immediately sent for, to be valued with the other property.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000007|Prior to this, I had become, if not insensible to my lot, at least partly so.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000009|I took passage with Captain Rowe, in the schooner Wild Cat, and, after a sail of about twenty four hours, I found myself near the place of my birth.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000006_000002|Not a slave was left free. All remained slaves, from the youngest to the oldest.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000008_000000|The hearth is desolate.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000009_000008|But it was not to them that I was attached.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000011_000000|I sailed from Baltimore for saint Michael's in the sloop Amanda, Captain Edward Dodson.
train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000011_000001|On my passage, I paid particular attention to the direction which the steamboats took to go to Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000004_000000|"If it ain't asking what I ought not to ask, mr Angelo, how did you come to be so friendless and in such trouble when you were little?
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000004_000001|Do you mind telling?
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000004_000002|But don't, if you do."
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000005_000003|His estates were confiscated, his personal property seized, and there we were, in Germany, strangers, friendless, and in fact paupers.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000006_000002|But what they wouldn't consent to do, we had to do without the formality of consent.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000001|When we escaped from that slavery at twelve years of age, we were in some respects men.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000002|Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000003|We traveled everywhere-years and years-picking up smatterings of strange tongues, familiarizing ourselves with strange sights and strange customs, accumulating an education of a wide and varied and curious sort.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000004|It was a pleasant life.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000005|We went to Venice-to London, Paris, Russia, India, China, Japan-"
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000010_000002|Rowena was in the clouds, she walked on air; this was to be the greatest day, the most romantic episode in the colorless history of that dull country town.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000012_000001|The twins took a position near the door, the widow stood at Luigi's side, Rowena stood beside Angelo, and the march past and the introductions began.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000013_000000|"Good mornin', Sister Cooper"--handshake.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000014_000000|"Good morning, Brother Higgins-Count Luigi Capello, mr Higgins" --handshake, followed by a devouring stare and "I'm glad to see ye," on the part of Higgins, and a courteous inclination of the head and a pleasant "Most happy!" on the part of Count Luigi.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000015_000000|"Good mornin', Roweny"--handshake.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000017_000000|None of these visitors was at ease, but, being honest people, they didn't pretend to be.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000017_000002|A few tried to rise to the emergency, and got out an awkward "My lord," or "Your lordship," or something of that sort, but the great majority were overwhelmed by the unaccustomed word and its dim and awful associations with gilded courts and stately ceremony and anointed kingship, so they only fumbled through the handshake and passed on, speechless.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000018_000000|General conversation followed, and the twins drifted about from group to group, talking easily and fluently and winning approval, compelling admiration and achieving favor from all.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000019_000002|Napoleon and all his kind stood accounted for-and justified.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000020_000001|Again she was besieged by eager questioners, and again she swam in sunset seas of glory.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000020_000002|When the forenoon was nearly gone, she recognized with a pang that this most splendid episode of her life was almost over, that nothing could prolong it, that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000021_000000|Here a prodigious slam banging broke out below, and everybody rushed down to see.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000022_000000|The young strangers were kept long at the piano.
train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000022_000001|The villagers were astonished and enchanted with the magnificence of their performance, and could not bear to have them stop.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000000_000000|CHAPTER sixteen -- Sold Down the River
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000003_000003|It made him wince, secretly-for she was a "nigger." That he was one himself was far from reconciling him to that despised race.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000000|Roxana poured out endearments upon him, to which he responded uncomfortably, but as well as he could.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000001|And she tried to comfort him, but that was not possible.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000002|These intimacies quickly became horrible to him, and within the hour he began to try to get up courage enough to tell her so, and require that they be discontinued or very considerably modified.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000003|But he was afraid of her; and besides, there came a lull now, for she had begun to think.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000004|She was trying to invent a saving plan.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000005|Finally she started up, and said she had found a way out.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000006_000000|Tom was dazed.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000008_000011|Dat's de plan."
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000009_000000|Tom's hopes began to rise, and his spirits along with them.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000009_000001|He said:
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000010_000000|"It's lovely of you, Mammy-it's just-"
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000013_000001|White folks ain't partic'lar.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000014_000001|He did not want to commit this treachery, but luck threw the man in his way, and this saved him the necessity of going up country to hunt up a purchaser, with the added risk of having to answer a lot of questions, whereas this planter was so pleased with Roxy that he asked next to none at all.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000015_000000|So Tom argued with himself that it was an immense advantaged for Roxy to have a master who was pleased with her, as this planter manifestly was.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000018_000001|When she went to her foul steerage bunk at last, between the clashing engines, it was not to sleep, but only to wait for the morning, and, waiting, grieve.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000019_000000|It had been imagined that she "would not know," and would think she was traveling upstream.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000019_000002|Why, she had been steamboating for years.
train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000019_000006|For one moment her petrified gaze fixed itself there.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000001_000000|AUTHOR'S NOTE TO "THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS"
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000002_000006|No-that is a thought which comes later; in the beginning he is only proposing to tell a little tale, a very little tale, a six page tale.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000002|Much the same thing happened with PUDD'NHEAD WILSON.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000003|I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it-a most embarrassing circumstance.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000006|It took me months to make that discovery.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000007|I carried the manuscript back and forth across the Atlantic two or three times, and read it and studied over it on shipboard; and at last I saw where the difficulty lay.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000008|I had no further trouble.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000009|I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other-a kind of literary Caesarean operation.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000005_000000|Originally the story was called THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000005_000001|I meant to make it very short.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000005_000005|Among them came a stranger named Pudd'nhead Wilson, and a woman named Roxana; and presently the doings of these two pushed up into prominence a young fellow named Tom Driscoll, whose proper place was away in the obscure background.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000006_000001|I hunted about and found them-found them stranded, idle, forgotten, and permanently useless.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000000|I didn't know what to do with her.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000004|I thought and thought and studied and studied; but I arrived at nothing.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000005|I finally saw plainly that there was really no way but one-I must simply give her the grand bounce.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000006|It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000008|So at the top of Chapter seventeen I put a "Calendar" remark concerning July the Fourth, and began the chapter with this statistic:
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000009_000000|It seemed abrupt, but I thought maybe the reader wouldn't notice it, because I changed the subject right away to something else.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000010_000000|Still the story was unsatisfactory.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000010_000002|There was a radical defect somewhere, and I must search it out and cure it.
train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000011_000004|Also I took the twins apart and made two separate men of them.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000002_000000|It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of the more instructed whites, guarded by the presence of armed men.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000002_000001|Well informed of the approach of every danger, while it is yet at a distance, the Indian generally rests secure under his knowledge of the signs of the forest, and the long and difficult paths that separate him from those he has most reason to dread.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000003_000000|When Duncan and David, therefore, found themselves in the center of the children, who played the antics already mentioned, it was without the least previous intimation of their approach.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000003_000001|But so soon as they were observed the whole of the juvenile pack raised, by common consent, a shrill and warning whoop; and then sank, as it were, by magic, from before the sight of their visitors.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000003_000002|The naked, tawny bodies of the crouching urchins blended so nicely at that hour, with the withered herbage, that at first it seemed as if the earth had, in truth, swallowed up their forms; though when surprise permitted Duncan to bend his look more curiously about the spot, he found it everywhere met by dark, quick, and rolling eyeballs.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000004_000000|Gathering no encouragement from this startling presage of the nature of the scrutiny he was likely to undergo from the more mature judgments of the men, there was an instant when the young soldier would have retreated.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000004_000001|It was, however, too late to appear to hesitate.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000004_000002|The cry of the children had drawn a dozen warriors to the door of the nearest lodge, where they stood clustered in a dark and savage group, gravely awaiting the nearer approach of those who had unexpectedly come among them.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000005_000000|David, in some measure familiarized to the scene, led the way with a steadiness that no slight obstacle was likely to disconcert, into this very building.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000005_000001|It was the principal edifice of the village, though roughly constructed of the bark and branches of trees; being the lodge in which the tribe held its councils and public meetings during their temporary residence on the borders of the English province.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000005_000003|His blood curdled when he found himself in absolute contact with such fierce and implacable enemies; but he so far mastered his feelings as to pursue his way into the center of the lodge, with an exterior that did not betray the weakness.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000006_000000|So soon as their visitor had passed, the observant warriors fell back from the entrance, and arranging themselves about him, they seemed patiently to await the moment when it might comport with the dignity of the stranger to speak.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000006_000001|By far the greater number stood leaning, in lazy, lounging attitudes, against the upright posts that supported the crazy building, while three or four of the oldest and most distinguished of the chiefs placed themselves on the earth a little more in advance.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000007_000001|But his ingenuity availed him little, against the cold artifices of the people he had encountered. The chiefs in front scarce cast a glance at his person, keeping their eyes on the ground, with an air that might have been intended for respect, but which it was quite easy to construe into distrust.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000007_000003|Duncan soon detected their searching, but stolen, looks which, in truth, scanned his person and attire inch by inch; leaving no emotion of the countenance, no gesture, no line of the paint, nor even the fashion of a garment, unheeded, and without comment.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000008_000000|At length one whose hair was beginning to be sprinkled with gray, but whose sinewy limbs and firm tread announced that he was still equal to the duties of manhood, advanced out of the gloom of a corner, whither he had probably posted himself to make his observations unseen, and spoke.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000008_000001|He used the language of the Wyandots, or Hurons; his words were, consequently, unintelligible to Heyward, though they seemed, by the gestures that accompanied them, to be uttered more in courtesy than anger.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000008_000002|The latter shook his head, and made a gesture indicative of his inability to reply.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000010_000000|Though more than one had turned, as if to catch the meaning of his words, they remained unanswered.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000011_000000|"I should be grieved to think," continued Duncan, speaking slowly, and using the simplest French of which he was the master, "to believe that none of this wise and brave nation understand the language that the 'Grand Monarque' uses when he talks to his children.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000012_000000|A long and grave pause succeeded, during which no movement of a limb, nor any expression of an eye, betrayed the expression produced by his remark.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000012_000001|Duncan, who knew that silence was a virtue among his hosts, gladly had recourse to the custom, in order to arrange his ideas.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000013_000000|"When our Great Father speaks to his people, is it with the tongue of a Huron?"
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000014_000000|"He knows no difference in his children, whether the color of the skin be red, or black, or white," returned Duncan, evasively; "though chiefly is he satisfied with the brave Hurons."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000015_000000|"In what manner will he speak," demanded the wary chief, "when the runners count to him the scalps which five nights ago grew on the heads of the Yengeese?"
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000000|"Our Canada father does not think it.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000001|Instead of looking forward to reward his Indians, his eyes are turned backward.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000002|He sees the dead Yengeese, but no Huron.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000003|What can this mean?"
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000018_000000|"A great chief, like him, has more thoughts than tongues.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000018_000001|He looks to see that no enemies are on his trail."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000020_000000|"It cannot be.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000020_000001|See; he has bid me, who am a man that knows the art of healing, to go to his children, the red Hurons of the great lakes, and ask if any are sick!"
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000021_000001|Every eye was simultaneously bent on his person, as if to inquire into the truth or falsehood of the declaration, with an intelligence and keenness that caused the subject of their scrutiny to tremble for the result.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000023_000000|"When an Indian chief comes among his white fathers," returned Duncan, with great steadiness, "he lays aside his buffalo robe, to carry the shirt that is offered him.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000023_000001|My brothers have given me paint and I wear it."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000024_000000|A low murmur of applause announced that the compliment of the tribe was favorably received.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000024_000002|Duncan began to breathe more freely, believing that the weight of his examination was past; and, as he had already prepared a simple and probable tale to support his pretended occupation, his hopes of ultimate success grew brighter.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000000|After a silence of a few moments, as if adjusting his thoughts, in order to make a suitable answer to the declaration their guests had just given, another warrior arose, and placed himself in an attitude to speak.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000002|The sudden and terrible interruption caused Duncan to start from his seat, unconscious of everything but the effect produced by so frightful a cry.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000004|Unable to command himself any longer, the youth broke from the place, and presently stood in the center of a disorderly throng, that included nearly everything having life, within the limits of the encampment.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000006|Though astounded, at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000000|There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree tops, where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000001|Beneath one of them, a line of warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly toward the dwellings.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000002|One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared, were suspended several human scalps.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000003|The startling sounds that Duncan had heard were what the whites have not inappropriately called the "death hallo"; and each repetition of the cry was intended to announce to the tribe the fate of an enemy.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000000|When at the distance of a few hundred feet from the lodges the newly arrived warriors halted.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000001|Their plaintive and terrific cry, which was intended to represent equally the wailings of the dead and the triumph to the victors, had entirely ceased.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000004|The whole encampment, in a moment, became a scene of the most violent bustle and commotion.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000005|The warriors drew their knives, and flourishing them, they arranged themselves in two lines, forming a lane that extended from the war party to the lodges.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000006|The squaws seized clubs, axes, or whatever weapon of offense first offered itself to their hands, and rushed eagerly to act their part in the cruel game that was at hand.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000007|Even the children would not be excluded; but boys, little able to wield the instruments, tore the tomahawks from the belts of their fathers, and stole into the ranks, apt imitators of the savage traits exhibited by their parents.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000000|Large piles of brush lay scattered about the clearing, and a wary and aged squaw was occupied in firing as many as might serve to light the coming exhibition.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000002|The whole scene formed a striking picture, whose frame was composed of the dark and tall border of pines.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000003|The warriors just arrived were the most distant figures.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000006|While one stood erect and firm, prepared to meet his fate like a hero, the other bowed his head, as if palsied by terror or stricken with shame.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000008|He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably proportioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolution, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000009|Insensibly the young man drew nigher to the swarthy lines of the Hurons, and scarcely breathed, so intense became his interest in the spectacle.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000011|The more abject of the two victims continued motionless; but the other bounded from the place at the cry, with the activity and swiftness of a deer.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000012|Instead of rushing through the hostile lines, as had been expected, he just entered the dangerous defile, and before time was given for a single blow, turned short, and leaping the heads of a row of children, he gained at once the exterior and safer side of the formidable array.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000013|The artifice was answered by a hundred voices raised in imprecations; and the whole of the excited multitude broke from their order, and spread themselves about the place in wild confusion.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000030_000002|Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000030_000003|Here, too, he was met and turned by a few of the older and more subtle of the Hurons.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000030_000004|Once more he tried the throng, as if seeking safety in its blindness, and then several moments succeeded, during which Duncan believed the active and courageous young stranger was lost.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000002|The awful effect was heightened by the piercing shrieks of the women and the fierce yells of the warriors.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000003|Now and then Duncan caught a glimpse of a light form cleaving the air in some desperate bound, and he rather hoped than believed that the captive yet retained the command of his astonishing powers of activity.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000004|Suddenly the multitude rolled backward, and approached the spot where he himself stood.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000005|The heavy body in the rear pressed upon the women and children in front, and bore them to the earth.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000006|The stranger reappeared in the confusion.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000007|Human power could not, however, much longer endure so severe a trial.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000008|Of this the captive seemed conscious.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000010|A tall and powerful Huron, who had husbanded his forces, pressed close upon his heels, and with an uplifted arm menaced a fatal blow.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000012|Thought itself is not quicker than was the motion with which the latter profited by the advantage; he turned, gleamed like a meteor again before the eyes of Duncan, and, at the next moment, when the latter recovered his recollection, and gazed around in quest of the captive, he saw him quietly leaning against a small painted post, which stood before the door of the principal lodge.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000001|He followed the crowd, which drew nigh the lodges, gloomy and sullen, like any other multitude that had been disappointed in an execution.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000002|Curiosity, or perhaps a better feeling, induced him to approach the stranger.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000003|He found him, standing with one arm cast about the protecting post, and breathing thick and hard, after his exertions, but disdaining to permit a single sign of suffering to escape.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000004|His person was now protected by immemorial and sacred usage, until the tribe in council had deliberated and determined on his fate.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000005|It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000001|To all this the captive made no reply; but was content to preserve an attitude in which dignity was singularly blended with disdain.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000002|Exasperated as much by his composure as by his good fortune, their words became unintelligible, and were succeeded by shrill, piercing yells.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000003|Just then the crafty squaw, who had taken the necessary precaution to fire the piles, made her way through the throng, and cleared a place for herself in front of the captive.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000004|The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000005|Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long, skinny arm, in derision, and using the language of the Lenape, as more intelligible to the subject of her gibes, she commenced aloud:
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000034_000001|Your squaws are the mothers of deer; but if a bear, or a wildcat, or a serpent were born among you, ye would flee.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000034_000002|The Huron girls shall make you petticoats, and we will find you a husband."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000035_000000|A burst of savage laughter succeeded this attack, during which the soft and musical merriment of the younger females strangely chimed with the cracked voice of their older and more malignant companion.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000035_000002|His head was immovable; nor did he betray the slightest consciousness that any were present, except when his haughty eye rolled toward the dusky forms of the warriors, who stalked in the background silent and sullen observers of the scene.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000000|Infuriated at the self command of the captive, the woman placed her arms akimbo; and, throwing herself into a posture of defiance, she broke out anew, in a torrent of words that no art of ours could commit successfully to paper.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000001|Her breath was, however, expended in vain; for, although distinguished in her nation as a proficient in the art of abuse, she was permitted to work herself into such a fury as actually to foam at the mouth, without causing a muscle to vibrate in the motionless figure of the stranger.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000002|The effect of his indifference began to extend itself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting the condition of a boy to enter the state of manhood, attempted to assist the termagant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their victim, and adding his empty boasts to the taunts of the women.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000003|Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000004|At the next moment he resumed his quiet and reclining attitude against the post.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000005|But the change of posture had permitted Duncan to exchange glances with the firm and piercing eyes of Uncas.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000037_000000|Breathless with amazement, and heavily oppressed with the critical situation of his friend, Heyward recoiled before the look, trembling lest its meaning might, in some unknown manner, hasten the prisoner's fate.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000037_000002|Just then a warrior forced his way into the exasperated crowd.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000037_000003|Motioning the women and children aside with a stern gesture, he took Uncas by the arm, and led him toward the door of the council lodge. Thither all the chiefs, and most of the distinguished warriors, followed; among whom the anxious Heyward found means to enter without attracting any dangerous attention to himself.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000038_000002|In the very center of the lodge, immediately under an opening that admitted the twinkling light of one or two stars, stood Uncas, calm, elevated, and collected.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000038_000003|His high and haughty carriage was not lost on his captors, who often bent their looks on his person, with eyes which, while they lost none of their inflexibility of purpose, plainly betrayed their admiration of the stranger's daring.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000039_000002|Heyward profited by the first opportunity to gaze in his face, secretly apprehensive he might find the features of another acquaintance; but they proved to be those of a stranger, and, what was still more inexplicable, of one who bore all the distinctive marks of a Huron warrior.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000039_000003|Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000039_000004|When each individual had taken his proper station, and silence reigned in the place, the gray haired chief already introduced to the reader, spoke aloud, in the language of the Lenni Lenape.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000040_000002|Rest in peace till the morning sun, when our last words shall be spoken."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000044_000000|A short and sullen pause succeeded this bold assertion.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000044_000001|Duncan, who understood the Mohican to allude to the fatal rifle of the scout, bent forward in earnest observation of the effect it might produce on the conquerors; but the chief was content with simply retorting:
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000045_000000|"If the Lenape are so skillful, why is one of their bravest warriors here?"
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000046_000000|"He followed in the steps of a flying coward, and fell into a snare.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000046_000001|The cunning beaver may be caught."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000047_000000|As Uncas thus replied, he pointed with his finger toward the solitary Huron, but without deigning to bestow any other notice on so unworthy an object.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000047_000002|Every eye rolled sullenly toward the individual indicated by the simple gesture, and a low, threatening murmur passed through the crowd.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000047_000003|The ominous sounds reached the outer door, and the women and children pressing into the throng, no gap had been left, between shoulder and shoulder, that was not now filled with the dark lineaments of some eager and curious human countenance.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000000|In the meantime, the more aged chiefs, in the center, communed with each other in short and broken sentences.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000001|Not a word was uttered that did not convey the meaning of the speaker, in the simplest and most energetic form.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000002|Again, a long and deeply solemn pause took place.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000003|It was known, by all present, to be the brave precursor of a weighty and important judgment.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000004|They who composed the outer circle of faces were on tiptoe to gaze; and even the culprit for an instant forgot his shame in a deeper emotion, and exposed his abject features, in order to cast an anxious and troubled glance at the dark assemblage of chiefs.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000005|The silence was finally broken by the aged warrior so often named.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000006|He arose from the earth, and moving past the immovable form of Uncas, placed himself in a dignified attitude before the offender.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000007|At that moment, the withered squaw already mentioned moved into the circle, in a slow, sidling sort of a dance, holding the torch, and muttering the indistinct words of what might have been a species of incantation.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000008|Though her presence was altogether an intrusion, it was unheeded.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000049_000000|Approaching Uncas, she held the blazing brand in such a manner as to cast its red glare on his person, and to expose the slightest emotion of his countenance.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000049_000001|The Mohican maintained his firm and haughty attitude; and his eyes, so far from deigning to meet her inquisitive look, dwelt steadily on the distance, as though it penetrated the obstacles which impeded the view and looked into futurity.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000049_000002|Satisfied with her examination, she left him, with a slight expression of pleasure, and proceeded to practise the same trying experiment on her delinquent countryman.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000050_000002|The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000000|"Reed that bends," he said, addressing the young culprit by name, and in his proper language, "though the Great Spirit has made you pleasant to the eyes, it would have been better that you had not been born.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000001|Your tongue is loud in the village, but in battle it is still.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000004|Three times have they called on you to come, and as often did you forget to answer.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000005|Your name will never be mentioned again in your tribe-it is already forgotten."
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000000|As the chief slowly uttered these words, pausing impressively between each sentence, the culprit raised his face, in deference to the other's rank and years.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000001|Shame, horror, and pride struggled in its lineaments. His eye, which was contracted with inward anguish, gleamed on the persons of those whose breath was his fame; and the latter emotion for an instant predominated.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000002|He arose to his feet, and baring his bosom, looked steadily on the keen, glittering knife, that was already upheld by his inexorable judge.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000003|As the weapon passed slowly into his heart he even smiled, as if in joy at having found death less dreadful than he had anticipated, and fell heavily on his face, at the feet of the rigid and unyielding form of Uncas.
train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000053_000000|The squaw gave a loud and plaintive yell, dashed the torch to the earth, and buried everything in darkness.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000003_000002|In short, he was much honoured and courted by all ranks.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000003_000003|People came from afar to recommend themselves to his prayers; and all who visited him, published what blessings they received through his means.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000005_000000|When the envious man saw that he was alone with this good man, he began to tell him his errand, walking side by side in the court, till he saw his opportunity; and getting the good man near the brink of the well, he gave him a thrust, and pushed him into it, without being seen by any one.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000006_000001|He perceived that there was something extraordinary in his fall, which must otherwise have cost him his life; but he neither saw nor felt anything.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000007_000001|But I well know how this good head of the dervises may cure her; the thing is very easy, and I will explain it to you.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000008_000001|The next morning, as soon as daylight appeared, and he could discern the nature of his situation, the well being broken down in several places, he saw a hole, by which he crept out with ease.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000012_000003|The sultan himself also died without heirs male; upon which the religious orders and the militia consulted together, and the good man was declared and acknowledged sultan by general consent.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000016_000001|"Quit," said he, "the form of a man, and take that of an ape." He instantly disappeared, and left me alone, transformed into an ape, and overwhelmed with sorrow in a strange country, not knowing whether I was near or far from my father's dominions.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000017_000000|I descended the mountain, and entered a plain level country, which took me a month to travel over, and then I came to the sea side.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000018_000000|I launched out in this posture, and rowed towards the ship.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000018_000002|In the meantime I got on board, and laying hold of a rope, jumped upon the deck, but having lost my speech I found myself in great perplexity: and indeed the risk I ran was not less than when I was at the mercy of the genie.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000019_000000|The merchants, being both superstitious and scrupulous, thought if they received me on board I should be the occasion of some misfortune to them during their voyage.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000019_000002|This action, together with the tears which he saw gush from my eyes, moved his compassion.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000021_000000|Our vessel was instantly surrounded with an infinite number of boats full of people, who came to congratulate their friends on their safe arrival, or to inquire for those they had left behind them in the country from whence they had come, or out of curiosity to see a ship that had performed so long a voyage.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000000|Amongst the rest, some officers came on board, desiring in the name of the sultan to speak with the merchants.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000001|The merchants appearing, one of the officers told them, "The sultan our master hath commanded us to acquaint you, that he rejoices in your safe arrival, and beseeches each of you to take the trouble to write a few lines upon this roll.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000002|That you may understand the design of this request, you must know that we had a prime vizier, who besides possessing great abilities for the management of public affairs could write in the highest perfection.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000003|This minister a few days since died.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000005|Many have presented specimens of their skill; but to this day, no one in the empire has been judged worthy to supply the vizier's place."
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000000|Those of the merchants who thought they could write well enough to aspire to this high dignity, wrote one after another what they thought fit.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000002|However, as they had never seen an ape that could write, and could not be persuaded that I was more ingenious than others of my kind, they wished to take the roll out of my hand; but the captain took my part once more.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000004|If he only scribbles the paper, I promise you that I will immediately punish him.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000006|My writing not only excelled that of the merchants, but was such as they had not before seen in that country.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000024_000001|The sultan was incensed at their rudeness, and would have punished them had they not explained: "Sir," said they, "we humbly beg your majesty's pardon: these hands were not written by a man, but by an ape." "What do you say?" exclaimed the sultan.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000025_000000|The officers returned to the vessel and shewed the captain their order, who answered, "The sultan's command must be obeyed." Whereupon they clothed me with the rich brocade robe, and carried me ashore, where they set me on horseback, whilst the sultan waited for me at his palace with a great number of courtiers, whom he gathered together to do me the more honour.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000027_000000|I found the prince on his throne in the midst of the grandees; I made my obeisance three times very low, and at last kneeled and kissed the ground before him, and afterwards took my seat in the posture of an ape.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000027_000002|In short, the usual ceremony of the audience would have been complete, could I have added speech to my behaviour; but apes never speak, and the advantage I had of having been a man did not now yield me that privilege.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000028_000001|He went from his chamber of audience into his own apartment, where he ordered dinner to be brought.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000029_000001|When the things were removed, they brought him a particular liquor, of which he caused them to give me a glass.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000029_000002|I drank, and wrote upon the glass some new verses, which explained the state I was reduced to, after many sufferings.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000029_000003|The sultan read these likewise, and said, "A man that was capable of doing so much would be above the greatest of his species."
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000030_000001|I kissed the ground, and laying my hand upon my head, signified that I was ready to receive that honour.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000032_000001|That seeming ape is a young prince, son of a powerful sultan, and has been metamorphosed into an ape by enchantment.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000033_000001|Finding I could not speak, I put my hand to my head' to signify that what the princess spoke was correct.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000034_000001|She placed herself in the middle of the court, where she made a great circle, and within it she wrote several words in Arabian characters, some of them ancient.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000036_000000|As soon as the princess perceived this monster, "Dog," said she, "instead of creeping before me, dare you present yourself in this shape, thinking to frighten me?"
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000037_000000|The two parts of the lion disappeared, while the head changed into a large scorpion.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000037_000001|Immediately the princess turned herself into a serpent, and fought the scorpion, who, finding himself worsted, took the shape of an eagle, and flew away: but the serpent at the same time took also the shape of an eagle, that was black and much stronger, and pursued him, so that we lost sight of them both.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000039_000000|The wolf had in the meanwhile transformed itself into a cock, and now fell to picking up the seeds of the pomegranate one after another; but finding no more, he came towards us with his wings spread, making a great noise, as if he would ask us whether there were any more seed.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000039_000001|There was one lying on the brink of the canal, which the cock perceiving as he went back, ran speedily thither; but just as he was going to pick it up, the seed rolled into the river, and turned into a little fish.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000040_000003|We must all have perished had not the princess, running to our assistance, forced him to retire, and defend himself against her; yet, notwithstanding all her exertions, she could not hinder the sultan's beard from being burnt, and his face scorched, the chief of the eunuchs from being stifled, and a spark from entering my right eye, and making it blind.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000040_000004|The sultan and I expected but death, when we heard a cry of "Victory! Victory!" and instantly the princess appeared in her natural shape, but the genie was reduced to a heap of ashes.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000046_000001|Public mourning was observed for seven days, and many ceremonies were performed.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000046_000002|The ashes of the genie were thrown into the air, but those of the princess were collected into a precious urn, to be preserved, and the urn was deposited in a superb mausoleum, constructed for that purpose on the spot where the princess had been consumed.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000000|The grief of the sultan for the loss of his daughter confined him to his chamber for a whole month.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000002|No consideration whatever shall hinder me from making you repent your temerity should you violate my injunction." I was going to speak, but he prevented me by words full of anger; and I was obliged to quit the palace, rejected, banished, an outcast from the world.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000004|I began my journey, not so much deploring my own miseries, as the death of the two fair princesses, of which I have been the occasion.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000005|I passed through many countries without making myself known; at last I resolved to come to Bagdad, in hopes of getting myself introduced to the commander of the faithful, to move his compassion by relating to him my unfortunate adventures.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000006|I arrived this evening, and the first man I met was this calender, our brother, who spoke before me.
train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000007|You know the remaining part, madam, and the cause of my having the honour to be here.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000004_000000|TROUBLES IN THE FOLD-A MESSAGE
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000007_000000|"Sixty!" said Joseph Poorgrass.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000008_000000|"Seventy!" said Moon.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000011_000000|"--And got into a field of young clover," said Tall.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000012_000000|"--Young clover!" said Moon.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000013_000000|"--Clover!" said Joseph Poorgrass.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000015_000000|"That they be," said Joseph.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000019_000000|With Bathsheba it was a moment when thought was speech and speech exclamation.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000028_000000|"What way?
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000028_000001|Tell me quick!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000030_000000|"Can you do it?
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000030_000001|Can I?"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000031_000004|Not even a shepherd can do it, as a rule."
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000033_000001|"He could cure 'em all if he were here."
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000034_000000|"Who is he?
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000034_000001|Let's get him!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000035_000000|"Shepherd Oak," said matthew.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000038_000001|"I told you never to allude to him, nor shall you if you stay with me. Ah!" she added, brightening, "Farmer Boldwood knows!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000039_000004|Isn't it, Joseph?"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000040_000001|"That's what 'tis."
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000042_000001|Get somebody to cure the sheep instantly!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000043_000000|All then stalked off in consternation, to get somebody as directed, without any idea of who it was to be.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000045_000001|The leap was an astonishing one.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000046_000000|Bathsheba went up to it.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000046_000001|The sheep was dead.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000047_000002|No, I won't!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000049_000001|Laban answered to her signal.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000050_000000|"Where is Oak staying?"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000051_000000|"Across the valley at Nest Cottage!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000052_000000|"Jump on the bay mare, and ride across, and say he must return instantly-that I say so."
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000053_000001|He diminished down the hill.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000054_000004|Bathsheba walked up and down.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000054_000006|Nothing availed.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000055_000000|Bathsheba continued walking.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000055_000001|The horse was seen descending the hill, and the wearisome series had to be repeated in reverse order: Whitepits, Springmead, Cappel's Piece, The Flats, Middle Field, Sheeplands, Sixteen Acres.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000055_000003|It was Tall.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000056_000000|"Oh, what folly!" said Bathsheba.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000057_000000|Gabriel was not visible anywhere.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000061_000000|"He says BEGGARS MUSTN'T BE CHOOSERS," replied Laban.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000062_000000|"What!" said the young farmer, opening her eyes and drawing in her breath for an outburst.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000062_000001|Joseph Poorgrass retired a few steps behind a hurdle.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000064_000000|"Oh, oh, that's his answer!
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000064_000002|Who am I, then, to be treated like that?
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000066_000000|The men looked grave, as if they suppressed opinion.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000067_000001|The strait she was in through pride and shrewishness could not be disguised longer: she burst out crying bitterly; they all saw it; and she attempted no further concealment.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000068_000001|"Why not ask him softer like?
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000068_000003|Gable is a true man in that way."
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000069_000002|"And he drives me to do what I wouldn't; yes, he does!--Tall, come indoors."
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000071_000000|"DO NOT DESERT ME, GABRIEL!"
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000072_000001|The note was despatched as the message had been, and Bathsheba waited indoors for the result.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000075_000000|She went out when the horse was heard, and looked up.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000075_000002|Gabriel looked at her.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000078_000001|She knew from the look which sentence in her note had brought him.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000078_000002|Bathsheba followed to the field.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000079_000000|Gabriel was already among the turgid, prostrate forms.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000080_000000|It has been said that mere ease after torment is delight for a time; and the countenances of these poor creatures expressed it now. Forty nine operations were successfully performed.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000080_000002|Four had died; three recovered without an operation.
train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000082_000000|"Gabriel, will you stay on with me?" she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000007_000001|Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000009_000002|Standing before this abraded pile, the eye regarded its present usage, the mind dwelt upon its past history, with a satisfied sense of functional continuity throughout-a feeling almost of gratitude, and quite of pride, at the permanence of the idea which had heaped it up.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000011_000004|Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock frock, by the breadth of a hair. Ten generations failed to alter the turn of a single phrase.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000011_000005|In these Wessex nooks the busy outsider's ancient times are only old; his old times are still new; his present is futurity.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000018_000000|So the chatter was all on her side.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000023_000000|"Cain Ball!"
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000024_000000|"Yes, Mister Oak; here I be!"
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000025_000000|Cainy now runs forward with the tar pot.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000026_000003|Boldwood always carried with him a social atmosphere of his own, which everybody felt who came near him; and the talk, which Bathsheba's presence had somewhat suppressed, was now totally suspended.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000000|What they conversed about was not audible to Gabriel, who was too independent to get near, though too concerned to disregard.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000003|Concerning the flock?
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000004|Apparently not.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000005|Gabriel theorized, not without truth, that in quiet discussion of any matter within reach of the speakers' eyes, these are usually fixed upon it.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000030_000001|The animal plunged; Bathsheba instantly gazed towards it, and saw the blood.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000033_000000|"Bottle!" he shouted, in an unmoved voice of routine.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000035_000001|Take my place in the barn, Gabriel, and keep the men carefully to their work."
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000036_000000|The horses' heads were put about, and they trotted away.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000040_000000|"Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000045_000000|"So I said, 'Mistress Everdene, there's places empty, and there's gifted men willing; but the spite'--no, not the spite-I didn't say spite-'but the villainy of the contrarikind,' I said (meaning womankind), 'keeps 'em out.' That wasn't too strong for her, say?"
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000046_000000|"Passably well put."
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000047_000000|"Yes; and I would have said it, had death and salvation overtook me for it.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000000|"You see the artfulness?
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000002|That was my depth! ...
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000003|However, let her marry an she will.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000004|Perhaps 'tis high time.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000050_000000|"What a lie!" said Gabriel.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000051_000000|"Ah, neighbour Oak-how'st know?" said, Henery, mildly.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000053_000003|However, I look round upon life quite cool.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000055_000002|But I have my depths; ha, and even my great depths!
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000055_000004|But no-O no!"
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000056_000003|Weren't I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms?
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000056_000004|'tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there's people far past four score-a boast weak as water."
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000058_000000|"Weak as water!
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000059_000000|"Nobody," said Joseph Poorgrass.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000061_000000|"'Ithout doubt you was-'ithout doubt."
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000004|He did not covet the post relatively to the farm: in relation to herself, as beloved by him and unmarried to another, he had coveted it.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000006|His lecture to her was, he thought, one of the absurdest mistakes.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000007|Far from coquetting with Boldwood, she had trifled with himself in thus feigning that she had trifled with another.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000010|This was mere exclamation-the froth of the storm.
train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000011|He adored Bathsheba just the same.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000001_000000|CHAPTER TEN
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000000|We reached Rustchuk on january tenth, but by no means landed on that day.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000001|Something had gone wrong with the unloading arrangements, or more likely with the railway behind them, and we were kept swinging all day well out in the turbid river.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000003|He had done me well, and I reckoned I would stand by him.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000004|So I got his ship's papers, and the manifests of cargo, and undertook to see to the trans shipment.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000005|It wasn't the first time I had tackled that kind of business, and I hadn't much to learn about steam cranes.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000006|I told him I was going on to Constantinople and would take peter with me, and he was agreeable.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000007|He would have to wait at Rustchuk to get his return cargo, and could easily inspan a fresh engineer.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000004_000000|I worked about the hardest twenty four hours of my life getting the stuff ashore.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000004_000001|The landing officer was a Bulgarian, quite a competent man if he could have made the railways give him the trucks he needed. There was a collection of hungry German transport officers always putting in their oars, and being infernally insolent to everybody.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000005_000000|But the big trouble came the next morning when I had got nearly all the stuff aboard the trucks.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000006_000003|I gave him them and he looked carefully through them, marking certain items with a blue pencil.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000007_000000|'Look here, I want these back,' I said.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000009_000000|I said nothing, reflecting that the stuff was for the Turks and they naturally had to have some say in its handling.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000009_000002|He handed me a neatly typed new set of way bills.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000010_000000|'Here, this won't do,' I cried.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000010_000001|'Give me back the right set.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000010_000002|This thing's no good to me.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000011_000000|For answer he winked gently, smiled like a dusky seraph, and held out his hand.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000011_000001|In it I saw a roll of money.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000012_000000|'For yourself,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000012_000001|'It is the usual custom.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000000|It was the first time anyone had ever tried to bribe me, and it made me boil up like a geyser.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000001|I saw his game clearly enough.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000002|Turkey would pay for the lot to Germany: probably had already paid the bill: but she would pay double for the things not on the way bills, and pay to this fellow and his friends.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000003|This struck me as rather steep even for Oriental methods of doing business.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000014_000000|'Now look here, Sir,' I said, 'I don't stir from this place till I get the correct way bills.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000014_000001|If you won't give me them, I will have every item out of the trucks and make a new list.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000014_000002|But a correct list I have, or the stuff stays here till Doomsday.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000015_000000|He was a slim, foppish fellow, and he looked more puzzled than angry.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000016_000000|'I offer you enough,' he said, again stretching out his hand.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000017_000000|At that I fairly roared.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000017_000001|'If you try to bribe me, you infernal little haberdasher, I'll have you off that horse and chuck you in the river.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000018_000001|He began to curse and threaten, but I cut him short.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000019_000000|'Come along to the commandant, my boy,' I said, and I marched away, tearing up his typewritten sheets as I went and strewing them behind me like a paper chase.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000020_000001|I said it was my business, as representing the German Government, to see the stuff delivered to the consignee at Constantinople ship shape and Bristol fashion.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000020_000002|I told him it wasn't my habit to proceed with cooked documents.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000020_000003|He couldn't but agree with me, but there was that wrathful Oriental with his face as fixed as a Buddha.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000022_000000|'I have authority from the Committee to receive the stores,' he said sullenly.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000023_000000|'Those are not my instructions,' was the answer.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000024_000000|The man shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000025_000000|The harassed commandant grinned.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000025_000001|'You've offended his Lordship, and he is a bad enemy.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000025_000002|All those damned Comitadjis are.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000026_000000|'And have that blighter in the red hat loot the trucks on the road? No, thank you.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000026_000001|I am going to see them safe at Chataldja, or whatever they call the artillery depot.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000027_000000|I said a good deal more, but that is an abbreviated translation of my remarks.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000027_000002|But I didn't see that at the time.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000027_000003|My professional pride was up in arms, and I couldn't bear to have a hand in a crooked deal.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000028_000001|'You will have a guard for the trucks, of course, and I will pick you good men.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000028_000002|They may hold you up all the same.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000028_000004|I still think you would have been wiser to humour Rasta Bey.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000029_000000|As I was leaving he gave me a telegram.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000029_000001|'Here's a wire for your Captain Schenk.' I slipped the envelope in my pocket and went out.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000000|Schenk was pretty sick, so I left a note for him.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000002|Presently I remembered Schenk's telegram, which still reposed in my pocket.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000003|I took it out and opened it, meaning to wire it from the first station we stopped at.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000005|It was from some official at Regensburg, asking him to put under arrest and send back by the first boat a man called Brandt, who was believed to have come aboard at Absthafen on the thirtieth of December.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000000|I whistled and showed it to peter.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000002|For my back had fairly got stiffened about these munitions, and I was going to take any risk to see them safely delivered to their proper owner.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000003|peter couldn't understand me at all.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000004|He still hankered after a grand destruction of the lot somewhere down the railway.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000005|But then, this wasn't the line of Peter's profession, and his pride was not at stake.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000006|We had a mortally slow journey.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000007|It was bad enough in Bulgaria, but when we crossed the frontier at a place called Mustafa Pasha we struck the real supineness of the East.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000032_000001|We stopped at a station and were stretching our legs on the platform when I saw a familiar figure approaching.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000032_000002|It was Rasta, with half a dozen Turkish gendarmes.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000033_000000|I called peter, and we clambered into the truck next our horse box.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000000|The Turk swaggered up and addressed us.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000001|'You can get back to Rustchuk,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000002|'I take over from you here.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000003|Hand me the papers.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000035_000000|'Is this Chataldja?' I asked innocently.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000036_000000|'It is the end of your affair,' he said haughtily.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000036_000001|'Quick, or it will be the worse for you.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000038_000000|'You are in Turkey,' he cried, 'and will obey the Turkish Government.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000039_000000|'I'll obey the Government right enough,' I said; 'but if you're the Government I could make a better one with a bib and a rattle.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000041_000000|'Please don't begin shooting,' I said.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000041_000001|'There are twelve armed guards in this train who will take their orders from me.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000041_000002|Besides, I and my friend can shoot a bit.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000042_000000|'Fool!' he cried, getting very angry.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000042_000001|'I can order up a regiment in five minutes.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000000|'Maybe you can,' I said; 'but observe the situation.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000002|If you dare to come aboard I will shoot you.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000003|If you call in your regiment I will tell you what I'll do.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000004|I'll fire this stuff, and I reckon they'll be picking up the bits of you and your regiment off the Gallipoli Peninsula.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000044_000000|He had put up a bluff-a poor one-and I had called it.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000044_000001|He saw I meant what I said, and became silken.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000045_000000|'Good bye, sir,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000045_000001|'You have had a fair chance and rejected it. We shall meet again soon, and you will be sorry for your insolence.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000046_000000|He strutted away and it was all I could do to keep from running after him.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000001|He was the regular gunner officer, not thinking about anything except his guns and shells.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000002|I had to wait about three hours while he was checking the stuff with the invoices, and then he gave me a receipt which I still possess.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000003|I told him about Rasta, and he agreed that I had done right.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000004|It didn't make him as mad as I expected, because, you see, he got his stuff safe in any case.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000005|It was only that the wretched Turks had to pay twice for the lot of it.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000048_000000|He gave peter and me luncheon, and was altogether very civil and inclined to talk about the war.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000048_000003|Finally he lent us a car to take us the few miles to the city.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000049_000000|So it came about that at five past three on the sixteenth day of January, with only the clothes we stood up in, peter and I entered Constantinople.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000001|I don't quite know what I had expected-a sort of fairyland Eastern city, all white marble and blue water, and stately Turks in surplices, and veiled houris, and roses and nightingales, and some sort of string band discoursing sweet music.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000002|I had forgotten that winter is pretty much the same everywhere.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000003|It was a drizzling day, with a south-east wind blowing, and the streets were long troughs of mud.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000006|I saw what I took to be mosques and minarets, and they were about as impressive as factory chimneys.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000007|By and by we crossed a bridge, and paid a penny for the privilege.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000008|If I had known it was the famous Golden Horn I would have looked at it with more interest, but I saw nothing save a lot of moth eaten barges and some queer little boats like gondolas.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000009|Then we came into busier streets, where ramshackle cabs drawn by lean horses spluttered through the mud.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000010|I saw one old fellow who looked like my notion of a Turk, but most of the population had the appearance of London old clothes men.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000011|All but the soldiers, Turk and German, who seemed well set-up fellows.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000051_000000|peter had paddled along at my side like a faithful dog, not saying a word, but clearly not approving of this wet and dirty metropolis.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000052_000000|'Do you know that we are being followed, Cornelis?' he said suddenly, 'ever since we came into this evil smelling dorp.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000053_000000|peter was infallible in a thing like that.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000053_000003|It was more likely my friend Rasta.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000000|I found the ferry of Ratchik by asking a soldier and a German sailor there told me where the Kurdish Bazaar was.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000001|He pointed up a steep street which ran past a high block of warehouses with every window broken.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000002|Sandy had said the left hand side coming down, so it must be the right-hand side going up.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000003|We plunged into it, and it was the filthiest place of all.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000004|The wind whistled up it and stirred the garbage.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000000|The street corkscrewed endlessly.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000001|Sometimes it seemed to stop; then it found a hole in the opposing masonry and edged its way in.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000002|Often it was almost pitch dark; then would come a greyish twilight where it opened out to the width of a decent lane.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000003|To find a house in that murk was no easy job, and by the time we had gone a quarter of a mile I began to fear we had missed it.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000004|It was no good asking any of the crowd we met. They didn't look as if they understood any civilized tongue.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000056_000000|At last we stumbled on it-a tumble down coffee house, with a Kuprasso above the door in queer amateur lettering.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000056_000001|There was a lamp burning inside, and two or three men smoking at small wooden tables.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000057_000000|We ordered coffee, thick black stuff like treacle, which peter anathematized.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000057_000002|He paid no attention, so I shouted louder at him, and the noise brought a man out of the back parts.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000058_000000|He was a fat, oldish fellow with a long nose, very like the Greek traders you see on the Zanzibar coast.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000058_000001|I beckoned to him and he waddled forward, smiling oilily.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000059_000001|'I wanted to show this place to my friend.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000059_000002|He has heard of your garden house and the fun there.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000060_000000|'The Signor is mistaken.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000060_000001|I have no garden house.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000061_000000|'Rot,' I said; 'I've been here before, my boy.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000061_000001|I recall your shanty at the back and many merry nights there.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000061_000002|What was it you called it?
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000062_000000|He put his finger to his lip and looked incredibly sly.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000062_000003|The people here are too poor to dance and sing.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000063_000000|'All the same I would like to have another look at it,' I said, and I slipped an English sovereign into his hand.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000064_000000|He glanced at it in surprise and his manner changed.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000065_000001|Then he unlocked a door and with a swirl the wind caught it and blew it back on us.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000000|We were looking into a mean little yard, with on one side a high curving wall, evidently of great age, with bushes growing in the cracks of it.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000001|Some scraggy myrtles stood in broken pots, and nettles flourished in a corner.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000002|At one end was a wooden building like a dissenting chapel, but painted a dingy scarlet.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000003|Its windows and skylights were black with dirt, and its door, tied up with rope, flapped in the wind.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000067_000000|'Behold the Pavilion,' Kuprasso said proudly.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000068_000000|'That is the old place,' I observed with feeling.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000068_000001|'What times I've seen there!
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000068_000002|Tell me, Mr Kuprasso, do you ever open it now?'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000069_000000|He put his thick lips to my ear.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000001|It is sometimes open-not often.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000004|The police approve-but not often, for this is no time for too much gaiety.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000005|I will tell you a secret. Tomorrow afternoon there will be dancing-wonderful dancing!
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000006|Only a few of my patrons know.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000007|Who, think you, will be here?'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000071_000000|He bent his head closer and said in a whisper-
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000073_000000|'Oh, indeed,' I said with a proper tone of respect, though I hadn't a notion what he meant.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000075_000000|'Sure,' I said.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000075_000001|'Both of us.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000075_000002|We're all for the rosy hours.'
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000000|'Then the fourth hour after midday.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000001|Walk straight through the cafe and one will be there to unlock the door.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000002|You are new comers here?
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000003|Take the advice of Angelo Kuprasso and avoid the streets after nightfall. Stamboul is no safe place nowadays for quiet men.' I asked him to name a hotel, and he rattled off a list from which I chose one that sounded modest and in keeping with our get up.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000004|It was not far off, only a hundred yards to the right at the top of the hill.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000077_000000|When we left his door the night had begun to drop.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000077_000001|We hadn't gone twenty yards before peter drew very near to me and kept turning his head like a hunted stag.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000078_000000|'We are being followed close, Cornelis,' he said calmly.
train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000079_000001|I could see in the waning light a crowd of people who seemed to be moving towards us.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000002_000000|CHAPTER TWELVE
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000004_000000|A spasm of incredulity, a vast relief, and that sharp joy which comes of reaction chased each other across my mind.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000004_000002|I dropped into the nearest chair and tried to grapple with something far beyond words.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000005_000000|'Sandy,' I said, as soon as I got my breath, 'you're an incarnate devil.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000000|'It was the only way, Dick.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000001|If I hadn't come mewing like a tom cat at your heels yesterday, Rasta would have had you long before you got to your hotel.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000002|You two have given me a pretty anxious time, and it took some doing to get you safe here.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000003|However, that is all over now.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000004|Make yourselves at home, my children.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000008_000000|'You may call it my humble home'--it was Blenkiron's sleek voice that spoke.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000008_000001|'We've been preparing for you, Major, but it was only yesterday I heard of your friend.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000009_000000|I introduced peter.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000000|'Mr Pienaar,' said Blenkiron, 'pleased to meet you.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000001|Well, as I was observing, you're safe enough here, but you've cut it mighty fine. Officially, a Dutchman called Brandt was to be arrested this afternoon and handed over to the German authorities.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000002|When Germany begins to trouble about that Dutchman she will find difficulty in getting the body; but such are the languid ways of an Oriental despotism.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000004|He will have ceased upon the midnight without pain, as your poet sings.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000000|'My men,' said Sandy. 'We have a bit of a graft here, and it wasn't difficult to manage it.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000001|Old Moellendorff will be nosing after the business tomorrow, but he will find the mystery too deep for him.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000003|But, by Jove, Dick, we hadn't any time to spare.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000004|If Rasta had got you, or the Germans had had the job of lifting you, your goose would have been jolly well cooked.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000005|I had some unquiet hours this morning.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000000|The thing was too deep for me.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000001|I looked at Blenkiron, shuffling his Patience cards with his old sleepy smile, and Sandy, dressed like some bandit in melodrama, his lean face as brown as a nut, his bare arms all tattooed with crimson rings, and the fox pelt drawn tight over brow and ears.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000002|It was still a nightmare world, but the dream was getting pleasanter.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000003|peter said not a word, but I could see his eyes heavy with his own thoughts.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000014_000000|Blenkiron hove himself from the sofa and waddled to a cupboard.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000015_000000|'You boys must be hungry,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000015_000001|'My duo denum has been giving me hell as usual, and I don't eat no more than a squirrel.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000015_000002|But I laid in some stores, for I guessed you would want to stoke up some after your travels.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000016_000000|He brought out a couple of Strassburg pies, a cheese, a cold chicken, a loaf, and three bottles of champagne.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000017_000000|'Fizz,' said Sandy rapturously.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000017_000001|'And a dry Heidsieck too!
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000017_000002|We're in luck, Dick, old man.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000018_000000|I never ate a more welcome meal, for we had starved in that dirty hotel.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000018_000001|But I had still the old feeling of the hunted, and before I began I asked about the door.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000000|'That's all right,' said Sandy.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000001|'My fellows are on the stair and at the gate.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000004|Blenkiron's the man you've got to thank for that.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000005|He was pretty certain you'd get here, but he was also certain that you'd arrive in a hurry with a good many inquirers behind you.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000006|So he arranged that you should leak away and start fresh.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000000|'Your name is Richard Hanau,' Blenkiron said, 'born in cleveland ohio, of German parentage on both sides.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000001|One of our brightest mining engineers, and the apple of Guggenheim's eye.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000002|You arrived this afternoon from Constanza, and I met you at the packet.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000003|The clothes for the part are in your bedroom next door.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000004|But I guess all that can wait, for I'm anxious to get to business.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000005|We're not here on a joy ride, Major, so I reckon we'll leave out the dime novel adventures.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000006|I'm just dying to hear them, but they'll keep.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000007|I want to know how our mutual inquiries have prospered.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000021_000000|He gave peter and me cigars, and we sat ourselves in armchairs in front of the blaze.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000021_000001|Sandy squatted cross legged on the hearthrug and lit a foul old briar pipe, which he extricated from some pouch among his skins.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000021_000002|And so began that conversation which had never been out of my thoughts for four hectic weeks.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000022_000000|'If I presume to begin,' said Blenkiron, 'it's because I reckon my story is the shortest.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000022_000001|I have to confess to you, gentlemen, that I have failed.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000000|'If you were looking for something in the root of the hedge, you wouldn't want to scour the road in a high-speed automobile.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000001|And still less would you want to get a bird's eye view in an aeroplane.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000002|That parable about fits my case.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000004|I had the wrong stunt, Major.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000005|I was too high up and refined.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000006|I've been processing through Europe like Barnum's Circus, and living with generals and transparencies.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000007|Not that I haven't picked up a lot of noos, and got some very interesting sidelights on high politics.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000008|But the thing I was after wasn't to be found on my beat, for those that knew it weren't going to tell.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000009|In that kind of society they don't get drunk and blab after their tenth cocktail.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000010|So I guess I've no contribution to make to quieting Sir Walter Bullivant's mind, except that he's dead right.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000011|Yes, Sir, he has hit the spot and rung the bell.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000012|There is a mighty miracle working proposition being floated in these parts, but the promoters are keeping it to themselves.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000013|They aren't taking in more than they can help on the ground floor.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000000|Blenkiron stopped to light a fresh cigar.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000004|That is what your statesmen don't figure enough on. She'll give up Belgium and Alsace Lorraine and Poland, but by God! she'll never give up the road to Mesopotamia till you have her by the throat and make her drop it.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000005|Sir Walter is a pretty bright eyed citizen, and he sees it right enough.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000006|If the worst happens, Kaiser will fling overboard a lot of ballast in Europe, and it will look like a big victory for the Allies, but he won't be beaten if he has the road to the East safe.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000007|Germany's like a scorpion: her sting's in her tail, and that tail stretches way down into Asia.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000000|'I got that clear, and I also made out that it wasn't going to be dead easy for her to keep that tail healthy.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000001|Turkey's a bit of an anxiety, as you'll soon discover.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000002|But Germany thinks she can manage it, and I won't say she can't.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000004|I tried to find out, but they gave me nothing but eyewash.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000005|I had to pretend to be satisfied, for the position of john s wasn't so strong as to allow him to take liberties.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000006|If I asked one of the highbrows he looked wise and spoke of the might of German arms and German organization and German staff work.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000007|I used to nod my head and get enthusiastic about these stunts, but it was all soft soap.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000008|She has a trick in hand-that much I know, but I'm darned if I can put a name to it.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000027_000000|His tone was quite melancholy, and I was mean enough to feel rather glad.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000027_000001|He had been the professional with the best chance.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000027_000002|It would be a good joke if the amateur succeeded where the expert failed.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000028_000000|I looked at Sandy.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000028_000001|He filled his pipe again, and pushed back his skin cap from his brows.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000000|'I went straight to Smyrna,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000001|'It wasn't difficult, for you see I had laid down a good many lines in former travels.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000004|But I found out that the Company of the Rosy Hours was not what I had known it in nineteen ten.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000008|But it was uncommon powerful in the provinces, and Enver and Talaat daren't meddle with it.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000009|The dangerous thing about it was that it said nothing and apparently did nothing.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000010|It just bided its time and took notes.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000000|'You can imagine that this was the very kind of crowd for my purpose. I knew of old its little ways, for with all its orthodoxy it dabbled a good deal in magic, and owed half its power to its atmosphere of the uncanny.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000001|The Companions could dance the heart out of the ordinary Turk.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000002|You saw a bit of one of our dances this afternoon, Dick-pretty good, wasn't it?
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000003|They could go anywhere, and no questions asked.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000006|It would have been as much as the life of the Committee or its German masters was worth to lay a hand on us, for we clung together like leeches and we were not in the habit of sticking at trifles.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000002|I travelled from Smyrna by the new railway to Panderma on the Marmora, and got there just before Christmas.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000003|That was after Anzac and Suvla had been evacuated, but I could hear the guns going hard at Cape Helles.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000004|From Panderma I started to cross to Thrace in a coasting steamer.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000005|And there an uncommon funny thing happened-I got torpedoed.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000032_000000|'It must have been about the last effort of a British submarine in those waters.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000032_000002|She gave us ten minutes to take to the boats, and then sent the blighted old packet and a fine cargo of six-inch shells to the bottom.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000033_000000|'I gave Tommy the surprise of his life.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000033_000001|As we bumped past him, I started the "Flowers of the Forest"--the old version-on the antique stringed instrument I carried, and I sang the words very plain. Tommy's eyes bulged out of his head, and he shouted at me in English to know who the devil I was.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000034_000000|'Tommy spotted me in a second.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000034_000003|He never much approved of my wanderings, and thought I was safely anchored in the battalion.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000035_000000|'Well, to make a long story short, I got to Constantinople, and pretty soon found touch with Blenkiron.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000035_000001|The rest you know.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000035_000002|And now for business.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000000|'Sir Walter was right, as Blenkiron has told us.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000001|There's a great stirring in Islam, something moving on the face of the waters.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000002|They make no secret of it.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000003|Those religious revivals come in cycles, and one was due about now.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000004|And they are quite clear about the details.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000007|All the orthodox believers have them by heart.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000009|They believe they are on the eve of a great deliverance.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000037_000001|They are unpopular and unorthodox, and no true Turks. But Germany has.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000037_000002|How, I don't know, but I could see quite plainly that in some subtle way Germany was regarded as a collaborator in the movement.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000038_000000|'They talk about the thing quite openly.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000038_000002|The prophet himself is known as Zimrud-"the Emerald"--and his four ministers are called also after jewels-Sapphire, Ruby, Pearl, and Topaz.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000038_000005|All that I could learn was that he and his followers were coming from the West.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000039_000001|That puzzled me dreadfully, for no one used the phrase.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000039_000002|The Home of the Spirit!
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000000|'But by and by I discovered that there was an inner and an outer circle in this mystery.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000001|Every creed has an esoteric side which is kept from the common herd.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000004|That tale tells of the coming of a prophet, and I found that the select of the faith spoke of the new revelation in terms of it.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000005|The curious thing is that in that tale the prophet is aided by one of the few women who play much part in the hagiology of Islam.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000006|That is the point of the tale, and it is partly a jest, but mainly a religious mystery.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000007|The prophet, too, is not called Emerald.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000041_000000|'I know,' I said; 'he is called Greenmantle.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000042_000000|Sandy scrambled to his feet, letting his pipe drop in the fireplace.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000043_000000|'Now how on earth did you find out that?' he cried.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000044_000000|Then I told them of Stumm and Gaudian and the whispered words I had not been meant to hear.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000045_000000|'Germany's in the heart of the plan.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000045_000002|The secret's in Germany. Dick, you should not have crossed the Danube.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000001|'But on the other hand it is obvious that the thing must come east, and sooner rather than later.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000002|I take it they can't afford to delay too long before they deliver the goods.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000003|If we can stick it out here we must hit the trail ...
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000004|I've got another bit of evidence.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000047_000000|Sandy's eyes were very bright and I had an audience on wires.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000049_000000|'Yes,' said Sandy; 'what of that?'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000050_000000|'Only that the same thing is true of Greenmantle.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000050_000001|I can give you her name.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000051_000000|I fetched a piece of paper and a pencil from Blenkiron's desk and handed it to Sandy.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000052_000000|'Write down Harry Bullivant's third word.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000054_000000|Then I told them of the other name Stumm and Gaudian had spoken.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000056_000000|'Good old Harry,' said Sandy softly.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000056_000002|Who and where is she? for if we find her we have done the trick.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000057_000001|'I reckon I can put you wise on that, gentlemen,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000058_000001|It was too comic to have stumbled across Europe and lighted on the very headquarters of the puzzle we had set out to unriddle.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000059_000000|But Blenkiron did not laugh.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000000|'I don't like it, gentlemen,' he said.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000001|'I would rather you had mentioned any other name on God's earth.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000003|They haven't much to them.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000004|I reckon they wouldn't stand up against what we could show them in the U nited States.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000006|The man that will understand her has got to take a biggish size in hats.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000062_000000|'Why, that is just what I can't tell you.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000062_000001|She was a great excavator of Babylonish and Hittite ruins, and she married a diplomat who went to glory three years back.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000062_000002|It isn't what she has been, but what she is, and that's a mighty clever woman.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000063_000000|Blenkiron's respect did not depress me.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000063_000002|I asked where she lived.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000064_000000|'That I don't know,' said Blenkiron. 'You won't find people unduly anxious to gratify your natural curiosity about Frau von Einem.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000065_000000|'I can find that out,' said Sandy. 'That's the advantage of having a push like mine.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000065_000001|Meantime, I've got to clear, for my day's work isn't finished.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000065_000002|Dick, you and peter must go to bed at once.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000066_000001|Sandy spoke like a medical adviser.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000067_000000|'Because I want your clothes-the things you've got on now.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000067_000001|I'll take them off with me and you'll never see them again.'
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000068_000000|'You've a queer taste in souvenirs,' I said.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000069_000000|'Say rather the Turkish police.
train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000069_000001|The current in the Bosporus is pretty strong, and these sad relics of two misguided Dutchmen will be washed up tomorrow about Seraglio Point.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000002_000000|A World of High Medical Knowledge.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000006_000002|With abounding interest I visited all the inhabited worlds of this vast system.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000006_000003|How long it took I have no way of knowing.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000007_000000|Some of these worlds sustain a low order of human creatures, while on others there are races that have reached a high degree in the scale of advancement.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000009_000000|I have named this world Dore lyn.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000009_000001|It is fifty times as large as our Earth and of greater specific gravity.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000000|There are no conflicting schools of medicines such as Allopathic, Homeopathic, Hydropathic, Eclectic and Osteopathic.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000002|Everything is duly tested and proved to be a success by a corps of experts before it is given to the practicing fraternity. The government holds certain rights in experimenting that no physician or medical school would think of having in our world.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000004|Nothing is spared that money or talent can furnish.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000005|The full graduates of these schools are only "the survival of the fittest." Others take a secondary degree and can act as assistants or retire from the list.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000016_000000|When a physician suspects that the blood is poisoned he at once proceeds to a chemical analysis, and if certain kinds of poison are found, the blood is filtered by the use of a fine instrument.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000016_000001|A blood vessel is exposed and cut, and the two ends fastened to the delicate filter.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000018_000001|Following is a list:
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000000|"Ashes of wolf's skull, stag's horn, the heads of mice, the eyes of crabs, owl's brains, liver of frogs, viper's fat, grasshoppers, bats, etc, these supplied the alkalis which were prescribed.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000004|For colic, powdered horse's teeth, dung of swine, asses' kidneys, mice excretion made into a plaster, and other equally vile and unsavory compounds.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000006|For sore throat, snail slime was a favorite prescription, and mouse flesh was considered excellent for disease of the lungs.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000007|Boiled snails and powdered bats were prescribed for intestinal disorders."
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000021_000001|Alcohol is unknown to them, but they have had a two thousand year's battle against three liquids that affect them as opium affects us.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000022_000000|Being interested in these things, I examined more closely into their past medical history, and saw more clearly the present folly of a certain part of our medicinal practice.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000024_000004|This simple act renders the spinal cord insensitive, which condition may be maintained for hours without injuring the patient.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000027_000000|A diseased body is looked upon as being in possession of a certain brood of microbes which are destroyed either by the blood filter or the "Vaccine bath, or injection." (I know no better name by which to call it.) A few diseases are treated by doses of medicines given in a manner similar to the prescription system of our country.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000030_000000|In performing operations, the experts of Dore lyn have reached a marvelous degree of perfection.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000030_000002|It took three and one half thousand years of continual experimenting on this delicate creation before it was pronounced satisfactory.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000031_000000|The false eye is not of flesh but one of manufacture.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000031_000001|It is placed in sensitive connection with the optic nerve, on which images are thrown by the delicate mechanism of the false eye.
train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000034_000001|Fatty tissues are removed and other obstructions eradicated during the regular heart beats.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000005_000000|CHAPTER thirty six.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000007_000004|Beverages, consisting of water, containing a considerable quantity of carbonic acid.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000007_000005|three.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000007_000006|Beverages composed partly of fermented liquors.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000008_000001|Of the common class of beverages, consisting of water impregnated with carbonic acid gas, we may name soda water, single and double, ordinary effervescing draughts, and ginger beer.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000009_000001|The beverages composed partly of fermented liquors, are hot spiced wines, bishop, egg flip, egg hot, ale posset, sack posset, punch, and spirits and water.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000010_000001|We will, however, forthwith treat on the most popular of our beverages, beginning with the one which makes "the cup that cheers but not inebriates."
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000011_000002|Pepys says, in his Diary,--"september twenty fifth sixteen sixty one.--I sent for a cup of tea (a China drink), of which I had never drunk before." Two years later it was so rare a commodity in England, that the English East India Company bought two pounds. two ounces. of it, as a present for his majesty.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000001|Linnaeus was induced to think that there were two species of tea plant, one of which produced the black, and the other the green teas; but later observations do not confirm this.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000002|When the leaves of black and green tea are expanded by hot water, and examined by the botanist, though a difference of character is perceived, yet this is not sufficient to authorize considering them as distinct species.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000003|The tea tree flourishes best in temperate regions; in China it is indigenous.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000004|The part of China where the best tea is cultivated, is called by us the "tea country." The cultivation of the plant requires great care.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000005|It is raised chiefly on the sides of hills; and, in order to increase the quantity and improve the quality of the leaves, the shrub is pruned, so as not to exceed the height of from two to three feet, much in the same manner as the vine is treated in France.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000006|They pluck the leaves, one selecting them according to the kinds of tea required; and, notwithstanding the tediousness of the operation, each labourer is able to gather from four to ten or fifteen pounds a day.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000008|Teas of the finest flavour consist of the youngest leaves; and as these are gathered at four different periods of the year, the younger the leaves the higher flavoured the tea, and the scarcer, and consequently the dearer, the article.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000013_000002|There are about a dozen different kinds; but the principal are Bohea, Congou, and Souchong, and signify, respectively, inferior, middling, and superior.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000014_000001|Tea, when chemically analyzed, is found to contain woody fibre, mucilage, a considerable quantity of the astringent principle, or tannin, a narcotic principle, which is, perhaps, connected with a peculiar aroma.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000014_000002|The tannin is shown by its striking a black colour with sulphate of iron, and is the cause of the dark stain which is always formed when tea is spilt upon buff coloured cottons dyed with iron.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000014_000006|We have in tea, of many kinds, a beverage which contains the active constituents of the most powerful mineral springs, and, however small the amount of iron may be which we daily take in this form, it cannot be destitute of influence on the vital processes."
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000015_000002|The leaves of the sloe, white thorn, ash, elder, and some others, have been employed for this purpose; such as the leaves of the speedwell, wild germander, black currants, syringa, purple spiked willow herb, sweet brier, and cherry tree.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000015_000003|Some of these are harmless, others are to a certain degree poisonous; as, for example, are the leaves of all the varieties of the plum and cherry tribe, to which the sloe belongs.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000015_000004|Adulteration by means of these leaves is by no means a new species of fraud; and several acts of parliament, from the time of George the second., have been passed, specifying severe penalties against those guilty of the offence, which, notwithstanding numerous convictions, continues to the present time.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000016_000002|The greatest care should be taken that it has not been exposed to the air, which destroys its flavour.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000017_000001|It would be impossible, in the space at our command, to enumerate the various modes adopted in different countries for "making coffee;" that is, the phrase commonly understood to mean the complete preparation of this delicious beverage for drinking.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000017_000002|For performing this operation, such recipes or methods as we have found most practical will be inserted in their proper place; but the following facts connected with coffee will be found highly interesting.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000019_000001|It appears that coffee was first introduced into England by Daniel Edwards, a Turkey merchant, whose servant, Pasqua, a Greek, understood the manner of roasting it.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000019_000002|This servant, under the patronage of Edwards, established the first coffee house in London, in George Yard, Lombard Street.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000020_000001|Of the various kinds of coffee the Arabian is considered the best. It is grown chiefly in the districts of Aden and Mocha; whence the name of our Mocha coffee.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000020_000002|Mocha coffee has a smaller and rounder bean than any other, and likewise a more agreeable smell and taste.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000021_000001|A considerable change takes place in the arrangement of the constituents of coffee by the application of heat in roasting it. Independently of one of the objects of roasting, namely, that of destroying its toughness and rendering it easily ground, its tannin and other principles are rendered partly soluble in water; and it is to the tannin that the brown colour of the decoction of coffee is owing.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000022_000001|The roasting of coffee in the best manner requires great nicety, and much of the qualities of the beverage depends upon the operation. The roasting of coffee for the dealers in London and Paris has now become a separate branch of business, and some of the roasters perform the operation on a great scale, with considerable skill.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000022_000002|Roasted coffee loses from twenty to thirty per cent, by sufficient roasting, and the powder suffers much by exposure to the air; but, while raw, it not only does not lose its flavour for a year or two, but improves by keeping.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000022_000003|If a cup of the best coffee be placed upon a table boiling hot, it will fill the room with its fragrance; but the coffee, when warmed again after being cold, will be found to have lost most of its flavour.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000023_000001|To have coffee in perfection, it should be roasted and ground just before it is used, and more should not be ground at a time than is wanted for immediate use, or, if it be necessary to grind more, it should be kept closed from the air.
train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000024_000001|With respect to the quantity of coffee used in making the decoction, much depends upon the taste of the consumer.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000002_000000|The next morning they drove to town again, passing slowly up the street of the little village to examine each building that might be a possible location for a newspaper office.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000002_000001|Here is a map that Patsy drew of Millville, which gives a fair idea of its arrangement:
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000003_000000|[Illustration: Village Street]
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000004_000000|Counting the dwellings there were exactly twelve buildings, and they all seemed occupied.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000000|When they reached the hardware store, opposite Cotting's, mr West, the proprietor, was standing on the broad platform in front of it.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000001|In many respects Bob West was the most important citizen of Millville.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000003|A widower of long standing, without children or near relatives, he occupied a suite of well appointed rooms over the hardware store and took his meals at the hotel.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000005|He was an authority in the town, too, and a man of real importance.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000006_000000|mr Merrick stopped his horse to speak with the hardware man, an old acquaintance.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000007_000000|"West," said he, "my girls are going to start a newspaper in Millville."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000008_000000|The merchant bowed gravely, perhaps to cover the trace of a smile he was unable to repress.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000009_000000|"It's to be a daily paper, you know," continued mr Merrick, "and it seems there's a lot of machinery in the outfit.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000009_000001|It'll need quite a bit of room, in other words, and we're looking for a place to install it."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000010_000000|West glanced along the street-up one side and down the other-and then shook his head negatively.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000011_000000|"Plenty of land, but no buildings," said he.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000011_000001|"You might buy the old mill and turn it into a newspaper office.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000012_000000|"It's too dusty and floury," said Patsy.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000012_000001|"We'd never get it clean, I'm sure."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000014_000000|West turned and looked at the shed reflectively.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000015_000000|"That is where I store my stock of farm machinery," he said.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000015_000002|In fact, I'm pretty well cleaned out of all surplus stock.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000015_000003|But next spring I shall need the place again."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000016_000000|"Good!" cried mr Merrick.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000016_000001|"That solves our problem.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000016_000002|Has it a floor?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000017_000000|"Yes; an excellent one; but only one small window."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000018_000000|"We can remedy that," declared Uncle john.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000018_000002|If it is, we'll build a fine new building for it; if it don't seem to prosper, we'll give you back the shed.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000018_000003|What do you say?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000019_000000|West thought it over.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000020_000001|All right, mr Merrick; I'll move the truck out and give you possession.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000020_000002|It won't make a bad newspaper office.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000020_000003|But of course you are to fit up the place at your own expense."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000021_000000|"Thank you very much, sir!" exclaimed Uncle john.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000021_000001|"I'll set Lon Taft at work at once.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000021_000002|Where can he be found?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000022_000000|"Playing billiards at the hotel, usually.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000022_000001|I suppose he is there now."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000023_000000|"Very good; I'll hunt him up.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000023_000001|What do you think of our newspaper scheme, West?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000024_000000|The old merchant hesitated.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000024_000001|Then he said slowly:
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000025_000000|"Whatever your charming and energetic nieces undertake, sir, will doubtless be well accomplished.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000025_000002|Money is the keystone to success."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000026_000000|"mr West," said Louise, with dignity, "we are depending chiefly on the literary merit of our newspaper to win recognition."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000027_000000|"Of course; of course!" said he hastily.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000027_000001|"Put me down as a subscriber, please, and rely upon my support at all times.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000027_000002|It is possible, young ladies-nay, quite probable, I should say-that your originality and genius will yet make Millville famous."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000028_000000|That speech pleased Uncle john, and as the hardware merchant bowed and turned away, mr Merrick said in his cheeriest tones: "He's quite right, my dears, and we're lucky to have found such a fine, roomy place for our establishment.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000029_000000|Over the long distance telephone mr Marvin reported that he had bought the required outfit and it was even then being loaded on the freight cars.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000030_000000|"I've arranged for a special engine," he added, "and if all goes well the freight will be on the sidetrack at Chazy Junction on Monday morning.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000030_000002|But he asks if you have arranged for your workmen.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000030_000003|How about it, mr Merrick? have you plenty of competent printers and pressmen at Millville?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000031_000000|"There are none at all," was the reply.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000031_000002|And, by the way, hire women or girls for every position they are competent to fill.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000032_000000|"I understand, sir."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000033_000000|Uncle john ordered everything he could think of and told his agent to add whatever the supply man thought might be needed.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000033_000001|This business being accomplished, he found Lon Taft at the hotel and instructed the carpenter to put rows of windows on both sides of the shed and to build partitions for an editorial office and a business office at the front.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000034_000000|This was the beginning of a busy period, especially for poor Uncle john, who had many details to attend to personally.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000034_000002|This rendered it necessary for mr Merrick to make a trip to Royal, to complete his arrangement with mr Skeelty, the manager.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000034_000003|He drove over with Arthur Weldon, in the buggy-four miles of hill climbing, over rough cobble stones, into the pine forest.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000035_000002|Adjoining the mill was the factory building where the pulp was rolled into print paper. Surrounding these huge buildings were some sixty small dwellings of the bungalow type, for the use of the workmen, built of rough boards, but neat and uniform in appearance.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000035_000004|The electric power plant was a building at the edge of Royal Waterfall, the low and persistent roar of which was scarcely drowned by the rumble of machinery.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000035_000005|Finally, at the edge of the clearing nearest the mills, stood the business office, and to this place mr Merrick and Arthur at once proceeded.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000036_000000|They found the office a busy place.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000036_000002|The young fellow had improved in appearance, having discarded his frayed gray suit for one of plain brown khaki, such as many of the workmen wore, a supply being carried by the company's store. He was clean shaven and trim, and a gentlemanly bearing had replaced the careless, half defiant attitude of the former hobo.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000036_000003|It was evident he remembered meeting mr Merrick, for he smiled and returned the "nabob's" nod.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000037_000000|mr Skeelty had a private enclosed office in a corner of the room.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000037_000001|Being admitted to this sanctum, the visitors found the manager to be a small, puffy individual about forty five years of age, with shrewd, beadlike black eyes and an insolent assumption of super importance.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000037_000002|Skeelty interrupted his task of running up columns of impressive figures to ask his callers to be seated, and opened the interview with characteristic abruptness.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000000|"You're Merrick, eh?
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000001|I remember.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000002|You want to buy power, and we have it to sell.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000003|How much will you contract to take?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000039_000000|"I don't know just how much we need," answered Uncle john.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000039_000001|"We want enough to run a newspaper plant at Millville, and will pay for whatever we use.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000039_000002|I've ordered a meter, as you asked me to do, and my men are now stringing the cables to make the connection."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000040_000000|"Pah! a newspaper.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000040_000001|How absurd," said mr Skeelty with scornful emphasis. "Your name, Merrick, is not unknown to me.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000040_000002|It stands for financial success, I understand; but I'll bet you never made your money doing such fool things as establishing newspapers in graveyards."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000041_000000|Uncle john looked at the man attentively.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000042_000000|"I shall refrain from criticising your conduct of this mill, mr Skeelty," he quietly observed, "nor shall I dictate what you may do with your money-provided you succeed in making any."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000043_000000|The manager smiled broadly, as if the retort pleased him.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000044_000000|"Give an' take, sir; that's my motto," he said.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000045_000000|"But you prefer to take?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000046_000000|"I do," was the cheerful reply.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000046_000001|"I'll take your paper, for instance-if it isn't too high priced."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000048_000000|mr Skeelty stared at him a moment.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000048_000001|Then he laughed.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000049_000000|"They're mostly foreigners, mr Merrick, who haven't yet fully mastered the English language.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000049_000001|But," he added, thoughtfully, "a few among them might subscribe, if your country sheet contains any news of interest at all.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000049_000005|Don't appreciate the advantages of country life, you see, and I've an idea they'll begin to desert, pretty soon.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000050_000000|"It's a penny paper," said Uncle john.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000050_000001|"The subscription is only thirty cents a month."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000051_000000|"Delivered?"
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000052_000000|"I suppose so."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000053_000000|"Well, I'll pay you twenty cents, and keep the balance for commission. That's fair enough."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000054_000000|"Very well, mr Skeelty.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000054_000002|Get all you can, at that rate."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000055_000000|After signing a contract for the supply of electrical power, whereby he was outrageously robbed but the supply was guaranteed, mr Merrick and Arthur returned to the farm.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000056_000000|"That man," said Louise's young husband, referring to the manager of the paper mill, "is an unmitigated scoundrel, sir."
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000057_000000|"I won't deny it," replied mr Merrick.
train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000057_000002|No wonder the poor fellows get dissatisfied."
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000000_000000|OF LIBERTY AND NECESSITY.
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000001_000000|PART one
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000011_000002|Such a uniformity in every particular, is found in no part of nature.
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000018_000002|He also expects that, when he carries his goods to market, and offers them at a reasonable price, he shall find purchasers, and shall be able, by the money he acquires, to engage others to supply him with those commodities which are requisite for his subsistence.
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000021_000001|I shall therefore change the suppositions.
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000025_000004|For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact.
train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000027_000002|But if the foregoing explication of the matter be received, this must be absolutely impracticable.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000002_000000|Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000003_000000|Before the gods that made the gods Had drunk at dawn their fill, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was hoary on the hill.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000005_000000|For the White Horse knew England When there was none to know; He saw the first oar break or bend, He saw heaven fall and the world end, O God, how long ago.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000006_000000|For the end of the world was long ago, And all we dwell to day As children of some second birth, Like a strange people left on earth After a judgment day.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000008_000000|When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging Of the nations in the night.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000009_000000|When the ends of the earth came marching in To torch and cresset gleam. And the roads of the world that lead to Rome Were filled with faces that moved like foam, Like faces in a dream.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000010_000000|And men rode out of the eastern lands, Broad river and burning plain; Trees that are Titan flowers to see, And tiger skies, striped horribly, With tints of tropic rain.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000011_000000|Where Ind's enamelled peaks arise Around that inmost one, Where ancient eagles on its brink, Vast as archangels, gather and drink The sacrament of the sun
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000012_000000|And men brake out of the northern lands, Enormous lands alone, Where a spell is laid upon life and lust And the rain is changed to a silver dust And the sea to a great green stone.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000013_000000|And a Shape that moveth murkily In mirrors of ice and night, Hath blanched with fear all beasts and birds, As death and a shock of evil words Blast a man's hair with white.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000014_000000|And the cry of the palms and the purple moons, Or the cry of the frost and foam, Swept ever around an inmost place, And the din of distant race on race Cried and replied round Rome.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000015_000000|And there was death on the Emperor And night upon the Pope: And Alfred, hiding in deep grass, Hardened his heart with hope.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000016_000000|A sea folk blinder than the sea Broke all about his land, But Alfred up against them bare And gripped the ground and grasped the air, Staggered, and strove to stand.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000017_000000|He bent them back with spear and spade, With desperate dyke and wall, With foemen leaning on his shield And roaring on him when he reeled; And no help came at all.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000018_000000|He broke them with a broken sword A little towards the sea, And for one hour of panting peace, Ringed with a roar that would not cease, With golden crown and girded fleece Made laws under a tree.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000019_000000|The Northmen came about our land A Christless chivalry: Who knew not of the arch or pen, Great, beautiful half witted men From the sunrise and the sea.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000021_000000|Our towns were shaken of tall kings With scarlet beards like blood: The world turned empty where they trod, They took the kindly cross of God And cut it up for wood.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000022_000000|Their souls were drifting as the sea, And all good towns and lands They only saw with heavy eyes, And broke with heavy hands,
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000023_000000|Their gods were sadder than the sea, Gods of a wandering will, Who cried for blood like beasts at night, Sadly, from hill to hill.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000024_000000|They seemed as trees walking the earth, As witless and as tall, Yet they took hold upon the heavens And no help came at all.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000025_000000|They bred like birds in English woods, They rooted like the rose, When Alfred came to Athelney To hide him from their bows
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000026_000000|There was not English armour left, Nor any English thing, When Alfred came to Athelney To be an English king.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000028_000000|And the great kings of Wessex Wearied and sank in gore, And even their ghosts in that great stress Grew greyer and greyer, less and less, With the lords that died in Lyonesse And the king that comes no more.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000029_000000|And the God of the Golden Dragon Was dumb upon his throne, And the lord of the Golden Dragon Ran in the woods alone.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000030_000000|And if ever he climbed the crest of luck And set the flag before, Returning as a wheel returns, Came ruin and the rain that burns, And all began once more.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000031_000000|And naught was left King Alfred But shameful tears of rage, In the island in the river In the end of all his age.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000034_000000|It was wrought in the monk's slow manner, From silver and sanguine shell, Where the scenes are little and terrible, Keyholes of heaven and hell.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000035_000000|In the river island of Athelney, With the river running past, In colours of such simple creed All things sprang at him, sun and weed, Till the grass grew to be grass indeed And the tree was a tree at last.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000037_000000|Her face was like an open word When brave men speak and choose, The very colours of her coat Were better than good news.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000038_000000|She spoke not, nor turned not, Nor any sign she cast, Only she stood up straight and free, Between the flowers in Athelney, And the river running past.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000039_000000|One dim ancestral jewel hung On his ruined armour grey, He rent and cast it at her feet: Where, after centuries, with slow feet, Men came from hall and school and street And found it where it lay.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000040_000000|"Mother of God," the wanderer said, "I am but a common king, Nor will I ask what saints may ask, To see a secret thing.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000043_000000|"When our last bow is broken, Queen, And our last javelin cast, Under some sad, green evening sky, Holding a ruined cross on high, Under warm westland grass to lie, Shall we come home at last?"
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000044_000000|And a voice came human but high up, Like a cottage climbed among The clouds; or a serf of hut and croft That sits by his hovel fire as oft, But hears on his old bare roof aloft A belfry burst in song.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000045_000000|"The gates of heaven are lightly locked, We do not guard our gain, The heaviest hind may easily Come silently and suddenly Upon me in a lane.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000046_000000|"And any little maid that walks In good thoughts apart, May break the guard of the Three Kings And see the dear and dreadful things I hid within my heart.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000047_000000|"The meanest man in grey fields gone Behind the set of sun, Heareth between star and other star, Through the door of the darkness fallen ajar, The council, eldest of things that are, The talk of the Three in One.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000048_000000|"The gates of heaven are lightly locked, We do not guard our gold, Men may uproot where worlds begin, Or read the name of the nameless sin; But if he fail or if he win To no good man is told.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000049_000000|"The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000050_000000|"The men of the East may search the scrolls For sure fates and fame, But the men that drink the blood of God Go singing to their shame.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000051_000000|"The wise men know what wicked things Are written on the sky, They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, Hearing the heavy purple wings, Where the forgotten seraph kings Still plot how God shall die.
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000055_000000|"Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?"
train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000057_000000|He only heard the heathen men, Whose eyes are blue and bleak, Singing about some cruel thing Done by a great and smiling king In daylight on a deck.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000007_000000|King Guthrum lay on the upper land, On a single road at gaze, And his foe must come with lean array, Up the left arm of the cloven way, To the meeting of the ways.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000008_000000|And long ere the noise of armour, An hour ere the break of light, The woods awoke with crash and cry, And the birds sprang clamouring harsh and high, And the rabbits ran like an elves' army Ere Alfred came in sight.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000009_000000|The live wood came at Guthrum, On foot and claw and wing, The nests were noisy overhead, For Alfred and the star of red, All life went forth, and the forest fled Before the face of the King.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000010_000000|But halted in the woodways Christ's few were grim and grey, And each with a small, far, bird like sight Saw the high folly of the fight; And though strange joys had grown in the night, Despair grew with the day.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000013_000000|In the eyes Italian all things But a black laughter died; And Alfred flung his shield to earth And smote his breast and cried-
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000018_000000|"I was a fool and wasted ale- My slaves found it sweet; I was a fool and wasted bread, And the birds had bread to eat.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000021_000000|"But yoke me my own oxen, Down to my own farm; My own dog will whine for me, My own friends will bend the knee, And the foes I slew openly Have never wished me harm."
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000022_000000|And all were moved a little, But Colan stood apart, Having first pity, and after Hearing, like rat in rafter, That little worm of laughter That eats the Irish heart.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000031_000000|"Lift not my head from bloody ground, Bear not my body home, For all the earth is Roman earth And I shall die in Rome."
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000032_000000|Then Alfred, King of England, Bade blow the horns of war, And fling the Golden Dragon out, With crackle and acclaim and shout, Scrolled and aflame and far.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000034_000000|And when they came to the open land They wheeled, deployed and stood; Midmost were Marcus and the King, And Eldred on the right-hand wing, And leftwards Colan darkling, In the last shade of the wood.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000035_000000|But the Earls of the Great Army Lay like a long half moon, Ten poles before their palisades, With wide winged helms and runic blades Red giants of an age of raids, In the thornland of Ethandune.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000036_000000|Midmost the saddles rose and swayed, And a stir of horses' manes, Where Guthrum and a few rode high On horses seized in victory; But Ogier went on foot to die, In the old way of the Danes.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000037_000000|Far to the King's left Elf the bard Led on the eastern wing With songs and spells that change the blood; And on the King's right Harold stood, The kinsman of the King.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000039_000000|But as he came before his line A little space along, His beardless face broke into mirth, And he cried: "What broken bits of earth Are here?
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000040_000000|For Colan was hung with raiment Tattered like autumn leaves, And his men were all as thin as saints, And all as poor as thieves.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000041_000000|No bows nor slings nor bolts they bore, But bills and pikes ill made; And none but Colan bore a sword, And rusty was its blade.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000042_000000|And Colan's eyes with mystery And iron laughter stirred, And he spoke aloud, but lightly Not labouring to be heard.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000047_000000|Not less barbarian laughter Choked Harold like a flood, "And shall I fight with scarecrows That am of Guthrum's blood?
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000051_000000|To his great gold ear ring Harold Tugged back the feathered tail, And swift had sprung the arrow, But swifter sprang the Gael.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000053_000000|Colan stood bare and weaponless, Earl Harold, as in pain, Strove for a smile, put hand to head, Stumbled and suddenly fell dead; And the small white daisies all waxed red With blood out of his brain.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000054_000000|And all at that marvel of the sword, Cast like a stone to slay, Cried out.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000054_000002|Verily Man shall not taste of victory Till he throws his sword away."
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000056_000000|And the King said, "Do thou take my sword Who have done this deed of fire, For this is the manner of Christian men, Whether of steel or priestly pen, That they cast their hearts out of their ken To get their heart's desire.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000057_000000|"And whether ye swear a hive of monks, Or one fair wife to friend, This is the manner of Christian men, That their oath endures the end.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000059_000000|"Love with the shield of the Broken Heart Ever his bow doth bend, With a single shaft for a single prize, And the ultimate bolt that parts and flies Comes with a thunder of split skies, And a sound of souls that rend.
train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000060_000000|"So shall you earn a king's sword, Who cast your sword away." And the King took, with a random eye, A rude axe from a hind hard by And turned him to the fray.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000002_000000|As the sea flooding the flat sands Flew on the sea born horde, The two hosts shocked with dust and din, Left of the Latian paladin, Clanged all Prince Harold's howling kin On Colan and the sword.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000005_000000|But like a cloud of morning To eastward easily, Tall Eldred broke the sea of spears As a tall ship breaks the sea.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000007_000000|As the tall white devil of the Plague Moves out of Asian skies, With his foot on a waste of cities And his head in a cloud of flies;
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000008_000000|Or purple and peacock skies grow dark With a moving locust tower; Or tawny sand winds tall and dry, Like hell's red banners beat and fly, When death comes out of Araby, Was Eldred in his hour.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000012_000000|Till on the helm of a high chief Fell shatteringly his brand, And the helm broke and the bone broke And the sword broke in his hand.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000014_000000|Seven spears, and the seventh Was wrought as the faerie blades, And given to Elf the minstrel By the monstrous water maids;
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000017_000000|Thrice drowned was Elf the minstrel, And washed as dead on sand; And the third time men found him The spear was in his hand.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000023_000000|Centre and right the Wessex guard Grew pale for doubt and fear, And the flank failed at the advance, For the death light on the wizard lance- The star of the evil spear.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000024_000000|"Stand like an oak," cried Marcus, "Stand like a Roman wall! Eldred the Good is fallen- Are you too good to fall?
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000027_000000|"The lamps are dying in your homes, The fruits upon your bough; Even now your old thatch smoulders, Gurth, Now is the judgment of the earth, Now is the death grip, now!"
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000030_000000|But Mark was come of the glittering towns Where hot white details show, Where men can number and expound, And his faith grew in a hard ground Of doubt and reason and falsehood found, Where no faith else could grow.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000031_000000|Belief that grew of all beliefs One moment back was blown And belief that stood on unbelief Stood up iron and alone.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000035_000000|"Spears at the charge!" yelled Mark amain. "Death on the gods of death! Over the thrones of doom and blood Goeth God that is a craftsman good, And gold and iron, earth and wood, Loveth and laboureth.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000036_000000|"The fruits leap up in all your farms, The lamps in each abode; God of all good things done on earth, All wheels or webs of any worth, The God that makes the roof, Gurth, The God that makes the road.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000041_000000|Dealing far blows about the fight, Like thunder bolts a roam, Like birds about the battle field, While Ogier writhed under his shield Like a tortoise in his dome.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000043_000000|Then the great statue on the shield Looked his last look around With level and imperial eye; And Mark, the man from Italy, Fell in the sea of agony, And died without a sound.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000050_000000|"The blind gods roar for Rome fallen, And forum and garland gone, For the ice of the north is broken, And the sea of the north comes on.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000055_000000|"But whatso hap at the end of the world, Where Nothing is struck and sounds, It is not, by Thor, these monkish men These humbled Wessex hounds-
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000058_000000|There was that in the wild men back of him, There was that in his own wild song, A dizzy throbbing, a drunkard smoke, That dazed to death all Wessex folk, And swept their spears along.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000059_000000|Vainly the sword of Colan And the axe of Alfred plied- The Danes poured in like a brainless plague, And knew not when they died.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000060_000000|Prince Colan slew a score of them, And was stricken to his knee; King Alfred slew a score and seven And was borne back on a tree.
train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000063_000000|The thorn woods over Ethandune Stand sharp and thick as spears, By night and furze and forest harms Far sundered were the friends in arms; The loud lost blows, the last alarms, Came not to Alfred's ears.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000000_000004|He may make, but he cannot conclude, a treaty; he may designate, but he cannot appoint, a public officer.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000000_000006|The President of the United States is responsible for his actions; but the person of the King is declared inviolable by the French Charter.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000003_000003|The fundamental principle of legislation-a principle essentially republican-is the same in both countries, although its consequences may be different, and its results more or less extensive. Whence I am led to conclude that France with its King is nearer akin to a republic than the Union with its President is to a monarchy.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000014_000000|Why The President Of The United States Does Not Require The Majority Of The Two Houses In Order To Carry On The Government It is an established axiom in Europe that a constitutional King cannot persevere in a system of government which is opposed by the two other branches of the legislature.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000016_000004|In Europe, harmony must reign between the Crown and the other branches of the legislature, because a collision between them may prove serious; in America, this harmony is not indispensable, because such a collision is impossible.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000017_000000|Election Of The President
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000020_000000|It is clear that the greater the privileges of the executive authority are, the greater is the temptation; the more the ambition of the candidates is excited, the more warmly are their interests espoused by a throng of partisans who hope to share the power when their patron has won the prize.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000020_000004|To reduce hereditary royalty to the condition of an elective authority, the only means that I am acquainted with are to circumscribe its sphere of action beforehand, gradually to diminish its prerogatives, and to accustom the people to live without its protection.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000026_000004|In America the President exercises a certain influence on State affairs, but he does not conduct them; the preponderating power is vested in the representatives of the whole nation.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000026_000005|The political maxims of the country depend therefore on the mass of the people, not on the President alone; and consequently in America the elective system has no very prejudicial influence on the fixed principles of the Government.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000029_000002|In America society is so constituted that it can stand without assistance upon its own basis; nothing is to be feared from the pressure of external dangers, and the election of the President is a cause of agitation, but not of ruin.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000033_000001|The nation possessed two of the main causes of internal peace; it was a new country, but it was inhabited by a people grown old in the exercise of freedom.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000034_000005|This mode of election rendered a majority more probable; for the fewer the electors are, the greater is the chance of their coming to a final decision.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000040_000001|Ten of these elections took place simultaneously by the votes of the special electors in the different States.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000040_000002|The House of Representatives has only twice exercised its conditional privilege of deciding in cases of uncertainty; the first time was at the election of mr Jefferson in eighteen o one; the second was in eighteen twenty five, when mr Quincy Adams was named.
train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000043_000000|The Election may be considered as a national crisis-Why?--Passions of the people-Anxiety of the President-Calm which succeeds the agitation of the election.
train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000005_000004|She felt instinctively that this was wrong and mean, and whenever the feeling of remorse was strong within her she made a desperate effort to please her grim and difficult relative.
train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000005_000006|The searching look of the eyes, the sharp voice, the hard knotty fingers, the thin straight lips, the long silences, the "front piece" that didn't match her hair, the very obvious "parting" that seemed sewed in with linen thread on black net,--there was not a single item that appealed to Rebecca.
train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000011_000000|"I know.
train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000011_000001|But mr Watson says he'll take back part of it, and let us have pink and blue for the same price."
train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000032_000000|"What princes?
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000001_000000|RIVERBORO SECRETS
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000009_000002|First they had it I wanted to marry the minister, and when he took a wife in Standish I was known to be disappointed.
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000014_000001|Let me wipe off that strawberry jam over your mouth."
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000025_000000|"I'll take that piece of coral away from you, and I THINK I shall slap you besides!"
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000026_000000|"You wouldn't darst," retorted Minnie.
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000026_000001|"If you do, I'll tell my mother and the teacher, so there!"
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000028_000001|"She THREATENED me," whispered Minnie, "but I never believe a word she says."
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000030_000001|This was the note:--
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000033_000000|R. Randall.
train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000034_000000|The effect of this piece of doggerel was entirely convincing, and for days afterwards whenever Minnie met the Simpsons even a mile from the brick house she shuddered and held her peace.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000000|Poor Winterbourne was amused, perplexed, and decidedly charmed.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000001|He had never yet heard a young girl express herself in just this fashion; never, at least, save in cases where to say such things seemed a kind of demonstrative evidence of a certain laxity of deportment.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000002|And yet was he to accuse Miss Daisy Miller of actual or potential inconduite, as they said at Geneva?
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000003|He felt that he had lived at Geneva so long that he had lost a good deal; he had become dishabituated to the American tone. Never, indeed, since he had grown old enough to appreciate things, had he encountered a young American girl of so pronounced a type as this. Certainly she was very charming, but how deucedly sociable!
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000007|Winterbourne had lost his instinct in this matter, and his reason could not help him. Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000008|Some people had told him that, after all, American girls were exceedingly innocent; and others had told him that, after all, they were not.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000009|He was inclined to think Miss Daisy Miller was a flirt-a pretty American flirt.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000011|He had known, here in Europe, two or three women-persons older than Miss Daisy Miller, and provided, for respectability's sake, with husbands-who were great coquettes-dangerous, terrible women, with whom one's relations were liable to take a serious turn.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000012|But this young girl was not a coquette in that sense; she was very unsophisticated; she was only a pretty American flirt.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000014|He leaned back in his seat; he remarked to himself that she had the most charming nose he had ever seen; he wondered what were the regular conditions and limitations of one's intercourse with a pretty American flirt.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000015|It presently became apparent that he was on the way to learn.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000002_000000|"Yes, formerly, more than once," said Winterbourne.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000002_000001|"You too, I suppose, have seen it?"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000003_000000|"No; we haven't been there.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000003_000001|I want to go there dreadfully.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000003_000002|Of course I mean to go there.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000004_000000|"It's a very pretty excursion," said Winterbourne, "and very easy to make.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000004_000001|You can drive, you know, or you can go by the little steamer."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000005_000000|"You can go in the cars," said Miss Miller.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000006_000000|"Yes; you can go in the cars," Winterbourne assented.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000001|"We were going last week, but my mother gave out.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000002|She suffers dreadfully from dyspepsia.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000003|She said she couldn't go.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000004|Randolph wouldn't go either; he says he doesn't think much of old castles.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000005|But I guess we'll go this week, if we can get Randolph."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000009_000000|"He says he don't care much about old castles.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000009_000002|He wants to stay at the hotel.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000010_000001|"Couldn't you get some one to stay for the afternoon with Randolph?"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000011_000000|Miss Miller looked at him a moment, and then, very placidly, "I wish YOU would stay with him!" she said.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000012_000000|Winterbourne hesitated a moment.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000012_000001|"I should much rather go to Chillon with you."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000014_000000|She didn't rise, blushing, as a young girl at Geneva would have done; and yet Winterbourne, conscious that he had been very bold, thought it possible she was offended.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000014_000001|"With your mother," he answered very respectfully.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000015_000000|But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost upon Miss Daisy Miller.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000015_000001|"I guess my mother won't go, after all," she said.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000015_000002|"She don't like to ride round in the afternoon.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000017_000000|"Then we may arrange it.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000018_000000|"Eugenio?" the young man inquired.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000019_000000|"Eugenio's our courier.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000019_000002|But he's a splendid courier.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000019_000003|I guess he'll stay at home with Randolph if mother does, and then we can go to the castle."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000020_000002|Possibly he would have done so and quite spoiled the project, but at this moment another person, presumably Eugenio, appeared.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000020_000004|"Oh, Eugenio!" said Miss Miller with the friendliest accent.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000024_000000|Eugenio's tone apparently threw, even to Miss Miller's own apprehension, a slightly ironical light upon the young girl's situation.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000024_000001|She turned to Winterbourne, blushing a little-a very little.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000025_000000|"I shall not be happy till we go!" he protested.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000027_000001|The young man, at least, thought his manner of looking an offense to Miss Miller; it conveyed an imputation that she "picked up" acquaintances.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000001|"Oh yes, I have observed them.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000002|Seen them-heard them-and kept out of their way." mrs Costello was a widow with a fortune; a person of much distinction, who frequently intimated that, if she were not so dreadfully liable to sick headaches, she would probably have left a deeper impress upon her time.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000006|Her nephew, who had come up to Vevey expressly to see her, was therefore more attentive than those who, as she said, were nearer to her.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000007|He had imbibed at Geneva the idea that one must always be attentive to one's aunt.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000009|She admitted that she was very exclusive; but, if he were acquainted with New York, he would see that one had to be.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000010|And her picture of the minutely hierarchical constitution of the society of that city, which she presented to him in many different lights, was, to Winterbourne's imagination, almost oppressively striking.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000031_000000|He immediately perceived, from her tone, that Miss Daisy Miller's place in the social scale was low.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000031_000001|"I am afraid you don't approve of them," he said.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000032_000000|"They are very common," mrs Costello declared.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000034_000000|"I can't, my dear Frederick.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000034_000001|I would if I could, but I can't."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000035_000000|"The young girl is very pretty," said Winterbourne in a moment.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000036_000000|"Of course she's pretty.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000036_000001|But she is very common."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000038_000000|"She has that charming look that they all have," his aunt resumed.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000038_000001|"I can't think where they pick it up; and she dresses in perfection-no, you don't know how well she dresses.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000038_000002|I can't think where they get their taste."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000040_000000|"She is a young lady," said mrs Costello, "who has an intimacy with her mamma's courier."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000041_000000|"An intimacy with the courier?" the young man demanded.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000000|"Oh, the mother is just as bad!
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000001|They treat the courier like a familiar friend-like a gentleman.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000002|I shouldn't wonder if he dines with them. Very likely they have never seen a man with such good manners, such fine clothes, so like a gentleman.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000003|He probably corresponds to the young lady's idea of a count.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000004|He sits with them in the garden in the evening. I think he smokes."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000043_000000|Winterbourne listened with interest to these disclosures; they helped him to make up his mind about Miss Daisy.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000043_000001|Evidently she was rather wild. "Well," he said, "I am not a courier, and yet she was very charming to me."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000044_000000|"You had better have said at first," said mrs Costello with dignity, "that you had made her acquaintance."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000046_000001|And pray what did you say?"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000048_000000|"I am much obliged to you."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000050_000000|"And pray who is to guarantee hers?"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000052_000000|"You don't say that as if you believed it," mrs Costello observed.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000053_000000|"She is completely uncultivated," Winterbourne went on.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000053_000001|"But she is wonderfully pretty, and, in short, she is very nice.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000054_000000|"You two are going off there together?
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000054_000001|I should say it proved just the contrary.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000054_000003|You haven't been twenty four hours in the house."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000055_000000|"I have known her half an hour!" said Winterbourne, smiling.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000056_000001|"What a dreadful girl!"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000057_000000|Her nephew was silent for some moments.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000058_000000|"Think what, sir?" said his aunt.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000059_000000|"That she is the sort of young lady who expects a man, sooner or later, to carry her off?"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000000|"I haven't the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000001|But I really think that you had better not meddle with little American girls that are uncultivated, as you call them.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000002|You have lived too long out of the country.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000003|You will be sure to make some great mistake.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000004|You are too innocent."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000061_000000|"My dear aunt, I am not so innocent," said Winterbourne, smiling and curling his mustache.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000063_000001|"You won't let the poor girl know you then?" he asked at last.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000065_000000|"I think that she fully intends it."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000066_000000|"Then, my dear Frederick," said mrs Costello, "I must decline the honor of her acquaintance.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000066_000001|I am an old woman, but I am not too old, thank Heaven, to be shocked!"
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000067_000000|"But don't they all do these things-the young girls in America?" Winterbourne inquired.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000068_000000|mrs Costello stared a moment.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000068_000001|"I should like to see my granddaughters do them!" she declared grimly.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000069_000001|Winterbourne was impatient to see her again, and he was vexed with himself that, by instinct, he should not appreciate her justly.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000070_000000|Though he was impatient to see her, he hardly knew what he should say to her about his aunt's refusal to become acquainted with her; but he discovered, promptly enough, that with Miss Daisy Miller there was no great need of walking on tiptoe.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000070_000001|He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000070_000002|It was ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000072_000000|"I have been walking round with mother.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000072_000001|But mother gets tired walking round," she answered.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000000|"No; she doesn't like to go to bed," said the young girl.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000001|"She doesn't sleep-not three hours.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000003|She's dreadfully nervous.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000005|She's gone somewhere after Randolph; she wants to try to get him to go to bed.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000006|He doesn't like to go to bed."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000075_000000|"Let us hope she will persuade him," observed Winterbourne.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000000|"She will talk to him all she can; but he doesn't like her to talk to him," said Miss Daisy, opening her fan.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000001|"She's going to try to get Eugenio to talk to him.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000004|I don't believe he'll go to bed before eleven."
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000005|It appeared that Randolph's vigil was in fact triumphantly prolonged, for Winterbourne strolled about with the young girl for some time without meeting her mother.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000007|"She's your aunt." Then, on Winterbourne's admitting the fact and expressing some curiosity as to how she had learned it, she said she had heard all about mrs Costello from the chambermaid.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000008|She was very quiet and very comme il faut; she wore white puffs; she spoke to no one, and she never dined at the table d'hote.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000009|Every two days she had a headache.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000011|"I want to know her ever so much.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000012|I know just what YOUR aunt would be; I know I should like her.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000013|She would be very exclusive.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000015|Well, we ARE exclusive, mother and i We don't speak to everyone-or they don't speak to us.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000016|I suppose it's about the same thing.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000077_000000|Winterbourne was embarrassed.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000078_000000|The young girl looked at him through the dusk.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000079_000001|"She tells me she does," he answered at last, not knowing what to say.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000080_000000|Miss Daisy Miller stopped and stood looking at him.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000080_000001|Her prettiness was still visible in the darkness; she was opening and closing her enormous fan.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000080_000004|You needn't be afraid.
train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000081_000000|Winterbourne fancied there was a tremor in her voice; he was touched, shocked, mortified by it.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000003_000000|In the great city in which he lived there was always something going on; every day many strangers came there.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000004_000000|'Those must indeed be splendid clothes,' thought the Emperor.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000004_000001|'If I had them on I could find out which men in my kingdom are unfit for the offices they hold; I could distinguish the wise from the stupid!
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000004_000002|Yes, this cloth must be woven for me at once.' And he gave both the impostors much money, so that they might begin their work.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000006_000000|'I should like very much to know how far they have got on with the cloth,' thought the Emperor.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000006_000001|But he remembered when he thought about it that whoever was stupid or not fit for his office would not be able to see it.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000009_000000|Both the impostors begged him to be so kind as to step closer, and asked him if it were not a beautiful texture and lovely colours.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000010_000001|I have never thought that, and nobody must know it!
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000010_000003|No, I must certainly not say that I cannot see the cloth!'
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000012_000001|'What a texture!
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000012_000002|What colours!
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000017_000002|'Yes, it is quite beautiful,' he said to the Emperor.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000019_000000|Now the Emperor wanted to see it himself while it was still on the loom.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000019_000001|With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the worthy statesmen who had already been there before, he went to the cunning impostors, who were now weaving with all their might, but without fibre or thread.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000020_000000|'Is it not splendid!' said both the old statesmen who had already been there.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000020_000002|What colours!' And then they pointed to the empty loom, for they believed that the others could see the cloth quite well.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000000|'What!' thought the Emperor, 'I can see nothing!
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000002|Am I stupid?
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000003|Am I not fit to be Emperor?
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000004|That were the most dreadful thing that could happen to me.
train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000006|'It has my gracious approval.' And then he nodded pleasantly, and examined the empty loom, for he would not say that he could see nothing.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000000_000000|BLOCKHEAD HANS
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000004_000002|All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called 'Blockhead Hans.'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000005_000001|You are in your Sunday best clothes!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000006_000000|'We are going to Court, to woo the Princess!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000007_000000|'Hurrah!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000007_000001|I'll go to!' cried Blockhead Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000008_000000|'Dear father!' cried Blockhead Hans, 'I must have a horse too.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000008_000001|What a desire for marriage has seized me!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000009_000000|'Stop that nonsense!' said the old man.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000009_000001|'I will not give you a horse. YOU can't speak; YOU don't know how to choose your words.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000009_000002|Your brothers! Ah! they are very different lads!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000010_000000|'Well,' said Blockhead Hans, 'if I can't have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000011_000000|And he did so.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000013_000000|'Hullo!' bawled Blockhead Hans, 'here I am!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000013_000001|Just look what I found on the road!'--and he showed them a dead crow which he had picked up.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000014_000000|'Blockhead!' said his brothers, 'what are you going to do with it?'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000015_000000|'With the crow?
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000015_000001|I shall give it to the Princess!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000016_000000|'Do so, certainly!' they said, laughing loudly and riding on.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000017_000000|'Slap! bang! here I am again!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000017_000001|Look what I have just found!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000018_000001|Are you going to send that, too, to the Princess?'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000020_000000|'Slap! bang! here I am!' cried Blockhead Hans; 'better and better-it is really famous!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000022_000000|'Oh,' said Blockhead Hans, 'it is really too good!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000022_000001|How pleased the Princess will be!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000023_000000|'Why!' said the brothers, 'this is pure mud, straight from the ditch.'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000024_000000|'Of course it is!' said Blockhead Hans, 'and it is the best kind!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000024_000001|Look how it runs through one's fingers!' and, so saying, he filled his pocket with the mud.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000025_000001|This was a very good thing, for otherwise they would have torn each other in pieces, merely because the one was in front of the other.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000027_000000|'It doesn't matter!' said the Princess. 'Away! out with him!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000029_000000|'It is hot in here, isn't it!' said the suitor.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000030_000001|My father is roasting young chickens to day!' said the Princess.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000031_000001|He was not prepared for such a speech; he did not know what to say, although he wanted to say something witty.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000035_000000|'Of course!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000036_000000|'How do you-um!' he said, and the reporters wrote down.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000036_000001|'How do you-um.'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000037_000000|'It doesn't matter!' said the Princess. 'Take him out!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000040_000000|'Of course!
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000041_000000|'That's good!' replied Blockhead Hans; 'then can I roast a crow with them?'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000042_000000|'With the greatest of pleasure!' said the Princess; 'but have you anything you can roast them in? for I have neither pot nor saucepan.'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000045_000001|'I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!' and he poured some mud out of his pocket.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000046_000000|'I like you!' said the Princess.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000046_000002|And the reporters giggled, and each dropped a blot of ink on the floor.
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000048_000000|'That was neatly done!' said the Princess. 'I couldn't have done it; but I will soon learn how to!'
train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000049_000000|Blockhead Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters-and they are not to be believed for a moment.
train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000000_000000|This is a LibriVox recording.
train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000008_000006|The solution given by Socrates is as follows:--
train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000010_000002|Ion is confident that Socrates would never think him mad if he could only hear his embellishments of Homer.
train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000010_000006|Ion is compelled to admit that every man will judge of his own particular art better than the rhapsode.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000001_000000|PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Ion.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000003_000000|ION: No, Socrates; but from Epidaurus, where I attended the festival of Asclepius.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000008_000000|SOCRATES: Well done; and I hope that you will do the same for us at the Panathenaea.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000021_000000|ION: Very true:
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000023_000000|ION: A prophet.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000025_000000|ION: Clearly.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000029_000000|ION: Yes, Socrates; but not in the same way as Homer.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000030_000000|SOCRATES: What, in a worse way?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000031_000000|ION: Yes, in a far worse.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000035_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000041_000000|ION: Clearly the same.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000047_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000049_000000|ION: Yes; and I am right in saying so.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000051_000000|ION: That is true.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000055_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000056_000001|Would you like me to explain my meaning, Ion?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000058_000002|Let us consider this matter; is not the art of painting a whole?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000059_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000060_000000|SOCRATES: And there are and have been many painters good and bad?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000061_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000063_000000|ION: No indeed, I have never known such a person.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000065_000000|ION: No indeed; no more than the other.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000067_000000|ION: I cannot deny what you say, Socrates.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000067_000001|Nevertheless I am conscious in my own self, and the world agrees with me in thinking that I do speak better and have more to say about Homer than any other man.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000001|The gift which you possess of speaking excellently about Homer is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving you, like that contained in the stone which Euripides calls a magnet, but which is commonly known as the stone of Heraclea.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000003|In like manner the Muse first of all inspires men herself; and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons is suspended, who take the inspiration.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000004|For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000007|And this is true.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000011|And Tynnichus the Chalcidian affords a striking instance of what I am saying: he wrote nothing that any one would care to remember but the famous paean which is in every one's mouth, one of the finest poems ever written, simply an invention of the Muses, as he himself says.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000012|For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods by whom they are severally possessed.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000069_000000|ION: Yes, indeed, Socrates, I feel that you are; for your words touch my soul, and I am persuaded that good poets by a divine inspiration interpret the things of the Gods to us.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000070_000000|SOCRATES: And you rhapsodists are the interpreters of the poets?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000073_000000|ION: Precisely.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000074_000001|Are you not carried out of yourself, and does not your soul in an ecstasy seem to be among the persons or places of which you are speaking, whether they are in Ithaca or in Troy or whatever may be the scene of the poem?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000075_000000|ION: That proof strikes home to me, Socrates.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000075_000001|For I must frankly confess that at the tale of pity my eyes are filled with tears, and when I speak of horrors, my hair stands on end and my heart throbs.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000089_000000|ION: 'Bend gently,' he says, 'in the polished chariot to the left of them, and urge the horse on the right hand with whip and voice; and slacken the rein.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000090_000000|SOCRATES: Enough.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000092_000000|SOCRATES: And will the reason be that this is his art, or will there be any other reason?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000094_000000|SOCRATES: And every art is appointed by God to have knowledge of a certain work; for that which we know by the art of the pilot we do not know by the art of medicine?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000095_000000|ION: Certainly not.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000096_000000|SOCRATES: Nor do we know by the art of the carpenter that which we know by the art of medicine?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000097_000000|ION: Certainly not.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000098_000000|SOCRATES: And this is true of all the arts;--that which we know with one art we do not know with the other?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000098_000001|But let me ask a prior question: You admit that there are differences of arts?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000099_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000101_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000102_000000|SOCRATES: Yes, surely; for if the subject of knowledge were the same, there would be no meaning in saying that the arts were different,--if they both gave the same knowledge.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000102_000001|For example, I know that here are five fingers, and you know the same.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000102_000002|And if I were to ask whether I and you became acquainted with this fact by the help of the same art of arithmetic, you would acknowledge that we did?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000105_000000|ION: That is my opinion, Socrates.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000107_000000|ION: Very true.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000108_000000|SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which you were reciting from Homer, you or the charioteer?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000109_000000|ION: The charioteer.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000111_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000113_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000114_000000|SOCRATES: And if a different knowledge, then a knowledge of different matters?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000115_000000|ION: True.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000116_000000|SOCRATES: You know the passage in which Hecamede, the concubine of Nestor, is described as giving to the wounded Machaon a posset, as he says,
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000119_000000|ION: The art of medicine.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000120_000000|SOCRATES: And when Homer says,
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000122_000000|will the art of the fisherman or of the rhapsode be better able to judge whether these lines are rightly expressed or not?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000123_000000|ION: Clearly, Socrates, the art of the fisherman.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000124_000001|For there are many such passages, particularly in the Odyssee; as, for example, the passage in which Theoclymenus the prophet of the house of Melampus says to the suitors:--
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000125_000000|'Wretched men! what is happening to you?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000128_000000|These are the sort of things which I should say that the prophet ought to consider and determine.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000129_000000|ION: And you are quite right, Socrates, in saying so.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000132_000000|SOCRATES: Not all, Ion, surely.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000133_000000|ION: Why, what am I forgetting?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000135_000000|ION: Yes, I remember.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000136_000000|SOCRATES: And you admitted that being different they would have different subjects of knowledge?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000137_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000139_000000|ION: I should exclude certain things, Socrates.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000147_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000148_000000|SOCRATES: Suppose the slave to be a cowherd; the rhapsode will know better than the cowherd what he ought to say in order to soothe the infuriated cows?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000149_000000|ION: No, he will not.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000151_000000|ION: no
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000154_000000|SOCRATES: Well, but is the art of the rhapsode the art of the general?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000155_000000|ION: I am sure that I should know what a general ought to say.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000156_000001|But suppose I were to ask you: By the help of which art, Ion, do you know whether horses are well managed, by your skill as a horseman or as a performer on the lyre-what would you answer?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000159_000000|ION: Yes.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000161_000000|ION: To me there appears to be no difference between them.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000162_000000|SOCRATES: What do you mean?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000162_000001|Do you mean to say that the art of the rhapsode and of the general is the same?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000164_000000|SOCRATES: Then he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000167_000000|ION: No; I do not say that.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000168_000000|SOCRATES: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000171_000000|ION: Far the best, Socrates.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000173_000000|ION: To be sure, Socrates; and Homer was my master.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000176_000000|SOCRATES: My good Ion, did you never hear of Apollodorus of Cyzicus?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000001|And will they not choose Ion the Ephesian to be their general, and honour him, if he prove himself worthy?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000002|Were not the ephesians originally Athenians, and Ephesus is no mean city?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000004|You have literally as many forms as Proteus; and now you go all manner of ways, twisting and turning, and, like Proteus, become all manner of people at once, and at last slip away from me in the disguise of a general, in order that you may escape exhibiting your Homeric lore.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000005|And if you have art, then, as I was saying, in falsifying your promise that you would exhibit Homer, you are not dealing fairly with me.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000006|But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his inspiring influence, then I acquit you of dishonesty, and shall only say that you are inspired.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000007|Which do you prefer to be thought, dishonest or inspired?
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000179_000000|ION: There is a great difference, Socrates, between the two alternatives; and inspiration is by far the nobler.
train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000180_000000|SOCRATES: Then, Ion, I shall assume the nobler alternative; and attribute to you in your praises of Homer inspiration, and not art.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000002_000000|THE TOAD AND THE BOY
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000004_000000|In the largest teepee sat a young mother wrapping red porcupine quills about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000004_000001|Beside her lay a black eyed baby boy cooing and laughing.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000004_000002|Reaching and kicking upward with his tiny hands and feet, he played with the dangling strings of his heavy beaded bonnet hanging empty on a tent pole above him.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000005_000002|It was almost time for the return of her husband.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000006_000001|She was strong and swung an ax as skillfully as any man.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000006_000002|Her loose buckskin dress was made for such freedom.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000006_000003|Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a loop of rope over both her shoulders, she came striding homeward.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000007_000003|There was nowhere any sign of the child.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000008_000000|Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: "Has any one seen my baby?
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000008_000001|He is gone!
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000008_000002|My little son is gone!"
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000009_000000|"Hinnu!
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000009_000001|Hinnu!" exclaimed the women, rising to their feet and rushing out of their wigwams.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000010_000000|"We have not seen your child!
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000010_000001|What has happened?" queried the women.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000011_000000|With great tears in her eyes the mother told her story.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000012_000000|"We will search with you," they said to her as she started off.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000000|They met the returning husbands, who turned about and joined in the hunt for the missing child.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000001|Along the shore of the lakes, among the high grown reeds, they looked in vain.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000002|He was nowhere to be found.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000003|After many days and nights the search was given up.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000004|It was sad, indeed, to hear the mother wailing aloud for her little son.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000014_000000|It was growing late in the autumn.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000014_000001|The birds were flying high toward the south.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000014_000002|The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000015_000000|Till the winter snow covered the ground and ice covered the lakes, the wailing woman's voice was heard from that solitary wigwam.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000016_000000|Thus ten summers and as many winters have come and gone since the strange disappearance of the little child.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000016_000001|Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost baby to search again for him.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000000|Toward the latter part of the tenth season when, one by one, the teepees were folded and the families went away from the lake region, the mother walked again along the lake shore weeping.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000001|One evening, across the lake from where the crying woman stood, a pair of bright black eyes peered at her through the tall reeds and wild rice.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000003|His long, loose hair hanging down his brown back and shoulders was carelessly tossed from his round face.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000004|He wore a loin cloth of woven sweet grass.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000005|Crouching low to the marshy ground, he listened to the wailing voice.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000018_000000|At length, when the moaning ceased, he sprang to his feet and ran like a nymph with swift outstretched toes.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000018_000001|He rushed into a small hut of reeds and grasses.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000019_000000|"Mother!
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000019_000001|Mother!
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000001|"It was the voice of a weeping woman you heard.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000002|My son, do not say you like it.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000003|Do not tell me it brought tears to your eyes.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000004|You have never heard me weep.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000005|I can please your ear and break your heart.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000006|Listen!" replied the great old toad.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000000|Stepping outside, she stood by the entrance way.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000001|She was old and badly puffed out.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000002|She had reared a large family of little toads, but none of them had aroused her love, nor ever grieved her.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000004|Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota woman does.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000005|In a gruff, coarse voice she broke forth:
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000022_000002|Hin hin, red blanket, with white border!"
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000023_000000|Not knowing that the syllables of a Dakota's cry are the names of loved ones gone, the ugly toad mother sought to please the boy's ear with the names of valuable articles.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000023_000001|Having shrieked in a torturing voice and mouthed extravagant names, the old toad rolled her tearless eyes with great satisfaction.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000024_000000|"My son, did my voice bring tears to your eyes?
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000024_000002|Do you not like my wailing better?"
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000025_000000|"No, no!" pouted the boy with some impatience.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000025_000001|"I want to hear the woman's voice!
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000025_000002|Tell me, mother, why the human voice stirs all my feelings!"
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000026_000001|I cannot keep him longer, I fear.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000026_000002|Oh, no, I cannot give away the pretty creature I have taught to call me 'mother' all these many winters."
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000027_000000|"Mother," went on the child voice, "tell me one thing.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000028_000000|The big, ugly toad, looking at her pudgy children, said: "The eldest is always best."
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000029_000000|This reply quieted the boy for a while.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000029_000001|Very closely watched the old toad mother her stolen human son.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000029_000002|When by chance he started off alone, she shoved out one of her own children after him, saying: "Do not come back without your big brother."
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000030_000002|Always at his feet hops a little toad brother.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000030_000003|One day an Indian hunter, wading in the deep waters, spied the boy.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000030_000004|He had heard of the baby stolen long ago.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000031_000000|"This is he!" murmured the hunter to himself as he ran to his wigwam.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000031_000001|"I saw among the tall reeds a black haired boy at play!" shouted he to the people.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000032_000000|At once the unhappy father and mother cried out, "'tis he, our boy!" Quickly he led them to the lake.
train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000032_000001|Peeping through the wild rice, he pointed with unsteady finger toward the boy playing all unawares.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000003_000003|I am going to the North country on a long hunt."
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000004_000000|With these words of caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother with whom he had lived since he was a tiny babe, Manstin started off toward the north.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000004_000001|He was scarce over the great high hills when he heard the shrieking of a human child.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000005_000001|Shameless coward!
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000005_000002|he delights in torturing helpless creatures!"
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000006_000000|Muttering indistinct words, Manstin ran up the last hill and lo! in the ravine beyond stood the terrible monster with a face in front and one in the back of his head!
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000007_000000|This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild cat skin about his loins.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000007_000002|In a laughing voice he hummed an Indian mother's lullaby, "A boo!
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000007_000003|Aboo!" and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny wild rose bush.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000001|Now an arrow stuck above the ear of Double Face.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000002|It was a poisoned arrow, and the giant fell dead.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000004|Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000005|It was the teepee of the stolen baby and the mourners were its heart broken parents.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000009_000000|When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mother there came a sudden terror into the eyes of both the Dakotas.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000009_000003|Do not fear."
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000010_000000|That night a strange thing happened.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000010_000002|With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the little child, he drew upward by each small hand the sleeping child till he was a full grown man.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000011_000000|"Henceforth we are friends, to help each other," said Manstin, shaking a right hand in farewell.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000012_000000|"Ho! Be it so!" answered the newly made man.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000013_000002|His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance. The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000014_000000|"Hun he!" exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000014_000002|This rope is his guide by which he comes for his daily water!" surmised Manstin, who knew all the peculiar contrivances of the people.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000014_000003|At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000015_000000|Quietly he lifted the door flap and entered in.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000015_000001|An old toothless grandfather, blind and shaky with age, sat upon the ground.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000015_000002|He was not deaf however.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000016_000000|"How, grandchild," he mumbled, for he was old enough to be grandparent to every living thing, "how!
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000016_000001|I cannot see you.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000016_000002|Pray, speak your name!"
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000017_000000|"Grandfather, I am Manstin," answered the rabbit, all the while looking with curious eyes about the wigwam.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000018_000000|"Grandfather, what is it so tightly packed in all these buckskin bags placed against the tent poles?" he asked.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000019_000001|These are magic bags which never grow empty.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000021_000000|"Grandfather, I wish I lived in such sure luxury!
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000022_000000|"My grandchild, your eyes are your luxury! you would be unhappy without them!" the old man replied.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000023_000000|"Grandfather, I would give you my two eyes for your place!" cried Manstin.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000024_000000|"How! you have said it.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000024_000001|Arise.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000025_000001|For a short time it was a most pleasant pastime to smoke willow bark and to eat from the magic bags.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000000|Manstin grew thirsty, but there was no water in the small dwelling. Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000001|He was young and unwilling to trudge slowly in the old man's footpath.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000002|He was full of glee, for it had been many long moons since he had tasted such good food.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000003|Thus he skipped confidently along jerking the old weather eaten rawhide spasmodically till all of a sudden it gave way and Manstin fell headlong into the water.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000027_000001|All along the slippery bank he vainly tried to climb, till at last he chanced upon the old stake and the deeply worn footpath.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000027_000002|Exhausted and inwardly disgusted with his mishaps, he crawled more cautiously on all fours to his wigwam door.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000027_000003|Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000002|"I go for some fire wood!" he said, following the rawhide rope which led into the forest.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000003|Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000004|Eagerly with both hands he gathered the wood into his outspread blanket.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000005|Manstin was naturally an energetic fellow.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000030_000003|Not even a night bird twittered to help him out of his predicament.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000031_000000|With a bold face, he made a start at random.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000032_000001|Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his two eyes.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000033_000001|The old oak tree grandfather has gone off with my eyes and I am lost in the woods!" he cried with his lips close to the earth.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000034_000000|Scarcely had he spoken when the sound of voices was audible on the outer edge of the forest.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000034_000001|Nearer and louder grew the voices-one was the clear flute tones of a young brave and the other the tremulous squeaks of an old grandfather.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000035_000000|It was Manstin's friend with the Earth Ear and the old grandfather. "Here Manstin, take back your eyes," said the old man, "I knew you would not be content in my stead, but I wanted you to learn your lesson.
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000035_000001|I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and arrows, but since I am old and feeble I much prefer my own teepee and my magic bags!"
train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000036_000001|The old grandfather crept into his wigwam, which is often mistaken for a mere oak tree by little Indian girls and boys.
train-clean-360/1536/137608/1536_137608_000007_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-clean-360/1536/137608/1536_137608_000016_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-clean-360/154/123998/154_123998_000011_000004|For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole.
train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000001_000000|The Diction viewed as a whole is made up of the following parts: the Letter (or ultimate element), the Syllable, the Conjunction, the Article, the Noun, the Verb, the Case, and the Speech. (one) The Letter is an indivisible sound of a particular kind, one that may become a factor in an intelligible sound.
train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000004_000002|In the Speech 'Cleon walks', 'Cleon' is an instance of such a part.
train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000007_000000|Whatever its structure, a Noun must always be either (one) the ordinary word for the thing, or (two) a strange word, or (three) a metaphor, or (four) an ornamental word, or (five) a coined word, or (six) a word lengthened out, or (seven) curtailed, or (eight) altered in form.
train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000007_000005|Thus a cup (B) is in relation to Dionysus (A) what a shield (D) is to Ares (C).
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000005_000001|"I can't do it.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000009_000001|She gave him entire confidence, he gave her the help she needed, and both found consolation in the act.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000010_000001|Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000014_000001|You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000016_000001|A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000017_000000|Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000017_000004|She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard, and now she had her wish, for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to Father and Mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000019_000000|"Why don't you write?
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000021_000000|"We do.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000021_000002|I'm sure it would do you good, and please us very much."
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000023_000000|An hour afterward her mother peeped in and there she was, scratching away, with her black pinafore on, and an absorbed expression, which caused mrs March to smile and slip away, well pleased with the success of her suggestion.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000037_000001|But you are right in one thing.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000044_000000|"Wait for me, my friend.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000046_000000|And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof.
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000047_000000|Was it all self pity, loneliness, or low spirits?
train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000047_000001|Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer?
train-clean-360/1552/140651/1552_140651_000053_000001|As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.
train-clean-360/1552/141135/1552_141135_000013_000010|They failed both with powdered felspar and quartz.
train-clean-360/1552/141135/1552_141135_000015_000004|Even during our occasional visits to this part of South America, we heard of a ship, two churches, and a house having been struck.
train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000006_000000|The principal habitation, with its annexes-kitchen, offices, and cellars-was placed in the rear-or, let us say, stern of the craft-and formed a part reserved for the Garral family and their personal servants.
train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000015_000000|Such would have been useless.
train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000019_000000|If the pilot was the material director of this immense machine-for can we not justly call it so?--another personage was its spiritual director; this was Padre Passanha, who had charge of the mission at Iquitos.
train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000024_000001|They had proposed it to him, and he had accepted, and when arrived at Belem he was to marry the young couple, Minha and Manoel.
train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000026_000000|The parsonage was not enough for Padre Passanha; he ought to have a chapel.
train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000030_000000|All was ready to date, the fifth of June.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000004_000001|The mules are packed and away goes our train of lumber, rations, and camping equipage. The Indian trail is at the foot of the Vermilion Cliffs.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000004_000003|On rare occasions a stream flows down this valley, but now sand dunes stretch across it.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000005_000004|We find it at the Navajo Well. As we approach in the darkness the camp fire is a cheerful sight.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000008_000004|That painting, known as "The Chasm of the Colorado," is in a hall in the Senate wing of the Capitol of the United States.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000009_000002|In the morning we turn to the northeast and descend from Kaibab to the back of Marble Canyon and cross it at the foot of the Vermilion Cliffs, and find our packers camped at Jacob's Pool, where a spring bursts from the cliff at the summit of a great hill of talus.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000010_000003|At night we camp on the bank of the Colorado River, on the same spot where our boat party had camped the year before. Leaving the party in charge of mr Graves and mr Bishop, while they are building a ferryboat, I take some Indians to explore the canyon of the Paria.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000011_000001|Where the declivity of the stream is great the river corrades, or cuts its bottom deeper and still deeper, ever forming narrow clefts, but when the stream has cut its channel down until the declivity is greatly reduced, it can no longer carry the load of sand with which it is fed, but drops a part of it on the way.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000011_000002|Wherever it drops it in this manner a sand bank is formed.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000013_000002|At night we camp at a water pocket, a pool in a great limestone rock.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000013_000007|At night we come to the cliff, and under it, in a great cave, we find a lakelet.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000017_000023|They are eaten with much gusto by the party and highly praised.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000017_000024|Some days after we learned how they are made; they are prepared of goat's flesh, bread, and turnips, and kneaded by mastication.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000020_000000|The next morning we are up at daybreak.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000020_000007|So his talk is explained to us. Some must gather corn, others must go for wood, water must be brought from the distant wells, and the animals of the strangers must be cared for.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000021_000010|Ears of corn, vases of holy water, and trays of meal make up a part of the paraphernalia of worship. I try to record some of the prayers, but am not very successful, as it is difficult to hold my interpreter to the work.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000025_000008|After a while some one gets permanent possession of the charm and the music ceases.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000026_000002|Then we go around among the people and select the articles of pottery, stone implements, instruments and utensils made of bone, horn, shell, articles of clothing and ornament, baskets, trays, and many other things, and tell the people to bring them the next day to our rooms.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000026_000003|A little after sunrise they come in, and we have a busy day of barter.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000002|The whole town comes to bid us good by.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000005|"Good by; good by; good by!" At last we start.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000010|To reach it from below, it must be climbed by niches and stairways in the rock.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000011|It is a good site for defense.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000013|All the water used in these three towns is derived from a well nearly a mile away-a deep pit sunk in the sand, over the site of a dune buried brook.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000028_000006|After supper the hours till midnight are passed in rather formal talk.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000031_000000|Here at Walpi the great snake dance is performed.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000031_000002|Most of these snakes are quite harmless, but rattlesnakes abound, and they are also caught, for they play the most important role in the great snake dance.
train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000031_000009|It is managed in this way: The snake is teased with the feather wand and his attention occupied by one man, while another, standing near, at a favorable moment seizes the snake just, back of the head.
train-clean-360/157/121907/157_121907_000016_000000|'Is good, then?'
train-clean-360/157/121907/157_121907_000017_000000|'Of course.'
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000001|The two bills had a common origin, and, to a great extent, a common object.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000002|They were framed at the same time, and laid aside at the same time: they sank together into oblivion; and they were, after the lapse of several years, again brought together before the world.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000003|Both were laid by the same peer on the table of the Upper House; and both were referred to the same select committee.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000004|But it soon began to appear that they would have widely different fates. The Comprehension Bill was indeed a neater specimen of legislative workmanship than the Toleration Bill, but was not, like the Toleration Bill, adapted to the wants, the feelings, and the prejudices of the existing generation.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000005|Accordingly, while the Toleration Bill found support in all quarters, the Comprehension Bill was attacked from all quarters, and was at last coldly and languidly defended even by those who had introduced it.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000006|About the same time at which the Toleration bill became law with the general concurrence of public men, the Comprehension Bill was, with a concurrence not less general, suffered to drop.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000008|The Comprehension Bill is forgotten.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000009|No collector of antiquities has thought it worth preserving.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000011|It is a fortunate circumstance that, in this copy, almost the whole history of the Bill can be read.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000012|In spite of cancellations and interlineations, the original words can easily be distinguished from those which were inserted in the committee or on the report.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000001_000000|The first clause, as it stood when the bill was introduced, dispensed all the ministers of the Established Church from the necessity of subscribing the Thirty nine Articles.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000001_000001|For the Articles was substituted a Declaration which ran thus; "I do approve of the doctrine and worship and government of the Church of England by law established, as containing all things necessary to salvation; and I promise, in the exercise of my ministry, to preach and practice according thereunto." Another clause granted similar indulgence to the members of the two universities.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000002_000000|Then it was provided that any minister who had been ordained after the Presbyterian fashion might, without reordination, acquire all the privileges of a priest of the Established Church.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000002_000001|He must, however, be admitted to his new functions by the imposition of the hands of a bishop, who was to pronounce the following form of words; "Take thou authority to preach the word of God, and administer the sacraments, and to perform all other ministerial offices in the Church of England." The person thus admitted was to be capable of holding any rectory or vicarage in the kingdom.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000003_000000|Then followed clauses providing that a clergyman might, except in a few churches of peculiar dignity, wear the surplice or not as he thought fit, that the sign of the cross might be omitted in baptism, that children might be christened, if such were the wish of their parents, without godfathers or godmothers, and that persons who had a scruple about receiving the Eucharist kneeling might receive it sitting.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000004_000000|The concluding clause was drawn in the form of a petition.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000004_000001|It was proposed that the two Houses should request the King and Queen to issue a commission empowering thirty divines of the Established Church to revise the liturgy, the canons, and the constitution of the ecclesiastical courts, and to recommend such alterations as might on inquiry appear to be desirable.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000000|The bill went smoothly through the first stages.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000001|Compton, who, since Sancroft had shut himself up at Lambeth, was virtually Primate, supported Nottingham with ardour.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000003|Why, these persons asked, was the docile and affectionate son of the Church to be disgusted by seeing the irreverent practices of a conventicle introduced into her majestic choirs?
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000004|Why should his feelings, his prejudices, if prejudices they were, be less considered than the whims of schismatics?
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000006|But, in truth, the scrupulosity of the Puritan was not that sort of scrupulosity which the Apostle had commanded believers to respect.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000007|It sprang, not from morbid tenderness of conscience, but from censoriousness and spiritual pride; and none who had studied the New Testament could have failed to observe that, while we are charged carefully to avoid whatever may give scandal to the feeble, we are taught by divine precept and example to make no concession to the supercilious and uncharitable Pharisee.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000008|Was every thing which was not of the essence of religion to be given up as soon as it became unpleasing to a knot of zealots whose heads had been turned by conceit and the love of novelty?
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000009|Painted glass, music, holidays, fast days, were not of the essence of religion.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000011|Was the organ of Exeter to be silenced to please another?
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000012|Were all the village bells to be mute because Tribulation Wholesome and Deacon Ananias thought them profane? Was Christmas no longer to be a day of rejoicing?
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000016|And is it not probable that, by thus attempting to heal one schism, we may cause another?
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000000|It is remarkable that those who held this language were by no means disposed to contend for the doctrinal Articles of the Church.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000002|One of the characteristic marks of that party is the disposition which it has always shown to appeal, on points of dogmatic theology, rather to the Liturgy, which was derived from Rome, than to the Articles and Homilies, which were derived from Geneva.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000004|It does not appear that, in the debates on the Comprehension Bill, a single High Churchman raised his voice against the clause which relieved the clergy from the necessity of subscribing the Articles, and of declaring the doctrine contained in the Homilies to be sound.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000006|As the clause finally stood, the ministers of the Church were required to declare, not that they approved of her constitution, but merely that they submitted to it.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000000|The easy manner in which the zealous friends of the Church gave up her confession of faith presents a striking contrast to the spirit with which they struggled for her polity and her ritual.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000002|The clause which permitted scrupulous persons to communicate sitting very narrowly escaped the same fate.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000003|In the Committee it was struck out, and, on the report, was with great difficulty restored.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000004|The majority of peers in the House was against the proposed indulgence, and the scale was but just turned by the proxies.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000000|But by this time it began to appear that the bill which the High Churchmen were so keenly assailing was menaced by dangers from a very different quarter.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000002|The truth is that the time for such a scheme had gone by.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000003|If, a hundred years earlier, when the division in the Protestant body was recent, Elizabeth had been so wise as to abstain from requiring the observance of a few forms which a large part of her subjects considered as Popish, she might perhaps have averted those fearful calamities which, forty years after her death, afflicted the Church.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000004|But the general tendency of schism is to widen. Had Leo the Tenth, when the exactions and impostures of the Pardoners first roused the indignation of Saxony, corrected those evil practices with a vigorous hand, it is not improbable that Luther would have died in the bosom of the Church of Rome.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000005|But the opportunity was suffered to escape; and, when, a few years later, the Vatican would gladly have purchased peace by yielding the original subject of quarrel, the original subject of quarrel was almost forgotten.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000006|The inquiring spirit which had been roused by a single abuse had discovered or imagined a thousand: controversies engendered controversies: every attempt that was made to accommodate one dispute ended by producing another; and at length a General Council, which, during the earlier stages of the distemper, had been supposed to be an infallible remedy, made the case utterly hopeless.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000007|In this respect, as in many others, the history of Puritanism in England bears a close analogy to the history of Protestantism in Europe.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000008|The Parliament of sixteen eighty nine could no more put an end to nonconformity by tolerating a garb or a posture than the Doctors of Trent could have reconciled the Teutonic nations to the Papacy by regulating the sale of indulgences.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000009|In the sixteenth century Quakerism was unknown; and there was not in the whole realm a single congregation of Independents or Baptists.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000010|At the time of the Revolution, the Independents, Baptists, and Quakers were a majority of the dissenting body; and these sects could not be gained over on any terms which the lowest of Low Churchmen would have been willing to offer.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000011|The Independent held that a national Church, governed by any central authority whatever, Pope, Patriarch, King, Bishop, or Synod, was an unscriptural institution, and that every congregation of believers was, under Christ, a sovereign society.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000012|The Baptist was even more irreclaimable than the Independent, and the Quaker even more irreclaimable than the Baptist.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000013|Concessions, therefore, which would once have extinguished nonconformity would not now satisfy even one half of the nonconformists; and it was the obvious interest of every nonconformist whom no concession would satisfy that none of his brethren should be satisfied.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000014|The more liberal the terms of comprehension, the greater was the alarm of every separatist who knew that he could, in no case, be comprehended.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000015|There was but slender hope that the dissenters, unbroken and acting as one man, would be able to obtain from the legislature full admission to civil privileges; and all hope of obtaining such admission must be relinquished if Nottingham should, by the help of some wellmeaning but shortsighted friends of religious liberty, be enabled to accomplish his design.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000016|If his bill passed, there would doubtless be a considerable defection from the dissenting body; and every defection must be severely felt by a class already outnumbered, depressed, and struggling against powerful enemies.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000017|Every proselyte too must be reckoned twice over, as a loss to the party which was even now too weak, and as a gain to the party which was even now too strong.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000002|Few indeed of the parochial clergy were so abundantly supplied with comforts as the favourite orator of a great assembly of nonconformists in the City.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000003|The voluntary contributions of his wealthy hearers, Aldermen and Deputies, West India merchants and Turkey merchants, Wardens of the Company of Fishmongers and Wardens of the Company of Goldsmiths, enabled him to become a landowner or a mortgagee.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000004|The best broadcloth from Blackwell Hall, and the best poultry from Leadenhall Market, were frequently left at his door.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000005|His influence over his flock was immense.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000006|Scarcely any member of a congregation of separatists entered into a partnership, married a daughter, put a son out as apprentice, or gave his vote at an election, without consulting his spiritual guide.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000010|He might indeed hold a rectory or a vicarage, when he could get one.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000012|Nor could he hope to have, as a minister of the Anglican Church, the authority and dignity which he had hitherto enjoyed.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000013|He would always, by a large portion of the members of that Church, be regarded as a deserter.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000001|One section of that party was for relieving the dissenters from the Test Act, and giving up the Comprehension Bill.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000002|Another section was for pushing forward the Comprehension Bill, and postponing to a more convenient time the consideration of the Test Act.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000003|The effect of this division among the friends of religious liberty was that the High Churchmen, though a minority in the House of Commons, and not a majority in the House of Lords, were able to oppose with success both the reforms which they dreaded.
train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000004|The Comprehension Bill was not passed; and the Test Act was not repealed.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000005_000000|"Bartleby!
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000005_000001|quick, I am waiting."
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000008_000000|"The copies, the copies," said I hurriedly.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000014_000004|Is it not so?
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000014_000005|Will you not speak?
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000014_000006|Answer!"
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000017_000001|Yes: his decision was irreversible.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000019_000000|"Turkey," said I, "what do you think of this?
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000020_000000|"With submission, sir," said Turkey, with his blandest tone, "I think that you are."
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000022_000000|"I think I should kick him out of the office."
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000030_000004|A hot, spicy thing.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000031_000007|Here I can cheaply purchase a delicious self approval.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000031_000010|The passiveness of Bartleby sometimes irritated me.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000032_000000|"Bartleby," said I, "when those papers are all copied, I will compare them with you."
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000039_000000|"Think of it?" roared Turkey; "I think I'll just step behind his screen, and black his eyes for him!"
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000041_000000|"Sit down, Turkey," said I, "and hear what Nippers has to say.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000051_000000|I staggered to my desk, and sat there in a deep study.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000061_000000|Shall I acknowledge it?
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000063_000002|Another was kept by Turkey for convenience sake.
train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000065_000006|Nay, that was out of the question.
train-clean-360/159/121902/159_121902_000051_000000|SONG two.
train-clean-360/159/121902/159_121902_000052_000000|THE BONDAGE OF PASSION.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000002_000000|Commander of the faithful, the relation which I am about to give your majesty is singularly extraordinary.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000003_000000|After our father's death, the property that he left was equally divided among us, and as soon as these two sisters received their portions, they left me to live with their mother.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000003_000001|My other two sisters and myself stayed with our mother, who was then alive, and who when she afterwards died left each of us a thousand sequins.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000004_000001|I received her with every possible tenderness, and inquiring into the cause of her distress, she told me with tears how inhumanly her husband had behaved towards her.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000004_000002|Her misfortunes affected me: and I mingled my tears with hers.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000004_000003|I took her to a bath, clothed her with my own apparel, and thus addressed her: "Sister, you are the elder, and I esteem you as my mother: during your absence, God has blest the portion that fell to my share, and the employment I follow of breeding silk worms. Assure yourself there is nothing I have but is at your service, and as much at your disposal as my own."
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000005_000000|We lived very comfortably together for some months.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000001|I observed, that if putting me to expense was the only reason, they might lay those thoughts aside, and be welcome to remain: for what I had would be sufficient to maintain us all three, in a manner answerable to our condition.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000002|"But," I added, "I rather believe you wish to marry again; I shall feel much surprised if such be the case.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000003|After the experience you have had of the little satisfaction there is in wedlock, is it possible you dare venture a second time?
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000005|Believe what I say, and let us live together as comfortably as we can." All my persuasion was in vain; they were resolved to marry, and soon accomplished their wishes.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000007_000000|We continued thus a whole year in perfect love and harmony. Seeing that God had increased my small stock, I projected a voyage, to embark some of it in a commercial speculation.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000007_000002|We set sail with a fair wind, and soon cleared the Persian gulf; when we had reached the open sea, we steered our course to the Indies; and the twentieth day saw land.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000007_000003|It was a very high mountain, at the bottom of which we perceived a great town: having a fresh gale, we soon reached the harbour, and cast anchor.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000008_000000|I had not patience to wait till my sisters were dressed to go along with me, but went ashore alone in the boat.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000008_000002|I entered the town and passed through several streets, where at different intervals stood men in various attitudes, but all motionless and petrified. In the quarter inhabited by the merchants I found most of the shops shut, and in such as were open I likewise found the people petrified.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000009_000000|Having reached a vast square, in the heart of the city, I perceived a large folding gate, covered with plates of gold, which stood open; a curtain of silk stuff seemed to be drawn before it: a lamp hung over the entrance.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000010_000001|I entered; and in a large hall I found several black eunuchs turned into stone. I went from thence into a room richly furnished, where I perceived a lady in the same situation.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000012_000001|What surprised me most was a sparkling light which came from above the bed.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000013_000001|Several other rarities detained my curiosity in this room, which was inestimable in value, were it only for the diamond I mentioned.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000001|I looked into the offices and store rooms, which were full of riches.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000002|In short, the wonders that everywhere appeared so wholly engrossed my attention, that I forgot my ship and my sisters, and thought of nothing but gratifying my curiosity.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000003|In the mean time night came on, which reminded me that it was time to retire.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000005|I laid myself down upon a couch, not without some dread to be alone in a desolate place; and this fear hindered my sleep.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000015_000001|Being extremely glad to hear it, I immediately arose, and taking a torch in my hand, passed from one chamber to another on that side from whence the sound proceeded.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000015_000002|I came to the closet door, and stood still, not doubting that it came from thence.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000015_000004|It had, as we have in our mosques, a niche, to direct us whither we are to turn to say our prayers: there were also lamps hung up, and two candlesticks with large tapers of white wax burning.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000016_000001|At this sight I was transported with admiration.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000016_000002|I wondered how it came to pass that he should be the only living creature in a town where all the people were turned into stones, and I did not doubt but there was something in the circumstance very extraordinary.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000017_000001|Hear me, O Lord, and grant my request."
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000019_000000|I told him in a few words whence I had come, what had made me undertake the voyage, and how I safely arrived at the port after twenty days' sailing; when I had done, I prayed him to perform his promise, and told him how much I was struck by the frightful desolation which I had seen in the city.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000021_000000|"Madam," said the young man, "by the prayer you just now addressed to him, you have given me to understand that you have a knowledge of the true God.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000021_000001|I will acquaint you with the most remarkable effect of his greatness and power.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000022_000002|As soon as I was capable of understanding it, she explained to me all the passages of this excellent book, and infused piety into my mind, unknown to my father or any other person.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000022_000003|She happened to die, but not before she had perfectly instructed me in all that was necessary to convince me of the truth of the Moosulmaun religion.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000023_000001|The words were these: Inhabitants, abandon the worship of Nardoun, and of fire, and worship the only God who shews mercy.'
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000024_000000|"This voice was heard three years successively, but no one was converted.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000024_000002|The sultan, my father, shared the same fate, for he was metamorphosed into a black stone, as he is to be seen in this palace, and the queen, my mother, had the like destiny.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000025_000000|"I am the only person who did not suffer under that heavy judgment, and ever since I have continued to serve God with more fervency than before.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000026_000000|All these expressions, and particularly the last, greatly increased my love for him.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000027_000001|After I had presented my sisters to the prince, I told them what had hindered my return the day before, how I had met with the young prince, his story, and the cause of the desolation of so fine a city.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000030_000000|The young prince, my sisters and myself, enjoyed ourselves for some time very agreeably.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000030_000001|But alas!
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000001|They did the same to the prince, who was drowned.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000002|I floated some minutes on the water, and by good fortune, or rather miracle, I felt ground.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000003|I went towards a dark spot, that, by what I could discern, seemed to be land, and proved to be a flat on the coast, which, when day appeared, I found to be a desert island, lying about twenty miles from Bussorah.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000004|I soon dried my clothes in the sun, and as I walked along I found several kinds of fruit, and likewise fresh water, which gave me some hopes of preserving my life.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000001|I instantly arose, and perceived that it was pursued by a larger serpent which had hold of its tail, and was endeavouring to devour it.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000003|The other, finding itself at liberty, took wing and flew away.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000004|I looked after it for some time till it disappeared.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000005|I then sought another shady spot for repose, and fell asleep.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000034_000000|Judge what was my surprise when I awoke, to see standing by me a black woman of lively and agreeable features, who held in her hand two bitches of the same colour, fastened together.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000034_000001|I sat up, and asked her who she was?
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000034_000004|The treachery of your sisters was well known to me, and to avenge your wrongs, as soon as I was liberated by your generous assistance, I called together several of my companions, fairies like myself, conveyed into your storehouses at Bagdad all the lading of your vessel, and afterwards sunk it.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000035_000000|"These two black bitches are your sisters, whom I have transformed into this shape.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000036_000002|Since that time I have whipped them every night, though with regret, whereof your majesty has been a witness.
train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000037_000000|After the caliph had heard Zobeide with much astonishment, he desired his grand vizier to request Amene to acquaint him wherefore her breast was disfigured with so many scars.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000000_000000|There may have been two happier and more excited girls somewhere in Canada or the United States at that moment, but I doubt it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000000_000001|Every snip of the scissors, as rose and peony and bluebell fell, seemed to chirp, "mrs Morgan is coming today." Anne wondered how mr Harrison COULD go on placidly mowing hay in the field across the lane, just as if nothing were going to happen.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000001_000000|The parlor at Green Gables was a rather severe and gloomy apartment, with rigid horsehair furniture, stiff lace curtains, and white antimacassars that were always laid at a perfectly correct angle, except at such times as they clung to unfortunate people's buttons.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000001_000001|Even Anne had never been able to infuse much grace into it, for Marilla would not permit any alterations.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000001_000002|But it is wonderful what flowers can accomplish if you give them a fair chance; when Anne and Diana finished with the room you would not have recognized it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000000|A great blue bowlful of snowballs overflowed on the polished table.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000001|The shining black mantelpiece was heaped with roses and ferns.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000002|Every shelf of the what not held a sheaf of bluebells; the dark corners on either side of the grate were lighted up with jars full of glowing crimson peonies, and the grate itself was aflame with yellow poppies.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000003|All this splendor and color, mingled with the sunshine falling through the honeysuckle vines at the windows in a leafy riot of dancing shadows over walls and floor, made of the usually dismal little room the veritable "bower" of Anne's imagination, and even extorted a tribute of admiration from Marilla, who came in to criticize and remained to praise.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000003_000000|"Now, we must set the table," said Anne, in the tone of a priestess about to perform some sacred rite in honor of a divinity.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000004_000000|The table was set in the sitting room, with Marilla's finest linen and the best china, glass, and silver.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000004_000001|You may be perfectly certain that every article placed on it was polished or scoured to the highest possible perfection of gloss and glitter.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000006_000000|And what about Davy all this time?
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000006_000001|Was he redeeming his promise to be good?
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000006_000003|To be sure, he insisted on remaining in the kitchen, for his curiosity wanted to see all that went on.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000007_000000|At half past eleven the lettuce salad was made, the golden circles of the pies were heaped with whipped cream, and everything was sizzling and bubbling that ought to sizzle and bubble.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000008_000001|We must have dinner at sharp one, for the soup must be served as soon as it's done."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000000|"I do hope I'll be able to say something once in a while, and not sit like a mute," said Diana anxiously.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000001|"All mrs Morgan's heroines converse so beautifully.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000002|But I'm afraid I'll be tongue tied and stupid.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000003|And I'll be sure to say 'I seen.' I haven't often said it since Miss Stacy taught here; but in moments of excitement it's sure to pop out.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000005|And it would be almost as bad to have nothing to say."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000011_000000|"I'm nervous about a good many things," said Anne, "but I don't think there is much fear that I won't be able to talk."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000012_000000|And, to do her justice, there wasn't.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000002|At half past twelve the Allans and Miss Stacy came.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000003|Everything was going well but Anne was beginning to feel nervous.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000004|It was surely time for Priscilla and mrs Morgan to arrive.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000005|She made frequent trips to the gate and looked as anxiously down the lane as ever her namesake in the Bluebeard story peered from the tower casement.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000014_000000|"Suppose they don't come at all?" she said piteously.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000015_000000|"Don't suppose it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000017_000001|She had, in accordance with her promise to mrs Lynde, written to Miss Barry of Charlottetown, asking for the loan of it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000018_000001|It was examined and admired; then, just as Anne had taken it back into her own hands, a terrific crash and clatter sounded from the kitchen pantry. Marilla, Diana, and Anne fled out, the latter pausing only long enough to set the precious platter hastily down on the second step of the stairs.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000000|Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net and had wound the twine into a ball.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000001|Then he had gone into the pantry to put it up on the shelf above the table, where he already kept a score or so of similar balls, which, so far as could be discovered, served no useful purpose save to yield the joy of possession.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000002|Davy had to climb on the table and reach over to the shelf at a dangerous angle . . . something he had been forbidden by Marilla to do, as he had come to grief once before in the experiment.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000004|Davy slipped and came sprawling squarely down on the lemon pies.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000005|His clean blouse was ruined for that time and the pies for all time.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000006|It is, however, an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the pig was eventually the gainer by Davy's mischance.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000021_000000|"Davy Keith," said Marilla, shaking him by the shoulder, "didn't I forbid you to climb up on that table again?
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000021_000001|Didn't I?"
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000022_000000|"I forgot," whimpered Davy.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000001|Perhaps you'll get them sorted out in your memory by that time.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000003|I'm not punishing him because he spoiled your pies . . . that was an accident.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000004|I'm punishing him for his disobedience.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000005|Go, Davy, I say."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000024_000000|"Ain't I to have any dinner?" wailed Davy.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000025_000000|"You can come down after dinner is over and have yours in the kitchen."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000026_000000|"Oh, all right," said Davy, somewhat comforted.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000028_000000|"What shall we do for dessert?" asked Anne, looking regretfully at the wreck and ruin.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000029_000000|"Get out a crock of strawberry preserves," said Marilla consolingly. "There's plenty of whipped cream left in the bowl for it."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000030_000000|One o'clock came . . . but no Priscilla or mrs Morgan.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000030_000002|Everything was done to a turn and the soup was just what soup should be, but couldn't be depended on to remain so for any length of time.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000031_000000|"I don't believe they're coming after all," said Marilla crossly.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000033_000000|At half past one Marilla again emerged from the parlor.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000034_000000|"Girls, we MUST have dinner.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000034_000002|Priscilla and mrs Morgan are not coming, that's plain, and nothing is being improved by waiting."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000035_000000|Anne and Diana set about lifting the dinner, with all the zest gone out of the performance.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000036_000000|"I don't believe I'll be able to eat a mouthful," said Diana dolefully.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000038_000000|When Diana dished the peas she tasted them and a very peculiar expression crossed her face.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000000|"Yes," said Anne, mashing the potatoes with the air of one expected to do her duty.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000001|"I put a spoonful of sugar in.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000002|We always do.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000003|Don't you like it?"
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000042_000001|Then she made a grimace.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000043_000002|I happened to think of it, for a wonder . . .
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000043_000003|I'm always forgetting it . . . so I popped a spoonful in."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000044_000000|"It's a case of too many cooks, I guess," said Marilla, who had listened to this dialogue with a rather guilty expression.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000045_000000|The guests in the parlor heard peal after peal of laughter from the kitchen, but they never knew what the fun was about.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000045_000001|There were no green peas on the dinner table that day, however.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000046_000001|Let's carry the things in and get it over."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000047_000000|It cannot be said that that dinner was a notable success socially. The Allans and Miss Stacy exerted themselves to save the situation and Marilla's customary placidity was not noticeably ruffled.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000047_000001|But Anne and Diana, between their disappointment and the reaction from their excitement of the forenoon, could neither talk nor eat.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000048_000000|There is an old proverb that really seems at times to be inspired . . . "it never rains but it pours." The measure of that day's tribulations was not yet full.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000048_000001|Just as mr Allan had finished returning thanks there arose a strange, ominous sound on the stairs, as of some hard, heavy object bounding from step to step, finishing up with a grand smash at the bottom.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000048_000002|Everybody ran out into the hall.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000049_000000|At the bottom of the stairs lay a big pink conch shell amid the fragments of what had been Miss Barry's platter; and at the top of the stairs knelt a terrified Davy, gazing down with wide open eyes at the havoc.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000050_000000|"Davy," said Marilla ominously, "did you throw that conch down ON PURPOSE?"
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000051_000000|"No, I never did," whimpered Davy.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000052_000001|"It was my fault.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000052_000003|I am properly punished for my carelessness; but oh, what will Miss Barry say?"
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000053_000000|"Well, you know she only bought it, so it isn't the same as if it was an heirloom," said Diana, trying to console.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000054_000000|The guests went away soon after, feeling that it was the most tactful thing to do, and Anne and Diana washed the dishes, talking less than they had ever been known to do before.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000054_000001|Then Diana went home with a headache and Anne went with another to the east gable, where she stayed until Marilla came home from the post office at sunset, with a letter from Priscilla, written the day before.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000055_000000|"And oh, Anne dear," wrote Priscilla, "I'm so sorry, but I'm afraid we won't get up to Green Gables at all now, for by the time Aunty's ankle is well she will have to go back to Toronto.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000055_000001|She has to be there by a certain date."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000000|"Well," sighed Anne, laying the letter down on the red sandstone step of the back porch, where she was sitting, while the twilight rained down out of a dappled sky, "I always thought it was too good to be true that mrs Morgan should really come.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000001|But there . . . that speech sounds as pessimistic as Miss Eliza Andrews and I'm ashamed of making it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000002|After all, it was NOT too good to be true . . . things just as good and far better are coming true for me all the time.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000003|And I suppose the events of today have a funny side too.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000004|Perhaps when Diana and I are old and gray we shall be able to laugh over them.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000005|But I feel that I can't expect to do it before then, for it has truly been a bitter disappointment."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000057_000000|"You'll probably have a good many more and worse disappointments than that before you get through life," said Marilla, who honestly thought she was making a comforting speech.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000057_000001|"It seems to me, Anne, that you are never going to outgrow your fashion of setting your heart so on things and then crashing down into despair because you don't get them."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000000|"I know I'm too much inclined that, way" agreed Anne ruefully.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000001|"When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000002|But really, Marilla, the flying part IS glorious as long as it lasts . . . it's like soaring through a sunset.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000003|I think it almost pays for the thud."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000000|"Well, maybe it does," admitted Marilla.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000001|"I'd rather walk calmly along and do without both flying and thud.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000002|But everybody has her own way of living . . .
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000004|What are you going to do about Miss Barry's platter?"
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000060_000000|"Pay her back the twenty dollars she paid for it, I suppose.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000060_000001|I'm so thankful it wasn't a cherished heirloom because then no money could replace it."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000061_000000|"Maybe you could find one like it somewhere and buy it for her."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000000|"I'm afraid not.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000001|Platters as old as that are very scarce.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000002|mrs Lynde couldn't find one anywhere for the supper.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000003|I only wish I could, for of course Miss Barry would just as soon have one platter as another, if both were equally old and genuine.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000004|Marilla, look at that big star over mr Harrison's maple grove, with all that holy hush of silvery sky about it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000063_000000|"Where's Davy?" said Marilla, with an indifferent glance at the star.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000064_000000|"In bed.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000064_000002|Of course, the original agreement was that he must be good. But he TRIED to be good . . . and I hadn't the heart to disappoint him."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000065_000000|"You'll drown yourself or the twins, rowing about the pond in that flat," grumbled Marilla.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000065_000001|"I've lived here for sixty years and I've never been on the pond yet."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000066_000000|"Well, it's never too late to mend," said Anne roguishly.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000066_000001|"Suppose you come with us tomorrow.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000066_000002|We'll shut Green Gables up and spend the whole day at the shore, daffing the world aside."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000067_000000|"No, thank you," said Marilla, with indignant emphasis.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000067_000001|"I'd be a nice sight, wouldn't I, rowing down the pond in a flat?
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000067_000002|I think I hear Rachel pronouncing on it.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000000|"No, I'm sure there isn't.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000001|He just called there one evening on business with mr Harmon Andrews and mrs Lynde saw him and said she knew he was courting because he had a white collar on.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000002|I don't believe mr Harrison will ever marry.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000003|He seems to have a prejudice against marriage."
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000069_000000|"Well, you can never tell about those old bachelors.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000000|"I think he only put it on because he wanted to conclude a business deal with Harmon Andrews," said Anne.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000001|"I've heard him say that's the only time a man needs to be particular about his appearance, because if he looks prosperous the party of the second part won't be so likely to try to cheat him.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000002|I really feel sorry for mr Harrison; I don't believe he feels satisfied with his life.
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000003|It must be very lonely to have no one to care about except a parrot, don't you think?
train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000004|But I notice mr Harrison doesn't like to be pitied.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000000_000001|She turned her head at Davy's question and answered dreamily,
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000001_000000|"'Over the mountains of the moon, Down the valley of the shadow.'"
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000002_000000|Paul Irving would have known the meaning of this, or made a meaning out of it for himself, if he didn't; but practical Davy, who, as Anne often despairingly remarked, hadn't a particle of imagination, was only puzzled and disgusted.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000004_000000|"Of course, I was, dear boy.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000004_000001|Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?"
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000006_000000|"Oh, you are too little to understand," said Anne.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000006_000001|But she felt rather ashamed of saying it; for had she not, in keen remembrance of many similar snubs administered in her own early years, solemnly vowed that she would never tell any child it was too little to understand?
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000006_000002|Yet here she was doing it . . . so wide sometimes is the gulf between theory and practice.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000007_000000|"Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000007_000001|If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000008_000000|"Marilla is not stingy, Davy," said Anne severely.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000008_000001|"It is very ungrateful of you to say such a thing."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000009_000001|"I heard Marilla say she was it, herself, the other day."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000010_000000|"If you mean ECONOMICAL, it's a VERY different thing from being stingy. It is an excellent trait in a person if she is economical.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000010_000001|If Marilla had been stingy she wouldn't have taken you and Dora when your mother died.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000010_000002|Would you have liked to live with mrs Wiggins?"
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000011_000000|"You just bet I wouldn't!" Davy was emphatic on that point.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000011_000001|"Nor I don't want to go out to Uncle Richard neither.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000011_000004|I don't want a fairy story.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000012_000000|Fortunately for Anne, Marilla called out at this moment from her room.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000013_000001|You'd better see what she wants."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000015_000000|"I've good news for you, Anne," said Diana.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000015_000001|"Mother and I have just got home from Carmody, and I saw Mary Sentner from Spencer vale in mr Blair's store.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000015_000002|She says the old Copp girls on the Tory Road have a willow ware platter and she thinks it's exactly like the one we had at the supper.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000016_000000|"I'll go right over to Spencervale after it tomorrow," said Anne resolutely, "and you must come with me.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000016_000001|It will be such a weight off my mind, for I have to go to town day after tomorrow and how can I face your Aunt Josephine without a willow ware platter?
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000016_000002|It would be even worse than the time I had to confess about jumping on the spare room bed."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000017_000000|Both girls laughed over the old memory . . . concerning which, if any of my readers are ignorant and curious, I must refer them to Anne's earlier history.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000018_000000|The next afternoon the girls fared forth on their platter hunting expedition.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000018_000001|It was ten miles to Spencervale and the day was not especially pleasant for traveling.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000018_000002|It was very warm and windless, and the dust on the road was such as might have been expected after six weeks of dry weather.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000001|"Everything is so parched up.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000003|As for my garden, it hurts me every time I go into it.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000004|I suppose I shouldn't complain about a garden when the farmers' crops are suffering so.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000005|mr Harrison says his pastures are so scorched up that his poor cows can hardly get a bite to eat and he feels guilty of cruelty to animals every time he meets their eyes."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000020_000000|After a wearisome drive the girls reached Spencervale and turned down the "Tory" Road . . . a green, solitary highway where the strips of grass between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000020_000001|Along most of its extent it was lined with thick set young spruces crowding down to the roadway, with here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was aflame with fireweed and goldenrod.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000022_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000022_000001|Allan says it is on the principle of calling a place a grove because there are no trees in it," said Diana, "for nobody lives along the road except the Copp girls and old Martin Bovyer at the further end, who is a Liberal.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000022_000002|The Tory government ran the road through when they were in power just to show they were doing something."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000023_000000|Diana's father was a Liberal, for which reason she and Anne never discussed politics.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000023_000001|Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000024_000000|Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000024_000001|The house was a very old-fashioned one, situated on a slope, which fact had necessitated the building of a stone basement under one end.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000024_000002|The house and out buildings were all whitewashed to a condition of blinding perfection and not a weed was visible in the prim kitchen garden surrounded by its white paling.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000025_000000|"The shades are all down," said Diana ruefully.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000025_000001|"I believe that nobody is home."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000026_000000|This proved to be the case.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000026_000001|The girls looked at each other in perplexity.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000027_000000|"I don't know what to do," said Anne.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000027_000001|"If I were sure the platter was the right kind I would not mind waiting until they came home.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000027_000002|But if it isn't it may be too late to go to Wesley Keyson's afterward."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000028_000000|Diana looked at a certain little square window over the basement.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000029_000000|"That is the pantry window, I feel sure," she said, "because this house is just like Uncle Charles' at Newbridge, and that is their pantry window.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000029_000001|The shade isn't down, so if we climbed up on the roof of that little house we could look into the pantry and might be able to see the platter.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000030_000000|"No, I don't think so," decided Anne, after due reflection, "since our motive is not idle curiosity."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000031_000000|This important point of ethics being settled, Anne prepared to mount the aforesaid "little house," a construction of lathes, with a peaked roof, which had in times past served as a habitation for ducks.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000031_000001|The Copp girls had given up keeping ducks . . .
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000031_000003|Although scrupulously whitewashed it had become somewhat shaky, and Anne felt rather dubious as she scrambled up from the vantage point of a keg placed on a box.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000032_000000|"I'm afraid it won't bear my weight," she said as she gingerly stepped on the roof.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000033_000000|"Lean on the window sill," advised Diana, and Anne accordingly leaned. Much to her delight, she saw, as she peered through the pane, a willow ware platter, exactly such as she was in quest of, on the shelf in front of the window.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000033_000001|So much she saw before the catastrophe came.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000033_000002|In her joy Anne forgot the precarious nature of her footing, incautiously ceased to lean on the window sill, gave an impulsive little hop of pleasure . . . and the next moment she had crashed through the roof up to her armpits, and there she hung, quite unable to extricate herself. Diana dashed into the duck house and, seizing her unfortunate friend by the waist, tried to draw her down.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000034_000002|See if you can put something under my feet . . . then perhaps I can draw myself up."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000035_000000|Diana hastily dragged in the previously mentioned keg and Anne found that it was just sufficiently high to furnish a secure resting place for her feet.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000035_000001|But she could not release herself.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000036_000000|"Could I pull you out if I crawled up?" suggested Diana.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000038_000000|"No . . . the splinters hurt too badly.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000038_000001|If you can find an axe you might chop me out, though.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000039_000000|Diana searched faithfully but no axe was to be found.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000040_000000|"I'll have to go for help," she said, returning to the prisoner.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000000|"No, indeed, you won't," said Anne vehemently.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000001|"If you do the story of this will get out everywhere and I shall be ashamed to show my face. No, we must just wait until the Copp girls come home and bind them to secrecy.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000002|They'll know where the axe is and get me out.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000003|I'm not uncomfortable, as long as I keep perfectly still . . . not uncomfortable in BODY I mean.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000004|I wonder what the Copp girls value this house at.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000005|I shall have to pay for the damage I've done, but I wouldn't mind that if I were only sure they would understand my motive in peeping in at their pantry window.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000000|"If they're not back by sunset you'll have to go for other assistance, I suppose," said Anne reluctantly, "but you mustn't go until you really have to.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000002|I wouldn't mind my misfortunes so much if they were romantic, as mrs Morgan's heroines' always are, but they are always just simply ridiculous.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000003|Fancy what the Copp girls will think when they drive into their yard and see a girl's head and shoulders sticking out of the roof of one of their outhouses. Listen . . . is that a wagon?
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000004|No, Diana, I believe it is thunder."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000044_000000|Thunder it was undoubtedly, and Diana, having made a hasty pilgrimage around the house, returned to announce that a very black cloud was rising rapidly in the northwest.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000045_000000|"I believe we're going to have a heavy thunder shower," she exclaimed in dismay, "Oh, Anne, what will we do?"
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000000|"We must prepare for it," said Anne tranquilly.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000001|A thunderstorm seemed a trifle in comparison with what had already happened.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000002|"You'd better drive the horse and buggy into that open shed.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000003|Fortunately my parasol is in the buggy.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000004|Here . . . take my hat with you.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000047_000000|Diana untied the pony and drove into the shed, just as the first heavy drops of rain fell.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000047_000003|Occasionally Anne slanted back her parasol and waved an encouraging hand to her friend; But conversation at that distance was quite out of the question.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000047_000004|Finally the rain ceased, the sun came out, and Diana ventured across the puddles of the yard.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000048_000000|"Did you get very wet?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000001|"My head and shoulders are quite dry and my skirt is only a little damp where the rain beat through the lathes.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000002|Don't pity me, Diana, for I haven't minded it at all.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000003|I kept thinking how much good the rain will do and how glad my garden must be for it, and imagining what the flowers and buds would think when the drops began to fall.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000004|I imagined out a most interesting dialogue between the asters and the sweet peas and the wild canaries in the lilac bush and the guardian spirit of the garden.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000005|When I go home I mean to write it down.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000006|I wish I had a pencil and paper to do it now, because I daresay I'll forget the best parts before I reach home."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000050_000000|Diana the faithful had a pencil and discovered a sheet of wrapping paper in the box of the buggy.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000051_000000|"Oh, Anne, it's sweet . . . just sweet.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000000|"Oh, no, it wouldn't be suitable at all.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000002|It's just a string of fancies.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000003|I like writing such things, but of course nothing of the sort would ever do for publication, for editors insist on plots, so Priscilla says.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000004|Oh, there's Miss Sarah Copp now. PLEASE, Diana, go and explain."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000054_000000|Miss Sarah Copp was a small person, garbed in shabby black, with a hat chosen less for vain adornment than for qualities that would wear well. She looked as amazed as might be expected on seeing the curious tableau in her yard, but when she heard Diana's explanation she was all sympathy.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000054_000001|She hurriedly unlocked the back door, produced the axe, and with a few skillfull blows set Anne free.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000054_000002|The latter, somewhat tired and stiff, ducked down into the interior of her prison and thankfully emerged into liberty once more.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000055_000000|"Miss Copp," she said earnestly.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000055_000001|"I assure you I looked into your pantry window only to discover if you had a willow ware platter.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000055_000002|I didn't see anything else-I didn't LOOK for anything else."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000000|"Bless you, that's all right," said Miss Sarah amiably.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000001|"You needn't worry-there's no harm done.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000002|Thank goodness, we Copps keep our pantries presentable at all times and don't care who sees into them.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000003|As for that old duckhouse, I'm glad it's smashed, for maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000004|She never would before for fear it might come in handy sometime and I've had to whitewash it every spring.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000005|But you might as well argue with a post as with Martha.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000006|She went to town today-I drove her to the station.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000007|And you want to buy my platter.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000057_000000|"Twenty dollars," said Anne, who was never meant to match business wits with a Copp, or she would not have offered her price at the start.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000000|"Well, I'll see," said Miss Sarah cautiously.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000003|Martha's the boss of this establishment I can tell you.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000004|I'm getting awful tired of living under another woman's thumb.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000005|But come in, come in.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000006|You must be real tired and hungry.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000008|Martha locked up all the cake and cheese and preserves afore she went.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000009|She always does, because she says I'm too extravagant with them if company comes."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000060_000001|But it's worth twenty five dollars.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000060_000002|It's a very old platter."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000061_000001|She promptly agreed to give twenty five and Miss Sarah looked as if she felt sorry she hadn't asked for thirty.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000000|"Well, I guess you may have it.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000001|I want all the money I can scare up just now.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000002|The fact is-" Miss Sarah threw up her head importantly, with a proud flush on her thin cheeks-"I'm going to be married-to Luther Wallace.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000003|He wanted me twenty years ago.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000006|Besides, I didn't know men were so skurse."
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000063_000000|When the girls were safely away, Diana driving and Anne holding the coveted platter carefully on her lap, the green, rain freshened solitudes of the Tory Road were enlivened by ripples of girlish laughter.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000064_000001|We've had a rather trying time but it's over now.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000064_000002|I've got the platter, and that rain has laid the dust beautifully.
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000064_000003|So 'all's well that ends well.'"
train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000065_000000|"We're not home yet," said Diana rather pessimistically, "and there's no telling what may happen before we are.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty three
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000002|Each of these facts seemed struggling for complete possession of his thoughts.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000004|The men in yellow, and men whom he fancied were called Ward Leaders, were either propelling him forward or following him obediently; it was hard to tell.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000006|Perhaps some power unseen and unsuspected propelled them all.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000008|Many little things happened, and then he found himself with the man in yellow entering a little room where this proclamation of his was to be made.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000003_000001|In the centre was a bright oval lit by shaded electric lights from above.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000003_000004|The huge ears of a phonographic mechanism gaped in a battery for his words, the black eyes of great photographic cameras awaited his beginning, beyond metal rods and coils glittered dimly, and something whirled about with a droning hum.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000003_000005|He walked into the centre of the light, and his shadow drew together black and sharp to a little blot at his feet.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000004_000005|"For a moment," he said, "I must wait.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000005_000000|While he was still hesitating there came an agitated messenger with news that the foremost aeroplanes were passing over Madrid.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000008_000000|"Ready!"
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000010_000002|Aeroplanes at Madrid!
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000011_000000|"Oh! what can it matter whether I speak well or ill?" he said, and felt the light grow brighter.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000003|Abruptly it was perfectly clear to him that this revolt against Ostrog was premature, foredoomed to failure, the impulse of passionate inadequacy against inevitable things.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000008|Even as he stood, awkward, hesitating, with an indiscreet apology for his inability trembling on his lips, came the noise of many people crying out, the running to and fro of feet.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000009|"Wait," cried someone, and a door opened.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000010|Graham turned, and the watching lights waned.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000013_000000|Through the open doorway he saw a slight girlish figure approaching.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000013_000001|His heart leapt.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000013_000002|It was Helen Wotton.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000014_000000|"This is the girl who told us what Ostrog had done," he said.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000015_000000|She came in very quietly, and stood still, as if she did not want to interrupt Graham's eloquence....
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000015_000001|But his doubts and questionings fled before her presence.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000015_000003|He turned back to her.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000016_000000|"You have helped me," he said lamely-"helped me very much....
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000017_000001|He addressed himself to the unseen multitudes who stared upon him through those grotesque black eyes.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000017_000002|At first he spoke slowly.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000019_000000|He stopped to gather words.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000020_000002|All your lives, it may be, you must fight.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000020_000003|Take no thought though I am beaten, though I am utterly overthrown.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000021_000001|He paused momentarily, and broke into vague exhortations, and then a rush of speech came upon him.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000022_000002|So we hoped in the days that are past.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000022_000004|How is it with man after two hundred years?
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000000|"Great cities, vast powers, a collective greatness beyond our dreams.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000001|For that we did not work, and that has come.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000003|How is it with the common lives?
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000004|As it has ever been-sorrow and labour, lives cramped and unfulfilled, lives tempted by power, tempted by wealth, and gone to waste and folly.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000024_000002|It does not matter if you understand. It does not matter if you seem to fail.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000024_000004|There is no promise, there is no security-nothing to go upon but Faith.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000024_000005|There is no faith but faith-faith which is courage...."
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000025_000001|He spoke gustily, in broken incomplete sentences, but with all his heart and strength, of this new faith within him.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000001|His eloquence limped no longer.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000002|And at last he made an end to speaking.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000006|To all of you.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000007|I give it to you, and myself I give to you.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000027_000001|He found the light of his present exaltation reflected in the face of the girl.
train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000028_000002|I knew you would say these things...."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000001_000000|WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000002_000002|He was saying that the south-west wards were marching.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000002_000003|"I never expected it so soon," he cried.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000003_000000|Graham stared at him absent mindedly.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000003_000001|Then with a start he returned to his previous preoccupation about the flying stages.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000004_000000|"Yes," he said.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000000|He turned his eyes to Helen Wotton again.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000001|His face expressed his struggle between conflicting ideas.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000002|"We must capture the flying stages," he explained.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000004|At all costs we must prevent that."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000006_000001|He saw a touch of surprise in her eyes.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000007_000001|He made the offer abruptly. He addressed the man in yellow, but he spoke to her.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000007_000002|He saw her face respond.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000000|He explained elaborately.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000001|He motioned towards the room where Graham must wait, he insisted no other course was possible.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000002|"We must know where you are," he said.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000003|"At any moment a crisis may arise needing your presence and decision."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000010_000001|But here was no spectacular battle field such as he imagined.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000011_000002|Section after section of the Labour Societies reported itself assembled, reported itself marching, and vanished from knowledge into the labyrinth of that warfare. What was happening there?
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000013_000000|Now the door would be closed and Graham and Helen were alone together; they seemed sharply marked off then from all the unprecedented world storm that rushed together without, vividly aware of one another, only concerned with one another.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000013_000001|Then the door would open again, messengers would enter, or a sharp bell would stab their quiet privacy, and it was like a window in a well built brightly lit house flung open suddenly to a hurricane.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000013_000002|The dark hurry and tumult, the stress and vehemence of the battle rushed in and overwhelmed them.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000015_000000|Metallic voices were shouting "Victory!" Yes it was "Victory!"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000016_000000|Bursting through the curtains appeared the man in yellow, startled and dishevelled with excitement, "Victory," he cried, "victory!
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000016_000001|The people are winning.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000016_000002|Ostrog's people have collapsed."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000017_000001|"Victory?"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000018_000001|"Tell me!
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000020_000002|"It is all over," he cried.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000021_000000|"What matters it now that we have Roehampton?
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000022_000000|"The Channel!" said the man in yellow.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000022_000001|He calculated swiftly. "Half an hour."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000023_000000|"They still have three of the flying stages," said the old man.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000024_000000|"Those guns?" cried Graham.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000025_000000|"We cannot mount them-in half an hour."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000026_000000|"Do you mean they are found?"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000028_000000|"If we could stop them another hour!" cried the man in yellow.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000029_000000|"Nothing can stop them now," said the old man.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000031_000001|"Now that we have found those guns.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000031_000003|If once we could get them out upon the roof spaces."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000032_000000|"How long would that take?" asked Graham suddenly.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000033_000000|"An hour-certainly."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000035_000001|"Even now-.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000035_000002|An hour!"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000036_000001|He tried to speak calmly, but his face was white.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000036_000003|You said there was a monoplane-?"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000038_000000|"Smashed?"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000000|"no
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000001|It is lying crossways to the carrier.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000002|It might be got upon the guides-easily.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000003|But there is no aeronaut-."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000040_000001|He spoke after a long pause.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000041_000000|"None."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000042_000000|He turned suddenly to Helen.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000042_000002|"I must do it."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000043_000000|"Do what?"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000045_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000046_000000|"I am an aeronaut.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000046_000001|After all-.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000046_000002|Those days for which you reproached me were not altogether wasted."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000047_000001|"Tell them to put it upon the guides."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000048_000000|The man in yellow hesitated.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000050_000000|"This monoplane-it is a chance-."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000000|"To fight-yes.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000002|I have thought before-.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000003|A big aeroplane is a clumsy thing.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000004|A resolute man-!"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000000|"There has been no need.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000001|But now the time has come.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000002|Tell them now-send them my message-to put it upon the guides.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000004|I see now why I am here!"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000056_000000|Helen made a step towards Graham.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000056_000002|"But, Sire!--How can one fight?
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000056_000003|You will be killed."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000057_000000|"Perhaps.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000057_000001|Yet, not to do it-or to let some one else attempt it-."
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000059_000001|Do you not see?
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000059_000002|It may save-London!"
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000060_000000|He stopped, he could speak no more, he swept the alternative aside by a gesture, and they stood looking at one another.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000061_000000|They were both clear that he must go.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000061_000001|There was no step back from these towering heroisms.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000062_000000|Her eyes brimmed with tears.
train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000063_000000|"To wake," she cried, "for this!"
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000001_000000|Strange to say, the anger of the Raturans was not assuaged by the rebuff which they received at that time.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000000|Poor Zeppa! till that day, since his mental break down, the idea of singing had never once occurred to him, and this reception of his first attempt to teach disconcerted him.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000003|He renewed his efforts, but changed his plan.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000005|In a short time he had the satisfaction of hearing Lippy attempt, of her own accord, to sing one of the hymns that had taken her fancy.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000007|He took her on his knee, and told her, in her own tongue, to try it again.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000005_000000|Accordingly, she began in a sweet, tiny little voice, and her teacher gazed at her with intense pleasure depicted on his handsome face until she reached the note where she had formerly gone wrong.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000006_000000|"No-not so; sing thus," he said, giving the right notes.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000007_000000|The pupil took it up at once, and thus the singing lessons were fairly begun.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000008_000001|Gradually they grew bolder, and joined in the exercise.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000008_000002|Zeppa took pleasure in helping them, and at last permitted as many as could crowd into his hut to do so.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000008_000003|Those who could not get inside sat on the ground outside, and, as the hut was open in front, the gathering soon increased.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000009_000000|The assembling of these children for their lesson brought powerfully to Zeppa's mind, one day, the meetings of the Ratinga people for worship, and the appropriateness of beginning with prayer occurred to him. Accordingly, that morning, just as he was about to commence the hymns, he clasped his hands, raised his eyes, and briefly asked God's blessing on the work.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000010_000000|Profound astonishment kept the little ones quiet, and before they had time to recover the prayer was over.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000011_000002|When, therefore, he thought it time to close, he simply rose up and took himself off, leaving his congregation to disperse when and how it pleased!
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000012_000000|One night, while he was thus absent, the men of Ratura delivered the attack which they had long meditated.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000013_000001|Such a night as is apt to fill the guilty conscience with unresting fears, as though it felt the near approach of that avenging sword which sooner or later it must meet.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000014_000001|And they were right.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000014_000003|Not knowing the Gospel method of blotting out the latter, their one resource lay in obliterating the former.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000016_000000|Leaving the aged men and boys to protect the women and children, those dark skinned warriors marched away to battle-not with the flaunting banners and martial music of civilised man, but with the profound silence and the stealthy tread of the savage.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000016_000001|Though the work in hand was the same, the means to the end were different; we will therefore describe them.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000001|When you get there, yell, shriek-like- like-you know how!
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000002|As you did last time!
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000004|Fear not to be captured.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000005|Your death is nothing.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000006|Away!"
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000022_000000|A kick facilitated Wapoota's flight, and the two chiefs returned at speed to rouse the sleeping camp.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000023_000000|Wapoota performed his part nobly-and without being captured, for he did not agree with Ongoloo as to the unimportance of his own death!
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000023_000001|At the unexpected outcry in the rear the Raturans halted, and held a hasty council of war.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000024_000000|"Let us go back and fight them," said one.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000027_000000|"While we waste time here," said the leading chief, "the mountain dogs will get ready for us.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000027_000002|Forward!"
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000029_000000|Meanwhile, at the first alarm, the women and children of the village had been sent off to the mountains for safety.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000029_000003|The women scattered and fled.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000029_000004|The savage warriors pursued, and several were taken, among them Lippy and her mother, who were promptly despatched to the rear.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000030_000001|His surprise on hearing that the village had been attacked was great and his anxiety considerable.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000030_000002|Although he had refused to go out to war with his entertainers, he felt no disposition to stand idly by when they were attacked.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000032_000000|"She is caught and carried away-with her mother."
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000034_000001|They ran away from him in terror.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000035_000000|But Zeppa had heard enough.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000035_000001|Turning his face towards the village he sped over the ground at a pace that soon brought him in sight of the combatants, who seemed to be swaying to and fro-now here, now there-as the tide of battle flowed and victory leaned sometimes to one side sometimes to the other.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000036_000000|Zeppa was unarmed.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000036_000001|As he drew near he was observed by both parties to stop abruptly in his career, and wrench out of the ground a stake that had been meant for the corner post of a newly begun hut.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000037_000000|Whirling it like a feather round his head, the maniac rushed on.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000037_000001|He was thoroughly roused.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000038_000000|Before reaching him, however, his attention was arrested by a cry from some one in the midst of the enemy in front.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000041_000000|When Wapoota saw his deliverer, he ran to him, panting, and said-
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000042_000000|"Come with me-this way-Lippy is here!"
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000043_000000|That was sufficient.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000044_000000|This was briefly explained to Zeppa by Wapoota, who had chanced to encounter the party when returning from his yelling mission, if we may so express it.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000045_000000|The race was a long one, but neither the madman nor his friend flagged until they overtook the party.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000048_000000|As on former occasions of conquest, the Mountain men pursued the flying host into their swamps, but they did not, as in former times, return to slay the aged and carry the women and children into captivity.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000053_000002|The natives regarded his person as in some measure sacred, and would have deemed it not only dangerous but insolent to go up among the rocky heights when the madman was known to be there.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000055_000000|On the way up, Wapoota, who felt somewhat timorous about the visit, had made up his mind as to the best mode of address with which to approach his friend.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000055_000001|He had decided that, although he was not particularly youthful, the language and manner of a respectful son to a revered father would best befit the occasion.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000056_000000|Zeppa looked up with a frown, as if annoyed at the intrusion.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000058_000000|But he got no further.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000058_000001|He could not well have hit upon a more unfortunate phrase.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000059_000001|"My son!
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000060_000000|The horrified intruder heard the terminal yell, and saw the maniac bound over the fire towards him, but he saw and heard no more, for his limbs became suddenly endued with something like electric vitality.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000060_000002|It was sufficiently soft to prevent death.
train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000062_000000|When Wapoota went over the precipice and disappeared, Zeppa halted and stood erect, gazing with a questioning aspect at the sky, and drawing his hand slowly across his brows with that wearied and puzzled aspect which had become characteristic.
train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000000|The whole empire was deeply interested in the education of these five youths, the acknowledged successors of Constantine.
train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000005|In the free intercourse of private life, and amidst the dangers of the court of Galerius, he had learned to command his own passions, to encounter those of his equals, and to depend for his present safety and future greatness on the prudence and firmness of his personal conduct.
train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000008|The indulgence of Constantine admitted them, at a very tender age, to share the administration of the empire; and they studied the art of reigning, at the expense of the people intrusted to their care.
train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000014|A just proportion of guards, of legions, and of auxiliaries, was allotted for their respective dignity and defence.
train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000015|The ministers and generals, who were placed about their persons, were such as Constantine could trust to assist, and even to control, these youthful sovereigns in the exercise of their delegated power.
train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000020_000000|To oppose the inroad of this destroying host, the aged emperor took the field in person; but on this occasion either his conduct or his fortune betrayed the glory which he had acquired in so many foreign and domestic wars.
train-clean-360/1607/149245/1607_149245_000004_000006|White villas peep from the birch forest; and, on a fine summer day, there is scarcely a turn of the pass at which may not be seen some angler casting his fly on the foam of the river, some artist sketching a pinnacle of rock, or some party of pleasure banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
train-clean-360/1607/149245/1607_149245_000005_000010|Some of them were quartered at such a distance that they did not arrive in time.
train-clean-360/1607/149245/1607_149245_000007_000001|In truth james would have done better to withhold all assistance from the Highlanders than to mock them by sending them, instead of the well appointed army which they had asked and expected, a rabble contemptible in numbers and appearance.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000001_000001|You are also to understand, that even in pursuit of this wrong idea (enough in itself to have ruined any king) he never took a straight course, but always took a crooked one.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000004_000000|For all this, it became necessary to call another Parliament.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000005_000004|This happened in his hall.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000012_000010|Seven of the judges said that was quite true, and mr Hampden was bound to pay: five of the judges said that was quite false, and mr Hampden was not bound to pay.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000012_000013|But O! it would have been well for the King if he had let them go!
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000012_000018|At first the King tried force, then treaty, then a Scottish Parliament which did not answer at all.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000013_000003|It is called the Short Parliament, for it lasted a very little while.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000013_000006|This great example set, other members took courage and spoke the truth freely, though with great patience and moderation.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000015_000000|We have now disposed of the Short Parliament.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000016_000000|SECOND PART
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000017_000003|He was immediately taken into custody and fell from his proud height.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000021_000004|They were profoundly quiet.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000024_000004|Some think that he went to get proofs against the Parliamentary leaders in England of their having treasonably invited the Scottish people to come and help them. With whatever object he went to Scotland, he did little good by going.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000026_000002|It would take a good many Lord Mayors, however, to make a people, and the King soon found himself mistaken.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000027_000000|Not so soon, though, but that there was a great opposition in the Parliament to a celebrated paper put forth by Pym and Hampden and the rest, called 'THE REMONSTRANCE,' which set forth all the illegal acts that the King had ever done, but politely laid the blame of them on his bad advisers.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000030_000004|No one speaks, and then he calls john Pym by name. No one speaks, and then he calls Denzil Hollis by name.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000032_000001|They were taken by water.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000033_000005|When the Earl of Pembroke asked him whether he would not give way on that question for a time, he said, 'By God! not for one hour!' and upon this he and the Parliament went to war.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000036_000000|THIRD PART
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000041_000003|But they came to nothing.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000043_000002|He, too, was buried in Westminster Abbey, with great state.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000044_000000|FOURTH PART
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000055_000002|john BRADSHAW, serjeant at law, was appointed president.
train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000057_000001|It was granted.
train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000006_000000|Argyle was the first to act upon this contract.
train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000008_000008|He was completely broken.
train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000015_000003|He flourished Father Petre before the eyes of the people on all possible occasions.
train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000020_000006|This was on the night of the ninth of December.
train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000022_000006|There, he died.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000001_000000|THE Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000001_000001|When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000002_000000|It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000002_000001|But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000003_000000|He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000004_000000|"I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?" said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000005_000000|The Spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000006_000000|"You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," Scrooge pursued.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000006_000001|"Is that so, Spirit?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000007_000000|The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head. That was the only answer he received.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000008_000001|The Spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000009_000001|It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000010_000000|"Ghost of the Future!" he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000010_000002|Will you not speak to me?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000011_000000|It gave him no reply.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000011_000001|The hand was pointed straight before them.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000012_000001|"Lead on!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000012_000002|The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000012_000003|Lead on, Spirit!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000013_000000|The Phantom moved away as it had come towards him. Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000014_000000|They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000014_000001|But there they were, in the heart of it; on 'Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals; and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000015_000000|The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000016_000001|I only know he's dead."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000017_000000|"When did he die?" inquired another.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000019_000000|"Why, what was the matter with him?" asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff box. "I thought he'd never die."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000020_000000|"God knows," said the first, with a yawn.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000021_000000|"What has he done with his money?" asked a red faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey cock.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000022_000001|"Left it to his company, perhaps.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000023_000000|This pleasantry was received with a general laugh.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000025_000000|"I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000025_000001|"But I must be fed, if I make one."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000026_000000|Another laugh.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000027_000002|Bye, bye!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000028_000000|Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000028_000001|Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explanation.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000029_000000|The Phantom glided on into a street.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000029_000002|Scrooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000030_000000|He knew these men, also, perfectly.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000030_000001|They were men of business: very wealthy, and of great importance.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000030_000002|He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000031_000000|"How are you?" said one.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000032_000000|"How are you?" returned the other.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000033_000000|"Well!" said the first.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000034_000001|"Cold, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000036_000000|"no
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000036_000002|Something else to think of.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000036_000003|Good morning!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000037_000000|Not another word.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000037_000001|That was their meeting, their conversation, and their parting.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000038_000001|Nor could he think of any one immediately connected with himself, to whom he could apply them.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000038_000003|For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000039_000000|He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000039_000001|It gave him little surprise, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new born resolutions carried out in this.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000040_000000|Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000040_000002|It made him shudder, and feel very cold.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000041_000001|The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000042_000000|Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low browed, beetling shop, below a pent house roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000042_000001|Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000043_000001|But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each other.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000043_000002|After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000044_000000|"Let the charwoman alone to be the first!" cried she who had entered first.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000045_000002|Stop till I shut the door of the shop. Ah!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000045_000007|Come into the parlour.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000045_000008|Come into the parlour."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000046_000001|The old man raked the fire together with an old stair rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000047_000000|While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking with a bold defiance at the other two.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000048_000000|"What odds then!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000048_000001|What odds, mrs Dilber?" said the woman.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000048_000002|"Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000049_000000|"That's true, indeed!" said the laundress.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000049_000001|"No man more so."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000050_000000|"Why then, don't stand staring as if you was afraid, woman; who's the wiser?
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000050_000001|We're not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000051_000000|"No, indeed!" said mrs Dilber and the man together. "We should hope not."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000052_000001|"That's enough. Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000053_000000|"No, indeed," said mrs Dilber, laughing.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000054_000000|"If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw," pursued the woman, "why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000055_000000|"It's the truest word that ever was spoke," said mrs Dilber.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000055_000001|"It's a judgment on him."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000000|"I wish it was a little heavier judgment," replied the woman; "and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000001|Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000002|Speak out plain.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000005|It's no sin.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000006|Open the bundle, Joe."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000057_000000|But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000057_000001|It was not extensive.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000057_000002|A seal or two, a pencil case, a pair of sleeve buttons, and a brooch of no great value, were all.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000058_000000|"That's your account," said Joe, "and I wouldn't give another sixpence, if I was to be boiled for not doing it. Who's next?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000059_000000|mrs Dilber was next.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000059_000001|Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar tongs, and a few boots.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000059_000002|Her account was stated on the wall in the same manner.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000060_000000|"I always give too much to ladies.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000060_000001|It's a weakness of mine, and that's the way I ruin myself," said old Joe.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000060_000002|"That's your account.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000061_000000|"And now undo my bundle, Joe," said the first woman.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000062_000000|Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000063_000000|"What do you call this?" said Joe.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000063_000001|"Bed curtains!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000064_000000|"Ah!" returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward on her crossed arms.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000064_000001|"Bed curtains!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000065_000000|"You don't mean to say you took 'em down, rings and all, with him lying there?" said Joe.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000066_000000|"Yes I do," replied the woman.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000066_000001|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000067_000000|"You were born to make your fortune," said Joe, "and you'll certainly do it."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000068_000001|"Don't drop that oil upon the blankets, now."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000069_000000|"His blankets?" asked Joe.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000070_000001|"He isn't likely to take cold without 'em, I dare say."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000071_000000|"I hope he didn't die of anything catching?
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000072_000000|"Don't you be afraid of that," returned the woman.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000072_000003|It's the best he had, and a fine one too. They'd have wasted it, if it hadn't been for me."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000000|"Putting it on him to be buried in, to be sure," replied the woman with a laugh.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000001|"Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I took it off again.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000002|If calico an't good enough for such a purpose, it isn't good enough for anything.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000003|It's quite as becoming to the body.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000004|He can't look uglier than he did in that one."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000075_000000|Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000075_000001|As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have been greater, though they had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000076_000001|"This is the end of it, you see!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000077_000001|"I see, I see.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000077_000002|The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000079_000000|The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000079_000001|A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000080_000000|Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000080_000001|Its steady hand was pointed to the head.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000080_000003|He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000000|Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000001|But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000002|It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand WAS open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000003|Strike, Shadow, strike! And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000082_000000|No voice pronounced these words in Scrooge's ears, and yet he heard them when he looked upon the bed.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000082_000001|He thought, if this man could be raised up now, what would be his foremost thoughts?
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000082_000002|Avarice, hard dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000083_000001|A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth stone.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000084_000000|"Spirit!" he said, "this is a fearful place.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000084_000001|In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000084_000002|Let us go!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000085_000000|Still the Ghost pointed with an unmoved finger to the head.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000086_000001|But I have not the power, Spirit.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000086_000002|I have not the power."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000087_000000|Again it seemed to look upon him.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000089_000000|The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000090_000000|She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000091_000000|At length the long expected knock was heard.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000091_000001|She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000091_000002|There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000092_000000|He sat down to the dinner that had been hoarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000096_000000|"no
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000096_000001|There is hope yet, Caroline."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000097_000000|"If he relents," she said, amazed, "there is!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000097_000001|Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has happened."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000098_000000|"He is past relenting," said her husband.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000099_000000|She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000100_000000|"What the half drunken woman whom I told you of last night, said to me, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay; and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns out to have been quite true.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000100_000001|He was not only very ill, but dying, then."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000101_000000|"To whom will our debt be transferred?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000102_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000102_000001|But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000102_000002|We may sleep to night with light hearts, Caroline!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000103_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000103_000002|The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000105_000000|The Ghost conducted him through several streets familiar to his feet; and as they went along, Scrooge looked here and there to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000105_000001|They entered poor Bob Cratchit's house; the dwelling he had visited before; and found the mother and the children seated round the fire.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000106_000000|Quiet.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000106_000001|Very quiet.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000106_000004|But surely they were very quiet!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000107_000000|"'And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them.'"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000108_000001|He had not dreamed them.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000108_000003|Why did he not go on?
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000109_000000|The mother laid her work upon the table, and put her hand up to her face.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000110_000000|"The colour hurts my eyes," she said.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000111_000000|The colour?
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000111_000001|Ah, poor Tiny Tim!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000112_000001|"It makes them weak by candle light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father when he comes home, for the world.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000112_000002|It must be near his time."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000114_000000|They were very quiet again.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000116_000000|"And so have I," cried peter.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000116_000001|"Often."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000117_000000|"And so have I," exclaimed another.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000117_000001|So had all.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000118_000001|And there is your father at the door!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000119_000000|She hurried out to meet him; and little Bob in his comforter --he had need of it, poor fellow-came in.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000119_000001|His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000119_000003|Don't be grieved!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000120_000000|Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000121_000000|"Sunday!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000121_000001|You went to day, then, Robert?" said his wife.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000001|"I wish you could have gone.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000003|But you'll see it often.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000004|I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000005|My little, little child!" cried Bob.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000006|"My little child!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000123_000000|He broke down all at once.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000123_000001|He couldn't help it.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000123_000002|If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000124_000000|He left the room, and went up stairs into the room above, which was lighted cheerfully, and hung with Christmas. There was a chair set close beside the child, and there were signs of some one having been there, lately.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000124_000001|Poor Bob sat down in it, and when he had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little face.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000124_000002|He was reconciled to what had happened, and went down again quite happy.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000125_000000|They drew about the fire, and talked; the girls and mother working still.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000125_000002|"On which," said Bob, "for he is the pleasantest spoken gentleman you ever heard, I told him.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000126_000000|"Knew what, my dear?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000127_000000|"Why, that you were a good wife," replied Bob.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000128_000000|"Everybody knows that!" said peter.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000000|"Very well observed, my boy!" cried Bob.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000001|"I hope they do.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000002|'Heartily sorry,' he said, 'for your good wife.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000004|Pray come to me.' Now, it wasn't," cried Bob, "for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind way, that this was quite delightful.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000005|It really seemed as if he had known our Tiny Tim, and felt with us."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000130_000000|"I'm sure he's a good soul!" said mrs Cratchit.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000131_000000|"You would be surer of it, my dear," returned Bob, "if you saw and spoke to him.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000131_000001|I shouldn't be at all surprised- mark what I say!--if he got peter a better situation."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000132_000000|"Only hear that, peter," said mrs Cratchit.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000133_000000|"And then," cried one of the girls, "peter will be keeping company with some one, and setting up for himself."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000134_000000|"Get along with you!" retorted peter, grinning.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000135_000001|But however and whenever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim-shall we-or this first parting that there was among us?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000136_000000|"Never, father!" cried they all.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000137_000000|"And I know," said Bob, "I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it."
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000138_000000|"No, never, father!" they all cried again.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000139_000000|"I am very happy," said little Bob, "I am very happy!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000140_000000|mrs Cratchit kissed him, his daughters kissed him, the two young Cratchits kissed him, and peter and himself shook hands.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000140_000001|Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000141_000000|"Spectre," said Scrooge, "something informs me that our parting moment is at hand.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000141_000001|I know it, but I know not how.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000142_000000|The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before-though at a different time, he thought: indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save that they were in the Future-into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000142_000001|Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000143_000000|"This court," said Scrooge, "through which we hurry now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a length of time.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000143_000001|I see the house.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000143_000002|Let me behold what I shall be, in days to come!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000144_000000|The Spirit stopped; the hand was pointed elsewhere.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000145_000000|"The house is yonder," Scrooge exclaimed.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000145_000001|"Why do you point away?"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000146_000000|The inexorable finger underwent no change.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000147_000000|Scrooge hastened to the window of his office, and looked in.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000147_000001|It was an office still, but not his.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000147_000002|The furniture was not the same, and the figure in the chair was not himself. The Phantom pointed as before.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000148_000000|He joined it once again, and wondering why and whither he had gone, accompanied it until they reached an iron gate. He paused to look round before entering.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000000|A churchyard.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000001|Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000002|It was a worthy place.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000003|Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000004|A worthy place!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000150_000000|The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000150_000001|He advanced towards it trembling.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000151_000000|"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point," said Scrooge, "answer me one question.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000152_000000|Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000153_000000|"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000153_000001|"But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000153_000002|Say it is thus with what you show me!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000154_000000|The Spirit was immovable as ever.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000155_000000|Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000156_000000|"Am I that man who lay upon the bed?" he cried, upon his knees.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000157_000000|The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000158_000000|"No, Spirit!
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000158_000001|Oh no, no!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000159_000000|The finger still was there.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000160_000002|Why show me this, if I am past all hope!"
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000161_000000|For the first time the hand appeared to shake.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000162_000000|"Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000163_000000|The kind hand trembled.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000164_000000|"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000164_000001|I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000000_000000|"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000002_000000|"They are not torn down," cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed curtains in his arms, "they are not torn down, rings and all.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000002_000001|They are here-I am here-the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000002_000002|They will be.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000004_000000|"I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocooen of himself with his stockings.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000005_000000|He had frisked into the sitting room, and was now standing there: perfectly winded.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000006_000000|"There's the saucepan that the gruel was in!" cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fireplace. "There's the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000006_000002|There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000007_000000|Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000002|I don't know anything.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000003|I'm quite a baby.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000004|Never mind.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000005|I don't care.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000009_000000|He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000009_000002|Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000009_000003|Oh, glorious, glorious!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000010_000001|No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000010_000002|Oh, glorious! Glorious!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000011_000000|"What's to day!" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000012_000000|"EH?" returned the boy, with all his might of wonder.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000013_000000|"What's to day, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000014_000000|"To day!" replied the boy.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000000|"It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000001|"I haven't missed it.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000002|The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000004|Of course they can.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000016_000000|"Hallo!" returned the boy.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000017_000000|"Do you know the Poulterer's, in the next street but one, at the corner?" Scrooge inquired.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000019_000001|"A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they've sold the prize Turkey that was hanging up there?--Not the little prize Turkey: the big one?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000020_000000|"What, the one as big as me?" returned the boy.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000021_000002|Yes, my buck!"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000023_000000|"Is it?" said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000023_000001|"Go and buy it."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000024_000000|"Walk ER!" exclaimed the boy.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000025_000000|"No, no," said Scrooge, "I am in earnest.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000025_000002|Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000025_000003|Come back with him in less than five minutes and I'll give you half a crown!"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000026_000000|The boy was off like a shot.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000026_000001|He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half so fast.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000027_000000|"I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!" whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000028_000000|The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000028_000001|As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000029_000004|Whoop! How are you!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000030_000000|It was a Turkey!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000030_000001|He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000031_000000|"Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town," said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000031_000001|"You must have a cab."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000033_000000|Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000033_000001|But if he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking plaister over it, and been quite satisfied.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000034_000000|He dressed himself "all in his best," and at last got out into the streets.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000034_000001|The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and walking with his hands behind him, Scrooge regarded every one with a delighted smile.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000034_000002|He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good humoured fellows said, "Good morning, sir!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000035_000000|He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting house the day before, and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000035_000001|It sent a pang across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000000|"My dear sir," said Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000001|"How do you do?
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000002|I hope you succeeded yesterday.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000004|A merry Christmas to you, sir!"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000037_000000|"mr Scrooge?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000038_000000|"Yes," said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000038_000002|Allow me to ask your pardon. And will you have the goodness"--here Scrooge whispered in his ear.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000039_000000|"Lord bless me!" cried the gentleman, as if his breath were taken away.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000039_000001|"My dear mr Scrooge, are you serious?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000040_000000|"If you please," said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000040_000001|"Not a farthing less.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000040_000002|A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favour?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000042_000000|"Don't say anything, please," retorted Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000042_000001|"Come and see me.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000042_000002|Will you come and see me?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000043_000000|"I will!" cried the old gentleman.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000044_000002|Bless you!"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000045_000001|He had never dreamed that any walk-that anything-could give him so much happiness.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000045_000002|In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000046_000000|He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000046_000001|But he made a dash, and did it:
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000047_000001|Nice girl!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000047_000002|Very.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000048_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000049_000000|"Where is he, my love?" said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000050_000000|"He's in the dining room, sir, along with mistress.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000050_000001|I'll show you up stairs, if you please."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000051_000001|He knows me," said Scrooge, with his hand already on the dining room lock.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000051_000002|"I'll go in here, my dear."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000052_000000|He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door. They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000053_000000|"Fred!" said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000056_000000|"It's i Your uncle Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000056_000001|I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000003|So did Topper when he came.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000004|So did the plump sister when she came.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000005|So did every one when they came.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000006|Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won der ful happiness!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000058_000001|Oh, he was early there.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000058_000002|If he could only be there first, and catch Bob Cratchit coming late!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000058_000003|That was the thing he had set his heart upon.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000000|And he did it; yes, he did!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000001|The clock struck nine.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000002|No Bob.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000004|No Bob.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000005|He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000006|Scrooge sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the Tank.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000060_000000|His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter too.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000060_000001|He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000062_000001|"I am behind my time."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000063_000000|"You are?" repeated Scrooge.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000063_000001|"Yes.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000063_000002|I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please."
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000064_000000|"It's only once a year, sir," pleaded Bob, appearing from the Tank.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000064_000001|"It shall not be repeated.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000065_000000|"Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000065_000001|And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again; "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000066_000000|Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000066_000001|He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait waistcoat.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000067_000000|"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000067_000001|"A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you, for many a year!
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000067_000003|Make up the fires, and buy another coal scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000000|Scrooge was better than his word.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000001|He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000002|He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000004|His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000008_000000|Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still, and Rhiannon and Kieva, wife of Pryderi, made haste to prepare a feast for them.
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000013_000000|'What craft shall we follow?' asked Pryderi.
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000014_000000|'We will make shields,' answered Manawyddan.
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000017_000000|'Let us take to making shoes,' said Manawyddan, 'for there are not any among the shoemakers bold enough to fight us.'
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000044_000000|'A thief,' he answered, 'that I caught robbing me.'
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000056_000000|'From singing in England; but wherefore dost thou ask?'
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000058_000001|'And what work art thou upon?'
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000060_000002|Let it go free.'
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000066_000000|'Good day to thee, lord; and what art thou doing?'
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000076_000000|'What work art thou upon?' asked the bishop, drawing rein.
train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000085_000000|'I will not set it free.'
train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000007_000001|Some of these peculiarities are known, the others may easily be pointed out; but I shall confine myself to the most prominent amongst them.
train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000008_000000|The Americans have no neighbors, and consequently they have no great wars, or financial crises, or inroads, or conquest to dread; they require neither great taxes, nor great armies, nor great generals; and they have nothing to fear from a scourge which is more formidable to republics than all these evils combined, namely, military glory.
train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000008_000004|Now the people which is thus carried away by the illusions of glory is unquestionably the most cold and calculating, the most unmilitary (if I may use the expression), and the most prosaic of all the peoples of the earth.
train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000016_000001|At that same period North America was discovered, as if it had been kept in reserve by the Deity, and had just risen from beneath the waters of the deluge.
train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000028_000004|The Americans frequently term what we should call cupidity a laudable industry; and they blame as faint heartedness what we consider to be the virtue of moderate desires.
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000002_000000|L
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000003_000000|Laboring like a giant
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000005_000000|Laughter like a beautiful bubble from the rosebud of baby hood
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000006_000000|Laughter like the sudden outburst of the glad bird in the tree top
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000009_000000|Let his frolic fancy play, like a happy child
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000011_000000|Let thy mouth murmur like the doves
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000015_000000|Light as a snowflake
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000016_000000|Lights gleamed there like stars in a still sky
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000017_000000|Like a ball of ice it glittered in a frozen sea of sky
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000018_000000|Like a blade sent home to its scabbard
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000019_000000|Like a blast from a horn
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000022_000000|Like a bright window in a distant view
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000023_000000|Like a caged lion shaking the bars of his prison
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000024_000000|Like a calm flock of silver fleeced sheep
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000025_000000|Like a cloud of fire
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000027_000000|Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000028_000000|Like a damp handed auctioneer
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000030_000000|Like a dew drop, ill fitted to sustain unkindly shocks
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000031_000000|Like a dipping swallow the stout ship dashed through the storm
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000032_000000|Like a distant star glimmering steadily in the darkness
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000033_000000|Like a dream she vanished
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000034_000000|Like a festooned girdle encircling the waist of a bride
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000035_000000|Like a flower her red lips parted
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000036_000000|Like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000038_000000|Like a golden shielded army
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000039_000000|Like a great express train, roaring, flashing, dashing head long
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000041_000000|Like a great ring of pure and endless light
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000042_000000|Like a great tune to which the planets roll
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000045_000000|Like a jewel every cottage casement showed
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000046_000000|Like a joyless eye that finds no object worth its constancy
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000047_000000|Like a knight worn out by conflict
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000050_000000|Like a living meteor
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000052_000000|Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000058_000000|Like a noisy argument in a drawing room
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000061_000000|Like a poet hidden
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000065_000000|Like a sea of upturned faces
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000066_000000|Like a shadow never to be overtaken
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000067_000000|Like a shadow on a fair sunlit landscape
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000068_000000|Like a sheeted ghost
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000073_000000|Like a stalled horse that breaks loose and goes at a gallop through the plain
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000074_000000|Like a star, his love's pure face looked down
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000075_000000|Like a star that dwelt apart
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000076_000000|Like a star, unhasting, unresting
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000077_000000|Like a stone thrown at random
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000079_000000|Like a summer dried fountain
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000081_000000|Like a thing at rest
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000082_000000|Like a thing read in a book or remembered out of the faraway past
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000084_000000|Like a triumphing fire the news was borne
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000086_000000|Like a vaporous amethyst
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000089_000000|Like a wandering star I fell through the deeps of desire
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000092_000000|Like a whirlwind they went past
train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000093_000000|Like a withered leaf the moon is blown across the bay
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000003_000000|Like an eagle clutching his prey, his arm swooped down
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000004_000000|Like an eagle dallying with the wind
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000005_000000|Like an engine of dread war, he set his shoulder to the mountain side
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000006_000000|Like an enraged tiger
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000008_000000|Like an icy wave, a swift and tragic impression swept through him
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000009_000000|Like an unbidden guest
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000010_000000|Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000011_000000|Like an unseen star of birth
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000012_000000|Like an unwelcome thought
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000013_000000|Like apparitions seen and gone
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000015_000000|Like bells that waste the moments with their loudness
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000016_000000|Like blasts of trumpets blown in wars
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000017_000000|Like bright Apollo
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000018_000000|Like bright lamps, the fabled apples glow
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000019_000000|Like building castles in the air
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000020_000000|Like bursting waves from the ocean
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000021_000000|Like cliffs which have been rent asunder
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000024_000000|Like crystals of snow
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000025_000000|Like dead lovers who died true
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000026_000000|Like Death, who rides upon a thought, and makes his way through temple, tower, and palace
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000027_000000|Like dew upon a sleeping flower
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000028_000000|Like dining with a ghost
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000030_000000|Like earth's decaying leaves
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000032_000000|Like echoes from an antenatal dream
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000033_000000|Like fixed eyes, whence the dear light of sense and thought has fled
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000034_000000|Like footsteps upon wool
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000036_000000|Like ghosts, from an enchanter fleeing
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000037_000000|Like ghosts the sentries come and go
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000038_000000|Like golden boats on a sunny sea
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000039_000000|Like great black birds, the demons haunt the woods
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000041_000000|Like having to taste a hundred exquisite dishes in a single meal
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000042_000000|Like Heaven's free breath, which he who grasps can hold not
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000046_000000|Like laying a burden on the back of a moth
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000049_000000|Like leviathans afloat
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000050_000000|Like lighting a candle to the sun
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000051_000000|Like making a mountain out of a mole hill
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000052_000000|Like mariners pulling the life boat
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000053_000000|Like mice that steal in and out as if they feared the light
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000054_000000|Like mountain over mountain huddled
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000055_000000|Like mountain streams we meet and part
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000056_000000|Like music on the water
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000057_000000|Like notes which die when born, but still haunt the echoes of the hill
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000059_000000|Like one pale star against the dusk, a single diamond on her brow gleamed with imprisoned fire
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000061_000000|Like one who talks of what he loves in dream
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000062_000000|Like organ music came the deep reply
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000065_000000|Like planets in the sky
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000066_000000|Like pouring oil on troubled waters
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000068_000000|Like rowing upstream against a strong downward current
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000070_000000|Like separated souls
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000071_000000|Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000072_000000|Like sheep from out the fold of the sky, stars leapt
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000073_000000|Like ships that have gone down at sea
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000074_000000|Like shy elves hiding from the traveler's eye
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000075_000000|Like skeletons, the sycamores uplift their wasted hands
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000076_000000|Like some grave night thought threading a dream
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000077_000000|Like some new gathered snowy hyacinth, so white and cold and delicate it was
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000078_000000|Like some poor nigh related guest, that may not rudely be dismist
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000080_000000|Like some unshriven churchyard thing, the friar crawled
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000083_000000|Like splendor winged moths about a taper
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000085_000000|upon the cool and still piazza
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000086_000000|Like straws in a gust of wind
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000088_000000|Like sunlight, in and out the leaves, the robins went
train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000089_000000|Like sweet thoughts in a dream
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000001_000000|Like the awful shadow of some unseen power
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000002_000000|Like the bellowing of bulls
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000005_000000|Like the cold breath of the grave
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000007_000000|Like the cry of an itinerant vendor in a quiet and picturesque town
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000009_000000|Like the dawn of the morn
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000011_000000|Like the dew on the mountain
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000012_000000|Like the dim scent in violets
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000014_000000|Like the embodiment of a perfect rose, complete in form and fragrance
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000015_000000|Like the faint cry of unassisted woe
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000016_000000|Like the faint exquisite music of a dream
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000022_000000|Like the foam on the river
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000024_000000|Like the jangling of all the strings of some musical instrument
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000025_000000|Like the jewels that gleam in baby eyes
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000029_000000|Like the music in the patter of small feet
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000031_000000|Like the quivering image of a landscape in a flowing stream
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000032_000000|Like the rainbow, thou didst fade
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000034_000000|Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000038_000000|Like the shadow of a great hill that reaches far out over the plain
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000043_000000|Like the Spring time, fresh and green
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000044_000000|Like the stern lights of a ship at sea, illuminating only the path which has been passed over
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000045_000000|Like the sudden impulse of a madman
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000046_000000|Like the swell of Summer's ocean
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000047_000000|Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000050_000000|Like the whole sky when to the east the morning doth return
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000052_000000|Like those great rivers, whose course everyone beholds, but their springs have been seen by but few
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000053_000000|Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000054_000000|Like to diamonds her white teeth shone between the parted lips
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000056_000000|Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000059_000000|Like vaporous shapes half seen
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000060_000000|Like village curs that bark when their fellows do
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000063_000000|Like wine stain to a flask the old distrust still clings
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000064_000000|Like winged stars the fire flies flash and glance
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000067_000000|Lithe as a panther
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000069_000000|Lofty as a queen
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000070_000000|Loneliness struck him like a blow
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000071_000000|Looked back with faithful eyes like a great mastiff to his master's face
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000072_000000|Looking as sulky as the weather itself
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000075_000000|Lost like the lightning in the sullen clod
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000076_000000|Love as clean as starlight
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000077_000000|Love brilliant as the morning
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000082_000000|Love shakes like a windy reed your heart
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000083_000000|Love smiled like an unclouded sun
train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000085_000000|Lovely as starry water
train-clean-360/1645/141819/1645_141819_000004_000001|And Daniel said unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.
train-clean-360/1645/141819/1645_141819_000012_000001|And he said, Yea, O king, they be whole.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000002_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000003_000000|If Myles fancied that one single victory over his enemy would cure the evil against which he fought, he was grievously mistaken; wrongs are not righted so easily as that.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000003_000002|Other and far more bitter battles lay before him ere he could look around him and say, "I have won the victory."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000004_000000|For a day-for two days-the bachelors were demoralized at the fall of their leader, and the Knights of the Rose were proportionately uplifted.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000005_000000|The day that Blunt met his fall, the wooden tank in which the water had been poured every morning was found to have been taken away.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000005_000001|The bachelors made a great show of indignation and inquiry.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000005_000003|If they did but know, he should smart for it.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000007_000001|No one doubted that Wilkes had spoken the truth in his taunt, and that the bachelors had indeed stolen their own tank.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000007_000002|So no more water was ever carried for the head squires, but it was plain to see that the war for the upperhand was not yet over.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000008_000000|Even if Myles had entertained comforting thoughts to the contrary, he was speedily undeceived.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000009_000000|"Holloa, Falworth!" they cried.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000009_000001|"Knowest thou that Blunt is nigh well again?"
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000010_000001|But I am right glad to hear it."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000011_000000|"Thou wilt sing a different song anon," said one of the bachelors.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000012_000002|Only this morning he told Philip Mowbray that he would have thy blood for the fall thou gavest him.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000012_000003|Look to thyself, Falworth; he cometh again Wednesday or Thursday next; thou standest in a parlous state."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000014_000000|"I know not," said Myles, boldly; "but I fear him not." Nevertheless his heart was heavy with the weight of impending ill.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000016_000001|"Blunt cometh again to morrow day."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000017_000000|Myles saw Gascoyne direct a sharp glance at him; but he answered nothing either to his enemy's words or his friend's look.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000018_000000|As the bachelor had said, Blunt came the next morning.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000018_000002|Myles was sitting on a bench along the wall, talking and jesting with some who stood by, when of a sudden his heart gave a great leap within him.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000000|It was Walter Blunt.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000001|He came walking in at the door as if nothing had passed, and at his unexpected coming the hubbub of talk and laughter was suddenly checked.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000002|Even Myles stopped in his speech for a moment, and then continued with a beating heart and a carelessness of manner that was altogether assumed.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000003|In his hand Blunt carried the house orders for the day, and without seeming to notice Myles, he opened it and read the list of those called upon for household service.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000020_000001|When Blunt had ended reading the list of names, he rolled up the parchment, and thrust it into his belt; then swinging suddenly on his heel, he strode straight up to Myles, facing him front to front.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000020_000002|A moment or two of deep silence followed; not a sound broke the stillness.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000020_000003|When Blunt spoke every one in the armory heard his words.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000022_000000|When Myles had seen his enemy turn upon him, he did not know at first what to expect; he would not have been surprised had they come to blows there and then, and he held himself prepared for any event.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000022_000001|He faced the other pluckily enough and without flinching, and spoke up boldly in answer.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000022_000002|"So be it, Walter Blunt; I fear thee not in whatever way thou mayst encounter me."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000023_000000|"Dost thou not?" said Blunt.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000025_000000|"I think naught," said Myles gruffly.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000025_000001|"He will not dare to touch me to harm me.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000025_000002|I fear him not." Nevertheless, he did not speak the full feelings of his heart.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000026_000000|"I know not, Myles," said Gascoyne, shaking his head doubtfully.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000027_000000|"I fear him not," said Myles again; but his heart foreboded trouble.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000030_000000|"Best let it be, Myles," said Wilkes.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000030_000001|"They will kill thee an thou cease not troubling them.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000031_000000|"No matter for that," said Myles; "it is not to be borne that they order others of us about as they do.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000031_000001|I mean to speak to them to night, and tell them it shall not be."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000032_000000|He was as good as his word.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000032_000001|That night, as the youngsters were shouting and romping and skylarking, as they always did before turning in, he stood upon his cot and shouted: "Silence!
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000033_000000|Then he jumped down again from his elevated stand, and an uproar of confusion instantly filled the place.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000033_000001|What was the effect of his words upon the bachelors he could not see.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000034_000001|Suddenly that impish little page spoken of before, Robin Ingoldsby, thrust his shock head around the corner of the smithy, and said: "Ho, Falworth!
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000036_000000|"There!" said he, still panting from the chase and seating the boy by no means gently upon the bench beside Wilkes.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000000|It was by no means easy to worm the story from the mischievous little monkey; he knew Myles too well to be in the least afraid of his threats. But at last, by dint of bribing and coaxing, Myles and his friends managed to get at the facts.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000001|The youngster had been sent to clean the riding boots of one of the bachelors, instead of which he had lolled idly on a cot in the dormitory, until he had at last fallen asleep.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000002|He had been awakened by the opening of the dormitory door and by the sound of voices-among them was that of his taskmaster.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000003|Fearing punishment for his neglected duty, he had slipped out of the cot, and hidden himself beneath it.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000038_000001|Blunt's companions were trying to persuade him against something, but without avail.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000040_000002|But tell me, Robin Ingoldsby, dost know aught more of this matter?
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000040_000003|Prithee tell it me, Robin.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000040_000004|Where do they propose to lie in wait for Falworth?"
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000042_000000|"Are they there now?" said Wilkes.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000047_000000|"So, comrades," said Myles at last, "what shall we do now?"
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000049_000000|"Nay," said Myles, "I take no such coward's part as that.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000049_000001|I say an they hunger to fight, give them their stomachful."
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000050_000000|The others were very reluctant for such extreme measures, but Myles, as usual, carried his way, and so a pitched battle was decided upon.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000051_000000|Then Wilkes started away to gather together those of the Knights of the Rose not upon household duty, and Myles, with the others, went to the armor smith to have him make for them a set of knives with which to meet their enemies-knives with blades a foot long, pointed and double edged.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000052_000000|The smith, leaning with his hammer upon the anvil, listened to them as they described the weapons.
train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000053_000002|With such blades, ere this battle is ended, some one would be slain, and so murder done.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000000_000003|Those who had much property, feared to risk its loss by embracing a doubtful struggle.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000000_000005|This was the best apology of any that had been offered; natural affection was the pleader; and though blinded to its true interest, such weakness had an amiable source, and so was pardoned.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000000_000007|"When Sir William Wallace is entering full sail, you will send your hirelings to tow him in! but if a plank could save him now, you would not throw it to him!
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000001_000001|He was trying his eloquence among the clan at Lennox, when Ker arriving, stamped his persuasions with truth; and above five hundred men arranged themselves under their lord's standard.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000001_000002|Maxwell gladly explained himself to Wallace's lieutenant; and summoning his little reserve, they marched with flying pennons through the town of Dumbarton.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000001_000003|At sight of so much larger a power than they expected would venture to appear in arms, and sanctioned by the example of the Earl of Lennox (whose name held a great influence in those parts), several, who before had held back, from doubting their own judgment, now came forward; and nearly eight hundred well appointed men marched into the fortress.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000002_000000|So large a reinforcement was gratefully received by Wallace; and he welcomed Maxwell with a cordiality which inspired that young knight with an affection equal to his zeal.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000003_000000|A council being held respecting the disposal of the new troops, it was decided that the Lennox men must remain with their earl in garrison; while those brought by Maxwell, and under his command, should follow Wallace in the prosecution of his conquests along with his own especial people.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000004_000000|These preliminaries being arranged, the remainder of the day was dedicated to more mature deliberations-to the unfolding of the plan of warfare which Wallace had conceived.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000005_000000|Mar had seen the power of his arms; Murray had already drunk the experience of a veteran from his genius; hence they were not surprised on hearing that which filled strangers with amazement.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000007_000000|Maxwell, though equally astonished, was not so rapt.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000007_000001|"You have made arms the study of your life?" inquired he.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000008_000001|"But when Scotland lost her freedom, as the sword was not drawn in her defense, I looked not where it lay.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000008_000002|I then studied the arts of peace; that is over; and now the passion of my soul revives.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000008_000003|When the mind is bent on one object only, all becomes clear that leads to it; zeal, in such cases, is almost genius."
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000009_000000|Soon after these observations, it was admitted that Wallace might attend Lord mar and his family on the morrow to the Isle of Bute.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000010_000000|When the dawn broke, he arose from his heather bed in the great tower; and having called forth twenty of the Bothwell men to escort their lord, he told Ireland he should expect to have a cheering account of the wounded on his return.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000011_000000|"But to assure the poor fellows," rejoined the honest soldier, "that something of yourself still keeps watch over them.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000013_000000|Wallace smiled.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000013_000001|"Were it our holy King David's we might expect such a miracle.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000013_000002|But you are welcome to it; and here let it remain till I take it hence.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000014_000000|A glow of conscious valor flushed the cheek of the veteran.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000015_000000|Wallace took the sword, and turned to meet Murray with Edwin in the portal.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000015_000001|When they reached the citadel, Lennox and all the officers in the garrison were assembled to bid their chief a short adieu.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000015_000003|Lord Mar, between Murray and Edwin, followed; and the servants and guard completed the suit.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000016_000000|Being well mounted, they pleasantly pursued their way, avoiding all inhabited places, and resting in the deepest recesses of the hills. Lord Mar proposed traveling all night; but at the close of the evening his countess complained of fatigue, declaring she could not advance further than the eastern bank of the River Cart.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000016_000002|Wallace ordered cloaks to be spread on the ground for the countess and her women; and seeing them laid to rest, planted his men to keep guard around the circle.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000017_000000|The moon had sunk in the west before the whole of his little camp were asleep; but when all seemed composed, he wandered forth by the dim light of the stars to view the surrounding country-a country he had so often traversed in his boyish days.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000017_000001|A little onward, in green Renfrewshire, lay the lands of his father; but that Ellerslie of his ancestors, like his own Ellerslie of Clydesdale, his country's enemies had leveled with the ground.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000017_000002|He turned in anguish of heart toward the south, for there less racking remembrances hovered over the distant hills.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000000|Leaning on the shattered stump of an old tree, he fixed his eyes on the far stretching plain, which alone seemed to divide him from the venerable Sir Ronald Crawford and his youthful haunts at Ayr.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000001|Full of thoughts of her who used to share those happy scenes, he heard a sigh behind him.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000002|He turned round, and beheld a female figure disappear among the trees.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000003|He stood motionless; again it met his view; it seemed to approach.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000005|When he last passed these borders, he was bringing his bride from Ayr!
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000006|What then was this ethereal visitant?
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000008|His heart paused-it beat violently-still the figure advanced.
train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000010|But it fled, and again vanished.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000002_000000|DON QUIXOTE
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000003_000000|When Kenneth got home he told mr Watson of his discovery and asked the old gentleman to write to the sign painter and find out what could be done.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000003_000001|The lawyer laughed heartily at his young friend's whim, but agreed to help him.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000004_000000|"If you are going to try to prevent rural advertising," he remarked, "you'll find your hands full."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000005_000000|Kenneth looked up smiling.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000006_000000|"Thank you," he said.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000007_000000|"For what?"
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000008_000000|"For finding me something to do.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000008_000001|I'm sick of this inaction."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000009_000000|Again the lawyer laughed.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000011_000000|"To remove such eyesores as advertising signs from the neighborhood of Elmhurst."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000012_000000|"It's a Titan's task, Ken."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000013_000000|"So much the better."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000014_000000|The lawyer grew thoughtful.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000015_000000|"I believe it's impossible," he ventured.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000016_000000|"Better yet.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000016_000001|I don't say I'll succeed, but I promise to try.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000016_000002|I want something to occupy myself-something really difficult, so that I may test my own powers."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000017_000000|"But, my dear boy!
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000017_000001|This foolish proposition isn't worthy your effort.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000017_000002|If you want to be up and doing we'll find something else to occupy your mind."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000018_000000|"No, mr Watson; I'm set on this.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000018_000001|It's a crime to allow these signs to flaunt themselves in our prettiest scenes.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000018_000003|Besides, no one else seems to have undertaken the task of exterminating them."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000019_000000|"True enough.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000019_000001|If you're serious, Ken, I'll frankly say the thing can't be done.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000019_000002|You may, perhaps, buy the privilege of maintaining the rocks of the glen free from advertising; but the advertisers will paint more signs on all the approaches, and you won't have gained much."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000020_000000|"I'll drive every advertising sign out of this country."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000021_000000|"Impossible.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000021_000001|The great corporations who control these industries make their fortunes by this style of advertising.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000021_000003|And they must advertise or they can't sell their products."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000022_000000|"Let them advertise in decent ways, then.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000022_000001|What right has any soap maker to flaunt his wares in my face, whether I'm interested in them or not?"
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000023_000000|"The right of custom.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000023_000002|I see no way to stop them."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000024_000000|"Nor I, at present.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000025_000000|"Drive out one, and another will take his place.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000026_000001|Ten dollars a year for a rock as big as a barn!"
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000027_000000|"But they rent thousands of such positions, and in the aggregate our farmers get large sums from them."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000028_000000|"And ruin the appearance of their homes and farms."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000029_000000|mr Watson smiled.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000031_000000|"They need to be educated, that's all.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000031_000001|These farmers seem very honest, decent fellows."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000032_000001|I wish you knew them better."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000033_000001|This campaign ought to bring us closer together, for I mean to get them to help me."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000034_000000|"You'll have to buy them, I'm afraid."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000035_000000|"Not all of them.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000035_000001|There must be some refinement among them."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000036_000000|But the lawyer was not convinced.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000036_000001|However, it was not his desire to stifle this new born enthusiasm of Kenneth's, even though he believed it misdirected.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000036_000003|It would cost the boy something, but he would gain his money's worth in experience.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000037_000000|After a few days the sign painter answered the letter.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000037_000001|He would relinquish the three signs in the glen for a payment of fifty dollars each, with the understanding that no other competing signs were to take their place.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000037_000002|Kenneth promptly mailed a check for the amount demanded and early next morning started for the glen with what he called his "eliminators."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000000|These "eliminators" consisted of two men with cans of turpentine and gasoline and an equipment of scrubbing brushes.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000001|Parsons, the farmer, came over to watch this novel proceeding, happy in the possession of three crisp five dollar notes given in accordance with the agreement made with him.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000002|All day the two men scrubbed the rocks faithfully, assisted at odd times by their impatient employer; but the thick splashes of paint clung desperately to the rugged surface of the rock, and the task was a hard one.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000003|When evening came the letters had almost disappeared when viewed closely; but when Kenneth rode to the mouth of the glen on his way home and paused to look back, he could see the injunction "Take Smith's Liver Pills" staring at him, in grim defiance of the scrubbing brushes.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000039_000001|No one ever knew what it cost in labor and material to erase those three signs; but after ten days they had vanished completely, and the boy heaved a sigh of satisfaction and turned his attention to extending the campaign.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000000|On the farm nearest to Elmhurst at the north, which belonged to a man named Webb, was a barn, facing the road, that displayed on its side a tobacco sign.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000001|Kenneth interviewed mr Webb and found that he received no money for the sign; but the man contended that the paint preserved his barn from the weather on that side.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000002|So Kenneth agreed to repaint the entire barn for him, and actually had the work done.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000003|As it took many coats of paint to blot out the sign it was rather a expensive operation.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000041_000000|By this time the campaign of the youthful proprietor of Elmhurst against advertising signs began to be talked of throughout the county, and was the subject of much merriment among the farmers.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000041_000001|Some of them were intelligent enough to admire the young Quixote, and acknowledged frankly that it was a pity to decorate their premises with signs of patent medicines and questionable soaps.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000042_000000|But the majority of them sneered at the champion, and many refused point blank to consider any proposition to discard the advertisements. Indeed, some were proud of them, and believed it a mark of distinction to have their fences and sheds announce an eye remedy or several varieties of pickles.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000043_000000|mr Watson, at first an amused observer of the campaign, soon became indignant at the way that Kenneth was ridiculed and reviled; and he took a hand in the fight himself.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000043_000001|He decided to call a meeting of the neighboring farmers at the district school house on Saturday night, where Kenneth could address them with logical arguments and endeavor to win them over to his way of thinking.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000045_000000|Not that the Honorable Erastus cared a fig about this foolish talk of exterminating advertising signs.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000045_000002|These signs were not works of art, but they were distinctly helpful to business, and only a fool, in the opinion of the Honorable Erastus, would protest against the inevitable.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000046_000000|What brought the legislator to the meeting was the fact that he was coming forward for re-election in November, and believed that this afforded a good chance to meet some of his constituents and make a favorable impression.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000047_000000|Indeed, the gathering had at first the appearance of being a political one, so entirely did the Representative dominate it.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000047_000001|But mr Watson took the platform and shyly introduced the speaker of the evening.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000048_000000|The farmers all knew mr Watson, and liked him; so when Kenneth rose they prepared to listen in respectful silence.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000049_000001|He told them what he had been able to accomplish by himself, in a short time; how he had redeemed the glen from its disgraceful condition and restored it to its former beauty.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000049_000002|He asked them to observe Webb's pretty homestead, no longer marred by the unsightly sign upon the barn.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000049_000003|And then he appealed to them to help him in driving all the advertising signs out of the community.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000050_000000|When he ended they applauded his speech mildly; but it was chiefly for the reason that he had spoken so forcibly and well.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000051_000000|Then the Honorable Erastus Hopkins, quick to catch the lack of sympathy in the audience, stood up and begged leave to reply to young Forbes.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000000|He said the objection to advertising signs was only a rich man's aristocratic hobby, and that it could not be indulged in a democratic community of honest people.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000001|His own firm, he said, bought thousands of bushels of oats from the farmers and converted them into the celebrated Eagle Eye Breakfast Food, three packages for a quarter.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000002|They sold this breakfast food to thousands of farmers, to give them health and strength to harvest another crop of oats.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000003|Thus he "benefited the community going and coming." What!
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000005|What aristocratic notion could prevent him?
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000006|It was a mighty good thing for the farmers to be reminded, by means of the signs on their barns and fences, of the things they needed in daily life.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000053_000000|If the young man at Elmhurst would like to be of public service he might find some better way to do so than by advancing such crazy ideas.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000053_000001|But this, continued the Representative, was a subject of small importance. What he wished especially to call their attention to was the fact that he had served the district faithfully as Representative, and deserved their suffrages for renomination.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000053_000002|And then he began to discuss political questions in general and his own merits in particular, so that Kenneth and mr Watson, disgusted at the way in which the Honorable Erastus had captured the meeting, left the school house and indignantly returned to Elmhurst.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000054_000000|"This man Hopkins," said mr Watson, angrily, "is not a gentleman.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000054_000001|He's an impertinent meddler."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000055_000000|"He ruined any good effect my speech might have created," said Kenneth, gloomily.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000056_000000|"Give it up, my boy," advised the elder man, laying a kindly hand on the youth's shoulder.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000056_000001|"It really isn't worth the struggle."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000057_000000|"But I can't give it up and acknowledge myself beaten," protested Kenneth, almost ready to weep with disappointment.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000059_000000|"I can't do better than to make it clean-to do away with these disreputable signs," said the boy, stubbornly.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000060_000000|"You made a fine speech," declared mr Watson, gravely puffing his pipe. "I am very proud of you, my lad."
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000061_000000|Kenneth flushed red.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000061_000001|He was by nature shy and retiring to a degree.
train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000061_000002|Only his pent up enthusiasm had carried him through the ordeal, and now that it was over he was chagrined to think that the speech had been so ineffective.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000002|It is not proposed to narrate minutely the incidents of their sojourn on this charming shore; though if it were convenient I might present a record of impressions nonetheless delectable that they were not exhaustively analyzed.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000004|The young Englishmen were introduced to everybody, entertained by everybody, intimate with everybody.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000008|He had meditated upon mrs Westgate's account of her sister, and he discovered for himself that the young lady was clever, and appeared to have read a great deal.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000010|If she was shy, she carried it off very well.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000001_000001|How would you say it in England-his position?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000002_000000|"His position?" Percy Beaumont repeated.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000005_000000|"He is a peer, then?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000006_000000|"Oh, yes, he is a peer."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000007_000000|"And has he any other title than Lord Lambeth?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000008_000002|"He is the son of the Duke of Bayswater," he added presently.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000011_000000|"And are his parents living?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000015_000000|"And his mother?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000018_000000|"Yes, there are two."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000019_000000|"And what are they called?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000020_000001|She is the Countess of Pimlico."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000021_000000|"And the other?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000023_000000|Bessie Alden looked at him a moment.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000023_000001|"Is she very plain?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000024_000000|Beaumont began to laugh again.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000024_000002|"Depend upon it," he said, "that girl means to try for you."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000029_000000|"Damn my eyes!" exclaimed Lord Lambeth.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000031_000000|"In the first place, how do you know how fond I am of her?" asked Lord Lambeth.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000031_000001|"And, in the second place, why shouldn't I be fond of her?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000033_000000|"What do you call my 'line'?
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000034_000000|"Exactly so.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000035_000000|"All the better.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000035_000001|It's an animal I detest."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000036_000000|"You prefer a bluestocking."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000037_000000|"Is that what you call Miss Alden?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000039_000000|"I don't know anything about that.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000039_000001|She is certainly very clever."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000041_000000|"In point of fact," Lord Lambeth rejoined, "I find it uncommonly lively."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000042_000000|After this, Percy Beaumont held his tongue; but on the tenth of August he wrote to the Duchess of Bayswater.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000042_000001|He was, as I have said, a man of conscience, and he had a strong, incorruptible sense of the proprieties of life.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000042_000006|She asked him a great many questions, some of which bored him a little; for he took no pleasure in talking about himself.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000052_000000|"Ah, but one doesn't make laws.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000053_000001|"It must be a great privilege, and I should think that if one thought of it in the right way-from a high point of view-it would be very inspiring."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000056_000000|"Do you want to buy up their leases?" he asked.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000058_000002|Bessie Alden listened with great interest and declared that she would give the world to see such a place.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000058_000003|Whereupon-"It would be awfully kind of you to come and stay there," said Lord Lambeth.
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000060_000004|She's so devilish positive."
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000063_000002|"What am I to do?"
train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000070_000000|"She is not interested-she is not!" Lord Lambeth repeated.
train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000002_000000|By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill.
train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000005_000000|And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.
train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000006_000000|When the king came and saw this, he was greatly astonished and pleased; but his heart grew still more greedy of gain, and he shut up the poor miller's daughter again with a fresh task.
train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000008_000000|till, long before morning, all was done again.
train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000010_000000|At the birth of her first little child she was very glad, and forgot the dwarf, and what she had said.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000000_000000|Chapter five
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000002_000000|How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000002_000001|His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000002_000003|Great God!
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000001|I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000004|Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000005|At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain; I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000006|I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000008|He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000009|His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000010|He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000011|I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000004_000000|Oh!
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000005_000000|I passed the night wretchedly.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000005_000001|Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000005_000002|Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000006_000000|Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000006_000002|I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000007_000002|My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000009_000000|[Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner."]
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000010_000000|Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000010_000001|Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000011_000000|Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000011_000003|Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000012_000000|"It gives me the greatest delight to see you; but tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth."
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000013_000001|By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000013_000002|But, my dear Frankenstein," continued he, stopping short and gazing full in my face, "I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watching for several nights."
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000000|I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000001|I walked with a quick pace, and we soon arrived at my college.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000002|I then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive and walking about.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000006|I threw the door forcibly open, as children are accustomed to do when they expect a spectre to stand in waiting for them on the other side; but nothing appeared.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000008|I could hardly believe that so great a good fortune could have befallen me, but when I became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy and ran down to Clerval.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000016_000001|It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000017_000000|"My dear Victor," cried he, "what, for God's sake, is the matter?
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000017_000002|How ill you are!
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000019_000000|Poor Clerval!
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000019_000001|What must have been his feelings?
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000019_000002|A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000020_000003|He knew that I could not have a more kind and attentive nurse than himself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recovery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he performed the kindest action that he could towards them.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000022_000000|By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000023_000000|"Dearest Clerval," exclaimed I, "how kind, how very good you are to me. This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000024_000000|"You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?"
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000025_000000|I trembled.
train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000027_000000|"If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you; it is from your cousin, I believe."
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000003_000000|The person-owner or tenant, I forget which-who lived in the house was an old woman named Dona Pascuala, whom I never saw without a cigar in her mouth.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000006_000003|But nothing of the kind happened, although on two occasions I thought the wished moment had come.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000007_000002|A stranger at the meeting quickly responded to the call.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000007_000003|Yes, he could play to any man's singing-any tune he liked to call.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000007_000006|And this was soon settled.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000013_000001|I refuse to play to you!
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000017_000002|I, too, suffered as you have suffered-"
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000020_000000|And so there was no fight after all!
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000021_000001|It is commonly said among the gauchos that when a man has proved his prowess by killing a few of his opponents, he is thereafter permitted to live in peace.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000027_000002|Oh, the subject!
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000027_000004|The words mattered more than the air. For here we had before us not a small sweet singer, a goldfinch in a cage, but a cock-a fighting cock with well trimmed comb and tail and a pair of sharp spurs to its feet.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000032_000000|The stanza ended, Marcos resumed his comments.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000032_000002|It is not the proper number in this case.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000032_000003|One more is wanted to make the full dozen.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000034_000002|I thought him a coward.
train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000037_000002|I disliked the whole tribe, except a little girl of about eight, a child, it was said, of one of the unmarried sisters. I never discovered which of her aunts, as she called all these tall, white faced heavy browed women, was her mother.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000003|He was, perhaps, of a better class, as his features were all good.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000004|A heavy man as well as a big one, he was not so amusing and so fluent a talker out of school as his predecessor, nor, as we were delighted to discover, so exacting and tyrannical in school.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000006|He would forget all about school hours, roam about the gardens and plantations, get into long conversations with the workmen, and eventually, when he found that he was somewhat too casual to please his employer, he enjoined us to "look him up" and let him know when it was school time.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000007|Looking him up usually took a good deal of time.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000010|When lessons were not learned he would sympathize with and comfort us by saying we had done our best and more could not be expected.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000011|He was also glad of any excuse to let us off for half a day.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000012|We found out that he was exceedingly fond of fishing-that with a rod and line in his hand he would spend hours of perfect happiness, even without a bite to cheer him, and on any fine day that called us to the plain we would tell him that it was a perfect day for fishing, and ask him to let us off for the afternoon.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000004|But he didn't know, and in any case he would like to correspond on these important matters with one on the other side.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000005|This letter met with a warm response, and there was much correspondence and meetings with other clerics Anglican or Episcopalian, I forget which.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000006|But there were also Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Methodist ministers, all with churches of their own in the town, and he may have flirted a little with all of them.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000007|Then he came for his year of waiting to us, during which he amused himself by teaching the little ones, smoothing the way for my mathematical brother, and fishing.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000009|He had come, he told them, a Roman Catholic priest to a Roman Catholic country, and had found himself a stranger in a strange land.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000010|He had waited patiently for months, and had been put off with idle promises or thrust aside, while every greedy pushing priest that arrived from Spain and Italy was received with open arms and a place provided for him.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000010_000001|He did not go so far as to accept that offer: he was wise in his generation, and eventually got his reward.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000011_000002|I had no inclination to do anything with books myself: books were lessons, therefore repellent, and that any one should read a book for pleasure was inconceivable.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000011_000004|However, one day he announced that he had a grand scheme to put before us.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000011_000008|We all agreed joyfully, and as the title had taken our fancy we started hunting for a blue pitcher all over the house, but couldn't find such a thing, and finally had to put up with a tin box with a wooden lid and a lock and key.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000011_000010|I was to say something about birds: there was never a week went by in which I didn't tell them a wonderful story of a strange bird I had seen for the first time: well, I could write about that strange bird and make it just as wonderful as I liked.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000012_000001|All went well for a few days.
train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000012_000011|He would exhibit him as the meanest, most contemptible insect that ever crawled on the surface of the earth.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000000|Margaret made a good listener to all her mother's little plans for adding some small comforts to the lot of the poorer parishioners.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000001|She could not help listening, though each new project was a stab to her heart.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000002|By the time the frost had set in, they should be far away from Helstone.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000003|Old Simon's rheumatism might be bad and his eyesight worse; there would be no one to go and read to him, and comfort him with little porringers of broth and good red flannel: or if there was, it would be a stranger, and the old man would watch in vain for her.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000004|Mary Domville's little crippled boy would crawl in vain to the door and look for her coming through the forest.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000005|These poor friends would never understand why she had forsaken them; and there were many others besides.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000006|'Papa has always spent the income he derived from his living in the parish.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000007_000000|'Do you feel ill, my darling?' asked mrs Hale, anxiously, misunderstanding Margaret's hint of the uncertainty of their stay at Helstone. 'You look pale and tired.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000008_000001|It smells of the freshest, purest fragrance, after the smokiness of Harley Street.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000008_000002|But I am tired: it surely must be near bedtime.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000009_000000|'Not far off-it is half past nine.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000009_000001|You had better go to bed at once dear. Ask Dixon for some gruel.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000009_000002|I will come and see you as soon as you are in bed.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000000|Margaret went upstairs.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000005|That morning when she had looked out, her heart had danced at seeing the bright clear lights on the church tower, which foretold a fine and sunny day.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000006|This evening-sixteen hours at most had past by-she sat down, too full of sorrow to cry, but with a dull cold pain, which seemed to have pressed the youth and buoyancy out of her heart, never to return.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000007|mr Henry Lennox's visit-his offer-was like a dream, a thing beside her actual life.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000012_000000|She looked out upon the dark gray lines of the church tower, square and straight in the centre of the view, cutting against the deep blue transparent depths beyond, into which she gazed, and felt that she might gaze for ever, seeing at every moment some farther distance, and yet no sign of God!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000012_000003|He came to her and touched her shoulder before she was aware that he was there.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000013_000000|'Margaret, I heard you were up.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000013_000001|I could not help coming in to ask you to pray with me-to say the Lord's Prayer; that will do good to both of us.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000000|mr Hale and Margaret knelt by the window seat-he looking up, she bowed down in humble shame.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000001|God was there, close around them, hearing her father's whispered words.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000003|She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000004|If the world was full of perplexing problems she would trust, and only ask to see the one step needful for the hour.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000005|mr Lennox-his visit, his proposal-the remembrance of which had been so rudely pushed aside by the subsequent events of the day-haunted her dreams that night.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000006|He was climbing up some tree of fabulous height to reach the branch whereon was slung her bonnet: he was falling, and she was struggling to save him, but held back by some invisible powerful hand.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000007|He was dead.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000008|And yet, with a shifting of the scene, she was once more in the Harley Street drawing room, talking to him as of old, and still with a consciousness all the time that she had seen him killed by that terrible fall.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000000|Miserable, unresting night!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000001|Ill preparation for the coming day!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000002|She awoke with a start, unrefreshed, and conscious of some reality worse even than her feverish dreams.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000003|It all came back upon her; not merely the sorrow, but the terrible discord in the sorrow.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000004|Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One?
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000016_000001|She talked on, planning village kindnesses, unheeding the silence of her husband and the monosyllabic answers of Margaret. Before the things were cleared away, mr Hale got up; he leaned one hand on the table, as if to support himself:
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000001|I am going to Bracy Common, and will ask Farmer Dobson to give me something for dinner.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000002|I shall be back to tea at seven.' He did not look at either of them, but Margaret knew what he meant.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000004|mr Hale would have delayed making it till half past six, but Margaret was of different stuff.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000005|She could not bear the impending weight on her mind all the day long: better get the worst over; the day would be too short to comfort her mother.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000006|But while she stood by the window, thinking how to begin, and waiting for the servant to have left the room, her mother had gone up stairs to put on her things to go to the school.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000007|She came down ready equipped, in a brisker mood than usual.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000018_000000|'Mother, come round the garden with me this morning; just one turn,' said Margaret, putting her arm round mrs Hale's waist.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000000|They passed through the open window.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000001|mrs Hale spoke-said something-Margaret could not tell what.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000002|Her eye caught on a bee entering a deep belled flower: when that bee flew forth with his spoil she would begin-that should be the sign.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000003|Out he came.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000020_000000|'Mamma!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000020_000002|'He's going to leave the Church, and live in Milton Northern.' There were the three hard facts hardly spoken.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000022_000000|'Papa himself,' said Margaret, longing to say something gentle and consoling, but literally not knowing how.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000022_000001|They were close to a garden bench.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000024_000001|Papa has written to the bishop, saying that he has such doubts that he cannot conscientiously remain a priest of the Church of England, and that he must give up Helstone.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000024_000002|He has also consulted mr Bell-Frederick's godfather, you know, mamma; and it is arranged that we go to live in Milton Northern.' mrs Hale looked up in Margaret's face all the time she was speaking these words: the shadow on her countenance told that she, at least, believed in the truth of what she said.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000025_000001|'He would surely have told me before it came to this.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000026_000000|It came strongly upon Margaret's mind that her mother ought to have been told: that whatever her faults of discontent and repining might have been, it was an error in her father to have left her to learn his change of opinion, and his approaching change of life, from her better informed child.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000027_000000|'Dear, darling mamma! we were so afraid of giving you pain.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000028_000000|'When did he tell you, Margaret?'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000029_000000|'Yesterday, only yesterday,' replied Margaret, detecting the jealousy which prompted the inquiry.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000029_000001|'Poor papa!'--trying to divert her mother's thoughts into compassionate sympathy for all her father had gone through.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000029_000002|mrs Hale raised her head.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000031_000000|'Can't the bishop set him right?' asked mrs Hale, half impatiently.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000000|'I'm afraid not,' said Margaret.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000001|'But I did not ask.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000004|He is going to leave Helstone in a fortnight.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000005|I am not sure if he did not say he had sent in his deed of resignation.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000033_000000|'In a fortnight!' exclaimed mrs Hale, 'I do think this is very strange-not at all right.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000033_000002|'He has doubts, you say, and gives up his living, and all without consulting me.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000034_000000|Mistaken as Margaret felt her father's conduct to have been, she could not bear to hear it blamed by her mother.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000034_000001|She knew that his very reserve had originated in a tenderness for her, which might be cowardly, but was not unfeeling.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000000|'You can't think the smoky air of a manufacturing town, all chimneys and dirt like Milton Northern, would be better than this air, which is pure and sweet, if it is too soft and relaxing.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000001|Fancy living in the middle of factories, and factory people!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000002|Though, of course, if your father leaves the Church, we shall not be admitted into society anywhere.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000005|It is well he is not alive to see what your father has come to!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000006|Every day after dinner, when I was a girl, living with your aunt Shaw, at Beresford Court, Sir john used to give for the first toast-"Church and King, and down with the Rump."'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000037_000000|Margaret was glad that her mother's thoughts were turned away from the fact of her husband's silence to her on the point which must have been so near his heart.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000037_000001|Next to the serious vital anxiety as to the nature of her father's doubts, this was the one circumstance of the case that gave Margaret the most pain.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000038_000000|'You know, we have very little society here, mamma.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000038_000001|The Gormans, who are our nearest neighbours (to call society-and we hardly ever see them), have been in trade just as much as these Milton Northern people.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000039_000000|'Yes,' said mrs Hale, almost indignantly, 'but, at any rate, the Gormans made carriages for half the gentry of the county, and were brought into some kind of intercourse with them; but these factory people, who on earth wears cotton that can afford linen?'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000040_000000|'Well, mamma, I give up the cotton spinners; I am not standing up for them, any more than for any other trades people.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000040_000001|Only we shall have little enough to do with them.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000041_000000|'Why on earth has your father fixed on Milton Northern to live in?'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000042_000000|'Partly,' said Margaret, sighing, 'because it is so very different from Helstone-partly because mr Bell says there is an opening there for a private tutor.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000043_000000|'Private tutor in Milton!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000043_000001|Why can't he go to Oxford, and be a tutor to gentlemen?'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000044_000000|'You forget, mamma!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000044_000001|He is leaving the Church on account of his opinions-his doubts would do him no good at Oxford.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000045_000000|mrs Hale was silent for some time, quietly crying.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000000|Margaret was inexpressibly relieved to find that her mother's anxiety and distress was lowered to this point, so insignificant to herself, and on which she could do so much to help.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000001|She planned and promised, and led her mother on to arrange fully as much as could be fixed before they knew somewhat more definitively what mr Hale intended to do.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000004|She dared not go to meet him, and tell him what she had done all day, for fear of her mother's jealous annoyance. She heard him linger, as if awaiting her, or some sign of her; and she dared not stir; she saw by her mother's twitching lips, and changing colour, that she too was aware that her husband had returned.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000006|She went to him, and threw herself on his breast, crying out-
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000048_000000|'Oh! Richard, Richard, you should have told me sooner!'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000049_000002|In consequence of this, Margaret felt herself touched, and started up into a sitting posture; she saw the accustomed room, the figure of Dixon in shadow, as the latter stood holding the candle a little behind her, for fear of the effect on Miss Hale's startled eyes, swollen and blinded as they were.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000050_000000|'Oh, Dixon!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000050_000001|I did not hear you come into the room!' said Margaret, resuming her trembling self restraint. 'Is it very late?' continued she, lifting herself languidly off the bed, yet letting her feet touch the ground without fairly standing down, as she shaded her wet ruffled hair off her face, and tried to look as though nothing were the matter; as if she had only been asleep.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000000|'I hardly can tell what time it is,' replied Dixon, in an aggrieved tone of voice.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000001|'Since your mamma told me this terrible news, when I dressed her for tea, I've lost all count of time.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000003|When Charlotte told me just now you were sobbing, Miss Hale, I thought, no wonder, poor thing!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000004|And master thinking of turning Dissenter at his time of life, when, if it is not to be said he's done well in the Church, he's not done badly after all.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000005|I had a cousin, miss, who turned Methodist preacher after he was fifty years of age, and a tailor all his life; but then he had never been able to make a pair of trousers to fit, for as long as he had been in the trade, so it was no wonder; but for master! as I said to missus, "What would poor Sir john have said?
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000006|he never liked your marrying mr Hale, but if he could have known it would have come to this, he would have sworn worse oaths than ever, if that was possible!"'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000052_000001|To hear her father talked of in this way by a servant to her face!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000053_000001|'Dixon! you forget to whom you are speaking.' She stood upright and firm on her feet now, confronting the waiting maid, and fixing her with her steady discerning eye.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000053_000002|'I am mr Hale's daughter.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000053_000004|You have made a strange mistake, and one that I am sure your own good feeling will make you sorry for when you think about it.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000054_000000|Dixon hung irresolutely about the room for a minute or two.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000054_000001|Margaret repeated, 'You may leave me, Dixon.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000056_000000|'No! not to night, thank you.' And Margaret gravely lighted her out of the room, and bolted the door.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000056_000001|From henceforth Dixon obeyed and admired Margaret.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000056_000002|She said it was because she was so like poor Master Frederick; but the truth was, that Dixon, as do many others, liked to feel herself ruled by a powerful and decided nature.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000003|Dixon, true to her post of body guard, attended most faithfully to her mistress, and only emerged from mrs Hale's bed room to shake her head, and murmur to herself in a manner which Margaret did not choose to hear.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000006|For he came home every evening more and more depressed, after the necessary leave taking which he had resolved to have with every individual parishioner.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000008|The cook and Charlotte worked away with willing arms and stout hearts at all the moving and packing; and as far as that went, Margaret's admirable sense enabled her to see what was best, and to direct how it should be done.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000009|But where were they to go to? In a week they must be gone.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000010|Straight to Milton, or where?
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000012|He answered:
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000000|'My dear!
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000001|I have really had too much to think about to settle this.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000002|What does your mother say?
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000003|What does she wish?
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000059_000000|He met with an echo even louder than his sigh.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000059_000001|Dixon had just come into the room for another cup of tea for mrs Hale, and catching mr Hale's last words, and protected by his presence from Margaret's upbraiding eyes, made bold to say, 'My poor mistress!'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000060_000000|'You don't think her worse to day,' said mr Hale, turning hastily.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000061_000000|'I'm sure I can't say, sir.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000061_000001|It's not for me to judge.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000062_000000|mr Hale looked infinitely distressed.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000063_000000|'You had better take mamma her tea while it is hot, Dixon,' said Margaret, in a tone of quiet authority.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000000|'Papa!' said Margaret, 'it is this suspense that is bad for you both.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000002|And I think, papa, that I could get mamma to help me in planning, if you could tell me what to plan for.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000003|She has never expressed any wish in any way, and only thinks of what can't be helped.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000005|Have you taken a house there?'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000066_000001|'I suppose we must go into lodgings, and look about for a house.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000067_000000|'And pack up the furniture so that it can be left at the railway station, till we have met with one?'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000068_000000|'I suppose so.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000068_000001|Do what you think best.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000068_000002|Only remember, we shall have much less money to spend.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000000|They had never had much superfluity, as Margaret knew.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000001|She felt that it was a great weight suddenly thrown upon her shoulders.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000002|Four months ago, all the decisions she needed to make were what dress she would wear for dinner, and to help Edith to draw out the lists of who should take down whom in the dinner parties at home.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000003|Nor was the household in which she lived one that called for much decision.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000005|Once a year, there was a long discussion between her aunt and Edith as to whether they should go to the Isle of Wight, abroad, or to Scotland; but at such times Margaret herself was secure of drifting, without any exertion of her own, into the quiet harbour of home.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000006|Now, since that day when mr Lennox came, and startled her into a decision, every day brought some question, momentous to her, and to those whom she loved, to be settled.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000070_000000|Her father went up after tea to sit with his wife.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000070_000001|Margaret remained alone in the drawing room.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000070_000002|Suddenly she took a candle and went into her father's study for a great atlas, and lugging it back into the drawing room, she began to pore over the map of England.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000071_000000|'I have hit upon such a beautiful plan.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000071_000001|Look here-in Darkshire, hardly the breadth of my finger from Milton, is Heston, which I have often heard of from people living in the north as such a pleasant little bathing place.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000071_000003|She would get a breath of sea air to set her up for the winter, and be spared all the fatigue, and Dixon would enjoy taking care of her.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000073_000000|'Oh, yes!' said Margaret. 'Dixon quite intends it, and I don't know what mamma would do without her.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000075_000000|'To be sure she does, papa,' replied Margaret; 'and if she has to put up with a different style of living, we shall have to put up with her airs, which will be worse.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000075_000001|But she really loves us all, and would be miserable to leave us, I am sure-especially in this change; so, for mamma's sake, and for the sake of her faithfulness, I do think she must go.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000076_000002|I am resigned.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000076_000004|The breadth of one of your fingers does not give me a very clear idea of distance.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000078_000000|'Not in distance, but in-.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000078_000002|If you really think it will do your mother good, let it be fixed so.'
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000079_000000|This was a great step.
train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000079_000001|Now Margaret could work, and act, and plan in good earnest.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000000_000000|Chapter sixteen
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000003_000001|There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000007_000002|That hour passed, the sun mounted high in the heavens, but the cottagers did not appear.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000007_000004|The inside of the cottage was dark, and I heard no motion; I cannot describe the agony of this suspense.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000009_000000|"'Do you consider,' said his companion to him, 'that you will be obliged to pay three months' rent and to lose the produce of your garden?
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000012_000000|"I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000016_000003|From you only could I hope for succour, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000017_000002|Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000017_000003|Oh, earth!
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000018_000004|Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000020_000000|"This was then the reward of my benevolence!
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000020_000004|But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000022_000000|"After some weeks my wound healed, and I continued my journey.
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000029_000003|You dare not keep me.'
train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000036_000003|The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000001_000000|Chapter seventeen
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000002_000002|He continued,
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000005_000000|"I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000006_000001|I am malicious because I am miserable.
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000008_000001|This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000014_000000|"You swear," I said, "to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000016_000002|His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with.
train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000022_000003|I felt as if I were placed under a ban-as if I had no right to claim their sympathies-as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000003_000000|CHAPTER forty four
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000004_000000|EASE NOT PEACE
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000005_000000|'A dull rotation, never at a stay, Yesterday's face twin image of to day.' COWPER.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000006_000000|'Of what each one should be, he sees the form and rule, And till he reach to that, his joy can ne'er be full.' RUCKERT.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000000|It was very well for Margaret that the extreme quiet of the Harley Street house, during Edith's recovery from her confinement, gave her the natural rest which she needed.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000005|And she felt that it was almost ungrateful in her to have a secret feeling that the Helstone vicarage-nay, even the poor little house at Milton, with her anxious father and her invalid mother, and all the small household cares of comparative poverty, composed her idea of home.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000006|Edith was impatient to get well, in order to fill Margaret's bed room with all the soft comforts, and pretty nick knacks, with which her own abounded.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000011|Then her thoughts went back to Milton, with a strange sense of the contrast between the life there, and here.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000015|There was a strange unsatisfied vacuum in Margaret's heart and mode of life; and, once when she had dimly hinted this to Edith, the latter, wearied with dancing the night before, languidly stroked Margaret's cheek as she sat by her in the old attitude,--she on a footstool by the sofa where Edith lay.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000008_000000|'Poor child!' said Edith.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000008_000001|'It is a little sad for you to be left, night after night, just at this time when all the world is so gay.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000009_000003|She was really very fond of him, excepting when he was anxiously attentive to Edith's dress and appearance, with a view to her beauty making a sufficient impression on the world.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000012_000000|'Oh, mr Bell!
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000014_000000|'Have you dined?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000014_000001|How did you come?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000015_000002|But where are the others?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000015_000004|Left you alone?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000016_000000|'Oh yes! and it is such a rest.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000000|'Why, to tell you the truth, I dined at my club.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000002|But never mind, never mind!
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000004|If their skill and their fires will stand it, their tempers won't.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000005|You shall make me some tea, Margaret.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000006|And now, what were you thinking of?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000007|you were going to tell me.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000008|Whose letters were those, god daughter, that you hid away so speedily?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000019_000000|'Whew! is that all?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000019_000001|Who do you think came up in the train with me?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000022_000000|'mr
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000022_000001|Henry Lennox?' asked Margaret.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000023_000000|'Yes,' replied mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000024_000000|'I liked him long ago,' said Margaret, glancing down for a moment.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000024_000003|What did you think of him?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000025_000002|Do you call him good looking, Margaret?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000027_000000|'Not i But I thought, perhaps, you might.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000028_000001|He has been on circuit now since I came.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000028_000002|But-mr
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000028_000003|Bell-have you come from Oxford or from Milton?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000030_000000|'Certainly.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000030_000001|But I thought that it might be the effect of the antiquities of Oxford.'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000001|In Oxford, I could have managed all the landlords in the place, and had my own way, with half the trouble your Milton landlord has given me, and defeated me after all.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000003|Luckily, mr Thornton found a tenant for it.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000004|Why don't you ask after mr Thornton, Margaret?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000006|Taken more than half the trouble off my hands.'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000032_000001|How is mrs Thornton?' asked Margaret hurriedly and below her breath, though she tried to speak out.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000000|'I suppose they're well.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000001|I've been staying at their house till I was driven out of it by the perpetual clack about that Thornton girl's marriage.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000002|It was too much for Thornton himself, though she was his sister.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000004|He's getting past the age for caring for such things, either as principal or accessory.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000006|I thought mrs Thornton had been made of sterner stuff.'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000035_000000|'Perhaps so.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000035_000001|You've studied her, have you?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000000|'I know it,' said Margaret.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000001|'Oh, here is tea at last!' exclaimed she, as if relieved.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000004|She could hardly tell what to say at first, and was thankful for all the tea table occupations, which gave her an excuse for keeping silence, and him an opportunity of recovering himself.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000005|For, to tell the truth, he had rather forced himself up to Harley Street this evening, with a view of getting over an awkward meeting, awkward even in the presence of Captain Lennox and Edith, and doubly awkward now that he found her the only lady there, and the person to whom he must naturally and perforce address a great part of his conversation.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000007|She began to talk on the subject which came uppermost in her mind, after the first flush of awkward shyness.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000039_000001|mr Lennox has discovered that he sailed for Australia only last August; only two months before Frederick was in England, and gave us the names of---- '
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000040_000000|'Frederick in England! you never told me that!' exclaimed mr Bell in surprise.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000041_000001|I never doubted you had been told.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000041_000002|Of course, it was a great secret, and perhaps I should not have named it now,' said Margaret, a little dismayed.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000042_000000|'I have never named it to either my brother or your cousin,' said mr Lennox, with a little professional dryness of implied reproach.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000043_000001|I am not living in a talking, babbling world, nor yet among people who are trying to worm facts out of me; you needn't look so frightened because you have let the cat out of the bag to a faithful old hermit like me.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000043_000003|Stay!' (interrupting himself rather abruptly) 'was it at your mother's funeral?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000045_000000|'To be sure!
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000045_000001|To be sure!
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000045_000002|Why, some one asked me if he had not been over then, and I denied it stoutly-not many weeks ago-who could it have been?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000047_000000|There was a pause for a moment or two.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000048_000001|Cannot you come here?
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000049_000001|But I will certainly come if you wish it,' replied mr Lennox, with a little afterthought of extreme willingness, which made Margaret shrink into herself, and almost wish that she had not proposed her natural request.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000049_000002|mr Bell got up and looked around him for his hat, which had been removed to make room for tea.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000051_000000|'I believe I shall stay and see my brother and sister,' said mr Lennox, making no movement of departure.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000052_000001|'I want you to see Edith; and I want Edith to know you.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000053_000003|I suppose I am not much to "see," eh, Margaret?'
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000000|He joked, to give her time to recover from the slight flutter which he had detected in her manner on his proposal to leave; and she caught the tone, and threw the ball back.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000002|To be sure, in her quiet black dress, she was a contrast to Edith, dancing in her white crape mourning, and long floating golden hair, all softness and glitter.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000003|She dimpled and blushed most becomingly when introduced to mr Bell, conscious that she had her reputation as a beauty to keep up, and that it would not do to have a Mordecai refusing to worship and admire, even in the shape of an old Fellow of a College, which nobody had ever heard of.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000004|mrs Shaw and Captain Lennox, each in their separate way, gave mr Bell a kind and sincere welcome, winning him over to like them almost in spite of himself, especially when he saw how naturally Margaret took her place as sister and daughter of the house.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000055_000001|And for mr Bell! for Margaret's mr Bell---- '
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000060_000000|'Thank you.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000060_000001|I am much obliged to you.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000060_000003|I'm thankful they haven't a bed.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000062_000000|'I thought her looking remarkably well.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000063_000000|'She has had a great deal to go through,' said mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000065_000001|'You must have heard some wrong statement.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000066_000000|'Perhaps I have been wrongly informed.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000067_000000|'I differ from you.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000067_000001|I do not think they are very apt to do as my poor friend Hale did.' mr Bell was inwardly chafing.
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000070_000001|And you don't know Milton. Such a change from Helstone!
train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000070_000004|Do we part here?
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000005_000000|FIRST SECTION
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000007_000000|OF MORALITY TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000008_000001|It is the same with the gifts of fortune.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000009_000001|Moderation in the affections and passions, self control, and calm deliberation are not only good in many respects, but even seem to constitute part of the intrinsic worth of the person; but they are far from deserving to be called good without qualification, although they have been so unconditionally praised by the ancients.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000009_000002|For without the principles of a good will, they may become extremely bad, and the coolness of a villain not only makes him far more dangerous, but also directly makes him more abominable in our eyes than he would have been without it.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000010_000000|A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition; that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of the sum total of all inclinations.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000010_000002|Its usefulness or fruitlessness can neither add nor take away anything from this value.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000012_000000|In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it as a fundamental principle that no organ for any purpose will be found but what is also the fittest and best adapted for that purpose.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000012_000004|In a word, nature would have taken care that reason should not break forth into practical exercise, nor have the presumption, with its weak insight, to think out for itself the plan of happiness, and of the means of attaining it.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000012_000005|Nature would not only have taken on herself the choice of the ends, but also of the means, and with wise foresight would have entrusted both to instinct.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000014_000001|This will then, though not indeed the sole and complete good, must be the supreme good and the condition of every other, even of the desire of happiness.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000014_000003|Nay, it may even reduce it to nothing, without nature thereby failing of her purpose.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000014_000004|For reason recognizes the establishment of a good will as its highest practical destination, and in attaining this purpose is capable only of a satisfaction of its own proper kind, namely that from the attainment of an end, which end again is determined by reason only, notwithstanding that this may involve many a disappointment to the ends of inclination.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000015_000000|We have then to develop the notion of a will which deserves to be highly esteemed for itself and is good without a view to anything further, a notion which exists already in the sound natural understanding, requiring rather to be cleared up than to be taught, and which in estimating the value of our actions always takes the first place and constitutes the condition of all the rest.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000015_000001|In order to do this, we will take the notion of duty, which includes that of a good will, although implying certain subjective restrictions and hindrances.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000015_000002|These, however, far from concealing it, or rendering it unrecognizable, rather bring it out by contrast and make it shine forth so much the brighter.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000000|I omit here all actions which are already recognized as inconsistent with duty, although they may be useful for this or that purpose, for with these the question whether they are done from duty cannot arise at all, since they even conflict with it.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000001|I also set aside those actions which really conform to duty, but to which men have no direct inclination, performing them because they are impelled thereto by some other inclination.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000002|For in this case we can readily distinguish whether the action which agrees with duty is done from duty, or from a selfish view.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000006|Accordingly the action was done neither from duty nor from direct inclination, but merely with a selfish view.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000018_000002|For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000019_000001|But here again, without looking to duty, all men have already the strongest and most intimate inclination to happiness, because it is just in this idea that all inclinations are combined in one total.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000019_000004|But even in this case, if the general desire for happiness did not influence his will, and supposing that in his particular case health was not a necessary element in this calculation, there yet remains in this, as in all other cases, this law, namely, that he should promote his happiness not from inclination but from duty, and by this would his conduct first acquire true moral worth.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000020_000000|It is in this manner, undoubtedly, that we are to understand those passages of Scripture also in which we are commanded to love our neighbour, even our enemy.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000020_000001|For love, as an affection, cannot be commanded, but beneficence for duty's sake may; even though we are not impelled to it by any inclination nay, are even repelled by a natural and unconquerable aversion.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000020_000002|This is practical love and not pathological a love which is seated in the will, and not in the propensions of sense in principles of action and not of tender sympathy; and it is this love alone which can be commanded.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000021_000000|The second proposition is: That an action done from duty derives its moral worth, not from the purpose which is to be attained by it, but from the maxim by which it is determined, and therefore does not depend on the realization of the object of the action, but merely on the principle of volition by which the action has taken place, without regard to any object of desire.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000021_000001|It is clear from what precedes that the purposes which we may have in view in our actions, or their effects regarded as ends and springs of the will, cannot give to actions any unconditional or moral worth.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000021_000002|In what, then, can their worth lie, if it is not to consist in the will and in reference to its expected effect?
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000022_000000|The third proposition, which is a consequence of the two preceding, I would express thus Duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000022_000002|It is only what is connected with my will as a principle, by no means as an effect what does not subserve my inclination, but overpowers it, or at least in case of choice excludes it from its calculation in other words, simply the law of itself, which can be an object of respect, and hence a command.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000024_000002|The pre-eminent good which we call moral can therefore consist in nothing else than the conception of law in itself, which certainly is only possible in a rational being, in so far as this conception, and not the expected effect, determines the will.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000024_000003|This is a good which is already present in the person who acts accordingly, and we have not to wait for it to appear first in the result.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000003|Accordingly it is something which is considered neither as an object of inclination nor of fear, although it has something analogous to both.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000004|The object of respect is the law only, and that the law which we impose on ourselves and yet recognise as necessary in itself.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000005|As a law, we are subjected too it without consulting self love; as imposed by us on ourselves, it is a result of our will.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000006|In the former aspect it has an analogy to fear, in the latter to inclination.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000007|Respect for a person is properly only respect for the law (of honesty, etc) of which he gives us an example.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000001|As I have deprived the will of every impulse which could arise to it from obedience to any law, there remains nothing but the universal conformity of its actions to law in general, which alone is to serve the will as a principle, i e, I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000002|Here, now, it is the simple conformity to law in general, without assuming any particular law applicable to certain actions, that serves the will as its principle and must so serve it, if duty is not to be a vain delusion and a chimerical notion.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000003|The common reason of men in its practical judgements perfectly coincides with this and always has in view the principle here suggested.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000008|But it is soon clear to me that such a maxim will still only be based on the fear of consequences.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000009|Now it is a wholly different thing to be truthful from duty and to be so from apprehension of injurious consequences.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000010|In the first case, the very notion of the action already implies a law for me; in the second case, I must first look about elsewhere to see what results may be combined with it which would affect myself.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000011|For to deviate from the principle of duty is beyond all doubt wicked; but to be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000014|For with such a law there would be no promises at all, since it would be in vain to allege my intention in regard to my future actions to those who would not believe this allegation, or if they over hastily did so would pay me back in my own coin.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000015|Hence my maxim, as soon as it should be made a universal law, would necessarily destroy itself.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000000|Thus, then, without quitting the moral knowledge of common human reason, we have arrived at its principle.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000005|In the latter, if common reason ventures to depart from the laws of experience and from the perceptions of the senses, it falls into mere inconceivabilities and self contradictions, at least into a chaos of uncertainty, obscurity, and instability.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000006|But in the practical sphere it is just when the common understanding excludes all sensible springs from practical laws that its power of judgement begins to show itself to advantage.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000008|Nay, it is almost more sure of doing so, because the philosopher cannot have any other principle, while he may easily perplex his judgement by a multitude of considerations foreign to the matter, and so turn aside from the right way.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000000|Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; only, on the other hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself and is easily seduced.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000002|Against all the commands of duty which reason represents to man as so deserving of respect, he feels in himself a powerful counterpoise in his wants and inclinations, the entire satisfaction of which he sums up under the name of happiness.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000003|Now reason issues its commands unyieldingly, without promising anything to the inclinations, and, as it were, with disregard and contempt for these claims, which are so impetuous, and at the same time so plausible, and which will not allow themselves to be suppressed by any command.
train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000004|Hence there arises a natural dialectic, i e, a disposition, to argue against these strict laws of duty and to question their validity, or at least their purity and strictness; and, if possible, to make them more accordant with our wishes and inclinations, that is to say, to corrupt them at their very source, and entirely to destroy their worth a thing which even common practical reason cannot ultimately call good.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000002_000000|'So on those happy days of yore Oft as I dare to dwell once more, Still must I miss the friends so tried, Whom Death has severed from my side.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000003_000000|But ever when true friendship binds, Spirit it is that spirit finds; In spirit then our bliss we found, In spirit yet to them I'm bound.' UHLAND.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000000|Margaret was ready long before the appointed time, and had leisure enough to cry a little, quietly, when unobserved, and to smile brightly when any one looked at her.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000004|Later on in the year, this line of railway should be stirring and alive with rich pleasure seekers; but as to the constant going to and fro of busy trades people it would always be widely different from the northern lines.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000006|The hot air danced over the golden stillness of the land, farm after farm was left behind, each reminding Margaret of German Idyls-of Herman and Dorothea-of Evangeline.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000009|And now sharper feelings came shooting through her heart, whether pain or pleasure she could hardly tell.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000011|The last time she had passed along this road was when she had left it with her father and mother-the day, the season, had been gloomy, and she herself hopeless, but they were there with her.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000014|Nature felt no change, and was ever young.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000005_000000|mr Bell knew something of what would be passing through her mind, and wisely and kindly held his tongue.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000006_000000|'Why, bless me!' exclaimed she, as at the end of her apology, a glint of sunlight showed her Margaret's face, hitherto unobserved in that shady parlour.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000006_000002|'Come here, come directly, it's Miss Hale!' And then she went up to Margaret, and shook her hands with motherly fondness.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000007_000000|'And how are you all?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000007_000001|How's the Vicar and Miss Dixon?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000007_000003|God bless him!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000008_000000|Margaret tried to speak and tell her of her father's death; of her mother's it was evident that mrs Purkis was aware, from her omission of her name.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000009_000002|But never a word of the Vicar's being ailing!'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000010_000002|Come Margaret, my dear!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000010_000003|Her father was my oldest friend, and she's my god daughter, so I thought we would just come down together and see the old place; and I know of old you can give us comfortable rooms and a capital dinner.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000010_000004|You don't remember me I see, but my name is Bell, and once or twice when the parsonage has been full, I've slept here, and tasted your good ale.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000000|'To be sure; I ask your pardon; but you see I was taken up with Miss Hale.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000001|Let me show you to a room, Miss Margaret, where you can take off your bonnet, and wash your face.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000003|To think of the Vicar being dead!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000004|Well, to be sure, we must all die; only that gentleman said, he was quite picking up after his trouble about mrs Hale's death.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000012_000000|'Come down to me, mrs Purkis, after you have attended to Miss Hale.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000012_000001|I want to have a consultation with you about dinner.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000013_000000|The little casement window in Margaret's bed chamber was almost filled up with rose and vine branches; but pushing them aside, and stretching a little out, she could see the tops of the parsonage chimneys above the trees; and distinguish many a well-known line through the leaves.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000014_000005|But I must go, miss, though I'm wanting to hear many a thing; I'll come back to you before long.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000015_000000|mr Bell had strawberries and cream, a loaf of brown bread, and a jug of milk, (together with a Stilton cheese and a bottle of port for his own private refreshment,) ready for Margaret on her coming down stairs; and after this rustic luncheon they set out to walk, hardly knowing in what direction to turn, so many old familiar inducements were there in each.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000016_000000|'Shall we go past the vicarage?' asked mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000017_000000|'No, not yet.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000017_000001|We will go this way, and make a round so as to come back by it,' replied Margaret.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000000|Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly built and decaying cottage had disappeared.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000002|They came past the spot where she and mr Lennox had sketched.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000003|The white, lightning scarred trunk of the venerable beech, among whose roots they had sate down was there no more; the old man, the inhabitant of the ruinous cottage, was dead; the cottage had been pulled down, and a new one, tidy and respectable, had been built in its stead.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000004|There was a small garden on the place where the beech tree had been.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000019_000000|'I did not think I had been so old,' said Margaret after a pause of silence; and she turned away sighing.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000020_000000|'Yes!' said mr Bell. 'It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000020_000002|The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000022_000000|'With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000023_000000|'My little Susan was disappointed when I left without wishing her goodbye; and it has been on my conscience ever since, that I gave her pain which a little more exertion on my part might have prevented.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000023_000002|Are you sure you will not be tired?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000000|'Quite sure.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000001|That is, if you don't walk so fast.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000002|You see, here there are no views that can give one an excuse for stopping to take breath.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000003|You would think it romantic to be walking with a person "fat and scant o' breath" if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000004|Have compassion on my infirmities for his sake.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000025_000001|I like you twenty times better than Hamlet.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000027_000000|'Perhaps so.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000028_000000|'I am content to take your liking me, without examining too curiously into the materials it is made of.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000028_000001|Only we need not walk at a snail's' pace.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000029_000000|'Very well.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000029_000001|Walk at your own pace, and I will follow.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000029_000002|Or stop still and meditate, like the Hamlet you compare yourself to, if I go too fast.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000030_000000|'Thank you.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000030_000001|But as my mother has not murdered my father, and afterwards married my uncle, I shouldn't know what to think about, unless it were balancing the chances of our having a well cooked dinner or not.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000030_000002|What do you think?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000031_000000|'I am in good hopes.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000031_000001|She used to be considered a famous cook as far as Helstone opinion went.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000033_000001|But she would rather have gone over these dear loved walks in silence, if indeed she were not ungrateful enough to wish that she might have been alone.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000034_000000|They reached the cottage where Susan's widowed mother lived.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000034_000001|Susan was not there.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000034_000002|She was gone to the parochial school.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000035_000000|'Oh! it is quite right,' said Margaret. 'I am very glad to hear it.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000035_000002|Only she used to stop at home with you.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000036_000000|'Yes, she did; and I miss her sadly.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000036_000002|It were not much to be sure.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000037_000002|But I should say, that the child was getting a better and simpler, and more natural education stopping at home, and helping her mother, and learning to read a chapter in the New Testament every night by her side, than from all the schooling under the sun'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000038_000000|Margaret did not want to encourage him to go on by replying to him, and so prolonging the discussion before the mother.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000038_000001|So she turned to her and asked,
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000039_000000|'How is old Betty Barnes?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000040_000001|'We'se not friends.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000041_000000|'Why not?' asked Margaret, who had formerly been the peacemaker of the village.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000042_000000|'She stole my cat.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000044_000000|'I don't know.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000046_000000|'No! for she'd burnt it.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000047_000000|'Burnt it!' exclaimed both Margaret and mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000048_000000|'Roasted it!' explained the woman.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000049_000002|The poor woman evidently believed in its efficacy; her only feeling was indignation that her cat had been chosen out from all others for a sacrifice.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000049_000003|Margaret listened in horror; and endeavoured in vain to enlighten the woman's mind; but she was obliged to give it up in despair.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000050_000000|'You are a good girl not to triumph over me,' said mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000051_000000|'How?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000052_000000|'I own, I am wrong about schooling.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000052_000001|Anything rather than have that child brought up in such practical paganism.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000000|'Oh!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000001|I remember.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000002|Poor little Susan!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000003|I must go and see her; would you mind calling at the school?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000054_000000|'Not a bit.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000054_000001|I am curious to see something of the teaching she is to receive.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000055_000000|They did not speak much more, but thridded their way through many a bosky dell, whose soft green influence could not charm away the shock and the pain in Margaret's heart, caused by the recital of such cruelty; a recital too, the manner of which betrayed such utter want of imagination, and therefore of any sympathy with the suffering animal.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000000|The buzz of voices, like the murmur of a hive of busy human bees, made itself heard as soon as they emerged from the forest on the more open village green on which the school was situated.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000001|The door was wide open, and they entered.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000003|She knew at once it was the present Vicar's wife, her mother's successor; and she would have drawn back from the interview had it been possible; but in an instant she had conquered this feeling, and modestly advanced, meeting many a bright glance of recognition, and hearing many a half suppressed murmur of 'It's Miss Hale.' The Vicar's lady heard the name, and her manner at once became more kindly.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000004|Margaret wished she could have helped feeling that it also became more patronising.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000057_000001|I see it by the likeness.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000058_000000|Margaret explained that it was not her father, and stammered out the fact of his death; wondering all the time how mr Hale could have borne coming to revisit Helstone, if it had been as the Vicar's lady supposed. She did not hear what mrs Hepworth was saying, and left it to mr Bell to reply, looking round, meanwhile, for her old acquaintances.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000059_000000|'Ah!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000059_000002|I know it by myself.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000059_000003|First class stand up for a parsing lesson with Miss Hale.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000062_000000|'A, an indefinite article,' said Margaret, mildly.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000064_000000|'An adjective absolute,' said half a dozen voices at once.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000064_000001|And Margaret sate abashed.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000065_000000|Margaret spoke no more during the lesson.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000065_000001|But after it was over, she went quietly round to one or two old favourites, and talked to them a little.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000065_000003|Still she was glad to have seen them all again, though a tinge of sadness mixed itself with her pleasure.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000066_000000|The parsonage was so altered, both inside and out, that the real pain was less than she had anticipated.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000067_000000|'Ah!' said mrs Hepworth, 'you must excuse this untidiness, Miss Hale. When the nursery is finished, I shall insist upon a little order.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000067_000002|How did you manage, Miss Hale, without a nursery?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000068_000000|'We were but two,' said Margaret.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000069_000000|'Seven.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000069_000005|The whole family were quick, brisk, loud talking, kind hearted, and not troubled with much delicacy of perception.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000069_000007|But no! she took it all literally, and with such good faith, that Margaret could not help remonstrating with him as they walked slowly away from the parsonage back to their inn.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000070_000000|'Don't scold, Margaret.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000070_000002|If she had not shown you every change with such evident exultation in their superior sense, in perceiving what an improvement this and that would be, I could have behaved well.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000070_000003|But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000001|There was change everywhere; slight, yet pervading all.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000002|Households were changed by absence, or death, or marriage, or the natural mutations brought by days and months and years, which carry us on imperceptibly from childhood to youth, and thence through manhood to age, whence we drop like fruit, fully ripe, into the quiet mother earth.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000004|A great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000005|She sate by the window on the little settle, sadly gazing out upon the gathering shades of night, which harmonised well with her pensive thought.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000072_000001|Who's there!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000072_000002|Where are we?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000072_000003|Who's that,--Margaret?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000074_000002|Shut the window, and come in and make tea.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000075_000000|Margaret was silent for some time.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000075_000003|Then she sighed, and putting down her spoon, she began, apropos of nothing at all, and in the high pitched voice which usually shows that the speaker has been thinking for some time on the subject that they wish to introduce-'mr
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000076_000000|'Last night.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000076_000001|Where was I? Oh, I remember!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000076_000002|Why it seems a week ago.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000077_000000|'Yes-and do you not remember that mr Lennox spoke about his having been in England about the time of dear mamma's death?' asked Margaret, her voice now lower than usual.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000078_000000|'I recollect.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000078_000001|I hadn't heard of it before.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000079_000000|'And I thought-I always thought that papa had told you about it.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000080_000001|But what about it, Margaret?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000081_000001|'I told a lie;' and her face became scarlet.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000000|'True, that was bad I own; not but what I have told a pretty round number in my life, not all in downright words, as I suppose you did, but in actions, or in some shabby circumlocutory way, leading people either to disbelieve the truth, or believe a falsehood.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000001|You know who is the father of lies, Margaret?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000002|Well! a great number of folk, thinking themselves very good, have odd sorts of connexion with lies, left hand marriages, and second cousins once removed.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000003|The tainting blood of falsehood runs through us all.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000004|I should have guessed you as far from it as most people.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000005|What! crying, child?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000006|Nay, now we'll not talk of it, if it ends in this way.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000083_000000|Margaret wiped her eyes, and tried to talk about something else, but suddenly she burst out afresh.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000084_000000|'Please, mr Bell, let me tell you about it-you could perhaps help me a little; no, not help me, but if you knew the truth, perhaps you could put me to rights-that is not it, after all,' said she, in despair at not being able to express herself more exactly as she wished.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000085_000000|mr Bell's whole manner changed.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000085_000001|'Tell me all about it, child,' said he.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000087_000000|'And he saw Frederick of course,' said mr Bell, helping her on with her story, as he thought.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000088_000000|'Yes; and then at the station a man came up-tipsy and reeling-and he tried to collar Fred, and over balanced himself as Fred wrenched himself away, and fell over the edge of the platform; not far, not deep; not above three feet; but oh!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000088_000001|mr Bell, somehow that fall killed him!'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000089_000000|'How awkward.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000091_000000|'Then he did not die directly?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000092_000001|And then-oh, mr Bell! now comes the bad part,' said she, nervously twining her fingers together.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000092_000004|I knew nothing about it.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000092_000005|I had no conscience or thought but to save Frederick.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000093_000000|'I say it was right.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000093_000002|You forgot yourself in thought for another.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000094_000001|It was wrong, disobedient, faithless.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000094_000002|At that very time Fred was safely out of England, and in my blindness I forgot that there was another witness who could testify to my being there.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000096_000000|'mr
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000096_000001|Thornton.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000096_000002|You know he had seen me close to the station; we had bowed to each other.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000097_000000|'Well! he would know nothing of this riot about the drunken fellow's death.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000097_000001|I suppose the inquiry never came to anything.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000000|'No! the proceedings they had begun to talk about on the inquest were stopped.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000001|mr Thornton did know all about it.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000002|He was a magistrate, and he found out that it was not the fall that had caused the death.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000004|Oh, mr Bell!' She suddenly covered her face with her hands, as if wishing to hide herself from the presence of the recollection.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000099_000000|'Did you have any explanation with him?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000099_000001|Did you ever tell him the strong, instinctive motive?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000000|'The instinctive want of faith, and clutching at a sin to keep myself from sinking,' said she bitterly.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000002|How could I?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000003|He knew nothing of Frederick.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000005|Fred's last words had been to enjoin me to keep his visit a secret from all.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000006|You see, papa never told, even you.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000008|I could bear the shame-I thought I could at least.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000009|I did bear it.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000010|mr Thornton has never respected me since.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000101_000001|But he always speaks of you with regard and esteem, though now I understand certain reservations in his manner.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000102_000000|Margaret did not speak; did not attend to what mr Bell went on to say; lost all sense of it.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000001|Like an old fool, I thought that every one would have the same opinions as I had; and he evidently could not agree with me.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000002|I was puzzled at the time.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000003|But he must be perplexed, if the affair has never been in the least explained.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000004|There was first your walking out with a young man in the dark-'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000105_000000|'But it was my brother!' said Margaret, surprised.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000106_000000|'True.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000106_000001|But how was he to know that?'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000107_000001|I never thought of anything of that kind,' said Margaret, reddening, and looking hurt and offended.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000109_000000|'It was not.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000109_000001|I know it now.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000109_000002|I bitterly repent it.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000110_000000|There was a long pause of silence.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000110_000001|Margaret was the first to speak.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000111_000000|'I am not likely ever to see mr Thornton again,'--and there she stopped.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000112_000000|'There are many things more unlikely, I should say,' replied mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000113_000001|Still, somehow one does not like to have sunk so low in-in a friend's opinion as I have done in his.' Her eyes were full of tears, but her voice was steady, and mr Bell was not looking at her.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000113_000002|'And now that Frederick has given up all hope, and almost all wish of ever clearing himself, and returning to England, it would be only doing myself justice to have all this explained.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000114_000000|'Certainly.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000114_000001|I think he ought to know.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000116_000000|'Which I don't blame you for.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000117_000000|'What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000117_000002|It is done-my sin is sinned.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000117_000003|I have now to put it behind me, and be truthful for evermore, if I can.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000000|'Very well.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000001|If you like to be uncomfortable and morbid, be so.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000002|I always keep my conscience as tight shut up as a jack in a box, for when it jumps into existence it surprises me by its size.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000003|So I coax it down again, as the fisherman coaxed the genie.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000004|"Wonderful," say I, "to think that you have been concealed so long, and in so small a compass, that I really did not know of your existence.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000119_000002|Her thoughts ran upon the idea, before entertained, but which now had assumed the strength of a conviction, that mr Thornton no longer held his former good opinion of her-that he was disappointed in her.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000120_000000|'To turn and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000000|She kept choking and swallowing all the time that she thought about it. She tried to comfort herself with the idea, that what he imagined her to be, did not alter the fact of what she was.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000001|But it was a truism, a phantom, and broke down under the weight of her regret.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000002|She had twenty questions on the tip of her tongue to ask mr Bell, but not one of them did she utter.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000004|A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, over powered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognise it.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000000|'I begin to understand now what heaven must be-and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words-"The same yesterday, to day, and for ever." Everlasting!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000001|"From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God." That sky above me looks as though it could not change, and yet it will.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000002|I am so tired-so tired of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000005|If I were a Roman Catholic and could deaden my heart, stun it with some great blow, I might become a nun.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000006|But I should pine after my kind; no, not my kind, for love for my species could never fill my heart to the utter exclusion of love for individuals.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000007|Perhaps it ought to be so, perhaps not; I cannot decide to night.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000124_000001|'If the world stood still, it would retrograde and become corrupt, if that is not Irish.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000124_000003|I must not think so much of how circumstances affect me myself, but how they affect others, if I wish to have a right judgment, or a hopeful trustful heart.' And with a smile ready in her eyes to quiver down to her lips, she went into the parlour and greeted mr Bell.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000000|'Ah, Missy! you were up late last night, and so you're late this morning.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000001|Now I've got a little piece of news for you.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000002|What do you think of an invitation to dinner?
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000004|Why, I've had the Vicar here already, on his way to the school. How much the desire of giving our hostess a teetotal lecture for the benefit of the haymakers, had to do with his earliness, I don't know; but here he was, when I came down just before nine; and we are asked to dine there to day.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000126_000000|'But Edith expects me back-I cannot go,' said Margaret, thankful to have so good an excuse.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000000|'Yes!
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000001|I know; so I told him.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000002|I thought you would not want to go.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000003|Still it is open, if you would like it.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000128_000001|'Let us keep to our plan.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000128_000002|Let us start at twelve.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000128_000003|It is very good and kind of them; but indeed I could not go.'
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000130_000000|Before they left Margaret stole round to the back of the Vicarage garden, and gathered a little straggling piece of honeysuckle.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000130_000001|She would not take a flower the day before, for fear of being observed, and her motives and feelings commented upon.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000130_000002|But as she returned across the common, the place was reinvested with the old enchanting atmosphere.
train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000131_000001|Oh, Helstone!
train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000004_000000|LOOKING SOUTH
train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000017_000008|He kept saying, 'I quite expected to have seen mr Thornton.
train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000038_000003|I'm a poor black feckless sheep-childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me?'
train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000048_000000|'I've reckoned for that.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000007_000002|From the great number of cows which have been killed, there is a large proportion of bulls.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000008_000003|The Gauchos whom I asked, though asserting this to be the case, were unable to account for it, except from the strong attachment which horses have to any locality to which they are accustomed.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000010_000003|It is asserted that in Sweden, which any one would have thought a more favourable climate, the rabbit cannot live out of doors.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000010_000007|Of the latter I now possess a specimen, and it is marked about the head differently from the French specific description.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000017_000000|The geological structure of these islands is in most respects simple. The lower country consists of clay slate and sandstone, containing fossils, very closely related to, but not identical with, those found in the Silurian formations of Europe; the hills are formed of white granular quartz rock.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000017_000003|The quartz rock must have been quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being shattered into fragments.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000018_000000|In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming "streams of stones." These have been mentioned with surprise by every voyager since the time of Pernety.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000018_000003|It is not possible to ascertain their thickness, but the water of small streamlets can be heard trickling through the stones many feet below the surface.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000019_000000|Their little inclination is the most remarkable circumstance in these "streams of stones." On the hill sides I have seen them sloping at an angle of ten degrees with the horizon; but in some of the level, broad bottomed valleys, the inclination is only just sufficient to be clearly perceived.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000019_000002|In some places, a continuous stream of these fragments followed up the course of a valley, and even extended to the very crest of the hill.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000021_000006|Another day, having placed myself between a penguin (Aptenodytes demersa) and the water, I was much amused by watching its habits.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000022_000000|Two kinds of geese frequent the Falklands.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000023_000001|In the deep and retired channels of Tierra del Fuego, the snow white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort, and standing close by each other on some distant rocky point, is a common feature in the landscape.
train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000024_000004|These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.
train-clean-360/1748/1560/1748_1560_000015_000000|"How do you know that?" she retorted.
train-clean-360/1748/1560/1748_1560_000015_000002|Now, to the point.
train-clean-360/1748/1560/1748_1560_000018_000000|"I did; but I meant something quite different from what you seem to think."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000001|I seemed to be advancing towards a second midnight.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000002|In the midst of the intervening twilight, however, before I entered what appeared to be the darkest portion of the forest, I saw a country maiden coming towards me from its very depths.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000004|I could hardly see her face; for, though she came direct towards me, she never looked up.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000005|But when we met, instead of passing, she turned and walked alongside of me for a few yards, still keeping her face downwards, and busied with her flowers. She spoke rapidly, however, all the time, in a low tone, as if talking to herself, but evidently addressing the purport of her words to me.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000001|"Trust the Oak," said she; "trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000002|Take care of the Birch, for though she is honest, she is too young not to be changeable.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000004|Then she turned suddenly and left me, walking still with the same unchanging gait.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000005|I could not conjecture what she meant, but satisfied myself with thinking that it would be time enough to find out her meaning when there was need to make use of her warning, and that the occasion would reveal the admonition.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000006|I concluded from the flowers that she carried, that the forest could not be everywhere so dense as it appeared from where I was now walking; and I was right in this conclusion.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000008|But even here I was struck with the utter stillness.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000010|No insect hummed.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000012|Yet somehow the whole environment seemed only asleep, and to wear even in sleep an air of expectation.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000014|Then I remembered that night is the fairies' day, and the moon their sun; and I thought-Everything sleeps and dreams now: when the night comes, it will be different.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000017|Soon, however, I became again anxious, though from another cause.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000018|I had eaten nothing that day, and for an hour past had been feeling the want of food.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000001|I wondered at finding a human dwelling in this neighbourhood; and yet it did not look altogether human, though sufficiently so to encourage me to expect to find some sort of food.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000003|A woman sat beside it, preparing some vegetables for dinner.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000004|This was homely and comforting.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000005|As I came near, she looked up, and seeing me, showed no surprise, but bent her head again over her work, and said in a low tone:
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000005_000000|"Did you see my daughter?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000007_000000|Having said this, she rose and led the way into the cottage; which, I now saw, was built of the stems of small trees set closely together, and was furnished with rough chairs and tables, from which even the bark had not been removed.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000007_000001|As soon as she had shut the door and set a chair-
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000010_000001|I think I see it."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000011_000000|"What do you see?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000013_000000|"But how then do you come to live here?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000015_000001|I noticed too that her hands were delicately formed, though brown with work and exposure.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000019_000000|"What did you mean by speaking so about the Ash?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000020_000001|My eyes followed her; but as the window was too small to allow anything to be seen from where I was sitting, I rose and looked over her shoulder.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000020_000002|I had just time to see, across the open space, on the edge of the denser forest, a single large ash tree, whose foliage showed bluish, amidst the truer green of the other trees around it; when she pushed me back with an expression of impatience and terror, and then almost shut out the light from the window by setting up a large old book in it.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000022_000000|"But what danger is to be dreaded from him?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000023_000000|Instead of answering the question, she went again to the window and looked out, saying she feared the fairies would be interrupted by foul weather, for a storm was brewing in the west.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000024_000000|"And the sooner it grows dark, the sooner the Ash will be awake," added she.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000025_000001|She replied-
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000026_000001|If the cat were at home, she would have her back up; for the young fairies pull the sparks out of her tail with bramble thorns, and she knows when they are coming.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000026_000002|So do I, in another way."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000028_000000|"There, I told you!" said the woman.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000029_000001|Here, however, the young woman, whom I had met in the morning, entered.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000029_000002|A smile passed between the mother and daughter; and then the latter began to help her mother in little household duties.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000030_000000|"I should like to stay here till the evening," I said; "and then go on my journey, if you will allow me."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000031_000000|"You are welcome to do as you please; only it might be better to stay all night, than risk the dangers of the wood then.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000000|Accordingly I sat down, and feeling rather tired, and disinclined for further talk, I asked leave to look at the old book which still screened the window.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000001|The woman brought it to me directly, but not before taking another look towards the forest, and then drawing a white blind over the window.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000003|It contained many wondrous tales of Fairy Land, and olden times, and the Knights of King Arthur's table.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000004|I read on and on, till the shades of the afternoon began to deepen; for in the midst of the forest it gloomed earlier than in the open country.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000005|At length I came to this passage-
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000034_000005|Now it came about in this wise.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000036_000000|"Look there!" she said; "look at his fingers!"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000038_000000|"He is almost awake, mother; and greedier than usual to night."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000042_000000|"Shall I be able to see these things?" said i
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000044_000000|"Are the trees fairies too, as well as the flowers?" I asked.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000047_000001|Sometimes they will act a whole play through before my eyes, with perfect composure and assurance, for they are not afraid of me.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000047_000002|Only, as soon as they have done, they burst into peals of tiny laughter, as if it was such a joke to have been serious over anything.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000047_000003|These I speak of, however, are the fairies of the garden. They are more staid and educated than those of the fields and woods. Of course they have near relations amongst the wild flowers, but they patronise them, and treat them as country cousins, who know nothing of life, and very little of manners.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000048_000000|"Do they live IN the flowers?" I said.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000049_000000|"I cannot tell," she replied.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000049_000001|"There is something in it I do not understand.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000049_000006|If I speak to one, he or she looks up in my face, as if I were not worth heeding, gives a little laugh, and runs away." Here the woman started, as if suddenly recollecting herself, and said in a low voice to her daughter, "Make haste-go and watch him, and see in what direction he goes."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000050_000000|I may as well mention here, that the conclusion I arrived at from the observations I was afterwards able to make, was, that the flowers die because the fairies go away; not that the fairies disappear because the flowers die.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000050_000001|The flowers seem a sort of houses for them, or outer bodies, which they can put on or off when they please.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000050_000005|Yet you would see a strange resemblance, almost oneness, between the flower and the fairy, which you could not describe, but which described itself to you.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000051_000004|I pulled out my purse, but to my dismay there was nothing in it.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000051_000005|The woman with a smile begged me not to trouble myself, for money was not of the slightest use there; and as I might meet with people in my journeys whom I could not recognise to be fairies, it was well I had no money to offer, for nothing offended them so much.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000000|Here, to my great pleasure, all was life and bustle.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000002|The whole garden was like a carnival, with tiny, gaily decorated forms, in groups, assemblies, processions, pairs or trios, moving stately on, running about wildly, or sauntering hither or thither.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000003|From the cups or bells of tall flowers, as from balconies, some looked down on the masses below, now bursting with laughter, now grave as owls; but even in their deepest solemnity, seeming only to be waiting for the arrival of the next laugh. Some were launched on a little marshy stream at the bottom, in boats chosen from the heaps of last year's leaves that lay about, curled and withered.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000004|These soon sank with them; whereupon they swam ashore and got others.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000005|Those who took fresh rose leaves for their boats floated the longest; but for these they had to fight; for the fairy of the rose tree complained bitterly that they were stealing her clothes, and defended her property bravely.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000054_000000|"You can't wear half you've got," said some.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000056_000000|"All for the good of the community!" said one, and ran off with a great hollow leaf.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000056_000003|At last, after another good cry, she chose the biggest she could find, and ran away laughing, to launch her boat amongst the rest.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000057_000001|They talked singing, and their talk made a song, something like this:
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000059_000000|"She'll come by and by." "You will never see her." "She went home to dies, "Till the new year." "Snowdrop!" "'tis no good To invite her." "Primrose is very rude, "I will bite her."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000060_000000|"Oh, you naughty Pocket! "Look, she drops her head." "She deserved it, Rocket, "And she was nearly dead." "To your hammock-off with you!" "And swing alone." "No one will laugh with you." "No, not one."
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000001|During the latter part of the song talk, they had formed themselves into a funeral procession, two of them bearing poor Primrose, whose death Pocket had hastened by biting her stalk, upon one of her own great leaves.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000004|Pocket, who had been expelled from the company by common consent, went sulkily away towards her hammock, for she was the fairy of the calceolaria, and looked rather wicked.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000005|When she reached its stem, she stopped and looked round.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000006|I could not help speaking to her, for I stood near her.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000007|I said, "Pocket, how could you be so naughty?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000065_000000|"Why did you bite poor Primrose?"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000066_000000|"Because she said we should never see Snowdrop; as if we were not good enough to look at her, and she was, the proud thing!--served her right!"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000067_000001|Half of them were on the cat's back, and half held on by her fur and tail, or ran beside her; till, more coming to their help, the furious cat was held fast; and they proceeded to pick the sparks out of her with thorns and pins, which they handled like harpoons.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000067_000002|Indeed, there were more instruments at work about her than there could have been sparks in her.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000000|"Now, Pussy, be patient.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000001|You know quite well it is all for your good. You cannot be comfortable with all those sparks in you; and, indeed, I am charitably disposed to believe" (here he became very pompous) "that they are the cause of all your bad temper; so we must have them all out, every one; else we shall be reduced to the painful necessity of cutting your claws, and pulling out your eye teeth.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000002|Quiet!
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000003|Pussy, quiet!"
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000069_000001|"Never mind, never mind, we shall find her again; and by that time she will have laid in a fresh stock of sparks.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000070_000001|Their manners and habits are now so well known to the world, having been so often described by eyewitnesses, that it would be only indulging self conceit, to add my account in full to the rest. I cannot help wishing, however, that my readers could see them for themselves.
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000070_000002|Especially do I desire that they should see the fairy of the daisy; a little, chubby, round eyed child, with such innocent trust in his look!
train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000070_000003|Even the most mischievous of the fairies would not tease him, although he did not belong to their set at all, but was quite a little country bumpkin.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000002_000000|thirty five Jerry Barker
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000000|I never knew a better man than my new master.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000001|He was kind and good, and as strong for the right as john Manly; and so good tempered and merry that very few people could pick a quarrel with him.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000002|He was very fond of making little songs, and singing them to himself.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000003|One he was very fond of was this:
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000004_000000|"Come, father and mother, And sister and brother, Come, all of you, turn to And help one another."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000005_000000|And so they did; Harry was as clever at stable work as a much older boy, and always wanted to do what he could.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000005_000001|Then Polly and Dolly used to come in the morning to help with the cab-to brush and beat the cushions, and rub the glass, while Jerry was giving us a cleaning in the yard, and Harry was rubbing the harness.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000005_000003|They were always early in the morning, for Jerry would say:
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000007_000000|He could not bear any careless loitering and waste of time; and nothing was so near making him angry as to find people, who were always late, wanting a cab horse to be driven hard, to make up for their idleness.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000008_000000|One day two wild looking young men came out of a tavern close by the stand, and called Jerry.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000009_000001|You shall have a shilling extra."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000010_000000|"I will take you at the regular pace, gentlemen; shillings don't pay for putting on the steam like that."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000011_000000|Larry's cab was standing next to ours; he flung open the door, and said, "I'm your man, gentlemen! take my cab, my horse will get you there all right;" and as he shut them in, with a wink toward Jerry, said, "It's against his conscience to go beyond a jog trot." Then slashing his jaded horse, he set off as hard as he could.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000011_000001|Jerry patted me on the neck: "No, Jack, a shilling would not pay for that sort of thing, would it, old boy?"
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000012_000000|Although Jerry was determinedly set against hard driving, to please careless people, he always went a good fair pace, and was not against putting on the steam, as he said, if only he knew why.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000013_000000|I well remember one morning, as we were on the stand waiting for a fare, that a young man, carrying a heavy portmanteau, trod on a piece of orange peel which lay on the pavement, and fell down with great force.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000014_000000|Jerry was the first to run and lift him up.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000015_000000|"Can you take me to the south-eastern Railway?" said the young man; "this unlucky fall has made me late, I fear; but it is of great importance that I should not lose the twelve o'clock train.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000015_000001|I should be most thankful if you could get me there in time, and will gladly pay you an extra fare."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000016_000000|"I'll do my very best," said Jerry heartily, "if you think you are well enough, sir," for he looked dreadfully white and ill.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000017_000000|"I must go," he said earnestly, "please to open the door, and let us lose no time."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000018_000000|The next minute Jerry was on the box; with a cheery chirrup to me, and a twitch of the rein that I well understood.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000019_000000|"Now then, Jack, my boy," said he, "spin along, we'll show them how we can get over the ground, if we only know why."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000020_000000|It is always difficult to drive fast in the city in the middle of the day, when the streets are full of traffic, but we did what could be done; and when a good driver and a good horse, who understand each other, are of one mind, it is wonderful what they can do.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000020_000003|All this is what you have to be ready for. If you want to get through London fast in the middle of the day it wants a deal of practice.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000021_000000|Jerry and I were used to it, and no one could beat us at getting through when we were set upon it.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000021_000001|I was quick and bold and could always trust my driver; Jerry was quick and patient at the same time, and could trust his horse, which was a great thing too.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000021_000002|He very seldom used the whip; I knew by his voice, and his click, click, when he wanted to get on fast, and by the rein where I was to go; so there was no need for whipping; but I must go back to my story.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000022_000000|The streets were very full that day, but we got on pretty well as far as the bottom of Cheapside, where there was a block for three or four minutes.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000022_000001|The young man put his head out and said anxiously, "I think I had better get out and walk; I shall never get there if this goes on."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000023_000000|"I'll do all that can be done, sir," said Jerry; "I think we shall be in time.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000023_000001|This block up cannot last much longer, and your luggage is very heavy for you to carry, sir."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000024_000000|Just then the cart in front of us began to move on, and then we had a good turn.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000024_000002|At any rate, we whirled into the station with many more, just as the great clock pointed to eight minutes to twelve o'clock.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000025_000000|"Thank God! we are in time," said the young man, "and thank you, too, my friend, and your good horse.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000025_000001|You have saved me more than money can ever pay for.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000025_000002|Take this extra half crown."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000026_000000|"No, sir, no, thank you all the same; so glad we hit the time, sir; but don't stay now, sir, the bell is ringing.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000026_000001|Here, porter!
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000027_000000|"'So glad!' he said, 'so glad!' Poor young fellow!
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000027_000001|I wonder what it was that made him so anxious!"
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000028_000000|Jerry often talked to himself quite loud enough for me to hear when we were not moving.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000029_000000|On Jerry's return to the rank there was a good deal of laughing and chaffing at him for driving hard to the train for an extra fare, as they said, all against his principles, and they wanted to know how much he had pocketed.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000030_000000|"A good deal more than I generally get," said he, nodding slyly; "what he gave me will keep me in little comforts for several days."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000032_000000|"He's a humbug," said another; "preaching to us and then doing the same himself."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000033_000000|"Look here, mates," said Jerry; "the gentleman offered me half a crown extra, but I didn't take it; 'twas quite pay enough for me to see how glad he was to catch that train; and if Jack and I choose to have a quick run now and then to please ourselves, that's our business and not yours."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000034_000000|"Well," said Larry, "you'll never be a rich man."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000035_000000|"Most likely not," said Jerry; "but I don't know that I shall be the less happy for that.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000035_000001|I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, 'Thou shalt be rich'; and there are a good many curious things said in the New Testament about rich men that I think would make me feel rather queer if I was one of them."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000036_000000|"If you ever do get rich," said Governor Gray, looking over his shoulder across the top of his cab, "you'll deserve it, Jerry, and you won't find a curse come with your wealth.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000036_000001|As for you, Larry, you'll die poor; you spend too much in whipcord."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000037_000000|"Well," said Larry, "what is a fellow to do if his horse won't go without it?"
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000038_000001|Because you never give them any peace or encouragement."
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000040_000000|"And you never will," said the governor.
train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000040_000001|"Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience."
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000001|Murrayana), above the Silver Fir zone, forms the bulk of the alpine forests up to a height of from eight thousand to nine thousand five hundred feet above the sea, growing in beautiful order on moraines scarcely changed as yet by post glacial weathering.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000004|The average height of mature trees throughout the entire belt is probably not far from fifty or sixty feet with a diameter of two feet.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000005|It is a well proportioned, rather handsome tree with grayish brown bark and crooked, much divided branches which cover the greater part of the trunk, but not so densely as to prevent it being seen.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000007|The short, rigid needles in fascicles of two are arranged in comparatively long cylindrical tassels at the ends of the tough up curving branches.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000000|Therefore this tree more than any other is subject to destruction by fire.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000003|Then the leaves catch forming an immense column of fire, beautifully spired on the edges and tinted a rose purple hue.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000004|It rushes aloft thirty or forty feet above the top of the tree, forming a grand spectacle, especially at night.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000005|It lasts, however, only a few seconds, vanishing with magical rapidity, to be succeeded by others along the fire line at irregular intervals, tree after tree, upflashing and darting, leaving the trunks and branches scarcely scarred.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000006|The heat, however, is sufficient to kill the tree and in a few years the bark shrivels and falls off.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000007|Forests miles in extent are thus killed and left standing, with the branches on, but peeled and rigid, appearing gray in the distance like misty clouds.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000008|Later the branches drop off, leaving a forest of bleached spars.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000009|At length the roots decay and the forlorn gray trunks are blown down during some storm and piled one upon another, encumbering the ground until, dry and seasoned, they are consumed by another fire and leave the ground ready for a fresh crop.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000003_000001|I frequently found specimens fifty feet high less than five inches in diameter.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000003_000002|Being so slender and at the same time clad with leafy boughs, it is often bent and weighed down to the ground when laden with soft snow; thus forming fine ornamental arches, many of them to last until the melting of the snow in the spring.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000004_000000|The Mountain Pine
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000000|The Mountain Pine (Pinus monticola) is the noblest tree of the alpine zone-hardy and long lived towering grandly above its companions and becoming stronger and more imposing just where other species begin to crouch and disappear.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000001|At its best it is usually about ninety feet high and five or six feet in diameter, though you may find specimens here and there considerably larger than this.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000002|It is as massive and suggestive of enduring strength as an oak.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000003|About two thirds of the trunk is commonly free of limbs, but close, fringy tufts of spray occur nearly all the way down to the ground.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000004|On trees that occupy exposed situations near its upper limit the bark is deep reddish brown and rather deeply furrowed, the main furrows running nearly parallel to each other and connected on the old trees by conspicuous cross furrows.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000005|The cones are from four to eight inches long, smooth, slender, cylindrical and somewhat curved. They grow in clusters of from three to six or seven and become pendulous as they increase in weight.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000006|This species is nearly related to the sugar pine and, though not half so tall, it suggests its noble relative in the way that it extends its long branches in general habit.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000006_000000|The Western Juniper
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000000|The Juniper or Red Cedar (Juniperus occidentalis) is preeminently a rock tree, occupying the baldest domes and pavements in the upper silver fir and alpine zones, at a height of from seven thousand to nine thousand five hundred feet.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000001|In such situations, rooted in narrow cracks or fissures, where there is scarcely a handful of soil, it is frequently over eight feet in diameter and not much more in height.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000002|The tops of old trees are almost always dead, and large stubborn looking limbs push out horizontally, most of them broken and dead at the end, but densely covered, and imbedded here and there with tufts or mounds of gray green scalelike foliage.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000003|Some trees are mere storm beaten stumps about as broad as long, decorated with a few leafy sprays, reminding one of the crumbling towers of old castles scantily draped with ivy.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000005|It never makes anything like a forest; seldom even a grove. Usually it stands out separate and independent, clinging by slight joints to the rocks, living chiefly on snow and thin air and maintaining sound health on this diet for two thousand years or more.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000006|Every feature or every gesture it makes expresses steadfast, dogged endurance.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000007|The bark is of a bright cinnamon color and is handsomely braided and reticulated on thrifty trees, flaking off in thin, shining ribbons that are sometimes used by the Indians for tent matting.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000008|Its fine color and picturesqueness are appreciated by artists, but to me the juniper seems a singularly strange and taciturn tree.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000010|It seems to be a survivor of some ancient race, wholly unacquainted with its neighbors. Its broad stumpiness, of course, makes wind waving or even shaking out of the question, but it is not this rocky rigidity that constitutes its silence.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000011|In calm, sun days the sugar pine preaches like an enthusiastic apostle without moving a leaf.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000000|I have spent a good deal of time trying to determine the age of these wonderful trees, but as all of the very old ones are honey combed with dry rot I never was able to get a complete count of the largest.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000001|Some are undoubtedly more than two thousand years old, for though on deep moraine soil they grow about as fast as some of the pines, on bare pavements and smoothly glaciated, overswept ridges in the dome region they grow very slowly.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000004|The first fifteen inches from the bark of a medium size tree six feet in diameter, on the north Tenaya pavement, had eight hundred fifty nine layers of wood.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000005|Beyond this the count was stopped by dry rot and scars.
train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000007|Barring accidents, for all I can see they would live forever; even then overthrown by avalanches, they refuse to lie at rest, lean stubbornly on their big branches as if anxious to rise, and while a single root holds to the rock, put forth fresh leaves with a grim, never say die expression.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000000|I looked round for some weapon.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000001|Nothing.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000002|Then with an inspiration I turned over the deck chair, put my foot on the side of it, and tore away the side rail.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000004|He meant to lock the outer door! I raised this nailed stick of mine and cut at his face; but he sprang back.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000005|I hesitated a moment, then turned and fled, round the corner of the house.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000006|"Prendick, man!" I heard his astonished cry, "don't be a silly ass, man!"
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000000|Another minute, thought I, and he would have had me locked in, and as ready as a hospital rabbit for my fate.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000001|He emerged behind the corner, for I heard him shout, "Prendick!"
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000002|Then he began to run after me, shouting things as he ran.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000003|This time running blindly, I went northeastward in a direction at right angles to my previous expedition.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000005|The wild scene about me lay sleeping silently under the sun, and the only sound near me was the thin hum of some small gnats that had discovered me.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000008_000000|After about an hour I heard Montgomery shouting my name, far away to the north.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000008_000001|That set me thinking of my plan of action. As I interpreted it then, this island was inhabited only by these two vivisectors and their animalised victims.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000008_000002|Some of these no doubt they could press into their service against me if need arose. I knew both Moreau and Montgomery carried revolvers; and, save for a feeble bar of deal spiked with a small nail, the merest mockery of a mace, I was unarmed.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000009_000002|At last in the desperation of my position, my mind turned to the animal men I had encountered.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000009_000003|I tried to find some hope in what I remembered of them. In turn I recalled each one I had seen, and tried to draw some augury of assistance from my memory.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000010_000000|Then suddenly I heard a staghound bay, and at that realised a new danger. I took little time to think, or they would have caught me then, but snatching up my nailed stick, rushed headlong from my hiding place towards the sound of the sea.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000010_000001|I remember a growth of thorny plants, with spines that stabbed like pen knives.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000010_000003|Then I heard no more, and presently began to think I had escaped.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000003|I saw that it was the simian creature who had met the launch upon the beach.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000004|He was clinging to the oblique stem of a palm tree.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000005|I gripped my stick, and stood up facing him. He began chattering.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000006|"You, you, you," was all I could distinguish at first.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000007|Suddenly he dropped from the tree, and in another moment was holding the fronds apart and staring curiously at me.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000013_000000|"Yes," I said, "I came in the boat.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000013_000001|From the ship."
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000014_000000|"Oh!" he said, and his bright, restless eyes travelled over me, to my hands, to the stick I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns. He seemed puzzled at something.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000015_000000|I did not grasp his meaning then; afterwards I was to find that a great proportion of these Beast People had malformed hands, lacking sometimes even three digits.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000015_000001|But guessing this was in some way a greeting, I did the same thing by way of reply. He grinned with immense satisfaction.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000016_000000|I pushed out of the brake after him, and was astonished to find him swinging cheerfully by one lank arm from a rope of creepers that looped down from the foliage overhead.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000016_000001|His back was to me.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000018_000000|He came down with a twisting jump, and stood facing me.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000020_000000|"Eat!" he said.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000020_000002|"At the huts."
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000021_000000|"But where are the huts?"
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000022_000000|"Oh!"
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000024_000000|At that he swung round, and set off at a quick walk. All his motions were curiously rapid.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000025_000000|I went with him to see the adventure out.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000025_000001|I guessed the huts were some rough shelter where he and some more of these Beast People lived. I might perhaps find them friendly, find some handle in their minds to take hold of.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000026_000000|My ape like companion trotted along by my side, with his hands hanging down and his jaw thrust forward.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000026_000001|I wondered what memory he might have in him.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000028_000000|The creature was little better than an idiot.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000029_000000|I was so intent upon these peculiarities that I scarcely noticed the path we followed.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000029_000002|On our right, over a shoulder of bare rock, I saw the level blue of the sea.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000029_000003|The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoriae. Into this we plunged.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000030_000000|It was extremely dark, this passage, after the blinding sunlight reflected from the sulphurous ground.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000030_000002|Blotches of green and crimson drifted across my eyes. My conductor stopped suddenly.
train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000030_000004|I became aware of a disagreeable odor, like that of a monkey's cage ill cleaned.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000013_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000014_000000|THE PLAY BOX
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000015_000000|At the sound of footsteps along the hall Miss Terry looked up from the letter which she was reading for the sixth time.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000015_000001|"Of course I would not see him," she said, pursing her lips into a hard line.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000015_000002|"Certainly not!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000016_000000|A bump on the library door, as from an opposing knee, did duty for a knock.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000017_000001|"Set it down on the rug by the fire place.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000017_000002|I am going to look it over and burn up the rubbish this evening."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000018_000000|She glanced once more at the letter in her hand, then with a sniff tossed it upon the fire.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000000|"Yes'm," said Norah, as she set down the box with a thump.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000001|She stooped once more to pick up something which had fallen out when the cover was jarred open.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000003|Norah stood holding it between thumb and finger, staring amazedly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000004|Who would think to find such a bit of frivolity in the house of Miss Terry!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000020_000000|Her mistress looked up from the fire, where the bit of writing was writhing painfully, and caught the expression of Norah's face.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000000|"What have you there?" she asked, frowning, as she took the object into her own hands.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000001|"The Christmas Angel!" she exclaimed under her breath.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000002|"I had quite forgotten it." Then as if it burned her fingers she thrust the little image back into the box and turned to Norah brusquely.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000003|"There, that's all. You can go now, Norah," she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000022_000000|"Yes'm," answered the maid.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000022_000001|She hesitated.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000022_000002|"If you please'm, it's Christmas Eve."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000023_000000|"Well, I believe so," snapped Miss Terry, who seemed to be in a particularly bad humor this evening.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000023_000001|"What do you want?"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000024_000000|Norah flushed; but she was hardened to her mistress's manner.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000024_000001|"Only to ask if I may go out for a little while to see the decorations and hear the singing."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000000|"Decorations?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000001|Singing?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000002|Fiddlestick!" retorted Miss Terry, poker in hand. "What decorations?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000003|What singing?"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000026_000000|"Why, all the windows along the street are full of candles," answered Norah; "rows of candles in every house, to light the Christ Child on his way when he comes through the city to night."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000027_000000|"Fiddlestick!" again snarled her mistress.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000028_000000|"And choir boys are going about the streets, they say, singing carols in front of the lighted houses," continued Norah enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000028_000001|"It must sound so pretty!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000029_000000|"They had much better be at home in bed.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000029_000001|I believe people are losing their minds!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000030_000000|"Please'm, may I go?" asked Norah again.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000031_000001|Moreover she was young and warm and enthusiastic.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000031_000003|It was so this Christmas Eve; but she made her request with apparent calmness.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000032_000000|"Yes, go along," assented her mistress ungraciously.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000033_000000|"Thank you, 'm," said the servant demurely, but with a brightening of her blue eyes.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000033_000001|And presently the area door banged behind her quick retreating footsteps.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000001|Didn't take her long to get ready!" muttered Miss Terry, giving the fire a vicious poke.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000003|Well, it was what she wanted.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000004|It was of her own doing.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000005|If she had wished-
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000035_000001|A bit of paper there was crumbling into ashes. Alone on Christmas Eve!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000035_000003|Was there not a stalwart officer waiting for her on the nearest corner?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000035_000004|Even Norah could feel a simple childish pleasure in candles and carols and merriment, and the old, old superstition.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000000|"Stuff and nonsense!" mused Miss Terry scornfully.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000001|"What is our Christmas, anyway?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000002|A time for shopkeepers to sell and for foolish folks to kill themselves in buying.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000003|Christmas spirit?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000004|No!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000005|It is all humbug,--all selfishness, and worry; an unwholesome season of unnatural activities.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000006|I am glad I am out of it.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000007|I am glad no one expects anything of me,--nor I of any one.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000008|I am quite independent; blessedly independent of the whole foolish business.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000009|It is a good time to begin clearing up for the new year.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000010|I'm glad I thought of it.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000011|I've long threatened to get rid of the stuff that has been accumulating in that corner of the attic.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000012|Now I will begin."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000000|She tugged the packing case an inch nearer the fire.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000001|It was like Miss Terry to insist upon that nearer inch.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000002|Then she raised the cover.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000003|It was a box full of children's battered toys, old-fashioned and quaint; the toys in vogue thirty-forty-fifty years earlier, when Miss Terry was a child.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000004|She gave a reminiscent sniff as she threw up the cover and saw on the under side of it a big label of pasteboard unevenly lettered.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000039_000001|There was a great deal in that "humph." It meant: Yes, Tom's name had plenty of room, while poor little Angelina had to squeeze in as well as she could.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000039_000002|How like Tom!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000039_000003|This accounted for everything, even to his not being in his sister's house this very night. How unreasonable he had been!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000000|Miss Terry shrugged impatiently.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000001|Why think of Tom to night?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000002|Years ago he had deliberately cut himself adrift from her interests.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000003|No need to think of him now.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000004|It was too late to appease her.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000005|But here were all these toys to be got rid of.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000006|The fire was hungry for them.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000007|Why not begin?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000041_000000|Miss Terry stooped to poke over the contents of the box with lean, long fingers.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000041_000001|In one corner thrust up a doll's arm; in another, an animal's tail pointed heavenward.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000041_000002|She caught glimpses of glitter and tinsel, wheels and fragments of unidentifiable toys.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000000|"What rubbish!" she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000001|"Yes, I'll burn them all.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000002|They are good for nothing else.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000003|I suppose some folks would try to give them away, and bore a lot of people to death.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000005|Nonsense!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000006|I know better.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000007|It is all foolishness, this craze for giving. Most things are better destroyed as soon as you are done with them.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000008|Why, nobody wants such truck as this.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000009|Now, could any child ever have cared for so silly a thing?" She pulled out a faded jumping jack, and regarded it scornfully.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000010|"Idiotic!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000011|Such toys are demoralizing for children-weaken their minds.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000012|It is a shame to think how every one seems bound to spoil children, especially at Christmas time.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000013|Well, no one can say that I have added to the shameful waste."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000043_000000|Miss Terry tossed the poor jumping jack on the fire, and eyed his last contortions with grim satisfaction.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000044_000000|But as she watched, a quaint idea came to her.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000044_000001|She was famous for eccentric ideas.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000045_000000|"I will try an experiment," she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000045_000001|"I will prove once for all my point about the 'Christmas spirit.' I will drop some of these old toys out on the sidewalk and see what happens.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000045_000002|It may be interesting."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000046_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000047_000000|JACK IN THE BOX
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000000|Miss Terry rose and crossed two rooms to the front window, looking out upon the street.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000001|A flare of light almost blinded her eyes.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000002|Every window opposite her along the block, as far as she could see, was illuminated with a row of lighted candles across the sash.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000003|The soft, unusual glow threw into relief the pretty curtains and wreaths of green, and gave glimpses of cosy interiors and flitting happy figures.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000049_000000|"What a waste of candles!" scolded Miss Terry.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000049_000001|"Folks are growing terribly extravagant."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000050_000000|The street was white with snow which had fallen a few hours earlier, piled in drifts along the curb of the little traveled terrace.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000050_000001|But the sidewalks were neatly shoveled and swept clean, as became the eminently respectable part of the city where Miss Terry lived.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000050_000002|A long flight of steps, with iron railing at the side, led down from the front door, upon which a silver plate had for generations in decorous flourishes announced the name of Terry.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000000|Miss Terry returned to the play box and drew out between thumb and finger the topmost toy.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000001|It happened to be a wooden box, with a wire hasp for fastening the cover.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000002|Half unconsciously she pressed the spring, and a hideous Jack in the box sprang out to confront her with a squeak, a leering smile, and a red nose.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000003|Miss Terry eyed him with disfavor.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000000|"I always did hate that thing," she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000001|"Tom was continually frightening me with it, I remember." As if to be rid of unwelcome memories she shut her mouth tight, even as she shut Jack back into his box, snapping the spring into place.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000002|"This will do to begin with," she thought.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000003|She crossed to the window, which she opened quickly, and tossed out the box, so that it fell squarely in the middle of the sidewalk.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000004|Then closing the window and turning down the lights in the room behind her, Miss Terry hid in the folds of the curtain and watched to see what would happen to Jack.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000000|The street was quiet.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000001|Few persons passed on either side.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000002|At last she spied two little ragamuffins approaching.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000003|They seemed to be Jewish lads of the newsboy class, and they eyed the display of candles appraisingly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000004|The smaller boy first caught sight of the box in the middle of the sidewalk.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000054_000000|"Hello!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000056_000001|Lemme look at it."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000058_000000|"Give it here!" commanded the bigger boy.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000001|You let it alone!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000002|It's mine!" asserted the other, edging away along the curbstone.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000003|"I saw it first.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000004|You can't have it."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000060_000000|"Give it here.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000060_000001|I saw it first myself.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000060_000002|Hand it over, or I'll smash you!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000061_000000|The bigger boy advanced threateningly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000063_000000|He started to run, but the bigger fellow was too quick for him.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000063_000001|He pounced across the sidewalk, and soon the twain were struggling in the snowdrift, pummeling one another with might and main.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000064_000000|"I told you so!" commented Miss Terry from behind the curtain.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000064_000001|"Here's the first show of the beautiful Christmas spirit that is supposed to be abroad. Look at the little beasts fighting over something that neither of them really wants!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000065_000000|Just then Miss Terry spied a blue coated figure leisurely approaching.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000065_000001|At the same moment an instinct seemed to warn the struggling urchins.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000066_000000|"Cop!" said a muffled voice from the pile of arms and legs, and in an instant two black shadows were flitting down the street; but not before the bigger boy had wrenched the box from the pocket of the little chap.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000000|"So that is the end of experiment number one," quoth Miss Terry, smiling grimly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000001|"It happened just about as I expected.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000002|They will be fighting again as soon as they are out of sight.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000003|They are Jews; but that doesn't make any difference about the Christmas spirit.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000004|Now let's see what becomes of the next experiment."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000068_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000070_000000|She returned to the play box by the fire, and rummaged for a few minutes among the tangled toys.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000070_000001|Then with something like a chuckle she drew out a soft, pale creature with four wobbly legs.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000071_000000|"The Flanton Dog!" she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000071_000002|I had forgotten all about him. It was Tom who coined the name for him because he was made of Canton flannel."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000000|She stood the thing up on the table as well as his weak legs would allow, and inspected him critically.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000002|One of the black beads which had served him for eyes was gone.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000003|His ears, which had originally stood up saucily on his head, now drooped in limp dejection.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000004|One of them was a mere shapeless rag hanging by a thread.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000005|He was dirty and discolored, and his tail was gone.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000006|But still he smiled with his red thread mouth and seemed trying to make the best of things.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000073_000001|"I know there isn't a child in the city who wants such a looking thing.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000073_000003|This isn't going to bring out any Christmas spirit," she sneered.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000073_000004|"I will try it and see."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000074_000000|Once more she lifted the window and tossed the dog to the sidewalk.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000074_000001|He rolled upon his back and lay pathetically with crooked legs yearning upward, still smiling.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000074_000002|Hardly had Miss Terry time to conceal herself behind the curtain when she saw a figure approaching, airily waving a stick.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000000|"No ragamuffin this time," she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000001|"Hello!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000002|It is that good for nothing young Cooper fellow from the next block.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000003|They say he is a millionaire. Well, he isn't even going to see the Flanton Dog."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000002|When he reached the spot in the sidewalk where the Flanton Dog lay, he paused a moment looking down.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000003|Then he poked the object with his stick.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000004|On the other side of the street a mother and her little boy were passing at the time.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000005|The child's eyes caught sight of the dog on the sidewalk, and he hung back, watching to see what the young man would do to it.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000006|But his mother drew him after her.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000007|Just then an automobile came panting through the snow.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000008|With a quick movement Cooper picked up the dog on the end of his stick and tossed it into the street, under the wheels of the machine.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000009|The baby across the street uttered a howl of anguish at the sight.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000010|Miss Terry herself was surprised to feel a pang shoot through her as the car passed over the queer old toy.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000011|She retreated from the window quickly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000077_000001|"I knew that fellow was a brute.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000077_000002|I might have expected something like that.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000077_000003|But it looked so-so-" She hesitated for a word, and did not finish her sentence, but bit her lip and sniffed cynically.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000078_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000079_000000|THE NOAH'S ARK
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000080_000000|"Now, what comes next?" Miss Terry rummaged in the box until her fingers met something odd shaped, long, and smooth sided.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000080_000001|With some difficulty she drew out the object, for it was of good size.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000081_000001|The old Noah's ark," she said.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000081_000002|"I wonder if all the animals are in there."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000000|She lifted the cover, and turned out into her lap the long imprisoned animals and their round bodied chief.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000001|mrs Noah and her sons had long since disappeared.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000002|But the ark builder, hatless and one armed, still presided over a menagerie of sorry beasts.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000004|To few of them the years had spared a tail.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000005|From their close resemblance in their misery, it was not hard to believe in the kinship of all animal life.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000006|She took them up and examined them curiously one by one. Finally she selected a shapeless slate colored block from the mass.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000007|"This was the elephant," she mused.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000008|"I remember when Tom stepped on him and smashed his trunk.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000009|'I guess I'm going to be an expressman when I grow up,' he said, looking sorry.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000010|Tom was always full of his jokes.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000011|Now I'll try this and see what happens to the ark on its last voyage."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000083_000000|Just then there was a noise outside.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000083_000001|An automobile honked past, and Miss Terry shuddered, recalling the pathetic end of the Flanton Dog, which had given her quite a turn.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000084_000000|"I hate those horrid machines!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000084_000001|"They seem like Juggernaut. I'd like to forbid their going through this street."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000000|She crowded the elephant with Noah and the rest of his charge back into the ark and closed the lid.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000001|"I can't throw this out of the window," she reflected.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000002|"They would spill.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000003|I must take it out on the sidewalk.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000004|Land!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000005|The fire's going out!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000006|That girl doesn't know how to build fires so they will keep."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000000|She laid the Noah's ark on the table, and going to the closet tugged out several big logs, which she arranged geometrically.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000001|About laying fires, as about most other things, Miss Terry had her own positive theories.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000002|Taking the bellows in hand she blew furiously, and was presently rewarded with a brisk blaze.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000003|She smiled with satisfaction, and trotted upstairs to find her red knit shawl.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000004|With this about her shoulders she was prepared to brave the December frost.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000005|Down the steps she went, and deposited the ark discreetly at their foot; then returned to take up her position behind the curtains.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000087_000000|There were a good many people passing, but they seemed too preoccupied to glance down at the sidewalk.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000087_000001|They were nearly all hurrying in one direction.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000087_000002|Some were running in the middle of the street.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000000|"They are in a great hurry," sniffed Miss Terry disdainfully.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000001|"One would think they had something really important on hand.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000002|I suppose they are going to hear the singing.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000003|Fiddlestick!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000089_000000|A man hastened by under the window; a woman; two children, a boy and a girl, running and gesticulating eagerly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000089_000001|None of them noticed the Noah's ark lying at the foot of the steps.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000000|Miss Terry began to grow impatient.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000001|"Are they all blind?" she fretted. "What is the matter with them?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000002|I wish somebody would find the thing.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000003|I am tired of seeing it lying there."
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000091_000000|She tapped the floor impatiently with her slipper.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000091_000001|Just then a woman approached.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000091_000002|She was dressed in the most uncompromising of mourning, and she walked slowly, with bent head, never glancing at the lighted windows on either side.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000092_000001|And sure enough, she did.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000092_000002|She stopped at the doorstep, drew her skirts aside, and bent over to look at the strange shaped box at her feet.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000092_000003|Finally she lifted it But immediately she shivered and acted so strangely that Miss Terry thought she was about to break the toy in pieces on the steps or throw it into the street. Evidently she detested the sight of it.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000000|Just then up came a second woman with two small boys hanging at her skirts. They were ragged and sick looking.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000001|There was something about the expression of even the tiny knot of hair at the back of the woman's head which told of anxious poverty.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000002|With envious curiosity she hurried up to see what a luckier mortal had found, crowding to look over her shoulder.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000003|The woman in black drew haughtily away and clutched the Noah's ark with a gesture of proprietorship.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000094_000000|"Go away!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000094_000001|This is my affair." Miss Terry read her expression and sniffed. "There is the Christmas spirit coming out again," she said to herself. "Look at her face!"
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000001|But the second woman caught hold of her skirt and began to speak earnestly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000002|She pointed to the Noah's ark, then to her two children.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000003|Her eyes were beseeching.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000004|The little boys crowded forward eagerly.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000005|But some wicked spirit seemed to have seized the finder of the ark.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000006|Angrily she shook off the hand of the other woman, and clutching the box yet more firmly under her arm, she hurried away.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000007|Once, twice, she turned and shook her head at the ragged woman who followed her.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000008|Then, with a savage gesture at the two children, she disappeared beyond Miss Terry's straining eyes.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000009|The poor woman and her boys followed forlornly at a distance.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000000|"They really wanted it, that old Noah's ark!" exclaimed Miss Terry in amazement.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000001|"I can scarcely believe it.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000002|But why did that other creature keep the thing?
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000003|I see!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000004|Only because she found they cared for it.
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000005|Well, that is a happy spirit for Christmas time, I should say!
train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000006|Humph!
train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000014_000005|He kept pretty fair health, though so old.
train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000035_000000|Early came the
train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000038_000005|Arcturus right overhead.
train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000039_000001|I was almost conscious of a definite presence, Nature silently near.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000000_000001|mr
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000000_000002|TOAD
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000001_000000|It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000001_000001|The Mole and the Water Rat had been up since dawn, very busy on matters connected with boats and the opening of the boating season; painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat hooks, and so on; and were finishing breakfast in their little parlour and eagerly discussing their plans for the day, when a heavy knock sounded at the door.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000002_000000|'Bother!' said the Rat, all over egg.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000003_000000|The Mole went to attend the summons, and the Rat heard him utter a cry of surprise.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000003_000001|Then he flung the parlour door open, and announced with much importance, 'mr
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000003_000002|Badger!'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000004_000000|This was a wonderful thing, indeed, that the Badger should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000005_000000|The Badger strode heavily into the room, and stood looking at the two animals with an expression full of seriousness.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000006_000000|'The hour has come!' said the Badger at last with great solemnity.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000008_000001|'Why, Toad's hour!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000008_000002|The hour of Toad!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000009_000000|'Toad's hour, of course!' cried the Mole delightedly.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000009_000001|'Hooray!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000009_000002|I remember now!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000010_000002|We must be up and doing, ere it is too late.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000011_000000|'Right you are!' cried the Rat, starting up.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000011_000002|We'll convert him!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000012_000000|They set off up the road on their mission of mercy, Badger leading the way.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000012_000001|Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000013_000000|They reached the carriage drive of Toad Hall to find, as the Badger had anticipated, a shiny new motor car, of great size, painted a bright red (Toad's favourite colour), standing in front of the house.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000013_000001|As they neared the door it was flung open, and mr Toad, arrayed in goggles, cap, gaiters, and enormous overcoat, came swaggering down the steps, drawing on his gauntleted gloves.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000015_000000|His hearty accents faltered and fell away as he noticed the stern unbending look on the countenances of his silent friends, and his invitation remained unfinished.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000016_000000|The Badger strode up the steps.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000016_000001|'Take him inside,' he said sternly to his companions.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000016_000002|Then, as Toad was hustled through the door, struggling and protesting, he turned to the chauffeur in charge of the new motor car.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000001|'mr
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000002|Toad has changed his mind.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000004|Please understand that this is final.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000005|You needn't wait.' Then he followed the others inside and shut the door.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000019_000001|'What is the meaning of this gross outrage?
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000019_000002|I demand an instant explanation.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000021_000000|They had to lay Toad out on the floor, kicking and calling all sorts of names, before they could get to work properly.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000021_000003|Now that he was merely Toad, and no longer the Terror of the Highway, he giggled feebly and looked from one to the other appealingly, seeming quite to understand the situation.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000022_000000|'You knew it must come to this, sooner or later, Toad,' the Badger explained severely.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000023_000002|Now, you're a good fellow in many respects, and I don't want to be too hard on you. I'll make one more effort to bring you to reason.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000024_000000|He took Toad firmly by the arm, led him into the smoking room, and closed the door behind them.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000025_000002|He'll SAY anything.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000027_000000|After some three quarters of an hour the door opened, and the Badger reappeared, solemnly leading by the paw a very limp and dejected Toad. His skin hung baggily about him, his legs wobbled, and his cheeks were furrowed by the tears so plentifully called forth by the Badger's moving discourse.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000028_000000|'Sit down there, Toad,' said the Badger kindly, pointing to a chair.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000030_000000|'Very good news indeed,' observed the Rat dubiously, 'if only-IF only----'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000031_000000|He was looking very hard at Toad as he said this, and could not help thinking he perceived something vaguely resembling a twinkle in that animal's still sorrowful eye.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000032_000000|'There's only one thing more to be done,' continued the gratified Badger. 'Toad, I want you solemnly to repeat, before your friends here, what you fully admitted to me in the smoking room just now.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000032_000001|First, you are sorry for what you've done, and you see the folly of it all?'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000033_000002|At last he spoke.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000034_000000|'No!' he said, a little sullenly, but stoutly; 'I'm NOT sorry.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000034_000001|And it wasn't folly at all!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000035_000000|'What?' cried the Badger, greatly scandalised.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000035_000001|'You backsliding animal, didn't you tell me just now, in there----'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000036_000003|But I've been searching my mind since, and going over things in it, and I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really, so it's no earthly good saying I am; now, is it?'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000038_000000|'Certainly not!' replied Toad emphatically.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000000|'Very well, then,' said the Badger firmly, rising to his feet.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000001|'Since you won't yield to persuasion, we'll try what force can do.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000003|You've often asked us three to come and stay with you, Toad, in this handsome house of yours; well, now we're going to.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000004|When we've converted you to a proper point of view we may quit, but not before.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000005|Take him upstairs, you two, and lock him up in his bedroom, while we arrange matters between ourselves.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000045_000000|They descended the stair, Toad shouting abuse at them through the keyhole; and the three friends then met in conference on the situation.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000046_000001|'I've never seen Toad so determined.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000046_000002|However, we will see it out.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000046_000003|He must never be left an instant unguarded.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000000|They arranged watches accordingly.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000001|Each animal took it in turns to sleep in Toad's room at night, and they divided the day up between them.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000002|At first Toad was undoubtedly very trying to his careful guardians.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000003|When his violent paroxysms possessed him he would arrange bedroom chairs in rude resemblance of a motor car and would crouch on the foremost of them, bent forward and staring fixedly ahead, making uncouth and ghastly noises, till the climax was reached, when, turning a complete somersault, he would lie prostrate amidst the ruins of the chairs, apparently completely satisfied for the moment.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000004|As time passed, however, these painful seizures grew gradually less frequent, and his friends strove to divert his mind into fresh channels.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000005|But his interest in other matters did not seem to revive, and he grew apparently languid and depressed.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000048_000000|One fine morning the Rat, whose turn it was to go on duty, went upstairs to relieve Badger, whom he found fidgeting to be off and stretch his legs in a long ramble round his wood and down his earths and burrows. 'Toad's still in bed,' he told the Rat, outside the door.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000048_000002|Now, you look out, Rat!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000048_000005|I know him. Well, now, I must be off.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000050_000000|He had to wait some minutes for an answer.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000050_000001|At last a feeble voice replied, 'Thank you so much, dear Ratty!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000050_000002|So good of you to inquire!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000051_000002|Now jump up, there's a good fellow, and don't lie moping there on a fine morning like this!'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000052_000001|But do not trouble about me.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000052_000002|I hate being a burden to my friends, and I do not expect to be one much longer.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000052_000003|Indeed, I almost hope not.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000053_000002|And in weather like this, and the boating season just beginning!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000001|'I can quite understand it.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000002|It's natural enough.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000003|You're tired of bothering about me.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000004|I mustn't ask you to do anything further.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000055_000001|'But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd be a sensible animal.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000056_000000|'If I thought that, Ratty,' murmured Toad, more feebly than ever, 'then I would beg you-for the last time, probably-to step round to the village as quickly as possible-even now it may be too late-and fetch the doctor.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000056_000001|But don't you bother.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000057_000000|'Why, what do you want a doctor for?' inquired the Rat, coming closer and examining him.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000058_000000|'Surely you have noticed of late----' murmured Toad. 'But, no-why should you?
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000058_000001|Noticing things is only a trouble.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000059_000001|But you can hardly be bad enough for that yet.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000059_000002|Let's talk about something else.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000060_000000|'I fear, dear friend,' said Toad, with a sad smile, 'that "talk" can do little in a case like this-or doctors either, for that matter; still, one must grasp at the slightest straw.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000060_000001|And, by the way-while you are about it-I HATE to give you additional trouble, but I happen to remember that you will pass the door-would you mind at the same time asking the lawyer to step up?
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000060_000002|It would be a convenience to me, and there are moments-perhaps I should say there is A moment-when one must face disagreeable tasks, at whatever cost to exhausted nature!'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000062_000000|Outside, he stopped to consider.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000063_000000|'It's best to be on the safe side,' he said, on reflection.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000063_000001|'I've known Toad fancy himself frightfully bad before, without the slightest reason; but I've never heard him ask for a lawyer!
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000063_000002|If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass, and cheer him up; and that will be something gained.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000064_000000|The Toad, who had hopped lightly out of bed as soon as he heard the key turned in the lock, watched him eagerly from the window till he disappeared down the carriage drive.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000066_000000|'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000067_000001|'However, talking won't mend matters.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000069_000000|Meanwhile, Toad, gay and irresponsible, was walking briskly along the high road, some miles from home.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000069_000001|At first he had taken by paths, and crossed many fields, and changed his course several times, in case of pursuit; but now, feeling by this time safe from recapture, and the sun smiling brightly on him, and all Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self praise that his own heart was singing to him, he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000070_000000|'Smart piece of work that!' he remarked to himself chuckling.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000070_000001|'Brain against brute force-and brain came out on the top-as it's bound to do.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000070_000003|My! won't he catch it when the Badger gets back! A worthy fellow, Ratty, with many good qualities, but very little intelligence and absolutely no education.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000071_000000|Filled full of conceited thoughts such as these he strode along, his head in the air, till he reached a little town, where the sign of 'The Red Lion,' swinging across the road halfway down the main street, reminded him that he had not breakfasted that day, and that he was exceedingly hungry after his long walk.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000071_000001|He marched into the Inn, ordered the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice, and sat down to eat it in the coffee room.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000072_000000|He was about half-way through his meal when an only too familiar sound, approaching down the street, made him start and fall a trembling all over.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000072_000003|Toad listened eagerly, all ears, for a time; at last he could stand it no longer.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000073_000000|The car stood in the middle of the yard, quite unattended, the stable helps and other hangers on being all at their dinner.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000073_000001|Toad walked slowly round it, inspecting, criticising, musing deeply.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000074_000000|'I wonder,' he said to himself presently, 'I wonder if this sort of car STARTS easily?'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000075_000000|Next moment, hardly knowing how it came about, he found he had hold of the handle and was turning it.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000076_000001|Let me see: he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000076_000002|mr Clerk, will you tell us, please, what is the very stiffest penalty we can impose for each of these offences?
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000076_000003|Without, of course, giving the prisoner the benefit of any doubt, because there isn't any.'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000077_000000|The Clerk scratched his nose with his pen.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000077_000001|'Some people would consider,' he observed, 'that stealing the motor car was the worst offence; and so it is.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000077_000002|But cheeking the police undoubtedly carries the severest penalty; and so it ought.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000078_000000|'First rate!' said the Chairman.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000080_000002|It's going to be twenty years for you this time.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000080_000003|And mind, if you appear before us again, upon any charge whatever, we shall have to deal with you very seriously!'
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000081_000001|There at last they paused, where an ancient gaoler sat fingering a bunch of mighty keys.
train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000082_000000|'Oddsbodikins!' said the sergeant of police, taking off his helmet and wiping his forehead.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000000_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000001_000000|BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000002_000002|Yet I slept particularly well; it was one of the best nights I had ever had, and I did not even dream.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000003_000000|Next morning we awoke half frozen by the sharp keen air, but with the light of a splendid sun
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000003_000001|I rose from my granite bed and went out to enjoy the magnificent spectacle that lay unrolled before me.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000000|I stood on the very summit of the southernmost of Snaefell's peaks. The range of the eye extended over the whole island.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000002|It seemed as if one of Helbesmer's raised maps lay at my feet.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000004|On my right were numberless glaciers and innumerable peaks, some plumed with feathery clouds of smoke.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000005|The undulating surface of these endless mountains, crested with sheets of snow, reminded one of a stormy sea.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000007|The eye could hardly tell where the snowy ridges ended and the foaming waves began.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000005_000003|I felt intoxicated with the sublime pleasure of lofty elevations without thinking of the profound abysses into which I was shortly to be plunged.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000005_000004|But I was brought back to the realities of things by the arrival of Hans and the Professor, who joined me on the summit.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000006_000000|My uncle pointed out to me in the far west a light steam or mist, a semblance of land, which bounded the distant horizon of waters.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000007_000000|"Greenland!" said he.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000008_000000|"Greenland?" I cried.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000009_000000|"Yes; we are only thirty five leagues from it; and during thaws the white bears, borne by the ice fields from the north, are carried even into Iceland.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000009_000003|Hans will tell us the name of that on which we are now standing."
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000010_000000|The question being put, Hans replied:
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000011_000000|"Scartaris."
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000012_000000|My uncle shot a triumphant glance at me.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000013_000000|"Now for the crater!" he cried.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000000|The crater of Snaefell resembled an inverted cone, the opening of which might be half a league in diameter.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000001|Its depth appeared to be about two thousand feet.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000002|Imagine the aspect of such a reservoir, brim full and running over with liquid fire amid the rolling thunder.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000003|The bottom of the funnel was about two hundred fifty feet in circuit, so that the gentle slope allowed its lower brim to be reached without much difficulty.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000004|Involuntarily I compared the whole crater to an enormous erected mortar, and the comparison put me in a terrible fright.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000015_000000|"What madness," I thought, "to go down into a mortar, perhaps a loaded mortar, to be shot up into the air at a moment's notice!"
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000016_000000|But I did not try to back out of it.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000016_000001|Hans with perfect coolness resumed the lead, and I followed him without a word.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000018_000000|In certain parts of the cone there were glaciers.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000018_000001|Here Hans advanced only with extreme precaution, sounding his way with his iron pointed pole, to discover any crevasses in it.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000019_000000|Yet, notwithstanding the difficulties of the descent, down steeps unknown to the guide, the journey was accomplished without accidents, except the loss of a coil of rope, which escaped from the hands of an Icelander, and took the shortest way to the bottom of the abyss.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000020_000002|Just upon the edge appeared the snowy peak of Saris, standing out sharp and clear against endless space.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000000|At the bottom of the crater were three chimneys, through which, in its eruptions, Snaefell had driven forth fire and lava from its central furnace.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000001|Each of these chimneys was a hundred feet in diameter.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000002|They gaped before us right in our path.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000003|I had not the courage to look down either of them.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000004|But Professor Liedenbrock had hastily surveyed all three; he was panting, running from one to the other, gesticulating, and uttering incoherent expressions.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000005|Hans and his comrades, seated upon loose lava rocks, looked at him with as much wonder as they knew how to express, and perhaps taking him for an escaped lunatic.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000022_000000|Suddenly my uncle uttered a cry.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000022_000001|I thought his foot must have slipped and that he had fallen down one of the holes.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000022_000002|But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the centre of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000023_000000|"Axel, Axel," he cried.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000023_000001|"Come, come!"
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000024_000000|I ran.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000025_000000|"Look!" cried the Professor.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000026_000000|And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the western face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice accursed name:
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000027_000000|[At this point a Runic text appears]
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000028_000001|"Do you yet doubt?"
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000029_000000|I made no answer; and I returned in silence to my lava seat in a state of utter speechless consternation.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000029_000001|Here was crushing evidence.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000030_000000|How long I remained plunged in agonizing reflections I cannot tell; all that I know is, that on raising my head again, I saw only my uncle and Hans at the bottom of the crater.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000030_000001|The Icelanders had been dismissed, and they were now descending the outer slopes of Snaefell to return to Stapi.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000031_000000|Hans slept peaceably at the foot of a rock, in a lava bed, where he had found a suitable couch for himself; but my uncle was pacing around the bottom of the crater like a wild beast in a cage.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000032_000000|Thus the first night in the crater passed away.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000033_000000|The next morning, a grey, heavy, cloudy sky seemed to droop over the summit of the cone.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000033_000001|I did not know this first from the appearances of nature, but I found it out by my uncle's impetuous wrath.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000034_000000|I soon found out the cause, and hope dawned again in my heart.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000034_000001|For this reason.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000037_000000|Now, no sun no shadow, and therefore no guide.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000037_000001|Here was june twenty fifth.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000037_000002|If the sun was clouded for six days we must postpone our visit till next year.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000000|My limited powers of description would fail, were I to attempt a picture of the Professor's angry impatience.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000001|The day wore on, and no shadow came to lay itself along the bottom of the crater.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000002|Hans did not move from the spot he had selected; yet he must be asking himself what were we waiting for, if he asked himself anything at all.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000003|My uncle spoke not a word to me.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000004|His gaze, ever directed upwards, was lost in the grey and misty space beyond.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000039_000000|On the twenty sixth nothing yet.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000039_000002|Hans built a hut of pieces of lava.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000040_000001|It was enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for it was foundering almost within the port.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000041_000000|But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000043_000000|My uncle turned too, and followed it.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000044_000000|At noon, being at its least extent, it came and softly fell upon the edge of the middle chimney.
train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000047_000000|I looked at Hans, to hear what he would say.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000006_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000007_000000|VERTICAL DESCENT
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000008_000000|Now began our real journey.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000008_000001|Hitherto our toil had overcome all difficulties, now difficulties would spring up at every step.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000000|I had not yet ventured to look down the bottomless pit into which I was about to take a plunge.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000001|The supreme hour had come.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000002|I might now either share in the enterprise or refuse to move forward.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000003|But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000004|Hans accepted the enterprise with such calmness, such indifference, such perfect disregard of any possible danger that I blushed at the idea of being less brave than he.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000000|I have already mentioned that it was a hundred feet in diameter, and three hundred feet round.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000001|I bent over a projecting rock and gazed down.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000003|The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid hold upon me.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000004|I felt my centre of gravity shifting its place, and giddiness mounting into my brain like drunkenness.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000005|There is nothing more treacherous than this attraction down deep abysses.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000006|I was just about to drop down, when a hand laid hold of me.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000011_000000|But, however short was my examination of this well, I had taken some account of its conformation.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000011_000001|Its almost perpendicular walls were bristling with innumerable projections which would facilitate the descent.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000011_000003|But how were we to unfasten it, when arrived at the other end?
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000012_000000|My uncle employed a very simple expedient to obviate this difficulty. He uncoiled a cord of the thickness of a finger, and four hundred feet long; first he dropped half of it down, then he passed it round a lava block that projected conveniently, and threw the other half down the chimney.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000012_000001|Each of us could then descend by holding with the hand both halves of the rope, which would not be able to unroll itself from its hold; when two hundred feet down, it would be easy to get possession of the whole of the rope by letting one end go and pulling down by the other.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000013_000000|"Now," said my uncle, after having completed these preparations, "now let us look to our loads.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000013_000001|I will divide them into three lots; each of us will strap one upon his back.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000013_000002|I mean only fragile articles."
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000014_000000|Of course, we were not included under that head.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000016_000000|"But," said I, "the clothes, and that mass of ladders and ropes, what is to become of them?"
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000018_000000|"How so?" I asked.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000019_000000|"You will see presently."
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000020_000000|My uncle was always willing to employ magnificent resources.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000020_000001|Obeying orders, Hans tied all the non fragile articles in one bundle, corded them firmly, and sent them bodily down the gulf before us.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000021_000000|I listened to the dull thuds of the descending bale.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000021_000001|My uncle, leaning over the abyss, followed the descent of the luggage with a satisfied nod, and only rose erect when he had quite lost sight of it.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000023_000000|Now I ask any sensible man if it was possible to hear those words without a shudder.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000024_000000|The Professor fastened his package of instruments upon his shoulders; Hans took the tools; I took the arms: and the descent commenced in the following order; Hans, my uncle, and myself.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000024_000001|It was effected in profound silence, broken only by the descent of loosened stones down the dark gulf.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000025_000000|I dropped as it were, frantically clutching the double cord with one hand and buttressing myself from the wall with the other by means of my stick.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000025_000001|One idea overpowered me almost, fear lest the rock should give way from which I was hanging.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000025_000003|I made as little use of it as possible, performing wonderful feats of equilibrium upon the lava projections which my foot seemed to catch hold of like a hand.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000026_000000|When one of these slippery steps shook under the heavier form of Hans, he said in his tranquil voice:
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000028_000000|"Attention!" repeated my uncle.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000029_000000|In half an hour we were standing upon the surface of a rock jammed in across the chimney from one side to the other.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000030_000000|Hans pulled the rope by one of its ends, the other rose in the air; after passing the higher rock it came down again, bringing with it a rather dangerous shower of bits of stone and lava.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000031_000000|Leaning over the edge of our narrow standing ground, I observed that the bottom of the hole was still invisible.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000033_000000|I don't suppose the maddest geologist under such circumstances would have studied the nature of the rocks that we were passing.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000033_000001|I am sure I did trouble my head about them.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000033_000003|But the Professor, no doubt, was pursuing his observations or taking notes, for in one of our halts he said to me:
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000000|"The farther I go the more confidence I feel.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000002|We are now among the primitive rocks, upon which the chemical operations took place which are produced by the contact of elementary bases of metals with water.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000003|I repudiate the notion of central heat altogether.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000004|We shall see further proof of that very soon."
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000035_000002|My silence was taken for consent and the descent went on.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000036_000000|Another three hours, and I saw no bottom to the chimney yet.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000036_000001|When I lifted my head I perceived the gradual contraction of its aperture. Its walls, by a gentle incline, were drawing closer to each other, and it was beginning to grow darker.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000037_000000|Still we kept descending.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000037_000001|It seemed to me that the falling stones were meeting with an earlier resistance, and that the concussion gave a more abrupt and deadened sound.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000038_000000|As I had taken care to keep an exact account of our manoeuvres with the rope, which I knew that we had repeated fourteen times, each descent occupying half an hour, the conclusion was easy that we had been seven hours, plus fourteen quarters of rest, making ten hours and a half.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000041_000000|I stopped short just as I was going to place my feet upon my uncle's head.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000043_000000|"Where?" said I, stepping near to him.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000044_000000|"At the bottom of the perpendicular chimney," he answered.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000045_000000|"Is there no way farther?"
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000046_000000|"Yes; there is a sort of passage which inclines to the right.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000047_000000|The darkness was not yet complete.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000047_000001|The provision case was opened; we refreshed ourselves, and went to sleep as well as we could upon a bed of stones and lava fragments.
train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000048_000000|When lying on my back, I opened my eyes and saw a bright sparkling point of light at the extremity of the gigantic tube three thousand feet long, now a vast telescope.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000000_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000001_000000|THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000002_000000|At eight in the morning a ray of daylight came to wake us up.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000002_000001|The thousand shining surfaces of lava on the walls received it on its passage, and scattered it like a shower of sparks.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000003_000000|There was light enough to distinguish surrounding objects.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000004_000000|"Well, Axel, what do you say to it?" cried my uncle, rubbing his hands.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000004_000001|"Did you ever spend a quieter night in our little house at Koenigsberg?
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000004_000002|No noise of cart wheels, no cries of basket women, no boatmen shouting!"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000009_000000|"Are you sure of that?"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000010_000000|"Quite sure.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000011_000000|In fact, the mercury, which had risen in the instrument as fast as we descended, had stopped at twenty nine inches.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000013_000000|And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as the weight of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained at the level of the sea.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000014_000000|"But," I said, "is there not reason to fear that this ever increasing pressure will become at last very painful to bear?"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000015_000000|"No; we shall descend at a slow rate, and our lungs will become inured to a denser atmosphere.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000015_000002|Don't let us lose a moment.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000016_000000|I then remembered that we had searched for it in vain the evening before.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000016_000001|My uncle questioned Hans, who, after having examined attentively with the eye of a huntsman, replied:
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000019_000000|And so it was.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000019_000001|The bundle had been caught by a projection a hundred feet above us.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000019_000002|Immediately the Icelander climbed up like a cat, and in a few minutes the package was in our possession.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000022_000000|Breakfast over, my uncle drew from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific observations.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000022_000001|He consulted his instruments, and recorded:
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000025_000000|This last observation applied to the dark gallery, and was indicated by the compass.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000026_000001|At this precise moment the journey commences."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000027_000000|So saying, my uncle took in one hand Ruhmkorff's apparatus, which was hanging from his neck; and with the other he formed an electric communication with the coil in the lantern, and a sufficiently bright light dispersed the darkness of the passage.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000028_000000|Hans carried the other apparatus, which was also put into action. This ingenious application of electricity would enable us to go on for a long time by creating an artificial light even in the midst of the most inflammable gases.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000029_000000|"Now, march!" cried my uncle.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000030_000000|Each shouldered his package.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000032_000000|The lava, in the last eruption of twelve twenty nine, had forced a passage through this tunnel.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000032_000001|It still lined the walls with a thick and glistening coat.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000032_000002|The electric light was here intensified a hundredfold by reflection.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000033_000000|The only difficulty in proceeding lay in not sliding too fast down an incline of about forty five degrees; happily certain asperities and a few blisterings here and there formed steps, and we descended, letting our baggage slip before us from the end of a long rope.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000034_000000|But that which formed steps under our feet became stalactites overhead.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000035_000001|"My uncle, what a sight! Don't you admire those blending hues of lava, passing from reddish brown to bright yellow by imperceptible shades?
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000035_000002|And these crystals are just like globes of light."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000036_000002|Now let us march: march!"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000037_000000|He had better have said slide, for we did nothing but drop down the steep inclines.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000037_000002|The compass, which I consulted frequently, gave our direction as south-east with inflexible steadiness.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000037_000003|This lava stream deviated neither to the right nor to the left.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000038_000000|Yet there was no sensible increase of temperature.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000038_000001|This justified Davy's theory, and more than once I consulted the thermometer with surprise.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000001|Hans sat down at once.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000002|The lamps were hung upon a projection in the lava; we were in a sort of cavern where there was plenty of air.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000003|Certain puffs of air reached us.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000004|What atmospheric disturbance was the cause of them?
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000005|I could not answer that question at the moment.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000006|Hunger and fatigue made me incapable of reasoning.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000007|A descent of seven hours consecutively is not made without considerable expenditure of strength.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000008|I was exhausted.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000009|The order to 'halt' therefore gave me pleasure.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000010|Hans laid our provisions upon a block of lava, and we ate with a good appetite. But one thing troubled me, our supply of water was half consumed.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000011|My uncle reckoned upon a fresh supply from subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met with none.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000041_000000|"More than that, I am anxious about it; we have only water enough for five days."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000042_000000|"Don't be uneasy, Axel, we shall find more than we want."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000043_000000|"When?"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000044_000001|How could springs break through such walls as these?"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000045_000000|"But perhaps this passage runs to a very great depth.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000000|"This is my conclusion.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000003|But certain local conditions may modify this rate.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000004|Thus at Yakoutsk in Siberia the increase of a degree is ascertained to be reached every thirty six feet.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000006|Let us therefore assume this last hypothesis as the most suitable to our situation, and calculate."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000053_000000|"Nothing is easier," said I, putting down figures in my note book. "Nine times a hundred and twenty five feet gives a depth of eleven hundred and twenty five feet."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000054_000000|"Very accurate indeed."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000055_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000056_000000|"By my observation we are at ten thousand feet below the level of the sea."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000057_000000|"Is that possible?"
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000058_000000|"Yes, or figures are of no use."
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000059_000000|The Professor's calculations were quite correct.
train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000059_000001|We had already attained a depth of six thousand feet beyond that hitherto reached by the foot of man, such as the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg in Bohemia.
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train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000002_000000|A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000004_000000|INTRODUCTORY NOTE
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000005_000001|His education was irregular, and though he tried many professions-including engraving, music, and teaching-he found it difficult to support himself in any of them.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000007_000000|His most famous work, the "Confessions," was published after his death.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000008_000000|During Rousseau's later years he was the victim of the delusion of persecution; and although he was protected by a succession of good friends, he came to distrust and quarrel with each in turn.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000008_000001|He died at Ermenonville, near Paris, july second seventeen seventy eight, the most widely influential French writer of his age.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000010_000000|QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE ACADEMY OF DIJON
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000011_000000|What is the Origin of the Inequality among Mankind; and whether such Inequality is authorized by the Law of Nature?
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000012_000000|A DISCOURSE UPON THE ORIGIN AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE INEQUALITY AMONG MANKIND
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000013_000001|I shall therefore maintain with confidence the cause of mankind before the sages, who invite me to stand up in its defence; and I shall think myself happy, if I can but behave in a manner not unworthy of my subject and of my judges.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000014_000001|This species of inequality consists in the different privileges, which some men enjoy, to the prejudice of others, such as that of being richer, more honoured, more powerful, and even that of exacting obedience from them.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000016_000000|What therefore is precisely the subject of this discourse?
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000016_000001|It is to point out, in the progress of things, that moment, when, right taking place of violence, nature became subject to law; to display that chain of surprising events, in consequence of which the strong submitted to serve the weak, and the people to purchase imaginary ease, at the expense of real happiness.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000018_000000|Let us begin therefore, by laying aside facts, for they do not affect the question.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000018_000002|Religion commands us to believe, that men, having been drawn by God himself out of a state of nature, are unequal, because it is his pleasure they should be so; but religion does not forbid us to draw conjectures solely from the nature of man, considered in itself, and from that of the beings which surround him, concerning the fate of mankind, had they been left to themselves.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000018_000003|This is then the question I am to answer, the question I propose to examine in the present discourse.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000000|O man, whatever country you may belong to, whatever your opinions may be, attend to my words; you shall hear your history such as I think I have read it, not in books composed by those like you, for they are liars, but in the book of nature which never lies.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000001|All that I shall repeat after her, must be true, without any intermixture of falsehood, but where I may happen, without intending it, to introduce my own conceits.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000003|How much you are changed from what you once were!
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000004|'tis in a manner the life of your species that I am going to write, from the qualities which you have received, and which your education and your habits could deprave, but could not destroy.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000005|There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped.
train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000006|Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of your contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000001_000000|DISCOURSE FIRST PART
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000002_000001|I could only form vague, and almost imaginary, conjectures on this subject.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000002_000002|Comparative anatomy has not as yet been sufficiently improved; neither have the observations of natural philosophy been sufficiently ascertained, to establish upon such foundations the basis of a solid system.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000004_000000|The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and shelter to every species of animals.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000006_000003|Had he a horse, would he with such swiftness shoot along the plain?
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000007_000000|Hobbes would have it that man is naturally void of fear, and always intent upon attacking and fighting.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000007_000003|But savage man living among other animals without any society or fixed habitation, and finding himself early under a necessity of measuring his strength with theirs, soon makes a comparison between both, and finding that he surpasses them more in address, than they surpass him in strength, he learns not to be any longer in dread of them.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000009_000003|Allowing that nature intended we should always enjoy good health, I dare almost affirm that a state of reflection is a state against nature, and that the man who meditates is a depraved animal.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000009_000004|We need only call to mind the good constitution of savages, of those at least whom we have not destroyed by our strong liquors; we need only reflect, that they are strangers to almost every disease, except those occasioned by wounds and old age, to be in a manner convinced that the history of human diseases might be easily composed by pursuing that of civil societies.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000010_000000|Man therefore, in a state of nature where there are so few sources of sickness, can have no great occasion for physic, and still less for physicians; neither is the human species more to be pitied in this respect, than any other species of animals.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000010_000001|Ask those who make hunting their recreation or business, if in their excursions they meet with many sick or feeble animals.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000001|Nature behaves towards all animals left to her care with a predilection, that seems to prove how jealous she is of that prerogative.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000002|The horse, the cat, the bull, nay the ass itself, have generally a higher stature, and always a more robust constitution, more vigour, more strength and courage in their forests than in our houses; they lose half these advantages by becoming domestic animals; it looks as if all our attention to treat them kindly, and to feed them well, served only to bastardize them.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000003|It is thus with man himself.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000005|We may add, that there must be still a wider difference between man and man in a savage and domestic condition, than between beast and beast; for as men and beasts have been treated alike by nature, all the conveniences with which men indulge themselves more than they do the beasts tamed by them, are so many particular causes which make them degenerate more sensibly.
train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000012_000000|Nakedness therefore, the want of houses, and of all these unnecessaries, which we consider as so very necessary, are not such mighty evils in respect to these primitive men, and much less still any obstacle to their preservation.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000001_000000|As yet I have considered man merely in his physical capacity; let us now endeavour to examine him in a metaphysical and moral light.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000004_000002|Is it not, because he thus returns to his primitive condition?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000006_000000|Let moralists say what they will, the human understanding is greatly indebted to the passions, which, on their side, are likewise universally allowed to be greatly indebted to the human understanding. It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000000|But exclusive of the uncertain testimonies of history, who does not perceive that everything seems to remove from savage man the temptation and the means of altering his condition?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000001|His imagination paints nothing to him; his heart asks nothing from him.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000003|The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000005|His soul, which nothing disturbs, gives itself up entirely to the consciousness of its actual existence, without any thought of even the nearest futurity; and his projects, equally confined with his views, scarce extend to the end of the day.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000001|How many ages perhaps revolved, before men beheld any other fire but that of the heavens?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000002|How many different accidents must have concurred to make them acquainted with the most common uses of this element?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000003|How often have they let it go out, before they knew the art of reproducing it?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000004|And how often perhaps has not every one of these secrets perished with the discoverer?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000008|In a word, how could this situation engage men to cultivate the earth, as long as it was not parcelled out among them, that is, as long as a state of nature subsisted.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000000|I must now beg leave to stop one moment to consider the perplexities attending the origin of languages.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000001|I might here barely cite or repeat the researches made, in relation to this question, by the Abbe de Condillac, which all fully confirm my system, and perhaps even suggested to me the first idea of it.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000003|The first that offers is how languages could become necessary; for as there was no correspondence between men, nor the least necessity for any, there is no conceiving the necessity of this invention, nor the possibility of it, if it was not indispensable.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000005|They parted with the same ease.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000013_000000|Let us suppose this first difficulty conquered: Let us for a moment consider ourselves at this side of the immense space, which must have separated the pure state of nature from that in which languages became necessary, and let us, after allowing such necessity, examine how languages could begin to be established.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000014_000000|The first language of man, the most universal and most energetic of all languages, in short, the only language he had occasion for, before there was a necessity of persuading assembled multitudes, was the cry of nature.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000015_000000|We must allow that the words, first made use of by men, had in their minds a much more extensive signification, than those employed in languages of some standing, and that, considering how ignorant they were of the division of speech into its constituent parts; they at first gave every word the meaning of an entire proposition.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000000|Besides, general ideas cannot be conveyed to the mind without the assistance of words, nor can the understanding seize them without the assistance of propositions.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000001|This is one of the reasons, why mere animals cannot form such ideas, nor ever acquire the perfectibility which depends on such an operation.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000002|When a monkey leaves without the least hesitation one nut for another, are we to think he has any general idea of that kind of fruit, and that he compares these two individual bodies with his archetype notion of them?
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000004|Every general idea is purely intellectual; let the imagination tamper ever so little with it, it immediately becomes a particular idea.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000005|Endeavour to represent to yourself the image of a tree in general, you never will be able to do it; in spite of all your efforts it will appear big or little, thin or tufted, of a bright or a deep colour; and were you master to see nothing in it, but what can be seen in every tree, such a picture would no longer resemble any tree.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000006|Beings perfectly abstract are perceivable in the same manner, or are only conceivable by the assistance of speech.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000007|The definition of a triangle can alone give you a just idea of that figure: the moment you form a triangle in your mind, it is this or that particular triangle and no other, and you cannot avoid giving breadth to its lines and colour to its area.
train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000008|We must therefore make use of propositions; we must therefore speak to have general ideas; for the moment the imagination stops, the mind must stop too, if not assisted by speech.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000001_000000|one.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000001_000001|The Public Magician
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000002_000000|THE READER may remember that we were led to plunge into the labyrinth of magic by a consideration of two different types of man god.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000002_000001|This is the clue which has guided our devious steps through the maze, and brought us out at last on higher ground, whence, resting a little by the way, we can look back over the path we have already traversed and forward to the longer and steeper road we have still to climb.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000000|As a result of the foregoing discussion, the two types of human gods may conveniently be distinguished as the religious and the magical man god respectively.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000002|This may also appropriately be called the inspired or incarnate type of man god.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000003|In it the human body is merely a frail earthly vessel filled with a divine and immortal spirit.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000005|Thus, whereas a man god of the former or inspired type derives his divinity from a deity who has stooped to hide his heavenly radiance behind a dull mask of earthly mould, a man god of the latter type draws his extraordinary power from a certain physical sympathy with nature.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000006|He is not merely the receptacle of a divine spirit.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000008|But the line between these two types of man god, however sharply we may draw it in theory, is seldom to be traced with precision in practice, and in what follows I shall not insist on it.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000004_000000|We have seen that in practice the magic art may be employed for the benefit either of individuals or of the whole community, and that according as it is directed to one or other of these two objects it may be called private or public magic.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000004_000001|Further, I pointed out that the public magician occupies a position of great influence, from which, if he is a prudent and able man, he may advance step by step to the rank of a chief or king.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000000|Among the objects of public utility which magic may be employed to secure, the most essential is an adequate supply of food.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000001|The examples cited in preceding pages prove that the purveyors of food-the hunter, the fisher, the farmer-all resort to magical practices in the pursuit of their various callings; but they do so as private individuals for the benefit of themselves and their families, rather than as public functionaries acting in the interest of the whole people.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000002|It is otherwise when the rites are performed, not by the hunters, the fishers, the farmers themselves, but by professional magicians on their behalf.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000004|But a great step in advance has been taken when a special class of magicians has been instituted; when, in other words, a number of men have been set apart for the express purpose of benefiting the whole community by their skill, whether that skill be directed to the healing of diseases, the forecasting of the future, the regulation of the weather, or any other object of general utility.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000005|The impotence of the means adopted by most of these practitioners to accomplish their ends ought not to blind us to the immense importance of the institution itself.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000006|Here is a body of men relieved, at least in the higher stages of savagery, from the need of earning their livelihood by hard manual toil, and allowed, nay, expected and encouraged, to prosecute researches into the secret ways of nature.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000009|The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000011|Ridicule and blame are the just meed, not of those who devised these crude theories, but of those who obstinately adhered to them after better had been propounded.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000013|To maintain at least a show of knowledge was absolutely necessary; a single mistake detected might cost them their life. This no doubt led them to practise imposture for the purpose of concealing their ignorance; but it also supplied them with the most powerful motive for substituting a real for a sham knowledge, since, if you would appear to know anything, by far the best way is actually to know it.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000014|Thus, however justly we may reject the extravagant pretensions of magicians and condemn the deceptions which they have practised on mankind, the original institution of this class of men has, take it all in all, been productive of incalculable good to humanity.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000015|They were the direct predecessors, not merely of our physicians and surgeons, but of our investigators and discoverers in every branch of natural science.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000006_000001|The Magical Control of Rain
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000000|OF THE THINGS which the public magician sets himself to do for the good of the tribe, one of the chief is to control the weather and especially to ensure an adequate fall of rain.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000001|Water is an essential of life, and in most countries the supply of it depends upon showers.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000003|Hence in savage communities the rain maker is a very important personage; and often a special class of magicians exists for the purpose of regulating the heavenly water supply.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000004|The methods by which they attempt to discharge the duties of their office are commonly, though not always, based on the principle of homoeopathic or imitative magic.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000005|If they wish to make rain they simulate it by sprinkling water or mimicking clouds: if their object is to stop rain and cause drought, they avoid water and resort to warmth and fire for the sake of drying up the too abundant moisture.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000007|They are, or used to be, common enough among outwardly civilised folk in the moister climate of Europe.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000008|I will now illustrate them by instances drawn from the practice both of public and private magic.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000000|Thus, for example, in a village near Dorpat, in Russia, when rain was much wanted, three men used to climb up the fir trees of an old sacred grove.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000001|One of them drummed with a hammer on a kettle or small cask to imitate thunder; the second knocked two fire brands together and made the sparks fly, to imitate lightning; and the third, who was called "the rain maker," had a bunch of twigs with which he sprinkled water from a vessel on all sides.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000007|Lastly, they squirt the water into the air, making a fine mist.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000008|This saves the corn.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000011|The pipes were perforated like the nozzle of a watering can, and through the holes the rain maker blew the water towards that part of the sky where the clouds hung heaviest.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000013|When the rains do not come in due season the people of Central Angoniland repair to what is called the rain temple.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000015|We must perish indeed.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000017|Next they take branches of trees and dance and sing for rain. When they return to the village they find a vessel of water set at the doorway by an old woman; so they dip their branches in it and wave them aloft, so as to scatter the drops.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000018|After that the rain is sure to come driving up in heavy clouds.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000019|In these practices we see a combination of religion with magic; for while the scattering of the water drops by means of branches is a purely magical ceremony, the prayer for rain and the offering of beer are purely religious rites. In the Mara tribe of Northern Australia the rain maker goes to a pool and sings over it his magic song.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000021|After that he throws water all over himself, scatters it about, and returns quietly to the camp.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000023|They cut a branch from a certain tree in the desert, set it on fire, and then sprinkled the burning brand with water. After that the vehemence of the rain abated, just as the water vanished when it fell on the glowing brand.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000026|Here the putting out the fire with water, which is an imitation of rain, is reinforced by the influence of the dead man, who, having been burnt to death, will naturally be anxious for the descent of rain to cool his scorched body and assuage his pangs.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000009_000001|Thus the Sulka of New Britain heat stones red hot in the fire and then put them out in the rain, or they throw hot ashes in the air.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000009_000004|That is supposed to stop the downpour.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000000|In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain fall.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000005|At the same time the two bleeding men throw handfuls of down about, some of which adheres to the blood stained bodies of their comrades, while the rest floats in the air.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000006|The blood is thought to represent the rain, and the down the clouds.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000008|Then the wizards who were bled carry away the two stones for about ten or fifteen miles, and place them as high as they can in the tallest tree.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000009|Meanwhile the other men gather gypsum, pound it fine, and throw it into a water hole.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000010|This the Mura muras see, and at once they cause clouds to appear in the sky.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000011|Lastly, the men, young and old, surround the hut, and, stooping down, butt at it with their heads, like so many rams.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000012|Thus they force their way through it and reappear on the other side, repeating the process till the hut is wrecked.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000015|The Dieri also imagine that the foreskins taken from lads at circumcision have a great power of producing rain.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000020|After the rains have fallen, some of the tribe always undergo a surgical operation, which consists in cutting the skin of their chest and arms with a sharp flint.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000021|The wound is then tapped with a flat stick to increase the flow of blood, and red ochre is rubbed into it.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000022|Raised scars are thus produced.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000024|Apparently the operation is not very painful, for the patient laughs and jokes while it is going on.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000026|However, they were not so well pleased next day, when they felt their wounds stiff and sore.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000027|In Java, when rain is wanted, two men will sometimes thrash each other with supple rods till the blood flows down their backs; the streaming blood represents the rain, and no doubt is supposed to make it fall on the ground.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000028|The people of Egghiou, a district of Abyssinia, used to engage in sanguinary conflicts with each other, village against village, for a week together every January for the purpose of procuring rain.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000029|Some years ago the emperor Menelik forbade the custom.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000000|There is a widespread belief that twin children possess magical powers over nature, especially over rain and the weather.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000001|This curious superstition prevails among some of the Indian tribes of British Columbia, and has led them often to impose certain singular restrictions or taboos on the parents of twins, though the exact meaning of these restrictions is generally obscure.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000002|Thus the Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia believe that twins control the weather; therefore they pray to wind and rain, "Calm down, breath of the twins." Further, they think that the wishes of twins are always fulfilled; hence twins are feared, because they can harm the man they hate.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000004|In their childhood they can summon any wind by motions of their hands, and they can make fair or foul weather, and also cure diseases by swinging a large wooden rattle.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000005|The Nootka Indians of British Columbia also believe that twins are somehow related to salmon. Hence among them twins may not catch salmon, and they may not eat or even handle the fresh fish.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000006|They can make fair or foul weather, and can cause rain to fall by painting their faces black and then washing them, which may represent the rain dripping from the dark clouds.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000007|The Shuswap Indians, like the Thompson Indians, associate twins with the grizzly bear, for they call them "young grizzly bears." According to them, twins remain throughout life endowed with supernatural powers.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000008|In particular they can make good or bad weather.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000009|They produce rain by spilling water from a basket in the air; they make fine weather by shaking a small flat piece of wood attached to a stick by a string; they raise storms by strewing down on the ends of spruce branches.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000006|Further, the women must repair to the house of one of their gossips who has given birth to twins, and must drench her with water, which they carry in little pitchers.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000007|Having done so they go on their way, shrieking out their loose songs and dancing immodest dances.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000009|If they meet a man, they maul him and thrust him aside.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000010|When they have cleansed the wells, they must go and pour water on the graves of their ancestors in the sacred grove.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000011|It often happens, too, that at the bidding of the wizard they go and pour water on the graves of twins.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000013|If all their efforts to procure rain prove abortive, they will remember that such and such a twin was buried in a dry place on the side of a hill.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000014|"No wonder," says the wizard in such a case, "that the sky is fiery.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000000|Some of the foregoing facts strongly support an interpretation which Professor Oldenberg has given of the rules to be observed by a Brahman who would learn a particular hymn of the ancient Indian collection known as the Samaveda.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000001|The hymn, which bears the name of the Sakvari¯ song, was believed to embody the might of Indra's weapon, the thunderbolt; and hence, on account of the dreadful and dangerous potency with which it was thus charged, the bold student who essayed to master it had to be isolated from his fellow men, and to retire from the village into the forest.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000002|Here for a space of time, which might vary, according to different doctors of the law, from one to twelve years, he had to observe certain rules of life, among which were the following.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000004|If a man walked in the way of all these precepts, the rain god Parjanya, it was said, would send rain at the wish of that man.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000005|It is clear, as Professor Oldenberg well points out, that "all these rules are intended to bring the Brahman into union with water, to make him, as it were, an ally of the water powers, and to guard him against their hostility.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000000|It is interesting to observe that where an opposite result is desired, primitive logic enjoins the weather doctor to observe precisely opposite rules of conduct.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000002|When a man is about to give a great feast in the rainy season and has invited many people, he goes to a weather doctor and asks him to "prop up the clouds that may be lowering." If the doctor consents to exert his professional powers, he begins to regulate his behaviour by certain rules as soon as his customer has departed.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000003|He must observe a fast, and may neither drink nor bathe; what little he eats must be eaten dry, and in no case may he touch water.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000004|The host, on his side, and his servants, both male and female, must neither wash clothes nor bathe so long as the feast lasts, and they have all during its continuance to observe strict chastity.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000006|Akkemat is your country.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000007|Put down your water cask, close it properly, that not a drop may fall out." While he utters this prayer the sorcerer looks upwards, burning incense the while.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000008|So among the Toradjas the rain doctor, whose special business it is to drive away rain, takes care not to touch water before, during, or after the discharge of his professional duties.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000009|He does not bathe, he eats with unwashed hands, he drinks nothing but palm wine, and if he has to cross a stream he is careful not to step in the water.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000010|Having thus prepared himself for his task he has a small hut built for himself outside of the village in a rice field, and in this hut he keeps up a little fire, which on no account may be suffered to go out.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000011|In the fire he burns various kinds of wood, which are supposed to possess the property of driving off rain; and he puffs in the direction from which the rain threatens to come, holding in his hand a packet of leaves and bark which derive a similar cloud compelling virtue, not from their chemical composition, but from their names, which happen to signify something dry or volatile.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000012|If clouds should appear in the sky while he is at work, he takes lime in the hollow of his hand and blows it towards them.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000014|Should rain afterwards be wanted, he has only to pour water on his fire, and immediately the rain will descend in sheets.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000015_000003|The one signifies his sympathy with water by receiving the rain on his person and speaking of it respectfully; the others light a lamp or a fire and do their best to drive the rain away.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000015_000004|Yet the principle on which all three act is the same; each of them, by a sort of childish make believe, identifies himself with the phenomenon which he desires to produce.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000015_000005|It is the old fallacy that the effect resembles its cause: if you would make wet weather, you must be wet; if you would make dry weather, you must be dry.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000016_000001|Among the Greeks of Thessaly and Macedonia, when a drought has lasted a long time, it is customary to send a procession of children round to all the wells and springs of the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000016_000002|At the head of the procession walks a girl adorned with flowers, whom her companions drench with water at every halting place, while they sing an invocation, of which the following is part:
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000017_000000|"Perperia all fresh bedewed, Freshen all the neighbourhood; By the woods, on the highway, As thou goest, to God now pray: O my God, upon the plain, Send thou us a still, small rain; That the fields may fruitful be, And vines in blossom we may see; That the grain be full and sound, And wealthy grow the folks around."
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000018_000001|Thus disguised she is called the Dodola, and goes through the village with a troop of girls.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000019_000000|"We go through the village; The clouds go in the sky; We go faster, Faster go the clouds; They have overtaken us, And wetted the corn and the vine."
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000020_000002|When they have thus visited all the houses, they strip the Rain King of his leafy robes and feast upon what they have gathered.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000003|In Kursk, a province of Southern Russia, when rain is much wanted, the women seize a passing stranger and throw him into the river, or souse him from head to foot.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000004|Later on we shall see that a passing stranger is often taken for a deity or the personification of some natural power.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000005|It is recorded in official documents that during a drought in seventeen ninety the peasants of Scheroutz and Werboutz collected all the women and compelled them to bathe, in order that rain might fall.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000006|An Armenian rain charm is to throw the wife of a priest into the water and drench her.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000007|The Arabs of North Africa fling a holy man, willy nilly, into a spring as a remedy for drought.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000008|In Minahassa, a province of North Celebes, the priest bathes as a rain charm.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000000|Women are sometimes supposed to be able to make rain by ploughing, or pretending to plough.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000002|Girls yoke themselves to a plough and drag it into a river, wading in the water up to their girdles.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000004|The oldest woman, or the priest's wife, wears the priest's dress, while the others, dressed as men, drag the plough through the water against the stream.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000006|In a district of Transylvania when the ground is parched with drought, some girls strip themselves naked, and, led by an older woman, who is also naked, they steal a harrow and carry it across the fields to a brook, where they set it afloat.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000007|Next they sit on the harrow and keep a tiny flame burning on each corner of it for an hour.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000001|Thus in New Caledonia the rain makers blackened themselves all over, dug up a dead body, took the bones to a cave, jointed them, and hung the skeleton over some taro leaves.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000006|Some of the party beat the corpse, or what was left of it, about the head, exclaiming, "Give us rain!" while others poured water on it through a sieve.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000010|When the land suffers from unseasonable drought, the people go to this grave, pour water on it, and say, "O grandfather, have pity on us; if it is your will that this year we should eat, then give rain."
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000013|Here, as in New Caledonia, we find religion blent with magic, for the prayer to the dead chief, which is purely religious, is eked out with a magical imitation of rain at his grave.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000016|These wretched souls, therefore, do all in their power to prevent the rain from falling, and often their efforts are only too successful.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000017|Then drought ensues, the most dreaded of all calamities in China, because bad harvests, dearth, and famine follow in its train.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000000|Animals, again, often play an important part in these weather charms.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000003|He catches a snake, puts it alive into the pool, and after holding it under water for a time takes it out, kills it, and lays it down by the side of the creek.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000004|Then he makes an arched bundle of grass stalks in imitation of a rainbow, and sets it up over the snake.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000005|After that all he does is to sing over the snake and the mimic rainbow; sooner or later the rain will fall.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000000|Among the Wambugwe of East Africa, when the sorcerer desires to make rain, he takes a black sheep and a black calf in bright sunshine, and has them placed on the roof of the common hut in which the people live together.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000002|After that he pours water and medicine into a vessel; if the charm has succeeded, the water boils up and rain follows.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000003|On the other hand, if the sorcerer wishes to prevent rain from falling, he withdraws into the interior of the hut, and there heats a rock crystal in a calabash.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000004|In order to procure rain the Wagogo sacrifice black fowls, black sheep, and black cattle at the graves of dead ancestors, and the rain maker wears black clothes during the rainy season.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000008|The Garos of Assam offer a black goat on the top of a very high mountain in time of drought.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000011|At the chosen spot they tether the beast to a stone, and make it a target for their bullets and arrows.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000012|When its life blood bespatters the rocks, the peasants throw down their weapons and lift up their voices in supplication to the dragon divinity of the stream, exhorting him to send down forthwith a shower to cleanse the spot from its defilement.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000013|Custom has prescribed that on these occasions the colour of the victim shall be black, as an emblem of the wished for rain clouds.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000014|But if fine weather is wanted, the victim must be white, without a spot.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000000|The intimate association of frogs and toads with water has earned for these creatures a widespread reputation as custodians of rain; and hence they often play a part in charms designed to draw needed showers from the sky.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000001|Some of the Indians of the Orinoco held the toad to be the god or lord of the waters, and for that reason feared to kill the creature.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000002|They have been known to keep frogs under a pot and to beat them with rods when there was a drought.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000004|The Thompson Indians of British Columbia and some people in Europe think that to kill a frog will cause rain to fall.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000027_000000|"Send soon, O frog, the jewel of water! And ripen the wheat and millet in the field."
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000029_000000|Sometimes, when a drought has lasted a long time, people drop the usual hocus pocus of imitative magic altogether, and being far too angry to waste their breath in prayer they seek by threats and curses or even downright physical force to extort the waters of heaven from the supernatural being who has, so to say, cut them off at the main.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000000|The Chinese are adepts in the art of taking the kingdom of heaven by storm.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000001|Thus, when rain is wanted they make a huge dragon of paper or wood to represent the rain god, and carry it about in procession; but if no rain follows, the mock dragon is execrated and torn to pieces.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000002|At other times they threaten and beat the god if he does not give rain; sometimes they publicly depose him from the rank of deity.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000003|On the other hand, if the wished for rain falls, the god is promoted to a higher rank by an imperial decree.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000005|This had a salutary effect.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000006|The rain ceased and the god was restored to liberty.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000008|So when the Siamese need rain, they set out their idols in the blazing sun; but if they want dry weather, they unroof the temples and let the rain pour down on the idols.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000000|The reader may smile at the meteorology of the Far East; but precisely similar modes of procuring rain have been resorted to in Christian Europe within our own lifetime.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000001|By the end of april eighteen ninety three there was great distress in Sicily for lack of water.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000002|The drought had lasted six months.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000003|Every day the sun rose and set in a sky of cloudless blue.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000005|Food was becoming scarce.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000006|The people were in great alarm.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000008|Men, women, and children, telling their beads, had lain whole nights before the holy images.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000009|Consecrated candles had burned day and night in the churches.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000010|Palm branches, blessed on Palm Sunday, had been hung on the trees.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000011|At Solaparuta, in accordance with a very old custom, the dust swept from the churches on Palm Sunday had been spread on the fields.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000012|In ordinary years these holy sweepings preserve the crops; but that year, if you will believe me, they had no effect whatever. At Nicosia the inhabitants, bare headed and bare foot, carried the crucifixes through all the wards of the town and scourged each other with iron whips.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000014|Even the great saint Francis of Paolo himself, who annually performs the miracle of rain and is carried every spring through the market gardens, either could not or would not help.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000015|Masses, vespers, concerts, illuminations, fire works-nothing could move him.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000016|At last the peasants began to lose patience.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000017|Most of the saints were banished.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000018|At Palermo they dumped saint Joseph in a garden to see the state of things for himself, and they swore to leave him there in the sun till rain fell.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000019|Other saints were turned, like naughty children, with their faces to the wall.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000020|Others again, stripped of their beautiful robes, were exiled far from their parishes, threatened, grossly insulted, ducked in horse ponds.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000021|At Caltanisetta the golden wings of saint Michael the Archangel were torn from his shoulders and replaced with wings of pasteboard; his purple mantle was taken away and a clout wrapt about him instead.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000000|Sometimes an appeal is made to the pity of the gods.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000001|When their corn is being burnt up by the sun, the Zulus look out for a "heaven bird," kill it, and throw it into a pool.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000002|Then the heaven melts with tenderness for the death of the bird; "it wails for it by raining, wailing a funeral wail." In Zululand women sometimes bury their children up to the neck in the ground, and then retiring to a distance keep up a dismal howl for a long time.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000003|The sky is supposed to melt with pity at the sight.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000004|Then the women dig the children out and feel sure that rain will soon follow.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000007|In Kumaon a way of stopping rain is to pour hot oil in the left ear of a dog.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000009|Sometimes the Toradjas attempt to procure rain as follows.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000011|However, the foregoing ceremonies are religious rather than magical, since they involve an appeal to the compassion of higher powers.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000001|In a Samoan village a certain stone was carefully housed as the representative of the rain making god, and in time of drought his priests carried the stone in procession and dipped it in a stream.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000003|In the Keramin tribe of New South Wales the wizard retires to the bed of a creek, drops water on a round flat stone, then covers up and conceals it.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000004|Among some tribes of north-western Australia the rain maker repairs to a piece of ground which is set apart for the purpose of rain making.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000006|Water is sprinkled on the stone and huge fires are kindled.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000007|No layman may approach the sacred spot while the mystic ceremony is being performed.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000008|When the Sulka of New Britain wish to procure rain they blacken stones with the ashes of certain fruits and set them out, along with certain other plants and buds, in the sun
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000009|Then a handful of twigs is dipped in water and weighted with stones, while a spell is chanted.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000010|After that rain should follow.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000011|In Manipur, on a lofty hill to the east of the capital, there is a stone which the popular imagination likens to an umbrella.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000012|When rain is wanted, the rajah fetches water from a spring below and sprinkles it on the stone.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000013|At Sagami in Japan there is a stone which draws down rain whenever water is poured on it.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000014|When the Wakondyo, a tribe of Central Africa, desire rain, they send to the Wawamba, who dwell at the foot of snowy mountains, and are the happy possessors of a "rain stone." In consideration of a proper payment, the Wawamba wash the precious stone, anoint it with oil, and put it in a pot full of water.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000015|After that the rain cannot fail to come.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000016|In the arid wastes of Arizona and New Mexico the Apaches sought to make rain by carrying water from a certain spring and throwing it on a particular point high up on a rock; after that they imagined that the clouds would soon gather, and that rain would begin to fall.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000034_000010|After this the rain was sure to fall within twenty four hours.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000034_000012|In Mingrelia, when the crops are suffering from want of rain, they take a particularly holy image and dip it in water every day till a shower falls; and in the Far East the Shans drench the images of Buddha with water when the rice is perishing of drought.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000034_000013|In all such cases the practice is probably at bottom a sympathetic charm, however it may be disguised under the appearance of a punishment or a threat.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000000|Like other peoples, the Greeks and romans sought to obtain rain by magic, when prayers and processions had proved ineffectual.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000001|For example, in Arcadia, when the corn and trees were parched with drought, the priest of Zeus dipped an oak branch into a certain spring on Mount Lycaeus.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000002|Thus troubled, the water sent up a misty cloud, from which rain soon fell upon the land.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000003|A similar mode of making rain is still practised, as we have seen, in Halmahera near New Guinea.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000004|The people of Crannon in Thessaly had a bronze chariot which they kept in a temple.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000005|When they desired a shower they shook the chariot and the shower fell.
train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000007|Indeed he declared that he was actually Zeus, and caused sacrifices to be offered to himself as such.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000004_000000|Let us take as an illustration a matter about which none of us, in fact, feel the slightest doubt.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000004_000001|We are all convinced that the sun will rise to morrow.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000004_000002|Why?
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000005_000002|If we are challenged as to why we believe that it will continue to rise as heretofore, we may appeal to the laws of motion: the earth, we shall say, is a freely rotating body, and such bodies do not cease to rotate unless something interferes from outside, and there is nothing outside to interfere with the earth between now and to morrow.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000005_000005|If this doubt is raised, we find ourselves in the same position as when the doubt about the sunrise was first raised.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000007_000000|Now in dealing with this question we must, to begin with, make an important distinction, without which we should soon become involved in hopeless confusions.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000010_000004|'Unsupported bodies in air fall' is a general rule to which balloons and aeroplanes are exceptions.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000011_000002|This brings us back to the question: Have we any reason, assuming that they have always held in the past, to suppose that they will hold in the future?
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000012_000002|We have experience of past futures, but not of future futures, and the question is: Will future futures resemble past futures?
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000012_000004|We have therefore still to seek for some principle which shall enable us to know that the future will follow the same laws as the past.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000013_000000|The reference to the future in this question is not essential.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000014_000002|It can never quite reach certainty, because we know that in spite of frequent repetitions there sometimes is a failure at the last, as in the case of the chicken whose neck is wrung.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000014_000003|Thus probability is all we ought to seek.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000015_000003|The second is that the reign of law would seem to be itself only probable, and that our belief that it will hold in the future, or in unexamined cases in the past, is itself based upon the very principle we are examining.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000019_000000|As just stated, the principle applies only to the verification of our expectation in a single fresh instance.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000019_000003|We may therefore repeat the two parts of our principle as regards the general law, thus:
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000021_000000|b)
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000024_000001|But this affords no evidence for their truth in the future, unless the inductive principle is assumed.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000025_000000|Thus all knowledge which, on a basis of experience tells us something about what is not experienced, is based upon a belief which experience can neither confirm nor confute, yet which, at least in its more concrete applications, appears to be as firmly rooted in us as many of the facts of experience.
train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000025_000001|The existence and justification of such beliefs-for the inductive principle, as we shall see, is not the only example-raises some of the most difficult and most debated problems of philosophy.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000000_000000|Some of these principles have even greater evidence than the principle of induction, and the knowledge of them has the same degree of certainty as the knowledge of the existence of sense data.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000000_000001|They constitute the means of drawing inferences from what is given in sensation; and if what we infer is to be true, it is just as necessary that our principles of inference should be true as it is that our data should be true.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000001_000000|In all our knowledge of general principles, what actually happens is that first of all we realize some particular application of the principle, and then we realize that the particularity is irrelevant, and that there is a generality which may equally truly be affirmed.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000001_000001|This is of course familiar in such matters as teaching arithmetic: 'two and two are four' is first learnt in the case of some particular pair of couples, and then in some other particular case, and so on, until at last it becomes possible to see that it is true of any pair of couples. The same thing happens with logical principles.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000001_000002|Suppose two men are discussing what day of the month it is.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000002_000000|Now such an argument is not hard to follow; and if it is granted that its premisses are true in fact, no one will deny that the conclusion must also be true.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000002_000001|But it depends for its truth upon an instance of a general logical principle.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000002_000004|Thus our principle states that if this implies that, and this is true, then that is true. In other words, 'anything implied by a true proposition is true', or 'whatever follows from a true proposition is true'.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000003_000001|Whenever one thing which we believe is used to prove something else, which we consequently believe, this principle is relevant.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000003_000002|If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?' we can only answer by appealing to our principle.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000003_000003|In fact, the truth of the principle is impossible to doubt, and its obviousness is so great that at first sight it seems almost trivial.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000004_000000|The above principle is merely one of a certain number of self evident logical principles.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000004_000002|When some of them have been granted, others can be proved, though these others, so long as they are simple, are just as obvious as the principles taken for granted.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000004_000003|For no very good reason, three of these principles have been singled out by tradition under the name of 'Laws of Thought'.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000005_000000|They are as follows:
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000009_000002|But this is a large question, to which we must return at a later stage.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000010_000001|An example of such principles-perhaps the most important example is the inductive principle, which we considered in the preceding chapter.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000000|One of the great historic controversies in philosophy is the controversy between the two schools called respectively 'empiricists' and 'rationalists'.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000001|The empiricists-who are best represented by the British philosophers, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume-maintained that all our knowledge is derived from experience; the rationalists-who are represented by the Continental philosophers of the seventeenth century, especially Descartes and Leibniz-maintained that, in addition to what we know by experience, there are certain 'innate ideas' and 'innate principles', which we know independently of experience.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000003|It must be admitted, for the reasons already stated, that logical principles are known to us, and cannot be themselves proved by experience, since all proof presupposes them.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000004|In this, therefore, which was the most important point of the controversy, the rationalists were in the right.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000012_000002|It would certainly be absurd to suppose that there are innate principles in the sense that babies are born with a knowledge of everything which men know and which cannot be deduced from what is experienced.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000012_000003|For this reason, the word 'innate' would not now be employed to describe our knowledge of logical principles.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000000|There is another point of great importance, in which the empiricists were in the right as against the rationalists.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000002|That is to say, if we wish to prove that something of which we have no direct experience exists, we must have among our premisses the existence of one or more things of which we have direct experience.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000003|Our belief that the Emperor of China exists, for example, rests upon testimony, and testimony consists, in the last analysis, of sense data seen or heard in reading or being spoken to.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000004|Rationalists believed that, from general consideration as to what must be, they could deduce the existence of this or that in the actual world.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000005|In this belief they seem to have been mistaken.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000009|All knowledge that something exists must be in part dependent on experience.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000014_000002|I am not speaking of judgements as to what is useful or as to what is virtuous, for such judgements do require empirical premisses; I am speaking of judgements as to the intrinsic desirability of things.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000014_000003|If something is useful, it must be useful because it secures some end; the end must, if we have gone far enough, be valuable on its own account, and not merely because it is useful for some further end.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000014_000004|Thus all judgements as to what is useful depend upon judgements as to what has value on its own account.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000015_000000|We judge, for example, that happiness is more desirable than misery, knowledge than ignorance, goodwill than hatred, and so on.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000015_000003|But it is fairly obvious that they cannot be proved by experience; for the fact that a thing exists or does not exist cannot prove either that it is good that it should exist or that it is bad.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000015_000004|The pursuit of this subject belongs to ethics, where the impossibility of deducing what ought to be from what is has to be established.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000016_000003|If, however, this were the source of our knowledge that two and two are four, we should proceed differently, in persuading ourselves of its truth, from the way in which we do actually proceed.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000016_000004|In fact, a certain number of instances are needed to make us think of two abstractly, rather than of two coins or two books or two people, or two of any other specified kind.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000018_000003|Moreover, we feel some quality of necessity about the proposition 'two and two are four', which is absent from even the best attested empirical generalizations.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000018_000004|Such generalizations always remain mere facts: we feel that there might be a world in which they were false, though in the actual world they happen to be true.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000018_000005|In any possible world, on the contrary, we feel that two and two would be four: this is not a mere fact, but a necessity to which everything actual and possible must conform.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000000|The case may be made clearer by considering a genuinely empirical generalization, such as 'All men are mortal.' It is plain that we believe this proposition, in the first place, because there is no known instance of men living beyond a certain age, and in the second place because there seem to be physiological grounds for thinking that an organism such as a man's body must sooner or later wear out.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000001|Neglecting the second ground, and considering merely our experience of men's mortality, it is plain that we should not be content with one quite clearly understood instance of a man dying, whereas, in the case of 'two and two are four', one instance does suffice, when carefully considered, to persuade us that the same must happen in any other instance.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000003|This may be made plain by the attempt to imagine two different worlds, in one of which there are men who are not mortal, while in the other two and two make five.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000005|But a world where two and two make five seems quite on a different level.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000006|We feel that such a world, if there were one, would upset the whole fabric of our knowledge and reduce us to utter doubt.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000000|The fact is that, in simple mathematical judgements such as 'two and two are four', and also in many judgements of logic, we can know the general proposition without inferring it from instances, although some instance is usually necessary to make clear to us what the general proposition means.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000002|We can now see that in certain cases, at least, it does do so.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000003|If we already know that two and two always make four, and we know that Brown and Jones are two, and so are Robinson and Smith, we can deduce that Brown and Jones and Robinson and Smith are four.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000004|This is new knowledge, not contained in our premisses, because the general proposition, 'two and two are four', never told us there were such people as Brown and Jones and Robinson and Smith, and the particular premisses do not tell us that there were four of them, whereas the particular proposition deduced does tell us both these things.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000022_000001|In regard to the former, deduction is the right mode of argument, whereas in regard to the latter, induction is always theoretically preferable, and warrants a greater confidence in the truth of our conclusion, because all empirical generalizations are more uncertain than the instances of them.
train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000023_000001|The question which must next occupy us is this: How is it possible that there should be such knowledge?
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000000_000001|TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000002|Whatever we are acquainted with must be something; we may draw wrong inferences from our acquaintance, but the acquaintance itself cannot be deceptive.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000003|Thus there is no dualism as regards acquaintance.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000004|But as regards knowledge of truths, there is a dualism.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000005|We may believe what is false as well as what is true.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000006|We know that on very many subjects different people hold different and incompatible opinions: hence some beliefs must be erroneous.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000009|This is a question of the very greatest difficulty, to which no completely satisfactory answer is possible.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000011|It is this preliminary question which is to be considered in this chapter.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000012|In this chapter we are not asking how we can know whether a belief is true or false: we are asking what is meant by the question whether a belief is true or false.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000002_000000|There are three points to observe in the attempt to discover the nature of truth, three requisites which any theory must fulfil.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000003_000000|(one) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of its opposite, falsehood.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000003_000001|A good many philosophers have failed adequately to satisfy this condition: they have constructed theories according to which all our thinking ought to have been true, and have then had the greatest difficulty in finding a place for falsehood.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000003_000002|In this respect our theory of belief must differ from our theory of acquaintance, since in the case of acquaintance it was not necessary to take account of any opposite.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000004_000000|(two) It seems fairly evident that if there were no beliefs there could be no falsehood, and no truth either, in the sense in which truth is correlative to falsehood.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000000|(three) But, as against what we have just said, it is to be observed that the truth or falsehood of a belief always depends upon something which lies outside the belief itself.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000001|If I believe that Charles the first died on the scaffold, I believe truly, not because of any intrinsic quality of my belief, which could be discovered by merely examining the belief, but because of an historical event which happened two and a half centuries ago.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000002|If I believe that Charles the first died in his bed, I believe falsely: no degree of vividness in my belief, or of care in arriving at it, prevents it from being false, again because of what happened long ago, and not because of any intrinsic property of my belief.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000003|Hence, although truth and falsehood are properties of beliefs, they are properties dependent upon the relations of the beliefs to other things, not upon any internal quality of the beliefs.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000006_000000|The third of the above requisites leads us to adopt the view-which has on the whole been commonest among philosophers-that truth consists in some form of correspondence between belief and fact.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000006_000002|By this partly-and partly by the feeling that, if truth consists in a correspondence of thought with something outside thought, thought can never know when truth has been attained-many philosophers have been led to try to find some definition of truth which shall not consist in relation to something wholly outside belief.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000006_000004|It is said that the mark of falsehood is failure to cohere in the body of our beliefs, and that it is the essence of a truth to form part of the completely rounded system which is The Truth.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000007_000000|There is, however, a great difficulty in this view, or rather two great difficulties.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000007_000002|It may be that, with sufficient imagination, a novelist might invent a past for the world that would perfectly fit on to what we know, and yet be quite different from the real past.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000007_000003|In more scientific matters, it is certain that there are often two or more hypotheses which account for all the known facts on some subject, and although, in such cases, men of science endeavour to find facts which will rule out all the hypotheses except one, there is no reason why they should always succeed.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000008_000000|In philosophy, again, it seems not uncommon for two rival hypotheses to be both able to account for all the facts.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000008_000001|Thus, for example, it is possible that life is one long dream, and that the outer world has only that degree of reality that the objects of dreams have; but although such a view does not seem inconsistent with known facts, there is no reason to prefer it to the common sense view, according to which other people and things do really exist.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000000|The other objection to this definition of truth is that it assumes the meaning of 'coherence' known, whereas, in fact, 'coherence' presupposes the truth of the laws of logic.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000001|Two propositions are coherent when both may be true, and are incoherent when one at least must be false.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000002|Now in order to know whether two propositions can both be true, we must know such truths as the law of contradiction.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000003|For example, the two propositions, 'this tree is a beech' and 'this tree is not a beech', are not coherent, because of the law of contradiction.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000004|But if the law of contradiction itself were subjected to the test of coherence, we should find that, if we choose to suppose it false, nothing will any longer be incoherent with anything else.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000005|Thus the laws of logic supply the skeleton or framework within which the test of coherence applies, and they themselves cannot be established by this test.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000011_000001|It remains to define precisely what we mean by 'fact', and what is the nature of the correspondence which must subsist between belief and fact, in order that belief may be true.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000012_000000|In accordance with our three requisites, we have to seek a theory of truth which (one) allows truth to have an opposite, namely falsehood, (two) makes truth a property of beliefs, but (three) makes it a property wholly dependent upon the relation of the beliefs to outside things.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000000|The necessity of allowing for falsehood makes it impossible to regard belief as a relation of the mind to a single object, which could be said to be what is believed.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000001|If belief were so regarded, we should find that, like acquaintance, it would not admit of the opposition of truth and falsehood, but would have to be always true.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000002|This may be made clear by examples.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000003|Othello believes falsely that Desdemona loves Cassio.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000004|We cannot say that this belief consists in a relation to a single object, 'Desdemona's love for Cassio', for if there were such an object, the belief would be true.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000005|There is in fact no such object, and therefore Othello cannot have any relation to such an object.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000006|Hence his belief cannot possibly consist in a relation to this object.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000014_000000|It might be said that his belief is a relation to a different object, namely 'that Desdemona loves Cassio'; but it is almost as difficult to suppose that there is such an object as this, when Desdemona does not love Cassio, as it was to suppose that there is 'Desdemona's love for Cassio'.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000014_000001|Hence it will be better to seek for a theory of belief which does not make it consist in a relation of the mind to a single object.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000000|It is common to think of relations as though they always held between two terms, but in fact this is not always the case.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000001|Some relations demand three terms, some four, and so on.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000002|Take, for instance, the relation 'between'.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000003|So long as only two terms come in, the relation 'between' is impossible: three terms are the smallest number that render it possible.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000004|York is between London and Edinburgh; but if London and Edinburgh were the only places in the world, there could be nothing which was between one place and another.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000007|Instances might be multiplied indefinitely, but enough has been said to show that there are relations which require more than two terms before they can occur.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000001|When Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio, he must not have before his mind a single object, 'Desdemona's love for Cassio', or 'that Desdemona loves Cassio ', for that would require that there should be objective falsehoods, which subsist independently of any minds; and this, though not logically refutable, is a theory to be avoided if possible.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000002|Thus it is easier to account for falsehood if we take judgement to be a relation in which the mind and the various objects concerned all occur severally; that is to say, Desdemona and loving and Cassio must all be terms in the relation which subsists when Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000003|This relation, therefore, is a relation of four terms, since Othello also is one of the terms of the relation.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000004|When we say that it is a relation of four terms, we do not mean that Othello has a certain relation to Desdemona, and has the same relation to loving and also to Cassio.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000006|Thus the actual occurrence, at the moment when Othello is entertaining his belief, is that the relation called 'believing' is knitting together into one complex whole the four terms Othello, Desdemona, loving, and Cassio.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000007|What is called belief or judgement is nothing but this relation of believing or judging, which relates a mind to several things other than itself.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000000|We are now in a position to understand what it is that distinguishes a true judgement from a false one.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000001|For this purpose we will adopt certain definitions.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000002|In every act of judgement there is a mind which judges, and there are terms concerning which it judges.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000004|Thus, when Othello judges that Desdemona loves Cassio, Othello is the subject, while the objects are Desdemona and loving and Cassio.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000007|Similarly, if Cassio judges that Desdemona loves Othello, the constituents of the judgement are still the same, but their order is different.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000008|This property of having a 'sense' or 'direction' is one which the relation of judging shares with all other relations.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000009|The 'sense' of relations is the ultimate source of order and series and a host of mathematical concepts; but we need not concern ourselves further with this aspect.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000001|In this respect, judging is exactly like every other relation.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000002|Whenever a relation holds between two or more terms, it unites the terms into a complex whole.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000003|If Othello loves Desdemona, there is such a complex whole as 'Othello's love for Desdemona'.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000005|Wherever there is a relation which relates certain terms, there is a complex object formed of the union of those terms; and conversely, wherever there is a complex object, there is a relation which relates its constituents.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000006|When an act of believing occurs, there is a complex, in which 'believing' is the uniting relation, and subject and objects are arranged in a certain order by the 'sense' of the relation of believing.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000008|But this relation, as it occurs in the act of believing, is not the relation which creates the unity of the complex whole consisting of the subject and the objects.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000009|The relation 'loving', as it occurs in the act of believing, is one of the objects-it is a brick in the structure, not the cement.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000010|The cement is the relation 'believing'.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000019_000002|This constitutes the definition of truth and falsehood that we were in search of.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000020_000002|This correspondence ensures truth, and its absence entails falsehood.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000021_000002|Thus a belief is true when there is a corresponding fact, and is false when there is no corresponding fact.
train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000022_000001|They create beliefs, but when once the beliefs are created, the mind cannot make them true or false, except in the special case where they concern future things which are within the power of the person believing, such as catching trains.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000001_000000|BOOK three
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000004_000000|THE MIND HAS AN INCOMPLETE LIFE
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000005_000000|The problem of the union of the mind and the body is not one of those which present themselves in pure speculation; it has its roots in experimental facts, and is forced upon us by the necessity of explaining observations such as those we are about to quote.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000006_000001|This is daily demonstrated by thousands upon thousands of observations.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000007_000000|The question is to know how this union of the body with the consciousness is to be explained, it being assumed that the two terms of this union present a great difference in their nature.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000007_000001|The easier it seems to demonstrate that this union exists, the more difficult it appears to explain how it is realised; and the proof of this difficulty is the number of divergent interpretations given to it. Were it a simple question of fact, the perpetual discussions and controversies upon it would not arise.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000001|The first is that of the genesis or origin of the consciousness.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000003|In general, one begins by supposing that the material phenomena are produced first; they consist, for instance, in the working of the nervous centres.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000004|All this is physical or chemical, and therefore material.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000005|Then at a given moment, after this mechanical process, a quite different phenomenon emerges.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000006|This is thought, consciousness, emotion.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000008|What is the nature of the link between them?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000009|Is it a relation of cause to effect, of genesis? or a coincidence? or the interaction of two distinct forces? Is this relation constant or necessary?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000010|Can the mind enjoy an existence independent of the brain?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000011|Can it survive the death of the brain?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000000|The second question is that of knowing what is the role, the utility, and the efficacity of the psychical phenomenon.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000004|Does it exercise any action on these intra cerebral functions?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000005|Does it exercise any action on the centrifugal currents which go to the motor nerves?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000006|Is it capable of exciting a movement?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000007|or is it deprived of all power of creating effect?
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000010_000001|Some of the best known of these solutions bear the names of spiritualism, materialism, parallelism, and monism.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000000|Before beginning our critical statement, let us recall some of the results of our previous analyses which here intrude themselves, to use the ambitious language of Kant, as the prolegomena to every future solution which claims the title of science.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000002|We have had to acknowledge the exactness of certain facts, and we are bound to admit their consequences.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000003|Notably, the definition of psychical phenomena at which we arrived, not without some trouble, will henceforth play a rather large part in our discussion.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000004|It will force us to question a great metaphysical principle which, up till now, has been almost universally considered as governing the problem of the union of the mind with the body.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000012_000001|No philosopher has more clearly formulated it, and more logically deduced its consequences, than Flournoy.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000013_000000|Let us not hesitate to denounce as false this proposition which is presented to us as an axiom.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000013_000001|On looking closely into it, we shall perceive that the principle of heterogeneity does not contain the consequences it is sought to ascribe to it.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000013_000002|It seems to me it should be split up into two propositions of very unequal value: one, the mind and body are heterogeneous; two, by virtue of this heterogeneity it is not possible to understand any direct relation between the two.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000001|The consciousness is not sufficient for itself; as we have said, it cannot exist by itself.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000003|Mind and matter brought down to the essential, to the consciousness and its object, form a natural whole, and the difficulty does not consist in uniting but in separating them.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000004|Consider the following fact: "I experience a sensation, and I have consciousness of it."
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000005|This is the coupling of two things-a sensation and a cognition.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000001|They can only be separated by analysis, and a scrupulous mind might even ask whether one has the right to separate them.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000002|I have a sensation, and I have consciousness of it.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000003|If not two facts, they are one and the same.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000004|Now, sensation is matter and my consciousness is mind.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000005|If I am judging an assortment of stuffs, this assortment, or the sensation I have of them, is a particle of matter, a material state, and my judgment on this sensation is the psychical phenomenon.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000006|We can neither believe, nor desire, nor do any act of our intelligence without realising this welding together of mind and matter.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000007|They are as inseparable as motion and the object that moves; and this comparison, though far fetched, is really very convenient.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000008|Motion cannot exist without a mobile object; and an object, on the other hand, can exist without movement.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000009|In the same way, sensation may exist without the consciousness; but the converse proposition, consciousness without sensation, without an object, an empty consciousness or a "pure thought," cannot be understood.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000001|We describe it after nature.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000002|It is observation which reveals to us the union and the fusion of the two terms into one.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000003|Or, rather, we do not even perceive their union until the moment when, by a process of analysis, we succeed in convincing ourselves that that which we at first considered single is really double, or, if you like, can be made into two by the reason, without being so in reality.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000004|Thus it happens that we bring this big problem in metaphysics on to the field of observation.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000001|There are many authors who maintain that the soul can act directly on the body and modify it, and this is what is called inter actionism.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000002|Thereby is understood, if I mistake not, an action from cause to effect, produced between two terms which enjoy a certain independence with regard to each other.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000003|This interpretation is indubitably close to ours, though not to be confused with it.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000004|My personal interpretation sets aside the idea of all independence of the mind, since it attributes to the mind an incomplete and, as it were, a virtual existence.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000000|If we had to seek paternity for ideas I would much rather turn to Aristotle.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000001|It was not without some surprise that I was able to convince myself that the above theory of the relations between the soul and the body is to be found almost in its entirety in the great philosopher.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000002|It is true that it is mixed up with many accessory ideas which are out of date and which we now reject; but the essential of the theory is there very clearly formulated, and that is the important point.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000003|A few details on this subject will not be out of place.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000004|I give them, not from the original source, which I am not erudite enough to consult direct, but from the learned treatise which Bain has published on the psychology of Aristotle, as an appendix to his work on the Senses and the Intelligence.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000019_000000|The whole metaphysics of Aristotle is dominated by the distinction between form and matter.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000019_000002|We may name a substance without troubling ourselves as to the form it possesses, and we may name the form without regard to the substance that it clothes.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000000|Aristotle recognises between these two logical correlatives a difference in rank.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000003|This difference in rank is so strongly marked, that these two correlations are likewise conceived in a different form-that of the potential and the actual.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000004|Matter is the potential, imperfect, roughly outlined element which is not yet actual, and may perhaps never become so.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000005|Form is the actual, the energy, the entelechy which actualises the potential and determines the final compound.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000021_000000|These few definitions will make clear the singularly ingenious idea of Aristotle on the nature of the body, the soul, and of their union.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000021_000002|The soul is form, the actual. By uniting with the body it constitutes the living subject.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000021_000005|Each has its formal side which concerns the soul, and its material side which concerns the body.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000022_000002|The soul actualises the body, and becomes, as he said, its entelechy.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000023_000000|These views are too close to those I have myself just set forth for it to be necessary to dwell on their resemblance.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000023_000001|The latter would become still stronger if we separated from the thought of Aristotle a few developments which are not essential, though he allowed them great importance: I refer to the continual comparison he makes with the form and matter of corporeal objects.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000024_000000|Let me add another point of comparison.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000024_000002|The form of thought, or the category, is nothing without the matter of cognition, and the latter is nothing without the application of form. "Thoughts without content given by sensation are empty; intuitions without concept furnished by the understanding are blind." There is nothing astonishing in finding here the same illustration, since there is throughout a question of describing the same phenomenon,--the relation of mind to matter.
train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000025_000000|There remains to us to review the principal types of metaphysical systems.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty four.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000002_000003|So the knight went his way unto King Mark, and brought him that rich horn, and said that Sir Lamorak sent it him, and thereto he told him the virtue of that horn.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000002_000004|Then the king made Queen Isoud to drink thereof, and an hundred ladies, and there were but four ladies of all those that drank clean.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000002_000005|Alas, said King Mark, this is a great despite, and sware a great oath that she should be burnt and the other ladies.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000000|Then the barons gathered them together, and said plainly they would not have those ladies burnt for an horn made by sorcery, that came from as false a sorceress and witch as then was living.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000001|For that horn did never good, but caused strife and debate, and always in her days she had been an enemy to all true lovers.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000002|So there were many knights made their avow, an ever they met with Morgan le Fay, that they would show her short courtesy.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000003|Also Sir Tristram was passing wroth that Sir Lamorak sent that horn unto King Mark, for well he knew that it was done in the despite of him.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000004|And therefore he thought to quite Sir Lamorak.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000004_000003|And then by the assent of King Mark, and of Sir Andred, and of some of the barons, Sir Tristram was led unto a chapel that stood upon the sea rocks, there for to take his judgment: and so he was led bounden with forty knights.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000004_000005|Fie upon thee, said Sir Andred, false traitor that thou art, with thine avaunting; for all thy boast thou shalt die this day.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000004_000007|No! said Sir Andred, and therewith he drew his sword, and would have slain him.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000005_000001|So then Sir Tristram gat the chapel and kept it mightily.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000005_000003|When Sir Tristram saw the people draw unto him, he remembered he was naked, and sperd fast the chapel door, and brake the bars of a window, and so he leapt out and fell upon the crags in the sea.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000000|SO when they were departed, Gouvernail, and Sir Lambegus, and Sir Sentraille de Lushon, that were Sir Tristram's men, sought their master. When they heard he was escaped then they were passing glad; and on the rocks they found him, and with towels they pulled him up.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000002|Sir, said Gouvernail, she is put in a lazar cote.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000005|So the good knight bade his men go from him: For at this time I may not help you.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000006|So they departed all save Gouvernail.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000009|And then when Sir Tristram came toward the old manor he found the track of many horses, and thereby he wist his lady was gone.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000010|And then Sir Tristram took great sorrow, and endured with great pain long time, for the arrow that he was hurt withal was envenomed.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000008_000002|Then Sir Tristram and Gouvernail gat them shipping, and so sailed into Brittany.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000008_000003|And when King Howel wist that it was Sir Tristram he was full glad of him.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000002|Then Gouvernail went to the king and said: Sir, I counsel you to desire my lord, Sir Tristram, as in your need to help you.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000003|I will do by your counsel, said the king.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000005|Sir, said Sir Tristram, I will go to the field and do what I may.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000006|Then Sir Tristram issued out of the town with such fellowship as he might make, and did such deeds that all Brittany spake of him.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000007|And then, at the last, by great might and force, he slew the Earl Grip with his own hands, and more than an hundred knights he slew that day.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000008|And then Sir Tristram was received worshipfully with procession.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000009|Then King Howel embraced him in his arms, and said: Sir Tristram, all my kingdom I will resign to thee. God defend, said Sir Tristram, for I am beholden unto you for your daughter's sake to do for you.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000011_000002|And at the last they were wedded, and solemnly held their marriage.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000011_000004|And then he took such a thought suddenly that he was all dismayed, and other cheer made he none but with clipping and kissing; as for other fleshly lusts Sir Tristram never thought nor had ado with her: such mention maketh the French book; also it maketh mention that the lady weened there had been no pleasure but kissing and clipping.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000001|Then said Sir Tristram: Heard ye anything of me?
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000003|That me repenteth, said Tristram, for of all knights I loved to be in his fellowship.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000004|So Sir Tristram made great moan and was ashamed that noble knights should defame him for the sake of his lady.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000007|But in the end, Queen Guenever said, it shall be thus, that he shall hate her, and love you better than ever he did to fore.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000015_000002|And these fishers told Sir Lamorak all the guise of Sir Nabon; how there came never knight of King Arthur's but he destroyed him.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000015_000003|And at the last battle that he did was slain Sir Nanowne le Petite, the which he put to a shameful death in despite of King Arthur, for he was drawn limb meal.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000015_000004|That forthinketh me, said Sir Lamorak, for that knight's death, for he was my cousin; and if I were at mine ease as well as ever I was, I would revenge his death.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000017_000002|And then either saluted other.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000017_000004|And then Sir Segwarides brought Sir Tristram to a lady thereby that was born in Cornwall, and she told him all the perils of that valley, and how there came never knight there but he were taken prisoner or slain.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000000|Then one told him there was a knight of King Arthur's that was wrecked on the rocks.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000001|What is his name? said Sir Tristram.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000002|We wot not, said the fishers, but he keepeth it no counsel but that he is a knight of King Arthur's, and by the mighty lord of this isle he setteth nought.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000004|Then the lady prayed the fishers to bring him to her place.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000005|So on the morrow they brought him thither in a fisher's raiment; and as soon as Sir Tristram saw him he smiled upon him and knew him well, but he knew not Sir Tristram.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000006|Fair sir, said Sir Tristram, meseemeth by your cheer ye have been diseased but late, and also methinketh I should know you heretofore.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000007|I will well, said Sir Lamorak, that ye have seen me and met with me.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000010|Well, said Sir Lamorak, since ye have said so largely unto me, my name is Sir Lamorak de Galis, son unto King Pellinore.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000012|What are ye, said Sir Lamorak, that knoweth me?
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000013|I am Sir Tristram de Liones.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000014|Ah, sir, remember ye not of the fall ye did give me once, and after ye refused me to fight on foot.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000016|Well, said he, an it were to do again, so would I do, for I had liefer strife and debate fell in King Mark's court rather than Arthur's court, for the honour of both courts be not alike.
train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000018|Therefore, said Sir Tristram, ye shall leave all your malice, and so will I, and let us assay how we may win worship between you and me upon this giant Sir Nabon le Noire that is lord of this island, to destroy him.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000001_000000|Kitty hung up her hat and coat.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000001_000002|The coat tree stood at the right of the single window, and out of this window Kitty stared solemnly, at everything and at nothing.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000002_000002|And Cutty wanted her out of town for a few days.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000002_000003|Burlingame had intended sending Kitty out of town on an assignment during Easter week. An exchange of telegrams that morning had closed the gap in time.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000003_000000|"Well, you might say 'Good morning.'"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000004_000000|"I beg your pardon, Burly!"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000004_000001|In newspaper offices you belong at once or you never belong; and to belong is to have your name sheared to as few syllables as possible.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000004_000002|You are formal only to the city editor, the managing editor, and the auditor.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000005_000000|"What's the matter?"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000006_000000|"I've been set in the middle of a fairy story," said Kitty, "and I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble to try to find a way out.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000006_000001|A Knight of the Round Table, a prince of chivalry.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000006_000002|What would you say if you saw one in spats and a black derby?"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000007_000000|"Why," answered Burlingame, "I suppose I'd consider July first as the best thing that could happen to me."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000008_000000|Kitty laughed; and that was what he wanted.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000009_000000|What had that old rogue been doing now-offering Kitty his eighteen story office building?
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000010_000000|"It's odd, isn't it, that I shouldn't possess a little histrionic ability.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000000|"It is, Kitty; only not to mimic.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000001|You're an actress, but the Big Dramatist writes your business for you.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000002|Now, I've got some fairly good news for you.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000003|An assignment."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000012_000000|"Work!
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000012_000001|What is it?"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000001|She is going to return to Broadway this autumn, and she has a trunkful of plays to read.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000002|I have found your judgment ace high. Mornings you will read with her; afternoons you will visit.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000004|So she will be quite as interested in you as you are in her.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000005|I want you to note her ways, how she amuses herself, eats, exercises.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000006|I want you to note the contents of her beautiful home; if she likes dogs or cats or horses. You will take a camera and get half a dozen good pictures, and a page yarn for Easter Sunday.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000007|Stay as long as she wants you to."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000014_000000|"But who?"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000015_000000|Burlingame jerked his thumb toward a photograph on the wall.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000001|This will be the most scrumptious event in my life.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000002|I'm wild about her!
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000003|But I haven't any clothes!"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000000|Burlingame waved his hands.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000001|"I knew I'd hear that yodel.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000002|Eve didn't have anything to speak of, but she travelled a lot.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000003|Truth is, Kitty, you'd better dress in monotones.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000004|She might wake up to the fact that you're a mighty pretty young woman and suddenly become temperamental.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000005|She has a husband round the lot somewhere.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000006|Make him think his wife is a lucky woman.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000007|Here's all the dope-introduction, expenses, and tickets.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000008|Train leaves at two fifty.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000009|Run along home and pack.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000010|Remember, I want a page yarn.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000011|No flapdoodle or mush; straight stuff.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000013|If you go at it right you two will react upon each other as a tonic."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000018_000000|Kitty realized that this little junket was the very thing she needed-open spaces, long walks in which to think out her problem. She hurried home and spent the morning packing.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000018_000001|When this heartrending business was over she summoned Tony Bernini.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000019_000000|"I am going out of town, mr Bernini.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000019_000001|I may be gone a week."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000020_000000|"All right, Miss Conover." Bernini hid a smile.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000020_000001|He knew all about this trip, having been advised by Cutty over the wire.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000000|"Not that we know of.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000001|Still, you never can tell.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000003|"Better not go by train.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000004|I can get a fast roadster and run you out in a couple of hours.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000005|Right after lunch you go to the boss's garage and wait for me.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000006|I'll take care of your grips and camera.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000007|I'll follow on your heels."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000023_000000|"Anybody would consider that Karlov was after me instead of Hawksley."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000000|Bernini smiled.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000001|"Miss Conover, the moment Karlov puts his hands on you the whole game goes blooey.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000002|That's the plain fact.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000003|There is death in this game.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000004|These madmen expect to blow up the United States on May first.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000005|We are easing them along because we want the top men in our net. But if Karlov takes it into his head to get you, and succeeds, he'll have a stranglehold on the whole local service; because we'd have to make great concessions to free you."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000025_000000|"Why wasn't I told this at the start?"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000026_000001|We did not care to frighten you."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000027_000000|"I'm not frightened," said Kitty.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000028_000000|"Nope.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000028_000001|But we wish to the Lord you were, Miss Conover.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000029_000000|Another fragment.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000029_000001|Karlov's agent sought his chief and found him in the cellar of the old house, sinisterly engaged.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000029_000003|Had the New York bomb squad known of the existence of this den, the short hair on their necks would have risen.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000030_000000|"Well?" greeted Karlov, moodily.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000032_000000|"He and the Conover girl left that office building together this morning, and I followed them to Park Row.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000032_000001|This man uses the loft of the building for his home.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000032_000002|No elevator goes up unless you have credentials. Our man is hiding there, Boris."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000033_000000|Karlov dry washed his hands.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000034_000000|"Every day but Sunday."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000035_000000|"Good news.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000035_000001|Two bolts; one or the other will go home."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000036_000000|About the same time in Cutty's apartment rather an amusing comedy took place.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000036_000001|Professor Ryan, late physical instructor at one of the aviation camps, stood Hawksley in front of him and ran his hard hands over the young man's body.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000036_000002|Miss Frances stood at one side, her arms folded, her expression skeptical.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000037_000000|"Nothin' the matter with you, Bo, but the crack on the conk."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000038_000000|"Right o!" agreed Hawksley.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000002|Soft.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000003|Now stand on that threshold.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000004|That's it.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000006|Step lively."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000040_000000|"But," began Miss Frances in protest.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000040_000001|This was cruelty.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000041_000000|"I'm the doctor, miss," interrupted Ryan, crisply.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000041_000002|If he makes it, he follows my instructions."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000042_000000|When Hawksley returned to the starting line the walls rocked, there were two or three blinding stabs of pain; but he faced this unusual Irishman with never a hint of the torture.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000042_000001|A wild longing to be gone from this kindly prison-to get away from the thought of the girl.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000043_000000|"All right," said Ryan.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000044_000000|"Bed?"
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000045_000000|"Yep.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000046_000001|He wasn't going to let them know, but that bed was going to be tolerably welcome.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000047_000000|"Well!" said Miss Frances.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000047_000001|"I don't see how he did it."
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000000|"I do," said the ex pugilist.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000001|"I told him to.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000002|Either he was a false alarm, or he'd attempt the job even if he fell down.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000004|If he's got any pride, dig it up.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000006|He hasn't lost any blood.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000007|No serious body wound.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000008|A crack on the conk.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000009|It mighta killed him.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000012|So my dope is right.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000050_000001|Believe me!
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000000|Cutty attended his conferences.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000001|He learned immediately that he was booked to sail the first week in May.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000002|His itinerary began at Piraeus, in Greece, and might end in Vladivostok.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000003|But they detained him in Washington overtime because he was a fount of information the departments found it necessary to draw upon constantly.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000004|The political and commercial aspects of the polyglot peoples, what they wanted, what they expected, what they needed; racial enmities.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000006|What they wanted to know was an American's point of view, based upon long and intimate associations.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000052_000002|For Washington would go to sleep again, naturally.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000053_000001|He could dig up all this dry information with the precise accuracy of an economist, all the while his actual thoughts upon Kitty. His nights were nightmares.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000053_000002|And all this unhappiness because he had been touched with the lust for loot.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000053_000003|Fundamentally, this catastrophe could be laid to the drums of jeopardy.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000001|At any rate, there would have been none of this peculiar intimacy-Kitty coming to him in tears, opening her young heart to him and discovering all its loneliness.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000002|If she loved some chap it would not be so hard, the temptation would not be so keen-to cheat her.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000004|This dogged his thoughts like a murderer's deed, terrible in the watches of the night. Marry her, and then tell her.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000005|Cheat her.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000006|Break her heart and break his own.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000000|Fifty two.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000001|Never before had he thought old.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000002|His splendid health and vigorous mentality were the results of thinking young.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000004|He would grow old swiftly, thunderously.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000005|Kitty's youth would shore up the debacle, suspend it indefinitely.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000006|Marry her, cheat her, and stay young. Green stones, accursed.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000056_000000|Kitty's days were pleasant enough, but her nights were sieges.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000056_000003|The Tschaikowsky waltz.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000056_000004|She got up suddenly, excused herself, and went to her room.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000000|Six days, and her problem was still unsolved.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000001|Something in her-she could not define it, she could not reach it, it defied analysis-something, then, revolted at the idea of marrying Cutty, divorcing him, and living on his money.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000002|There was a touch of horror in the suggestion.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000003|It was tearing her to pieces, this hidden repellence. And yet this occult objection was so utterly absurd.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000004|If he died and left her a legacy she would accept it gratefully enough.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000001|Why not?
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000002|It wasn't as if Cutty was asking her to be his wife; he wasn't.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000003|Just wanted to dodge convention, and give her freedom and happiness.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000005|Because he had loved her mother; because, but for an accident of chance, she, Kitty, might have been his daughter.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000008|The ancient female fear of the trap?
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000009|That could not be it.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000059_000000|Comfy.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000059_000002|An evil thought had entered her head; fate had made it honourably possible.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000000|Romance?
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000001|She was not surrendering her right to that.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000002|What was a year out of her life if afterward she would be in comfortable circumstances, free to love where she willed?
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000003|She wasn't cheating herself or Cutty: she was cheating convention, a flimsy thing at best.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000061_000000|Windows.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000061_000001|We carry our troubles to our windows; through windows we see the stars.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000061_000003|So Kitty sought her window and added her question to the countless millions forlornly wandering about up there, and finding no answer.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000062_000000|But she would return to New York on the morrow.
train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000062_000002|She would go back by train, alone, unhampered.
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000003_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000005_000001|I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty.
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000010_000000|"Calm yourself, sir knight," said Don Quixote, "and give ear to what I am about to say to you.
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000018_000000|"Body of my father!" said Sancho, "see what marten and sable, and pads of carded cotton he is putting into the bags, that our heads may not be broken and our bones beaten to jelly!
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000023_000000|"Very good," said he of the Grove; "God will send the dawn and we shall be all right."
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000024_000003|Don Quixote examined his adversary, and found that he already had his helmet on and visor lowered, so that he could not see his face; he observed, however, that he was a sturdily built man, but not very tall in stature.
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000027_000000|"Well then," said Don Quixote, "while we are mounting you can at least tell me if I am that Don Quixote whom you said you vanquished."
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000032_000000|"That is understood," replied he of the Mirrors.
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000034_000000|"It seems to me rather, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou wouldst mount a scaffold in order to see the bulls without danger."
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000035_000000|"To tell the truth," returned Sancho, "the monstrous nose of that squire has filled me with fear and terror, and I dare not stay near him."
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000037_000005|He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson Carrasco!
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000037_000006|As soon as he saw it he called out in a loud voice, "Make haste here, Sancho, and behold what thou art to see but not to believe; quick, my son, and learn what magic can do, and wizards and enchanters are capable of."
train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000038_000000|Sancho came up, and when he saw the countenance of the bachelor Carrasco, he fell to crossing himself a thousand times, and blessing himself as many more.
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train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000006_000000|INTRODUCTION
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000007_000000|It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000008_000000|Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self denying, and self devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000008_000001|These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000009_000000|It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000009_000001|There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000001|Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000003|In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000004|His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000005|He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey different significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000011_000000|Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000011_000001|They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000011_000003|They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000012_000000|Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000013_000000|The whites have assisted greatly in rendering the traditions of the Aborigines more obscure by their own manner of corrupting names.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000013_000001|Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the whites.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000013_000002|When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to themselves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000014_000000|In these pages, Lenni Lenape, Lenope, Delawares, Wapanachki, and Mohicans, all mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000015_000000|The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000015_000001|They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000015_000002|There is sufficient historical truth in the picture to justify the use that has been made of it.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000000|In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any other district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000002|Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000003|But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000006|The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which their fathers dwelt, or altogether from the earth.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000017_000000|There is one point on which we would wish to say a word before closing this preface.
train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000017_000001|Hawkeye calls the Lac du Saint Sacrement, the "Horican." As we believe this to be an appropriation of the name that has its origin with ourselves, the time has arrived, perhaps, when the fact should be frankly admitted.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000003_000000|"Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf?
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000004_000000|"Yon Indian is a 'runner' of the army; and, after the fashion of his people, he may be accounted a hero," returned the officer.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000004_000001|"He has volunteered to guide us to the lake, by a path but little known, sooner than if we followed the tardy movements of the column; and, by consequence, more agreeably."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000006_000000|"Say, rather, Alice, that I would not trust you.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000006_000001|I do know him, or he would not have my confidence, and least of all at this moment.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000006_000002|He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you know, are one of the six allied nations.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000007_000000|"If he has been my father's enemy, I like him still less!" exclaimed the now really anxious girl.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000007_000001|"Will you not speak to him, Major Heyward, that I may hear his tones?
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000007_000002|Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me avow my faith in the tones of the human voice!"
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000008_000001|But he stops; the private path by which we are to journey is, doubtless, at hand."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000009_000000|The conjecture of Major Heyward was true.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000009_000001|When they reached the spot where the Indian stood, pointing into the thicket that fringed the military road; a narrow and blind path, which might, with some little inconvenience, receive one person at a time, became visible.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000010_000000|"Here, then, lies our way," said the young man, in a low voice. "Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000011_000000|"Cora, what think you?" asked the reluctant fair one.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000011_000001|"If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety?"
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000012_000000|"Being little accustomed to the practices of the savages, Alice, you mistake the place of real danger," said Heyward.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000012_000002|The route of the detachment is known, while ours, having been determined within the hour, must still be secret."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000013_000000|"Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?" coldly asked Cora.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000014_000001|It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they followed the route of the column; a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Canadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000014_000002|For many minutes the intricacy of the route admitted of no further dialogue; after which they emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along the line of the highway, and entered under the high but dark arches of the forest.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000014_000003|Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could command their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the sure footed and peculiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000016_000002|If he possessed the power to arrest any wandering eye when exhibiting the glories of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still more likely to attract attention.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000019_000000|The frown which had gathered around the handsome, open, and manly brow of Heyward, gradually relaxed, and his lips curled into a slight smile, as he regarded the stranger.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000020_000000|"Seek you any here?" demanded Heyward, when the other had arrived sufficiently nigh to abate his speed; "I trust you are no messenger of evil tidings?"
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000022_000000|"You appear to possess the privilege of a casting vote," returned Heyward; "we are three, while you have consulted no one but yourself."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000023_000000|"Even so.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000023_000001|The first point to be obtained is to know one's own mind.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000023_000003|I have endeavored to do both, and here I am."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000026_000000|"A most arbitrary, if not a hasty decision!" exclaimed Heyward, undecided whether to give vent to his growing anger, or to laugh in the other's face.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000028_000000|"Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: of defense, I make none-by God's good mercy, having committed no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000028_000001|I understand not your allusions about lines and angles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000029_000001|Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000032_000000|"I am glad to encounter thee, friend," continued the maiden, waving her hand to the stranger to proceed, as she urged her Narragansett to renew its amble.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000032_000001|"Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulging in our favorite pursuit.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000035_000000|"Is he, then, much practiced in the art of psalmody?" demanded her simple companion.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000036_000000|Alice felt disposed to laugh, though she succeeded in suppressing her merriment, ere she answered:
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000037_000000|"I apprehend that he is rather addicted to profane song.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000039_000000|"You have, then, limited your efforts to sacred song?"
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000040_000000|"Even so.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000040_000001|As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000040_000003|I never abide in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000043_000001|The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward, who, in his turn, spoke to the stranger; at once interrupting, and, for the time, closing his musical efforts.
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000044_000001|You will then, pardon me, Alice, should I diminish your enjoyments, by requesting this gentleman to postpone his chant until a safer opportunity."
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000045_000000|"You will diminish them, indeed," returned the arch girl; "for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execution and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!"
train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000047_000000|Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness.
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train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000007_000000|INTRODUCTION
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000008_000000|As this work professes, in its title page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000008_000001|The author is very sensible that, had he confined himself to the latter, always the most effective, as it is the most valuable, mode of conveying knowledge of this nature, he would have made a far better book.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000008_000002|But in commencing to describe scenes, and perhaps he may add characters, that were so familiar to his own youth, there was a constant temptation to delineate that which he had known, rather than that which he might have imagined.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000010_000000|Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the province of New York, was included in the county of Albany previously to the war of the separation.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000010_000001|It then became, in a subsequent division of territory, a part of Montgomery; and finally, having obtained a sufficient population of its own, it was set apart as a county by itself shortly after the peace of seventeen eighty three.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000011_000001|There is a tradition which says that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treaties, and otherwise to strengthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000011_000002|As the Indian agent of New York had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not impossible that the appellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000011_000003|The author remembers it, a few years later, reduced to the humble office of a smoke house.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000000|In seventeen seventy nine an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000002|One brigade ascended the Mohawk until it reached the point nearest to the sources of the Susquehanna, whence it cut a lane through the forest to the head of the Otsego.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000003|The boats and baggage were carried over this "portage," and the troops proceeded to the other extremity of the lake, where they disembarked and encamped.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000004|The Susquehanna, a narrow though rapid stream at its source, was much filled with "flood wood," or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their passage.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000005|The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000006|The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty feet high the remainder of its margin being in mountains, intervals, and points.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000007|The outlet, or the Susquehanna, flows through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000013_000000|When all was ready the troops embarked, the damn was knocked away, the Otsego poured out its torrent, and the boats went merrily down with the current.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000000|General james Clinton, the brother of George Clinton, then governor of New York, and the father of De Witt Clinton, who died governor of the same State in eighteen twenty seven, commanded the brigade employed on this duty.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000001|During the stay of the troops at the foot of the Otsego a soldier was shot for desertion.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000002|The grave of this unfortunate man was the first place of human interment that the author ever beheld, as the smoke house was the first ruin!
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000003|The swivel alluded to in this work was buried and abandoned by the troops on this occasion, and it was subsequently found in digging the cellars of the authors paternal residence.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000015_000000|Soon after the close of the war, Washington, accompanied by many distinguished men, visited the scene of this tale, it is said with a view to examine the facilities for opening a communication by water with other points of the country.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000015_000001|He stayed but a few hours.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000016_000000|In seventeen eighty five the author's father, who had an interest in extensive tracts of land in this wilderness, arrived with a party of surveyors.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000016_000001|The manner in which the scene met his eye is described by Judge Temple.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000016_000002|At the commencement of the following year the settlement began; and from that time to this the country has continued to flourish.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000000|Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little preceded the birth of the author, it was not sufficiently advanced to render it desirable that an event so important to himself should take place in the wilderness.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000001|Perhaps his mother had a reasonable distrust of the practice of Dr Todd, who must then have been in the novitiate of his experimental acquirements.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000002|Be that as it may, the author was brought an infant into this valley, and all his first impressions were here obtained.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000003|He has inhabited it ever since, at intervals; and he thinks he can answer for the faithfulness of the picture he has drawn.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000005|It sends forth its emigrants like any other old region, and it is pregnant with industry and enterprise.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000006|Its manufacturers are prosperous, and it is worthy of remark that one of the most ingenious machines known in European art is derived from the keen ingenuity which is exercised in this remote region.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000000|In order to prevent mistake, it may be well to say that the incidents of this tale are purely a fiction.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000001|The literal facts are chiefly connected with the natural and artificial objects and the customs of the inhabitants.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000003|They have all, long since, given place to other buildings of a more pretending character.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000004|There is also some liberty taken with the truth in the description of the principal dwelling; the real building had no "firstly" and "lastly." It was of bricks, and not of stone; and its roof exhibited none of the peculiar beauties of the "composite order." It was erected in an age too primitive for that ambitious school of architecture.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000020_000000|The author has elsewhere said that the character of Leather Stocking is a creation, rendered probable by such auxiliaries as were necessary to produce that effect.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000020_000001|Had he drawn still more upon fancy, the lovers of fiction would not have so much cause for their objections to his work. Still, the picture would not have been in the least true without some substitutes for most of the other personages.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000021_000000|It may be well to say here, a little more explicitly, that there was no real intention to describe with particular accuracy any real characters in this book.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000021_000001|It has been often said, and in published statements, that the heroine of this book was drawn after the sister of the writer, who was killed by a fall from a horse now near half a century since.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000021_000002|So ingenious is conjecture that a personal resemblance has been discovered between the fictitious character and the deceased relative!
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000022_000000|Circumstances rendered this sister singularly dear to the author.
train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000023_000000|From circumstances which, after this Introduction, will be obvious to all, the author has had more pleasure in writing "The Pioneers" than the book will probably ever give any of its readers.
train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000003_000001|Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life: But pain is perfet miserie, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturnes All patience.
train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000003_000002|He who therefore can invent With what more forcible we may offend Our yet unwounded Enemies, or arme Our selves with like defence, to mee deserves No less then for deliverance what we owe.
train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000007_000002|if on they rusht, repulse Repeated, and indecent overthrow Doubl'd, would render them yet more despis'd, And to thir foes a laughter; for in view Stood rankt of Seraphim another row In posture to displode thir second tire Of Thunder: back defeated to return They worse abhorr'd.
train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000007_000003|SATAN beheld thir plight, And to his Mates thus in derision call'd.
train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000012_000000|He said, and on his Son with Rayes direct Shon full, he all his Father full exprest Ineffably into his face receiv'd, And thus the filial Godhead answering spake.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000000_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000001_000000|"Edward," said Edith, "scold Pablo; he has been ill treating my poor cat; he is a cruel boy."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000005_000000|"Well, if pussy did, it didn't hurt you much; and what did I tell you this morning out of the Bible?--that you must forgive them who behave ill to you."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000006_000000|"Yes, Missy Edith, you tell me all that, and so I do; I forgive pussy 'cause she bite me, but I kick her for it."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000007_000000|"That's not forgiveness, is it, Edward?
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000007_000001|You should have forgiven it at once, and not kicked it at all."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000008_000001|I forgive pussy with all my heart."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000010_000000|"Well, I will this time; but if he kicks pussy again he must be put in the pitfall-mind that, Pablo."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000011_000000|"Yes, Missy Edith, I go into pitfall, and then you cry, and ask Master Edward to take me out.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000011_000001|When you have me put in pitfall, then you not good Christian, 'cause you not forgive; when you cry and take me out, then you good Christian once more."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000015_000000|"Very true," replied Edward; "he offers me the post of secretary.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000015_000001|What do you think?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000016_000001|If you do not like it, you can only go back to the cottage again.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000017_000000|"That I really believe," replied Edward; "and I have pretty well made up my mind to accept the office.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000022_000001|What is your reply?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000023_000000|"I am very thankful to you for the offer, sir," replied Edward, "and will accept it if you think that I am fitting for it, and if I find that I am equal to it; I can but give it a trial, and leave if I find it too arduous or too irksome."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000024_000000|"Too arduous it shall not be-that shall be my concern; and too irksome I hope you will not find it.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000024_000002|You will therefore have to write chiefly what I shall dictate; but it is not only for that I require a person that I can confide in.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000026_000000|"Well, then, it is no use saying any more just now; you will have a chamber in this house, and you will live with me, and at my table altogether.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000026_000001|Neither shall I say any thing just now about remuneration, as I am convinced that you will be satisfied.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000026_000002|All that I require now is, to know the day that you will come, that every thing may be ready."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000027_000000|"I suppose, sir, I must change my attire?" replied Edward, looking at his forester's dress; "that will hardly accord with the office of secretary."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000028_000001|"You can provide yourself with a suit at Lymington.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000029_000000|"I thank you, sir, I have means, much more than sufficient," replied Edward, "although not quite so wealthy as little Clara appeared to be."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000030_000000|"Wealthy, indeed!" replied the intendant.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000030_000001|"I had no idea that poor Ratcliffe possessed so much ready money and jewels.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000030_000002|Well, then, this is Wednesday; can you come over next Monday?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000031_000000|"Yes, sir," replied Edward; "I see no reason to the contrary."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000032_000001|Patience and Clara are in the next room.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000032_000003|You will, of course, dine with us to day, and sleep here to night."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000034_000000|"Then you have consented?" said Patience, inquiringly.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000035_000000|"Yes, I could not refuse such kindness," replied Edward.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000036_000000|"And when do you come?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000038_000000|"Why, what have you to get ready?" said Clara.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000039_000001|I can wear that with a gun in my hand, but not with a pen: so I must go to Lymington and see what a tailor can do for me."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000040_000001|"Perhaps I may," said Edward, although he felt that such would not be the case, having been accustomed to much better clothes when at Arnwood than what were usually worn by secretaries; and this remembrance brought back Arnwood in its train, and Edward became silent and pensive.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000041_000000|Patience observed it, and after a time said-
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000042_000001|You do not return till to morrow?
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000042_000002|How did you come over?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000044_000000|"Why do you call her Mistress Patience, Edward?" said Clara.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000044_000001|"You call me Clara; why not call her Patience?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000045_000000|"You forget that I am only a forester, Clara," replied Edward, with a grave smile.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000046_000000|"No, you are a secretary now," replied Clara.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000047_000001|I call you Clara, because you are but a little girl; but I must not take that liberty with Mistress Heatherstone."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000048_000000|"Do you think so, Patience?" said Clara.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000051_000000|"Yes, if he gave himself leave, Clara," said Patience.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000051_000001|"But we will now show him his own room, Clara," continued Patience, wishing to change the subject of conversation.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000054_000000|"Why, he never saw any thing like it before," said Clara.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000055_000000|"Yes I have, Clara," replied Edward.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000056_000000|"Where did you?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000057_000000|"At Arnwood; the apartments were on a much larger scale."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000058_000001|"Yes, it was burned down, and all the children burned to death!"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000059_000000|"So they say, Clara; but I was not there when it was burned."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000061_000001|Edward smiled, and said-
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000064_000001|I should indeed be difficult to please if an apartment like this did not suit me.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000064_000002|Besides, allow me to observe, that although I stated that the apartments at Arnwood were on a grander scale, I never said that I had ever been a possessor of one of them."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000073_000000|"I hope you are hungry, Edward," said Clara; "dinner is almost ready."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000076_000000|"I am not yet eighteen, Clara, so that I can hardly be called a man."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000085_000000|mr Heatherstone, as was usual at that time with the people to whose party he ostensibly belonged, said a grace before meat, of considerable length, and then they sat down to table.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000087_000001|Is not that fellow Corbould, who is leaning against the wall?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000088_000000|"Yes; he is to be discharged as he can not walk well, and the surgeon says he will always limp.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000089_000000|Edward bade Oswald farewell, and returned to the intendant's, and found that Oswald was correct, as supper was being placed on the table.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000091_000004|Alice and Edith did not quite so much approve of it, and a few tears were shed at the idea of Edward leaving the cottage.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000091_000005|The next day, Edward and Humphrey set off for Lymington, with Billy in the cart.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000092_000001|I will tell you: as many kids as I can, or goats and kids, I don't care which."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000093_000000|"Why, have you not stock enough already?
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000093_000001|You will this year have four cows in milk, and you have two cow calves bringing up."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000097_000001|I will soon ascertain that for you, from the landlord of the hostelry," replied Edward.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000098_000000|On their arrival at Lymington, they went straight to the hostelry, and found the landlord at home.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000098_000001|He recommended a tailor to Edward, who sent for him to the inn, and was measured by him for a plain suit of dark cloth.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000100_000001|"Your dress, as I consider, is a sort of disgrace to a Cavalier born, and the heir of Arnwood; why not, therefore, take its hat as well?
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000104_000000|"Here is the shop for the hat and for the sword belt."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000106_000001|Humphrey left Edward to put away these in the cart, while he went out a second time to see the goats; he made an agreement with the man who had them for sale, for a male and three females with two kids each at their sides, and ten more female kids which had just been weaned.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000107_000000|"We have dipped somewhat into the bag to day, Edward," said Humphrey, "but the money is well spent."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000111_000001|Certainly, when we think how we were left, by the death of old Jacob, to our own resources, we have much to thank God for, in having got on so well."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000112_000000|"I agree with you, and also that it has pleased Heaven to grant us all such good health.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000114_000001|Indeed, I shall insist upon coming over to you once a fortnight; and I hardly think the intendant will refuse me-indeed, I am sure that he will not."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000119_000001|As it is, look how poor Billy is loaded.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000119_000002|Where's Pablo?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000120_000000|"In the garden.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000120_000001|He has been working there all day, and Edith is with him."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000123_000000|"Nothing I like better, my dear girl.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000123_000001|Pablo won't thank me for bringing this home," continued Humphrey, taking the long saw out of the cart; "he will have to go to the bottom of the pit again, as soon as the pit is made."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000126_000000|"Goat very good, kid better; always eat kid in Spain," said Pablo.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000127_000000|"Were you born in Spain, Pablo?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000128_000000|"Not sure, but I think so.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000128_000001|First recollect myself in that country."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000129_000000|"Do you recollect your father?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000131_000000|"Did your mother never talk about him?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000135_000000|"All mothers do that.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000135_000001|What made you come to England?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000136_000000|"I don't know, but I hear people say, plenty of money in England-plenty to eat-plenty to drink; bring plenty money back to Spain."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000138_000000|"One, two, three year; yes, three year and a bit."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000139_000000|"Which did you like best-England or Spain?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000140_000000|"When with my people, like Spain best; warm sun-warm night.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000140_000001|England, little sun, cold night, much rain, snow, and air always cold; but now I live with you, have warm bed, plenty victuals, like England best."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000141_000000|"But when you were with the gipsies, they stole every thing, did they not?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000142_000000|"Not steal every thing," replied Pablo, laughing; "sometimes take and no pay when nobody there; farmer look very sharp-have big dog."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000143_000000|"Did you ever go out to steal?"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000144_000000|"Make me go out.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000144_000001|Not bring back something, beat me very hard; suppose farmer catch me, beat hard too; nothing but beat, beat, beat."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000146_000000|"Suppose bring nothing home, first beat, and then not have to eat for one, two, three days.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000146_000001|How you like that, Master Humphrey?
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000146_000002|I think you steal, after no victuals for three days!"
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000147_000000|"I should hope not," replied Humphrey, "although I have never been so severely punished: and I hope, Pablo, you will never steal any more."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000148_000002|Now, I never hungry, always have plenty to eat; no one beat me now; sleep warm all night.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000148_000004|No, Master Humphrey, I never steal more, 'cause I have no reason why, and 'cause Missy Alice and Edith tell me how the good God up there say must not steal."
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000000|"Like to hear Missy Alice talk; she talk grave.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000001|Missy Edith talk too, but she laugh very much; very fond Missy Edith, very happy little girl; jump about just like one of these kids we drive home; always merry. Hah! see cottage now; soon get home, Massa Humphrey.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000002|Missy Edith like see kids very much.
train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000003|Where we put them?"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000003_000001|BETWEEN THE TWO MEN
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000005_000000|Yes!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000005_000001|Probably so.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000006_000001|Your name is Dacosta!"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000008_000000|"You are Joam Dacosta," continued Torres, "who, twenty five years ago, were a clerk in the governor general's office at Tijuco, and you are the man who was sentenced to death in this affair of the robbery and murder!"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000001|Had he made a mistake in accusing his host?
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000002|No!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000003|For Joam Garral made no start at the terrible accusations.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000004|Doubtless he wanted to know to what Torres was coming.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000010_000000|"Joam Dacosta, I repeat!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000010_000001|It was you whom they sought for this diamond affair, whom they convicted of crime and sentenced to death, and it was you who escaped from the prison at Villa Rica a few hours before you should have been executed!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000010_000002|Do you not answer?"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000011_000001|His elbow rested on a small table, and he looked fixedly at his accuser without bending his head.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000012_000000|"Will you reply?" repeated Torres.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000013_000000|"What reply do you want from me?" said Joam quietly.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000014_000000|"A reply," slowly answered Torres, "that will keep me from finding out the chief of the police at Manaos, and saying to him, 'A man is there whose identity can easily be established, who can be recognized even after twenty five years' absence, and this man was the instigator of the diamond robbery at Tijuco.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000016_000000|"Nothing, for neither you nor I will have any interest in talking about the matter."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000018_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000020_000001|Do not be in a hurry to reply by a formal refusal.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000020_000002|Remember that you are in my power."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000022_000000|Torres hesitated for a moment.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000023_000000|The attitude of this guilty man, whose life he held in his hands, was enough to astonish him.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000025_000000|"You have a daughter!--I like her-and I want to marry her!"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000033_000000|"All?"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000034_000000|"All, if necessary.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000035_000000|"You are a consummate scoundrel, Torres," quietly said Joam, whose coolness never forsook him.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000038_000000|"Really!"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000039_000000|"And I add," replied Joam, "that you hold the proof of his innocence, and are keeping it back to proclaim it on the day when you marry his daughter."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000041_000000|"I am listening, Torres."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000042_000000|"Well," said the adventurer, half keeping back his words, as if he was sorry to let them escape from his lips, "I know you are innocent!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000044_000000|"Is dead."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000000|"Dead," repeated Torres; "but this man, whom I knew a long time after his crime, and without knowing that he was a convict, had written out at length, in his own hand, the story of this affair of the diamonds, even to the smallest details.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000001|Feeling his end approaching, he was seized with remorse.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000004|And this happiness he desired to add to the reputation to which he was entitled.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000005|But death came-he intrusted to me, his companion, to do what he could no longer do.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000049_000000|"And the writing?"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000050_000000|Joam Garral was ready to throw himself on Torres, to search him, to snatch from him the proofs of his innocence.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000055_000000|"It is thus."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000058_000000|"And as I am not a criminal we were not made to understand one another."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000061_000002|You are condemned to death, and you know, in sentences for crimes of that nature, the government is forbidden the right of commuting the penalty.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000061_000003|Denounced, you are taken; taken, you are executed.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000062_000000|Master as he was of himself, Joam could stand it no longer.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000062_000001|He was about to rush on Torres.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000063_000000|A gesture from the rascal cooled his anger.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000068_000000|Joam Garral made him no answer.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000069_000000|Benito, Manoel, and all of them, under a feeling of deep anxiety, had risen.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000070_000000|In extraordinary contrast, Joam Garral was master of himself, and almost smiling.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000071_000000|Both of them stopped before Yaquita and her people.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000074_000000|"And here is my reply."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000079_000000|But at the words Manoel had felt his heart beat as if it would break. The girl arose, ashy pale, as if she would seek shelter by the side of her mother.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000079_000001|Yaquita opened her arms to protect, to defend her.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000080_000000|"Father," said Benito, who had placed himself between Joam Garral and Torres, "what were you going to say?"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000084_000000|Here Torres, with crossed arms, gave the whole family a look of inconceivable insolence.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000086_000000|"No, that is not my last word."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000087_000000|"What is it, then?"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000088_000000|"This, Torres.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000088_000001|I am master here.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000089_000000|"Yes, this instant!" exclaimed Benito, "or I will throw you overboard."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000090_000000|Torres shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000091_000001|It suits me also to land, and without delay.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000091_000003|We shall not be long before we meet."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000092_000002|If you dare, meet me there!"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000093_000000|"At Judge Ribeiro's?" said Torres, evidently disconcerted.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000096_000000|The scoundrel at last disappeared.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000100_000000|And making a sign to Manoel, he retired to his room with him.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000102_000000|Manoel came out alone; his face glowed with generous resolution.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000104_000002|He knew that Joam Garral had boldly undertaken the voyage with the sole object of canceling the hateful proceedings of which he had been the victim, so as not to leave on his daughter and son in law the weight of the terrible situation which he had had to endure so long himself.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000105_000001|What he did not know was that the material proof of the innocence of the fazender existed, and that this proof was in the hands of Torres.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000106_000000|Manoel confined himself, then, to announcing that he was going to Padre Passanha to ask him to get things ready for the two weddings.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000107_000000|Next day, the twenty fourth of August, scarcely an hour before the ceremony was to take place, a large pirogue came off from the left bank of the river and hailed the jangada.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000112_000000|At these words Yaquita and Minha, struck with stupor, stopped without any power to move.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000114_000000|By a gesture his father silenced him.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000116_000000|"No," answered the chief of the police, "it was given to me, with an order for its immediate execution, by his substitute.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000116_000001|Judge Ribeiro was struck with apoplexy yesterday evening, and died during the night at two o'clock, without having recovered his consciousness."
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000121_000000|"But speak, father!" shouted Benito, mad with despair; "say one word, and we shall contest even by force this horrible mistake of which you are the victim!"
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000122_000001|I am in truth Joam Dacosta!
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000123_000000|"All communication between you and yours is now forbidden," said the chief of the police.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000124_000000|Joam restrained by a gesture his dismayed children and servants.
train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000126_000000|And with his head unbent, he stepped into the pirogue.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000000_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000001_000002|There can be no doubt that the hope of finding reason to believe such theses as these has been the chief inspiration of many life-long students of philosophy.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000001_000003|This hope, I believe, is vain.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000001_000005|In this chapter we shall briefly consider the kind of way in which such reasoning is attempted, with a view to discovering whether we can hope that it may be valid.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000002|Just as a comparative anatomist, from a single bone, sees what kind of animal the whole must have been, so the metaphysician, according to Hegel, sees, from any one piece of reality, what the whole of reality must be-at least in its large outlines.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000003|Every apparently separate piece of reality has, as it were, hooks which grapple it to the next piece; the next piece, in turn, has fresh hooks, and so on, until the whole universe is reconstructed.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000007|In this way Hegel advances until he reaches the 'Absolute Idea', which, according to him, has no incompleteness, no opposite, and no need of further development.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000008|The Absolute Idea, therefore, is adequate to describe Absolute Reality; but all lower ideas only describe reality as it appears to a partial view, not as it is to one who simultaneously surveys the Whole.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000009|Thus Hegel reaches the conclusion that Absolute Reality forms one single harmonious system, not in space or time, not in any degree evil, wholly rational, and wholly spiritual.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000010|Any appearance to the contrary, in the world we know, can be proved logically-so he believes-to be entirely due to our fragmentary piecemeal view of the universe.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000000|In this conception, there is undeniably something sublime, something to which we could wish to yield assent.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000001|Nevertheless, when the arguments in support of it are carefully examined, they appear to involve much confusion and many unwarrantable assumptions.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000002|The fundamental tenet upon which the system is built up is that what is incomplete must be not self subsistent, but must need the support of other things before it can exist.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000003|It is held that whatever has relations to things outside itself must contain some reference to those outside things in its own nature, and could not, therefore, be what it is if those outside things did not exist.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000001|It is of course the case that a truth which connects one thing with another thing could not subsist if the other thing did not subsist.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000003|But if the word 'nature' is used in this sense, we shall have to hold that the thing may be known when its 'nature' is not known, or at any rate is not known completely.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000004|There is a confusion, when this use of the word 'nature' is employed, between knowledge of things and knowledge of truths.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000006|Thus, acquaintance with a thing does not involve knowledge of its 'nature' in the above sense.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000007|And although acquaintance with a thing is involved in our knowing any one proposition about a thing, knowledge of its 'nature', in the above sense, is not involved.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000009|I may be acquainted, for example, with my toothache, and this knowledge may be as complete as knowledge by acquaintance ever can be, without knowing all that the dentist (who is not acquainted with it) can tell me about its cause, and without therefore knowing its 'nature' in the above sense.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000005_000000|It follows that we cannot prove that the universe as a whole forms a single harmonious system such as Hegel believes that it forms.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000005_000001|And if we cannot prove this, we also cannot prove the unreality of space and time and matter and evil, for this is deduced by Hegel from the fragmentary and relational character of these things.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000006_000000|Most of the great ambitious attempts of metaphysicians have proceeded by the attempt to prove that such and such apparent features of the actual world were self contradictory, and therefore could not be real.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000006_000002|A good illustration of this is afforded by space and time.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000006_000003|Space and time appear to be infinite in extent, and infinitely divisible.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000001|In time, similarly, however little time may elapse between two moments, it seems evident that there will be other moments between them.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000002|Thus space and time appear to be infinitely divisible.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000003|But as against these apparent facts-infinite extent and infinite divisibility-philosophers have advanced arguments tending to show that there could be no infinite collections of things, and that therefore the number of points in space, or of instants in time, must be finite.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000004|Thus a contradiction emerged between the apparent nature of space and time and the supposed impossibility of infinite collections.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000008_000000|Kant, who first emphasized this contradiction, deduced the impossibility of space and time, which he declared to be merely subjective; and since his time very many philosophers have believed that space and time are mere appearance, not characteristic of the world as it really is.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000008_000001|Now, however, owing to the labours of the mathematicians, notably Georg Cantor, it has appeared that the impossibility of infinite collections was a mistake.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000008_000002|They are not in fact self contradictory, but only contradictory of certain rather obstinate mental prejudices.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000000|The mathematicians, however, have not been content with showing that space as it is commonly supposed to be is possible; they have shown also that many other forms of space are equally possible, so far as logic can show.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000002|By imagining worlds in which these axioms are false, the mathematicians have used logic to loosen the prejudices of common sense, and to show the possibility of spaces differing-some more, some less-from that in which we live.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000004|Formerly it appeared that experience left only one kind of space to logic, and logic showed this one kind to be impossible.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000005|Now, logic presents many kinds of space as possible apart from experience, and experience only partially decides between them.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000006|Thus, while our knowledge of what is has become less than it was formerly supposed to be, our knowledge of what may be is enormously increased.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000010_000000|What has happened in the case of space and time has happened, to some extent, in other directions as well.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000010_000002|Thus knowledge as to what exists becomes limited to what we can learn from experience-not to what we can actually experience, for, as we have seen, there is much knowledge by description concerning things of which we have no direct experience.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000012_000000|Philosophical knowledge, if what has been said above is true, does not differ essentially from scientific knowledge; there is no special source of wisdom which is open to philosophy but not to science, and the results obtained by philosophy are not radically different from those obtained from science.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000012_000001|The essential characteristic of philosophy, which makes it a study distinct from science, is criticism.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000001|If we adopt the attitude of the complete sceptic, placing ourselves wholly outside all knowledge, and asking, from this outside position, to be compelled to return within the circle of knowledge, we are demanding what is impossible, and our scepticism can never be refuted.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000002|For all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000003|Hence the criticism of knowledge which philosophy employs must not be of this destructive kind, if any result is to be achieved.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000005|But it is not difficult to see that scepticism of this kind is unreasonable.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000007|His 'methodical doubt' consisted in doubting whatever seemed doubtful; in pausing, with each apparent piece of knowledge, to ask himself whether, on reflection, he could feel certain that he really knew it.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000008|This is the kind of criticism which constitutes philosophy.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000010|In regard to such knowledge, philosophical criticism does not require that we should abstain from belief.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000011|But there are beliefs-such, for example, as the belief that physical objects exactly resemble our sense data-which are entertained until we begin to reflect, but are found to melt away when subjected to a close inquiry.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000012|Such beliefs philosophy will bid us reject, unless some new line of argument is found to support them. But to reject the beliefs which do not appear open to any objections, however closely we examine them, is not reasonable, and is not what philosophy advocates.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000014_000000|The criticism aimed at, in a word, is not that which, without reason, determines to reject, but that which considers each piece of apparent knowledge on its merits, and retains whatever still appears to be knowledge when this consideration is completed.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000014_000002|Philosophy may claim justly that it diminishes the risk of error, and that in some cases it renders the risk so small as to be practically negligible.
train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000014_000003|To do more than this is not possible in a world where mistakes must occur; and more than this no prudent advocate of philosophy would claim to have performed.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000001_000000|When a man prides himself on being able to understand and interpret the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself:--
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000000|If Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this fellow would have had nothing to be proud of.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000001|But what is it that I desire?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000002|To understand Nature, and to follow her!
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000003|Accordingly I ask who is the Interpreter. On hearing that it is Chrysippus, I go to him.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000004|But it seems I do not understand what he wrote.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000005|So I seek one to interpret that.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000006|So far there is nothing to pride myself on.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000008|This itself is the only thing to be proud of.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000009|But if I admire the interpretation and that alone, what else have I turned out but a mere commentator instead of a lover of wisdom?--except indeed that I happen to be interpreting Chrysippus instead of Homer.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000010|So when any one says to me, Prithee, read me Chrysippus, I am more inclined to blush, when I cannot show my deeds to be in harmony and accordance with his sayings.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000004_000000|At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000006_000000|At meals, see to it that those who serve be not more in number than those who are served.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000006_000001|It is absurd for a crowd of persons to be dancing attendance on half a dozen chairs.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000008_000000|It is best to share with your attendants what is going forward, both in the labour of preparation and in the enjoyment of the feast itself.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000008_000002|Thus no sudden wrath will betray you into unreasonable conduct, nor will you behave harshly by irritating another.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000010_000000|When Xanthippe was chiding Socrates for making scanty preparation for entertaining his friends, he answered:--"If they are friends of ours they will not care for that; if they are not, we shall care nothing for them!"
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000012_000000|Asked, Who is the rich man?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000012_000001|Epictetus replied, "He who is content."
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000016_000000|On all occasions these thoughts should be at hand:--
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000017_000000|Lead me, O God, and Thou, O Destiny Be what it may the goal appointed me, Bravely I'll follow; nay, and if I would not, I'd prove a coward, yet must follow still!
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000018_000000|Again:
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000019_000000|Who to Necessity doth bow aright, Is learn'd in wisdom and the things of God.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000020_000000|Once more:--
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000021_000000|Crito, if this be God's will, so let it be.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000021_000001|As for me, Anytus and Meletus can indeed put me to death, but injure me, never!
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000023_000000|We shall then be like Socrates, when we can indite hymns of praise to the Gods in prison.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000025_000000|It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000025_000001|But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000025_000002|We should act as we do in seafaring.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000000|"What can I do?"--Choose the master, the crew, the day, the opportunity. Then comes a sudden storm.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000001|What matters it to me?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000002|my part has been fully done.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000003|The matter is in the hands of another-the Master of the ship. The ship is foundering.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000004|What then have I to do?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000005|I do the only thing that remains to me-to be drowned without fear, without a cry, without upbraiding God, but knowing that what has been born must likewise perish.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000006|For I am not Eternity, but a human being-a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000001|Diogenes, who was sent as a spy long before you, brought us back another report than this.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000002|He says that Death is no evil; for it need not even bring shame with it.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000003|He says that Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000005|That to be clothed in sackcloth is better than any purple robe; that sleeping on the bare ground is the softest couch; and in proof of each assertion he points to his own courage, constancy, and freedom; to his own healthy and muscular frame.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000006|"There is no enemy near," he cries, "all is perfect peace!"
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000031_000001|Another supplies my food, whose care it is; another my raiment; another hath given me perceptions of sense and primary conceptions.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000031_000005|With thoughts like these, beholding the Sun, Moon, and Stars, enjoying earth and sea, a man is neither helpless nor alone!
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000033_000001|If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent and noble.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000000|If death surprise me thus employed, it is enough if I can stretch forth my hands to God and say, "The faculties which I received at Thy hands for apprehending this thine Administration, I have not neglected.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000002|Behold how I have used the senses, the primary conceptions which Thous gavest me.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000003|Have I ever laid anything to Thy charge?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000004|Have I ever murmured at aught that came to pass, or wished it otherwise?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000005|Have I in anything transgressed the relations of life?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000007|Take them back and place them wherever Thou wilt!
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000009|What life is fairer and more noble, what end happier than his?
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000035_000000|(APPENDIX A)
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000036_000000|Fragments Attributed to Epictetus
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000038_000000|A life entangled with Fortune is like a torrent.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000040_000000|The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever flowing source.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000041_000000|three
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000042_000000|It is a shame that one who sweetens his drink with the gifts of the bee, should embitter God's gift Reason with vice.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000046_000000|Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill disciplined looseness of tongue.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000049_000000|seven
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000051_000000|eight
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000054_000000|Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000056_000000|Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice. . . .
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000056_000001|None is a slave whose acts are free.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000059_000000|twelve
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000061_000000|thirteen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000063_000000|fourteen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000065_000000|fifteen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000067_000000|sixteen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000069_000000|seventeen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000071_000000|eighteen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000073_000000|nineteen
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000079_000000|twenty two
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000081_000000|twenty three
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000083_000000|twenty four
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000085_000004|The above selection includes some of doubtful origin but intrinsic interest.--Crossley.
train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000086_000000|(APPENDIX B)
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000001_000001|Of modified Tudor architecture, its deep red, mellowed bricks had achieved in three decades almost the same aged dignity and impressiveness as characterized the three century old mansion in England which Silas Hackett's architect had used as an inspiration.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000003_000000|Once before-on Sunday, the day after Nita Selim's murder, when he had come to interview Lydia Carr and had secured the alibi which had eliminated Dexter Sprague as a suspect-Dundee had driven his car up this hill between the tall yew hedges.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000004_000000|His approach must have been expected and observed, for it was the master of the house who opened the great, iron studded doors and invited the detective into the broad main hall, at the end of which, down three steps, lay the immense living room.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000004_000001|The detective's first glance took in stately armchairs of the Cromwell period, thick, mellow toned rugs, and, in the living room beyond, splendid examples of Jacobean furniture.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000005_000000|"A horrible thing to happen in a man's home, Dundee," Miles was saying, his plump, rosy face blighted with horror.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000006_000000|"What do you mean?" Dundee asked.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000007_000000|"Why, that the-the body wasn't discovered sooner," Miles explained.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000008_000000|A pale faced, bald headed butler had materialized while his master was speaking.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000008_000001|"Beg pardon, sir, but I did not close the trophy room windows because I thought you might be using the room again....
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000009_000000|"I see," Dundee interrupted.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000000|"I was, except Sprague, of course, and I had no idea he'd gone there. Drake wanted to play anagrams, and before the bridge game started, I went to the trophy room to get the box," Miles explained.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000001|"I turned off the light when I left, and there was no light burning in there this morning when Celia, the parlor maid, went there to put the anagram box back in the cabinet, and found the body....
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000002|Flora-mrs
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000003|Miles-had brought the anagrams in from the porch and left them on a table in the living room, as our guests were getting ready to leave.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000011_000000|"Yes, I know," Dundee interrupted.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000011_000002|By the way, where is mrs Miles now?"
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000012_000000|"In bed.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000012_000002|She is prostrated from the shock."
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000013_000002|Just point it out.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000013_000003|It's on this floor, I understand."
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000015_000000|Dundee cut him short by marching toward the door which was again closed. He entered so noiselessly that Captain Strawn, dr Price and the fingerprint expert, Carraway, did not hear him.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000015_000002|It was not a large room-twelve by fourteen feet, possibly-but it looked even smaller, crowded as it was with the long ping pong table, bags of golf clubs, fishing tackle, tennis racquets, skis and sleds.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000016_000000|Not until he had taken in the general aspect of the room did Dundee look at the thing over which Captain Strawn and the coroner were bending-the body of Dexter Sprague.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000017_000001|He lay on his side, his left cheek against the floor, the fingers of his left hand still clutching the powder burned bosom of his soft shirt, now stiff with dried blood, a pool of which had formed and then half congealed upon the rug.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000017_000003|The one visible eye was half open, but on the sallow, thin face, which had been strikingly handsome in an obvious sort of way, was a peace and dignity which Dundee had never seen upon Sprague's face when the man was alive.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000017_000004|The left leg was drawn upward so that the knee almost touched the bullet pierced stomach.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000018_000000|"How long has he been dead, doctor?" Dundee asked quietly.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000019_000000|"Hello, boy!" dr Price greeted him placidly.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000021_000001|"He may have lived an hour or more-unconscious, of course. For the indications are that he did not die instantly, but staggered a few steps, clutching at the wound.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000022_000000|Dundee crossed the room, stepping over the dead man's stick-a swank affair of dark, polished wood, with a heavy knob of carved onyx, which lay about a foot beyond the reach of the curled fingers of the stiff right hand.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000023_000000|"Sprague's hat?" he asked, pointing to a brightly banded straw which lay upon the top of the cabinet.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000025_000001|The sash of leaded panes was raised as high as it would go, and beneath it was a screen of the roller curtain type, raised about six inches from the window sill.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000025_000002|A pair of curved, nickel plated catches in the center of the inch wide metal band on the bottom of the coppernet curtain showed how the screen was raised or lowered.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000026_000000|Dundee nodded, frowning, and Strawn began eagerly:
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000028_000000|"Yes?"
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000000|"Sure.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000001|This is the way I figure it out: Sprague has good reason to be afraid he's next on the program.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000002|He's nervous.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000005|This crowd here-and I have Miles' word for it-ain't any too glad to see him, and shows it.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000006|He phones for a taxi to go back to his hotel-about nine fifteen, that was, Miles says-but decides to walk down the hill to meet it.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000012|Not much of a drop at that.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000016|Of course, nobody knew Sprague was in here, and since his hat and stick was both missing from the hall closet, they took it for granted he'd beat it....
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000017|Any objections to that theory, boy?"
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000030_000000|"Just a few-one in particular," Dundee said.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000031_000000|But Dundee was not allowed to finish his sentence, for Strawn was summoned to the telephone, by Whitson.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000000|"That's funny....
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000001|Collins-the lad I sent to check up on the taxi companies-says he's located the driver that answered Sprague's call last night.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000002|The driver says he was called about nine fifteen, told to come immediately, and to wait for Sprague at the foot of the hill, on the main road.
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000003|He says he waited there until half past ten, then went on back to town, sore'n a boiled owl."
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000034_000000|"Sure!"
train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000034_000001|But again Captain Strawn looked uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/1845/145088/1845_145088_000008_000001|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/1845/145088/1845_145088_000011_000002|Why?"
train-clean-360/1845/145088/1845_145088_000029_000000|He was too late-thanks to Captain Strawn.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixty nine.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000001|In the middle of the court was a catafalque, raised about two yards above the ground and covered completely by an immense canopy of black velvet, and on the steps all round it white wax tapers burned in more than a hundred silver candlesticks.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000002|Upon the catafalque was seen the dead body of a damsel so lovely that by her beauty she made death itself look beautiful.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000003|She lay with her head resting upon a cushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet smelling flowers of divers sorts, her hands crossed upon her bosom, and between them a branch of yellow palm of victory.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000008|Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000009|As the duke and duchess mounted the stage Don Quixote and Sancho rose and made them a profound obeisance, which they returned by bowing their heads slightly.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000010|At this moment an official crossed over, and approaching Sancho threw over him a robe of black buckram painted all over with flames of fire, and taking off his cap put upon his head a mitre such as those undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wear; and whispered in his ear that he must not open his lips, or they would put a gag upon him, or take his life.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000011|Sancho surveyed himself from head to foot and saw himself all ablaze with flames; but as they did not burn him, he did not care two farthings for them.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000006_000000|At this point one of the two that looked like kings exclaimed, "Enough, enough, divine singer!
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000007_000000|No sooner had Minos the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus said this, than Rhadamanthus rising up said:
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000009_000000|On hearing this Sancho broke silence and cried out, "By all that's good, I'll as soon let my face be smacked or handled as turn Moor.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000009_000002|Try those jokes on a brother in law; 'I'm an old dog, and "tus, tus" is no use with me.'"
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000010_000000|"Thou shalt die," said Rhadamanthus in a loud voice; "relent, thou tiger; humble thyself, proud Nimrod; suffer and be silent, for no impossibilities are asked of thee; it is not for thee to inquire into the difficulties in this matter; smacked thou must be, pricked thou shalt see thyself, and with pinches thou must be made to howl.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000010_000001|Ho, I say, officials, obey my orders; or by the word of an honest man, ye shall see what ye were born for."
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000012_000000|Here Don Quixote, too, broke silence, saying to Sancho, "Have patience, my son, and gratify these noble persons, and give all thanks to heaven that it has infused such virtue into thy person, that by its sufferings thou canst disenchant the enchanted and restore to life the dead."
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000014_000000|"Less politeness and less paint, senora duenna," said Sancho; "by God your hands smell of vinegar wash."
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000017_000000|Rhadamanthus bade Sancho put away his wrath, as the object they had in view was now attained.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000018_000000|To which Sancho made answer, "That's trick upon trick, I think, and not honey upon pancakes; a nice thing it would be for a whipping to come now, on the top of pinches, smacks, and pin proddings!
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000018_000002|Leave me alone; or else by God I'll fling the whole thing to the dogs, let come what may."
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000028_000008|Thereupon the duke seized the opportunity of practising this mystification upon him; so much did he enjoy everything connected with Sancho and Don Quixote.
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000030_000000|O harder thou than marble to my plaint;
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000032_000003|For of course that's where one who dies in despair is bound for."
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000035_000002|If it should be good, faithful, and true, it will have ages of life; but if it should be bad, from its birth to its burial will not be a very long journey."
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000037_000001|Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favour when he has his mind made up, if I fall upon you I'll tear your eyes out!
train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000037_000003|All that you have seen to night has been make believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"
train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000008_000002|The locality was Wellington, Sumner county kansas.
train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000019_000001|For example:
train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000030_000001|It is not open to argument, or academic treatment of any kind. The cold fact is:
train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000053_000000|SNAKES.--mr
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000003_000000|There lived in Padua a gentleman named Baptista, who had two fair daughters.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000003_000002|But Baptista said the elder daughter must marry first.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000005_000000|A gentleman from Verona, named Petruchio, was the one they thought of, and, half in jest, they asked him if he would marry Katharine, the disagreeable scold.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000005_000001|Much to their surprise he said yes, that was just the sort of wife for him, and if Katharine were handsome and rich, he himself would undertake soon to make her good tempered.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000006_000001|And just then her music master rushed in, complaining that the naughty girl had broken her lute over his head, because he told her she was not playing correctly.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000007_000000|"Never mind," said Petruchio, "I love her better than ever, and long to have some chat with her."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000009_000000|"You've only heard half," said Katharine, rudely.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000011_000000|"Your wife!" cried Kate.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000011_000001|"Never!" She said some extremely disagreeable things to him, and, I am sorry to say, ended by boxing his ears.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000012_000000|"If you do that again, I'll cuff you," he said quietly; and still protested, with many compliments, that he would marry none but her.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000013_000000|When Baptista came back, he asked at once-
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000014_000000|"How speed you with my daughter?"
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000015_000000|"How should I speed but well," replied Petruchio-"how, but well?"
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000016_000000|"How now, daughter Katharine?" the father went on.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000017_000000|"I don't think," said Katharine, angrily, "you are acting a father's part in wishing me to marry this mad cap ruffian."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000018_000000|"Ah!" said Petruchio, "you and all the world would talk amiss of her. You should see how kind she is to me when we are alone.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000018_000001|In short, I will go off to Venice to buy fine things for our wedding-for-kiss me, Kate! we will be married on Sunday."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000019_000000|With that, Katharine flounced out of the room by one door in a violent temper, and he, laughing, went out by the other.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000019_000001|But whether she fell in love with Petruchio, or whether she was only glad to meet a man who was not afraid of her, or whether she was flattered that, in spite of her rough words and spiteful usage, he still desired her for his wife-she did indeed marry him on Sunday, as he had sworn she should.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000020_000000|To vex and humble Katharine's naughty, proud spirit, he was late at the wedding, and when he came, came wearing such shabby clothes that she was ashamed to be seen with him.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000020_000001|His servant was dressed in the same shabby way, and the horses they rode were the sport of everyone they passed.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000022_000000|And his manner was so violent, and he behaved all through his wedding in so mad and dreadful a manner, that Katharine trembled and went with him. He mounted her on a stumbling, lean, old horse, and they journeyed by rough muddy ways to Petruchio's house, he scolding and snarling all the way.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000024_000000|So he welcomed her kindly to his house, but when supper was served he found fault with everything-the meat was burnt, he said, and ill served, and he loved her far too much to let her eat anything but the best.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000024_000001|At last Katharine, tired out with her journey, went supperless to bed.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000024_000002|Then her husband, still telling her how he loved her, and how anxious he was that she should sleep well, pulled her bed to pieces, throwing the pillows and bedclothes on the floor, so that she could not go to bed at all, and still kept growling and scolding at the servants so that Kate might see how unbeautiful a thing ill temper was.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000025_000000|The next day, too, Katharine's food was all found fault with, and caught away before she could touch a mouthful, and she was sick and giddy for want of sleep.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000026_000000|"I pray thee go and get me some repast.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000026_000001|I care not what."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000027_000000|"What say you to a neat's foot?" said the servant.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000028_000001|Would she like tripe?
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000030_000000|"I don't think that is good for hasty tempered people," said the servant.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000030_000001|"What do you say to a dish of beef and mustard?"
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000031_000000|"I love it," said Kate.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000032_000000|"But mustard is too hot."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000033_000000|"Why, then, the beef, and let the mustard go," cried Katharine, who was getting hungrier and hungrier.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000034_000000|"No," said the servant, "you must have the mustard, or you get no beef from me."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000035_000000|"Then," cried Katharine, losing patience, "let it be both, or one, or anything thou wilt."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000037_000000|Then Katharine saw he was making fun of her, and boxed his ears.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000038_000000|Just then Petruchio brought her some food-but she had scarcely begun to satisfy her hunger, before he called for the tailor to bring her new clothes, and the table was cleared, leaving her still hungry.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000038_000001|Katharine was pleased with the pretty new dress and cap that the tailor had made for her, but Petruchio found fault with everything, flung the cap and gown on the floor vowing his dear wife should not wear any such foolish things.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000039_000000|"I will have them," cried Katharine.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000039_000001|"All gentlewomen wear such caps as these-"
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000040_000000|"When you are gentle you shall have one too," he answered, "and not till then." When he had driven away the tailor with angry words-but privately asking his friend to see him paid-Petruchio said-
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000041_000000|"Come, Kate, let's go to your father's, shabby as we are, for as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000041_000001|It is about seven o'clock now.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000042_000000|"It's nearly two," said Kate, but civilly enough, for she had grown to see that she could not bully her husband, as she had done her father and her sister; "it's nearly two, and it will be supper time before we get there."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000043_000000|"It shall be seven," said Petruchio, obstinately, "before I start.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000043_000001|Why, whatever I say or do, or think, you do nothing but contradict.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000044_000000|At last they started for her father's house.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000045_000000|"Look at the moon," said he.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000046_000000|"It's the sun," said Katharine, and indeed it was.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000047_000000|"I say it is the moon.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000047_000001|Contradicting again!
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000047_000002|It shall be sun or moon, or whatever I choose, or I won't take you to your father's."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000048_000000|Then Katharine gave in, once and for all.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000048_000001|"What you will have it named," she said, "it is, and so it shall be so for Katharine." And so it was, for from that moment Katharine felt that she had met her master, and never again showed her naughty tempers to him, or anyone else.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000049_000000|So they journeyed on to Baptista's house, and arriving there, they found all folks keeping Bianca's wedding feast, and that of another newly married couple, Hortensio and his wife.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000049_000002|But Katharine answered with such spirit and such moderation, that she turned the laugh against the new bride.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000051_000000|"You are wrong," said Petruchio, "let me prove it to you.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000053_000000|They proposed a wager of twenty crowns.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000056_000000|"Content," cried the others.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000057_000000|Then Lucentio sent a message to the fair Bianca bidding her to come to him.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000057_000001|And Baptista said he was certain his daughter would come.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000057_000002|But the servant coming back, said-
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000058_000000|"Sir, my mistress is busy, and she cannot come."'
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000060_000000|"You may think yourself fortunate if your wife does not send you a worse."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000061_000000|"I hope, better," Petruchio answered.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000061_000001|Then Hortensio said-
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000062_000000|"Go and entreat my wife to come to me at once."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000063_000000|"Oh-if you entreat her," said Petruchio.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000066_000000|"She says you are playing some jest, she will not come."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000067_000000|"Better and better," cried Petruchio; "now go to your mistress and say I command her to come to me."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000068_000000|They all began to laugh, saying they knew what her answer would be, and that she would not come.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000069_000000|Then suddenly Baptista cried-
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000071_000000|"What do you wish, sir?" she asked her husband.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000072_000000|"Where are your sister and Hortensio's wife?"
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000074_000000|"Fetch them here."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000076_000000|"Here is a wonder!"
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000077_000000|"I wonder what it means," said Hortensio.
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000078_000000|"It means peace," said Petruchio, "and love, and quiet life."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000079_000000|"Well," said Baptista, "you have won the wager, and I will add another twenty thousand crowns to her dowry-another dowry for another daughter-for she is as changed as if she were someone else."
train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000080_000000|So Petruchio won his wager, and had in Katharine always a loving wife and true, and now he had broken her proud and angry spirit he loved her well, and there was nothing ever but love between those two.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000006_000000|"What are you about?" shouted Rostov, looking at him in an ecstasy of exasperation.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000006_000001|"Don't you hear it's His Majesty the Emperor's health?"
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000009_000000|"Why don't you renew the acquaintance?" said Dolokhov to Rostov.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000014_000000|"Here's to the health of lovely women, Peterkin-and their lovers!" he added.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000016_000000|"How dare you take it?" he shouted.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000018_000000|"Don't!
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000018_000001|Don't!
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000018_000002|What are you about?" whispered their frightened voices.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000022_000000|"You...! you... scoundrel!
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000022_000001|I challenge you!" he ejaculated, and, pushing back his chair, he rose from the table.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000024_000000|"Well then, till tomorrow at Sokolniki," said Dolokhov, as he took leave of Rostov in the club porch.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000025_000000|"And do you feel quite calm?" Rostov asked.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000029_000009|Can't I go away from here, run away, bury myself somewhere?" passed through his mind.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000029_000011|Are things ready?"
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000032_000000|"Oh yes, it is horribly stupid," said Pierre.
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000034_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000034_000002|"It's all the same....
train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000034_000003|Is everything ready?" he added.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000004_000000|The professor gave a great start at this almost reluctant suggestion, shrinking back with a look which fell not far short of being horrified. But then he rallied, forcing a laugh before speaking.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000005_000002|And, too; everything was so distinct and clearly outlined that one could-"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000006_000000|"Fairly feel those blessed bow arrows tickling a fellow in the short ribs," vigorously declared the younger Gillespie.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000006_000001|"Not but that-I say, uncle Phaeton?"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000007_000000|"What is it now, Waldo?"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000008_000000|"Reckon they're like any other people?
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000010_000000|"Both boys and girls galore, I expect, Kid; but you needn't borrow trouble on either score.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000010_000001|You can outrun the lads, while as for the fairer sex,--well, they'll take precious good care to keep well beyond your reach,--especially if you wear such another fascinating grin as-"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000011_000000|"Oh, you go to thunder, Bruno Gillespie!"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000012_000001|Yet the gaze of Phaeton Featherwit as a rule kept turned towards that particular point, his eyes on fire, his lips twitching, his whole demeanour that of one who feels a discovery of tremendous importance lies just before him.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000013_000000|"Are we going to land, uncle Phaeton?" queried Bruno, taking note of that preoccupation, which might easily prove dangerous under existing circumstances.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000014_000000|That question served to recall the professor to more material points, and, after a keen, sweeping look around, he nodded assent.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000015_000001|I wish to see more-I must secure a fairer view of the-of yonder place."
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000016_000000|"Will it not be too dangerous, though?
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000016_000001|Not for us, especially, uncle, but for the aerostat?
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000016_000002|Even if these be not the people you imagine-"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000001|Yonder lies the true Lost City, and we are-oh, try to comprehend all that statement means, my lads!
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000002|Picture to yourselves what boundless fame and unlimited credit awaits our report to the outer world!
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000003|The benighted world!
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000005|The-the-"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000019_000000|"Time enough, lad, time enough, since we are going to land," coolly assured the professor, deftly manipulating the steering gear and still curying around those tree crowned hills.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000023_000001|Then it was with gravely earnest speech which suitably affected his nephews.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000024_000001|We do not come as conquerors, weapons in hand, hearts filled with lust of blood.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000024_000002|To the contrary, we are on a peaceful mission, hoping to learn, trusting to enlighten, with malice towards none, but honest love for all those who may wear the human shape, be they of our own colour or-or-otherwise."
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000025_000000|"That's what's the matter with Hannah's cat!" cheerfully chipped in the irrepressible Waldo.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000025_000001|"I say, uncle Phaeton, is it just a lie low here until yonder fellows grow tired of looking for what they can't find, then a flight on our part; or will we-"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000026_000000|"Have we voyaged so far and seen so much, to rest content with so very little?" exclaimed the professor, hardly as precise of speech as under ordinary conditions.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000026_000002|Yonder lies the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century, and we are-Get a hustle on, boys! The day is waning, and with so much to see, to study, to-Come, I say!"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000028_000000|The story told by Cooper Edgecombe, backed up by the articles taken from the person of the warrior whom he had slain in self defence, certainly had its weight; while the brief and imperfect glimpse which he had won of yonder valley helped to bear out that astounding belief.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000033_000000|Still, half an hour's steady labour brought the little squad to the coveted point, and once again Professor Featherwit was almost literally stricken speechless,--for there, far below their present location, spread out in level expanse, lay the secret valley with all its marvels.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000035_000000|Numerous buildings stood in irregular array, for the most part of no great height, nor with many pretensions towards architectural beauty or grace of outline; but in the centre of the valley upreared its head a massive structure, pyramidal in shape, consisting of five comparatively narrow terraces, connected one with another only at each of the four corners, where stood a wide stepped flight of stones.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000000|"Behold!" huskily gasped the professor, intensely excited, yet still able to control the field glass through which he was eagerly scanning yonder marvels.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000002|And, yonder, the temple of sacrifice, unless my memory is-and look!
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000003|The people are-they wear just such garb as-Oh, marvellous!
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000005|Astounding!
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000006|Incredible-yet true!"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000038_000001|Flopping around like they hadn't any bigger business than to-Reckon they're looking for us to come back, Bruno?"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000039_000000|"Or watching for the monster bird of prey, rather," suggested the elder Gillespie.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000040_000000|"Poor, ignorant devils!" sympathetically sighed the youngster.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000040_000001|"Well, we'll have to do a little missionary work in this quarter, before taking our departure, eh, uncle Phaeton?"
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000042_000000|Bruno listened with greater interest than his brother could summon at will.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000042_000001|For one thing, he had long been a lover of the genial Prescott, and, now that his memory was freshened in part, was able to closely follow the course of that little lecture, noting each strong point made by the professor in bolstering up his delightful theory.
train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000044_000000|"Look!
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000005_000001|Schmidt.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000006_000001|Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000006_000003|When he came home he put all the fishes together into a great dish, but he kept the Crab separate because it shone so beautifully, and placed it upon a high shelf in the cupboard.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000007_000000|'Let down, let down thy petticoat That lets thy feet be seen.'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000008_000000|She turned round in surprise, and then she saw the little creature, the Golden Crab.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000009_000000|'What!
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000009_000001|You can speak, can you, you ridiculous crab?' she said, for she was not quite pleased at the Crab's remarks.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000010_000000|When her husband came home and they sat down to dinner, they presently heard the Crab's little voice saying, 'Give me some too.' They were all very much surprised, but they gave him something to eat.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000010_000001|When the old man came to take away the plate which had contained the Crab's dinner, he found it full of gold, and as the same thing happened every day he soon became very fond of the Crab.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000012_000001|He said, therefore, to the fisherman's wife, 'Go, old woman, and tell the Crab I will give him my daughter if by to morrow morning he can build a wall in front of my castle much higher than my tower, upon which all the flowers of the world must grow and bloom.'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000014_000000|Then the Crab gave her a golden rod, and said, 'Go and strike with this rod three times upon the ground on the place which the King showed you, and to morrow morning the wall will be there.'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000015_000000|The old woman did so and went away again.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000016_000000|The next morning, when the King awoke, what do you think he saw?
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000016_000001|The wall stood there before his eyes, exactly as he had bespoken it!
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000017_000000|Then the old woman went back to the King and said to him, 'Your Majesty's orders have been fulfilled.'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000018_000000|'That is all very well,' said the King, 'but I cannot give away my daughter until there stands in front of my palace a garden in which there are three fountains, of which the first must play gold, the second diamonds, and the third brilliants.'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000020_000001|Answer him thus: ''Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun'' Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the flowery meadows, and bring them both to me.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000022_000003|No sooner had he said this than he shook himself, and immediately became a handsome youth, but the next morning he was forced to creep back again into his crab shell.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000022_000006|They suspected some secret, but though they spied and spied, they could not discover it.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000022_000007|Thus a year passed away, and the Princess had a son, whom she called Benjamin.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000026_000000|The Princess did so, and brought him what he desired.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000027_000001|For if you do this evil will come of it. Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and throw you the silver apple.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000027_000002|Take it in your hand, but if they ask you who I am, say that you do not know.' So saying, he kissed her, repeated his warning once more, and went away.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000028_000000|The Princess went with her sisters to the window and looked on at the tournament.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000028_000002|But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care about any of the Princes; he therefore appointed a second tournament.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000030_000001|He then repeated his warning and went away.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000032_000000|Then her mother flew into a passion, gave her a box on the ear, and cried out, 'Does not even that prince please you, you fool?'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000033_000000|The Princess in her fright exclaimed, 'That is the Crab himself!'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000034_000001|Then the poor Princess cried bitterly, but it was of no use; her husband did not come back.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000035_000002|The old man ran after him, but the dog reached a door, pushed it open, and ran in, the old man following him.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000035_000003|He did not overtake the dog, but found himself above a staircase, which he descended.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000035_000007|At this sight his fear became still greater.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000036_000000|'A health to my dearest lady, Long may she live and well! But a curse on the cruel mother That burnt my golden shell!'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000037_000000|And so saying he wept bitterly.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000038_000003|No sooner had he finished than the Princess asked him whether he could find the way to that palace.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000039_000000|'Yes,' he answered, 'certainly.'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000040_000001|The old man did so, and when they came to the palace he hid her behind the great picture and advised her to keep quite still, and he placed himself behind the picture also.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000040_000003|The youths seated themselves at the table; and now the Prince said again, while he took up the cup of wine:
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000041_000000|'A health to my dearest lady, Long may she live and well! But a curse on the cruel mother That burnt my golden shell!'
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000043_000001|But all that bad time is past.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000043_000002|Now listen to me: I must still remain enchanted for three months.
train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000044_000000|So the Princess stayed with him, and said to the old man, 'Go back to the castle and tell my parents that I am staying here.'
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000003|I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I had not come to an iron stove, to whom I have had to promise that I will go back to free him and marry him!' The old King was so frightened that he nearly fainted, for she was his only daughter.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000004|So they consulted together, and determined that the miller's daughter, who was very beautiful, should take her place.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000005|They took her there, gave her a knife, and said she must scrape at the iron stove.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000006|She scraped for twenty four hours, but did not make the least impression.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000001|The old King was frightened, and his daughter wept.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000003|As soon as the day broke the voice from the stove called out, 'It seems to be daylight outside.' Then she answered, 'It seems so to me too; I think I hear my father blowing his horn.' 'So you are a swineherd's daughter!
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000004|Go away at once, and let the King's daughter come.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000005|And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.' When the Princess heard this she began to cry, but it was no good; she had to keep her word.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000006|She took leave of her father, put a knife in her belt, and went to the iron stove in the wood.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000013_000000|'Little green toad with leg like crook, Open wide the door, and look Who it was the latch that shook.'
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000015_000000|Then the old toad said:
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000016_000000|'Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.'
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000017_000000|And the little toad went and brought out a great chest.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000017_000003|She would have need of them, for she had to cross a high glass mountain, three cutting swords, and a great lake.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000017_000005|So she was given three large needles, a plough wheel, and three nuts, which she was to take great care of.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000018_000001|At last she came to a great lake, and, when she had crossed that, arrived at a beautiful castle.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000019_000000|In the evening, when she had washed up and was ready, she felt in her pocket and found the three nuts which the old toad had given her.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000019_000004|Then she said she would not sell it unless she was granted one favour-namely, to sleep by the Prince's door.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000019_000006|When it was evening she said to her bridegroom, 'That stupid maid wants to sleep by your door.'
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000020_000000|'If you are contented, I am,' he said.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000000|And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside that was made of pure gold.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000004|You are mine, and I am thine.' Though it was still night, he got into a carriage with her, and they took the false bride's clothes away, so that she could not follow them.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000006|So they arrived at last at the little old house, but when they stepped inside it turned into a large castle.
train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000009|But because the old man did not like being left alone, they went and fetched him.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000002_000000|THE DONKEY CABBAGE
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000003_000006|Then take aim with your gun and shoot in the middle of them; they will let the cloak fall, but one of the birds will be hit and will drop down dead.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000001|It is just as the old woman said'; and he took his gun on his shoulder, pulled the trigger, and shot into the midst of them, so that their feathers flew about.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000002|Then the flock took flight with much screaming, but one fell dead, and the cloak fluttered down.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000003|Then the Hunter did as the old woman had told him: he cut open the bird, found its heart, swallowed it, and took the cloak home with him.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000005|But when he lifted up his pillow, there sparkled the gold piece, and the next morning he found another, and so on every time he got up.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000009_000000|'Drink to me now, my dearest,' she said.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000009_000001|Then he took the goblet, and when he had swallowed the drink the bird heart came out of his mouth. The maiden had to get hold of it secretly and then swallow it herself, for the old witch wanted to have it.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000012_000000|The old witch grew angry, and said, 'Such a cloak is a wonderful thing, it is seldom to be had in the world, and have it I must and will.' She beat the maiden, and said that if she did not obey it would go ill with her.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000014_000000|'Why are you standing there looking so sad?' asked the Hunter.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000015_000001|I have a great longing to go there, so that when I think of it I am very sad.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000015_000002|For who can fetch them? Only the birds who fly; a man, never.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000016_000000|'If you have no other trouble,' said the Hunter, 'that one I can easily remove from your heart.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000017_000001|The precious stones sparkled so brightly on all sides that it was a pleasure to see them, and they collected the most beautiful and costly together. But now the old witch had through her caused the Hunter's eyes to become heavy.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000019_000001|As soon as he was sound asleep she unfastened the cloak from his shoulders, threw it on her own, left the granite and stones, and wished herself home again.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000020_000000|But when the Hunter had finished his sleep and awoke, he found that his love had betrayed him and left him alone on the wild mountain.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000022_000000|The giants came up, and the first pushed him with his foot, and said, 'What sort of an earthworm is that?'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000023_000000|The second said, 'Crush him dead.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000024_000000|But the third said contemptuously, 'It is not worth the trouble!
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000025_000004|The Hunter then looked about him, saying, 'If only I had something to eat!
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000025_000008|At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000026_000001|When he awoke the next morning he broke off a head of the bad and a head of the good cabbage, thinking, 'This will help me to regain my own, and to punish faithlessness.' Then he put the heads in his pockets, climbed the wall, and started off to seek the castle of his love.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000027_000000|'I am so tired,' he said, 'I can go no farther.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000028_000000|The witch asked, 'Countryman, who are you, and what is your business?'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000031_000000|'Why not?' he answered; 'I have brought two heads with me, and will give you one.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000033_000000|Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a couple of leaves.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000034_000000|Then thought the Hunter, 'The cabbage must have already begun to work.' And he said, 'I will go to the kitchen and fetch it myself.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000042_000000|The miller replied, 'Why not?
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000042_000001|What shall I do with them?'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000044_000002|'The two others,' he added, 'are certainly not dead, and get their three meals every day, but they are so sad that they cannot last much longer.'
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000045_000000|Then the Hunter took pity on them, laid aside his anger, and told the miller to drive them back again.
train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000046_000000|But he changed his mind, and said, 'Keep it; it makes no difference, for I will take you to be my own dear true wife.'
train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000002_000003|His prudence could not safely intrust the bulwark of Italy to such feeble and turbulent neighbors; and his justice might claim the lands which they oppressed, either as a part of his kingdom, or as the inheritance of his father.
train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000002_000008|He maintained, with a powerful hand, the balance of the West, till it was at length overthrown by the ambition of Clovis; and although unable to assist his rash and unfortunate kinsman, the king of the Visigoths, he saved the remains of his family and people, and checked the Franks in the midst of their victorious career.
train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000011_000002|From a tender regard to the expiring prejudices of Rome, the Barbarian declined the name, the purple, and the diadem, of the emperors; but he assumed, under the hereditary title of king, the whole substance and plenitude of Imperial prerogative.
train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000011_000007|And the subordinate care of justice and the revenue was delegated to seven consulars, three correctors, and five presidents, who governed the fifteen regions of Italy according to the principles, and even the forms, of Roman jurisprudence.
train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000011_000011|Theodoric loved the virtues which he possessed, and the talents of which he was destitute.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000005_000000|THE LINCOLN STORY BOOK
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000006_000000|A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000007_000000|COMPILED BY
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000009_000000|PREFACE.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000010_000000|The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated under the war cloud in eighteen sixty one.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000010_000001|But there is another Lincoln as dear to the common people-the Lincoln of happy quotations, the speaker of household words.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000010_000002|Instead of the erect, impressive, penetrative platform orator we see a long, gaunt figure, divided between two chairs for comfort, the head bent forward, smiling broadly, the lips curved in laughter, the deep eyes irradiating their caves of wisdom; the story telling Lincoln, enjoying the enjoyment he gave to others.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000011_000000|This talkativeness, as Lincoln himself realized, was a very valuable asset.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000011_000001|Leaving home, he found, in a venture at "Yankee notion pedling," that glibness meant three hundred per cent, in disposing of flimsy wares.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000011_000002|In the camp of the lumber jacks and of the Indian rangers he was regarded as the pride of the mess and the inspirator of the tent. From these stages he rose to be a graduate of the "college" of the yarn spinner-the village store, where he became clerk.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000012_000000|The store we know is the township vortex where all assemble to "swap stories" and deal out the news.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000012_000001|Lincoln, from behind the counter-his pulpit-not merely repeated items of information which he had heard, but also recited doggerel satire of his own concoction, punning and emitting sparks of wit.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000012_000002|Lincoln was hailed as the "capper" of any "good things on the rounds."
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000013_000000|Even then his friends saw the germs of the statesman in the lank, homely, crack voiced hobbledehoy.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000013_000001|Their praise emboldened him to stand forward as the spokesman at schoolhouse meetings, lectures, log rollings, huskings auctions, fairs, and so on-the folk meets of our people.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000013_000002|One watching him in eighteen thirty said foresightedly: "Lincoln has touched land at last."
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000014_000000|In commencing electioneering, he cultivated the farming population and their ways and diction.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000014_000001|He learned by their parlance and Bible phrases to construct "short sentences of small words," but he had all along the idea that "the plain people are more easily influenced by a broad and humorous illustration than in any other way."
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000014_000002|It is the Anglo Saxon trait, distinguishing all great preachers, actors, and authors of that breed.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000016_000001|He stood upon his "imperfect education," his not belonging "to the first families, but the seconds"; and his shunning society as debarring him from the study he required.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000017_000000|Repulsed at the polls, he turned to the law as another channel, supplementing forensic failings by his artful story telling.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000018_000000|mrs Lincoln, the first to weigh this man justly, said proudly, that "Lincoln was the great favorite everywhere."
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000000|Such loquacious witchery fitted him for the Congress.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000002|These formed the rapt ring around Lincoln in his own chair in the snug corner of the congressional chat room.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000003|Here he perceived that his rusticity and shallow skimmings placed him under the trained politicians.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000004|It was here, too, that his stereotyped prologue to his digressions-"That reminds me"--became popular, and even reached England, where a publisher so entitled a joke book.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000005|Lincoln displaced "Sam Slick," and opened the way to Artemus Ward and Mark Twain.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000006|The longing for elevation was fanned by the association with the notables-Buchanan, to be his predecessor as President; Andrew Johnson, to be his vice and successor; Jefferson Davis and Alex.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000007|H. Stephens, President and Vice President of the c s a; Adams, Winthrop, Sumner, and the galaxy over whom his solitary star was to shine dazzlingly.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000000|A sound authority who knew him of old pronounced him "as good at telling an anecdote as in the thirties." But the fluent chatterer reined in and became a good listener.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000001|He imbibed all the political ruses, and returned home with his quiver full of new and victorious arrows for the Presidential campaign, for his bosom friends urged him to try to gratify that ambition, preposterous when he first felt it attack him. He had grown out of the sensitiveness that once made him beg the critics not to put him out by laughing at his appearance.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000003|He worked out Euclid to brace his fantasies, as the steel bar in a cement fence post makes it irresistibly firm.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000004|But he allowed his vehement fervor to carry him into such flights as left the reporters unable to accompany his sentences throughout.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000022_000001|He was not of the universities, but of the universe; the Mississippi of Eloquence, uncultivated, stupendous, enriched by sweeping into the innumerable side bayous and creeks.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000000|Elected and re-elected President, he continued to be a surprise to those who shrank from levity.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000001|Lincoln was their puzzle; for he had a sweet sauce for every "roast," and showed the smile of invigoration to every croaking prophet.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000002|His state papers suited the war tragedies, but still he delighted the people with those tales, tagging all the events of what may be called the Lincoln era.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000003|The camp and the press echoed them though the Cabinet frowned-secretaries said that they exposed the illustrious speaker to charges of "clownishness and buffoonery."
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000025_000000|Even his official letters were in the same vein.
train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000026_000000|Time has refuted the purblind purists, the chilly "wet blankets"; and the Lincoln stories, bright, penetrative, piquant, and pertinent are our classics.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000002_000000|eighteen thirty one--Works for himself: boatbuilding and sailing, carpentering, hog sticking, sawmilling, blacksmithing, river pilot, logger, etc, in Menard County, Indiana.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000000|eighteen thirty one--Election clerk at New Salem.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000001|Captain and private (re enlisted) in Black Hawk War.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000002|Store clerk and merchant, New Salem.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000003|Studies for the law.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000000|eighteen thirty two--First political speech.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000001|Henry Clay, Whig platform.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000002|Defeated through strong local vote.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000003|Deputy surveyor, at three dollars a day, Sangamon County.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000005_000000|eighteen thirty four--Elected to State legislature as Whig. (Resides in Springfield till eighteen sixty one.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000005_000001|Law partner with john l Stuart till eighteen forty.)
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000006_000000|eighteen thirty five--Postmaster, New Salem; appointed by President Jackson.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000007_000000|eighteen thirty eight to eighteen forty--Reelected to State legislature.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000008_000000|eighteen forty--Partner in law with s t Logan.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000009_000000|eighteen forty two--Married Miss Mary Todd, of Kentucky.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000009_000001|Of the four sons, Edward died in infancy; William ("Willie") at twelve at Washington; Thomas ("Tad") at Springfield, aged twenty; Robert m t, minister to Great Britain, presidential candidate, secretary of war to President Garfield.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000009_000002|His only grandson, Abraham, died in London, March, eighteen ninety.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000010_000000|eighteen forty four--Proposed for Congress.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000011_000000|eighteen forty five--Law partner with w h Herndon, for life.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000012_000000|eighteen forty six--Elected to Congress, the single Whig Illinois member; voted antislavery; sought abolition in the d c; voted Wilmot Proviso. Declined reelection.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000013_000000|eighteen forty eight--Electioneered for General Taylor.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000014_000000|eighteen forty nine--Defeated by Shields for United States senator.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000015_000000|eighteen fifty two--Electioneered for General Scott.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000016_000000|eighteen fifty four--Won the State over to the Republicans, but by arrangement transferred his claim to the senatorship to Trumbull.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000016_000001|October, debated with Douglas.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000016_000002|Declined the governorship in favor of Bissell.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000017_000000|eighteen fifty six--Organized the Republican Party and became its chief; nominated vice president, but was not chosen by its first convention; worked for the Fremont Dayton presidential ticket.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000018_000000|eighteen fifty eight--Lost in the legislature the senatorship to Douglas.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000019_000000|eighteen fifty nine--Placed for the presidential candidacy.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000019_000001|Made Eastern tour "to get acquainted."
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000020_000000|eighteen sixty--may ninth, nominated for President, "shutting out" Seward, Chase, Cameron, Dayton, Wade, Bates, and McLean.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000022_000000|eighteen sixty two--september twenty second, emancipation announced.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000023_000000|eighteen sixty three--january first, emancipation proclaimed.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000023_000001|november nineteenth, Gettysburg Cemetery address.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000023_000002|december ninth, pardon to rebels proclaimed.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000024_000000|eighteen sixty four--Unanimous nomination as Republican presidential candidate for re-election, june seventh.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000024_000001|Reelected november eighth.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000000|eighteen sixty five--march fourth, inaugurated for the second term.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000001|april fourteenth, assassinated in Ford's Theater, Washington, by a mad actor, Wilkes Booth.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000002|april nineteenth, body lay in state at Washington.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000003|april twenty sixth, Booth slain in resisting arrest, by Sergeant Boston Corbett, near Port Royal.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000004|april twenty first to may fourth, funeral train through principal cities North, to springfield illinois.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000026_000000|eighteen seventy one--Temporarily deposited in catacomb.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000027_000000|eighteen seventy four--In catacomb, in sarcophagus.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000027_000001|The completed monument dedicated.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000028_000000|eighteen seventy six--To frustrate repetition of body snatchers' attempt, reinterred deeper.
train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000029_000000|nineteen hundred--A fifth removal; the whole structure solidly rebuilt, containing the martyred President, his wife, and their three children, as well as the grandson bearing Abraham's name.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000003_000004|When he told the brethren, they commended his design, and advised him to carry out that which he purposed.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000004_000000|The king gave him Wilfrid for a companion, and bade Wilfrid conduct him to Rome.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000004_000002|But Wilfrid thanked him for the loving kindness which he was pleased to show to a stranger, and answered, that he had resolved upon another course of life, and for that reason had left his country and set out for Rome.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000005_000000|Hereupon the bishop sent him to Rome, furnishing him with a guide and supplying plenty of all things requisite for his journey, earnestly requesting that he would come that way, when he returned into his own country.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000007_000001|Eleven other bishops met at the consecration of the new bishop, and that function was most honourably performed.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000011_000002|This being read, the hearers were amazed, and the reader ceasing, they began to ask of one another, who that Bishop Wilfrid was.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000011_000004|This being heard, the Pope and all the rest said, that a man of so great authority, who had held the office of a bishop for nearly forty years, ought by no means to be condemned, but being altogether cleared of the faults laid to his charge, should return home with honour.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000012_000003|This man, straightway being called, came in, and seeing him somewhat recovered and able to speak, knelt down, and gave thanks to God, with all the brethren there present.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000013_000000|"A dread vision has even now appeared to me, which I would have you hear and keep secret, till I know what God will please to do with me.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000015_000002|And he also brought the holy season of Easter, returning in its course, to accord with the true teaching of the catholic rule which the Fathers fixed, and, banishing all doubt and error, gave his nation sure guidance in their worship.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000015_000004|And long time sore vexed by many a peril at home and abroad, when he had held the office of a bishop forty five years, he passed away and with joy departed to the heavenly kingdom.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000015_000005|Grant, O Jesus, that the flock may follow in the path of the shepherd."
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000001|He enriched the structure of his church, which is dedicated in honour of the blessed Apostle Andrew with manifold adornments and marvellous workmanship.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000002|For he gave all diligence, as he does to this day, to procure relics of the blessed Apostles and martyrs of Christ from all parts, and to raise altars in their honour in separate side chapels built for the purpose within the walls of the same church.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000003|Besides which, he industriously gathered the histories of their martyrdom, together with other ecclesiastical writings, and erected there a large and noble library.
train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000004|He likewise carefully provided holy vessels, lamps, and other such things as appertain to the adorning of the house of God.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000002_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000003_000000|THE HOUSE OF DREAMS
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000001|"When I was a child I heard an old minister say that a house was not a real home until it had been consecrated by a birth, a wedding and a death.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000002|We've had deaths here-my father and mother died here as well as matthew; and we've even had a birth here.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000003|Long ago, just after we moved into this house, we had a married hired man for a little while, and his wife had a baby here.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000004|But there's never been a wedding before.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000005|It does seem so strange to think of Anne being married.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000007|I can't realize that she's grown up.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000008|I shall never forget what I felt when I saw matthew bringing in a GIRL.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000010|I wonder what HIS fate was."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000006_000000|"Well, it was a fortunate mistake," said mrs Rachel Lynde, "though, mind you, there was a time I didn't think so-that evening I came up to see Anne and she treated us to such a scene.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000006_000001|Many things have changed since then, that's what."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000007_000001|When weddings were in order mrs Rachel was ready to let the dead past bury its dead.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000008_000000|"I'm going to give Anne two of my cotton warp spreads," she resumed. "A tobacco stripe one and an apple leaf one.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000008_000005|But there's a month yet, and dew bleaching will work wonders."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000009_000000|Only a month!
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000000|"I'm giving Anne that half dozen braided rugs I have in the garret.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000001|I never supposed she'd want them-they're so old-fashioned, and nobody seems to want anything but hooked mats now.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000003|I made them of the nicest rags, and braided them in stripes.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000005|And I'll make her enough blue plum preserve to stock her jam closet for a year.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000008|And this last spring they were white, and such a crop of plums I never remember at Green Gables."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000011_000001|It's what I've always prayed for," said mrs Rachel, in the tone of one who is comfortably sure that her prayers have availed much.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000011_000003|He was rich, to be sure, and Gilbert is poor-at least, to begin with; but then he's an Island boy."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000012_000000|"He's Gilbert Blythe," said Marilla contentedly.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000001|It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000003|If she thought she was getting any particular prize in young dr Blythe, or if she imagined that he was still as infatuated with her as he might have been in his salad days, it was surely their duty to put the matter before her in another light.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000004|Yet these two worthy ladies were not enemies of Anne; on the contrary, they were really quite fond of her, and would have defended her as their own young had anyone else attacked her.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000005|Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000014_000002|Her lines had fallen in pleasant places.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000014_000003|In spite of the fact-as mrs Rachel Lynde would say-that she had married a millionaire, her marriage had been happy.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000014_000004|Wealth had not spoiled her.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000015_000001|"Well, the Blythes generally keep their word when they've once passed it, no matter what happens.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000016_000001|Life had developed in her a sense of humor which helped her over many difficulties; but as yet nothing had availed to steel her against a reference to her hair.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000017_000001|"There's no telling what queer freaks fashion will take.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000017_000004|A long engagement doesn't often turn out well.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000018_000000|"Gilbert looks very young for a doctor.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000023_000001|What is it like?"
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000001|There's a splendid living room with a fireplace in it downstairs, and a dining room that looks out on the harbor, and a little room that will do for my office.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000002|It is about sixty years old-the oldest house in Four Winds.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000003|But it has been kept in pretty good repair, and was all done over about fifteen years ago-shingled, plastered and re floored.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000004|It was well built to begin with.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000005|I understand that there was some romantic story connected with its building, but the man I rented it from didn't know it."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000026_000000|"Who is Captain Jim?"
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000028_000000|"Who owns the house?"
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000000|"Well, it's the property of the Glen saint Mary Presbyterian Church now, and I rented it from the trustees.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000001|But it belonged until lately to a very old lady, Miss Elizabeth Russell.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000002|She died last spring, and as she had no near relatives she left her property to the Glen saint Mary Church.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000003|Her furniture is still in the house, and I bought most of it-for a mere song you might say, because it was all so old-fashioned that the trustees despaired of selling it.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000000|"So far, good," said Anne, nodding cautious approval.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000001|"But, Gilbert, people cannot live by furniture alone.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000002|You haven't yet mentioned one very important thing.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000003|Are there TREES about this house?"
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000031_000000|"Heaps of them, oh, dryad!
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000031_000001|There is a big grove of fir trees behind it, two rows of Lombardy poplars down the lane, and a ring of white birches around a very delightful garden.
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000031_000004|Their boughs form an arch overhead."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000032_000000|"Oh, I'm so glad!
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000032_000003|THAT would be expecting too much."
train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000033_000000|"But there IS a brook-and it actually cuts across one corner of the garden."
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000006_000000|"dr Chilton!
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000008_000002|It is a new doctor-a very famous doctor from New York, who-who knows a great deal about-about hurts like yours."
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000012_000001|If-if you don't mind VERY much, I WOULD LIKE to have dr Chilton-truly I would!"
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000014_000001|I mind very much.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000014_000003|And believe me, he can NOT know so much about-about your trouble, as this great doctor does, who will come from New York to morrow."
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000015_000000|Pollyanna still looked unconvinced.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000016_000000|"But, Aunt Polly, if you LOVED dr Chilton-"
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000017_000000|"WHAT, Pollyanna?" Aunt Polly's voice was very sharp now.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000020_000002|The New York doctor is coming to morrow."
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000026_000000|Old Tom chuckled.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000028_000001|"She looks like FOLKS, now.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000028_000002|She's actually almost-"
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000032_000001|"I told ye she wa'n't-old."
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000033_000000|Nancy laughed.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000034_000001|Say, mr Tom, who WAS her A lover?
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000034_000002|I hain't found that out, yet; I hain't, I hain't!"
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000037_000000|"Maybe not.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000037_000003|"How is she, ter day-the little gal?"
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000038_000000|Nancy shook her head.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000042_000001|She told me long ago." The old man hesitated, then went on, his lips twitching a little.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000047_000000|"MISS POLLY!"
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000050_000000|Old Tom stiffened.
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000054_000002|So she never told her."
train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000055_000002|An' Miss Polly-young as she was-couldn't never forgive him; she was that fond of Miss Jennie-in them days.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000003_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000004_000000|JIMMY AND THE GREEN EYED MONSTER
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000000|This time Beldingsville did not literally welcome Pollyanna home with brass bands and bunting-perhaps because the hour of her expected arrival was known to but few of the townspeople.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000001|But there certainly was no lack of joyful greetings on the part of everybody from the moment she stepped from the railway train with her Aunt Polly and dr Chilton.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000002|Nor did Pollyanna lose any time in starting on a round of fly away minute calls on all her old friends.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000003|Indeed, for the next few days, according to Nancy, "There wasn't no putting of your finger on her anywheres, for by the time you'd got your finger down she wa'n't there."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000006_000000|And always, everywhere she went, Pollyanna met the question: "Well, how did you like Boston?" Perhaps to no one did she answer this more fully than she did to mr Pendleton.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000006_000001|As was usually the case when this question was put to her, she began her reply with a troubled frown.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000007_000000|"Oh, I liked it-I just loved it-some of it."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000008_000000|"But not all of it?" smiled mr Pendleton.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000001|There's parts of it-Oh, I was glad to be there," she explained hastily.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000002|"I had a perfectly lovely time, and lots of things were so queer and different, you know-like eating dinner at night instead of noons, when you ought to eat it.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000003|But everybody was so good to me, and I saw such a lot of wonderful things-Bunker Hill, and the Public Garden, and the Seeing Boston autos, and miles of pictures and statues and store windows and streets that didn't have any end.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000004|And folks.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000010_000000|"Well, I'm sure-I thought you liked folks," commented the man.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000000|"I do." Pollyanna frowned again and pondered.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000002|And mrs Carew wouldn't let me.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000003|She didn't know 'em herself.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000004|She said folks didn't, down there."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000012_000000|There was a slight pause, then, with a sigh, Pollyanna resumed.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000001|It would be such a lot nicer if they did!
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000002|Why, just think, mr Pendleton, there are lots of folks that live on dirty, narrow streets, and don't even have beans and fish balls to eat, nor things even as good as missionary barrels to wear.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000003|Then there are other folks-mrs
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000004|Carew, and a whole lot like her-that live in perfectly beautiful houses, and have more things to eat and wear than they know what to do with.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000005|Now if THOSE folks only knew the other folks-" But mr Pendleton interrupted with a laugh.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000014_000000|"My dear child, did it ever occur to you that these people don't CARE to know each other?" he asked quizzically.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000015_000000|"Oh, but some of them do," maintained Pollyanna, in eager defense. "Now there's Sadie Dean-she sells bows, lovely bows in a big store-she WANTS to know people; and I introduced her to mrs Carew, and we had her up to the house, and we had Jamie and lots of others there, too; and she was SO glad to know them!
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000015_000003|But if they COULD know each other, so that the rich people could give the poor people part of their money-"
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000016_000000|But again mr Pendleton interrupted with a laugh.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000017_000000|"Oh, Pollyanna, Pollyanna," he chuckled; "I'm afraid you're getting into pretty deep water.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000000|"A-what?" questioned the little girl, dubiously.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000001|"I-I don't think I know what a socialist is.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000003|If it's anything like that, I don't mind being one, a mite.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000004|I'd like to be one."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000019_000000|"I don't doubt it, Pollyanna," smiled the man.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000019_000001|"But when it comes to this scheme of yours for the wholesale distribution of wealth-you've got a problem on your hands that you might have difficulty with."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000001|"That's the way mrs Carew talked.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000002|She says I don't understand; that 'twould-er-pauperize her and be indiscriminate and pernicious, and-Well, it was SOMETHING like that, anyway," bridled the little girl, aggrievedly, as the man began to laugh.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000003|"And, anyway, I DON'T understand why some folks should have such a lot, and other folks shouldn't have anything; and I DON'T like it.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000004|And if I ever have a lot I shall just give some of it to folks who don't have any, even if it does make me pauperized and pernicious, and-" But mr Pendleton was laughing so hard now that Pollyanna, after a moment's struggle, surrendered and laughed with him.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000022_000000|"Well, anyway," she reiterated, when she had caught her breath, "I don't understand it, all the same."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000023_000000|"No, dear, I'm afraid you don't," agreed the man, growing suddenly very grave and tender eyed; "nor any of the rest of us, for that matter.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000023_000001|But, tell me," he added, after a minute, "who is this Jamie you've been talking so much about since you came?"
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000024_000000|And Pollyanna told him.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000025_000000|In talking of Jamie, Pollyanna lost her worried, baffled look. Pollyanna loved to talk of Jamie.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000025_000001|Here was something she understood. Here was no problem that had to deal with big, fearsome sounding words.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000025_000002|Besides, in this particular instance-would not mr Pendleton be especially interested in mrs Carew's taking the boy into her home, for who better than himself could understand the need of a child's presence?
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000000|For that matter, Pollyanna talked to everybody about Jamie.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000001|She assumed that everybody would be as interested as she herself was.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000002|On most occasions she was not disappointed in the interest shown; but one day she met with a surprise.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000003|It came through Jimmy Pendleton.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000027_000000|"Say, look a here," he demanded one afternoon, irritably.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000027_000001|"Wasn't there ANYBODY else down to Boston but just that everlasting 'Jamie'?"
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000028_000000|"Why, Jimmy Bean, what do you mean?" cried Pollyanna.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000029_000000|The boy lifted his chin a little.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000030_000001|I'm Jimmy Pendleton.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000030_000002|And I mean that I should think, from your talk, that there wasn't ANYBODY down to Boston but just that loony boy who calls them birds and squirrels 'Lady Lancelot,' and all that tommyrot."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000000|"Why, Jimmy Be-Pendleton!" gasped Pollyanna.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000001|Then, with some spirit: "Jamie isn't loony!
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000002|He is a very nice boy.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000003|And he knows a lot-books and stories!
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000004|Why, he can MAKE stories right out of his own head! Besides, it isn't 'Lady Lancelot,'--it's 'Sir Lancelot.' If you knew half as much as he does you'd know that, too!" she finished, with flashing eyes.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000032_000000|Jimmy Pendleton flushed miserably and looked utterly wretched.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000032_000001|Growing more and more jealous moment by moment, still doggedly he held his ground.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000033_000002|And I know somebody else that said so, too."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000034_000000|"Who was it?"
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000035_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000038_000000|"Your-dad?" repeated Pollyanna, in amazement.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000038_000001|"Why, how could he know Jamie?"
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000039_000000|"He didn't. 'Twasn't about that Jamie. 'twas about me." The boy still spoke sullenly, with his eyes turned away.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000039_000001|Yet there was a curious softness in his voice that was always noticeable whenever he spoke of his father.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000040_000000|"YOU!"
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000001|We stopped 'most a week with a farmer.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000002|Dad helped about the hayin'--and I did, too, some. The farmer's wife was awful good to me, and pretty quick she was callin' me 'Jamie.' I don't know why, but she just did.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000003|And one day father heard her.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000004|He got awful mad-so mad that I remembered it always-what he said.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000005|He said 'Jamie' wasn't no sort of a name for a boy, and that no son of his should ever be called it.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000006|He said 'twas a sissy name, and he hated it.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000008|He wouldn't even stay to finish the work, but him and me took to the road again that night.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000009|I was kind of sorry, 'cause I liked her-the farmer's wife, I mean.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000010|She was good to me."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000042_000000|Pollyanna nodded, all sympathy and interest.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000042_000001|It was not often that Jimmy said much of that mysterious past life of his, before she had known him.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000043_000000|"And what happened next?" she prompted.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000043_000001|Pollyanna had, for the moment, forgotten all about the original subject of the controversy-the name "Jamie" that was dubbed "sissy."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000044_000000|The boy sighed.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000045_000000|"We just went on till we found another place.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000045_000001|And 'twas there dad-died.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000045_000002|Then they put me in the 'sylum."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000046_000000|"And then you ran away and I found you that day, down by mrs Snow's," exulted Pollyanna, softly.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000046_000001|"And I've known you ever since."
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000047_000000|"Oh, yes-and you've known me ever since," repeated Jimmy-but in a far different voice: Jimmy had suddenly come back to the present, and to his grievance.
train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000047_000001|"But, then, I ain't 'JAMIE,' you know," he finished with scornful emphasis, as he turned loftily away, leaving a distressed, bewildered Pollyanna behind him.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000004_000000|"It has now been fashionable, for near half a century, to defame and vilify the house of Stuart and, to exalt and magnify the reign of Elizabeth.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000004_000001|The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000005_000002|His majestick expression would have carried down to the latest posterity the glorious achievements of his country with the same fervent glow which they produced on the mind of the time.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000005_000003|He would have been under no temptation to deviate in any degree from truth, which he held very sacred, or to take a licence, which a learned divine told me he once seemed, in a conversation, jocularly to allow to historians.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000007_000000|'There are (said he) inexcusable lies, and consecrated lies.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000007_000001|For instance, we are told that on the arrival of the news of the unfortunate battle of Fontenoy, every heart beat, and every eye was in tears.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000011_000000|Again, towards the conclusion:
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000013_000000|I take this opportunity to relate the manner in which an acquaintance first commenced between dr Johnson and mr Murphy.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000013_000004|mr Murphy then waited upon Johnson, to explain this curious incident.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000016_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000017_000000|'You that travel about the world, have more materials for letters, than I who stay at home; and should, therefore, write with frequency equal to your opportunities.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000017_000001|I should be glad to have all England surveyed by you, if you would impart your observations in narratives as agreeable as your last.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000017_000003|While you have been riding and running, and seeing the tombs of the learned, and the camps of the valiant, I have only staid at home, and intended to do great things, which I have not done.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000018_000001|mr Sharpe is of opinion that the tedious maturation of the cataract is a vulgar errour, and that it may be removed as soon as it is formed.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000018_000002|This notion deserves to be considered; I doubt whether it be universally true; but if it be true in some cases, and those cases can be distinguished, it may save a long and uncomfortable delay.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000021_000001|He had more company the second than the first night, and will make, I believe, a good figure in the whole, though his faults seem to be very many; some of natural deficience, and some of laborious affectation.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000021_000002|He has, I think, no power of assuming either that dignity or elegance which some men, who have little of either in common life, can exhibit on the stage.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000021_000003|His voice when strained is unpleasing, and when low is not always heard.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000024_000000|'Your most affectionate servant,
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000025_000000|'SAM.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000026_000000|'october eighteenth seventeen sixty.'
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000005|'Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000010|But he gave a more eminent proof of it in our sister kingdom, as dr Johnson informed me.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000012|Rolt went over to Dublin, published an edition of it, and put his own name to it.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000014|Akenside having been informed of this imposition, vindicated his right by publishing the poem with its real authour's name.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000015|Several instances of such literary fraud have been detected.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000030_000001|They were, at length, very much surprised to see a pompous edition of it in folio, dedicated to the Princess Dowager of Wales, by a dr Douglas, as his own.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000030_000003|He had been at the pains to transcribe the whole book, with blottings, interlineations, and corrections, that it might be shewn to several people as an original.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000030_000005|I can conceive this kind of fraud to be very easily practised with successful effrontery.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000000|'You reproach me very often with parsimony of writing: but you may discover by the extent of my paper, that I design to recompence rarity by length.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000001|A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation;--a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000002|Yet it must be remembered, that he who continues the same course of life in the same place, will have little to tell.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000004|The silent changes made by time are not always perceived; and if they are not perceived, cannot be recounted.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000006|I received your kind letter from Falmouth, in which you gave me notice of your departure for Lisbon, and another from Lisbon, in which you told me, that you were to leave Portugal in a few days.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000007|To either of these how could any answer be returned?
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000008|I have had a third from Turin, complaining that I have not answered the former.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000009|Your English style still continues in its purity and vigour.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000010|With vigour your genius will supply it; but its purity must be continued by close attention.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000000|'I know not whether I can heartily rejoice at the kind reception which you have found, or at the popularity to which you are exalted.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000002|I would have you happy wherever you are: yet I would have you wish to return to England.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000003|If ever you visit us again, you will find the kindness of your friends undiminished.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000006|Yet I shall not wonder if all our invitations should be rejected: for there is a pleasure in being considerable at home, which is not easily resisted.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000040_000001|His relations will thank you for any such gratuitous attention: at least they will not blame you for any evil that may happen, whether they thank you or not for any good.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000041_000000|'You know that we have a new King and a new Parliament.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000041_000003|The young man is hitherto blameless; but it would be unreasonable to expect much from the immaturity of juvenile years, and the ignorance of princely education.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000041_000004|He has been long in the hands of the Scots, and has already favoured them more than the English will contentedly endure. But, perhaps, he scarcely knows whom he has distinguished, or whom he has disgusted.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000042_000001|This year was the second Exhibition.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000042_000002|They please themselves much with the multitude of spectators, and imagine that the English School will rise in reputation. Reynolds is without a rival, and continues to add thousands to thousands, which he deserves, among other excellencies, by retaining his kindness for Baretti.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000042_000003|This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000000|'I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself: yet what account shall I give him?
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000001|I have not, since the day of our separation, suffered or done any thing considerable.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000002|The only change in my way of life is, that I have frequented the theatre more than in former seasons.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000003|But I have gone thither only to escape from myself.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000005|I am digressing from myself to the play house; but a barren plan must be filled with episodes.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000006|Of myself I have nothing to say, but that I have hitherto lived without the concurrence of my own judgment; yet I continue to flatter myself, that, when you return, you will find me mended.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000007|I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000009|If I were to visit Italy, my curiosity would be more attracted by convents than by palaces: though I am afraid that I should find expectation in both places equally disappointed, and life in both places supported with impatience and quitted with reluctance.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000011|Those who have endeavoured to teach us to die well, have taught few to die willingly: yet I cannot but hope that a good life might end at last in a contented death.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000046_000000|'You see to what a train of thought I am drawn by the mention of myself. Let me now turn my attention upon you.
train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000046_000002|You have given us good specimens in your letters from Lisbon.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000015_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000000|The same day, about seven o'clock in the evening, Raskolnikov was on his way to his mother's and sister's lodging-the lodging in Bakaleyev's house which Razumihin had found for them.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000001|The stairs went up from the street.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000002|Raskolnikov walked with lagging steps, as though still hesitating whether to go or not.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000003|But nothing would have turned him back: his decision was taken.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000017_000000|"Besides, it doesn't matter, they still know nothing," he thought, "and they are used to thinking of me as eccentric."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000018_000000|He was appallingly dressed: his clothes torn and dirty, soaked with a night's rain.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000018_000001|His face was almost distorted from fatigue, exposure, the inward conflict that had lasted for twenty four hours.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000018_000002|He had spent all the previous night alone, God knows where.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000019_000000|He knocked at the door which was opened by his mother.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000019_000002|Even the servant happened to be out.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000019_000003|At first Pulcheria Alexandrovna was speechless with joy and surprise; then she took him by the hand and drew him into the room.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000000|"Here you are!" she began, faltering with joy.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000001|"Don't be angry with me, Rodya, for welcoming you so foolishly with tears: I am laughing not crying.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000002|Did you think I was crying?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000003|No, I am delighted, but I've got into such a stupid habit of shedding tears.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000004|I've been like that ever since your father's death.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000005|I cry for anything.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000006|Sit down, dear boy, you must be tired; I see you are.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000007|Ah, how muddy you are."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000000|"No, no," Pulcheria Alexandrovna hurriedly interrupted, "you thought I was going to cross question you in the womanish way I used to; don't be anxious, I understand, I understand it all: now I've learned the ways here and truly I see for myself that they are better.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000001|I've made up my mind once for all: how could I understand your plans and expect you to give an account of them?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000003|But, my goodness!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000004|why am I running to and fro as though I were crazy...?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000005|I am reading your article in the magazine for the third time, Rodya.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000006|Dmitri Prokofitch brought it to me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000007|Directly I saw it I cried out to myself: 'There, foolish one,' I thought, 'that's what he is busy about; that's the solution of the mystery!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000008|Learned people are always like that.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000009|He may have some new ideas in his head just now; he is thinking them over and I worry him and upset him.' I read it, my dear, and of course there was a great deal I did not understand; but that's only natural-how should I?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000000|Raskolnikov took the magazine and glanced at his article.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000002|It lasted only a moment.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000003|After reading a few lines he frowned and his heart throbbed with anguish.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000004|He recalled all the inward conflict of the preceding months.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000005|He flung the article on the table with disgust and anger.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000000|"But, however foolish I may be, Rodya, I can see for myself that you will very soon be one of the leading-if not the leading man-in the world of Russian thought.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000001|And they dared to think you were mad!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000002|You don't know, but they really thought that.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000003|Ah, the despicable creatures, how could they understand genius!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000005|Your father sent twice to magazines-the first time poems (I've got the manuscript and will show you) and the second time a whole novel (I begged him to let me copy it out) and how we prayed that they should be taken-they weren't!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000007|But now I see again how foolish I was, for you can attain any position you like by your intellect and talent.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000008|No doubt you don't care about that for the present and you are occupied with much more important matters...."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000026_000000|"Dounia's not at home, mother?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000000|"No, Rodya.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000002|Dmitri Prokofitch comes to see me, it's so good of him, and he always talks about you.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000003|He loves you and respects you, my dear.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000005|I am not complaining.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000006|She has her ways and I have mine; she seems to have got some secrets of late and I never have any secrets from you two.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000007|Of course, I am sure that Dounia has far too much sense, and besides she loves you and me... but I don't know what it will all lead to.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000010|I shall know, anyway, that you are fond of me, that will be enough for me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000011|I shall read what you write, I shall hear about you from everyone, and sometimes you'll come yourself to see me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000012|What could be better?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000013|Here you've come now to comfort your mother, I see that."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000028_000000|Here Pulcheria Alexandrovna began to cry.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000029_000002|My goodness, why am I sitting here?" she cried, jumping up.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000029_000003|"There is coffee and I don't offer you any.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000029_000005|I'll get it at once!"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000030_000000|"Mother, don't trouble, I am going at once.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000030_000001|I haven't come for that. Please listen to me."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000031_000000|Pulcheria Alexandrovna went up to him timidly.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000032_000000|"Mother, whatever happens, whatever you hear about me, whatever you are told about me, will you always love me as you do now?" he asked suddenly from the fullness of his heart, as though not thinking of his words and not weighing them.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000033_000001|How can you ask me such a question? Why, who will tell me anything about you?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000033_000002|Besides, I shouldn't believe anyone, I should refuse to listen."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000034_000002|I shall never cease to love you....
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000034_000003|Well, that's enough: I thought I must do this and begin with this...."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000000|"I don't know what is wrong with you, Rodya," she said at last.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000001|"I've been thinking all this time that we were simply boring you and now I see that there is a great sorrow in store for you, and that's why you are miserable.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000003|Forgive me for speaking about it.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000004|I keep thinking about it and lie awake at nights.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000005|Your sister lay talking in her sleep all last night, talking of nothing but you.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000006|I caught something, but I couldn't make it out.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000007|I felt all the morning as though I were going to be hanged, waiting for something, expecting something, and now it has come!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000008|Rodya, Rodya, where are you going?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000037_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000038_000000|"That's what I thought!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000038_000001|I can come with you, you know, if you need me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000038_000003|You see, I am glad to look upon her as a daughter even... Dmitri Prokofitch will help us to go together. But... where... are you going?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000039_000000|"Good bye, mother."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000040_000000|"What, to day?" she cried, as though losing him for ever.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000041_000000|"I can't stay, I must go now...."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000042_000000|"And can't I come with you?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000043_000000|"No, but kneel down and pray to God for me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000043_000001|Your prayer perhaps will reach Him."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000044_000000|"Let me bless you and sign you with the cross.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000044_000001|That's right, that's right.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000000|Yes, he was glad, he was very glad that there was no one there, that he was alone with his mother.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000001|For the first time after all those awful months his heart was softened.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000002|He fell down before her, he kissed her feet and both wept, embracing.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000003|And she was not surprised and did not question him this time.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000004|For some days she had realised that something awful was happening to her son and that now some terrible minute had come for him.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000046_000001|You would run like this to me and hug me and kiss me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000046_000004|The first time I saw you, that evening, you remember, as soon as we arrived here, I guessed simply from your eyes.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000046_000005|My heart sank at once, and to day when I opened the door and looked at you, I thought the fatal hour had come.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000047_000000|"No!"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000048_000000|"You'll come again?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000049_000000|"Yes...
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000049_000001|I'll come."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000050_000000|"Rodya, don't be angry, I don't dare to question you.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000050_000001|I know I mustn't. Only say two words to me-is it far where you are going?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000051_000000|"Very far."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000052_000000|"What is awaiting you there?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000052_000001|Some post or career for you?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000053_000000|"What God sends... only pray for me." Raskolnikov went to the door, but she clutched him and gazed despairingly into his eyes.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000054_000000|"Enough, mother," said Raskolnikov, deeply regretting that he had come.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000055_000000|"Not for ever, it's not yet for ever?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000055_000001|You'll come, you'll come to morrow?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000056_000000|"I will, I will, good bye." He tore himself away at last.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000001|He wanted to finish all before sunset.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000002|He did not want to meet anyone till then.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000003|Going up the stairs he noticed that Nastasya rushed from the samovar to watch him intently.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000004|"Can anyone have come to see me?" he wondered.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000005|He had a disgusted vision of Porfiry.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000006|But opening his door he saw Dounia.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000008|He stopped short in the doorway.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000009|She rose from the sofa in dismay and stood up facing him.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000010|Her eyes, fixed upon him, betrayed horror and infinite grief.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000058_000000|"Am I to come in or go away?" he asked uncertainly.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000059_000001|We were both waiting for you. We thought that you would be sure to come there."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000060_000000|Raskolnikov went into the room and sank exhausted on a chair.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000061_000000|"I feel weak, Dounia, I am very tired; and I should have liked at this moment to be able to control myself."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000062_000000|He glanced at her mistrustfully.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000063_000000|"Where were you all night?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000064_000000|"I don't remember clearly.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000064_000001|You see, sister, I wanted to make up my mind once for all, and several times I walked by the Neva, I remember that I wanted to end it all there, but...
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000065_000000|"Thank God!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000065_000001|That was just what we were afraid of, Sofya Semyonovna and i Then you still have faith in life?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000065_000002|Thank God, thank God!"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000066_000000|Raskolnikov smiled bitterly.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000067_000000|"I haven't faith, but I have just been weeping in mother's arms; I haven't faith, but I have just asked her to pray for me.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000068_000000|"Have you been at mother's?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000068_000001|Have you told her?" cried Dounia, horror stricken.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000068_000002|"Surely you haven't done that?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000069_000000|"No, I didn't tell her... in words; but she understood a great deal. She heard you talking in your sleep.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000069_000001|I am sure she half understands it already.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000069_000002|Perhaps I did wrong in going to see her.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000070_000000|"A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000070_000001|You are, aren't you?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000071_000001|At once.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000071_000003|"It's pride, Dounia."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000072_000000|"Pride, Rodya."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000073_000000|There was a gleam of fire in his lustreless eyes; he seemed to be glad to think that he was still proud.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000074_000000|"You don't think, sister, that I was simply afraid of the water?" he asked, looking into her face with a sinister smile.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000075_000001|Silence lasted for two minutes.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000075_000003|Suddenly he got up.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000076_000000|"It's late, it's time to go!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000076_000001|I am going at once to give myself up.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000076_000002|But I don't know why I am going to give myself up."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000077_000000|Big tears fell down her cheeks.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000078_000000|"You are crying, sister, but can you hold out your hand to me?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000079_000000|"You doubted it?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000080_000000|She threw her arms round him.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000081_000000|"Aren't you half expiating your crime by facing the suffering?" she cried, holding him close and kissing him.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000000|"Crime?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000001|What crime?" he cried in sudden fury.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000002|"That I killed a vile noxious insect, an old pawnbroker woman, of use to no one!...
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000003|Killing her was atonement for forty sins.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000004|She was sucking the life out of poor people.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000005|Was that a crime?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000007|'A crime! a crime!' Only now I see clearly the imbecility of my cowardice, now that I have decided to face this superfluous disgrace.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000008|It's simply because I am contemptible and have nothing in me that I have decided to, perhaps too for my advantage, as that...
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000009|Porfiry... suggested!"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000083_000000|"Brother, brother, what are you saying?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000083_000001|Why, you have shed blood?" cried Dounia in despair.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000000|"Which all men shed," he put in almost frantically, "which flows and has always flowed in streams, which is spilt like champagne, and for which men are crowned in the Capitol and are called afterwards benefactors of mankind.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000001|Look into it more carefully and understand it!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000003|But i.. I couldn't carry out even the first step, because I am contemptible, that's what's the matter!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000004|And yet I won't look at it as you do.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000005|If I had succeeded I should have been crowned with glory, but now I'm trapped."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000085_000000|"But that's not so, not so!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000085_000001|Brother, what are you saying?"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000086_000000|"Ah, it's not picturesque, not aesthetically attractive!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000086_000003|I've never, never been stronger and more convinced than now."
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000087_000001|He felt that he had, anyway, made these two poor women miserable, that he was, anyway, the cause...
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000001|Good bye!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000002|We won't dispute.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000003|It's time, high time to go. Don't follow me, I beseech you, I have somewhere else to go....
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000004|But you go at once and sit with mother.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000005|I entreat you to!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000006|It's my last request of you.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000007|Don't leave her at all; I left her in a state of anxiety, that she is not fit to bear; she will die or go out of her mind.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000008|Be with her!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000009|Razumihin will be with you.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000011|Don't cry about me: I'll try to be honest and manly all my life, even if I am a murderer.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000012|Perhaps I shall some day make a name.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000013|I won't disgrace you, you will see; I'll still show....
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000014|Now good bye for the present," he concluded hurriedly, noticing again a strange expression in Dounia's eyes at his last words and promises.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000015|"Why are you crying?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000016|Don't cry, don't cry: we are not parting for ever!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000017|Ah, yes!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000018|Wait a minute, I'd forgotten!"
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000089_000000|He went to the table, took up a thick dusty book, opened it and took from between the pages a little water colour portrait on ivory.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000089_000001|It was the portrait of his landlady's daughter, who had died of fever, that strange girl who had wanted to be a nun.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000000|"I used to talk a great deal about it to her, only to her," he said thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000002|Don't be uneasy," he returned to Dounia, "she was as much opposed to it as you, and I am glad that she is gone.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000003|The great point is that everything now is going to be different, is going to be broken in two," he cried, suddenly returning to his dejection. "Everything, everything, and am I prepared for it?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000004|Do I want it myself? They say it is necessary for me to suffer!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000005|What's the object of these senseless sufferings?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000006|shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000007|And what shall I have to live for then?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000008|Why am I consenting to that life now?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000000|At last they both went out.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000001|It was hard for Dounia, but she loved him. She walked away, but after going fifty paces she turned round to look at him again.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000002|He was still in sight.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000003|At the corner he too turned and for the last time their eyes met; but noticing that she was looking at him, he motioned her away with impatience and even vexation, and turned the corner abruptly.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000000|"I am wicked, I see that," he thought to himself, feeling ashamed a moment later of his angry gesture to Dounia.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000001|"But why are they so fond of me if I don't deserve it?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000002|Oh, if only I were alone and no one loved me and I too had never loved anyone!
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000004|Yes, that's it, that's it, that's what they are sending me there for, that's what they want.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000005|Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000093_000000|He fell to musing by what process it could come to pass, that he could be humbled before all of them, indiscriminately-humbled by conviction. And yet why not?
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000093_000001|It must be so.
train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000093_000002|Would not twenty years of continual bondage crush him utterly?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000003_000000|INTRODUCTION
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000004_000000|In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection with it is.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000004_000001|And so I may as well say at once that I am not the narrator but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my hands.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000005_000001|One of these gentlemen was I think, without exception, the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000005_000002|He was very tall, very broad, and had a look of power and a grace of bearing that seemed as native to him as it is to a wild stag.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000005_000003|In addition his face was almost without flaw-a good face as well as a beautiful one, and when he lifted his hat, which he did just then to a passing lady, I saw that his head was covered with little golden curls growing close to the scalp.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000006_000000|"Good gracious!" I said to my friend, with whom I was walking, "why, that fellow looks like a statue of Apollo come to life.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000001|They call him 'the Greek god'; but look at the other one, he's Vincey's (that's the god's name) guardian, and supposed to be full of every kind of information.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000002|They call him 'Charon.'" I looked, and found the older man quite as interesting in his way as the glorified specimen of humanity at his side.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000003|He appeared to be about forty years of age, and was I think as ugly as his companion was handsome.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000004|To begin with, he was shortish, rather bow legged, very deep chested, and with unusually long arms.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000005|He had dark hair and small eyes, and the hair grew right down on his forehead, and his whiskers grew right up to his hair, so that there was uncommonly little of his countenance to be seen. Altogether he reminded me forcibly of a gorilla, and yet there was something very pleasing and genial about the man's eye.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000006|I remember saying that I should like to know him.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000001|I know Vincey; I'll introduce you," and he did, and for some minutes we stood chatting-about the Zulu people, I think, for I had just returned from the Cape at the time.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000002|Presently, however, a stoutish lady, whose name I do not remember, came along the pavement, accompanied by a pretty fair haired girl, and these two mr Vincey, who clearly knew them well, at once joined, walking off in their company.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000003|I remember being rather amused because of the change in the expression of the elder man, whose name I discovered was Holly, when he saw the ladies advancing.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000004|He suddenly stopped short in his talk, cast a reproachful look at his companion, and, with an abrupt nod to myself, turned and marched off alone across the street.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000005|I heard afterwards that he was popularly supposed to be as much afraid of a woman as most people are of a mad dog, which accounted for his precipitate retreat.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000006|I cannot say, however, that young Vincey showed much aversion to feminine society on this occasion.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000007|Indeed I remember laughing, and remarking to my friend at the time that he was not the sort of man whom it would be desirable to introduce to the lady one was going to marry, since it was exceedingly probable that the acquaintance would end in a transfer of her affections.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000009_000000|That same evening my visit came to an end, and this was the last I saw or heard of "Charon" and "the Greek god" for many a long day.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000009_000001|Indeed, I have never seen either of them from that hour to this, and do not think it probable that I shall.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000000|"My dear Sir,--You will be surprised, considering the very slight nature of our acquaintance, to get a letter from me.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000001|Indeed, I think I had better begin by reminding you that we once met, now some five years ago, when I and my ward Leo Vincey were introduced to you in the street at Cambridge.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000002|To be brief and come to my business.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000003|I have recently read with much interest a book of yours describing a Central African adventure.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000004|I take it that this book is partly true, and partly an effort of the imagination.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000005|However this may be, it has given me an idea.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000008|Nor should we alter our determination were it not for a circumstance which has recently arisen.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000009|We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia where, if anywhere upon this earth, wisdom is to be found, and we anticipate that our sojourn there will be a long one.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000010|Possibly we shall not return.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000011|Under these altered conditions it has become a question whether we are justified in withholding from the world an account of a phenomenon which we believe to be of unparalleled interest, merely because our private life is involved, or because we are afraid of ridicule and doubt being cast upon our statements.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000000|"And now what am I to say further?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000001|I really do not know beyond once more repeating that everything is described in the accompanying manuscript exactly as it happened.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000003|Who was she?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000004|How did she first come to the Caves of Kor, and what was her real religion?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000005|We never ascertained, and now, alas! we never shall, at least not yet.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000006|These and many other questions arise in my mind, but what is the good of asking them now?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000013_000000|"Will you undertake the task?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000013_000001|We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000013_000002|Read the manuscript (which I have copied out fairly for your benefit), and let me know.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000000|"p s--Of course, if any profit results from the sale of the writing should you care to undertake its publication, you can do what you like with it, but if there is a loss I will leave instructions with my lawyers, Messrs.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000001|Geoffrey and Jordan, to meet it.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000002|We entrust the sherd, the scarab, and the parchments to your keeping, till such time as we demand them back again.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000003|--l h h"
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000000|Well, that is all I have to say.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000001|Of the history itself the reader must judge.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000002|I give it him, with the exception of a very few alterations, made with the object of concealing the identity of the actors from the general public, exactly as it came to me.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000004|At first I was inclined to believe that this history of a woman on whom, clothed in the majesty of her almost endless years, the shadow of Eternity itself lay like the dark wing of Night, was some gigantic allegory of which I could not catch the meaning.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000005|Then I thought that it might be a bold attempt to portray the possible results of practical immortality, informing the substance of a mortal who yet drew her strength from Earth, and in whose human bosom passions yet rose and fell and beat as in the undying world around her the winds and the tides rise and fall and beat unceasingly.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000006|But as I went on I abandoned that idea also.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000007|To me the story seems to bear the stamp of truth upon its face.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000008|Its explanation I must leave to others, and with this slight preface, which circumstances make necessary, I introduce the world to Ayesha and the Caves of Kor.--The Editor.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000000|p s--There is on consideration one circumstance that, after a reperusal of this history, struck me with so much force that I cannot resist calling the attention of the reader to it.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000002|He is not even, at any rate to my view, particularly interesting.
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000004|Can it be that extremes meet, and that the very excess and splendour of her mind led her by means of some strange physical reaction to worship at the shrine of matter?
train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000005|Was that ancient Kallikrates nothing but a splendid animal loved for his hereditary Greek beauty?
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000001_000001|There had been a warm thaw all day, with mushy yards and little streams of dark water gurgling cheerfully into the streets out of old snow banks.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000001_000005|I did so regretfully, and the dim objects in the room emerged from the shadows and took their place about me with the helpfulness which custom breeds.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000002_000000|I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the Georgics where to morrow's lesson began.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000003_000000|Cleric said he thought Virgil, when he was dying at Brindisi, must have remembered that passage.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000000|We left the classroom quietly, conscious that we had been brushed by the wing of a great feeling, though perhaps I alone knew Cleric intimately enough to guess what that feeling was.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000001|In the evening, as I sat staring at my book, the fervor of his voice stirred through the quantities on the page before me.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000002|I was wondering whether that particular rocky strip of New England coast about which he had so often told me was Cleric's patria. Before I had got far with my reading I was disturbed by a knock.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000003|I hurried to the door and when I opened it saw a woman standing in the dark hall.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000006_000001|She was so quietly conventionalized by city clothes that I might have passed her on the street without seeing her.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000006_000002|Her black suit fitted her figure smoothly, and a black lace hat, with pale blue forget me nots, sat demurely on her yellow hair.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000007_000000|I led her toward Cleric's chair, the only comfortable one I had, questioning her confusedly.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000001|She looked about her with the naive curiosity I remembered so well.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000003|I live in Lincoln now, too, Jim.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000004|I'm in business for myself. I have a dressmaking shop in the Raleigh Block, out on O Street.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000005|I've made a real good start."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000010_000003|I did n't know whether you'd be glad to see me." She laughed her mellow, easy laugh, that was either very artless or very comprehending, one never quite knew which. "You seem the same, though,--except you're a young man, now, of course.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000010_000004|Do you think I've changed?"
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000011_000000|"Maybe you're prettier-though you were always pretty enough.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000011_000001|Perhaps it's your clothes that make a difference."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000000|"You like my new suit?
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000001|I have to dress pretty well in my business." She took off her jacket and sat more at ease in her blouse, of some soft, flimsy silk.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000002|She was already at home in my place, had slipped quietly into it, as she did into everything.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000003|She told me her business was going well, and she had saved a little money.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000013_000000|"This summer I'm going to build the house for mother I've talked about so long.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000013_000001|I won't be able to pay up on it at first, but I want her to have it before she is too old to enjoy it.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000013_000002|Next summer I'll take her down new furniture and carpets, so she'll have something to look forward to all winter."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000014_000000|I watched Lena sitting there so smooth and sunny and well cared for, and thought of how she used to run barefoot over the prairie until after the snow began to fly, and how Crazy Mary chased her round and round the cornfields.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000014_000001|It seemed to me wonderful that she should have got on so well in the world.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000015_000001|"Look at me; I've never earned a dollar, and I don't know that I'll ever be able to."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000000|"She's fine.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000001|She works for mrs Gardener at the hotel now.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000002|She's housekeeper.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000003|mrs Gardener's health is n't what it was, and she can't see after everything like she used to.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000001|I guess they're engaged.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000002|Tony talks about him like he was president of the railroad.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000004|She won't hear a word against him.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000005|She's so sort of innocent."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000021_000000|I said I did n't like Larry, and never would.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000022_000001|"Some of us could tell her things, but it would n't do any good.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000022_000002|She'd always believe him.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000022_000003|That's Antonia's failing, you know; if she once likes people, she won't hear anything against them."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000023_000000|"I think I'd better go home and look after Antonia," I said.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000001|"It's a good thing the Harlings are friendly with her again.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000002|Larry's afraid of them. They ship so much grain, they have influence with the railroad people. What are you studying?" She leaned her elbows on the table and drew my book toward her.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000003|I caught a faint odor of violet sachet.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000004|"So that's Latin, is it?
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000007|Don't you just love a good play, Jim?
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000008|I can't stay at home in the evening if there's one in town.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000026_000000|"Would you like to?
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000026_000001|I'd be ever so pleased.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000026_000003|I board, to save time, but sometimes I cook a chop for myself, and I'd be glad to cook one for you.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000027_000001|You've hardly told me anything yet."
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000028_000000|"We can talk when you come to see me.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000028_000002|The old woman downstairs did n't want to let me come up very much.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000028_000004|How surprised mrs Burden would be!" Lena laughed softly as she rose.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000000|When I caught up my hat she shook her head.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000001|"No, I don't want you to go with me.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000002|I'm to meet some Swedes at the drug store.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000003|You would n't care for them.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000004|I wanted to see your room so I could write Tony all about it, but I must tell her how I left you right here with your books.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000006|I walked with her to the door.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000007|"Come and see me sometimes when you're lonesome.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000008|But maybe you have all the friends you want.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000009|Have you?" She turned her soft cheek to me.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000010|"Have you?" she whispered teasingly in my ear.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000011|In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000000|When I turned back to my room the place seemed much pleasanter than before.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000002|How I loved to hear her laugh again!
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000003|It was so soft and unexcited and appreciative-gave a favorable interpretation to everything.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000005|Lena had brought them all back to me.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000007|If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000008|I understood that clearly, for the first time.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000010|I clung to it as if it might suddenly vanish.
train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000031_000000|As I sat down to my book at last, my old dream about Lena coming across the harvest field in her short skirt seemed to me like the memory of an actual experience.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000000|IN Lincoln the best part of the theatrical season came late, when the good companies stopped off there for one night stands, after their long runs in New York and Chicago.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000002|I liked to watch a play with Lena; everything was wonderful to her, and everything was true.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000004|She handed her feelings over to the actors with a kind of fatalistic resignation.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000005|Accessories of costume and scene meant much more to her than to me.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000006|She sat entranced through "Robin Hood" and hung upon the lips of the contralto who sang, "Oh, Promise Me!"
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000004_000000|Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name "Camille."
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000000|I called at the Raleigh Block for Lena on Saturday evening, and we walked down to the theater.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000001|The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humor.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000002|We arrived early, because Lena liked to watch the people come in.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000003|There was a note on the programme, saying that the "incidental music" would be from the opera "Traviata," which was made from the same story as the play.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000005|"The Count of Monte Cristo," which I had seen james O'Neill play that winter, was by the only Alexandre Dumas I knew.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000006|This play, I saw, was by his son, and I expected a family resemblance.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000007|A couple of jack rabbits, run in off the prairie, could not have been more innocent of what awaited them than were Lena and i
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000000|Our excitement began with the rise of the curtain, when the moody Varville, seated before the fire, interrogated Nanine.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000001|Decidedly, there was a new tang about this dialogue.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000003|This introduced the most brilliant, worldly, the most enchantingly gay scene I had ever looked upon.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000006|I seem to remember gilded chairs and tables (arranged hurriedly by footmen in white gloves and stockings), linen of dazzling whiteness, glittering glass, silver dishes, a great bowl of fruit, and the reddest of roses.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000008|The men were dressed more or less after the period in which the play was written; the women were not.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000009|I saw no inconsistency.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000010|Their talk seemed to open to one the brilliant world in which they lived; every sentence made one older and wiser, every pleasantry enlarged one's horizon.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000011|One could experience excess and satiety without the inconvenience of learning what to do with one's hands in a drawing room!
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000012|When the characters all spoke at once and I missed some of the phrases they flashed at each other, I was in misery.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000000|The actress who played Marguerite was even then old-fashioned, though historic.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000001|She had been a member of Daly's famous New York company, and afterward a "star" under his direction.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000002|She was a woman who could not be taught, it is said, though she had a crude natural force which carried with people whose feelings were accessible and whose taste was not squeamish.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000003|She was already old, with a ravaged countenance and a physique curiously hard and stiff.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000006|But what did it matter?
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000007|I believed devoutly in her power to fascinate him, in her dazzling loveliness.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000008|I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000009|I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim waisted Armand in the frilled shirt to convince her that there was still loyalty and devotion in the world.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000010|Her sudden illness, when the gayety was at its height, her pallor, the handkerchief she crushed against her lips, the cough she smothered under the laughter while Gaston kept playing the piano lightly-it all wrung my heart.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000011|But not so much as her cynicism in the long dialogue with her lover which followed.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000012|How far was I from questioning her unbelief!
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000008_000000|Between the acts we had no time to forget.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000008_000001|The orchestra kept sawing away at the "Traviata" music, so joyous and sad, so thin and far away, so clap trap and yet so heart breaking.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000008_000003|As I walked about there I congratulated myself that I had not brought some Lincoln girl who would talk during the waits about the Junior dances, or whether the cadets would camp at Plattsmouth.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000009_000000|Through the scene between Marguerite and the elder Duval, Lena wept unceasingly, and I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000010_000001|Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000010_000002|At all times she was highly tragic, devoured by remorse. Lightness of stress or behavior was far from her.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000010_000004|But the lines were enough.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000011_000001|There were chandeliers hung from the ceiling, I remember, many servants in livery, gaming tables where the men played with piles of gold, and a staircase down which the guests made their entrance.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000011_000002|After all the others had gathered round the card tables, and young Duval had been warned by Prudence, Marguerite descended the staircase with Varville; such a cloak, such a fan, such jewels-and her face!
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000011_000004|When Armand, with the terrible words, "Look, all of you, I owe this woman nothing!" flung the gold and bank notes at the half swooning Marguerite, Lena cowered beside me and covered her face with her hands.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000003|I loved Nanine tenderly; and Gaston, how one clung to that good fellow!
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000004|The New Year's presents were not too much; nothing could be too much now.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000005|I wept unrestrainedly.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000006|Even the handkerchief in my breast pocket, worn for elegance and not at all for use, was wet through by the time that moribund woman sank for the last time into the arms of her lover.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000000|When we reached the door of the theater, the streets were shining with rain.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000001|I had prudently brought along mrs Harling's useful Commencement present, and I took Lena home under its shelter.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000002|After leaving her, I walked slowly out into the country part of the town where I lived.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000003|The lilacs were all blooming in the yards, and the smell of them after the rain, of the new leaves and the blossoms together, blew into my face with a sort of bitter sweetness.
train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000004|I tramped through the puddles and under the showery trees, mourning for Marguerite Gauthier as if she had died only yesterday, sighing with the spirit of eighteen forty, which had sighed so much, and which had reached me only that night, across long years and several languages, through the person of an infirm old actress.
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000008_000000|"What?
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000027_000000|"One moment, yes," answered the queen.
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000029_000001|"Speak, sir!
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000029_000002|I beg you to do so."
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000031_000000|"Mistaken!" cried the queen, almost suffocated by emotion; "mistaken! what has happened, then?"
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000038_000002|Oh, my God! my God! what has happened?"
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000049_000002|Our duty is fulfilled."
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000057_000001|"You know well that I don't like to leave things half finished."
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000059_000001|Come and converse with us for just five minutes, sword in hand, upon this deserted terrace."
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000073_000002|Swear first, on your honor, not to inform him of our return."
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000081_000000|"For what reason is all this fume and fury?" asked Athos.
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000083_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000089_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000096_000001|Come, come."
train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000097_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000001_000001|The Road to Picardy.
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000014_000000|Aramis shook his head.
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000018_000000|Aramis stopped.
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000020_000000|They both alighted.
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000033_000000|"Well, what has happened to them?"
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000037_000000|"Arrested, were they?" inquired Athos; "is it known why?"
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000040_000000|"Where were they taken?" asked Athos.
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000055_000002|He could, like the king, touch the greatest of us on the head, and touching them make such heads shake on their shoulders.
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000064_000000|"To whom?"
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000067_000000|"No, I thank you."
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000076_000000|"For what purpose?"
train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000080_000000|The two friends departed-Aramis to return to Paris, Athos to take measures preparatory to an interview with the queen.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000002_000001|I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000002_000003|And they were filthily cold to the touch.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000000|'The next night I did not sleep well.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000002|I was oppressed with perplexity and doubt.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000003|Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000007|Yet I could not face the mystery.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000010|I don't know if you will understand my feeling, but I never felt quite safe at my back.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000005_000004|At first she watched me in amazement.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000006_000002|And not simply fatigued!
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000007_000000|'I was in an agony of discomfort.
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000010_000004|The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000011_000002|If only I had thought of a Kodak!
train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000014_000006|I fell upon my face.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000005_000000|Lemon Syrup.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000006_000002|If you like the taste of oil of lemon, add a few drops.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000008_000000|Pare the lemons very thin, and put the peel to boil in a quart of water; cover it, to keep in the flavor; put two pounds of loaf sugar to the peel of a dozen lemons, and boil it till it becomes a rich syrup; keep it corked up in a bottle, to season ice cream.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000011_000000|Pine Apple Syrup.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000013_000000|Almond Cream.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000015_000000|Tincture of Vanilla.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000016_000000|Vanilla beans, well bruised, half an ounce; French brandy, one gill; let it stand one week, and it will be fit for use.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000016_000001|Keep it corked tight. This article will keep any length of time, and is very convenient for seasoning ices.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000018_000000|One gallon of cream, two pounds rolled loaf sugar, one tea spoonful of oil of lemon.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000018_000001|If for vanilla cream; use a table spoonful of tincture of vanilla, two eggs beaten; mix well and freeze in the usual way.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000018_000002|The seasoning should be well mixed with the sugar, before it is added to the cream; by this means, it will be all flavored alike.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000019_000000|Coloring for ice cream, may be made in this way: take of powdered cochineal, cream of tartar and powdered alum, each two drachms; of salts of tartar, ten grains; pour upon the powders half a pint of boiling water; let it stand for two hours to settle, or filter through paper. Use as much of this infusion as will give the desired shade.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000020_000000|Freezing Ice Cream.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000021_000000|Take a bucket of ice and pound it fine; mix with it two quarts of salt; put your cream in a freezer; cover it close, and immerse it in the bucket; draw the ice round it, so as to touch every part; after it has been in a few minutes, put in a spoon, and stir it from the edge to the centre.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000021_000001|When the cream is put in a mould, close it and move it in the ice, as you cannot use a spoon without waste.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000022_000000|Ice Cream with Lemon.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000024_000000|Ice Cream with Fruit.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000026_000000|Pokeberry Juice to Stain Ices.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000027_000000|Mash and strain ripe pokeberries; to each pint of juice put a pound of sugar; boil them together till it becomes a jelly; when cold put it in a jar and tie it close; use a small quantity of this to stain ice cream or jelly.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000028_000000|Isinglass Jelly.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000031_000000|Shave an ounce of isinglass, and dissolve it in boiling water; then boil it in a quart of new milk; strain it and sweeten it to your taste; season as you prefer, with rose water, cinnamon, or vanilla.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000032_000000|Blancmange of Jelly.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000034_000000|Calf's Foot Jelly.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000037_000000|Raisins in Syrup.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000038_000000|Make a syrup of half a pound of sugar to a pint of water, boil and skim it; put in five bunches of raisins, and let them boil twenty minutes; if you prefer, you can pick off the stems.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000039_000000|To Blanch Almonds and Peach Kernels.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000040_000000|Pour boiling water on them, which will make them peel easily; either roll them with a bottle on the cake board or pound in a mortar, with a little loaf sugar; they should not be pounded too much or they will be oily; peach kernels make a fine flavoring for custard, but as they contain prussic acid, do not use too many.
train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000041_000000|Snow Cream.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000001_000001|Dusk
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000002_000001|But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000004_000000|"If I might touch him!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000005_000000|There was but a gaoler left, along with two of the four men who had taken him last night, and Barsad.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000005_000001|The people had all poured out to the show in the streets.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000005_000002|Barsad proposed to the rest, "Let her embrace him then; it is but a moment." It was silently acquiesced in, and they passed her over the seats in the hall to a raised place, where he, by leaning over the dock, could fold her in his arms.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000008_000000|"I can bear it, dear Charles.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000008_000001|I am supported from above: don't suffer for me.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000009_000000|"I send it to her by you.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000009_000001|I kiss her by you.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000009_000002|I say farewell to her by you."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000010_000000|"My husband.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000010_000003|I feel that this will break my heart by and bye; but I will do my duty while I can, and when I leave her, God will raise up friends for her, as He did for me."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000000|"No, no! What have you done, what have you done, that you should kneel to us!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000002|We know, now what you underwent when you suspected my descent, and when you knew it.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000003|We know now, the natural antipathy you strove against, and conquered, for her dear sake.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000004|We thank you with all our hearts, and all our love and duty.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000005|Heaven be with you!"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000000|"It could not be otherwise," said the prisoner.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000001|"All things have worked together as they have fallen out.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000004|Be comforted, and forgive me.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000005|Heaven bless you!"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000015_000001|As he went out at the prisoners' door, she turned, laid her head lovingly on her father's breast, tried to speak to him, and fell at his feet.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000016_000001|Only her father and mr Lorry were with her.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000016_000002|His arm trembled as it raised her, and supported her head. Yet, there was an air about him that was not all of pity-that had a flush of pride in it.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000017_000000|"Shall I take her to a coach?
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000017_000001|I shall never feel her weight."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000018_000000|He carried her lightly to the door, and laid her tenderly down in a coach.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000018_000001|Her father and their old friend got into it, and he took his seat beside the driver.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000019_000000|When they arrived at the gateway where he had paused in the dark not many hours before, to picture to himself on which of the rough stones of the street her feet had trodden, he lifted her again, and carried her up the staircase to their rooms.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000020_000000|"Don't recall her to herself," he said, softly, to the latter, "she is better so.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000020_000001|Don't revive her to consciousness, while she only faints."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000021_000000|"Oh, Carton, Carton, dear Carton!" cried little Lucie, springing up and throwing her arms passionately round him, in a burst of grief.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000021_000001|"Now that you have come, I think you will do something to help mamma, something to save papa!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000021_000002|O, look at her, dear Carton!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000022_000000|He bent over the child, and laid her blooming cheek against his face.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000023_000000|"Before I go," he said, and paused-"I may kiss her?"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000024_000001|The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000026_000000|"You had great influence but yesterday, Doctor Manette; let it at least be tried.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000026_000001|These judges, and all the men in power, are very friendly to you, and very recognisant of your services; are they not?"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000027_000000|"Nothing connected with Charles was concealed from me.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000027_000001|I had the strongest assurances that I should save him; and I did." He returned the answer in great trouble, and very slowly.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000028_000000|"Try them again.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000028_000001|The hours between this and to morrow afternoon are few and short, but try."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000029_000000|"I intend to try.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000030_000000|"That's well.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000030_000002|But try!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000030_000003|Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000030_000004|It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000031_000000|"I will go," said Doctor Manette, "to the Prosecutor and the President straight, and I will go to others whom it is better not to name.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000031_000001|I will write too, and-But stay!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000000|"That's true.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000001|Well!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000004|I expect nothing!
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000005|When are you likely to have seen these dread powers, Doctor Manette?"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000033_000000|"Immediately after dark, I should hope.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000033_000001|Within an hour or two from this."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000034_000000|"It will be dark soon after four.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000034_000001|Let us stretch the hour or two.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000034_000002|If I go to mr Lorry's at nine, shall I hear what you have done, either from our friend or from yourself?"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000036_000000|"May you prosper!"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000037_000000|mr Lorry followed Sydney to the outer door, and, touching him on the shoulder as he was going away, caused him to turn.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000039_000000|"Nor have i"
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000040_000000|"If any one of these men, or all of these men, were disposed to spare him-which is a large supposition; for what is his life, or any man's to them!--I doubt if they durst spare him after the demonstration in the court."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000041_000000|"And so do i I heard the fall of the axe in that sound."
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000043_000000|"Don't despond," said Carton, very gently; "don't grieve.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000045_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000045_000001|He will perish: there is no real hope," echoed Carton.
train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000046_000000|And walked with a settled step, down stairs.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000009_000000|twelve. Darkness
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000000|Sydney Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000001|"At Tellson's banking house at nine," he said, with a musing face.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000002|"Shall I do well, in the mean time, to show myself?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000003|I think so.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000005|But care, care, care! Let me think it out!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000011_000000|Checking his steps which had begun to tend towards an object, he took a turn or two in the already darkening street, and traced the thought in his mind to its possible consequences.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000011_000001|His first impression was confirmed.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000012_000000|Defarge had described himself, that day, as the keeper of a wine shop in the Saint Antoine suburb.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000012_000001|It was not difficult for one who knew the city well, to find his house without asking any question.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000012_000002|Having ascertained its situation, Carton came out of those closer streets again, and dined at a place of refreshment and fell sound asleep after dinner.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000013_000000|It was as late as seven o'clock when he awoke refreshed, and went out into the streets again.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000013_000001|As he passed along towards Saint Antoine, he stopped at a shop window where there was a mirror, and slightly altered the disordered arrangement of his loose cravat, and his coat collar, and his wild hair.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000013_000002|This done, he went on direct to Defarge's, and went in.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000014_000000|There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three, of the restless fingers and the croaking voice.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000015_000000|As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000017_000000|"English?" asked Madame Defarge, inquisitively raising her dark eyebrows.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000018_000000|After looking at her, as if the sound of even a single French word were slow to express itself to him, he answered, in his former strong foreign accent.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000018_000002|I am English!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000019_000000|Madame Defarge returned to her counter to get the wine, and, as he took up a Jacobin journal and feigned to pore over it puzzling out its meaning, he heard her say, "I swear to you, like Evremonde!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000020_000000|Defarge brought him the wine, and gave him Good Evening.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000021_000000|"How?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000022_000000|"Good evening."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000001|Good evening, citizen," filling his glass.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000002|"Ah! and good wine.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000003|I drink to the Republic."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000026_000001|"Why stop?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000026_000002|There is great force in that.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000027_000000|"Well, well," reasoned Defarge, "but one must stop somewhere.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000027_000001|After all, the question is still where?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000029_000000|"Magnificent!" croaked Jacques Three.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000029_000001|The Vengeance, also, highly approved.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000030_000001|But this Doctor has suffered much; you have seen him to day; you have observed his face when the paper was read."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000031_000002|I have observed his face to be not the face of a true friend of the Republic.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000031_000003|Let him take care of his face!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000033_000001|I have observed her to day, and I have observed her other days.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000033_000002|I have observed her in the court, and I have observed her in the street by the prison.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000033_000003|Let me but lift my finger-!" She seemed to raise it (the listener's eyes were always on his paper), and to let it fall with a rattle on the ledge before her, as if the axe had dropped.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000035_000000|"She is an Angel!" said The Vengeance, and embraced her.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000037_000001|"Not if to lift this glass would do it!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000037_000003|I say, stop there."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000038_000001|Listen!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000038_000003|Ask my husband, is that so."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000040_000000|"In the beginning of the great days, when the Bastille falls, he finds this paper of to day, and he brings it home, and in the middle of the night when this place is clear and shut, we read it, here on this spot, by the light of this lamp.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000042_000000|"That night, I tell him, when the paper is read through, and the lamp is burnt out, and the day is gleaming in above those shutters and between those iron bars, that I have now a secret to communicate.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000042_000001|Ask him, is that so."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000044_000000|"I communicate to him that secret.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000045_000000|"It is so," assented Defarge once more.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000046_000000|"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000047_000000|Both her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly nature of her wrath-the listener could feel how white she was, without seeing her-and both highly commended it.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000047_000001|Defarge, a weak minority, interposed a few words for the memory of the compassionate wife of the Marquis; but only elicited from his own wife a repetition of her last reply.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000047_000002|"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000048_000001|The English customer paid for what he had had, perplexedly counted his change, and asked, as a stranger, to be directed towards the National Palace.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000048_000002|Madame Defarge took him to the door, and put her arm on his, in pointing out the road. The English customer was not without his reflections then, that it might be a good deed to seize that arm, lift it, and strike under it sharp and deep.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000000|But, he went his way, and was soon swallowed up in the shadow of the prison wall.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000002|He said he had been with Lucie until just now, and had only left her for a few minutes, to come and keep his appointment.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000003|Her father had not been seen, since he quitted the banking house towards four o'clock.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000005|He had been more than five hours gone: where could he be?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000051_000000|He waited and waited, and the clock struck twelve; but Doctor Manette did not come back.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000051_000002|Where could he be?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000052_000001|The instant he entered the room, it was plain that all was lost.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000053_000001|As he stood staring at them, they asked him no question, for his face told them everything.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000054_000000|"I cannot find it," said he, "and I must have it.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000054_000001|Where is it?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000056_000001|I have been looking everywhere for my bench, and I can't find it.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000056_000002|What have they done with my work?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000057_000000|They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000059_000000|Receiving no answer, he tore his hair, and beat his feet upon the ground, like a distracted child.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000060_000000|"Don't torture a poor forlorn wretch," he implored them, with a dreadful cry; "but give me my work!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000062_000000|It was so clearly beyond hope to reason with him, or try to restore him, that-as if by agreement-they each put a hand upon his shoulder, and soothed him to sit down before the fire, with a promise that he should have his work presently.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000062_000001|He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000062_000002|As if all that had happened since the garret time were a momentary fancy, or a dream, mr Lorry saw him shrink into the exact figure that Defarge had had in keeping.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000000|Affected, and impressed with terror as they both were, by this spectacle of ruin, it was not a time to yield to such emotions.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000001|His lonely daughter, bereft of her final hope and reliance, appealed to them both too strongly.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000002|Again, as if by agreement, they looked at one another with one meaning in their faces.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000003|Carton was the first to speak:
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000064_000000|"The last chance is gone: it was not much.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000064_000001|Yes; he had better be taken to her.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000064_000002|But, before you go, will you, for a moment, steadily attend to me?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000065_000000|"I do not doubt it," answered mr Lorry.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000065_000001|"Say on."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000067_000000|Carton stooped to pick up the coat, which lay almost entangling his feet.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000067_000002|Carton took it up, and there was a folded paper in it.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000067_000003|"We should look at this!" he said.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000067_000004|mr Lorry nodded his consent.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000068_000000|"What is it?" asked mr Lorry, eagerly.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000000|"A moment!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000001|Let me speak of it in its place.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000002|First," he put his hand in his coat, and took another paper from it, "that is the certificate which enables me to pass out of this city.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000003|Look at it.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000004|You see-Sydney Carton, an Englishman?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000070_000000|mr Lorry held it open in his hand, gazing in his earnest face.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000071_000000|"Keep it for me until to morrow.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000072_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000000|"I don't know; I prefer not to do so.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000001|Now, take this paper that Doctor Manette has carried about him.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000002|It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000003|You see?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000074_000000|"Yes!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000000|"Perhaps he obtained it as his last and utmost precaution against evil, yesterday.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000001|When is it dated?
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000002|But no matter; don't stay to look; put it up carefully with mine and your own.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000005|It is good, until recalled.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000000|"They are in great danger.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000002|I know it from her own lips.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000003|I have overheard words of that woman's, to night, which have presented their danger to me in strong colours.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000005|He confirms me.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000008|Don't look so horrified.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000078_000000|"Heaven grant I may, Carton!
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000078_000001|But how?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000079_000003|You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000079_000004|She and her father would unquestionably be guilty of this crime, and this woman (the inveteracy of whose pursuit cannot be described) would wait to add that strength to her case, and make herself doubly sure.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000079_000005|You follow me?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000081_000001|Your preparations have been completed for some days, to return to England.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000081_000002|Early to morrow have your horses ready, so that they may be in starting trim at two o'clock in the afternoon."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000082_000000|"It shall be done!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000083_000000|His manner was so fervent and inspiring, that mr Lorry caught the flame, and was as quick as youth.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000084_000000|"You are a noble heart.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000084_000003|"For the sake of her child and her father, press upon her the necessity of leaving Paris, with them and you, at that hour.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000084_000004|Tell her that it was her husband's last arrangement.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000086_000000|"I thought so.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000086_000001|Quietly and steadily have all these arrangements made in the courtyard here, even to the taking of your own seat in the carriage. The moment I come to you, take me in, and drive away."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000087_000000|"I understand that I wait for you under all circumstances?"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000088_000000|"You have my certificate in your hand with the rest, you know, and will reserve my place.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000088_000001|Wait for nothing but to have my place occupied, and then for England!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000089_000000|"Why, then," said mr Lorry, grasping his eager but so firm and steady hand, "it does not all depend on one old man, but I shall have a young and ardent man at my side."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000090_000001|Promise me solemnly that nothing will influence you to alter the course on which we now stand pledged to one another."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000091_000000|"Nothing, Carton."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000093_000001|I hope to do my part faithfully."
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000094_000000|"And I hope to do mine.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000094_000001|Now, good bye!"
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000000|Though he said it with a grave smile of earnestness, and though he even put the old man's hand to his lips, he did not part from him then.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000001|He helped him so far to arouse the rocking figure before the dying embers, as to get a cloak and hat put upon it, and to tempt it forth to find where the bench and work were hidden that it still moaningly besought to have.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000002|He walked on the other side of it and protected it to the courtyard of the house where the afflicted heart-so happy in the memorable time when he had revealed his own desolate heart to it-outwatched the awful night.
train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000003|He entered the courtyard and remained there for a few moments alone, looking up at the light in the window of her room.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000000|There was once a man who loved his wife dearly.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000001|After they had been married for a time they had a little boy.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000002|Some time after that the woman grew sick and did not get well.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000003|She was sick for a long time. The young man loved his wife so much that he did not wish to take a second woman.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000005|Doctoring did not seem to do her any good.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000006|At last she died.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000002_000000|For a few days after this, the man used to take his baby on his back and travel out away from the camp, walking over the hills, crying and mourning.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000002_000001|He felt badly, and he did not know what to do.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000003_000000|After a time he said to the little child, "My little boy, you will have to go and live with your grandmother.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000003_000001|I shall go away and try to find your mother and bring her back."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000004_000000|He took the baby to his mother's lodge and asked her to take care of it and left it with her.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000004_000001|Then he started away, not knowing where he was going nor what he should do.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000000|When he left the camp, he travelled toward the Sand Hills.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000001|On the fourth night of his journeying he had a dream.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000002|He dreamed that he went into a little lodge in which was an old woman.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000003|This old woman said to him, "Why are you here, my son?"
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000006_000000|The young man replied, "I am mourning day and night, crying all the while.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000007_000000|"Well," asked the old woman, "for whom are you mourning?"
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000008_000000|The young man answered, "I am mourning for my wife.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000008_000001|She died some time ago.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000008_000002|I am looking for her."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000000|"Oh, I saw her," said the old woman; "she passed this way.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000001|I myself have no great power to help you, but over by that far butte beyond, lives another old woman.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000002|Go to her and she will give you power to continue your journey.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000003|You could not reach the place you are seeking without help.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000004|Beyond the next butte from her lodge you will find the camp of the ghosts."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000000|The next morning the young man awoke and went on toward the next butte.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000001|It took him a long summer's day to get there, but he found there no lodge, so he lay down and slept.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000002|Again he dreamed.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000003|In his dream he saw a little lodge, and saw an old woman come to the door and heard her call to him.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000004|He went into the lodge, and she spoke to him.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000000|"My son, you are very unhappy.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000001|I know why you have come this way. You are looking for your wife who is now in the ghost country.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000002|It is a very hard thing for you to get there.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000003|You may not be able to get your wife back, but I have great power and I will do for you all that I can.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000004|If you act as I advise, you may succeed."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000012_000000|Other wise words she spoke to him, telling him what he should do; also she gave him a bundle of mysterious things which would help him on his journey.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000000|She went on to say, "You stay here for a time and I will go over there to the ghosts' camp and try to bring back some of your relations who are there.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000001|If it is possible for me to bring them back, you may return there with them, but on the way you must shut your eyes.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000002|If you should open them and look about you, you would die.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000003|Then you would never come back.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000004|When you come to the camp you will pass by a big lodge and they will ask you, 'Where are you going and who told you to come here?' You must answer, 'My grandmother, who is standing out here with me, told me to come.' They will try to scare you; they will make fearful noises and you will see strange and terrible things, but do not be afraid."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000014_000001|He went with this relation to the ghosts' camp. When they came to the large lodge some one called out and asked the man what he was doing there, and he answered as the old woman had told him.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000000|Presently he came to another lodge, and the man who owned it came out and spoke to him, asking where he was going.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000001|The young man said, "I am looking for my dead wife.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000002|I mourn for her so much that I cannot rest.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000003|My little boy too keeps crying for his mother.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000004|They have offered to give me other wives, but I do not want them.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000005|I want the one for whom I am searching."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000016_000000|The ghost said, "It is a fearful thing that you have come here; it is very likely that you will never go away.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000016_000001|Never before has there been a person here."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000017_000000|The ghost asked him to come into his lodge, and he entered.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000018_000000|This chief ghost said to him, "You shall stay here for four nights and you shall see your wife, but you must be very careful or you will never go back.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000018_000001|You will die here in this very place."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000020_000000|Now when these invited ghosts had reached the lodge they did not like to go in.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000020_000001|They said to each other, "There is a person here"; it seemed as if they did not like the smell of a human being.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000000|The chief ghost said to them, "Now pity this son in law of yours.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000001|He is looking for his wife.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000002|Neither the great distance that he has come nor the fearful sights that he has seen here have weakened his heart.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000003|You can see how tender hearted he is.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000004|He not only mourns because he has lost his wife, but he mourns because his little boy is now alone, with no mother; so pity him and give him back his wife."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000022_000000|The ghosts talked among themselves, and one of them said to the man, "Yes; you shall stay here for four nights, and then we will give you a medicine pipe-the Worm Pipe-and we will give you back your wife and you may return to your home."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000023_000000|Now, after the third night the chief ghost called together all the people, and they came, and with them came the man's wife.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000023_000001|One of the ghosts was beating a drum, and following him was another who carried the Worm Pipe, which they gave to him.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000024_000000|Then the chief ghost said, "Now be very careful; to morrow you and your wife will start on your journey homeward.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000024_000002|During this time you must keep your eyes shut; do not open them, or you will return here and be a ghost forever.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000024_000003|Your wife is not now a person.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000024_000004|But in the middle of the fourth day you will be told to look, and when you have opened your eyes you will see that your wife has become a person, and that your ghost relations have disappeared."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000000|Before the man went away his father in law spoke to him and said, "When you get near home you must not go at once into the camp.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000001|Let some of your relations know that you have come, and ask them to build a sweat house for you.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000002|Go into that sweat house and wash your body thoroughly, leaving no part of it, however small, uncleansed. If you fail in this, you will die.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000003|There is something about the ghosts that it is difficult to remove.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000004|It can only be removed by a thorough sweat.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000005|Take care now that you do what I tell you.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000006|Do not whip your wife, nor strike her with a knife, nor hit her with fire. If you do, she will vanish before your eyes and return here."
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000026_000000|They left the ghost country to go home, and on the fourth day the wife said to her husband, "Open your eyes." He looked about him and saw that those who had been with them had disappeared, and he found that they were standing in front of the old woman's lodge by the butte.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000026_000001|She came out of her lodge and said to them, "Stop; give me back those mysterious medicines of mine, whose power helped you to do what you wished." The man returned them to her, and then once more became really a living person.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000000|When they drew near to the camp the woman went on ahead and sat down on a butte.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000001|Then some curious persons came out to see who this might be.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000002|As they approached the woman called out to them, "Do not come any nearer.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000004|The man told them where he had been and how he had managed to get his wife back, and that the pipe hanging over the doorway was a medicine pipe-the Worm Pipe-presented to him by his ghost father in law.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000028_000000|That is how the people came to possess the Worm Pipe.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000028_000001|That pipe belongs to the band of Piegans known as the Worm People.
train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000029_000000|Not long after this, once in the night, this man told his wife to do something, and when she did not begin at once he picked up a brand from the fire and raised it-not that he intended to strike her with it, but he made as if he would-when all at once she vanished and was never seen again.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000002_000000|THE FIRST QUARREL
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000003_000000|"I'll give you three guesses, Madge." Dicky stood just inside the door of the living room, holding an immense parcel carefully wrapped.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000003_000001|His hat was on the back of his head, his eyes shining, his whole face aglow with boyish mischief.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000004_000000|"It's for you, my first housekeeping present, that is needed in every well regulated family," he burlesqued boastfully, "but you are not to see it until we have something to eat, and you have guessed what it is."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000005_000000|"I know it is something lovely, dear," I replied sedately, "but come to your dinner.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000005_000001|It is getting cold."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000006_000000|Dicky looked a trifle hurt as he followed me to the dining room.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000006_000001|I knew what he expected-enthusiastic curiosity and a demand for the immediate opening of the parcel, I can imagine the pretty enthusiasm, the caresses with which almost any other woman would have greeted a bridegroom of two weeks with his first present.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000000|But it's simply impossible for me to gush.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000001|I cannot express emotion of any kind with the facility of most women.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000002|I worshipped my mother, but I rarely kissed her or expressed my love for her in words.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000003|My love for Dicky terrifies me sometimes, it is so strong, but I cannot go up to him and offer him an unsolicited kiss or caress.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000004|Respond to his caresses, yes! but offer them of my own volition, never!
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000005|There is something inside me that makes it an absolute impossibility.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000008_000000|"What's the menu, Madge?
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000008_000001|The beef again?"
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000009_000000|Dicky's tone was mildly quizzical, his smile mischievous, but I flushed hotly.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000009_000001|He had touched a sore spot.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000009_000002|The butcher had brought me a huge slab of meat for my first dinner when I had timidly ordered "rib roast," and with the aid of my mother's cook book and my own smattering of cooking, my sole housewifely accomplishment, I had been trying to disguise it for subsequent meals.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000010_000000|"This is positively its last appearance on any stage," I assured him, trying to be gay.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000010_000001|"Besides, it's a casserole, with rice, and I defy you to detect whether the chief ingredient be fish, flesh or fowl."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000011_000000|"Casserole is usually my pet aversion," Dicky said solemnly.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000011_000001|Look not on the casserole when it is table d'hote, is one of the pet little proverbs in my immediate set.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000011_000002|Too much like Spanish steak and the other good chances for ptomaines.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000012_000000|"Dicky, you surely do not think I would use meat that was doubtful, do you?" I asked, horror stricken.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000012_000001|"Don't eat it.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000012_000002|Wait and I'll fix up some eggs for you."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000013_000000|Dicky rose stiffly, walked slowly around to my side of the table, and gravely tapped my head in imitation of a phrenologist.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000000|"Absolute depression where the bump called 'sense of humor' ought to be.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000001|Too bad!
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000002|Pretty creature, too.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000003|Cause her lots of trouble, in the days to come," he chanted solemnly.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000000|Then he bent and kissed me.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000001|"Don't be a goose, Madge," he admonished, "and never, never take me seriously.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000002|I don't know the meaning of the word.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000003|Come on, let's eat the thing um bob.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000000|He uncovered the casserole and regarded the steaming contents critically.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000001|"Smells scrumptious," he announced.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000002|"What's in the other? Potatoes au gratin?" as he took off the cover of the other serving dish.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000003|"Good!
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000004|One of my favorites."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000017_000001|He ate heartily of both dishes, ignoring or not noticing that I scarcely touched either dish.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000018_000000|For I was fast lapsing into one of the moods which my little mother used to call my "morbid streaks" and which she had vainly tried to cure ever since I was a tiny girl.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000019_000000|Dicky didn't like my cooking!
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000019_000001|He was only pretending!
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000019_000002|Dicky was disappointed in the way I received the announcement of his present! Probably he soon would find me wanting in other things.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000021_000000|When I brought on the baked apples which I had prepared with especial care for dessert, Dick gave them one glance which to my oversensitive mind looked disparaging.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000021_000001|Then he pushed back his chair.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000022_000000|"Don't believe I want any dessert today.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000000|"Whatever in the world?" I began as Dicky lifted the lid and revealed a big Angora cat.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000001|Then my voice changed.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000002|"Why, Dicky, you don't mean-"
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000003|But Dicky was absorbed in lifting the cat out.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000026_000000|"Why not?" Dicky's tone was sharper than I had ever heard it.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000026_000001|He set the cat down on the floor and she walked over to me.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000026_000002|I pushed her away gently with my foot as I replied:
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000000|"Oh, get out of it, Madge," Dicky interrupted.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000001|"Forget that scientific foolishness you absorbed when you were school ma'aming.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000002|Besides, this cat is a thoroughbred, never been outside the home where she was born till now.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000004|A cool two hundred, that's all.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000005|It seems to me you might try to get over your prejudices, especially when I tell you that I am very fond of cats and like to see them around."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000029_000000|Dicky's voice held a note of appeal, but I chose to ignore it.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000029_000001|My particular little devil must have sat at my elbow.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000030_000000|"I am sorry," I said coldly, "but really, I do not see why it is any more incumbent on me to try to overcome my very real aversion to cats than it is for you to try to do without their society."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000031_000000|"Very well," Dicky exclaimed angrily, turning toward the door.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000031_000001|"If you feel that way about it, there is nothing more to be said."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000032_000000|Then Dicky slammed the living room door behind him to emphasize his words, went down the hall, slammed the apartment door and ran down the steps.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000033_000000|Back in the living room, huddled up in the big chair which is the chief pride of the woman who rents us the furnished apartment, I sat, as angry as Dicky, and heartsick besides.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000033_000001|Our first quarrel had come!
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000000|But the cat remained.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000001|What was I to do with her?
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000002|There is no cure for a quarrel like loneliness and reflection.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000003|Dicky had not been gone a half hour after our disagreement over the cat before I was wondering how we both could have been so silly.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000035_000000|I thought it out carefully.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000035_000001|I could see that Dicky was accustomed to having his own way unquestioned.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000037_000000|But I also had the common sense to see that there would be real issues in our lives without wasting our ammunition over a cat.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000037_000001|Then, too, the remembrance of Dicky's happy face when he thought he was surprising me tugged at my heart.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000038_000000|"If he wants a cat, a cat he shall have," I said to myself, and calling my unwelcome guest to me with a resolute determination to do my duty by the beast, no matter how distasteful the task, I was just putting a saucer of milk in front of her when the door opened and Dicky came in like a whirlwind.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000000|"How do you wear sackcloth and ashes?" he cried, catching me in his arms as he made the query.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000001|"If you've got any in the house bring 'em along and I'll put them on.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000003|No nice thing getting angry at your bride, because she doesn't like cats.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000004|I'll take the beast back tomorrow."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000040_000000|"Indeed, you'll do no such thing," I protested.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000040_000001|"You're not the only one who is sorry, I made up my mind before you came back not only to keep this cat, but to learn to like her."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000041_000000|Dicky kissed me.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000041_000001|"You're a brick, sweetheart," he said heartily, "and I've got a reward for you, a peace offering.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000041_000002|Get on your frills, for we're going to a first night.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000042_000000|"Your what?" I was mystified.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000043_000000|"Evening clothes, goose." Dicky threw the words over his shoulder as he took down the telephone receiver.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000043_000001|"Can you dress in half an hour? We have only that."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000044_000000|"I'll be ready."
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000045_000000|As I closed the door of my room I heard Dicky ask for the number of the taxicab company where he kept an account.
train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000045_000001|Impulsively, I started toward him to remonstrate against the extravagance, but stopped as I heard the patter of rain against the windows.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000003_000001|Then, finding the want advertisements of the Sunday papers, I looked carefully through the columns headed "Situations Wanted, Female."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000004_000000|I clipped the advertisements and fastened each neatly to a sheet of notepaper.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000004_000001|Then I wrote beneath each one: "Please call Thursday or Friday.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000004_000002|Ask for mrs Richard Graham, Apartment four, forty six East Twenty ninth street."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000005_000000|I addressed the envelopes properly, inserted the answers in the envelopes, sealed and stamped them, then ran out to the post box on the corner with them.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000005_000001|I walked back very slowly, for there was nothing more that needed to be done, and I could put off no longer the settling of my problem.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000006_000000|I locked the door of my room, pulled down the shade and, exchanging my house dress for a comfortable negligee, lay down upon my bed to think things out.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000001|I sat upright in bed as a thought flashed across my brain.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000002|Was that the reason?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000003|Were his objections to this plan of mine what he pretended they were?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000004|Did he really fear that I might have unpleasant publicity thrust upon me, and that some of our pleasure plans might be spoiled by the weekly lecture engagement?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000005|Or was he the type of man who could not bear his wife to have money or plans or even thoughts which did not originate with him?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000009_000000|A loud ringing at the doorbell awakened me.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000000|For a moment I could not understand how I came to be in bed.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000002|The ring had been the postman's.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000003|The afternoon newspapers lay upon the floor.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000005|It had been forwarded from my old boarding house.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000011_000000|"Miss Margaret Spencer," and then, in the crabbed handwriting of my dear old landlady, "care of mrs Richard Graham."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000012_000000|I opened the letter slowly.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000012_000001|It bore a New Orleans heading, and a date three days before.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000013_000000|"Dear little girl:
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000014_000002|I wrote you twice, but have no hope that the letters ever reached you.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000014_000003|But now I am back in God's country, or shall be when I get North, and of course, my first line is to you.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000000|"I shall be in New York two weeks from today, the twenty fourth.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000001|Of course I shall go to my old diggings.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000003|I am looking forward to a real dinner, at a real restaurant, with the realest girl in the world opposite me the first day I strike New York, so get ready for me.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000004|I do hope you have been well and as cheerful as possible.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000017_000000|"JACK."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000001|Joy was the stronger, however.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000002|Dear old Jack was safe at home. But there were adjustments which I must make.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000003|I had my marriage to explain to Jack, and Jack to explain to Dicky.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000004|Nothing but this letter could have so revealed to me the strength of the infatuation for Dicky which had swept me off my feet and resulted in my marriage after only a six months' acquaintance.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000005|Reading it I realized that the memory of Jack had been so pushed into the background during the past six months that I never had thought to tell Dicky about him.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000019_000001|She's planning a frolic for the crowd some night at your convenience."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000020_000000|"That is awfully kind of her.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000020_000001|Where did you see her." I prided myself on my careless tone, but Dicky gave me a shrewd glance.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000021_000000|"Why, at the studio, of course.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000021_000002|Atwood and Barker and she and I are all on one floor, and we often have a dish of tea together when we are not rushed."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000022_000001|How I hated these glimpses of the intimate friendship which must exist between my husband and this woman!
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000023_000000|"I suppose we ought to have them all over some night," I said at last, "but I'll have to add a few things to our equipment, and wait until I get a maid."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000024_000000|"That will be fine," Dicky assented cordially, pushing back his chair. "Did the papers come?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000024_000001|I'll look them over for a little.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000024_000002|Whistle when you're ready and I'll wipe the dishes for you."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000025_000000|He strolled into the living room, and I suddenly remembered that I had laid my letter from Jack on the table, with its pages scattered so that any one picking them up could not help seeing them.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000000|I had forgotten all about the letter.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000001|I had meant to show it to Dicky after I had explained about Jack.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000002|It was not quite the letter for a bridegroom to find without expectation.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000003|I realized that.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000000|I could not get the letter without attracting his attention.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000001|I waited, every nerve tense, listening to the sounds in the next room.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000002|I heard the rustling of the newspaper; then a sudden silence told me his attention had been arrested by something.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000003|Would he read the letter?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000004|I did not think so.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000005|I knew his sense of honor was too keen for that, but I remembered that the last page with its signature was at the top of the sheets as I laid them down.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000006|That was enough to make any loving husband reflect a bit.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000028_000000|How would Dicky take it?
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000028_000003|I Heard him crush the paper in his hand, then come quickly to the kitchen.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000029_000000|"What does this mean?"
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000030_000000|The last words of Jack's letter danced before my eyes, Dicky's hand was shaking so.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000031_000001|Always Jack."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000032_000000|Dicky's face was not a pleasant sight.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000032_000001|It repulsed and disgusted me. Subconsciously I was contrasting the way in which he calmly expected me to accept his friendship for Lillian Gale, and his behavior over this letter.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000032_000002|Five minutes earlier I would have explained to him fully. I resolved now to put my friendship for Jack upon the same basis as his for mrs Underwood.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000033_000001|"Have you read the letter?" I asked quietly.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000034_000000|"You know I have not read the letter." he snarled.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000034_000001|"It lay on the papers.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000034_000002|I could not help but see this-this-whatever it is," he finished lamely, "and I have come straight to you for an explanation."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000035_000000|"Better read the letter," I advised quietly.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000035_000001|"I give you full permission."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000036_000000|I could have laughed at Dicky, if I had been less angry.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000037_000000|"You have no brother.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000037_000001|Is this man a relative?"
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000038_000000|"No," I returned demurely.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000039_000000|"An old lover then, I suppose a confident one, I should judge by the tone of the letter.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000040_000000|Dicky's tone fairly dripped with irony.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000040_000001|"He will be surprised certainly," I answered, "but as he never was my lover, I don't think it will be any blow to him."
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000041_000002|What does he look like?"
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000000|Dicky fairly shot the questions at me.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000001|I turned and went into my room. There I rummaged in a box of old photographs until I found two fairly good likenesses of Jack.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000002|I carried them to the kitchen and put them in Dicky's hands.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000003|He glared at them, then threw them on the table.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000043_000001|Looks like a gorilla with the mumps," he growled.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000043_000002|"Who is this precious party, then, if he is not a lover or a relative?"
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000045_000000|Dicky stared at me a long, long look as if he had just discovered me. Then he turned on his heel.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000046_000000|"Well, I'll be-" I did not find out what he would be, for he went out and slammed the door.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000047_000000|I sat down to a humiliating half hour's thought.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000047_000001|It isn't a bad idea at times to "loaf and invite your soul," and then cast up account with it.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000047_000002|My account looked pretty discouraging.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000048_000000|Dicky and I had been married a little over two weeks.
train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000049_000000|Was this marriage-heights of happiness, depths of despair, with the humdrum of petty differences between?
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000000_000009|Lily, the caretaker's daughter, did housemaid's work for them. Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well; the best of everything: diamond bone sirloins, three shilling tea and the best bottled stout.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000000_000011|They were fussy, that was all. But the only thing they would not stand was back answers.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000001_000001|And then it was long after ten o'clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000002_000000|"O, mr Conroy," said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, "Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000002_000001|Good night, mrs Conroy."
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000005_000000|"Miss Kate, here's mrs Conroy."
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000006_000001|Both of them kissed Gabriel's wife, said she must be perished alive, and asked was Gabriel with her.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000009_000000|"Is it snowing again, mr Conroy?" asked Lily.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000020_000001|Then he took a coin rapidly from his pocket.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000021_000001|Just... here's a little...."
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000022_000000|He walked rapidly towards the door.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000029_000000|They both kissed Gabriel frankly.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000036_000000|"Don't mind him, Aunt Kate," she said.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000036_000001|"He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000036_000002|The poor child!
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000046_000001|"Of course, you've seen about the room.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000050_000003|She's not the girl she was at all."
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000052_000001|Julia! Julia!
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000058_000002|Julia, there's Miss Daly and Miss Power will take some refreshment.
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000065_000000|"God help me," he said, smiling, "it's the doctor's orders."
train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000092_000001|"And his poor mother made him take the pledge on New Year's Eve.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000006_000000|"In that case," said Tom Cecial, "I was a madman of my own accord when I volunteered to become your squire, and, of my own accord, I'll leave off being one and go home."
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000007_000000|"That's your affair," returned Samson, "but to suppose that I am going home until I have given Don Quixote a thrashing is absurd; and it is not any wish that he may recover his senses that will make me hunt him out now, but a wish for the sore pain I am in with my ribs won't let me entertain more charitable thoughts."
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000008_000000|Thus discoursing, the pair proceeded until they reached a town where it was their good luck to find a bone setter, with whose help the unfortunate Samson was cured.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000009_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000015_000002|Have I ever been by any chance his enemy?
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000015_000004|Am I his rival, or does he profess arms, that he should envy the fame I have acquired in them?"
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000019_000001|The trappings of the mare were of the field and jineta fashion, and of mulberry colour and green.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000020_000000|When the traveller came up with them he saluted them courteously, and spurring his mare was passing them without stopping, but Don Quixote called out to him, "Gallant sir, if so be your worship is going our road, and has no occasion for speed, it would be a pleasure to me if we were to join company."
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000021_000000|"In truth," replied he on the mare, "I would not pass you so hastily but for fear that horse might turn restive in the company of my mare."
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000024_000004|In short, to sum up all in a few words, or in a single one, I may tell you I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' for though self praise is degrading, I must perforce sound my own sometimes, that is to say, when there is no one at hand to do it for me.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000028_000000|"I doubt it," said Don Quixote, "but never mind that just now; if our journey lasts long enough, I trust in God I shall show your worship that you do wrong in going with the stream of those who regard it as a matter of certainty that they are not true."
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000029_000001|To this, he in the green gaban replied "I, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, am a gentleman by birth, native of the village where, please God, we are going to dine today; I am more than fairly well off, and my name is Don Diego de Miranda.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000029_000005|I hear mass every day; I share my substance with the poor, making no display of good works, lest I let hypocrisy and vainglory, those enemies that subtly take possession of the most watchful heart, find an entrance into mine.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000031_000000|Seeing this the gentleman asked him, "What are you about, brother?
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000031_000001|What are these kisses for?"
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000033_000000|"I am no saint," replied the gentleman, "but a great sinner; but you are, brother, for you must be a good fellow, as your simplicity shows."
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000035_000000|"I, Senor Don Quixote," answered the gentleman, "have one son, without whom, perhaps, I should count myself happier than I am, not because he is a bad son, but because he is not so good as I could wish.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000001|Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other maidens, who are all the rest of the sciences; and she must avail herself of the help of all, and all derive their lustre from her.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000002|But this maiden will not bear to be handled, nor dragged through the streets, nor exposed either at the corners of the market places, or in the closets of palaces.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000003|She is the product of an Alchemy of such virtue that he who is able to practise it, will turn her into pure gold of inestimable worth.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000008|He, then, who shall embrace and cultivate poetry under the conditions I have named, shall become famous, and his name honoured throughout all the civilised nations of the earth.
train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000011|The reason is, that art does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection; and thus, nature combined with art, and art with nature, will produce a perfect poet.
train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000012_000000|"Woolidge, ma'am."
train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000016_000001|Do you leave a family?"
train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000019_000000|"You see, Jim went last year, and got pretty well used up; so I felt as if I'd ought to take my turn now.
train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000023_000005|There was just time for this, a hearty shake of the big hand, and a grateful "Good by, ma'am;" then the word was given, and they were off.
train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000024_000000|As the inspiring music, the grand tramp, drew near, the old thrill went through the crowd, the old cheer broke out.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000004_000000|"Eat!
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000007_000000|"All that's left of me.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000008_000000|"What is the matter?
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000009_000001|Shot off as slick as a whistle.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000010_000000|"That is bad, but it might have been worse.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000014_000000|He must have been suffering terribly, but he thought of the women who loved him before himself, and, busy as I was, I snatched a moment to send a few words of hope to the old mother.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000015_000000|"He will have a hard time of it, but I think he will pull through, as he is a temperate fellow, with a splendid constitution," was the doctor's verdict, as he left us for the next man, who was past help, with a bullet through his lungs.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000018_000000|"Think so?
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000018_000001|'Pears to me I couldn't ask her to take care of three invalids for my sake.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000020_000000|"All right, ma'am;" and Joe proved himself a good soldier by obeying orders, and falling asleep like a tired child, as the first step toward recovery.
train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000025_000000|I kept that card among my other relics, and hoped to meet Joe again somewhere in the world.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000002_000001|I don't know much about him, except that he was in the army, has been very ill with rheumatic fever, and is friendless.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000002_000003|He won't go to his own town, because there is nothing for him there but the almshouse, and he dreads a hospital; so struggles along, trying to earn his bread tending babies with his one arm.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000003_000001|I'll go and see him; I've a weakness for soldiers, sick or well."
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000004_000002|How he managed with one arm to keep the baby from squirming on to the floor, the plate from upsetting, and to feed the hungry urchins who stood in a row with open mouths, like young birds, was past my comprehension.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000004_000003|But he did, trotting baby gently, dealing out sweet morsels patiently, and whistling to himself, as if to beguile his labors cheerfully.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000006_000000|For an instant I could not speak to him, and, encumbered with baby, dish, spoon, and children, he could only stare at me with a sudden brightening of the altered face that made it full of welcome before a word was uttered.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000008_000003|You go in the corner, and take turns lickin' the dish, while I see company," said Joe, disbanding his small troop, and shouldering the baby as if presenting arms in honor of his guest.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000010_000001|But my orders ain't come yet, and I am doing the fust thing that come along.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000012_000000|"Really, ma'am?
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000012_000001|I used to lay and kind of dream about it when I couldn't stir without yellin' out; but I never thought it would ever come to happen.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000012_000002|I see a piece in the paper describing it, and it sounded dreadful nice.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000013_000001|You should have gone home to Woolwich, and let your friends help you," I said, feeling provoked with him for hiding himself.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000000|"No, ma'am!" he answered, with a look I never shall forget, it was so full of mingled patience, pride, and pain.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000002|As for asking help of folks I used to know, I couldn't do it; and if you think I'd go to Lucindy, though she is wal off, you don't know Joe Collins.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000006|Hooray for Biddy Flanagin!
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000007|God bless her!" and, as if to find a vent for the emotion that filled his eyes with grateful tears, Joe led off the cheer, which the children shrilly echoed, and I joined heartily.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000015_000001|It won't take you long to pack up, will it?" I asked, as we subsided with a general laugh.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000016_000000|"I reckon not as I don't own any clothes but what I set in, except a couple of old shirts and them socks.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000016_000001|My hat's stoppin' up the winder, and my old coat is my bed cover.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000016_000002|I'm awful shabby, ma'am, and that's one reason I don't go out more.
train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000018_000000|There was such a beautiful absence of red tape about the new institution that it only needed a word in the right ear to set things going; and then, with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, Joe Collins was taken up and safely landed in the Home he so much needed and so well deserved.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000003_000001|mr MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000004_000004|As it was, an interval occurred before I fully knew my own distress; an interval, in which I even supposed that its sharpest pangs were past; and when my mind could soothe itself by resting on all that was most innocent and beautiful, in the tender story that was closed for ever.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000008_000000|I was to go abroad.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000013_000000|'Madam, you do us a great deal of honour,' he rejoined.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000015_000000|'Madam,' he replied, 'mrs
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000020_000001|'mrs
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000024_000000|'No doubt.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000027_000000|'mr
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000031_000002|If so, that is their misfortune.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000032_000001|All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me,--in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000032_000002|At the same time, my dear, if they should condescend to reply to your communications-which our joint experience renders most improbable-far be it from me to be a barrier to your wishes.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000034_000000|'My dear Copperfield,' said Traddles, leaning back in his chair when they were gone, and looking at me with an affection that made his eyes red, and his hair all kinds of shapes, 'I don't make any excuse for troubling you with business, because I know you are deeply interested in it, and it may divert your thoughts.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000035_000000|'I am quite myself,' said I, after a pause.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000037_000000|'But even that is not all,' said i 'During the last fortnight, some new trouble has vexed her; and she has been in and out of London every day. Several times she has gone out early, and been absent until evening. Last night, Traddles, with this journey before her, it was almost midnight before she came home.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000000|'I must do mr Micawber the justice to say,' Traddles began, 'that although he would appear not to have worked to any good account for himself, he is a most untiring man when he works for other people.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000001|I never saw such a fellow.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000002|If he always goes on in the same way, he must be, virtually, about two hundred years old, at present.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000003|The heat into which he has been continually putting himself; and the distracted and impetuous manner in which he has been diving, day and night, among papers and books; to say nothing of the immense number of letters he has written me between this house and mr Wickfield's, and often across the table when he has been sitting opposite, and might much more easily have spoken; is quite extraordinary.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000043_000001|Trot, you know it.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000044_000000|'I am happy to say, Miss Wickfield,' pursued Traddles, at once with great delicacy and with great earnestness, 'that in your absence mr Wickfield has considerably improved.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000044_000002|At times, even his impaired power of concentrating his memory and attention on particular points of business, has recovered itself very much; and he has been able to assist us in making some things clear, that we should have found very difficult indeed, if not hopeless, without him.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000050_000001|Dear mr Traddles and dear Trotwood, papa once free with honour, what could I wish for!
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000052_000003|So many people know me here, and think kindly of me, that I am certain.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000054_000000|'Next, Miss Trotwood,' said Traddles, 'that property of yours.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000055_000001|'All I have got to say about it is, that if it's gone, I can bear it; and if it's not gone, I shall be glad to get it back.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000060_000000|'Five thousand pounds,' said Traddles.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000061_000002|One, I paid for your articles, Trot, my dear; and the other two I have by me. When I lost the rest, I thought it wise to say nothing about that sum, but to keep it secretly for a rainy day.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000064_000000|'Don't congratulate me, anybody!' exclaimed my aunt.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000067_000000|'And indeed,' said Traddles, 'it was sold, by virtue of the power of management he held from you; but I needn't say by whom sold, or on whose actual signature.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000067_000001|It was afterwards pretended to mr Wickfield, by that rascal,--and proved, too, by figures,--that he had possessed himself of the money (on general instructions, he said) to keep other deficiencies and difficulties from the light.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000067_000002|mr Wickfield, being so weak and helpless in his hands as to pay you, afterwards, several sums of interest on a pretended principal which he knew did not exist, made himself, unhappily, a party to the fraud.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000068_000001|Upon which I paid him a visit early one morning, called for a candle, burnt the letter, and told him if he ever could right me and himself, to do it; and if he couldn't, to keep his own counsel for his daughter's sake.---If anybody speaks to me, I'll leave the house!'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000071_000000|'Why, the fact is,' returned Traddles, 'mr
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000071_000001|Micawber had so completely hemmed him in, and was always ready with so many new points if an old one failed, that he could not escape from us.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000071_000003|He said so to me, plainly.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000072_000000|'Ha!' said my aunt, knitting her brows thoughtfully, and glancing at Agnes. 'And what's become of him?'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000073_000000|'I don't know.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000073_000003|He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to mr Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000075_000003|He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000075_000005|Always creeping along the ground to some small end or other, he will always magnify every object in the way; and consequently will hate and suspect everybody that comes, in the most innocent manner, between him and it.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000077_000000|'Really I don't know about that,' observed Traddles thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000083_000000|'Well!
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000084_000000|'Yes, but I don't know when they may be proceeded on, or where they are,' rejoined Traddles, opening his eyes; 'and I anticipate, that, between this time and his departure, mr Micawber will be constantly arrested, or taken in execution.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000085_000001|'What's the amount altogether?'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000086_000000|'Why, mr Micawber has entered the transactions-he calls them transactions-with great form, in a book,' rejoined Traddles, smiling; 'and he makes the amount a hundred and three pounds, five.'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000087_000002|What should it be?
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000087_000003|Five hundred pounds?'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000088_000001|We both recommended a small sum in money, and the payment, without stipulation to mr Micawber, of the Uriah claims as they came in.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000088_000003|To this, I added the suggestion, that I should give some explanation of his character and history to mr Peggotty, who I knew could be relied on; and that to mr Peggotty should be quietly entrusted the discretion of advancing another hundred.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000094_000000|'There was-pardon me-really such a person, and at all in his power?' hinted Traddles.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000097_000001|'You are quite right,' she said.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000099_000004|And don't any of you speak to me!' With that she smoothed her dress, and sat, with her upright carriage, looking at the door.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000101_000002|We, being quite prepared for this event, which was of course a proceeding of Uriah Heep's, soon paid the money; and in five minutes more mr Micawber was seated at the table, filling up the stamps with an expression of perfect joy, which only that congenial employment, or the making of punch, could impart in full completeness to his shining face.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000101_000003|To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000104_000002|We passed the night at the old house, which, freed from the presence of the Heeps, seemed purged of a disease; and I lay in my old room, like a shipwrecked wanderer come home.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000114_000000|'You understand it now, Trot,' said my aunt.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000115_000000|'Did he die in the hospital?'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000118_000002|When he knew his state in this last illness, he asked them to send for me.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000118_000003|He was sorry then.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000120_000000|'I went.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000121_000000|'He died the night before we went to Canterbury?' said i My aunt nodded.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000125_000000|'He was a fine looking man when I married him, Trot-and he was sadly changed!'
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000126_000001|After the relief of tears, she soon became composed, and even cheerful.
train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000127_000000|So we rode back to her little cottage at Highgate, where we found the following short note, which had arrived by that morning's post from mr Micawber:
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000001_000000|There was once a poor Prince.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000004_000000|On the grave of the Prince's father grew a rose tree, a very beautiful rose tree.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000004_000002|Its scent was so sweet that when you smelt it you forgot all your cares and troubles.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000004_000004|This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they were both put into silver caskets and sent to her.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000005_000000|The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing 'Here comes a duke a riding' with her ladies in waiting.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000006_000000|'If only it were a little pussy cat!' she said.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000006_000001|But the rose tree with the beautiful rose came out.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000015_000000|'Yes,' said the Emperor; and then he wept like a little child.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000017_000000|'Yes, it is a real bird,' said those who had brought it.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000018_000000|'Then let the bird fly away,' said the Princess; and she would not on any account allow the Prince to come.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000019_000000|'But he was nothing daunted.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000019_000001|He painted his face brown and black, drew his cap well over his face, and knocked at the door.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000020_000000|'Yes,' said the Emperor, 'but there are so many who ask for a place that I don't know whether there will be one for you; but, still, I will think of you.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000020_000001|Stay, it has just occurred to me that I want someone to look after the swine, for I have so very many of them.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000021_000000|And the Prince got the situation of Imperial Swineherd.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000021_000001|He had a wretched little room close to the pigsties; here he had to stay, but the whole day he sat working, and when evening was come he had made a pretty little pot.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000022_000000|'Where is Augustus dear? Alas! he's not here, here, here!'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000023_000000|But the most wonderful thing was, that when one held one's finger in the steam of the pot, then at once one could smell what dinner was ready in any fire place in the town.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000024_000000|Now the Princess came walking past with all her ladies in waiting, and when she heard the tune she stood still and her face beamed with joy, for she also could play 'Where is Augustus dear?'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000026_000000|'Why, that is what I play!' she said.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000026_000002|Listen!
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000026_000003|Go down and ask him what the instrument costs.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000027_000001|'What will you take for the pot?' asked the lady in waiting.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000028_000000|'I will have ten kisses from the Princess,' answered the Swineherd.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000029_000000|'Heaven forbid!' said the lady in waiting.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000030_000000|'Yes, I will sell it for nothing less,' replied the Swineherd.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000031_000000|'Well, what does he say?' asked the Princess.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000035_000000|'Where is Augustus dear? Alas! he's not here, here, here.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000036_000000|'Listen!' said the Princess.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000037_000000|'No, thank you,' said the Swineherd. 'Ten kisses from the Princess, or else I keep my pot.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000038_000000|'That is very tiresome!' said the Princess. 'But you must put yourselves in front of me, so that no one can see.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000039_000000|And the ladies in waiting placed themselves in front and then spread out their dresses; so the Swineherd got his ten kisses, and she got the pot.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000040_000000|What happiness that was!
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000040_000001|The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor's or at the shoemaker's.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000044_000000|'But don't say anything about it, for I am the Emperor's daughter.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000045_000000|'Oh, no, of course we won't!' said everyone.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000047_000001|'I have never heard a more beautiful composition.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000047_000002|Listen!
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000047_000003|Go down and ask him what this instrument costs; but I won't kiss him again.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000050_000000|'One ought to encourage art,' she said.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000050_000001|'I am the Emperor's daughter! Tell him he shall have, as before, ten kisses; the rest he can take from my ladies in waiting.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000052_000000|'That's nonsense,' said the Princess; 'and if I can kiss him, you can too.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000056_000001|He rubbed his eyes and put on his spectacles. 'Why those are the ladies in waiting playing their games; I must go down to them.'
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000057_000000|So he took off his shoes, which were shoes though he had trodden them down into slippers.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000058_000001|He stood on tiptoe.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000060_000000|'Be off with you!' said the Emperor, for he was very angry.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000062_000000|'Alas, what an unhappy creature I am!' sobbed the Princess.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000063_000000|'If only I had taken the beautiful Prince!
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000064_000000|And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw away his old clothes, and then stepped forward in his splendid dress, looking so beautiful that the Princess was obliged to courtesy.
train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000065_000000|'I now come to this.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000008_000004|McLean entered the swale and hunted up the bark.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000009_000000|"Freckles james Ross McLean!" she was saying.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000009_000001|"You fill me with dark blue despair!
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000009_000004|Answer me that, please."
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000011_000000|"You are a fraud," she said.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000013_000000|"Well," said the Angel disgustedly, "it seems to me that if I had all the things to be proud of that you have, I'd lift up my head and sing!"
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000014_000000|"And what is it I've to be proud of, ma'am?" politely inquired Freckles.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000015_000006|Proud!
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000016_000006|Fancy England an appendage!
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000019_000000|"In darkness I found thee" [She held it to the light],
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000022_000000|"And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song" [She crashed into the notes of the accompaniment she had been playing for Freckles].
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000023_000004|Now you go over there and do it!
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000026_000003|She was smiling encouragingly now, and as she came toward him, she struck the chords full and strong.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000027_000000|The heart of poor Freckles almost burst with dull pain and his great love for her.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000027_000002|He literally burst forth:
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000031_000001|He had given his best and his all.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000032_000000|Then she stepped back and faced him.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000032_000002|"Dear boy!
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000032_000005|Freckles, when you go into the world, if you can face a big audience and sing like that, just once, you will be immortal, and anything you want will be yours."
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000033_000000|"Anything!" gasped Freckles.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000034_000000|"Anything," said the Angel.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000041_000000|The Bird Woman stared across the gently waving swale.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000043_000001|"He took no advantage.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000043_000002|He never even offered to touch her.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000044_000000|McLean lifted his hat.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000045_000000|It was her first visit.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000046_000000|That was a happy day.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000048_000001|He stepped into the bright, cosy little kitchen, and as he reached down the wash basin he asked mrs Duncan a question.
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000049_000000|"Mother Duncan, do kisses wash off?"
train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000051_000003|They dinna stay on the outside.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000004_000000|"What now, Freckles?" asked mrs Duncan.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000001|I'm supposing it's my doings, but it all happened by accident, like.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000008|I just cut the grass short all around it.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000009|Then I started at the ground, trimmed up the trunk near the height of me shoulder, and left the top spreading.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000011|You see, cutting off the limbs and trimming up the trunk sets the sap running.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000007_000000|"Why, just an army of black ants.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000007_000005|The snake feeders are too full to feed anything-even more sap to themselves.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000007_000006|There's a lot of hard backed bugs-beetles, I guess-colored like the brown, blue, and black of a peacock's tail.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000008_000002|You never saw the like of the beauties!
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000008_000003|They come every color you could be naming, and every shape you could be thinking up.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000012_000002|He could find no trace of anything, yet he felt a tense nervousness, as if trouble might be brooding.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000016_000004|His heart tugged in his breast as he mentally measured the print, but he did not linger, for now the feeling arose that he was being watched.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000017_000003|Several times he locked the wheel and crossed the swamp on foot, zigzagging to cover all the space possible.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000021_000001|"So you could come?
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000022_000001|"Were you expecting me?"
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000023_000001|"Haven't you come to my party? Didn't you get my invitation?
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000024_000000|"By mail?" asked Freckles.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000026_000000|"Then that's likely where it is at present," said Freckles.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000026_000004|Is she where I can see her?"
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000028_000000|"What a disappointment!" she cried.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000028_000002|Can't you stay anyway?"
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000031_000001|"It's too bad!
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000031_000003|I think of you every day, and I just pray that those thieves are not getting ahead of you.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000038_000000|"I must not," said Freckles.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000039_000001|Won't that be fun?"
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000041_000004|He almost stopped breathing.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000048_000000|"A laugh is always good," said the Angel.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000048_000002|Go ahead."
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000050_000000|"But where does my laugh come in?" demanded the Angel, as if she had been defrauded.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000054_000000|The curtains parted and a woman came toward them.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000054_000003|She was smiling brightly; and until she spoke, Freckles had not realized fully that it was his loved Bird Woman.
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000055_000000|Noticing his bewilderment, she cried: "Why, Freckles!
train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000058_000008|He did not say anything, but they understood it was not to be touched.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000001_000000|"I am a plain, rough man," pursued the Carrier "with very little to recommend me.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000003_000000|"I often thought that though I wasn't good enough for her, I should make her a kind husband, and perhaps know her value better than another; and in this way I reconciled it to myself, and came to think it might be possible that we should be married.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000006_000003|All left out of sight!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000006_000004|Hah!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000007_000001|If, yesterday, I'd have struck that man down at a blow, who dared to breathe a word against her, to day I'd set my foot upon his face, if he was my brother!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000008_000000|The toy merchant gazed at him in astonishment.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000009_000003|Never.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000010_000000|The toy merchant gazed at him without winking.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000011_000002|Poor child!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000011_000003|Poor Dot!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000012_000000|"She made a show of it," said Tackleton.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000012_000001|"She made such a show of it, that, to tell you the truth, it was the origin of my misgivings."
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000015_000001|"Oh!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000022_000000|"Very much as if you meant it."
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000024_000000|Staunch Cricket on the Hearth!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000025_000003|Last night she saw him, in the interview we witnessed. It was wrong.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000027_000008|She leaves me without blame, and she will live so I am sure.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000027_000011|Now, it's over!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000028_000002|Not quite yet.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000029_000000|She had entered shortly after Tackleton, and had remained there.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000029_000001|She never looked at Tackleton, but fixed her eyes upon her husband.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000030_000000|"No hand can make the clock which will strike again for me the hours that are gone," replied the Carrier with a faint smile.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000030_000002|It will strike soon.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000033_000000|"Oh, quite!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000034_000000|"And you'll remember what I have said?"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000036_000000|"The better for us both," returned the Carrier.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000036_000001|"Good bye.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000036_000002|I give you joy!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000037_000002|Good bye!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000040_000001|"It's enough to dead and bury the Baby, so it is if you please."
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000044_000000|"Mary!" said Bertha.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000045_000000|"I told her you would not be there, mum," whispered Caleb.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000045_000001|"I heard as much last night.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000048_000001|Ah!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000051_000000|"I knew it!" cried Bertha, proudly.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000054_000000|"Bertha, my dear!" said Caleb.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000054_000002|Hear me kindly!
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000054_000003|I have a confession to make to you, my darling!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000055_000000|"A confession, father?"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000057_000000|She turned her wonder stricken face towards him, and repeated "Cruel!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000058_000001|"You'll say so presently.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000060_000000|"Not meaning it, my child," said Caleb.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000069_000000|Her afflicted father hung his head, and offered no reply but in his penitence and sorrow.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000073_000000|"It is a poor place, Bertha; very poor and bare indeed.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000075_000000|"Those presents that I took such care of; that came almost at my wish, and were so dearly welcome to me," she said, trembling; "where did they come from?
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000075_000001|Did you send them?"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000076_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000078_000000|Dot saw she knew already, and was silent.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000081_000002|Mary, look across the room to where we were just now-to where my father is-my father, so compassionate and loving to me-and tell me what you see."
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000082_000001|As if his child should comfort him, Bertha."
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000083_000001|She will.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000084_000000|"He is an old man, worn with care and work.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000084_000001|He is a spare, dejected, thoughtful, grey haired man.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000084_000003|But, Bertha, I have seen him many times before, and striving hard in many ways, for one great sacred object.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000089_000000|Caleb managed to articulate, "My Bertha!"
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000094_000000|"Father!" said Bertha, hesitating.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000099_000002|You've a quick ear, Bertha.
train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000099_000003|Are they wheels?"
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000001_000003|Very close!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000001_000004|And now you hear them stopping at the garden gate!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000003_000000|"Is it over?" cried Dot.
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000008_000000|"If my boy in the Golden South Americas was alive----!" said Caleb, trembling.
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000009_000001|"Look at him!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000010_000000|All honour to the little creature for her transports!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000013_000000|"Look, john!" said Caleb, exultingly, "look here!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000015_000000|"Edward!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000021_000000|"You must know that when I left here a boy," said Edward, "I was in love, and my love was returned.
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000021_000002|But I knew mine, and I had a passion for her."
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000023_000002|I have ever since believed she did, and now I am sure she did."
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000024_000001|"This is worse than all."
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000025_000003|It would be small comfort, but it would be some, I thought, and on I came.
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000025_000005|You had no suspicion of me; neither had-had she," pointing to Dot, "until I whispered in her ear at that fireside, and she so nearly betrayed me."
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000026_000002|And it WAS right, john!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000026_000004|And here's the Bride!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000033_000000|"No; keep there, please, john!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000041_000003|Oh! here she is!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000055_000004|You understand me; that's enough.
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000065_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000069_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000081_000000|Hark! how the Cricket joins the music with its Chirp, Chirp, Chirp; and how the kettle hums!
train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000082_000000|But what is this?
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000002_000014|Very well.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000005_000010|Next there followed a few reflections of a correctitude so remarkable that I have no choice but to quote them.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000005_000015|In conclusion, the writer gave way to unconcealed despair, and wound up with the following verses:
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000007_000000|True, the last line did not scan, but that was a trifle, since the quatrain at least conformed to the mode then prevalent.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000007_000001|Neither signature nor date were appended to the document, but only a postscript expressing a conjecture that Chichikov's own heart would tell him who the writer was, and stating, in addition, that the said writer would be present at the Governor's ball on the following night.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000013_000000|"I think that you have not met my daughter before?" said Madame.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000013_000001|"She is just fresh from school."
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000014_000000|He replied that he HAD had the happiness of meeting Mademoiselle before, and under rather unexpected circumstances; but on his trying to say something further his tongue completely failed him.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000000|Chichikov stood rooted to the spot, like a man who, after issuing into the street for a pleasant walk, has suddenly come to a halt on remembering that something has been left behind him.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000007|Every one of them had made up her mind to use upon him her every weapon, and to exhibit whatsoever might chance to constitute her best point.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000008|Yet the ladies' wiles proved useless, for Chichikov paid not the smallest attention to them, even when the dancing had begun, but kept raising himself on tiptoe to peer over people's heads and ascertain in which direction the bewitching maiden with the golden hair had gone.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000012|But Chichikov never even noticed him; he saw in the distance only the golden haired beauty.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000013|At that moment she was drawing on a long glove and, doubtless, pining to be flying over the dancing floor, where, with clicking heels, four couples had now begun to thread the mazes of the mazurka.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000015|However, Chichikov slipped past the mazurka dancers, and, almost treading on their heels, made his way towards the spot where Madame and her daughter were seated.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000016|Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000016_000001|Nevertheless, something strange, something which he could not altogether explain, had come upon him.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000016_000002|It seemed as though the ball, with its talk and its clatter, had suddenly become a thing remote-that the orchestra had withdrawn behind a hill, and the scene grown misty, like the carelessly painted in background of a picture.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000017_000002|On perceiving an empty chair beside the mother and daughter, he hastened to occupy it, and though conversation at first hung fire, things gradually improved, and he acquired more confidence.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000018_000000|At this point I must reluctantly deviate to say that men of weight and high office are always a trifle ponderous when conversing with ladies. Young lieutenants-or, at all events, officers not above the rank of captain-are far more successful at the game.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000019_000005|This was unwise of him, since it never does to disregard ladies' opinions. Later but too late-he was destined to learn this to his cost.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000020_000000|In short, dissatisfaction began to display itself on every feminine face.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000021_000003|On sighting him in the distance, Chichikov at once decided to sacrifice himself.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000021_000004|That is to say, he decided to vacate his present enviable position and make off with all possible speed, since he could see that an encounter with the newcomer would do him no good.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000000|"Ah, my fine landowner of Kherson!" he cried with a smile which set his fresh, spring rose pink cheeks a quiver.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000001|"Have you been doing much trade in departed souls lately?" With that he turned to the Governor.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000002|"I suppose your Excellency knows that this man traffics in dead peasants?" he bawled.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000006|Yes, by God I would!"
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000023_000000|Chichikov's discomfiture was complete.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000001|And, behold, no sooner do I arrive here than I am told that he has bought three million roubles' worth of peasants for transferment!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000002|For transferment, indeed!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000003|And he wanted to bargain with me for my DEAD ones!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000006|Yes, by God, you are an utter swine!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000025_000001|The half tipsy Nozdrev, without noticing them, continued his harangue as before.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000003|You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000006|Indeed, if you had stood there and said to me, 'Nozdrev, tell me on your honour which of the two you love best-your father or Chichikov?' I should have replied, 'Chichikov, by God!'" With that he tackled our hero again, "Come, come, my friend!" he urged.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000007|"Let me imprint upon your cheeks a baiser or two.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000009|No, do not resist me, Chichikov, but allow me to imprint at least one baiser upon your lily white cheek." And in his efforts to force upon Chichikov what he termed his "baisers" he came near to measuring his length upon the floor.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000028_000001|He felt much as does a man who, shod with well polished boots, has just stepped into a dirty, stinking puddle.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000028_000002|He tried to put away from him the occurrence, and to expand, and to enjoy himself once more.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000028_000004|But all was of no avail-matters kept going as awry as a badly bent hoop.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000029_000001|His heart ached with a dull, unpleasant sensation, with a sort of oppressive emptiness.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000000|"The devil take those who first invented balls!" was his reflection. "Who derives any real pleasure from them?
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000001|In this province there exist want and scarcity everywhere: yet folk go in for balls!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000002|How absurd, too, were those overdressed women!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000003|One of them must have had a thousand roubles on her back, and all acquired at the expense of the overtaxed peasant, or, worse still, at that of the conscience of her neighbour. Yes, we all know why bribes are accepted, and why men become crooked in soul.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000004|It is all done to provide wives-yes, may the pit swallow them up!--with fal lals.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000005|And for what purpose?
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000006|That some woman may not have to reproach her husband with the fact that, say, the Postmaster's wife is wearing a better dress than she is-a dress which has cost a thousand roubles!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000007|'Balls and gaiety, balls and gaiety' is the constant cry.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000008|Yet what folly balls are!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000010|A grown, middle aged man-a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker-suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while another man, even though conversing with a companion on important business, will, the while, keep capering to right and left like a billy goat!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000011|Mimicry, sheer mimicry!
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000013|No; a ball leaves one feeling that one has done a wrong thing-so much so that one does not care even to think of it.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000019|Are, therefore, such functions right or wrong?
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000031_000000|Such were the unfavourable comments which Chichikov passed upon balls in general.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000031_000001|With it all, however, there went a second source of dissatisfaction.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000031_000004|Still more, on viewing the matter clearly, he felt vexed to think that he himself had been so largely the cause of the catastrophe.
train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000033_000007|We will reserve it for the ensuing chapter.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000001_000000|HOW MARY PASSED THE NIGHT.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000004_000000|And now, where was Mary?
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000007_000001|She came on meekly after him, scarcely thinking in her stupor where she was going, and glad (in a dead, heavy way) that some one was deciding things for her.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000008_000000|He led her to an old-fashioned house, almost as small as house could be, which had been built long ago, before all the other part of the street, and had a country town look about it in the middle of that bustling back street.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000010_000001|The boatman took it very quietly, never deigning to give any explanation, but sitting down in his own particular chair, and chewing tobacco, while he looked at Mary with the most satisfied air imaginable, half triumphantly, as if she were the captive of his bow and spear, and half defyingly, as if daring her to escape.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000012_000000|Both man and wife came quickly to her assistance.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000012_000001|They raised her up, still insensible, and he supported her on one knee, while his wife pattered away for some cold fresh water.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000012_000002|She threw it straight over Mary; but though it caused a great sob, the eyes still remained closed, and the face as pale as ashes.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000015_000000|"Well a well!" (in a soothing tone, such as you use to irritated children), and as if half to herself, "I only thought you might, you know, as you brought her home.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000015_000001|Poor thing! we must not ask aught about her, but that she needs help.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000018_000003|he's burning it!
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000018_000006|Well! he is a bright one, my old man!
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000018_000007|That I never thought of that, to be sure!" exclaimed she, as he produced a square bottle of smuggled spirits, labelled "Golden Wasser," from a corner cupboard in their little room.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000019_000001|"Bless the man!
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000019_000002|It's just like him to be so tender and thoughtful!"
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000020_000000|"Not a bit!" snarled he, as he was relieved by Mary's returning colour, and opened eyes, and wondering, sensible gaze; "not a bit! I never was such a fool afore."
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000021_000000|His wife helped Mary to rise, and placed her in a chair.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000022_000000|"All's right now, young woman?" asked the boatman, anxiously.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000023_000001|I'm sure, sir, I don't know rightly how to thank you," faltered Mary, softly forth.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000024_000000|"Be hanged to you and your thanks." And he shook himself, took his pipe, and went out without deigning another word; leaving his wife sorely puzzled as to the character and history of the stranger within her doors.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000025_000000|Mary watched the boatman leave the house, and then, turning her sorrowful eyes to the face of her hostess, she attempted feebly to rise, with the intention of going away,--where she knew not.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000026_000001|Perhaps" (sinking her voice a little) "thou'rt a bad one; I almost misdoubt thee, thou'rt so pretty.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000028_000002|There was a man in it as might save a life at the trial to morrow.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000028_000003|The captain would not let him come, but he says he'll come back in the pilot boat." She fell to sobbing at the thought of her waning hopes, and the old woman tried to comfort her, beginning with her accustomed,
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000029_000001|I know he will; so keep up your heart.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000029_000003|He's sure to be back."
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000031_000002|For the spirits had thrown her into a burning heat, and rendered each impression received through her senses of the most painful distinctness and intensity, while her head ached in a terrible manner.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000032_000000|She disliked speaking, her power over her words seemed so utterly gone.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000032_000001|She used quite different expressions to those she intended.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000032_000002|So she kept silent, while mrs Sturgis (for that was the name of her hostess) talked away, and put her tea things by, and moved about incessantly, in a manner that increased the dizziness in Mary's head. She felt as if she ought to take leave for the night and go.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000000|Presently the old man came back, crosser and gruffer than when he went away.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000002|Mary attributed this to his finding her still there, and gathered up her strength for an effort to leave the house.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000003|But she was mistaken.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000004|By and bye, he said (looking right into the fire, as if addressing it), "Wind's right against them!"
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000034_000002|I'd bet a penny it has changed sin' thou looked."
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000037_000000|"No one!" answered Mary.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000040_000000|Sturgis saw it.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000041_000000|"Don't bother her with thy questions," said he to his wife.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000041_000002|I'll see after the wind, hang it, and the weather cock, too.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000041_000003|Tide will help 'em when it turns."
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000042_000003|The sheets looked made out of sail cloth, but were fresh and clean in spite of their brownness.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000044_000000|"I cannot sleep, thank you.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000046_000001|Her looks won her suit.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000047_000000|"Well, I suppose I mun.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000047_000001|I shall catch it down stairs, I know.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000048_000000|And quietly, noiselessly, Mary watched the unchanging weather cock through the night.
train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000048_000001|She sat on the little window seat, her hand holding back the curtain which shaded the room from the bright moonlight without; her head resting its weariness against the corner of the window frame; her eyes burning and stiff with the intensity of her gaze.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000001|Before I opened my eyes, I seemed to know that something had happened.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000002|I heard excited voices in the kitchen-grandmother's was so shrill that I knew she must be almost beside herself.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000003|I looked forward to any new crisis with delight.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000005|Perhaps the barn had burned; perhaps the cattle had frozen to death; perhaps a neighbor was lost in the storm.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000002|Their clothes and boots were steaming, and they both looked exhausted.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000003|On the bench behind the stove lay a man, covered up with a blanket.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000005|I obeyed reluctantly.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000007|Her lips were tightly compressed and she kept whispering to herself: "Oh, dear Saviour!" "Lord, Thou knowest!"
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000000|Presently grandfather came in and spoke to me: "Jimmy, we will not have prayers this morning, because we have a great deal to do.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000001|Old mr Shimerda is dead, and his family are in great distress.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000002|Ambrosch came over here in the middle of the night, and Jake and Otto went back with him.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000004|That is Ambrosch, asleep on the bench.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000004_000000|After Jake and Otto had swallowed their first cup of coffee, they began to talk excitedly, disregarding grandmother's warning glances.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000004_000001|I held my tongue, but I listened with all my ears.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000005_000003|One of 'em ripped around and got away from him-bolted clean out of the stable.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000005_000004|His hands is blistered where the rope run through.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000006_000000|"Poor soul, poor soul!" grandmother groaned.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000006_000001|"I'd like to think he never done it.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000000|"I don't think he was out of his head for a minute, mrs Burden," Fuchs declared.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000001|"He done everything natural.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000003|He shaved after dinner, and washed hisself all over after the girls was done the dishes.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000005|Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000006|He must have gone right down to the barn and done it then.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000008|When we found him, everything was decent except,"--Fuchs wrinkled his brow and hesitated,--"except what he could n't nowise foresee.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000009|His coat was hung on a peg, and his boots was under the bed.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000011|He turned back his shirt at the neck and rolled up his sleeves."
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000008_000000|"I don't see how he could do it!" grandmother kept saying.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000009_000001|"Why, mam, it was simple enough; he pulled the trigger with his big toe.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000009_000002|He layed over on his side and put the end of the barrel in his mouth, then he drew up one foot and felt for the trigger.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000010_000000|"Maybe he did," said Jake grimly.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000011_000000|"Now what do you mean, Jake?" grandmother asked sharply.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000015_000000|Grandmother broke in excitedly: "See here, Jake Marpole, don't you go trying to add murder to suicide.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000015_000001|We're deep enough in trouble.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000015_000002|Otto reads you too many of them detective stories."
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000017_000002|They was blown up there by gunshot, no question."
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000019_000001|"The body can't be touched until we get the coroner here from Black Hawk, and that will be a matter of several days, this weather."
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000020_000000|"Well, I can take them some victuals, anyway, and say a word of comfort to them poor little girls.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000020_000001|The oldest one was his darling, and was like a right hand to him.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000020_000003|He's left her alone in a hard world." She glanced distrustfully at Ambrosch, who was now eating his breakfast at the kitchen table.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000021_000001|On the gray gelding, our best horse, he would try to pick his way across the country with no roads to guide him.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000022_000000|"Don't you worry about me, mrs Burden," he said cheerfully, as he put on a second pair of socks.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000022_000001|"I've got a good nose for directions, and I never did need much sleep.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000023_000001|Stop at the Widow Steavens's for dinner.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000000|After Fuchs rode away, I was left with Ambrosch.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000002|He was deeply, even slavishly, devout.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000003|He did not say a word all morning, but sat with his rosary in his hands, praying, now silently, now aloud.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000004|He never looked away from his beads, nor lifted his hands except to cross himself.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000005|Several times the poor boy fell asleep where he sat, wakened with a start, and began to pray again.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000000|No wagon could be got to the Shimerdas' until a road was broken, and that would be a day's job.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000001|Grandfather came from the barn on one of our big black horses, and Jake lifted grandmother up behind him.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000002|She wore her black hood and was bundled up in shawls.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000003|Grandfather tucked his bushy white beard inside his overcoat.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000004|They looked very Biblical as they set off, I thought.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000006|I watched them go past the pond and over the hill by the drifted cornfield.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000000|I felt a considerable extension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000002|I remembered that in the hurry and excitement of the morning nobody had thought of the chickens, and the eggs had not been gathered.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000003|Going out through the tunnel, I gave the hens their corn, emptied the ice from their drinking pan, and filled it with water.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000004|After the cat had had his milk, I could think of nothing else to do, and I sat down to get warm.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000005|The quiet was delightful, and the ticking clock was the most pleasant of companions.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000006|I got "Robinson Crusoe" and tried to read, but his life on the island seemed dull compared with ours.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000009|If he could have lived with us, this terrible thing would never have happened.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000000|I knew it was homesickness that had killed mr Shimerda, and I wondered whether his released spirit would not eventually find its way back to his own country.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000001|I thought of how far it was to Chicago, and then to Virginia, to Baltimore,--and then the great wintry ocean.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000002|No, he would not at once set out upon that long journey.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000003|Surely, his exhausted spirit, so tired of cold and crowding and the struggle with the ever falling snow, was resting now in this quiet house.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000001|I did not wish to disturb him. I went softly down to the kitchen which, tucked away so snugly underground, always seemed to me the heart and center of the house.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000002|There, on the bench behind the stove, I thought and thought about mr Shimerda. Outside I could hear the wind singing over hundreds of miles of snow.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000004|I went over all that Antonia had ever told me about his life before he came to this country; how he used to play the fiddle at weddings and dances.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000005|I thought about the friends he had mourned to leave, the trombone player, the great forest full of game,--belonging, as Antonia said, to the "nobles,"--from which she and her mother used to steal wood on moonlight nights.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000007|Such vivid pictures came to me that they might have been mr Shimerda's memories, not yet faded out from the air in which they had haunted him.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000000|It had begun to grow dark when my household returned, and grandmother was so tired that she went at once to bed.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000002|Nobody could touch the body until the coroner came.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000003|If any one did, something terrible would happen, apparently. The dead man was frozen through, "just as stiff as a dressed turkey you hang out to freeze," Jake said.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000004|The horses and oxen would not go into the barn until he was frozen so hard that there was no longer any smell of blood.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000005|They were stabled there now, with the dead man, because there was no other place to keep them.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000006|A lighted lantern was kept hanging over mr Shimerda's head.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000008|The crazy boy went with them, because he did not feel the cold.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000009|I believed he felt cold as much as any one else, but he liked to be thought insensible to it.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000010|He was always coveting distinction, poor Marek!
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000030_000000|Ambrosch, Jake said, showed more human feeling than he would have supposed him capable of; but he was chiefly concerned about getting a priest, and about his father's soul, which he believed was in a place of torment and would remain there until his family and the priest had prayed a great deal for him.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000030_000001|"As I understand it," Jake concluded, "it will be a matter of years to pray his soul out of Purgatory, and right now he's in torment."
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000031_000000|"I don't believe it," I said stoutly.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000031_000002|Nevertheless, after I went to bed, this idea of punishment and Purgatory came back on me crushingly.
train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000031_000003|I remembered the account of Dives in torment, and shuddered. But mr Shimerda had not been rich and selfish; he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000001_000000|THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000001_000001|All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000002_000000|Those girls had grown up in the first bitter hard times, and had got little schooling themselves.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000002_000002|The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000002_000004|Physically they were almost a race apart, and out of door work had given them a vigor which, when they got over their first shyness on coming to town, developed into a positive carriage and freedom of movement, and made them conspicuous among Black Hawk women.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000000|That was before the day of high-school athletics.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000001|Girls who had to walk more than half a mile to school were pitied.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000002|There was not a tennis court in the town; physical exercise was thought rather inelegant for the daughters of well to do families.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000003|Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty, but they stayed indoors in winter because of the cold, and in summer because of the heat.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000004|When one danced with them their bodies never moved inside their clothes; their muscles seemed to ask but one thing-not to be disturbed.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000005|I remember those girls merely as faces in the schoolroom, gay and rosy, or listless and dull, cut off below the shoulders, like cherubs, by the ink smeared tops of the high desks that were surely put there to make us round shouldered and hollow chested.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000000|The daughters of Black Hawk merchants had a confident, uninquiring belief that they were "refined," and that the country girls, who "worked out," were not.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000001|The American farmers in our county were quite as hard pressed as their neighbors from other countries.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000002|All alike had come to Nebraska with little capital and no knowledge of the soil they must subdue.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000003|All had borrowed money on their land.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000004|But no matter in what straits the Pennsylvanian or Virginian found himself, he would not let his daughters go out into service.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000005|Unless his girls could teach a country school, they sat at home in poverty.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000007|Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000009|Others, like the three Bohemian Marys, tried to make up for the years of youth they had lost.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000010|But every one of them did what she had set out to do, and sent home those hard earned dollars.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000005_000000|One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000005_000001|After the fathers were out of debt, the daughters married the sons of neighbors,--usually of like nationality,--and the girls who once worked in Black Hawk kitchens are to day managing big farms and fine families of their own; their children are better off than the children of the town women they used to serve.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000006_000001|What did it matter?
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000006_000002|All foreigners were ignorant people who could n't speak English. There was not a man in Black Hawk who had the intelligence or cultivation, much less the personal distinction, of Antonia's father.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000007_000000|I always knew I should live long enough to see my country girls come into their own, and I have.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000007_000001|To day the best that a harassed Black Hawk merchant can hope for is to sell provisions and farm machinery and automobiles to the rich farms where that first crop of stalwart Bohemian and Scandinavian girls are now the mistresses.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000008_000000|The Black Hawk boys looked forward to marrying Black Hawk girls, and living in a brand new little house with best chairs that must not be sat upon, and hand painted china that must not be used.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000008_000001|But sometimes a young fellow would look up from his ledger, or out through the grating of his father's bank, and let his eyes follow Lena Lingard, as she passed the window with her slow, undulating walk, or Tiny Soderball, tripping by in her short skirt and striped stockings.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000000|The country girls were considered a menace to the social order.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000001|Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000002|But anxious mothers need have felt no alarm.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000003|They mistook the mettle of their sons. The respect for respectability was stronger than any desire in Black Hawk youth.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000010_000000|Our young man of position was like the son of a royal house; the boy who swept out his office or drove his delivery wagon might frolic with the jolly country girls, but he himself must sit all evening in a plush parlor where conversation dragged so perceptibly that the father often came in and made blundering efforts to warm up the atmosphere.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000010_000002|If he went to the hotel to see a traveling man on business, there was Tiny, arching her shoulders at him like a kitten.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000010_000003|If he went into the laundry to get his collars, there were the four Danish girls, smiling up from their ironing boards, with their white throats and their pink cheeks.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000011_000001|Mary Dusak had been housekeeper for a bachelor rancher from Boston, and after several years in his service she was forced to retire from the world for a short time.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000011_000002|Later she came back to town to take the place of her friend, Mary Svoboda, who was similarly embarrassed.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000011_000003|The three Marys were considered as dangerous as high explosives to have about the kitchen, yet they were such good cooks and such admirable housekeepers that they never had to look for a place.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000000|The Vannis' tent brought the town boys and the country girls together on neutral ground.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000001|Sylvester Lovett, who was cashier in his father's bank, always found his way to the tent on Saturday night.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000002|He took all the dances Lena Lingard would give him, and even grew bold enough to walk home with her.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000003|If his sisters or their friends happened to be among the onlookers on "popular nights," Sylvester stood back in the shadow under the cottonwood trees, smoking and watching Lena with a harassed expression.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000004|Several times I stumbled upon him there in the dark, and I felt rather sorry for him.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000007|In my ingenuousness I hoped that Sylvester would marry Lena, and thus give all the country girls a better position in the town.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000013_000000|Sylvester dallied about Lena until he began to make mistakes in his work; had to stay at the bank until after dark to make his books balance.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000013_000001|He was daft about her, and every one knew it.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000013_000003|This remedy worked, apparently.
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000014_000000|So that was what they were like, I thought, these white handed, high collared clerks and bookkeepers!
train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000014_000001|I used to glare at young Lovett from a distance and only wished I had some way of showing my contempt for him.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000002_000000|forty six.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000003_000000|At a quarter to six o'clock, Monsieur de Gondy, having finished his business, returned to the archiepiscopal palace.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000005_000000|The coadjutor glanced rapidly behind and saw that he was followed by another man.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000006_000000|"Your holiness," said the curate, "here is the person of whom I had the honor to speak to you."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000007_000000|Planchet saluted in the manner of one accustomed to fine houses.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000008_000000|"And you are disposed to serve the cause of the people?" asked Gondy.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000009_000001|"I am a Frondist from my heart.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000009_000002|You see in me, such as I am, a person sentenced to be hung."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000010_000000|"And on what account?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000014_000000|"Ah! really, yes," said the coadjutor, "I have heard this affair mentioned.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000014_000001|You raised the whole district, so they told me!"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000017_000000|"That of a confectioner, in the Rue des Lombards."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000018_000000|"Explain to me how it happens that, following so peaceful a business, you had such warlike inclinations."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000019_000000|"Why does my lord, belonging to the church, now receive me in the dress of an officer, with a sword at his side and spurs to his boots?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000020_000000|"Not badly answered, i'faith," said Gondy, laughing; "but I have, you must know, always had, in spite of my bands, warlike inclinations."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000021_000000|"Well, my lord, before I became a confectioner I myself was three years sergeant in the Piedmontese regiment, and before I became sergeant I was for eighteen months the servant of Monsieur d'Artagnan."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000022_000000|"The lieutenant of musketeers?" asked Gondy.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000023_000000|"Himself, my lord."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000026_000000|"What do you mean by that?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000027_000000|"Nothing, my lord; Monsieur d'Artagnan belongs to the service; Monsieur d'Artagnan makes it his business to defend the cardinal, who pays him, as much as we make it ours, we citizens, to attack him, whom he robs."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000028_000000|"You are an intelligent fellow, my friend; can we count upon you?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000029_000000|"You may count upon me, my lord, provided you want to make a complete upheaval of the city."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000030_000000|"'tis that exactly.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000030_000001|How many men, think you, you could collect together to night?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000031_000000|"Two hundred muskets and five hundred halberds."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000032_000000|"Let there be only one man in every district who can do as much and by to morrow we shall have quite a powerful army.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000032_000001|Are you disposed to obey Count de Rochefort?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000033_000000|"I would follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000035_000000|"By what sign to morrow shall we be able to distinguish friends from foes?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000036_000000|"Every Frondist must put a knot of straw in his hat."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000037_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000037_000001|Give the watchword."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000038_000000|"Do you want money?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000039_000000|"Money never comes amiss at any time, my lord; if one has it not, one must do without it; with it, matters go on much better and more rapidly."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000040_000000|Gondy went to a box and drew forth a bag.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000041_000000|"Here are five hundred pistoles," he said; "and if the action goes off well you may reckon upon a similar sum to morrow."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000042_000000|"I will give a faithful account of the sum to your lordship," said Planchet, putting the bag under his arm.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000043_000000|"That is right; I recommend the cardinal to your attention."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000044_000000|"Make your mind easy, he is in good hands."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000045_000000|Planchet went out, the curate remaining for a moment.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000046_000000|"Are you satisfied, my lord?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000047_000000|"Yes; he appears to be a resolute fellow."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000049_000000|"He will do wonders then."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000050_000000|The curate rejoined Planchet, who was waiting for him on the stairs.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000050_000002|As soon as the door of Gondy's study was opened a man rushed in.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000050_000003|It was the Count de Rochefort.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000051_000000|"'tis you, then, my dear count," cried Gondy, offering his hand.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000053_000000|"It has been made up a long time," said Gondy.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000054_000001|Well, we are going to give a ball to Mazarin."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000055_000000|"I hope so."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000056_000000|"And when will the dance begin?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000057_000000|"The invitations are given for this evening," said the coadjutor, "but the violins will not begin to play until to morrow morning."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000059_000000|"Upon fifty soldiers?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000061_000000|"Good, my dear Rochefort; but that is not all.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000062_000000|"He is in Vendome, where he will wait until I write to him to return to Paris."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000065_000000|"Yes, but he must make haste; for hardly will the people of Paris have revolted before we shall have a score of princes begging to lead them. If he defers he will find the place of honor taken."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000067_000000|"Yes certainly."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000068_000000|"Shall I tell him that he can count on you?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000069_000000|"To the end."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000071_000000|"Of the war, yes, but in politics----"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000072_000000|"You must know it is not his element."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000073_000000|"He must leave me to negotiate for my cardinal's hat in my own fashion."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000074_000000|"You care about it, then, so much?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000075_000000|"Since they force me to wear a hat of a form which does not become me," said Gondy, "I wish at least that the hat should be red."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000076_000000|"One must not dispute matters of taste and colors," said Rochefort, laughing.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000076_000001|"I answer for his consent."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000078_000000|"In five days."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000079_000000|"Let him come and he will find a change, I will answer for it."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000080_000000|"Therefore, go and collect your fifty men and hold yourself in readiness."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000081_000000|"For what?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000082_000000|"For everything."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000084_000000|"A knot of straw in the hat."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000085_000000|"Very good.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000085_000001|Adieu, my lord."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000086_000000|"Adieu, my dear Rochefort."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000087_000000|"Ah, Monsieur Mazarin, Monsieur Mazarin," said Rochefort, leading off his curate, who had not found an opportunity of uttering a single word during the foregoing dialogue, "you will see whether I am too old to be a man of action."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000088_000001|He remarked that a light was burning in one of the highest windows of the tower.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000088_000002|"Good," said he, "our syndic is at his post."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000089_000000|He knocked and the door was opened.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000089_000001|The vicar himself awaited him, conducted him to the top of the tower, and when there pointed to a little door, placed the light which he had brought with him in a corner of the wall, that the coadjutor might be able to find it on his return, and went down again.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000090_000000|"Come in," said a voice which he recognized as that of the mendicant, whom he found lying on a kind of truckle bed.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000090_000001|He rose on the entrance of the coadjutor, and at that moment ten o'clock struck.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000091_000000|"Well," said Gondy, "have you kept your word with me?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000092_000000|"Not exactly," replied the mendicant.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000093_000000|"How is that?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000094_000000|"You asked me for five hundred men, did you not?
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000094_000001|Well, I have ten thousand for you."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000095_000000|"You are not boasting?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000096_000000|"Do you wish for a proof?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000097_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000098_000000|There were three candles alight, each of which burnt before a window, one looking upon the city, the other upon the Palais Royal, and a third upon the Rue Saint Denis.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000099_000000|The man went silently to each of the candles and blew them out one after the other.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000100_000000|"What are you doing?" asked the coadjutor.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000101_000000|"I have given the signal."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000102_000000|"For what?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000103_000000|"For the barricades.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000104_000001|Now remember that you are a general and do not go and drink."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000105_000000|"For twenty years I have tasted nothing but water."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000106_000000|The man took the bag from the hands of the coadjutor, who heard the sound of his fingers counting and handling the gold pieces.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000108_000000|The mendicant sighed and threw down the bag.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000109_000001|Oh, misery, oh, vanity!"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000110_000000|"You take it, however."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000111_000000|"Yes, but I make hereby a vow in your presence, to employ all that remains to me in pious works."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000112_000000|His face was pale and drawn, like that of a man who had just undergone some inward struggle.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000113_000000|"Singular man!" muttered Gondy, taking his hat to go away; but on turning around he saw the beggar between him and the door.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000115_000000|"Your holiness!" said Gondy; "my friend, you take me for some one else."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000116_000000|"No, your holiness, I take you for what you are, that is to say, the coadjutor; I recognized you at the first glance."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000117_000000|Gondy smiled.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000117_000001|"And you want my blessing?" he said.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000118_000000|"Yes, I have need of it."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000119_000000|The mendicant uttered these words in a tone of such humility, such earnest repentance, that Gondy placed his hand upon him and gave him his benediction with all the unction of which he was capable.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000120_000000|"Now," said Gondy, "there is a communion between us.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000120_000001|I have blessed you and you are sacred to me.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000120_000002|Come, have you committed some crime, pursued by human justice, from which I can protect you?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000121_000000|The beggar shook his head.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000121_000001|"The crime which I have committed, my lord, has no call upon human justice, and you can only deliver me from it by blessing me frequently, as you have just done."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000123_000001|I have pursued it for six years only."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000125_000000|"In the Bastile."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000126_000000|"And before you went to the Bastile?"
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000128_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000128_000001|At whatsoever hour of the day or night you may present yourself, remember that I shall be ready to give you absolution."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000129_000000|"Thank you, my lord," said the mendicant in a hoarse voice.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000129_000001|"But I am not yet ready to receive it."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000130_000000|"Very well.
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000130_000001|Adieu."
train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000131_000000|"Adieu, your holiness," said the mendicant, opening the door and bending low before the prelate.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty three
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000005_000001|He had read of the murder, and had been shocked, and, in his way, grieved.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000006_000000|It was not to save Odette Rider that he sent his note to Scotland Yard, but rather to avenge himself upon the man who had killed the only woman in the world who had touched his warped nature.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000006_000002|He had the passports which he had secured a year before in readiness for such a step (he had kept that clerical uniform of his by him all that time) and was ready at a moment's notice to leave the country.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000007_000000|His tickets were in his pocket, and when he despatched the district messenger to Scotland Yard he was on his way to Waterloo station to catch the Havre boat train.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000008_000001|He turned to look into a brown mask of a face he had seen before.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000010_000000|He had asked the question in identical terms of Sam Stay-his brain told him that much, mechanically.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000011_000001|"It will be better for you if you do not make any trouble."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000012_000000|"You are making a mistake."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000013_000000|"If I am making a mistake," said Ling Chu calmly, "you have only to tell that policeman that I have mistaken you for Milburgh, who is wanted by the police on a charge of murder, and I shall get into very serious trouble."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000014_000000|Milburgh's lips were quivering with fear and his face was a pasty grey.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000015_000000|"I will come," he said.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000016_000002|He was not used to travelling on omnibuses, being something of a sybarite who spared nothing to ensure his own comfort.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000016_000003|Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000017_000000|No word was spoken until they reached the sitting room of Tarling's flat. Milburgh expected to see the detective.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000017_000002|But there was no sign of Tarling.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000018_000000|"Now, my friend, what do you want?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000018_000001|"It is true I am mr Milburgh, but when you say that I have committed murder you are telling a wicked lie."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000019_000000|He had gained some courage, because he had expected in the first place to be taken immediately to Scotland Yard and placed in custody.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000020_000002|He felt something like a wire loop slipped about his wrists, and suffered an excruciating pain as the Chinaman tightened the connecting link of the native handcuff.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000021_000000|"Get up," said Ling Chu sternly, and, exerting a surprising strength, lifted the man to his feet.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000023_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000023_000001|Ling Chu gripped the man by one hand and opening the door with the other, pushed him into a room which was barely furnished. Against the wall there was an iron bed, and on to this the man was pushed, collapsing in a heap.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000024_000000|The Chinese thief catcher went about his work in a scientific fashion. First he fastened and threaded a length of silk rope through one of the rails of the bed and into the slack of this he lifted Milburgh's head, so that he could not struggle except at the risk of being strangled.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000025_000000|Ling Chu turned him over, unfastened the handcuffs, and methodically bound first one wrist and then the other to the side of the bed.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000026_000000|"What are you going to do?" repeated Milburgh, but the Chinaman made no reply.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000027_000000|He produced from a belt beneath his blouse a wicked looking knife, and the manager opened his mouth to shout.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000027_000001|He was beside himself with terror, but any cause for fear had yet to come.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000028_000000|"If you cry out," he said calmly, "the people will think it is I who am singing!
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000029_000000|"You are acting illegally," breathed Milburgh, in a last attempt to save the situation.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000030_000000|"I shall be fortunate," said Ling Chu; "for prison is life.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000000|He went to a cupboard in the wall, and took out a small brown bottle, which he placed on a table by the side of the bed.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000001|Then he himself sat upon the edge of the bed and spoke.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000002|His English was almost perfect, though now and again he hesitated in the choice of a word, and there were moments when he was a little stilted in his speech, and more than a little pedantic.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000003|He spoke slowly and with great deliberation.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000000|"You do not know the Chinese people?
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000001|You have not been or lived in China? When I say lived I do not mean staying for a week at a good hotel in one of the coast towns.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000002|Your mr Lyne lived in China in that way.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000003|It was not a successful residence."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000034_000000|"I know nothing about mr Lyne," interrupted Milburgh, sensing that Ling Chu in some way associated him with Thornton Lyne's misadventures.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000035_000001|It is said that the Chinaman does not fear death or pain, which is a slight exaggeration, because I have known criminals who feared both."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000036_000000|His thin lips curved for a second in the ghost of a smile, as though at some amusing recollection.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000036_000001|Then he grew serious again.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000037_000000|"From the Western standpoint we are a primitive people.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000037_000001|From our own point of view we are rigidly honourable.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000037_000002|Also-and this I would emphasise." He did, in fact, emphasise his words to the terror of mr Milburgh, with the point of his knife upon the other's broad chest, though so lightly was the knife held that Milburgh felt nothing but the slightest tingle.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000038_000000|"We do not set the same value upon the rights of the individual as do you people in the West.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000038_000001|For example," he explained carefully, "we are not tender with our prisoners, if we think that by applying a little pressure to them we can assist the process of justice."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000039_000000|"What do you mean?" asked Milburgh, a grisly thought dawning upon his mind.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000040_000001|You ask him questions and go on asking and asking, and you do not know whether he is lying or telling the truth."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000041_000000|mr Milburgh began to breathe heavily.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000042_000000|"Has that idea sunk into your mind?" asked Ling Chu.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000044_000000|Ling Chu stopped him with a gesture.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000000|"I am perfectly well aware of what I am doing," he said.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000001|"Now listen to me.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000002|A week or so ago, mr Thornton Lyne, your employer, was found dead in Hyde Park.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000004|He was killed in the flat of a small lady, whose name I cannot pronounce, but you will know her."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000046_000000|Milburgh's eyes never left the Chinaman's, and he nodded.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000048_000000|"That's a lie," roared Milburgh.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000048_000001|"It's a lie-I tell you it's a lie!"
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000049_000000|"I shall discover whether it is a lie in a few moments," said Ling Chu.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000050_000000|He put his hand inside his blouse and Milburgh watched him fascinated, but he produced nothing more deadly than a silver cigarette case, which he opened.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000050_000001|He selected a cigarette and lit it, and for a few minutes puffed in silence, his thoughtful eyes fixed upon Milburgh.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000050_000002|Then he rose and went to the cupboard and took out a larger bottle and placed it beside the other.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000053_000000|He took up his knife and bent over the terror stricken man.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000054_000000|"For God's sake don't, don't," half screamed, half sobbed Milburgh.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000055_000000|"This will not hurt you," said Ling Chu, and drew four straight lines across the other's breast.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000055_000001|The keen razor edge seemed scarcely to touch the flesh, yet where the knife had passed was a thin red mark like a scratch.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000056_000000|Milburgh scarcely felt a twinge of pain, only a mild irritating smarting and no more.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000056_000001|The Chinaman laid down the knife and took up the smaller bottle.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000057_000000|"In this," he said, "is a vegetable extract.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000057_000002|In this bottle," he picked up the larger, "is a Chinese oil which immediately relieves the pain which capsicum causes."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000058_000001|"You dog!
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000058_000002|You fiend!"
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000059_000000|"With a little brush I will paint capsicum on these places." He touched Milburgh's chest with his long white ringers.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000059_000001|"Little by little, millimetre by millimetre my brush will move, and you will experience such pain as you have never experienced before.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000060_000000|He took out the cork and dipped a little camel hair brush in the mixture, withdrawing it moist with fluid.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000060_000001|He was watching Milburgh all the time, and when the stout man opened his mouth to yell he thrust a silk handkerchief, which he drew with lightning speed from his pocket, into the open mouth.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000061_000000|"Wait, wait!" gasped the muffled voice of Milburgh.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000061_000001|"I have something to tell you-something that your master should know."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000062_000000|"That is very good," said Ling Chu coolly, and pulled out the handkerchief.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000062_000001|"You shall tell me the truth."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000063_000000|"What truth can I tell you?" asked the man, sweating with fear.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000063_000001|Great beads of sweat were lying on his face.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000064_000000|"You shall confess the truth that you killed Thornton Lyne," said Ling Chu.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000064_000001|"That is the only truth I want to hear."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000065_000000|"I swear I did not kill him!
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000065_000001|I swear it, I swear it!" raved the prisoner. "Wait, wait!" he whimpered as the other picked up the handkerchief.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000066_000000|The Chinaman checked his movement.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000068_000000|Brokenly, gaspingly, breathlessly, Milburgh told the story of his meeting with Sam Stay.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000068_000001|In his distress and mental anguish he reproduced faithfully not only every word, but every intonation, and the Chinaman listened with half closed eyes.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000068_000002|Then, when Milburgh had finished, he put down his bottle and thrust in the cork.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000069_000000|"My master would wish that the little woman should escape danger," he said.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000069_000001|"To night he does not return, so I must go myself to the hospital-you can wait."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000070_000001|"I will help you."
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000071_000000|Ling Chu shook his head.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000072_000000|"You can wait," he said with a sinister smile.
train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000072_000001|"I will go first to the hospital and afterwards, if all is well, I will return for you."
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000003_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000003_000001|STILL DESCENDING
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000005_000000|An extra passenger was on board.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000005_000002|No one exactly knew.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000008_000001|He maintained a good deal of reserve, answering if addressed, but never provoking a reply.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000009_000000|If he appeared more open with any one, it was with Fragoso.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000011_000000|During the morning the raft passed by the picturesque group of islands situated in the vast estuary of the Javary.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000013_000000|They had passed the island of Araria, the Archipelago of the Calderon islands, the island of Capiatu, and many others whose names have not yet come to the knowledge of geographers.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000015_000000|Manoel and Benito had gone shooting in the neighborhood, and brought back some feathered game, which was well received in the larder.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000016_000000|It was a creature of a dark color, something like a large Newfoundland dog.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000020_000000|"Yes, little sister," replied Benito, "and you were not there to ask for mercy!
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000021_000000|The ant eater looked superb, with his long tail and grizzly hair; with his pointed snout, which is plunged into the ant hills whose insects form its principal food; and his long, thin paws, armed with sharp nails, five inches long, and which can shut up like the fingers of one's hand.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000021_000002|When it has got hold of anything you have to cut it off to make it let go!
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000021_000003|It is of this hand that the traveler, Emile Carrey, has so justly observed: "The tiger himself would perish in its grasp."
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000022_000001|Many times they passed by the mouths of iguarapes, or little affluents, with black waters.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000023_000000|The coloration of these waters is a very curious phenomenon.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000023_000001|It is peculiar to a certain number of these tributaries of the Amazon, which differ greatly in importance.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000024_000000|Manoel remarked how thick the cloudiness was, for it could be clearly seen on the surface of the whitish waters of the river.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000025_000000|"They have tried to explain this coloring in many ways," said he, "but I do not think the most learned have yet arrived at a satisfactory explanation."
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000028_000000|"Good!" exclaimed Benito.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000029_000000|"Perhaps," said Fragoso, "they might ask the opinions of the caymans, dolphins, and manatees, for they certainly prefer the black waters to the others to enjoy themselves in."
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000030_000000|"They are particularly attractive to those animals," replied Manoel, "but why it is rather embarrassing to say.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000030_000002|There is nothing certain in the matter. Under any circumstances, they are excellent to drink, of a freshness quite enviable for the climate, and without after taste, and perfectly harmless.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000030_000003|Take a little of the water, Minha, and drink it; you will find it all right."
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000001|It may, perhaps, seem singular that the ancient lords of the country, Tupinambas and Tupiniquis, should find their principal occupation in making objects for the Catholic religion.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000002|But, after all, why not?
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000003|These Indians are no longer the Indians of days gone by.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000004|Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and a cotton poncho woven by their wives, who have become thorough adepts in its manufacture?
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000033_000001|At present the capital of the Upper Amazon, it began as a simple Mission, founded by the Portuguese Carmelites about sixteen ninety two, and afterward acquired by the Jesuit missionaries.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000034_000001|Like everything else, that has changed; heads have re taken their natural form, and there is not the slightest trace of the ancient deformity in the skulls of the chaplet makers.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000036_000000|Assuredly if the adventurer was taciturn he was not inquisitive.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000037_000001|He and the family received an excellent reception from the principal authorities of the town, the commandant of the place, and the chief of the custom house, whose functions did not in the least prevent them from engaging in trade.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000038_000000|The town is composed of some sixty houses, arranged on the plain which hereabouts crowns the river bank.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000040_000000|During dinner Torres showed himself more talkative than usual.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000040_000004|It was marked enough for even Benito to notice it, not without surprise, and he observed that his father gave particular attention to the questions so curiously propounded by Torres.
train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000044_000000|A peculiar phenomenon, for the river displaces itself to feed its own tributaries!
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000001_000001|THE CONTINUED DESCENT
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000002_000001|Large bats of ruddy color skimmed with their huge wings the current of the Amazon.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000003_000000|These were, in fact, the horrible vampires which suck the blood of the cattle, and even attack man if he is imprudent enough to sleep out in the fields.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000004_000000|"Oh, the dreadful creatures!" cried Lina, hiding her eyes; "they fill me with horror!"
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000006_000000|"To be sure-very formidable," answered he.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000006_000003|They tell of people, unconsciously submitted to this hemorrhage for many hours, who have never awoke!"
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000008_000000|"Never fear!" replied Manoel; "if necessary we will watch over them as they sleep."
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000012_000000|"Certainly," answered Yaquita.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000013_000000|"What causes the noise?" asked Minha.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000014_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000014_000002|"Tomorrow, at daybreak, there will be a rare treat for those who like fresh turtle eggs and little turtles!"
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000016_000001|The operation commences with sunset and finishes with the dawn.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000018_000001|They watch for the arrival of the chelonians, and proceed to the extraction of the eggs to the sound of the drum; and the harvest is divided into three parts-one to the watchers, another to the Indians, a third to the state, represented by the captains of the shore, who, in their capacity of police, have to superintend the collection of the dues.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000019_000000|Turtles, or turtle eggs, are an object of very considerable trade throughout the Amazonian basin.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000019_000002|In this way they always have the meat of these animals fresh.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000020_000000|They proceed differently with the little turtles which are just hatched. There is no need to pack them or tie them up.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000020_000001|Their shell is still soft, their flesh extremely tender, and after they have cooked them they eat them just like oysters.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000020_000002|In this form large quantities are consumed.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000022_000000|On the morrow, at daybreak, Benito, Fragoso, and a few Indians took a pirogue and landed on the beach of one of the large islands which they had passed during the night.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000022_000002|They knew they could catch her up.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000023_000000|On the shore they saw the little hillocks which indicated the places where, that very night, each packet of eggs had been deposited in the trench in groups of from one hundred and sixty to one hundred and ninety.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000023_000001|These there was no wish to get out.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000023_000002|But an earlier laying had taken place two months before, the eggs had hatched under the action of the heat stored in the sand, and already several thousands of little turtles were running about the beach.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000024_000000|The hunters were therefore in luck.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000024_000001|The pirogue was filled with these interesting amphibians, and they arrived just in time for breakfast.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000024_000002|The booty was divided between the passengers and crew of the jangada, and if any lasted till the evening it did not last any longer.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000027_000000|The Putumayo is one of the most important affluents of the Amazon.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000027_000001|Here in the sixteenth century missions were founded by the Spaniards, which were afterward destroyed by the Portuguese, and not a trace of them now remains.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000028_000000|Representatives of different tribes of Indians are found in the neighborhood, which are easily recognizable by the differences in their tattoo marks.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000000|The bad weather was at last met with.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000001|It did not show itself in continual rains, but in frequent storms.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000002|These could not hinder the progress of the raft, which offered little resistance to the wind.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000003|Its great length rendered it almost insensible to the swell of the Amazon, but during the torrential showers the Garral family had to keep indoors. They had to occupy profitably these hours of leisure.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000004|They chatted together, communicated their observations, and their tongues were seldom idle.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000000|It was under these circumstances that little by little Torres had begun to take a more active part in the conversation.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000001|The details of his many voyages throughout the whole north of Brazil afforded him numerous subjects to talk about.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000002|The man had certainly seen a great deal, but his observations were those of a skeptic, and he often shocked the straightforward people who were listening to him.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000005|On the other hand, Minha felt for him an instinctive repulsion which she was at no pains to conceal.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000032_000000|On the fifth of July the mouth of the Tunantins appeared on the left bank, forming an estuary of some four hundred feet across, in which it pours its blackish waters, coming from the west northwest, after having watered the territories of the Cacena Indians.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000032_000001|At this spot the Amazon appears under a truly grandiose aspect, but its course is more than ever encumbered with islands and islets.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000032_000002|It required all the address of the pilot to steer through the archipelago, going from one bank to another, avoiding the shallows, shirking the eddies, and maintaining the advance.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000035_000000|At this place the jangada halted for twelve hours, so as to give a rest to the crew.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000036_000001|Probably the hamlet has now finished with its nomadic existence, and has definitely become stationary.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000036_000003|Fonteboa has one thousand inhabitants, drawn from the Indians on both banks, who rear numerous cattle in the fields in the neighborhood.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000036_000004|These occupations do not end here, for they are intrepid hunters, or, if they prefer it, intrepid fishers for the manatee.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000037_000002|Six brown points were seen moving along the surface, and these were the two pointed snouts and four pinions of the lamantins.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000038_000000|Inexperienced fishermen would at first have taken these moving points for floating wreckage, but the natives of Fonteboa were not to be so deceived.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000000|The fishermen continued their cautious advance.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000001|One of them, armed with a very primitive harpoon-a long nail at the end of a stick-kept himself in the bow of the boat, while the other two noiselessly paddled on.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000002|They waited till the necessity of breathing would bring the manatees up again.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000003|In ten minutes or thereabouts the animals would certainly appear in a circle more or less confined.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000041_000000|In fact, this time had scarcely elapsed before the black points emerged at a little distance, and two jets of air mingled with vapor were noiselessly shot forth.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000044_000000|It was not a manatee of any size, for it only measured about three feet long.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000044_000001|These poor cetaceans have been so hunted that they have become very rare in the Amazon and its affluents, and so little time is left them to grow that the giants of the species do not now exceed seven feet.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000044_000002|What are these, after manatees twelve and fifteen feet long, which still abound in the rivers and lakes of Africa?
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000000|But it would be difficult to hinder their destruction.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000001|The flesh of the manatee is excellent, superior even to that of pork, and the oil furnished by its lard, which is three inches thick, is a product of great value.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000002|When the meat is smoke dried it keeps for a long time, and is capital food.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000003|If to this is added that the animal is easily caught, it is not to be wondered at that the species is on its way to complete destruction.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000046_000000|On the nineteenth of July, at sunrise, the jangada left Fonteboa, and entered between the two completely deserted banks of the river, and breasted some islands shaded with the grand forests of cacao trees.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000046_000001|The sky was heavily charged with electric cumuli, warning them of renewed storms.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000047_000000|The Rio Jurua, coming from the southwest, soon joins the river on the left.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000047_000001|A vessel can go up it into Peru without encountering insurmountable obstacles among its white waters, which are fed by a great number of petty affluents.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000048_000000|"It is perhaps in these parts," said Manoel, "that we ought to look for those female warriors who so much astonished Orellana.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000049_000000|The jangada continued to descend; but what a labyrinth the Amazon now appeared!
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000050_000000|Between them were canals, iguarapes, lagoons, temporary lakes, an inextricable network which renders the hydrography of this country so difficult.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000051_000000|But if Araujo had no map to guide him, his experience served him more surely, and it was wonderful to see him unraveling the chaos, without ever turning aside from the main river.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000053_000000|But the town of e g a is of some importance; it was worthy of a halt to visit it.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000053_000002|This would give a rest, which was deservedly due to the hard-working crew of the raft.
train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000054_000000|The night passed at the moorings near a slightly rising shore, and nothing disturbed the quiet.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000003_000000|"Yes, Benito."
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000006_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000007_000000|"No!" replied Manoel.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000007_000001|"Decidedly not!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000007_000003|No, Benito!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000008_000001|But I dare not!"
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000010_000002|You have remarked his attentions to my sister! Nothing can be truer!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000011_000000|"What are you talking about, Benito?
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000012_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000014_000002|I know not-but to force my father to get rid of Torres would perhaps be imprudent!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000018_000002|Till then we must keep our eyes on him!"
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000021_000005|I do not know!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000027_000000|By what mysterious bond could these two men-one nobleness itself, that was self evident-be connected with each other?
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000053_000001|Not only can the old ones, the centenarians, be recognized by the greenish moss which carpets their carcass and is scattered over their protuberances, but by their natural ferocity, which increases with age.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000058_000000|"Bring the guns!
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000063_000000|"She is not there!" replied Lina, who had just run to her mistress' room.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000066_000000|No reply.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000077_000002|Minha was flying aft, pursued by the monster, who was not six feet away from her.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000078_000000|Minha fell.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000079_000000|A second shot from Benito failed to stop the cayman.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000079_000001|He only struck the animal's carapace, and the scales flew to splinters but the ball did not penetrate.
train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000084_000001|Fragoso!" shrieked Lina, kneeling on the edge of the raft.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000000|In an art exhibition the other day I saw a painting that had been sold for five thousand dollars.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000001|The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favourite food and a pet theory.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000003|His theory was fixed around corned beef hash with poached egg.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000005|The idea of Kraft-but that is not the beginning of the story.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000000|Three years ago Kraft, Bill Judkins (a poet), and I took our meals at Cypher's, on Eighth Avenue.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000001|I say "took." When we had money, Cypher got it "off of" us, as he expressed it.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000002|We had no credit; we went in, called for food and ate it.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000003|We paid or we did not pay.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000004|We had confidence in Cypher's sullenness and smouldering ferocity.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000008|Now and then we paid up back scores.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000005_000000|But the chief thing at Cypher's was Milly.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000005_000005|You expected to see her colossal figure loom through that reeking blue cloud of smoke from frying fat just as you expect the Palisades to appear through a drifting Hudson River fog.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000006_000000|Our Goddess of Grub was built on lines so majestic that they could be followed only with awe.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000006_000003|Cypher's store of eatables she poured out upon us with royal indifference to price and quantity, as from a cornucopia that knew no exhaustion.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000006_000004|Her voice rang like a great silver bell; her smile was many toothed and frequent; she seemed like a yellow sunrise on mountain tops.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000007_000000|It was Kraft who first voiced the fear that each of us must have held latently.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000007_000001|It came up apropos, of course, of certain questions of art at which we were hammering.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000008_000000|"There is a certain fate hanging over Milly," said Kraft, "and if it overtakes her she is lost to Cypher's and to us."
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000009_000000|"She will grow fat?" asked Judkins, fearsomely.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000010_000000|"She will go to night school and become refined?" I ventured anxiously.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000011_000000|"It is this," said Kraft, punctuating in a puddle of spilled coffee with a stiff forefinger.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000011_000001|"Caesar had his Brutus-the cotton has its bollworm, the chorus girl has her Pittsburger, the summer boarder has his poison ivy, the hero has his Carnegie medal, art has its Morgan, the rose has its-"
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000012_000000|"Speak," I interrupted, much perturbed.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000012_000001|"You do not think that Milly will begin to lace?"
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000000|We agreed that the awful fate seemed to menace her.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000001|Few things were less improbable.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000002|Milly, like some vast virgin stretch of pine woods, was made to catch the lumberman's eye.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000005|Why, the alphabet itself connives.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000021_000000|It was our love of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature that inspired us.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000021_000001|We could not give her over to a lumberman, doubly accursed by wealth and provincialism.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000021_000004|In Cypher's she belonged-in the bacon smoke, the cabbage perfume, the grand, Wagnerian chorus of hurled ironstone china and rattling casters.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000022_000001|But Alaska and not Wisconsin bore the burden of the visitation.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000023_000001|We embraced him as a specimen, and in three minutes we had all but died for one another as friends.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000024_000001|He had just come off the "trail," he said, at one of the North River ferries.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000025_000003|The stuff the niggers feed you on Pullmans don't count.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000026_000000|And then Milly loomed up with a thousand dishes on her bare arm-loomed up big and white and pink and awful as Mount Saint Elias-with a smile like day breaking in a gulch.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000027_000000|At last the bollworm had attacked the cotton-the poison ivy was reaching out its tendrils to entwine the summer boarder-the millionaire lumberman, thinly disguised as the Alaskan miner, was about to engulf our Milly and upset Nature's adjustment.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000000|Kraft was the first to act.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000001|He leaped up and pounded the Klondiker's back.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000002|"Come out and drink," he shouted.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000003|"Drink first and eat afterward." Judkins seized one arm and I the other.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000000|There he rumbled a roughly good humoured protest.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000001|"That's the girl for my money," he declared.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000002|"She can eat out of my skillet the rest of her life.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000005|I guess she won't want to sling hash any more when she sees the pile of dust I've got."
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000030_000001|"I thought you up country fellows were better sports."
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000033_000000|Thus the work was accomplished.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000033_000001|With his own guns we drove him from the field.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000033_000002|And then we had him carted to a distant small hotel and put to bed with his nuggets and baby seal skins stuffed around him.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000034_000000|"He will never find Cypher's again," said Kraft.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000034_000002|And Milly-I mean the Natural Adjustment-is saved!"
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000035_000000|And back to Cypher's went we three, and, finding customers scarce, we joined hands and did an Indian dance with Milly in the centre.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000036_000000|This, I say, happened three years ago.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000036_000001|And about that time a little luck descended upon us three, and we were enabled to buy costlier and less wholesome food than Cypher's.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000036_000002|Our paths separated, and I saw Kraft no more and Judkins seldom.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000037_000001|The title was "Boadicea," and the figure seemed to fill all out of doors.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000037_000002|But of all the picture's admirers who stood before it, I believe I was the only one who longed for Boadicea to stalk from her frame, bringing me corned beef hash with poached egg.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000039_000000|"I didn't know," I said to him.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000040_000000|"We've bought a cottage in the Bronx with the money," said he.
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000041_000000|"Then," said I, "when you led us against the lumberman-the-Klondiker --it wasn't altogether on account of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature?"
train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000042_000000|"Well, not altogether," said Kraft, with a grin.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000002_000000|THE PENDULUM
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000003_000000|"Eighty first street-let 'em out, please," yelled the shepherd in blue.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000004_000000|A flock of citizen sheep scrambled out and another flock scrambled aboard.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000004_000001|Ding ding!
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000004_000002|The cattle cars of the Manhattan Elevated rattled away, and john Perkins drifted down the stairway of the station with the released flock.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000005_000000|john walked slowly toward his flat.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000005_000001|Slowly, because in the lexicon of his daily life there was no such word as "perhaps." There are no surprises awaiting a man who has been married two years and lives in a flat.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000005_000002|As he walked john Perkins prophesied to himself with gloomy and downtrodden cynicism the foregone conclusions of the monotonous day.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000000|Katy would meet him at the door with a kiss flavored with cold cream and butter scotch.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000001|He would remove his coat, sit upon a macadamized lounge and read, in the evening paper, of Russians and Japs slaughtered by the deadly linotype.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000003|After dinner Katy would show him the new patch in her crazy quilt that the iceman had cut for her off the end of his four in hand. At half past seven they would spread newspapers over the furniture to catch the pieces of plastering that fell when the fat man in the flat overhead began to take his physical culture exercises.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000004|Exactly at eight Hickey and Mooney, of the vaudeville team (unbooked) in the flat across the hall, would yield to the gentle influence of delirium tremens and begin to overturn chairs under the delusion that Hammerstein was pursuing them with a five hundred dollar a week contract.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000007_000001|And he knew that at a quarter past eight he would summon his nerve and reach for his hat, and that his wife would deliver this speech in a querulous tone:
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000008_000000|"Now, where are you going, I'd like to know, john Perkins?"
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000000|Of late such had been john Perkins's habit.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000001|At ten or eleven he would return.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000002|Sometimes Katy would be asleep; sometimes waiting up, ready to melt in the crucible of her ire a little more gold plating from the wrought steel chains of matrimony.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000003|For these things Cupid will have to answer when he stands at the bar of justice with his victims from the Frogmore flats.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000000|To night john Perkins encountered a tremendous upheaval of the commonplace when he reached his door.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000001|No Katy was there with her affectionate, confectionate kiss.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000002|The three rooms seemed in portentous disorder.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000003|All about lay her things in confusion.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000004|Shoes in the middle of the floor, curling tongs, hair bows, kimonos, powder box, jumbled together on dresser and chairs-this was not Katy's way.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000005|With a sinking heart john saw the comb with a curling cloud of her brown hair among its teeth.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000012_000000|Hanging conspicuously to the gas jet by a string was a folded paper. john seized it.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000012_000001|It was a note from his wife running thus:
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000001|Brother Sam is going to meet me at the depot there.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000002|There is cold mutton in the ice box.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000004|Pay the milkman fifty cents.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000005|She had it bad last spring.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000006|Don't forget to write to the company about the gas meter, and your good socks are in the top drawer. I will write to morrow.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000014_000000|Hastily, KATY.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000015_000000|Never during their two years of matrimony had he and Katy been separated for a night.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000015_000001|john read the note over and over in a dumbfounded way.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000000|There on the back of a chair hung, pathetically empty and formless, the red wrapper with black dots that she always wore while getting the meals.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000001|Her week day clothes had been tossed here and there in her haste.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000002|A little paper bag of her favorite butter scotch lay with its string yet unwound.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000003|A daily paper sprawled on the floor, gaping rectangularly where a railroad time table had been clipped from it. Everything in the room spoke of a loss, of an essence gone, of its soul and life departed.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000001|When he touched her clothes a thrill of something like terror went through him.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000002|He had never thought what existence would be without Katy.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000003|She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed-necessary but scarcely noticed.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000004|Now, without warning, she was gone, vanished, as completely absent as if she had never existed.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000005|Of course it would be only for a few days, or at most a week or two, but it seemed to him as if the very hand of death had pointed a finger at his secure and uneventful home.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000018_000001|Bright among withdrawn blessings now appeared to him the ghosts of pot roasts and the salad with tan polish dressing.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000018_000002|His home was dismantled.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000018_000003|A quinzied mother in law had knocked his lares and penates sky high.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000000|He did not care to smoke.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000002|The night was his.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000003|He might go forth unquestioned and thrum the strings of jollity as free as any gay bachelor there.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000004|He might carouse and wander and have his fling until dawn if he liked; and there would be no wrathful Katy waiting for him, bearing the chalice that held the dregs of his joy. He might play pool at McCloskey's with his roistering friends until Aurora dimmed the electric bulbs if he chose.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000006|Katy was gone.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000020_000000|john Perkins was not accustomed to analyzing his emotions.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000020_000002|He knew now that Katy was necessary to his happiness.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000020_000003|His feeling for her, lulled into unconsciousness by the dull round of domesticity, had been sharply stirred by the loss of her presence.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000000|"I'm a double dyed dub," mused john Perkins, "the way I've been treating Katy.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000002|The poor girl here all alone with nothing to amuse her, and me acting that way!
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000004|I'm going to make it up for the little girl.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000005|I'll take her out and let her see some amusement.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000006|And I'll cut out the McCloskey gang right from this minute."
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000022_000001|And at McCloskey's the boys were knocking the balls idly into the pockets against the hour for the nightly game.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000022_000002|But no primrose way nor clicking cue could woo the remorseful soul of Perkins the bereft.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000022_000003|The thing that was his, lightly held and half scorned, had been taken away from him, and he wanted it.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000000|Near the right hand of john Perkins stood a chair.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000001|On the back of it stood Katy's blue shirtwaist.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000002|It still retained something of her contour.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000003|Midway of the sleeves were fine, individual wrinkles made by the movements of her arms in working for his comfort and pleasure.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000004|A delicate but impelling odor of bluebells came from it.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000005|john took it and looked long and soberly at the unresponsive grenadine.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000007|Tears:--yes, tears-came into john Perkins's eyes.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000009|He would make up for all his neglect.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000010|What was life without her?
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000024_000000|The door opened.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000024_000001|Katy walked in carrying a little hand satchel.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000024_000002|john stared at her stupidly.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000000|"My! I'm glad to get back," said Katy.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000001|"Ma wasn't sick to amount to anything.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000003|So I took the next train back.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000004|I'm just dying for a cup of coffee."
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000026_000000|Nobody heard the click and rattle of the cog wheels as the third floor front of the Frogmore flats buzzed its machinery back into the Order of Things.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000026_000001|A band slipped, a spring was touched, the gear was adjusted and the wheels revolve in their old orbit.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000027_000000|john Perkins looked at the clock.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000027_000002|He reached for his hat and walked to the door.
train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000028_000000|"Now, where are you going, I'd like to know, john Perkins?" asked Katy, in a querulous tone.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000009_000000|THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000010_000000|It cannot be denied that men and women have looked upon one another for the first time and become instantly enamored.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000010_000001|It is a risky process, this love at first sight, before she has seen him in Bradstreet or he has seen her in curl papers.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000010_000002|But these things do happen; and one instance must form a theme for this story-though not, thank Heaven, to the overshadowing of more vital and important subjects, such as drink, policemen, horses and earldoms.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000011_000000|During a certain war a troop calling itself the Gentle Riders rode into history and one or two ambuscades.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000011_000001|The Gentle Riders were recruited from the aristocracy of the wild men of the West and the wild men of the aristocracy of the East.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000011_000002|In khaki there is little telling them one from another, so they became good friends and comrades all around.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000012_000000|Ellsworth Remsen, whose old Knickerbocker descent atoned for his modest rating at only ten millions, ate his canned beef gayly by the campfires of the Gentle Riders.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000012_000001|The war was a great lark to him, so that he scarcely regretted polo and planked shad.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000013_000000|One of the troopers was a well set up, affable, cool young man, who called himself O'Roon.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000013_000001|To this young man Remsen took an especial liking.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000013_000002|The two rode side by side during the famous mooted up hill charge that was disputed so hotly at the time by the Spaniards and afterward by the Democrats.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000014_000000|After the war Remsen came back to his polo and shad.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000014_000001|One day a well set up, affable, cool young man disturbed him at his club, and he and O'Roon were soon pounding each other and exchanging opprobrious epithets after the manner of long lost friends.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000014_000002|O'Roon looked seedy and out of luck and perfectly contented.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000014_000003|But it seemed that his content was only apparent.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000015_000000|"Get me a job, Remsen," he said.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000016_000000|"No trouble at all," said Remsen.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000016_000002|Any particular line you fancy?"
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000000|"Yes," said O'Roon, with a look of interest.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000001|"I took a walk in your Central Park this morning.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000002|I'd like to be one of those bobbies on horseback.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000003|That would be about the ticket.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000004|Besides, it's the only thing I could do.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000005|I can ride a little and the fresh air suits me. Think you could land that for me?"
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000018_000000|Remsen was sure that he could.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000018_000001|And in a very short time he did.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000019_000000|And now at the extreme risk of wearying old gentlemen who carry leather fob chains, and elderly ladies who-but no! grandmother herself yet thrills at foolish, immortal Romeo-there must be a hint of love at first sight.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000020_000000|It came just as Remsen was strolling into Fifth avenue from his club a few doors away.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000000|A motor car was creeping along foot by foot, impeded by a freshet of vehicles that filled the street.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000001|In the car was a chauffeur and an old gentleman with snowy side whiskers and a Scotch plaid cap which could not be worn while automobiling except by a personage. Not even a wine agent would dare do it.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000002|But these two were of no consequence-except, perhaps, for the guiding of the machine and the paying for it.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000004|He could have flung himself under the very wheels that conveyed her, but he knew that would be the last means of attracting the attention of those who ride in motor cars. Slowly the auto passed, and, if we place the poets above the autoists, carried the heart of Remsen with it.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000006|Yet he hoped to see her again; for each one fancies that his romance has its own tutelary guardian and divinity.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000001|There were not many of them-perhaps a score-and there was wassail and things to eat, and speeches and the Spaniard was bearded again in recapitulation.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000002|And when daylight threatened them the survivors prepared to depart.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000003|But some remained upon the battlefield.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000004|One of these was Trooper O'Roon, who was not seasoned to potent liquids. His legs declined to fulfil the obligations they had sworn to the police department.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000000|"I'm stewed, Remsen," said O'Roon to his friend.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000001|"Why do they build hotels that go round and round like catherine wheels? They'll take away my shield and break me.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000003|I've got to go on duty in three hours.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000004|The jig is up, Remsen.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000005|The jig is up, I tell you."
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000001|"You see Mounted Policeman O'Roon.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000002|Look at your face-no; you can't do that without a glass-but look at mine, and think of yours.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000003|How much alike are we?
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000005|With your badge, on your horse, in your uniform, will I charm nurse maids and prevent the grass from growing under people's feet in the Park this day.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000006|I will have your badge and your honor, besides having the jolliest lark I've been blessed with since we licked Spain."
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000027_000000|Promptly on time the counterfeit presentment of Mounted Policeman O'Roon single footed into the Park on his chestnut steed.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000027_000001|In a uniform two men who are unlike will look alike; two who somewhat resemble each other in feature and figure will appear as twin brothers.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000027_000002|So Remsen trotted down the bridle paths, enjoying himself hugely, so few real pleasures do ten millionaires have.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000000|Along the driveway in the early morning spun a victoria drawn by a pair of fiery bays.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000001|There was something foreign about the affair, for the Park is rarely used in the morning except by unimportant people who love to be healthy, poor and wise.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000002|In the vehicle sat an old gentleman with snowy side whiskers and a Scotch plaid cap which could not be worn while driving except by a personage.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000003|At his side sat the lady of Remsen's heart-the lady who looked like pomegranate blossoms and the gibbous moon.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000029_000000|Remsen met them coming.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000029_000003|The bays had bolted.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000030_000001|There was work cut out for the impersonator of Policeman O'Roon.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000030_000002|The chestnut ranged alongside the off bay thirty seconds after the chase began, rolled his eye back at Remsen, and said in the only manner open to policemen's horses:
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000031_000000|"Well, you duffer, are you going to do your share?
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000031_000001|You're not O'Roon, but it seems to me if you'd lean to the right you could reach the reins of that foolish slow running bay-ah! you're all right; O'Roon couldn't have done it more neatly!"
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000000|The runaway team was tugged to an inglorious halt by Remsen's tough muscles.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000001|The driver released his hands from the wrapped reins, jumped from his seat and stood at the heads of the team. The chestnut, approving his new rider, danced and pranced, reviling equinely the subdued bays.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000003|And he was acutely conscious of a pair of violet eyes that would have drawn Saint Pyrites from his iron pillar-or whatever the allusion is-and of the lady's smile and look-a little frightened, but a look that, with the ever coward heart of a true lover, he could not yet construe.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000004|They were asking his name and bestowing upon him wellbred thanks for his heroic deed, and the Scotch cap was especially babbling and insistent.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000005|But the eloquent appeal was in the eyes of the lady.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000033_000000|A little thrill of satisfaction ran through Remsen, because he had a name to give which, without undue pride, was worthy of being spoken in high places, and a small fortune which, with due pride, he could leave at his end without disgrace.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000034_000000|He opened his lips to speak and closed them again.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000000|Who was he?
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000001|Mounted Policeman O'Roon.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000002|The badge and the honor of his comrade were in his hands.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000004|Off his beat, exposed, disgraced, discharged.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000036_000000|Remsen touched his cap, looked between the chestnut's ears, and took refuge in vernacularity.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000037_000000|"Don't mention it," he said stolidly.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000037_000001|"We policemen are paid to do these things.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000039_000000|At the end of the day Remsen sent the chestnut to his stable and went to O'Roon's room.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000039_000001|The policeman was again a well set up, affable, cool young man who sat by the window smoking cigars.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000041_000000|O'Roon smiled with evident satisfaction.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000000|"Good old Remsen," he said, affably, "I know all about it.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000001|They trailed me down and cornered me here two hours ago.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000002|There was a little row at home, you know, and I cut sticks just to show them.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000003|I don't believe I told you that my Governor was the Earl of Ardsley. Funny you should bob against them in the Park.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000004|If you damaged that horse of mine I'll never forgive you.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000005|I'm going to buy him and take him back with me.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000006|Oh, yes, and I think my sister-Lady Angela, you know-wants particularly for you to come up to the hotel with me this evening.
train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000007|Didn't lose my badge, did you, Remsen?
train-clean-360/2039/141209/2039_141209_000021_000000|"Where is the Doctor?" I asked.
train-clean-360/204/148920/204_148920_000014_000005|Help me up, boys."
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000007_000001|"What for?"
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000011_000000|"Folk?" cried he.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000011_000001|"Are ye daft?
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000012_000000|"What?" say I; "not mr Ebenezer?"
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000017_000000|"Hoot, hoot, hoot," said the barber, "nae kind of a man, nae kind of a man at all;" and began to ask me very shrewdly what my business was; but I was more than a match for him at that, and he went on to his next customer no wiser than he came.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000018_000002|What kind of a great house was this, that all the parish should start and stare to be asked the way to it? or what sort of a gentleman, that his ill fame should be thus current on the wayside?
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000019_000002|My heart sank. "That!" I cried.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000001|"That is the house of Shaws!" she cried.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000002|"Blood built it; blood stopped the building of it; blood shall bring it down.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000003|See here!" she cried again-"I spit upon the ground, and crack my thumb at it!
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000004|Black be its fall!
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000021_000000|And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000021_000002|In those days folk still believed in witches and trembled at a curse; and this one, falling so pat, like a wayside omen, to arrest me ere I carried out my purpose, took the pith out of my legs.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000022_000001|The more I looked, the pleasanter that country side appeared; being all set with hawthorn bushes full of flowers; the fields dotted with sheep; a fine flight of rooks in the sky; and every sign of a kind soil and climate; and yet the barrack in the midst of it went sore against my fancy.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000023_000000|Country folk went by from the fields as I sat there on the side of the ditch, but I lacked the spirit to give them a good e'en.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000024_000002|Presently it brought me to stone uprights, with an unroofed lodge beside them, and coats of arms upon the top.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000031_000000|"I have come here with a letter," I said, "to mr Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000031_000001|Is he here?"
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000035_000000|"I will do no such thing," I cried.
train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000036_000000|"A what?" cried the voice, sharply.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000002_000000|MY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000002_000002|Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000002_000003|The next moment his voice showed me that I was right.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000003_000000|"Down with the door!" he cried.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000004_000000|"Aye, aye, sir!" answered two or three; and a rush was made upon the Admiral Benbow, the lantern bearer following; and then I could see them pause, and hear speeches passed in a lower key, as if they were surprised to find the door open.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000004_000001|But the pause was brief, for the blind man again issued his commands.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000005_000000|"In, in, in!" he shouted, and cursed them for their delay.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000006_000000|Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000006_000001|There was a pause, then a cry of surprise, and then a voice shouting from the house, "Bill's dead."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000007_000000|But the blind man swore at them again for their delay.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000008_000000|"Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest," he cried.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000009_000000|I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must have shook with it.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000009_000001|Promptly afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment arose; the window of the captain's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000010_000000|"Pew," he cried, "they've been before us.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000011_000000|"Is it there?" roared Pew.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000012_000000|"The money's there."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000014_000000|"Flint's fist, I mean," he cried.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000015_000000|"We don't see it here nohow," returned the man.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000016_000000|"Here, you below there, is it on Bill?" cried the blind man again.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000017_000000|At that another fellow, probably him who had remained below to search the captain's body, came to the door of the inn.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000018_000000|"It's these people of the inn-it's that boy.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000018_000001|I wish I had put his eyes out!" cried the blind man, Pew.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000019_000000|"Sure enough, they left their glim here," said the fellow from the window.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000021_000000|Then there followed a great to do through all our old inn, heavy feet pounding to and fro, furniture thrown over, doors kicked in, until the very rocks re echoed and the men came out again, one after another, on the road and declared that we were nowhere to be found.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000021_000002|I had thought it to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his crew to the assault, but I now found that it was a signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of approaching danger.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000022_000000|"There's Dirk again," said one.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000022_000001|"Twice!
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000022_000002|We'll have to budge, mates."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000000|"Budge, you skulk!" cried Pew.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000002|They must be close by; they can't be far; you have your hands on it.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000003|Scatter and look for them, dogs!
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000004|Oh, shiver my soul," he cried, "if I had eyes!"
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000024_000000|This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000000|"You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg!
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000001|You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000002|There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it-a blind man!
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000003|And I'm to lose my chance for you!
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000004|I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000005|If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000026_000000|"Hang it, Pew, we've got the doubloons!" grumbled one.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000027_000000|"They might have hid the blessed thing," said another.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000027_000001|"Take the Georges, Pew, and don't stand here squalling."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000028_000000|Squalling was the word for it; Pew's anger rose so high at these objections till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000000|This quarrel was the saving of us, for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet-the tramp of horses galloping.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000001|Almost at the same time a pistol shot, flash and report, came from the hedge side.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000002|And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000003|Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000031_000000|Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000032_000000|At this Pew saw his error, turned with a scream, and ran straight for the ditch, into which he rolled.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000032_000001|But he was on his feet again in a second and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000033_000001|Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000033_000002|He fell on his side, then gently collapsed upon his face and moved no more.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000034_000001|They were pulling up, at any rate, horrified at the accident; and I soon saw what they were.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000034_000002|One, tailing out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to dr Livesey's; the rest were revenue officers, whom he had met by the way, and with whom he had had the intelligence to return at once.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000034_000003|Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000000|Pew was dead, stone dead.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000002|In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000003|He hailed her.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000004|A voice replied, telling him to keep out of the moonlight or he would get some lead in him, and at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000005|Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000006|mr Dance stood there, as he said, "like a fish out of water," and all he could do was to dispatch a man to B---- to warn the cutter.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000007|"And that," said he, "is just about as good as nothing.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000008|They've got off clean, and there's an end.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000009|Only," he added, "I'm glad I trod on Master Pew's corns," for by this time he had heard my story.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000036_000001|mr Dance could make nothing of the scene.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000037_000000|"They got the money, you say?
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000037_000002|More money, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000038_000000|"No, sir; not money, I think," replied i "In fact, sir, I believe I have the thing in my breast pocket; and to tell you the truth, I should like to get it put in safety."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000039_000000|"To be sure, boy; quite right," said he.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000039_000001|"I'll take it, if you like."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000040_000000|"I thought perhaps dr Livesey-" I began.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000000|"Perfectly right," he interrupted very cheerily, "perfectly right-a gentleman and a magistrate.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000001|And, now I come to think of it, I might as well ride round there myself and report to him or squire.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000002|Master Pew's dead, when all's done; not that I regret it, but he's dead, you see, and people will make it out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue, if make it out they can.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000003|Now, I'll tell you, Hawkins, if you like, I'll take you along."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000042_000000|I thanked him heartily for the offer, and we walked back to the hamlet where the horses were.
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000043_000000|"Dogger," said mr Dance, "you have a good horse; take up this lad behind you."
train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000044_000000|As soon as I was mounted, holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot on the road to dr Livesey's house.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000002_000000|Chapter seven
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000003_000000|An Administration Protest Dudley Field Malone Resigns
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000004_000001|He had known and supported the President from the beginning of the President's political career.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000004_000002|He had campaigned twice through New Jersey with mr Wilson as Governor; he had managed mr Wilson's campaigns in many states for the nomination before the Baltimore Convention; he had toured the country with mr Wilson in nineteen twelve ; and it was he who led to victory President Wilson's fight for California in nineteen sixteen.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000006_000000|mr Malone has consented to tell for the first time, in this record of the militant campaign, what happened at his memorable interview with President Wilson in July, nineteen seventeen, an interview which he followed up two months later with his resignation as Collector of the Port of New York.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000006_000001|I quote the story in his own words:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000007_000000|Frank p Walsh, amos Pinchot, Frederic c Howe, j a h Hopkins, Allen McCurdy and I were present throughout the trial of the sixteen women in July.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000009_000002|It was three o'clock.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000009_000003|I called a taxicab, drove direct to the executive offices and met him.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000000|I began by reminding the President that in the seven years and a half of our personal and political association we had never had a serious difference.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000003|I also informed him that I had offered to act as counsel for the suffragists on the appeal of their case.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000004|He asked me for full details of my complaint and attitude.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000005|I told mr Wilson everything I had witnessed from the time we saw the suffragists arrested in front of the White House to their sentence in the police court.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000006|I observed that although we might not agree with the "manners" of picketing, citizens had a right to petition the President or any other official of the government for a redress of grievances.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000007|He seemed to acquiesce in this view, and reminded me that the women had been unmolested at the White House gates for over five months, adding that he had even ordered the head usher to invite the women on cold days to come into the White House and warm themselves and have coffee.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000011_000000|"If the situation is as you describe it, it is shocking," said the President'.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000011_000001|"The manhandling of the women by the police was outrageous and the entire trial (before a judge of your own appointment) was a perversion of justice," I said.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000011_000002|This seemed to annoy the President and he replied with asperity, "Why do you come to me in this indignant fashion for things which have been done by the police officials of the city of Washington?"
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000012_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000015_000000|The President asserted his ignorance of all this.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000016_000000|"Do you mean to tell me," he said, "that you intend to resign, to repudiate me and my Administration and sacrifice me for your views on this suffrage question?"
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000001|President, if there is any sacrifice in this unhappy circumstance, it is I who am making the sacrifice.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000002|I was sent twice as your spokesman in the last campaign to the Woman Suffrage States of the West.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000005|I told you that I found your strength with women voters lay in the fact that you had with great patience and statesmanship kept this country out of the European war.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000006|But that your great weakness with women voters was that you had not taken any step throughout your entire Administration to urge the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment, which mr Hughes was advocating and which alone can enfranchise all the women of the nation.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000008|You were pleased and approved of what I had done.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000009|I returned to California and repeated this promise, and so far as I am concerned, I must keep my part of that obligation."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000018_000000|I reiterated to the President my earlier appeal that he assist suffrage as an urgent war measure and a necessary part of America's program for world democracy, to which the President replied: "The enfranchisement of women is not at all necessary to a program of democracy and I see nothing in
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000020_000001|"mr
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000000|The President was visibly moved as I added, "You are the President now, reelected to office.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000001|You ask if I am going to sacrifice you.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000002|You sacrifice nothing by my resignation.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000003|But I lose much.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000004|I quit a political career.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000005|I give up a powerful office in my own state.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000006|I, who have no money, sacrifice a lucrative salary, and go back to revive my law practice.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000007|But most of all I sever a personal association with you of the deepest affection which you know has meant much to me these past seven years.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000008|But I cannot and will not remain in office and see women thrown into jail because they demand their political freedom."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000022_000000|The President earnestly urged me not to resign, saying, "What will the people of the country think when they hear that the Collector of the Port of New York has resigned because of an injustice done to a group of suffragists by the police officials of the city of Washington?"
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000023_000000|My reply to this was, "With all respect for you, mr President, my explanation to the public will not be as difficult as yours, if I am compelled to remind the public that you have appointed to office and can remove all the important officials of the city of Washington."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000027_000000|"But," I said, "mr
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000027_000002|I agreed to this, and we closed the interview with the President saying, "If you consider my personal request and do not resign, please do not leave Washington without coming to see me." I left the executive offices and never saw him again.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000000|There was just a day and a half left to perfect the exceptions for the appeal under the rules of procedure.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000001|No stenographic record of the trial had been taken, which put me under the greatest legal difficulties.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000002|I was in the midst of these preparations for appeal the next day when I learned to my surprise that the President had pardoned the women.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000003|He had not even consulted me as their attorney.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000004|Moreover, I was amazed that since the President had said he considered the treatment of the women "shocking," he had pardoned them without stating that he did so to correct a grave injustice.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000005|I felt certain that the high spirited women in the workhouse would refuse to accept the pardon as a mere "benevolent" act on the part of the President.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000029_000001|My opinion was confirmed.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000029_000003|I advised them that as a matter of law no one could compel them to accept the pardon, but that as a matter of fact they would have to accept it, for the Attorney
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000032_000000|"The President's pardon is an acknowledgment by him of the grave injustice that has been done:"
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000032_000001|This he never denied.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000000|Under this published interpretation of his pardon the women at Occoquan accepted the pardon and returned to Washington.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000001|The incident was closed.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000002|I returned to New York.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000003|During the next two months I carefully watched the situation.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000006|Under this development it seemed to me that self respect demanded action, so I sent my resignation to the President, publicly stated my attitude and regretfully left his Administration."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000034_000000|mr Malone's resignation in September, nineteen seventeen, came with a sudden shock, because the entire country and surely the Administration thought him quieted and subdued by the President's personal appeal to him in July.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000001|mr Wilson and his Administration were shocked that any one should care enough about the liberty of women to resign a lucrative post in the Government.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000002|The nation was shocked into the realization that this was not a street brawl between women and policemen, but a controversy between suffragists and a powerful Administration.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000003|We had said so but it would have taken months to convince the public that the President was in any way responsible.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000004|mr Malone did what we could only have done with the greatest difficulty and after more pro
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000000|longed sacrifices.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000001|He laid the responsibility squarely and dramatically where it belonged.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000002|It is impossible to overemphasize what a tremendous acceleration mr Malone's fine, solitary and generous act gave to the speedy break down of the Administration's resistance.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000003|His sacrifice lightened ours.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000038_000000|Women ought to be willing to make sacrifices for their own liberation, but for a man to have the courage and imagination to make such a sacrifice for the liberation of women is unparalleled.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000038_000001|mr Malone called to the attention of the nation the true cause of the obstruction and suppression.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000038_000002|He reproached the President and his colleagues after mature consideration, in the most honorable and vital way,-by refusing longer to associate himself with an Administration which backed such policies.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000039_000000|And mr Malone's resignation was not only welcomed by the militant group.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000039_000001|The conservative suffrage leaders, although they heartily disapproved of , picketing, were as outspoken in their gratitude.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000040_000000|Alice Stone Blackwell, the daughter of Lucy Stone, herself a pioneer suffrage leader and editor, wrote to mr Malone:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000041_000000|"May I express my appreciation and gratitude for the excellent and manly letter that you have written to President Wilson on woman suffrage?
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000041_000001|I am sure that I am only one of many women who feel thankful to you for it.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000042_000000|"The picketing seems to me a very silly business, and I am sure it is doing the cause harm instead of good; but the picketers are being shamefully and illegally treated, and it is a thousand pities, for President Wilson's own sake, that he ever allowed the Washington authorities to enter on this course of persecution.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000042_000001|It was high time for some one to make a protest, and you have made one that has been heard far and wide . . . ."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000043_000000|mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, the President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, wrote:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000044_000001|It was the noblest act that any man
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000046_000001|The letter itself was a high minded appeal . . . .
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000047_000000|mrs Norman de r Whitehouse, the President of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, with which mr Malone had worked for years, wired:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000048_000000|"Although we disagree with you on the question of picketing every suffragist must be grateful to you for the gallant support you are giving our cause and the great sacrifice you are making."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000049_000000|mrs james Lees Laidlaw, Vice Chairman of the New York Suffrage Party, said:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000050_000000|"No words of mine can tell you how our hearts have been lifted and our purposes strengthened in this tremendous struggle in New York State by the reading of your powerful and noble utterances in your letter to President Wilson.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000050_000001|There flashed through my mind all the memories of Knights of chivalry and of romance that I have ever read, and they all paled before your championship, and the sacrifice and the high spirited leadership that it signifies. Where you lead, I believe, thousands of other men will follow, even though at a distance, and most inadequately . . . ."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000051_000000|And from the women voters of California with whom mr Malone had kept faith came the message:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000052_000000|"The liberty loving women of California greet you as one of the few men in history who have been willing to sacrifice material interests for the liberty of a class to which they themselves do not belong.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000052_000003|We are deeply grateful for the incalculable benefit of your active assistance in the struggle of American women for political liberty and for a real Democracy."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000053_000000|I reprint mr Malone's letter of resignation which sets forth in detail his position.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000055_000000|september seventh nineteen seventeen.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000056_000000|The President, The White House, Washington, d c
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000057_000000|Dear mr President:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000058_000000|Last autumn, as the representative of your Administration, I went into the woman suffrage states to urge your reelection.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000058_000001|The most difficult argument to meet among the seven million voters was the failure of the Democratic party, throughout four years of power, to pass the federal suffrage amendment looking toward the enfranchisement of all the women of the country.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000058_000002|Throughout those states, and particularly in California, which ultimately decided the election by the votes of women, the women voters were urged to support you, even though Judge Hughes had already declared for the federal suffrage amendment, because you and your party, through liberal leadership, were more likely nationally to enfranchise the rest of the women of the country than were your opponents.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000059_000000|And if the women of the West voted to reelect you, I promised them that I would spend all my energy, at any sacrifice to myself, to get the present Democratic Administration to pass the federal suffrage amendment.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000060_000000|But the present policy of the Administration, in permitting splendid American women to be sent to jail in Washington, not for carrying offensive banners, not for picketing, but on the technical charge of obstructing traffic, is a denial even of their constitutional right to petition for, and demand the passage of, the federal suffrage amendment.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000060_000001|It, therefore, now becomes my profound obligation actively to keep my promise to the women of the West.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000061_000000|In more than twenty states it is a practical impossibility to amend the state constitutions; so the women of those States can only be enfranchised by the passage of the federal suffrage amendment.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000061_000001|Since England and Russia, in the midst of the great war, have assured the national enfranchisement of their women, should we not be jealous to maintain our democratic leadership in the world by the speedy national enfranchisement of American women?
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000062_000001|The women of
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000064_000000|the nation are, and always will be, loyal to the country, and the passage of the suffrage amendment is only the first step toward their national emancipation.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000065_000000|For this reason many of your most ardent friends and supporters feel that the passage of the federal suffrage amendment is a war measure which could appropriately be urged by you at this session of Congress.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000065_000001|It is true that this amendment would have to come from Congress, but the present Congress shows no earnest desire to enact this legislation for the simple reason that you, as the leader of the party in power, have not yet suggested it.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000066_000000|For the whole country gladly acknowledges, mr President, that no vital piece of legislation has come through Congress these five years except by your extraordinary and brilliant leadership.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000066_000002|It will hearten the mothers of the nation, eliminate a just grievance, and turn the devoted energies of brilliant women to a more hearty support of the Government in this crisis.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000067_000000|As you well know, in dozens of speeches in many states I have advocated your policies and the war.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000067_000001|I was the first man of your Administration, nearly five years ago, to publicly advocate preparedness, and helped to found the first Plattsburg training camp.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000067_000002|And if, with our troops mobilizing in France, you will give American women this measure for their political freedom, they will support with greater enthusiasm your hope and the hope of America for world freedom.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000068_000000|I have not approved all the methods recently adopted by women in pursuit of their political liberty; yet, mr President, the Committee on Suffrage of the United States Senate was formed in eighteen eighty three, when I was one year old; this same federal
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000071_000001|Will not this Administration, reelected to power by the hope and faith of the women of the West, handsomely reward that faith by taking action now for the passage of the federal suffrage amendment?
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000001|In every circumstance throughout those years I have served you with the most respectful affection and unshadowed devotion.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000002|It is no small sacrifice now for me, as a member of your Administration, to sever our political relationship.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000003|But I think it is high time that men in this generation, at some cost to themselves, stood up to battle for the national enfranchisement of American women.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000004|So in order effectively
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000076_000000|to keep my promise made in the West and more freely to go into this larger field of democratic effort, I hereby resign my office as Collector of the Port of New York, to take effect at once, or at your earliest convenience.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000077_000000|Yours respectfully,
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000078_000000|(Signed) DUDLEY FIELD MALONE.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000079_000000|The President's answer has never before been published:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000081_000000|THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000082_000000|My dear mr Collector:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000083_000000|Your letter of september seventh reached me just before I left home and I have, I am sorry to say, been unable to reply to it sooner.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000084_000000|I must frankly say that I cannot regard your reasons for resigning your position as Collector of Customs as convincing, but it is so evidently your wish to be relieved from the duties of the office that I do not feel at liberty to withhold my acceptance of your resignation.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000084_000001|Indeed, I judge from your letter that any discussion of the reasons would not be acceptable to you and that it is your desire to be free of the restraints of public office.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000084_000002|I, therefore, accept your resignation, to take effect as you have wished.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000085_000000|I need not say that our long association in public affairs makes me regret the action you have taken most sincerely.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000088_000000|To this mr Malone replied:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000090_000000|The President, The White House, Washington, d c
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000091_000000|Dear mr President:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000094_000000|After a most careful re reading of my letter, I am unable to understand how you could judge that any discussion by you of my reasons for resigning would not be acceptable to me since my letter was an appeal to you on specific grounds for action now by the Administration on the Federal Suffrage amendment.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000095_000000|However, I am profoundly grateful to you for your prompt acceptance of my resignation.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000099_000000|Chapter eight
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000100_000000|The Administration Yields
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000101_000001|It yielded on a point of machinery.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000101_000002|It gave us a report in the Senate and a committee in the House and expected us to be grateful.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000102_000001|We were now for a moment the object of sympathy; the Administration was the butt of considerable hostility.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000102_000002|Sensing their predicament and fearing any loss of prestige, they risked a slight advance.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000103_000001|Scarcely had the women recovered from the surprise of his visit when the Senator, on the following day, september fifteenth, filed the favorable report which had been lying with his Committee since may fifteenth, exactly six months.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000104_000000|The Report, which he had so long delayed because he wanted [he said] to make it a particularly brilliant and elaborate one, read:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000105_000000|"The Committee on Woman Suffrage, to which was referred the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, conferring upon women the right of suffrage, having the same under consideration, beg leave to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that the joint resolution do pass."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000107_000001|This vote was indicative of the strength of the amendment in the House.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000107_000002|The resolution was sponsored by Representative Pou, Chairman of the Rules Committee and Administration leader, himself an anti suffragist.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000109_000000|Scores of Congressmen, anxious to refute the idea that the indomitable picket had had anything to do with their action, revealed naively how surely it had.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000110_000001|Some indirectly and many, inadvertently, however, paid eloquent tribute to the suffrage picket.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000112_000000|mr Meeker of Missouri, Democrat, protested against Congress "yielding to the nagging of a certain group."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000113_000000|mr Cantrill of Kentucky, Democrat, believed that "millions of Christian women in the nation should not be denied the right of having a Committee in the House to study the problem of suffrage because of the mistakes of some few of their sisters."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000116_000000|of the banners of the pickets without permitting the women carrying them to be the objects of mob violence.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000116_000001|To see women roughly handled by rough men on the streets of the capital of the nation is not a pleasing sight to Kentuckians and to red blooded Americans, and let us hope the like will never again be seen here."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000000|The subject of the creation of a committee on suffrage was almost entirely forgotten.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000001|The Congressmen were utterly unable to shake off the ghosts of the pickets.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000002|The pickets had not influenced their actions!
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000003|The very idea was appalling to Representative Stafford of Wisconsin, anti suffrage Republican, who joined in the Democratic protests.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000004|He said:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000119_000001|If we keep up this sort of practices, we will compel the House, when they come to vote on the constitutional amendment, to surrender obediently likewise'."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000121_000000|He spoke the truth, and finished dramatically with:
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000122_000000|"Gentlemen, there is only one question before the House today and that is, if you look at it from a political aspect, whether you wish to approve of the practices of these women who have been disgracing their cause here in Washington for the past several months."
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000123_000000|Representative Volstead, of Minnesota, Republican, came the closest of all to real courage in his protest:-
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000124_000001|While I do not approve of picketing, I disapprove more strongly of the hoodlum methods pursued in suppressing the practice.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000124_000002|I gather from the press that this is what took place.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000124_000003|Some women did in a peaceable, and perfectly lawful manner, display suffrage banners on the public street near the White House.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000125_000000|The Suffrage Committee in the House was appointed.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000125_000001|The creation of this committee, which had been pending since nineteen thirteen, was now finally granted in September, nineteen seventeen.
train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000125_000002|To be sure this was accomplished only after an inordinate amount of time, money and effort had been spent on a sustained and relentless campaign of pressure.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000001_000000|TWELVE.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000001_000002|The Train to Mariposa
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000002_000000|It leaves the city every day about five o'clock in the evening, the train for Mariposa.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000003_000000|Strange that you did not know of it, though you come from the little town-or did, long years ago.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000004_000000|Odd that you never knew, in all these years, that the train was there every afternoon, puffing up steam in the city station, and that you might have boarded it any day and gone home.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000005_000000|But of course "home" would hardly be the word you would apply to the little town, unless perhaps, late at night, when you'd been sitting reading in a quiet corner somewhere such a book as the present one.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000006_000000|Naturally you don't know of the Mariposa train now.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000006_000001|Years ago, when you first came to the city as a boy with your way to make, you knew of it well enough, only too well.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000006_000002|The price of a ticket counted in those days, and though you knew of the train you couldn't take it, but sometimes from sheer homesickness you used to wander down to the station on a Friday afternoon after your work, and watch the Mariposa people getting on the train and wish that you could go.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000010_000000|But if you have half forgotten Mariposa, and long since lost the way to it, you are only like the greater part of the men here in this Mausoleum Club in the city.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000011_000000|They all do.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000011_000001|Only they're half ashamed to own it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000012_000001|Ask him if he ever tasted duck that could for a moment be compared to the black ducks in the rice marsh along the Ossawippi.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000000|But no wonder they don't know about the five o'clock train for Mariposa. Very few people know about it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000001|Hundreds of them know that there is a train that goes out at five o'clock, but they mistake it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000002|Ever so many of them think it's just a suburban train.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000003|Lots of people that take it every day think it's only the train to the golf grounds, but the joke is that after it passes out of the city and the suburbs and the golf grounds, it turns itself little by little into the Mariposa train, thundering and pounding towards the north with hemlock sparks pouring out into the darkness from the funnel of it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000000|Of course you can't tell it just at first.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000001|All those people that are crowding into it with golf clubs, and wearing knickerbockers and flat caps, would deceive anybody.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000002|That crowd of suburban people going home on commutation tickets and sometimes standing thick in the aisles, those are, of course, not Mariposa people.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000004|Here and there in the crowd those people with the clothes that are perfectly all right and yet look odd in some way, the women with the peculiar hats and the-what do you say?--last year's fashions?
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000005|Ah yes, of course, that must be it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000001|That man with the two dollar panama and the glaring spectacles is one of the greatest judges that ever adorned the bench of Missinaba County.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000002|That clerical gentleman with the wide black hat, who is explaining to the man with him the marvellous mechanism of the new air brake (one of the most conspicuous illustrations of the divine structure of the physical universe), surely you have seen him before.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000003|Mariposa people!
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000004|Oh yes, there are any number of them on the train every day.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000016_000000|But of course you hardly recognize them while the train is still passing through the suburbs and the golf district and the outlying parts of the city area.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000016_000001|But wait a little, and you will see that when the city is well behind you, bit by bit the train changes its character.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000016_000003|I suppose, very probably, you haven't seen one of these wood engines since you were a boy forty years ago,--the old engine with a wide top like a hat on its funnel, and with sparks enough to light up a suit for damages once in every mile.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000017_000001|The stove is burning furiously at its sticks this autumn evening, for the air sets in chill as you get clear away from the city and are rising up to the higher ground of the country of the pines and the lakes.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000018_000000|Look from the window as you go.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000018_000002|There is a dull red light from the windows of the farmstead.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000018_000003|It must be comfortable there after the roar and clatter of the city, and only think of the still quiet of it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000019_000000|As you sit back half dreaming in the car, you keep wondering why it is that you never came up before in all these years.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000020_000000|It is almost night now.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000022_000000|This is Lake Ossawippi surely enough.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000022_000001|You would know it anywhere by the broad, still, black water with hardly a ripple, and with the grip of the coming frost already on it.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000022_000002|Such a great sheet of blackness it looks as the train thunders along the side, swinging the curve of the embankment at a breakneck speed as it rounds the corner of the lake.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000023_000003|Don't tell me that the speed is only twenty five miles an hour.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000023_000004|I don't care what it is.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000024_000000|Yes, and the best too,--the most comfortable, the most reliable, the most luxurious and the speediest train that ever turned a wheel.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000025_000003|They are talking,--listen,--of the harvest, and the late election, and of how the local member is mentioned for the cabinet and all the old familiar topics of the sort.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000000|What is it now-nine thirty?
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000001|Ah, then we must be nearing the town,--this big bush that we are passing through, you remember it surely as the great swamp just this side of the bridge over the Ossawippi?
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000003|Hear the clatter as we pass the semaphores and switch lights!
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000004|We must be close in now!
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000027_000001|It must indeed.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000027_000002|No, don't bother to look at the reflection of your face in the window pane shadowed by the night outside.
train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000027_000005|Perhaps if you had come back now and again, just at odd times, it wouldn't have been so.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000003_000000|That night, in Olaf's cabin, Alan put himself back on the old track again.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000005_000002|Olaf loved the birds, and the cheer of their vesper song and bedtime twitter comforted Alan.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000006_000007|The next time he would know how to go about it, and he invited Alan to go with him.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000009_000006|You've got to combine that with Bolshevism, the menace of blackest Russia.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000000|He stared into the fire, watching the embers flare up and die.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000002|"I can't be, after the ruin their unintelligent propaganda and legislation have brought upon Alaska.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000006|We can't take Alaska down to the States-we've got to bring them up to us.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000008|We must bring a million of them up here before that danger flood we speak of comes beyond the Gulf of Anadyr.
train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000011_000003|And that fight will take place right here-in Alaska-and not in Siberia.
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train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000005_000000|A Chronicle of Wolfe
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000011_000000|AUTHOR'S NOTE
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000012_000001|But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his achievement, this little sketch, drawn straight from original sources, tries to show him as he really was, a co-worker with the British fleet in a war based entirely on naval strategy and inseparably connected with international affairs of world-wide significance. The only simplification attempted here is that of arrangement and expression.
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train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000014_000000|Quebec, april nineteen fourteen.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000018_000000|CHAPTER one -- THE BOY, seventeen twenty seven to seventeen forty one
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000019_000000|Wolfe was a soldier born.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000019_000002|His father fought under the great Duke of Marlborough in the war against France at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000019_000004|Nor has the martial spirit deserted the descendants of the Wolfes in the generation now alive.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000001|Many hundreds of years ago their forefathers lived in England and later on in Wales.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000002|Later still, in the fifteenth century, before America was discovered, they were living in Ireland.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000003|Wolfe's father, however, was born in England; and, as there is no evidence that any of his ancestors in Ireland had married other than English Protestants, and as Wolfe's mother was also English, we may say that the victor of Quebec was a pure bred Englishman.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000004|Among his Anglo Irish kinsmen were the Goldsmiths and the Seymours.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000005|Oliver Goldsmith himself was always very proud of being a cousin of the man who took Quebec.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000001|She was eighteen years younger than his father, and was very tall and handsome.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000002|Wolfe thought there was no one like her.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000003|When he was a colonel, and had been through the wars and at court, he still believed she was 'a match for all the beauties.' He was not lucky enough to take after her in looks, except in her one weak feature, a cutaway chin.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000004|His body, indeed, seems to have been made up of the bad points of both parents: he had his rheumatism from his father.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000005|But his spirit was made up of all their good points; and no braver ever lived in any healthy body than in his own sickly, lanky six foot three.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000001|Two other houses in the little country town of Westerham are full of memories of Wolfe.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000002|One of these was his father's, a house more than two hundred years old when he was born.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000003|It was built in the reign of Henry the seventh, and the loyal subject who built it had the king's coat of arms carved over the big stone fireplace.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000004|Here Wolfe and his younger brother Edward used to sit in the winter evenings with their mother, while their veteran father told them the story of his long campaigns.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000005|So, curiously enough, it appears that Wolfe, the soldier who won Canada for England in seventeen fifty nine, sat under the arms of the king in whose service the sailor Cabot hoisted the flag of England over Canadian soil in fourteen ninety seven.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000007|The other house is Squerryes Court, belonging then and now to the Warde family, the Wolfes' closest friends.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000008|Wolfe and George Warde were chums from the first day they met. Both wished to go into the Army; and both, of course, 'played soldiers,' like other virile boys.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000009|Warde lived to be an old man and actually did become a famous cavalry leader.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000001|Here he worked quietly enough till just before he entered on his 'teens.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000002|Then the long pent rage of England suddenly burst in war with Spain.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000003|The people went wild when the British fleet took Porto Bello, a Spanish port in Central America.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000004|The news was cried through the streets all night.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000006|Ships were fitting out in English harbours.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000007|Soldiers were marching into every English camp.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000008|Crowds were singing and cheering. First one boy's father and then another's was under orders for the front.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000009|Among them was Wolfe's father, who was made adjutant general to the forces assembling in the Isle of Wight.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000011|That was an old tale by this time; but the flames of anger threw it into lurid relief once more.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000000|Wolfe was determined to go and fight.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000001|Nothing could stop him.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000005|So, one hot day in july seventeen forty, the lanky, red haired boy of thirteen and a half took his seat on the Portsmouth coach beside his father, the veteran soldier of fifty five.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000006|His mother was a woman of much too fine a spirit to grudge anything for the service of her country; but she could not help being exceptionally anxious about the dangers of disease for a sickly boy in a far off land of pestilence and fever.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000007|She had written to him the very day he left.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000008|But he, full of the stir and excitement of a big camp, had carried the letter in his pocket for two or three days before answering it.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000025_000000|Newport, Isle of Wight, august sixth seventeen forty.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000026_000000|I received my dearest Mamma's letter on Monday last, but could not answer it then, by reason I was at camp to see the regiments off to go on board, and was too late for the post; but am very sorry, dear Mamma, that you doubt my love, which I'm sure is as sincere as ever any son's was to his mother.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000027_000000|Papa and I are just going on board, but I believe shall not sail this fortnight; in which time, if I can get ashore at Portsmouth or any other town, I will certainly write to you, and, when we are gone, by every ship we meet, because I know it is my duty. Besides, if it is not, I would do it out of love, with pleasure.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000000|I am sorry to hear that your head is so bad, which I fear is caused by your being so melancholy; but pray, dear Mamma, if you love me, don't give yourself up to fears for us.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000002|I will, as sure as I live, if it is possible for me, let you know everything that has happened, by every ship; therefore pray, dearest Mamma, don't doubt about it.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000003|I am in a very good state of health, and am likely to continue so.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000004|Pray my love to my brother.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000005|Pray my service to Mr Streton and his family, to Mr and Mrs Weston, and to George Warde when you see him; and pray believe me to be, my dearest Mamma, your most dutiful, loving and affectionate son,
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000029_000000|J. Wolfe.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000030_000000|To mrs Wolfe, at her house in Greenwich, Kent.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000001|A long peace had made the country indifferent to the welfare of the Army and Navy.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000002|Now men were suddenly being massed together in camps and fleets as if on Purpose to breed disease.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000004|The ship in which Wolfe was to sail had been lying idle for years; and her pestilential bilge water soon began to make the sailors and soldiers sicken and die.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000005|Most fortunately, Wolfe was among the first to take ill; and so he was sent home in time to save him from the fevers of Spanish America.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000000|Wolfe was happy to see his mother again, to have his pony to ride and his dogs to play with.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000001|But, though he tried his best to stick to his lessons, his heart was wild for the war.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000002|He and George Warde used to go every day during the Christmas holidays behind the pigeon house at Squerryes Court and practise with their swords and pistols.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000003|One day they stopped when they heard the post horn blowing at the gate; and both of them became very much excited when George's father came out himself with a big official envelope marked 'On His Majesty's Service' and addressed to 'james Wolfe, Esquire.' Inside was a commission as second lieutenant in the Marines, signed by George the second and dated at saint James's Palace, november third seventeen forty one.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000004|Eighteen years later, when the fame of the conquest of Canada was the talk of the kingdom, the Wardes had a stone monument built to mark the spot where Wolfe was standing when the squire handed him his first commission.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000005|And there it is to day; and on it are the verses ending,
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000033_000000|This spot so sacred will forever claim A proud alliance with its hero's name.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000000|Wolfe was at last an officer.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000001|But the Marines were not the corps for him.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000002|Their service companies were five thousand miles away, while war with France was breaking out much nearer home.
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000003|So what was his delight at receiving another commission, on march twenty fifth seventeen forty two, as an ensign in the twelfth Regiment of Foot!
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000004|He was now fifteen, an officer, a soldier born and bred, eager to serve his country, and just appointed to a regiment ordered to the front!
train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000005|Within a month an army such as no one had seen since the days of Marlborough had been assembled at Blackheath. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, they were all there when King George the second, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cumberland came down to review them.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifty two.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000002_000000|What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000003_000000|mr Tombe had gained nothing for the cause by his crafty silence. George Vavasor felt perfectly certain, as he walked out from the little street which runs at the back of Doctors' Commons, that the money which he had been using had come, in some shape, through the hands of john Grey.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000003_000001|He did not care much to calculate whether the payments had been made from the personal funds of his rival, or whether that rival had been employed to dispense Alice's fortune. Under either view of the case his position was sufficiently bitter. The truth never for a moment occurred to him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000003_000004|To him it seemed to be certain that Alice and mr Grey were in league;--and if they were in league, what must he think of Alice, and of her engagement with himself!
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000004_000000|There are men who rarely think well of women,--who hardly think well of any woman.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000004_000002|I cannot say that such had been Vavasor's creed,--not entirely such.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000004_000008|Grey, as he thought, had been accepted by her cold prudence; but he thought, also, that she had found her prudence to be too cold, and had therefore returned where she had truly loved. Vavasor, though he did not love much himself, was willing enough to be the object of love.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000000|This idea of his, however, had been greatly shaken by Alice's treatment of himself personally; but still he had not, hitherto, believed that she was false to him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000001|Now, what could he believe of her?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000003|He hated her at this moment with even a more bitter hatred than that which he felt towards john Grey.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000005|Or could it be that Kate, also, was lying to him?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000006|If so, Kate also should be included in the punishment.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000000|But why should they have conspired to feed him with these moneys? There had been no deceit, at any rate, in reference to the pounds sterling which Scruby had already swallowed.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000001|They had been supplied, whatever had been the motives of the suppliers; and he had no doubt that more would be supplied if he would only keep himself quiet.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000002|He was still walking westward as he thought of this, down Ludgate Hill, on his direct line towards Suffolk Street; and he tried to persuade himself that it would be well that he should hide his wrath till after provision should have been made for this other election.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000003|They were his enemies,--Alice and mr Grey,--and why should he keep any terms with his enemies?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000004|It was still a trouble to him to think that he should have been in any way beholden to john Grey; but the terrible thing had been done, the evil had occurred.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000005|What would he gain by staying his hand now?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000007|Exactly at the corner of Suffolk Street he met john Grey.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000007_000000|"mr Grey," he said, stopping himself suddenly, "I was this moment going to call on you at your lodgings."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000008_000000|"At my lodgings, were you?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000008_000001|Shall I return with you?"
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000009_000000|"If you please," said Vavasor, leading the way up Suffolk Street. There had been no other greeting than this between them.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000009_000001|mr Grey himself, though a man very courteous in his general demeanour, would probably have passed Vavasor in the street with no more than the barest salutation.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000000|"If you will allow me, I have the key," said Grey.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000001|Then they both entered the house, and Vavasor followed his host up stairs.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000002|mr Grey, as he went up, felt almost angry with himself in having admitted his enemy into his lodgings.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000005|"No," said Vavasor; "I will stand up." And he stood up, holding his hat behind his back with his left hand, with his right leg forward, and the thumb of his right hand in his waistcoat pocket.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000006|He looked full into Grey's face, and Grey looked full into his; and as he looked the great cicatrice seemed to open itself and to become purple with fresh blood stains.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000012_000000|This was a question which mr Grey could not answer very quickly.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000014_000000|"I think you heard me say so.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000014_000001|I have come here direct from mr Tombe's chambers.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000015_000000|"He is so."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000016_000000|"And I have come from him to ask you what interference you have lately taken in my money matters.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000016_000001|When you have answered that, I shall have other questions to ask you."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000017_000000|"But, mr Vavasor, has it occurred to you that I may not be disposed to answer questions so asked?"
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000019_000000|Grey had now made up his mind that it would be better that he should tell the whole story,--better not only for himself, but for all the Vavasors, including this angry man himself.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000019_000001|The angry man evidently knew something, and it would be better that he should know the truth. "There has been such interference, mr Vavasor, if you choose to call it so.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000020_000000|"Well," said Vavasor, taking his right hand away from his waistcoat, and tapping the round table with his fingers impatiently.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000022_000000|"I dare say not; but, nevertheless, you must explain them."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000023_000000|Grey was a man tranquil in temperament, very little prone to quarrelling, with perhaps an exaggerated idea of the evil results of a row,--a man who would take infinite trouble to avoid any such scene as that which now seemed to be imminent; but he was a man whose courage was quite as high as that of his opponent.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000023_000001|To bully or be bullied were alike contrary to his nature.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000023_000003|"My difficulty in explaining it comes from consideration for you," he said.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000024_000000|"Then I beg that your difficulty will cease, and that you will have no consideration for me.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000024_000002|At any rate, I intend to have none for you.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000024_000003|Now, let me know why you have meddled with my matters."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000025_000000|"I think I might, perhaps, better refer you to your uncle."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000027_000001|We thought it better that her fortune should not be for the moment disturbed."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000029_000001|Then, as Vavasor simply sneered at him, but spoke nothing, he went on.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000030_000000|"And what was her fortune to you, sir?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000030_000001|Are you aware that she is engaged to me as my wife?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000030_000002|I ask you, sir, whether you are aware that Miss Vavasor is to be my wife?"
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000031_000000|"I must altogether decline to discuss with you Miss Vavasor's present or future position."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000032_000000|"By heavens, then, you shall hear me discuss it!
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000032_000002|If you had understood anything of the conduct which is usual among gentlemen, or if you had had any particle of pride in you, sir, you would have left her and never mentioned her name again.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000032_000003|I now find you meddling with her money matters, so as to get a hold upon her fortune."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000033_000000|"I have no hold upon her fortune."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000034_000000|"Yes, sir, you have.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000034_000003|The money shall be repaid at once, with any interest that can be due; and if I find you interfering again, I will expose you."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000035_000001|You must recall them."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000036_000001|I said that you were a pettifogging rascal.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000000|Grey was much the larger man and much the stronger.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000001|It may be doubted whether he knew himself the extent of his own strength, but such as it was he resolved that he must now use it.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000002|"There is no help for it," he said, as he also prepared for action.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000005|I doubt whether he had attempted to strike a blow, or whether he had so much as clenched his fist.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000006|Vavasor had struck him repeatedly, but the blows had fallen on his body or his head, and he was unconscious of them.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000007|He had but one object now in his mind, and that object was the kicking his assailant down the stairs.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000010|Grey kicked at him as he went, but the kick was impotent.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000038_000000|Vavasor, when he raised himself, prepared to make another rush at the room, but before he could do so a man from below, hearing the noise, had come upon him and interrupted him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000038_000001|"mr Jones," said Grey, speaking from above, "if that gentleman does not leave the house, I must get you to search for a policeman."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000039_000000|Vavasor, though the lodging house man had hold of the collar of his coat, made no attempt to turn upon his new enemy.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000039_000001|When two dogs are fighting, any bystander may attempt to separate them with impunity. The brutes are so anxious to tear each other that they have no energies left for other purposes.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000041_000000|"That man has ill used me, and I've punished him; that's all."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000042_000000|"I don't know much about punishing," said the tailor.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000042_000001|"It seems to me he pitched you down pretty clean out of the room above.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000042_000002|I think the best thing you can do now is to walk yourself off."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000043_000000|It was the only thing that Vavasor could do, and he did walk himself off.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000043_000002|I do not think that he was comfortable when he got there, or that he felt himself very well able to fight another battle that night on behalf of the River Bank.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000043_000004|Grey had probably received more personal damage than had fallen to his share; but Grey had succeeded in expelling him from the room, and he knew that he had been found prostrate on the landing place when the tailor first saw him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000000|But he might probably have got over the annoyance of this feeling had he not been overwhelmed by a consciousness that everything was going badly with him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000001|He was already beginning to hate his seat in Parliament.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000002|What good had it done for him, or was it likely to do for him?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000003|He found himself to be associated there with mr Bott, and a few others of the same class,--men whom he despised; and even they did not admit him among them without a certain show of superiority on their part.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000006|He had looked forward to his entrance into that Chamber as the hour of his triumph; but he had entered it with mr Bott, and there had been no triumph to him in doing so.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000010|This art of speaking in Parliament, which had appeared to him to be so grand, seemed already to be a humdrum, homely, dull affair.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000012|To such as himself,--Members without an acquired name,--men did not seem to listen at all.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000014|Vavasor had not as yet commenced his career as an orator; but night after night, as he sat there, the chance of commencing it with brilliance seemed to be further from him, and still further.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000015|Two thousand pounds of his own money, and two thousand more of Alice's money,--or of mr Grey's,--he had already spent to make his way into that assembly.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000016|He must spend, at any rate, two thousand more if he intended that his career should be prolonged beyond a three months' sitting;--and how was he to get this further sum after what had taken place to day?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000000|He would get it.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000001|That was his resolve as he walked in by the apple woman's stall, under the shadow of the great policeman, and between the two august lamps.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000002|He would get it;--as long as Alice had a pound over which he could obtain mastery by any act or violence within his compass.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000004|He would get it; though in doing so he might destroy his cousin Alice and ruin his sister Kate.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000005|He had gone too far to stick at any scruples.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000006|Had he not often declared how great had been that murderer who had been able to divest himself of all such scruples,--who had scoured his bosom free from all fears of the hereafter, and, as regarded the present, had dared to trust for everything to success?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000007|He would go to Alice and demand the money from her with threats, and with that violence in his eyes which he knew so well how to assume.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000008|He believed that when he so demanded it, the money would be forthcoming so as to satisfy, at any rate, his present emergencies.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000001|If he would but die, there might yet be a hope remaining of permanent success!
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000002|Even though the estate might be entailed so as to give him no more than a life interest, still money might be raised on it.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000003|His life interest in it would be worth ten or twelve years' purchase.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000005|What a boon it would be if death could be made to overtake the old man before he did so!
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000006|On this very night he walked about the lobbies of the House, thinking of all this.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000007|He went by himself from room to room, roaming along passages, sitting now for ten minutes in the gallery, and then again for a short space in the body of the House,--till he would get up and wander again out into the lobby, impatient of the neighbourhood of mr Bott.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000000|Nor was mr Grey much happier when he was left alone, than was his assailant.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000001|To give Vavasor his due, the memory of the affray itself did not long trouble him much.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000006|To have been personally engaged in a fighting scramble with such a man as George Vavasor was to him terrible.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000007|When ordering that his money might be expended with the possible object of saving Alice from her cousin, he had never felt a moment's regret; he had never thought that he was doing more than circumstances fairly demanded of him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000008|But now he was almost driven to utter reproach.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000009|"Oh, Alice! that this thing should have come upon me through thy fault!"
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000000|When Vavasor was led away down stairs by the tailor, and Grey found that no more actual fighting would be required of him, he retired into his bedroom, that he might wash his mouth and free himself from the stains of the combat.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000003|He had been told that he had advanced money on behalf of Alice, in order that he might obtain some power over Alice's fortune, and thus revenge himself upon Alice for her treatment of him.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000005|Of that he was well aware.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000006|But were not the circumstances of a nature to make it appear that the accusation was true?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000007|Security for the money advanced by him, of course, he had none;--of course he had desired none;--of course the money had been given out of his own pocket with the sole object of saving Alice, if that might be possible; but of all those who might hear of this affair, how many would know or even guess the truth?
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000001|mr Jones had known him for some years, and entertained a most profound respect for his character.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000003|His father had been a tradesman at Cambridge, and in this way Jones had become known to mr Grey.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000004|But though given to sport, by which he meant modern prize fighting and the Epsom course on the Derby day, mr Jones was a man who dearly loved respectable customers and respectable lodgers.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000005|mr Grey, with his property at Nethercoats, and his august manners, and his reputation at Cambridge, was a most respectable lodger, and mr Jones could hardly understand how any one could presume to raise his hand against such a man.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000050_000000|"Dear, dear, sir-this is a terrible affair!" he said, as he made his way into the room.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000051_000000|"It was very disagreeable, certainly," said Grey.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000052_000000|"Was the gentleman known to you?" asked the tailor.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000053_000000|"Yes; I know who he is."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000054_000000|"Any quarrel, sir?"
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000055_000000|"Well, yes.
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000058_000000|"Or we might manage to polish him off in any other way, you know."
train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000059_000000|It was some time before mr Grey could get rid of the tailor, but he did so at last without having told any part of the story to that warlike, worthy, and very anxious individual.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixty five.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000003_000000|The First Kiss.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000000|"Hush!" said the widow, "there's a carriage coming on the road-close to us." mrs Greenow, as she spoke these words, drew back from the Captain's arms before the first kiss of permitted ante nuptial love had been exchanged.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000001|The scene was on the high road from Shap to Vavasor, and as she was still dressed in all the sombre habiliments of early widowhood, and as neither he nor his sweetheart were under forty, perhaps it was as well that they were not caught toying together in so very public a place.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000002|But they were only just in time to escape the vigilant eyes of a new visitor.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000003|Round the corner of the road, at a sharp trot, came the Shap post horse, with the Shap gig behind him,--the same gig which had brought Bellfield to Vavasor on the previous day,--and seated in the gig, looming large, with his eyes wide awake to everything round him, was-mr
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000004|Cheesacre.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000005_000001|As regarded her, her annoyance had chiefly reference to her two nieces, and especially to Alice. How was she to account for this second lover?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000005_000004|Before the wheels had stopped, mrs Greenow had begun to reflect whether it might be possible that she should send mr Cheesacre back without letting him go on to the Hall; but if mrs Greenow was dismayed, what were the feelings of the Captain?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000006_000000|"That man's wanted by the police," said Cheesacre, speaking while the gig was still in motion.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000006_000001|"He's wanted by the police, mrs Greenow," and in his ardour he stood up in the gig and pointed at Bellfield. Then the gig stopped suddenly, and he fell back into his seat in his effort to prevent his falling forward.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000006_000002|"He's wanted by the police," he shouted out again, as soon as he was able to recover his voice.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000007_000000|mrs Greenow turned pale beneath the widow's veil which she had dropped.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000007_000001|What might not her Captain have done?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000007_000003|"Oh, my!" she said, and dropped her hand from his arm, which she had taken.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000008_000000|"It's false," said Bellfield.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000009_000000|"It's true," said Cheesacre.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000010_000000|"I'll indict you for slander, my friend," said Bellfield.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000011_000000|"Pay me the money you owe me," said Cheesacre.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000011_000001|"You're a swindler!"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000000|mrs Greenow cared little as to her lover being a swindler in mr Cheesacre's estimation.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000001|Such accusations from him she had heard before.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000002|But she did care very much as to this mission of the police against her Captain.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000003|If that were true, the Captain could be her Captain no longer.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000004|"What is this I hear, Captain Bellfield?" she said.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000013_000000|"It's a lie and a slander.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000013_000002|What police are after me, mr Cheesacre?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000014_000000|"It's the police, or the sheriff's officer, or something of the kind," said Cheesacre.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000015_000002|Sheriff's officers can be paid, and there's an end of them."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000016_000000|"I'll indict him for the libel-I will, as sure as I'm alive," said Bellfield.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000000|"Nonsense," said the widow.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000001|"Don't you make a fool of yourself.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000002|When men can't pay their way they must put up with having things like that said of them.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000003|mr Cheesacre, where were you going?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000018_000000|"I was going to Vavasor Hall, on purpose to caution you."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000019_000000|"It's too late," said mrs Greenow, sinking behind her veil.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000020_000000|"Why, you haven't been and married him since yesterday?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000022_000000|"I'm not one to intrude where I'm not wanted.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000022_000001|You may be sure of that.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000000|Nevertheless, the widow had contrived to reconcile the two men before she reached the Hall.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000001|They had actually shaken hands, and the lamb Cheesacre had agreed to lie down with the wolf Bellfield.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000002|Cheesacre, moreover, had contrived to whisper into the widow's ears the true extent of his errand into Westmoreland.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000003|This, however, he did not do altogether in Bellfield's hearing.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000005|She merely frowned at him, and bade him begone, so that the walk which mrs Greenow began with one lover she ended in company with the other.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000025_000000|Bellfield, who was sent on to the house, found Alice and Kate surveying the newly arrived carpet bag.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000026_000000|"It belongs to your old friend, mr Cheesacre," said Bellfield to Kate.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000028_000001|He never had a chance in that quarter."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000029_000000|"Not enough of the rocks and valleys about him, was there, Captain Bellfield?" said Kate.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000000|In the meantime Cheesacre was telling his story.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000001|He first asked, in a melancholy tone, whether it was really necessary that he must abandon all his hopes.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000002|"He wasn't going to say anything against the Captain," he said, "if things were really fixed.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000003|He never begrudged any man his chance."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000031_000000|"Things are really fixed," said mrs Greenow.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000000|He could, however, not keep himself from hinting that Oileymead was a substantial home, and that Bellfield had not as much as a straw mattress to lie upon.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000001|In answer to this mrs Greenow told him that there was so much more reason why some one should provide the poor man with a mattress.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000002|"If you look at it in that light, of course it's true," said Cheesacre.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000003|mrs Greenow told him that she did look at it in that light.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000006|He liked to have his own,--that was all.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000001|That was his next subject.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000002|Rumours as to the old Squire's will had no doubt reached him, and he was now willing to take advantage of that assistance which mrs Greenow had before offered him in this matter.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000003|The time had come in which he ought to marry; of that he was aware.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000004|He had told many of his friends in Norfolk that Kate Vavasor had thrown herself at his head, and very probably he had thought it true.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000007|"You know you put it into my head your own self," pleaded mr Cheesacre.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000034_000000|"But things are so different since that," said the widow.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000035_000000|"How different?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000035_000001|I ain't different.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000035_000003|How are things different?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000036_000000|"My niece has inherited property."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000000|"And is that to make a change?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000001|Oh!
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000002|mrs Greenow, who would have thought to find you mercenary like that?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000003|Inherited property!
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000004|Is she going to fling a man over because of that?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000038_000001|"Why, mr Cheesacre, I am quite sure she never gave you a word of encouragement in her life."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000039_000000|"But you always told me I might have her for the asking."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000000|"And now I tell you that you mayn't.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000001|It's of no use your going on there to ask her, for she will only send you away with an answer you won't like.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000002|Look here, mr Cheesacre; you want to get married, and it's quite time you should.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000003|There's my dear friend Charlie Fairstairs.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000004|How could you get a better wife than Charlie?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000041_000001|The man who marries her will have to find the money for the smock she stands up in."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000000|"Who's mercenary now, mr Cheesacre?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000001|Do you go home and think of it; and if you'll marry Charlie, I'll go to your wedding.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000002|You shan't be ashamed of her clothing.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000003|I'll see to that."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000043_000000|They were now close to the gate, and Cheesacre paused before he entered.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000044_000000|"I know there's none.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000044_000001|I've heard her speak about it."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000045_000000|"Somebody else, perhaps, is the happy man?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000046_000000|"I can't say anything about that, but I know that she wouldn't take you.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000046_000001|I like farming, you know, but she doesn't."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000047_000000|"I might give that up," said Cheesacre readily,--"at any rate, for a time."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000049_000000|He still paused at the gate.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000049_000002|To this she made him no answer.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000049_000003|"There's a pride about me," he continued, "that I don't choose to go where I'm not wanted."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000050_000000|"I can't tell you, mr Cheesacre, that you are wanted in that light, certainly."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000000|"Then I'll go.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000001|Perhaps you'll be so good as to tell the boy with the gig to come after me?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000003|Bellfield did it cheaper, of course; he travelled second class.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000004|I heard of him as I came along."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000052_000000|"The expense does not matter to you, mr Cheesacre."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000001|"Where is he?" Kate asked in a low voice, and everyone there felt how important was the question.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000002|"He has gone," said the widow.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000004|Kate's satisfaction was almost as intense.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000006|"What on earth should we have done with him?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000008|"I have heard so much of mr Cheesacre, but have never seen him." Kate suggested that she should get into the gig and drive after him.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000009|"He ain't a been and took hisself off?" suggested the boy, whose face became very dismal as the terrible idea struck him.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000010|But, with juvenile craft, he put his hand on the carpet bag, and finding that it did not contain stones, was comforted.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000011|"You drive after him, young gentleman, and you'll find him on the road to Shap," said mrs Greenow.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000001|The absence of such joint stock fund is always felt when a small party is thrown together without such assistance.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000004|"Yes, indeed.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000005|Old Cheesacre, in spite of his absurdities, is not a bad sort of fellow at bottom;--awfully fond of his money, you know, Miss Vavasor, and always boasting about it." "That's not pleasant," said Alice.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000006|"No, the most unpleasant thing in the world.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000007|There's nothing I hate so much, Miss Vavasor, as that kind of talking.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000008|My idea is this,--when a man has lots of money, let him make the best use he can of it, and say nothing about it.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000009|Nobody ever heard me talking about my money." He knew that Alice knew that he was a pauper; but, nevertheless, he had the satisfaction of speaking of himself as though he were not a pauper.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000056_000000|In this way the afternoon went very pleasantly.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000056_000003|Why had he not told her?
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000056_000011|Burgo Fitzgerald was a gentleman of high standing, and his creditors would have swallowed up every shilling that mrs Greenow possessed; but with Captain Bellfield she was comparatively safe.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000057_000000|Upon the whole I think that she was lucky in her choice; or, perhaps, I might more truly say, that she had chosen with prudence.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000057_000001|He was no forger, or thief-in the ordinary sense of the word; nor was he a returned convict.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000057_000004|Therefore, I say that mrs Greenow had been lucky in her choice, and not altogether without prudence.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000058_000000|"I think of taking this house," said she, "and of living here."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000059_000000|"What, in Westmoreland!" said the Captain, with something of dismay in his tone.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000059_000001|What on earth would he do with himself all his life in that gloomy place!
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000060_000000|"Yes, in Westmoreland.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000061_000000|"I've been talking to my niece about it," continued mrs Greenow, "and I find that such an arrangement can be made very conveniently.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000061_000001|The property is left between her and her uncle,--the father of my other niece, and neither of them want to live here."
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000062_000000|"But won't you be rather dull, my dear?"
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000000|"We could go to Yarmouth, you know, in the autumn." Then the Captain's visage became somewhat bright again.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000001|"And perhaps, if you are not extravagant, we could manage a month or so in London during the winter, just to see the plays and do a little shopping." Then the Captain's face became very bright.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000003|"And as for being dull," said the widow, "when people grow old they must be dull.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000004|Dancing can't go on for ever." In answer to this the widow's Captain assured the widow that she was not at all old; and now, on this occasion, that ceremony came off successfully which had been interrupted on the Shap road by the noise of mr Cheesacre's wheels.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000006|"What a goose you are!
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000007|What will Jeannette say?" "Bother Jeannette," said the Captain in his bliss.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000008|"She can do another cap, and many more won't be wanted." Then I think the ceremony was repeated.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000000|Upon the whole the Captain's visit was satisfactory-at any rate to the Captain.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000001|Everything was settled.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000003|Kate promised to be the solitary bridesmaid.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000004|There was some talk of sending for Charlie Fairstairs, but the idea was abandoned.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000006|And I'll get Cheesacre here, and make him marry her.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000007|There's no good in paying for two journeys." The Captain was to be allowed to come over from Penrith twice a week previous to his marriage; or perhaps, I might more fairly say, that he was commanded to do so.
train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000065_000000|"Captain Bellfield, of Vavasor Hall, Westmoreland.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000001_000000|CHAPTER forty five
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000001|That knowledge was very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day after she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his sincerity; and at this moment, as at others, she had a sufficient perception of the sources of Osmond's opposition.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000002|He wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew perfectly well that Ralph was an apostle of freedom.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000003|It was just because he was this, Isabel said to herself, that it was a refreshment to go and see him.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000004|It will be perceived that she partook of this refreshment in spite of her husband's aversion to it, that is partook of it, as she flattered herself, discreetly.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000005|She had not as yet undertaken to act in direct opposition to his wishes; he was her appointed and inscribed master; she gazed at moments with a sort of incredulous blankness at this fact.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000009|Such a ceremony would be odious and monstrous; she tried to shut her eyes to it meanwhile.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000010|Osmond would do nothing to help it by beginning first; he would put that burden upon her to the end.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000011|He had not yet formally forbidden her to call upon Ralph; but she felt sure that unless Ralph should very soon depart this prohibition would come.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000012|How could poor Ralph depart?
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000013|The weather as yet made it impossible.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000014|She could perfectly understand her husband's wish for the event; she didn't, to be just, see how he COULD like her to be with her cousin.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000015|Ralph never said a word against him, but Osmond's sore, mute protest was none the less founded.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000016|If he should positively interpose, if he should put forth his authority, she would have to decide, and that wouldn't be easy.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000017|The prospect made her heart beat and her cheeks burn, as I say, in advance; there were moments when, in her wish to avoid an open rupture, she found herself wishing Ralph would start even at a risk.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000018|And it was of no use that, when catching herself in this state of mind, she called herself a feeble spirit, a coward. It was not that she loved Ralph less, but that almost anything seemed preferable to repudiating the most serious act-the single sacred act-of her life.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000019|That appeared to make the whole future hideous. To break with Osmond once would be to break for ever; any open acknowledgement of irreconcilable needs would be an admission that their whole attempt had proved a failure.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000020|For them there could be no condonement, no compromise, no easy forgetfulness, no formal readjustment.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000021|They had attempted only one thing, but that one thing was to have been exquisite.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000022|Once they missed it nothing else would do; there was no conceivable substitute for that success.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000023|For the moment, Isabel went to the Hotel de Paris as often as she thought well; the measure of propriety was in the canon of taste, and there couldn't have been a better proof that morality was, so to speak, a matter of earnest appreciation.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000024|Isabel's application of that measure had been particularly free to day, for in addition to the general truth that she couldn't leave Ralph to die alone she had something important to ask of him.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000025|This indeed was Gilbert's business as well as her own.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000003_000000|She came very soon to what she wished to speak of.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000003_000001|"I want you to answer me a question.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000003_000002|It's about Lord Warburton."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000005_000000|"Very possibly you guess it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000005_000001|Please then answer it."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000006_000000|"Oh, I don't say I can do that."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000007_000000|"You're intimate with him," she said; "you've a great deal of observation of him."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000008_000000|"Very true.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000008_000001|But think how he must dissimulate!"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000009_000000|"Why should he dissimulate?
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000009_000001|That's not his nature."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000011_000000|"To a certain extent-yes.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000012_000000|"Very much, I think.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000012_000001|I can make that out."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000013_000000|"Ah!" said Isabel with a certain dryness.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000014_000000|Ralph looked at her as if his mild hilarity had been touched with mystification.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000015_000000|Isabel got up, slowly smoothing her gloves and eyeing them thoughtfully. "It's after all no business of mine."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000016_000000|"You're very philosophic," said her cousin.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000001|"I thought you knew.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000002|Lord Warburton tells me he wants, of all things in the world, to marry Pansy.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000003|I've told you that before, without eliciting a comment from you.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000004|You might risk one this morning, I think.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000005|Is it your belief that he really cares for her?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000018_000000|"Ah, for Pansy, no!" cried Ralph very positively.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000019_000000|"But you said just now he did."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000020_000000|Ralph waited a moment.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000020_000001|"That he cared for you, mrs Osmond."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000021_000000|Isabel shook her head gravely.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000021_000001|"That's nonsense, you know."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000022_000000|"Of course it is.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000022_000001|But the nonsense is Warburton's, not mine."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000023_000000|"That would be very tiresome." She spoke, as she flattered herself, with much subtlety.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000024_000000|"I ought to tell you indeed," Ralph went on, "that to me he has denied it."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000026_000000|"He has spoken very well of her-very properly.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000026_000001|He has let me know, of course, that he thinks she would do very well at Lockleigh."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000028_000000|"Ah, what Warburton really thinks-!" said Ralph.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000029_000000|Isabel fell to smoothing her gloves again; they were long, loose gloves on which she could freely expend herself.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000030_000000|It was the first time she had alluded to the need for help, and the words shook her cousin with their violence.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000030_000001|He gave a long murmur of relief, of pity, of tenderness; it seemed to him that at last the gulf between them had been bridged.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000030_000002|It was this that made him exclaim in a moment: "How unhappy you must be!"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000031_000000|He had no sooner spoken than she recovered her self possession, and the first use she made of it was to pretend she had not heard him.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000031_000001|"When I talk of your helping me I talk great nonsense," she said with a quick smile.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000031_000002|"The idea of my troubling you with my domestic embarrassments! The matter's very simple; Lord Warburton must get on by himself.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000031_000003|I can't undertake to see him through."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000032_000000|"He ought to succeed easily," said Ralph.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000033_000000|Isabel debated.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000033_000001|"Yes-but he has not always succeeded."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000034_000000|"Very true.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000034_000001|You know, however, how that always surprised me.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000034_000002|Is Miss Osmond capable of giving us a surprise?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000035_000000|"It will come from him, rather.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000035_000001|I seem to see that after all he'll let the matter drop."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000036_000000|"He'll do nothing dishonourable," said Ralph.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000037_000002|She cares for another person, and it's cruel to attempt to bribe her by magnificent offers to give him up."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000038_000000|"Cruel to the other person perhaps-the one she cares for.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000038_000001|But Warburton isn't obliged to mind that."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000039_000000|"No, cruel to her," said Isabel.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000039_000003|He has the merit-for Pansy-of being in love with Pansy.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000039_000004|She can see at a glance that Lord Warburton isn't."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000041_000000|"He has been good to her already.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000041_000001|Fortunately, however, he has not said a word to disturb her.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000042_000000|"How would your husband like that?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000043_000000|"Not at all; and he may be right in not liking it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000043_000001|Only he must obtain satisfaction himself."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000044_000000|"Has he commissioned you to obtain it?" Ralph ventured to ask.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000045_000000|"It was natural that as an old friend of Lord Warburton's-an older friend, that is, than Gilbert-I should take an interest in his intentions."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000046_000000|"Take an interest in his renouncing them, you mean?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000047_000000|Isabel hesitated, frowning a little.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000047_000001|"Let me understand.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000047_000002|Are you pleading his cause?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000000|"Not in the least.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000001|I'm very glad he shouldn't become your stepdaughter's husband.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000002|It makes such a very queer relation to you!" said Ralph, smiling.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000003|"But I'm rather nervous lest your husband should think you haven't pushed him enough."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000049_000000|Isabel found herself able to smile as well as he.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000049_000001|"He knows me well enough not to have expected me to push.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000049_000003|I'm not afraid I shall not be able to justify myself!" she said lightly.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000000|Her mask had dropped for an instant, but she had put it on again, to Ralph's infinite disappointment.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000003|Ralph was certain that this was her situation; he knew by instinct, in advance, the form that in such an event Osmond's displeasure would take.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000004|It could only take the meanest and cruellest.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000005|He would have liked to warn Isabel of it-to let her see at least how he judged for her and how he knew.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000006|It little mattered that Isabel would know much better; it was for his own satisfaction more than for hers that he longed to show her he was not deceived.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000007|He tried and tried again to make her betray Osmond; he felt cold blooded, cruel, dishonourable almost, in doing so.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000008|But it scarcely mattered, for he only failed.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000009|What had she come for then, and why did she seem almost to offer him a chance to violate their tacit convention? Why did she ask him his advice if she gave him no liberty to answer her? How could they talk of her domestic embarrassments, as it pleased her humorously to designate them, if the principal factor was not to be mentioned?
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000010|These contradictions were themselves but an indication of her trouble, and her cry for help, just before, was the only thing he was bound to consider.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000011|"You'll be decidedly at variance, all the same," he said in a moment.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000012|And as she answered nothing, looking as if she scarce understood, "You'll find yourselves thinking very differently," he continued.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000000|"That may easily happen, among the most united couples!" She took up her parasol; he saw she was nervous, afraid of what he might say.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000001|"It's a matter we can hardly quarrel about, however," she added; "for almost all the interest is on his side.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000002|That's very natural.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000003|Pansy's after all his daughter-not mine." And she put out her hand to wish him goodbye.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000000|Ralph took an inward resolution that she shouldn't leave him without his letting her know that he knew everything: it seemed too great an opportunity to lose.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000001|"Do you know what his interest will make him say?" he asked as he took her hand.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000002|She shook her head, rather dryly-not discouragingly-and he went on.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000003|"It will make him say that your want of zeal is owing to jealousy." He stopped a moment; her face made him afraid.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000053_000000|"To jealousy?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000054_000000|"To jealousy of his daughter."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000055_000000|She blushed red and threw back her head.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000055_000001|"You're not kind," she said in a voice that he had never heard on her lips.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000056_000000|"Be frank with me and you'll see," he answered.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000000|But she made no reply; she only pulled her hand out of his own, which he tried still to hold, and rapidly withdrew from the room.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000001|She made up her mind to speak to Pansy, and she took an occasion on the same day, going to the girl's room before dinner.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000004|Isabel had a difficult task-the only thing was to perform it as simply as possible.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000005|She felt bitter and angry, but she warned herself against betraying this heat.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000006|She was afraid even of looking too grave, or at least too stern; she was afraid of causing alarm.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000008|What Isabel wished to do was to hear from her own lips that her mind was not occupied with Lord Warburton; but if she desired the assurance she felt herself by no means at liberty to provoke it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000009|The girl's father would have qualified this as rank treachery; and indeed Isabel knew that if Pansy should display the smallest germ of a disposition to encourage Lord Warburton her own duty was to hold her tongue.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000010|It was difficult to interrogate without appearing to suggest; Pansy's supreme simplicity, an innocence even more complete than Isabel had yet judged it, gave to the most tentative enquiry something of the effect of an admonition.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000011|As she knelt there in the vague firelight, with her pretty dress dimly shining, her hands folded half in appeal and half in submission, her soft eyes, raised and fixed, full of the seriousness of the situation, she looked to Isabel like a childish martyr decked out for sacrifice and scarcely presuming even to hope to avert it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000058_000000|"It's difficult for me to advise you," Isabel returned.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000058_000001|"I don't know how I can undertake that.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000058_000002|That's for your father; you must get his advice and, above all, you must act on it."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000059_000000|At this Pansy dropped her eyes; for a moment she said nothing.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000060_000001|"I love you very much, but your father loves you better."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000061_000001|"A lady can advise a young girl better than a man."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000062_000000|"I advise you then to pay the greatest respect to your father's wishes."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000064_000000|"But if I speak to you now about your getting married it's not for your own sake, it's for mine," Isabel went on.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000064_000001|"If I try to learn from you what you expect, what you desire, it's only that I may act accordingly."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000065_000000|Pansy stared, and then very quickly, "Will you do everything I want?" she asked.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000066_000000|"Before I say yes I must know what such things are."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000067_000000|Pansy presently told her that the only thing she wanted in life was to marry mr Rosier.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000067_000001|He had asked her and she had told him she would do so if her papa would allow it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000067_000002|Now her papa wouldn't allow it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000068_000000|"Very well then, it's impossible," Isabel pronounced.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000069_000000|"Yes, it's impossible," said Pansy without a sigh and with the same extreme attention in her clear little face.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000070_000000|"You must think of something else then," Isabel went on; but Pansy, sighing at this, told her that she had attempted that feat without the least success.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000071_000000|"You think of those who think of you," she said with a faint smile.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000071_000001|"I know mr Rosier thinks of me."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000072_000000|"He ought not to," said Isabel loftily.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000072_000001|"Your father has expressly requested he shouldn't."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000073_000000|"He can't help it, because he knows I think of HIM."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000074_000000|"You shouldn't think of him.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000075_000000|"I wish you would try to find one," the girl exclaimed as if she were praying to the Madonna.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000076_000000|"I should be very sorry to attempt it," said the Madonna with unusual frigidity.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000077_000000|"No one can think of me as mr Rosier does; no one has the right."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000078_000000|"Ah, but I don't admit mr Rosier's right!" Isabel hypocritically cried.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000000|Pansy only gazed at her, evidently much puzzled; and Isabel, taking advantage of it, began to represent to her the wretched consequences of disobeying her father.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000001|At this Pansy stopped her with the assurance that she would never disobey him, would never marry without his consent.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000002|And she announced, in the serenest, simplest tone, that, though she might never marry mr Rosier, she would never cease to think of him.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000003|She appeared to have accepted the idea of eternal singleness; but Isabel of course was free to reflect that she had no conception of its meaning. She was perfectly sincere; she was prepared to give up her lover.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000004|This might seem an important step toward taking another, but for Pansy, evidently, it failed to lead in that direction.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000005|She felt no bitterness toward her father; there was no bitterness in her heart; there was only the sweetness of fidelity to Edward Rosier, and a strange, exquisite intimation that she could prove it better by remaining single than even by marrying him.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000080_000000|"Your father would like you to make a better marriage," said Isabel. "mr
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000080_000001|Rosier's fortune is not at all large."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000081_000000|"How do you mean better-if that would be good enough?
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000081_000001|And I have myself so little money; why should I look for a fortune?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000082_000000|"Your having so little is a reason for looking for more." With which Isabel was grateful for the dimness of the room; she felt as if her face were hideously insincere.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000082_000001|It was what she was doing for Osmond; it was what one had to do for Osmond!
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000082_000002|Pansy's solemn eyes, fixed on her own, almost embarrassed her; she was ashamed to think she had made so light of the girl's preference.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000083_000000|"What should you like me to do?" her companion softly demanded.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000084_000000|The question was a terrible one, and Isabel took refuge in timorous vagueness.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000084_000001|"To remember all the pleasure it's in your power to give your father."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000085_000000|"To marry some one else, you mean-if he should ask me?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000086_000000|For a moment Isabel's answer caused itself to be waited for; then she heard herself utter it in the stillness that Pansy's attention seemed to make.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000086_000001|"Yes-to marry some one else."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000087_000000|The child's eyes grew more penetrating; Isabel believed she was doubting her sincerity, and the impression took force from her slowly getting up from her cushion.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000087_000001|She stood there a moment with her small hands unclasped and then quavered out: "Well, I hope no one will ask me!"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000088_000000|"There has been a question of that.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000088_000001|Some one else would have been ready to ask you."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000089_000000|"I don't think he can have been ready," said Pansy.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000090_000000|"It would appear so if he had been sure he'd succeed."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000091_000000|"If he had been sure?
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000091_000001|Then he wasn't ready!"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000092_000000|Isabel thought this rather sharp; she also got up and stood a moment looking into the fire.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000092_000001|"Lord Warburton has shown you great attention," she resumed; "of course you know it's of him I speak." She found herself, against her expectation, almost placed in the position of justifying herself; which led her to introduce this nobleman more crudely than she had intended.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000093_000000|"He has been very kind to me, and I like him very much.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000093_000001|But if you mean that he'll propose for me I think you're mistaken."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000094_000000|"Perhaps I am.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000094_000001|But your father would like it extremely."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000095_000000|Pansy shook her head with a little wise smile.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000096_000000|"Your father would like you to encourage him," Isabel went on mechanically.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000097_000000|"How can I encourage him?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000098_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000098_000001|Your father must tell you that."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000099_000000|Pansy said nothing for a moment; she only continued to smile as if she were in possession of a bright assurance.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000099_000001|"There's no danger-no danger!" she declared at last.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000000|There was a conviction in the way she said this, and a felicity in her believing it, which conduced to Isabel's awkwardness.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000001|She felt accused of dishonesty, and the idea was disgusting.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000002|To repair her self respect she was on the point of saying that Lord Warburton had let her know that there was a danger.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000003|But she didn't; she only said-in her embarrassment rather wide of the mark-that he surely had been most kind, most friendly.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000101_000000|"Yes, he has been very kind," Pansy answered.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000101_000001|"That's what I like him for."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000102_000000|"Why then is the difficulty so great?"
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000002|That's the meaning of his kindness.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000003|It's as if he said to me: 'I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.' I think that's very kind, very noble," Pansy went on with deepening positiveness.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000004|"That is all we've said to each other.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000005|And he doesn't care for me either.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000104_000000|Isabel was touched with wonder at the depths of perception of which this submissive little person was capable; she felt afraid of Pansy's wisdom-began almost to retreat before it.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000104_000001|"You must tell your father that," she remarked reservedly.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000105_000000|"I think I'd rather not," Pansy unreservedly answered.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000106_000000|"You oughtn't to let him have false hopes."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000107_000000|"Perhaps not; but it will be good for me that he should.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000107_000001|So long as he believes that Lord Warburton intends anything of the kind you say, papa won't propose any one else.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000107_000002|And that will be an advantage for me," said the child very lucidly.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000108_000000|There was something brilliant in her lucidity, and it made her companion draw a long breath.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000108_000001|It relieved this friend of a heavy responsibility. Pansy had a sufficient illumination of her own, and Isabel felt that she herself just now had no light to spare from her small stock. Nevertheless it still clung to her that she must be loyal to Osmond, that she was on her honour in dealing with his daughter.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000108_000002|Under the influence of this sentiment she threw out another suggestion before she retired-a suggestion with which it seemed to her that she should have done her utmost.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000109_000000|"Your father takes for granted at least that you would like to marry a nobleman."
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000110_000000|Pansy stood in the open doorway; she had drawn back the curtain for Isabel to pass.
train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000110_000001|"I think mr Rosier looks like one!" she remarked very gravely.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000004_000000|"All but the crazy boy," Jake put in.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000004_000004|Ambrosch come along by the cornfield yesterday where I was at work and showed me three prairie dogs he'd shot. He asked me if they was good to eat.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000005_000000|Grandmother looked up in alarm and spoke to grandfather.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000007_000000|Fuchs put in a cheerful word and said prairie dogs were clean beasts and ought to be good for food, but their family connections were against them. I asked what he meant, and he grinned and said they belonged to the rat family.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000011_000000|After breakfast grandmother and Jake and I bundled ourselves up and climbed into the cold front wagon seat.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000011_000001|As we approached the Shimerdas' we heard the frosty whine of the pump and saw Antonia, her head tied up and her cotton dress blown about her, throwing all her weight on the pump handle as it went up and down.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000012_000001|We went slowly up the icy path toward the door sunk in the drawside.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000014_000005|As soon as we entered he threw a grainsack over the crack at the bottom of the door.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000014_000006|The air in the cave was stifling, and it was very dark, too.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000001|Then the poor woman broke down.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000003|Grandmother paid no heed to her, but called Antonia to come and help empty the basket.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000004|Tony left her corner reluctantly.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000005|I had never seen her crushed like this before.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000017_000000|"You not mind my poor mamenka, mrs Burden.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000019_000001|This is no place to keep vegetables.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000020_000000|"We get from mr Bushy, at the post office,--what he throw out.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000020_000001|We got no potatoes, mrs Burden," Tony admitted mournfully.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000021_000003|He was clean and neat as usual, with his green neckcloth and his coral pin.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000021_000005|When I got up on one of the stools and peered into it, I saw some quilts and a pile of straw. The old man held the lantern.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000021_000006|"Yulka," he said in a low, despairing voice, "Yulka; my Antonia!"
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000022_000000|Grandmother drew back.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000022_000001|"You mean they sleep in there,--your girls?" He bowed his head.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000023_000000|Tony slipped under his arm.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000024_000000|Grandmother sighed.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000024_000003|You'll have a better house after while, Antonia, and then you'll forget these hard times."
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000025_000002|He left Bohemia with more than a thousand dollars in savings, after their passage money was paid.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000025_000003|He had in some way lost on exchange in New York, and the railway fare to Nebraska was more than they had expected.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000027_000001|Marek slid cautiously toward us and began to exhibit his webbed fingers.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000027_000002|I knew he wanted to make his queer noises for me-to bark like a dog or whinny like a horse,--but he did not dare in the presence of his elders.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000027_000003|Marek was always trying to be agreeable, poor fellow, as if he had it on his mind that he must make up for his deficiencies.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000001|The woman had a quick ear, and caught up phrases whenever she heard English spoken.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000002|As we rose to go, she opened her wooden chest and brought out a bag made of bed ticking, about as long as a flour sack and half as wide, stuffed full of something.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000003|At sight of it, the crazy boy began to smack his lips.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000004|When mrs Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odors of that cave.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000005|She measured a teacup full, tied it up in a bit of sacking, and presented it ceremoniously to grandmother.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000029_000000|"For cook," she announced.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000029_000003|All things for eat better in my country."
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000030_000001|"I can't say but I prefer our bread to yours, myself."
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000032_000000|Antonia undertook to explain.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000032_000001|"This very good, mrs Burden,"--she clasped her hands as if she could not express how good,--"it make very much when you cook, like what my mama say.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000032_000002|Cook with rabbit, cook with chicken, in the gravy,--oh, so good!"
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000034_000001|They're wanting in everything, and most of all in horse sense.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000035_000000|"He's a worker, all right, mam, and he's got some ketch on about him; but he's a mean one.
train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000036_000001|It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000006_000000|He did not stop for the funeral.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000006_000001|mr Pembroke thought that he had a bad effect on Agnes, and prevented her from acquiescing in the tragedy as rapidly as she might have done.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000006_000002|As he expressed it, "one must not court sorrow," and he hinted to the young man that they desired to be alone.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000007_000000|Rickie went back to the Silts.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000000|He was only there a few days.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000003|The fair valley of Tewin Water, the cutting into Hitchin where the train traverses the chalk, Baldock Church, Royston with its promise of downs, were nothing in themselves, but dear as stages in the pilgrimage towards the abode of peace.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000004|On the platform he met friends.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000005|They had all had pleasant vacations: it was a happy world.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000006|The atmosphere alters.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000009_000000|Cambridge, according to her custom, welcomed her sons with open drains. Pettycury was up, so was Trinity Street, and navvies peeped out of King's Parade.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000009_000001|Here it was gas, there electric light, but everywhere something, and always a smell.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000010_000000|Tilliard fled into a hansom, cursing himself for having tried to do the thing cheaply.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000010_000003|But Rickie was succouring a distressed female-mrs
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000010_000004|Aberdeen.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000011_000000|"Oh, mrs Aberdeen, I never saw you: I am so glad to see you-I am so very glad." mrs Aberdeen was cold.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000011_000001|She did not like being spoken to outside the college, and was also distrait about her basket.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000011_000003|The basket was empty, and never would hold anything illegal.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000005|She never will talk about him.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000008|What's the other half?
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000012|I know she'd dislike it, but she oughtn't to dislike.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000013|After all, bedders are to blame for the present lamentable state of things, just as much as gentlefolk.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000014|She ought to want me to come.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000015|She ought to introduce me to her husband."
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000013_000000|They had reached the corner of Hills Road.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000016_000000|Rickie laughed.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000017_000000|"I expected it from your letter."
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000019_000002|You can go to the bad.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000019_000003|But I refuse to accompany you.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000020_000000|Rickie was silent.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000020_000006|They dealt with so much and they had experienced so little.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000020_000007|Was it possible he would ever come to think Cambridge narrow? In his short life Rickie had known two sudden deaths, and that is enough to disarrange any placid outlook on the world.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000021_000000|They waited for the other tram by the Roman Catholic Church, whose florid bulk was already receding into twilight.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000021_000003|"Built out of doll's eyes to contain idols"--that, at all events, is the legend and the joke.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000021_000004|It watches over the apostate city, taller by many a yard than anything within, and asserting, however wildly, that here is eternity, stability, and bubbles unbreakable upon a windless sea.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000000|A costly hymn tune announced five o'clock, and in the distance the more lovable note of saint Mary's could be heard, speaking from the heart of the town.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000001|Then the tram arrived-the slow stuffy tram that plies every twenty minutes between the unknown and the marketplace-and took them past the desecrated grounds of Downing, past Addenbrookes Hospital, girt like a Venetian palace with a mantling canal, past the Fitz William, towering upon immense substructions like any Roman temple, right up to the gates of one's own college, which looked like nothing else in the world.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000003|"Our luggage," explained Rickie, "comes in the hotel omnibus, if you would kindly pay a shilling for mine." Ansell turned aside to some large lighted windows, the abode of a hospitable don, and from other windows there floated familiar voices and the familiar mistakes in a Beethoven sonata.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000005|It was not sufficient glory to be a Blue there, nor an additional glory to get drunk.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000006|Many a maiden lady who had read that Cambridge men were sad dogs, was surprised and perhaps a little disappointed at the reasonable life which greeted her.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000007|Miss Appleblossom in particular had had a tremendous shock.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000011|They taught the perky boy that he was not everything, and the limp boy that he might be something.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000012|They even welcomed those boys who were neither limp nor perky, but odd-those boys who had never been at a public school at all, and such do not find a welcome everywhere.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000013|And they did everything with ease-one might almost say with nonchalance, so that the boys noticed nothing, and received education, often for the first time in their lives.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000001|They were all he really possessed in the world, the only place he could call his own.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000002|Over the door was his name, and through the paint, like a grey ghost, he could still read the name of his predecessor.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000004|There was a beautiful fire, and the kettle boiled at once.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000005|He made tea on the hearth rug and ate the biscuits which mrs Aberdeen had brought for him up from Anderson's. "Gentlemen," she said, "must learn to give and take." He sighed again and again, like one who had escaped from danger.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000007|There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendours and horrors of the world.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000000|A letter from Miss Pembroke was on the table.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000002|She wrote like the Sibyl; her sorrowful face moved over the stars and shattered their harmonies; last night he saw her with the eyes of Blake, a virgin widow, tall, veiled, consecrated, with her hands stretched out against an everlasting wind.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000003|Why should she write?
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000004|Her letters were not for the likes of him, nor to be read in rooms like his.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000025_000000|"We are not leaving Sawston," she wrote.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000000|Rickie burnt this letter, which he ought not to have done, for it was one of the few tributes Miss Pembroke ever paid to imagination.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000001|But he felt that it did not belong to him: words so sincere should be for Gerald alone.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000003|He saw it reach the outer air and beat against the low ceiling of clouds.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000004|The clouds were too strong for it; but in them was one chink, revealing one star, and through this the smoke escaped into the light of stars innumerable.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000000|"I am jolly unpractical," he mused.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000002|Who wants visions in a world that has Agnes and Gerald?" He turned on the electric light and pulled open the table drawer.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000004|It was called "The Bay of the Fifteen Islets," and the action took place on saint John's Eve off the coast of Sicily.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000008|"Pooh, volcanic!" says the leading tourist, and the ladies say how interesting.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000010|They start and quarrel and jabber.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000011|Fingers burst up through the sand black fingers of sea devils.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000013|But just before the catastrophe one man, integer vitae scelerisque purus, sees the truth.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000014|Here are no devils.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000028_000000|And so Rickie deflected his enthusiasms.
train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000028_000001|Hitherto they had played on gods and heroes, on the infinite and the impossible, on virtue and beauty and strength.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000000_000000|eighteen
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000001|Perhaps his union should have been emphasized before.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000002|The crown of life had been attained, the vague yearnings, the misread impulses, had found accomplishment at last.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000004|So he reasoned, and at first took the accomplishment for granted.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000008|Surely the dust would settle soon: in Italy, at Easter, he might perceive the infinities of love.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000002_000000|She ran about the house looking handsomer than ever.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000002_000001|Her cheerful voice gave orders to the servants.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000002_000004|The tone of their marriage life was soon set.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000003_000002|The air was pure and quiet.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000003_000003|Tomorrow the fog might be here, but today one said, "It is like the country." Arm in arm they strolled in the side garden, stopping at times to notice the crocuses, or to wonder when the daffodils would flower.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000003_000004|Suddenly he tightened his pressure, and said, "Darling, why don't you still wear ear rings?"
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000004_000000|"Ear rings?"
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000004_000002|"My taste has improved, perhaps."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000005_000000|So after all they never mentioned Gerald's name.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000005_000002|He did not want her to forget the greatest moment in her life.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000000|He valued emotion-not for itself, but because it is the only final path to intimacy.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000001|She, ever robust and practical, always discouraged him. She was not cold; she would willingly embrace him.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000003|But his mother-he had never concealed it from himself-had glories to which his wife would never attain: glories that had unfolded against a life of horror-a life even more horrible than he had guessed.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000004|He thought of her often during these earlier months.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000006|Did she love his wife?
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000007|He tried to speak of her to Agnes, but again she was reluctant.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000007_000000|They conversed and differed healthily upon other topics.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000007_000001|A rifle corps was to be formed: she hoped that the boys would have proper uniforms, instead of shooting in their old clothes, as mr Jackson had suggested. There was Tewson; could nothing be done about him?
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000007_000002|He would slink away from the other prefects and go with boys of his own age.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000008_000000|"He had to go somewhere," said Agnes.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000010_000000|"Oh, mrs Orr!
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000010_000001|Who cares for her?
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000010_000002|Her teeth are drawn.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000011_000000|mrs Orr, who was quite rich, had attempted no such thing.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000011_000001|She had taken the boy out of charity, and without a thought of being unconstitutional. But in had come this officious "Limpet" and upset the headmaster, and she was scolded, and mrs Varden was scolded, and mr Jackson was scolded, and the boy was scolded and placed with mr Pembroke, whom she revered less than any man in the world.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000011_000002|Naturally enough, she considered it a further attempt of the authorities to snub the day boys, for whose advantage the school had been founded.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000000|"We say, 'Let them talk,'" persisted Rickie, "but I never did like letting people talk.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000001|We are right and they are wrong, but I wish the thing could have been done more quietly.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000002|The headmaster does get so excited.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000003|He has given a gang of foolish people their opportunity.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000005|My father found me a nuisance, and put me through the mill, and I can never forget it particularly the evenings."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000014_000002|It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000015_000000|"I don't understand."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000000|"Physical pain doesn't hurt-at least not what I call hurt-if a man hits you by accident or play.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000001|But just a little tap, when you know it comes from hatred, is too terrible.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000002|Boys do hate each other: I remember it, and see it again.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000003|They can make strong isolated friendships, but of general good fellowship they haven't a notion."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000018_000000|"You see, the notion of good fellowship develops late: you can just see its beginning here among the prefects: up at Cambridge it flourishes amazingly.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000018_000001|That's why I pity people who don't go up to Cambridge: not because a University is smart, but because those are the magic years, and-with luck-you see up there what you couldn't see before and mayn't ever see again.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000000|He laughed and hit at her.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000001|"I'm getting somewhat involved.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000002|But hear me, O Agnes, for I am practical.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000004|Long may they, flourish.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000005|But I do not approve of the boarding house system.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000021_000001|"Have you gone mad?"
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000000|"Silence, madam.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000001|Don't betray me to Herbert, or I'll give us the sack. But seriously, what is the good of, throwing boys so much together? Isn't it building their lives on a wrong basis?
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000003|I wish they did, but they don't.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000005|When they do, the whole of life changes, and you get the true thing.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000006|But don't pretend you've got it before you have.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000007|Patriotism and esprit de corps are all very well, but masters a little forget that they must grow from sentiment.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000008|They cannot create one.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000009|Cannot cannot-cannot.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000010|I never cared a straw for England until I cared for Englishmen, and boys can't love the school when they hate each other.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000002|"Aha!
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000004|It's just the kind of thing poor mr Ansell would say.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000005|Well, I'm brutal.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000007|Boys ought to rough it, or they never grow up into men, and your mother would have agreed with me.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000009|It can, can, create a sentiment."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000025_000001|He wondered whether she was not right, and regretted that she proceeded to say, "My dear boy, you mustn't talk these heresies inside Dunwood House!
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000026_000000|"The Jackson set have their points."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000028_000000|"The Dunwood House set has its points." For Rickie suffered from the Primal Curse, which is not-as the Authorized Version suggests-the knowledge of good and evil, but the knowledge of good and evil.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000030_000001|Why would he see the other side of things?
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000030_000002|He rebuked his soul, not unsuccessfully, and then they returned to the subject of Varden.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000031_000001|I hate the look about his eyes."
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000032_000000|"I hate the whole boy.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000000|"No, you aren't," she cried, kissing him.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000002|Could nothing be suggested?
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000003|He drew up some new rules-alterations in the times of going to bed, and so on-the effect of which would be to provide fewer opportunities for the pulling of Varden's ears.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000006|So nothing was done.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000008|At last he asked her to stop.
train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000009|He felt uneasy about the boy-almost superstitious.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000001_000000|THE SEA LINK LOST seventeen forty five
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000002_000000|Rome would not rest till she had ruined Carthage.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000004_000002|He was much disliked in Louisbourg.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000004_000013|The French did not.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000005_000000|The burning of Canso and the attack on Annapolis stirred up the wrath of New England.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000005_000001|A wild enthusiast, William Vaughan, urged Governor Shirley of Massachusetts to make an immediate counter-attack.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000005_000006|Nor could they be blamed.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000006_000003|Shirley was dejected and in doubt what to do next.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000006_000006|All the merchants were eager for attack.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000009_000003|The men volunteered eagerly.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000014_000000|On may fifth Warren sailed into Canso.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000014_000002|After a conference with Pepperrell he hurried off to begin the blockade of Louisbourg.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000015_000003|The news from Boston was not heeded.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000015_000005|The bibulous du Quesnel had died in October.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000017_000000|No reinforcements arrived after the first appearance of the British fleet.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000019_000001|The Provincials eyed the fortress eagerly.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000019_000003|But it looked hard enough, for all that.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000019_000005|Its signal cannon fired.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000021_000004|Vaughan then retired for the night.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000027_000003|But a ship builder colonel, Meserve of New Hampshire, came to the rescue by designing a gun sleigh, sixteen feet in length and five in the beam.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000028_000004|Most men's kits were of the very scantiest.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000028_000005|Very few had even a single change of clothing.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000035_000007|The walls were continually being smashed from without and patched up from within. The streets were ploughed from end to end.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000036_000004|But the rumour ran quickly through the whole camp, probably not without Pepperrell's own encouragement, and at once produced, not a panic, but the most excellent effect.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000036_000005|Discipline, never good, had been growing worse. Punishments were unknown.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000037_000002|Races, wrestling, and quoits were better; while fishing was highly commendable, both in the way of diet as well as in the way of sport.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000040_000002|A second vessel was forced aground.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000040_000003|Her captain fought her to the last; but Warren's boat crews took her. Some men who escaped from her brought du Chambon the news that a third French ship, the Vigilant, was coming to the relief of Louisbourg with ammunition and other stores. This ship had five hundred and sixty men aboard, that is, as many as all the regulars in Louisbourg.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000042_000013|Warren, who was just over forty, replied with some heat.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000043_000004|But Vaughan was not to lead.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000043_000007|But they came in by driblets, and most of them were drunk.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000043_000008|The commandant of the battery felt far from easy.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000045_000002|The first men up the rungs were shot, stabbed, or cut down.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000045_000006|The rest sheered off.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000047_000002|They had seized this position some time before and called it Gorham's Post, after the colonel whose regiment held it. Fourteen years later there was another and more famous Gorham's Post, on the south shore of the saint Lawrence near Quebec, opposite Wolfe's Cove.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000047_000003|The arming of this battery was a stupendous piece of work.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000048_000011|Their Royal Battery wrecked the whole inner water front of Louisbourg.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000050_000003|But when the drums began beating, it was to a parley, not to arms.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000050_000005|The French officer and he saluted.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000052_000003|The Provincials reported their own killed, quite correctly, at a hundred.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000052_000006|They amounted to about three hundred.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000054_000004|Warren was cursed, Pepperrell blamed; and a mutinous spirit arose.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000057_000001|Everything went off without a hitch.
train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000057_000006|'Good Lord!' he said, 'we have so much to thank Thee for, that Time will be too short.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000007_000000|THE BELL
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000009_000000|Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000009_000001|It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000010_000000|A long time passed, and people said to each other-"I wonder if there is a church out in the wood?
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000010_000002|The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000010_000006|The king of the country was also observant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of "Universal Bell ringer," even if it were not really a bell.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000011_000001|However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000011_000002|But whether the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree, that no one could say with certainty.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000011_000003|So now he got the place of "Universal Bell ringer," and wrote yearly a short treatise "On the Owl"; but everybody was just as wise as before.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000012_000000|It was the day of confirmation.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000012_000001|The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown up persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000012_000003|They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000014_000000|But two of the youngest soon grew tired, and both returned to town; two little girls sat down, and twined garlands, so they did not go either; and when the others reached the willow tree, where the confectioner was, they said, "Now we are there!
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000014_000001|In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!"
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000000|At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000001|It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000002|Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000003|Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000016_000000|"That surely cannot be the bell," said one of the children, lying down and listening.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000016_000001|"This must be looked to." So he remained, and let the others go on without him.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000017_000000|They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000018_000000|Was it that which people had heard?
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000019_000001|A rustling was heard in the bushes, and a little boy stood before the King's Son, a boy in wooden shoes, and with so short a jacket that one could see what long wrists he had.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000019_000002|Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000019_000003|This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000020_000001|But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000023_000000|The ugly apes sat upon the trees, and grinned.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000023_000002|"Shall we thrash him?
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000023_000003|He is the son of a king!"
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000000|But on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into the wood, where the most wonderful flowers were growing.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000002|Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000003|And there were large calm lakes there too, in which white swans were swimming, and beat the air with their wings.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000004|The King's Son often stood still and listened.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000005|He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000025_000000|The sun now set: the atmosphere glowed like fire.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000025_000001|It was still in the woods, so very still; and he fell on his knees, sung his evening hymn, and said: "I cannot find what I seek; the sun is going down, and night is coming-the dark, dark night.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000025_000003|I will climb up yonder rock."
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000001|How magnificent was the sight from this height!
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000002|The sea-the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast-was stretched out before him.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000003|And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors.
train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000006|He had followed his own path, and had reached the spot just as soon as the son of the king had done.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000001_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000001_000001|DIAMOND GOES ON
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000001|Some may think it was not the best place in the world for him to be brought up in; but it must have been, for there he was.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000002|At first, he heard a good many rough and bad words; but he did not like them, and so they did him little harm.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000003|He did not know in the least what they meant, but there was something in the very sound of them, and in the tone of voice in which they were said, which Diamond felt to be ugly.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000005|He never took any notice of them, and his face shone pure and good in the middle of them, like a primrose in a hailstorm.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000006|At first, because his face was so quiet and sweet, with a smile always either awake or asleep in his eyes, and because he never heeded their ugly words and rough jokes, they said he wasn't all there, meaning that he was half an idiot, whereas he was a great deal more there than they had the sense to see.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000009|When they talked to him nicely he had always a good answer, sometimes a smart one, ready, and that helped much to make them change their minds about him.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000001|He sat on his withers, and reaching forward as he ate his hay, he curried and he brushed, first at one side of his neck, and then at the other.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000002|When that was done he asked for a dressing comb, and combed his mane thoroughly.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000004|Then he sat on his croup, and did his back and sides; then he turned around like a monkey, and attacked his hind quarters, and combed his tail.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000006|But Jack fetched it again, and Diamond began once more, and did not leave off until he had done the whole business fairly well, if not in a first rate, experienced fashion.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000007|All the time the old horse went on eating his hay, and, but with an occasional whisk of his tail when Diamond tickled or scratched him, took no notice of the proceeding. But that was all a pretence, for he knew very well who it was that was perched on his back, and rubbing away at him with the comb and the brush.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000007_000000|I won't vouch for what the old horse was thinking, for it is very difficult to find out what any old horse is thinking.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000008_000000|"Oh dear!" said Diamond when he had done, "I'm so tired!"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000009_000000|And he laid himself down at full length on old Diamond's back.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000010_000001|One of them lifted him down, and from that time he was a greater favourite than before.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000010_000002|And if ever there was a boy who had a chance of being a prodigy at cab driving, Diamond was that boy, for the strife came to be who should have him out with him on the box.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000011_000000|His mother, however, was a little shy of the company for him, and besides she could not always spare him.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000011_000001|Also his father liked to have him himself when he could; so that he was more desired than enjoyed among the cabmen.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000012_000001|Of course there was the man always on the box seat beside him, but before long there was seldom the least occasion to take the reins from out of his hands.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000012_000002|For one thing he never got frightened, and consequently was never in too great a hurry.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000013_000000|One day, which was neither washing day, nor cleaning day nor marketing day, nor Saturday, nor Monday-upon which consequently Diamond could be spared from the baby-his father took him on his own cab.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000013_000001|After a stray job or two by the way, they drew up in the row upon the stand between Cockspur Street and Pall Mall.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000014_000000|"Though, to be sure," said Diamond's father-with what truth I cannot say, but he believed what he said-"some ladies is very hard, and keeps you to the bare sixpence a mile, when every one knows that ain't enough to keep a family and a cab upon.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000014_000001|To be sure it's the law; but mayhap they may get more law than they like some day themselves."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000015_000000|As it was very hot, Diamond's father got down to have a glass of beer himself, and give another to the old waterman.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000015_000001|He left Diamond on the box.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000016_000000|A sudden noise got up, and Diamond looked round to see what was the matter.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000017_000000|There was a crossing near the cab stand, where a girl was sweeping.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000017_000001|Some rough young imps had picked a quarrel with her, and were now hauling at her broom to get it away from her.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000000|Diamond was off his box in a moment, and running to the help of the girl.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000001|He got hold of the broom at her end and pulled along with her.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000003|But presently his father came back, and missing Diamond, looked about.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000004|He had to look twice, however, before he could be sure that that was his boy in the middle of the tumult.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000006|The girl thanked Diamond, and began sweeping as if nothing had happened, while his father led him away.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000007|With the help of old Tom, the waterman, he was soon washed into decency, and his father set him on the box again, perfectly satisfied with the account he gave of the cause of his being in a fray.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000019_000000|"I couldn't let them behave so to a poor girl-could I, father?" he said.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000020_000000|"Certainly not, Diamond," said his father, quite pleased, for Diamond's father was a gentleman.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000021_000001|cab!"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000022_000000|Diamond's father turned instantly, for he was the foremost in the rank, and followed the girl.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000022_000002|When they reached the curbstone-who should it be waiting for the cab but mrs and Miss Coleman!
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000022_000003|They did not look at the cabman, however.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000023_000000|When they reached the house, Diamond's father got down and rang the bell.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000023_000002|The ladies both stared for a moment, and then exclaimed together:
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000024_000000|"Why, Joseph! can it be you?"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000025_000000|"Yes, ma'am; yes, miss," answered he, again touching his hat, with all the respect he could possibly put into the action.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000025_000001|"It's a lucky day which I see you once more upon it."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000000|"Who would have thought it?" said mrs Coleman.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000001|"It's changed times for both of us, Joseph, and it's not very often we can have a cab even; but you see my daughter is still very poorly, and she can't bear the motion of the omnibuses.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000002|Indeed we meant to walk a bit first before we took a cab, but just at the corner, for as hot as the sun was, a cold wind came down the street, and I saw that Miss Coleman must not face it.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000003|But to think we should have fallen upon you, of all the cabmen in London!
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000004|I didn't know you had got a cab."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000028_000000|The two ladies went near to pat the horse, and then they noticed Diamond on the box.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000029_000000|"Why, you've got both Diamonds with you," said Miss Coleman.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000029_000001|"How do you do, Diamond?"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000030_000000|Diamond lifted his cap, and answered politely.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000031_000000|"He'll be fit to drive himself before long," said his father, proudly. "The old horse is a teaching of him."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000032_000000|"Well, he must come and see us, now you've found us out.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000032_000001|Where do you live?"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000033_000000|Diamond's father gave the ladies a ticket with his name and address printed on it; and then mrs Coleman took out her purse, saying:
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000034_000000|"And what's your fare, Joseph?"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000035_000000|"No, thank you, ma'am," said Joseph.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000035_000001|"It was your own old horse as took you; and me you paid long ago."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000036_000000|He jumped on his box before she could say another word, and with a parting salute drove off, leaving them on the pavement, with the maid holding the door for them.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000000|It was a long time now since Diamond had seen North Wind, or even thought much about her.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000004|Only he had been to the back of the north wind since-there could be no doubt of that; for when he woke every morning, he always knew that he had been there again.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000005|And as he thought and thought, he recalled another thing that had happened that morning, which, although it seemed a mere accident, might have something to do with what had happened since.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000006|His father had intended going on the stand at King's Cross that morning, and had turned into Gray's Inn Lane to drive there, when they found the way blocked up, and upon inquiry were informed that a stack of chimneys had been blown down in the night, and had fallen across the road.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000008|Diamond's father turned, and made for Charing Cross.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000038_000000|That night the father and mother had a great deal to talk about.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000039_000000|"Poor things!" said the mother.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000043_000001|What has that to do with it?"
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000045_000001|"Really, Diamond, a body would need to mind what they say to you."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000046_000000|"Why?" said Diamond.
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000049_000001|No, thank Heaven! she's not come to that."
train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000050_000000|"Is it a great disgrace to be poor?" asked Diamond, because of the tone in which his mother had spoken.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000004_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000005_000000|A FALSE FRIEND
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000006_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000006_000002|"What has happened, Ned?"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000007_000000|"I don't know, but Jacinto is yelling something about vampires!"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000001|Big bats.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000002|And he's warning us to be careful.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000003|I stuck my head out just now and I felt that same sort of shadow I felt this evening when we were down near the river."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000010_000000|"Nonsense!"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000012_000000|At that instant Tom flashed a pocket electric lamp he had taken from beneath his pillow and in the gleam of it he and Ned saw fluttering about the tent some dark, shadow like form, at the sight of which Tom's chum cried:
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000013_000001|That's the shadow!
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000013_000002|Look out!" and he held up his hands instinctively to shield his face.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000014_000000|"Shadow!" yelled Tom, unconsciously adding to the din that seemed to pervade every part of the camp.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000014_000001|"That isn't a shadow.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000014_000002|It's substance. It's a monster bat, and here goes for a strike at it!"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000016_000000|"Look out!" yelled Ned.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000016_000001|"If it's a vampire it'll----"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000017_000000|"It won't do anything to me!" shouted Tom, as he struck the creature, knocking it into the corner of the tent with a thud that told it must be completely stunned, if not killed.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000017_000002|"What's the row?"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000019_000000|"Oshtoo!
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000019_000001|Oshtoo!"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000020_000000|Mingled with them were calls of Jacinto, partly in Spanish, partly in the Indian tongue and partly in English.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000021_000000|"It is a raid by vampire bats!" was all Tom and Ned could distinguish. "We shall have to light fires to keep them away, if we can succeed. Every one grab up a club and strike hard!"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000023_000000|"You're not going out there, are you?" asked Ned.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000024_000001|If there's a fight I want to be in it, bats or anything else.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000024_000002|Here, you have a light like mine.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000024_000004|Then get a club and come on.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000025_000000|Tom's plan seemed to be a good one.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000025_000001|His lamp and Ned's had small hooks on them, so they could be carried in the upper coat pocket, showing a gleam of light and leaving the hands free for use.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000026_000000|Out of the tents rushed the young men to find Professor Bumper and mr Damon before them.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000026_000001|The two men had clubs and were striking about in the half darkness, for now the Indians had set several fires aglow. And in the gleams, constantly growing brighter as more fuel was piled on, the young inventor and his chum saw a weird sight.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000027_000001|Great bats they were, and a dangerous species, if Jacinto was to be believed.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000028_000003|But the increasing lights, and the attacks made by the Indians and the white travelers turned the tide of battle, and, with silent flappings of their soft, velvety wings, the bats flew back to the jungle whence they had emerged.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000029_000000|"We are safe-for the present!" exclaimed Jacinto with a sigh of relief.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000030_000000|"Do you think they will come back?" asked Tom.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000031_000000|"They may-there is no telling."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000032_000000|"Bless my speedometer!" cried mr Damon, "If those beasts or birds-whatever they are-come back I'll go and hide in the river and take my chances with the alligators!"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000033_000000|"The alligators aren't much worse," asserted Jacinto with a visible shiver.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000033_000001|"These vampire bats sometimes depopulate a whole village."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000035_000000|"Not quite.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000035_000001|Though they might if they got the chance," was the answer of the Spanish guide.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000035_000003|Then the villagers come back.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000036_000001|I do not think this lot will come back.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000036_000002|We have killed too many of them," and he looked about on the ground where many of the uncanny creatures were still twitching in the death struggle.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000037_000001|"Bless my skin!
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000037_000002|I hope not!
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000037_000003|I've had enough of bats-and mosquitoes," he added, as he slapped at his face and neck.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000039_000000|Tom and Ned kicked outside the bat the former had killed in their tent, and then both went back to their cots.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000040_000001|"That was some night!
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000040_000002|If this is a sample of the wilds of Honduras, give me the tameness of Shopton."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000041_000001|"It's all in the day's work.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000041_000002|We've only got started.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000041_000003|I guess we're a bit soft, Ned, though we had hard enough work in that tunnel digging."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000042_000000|After breakfast, while the Indians were making ready the canoes, Professor Bumper, who, in a previous visit to Central America, had become interested in the subject, made a brief examination of some of the dead bats.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000043_000000|"This is a true blood sucking bat," went on the professor.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000043_000001|"This," and he pointed to the nose leaves, "is the sucking apparatus.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000043_000002|The bat makes an opening in the skin with its sharp teeth and proceeds to extract the blood.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000044_000000|"And a man, too?" asked Ned.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000045_000000|"Well a man has hands with which to use weapons, but a helpless quadruped has not.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000045_000001|Though if a sufficient number of these bats attacked a man at the same time, he would have small chance to escape alive.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000045_000002|Their bites, too, may be poisonous for all I know."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000046_000000|The Indians seemed glad to leave the "place of the bats," as they called the camp site.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000046_000003|The blood sucking bats were comparatively few, and the migratory sort fewer still.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000047_000000|"Well, we're on our way once more," remarked Tom as again they were in the canoes being paddled up the river.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000047_000001|"How much longer does your water trip take, Professor?"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000048_000000|"I hardly know," and Professor Bumper looked to Jacinto to answer.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000049_000000|"We go two more days in the canoes," the guide answered, "and then we shall find the mules waiting for us at a place called Hidjio.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000049_000001|From then on we travel by land until-well until you get to the place where you are going.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000050_000001|"I am leaving that part to you."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000051_000000|"Oh, I have a map, showing where I want to begin some excavations," was the answer.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000051_000002|After that-well, we shall trust to luck for what we shall find."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000052_000001|"You have mentioned buried cities.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000052_000002|Have you thought what may be in them-great heathen temples, idols, perhaps?"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000053_000000|For a moment none of the professor's companions spoke.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000053_000002|Finally the scientist said:
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000054_000002|But we shall take whatever antiquities we find."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000055_000000|"Huh!" grunted Jacinto, and then he called to the paddlers to increase their strokes.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000056_000000|The journey up the river was not very eventful.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000056_000002|Toward the close of the third day's travel there was a cry from one of the rear boats, and an alarm of a man having fallen overboard was given.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000057_000000|Tom turned in time to see the poor fellow's struggles, and at the same time there was a swirl in the water and a black object shot forward.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000058_000000|"An alligator is after him!" yelled Ned.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000060_000000|Tom took quick aim and pulled the trigger.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000060_000001|The explosive electric bullet went true to its mark, and the great animal turned over in a death struggle.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000061_000000|There was a wild scream of agony and then a dark arm shot up above the red foam.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000061_000002|Tom fired bullet after bullet from his wonderful rifle into the spot, but though he killed some of the alligators this did not save the man's life.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000061_000003|His body was not seen again, though search was made for it.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000062_000000|The accident cast a little damper over the party, and there was a feeling of gloom among the Indians.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000062_000001|Professor Bumper announced that he would see to it that the man's family did not want, and this seemed to give general satisfaction, especially to a brother who was with the party.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000063_000000|Aside from being caught in a drenching storm and one or two minor accidents, nothing else of moment marked the remainder of the river journey, and at the end of the third day the canoes pulled to shore and a night camp was made.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000064_000000|"But where are the mules we are to use in traveling to morrow?" asked the professor of Jacinto.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000065_000000|"In the next village.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000065_000001|We shall march there in the morning.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000065_000002|No use to go there at night when all is dark."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000066_000000|"I suppose that is so."
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000067_000000|The Indians made camp as usual, the goods being brought from the canoes and piled up near the tents.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000067_000001|Then night settled down.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000068_000000|"Hello!" cried Tom, awakening the next morning to find the sun streaming into his tent.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000068_000001|"We must have overslept, Ned.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000069_000000|"I didn't hear any one call us," remarked Ned.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000000|"Nor i Wonder if we're the only lazy birds." He looked from the tent in time to see mr Damon and the professor emerging.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000001|Then Tom noticed something queer.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000003|There was not an Indian in sight, and no evidence of Jacinto.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000072_000000|"I rather think they've gone back," was the professor's dry comment.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000073_000000|"Gone back?"
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000074_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000000|"Bless my time table!" cried mr Damon.
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000001|"You don't say so!
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000002|What does it mean?
train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000003|What has becomes of our friend Jacinto?"
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000001|She had one fair son, named Theseus, the bravest lad in all the land; and Aithra never smiled but when she looked at him, for her husband had forgotten her, and lived far away.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000003|And when Theseus was full fifteen years old she took him up with her to the temple, and into the thickets of the grove which grew in the temple yard.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000004|And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000005|And there she sighed, and said, 'Theseus, my son, go into that thicket and you will find at the plane tree foot a great flat stone; lift it, and bring me what lies underneath.'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000003_000000|Then Theseus pushed his way in through the thick bushes, and saw that they had not been moved for many a year.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000003_000001|And searching among their roots he found a great flat stone, all overgrown with ivy, and acanthus, and moss.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000003_000002|He tried to lift it, but he could not.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000004_000001|Let it be for another year.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000005_000000|Then she took him by the hand, and went into the temple and prayed, and came down again with Theseus to her home.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000006_000000|And when a full year was past she led Theseus up again to the temple, and bade him lift the stone; but he could not.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000007_000000|Then she sighed, and said the same words again, and went down, and came again the next year; but Theseus could not lift the stone then, nor the year after; and he longed to ask his mother the meaning of that stone, and what might lie underneath it; but her face was so sad that he had not the heart to ask.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000009_000000|And when his eighteenth year was past, Aithra led him up again to the temple, and said, 'Theseus, lift the stone this day, or never know who you are.' And Theseus went into the thicket, and stood over the stone, and tugged at it; and it moved.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000009_000001|Then his spirit swelled within him, and he said, 'If I break my heart in my body, it shall up.' And he tugged at it once more, and lifted it, and rolled it over with a shout.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000010_000000|And when he looked beneath it, on the ground lay a sword of bronze, with a hilt of glittering gold, and by it a pair of golden sandals; and he caught them up, and burst through the bushes like a wild boar, and leapt to his mother, holding them high above his head.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000011_000000|But when she saw them she wept long in silence, hiding her fair face in her shawl; and Theseus stood by her wondering, and wept also, he knew not why.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000011_000001|And when she was tired of weeping, she lifted up her head, and laid her finger on her lips, and said, 'Hide them in your bosom, Theseus my son, and come with me where we can look down upon the sea.'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000012_000000|Then they went outside the sacred wall, and looked down over the bright blue sea; and Aithra said-
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000013_000000|'Do you see this land at our feet?'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000015_000001|Do you see that land beyond?'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000016_000000|'Yes; that is Attica, where the Athenian people dwell.'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000018_000002|There are twelve towns well peopled, the homes of an ancient race, the children of Kekrops the serpent king, the son of Mother Earth, who wear gold cicalas among the tresses of their golden hair; for like the cicalas they sprang from the earth, and like the cicalas they sing all day, rejoicing in the genial sun
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000018_000003|What would you do, son Theseus, if you were king of such a land?'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000019_000000|Then Theseus stood astonished, as he looked across the broad bright sea, and saw the fair Attic shore, from Sunium to Hymettus and Pentelicus, and all the mountain peaks which girdle Athens round.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000019_000001|But Athens itself he could not see, for purple AEgina stood before it, midway across the sea.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000020_000000|Then his heart grew great within him, and he said, 'If I were king of such a land I would rule it wisely and well in wisdom and in might, that when I died all men might weep over my tomb, and cry, "Alas for the shepherd of his people!"'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000021_000000|And Aithra smiled, and said, 'Take, then, the sword and the sandals, and go to AEgeus, king of Athens, who lives on Pallas' hill; and say to him, "The stone is lifted, but whose is the pledge beneath it?"
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000021_000001|Then show him the sword and the sandals, and take what the Gods shall send.'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000022_000000|But Theseus wept, 'Shall I leave you, O my mother?'
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000000|But she answered, 'Weep not for me.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000001|That which is fated must be; and grief is easy to those who do nought but grieve.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000004|Yet shall I be avenged, when the golden haired heroes sail against Troy, and sack the palaces of Ilium; then my son shall set me free from thraldom, and I shall hear the tale of Theseus' fame.
train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000005|Yet beyond that I see new sorrows; but I can bear them as I have borne the past.'
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000002_000000|BY
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000004_000000|WITH A PREFACE BY j m BARRIE
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000001|"Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000002|This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six): it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000003|It needed no effort for that face to knock off a masterpiece.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000004|It probably represents precisely how she looked when she finished a chapter.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000006|Fellow craftsmen will see that she is looking forward to this chapter all the time.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000010_000000|The manuscript is in pencil in a stout little note book (twopence), and there it has lain for years, for though the authoress was nine when she wrote it she is now a grown woman.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000010_000005|Chaperon seems to be one of the very few good words of which our authoress had never heard.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000001|She read everything that came her way, including, as the context amply proves, the grown up novels of the period.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000002|"I adored writing and used to pray for bad weather, so that I need not go out but could stay in and write." Her mother used to have early tea in bed; sometimes visitors came to the house, when there was talk of events in high society: there was mention of places called Hampton Court, the Gaiety Theatre and the "Crystale" Palace.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000003|This is almost all that is now remembered, but it was enough for the blazing child.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000004|She sucked her thumb for a moment (this is guesswork), and sat down to her amazing tale.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000013_000000|"Her mother used to have early tea in bed." Many authors must have had a similar experience, but they all missed the possibilities of it until this young woman came along.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000013_000003|Oh thank you my man said Mr Salteena rolling over in the costly bed.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000014_000002|She was particularly curious about the articles on your dressing table, including the little box containing a reddish powder, and she never desisted from watching you till she caught you dabbing it on your cheeks.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000014_000004|For instance, she is careful to put it on to be proposed to; and again its first appearance is excused in words that should henceforth be serviceable in every boudoir.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000001|The novelist will find the tale a model for his future work.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000003|How cunningly throughout she keeps us on the hooks of suspense, jumping to Mr Salteena when we are in a quiver about Ethel, and turning to Ethel when we are quite uneasy about Mr Salteena.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000005|Her mind is such a rich pocket that as she digs in it (her head to the side and her tongue well out) she sends up showers of nuggets.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000007|The first line of the tale etches him for all time: "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of forty two and fond of asking people to stay with him." On the next page Salteena draws a touching picture of himself in a letter accepting an invitation: "I do hope I shall enjoy myself with you.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000017_000002|Have you a couple of bedrooms for self and young lady he enquired in a lordly way." He is told that they have two beauties. "Thank you said Bernard we will go up if you have no objection.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000000|Bernard's proposal should be carried in the pocket of all future swains.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000001|He decides "whilst imbibing his morning tea beneath the pink silken quilt," that to propose in London would not be the "correct idear." He springs out of bed and knocks at Ethel's door.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000002|"Are you up my dear?
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000003|he called.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000001|Oh yes lets said Ethel." "Ethel he murmered in a trembly voice.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000003|Ethel accepts him, faints and is brought back to life by a clever "idear" of Bernard's, who pours water on her.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000004|"She soon came to and looked up with a sickly smile.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000007|Ethel felt better after a few drops of champaigne and began to tidy her hair while Bernard packed the remains of the food.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000008|Then arm in arm they tottered to the boat, I trust you have not got an illness my darling murmured Bernard as he helped her in, Oh no I am very strong said Ethel I fainted from joy she added to explain matters.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000009|Oh I see said Bernard handing her a cushion well some people do he added kindly."
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000020_000000|"So I will end my chapter," the authoress says; and we can picture her doing it complacently, and slowly pulling in her tongue.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000021_000003|This is perhaps the prettiest touch in the story and should make us all take off our hats to the innocent wondering mind that thought of it.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000022_000000|Poor Mr Salteena.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000022_000001|He was at the wedding, dressed in black and crying into his handkerchief.
train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000022_000002|However he recovered to an extent and married Another and had ten children, "five of each," none of them of course equal to Ethel's children, of whom in a remarkably short time there were seven, which the authoress evidently considers to be the right "idear."
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000000|THERE was once upon a time a king who was passionately fond of a princess; but she could not be married, because she was enchanted.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000001|He went to consult a fairy, to ascertain what he ought to do to make the Princess love him.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000002|The fairy said to him, "You know that the Princess has a large cat, of which she is very fond; well, she can marry that person only who can succeed in treading on her cat's tail." The King said to himself, "That will not be very difficult to accomplish"; and he quitted the fairy, determined rather to crush the cat's tail than to fail in treading on it.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000003|He hastened to his mistress's palace; Master Puss came to meet him, very consequentially, as was his wont; the King lifted up his foot, but when he thought to have put it on the cat's tail, Puss turned round so quickly that he trod on nothing but the floor.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000004|He was a week trying to tread on this fatal tail, which appeared to be full of quicksilver, for it was continually moving.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000005|But, at last, the King had the good fortune to surprise Master Puss while he was asleep, and trod upon his tail with all his weight.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000006|Puss awakened, mewing horribly, and immediately took the shape of a tall man, who, looking at the King with eyes full of anger, said to him: "You may now marry the Princess, since you have dissolved the enchantment which prevented you; but I will be revenged.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000007|You shall have a son who will always be unfortunate until the time when he shall become aware that his nose is too long; and, if you take any umbrage at what I threaten, you shall immediately be put to death."
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000000|Although the King was frightened at the sight of this tall man, who was an enchanter, he could not help laughing at his threat.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000001|"If my son's nose should be too long," said he to himself, "unless he should be either blind or silly, he will certainly be able to see or feel it." When the enchanter had disappeared, the King went to find the Princess, who consented to marry him.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000002|However, he did not live long with her, for he died eight months after the wedding.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000003|Shortly after his death, the Queen gave birth to a young Prince, who was called Desire.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000005|The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this large nose; but the ladies who were with her told her that the nose was not so large as it appeared to her to be; that it was a Roman nose, and that history averred that all heroes had large noses.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000006|The Queen, who loved her son to excess, was charmed with this discourse; and, by continually looking at Desire, his nose no longer appeared to be so very long.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000007|The Prince was brought up very carefully; and, as soon as he could speak, all kinds of shocking stories were told him of people who had short noses.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000009|When he became old enough to understand it, he was instructed in history; and, whenever any great prince or handsome princess was mentioned to him, he or she was always spoken of as having a long nose.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000010|The room was hung round with pictures in which all the figures had large noses; and Desire grew so accustomed to regard length of nose as an ornament, that he would not for an empire have parted with an atom of his.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000011|When he had reached the age of twenty, it was thought expedient for him to marry; and the portraits of various princesses were submitted to him.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000012|He was in raptures with that of Mignonetta, the daughter of a great king, and heiress to several kingdoms; of the kingdoms, however, Desire thought not at all, he was so much struck with her beauty.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000005_000000|The Princess Mignonetta, although he was thus charmed with her, had a little turned up nose which harmonized admirably with her other features, but which very much perplexed the courtiers.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000005_000001|They had acquired such a habit of ridiculing small noses, that they sometimes could not forbear laughing at that of the Princess; but Desire would not suffer a jest on this subject; and he banished two courtiers from his presence, who dared to make insinuations against Mignonetta's nose.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000006_000002|The horse presently came to a large plain, which he traversed the whole day without seeing a single house.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000006_000003|Both horse and rider were ready to die with hunger; at last, as night was about to set in, they discovered a cave in which a light was burning. Desire entered, and saw a little old woman, who appeared to be more than a hundred years old.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000006_000004|She put on her spectacles to look at the Prince; but she was a long time adjusting them, for her nose was too short.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000000|"With all my heart," answered the fairy.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000001|"Although your nose is ridiculous, you are not the less the son of my best friend.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000002|I loved the King, your father, like my own brother; but he had a very handsome nose." "And what is there wanting in mine?" asked Desire.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000004|I was saying, then, that I was your father's friend; at that time he frequently came to see me; and you must know that in those days I was very pretty; your father told me so.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000007|A long tongue is still more insufferable than a large nose; and I remember, when I was young, that I was admired for not being a great talker; the Queen, my mother, used frequently to have it mentioned to her; for, such as you see me, I am a great king's daughter.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000008|My father-" "Your father ate when he was hungry," said the Prince, interrupting her.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000010|He checked himself, however, for he wanted something of the fairy, and said: "I know that the pleasure I should take in listening to you would make me forget my own hunger; but my horse, who will not understand you, is in need of some food." This compliment made the fairy blush prettily.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000012|One must be very stupid not to perceive one's own defects; that comes of her being born a princess: flatterers have spoiled her, and persuaded her that she is a little talker."
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000000|While that was passing in the Prince's mind, the servants laid the table; and the Prince wondered at the fairy, who kept asking them a thousand questions, solely to have the pleasure of talking: he was especially surprised at a waiting woman, who, in everything that she saw, praised her mistress for her discretion.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000003|With regard to himself, he did not say a word, but ate away as fast as he could. "Prince," said the fairy to him, when he began to be satisfied, "move a little I entreat you; your nose makes so large a shadow that it prevents me from seeing what is on my plate.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000006|In my time they used to go on the same day to the promenade, to the assembly, to the theater, to the ball-But how long your nose is!
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000007|I cannot grow used to it." "In truth, madam," answered Desire, "do not say any more about my nose; it is as it is, and in what does it concern you?
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000009_000000|Desire, who had finished his supper, grew so tired of the fairy's tedious prattle about his nose that he sprang on his horse and rode away from the cavern.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000009_000001|He continued his journey; and wherever he went, he thought that everybody was mad, for everybody talked about his nose; nevertheless, he had been so accustomed to hear it asserted that his nose was handsome, that he could not reconcile to himself the idea that it was too long.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000000|The old fairy, who wished to do him a service in spite of himself, determined to shut up Mignonetta in a crystal palace, and place this palace in the Prince's road.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000001|Desire, transported with joy, strove to break it; but he could not succeed: in despair, he wished to approach near it, so as at least to speak to the Princess, who, on her part, stretched her hand close to the crystal wall of the palace.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000002|He was very anxious to kiss her hand; but turn his head which way he would, he could not place his mouth near it, his nose constantly preventing him.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000005|In this way self love conceals from us all the defects of our minds and bodies.
train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000006|In vain reason endeavors to unveil them to us; we can never perceive them until the same self love that blinds us to them finds them to be opposed to its interests." Desire, whose nose had become an ordinary nose, profited by this lesson.
train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000005_000003|Do I practise what I preach?
train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000007_000000|five.
train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000017_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000020_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000021_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000004_000000|A Goop that always makes me smile Is this one: Marmaduke Argyll. His mouth is full from cheek to cheek, Why should he then attempt to speak? It makes me smile, but still, the fact is, It is a most unpleasant practice.
train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000043_000000|Freddie Fisher fairly fussed When he came to eat his crust! Often on the floor he'd throw it, Hoping mother wouldn't know it! Goops all hate to eat the crust; If you're told to, then you must!
train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000058_000000|How thoughtless was Roberto Lees! (For only thoughtless children tease). He teased the little pussy cat, He teased the puppy! Think of that! He even teased his sister, too! I think he was a Goop-don't you?
train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000070_000000|Young Alexander b McGiff Each day had a clean handkerchief. In spite of this, if you'll believe, He wiped his nose upon his sleeve! Nobody but a Goop would do it; His mother'd scold him, if she knew it.
train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000088_000000|"I won't!" says young Amelia Pratt; "I won't do this!" "I won't do that!" Now isn't "won't" the naughtiest word That anyone has ever heard? Now isn't that the rudest way A Goop could answer? I should say!
train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000100_000000|Just look at Percival b Sloop, A most unpleasant sort of Goop; He pokes his fingers in his nose And wipes his hands upon his clothes; He does a lot of things that you, I know, would never, never do!
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000005_000000|And often even after they got well, they did not want to go away-they liked the Doctor and his house so much.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000005_000002|So in this way he went on getting more and more pets.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000006_000001|So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000007_000003|He asked couldn't he sleep in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden, if he promised not to eat the fish.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000007_000005|But to every one in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000008_000002|But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn't the heart to turn him out.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000009_000003|This is the last straw.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000011_000000|"I don't care what you call it," said his sister.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000011_000001|"It's a nasty thing to find under the bed.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000012_000000|"But he has promised me," the Doctor answered, "that he will not bite any one.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000012_000003|Don't be so fussy."
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000016_000001|With all these mouths to fill, and the house to look after, and no one to do the mending, and no money coming in to pay the butcher's bill, things began to look very difficult.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000019_000001|At least we can do that much.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000020_000000|So it was agreed that the monkey, Chee Chee, was to do the cooking and mending; the dog was to sweep the floors; the duck was to dust and make the beds; the owl, Too Too, was to keep the accounts, and the pig was to do the gardening.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000024_000000|But still they didn't seem to make enough money to pay all the bills-and still the Doctor wouldn't worry.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000000|"Never mind.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000001|So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000003|The Winter is still a long way off.
train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000004|Don't fuss.
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000023_000000|The Cow Bird.
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000029_000001|The Turnip.
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000033_000000|Observe the Turnip in the pot. The Tern is glad that he is not!
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000050_000000|For Eskimos, perhaps, the Auk Performs the duties of the Stork.
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000051_000000|The Cat bird.
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000051_000001|The Cat nip.
train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000070_000001|The Shamrock.
train-clean-360/2085/147971/2085_147971_000032_000000|"Very well.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000001_000000|Chapter two
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000003_000000|Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much serious consideration.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000003_000002|She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good breeding.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000003_000004|Herself the widow of only a knight, she gave the dignity of a baronet all its due; and Sir Walter, independent of his claims as an old acquaintance, an attentive neighbour, an obliging landlord, the husband of her very dear friend, the father of Anne and her sisters, was, as being Sir Walter, in her apprehension, entitled to a great deal of compassion and consideration under his present difficulties.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000000|They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000001|But she was very anxious to have it done with the least possible pain to him and Elizabeth.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000002|She drew up plans of economy, she made exact calculations, and she did what nobody else thought of doing: she consulted Anne, who never seemed considered by the others as having any interest in the question.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000003|She consulted, and in a degree was influenced by her in marking out the scheme of retrenchment which was at last submitted to Sir Walter.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000005|She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000005_000000|"If we can persuade your father to all this," said Lady Russell, looking over her paper, "much may be done.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000005_000002|What will he be doing, in fact, but what very many of our first families have done, or ought to do?
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000005_000005|We must be serious and decided; for after all, the person who has contracted debts must pay them; and though a great deal is due to the feelings of the gentleman, and the head of a house, like your father, there is still more due to the character of an honest man."
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000006_000000|This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be proceeding, his friends to be urging him.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000006_000001|She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000006_000002|She wanted it to be prescribed, and felt as a duty.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000006_000004|Her knowledge of her father and Elizabeth inclined her to think that the sacrifice of one pair of horses would be hardly less painful than of both, and so on, through the whole list of Lady Russell's too gentle reductions.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000000|How Anne's more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little consequence.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000001|Lady Russell's had no success at all: could not be put up with, were not to be borne.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000002|"What! every comfort of life knocked off! Journeys, London, servants, horses, table-contractions and restrictions every where!
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000003|To live no longer with the decencies even of a private gentleman!
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000004|No, he would sooner quit Kellynch Hall at once, than remain in it on such disgraceful terms."
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000000|"Quit Kellynch Hall." The hint was immediately taken up by Mr Shepherd, whose interest was involved in the reality of Sir Walter's retrenching, and who was perfectly persuaded that nothing would be done without a change of abode.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000001|"Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000002|It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000003|In any other place Sir Walter might judge for himself; and would be looked up to, as regulating the modes of life in whatever way he might choose to model his household."
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000009_000000|Sir Walter would quit Kellynch Hall; and after a very few days more of doubt and indecision, the great question of whither he should go was settled, and the first outline of this important change made out.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000000|There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in the country.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000001|All Anne's wishes had been for the latter.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000002|A small house in their own neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell's society, still be near Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes seeing the lawns and groves of Kellynch, was the object of her ambition.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000004|She disliked Bath, and did not think it agreed with her; and Bath was to be her home.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000011_000000|Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000011_000001|It was a much safer place for a gentleman in his predicament: he might there be important at comparatively little expense.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000012_000001|It would be too much to expect Sir Walter to descend into a small house in his own neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000012_000003|And with regard to Anne's dislike of Bath, she considered it as a prejudice and mistake arising, first, from the circumstance of her having been three years at school there, after her mother's death; and secondly, from her happening to be not in perfectly good spirits the only winter which she had afterwards spent there with herself.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000000|Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must suit them all; and as to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided; and it was in fact, a change which must do both health and spirits good.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000002|Her spirits were not high.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000003|A larger society would improve them.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000004|She wanted her to be more known.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000000|The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000001|He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000002|Kellynch Hall was to be let.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000003|This, however, was a profound secret, not to be breathed beyond their own circle.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000015_000001|Mr Shepherd had once mentioned the word "advertise," but never dared approach it again.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000016_000000|How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000016_000002|Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted. It was with the daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burden of two children.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000017_000000|Lady Russell, indeed, had scarcely any influence with Elizabeth, and seemed to love her, rather because she would love her, than because Elizabeth deserved it.
train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000017_000001|She had never received from her more than outward attention, nothing beyond the observances of complaisance; had never succeeded in any point which she wanted to carry, against previous inclination.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000002_000002|He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000002_000003|Fortunately for him, Highbury, including Randalls in the same parish, and Donwell Abbey in the parish adjoining, the seat of mr Knightley, comprehended many such.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000002_000004|Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card table for him.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000003_000000|Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and mr Knightley; and by mr Elton, a young man living alone without liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of mr Woodhouse's drawing room, and the smiles of his lovely daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000004_000000|After these came a second set; among the most come at able of whom were mrs and Miss Bates, and mrs Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that mr Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either james or the horses.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000004_000001|Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000000|mrs Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000001|She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000002|Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000003|She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000004|Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000005|And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good will.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000006|It was her own universal good will and contented temper which worked such wonders.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000007|She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000008|The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000009|She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited mr Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000006_000001|mrs Goddard's school was in high repute-and very deservedly; for Highbury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000006_000002|It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000006_000003|She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea visit; and having formerly owed much to mr Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000007_000000|These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power; though, as far as she was herself concerned, it was no remedy for the absence of mrs Weston.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000007_000001|She was delighted to see her father look comfortable, and very much pleased with herself for contriving things so well; but the quiet prosings of three such women made her feel that every evening so spent was indeed one of the long evenings she had fearfully anticipated.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000008_000000|As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from mrs Goddard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000008_000001|A very gracious invitation was returned, and the evening no longer dreaded by the fair mistress of the mansion.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000009_000000|Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000009_000001|Somebody had placed her, several years back, at mrs Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour boarder.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000009_000002|This was all that was generally known of her history. She had no visible friends but what had been acquired at Highbury, and was now just returned from a long visit in the country to some young ladies who had been at school there with her.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000010_000000|She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000010_000001|She was short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, regular features, and a look of great sweetness, and, before the end of the evening, Emma was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite determined to continue the acquaintance.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000001|Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000002|The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000003|The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000006|It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking; highly becoming her own situation in life, her leisure, and powers.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000013_000000|Upon such occasions poor mr Woodhouses feelings were in sad warfare. He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it; and while his hospitality would have welcomed his visitors to every thing, his care for their health made him grieve that they would eat.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000014_000000|Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000000|"mrs Bates, let me propose your venturing on one of these eggs.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000002|Serle understands boiling an egg better than any body.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000003|I would not recommend an egg boiled by any body else; but you need not be afraid, they are very small, you see-one of our small eggs will not hurt you.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000005|Ours are all apple tarts.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000007|I do not advise the custard.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000010|I do not think it could disagree with you."
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000016_000000|Emma allowed her father to talk-but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.
train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000016_000001|The happiness of Miss Smith was quite equal to her intentions.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000000_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000001_000000|"I do not know what your opinion may be, mrs Weston," said mr Knightley, "of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000002_000000|"A bad thing!
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000003_000000|"I think they will neither of them do the other any good."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000000|"You surprize me!
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000001|Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000002|I have been seeing their intimacy with the greatest pleasure.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000003|How very differently we feel!--Not think they will do each other any good!
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000005_000000|"Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000000|"mr Weston would undoubtedly support me, if he were here, for he thinks exactly as I do on the subject.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000001|We were speaking of it only yesterday, and agreeing how fortunate it was for Emma, that there should be such a girl in Highbury for her to associate with.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000002|mr Knightley, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000003|You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000004|I can imagine your objection to Harriet Smith.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000005|She is not the superior young woman which Emma's friend ought to be.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000006|But on the other hand, as Emma wants to see her better informed, it will be an inducement to her to read more herself.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000000|"Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through-and very good lists they were-very well chosen, and very neatly arranged-sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000001|The list she drew up when only fourteen-I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000002|But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000003|She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000004|Where Miss Taylor failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing.--You never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished.--You know you could not."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000001|"But I," he soon added, "who have had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still see, hear, and remember.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000002|Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000003|At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000004|She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000005|And ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000006|In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000007|She inherits her mother's talents, and must have been under subjection to her."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000011_000002|But you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at Hartfield.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000012_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000012_000001|There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as mr Weston."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000013_000000|"Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000013_000001|We will not despair, however.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000013_000002|Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000014_000001|No, mr Knightley, do not foretell vexation from that quarter."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000000|"Not I, indeed.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000001|I only name possibilities.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000002|I do not pretend to Emma's genius for foretelling and guessing.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000003|I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.--But Harriet Smith-I have not half done about Harriet Smith.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000004|I think her the very worst sort of companion that Emma could possibly have.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000005|She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Emma as knowing every thing.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000007|How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority?
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000009|Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000010|She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000011|I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt herself rationally to the varieties of her situation in life.--They only give a little polish."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000016_000000|"I either depend more upon Emma's good sense than you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament the acquaintance. How well she looked last night!"
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000017_000000|"Oh! you would rather talk of her person than her mind, would you?
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000017_000001|Very well; I shall not attempt to deny Emma's being pretty."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000018_000000|"Pretty! say beautiful rather.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000018_000001|Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether-face and figure?"
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000019_000000|"I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000019_000001|But I am a partial old friend."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000020_000003|mr Knightley, is not she?"
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000000|"I have not a fault to find with her person," he replied.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000001|"I think her all you describe.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000002|I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000003|Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000004|mrs Weston, I am not to be talked out of my dislike of Harriet Smith, or my dread of its doing them both harm."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000022_000000|"And I, mr Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000022_000002|Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000023_000000|"Very well; I will not plague you any more.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000023_000001|Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings john and Isabella. john loves Emma with a reasonable and therefore not a blind affection, and Isabella always thinks as he does; except when he is not quite frightened enough about the children.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000023_000002|I am sure of having their opinions with me."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000024_000000|"I know that you all love her really too well to be unjust or unkind; but excuse me, mr Knightley, if I take the liberty (I consider myself, you know, as having somewhat of the privilege of speech that Emma's mother might have had) the liberty of hinting that I do not think any possible good can arise from Harriet Smith's intimacy being made a matter of much discussion among you.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000024_000001|Pray excuse me; but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000024_000002|It has been so many years my province to give advice, that you cannot be surprized, mr Knightley, at this little remains of office."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000025_000000|"Not at all," cried he; "I am much obliged to you for it.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000025_000001|It is very good advice, and it shall have a better fate than your advice has often found; for it shall be attended to."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000000|"Be satisfied," said he, "I will not raise any outcry.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000001|I will keep my ill humour to myself.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000003|Isabella does not seem more my sister; has never excited a greater interest; perhaps hardly so great.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000004|There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000005|I wonder what will become of her!"
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000000|"She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000001|But I have no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000002|It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000003|I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of a return; it would do her good.
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000004|But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000030_000001|I do not recommend matrimony at present to Emma, though I mean no slight to the state, I assure you."
train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000031_000001|There were wishes at Randalls respecting Emma's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them suspected; and the quiet transition which mr Knightley soon afterwards made to "What does Weston think of the weather; shall we have rain?" convinced her that he had nothing more to say or surmise about Hartfield.
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000005_000001|These people are too strong.
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000011_000000|"Much good him.
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000011_000001|No black fellow.
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000017_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000032_000001|Mass Joe no gun, no powder pop, no chopper, no knife, no fight works 'tall."
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000036_000004|"Black fellow come along."
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000044_000000|"Mass Joe, Mass Joe, he go eat up black fellow.
train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000060_000000|"Only a bit stunned," it said; and then I gasped out the one word:
train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000001_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY TWO.
train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000004_000003|Good bye."
train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000005_000001|"I say, though, hadn't you better take Gyp?"
train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000068_000001|Where is my father?"
train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000075_000002|There."
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000000_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY NINE.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000005_000000|He started and looked in the same direction as I did which was right down the gully, and saw what had taken my attention, namely, the stooping bodies of a couple of blacks hurrying away through the bushes at a pretty good rate.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000007_000000|"No!" he said.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000016_000001|"Jimmy go look 'bout.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000019_000000|Mr Francis turned his head without a word, and, leaning upon a stout stick, started at once; and we followed in silence, just as the stars were coming out.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000027_000002|Hist!
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000027_000003|I'll creep forward and listen."
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000041_000002|Why, we've found your father.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000060_000000|"How do you know?"
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000061_000001|"He was to send the dog in search of us if we did not join him in two hours; and if we were in trouble I was either to tie something to his collar or take it off."
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000065_000001|"Back, my boy! Francis, quick!"
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000070_000000|"No, no!" I cried.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000074_000000|I recoiled shuddering.
train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000080_000001|"Come along."
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000010_000001|Stupidity militant.
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000029_000001|Apparently.
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000032_000001|Propensitate of prejudice.
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000073_000001|A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original.
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000087_000001|Obstinate in a course that we approve.
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000108_000000|"The Sturdy Beggar"
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000110_000001|Benefactor; philanthropist.
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000114_000000|What, what!
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000130_000000|j p Morgan
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000151_000004|"That," he said, "is the story."
train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000157_000001|To destroy.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000003_000000|fifty.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000003_000002|She is eight years old and learns everything by heart. Something may come of her for she has talent, but not if she goes on as she is doing now; she will never acquire velocity because she purposely makes her hand heavy.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000005|It goes, but she gets bored too quickly.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000009|In vain.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000014|Thereupon I wrote four measures of a minuet and said to her: 'Now look what an ass I am; I have begun a minuet and can't finish even the first part; be good enough to finish it for me.' She thought it impossible.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000015|At length she produced a little something to my joy. Then I made her finish the minuet, i e only the first voice.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000017|We shall see what comes of it tomorrow."
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000006_000000|(Paris, may fourteenth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000006_000001|The pupil was the daughter of the Duke de Guines, an excellent flautist.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000007_000002|She is very clever and learns quickly.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000009_000000|fifty three.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000010_000001|It is preserved in the Court Library in Vienna.)
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000011_000000|fifty four.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000012_000005|h e k])
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000013_000003|That is your case."
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000015_000000|fifty six.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000016_000003|His anger fled and he broke into a merry laugh.)
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000017_000000|fifty seven.
train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000017_000002|That's the way to shriek."
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000001_000000|fifty eight.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000002_000003|h e k])
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000003_000001|"Whoever can see and hear her (the daughter of Stein) play without laughing must be a stone (Stein) like her father.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000005_000000|sixty.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000011_000000|sixty three.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000012_000001|Beethoven found the same fault with Mozart's playing that Mozart here condemns.)
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000014_000000|(Vienna, april twenty eighth seventeen eighty four, to his father in Salzburg, whither the pianist Richter, whom he recommends to his father, is going on a concert trip.)
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000016_000000|(Paris, june twelfth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000016_000002|Mozart obviously had in view, not the pianoforte which was just coming into use in his day, but the clavichord. This instrument was sounded by striking the strings with bits of brass placed in the farther end of the keys which were simple and direct levers.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000016_000005|h e k])
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000017_000000|sixty six.
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000020_000000|(Recorded by Rochlitz as a criticism by Mozart of Italian singers in seventeen eighty nine.)
train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000021_000000|sixty eight.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000005_000004|Mozart himself was plainly of another opinion.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000005_000005|h e k])
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000006_000003|'It doesn't hurt me in the least; bad music leaves my nerves unaffected, but I sometimes get a headache from good music.' Then I thought to myself: Yes, such a shallow pate as you feels a pain as soon as he hears something which he can not understand."
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000007_000000|(Mannheim, november thirteenth seventeen seventy seven, to his father.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000007_000001|Beecke was a conceited pianist.)
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000008_000002|The orchestra is said to be large and good, and my principal favorites can be well performed there, that is to say choruses, and I am right glad that the Frenchmen are fond of them....Heretofore Paris has been used to the choruses of Gluck.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000009_000001|february twenty eighth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000010_000002|Whom should it please?
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000011_000002|It is characterized by brevity and wealth of melody.)
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000012_000000|seventy three.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000014_000000|seventy four.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000015_000001|Mozart was thinking of writing a French opera.)
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000016_000000|seventy five.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000017_000002|It seems that wood wind instruments were still absent from the symphony orchestra in Salzburg.)
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000018_000000|seventy six.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000018_000001|"Others know as well as you and I that tastes are continually changing, and that the changes extend even into church music; this should not be, but it accounts for the fact that true church music is now found only in the attic and almost eaten up by the worms."
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000019_000000|(Vienna, april twelfth seventeen eighty three, to his father, who was active as Court Chapelmaster in Salzburg, and who had been asked by his son in the same letter, when it grew a little warmer, "to look in the attic and send some of your (his) church music.")
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000020_000000|seventy seven.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000022_000000|seventy eight.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000024_000002|But what would you?
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000025_000000|(Vienna, december twenty eighth seventeen eighty two, to his father.
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000025_000003|Mozart replied: "Yes, I have heard of England's triumph, and, indeed, with great joy (for you know well that I am an arch Englishman)." The little book of criticism never appeared.)
train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000026_000000|eighty.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000014_000001|On no account!" cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000017_000000|"At first I said I would not take any message to you.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000017_000001|Then he said that he would do his utmost to obtain an interview with you without my help. He assured me that his passion for you was a passing infatuation, now he has no feeling for you.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000018_000001|How did he strike you?"
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000019_000009|But I may be mistaken; that may only be the part he assumes.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000020_000001|"I shall always, always pray for her!
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000044_000010|Don't inquire about me.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000052_000002|Don't you see it?
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000054_000002|I... perhaps I shall come... if I can.
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000056_000002|What's the matter with you?
train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000058_000000|"Once for all, never ask me about anything.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000002_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000003_000000|Raskolnikov went straight to the house on the canal bank where Sonia lived.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000003_000001|It was an old green house of three storeys.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000003_000004|While he was wandering in the darkness, uncertain where to turn for Kapernaumov's door, a door opened three paces from him; he mechanically took hold of it.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000006_000000|On a broken chair stood a candle in a battered copper candlestick.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000009_000000|A minute later Sonia, too, came in with the candle, set down the candlestick and, completely disconcerted, stood before him inexpressibly agitated and apparently frightened by his unexpected visit.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000009_000002|She felt sick and ashamed and happy, too....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000000|It was a large but exceedingly low pitched room, the only one let by the Kapernaumovs, to whose rooms a closed door led in the wall on the left. In the opposite side on the right hand wall was another door, always kept locked.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000002|A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light. The other corner was disproportionately obtuse.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000003|There was scarcely any furniture in the big room: in the corner on the right was a bedstead, beside it, nearest the door, a chair.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000005|Two rush bottom chairs stood by the table.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000006|On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000008|The yellow, scratched and shabby wall paper was black in the corners.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000010|There was every sign of poverty; even the bedstead had no curtain.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000012_000000|"I am late....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000013_000001|"My landlady's clock has just struck...
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000013_000002|I heard it myself...."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000014_000001|"I may perhaps not see you again..."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000015_000000|"Are you... going away?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000017_000000|"Then you are not coming to Katerina Ivanovna to morrow?" Sonia's voice shook.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000020_000000|"Why are you standing?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000021_000000|She sat down.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000022_000001|What a hand!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000023_000001|Sonia smiled faintly.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000026_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000030_000000|"Yes...."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000031_000000|"They live there, through that door?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000035_000000|"I should be afraid in your room at night," he observed gloomily.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000036_000000|"They are very good people, very kind," answered Sonia, who still seemed bewildered, "and all the furniture, everything... everything is theirs. And they are very kind and the children, too, often come to see me."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000037_000000|"They all stammer, don't they?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000038_000002|And his wife, too....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000038_000004|She is a very kind woman.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000038_000007|But where did you hear about them?" she added with some surprise.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000039_000001|He told me all about you....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000043_000000|"Father.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000043_000001|I was walking in the street, out there at the corner, about ten o'clock and he seemed to be walking in front.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000043_000003|I wanted to go to Katerina Ivanovna...."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000044_000000|"You were walking in the streets?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000049_000002|"Ah, you don't....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000049_000004|Her mind is quite unhinged, you see... from sorrow.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000049_000005|And how clever she used to be... how generous... how kind!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000050_000001|Her pale cheeks flushed, there was a look of anguish in her eyes.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000000|"Beat me! how can you?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000002|And if she did beat me, what then?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000003|What of it?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000004|You know nothing, nothing about it....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000006|And ill....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000008|She has such faith that there must be righteousness everywhere and she expects it....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000009|And if you were to torture her, she wouldn't do wrong.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000011|Like a child, like a child.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000012|She is good!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000053_000000|Sonia looked at him inquiringly.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000054_000001|They were all on your hands before, though....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000054_000002|And your father came to you to beg for drink.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000054_000003|Well, how will it be now?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000056_000000|"Will they stay there?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000057_000000|"I don't know....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000001|We are one, we live like one." Sonia was agitated again and even angry, as though a canary or some other little bird were to be angry.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000004|"And how she cried to day!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000008|Then she will be comforted again.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000010|And she kisses and hugs me, comforts me, and you know she has such faith, such faith in her fancies!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000011|One can't contradict her.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000013|She dragged the wash tub into the room with her feeble hands and sank on the bed, gasping for breath.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000014|We went this morning to the shops to buy shoes for Polenka and Lida for theirs are quite worn out.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000016|And she picked out such dear little boots, for she has taste, you don't know.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000000|"And aren't you sorry for them?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000001|Aren't you sorry?" Sonia flew at him again.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000002|"Why, I know, you gave your last penny yourself, though you'd seen nothing of it, and if you'd seen everything, oh dear!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000004|Only last week!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000006|I was cruel!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000007|And how often I've done it!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000000|"Yes, I-I.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000007|They just reminded her of her old happy days.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000008|She looked at herself in the glass, admired herself, and she has no clothes at all, no things of her own, hasn't had all these years! And she never asks anyone for anything; she is proud, she'd sooner give away everything.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000010|And I was sorry to give them.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000011|'What use are they to you, Katerina Ivanovna?' I said.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000014|And she was so grieved, so grieved at my refusing her. And it was so sad to see....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000066_000000|"Yes....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000066_000001|Did you know her?" Sonia asked with some surprise.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000067_000000|"Katerina Ivanovna is in consumption, rapid consumption; she will soon die," said Raskolnikov after a pause, without answering her question.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000072_000000|"And the children?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000072_000001|What can you do except take them to live with you?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000075_000000|"And, what, if even now, while Katerina Ivanovna is alive, you get ill and are taken to the hospital, what will happen then?" he persisted pitilessly.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000076_000000|"How can you?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000076_000001|That cannot be!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000078_000002|What will happen to them then?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000078_000003|They will be in the street, all of them, she will cough and beg and knock her head against some wall, as she did to day, and the children will cry.... Then she will fall down, be taken to the police station and to the hospital, she will die, and the children..."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000079_000000|"Oh, no...
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000079_000001|God will not let it be!" broke at last from Sonia's overburdened bosom.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000081_000000|Raskolnikov got up and began to walk about the room.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000082_000000|"And can't you save?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000086_000000|"And it didn't come off!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000086_000002|No need to ask."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000087_000001|Another minute passed.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000092_000002|"God would not allow anything so awful!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000095_000000|"But, perhaps, there is no God at all," Raskolnikov answered with a sort of malignance, laughed and looked at her.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000096_000000|Sonia's face suddenly changed; a tremor passed over it.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000096_000001|She looked at him with unutterable reproach, tried to say something, but could not speak and broke into bitter, bitter sobs, hiding her face in her hands.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000002|At last he went up to her; his eyes glittered.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000003|He put his two hands on her shoulders and looked straight into her tearful face.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000005|All at once he bent down quickly and dropping to the ground, kissed her foot.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000007|And certainly he looked like a madman.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000099_000000|"What are you doing to me?" she muttered, turning pale, and a sudden anguish clutched at her heart.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000100_000000|He stood up at once.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000102_000003|An honour!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000102_000004|Why, I'm... dishonourable.... Ah, why did you say that?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000103_000000|"It was not because of your dishonour and your sin I said that of you, but because of your great suffering.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000103_000002|Isn't that fearful?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000103_000005|It would be better, a thousand times better and wiser to leap into the water and end it all!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000105_000002|She had not even noticed the cruelty of his words.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000106_000003|What held her up-surely not depravity?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000108_000000|The last idea was the most revolting, but he was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel, and so he could not help believing that the last end was the most likely.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000000|"But can that be true?" he cried to himself.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000001|"Can that creature who has still preserved the purity of her spirit be consciously drawn at last into that sink of filth and iniquity?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000005|"No, what has kept her from the canal till now is the idea of sin and they, the children....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000006|And if she has not gone out of her mind... but who says she has not gone out of her mind?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000009|Does she expect a miracle?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000010|No doubt she does.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000110_000002|He began looking more intently at her.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000134_000000|"Find it and read it to me," he said.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000139_000001|When I was at school.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000139_000002|Read!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000140_000000|"And haven't you heard it in church?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000141_000000|"I... haven't been.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000141_000001|Do you often go?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000144_000000|"I understand....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000145_000001|I was at church last week, too...
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000149_000000|"Were you friends with Lizaveta?"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000150_000002|We used to read together and... talk.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000150_000003|She will see God."
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000154_000000|Sonia still hesitated.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000154_000001|Her heart was throbbing.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000157_000000|Sonia opened the book and found the place.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000157_000001|Her hands were shaking, her voice failed her.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000158_000001|There was a catch in her breath.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000169_000000|"She saith unto Him,"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000179_000002|He had expected it.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000179_000004|Her voice rang out like a bell; triumph and joy gave it power.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000180_000001|It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000185_000000|"And I knew that Thou hearest Me always; but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000189_000001|Jesus saith unto them, Loose him and let him go.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000191_000000|She could read no more, closed the book and got up from her chair quickly.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000196_000001|"Let us go together....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000196_000002|I've come to you, we are both accursed, let us go our way together!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000199_000000|"How do I know?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000203_000001|Haven't you done the same?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000204_000000|"What for?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000205_000003|What will happen, if you should really be taken to the hospital to morrow?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000205_000006|Haven't you seen children here at the street corners sent out by their mothers to beg?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000205_000009|At seven the child is vicious and a thief.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000000|"What's to be done?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000003|You'll understand later....
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000004|Freedom and power, and above all, power!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000006|That's the goal, remember that!
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000009|If I don't come to morrow, you'll hear of it all, and then remember these words.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000211_000000|He went out.
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000002|It's awful!"
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000004|"Oh, he must be terribly unhappy!...
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000006|What for?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000007|What has happened?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000009|What did he say to her?
train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000010|He had kissed her foot and said... said (yes, he had said it clearly) that he could not live without her....
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000002_000000|CHAPTER forty two.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000003_000000|OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL CONSIDERED MATTERS
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000004_000000|The duke and duchess were so well pleased with the successful and droll result of the adventure of the Distressed One, that they resolved to carry on the joke, seeing what a fit subject they had to deal with for making it all pass for reality.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000004_000001|So having laid their plans and given instructions to their servants and vassals how to behave to Sancho in his government of the promised island, the next day, that following Clavileno's flight, the duke told Sancho to prepare and get ready to go and be governor, for his islanders were already looking out for him as for the showers of May.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000005_000001|If your lordship would be so good as to give me ever so small a bit of heaven, were it no more than half a league, I'd rather have it than the best island in the world."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000006_000000|"Recollect, Sancho," said the duke, "I cannot give a bit of heaven, no not so much as the breadth of my nail, to anyone; rewards and favours of that sort are reserved for God alone.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000006_000001|What I can give I give you, and that is a real, genuine island, compact, well proportioned, and uncommonly fertile and fruitful, where, if you know how to use your opportunities, you may, with the help of the world's riches, gain those of heaven."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000009_000000|"Senor," said Sancho, "it is my belief it's a good thing to be in command, if it's only over a drove of cattle."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000012_000001|You, Sancho, shall go partly as a lawyer, partly as a captain, for, in the island I am giving you, arms are needed as much as letters, and letters as much as arms."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000013_000001|As for arms, I'll handle those they give me till I drop, and then, God be my help!"
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000014_000000|"With so good a memory," said the duke, "Sancho cannot go wrong in anything."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000015_000003|Some will bribe, beg, solicit, rise early, entreat, persist, without attaining the object of their suit; while another comes, and without knowing why or wherefore, finds himself invested with the place or office so many have sued for; and here it is that the common saying, 'There is good luck as well as bad luck in suits,' applies.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000015_000004|Thou, who, to my thinking, art beyond all doubt a dullard, without early rising or night watching or taking any trouble, with the mere breath of knight errantry that has breathed upon thee, seest thyself without more ado governor of an island, as though it were a mere matter of course.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000015_000006|With a heart, then, inclined to believe what I have said to thee, attend, my son, to thy Cato here who would counsel thee and be thy polestar and guide to direct and pilot thee to a safe haven out of this stormy sea wherein thou art about to ingulf thyself; for offices and great trusts are nothing else but a mighty gulf of troubles.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000018_000000|"That's the truth," said Sancho; "but that was when I was a boy; afterwards when I was something more of a man it was geese I kept, not pigs.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000023_000000|"If thou carriest thy wife with thee (and it is not well for those that administer governments to be long without their wives), teach and instruct her, and strive to smooth down her natural roughness; for all that may be gained by a wise governor may be lost and wasted by a boorish stupid wife.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000028_000000|"When equity may and should be brought into play, press not the utmost rigour of the law against the guilty; for the reputation of the stern judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000029_000000|"If perchance thou permittest the staff of justice to swerve, let it be not by the weight of a gift, but by that of mercy.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000038_000000|OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000039_000000|Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set him down for a person of great good sense and greater rectitude of purpose?
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000040_000000|Sancho listened to him with the deepest attention, and endeavoured to fix his counsels in his memory, like one who meant to follow them and by their means bring the full promise of his government to a happy issue. Don Quixote, then, went on to say:
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000045_000000|"Dine sparingly and sup more sparingly still; for the health of the whole body is forged in the workshop of the stomach.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000047_000000|"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000048_000000|"Eruct!" said Sancho; "I don't know what that means."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000050_000000|"In truth, senor," said Sancho, "one of the counsels and cautions I mean to bear in mind shall be this, not to belch, for I'm constantly doing it."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000051_000000|"Eruct, Sancho, not belch," said Don Quixote.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000052_000000|"Eruct, I shall say henceforth, and I swear not to forget it," said Sancho.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000054_000000|"God alone can cure that," said Sancho; "for I have more proverbs in me than a book, and when I speak they come so thick together into my mouth that they fall to fighting among themselves to get out; that's why my tongue lets fly the first that come, though they may not be pat to the purpose.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000059_000000|"Thy attire shall be hose of full length, a long jerkin, and a cloak a trifle longer; loose breeches by no means, for they are becoming neither for gentlemen nor for governors.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000062_000002|Besides I can pretend my right hand is disabled and make some one else sign for me, for 'there's a remedy for everything except death;' and as I shall be in command and hold the staff, I can do as I like; moreover, 'he who has the alcalde for his father,' and I'll be governor, and that's higher than alcalde.
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000063_000003|Tell me, where dost thou pick them up, thou booby?
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000065_000000|"That, Sancho, thou art not," said Don Quixote; "for not only art thou not sage silence, but thou art pestilent prate and perversity; still I would like to know what three proverbs have just now come into thy memory, for I have been turning over mine own-and it is a good one-and none occurs to me."
train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000066_000002|So that he 'who sees the mote in another's eye had need to see the beam in his own,' that it be not said of himself, 'the dead woman was frightened at the one with her throat cut;' and your worship knows well that 'the fool knows more in his own house than the wise man in another's.'"
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000000_000001|THE INCANDESCENT LAMP
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000001_000000|ALTHOUGH Edison's contributions to human comfort and progress are extensive in number and extraordinarily vast and comprehensive in scope and variety, the universal verdict of the world points to his incandescent lamp and system of distribution of electrical current as the central and crowning achievements of his life up to this time.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000001_000001|This view would seem entirely justifiable when we consider the wonderful changes in the conditions of modern life that have been brought about by the wide spread employment of these inventions, and the gigantic industries that have grown up and been nourished by their world-wide application.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000002_000003|For a short while the world outside of Menlo Park held Edison's claims in derision. His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000003_000001|He KNEW that he had reached the goal.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000003_000004|Their efforts had been confined to low resistance burners of large radiating surface for their lamps, but he realized the utter futility of such devices.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000004_000000|He was convinced from the first that the true solution of the problem lay in a lamp which should have as its illuminating body a strip of material which would offer such a resistance to the flow of electric current that it could be raised to a high temperature-incandescence-and be of such small cross section that it would radiate but little heat.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000004_000001|At the same time such a lamp must require a relatively small amount of current, in order that comparatively small conductors could be used, and its burner must be capable of withstanding the necessarily high temperatures without disintegration.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000005_000000|It is interesting to note that these conceptions were in Edison's mind at an early period of his investigations, when the best expert opinion was that the subdivision of the electric current was an ignis fatuus. Hence we quote the following notes he made, november fifteenth eighteen seventy eight, in one of the laboratory note books:
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000006_000000|"A given straight wire having one ohm resistance and certain length is brought to a given degree of temperature by given battery.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000006_000001|If the same wire be coiled in such a manner that but one quarter of its surface radiates, its temperature will be increased four times with the same battery, or, one quarter of this battery will bring it to the temperature of straight wire.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000007_000000|"This was actually determined by trial.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000008_000000|"The amount of heat lost by a body is in proportion to the radiating surface of that body.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000008_000001|If one square inch of platina be heated to one hundred degrees it will fall to, say, zero in one second, whereas, if it was at two hundred degrees it would require two seconds.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000009_000000|"Hence, in the case of incandescent conductors, if the radiating surface be twelve inches and the temperature on each inch be one hundred, or twelve hundred for all, if it is so coiled or arranged that there is but one quarter, or three inches, of radiating surface, then the temperature on each inch will be four hundred.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000009_000003|To carry out this law to the best advantage in regard to platina, etc, then with a given length of wire to quadruple the heat we must lessen the radiating surface to one quarter, and to do this in a spiral, three quarters must be within the spiral and one quarter outside for radiating; hence, a square wire or other means, such as a spiral within a spiral, must be used.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000009_000005|Of course, when Light is radiated in great quantities not quite these temperatures would be reached.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000011_000000|Proceeding logically upon these lines of thought and following them out through many ramifications, we have seen how he at length made a filament of carbon of high resistance and small radiating surface, and through a concurrent investigation of the phenomena of high vacua and occluded gases was able to produce a true incandescent lamp.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000012_000000|The work of Edison on incandescent lamps did not stop at this fundamental invention, but extended through more than eighteen years of a most intense portion of his busy life.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000012_000002|Although very many of these inventions were of the utmost importance and value, we cannot attempt to offer a detailed exposition of them in this necessarily brief article, but must refer the reader, if interested, to the patents themselves, a full list being given at the end of this Appendix.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000012_000003|The outline sketch will indicate the principal patents covering the basic features of the lamp.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000013_000001|All of the technical, expert, and professional skill and knowledge that money could procure or experience devise were availed of in the bitter fights that raged in the courts for many years.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000013_000002|And although the Edison interests had spent from first to last nearly two million dollars, and had only about three years left in the life of the fundamental patent, Edison was thoroughly sustained as to priority by the decisions in the various suits.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000013_000003|We shall offer a few brief extracts from some of these decisions.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000014_000001|He was the first to make a carbon of materials, and by a process which was especially designed to impart high specific resistance to it; the first to make a carbon in the special form for the special purpose of imparting to it high total resistance; and the first to combine such a burner with the necessary adjuncts of lamp construction to prevent its disintegration and give it sufficiently long life.
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000014_000003|It is impossible to resist the conclusion that the invention of the slender thread of carbon as a substitute for the burners previously employed opened the path to the practical subdivision of the electric light."
train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000015_000000|An appeal was taken in the above suit to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and on october fourth eighteen ninety two, the decree of the lower court was affirmed.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000001_000001|Application filed august twenty fourth eighteen ninety one.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000003_000000|There is nothing surprising in this, however, as the possibility of photographing and reproducing actual scenes of animate life are so thoroughly exemplified and rendered practicable by the apparatus and methods disclosed in the patents above cited, that these basic inventions in themselves practically constitute the art-its development proceeding mainly along the line of manufacturing details.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000006_000000|The mechanism of such a camera, as now used, consists of many parts assembled in such contiguous proximity to each other that an illustration from an actual machine would not help to clearness of explanation to the general reader.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000007_000001|A full view of this shutter is also represented, with its opening, D, in the small illustration to the right.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000008_000000|In practice, the operation would be somewhat as follows, generally speaking: The lens would first be focussed on the animate scene to be photographed.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000008_000003|While the film is passing through the various parts of the machine it is guided and kept straight by various sets of rollers between which it runs, as indicated in the diagram.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000009_000001|As in practice the pictures are taken at a rate of twenty or more per second, it will be quite obvious that each period of rest is infinitesimally brief, being generally one thirtieth of a second or less.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000009_000002|Still it is sufficient to bring the film to a momentary condition of complete rest, and to allow for a maximum time of exposure, comparatively speaking, thus providing means for taking clearly defined pictures.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000009_000003|The negatives so obtained are developed in the regular way, and the positive prints subsequently made from them are used for reproduction.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000010_000001|In appearance it is somewhat different; indeed, it is in two parts, the one containing the lighting arrangements and condensing lens, and the other embracing the mechanism and objective lens.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000010_000002|The "taking" camera must have its parts enclosed in a light tight box, because of the undeveloped, sensitized film, but the projecting kinetoscope, using only a fully developed positive film, may, and, for purposes of convenient operation, must be accessibly open.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000011_000000|The philosophy of reproduction is very simple, and is illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. three, reference letters being the same as in Fig. one.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000011_000001|As to the additional reference letters, I is a condenser J the source of light, and K a reflector.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000012_000000|The positive film is moved intermittently but swiftly throughout its length between the objective lens and a beam of light coming through the condenser, being exposed by the shutter during the periods of rest.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000012_000001|This results in a projection of the photographs upon a screen in such rapid succession as to present an apparently continuous photograph of the successive positions of the moving objects, which, therefore, appear to the human eye to be in motion.
train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000013_000001|It reads as follows:
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000002_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000002_000001|EDISON'S NEW STORAGE BATTERY
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000003_000000|GENERICALLY considered, a "battery" is a device which generates electric current.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000003_000002|On closing the circuit of a primary battery an electric current is generated by reason of the chemical action which is set up between the electrolyte and the elements. This involves a gradual consumption of one of the elements and a corresponding exhaustion of the active properties of the electrolyte.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000003_000003|By reason of this, both the element and the electrolyte that have been used up must be renewed from time to time, in order to obtain a continued supply of electric current.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000001|To the lay mind a "storage" battery presents itself in the aspect of a device in which electric energy is STORED, just as compressed air is stored or accumulated in a tank.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000002|This view, however, is not in accordance with facts.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000003|It is exactly like the primary battery in the fundamental circumstance that its ability for generating electric current depends upon chemical action.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000004|In strict terminology it is a "reversible" battery, as will be quite obvious if we glance briefly at its philosophy.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000006|Thus, the positive plate becomes oxidized, and the negative plate reduced.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000007|After the charging operation is concluded the battery is ready for use, and upon its circuit being closed through a translating device, such as a lamp or motor, a reversion ("discharge") takes place, the positive plate giving up its oxygen, and the negative plate being oxidized.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000000|The storage battery, as a commercial article, was introduced into the market in the year eighteen eighty one.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000001|At that time, and all through the succeeding years, until about nineteen o five, there was only one type that was recognized as commercially practicable-namely, that known as the lead sulphuric acid cell, consisting of lead plates immersed in an electrolyte of dilute sulphuric acid.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000002|In the year last named Edison first brought out his new form of nickel iron cell with alkaline electrolyte, as we have related in the preceding narrative.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000003|Early in the eighties, at Menlo Park, he had given much thought to the lead type of storage battery, and during the course of three years had made a prodigious number of experiments in the direction of improving it, probably performing more experiments in that time than the aggregate of those of all other investigators.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000004|Even in those early days he arrived at the conclusion that the lead sulphuric acid combination was intrinsically wrong, and did not embrace the elements of a permanent commercial device.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000005|He did not at that time, however, engage in a serious search for another form of storage battery, being tremendously occupied with his lighting system and other matters.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000006_000001|This type of cell, however, has many serious disadvantages inherent to its very nature.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000006_000003|The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000007_000001|He said that the intimate and continued companionship of an acid and a metal was unnatural, and incompatible with the idea of durability and simplicity.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000007_000003|The soundness of his reasoning is amply justified by the perfection of results obtained in the new type of storage battery bearing his name, and now to be described.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000008_000000|The essential technical details of this battery are fully described in an article written by one of Edison's laboratory staff, Walter e Holland, who for many years has been closely identified with the inventor's work on this cell The article was published in the Electrical World, New York, april twenty eighth nineteen ten; and the following extracts therefrom will afford an intelligent comprehension of this invention:
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000009_000000|"The 'A' type Edison cell is the outcome of nine years of costly experimentation and persistent toil on the part of its inventor and his associates....
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000010_000000|"The Edison invention involves the use of an entirely new voltaic combination in an alkaline electrolyte, in place of the lead lead peroxide combination and acid electrolyte, characteristic of all other commercial storage batteries.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000010_000001|Experience has proven that this not only secures durability and greater output per unit weight of battery, but in addition there is eliminated a long list of troubles and diseases inherent in the lead acid combination....
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000011_000000|"The principle on which the action of this new battery is based is the oxidation and reduction of metals in an electrolyte which does not combine with, and will not dissolve, either the metals or their oxides; and an electrolyte, furthermore, which, although decomposed by the action of the battery, is immediately re-formed in equal quantity; and therefore in effect is a CONSTANT element, not changing in density or in conductivity.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000012_000002|Again, the active materials of the electrodes being insoluble in, and absolutely unaffected by, the electrolyte, are not liable to any sort of chemical deterioration by action of the electrolyte-no matter how long continued....
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000013_000000|"The electrolyte of the Edison battery is a twenty one per cent. solution of potassium hydrate having, in addition, a small amount of lithium hydrate.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000013_000001|The active metals of the electrodes-which will oxidize and reduce in this electrolyte without dissolution or chemical deterioration-are nickel and iron.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000014_000001|four), are all made of nickel plated steel-a material in which lightness, durability and mechanical strength are most happily combined, and a material beyond suspicion as to corrosion in an alkaline electrolyte....
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000015_000001|It is only when specially prepared iron oxide of exceeding fineness, and nickel hydrate conforming to certain physical, as well as chemical, standards can be made that the alkaline battery is practicable.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000016_000000|The article then treats of Edison's investigations into means for supporting and making electrical connection with the active materials, showing some of the difficulties encountered and the various discoveries made in developing the perfected cell, after which the writer continues his description of the "A" type cell, as follows:
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000000|"It will be seen at once that the construction of the two kinds of plate is radically different.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000002|five) has the familiar flat pocket construction.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000003|Each negative contains twenty four pockets-a pocket being one half inch wide by three inches long, and having a maximum thickness of a little more than one eighth inch.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000005|The frame is slit at the inner horizontal edges, and then folded in such a way as to make individual clamping jaws for each end flange. The clamping in is done at great pressure, and the resultant plate has great rigidity and strength.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000018_000000|"The perforated tubes into which the nickel active material is loaded are made of nickel plated steel of high quality.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000018_000001|They are put together with a double lapped spiral seam to give expansion resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000019_000000|"It will be seen that the 'A' positive plate has been given the theoretically best design to prevent expansion and overcome trouble from that cause.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000019_000001|Actual tests, long continued under very severe conditions, have shown that the construction is right, and fulfils the most sanguine expectations."
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000021_000000|"An idea of the conditions inside a loaded tube can best be had by microscopic examination.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000021_000002|The vertical bounding walls are edges of the perforated metal containing tube; the dark horizontal lines are layers of nickel flake, while the light colored thicker layers represent the nickel hydrate.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000021_000003|It should be noted that the layers of flake nickel extend practically unbroken across the tube and make contact with the metal wall at both sides.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000000|In conclusion, the article enumerates the chief characteristics of the Edison storage battery which fit it preeminently for transportation service, as follows: one.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000001|No loss of active material, hence no sediment short circuits. two.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000002|No jar breakage.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000003|three.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000004|Possibility of quick disconnection or replacement of any cell without employment of skilled labor.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000006|Impossibility of "buckling" and harmlessness of a dead short circuit.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000007|five.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000008|Simplicity of care required.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000009|six.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000010|Durability of materials and construction. seven.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000011|Impossibility of "sulphation." eight.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000012|Entire absence of corrosive fumes.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000013|nine.
train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000016|eleven.
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000004_000000|CONCLUSION
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000005_000000|By noon the next day, Gawayne and his host Rode side by side along the perilous coast Of the gray Mere, from whose unquiet sleep Reverberating murmurs of the deep Startled the still December's listening air. The baron, shuddering, pointed seaward.
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000006_000001|"Well, my friend, I'll go no further with you.
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000007_000000|But Gawayne chose the lower road, and passed Along the desolate shore.
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000001|You are punctual to the day; That's good!
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000005|Let me see;-- Suppose I brew a cup of hot green tea? You'ld rather not?
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000006|You're pressed for time?
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000008|There, that's right; And now your helmet?
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000009|Thanks; and if you please Perhaps you'll kindly kneel down on your knees, As I did when I came to Camelot; So! Are you all ready?
train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000012|"Nay, nay, not so," The other softly said.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000010_000001|He died in the month of January; and before the end of the winter of the same year, the Gothic nation was in arms.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000003|They stretched from east to west, to the edge of the sea shore; and left, between the precipice and the Malian Gulf, an interval of three hundred feet, which, in some places, was contracted to a road capable of admitting only a single carriage.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000007|The same impatience urged him to prevent the delay and danger of a siege, by the offer of a capitulation; and as soon as the Athenians heard the voice of the Gothic herald, they were easily persuaded to deliver the greatest part of their wealth, as the ransom of the city of Minerva and its inhabitants.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000008|The treaty was ratified by solemn oaths, and observed with mutual fidelity.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000009|The Gothic prince, with a small and select train, was admitted within the walls; he indulged himself in the refreshment of the bath, accepted a splendid banquet, which was provided by the magistrate, and affected to show that he was not ignorant of the manners of civilized nations.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000017|In an age of miracles, it would perhaps be unjust to dispute the claim of the historian Zosimus to the common benefit: yet it cannot be dissembled, that the mind of Alaric was ill prepared to receive, either in sleeping or waking visions, the impressions of Greek superstition.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000033_000005|Alaric appears to have seized the favorable moment to execute one of those hardy enterprises, in which the abilities of a general are displayed with more genuine lustre, than in the tumult of a day of battle.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000004|The measures which Synesius recommends, are the dictates of a bold and generous patriot.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000007|Perhaps the philosopher who addresses the emperor of the East in the language of reason and virtue, which he might have used to a Spartan king, had not condescended to form a practicable scheme, consistent with the temper, and circumstances, of a degenerate age.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000008|Perhaps the pride of the ministers, whose business was seldom interrupted by reflection, might reject, as wild and visionary, every proposal, which exceeded the measure of their capacity, and deviated from the forms and precedents of office.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000013|The use to which Alaric applied his new command, distinguishes the firm and judicious character of his policy.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000014|He issued his orders to the four magazines and manufactures of offensive and defensive arms, Margus, Ratiaria, Naissus, and Thessalonica, to provide his troops with an extraordinary supply of shields, helmets, swords, and spears; the unhappy provincials were compelled to forge the instruments of their own destruction; and the Barbarians removed the only defect which had sometimes disappointed the efforts of their courage.
train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000016|The provinces of Europe which belonged to the Eastern emperor, were already exhausted; those of Asia were inaccessible; and the strength of Constantinople had resisted his attack.
train-clean-360/2149/7235/2149_7235_000014_000000|three.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty two.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000000|At nine o'clock the next morning Melbury dressed himself up in shining broadcloth, creased with folding and smelling of camphor, and started for Hintock House.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000002|He said nothing of his destination either to his wife or to Grace, fearing that they might entreat him to abandon so risky a project, and went out unobserved.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000003|He had chosen his time with a view, as he supposed, of conveniently catching mrs Charmond when she had just finished her breakfast, before any other business people should be about, if any came.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000004|Plodding thoughtfully onward, he crossed a glade lying between Little Hintock Woods and the plantation which abutted on the park; and the spot being open, he was discerned there by Winterborne from the copse on the next hill, where he and his men were working.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000005|Knowing his mission, the younger man hastened down from the copse and managed to intercept the timber merchant.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000004_000000|"I have been thinking of this, sir," he said, "and I am of opinion that it would be best to put off your visit for the present."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000005_000000|But Melbury would not even stop to hear him.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000005_000001|His mind was made up, the appeal was to be made; and Winterborne stood and watched him sadly till he entered the second plantation and disappeared.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000006_000000|Melbury rang at the tradesmen's door of the manor house, and was at once informed that the lady was not yet visible, as indeed he might have guessed had he been anybody but the man he was.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000007_000000|"Never mind," said Melbury, retreating into the court, "I'll stand about here." Charged so fully with his mission, he shrank from contact with anybody.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000008_000000|But he walked about the paved court till he was tired, and still nobody came to him.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000008_000002|They had heard of his arrival, but had not seen him enter, and, imagining him still in the court, discussed freely the possible reason of his calling.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000009_000000|Melbury sat with his hands resting on the familiar knobbed thorn walking stick, whose growing he had seen before he enjoyed its use. The scene to him was not the material environment of his person, but a tragic vision that travelled with him like an envelope.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000009_000002|He waited thus an hour, an hour and a half, two hours. He began to look pale and ill, whereupon the butler, who came in, asked him to have a glass of wine.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000009_000003|Melbury roused himself and said, "No, no Is she almost ready?"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000010_000002|I am just going up to tell her you are here."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000011_000000|"What! haven't you told her before?" said Melbury.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000012_000000|"Oh no," said the other.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000012_000001|"You see you came so very early."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000013_000000|At last the bell rang: mrs Charmond could see him.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000013_000001|She was not in her private sitting room when he reached it, but in a minute he heard her coming from the front staircase, and she entered where he stood.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000015_000000|"Do sit down, mr Melbury.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000015_000001|You have felled all the trees that were to be purchased by you this season, except the oaks, I believe."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000016_000000|"Yes," said Melbury.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000017_000001|It must be so charming to work in the woods just now!"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000018_000001|Hence her words "very nice," "so charming," were uttered with a perfunctoriness that made them sound absurdly unreal.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000000|"Yes, yes," said Melbury, in a reverie.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000001|He did not take a chair, and she also remained standing.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000002|Resting upon his stick, he began: "mrs Charmond, I have called upon a more serious matter-at least to me-than tree throwing.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000003|And whatever mistakes I make in my manner of speaking upon it to you, madam, do me the justice to set 'em down to my want of practice, and not to my want of care."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000020_000001|She might have begun to guess his meaning; but apart from that, she had such dread of contact with anything painful, harsh, or even earnest, that his preliminaries alone were enough to distress her.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000020_000002|"Yes, what is it?" she said.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000000|"I am an old man," said Melbury, "whom, somewhat late in life, God thought fit to bless with one child, and she a daughter.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000001|Her mother was a very dear wife to me, but she was taken away from us when the child was young, and the child became precious as the apple of my eye to me, for she was all I had left to love.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000004|But I saw it was the law of nature that this should be, and that it was for the maid's happiness that she should have a home when I was gone; and I made up my mind without a murmur to help it on for her sake.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000006|Things came about which made me doubt if it would be for my daughter's happiness to do this, inasmuch as the young man was poor, and she was delicately reared.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000007|Another man came and paid court to her-one her equal in breeding and accomplishments; in every way it seemed to me that he only could give her the home which her training had made a necessity almost. I urged her on, and she married him.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000008|But, ma'am, a fatal mistake was at the root of my reckoning.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000022_000002|Some monstrous calumnies are afloat-of which I have known nothing until now!"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000023_000000|Melbury started, and looked at her simply.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000023_000001|"But surely, ma'am, you know the truth better than I?"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000024_000000|Her features became a little pinched, and the touches of powder on her handsome face for the first time showed themselves as an extrinsic film.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000024_000001|"Will you leave me to myself?" she said, with a faintness which suggested a guilty conscience.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000024_000002|"This is so utterly unexpected-you obtain admission to my presence by misrepresentation-"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000025_000002|This gossip-"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000026_000001|Tell me of it, I say."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000027_000000|"Tell you, ma'am-not i What the gossip is, no matter.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000027_000003|She loved you once, ma'am; you began by liking her.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000000|"Certainly I would do her no harm-I-" Melbury's eye met hers.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000002|"Oh, Melbury," she burst out, "you have made me so unhappy!
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000003|How could you come to me like this!
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000004|It is too dreadful!
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000005|Now go away-go, go!"
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000029_000000|"I will," he said, in a husky tone.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000031_000001|She had never so clearly perceived till now that her soul was being slowly invaded by a delirium which had brought about all this; that she was losing judgment and dignity under it, becoming an animated impulse only, a passion incarnate.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000032_000000|While she sat, or rather crouched, unhinged by the interview, lunch time came, and then the early afternoon, almost without her consciousness.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000032_000001|Then "a strange gentleman who says it is not necessary to give his name," was suddenly announced.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000033_000000|"I cannot see him, whoever he may be.
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000033_000001|I am not at home to anybody."
train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000034_000001|She disliked the woods, but they had the advantage of being a place in which she could walk comparatively unobserved.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000000|Virginia went with this man passively-to an appointment which, but an hour ago, she had promised herself she would not keep.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000001|Her inmost soul was stirred, just as before.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000002|Then it had been few words, now it was a little common song.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000003|But the strange power of the man held her close, so she realized that for the moment at least she would do as he desired.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000004|In the amazement and consternation of this thought she found time to offer up a little prayer: "Dear God, make him kind to me."
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000000|They leaned against the old bronze guns, facing the river.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000001|He pulled her shawl about her, masterfully yet with gentleness, and then, as though it was the most natural thing in the world, he drew her to him until she rested against his shoulder.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000002|And she remained there, trembling, in suspense, glancing at him quickly, in birdlike, pleading glances, as though praying him to be kind.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000003|He took no notice after that, so the act seemed less like a caress than a matter of course.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000004|He began to talk, half humorously, and little by little, as he went on, she forgot her fears, even her feeling of strangeness, and fell completely under the spell of his power.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000018_000000|"My name is Ned Trent," he told her, "and I am from Quebec.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000018_000002|I have journeyed far.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000018_000003|I have been to the uttermost ends of the North, even up beyond the Hills of Silence."
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000000|And then, in his gay, half mocking, yet musical voice he touched lightly on vast and distant things.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000001|He talked of the great Saskatchewan, of Peace River, and the delta of the Mackenzie, of the winter journeys beyond Great Bear Lake into the Land of the Little Sticks, and the half mythical lake of Yamba Tooh.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000002|He spoke of life with the Dog Ribs and Yellow Knives, where the snow falls in midsummer.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000003|Before her eyes slowly spread, like a panorama, the whole extent of the great North, with its fierce, hardy men, its dreadful journeys by canoe and sledge, its frozen barrens, its mighty forests, its solemn charm.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000004|All at once this post of Conjuror's House, a month in the wilderness as it was, seemed very small and tame and civilized for the simple reason that Death did not always compass it about.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000002|At night we had no other shelter than our blankets, and we could not keep a fire because the spruce burned too fast and threw too many coals.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000004|Two or three times in the night we boiled tea.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000005|We had to thaw our moccasins each morning by thrusting them inside our shirts.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000007|A roaring fire in the fireplace could not prevent the ink from freezing on the pen.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000008|This went on for five months."
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000000|Thus he spoke, as one who says common things.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000001|He said little of himself, but as he went on in short, curt sentences the picture grew more distinct, and to Virginia the man became more and more prominent in it.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000003|One thing she could not conceive-the indomitable spirit of the men.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000004|She glanced timidly up at her companion's face.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000023_000001|He let her go without protest, almost without thought, it seemed.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000024_000000|"But not mine," said he.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000025_000000|She exclaimed, in astonishment, "Are you not of the Company?"
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000026_000000|"I am no man's man but my own," he answered, simply.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000027_000000|"Then why do you stay in this dreadful North?" she asked.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000028_000000|"Because I love it.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000028_000001|It is my life.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000028_000002|I want to go where no man has set foot before me; I want to stand alone under the sky; I want to show myself that nothing is too big for me-no difficulty, no hardship-nothing!"
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000029_000000|"Why did you come here, then?
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000029_000001|Here at least are forests so that you can keep warm.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000030_000000|He fell suddenly sombre, biting in reflection at his lip.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000031_000000|"No-yes-why not?" he said, at length.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000032_000000|"I know you will come out of it safely," said she; "I feel it.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000032_000001|You are brave and used to travel.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000032_000002|Won't you tell me about it?"
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000000|He did not reply.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000001|After a moment she looked up in surprise.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000002|His brows were knit in reflection.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000003|He turned to her again, his eyes glowing into hers.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000004|Once more the fascination of the man grew big, overwhelmed her. She felt her heart flutter, her consciousness swim, her old terror returning.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000000|"Listen," said he.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000002|You are a Factor's daughter; you know what that means." He dropped his head.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000003|"Ah, I am tired-tired with it all!" he cried, in a voice strangely unhappy.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000004|"But yesterday I played the game with all my old spirit; to day the zest is gone!
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000005|I no longer care." He felt the pressure of her hand.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000006|"Are you just a little sorry for me?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000007|"Sorry for a weakness you do not understand? You must think me a fool."
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000035_000000|"I know you are unhappy," replied Virginia, gently.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000035_000001|"I am truly sorry for that."
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000036_000000|"Are you?
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000036_000004|"Ah, a star shoots!" he exclaimed, gayly.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000036_000005|"That means a kiss!"
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000037_000000|Still laughing, he attempted to draw her to him.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000037_000001|Angry, mortified, outraged, she fought herself free and leaped to her feet.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000038_000000|"Oh!" she cried, in insulted anger.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000041_000000|Her calm broke.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000041_000001|She burst into the violent sobbing of a child, and turned and ran hurriedly to the factory.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000042_000000|Ned Trent stared after her a minute from beneath scowling brows.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000042_000001|He stamped his moccasined foot impatiently.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000000|"Like a rat in a trap!" he jeered at himself.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000001|"Like a rat in a trap, Ned Trent!
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000002|The fates are drawing around you close.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000003|You need just one little thing, and you cannot get it.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000004|Bribery is useless!
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000005|Force is useless!
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000006|Craft is useless!
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000007|This afternoon I thought I saw another way.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000008|What I could get no other way I might get from this little girl. She is only a child.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000009|I believe I could touch her pity-ah, Ned Trent, Ned Trent, can you ever forget her frightened, white face begging you to be kind?" He paced back and forth between the two bronze guns with long, straight strides, like a panther in a cage.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000010|"Her aid is mine for the asking-but she makes it impossible to ask!
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000012|What wonderful eyes she has.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000013|She thinks I am a brute-how she sobbed, as though her little heart had broken.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000014|Well, it was the only way to destroy her interest in me.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000015|I had to do it.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000016|Now she will despise me and forget me.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000017|It is better that she should think me a brute than that I should be always haunted by those pleading eyes." The door of the distant church house opened and closed.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000018|He smiled bitterly.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000020|I'll try it.
train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000021|I'll call for help on the love of man, since I cannot on the love of woman.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty two.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000003_000000|IN WHICH BLUFF IS TRUMPS.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000000|Having disposed of the girl for the moment, Travers Gladwin decided it was time to call Michael Phelan to his assistance.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000001|There was no telling what this amazing crook might do now.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000002|He was too much for him. That a thief and impostor could possess such superhuman nerve had never occurred to his untutored mind.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000003|He was a perfect dub to have let the situation reach such a stage of complexity, though the one thought uppermost in his mind was to save Helen from public ridicule and contempt.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000005_000001|He had almost counted on the thief taking one craven look at his constabulary disguise and then leaping through the window-fleeing like a wolf in the night-he, Travers Gladwin, remaining a veritable hero of romance to sooth and console Helen and gently break the news to her that she had been the dupe of an unscrupulous criminal.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000005_000002|Instead of which-he ground his teeth, went to the little panel door and shouted Phelan's name.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000007_000000|He had been on his way.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000008_000000|He had been on the point of bursting through the window and somehow scrambling aloft to the rescue of that helpless being who was being ground and wrenched and pounded by that porcine monster, when the monster suddenly rose to view again with a dumb bell in each hand.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000009_000001|There was no passion in the stodgy movements of the great paddy arms.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000009_000002|Even so far away as he was Phelan could see that the man puffed and blew and that his vigor was slowly waning.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000009_000003|Then suddenly the huge man stooped and held up in plain view a dangling wrestling dummy.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000010_000000|The lone watcher swallowed a savage oath.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000012_000000|His anger was white hot.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000012_000001|Again he had been the victim of delusion and had wasted heroic emotions on a stuffed dummy that served merely as an inanimate instrument in a course of anti fat calisthenics.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000015_000000|"Here's your uniform; I've had enough of it," replied Gladwin, throwing him the coat and cap, "and get into it quick.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000015_000001|There's work for you right in this house."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000016_000000|"There is not, nor play neither," snapped Phelan.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000016_000002|I'm an hour overdue at the station."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000017_000000|"You'll square yourself with the captain all right if you just do what I tell you," said Gladwin eagerly, helping him on with his coat and pushing him toward the window recess.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000018_000000|Phelan took one look at the young man's face and muttered as he obeyed.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000018_000001|"This must be a hell of a joke."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000019_000001|But a glance at that young man meant volumes and there was no limit to his spontaneous resources.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000019_000002|He summoned a laugh and jerked out:
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000020_000000|"Oh, so you've resigned from the force?"
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000021_000000|"Yes," retorted Gladwin, "and let me tell you that this little excursion of yours has gone far enough.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000021_000001|I'll give you one chance-get away from here as quickly as you can."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000022_000000|The big fellow curled one corner of his lip in a contemptuous smile, then glanced about him quickly and asked:
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000023_000000|"Where's the young lady?"
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000024_000000|"Never mind the young lady," Gladwin flung back at him.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000024_000001|"It was only on her account that I let you go as far as this.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000024_000002|Now get out and keep away from that young lady-and drop my name."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000026_000000|"Easy, son-easy.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000026_000001|I don't like to have little boys talk to me like that," and turning to the doorway behind him he beckoned.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000026_000002|The obedient Watkins sidled in and stopped with head averted from Gladwin, who started with surprise at seeing him.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000027_000000|Stepping forward and making sure there could be no mistake, Gladwin turned to the thief and exclaimed:
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000028_000001|This is what I get for not sending this man to jail where he belonged."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000029_000000|"Don't bother with him, Watkins," snarled the big fellow, as he noted his companion's complexion run through three shades of yellow.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000030_000000|"There's no time to bother with him," he went on, and reaching out he caught Travers Gladwin by the shoulder and whirled him half way across the room.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000031_000000|The young man spun half a dozen times as he reeled across the carpet and he had to use both hands to stop himself against a big onyx table. As he pulled himself up standing he saw that Watkins had lifted the trunk on his shoulders and was headed for the hallway.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000032_000000|"Phelan!" he gasped out.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000032_000001|"Here, quick!"
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000034_000000|"Stop that man," cried the thief, pointing to Watkins, "he's trying to get out of here with a trunkful of pictures."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000035_000000|The man's hair trigger mind had thought this out before Phelan was half way round the table.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000035_000001|One lightning glance at the thickness of the patrolman's neck and the general contour of his rubicund countenance had translated to him the sort of man he had to deal with.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000036_000001|Watkins dropped the trunk and at a signal from his companion was gone.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000036_000002|Swiftly and silently as he vanished, he could not have been half way to the door before the thief urged Phelan:
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000037_000000|"Quick-go after that man-he's a thief!"
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000038_000000|"Stop Phelan!" cried Gladwin, who had begun to see through the pantomime.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000038_000001|"They're both thieves!"
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000039_000000|Phelan tried to run four ways at once.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000041_000000|"It's a trick to get you out of the house," said Gladwin with his eyes on the big man, who was calmly smiling and who had fully made up his mind on a magnificent game of bluff.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000042_000000|"What the blazes kind of a joke is this?" blurted Phelan, looking from one to the other in utter bewilderment.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000043_000000|"You'll find it's no joke, officer," said the bogus Gladwin sharply-"not if he gets away."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000044_000000|"You'll find it's not so funny yourself," cut in the real Gladwin. Then to Phelan, "Arrest this man, Phelan."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000045_000000|"Do you mean it?" asked the astonished Phelan, sizing up the thief as the highest example of aristocratic elegance he had ever seen in the flesh.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000046_000001|"Look out for him-there he goes for the window."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000047_000000|The thief had started in that direction, but his purpose was not escape.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000047_000001|The idea had flashed upon him that Helen might be concealed there.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000048_000000|"Now be careful, officer, or you'll get yourself into a lot of trouble."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000050_000000|"You bet your life I won't," Phelan answered, though he was already bluffed.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000051_000000|He had come close enough for that astute individual to make out that he wore the same uniform young Gladwin had been masquerading in and he made capital of this on the instant.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000052_000000|"How do you think it is going to look," he said, impressively, "if I prove that you've tried to help a band of thieves rob this house?"
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000055_000000|"I said a band of thieves," insisted the thief.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000055_000001|"Why he's got his pals hidden all over the house."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000056_000000|"I tell you he's lying to you," Gladwin cut in frantically, seeing that Phelan was falling under the spell of the big man's superb bluff, and at the same time remembering Helen and pressing the button in the wall to warn her that the time had come for her to flee.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000058_000000|"Then they've all escaped," said the thief, easily, thrusting his hands in his pockets to help out his appearance of imperturbability.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000059_000000|"You let one go out, Phelan, and there were two others beside this one."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000060_000001|In his seething gray matter there stirred the remembrance that Bateato had told him that women were robbing the house.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000061_000000|"You mean the women," he said, ignoring Gladwin and addressing the thief.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000061_000001|"I remember-when the little Japanaze called me oft me beat, he said there was women crooks here, too."
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000062_000000|"He's lying to you, Phelan," persisted Gladwin, though with less vehemence, a great feeling of relief having visited him in the belief that Helen had made her escape.
train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000062_000001|"You can have the whole place searched just as soon as you've got this man where he can't get away.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000003_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000004_000000|"BILLY THE KID" IS SENTENCED TO HANG.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000004_000001|HE KILLS HIS TWO GUARDS AND MAKES GOOD HIS ESCAPE.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000005_000000|In the latter part of February, eighteen eighty one, "Billy the Kid" was taken to Mesilla to be tried for the murder of Roberts at Blazer's saw mill.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000005_000001|Judge Bristol presided over the District Court, and assigned Ira e Leonard to defend the "Kid." He was acquitted for the murder of Roberts.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000006_000002|This time he was convicted, and sentenced to hang on the thirteenth day of May, eighteen eighty one, in the Court House yard in Lincoln.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000008_000000|As Lincoln had no suitable jail, an upstairs room in the large adobe Court House was selected as the "Kid's" last home on earth-as the officers supposed, but fate decided otherwise.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000010_000000|The room selected for the "Kid's" home was large, and in the northeast corner of the building, upstairs.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000010_000001|There were two windows in it, one on the east side and the other on the north, fronting the main street.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000011_000000|In order to get out of this room one had to pass through a hall into another room, where a back stairs led down to the rear yard.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000012_000001|One room was assigned as the Sheriff's private office.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000013_000000|The "Kid's" furniture consisted of a pair of steel hand cuffs, steel shackles for his legs, a stool, and a cot.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000014_000001|He and the "Kid" were bitter enemies on account of having killed warm friends of each other during the bloody Lincoln County war.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000014_000005|Of course this cowardly act left a scar on "Billy the Kid's" heart, which only death could heal.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000015_000001|He had come from san antonio texas.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000015_000002|He held a grudge against the "Kid" for the killing of his friend, Jimmie Carlyle, otherwise there was no enmity between them.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000016_000000|In the latter part of April, Cowboy Charlie Wall had four Mexicans helping him irrigate an alfalfa field, above the Mexican village of Tularosa, on Tularosa river.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000017_000000|A large band of Tularosa Mexicans appeared on the scene one morning, to prevent young Wall from using water for his thirsty alfalfa.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000018_000000|When the smoke of battle cleared away, four Tularosa Mexicans lay dead on the ground and Charlie Wall had two bullet wounds in his body, though they were not dangerous wounds.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000019_000000|Now, to prevent being mobbed by the angry citizens of Tularosa, which was just over the line in Dona Ana County, Wall and his helpers made a run, on horseback, for Lincoln, to surrender to Sheriff Pat Garrett.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000020_000000|The Sheriff allowed them to wear their pistols and to sleep in the old jail.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000020_000001|At meal times they accompanied either Bob Ollinger or j w Bell, to the Ellis Hotel across the main street, which ran east and west through town.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000022_000000|On the morning of april twenty eighth eighteen eighty one, Sheriff Garrett prepared to leave for White Oaks, thirty five miles north, to have a scaffold made to hang the "Kid" on.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000023_000000|Garrett remarked to the two guards: "Say, boys, you must keep a close watch on the 'Kid,' as he has only a few more days to live, and might make a break for liberty."
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000024_000000|Bob Ollinger answered: "Don't worry, Pat, we will watch him like a goat."
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000025_000001|With the gun in his hand, and looking towards the "Kid," he said: "There are eighteen buckshot in each barrel, and I reckon the man who gets them will feel it."
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000026_000000|With a smile, "Billy the Kid" remarked: "You may be the one to get them yourself."
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000027_000000|Now Ollinger put the gun back in the armory, locking the door, putting the key in his pocket.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000027_000001|Then Garrett left for White Oaks.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000028_000000|About five o'clock in the evening, Bob Ollinger took Charlie Wall and the other four armed prisoners to the Ellis Hotel, across the street, for supper.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000028_000001|Bell was left to guard the "Kid."
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000029_000000|According to the story "Billy the Kid" told mrs Charlie Bowdre, and other friends, after his escape, he had been starving himself so that he could slip his left hand out of the steel cuff.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000029_000001|The guards thought he had lost his appetite from worry over his approaching death.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000000|j w Bell sat on a chair, facing the "Kid," several paces away.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000001|He was reading a newspaper.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000003|Bell threw up both hands to shield his head from another blow.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000004|Then the "Kid" jerked Bell's pistol out of its scabbard.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000005|Now Bell ran out of the door and received a bullet from his own pistol.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000006|The body of Bell tumbled down the back stairs, falling on the jailer, a German by the name of Geiss, who was sitting at the foot of the stairs.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000031_000000|Of course Geiss stampeded.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000031_000001|He flew out of the gate towards the Ellis Hotel.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000032_000000|On hearing the shot, Bob Ollinger and the five armed prisoners, got up from the supper table and ran to the street.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000032_000001|Charlie Wall and the four Mexicans stopped on the sidewalk, while Ollinger continued to run towards the court house.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000033_000000|After killing Bell, the "Kid" broke in the door to the armory and secured Ollinger's shot gun.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000033_000001|Then he hobbled to the open window facing the hotel.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000034_000001|He walked the balance of the way.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000035_000000|When directly under the window, the "Kid" stuck his head out, saying: "Hello, Bob!"
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000036_000001|He said, in a voice loud enough to be heard by Wall and the other prisoners across the street: "Yes, he has killed me, too!"
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000037_000000|These words were hardly out of the guard's mouth when the "Kid" fired a charge of buckshot into his heart.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000038_000000|Now "Billy the Kid" hobbled back to the armory and buckled around his waist two belts of cartridges and two Colt's pistols.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000038_000001|Then taking a Winchester rifle in his hand, he hobbled back to the shot gun, which he picked up.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000039_000001|Then the chain holding his feet close together was filed in two.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000040_000000|When his legs were free, the "Kid" danced a jig on the little front porch, where many people, who had run out to the sidewalk across the street, on hearing the shots, were witnesses to this free show, which couldn't be beat for money.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000041_000000|Geiss was hailed again and told to saddle up Billy Burt's, the Deputy County Clerk's, black pony and bring him out on the street.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000041_000001|This black pony had formerly belonged to the "Kid."
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000042_000000|When the pony stood on the street, ready for the last act, the "Kid" went down the back stairs, stepping over the dead body of Bell, and started to mount.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000042_000001|Being encumbered with the weight of two pistols, two belts full of ammunition, and the rifle, the "Kid" was thrown to the ground, when the pony began bucking, before he had got into the saddle.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000043_000000|Now the "Kid" faced the crowd across the street, holding the rifle ready for action.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000044_000000|Charlie Wall told the writer that he could have killed him with his pistol, but that he wanted to see him escape.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000044_000001|Many other men in the crowd felt the same way, no doubt.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000045_000000|When the pony was brought back the "Kid" gave Geiss his rifle to hold, while he mounted.
train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000045_000001|The rifle being handed back to him when he was securely seated in the saddle, then he dug the pony in the sides with his heels, and galloped west.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000004_000000|At ten o'clock in the morning the Sieur de la Coste, ensign in the king's Guards, followed by two officers and several archers of that body, came to the city registrar, named Clement, and demanded of him all the keys of the rooms and offices of the hotel.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000004_000001|These keys were given up to him instantly.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000006_000000|At three o'clock came two companies of the Guards, one French, the other Swiss.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000007_000001|As fast as they entered, they were placed in the grand saloon, on the platforms prepared for them.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000008_000000|At nine o'clock Madame la Premiere Presidente arrived.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000009_000000|At ten o'clock, the king's collation, consisting of preserves and other delicacies, was prepared in the little room on the side of the church of saint Jean, in front of the silver buffet of the city, which was guarded by four archers.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000010_000000|At midnight great cries and loud acclamations were heard.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000014_000000|Half an hour after the entrance of the king, fresh acclamations were heard; these announced the arrival of the queen.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000014_000002|The queen entered the great hall; and it was remarked that, like the king, she looked dull and even weary.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000016_000001|All at once the king appeared with the cardinal at one of the doors of the hall.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000016_000002|The cardinal was speaking to him in a low voice, and the king was very pale.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000021_000001|Everybody looked and listened with astonishment, comprehending nothing of what passed.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000024_000001|On his part the king returned to his apartment.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000026_000002|This was the costume that best became the king.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000031_000001|She wore a beaver hat with blue feathers, a surtout of gray pearl velvet, fastened with diamond clasps, and a petticoat of blue satin, embroidered with silver.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000031_000002|On her left shoulder sparkled the diamond studs, on a bow of the same color as the plumes and the petticoat.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000032_000002|The only question was, had she ten or twelve?
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000033_000000|At that moment the violins sounded the signal for the ballet.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000034_000001|A cold sweat covered the brow of the cardinal.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000039_000000|In fact the king counted them, and the twelve studs were all on her Majesty's shoulder.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000040_000000|The king called the cardinal.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000042_000000|"This means, sire," replied the cardinal, "that I was desirous of presenting her Majesty with these two studs, and that not daring to offer them myself, I adopted this means of inducing her to accept them."
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000047_000007|The opening of this door disclosed a brilliant light, and she disappeared.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000052_000000|D'Artagnan placed the ring on his finger, and again waited; it was evident that all was not yet over.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000052_000001|After the reward of his devotion, that of his love was to come.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000052_000003|Supper was to be served at three, and the clock of saint Jean had struck three quarters past two.
train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000054_000000|"You at last?" cried d'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000002_000000|thirty two A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000010_000000|Porthos knocked with his hand.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000021_000000|The cousin was received with resignation, that was all.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000047_000000|The time for wine came.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000060_000001|He looked to see if the dish of beans was still there; the dish of beans had disappeared.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000068_000001|Coquenard.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000085_000000|"Well, then!
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000088_000000|Porthos smiled.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000089_000000|"Then," continued he, "there is a horse for my lackey, and my valise.
train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000100_000000|Madame uttered fresh sighs.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000000_000000|THE RELIC
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000001_000000|It was upon an evening in Spain, but with nothing which that word evokes for us in the North-for it was merely a lessening of the light without dews, without mists, and without skies-that I came up a stony valley and saw against the random line of the plateau at its head the dome of a church.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000001_000001|The road I travelled was but faintly marked, and was often lost and mingled with the rough boulders and the sand, and in the shallow depression of the valley there were but a few stagnant pools.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000002_000000|The shape of the dome was Italian, and it should have stood in an Italian landscape, drier indeed than that to which Northerners are accustomed, but still surrounded by trees, and with a distance that could render things lightly blue.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000003_000001|It was now quite dark.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000003_000002|The darkness had come suddenly, and, to make all things consonant, there was no moon and there were not any stars; clouds had risen of an even and menacing sort, and one could see no heaven.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000004_000000|In the presence of so wonderful a thing I forgot the object of my journey and the immediate care of the moment, and I went through the great doors that opened on the Place.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000004_000002|Already at Saragossa, and several times during my walking south from thence, I had noted that what the Spaniards did had a strange affinity to the work of Flanders.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000004_000005|Both districts have been mingled in history, yet it is not the Spaniard who has invigorated the Delta of the Rhine and the high country to the south of it, nor the Walloons and the Flemings who have taught the Spaniards; but each of these highly separated peoples resembles the other when it comes to the outward expression of the soul: why, I cannot tell.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000005_000001|Go to the earliest of the basilicas in Rome, and you will see that sacred enclosure standing in the middle of the edifice and taking up a certain proportion of the whole.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000005_000002|We in the North, where the Faith lived uninterruptedly and, after the ninth century, with no great struggle, dwindled this feature and extended the open and popular space, keeping only the rood screen as a hint of what had once been the Secret Mysteries and the Initiations of our origins.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000006_000002|There was a young priest passing me at that moment, and I said to him in Latin of the common sort that I could speak no Spanish.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000006_000003|I asked him if he could speak to me slowly in Latin, as I was speaking to him.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000008_000000|To those inexperienced in the practice of such worship there might be more excuse for the novel impression which this sight suddenly produced upon me.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000008_000002|I wondered as I looked at that face whether he had fallen in protest against the Mohammedans, or, as have so many, in a Spanish endurance of torture, martyred by Pagans in the Pacific Seas.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000009_000001|They next intoned the Salve Regina.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000009_000002|But what an intonation!
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000010_000002|Had I cared less for the human beings about me, so much suffering, so much national tradition of suffering would have revolted, as it did indeed appal, me.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000010_000003|The chant came to an end, and the three gracious epithets in which it closes were full of wailing, and the children's voices were very high.
train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000011_000000|Then the priest shut the doors and locked them, and a boy came and blew the candles out one by one, and I went out into the market place, fuller than ever of Spain.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000005_000000|"What?" said Hanson.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000021_000004|I won't hurt you."
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000022_000000|"I know you won't," she remarked, half truthfully.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000023_000001|Stick 'em out.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000024_000000|Carrie obeyed.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000025_000000|"Say, that fits like a T, don't it?" he remarked, feeling the set of it at the waist and eyeing it from a few paces with real pleasure.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000025_000001|"What you need now is a new skirt.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000025_000002|Let's go to breakfast."
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000026_000000|Carrie put on her hat.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000042_000002|The latter looked, not quite sure, and then turned her head and looked.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000042_000005|She actually started.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000043_000000|"You must be thinking," he said.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000054_000003|He touched it now as he spoke of going.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000063_000002|They looked about, and now the thing was sinking, and Minnie heard the low sip of the encroaching water.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000067_000002|Here, wake up," said Hanson, disturbed, and shaking her by the shoulder.
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000069_000001|You're talking in your sleep."
train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000082_000000|"We'll have a nice game of euchre."
train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000008_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000016_000006|He would not argue, he would not talk freely.
train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000030_000000|"Just think of that!" said Jessica.
train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000052_000000|"Is it?" said mrs Hurstwood.
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000018_000000|"Afraid of being heard?
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000019_000000|"Afraid of being heard!
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000032_000000|"I am going a few steps farther."
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000044_000001|The appointed hour was about to strike.
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000050_000000|Eleven o'clock sounded.
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000057_000001|This glove, wherever it had not touched the muddy ground, was of irreproachable odor.
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000060_000001|He ran along the high road, took the path he had before taken, and reaching the ferry, interrogated the boatman.
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000061_000000|About seven o'clock in the evening, the boatman had taken over a young woman, wrapped in a black mantle, who appeared to be very anxious not to be recognized; but entirely on account of her precautions, the boatman had paid more attention to her and discovered that she was young and pretty.
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000069_000003|Speak!"
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000081_000000|"But as you spoke to him you must have seen him."
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000082_000000|"Oh, it's a description you want?"
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000086_000000|"Which?"
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000087_000000|"The short one."
train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000090_000000|"You have promised to be secret, my good monsieur?" said the old man.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000004_000009|So are the people.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000006_000000|"He looks as if he wanted to kill the photographer," she said.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000007_000000|"He almost did-just after the picture was taken.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000007_000002|Not without good reason, though.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000000|"Apparently there were large scale mining operations carried on there once; the world is rich enough in minerals and mining them is very simple.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000001|But water came only from expensive extraction processes and I imagine most of the food came from offworld.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000004|Dis was on its own.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000005|What happened to the people there is a tribute to the adaptation possibilities of homo sapiens. Individuals died, usually in enormous pain, but the race lived. Changed a good deal, but still human.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000007|They couldn't do it mechanically, but by the time the last machine collapsed, enough people were adjusted to the environment to keep the race going.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000009_000000|"Their descendants are still there, completely adapted to the environment.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000009_000004|I don't know the exact details, but the reports are very enthusiastic about symbiotic relationships.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000010_000000|"Wonderful!" Lea exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000001|"Perhaps from the abstract scientific point of view.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000002|If you can keep notes perhaps you might write a book about it some time.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000003|But I'm not interested.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000006|We must either find out what makes these people tick-or we are going to have to stand by and watch the whole lot blown up!"
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000000|"Going to do what!" Lea gasped.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000001|"Destroy them?
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000002|Wipe out this fascinating genetic pool?
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000003|Why?
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000001|They want to light the fuse and drop these bombs on Nyjord, the next planet.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000002|Nothing said or done can convince them differently.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000003|They demand unconditional surrender, or else.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000005|They have tried every kind of compromise but none of them works.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000006|The Disans are out to commit racial suicide.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000009|That is what we must stop."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000001|Bare, horny feet.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000002|A bulky, ragged length of cloth around the waist was the only garment.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000003|What looked like a piece of green vine was hooked over one shoulder.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000004|From a plaited belt were suspended a number of odd devices made of hand beaten metal, drilled stone and looped leather.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000015_000002|I don't see how his kind can be any real threat to another planet."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000016_000001|"They are paying our Cultural Relationships Foundation a good sum to try and prevent this war.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000017_000001|"Dis has some spacers as well as the cobalt bombs-though these aren't the real threat.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000017_000004|While essentially a peaceful and happy people, the Nyjorders were justifiably annoyed at this and convinced the tramp's captain to give them some more information. It's all here.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000018_000000|"When is that deadline?" Lea asked.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000019_000000|"In ten more days.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000019_000003|But they will drop the bombs in order to assure their own survival."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000020_000000|"What am I supposed to do?" Lea asked, flipping the pages of the report.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000020_000002|I'm an exobiologist, with a supplementary degree in anthropology.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000001|"My faith in our recruiters is restored," he said.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000003|"No more bickering.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000005|Our foundation has had six people killed-including my late predecessor in charge of the project.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000006|He was a good man, but I think he went at this problem the wrong way.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000007|I think it is a cultural one, not a physical one."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000022_000000|"Run it through again with the power turned up," Lea said, frowning. "All I hear is static."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000001|Like Newton and the falling apple, Levy and the hysteresis in the warp field.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000002|Everything has a beginning.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000003|If we can find out why these people are so hell bent on suicide we might be able to change the reasons.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000004|Not that I intend to stop looking for the bombs or the jump space generator either. We are going to try anything that will avert this planetary murder."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000024_000001|"You can count on me for complete cooperation.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000024_000003|Don't call me; I'll call you when I want breakfast."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000026_000001|"The top of her head is below my chin."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000000|"That's the norm.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000001|Earth is a reservoir of tired genes.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000002|Weak backs, vermiform appendixes, bad eyes.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000003|If they didn't have the universities and the trained people we need I would never use them."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000028_000000|"Why did you lie to her about the Foundation?"
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000001|"Better eat something.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000002|Build up the strength.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000005|If she joins up, there'll be time enough to tell her.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000006|But I doubt if she will like the way we operate.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000007|Particularly since I plan to drop some H bombs on Dis myself-if we can't turn off the war."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000030_000000|"I don't believe it!"
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000031_000000|"You heard me correctly.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000031_000001|Don't bulge your eyes and look moronic. As a last resort I'll drop the bombs myself rather than let the Nyjorders do it.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000031_000002|That might save them."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000032_000000|"Save them-they'd all be radiated and dead!" Brion's voice rose in anger.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000000|"Not the Disans.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000001|I want to save the Nyjorders.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000003|It's delicious.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000004|The Nyjorders are all that counts here.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000005|They have a planet blessed by the laws of chance.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000008|You can survive there just by pulling fruit off a tree.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000009|The population was small, educated, intelligent.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000014|Not guiding so much as protecting them from any blows that might destroy this growing idea.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000015|But we've fallen down on the job.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000016|Nonviolence is essential to these people-they have vitality without needing destruction.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000017|But if they are forced to blow up Dis for their own survival-against every one of their basic tenets-their philosophy won't endure.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000018|Physically they'll live on, as just one more dog eat dog planet with an A bomb for any of the competition who drop behind."
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000035_000000|"Don't be smug.
train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000035_000004|Now get below and study your Disan and read the reports.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000000_000000|eighteen
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000001_000001|The magter knocked him down and beat him into silence.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000001_000003|Even if all life on the surface of the planet was dead, this would have no effect on the magter. They would go ahead as planned, without emotion or imagination enough to alter their set course.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000002_000000|As the technicians worked, their attitude changed from shocked numbness to anger.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000002_000001|Right and wrong were forgotten.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000002_000003|Swiftly they brought their work to completion, with a speed and precision they had concealed before.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000004_000002|They pushed it over to the latticework of the jump field.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000001|In spite of everything he had done to prevent it, Nyjord had dropped the bombs. And this act alone may have destroyed their own planet.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000003|Should he? Should he save the lives of his killers?
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000005|He literally had to do nothing.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000006|The score would be even, and his and the Disans' death avenged.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000010_000001|The caveman first had this feeling for his mate, then for his family.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000010_000004|And beyond that to life of all kinds.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000011_000002|He pulled his gun out, and as he did he wondered what Ulv's answer might be.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000012_000001|It struck one of the technicians, who gasped and fell to the floor.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000013_000000|Brion's shots crashed into the control board, shorting and destroying it, removing the menace to Nyjord for all time.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000014_000001|A life form that cooperates and aids other life forms.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000014_000002|It may kill in self defense, but it is essentially not a killer or destroyer.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000015_000000|With this realization came the painful knowledge that the planet and the people that had produced this understanding were dead.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000017_000004|A believer in life, he destroyed the anti life.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000018_000000|They retreated into the darkness, still firing.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000019_000001|Let's find a spot we can defend and settle into it."
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000021_000000|"Let's go!"
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000022_000002|Once inside, they found cover behind a ridge and waited. The end was certain.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000023_000001|The beam passed over the two hidden men, and at the same instant Brion fired.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000024_000002|They waited for the attack.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000025_000000|It was not long in coming.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000025_000001|Two magter rushed in, and died.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000026_000002|Then one of the magter came in the entrance, but Brion hesitated before shooting.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000028_000001|As the magter turned, Ulv's breath pulsed once and death stung the back of the other man's hand. He collapsed into a crumpled heap.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000029_000000|"Don't shoot," a voice called from outside the cave, and a man stepped through the swirling dust and smoke to stand in the beam from the light.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000031_000000|The man in the light wore a protective helmet, thick boots and a pouch hung uniform.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000032_000000|He was a Nyjorder.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000033_000000|The realization was almost impossible to accept.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000033_000001|Brion had heard the bombs fall.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000033_000003|The two facts couldn't be accepted together.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000034_000000|"Would you keep a hold on his arm, sir, just in case," the soldier said, glancing warily at Ulv's blowpipe.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000034_000001|"I know what those darts can do." He pulled a microphone from one of his pockets and spoke into it.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000035_000000|More soldiers crowded into the cave, and Professor Commander Krafft came in behind them.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000037_000000|"Would you kindly explain what is going on?" Brion said thickly.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000039_000001|The bent form of the leader of the rebel Nyjord army pushed through the crowd of taller men until he stood next to Krafft.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000039_000009|After that it was just a matter of following tracks-and the transmitter you planted."
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000001|"Not only you, but the magter in this cave.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000004|Enough to kill the guards without bringing the roof down.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000006|And they did.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000007|It worked like a charm.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000008|We came in quietly and took them by surprise. Made a clean sweep-killed the ones we couldn't capture."
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000046_000000|"Of course," Professor Krafft said, astonished at Brion's lack of understanding.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000046_000001|"What else could we do?
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000046_000002|The magter are sick!"
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000047_000002|"When it was a matter of war and killing, my planet could never agree on an intelligent course. War is so alien to our philosophy that it couldn't even be considered correctly.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000047_000004|You're easy prey for the first one that lands on your back.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000047_000007|Your mind parasite drew us back from the brink."
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000049_000000|"A simple matter of definition.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000049_000005|Doctors and nurses are on the way here now. Plans were put under way to evacuate what part of the population we could until the bombs were found.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000049_000006|The planet is united again, and working hard."
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000051_000000|"Exactly so," Professor Krafft said.
train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000051_000001|"We are civilized, after all. You can't expect us to fight a war-and you surely can't expect us to ignore the plight of sick neighbors?"
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000003_000001|It could be no one else.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000003_000003|He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold embroidered saddlecloth.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000003_000005|The battalions shouted "Hurrah!" and "Vive l'Empereur!" Napoleon said something to Alexander, and both Emperors dismounted and took each other's hands.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000005_000001|The crowd unexpectedly found itself so close to the Emperors that Rostov, standing in the front row, was afraid he might be recognized.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000006_000000|"Sire, I ask your permission to present the Legion of Honor to the bravest of your soldiers," said a sharp, precise voice, articulating every letter.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000007_000001|Alexander listened attentively to what was said to him and, bending his head, smiled pleasantly.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000014_000000|"But we must give him an answer."
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000017_000000|"Lazarev!" the colonel called, with a frown, and Lazarev, the first soldier in the rank, stepped briskly forward.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000000|Napoleon slightly turned his head, and put his plump little hand out behind him as if to take something.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000002|Napoleon, without looking, pressed two fingers together and the badge was between them.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000005|Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000006|And it really did.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000020_000000|Officious hands, Russian and French, immediately seized the cross and fastened it to the uniform.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000021_000001|The Preobrazhensk battalion, breaking rank, mingled with the French Guards and sat down at the tables prepared for them.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000022_000004|Two officers with flushed faces, looking cheerful and happy, passed by Rostov.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000023_000000|"What d'you think of the treat?
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000025_000000|"Tomorrow, I hear, the Preobrazhenskis will give them a dinner."
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000026_000000|"Yes, but what luck for Lazarev!
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000027_000000|"Here's a cap, lads!" shouted a Preobrazhensk soldier, donning a shaggy French cap.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000028_000001|First rate!"
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000029_000003|It has to be done.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000029_000004|He must respond in kind."
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000030_000000|Boris, too, with his friend Zhilinski, came to see the Preobrazhensk banquet.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000030_000001|On his way back, he noticed Rostov standing by the corner of a house.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000031_000000|"Rostov!
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000032_000000|"Nothing, nothing," replied Rostov.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000033_000000|"You'll call round?"
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000034_000000|"Yes, I will."
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000035_000000|Rostov stood at that corner for a long time, watching the feast from a distance.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000035_000008|He caught himself harboring such strange thoughts that he was frightened.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000036_000007|Nicholas ate and drank (chiefly the latter) in silence.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000036_000010|He feared to give way to his thoughts, yet could not get rid of them.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000038_000000|"But I never said a word about the Emperor!" said the officer, justifying himself, and unable to understand Rostov's outburst, except on the supposition that he was drunk.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000039_000000|But Rostov did not listen to him.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000040_000001|"If we are ordered to die, we must die.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000040_000002|If we're punished, it means that we have deserved it, it's not for us to judge.
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000040_000004|If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!
train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000043_000000|"Yes, and to drink," assented Nicholas.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000003_000000|In the Castle of Maucombe, which is so well known to you by description that I shall say no more of it, I found my room almost exactly as I left it; only now I can enjoy the splendid view it gives of the Gemenos valley, which my childish eyes used to see without comprehending.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000004_000001|After Leipsic no more was heard of him.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000005_000001|Who could have imagined, whilst fancy was leading us a giddy dance, that my destined husband was slowly traveling on foot through Russia, Poland, and Germany?
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000009_000001|The rafters bend under the weight of this brick kiln. The windows, inserted casually, without any attempt at symmetry, have enormous shutters, painted yellow.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000009_000002|The garden in which it stands is a Provencal garden, enclosed by low walls, built of big round pebbles set in layers, alternately sloping or upright, according to the artistic taste of the mason, which finds here its only outlet.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000010_000004|The rooms are scantily furnished.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000000|Nevertheless, the house of l'Estorade had done its best; the cupboards had been ransacked, and its last man beaten up for the dinner, which was served to us on old silver dishes, blackened and battered.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000001|The exile, my darling pet, is like the railing, emaciated!
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000003|At thirty seven he might be fifty.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000004|The once beautiful ebon locks of youth are streaked with white like a lark's wing.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000005|His fine blue eyes are cavernous; he is a little deaf, which suggests the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000012_000001|I have demanded from my father, in set terms, a grant of water, which can be brought thither from Maucombe.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000002|My turf, though Provencal, shall be always green.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000003|I shall carry my park up the hillside and plant on the highest point some pretty kiosque, whence, perhaps, my eyes may catch the shimmer of the Mediterranean.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000004|Orange and lemon trees, and all choicest things that grow, shall embellish my retreat; and there will I be a mother among my children.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000005|The poetry of Nature, which nothing can destroy, shall hedge us round; and standing loyally at the post of duty, we need fear no danger.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000015_000001|This century will not see another Bonaparte; and my children, if I have any, will not be rent from me.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000015_000002|They will be mine to train and make men of-the joy of my life.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000016_000004|There will be nothing to fear, not even an admiration such as could only make a woman proud.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000017_000000|You, my dear Louise, will supply the romance of my life.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000017_000001|So you must narrate to me in full all your adventures, describe your balls and parties, tell me what you wear, what flowers crown your lovely golden locks, and what are the words and manners of the men you meet.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000017_000002|Your other self will be always there-listening, dancing, feeling her finger tips pressed-with you.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000018_000001|One kiss, then, on each cheek-my lips are still virginal, he has only dared to take my hand.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000018_000002|Oh! our deference and propriety are quite disquieting, I assure you.
train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000018_000003|There, I am off again.... Good bye, dear.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000002_000000|My dear Louise,--I was bound to wait some time before writing to you; but now I know, or rather I have learned, many things which, for the sake of your future happiness, I must tell you.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000002_000001|The difference between a girl and a married woman is so vast, that the girl can no more comprehend it than the married woman can go back to girlhood again.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000000|The serious nature of what I was undertaking filled me at first with terror.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000001|Marriage is a matter concerning the whole of life, whilst love aims only at pleasure.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000003|Might it not therefore be that the only requisite for a happy marriage was friendship-a friendship which, for the sake of these advantages, would shut its eyes to many of the imperfections of humanity?
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000006|My married life will be no slavery, but rather a perpetual reign.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000005_000000|The important point of separating marriage from marital rights was settled in a conversation between Louis and me, in the course of which he gave proof of an excellent temper and a tender heart.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000005_000002|To grant nothing to duty or the law, to be guided entirely by one's own will, retaining perfect independence-what could be more attractive, more honorable?
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000006_000000|A contract of this kind, directly opposed to the legal contract, and even to the sacrament itself, could be concluded only between Louis and me.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000006_000002|Although, at first, I may have made up my mind to accept anything rather than return to the convent, it is only in human nature, having got an inch, to ask for an ell, and you and I, sweet love, are of those who would have it all.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000007_000002|I drew him aside in the most natural manner on solitary walks, during which I discreetly sounded his feelings.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000007_000003|I made him talk, and got him to expound to me his ideas and plans for our future.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000008_000001|He got mixed up in his arguments, as people do when handicapped by fear; and before long it became clear that chance had given me for adversary one who was the less fitted for the contest because he was conscious of what you magniloquently call my "greatness of soul." Broken by sufferings and misfortune, he looked on himself as a sort of wreck, and three fears in especial haunted him.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000009_000000|First, we are aged respectively thirty seven and seventeen; and he could not contemplate without quaking the twenty years that divide us.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000009_000003|The consciousness of these three obvious drawbacks made him distrustful of himself; he doubted his power to make me happy, and guessed that he had been chosen as the lesser of two evils.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000011_000000|"I cannot deny it," was my grave reply.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000013_000001|The favor I am about to ask from you will demand unselfishness on your part, far nobler than the servitude to which a man's love, when sincere, is supposed to reduce him.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000014_000001|Friendship is the bond between a pair of kindred souls, united in their strength, and yet independent.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000014_000002|Let us be friends and comrades to bear jointly the burden of life.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000014_000003|Leave me absolutely free.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000015_000000|"Infuse with passion, then, if you will, this friendship, and let the voice of love disturb its calm.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000015_000004|I am neither whimsical nor prudish, and should be sorry to get that reputation; but I feel sure that I can trust to your honor when I ask you to keep up the outward appearance of wedded life."
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000001|It is the great desire I have for your respect which prompts my request.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000003|If during the time that I remained indifferent to you (yielding only a passive obedience, such as my mother has just been urging on me) a child were born to us, do you suppose that I could feel towards it as I would towards one born of our common love?
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000004|A passionate love may not be necessary in marriage, but, at least, you will admit that there should be no repugnance.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000005|Our position will not be without its dangers; in a country life, such as ours will be, ought we not to bear in mind the evanescent nature of passion?
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000019_000000|We were married at the end of the week.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000020_000001|Now, in the solitude of a life like ours, marriage soon becomes intolerable unless the woman is the presiding spirit.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000023_000001|For how make a confidant of him?
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000023_000002|My happiness would wound him, and has to be concealed.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000024_000002|In spite of my coldness, Louis grew bolder, and his nature expanded.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000025_000000|We celebrated our union in secret, and secret it must remain between us. When you are married you will approve this reserve.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000026_000000|Yet, in spite of all this enchantment, I once more stood out for my complete independence.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000027_000000|My one joy, and it is supreme, springs from the certainty of having brought new life to my husband before I have borne him any children. Louis has regained his youth, strength, and spirits.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000027_000001|He is not the same man.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000027_000002|With magic touch I have effaced the very memory of his sufferings. It is a complete metamorphosis.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000030_000000|We have English horses, a coupe, a barouche, and a tilbury.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000030_000003|I apply all my intellect (I am speaking quite seriously) to managing my household with economy, and obtaining for it the maximum of pleasure with the minimum of cost.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000031_000001|I insist too on his studying a great deal. Before long I hope to see him a member of the Council General of the Department, through the influence of my family and his mother's.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000031_000002|I have told him plainly that I am ambitious, and that I was very well pleased his father should continue to look after the estate and practise economies, because I wished him to devote himself exclusively to politics.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000031_000004|Under penalty, therefore, of forfeiting my esteem and affection, he must get himself chosen deputy for the department at the coming elections; my family would support his candidature, and we should then have the delight of spending all our winters in Paris.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000000|"MY SWEET RENEE,--When you gave me permission to love you, I began to believe in happiness; now, I see it unfolding endlessly before me.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000002|When I am with you, love so transports me that I am powerless to express the depth of my affection; I can but worship and admire.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000005|No doubt the love of husband and wife depends less on outward beauty than on graces of character, which are yours also in perfection; still, let me say that the certainty of having your unchanging beauty, on which to feast my eyes, gives me a joy that grows with every glance.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000006|There is a grace and dignity in the lines of your face, expressive of the noble soul within, and breathing of purity beneath the vivid coloring.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000011|Our own impulse shall with us alone dictate the expression of feeling.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000014|You cannot speak, breathe, act, or think, without adding to the admiration I feel for your charm both of body and mind.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000034_000000|So much for my pupil, dear!
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000035_000002|Yet Louis is lovable; his temper is wonderfully even, and he performs, as a matter of course, acts on which most men would plume themselves.
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000037_000000|Oh! Louise, don't spoil the splendid future which awaits us both!
train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000037_000001|Don't do the mad things with which you threaten me.
train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000000_000001|OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONS
train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000002_000001|It consists in the exchange of rude for manufactured produce, either immediately, or by the intervention of money, or of some sort of paper which represents money. The country supplies the town with the means of subsistence and the materials of manufacture.
train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000002_000002|The town repays this supply, by sending back a part of the manufactured produce to the inhabitants of the country. The town, in which there neither is nor can be any reproduction of substances, may very properly be said to gain its whole wealth and subsistence from the country.
train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000005_000001|Smiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and ploughwrights, masons and bricklayers, tanners, shoemakers, and tailors, are people whose service the farmer has frequent occasion for.
train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000005_000003|The butcher, the brewer, and the baker, soon join them, together with many other artificers and retailers, necessary or useful for supplying their occasional wants, and who contribute still further to augment the town.
train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000007_000001|The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000000_000001|OF DRAWBACKS.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000002_000000|Of these encouragements, what are called drawbacks seem to be the most reasonable.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000003_000001|By the second of the rules, annexed to the act of parliament, which imposed what is now called the old subsidy, every merchant, whether English or alien. was allowed to draw back half that duty upon exportation; the English merchant, provided the exportation took place within twelve months; the alien, provided it took place within nine months.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000007_000004|It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000009_000006|These rules took place with regard to all places of lawful exportation, except the British colonies in America.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000011_000001|Upon the exportation of the greater part of commodities to other countries, half the old subsidy was drawn back.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000012_000003|The carrying trade, though it deserves no preference, ought not to be precluded, but to be left free, like all other trades.
train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000013_000000|The revenue of the customs, instead of suffering, profits from such drawbacks, by that part of the duty which is retained.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000000_000001|In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000000_000002|Then the caller, no matter how important or what his mission, is likely to realize his utter insignificance and be sent away without accomplishing his object.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000000_000004|Man is a social animal, and that describes Edison; but it does not describe accurately the inventor asking to be let alone.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000000|Edison never sought Society; but "Society" has never ceased to seek him, and to day, as ever, the pressure upon him to give up his work and receive honors, meet distinguished people, or attend public functions, is intense.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000004|At that moment Edison, stripped pretty nearly down to the buff, was at the very crisis of an important experiment, and refused absolutely to be interrupted.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000005|He had neither sought nor expected the medal; and if the delegate didn't care to leave it he could take it away.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000006|At last Edison was overpersuaded, and, all dirty and perspiring as he was, received the medal rather than cause the visitor to come again. On one occasion, receiving a medal in New York, Edison forgot it on the ferry boat and left it behind him.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000008|Nobody knew where it was; hours passed before it could be found; and when at last the accompanying letter was produced, it had an office date stamp right over the signature of the royal president.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000010|"Oh yes," he said, "I have a couple of quarts more up at the house!" All this sounds like lack of appreciation, but it is anything else than that.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000011|While in Paris, in eighteen eighty nine, he wore the decoration of the Legion of Honor whenever occasion required, but at all other times turned the badge under his lapel "because he hated to have fellow Americans think he was showing off." And any one who knows Edison will bear testimony to his utter absence of ostentation.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000013|One evening, Robert l Cutting, of New York, brought her out to see the light.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000014|She was a terrific 'rubberneck.' She jumped all over the machinery, and I had one man especially to guard her dress.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000015|She wanted to know everything.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000016|She would speak in French, and Cutting would translate into English.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000017|She stayed there about an hour and a half.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000018|Bernhardt gave me two pictures, painted by herself, which she sent me from Paris."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000000|Reference has already been made to the callers upon Edison; and to give simply the names of persons of distinction would fill many pages of this record.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000001|Some were mere consumers of time; others were gladly welcomed, like Lord Kelvin, the greatest physicist of the last century, with whom Edison was always in friendly communication.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000002|"The first time I saw Lord Kelvin, he came to my laboratory at Menlo Park in eighteen seventy six." (He reported most favorably on Edison's automatic telegraph system at the Philadelphia Exposition of eighteen seventy six.) "I was then experimenting with sending eight messages simultaneously over a wire by means of synchronizing tuning forks.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000003|I would take a wire with similar apparatus at both ends, and would throw it over on one set of instruments, take it away, and get it back so quickly that you would not miss it, thereby taking advantage of the rapidity of electricity to perform operations.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000005|When Sir William Thomson (Kelvin) came in the room, he was introduced to me, and had a number of friends with him. He said: 'What have you here?' I told him briefly what it was.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000006|He then turned around, and to my great surprise explained the whole thing to his friends.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000007|Quite a different exhibition was given two weeks later by another well-known Englishman, also an electrician, who came in with his friends, and I was trying for two hours to explain it to him and failed."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000001|Some dinners he had to attend, but a man who ate little and heard less could derive practically no pleasure from them.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000003|I seldom went to dinners.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000004|He insisted I should go-that a special car would leave New York.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000005|It was for me to meet mr Joseph Chamberlain.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000006|We had the private car of mr Roberts, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000007|We had one of those celebrated dinners that only mr Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000008|When I came back to the depot, mr Roberts was there, and insisted on carrying my satchel for me.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000009|I never could understand that."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000000|Among the more distinguished visitors of the electric lighting period was President Diaz, with whom Edison became quite intimate.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000001|"President Diaz, of Mexico, visited this country with mrs Diaz, a highly educated and beautiful woman.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000002|She spoke very good English.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000003|They both took a deep interest in all they saw.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000005|I took them to railroad buildings, electric light plants, fire departments, and showed them a great variety of things.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000007|We could make some very good pyrotechnics there, so we determined to give the Indians a scare.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000008|But it didn't work. We had an arc there of a most terrifying character, but they never moved a muscle." Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000010|One day one of the directors brought in three or four ladies to the works to see the new electric light system.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000011|One of the ladies had a little poodle led by a string.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000012|The belt was running so smoothly and evenly, the poodle did not notice the difference between it and the floor, and got into the belt before we could do anything.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000013|The dog was whirled around forty or fifty times, and a little flat piece of leather came out-and the ladies fainted."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000000|A very interesting period, on the social side, was the visit paid by Edison and his family to Europe in eighteen eighty nine, when he had made a splendid exhibit of his inventions and apparatus at the great Paris Centennial Exposition of that year, to the extreme delight of the French, who welcomed him with open arms.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000002|It was not, of course, by way of theatrical antithesis that Edison appeared in Paris at such a time.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000003|But the contrast was none the less striking and effective.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000004|It was felt that, after all, that which the great exposition exemplified at its best-the triumph of genius over matter, over ignorance, over superstition-met with its due recognition when Edison came to participate, and to felicitate a noble nation that could show so much in the victories of civilization and the arts, despite its long trials and its long struggle for liberty.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000005|It is no exaggeration to say that Edison was greeted with the enthusiastic homage of the whole French people.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000006|They could find no praise warm enough for the man who had "organized the echoes" and "tamed the lightning," and whose career was so picturesque with eventful and romantic development.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000007|In fact, for weeks together it seemed as though no Parisian paper was considered complete and up to date without an article on Edison.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000008|The exuberant wit and fancy of the feuilletonists seized upon his various inventions evolving from them others of the most extraordinary nature with which to bedazzle and bewilder the reader.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000009|At the close of the Exposition Edison was created a Commander of the Legion of Honor.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000010|His own exhibit, made at a personal expense of over one hundred thousand dollars, covered several thousand square feet in the vast Machinery Hall, and was centred around a huge Edison lamp built of myriads of smaller lamps of the ordinary size.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000012|Several instruments were provided, and every day, all day long, while the Exposition lasted, queues of eager visitors from every quarter of the globe were waiting to hear the little machine talk and sing and reproduce their own voices.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000014|It was the first linguistic concourse since Babel times.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000015|We must let Edison tell the story of some of his experiences:
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000006_000001|As I had no intention of offering to sell anything I was showing, and was pushing no companies, the whole exhibition was made for honor, and without any hope of profit.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000000|"While at the Exposition I visited the Opera House.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000003|When I came into the box, the orchestra played the 'Star Spangled Banner,' and all the people in the house arose; whereupon I was very much embarrassed.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000004|After I had been an hour at the play, the manager came around and asked me to go underneath the stage, as they were putting on a ballet of three hundred girls, the finest ballet in Europe.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000006|In this instance it was not occupied, and I was given the position in the prompter's seat, and saw the whole ballet at close range.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000002|As I could not understand or speak a word of French, I went to see our minister, mr Whitelaw Reid, and got him to send a deputy to answer for me, which he did, with my grateful thanks.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000003|Then the telephone company gave me a dinner, and the engineers of France; and I attended the dinner celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of photography.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000004|Then they sent to Reid my decoration, and they tried to put a sash on me, but I could not stand for that.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000005|My wife had me wear the little red button, but when I saw Americans coming I would slip it out of my lapel, as I thought they would jolly me for wearing it."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000001|Edison naturally met many of the celebrities of France: "I visited the Eiffel Tower at the invitation of Eiffel.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000004|When my wife and I arrived at the top, we found that Gounod, the composer, was there.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000005|We stayed a couple of hours, and Gounod sang and played for us.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000006|We spent a day at Meudon, an old palace given by the government to Jansen, the astronomer. He occupied three rooms, and there were three hundred.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000007|He had the grand dining room for his laboratory.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000008|He showed me a gyroscope he had got up which made the incredible number of four thousand revolutions in a second.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000009|A modification of this was afterward used on the French Atlantic lines for making an artificial horizon to take observations for position at sea.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000010|In connection with this a gentleman came to me a number of years afterward, and I got out a part of some plans for him.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000011|He wanted to make a gigantic gyroscope weighing several tons, to be run by an electric motor and put on a sailing ship.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000013|Upon this platform he was going to mount a telescope to observe an eclipse off the Gold Coast of Africa.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000010_000003|His father was with him.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000010_000004|He had been bitten in the face, and was taking the treatment.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000010_000006|He was bitten too near the top of the spinal column, and came too late!'"
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000000|Edison has no opinion to offer as an expert on art, but has his own standard of taste: "Of course I visited the Louvre and saw the Old Masters, which I could not enjoy.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000001|And I attended the Luxembourg, with modern masters, which I enjoyed greatly.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000002|To my mind, the Old Masters are not art, and I suspect that many others are of the same opinion; and that their value is in their scarcity and in the variety of men with lots of money." Somewhat akin to this is a shrewd comment on one feature of the Exposition: "I spent several days in the Exposition at Paris.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000004|I found several beautiful diamonds, but they seemed a little light weight to me when I was picking them out.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000005|They were diamonds for exhibition purposes --probably glass."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000000|This did not altogether complete the European trip of eighteen eighty nine, for Edison wished to see Helmholtz.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000001|"After leaving Paris we went to Berlin.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000002|The French papers then came out and attacked me because I went to Germany; and said I was now going over to the enemy.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000004|When I started from Berlin on the trip, I began to tell American stories. Siemens was very fond of these stories and would laugh immensely at them, and could see the points and the humor, by his imagination; but Helmholtz could not see one of them.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000005|Siemens would quickly, in German, explain the point, but Helmholtz could not see it, although he understood English, which Siemens could speak.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000008|At Heidelberg, my assistant, mr Wangemann, an accomplished German American, showed the phonograph before the Association."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000001|I had been over the ocean three times and did not know what seasickness was, so far as I was concerned myself.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000002|I was told that while a man might not get seasick on the ocean, if he met a good storm on the Channel it would do for him.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000004|I did not care about eating, and did not go to the restaurant, but my family did.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000005|I walked out and tried to find the boat.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000006|Going along the dock I saw two small smokestacks sticking up, and looking down saw a little boat.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000007|'Where is the steamer that goes across the Channel?' 'This is the boat.' There had been a storm in the North Sea that had carried away some of the boats on the German steamer, and it certainly looked awful tough outside.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000009|The managing director of the English railroad owning this line was Forbes, who heard I was coming over, and placed the private saloon at my disposal.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000010|The moment my family got in the room with the French lady's maid and the rest, they commenced to get sick, so I felt pretty sure I was in for it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000011|We started out of the little inlet and got into the Channel, and that boat went in seventeen directions simultaneously.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000012|I waited awhile to see what was going to occur, and then went into the smoking compartment.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000013|Nobody was there.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000014|By and by the fun began.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000015|Sounds of all kinds and varieties were heard in every direction. They were all sick.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000016|There must have been one hundred people aboard.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000017|I didn't see a single exception except the waiters and myself.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000018|I asked one of the waiters concerning the boat itself, and was taken to see the engineer, and went down to look at the engines, and saw the captain.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000019|But I kept mostly in the smoking room.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000021|The English Channel is a holy terror, all right, but it didn't affect me.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000000|While in Paris, Edison had met Sir john Pender, the English "cable king," and had received an invitation from him to make a visit to his country residence: "Sir john Pender, the master of the cable system of the world at that time, I met in Paris.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000002|He had the faculty of understanding and quickly seeing the point of the stories; and for three days after I could not get rid of him.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000003|Finally I made him a promise that I would go to his country house at Foot's Cray, near London.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000004|So I went there, and spent two or three days telling him stories.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000015_000000|"While at Foot's Cray, I met some of the backers of Ferranti, then putting up a gigantic alternating current dynamo near London to send ten or fifteen thousand volts up into the main district of the city for electric lighting.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000015_000002|At any rate the people invited to dinner were very much interested, and they questioned me as to what I thought of the proposition.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000015_000006|I thought that commercially the thing was too ambitious, that Ferranti's ideas were too big, just then; that he ought to have started a little smaller until he was sure.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000016_000000|Incidentally it may be noted here that during the same year (eighteen eighty nine) the various manufacturing Edison lighting interests in America were brought together, under the leadership of mr Henry Villard, and consolidated in the Edison General Electric Company with a capital of no less than twelve million dollars on an eight per cent.-dividend basis.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000016_000002|A few years later came the consolidation with the Thomson Houston interests in the General Electric Company, which under the brilliant and vigorous management of President c a Coffin has become one of the greatest manufacturing institutions of the country, with an output of apparatus reaching toward seventy five million dollars annually.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000016_000003|The net result of both financial operations was, however, to detach Edison from the special field of invention to which he had given so many of his most fruitful years; and to close very definitely that chapter of his life, leaving him free to develop other ideas and interests as set forth in these volumes.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000000|It might appear strange on the surface, but one of the reasons that most influenced Edison to regrets in connection with the "big trade" of eighteen eighty nine was that it separated him from his old friend and ally, Bergmann, who, on selling out, saw a great future for himself in Germany, went there, and realized it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000002|Some of the stories were told for this volume.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000003|"Bergmann came to work for me as a boy," says Edison.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000004|"He started in on stock quotation printers.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000005|As he was a rapid workman and paid no attention to the clock, I took a fancy to him, and gave him piece work.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000006|He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000007|I even helped him get up tools until it occurred to me that this was too rapid a process of getting rid of my money, as I hadn't the heart to cut the price when it was originally fair.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000008|After a year or so, Bergmann got enough money to start a small shop in Wooster Street, New York, and it was at this shop that the first phonographs were made for sale.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000010|Finally came the electric light.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000012|He rented power from a Jew who owned the building.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000013|Power was supplied from a fifty horse power engine to other tenants on the several floors.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000016|The landlord kept going among his tenants and finally discovered the dynamo.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000017|'Oh!
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000018|mr Bergmann, now I know where my power goes to,' pointing to the dynamo.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000019|Bergmann gave him a withering look of scorn, and said, 'Come here and I will show you.' Throwing off the belt and disconnecting the wires, he spun the armature around by hand.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000020|'There,' said Bergmann, 'you see it's not here that you must look for your loss.' This satisfied the landlord, and he started off to his other tenants.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000021|He did not know that that machine, when the wires were connected, could stop his engine.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000000|"Soon after, the business had grown so large that e h Johnson and I went in as partners, and Bergmann rented an immense factory building at the corner of Avenue B and East Seventeenth Street, New York, six stories high and covering a quarter of a block.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000001|Here were made all the small things used on the electric lighting system, such as sockets, chandeliers, switches, meters, etc
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000003|Over fifteen hundred men were finally employed.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000004|This shop was very successful both scientifically and financially.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000005|Bergmann was a man of great executive ability and carried economy of manufacture to the limit.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000006|Among all the men I have had associated with me, he had the commercial instinct most highly developed."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000000|One need not wonder at Edison's reminiscent remark that, "In any trade any of my 'boys' made with Bergmann he always got the best of them, no matter what it was.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000002|There were a lot of representatives from the East, and a private car was hired.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000003|At Jersey City a poker game was started by one of the delegates.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000004|Bergmann was induced to enter the game.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000005|This was played right through to Chicago without any sleep, but the boys didn't mind that.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000006|I had gotten them immune to it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000007|Bergmann had won all the money, and when the porter came in and said 'Chicago,' Bergmann jumped up and said: 'What!
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000008|Chicago!
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000009|I thought it was only Philadelphia!'"
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000000|But perhaps this further story is a better indication of developed humor and shrewdness: "A man by the name of Epstein had been in the habit of buying brass chips and trimmings from the lathes, and in some way Bergmann found out that he had been cheated.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000001|This hurt his pride, and he determined to get even.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000002|One day Epstein appeared and said: 'Good morning, mr Bergmann, have you any chips to day?' 'No,' said Bergmann, 'I have none.' 'That's strange, mr Bergmann; won't you look?' No, he wouldn't look; he knew he had none.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000007|Then he said: 'Well, Epstein, good bye, I've got to go down to Wall Street.' Epstein and his assistant then attempted to lift the boxes to carry them out, but couldn't; and then discovered that calculations as to quantity had been thrown out because the boxes had all been screwed down to the floor and mostly filled with boards with a veneer of brass chips.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000021_000001|Bergmann thought it real, and never after that would he permit the whistle to blow."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000000|Another glimpse of the "social side" is afforded in the following little series of pen pictures of the same place and time: "I had my laboratory at the top of the Bergmann works, after moving from Menlo Park.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000002|My father came there when he was eighty years of age.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000004|In fact, when I was examined by the Mutual Life Insurance Company, in eighteen seventy three, my lung expansion was taken by the doctor, and the old gentleman was there at the time.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000006|I think it was five and one half inches.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000007|There were only three or four could beat it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000008|Little Bergmann hadn't much lung power.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000009|The old man said to him, one day: 'Let's run up stairs.' Bergmann agreed and ran up.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000010|When they got there Bergmann was all done up, but my father never showed a sign of it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000012|Being asked whether he did not get imposed upon with bad bank bills, he replied that he subscribed to a bank note detector and consulted it closely whenever a note of any size fell into his hands.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000013|He was then less than fourteen years old.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000001|He has confronted many a serious physical risk, and counts himself lucky to have come through without a scratch or scar.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000002|Four instances of personal danger may be noted in his own language: "When I started at Menlo, I had an electric furnace for welding rare metals that I did not know about very clearly.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000003|I was in the dark room, where I had a lot of chloride of sulphur, a very corrosive liquid.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000004|I did not know that it would decompose by water.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000005|I poured in a beakerful of water, and the whole thing exploded and threw a lot of it into my eyes.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000007|But it was two weeks before I could see.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000001|I was making some stuff to squirt into filaments for the incandescent lamp.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000002|I made about a pound of it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000003|I had used ammonia and bromine.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000004|I did not know it at the time, but I had made bromide of nitrogen.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000005|I put the large bulk of it in three filters, and after it had been washed and all the water had come through the filter, I opened the three filters and laid them on a hot steam plate to dry with the stuff.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000007|I said to Sadler: 'What is that?' 'I don't know,' he said, and we paid no attention.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000010|The reason why those little preliminary explosions took place was that a little had spattered out on the edge of the filter paper, and had dried first and exploded.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000011|Had the main body exploded there would have been nothing left of the laboratory I was working in.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000025_000000|"At another time, I had a briquetting machine for briquetting iron ore. I had a lever held down by a powerful spring, and a rod one inch in diameter and four feet long.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000025_000002|That was 'within an inch of your life,' as they say.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000000|"In my experimental plant for concentrating iron ore in the northern part of New Jersey, we had a vertical drier, a column about nine feet square and eighty feet high.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000001|At the bottom there was a space where two men could go through a hole; and then all the rest of the column was filled with baffle plates.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000002|One day this drier got blocked, and the ore would not run down.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000003|So I and the vice president of the company, mr Mallory, crowded through the manhole to see why the ore would not come down.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000004|After we got in, the ore did come down and there were fourteen tons of it above us.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000000|Such incidents brought out in narration the fact that many of the men working with him had been less fortunate, particularly those who had experimented with the Roentgen X ray, whose ravages, like those of leprosy, were responsible for the mutilation and death of at least one expert assistant.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000001|In the early days of work on the incandescent lamp, also, there was considerable trouble with mercury.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000003|The main pipe, which was full of mercury, was about seven and one half feet from the floor.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000004|Along the length of the pipe were outlets to which thick rubber tubing was connected, each tube to a pump.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000006|In a short time he became salivated, and his teeth got loose.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000008|I was fortunately absent, and she was mollified somehow by my other assistants.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000028_000000|"When the first lamp works were started at Menlo Park, one of my experiments seemed to show that hot mercury gave a better vacuum in the lamp than cold mercury.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000028_000001|I thereupon started to heat it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000001|"I have often been surprised at Edison's wonderful capacity for the instant visual perception of differences in materials that were invisible to others until he would patiently point them out.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000002|This had puzzled me for years, but one day I was unexpectedly let into part of the secret.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000003|For some little time past mr Edison had noticed that he was bothered somewhat in reading print, and I asked him to have an oculist give him reading glasses.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000007|He did so very conscientiously, and it was an interesting experience, for he was kept busy answering mr Edison's numerous questions.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000008|When the oculist finished, he turned to me and said: 'I have been many years in the business, but have never seen an optic nerve like that of this gentleman.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000009|An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000010|He must be a remarkable man in some walk of life.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000003|For instance, he had gone to bed the night before exactly at twelve and had arisen at four thirty a m to read some New York law reports.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000004|It was suggested that the secret of it might be that he did not live in the past, but was always looking forward to a greater future, to which he replied: "Yes, that's it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000005|I don't live with the past; I am living for to day and to morrow.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000006|I am interested in every department of science, arts, and manufacture. I read all the time on astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, music, metaphysics, mechanics, and other branches-political economy, electricity, and, in fact, all things that are making for progress in the world.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000007|I get all the proceedings of the scientific societies, the principal scientific and trade journals, and read them.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000010|I have spilt lots of it, and while I have always felt it for a few days, it is quickly forgotten, and I turn again to the future." During another talk on kindred affairs it was suggested to Edison that, as he had worked so hard all his life, it was about time for him to think somewhat of the pleasures of travel and the social side of life.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000011|To which he replied laughingly: "I already have a schedule worked out.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000012|From now until I am seventy five years of age, I expect to keep more or less busy with my regular work, not, however, working as many hours or as hard as I have in the past.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000001|It rather bores him.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000003|Edison says: "I get a suit that fits me; then I compel the tailors to use that as a jig or pattern or blue print to make others by.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000004|For many years a suit was used as a measurement; once or twice they took fresh measurements, but these didn't fit and they had to go back.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000006|He said that some twenty years ago a suit was sent to him from Orange, and measurements were made from it, and that every suit since had been made from these measurements.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000003|That he has had the usual experience in running machines will be evidenced by the following little story from mr Mallory: "About three years ago I had a motor car of a make of which mr Edison had already two cars; and when the car was received I made inquiry as to whether any repair parts were carried by any of the various garages in Easton, Pennsylvania, near our cement works.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000005|I asked his advice as to what I should order, to which he replied: 'I don't think it will be necessary to order an extra top.'" Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000006|One of the cars equipped with his battery is the Bailey, and mr Bee tells the following story in regard to it: "One day Colonel Bailey, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, who was visiting the Automobile Show in New York, came out to the laboratory to see mr Edison, as the latter had expressed a desire to talk with him on his next visit to the metropolis.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000008|As a rule we never wake mr Edison from sleep, but as he wanted to see Colonel Bailey, who had to go, I felt that an exception should be made, so I went and tapped him on the shoulder.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000009|He awoke at once, smiling, jumped up, was instantly himself as usual, and advanced and greeted the visitor.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000010|His very first question was: 'Well, Colonel, how did you come out on that experiment?'--referring to some suggestions he had made at their last meeting a year before.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000000|It might be expected that Edison would have extreme and even radical ideas on the subject of education-and he has, as well as a perfect readiness to express them, because he considers that time is wasted on things that are not essential: "What we need," he has said, "are men capable of doing work.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000001|I wouldn't give a penny for the ordinary college graduate, except those from the institutes of technology.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000003|They aren't filled up with Latin, philosophy, and the rest of that ninny stuff." A further remark of his is: "What the country needs now is the practical skilled engineer, who is capable of doing everything.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000005|At present we want engineers, industrial men, good business like managers, and railroad men." It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: "mr
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000007|Invention does not smooth the way for the practical men and make them possible.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000008|There is always too much danger of neglecting thoughts for things, ideas for machinery.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000009|No theory of education that aggravates this danger is consistent with national well-being."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000002|"After years of watching the processes of nature," he says, "I can no more doubt the existence of an Intelligence that is running things than I do of the existence of myself.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000005|Ice, I say, doesn't, and it is rather lucky for us mortals, for if it had done so, we would all be dead.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000006|Why?
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000007|Simply because if ice sank to the bottoms of rivers, lakes, and oceans as fast as it froze, those places would be frozen up and there would be no water left.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000000|For over a score of years, dating from his marriage to Miss Miller, Edison's happy and perfect domestic life has been spent at Glenmont, a beautiful property acquired at that time in Llewellyn Park, on the higher slopes of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, within easy walking distance of the laboratory at the foot of the hill in West Orange.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000001|As noted already, the latter part of each winter is spent at Fort Myers, Florida, where Edison has, on the banks of the Calahoutchie River, a plantation home that is in many ways a miniature copy of the home and laboratory up North.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000002|Glenmont is a rather elaborate and florid building in Queen Anne English style, of brick, stone, and wooden beams showing on the exterior, with an abundance of gables and balconies.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000004|It would be difficult to imagine Edison in a stiffly formal house, and this big, cozy, three story, rambling mansion has an easy freedom about it, without and within, quite in keeping with the genius of the inventor, but revealing at every turn traces of feminine taste and culture.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000006|The lounging room on the ground floor is more or less of an Edison museum, for it is littered with souvenirs from great people, and with mementos of travel, all related to some event or episode.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000007|A large cabinet contains awards, decorations, and medals presented to Edison, accumulating in the course of a long career, some of which may be seen in the illustration opposite.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000008|Near by may be noticed a bronze replica of the Edison gold medal which was founded in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the first award of which was made to Elihu Thomson during the present year (nineteen ten).
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000038_000002|One of the most conspicuous features of the room is a phonograph equipment on which the latest and best productions by the greatest singers and musicians can always be heard, but which Edison himself is everlastingly experimenting with, under the incurable delusion that this domestic retreat is but an extension of his laboratory.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000039_000000|The big library-semi boudoir-up stairs is also very expressive of the home life of Edison, but again typical of his nature and disposition, for it is difficult to overlay his many technical books and scientific periodicals with a sufficiently thick crust of popular magazines or current literature to prevent their outcropping into evidence.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000040_000001|His hair has whitened, but is still thick and abundant, and though he uses glasses for certain work, his gray blue eyes are as keen and bright and deeply lustrous as ever, with the direct, searching look in them that they have ever worn.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000041_000000|His simplicity as to clothes has already been described.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000041_000001|One would be startled to see him with a bright tie, a loud checked suit, or a fancy waistcoat, and yet there is a curious sense of fastidiousness about the plain things he delights in.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000041_000004|No one ever goes away from Edison in doubt as to what he thinks or means, but he is ever shy and diffident to a degree if the talk turns on himself rather than on his work.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000042_000000|If the authors were asked, after having written the foregoing pages, to explain here the reason for Edison's success, based upon their observations so far made, they would first answer that he combines with a vigorous and normal physical structure a mind capable of clear and logical thinking, and an imagination of unusual activity.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000042_000003|What other factors are there to be taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon?
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000042_000005|No better illustration of this characteristic can be found than in the development of the nickel pocket for the storage battery, an element the size of a short lead pencil, on which upward of five years were spent in experiments, costing over a million dollars, day after day, always apparently with the same tubes but with small variations carefully tabulated in the note books.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000000|Another and second characteristic of Edison's personality contributing so strongly to his achievements is an intense, not to say courageous, optimism in which no thought of failure can enter, an optimism born of self confidence, and becoming-after forty or fifty years of experience more and more a sense of certainty in the accomplishment of success.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000003|At the conclusion of the ore milling experiments, when practically his entire fortune was sunk in an enterprise that had to be considered an impossibility, when at the age of fifty he looked back upon five or six years of intense activity expended apparently for naught, when everything seemed most black and the financial clouds were quickly gathering on the horizon, not the slightest idea of repining entered his mind.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000005|Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000006|It was only during the past summer (nineteen ten) that one of the writers spent a Sunday with him riding over the beautiful New Jersey roads in an automobile, Edison in the highest spirits and pointing out with the keenest enjoyment the many beautiful views of valley and wood.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000007|The wanderings led to the old ore milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. It was a depressing sight, marking such titanic but futile struggles with nature.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000011|Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000012|We learned a great deal.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000015|To stop meant not only to pocket a great loss already incurred, facing a dark and uncertain future, but to most men animated by ordinary human feelings, it meant more than anything else, an injury to personal pride.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000016|Pride?
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000018|He has often said that time meant very little to him, that he had but a small realization of its passage, and that ten or twenty years were as nothing when considering the development of a vital invention.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000001|There are many individuals who derive an intense and not improper pleasure in regalia or military garments, with plenty of gold braid and brass buttons, and thus arrayed, in appearing before their friends and neighbors.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000003|At that occasion it was pointed out to him that he should make every possible sacrifice to go, that the compliment was great, and that but few Americans had been so recognized.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000004|It was hopeless-an appeal based on sentiment.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000005|Before him was something real-work to be accomplished-a problem to be solved.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000001|Any one having these capacities developed to the same extent, with the same opportunities for use, would probably accomplish as much.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000004|It was taken home to Glenmont.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000005|Edison had a few minor corrections to make, probably not more than a dozen all told.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000009|How can such a trait-and scores of similar experiences could be given-be explained except by the fact that, evidently, he felt the need of special schooling in industry-that under no circumstances must he allow a thought of indolence to enter his mind?
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000000|Undoubtedly in the days to come Edison will not only be recognized as an intellectual prodigy, but as a prodigy of industry-of hard work.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000002|His sense of humor is intense, but not of the hothouse, overdeveloped variety.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000003|One of his favorite jokes is to enter the legal department with an air of great humility and apply for a job as an inventor!
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000009|The sanctimonious hypocrite, the sleek speculator, and others whom he has probably encountered in life are done "to the queen's taste."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000047_000000|One very cold winter's day he entered the laboratory library in fine spirits, "doing" the decayed dandy, with imaginary cane under his arm, struggling to put on a pair of tattered imaginary gloves, with a self satisfied smirk and leer that would have done credit to a real comedian.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000047_000001|This particular bit of acting was heightened by the fact that even in the coldest weather he wears thin summer clothes, generally acid worn and more or less disreputable.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000047_000002|For protection he varies the number of his suits of underclothing, sometimes wearing three or four sets, according to the thermometer.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000048_000000|If one could divorce Edison from the idea of work, and could regard him separate and apart from his embodiment as an inventor and man of science, it might truly be asserted that his temperament is essentially mercurial.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000048_000001|Often he is in the highest spirits, with all the spontaneity of youth, and again he is depressed, moody, and violently angry.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000048_000002|Anger with him, however, is a good deal like the story attributed to Napoleon:
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000049_000000|"Sire, how is it that your judgment is not affected by your great rage?" asked one of his courtiers.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000001|Edison has been seen sometimes almost beside himself with anger at a stupid mistake or inexcusable oversight on the part of an assistant, his voice raised to a high pitch, sneeringly expressing his feelings of contempt for the offender; and yet when the culprit, like a bad school boy, has left the room, Edison has immediately returned to his normal poise, and the incident is a thing of the past.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000002|At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000003|When such a fit is on him the word is quickly passed around, and but few of his associates find it necessary to consult with him at the time.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000004|The genuine anger can generally be distinguished from the imitation article by those who know him intimately by the fact that when really enraged his forehead between the eyes partakes of a curious rotary movement that cannot be adequately described in words.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000005|It is as if the storm clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000006|As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000007|But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000008|But in this respect he is singularly free, and his spells of anger are really few.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000010|People who come in contact with him and who may have occasion to oppose his views, may leave with the impression that he is hot tempered; nothing could be further from the truth.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000012|Before the visitor can fully explain his side of the matter some point is brought up that starts Edison off again, and new arguments from his viewpoint are poured forth.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000013|This constant interruption is taken by many to mean that Edison has a small opinion of any arguments that oppose him; but he is only intensely in earnest in presenting his own side.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000014|If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right.
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000015|In fact, after such a controversy, both parties going after each other hammer and tongs, the arguments TO HIM being carried on at the very top of one's voice to enable him to hear, and FROM HIM being equally loud in the excitement of the discussion, he has often said: "I see now that my position was absolutely rotten."
train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000051_000002|In private life they show him to be a good citizen, a good family man, absolutely moral, temperate in all things, and of great charitableness to all mankind.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000004_000001|I REPENT
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000006_000004|The more I thought of my behaviour to them, the more disgusted I became with myself.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000013_000001|"Will you take me with you now?
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000014_000000|"Ah!" he returned, and looked up.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000022_000000|"I doubt it.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000024_000001|No one who will not sleep can ever wake."
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000025_000000|"I do not at all understand you!"
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000028_000000|"No; he is still in the Evil Wood, fighting the dead."
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000030_000000|"You will not find him; but you will hardly miss the wood.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000031_000000|"I cannot understand you!"
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000032_000000|"Naturally not.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000035_000000|"Tell me, please, how to recognise the nearest."
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000036_000003|But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000036_000004|Everybody who is not at home, has to go home.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000039_000000|"Worse and worse!" I cried.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000043_000000|"If I am not to go home, at least direct me to some of my kind."
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000047_000000|"You forget," said the raven, "that, when I brought you and you declined my hospitality, you reached what you call home in safety: now you are come of yourself!
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000047_000001|Good night."
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000048_000000|He turned and walked slowly away, with his beak toward the ground.
train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000048_000001|I stood dazed.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000005_000001|THE SEXTON'S OLD HORSE
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000000|I stood and watched the last gleam of the white leopardess melt away, then turned to follow my guide-but reluctantly.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000001|What had I to do with sleep?
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000003|Besides, no one would wake me, and how could I be certain of waking early-of waking at all?--the sleepers in that house let morning glide into noon, and noon into night, nor ever stirred!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000004|I murmured, but followed, for I knew not what else to do.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000000|The librarian walked on in silence, and I walked silent as he.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000001|Time and space glided past us.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000002|The sun set; it began to grow dark, and I felt in the air the spreading cold of the chamber of death.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000003|My heart sank lower and lower.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000004|I began to lose sight of the lean, long coated figure, and at length could no more hear his swishing stride through the heather. But then I heard instead the slow flapping wings of the raven; and, at intervals, now a firefly, now a gleaming butterfly rose into the rayless air.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000008_000000|By and by the moon appeared, slow crossing the far horizon.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000009_000000|"You are tired, are you not, mr Vane?" said the raven, alighting on a stone.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000009_000001|"You must make acquaintance with the horse that will carry you in the morning!"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000000|He gave a strange whistle through his long black beak.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000001|A spot appeared on the face of the half risen moon.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000002|To my ears came presently the drumming of swift, soft galloping hoofs, and in a minute or two, out of the very disc of the moon, low thundered the terrible horse.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000003|His mane flowed away behind him like the crest of a wind fighting wave, torn seaward in hoary spray, and the whisk of his tail kept blinding the eye of the moon.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000004|Nineteen hands he seemed, huge of bone, tight of skin, hard of muscle-a steed the holy Death himself might choose on which to ride abroad and slay!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000006|Terrifically large, he moved with the lightness of a winged insect.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000007|As he drew near, his speed slackened, and his mane and tail drifted about him settling.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000001|It was pure greed, nay, rank covetousness, an evil thing in all the worlds.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000002|I do not mean that I could have stolen him, but that, regardless of his proper place, I would have bought him if I could.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000003|I laid my hands on him, and stroked the protuberant bones that humped a hide smooth and thin, and shiny as satin-so shiny that the very shape of the moon was reflected in it; I fondled his sharp pointed ears, whispered words in them, and breathed into his red nostrils the breath of a man's life.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000005|What eyes he had!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000006|Blue filmy like the eyes of the dead, behind each was a glowing coal!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000015_000000|"By all means!" he answered.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000016_000001|I twisted my hands in his mane and scrambled onto his back, not without aid from certain protuberant bones.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000017_000000|"He would outspeed any leopard in creation!" I cried.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000018_000000|"Not that way at night," answered the raven; "the road is difficult.--But come; loss now will be gain then!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000018_000002|Go on, my son-straight to the cottage.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000018_000004|It will rejoice my wife's heart to see son of hers on that horse!"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000019_000000|I sat silent.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000019_000001|The horse stood like a block of marble.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000020_000000|"Why do you linger?" asked the raven.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000021_000000|"I long so much to ride after the leopardess," I answered, "that I can scarce restrain myself!"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000022_000000|"You have promised!"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000024_000000|"Yield to the temptation and you will bring mischief upon them-and on yourself also."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000025_000002|I will go."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000026_000000|But the truth was, I forgot the children, infatuate with the horse.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000028_000000|"mr Vane," he said, "do you not know why you have not yet done anything worth doing?"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000029_000000|"Because I have been a fool," I answered.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000031_000000|"In everything."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000032_000000|"Which do you count your most indiscreet action?"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000033_000000|"Bringing the princess to life: I ought to have left her to her just fate."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000034_000000|"Nay, now you talk foolishly!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000034_000001|You could not have done otherwise than you did, not knowing she was evil!--But you never brought any one to life! How could you, yourself dead?"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000036_000000|"Yes," he answered; "and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000037_000000|"Back to the old riddling!" I returned scornfully.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000038_000000|"Be persuaded, and go home with me," he continued gently.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000038_000001|"The most-nearly the only foolish thing you ever did, was to run from our dead."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000039_000001|I gave him a pat on the side of the neck, and he went about in a sharp driven curve, "close to the ground, like a cat when scratchingly she wheels about after a mouse," leaning sideways till his mane swept the tops of the heather.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000040_000000|Through the dark I heard the wings of the raven.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000040_000001|Five quick flaps I heard, and he perched on the horse's head.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000040_000002|The horse checked himself instantly, ploughing up the ground with his feet.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000041_000000|"mr Vane," croaked the raven, "think what you are doing!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000041_000001|Twice already has evil befallen you-once from fear, and once from heedlessness: breach of word is far worse; it is a crime."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000042_000001|"--But indeed I will not break my word to you.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000042_000002|I will return, and spend in your house what nights-what days-what years you please."
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000044_000000|But a false sense of power, a sense which had no root and was merely vibrated into me from the strength of the horse, had, alas, rendered me too stupid to listen to anything he said!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000045_000000|"Would you take from me my last chance of reparation?" I cried.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000045_000001|"This time there shall be no shirking!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000045_000002|It is my duty, and I will go-if I perish for it!"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000046_000000|"Go, then, foolish boy!" he returned, with anger in his croak.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000046_000001|"Take the horse, and ride to failure!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000046_000002|May it be to humility!"
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000047_000000|He spread his wings and flew.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000047_000001|Again I pressed the lean ribs under me.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000048_000000|"After the spotted leopardess!" I whispered in his ear.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000001|Suddenly he quickened his walk; broke into a trot; began to gallop, and in a few moments his speed was tremendous.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000002|He seemed to see in the dark; never stumbled, not once faltered, not once hesitated.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000003|I sat as on the ridge of a wave.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000004|I felt under me the play of each individual muscle: his joints were so elastic, and his every movement glided so into the next, that not once did he jar me.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000006|The wind met and passed us like a tornado.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000000|Across the evil hollow we sped like a bolt from an arblast.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000001|No monster lifted its neck; all knew the hoofs that thundered over their heads!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000002|We rushed up the hills, we shot down their farther slopes; from the rocky chasms of the river bed he did not swerve; he held on over them his fierce, terrible gallop.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000003|The moon, half-way up the heaven, gazed with a solemn trouble in her pale countenance.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000004|Rejoicing in the power of my steed and in the pride of my life, I sat like a king and rode.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000000|We were near the middle of the many channels, my horse every other moment clearing one, sometimes two in his stride, and now and then gathering himself for a great bounding leap, when the moon reached the key stone of her arch.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000001|Then came a wonder and a terror: she began to descend rolling like the nave of Fortune's wheel bowled by the gods, and went faster and faster.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000002|Like our own moon, this one had a human face, and now the broad forehead now the chin was uppermost as she rolled.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000003|I gazed aghast.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000052_000000|Across the ravines came the howling of wolves.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000052_000002|The horse maintained his headlong swiftness, with ears pricked forward, and thirsty nostrils exulting in the wind his career created.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000052_000003|But there was the moon jolting like an old chariot wheel down the hill of heaven, with awful boding!
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000053_000000|The mighty steed was in the act of clearing a wide shallow channel when we were caught in the net of the darkness.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000053_000002|I got up, kneeled beside him, and felt him all over.
train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000053_000003|Not a bone could I find broken, but he was a horse no more.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000000_000001|He was an inveterate old gossip, and was acquainted with the business of everybody in the neighborhood.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000001_000000|While he sat there pondering, the first stroke of the town bell proclaiming the hour was borne upon his ear.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000001_000001|Before the ringing had ceased, he caught the additional sound of a horse's hoofs rapidly advancing up the road.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000002_000000|"Ah," said he to himself, "here he comes.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000002_000001|I reckon his wife'll be apt to give him fits for being so late."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000003_000000|In another moment the horseman drew up before him, but only to exchange a word of greeting, as the gate was thrown wide open, and there was nothing to bar his progress.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000003_000001|The venerable gate keeper had conjectured right.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000003_000002|It was Savareen on his black mare.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000004_000000|"Well, Jonathan, a nice evening," remarked the young farmer.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000000|"Yes, mr Savareen-a lovely night.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000001|You've had a long day of it in town.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000002|They'll be anxious about you at home.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000003|Did you find the money all right, as you expected?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000006_000000|"O, the money was there, right enough, and I've got it in my pocket.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000006_000001|I had some words with that conceited puppy, Shuttleworth, at the bank. He's altogether too big for his place, and I can tell you he'll have the handling of no more money of mine." And then, for about the twentieth time within the last few hours, he recounted the particulars of his interview with the bank clerk.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000007_000000|The old man expressed his entire concurrence in Savareen's estimate of Shuttleworth's conduct.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000007_000001|"I have to pay the gate money into the bank on the first of every month," he remarked, "and that young feller always acts as if he felt too uppish to touch it.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000008_000001|And so it will.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000008_000003|There's never any housebreaking hereabouts."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000009_000000|Jonathan responded by saying that, in so far as he knew, there hadn't been a burglary for many a year.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000010_000000|"But all the same," he continued, "I shouldn't like to keep such a sum as four hundred pound about me, even for a single night.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000010_000001|No more I shouldn't like to carry such a pot o' money home in the night time, even if nobody knew as I had it on me.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000011_000001|"I'll act upon it without more words.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000011_000002|Good night!" And so saying, Savareen continued his course homeward at a brisk trot.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000000|The old man watched him as he sped away up the road, but could not keep him in view more than half a minute or so, as by this time the light of day had wholly departed.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000002|Scarcely had he done so ere he heard the clatter of horse's hoofs moving rapidly towards the gate from the northward.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000003|"Why," said he to himself, "this must be Savareen coming back again.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000004|What's the matter now, I wonder?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000013_000000|But this time he was out in his conjecture.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000015_000000|"O, good evening, mr Lapierre; I didn't know you till you spoke.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000015_000001|My eyesight's getting dimmer every day, I think.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000015_000002|Bound for town?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000016_000003|I suppose you saw him on his way down?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000000|"Saw him!
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000001|On his way down!
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000002|What are you talking about?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000003|Didn't you meet him just now?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000019_000000|"Savareen."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000020_000000|"Where?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000020_000001|When?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000021_000000|"Why, not two minutes ago.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000021_000001|He passed through here on his way home just before you came up."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000023_000000|"How long!
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000023_000001|Why, don't I tell you, not two minutes.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000000|Well, of course, the key to the situation was not hard to find. Savareen had left the toll gate and proceeded northward not more than two or three minutes before Lapierre, riding southward along the same road, had reached the same point.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000001|The two had not encountered each other.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000002|Therefore, one of them had deviated from the road.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000004|But the space of time which had elapsed was too brief to admit of the latter's having ridden more than a hundred yards or thereabouts.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000005|The only outlet from the road within four times that distance was the gateway leading into Stolliver's house.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000006|The explanation, consequently, was simple enough.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000007|Savareen had called in at Stollivers.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000008|q e d
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000000|Strange, though, that he had said nothing to old Jonathan about his intention to call there.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000001|He had ridden off as though intent upon getting home without delay, and hiding his money away in a safe place for the night.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000003|He had never had any business or social relations of any kind with Stolliver, and in fact the two had merely a nodding acquaintance.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000005|However, there was no use raising difficult problems, which could doubt less be solved by a moment's explanation. It was absolutely certain that Savareen was at Stolliver's because he could not possibly have avoided meeting Lapierre if he had not called there.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000006|It was Lapierre's business to find him and take him home. Accordingly the landlord of the Royal Oak turned his horse's head and cantered back up the road till he reached the front of Stolliver's place.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000027_000002|Lapierre, as he drew rein, saw the three figures on the fence, but could not in the darkness, distinguish one from, another.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000028_000000|"Is that Mister Stollifer?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000029_000001|Old Stolliver was a boorish, cross grained customer, who paid slight regard to the amenities, and did not show to advantage in conversation.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000030_000000|"Don't you know me?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000030_000001|I am Mister Lapierre."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000031_000001|Been a warm day."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000032_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000033_000000|"Mister who?"
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000035_000000|"Here?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000037_000001|Hain't seen him."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000038_000000|Lapierre was astounded.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000038_000001|He explained the state of affairs to his interlocuter, who received the communication with his wonted stolidity, and proceeded to light his pipe, as much as to say that the affair was none of his funeral.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000039_000000|"Well," he remarked, with exasperating coolness, "I guess you must 'a' passed him on the road.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000039_000001|We hain't been out here more'n a minute or two. Nobody hain't passed since then."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000000|This seemed incredible.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000001|Where, then, was Savareen?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000002|Had he sunk into the bowels of the earth, or gone up, black mare and all, in a balloon?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000003|Of course it was all nonsense about the landlord having passed him on the road without seeing or hearing anything of him.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000004|But what other explanation did the circumstances admit of?
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000005|At any rate, there was nothing for Lapierre to do but ride back to Savareen's house and see if he had arrived there.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000006|Yes, one other thing might be done.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000007|He might return to the toll gate and ascertain whether Jonathan Perry was certain as to the identity of the man from whom he had parted a few minutes before.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000008|So Count Frontenac's head was once more turned southward.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000009|A short trot brought him again to the toll house.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000010|The gatekeeper was still sitting smoking at the door.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000011|A moment's conference with him was sufficient to convince Lapierre that there could be no question of mistaken identity.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000013|And then, didn't he tell me about his row with Shuttleworth, and that he had the four hundred pounds in his pocket.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000015|"Now," resumed the old man, "just tell mr Lapierre whether you saw mr Savareen talking to me a few minutes since, and whether you saw him ride off up the road just before mr Lapierre came down.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000000|mrs Perry's answer was decisive, and at the same time conclusive as to the facts.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000001|She had not only seen Savareen sitting on his black mare at the door, immediately after the town bell ceased ringing for eight o'clock; but she had listened to the conversation between him and her husband, and had heard pretty nearly every word.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000002|Lapierre cross examined her, and found that her report of the interview exactly corresponded with what he had already heard from old Jonathan.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000004|Depend upon it, mr Lapierre, you've missed him somehow in the darkness, and he's safe and sound at home by this time."
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000043_000000|Lapierre couldn't see it.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000043_000002|The facts, however, seemed to be wholly against him, as he bade the old couple a despondent good night and put Count Frontenac to his mettle.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000043_000004|In five minutes he reached Savareen's front gate.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000000|mrs Savareen was waiting there, on the look out for her husband.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000001|No, of course he had not got home.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000002|She had neither seen nor heard anything of him, and was by this time very uneasy.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000003|You may be sure that her anxiety was not lessened when she heard the strange tale which Lapierre had to tell her.
train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000045_000000|Even then, however, she did not give up the hope of her husband's arrival sometime during the night.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000002_000001|Dorry declared he wished there could be a Valentine's Day every week.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000004_000001|Katy felt the heat very much.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000005_000002|But Katy's long year of schooling had taught her self control, and, as a general thing, her discomforts were borne patiently.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000005_000003|She could not help growing pale and thin however, and Papa saw with concern that, as the summer went on, she became too languid to read, or study, or sew, and just sat hour after hour, with folded hands, gazing wistfully out of the window.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000007_000002|After a while she collected her books again, and tried to study as Cousin Helen had advised.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000007_000003|But so many idle weeks made it seem harder work than ever.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000010_000000|So the arrangement was made.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000011_000001|And if to hurt the back make you study, it would be well that some other of my young ladies shall do the same."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000012_000000|Katy laughed.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000012_000002|It is often so with sick people.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000012_000004|But as months go on, and everything grows an old story, and one day follows another day, all just alike and all tiresome, courage is apt to flag and spirits to grow dull.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000015_000002|Perhaps if you look in her room you'll find it."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000018_000001|She has some fever and a bad pain in her head.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000018_000002|I have told her that she had better lie still, and not try to get up this evening.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000021_000001|Blessings brighten as they take their flight.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000023_000000|"We all want her," said dr Carr, who looked disturbed and anxious.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000027_000001|The three girls didn't know much about sickness, but Papa's grave face, and the hushed house, weighed upon their spirits, and they missed the children very much.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000028_000000|"Oh dear!" sighed Elsie.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000029_000000|"We'll be real good to her when she does, won't we?" said Clover.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000029_000002|And I shall pick up the croquet balls and put them in the box every night."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000031_000001|Little people are apt to feel as if grown folks are so strong and so big, that nothing can possibly happen to them.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000001|For the first time, the three girls, sobbing in each other's arms, realized what a good friend Aunt Izzie had been to them.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000002|Her worrying ways were all forgotten now.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000004|How they wished that they had never teased her, never said sharp words about her to each other!
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000005|But it was no use to wish.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000035_000000|For several days she saw almost nothing of her father.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000035_000001|Clover reported that he looked very tired and scarcely said a word.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000036_000000|"Did Papa eat any dinner?" asked Katy, one afternoon.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000037_000002|And mrs Jackson's boy came for him before we were through."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000038_000003|Oh, and ask Debby to make some cream toast for tea!
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000040_000000|Katy studied his face anxiously.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000040_000001|It seemed to her that it had grown older of late, and there was a sad look upon it, which made her heart ache.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000040_000003|It wasn't much, to be sure, but I think Papa liked it.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000042_000000|"Oh, nothing, much," said Katy.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000042_000001|"I studied my French lesson this morning.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000042_000002|And after school, Elsie and john brought in their patchwork, and we had a 'Bee.' That's all."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000044_000000|"Oh, Papa!" cried Katy, in dismay, "must we have anybody?"
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000045_000000|"Why, how did you suppose we were going to arrange it?
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000045_000002|And beside, she is at school all day."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000050_000002|No, I'll tell you my plan.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000050_000003|I've been thinking about it all day.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000050_000009|Do let me try!
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000054_000001|At the end of a month Katy was eager to go on. So he said,
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000056_000001|Katy had plenty of quiet thinking time for one thing.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000058_000000|As soon as breakfast was over, and the dishes were washed and put away, Debby would tie on a clean apron, and come up stairs for orders.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000059_000003|Where all the things to eat are gone to, I can't imagine!"
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000060_000002|She would stand by the door with her pleasant red face drawn up into a pucker, while Katy read aloud some impossible sounding rule.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000062_000000|"Please, Miss Katy, what's them?"
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000063_000001|It must be something quite common, for it's in almost all the recipes."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000064_000000|"No, Miss Katy, I never heard tell of it before.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000064_000001|Miss Carr never gave me no shell outs at all at all!"
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000000|Poor Debby!
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000002|But she bore her trials meekly, except for an occasional grumble when alone with Bridget.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000003|dr Carr had to eat a great many queer things in those days.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000005|Dinner time became quite exciting, when nobody could tell exactly what any dish on the table was made of.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000006|Dorry, who was a sort of dr Livingstone where strange articles of food were concerned, usually made the first experiment, and if he said that it was good, the rest followed suit.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000067_000000|After a while Katy grew wiser.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000068_000000|"My dear, you are overdoing it sadly," he said, as Katy opened her book and prepared to explain her views; "I am glad to have the children eat simple food-but really, boiled rice five times in a week is too much."
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000069_000002|She also fidgeted the children about wearing india rubbers, and keeping on their coats, and behaved altogether as if the cares of the world were on her shoulders.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000070_000001|Katy was too much in earnest not to improve.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000070_000002|Month by month she learned how to manage a little better, and a little better still.
train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000070_000004|Her cares ceased to fret her.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000001_000000|Though she would not for the world have owned it to her parents, Undine was disappointed in the Fairford dinner.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000002_000000|The house, to begin with, was small and rather shabby.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000003_000001|Undine was too young to take note of culinary details, but she had expected to view the company through a bower of orchids and eat pretty coloured entrees in ruffled papers. Instead, there was only a low centre dish of ferns, and plain roasted and broiled meat that one could recognize-as if they'd been dyspeptics on a diet!
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000003_000002|With all the hints in the Sunday papers, she thought it dull of mrs Fairford not to have picked up something newer; and as the evening progressed she began to suspect that it wasn't a real "dinner party," and that they had just asked her in to share what they had when they were alone.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000000|But a glance about the table convinced her that mrs Fairford could not have meant to treat her other guests so lightly.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000001|They were only eight in number, but one was no less a person than young mrs peter Van Degen-the one who had been a Dagonet-and the consideration which this young lady, herself one of the choicest ornaments of the Society Column, displayed toward the rest of the company, convinced Undine that they must be more important than they looked.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000002|She liked mrs Fairford, a small incisive woman, with a big nose and good teeth revealed by frequent smiles.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000003|In her dowdy black and antiquated ornaments she was not what Undine would have called "stylish"; but she had a droll kind way which reminded the girl of her father's manner when he was not tired or worried about money.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000005_000001|She had not expected much of mr Fairford, since married men were intrinsically uninteresting, and his baldness and grey moustache seemed naturally to relegate him to the background; but she had looked for some brilliant youths of her own age-in her inmost heart she had looked for mr Popple.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000006_000000|Undine sat between mr Bowen and young Marvell, who struck her as very "sweet" (it was her word for friendliness), but even shyer than at the hotel dance.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000000|mrs Fairford talked so well that the girl wondered why mrs Heeny had found her lacking in conversation.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000001|But though Undine thought silent people awkward she was not easily impressed by verbal fluency.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000002|All the ladies in Apex City were more voluble than mrs Fairford, and had a larger vocabulary: the difference was that with mrs Fairford conversation seemed to be a concert and not a solo.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000004|She took particular pains to give Undine her due part in the performance; but the girl's expansive impulses were always balanced by odd reactions of mistrust, and to night the latter prevailed.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000008_000000|This state of lucidity enabled her to take note of all that was being said.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000009_000000|"Yes-he's doing me," mrs peter Van Degen was saying, in her slightly drawling voice.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000009_000001|"He's doing everybody this year, you know-"
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000011_000000|"That delightful Popple-he paints so exactly as he talks!" the white haired lady took it up.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000011_000001|"All his portraits seem to proclaim what a gentleman he is, and how he fascinates women!
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000011_000002|They're not pictures of mrs or Miss So and so, but simply of the impression Popple thinks he's made on them."
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000012_000000|mrs Fairford smiled.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000014_000000|Something in her tone made all Undine's perceptions bristle, and she strained her ears for the answer.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000015_000000|"I think he'll do you capitally-you must let me come and see some day soon." Marvell's tone was always so light, so unemphasized, that she could not be sure of its being as indifferent as it sounded.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000015_000001|She looked down at the fruit on her plate and shot a side glance through her lashes at mrs peter Van Degen.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000016_000000|mrs Van Degen was neither beautiful nor imposing: just a dark girlish looking creature with plaintive eyes and a fidgety frequent laugh.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000016_000001|But she was more elaborately dressed and jewelled than the other ladies, and her elegance and her restlessness made her seem less alien to Undine.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000016_000002|She had turned on Marvell a gaze at once pleading and possessive; but whether betokening merely an inherited intimacy (Undine had noticed that they were all more or less cousins) or a more personal feeling, her observer was unable to decide; just as the tone of the young man's reply might have expressed the open avowal of good fellowship or the disguise of a different sentiment.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000000|Yet in the drawing room, with the ladies, where mrs Fairford came and sat by her, the spirit of caution once more prevailed.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000001|She wanted to be noticed but she dreaded to be patronized, and here again her hostess's gradations of tone were confusing.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000003|Undine did not even know that there were any pictures to be seen, much less that "people" went to see them; and she had read no new book but "When The Kissing Had to Stop," of which mrs Fairford seemed not to have heard.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000005|The conversation was revived for a moment by her recalling that she had seen Sarah Bernhard in a play she called "Leg long," and another which she pronounced "Fade"; but even this did not carry them far, as she had forgotten what both plays were about and had found the actress a good deal older than she expected.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000018_000002|This discovery resulted in her holding her vivid head very high, and answering "I couldn't really say," or "Is that so?" to all mr Fairford's ventures; and as these were neither numerous nor striking it was a relief to both when the rising of the elderly lady gave the signal for departure.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000019_000000|In the hall, where young Marvell had managed to precede her.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000019_000001|Undine found mrs Van Degen putting on her cloak.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000020_000000|"Ralphie, dear, you'll come to the opera with me on Friday?
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000020_000001|We'll dine together first-Peter's got a club dinner." They exchanged what seemed a smile of intelligence, and Undine heard the young man accept.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000020_000002|Then mrs Van Degen turned to her.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000021_000000|"Good bye, Miss Spragg.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000021_000001|I hope you'll come-"
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000022_000000|"--TO DINE WITH ME TOO?" That must be what she was going to say, and Undine's heart gave a bound.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000023_000000|"--to see me some afternoon," mrs Van Degen ended, going down the steps to her motor, at the door of which a much furred footman waited with more furs on his arm.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000024_000000|Undine's face burned as she turned to receive her cloak.
train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000024_000002|He was going to "escort" her home, of course!
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000006_000001|In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000007_000000|The three gentlemen took the road to Picardy, a road so well known to them and which recalled to Athos and Aramis some of the most picturesque adventures of their youth.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000008_000000|"If Mousqueton were with us," observed Athos, on reaching the spot where they had had a dispute with the paviers, "how he would tremble at passing this!
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000010_000000|It was soon time for Grimaud to recall the past.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000013_000001|Boulogne was a strong position, then almost a deserted town, built entirely on the heights; what is now called the lower town did not then exist.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000016_000000|Athos and Aramis walked down toward the port.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000016_000003|This man, whom they had noticed from the first for the same reason they had themselves been remarked by others, was walking in a listless way up and down the jetty. From the moment he perceived them he did not cease to look at them and seemed to burn with the wish to speak to them.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000017_000000|On reaching the jetty Athos and Aramis stopped to look at a little boat made fast to a pile and ready rigged as if waiting to start.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000020_000000|"Hush!" said Athos, "we are overheard."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000021_000000|In truth, the walker, who, during the observations of the two friends, had passed and repassed behind them several times, stopped at the name of De Winter; but as his face betrayed no emotion at mention of this name, it might have been by chance he stood so still.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000026_000000|"He is and he is not," replied Athos; "that is to say, he is dismissed by one half of France, but by intrigues and promises he makes the other half sustain him; you will perceive that this may last a long time."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000033_000000|"Nothing warranted me to answer him otherwise; he was polite to me and I was so to him."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000034_000000|"But if he be a spy----"
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000036_000000|"It matters not; you were wrong to reply to him as you did," continued Aramis, following with his eyes the young man, now vanishing behind the cliffs.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000039_000000|"A quarrel?" asked Athos.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000041_000000|"I am always afraid of a quarrel when I am expected at any place and when such a quarrel might possibly prevent my reaching it.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000044_000000|"In beauty or on the contrary?" asked Aramis, laughing.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000046_000000|"Ah! Egad!" cried Aramis, "you set me thinking.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000049_000000|"Ah! here is De Winter coming," said Athos.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000051_000001|"I see them about twenty paces behind my lord.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000051_000003|Tony carries our muskets."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000055_000000|Athos smiled sadly, for it was evident that he was thinking of other things as he listened to his friend and moved toward De Winter.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000057_000000|When De Winter perceived them, in his turn he advanced toward them with surprising rapidity.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000060_000000|Athos glanced at Aramis.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000061_000000|"But let us go," continued De Winter; "let us be off; the boat must be waiting for us and there is our sloop at anchor-do you see it there?
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000063_000000|They had reached the ladder which led to the boat.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000064_000000|At this moment Athos perceived a man walking on the seashore parallel to the jetty, and hastening his steps, as if to reach the other side of the port, scarcely twenty steps from the place of embarking.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000064_000002|The latter, to make a short cut, had appeared on a sluice.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000065_000000|"He certainly bodes us no good," said Athos; "but let us embark; once out at sea, let him come."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000066_000000|And Athos sprang into the boat, which was immediately pushed off and which soon sped seawards under the efforts of four stalwart rowers.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000067_000001|She was obliged to pass between the point of the jetty, surmounted by a beacon just lighted, and a rock which jutted out.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000070_000000|"He who followed us and spoke to us awaits us there; behold!"
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000071_000001|The beacon bathed with light the little strait through which they were about to pass and the rock where the young man stood with bare head and crossed arms.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000075_000000|"The monk!" exclaimed Grimaud.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000082_000000|"Fire!" cried Grimaud, unconsciously.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000087_000000|"Yes, but the son has done us no harm."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000089_000000|The young man burst into a laugh.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000090_000000|"Ah, it is certainly you!" he cried.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000098_000000|"Hold, Athos," said Aramis, "perhaps there is yet time.
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000098_000001|See if he is still in the same place."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000101_000000|"Hold your tongue," replied Aramis; "you would make me weep, if such a thing were possible."
train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000102_000002|At this instant the three friends turned, in spite of themselves, a last look on the rock, upon the menacing figure which pursued them and now stood out with a distinctness still.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000003_000000|forty five.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000006_000000|D'Artagnan would have preferred money in hand to all that fine talk, for he knew well that to Mazarin it was easy to promise and hard to perform. But, though he held the cardinal's promises as of little worth, he affected to be completely satisfied, for he was unwilling to discourage Porthos.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000007_000000|Whilst the two friends were with the cardinal, the queen sent for him. Mazarin, thinking that it would be the means of increasing the zeal of his two defenders if he procured them personal thanks from the queen, motioned them to follow him.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000007_000001|D'Artagnan and Porthos pointed to their dusty and torn dresses, but the cardinal shook his head.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000008_000000|"Those costumes," he said, "are of more worth than most of those which you will see on the backs of the queen's courtiers; they are costumes of battle."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000009_000000|D'Artagnan and Porthos obeyed.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000009_000001|The court of Anne of Austria was full of gayety and animation; for, after having gained a victory over the Spaniard, it had just gained another over the people.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000011_000001|Without him I should probably at this moment be a dead fish in the nets at Saint Cloud, for it was a question of nothing less than throwing me into the river.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000011_000002|Speak, D'Artagnan, speak."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000014_000000|"Madame," replied D'Artagnan, "I have nought to say, save that my life is ever at your majesty's service, and that I shall only be happy the day I lose it for you."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000015_000000|"I know that, sir; I have known that," said the queen, "a long time; therefore I am delighted to be able thus publicly to mark my gratitude and my esteem."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000016_000000|"Permit me, madame," said D'Artagnan, "to reserve a portion for my friend; like myself" (he laid an emphasis on these words) "an ancient musketeer of the company of Treville; he has done wonders."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000000|"These names are too numerous for me to remember them all, and I will content myself with the first," said the queen, graciously.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000001|Porthos bowed.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000002|At this moment the coadjutor was announced; a cry of surprise ran through the royal assemblage.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000003|Although the coadjutor had preached that same morning it was well known that he leaned much to the side of the Fronde; and Mazarin, in requesting the archbishop of Paris to make his nephew preach, had evidently had the intention of administering to Monsieur de Retz one of those Italian kicks he so much enjoyed giving.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000021_000001|Although almost engaged to the leaders of the Fronde he had not gone so far but that retreat was possible should the court offer him the advantages for which he was ambitious and to which the coadjutorship was but a stepping stone.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000021_000002|Monsieur de Retz wished to become archbishop in his uncle's place, and cardinal, like Mazarin; and the popular party could with difficulty accord him favors so entirely royal.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000021_000003|He therefore hastened to the palace to congratulate the queen on the battle of Lens, determined beforehand to act with or against the court, as his congratulations were well or ill received.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000022_000000|The coadjutor possessed, perhaps, as much wit as all those put together who were assembled at the court to laugh at him.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000022_000001|His speech, therefore, was so well turned, that in spite of the great wish felt by the courtiers to laugh, they could find no point on which to vent their ridicule.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000022_000002|He concluded by saying that he placed his feeble influence at her majesty's command.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000023_000002|The Count de Villeroy said that "he did not know how any fear could be entertained for a moment, when the court had, to defend itself against the parliament and the citizens of Paris, his holiness the coadjutor, who by a signal could raise an army of curates, church porters and vergers."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000024_000000|The Marechal de la Meilleraie added that in case the coadjutor should appear on the field of battle it would be a pity that he should not be distinguished in the melee by wearing a red hat, as Henry the fourth. had been distinguished by his white plume at the battle of Ivry.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000025_000000|During this storm, Gondy, who had it in his power to make it most unpleasant for the jesters, remained calm and stern.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000025_000001|The queen at last asked him if he had anything to add to the fine discourse he had just made to her.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000026_000000|"Yes, madame," replied the coadjutor; "I have to beg you to reflect twice ere you cause a civil war in the kingdom."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000028_000000|The coadjutor bowed and left the palace, casting upon the cardinal such a glance as is best understood by mortal foes.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000028_000001|That glance was so sharp that it penetrated the heart of Mazarin, who, reading in it a declaration of war, seized D'Artagnan by the arm and said:
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000029_000000|"If occasion requires, monsieur, you will remember that man who has just gone out, will you not?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000030_000000|"Yes, my lord," he replied.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000030_000001|Then, turning toward Porthos, "The devil!" said he, "this has a bad look.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000030_000002|I dislike these quarrels among men of the church."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000032_000000|"Oh!" he murmured, as he left the threshold of the palace: "ungrateful court! faithless court! cowardly court!
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000033_000000|But whilst they were indulging in extravagant joy at the Palais Royal, to increase the hilarity of the queen, Mazarin, a man of sense, and whose fear, moreover, gave him foresight, lost no time in making idle and dangerous jokes; he went out after the coadjutor, settled his account, locked up his gold, and had confidential workmen to contrive hiding places in his walls.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000034_000001|He hastened to his cabinet.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000034_000002|Broussel's son was there, still furious, and still bearing bloody marks of his struggle with the king's officers.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000034_000003|The only precaution he had taken in coming to the archbishopric was to leave his arquebuse in the hands of a friend.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000035_000000|The coadjutor went to him and held out his hand.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000035_000001|The young man gazed at him as if he would have read the secret of his heart.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000036_000000|"My dear Monsieur Louvieres," said the coadjutor, "believe me, I am truly concerned for the misfortune which has happened to you."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000037_000000|"Is that true, and do you speak seriously?" asked Louvieres.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000038_000000|"From the depth of my heart," said Gondy.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000039_000000|"In that case, my lord, the time for words has passed and the hour for action is at hand; my lord, in three days, if you wish it, my father will be out of prison and in six months you may be cardinal."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000040_000000|The coadjutor started.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000041_000000|"Oh! let us speak frankly," continued Louvieres, "and act in a straightforward manner.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000041_000001|Thirty thousand crowns in alms is not given, as you have done for the last six months, out of pure Christian charity; that would be too grand.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000041_000003|As for me, I hate the court and have but one desire at this moment-vengeance.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000044_000000|"You have been preparing long enough, my lord, for it to be welcome to you now."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000045_000000|"Never mind," said the coadjutor; "you must be well aware that this requires reflection."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000046_000000|"And how many hours of reflection do you ask?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000049_000000|"If I should not be in, wait for me."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000050_000000|"Good! at midnight, my lord."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000052_000001|Two hours later, thirty officiating ministers from the most populous, and consequently the most disturbed parishes of Paris had assembled there.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000052_000003|The curates asked him what was to be done.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000053_000001|"You are the directors of all consciences.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000053_000002|Well, undermine in them the miserable prejudice of respect and fear of kings; teach your flocks that the queen is a tyrant; and repeat often and loudly, so that all may know it, that the misfortunes of France are caused by Mazarin, her lover and her destroyer; begin this work to day, this instant even, and in three days I shall expect the result.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000053_000003|For the rest, if any one of you have further or better counsel to expound, I will listen to him with the greatest pleasure."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000055_000000|"You think, then, that you can help me more efficaciously than your brothers?" said Gondy.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000056_000000|"We hope so," answered the curates.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000057_000000|"Let us hear.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000058_000000|"My lord, I have in my parish a man who might be of the greatest use to you."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000059_000000|"Who and what is this man?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000061_000000|"What is his name?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000063_000000|"And can you find him?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000065_000000|"Very well, sir, find this man, and when you have found him bring him to me."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000066_000000|"We will be with you at six o'clock, my lord."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000067_000000|"Go, my dear curate, and may God assist you!"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000069_000001|Him I can place at your disposal; it is Count de Rochefort."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000071_000000|"My lord, he has been for three days at the Rue Cassette."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000072_000000|"And wherefore has he not been to see me?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000073_000000|"He was told-my lord will pardon me----"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000074_000000|"Certainly, speak."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000075_000000|"That your lordship was about to treat with the court."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000076_000000|Gondy bit his lips.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000079_000000|"Better, my lord."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000083_000000|"Exactly your man."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000088_000000|"Yes, I have heard it said," replied the coadjutor.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000089_000000|"Well, the man whom I offer you is a general syndic."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000090_000000|"And what do you know of him?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000091_000000|"Nothing, my lord, except that he is tormented with remorse."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000092_000000|"What makes you think so?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000096_000000|"And think you that we should find him at this hour at his post?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000097_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000098_000000|"Let us go and see your beggar, sir, and if he is such as you describe him, you are right-it will be you who have discovered the true treasure."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000099_000000|Gondy dressed himself as an officer, put on a felt cap with a red feather, hung on a long sword, buckled spurs to his boots, wrapped himself in an ample cloak and followed the curate.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000100_000001|The people were in an excited mood, but, like a swarm of frightened bees, seemed not to know at what point to concentrate; and it was very evident that if leaders of the people were not provided all this agitation would pass off in idle buzzing.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000101_000000|On arriving at the Rue des Prouvaires, the curate pointed toward the square before the church.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000102_000000|"Stop!" he said, "there he is at his post."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000105_000001|I believe this man paid his predecessor a hundred pistoles for his."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000106_000000|"The rascal is rich, then?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000107_000000|"Some of those men sometimes die worth twenty thousand and twenty five and thirty thousand francs and sometimes more."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000109_000000|In the meantime they were advancing toward the square, and the moment the coadjutor and the curate put their feet on the first church step the mendicant arose and proffered his brush.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000110_000000|He was a man between sixty six and sixty eight years of age, little, rather stout, with gray hair and light eyes.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000110_000001|His countenance denoted the struggle between two opposite principles-a wicked nature, subdued by determination, perhaps by repentance.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000113_000000|"With me!" said the mendicant; "it is a great honor for a poor distributor of holy water."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000114_000000|There was an ironical tone in his voice which he could not quite disguise and which astonished the coadjutor.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000115_000000|"Yes," continued the curate, apparently accustomed to this tone, "yes, we wish to know your opinion of the events of to day and what you have heard said by people going in and out of the church."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000116_000000|The mendicant shook his head.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000117_000001|As to what is said, everybody is discontented, everybody complains, but 'everybody' means 'nobody.'"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000119_000000|"I mean that all these cries, all these complaints, these curses, produce nothing but storms and flashes and that is all; but the lightning will not strike until there is a hand to guide it."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000120_000000|"My friend," said Gondy, "you seem to be a clever and a thoughtful man; are you disposed to take a part in a little civil war, should we have one, and put at the command of the leader, should we find one, your personal influence and the influence you have acquired over your comrades?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000121_000000|"Yes, sir, provided this war were approved of by the church and would advance the end I wish to attain-I mean, the remission of my sins."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000122_000000|"The war will not only be approved of, but directed by the church.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000122_000001|As for the remission of your sins, we have the archbishop of Paris, who has the very greatest power at the court of Rome, and even the coadjutor, who possesses some plenary indulgences; we will recommend you to him."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000126_000000|"I think they have some esteem for me," said the mendicant with pride, "and that not only will they obey me, but wherever I go they will follow me."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000127_000000|"And could you count on fifty resolute men, good, unemployed, but active souls, brawlers, capable of bringing down the walls of the Palais Royal by crying, 'Down with Mazarin,' as fell those at Jericho?"
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000128_000000|"I think," said the beggar, "I can undertake things more difficult and more important than that."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000130_000000|"I will undertake to throw up fifty, and when the day comes, to defend them."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000132_000000|"I answer for him," said the curate.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000134_000000|"It must be on some elevated place, whence a given signal may be seen in every part of Paris."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000136_000000|"Capital," answered the mendicant.
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000137_000000|"Then," said the coadjutor, "this evening, at ten o'clock, and if I am pleased with you another bag of five hundred pistoles will be at your disposal."
train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000138_000000|The eyes of the mendicant dashed with cupidity, but he quickly suppressed his emotion.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000000_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000004_000000|DIMPLE.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000005_000000|one hundred two.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000006_000000|one hundred three.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000006_000001|A dimple in the chin is lucky.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000006_000002|Some say "it shows you're no fool."
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000007_000000|one hundred four.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000008_000000|EARS.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000009_000001|Small ears indicate that a person is stingy.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000010_000000|one hundred six.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000011_000000|one hundred seven.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000012_000000|one hundred eight.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000013_000000|EYES AND EYEBROWS.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000015_000000|one hundred ten.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000016_000000|one hundred eleven.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000016_000001|A well-known children's rhyme runs:--
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000018_000000|one hundred twelve.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000019_000000|one hundred thirteen.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000020_000000|one hundred fourteen.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000021_000000|FINGER NAILS.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000022_000000|one hundred fifteen.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000023_000000|one hundred sixteen.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000023_000001|A white spot in the nail, when it comes, means a present.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000024_000000|one hundred seventeen.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000025_000001|Count on finger nail spots:--
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000028_000000|one hundred nineteen.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000028_000001|Another formula:--
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000030_000000|An almost identical variant is found in Prince Edward Island.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000031_000000|FOOT.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000032_000000|one hundred twenty.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000033_000000|one hundred twenty one.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000034_000000|FOREHEAD.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000035_000000|one hundred twenty two.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000036_000000|one hundred twenty three.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000036_000001|Vertical wrinkles in the brow show the number of husbands one will have.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000037_000000|HAIR.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000038_000000|one hundred twenty four.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000039_000000|one hundred twenty five.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000040_000000|one hundred twenty six.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000041_000000|one hundred twenty seven.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000041_000001|The color of the hair growing on the neck indicates the color of the hair of one's future husband.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000042_000000|one hundred twenty eight.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000042_000001|A single white hair means genius; it must not be pulled out.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000043_000000|one hundred twenty nine.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000044_000000|one hundred thirty.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000045_000000|one hundred thirty one.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000050_000000|one hundred thirty five.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000051_000000|one hundred thirty six.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000052_000000|one hundred thirty seven.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000052_000001|Put some of your hair in the fire.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000052_000002|If it burns slowly you will have a long life.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000053_000000|HAND.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000057_000001|In clasping your own hand, you put uppermost either your right or your left thumb.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000061_000001|Clasp your fingers, and if the right thumb lap over the left you were born in the daytime.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000061_000002|If the left overlap, you were born at night.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000063_000001|If the ends of the fingers are capable of being bent far back, it indicates a thief.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000064_000000|MOLES.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000065_000001|A mole on the eyebrow denotes that one will be hanged.
train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000066_000001|Mole above breath Means wealth.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000000_000000|CHAPTER ten DON DIEGO
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000001_000001|Then he uttered a moan, and closed his eyes again, impelled to this by the monstrous ache in his head.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000001|And yet, stirrings of memory coming now to the assistance of reflection, compelled him uneasily to insist that here something was not as it should be.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000002|The low position of the sun, flooding the cabin with golden light from those square ports astern, suggested to him at first that it was early morning, on the assumption that the vessel was headed westward.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000003|Then the alternative occurred to him.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000004|They might be sailing eastward, in which case the time of day would be late afternoon. That they were sailing he could feel from the gentle forward heave of the vessel under him.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000004_000000|His mind went back over the adventure of yesterday, if of yesterday it was.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000004_000001|He was clear on the matter of the easily successful raid upon the Island of Barbados; every detail stood vividly in his memory up to the moment at which, returning aboard, he had stepped on to his own deck again.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000004_000002|There memory abruptly and inexplicably ceased.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000005_000000|He was beginning to torture his mind with conjecture, when the door opened, and to Don Diego's increasing mystification he beheld his best suit of clothes step into the cabin.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000006_000000|The suit paused to close the door, then advanced towards the couch on which Don Diego was extended, and inside the suit came a tall, slender gentleman of about Don Diego's own height and shape.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000006_000001|Seeing the wide, startled eyes of the Spaniard upon him, the gentleman lengthened his stride.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000008_000001|But he was too bewildered to make any answer.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000009_000000|The stranger's fingers touched the top of Don Diego's head, whereupon Don Diego winced and cried out in pain.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000010_000001|He took Don Diego's wrist between thumb and second finger.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000010_000002|And then, at last, the intrigued Spaniard spoke.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000011_000000|"Are you a doctor?"
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000012_000000|"Among other things." The swarthy gentleman continued his study of the patient's pulse.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000012_000001|"Firm and regular," he announced at last, and dropped the wrist.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000012_000002|"You've taken no great harm."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000013_000000|Don Diego struggled up into a sitting position on the red velvet couch.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000014_000001|"And what the devil are you doing in my clothes and aboard my ship?"
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000016_000001|This is not your ship.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000016_000002|This is my ship, and these are my clothes."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000000|"Your ship?" quoth the other, aghast, and still more aghast he added: "Your clothes?
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000001|But... then...." Wildly his eyes looked about him.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000002|They scanned the cabin once again, scrutinizing each familiar object.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000003|"Am I mad?" he asked at last.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000004|"Surely this ship is the Cinco Llagas?"
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000018_000000|"The Cinco Llagas it is."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000019_000000|"Then...."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000019_000001|The Spaniard broke off.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000019_000003|"Will you tell me also that you are Don Diego de Espinosa?"
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000020_000000|"Oh, no, my name is Blood-Captain peter Blood.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000020_000001|This ship, like this handsome suit of clothes, is mine by right of conquest.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000020_000002|Just as you, Don Diego, are my prisoner."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000021_000000|Startling as was the explanation, yet it proved soothing to Don Diego, being so much less startling than the things he was beginning to imagine.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000022_000000|"But...
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000022_000001|Are you not Spanish, then?"
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000023_000000|"You flatter my Castilian accent.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000023_000003|So it has-a miracle wrought by my genius, which is considerable."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000024_000001|It was a narrative that painted red and white by turns the Spaniard's countenance.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000024_000002|He put a hand to the back of his head, and there discovered, in confirmation of the story, a lump as large as a pigeon's egg.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000024_000003|Lastly, he stared wild eyed at the sardonic Captain Blood.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000025_000000|"And my son?
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000025_000002|"He was in the boat that brought me aboard."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000001|He composed himself.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000002|After all, he possessed the stoicism proper to his desperate trade.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000003|The dice had fallen against him in this venture.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000005|He accepted the situation with the fortitude of a fatalist.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000028_000000|With the utmost calm he enquired:
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000030_000001|For it means that you'll be put to the trouble of dying all over again."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000031_000000|"Ah!" Don Diego drew a deep breath.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000031_000001|"But is that necessary?" he asked, without apparent perturbation.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000032_000000|Captain Blood's blue eyes approved his bearing.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000000|Captain Blood perched himself on the edge of the long oak table.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000002|You and your ten surviving scoundrels are a menace on this ship. More than that, she is none so well found in water and provisions.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000003|True, we are fortunately a small number, but you and your party inconveniently increase it.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000004|So that on every hand, you see, prudence suggests to us that we should deny ourselves the pleasure of your company, and, steeling our soft hearts to the inevitable, invite you to be so obliging as to step over the side."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000035_000000|"I see," said the Spaniard pensively.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000035_000001|He swung his legs from the couch, and sat now upon the edge of it, his elbows on his knees.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000035_000003|"I confess," he admitted, "that there is much force in what you say."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000036_000000|"You take a load from my mind," said Captain Blood.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000037_000000|"But, my friend, I did not agree so much."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000039_000000|Don Diego stroked his pointed black beard.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000040_000001|My head aches so damnably that I am incapable of thought.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000041_000000|Captain Blood stood up.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000041_000001|From a shelf he took a half hour glass, reversed it so that the bulb containing the red sand was uppermost, and stood it on the table.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000043_000000|Captain Blood bowed, went out, and locked the door.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000043_000002|And what time he watched, the lines in his lean brown face grew deeper.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000043_000003|Punctually as the last grains ran out, the door reopened.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000044_000000|The Spaniard sighed, and sat upright to face the returning Captain Blood with the answer for which he came.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000045_000000|"I have thought of an alternative, sir captain; but it depends upon your charity.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000045_000001|It is that you put us ashore on one of the islands of this pestilent archipelago, and leave us to shift for ourselves."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000046_000000|Captain Blood pursed his lips.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000046_000001|"It has its difficulties," said he slowly.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000047_000000|"I feared it would be so." Don Diego sighed again, and stood up.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000048_000000|The light blue eyes played over him like points of steel.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000051_000000|"The question is offensive, sir."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000052_000000|"Then let me put it in another way-perhaps more happily: You do not desire to live?"
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000053_000000|"Ah, that I can answer.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000053_000001|I do desire to live; and even more do I desire that my son may live.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000053_000002|But the desire shall not make a coward of me for your amusement, master mocker." It was the first sign he had shown of the least heat or resentment.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000054_000001|As before he perched himself on the corner of the table.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000056_000000|"To earn it?" said Don Diego, and the watchful blue eyes did not miss the quiver that ran through him.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000056_000001|"To earn it, do you say?
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000056_000002|Why, if the service you would propose is one that cannot hurt my honour...."
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000000|"Could I be guilty of that?" protested the Captain.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000001|"I realize that even a pirate has his honour." And forthwith he propounded his offer.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000004|All day we have been sailing east before the wind with but one intent-to set as great a distance between Barbados and ourselves as possible.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000009|And so it comes to this: We desire to make for the Dutch settlement of Curacao as straightly as possible.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000010|Will you pledge me your honour, if I release you upon parole, that you will navigate us thither?
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000058_000000|Don Diego bowed his head upon his breast, and strode away in thought to the stern windows.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000058_000002|That was in one scale; in the other were the lives of sixteen men.
train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000058_000003|Fourteen of them mattered little to him, but the remaining two were his own and his son's.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000032_000000|THEOSOPHY.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000033_000002|The name is from the Greek word theosophia-divine wisdom-and the object of theosophical study is professedly to understand the nature of divine things.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000033_000008|Since the Christian era we may class among theosophists such sects as Neo Platonists, the Hesychasts of the Greek Church, the Mystics of mediaeval times, and, in later times, the disciples of Paracelsus, Thalhauser, Bohme, Swedenborg and others.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000033_000012|It need hardly be said that the revelations they have claimed to receive have been, thus far, without element of benefit to the human race.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000004|The first writer to suggest the transmutation of species among animals was Buffon, about seventeen fifty, and other writers followed out the idea.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000005|The eccentric Lord Monboddo was the first to suggest the possible descent of man from the ape, about seventeen seventy four. In eighteen thirteen dr w c Wells first proposed to apply the principle of natural selection to the natural history of man, and in eighteen twenty two Professor Herbert first asserted the probable transmutation of species of plants.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000007|The authorship of this book was never revealed until after the death of Robert Chambers, a few years since, it became known that this publisher, whom no one would ever have suspected of holding such heterodox theories, had actually written it.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000008|But the two great apostles of the evolution theory were Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000012|It is taken to be an established fact in nature, a valid induction from man's knowledge of natural order.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000036_000000|THE ENGLISH SPARROW.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000037_000000|The first English sparrow was brought to the United States in eighteen fifty, but it was not until eighteen seventy that the species can be said to have firmly established itself.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000037_000001|Since then it has taken possession of the country. Its fecundity is amazing.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000037_000002|In the latitude of New York and southward it hatches, as a rule, five or six broods in a season, with from four to six young in a brood.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000038_000000|FEMININE HEIGHT AND WEIGHT.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000039_000000|It is often asked how stout a woman ought to be in proportion to her height.
train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000041_000000|WHEN A MAN BECOMES OF AGE.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000001_000000|Chapter one: Why Democratic Nations Show A More Ardent And Enduring Love Of Equality Than Of Liberty
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000002_000002|Everybody has remarked that in our time, and especially in France, this passion for equality is every day gaining ground in the human heart.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000000|It is possible to imagine an extreme point at which freedom and equality would meet and be confounded together.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000002|As none is different from his fellows, none can exercise a tyrannical power: men will be perfectly free, because they will all be entirely equal; and they will all be perfectly equal, because they will be entirely free.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000003|To this ideal state democratic nations tend.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000004|Such is the completest form that equality can assume upon earth; but there are a thousand others which, without being equally perfect, are not less cherished by those nations.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000000|The principle of equality may be established in civil society, without prevailing in the political world.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000002|A kind of equality may even be established in the political world, though there should be no political freedom there.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000003|A man may be the equal of all his countrymen save one, who is the master of all without distinction, and who selects equally from among them all the agents of his power.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000004|Several other combinations might be easily imagined, by which very great equality would be united to institutions more or less free, or even to institutions wholly without freedom. Although men cannot become absolutely equal unless they be entirely free, and consequently equality, pushed to its furthest extent, may be confounded with freedom, yet there is good reason for distinguishing the one from the other.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000005_000002|Freedom cannot, therefore, form the distinguishing characteristic of democratic ages.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000005_000004|Ask not what singular charm the men of democratic ages find in being equal, or what special reasons they may have for clinging so tenaciously to equality rather than to the other advantages which society holds out to them: equality is the distinguishing characteristic of the age they live in; that, of itself, is enough to explain that they prefer it to all the rest.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000000|But independently of this reason there are several others, which will at all times habitually lead men to prefer equality to freedom.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000002|Its social condition must be modified, its laws abolished, its opinions superseded, its habits changed, its manners corrupted.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000003|But political liberty is more easily lost; to neglect to hold it fast is to allow it to escape.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000004|Men therefore not only cling to equality because it is dear to them; they also adhere to it because they think it will last forever.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000000|That political freedom may compromise in its excesses the tranquillity, the property, the lives of individuals, is obvious to the narrowest and most unthinking minds.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000002|They know that the calamities they apprehend are remote, and flatter themselves that they will only fall upon future generations, for which the present generation takes but little thought.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000004|The evils which extreme equality may produce are slowly disclosed; they creep gradually into the social frame; they are only seen at intervals, and at the moment at which they become most violent habit already causes them to be no longer felt.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000010|Men cannot enjoy political liberty unpurchased by some sacrifices, and they never obtain it without great exertions.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000011|But the pleasures of equality are self proffered: each of the petty incidents of life seems to occasion them, and in order to taste them nothing is required but to live.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000000|Democratic nations are at all times fond of equality, but there are certain epochs at which the passion they entertain for it swells to the height of fury.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000001|This occurs at the moment when the old social system, long menaced, completes its own destruction after a last intestine struggle, and when the barriers of rank are at length thrown down.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000003|The passion for equality penetrates on every side into men's hearts, expands there, and fills them entirely.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000005|Show them not freedom escaping from their grasp, whilst they are looking another way: they are blind-or rather, they can discern but one sole object to be desired in the universe.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000009_000000|What I have said is applicable to all democratic nations: what I am about to say concerns the French alone.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000009_000002|Absolute kings were the most efficient levellers of ranks amongst their subjects.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000000|I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000001|But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. They will endure poverty, servitude, barbarism-but they will not endure aristocracy.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000002|This is true at all times, and especially true in our own. All men and all powers seeking to cope with this irresistible passion, will be overthrown and destroyed by it.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000003|In our age, freedom cannot be established without it, and despotism itself cannot reign without its support.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000011_000000|Chapter two: Of Individualism In Democratic Countries
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000012_000001|Our fathers were only acquainted with egotism.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000012_000002|Egotism is a passionate and exaggerated love of self, which leads a man to connect everything with his own person, and to prefer himself to everything in the world.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000012_000005|Egotism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright egotism.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000001|A man almost always knows his forefathers, and respects them: he thinks he already sees his remote descendants, and he loves them.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000002|He willingly imposes duties on himself towards the former and the latter; and he will frequently sacrifice his personal gratifications to those who went before and to those who will come after him.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000003|Aristocratic institutions have, moreover, the effect of closely binding every man to several of his fellow citizens.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000005|As in aristocratic communities all the citizens occupy fixed positions, one above the other, the result is that each of them always sees a man above himself whose patronage is necessary to him, and below himself another man whose co-operation he may claim.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000006|Men living in aristocratic ages are therefore almost always closely attached to something placed out of their own sphere, and they are often disposed to forget themselves.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000007|It is true that in those ages the notion of human fellowship is faint, and that men seldom think of sacrificing themselves for mankind; but they often sacrifice themselves for other men.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000008|In democratic ages, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual to the race are much more clear, devoted service to any one man becomes more rare; the bond of human affection is extended, but it is relaxed.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000015_000001|Those who went before are soon forgotten; of those who will come after no one has any idea: the interest of man is confined to those in close propinquity to himself.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000015_000002|As each class approximates to other classes, and intermingles with them, its members become indifferent and as strangers to one another.
train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000015_000003|Aristocracy had made a chain of all the members of the community, from the peasant to the king: democracy breaks that chain, and severs every link of it.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000001_000000|The period when the construction of democratic society upon the ruins of an aristocracy has just been completed, is especially that at which this separation of men from one another, and the egotism resulting from it, most forcibly strike the observation.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000001_000001|Democratic communities not only contain a large number of independent citizens, but they are constantly filled with men who, having entered but yesterday upon their independent condition, are intoxicated with their new power.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000001_000002|They entertain a presumptuous confidence in their strength, and as they do not suppose that they can henceforward ever have occasion to claim the assistance of their fellow creatures, they do not scruple to show that they care for nobody but themselves.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000000|An aristocracy seldom yields without a protracted struggle, in the course of which implacable animosities are kindled between the different classes of society.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000001|These passions survive the victory, and traces of them may be observed in the midst of the democratic confusion which ensues.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000003|They look upon all those whom this state of society has made their equals as oppressors, whose destiny can excite no sympathy; they have lost sight of their former equals, and feel no longer bound by a common interest to their fate: each of them, standing aloof, thinks that he is reduced to care for himself alone.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000005|It is, then, commonly at the outset of democratic society that citizens are most disposed to live apart.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000003_000000|Chapter four: That The Americans Combat The Effects Of Individualism By Free Institutions
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000000|Despotism, which is of a very timorous nature, is never more secure of continuance than when it can keep men asunder; and all is influence is commonly exerted for that purpose.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000001|No vice of the human heart is so acceptable to it as egotism: a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000002|He does not ask them to assist him in governing the State; it is enough that they do not aspire to govern it themselves.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000003|He stigmatizes as turbulent and unruly spirits those who would combine their exertions to promote the prosperity of the community, and, perverting the natural meaning of words, he applauds as good citizens those who have no sympathy for any but themselves.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000004|Thus the vices which despotism engenders are precisely those which equality fosters.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000005|These two things mutually and perniciously complete and assist each other.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000005_000002|When the members of a community are forced to attend to public affairs, they are necessarily drawn from the circle of their own interests, and snatched at times from self observation.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000006_000000|When the public is supreme, there is no man who does not feel the value of public goodwill, or who does not endeavor to court it by drawing to himself the esteem and affection of those amongst whom he is to live. Many of the passions which congeal and keep asunder human hearts, are then obliged to retire and hide below the surface.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000006_000001|Pride must be dissembled; disdain dares not break out; egotism fears its own self. Under a free government, as most public offices are elective, the men whose elevated minds or aspiring hopes are too closely circumscribed in private life, constantly feel that they cannot do without the population which surrounds them.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000006_000002|Men learn at such times to think of their fellow men from ambitious motives; and they frequently find it, in a manner, their interest to forget themselves.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000007_000001|Such evils are doubtless great, but they are transient; whereas the benefits which attend them remain.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000007_000003|Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000008_000000|The Americans have combated by free institutions the tendency of equality to keep men asunder, and they have subdued it.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000008_000002|The plan was a wise one.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000008_000003|The general affairs of a country only engage the attention of leading politicians, who assemble from time to time in the same places; and as they often lose sight of each other afterwards, no lasting ties are established between them.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000001|They know that the rich in democracies always stand in need of the poor; and that in democratic ages you attach a poor man to you more by your manner than by benefits conferred.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000002|The magnitude of such benefits, which sets off the difference of conditions, causes a secret irritation to those who reap advantage from them; but the charm of simplicity of manners is almost irresistible: their affability carries men away, and even their want of polish is not always displeasing.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000003|This truth does not take root at once in the minds of the rich.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000006|They might spend fortunes thus without warming the hearts of the population around them;--that population does not ask them for the sacrifice of their money, but of their pride.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000012_000000|When the vices and weaknesses, frequently exhibited by those who govern in America, are closely examined, the prosperity of the people occasions-but improperly occasions-surprise.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000012_000001|Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000013_000002|I must say that I have often seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and I have remarked a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to each other.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000013_000003|The free institutions which the inhabitants of the United States possess, and the political rights of which they make so much use, remind every citizen, and in a thousand ways, that he lives in society.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000013_000004|They every instant impress upon his mind the notion that it is the duty, as well as the interest of men, to make themselves useful to their fellow creatures; and as he sees no particular ground of animosity to them, since he is never either their master or their slave, his heart readily leans to the side of kindness.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000014_000000|Many people in France consider equality of conditions as one evil, and political freedom as a second.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000014_000001|When they are obliged to yield to the former, they strive at least to escape from the latter.
train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000014_000002|But I contend that in order to combat the evils which equality may produce, there is only one effectual remedy-namely, political freedom.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000000_000000|Chapter seventeen: That In Times Marked By Equality Of Conditions And Sceptical Opinions, It Is Important To Remove To A Distance The Objects Of Human Actions
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000001_000000|In the ages of faith the final end of life is placed beyond life.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000001_000004|Religions give men a general habit of conducting themselves with a view to futurity: in this respect they are not less useful to happiness in this life than to felicity hereafter; and this is one of their chief political characteristics.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000002_000000|But in proportion as the light of faith grows dim, the range of man's sight is circumscribed, as if the end and aim of human actions appeared every day to be more within his reach.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000002_000001|When men have once allowed themselves to think no more of what is to befall them after life, they readily lapse into that complete and brutal indifference to futurity, which is but too conformable to some propensities of mankind.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000003_000000|If the social condition of a people, under these circumstances, becomes democratic, the danger which I here point out is thereby increased.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000003_000002|The instability of society itself fosters the natural instability of man's desires.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000003_000003|In the midst of these perpetual fluctuations of his lot, the present grows upon his mind, until it conceals futurity from his sight, and his looks go no further than the morrow.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000004_000000|In those countries in which unhappily irreligion and democracy coexist, the most important duty of philosophers and of those in power is to be always striving to place the objects of human actions far beyond man's immediate range.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000004_000001|Circumscribed by the character of his country and his age, the moralist must learn to vindicate his principles in that position.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000004_000002|He must constantly endeavor to show his contemporaries, that, even in the midst of the perpetual commotion around them, it is easier than they think to conceive and to execute protracted undertakings.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000005_000003|The sudden and undeserved promotion of a courtier produces only a transient impression in an aristocratic country, because the aggregate institutions and opinions of the nation habitually compel men to advance slowly in tracks which they cannot get out of.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000005_000007|When men have accustomed themselves to foresee from afar what is likely to befall in the world and to feed upon hopes, they can hardly confine their minds within the precise circumference of life, and they are ready to break the boundary and cast their looks beyond.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000005_000008|I do not doubt that, by training the members of a community to think of their future condition in this world, they would be gradually and unconsciously brought nearer to religious convictions.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000006_000000|Chapter eighteen: That Amongst The Americans All Honest Callings Are Honorable
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000001|The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind on every side as the necessary, natural, and honest condition of human existence.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000002|Not only is labor not dishonorable amongst such a people, but it is held in honor: the prejudice is not against it, but in its favor. In the United States a wealthy man thinks that he owes it to public opinion to devote his leisure to some kind of industrial or commercial pursuit, or to public business.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000003|He would think himself in bad repute if he employed his life solely in living.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000004|It is for the purpose of escaping this obligation to work, that so many rich Americans come to Europe, where they find some scattered remains of aristocratic society, amongst which idleness is still held in honor.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000000|Equality of conditions not only ennobles the notion of labor in men's estimation, but it raises the notion of labor as a source of profit.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000001|In aristocracies it is not exactly labor that is despised, but labor with a view to profit.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000003|Yet in aristocratic society it constantly happens that he who works for honor is not insensible to the attractions of profit.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000004|But these two desires only intermingle in the innermost depths of his soul: he carefully hides from every eye the point at which they join; he would fain conceal it from himself.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000005|In aristocratic countries there are few public officers who do not affect to serve their country without interested motives.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000006|Their salary is an incident of which they think but little, and of which they always affect not to think at all.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000007|Thus the notion of profit is kept distinct from that of labor; however they may be united in point of fact, they are not thought of together.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000009_000000|In democratic communities these two notions are, on the contrary, always palpably united.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000009_000001|As the desire of well-being is universal-as fortunes are slender or fluctuating-as everyone wants either to increase his own resources, or to provide fresh ones for his progeny, men clearly see that it is profit which, if not wholly, at least partially, leads them to work.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000009_000002|Even those who are principally actuated by the love of fame are necessarily made familiar with the thought that they are not exclusively actuated by that motive; and they discover that the desire of getting a living is mingled in their minds with the desire of making life illustrious.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000010_000002|No profession exists in which men do not work for money; and the remuneration which is common to them all gives them all an air of resemblance.
train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000010_000005|He is paid for commanding, other men for obeying orders.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000000|A visit to mrs Manson Mingott was always an amusing episode to the young man.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000001|The house in itself was already an historic document, though not, of course, as venerable as certain other old family houses in University Place and lower Fifth Avenue.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000004|She seemed in no hurry to have them come, for her patience was equalled by her confidence.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000006|Meanwhile, as every one she cared to see came to HER (and she could fill her rooms as easily as the Beauforts, and without adding a single item to the menu of her suppers), she did not suffer from her geographic isolation.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000003_000000|The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000003_000002|A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a miniature portrait of the late mr Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000005_000000|Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000005_000001|That was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies, in apartments with all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000000|To the general relief the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing room during the visit of the betrothed couple. mrs Mingott said she had gone out; which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping hour," seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000001|But at any rate it spared them the embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000002|The visit went off successfully, as was to have been expected.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000003|Old mrs Mingott was delighted with the engagement, which, being long foreseen by watchful relatives, had been carefully passed upon in family council; and the engagement ring, a large thick sapphire set in invisible claws, met with her unqualified admiration.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000007_000000|"It's the new setting: of course it shows the stone beautifully, but it looks a little bare to old-fashioned eyes," mrs Welland had explained, with a conciliatory side glance at her future son in law.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000000|"old-fashioned eyes?
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000002|I like all the novelties," said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000005|But it's the hand that sets off the ring, isn't it, my dear mr Archer?" and she waved one of her tiny hands, with small pointed nails and rolls of aged fat encircling the wrist like ivory bracelets.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000008|Her hand is large-it's these modern sports that spread the joints-but the skin is white.--And when's the wedding to be?" she broke off, fixing her eyes on Archer's face.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000009_000000|"Oh-" mrs Welland murmured, while the young man, smiling at his betrothed, replied: "As soon as ever it can, if only you'll back me up, mrs Mingott."
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000010_000000|"We must give them time to get to know each other a little better, mamma," mrs Welland interposed, with the proper affectation of reluctance; to which the ancestress rejoined: "Know each other? Fiddlesticks!
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000011_000000|These successive statements were received with the proper expressions of amusement, incredulity and gratitude; and the visit was breaking up in a vein of mild pleasantry when the door opened to admit the Countess Olenska, who entered in bonnet and mantle followed by the unexpected figure of Julius Beaufort.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000012_000000|There was a cousinly murmur of pleasure between the ladies, and mrs Mingott held out Ferrigiani's model to the banker.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000013_000000|"Thanks.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000014_000001|"Sit down-sit down, Beaufort: push up the yellow armchair; now I've got you I want a good gossip.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000015_000000|She had forgotten her relatives, who were drifting out into the hall under Ellen Olenska's guidance.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000015_000001|Old mrs Mingott had always professed a great admiration for Julius Beaufort, and there was a kind of kinship in their cool domineering way and their short cuts through the conventions.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000016_000000|In the hall, while mrs Welland and May drew on their furs, Archer saw that the Countess Olenska was looking at him with a faintly questioning smile.
train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000017_000000|"Of course you know already-about May and me," he said, answering her look with a shy laugh.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000000_000002|mrs van der Luyden still wore black velvet and Venetian point when she went into society-or rather (since she never dined out) when she threw open her own doors to receive it.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000000_000003|Her fair hair, which had faded without turning grey, was still parted in flat overlapping points on her forehead, and the straight nose that divided her pale blue eyes was only a little more pinched about the nostrils than when the portrait had been painted.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000000_000004|She always, indeed, struck Newland Archer as having been rather gruesomely preserved in the airless atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life in death.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000001_000000|Like all his family, he esteemed and admired mrs van der Luyden; but he found her gentle bending sweetness less approachable than the grimness of some of his mother's old aunts, fierce spinsters who said "No" on principle before they knew what they were going to be asked.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000002_000000|mrs van der Luyden's attitude said neither yes nor no, but always appeared to incline to clemency till her thin lips, wavering into the shadow of a smile, made the almost invariable reply: "I shall first have to talk this over with my husband."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000003_000000|She and mr van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking over.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000003_000001|But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave, mrs Archer and her son, having set forth their case, waited resignedly for the familiar phrase.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000004_000000|mrs van der Luyden, however, who had seldom surprised any one, now surprised them by reaching her long hand toward the bell rope.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000005_000000|"I think," she said, "I should like Henry to hear what you have told me."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000006_000000|A footman appeared, to whom she gravely added: "If mr van der Luyden has finished reading the newspaper, please ask him to be kind enough to come."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000009_000000|The double doors had solemnly reopened and between them appeared mr Henry van der Luyden, tall, spare and frock coated, with faded fair hair, a straight nose like his wife's and the same look of frozen gentleness in eyes that were merely pale grey instead of pale blue.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000011_000000|"I had just finished reading the Times," he said, laying his long finger tips together.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000011_000001|"In town my mornings are so much occupied that I find it more convenient to read the newspapers after luncheon."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000012_000000|"Ah, there's a great deal to be said for that plan-indeed I think my uncle Egmont used to say he found it less agitating not to read the morning papers till after dinner," said mrs Archer responsively.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000013_000000|"Yes: my good father abhorred hurry.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000013_000001|But now we live in a constant rush," said mr van der Luyden in measured tones, looking with pleasant deliberation about the large shrouded room which to Archer was so complete an image of its owners.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000014_000000|"But I hope you HAD finished your reading, Henry?" his wife interposed.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000015_000000|"Quite-quite," he reassured her.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000016_000000|"Then I should like Adeline to tell you-"
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000017_000000|"Oh, it's really Newland's story," said his mother smiling; and proceeded to rehearse once more the monstrous tale of the affront inflicted on mrs Lovell Mingott.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000018_000000|"Of course," she ended, "Augusta Welland and Mary Mingott both felt that, especially in view of Newland's engagement, you and Henry OUGHT TO KNOW."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000019_000000|"Ah-" said mr van der Luyden, drawing a deep breath.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000020_000000|There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute gun.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000020_000001|Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000021_000000|mr van der Luyden was the first to speak.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000023_000000|"I'm certain of it, sir.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000026_000000|"We'll hope it has not quite come to that," said mr van der Luyden firmly.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000028_000000|But instantly she became aware of her mistake.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000028_000001|The van der Luydens were morbidly sensitive to any criticism of their secluded existence. They were the arbiters of fashion, the Court of last Appeal, and they knew it, and bowed to their fate.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000028_000002|But being shy and retiring persons, with no natural inclination for their part, they lived as much as possible in the sylvan solitude of Skuytercliff, and when they came to town, declined all invitations on the plea of mrs van der Luyden's health.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000029_000000|Newland Archer came to his mother's rescue.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000029_000001|"Everybody in New York knows what you and cousin Louisa represent.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000029_000002|That's why mrs Mingott felt she ought not to allow this slight on Countess Olenska to pass without consulting you."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000030_000000|mrs van der Luyden glanced at her husband, who glanced back at her.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000031_000000|"It is the principle that I dislike," said mr van der Luyden.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000031_000001|"As long as a member of a well-known family is backed up by that family it should be considered-final."
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000000|"I had no idea," mr van der Luyden continued, "that things had come to such a pass." He paused, and looked at his wife again.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000001|"It occurs to me, my dear, that the Countess Olenska is already a sort of relation-through Medora Manson's first husband.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000002|At any rate, she will be when Newland marries." He turned toward the young man.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000003|"Have you read this morning's Times, Newland?"
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000034_000000|"Why, yes, sir," said Archer, who usually tossed off half a dozen papers with his morning coffee.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000035_000000|Husband and wife looked at each other again.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000035_000001|Their pale eyes clung together in prolonged and serious consultation; then a faint smile fluttered over mrs van der Luyden's face.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000035_000002|She had evidently guessed and approved.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000036_000000|mr van der Luyden turned to mrs Archer.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000036_000001|"If Louisa's health allowed her to dine out-I wish you would say to mrs Lovell Mingott-she and I would have been happy to-er-fill the places of the Lawrence Leffertses at her dinner." He paused to let the irony of this sink in. "As you know, this is impossible." mrs Archer sounded a sympathetic assent.
train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000036_000004|I am sure Louisa will be as glad as I am if Countess Olenska will let us include her among our guests." He got up, bent his long body with a stiff friendliness toward his cousin, and added: "I think I have Louisa's authority for saying that she will herself leave the invitation to dine when she drives out presently: with our cards-of course with our cards."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000001_000000|"But dr Carver-aren't you afraid of dr Carver?
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000001_000001|I hear he's been staying with you at the Blenkers'."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000000|She smiled.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000001|"Oh, the Carver danger is over.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000002|dr Carver is a very clever man.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000003|He wants a rich wife to finance his plans, and Medora is simply a good advertisement as a convert."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000003_000000|"A convert to what?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000000|"To all sorts of new and crazy social schemes.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000001|But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition-somebody else's tradition-that I see among our own friends.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000002|It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country." She smiled across the table.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000003|"Do you suppose Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the Opera with the Selfridge Merrys?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000005_000000|Archer changed colour.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000005_000001|"And Beaufort-do you say these things to Beaufort?" he asked abruptly.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000006_000001|But I used to; and he understands."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000007_000001|And you like Beaufort because he's so unlike us." He looked about the bare room and out at the bare beach and the row of stark white village houses strung along the shore.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000007_000002|"We're damnably dull.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000007_000003|We've no character, no colour, no variety.--I wonder," he broke out, "why you don't go back?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000008_000000|Her eyes darkened, and he expected an indignant rejoinder.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000008_000001|But she sat silent, as if thinking over what he had said, and he grew frightened lest she should answer that she wondered too.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000009_000000|At length she said: "I believe it's because of you."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000010_000000|It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000010_000001|Archer reddened to the temples, but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock about it if it were left undisturbed.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000011_000000|"At least," she continued, "it was you who made me understand that under the dullness there are things so fine and sensitive and delicate that even those I most cared for in my other life look cheap in comparison.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000012_000000|"Exquisite pleasures-it's something to have had them!" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes kept him silent.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000013_000000|"I want," she went on, "to be perfectly honest with you-and with myself.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000013_000001|For a long time I've hoped this chance would come: that I might tell you how you've helped me, what you've made of me-"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000014_000000|Archer sat staring beneath frowning brows.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000014_000001|He interrupted her with a laugh.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000014_000002|"And what do you make out that you've made of me?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000015_000000|She paled a little.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000015_000001|"Of you?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000017_000000|Her paleness turned to a fugitive flush.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000017_000001|"I thought-you promised-you were not to say such things today."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000018_000001|None of you will ever see a bad business through!"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000019_000000|She lowered her voice.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000020_000000|He stood in the window, drumming against the raised sash, and feeling in every fibre the wistful tenderness with which she had spoken her cousin's name.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000021_000000|"For that's the thing we've always got to think of-haven't we-by your own showing?" she insisted.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000022_000000|"My own showing?" he echoed, his blank eyes still on the sea.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000024_000000|He turned around without moving from his place.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000024_000001|"And in that case there's no reason on earth why you shouldn't go back?" he concluded for her.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000025_000000|Her eyes were clinging to him desperately.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000025_000001|"Oh, IS there no reason?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000026_000000|"Not if you staked your all on the success of my marriage.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000026_000002|You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000026_000003|It's beyond human enduring-that's all."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000027_000000|"Oh, don't say that; when I'm enduring it!" she burst out, her eyes filling.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000029_000000|"You too-oh, all this time, you too?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000030_000000|For answer, she let the tears on her lids overflow and run slowly downward.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000031_000000|Half the width of the room was still between them, and neither made any show of moving.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000031_000003|He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000031_000004|His one terror was to do anything which might efface the sound and impression of her words; his one thought, that he should never again feel quite alone.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000032_000000|But after a moment the sense of waste and ruin overcame him.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000032_000001|There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well have been half the world apart.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000034_000000|She sat motionless, with lowered lids.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000034_000001|"Oh-I shan't go yet!"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000035_000000|"Not yet?
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000036_000000|At that she raised her clearest eyes.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000036_000001|"I promise you: not as long as you hold out.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000036_000002|Not as long as we can look straight at each other like this."
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000037_000000|He dropped into his chair.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000037_000001|What her answer really said was: "If you lift a finger you'll drive me back: back to all the abominations you know of, and all the temptations you half guess." He understood it as clearly as if she had uttered the words, and the thought kept him anchored to his side of the table in a kind of moved and sacred submission.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000038_000000|"What a life for you!--" he groaned.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000040_000000|"And mine a part of yours?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000042_000000|"And that's to be all-for either of us?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000043_000000|"Well; it IS all, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000044_000000|At that he sprang up, forgetting everything but the sweetness of her face.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000044_000002|They fell into his, while her arms, extended but not rigid, kept him far enough off to let her surrendered face say the rest.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000045_000000|They may have stood in that way for a long time, or only for a few moments; but it was long enough for her silence to communicate all she had to say, and for him to feel that only one thing mattered.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000045_000001|He must do nothing to make this meeting their last; he must leave their future in her care, asking only that she should keep fast hold of it.
train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000047_000000|"I won't go back," she said; and turning away she opened the door and led the way into the public dining room.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000002_000000|His cheeks were blanched as the flume head foam when the brown spring freshets flow; Deep in their dark, sin calcined pits were his sombre eyes aglow; They knew him far for the fitful man who spat forth blood on the snow.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000004_000000|"The Moose hides called it the devil fox, and swore that no man could kill; That he who hunted it, soon or late, must surely suffer some ill; But I laughed at them and their old squaw tales. Ha!
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000004_000001|Ha!
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000008_000000|"I tracked it up where the mountains hunch like the vertebrae of the world; I tracked it down to the death still pits where the avalanche is hurled; From the glooms to the sacerdotal snows, where the carded clouds are curled.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000009_000001|I was weary and sick and cold.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000012_000000|"So that was the end of the great black fox, and here is the prize I've won; And now for a drink to cheer me up-I've mushed since the early sun; We'll drink a toast to the sorry ghost of the fox whose race is run."
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000018_000000|Wherefore it was beyond all laws that lusts of man restrain, A man drank deep and sank to sleep never to wake again; And the Yukon swallowed through a hole the cold corpse of the slain.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000020_000000|The black fox skin a shadow cast from the roof nigh to the floor; And sleek it seemed and soft it gleamed, and the woman stroked it o'er; And the man stood by with a brooding eye, and gnashed his teeth and swore.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000021_000000|When thieves and thugs fall out and fight there's fell arrears to pay; And soon or late sin meets its fate, and so it fell one day That Claw fingered Kitty and Windy Ike fanged up like dogs at bay.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000030_000000|A bird sang for the joy of spring, so piercing sweet and frail; And blinding bright the land was dight in gay and glittering mail; And with a wondrous black fox skin a man slid down the trail.
train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000034_000000|Grim shadows diapered the snow; the air was strangely mild; The valley's girth was dumb with mirth, the laughter of the wild; The still, sardonic laughter of an ogre o'er a child.
train-clean-360/2254/152825/2254_152825_000006_000000|Mad!
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000002_000000|Gold!
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000002_000002|Gold!
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000004_000000|Never was seen such an army, pitiful, futile, unfit; Never was seen such a spirit, manifold courage and grit. Never has been such a cohort under one banner unrolled As surged to the ragged edged Arctic, urged by the arch tempter-Gold.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000005_000000|"Farewell!" we cried to our dearests; little we cared for their tears. "Farewell!" we cried to the humdrum and the yoke of the hireling years; Just like a pack of school boys, and the big crowd cheered us good bye. Never were hearts so uplifted, never were hopes so high.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000009_000000|We landed in wind swept Skagway.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000009_000001|We joined the weltering mass, Clamoring over their outfits, waiting to climb the Pass. We tightened our girths and our pack straps; we linked on the Human Chain, Struggling up to the summit, where every step was a pain.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000010_000000|Gone was the joy of our faces, grim and haggard and pale; The heedless mirth of the shipboard was changed to the care of the trail. We flung ourselves in the struggle, packing our grub in relays, Step by step to the summit in the bale of the winter days.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000012_000000|"Klondike or bust!" rang the slogan; every man for his own. Oh, how we flogged the horses, staggering skin and bone! Oh, how we cursed their weakness, anguish they could not tell, Breaking their hearts in our passion, lashing them on till they fell!
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000013_000000|For grub meant gold to our thinking, and all that could walk must pack; The sheep for the shambles stumbled, each with a load on its back; And even the swine were burdened, and grunted and squealed and rolled, And men went mad in the moment, huskily clamoring "Gold!"
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000016_000000|Thus toiled we, the army of fortune, in hunger and hope and despair, Till glacier, mountain and forest vanished, and, radiantly fair, There at our feet lay Lake Bennett, and down to its welcome we ran: The trail of the land was over, the trail of the water began.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000018_000000|We built our boats and we launched them.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000019_000000|Each man worked like a demon, as prow to rudder we raced; The winds of the Wild cried "Hurry!" the voice of the waters, "Haste!" We hated those driving before us; we dreaded those pressing behind; We cursed the slow current that bore us; we prayed to the God of the wind.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000020_000000|Spring! and the hillsides flourished, vivid in jewelled green; Spring! and our hearts' blood nourished envy and hatred and spleen. Little cared we for the Spring birth; much cared we to get on- Stake in the Great White Channel, stake ere the best be gone.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000023_000000|We roused Lake Marsh with a chorus, we drifted many a mile; There was the canyon before us-cave like its dark defile; The shores swept faster and faster; the river narrowed to wrath; Waters that hissed disaster reared upright in our path.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000024_000000|Beneath us the green tumult churning, above us the cavernous gloom; Around us, swift twisting and turning, the black, sullen walls of a tomb. We spun like a chip in a mill race; our hearts hammered under the test; Then-oh, the relief on each chill face!--we soared into sunlight and rest.
train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000028_000000|But what of the others that followed, losing their boats by the score? Well could we see them and hear them, strung down that desolate shore. What of the poor souls that perished?
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000000|SIR KNIGHT PELLEAS, said the Damosel of the Lake, take your horse and come forth with me out of this country, and ye shall love a lady that shall love you.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000002|And now such grace God hath sent me, that I hate her as much as ever I loved her, thanked be our Lord Jesus!
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000003|Thank me, said the Damosel of the Lake.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000004|Anon Sir Pelleas armed him, and took his horse, and commanded his men to bring after his pavilions and his stuff where the Damosel of the Lake would assign.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000000|NOW turn we unto Sir Marhaus, that rode with the damosel of thirty winter of age, southward.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000003|What adventure is that that I shall have for my lodging? said Sir Marhaus.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000005|Sir, what adventure so it be, bring me thither I pray thee, said Sir Marhaus; for I am weary, my damosel, and my horse.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000007|Let him in, said the lord, it may happen he shall repent that they took their lodging here.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000000|So Sir Marhaus was let in with torchlight, and there was a goodly sight of young men that welcomed him.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000001|And then his horse was led into the stable, and he and the damosel were brought into the hall, and there stood a mighty duke and many goodly men about him.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000002|Then this lord asked him what he hight, and from whence he came, and with whom he dwelt.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000005|Is there no remedy but that I must have ado with you and your six sons at once? said Sir Marhaus.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000007|What is your name? said Sir Marhaus; I require you tell me, an it please you.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000010|That shall ye feel to morn, said the duke.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000011|Shall I have ado with you? said Sir Marhaus.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000005_000000|CHAPTER twenty five.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000006_000001|And all this while Sir Marhaus touched them not.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000006_000003|And then some of his sons recovered, and would have set upon Sir Marhaus; then Sir Marhaus said to the duke, Cease thy sons, or else I will do the uttermost to you all.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000006_000005|And then they helped up their father, and so by their cominal assent promised to Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon at Whitsuntide after to come, he and his sons, and put them in the king's grace.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000001|And who that did best should have a rich circlet of gold worth a thousand besants.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000002|And there Sir Marhaus did so nobly that he was renowned, and had sometime down forty knights, and so the circlet of gold was rewarded him.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000004|So this earl made his complaint unto Sir Marhaus, that there was a giant by him that destroyed all his lands, and how he durst nowhere ride nor go for him.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000005|Sir, said the knight, whether useth he to fight on horseback or on foot?
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000009|And there he was in great peril, for the giant was a wily fighter, but at last Sir Marhaus smote off his right arm above the elbow.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000008_000000|Then the giant fled and the knight after him, and so he drove him into a water, but the giant was so high that he might not wade after him.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000008_000002|Then he returned to the Earl Fergus, the which thanked him greatly, and would have given him half his lands, but he would none take.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000008_000005|So he departed to meet at his day aforeset.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000009_000000|CHAPTER twenty six.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000010_000003|So there were in the country two knights that were brethren, and they were called two perilous knights, the one knight hight Sir Edward of the Red Castle, and the other Sir Hue of the Red Castle; and these two brethren had disherited the Lady of the Rock of a barony of lands by their extortion.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000010_000004|And as this knight was lodged with this lady she made her complaint to him of these two knights.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000011_000001|Gramercy said the lady, and thereas I may not acquit you, God shall.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000011_000002|So on the morn the two knights were sent for, that they should come thither to speak with the Lady of the Rock, and wit ye well they failed not, for they came with an hundred horse.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000011_000005|That will we not, said they, for an we do battle, we two will fight with one knight at once, and therefore if ye will fight so, we will be ready at what hour ye will assign.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000012_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000013_000009|And he of his gentleness received his sword, and took him by the hand, and went into the castle together.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000013_000010|Then the Lady of the Rock was passing glad, and the other brother made great sorrow for his brother's death.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000013_000011|Then the lady was restored of all her lands, and Sir Hue was commanded to be at the court of King Arthur at the next feast of Pentecost.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000014_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000015_000001|And so within twelve days they came to Camelot, and the king was passing glad of their coming, and so was all the court.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000015_000002|Then the king made them to swear upon a book to tell him all their adventures that had befallen them that twelvemonth, and so they did.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000015_000003|And there was Sir Marhaus well known, for there were knights that he had matched aforetime, and he was named one of the best knights living.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000016_000000|Against the feast of Pentecost came the Damosel of the Lake and brought with her Sir Pelleas; and at that high feast there was great jousting of knights, and of all knights that were at that jousts, Sir Pelleas had the prize, and Sir Marhaus was named the next; but Sir Pelleas was so strong there might but few knights sit him a buffet with a spear.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000016_000001|And at that next feast Sir Pelleas and Sir Marhaus were made knights of the Table Round, for there were two sieges void, for two knights were slain that twelvemonth, and great joy had King Arthur of Sir Pelleas and of Sir Marhaus.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000016_000002|But Pelleas loved never after Sir Gawaine, but as he spared him for the love of King Arthur; but ofttimes at jousts and tournaments Sir Pelleas quit Sir Gawaine, for so it rehearseth in the book of French.
train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000017_000000|Explicit liber quartus.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000001_000000|AND when he came to the land he took off his harness, and sat roaring and crying as a man out of his mind.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000001_000004|It was indented with white and black, said the damosel.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000001_000010|Then was Sir Palomides ashamed.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000002_000001|My lord Arthur, said Launcelot, ye put upon me that I should be cause of his departition; God knoweth it was against my will.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000002_000002|But when men be hot in deeds of arms oft they hurt their friends as well as their foes.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000002_000005|And as for me, said Sir Launcelot, I promise you upon this book that an I may meet with him, either with fairness or foulness I shall bring him to this court, or else I shall die therefore.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000003_000001|So Sir Launcelot met with her and asked her why she fled.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000003_000007|And then Sir Launcelot returned unto Dame Bragwaine, and she thanked him of his great labour.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000000|NOW will we speak of Sir Lucan the butler, that by fortune he came riding to the same place thereas was Sir Tristram, and in he came in none other intent but to ask harbour.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000001|Then the porter asked what was his name.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000002|Tell your lord that my name is Sir Lucan, the butler, a Knight of the Round Table.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000003|So the porter went unto Sir Darras, lord of the place, and told him who was there to ask harbour.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000005|So Sir Daname came forth on horseback, and there they met together with spears, and Sir Lucan smote down Sir Daname over his horse's croup, and then he fled into that place, and Sir Lucan rode after him, and asked after him many times.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000000|Then Sir Dinadan said to Sir Tristram: It is shame to see the lord's cousin of this place defoiled.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000001|Abide, said Sir Tristram, and I shall redress it.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000006|And when Sir Dinadan understood that Sir Tristram had hurt Sir Lucan he would have ridden after Sir Lucan for to have slain him, but Sir Tristram would not suffer him.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000008|And at that castle Sir Launcelot promised all his fellows to meet in the quest of Sir Tristram.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000000|So when Sir Tristram was come to his lodging there came a damosel that told Sir Darras that three of his sons were slain at that tournament, and two grievously wounded that they were never like to help themself. And all this was done by a noble knight that bare the black shield, and that was he that bare the prize.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000001|Then came there one and told Sir Darras that the same knight was within, him that bare the black shield.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000002|Then Sir Darras yede unto Sir Tristram's chamber, and there he found his shield and showed it to the damosel.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000003|Ah sir, said the damosel, that same is he that slew your three sons.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000006|But when Sir Palomides saw the falling of sickness of Sir Tristram, then was he heavy for him, and comforted him in all the best wise he could.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000007|And as the French book saith, there came forty knights to Sir Darras that were of his own kin, and they would have slain Sir Tristram and his two fellows, but Sir Darras would not suffer that, but kept them in prison, and meat and drink they had.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000008|So Sir Tristram endured there great pain, for sickness had undertaken him, and that is the greatest pain a prisoner may have.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000010|Right so did Sir Tristram when sickness had undertaken him, for then he took such sorrow that he had almost slain himself.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000008_000000|CHAPTER thirty eight.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000004|But there was one knight that did marvellously three days, and he bare a black shield, and of all knights that ever I saw he proved the best knight.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000009|And therewithal the king smote down his head, and in his heart he feared sore that Sir Tristram should get him such worship in the realm of Logris wherethrough that he himself should not be able to withstand him.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000013|Then was the king wood wroth that he had no knights to answer him.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000017|Then was King Mark sorry and wroth out of measure that he had no knight to revenge his nephew, Sir Andred.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000010_000001|Sir, said Sir Dinas, I am full loath to have ado with any knight of the Round Table.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000010_000002|Yet, said the king, for my love take upon thee to joust.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000010_000005|Alas, he said, have I no knight that will encounter with yonder knight?
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000011_000000|Then King Mark armed him, and took his horse and his spear, with a squire with him.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000011_000005|Fie on you false knight, said Sir Kay, for ye of Cornwall are nought worth.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000011_000008|And so he departed.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000012_000000|CHAPTER thirty nine.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000000|THEN there came Sir Kay, the Seneschal, unto King Mark, and there he had good cheer showing outward.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000002|Sir, said Sir Kay, I will prove it.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000003|And Sir Gaheris said he would be avised for King Mark was ever full of treason: and therewithal Sir Gaheris departed and rode his way.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000004|And by the same way that Sir Kay should ride he laid him down to rest, charging his squire to wait upon Sir Kay; And warn me when he cometh.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000005|So within a while Sir Kay came riding that way, and then Sir Gaheris took his horse and met him, and said: Sir Kay, ye are not wise to ride at the request of King Mark, for he dealeth all with treason.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000006|Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000000|The meanwhile King Mark within the castle of Tintagil avoided all his barons, and all other save such as were privy with him were avoided out of his chamber.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000001|And then he let call his nephew Sir Andred, and bade arm him and horse him lightly; and by that time it was midnight.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000002|And so King Mark was armed in black, horse and all; and so at a privy postern they two issued out with their varlets with them, and rode till they came to that lake.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000004|And King Mark rode against him, and smote each other full hard, for the moon shone as the bright day.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000005|And there at that jousts Sir Kay's horse fell down, for his horse was not so big as the king's horse, and Sir Kay's horse bruised him full sore.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000006|Then Sir Gaheris was wroth that Sir Kay had a fall.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000010|And then they yode both on foot to them, and bade them yield them, and tell their names outher they should die.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000013|Save my life, said King Mark, and I will make amends; and consider that I am a king anointed.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000015|With that he lashed at King Mark without saying any more, and covered him with his shield and defended him as he might.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000016|And then Sir Kay lashed at Sir Andred, and therewithal King Mark yielded him unto Sir Gaheris.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000017|And then he kneeled adown, and made his oath upon the cross of the sword, that never while he lived he would be against errant knights.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000018|And also he sware to be good friend unto Sir Tristram if ever he came into Cornwall.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000002|And therewithal Sir Kay let him go.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000003|And so Sir Kay and Sir Gaheris rode their way unto Dinas, the Seneschal, for because they heard say that he loved well Sir Tristram.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000005|And so within a little while they met with Sir Launcelot that always had Dame Bragwaine with him, to that intent he weened to have met the sooner with Sir Tristram; and Sir Launcelot asked what tidings in Cornwall, and whether they heard of Sir Tristram or not.
train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000007|Then they told Sir Launcelot word by word of their adventure.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000002_000004|So sir Dinas smote him down, that with the fall he brake his leg and his arm.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000002_000006|Nay, said sir Dinas, I shall never trust them that once betrayed me, and therefore, as ye have begun, so end, for I will never meddle with you.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000004_000005|Right so came in a damosel and said: Knights, be of good cheer, for ye are sure of your lives, and that I heard say my lord, Sir Darras.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000004_000006|Then were they glad all three, for daily they weened they should have died.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000006|He said: Sir knight, me repenteth of thy sickness for thou art called a full noble knight, and so it seemeth by thee; and wit ye well it shall never be said that Sir Darras shall destroy such a noble knight as thou art in prison, howbeit that thou hast slain three of my sons whereby I was greatly aggrieved.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000010|And if I had slain them by treason or treachery I had been worthy to have died.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000014|Then Sir Tristram reposed him there till that he was amended of his sickness; and when he was big and strong they took their leave, and every knight took their horses, and so departed and rode together till they came to a cross way. Now fellows, said Sir Tristram, here will we depart in sundry ways.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000015|And because Sir Dinadan had the first adventure of him I will begin.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000006_000000|CHAPTER forty one.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000000|SO as Sir Dinadan rode by a well he found a lady making great dole. What aileth you? said Sir Dinadan.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000002|Let him come, said Sir Dinadan, and because of honour of all women I will do my part.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000003|With this came Sir Breuse, and when he saw a knight with his lady he was wood wroth.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000004|And then he said: Sir knight, keep thee from me.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000008_000002|Jesu defend! said Sir Tristram, for I was but late a prisoner.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000008_000015|Who is that knight?
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000008_000018|And because she deemed that Sir Launcelot loved Queen Guenever paramour, and she him again, therefore Queen Morgan le Fay ordained that shield to put Sir Launcelot to a rebuke, to that intent that King Arthur might understand the love between them.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000005|Alas, my fair friend, ye shall find him the best knight that ever ye met withal, for I know him better than ye do.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000010|And when he came nigh to Sir Tristram he cried on high: Sir knight, keep thee from me.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000011|Then they rushed together as it had been thunder, and Sir Hemison brised his spear upon Sir Tristram, but his harness was so good that he might not hurt him.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000012|And Sir Tristram smote him harder, and bare him through the body, and he fell over his horse's croup.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000013|Then Sir Tristram turned to have done more with his sword, but he saw so much blood go from him that him seemed he was likely to die, and so he departed from him and came to a fair manor to an old knight, and there Sir Tristram lodged.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000000|NOW leave to speak of Sir Tristram, and speak we of the knight that was wounded to the death.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000001|Then his varlet alighted, and took off his helm, and then he asked his lord whether there were any life in him.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000003|When Morgan le Fay saw him dead she made great sorrow out of reason; and then she let despoil him unto his shirt, and so she let him put into a tomb.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000004|And about the tomb she let write: Here lieth Sir Hemison, slain by the hands of Sir Tristram de Liones.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000000|Now turn we unto Sir Tristram, that asked the knight his host if he saw late any knights adventurous.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000001|Sir, he said, the last night here lodged with me Ector de Maris and a damosel with him, and that damosel told me that he was one of the best knights of the world.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000005|Why name ye not Sir Tristram? said his host, for I account him as good as any of them.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000007|Thus they talked and bourded as long as them list, and then went to rest.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000004|Then was there a damosel of Queen Morgan in a chamber by King Arthur, and when she heard King Arthur speak of that shield, then she spake openly unto King Arthur.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000005|Sir King, wit ye well this shield was ordained for you, to warn you of your shame and dishonour, and that longeth to you and your queen.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000006|And then anon that damosel picked her away privily, that no man wist where she was become.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000009|Then Queen Guenever called to her Sir Ector de Maris, and there she made her complaint to him, and said: I wot well this shield was made by Morgan le Fay in despite of me and of Sir Launcelot, wherefore I dread me sore lest I should be destroyed.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000016_000000|Then ever Sir Tristram smote down knights wonderly to behold, what upon the right hand and upon the left hand, that unnethe no knight might withstand him.
train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000016_000001|And the King of Scots and the King of Ireland began to withdraw them.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000002_000000|Frithiof was a Norwegian hero, grandson of Viking, who was the largest and strongest man of his time.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000002_000001|Viking had sailed the sea in a dragon ship, meeting with many adventures, and Thorsten, Frithiof's father, had likewise sailed abroad, capturing many priceless treasures and making a great name for himself.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000003_000003|The warning, however, came too late, for Frithiof already loved the fair maiden, and vowed that he would have her for his bride at any cost.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000004_000000|Soon after this the king died, leaving his kingdom to his two sons and giving instructions that his funeral mound should be erected in sight of that of his dear friend Thorsten, so that their spirits might not be separated even in death.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000005_000000|Frithiof was now one of the wealthiest and most envied of land owners. His treasures were richer by far than those of any king.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000007_000000|Great was his grief when the time came for her to sail away.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000007_000002|His ship was prepared and soon he touched the shore near the temple of the god Balder.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000008_000000|His request was not granted and Helge dismissed him contemptuously.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000009_000000|Soon after his departure another suitor, the aged King Ring of Norway sought the hand of Ingeborg in marriage, and being refused, collected an army and prepared to make war on Helge and Halfdan.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000010_000000|Then the two brothers were glad to send a messenger after Frithiof, asking his aid.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000010_000001|The hero, still angry, refused; but he hastened at once to Ingeborg.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000010_000002|He found her in tears at the shrine of Balder, and although it was considered a sin for a man and woman to exchange words in the sacred temple, he spoke to her, again making known his love.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000011_000001|But the kings had heard of how Frithiof had spoken to Ingeborg in the temple, and although they feared Sigurd they would not grant the request.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000013_000002|He comforted his crew, and then climbed the mast to keep a sharp lookout for danger.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000014_000000|From there he spied a huge whale, upon which the two witches were seated, delighted at the tempest they had stirred up.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000014_000001|Speaking to his good ship, which could both hear and obey, he bade it run down the whale and the witches.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000015_000003|But many of the crew were worn out by the battle with the elements and had to be carried ashore by Frithiof and Bjoern when they reached the Orkney Islands.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000017_000000|Frithiof had no weapons, but with a turn of his wrist he threw his opponent.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000022_000000|Horror stricken, Frithiof tried to stop the blaze, and when he could not, hurried away to his ship.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000023_000000|So Frithiof became an exile, and a wanderer on the face of the earth. For many years he lived the life of a pirate or viking, exacting tribute from other ships or sacking them if they would not pay tribute; for this occupation in the days of Frithiof was considered wholly respectable.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000023_000001|It was followed again and again by the brave men of the North.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000024_000000|But Frithiof was often homesick, and longed to enter a harbor, and lead again a life of peace.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000025_000000|At last he decided to visit the court of Sigurd Ring and find out whether Ingeborg was really happy.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000025_000001|Landing, he wrapped himself in an old cloak and approached the court.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000026_000000|At this Sigurd Ring invited the old man to remove his mantle and take a seat near him.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000027_000000|"Who are you who comes to us thus?" asked Sigurd Ring.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000030_000000|One spring day Sigurd and Frithiof had ridden away on a hunting expedition, and the old king being tired from the chase lay down on the ground to rest, feigning sleep.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000030_000002|But Frithiof was too fine and loyal to listen to such suggestions.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000032_000000|"You are Frithiof the Bold," he said, "and from the first I knew you. Be patient now a little longer and you shall have Ingeborg, for my end is near."
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000033_000000|Soon after this Sigurd died, commending his wife to the young hero's loving care.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000034_000000|The people, admiring his bravery, wanted to make Frithiof king, but he would not listen to their pleadings.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000034_000001|Instead he lifted the little son of Sigurd upon his shield.
train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000035_000000|"Behold your king," he cried, "and until he is grown to manhood I will stand beside him."
train-clean-360/2269/165387/2269_165387_000000_000000|CHAP.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000001_000000|MY SECOND STAGE
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000002_000000|Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie; Truth is the speech of inward purity.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000004_000000|In my first stage the reader will perceive that I was a comparatively weak and harmless little slander, with merely that taint of original sin which was to be expected in one of such parentage.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000004_000001|But I developed with great rapidity; and I believe men of science will tell you that this is always the case with low organisms.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000004_000002|That, for instance, while it takes years to develop the man from the baby, and months to develop the dog from the puppy, the baby monad will grow to maturity in an hour.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000005_000000|Personally I should have preferred to linger in mrs O'Reilly's pleasant drawing room, for, as I said before, my victim interested me, and I wanted to observe him more closely and hear what he talked about.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000005_000001|But I received orders to attend evensong at the parish church, and to haunt the mind of Lena Houghton.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000006_000000|As we passed down the High Street the bells rang out loud and clear, and they made me feel the same slight sense of discomfort that I had felt when I looked at Zaluski; however, I went on, and soon entered the church.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000006_000001|It was a fine old Gothic building, and the afternoon sunshine seemed to flood the whole place; even the white stones in the aisle were glorified here and there with gorgeous patches of colour from the stained glass windows.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000006_000002|But the strange stillness and quiet oppressed me, I did not feel nearly so much at home as in mrs O'Reilly's drawing room-to use a terrestrial simile, I felt like a fish out of water.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000007_000001|Try as I would, I could not distract her attention or gain the slightest hold upon her, and I really believe I should have been altogether baffled, had not the rector unconsciously come to my aid.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000008_000000|All through the prayers and psalms I had fought a desperate fight without gaining a single inch.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000008_000001|Then the rector walked over to the lectern, and the moment he opened his mouth I knew that my time had come, and that there was a very fair chance of victory before me.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000008_000002|Whether this clergyman had a toothache, or a headache, or a heavy load on his mind, I cannot say, but his reading was more lugubrious than the wind in an equinoctial gale.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000000|Hardly had the rector announced, "Here beginneth the forty fourth verse of the sixteenth chapter of the book of the prophet ezekiel," than a sort of relaxation took place in the mind I was attacking.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000001|Lena Houghton's attention could only have been given to the drearily read lesson by a very great effort; she was a little lazy and did not make the effort, she thought how nice it was to sit down again, and then the melancholy voice lulled her into a vague interval of thoughtless inactivity.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000002|I promptly seized my opportunity, and in a moment her whole mind was full of me.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000003|She was an excitable, impressionable sort of girl, and when once I had obtained an entrance into her mind I found it the easiest thing in the world to dominate her thoughts.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000005|I crowded out the Magnificat with a picture of Zaluski and Gertrude Morley.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000006|I led her through more terrible future possibilities in the second lesson than would be required for a three volume novel.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000000|The congregation rose.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000001|Lena Houghton, still dominated by me, knelt longer than the rest, but at last she got up and walked down the aisle, and I felt a great sense of relief and satisfaction.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000002|We were out in the open air once more, and I had triumphed; I was quite sure that she would tell the first person she met, for, as I have said before, she was entirely taken up with me, and to have kept me to herself would have required far more strength and unselfishness than she at that moment possessed.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000003|She walked slowly through the churchyard, feeling much pleased to see that the curate had just left the vestry door, and that in a few moments their paths must converge.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000011_000000|mr Blackthorne had only been ordained three or four years, and was a little younger, and much less experienced in the ways of the world, than Sigismund Zaluski.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000011_000001|He was a good well meaning fellow, a little narrow, a little prejudiced, a little spoiled by the devotion of the district visitors and Sunday School teachers; but he was honest and energetic, and as a worker among the poor few could have equalled him.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000011_000002|He seemed to fancy, however, that with the poor his work ended, and he was not always so wise as he might have been in Muddleton society.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000012_000000|"Good afternoon, Miss Houghton," he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000012_000001|"Do you happen to know if your brother is at home?
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000012_000002|I want just to speak to him about the choir treat."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000014_000000|And they walked home together.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000015_000000|"I am so glad to have this chance of speaking to you," she began rather nervously.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000015_000001|"I wanted particularly to ask your advice."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000016_000000|mr Blackthorne, being human and young, was not unnaturally flattered by this remark.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000016_000001|True, he was becoming well accustomed to this sort of thing, since the ladies of Muddleton were far more fond of seeking advice from the young and good looking curate than from the elderly and experienced rector.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000017_000001|For though he liked the honour of being consulted, he did not always like the trouble it involved, and he remembered with a shudder that Miss Houghton had once asked him his opinion about the 'Ethical Concept of the Good.'
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000018_000000|"It was only that I was so troubled about something mrs O'Reilly has just told me," said Lena Houghton.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000018_000001|"You won't tell any one that I told you?"
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000019_000000|"On no account," said the curate, warmly.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000020_000000|"Well, you know mr Zaluski, and how the Morleys have taken him up?"
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000021_000000|"Every one has taken him up," said the curate, with the least little touch of resentment in his tone.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000021_000001|"I knew that the Morleys were his special friends; I imagine that he admires Miss Morley."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000022_000000|"Yes, every one thinks they are either engaged or on the brink of it.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000023_000000|The curate looked startled.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000024_000000|"Why, I don't profess to like mr Zaluski," he said.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000024_000001|"But I don't know anything exactly against him."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000025_000000|"But I do.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000026_000000|"What did she tell you?" he asked with some curiosity.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000027_000000|"Why, she has found out that he is really a Nihilist-just think of a Nihilist going about loose like this, and playing tennis at the rectory and all the good houses!
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000027_000001|And not only that, but she says he is altogether a dangerous, unprincipled man with a dreadful temper.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000027_000002|You can't think how unhappy she is about poor Gertrude, and so am I, for we were at school together and have always been friends."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000028_000000|"I am very sorry to hear about it," said mr Blackthorne, "but I don't see that anything can be done.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000028_000001|You see, one does not like to interfere in these sort of things.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000028_000002|It seems officious rather, and meddlesome."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000000|"Yes, that is the worst of it," she replied, with a sigh.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000001|"I suppose we can do nothing.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000002|Still, it has been a great relief just to tell you about it and get it off my mind.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000003|I suppose we can only hope that something may put a stop to it all-we must just leave it to chance."
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000000|This sentiment amused me not a little.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000001|Leave it to chance indeed!
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000002|Had she not caused me to grow stronger and larger by every word she uttered? And had not the conversation revealed to me mr Blackthorn's one vulnerable part?
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000003|I knew well enough that I should be able to dominate his thoughts as I had done hers.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000004|Finding me burdensome, she had passed me on to somebody else with additions that vastly increased my working powers, and then she talked of leaving it to chance!
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000005|The way in which mortals practise pious frauds on themselves is really delightful!
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000006|And yet Lena Houghton was a good sort of girl, and had from her childhood repeated the catechism words which proclaim that, "My duty to my neighbour is to love him as myself . . .
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000007|To keep my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering." What is more, she took great pains to teach these words to a big class of Sunday School children, and went, rain or shine, to spend two hours each Sunday in a stuffy school room for that purpose.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000008|It was strange that she should be so ready to believe evil of her neighbour, and so eager to spread the story.
train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000009|But my progenitor is clever, and doubtless knows very well, whom to select as his tools.
train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000016_000000|With a purer spirit did Fanny rejoice in the intelligence.
train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000016_000001|She heard it at dinner, and felt it a blessing.
train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000016_000002|By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling-from the sincerity of Edmund's too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote.
train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000017_000000|Another day or two, and mr Yates was gone likewise.
train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000017_000003|Sir Thomas had been quite indifferent to mr Crawford's going or staying: but his good wishes for mr Yates's having a pleasant journey, as he walked with him to the hall door, were given with genuine satisfaction.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000004_000000|On their return from the park they found Willoughby's curricle and servant in waiting at the cottage, and mrs Dashwood was convinced that her conjecture had been just.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000004_000001|So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000004_000003|He turned round on their coming in, and his countenance shewed that he strongly partook of the emotion which over powered Marianne.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000005_000000|"Is anything the matter with her?" cried mrs Dashwood as she entered-"is she ill?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000007_000000|"Disappointment?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000008_000000|"Yes, for I am unable to keep my engagement with you.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000008_000001|mrs Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependent cousin, by sending me on business to London.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000008_000002|I have just received my dispatches, and taken my farewell of Allenham; and by way of exhilaration I am now come to take my farewell of you."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000009_000000|"To London!--and are you going this morning?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000010_000000|"Almost this moment."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000011_000000|"This is very unfortunate.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000011_000001|But mrs Smith must be obliged;--and her business will not detain you from us long I hope."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000012_000000|He coloured as he replied, "You are very kind, but I have no idea of returning into Devonshire immediately.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000012_000001|My visits to mrs Smith are never repeated within the twelvemonth."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000013_000000|"And is mrs Smith your only friend?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000013_000002|For shame, Willoughby, can you wait for an invitation here?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000014_000000|His colour increased; and with his eyes fixed on the ground he only replied, "You are too good."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000000|mrs Dashwood looked at Elinor with surprise.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000001|Elinor felt equal amazement.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000002|For a few moments every one was silent.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000003|mrs Dashwood first spoke.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000016_000000|"I have only to add, my dear Willoughby, that at Barton cottage you will always be welcome; for I will not press you to return here immediately, because you only can judge how far THAT might be pleasing to mrs Smith; and on this head I shall be no more disposed to question your judgment than to doubt your inclination."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000017_000000|"My engagements at present," replied Willoughby, confusedly, "are of such a nature-that-I dare not flatter myself"--
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000000|He stopt.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000001|mrs Dashwood was too much astonished to speak, and another pause succeeded.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000002|This was broken by Willoughby, who said with a faint smile, "It is folly to linger in this manner.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000003|I will not torment myself any longer by remaining among friends whose society it is impossible for me now to enjoy."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000019_000000|He then hastily took leave of them all and left the room.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000019_000001|They saw him step into his carriage, and in a minute it was out of sight.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000020_000000|mrs Dashwood felt too much for speech, and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000021_000000|Elinor's uneasiness was at least equal to her mother's.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000021_000001|She thought of what had just passed with anxiety and distrust.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000021_000002|Willoughby's behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment, and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother's invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover, so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000022_000000|But whatever might be the particulars of their separation, her sister's affliction was indubitable; and she thought with the tenderest compassion of that violent sorrow which Marianne was in all probability not merely giving way to as a relief, but feeding and encouraging as a duty.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000023_000000|In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000024_000000|"Our dear Willoughby is now some miles from Barton, Elinor," said she, as she sat down to work, "and with how heavy a heart does he travel?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000000|"It is all very strange.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000001|So suddenly to be gone!
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000002|It seems but the work of a moment.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000003|And last night he was with us so happy, so cheerful, so affectionate?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000005|He did not speak, he did not behave like himself.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000006|YOU must have seen the difference as well as i What can it be?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000007|Can they have quarrelled?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000026_000000|"It was not inclination that he wanted, Elinor; I could plainly see THAT.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000026_000001|He had not the power of accepting it.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000027_000000|"Can you, indeed!"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000002|I am persuaded that mrs Smith suspects his regard for Marianne, disapproves of it, (perhaps because she has other views for him,) and on that account is eager to get him away;--and that the business which she sends him off to transact is invented as an excuse to dismiss him. This is what I believe to have happened.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000003|He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000005|And now, Elinor, what have you to say?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000029_000000|"Nothing, for you have anticipated my answer."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000002|You had rather look out for misery for Marianne, and guilt for poor Willoughby, than an apology for the latter.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000005|Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000006|Is nothing due to the man whom we have all such reason to love, and no reason in the world to think ill of?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000007|To the possibility of motives unanswerable in themselves, though unavoidably secret for a while?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000008|And, after all, what is it you suspect him of?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000000|"I can hardly tell myself.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000001|But suspicion of something unpleasant is the inevitable consequence of such an alteration as we just witnessed in him.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000002|There is great truth, however, in what you have now urged of the allowances which ought to be made for him, and it is my wish to be candid in my judgment of every body.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000003|Willoughby may undoubtedly have very sufficient reasons for his conduct, and I will hope that he has. But it would have been more like Willoughby to acknowledge them at once.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000004|Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000032_000000|"Do not blame him, however, for departing from his character, where the deviation is necessary.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000032_000001|But you really do admit the justice of what I have said in his defence?--I am happy-and he is acquitted."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000033_000000|"Not entirely.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000033_000001|It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from mrs Smith-and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000033_000002|But this is no excuse for their concealing it from us."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000034_000000|"Concealing it from us! my dear child, do you accuse Willoughby and Marianne of concealment?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000034_000001|This is strange indeed, when your eyes have been reproaching them every day for incautiousness."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000035_000000|"I want no proof of their affection," said Elinor; "but of their engagement I do."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000036_000000|"I am perfectly satisfied of both."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000037_000000|"Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000000|"I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000001|Has not his behaviour to Marianne and to all of us, for at least the last fortnight, declared that he loved and considered her as his future wife, and that he felt for us the attachment of the nearest relation? Have we not perfectly understood each other?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000002|Has not my consent been daily asked by his looks, his manner, his attentive and affectionate respect?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000003|My Elinor, is it possible to doubt their engagement?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000004|How could such a thought occur to you?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000005|How is it to be supposed that Willoughby, persuaded as he must be of your sister's love, should leave her, and leave her perhaps for months, without telling her of his affection;--that they should part without a mutual exchange of confidence?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000039_000000|"I confess," replied Elinor, "that every circumstance except ONE is in favour of their engagement; but that ONE is the total silence of both on the subject, and with me it almost outweighs every other."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000000|"How strange this is!
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000001|You must think wretchedly indeed of Willoughby, if, after all that has openly passed between them, you can doubt the nature of the terms on which they are together.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000002|Has he been acting a part in his behaviour to your sister all this time?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000003|Do you suppose him really indifferent to her?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000041_000000|"No, I cannot think that.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000041_000001|He must and does love her I am sure."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000043_000000|"You must remember, my dear mother, that I have never considered this matter as certain.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000043_000001|I have had my doubts, I confess; but they are fainter than they were, and they may soon be entirely done away.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000043_000002|If we find they correspond, every fear of mine will be removed."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000000|"A mighty concession indeed!
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000001|If you were to see them at the altar, you would suppose they were going to be married.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000002|Ungracious girl!
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000003|But I require no such proof.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000004|Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000005|You cannot doubt your sister's wishes.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000006|It must be Willoughby therefore whom you suspect.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000007|But why?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000008|Is he not a man of honour and feeling?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000009|Has there been any inconsistency on his side to create alarm?
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000010|can he be deceitful?"
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000000|"I hope not, I believe not," cried Elinor.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000001|"I love Willoughby, sincerely love him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000002|It has been involuntary, and I will not encourage it.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000004|But all this may be explained by such a situation of his affairs as you have supposed.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000046_000000|"You speak very properly.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000046_000001|Willoughby certainly does not deserve to be suspected.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000046_000003|It is an engagement in some respects not prosperously begun, for their marriage must be at a very uncertain distance; and even secrecy, as far as it can be observed, may now be very advisable."
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000047_000000|They were interrupted by the entrance of Margaret; and Elinor was then at liberty to think over the representations of her mother, to acknowledge the probability of many, and hope for the justice of all.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000048_000001|Her eyes were red and swollen; and it seemed as if her tears were even then restrained with difficulty.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000048_000002|She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst into tears and left the room.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000049_000000|This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening.
train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000049_000001|She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000006_000000|vol five
train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000009_000000|In the connection of the church and state, I have considered the former as subservient only, and relative, to the latter; a salutary maxim, if in fact, as well as in narrative, it had ever been held sacred.
train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000009_000002|But I have reviewed, with diligence and pleasure, the objects of ecclesiastical history, by which the decline and fall of the Roman empire were materially affected, the propagation of Christianity, the constitution of the Catholic church, the ruin of Paganism, and the sects that arose from the mysterious controversies concerning the Trinity and incarnation.
train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000011_000005|The first introduction of a symbolic worship was in the veneration of the cross, and of relics.
train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000011_000008|At first, the experiment was made with caution and scruple; and the venerable pictures were discreetly allowed to instruct the ignorant, to awaken the cold, and to gratify the prejudices of the heathen proselytes.
train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000011_000011|The most audacious pencil might tremble in the rash attempt of defining, by forms and colors, the infinite Spirit, the eternal Father, who pervades and sustains the universe.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000001_000000|EGBERT
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000007_000001|They learned much about Britain; for trading vessels, even at that early day, crossed the Channel.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000009_000000|After the Roman legions had left Britain, the Jutes, led, it is said, by two great captains named Hengist and Horsa, landed upon the southeastern coast and made a settlement.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000016_000001|Aid came to them in a singular way.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000016_000004|He asked the dealer who they were.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000016_000005|"Angles," was the answer.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000020_000000|Still, though both Angles and Saxons called themselves Christians, they were seldom at peace; and for more than two hundred years they frequently fought.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000022_000000|Soon after this a welcome message came to Egbert.
train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000022_000001|The mind of the people in Wessex had changed and they had elected him king.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000002_000000|ALFRED THE GREAT
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000007_000000|Alfred was the son of Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000008_000000|When Alfred was a boy there were no printed books.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000008_000002|Moreover, the art of making paper had not yet been invented.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000010_000000|"Oh, what a lovely book!" exclaimed the boys.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000013_000001|Much to the surprise of his brothers, Alfred proved to be the best reader and his mother gave him the book.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000014_000001|It was a long and tiresome journey, made mostly on horseback.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000017_000001|Some great battles were fought, and Alfred's elder brother Ethelred, king of the West Saxons, was killed.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000017_000002|Thus Alfred became king.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000019_000001|They kept the people in constant alarm. Alfred therefore determined to meet the pirates on their own element, the sea.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000020_000001|Alfred himself was obliged to flee for his life.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000023_000000|Once, when very hungry, he went into the house of a cowherd and asked for something to eat.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000027_000000|three
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000029_000002|At last, Guth'rum, the commander of the Danes, ordered the minstrel to be brought to his tent.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000030_000000|Alfred went.
train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000031_000001|Guthrum was taken prisoner and brought before Alfred.
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000002_000000|HENRY THE FOWLER
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000009_000003|Then they would swiftly dart at their prey and bear it to the ground.
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000010_000002|Kneeling at his feet, the messenger said:
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000012_000001|Then he exclaimed:
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000013_000001|I cannot believe it.
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000025_000003|The infantry also were carefully drilled.
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000028_000001|"Our truce is ended."
train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000032_000001|His son Otto succeeded him.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000002_000001|As they were passing a deep mire they heard cries for help, and turning, saw a poor leper who was sinking in the mud.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000002_000002|One of the knights, a handsome young man, was touched by the cries.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000002|If the knight had not done this, the leper would have been driven out of the town, with nothing to eat and no place in which to sleep.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000003|At midnight, while the young man was fast asleep, the leper breathed upon his back.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000004|This awakened the knight, who turned quickly in his bed and found that the leper was gone.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000004_000000|The knight called for a light and searched, but in vain.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000005_000000|With that the vision vanished.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000006_000003|The Saracens called him "The Cid," or Lord.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000009_000003|Each was to choose a champion. The champions were to fight, and the king whose champion won was to have the city.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000011_000001|To this they gladly agreed.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000012_000003|Soon they reached the town of Alcocer, and after a siege captured it and lived in it.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000014_000002|Suddenly and swiftly they poured from the gate of Alcocer, and a terrible battle was fought.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000015_000002|He was determined to capture Toledo.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000017_000003|Food became very scarce in Valencia.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000017_000004|Wheat, barley and cheese were all so dear that none but the rich could buy them.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000018_000000|Then on the fifteenth of June, ten ninety four, the governor went to the camp of the Cid and delivered to him the keys of the city.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000020_000001|They crossed from Africa to Spain and laid siege to Valencia.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000022_000000|In time the Cid's health began to fail.
train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000025_000001|The king awoke.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000000_000000|WARWICK THE KINGMAKER
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000001_000000|LIVED FROM fourteen twenty eight to fourteen seventy one
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000003_000000|The earl of Warwick, known as the "kingmaker," was the most famous man in England for many years after the death of Henry the fifth He lived in a great castle with two towers higher than most church spires. It is one of the handsomest dwellings in the world and is visited every year by thousands of people.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000005_000002|An armed troop was approaching.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000005_000004|The earl himself was behind them.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000005_000005|The gate was opened.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000006_000000|Passing through it and on to the castle, the earl and his company were soon within its strong stone walls.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000008_000000|The earl spoke the truth.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000009_000000|The earl of Warwick added: "You are the rightful heir to the throne. The claim of Henry the sixth comes through Lancaster, the fourth son of Edward the third-yours through Lionel, the second.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000009_000001|His claim comes through his father only-yours through both your father and mother.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000009_000002|It is a better claim and it is a double claim."
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000010_000000|"That is true, my cousin of Warwick," replied the duke of York, "but we must not plunge England into war."
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000011_000001|"Let us first ask for reform.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000013_000000|The king paid no attention to it.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000013_000001|Then a war began.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000013_000003|It lasted for thirty years.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000014_000000|Those who fought on the king's side were called Lancastrians, because Henry's ancestor, john of Gaunt, was the duke of Lancaster.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000019_000001|The duke of York was killed, and the queen ordered some of her men to cut off his head, put upon it a paper crown in mockery, and fix it over one of the gates of the city of York.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000023_000000|But the people were still discontented.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000024_000001|She left London and the kingmaker entered the city in triumph.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000026_000001|A robber met them, but Margaret, with wonderful courage, said to him, "I am your queen and this is your prince.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000026_000002|I entrust him to your care."
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000027_000000|The man was pleased with the confidence that she showed.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000028_000000|three
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000033_000000|But though Edward had fled, he was not discouraged.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000040_000000|But Richard was determined to make himself king.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000040_000001|So he put both the young princes in the Tower.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000041_000001|But he was mistaken.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000041_000002|One person did claim it.
train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000044_000000|Richard was a bad man, but he was brave, and he fought like a lion. However, it was all in vain.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000012_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000014_000000|By the evening of the sixteenth the subtle hand of Hurstwood had made itself apparent.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000014_000001|He had given the word among his friends-and they were many and influential-that here was something which they ought to attend, and, as a consequence, the sale of tickets by mr Quincel, acting for the lodge, had been large.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000019_000002|mr Harry Quincel was looked upon as quite a star for this sort of work.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000021_000002|At times she wished that she had never gone into the affair; at others, she trembled lest she should be paralysed with fear and stand white and gasping, not knowing what to say and spoiling the entire performance.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000023_000002|It's the spirit of the part, you know, that is difficult."
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000027_000000|The flare of the gas jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box-rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eyelids, wigs, scissors, looking glasses, drapery-in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000027_000004|This took her by the hand kindly, as one who says, "My dear, come in." It opened for her as if for its own.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000003|It was to be a full dress affair.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000004|The four boxes had been taken. dr Norman McNeill Hale and his wife were to occupy one.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000005|This was quite a card.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000007|Among the latter was Drouet.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000009|They were the lights of a certain circle-the circle of small fortunes and secret order distinctions.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000030_000000|To night he was in his element.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000030_000001|He came with several friends directly from Rector's in a carriage.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000030_000002|In the lobby he met Drouet, who was just returning from a trip for more cigars.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000032_000000|"Why, how do you do, mr Hurstwood?" came from the first individual recognised.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000035_000000|"Yes, indeed," said the manager.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000037_000001|"I'm glad to see it."
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000042_000000|"Wife here?"
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000051_000001|He has a brick yard, you know."
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000052_000001|"Felt pretty sore, I suppose, over his defeat."
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000053_000000|"Perhaps," said the other, winking shrewdly.
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000058_000001|Bother the show!"
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000062_000001|He was just asking for you a moment ago."
train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000063_000001|Look at him any time within the half hour before the curtain was up, he was a member of an eminent group-a rounded company of five or more whose stout figures, large white bosoms, and shining pins bespoke the character of their success. The gentlemen who brought their wives called him out to shake hands. Seats clicked, ushers bowed while he looked blandly on.
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000004_000001|It was Packard.
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000006_000001|But Bill says:
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000022_000000|"Hello, what's up?
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000022_000001|Don't cry, bub.
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000027_000000|"They're  they're  are you the watchman of the boat?"
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000035_000000|"What wreck?"
train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000036_000000|"Why, there ain't but one."
train-clean-360/2285/163381/2285_163381_000006_000001|Why, how you talk!
train-clean-360/2285/163381/2285_163381_000021_000000|"Who?
train-clean-360/2285/163381/2285_163381_000021_000001|Me? Go 'long.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000008_000000|Dare I say it?
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000008_000002|At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I MUST write it-the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000008_000004|I must and will write-it relieves me; read and believe as you list.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000010_000000|Much else though I have forgotten, THAT fact remains as clear as the last sight of a well remembered shore in the mind of some wave tossed traveller.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000012_000000|It made no difference to me, of course.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000017_000000|"Is this your rug, captain?" asked a bystander just as we were driving off.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000018_000000|"Not mine," I answered somewhat roughly.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000018_000002|It belongs to this old chap here who has just dropped out of the skies on to his head; chuck it on top and shut the door!" And that rug, the very mainspring of the startling things which followed, was thus carelessly thrown on to the carriage, and off we went.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000019_000001|In five minutes the house surgeon on duty came in to see me, and with a shake of his head said briefly-
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000000|"Gone, sir-clean gone!
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000001|Broke his neck like a pipe stem.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000002|Most strange looking man, and none of us can even guess at his age.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000003|Not a friend of yours, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000021_000000|"Nothing whatever to do with me, sir.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000021_000001|He slipped on the pavement and fell in front of me just now, and as a matter of common charity I brought him in here.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000021_000002|Were there any means of identification on him?"
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000022_000001|The bead was of no seeming value and slipped unintentionally into my waistcoat pocket as I chatted for a few minutes more with the doctor, and then, shaking hands, I said goodbye, and went back to the cab which was still waiting outside.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000023_000000|It was only on reaching home I noticed the hospital porters had omitted to take the dead man's carpet from the roof of the cab when they carried him in, and as the cabman did not care about driving back to the hospital with it, and it could not well be left in the street, I somewhat reluctantly carried it indoors with me.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000025_000002|In the centre appeared a round such as might be taken for the sun, while here and there, "in the field," as heralds say, were lesser orbs which from their size and position could represent smaller worlds circling about it.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000026_000000|Altogether, I thought as I kicked it out straight upon my floor, it was a strange and not unhandsome article of furniture-it would do nicely for the mess room on the Carolina, and if any representatives of yonder poor old fellow turned up tomorrow, why, I would give them a couple of dollars for it.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000026_000001|Little did I guess how dear it would be at any price!
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000027_000002|How lonely I was!
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000027_000006|What a fool I had been!
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000030_000001|I made this apology to the good woman, and when she had set the table and closed the door took another turn or two about my den, continuing as I did so my angry thoughts.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000031_000000|"Yes, yes," I said at last, returning to the stove and taking my stand, hands in pockets, in front of it, "anything were better than this, any enterprise however wild, any adventure however desperate.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000031_000002|I WISH I WERE IN THE PLANET MARS!"
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000000|How can I describe what followed those luckless words?
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000001|Even as I spoke the magic carpet quivered responsively under my feet, and an undulation went all round the fringe as though a sudden wind were shaking it.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000002|It humped up in the middle so abruptly that I came down sitting with a shock that numbed me for the moment.
train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000004|I gave a wild yell and made one frantic struggle, but it was too late.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000003_000000|Was it a real feast we had shared in overnight, or only a quaint dream? Was Heru real or only a lovely fancy?
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000003_000001|And those hairy ruffians of whom a horrible vision danced before my waking eyes, were they fancy too? No, my wrists still ached with the strain of the tussle, the quaint, sad wine taste was still on my lips-it was all real enough, I decided, starting up in bed; and if it was real where was the little princess? What had they done with her?
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000003_000003|And as I wondered a keen, bright picture of the hapless maid as I saw her last blossomed before my mind's eye, the ambassadors on either side holding her wrists, and she shrinking from them in horror while her poor, white face turned to me for rescue in desperate pleading-oh!
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000004_000000|They peeped and peered all about the room, then one said, "Is Princess Heru with you, sir?"
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000005_000000|"No," I answered roughly.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000005_000001|"Saints alive, man, do you think I would have you tumbling in here over each other's heels if she were?"
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000007_000000|"What!" I roared, "Heru taken from the palace by a handful of men and none of you infernal rascals-none of you white livered abortions lifted a hand to save her-curse on you a thousand times.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000007_000003|Amongst the litter little sapphire coloured finches were feeding, twittering merrily to themselves as they hopped about, and here and there down the long tables lay asprawl a belated reveller, his empty oblivion phial before him, his curly head upon his arms, dreaming perhaps of last night's feast and a neglected bride dozing dispassionate in some distant chamber.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000007_000005|With hasty feet I rushed down the hall out into the cool, sweet air of the planet morning.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000008_000001|I would not listen to more.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000008_000002|"Good!" I shouted.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000008_000005|The big bullies are very few; the sea runs behind them; the maid in their clutch is worth fighting for; it needs but one good onset, five minutes' gallantry, and she is ours again.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000009_000000|But blue mantle, biting his thumbs, murmured he had not breakfasted yet and edged away behind his companions.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000009_000001|Wherever I looked eyes dropped and timid hands fidgeted as their owners backed off from my dangerous enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000009_000002|There was obviously no help to be had from them, and meantime the precious moments were flying, so with a disdainful glance I turned on my heels and set off alone as hard as I could go for the harbour.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000010_000000|But it was too late.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000010_000007|That last red beast turned on my blade, and as he fell dragged me half down with him.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000010_000008|I staggered up, and tugging the metal from him turned on the next.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000011_000001|As the full meaning of the scene dawned upon her she started to her feet, looking wonderfully beautiful amongst those dusky forms, and extending her hands to me began to cry in the most piteous way.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000012_000000|How long after I know not, but presently a tissue of daylight crept into my eyes, and I awoke again.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000012_000001|It was better than nothing perhaps, yet it was a poor awakening.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000013_000000|Where had we come to?
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000014_000001|Nearer it came and nearer, right across my road, until I could see a black dot at the point, a head presently developed, then as we approached the ears and antlers of a swimming stag.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000014_000002|It was a huge beast as it loomed up against the glow, bigger than any mortal stag ever was-the kind of fellow traveller no one would willingly accost, but even if I had wished to get out of its path I had no power to do so.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000015_000000|Closer and closer we came, one of us drifting helplessly, and the other swimming strongly for the islands.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000015_000002|Be this as it may, the beast came hurtling down on me lip deep in the waves, a mighty brown head with pricked ears that flicked the water from them now and then, small bright eyes set far back, and wide palmated antlers on a mighty forehead, like the dead branches of a tree.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000015_000003|What that Martian mountain elk had hoped for can only be guessed, what he met with was a tangle of floating finery carrying a numbed traveller on it, and with a snort of disappointment he turned again.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000016_000001|Quick as thought the beast twisted his head aside and tossed his antlers so that the try was fruitless.
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000016_000002|But was I to lose my only chance of shore?
train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000016_000003|With all my strength I hurled myself upon him, missing my clutch again by a hair's breadth and going headlong into the salt furrow his chest was turning up.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000000_000000|THE LAST OF THE SEA ROVERS
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000002_000000|w b LORD
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000001|For years past the Governments of several European Powers have sought to put friendly pressure upon the Sultan of Morocco to effectually stop the depredations of the Riffian coast pirates.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000002|No strong measures, however, were really taken until the above episode occurred.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000003|It is said that in early days the Moors were some time in accustoming themselves to the perils of the deep.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000005|One eminent ruler of ancient times, in that region, when asked what the sea was like, replied, "The sea is a huge beast which silly folk ride like worms on logs." But it afterwards became clear that the Moors had a strong fancy for the "worms" and "logs" too.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000006|They gave up marvelling at those who went to sea, and went on it themselves in search of plunder.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000007|The risk, the uncertainty, the danger, the sense of superior skill and ingenuity, that attract the adventurous spirit, and the passion for sport, are stated by some writers to have brought such a state of things into existence.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000008|One fact seems to be pretty certain, that when these depredations were first made, they took the form of reprisals upon the Spaniards.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000009|No sooner was Granada fallen, than thousands of desperate Moors left the land, disdaining to live under a Spanish yoke.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000010|Settling along a portion of the northern coast of Africa, they immediately proceeded to first attack all Spanish vessels that could be found.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000012|Probably this got monotonous in course of time, for in their wild sea courses they took to harrying the vessels belonging to other nations, and so laid the foundation for a race of pirates, which has continued down to quite recently.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000013|As nowadays, the Moors cruised in boats from the commencement of their marauding expeditions.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000014|Each man pulled an oar, and knew how to fight as well as row.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000015|Drawing little water, a small squadron of these craft could be pushed up almost any creek, or lie hidden behind a rock, till the enemy came in sight.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000016|Then oars out, and a quick stroke for a few minutes.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000017|Next they were alongside their unsuspecting prey, and pouring in a first volley.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000018|Ultimately the prize was usually taken, the crew put in irons, and the pirates returned home with their capture, no doubt being received with acclamation upon their arrival.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000000|As far back as the sixteenth century the Spanish forts at Alhucemas-not to mention other places-were established for the purpose of repressing piracy in its vicinity.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000002|Some of them went so far as to send warships to cruise along the Riffian coast.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000003|This step apparently had some moral effect upon the pirates, for from that time onwards attacks upon foreign vessels practically ceased. Something more than this, however, was needed, for no one could say how soon the marauding expeditions might be renewed upon a larger scale than ever, so as to make up for lost opportunities.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000005|Here she got becalmed, and while in that condition two boats approached her from the shore.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000007|When, however, the latter got within a hundred yards or so of the helpless vessel, the suspicions of the crew were aroused.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000009|There were only three revolvers on board the schooner, and with these the crew prepared to defend themselves.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000010|Soon, however, their supply of ammunition became exhausted, and the pirates boarded the schooner without further opposition.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000012|The ship's own boat was lowered, and into this the marauders put their booty, and took it ashore, also carrying the captain and one of the crew with them.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000013|About an hour later another boat, containing about twenty pirates, came off and fired on the ship.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000014|The crew, seeing that they could offer no effective resistance, hid themselves away in the hold.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000015|The other pirates had left very little for the new arrivals to take, and this seemed to annoy them so much that they gave vent to their ill feelings in several ways, not the least wanton being the pollution of the ship's fresh water.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000016|They also smashed the vessel's compass, and tore up the charts. For the next two days the crew existed on a few biscuits, which the pirates had left behind.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000018|The crew of the schooner hoisted a shirt as a signal, which was fortunately seen, and a boat sent off in response thereto.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000001|They then completely pillaged the ship, removing almost everything of any use or value.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000004|The Spaniard was compelled to retire, leaving the captain of the barque in the hands of the Moors.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000008|For some reason or other, the pirates seemed very much disinclined to part with these prisoners.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000009|Only a short time before the attack on the French barque took place, a notice was issued by the British Board of Trade, in which the attention of ship owners and masters of vessels was called to the dangers attending navigation off the coast of Morocco.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000014|Five of the crew managed to escape in the cutter's boat and were picked up some days later by a passing vessel.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000015|Those who remained on board the cutter fared very badly.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000016|After the vessel had been pillaged, the rigging and sails destroyed, the men were all securely bound and left to their fate.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000002|When near enough they opened fire, and ordered the captain to lower his sails, which was done, as the Spaniards were, practically speaking, without arms.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000004|When close to the land the captain was rowed ashore, and the pirates spent part of the night in unloading the cargo.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000006|Probably thinking that some of their comrades were on the barque, but unable to set the necessary canvas to return, only two Moors were sent off with the captain, and these remained in the boat when the vessel was reached. Upon gaining the deck of the barque the captain was surprised to find himself alone.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000007|Without hesitating for a moment he released the crew, who were confined below, hoisted sail and stood out to sea.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000008|The Moors who had been left in the boat were speedily cut adrift, much to their amazement, for it so happened that none of the pirates had stayed on board.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000009_000001|Often, too, they were maltreated to such an extent that they were glad to escape with their lives.
train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000009_000002|Some of the neighboring tribes continually endeavored to purchase captives for the pleasure of killing them, but it is satisfactory to learn that no sales are recorded, as the anticipated ransom was always largely in excess of the sums offered by the bloodthirsty natives.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000001_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000001|I stupidly gave permission for the third motor to be got out this morning.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000002|This was done first thing and the motor placed on firm ice.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000003|Later Campbell told me one of the men had dropped a leg through crossing a sludgy patch some two hundred yards from the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000006|I started for the shore with a single man load, leaving Campbell looking about for the best crossing for the motor.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000007|I sent Meares and the dogs over with a can of petrol on arrival.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000008|After some twenty minutes he returned to tell me the motor had gone through.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000009|Soon after Campbell and Day arrived to confirm the dismal tidings.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000010|It appears that getting frightened of the state of affairs Campbell got out a line and attached it to the motor-then manning the line well he attempted to rush the machine across the weak place.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000011|A man on the rope, Wilkinson, suddenly went through to the shoulders, but was immediately hauled out.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000013|The men kept hold of the rope, but it cut through the ice towards them with an ever increasing strain, obliging one after another to let go.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000014|Half a minute later nothing remained but a big hole.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000015|Perhaps it was lucky there was no accident to the men, but it's a sad incident for us in any case.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000016|It's a big blow to know that one of the two best motors, on which so much time and trouble have been spent, now lies at the bottom of the sea.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000017|The actual spot where the motor disappeared was crossed by its fellow motor with a very heavy load as well as by myself with heavy ponies only yesterday.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000005_000000|It was clear that we were practically cut off, certainly as regards heavy transport.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000005_000001|Bowers went back again with Meares and managed to ferry over some wind clothes and odds and ends.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000000|At six I went to the ice edge farther to the north.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000001|I found a place where the ship could come and be near the heavy ice over which sledging is still possible.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000002|I went near the ship and semaphored directions for her to get to this place as soon as she could, using steam if necessary.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000003|She is at present wedged in with the pack, and I think Pennell hopes to warp her along when the pack loosens.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000007_000000|Meares and I marked the new trail with kerosene tins before returning.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000007_000002|Meanwhile the hut proceeds; altogether there are four layers of boarding to go on, two of which are nearing completion; it will be some time before the rest and the insulation is on.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000008_000000|It's a big job getting settled in like this and a tantalising one when one is hoping to do some depot work before the season closes.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000009_000000|We had a keen north wind to night and a haze, but wind is dropping and sun shining brightly again.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000009_000001|To day seemed to be the hottest we have yet had; after walking across I was perspiring freely, and later as I sat in the sun after lunch one could almost imagine a warm summer day in England.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000003|After breakfast I went on board and was delighted to find a good solid road right up to the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000004|A flag was hoisted immediately for the ponies to come out, and we commenced a good day's work.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000005|All day the sledges have been coming to and fro, but most of the pulling work has been done by the ponies: the track is so good that these little animals haul anything from twelve to eighteen hundredweight.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000007|The dogs, working five to a team, haul five to six hundredweight. and of course they travel much faster than either ponies or men.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000001|Later in the day we made a start on the first of these, and got seven tons ashore before ceasing work.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000002|We close with a good day to our credit, marred by an unfortunate incident-one of the dogs, a good puller, was seen to cough after a journey; he was evidently trying to bring something up-two minutes later he was dead.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000003|Nobody seems to know the reason, but a post mortem is being held by Atkinson and I suppose the cause of death will be found.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000004|We can't afford to lose animals of any sort.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000013_000000|All the ponies except three have now brought loads from the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000013_000001|Oates thinks these three are too nervous to work over this slippery surface.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000013_000002|However, he tried one of the hardest cases to night, a very fine pony, and got him in successfully with a big load.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000014_000000|To morrow we ought to be running some twelve or thirteen of these animals.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000015_000000|Griffith Taylor's bolted on three occasions, the first two times more or less due to his own fault, but the third owing to the stupidity of one of the sailors.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000015_000002|It was still funnier when he brought his final load (an exceptionally heavy one) with a set face and ardent pace, vouchsafing not a word to anyone he passed.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000017_000000|Bowers checks every case as it comes on shore and dashes off to the ship to arrange the precedence of different classes of goods.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000017_000001|He proves a perfect treasure; there is not a single case he does not know or a single article of any sort which he cannot put his hand on at once.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000018_000000|Rennick and Bruce are working gallantly at the discharge of stores on board.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000019_000000|Williamson and Leese load the sledges and are getting very clever and expeditious.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000019_000001|Evans (seaman) is generally superintending the sledging and camp outfit.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000020_000000|Wilson, Cherry Garrard, Wright, Griffith Taylor, Debenham, Crean, and Browning have been driving ponies, a task at which I have assisted myself once or twice.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000020_000001|There was a report that the ice was getting rotten, but I went over it myself and found it sound throughout.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000020_000002|The accident with the motor sledge has made people nervous.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000021_000000|The weather has been very warm and fine on the whole, with occasional gleams of sunshine, but to night there is a rather chill wind from the south.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000021_000001|The hut is progressing famously.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000002|Nothing like it has been done before; nothing so expeditious and complete.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000003|This morning the main loads were fodder.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000005|Some addition to our patent fuel was made in the morning, and later in the afternoon it came in a steady stream.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000006|We have more than twelve tons and could make this do if necessity arose.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000023_000000|In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day-instruments, clothing, and personal effects.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000023_000001|Our camp is becoming so perfect in its appointments that I am almost suspicious of some drawback hidden by the summer weather.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000000|The hut is progressing apace, and all agree that it should be the most perfectly comfortable habitation.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000001|'It amply repays the time and attention given to the planning.' The sides have double boarding inside and outside the frames, with a layer of our excellent quilted seaweed insulation between each pair of boardings.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000003|To add to the wall insulation the south and east sides of the hut are piled high with compressed forage bales, whilst the north side is being prepared as a winter stable for the ponies.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000004|The stable will stand between the wall of the hut and a wall built of forage bales, six bales high and two bales thick.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000005|This will be roofed with rafters and tarpaulin, as we cannot find enough boarding.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000000|Some of the ponies are very troublesome, but all except two have been running to day, and until this evening there were no excitements.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000001|After tea Oates suggested leading out the two intractable animals behind other sledges; at the same time he brought out the strong, nervous grey pony.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000003|But whilst one of the sledges was being unpacked the pony tied to it suddenly got scared.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000006|half-way over the floe my rear pony got his foreleg foul of his halter, then got frightened, tugged at his halter, and lifted the unladen sledge to which he was tied-then the halter broke and away he went.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000007|But by this time the damage was done.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000008|My pony snorted wildly and sprang forward as the sledge banged to the ground.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000010|He galloped back and the party dejectedly returned.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000012|Finally he was captured and led forth once more between Oates and Anton.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000013|He remained fairly well on the outward journey, but on the homeward grew restive again; Evans, who was now leading him, called for Anton, and both tried to hold him, but to no purpose-he dashed off, upset his load, and came back to camp with the sledge.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000014|All these troubles arose after he had made three journeys without a hitch and we had come to regard him as a nice, placid, gritty pony.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000015|Now I'm afraid it will take a deal of trouble to get him safe again, and we have three very troublesome beasts instead of two.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000017|The majority of our animals seem pretty quiet now, but any one of them may break out in this way if things go awry.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000026_000000|The weather has the appearance of breaking.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000026_000001|We had a strongish northerly breeze at midday with snow and hail storms, and now the wind has turned to the south and the sky is overcast with threatenings of a blizzard.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000026_000002|The floe is cracking and pieces may go out-if so the ship will have to get up steam again.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000027_000002|The post mortem on last night's death revealed nothing to account for it.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000029_000000|The threatened blizzard materialised at about four o'clock this morning.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000029_000001|The wind increased to force six or seven at the ship, and continued to blow, with drift, throughout the forenoon.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000001|They started to go back, but the ship being blotted out, turned and gave us their company at breakfast.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000002|The day was altogether too bad for outside work, so we turned our attention to the hut interior, with the result that to night all the matchboarding is completed.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000003|The floor linoleum is the only thing that remains to be put down; outside, the roof and ends have to be finished.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000005|It is a first rate building in an extraordinarily sheltered spot; whilst the wind was raging at the ship this morning we enjoyed comparative peace.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000006|Campbell says there was an extraordinary change as he approached the beach.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000031_000000|I sent two or three people to dig into the hard snow drift behind the camp; they got into solid ice immediately, became interested in the job, and have begun the making of a cave which is to be our larder.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000031_000001|Already they have tunnelled six or eight feet in and have begun side channels.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000031_000003|We had been speculating as to the origin of this solid drift and attached great antiquity to it, but the diggers came to a patch of earth with skua feathers, which rather knocks our theories on the head.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000032_000000|The wind began to drop at midday, and after lunch I went to the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000033_000000|As far as I can see the open water extends to an east and west line which is a little short of the glacier tongue.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000034_000001|I trust they may last for a few days at least.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000036_000001|I ran six journeys with five dogs, driving them in the Siberian fashion for the first time.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000036_000004|However, it's early days to decide such matters, and we shall learn much on the depot journey.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000037_000000|Early in the afternoon a message came from the ship to say that all stores had been landed.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000037_000001|Nothing remains to be brought but mutton, books and pictures, and the pianola.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000037_000003|We are LANDED eight days after our arrival-a very good record.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000038_000000|The hut could be inhabited at this moment, but probably we shall not begin to live in it for a week.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000039_000000|The grotto party are making headway into the ice for our larder, but it is slow and very arduous work.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000002|To the south the land outlines were hazy with drift, so my dog tour was abandoned.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000003|In the afternoon, with some moderation of conditions, the ballast party went to work, and wrought so well that more than ten tons were got off before night.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000004|The organisation of this work is extremely good.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000006|I slept on board the ship and found it colder than the camp-the cabins were below freezing all night and the only warmth existed in the cheery spirit of the company.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000008|I shaved and bathed last night (the first time for ten days) and wrote letters from breakfast till tea time to day.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000009|Meanwhile the ballast team has been going on merrily, and to night Pennell must have some twenty six tons on board.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000043_000001|The grotto has been much enlarged and is, in fact, now big enough to hold all our mutton and a considerable quantity of seal and penguin.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000044_000002|The hard ice of this slope is a godsend and both grottoes will be ideal for their purposes.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000000|Some of the ponies are not turning out so well as I expected; they are slow walkers and must inevitably impede the faster ones.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000002|'Then I am not quite sure they are going to stand the cold well, and on this first journey they may have to face pretty severe conditions.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000003|Then, of course, there is the danger of losing them on thin ice or by injury sustained in rough places.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000004|Although we have fifteen now (two having gone for the Eastern Party) it is not at all certain that we shall have such a number when the main journey is undertaken next season.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000005|One can only be careful and hope for the best.'
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000052_000000|We rose late, having breakfast at nine.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000052_000001|The morning promised well and the day fulfilled the promise: we had bright sunshine and practically no wind.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000053_000001|After Service I told Campbell that I should have to cancel his two ponies and give him two others.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000053_000002|He took it like the gentleman he is, thoroughly appreciating the reason.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000054_000001|After our talk we went together to explore the route, which we expected to find much crevassed.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000054_000002|I only intended to go a short way, but on reaching the snow above the uncovered hills of our Cape I found the surface so promising and so free from cracks that I went quite a long way.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000054_000003|Eventually I turned, leaving Campbell, Gran, and Nelson roped together and on ski to make their way onward, but not before I felt certain that the route to Cape Royds would be quite easy.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000001|We took a little provision and a cooker and our sleeping bags.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000003|The dogs pulled well, and we went towards the Glacier Tongue at a brisk pace; found much of the ice uncovered.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000006|We found a good deal of compressed fodder and boxes of maize, but no grain crushed as expected.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000007|The open water was practically up to the Glacier Tongue.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000001|We came to a second crack, but avoided it by skirting to the west.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000003|There was a small pool of open water and a longish crack off Hut Point.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000004|I got my feet very wet crossing the latter.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000005|We passed hundreds of seals at the various cracks.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000057_000000|On the arrival at the hut to my chagrin we found it filled with snow.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000057_000001|Shackleton reported that the door had been forced by the wind, but that he had made an entrance by the window and found shelter inside-other members of his party used it for shelter.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000057_000002|But they actually went away and left the window (which they had forced) open; as a result, nearly the whole of the interior of the hut is filled with hard icy snow, and it is now impossible to find shelter inside.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000058_000000|Meares and I were able to clamber over the snow to some extent and to examine the neat pile of cases in the middle, but they will take much digging out.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000058_000001|We got some asbestos sheeting from the magnetic hut and made the best shelter we could to boil our cocoa.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000059_000000|There was something too depressing in finding the old hut in such a desolate condition.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000059_000002|To camp outside and feel that all the old comfort and cheer had departed, was dreadfully heartrending.
train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000059_000003|I went to bed thoroughly depressed.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000000_000003|The ski run was completely cut through in two places, the Gap and Observation Hill almost bare, a great bare slope on the side of Arrival Heights, and on top of Crater Heights an immense bare table land.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000000_000004|How delighted we should have been to see it like this in the old days!
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000000_000006|The hole which we had dug in the mound in the pond was still there, as Meares discovered by falling into it up to his waist and getting very wet.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000001_000000|On the south side we could see the Pressure Ridges beyond Pram Point as of old-Horseshoe Bay calm and unpressed-the sea ice pressed on Pram Point and along the Gap ice foot, and a new ridge running around c Armitage about two miles off.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000002_000000|The flagstaff was down, the stays having carried away, but in five minutes it could be put up again.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000002_000003|We got to camp about teatime.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000002_000005|Simpson has almost completed the differential magnetic cave next door.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000003_000000|I took Ponting out to see some interesting thaw effects on the ice cliffs east of the Camp.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000003_000001|I noted that the ice layers were pressing out over thin dirt bands as though the latter made the cleavage lines over which the strata slid.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000004_000000|It has occurred to me that although the sea ice may freeze in our bays early in March it will be a difficult thing to get ponies across it owing to the cliff edges at the side.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000004_000002|I heard that all the people who journeyed towards c Royds yesterday reached their destination in safety.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000005_000002|The space between my bulkhead and the men's I allotted to five: Bowers, Oates, Atkinson, Meares, and Cherry Garrard.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000005_000004|Simpson and Wright are near the instruments in their corner.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000007_000000|It is really wonderful to realise the amount of work which has been got through of late.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000000|It snowed hard all last night; there were about three or four inches of soft snow over the camp this morning and Simpson tells me some six inches out by the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000001|The camp looks very white.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000003|Here in this camp as usual we do not feel it much, but we see the anemometer racing on the hill and the snow clouds sweeping past the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000004|The floe is breaking between the point and the ship, though curiously it remains fast on a direct route to the ship.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000005|Now the open water runs parallel to our ship road and only a few hundred yards south of it.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000007|The big wedge of ice to which the ship is holding on the outskirts of the Bay can have very little grip to keep it in and must inevitably go out very soon.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000008|I hope this may result in the ship finding a more sheltered and secure position close to us.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000010_000000|A big iceberg sailed past the ship this afternoon.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000010_000001|Atkinson declares it was the end of the Cape Barne Glacier.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000010_000002|I hope they will know in the ship, as it would be interesting to witness the birth of a glacier in this region.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000011_000000|It is clearing to night, but still blowing hard.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000011_000001|The ponies don't like the wind, but they are all standing the cold wonderfully and all their sores are healed up.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000012_000001|In the morning she secured to the ice edge on the same line as before but a few hundred yards nearer.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000012_000002|After getting things going at the hut, I walked over and suggested that Pennell should come round the corner close in shore.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000012_000003|The ice anchors were tripped and we steamed slowly in, making fast to the floe within two hundred yards of the ice foot and four hundred yards of the hut.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000000|For the present the position is extraordinarily comfortable.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000002|With a northerly blow she might turn rather close to the shore, where the soundings run to three fathoms, but behind such a stretch of ice she could scarcely get a sea or swell without warning.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000003|It looks a wonderfully comfortable little nook, but, of course, one can be certain of nothing in this place; one knows from experience how deceptive the appearance of security may be.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000004|Pennell is truly excellent in his present position-he's invariably cheerful, unceasingly watchful, and continuously ready for emergencies.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000005|I have come to possess implicit confidence in him.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000014_000002|This afternoon it fell almost calm, but the sky clouded over again and now there is a gentle warm southerly breeze with light falling snow and an overcast sky.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000014_000004|The position of the ship makes the casual transport that still proceeds very easy, but the ice is rather thin at the edge.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000014_000005|In the hut all is marching towards the utmost comfort.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000015_000000|Bowers has completed a storeroom on the south side, an excellent place to keep our travelling provisions.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000015_000001|Every day he conceives or carries out some plan to benefit the camp.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000015_000003|But, indeed, it is hard to specialise praise where everyone is working so indefatigably for the cause.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000016_000000|Each man in his way is a treasure.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000017_000002|Anton and Demetri are both most anxious to help on all occasions; they are excellent boys.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000018_000001|We have made unto ourselves a truly seductive home, within the walls of which peace, quiet, and comfort reign supreme.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000019_000000|Such a noble dwelling transcends the word 'hut,' and we pause to give it a more fitting title only from lack of the appropriate suggestion.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000019_000001|What shall we call it?
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000020_000000|'The word "hut" is misleading.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000020_000002|to the eaves.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000021_000003|North and south of us are deep bays, beyond which great glaciers come rippling over the lower slopes to thrust high blue walled snouts into the sea.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000001|The horses don't like it, naturally, but it wouldn't do to pamper them so soon before our journey.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000002|I think the hardening process must be good for animals though not for men; nature replies to it in the former by growing a thick coat with wonderful promptitude.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000003|It seems to me that the shaggy coats of our ponies are already improving.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000004|The dogs seem to feel the cold little so far, but they are not so exposed.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000025_000000|Bowers has completed his southern storeroom and brought the wing across the porch on the windward side, connecting the roofing with that of the porch.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000025_000001|The improvement is enormous and will make the greatest difference to those who dwell near the door.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000026_000000|The carpenter has been setting up standards and roof beams for the stables, which will be completed in a few days.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000028_000000|I have fixed the twenty fifth as the date for our departure.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000029_000000|Griffith Taylor and his companions have been seeking advice as to their Western trip.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000029_000001|Wilson, dear chap, has been doing his best to coach them.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000030_000000|Ponting has fitted up his own dark room-doing the carpentering work with extraordinary speed and to everyone's admiration.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000031_000000|Meares has become enamoured of the gramophone.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000031_000001|We find we have a splendid selection of records.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000031_000003|Oates goes steadily on with the ponies-he is perfectly excellent and untiring in his devotion to the animals.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000032_000000|Day and Nelson, having given much thought to the proper fitting up of their corner, have now begun work.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000032_000001|There seems to be little doubt that these ingenious people will make the most of their allotted space.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000033_000000|I have done quite a lot of thinking over the autumn journeys and a lot remains to be done, mainly on account of the prospect of being cut off from our winter quarters; for this reason we must have a great deal of food for animals and men.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000001|Bowers' annexe is finished, roof and all thoroughly snow tight; an excellent place for spare clothing, furs, and ready use stores, and its extension affording complete protection to the entrance porch of the hut.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000002|The stables are nearly finished-a thoroughly stout well roofed lean to on the north side.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000004|Simpson has almost completed his ice cavern, light tight lining, niches, floor and all.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000005|Wright and Forde have almost completed the absolute hut, a patchwork building for which the framework only was brought-but it will be very well adapted for our needs.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000035_000000|Gran has been putting 'record' on the ski runners.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000035_000001|Record is a mixture of vegetable tar, paraffin, soft soap, and linseed oil, with some patent addition which prevents freezing-this according to Gran.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000036_000000|p o Evans and Crean have been preparing sledges; Evans shows himself wonderfully capable, and I haven't a doubt as to the working of the sledges he has fitted up.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000002|First the felt boots and felt slippers made by Jaeger and then summer wind clothes and fur mits-nothing could be better than these articles.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000003|Finally to night we have overhauled and served out two pairs of finnesko (fur boots) to each traveller.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000004|They are excellent in quality.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000005|At first I thought they seemed small, but a stiffness due to cold and dryness misled me-a little stretching and all was well.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000008|But indeed the whole time we are thinking of devices to make our travelling work easier.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000038_000000|'We have now tried most of our stores, and so far we have not found a single article that is not perfectly excellent in quality and preservation.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000039_000000|'Our clothing is as good as good.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000040_000000|An Emperor penguin was found on the Cape well advanced in moult, a good specimen skin.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000040_000001|Atkinson found cysts formed by a tapeworm in the intestines.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000040_000002|It seems clear that this parasite is not transferred from another host, and that its history is unlike that of any other known tapeworm-in fact, Atkinson scores a discovery in parasitology of no little importance.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000041_000000|The wind has turned to the north to night and is blowing quite fresh.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000042_000000|The pianola has been erected by Rennick.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000043_000000|Day has been explaining the manner in which he hopes to be able to cope with the motor sledge difficulty.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000044_000000|Everything looks hopeful for the depot journey if only we can get our stores and ponies past the Glacier Tongue.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000045_000002|It is the first time I have tasted seal without being aware of its particular flavour.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000045_000003|But even its own flavour is acceptable in our cook's hands-he really is excellent.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000046_000002|Pennell was getting up steam and his men struggling to replace the anchors.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000047_000000|We got out the men and gave some help.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000047_000001|At six steam was up, and I was right glad to see the ship back out to windward, leaving us to recover anchors and hawsers.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000048_000000|She stood away to the west, and almost immediately after a large berg drove in and grounded in the place she had occupied.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000049_000000|We spent the day measuring our provisions and fixing up clothing arrangements for our journey; a good deal of progress has been made.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000001|Then as I went out on the floe came the report that she was ashore.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000002|I ran out to the Cape with Evans and saw that the report was only too true.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000003|She looked to be firmly fixed and in a very uncomfortable position.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000005|Later Pennell told me he had been trying to look behind the berg and had been going astern some time before he struck.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000051_000000|My heart sank when I looked at her and I sent Evans off in the whaler to sound, recovered the ice anchors again, set the people to work, and walked disconsolately back to the Cape to watch.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000000|The first ray of hope came when by careful watching one could see that the ship was turning very slowly, then one saw the men running from side to side and knew that an attempt was being made to roll her off.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000001|The rolling produced a more rapid turning movement at first and then she seemed to hang again.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000002|But only for a short time; the engines had been going astern all the time and presently a slight movement became apparent.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000003|But we only knew she was getting clear when we heard cheers on board and more cheers from the whaler.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000055_000000|Then she gathered stern way and was clear.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000055_000001|The relief was enormous.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000056_000000|The wind dropped as she came off, and she is now securely moored off the northern ice edge, where I hope the greater number of her people are finding rest.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000056_000001|For here and now I must record the splendid manner in which these men are working.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000056_000002|I find it difficult to express my admiration for the manner in which the ship is handled and worked under these very trying circumstances.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000057_000000|From Pennell down there is not an officer or man who has not done his job nobly during the past weeks, and it will be a glorious thing to remember the unselfish loyal help they are giving us.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000059_000000|Campbell and his party returned late this afternoon-I have not heard details.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000060_000000|Meares and Oates went to the Glacier Tongue and satisfied themselves that the ice is good.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000060_000001|It only has to remain another three days, and it would be poor luck if it failed in that time.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000062_000001|this evening.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000062_000003|The Eastern Party ponies were put on board the ship this morning.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000063_000001|I got up at five this morning to find the weather calm and beautiful, but to my astonishment an opening lane of water between the land and the ice in the bay.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000064_000003|Meares and I walked till we came to the first ice.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000064_000005|It was plain that only the ponies could go by it-no loads.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000066_000001|One breathes a prayer that the Road holds for the few remaining hours.
train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000066_000002|It goes in one place between a berg in open water and a large pool of the glacier face-it may be weak in that part, and at any moment the narrow isthmus may break away.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000002_000001|The journey from Montreal had been long and lonely, the parting from her parents hard, and the thought of meeting the unknown relatives had weighed upon her mind and helped to make her unusually subdued.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000003_000000|mrs Merrithew took the little newcomer to her room, had her trunks settled conveniently, and then left her to prepare for the late tea which was waiting for them all.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000003_000001|When Dora was ready, she sat down in the little armchair that stood near a table piled with books, and looked about her contentedly.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000000|There was an air of solid comfort and cosiness about this house that rested her.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000001|This room-which her aunt had told her was just opposite Marjorie's-was all furnished in the softest shades of brown and blue, her favourite colours.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000004|Just over the side of the bed was a book shelf, quite empty, waiting for her favourite books.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000005|While she sat and looked about in admiration, the door was pushed gently open, and a plump maltese kitten came in, gazed at her doubtfully a moment, and then climbed on her lap.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000006|Then Marjorie's bright face appeared at the door, and, "May I come in?" she asked.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000005_000000|"Oh, please do," Dora cried.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000005_000001|"Kitty has made friends with me already, and I think that must be a good omen."
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000006_000000|Marjorie laughed, as she patted the little bunch of blue gray fur in Dora's lap.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000008_000000|Dora's eyes opened wide with astonishment.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000009_000000|Then they both laughed, and Marjorie, obeying one of her sudden impulses, threw her arms around Dora's neck and gave her a cousinly hug. "You and I will be friends, too," she said.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000009_000001|"I knew it as soon as I looked at you."
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000010_000000|Dora's dark brown eyes looked gravely into Marjorie's blue ones.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000010_000001|She seemed to be taking the proposition very seriously.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000011_000002|But you,--ah, yes!
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000011_000003|You are like my father, and besides, we are cousins, and that makes us understand each other.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000011_000004|Let us be friends."
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000012_000001|She clasped the slender hand with her own plump fingers, and shook it heartily.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000012_000002|So, in girlish romance and sudden resolution, the little maids sealed a compact which was never broken, and began a friendship which lasted and grew in beauty and strength all through their lives.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000000|At the breakfast table the next morning there was a merry discussion as to what should be done first to amuse Dora.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000001|Jackie, who had invited her to sit beside him and beamed at her approvingly over his porridge and cream, suggested a walk to his favourite candy store and the purchase of some sticks of "pure chocolate." Marjorie proposed a picnic at Old Government House.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000002|This was approved of, but postponed for a day or two to allow for preparations and invitations.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000003|mr Merrithew said "Let us go shooting bears," but even Jackie did not second this astounding proposition.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000004|As usual, it was "mother" who offered the most feasible plan.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000014_000000|"Suppose, this morning," she said, "you just help Dora unpack, and make her thoroughly at home in the house and garden; then this afternoon perhaps your father will take you for a walk, and show Dora the house where mrs Ewing lived, and any other interesting places.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000014_000001|That would do for to day, wouldn't it?
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000014_000002|Then, day after to morrow we could have the picnic; and for the next week I have a magnificent idea, but I want to talk it over with your father," and she nodded and smiled at that gentleman in a way which made him almost as curious as the children.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000015_000000|"That's the way with mother," Marjorie said to Dora after breakfast. "She never ends things up.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000017_000000|The walk that afternoon was one which Dora always remembered.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000017_000001|mr Merrithew had, as Jackie said, "the splendidest way of splaining things," and found something of interest to relate about almost every street of the little city.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000017_000002|They went through the beautiful cathedral, and he told them how it had been built through the earnest efforts of the well-known and venerated Bishop Medley, who was afterward Metropolitan of Canada.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000019_000001|These willows she had often sketched, and Dora carried away a spray of the pale gray green leaves, in memory of her favourite story writer.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000019_000002|It was one of Dora's ambitions, kept secret hitherto, but now confided to Marjorie, to write stories "something like mrs Ewing's."
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000020_000000|They saw, too, the picturesque cottage in which a certain quaint old lady had attained to the ripe age of a hundred and six years,--a record of which Fredericton was justly proud.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000021_000001|There were other things, too, to see, and many anecdotes to hear, so that it was a somewhat tired, though happy and hungry party which trudged home just in time for tea.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000022_000000|And such a tea, suited to hearty outdoor appetites born of the good Canadian air!
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000023_000001|I think life would be very dull without meals."
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000024_000000|These philosophical remarks rather astonished Dora, who was not yet accustomed to the contrast between Jack's sage reflections and his tender years.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000024_000001|Just now they seemed especially funny, because he was almost falling asleep while he talked.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000024_000002|When mrs Merrithew saw him nodding, she rang, and the nurse-who, like Debby, was a family institution-came in and carried him off in her stalwart arms, to his little white bed.
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000025_000000|"Now, Susan, my very favourite song!"
train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000026_000000|And then Susan sang, in her soft, crooning voice "The maple leaf, the maple leaf, the maple leaf for ever!"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000001_000000|THE WHIP HAND
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000002_000000|Spargo, almost irritable from desire to get at close grips with the objects of his long journey, shook off Breton's hand with a growl of resentment.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000003_000000|"And how on earth can I waste time guessing?" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000003_000001|"Who is he?"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000004_000000|Breton laughed softly.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000005_000000|"Steady, Spargo, steady!" he said.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000005_000001|"It's Myerst-the Safe Deposit man. Myerst!"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000006_000000|Spargo started as if something had bitten him.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000000|"Myerst!" he almost shouted.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000001|"Myerst!
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000002|Good Lord!--why did I never think of him?
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000004|Then----"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000008_000000|"I don't know why you should have thought of him," said Breton. "But-he's there."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000009_000000|Spargo took a step towards the cottage: Breton pulled him back.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000010_000000|"Wait!" he said.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000010_000001|"We've got to discuss this.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000010_000002|I'd better tell you what they're doing."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000012_000000|"Well," answered Breton.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000012_000001|"They're going through a quantity of papers. The two old gentlemen look very ill and very miserable.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000013_000000|"What notion?"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000014_000000|"Myerst is in possession of whatever secret they have, and he's followed them down here to blackmail them.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000014_000001|That's my notion."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000015_000000|Spargo thought awhile, pacing up and down the river bank.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000016_000000|"I daresay you're right," he said.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000016_000001|"Now, what's to be done?"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000017_000000|Breton, too, considered matters.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000000|"I wish," he said at last, "I wish we could get in there and overhear what's going on.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000001|But that's impossible-I know that cottage.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000002|The only thing we can do is this-we must catch Myerst unawares.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000003|He's here for no good.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000004|Look here!"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000020_000000|"That's a useful thing to have, Spargo," he remarked.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000020_000002|Now it'll come in handy.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000020_000003|For anything we know Myerst may be armed."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000021_000000|"Well?" said Spargo.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000000|"Come up to the cottage.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000001|If things turn out as I think they will, Myerst, when he's got what he wants, will be off.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000003|You can report to me, and when Myerst comes out I'll cover him.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000004|Come on, Spargo; it's beginning to get light already."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000023_000001|Together, he and Spargo made their way to the front of the cottage.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000023_000002|Arrived at the door, Breton posted himself in the porch, motioning to Spargo to creep in behind the bushes and to look through the window.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000023_000003|And Spargo noiselessly followed his directions and slightly parting the branches which concealed him looked in through the uncurtained glass.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000000|The interior into which he looked was rough and comfortless in the extreme.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000002|At the table in the middle of the floor the three men sat
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000003|Cardlestone's face was in the shadow; Myerst had his back to the window; old Elphick bending over the table was laboriously writing with shaking fingers.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000004|And Spargo twisted his head round to his companion.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000025_000000|"Elphick," he said, "is writing a cheque.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000025_000001|Myerst has another cheque in his hand.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000025_000002|Be ready!--when he gets that second cheque I guess he'll be off."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000026_000000|Breton smiled grimly and nodded.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000026_000001|A moment later Spargo whispered again.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000027_000000|"Look out, Breton!
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000027_000001|He's coming."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000028_000000|Breton drew back into the angle of the porch; Spargo quitted his protecting bush and took the other angle.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000028_000001|The door opened.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000028_000002|And they heard Myerst's voice, threatening, commanding in tone.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000000|"Good morning, mr Myerst," said Breton with cold and ironic politeness.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000001|"We are glad to meet you so unexpectedly.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000002|And-I must trouble you to put up your hands.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000003|Quick!"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000032_000000|Myerst made one hurried movement of his right hand towards his hip, but a sudden growl from Breton made him shift it just as quickly above his head, whither the left followed it.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000032_000001|Breton laughed softly.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000002|Spargo-may I trouble you to see what mr Myerst carries in his pockets?
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000003|Go through them carefully.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000004|Not for papers or documents-just now.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000005|We can leave that matter-we've plenty of time.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000006|See if he's got a weapon of any sort on him, Spargo-that's the important thing."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000034_000001|And he forthwith drew out and exhibited a revolver, while Myerst, finding his tongue, cursed them both, heartily and with profusion.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000000|"Excellent!" said Breton, laughing again.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000001|"Sure he's got nothing else on him that's dangerous, Spargo?
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000002|All right.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000003|Now, mr Myerst, right about face!
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000005|March!"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000000|Myerst obeyed this peremptory order with more curses.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000001|The three walked into the cottage.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000002|Breton kept his eye on his captive; Spargo gave a glance at the two old men.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000003|Cardlestone, white and shaking, was lying back in his chair; Elphick, scarcely less alarmed, had risen, and was coming forward with trembling limbs.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000000|"Wait a moment," said Breton, soothingly.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000001|"Don't alarm yourself.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000002|We'll deal with mr Myerst here first.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000003|Now, Myerst, my man, sit down in that chair-it's the heaviest the place affords.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000004|Into it, now!
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000005|Spargo, you see that coil of rope there.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000006|Tie Myerst up-hand and foot-to that chair.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000008|All the knots to be double, Spargo, and behind him."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000038_000000|Myerst suddenly laughed.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000038_000001|"You damned young bully!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000038_000003|Mark that, my fine fellows!"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000000|"We'll see about that later," answered Breton.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000001|He kept Myerst covered while Spargo made play with the rope.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000002|"Don't be afraid of hurting him, Spargo," he said.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000003|"Tie him well and strong.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000004|He won't shift that chair in a hurry."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000000|Spargo spliced his man to the chair in a fashion that would have done credit to a sailor.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000002|He dropped his revolver into his pocket and turned to the two old men.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000004|"Guardian," continued Breton, "don't be frightened!
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000005|And don't you be frightened, either, mr Cardlestone.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000006|There's nothing to be afraid of, just yet, whatever there may be later on.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000007|It seems to me that mr Spargo and I came just in time.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000008|Now, guardian, what was this fellow after?"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000041_000000|Old Elphick lifted his head and shook it; he was plainly on the verge of tears; as for Cardlestone, it was evident that his nerve was completely gone.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000041_000001|And Breton pointed Spargo to an old corner cupboard.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000000|"Spargo," he said, "I'm pretty sure you'll find whisky in there.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000001|Give them both a stiff dose: they've broken up.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000002|Now, guardian," he continued, when Spargo had carried out this order, "what was he after? Shall I suggest it?
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000003|Was it-blackmail?"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000000|Cardlestone began to whimper; Elphick nodded his head.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000001|"Yes, yes!" he muttered.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000002|"Blackmail!
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000003|That was it-blackmail.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000004|He-he got money-papers-from us.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000044_000000|Breton turned on the captive with a look of contempt.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000045_000000|"I thought as much, mr Myerst," he said.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000045_000001|"Spargo, let's see what he has on him."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000046_000000|Spargo began to search the prisoner's pockets.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000046_000004|And there was an open cheque, signed by Cardlestone for ten thousand pounds, and another, with Elphick's name at the foot, also open, for half that amount.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000046_000006|He turned to old Elphick.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000047_000001|What hold has he on you?"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000048_000000|Old Cardlestone began to whimper afresh; Elphick turned a troubled face on his ward.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000050_000001|"Come-tell me the truth now."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000051_000000|"He's been investigating-so he says," answered Elphick.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000051_000002|And-and he says he's the fullest evidence against Cardlestone-and against me as an accessory after the fact."
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000052_000000|"And-it's a lie?" asked Breton.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000053_000000|"A lie!" answered Elphick.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000053_000002|But-he's so clever that-that----"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000002|That may account for a good many things.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000003|Now we must have the police here." He sat down at the table and drew the writing materials to him.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000004|"Look here, Spargo," he continued.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000005|"I'm going to write a note to the superintendent of police at Hawes-there's a farm half a mile from here where I can get a man to ride down to Hawes with the note.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000055_000000|Elphick began to move in his corner.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000056_000000|"Must the police come?" he said.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000056_000001|"Must----"
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000057_000000|"The police must come," answered Breton firmly.
train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000057_000001|"Go ahead with your wire, Spargo, while I write this note."
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000003_000001|It made her think of things which she tried to forget, and to look into a little drawer at something soft and brown that lay in a curl there, wrapped in paper.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000003_000002|At last she could bear it no longer, and went downstairs.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000004_000000|'Where are you going?' said mrs Garland.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000008_000000|'Because you must not.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000009_000000|'Don't mention him, mother, don't!'
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000010_000000|'Well then, dear, walk in the garden.'
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000011_000000|So poor Anne, who really had not the slightest wish to throw her heart away upon a soldier, but merely wanted to displace old thoughts by new, turned into the inner garden from day to day, and passed a good many hours there, the pleasant birds singing to her, and the delightful butterflies alighting on her hat, and the horrid ants running up her stockings.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000000|This garden was undivided from Loveday's, the two having originally been the single garden of the whole house.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000001|It was a quaint old place, enclosed by a thorn hedge so shapely and dense from incessant clipping that the mill boy could walk along the top without sinking in-a feat which he often performed as a means of filling out his day's work.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000002|The soil within was of that intense fat blackness which is only seen after a century of constant cultivation.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000003|The paths were grassed over, so that people came and went upon them without being heard.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000004|The grass harboured slugs, and on this account the miller was going to replace it by gravel as soon as he had time; but as he had said this for thirty years without doing it, the grass and the slugs seemed likely to remain.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000013_000001|The two households were on this account even more closely united in the garden than within the mill.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000013_000002|Out there they were almost one family, and they talked from plot to plot with a zest and animation which mrs Garland could never have anticipated when she first removed thither after her husband's death.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000014_000002|The brooks were so far overhung at their brinks by grass and garden produce that, had it not been for their perpetual babbling, few would have noticed that they were there.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000015_000001|She always spoke to him when she saw him there, and he replied in deep, firm accents across the gooseberry bushes, or through the tall rows of flowering peas, as the case might be.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000015_000002|He thus gave her accounts at fifteen paces of his experiences in camp, in quarters, in Flanders, and elsewhere; of the difference between line and column, of forced marches, billeting, and such like, together with his hopes of promotion.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000017_000000|Thus the month of July passed.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000018_000000|At length the earnest trumpet major obtained mrs Garland's consent to take her and her daughter to the camp, which they had not yet viewed from any closer point than their own windows.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000018_000002|The villagers were by this time driving a roaring trade with the soldiers, who purchased of them every description of garden produce, milk, butter, and eggs at liberal prices.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000018_000003|The figures of these rural sutlers could be seen creeping up the slopes, laden like bees, to a spot in the rear of the camp, where there was a kind of market place on the greensward.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000020_000000|They passed on to the tents of the German Legion, a well grown and rather dandy set of men, with a poetical look about their faces which rendered them interesting to feminine eyes.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000021_000004|Festus looked from Anne to the trumpet major, and from the trumpet major back to Anne, with a dark expression of face, as if he suspected that there might be a tender understanding between them.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000022_000000|'Are you offended with me?' he said to her in a low voice of repressed resentment.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000024_000000|'When are you coming to the hall again?'
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000025_000000|'Never, perhaps.'
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000029_000000|The widow looked unhappily in her daughter's face, distressed between her desire that Anne should encourage Festus, and her wish to consult Anne's own feelings.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000030_000000|'Leave her alone, leave her alone,' said Festus, his gaze blackening. 'Now I think of it I am glad she can't come with me, for I am engaged;' and he stalked away.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000032_000000|'Well, where's mr Loveday?' asked mrs Garland.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000033_000000|'Father's behind,' said john.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000035_000000|'I'll overtake you in a minute,' she said to the younger pair, and went back, her colour, for some unaccountable reason, rising as she did so. The miller and she then came on slowly together, conversing in very low tones, and when they got to the bottom they stood still.
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000038_000000|'That you do not care for Derriman, and mean to encourage john Loveday. What's all the world so long as folks are happy!
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000039_000000|'What a weathercock you are, mother!
train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000043_000001|But mrs Garland could not keep the secret long.
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000010_000000|'I'm from aboard the Victory,' said the sailor.
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000018_000003|After that he and some other lads jumped aboard the French ship, and I believe they was in her when she struck her flag.
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000018_000004|What 'a did next I can't say, for the wind had dropped, and the smoke was like a cloud.
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000026_000002|This was but for two or three moments.
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000034_000000|'Her name is Caroline.
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000034_000002|If so-'
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000036_000002|When are they going to be married?'
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000050_000001|Good God! what can a man be made of to go on as he does?
train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000054_000001|'If he had been dead I could have borne it, but this I cannot bear!'
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000002_000000|EDISON'S work in stock printers and telegraphy had marked him as a rising man in the electrical art of the period but his invention of quadruplex telegraphy in eighteen seventy four was what brought him very prominently before the notice of the public.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000003_000000|In the early part of eighteen seventy three, and for some time afterward, the system invented by Joseph Stearns was the duplex in practical use.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000003_000001|In April of that year, however, Edison took up the study of the subject and filed two applications for patents.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000003_000003|Thus there was introduced a new feature into the art of multiplex telegraphy, for, whereas duplexing (accomplished by varying the strength of the current) permitted messages to be sent simultaneously from opposite stations, diplexing (achieved by also varying the direction of the current) permitted the simultaneous transmission of two messages from the same station and their separate reception at the distant station.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000005_000000|The quadruplex was the tempting goal toward which Edison now constantly turned, and after more than a year's strenuous work he filed a number of applications for patents in the late summer of eighteen seventy four.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000006_000000|As the reader will probably be interested to learn something of the theoretical principles of this fascinating invention, we shall endeavor to offer a brief and condensed explanation thereof with as little technicality as the subject will permit.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000006_000001|This explanation will necessarily be of somewhat elementary character for the benefit of the lay reader, whose indulgence is asked for an occasional reiteration introduced for the sake of clearness of comprehension.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000002|These phenomena are easy of comprehension and demonstration.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000003|If a rod of soft iron be wound around with a number of turns of insulated wire, and a current of electricity be sent through the wire, the rod will be instantly magnetized and will remain a magnet as long as the current flows; but when the current is cut off the magnetic effect instantly ceases.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000005|This instrument consists essentially of an electro magnet of horseshoe form with its two poles close together, and with its armature, a bar of iron, maintained in close proximity to the poles, but kept normally in a retracted position by a spring.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000006|When the distant operator presses down his key the circuit is closed and a current passes along the line and through the (generally two) coils of the electromagnet, thus magnetizing the iron core.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000007|Its attractive power draws the armature toward the poles.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000008|When the operator releases the pressure on his key the circuit is broken, current does not flow, the magnetic effect ceases, and the armature is drawn back by its spring. These movements give rise to the clicking sounds which represent the dots and dashes of the Morse or other alphabet as transmitted by the operator.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000010|With a simple circuit, therefore, between two stations and where an intermediate battery is not necessary, a relay is not used.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000008_000001|The arrows indicate the direction of flow.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000000|All magnets have two poles, north and south.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000003|If the direction is reversed, the polarity will also be reversed.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000004|Assuming, for instance, the bar to be end on toward the observer, that end will be a south pole if the current is flowing from left to right, clockwise, around the bar; or a north pole if flowing in the other direction, as illustrated at the right of the figure.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000007|Hence, the bar would remain non magnetic.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000010_000000|As the path to the quadruplex passes through the duplex, let us consider the Stearns system, after noting one other principle-namely, that if more than one path is presented in which an electric current may complete its circuit, it divides in proportion to the resistance of each path.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000011_000001|The flow of current will cause two equal opposing actions to be set up in the bar; one will exactly offset the other, and no magnetic effect will be produced.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000011_000002|A relay thus wound is known as a differential relay-more generally called a neutral relay.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000012_000000|The non technical reader may wonder what use can possibly be made of an apparently non operative piece of apparatus.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000012_000001|It must be borne in mind, however, in considering a duplex system, that a differential relay is used AT EACH END of the line and forms part of the circuit; and that while each relay must be absolutely unresponsive to the signals SENT OUT FROM ITS HOME OFFICE, it must respond to signals transmitted by a DISTANT OFFICE.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000012_000002|Hence, the next figure (four), with its accompanying explanation, will probably make the matter clear.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000013_000001|The result would be that these currents would oppose and neutralize each other, and, therefore, none would flow in wire a Inasmuch, however, as there is nothing to hinder, current would flow from battery C through wire B, and the bar would therefore be magnetized.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000003|The artificial line, as well as that to which the two coils are joined, are connected to earth.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000004|There is a battery, C, and a key, k When the key is depressed, current flows through the relay coils at A, but no magnetism is produced, as they oppose each other.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000005|The current, however, flows out through the main line coil over the line and through the main line coil one at B, completing its circuit to earth and magnetizing the bar of the relay, thus causing its armature to be attracted.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000006|On releasing the key the circuit is broken and magnetism instantly ceases.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000001|In practice this is done by means of a special instrument known as a continuity preserving transmitter, or, usually, as a transmitter.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000002|This consists of an electromagnet, T, operated by a key, K, and separate battery.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000003|The armature lever, L, is long, pivoted in the centre, and is bent over at the end.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000005|The relay coils are connected by wire to the spring piece, S, and the armature lever is connected to earth.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000007|When the key is released the battery is again connected to earth.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000008|The compensating resistances and condensers necessary for a duplex arrangement are shown in the diagram.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000017_000002|The relay at A would be unresponsive, but the core of the relay at B would be magnetized and its armature respond to signals from a In like manner, if the transmitter at B be closed, current would flow through similar parts and thus cause the relay at A to respond.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000017_000003|If both transmitters be closed simultaneously, both batteries will be placed to the line, which would practically result in doubling the current in each of the main line coils, in consequence of which both relays are energized and their armatures attracted through the operation of the keys at the distant ends.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000017_000004|Hence, two messages can be sent in opposite directions over the same line simultaneously.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000018_000001|To accomplish this object Edison introduced another and distinct feature-namely, the using of the same current, but ALSO varying its DIRECTION of flow; that is to say, alternately reversing the POLARITY of the batteries as applied to the line and thus producing corresponding changes in the polarity of another specially constructed type of relay, called a polarized relay.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000001|An essential part of this relay consists of a swinging PERMANENT magnet, C, whose polarity remains fixed, that end between the terminals of the electromagnet being a north pole.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000002|Inasmuch as unlike poles of magnets are attracted to each other and like poles repelled, it follows that this north pole will be repelled by the north pole of the electromagnet, but will swing over and be attracted by its south pole.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000003|If the direction of flow of current be reversed, by reversing the battery, the electromagnetic polarity also reverses and the end of the permanent magnet swings over to the other side.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000005|This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000021_000001|This action of the pole changer is effected by movements of the armature of an electromagnet through the manipulation of an ordinary telegraph key by an operator at the home station, as in the operation of the "transmitter," above referred to.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000022_000000|By a combination of the neutral relay and the polar relay two operators, by manipulating two telegraph keys in the ordinary way, can simultaneously send two messages over one line in the SAME direction with the SAME current, one operator varying its strength and the other operator varying its polarity or direction of flow.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000023_000000|Thus far we have referred to two systems, one the neutral or differential duplex, and the other the combination of the neutral and polar relays, making a diplex system.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000023_000005|Besides these there are the compensating resistances and condensers.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000023_000007|It will be understood, of course, that the polar relay, as used in the quadruplex system, is wound differentially, and therefore its operation is somewhat similar in principle to that of the differentially wound neutral relay, in that it does not respond to the operation of the key at the home office, but only operates in response to the movements of the distant key.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000024_000001|It should be stated, however, that between the outline and the filling in of the details there was an enormous amount of hard work, study, patient plodding, and endless experiments before Edison finally perfected his quadruplex system in the year eighteen seventy four.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000025_000000|If it were attempted to offer here a detailed explanation of the varied and numerous operations of the quadruplex, this article would assume the proportions of a treatise.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000025_000001|An idea of their complexity may be gathered from the following, which is quoted from American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph, by William Maver junior:
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000026_000000|"It may well be doubted whether in the whole range of applied electricity there occur such beautiful combinations, so quickly made, broken up, and others reformed, as in the operation of the Edison quadruplex.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000026_000001|For example, it is quite demonstrable that during the making of a simple dash of the Morse alphabet by the neutral relay at the home station the distant pole changer may reverse its battery several times; the home pole changer may do likewise, and the home transmitter may increase and decrease the electromotive force of the home battery repeatedly.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000027_000002|With the duplex, as we have seen, the current on the main line is changed in strength only when both keys at OPPOSITE stations are closed together, so that a current due to both batteries flows over the main line.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000027_000004|This difficulty was solved by dividing the battery at each station into two unequal parts, the smaller battery being always in circuit with the pole changer ready to have its polarity reversed on the main line to operate the distant polar relay, but the spring retracting the armature of the neutral relay is made so stiff as to resist these weak currents.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000027_000009|The underlying phenomena were similar, the difference consisting largely in the arrangement of the circuits and apparatus.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000000|Edison made another notable contribution to multiplex telegraphy some years later in the Phonoplex.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000001|The name suggests the use of the telephone, and such indeed is the case.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000002|The necessity for this invention arose out of the problem of increasing the capacity of telegraph lines employed in "through" and "way" service, such as upon railroads.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000004|There is naturally much intercommunication, which would be greatly curtailed by a system having the capacity of only a single message at a time.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000005|The duplexes above described could not be used on a railroad telegraph system, because of the necessity of electrically balancing the line, which, while entirely feasible on a through line, would not be practicable between a number of intercommunicating points. Edison's phonoplex normally doubled the capacity of telegraph lines, whether employed on way business or through traffic, but in actual practice made it possible to obtain more than double service.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000006|It has been in practical use for many years on some of the leading railroads of the United States.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000030_000001|It is well known that the diaphragm of a telephone vibrates with the fluctuations of the current energizing the magnet beneath it.
train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000030_000003|If, therefore, there be placed in the same circuit a regular telegraph relay and a special telephone, an operator may, by manipulating a key, operate the relay (and its sounder) without producing a sound in the telephone, as the makes and breaks of the key are far below the limit of audibility.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000002_000000|Strange Sounds.--A Night Attack.--Kennedy and Joe in the Tree.--Two Shots.--"Help! help!"--Reply in French.--The Morning.--The Missionary.--The Plan of Rescue.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000003_000000|The night came on very dark.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000004_000000|As usual, he took the nine o'clock watch, and at midnight Dick relieved him.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000005_000000|"Keep a sharp lookout, Dick!" was the doctor's good night injunction.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000006_000000|"Is there any thing new on the carpet?"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000010_000000|"I'll do so, doctor; rest easy."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000016_000000|Was that the cry of an animal or of a night bird, or did it come from human lips?
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000021_000001|"Let us speak below our breath."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000022_000000|"Has any thing happened?"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000023_000000|"Yes, let us waken Joe."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000029_000000|"Agreed!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000030_000000|"Let us go down, then!" said Joe.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000034_000000|"Don't you hear that?" he whispered.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000035_000000|"Yes, and it's coming nearer."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000036_000000|"Suppose it should be a serpent?
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000041_000000|"Keep watch on this side, and I'll take care of the other."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000042_000000|"Very good!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000044_000000|"The blacks!
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000046_000000|Joe gently brought his rifle to his shoulder as he spoke.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000047_000000|"Wait!" said Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000050_000000|"Attention!" said Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000050_000001|"Fire!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000052_000000|But, in the midst of these yells and howls, a strange, unexpected-nay what seemed an impossible-cry had been heard!
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000053_000000|"Help! help!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000055_000000|"Did you hear that?" the doctor asked them.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000056_000000|"Undoubtedly, that supernatural cry, 'A moi! a moi!' comes from a Frenchman in the hands of these barbarians!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000058_000000|"A missionary, perhaps."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000062_000000|"They are, doctor, and we are ready to obey you."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000063_000000|"Let us, then, lay our heads together to devise some plan, and in the morning we'll try to rescue him."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000065_000000|"It's quite clear to me, from the way in which they made off, that they are unacquainted with fire arms.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000065_000001|We must, therefore, profit by their fears; but we shall await daylight before acting, and then we can form our plans of rescue according to circumstances."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000066_000000|"The poor captive cannot be far off," said Joe, "because-"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000067_000000|"Help! help!" repeated the voice, but much more feebly this time.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000068_000000|"The savage wretches!" exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation. "Suppose they should kill him to night!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000069_000000|"Do you hear, doctor," resumed Kennedy, seizing the doctor's hand. "Suppose they should kill him to night!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000070_000000|"It is not at all likely, my friends.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000070_000001|These savage tribes kill their captives in broad daylight; they must have the sunshine."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000071_000000|"Now, if I were to take advantage of the darkness to slip down to the poor fellow?" said Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000073_000000|"Pause, my friends-pause!
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000074_000000|"Why so?" asked Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000075_000000|"Dick, I implore you, heed what I say.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000075_000001|I am acting for the common good; and if by any accident you should be taken by surprise, all would be lost."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000076_000000|"But, think of that poor wretch, hoping for aid, waiting there, praying, calling aloud.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000077_000000|"We can reassure him, on that score," said dr Ferguson-and, standing erect, making a speaking trumpet of his hands, he shouted at the top of his voice, in French: "Whoever you are, be of good cheer!
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000077_000001|Three friends are watching over you."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000078_000000|A terrific howl from the savages responded to these words-no doubt drowning the prisoner's reply.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000079_000001|We must act!"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000083_000000|"Nothing more simple, doctor," said Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000085_000000|"I, master?
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000085_000001|why, I'd act more prudently, maybe, by telling the prisoner to make his escape in a certain direction that we'd agree upon."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000086_000000|"And how would you get him to know that?"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000088_000000|"Your plans are impracticable, my dear friends.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000088_000003|No! we must put ALL the chances on OUR side, and go to work differently."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000089_000000|"But let us act at once!" said the hunter.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000090_000000|"Perhaps we may," said the doctor, throwing considerable stress upon the words.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000094_000000|The doctor kept silent for a few moments; he was thinking.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000094_000002|Ferguson at last resumed:
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000096_000000|"How do you expect to manage the balloon?" asked Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000097_000000|"This is the idea, Dick: you will admit that if I can get to the prisoner, and throw out a quantity of ballast, equal to his weight, I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium of the balloon.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000097_000002|Well, then, in throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment, I am certain to rise with great rapidity."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000098_000000|"That's plain enough."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000099_000001|Now, the gas is precious; but we must not haggle over it when the life of a fellow creature is at stake."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000101_000000|"Let us work, then, and get these bags all arranged on the rim of the car, so that they may be thrown overboard at one movement."
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000102_000000|"But this darkness?"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000103_000000|"It hides our preparations, and will be dispersed only when they are finished.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000103_000001|Take care to have all our weapons close at hand.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000103_000004|Are you ready?"
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000105_000000|The sacks were placed as requested, and the arms were put in good order.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000106_000000|"Very good!" said the doctor.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000106_000002|Joe will see to throwing out the ballast, and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000108_000001|He then took out the two perfectly isolated conducting wires, which served for the decomposition of the water, and, searching in his travelling sack, brought forth two pieces of charcoal, cut down to a sharp point, and fixed one at the end of each wire.
train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000111_000000|"Oh!" ejaculated the astonished friends.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000002_000000|Joe in a Fit of Rage.--The Death of a Good Man.--The Night of watching by the Body.--Barrenness and Drought.--The Burial.--The Quartz Rocks.--Joe's Hallucinations.--A Precious Ballast.--A Survey of the Gold bearing Mountains.--The Beginning of Joe's Despair.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000004_000000|"He'll not get over it!" sighed Joe.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000004_000001|"Poor young fellow-scarcely thirty years of age!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000007_000000|"Heaven has given him a lovely night, Joe-his last on earth, perhaps! He will suffer but little more after this, and his dying will be only a peaceful falling asleep."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000008_000001|His breathing became difficult, and he asked for air.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000009_000001|May God requite you, and bring you to your safe harbor!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000010_000000|"You must still hope," replied Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000010_000001|"This is but a passing fit of weakness.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000011_000000|"Death is at hand," replied the missionary, "I know it!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000011_000001|Let me look it in the face!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000011_000003|Place me upon my knees, my brethren, I beseech you!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000013_000000|"My God! my God!" exclaimed the dying apostle, "have pity on me!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000014_000000|His countenance shone.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000016_000000|"Dead!" said the doctor, bending over him, "dead!" And with one common accord, the three friends knelt together in silent prayer.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000021_000001|He therefore opened the valve of the outside balloon.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000022_000000|As soon as the car touched the ground, the doctor shut the valve.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000022_000001|Joe leaped out, holding on the while to the rim of the car with one hand, and with the other gathering up a quantity of stones equal to his own weight.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000023_000001|The soil, in fact, was bestrewn with quartz and porphyritic rocks.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000024_000000|"This is a singular discovery!" said the doctor, mentally.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000025_000000|In the mean while, Kennedy and Joe had strolled away a few paces, looking up a proper spot for the grave.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000025_000002|The noonday sun poured down its rays perpendicularly into it.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000026_000000|The first thing to be done was to clear the surface of the fragments of rock that encumbered it, and then a quite deep grave had to be dug, so that the wild animals should not be able to disinter the corpse.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000027_000000|The body of the martyred missionary was then solemnly placed in it.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000029_000000|"What are you thinking about, doctor?" asked Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000030_000000|"About a singular freak of Nature, a curious effect of chance.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000030_000001|Do you know, now, in what kind of soil that man of self denial, that poor one in spirit, has just been buried?"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000031_000000|"No! what do you mean, doctor?"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000034_000000|"Yes, a gold mine," said the doctor, quietly.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000034_000001|"Those blocks which you are trampling under foot, like worthless stones, contain gold ore of great purity."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000035_000000|"Impossible!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000035_000001|impossible!" repeated Joe.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000037_000000|Joe at once rushed like a crazy man among the scattered fragments, and Kennedy was not long in following his example.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000038_000000|"Keep cool, Joe," said his master.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000040_000000|"What! a philosopher of your mettle-"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000042_000001|Let us reflect a little.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000042_000002|What good would all this wealth do you?
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000043_000000|"We can't take any of it with us, indeed?"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000044_000000|"It's rather too heavy for our car!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000044_000001|I even hesitated to tell you any thing about it, for fear of exciting your regret!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000046_000000|"Take care, my friend!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000046_000001|Would you yield to the thirst for gold?
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000047_000000|"All that is true," replied Joe, "but gold!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000049_000000|"The millions are rather heavy, you know," resumed the doctor, "and cannot very easily be put into one's pocket."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000051_000000|"Very good!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000053_000000|"Yes, my friend, this is a reservoir in which Nature has been heaping up her wealth for centuries!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000055_000000|"Perhaps! but at all events, here's what I'll do to console you."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000057_000000|"Listen!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000058_000001|Let us fill our car with the precious mineral, and what remains at the end of the trip will be so much made."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000059_000000|And Joe went to work.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000060_000000|The doctor watched him with a smile; and, while Joe went on, he took the bearings, and found that the missionary's grave lay in twenty two degrees twenty three minutes east longitude, and four degrees fifty five minutes north latitude.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000061_000000|Then, casting one glance at the swelling of the soil, beneath which the body of the poor Frenchman reposed, he went back to his car.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000063_000000|"God will recognize it!" said Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000064_000003|He had to feed his cylinder continually; and he even began to find that he had not enough to quench the thirst of his party.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000065_000000|Upon getting back to the car, he found it burdened with the quartz blocks that Joe's greed had heaped in it.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000065_000002|Kennedy took his customary place, and Joe followed, but not without casting a covetous glance at the treasures in the ravine.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000066_000000|The doctor rekindled the light in the cylinder; the spiral became heated; the current of hydrogen came in a few minutes, and the gas dilated; but the balloon did not stir an inch.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000067_000000|Joe looked on uneasily, but kept silent.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000069_000000|Joe made no reply.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000070_000000|"Joe!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000070_000001|Don't you hear me?"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000072_000000|"Do me the kindness to throw out some of that quartz!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000073_000000|"But, doctor, you gave me leave-"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000074_000000|"I gave you leave to replace the ballast; that was all!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000075_000000|"But-"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000076_000000|"Do you want to stay forever in this desert?"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000079_000000|"Then your cylinder don't work," said the obstinate fellow.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000081_000001|It was a fragment of about three or four pounds.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000081_000002|At last he threw it out.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000083_000000|"Humph!" said he; "we're not going up yet."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000084_000001|"Keep on throwing."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000085_000001|Joe now threw out some ten pounds, but the balloon stood still.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000086_000000|Joe got very pale.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000087_000000|"Poor fellow!" said the doctor.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000087_000001|"mr Kennedy, you and I weigh, unless I am mistaken, about four hundred pounds-so that you'll have to get rid of at least that weight, since it was put in here to make up for us."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000090_000000|The brave fellow, heaving deep sighs, began at last to lighten the balloon; but, from time to time, he would stop, and ask:
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000091_000000|"Are you going up?"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000092_000000|"No, not yet," was the invariable response.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000094_000000|"Keep on!" replied the doctor.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000095_000000|"It's going up; I'm sure."
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000096_000000|"Keep on yet," said Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000097_000000|And Joe, picking up one more block, desperately tossed it out of the car.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000098_000000|"Now, Joe," resumed the doctor, "there still remains a handsome fortune for you; and, if we can only keep the rest of this with us until the end of our trip, there you are-rich for the balance of your days!"
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000000|"See, my dear Dick!" the doctor went on.
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000001|"Just see the power of this metal over the cleverest lad in the world!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000002|What passions, what greed, what crimes, the knowledge of such a mine as that would cause!
train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000003|It is sad to think of it!"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000002_000001|Ferguson's Anxieties.--The Situation flatly stated.--Energetic Replies of Kennedy and Joe.--One Night more.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000004_000000|Toward morning, the sky had resumed its brilliant purity and its heat. The balloon ascended, and, after several ineffectual attempts, fell into a current that, although not rapid, bore them toward the northwest.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000007_000000|"I hope so."
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000011_000001|They conversed less, and were more wrapt in their own thoughts.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000012_000001|He kept entirely silent, and gazed incessantly upon the stony fragments heaped up in the car-worthless to day, but of inestimable value to morrow.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000013_000001|Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000015_000000|However, there was no going back; they must go forward; and, indeed, the doctor asked for nothing better; he would even have welcomed a tempest to carry him beyond this country.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000016_000003|Two gallons only then remained to supply the cylinder.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000016_000005|Consequently, they could not keep on longer than fifty four hours-and all this was a mathematical calculation!
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000019_000000|"Yes, my dear Dick!"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000021_000000|At their evening meal, the water was strictly measured out, and the brandy was increased in quantity in the punch they drank.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000022_000001|This circumstance gave the doctor some hope, since it recalled to his mind the conjectures of geographers concerning the existence of a vast stretch of water in the centre of Africa.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000028_000002|It took six thousand years to invent propellers and screws; so we have time enough yet."
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000032_000000|"You don't regret, though, what you did, doctor?"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000038_000000|"Here, at last, is Africa, such as you pictured it to yourself, Joe!
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000038_000001|Was I not right in saying, 'Wait a little?' eh?"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000045_000001|Where he goes, there I'll go!"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000046_000000|"And you, Kennedy?"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000047_000000|"I, doctor, I'm not the man to despair; no one was less ignorant than I of the perils of the enterprise, but I did not want to see them, from the moment that you determined to brave them.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000047_000002|Besides, to return looks to me quite as perilous as the other course.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000047_000003|So onward, then! you may count upon us!"
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000048_000000|"Thanks, my gallant friends!" replied the doctor, with much real feeling, "I expected such devotion as this; but I needed these encouraging words.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000051_000000|"Let us wait with resignation," said the hunter.
train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000052_000003|It was the Desert!
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000008_000000|"Perhaps Joe is not lost after all," he said.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000016_000000|"Oh, he's just the lad to get safely out of the scrape, I repeat.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000017_000000|"I hope so.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000020_000001|He found that there were still left some thirty pounds of pemmican, a supply of tea and coffee, about a gallon and a half of brandy, and one empty water tank.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000020_000002|All the dried meat had disappeared.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000021_000003|The dilating apparatus appeared to be in good condition, and neither the battery nor the spiral had been injured.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000026_000000|"At the first streak of day, the doctor aroused Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000028_000001|Speak!"
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000040_000000|"Let us set out, then!" said the hunter.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000045_000001|We cannot be far away from the scene of our accident."
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000049_000000|"We must absolutely come to a halt," said he, "and even alight.
train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000052_000001|One horrible thought glanced across the minds of both Kennedy and the doctor: caymans swarm in these waters!
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000001_000002|Even if the stars stood fast, the motion of the solar system would gradually alter the configurations, as the elements of a landscape dissolve and recombine in fresh groupings with the traveler's progress amid them.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000002_000000|And yet this secular fluctuation of the constellation figures is not without keen interest for the meditative observer.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000002_000002|To the passing glance, which is all that we can bestow upon these figures, they appear so immutable that they have been called into service to form the most lasting records of ancient thought and imagination that we possess.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000001|To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000004|At Izamal, in Yucatan, says Mr Stansbury Hagar, is a group of ruins perched, after the Mexican and Central American plan, on the summits of pyramidal mounds which mark the site of an ancient theogonic center of the Mayas.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000005|Here the temples all evidently refer to a cult based upon the constellations as symbols.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000008|And the same star figures, having the same significance, were familiar to the Peruvians, as shown by the temples at Cuzco.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000009|Thus the imagination of ancient America sought in the constellations symbols of the unchanging gods.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000004_000001|As handled by the Greeks from prehistoric times, the constellation myths became the very soul of poetry.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000004_000002|The imagination of that wonderful race idealized the principal star groups so effectively that the figures and traditions thus attached to them have, for civilized mankind, displaced all others, just as Greek art in its highest forms stands without parallel and eclipses every rival.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000004_000007|Let us now study some of the effects of the stellar motions upon them.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000006_000007|As far as is known, the motion of the seven stars are not shared by the smaller stars scattered about them, but on the theory of currents there should be such a community of motion, and further investigation may reveal it.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000002|Three of these stars are usually ranked as of the second magnitude, and two of the third; but to ordinary observation they appear of nearly equal brightness, and present a very striking picture.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000005|Four of them, Beta, Alpha, Delta, and Epsilon are traveling eastwardly at various speeds, while the fifth, Gamma, moves in a westerly direction.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000006|The motion of Beta is more rapid than that of any of the others.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000007|It should be said, however, that no little uncertainty attaches to the estimates of the rate of motion of stars which are not going very rapidly, and different observers often vary considerably in their results.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000008_000001|The seven principle stars of the asterism, forming a surprisingly perfect coronet, have movements in three directions at right angles to one another.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000009_000002|The chief star of the group, Aldebaran, one of the finest of all stars both for its brilliance and its color, is the most affected by the easterly motion.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000009_000003|In time it will drift entirely out of connection with its present neighbors.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000010_000000|The great figure of Orion appears to be more lasting, not because its stars are physically connected, but because of their great distance, which renders their movements too deliberate to be exactly ascertained.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000011_000001|This most attractive asterism, which has never ceased to fascinate the imagination of Christendom since it was first devoutly described by the early explorers of the South, is but a passing collocation of brilliant stars.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000011_000002|Yet even in its transfigurations it has been for hundreds of centuries, and will continue to be for hundreds of centuries to come, a most striking object in the sky.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000011_000003|Our figures show its appearance in three successive phases: first, as it was fifty thousand years ago (viewed from the earth's present location); second, as it is in our day; and, third, as it will be an equal time in the future.
train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000012_000002|Only by showing the changes from some definite point of view can we arrive at a due comprehension of them.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000001_000000|As all the world knows, the sun, a blinding globe pouring forth an inconceivable quantity of light and heat, whose daily passage through the sky is caused by the earth's rotation on its axis, constitutes the most important phenomenon of terrestial existence.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000000|But when an eclipse of the sun occurs, caused by the interposition of the opaque globe of the moon, we see its immediate surroundings, which in some respects are more wonderful than the glowing central orb. These surroundings, although not in the sense in which we apply the term to the gaseous envelope of the earth, may be called the sun's atmosphere.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000002|The two combined, when well seen, make a spectacle without parallel among the marvels of the sky.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000003|Although many attempts have been made to render the corona visible when there is no eclipse, all have failed, and it is to the moon alone that we owe its revelation.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000004|To cover the sun's disk with a circular screen will not answer the purpose because of the illumination of the air all about the observer.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000007|But the prominences are rarely large enough to be noticed by the naked eye, while the streamers of the corona, stretching far away in space, like ghostly banners blown out from the black circle of the obscuring moon, attract every eye, and to this weird apparition much of the fear inspired by eclipses has been due.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000008|But if the corona has been a cause of terror in the past it has become a source of growing knowledge in our time.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000003_000000|The story of the first scientific observation of the corona and the prominences is thrillingly interesting, and in fact dramatic.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000003_000002|The interest centers in what happened at Pavia in Northern Italy, where the English astronomer Francis Baily had set up his telescope.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000003_000003|The eclipse had begun and Bailey was busy at his telescope when, to quote his own words in the account which he wrote for the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society:
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000007_000000|But the most remarkable circumstance attending the phenomenon was the appearance of three large protuberances apparently emanating from the circumference of the moon, but evidently forming a portion of the corona.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000007_000003|They resembled the Alpine mountains in another respect, inasmuch as their light was perfectly steady, and had none of that flickering or sparkling motion so visible in other parts of the corona...
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000008_000000|The whole of these protuberances were visible even to the last moment of total obscuration, and when the first ray of light was admitted from the sun they vanished, with the corona, altogether, and daylight was instantly restored.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000000|I have quoted nearly all of this remarkable description not alone for its intrinsic interest, but because it is the best depiction that can be found of the general phenomena of a total solar eclipse.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000001|Still, not every such eclipse offers an equally magnificent spectacle.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000002|The eclipses of nineteen hundred and nineteen o five, for instance, which were seen by the writer, the first in South Carolina and the second in Spain, fell far short of that described by Bailey in splendor and impressiveness.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000003|Of course, something must be allowed for the effect of surprise; Bailey had not expected to see what was so suddenly disclosed to him.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000008|At Burgos it is said many made the sign of the cross.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000011_000001|Either of them, when seen in projection against the brilliant solar disk, appears white, not red, as against a background of sky. The quiescent prominences, whose elevation is often from forty thousand to sixty thousand miles, consist, as the spectroscope shows, mainly of hydrogen and helium.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000011_000002|The latter, it will be remembered, is an element which was known to be in the sun many years before the discovery that it also exists in small quantities on the earth.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000011_000006|It is known from mathematical considerations that the gravitation of the sun would not be able to bring back any body that started from its surface with a velocity exceeding three hundred and eighty three miles per second; so it is evident that some of the matter hurled forth in eruptive prominences may escape from solar control and go speeding out into space, cooling and condensing into solid masses.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000012_000005|Stars very far advanced in evolution, without showing variability, also exhibit similar spectra; so that there is much reason for regarding sunspots as emblems of advancing age.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000000|The association of the corona with sun spots is less evident than that of the eruptive prominences; still such an association exists, for the form and extent of the corona vary with the sun spot period of which we shall presently speak.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000001|The constitution of the corona remains to be discovered.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000005|Experiment has proved, what mathematical considerations had previously pointed out as probable, that the waves of light exert a pressure or driving force, which becomes evident in its effects if the body acted upon is sufficiently small.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000006|In that case the light pressure will prevail over the attraction of gravitation, and propel the attenuated matter away from the sun in the teeth of its attraction.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000007|The earth itself would be driven away if, instead of consisting of a solid globe of immense aggregate mass, it were a cloud of microscopic particles.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000012|If the diameter is still further decreased, the ratio of the surface to the volume will proportionally grow larger; in other words, the pressure will gain upon the attraction, and whatever their original ratio may have been, a time will come, if the diminution of size continues, when the pressure will become more effective than the attraction, and the body will be driven away.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000014_000001|This is beautifully shown in some of the photographs that have been made of the corona during recent eclipses.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000014_000002|Take, for instance, that of the eclipse of nineteen hundred.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000014_000010|Messages are abruptly cut off, sparks leap from the telegraph instruments, and the entire earth seems to have been thrown into a magnetic flurry.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000015_000005|After two or three years they begin to diminish in number, magnitude, and activity until they almost or quite disappear.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000015_000008|It was not very long after the discovery of the sun spot cycle that the curious observation was made that a striking coincidence existed between the period of the sun spots and another period affecting the general magnetic condition of the earth.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000015_000011|A final answer to this question cannot yet be given, for the evidence is contradictory, and the interpretations put upon it depend largely on the predilections of the judges.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000016_000001|Reference was made, a few lines above, to the resemblance of the spectra of sun spots to those of certain stars which seem to be failing through age.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000016_000003|The very inequalities in the sun spot cycle are suspicious.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000016_000009|Looking backward, we see a time when the sun must have been more brilliant than it is now.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000017_000000|The corona, as we have said, varies with the sun spot cycle.
train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000017_000003|It is then that the curved polar rays are most conspicuous.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000000_000000|Marvels of the Aurora
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000002|Toward the north the spectacle was appalling.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000003|A huge arch spanned an unnaturally dark segment resting on the horizon, and above this arch sprang up beams and streamers in a state of incessant agitation, sometimes shooting up to the zenith with a velocity that took one's breath, and sometimes suddenly falling into long ranks, and marching, marching, marching, like an endless phalanx of fiery specters, and moving, as I remember, always from east to west.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000004|The absolute silence with which these mysterious evolutions were performed and the quavering reflections which were thrown upon the ground increased the awfulness of the exhibition.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000007|The spectacle continued with varying intensity for hours.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000004_000000|This exhibition occurred in Central New York, a latitude in which the Aurora Borealis is seldom seen with so much splendor.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000005_000002|The pages in the narratives of Arctic exploration that are devoted to descriptions of the wonderful effects of the Northern Lights are second to none that man has ever penned in their fascination.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000005_000003|The lights, as I have already intimated, display astonishing colors, particularly shades of red and green, as they flit from place to place in the sky.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000005_000006|After the invention of magnetic telegraphy it was found that whenever a great Aurora occurred the telegraph lines were interrupted in their operation, and the ocean cables ceased to work.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000002|The first notable proof of the suspected connection was furnished with dramatic emphasis by an occurrence which happened on september first eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000003|Near noon on that day two intensely brilliant points suddenly broke out in a group of sun spots which were under observation by Mr r c Carrington at his observatory at Redhill, England.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000004|The points remained visible for not more than five minutes, during which interval they moved thirty five thousand miles across the solar disk.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000005|Mr r Hodgson happened to see the same phenomenon at his observatory at Highgate, and thus all possibility of deception was removed.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000006|But neither of the startled observers could have anticipated what was to follow, and, indeed, it was an occurrence which has never been precisely duplicated.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000007_000003|The coincidence was even closer.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000008_000001|It is true that the late Lord Kelvin raised difficulties in the way of the hypothesis of a direct magnetic action of the sun upon the earth, because it seemed to him that an inadmissible quantity of energy was demanded to account for such action.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000008_000003|It was Lord Kelvin who, but a few years before the thing was actually accomplished, declared that aerial navigation was an impracticable dream, and demonstrated its impracticability by calculation.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000009_000004|In short, the coincidences are so numerous and significant that one would have to throw the doctrine of probability to the winds in order to be able to reject the conclusion to which they so plainly lead.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000010_000000|But still the question recurs: How is the influence transmitted?
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000010_000002|He would give the Aurora the same lineage with the Zodiacal Light.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000011_000007|These coincidences are certainly very striking, and they have a cumulative force.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000011_000008|If we accept the theory, it would appear that we ought to congratulate ourselves that the inclination of the sun's equator is so slight, for as things stand the earth is never directly over the most active regions of the sun spots, and consequently never suffers from the maximum bombardment of charged particles of which the sun is capable.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000012_000001|First, the number of aurorae, according to his explanation, ought to be greatest in the daytime, when the face of the earth on the sunward side is directly exposed to the atomic bombardment.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000013_000000|Yet another singular fact, almost mystical in its suggestions, may be mentioned.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000013_000001|It seems that the dance of the auroral lights occurs most frequently during the absence of the moon from the hemisphere in which they appear, and that they flee, in greater part, to the opposite hemisphere when the moon's revolution in an orbit considerably inclined to the earth's equator brings her into that where they have been performing.
train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000014_000000|There are even other apparent confirmations of the hypothesis, but we need not go into them.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000000_000001|MARTHA
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000001_000001|We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000001_000002|She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents of passengers setting towards and from the bridge, that, between this and the advance she had of us when she struck off, we were in the narrow water side street by Millbank before we came up with her.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000001_000003|At that moment she crossed the road, as if to avoid the footsteps that she heard so close behind; and, without looking back, passed on even more rapidly.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000002_000000|A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000003_000000|There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry house.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000003_000002|As soon as she came here, and saw the water, she stopped as if she had come to her destination; and presently went slowly along by the brink of the river, looking intently at it.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000000|The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000001|There were neither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road near the great blank Prison.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000002|A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000003|Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000004|In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000006|Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb tide.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000008|Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000007_000000|There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000007_000001|I then signed to mr Peggotty to remain where he was, and emerged from their shade to speak to her.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000008_000000|I think she was talking to herself.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000010_000000|She uttered a terrified scream, and struggled with me with such strength that I doubt if I could have held her alone.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000010_000002|In a little while she sat among the stones, holding her wretched head with both her hands.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000011_000000|'Oh, the river!' she cried passionately.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000011_000001|'Oh, the river!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000014_000000|'I know it's like me!' she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000014_000001|'I know that I belong to it. I know that it's the natural company of such as I am!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000000|'I can't keep away from it.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000001|I can't forget it.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000002|It haunts me day and night.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000003|It's the only thing in all the world that I am fit for, or that's fit for me.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000004|Oh, the dreadful river!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000016_000002|He shook as if he would have fallen; and his hand-I touched it with my own, for his appearance alarmed me-was deadly cold.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000018_000001|He made some motion with his mouth, and seemed to think he had spoken; but he had only pointed to her with his outstretched hand.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000019_000001|Knowing that this state must pass, before we could speak to her with any hope, I ventured to restrain him when he would have raised her, and we stood by in silence until she became more tranquil.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000024_000000|'Are you composed enough,' said I, 'to speak on the subject which so interested you-I hope Heaven may remember it!--that snowy night?'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000025_000000|Her sobs broke out afresh, and she murmured some inarticulate thanks to me for not having driven her away from the door.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000026_000000|'I want to say nothing for myself,' she said, after a few moments.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000026_000001|'I am bad, I am lost.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000026_000002|I have no hope at all.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000027_000000|'It was you, if I don't deceive myself,' she said, in a broken voice, 'that came into the kitchen, the night she took such pity on me; was so gentle to me; didn't shrink away from me like all the rest, and gave me such kind help!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000030_000001|'You are innocent of any part in it, we thoroughly believe,--we know.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000031_000001|She never spoke a word to me but what was pleasant and right.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000033_000001|When, Heaven knows, I would have died to have brought back her good name!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000034_000000|Long unused to any self control, the piercing agony of her remorse and grief was terrible.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000035_000000|'To have died, would not have been much-what can I say?---I would have lived!' she cried.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000001|'How can I go on as I am, a solitary curse to myself, a living disgrace to everyone I come near!' Suddenly she turned to my companion.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000002|'Stamp upon me, kill me!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000006|I don't complain.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000009|Oh, don't think that all the power I had of loving anything is quite worn out!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000011|Kill me for being what I am, and having ever known her; but don't think that of me!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000000|'Martha,' said mr Peggotty, 'God forbid as I should judge you.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000001|Forbid as I, of all men, should do that, my girl!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000003|Well!' he paused a moment, then went on.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000004|'You doen't understand how 'tis that this here gentleman and me has wished to speak to you.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000040_000001|She stood, shrinkingly, before him, as if she were afraid to meet his eyes; but her passionate sorrow was quite hushed and mute.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000041_000001|My dear niece,' he repeated steadily.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000043_000000|'I have heerd her tell,' said mr Peggotty, 'as you was early left fatherless and motherless, with no friend fur to take, in a rough seafaring way, their place.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000043_000001|Maybe you can guess that if you'd had such a friend, you'd have got into a way of being fond of him in course of time, and that my niece was kiender daughter like to me.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000044_000000|As she was silently trembling, he put her shawl carefully about her, taking it up from the ground for that purpose.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000046_000000|I read, in every word of his plain impressive way of delivering himself, new evidence of his having thought of this one topic, in every feature it presented.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000000|'According to our reckoning,' he proceeded, 'Mas'r Davy's here, and mine, she is like, one day, to make her own poor solitary course to London.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000003|Bless her, I knew she was!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000004|I knew she always was, to all.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000005|You're thankful to her, and you love her.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000048_000000|She looked at him hastily, and for the first time, as if she were doubtful of what he had said.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000049_000000|'Will you trust me?' she asked, in a low voice of astonishment.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000052_000000|We both replied together, 'Yes!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000053_000000|She lifted up her eyes, and solemnly declared that she would devote herself to this task, fervently and faithfully.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000054_000000|She did not raise her voice above her breath, or address us, but said this to the night sky; then stood profoundly quiet, looking at the gloomy water.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000055_000001|She listened with great attention, and with a face that often changed, but had the same purpose in all its varying expressions.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000055_000003|It seemed as if her spirit were quite altered, and she could not be too quiet.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000056_000000|She asked, when all was told, where we were to be communicated with, if occasion should arise.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000056_000003|She said, after a pause, in no place long.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000057_000002|She continued steadfast.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000057_000003|In this particular, his influence upon her was equally powerless with mine.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000057_000004|She gratefully thanked him but remained inexorable.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000058_000000|'There may be work to be got,' she said.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000058_000001|'I'll try.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000060_000000|'I could not do what I have promised, for money,' she replied.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000060_000001|'I could not take it, if I was starving.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000061_000001|We can all do some good, if we will.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000000|'It has been put into your hearts, perhaps, to save a wretched creature for repentance.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000001|I am afraid to think so; it seems too bold.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000002|If any good should come of me, I might begin to hope; for nothing but harm has ever come of my deeds yet.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000003|I am to be trusted, for the first time in a long while, with my miserable life, on account of what you have given me to try for.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000064_000000|Again she repressed the tears that had begun to flow; and, putting out her trembling hand, and touching mr Peggotty, as if there was some healing virtue in him, went away along the desolate road.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000065_000001|I had such implicit confidence in her declaration, that I then put it to mr Peggotty, whether it would not seem, in the onset, like distrusting her, to follow her any farther.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000065_000003|He accompanied me a good part of the way; and when we parted, with a prayer for the success of this fresh effort, there was a new and thoughtful compassion in him that I was at no loss to interpret.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000066_000000|It was midnight when I arrived at home.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000067_000000|Thinking that my aunt might have relapsed into one of her old alarms, and might be watching the progress of some imaginary conflagration in the distance, I went to speak to her.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000068_000000|He had a glass and bottle in his hand, and was in the act of drinking.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000069_000000|He was eating as well as drinking, and seemed to eat with a hungry appetite.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000070_000000|The light in the passage was obscured for a moment, and my aunt came out.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000070_000002|I heard it chink.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000071_000000|'What's the use of this?' he demanded.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000073_000000|'Then I can't go,' said he.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000073_000001|'Here!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000073_000002|You may take it back!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000000|'You bad man,' returned my aunt, with great emotion; 'how can you use me so?
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000001|But why do I ask?
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000002|It is because you know how weak I am!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000003|What have I to do, to free myself for ever of your visits, but to abandon you to your deserts?'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000075_000000|'And why don't you abandon me to my deserts?' said he.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000076_000001|'What a heart you must have!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000078_000000|'Is this all you mean to give me, then?'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000079_000000|'It is all I CAN give you,' said my aunt.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000079_000002|I have told you so.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000079_000003|Having got it, why do you give me the pain of looking at you for another moment, and seeing what you have become?'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000080_000000|'I have become shabby enough, if you mean that,' he said.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000080_000001|'I lead the life of an owl.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000081_000001|You treated me falsely, ungratefully, and cruelly.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000082_000000|'Aye!' he returned.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000082_000001|'It's all very fine-Well!
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000082_000002|I must do the best I can, for the present, I suppose.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000083_000000|In spite of himself, he appeared abashed by my aunt's indignant tears, and came slouching out of the garden.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000083_000001|Taking two or three quick steps, as if I had just come up, I met him at the gate, and went in as he came out.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000084_000002|Let me speak to him.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000084_000003|Who is he?'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000086_000000|We sat down in her little parlour.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000086_000002|Then she came out, and took a seat beside me.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000087_000000|'Trot,' said my aunt, calmly, 'it's my husband.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000088_000000|'Your husband, aunt?
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000088_000001|I thought he had been dead!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000091_000001|When she loved him, Trot, right well.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000091_000003|He repaid her by breaking her fortune, and nearly breaking her heart.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000091_000004|So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down.'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000092_000000|'My dear, good aunt!'
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000093_000003|He soon made ducks and drakes of what I gave him, sank lower and lower, married another woman, I believe, became an adventurer, a gambler, and a cheat.
train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000094_000000|She gave my hand a squeeze, and shook her head.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000005_000001|From Omaha,--department headquarters,--almost on the heels of the Laramie wire came cheery word from their gallant chief: "Coming to join you noon train to day. Cheyenne one thirty to morrow.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000007_000001|See!
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000011_000000|"Lost anything, Captain Blake?"
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000012_000001|"But I've found something," muttered he to himself, between his set teeth, and within five minutes more was again closeted with the post commander.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000014_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000017_000000|"Major, you told me to keep watch and let you know.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000017_000001|There's a courier coming-hard!
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000017_000002|Mother saw him-too, through the-spyglass.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000018_000000|"Right!" cried Webb.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000018_000002|Those devils may indeed cut him off.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000027_000013|Theirs was the race, perhaps, but not the prize, for he had turned up far from the expected point.
train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000027_000017|Only for a second or two, however.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000004_000000|"That means news of importance," said Webb, at the instant.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000010_000002|It was no surprise to Dade.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000016_000000|"Blake!
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000020_000000|"Millions, be damned!" yelled Kennedy.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000020_000002|Come on, ye scut!" And down they went, full tilt at the Sioux, yet heading to cover and reach the beleaguered party in the hollow.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000023_000001|I heard him plainly.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000024_000000|"Picked it up by that pony yonder, sir," answered the corporal, with a salute.
train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000025_000000|Two, indeed, of Blake's horses were crippled, and it was high time to be going.
train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000012_000017|Something had hit him from behind, but he couldn't tell what.
train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000013_000000|Flint's nerve was failing him, for here was confirmation of the general's theory, but there was worse to come and more of it.
train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000017_000000|And presently they came-mrs
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000005_000002|And what is a sportsman to day?
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000008_000002|Among other things, it is time for a list of species to be published which no man claiming to be either a gentleman or a sportsman can shoot for aught else than preservation in a public museum.
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000031_000000|six.
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000033_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000036_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000038_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000042_000000|The Lewis and Clark Club, of Pittsburgh, john m Phillips, President.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000003_000000|LIFE.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000008_000000|Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory,
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000009_000000|As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear!
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000019_000002|Yes!
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000020_000000|Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000023_000000|Glee!
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000025_000000|How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, "But the forty? Did they come back no more?"
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000029_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000031_000000|Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000032_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000035_000000|Mirth is the mail of anguish, In which it cautions arm, Lest anybody spy the blood And "You're hurt" exclaim!
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000040_000000|IN A LIBRARY.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000050_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000051_000000|I asked no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000053_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000059_000000|THE SECRET.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000061_000000|Some things that stay there be, -- Grief, hills, eternity: Nor this behooveth me.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000063_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000073_000000|We trust, in plumed procession, For such the angels go, Rank after rank, with even feet And uniforms of snow.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000075_000000|DAWN.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000077_000000|And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care For that old faded midnight That frightened but an hour.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000078_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000079_000000|THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000080_000000|Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they bore The faithful witness, Till we are helped, As if a kingdom cared!
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000082_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000083_000000|THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000097_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000104_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000106_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000003_000000|LOVE.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000009_000000|BEQUEST.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000013_000000|Alter?
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000014_000000|Surfeit?
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000029_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000033_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000044_000000|TRANSPLANTED.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000047_000000|THE OUTLET.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000049_000000|My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously!
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000050_000000|I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, --
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000052_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000054_000000|I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000057_000000|I could not die with you, For one must wait To shut the other's gaze down, -- You could not.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000058_000000|And I, could I stand by And see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000066_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000075_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000076_000000|LOVE'S BAPTISM.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000077_000000|I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools I've finished threading too.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000078_000000|Baptized before without the choice, But this time consciously, of grace Unto supremest name, Called to my full, the crescent dropped, Existence's whole arc filled up With one small diadem.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000080_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000081_000000|RESURRECTION.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000084_000000|No lifetime set on them, Apparelled as the new Unborn, except they had beheld, Born everlasting now.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000086_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000092_000000|THE WIFE.
train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000096_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty six.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000000|I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then started for Highgate.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000001|I was not dispirited now.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000002|I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000003|My whole manner of thinking of our late misfortune was changed.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000004|What I had to do, was, to show my aunt that her past goodness to me had not been thrown away on an insensible, ungrateful object.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000007|And I went on at a mighty rate, as if it could be done by walking.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000000|When I found myself on the familiar Highgate road, pursuing such a different errand from that old one of pleasure, with which it was associated, it seemed as if a complete change had come on my whole life. But that did not discourage me.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000001|With the new life, came new purpose, new intention.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000002|Great was the labour; priceless the reward.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000003|Dora was the reward, and Dora must be won.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000006_000000|I got into such a transport, that I felt quite sorry my coat was not a little shabby already.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000006_000001|I wanted to be cutting at those trees in the forest of difficulty, under circumstances that should prove my strength. I had a good mind to ask an old man, in wire spectacles, who was breaking stones upon the road, to lend me his hammer for a little while, and let me begin to beat a path to Dora out of granite.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000006_000002|I stimulated myself into such a heat, and got so out of breath, that I felt as if I had been earning I don't know how much.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000007_000002|I came out again, hotter and faster than ever, and dashed up to Highgate, at such a rate that I was there an hour too early; and, though I had not been, should have been obliged to stroll about to cool myself, before I was at all presentable.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000000|My first care, after putting myself under this necessary course of preparation, was to find the Doctor's house.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000001|It was not in that part of Highgate where mrs Steerforth lived, but quite on the opposite side of the little town.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000002|When I had made this discovery, I went back, in an attraction I could not resist, to a lane by mrs Steerforth's, and looked over the corner of the garden wall.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000003|His room was shut up close. The conservatory doors were standing open, and Rosa Dartle was walking, bareheaded, with a quick, impetuous step, up and down a gravel walk on one side of the lawn.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000004|She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearing its heart out.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000009_000000|I came softly away from my place of observation, and avoiding that part of the neighbourhood, and wishing I had not gone near it, strolled about until it was ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000009_000001|The church with the slender spire, that stands on the top of the hill now, was not there then to tell me the time.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000009_000002|An old red brick mansion, used as a school, was in its place; and a fine old house it must have been to go to school at, as I recollect it.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000010_000000|When I approached the Doctor's cottage-a pretty old place, on which he seemed to have expended some money, if I might judge from the embellishments and repairs that had the look of being just completed-I saw him walking in the garden at the side, gaiters and all, as if he had never left off walking since the days of my pupilage.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000010_000001|He had his old companions about him, too; for there were plenty of high trees in the neighbourhood, and two or three rooks were on the grass, looking after him, as if they had been written to about him by the Canterbury rooks, and were observing him closely in consequence.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000011_000000|Knowing the utter hopelessness of attracting his attention from that distance, I made bold to open the gate, and walk after him, so as to meet him when he should turn round.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000011_000001|When he did, and came towards me, he looked at me thoughtfully for a few moments, evidently without thinking about me at all; and then his benevolent face expressed extraordinary pleasure, and he took me by both hands.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000012_000001|How do you do?
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000012_000002|I am delighted to see you.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000012_000003|My dear Copperfield, how very much you have improved!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000012_000004|You are quite-yes-dear me!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000000|'Oh dear, yes!' said the Doctor; 'Annie's quite well, and she'll be delighted to see you.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000001|You were always her favourite.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000002|She said so, last night, when I showed her your letter.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000003|And-yes, to be sure-you recollect mr Jack Maldon, Copperfield?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000015_000000|'Perfectly, sir.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000016_000001|'To be sure.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000016_000002|He's pretty well, too.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000017_000000|'Has he come home, sir?' I inquired.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000000|'From India?' said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000001|'Yes.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000002|mr Jack Maldon couldn't bear the climate, my dear.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000003|mrs Markleham-you have not forgotten mrs Markleham?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000019_000000|Forgotten the Old Soldier!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000019_000001|And in that short time!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000020_000001|Markleham,' said the Doctor, 'was quite vexed about him, poor thing; so we have got him at home again; and we have bought him a little Patent place, which agrees with him much better.' I knew enough of mr Jack Maldon to suspect from this account that it was a place where there was not much to do, and which was pretty well paid.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000000|'Now, my dear Copperfield, in reference to this proposal of yours.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000001|It's very gratifying and agreeable to me, I am sure; but don't you think you could do better?
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000003|You are qualified for many good things.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000004|You have laid a foundation that any edifice may be raised upon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring time of your life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000022_000000|I became very glowing again, and, expressing myself in a rhapsodical style, I am afraid, urged my request strongly; reminding the Doctor that I had already a profession.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000023_000000|'Well, well,' said the Doctor, 'that's true.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000023_000001|Certainly, your having a profession, and being actually engaged in studying it, makes a difference.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000023_000002|But, my good young friend, what's seventy pounds a year?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000024_000000|'It doubles our income, Doctor Strong,' said i
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000025_000000|'Dear me!' replied the Doctor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000025_000001|'To think of that!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000025_000002|Not that I mean to say it's rigidly limited to seventy pounds a year, because I have always contemplated making any young friend I might thus employ, a present too. Undoubtedly,' said the Doctor, still walking me up and down with his hand on my shoulder.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000027_000000|'No, no,' interposed the Doctor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000027_000001|'Pardon me!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000028_000000|'If you will take such time as I have, and that is my mornings and evenings, and can think it worth seventy pounds a year, you will do me such a service as I cannot express.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000000|'Dear me!' said the Doctor, innocently.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000001|'To think that so little should go for so much!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000002|Dear, dear!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000004|On your word, now?' said the Doctor,--which he had always made a very grave appeal to the honour of us boys.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000030_000000|'On my word, sir!' I returned, answering in our old school manner.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000031_000000|'Then be it so,' said the Doctor, clapping me on the shoulder, and still keeping his hand there, as we still walked up and down.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000033_000000|The Doctor stopped, smilingly clapped me on the shoulder again, and exclaimed, with a triumph most delightful to behold, as if I had penetrated to the profoundest depths of mortal sagacity, 'My dear young friend, you have hit it.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000000|How could it be anything else!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000001|His pockets were as full of it as his head.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000002|It was sticking out of him in all directions.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000004|His papers were in a little confusion, in consequence of mr Jack Maldon having lately proffered his occasional services as an amanuensis, and not being accustomed to that occupation; but we should soon put right what was amiss, and go on swimmingly.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000035_000000|The Doctor was quite happy in the prospect of our going to work together on that wonderful performance, and we settled to begin next morning at seven o'clock.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000035_000001|We were to work two hours every morning, and two or three hours every night, except on Saturdays, when I was to rest.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000036_000000|Our plans being thus arranged to our mutual satisfaction, the Doctor took me into the house to present me to mrs Strong, whom we found in the Doctor's new study, dusting his books,--a freedom which he never permitted anybody else to take with those sacred favourites.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000000|They had postponed their breakfast on my account, and we sat down to table together.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000001|We had not been seated long, when I saw an approaching arrival in mrs Strong's face, before I heard any sound of it.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000002|A gentleman on horseback came to the gate, and leading his horse into the little court, with the bridle over his arm, as if he were quite at home, tied him to a ring in the empty coach house wall, and came into the breakfast parlour, whip in hand.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000003|It was mr Jack Maldon; and mr Jack Maldon was not at all improved by India, I thought.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000038_000000|'mr Jack!' said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000038_000001|'Copperfield!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000039_000000|mr Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000039_000001|But his languor altogether was quite a wonderful sight; except when he addressed himself to his cousin Annie. 'Have you breakfasted this morning, mr Jack?' said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000040_000000|'I hardly ever take breakfast, sir,' he replied, with his head thrown back in an easy chair. 'I find it bores me.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000041_000000|'Is there any news today?' inquired the Doctor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000042_000000|'Nothing at all, sir,' replied mr Maldon. 'There's an account about the people being hungry and discontented down in the North, but they are always being hungry and discontented somewhere.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000043_000000|The Doctor looked grave, and said, as though he wished to change the subject, 'Then there's no news at all; and no news, they say, is good news.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000000|A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000001|I have known it very fashionable indeed.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000002|I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000003|Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, mr Jack Maldon.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000046_000000|'I came out to inquire whether Annie would like to go to the opera tonight,' said mr Maldon, turning to her.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000046_000002|She is perfectly exquisite.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000047_000000|The Doctor, ever pleased with what was likely to please his young wife, turned to her and said:
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000048_000001|You must go.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000049_000000|'I would rather not,' she said to the Doctor. 'I prefer to remain at home.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000049_000001|I would much rather remain at home.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000000|But he saw nothing.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000001|He told her, good naturedly, that she was young and ought to be amused and entertained, and must not allow herself to be made dull by a dull old fellow.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000003|So the Doctor persisted in making the engagement for her, and mr Jack Maldon was to come back to dinner.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000004|This concluded, he went to his Patent place, I suppose; but at all events went away on his horse, looking very idle.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000052_000000|I was curious to find out next morning, whether she had been.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000052_000001|She had not, but had sent into London to put her cousin off; and had gone out in the afternoon to see Agnes, and had prevailed upon the Doctor to go with her; and they had walked home by the fields, the Doctor told me, the evening being delightful.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000052_000002|I wondered then, whether she would have gone if Agnes had not been in town, and whether Agnes had some good influence over her too!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000000|She did not look very happy, I thought; but it was a good face, or a very false one.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000001|I often glanced at it, for she sat in the window all the time we were at work; and made our breakfast, which we took by snatches as we were employed.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000002|When I left, at nine o'clock, she was kneeling on the ground at the Doctor's feet, putting on his shoes and gaiters for him.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000003|There was a softened shade upon her face, thrown from some green leaves overhanging the open window of the low room; and I thought all the way to Doctors' Commons, of the night when I had seen it looking at him as he read.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000000|I was pretty busy now; up at five in the morning, and home at nine or ten at night.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000001|But I had infinite satisfaction in being so closely engaged, and never walked slowly on any account, and felt enthusiastically that the more I tired myself, the more I was doing to deserve Dora.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000002|I had not revealed myself in my altered character to Dora yet, because she was coming to see Miss Mills in a few days, and I deferred all I had to tell her until then; merely informing her in my letters (all our communications were secretly forwarded through Miss Mills), that I had much to tell her.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000003|In the meantime, I put myself on a short allowance of bear's grease, wholly abandoned scented soap and lavender water, and sold off three waistcoats at a prodigious sacrifice, as being too luxurious for my stern career.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000055_000000|Not satisfied with all these proceedings, but burning with impatience to do something more, I went to see Traddles, now lodging up behind the parapet of a house in Castle Street, Holborn.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000055_000001|mr Dick, who had been with me to Highgate twice already, and had resumed his companionship with the Doctor, I took with me.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000000|I took mr Dick with me, because, acutely sensitive to my aunt's reverses, and sincerely believing that no galley slave or convict worked as I did, he had begun to fret and worry himself out of spirits and appetite, as having nothing useful to do.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000001|In this condition, he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky head of King Charles the First got into it.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000002|Seriously apprehending that his malady would increase, unless we put some innocent deception upon him and caused him to believe that he was useful, or unless we could put him in the way of being really useful (which would be better), I made up my mind to try if Traddles could help us.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000003|Before we went, I wrote Traddles a full statement of all that had happened, and Traddles wrote me back a capital answer, expressive of his sympathy and friendship.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000057_000001|He received us cordially, and made friends with mr Dick in a moment.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000057_000002|mr Dick professed an absolute certainty of having seen him before, and we both said, 'Very likely.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000058_000000|The first subject on which I had to consult Traddles was this,--I had heard that many men distinguished in various pursuits had begun life by reporting the debates in Parliament.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000058_000001|Traddles having mentioned newspapers to me, as one of his hopes, I had put the two things together, and told Traddles in my letter that I wished to know how I could qualify myself for this pursuit.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000058_000003|Traddles reasonably supposed that this would settle the business; but I, only feeling that here indeed were a few tall trees to be hewn down, immediately resolved to work my way on to Dora through this thicket, axe in hand.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000060_000000|Traddles looked astonished, as he well might; but he had no notion as yet of my rapturous condition.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000062_000000|'Dear me,' said Traddles, opening his eyes, 'I had no idea you were such a determined character, Copperfield!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000063_000001|I passed that off, and brought mr Dick on the carpet.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000064_000000|'You see,' said mr Dick, wistfully, 'if I could exert myself, mr Traddles-if I could beat a drum-or blow anything!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000065_000000|Poor fellow!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000066_000000|'But you are a very good penman, sir.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000066_000002|He wrote with extraordinary neatness.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000067_000000|'Don't you think,' said Traddles, 'you could copy writings, sir, if I got them for you?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000068_000000|mr Dick looked doubtfully at me.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000068_000001|'Eh, Trotwood?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000069_000000|I shook my head.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000069_000002|'Tell him about the Memorial,' said mr Dick.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000070_000000|I explained to Traddles that there was a difficulty in keeping King Charles the First out of mr Dick's manuscripts; mr Dick in the meanwhile looking very deferentially and seriously at Traddles, and sucking his thumb.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000071_000001|'mr
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000071_000002|Dick has nothing to do with them.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000071_000003|Wouldn't that make a difference, Copperfield? At all events, wouldn't it be well to try?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000072_000000|This gave us new hope.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000072_000001|Traddles and I laying our heads together apart, while mr Dick anxiously watched us from his chair, we concocted a scheme in virtue of which we got him to work next day, with triumphant success.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000073_000000|On a table by the window in Buckingham Street, we set out the work Traddles procured for him-which was to make, I forget how many copies of a legal document about some right of way-and on another table we spread the last unfinished original of the great Memorial.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000073_000001|Our instructions to mr Dick were that he should copy exactly what he had before him, without the least departure from the original; and that when he felt it necessary to make the slightest allusion to King Charles the First, he should fly to the Memorial.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000073_000002|We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000074_000000|'No starving now, Trotwood,' said mr Dick, shaking hands with me in a corner.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000074_000001|'I'll provide for her, Sir!' and he flourished his ten fingers in the air, as if they were ten banks.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000075_000000|I hardly know which was the better pleased, Traddles or i 'It really,' said Traddles, suddenly, taking a letter out of his pocket, and giving it to me, 'put mr Micawber quite out of my head!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000076_000001|Micawber never missed any possible opportunity of writing a letter) was addressed to me, 'By the kindness of t Traddles, Esquire, of the Inner Temple.' It ran thus:--
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000077_000000|'MY DEAR COPPERFIELD,
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000078_000000|'You may possibly not be unprepared to receive the intimation that something has turned up.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000078_000001|I may have mentioned to you on a former occasion that I was in expectation of such an event.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000079_000000|'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of our favoured island (where the society may be described as a happy admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediate connexion with one of the learned professions.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000079_000001|mrs Micawber and our offspring will accompany me.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000079_000002|Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000080_000001|If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, mr Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000081_000000|'On 'One 'Who 'Is 'Ever yours, 'WILKINS MICAWBER.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000082_000000|I was glad to find that mr Micawber had got rid of his dust and ashes, and that something really had turned up at last.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000082_000001|Learning from Traddles that the invitation referred to the evening then wearing away, I expressed my readiness to do honour to it; and we went off together to the lodging which mr Micawber occupied as mr Mortimer, and which was situated near the top of the Gray's Inn Road.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000083_000002|I also became once more known to his sister, Miss Micawber, in whom, as mr Micawber told us, 'her mother renewed her youth, like the Phoenix'.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000084_000000|'My dear Copperfield,' said mr Micawber, 'yourself and mr Traddles find us on the brink of migration, and will excuse any little discomforts incidental to that position.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000085_000000|Glancing round as I made a suitable reply, I observed that the family effects were already packed, and that the amount of luggage was by no means overwhelming.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000085_000001|I congratulated mrs Micawber on the approaching change.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000086_000000|'My dear mr Copperfield,' said mrs Micawber, 'of your friendly interest in all our affairs, I am well assured.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000086_000001|My family may consider it banishment, if they please; but I am a wife and mother, and I never will desert mr Micawber.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000087_000000|Traddles, appealed to by mrs Micawber's eye, feelingly acquiesced.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000088_000000|'That,' said mrs Micawber, 'that, at least, is my view, my dear mr Copperfield and mr Traddles, of the obligation which I took upon myself when I repeated the irrevocable words, "I, Emma, take thee, Wilkins." I read the service over with a flat candle on the previous night, and the conclusion I derived from it was, that I never could desert mr Micawber.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000088_000001|And,' said mrs Micawber, 'though it is possible I may be mistaken in my view of the ceremony, I never will!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000090_000000|'I am aware, my dear mr Copperfield,' pursued mrs Micawber, 'that I am now about to cast my lot among strangers; and I am also aware that the various members of my family, to whom mr Micawber has written in the most gentlemanly terms, announcing that fact, have not taken the least notice of mr Micawber's communication.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000090_000001|Indeed I may be superstitious,' said mrs Micawber, 'but it appears to me that mr Micawber is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000090_000002|I may augur, from the silence of my family, that they object to the resolution I have taken; but I should not allow myself to be swerved from the path of duty, mr Copperfield, even by my papa and mama, were they still living.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000091_000000|I expressed my opinion that this was going in the right direction.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000091_000001|'It may be a sacrifice,' said mrs Micawber, 'to immure one's self in a Cathedral town; but surely, mr Copperfield, if it is a sacrifice in me, it is much more a sacrifice in a man of mr Micawber's abilities.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000092_000000|'Oh!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000092_000001|You are going to a Cathedral town?' said i
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000093_000000|mr Micawber, who had been helping us all, out of the wash hand stand jug, replied:
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000094_000000|'To Canterbury.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000094_000001|In fact, my dear Copperfield, I have entered into arrangements, by virtue of which I stand pledged and contracted to our friend Heep, to assist and serve him in the capacity of-and to be-his confidential clerk.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000095_000000|I stared at mr Micawber, who greatly enjoyed my surprise.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000096_000001|The gauntlet, to which mrs Micawber referred upon a former occasion, being thrown down in the form of an advertisement, was taken up by my friend Heep, and led to a mutual recognition.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000096_000004|I have already some acquaintance with the law-as a defendant on civil process-and I shall immediately apply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our English jurists.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000096_000005|I believe it is unnecessary to add that I allude to mr justice Blackstone.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000098_000001|I am convinced that mr Micawber, giving his mind to a profession so adapted to his fertile resources, and his flow of language, must distinguish himself.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000098_000002|Now, for example, mr Traddles,' said mrs Micawber, assuming a profound air, 'a judge, or even say a Chancellor.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000098_000003|Does an individual place himself beyond the pale of those preferments by entering on such an office as mr Micawber has accepted?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000099_000000|'My dear,' observed mr Micawber-but glancing inquisitively at Traddles, too; 'we have time enough before us, for the consideration of those questions.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000100_000000|'Micawber,' she returned, 'no!
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000100_000001|Your mistake in life is, that you do not look forward far enough.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000100_000002|You are bound, in justice to your family, if not to yourself, to take in at a comprehensive glance the extremest point in the horizon to which your abilities may lead you.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000101_000000|mr Micawber coughed, and drank his punch with an air of exceeding satisfaction-still glancing at Traddles, as if he desired to have his opinion.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000102_000001|'I mean the real prosaic fact, you know-'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000103_000000|'Just so,' said mrs Micawber, 'my dear mr Traddles, I wish to be as prosaic and literal as possible on a subject of so much importance.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000104_000000|'--Is,' said Traddles, 'that this branch of the law, even if mr Micawber were a regular solicitor-'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000105_000000|'Exactly so,' returned mrs Micawber. ('Wilkins, you are squinting, and will not be able to get your eyes back.')
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000106_000000|'--Has nothing,' pursued Traddles, 'to do with that.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000106_000001|Only a barrister is eligible for such preferments; and mr Micawber could not be a barrister, without being entered at an inn of court as a student, for five years.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000107_000000|'Do I follow you?' said mrs Micawber, with her most affable air of business.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000107_000001|'Do I understand, my dear mr Traddles, that, at the expiration of that period, mr Micawber would be eligible as a Judge or Chancellor?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000108_000000|'He would be ELIGIBLE,' returned Traddles, with a strong emphasis on that word.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000109_000000|'Thank you,' said mrs Micawber.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000109_000001|'That is quite sufficient.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000110_000000|I quite believe that mr Micawber saw himself, in his judicial mind's eye, on the woolsack.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000110_000001|He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation:
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000000|'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000001|If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally,' in allusion to his baldness, 'for that distinction.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000002|I do not,' said mr Micawber, 'regret my hair, and I may have been deprived of it for a specific purpose.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000003|I cannot say.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000004|It is my intention, my dear Copperfield, to educate my son for the Church; I will not deny that I should be happy, on his account, to attain to eminence.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000112_000000|'For the Church?' said I, still pondering, between whiles, on Uriah Heep.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000113_000000|'Yes,' said mr Micawber.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000113_000001|'He has a remarkable head voice, and will commence as a chorister.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000113_000002|Our residence at Canterbury, and our local connexion, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantage of any vacancy that may arise in the Cathedral corps.'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000114_000001|After many compliments on this performance, we fell into some general conversation; and as I was too full of my desperate intentions to keep my altered circumstances to myself, I made them known to mr and mrs Micawber.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000114_000002|I cannot express how extremely delighted they both were, by the idea of my aunt's being in difficulties; and how comfortable and friendly it made them.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000115_000000|When we were nearly come to the last round of the punch, I addressed myself to Traddles, and reminded him that we must not separate, without wishing our friends health, happiness, and success in their new career. I begged mr Micawber to fill us bumpers, and proposed the toast in due form: shaking hands with him across the table, and kissing mrs Micawber, to commemorate that eventful occasion.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000001|It may be expected that on the eve of a migration which will consign us to a perfectly new existence,' mr Micawber spoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, 'I should offer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see before me.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000002|But all that I have to say in this way, I have said.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000003|Whatever station in society I may attain, through the medium of the learned profession of which I am about to become an unworthy member, I shall endeavour not to disgrace, and mrs Micawber will be safe to adorn.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000005|All I have to say on that score is, that the cloud has passed from the dreary scene, and the God of Day is once more high upon the mountain tops.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000006|On Monday next, on the arrival of the four o'clock afternoon coach at Canterbury, my foot will be on my native heath-my name, Micawber!'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000117_000000|mr Micawber resumed his seat on the close of these remarks, and drank two glasses of punch in grave succession.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000117_000001|He then said with much solemnity:
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000000|'One thing more I have to do, before this separation is complete, and that is to perform an act of justice.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000001|My friend mr Thomas Traddles has, on two several occasions, "put his name", if I may use a common expression, to bills of exchange for my accommodation.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000002|On the first occasion mr Thomas Traddles was left-let me say, in short, in the lurch.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000003|The fulfilment of the second has not yet arrived.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000005|These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty one, ten, eleven and a half.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000006|My friend Copperfield will perhaps do me the favour to check that total?'
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000119_000000|I did so and found it correct.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000120_000000|'To leave this metropolis,' said mr Micawber, 'and my friend mr Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary part of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportable extent.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000120_000001|I have, therefore, prepared for my friend mr Thomas Traddles, and I now hold in my hand, a document, which accomplishes the desired object.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000000|With this introduction (which greatly affected him), mr Micawber placed his i o u in the hands of Traddles, and said he wished him well in every relation of life.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000001|I am persuaded, not only that this was quite the same to mr Micawber as paying the money, but that Traddles himself hardly knew the difference until he had had time to think about it.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000002|mr Micawber walked so erect before his fellow man, on the strength of this virtuous action, that his chest looked half as broad again when he lighted us downstairs.
train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000003|We parted with great heartiness on both sides; and when I had seen Traddles to his own door, and was going home alone, I thought, among the other odd and contradictory things I mused upon, that, slippery as mr Micawber was, I was probably indebted to some compassionate recollection he retained of me as his boy lodger, for never having been asked by him for money.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000003_000000|"It's suicide," the taller guard grumbled.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000004_000000|"Mine, not yours, so don't worry about it," Brion barked at him. "Your job is to remember your orders and keep them straight. Now-let's hear them again."
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000000|The guard rolled his eyes up in silent rebellion and repeated in a toneless voice: "We stay here in the car and keep the motor running while you go inside the stone pile there.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000002|We don't come in, no matter what happens or what it looks like, but wait for you here.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000003|Unless you call on the radio, in which case we come in with the automatics going and shoot the place up, and it doesn't matter who we hit.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000004|This will be done only as a last resort."
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000006_000000|"See if you can't arrange that last resort thing," the other guard said, patting the heavy blue barrel of his weapon.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000001|"If any guns go off without my permission you will pay for it, and pay with your necks.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000002|I want that clearly understood.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000003|You are here as a rear guard and a base for me to get back to.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000005|Understood?"
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000000|He waited until all three men had nodded in agreement, then checked the charge on his gun-it was fully loaded.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000001|It would be foolish to go in unarmed, but he had to.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000003|He put it aside.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000004|The button radio on his collar was working and had a strong enough signal to get through any number of walls.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000005|He took off his coat, threw open the door and stepped out into the searing brilliance of the Disan noon.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000000|There was only the desert silence, broken by the steady throb of the car's motor behind him.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000001|Stretching away to the horizon in every direction was the eternal desert of sand.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000002|The keep stood nearby, solitary, a massive pile of black rock.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000003|Brion plodded closer, watching for any motion from the walls.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000004|Nothing stirred.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000005|The high walled, irregularly shaped construction sat in a ponderous silence.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000006|Brion was sweating now, only partially from the heat.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000000|He circled the thing, looking for a gate.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000002|A slanting cleft in the stone could be climbed easily, but it seemed incredible that this might be the only entrance.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000003|A complete circuit proved that it was.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000004|Brion looked unhappily at the slanting and broken ramp, then cupped his hands and shouted loudly.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000000|"I'm coming up.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000001|Your radio doesn't work any more.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000002|I'm bringing the message from Nyjord that you have been waiting to hear." This was a slight bending of the truth without fracturing it.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000003|There was no answer-just the hiss of wind blown sand against the rock and the mutter of the car in the background.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000004|He started to climb.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000000|The rock underfoot was crumbling and he had to watch where he put his feet.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000001|At the same time he fought a constant impulse to look up, watching for anything falling from above.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000002|Nothing happened.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000003|When he reached the top of the wall he was breathing hard; sweat moistened his body.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000004|There was still no one in sight.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000005|He stood on an unevenly shaped wall that appeared to circle the building.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000006|Instead of having a courtyard inside it, the wall was the outer face of the structure, the domed roof rising from it.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000007|At varying intervals dark openings gave access to the interior.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000008|When Brion looked down, the sand car was just a dun colored bump in the desert, already far behind him.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000000|Stooping, he went through the nearest door.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000001|There was still no one in sight.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000002|The room inside was something out of a madman's funhouse. It was higher than it was wide, irregular in shape, and more like a hallway than a room.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000003|At one end it merged into an incline that became a stairwell.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000004|At the other it ended in a hole that vanished in darkness below.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000005|Light of sorts filtered in through slots and holes drilled into the thick stone wall.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000006|Everything was built of the same crumble textured but strong rock.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000008|After a number of blind passages and wrong turns he saw a stronger light ahead, and went on.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000009|There was food, metal, even artifacts of the unusual Disan design in the different rooms he passed through.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000010|Yet no people.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000011|The light ahead grew stronger, and the last passageway opened and swelled out until it led into the large central chamber.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000000|This was the heart of the strange structure.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000001|All the rooms, passageways and halls existed just to give form to this gigantic chamber.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000002|The walls rose sharply, the room being circular in cross section and growing narrower towards the top.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000003|It was a truncated cone, since there was no ceiling; a hot blue disk of sky cast light on the floor below.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000016_000000|Out of the corner of his eyes, and with the very periphery of his consciousness, he was aware of the rest of the room-barrels, stores, machinery, a radio transceiver, various bundles and heaps that made no sense at first glance.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000016_000001|There was no time to look closer.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000017_000000|He had found the enemy.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000000|Everything that had happened to him so far on Dis had been preparation for this moment.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000001|The attack in the desert, the escape, the dreadful heat of sun and sand.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000002|All this had tempered and prepared him.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000003|It had been nothing in itself.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000004|Now the battle would begin in earnest.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000000|None of this was conscious in his mind.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000001|His fighter's reflexes bent his shoulders, curved his hands before him as he walked softly in balance, ready to spring in any direction.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000003|All the danger so far was nonphysical.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000004|When he did give conscious thought to the situation he stopped, startled.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000008|They were so muffled and wrapped in cloth that only their eyes were exposed.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000001|In spite of muffled cloth and silence, he knew them for what they were.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000002|The eyes were empty of expression and unmoving, yet were filled with the same negative emptiness as those of a bird of prey.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000003|They could look on life, death, and the rending of flesh with the same lack of interest and compassion.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000004|All this Brion knew in an instant of time, without words being spoken.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000005|Between the time he lifted one foot and walked a step he understood what he had to face.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000006|There could be no doubt, not to an empathetic.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000000|From the group of silent men poured a frost white wave of unemotion. An empathetic shares what other men feel.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000001|He gets his knowledge of their reaction by sensing lightly their emotions, the surges of interest, hate, love, fear, desire, the sweep of large and small sensations that accompany all thought and action.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000002|The empathetic is always aware of this constant and silent surge, whether he makes the effort to understand it or not.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000003|He is like a man glancing across the open pages of a tableful of books.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000004|He can see that the type, words, paragraphs, thoughts are there, even without focusing his attention to understand any of it.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000000|Then how does the man feel when he glances at the open books and sees only blank pages?
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000001|The books are there-the words are not.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000002|He turns the pages of one, of the others, flipping the pages, searching for meaning.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000003|There is no meaning.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000023_000001|Nothing more.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000023_000002|Brion reached for other sensations, but there was nothing there to grasp.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000023_000003|Either these men were without emotions, or they were able to block them from his detection; it was impossible to tell which.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000000|Very little time had passed while Brion made these discoveries.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000001|The knot of men still looked at him, silent and unmoving.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000002|They weren't expectant, their attitude could not have been called one of interest.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000003|But he had come to them and now they waited to find out why.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000004|Any questions or statements they spoke would be superfluous, so they didn't speak.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000005|The responsibility was his.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000025_000001|Who is he?" Brion didn't like the tiny sound his voice made in the immense room.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000026_000000|One of the men gave a slight motion to draw attention to himself. None of the others moved.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000026_000001|They still waited.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000000|"I have a message for you," Brion said, speaking slowly to fill the silence of the room and the emptiness of his thoughts.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000002|But what was right?
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000003|"I'm from the Foundation in the city, as you undoubtedly know.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000005|They have a message for you."
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000000|The silence grew longer.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000002|He needed facts to operate, to form an opinion.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000003|Looking at the silent forms was telling him nothing.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000004|Time stretched taut, and finally Lig magte spoke.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000030_000002|The enemy is going to surrender!"
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000030_000003|This wasn't the meaning.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000031_000000|With a rising inflection on the end it would have been a question. "Are they going to surrender?" It was neither of these.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000031_000002|It had intellectual connotations, but these could only be gained from past knowledge, not from the sound of the words.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000031_000004|Therefore Brion was bringing the message. If that was not the message Brion was bringing the men here were not interested.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000000|This was the vital fact.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000003|Therefore he would be killed.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000004|Because this was vital to his existence, Brion took the time to follow the thought through.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000005|It made logical sense-and logic was all he could depend on now.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000006|He could be talking to robots or alien creatures, for all the human response he was receiving.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000000|"You can't win this war-all you can do is hurry your own deaths." He said this with as much conviction as he could, realizing at the same time that it was wasted effort.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000001|No flicker of response stirred in the men before him.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000003|They can't take any more chances.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000004|They have pushed the deadline closer by an entire day.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000006|Do you realize what that means-"
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000035_000000|"Yes," Brion said.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000000|Two things saved his life then.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000001|He had guessed what would happen as soon as they had his message, though he hadn't been sure.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000002|But even the suspicion had put him on his guard.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000003|This, combined with the reflexes of a Winner of the Twenties, was barely enough to enable him to survive.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000037_000000|From frozen mobility Lig magte had catapulted into headlong attack. As he leaped forward he drew a curved, double edged blade from under his robes.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000037_000001|It plunged unerringly through the spot where Brion's body had been an instant before.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000038_000000|There had been no time to tense his muscles and jump, just the space of time to relax them and fall to one side.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000038_000002|Lig magte plunged by him, turning and bringing the knife down at the same time.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000038_000003|Brion's foot lashed out and caught the other man's leg, sending him sprawling.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000039_000000|They were both on their feet at the same instant, facing each other. Brion now had his hands clasped before him in the unarmed man's best defense against a knife, the two arms protecting the body, the two hands joined to beat aside the knife arm from whichever direction it came.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000039_000001|The Disan hunched low, flipped the knife quickly from hand to hand, then thrust it again at Brion's midriff.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000040_000000|Only by the merest fractional margin did Brion evade the attack for the second time.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000040_000001|Lig magte fought with utter violence.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000040_000003|There could be only one end to this unequal contest if Brion stayed on the defensive. The man with the knife had to win.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000041_000000|With the next charge Brion changed tactics.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000041_000001|He leaped inside the thrust, clutching for the knife arm.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000041_000003|They clamped down hard, grinding shut, compressing with the tightening intensity of a closing vise.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000000|It was all he could do simply to hold on.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000001|There was no science in it, just his greater strength from exercise and existence on a heavier planet.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000002|All of this strength went to his clutching hand, because he held his own life in that hand, forcing away the knife that wanted to terminate it forever.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000003|Nothing else mattered-neither the frightening force of the knees that thudded into his body nor the hooked fingers that reached for his eyes to tear them out.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000004|He protected his face as well as he could, while the nails tore furrows through his flesh and the cut on his arm bled freely.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000006|His life depended on the grasp of the fingers of his right hand.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000002|They had reached stasis, standing knee to knee, their faces only a few inches apart.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000003|The muffling cloth had fallen from the Disan's face during the struggle, and empty, frigid eyes stared into Brion's.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000004|No flicker of emotion crossed the harsh planes of the other man's face.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000005|A great puckered white scar covered one cheek and pulled up a corner of the mouth in a cheerless grimace.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000006|It was false; there was still no expression here, even when the pain must be growing more intense.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000044_000000|Brion was winning-if none of the watchers broke the impasse. His greater weight and strength counted now.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000044_000001|The Disan would have to drop the knife before his arm was dislocated at the shoulder. He didn't do it.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000000|A dull, hideous snap jerked through the Disan's body and the arm hung limp and dead.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000001|No expression crossed the man's face.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000002|The knife was still locked in the fingers of the paralyzed hand.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000004|Brion raised his foot and kicked the knife free, sending it spinning across the room.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000000|Lig magte made a fist of his good hand and crashed it into Brion's groin.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000001|He was still fighting, as if nothing had changed.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000002|Brion backed slowly away from the man.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000003|"Stop it," he said.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000005|It's impossible." He called to the other men who were watching the unequal battle with expressionless immobility.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000006|No one answered him.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000047_000002|He would press the attack no matter what damage was done to him.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000047_000003|Brion had an insane vision of him breaking the man's other arm, fracturing both his legs, and the limbless broken creature still coming forward.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000047_000004|Crawling, rolling, teeth bared, since they were the only remaining weapon.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000048_000000|There was only one way to end it.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000048_000001|Brion feinted and the Lig magte's arm moved clear of his body.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000048_000002|The engulfing cloth was thin and through it Brion could see the outlines of the Disan's abdomen and rib cage, the clear location of the great nerve ganglion.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000049_000002|The stiffened hand moving forward in a sudden surge, all the weight and energy of his body concentrated in his joined fingertips.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000050_000000|Killing, not by accident or in sudden anger.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000050_000001|Killing because this was the only way the battle could possibly end.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000051_000000|Like a ruined tower of flesh, the Disan crumpled and fell.
train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000053_000000|Death filled the room.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000000|On Brion's desk when he came in, were two neat piles of paper.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000001|As he sat down and reached for them he was conscious of an arctic coldness in the air, a frigid blast.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000006|Brion kicked at the cover plate until it buckled, then bent it aside.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000007|After a careful look into the interior he disconnected one wire and shorted it to another.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000004_000001|"What do you have there?" Brion asked.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000007_000001|"Daily reports, hospital log...." His voice died away and stopped as Brion carefully pushed the stack off the edge of the desk into the wastebasket.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000008_000001|"Well, it's all filed."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000009_000000|One by one the progress reports followed the first stack into the basket, until the desk was clear.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000009_000002|It was just what he had expected.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000009_000004|They hadn't; they were all too busy specializing.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000010_000000|Outside the sky was darkening.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000010_000001|The front entrance guard had been told to let in anyone who came asking for the director.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000011_000001|It froze and shattered instantly.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000011_000002|Her microscope was hooded and she was gone.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000000|"Of course she's here!" dr Stine grumbled.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000001|"Where else should a girl in her condition be?
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000003|I've been handing out tranquilizers like aspirin all day.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000004|They're falling apart."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000013_000000|"The world's falling apart.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000013_000001|How is Lea doing?"
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000014_000000|"Considering her shape, she's fine.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000014_000002|I have other patients to look at."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000015_000000|"Are you that worried, Doctor?"
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000000|"Of course I am!
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000001|I'm just as prone to the weakness of the flesh as the rest of you.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000002|We're sitting on a ticking bomb and I don't like it.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000004|The only skin that I really feel emotionally concerned about right now is my own.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000005|And if you want to be let in on a public secret-the rest of your staff feels the same way.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000006|So don't look forward to too much efficiency."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000018_000002|Walking quietly, he went over to the bed.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000018_000004|A night's sleep now would do as much good as all the medication.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000019_000000|He should have gone then; instead, he sat down in the chair placed next to the head of the bed.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000019_000001|The guards knew where he was-he could wait here just as well as any place else.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000020_000000|It was a stolen moment of peace on a world at the brink of destruction.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000020_000001|He was grateful for it.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000020_000003|Her hand was outside of the covers and he took it in his own, obeying a sudden impulse.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000000|"Is the boss man looking after the serfs, to see if they're fit for the treadmills in the morning?" she asked.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000001|It was the kind of remark she had used with such frequency in the ship, though it didn't sound quite as harsh now.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000002|And she was smiling.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000003|Yet it reminded him too well of her superior attitude towards rubes from the stellar sticks. Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead footed yokel.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000024_000000|"Terrible.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000024_000003|My mouth tastes like an old boot heel.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000024_000004|I wonder how fresh fruit ever got here.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000025_000001|"Did you ever think of going to Earth?"
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000000|Brion was startled.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000001|This was too close to his own thoughts about planetary backgrounds.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000002|There couldn't possibly be a connection though.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000003|"Never," he told her.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000028_000000|"Nothing like that.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000029_000000|"Any exobiologists there?" Lea asked, with a woman's eternal ability to make any general topic personal.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000030_000001|We aren't organized that way at all.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000030_000005|I suppose you might call it an inbred survival trait."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000031_000000|"Up to a point," she said, biting delicately into the apple.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000031_000001|"Carry that sort of thing too far and you end up with no population at all. A certain amount of proximity is necessary for that."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000032_000001|And there must be some form of recognized relationship or control-that or complete promiscuity.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000032_000002|On Anvhar the emphasis is on personal responsibility, and that seems to take care of the problem.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000033_000002|You know-whenever this happens with you, I get the distinct impression that you are trying to cover up something. For Occam's sake, be specific!
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000033_000003|Bring me together two of these hypothetical individuals and tell me what happens."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000002|"Well-take a bachelor like myself.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000003|Since I like cross-country skiing I make my home in this big house our family has, right at the edge of the Broken Hills.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000007|We don't even have locks on our doors.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000008|You accept and give hospitality without qualification.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000009|Whoever comes.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000010|Male ... female ... in groups or just traveling alone...."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000035_000000|"I get the drift.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000035_000001|Life must be dull for a single girl on your iceberg planet.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000036_000000|"Only if she wants to.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000036_000001|Otherwise she can go wherever she wishes and be welcomed as another individual.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000038_000001|"The same damn way they get made any place else!
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000038_000002|But it's not just a reflexive process like a couple of rabbits that happen to meet under the same bush.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000040_000001|That's up to the girl.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000040_000006|But most women have an emotional bias towards having their husband's children.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000000|"Of course.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000002|Therefore the woman does the choosing.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000005|It's a lot different from other planets, but so is our planet Anvhar.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000006|It works well for us, which is the only test that applies."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000001|"I guess you Anvharians would describe Earth as a planetary hotbed of sexuality.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000002|The reverse of your system, and going full blast all the time.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000003|There are far too many people there for comfort.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000004|Birth control came late and is still being fought-if you can possibly imagine that.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000006|The world's overcrowded.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000007|Men, women, children, a boiling mob wherever you look.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000008|And all of the physically mature ones seem to be involved in the Great Game of Love.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000009|The male is always the aggressor.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000010|Not physically-at least not often-and women take the most outrageous kinds of flattery for granted.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000011|At parties there are always a couple of hot breaths of passion fanning your neck.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000012|A girl has to keep her spike heels filed sharp."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000045_000000|"A figure of speech, Brion.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000045_000001|Meaning you fight back all the time, if you don't want to be washed under by the flood."
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000047_000000|"From your point of view, it would be.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000047_000002|Sociologically speaking...." She stopped and looked at Brion's straight back and almost rigid posture.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000048_000000|"I'm being a fool," she said.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000048_000001|"You weren't speaking generally at all!
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000001|"All the time I thought you were being a frigid and hard hearted lump of ice, you were really being very sweet.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000003|Waiting for a sign from me.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000005|And I thought you were some kind of frosty offworld celibate." She let her hand go out and her fingers rustled through his hair.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000006|Something she had been wanting to do for a long time.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000051_000001|"Because I thought so much of you, I couldn't have done anything to insult you.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000051_000002|Such as forcing my attentions on you.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000052_000003|But I'm still not sure of all the rules.
train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000054_000000|"Gently ..." she whispered.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000003_000002|They parted with mutual regret.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000012_000000|Soon after mid day, they reached the summit of one of those cliffs, which, bright with the verdure of palm trees, adorn, like gems, the tremendous walls of the rocks, and which overlooked the greater part of Gascony, and part of Languedoc.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000012_000001|Here was shade, and the fresh water of a spring, that, gliding among the turf, under the trees, thence precipitated itself from rock to rock, till its dashing murmurs were lost in the abyss, though its white foam was long seen amid the darkness of the pines below.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000018_000000|Rocks on rocks piled, as if by magic spell, Here scorch'd by lightnings, there with ivy green.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000022_000006|He looked again from the window, and then saw a young man spring from the bushes into the road, followed by a couple of dogs.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000033_000003|Here, light was admitted, and smoke discharged, through an aperture in the roof; and here the scent of spirits (for the travelling smugglers, who haunted the Pyrenees, had made this rude people familiar with the use of liquors) was generally perceptible enough.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000034_000001|But she thought not of herself, and the animated smile she gave him, told how much she felt herself obliged for the preference of her father.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000035_000001|This good woman seemed very willing to accommodate the strangers, who were soon compelled to accept the only two beds in the place.
train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000036_000004|He declared that his beasts were as honest beasts, and as good beasts, as any in the whole province; and that they had a right to be well treated wherever they went.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000004_000000|PREFACE
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000005_000000|A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000006_000000|My thanks are due in three quarters.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000007_000000|To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000008_000000|To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000011_000001|I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry-that parent of crime-an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000012_000001|Self righteousness is not religion.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000012_000002|To attack the first is not to assail the last.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000013_000001|Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world redeeming creed of Christ.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000014_000000|The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth-to let white washed walls vouch for clean shrines.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000017_000000|Why have I alluded to this man?
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000017_000002|They say he is like Fielding: they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers.
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000017_000005|Finally, I have alluded to mr Thackeray, because to him-if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger-I have dedicated this second edition of "JANE EYRE."
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000020_000000|NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION
train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000021_000001|If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000004_000000|There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000009_000000|A breakfast room adjoined the drawing room, I slipped in there.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000009_000002|I mounted into the window seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000010_000001|At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000019_000000|With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000019_000001|I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000020_000001|Madam Mope!" cried the voice of john Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000021_000002|Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Joan is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain-bad animal!"
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000025_000000|"What do you want?" I asked, with awkward diffidence.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000026_000000|"Say, 'What do you want, Master Reed?'" was the answer.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000027_000000|john Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000028_000000|john had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000029_000001|I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000034_000000|"Show the book."
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000035_000000|I returned to the window and fetched it thence.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000038_000001|"You are like a murderer-you are like a slave driver-you are like the Roman emperors!"
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000040_000000|"What! what!" he cried.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000040_000004|but first-"
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000041_000000|He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing.
train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000045_000000|"Take her away to the red room, and lock her in there." Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000004_000000|I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000007_000000|"Master!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000008_000000|"No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness."
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000010_000000|"If you don't sit still, you must be tied down," said Bessie.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000011_000000|Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000011_000001|This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000012_000000|"Don't take them off," I cried; "I will not stir."
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000016_000000|"But it was always in her," was the reply.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000018_000000|I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000018_000001|This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000018_000002|Miss Abbot joined in-
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000019_000001|They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them."
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000021_000000|"Besides," said Miss Abbot, "God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where would she go?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000021_000001|Come, Bessie, we will leave her: I wouldn't have her heart for anything.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000021_000002|Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourself; for if you don't repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away."
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000022_000000|They went, shutting the door, and locking it behind them.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000023_000000|The red room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000023_000003|Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000024_000000|This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchen; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000026_000001|I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000026_000002|Alas! yes: no jail was ever more secure.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000026_000004|I returned to my stool.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000001|Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000002|Why could I never please?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000004|Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000005|Her beauty, her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her, and to purchase indemnity for every fault.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000031_000000|What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000031_000002|Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000032_000003|I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-mrs
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000004|That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000005|Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000006|In such vault I had been told did mr Reed lie buried; and led by this thought to recall his idea, I dwelt on it with gathering dread.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000008|It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000002|I wiped my tears and hushed my sobs, fearful lest any sign of violent grief might waken a preternatural voice to comfort me, or elicit from the gloom some haloed face, bending over me with strange pity.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000003|This idea, consolatory in theory, I felt would be terrible if realised: with all my might I endeavoured to stifle it-I endeavoured to be firm.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000004|Shaking my hair from my eyes, I lifted my head and tried to look boldly round the dark room; at this moment a light gleamed on the wall.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000005|Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000035_000000|"Miss Eyre, are you ill?" said Bessie.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000037_000000|"Take me out!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000038_000000|"What for?
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000038_000002|Have you seen something?" again demanded Bessie.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000040_000001|"And what a scream!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000040_000002|If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks."
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000043_000000|"Let her go," was the only answer.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000043_000001|"Loose Bessie's hand, child: you cannot succeed in getting out by these means, be assured.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000043_000002|I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then."
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000044_000000|"O aunt! have pity!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000044_000001|Forgive me!
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000044_000003|I shall be killed if-"
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000045_000002|I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000046_000000|Bessie and Abbot having retreated, mrs Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.
train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000046_000001|I heard her sweeping away; and soon after she was gone, I suppose I had a species of fit: unconsciousness closed the scene.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000001_000001|THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000001|He had not felt very keenly over the matter of the sermons, and certainly the mere fact that peter could eat sour apples without making faces did not cast any reflection on the honour or ability of the other competitors.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000002|But to Felix everything suddenly became flat, stale, and unprofitable, because peter continued to hold the championship of bitter apples.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000003|It haunted his waking hours and obsessed his nights.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000005|If anything could have made him thin the way he worried over this matter would have done it.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000003_000000|For myself, I cared not a groat.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000003_000002|But I had no burning desire to eat sour apples without grimacing, and I did not sympathize over and above with my brother.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000003_000003|When, however, he took to praying about it, I realized how deeply he felt on the subject, and hoped he would be successful.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000004_000000|Felix prayed earnestly that he might be enabled to eat a bitter apple without making a face.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000004_000001|And when he had prayed three nights after this manner, he contrived to eat a bitter apple without a grimace until he came to the last bite, which proved too much for him.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000004_000002|But Felix was vastly encouraged.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000000|But this devoutly desired consummation did not come to pass.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000001|In spite of prayers and heroic attempts, Felix could never get beyond that last bite.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000002|Not even faith and works in combination could avail.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000003|For a time he could not understand this.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000004|But he thought the mystery was solved when Cecily came to him one day and told him that peter was praying against him.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000000|"He's praying that you'll never be able to eat a bitter apple without making a face," she said.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000001|"He told Felicity and Felicity told me.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000002|She said she thought it was real cute of him.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000003|I think that is a dreadful way to talk about praying and I told her so.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000008_000000|Felix was very indignant-and aggrieved as well.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000009_000000|"I don't see why God should answer Peter's prayers instead of mine," he said bitterly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000009_000002|It isn't fair."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000000|"Oh, Felix, don't talk like that," said Cecily, shocked.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000001|"God MUST be fair.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000002|I'll tell you what I believe is the reason.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000003|peter prays three times a day regular-in the morning and at dinner time and at night-and besides that, any time through the day when he happens to think of it, he just prays, standing up.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000011_000000|"Well, he's got to stop praying against me, anyhow," said Felix resolutely.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000012_000000|Felix marched over to Uncle Roger's, and we trailed after, scenting a scene.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000013_000000|"Look here, peter," said Felix ominously, "they tell me that you've been praying right along that I couldn't eat a bitter apple.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000013_000001|Now, I tell you-"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000014_000000|"I never did!" exclaimed peter indignantly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000014_000002|I never prayed that you couldn't eat a bitter apple.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000014_000003|I just prayed that I'd be the only one that could."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000015_000000|"Well, that's the same thing," cried Felix.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000015_000001|"You've just been praying for the opposite to me out of spite.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000015_000002|And you've got to stop it, peter Craig."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000016_000002|I s'pose you think a hired boy hasn't any business to pray for particular things, but I'll show you.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000019_000000|"All right.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000019_000001|I can fight as well as pray."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000020_000000|"Oh, don't fight," implored Cecily.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000020_000001|"I think it would be dreadful. Surely you can arrange it some other way.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000020_000002|Let's all give up the Ordeal, anyway.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000020_000003|There isn't much fun in it.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000021_000000|"I don't want to give up the Ordeal," said Felix, "and I won't."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000023_000001|"It's Felix.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000023_000002|If he don't interfere with my prayers there's no need of fighting.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000023_000003|But if he does there's no other way to settle it."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000025_000001|"That's fair enough.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000025_000002|If I'm licked I won't pray for that particular thing any more."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000026_000000|"It's dreadful to fight about anything so religious as praying," sighed poor Cecily.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000027_000000|"Why, they were always fighting about religion in old times," said Felix.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000027_000001|"The more religious anything was the more fighting there was about it."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000028_000000|"A fellow's got a right to pray as he pleases," said peter, "and if anybody tries to stop him he's bound to fight.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000028_000001|That's my way of looking at it."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000029_000000|"What would Miss Marwood say if she knew you were going to fight?" asked Felicity.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000032_000000|Felicity tried another tack.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000034_000000|After that, no moral force on earth could have prevented Felix from fighting.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000034_000001|He would have faced an army with banners.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000035_000000|"You might settle it by drawing lots," said Cecily desperately.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000037_000000|"What would Aunt Jane say if she knew you were going to fight?" Cecily demanded of peter.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000038_000000|"Don't you drag my Aunt Jane into this affair," said peter darkly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000039_000000|"You said you were going to be a Presbyterian," persisted Cecily.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000039_000001|"Good Presbyterians don't fight."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000040_000000|"Oh, don't they!
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000040_000001|I heard your Uncle Roger say that Presbyterians were the best for fighting in the world-or the worst, I forget which he said, but it means the same thing."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000042_000000|"I thought you said in your sermon, Master peter, that people shouldn't fight."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000043_000001|"This is different.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000043_000002|I know what I'm fighting for but I can't think of the word."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000044_000000|"I guess you mean principle," I suggested.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000045_000000|"Yes, that's it," agreed peter.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000045_000001|"It's all right to fight for principle. It's kind of praying with your fists."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000046_000000|"Oh, can't you do something to prevent them from fighting, Sara?" pleaded Cecily, turning to the Story Girl, who was sitting on a bin, swinging her shapely bare feet to and fro.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000047_000000|"It doesn't do to meddle in an affair of this kind between boys," said the Story Girl sagely.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000049_000000|It was ultimately arranged that the combat should take place in the fir wood behind Uncle Roger's granary.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000049_000001|It was a nice, remote, bosky place where no prowling grown up would be likely to intrude.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000050_000001|Do you think he will?"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000000|"I don't know," I confessed dubiously.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000001|"Felix is too fat.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000002|He'll get out of breath in no time.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000006|And this is Peter's first fight."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000052_000000|"Did you ever fight?" asked the Story Girl.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000053_000000|"Once," I said briefly, dreading the next question, which promptly came.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000054_000000|"Who beat?"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000056_000000|"The other fellow," I said with reluctant honesty.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000057_000000|"Well," said the Story Girl, "I think it doesn't matter whether you get whipped or not so long as you fight a good, square fight."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000058_000000|Her potent voice made me feel that I was quite a hero after all, and the sting went out of my recollection of that old fight.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000059_000001|Cecily was very pale, and Felix and peter were taking off their coats.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000060_000001|Cecily, keep quiet. Now, one-two-three!"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000061_000000|peter and Felix "pitched in," with more zeal than discretion on both sides.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000061_000001|As a result, peter got what later developed into a black eye, and Felix's nose began to bleed.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000061_000002|Cecily gave a shriek and ran out of the wood.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000063_000000|He was not angry.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000063_000002|But he took the combatants by their shirt collars and dragged them apart.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000064_000000|"This stops right here, boys," he said.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000064_000001|"You know I don't allow fighting."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000065_000000|"Oh, but Uncle Alec, it was this way," began Felix eagerly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000065_000001|"peter--"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000001|"I don't care what you were fighting about, but you must settle your quarrels in a different fashion.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000002|Remember my commands, Felix.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000003|peter, Roger is looking for you to wash his buggy.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000004|Be off."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000067_000001|He turned his back on Cecily.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000068_000000|Cecily "caught it" after Uncle Alec had gone.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000069_000001|"They've been such friends, and it was dreadful to see them fighting."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000070_000000|"Uncle Roger would have let them fight it out," said the Story Girl discontentedly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000070_000001|"Uncle Roger believes in boys fighting.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000070_000003|peter and Felix wouldn't have been any worse friends after it.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000072_000000|"I don't meddle with hired boys' prayers," she said haughtily.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000073_000001|"Just as much nonsense as praying about the bitter apples in the first place."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000077_000000|"There's something wrong somewhere," said Cecily perplexedly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000077_000001|"We ought to pray for what we want, of that I'm sure-and peter wanted to be the only one who could pass the Ordeal.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000077_000003|I wish I could understand it."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000078_000000|"Peter's prayer was wrong because it was a selfish prayer, I guess," said the Story Girl thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000078_000002|We mustn't pray selfish prayers."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000080_000000|"Yes, but," said Dan triumphantly, "if you believe God answers prayers about particular things, it was Peter's prayer He answered.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000080_000001|What do you make of that?"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000002|We only get more mixed up all the time.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000003|Let's leave it alone and I'll tell you a story.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000004|Aunt Olivia had a letter today from a friend in Nova Scotia, who lives in Shubenacadie.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000006|And I did.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000082_000000|Of course we did.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000082_000001|We all sat down at the roots of the firs.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000082_000003|He would not look at Cecily, but every one else had forgiven her.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000083_000000|The Story Girl leaned that brown head of hers against the fir trunk behind her, and looked up at the apple green sky through the dark boughs above us.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000083_000002|Her cheeks were still flushed with the excitement of the evening.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000084_000001|One of the young braves was named Accadee.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000084_000002|He was the tallest and bravest and handsomest young man in the tribe-"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000085_000001|"Why are there never no stories about ugly people?"
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000086_000000|"Perhaps ugly people never have stories happen to them," suggested Felicity.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000088_000001|I like them best that way.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000089_000000|"Pretty people are always conceited," said Felix, who was getting tired of holding his tongue.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000090_000001|"They're always so tall and slender.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000091_000000|"It doesn't matter what a man LOOKS like," I said, feeling that Felix and Dan were catching it rather too hotly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000091_000001|"He must be a good sort of chap and DO heaps of things.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000091_000002|That's all that's necessary."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000093_000001|Never an arrow of his that did not go straight to the mark.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000093_000004|Her eyes were dark and soft, her foot was as light as a breeze, and her voice sounded like a brook in the woods, or the wind that comes over the hills at night.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000003|She stole cautiously through the woods until she came to the brink of a little valley.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000004|Below her stood the snow white moose.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000005|She drew her arrow to her eye-alas, she knew the art only too well!--and took careful aim.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000006|The next moment Accadee fell dead with her arrow in his heart."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000000|The Story Girl paused-a dramatic pause.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000001|It was quite dark in the fir wood.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000002|We could see her face and eyes but dimly through the gloom.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000004|The stars twinkled through the softly waving boughs.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000097_000000|"What did Shuben do when she found out she had killed Accadee?" asked Felicity.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000102_000000|"No," said Dan reluctantly.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000102_000001|"I suppose there'd be some drawback to everything, even being an Injun."
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000103_000000|"Isn't it cold?" said Cecily, shivering again.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000103_000002|Felicity likes the winter, and so does the Story Girl, but I don't.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000105_000001|"The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts." They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch.
train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000105_000002|With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000003_000001|However, I ought rather to be thankful that I have so many years remained unmolested, than repine at my present embarrassment; since it proves, at least, that this wretched woman is at length awakened to remorse.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000004_000000|In regard to my answer, I must humbly request your Ladyship to write to this effect: "That I would not, upon any account, intentionally offend Madame Duval; but that I have weighty, nay unanswerable reasons for detaining her grand daughter at present in England; the principal of which is, that it was the earnest desire of one to whose will she owes implicit duty.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000004_000001|Madame Duval may be assured, that she meets with the utmost attention and tenderness; that her education, however short of my wishes, almost exceeds my abilities; and I flatter myself, when the time arrives that she shall pay her duty to her grand mother, Madame Duval will find no reason to be dissatisfied with what has been done for her."
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000000|Your Ladyship will not, I am sure, be surprised at this answer.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000001|Madame Duval is by no means a proper companion or guardian for a young woman: she is at once uneducated and unprincipled; ungentle in temper, and unamiable in her manners.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000002|I have long known that she has persuaded herself to harbour an aversion for me Unhappy woman!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000003|I can only regard her as an object of pity!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000007_000000|Your Ladyship may probably have heard, that I had the honour to accompany mr Evelyn, the grandfather of my young charge, when upon his travels, in the capacity of a tutor.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000007_000002|He survived this ill judged marriage but two years.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000007_000003|Upon his death bed, with an unsteady hand, he wrote me the following note:
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000008_000002|pity!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000008_000003|And relieve me!"
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000009_000000|Had my circumstances permitted me, I should have answered these words by an immediate journey to Paris; but I was obliged to act by the agency of a friend, who was upon the spot, and present at the opening of the will.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000010_000000|mr Evelyn left to me a legacy of a thousand pounds, and the sole guardianship of his daughter's person till her eighteenth year; conjuring me, in the most affecting terms, to take the charge of her education till she was able to act with propriety for herself; but, in regard to fortune, he left her wholly dependent on her mother, to whose tenderness he earnestly recommended her.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000012_000002|She loved me as her father; nor was mrs Villars less valued by her; while to me she became so dear, that her loss was little less afflicting than that which I have since sustained of mrs Villars herself.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000000|At that period of her life we parted; her mother, then married to Monsieur Duval, sent for her to Paris.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000001|How often have I since regretted that I did not accompany her thither!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000003|But, to be brief Madame Duval, at the instigation of her husband, earnestly, or rather tyrannically, endeavoured to effect a union between Miss Evelyn and one of his nephews.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000004|And, when she found her power inadequate to her attempt, enraged at her non compliance, she treated her with the grossest unkindness, and threatened her with poverty and ruin.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000014_000000|Miss Evelyn, to whom wrath and violence had hitherto been strangers, soon grew weary of such usage; and rashly, and without a witness, consented to a private marriage with Sir john Belmont, a very profligate young man, who had but too successfully found means to insinuate himself into her favour.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000014_000001|He promised to conduct her to England he did.-O, Madam, you know the rest!-Disappointed of the fortune he expected, by the inexorable rancour of the Duvals, he infamously burnt the certificate of their marriage, and denied that they had ever been united.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000015_000000|She flew to me for protection.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000015_000001|With what mixed transports of joy and anguish did I again see her!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000016_000000|Every body believed her innocent, from the guiltless tenor of her unspotted youth, and from the known libertinism of her barbarous betrayer.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000000|The rage of Madame Duval at her elopement, abated not while this injured victim of cruelty yet drew breath.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000001|She probably intended, in time, to have pardoned her; but time was not allowed.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000002|When she was informed of her death, I have been told, that the agonies of grief and remorse, with which she was seized, occasioned her a severe fit of illness.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000003|But, from the time of her recovery to the date of her letter to your Ladyship, I had never heard that she manifested any desire to be made acquainted with the circumstances which attended the death of Lady Belmont, and the birth of her helpless child.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000018_000000|That child, Madam, shall never, while life is lent me, know the loss she has sustained.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000019_000000|Thus it has happened, that the education of the father, daughter, and grand daughter, has devolved on me.
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000019_000001|What infinite misery have the two first caused me!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000019_000002|Should the fate of the dear survivor be equally adverse, how wretched will be the end of my cares the end of my days!
train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000020_000000|Even had Madame Duval merited the charge she claims, I fear my fortitude would have been unequal to such a parting; but being such as she is, not only my affection, but my humanity, recoils, at the barbarous idea of deserting the sacred trust reposed in me.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000003_000001|VILLARS TO LADY HOWARD Berry Hill, march twelfth.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000004_000001|In detaining my young charge thus long with myself in the country, I consulted not solely my own inclination.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000004_000003|The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation: it has been my study to guard her against their delusions, by preparing her to expect and to despise them.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000004_000006|I commit her to the protection of your Ladyship, and only hope she may be found worthy half the goodness I am satisfied she will meet with at your hospitable mansion.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000005_000000|Thus far, Madam, I cheerfully submit to your desire.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000005_000002|Permit me to ask, for what end, or for what purpose?
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000005_000003|A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000006_000000|Consider Madam, the peculiar cruelty of her situation.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000006_000002|And while he continues to persevere in disavowing his marriage with Miss Evelyn, she shall never, at the expense of her mother's honour, receive a part of her right as the donation of his bounty.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000008_000000|It seems, therefore, as if this deserted child, though legally heiress to two large fortunes, must owe all her rational expectations to adoption and friendship.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000008_000001|Yet her income will be such as may make her happy, if she is disposed to be so in private life; though it will by no means allow her to enjoy the luxury of a London fine lady.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000009_000000|Let Miss Mirvan, then, Madam, shine in all the splendour of high life; but suffer my child still to enjoy the pleasures of humble retirement, with a mind to which greater views are unknown.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000010_000000|I hope this reasoning will be honoured with your approbation; and I have yet another motive which has some weight with me: I would not willingly give offence to any human being; and surely Madame Duval might accuse me of injustice, if, while I refuse to let her grand daughter wait upon her, I consent that she should join a party of pleasure to London.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000011_000000|In sending her to Howard Grove, not one of these scruples arise; and therefore mrs Clinton, a most worthy woman, formerly her nurse, and now my housekeeper, shall attend her thither next week.
train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000013_000001|She must be very much altered since she was last at Howard Grove.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000003_000000|MR VILLARS TO LADY HOWARD Berry Hill, may second.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000004_000000|YOUR letter, Madam, has opened a source of anxiety, to which I look forward with dread, and which, to see closed, I scarcely dare expect.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000004_000001|I am unwilling to oppose my opinion to that of your Ladyship; nor, indeed, can I, but by arguments which I believe will rather rank me as a hermit ignorant of the world, and fit only for my cell, than as a proper guardian, in an age such as this, for an accomplished young woman.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000005_000001|On the fatal day that her gentle soul left its mansion, and not many hours ere she ceased to breathe, I solemnly plighted my faith, That her child if it lived, should know no father but myself, or her acknowledged husband.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000006_000000|You cannot, Madam, suppose that I found much difficulty in adhering to this promise, and forbearing to make any claim upon Sir john Belmont.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000006_000001|Could I feel an affection the most paternal for this poor sufferer, and not abominate her destroyer?
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000006_000002|Could I wish to deliver to him, who had so basely betrayed the mother, the helpless and innocent offspring, who, born in so much sorrow, seemed entitled to all the compassionate tenderness of pity?
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000008_000000|You wish to be acquainted with my intentions.-I must acknowledge they were such as I now perceive would not be honoured with your Ladyship's approbation; for though I have sometimes thought of presenting Evelina to her father, and demanding the justice which is her due, yet, at other times, I have both disdained and feared the application; disdained lest it should be refused; and feared, lest it should be accepted!
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000009_000001|And often would she say, "Should the poor babe have any feelings correspondent with its mother's, it will have no want while under your protection." Alas! she had no sooner quitted it herself, than she was plunged into a gulph of misery, that swallowed up her peace, reputation, and life.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000010_000000|During the childhood of Evelina, I suggested a thousand plans for the security of her birth right;-but I as many times rejected them.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000010_000003|My plan, therefore, was not merely to educate and to cherish her as my own, but to adopt her the heiress of my small fortune, and to bestow her upon some worthy man, with whom she might spend her days in tranquility, cheerfulness, and good humour, untainted by vice, folly, or ambition.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000011_000000|So much for the time past.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000011_000002|It now remains to speak of the time to come.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000000|And here, indeed, I am sensible of difficulties which I almost despair of surmounting according to my wishes.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000002|But why should I perplex your Ladyship with reasoning that can turn to so little account?
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000003|for, alas! what arguments, what persuasions, can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval?
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000004|Her character and the violence of her disposition, intimidate me from making the attempt: she is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for intreaty, and too weak for reason.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000013_000000|I will not, therefore, enter into a contest from which I have nothing to expect but altercation and impertinence.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000013_000001|As soon would I discuss the effect of sound with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the blind, as aim at illuminating with conviction a mind so warped by prejudice, so much the slave of unruly and illiberal passions.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000013_000003|I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence; and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprise, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child and least liable to wound her sensibility.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000014_000000|The law suit, therefore, I wholly and absolutely disapprove.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000015_000001|I am satisfied your Ladyship has not weighed this project.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000015_000002|There was a time, indeed, when to assert the innocence of Lady Belmont, and to blazon to the world the wrongs, not guilt, by which she suffered, I proposed, nay attempted, a similar plan: but then all assistance and encouragement was denied.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000015_000004|She was deaf to the voice of Nature, though she has hearkened to that of Ambition.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000016_000000|Never can I consent to have this dear and timid girl brought forward to the notice of the world by such a method; a method which will subject her to all the impertinence of curiosity, the sneers of conjecture, and the stings of ridicule.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000016_000001|And for what?-the attainment of wealth which she does not want, and the gratification of vanity which she does not feel.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000016_000002|A child to appear against a father!-no, Madam, old and infirm as I am, I would even yet sooner convey her myself to some remote part of the world, though I were sure of dying in the expedition.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000017_000001|But even this last consolation was withheld from her!
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000019_000001|I will not, therefore, talk of its impropriety, but endeavour to prove its inutility.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000020_000000|She cannot do better herself than to remain quiet and inactive in the affair: the long and mutual animosity between her and Sir john will make her interference merely productive of debates and ill will.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000020_000001|Neither would I have Evelina appear till summoned.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000021_000000|My opinion is, that he would pay more respect to a letter from your Ladyship upon this subject, than from any other person.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000021_000001|I, therefore, advise and hope, that you will yourself take the trouble of writing to him, in order to open the affair.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000022_000000|The views of the Branghtons, in suggesting this scheme, are obviously interested.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000022_000001|They hope, by securing to Evelina the fortune of her father, to induce Madame Duval to settle her own upon themselves.
train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000023_000000|I have but one thing more to add, from which, however, I can by no means recede: my word so solemnly given to Lady Belmont, that her child should never be owned but with her self, must be inviolably adhered to.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000003_000001|VILLARS TO EVELINA.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000003_000002|Berry Hill, september twenty eighth.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000004_000000|DEAD to the world, and equally insensible to its pleasures or its pains, I long since bad adieu to all joy, and defiance to all sorrow, but what should spring from my Evelina,-sole source, to me, of all earthly felicity.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000005_000000|Alas, my child!-that innocence, the first, best gift of Heaven, should, of all others, be the blindest to its own danger,-the most exposed to treachery,-and the least able to defend itself, in a world where it is little known, less valued, and perpetually deceived!
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000006_000000|Would to Heaven you were here!-then, by degrees, and with gentleness, I might enter upon a subject too delicate for distant discussion.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000007_000000|Hitherto I have forborne to speak with you upon the most important of all concerns, the state of your heart:-alas, I need no information!
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000007_000001|I have been silent, indeed, but I have not been blind.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000008_000000|Long, and with the deepest regret, have I perceived the ascendancy which Lord Orville has gained upon your mind.-You will start at the mention of his name,-you will tremble every word you read;-I grieve to give pain to my gentle Evelina, but I dare not any longer spare her.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000009_000000|Your first meeting with Lord Orville was decisive.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000010_000000|Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow paced, though sure footed, was unequal to the race of so eccentric and flighty a companion.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000010_000001|How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!-She saw Lord Orville at a ball,-and he was the most amiable of men!
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000010_000002|-She met him again at another,-and he had every virtue under Heaven!
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000012_000000|You flattered yourself that your partiality was the effect of esteem, founded upon a general love of merit, and a principle of justice; and your heart, which fell the sacrifice of your error, was totally gone ere you expected it was in danger.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000014_000000|But, now, since you have again met, and have become more intimate than ever, all my hope from silence and seeming ignorance is at an end.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000015_000001|Make a noble effort for the recovery of your peace, which now, with sorrow I see it, depends wholly upon the presence of Lord Orville.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000015_000002|This effort may indeed be painful; but trust to my experience, when I assure you it is requisite.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000016_000000|You must quit him!-his sight is baneful to your repose, his society is death to your future tranquillity!
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000016_000001|Believe me, my beloved child, my heart aches for your suffering, while it dictates its necessity.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000017_000001|Your health, you tell me, is much mended:-Can you then consent to leave Bristol?-not abruptly, that I do not desire, but in a few days from the time you receive this?
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000017_000002|I will write to mrs Selwyn, and tell her how much I wish your return; and mrs Clinton can take sufficient care of you.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000018_000000|I have meditated upon every possible expedient that might tend to your happiness, ere I fixed upon exacting from you a compliance which I am convinced will be most painful to you; but I can satisfy myself in none.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000018_000001|This will at least be safe; and as to success,-we must leave it to time.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000019_000000|I am very glad to hear of mr Macartney's welfare.
train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000020_000001|Heaven preserve and strengthen you!
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000000_000000|fifteen
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000004_000001|"I'm going there, too . . .
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000007_000000|Paul's voice quivered and his lip trembled.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000000|"No, indeed, I wouldn't . . . that's just the way I feel.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000002|Nobody else understands so well . . . not even grandma, although she's so good to me.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000003|Father understood pretty well, but still I couldn't talk much to him about mother, because it made him feel so bad.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000006|Grandmothers are better, next to mothers.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000000|"Father's not very easy to get acquainted with," Paul had said once.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000001|"I never got really acquainted with him until after my little mother died. But he's splendid when you do get to know him.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000006|She takes it right out as soon as she tucks me up because she says I mustn't be a coward. I'm NOT scared, but I'd RATHER have the light.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000008|I expect she spoiled me.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000013_000003|It's very exciting to have a birthday, isn't it?
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000013_000005|You'd never think it to look at me, would you?
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000015_000001|"How are your rock people coming on?
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000016_000002|He is really full of wickedness, I think."
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000018_000000|"No; but I think she suspects.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000020_000000|Paul shook his head gravely.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000021_000002|But you could see rock people of your own.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000021_000006|"Isn't it splendid to be that kind, teacher?"
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000024_000000|and both knew the way to that happy land.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000024_000002|The knowledge of that land's geography . . .
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000024_000005|It is better to possess it, living in a garret, than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000028_000001|They walked home together.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000032_000000|"Yes. . . .
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000032_000004|I feel one of my old 'thrills' at the mere thought."
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000035_000002|Life would be a sorry business without them.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000036_000000|"I shall try.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000040_000000|"Nonsense, dear, he deserved it.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000041_000000|"He may have deserved it, but that is not the point.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000041_000004|That is what humiliates me."
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000042_000002|There goes Gilbert Blythe on his wheel . . . home for his vacation too, I suppose.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000044_000000|"Do you think you will ever get to college?"
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000045_000001|"Marilla's eyes will never be much better than they are now, although we are so thankful to think that they will not get worse.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000049_000002|I think it is desecration to call that friendship.
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000050_000000|"Friendship IS very beautiful," smiled mrs Allan, "but some day . . ."
train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000051_000000|Then she paused abruptly.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000001_000000|The next morning brought the following very unexpected letter from Isabella:
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000002_000000|Bath, April
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000000|My dearest Catherine, I received your two kind letters with the greatest delight, and have a thousand apologies to make for not answering them sooner.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000001|I really am quite ashamed of my idleness; but in this horrid place one can find time for nothing.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000002|I have had my pen in my hand to begin a letter to you almost every day since you left Bath, but have always been prevented by some silly trifler or other.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000003|Pray write to me soon, and direct to my own home.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000004|Thank God, we leave this vile place tomorrow.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000005|Since you went away, I have had no pleasure in it-the dust is beyond anything; and everybody one cares for is gone.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000006|I believe if I could see you I should not mind the rest, for you are dearer to me than anybody can conceive.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000008|Your kind offices will set all right: he is the only man I ever did or could love, and I trust you will convince him of it. The spring fashions are partly down; and the hats the most frightful you can imagine.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000009|I hope you spend your time pleasantly, but am afraid you never think of me.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000010|I will not say all that I could of the family you are with, because I would not be ungenerous, or set you against those you esteem; but it is very difficult to know whom to trust, and young men never know their minds two days together.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000011|I rejoice to say that the young man whom, of all others, I particularly abhor, has left Bath.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000013|Afterwards he got worse, and became quite my shadow.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000014|Many girls might have been taken in, for never were such attentions; but I knew the fickle sex too well.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000015|He went away to his regiment two days ago, and I trust I shall never be plagued with him again.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000016|He is the greatest coxcomb I ever saw, and amazingly disagreeable.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000017|The last two days he was always by the side of Charlotte Davis: I pitied his taste, but took no notice of him.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000018|The last time we met was in Bath Street, and I turned directly into a shop that he might not speak to me; I would not even look at him.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000019|He went into the pump room afterwards; but I would not have followed him for all the world.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000020|Such a contrast between him and your brother!
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000022|I would write to him myself, but have mislaid his direction; and, as I hinted above, am afraid he took something in my conduct amiss.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000024|We happened to sit by the Mitchells, and they pretended to be quite surprised to see me out.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000025|I knew their spite: at one time they could not be civil to me, but now they are all friendship; but I am not such a fool as to be taken in by them.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000026|You know I have a pretty good spirit of my own.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000028|I wear nothing but purple now: I know I look hideous in it, but no matter-it is your dear brother's favourite colour.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000029|Lose no time, my dearest, sweetest Catherine, in writing to him and to me, Who ever am, etc
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000000|Such a strain of shallow artifice could not impose even upon Catherine. Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000001|She was ashamed of Isabella, and ashamed of having ever loved her.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000002|Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000003|"Write to james on her behalf!
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000004|No, james should never hear Isabella's name mentioned by her again."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000000|On Henry's arrival from Woodston, she made known to him and Eleanor their brother's safety, congratulating them with sincerity on it, and reading aloud the most material passages of her letter with strong indignation.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000001|When she had finished it-"So much for Isabella," she cried, "and for all our intimacy!
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000002|She must think me an idiot, or she could not have written so; but perhaps this has served to make her character better known to me than mine is to her.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000003|I see what she has been about.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000004|She is a vain coquette, and her tricks have not answered.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000005|I do not believe she had ever any regard either for james or for me, and I wish I had never known her."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000006_000000|"It will soon be as if you never had," said Henry.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000007_000000|"There is but one thing that I cannot understand.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000007_000001|I see that she has had designs on Captain Tilney, which have not succeeded; but I do not understand what Captain Tilney has been about all this time.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000007_000002|Why should he pay her such attentions as to make her quarrel with my brother, and then fly off himself?"
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000008_000000|"I have very little to say for Frederick's motives, such as I believe them to have been.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000008_000001|He has his vanities as well as Miss Thorpe, and the chief difference is, that, having a stronger head, they have not yet injured himself.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000008_000002|If the effect of his behaviour does not justify him with you, we had better not seek after the cause."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000009_000000|"Then you do not suppose he ever really cared about her?"
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000010_000000|"I am persuaded that he never did."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000011_000000|"And only made believe to do so for mischief's sake?"
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000012_000000|Henry bowed his assent.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000000|"Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000001|Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000002|As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000003|But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?"
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000014_000000|"But we must first suppose Isabella to have had a heart to lose-consequently to have been a very different creature; and, in that case, she would have met with very different treatment."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000015_000000|"It is very right that you should stand by your brother."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000016_000001|But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000017_000000|Catherine was complimented out of further bitterness.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000017_000001|Frederick could not be unpardonably guilty, while Henry made himself so agreeable.
train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000017_000002|She resolved on not answering Isabella's letter, and tried to think no more of it.
train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000010_000001|"You've got-"
train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000011_000000|"In my pocket!" I interrupted.
train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000015_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000016_000000|"Because I don't think he's guilty.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000005_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000006_000001|They were obviously of the chorus girl type, a fact which they seemed to lack the ambition to conceal.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000007_000002|You know Bob, don't you?"
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000008_000000|Philip for a moment was taken aback.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000009_000000|"Bob Millet," he repeated thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000010_000000|"Of course!
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000010_000001|Good old Bob!
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000014_000001|"Hilda and I are dying for a cocktail, mr Romilly."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000015_000001|They drank two cocktails and found themselves unfortunately devoid of cigarettes, a misfortune which it became his privilege to remedy.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000015_000003|Philip escaped after about an hour and made his way to where Elizabeth was reclining in her deck chair.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000017_000000|She smiled at him tolerantly.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000017_000001|An unopened book lay by her side.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000017_000002|She seemed to have been spending the last quarter of an hour in thought.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000018_000001|No, don't sit down," she went on.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000019_000000|He turned slowly away.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000019_000001|All his new found buoyancy of spirits had suddenly left him.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000019_000006|He was in the library, standing in front of those many sheets of typewritten messages, passing them all over, heedless of what their message might be, until he came to the last and most insignificant. Four lines, almost overlapped by another sheet-
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000020_000000|STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LONDON ART TEACHER
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000021_000000|SUICIDE FEARED
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000022_000001|Philip Romilly, a teacher of art in a London school, visited Detton Magna on Friday afternoon and apparently started for a walk along the canal bank, towards dusk.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000022_000002|Nothing has since been heard of him or his movements, and arrangements have been made to drag the canal at a certain point.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000023_000003|He saw the whole ghastly business, the police on the canal banks, watching the slow progress of the men with their drags bringing to the surface all the miserable refuse of the turgid waters, the dripping black mud, perhaps at last....
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000024_000000|He was back again on the deck, walking quite steadily yet seeing little. He made his way to the smoking room, asked almost indifferently for a brandy and soda, and drained it to the last drop.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000025_000000|"So I am missing," he remarked, almost in his ordinary tone.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000025_000002|Fancy reading of my own disappearance within a few days of its taking place, in the middle of the Atlantic!"
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000027_000004|Yes, the whole thing was reasonable."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000028_000000|"And they are going to drag the canal," Elizabeth said thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000029_000000|"A difficult business," he assured her.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000029_000003|I don't envy the men who have to handle the drags."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000030_000000|"You do not believe, then, that they will find anything-interesting?"
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000033_000000|"Don't!" she interrupted.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000033_000001|"You know what I mean.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000033_000005|What can they hope to find there in his place?"
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000034_000000|His evil moments for that afternoon were over.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000035_000000|"Not what they are looking for.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000035_000001|Have you brought the paper and pencil you spoke of?
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000036_000000|She drew a little nearer to him.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000038_000000|He shook his head.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000000|"Chance," she declared, "is a wonderful thing.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000001|Chance has pitchforked you here, absolutely to my side, I, the one woman who could understand what you mean, who could give your Mona life.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000002|Don't think I am vain," she went on.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000004|I simply know.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000005|Listen.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000008|Take this pencil and paper.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000009|Let us leave off dreaming for a little time and give ourselves up to technicalities.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000011|Bring your chair a little nearer-so.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000012|Now take down these notes."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000043_000000|They worked until the first gong for dinner rang.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000043_000001|She sat up in her chair with a happy little laugh.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000044_000000|"Isn't it wonderful!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000044_000001|"I never knew time to pass so quickly.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000044_000002|There isn't any pleasure in the world like this," she added, a little impulsively, "the pleasure of letting your thoughts run out to meet some one else's, some one who understands.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000046_000000|She shook her head.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000000|"I'd rather not," she admitted.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000001|"My brain is too full.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000004|Oh!
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000006|"Take off my rugs and help me up.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000007|No, we'll leave them there. Perhaps, after dinner, we might walk for a little time."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000048_000000|"But the whole thing is tingling in my brain," he protested.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000048_000001|"Couldn't we go into the library?
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000048_000002|We could find a corner by ourselves."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000049_000000|She turned and looked at him, standing up now, the wind blowing her skirts, her eyes glowing, her lips a little parted.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000051_000000|He looked away from her.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000052_000001|"We will talk, if you will."
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000053_000000|They neither of them moved.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000004|But," he added confidentially, dropping his voice and taking them both by the arm, "I have made a cocktail down in my stateroom-it's there in the shaker waiting for us, something I can't talk about.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000005|I've given Lawton one, and he's following me about like a dog.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000006|Come right this way, both of you.
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000008|Been to sleep, either of you?"
train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000055_000001|Elizabeth, as though by accident, had dropped her veil.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000004_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000005_000003|The great buildings of New York, at which he had been gazing for hours, were standing, heterogeneous but magnificent, clear cut against an azure sky.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000005_000009|His fellow passengers, in unfamiliar costumes, were standing about with their eyes glued upon the distant docks.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000007_000001|"Really, I can't tell any of you a thing more," she went on, turning back to them, "only this, and I am sure it ought to be interesting.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000007_000004|mr Romilly, please wait for me," she called after him.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000007_000005|"I want to point out some of the buildings to you."
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000010_000000|Philip was taken aback and for the moment remained speechless.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000011_000000|"We'd like to know your reason, mr Romilly, for paying us a visit," the young man continued, "in your own words.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000011_000002|What might your output be in England per week?
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000022_000002|They'd have come down the harbour and held us up.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000022_000003|Don't think about that for a moment.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000023_000000|"I will not," he promised.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000031_000000|"Ninth floor!" Philip gasped.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000032_000001|"Been several people here enquiring for you.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000032_000003|No mail yet."
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000033_000000|He handed the key to a small boy and waved Philip away.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000034_000000|"You just step this way, sir," he invited encouragingly.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000034_000001|"Those packages of yours will be all right.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000034_000002|You don't need to worry about them."
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000036_000001|"I'll see after them myself."
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000037_000008|He feed the linen coated porters and dismissed them as rapidly as possible.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000000|"Just seen Henshaw.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000008|Suggest you cable back the twenty thousand pounds lying our credit New York.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000009|Please reply.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000011|Potts."
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000039_000003|His cousin's great wealth was a fiction.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000039_000009|Then he replaced it, a little dazed.
train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000040_000000|He left the cable carefully open upon the dressing table, and, picking up the small leather case, left the room.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000000_000000|COMMON SIMPLE DYES.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000000|Allow a pound of logwood to each pound of goods that are to be dyed. Soak it over night in soft water, then boil it an hour, and strain the water in which it is boiled.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000001|For each pound of logwood, dissolve an ounce of blue vitriol in lukewarm water sufficient to wet the goods.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000002|Dip the goods in-when saturated with it, turn the whole into the logwood dye.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000003|If the goods are cotton, set the vessel on the fire, and let the goods boil ten or fifteen minutes, stirring them constantly to prevent their spotting.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000004|Silk and woollen goods should not be boiled in the dye stuff, but it should be kept at a scalding heat for twenty minutes. Drain the goods without wringing, and hang them in a dry, shady place, where they will have the air.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000006|Let the goods remain in it till cold; then hang them where they will dry; (they should not be wrung.) Boiling hot suds is the best thing to set the color of black silk-let it remain in it till cold.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000007|Soaking black dyed goods in sour milk, is also good to set the color.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000000|For green dye, take a pound of oil of vitriol, and turn it upon half an ounce of Spanish indigo, that has been reduced to a fine powder.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000002|Chemic blue is made in the same manner, only using half the quantity of vitriol.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000003|For woollen goods, the East indigo will answer as well as the Spanish, and comes much lower.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000004|This dye will not answer for cotton goods, as the vitriol rots the threads.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000008|They should be dyed when the weather is dry-if not dried quick, they will not look nice.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000009|When perfectly dry, wash them in lukewarm suds, to keep the vitriol from injuring the texture of the cloth.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000010|If you wish for a lively bright green, mix a little of the above composition with yellow dye.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000001|When dissolved, take it from the fire; when cool, put in the goods, which should previously be washed free from spots, and color; set them on a moderate fire, where they will keep hot, till the goods are of the shade you wish.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000004|This dye will make a salmon or orange color, according to the strength of it, and the time the goods remain in.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000006|Goods dyed in this manner should never be rinsed in clear water.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000007|Peach leaves, fustic, and saffron, all make a good straw or lemon color, according to the strength of the dye.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000009|When the dye stuff is strained, steep the articles in it.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000000|Madder makes a good durable red, but not a brilliant color.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000001|To make a dye of it, allow for half a pound of it three ounces of alum, and one of cream of tartar, and six gallons of water.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000002|This proportion of ingredients will make sufficient dye for six or seven pounds of goods. Heat half of the water scalding hot, in a clean brass kettle, then put in the alum and cream of tartar, and let it dissolve.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000003|When the water boils, stir the alum and tartar up in it, put in the goods, and let them boil a couple of hours; then rinse them in fair water-empty the kettle, and put in three gallons of water, and the madder; rub it fine in the water, then put in the goods, and set them where they will keep scalding hot for an hour, without boiling-stir them constantly.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000004|When they have been scalding an hour, increase the fire till they boil.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000005|Let them boil five minutes; then drain them out of the dye, and rinse them, without wringing, in fair water, and hang them in the shade, where they will dry.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000008|Set the kettle on the fire, and let the water boil fifteen or twenty minutes; then put in sufficient cold water to make it lukewarm, put in the goods, and boil them an hour and a quarter-take them out without wringing, and dry them in a shady place.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000009|The blossoms of the Balm of Gilead, steeped with fair water in a vessel, then strained, will dye silk a pretty red color.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000010|The silk should be washed clean, and free from color, then rinsed in fair water, and boiled in the strained dye, with a small piece of alum.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000011|To dye a fine delicate pink, use a carmine saucer-the directions for dyeing come with the saucers.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000012|It is too expensive a dye for bulky goods, but for faded fancy shawls and ribbons, it is quite worth the while to use it, as it gives a beautiful shade of pink.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000000|To make a good dark slate color, boil sugar loaf paper with vinegar, in an iron utensil-put in alum to set the color.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000001|Tea grounds, set with copperas, makes a good slate color.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000002|To produce a light slate color, boil white maple bark in clear water, with a little alum-the bark should be boiled in a brass utensil.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000003|The dye for slate color should be strained before the goods are put into it.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000004|They should be boiled in it, and then hung where they will drain and dry.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000012_000001|Turn it into a barrel, and fill it up with water.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000000|Heat twenty six pounds of strained grease.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000002|Let the whole stand in the sun, stirring it frequently.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000003|In the course of a week, fill the barrel with weak lye.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000004|This method of making soap is much easier than to make a lye of your ashes, while it is as cheap, if you sell your ashes to the soap boiler.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000001|Heat twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved potash, and boil them together till the whole becomes a thick jelly, which is ascertained by taking a little of it out to get cold.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000002|Take it from the fire, stir in cold water till it grows thin, then put to each pailful of soap a pint of blown salt-stir it in well.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000003|The succeeding day, separate it from the lye, and heat it over a slow fire.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000004|Let it boil a quarter of an hour, then take it from the fire.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000005|If you wish to have it a yellow color, put in a little palm oil, and turn it out into wooden vessels. When cold, separate it again from the lye, and cut, it in bars-let them remain in the sun several days to dry.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000000|To make the celebrated Windsor soap, nothing more is necessary than to slice the best white soap as thin as possible, and melt it over a slow fire.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000001|Take it from the fire when melted, and when it is just lukewarm, add enough of the oil of caraway to scent it.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000003|Turn it into moulds, and let it remain in a dry situation for five or six days.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000004|To make Castile soap, boil common soft soap in lamp oil three hours and a half.
train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000020_000002|This kind of soap is excellent for shaving, and chapped hands-it is also good for eruptions on the face.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000003_000000|RELIEF MEASURES INAUGURATED IN CALIFORNIA-DISTURBED CONDITIONS BECAUSE OF MEXICAN WAR-GENEROUS SUBSCRIPTIONS-THREE PARTIES ORGANIZE-"FIRST RELIEF," UNDER RACINE TUCKER; "SECOND RELIEF" UNDER REED AND GREENWOOD; AND RELAY CAMP UNDER WOODWORTH-FIRST RELIEF PARTY CROSSES SNOW BELT AND REACHES DONNER LAKE.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000004_000001|While the early sunlight of january nineteenth was flooding his room with cheer and warmth, he dictated a letter to mr john Sinclair, Alcalde of the Upper District of California, living near Sutter's Fort, in which he stated as briefly as possible the conditions and perils surrounding the snow bound travellers, and begged him to use every means in his power toward their immediate rescue.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000005_000000|Bear River was running high, and the plain between it and Sutter's Fort seemed a vast quagmire, but john Rhodes volunteered to deliver the letter.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000005_000001|He was ferried over the river on a raft formed of two logs lashed together with strips of rawhide.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000006_000000|It was dark when he reached Sutter's Fort, nevertheless from house to house he spread the startling report: "Men, women, and little children are snow bound in the Sierras, and starving to death!"
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000007_000000|Captain Kerns in charge at the Fort, pledged his aid, and influence to the cause of relief.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000008_000000|While Captain Kerns at Sutter's Fort was sending messengers to different points, and mrs Sinclair was collecting clothing to replace the tattered garments of the members of the Forlorn Hope, her husband despatched an open letter to the people of San Francisco, describing the arrival of the survivors of the Forlorn Hope, and the heart rending condition of those remaining in the mountains.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000008_000002|Reed and McCutchen, who were known to be endeavoring to raise a second expedition.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000000|The letter was taken to the City Hotel in San Francisco, and read aloud in the dining room.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000001|Its contents aroused all the tender emotions known to human nature.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000002|Some of the listeners had parted from members of the Donner Party at the Little Sandy, when its prospects appeared so bright, and the misfortunes which had since befallen the party seemed incredible.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000003|Women left the room sobbing, and men called those passing, in from the street, to join the knots of earnest talkers.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000004|All were ready and willing to do; but, alas, the obstacles which had prevented mr Reed getting men for the mountain work still remained to be overcome.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000012_000000|Existing war between Mexico and the United States was keeping California in a disturbed condition.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000012_000001|Most of the able bodied male emigrants had enlisted under Captain Fremont as soon as they reached the country, and were still on duty in the southern part of the province; and the non enlisted were deemed necessary for the protection of the colonies of American women and children encamped on the soil of the enemy.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000012_000002|Moreover, all felt that each man who should attempt to cross the snow belt would do so at the peril of his life.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000013_000001|Captain Mervine of the United States Navy, and mr Richardson, United States Collector, each subscribed fifty dollars to the cause on his own account.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000014_000000|As a result of these appeals, Alcalde Bartlett called a public meeting; and so intense was the feeling that mr Dunleary, "the first speaker, had scarcely taken his seat on the platform when the people rushed to the chairman's table from all parts of the house with their hands full of silver dollars," and could hardly be induced to stay their generosity until the meeting was organized.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000015_000000|A treasurer and two committees were appointed; the one to solicit subscriptions, and the other to purchase supplies.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000015_000001|The Alcalde was requested to act with both committees.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000015_000002|Seven hundred dollars was subscribed before the meeting adjourned.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000017_000000|It was decided to fit out an expedition, under charge of Past Midshipman Woodworth, who had tendered his services for the purpose, he to act under instructions of the Military Governor and cooeperate with the committee aiding Reed.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000018_000000|Soon thereafter "Old Trapper Greenwood" appeared in San Francisco, asking for assistance in fitting out a following to go to the mountains with himself and McCutchen, mr George Yount and others in and around Sonoma and Napa having recommended him as leader.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000018_000001|Donations of horses, mules, beef, and flour had already been sent to his camp in Napa Valley.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000000|Greenwood urged that he should have ten or twelve men on whom he could rely after reaching deep snow.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000001|These, he said, he could secure if he had the ready money to make advances and to procure the necessary warm clothing and blankets.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000002|He had crossed the Sierras before, when the snow lay deep on the summit, and now proposed to drive over horses and kill them at the camps as provisions for the sufferers.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000003|If this scheme should fail, he and his sons with others would get food to the camp on snowshoes.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000004|Thornton says:
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000020_000000|The Governor General of California, after due form, and trusting to the generosity and humanity of the Government which he represented, appropriated four hundred dollars on Government account toward outfitting this relief party.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000022_000000|Meanwhile, before Alcalde Sinclair's letter had time to reach San Francisco, he and Captain Sutter began outfitting the men destined to become the "First Relief." Aguilla Glover and r s
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000001|Tucker, Johnson, Richey and others, who, being anxious to assist in the good work, had killed, and were fire drying, beef to take up the mountains.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000002|Here two days were spent making pack saddles, driving in horses, and getting supplies in shape.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000003|Indians were kept at the handmill grinding wheat.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000004|Part of the flour was sacked, and part converted into bread by the women in the vicinity.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000024_000001|When ready to mount, he shook hands with each man, and recorded the names in a note book as follows:
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000025_000000|Racine Tucker, Aguilla Glover, r s
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000026_000000|This party is generally known as the "First Relief." Their route to the snow belt lay through sections of country which had become so soft and oozy that the horses often sank in mire, flank deep; and the streams were so swollen that progress was alarmingly slow.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000026_000001|On the second day they were driven into camp early by heavy rains which drenched clothing, blankets, and even the provisions carefully stored under the saddles and leather saddle covers.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000026_000002|This caused a delay of thirty six hours, for everything had to be sun or fire dried before the party could resume travel.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000027_000000|Upon reaching Mule Springs, the party found the snow from three to four feet deep, and, contrary to expectations, saw that it would be impossible to proceed farther with the horses.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000027_000001|mr Eddy was now ill of fever, and unfit to continue the climb; whereupon his companions promised to bring out his loved ones if he would return with Joe Varro, whom mr Johnson had sent along to bring the pack animals home after they should cease to be of use.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000028_000000|At Mule Springs, the party built a brush store house for the extra supplies and appointed George Tucker and William Coon camp keepers. Then they prepared packs containing jerked beef, flour, and bread, each weighing between forty and seventy five pounds, according to the temperament and strength of the respective carriers.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000028_000001|The following morning ten men started on their toilsome march to Bear Valley, where they arrived on the thirteenth, and at once began searching for the abandoned wagon and provisions which Reed and McCutchen had cached the previous Autumn, after their fruitless attempt to scale the mountains. The wagon was found under snow ten feet in depth; but its supplies had been destroyed by wild beasts.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000029_000001|mr Tucker, fearing that others might become disheartened and do likewise, guaranteed each man who would persevere to the end, five dollars per diem, dating from the time the party entered the snow.
train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000029_000002|The remaining seven pushed ahead, and on the eighteenth, encamped on the summit overlooking the lake, where the snow was said to be forty feet in depth.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000002_000000|THE NORKA
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000001|They had three sons, two of them with their wits about them, but the third a simpleton.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000002|Now the King had a deer park in which were quantities of wild animals of different kinds.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000003|Into that park there used to come a huge beast-Norka was its name-and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000004|The King did all he could, but he was unable to destroy it. So at last he called his sons together and said, 'Whoever will destroy the Norka, to him will I give the half of my kingdom.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000000|Well, the eldest son undertook the task.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000001|As soon as it was night, he took his weapons and set out.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000002|But before he reached the park, he went into a traktir (or tavern), and there he spent the whole night in revelry.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000003|When he came to his senses it was too late; the day had already dawned.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000004|He felt himself disgraced in the eyes of his father, but there was no help for it.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000005|The next day the second son went, and did just the same.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000006|Their father scolded them both soundly, and there was an end of it.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000005_000000|Well, on the third day the youngest son undertook the task.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000005_000001|They all laughed him to scorn, because he was so stupid, feeling sure he wouldn't do anything.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000000|Presently the midnight hour sounded.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000001|The earth began to shake, and the Norka came rushing up, and burst right through the fence into the park, so huge was it.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000002|The Prince pulled himself together, leapt to his feet, crossed himself, and went straight at the beast.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000003|It fled back, and the Prince ran after it.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000004|But he soon saw that he couldn't catch it on foot, so he hastened to the stable, laid his hands on the best horse there, and set off in pursuit.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000005|Presently he came up with the beast, and they began a fight.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000006|They fought and fought; the Prince gave the beast three wounds.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000007|At last they were both utterly exhausted, so they lay down to take a short rest.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000008|But the moment the Prince closed his eyes, up jumped the beast and took to flight.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000010|Again the Prince gave the beast three wounds, and then he and the beast lay down again to rest.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000011|Thereupon away fled the beast as before.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000012|The Prince caught it up, and again gave it three wounds.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000013|But all of a sudden, just as the Prince began chasing it for the fourth time, the beast fled to a great white stone, tilted it up, and escaped into the other world, crying out to the Prince: 'Then only will you overcome me, when you enter here.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000000|The Prince went home, told his father all that had happened, and asked him to have a leather rope plaited, long enough to reach to the other world.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000001|His father ordered this to be done.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000002|When the rope was made, the Prince called for his brothers, and he and they, having taken servants with them, and everything that was needed for a whole year, set out for the place where the beast had disappeared under the stone.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000003|When they got there, they built a palace on the spot, and lived in it for some time. But when everything was ready, the youngest brother said to the others: 'Now, brothers, who is going to lift this stone?'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000008_000000|Neither of them could so much as stir it, but as soon as he touched it, away it flew to a distance, though it was ever so big-big as a hill. And when he had flung the stone aside, he spoke a second time to his brothers, saying:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000009_000000|'Who is going into the other world, to overcome the Norka?'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000010_000000|Neither of them offered to do so.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000010_000001|Then he laughed at them for being such cowards, and said:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000011_000000|'Well, brothers, farewell!
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000012_000000|His brothers lowered him accordingly, and when he had reached the other world, underneath the earth, he went on his way.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000013_000000|'Hail, Prince Ivan!
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000013_000001|Long have I awaited thee!'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000001|He entered the courtyard, tied up his horse, and went indoors.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000002|In one of the rooms a dinner was laid out. He sat down and dined, and then went into a bedroom.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000003|There he found a bed, on which he lay down to rest.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000004|Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a fairy tale, who said:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000015_000000|'Thou who art in my house, name thyself!
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000015_000001|If thou art an old man, thou shalt be my father; if a middle aged man, my brother; but if a young man, thou shalt be my husband dear.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000016_000000|Thereupon he came forth.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000016_000001|And when she saw him she was delighted with him, and said:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000018_000000|Then he told her all that had happened, and she said:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000019_000000|'That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000019_000001|He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000019_000002|I bound up three of the wounds which thou didst give him.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000020_000000|Well, after this they drank, and enjoyed themselves, and held sweet converse together, and then the Prince took leave of her, and went on to the second sister, the one who lived in the silver palace, and with her also he stayed awhile.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000020_000002|So he went on to the youngest sister, who lived in a golden palace.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000021_000000|And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked-there slept the Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven miles around.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000021_000001|The Prince crossed himself, went up to it, and smote it on the head with his sword.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000021_000002|The head jumped off, saying the while, 'Well, I'm done for now!' and rolled far away into the sea.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000000|After killing the beast, the Prince went back again, picking up all the three sisters by the way, with the intention of taking them out into the upper world: for they all loved him and would not be separated from him.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000001|Each of them turned her palace into an egg-for they were all enchantresses-and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000002|And then they all went to the place from which they had to be hoisted into the upper world.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000003|And when they came to where the rope was, the Prince took hold of it and made the maidens fast to it.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000005|And when they had hauled it up, and had set eyes on the wondrous maidens, they went aside and said: 'Let's lower the rope, pull our brother part of the way up, and then cut the rope.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000006|Perhaps he'll be killed; but then if he isn't, he'll never give us these beauties as wives.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000000|So when they had agreed on this, they lowered the rope.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000001|But their brother was no fool; he guessed what they were at, so he fastened the rope to a stone, and then gave it a pull.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000002|His brothers hoisted the stone to a great height, and then cut the rope.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000004|Well, he walked and walked.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000006|He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000007|So he took off his coat and covered them over with it, and he himself sat down under the tree.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000008|Presently there came flying a bird-such a big one that the light was blotted out by it.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000009|It had been dark there before, but now it became darker still.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000011|Thanks!
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000012|In return, ask of me anything thou desirest.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000013|I will do anything for thee.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000024_000000|'Then carry me into the other world,' he replied.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000025_000000|'Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,' she said; 'catch all sorts of game, and put them into one half of it, and into the other half pour water; so that there may be meat and drink for me.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000000|All this the Prince did.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000001|Then the bird-having taken the vessel on her back, with the Prince sitting in the middle of it-began to fly.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000002|And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey's end, took leave of him, and flew away back.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000003|But he went to the house of a certain tailor, and engaged himself as his servant.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000004|So much the worse for wear was he, so thoroughly had he altered in appearance, that nobody would have suspected him of being a Prince.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000027_000000|Having entered into the service of this master, the Prince began to ask what was going on in that country.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000027_000001|And his master replied: 'Our two Princes-for the third one has disappeared-have brought away brides from the other world, and want to marry them, but those brides refuse. For they insist on having all their wedding clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000029_000000|'However can I undertake to make clothes of that sort?
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000029_000001|I work for quite common folks,' says his master.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000030_000000|'Go along, master!
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000030_000001|I will answer for everything,' says the Prince.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000031_000000|So the tailor went.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000031_000002|And the Prince said to him:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000000|Midnight sounded.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000001|The Prince arose, went out of the city into the fields, took out of his pocket the eggs which the maidens had given him, and, as they had taught him, turned them into three palaces.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000002|Into each of these he entered, took the maidens' robes, went out again, turned the palaces back into eggs, and went home.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000003|And when he got there he hung up the robes on the wall, and lay down to sleep.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000034_000002|He was delighted, and he seized them and carried them off to the King.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000034_000003|When the Princesses saw that the clothes were those which had been theirs in the other world, they guessed that Prince Ivan was in this world, so they exchanged glances with each other, but they held their peace.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000034_000004|And the master, having handed over the clothes, went home, but he no longer found his dear journeyman there.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000035_000000|By the time the princely workman had gone the round of all the artificers, the Princesses had received what they had asked for; all their clothes were just like what they had been in the other world. Then they wept bitterly because the Prince had not come, and it was impossible for them to hold out any longer; it was necessary that they should be married.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000035_000001|But when they were ready for the wedding, the youngest bride said to the King:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000036_000000|'Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000037_000002|So she seized him by the hand, and brought him into the hall, and said to the King:
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000038_000000|'Here is he who brought us out of the other world.
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000038_000001|His brothers forbade us to say that he was alive, threatening to slay us if we did.'
train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000039_000000|Then the King was wroth with those sons, and punished them as he thought best.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000000_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000000_000001|Narcissus Off Duty
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000003_000000|"no
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000003_000001|Somebody flunked out?
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000003_000002|Or another ship sunk?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000004_000000|"Worse than that.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000004_000001|About one third of the junior class are going to resign from their clubs."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000005_000000|"What!"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000006_000000|"Actual fact!"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000007_000000|"Why!"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000009_000000|"Well, what's the idea of the thing?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000010_000000|"Oh, clubs injurious to Princeton democracy; cost a lot; draw social lines, take time; the regular line you get sometimes from disappointed sophomores.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000010_000001|Woodrow thought they should be abolished and all that."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000011_000000|"But this is the real thing?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000012_000000|"Absolutely.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000012_000001|I think it'll go through."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000013_000000|"For Pete's sake, tell me more about it."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000014_000001|I was talking to Burne awhile ago, and he claims that it's a logical result if an intelligent person thinks long enough about the social system.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000014_000002|They had a 'discussion crowd' and the point of abolishing the clubs was brought up by some one-everybody there leaped at it-it had been in each one's mind, more or less, and it just needed a spark to bring it out."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000015_000000|"Fine!
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000016_000000|"Wild, of course.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000016_000002|It's the same at all the clubs; I've been the rounds.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000016_000003|They get one of the radicals in the corner and fire questions at him."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000017_000000|"How do the radicals stand up?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000000|"Oh, moderately well.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000001|Burne's a damn good talker, and so obviously sincere that you can't get anywhere with him.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000002|It's so evident that resigning from his club means so much more to him than preventing it does to us that I felt futile when I argued; finally took a position that was brilliantly neutral.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000003|In fact, I believe Burne thought for a while that he'd converted me."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000021_000000|"Lord-who'd have thought it possible!"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000022_000001|"Hello, Amory-hello, Tom."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000025_000000|Burne turned to him quickly.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000026_000000|"You probably know what I want to talk to Tom about, and it isn't a bit private.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000027_000001|Broad browed and strong chinned, with a fineness in the honest gray eyes that were like Kerry's, Burne was a man who gave an immediate impression of bigness and security-stubborn, that was evident, but his stubbornness wore no stolidity, and when he had talked for five minutes Amory knew that this keen enthusiasm had in it no quality of dilettantism.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000028_000000|The intense power Amory felt later in Burne Holiday differed from the admiration he had had for Humbird.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000028_000003|But that night Amory was struck by Burne's intense earnestness, a quality he was accustomed to associate only with the dread stupidity, and by the great enthusiasm that struck dead chords in his heart.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000030_000000|Then Amory branched off and found that Burne was deep in other things as well.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000031_000000|"How about religion?" Amory asked him.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000032_000001|I'm in a muddle about a lot of things-I've just discovered that I've a mind, and I'm starting to read."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000034_000000|"Everything.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000034_000001|I have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things to make me think.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000034_000002|I'm reading the four gospels now, and the 'Varieties of Religious Experience.'"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000035_000000|"What chiefly started you?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000036_000000|"Wells, I guess, and Tolstoi, and a man named Edward Carpenter.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000037_000000|"Poetry?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000039_000000|"Whitman?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000040_000000|"Yes; he's a definite ethical force."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000042_000000|Tom nodded sheepishly.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000043_000000|"Well," continued Burne, "you may strike a few poems that are tiresome, but I mean the mass of his work.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000043_000002|They both look things in the face, and, somehow, different as they are, stand for somewhat the same things."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000044_000000|"You have me stumped, Burne," Amory admitted.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000044_000001|"I've read 'Anna Karenina' and the 'Kreutzer Sonata' of course, but Tolstoi is mostly in the original Russian as far as I'm concerned."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000046_000001|Burne Holiday was so evidently developing-and Amory had considered that he was doing the same.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000047_000001|Being Burne was suddenly so much realler than being clever. Yet he sighed... here were other possible clay feet.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000049_000001|In the course of the altercation the dean remarked that he "might as well buy the taxicab." He paid and walked off, but next morning he entered his private office to find the taxicab itself in the space usually occupied by his desk, bearing a sign which read "Property of Dean Hollister. Bought and Paid for."...
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000049_000002|It took two expert mechanics half a day to dissemble it into its minutest parts and remove it, which only goes to prove the rare energy of sophomore humor under efficient leadership.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000050_000001|A certain Phyllis Styles, an intercollegiate prom trotter, had failed to get her yearly invitation to the Harvard Princeton game.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000053_000000|"If you ask me," cried Phyllis quickly.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000054_000000|"Of course I do," said Burne feebly.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000054_000003|Aside from loathing Phyllis, he had particularly wanted to stag that game and entertain some Harvard friends.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000055_000001|"This will be the last game she ever persuades any young innocent to take her to!"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000059_000000|But Burne only shook his head and muttered threats which consisted largely of the phrase: "She'll see, she'll see!"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000000|The blithesome Phyllis bore her twenty five summers gayly from the train, but on the platform a ghastly sight met her eyes.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000001|There were Burne and Fred Sloane arrayed to the last dot like the lurid figures on college posters.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000002|They had bought flaring suits with huge peg top trousers and gigantic padded shoulders.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000004|On a clanking chain they led a large, angry tom cat, painted to represent a tiger.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000061_000000|A good half of the station crowd was already staring at them, torn between horrified pity and riotous mirth, and as Phyllis, with her svelte jaw dropping, approached, the pair bent over and emitted a college cheer in loud, far carrying voices, thoughtfully adding the name "Phyllis" to the end.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000062_000001|She tried to walk a little ahead, she tried to walk a little behind-but they stayed close, that there should be no doubt whom she was with, talking in loud voices of their friends on the football team, until she could almost hear her acquaintances whispering:
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000064_000000|That had been Burne, dynamically humorous, fundamentally serious.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000065_000001|About a hundred juniors and seniors resigned from their clubs in a final fury of righteousness, and the clubs in helplessness turned upon Burne their finest weapon: ridicule.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000067_000000|"Of course I don't.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000067_000001|What's prestige, at best?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000070_000001|I suppose I have it coming."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000072_000000|"Of course health counts-a healthy man has twice the chance of being good," he said.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000073_000000|"I don't agree with you-I don't believe in 'muscular Christianity.'"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000074_000000|"I do-I believe Christ had great physical vigor."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000075_000000|"Oh, no," Amory protested.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000075_000001|"He worked too hard for that.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000075_000002|I imagine that when he died he was a broken down man-and the great saints haven't been strong."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000077_000000|"Well, even granting that, I don't think health has anything to do with goodness; of course, it's valuable to a great saint to be able to stand enormous strains, but this fad of popular preachers rising on their toes in simulated virility, bellowing that calisthenics will save the world-no, Burne, I can't go that."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000078_000000|"Well, let's waive it-we won't get anywhere, and besides I haven't quite made up my mind about it myself.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000080_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000081_000000|"That's what Tom and I figured," Amory agreed.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000083_000000|"People unconsciously admit it," said Amory.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000083_000002|If a blond girl doesn't talk we call her a 'doll'; if a light haired man is silent he's considered stupid.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000085_000000|"I'm not so sure." Amory was all for classical features.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000086_000000|"Oh, yes-I'll show you," and Burne pulled out of his desk a photographic collection of heavily bearded, shaggy celebrities-Tolstoi, Whitman, Carpenter, and others.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000087_000000|"Aren't they wonderful?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000088_000000|Amory tried politely to appreciate them, and gave up laughingly.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000091_000000|Amory shook his head.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000092_000000|"No! Call them remarkable looking or anything you want-but ugly they certainly are."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000093_000000|Unabashed, Burne ran his hand lovingly across the spacious foreheads, and piling up the pictures put them back in his desk.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000095_000000|"I hate the dark," Amory objected.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000095_000001|"I didn't use to-except when I was particularly imaginative, but now, I really do-I'm a regular fool about it."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000097_000000|"Quite possibly."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000098_000000|"We'll go east," Burne suggested, "and down that string of roads through the woods."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000099_000000|"Doesn't sound very appealing to me," admitted Amory reluctantly, "but let's go."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000101_000001|"And this very walking at night is one of the things I was afraid about.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000101_000002|I'm going to tell you why I can walk anywhere now and not be afraid."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000102_000000|"Go on," Amory urged eagerly.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000103_000000|"I used to come out here alone at night, oh, three months ago, and I always stopped at that cross road we just passed.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000103_000002|Of course, I peopled the woods with everything ghastly, just like you do; don't you?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000105_000001|That made it all right-as it always makes everything all right to project yourself completely into another's place.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000105_000003|Then I thought of my watch.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000105_000005|No; I decided, it's better on the whole that I should lose a watch than that I should turn back-and I did go into them-not only followed the road through them, but walked into them until I wasn't frightened any more-did it until one night I sat down and dozed off in there; then I knew I was through being afraid of the dark."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000106_000000|"Lordy," Amory breathed.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000106_000002|I'd have come out half-way, and the first time an automobile passed and made the dark thicker when its lamps disappeared, I'd have come in."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000107_000000|"Well," Burne said suddenly, after a few moments' silence, "we're half-way through, let's turn back."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000108_000000|On the return he launched into a discussion of will.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000109_000002|I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000110_000000|"How about great criminals?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000111_000001|If not, they're weak.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000112_000000|"Burne, I disagree with you altogether; how about the superman?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000113_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000114_000000|"He's evil, I think, yet he's strong and sane."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000115_000000|"I've never met him.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000116_000000|"I've met him over and over and he's neither.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000117_000000|"I'm sure I'm not-and so I don't believe in imprisonment except for the insane."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000118_000000|On this point Amory could not agree.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000118_000001|It seemed to him that life and history were rife with the strong criminal, keen, but often self deluding; in politics and business one found him and among the old statesmen and kings and generals; but Burne never agreed and their courses began to split on that point.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000119_000000|Burne was drawing farther and farther away from the world about him.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000119_000003|Sometimes Amory would see him squirm in his seat; and his face would light up; he was on fire to debate a point.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000122_000000|"It's a bad time to admit it-people are beginning to think he's odd."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000124_000000|Tom grew rather annoyed.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000125_000000|"What's he trying to do-be excessively holy?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000126_000000|"No! not like anybody you've ever seen.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000126_000002|He has no faith in that rot.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000126_000003|He doesn't believe that public swimming pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000128_000000|"Have you talked to him lately?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000132_000000|"It's odd," Amory said to Tom one night when they had grown more amicable on the subject, "that the people who violently disapprove of Burne's radicalism are distinctly the Pharisee class-I mean they're the best educated men in college-the editors of the papers, like yourself and Ferrenby, the younger professors....
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000132_000001|The illiterate athletes like Langueduc think he's getting eccentric, but they just say, 'Good old Burne has got some queer ideas in his head,' and pass on-the Pharisee class-Gee! they ridicule him unmercifully."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000133_000000|The next morning he met Burne hurrying along McCosh walk after a recitation.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000134_000000|"Whither bound, Tsar?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000135_000000|"Over to the Prince office to see Ferrenby," he waved a copy of the morning's Princetonian at Amory.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000135_000001|"He wrote this editorial."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000136_000000|"Going to flay him alive?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000137_000000|"No-but he's got me all balled up.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000137_000001|Either I've misjudged him or he's suddenly become the world's worst radical."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000138_000001|Burne had come into the editor's sanctum displaying the paper cheerfully.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000139_000000|"Hello, Jesse."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000140_000000|"Hello there, Savonarola."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000141_000000|"I just read your editorial."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000143_000000|"Jesse, you startled me."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000144_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000147_000000|"Like this morning."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000148_000000|"What the devil-that editorial was on the coaching system."
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000149_000000|"Yes, but that quotation-"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000150_000000|Jesse sat up.
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000151_000000|"What quotation?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000153_000000|"Well-what about it?"
train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000154_000000|Jesse was puzzled but not alarmed.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000019_000000|THOUGHT AND CHARACTER
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000022_000000|Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000024_000000|..If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow-sure."
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000025_000001|A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association with Godlike thoughts.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000025_000002|An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000026_000000|Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000026_000002|Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000027_000000|Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this-that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000028_000000|As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000002_000000|Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000003_000000|Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000004_000000|As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000008_000000|Every thought seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000009_000001|As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000011_000003|Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000013_000002|That cause may take the form of a conscious vice or an unconscious weakness; but whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts of its possessor, and thus calls aloud for remedy.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000000|Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000001|The man who does not shrink from self crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000002|This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000003|Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well poised life?
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000016_000003|Such a man is totally unfit to have health, because he has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000017_000000|Here is an employer of labour who adopts crooked measures to avoid paying the regulation wage, and, in the hope of making larger profits, reduces the wages of his workpeople.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000019_000000|Circumstances, however, are so complicated, thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness vary so, vastly with individuals, that a man's entire soul condition (although it may be known to himself) cannot be judged by another from the external aspect of his life alone.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000020_000001|Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000021_000000|Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000021_000001|This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000021_000002|Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000023_000002|Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000023_000003|A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000023_000004|Blessedness and riches are only joined together when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000024_000001|They are both equally unnatural and the result of mental disorder.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000026_000000|Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000026_000001|This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000027_000000|The proof of this truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of easy investigation by systematic introspection and self analysis. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000028_000000|A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000030_000000|Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften towards him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo, opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.
train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000032_000000|"It masters time, it conquers space; It cowes that boastful trickster, Chance, And bids the tyrant Circumstance Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000000_000000|THOUGHT AND PURPOSE
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000001_000000|UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000001_000001|With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to "drift" upon the ocean of life.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000001_000002|Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000002_000000|They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000000|A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000001|He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000002|It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object, which he has set before him.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000004|This is the royal road to self control and true concentration of thought.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000004_000001|Only in this way can the thoughts be gathered and focussed, and resolution and energy be developed, which being done, there is nothing which may not be accomplished.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000006_000000|As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000007_000000|To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000001|Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements, which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000002|Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000003|They always lead to failure.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000004|Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000009_000001|Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000010_000000|He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000010_000001|His every thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome.
train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000010_000002|His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit, which does not fall prematurely to the ground.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000001_000000|THE THOUGHT FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000001|In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000002|A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000003|His condition is also his own, and not another man's.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000005|As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000003_000001|None but himself can alter his condition.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000004_000000|It has been usual for men to think and to say, "Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor." Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, "One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves."
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000005_000000|The truth is that oppressor and slave are co operators in ignorance, and, while seeming to afflict each other, are in reality afflicting themselves.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000005_000001|A perfect Knowledge perceives the action of law in the weakness of the oppressed and the misapplied power of the oppressor; a perfect Love, seeing the suffering, which both states entail, condemns neither; a perfect Compassion embraces both oppressor and oppressed.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000006_000000|He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000006_000001|He is free.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000007_000000|A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000000|Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000001|He may not, in order to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness, by any means; but a portion of it must, at least, be sacrificed.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000002|A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically; he could not find and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000004|He is not fit to act independently and stand alone.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000010_000001|All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000011_000000|Intellectual achievements are the result of thought consecrated to the search for knowledge, or for the beautiful and true in life and nature.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000012_000001|He who lives constantly in the conception of noble and lofty thoughts, who dwells upon all that is pure and unselfish, will, as surely as the sun reaches its zenith and the moon its full, become wise and noble in character, and rise into a position of influence and blessedness.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000013_000001|By the aid of self control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well directed thought a man ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.
train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000015_000000|Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000002_000000|VISIONS AND IDEALS
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000004_000000|Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after world, the architects of heaven.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000004_000001|The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000006_000000|Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000007_000002|Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000009_000000|The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000009_000001|The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000000|Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000002|But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000005|It has become so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside, and, with the growth of opportunities, which fit the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it forever.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000006|Years later we see this youth as a full grown man.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000008|In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks, and lo, lives are changed; men and women hang upon his words and remould their characters, and, sunlike, he becomes the fixed and luminous centre round which innumerable destinies revolve.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000009|He has realized the Vision of his youth.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000010|He has become one with his Ideal.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000011_000000|And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000011_000001|Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000011_000003|You may be driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city bucolic and open mouthed; shall wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit into the studio of the master, and after a time he shall say, 'I have nothing more to teach you.' And now you have become the master, who did so recently dream of great things while driving sheep.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000012_000001|Seeing a man grow rich, they say, "How lucky he is!" Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, "How highly favoured he is!" And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, "How chance aids him at every turn!"
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000013_000001|Chance is not.
train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000013_000002|Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.
train-clean-360/2498/134786/2498_134786_000009_000000|"Great, good God!
train-clean-360/2498/134786/2498_134786_000025_000000|"Iron has a taste."
train-clean-360/2498/134816/2498_134816_000019_000013|Yes. Carry?
train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000000_000000|SNOW BOUND.
train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000006_000004|She early embraced the doctrine of the Second Advent, and felt it her duty to proclaim the Lord's speedy coming.
train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000006_000007|At the time referred to in Snow Bound she was boarding at the Rocks Village about two miles from us.
train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000007_000000|In my boyhood, in our lonely farm house, we had scanty sources of information; few books and only a small weekly newspaper.
train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000007_000003|My father when a young man had traversed the wilderness to Canada, and could tell us of his adventures with Indians and wild beasts, and of his sojourn in the French villages.
train-clean-360/2499/156155/2499_156155_000002_000000|Rest from all bitter thoughts and things! How many a poor one's blessing went With thee beneath the low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000000_000001|THE HOLE IN THE CARPET
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000001_000000|Hooray! hooray!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000001_000001|hooray! Mother comes home to day; Mother comes home to day, Hooray! hooray!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000001_000002|hooray!'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000002_000000|Jane sang this simple song directly after breakfast, and the Phoenix shed crystal tears of affectionate sympathy.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000004_000000|'She won't be home till past bedtime, though,' said Robert. 'We might have one more carpet day.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000005_000000|He was glad that mother was coming home-quite glad, very glad; but at the same time that gladness was rudely contradicted by a quite strong feeling of sorrow, because now they could not go out all day on the carpet.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000006_000000|'I do wish we could go and get something nice for mother, only she'd want to know where we got it,' said Anthea. 'And she'd never, never believe it, the truth.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000006_000001|People never do, somehow, if it's at all interesting.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000007_000000|'I'll tell you what,' said Robert. 'Suppose we wished the carpet to take us somewhere where we could find a purse with money in it-then we could buy her something.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000008_000000|'Suppose it took us somewhere foreign, and the purse was covered with strange Eastern devices, embroidered in rich silks, and full of money that wasn't money at all here, only foreign curiosities, then we couldn't spend it, and people would bother about where we got it, and we shouldn't know how on earth to get out of it at all.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000009_000000|Cyril moved the table off the carpet as he spoke, and its leg caught in one of Anthea's darns and ripped away most of it, as well as a large slit in the carpet.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000011_000000|But Anthea was a really first-class sister.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000013_000000|Cyril thumped her on the back.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000013_000001|He understood exactly how she had felt, and he was not an ungrateful brother.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000016_000000|'An obol is about twopence halfpenny,' the Phoenix replied.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000018_000000|'The situation,' remarked the Phoenix, 'does indeed bristle with difficulties.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000020_000000|'Mother wouldn't believe THAT,' said more than one voice.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000021_000000|'Suppose,' said Robert-'suppose we asked to be taken where we could find a purse and give it back to the person it belonged to, and they would give us something for finding it?'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000023_000000|'No, THAT wouldn't do,' said Cyril. 'Let's chuck it and go to the North Pole, or somewhere really interesting.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000024_000000|'No,' said the girls together, 'there must be SOME way.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000025_000002|Don't speak.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000027_000000|'I see.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000027_000001|Let's tell the carpet to take us somewhere where we can get the money for mother's present, and-and-and get it some way that she'll believe in and not think wrong.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000028_000000|'Well, I must say you are learning the way to get the most out of the carpet,' said Cyril.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000029_000000|'Yes,' said the Phoenix, 'you certainly are.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000032_000000|Then every one put on its outdoor things, the Phoenix fluttered on to the mantelpiece and arranged its golden feathers in the glass, and all was ready.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000035_000001|I mean it's a PITY we aren't higher up,' said Anthea, as the edge of the carpet grazed a chimney pot.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000036_000000|'That's right.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000036_000001|Be careful,' said the Phoenix, in warning tones.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000038_000001|'We might go and have a look at the Palace.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000040_000001|Part of them was on the carpet, and part of them-the heaviest part-was on the great central darn.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000041_000001|I feel as if I was going to have measles; everything looked awfully rum then, remember.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000042_000000|'I feel just exactly the same,' Robert said.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000043_000000|'It's the hole,' said the Phoenix; 'it's not measles whatever that possession may be.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000045_000000|The carpet seemed to awaken to new energy as soon as it had got rid of their weight, and it rose high in the air.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000045_000001|The others lay down flat and peeped over the edge of the rising carpet.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000046_000000|'Are you hurt?' cried Cyril, and Robert shouted 'No,' and next moment the carpet had sped away, and Jane and Robert were hidden from the sight of the others by a stack of smoky chimneys.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000047_000000|'Oh, how awful!' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000049_000000|'Yes, there's that,' said Cyril, recovering himself.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000049_000001|'They'll be all right.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000049_000002|They'll howl till some one gets them down, or drop tiles into the front garden to attract attention of passersby.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000050_000000|But Anthea would not be comforted.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000051_000000|'It's all my fault,' she said.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000051_000002|It's all my fault.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000051_000003|Let's go home and patch the carpet with your Etons-something really strong-and send it to fetch them.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000052_000001|We must just chuck mother's present, that's all.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000052_000002|I wish-'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000053_000000|'Stop!' cried the Phoenix; 'the carpet is dropping to earth.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000054_000000|And indeed it was.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000055_000000|It sank swiftly, yet steadily, and landed on the pavement of the Deptford Road.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000055_000001|It tipped a little as it landed, so that Cyril and Anthea naturally walked off it, and in an instant it had rolled itself up and hidden behind a gate post.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000057_000000|They were face to face with their pet uncle-their Uncle Reginald.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000058_000000|'We DID think of going to Greenwich Palace and talking about Nelson,' said Cyril, telling as much of the truth as he thought his uncle could believe.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000059_000000|'And where are the others?' asked Uncle Reginald.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000060_000000|'I don't exactly know,' Cyril replied, this time quite truthfully.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000000|'Well,' said Uncle Reginald, 'I must fly.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000001|I've a case in the County Court.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000002|That's the worst of being a beastly solicitor.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000004|If only I could come with you to the Painted Hall and give you lunch at the "Ship" afterwards!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000005|But, alas!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000062_000000|The uncle felt in his pocket.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000063_000002|Take care of yourselves.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000065_000000|'Well!' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000066_000000|'Well!' said Cyril.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000067_000000|'Well!' said the Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000068_000000|'Good old carpet!' said Cyril, joyously.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000069_000000|'It WAS clever of it-so adequate and yet so simple,' said the Phoenix, with calm approval.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000070_000000|'Oh, come on home and let's mend the carpet.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000073_000000|Anthea set to work at once to draw the edges of the broken darn together, and Cyril hastily went out and bought a large piece of the marble patterned American oil cloth which careful house wives use to cover dressers and kitchen tables.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000073_000001|It was the strongest thing he could think of.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000074_000000|Then they set to work to line the carpet throughout with the oil cloth. The nursery felt very odd and empty without the others, and Cyril did not feel so sure as he had done about their being able to 'tram it' home.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000074_000001|So he tried to help Anthea, which was very good of him, but not much use to her.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000075_000000|The Phoenix watched them for a time, but it was plainly growing more and more restless.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000075_000001|It fluffed up its splendid feathers, and stood first on one gilded claw and then on the other, and at last it said-
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000076_000001|This suspense!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000076_000002|My Robert-who set my egg to hatch-in the bosom of whose Norfolk raiment I have nestled so often and so pleasantly!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000076_000003|I think, if you'll excuse me-'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000077_000000|'Yes-DO,' cried Anthea, 'I wish we'd thought of asking you before.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000078_000000|Cyril opened the window.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000078_000001|The Phoenix flapped its sunbright wings and vanished.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000081_000000|But I had to tell you the other first.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000081_000001|That is one of the most annoying things about stories, you cannot tell all the different parts of them at the same time.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000082_000000|Robert's first remark when he found himself seated on the damp, cold, sooty leads was-
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000083_000000|'Here's a go!'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000084_000000|Jane's first act was tears.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000085_000000|'Dry up, Pussy; don't be a little duffer,' said her brother, kindly, 'it'll be all right.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000000|And then he looked about, just as Cyril had known he would, for something to throw down, so as to attract the attention of the wayfarers far below in the street.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000001|He could not find anything.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000003|The roof was of slate, and every single slate knew its place and kept it.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000004|But, as so often happens, in looking for one thing he found another.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000005|There was a trap door leading down into the house.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000087_000000|And that trap door was not fastened.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000088_000001|'Lend a hand to heave this up.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000090_000000|'Discovered!' hissed Robert.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000090_000001|'Oh, my cats alive!'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000091_000000|They were indeed discovered.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000092_000000|They found themselves looking down into an attic, which was also a lumber room.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000092_000001|It had boxes and broken chairs, old fenders and picture frames, and rag bags hanging from nails.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000093_000000|In the middle of the floor was a box, open, half full of clothes.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000093_000001|Other clothes lay on the floor in neat piles.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000093_000003|And it was she who had screamed, and who, in fact, was still screaming.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000094_000000|'Don't!' cried Jane, 'please don't!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000096_000000|'The others have gone on, on the wishing carpet,' said Jane truthfully.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000097_000000|'The wishing carpet?' said the lady.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000098_000000|'Yes,' said Jane, before Robert could say 'You shut up!' 'You must have read about it.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000098_000001|The Phoenix is with them.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000099_000001|She shut it behind her, and the two children could hear her calling 'Septimus!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000100_000000|'Now,' said Robert quickly; 'I'll drop first.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000102_000002|I'll catch you.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000102_000004|Drop, I say.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000103_000000|Jane dropped.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000104_000000|Robert tried to catch her, and even before they had finished the breathless roll among the piles of clothes, which was what his catching ended in, he whispered-
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000105_000001|Then, when all is calm, we'll creep down the stairs and take our chance.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000106_000001|A corner of an iron bedstead stuck into Robert's side, and Jane had only standing room for one foot-but they bore it-and when the lady came back, not with Septimus, but with another lady, they held their breath and their hearts beat thickly.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000108_000000|'Let me look out,' said the second lady, who was, if possible, older and thinner and primmer than the first.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000108_000001|So the two ladies dragged a box under the trap door and put another box on the top of it, and then they both climbed up very carefully and put their two trim, tidy heads out of the trap door to look for the 'mad children'.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000109_000000|'Now,' whispered Robert, getting the bedstead leg out of his side.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000111_000000|Robert and Jane tiptoed down the stairs-one flight, two flights.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000111_000001|Then they looked over the banisters.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000111_000002|Horror! a servant was coming up with a loaded scuttle.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000112_000000|The children with one consent crept swiftly through the first open door.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000113_000002|As they passed the table they saw on it a missionary box with its bottom label torn off, open and empty.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000114_000000|'Oh, how awful!' whispered Jane.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000000|'I knew it,' said one.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000002|I was certain of it from the first.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000003|The children were not mad.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000004|They were sent to distract our attention while their confederates robbed the house.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000117_000000|'I am afraid you are right,' said Selina; 'and WHERE ARE THEY NOW?'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000118_000000|'Downstairs, no doubt, collecting the silver milk jug and sugar basin and the punch ladle that was Uncle Joe's, and Aunt Jerusha's teaspoons. I shall go down.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000119_000001|Lock the door.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000119_000002|I WILL-I will-'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000121_000000|'Oh, don't!' said Jane; 'how can you be so unkind?
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000121_000001|We AREN'T burglars, and we haven't any gang, and we didn't open your missionary box. We opened our own once, but we didn't have to use the money, so our consciences made us put it back and-DON'T!
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000123_000001|You open the window at once and call "Murder!" as loud as you can.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000124_000000|Selina obeyed; but when she had opened the window, instead of calling 'Murder!' she called 'Septimus!' because at that very moment she saw her nephew coming in at the gate.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000125_000001|As he came into the room Jane and Robert each uttered a shriek of joy so loud and so sudden that the ladies leaped with surprise, and nearly let them go.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000126_000000|'It's our own clergyman,' cried Jane.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000127_000000|'Don't you remember us?' asked Robert. 'You married our burglar for us-don't you remember?'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000128_000000|'I KNEW it was a gang,' said Amelia. 'Septimus, these abandoned children are members of a desperate burgling gang who are robbing the house.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000128_000001|They have already forced the missionary box and purloined its contents.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000129_000000|The Reverend Septimus passed his hand wearily over his brow.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000131_000000|'We never touched the beastly box,' said Robert.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000132_000000|'Then your confederates did,' said Miss Selina.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000133_000000|'No, no,' said the curate, hastily.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000134_000000|'Dream?
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000134_000002|Search the house.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000134_000003|I insist upon it.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000135_000000|The curate, still pale and trembling, searched the house, which, of course, was blamelessly free of burglars.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000137_000000|'Aren't you going to let us go?' asked Robert, with furious indignation, for there is something in being held by a strong lady that sets the blood of a boy boiling in his veins with anger and despair.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000138_000000|'Oh, my head!' said the curate.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000140_000000|'This is a judgement on me for something, I suppose,' said the Reverend Septimus, wearily, 'but I really cannot at the moment remember what.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000141_000000|'Send for the police,' said Miss Selina.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000142_000000|'Send for a doctor,' said the curate.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000144_000000|'I think I am,' said the curate.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000145_000000|Jane had been crying ever since her capture.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000145_000001|Now she said- 'You aren't now, but perhaps you will be, if-And it would serve you jolly well right, too.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000146_000001|You will realize it soon.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000146_000002|It has happened to me before.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000146_000005|As I said before, it was I who opened the box.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000147_000001|Robert shook himself and stood in sulky resentment.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000000|'You're a dear,' she said.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000001|'It IS like a dream just at first, but you get used to it.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000002|Now DO let us go.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000003|There's a good, kind, honourable clergyman.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000149_000000|'I don't know,' said the Reverend Septimus; 'it's a difficult problem. It is such a very unusual dream.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000149_000001|Perhaps it's only a sort of other life-quite real enough for you to be mad in.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000151_000000|But all the curate could now say was, 'Oh, my head!'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000152_000000|And Jane and Robert felt quite ill with helplessness and hopelessness.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000152_000001|A really conscientious curate is a very difficult thing to manage.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000154_000001|'I've had something like it before.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000155_000001|Then she said boldly-
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000156_000002|You must have dropped off in your chair.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000157_000000|The curate heaved a sigh of relief.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000000|'Yes, I know it was an untruth, and I shall doubtless be punished for it in due course.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000002|He couldn't have stood the strain of three dreams. It WAS odd, wasn't it?
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000004|We must never tell dear Seppy.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000005|But I shall send an account of it to the Psychical Society, with stars instead of names, you know.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000162_000000|Of course, you understand what had happened?
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000162_000002|And, of course, they were at home at once.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000162_000003|Cyril and Anthea had not half finished mending the carpet.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000163_000000|When the joyful emotions of reunion had calmed down a little, they all went out and spent what was left of Uncle Reginald's sovereign in presents for mother.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000163_000001|They bought her a pink silk handkerchief, a pair of blue and white vases, a bottle of scent, a packet of Christmas candles, and a cake of soap shaped and coloured like a tomato, and one that was so like an orange that almost any one you had given it to would have tried to peel it-if they liked oranges, of course.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000163_000002|Also they bought a cake with icing on, and the rest of the money they spent on flowers to put in the vases.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000166_000000|'But, really, it's just as much good old Phoenix,' said Robert. 'Suppose it hadn't thought of getting the wish!'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000167_000000|'Ah!' said the Phoenix, 'it is perhaps fortunate for you that I am such a competent bird.'
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000168_000000|'There's mother's cab,' cried Anthea, and the Phoenix hid and they lighted the candles, and next moment mother was home again.
train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000170_000000|'Good old carpet,' were Cyril's last sleepy words.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000006_000001|It was a large shell with many points upon it. These were coarse and rough, but the shell was most beautiful inside.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000007_000000|Marcella had seen the shell time and time again and often admired its lovely coloring, which could be seen when one looked inside the shell.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000010_000001|Here the dolls saw it that night, when all the house was still, and stood about it wondering what kind of toy it might be.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000011_000000|"It seems to be nearly all mouth!" said Henny, the Dutch doll.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000011_000001|"Perhaps it can talk."
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000012_000000|"It has teeth!" the French doll pointed out.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000012_000001|"It may bite!"
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000013_000000|"I do not believe it will bite," Raggedy Andy mused, as he got down upon his hands and knees and looked up into the shell.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000013_000001|"Marcella would not have it up here if it would bite!" And, saying this, Raggedy Andy put his rag arm into the lovely shell's mouth.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000014_000000|"It doesn't bite!
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000014_000002|"Just feel how smooth it is inside!"
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000015_000000|All the dolls felt and were surprised to find it polished so highly inside, while the outside was so coarse and rough.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000015_000001|With the help of Uncle Clem and Henny, Raggedy Andy turned the shell upon its back, so that all the dolls might look in.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000016_000000|The coloring consisted of dainty pinks, creamy whites and pale blues, all running together just as the coloring in an opal runs from one shade into another.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000016_000001|Raggedy Andy, stooping over to look further up inside the pretty shell, heard something.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000017_000000|"It's whispering!" he said, as he raised up in surprise.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000018_000000|All the dolls took turns putting their ears to the mouth of the beautiful shell.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000018_000001|Yes, truly it whispered, but they could not catch just what it said.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000019_000000|Finally Raggedy Andy suggested that all the dolls lie down upon the floor directly before the shell and keep very quiet.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000020_000000|"If we don't make a sound we may be able to hear what it says!" he explained.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000021_000000|So the dolls lay down, placing themselves flat upon the floor directly in front of the shell and where they could see and admire its beautiful coloring.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000023_000000|This is the story the shell told the dolls in the nursery that night:
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000024_000001|Pretty silken sea weeds grew around my home and reached their waving branches up, up towards the top of the water.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000026_000000|"Through the pretty sea weeds, fishes of pretty colors and shapes darted here and there, playing at their games.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000029_000000|"They would stay inside until I whispered that the larger creature had gone, then they would leave me and return to their play.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000030_000000|"Pretty little sea horses with slender, curving bodies often went sailing above me, or would come to rest upon my back.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000031_000002|How the tiny sea creatures scurried to hide from him.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000031_000003|He took me within his hand and, giving his feet a thump upon the yellow sand, rose with me to the surface.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000032_000000|"He poured the water from me, and out came all the little creatures who had been hiding there!"
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000034_000000|"Did the tiny creatures get back into the water safely?" he asked the beautiful shell.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000035_000000|"Oh, yes!" the shell whispered in reply.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000036_000000|"I am so glad!" Raggedy Andy said, with a sigh of relief.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000036_000001|"He must have been a kindly man!"
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000000|"Yes, indeed!" the beautiful shell replied.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000001|"So I was placed along with a lot of other shells in the bottom of the boat and every once in a while another shell was placed amongst us.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000002|We whispered together and wondered where we were going.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000003|We were finally sold to different people and I have been at Gran'ma's house for a long, long time."
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000038_000000|"You lived there when Gran'ma was a little girl, didn't you?" Raggedy Ann asked.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000039_000000|"Yes," replied the shell, "I have lived there ever since Gran'ma was a little girl.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000040_000000|"Raggedy Ann can play 'peter, peter, Pumpkin Eater' on the piano, with one hand," said Uncle Clem, "but none of us can sing.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000040_000001|Will you sing for us?" he asked the shell.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000041_000000|"I sing all the time," the shell replied, "for I cannot help singing, but my singing is a secret and so is very soft and low.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000041_000001|Put your head close to the opening in my shell and listen!"
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000042_000000|The dolls took turns doing this, and heard the shell sing softly and very sweetly.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000043_000000|"How strange and far away it sounds!" exclaimed the French doll.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000043_000001|"Like fairies singing in the distance!
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000044_000000|"It is queer that anything so rough on the outside could be so pretty within!" said Raggedy Andy.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000045_000000|"Indeed it is," replied the beautiful shell, "and I get a great happiness from singing all the time."
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000046_000000|"And you will bring lots of pleasure to us, by being so happy!" said Raggedy Andy.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000047_000000|"I will tell you the secret of my singing," said the shell.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000048_000000|"How unselfish you are to say this!" said Raggedy Andy.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000048_000002|Aren't we?" he asked, turning to the rest of the dolls.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000049_000000|"Yes, indeed!" came the answer from all the dolls, even the tiny penny dolls.
train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000050_000000|"That is why the shell is so beautiful inside!" said Raggedy Ann.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000003_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000004_000000|THE BALEFUL SACRIFICE
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000000|I resolved to go on no more sacred hunts.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000001|I was sickened at the horrible cruelty, the needless slaughter, the mad self sacrifice which distinguished them.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000002|I was overwhelmed with horror at the merciless destruction of brave comrades, whose wounds, so gallantly received, should have been enough to inspire pity even in a heart of stone.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000003|The gentleness, the incessant kindness, the matchless generosity of these people seemed all a mockery.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000004|What availed it all when the same hand that heaped favors upon me, the guest, could deal death without compunction upon friends and relatives?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000005|It seemed quite possible for the Kohen to kill his own child, or cut the throat of his wife, if the humor seized him.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000006|And how long could I hope to be spared among a people who had this insane thirst for blood?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000000|Some more joms had passed, and the light season had almost ended. The sun had been sinking lower and lower.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000001|The time had at last come when only a portion of his disk would be visible for a little while above the hills, and then he would be seen no more for six months of our time.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000002|This was the dark season, and, as I had already learned, its advent was always hailed with joy and celebrated with solemn services, for the dark season freed them from their long confinement, permitted them to go abroad, to travel by sea and land, to carry on their great works, to indulge in all their most important labors and favorite amusements.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000003|The Kohen asked me to be present at the great festival, and I gladly consented.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000004|There seemed to be nothing in this that could be repellent.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000006|When I told Almah, she looked sad, but said nothing.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000007|I wondered at this, and asked her if she was going.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000008|She informed me that she would have to go, whereupon I assured her that this was an additional reason why I should go.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000000|I went with Almah.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000001|The Kohen attended us with his usual kind and gracious consideration.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000002|It seemed almost as though he was our servant. He took us to a place where we could be seated, although all the others were standing.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000003|Almah wished to refuse, but I prevailed upon her to sit down, and she did so.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000000|The scene was upon the semicircular terrace in front of the cavern, and we were seated upon a stone platform beside the chief portal.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000001|A vast crowd was gathered in front.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000002|Before us arose the half pyramid of which I have already spoken.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000003|The light was faint.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000004|It came from the disk of the sun, which was partly visible over the icy crest of the distant mountains.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000005|Far away the sea was visible, rising high over the tops of the trees, while overhead the brighter stars were plainly discernible.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000000|The Kohen ascended the pyramid, and others followed.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000001|At the base there was a crowd of men, with emaciated forms and faces, and coarse, squalid attire, who looked like the most abject paupers, and seemed the lowest in the land.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000002|As the Kohen reached the summit there arose a strange sound-a mournful, plaintive chant, which seemed to be sung chiefly by the paupers at the base of the pyramid.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000003|The words of this chant I could not make out, but the melancholy strain affected me in spite of myself.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000004|There was no particular tune, and nothing like harmony; but the effect of so many voices uniting in this strain was very powerful and altogether indescribable.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000005|In the midst of this I saw the crowd parting asunder so as to make way for something; and through the passage thus formed I saw a number of youths in long robes, who advanced to the pyramid, singing as they went.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000006|Then they ascended the steps, two by two, still singing, and at length reached the summit, where they arranged themselves in order.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000007|There were thirty of them and they arranged themselves in three rows of ten each, and as they stood they never ceased to sing, while the paupers below joined in the strain.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000001|The light was a softened twilight glow.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000002|It was to be the last sight of the sun for six months, and this was the spectacle upon which he threw his parting beam.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000003|So the sun passed away, and then there came the beginning of the long dark season.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000004|At first, however, there was rather twilight than darkness, and this twilight continued long.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000005|All this only served to heighten the effect of this striking scene; and as the light faded away, I looked with increasing curiosity upon the group at the top of the pyramid.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000008|She said nothing, but looked at me with such an expression that I was filled with amazement.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000009|I saw in her face something like a dreadful anticipation-something that spoke of coming evil.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000000|Those fears were but too well founded, for now the dread ceremony began.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000002|One of the youths came forward, stepped upon it, and lay down on his back with his head toward the Kohen.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000003|The mournful chant still went on.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000004|Then the Kohen raised his knife and plunged it into the heart of the youth.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000012_000000|"Be firm," she said, "or we are both lost.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000014_000000|"Don't move," she said, "for your life!
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000014_000001|We are lost if you move.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000014_000002|Keep still-restrain yourself-shut your eyes."
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000000|I tried to do so, but could not.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000001|There was a horrible fascination about the scene which forced me to look and see all.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000002|The Kohen took the victim, and drawing it from the altar, threw it over the precipice to the ground beneath.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000004|"Sibgu Sibgin!
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000007|Rejoice!
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000008|Give thanks to darkness!"
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000000|Then another of the youths went forward amid the singing, and laid himself down to meet the same fate; and again the corpse was flung from the top of the pyramid, and again the shout arose.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000001|All the others came forward in the same manner.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000002|Oh, horrible, horrible, thrice horrible spectacle!
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000003|I do not remember how I endured it.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000000|After this there remained a dark mystery and an ever present horror.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000001|I found myself among a people who were at once the gentlest of the human race and the most blood thirsty-the kindest and the most cruel.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000002|This mild, amiable, and self sacrificing Kohen, how was it possible that he should transform himself to a fiend incarnate?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000003|And for me and for Almah, what possible hope could there be?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000004|What fate might they have in reserve for us?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000005|Of what avail was all this profound respect, this incessant desire to please, this attention to our slightest wish, this comfort and luxury and splendor, this freedom of speech and action? Was it anything better than a mockery?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000006|Might it not be the shallow kindness of the priest to the victim reserved for the sacrifice?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000007|Was it, after all, in any degree better than the kindness of the cannibal savages on those drear outer shores who received us with such hospitality, but only that they might destroy us at last?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000008|Might they not all belong to the same race, dwelling as they did in caverns, shunning the sunlight, and blending kindness with cruelty?
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000009|It was an awful thought!
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000000|Yet I had one consolation.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000002|I tried for her sake to resist the feelings that were coming over me.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000004|She felt as I did, and this despair of soul might wreck her young life if there were no alleviation.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000005|And so I sought to alleviate her distress and to banish her sadness.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000009|Almah was delighted at the proposal, and at once found a very clever workman, who under my direction succeeded in producing one which served my purpose well.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000010|I was a good violinist, and in this I was able to find solace for myself and for Almah for many a long hour.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000019_000000|The first time that I played was memorable.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000019_000003|In these there was nothing artificial, nothing transient.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000019_000004|They were the utterance of the human heart, and in them there was that touch of nature which makes all men kin.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000000|I played "Tara," "Bonnie Doon," "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Land of the Leal," "Auld Lang Syne," "Lochaber." They stood entranced, listening with all their souls.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000001|They seemed to hunger and thirst after this music, and the strains of the inspired Celtic race seemed to come to them like the revelation of the glory of heaven.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000002|Then I played more lively airs.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000003|Some I played a second time, singing the words.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000004|They seemed eager to have the same one played often.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000005|At last a grisly thought came to me: it was that they would learn these sweet strains, and put their own words to them so as to use them at the awful sacrifices.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000006|After that I would play no more.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000021_000000|It is a land of tender love and remorseless cruelty.
train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000021_000001|Music is all powerful to awaken the one, but powerless to abate the other; and the eyes that weep over the pathetic strains of "Lochaber" can gaze without a tear upon the death agonies of a slaughtered friend.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000003_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000004_000000|I LEARN MY DOOM
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000000|Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000001|Sadness, whether from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind, may linger on through life. In my case, however, the milder and more enduring feeling of sadness had no sufficient cause for existence.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000002|The sights which I had seen inspired horror, and horror only.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000003|But when the first rush of this feeling had passed there came a reaction.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000004|Calmness followed, and then all the circumstances of my life here conspired to perpetuate that calm.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000006|I had light and luxury and amusements.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000007|Around me there were thousands of faces, all greeting me with cordial affection, and thousands of hands all ready to perform my slightest wish.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000008|Above all, there was Almah.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000009|Everything combined to make her most dear to me.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000010|My life had been such that I never before had seen anyone whom I loved; and here Almah was the one congenial associate in a whole world of aliens: she was beautiful and gentle and sympathetic, and I loved her dearly, even before I understood what my feelings were.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000011|One day I learned all, and found that she was more precious to me than all the world.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000006_000001|On asking after her I learned that she was ill.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000006_000007|While she was absent, life was nothing; all its value, all its light, its flavor, its beauty, were gone.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000006_000008|I felt utterly crushed. I forgot all else save her illness, and all that I had endured seemed as nothing when compared with this.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000000|In the midst of my own anxiety I was surprised to find that the whole community was most profoundly agitated.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000001|Among all classes there seemed to be but one thought-her illness.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000003|It seemed to be the one subject of interest, beside which all others were forgotten.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000005|I was somewhat perplexed, however, at their manner.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000006|They were certainly agitated and intensely interested, yet not exactly sad.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000007|Indeed, from what I heard it seemed as though this strange people regarded sickness as rather a blessing than otherwise.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000008|This, however, did not interfere in the slightest degree with the most intense interest in her, and the most assiduous attention.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000009|The Kohen in particular was devoted to her. He was absent minded, silent, and full of care.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000010|On the whole, I felt more than ever puzzled, and less able than ever to understand these people.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000012|He looked like an anxious father, full of tenderest love for a sick child-full also of delicate sympathy with me; and yet I knew all the time that he was quite capable of plunging the sacrificial knife in Almah's heart and of eating her afterward.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000008_000001|I learned how dear she was. With her the brightness of life had passed; without her existence would be intolerable.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000008_000002|Her sweet voice, her tender and gracious manner, her soft touch, her tender, affectionate smile, her mournful yet trustful look-oh, heavens! would all these be mine no more?
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000008_000003|I could not endure the thought.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000009_000000|At length on one blessed jom, the Kohen came to me with a bright smile.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000001|"Eat, I beseech you.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000003|But now all danger is past.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000004|The physicians say that she will soon be well." There were tears in his eyes as he spoke.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000005|It may have been caused by the bright light, but I attributed this to his loving heart, and I forgot that he was a cannibal.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000006|I took his hands in mine and pressed them in deep emotion.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000007|He looked at me with a sweet and gentle smile.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000012_000000|I pressed his hands harder, but said nothing.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000012_000001|Indeed, I could not trust myself to speak.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000000|"I knew it," said he; "it is but natural.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000001|You are both of a different race from us; you are both much alike, and in full sympathy with one another.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000002|This draws you together.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000003|When I first saw you I thought that you would be a fit companion for her here-that you would lessen her gloom, and that she would be pleasant to you.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000004|I found out soon that I was right, and I felt glad, for you at once showed the fullest sympathy with one another.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000014_000000|At all this I was so full of amazement that I could not say one word.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000015_000000|"Pardon me," continued he, "if I have said anything that may seem like an intrusion upon your secret and most sacred feelings.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000016_000000|Saying this, he pressed my hand and left me.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000016_000001|It was not the custom here to shake hands, but with his usual amiability he had adopted my custom, and used it as naturally as though he had been to the manner born.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000000|I was encouraged now.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000001|The mild Kohen came often to cheer me.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000003|In all this he seemed more like a man of my own race than before, and in his eager desire for her recovery he failed to exhibit that love for death which was his nature.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000005|But just then all this was unknown, and I judged him by myself.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000000|At last I learned that she was much better, and would be out on the following jom.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000001|This intelligence filled me with a fever of eager anticipation, so great that I could think of nothing else.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000002|Sleep was impossible.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000003|I could only wait, and try as best I might to quell my impatience.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000004|At last the time came.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000006|The curtain was drawn aside.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000007|I sprang up, and, hurrying toward her, I caught her in my arms and wept for joy.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000008|Ah me, how pale she looked!
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000009|She bore still the marks of her illness.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000010|She seemed deeply embarrassed and agitated at the fervor of my greeting; while I, instead of apologizing or trying to excuse myself, only grew more agitated still.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000019_000001|"I should have died if you had not come back to me!
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000019_000003|Oh, forgive me, but I must tell you-and don't weep, darling."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000020_000000|She was weeping as I spoke.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000020_000001|She said nothing, but twined her arms around my neck and wept on my breast.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000020_000002|After this we had much to say that we had never mentioned before.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000000|We had many things to say to one another, and long exchanges of confidence to make.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000001|She now for the first time told me all the sorrow that she had endured in her captivity-sorrow which she had kept silent and shut up deep within her breast.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000003|After this she had sunk into dull despair; she had grown familiar with horrors and lived in a state of unnatural calm.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000004|From this my arrival had roused her.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000006|The darkness, the bloodshed, the sacrifices, all these affected me as they had once affected her.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000007|I had the same fear of death which she had.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000022_000000|"Then," said Almah, "I felt the full meaning of all that lies before us."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000023_000000|"What do you mean by that?" I asked, anxiously.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000023_000002|We have seen the worst; let us now try to shake off these grisly thoughts, and be happy with one another. Your strength will soon be back, and while we have one another we can be happy even in this gloom."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000024_000001|I could die happy now, since I know that you love me."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000025_000000|"Death!" said I; "do not talk of it-do not mention that word.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000025_000001|It is more abhorrent than ever.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000025_000002|No, Almah, let us live and love-let us hope-let us fly."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000026_000001|"We cannot fly.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000026_000002|There is no hope.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000026_000003|We must face the future, and make up our minds to bear our fate."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000027_000000|"Fate!" I repeated, looking at her in wonder and in deep concern. "What do you mean by our fate?
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000027_000001|Is there anything more which you know and which I have not heard?"
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000028_000001|For you and for me there is a fate-inconceivable, abhorrent, tremendous!--a fate of which I dare not speak or even think, and from which there is no escape whatever."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000029_000002|I looked at her in wonder, and could not say a word.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000031_000001|What is this fate which you fear so much?"
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000032_000002|You came.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000032_000003|I saw it all at once.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000032_000004|I have known it-dreaded it-tried to fight against it.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000033_000000|"Our doom?
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000034_000000|"The sacrifice!" exclaimed Almah, with another shudder.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000034_000001|In her voice and look there was a terrible meaning, which I could not fail to take. I understood it now, and my blood curdled in my veins.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000000|"Do not leave me!" she cried-"do not leave me!
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000001|I have no one but you. The sacrifice, the sacrifice!
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000002|It is our doom the great sacrifice-at the end of the dark season.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000003|It is at the amir.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000039_000000|"Oh!" she cried, "you will not understand.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000039_000001|The sacrifice is but a part-it is but the beginning.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000039_000002|Death is terrible; yet it may be endured-if there is only death.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000000|Now the full meaning flashed upon me, and I saw it all.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000002|Oh, horror, horror, horror!
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000004|I could not speak.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000005|I caught her in my arms, and we both wept passionately.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000041_000000|The happiness of our love was now darkened by this tremendous cloud that lowered before us.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000041_000001|The shock of this discovery was overpowering, and some time elapsed before I could rally from it.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000000|These feelings, however, grew fainter.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000001|Hope is ever ready to arise; and I began to think that these people, though given to evil ways, were after all kind hearted, and might listen to entreaty.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000002|Above all, there was the Kohen, so benevolent, so self denying, so amiable, so sympathetic.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000003|I could not forget all that he had said during Almah's illness, and it seemed more than probable that an appeal to his better nature might not be without effect.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000043_000000|"The Kohen," said she; "why, he can do nothing."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000044_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000044_000001|He is the chief man here, and ought to have great influence."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000045_000000|"You don't understand," said she, with a sigh.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000045_000001|"The Kohen is the lowest and least influential man in the city."
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000046_000000|"Why, who are influential if he is not?" I asked.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000047_000000|"The paupers," said Almah.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000048_000000|"The paupers!" I exclaimed, in amazement.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000049_000000|"Yes," said Almah.
train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000050_000000|This was incomprehensible.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000000|All the way there David had saved this moment for himself, struggling not to peek until the proper time came.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000001|When the car finally stopped, the rest of them got out stiffly and went into the new house.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000002|But David walked slowly into the back yard with his eyes fixed on the ground.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000004|Then he took a deep breath, clenched his hands tightly, and lifted his head.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000010_000001|It swept upward from the valley floor, beautifully shaped and soaring, so tall that its misty blue peak could surely talk face to face with the stars.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000010_000003|He felt so tight and shivery inside that he didn't know whether he wanted to laugh, or cry, or both.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000010_000006|And when he closed his eyes, he seemed to hear a voice which whispered, "Come along, then, and climb."
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000000|It would be so easy to go!
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000001|The back yard was hedged in (with part of the hedge growing right across the toes of the mountain), but there was a hole in the privet large enough to crawl through.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000002|And just beyond the hedge the mountainside awaited him, going up and up in one smooth sweep until the green and tawny faded into hazy heights of rock.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000003|It was waiting for him.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000004|"Come and climb," it whispered, "come and climb."
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000012_000000|But there was a great deal to do first.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000012_000002|The moving van was standing out in front, the car must be unloaded.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000012_000004|Regretfully, he waved his hand at the peak and whispered, "It shouldn't take long-I'll be back as soon as I can." Then he went around to the front door to see what could be done about speeding things up.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000000|Inside, everything was in confusion.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000001|Dad was pushing chairs and tables around in an aimless way.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000002|Mother was saying, "They'll all have to go out again; we forgot to put down the rug first." Aunt Amy was making short dashes between the kitchen and the dining room, muttering to herself.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000004|David asked, "Can I do anything?"--hoping that the answer would be no
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000015_000000|"C'mere," Aunt Amy said, grabbing him by the arm.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000015_000001|"Help me look for that ironing board."
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000000|When the ironing board was finally located, Mother had something for him to do.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000001|And when he was finished with that, Dad called for his help.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000002|So the afternoon wore on without letup-and also without any signs of progress in their moving.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000003|When David finally got a chance to sneak out for a breathing spell, he felt his heart sink.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000005|Already the evening sun was throwing shadows across the side of the mountain and touching its peak with a ruddy blaze.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000006|It was too late now.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000007|He would have to wait until morning before he could climb.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000017_000000|As he gazed up miserably at the glowing summit, he thought he saw a tiny speck soar out from it in a brief circle.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000017_000001|Was it a bird of some sort, or just one of those dots that swim before your eyes when you stare too long at the sky?
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000017_000002|It almost seemed like the mountain waving its hand, as if to say that it was quite all right for him to wait until morning.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000018_000000|It was long after dark before the moving van drove away.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000018_000001|Beckie crooned happily over her bottle, and the rest of them gathered in the kitchen for a late supper of sandwiches and canned soup.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000018_000002|But David could not eat until he had found the courage to ask one question:
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000019_000000|"May I climb the mountain tomorrow?"
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000020_000000|Aunt Amy muttered something about landslides, which were firmly fixed in her mind as the fate of people who climbed mountains.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000020_000001|But Dad said, "I don't see why not, do you?" and looked to Mother for agreement.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000021_000000|Mother said, "Well ... be very careful," in a doubtful tone, and that was that.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000000|You never know what you will find when you climb a mountain, even if you have climbed them before-which, of course, David never had. Looking up from the foot of the mountain, he had thought that it was a smooth slope from bottom to top.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000001|But he was discovering as he climbed that it was not smooth at all, but very much broken up.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000002|There were terraces, ledges, knolls, ravines, and embankments, one after another.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000003|The exciting part of it was that each feature concealed the ones above it.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000004|At the top of a rise would be an outcropping of strangely colored rock, invisible from below.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000006|And when the meadow had been discovered, there would be a something else beyond.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000007|He was a real explorer now.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000008|When he got to the top, he thought, he would build a little tower of stones, the way explorers always do.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000023_000002|But he did not care now.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000023_000004|He looked back.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000023_000007|Even the peak could not give him a better view than this.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000001|Halfway up the scarp was a dark horizontal line of bushes, something like a hedge.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000003|To scale the rock face itself was impossible, however: there were no hand or foot holds.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000005|Then he started upward again.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000007|Vines clutched at his feet, and the close set bushes seemed unwilling to let him pass.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000008|He had one nasty slip, which might have been his last if he had not grabbed a tough clump of weeds at the crucial instant.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000025_000000|But, oh! it was worth it.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000025_000002|Truly it was an enchanted place!
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000026_000000|David threw himself on the grass and rolled in it.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000026_000001|It was warm and soft and sweet smelling; it soothed away the hurt of his aching muscles and the sting of his scratches.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000001|Then it would fade and be drowned out by the breeze.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000003|David propped himself up on his elbows and listened more intently.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000006|He sat up.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000007|Now he noticed that the ledge was divided by a thicket which grew from the inner side to the outer.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000008|The noise, whatever it was, came from the other side of the thicket.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000000|David's curiosity was aroused, but it occurred to him that it might be wise to be cautious.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000001|The noise did not sound dangerous, but-well, he had never been up a mountain before, and there was no telling what he might find.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000002|He dropped into a crouch and crept silently up to the tangle of bushes.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000003|His heart began to pound, and he swallowed to relieve the dryness in his throat.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000029_000000|Who could it possibly be?
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000029_000001|Well, there was only one way to find out.
train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000030_000000|He dropped down on his stomach and carefully began to worm his way under the thicket.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000003_000000|Next day it took less than an hour to reach the ledge, and David was sure that he could shorten the time even more when he was familiar with the goat trail.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000004_000000|The Phoenix was not in sight when he arrived, and for an instant David was stricken with fright.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000004_000002|It came from the thicket, and it sounded very much like a snore.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000005_000000|David smiled to himself and shouted, "Hello, Phoenix!"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000006_000000|There was a thrashing sound in the thicket, and the Phoenix appeared, looking very rumpled and yawning behind its wing.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000008_000000|David thrust the bag of cookies behind his back.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000008_000001|"Now, Phoenix," he said firmly, "you have to promise me you won't go away to South America.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000000|The Phoenix drew itself up indignantly.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000002|You cut me to the quick.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000004|It stopped and swallowed again.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000005|"Oh, well," it continued, more mildly, "one does not fight fate, does one?
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000011_000000|So they sat down on the grass together, and for a long time nothing was heard but sounds of munching.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000012_000000|"My boy," said the Phoenix at last, brushing the crumbs from its chest, "I take a modest pride in my way with words, but nothing in the language can do these-ah-baked poems justice.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000013_000000|"I'm glad you like them," David said politely.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000014_000000|"And now, my boy," continued the Phoenix, as it settled back comfortably, "I have been thinking.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000014_000001|Yesterday you showed an intelligent interest in my problems and asked intelligent questions. You did not scoff, as others might have done.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000014_000002|You have very rare qualities."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000000|"Do not be so modest, my boy!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000001|I speak the truth.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000002|It came to me that such a mind as yours, having these qualities, should be further cultivated and refined.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000003|And I should be avoiding my clear cut duty if I did not take this task in hand myself.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000004|Of course, I suppose some attempt to educate you has already been made, has it not?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000017_000000|"Well, I go to school, if that's what you mean.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000018_000000|"And what do they teach you there?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000019_000000|"Oh, reading and writing and arithmetic, and things like that."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000000|"Aha!" said the Phoenix triumphantly.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000001|"Just as I suspected-a classical education.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000002|Understand me-I have nothing against a classical education as such.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000003|I realize that mathematics, Greek, and Latin are excellent for the discipline of the mind.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000004|But in the broad view, a classical education is not a true education.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000005|Life is real, life is earnest.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000007|The problems of Life, my dear fellow!--classical education completely ignores them!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000008|For example, how do you tell a true Unicorn from a false one?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000021_000000|"I-I don't know."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000022_000000|"I thought not.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000022_000001|Where do you find the Philosopher's Stone?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000023_000000|"I don't know."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000024_000001|What is the first rule of defense when attacked by a Chimera?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000025_000001|"I'm afraid I don't know that, either," he said in a small voice.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000026_000000|"There you are!" cried the Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000026_000001|"You do not have a true, practical education-you are not ready for Life.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000027_000001|"Do you mean-are you going to give me-lessons?" Through his mind flashed a picture of the Phoenix (with spectacles on its beak and a ruler in its wing) writing out sentences on a blackboard.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000027_000002|The thought gave him a sinking feeling.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000027_000003|After all, it was summer-and summer was supposed to be vacation time.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000028_000001|"Absolutely without equal!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000028_000002|The full benefit of my vast knowledge, plus a number of trips to-"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000029_000001|"That's different.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000029_000002|Oh, Phoenix, that'll be wonderful!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000029_000003|Where will we go?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000030_000001|We shall visit my friends and acquaintances."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000031_000000|"Oh, do you have-"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000032_000000|"Of course, my boy!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000033_000001|"What were those last three, please?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000034_000000|"Gryffins," explained the Phoenix, "are the small, reddish, friendly ones.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000034_000001|Gryffons are the quick tempered proud ones.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000034_000003|They are very stupid."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000035_000000|"I see," said David doubtfully.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000035_000001|"What do they look like?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000036_000001|But to continue: Sea Monsters, Leprechauns, Rocs, Gnomes, Elves, Basilisks, Nymphs-ah-and many others.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000036_000003|And your education will cost you nothing.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000037_000000|"As many as you want, Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000037_000001|Will we go to Africa?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000038_000001|Your education will include-"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000039_000002|And Arabia?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000040_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000040_000001|Your education will-"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000041_000000|"Oh, Phoenix, Phoenix!" David jumped up and began to caper, while the Phoenix beamed.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000041_000001|But suddenly he stopped.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000042_000000|"How are we going to travel, Phoenix?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000044_000000|"Yes, but I don't."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000045_000000|"Do not be so dense, my dear fellow.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000045_000001|I shall carry you on my back, of course."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000046_000001|Are you sure that-isn't there some other-I mean, can you do it?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000047_000000|The Phoenix drew itself up to its full height.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000047_000001|"I am hurt-yes, deeply hurt-by your lack of faith.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000047_000005|I shall give you proof positive."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000048_000000|David reluctantly followed the Phoenix to a spot on the edge of the shelf where there was a gap in the bushes.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000048_000001|He glanced over the brink. The sheer face of the scarp fell away beneath them, plunging down to the tiny trees and rocks below.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000048_000002|He stepped back quickly with a shudder.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000049_000000|"Let's-let's do it tomorrow," he quavered.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000050_000001|"No time like the present.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000052_000000|"On my back.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000052_000002|Ready?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000053_000000|"No," said David faintly.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000054_000000|"Splendid!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000054_000001|The proof is to be demonstrated, the-to be brief, we are off!"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000000|The great wings were outstretched.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000002|He felt a hopping sensation, then a long, sickening downward swoop that seemed to leave his stomach far behind.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000003|A tremendous rush of air snatched at his shirt.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000004|He opened his eyes and choked with fright.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000007|The Phoenix was breathing in hoarse gasps; its wings were pounding the air frantically.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000009|The scarp loomed before them, solid and blank.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000010|Above them-high above them-was the ledge.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000011|It looked as though they would not get back to it.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000000|Up ... up ... up....
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000001|They crawled through the air.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000002|The wings flapped wildly, faster and faster.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000003|They were gaining-slipping back-gaining again.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000004|The Phoenix sobbed as it stretched its neck in the last effort. Fifty feet ... twenty feet ... ten....
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000006|David's legs slipped from the bird's back.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000007|He dangled over the abyss from the outstretched neck, and prayed.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000008|The bush saved them.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000058_000000|At last the Phoenix weakly raised its head.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000058_000002|I-puff-"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000060_000001|The earth reeled under him and would not stop no matter how tightly he clutched the grass.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000061_000000|"Puff-I repeat, I am-puff-an exceedingly powerful flyer.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000061_000002|The truth of the matter is that you are a lot-puff-heavier than you look.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000061_000003|I hope you are not being overfed at home?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000000|"Well, my course is clear," said the Phoenix firmly.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000001|"I must practice. Setting up exercises, roadwork, and what not.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000002|Rigorous diet.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000003|Lots of sleep.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000005|Courage, my dear fellow!
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000006|We shall do it yet!"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000002|After this, the bird would jog trot up and down the ledge and practice jumping.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000003|Then there would be a fifteen minute rest and refreshment period.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000005|This was the part David liked best.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000006|It was a magnificent sight.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000007|The Phoenix dashed back and forth at top speed, wheeled in circles, shot straight up like a rocket-plunged, hovered, looped-rolled, soared, fluttered.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000008|Now and then it would swoop back to the ledge beside David and wipe the sweat from its brow.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000066_000000|"I trust you see signs of progress, my boy?"
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000067_000000|David would wrap the wet towel around the Phoenix's neck.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000067_000001|"You're doing better and better, Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000000|"I do perform that rather well, don't I?
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000002|But just the thing for acquiring (ouch!) muscle tone.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000003|Are there any more cookies? Ah, there are.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000005|As I was saying, let this be a lesson to you, my boy.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000006|If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000069_000000|The Phoenix would take wing again.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000069_000001|And David would settle back against a rock and watch.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000069_000003|And sometimes he did not think at all, but just sat with his eyes half shut, feeling the sunlight on his face and listening to the rustle of the wind in the thicket.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000070_000000|At the end of the week the Phoenix, after a brilliant display of acrobatics, landed on the ledge, clasped its wings behind its back, and looked solemnly at David.
train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000071_000001|Are you ready?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000004_000000|"Now, my boy," said the Phoenix, when they got back to the ledge that afternoon, "are the shops still open?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000005_000000|"I think they're open till six," said David, shaking the sand out of his shoes.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000005_000001|"Are we going to buy something?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000006_000000|"Precisely, my boy.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000006_000001|A hardware store should have what we need.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000006_000002|Now, you will take our gold and purchase the following." And the Phoenix listed the things it wanted, and told David which to bring to the ledge and which to leave below.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000007_000000|"... and a hatchet," the Phoenix concluded.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000008_000000|"We have one at home already," said David.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000008_000002|What are we going to do with it?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000010_000000|"What did you say?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000011_000000|"Curiosity killed the cat," explained the Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000012_000000|"Oh.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000012_000001|But-"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000013_000000|"Now, run along, my boy.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000013_000001|A very important Thought has just come to me. I must Meditate a while." The Phoenix glanced at the thicket and hid a yawn behind one wing.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000001|He couldn't spend pirate gold pieces, or even show them to anyone, without being asked a lot of embarrassing questions.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000002|What to do?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000004|More embarrassing questions.... Well, he would have to rob his bank.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000005|But wait-why hadn't he remembered?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000006|Just before they had moved, Uncle Charles had given him a ten dollar bill as a farewell present.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000007|He had been saving it for a model airplane, but the excitement of the last few days had driven it completely out of his mind.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000008|Of course the Phoenix's Plan was more important than any model plane could be.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000001|Then he brought the package home, hid it behind the woodpile in the garage, and sat down to think. Wire-bell-pushbutton.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000002|What could the Phoenix possibly want with them?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000003|And what was the rope for?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000004|And the hatchet?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000005|The more he puzzled over it the more confused he became, and finally he just gave up. There was only one thing he was sure about: whatever the Plan was, they would have to carry it out as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000006|Two days had passed since the Scientist had shown up.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000008|Perhaps even today, when they had been digging up the pirate treasure, the Scientist had got his new rifle and had started to hunt through the mountains.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000017_000000|The thought gave David a creepy feeling on the back of his neck.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000017_000001|They certainly would have to hurry.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000018_000000|Early next morning David climbed up to the ledge, bringing with him the coil of rope and the hatchet.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000018_000001|As an afterthought he had added a paper bag full of cookies.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000019_000000|"Here's the stuff, Phoenix," he called out as he stepped onto the ledge.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000020_000000|There was a crash from the thicket as though someone had jumped up in it suddenly, and the Phoenix stumbled out, rubbing its eyes.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000021_000000|"Ah, splendid, my boy!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000021_000002|I was just-ah-Thinking."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000022_000000|"Phoenix," said David, "I'm not going to ask you again what your Plan is, because I know you'll tell me when it's time.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000022_000002|The Scientist may show up any minute."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000000|"Precisely, my boy.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000001|Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000002|One of my favorite proverbs.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000003|We shall begin immediately-"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000024_000000|"You might have brought more," said the Phoenix, fifteen minutes later.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000025_000001|"Phoenix, please tell me what we're going to do.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000025_000003|I've been thinking about the rope and wire and bell all night, and I can't make heads or tails out of it."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000000|The Phoenix gave a pleased laugh.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000001|"Of course you cannot, my boy.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000002|The Plan is far too profound for you to guess what it is.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000004|I shall now explain the rope and hatchet."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000027_000000|David leaned forward eagerly.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000000|"Now, scientists, you know, have fixed habits.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000001|If you know those habits, you can predict just what they will do at any time.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000002|Our particular Scientist is a daytime creature-that is to say, he comes at dawn and goes at dusk.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000003|His invariable habit, my boy!"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000029_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000031_000000|"Oh," said David.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000031_000001|He thought about this a while, then asked, "But suppose the Scientist comes up on the ledge during the day and catches you asleep?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000000|"Aha!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000001|That is where the rope and hatchet come in.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000002|Never fear, my boy-I thought of that also.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000003|We are going to construct a snare at each end of the ledge."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000033_000000|"How?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000000|"Hand me that twig, my boy." The Phoenix took the twig, found a bare spot of earth, and sketched a picture.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000001|"First we find a sapling and clear the branches from it with the hatchet-like this.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000002|Next we get a stake, cut a notch in it, and drive it into the ground-so.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000003|The sapling is bent down to it and fitted into the notch, which holds it down.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000005|Now we make a noose-so-from a piece of rope, tie it to the end of the sapling, and spread the loop out on the path-this way.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000006|The whole snare is hidden under grass and leaves." The Phoenix beamed and flung out its wings in a dramatic gesture.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000007|"Just picture it, my dear chap!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000008|The Scientist, smiling evilly as he skulks along the path!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000009|The unwary footstep!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000010|The sapling, jarred out of the notch, springing upward!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000012|And our archenemy dangling by the foot in mid-air, completely at our mercy! Magnificent!"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000035_000000|"Golly, Phoenix," said David, "that's pretty clever."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000001|Better to say 'a stroke of genius.' Only I, Phoenix, could have thought of it.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000002|And consider the poetic justice of it!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000003|This is exactly the sort of trap that the Scientist once set for me!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000004|Well, shall we begin?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000001|First they had to find the right kind of sapling, springy and strong.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000002|The sapling had to be in the right place-one by the goat trail, the other at the far end of the ledge.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000003|When they had been chosen, David had to shinny up them to lop off their branches.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000005|Then he had to make two stakes from stout, hard wood, cut a notch at one end, and drive them into the ground with the flat of the hatchet.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000039_000001|But at last the saplings were set in the notches, the nooses were formed and fastened on.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000039_000002|Grass and leaves were strewn over the snares; chips, hewn branches, and other evidences of their work were removed.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000039_000003|They sat down and looked proudly at each other.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000040_000000|"My boy," said the Phoenix, "I have had a wide, and sometimes painful, experience with traps; so you may believe me when I say that these are among the best I have seen.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000041_000000|"They're sure strong enough," David agreed, flexing his fingers to take the stiffness out of them.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000041_000001|"But what are we going to do if the Scientist does get caught in one?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000042_000001|Now, do you have the pliers, wire cutters, and screw driver below?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000043_000000|"Yes, they're down in the cellar.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000044_000000|"Patience, patience!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000044_000001|You will be told when the time comes.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000044_000002|I shall meet you tonight after dark, as soon as it is safe for me to come down.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000000|"Precisely, my boy.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000001|A risk, I admit, but a necessary one.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000002|There is a hedge at the back of your house, is there not?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000003|Splendid.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000004|You may await me there."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000048_000000|"Phoenix," he whispered, "how did you do it?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000049_000000|"I have been hunted long enough, my boy, to have learned a few tricks. It is merely a matter of gliding close to the ground, selecting the best shadows, and keeping a sharp lookout.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000049_000001|Well, let us get on with the Plan.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000049_000002|Have you the tools here?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000050_000000|"Yes, here they are."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000000|"Splendid!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000001|Now, my boy, since we must continue your education during the night, it is necessary that we have some way of getting in touch with each other.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000004|The question now is, how will you know when I have arrived?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000005|That, my boy, is the nub, or crux, of the situation.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000007|But I have worked out the solution."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000053_000000|"My boy, we are going to install this bell in your room, and the pushbutton on the base of that telephone pole.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000053_000001|When I arrive here at night, I shall press the button to let you know that I am ready to go. A magnificent idea, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000054_000000|It did not seem very practical to David.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000054_000001|"Well, Phoenix, that's a good idea," he said carefully.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000054_000002|"But how are we going to hide the wires? And what about the noise of the bell?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000000|"Nothing to it, my boy!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000001|The wires?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000002|There are wires between your house and the telephone pole already-one more would not be noticed.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000003|The noise?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000004|You have a pillow on your bed, under which the bell can be muffled."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000056_000000|"Yes, that's true." It still sounded impractical.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000000|"Just imagine it!" the Phoenix continued enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000001|"Perhaps later we can install another bell at this end.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000002|Then we could learn Morse code and send messages to each other.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000003|Exactly like a private telephone line!"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000058_000000|Put in this way, the idea had a certain appeal, and David found himself warming to it.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000058_000001|But there was another thing to consider.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000059_000000|"How about electricity, Phoenix?"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000060_000000|"Look above you, my boy!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000060_000001|The telephone pole is simply loaded down with power lines waiting to be tapped."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000061_000000|The Phoenix was evidently set on carrying out the Plan, and David did not want to wear out the bird's patience with more objections. And-well, why not?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000062_000000|They gathered up the tools and walked along the hedge to the telephone pole, which was in one corner of the yard.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000000|"Electricity," said the Phoenix thoughtfully, "is a complicated and profound subject.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000001|There are amperes, and there are volts, and there are kilowatt hours.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000002|I might also mention positive and negative and-ah-all that sort of thing.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000003|Most profound.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000004|Perhaps I had better investigate up there.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000005|Screw driver, please."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000064_000000|The Phoenix took the screw driver in one claw and flew up to the top of the pole.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000064_000001|David could hear the creak of the lines under the Phoenix's weight and the rattling of the screw driver against the porcelain insulators.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000001|The power lines merely come up to the pole on one side, pass through the insulators, and go away from the pole on the other side.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000002|Child's play!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000003|The covering on the lines is rather tough, however.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000004|We shall have to use the wire cutters."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000066_000000|The Phoenix returned to the top of the pole with the cutters, and worked on the wires for five more minutes.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000066_000002|One of the wires vibrated on a low note like a slack guitar string.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000000|"We must not forget the difference between alternating and direct current, my boy," said the Phoenix as it flew down again.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000001|"An important problem, that.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000002|Where is our wire?
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000004|The pliers, please."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000068_000000|"Do you need any help up there?" David asked.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000069_000000|"No, everything is coming along beautifully, thank you.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000069_000001|I shall have everything finished in a flash."
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000070_000000|Trailing one end of the wire in its beak, the Phoenix flew up into the darkness once more.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000070_000001|The tinkering sounds began again, and a spurt of falling debris rattled in the leaves of the hedge.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000000|Suddenly it happened.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000001|There was a terrific burst of blue light, a sharp squawk from the Phoenix, and a shower of sparks.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000002|Another blue flash blazed up.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000003|The lights in the house, and down the whole street, flickered and went out.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000004|In the blackness which followed, each stage of the Phoenix's descent could be heard as clearly as cannon shots: the twanging and snapping as it tumbled through the wires, a drawn out squawk and the flop of wings in the air below, the crash into the hedge, the jarring thud against the ground.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000005|Broken wires began to sputter ominously and fire out sparks.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000006|A smell of singed feathers and burning rubber filled the air.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000073_000000|By the light of the sparks David saw the Phoenix staggering to its feet.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000073_000001|He jumped to the bird's side, but the Phoenix waved him away with its wing.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000074_000000|"Quick, my boy," it gasped.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000074_000001|"We must make a strategic retreat!
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000075_000000|David had the presence of mind to gather up all the tools, the wire, bell, and pushbutton, and one of the Phoenix's feathers, which had been torn out during the fall.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000075_000001|He slipped through a cellar window, hid the equipment under a stack of old boxes, and ran noisily up the stairs into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000076_000000|"Hey!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000076_000001|"The lights are out!"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000077_000000|"Is that you, dear?" came Mother's anxious voice from the dining room.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000078_000000|"The telephone's dead!" Dad shouted from the hall.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000079_000000|Aunt Amy came bumping down the stairs with a candle.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000079_000002|"Turning out all the lights so he can murder us in our beds!"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000080_000000|"Look!" David shouted, "the line's broken in our back yard!"
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000000|They could hear the wailing of sirens now.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000001|Fire trucks, repair trucks, and police cars pulled up in front of the house.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000002|Everyone in the block turned out to see what had happened.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000003|It took the repair men an hour to untangle the wires and fix them.
train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000004|And all the time policemen were going through the crowd, asking questions and writing things down in their notebooks.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000000_000000|'twas with thoughts like this that I was busy while the short afternoon was spent, and the story went up and down the village, how that Elzevir Block and john Trenchard, who left so long ago, were come back to Moonfleet, and that the old lander was drowned saving the young man's life.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000000_000004|what use was freedom to me now?
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000001_000005|Did you not think to tell me you were come?
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000001_000006|Did you not see the light, did you not know there was a friend that waited for you?'
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000002_000000|I said nothing, not being able to speak, but marvelling how she had come just in the point of time to prove me wrong to think I had no friend; and she went on:
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000004_000000|And while she spoke I thought how Elzevir had gone to shoot her father, and only failed of it by a hair's breadth, and yet she spoke so well I thought he never really meant to shoot at all, but only to scare the magistrate.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000004_000002|And still I could not speak.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000007_000002|Said I not to you, Have a care how you touch the treasure, it was evilly come by and will bring a curse with it?
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000009_000002|And so a dread which was just waking was laid to rest for ever; and when Ratsey went I made up the fire, and lay down in the blankets in front of it, for I was dog tired and longed for sleep.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000009_000003|I was already dozing, but not asleep, when there was a knock at the door, and in walked mr Glennie.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000010_000000|He looked at me curiously at first, as taking note of the bearded man that had grown out of the boy he remembered, but gave me very kindly greeting, and sat down beside me on a bench.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000010_000001|First, he lifted the sail from the dead body, and looked at the sleeping face.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000013_000000|After this I thought he was going, but he cleared his throat in such a way that I guessed he had something important to say, and he drew a long folded blue paper from his pocket.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000013_000002|And that this is so let what I am about to read to you prove; so light a candle and set it by me, for my eyes cannot follow the writing in this dancing firelight.'
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000015_000001|It was addressed to the Reverend Horace Glennie, Perpetual Curate of Moonfleet, in the County of Dorset, England, and written in English by Heer Roosten, Attorney and Signariat of the Hague in the Kingdom of Holland.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000016_000000|He therefore left to john Trenchard everything of which he should die possessed, and being near death begged his forgiveness if he had wronged him in aught.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000017_000002|The candle had long burnt out, but the fire was bright, and he knelt a moment by the trestle table before he went out.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000018_000000|'He made a good end, john,' he said, rising from his knees, 'and I pray that our end may be in as good cause when it comes.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000018_000004|So fare you well, and remember that there are other treasures besides this, and that a good woman's love is worth far more than all the gold and jewels of the world-as I once knew.' And with that he left me.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000000|What need to tell this tale at any more length, since you may know, by my telling it, that all went well? for what man would sit down to write a history that ended in his own discomfiture?
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000002|And of that money I never touched penny piece, having learnt a bitter lesson in the past, but laid it out in good works, with mr Glennie and Grace to help me.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000003|First, we rebuilt and enlarged the almshouses beyond all that Colonel john Mohune could ever think of, and so established them as to be a haven for ever for all worn out sailors of that coast.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000006|But that great vault below it, with its memories, was set in order, and then safely walled up, and after that nothing was more ever heard of Blackbeard and his lost Mohunes.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000021_000000|The village, too, renewed itself with the new almshouses and church. There were old houses rebuilt and fresh ones reared, and all are ours, except the Why Not? which still remains the Duchy Inn.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000021_000001|And that was let again, and men left the Choughs at Ringstave and came back to their old haunt, and any shipwrecked or travel worn sailor found board and welcome within its doors.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000022_000000|And of the Mohune Hospital-for that was what the alms houses were now called-Master Glennie was first warden, with fair rooms and a full library, and Master Ratsey head of the Bedesmen.
train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000023_000000|And of ourselves let me speak last.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000003_000000|THE NEW TIN GUTTER
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000004_000000|All day Saturday the men had worked out upon the eaves of the house and the dolls facing the window could see them.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000005_000000|The men made quite a lot of noise with their hammers, for they were putting new gutters around the eaves, and pounding upon tin makes a great deal of noise.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000007_000000|"What are they doing now?" Raggedy Andy asked.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000008_000000|He was lying with his head beneath a little bed quilt, just as Marcella had dropped him when she left the nursery; so he could not see what was going on.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000009_000000|"We can only see the men's legs as they pass the window," answered Uncle Clem.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000009_000001|"But they are putting new shingles or something on the roof!"
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000010_000000|After the men had left their work and gone home to supper and the house was quiet, Raggedy Andy cautiously moved his head out from under the little bed quilt and, seeing that the coast was clear, sat up.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000011_000000|This was a signal for all the dolls to sit up and smooth out the wrinkles in their clothes.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000015_000000|"Here's a grand place to have a lovely slide!" he said as he gave one of the penny dolls a scoot down the shiny tin gutter.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000016_000001|See her go!" Raggedy Andy cried.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000017_000000|All the other dolls climbed upon the window sill beside him.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000019_000000|Then Raggedy Andy climbed into the gutter himself and, taking a few steps, spread out his feet and went scooting down the shiny tin.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000020_000000|The other dolls followed his example and scooted along behind him.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000021_000000|When Raggedy Andy came to the place where he expected to find the penny dolls lying, they were nowhere about.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000022_000000|"Perhaps you scooted them farther than you thought!" Uncle Clem said.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000023_000000|"Perhaps I did!" Raggedy Andy said, "We will look around the bend in the eave!"
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000024_000000|"Oh dear!" he exclaimed when he had peeped around the corner of the roof, "the gutter ends here and there is nothing but a hole!"
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000025_000000|"They must have scooted right into the hole," Henny, the Dutch doll said.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000026_000000|Raggedy Andy lay flat upon the shiny tin and looked down into the hole.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000027_000000|"Are you down there, penny dolls?" he called.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000029_000000|"I hope their heads were not broken!" Raggedy Ann said.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000031_000000|"I'm so sorry I scooted them!" Raggedy Andy cried, as he brushed his hand over his shoe button eyes.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000033_000000|Uncle Clem and Henny each caught hold of a foot of Raggedy Andy and let him slide down into the hole.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000034_000000|It was a rather tight fit, but Raggedy Andy wiggled and twisted until all the dolls could see of him were his two feet.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000035_000000|"I can't find them!" he said in muffled tones.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000035_000001|"Let me down farther and I think I'll be able to reach them!"
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000036_000000|Now Henny and Uncle Clem thought that Raggedy Andy meant for them to let go of his feet and this they did.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000040_000000|Raggedy Andy tried to wiggle backward up the pipe, but his clothes caught upon a little piece of tin which stuck out from the inside of the pipe and there he stayed.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000040_000001|He could neither go down nor come back up.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000041_000000|"What shall we do?" Uncle Clem cried, "The folks will never find him down there, for we can not tell them where he is, and they will never guess it!"
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000042_000000|The dolls were all very sad.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000042_000001|They stayed out upon the shiny new tin gutter until it began raining and hoped and hoped that Raggedy Andy could get back up to them.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000043_000000|Then they went inside the nursery and sat looking out the window until it was time for the folks to get up and the house to be astir.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000043_000001|Then they went back to the position each had been in, when Marcella had left them.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000044_000000|And although they were very quiet, each one was so sorry to lose Raggedy Andy, and each felt that he would never be found again.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000047_000000|Then Raggedy Ann remembered that there was an opening at the bottom of the pipe.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000048_000000|"Tomorrow night if we have a chance, we dolls must take a stick and see if we can reach Raggedy Andy from the bottom of the pipe and pull him down to us!" she thought.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000049_000000|Marcella came up to the nursery and played all day, watching the rain patter upon the new tin gutter.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000049_000001|She wondered where Raggedy Andy was, although she did not get worried about him until she had asked Mama where he might be.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000050_000000|"He must be just where you left him!" Mama said.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000051_000000|"I cannot remember where I left him!" Marcella said.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000053_000000|All day Sunday it rained and all of Sunday night, and Monday morning when Daddy started to work it was still raining.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000054_000000|As Daddy walked out of the front gate, he turned to wave good bye to Mama and Marcella and then he saw something.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000055_000000|Daddy came right back into the house and called up the men who had put in the new shiny tin gutters.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000056_000000|"The drain pipe is plugged up.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000056_000001|Some of you must have left shavings or something in the eaves, and it has washed down into the pipe, so that the water pours over the gutter in sheets!"
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000057_000000|"We will send a man right up to fix it!" the men said.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000058_000000|So along about ten o'clock that morning one of the men came to fix the pipe.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000059_000000|But although he punched a long pole down the pipe, and punched and punched, he could not dislodge whatever it was which plugged the pipe and kept the water from running through it.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000062_000000|Then the man measured with his stick, so that he knew just where the place was, and with a pair of tin shears he cut a section from the pipe and found Raggedy Andy.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000064_000000|The man laughed and carried little water soaked Raggedy Andy into the house.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000065_000000|"I guess your little girl must have dropped this rag doll down into the drain pipe!" the man said to Mama.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000066_000000|"I'm so glad you found him!" Mama said to the man.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000069_000000|And as he sat there he smiled and smiled, even though there was no one to see him.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000070_000000|He felt very happy within and he liked to smile, anyway, because his smile was painted on.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000071_000000|And another reason Raggedy Andy smiled was because he was not lonesome.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000072_000000|Inside his waist were the two little penny dolls.
train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000073_000000|The man had punched Raggedy Andy farther down into the pipe, and he had been able to reach the two little dolls and tuck them into a safe place.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000001_000001|We fetched an armful and hid it in the weeds, and set down to rest, and Tom says, kind of dissatisfied:
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000001|There ain't even a dog to give a sleeping mixture to.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000002|And there's Jim chained by one leg, with a ten foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000003|And Uncle Silas he trusts everybody; sends the key to the punkin headed nigger, and don't send nobody to watch the nigger.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000004|Jim could a got out of that window hole before this, only there wouldn't be no use trying to travel with a ten foot chain on his leg.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000007|Well, we can't help it; we got to do the best we can with the materials we've got.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000009|Now look at just that one thing of the lantern.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000011|Why, we could work with a torchlight procession if we wanted to, I believe.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000003_000000|"What do we want of a saw?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000004_000001|Hain't we got to saw the leg of Jim's bed off, so as to get the chain loose?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000005_000000|"Why, you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000000|"Well, if that ain't just like you, Huck Finn.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000003|Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old maidy way as that?
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000006|It's gaudy, Huck.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000007|I wish there was a moat to this cabin.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000009_000000|But he never heard me.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000009_000001|He had forgot me and everything else.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000010_000000|"No, it wouldn't do  there ain't necessity enough for it."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000011_000000|"For what?" I says.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000013_000001|And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000014_000000|"Well, some of the best authorities has done it.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000014_000001|They couldn't get the chain off, so they just cut their hand off and shoved.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000014_000005|But there's one thing  he can have a rope ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope ladder easy enough.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000002|Huck, you don't ever seem to want to do anything that's regular; you want to be starting something fresh all the time.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000004|ain't it there in his bed, for a clew, after he's gone? and don't you reckon they'll want clews? Of course they will.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000005|And you wouldn't leave them any?
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000007|I never heard of such a thing."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000019_000001|Now, the way I look at it, a hickry bark ladder don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain't had no experience, and so he don't care what kind of a  "
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000020_000001|Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry bark ladder?
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000020_000002|Why, it's perfectly ridiculous."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000022_000000|He said that would do.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000022_000001|And that gave him another idea, and he says:
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000023_000000|"Borrow a shirt, too."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000024_000000|"What do we want of a shirt, Tom?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000025_000000|"Want it for Jim to keep a journal on."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000028_000000|"Why, Tom, we can pull a feather out of a goose and make him a better one; and quicker, too."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000031_000000|"Many makes it out of iron rust and tears; but that's the common sort and women; the best authorities uses their own blood.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000031_000001|Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000032_000000|"Jim ain't got no tin plates.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000032_000001|They feed him in a pan."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000033_000000|"That ain't nothing; we can get him some."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000035_000003|Why, half the time you can't read anything a prisoner writes on a tin plate, or anywhere else."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000036_000000|"Well, then, what's the sense in wasting the plates?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000039_000000|"Well, spos'n it is?
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000040_000000|He broke off there, because we heard the breakfast horn blowing.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000040_000001|So we cleared out for the house.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000000|Along during the morning I borrowed a sheet and a white shirt off of the clothes line; and I found an old sack and put them in it, and we went down and got the fox fire, and put that in too.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000002|He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000005|So we allowed we would steal everything there was that come handy.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000006|And yet he made a mighty fuss, one day, after that, when I stole a watermelon out of the nigger patch and eat it; and he made me go and give the niggers a dime without telling them what it was for.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000008|Well, I says, I needed the watermelon.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000010|So I let it go at that, though I couldn't see no advantage in my representing a prisoner if I got to set down and chaw over a lot of gold leaf distinctions like that every time I see a chance to hog a watermelon.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000042_000000|Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till everybody was settled down to business, and nobody in sight around the yard; then Tom he carried the sack into the lean to whilst I stood off a piece to keep watch.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000042_000001|By and by he come out, and we went and set down on the woodpile to talk.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000043_000000|"Everything's all right now except tools; and that's easy fixed."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000044_000000|"Tools?" I says.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000045_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000046_000000|"Tools for what?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000047_000000|"Why, to dig with.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000049_000000|He turns on me, looking pitying enough to make a body cry, and says:
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000051_000000|"Well, then," I says, "if we don't want the picks and shovels, what do we want?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000052_000000|"A couple of case knives."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000053_000000|"To dig the foundations out from under that cabin with?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000054_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000055_000000|"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000056_000002|They always dig out with a case knife  and not through dirt, mind you; generly it's through solid rock.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000056_000003|And it takes them weeks and weeks and weeks, and for ever and ever.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000057_000000|"I don't know."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000059_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000059_000001|A month and a half."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000062_000001|Neither did that other fellow.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000062_000003|Why can't you stick to the main point?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000063_000001|But there's one thing, anyway  Jim's too old to be dug out with a case knife. He won't last."
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000065_000000|"How long will it take, Tom?"
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000066_000000|"Well, we can't resk being as long as we ought to, because it mayn't take very long for Uncle Silas to hear from down there by New Orleans. He'll hear Jim ain't from there.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000066_000001|Then his next move will be to advertise Jim, or something like that.
train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000066_000003|By rights I reckon we ought to be a couple of years; but we can't.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000002_000000|'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000002_000002|It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000003_000000|'The material of the Palace proved on examination to be indeed porcelain, and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000003_000001|I thought, rather foolishly, that Weena might help me to interpret this, but I only learned that the bare idea of writing had never entered her head.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000003_000002|She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000000|'Within the big valves of the door-which were open and broken-we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000001|At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000003|I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000005|Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000006|My museum hypothesis was confirmed.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000007|Going towards the side I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000008|But they must have been air tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000000|'Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter day South Kensington!
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000003|And the cases had in some instances been bodily removed-by the Morlocks as I judged.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000004|The place was very silent.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000005|The thick dust deadened our footsteps.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000006|Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000006_000000|'And at first I was so much surprised by this ancient monument of an intellectual age, that I gave no thought to the possibilities it presented.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000006_000001|Even my preoccupation about the Time Machine receded a little from my mind.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000000|'To judge from the size of the place, this Palace of Green Porcelain had a great deal more in it than a Gallery of Palaeontology; possibly historical galleries; it might be, even a library!
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000001|To me, at least in my present circumstances, these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay. Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000002|This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000003|But I could find no saltpeter; indeed, no nitrates of any kind.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000004|Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000005|Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000006|As for the rest of the contents of that gallery, though on the whole they were the best preserved of all I saw, I had little interest.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000007|I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000008|Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000010|I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patent readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000011|Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000012|At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling-many of them cracked and smashed-which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000013|Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000014|You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000000|'Suddenly Weena came very close to my side.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000001|So suddenly that she startled me.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000002|Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000004|As you went down the length, the ground came up against these windows, until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each, and only a narrow line of daylight at the top.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000006|Then I saw that the gallery ran down at last into a thick darkness.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000008|Further away towards the dimness, it appeared to be broken by a number of small narrow footprints.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000009|My sense of the immediate presence of the Morlocks revived at that. I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000011|And then down in the remote blackness of the gallery I heard a peculiar pattering, and the same odd noises I had heard down the well.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000000|'I took Weena's hand.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000001|Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal box.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000002|Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000003|Suddenly Weena, deserted in the central aisle, began to whimper.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000005|And I longed very much to kill a Morlock or so.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000006|Very inhuman, you may think, to want to go killing one's own descendants!
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000007|But it was impossible, somehow, to feel any humanity in the things.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000008|Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000010_000000|'Well, mace in one hand and Weena in the other, I went out of that gallery and into another and still larger one, which at the first glance reminded me of a military chapel hung with tattered flags. The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000010_000001|They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000010_000003|Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000000|'Then, going up a broad staircase, we came to what may once have been a gallery of technical chemistry.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000001|And here I had not a little hope of useful discoveries.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000002|Except at one end where the roof had collapsed, this gallery was well preserved.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000003|I went eagerly to every unbroken case.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000004|And at last, in one of the really air tight cases, I found a box of matches.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000005|Very eagerly I tried them.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000006|They were perfectly good.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000008|I turned to Weena.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000009|"Dance," I cried to her in her own tongue.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000010|For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000013|For I am naturally inventive, as you know.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000000|'Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000001|Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000004|In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000006|I was about to throw it away, but I remembered that it was inflammable and burned with a good bright flame-was, in fact, an excellent candle-and I put it in my pocket.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000007|I found no explosives, however, nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000008|As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000009|Nevertheless I left that gallery greatly elated.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000001|It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000002|I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000003|I could not carry both, however, and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000005|The most were masses of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000006|But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000007|One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000000|'As the evening drew on, my interest waned.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000001|I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000002|In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air tight case, two dynamite cartridges!
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000003|I shouted "Eureka!" and smashed the case with joy.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000004|Then came a doubt.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000005|I hesitated.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000006|Then, selecting a little side gallery, I made my essay.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000007|I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came. Of course the things were dummies, as I might have guessed from their presence.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000008|I really believe that had they not been so, I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx, bronze doors, and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine, all together into non existence.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000000|'It was after that, I think, that we came to a little open court within the palace.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000001|It was turfed, and had three fruit trees.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000003|Towards sunset I began to consider our position.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000005|But that troubled me very little now.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000006|I had in my possession a thing that was, perhaps, the best of all defences against the Morlocks-I had matches!
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000007|I had the camphor in my pocket, too, if a blaze were needed.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000008|It seemed to me that the best thing we could do would be to pass the night in the open, protected by a fire.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000009|In the morning there was the getting of the Time Machine.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000010|Towards that, as yet, I had only my iron mace.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000011|But now, with my growing knowledge, I felt very differently towards those bronze doors.
train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000012|Up to this, I had refrained from forcing them, largely because of the mystery on the other side.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000002_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000003_000000|TREACHERY
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000004_000000|The day following the coming of Vas Kor to the palace of the Prince of Helium great excitement reigned throughout the twin cities, reaching its climax in the palace of Carthoris.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000005_000000|In the council chamber of john Carter, Warlord of Mars, was Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium; Mors Kajak, his son, Jed of Lesser Helium; Carthoris, and a score of the great nobles of the empire.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000006_000001|"That you are innocent of the charge that has been placed against you by insinuation, we well know; but Thuvan Dihn must know it well, too.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000007_000000|"There is but one who may convince him, and that one be you.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000007_000002|Bear with you the authority of the Warlord of Barsoom, and of the Jeddak of Helium to offer every resource of the allied powers to assist Thuvan Dihn to recover his daughter and punish her abductors, whomsoever they may be.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000008_000000|"Go!
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000008_000001|I know that I do not need to urge upon you the necessity for haste."
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000009_000000|Carthoris left the council chamber, and hastened to his palace.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000010_000000|Here slaves were busy in a moment setting things to rights for the departure of their master.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000011_000000|At last all was done.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000011_000001|But two armed slaves remained on guard. The setting sun hung low above the horizon.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000011_000002|In a moment darkness would envelop all.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000012_000000|One of the guardsmen, a giant of a fellow across whose right cheek there ran a thin scar from temple to mouth, approached his companion. His gaze was directed beyond and above his comrade.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000012_000001|When he had come quite close he spoke.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000013_000000|"What strange craft is that?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000014_000000|The other turned about quickly to gaze heavenward.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000014_000001|Scarce was his back turned toward the giant than the short sword of the latter was plunged beneath his left shoulder blade, straight through his heart.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000015_000000|Voiceless, the soldier sank in his tracks-stone dead.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000015_000001|Quickly the murderer dragged the corpse into the black shadows within the hangar.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000015_000002|Then he returned to the flier.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000016_000000|Drawing a cunningly wrought key from his pocket pouch, he removed the cover of the right-hand dial of the controlling destination compass.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000016_000001|For a moment he studied the construction of the mechanism beneath.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000016_000002|Then he returned the dial to its place, set the pointer, and removed it again to note the resultant change in the position of the parts affected by the act.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000017_000000|A smile crossed his lips.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000017_000001|With a pair of cutters he snipped off the projection which extended through the dial from the external pointer-now the latter might be moved to any point upon the dial without affecting the mechanism below.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000017_000002|In other words, the eastern hemisphere dial was useless.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000018_000000|Now he turned his attention to the western dial.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000018_000002|Afterward he removed the cover of this dial also, and with keen tool cut the steel finger from the under side of the pointer.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000019_000000|As quickly as possible he replaced the second dial cover, and resumed his place on guard.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000019_000001|To all intents and purposes the compass was as efficient as before; but, as a matter of fact, the moving of the pointers upon the dials resulted now in no corresponding shift of the mechanism beneath-and the device was set, immovably, upon a destination of the slave's own choosing.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000020_000000|Presently came Carthoris, accompanied by but a handful of his gentlemen.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000020_000001|He cast but a casual glance upon the single slave who stood guard.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000020_000002|The fellow's thin, cruel lips, and the sword cut that ran from temple to mouth aroused the suggestion of an unpleasant memory within him.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000022_000000|It could not have been he, thought Carthoris, for on the very night that Thuvia was taken Astok had been in Dusar, and yet-
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000024_000000|With a word of farewell he touched the button which controlled the repulsive rays, and as the flier rose lightly into the air, the engine purred in answer to the touch of his finger upon a second button, the propellers whirred as his hand drew back the speed lever, and Carthoris, Prince of Helium, was off into the gorgeous Martian night beneath the hurtling moons and the million stars.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000025_000000|Scarce had the flier found its speed ere the man, wrapping his sleeping silks and furs about him, stretched at full length upon the narrow deck to sleep.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000026_000000|But sleep did not come at once at his bidding.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000027_000000|Instead, his thoughts ran riot in his brain, driving sleep away. He recalled the words of Thuvia of Ptarth, words that had half assured him that she loved him; for when he had asked her if she loved Kulan Tith, she had answered only that she was promised to him.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000028_000000|Now he saw that her reply was open to more than a single construction. It might, of course, mean that she did not love Kulan Tith; and so, by inference, be taken to mean that she loved another.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000029_000000|But what assurance was there that the other was Carthoris of Helium?
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000000|The more he thought upon it the more positive he became that not only was there no assurance in her words that she loved him, but none either in any act of hers.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000001|No, the fact was, she did not love him.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000002|She loved another.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000003|She had not been abducted-she had fled willingly with her lover.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000031_000000|With such pleasant thoughts filling him alternately with despair and rage, Carthoris at last dropped into the sleep of utter mental exhaustion.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000032_000000|The breaking of the sudden dawn found him still asleep.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000032_000001|His flier was rushing swiftly above a barren, ochre plain-the world old bottom of a long dead Martian sea.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000034_000000|The countless dismal windows, vacant and forlorn, stared, sightless, from their marble walls; the whole sad city taking on the semblance of scattered mounds of dead men's sun bleached skulls-the casements having the appearance of eyeless sockets, the portals, grinning jaws.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000036_000000|Above the central plaza it stopped, slowly settling Marsward. Within a hundred yards of the ground it came to rest, floating gently in the light air, and at the same instant an alarm sounded at the sleeper's ear.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000037_000000|Carthoris sprang to his feet.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000037_000002|Beside him, already, there should have been an air patrol.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000038_000000|He gazed about in bewildered astonishment.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000039_000000|No patrol boat lay ready with its familiar challenge.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000039_000001|Silent and empty lay the great city-empty and silent the surrounding air.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000040_000000|What had happened?
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000041_000000|Carthoris examined the dial of his compass.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000041_000003|He would not believe it.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000042_000000|Quickly he unlocked the cover, turning it back upon its hinge.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000042_000001|A single glance showed him the truth, or at least a part of it-the steel projection that communicated the movement of the pointer upon the dial to the heart of the mechanism beneath had been severed.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000043_000000|Who could have done the thing-and why?
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000044_000000|Carthoris could not hazard even a faint guess.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000044_000001|But the thing now was to learn in what portion of the world he was, and then take up his interrupted journey once more.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000045_000000|If it had been the purpose of some enemy to delay him, he had succeeded well, thought Carthoris, as he unlocked the cover of the second dial the first having shown that its pointer had not been set at all.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000046_000000|Beneath the second dial he found the steel pin severed as in the other, but the controlling mechanism had first been set for a point upon the western hemisphere.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000049_000000|Carthoris waited to see no more.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000049_000001|Reaching for the control board, he sent his craft racing plummet like toward the ground.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000050_000000|The green man was hurrying his captive toward a huge thoat that browsed upon the ochre vegetation of the once scarlet gorgeous plaza.
train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000050_000001|At the same instant a dozen red warriors leaped from the entrance of a nearby ersite palace, pursuing the abductor with naked swords and shouts of rageful warning.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000003_000000|'Well, I MUST say,' mother said, looking at the wishing carpet as it lay, all darned and mended and backed with shiny American cloth, on the floor of the nursery-'I MUST say I've never in my life bought such a bad bargain as that carpet.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000004_000000|A soft 'Oh!' of contradiction sprang to the lips of Cyril, Robert, Jane, and Anthea.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000004_000001|Mother looked at them quickly, and said-
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000005_000000|'Well, of course, I see you've mended it very nicely, and that was sweet of you, dears.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000006_000000|'The boys helped too,' said the dears, honourably.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000007_000000|'But, still-twenty two and ninepence!
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000007_000002|It's simply dreadful now.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000009_000000|'No, dear, we can't help our boots,' said mother, cheerfully, 'but we might change them when we come in, perhaps.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000010_000001|It was the work of a good many minutes and several persons to get the jam off him again, and this interesting work took people's minds off the carpet, and nothing more was said just then about its badness as a bargain and about what mother hoped for from coconut matting.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000011_000001|Mother was very clever, but even she could not quite understand the cook's accounts.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000012_000000|The Lamb was very glad to have his brothers and sisters to play with him.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000012_000001|He had not forgotten them a bit, and he made them play all the old exhausting games: 'Whirling Worlds', where you swing the baby round and round by his hands; and 'Leg and Wing', where you swing him from side to side by one ankle and one wrist.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000012_000002|There was also climbing Vesuvius. In this game the baby walks up you, and when he is standing on your shoulders, you shout as loud as you can, which is the rumbling of the burning mountain, and then tumble him gently on to the floor, and roll him there, which is the destruction of Pompeii.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000014_000000|'Well, you talk and decide,' said Anthea; 'here, you lovely ducky Lamb. Come to Panther and play Noah's Ark.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000015_000000|The Lamb came with his pretty hair all tumbled and his face all dusty from the destruction of Pompeii, and instantly became a baby snake, hissing and wriggling and creeping in Anthea's arms, as she said-
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000017_000000|'Crocky,' said the Lamb, and showed all his little teeth.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000017_000001|So Anthea went on-
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000018_000000|'I love my little crocodile, I love his truthful toothful smile; It is so wonderful and wide, I like to see it-FROM OUTSIDE.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000019_000001|Mother can't believe the real true truth about the carpet, and-'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000020_000000|'You speak sooth, O Cyril,' remarked the Phoenix, coming out from the cupboard where the blackbeetles lived, and the torn books, and the broken slates, and odd pieces of toys that had lost the rest of themselves.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000021_000000|'There is a society called that,' said Cyril.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000022_000000|'Where is it?
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000022_000001|And what is a society?' asked the bird.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000023_000000|'It's a sort of joined together lot of people-a sort of brotherhood-a kind of-well, something very like your temple, you know, only quite different.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000024_000000|'I take your meaning,' said the Phoenix. 'I would fain see these calling themselves Sons of the Phoenix.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000025_000000|'But what about your words of wisdom?'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000026_000000|'Wisdom is always welcome,' said the Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000027_000000|'Pretty Polly!' remarked the Lamb, reaching his hands towards the golden speaker.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000028_000000|The Phoenix modestly retreated behind Robert, and Anthea hastened to distract the attention of the Lamb by murmuring-
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000029_000000|"I love my little baby rabbit; But oh! he has a dreadful habit Of paddling out among the rocks And soaking both his bunny socks.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000030_000000|'I don't think you'd care about the sons of the Phoenix, really,' said Robert. 'I have heard that they don't do anything fiery.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000030_000001|They only drink a great deal.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000031_000000|'In your mind, perhaps,' said Jane; 'but it wouldn't be good in your body.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000000|'Look here,' said Anthea; 'I really have an idea.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000001|This isn't like a common carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000002|It's very magic indeed.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000003|Don't you think, if we put Tatcho on it, and then gave it a rest, the magic part of it might grow, like hair is supposed to do?'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000034_000000|'It might,' said Robert; 'but I should think paraffin would do as well-at any rate as far as the smell goes, and that seems to be the great thing about Tatcho.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000035_000000|But with all its faults Anthea's idea was something to do, and they did it.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000037_000000|'We mustn't take it all,' Jane said, 'in case father's hair began to come off suddenly.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000038_000001|I expect it's the smell that does the good really-and the smell's exactly the same.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000039_000000|So a small teaspoonful of the Tatcho was put on the edges of the worst darn in the carpet and rubbed carefully into the roots of the hairs of it, and all the parts that there was not enough Tatcho for had paraffin rubbed into them with a piece of flannel.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000039_000001|Then the flannel was burned. It made a gay flame, which delighted the Phoenix and the Lamb.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000040_000000|'How often,' said mother, opening the door-'how often am I to tell you that you are NOT to play with paraffin?
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000042_000000|It was no use telling mother what they had done to the carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000042_000001|She did not know it was a magic carpet, and no one wants to be laughed at for trying to mend an ordinary carpet with lamp oil.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000043_000000|'Well, don't do it again,' said mother.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000043_000001|'And now, away with melancholy! Father has sent a telegram.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000043_000002|Look!' She held it out, and the children, holding it by its yielding corners, read-
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000044_000000|'Box for kiddies at Garrick.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000044_000001|Stalls for us, Haymarket.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000045_000001|Run and get out your frocks.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000046_000001|They were very nice tableaux, these, and I wish I could tell you about them; but one cannot tell everything in a story.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000046_000002|You would have been specially interested in hearing about the tableau of the Princes in the Tower, when one of the pillows burst, and the youthful Princes were so covered with feathers that the picture might very well have been called 'Michaelmas Eve; or, Plucking the Geese'.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000047_000000|Ironing the dresses and sewing the lace in occupied some time, and no one was dull, because there was the theatre to look forward to, and also the possible growth of hairs on the carpet, for which every one kept looking anxiously.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000047_000001|By four o'clock Jane was almost sure that several hairs were beginning to grow.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000050_000000|'I am not sick,' replied the golden bird, with a gloomy shake of the head; 'but I am getting old.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000052_000000|'Time,' remarked the Phoenix, 'is measured by heartbeats.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000052_000001|I'm sure the palpitations I've had since I've known you are enough to blanch the feathers of any bird.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000053_000001|Think of all the time that's before you.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000000|'Time,' said the Phoenix, 'is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000002|I have lived in these two months at a pace which generously counterbalances five hundred years of life in the desert.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000004|I feel as if I ought to lay my egg, and lay me down to my fiery sleep.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000007|What is the show at the theatre to night?
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000057_000001|Wouldn't you like to come with us?'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000058_000001|Do come, Phoenix, old chap; it will cheer you up.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000060_000001|Robert pretended that he was too cold to take off his great coat, and so sat sweltering through what would otherwise have been a most thrilling meal. He felt that he was a blot on the smart beauty of the family, and he hoped the Phoenix knew what he was suffering for its sake.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000000|Father's parting words were: 'Now, don't you stir out of this box, whatever you do.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000001|I shall be back before the end of the play.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000004|No?
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000005|Well, then, I should say you were sickening for something-mumps or measles or thrush or teething.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000006|Goodbye.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000064_000000|He went, and Robert was at last able to remove his coat, mop his perspiring brow, and release the crushed and dishevelled Phoenix.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000065_000001|When the lights went up fully, the Phoenix, balancing itself on the gilded back of a chair, swayed in ecstasy.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000066_000002|Tell me, my Robert, is it not that this, THIS is my true temple, and the other was but a humble shrine frequented by outcasts?'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000067_000000|'I don't know about outcasts,' said Robert, 'but you can call this your temple if you like.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000067_000001|Hush! the music is beginning.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000068_000000|I am not going to tell you about the play.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000068_000001|As I said before, one can't tell everything, and no doubt you saw 'The Water Babies' yourselves.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000069_000000|What I must tell you is that, though Cyril and Jane and Robert and Anthea enjoyed it as much as any children possibly could, the pleasure of the Phoenix was far, far greater than theirs.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000070_000001|'What radiant rites!
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000070_000002|And all to do honour to me!'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000071_000001|The choruses were choric songs in its praise.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000071_000002|The electric lights, it said, were magic torches lighted for its sake, and it was so charmed with the footlights that the children could hardly persuade it to sit still.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000071_000004|It flapped its golden wings, and cried in a voice that could be heard all over the theatre:
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000072_000000|'Well done, my servants!
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000073_000000|Little Tom on the stage stopped short in what he was saying.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000073_000001|A deep breath was drawn by hundreds of lungs, every eye in the house turned to the box where the luckless children cringed, and most people hissed, or said 'Shish!' or 'Turn them out!'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000074_000000|Then the play went on, and an attendant presently came to the box and spoke wrathfully.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000075_000000|'It wasn't us, indeed it wasn't,' said Anthea, earnestly; 'it was the bird.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000076_000000|The man said well, then, they must keep their bird very quiet. 'Disturbing every one like this,' he said.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000079_000000|'Well, he is a beauty, and no mistake,' said the attendant, 'only I'd cover him up during the acts.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000079_000001|It upsets the performance.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000082_000000|So now the Phoenix was quiet, but it kept whispering to the children.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000001|It was not in the least the fault of the theatre people, and no one could ever understand afterwards how it did happen.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000002|No one, that is, except the guilty bird itself and the four children.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000004|I mean the grey one with the red tail.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000005|All eyes were on the stage, where the lobster was delighting the audience with that gem of a song, 'If you can't walk straight, walk sideways!' when the Phoenix murmured warmly-
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000084_000000|'No altar, no fire, no incense!' and then, before any of the children could even begin to think of stopping it, it spread its bright wings and swept round the theatre, brushing its gleaming feathers against delicate hangings and gilded woodwork.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000085_000001|Next moment it was perched again on the chair back-and all round the theatre, where it had passed, little sparks shone like tinsel seeds, then little smoke wreaths curled up like growing plants-little flames opened like flower buds.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000085_000002|People whispered-then people shrieked.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000086_000001|Fire!' The curtain went down-the lights went up.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000087_000000|'Fire!' cried every one, and made for the doors.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000088_000000|'A magnificent idea!' said the Phoenix, complacently.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000091_000000|'Oh, how COULD you!' cried Jane. 'Let's get out.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000092_000000|'Father said stay here,' said Anthea, very pale, and trying to speak in her ordinary voice.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000093_000001|'No boys on burning decks for me, thank you.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000095_000000|But a fierce waft of smoke and hot air made him shut it again.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000095_000001|It was not possible to get out that way.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000096_000000|They looked over the front of the box.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000097_000000|It would be possible, certainly; but would they be much better off?
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000098_000000|'Look at the people,' moaned Anthea; 'we couldn't get through.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000100_000000|'I wish we'd never seen the Phoenix,' cried Jane.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000101_000000|Even at that awful moment Robert looked round to see if the bird had overheard a speech which, however natural, was hardly polite or grateful.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000102_000000|The Phoenix was gone.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000105_000000|'Look here,' said Robert, 'I'm NOT frightened-no, I'm not.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000106_000000|'The Phoenix thanks you, O Robert,' said a golden voice at his feet, and there was the Phoenix itself, on the Wishing Carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000107_000000|'Quick!' it said.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000107_000001|'Stand on those portions of the carpet which are truly antique and authentic-and-'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000108_000000|A sudden jet of flame stopped its words.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000108_000001|Alas! the Phoenix had unconsciously warmed to its subject, and in the unintentional heat of the moment had set fire to the paraffin with which that morning the children had anointed the carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000108_000006|Only the fabric of the old carpet was left-and that was full of holes.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000110_000000|The four children got on to what was left of the carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000111_000000|Jane had to sit on Anthea's lap.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000112_000001|They were all on the carpet still, and the carpet was lying in its proper place on the nursery floor, as calm and unmoved as though it had never been to the theatre or taken part in a fire in its life.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000114_000000|They presently found themselves all talking at once.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000117_000001|Oh, how awful!
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000117_000003|Oh, let's go this minute and tell them we aren't.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000119_000001|Only do wash your face first.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000119_000002|Mother will be sure to think you are burnt to a cinder if she sees you as black as that, and she'll faint or be ill or something.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000119_000003|Oh, I wish we'd never got to know that Phoenix.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000120_000001|I suppose it can't help its nature.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000120_000002|Perhaps we'd better wash too.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000121_000000|No one had noticed the Phoenix since it had bidden them to step on the carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000122_000000|All were partially clean, and Cyril was just plunging into his great coat to go and look for his parents-he, and not unjustly, called it looking for a needle in a bundle of hay-when the sound of father's latchkey in the front door sent every one bounding up the stairs.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000123_000000|'Are you all safe?' cried mother's voice; 'are you all safe?' and the next moment she was kneeling on the linoleum of the hall, trying to kiss four damp children at once, and laughing and crying by turns, while father stood looking on and saying he was blessed or something.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000125_000000|'Well, it was rather a rum thing.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000125_000001|We heard the Garrick was on fire, and of course we went straight there,' said father, briskly.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000125_000002|'We couldn't find you, of course-and we couldn't get in-but the firemen told us every one was safely out.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000000|'I said it was the bird that spoke,' said mother, 'and so it was.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000001|Or at least I thought so then.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000002|It wasn't a pigeon.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000003|It was an orange coloured cockatoo.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000004|I don't care who it was that spoke.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000127_000000|Mother began to cry again, and father said bed was a good place after the pleasures of the stage.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000128_000000|So every one went there.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000130_000001|Do not distress yourself. I, like my high priests in Lombard Street, can undo the work of flames. Kindly open the casement.'
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000131_000000|It flew out.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000132_000000|That was why the papers said next day that the fire at the theatre had done less damage than had been anticipated.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000132_000001|As a matter of fact it had done none, for the Phoenix spent the night in putting things straight. How the management accounted for this, and how many of the theatre officials still believe that they were mad on that night will never be known.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000133_000000|Next day mother saw the burnt holes in the carpet.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000134_000000|'It caught where it was paraffiny,' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000135_000000|'I must get rid of that carpet at once,' said mother.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000000|Presently, however, he spoke effectively.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000002|"Here's another difference between Midas and chicken," Sheridan remarked, grimly.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000003|"Midas can eat rooster, but rooster can't eat Midas.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000005|Midas looks to me like he had the advantage there."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000004_000000|Bibbs retained enough presence of mind to transfer the capon breast to his plate without dropping it and to respond, "Yes-he crows over it."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000005_000000|Having returned his antagonists's fire in this fashion, he blushed-for he could blush distinctly now-and his mother looked upon him with pleasure, thought the reference to Midas and roosters was of course jargon to her.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000005_000001|"Did you ever see anybody improve the way that child has!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000005_000002|"I declare, Bibbs, sometimes lately you look right handsome!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000006_000000|"He's got to be such a gadabout," Edith giggled.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000007_000000|"I found something of his on the floor up stairs this morning, before anybody was up," said Sheridan.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000007_000001|"I reckon if people lose things in this house and expect to get 'em back, they better get up as soon as I do."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000008_000000|"What was it he lost?" asked Edith.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000001|"Seems to me like I forgot to bring it home with me.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000002|I looked it over-thought probably it was something pretty important, belongin' to a busy man like him." He affected to search his pockets.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000003|"What DID I do with it, now?
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000004|Oh yes!
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000011_000000|Sheridan gave him a grin.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000011_000001|"Perhaps pretty soon you'll be gettin' up early enough to find things before I do!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000013_000001|He spoke lightly, not sadly.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000000|"Yes, it's come.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000001|I've shirked and put off, but I can't shirk and put off any longer.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000002|It's really my part to go to him-at least it would save my face.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000003|He means what he says, and the time's come to serve my sentence. Hard labor for life, I think."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000015_000000|Mary shook her head.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000015_000001|"I don't think so.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000015_000002|He's too kind."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000016_000000|"You think my father's KIND?" And Bibbs stared at her.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000017_000001|I'm sure of it.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000017_000003|It's only that he has to be kind in his own way-because he can't understand any other way."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000018_000001|"If that's what you mean by 'kind'!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000019_000000|She looked at him gravely, earnest concern in her friendly eyes.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000019_000001|"It's going to be pretty hard for you, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000020_000001|"This has been just the last flicker of revolt.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000020_000003|To morrow I'll be a day laborer."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000021_000000|"What is it like-exactly?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000000|"I get up at six," he said.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000001|"I have a lunch basket to carry with me, which is aristocratic and no advantage.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000002|The other workmen have tin buckets, and tin buckets are better.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000003|I leave the house at six thirty, and I'm at work in my overalls at seven.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000023_000000|"But the work itself?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000024_000000|"It wasn't muscularly exhausting-not at all.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000024_000001|They couldn't give me a heavier job because I wasn't good enough."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000025_000000|"But what will you do?
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000025_000001|I want to know."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000027_000000|"But what is it?" she insisted.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000028_000000|Bibbs explained.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000028_000001|"It's very simple and very easy.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000028_000002|I feed long strips of zinc into a pair of steel jaws, and the jaws bite the zinc into little circles.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000029_000000|He had kept his voice cheerful as he spoke, but he had grown a shade paler, and there was a latent anguish deep in his eyes.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000029_000001|He may have known it and wished her not to see it, for he turned away.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000030_000003|She broke off, and then, after a keen glance at his face, she said: "I should think you WOULD have been a 'bad hand at it'!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000031_000000|He laughed ruefully.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000031_000001|"I think it's the noise, though I'm ashamed to say it.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000032_000000|"How often is that?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000033_000000|"The thing should make about sixty eight disks a minute-a little more than one a second."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000034_000000|"And you're close to it?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000000|"Oh, the workman has to sit in its lap," he said, turning to her more gaily.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000001|"The others don't mind.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000003|I have an idiotic way of flinching from the confounded thing-I flinch and duck a little every time the crash comes, and I couldn't get over it.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000004|I was a treat to the other workmen in that room; they'll be glad to see me back.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000036_000001|She was staring at the wall, and her eyes had a burning brightness in them.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000000|"It doesn't seem possible any one could do that to you," she said, in a low voice.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000001|"no
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000002|He's not kind.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000003|He ought to be proud to help you to the leisure to write books; it should be his greatest privilege to have them published for you-"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000000|"Can't you SEE him?" Bibbs interrupted, a faint ripple of hilarity in his voice.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000001|"If he could understand what you're saying-and if you can imagine his taking such a notion, he'd have had r t Bloss put up posters all over the country: 'Read b Sheridan.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000002|Read the Poet with a Punch!' no
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000003|It's just as well he never got the-But what's the use?
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000004|I've never written anything worth printing, and I never shall."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000039_000000|"You could!" she said.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000040_000000|"That's because you've never seen the poor little things I've tried to do."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000041_000000|"You wouldn't let me, but I KNOW you could!
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000042_000000|"It isn't," said BIBBS, honestly.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000043_000000|She gave him a flashing glance, and it was as kind as he said she was. "That sounds wrong," she said, impulsively.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000043_000002|Wouldn't you rather call me 'Mary'?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000044_000000|Bibbs was dazzled; he drew a long, deep breath and did not speak.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000045_000000|"Wouldn't you?" she asked, without a trace of coquetry.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000046_000000|"If I CAN!" he said, in a low voice.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000000|"Ah, that's very pretty!" she laughed.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000001|"You're such an honest person, it's pleasant to have you gallant sometimes, by way of variety." She became grave again immediately.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000002|"I hear myself laughing as if it were some one else.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000003|It sounds like laughter on the eve of a great calamity." She got up restlessly, crossed the room and leaned against the wall, facing him.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000004|"You've GOT to go back to that place?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000048_000000|He nodded.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000049_000000|"And the other time you did it-"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000050_000000|"Just over it," said Bibbs.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000050_000001|"Two years.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000052_000001|"I want to say it, but-but I come to a dead balk when I try.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000052_000002|I-"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000053_000000|"Go on.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000053_000001|Say it, whatever it is," she bade him.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000053_000002|"You wouldn't know how to say anything I shouldn't like."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000000|"I doubt if you'd either like or dislike what I want to say," he returned, moving uncomfortably in his chair and looking at his feet-he seemed to feel awkward, thoroughly.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000001|"You see, all my life-until I met you-if I ever felt like saying anything, I wrote it instead.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000002|Saying things is a new trick for me, and this-well, it's just this: I used to feel as if I hadn't ever had any sort of a life at all.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000004|But now it's different-I'm still of no use to anybody, and I don't see any prospect of being useful, but I have had something for myself.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000006|That's all; it's your letting me be near you sometimes, as you have, this strange, beautiful, happy little while!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000055_000001|She did not speak, but a soft rustling of her garments let him know that she had gone back to her chair again.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000055_000002|The house was still; the shabby old room was so quiet that the sound of a creaking in the wall seemed sharp and loud.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000056_000000|And yet, when Mary spoke at last, her voice was barely audible.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000056_000001|"If you think it has been-happy-to be friends with me-you'd want to-to make it last."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000057_000000|"Yes," said Bibbs, as faintly.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000058_000000|"You'd want to go on being my friend as long as we live, wouldn't you?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000059_000000|"Yes," he gulped.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000060_000000|"But you make that kind of speech to me because you think it's over."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000061_000000|He tried to evade her.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000061_000001|"Oh, a day laborer can't come in his overalls-"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000062_000000|"No," she interrupted, with a sudden sharpness.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000062_000001|"You said what you did because you think the shop's going to kill you."
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000063_000000|"No, no!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000000|"Yes, you do think that!" She rose to her feet again and came and stood before him.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000001|"Or you think it's going to send you back to the sanitarium. Don't deny it, Bibbs.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000002|There!
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000004|You see I'm a friend, or I couldn't do it.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000005|Well, if you meant what you said-and you did mean it, I know it!--you're not going to go back to the sanitarium. The shop sha'n't hurt you.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000065_000000|And now Bibbs looked up.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000065_000001|She stood before him, straight and tall, splendid in generous strength, her eyes shining and wet.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000066_000000|"If I mean THAT much to you," she cried, "they can't harm you!
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000066_000001|Go back to the shop-but come to me when your day's work is done.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000067_000001|"You say-" he gasped.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000068_000000|"Every evening, dear Bibbs!"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000069_000000|He could only stare, bewildered.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000001|I want you.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000003|"If I could, I'd go and feed the strips of zinc to the machine with you," she said.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000004|"But all day long I'll send my thoughts to you.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000005|You must keep remembering that your friend stands beside you.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000006|And when the work is done-won't the night make up for the day?"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000071_000000|Light seemed to glow from her; he was blinded by that radiance of kindness.
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000071_000001|But all he could say was, huskily, "To think you're there-with me-standing beside the old zinc eater-"
train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000072_000000|And they laughed and looked at each other, and at last Bibbs found what it meant not to be alone in the world.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000001|Bibbs went in and stood before him.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000002|"I'm cured, father," he said.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000003|"When do I go back to the shop?
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000004|I'm ready."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000000|The desolate and grim old man did not relax.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000001|"I was sittin' up to give you a last chance to say something like that.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000002|I reckon it's about time! I just wanted to see if you'd have manhood enough not to make me take you over there by the collar.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000003|Last night I made up my mind I'd give you just one more day.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000004|Well, you got to it before I did-pretty close to the eleventh hour!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000005|All right.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000008|Think you can get up in time?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000003_000000|"Six o'clock," Bibbs responded, briskly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000004_000000|"That's YOUR lookout!" his father grunted.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000004_000001|"They'll put you back on the clippin'-machine.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000004_000002|You get nine dollars a week."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000005_000001|"That reminds me, I didn't mean YOU by 'Midas' in that nonsense I'd been writing.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000005_000002|I meant-"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000007_000000|"I just wanted you to know.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000007_000001|Good night, father."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000008_000000|"G'night!"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000009_000000|The sound of the young man's footsteps ascending the stairs became inaudible, and the house was quiet.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000009_000001|But presently, as Sheridan sat staring angrily at the fire, the shuffling of a pair of slippers could be heard descending, and mrs Sheridan made her appearance, her oblique expression and the state of her toilette being those of a person who, after trying unsuccessfully to sleep on one side, has got up to look for burglars.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000010_000000|"Papa!" she exclaimed, drowsily.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000010_000001|"Why'n't you go to bed?
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000011_000001|"What's the matter?" she asked, sleep and anxiety striving sluggishly with each other in her voice.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000011_000003|You got something new on your mind besides Jim's bein' taken away like he was.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000011_000004|What's worryin' you now, papa?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000012_000000|"Nothin'."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000013_000000|She jeered feebly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000015_000000|"Just the same as he did before?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000000|"Until he KNOWS something!"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000002|"He'll go back to the machine he couldn't learn to tend properly in the six months he was there, and he'll stick to it till he DOES learn it!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000003|Do you suppose that lummix ever asked himself WHY I want him to learn it?
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000004|No!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000005|And I ain't a goin' to tell him, either!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000008|I sent him there to make him THOROUGH.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000010|He didn't LIKE it!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000012|I don't know what it is, but it's got to be worked out of him.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000013|Now, labor ain't any more a simple question than what it was when we were young.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000015|That's what he did, and the balk's lasted close on to three years.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000019_000000|"I knew there was something else," said mrs Sheridan, blinking over a yawn.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000000|"Suppose something happened to Roscoe," he said.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000001|"THEN what'd I have to look forward to?
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000002|THEN what could I depend on to hold things together?
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000003|A lummix!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000004|A lummix that hasn't learned how to push a strip o' zinc along a groove!"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000001|"You needn't worry about Roscoe, papa.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000002|He's the strongest child we had.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000003|I never did know anybody keep better health than he does.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000004|I don't believe he's even had a cold in five years.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000005|You better go up to bed, papa."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000001|You don't know what it means, keepin' property together these days-just keepin' it ALIVE, let alone makin' it grow the way I do.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000002|I've seen too many estates hacked away in chunks, big and little.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000004|Carried off?
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000005|I've seen a big fortune behave like an ash barrel in a cyclone-there wasn't even a dust heap left to tell where it stood!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000009|I tell you this business life is no fool's job nowadays-a man's got to have eyes in the back of his head.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000012|This country's been fillin' up with it from all over the world for a good many years, and the old camp meetin' days are dead and done with.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000013|Church ain't what it used to be.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000015|There's an awful ruction goin' on, and you got to keep hoppin' if you're goin' to keep your balance on the top of it.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000017|They run like bugs on the bottom of a board-after any piece o' money they hear is loose.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000019|You got to FIGHT to keep your money after you've made it.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000000|He strode up and down the long room, gesticulating-little regarding the troubled and drowsy figure by the fireside.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000001|His throat rumbled thunderously; the words came with stormy bitterness.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000003|I tell you there never was such a time before; there never was such opportunity.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000004|The sluggard is despoiled while he sleeps-yes, by George! if a man lays down they'll eat him before he wakes!--but the live man can build straight up till he touches the sky!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000005|This is the business man's day; it used to be the soldier's day and the statesman's day, but this is OURS!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000008|And that's what my son Bibbs has been doin' all his life, and what he'd rather do now than go out and do his part by me.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000009|And if anything happens to Roscoe-"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000024_000000|"Oh, do stop worryin' over such nonsense," mrs Sheridan interrupted, irritated into sharp wakefulness for the moment.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000024_000002|Aren't you EVER goin' to bed?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000025_000000|Sheridan halted.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000025_000001|"All right, mamma," he said, with a vast sigh.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000025_000002|"Let's go up." And he snapped off the electric light, leaving only the rosy glow of the fire.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000026_000000|"Did you speak to Roscoe?" she yawned, rising lopsidedly in her drowsiness.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000027_000001|I will to morrow."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000028_000001|He waited.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000028_000002|Then, on the fourth day of the month, Roscoe walked into his father's office at nine in the morning, when Sheridan happened to be alone.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000029_000000|"They told me down stairs you'd left word you wanted to see me."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000030_000000|"Sit down," said Sheridan, rising.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000031_000000|Roscoe sat
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000031_000001|His father walked close to him, sniffed suspiciously, and then walked away, smiling bitterly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000031_000003|"Still at it!"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000032_000000|"Yes," said Roscoe.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000032_000002|What about it?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000033_000000|"I reckon I better adopt some decent young man," his father returned. "I'd bring Bibbs up here and put him in your place if he was fit.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000033_000001|I would!"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000034_000000|"Better do it," Roscoe assented, sullenly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000035_000000|"When'd you begin this thing?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000036_000000|"I always did drink a little.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000036_000001|Ever since I grew up, that is."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000037_000000|"Leave that talk out!
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000038_000000|"Well, I don't know as I ever had too much in office hours-until the other day."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000000|Sheridan began cutting.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000002|I've had Ray Wills up from your office.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000003|He didn't want to give you away, but I put the hooks into him, and he came through.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000004|You were drunk twice before and couldn't work.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000005|You been leavin' your office for drinks every few hours for the last three weeks.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000007|Your office is way behind.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000008|You haven't done any work, to count, in a month."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000040_000000|"All right," said Roscoe, drooping under the torture.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000040_000001|"It's all true."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000042_000000|Roscoe's head was sunk between his shoulders.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000042_000001|"I can't stand very much talk about it, father," he said, pleadingly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000043_000000|"No!" Sheridan cried.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000044_000000|Roscoe shook his head helplessly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000045_000000|"You can't straighten me out."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000046_000000|"See here!" said Sheridan.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000047_000000|"You needn't worry about that," said Roscoe, looking up with a faint resentment.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000047_000001|"I'm not drinking because I've got a thirst."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000048_000000|"Well, what have you got?"
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000049_000000|"Nothing.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000049_000001|Nothing you can do anything about.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000049_000002|Nothing, I tell you."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000000|"We'll see about that!" said Sheridan, harshly.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000002|You bring your wife to dinner to morrow.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000003|You didn't come last Sunday-but you come to morrow.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000006|You better be sure, because I'm going to send Abercrombie down to your office every little while, and he'll let me know."
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000051_000000|Roscoe paused at the door.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000051_000001|"You told Abercrombie about it?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000052_000000|"TOLD him!" And Sheridan laughed hideously.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000000_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000001_000000|DUPLICITY.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000002_000000|Aunt Jane had a bad night, as might have been expected after her trials of the previous day.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000003_000000|She sent for Patricia early in the forenoon, and when the girl arrived she was almost shocked by the change in her aunt's appearance.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000005_000000|"Don't ask me to do that, aunt," replied the girl, firmly.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000005_000001|"My mind is fully made up."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000006_000000|"I have made mistakes, I know," continued the woman feebly; "but I want to do the right thing, at last."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000007_000000|"Then I will show you how," said Patricia, quickly.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000007_000001|"You mustn't think me impertinent, aunt, for I don't mean to be so at all.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000007_000002|But tell me; why did you wish to leave me your money?"
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000008_000000|"Because your nature is quite like my own, child, and I admire your independence and spirit."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000009_000000|"But my cousins are much more deserving," said she, thoughtfully. "Louise is very sweet and amiable, and loves you more than I do, while Beth is the most sensible and practical girl I have ever known."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000010_000001|I told you yesterday I should not try to be just.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000010_000002|I mean to leave my property according to my personal desire, and no one shall hinder me."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000011_000000|"But that is quite wrong, aunt, and if you desire me to inherit your wealth you will be disappointed.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000011_000002|Don't you know what that is?"
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000012_000000|"Perhaps you will tell me," said Aunt Jane, curiously.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000013_000000|"With pleasure," returned Patsy.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000013_000001|"mr Bradley left you this property because he loved you, and love blinded him to all sense of justice. Such an estate should not have passed into the hands of aliens because of a lover's whim.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000013_000002|He should have considered his own flesh and blood."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000014_000002|I have done so.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000014_000003|When his mother died, I had the boy brought here, and he has lived here ever since."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000015_000001|"It would please me beyond measure to have you make your will in his favor, and you would be doing the right thing at last."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000016_000000|"I won't," said Aunt Jane, angrily.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000017_000000|"It would also be considerate and just to the memory of mr Bradley," continued the girl.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000018_000000|"I have left him five thousand," said the woman.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000019_000000|"Not enough to educate him properly," replied Patsy, with a shake of her head.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000020_000000|Aunt Jane coughed, unsympathetically.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000021_000000|"The boy is nothing to me," she said.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000022_000000|"But he ought to have Elmhurst, at least," pleaded the girl.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000023_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000024_000001|"As a matter of justice, the place should never have been yours, and I won't accept a dollar of the money if I starve to death!"
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000025_000000|"Think of your father," suggested Aunt Jane, cunningly.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000001|Also I'd like to go to a girl's college, like Smith or Wellesley, and get a proper education.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000002|But not with your money, Aunt Jane.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000003|It would burn my fingers.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000004|Always I would think that if you had not been hard and miserly this same money would have saved my mother's life.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000005|No!
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000006|I loathe your money.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000007|Keep it or throw it to the dogs, if you won't give it to the boy it belongs to.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000008|But don't you dare to will your selfish hoard to me."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000027_000000|"Let us change the subject, Patricia."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000028_000000|"Will you change your will?"
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000029_000000|"no".
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000030_000000|"Then I won't talk to you.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000030_000001|I'm angry and hurt, and if I stay here I'll say things I shall be sorry for."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000031_000000|With these words she marched out of the room, her cheeks flaming, and Aunt Jane looked after her with admiring eyes.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000032_000000|"She's right," she whispered to herself.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000033_000000|This interview was but the beginning of a series that lasted during the next fortnight, during which time the invalid persisted in sending for Patricia and fighting the same fight over and over again.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000033_000001|Always the girl pleaded for Kenneth to inherit, and declared she would not accept the money and Elmhurst; and always Aunt Jane stubbornly refused to consider the boy and tried to tempt the girl with pictures of the luxury and pleasure that riches would bring her.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000034_000000|The interviews were generally short and spirited, however, and during the intervals Patsy associated more than ever with her cousins, both of whom grew really fond of her.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000035_000001|With Patsy out of the field it was quite possible the estate would be divided between her cousins, or even go entire to one or the other of them; and this hope constantly buoyed their spirits and filled their days with interest as they watched the fight between their aunt and their cousin.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000036_000000|Patricia never told them she was pleading so hard for the boy.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000037_000000|Aunt Jane was really worn out with the constant squabbling with her favorite niece.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000037_000001|She had taken a turn for the worse, too, and began to decline rapidly.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000037_000002|So, her natural cunning and determination to have her own way enhanced by her illness, the woman decided to deceive Patricia and enjoy her few remaining days in peace.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000038_000000|"Suppose," she said to mr Watson, "my present will stands, and after my death the estate becomes the property of Patricia.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000038_000001|Can she refuse it?"
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000039_000000|"Not legally," returned the lawyer.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000039_000001|"It would remain in her name, but under my control, during her minority.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000040_000000|"By that time she will have gained more sense," declared Aunt Jane, much pleased with this aspect of the case, "and it isn't reasonable that having enjoyed a fortune for a time any girl would throw it away. I'll stick to my point, Silas, but I'll try to make Patricia believe she has won me over."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000041_000000|Therefore, the very next time that the girl pleaded with her to make Kenneth her heir, she said, with a clever assumption of resignation:
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000043_000000|Patricia could scarcely believe her ears.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000044_000000|"Do you really mean it, aunt?" she asked, flushing red with pleasure.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000045_000000|"I mean exactly what I say, and now let us cease all bickerings, my dear, and my few remaining days will be peaceful and happy."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000046_000000|Patricia thanked her aunt with eager words, and said, as indeed she felt, that she could almost love Aunt Jane for her final, if dilatory, act of justice.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000047_000000|mr Watson chanced to enter the room at that moment, and the girl cried out:
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000048_000000|"Tell him, aunt!
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000048_000001|Let him get the paper ready at once."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000049_000000|"There is no reason for haste," said Aunt Jane, meeting; the lawyer's questioning gaze with some embarrassment.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000050_000000|Silas Watson was an honorable and upright man, and his client's frequent doubtful methods had in past years met his severe censure. Yet he had once promised his dead friend, Tom Bradley, that he would serve Jane Merrick faithfully.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000051_000000|Her recent questionings had prepared him for some act of duplicity, but he had by no means understood her present object, nor did she mean that he should.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000051_000001|So she answered his questioning look by saying:
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000053_000000|The lawyer regarded her with amazement.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000053_000001|Then his brow darkened, for he thought she was playing with the girl, and was not sincere.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000054_000000|"Tell him to draw up the paper right away, aunt!" begged Patricia, with sparkling eyes.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000055_000000|"As soon as you can, Silas," said the invalid.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000056_000000|"And, aunt, can't you spare a little more to Louise and Beth?
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000056_000001|It would make them so happy."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000057_000000|"Double the amount I had allowed to each of them," the woman commanded her lawyer.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000058_000000|"Can it all be ready to sign tonight?" asked Patsy, excitedly.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000059_000000|"I'll try, my dear," replied the old lawyer, gravely.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000059_000001|Then he turned to Jane Merrick.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000061_000000|Patsy's heart suddenly sank.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000062_000000|"Yes," was the reply.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000062_000001|"I am tired of opposing this child's wishes. What do I care what becomes of my money, when I am gone?
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000062_000002|All that I desire is to have my remaining days peaceful."
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000064_000000|"They shall be, aunt!" she cried.
train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000064_000001|"I promise it."
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000004_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000007_000001|'And she won't, so you're quite safe.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000010_000000|'Mother dear,' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000012_000000|'About cook,' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000014_000000|'It's not her fault,' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000014_000001|'May I tell you about it from the beginning?'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000016_000000|'It's like this,' said Anthea, in a hurry: 'that egg, you know, that came in the carpet; we put it in the fire and it hatched into the Phoenix, and the carpet was a wishing carpet-and-'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000017_000001|'Now do be quiet.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000017_000002|I've got a lot of letters to write.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000017_000003|I'm going to Bournemouth to morrow with the Lamb-and there's that bazaar.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000019_000000|'But, mother,' said Anthea, when mother put down the pen to lick an envelope, 'the carpet takes us wherever we like-and-'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000020_000001|'I promised them, and I've no time to go to Liberty's now.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000021_000000|'It shall,' said Anthea, 'but, mother-'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000023_000001|They thought her cap was a crown, and-'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000030_000001|'And daddy's got to go to Scotland.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000031_000001|'When's the bazaar?'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000032_000000|'On Saturday,' said mother, 'at the schools.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000034_000000|The Phoenix begged to be excused.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000037_000001|So they sat on the carpet, and thought and thought and thought till they almost began to squint.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000042_000000|But the faithful carpet had not deceived them.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000043_000000|Mother turned her dear head and looked straight at them, and DID NOT SEE THEM!
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000044_000000|'We're invisible,' Cyril whispered: 'what awful larks!'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000045_000000|But to the girls it was not larks at all.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000046_000000|'I don't like it,' said Jane. 'Mother never looked at us like that before.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000046_000001|Just as if she didn't love us-as if we were somebody else's children, and not very nice ones either-as if she didn't care whether she saw us or not.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000053_000001|Come to mother,' she cried, and jumped up and ran to the baby.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000055_000001|'It feels just exactly as if mother didn't love us.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000058_000001|It would be different if you were a prince, or a bandit, or a burglar.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000065_000000|And on Saturday morning, the first thing, they went.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000066_000000|There was no finding the Phoenix, so they sat on the beautiful wishing carpet, and said-
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000067_000000|'We want Indian things for mother's bazaar.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000071_000000|'I can't understand a word,' said Cyril. 'How on earth are we to ask for things for our bazaar?'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000074_000000|'We asked the carpet to take us where we could get Indian things for bazaars,' said Anthea, 'and it will.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000075_000000|Her faith was justified.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000077_000001|She asks do you lose yourselves, and do you desire to sell carpet?
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000077_000002|She see you from her palkee.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000079_000002|And when the queen asked to buy the carpet, the children said 'no'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000080_000000|'Why?' asked the ranee.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000081_000000|And Jane briefly said why, and the interpreter interpreted.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000081_000001|The queen spoke, and then the interpreter said-
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000089_000000|But Cyril said very firmly, 'No, thank you.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000090_000000|So then the queen sent out for little pretty things, and her servants piled the carpet with them.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000095_000000|And of course they were.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000102_000000|A crowd instantly collected.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000102_000005|I wonder why.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000103_000001|'Come out! whatever do you mean by creeping about under the stalls, like earwigs?'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000104_000000|'We were looking at the things in the corner.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000105_000000|'Such nasty, prying ways,' said Mrs Biddle, 'will never make you successful in life.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000105_000001|There's nothing there but packing and dust.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000106_000000|'Oh, isn't there!' said Jane.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000107_000000|'Little girl, don't be rude,' said Mrs Biddle, flushing violet.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000108_000001|No one would believe it; and if they did, and wrote to thank mother, she would think-well, goodness only knew what she would think.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000108_000002|The other three children felt the same.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000114_000001|'Then Charles has not forgotten, after all.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000115_000002|Of course they are for me.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000116_000000|'My stall touches yours at the corner,' said poor Miss Peasmarsh, timidly, 'and my cousin did promise-'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000118_000000|'That stiff starched PIG!'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000119_000000|'And after all our trouble!
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000119_000001|I'm hoarse with gassing to that trousered lady in India.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000121_000001|Who's got a pencil?'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000125_000000|'I don't understand about that blue paper,' said Mrs Biddle. 'It looks to me like the work of a lunatic.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000126_000001|Miss Peasmarsh was very willing, for now her stall, that had been SO neglected, was surrounded by people who wanted to buy, and she was glad to be helped.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000126_000004|But I am afraid they were not so sorry as they ought to have been.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000127_000000|It took some time to arrange the things on the stall.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000130_000000|'There's nothing to go back for,' said Miss Peasmarsh gaily; 'thanks to you dear children we've sold everything.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000132_000000|'Oh,' said Miss Peasmarsh, radiantly, 'don't bother about the carpet. I've sold even that.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000133_000001|We had cook from her, and she told us so.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000134_000001|But the others were struck dumb.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000134_000002|How could they say, 'The carpet is ours!' For who brings carpets to bazaars?
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000144_000000|It was then that they dragged her away.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000147_000000|'Mrs Biddle, WE meant to have that carpet.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000149_000001|He found the others and said-
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000158_000000|'Don't let's burgle-I mean do daring and dashing rescue acts-till we've given her a chance.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000163_000002|Be off, or I'll send for the police.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000164_000000|'Don't be angry,' said Anthea, soothingly, 'we only wanted to ask you to let us have the carpet.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000164_000001|We have quite twelve shillings between us, and-'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000167_000000|Mrs Biddle actually stamped that booted foot of hers.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000167_000001|'You rude, barefaced child!' she said.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000176_000001|I'm sorry we vexed you at the bazaar to day.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000177_000000|'Not another word,' said the changed Mrs Biddle.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000179_000001|How vexing!' said Mrs Biddle, kindly.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000179_000003|Have a piece of cake before you go!
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000180_000000|'Yes, thank you,' said Robert.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000180_000001|'I say, you ARE good.'
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000183_000000|'You ARE a dear,' said Anthea, and she and Mrs Biddle kissed each other heartily.
train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000185_000000|'Yes,' said Robert, 'and the odd part is that you feel just as if it was REAL-her being so jolly, I mean-and not only the carpet making her nice.'
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000000|"Telemachus, you should not remain so far away from home any longer, nor leave your property with such dangerous people in your house; they will eat up everything you have among them, and you will have been on a fool's errand.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000004|Go home, therefore, and put everything in charge of the most respectable woman servant that you have, until it shall please heaven to send you a wife of your own.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000005|Let me tell you also of another matter which you had better attend to.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000007|I do not much think they will succeed; it is more likely that some of those who are now eating up your property will find a grave themselves.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000006_000001|It will be morning soon; wait till Menelaus has brought his presents and put them in the chariot for us; and let him say good bye to us in the usual way.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000006_000002|So long as he lives a guest should never forget a host who has shown him kindness."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000007_000000|As he spoke day began to break, and Menelaus, who had already risen, leaving Helen in bed, came towards them.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000007_000002|"Menelaus," said he, "let me go back now to my own country, for I want to get home."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000000|And Menelaus answered, "Telemachus, if you insist on going I will not detain you.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000001|I do not like to see a host either too fond of his guest or too rude to him.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000002|Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000003|One should treat a guest well as long as he is in the house and speed him when he wants to leave it.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000007|No one will send us away empty handed; every one will give us something-a bronze tripod, a couple of mules, or a gold cup."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000009_000000|"Menelaus," replied Telemachus, "I want to go home at once, for when I came away I left my property without protection, and fear that while looking for my father I shall come to ruin myself, or find that something valuable has been stolen during my absence."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000000|When Menelaus heard this he immediately told his wife and servants to prepare a sufficient dinner from what there might be in the house.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000001|At this moment Eteoneus joined him, for he lived close by and had just got up; so Menelaus told him to light the fire and cook some meat, which he at once did.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000005|I will now present you with the finest and most precious piece of plate in all my house.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000006|It is a mixing bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold, and it is the work of Vulcan.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000007|Phaedimus king of the Sidonians made me a present of it in the course of a visit that I paid him while I was on my return home. I should like to give it to you."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000011_000000|With these words he placed the double cup in the hands of Telemachus, while Megapenthes brought the beautiful mixing bowl and set it before him.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000011_000001|Hard by stood lovely Helen with the robe ready in her hand.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000013_000000|So saying she gave the robe over to him and he received it gladly.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000013_000003|A maid servant brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them; an upper servant brought them bread and offered them many good things of what there was in the house.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000013_000004|Eteoneus carved the meat and gave them each their portions, while Megapenthes poured out the wine.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000014_000000|"We will be sure, sir," answered Telemachus, "to tell him everything as soon as we see him.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000014_000001|I wish I were as certain of finding Ulysses returned when I get back to Ithaca, that I might tell him of the very great kindness you have shown me and of the many beautiful presents I am taking with me."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000015_000000|As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand-an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the farm yard-and all the men and women were running after it and shouting.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000015_000001|It came quite close up to them and flew away on their right hands in front of the horses.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000016_000000|Menelaus was thinking what would be the most proper answer for him to make, but Helen was too quick for him and said, "I will read this matter as heaven has put it in my heart, and as I doubt not that it will come to pass.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000000|As he spoke he lashed his horses and they started off at full speed through the town towards the open country.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000003|There they passed the night and were treated hospitably.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000004|When the child of morning, rosy fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and their places in the chariot.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000005|They drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000020_000002|I know how obstinate he is, and am sure he will not let you go; he will come down here to fetch you, and he will not go back without you.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000020_000003|But he will be very angry."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000021_000000|With this he drove his goodly steeds back to the city of the Pylians and soon reached his home, but Telemachus called the men together and gave his orders.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000021_000001|"Now, my men," said he, "get everything in order on board the ship, and let us set out home."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000022_000002|He was descended from Melampus, who used to live in Pylos, the land of sheep; he was rich and owned a great house, but he was driven into exile by the great and powerful king Neleus.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000022_000003|Neleus seized his goods and held them for a whole year, during which he was a close prisoner in the house of king Phylacus, and in much distress of mind both on account of the daughter of Neleus and because he was haunted by a great sorrow that dread Erinys had laid upon him.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000022_000008|His sons were Alcmaeon and Amphilochus.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000024_000000|Telemachus said, "I will answer you quite truly.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000024_000003|Therefore I have taken this ship and got my crew together to see if I can hear any news of him, for he has been away a long time."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000025_000002|I am flying to escape death at their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the earth.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000026_000000|"I will not refuse you," replied Telemachus, "if you wish to join us. Come, therefore, and in Ithaca we will treat you hospitably according to what we have."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000030_000001|Give me your advice therefore, and let me have a good guide to go with me and show me the way.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000030_000002|I will go the round of the city begging as I needs must, to see if any one will give me a drink and a piece of bread.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000031_000001|"Heaven help me," he exclaimed, "what ever can have put such a notion as that into your head?
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000031_000002|If you go near the suitors you will be undone to a certainty, for their pride and insolence reach the very heavens.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000031_000003|They would never think of taking a man like you for a servant.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000032_000000|Ulysses answered, "I hope you may be as dear to the gods as you are to me, for having saved me from going about and getting into trouble; there is nothing worse than being always on the tramp; still, when men have once got low down in the world they will go through a great deal on behalf of their miserable bellies.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000033_000007|Servants want sometimes to see their mistress and have a talk with her; they like to have something to eat and drink at the house, and something too to take back with them into the country.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000034_000000|Ulysses answered, "Then you must have been a very little fellow, Eumaeus, when you were taken so far away from your home and parents. Tell me, and tell me true, was the city in which your father and mother lived sacked and pillaged, or did some enemies carry you off when you were alone tending sheep or cattle, ship you off here, and sell you for whatever your master gave them?"
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000035_000000|"Stranger," replied Eumaeus, "as regards your question: sit still, make yourself comfortable, drink your wine, and listen to me.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000035_000002|We too will sit here eating and drinking in the hut, and telling one another stories about our misfortunes; for when a man has suffered much, and been buffeted about in the world, he takes pleasure in recalling the memory of sorrows that have long gone by.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000035_000003|As regards your question, then, my tale is as follows:
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000036_000003|It contains two communities, and the whole country is divided between these two.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000038_000000|"The man who had seduced her then said, 'Would you like to come along with us to see the house of your parents and your parents themselves? They are both alive and are said to be well off.'
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000040_000002|I will bring as much gold as I can lay my hands on, and there is something else also that I can do towards paying my fare.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000040_000003|I am nurse to the son of the good man of the house, a funny little fellow just able to run about.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000041_000000|"On this she went back to the house.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000041_000003|In the fore part of the house she saw the tables set with the cups of guests who had been feasting with my father, as being in attendance on him; these were now all gone to a meeting of the public assembly, so she snatched up three cups and carried them off in the bosom of her dress, while I followed her, for I knew no better.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000043_000001|In the mean time Telemachus and his crew were nearing land, so they loosed the sails, took down the mast, and rowed the ship into the harbour.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000044_000000|Then Theoclymenus said, "And what, my dear young friend, is to become of me?
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000046_000000|As he was speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand-a hawk, Apollo's messenger.
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000049_000000|And Piraeus answered, "Telemachus, you may stay away as long as you please, but I will look after him for you, and he shall find no lack of hospitality."
train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000050_000001|But Telemachus bound on his sandals, and took a long and doughty spear with a head of sharpened bronze from the deck of the ship.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000001_000000|The Coral Realm
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000002_000000|THE NEXT DAY I woke up with my head unusually clear.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000002_000001|Much to my surprise, I was in my stateroom.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000000|I then considered leaving my stateroom.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000001|Was I free or still a prisoner? Perfectly free.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000002|I opened my door, headed down the gangways, and climbed the central companionway.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000003|Hatches that had been closed the day before were now open.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000004|I arrived on the platform.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000004_000001|I questioned them. They knew nothing.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000004_000002|Lost in a heavy sleep of which they had no memory, they were quite startled to be back in their cabin.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000007_000000|After renewing its air, the Nautilus stayed at an average depth of fifteen meters, enabling it to return quickly to the surface of the waves.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000007_000001|And, contrary to custom, it executed such a maneuver several times during that day of january nineteenth.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000007_000002|The chief officer would then climb onto the platform, and his usual phrase would ring through the ship's interior.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000000|Near two o'clock I was busy organizing my notes in the lounge, when the captain opened the door and appeared.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000001|I bowed to him. He gave me an almost imperceptible bow in return, without saying a word to me.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000002|I resumed my work, hoping he might give me some explanation of the previous afternoon's events.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000004|His face looked exhausted; his reddened eyes hadn't been refreshed by sleep; his facial features expressed profound sadness, real chagrin.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000005|He walked up and down, sat and stood, picked up a book at random, discarded it immediately, consulted his instruments without taking his customary notes, and seemed unable to rest easy for an instant.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000011_000000|"Are you a physician, Professor Aronnax?"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000012_000000|This inquiry was so unexpected that I stared at him a good while without replying.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000014_000000|"That's right," I said, "I am a doctor, I used to be on call at the hospitals.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000014_000001|I was in practice for several years before joining the museum."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000015_000000|"Excellent, sir."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000016_000000|My reply obviously pleased Captain Nemo.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000016_000001|But not knowing what he was driving at, I waited for further questions, ready to reply as circumstances dictated.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000017_000000|"Professor Aronnax," the captain said to me, "would you consent to give your medical attentions to one of my men?"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000018_000000|"Someone is sick?"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000020_000000|"I'm ready to go with you."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000022_000000|I admit that my heart was pounding.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000023_000000|Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern and invited me into a cabin located next to the sailors' quarters.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000025_000000|I bent over him.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000025_000001|Not only was he sick, he was wounded. Swathed in blood soaked linen, his head was resting on a folded pillow. I undid the linen bandages, while the wounded man gazed with great staring eyes and let me proceed without making a single complaint.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000026_000001|The cranium had been smashed open by some blunt instrument, leaving the naked brains exposed, and the cerebral matter had suffered deep abrasions.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000026_000002|Blood clots had formed in this dissolving mass, taking on the color of wine dregs. Both contusion and concussion of the brain had occurred.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000027_000000|I took the wounded man's pulse.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000028_000000|"How did he get this wound?" I asked him.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000029_000001|My chief officer was standing beside him. This man leaped forward to intercept the blow.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000031_000000|"You may talk freely," the captain told me.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000031_000001|"This man doesn't understand French."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000000|For a few moments more I observed the dying man, whose life was ebbing little by little.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000001|He grew still more pale under the electric light that bathed his deathbed.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000002|I looked at his intelligent head, furrowed with premature wrinkles that misfortune, perhaps misery, had etched long before.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000003|I was hoping to detect the secret of his life in the last words that might escape from his lips!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000039_000002|That night I slept poorly, and between my fitful dreams, I thought I heard a distant moaning, like a funeral dirge.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000039_000003|Was it a prayer for the dead, murmured in that language I couldn't understand?
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000040_000000|The next morning I climbed on deck.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000041_000000|"Professor," he said to me, "would it be convenient for you to make an underwater excursion today?"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000042_000000|"With my companions?" I asked.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000043_000000|"If they're agreeable."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000044_000000|"We're yours to command, captain."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000045_000000|"Then kindly put on your diving suits."
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000046_000002|I informed them of Captain Nemo's proposition. Conseil was eager to accept, and this time the Canadian proved perfectly amenable to going with us.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000048_000000|A gentle slope gravitated to an uneven bottom whose depth was about fifteen fathoms.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000048_000001|This bottom was completely different from the one I had visited during my first excursion under the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000048_000002|Here I saw no fine grained sand, no underwater prairies, not one open sea forest.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000049_000000|In the zoophyte branch, class Alcyonaria, one finds the order Gorgonaria, which contains three groups: sea fans, isidian polyps, and coral polyps. It's in this last that precious coral belongs, an unusual substance that, at different times, has been classified in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000050_000001|These polyps have a unique generating mechanism that reproduces them via the budding process, and they have an individual existence while also participating in a communal life.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000051_000000|We turned on our Ruhmkorff devices and went along a coral shoal in the process of forming, which, given time, will someday close off this whole part of the Indian Ocean.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000052_000000|Our lights produced a thousand delightful effects while playing over these brightly colored boughs.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000000|Sheer chance had placed me in the presence of the most valuable specimens of this zoophyte.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000001|This coral was the equal of those fished up from the Mediterranean off the Barbary Coast or the shores of France and Italy.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000002|With its bright colors, it lived up to those poetic names of blood flower and blood foam that the industry confers on its finest exhibits.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000003|Coral sells for as much as five hundred francs per kilogram, and in this locality the liquid strata hid enough to make the fortunes of a whole host of coral fishermen. This valuable substance often merges with other polyparies, forming compact, hopelessly tangled units known as "macciota," and I noted some wonderful pink samples of this coral.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000054_000001|The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, or some overhang suspended like a chandelier, which our lamps flecked with fiery sparks.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000055_000000|Finally, after two hours of walking, we reached a depth of about three hundred meters, in other words, the lowermost limit at which coral can begin to form.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000055_000001|But here it was no longer some isolated bush or a modest grove of low timber.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000056_000000|What an indescribable sight!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000056_000001|Oh, if only we could share our feelings! Why were we imprisoned behind these masks of metal and glass! Why were we forbidden to talk with each other!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000057_000000|Meanwhile Captain Nemo had called a halt.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000057_000001|My companions and I stopped walking, and turning around, I saw the crewmen form a semicircle around their leader.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000057_000002|Looking with greater care, I observed that four of them were carrying on their shoulders an object that was oblong in shape.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000058_000000|At this locality we stood in the center of a huge clearing surrounded by the tall tree forms of this underwater forest. Our lamps cast a sort of brilliant twilight over the area, making inordinately long shadows on the seafloor.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000058_000001|Past the boundaries of the clearing, the darkness deepened again, relieved only by little sparkles given off by the sharp crests of coral.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000059_000000|Ned Land and Conseil stood next to me.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000059_000001|We stared, and it dawned on me that I was about to witness a strange scene. Observing the seafloor, I saw that it swelled at certain points from low bulges that were encrusted with limestone deposits and arranged with a symmetry that betrayed the hand of man.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000060_000000|In the middle of the clearing, on a pedestal of roughly piled rocks, there stood a cross of coral, extending long arms you would have thought were made of petrified blood.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000061_000000|At a signal from Captain Nemo, one of his men stepped forward and, a few feet from this cross, detached a mattock from his belt and began to dig a hole.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000062_000000|I finally understood!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000062_000001|This clearing was a cemetery, this hole a grave, that oblong object the body of the man who must have died during the night!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000062_000002|Captain Nemo and his men had come to bury their companion in this communal resting place on the inaccessible ocean floor!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000063_000000|No!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000063_000001|My mind was reeling as never before!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000063_000002|Never had ideas of such impact raced through my brain!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000064_000000|Meanwhile the grave digging went slowly.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000064_000002|I heard the pick ringing on the limestone soil, its iron tip sometimes giving off sparks when it hit a stray piece of flint on the sea bottom.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000064_000003|The hole grew longer, wider, and soon was deep enough to receive the body.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000065_000000|Then the pallbearers approached.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000066_000000|The grave was then covered over with the rubble dug from the seafloor, and it formed a low mound.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000067_000000|When this was done, Captain Nemo and his men stood up; then they all approached the grave, sank again on bended knee, and extended their hands in a sign of final farewell. . . .
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000068_000000|Then the funeral party went back up the path to the Nautilus, returning beneath the arches of the forest, through the thickets, along the coral bushes, going steadily higher.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000069_000000|Finally the ship's rays appeared.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000069_000001|Their luminous trail guided us to the Nautilus.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000069_000002|By one o'clock we had returned.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000070_000000|After changing clothes, I climbed onto the platform, and in the grip of dreadfully obsessive thoughts, I sat next to the beacon.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000071_000000|Captain Nemo rejoined me.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000072_000000|"So, as I predicted, that man died during the night?"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000073_000000|"Yes, Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo replied.
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000074_000000|"And now he rests beside his companions in that coral cemetery?"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000075_000000|"Yes, forgotten by the world but not by us!
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000075_000001|We dig the graves, then entrust the polyps with sealing away our dead for eternity!"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000077_000000|"There lies our peaceful cemetery, hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the waves!"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000078_000000|"At least, captain, your dead can sleep serenely there, out of the reach of sharks!"
train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000079_000000|"Yes, sir," Captain Nemo replied solemnly, "of sharks and men!"
train-clean-360/2581/155520/2581_155520_000027_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/2581/155520/2581_155520_000028_000000|"To night!" Kauf's eyes went wide, then he started to flush.
train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000003_000023|It was time, indeed, that he helped himself.
train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000021_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000022_000000|"Never see them again?" she repeated, puzzled.
train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000044_000002|Good night!"
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000004_000001|"The bathrooms are exactly opposite."
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000008_000001|What am I to do?
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000008_000002|BEATRICE."
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000010_000000|"Dear mr Romilly,
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000016_000000|"j l POTTS."
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000021_000000|"I want to look at you," he confessed.
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000021_000002|Why, you have quite light hair, and I thought it was dark!"
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000024_000002|This morning-why, surely they are brown?"
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000026_000001|And the story itself.
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000028_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000034_000002|You couldn't.
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000050_000002|Am I right?"
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000051_000000|He laughed.
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000052_000000|"Of course you are!
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000058_000002|Paul Lawton of Brockton.
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000066_000001|"What about luncheon?
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000067_000000|"I'm with you," mr Raymond Greene chimed in.
train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000069_000000|"What the mischief is a last?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000004_000009|We love to hear the flickers call, and we readily pardon any one of their number which, as occasionally happens, is bold enough to wake us in the early morning by drumming on the shingles of the roof.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000000|At Sagamore Hill we love a great many things-birds and trees and books, and all things beautiful, and horses and rifles and children and hard work and the joy of life.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000001|We have great fireplaces, and in them the logs roar and crackle during the long winter evenings.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000002|The big piazza is for the hot, still afternoons of summer.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000004|Naturally, any man who has been President, and filled other positions, accumulates such things, with scant regard to his own personal merits.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000012|I need scarcely add, but I will add for the benefit of those who do not know, that this attitude of self respecting identification of interest and purpose is not only compatible with but can only exist when there is fine and real discipline, as thorough and genuine as the discipline that has always obtained in the most formidable fighting fleets and armies.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000013|The discipline and the mutual respect are complementary, not antagonistic.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000007_000000|The books are everywhere.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000007_000002|But the books have overflowed into all the other rooms too.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000002|Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what mr Edgar Allan Poe calls "the mad pride of intellectuality," taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000004|I am not speaking of these, for they are not properly "books" at all; they come in the category of time tables, telephone directories, and other useful agencies of civilized life.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000006|Personally, granted that these books are decent and healthy, the one test to which I demand that they all submit is that of being interesting.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000007|If the book is not interesting to the reader, then in all but an infinitesimal number of cases it gives scant benefit to the reader.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000001|Now, I am very proud of my big game library.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000002|I suppose there must be many big game libraries in Continental Europe, and possibly in England, more extensive than mine, but I have not happened to come across any such library in this country.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000003|Some of the originals go back to the sixteenth century, and there are copies or reproductions of the two or three most famous hunting books of the Middle Ages, such as the Duke of York's translation of Gaston Phoebus, and the queer book of the Emperor Maximilian.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000006|Let me add that ours is in no sense a collector's library.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000007|Each book was procured because some one of the family wished to read it.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000008|We could never afford to take overmuch thought for the outsides of books; we were too much interested in their insides.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000010_000000|Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels-including short stories under the head of novels.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000010_000002|If he cannot also enjoy the Hebrew prophets and the Greek dramatists, he should be sorry.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000010_000003|He ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000011_000002|It is all right for a man to amuse himself by composing a list of a hundred very good books; and if he is to go off for a year or so where he cannot get many books, it is an excellent thing to choose a five foot library of particular books which in that particular year and on that particular trip he would like to read.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000011_000003|But there is no such thing as a hundred books that are best for all men, or for the majority of men, or for one man at all times; and there is no such thing as a five foot library which will satisfy the needs of even one particular man on different occasions extending over a number of years.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000011_000004|Milton is best for one mood and Pope for another.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000000|A book must be interesting to the particular reader at that particular time.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000003|He must not hypocritically pretend to like what he does not like.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000005|Now I am humbly and sincerely conscious that this is a demerit in me and not in Hamlet; and yet it would not do me any good to pretend that I like Hamlet as much as Macbeth when, as a matter of fact, I don't.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000007|They must almost be AEschylus or Euripides, Goethe or Moliere, in order that I may not feel after finishing them a sense of virtuous pride in having achieved a task.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000013_000001|There is on our book shelves a little pre Victorian novel or tale called "The Semi Attached Couple." It is told with much humor; it is a story of gentlefolk who are really gentlefolk; and to me it is altogether delightful.
train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000013_000002|But outside the members of my own family I have never met a human being who had even heard of it, and I don't suppose I ever shall meet one.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000000|Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000002|In the three houses there were at one time sixteen of these small cousins, all told, and once we ranged them in order of size and took their photograph.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000003|There are many kinds of success in life worth having.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000004|It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000007|And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end-why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000008|There is a bit of homely philosophy, quoted by Squire Bill Widener, of Widener's Valley, Virginia, which sums up one's duty in life: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are."
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000000|The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000003|One of these wagons, by the way, a gorgeous red one, had "Express" painted on it in gilt letters, and was known to the younger children as the "'spress" wagon.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000004|They evidently associated the color with the term.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000006|When we reached the store, we found to our dismay that the wagon which we had seen had been sold.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000003_000000|When their mother and I returned from a row, we would often see the children waiting for us, running like sand spiders along the beach.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000003_000001|They always liked to swim in company with a grown up of buoyant temperament and inventive mind, and the float offered limitless opportunities for enjoyment while bathing.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000003_000003|Well, we used to play stage coach on the float while in swimming, and instead of tamely getting up and turning round, the child whose turn it was had to plunge overboard.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000005|In the effort to keep the children that were well and those that were sick apart, their mother and I had to camp out in improvised fashion.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000006|When the eldest small boy was getting well, and had recovered his spirits, I slept on a sofa beside his bed-the sofa being so short that my feet projected over anyhow.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000010|The small boy was convalescing, and was engaged in playing on the floor with some tin ships, together with two or three pasteboard monitors and rams of my own manufacture.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000012|My pasteboard rams and monitors were fascinating-if a naval architect may be allowed to praise his own work-and as property they were equally divided between the little girl and the small boy.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000014|The small boy was busily reciting the phases of the fight, which now approached its climax, and the little girl evidently suspected that her monitor was destined to play the part of victim.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000005_000000|Little boy.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000005_000001|"And then they steamed bang into the monitor."
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000006_000000|Little girl.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000006_000001|"Brother, don't you sink my monitor!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000007_000000|Little boy (without heeding, and hurrying toward the climax).
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000007_000001|"And the torpedo went at the monitor!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000008_000000|Little girl.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000008_000001|"My monitor is not to sink!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000000|Little girl.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000001|"It didn't do any such thing.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000002|My monitor always goes to bed at seven, and it's now quarter past.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000003|My monitor was in bed and couldn't sink!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000011_000003|Of course the children took much interest in the trophies I occasionally brought back from my hunts.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000011_000005|And will he bring me back a bear?" When, some five months later, I returned, of course in my uniform, this little boy was much puzzled as to my identity, although he greeted me affably with "Good afternoon, Colonel." Half an hour later somebody asked him, "Where's father?" to which he responded, "I don't know; but the Colonel is taking a bath."
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000012_000000|Of course the children anthropomorphized-if that is the proper term-their friends of the animal world.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000012_000001|Among these friends at one period was the baker's horse, and on a very rainy day I heard the little girl, who was looking out of the window, say, with a melancholy shake of her head, "Oh!
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000012_000002|there's poor Kraft's horse, all soppin' wet!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000001|On one occasion I was holding a conversation with one of the leaders in Congress, Uncle Pete Hepburn, about the Railroad Rate Bill.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000002|The children were strictly trained not to interrupt business, but on this particular occasion the little boy's feelings overcame him.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000003|He had been loaned a king snake, which, as all nature lovers know, is not only a useful but a beautiful snake, very friendly to human beings; and he came rushing home to show the treasure.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000004|He was holding it inside his coat, and it contrived to wiggle partly down the sleeve.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000001|It was real country, and-speaking from the somewhat detached point of view of the masculine parent-I should say there was just the proper mixture of freedom and control in the management of the children.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000002|They were never allowed to be disobedient or to shirk lessons or work; and they were encouraged to have all the fun possible.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000007|They loved pony Grant.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000009|As he leaned over, his broad straw hat tilted on end, and pony Grant meditatively munched the brim; whereupon the small boy looked up with a wail of anguish, evidently thinking the pony had decided to treat him like a radish.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000002|Then there were flying squirrels, and kangaroo rats, gentle and trustful, and a badger whose temper was short but whose nature was fundamentally friendly.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000005|"He bites legs sometimes, but he never bites faces," said the little boy.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000007|As for the dogs, of course there were many, and during their lives they were intimate and valued family friends, and their deaths were household tragedies.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000010|He would never let the other dogs fight, and he himself never fought unless circumstances imperatively demanded it; but he was a murderous animal when he did fight.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000011|He was not only exceedingly fond of the water, as was to be expected, but passionately devoted to gunpowder in every form, for he loved firearms and fairly reveled in the Fourth of July celebrations-the latter being rather hazardous occasions, as the children strongly objected to any "safe and sane" element being injected into them, and had the normal number of close shaves with rockets, Roman candles, and firecrackers.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000002|It stood at the meeting spot of three fences.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000003|A favorite amusement used to be an obstacle race when the barn was full of hay.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000005|They rushed inside, clambered over or burrowed through the hay, as suited them best, dropped out of a place where a loose board had come off, got over, through, or under the three fences, and raced back to the starting point.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000006|When they were little, their respective fathers were expected also to take part in the obstacle race, and when with the advance of years the fathers finally refused to be contestants, there was a general feeling of pained regret among the children at such a decline in the sporting spirit.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000017_000000|Another famous place for handicap races was Cooper's Bluff, a gigantic sand bank rising from the edge of the bay, a mile from the house.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000017_000001|If the tide was high there was an added thrill, for some of the contestants were sure to run into the water.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000018_000002|She held together well for a season or two after having been cleared of everything down to the timbers, and this gave us the chance to make camping out trips in which the girls could also be included, for we put them to sleep in the wreck, while the boys slept on the shore; squaw picnics, the children called them.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000019_000001|For nearly thirty years we have given the Christmas tree to the school.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000020_000000|We had a sleigh for winter; but if, when there was much snow, the whole family desired to go somewhere, we would put the body of the farm wagon on runners and all bundle in together.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000021_000000|When we were in Washington, the children usually went with their mother to the Episcopal church, while I went to the Dutch Reformed.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000021_000002|On one occasion, when the child's conduct fell just short of warranting such extreme measures, his mother, as they were on the point of entering church, concluded a homily by a quotation which showed a certain haziness of memory concerning the marriage and baptismal services: "No, little boy, if this conduct continues, I shall think that you neither love, honor, nor obey me!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000021_000003|However, the culprit was much impressed with a sense of shortcoming as to the obligations he had undertaken; so the result was as satisfactory as if the quotation had been from the right service.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000022_000001|There was also much training that came as a by-product and was perhaps almost as valuable-not as a substitute but as an addition.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000022_000003|The children did not wish me to read the books they desired their mother to read, and I usually took some such book as "Hereward the Wake," or "Guy Mannering," or "The Last of the Mohicans" or else some story about a man eating tiger, or a man eating lion, from one of the hunting books in my library.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000023_000000|Besides profiting by the more canonical books on education, we profited by certain essays and articles of a less orthodox type.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000023_000001|I wish to express my warmest gratitude for such books-not of avowedly didactic purpose-as Laura Richards's books, Josephine Dodge Daskam's "Madness of Philip," Palmer Cox's "Queer People," the melodies of Father Goose and Mother Wild Goose, Flandreau's "mrs White's," Myra Kelly's stories of her little East Side pupils, and Michelson's "Madigans." It is well to take duties, and life generally, seriously.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000024_000001|Like other children, they were apt to take to bed with them treasures which they particularly esteemed.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000024_000004|Next morning dr Lambert rather enviously congratulated the boy on the fact that stones and roots evidently did not interfere with the soundness of his sleep; to which the boy responded, "Well, Doctor, you see it isn't very long since I used to take fourteen china animals to bed with me every night!"
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000000|As the children grew up, Sagamore Hill remained delightful for them. There were picnics and riding parties, there were dances in the north room-sometimes fancy dress dances-and open air plays on the green tennis court of one of the cousin's houses.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000001|The children are no longer children now.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000004|They have had their share of accidents and escapes; as I write, word comes from a far off land that one of them, whom Seth Bullock used to call "Kim" because he was the friend of all mankind, while bossing a dangerous but necessary steel structural job has had two ribs and two back teeth broken, and is back at work.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000005|They have known and they will know joy and sorrow, triumph and temporary defeat.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000006|But I believe they are all the better off because of their happy and healthy childhood.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000000|It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000001|No father and mother can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety, and there are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000002|But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000003|There are many forms of success, many forms of triumph.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000005_000001|I would not even suggest a mistranslation; but the idea intended by the word has been so misunderstood and therefore mistaught, that it requires some consideration of the word itself to get at a right recognition of the moral fact it represents.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000006_000004|I think that here the same word is used for man's dismission of his sins, as is elsewhere used for God's dismission or remission of them.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000006_000005|In both uses, it is a sending away of sins, with the difference of meaning that comes from the differing sources of the action.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000006_000006|Both God and man send away sins, but in the one case God sends away the sins of the man, and in the other the man sends away his own sins.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000007_000000|That the phrase here intends repentance unto the ceasing from sin, the giving up of what is wrong, I will try to show at least probable.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000008_000001|The kind and scope of the repentance or change, and not any end to be gained by it, appears intended.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000008_000002|The change must be one of will and conduct-a radical change of life on the part of the man: he must repent-that is, change his mind-not to a different opinion, not even to a mere betterment of his conduct-not to anything less than a sending away of his sins.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000008_000003|This interpretation of the preaching of the Baptist seems to me, I repeat, the more direct, the fuller of meaning, the more logical.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000009_000001|They must cleanse, not the streets of their cities, not their houses or their garments or even their persons, but their hearts and their doings.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000010_000000|Again, observe that, when the Pharisees came to john, he said to them, 'Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:' is not this the same as, 'Repent unto the sending away of your sins'?
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000011_000000|Note also, that, when the multitudes came to the prophet, and all, with the classes most obnoxious to the rest, the publicans and the soldiers, asked what he would have them do-thus plainly recognizing that something was required of them-his instruction was throughout in the same direction: they must send away their sins; and each must begin with the fault that lay next him.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000012_000000|They could not rid themselves of their sins, but they could set about sending them away; they could quarrel with them, and proceed to turn them out of the house: the Lord was on his way to do his part in their final banishment.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000012_000001|Those who had repented to the sending away of their sins, he would baptize with a holy power to send them away indeed.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000012_000002|The operant will to get rid of them would be baptized with a fire that should burn them up.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000013_000000|I think, then, that the part of the repentant man, and not the part of God, in the sending away of sins, is intended here.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000013_000001|It is the man's one preparation for receiving the power to overcome them, the baptism of fire.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000000|Not seldom, what comes in the name of the gospel of Jesus Christ, must seem, even to one not far from the kingdom of heaven, no good news at all.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000006|God is doing his part, is undergoing the mighty toil of an age long creation, endowing men with power to be; but few as yet are those who take up their part, who respond to the call of God, who will to be, who put forth a divine effort after real existence.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000007|To the many, the spirit of the prophet cries, 'Turn ye, and change your way!
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000009|Let God throne himself in you, that his liberty be your life, and you free men.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000010|That he may enter, clear the house for him.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000011|Send away the bad things out of it.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000012|Depart from evil, and do good.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000013|The duty that lieth at thy door, do it, be it great or small.'
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000015_000000|For indeed in this region there is no great or small.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000015_000001|'Be content with your wages,' said the Baptist to the soldiers.
train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000016_000002|What is there for us when we discover that we are out of the way, but to bethink ourselves and turn?
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000009_000000|BY GEORGE MACDONALD
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000015_000000|CHAPTER one DOROTHY AND RICHARD.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000034_000000|It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000000|The room to which the window having this prospect belonged was large and low, with a dark floor of uncarpeted oak.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000002|At the opposite corner of the great low arched chimney sat a lady past the prime of life, but still beautiful, though the beauty was all but merged in the loveliness that rises from the heart to the face of such as have taken the greatest step in life-that is, as the old proverb says, the step out of doors.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000003|She was plainly yet rather richly dressed, in garments of an old-fashioned and well preserved look.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000004|Her hair was cut short above her forehead, and frizzed out in bunches of little curls on each side.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000006|Close round her neck was a string of amber beads, that gave a soft harmonious light to her complexion.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000036_000001|The execution of lord Strafford was news that had not yet begun to 'hiss the speaker.'
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000037_000001|'The world has seldom seen its like.'
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000038_000000|'But tell me, master Herbert,' said the lady, 'why comes it in this our day?
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000039_000000|'Be it far from me to presume to set forth the ways of Providence!' returned her guest.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000039_000003|Alas!' he went on, with a new suggestion from the image he had been using, 'if the beginning of strife be as the letting out of water, what shall be the end of that strife whose beginning is the letting out of blood?'
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000040_000001|that such times of fierce ungodly tempest must ever follow upon seasons of peace and comfort?--even as your cousin of holy memory, in his verses concerning the church militant, writes:
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000041_000000|"Thus also sin and darkness follow still The church and sun, with all their power and skill."'
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000042_000002|To judge by the tokens the wise man gives us, the mourners are already going about my streets.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000042_000003|The almond tree flourisheth at least.'
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000044_000000|'But think of those whom we must leave behind us, master Herbert. How will it fare with them?' said the lady in troubled tone, and glancing in the direction of the window.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000045_000000|In the window sat a girl, gazing from it with the look of a child who had uttered all her incantations, and could imagine no abatement in the steady rain pour.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000046_000000|'We shall leave behind us strong hearts and sound heads too,' said mr Herbert. 'And I bethink me there will be none stronger or sounder than those of your young cousins, my late pupils, of whom I hear brave things from Oxford, and in whose affection my spirit constantly rejoices.'
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000047_000000|'You will be glad to hear such good news of your relatives, Dorothy,' said the lady, addressing her daughter.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000048_000000|Even as she said the words, the setting sun broke through the mass of grey cloud, and poured over the earth a level flood of radiance, in which the red wheat glowed, and the drops that hung on every ear flashed like diamonds.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000048_000001|The girl's hair caught it as she turned her face to answer her mother, and an aureole of brown tinted gold gleamed for a moment about her head.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000001|But the girl rose, and, turning again to the window, stood for a moment rapt in the transfiguration passing upon the world.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000002|The vault of grey was utterly shattered, but, gathering glory from ruin, was hurrying in rosy masses away from under the loftier vault of blue.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000003|The ordered shocks upon twenty fields sent their long purple shadows across the flush; and the evening wind, like the sighing that follows departed tears, was shaking the jewels from their feathery tops.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000004|The sunflowers and hollyhocks no longer cowered under the tyranny of the rain, but bowed beneath the weight of the gems that adorned them.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000005|A flame burned as upon an altar on the top of every tree, and the very pools that lay on the distant road had their message of light to give to the hopeless earth.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000006|As she gazed, another hue than that of the sunset, yet rosy too, gradually flushed the face of the maiden. She turned suddenly from the window, and left the room, shaking a shower of diamonds from the honeysuckle as she passed out through the porch upon the gravel walk.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000051_000000|Possibly her elders found her departure a relief, for although they took no notice of it, their talk became more confidential, and was soon mingled with many names both of rank and note, with a familiarity which to a stranger might have seemed out of keeping with the humbler character of their surroundings.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000052_000000|But when Dorothy Vaughan had passed a corner of the house to another garden more ancient in aspect, and in some things quaint even to grotesqueness, she was in front of a portion of the house which indicated a far statelier past-closed and done with, like the rooms within those shuttered windows.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000052_000002|Such, however, was the character of lady Vaughan, that, although she mingled little with the great families in the neighbourhood, she was so much respected, that she would have been a welcome visitor to most of them.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000053_000000|The reverend mr matthew Herbert was a clergyman from the Welsh border, a man of some note and influence, who had been the personal friend both of his late relative George Herbert and of the famous dr Donne.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000053_000001|Strongly attached to the English church, and recoiling with disgust from the practices of the puritans-as much, perhaps, from refinement of taste as abhorrence of schism-he had never yet fallen into such a passion for episcopacy as to feel any cordiality towards the schemes of the archbishop.
train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000053_000002|To those who knew him his silence concerning it was a louder protest against the policy of Laud than the fiercest denunciations of the puritans.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000003_000000|Great was the merriment in Raglan Castle over the discomfiture of the bumpkins, and many were the compliments Tom received in parlour, nursery, kitchen, guard room, everywhere, on the success of his hastily formed scheme for the chastisement of their presumption.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000003_000001|The household had looked for a merry time on the occasion of the wedding, but had not expected such a full cup of delight as had been pressed out for them betwixt the self importance of the overweening yokels and the inventive faculties of Tom Fool.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000001|For he knew that, in some shape or other, and that certainly not the true one, the affair would be spread over the country, where now prejudice against the Catholics was strong and dangerous in proportion to the unreason of those who cherished it.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000002|Now, also, it was becoming pretty plain that except the king yielded every prerogative, and became the puppet which the mingled pride and apprehension of the Parliament would have him, their differences must ere long be referred to the arbitration of the sword, in which case there was no shadow of doubt in the mind of the earl as to the part befitting a peer of the realm.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000003|The king was a protestant, but no less the king; and not this man, but his parents, had sinned in forsaking the church-of which sin their offspring had now to bear the penalty, reaping the whirlwind sprung from the stormy seeds by them sown.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000004|For what were the puritans but the lawfully begotten children of the so called reformation, whose spirit they inherited, and in whose footsteps they so closely followed?
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000005|In the midst of such reflections, dawned slowly in the mind of the devout old man the enchanting hope that perhaps he might be made the messenger of God to lead back to the true fold the wandering feet of his king.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000006|But, fail or speed in any result, so long as his castle held together, it should stand for the king.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000007|Faithful catholic as he was, the brave old man was English to the backbone.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000005_000001|This visit of search, let it have originated how it might, and be as despicable in itself as it was ludicrous in its result, showed but too clearly how strong the current of popular feeling was setting against all the mounds of social distinction, and not kingly prerogative alone.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000005_000002|What preparations might be needful, must be prudent.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000006_000001|At length one of them, whom the others called Caspar, retired, and the earl was left with his son Edward, lord Herbert, the only person in the castle who had gone to neither window nor door to delight himself with the discomfiture of the parliamentary commissioners.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000007_000000|They entered the long picture gallery, faintly lighted from its large windows to the court, but chiefly from the oriel which formed the northern end of it, where they now sat down, the earl being, for the second time that night, weary.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000007_000001|Behind them was a long dim line of portraits, broken only by the great chimney piece supported by human figures, all of carved stone, and before them, nearly as dim, was the moon massed landscape-a lovely view of the woodland, pasture, and red tilth to the northward of the castle.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000008_000000|They sat silent for a while, and the younger said:
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000009_000000|'I fear you are fatigued, my lord.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000009_000001|It is late for you to be out of bed; nature is mortal.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000010_000001|But therein lies the comfort-it cannot last.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000011_000000|'Were it not for villanous saltpetre, my lord, the castle would hold out well enough.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000012_000001|Be sure, Herbert, I shall not render the keep for the taking of the outworks.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000014_000001|'Do not let us forecast evil, only prepare for it.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000016_000000|'You shall lack nothing, Herbert, that either counsel or purse of mine may reach unto.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000017_000000|'I thank your lordship, for much depends upon both.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000017_000001|And so I fear will his majesty find-if it conies to the worst.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000018_000000|A brief pause followed.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000020_000000|'My father is pleased to say so.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000021_000001|Bethink thee, son-what man can be pleased to part with his money?
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000021_000002|And while my king is poor, I must be rich for him.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000022_000000|'So long as you still keep wherewithal to give, I shall be content, my lord.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000023_000002|I will to bed.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000023_000003|We must go the round again to morrow-with the sun to hold as a candle.'
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000024_000000|The next day the same party made a similar circuit three times-in the morning, at noon, and in the evening-that the full light might uncover what the shadows had hid, and that the shadows might show what a perpendicular light could not reveal.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000025_000000|After this came a review of the outer fortifications-if, indeed, they were worthy of the name-enclosing the gardens, the old tilting yard, now used as a bowling green, the home farmyard, and other such outlying portions under the stewardship of sir Ralph Blackstone and the governorship of Charles Somerset, the earl's youngest son.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000025_000001|It was here that the most was wanted; and the next few days were chiefly spent in surveying these works, and drawing plans for their extension, strengthening, and connection-especially about the stables, armourer's shop, and smithy, where the building of new defences was almost immediately set on foot.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000026_000002|At length, to conclude the inspection, lord Herbert and the master of the armoury held consultation with the head armourer, and the mighty accumulation of weapons of all sorts was passed under the most rigid scrutiny; many of them were sent to the forge, and others carried to the ground floor of the keep.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000027_000001|Some of them drove into the paved court, for here and there a buttress was wanted inside, and of the battlements not a few were weather beaten and out of repair.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000027_000003|The earl, however, although he yielded, maintained that the flying of the wall when struck was a more than counterbalancing danger.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000028_000000|The stock of provisions began to increase.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000028_000001|The dry larder, which lay under the court, between the kitchen and buttery, was by degrees filled with gammons and flitches of bacon, well dried and smoked. Wheat, barley, oats, and pease were stored in the granary, and potatoes in a pit dug in the orchard.
train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000029_000000|Strange faces in the guard room caused wonderings and questions amongst the women.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000001_000001|"FREE!
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000001_000002|BUT A MONSTER!"
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000002_000000|The peculiar ability of the human mind to slip so readily into the refuge of the commonplace after, or even during, some well nigh intolerable crisis, has been to me long one of the most interesting phenomena of our psychology.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000005_000000|And these paths are bordered and screened, figuratively and literally, with bush and trees of his own selection, setting out and cultivation-shelters of the familiar, the habitual, the customary.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000006_000000|On these ancestral paths, within these barriers of usage, man moves hidden and secure as the animals in their haunts-or so he thinks.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000008_000000|But they are home to him!
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000009_000000|Therefore it is that he scurries from some open place of revelation, some storm of emotion, some strength testing struggle, back into the shelter of the obvious; finding it an intellectual environment that demands no slightest expenditure of mental energy or initiative, strength to sally forth again into the unfamiliar.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000010_000000|I crave pardon for this digression.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000010_000001|I set it down because now I remember how, when Drake at last broke the silence that had closed in upon the passing of that still, small voice the essence of these thoughts occurred to me.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000011_000000|He strode over to the weeping girl, and in his voice was a roughness that angered me until I realized his purpose.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000012_000000|"Get up, ruth," he ordered.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000012_000001|"He came back once and he'll come back again.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000012_000003|I'm hungry."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000014_000000|"Eat!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000014_000001|"You can be hungry?"
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000015_000001|"Come on; we've got to make the best of it."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000016_000001|You must eat-and then rest."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000017_000000|"No use crying in the milk even if it's spilt," observed Drake, even more cheerfully brutal.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000017_000001|"I learned that at the front where we got so we'd yelp for food even when the lads who'd been bringing it were all mixed up in it."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000018_000000|She lifted Ventnor's head from her lap, rested it on the silks; arose, eyes wrathful, her little hands closed in fists as though to strike him.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000019_000000|"Oh-you brute!" she whispered.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000020_000000|"That's better," said Dick.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000020_000001|"Go ahead and hit me if you want.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000020_000002|The madder you get the better you'll feel."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000022_000000|"Thanks-Dick," she said quietly.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000023_000000|And while I sat studying Ventnor, they put together a meal from the stores, brewed tea over the spirit lamp with water from the bubbling spring.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000023_000001|In these commonplaces I knew that she at least was finding relief from that strain of the abnormal under which we had labored so long.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000023_000002|To my surprise I found that I was hungry, and with deep relief I watched ruth partake of food and drink even though lightly.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000024_000000|About her seemed to hover something of the ethereal, elusive, and disquieting.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000024_000001|Was it the strangely pellucid light that gave the effect, I wondered; and knew it was not, for as I scanned her covertly, there fell upon her face that shadow of inhuman tranquillity, of unearthly withdrawal which, I guessed, had more than anything else maddened Ventnor into his attack upon the Disk.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000025_000000|I watched her fight against it, drive it back.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000025_000002|And in her eyes I read both terror and-shame.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000026_000000|It came to me that painful as it might be for her the time for questioning had come.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000027_000000|"ruth," I said, "I know it's not necessary to remind you that we're in a tight place.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000027_000001|Every fact and every scrap of knowledge that we can lay hold of is of the utmost importance in enabling us to determine our course.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000028_000000|"I'm going to repeat your brother's question-what did Norhala do to you?
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000028_000001|And what happened when you were floating before the Disk?"
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000029_000000|The blaze of interest in Drake's eyes at these questions changed to amazement at her stricken recoil from them.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000030_000000|"There was nothing," she whispered-then defiantly-"nothing.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000030_000001|I don't know what you mean."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000031_000000|"ruth!" I spoke sharply now, in my own perplexity.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000031_000001|"You do know.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000031_000002|You must tell us-for his sake." I pointed toward Ventnor.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000032_000000|She drew a long breath.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000033_000000|"You're right-of course," she said unsteadily.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000033_000001|"Only I-I thought maybe I could fight it out myself.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000033_000002|But you'll have to know it-there's a taint upon me."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000034_000000|I caught in Drake's swift glance the echo of my own thrill of apprehension for her sanity.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000035_000000|"Yes," she said, now quietly.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000035_000001|"Some new and alien thing within my heart, my brain, my soul.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000035_000002|It came to me from Norhala when we rode the flying block, and-he-sealed upon me when I was in-his"--again she crimsoned, "embrace."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000037_000000|"A thing that urges me to forget you two-and Martin-and all the world I've known.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000038_000000|"It whispered to me first," she said, "from Norhala-when she put her arm around me.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000038_000001|It whispered and then seemed to float from her and cover me like-like a veil, and from head to foot.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000038_000002|It was a quietness and peace that held within it a happiness at one and the same time utterly tranquil and utterly free.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000039_000000|"I seemed to be at the doorway to unknown ecstasies-and the life I had known only a dream-and you, all of you-even Martin, dreams within a dream.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000039_000001|You weren't-real-and you did not-matter."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000040_000000|"Hypnotism," muttered Drake, as she paused.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000000|"no" She shook her head.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000001|"No-more than that.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000002|The wonder of it grew-and grew.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000003|I thrilled with it.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000004|I remember nothing of that ride, saw nothing-except that once through the peace enfolding me pierced warning that Martin was in peril, and I broke through to see him clutching Norhala and to see floating up in her eyes death for him.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000042_000000|"And I saved him-and again forgot.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000042_000001|Then, when I saw that beautiful, flaming Shape-I felt no terror, no fear-only a tremendous-joyous-anticipation, as though-as though-" She faltered, hung her head, then leaving that sentence unfinished, whispered: "and when-it-lifted me it was as though I had come at last out of some endless black ocean of despair into the full sun of paradise."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000043_000000|"ruth!" cried Drake, and at the pain in his cry she winced.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000044_000000|"Wait," she said, and held up a little, tremulous hand.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000044_000001|"You asked-and now you must listen."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000045_000000|She was silent; and when once more she spoke her voice was low, curiously rhythmic; her eyes rapt:
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000046_000000|"I was free-free from every human fetter of fear or sorrow or love or hate; free even of hope-for what was there to hope for when everything desirable was mine?
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000046_000001|And I was elemental; one with the eternal things yet fully conscious that I was-I.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000047_000000|"It was as though I were the shining shadow of a star afloat upon the breast of some still and hidden woodland pool; as though I were a little wind dancing among the mountain tops; a mist whirling down a quiet glen; a shimmering lance of the aurora pulsing in the high solitudes.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000048_000000|"And there was music-strange and wondrous music and terrible, but not terrible to me-who was part of it.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000048_000001|Vast chords and singing themes that rang like clusters of little swinging stars and harmonies that were like the very voice of infinite law resolving within itself all discords.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000049_000000|"Out of the Thing that held me, out from its fires pulsed vitality-a flood of inhuman energy in which I was bathed.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000049_000001|And it was as though this energy were-reassembling me, fitting me even closer to the elemental things, changing me fully into them.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000050_000001|I saw Martin-blasted.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000051_000000|"And, O Walter-Dick-it hurt-it hurt-and for a breath before I ran to him it was like-like coming from a world in which there was no disorder, no sorrow, no doubts, a rhythmic, harmonious world of light and music, into-into a world that was like a black and dirty kitchen.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000052_000000|"And it's there," her voice rose, hysterically.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000052_000001|"It's still within me-whispering, whispering; urging me away from you, from Martin, from every human thing; bidding me give myself up, surrender my humanity.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000053_000001|"No-HIS seal!
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000053_000002|An alien consciousness sealed within me, that tries to make the human me a slave-that waits to overcome my will-and if I surrender gives me freedom, an incredible freedom-but makes me, being still human, a-monster."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000054_000000|She hid her face in her hands, quivering.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000000|"If I could sleep," she wailed.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000001|"But I'm afraid to sleep.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000002|I think I shall never sleep again.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000003|For sleeping how do I know what I may be when I wake?"
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000056_000000|I caught Drake's eye; he nodded.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000056_000001|I slipped my hand down into the medicine case, brought forth a certain potent and tasteless combination of drugs which I carry upon explorations.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000057_000000|I dropped a little into her cup, then held it to her lips.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000057_000001|Like a child, unthinking, she obeyed and drank.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000058_000000|"But I'll not surrender." Her eyes were tragic.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000058_000001|"Never think it!
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000058_000002|I can win-don't you know I can?"
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000059_000000|"Win?" Drake dropped down beside her, drew her toward him.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000059_000002|And remember this-nine tenths of what you're thinking now is purely over wrought nerves and weariness.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000059_000003|You'll win-and we'll win, never doubt it."
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000060_000000|"I don't," she said.
train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000060_000001|"I know it-oh, it will be hard-but I will-I will-"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000002_000000|COMING HOME.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000003_000000|Miss Carlyle, having resolved upon her course, quitted her own house, and removed to East Lynne with peter and her handmaidens.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000003_000001|In spite of mr Dill's grieved remonstrances, she discharged the servants whom mr Carlyle had engaged, all save one man.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000000|On a Friday night, about a month after the wedding, mr Carlyle and his wife came home.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000001|They were expected, and Miss Carlyle went through the hall to receive them, and stood on the upper steps, between the pillars of the portico.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000002|An elegant chariot with four post horses was drawing up.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000003|Miss Carlyle compressed her lips as she scanned it.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000004|She was attired in a handsome dark silk dress and a new cap; her anger had had time to cool down in the last month, and her strong common sense told her that the wiser plan would be to make the best of it.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000005|mr Carlyle came up the steps with Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000005_000000|"You here, Cornelia!
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000005_000001|That was kind.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000005_000003|Isabel, this is my sister."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000006_000000|Lady Isabel put forth her hand, and Miss Carlyle condescended to touch the tips of her fingers.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000006_000001|"I hope you are well, ma'am," she jerked out.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000007_000000|mr Carlyle left them together, and went back to search for some trifles which had been left in the carriage.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000007_000001|Miss Carlyle led the way to a sitting room, where the supper tray was laid.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000008_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000008_000001|I will go to my rooms, but I do not require supper.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000009_000000|"Then what would you like to take?" asked Miss Corny.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000010_000000|"Some tea, if you please, I am very thirsty."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000011_000000|"Tea!" ejaculated Miss Corny.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000011_000002|I don't know that they have boiling water.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000011_000003|You'd never sleep a wink all night, ma'am, if you took tea at eleven o'clock."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000012_000000|"Oh, then, never mind," replied Lady Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000012_000001|"It is of no consequence.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000012_000002|Do not let me give trouble."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000000|Miss Carlyle whisked out of the room; upon what errand was best known to herself; and in the hall she and Marvel came to an encounter.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000002|Marvel was very stylish, with five flounces to her dress, a veil, and a parasol.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000003|Meanwhile, Lady Isabel sat down and burst into bitter tears and sobs.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000004|A chill had come over her; it did not seem like coming to East Lynne.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000005|mr Carlyle entered and witnessed the grief.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000014_000000|"Isabel!" he uttered in amazement, as he hastened up to her.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000014_000001|"My darling, what ails you?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000015_000000|"I am tired, I think," she gently answered; "and coming into the house again made me think of papa.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000015_000001|I should like to go to my rooms, Archibald, but I don't know which they are."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000016_000000|Neither did mr Carlyle know, but Miss Carlyle came whisking in again, and said: "The best rooms; those next the library.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000016_000001|Should she go up with my lady?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000017_000000|mr Carlyle preferred to go himself, and he held out his arm to Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000017_000001|She drew her veil over her face as she passed Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000018_000000|The branches were not lighted, and the room looked cold and comfortless.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000018_000001|"Things seem all sixes and sevens in the house," remarked mr Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000018_000002|"I fancy the servants must have misunderstood my letter, and not have expected us until to morrow night."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000019_000000|On returning to the sitting room mr Carlyle inquired the cause of the servants' negligence.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000020_000000|"I sent them away because they were superfluous encumbrances," hastily replied Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000020_000001|"We have four in the house, and my lady has brought a fine maid, I see, making five.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000020_000002|I have come up here to live."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000021_000000|mr Carlyle felt checkmated.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000021_000001|He had always bowed to the will of Miss Corny, but he had an idea that he and his wife should be better without her.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000021_000002|"And your house?" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000000|"I have let it furnished; the people enter to day.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000002|There'll be enough expense without our keeping on two houses; and most people in your place would jump at the prospect of my living here.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000003|Your wife will be mistress.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000004|I do not intend to take her honors from her; but I will save her a world of trouble in management-be as useful to her as a housekeeper.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000005|She will be glad of that, inexperienced as she is.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000006|I dare say she never gave a domestic order in her life."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000023_000000|This was a view of the case, to mr Carlyle, so plausibly put, that he began to think it might be all for the best.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000023_000002|Still he did not know.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000024_000000|"Did you buy that fine piano which has arrived?" angrily asked Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000025_000000|"It was my present to Isabel."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000026_000000|Miss Corny groaned.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000026_000001|"What did it cost?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000027_000001|The old piano here was a bad one, and I bought a better."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000028_000000|"What did it cost?" repeated Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000029_000001|Obedience to her will was yet powerful within him.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000030_000000|Miss Corny threw up her hands and eyes.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000030_000001|But at that moment peter entered with some hot water which his master had rung for.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000030_000002|mr Carlyle rose and looked on the side board.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000031_000000|"Where is the wine, peter?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000032_000000|The servant put it out, port and sherry.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000032_000001|mr Carlyle drank a glass, and then proceeded to mix some wine and water.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000032_000002|"Shall I mix some for you, Cornelia?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000033_000000|"I'll mix for myself if I want any.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000033_000001|Who's that for?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000034_000000|"Isabel."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000035_000000|He quitted the room, carrying the wine and water, and entered his wife's.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000035_000001|She was sitting half buried, it seemed, in the arm chair, her face muffled up.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000035_000002|As she raised it, he saw that it was flushed and agitated; that her eyes were bright, and her frame was trembling.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000036_000000|"What is the matter?" he hastily asked.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000037_000000|"I got nervous after Marvel went," she whispered, laying hold of him, as if for protection from terror.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000037_000001|"I came back to the chair and covered my head over, hoping some one would come up."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000038_000000|"I have been talking to Cornelia.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000038_000001|But what made you nervous?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000001|I was very foolish.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000002|I kept thinking of frightful things.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000003|They would come into my mind.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000004|Do not blame me, Archibald.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000005|This is the room papa died in."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000040_000000|"Blame you, my darling," he uttered with deep feeling.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000041_000000|"I thought of a dreadful story about the bats, that the servants told-I dare say you never heard it; and I kept thinking.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000042_000000|Yes, he was smiling; for he knew that these moments of nervous fear are best met jestingly.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000042_000001|He made her drink the wine and water, and then he showed her where the bell was, ringing it as he did so.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000042_000002|Its position had been changed in some late alterations to the house.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000043_000000|"Your rooms shall be changed to morrow, Isabel."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000044_000000|"No, let us remain in these.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000044_000001|I shall like to feel that papa was once their occupant.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000045_000000|But, even as she spoke, her actions belied her words.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000045_000001|mr Carlyle had gone to the door and opened it, and she flew close up to him, cowering behind him.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000046_000000|"Shall you be gone very long, Archibald?" she whispered.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000047_000000|"Not more than an hour," he answered.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000047_000001|But he hastily put back one of his hands, and held her tightly in his protecting grasp.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000047_000002|Marvel was coming along the corridor in answer to the ring.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000048_000000|"Have the goodness to let Miss Carlyle know that I am not coming down again to night," he said.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000049_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000050_000000|mr Carlyle shut the door, and then looked at his wife and laughed.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000050_000001|"He is very kind to me," thought Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000000|With the morning began the perplexities of Lady Isabel Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000001|But, first of all, just fancy the group at breakfast.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000002|Miss Carlyle descended in the startling costume the reader has seen, took her seat at the breakfast table, and there sat bolt upright.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000003|mr Carlyle came down next; and then Lady Isabel entered, in an elegant half mourning dress, with flowing black ribbons.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000052_000001|I hope you slept well," was Miss Carlyle's salutation.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000053_000000|"Quite well, thank you," she answered, as she took her seat opposite Miss Carlyle.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000053_000001|Miss Carlyle pointed to the top of the table.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000055_000000|"I should be glad if you would," answered Lady Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000000|So Miss Carlyle proceeded to her duties, very stern and grim.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000001|The meal was nearly over, when peter came in, and said the butcher had come up for orders.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000002|Miss Carlyle looked at Lady Isabel, waiting, of course, for her to give them.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000003|Isabel was silent with perplexity; she had never given such an order in her life.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000004|Totally ignorant was she of the requirements of a household; and did not know whether to suggest a few pounds of meat or a whole cow.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000005|It was the presence of that grim Miss Corny which put her out.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000006|Alone with her husband she would have said, "What ought I to order, Archibald?
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000007|Tell me." peter waited.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000057_000000|"A----Something to roast and boil, if you please," stammered Lady Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000058_000000|She spoke in a low tone.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000058_000001|Embarrassment makes cowards of us; and mr Carlyle repeated it after her.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000058_000002|He knew no more about housekeeping than she did.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000059_000000|"Something to roast and boil, tell the man, peter."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000000|Up started Miss Corny; she could not stand that.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000001|"Are you aware, Lady Isabel, that an order such as that would only puzzle the butcher?
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000002|Shall I give the necessary orders for to day?
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000003|The fishmonger will be here presently!"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000061_000000|"Oh, I wish you would!" cried the relieved Lady Isabel.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000061_000001|"I have not been accustomed to it, but I must learn.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000061_000002|I don't think I know anything about housekeeping."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000062_000000|Miss Corny's answer was to stalk from the room.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000062_000001|Isabel rose from her chair, like a bird released from its cage, and stood by his side.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000062_000002|"Have you finished, Archibald?"
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000000|"I think I have, dear.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000001|Oh!
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000002|Here's my coffee.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000003|There; I have finished now."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000064_000000|"Let us go around the grounds."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000065_000000|He rose, laid his hands playfully on her slender waist, and looked at her.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000065_000001|"You may as well ask me to take a journey to the moon.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000065_000002|It is past nine, and I have not been to the office for a month."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000066_000001|"I wish you would be always with me!
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000066_000002|East Lynne will not be East Lynne without you."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000067_000000|"I will be with you as much as ever I can, my dearest," he whispered.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000068_000000|She ran for her bonnet, gloves and parasol.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000068_000001|mr Carlyle waited for her in the hall, and they went out together.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000000|He thought it a good opportunity to speak about his sister.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000001|"She wishes to remain with us," he said.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000002|"I do not know what to decide.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000003|On the one hand I think she might save you the worry of household management; on the other, I fancy we shall be happier by ourselves."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000070_000000|Isabel's heart sank within her at the idea of that stern Miss Corny, mounted over her as resident guard; but, refined and sensitive, almost painfully considerate of the feelings of others, she raised no word of objection.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000070_000001|"As you and Miss Carlyle please," she answered.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000071_000000|"Isabel," he said, "I wish it to be as you please; I wish matters to be arranged as may best please you: and I will have them so arranged.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000071_000001|My chief object in life now is your happiness."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000072_000000|He spoke in all the sincerity of truth, and Isabel knew it: and the thought came across her that with him by her side, her loving protector, Miss Carlyle could not mar her life's peace.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000072_000001|"Let her stay, Archibald; she will not incommode us."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000073_000000|"At any rate it can be tried for a month or two, and we shall see how it works," he musingly observed.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000074_000000|They reached the park gates.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000074_000001|"I wish I could go with you and be your clerk," she cried, unwilling to release his hand.
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000074_000002|"I should not have all that long way to go back by myself."
train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000075_000000|He laughed and shook his head, telling her that she wanted to bribe him into taking her back, but it could not be.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000001_000000|"A knight," said Miss Drew, who was struggling to inspire her class with enthusiasm for Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," "a knight was a person who spent his time going round succouring the oppressed."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000002_000000|"Suckin' wot?" said William, bewildered.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000004_000000|"How much did he get for it?" asked William.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000005_000000|"Nothing, of course," said Miss Drew, appalled by the base commercialism of the twentieth century.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000005_000002|He had a lot of adventures and fighting and he helped beautiful, persecuted damsels."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000006_000000|William's respect for the knight rose.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000009_000001|Suckin'--I mean helpin' people an' fightin' an' all that.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000011_000000|"Well," said William after a pause, "let's be squires in turn.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000011_000001|You first," he added hastily.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000013_000000|William considered.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000014_000001|It'll be three weeks off 'cause they're takin' the next two weeks to pay for an ole window wot my ball slipped into by mistake."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000015_000000|He spoke with the bitterness that always characterised his statements of the injustice of the grown up world.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000016_000000|"All right," said Ginger.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000017_000000|"I won't forget about the drink of ginger ale."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000018_000002|Well, let's set off."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000019_000001|Anyway she said we could still be knights an' help people, di'n't she?
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000019_000002|Anyway, I'll get my bugle.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000020_000000|William's bugle had just returned to public life after one of its periodic terms of retirement into his father's keeping.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000021_000000|William took his bugle proudly in one hand and his pistol (the glorious result of a dip in the bran tub at a school party) in the other, and, sternly denying themselves the pleasures of afternoon school, off the two set upon the road of romance and adventure.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000022_000000|"I'll carry the bugle," said Ginger, "'cause I'm squire."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000023_000000|William was loth to give up his treasure.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000025_000000|They walked along for about a mile without meeting anyone.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000028_000001|"You're the squire.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000028_000002|You're not much of a squire not to have brought sumthin' for me to eat."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000033_000000|"You might go an' milk that," suggested William.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000035_000000|"No, I'm not squire.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000035_000001|I bet squires did the milkin'.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000037_000001|She turned her eyes upon them sadly.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000038_000000|"Go on!" said the knight to his reluctant squire.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000040_000000|"Well, I will, then!" said William with reckless bravado, and advanced boldly upon the animal.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000040_000002|Like lightning the gallant pair made for the road.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000042_000000|They walked on down the road till they came to a pair of iron gates and a drive that led up to a big house.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000042_000001|William's spirits rose.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000042_000002|His hunger was forgotten.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000043_000002|It looks like a place where there might be someone to rescue."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000044_000001|Unchallenged they went up to the house.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000044_000004|And she was speaking fast and passionately.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000045_000000|William, ready for all contingencies, marshalled his forces.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000046_000000|"Follow me!" he whispered and crept on all fours nearer the window. They could see a man now, an elderly man with white hair and a white beard.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000048_000000|"Crumbs!" ejaculated William.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000050_000000|"Golly!" murmured William.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000053_000000|"Will you kill him?" said the awed squire.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000054_000000|"How big was he?
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000054_000001|Could you see?" said William the discreet.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000055_000000|"He was ever so big.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000055_000001|Great big face he had, too, with a beard."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000056_000000|"Then I won't try killin' him-not straight off.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000058_000001|William quivered with excitement.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000060_000000|"Here!" came an angry shout from inside.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000060_000002|What the devil----"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000061_000000|"You low ole caitiff!" said William through the keyhole.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000062_000000|"Who the deuce----?" exploded the voice.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000065_000000|"You mean ole oppressor!"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000066_000000|"Who the deuce are you?
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000066_000001|What's this tomfool trick?
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000066_000003|Do you hear?"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000067_000000|A resounding kick shook the door.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000070_000001|Go an' blow the bugle at the front door, then they'll know something's happened," he added simply.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000073_000000|"How did it go off?"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000074_000000|"Oh, quite well.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000074_000001|We knew our parts, anyway."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000075_000000|"I think the village will enjoy it."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000076_000000|"Anyway, it's never very critical, is it?
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000076_000001|And it loves a melodrama."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000077_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000077_000002|He said he'd come straight back.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000077_000003|Perhaps I'd better go and find him."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000078_000000|"Oh, let me go, Miss Greene," said one of the youths ardently.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000079_000000|"Well, I don't know whether you'd find the place.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000079_000001|It's a shed in the garden that he uses.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000080_000000|"I'll go-"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000000|He stopped.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000002|Miss Greene sank back into her chair, suddenly white. One of the young men let a cup of tea fall neatly from his fingers on to the floor and there crash into fragments.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000003|The young lady visitor emitted a scream that would have done credit to a factory siren.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000004|Then at the open French window appeared a small boy holding a bugle, purple faced with the effort of his performance.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000083_000000|"Did you make that horrible noise?"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000084_000000|Miss Greene began to laugh hysterically.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000085_000000|"Do have some tea now you've come," she said to Ginger.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000086_000000|Ginger remembered the pangs of hunger, of which excitement had momentarily rendered him oblivious, and, deciding that there was no time like the present, took a cake from the stand and began to consume it in silence.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000087_000001|He looks mad.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000087_000002|He had a very mad look, I thought, when he was standing at the window."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000088_000001|I can't think why father doesn't come."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000090_000000|"It's all right now," he said.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000090_000002|He's shut up.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000090_000003|Me an' William shut him up."
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000091_000004|Have another cake, darling boy," she said in a tone of honeyed sweetness.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000092_000000|Nothing loth, Ginger selected an ornate pyramid of icing.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000093_000000|At this point there came a bellowing and crashing and tramping outside and Miss Priscilla's father, roaring fury and threats of vengeance, hurled himself into the room.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000095_000000|"An abominable attack ... utterly unprovoked ... dastardly ruffians!"
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000097_000000|"He's got out," he said reproachfully.
train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000103_000001|Then he brightened.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000005_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000006_000000|THE REFORM OF WILLIAM
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000007_000000|To William the idea of reform was new and startling and not wholly unattractive.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000007_000001|It originated with the housemaid whose brother was a reformed burglar now employed in a grocer's shop.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000008_000000|"'E's got conversion," she said to William.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000009_000000|William was deeply interested.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000009_000001|The point was all innocently driven in later by the Sunday school mistress.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000009_000002|William's family had no real faith in the Sunday school as a corrective to William's inherent wickedness, but they knew that no Sabbath peace or calm was humanly possible while William was in the house.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000010_000000|Fortunately for William, most of his friends' parents were inspired by the same zeal, so that he met his old cronies of the week days-Henry, Ginger, Douglas and all the rest-and together they beguiled the monotony of the Sabbath.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000011_000000|But this Sunday the tall, pale lady who, for her sins, essayed to lead William and his friends along the straight and narrow path of virtue, was almost inspired.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000011_000001|She was like some prophetess of old.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000011_000002|She was so emphatic that the red cherries that hung coquettishly over the edge of her hat rattled against it as though in applause.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000013_000000|William's fascinated eye wandered from the cherries to the distant view out of the window.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000013_000001|He thought suddenly of the noble burglar who had turned his back upon the mysterious, nefarious tools of his trade and now dispensed margarine to his former victims.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000014_000000|Opposite him sat a small girl in a pink and white checked frock.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000014_000001|He often whiled away the dullest hours of Sunday school by putting out his tongue at her or throwing paper pellets at her (manufactured previously for the purpose).
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000014_000002|But to day, meeting her serious eye, he looked away hastily.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000000|Determined and eager was the eye that the small girl turned upon William, and William realised that his time had come.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000001|He was to be converted.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000002|He felt almost thrilled by the prospect.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000003|He was so enthralled that he received absent mindedly, and without gratitude, the mountainous bull's eye passed to him from Ginger, and only gave a half hearted smile when a well aimed pellet from Henry's hand sent one of the prophetess's cherries swinging high in the air.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000017_000000|After the class the pink checked girl (whose name most appropriately was Deborah) stalked William for several yards and finally cornered him.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000020_000000|"William, I think you ought to turn.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000020_000001|I'll help you," she added sweetly.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000021_000000|William drew a deep breath.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000021_000001|"All right, I will," he said.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000022_000000|She heaved a sigh of relief.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000000|William considered.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000001|There were several things that he had wanted to do for some time, but hadn't managed to do yet.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000003|There were, in short, whole fields of crime entirely unexplored.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000004|All these things-and others-must be done before the reformation.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000025_000001|"Say day after to morrow."
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000026_000000|She considered this for a minute.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000027_000000|"Very well," she said at last reluctantly, "day after to morrow."
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000000|The next day dawned bright and fair.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000001|William arose with a distinct sense that something important had happened.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000002|Then he thought of the reformation.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000003|He saw himself leading a quiet and blameless life, walking sedately to school, working at high pressure in school, doing his homework conscientiously in the evening, being exquisitely polite to his family, his instructors, and the various foolish people who visited his home for the sole purpose (apparently) of making inane remarks to him.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000004|He saw all this, and the picture was far from unattractive-in the distance.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000005|In the immediate future, however, there were various quite important things to be done.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000006|There was a whole normal lifetime of crime to be crowded into one day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000008|The gardener had a perfectly bald head.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000009|William had sometimes idly imagined the impact of a pea sent violently from a pea shooter with the gardener's bald head.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000010|Before there had been a lifetime of experiment before him, and he had put off this one idly in favour of something more pressing.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000012|He took up his pea shooter and aimed carefully.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000013|The pea did not embed itself deeply into the gardener's skull as William had sometimes thought it would. It bounced back.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000014|It bounced back quite hard.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000015|The gardener also bounced back with a yell of anger, shaking his fist at William's window.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000016|But William had discreetly retired.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000017|He hid the pea shooter, assumed his famous expression of innocence, and felt distinctly cheered.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000018|The question as to what exactly would happen when the pea met the baldness was now for ever solved.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000019|The gardener retired grumbling to the potting shed, so, for the present, all was well.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000020|Later in the day the gardener might lay his formal complaint before authority, but later in the day was later in the day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000021|It did not trouble William.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000022|He dressed briskly and went down to breakfast with a frown of concentration upon his face.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000023|It was the last day of his old life.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000030_000000|No one else was in the dining room.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000030_000001|It was the work of a few minutes to remove the bacon from beneath the big pewter cover and substitute the kitten, to put a tablespoonful of salt into the coffee, and to put a two days'-old paper in place of that morning's.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000030_000002|They were all things that he had at one time or another vaguely thought of doing, but for which he had never yet seemed to have time or opportunity.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000031_000000|He surveyed the scene with a deep sigh of satisfaction.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000031_000003|Hearing, therefore, a heavy step on the stairs, he seized several pieces of toast and fled.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000031_000005|The kitten, a mass of fury and lust for revenge, came flying through the window. William hid behind a laurel bush till it had passed, then set off down the road.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000000|School, of course, was impossible.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000001|The precious hours of such a day as this could not be wasted in school.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000002|He went down the road full of his noble purpose.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000003|The wickedness of a lifetime was somehow or other to be crowded into this day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000004|To morrow it would all be impossible.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000005|To morrow began the blameless life.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000006|It must all be worked off to day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000007|He skirted the school by a field path in case any of those narrow souls paid to employ so aimlessly the precious hours of his youth might be there. They would certainly be tactless enough to question him as he passed the door.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000008|Then he joined the main road.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000000|The main road was empty except for a caravan-a caravan gaily painted in red and yellow.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000001|It had little lace curtains at the window.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000002|It was altogether a most fascinating caravan.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000003|No one seemed to be near it. William looked through the windows.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000004|There was a kind of dresser with crockery hanging from it, a small table and a little oil stove.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000007|It appeared to be a mule-a mule with a jaundiced view of life.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000008|It rolled a sad eye towards William, then with a deep sigh returned to its contemplation of the landscape.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000009|William gazed upon caravan and steed fascinated.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000010|Never, in his future life of noble merit, would he be able to annex a caravan.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000011|It was his last chance.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000014|Conscience stirred faintly in his breast, but he silenced it sternly.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000000|William did not know how to drive, but it did not seem to matter.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000002|He was driving a caravan.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000003|He was driving a caravan.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000004|He was driving a caravan. The very telegraph posts seemed to gape with envy and admiration as he passed.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000005|What ultimately he was going to do with his caravan he neither knew nor cared.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000006|All that mattered was, it was a bright sunny morning, and all the others were in school, and he was driving a red and yellow caravan along the high road.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000008|He was intoxicated with pride.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000010|Carelessly he flicked the mule with the whip.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000011|There are several explanations of what happened then.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000012|The mule may not have been used to the whip; a wasp may have just stung him at that particular minute; a wandering demon may have entered into him.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000013|Mules are notoriously accessible to wandering demons.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000014|Whatever the explanation, the mule suddenly started forward and galloped at full speed down the hill.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000015|The reins dropped from William's hands; he clung for dear life on to his seat, as the caravan, swaying and jolting along the uneven road, seemed to be doing its utmost to fling him off.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000016|There came a rattle of crockery from within.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000018|It was a female scream.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000000|William's hair stood on end.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000001|He almost forgot to cling to the seat. For not one scream came but many.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000002|They rent the still summer air, mingled with the sound of breaking glass and crockery.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000003|The mule continued his mad career down the hill, his reins trailing in the dust.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000004|In the distance was a little gipsy's donkey cart full of pots and pans.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000000|But the mule refused to be warned.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000001|He neatly escaped the donkey cart himself, but he crashed the caravan into it with such force that the caravan broke a shaft and overturned completely on to the donkey cart, scattering pots and pans far and wide.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000002|From within the caravan came inhuman female yells of fear and anger.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000003|William had fallen on to a soft bank of grass.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000004|He was discovering, to his amazement, that he was still alive and practically unhurt.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000005|The mule was standing meekly by and smiling to himself.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000006|Then out of the window of the caravan climbed a woman-a fat, angry woman, shaking her fist at the world in general.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000007|Her hair and face were covered with sugar and a fork was embedded in the front of her dress.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000008|Otherwise she, too, had escaped undamaged.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000039_000001|She screamed at him furiously in reply. Then along the road could be seen the figure of a fat man carrying a fishing rod.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000039_000002|He began to run wildly towards the caravan.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000041_000001|The air was rent by their angry shouts. A group of highly appreciative villagers collected round them.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000041_000002|Then one of them pointed to William, who sat, feeling still slightly shaken, upon the bank.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000043_000000|With one wild glance at the scene of devastation and anger, William turned and fled through the wood.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000044_000002|The fat woman and the donkey man joined the pursuit.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000044_000003|To William it was like some ghastly nightmare after an evening's entertainment at the cinematograph.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000001|But the fat man was very fat, and the fat woman was very fat, and the donkey man was very old, and William was young and very fleet, so in less than ten minutes they gave up the pursuit and returned panting and quarrelling to the road.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000002|William sat on the further outskirts of the wood and panted.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000003|He felt on the whole exhilarated by the adventure.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000004|It was quite a suitable adventure for his last day of unregeneration.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000005|But he felt also in need of bodily sustenance, so he purchased a bun and a bottle of lemonade at a neighbouring shop and sat by the roadside to recover.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000000|He felt reluctant to return home.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000001|It is always well to follow a morning's absence from school by an afternoon's absence from school.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000002|A return in the afternoon is ignominious and humiliating.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000003|William wandered round the neighbourhood experiencing all the thrill of the outlaw.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000004|Certainly by this time the gardener would have complained to his father, probably the schoolmistress would have sent a note. Also-someone had been scratched by the cat.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000047_000000|William decided that all things considered it was best to make a day of it.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000049_000001|His aim was fairly good, and he succeeded in knocking off the hat and finally prostrating the wooden framework.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000049_000002|Followed-an exciting chase by an angry farmer.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000050_000001|His spirits sank a little as he approached the gate.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000050_000002|He could see through the trees the fat caravan owner gesticulating at the door.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000050_000004|Phrases floated to him through the summer air.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000000|He could see the gardener smiling in the distance.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000001|There was a small blue bruise on his shining head.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000002|William judged from the smile that he had laid his formal complaint before authority.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000003|William noticed that his father looked pale and harassed.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000053_000000|A small boy came down the road and saw William hesitating at the open gateway.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000054_000001|"They've wrote to say you wasn't in school."
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000000|William crept round to the back of the house beneath the bushes.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000001|He felt that the time had come to give himself up to justice, but he wanted, as the popular saying is, to be sure of "getting his money's worth." There was the tin half full of green paint in the tool shed. He'd had his eye on it for some time.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000002|He went quietly round to the tool shed.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000003|Soon he was contemplating with a satisfied smile a green and enraged cat and a green and enraged hen.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000004|Then, bracing himself for the effort, he delivered himself up to justice.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000005|When all was said and done no punishment could be really adequate to a day like that.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000000|Dusk was falling.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000001|William gazed pensively from his bedroom window.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000002|He was reviewing his day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000003|He had almost forgotten the stormy and decidedly unpleasant scene with his father.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000004|mr Brown's rhetoric had been rather lost on William, because its pearls of sarcasm had been so far above his head.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000005|And William had not been really loth to retire at once to bed.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000006|After all, it had been a very tiring day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000057_000000|Now his thoughts were going over some of its most exquisite moments-the moments when the pea and the gardener's head met and rebounded with such satisfactory force; the moment when he swung along the high road, monarch of a caravan and a mule and the whole wide world; the moment when the scarecrow hunched up and collapsed so realistically; the cat covered with green paint....
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000057_000001|After all it was his last day.
train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000057_000002|He saw himself from to morrow onward leading a quiet and blameless life, walking sedately to school, working at high pressure in school, doing his homework conscientiously in the evening, being exquisitely polite to his family and instructors-and the vision failed utterly to attract.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty two.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000002_000000|OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000001|Pious, well meant reproof requires a different demeanour and arguments of another sort; at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with rudeness; and it is not seemly to call the sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin that is reproved.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000002|Come, tell me, for which of the stupidities you have observed in me do you condemn and abuse me, and bid me go home and look after my house and wife and children, without knowing whether I have any?
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000004|Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is the time ill spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to the abodes of everlasting life?
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000006|Some take the broad road of overweening ambition; others that of mean and servile flattery; others that of deceitful hypocrisy, and some that of true religion; but I, led by my star, follow the narrow path of knight errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000005_000000|"Perhaps, brother," said the ecclesiastic, "you are that Sancho Panza that is mentioned, to whom your master has promised an island?"
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000007_000000|"No, Sancho my friend, certainly not," said the duke, "for in the name of Senor Don Quixote I confer upon you the government of one of no small importance that I have at my disposal."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000008_000000|"Go down on thy knees, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and kiss the feet of his excellence for the favour he has bestowed upon thee."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000000|"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and the reason is, that he who is not liable to offence cannot give offence to anyone.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000001|Women, children, and ecclesiastics, as they cannot defend themselves, though they may receive offence cannot be insulted, because between the offence and the insult there is, as your excellence very well knows, this difference: the insult comes from one who is capable of offering it, and does so, and maintains it; the offence may come from any quarter without carrying insult.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000002|To take an example: a man is standing unsuspectingly in the street and ten others come up armed and beat him; he draws his sword and quits himself like a man, but the number of his antagonists makes it impossible for him to effect his purpose and avenge himself; this man suffers an offence but not an insult.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000003|Another example will make the same thing plain: a man is standing with his back turned, another comes up and strikes him, and after striking him takes to flight, without waiting an instant, and the other pursues him but does not overtake him; he who received the blow received an offence, but not an insult, because an insult must be maintained.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000004|If he who struck him, though he did so sneakingly and treacherously, had drawn his sword and stood and faced him, then he who had been struck would have received offence and insult at the same time; offence because he was struck treacherously, insult because he who struck him maintained what he had done, standing his ground without taking to flight.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000000|Don Quixote finally grew calm, and dinner came to an end, and as the cloth was removed four damsels came in, one of them with a silver basin, another with a jug also of silver, a third with two fine white towels on her shoulder, and the fourth with her arms bared to the elbows, and in her white hands (for white they certainly were) a round ball of Naples soap.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000002|The duke and duchess, who had not known anything about this, waited to see what came of this strange washing.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000003|The barber damsel, when she had him a hand's breadth deep in lather, pretended that there was no more water, and bade the one with the jug go and fetch some, while Senor Don Quixote waited.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000004|She did so, and Don Quixote was left the strangest and most ludicrous figure that could be imagined.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000005|All those present, and there were a good many, were watching him, and as they saw him there with half a yard of neck, and that uncommonly brown, his eyes shut, and his beard full of soap, it was a great wonder, and only by great discretion, that they were able to restrain their laughter.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000016_000000|Sancho observed the ceremony of the washing very attentively, and said to himself, "God bless me, if it were only the custom in this country to wash squires' beards too as well as knights'.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000016_000001|For by God and upon my soul I want it badly; and if they gave me a scrape of the razor besides I'd take it as a still greater kindness."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000017_000000|"What are you saying to yourself, Sancho?" asked the duchess.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000023_000000|The duchess begged Don Quixote, as he seemed to have a retentive memory, to describe and portray to her the beauty and features of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for, judging by what fame trumpeted abroad of her beauty, she felt sure she must be the fairest creature in the world, nay, in all La Mancha.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000027_000000|"True," said the duke; "you must have lost your wits to ask such a question.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000027_000001|Nevertheless, Senor Don Quixote would greatly gratify us if he would depict her to us; for never fear, even in an outline or sketch she will be something to make the fairest envious."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000028_000000|"I would do so certainly," said Don Quixote, "had she not been blurred to my mind's eye by the misfortune that fell upon her a short time since, one of such a nature that I am more ready to weep over it than to describe it.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000029_000000|"God bless me!" said the duke aloud at this, "who can have done the world such an injury?
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000029_000001|Who can have robbed it of the beauty that gladdened it, of the grace and gaiety that charmed it, of the modesty that shed a lustre upon it?"
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000030_000000|"Who?" replied Don Quixote; "who could it be but some malignant enchanter of the many that persecute me out of envy-that accursed race born into the world to obscure and bring to naught the achievements of the good, and glorify and exalt the deeds of the wicked?
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000030_000002|For to deprive a knight errant of his lady is to deprive him of the eyes he sees with, of the sun that gives him light, of the food whereby he lives.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000032_000000|"There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote; "God knows whether there be any Dulcinea or not in the world, or whether she is imaginary or not imaginary; these are things the proof of which must not be pushed to extreme lengths.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000034_000001|Dulcinea, besides, has that within her that may raise her to be a crowned and sceptred queen; for the merit of a fair and virtuous woman is capable of performing greater miracles; and virtually, though not formally, she has in herself higher fortunes."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000035_000001|But I cannot help entertaining a doubt, and having a certain grudge against Sancho Panza; the doubt is this, that the aforesaid history declares that the said Sancho Panza, when he carried a letter on your worship's behalf to the said lady Dulcinea, found her sifting a sack of wheat; and more by token it says it was red wheat; a thing which makes me doubt the loftiness of her lineage."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000005|And so, as I am not and, so far as one can judge, cannot be enchanted, she it is that is enchanted, that is smitten, that is altered, changed, and transformed; in her have my enemies revenged themselves upon me, and for her shall I live in ceaseless tears, until I see her in her pristine state.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000006|I have mentioned this lest anybody should mind what Sancho said about Dulcinea's winnowing or sifting; for, as they changed her to me, it is no wonder if they changed her to him.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000007|Dulcinea is illustrious and well born, and of one of the gentle families of El Toboso, which are many, ancient, and good.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000012|My advice to him will be to take no bribe and surrender no right, and I have some other little matters in reserve, that shall be produced in due season for Sancho's benefit and the advantage of the island he is to govern."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000037_000001|The one with the trough pursued him and followed him everywhere he went, endeavouring with the utmost persistence to thrust it under his chin, while another kitchen boy seemed anxious to wash his beard.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000000|"What is all this, brothers?" asked the duchess.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000001|"What is it?
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000002|What do you want to do to this good man?
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000003|Do you forget he is a governor elect?"
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000039_000000|To which the barber kitchen boy replied, "The gentleman will not let himself be washed as is customary, and as my lord and the senor his master have been."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000040_000001|The customs of countries and princes' palaces are only good so long as they give no annoyance; but the way of washing they have here is worse than doing penance.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000042_000001|Let them bring me a comb here, or what they please, and curry this beard of mine, and if they get anything out of it that offends against cleanliness, let them clip me to the skin."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000044_000001|I am a labouring man, my name is Sancho Panza, I am married, I have children, and I am serving as a squire; if in any one of these ways I can serve your highness, I will not be longer in obeying than your grace in commanding."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000045_000002|Rise, Sancho, my friend; I will repay your courtesy by taking care that my lord the duke makes good to you the promised gift of the government as soon as possible."
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000046_000000|With this, the conversation came to an end, and Don Quixote retired to take his midday sleep; but the duchess begged Sancho, unless he had a very great desire to go to sleep, to come and spend the afternoon with her and her damsels in a very cool chamber.
train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000046_000001|Sancho replied that, though he certainly had the habit of sleeping four or five hours in the heat of the day in summer, to serve her excellence he would try with all his might not to sleep even one that day, and that he would come in obedience to her command, and with that he went off.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000003_000000|THE DETECTIVE DETECTOR
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000005_000000|"But, my dear Knight," said I, "it sounds incredible.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000007_000000|"You pique my professional pride, doctor," he said in a nettled tone. "I will convince you."
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000008_000000|About twelve yards in advance of us a prosperous looking citizen was rounding a clump of bushes where the walk curved.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000010_000001|Avery Knight stopped him.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000016_000000|"How goes the mysterious murder?" I asked.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000017_000005|I waited at my address until two, thinking he might call there."
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000018_000000|I laughed, tauntingly.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000022_000000|On the next day Knight called for me in a cab.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000024_000000|"--Nor will you," I said, emphatically.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000025_000000|"Not by ordinary methods," said Knight.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000026_000000|"Nonsense, man," I replied.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000027_000001|At length he looked up brightly.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000028_000000|"Doc," said he, "I have it.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000028_000001|Put on your hat, and come with me.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000029_000003|Even yet I could not believe it possible.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000034_000000|"Well, doctor," said Knight, unable to repress a note of triumph in his voice, "have you seen?"
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000036_000002|I call it the saltatorial theory.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000039_000001|It's too late now.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000039_000002|I will proceed.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000040_000000|"If homicides in New York went undiscovered, I reasoned, although the best detective talent was employed to ferret them out, it must be true that the detectives went about their work in the wrong way.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000040_000002|That was my clue.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000041_000000|"I slew the man in Central Park.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000042_000001|I have no money to speak of; I do not like oatmeal, and it is the one ambition of my life to die rich.
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000043_000003|I have demonstrated to you that the theory is possible."
train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000045_000003|Therefore, he must necessarily set to work and trail a short man with a white beard who likes to be in the papers, who is very wealthy, is fond 'of oatmeal, wants to die poor, and is of an extremely generous and philanthropic disposition. When thus far is reached the mind hesitates no longer.
train-clean-360/2628/153958/2628_153958_000006_000003|I will, however, commute your sentence to one of three months, with the option of a fine of twenty five per cent. of the money you have received from the insurance company."
train-clean-360/2628/153958/2628_153958_000011_000002|They were absent for about ten minutes, and on their return the foreman pronounced the prisoner guilty.
train-clean-360/2628/153958/2628_153958_000019_000004|I shall therefore order that you receive two tablespoonfuls of castor oil daily, until the pleasure of the court be further known."
train-clean-360/2628/153964/2628_153964_000018_000000|"If this be so," said my opponent, "we must bear it as best we may."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000002_000002|This place is called Rosemary Lane.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000002_000003|Very little light enters it; very few people live in it; the floating population of Skeldergate passes it by; and visitors to the Walk on the Walls, who use it as the way up or the way down, get out of the dreary little passage as fast as they can.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000004_000001|He bore the external appearance of respectable poverty; he carried a gingham umbrella, preserved in an oilskin case; he picked his steps, with the neatest avoidance of all dirty places on the pavement; and he surveyed the scene around him with eyes of two different colors-a bilious brown eye on the lookout for employment, and a bilious green eye in a similar predicament.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000004_000002|In plainer terms, the stranger from Rosemary Lane was no other than-Captain Wragge.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000001|The railway mania of that famous year had attacked even the wary Wragge; had withdrawn him from his customary pursuits; and had left him prostrate in the end, like many a better man.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000002|He had lost his clerical appearance-he had faded with the autumn leaves.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000003|His crape hat band had put itself in brown mourning for its own bereavement of black.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000006|He was as courteous, as persuasive, as blandly dignified as ever.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000008|He paced the streets of York, a man superior to clothes and circumstances-his vagabond varnish as bright on him as ever.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000006_000004|After a moment's hesitation, the captain sauntered after the cabs.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000006_000006|Captain Wragge gleaned the human field, and on that unoccupied afternoon the York terminus was as likely a corner to look about in as any other.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000000|He reached the platform a few minutes after the train had arrived. That entire incapability of devising administrative measures for the management of large crowds, which is one of the characteristics of Englishmen in authority, is nowhere more strikingly exemplified than at York.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000001|Three different lines of railway assemble three passenger mobs, from morning to night, under one roof; and leave them to raise a traveler's riot, with all the assistance which the bewildered servants of the company can render to increase the confusion.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000002|The customary disturbance was rising to its climax as Captain Wragge approached the platform.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000003|Dozens of different people were trying to attain dozens of different objects, in dozens of different directions, all starting from the same common point and all equally deprived of the means of information.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000008_000000|Offering his assistance in this emergency, with the polite alacrity which marked his character, Captain Wragge observed the three startling words, "Fifty Pounds Reward," printed in capital letters on the bills which he assisted in recovering; and instantly secreted one of them, to be more closely examined at the first convenient opportunity.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000008_000002|When a man happens not to be possessed of fifty pence in his own pocket, if his heart is in the right place, it bounds; if his mouth is properly constituted, it waters, at the sight of another man who carries about with him a printed offer of fifty pounds sterling, addressed to his fellow creatures.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000009_000003|With his back carefully turned on the traveler, Captain Wragge now possessed his mind of the following lines:
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000010_000000|"FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000001|Age-eighteen.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000002|Dress-deep mourning.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000003|Personal appearance-hair of a very light brown; eyebrows and eyelashes darker; eyes light gray; complexion strikingly pale; lower part of her face large and full; tall upright figure; walks with remarkable grace and ease; speaks with openness and resolution; has the manners and habits of a refined, cultivated lady.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000004|Personal marks-two little moles, close together, on the left side of the neck.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000005|Mark on the under clothing-'Magdalen Vanstone.' Is supposed to have joined, or attempted to join, under an assumed name, a theatrical company now performing at York.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000006|Had, when she left London, one black box, and no other luggage.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000009|Or to Messrs.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000010|Wyatt, Pendril, and Gwilt, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, London."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000012_000001|The traveler was less observant; his whole attention was fixed on the opposite bank of the river, and he left the boat hastily the moment it touched the landing place.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000012_000002|Captain Wragge recovered himself, pocketed the handbill, and followed his leader for the second time.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000015_000000|"Does mr Huxtable live here?" asked the traveler.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000016_000000|"Yes, sir," was the answer, in a woman's voice.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000019_000000|"I think a young lady called here early in the day, did she not?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000020_000000|"Yes; a young lady came this afternoon."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000021_000000|"Exactly; I come on the same business.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000021_000001|Did she see mr Huxtable?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000022_000000|"No, sir; he has been away all day.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000022_000001|The young lady told me she would come back at eight o'clock."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000024_000000|"Any name, sir?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000025_000000|"No; say a gentleman called on theatrical business-that will be enough. Wait one minute, if you please.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000025_000001|I am a stranger in York; will you kindly tell me which is the way to Coney Street?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000026_000000|The woman gave the required information, the door closed, and the stranger hastened away in the direction of Coney Street.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000027_000000|On this occasion Captain Wragge made no attempt to follow him.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000029_000001|The first course was to do nothing in the matter at all.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000029_000003|The second course was to deserve the gratitude of the young lady's friends, rated at fifty pounds.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000029_000006|In the meantime, the first consideration was to be beforehand with the messenger from London, and to lay hands securely on the young lady herself.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000031_000000|Where was the adopted relative at that moment?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000031_000003|But if the inference which the handbill suggested was correct-if she was really alone at that moment in the city of York-where was she likely to be?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000000|Not in the crowded thoroughfares, to begin with.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000004|Doubtful, considering that she was entirely by herself.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000005|In a pastry cook's shop? Far more likely.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000006|Driving about in a cab?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000007|Possible, certainly; but no more.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000008|Loitering away the time in some quiet locality, out of doors? Likely enough, again, on that fine autumn evening.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000012|Where?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000014|Where next?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000015|The captain stopped, looked across the river, brightened under the influence of a new idea, and suddenly hastened back to the ferry.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000033_000001|"The quietest place in York; and the place that every stranger goes to see."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000034_000000|In ten minutes more Captain Wragge was exploring the new field of search.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000034_000003|The sun had set more than half an hour since; the red light lay broad and low in the cloudless western heaven; all visible objects were softening in the tender twilight, but were not darkening yet.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000034_000004|The first few lamps lit in the street below looked like faint little specks of yellow light, as the captain started on his walk through one of the most striking scenes which England can show.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000000|On his right hand, as he set forth, stretched the open country beyond the walls-the rich green meadows, the boundary trees dividing them, the broad windings of the river in the distance, the scattered buildings nearer to view; all wrapped in the evening stillness, all made beautiful by the evening peace.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000001|On his left hand, the majestic west front of York Minster soared over the city and caught the last brightest light of heaven on the summits of its lofty towers.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000002|Had this noble prospect tempted the lost girl to linger and look at it?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000003|No; thus far, not a sign of her.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000004|The captain looked round him attentively, and walked on.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000036_000001|He paused at this place-where the central activity of a great railway enterprise beats, with all the pulses of its loud clanging life, side by side with the dead majesty of the past, deep under the old historic stones which tell of fortified York and the sieges of two centuries since-he stood on this spot, and searched for her again, and searched in vain.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000036_000003|The captain glanced doubtfully at the darkening sky, and walked on.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000037_000000|He stopped again where the postern of Micklegate still stands, and still strengthens the city wall as of old.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000037_000005|The captain mounted the steps which led out from the postern and walked on.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000038_000001|He advanced with eager eyes and quickened step; for he saw before him the lonely figure of a woman, standing by the parapet of the wall, with her face set toward the westward view.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000038_000005|There she stood-not three months since the spoiled darling of her parents; the priceless treasure of the household, never left unprotected, never trusted alone-there she stood in the lovely dawn of her womanhood, a castaway in a strange city, wrecked on the world!
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000039_000001|As she slowly turned her face and looked at him, he raised his hat, with the nearest approach to respect which a long life of unblushing audacity had left him capable of making.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000041_000000|She looked at him with a cold surprise.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000042_000000|"You are mistaken," she said, quietly.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000042_000001|"You are a perfect stranger to me."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000043_000002|I presented myself on that memorable occasion to an honored preceptress in your late father's family.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000043_000004|My name is Wragge."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000044_000000|By this time he had recovered complete possession of his own impudence; his party colored eyes twinkled cheerfully, and he accompanied his modest announcement of himself with a dancing master's bow.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000045_000000|Magdalen frowned, and drew back a step.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000045_000003|"W, R, A, double G, E-Wragge," said the captain, ticking off the letters persuasively on his fingers.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000046_000000|"I remember your name," said Magdalen.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000046_000001|"Excuse me for leaving you abruptly.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000047_000001|He instantly met the attempt by raising both hands, and displaying a pair of darned black gloves outspread in polite protest.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000049_000000|"Why not?" she asked haughtily.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000051_000000|In the ungovernable astonishment of hearing his reply she suddenly bent forward, and for the first time looked him close in the face. He sustained her suspicious scrutiny with every appearance of feeling highly gratified by it.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000052_000001|"What do you mean by mentioning him to me?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000053_000000|The captain's curly lip took a new twist upward.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000053_000001|He immediately replied, to the best practical purpose, by producing the handbill from his pocket.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000054_000001|Before I enter upon the personal statement which your flattering inquiry claims from me, pray bestow a moment's attention on this Document."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000055_000000|She took the handbill from him.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000055_000002|No tender consideration had prepared her for the shock, no kind word softened it to her when it came.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000055_000004|The bill dropped from her hand; her face flushed deeply.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000058_000001|"Is this thing shown publicly?" she asked, stamping her foot on it.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000058_000002|"Is the mark on my neck described all over York?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000059_000000|"Pray compose yourself," pleaded the persuasive Wragge.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000059_000002|Allow me to pick it up."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000061_000002|We all inherit our hot blood from my maternal grandfather."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000062_000000|"How did you come by it?" she asked, suddenly.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000064_000000|"How did you come by that handbill?" she repeated, passionately.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000065_000000|"I beg ten thousand pardons!
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000065_000002|Briefly thus." Here Captain Wragge entered on his personal statement; taking his customary vocal exercise through the longest words of the English language, with the highest elocutionary relish.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000065_000003|Having, on this rare occasion, nothing to gain by concealment, he departed from his ordinary habits, and, with the utmost amazement at the novelty of his own situation, permitted himself to tell the unmitigated truth.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000066_000001|She was not startled; she was not irritated; she showed no disposition to cast herself on his mercy, and to seek his advice.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000066_000002|She looked him steadily in the face; and all she said, when he had neatly rounded his last sentence, was-"Go on."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000067_000000|"Go on?" repeated the captain.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000067_000001|"Shocked to disappoint you, I am sure; but the fact is, I have done."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000068_000000|"No, you have not," she rejoined; "you have left out the end of your story.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000069_000000|Those plain words so completely staggered Captain Wragge that for the moment he stood speechless.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000069_000001|But he had faced awkward truths of all sorts far too often to be permanently disconcerted by them.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000070_000000|"Smart," said the captain, laughing indulgently, and drumming with his umbrella on the pavement.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000001|"It has just occurred to my mind that you might actually have spoken in earnest. My poor child! how can I earn the fifty pounds before the reward is offered to me?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000002|Those handbills may not be publicly posted for a week to come.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000005|Very good. Button them up in spite of me with your own fair fingers.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000006|There is a train to London at nine forty five to night.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000007|Submit yourself to your friend's wishes and go back by it."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000073_000000|"Never!" said Magdalen, firing at the bare suggestion, exactly as the captain had intended she should.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000073_000002|I forgive Norah," she added, turning away and speaking to herself, "but not mr Pendril, and not Miss Garth."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000000|"Quite right!" said Captain Wragge.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000002|I should have done the same myself at your age.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000003|It runs in the blood.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000004|Hark! there goes the clock again-half past seven.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000007|You are young, you are inexperienced, you are in imminent danger.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000075_000000|"Suppose I choose to depend on nobody, and to act for myself?" said Magdalen.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000075_000001|"What then?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000076_000001|Trap the first, at mr Huxtable's house; trap the second, at all the hotels; trap the third, at the railway station; trap the fourth, at the theater.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000077_000001|"If you knew me better, you would know that I depend on nobody but myself."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000000|Those words decided the only doubt which now remained in the captain's mind-the doubt whether the course was clear before him.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000001|The motive of her flight from home was evidently what the handbills assumed it to be-a reckless fancy for going on the stage.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000002|"One of two things," thought Wragge to himself, in his logical way.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000003|"She's worth more than fifty pounds to me in her present situation, or she isn't.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000079_000000|"I respect independence of character wherever I find it," he said, with an air of virtuous severity.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000079_000002|But (excuse the bold assertion), to walk on a way of your own, you must first have a way to walk on.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000079_000004|mr Huxtable is out of the question, to begin with."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000000|"Granted with all my heart-a hit, a palpable hit.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000001|Now for my turn.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000002|To get to to morrow (excuse the bold assertion, once more), you must first pass through to night.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000003|Where are you to sleep?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000083_000000|"Excellent hotels for large families; excellent hotels for single gentlemen.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000084_000001|What is to prevent my sending the ticket for it?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000085_000000|"Nothing-if you want to communicate your address by means of your box-nothing whatever.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000085_000001|Think; pray think!
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000085_000005|Here is night coming on as fast as it can.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000005|Can anything be more satisfactory, under all the circumstances?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000006|Pray observe, I say nothing about to morrow-I leave to morrow to you, and confine myself exclusively to the night.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000010|These are topics for the future.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000011|For the present, I confine myself within my strict range of duty.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000012|We are within five minutes' walk of my present address.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000013|Allow me to offer you my arm.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000014|No? You hesitate?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000015|You distrust me?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000088_000000|"Quite possible," said Magdalen, without a moment's flinching from the answer.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000089_000001|"Don't spare my feelings; oblige me by speaking out.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000089_000002|In the plainest terms, now, what have you heard?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000090_000000|She answered him with a woman's desperate disregard of consequences when she is driven to bay-she answered him instantly,
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000092_000002|Well, I waive my privilege of setting you right on that point for a fitter time.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000092_000003|For the sake of argument, let us say I am a Rogue.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000092_000004|What is mr Huxtable?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000093_000000|"A respectable man, or I should not have seen him in the house where we first met."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000095_000000|Magdalen laughed, bitterly.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000000|"There is some truth in that," she said.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000002|I have my end to gain-and who am I, to pick and choose the way of getting to it?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000005|Absurd!
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000006|We know better than that, don't we, Captain Wragge? You are quite right.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000007|Nobody's child must sleep under Somebody's roof-and why not yours?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000097_000000|"This way," said the captain, dexterously profiting by the sudden change in her humor, and cunningly refraining from exasperating it by saying more himself.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000098_000000|She followed him a few steps, and suddenly stopped.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000001|"Who has any authority over me?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000002|Who can take me back, if I don't choose to go?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000003|If they all find me to morrow, what then?
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000004|Can't I say No to mr Pendril? Can't I trust my own courage with Miss Garth?"
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000100_000000|"Can you trust your courage with your sister?" whispered the captain, who had not forgotten the references to Norah which had twice escaped her already.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000101_000000|Her head drooped.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000101_000001|She shivered as if the cold night air had struck her, and leaned back wearily against the parapet of the wall.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000102_000000|"Not with Norah," she said, sadly.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000102_000002|Not with Norah."
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000103_000000|"This way," repeated Captain Wragge.
train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000103_000001|She roused herself; looked up at the darkening heaven, looked round at the darkening view.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000001_000000|SMOKING BY WOMEN
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000002_000000|Ladies, when pipes are brought, affect to swoon; They love no smoke, except the smoke of Town.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000005_000000|There is a tradition that Queen Elizabeth herself once smoked-with unpleasant results.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000007_000003|The cut, which is very rough, heads a bacchanalian ballad characteristic of the Elizabethan period, called "A Knotte of Good Fellows," and beginning:
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000009_000003|The woman is plainly a convivial soul; but there is no pipe for her, and such provision was no doubt unusual.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000010_000000|There is direct evidence, too, besides the story in the first paragraph of this chapter, that women disliked the prevalence of smoking.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000011_000000|On the other hand, it is certain that from comparatively early in the seventeenth century there were to be found here and there women who smoked.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000014_000000|"George Thresher kept a shoppe in Romford and sold tobacco there.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000017_000003|Possibly she was not a smoker at all, but needed the tobacco for some medicinal purpose.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000020_000001|He tells us that according to the custom of the country the landladies sup with strangers and passengers, and if they have daughters, these also are of the company to entertain the guests at table with pleasant conceits where they drink as much as the men.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000020_000002|But what quite disgusted our visitor was "that when one drinks the health of any person in company, the custom of the country does not permit you to drink more than half the cup, which is filled up and presented to him or her whose health you have drunk.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000023_000001|Among women of the lowest class smoking was probably common enough.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000030_000000|Even Quakeresses sometimes smoked.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000030_000003|On this occasion the passage though stormy was very quick, for it lasted only thirty four days.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000030_000004|The list of provisions taken is truly formidable.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000031_000003|Nor has the practice by any means yet died out.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000031_000005|She said she had smoked it for twenty years, and "it always makes me giddy!" The writer, in august nineteen thirteen, saw a woman seated by the roadside in County Down, Ireland, calmly smoking a large briar pipe.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000033_000001|mrs Garbutt had been twice married, her husbands having been sailors during the Napoleonic wars.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000033_000005|Her death was caused by the accidental ignition of her clothes as she was lighting her pipe at the fire.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000033_000006|She had burned herself more than once before in performing the same operation; but her pipe she was bound to have, and so met her end.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000002|The younger lady's conversation would have shocked the prim maids and matrons of that day.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000003|She asked Dickens if he had ever "read such infernal trash" as mrs Gore's; and exclaimed "Oh God! what a sermon we had here, last Sunday." Dickens and his two daughters-"who were decidedly in the way, as we agreed afterwards"--dined by invitation with the mother and daughter.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000012|But even this was not all.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000014|She certainly smoked six or eight.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000015|Mother gave in soon-I think she only did it out of vanity.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000040_000001|In eighteen fifty one, steady going folk were alarmed and shocked at a sudden and short-lived outburst of "bloomerism," imported from the United States.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000040_000004|But this was satire and hardly had much relation to fact.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000042_000005|However, he sent gifts in return to her Britannic Majesty, and among them were a West African state umbrella, a selection of highly coloured clothing materials, and some native pipes and tobacco for the Queen to smoke.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000043_000000|Many royal ladies of Europe, contemporaries of Queen Victoria and her son, have had the reputation of being confirmed smokers.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000045_000001|We are informed in the usual style of such pages, that "the well dressed woman has begun to consider the little smoking jacket indispensable." This jacket, we are told "is a very different matter to the braided velvet coats which were donned by our masculine forbears in the days of long drooping cavalry moustaches, tightly buttoned frock coats, and flexible canes.
train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000046_000002|There are many colours in the rainbow; so there are many tastes in people.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000001_000000|Lucy Morris
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000002_000002|Poor Lizzie Greystock!--as men double her own age, and who had known her as a forward, capricious, spoilt child in her father's lifetime, would still call her.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000003_000001|In the meantime, let it be understood that poor little Lucy Morris was a governess in the house of old Lady Fawn, when our beautiful young widow established herself in Mount Street.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000000|Lady Eustace and Lucy Morris had known each other for many years,--had indeed been children together,--there having been some old family friendship between the Greystocks and the Morrises.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000002|She had often been a guest at the deanery.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000004|Lucy, who was a year younger than Lizzie, had at that time been an orphan for the last four years.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000007|The dean and the dean's wife and the dean's daughters had been her best friends, but they were not friends on whom she could be dependent.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000008|They were in no way connected with her by blood.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000001|The proposed engagement with Lady Fawn was thought to be a great thing for her.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000002|Lady Fawn was known as a miracle of Virtue, Benevolence, and Persistency.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000005|She must be able to teach music up to a certain point.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000006|"Then it's all over," said Lucy to the dean with her pretty smile,--that smile which caused all the old and middle aged men to fall in love with her.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000007|"It's not over at all," said the dean.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000008|"You've got four months.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000009|Our organist is about as good a teacher as there is in England.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000010|You are clever and quick, and he shall teach you." So Lucy went to Bobsborough, and was afterwards accepted by Lady Fawn.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000006_000000|While she was at the deanery there sprung up a renewed friendship between her and Lizzie.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000006_000004|Now Lucy did not like to hear the Greystocks abused, and would say so.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000006_000006|This one was Frank Greystock, the barrister.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000007_000000|"Remember her position," said mrs Dean to her son.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000008_000000|"Her position!
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000008_000001|Well;--and what is her position mother?"
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000009_000002|But with a governess, unless you mean to marry her, you should be more careful than with another girl, because you may do her such a world of mischief."
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000010_000000|"I don't see that at all."
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000012_000002|Who can hinder it?"
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000014_000000|"Yes-I do; well.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000014_000001|I don't suppose I can afford to marry Lucy Morris. At any rate, mother, I will never say a word to raise a hope in her,--if it would be a hope-"
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000015_000000|"Of course it would be a hope."
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000017_000000|"Oh, Frank, it would be impossible!" said mrs Dean.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000000|mrs Dean was a very good woman, but she had aspirations in the direction of filthy lucre on behalf of her children, or at least on behalf of this special child, and she did think it would be very nice if Frank would marry an heiress.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000007|A governess, if she were given to falling in love, could hardly perform her duties in life.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000010|She was very fond of Lucy Morris, and treated her dependent with affectionate consideration;--but she did not approve of visits from mr Frank Greystock.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000011|Lucy, blushing up to the eyes, had once declared that she desired to have no personal visitors at Lady Fawn's house; but that, as regarded her own friendships, the matter was one for her own bosom.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000017|But then Lady Fawn hated Lady Linlithgow as only two old women can hate each other;--and she had not heard the story of the diamond necklace.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000001|She was never forward, but never bashful.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000010|They were good-natured, plain, unattractive girls, who spoke of her to her face as one who could easily do anything to which she might put her hand. Lady Fawn did really love her.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000013|Lord Fawn had suffered a disappointment in love, but he had consoled himself with blue books, and mastered his passion by incessant attendance at the India Board. The lady he had loved had been rich, and Lord Fawn was poor; but nevertheless he had mastered his passion.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000014|There was no fear that his feelings towards the governess would become too warm;--nor was it likely that Miss Morris should encounter danger in regard to him.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000015|It was quite an understood thing in the family that Lord Fawn must marry money.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000020_000003|Lord Fawn was pompous, slow, dull, and careful; but even he had given way to it at once.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000020_000004|Lady Fawn, too, was very careful, but she had owned to herself long since that she could not bear to look forward to any permanent severance.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000020_000005|Of course Lucy would be made over to the Hittaways, whose mother lived in Warwick Square, and whose father was Chairman of the Board of Civil Appeals.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000000|She was but a little thing;--and it cannot be said of her, as of Lady Eustace, that she was a beauty.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000002|Her light brown hair was soft and smooth and pretty.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000003|As hair it was very well, but it had no speciality.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000004|Her mouth was somewhat large, but full of ever varying expression.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000009|She would take up your subject, whatever it was, and make it her own.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000010|There was forward just then a question as to whether the Sawab of Mygawb should have twenty millions of rupees paid to him and be placed upon a throne, or whether he should be kept in prison all his life.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000000|What else can be said of her face or personal appearance that will interest a reader?
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000004|She was a little, thin, quick, graceful creature, whom it was impossible that you should see without wishing to have near you.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000005|A most unselfish little creature she was, but one who had a well formed idea of her own identity.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000007|She was the humblest little thing in the world in regard to any possible putting of herself forward or needful putting of herself back; and yet, to herself, nobody was her superior.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000010|She coveted no man's possessions,--and no woman's; but she was minded to hold by her own.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000011|Of present advantages or disadvantages,--whether she had the one or suffered from the other,--she thought not at all.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000001|She had given her heart,--for good and all, as she owned to herself,--to Frank Greystock.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000003|Frank was becoming a man of mark,--but was becoming a man of mark without much money.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000004|Of all men he was the last who could afford to marry a governess.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000005|And then, moreover, he had never said a word to make her think that he loved her.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000007|Seeing that there had been friendship between the families for so many years, who could complain of that?
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000008|Lady Fawn, however, had-not complained, but just said a word.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000009|A word in season, how good is it?
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000010|Lucy did not much regard the word spoken to herself; but when she reflected that a word must also have been spoken to mr Greystock,--otherwise how should it have been that he never came again?--that she did not like.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000001|It is a great nuisance, a loss that maims the whole life,--a misfortune to be much regretted.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000003|A man with a wooden leg may stump about through much action, and may enjoy the keenest pleasures of humanity.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000004|He has his eyes left to him, and his ears, and his intellect.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000005|He will not break his heart for the loss of that leg.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000006|And so it was with Lucy Morris.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000007|She would still stump about and be very active.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000008|Eyes, ears, and intellect were left to her.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000010|Lady Fawn, she thought, was right.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000011|A governess should make up her mind to do without a lover.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000012|She had given away her heart, and yet she would do without a lover.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000027_000000|"He is not going to prove a false knight?" asked Lady Eustace, in her lowest whisper.
train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000029_000000|"Nonsense, my dear; as if I didn't know.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000002_000002|Before the larger vessels could effect their entrance through Hatteras Inlet, captured in the previous August, a furious storm set in, which delayed the expedition nearly a month.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000004_000000|While the gradual occupation of the North Carolina coast was going on, two other expeditions of a similar nature were making steady progress. One of them, under the direction of General Quincy a Gillmore, carried on a remarkable siege operation against Fort Pulaski, standing on an isolated sea marsh at the mouth of the Savannah River.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000004_000001|Here not only the difficulties of approach, but the apparently insurmountable obstacle of making the soft, unctuous mud sustain heavy batteries, was overcome, and the fort compelled to surrender on april eleventh, after an effective bombardment.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000004_000002|The second was an expedition of nineteen ships, which, within a few days during the month of March, without serious resistance, occupied the whole remaining Atlantic coast southward as far as saint Augustine.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000005_000002|In due time she was raised by the Confederates, covered with a sloping roof of railroad iron, provided with a huge wedge shaped prow of cast iron, and armed with a formidable battery of ten guns.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000000|The particular one of these three especially intended for this peculiar emergency was a ship of entirely novel design, made by the celebrated inventor john Ericsson, a Swede by birth, but American by adoption-a man who combined great original genius with long scientific study and experience.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000001|His invention may be most quickly described as having a small, very low hull, covered by a much longer and wider flat deck only a foot or two above the water line, upon which was placed a revolving iron turret twenty feet in diameter, nine feet high, and eight inches thick, on the inside of which were two eleven inch guns trained side by side and revolving with the turret.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000002|This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000003|Naval experts at once recognized that her sea going qualities were bad; but compensation was thought to exist in the belief that her iron turret would resist shot and shell, and that the thin edge of her flat deck would offer only a minimum mark to an enemy's guns: in other words, that she was no cruiser, but would prove a formidable floating battery; and this belief she abundantly justified.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000007_000003|These saw the uncouth monster coming and prepared for action.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000009_000002|The Union officers who had witnessed the day's events with dismay, and were filled with gloomy forebodings for the morrow, while welcoming this providential reinforcement, were by no means reassured.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000010_000001|When the unwieldy rebel turtleback, with her slow, awkward movement, tried to ram the pointed raft that carried the cheese box, the little vessel, obedient to her rudder, easily glided out of the line of direct impact.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000011_000001|At that point the battle ended by mutual consent.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000011_000005|A tragic fate soon ended the careers of both vessels.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000011_000007|But the types of these pioneer ironclads, which had demonstrated such unprecedented fighting qualities, were continued.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000012_000001|Various preparations had been made and various plans discussed for an effective attempt against some prominent point on the Gulf coast.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000013_000002|With him were Commander David d Porter, in charge of a mortar flotilla of nineteen schooners and six armed steamships, and General Benjamin f Butler, at the head of an army contingent of six thousand men, soon to be followed by considerable reinforcements.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000000|The first obstacle to be overcome was the fire from the twin forts Jackson and saint Philip, situated nearly opposite each other at a bend of the Mississippi twenty five miles above the mouth of the river, while the city of New Orleans itself lies seventy five miles farther up the stream.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000001|These were formidable forts of masonry, with an armament together of over a hundred guns, and garrisons of about six hundred men each.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000002|They also had auxiliary defenses: first, of a strong river barrier of log rafts and other obstructions connected by powerful chains, half a mile below the forts; second, of an improvised fleet of sixteen rebel gunboats and a formidable floating battery.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000003|None of Farragut's ships were ironclad.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000004|He had, from the beginning of the undertaking, maintained the theory that a wooden fleet, properly handled, could successfully pass the batteries of the forts.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000006|He might not come back; but New Orleans would be won.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000007|In his hazardous undertaking his faith was based largely on the skill and courage of his subordinate commanders of ships, and this faith was fully sustained by their gallantry and devotion.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000015_000000|Porter's flotilla of nineteen schooners carrying two mortars each, anchored below the forts, maintained a heavy bombardment for five days, and then Farragut decided to try his ships.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000015_000002|The first division of his fleet, eight vessels, led by Captain Bailey, successfully passed the barrier.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000015_000003|The second division of nine ships was not quite so fortunate.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000000|The starlit night was quickly obscured by the smoke of the general cannonade from both ships and forts; but the heavy batteries of the latter had little effect on the passing fleet.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000001|Farragut's flag ship was for a short while in great danger.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000004|Immediately above the forts, the fleet of rebel gunboats joined in the battle, which now resolved itself into a series of conflicts between single vessels or small groups.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000006|Aside from this, the Union fleet sustained much miscellaneous damage, but no serious injury in the furious battle of an hour and a half.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000017_000001|The city was promptly evacuated by the Confederate General Lovell.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000017_000002|Meanwhile, General Butler was busy moving his transports and troops around outside by sea to Quarantine; and, having occupied that point in force, Forts Jackson and saint Philip capitulated on april twenty eighth.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000018_000000|Farragut immediately despatched an advance section of his fleet up the Mississippi.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000018_000001|None of the important cities on its banks below Vicksburg had yet been fortified, and, without serious opposition, they surrendered as the Union ships successively reached them.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000019_000001|All the events would have favored an expedition of this kind.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000020_000000|This left Vicksburg as the single barrier to the complete opening of the Mississippi, and that barrier was defended by only six batteries and a garrison of six Confederate regiments at the date of Farragut's arrival before it.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000020_000001|But Farragut had with his expedition only two regiments of troops, and the rebel batteries were situated at such an elevation that the guns of the Union fleet could not be raised sufficiently to silence them.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000020_000002|Neither help nor promise of help came from Halleck's army, and Farragut could therefore do nothing but turn his vessels down stream and return to New Orleans.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000021_000001|Neither a bombardment from Porter's mortar sloops, nor the running of Farragut's ships past the batteries, where they were joined by the Union gunboat flotilla from above, sufficed to bring the Confederates to a surrender.
train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000021_000003|But on july fourteenth he reported definitely that it would be impossible for him to render the expected aid.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000001_000000|IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000001|The right means, and the only entirely satisfactory means, of escape from it is through the undoing of the error which brought it about-that is, through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000002|Towards that end many earnest and patriotic citizens are working; but of course they realize the stupendous difficulty of the task they have undertaken.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000005|A possible plan exists, however, which is not open to this objection, and yet the execution of which would not present such terrific difficulty as would the proposal of a simple repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000006|That Amendment imbeds Prohibition in the organic law of the country, and thus not only imposes it upon the individual States regardless of what their desires may be, but takes away from the nation itself the right to legislate upon the subject by the ordinary processes of law making.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000007|Now an Amendment repealing the Eighteenth Amendment but at the same time conferring upon Congress the power to make laws concerning the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors, would make it possible for Congress to pass a Volstead act, or a beer and wine act, or no Liquor act at all, just as its own judgment or desire might dictate.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000008|It would give the Federal Government a power which I think it would be far more wholesome to reserve to the States; but it would get rid of the worst part of the Eighteenth Amendment.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000009|And it would have, I think, an incomparably more favorable reception, from the start, than would a proposal of simple repeal.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000012|The one strong argument which might be urged against the proposal-namely that such a provision would make Prohibition a constant issue in national elections, while the actual incorporation of Prohibition in the Constitution settles the matter once for all-has been deprived of all its force by our actual experience.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000013|So far from settling the matter once for all, the Eighteenth Amendment has been a frightful breeder of unsettlement and contention, which bids fair to continue indefinitely.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000004_000000|I have offered this suggestion for what it may be worth as a practical proposal; it seems certainly deserving of discussion, and I could not refrain from putting it forward as a possible means of relief from an intolerable situation.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000004_000001|But I do not wish to wind up on that note.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000004_000002|The right solution-a solution incomparably better than this which I have suggested on account of its apparently better chance of acceptance-is the outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000000|To the exposition of those fundamental issues this little book has been almost exclusively confined.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000001|It has left untouched a score of aspects of the question of drink, and of the prohibition of drink, which it would have been interesting to discuss, and the discussion of which would, I feel sure, have added to the strength of the argument I have endeavored to present.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000002|But there is an advantage, too, in keeping to the high points.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000003|It is not to a multiplicity of details that one must trust in a case like this.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000004|What is needed above all is a clear and wholehearted recognition of fundamentals.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000005|And I do not believe that the American people have got so far away from their fundamentals that such recognition will be denied when the case is clearly put before them.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000006|There is one and only one thing that could justify such a violation of liberty and of the cardinal principles of rational government as is embodied in the Eighteenth Amendment.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000007|In the face of desperate necessity, there may be justification for the most desperate remedy.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000001|It is unnecessary to appeal to statistics.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000004|To shake off this tyranny is one of the worthiest objects to which good Americans can devote themselves.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000006|If it is allowed to stand, there is no telling in what quarter the next invasion of liberty will be made by fanatics possessed with the itch for perfection.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000009|To do that will be a splendid victory for all that we used to think of as American-for liberty, for individuality, for the freedom of each man to conduct his own life in his own way so long as he does not violate the rights of others, for the responsibility of each man for the evils he brings upon himself by the abuse of that freedom.
train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000007_000000|THE END
train-clean-360/2674/155968/2674_155968_000007_000002|Then a curious thing happened.
train-clean-360/2674/155968/2674_155968_000013_000007|This change has been made."
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000001_000000|The enormous bag limits of thirty five rail and fifty each per day of plover, snipe and shore birds is a crime!
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000004_000000|First of all, Connecticut needs a ten year close season law to save her remnant of shore birds before it is completely annihilated.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000006_000000|DELAWARE:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000007_000000|Stop all spring shooting, at once; stop killing shore birds for ten years, and protect swans indefinitely.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000008_000000|Enact bag limit laws, in very small figures.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000012_000003|I dare say they are afflicted with apathy, and game hogs.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000012_000004|The latter can easily back up General Apathy to an extent that spells "no game laws." In one act, and at one bold stroke, Delaware can step out of her position at the rear of the procession of states, and take a place in the front rank.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000012_000005|Will she do it?
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000013_000000|DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000015_000000|If game shooting within the District is continued, on the marshes of the Eastern Branch and on the Potomac River, common decency demands the enactment of bag limit laws and long close season laws of the most modern pattern.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000022_000000|A general resident license should be required for hunting.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000028_000002|Once its bird life was one of the wonders of America.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000028_000003|But the gunners began early to shoot, and shoot, and shoot.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000033_000001|The following paragraphs are from that article:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000034_000002|Birds know no state lines, and while practically all the States lying to the north of Florida protect migratory birds and waterfowl, yet these are recklessly slaughtered in that state to such an extent as to be appalling to all sportsmen and bird lovers.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000037_000000|GEORGIA:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000043_000000|We are glad to report that Georgia has already begun to take up the white man's burden.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000043_000001|The protection of wild life is now a gentleman's proposition, and in it every real man with red blood in his veins has a duty to perform.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000044_000000|IDAHO:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000045_000000|The imperative duties of Idaho are as follows:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000046_000000|Stop all hunting of mountain sheep, mountain goat and elk.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000047_000000|Give the sage grouse and sharp tail ten year close seasons, at once, to forestall their extermination.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000050_000000|Enact the model law to protect non game birds.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000052_000000|Extend the State Warden's term to four years.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000053_000000|Like Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, the state of Idaho has wasted her stock of game, and it is to be feared that several species are now about to disappear from that state.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000053_000001|I am told that the sage grouse is almost "gone"; and I think that the antelope, caribou, and mountain sheep are in the same condition of scarcity.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000054_000000|If the people of Idaho wish to save their wild fauna, they must be up and doing.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000054_000001|The time to temporize, theorize, be conservative and easy going has gone by.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000055_000000|In nineteen ten, dr t s Palmer credited Idaho with the possession of about five hundred moose and two hundred antelope.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000056_000000|There is one feature of the Idaho game law that may well stand unchanged.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000056_000001|The open season on "ibex," of which one per year may be killed, may as well be continued.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000056_000002|One myth per year is not an extravagant bag for any intelligent hunter; and it seems that the "ibex" will not down.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000057_000000|ILLINOIS:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000059_000000|In Illinois the bag limits on birds are nearly all at least fifty per cent too high.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000059_000001|They should be as follows: No squirrels, doves or shore birds; six quail, five woodcock, ten coots, ten rail, ten ducks, three geese and three brant, with a total limit of ten waterfowl per day.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000060_000000|Doves should be removed from the game list.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000061_000000|All tree squirrels and chipmunks should be perpetually protected, as companions to man, unfit for food.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000063_000000|The use of all machine shotguns in hunting should be prohibited.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000064_000001|saint Louis cleared her record in nineteen o nine.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000064_000002|New York thoroughly cleaned her Augean stable in nineteen eleven, and Massachusetts won her Bayne law by a desperate battle in nineteen twelve.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000064_000003|In nineteen thirteen, Pennsylvania probably will enact a Bayne law.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000066_000001|Often the migratory game was located by telegraphic reports.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000071_000000|The present bag limits on Illinois game birds are fatally high.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000071_000002|The men of Illinois have just two alternatives between which to choose: drastic and immediate preservation, or a gameless state.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000071_000003|Which shall it be?
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000072_000000|INDIANA:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000075_000000|A Bayne law, absolutely prohibiting the sale of all native wild game, should be enacted at once.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000078_000000|The use of pump and autoloading guns in hunting should be prohibited.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000079_000000|In Indiana the white tailed deer is extinct.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000079_000001|This means very close hunting, and a bad outlook for all other game larger than the sparrow. On october second nineteen twelve, eleven heads of greater bird of paradise, with plumes attached, were offered for sale within one hundred feet of the headquarters of the Fourth National Conservation Congress.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000079_000002|The prices ranged from thirty five dollars to forty seven dollars and fifty cents; and while we looked, two ladies came up, one of whom pointed to a bird of paradise corpse and said: "There!
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000080_000000|IOWA:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000081_000000|Spring shooting should be stopped, at once and forever.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000082_000000|The killing of all tree squirrels and chipmunks should cease.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000083_000000|All shore birds that visit Iowa deserve a five year close season.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000084_000000|Especially is the shooting of plover, sandpiper, marsh and beach birds, rail, duck, geese and brant from september first, to april fifteenth, an outrage.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000086_000002|She boasts about her corn and hogs, but she is deaf to the appeals of the states surrounding her on the subject of spring shooting.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000088_000000|KANSAS:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000095_000000|Draw a line around the hog and corn area of the United States, and within it you will find more spring shooting, more sale of game and more extermination of species than in any other area in the United States.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000095_000001|I refer to Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000101_000000|LOUISIANA:
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000106_000001|In short,
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000107_000000|Enact a Bayne law.
train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000110_000000|For good reasons, forty states of the American Union strictly prohibit the killing of song and insectivorous birds.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000003_000000|NEW LAWS NEEDED IN THE STATES (Continued)
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000004_000000|MAINE:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000005_000004|For example:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000006_000000|Cow and calf moose are permanently protected.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000007_000000|Only bull moose, with at least two three-inch prongs on its horns, may be killed.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000010_000000|The open season for deer varies from ten weeks to four weeks, and in parts of three counties there is no open season at all.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000017_000000|MARYLAND:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000018_000002|Otherwise, the state is wide open!
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000019_000000|At the last session of the Maryland legislature, the law preventing the use of power boats in wild fowl shooting was repealed.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000029_000000|MASSACHUSETTS:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000030_000004|The victory is highly instructive, as great victories usually are.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000032_000001|Very soon, also, her sportsmen will raise the standard of ethics in shotgun shooting, by barring out the automatic and pump shotguns so much beloved by the market shooters.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000032_000002|As matters stand at this date (nineteen twelve) the Old Bay State needs the following new laws:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000033_000000|Low bag limits on all game.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000035_000000|Expulsion of the automatic and pump shotguns, in hunting.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000036_000000|MICHIGAN:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000037_000001|All the game protected by the laws of the state is debarred from sale; squirrels, pinnated grouse, doves and wild turkeys enjoy long close seasons; the bag limits on deer and game birds are reasonably low; spring shooting still is possible on nine species of ducks; and this should be stopped without delay.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000039_000000|All spring shooting should be prohibited.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000043_000000|Two or three state game preserves, for deer, each at least four miles square, should be established without delay.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000046_000000|There should be five year close seasons enacted for quail, grouse, plover, woodcock, snipe, and all other shore birds.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000049_000000|The state should prohibit the use of machine guns in hunting.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000052_000000|MISSISSIPPI:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000053_000000|The legalized slaughter of robins, cedar birds, grosbeaks and doves should cease immediately, on the basis of economy of resources and a square deal to all the states lying northward of Mississippi.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000061_000000|Doves should be taken off the list of game birds, and protected throughout the year; and so should all tree squirrels.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000067_000005|It is said that in nineteen eleven, eleven thousand deer were killed in Montana, all in the western part of the state, seventy per cent of which were white tails.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000069_000000|The antelope need three or four small ranges, such as the Snow Creek Antelope Range, where the bad lands are too rough for ranchmen, but quite right for antelopes and other big game.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000070_000001|The splendid sage grouse is now extinct in many parts of its previous range.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000073_000001|Only seven states have failed in that respect.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000074_000000|The use of automatic and pump shotguns, and silencers, should immediately be prohibited.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000075_000000|Montana's bag limits are not wholly bad; but the grizzly bear has almost been exterminated, save in the Yellowstone Park.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000075_000002|And then we will hear enthusiastic talk about "restocking."
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000077_000000|No other state has bestowed close seasons upon as many extinct species of game as Nebraska.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000083_000000|NEVADA:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000085_000000|All non game birds should have perpetual protection.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000089_000000|A corps of salaried game protectors should be chosen for active and aggressive game protection.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000090_000000|Nevada's bag limits are among the best of any state, the only serious flaw being "ten sage grouse" per day: which should be zero!
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000092_000000|NEW HAMPSHIRE:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000094_000000|Gray Squirrel, none per day, or per year; duck (except wood duck), ten per day, or thirty per season; ruffed grouse, four per day, twelve per season; hare and rabbit, four per day, or twelve per season.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000097_000000|The use of automatic and pump guns in hunting should be barred,--through state pride, if for no other reason.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000098_000000|NEW JERSEY:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000099_000000|New Jersey enjoys the distinction of being the second state to break the strangle hold of the gun makers of Hartford and Ilion, and cast out the odious automatic and pump guns.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000099_000001|It was a pitched battle,--that of nineteen twelve, inaugurated by Ernest Napier, President of the State Game and Fish Commission and his fellow commissioners.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000099_000002|The longer the contest continued, the more did the press and the people of New Jersey awaken to the seriousness of the situation.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000101_000004|The moral is: Will the People apply this lesson to the ruffed grouse, quail and the shore birds generally before they, too, are too far gone to be brought back?
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000104_000000|Prohibit the sale of all native wild game; but promote the sale of preserve bred game.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000107_000000|Prohibit the killing of squirrels as "game."
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000108_000000|NEW MEXICO:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000000|All things considered, the game laws of New Mexico are surprisingly up to date, and the state is to be congratulated on its advanced position. For example, there are long close seasons on antelope, elk (now extinct!), mountain sheep, bob white quail, pinnated grouse, wild pigeon and ptarmigan,--an admirable list, truly.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000002|On two counts, her laws are not quite perfect.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000003|There is no law prohibiting spring shooting, and there is no "model law" protecting the non game birds.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000004|The sale of game will not trouble New Mexico, because the present laws prevent the sale of all protected game except plover, curlew and snipe,--all of them species by no means common in the arid regions of the Southwest.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000112_000000|The term of the State Warden should be extended to four years.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000113_000000|NEW YORK:
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000114_000001|This proud position has been achieved partly through the influence of a great conservation Governor, john a Dix, and the State Conservation Commission proposed and created by his efforts.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000115_000001|Spring shooting was stopped in nineteen o three.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000115_000002|A comprehensive law protecting non game birds was enacted in eighteen sixty two. New York's first law against the sale of certain game during close seasons was enacted in eighteen thirty seven.
train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000117_000000|In nineteen twelve a new codification of the state game laws went into effect, through the initiative of Governor Dix and Conservation Commissioners Van Kennen, Moore and Fleming, assisted (as special counsel) by Marshall McLean, George a Lawyer and john b Burnham.
train-clean-360/2696/157636/2696_157636_000029_000003|They sold many things besides coffee, and served a variety of purposes, but primarily they were temples of talk and good fellowship.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000002_000000|Chapter two
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000005_000000|But the women had faith in their appeal.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000007_000000|The campaign became a very hot one during which most of the militancy seemed to be on the side of the political leaders. Heavy fists came down on desks.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000007_000001|Harsh words were spoken. Violent threats were made.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000007_000003|"You can do no good here.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000012_000001|Of course, the Democratic leaders did not welcome an issue raised unexpectedly, and one which forced them to spend an endless amount of time apologizing for and explaining the Democratic Party's record.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000012_000002|Nor did they relish spending more money publishing more literature, in short, adding greatly to the burdens of their campaign.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000014_000000|Our aim in this campaign was primarily to call to the attention of the public the bad suffrage record of the Democratic Party. The effect of our campaign was soon evident in Congress.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000014_000001|The most backward member realized for the first time that women had voted. Even the President perceived that the movement had gained new strength, though he was not yet politically moved by it.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000018_000002|This red herring drawn across the path had been accepted by the conservative suff ragists evidently in a moment of hopelessness, and their strength put behind it, but the politicians who persuade them to back it knew that it was merely an attempt to evade the issue.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000020_000000|Women from all the voting states assembled in a mass convention september fourteenth fifteen and sixteen.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000023_000001|These women from the deserts of Arizona, from the farms of Oregon, from the valleys of California, from the mountains of Nevada and Utah, were in deadly earnest.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000023_000002|They had answered the call and they meant to stay in the fight until it was won.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000025_000000|The envoys, symbolic of the new strength that was to come out of the West, made their journey across continent by automobile.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000025_000001|They created a sensation all along the way, received as they were by governors, by mayors, by officials high and low, and by the populace.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000026_000000|The action of the convention scarcely cold, and the envoys mid way across the continent, the President hastened to New Jersey to cast his vote for suffrage in a state referendum.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000028_000002|Casting a vote for it would help his case with women voters, and still not bring suffrage in the East a step nearer.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000029_000001|The envoys replied by asking that their message be carried by friends of the measure to the floor of the Senate and House, and this was done.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000030_000000|The envoys waited upon the President at the White House.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000030_000001|This visit of the representatives of women with power marked rather an advance in the President's position.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000032_000000|No more questions on mother and home!
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000032_000003|It
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000034_000001|"Sirs, that depends upon what you gentlemen do.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000036_000001|And so the hearing passed in something of a verbal riot, but with no doubt as to the fact that Congressmen were alarmed by the prospect of women voting as a protest group.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000038_000002|Oh, no, indeed; it was men's business to keep the nation out of war.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000038_000005|Logic must not be pressed too hard upon the "reasoning" sex.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000038_000006|This time, men would do it.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000039_000000|The exciting national election contest was approaching.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000042_000000|The instant response which met this appeal surpassed the most optimistic hopes.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000042_000002|For the first time in history, women came together to organize their political power into a party to free their own sex.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000042_000003|For the first time in history representatives of men's political parties came to plead before these women voters for the support of their respective parties.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000044_000000|All laid their claims for suffrage support before the women with the result that the convention resolved itself into another political party The Woman's Party.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000047_000000|power to free women; a party which became a potent factor of protest in the following national election.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000001|The Republican National Convention, meeting immediately. after the Woman's Party Convention, and the Democratic National Convention the week following, both included suffrage planks in their national platforms for the first time in history.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000002|To be sure, they were planks that failed to satisfy us.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000003|But the mere hint of organized political action on suffrage had moved the two dominant parties to advance a step.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000004|The new Woman's Party had declared suffrage a national political issue.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000005|The two major parties acknowledged the issue by writing it into their party platforms.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000001|The Democratic Party made its suffrage plank specific against action by Congress.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000003|If the Republicans could afford to write a vague and indefinite plank, the President and his party could not.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000005|They did so. The President chose the plank and his subordinates followed his lead.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000006|It may be remarked in passing that this declaration so solidified the opposition within the President's party that when the President ultimately sought to repudiate it, he met stubborn resistance.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000050_000000|Protected by the President's plank, the Democratic Congress continued to block national suffrage.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000050_000001|It would not permit it even to be reported from the Judiciary Committee.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000050_000002|The party platform was written.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000055_000000|Miss Mabel Vernon of Delaware, beloved and gifted crusader, was the first member of the Woman's Party to commit a "militant" act. President Wilson, speaking at the dedication services of the Labor Temple in Washington, was declaring his interest in all classes and all struggles.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000057_000001|Attention was focussed on the two rival presidential candidates, Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican nominee, upon whom the new Woman's Party worked diligently
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000062_000000|We also went to the country.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000063_000000|The President accepted at once the opportunity to speak before a convention of suffragists at Atlantic City in an effort to prove his great belief in suffrage.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000064_000006|Enticing doctrine to women the peace lovers of the human race.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000067_000001|The people were excited to an almost unprecedented pitch over the issue of peace versus war.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000001|At least a third of each speech was devoted to suffrage.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000002|He urged.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000004|He apologized.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000005|He explained.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000006|He pleaded.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000007|He condemned.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000008|Often he was heckled.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000070_000000|Space will not permit in this book to give more than a hint of the scope and strength of our campaign.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000001|It must be made perfectly clear that the Woman's Party did not attempt to elect mr Hughes. It did not feel strong enough to back a candidate in its first battle, and did not conduct its fight affirmatively at all.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000003|The appeal was to vote a vote of protest against mr Wilson and his Congressional candidates, because he and his party had had the power to pass the amendment through Congress and had refused to do so.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000005|It was to be expected that the main strength of the vote taken from mr Wilson would go to mr Hughes, as few women perhaps threw their votes to the minority parties.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000006|But just as the Progressive Party's protest had been effective in securing progressive legislation without winning the election, so the Woman's Party hoped its protest would bring results in Congress without attempting to win the election.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000073_000001|The women there voted two to one against mr Wilson and for mr Hughes.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000074_000000|Men outnumber women throughout the entire western territory; in some states, two and three to one; in Nevada, still higher.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000076_000000|The Democratic Judiciary Committee of the House which had refused to report suffrage to the House for a vote, had only one Democratic member from a suffrage state, mr Taggart of Kansas, standing for reelection.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000076_000001|This was the only spot where women could strike out against the action of this committee and mr Taggart. They struck with success.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000076_000002|He was defeated almost wholly by the women's votes.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000077_000001|As much literature was used on suffrage as on peace in the suffrage states.
train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000079_000000|Again, with more force, national suffrage had been injected into a campaign where it was not wanted, where the leaders had hoped the single issue of "peace" would hold the center of the stage. Again many women had stood together on this issue and put woman suffrage first.
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train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000003_000000|EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000005_000000|by Mark Twain
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000006_000001|Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.--M.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000006_000002|T.]
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000007_000000|Monday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000001|I don't like this; I am not used to company.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000002|I wish it would stay with the other animals.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000004|Where did I get that word?...
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000005|I remember now --the new creature uses it.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000009_000000|Tuesday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000001|It is the finest thing on the estate, I think.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000002|The new creature calls it Niagara Falls-why, I am sure I do not know.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000003|Says it looks like Niagara Falls.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000005|I get no chance to name anything myself.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000006|The new creature names everything that comes along, before I can get in a protest.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000007|And always that same pretext is offered-it looks like the thing.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000008|There is the dodo, for instance.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000009|Says the moment one looks at it one sees at a glance that it "looks like a dodo." It will have to keep that name, no doubt.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000011|Dodo!
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000012|It looks no more like a dodo than I do.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000011_000000|Wednesday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000000|Built me a shelter against the rain, but could not have it to myself in peace.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000001|The new creature intruded.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000003|I wish it would not talk; it is always talking.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000004|That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000005|I have never heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000006|And this new sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only to sounds that are more or less distant from me.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000013_000000|Friday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000001|I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty --GARDEN OF EDEN.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000002|Privately, I continue to call it that, but not any longer publicly.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000003|The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. Says it looks like a park, and does not look like anything but a park.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000004|Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new named --NIAGARA FALLS PARK.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000005|This is sufficiently high handed, it seems to me.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000015_000000|KEEP OFF THE GRASS
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000016_000000|My life is not as happy as it was.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000017_000000|Saturday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000000|The new creature eats too much fruit.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000001|We are going to run short, most likely.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000002|"We" again-that is its word; mine too, now, from hearing it so much.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000003|Good deal of fog this morning.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000004|I do not go out in the fog myself.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000005|The new creature does.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000007|And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000019_000000|Sunday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000000|Pulled through.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000001|This day is getting to be more and more trying. It was selected and set apart last November as a day of rest.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000002|I already had six of them per week, before.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000003|This morning found the new creature trying to clod apples out of that forbidden tree.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000021_000000|Monday
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000000|The new creature says its name is Eve.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000001|That is all right, I have no objections.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000002|Says it is to call it by when I want it to come. I said it was superfluous, then.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000003|The word evidently raised me in its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word, and will bear repetition.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000004|It says it is not an It, it is a She.
train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000005|This is probably doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me if she would but go by herself and not talk.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000000_000000|Tuesday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000001_000000|She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offensive signs:
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000002_000000|THIS WAY TO THE WHIRLPOOL.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000003_000000|THIS WAY TO GOAT ISLAND.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000000|She says this park would make a tidy summer resort, if there was any custom for it.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000001|Summer resort-another invention of hers-just words, without any meaning.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000002|What is a summer resort?
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000003|But it is best not to ask her, she has such a rage for explaining.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000006_000000|Friday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000000|She has taken to beseeching me to stop going over the Falls.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000001|What harm does it do?
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000002|Says it makes her shudder.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000003|I wonder why.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000005|I supposed it was what the Falls were for.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000006|They have no other use that I can see, and they must have been made for something.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000007|She says they were only made for scenery-like the rhinoceros and the mastodon.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000000|I went over the Falls in a barrel-not satisfactory to her.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000001|Went over in a tub-still not satisfactory.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000002|Swam the Whirlpool and the Rapids in a fig leaf suit.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000003|It got much damaged.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000004|Hence, tedious complaints about my extravagance.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000009_000000|Saturday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000010_000001|She engages herself in many foolish things: among others, trying to study out why the animals called lions and tigers live on grass and flowers, when, as she says, the sort of teeth they wear would indicate that they were intended to eat each other.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000010_000002|This is foolish, because to do that would be to kill each other, and that would introduce what, as I understand it, is called "death;" and death, as I have been told, has not yet entered the Park.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000011_000000|Sunday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000012_000000|Pulled through.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000013_000000|Monday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000001|It seems a good idea....
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000002|She has been climbing that tree again.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000003|Clodded her out of it.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000004|She said nobody was looking.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000005|Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000006|Told her that. The word justification moved her admiration-and envy too, I thought.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000007|It is a good word.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000015_000000|Thursday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000000|She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my body.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000001|This is at least doubtful, if not more than that.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000002|I have not missed any rib....
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000003|She is in much trouble about the buzzard; says grass does not agree with it; is afraid she can't raise it; thinks it was intended to live on decayed flesh.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000004|The buzzard must get along the best it can with what is provided.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000005|We cannot overturn the whole scheme to accommodate the buzzard.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000017_000000|Saturday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000018_000000|She fell in the pond yesterday, when she was looking at herself in it, which she is always doing.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000018_000003|When night comes I shall throw them out doors.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000019_000000|Sunday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000021_000000|Tuesday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000022_000000|She has taken up with a snake now.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000022_000001|The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad, because the snake talks, and this enables me to get a rest.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000023_000000|Friday
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000000|She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000001|I told her there would be another result, too-it would introduce death into the world.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000002|That was a mistake-it had been better to keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea-she could save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent lions and tigers.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000005|I foresee trouble.
train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000006|Will emigrate.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000006_000000|Wednesday
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000000|I have had a variegated time.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000001|I escaped that night, and rode a horse all night as fast as he could go, hoping to get clear out of the Park and hide in some other country before the trouble should begin; but it was not to be.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000003|I knew what it meant-Eve had eaten that fruit, and death was come into the world....
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000005|I found this place, outside the Park, and was fairly comfortable for a few days, but she has found me out.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000006|Found me out, and has named the place Tonawanda-says it looks like that.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000008|I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000015|She did it, and after this we crept down to where the wild beast battle had been, and collected some skins, and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper for public occasions.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000016|They are uncomfortable, it is true, but stylish, and that is the main point about clothes. ...
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000020|I will superintend.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000000|She accuses me of being the cause of our disaster!
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000001|She says, with apparent sincerity and truth, that the Serpent assured her that the forbidden fruit was not apples, it was chestnuts.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000002|I said I was innocent, then, for I had not eaten any chestnuts.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000003|She said the Serpent informed her that "chestnut" was a figurative term meaning an aged and mouldy joke.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000004|I turned pale at that, for I have made many jokes to pass the weary time, and some of them could have been of that sort, though I had honestly supposed that they were new when I made them.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000005|She asked me if I had made one just at the time of the catastrophe.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000007|It was this.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000010_000000|Next Year
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000000|We have named it Cain.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000003|That is what she thinks, but this is an error, in my judgment.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000005|I still think it is a fish, but she is indifferent about what it is, and will not let me have it to try.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000006|I do not understand this.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000009|Her mind is disordered-everything shows it.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000010|Sometimes she carries the fish in her arms half the night when it complains and wants to get to the water.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000011|At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways.
train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000013|She used to carry the young tigers around so, and play with them, before we lost our property; but it was only play; she never took on about them like this when their dinner disagreed with them.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000000|The kangaroo still continues to grow, which is very strange and perplexing.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000001|I never knew one to be so long getting its growth. It has fur on its head now; not like kangaroo fur, but exactly like our hair, except that it is much finer and softer, and instead of being black is red.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000005|If I could tame it-but that is out of the question; the more I try, the worse I seem to make it.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000007|I wanted to let it go, but she wouldn't hear of it.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000008|That seemed cruel and not like her; and yet she may be right.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000009|It might be lonelier than ever; for since I cannot find another one, how could it?
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000000|It is not a kangaroo.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000001|No, for it supports itself by holding to her finger, and thus goes a few steps on its hind legs, and then falls down.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000002|It is probably some kind of a bear; and yet it has no tail-as yet-and no fur, except on its head.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000004|Bears are dangerous-since our catastrophe-and I shall not be satisfied to have this one prowling about the place much longer without a muzzle on.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000005|I have offered to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go, but it did no good-she is determined to run us into all sorts of foolish risks, I think.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000006|She was not like this before she lost her mind.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000004_000000|A Fortnight Later
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000000|I examined its mouth.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000001|There is no danger yet; it has only one tooth.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000002|It has no tail yet.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000003|It makes more noise now than it ever did before-and mainly at night.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000004|I have moved out.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000006_000000|Four Months Later
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000007_000001|Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa" and "momma."
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000007_000003|This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000010_000000|Next Day
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000001|I was going to stuff one of them for my collection, but she is prejudiced against it for some reason or other; so I have relinquished the idea, though I think it is a mistake.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000002|It would be an irreparable loss to science if they should get away.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000003|The old one is tamer than it was, and can laugh and talk like the parrot, having learned this, no doubt, from being with the parrot so much, and having the imitative faculty in a highly developed degree.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000004|I shall be astonished if it turns out to be a new kind of parrot, and yet I ought not to be astonished, for it has already been everything else it could think of, since those first days when it was a fish.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000006|She calls it Abel.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000012_000000|Ten Years Later
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000013_000000|They are boys; we found it out long ago.
train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000013_000004|Blessed be the chestnut that brought us near together and taught me to know the goodness of her heart and the sweetness of her spirit!
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000001_000000|As they returned toward the castle, D'Artagnan thought of the miseries of poor human nature, always dissatisfied with what it has, ever desirous of what it has not.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000002_000000|In the position of Porthos, D'Artagnan would have been perfectly happy; and to make Porthos contented there was wanting-what? five letters to put before his three names, a tiny coronet to paint upon the panels of his carriage!
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000003_000000|"I shall pass all my life," thought D'Artagnan, "in seeking for a man who is really contented with his lot."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000004_000000|Whilst making this reflection, chance seemed, as it were, to give him the lie direct.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000004_000002|The face of the steward, despite one slight shade of care, light as a summer cloud, seemed a physiognomy of absolute felicity.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000005_000000|"Here is what I am looking for," thought D'Artagnan; "but alas! the poor fellow does not know the purpose for which I am here."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000007_000000|"Sir," said the servant, "I have a favour to ask you."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000008_000000|"Speak out, my friend."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000009_000000|"I am afraid to do so.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000009_000001|Perhaps you will think, sir, that prosperity has spoiled me?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000010_000000|"Art thou happy, friend?" asked D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000011_000000|"As happy as possible; and yet, sir, you may make me even happier than I am."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000012_000000|"Well, speak, if it depends on me."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000014_000000|"I listen-I am waiting to hear."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000015_000001|You, sir, know how necessary subordination is in any large establishment of servants."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000020_000000|"Will monsieur remain long with us?" asked Mousqueton, with a serene and glowing countenance.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000023_000000|"I fear that is true," said D'Artagnan, in a low tone.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000025_000000|He was thinking of these matters when Porthos summoned him to dinner.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000026_000000|"What! to dinner?" said D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000026_000001|"What time is it, then?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000028_000000|"Your home is a paradise, Porthos; one takes no note of time.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000028_000001|I follow you, though I am not hungry."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000029_000000|"Come, if one can't always eat, one can always drink-a maxim of poor Athos, the truth of which I have discovered since I began to be lonely."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000030_000001|Meanwhile his misgivings in regard to Mousqueton recurred to his mind and with greater force because Mousqueton, though he did not himself wait on the table, which would have been beneath him in his new position, appeared at the door from time to time and evinced his gratitude to D'Artagnan by the quality of the wine he directed to be served.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000030_000002|Therefore, when, at dessert, upon a sign from D'Artagnan, Porthos had sent away his servants and the two friends were alone:
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000032_000000|"Why," replied Porthos, "Mouston, of course."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000033_000000|This was a blow to D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000034_000000|"That may be true," replied Porthos; "but I am used to him, and besides, he wouldn't be willing to let me go without him, he loves me so much."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000035_000000|"Oh, blind self love!" thought D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000038_000000|"What is he, then?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000039_000000|"With his sixteen hundred francs-you remember, the sixteen hundred francs he earned at the siege of La Rochelle by carrying a letter to Lord de Winter-he has set up a little shop in the Rue des Lombards and is now a confectioner."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000040_000001|How does it happen, then, that he is in your service?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000043_000000|"I should not have believed him; but men are changed by events."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000044_000001|Taste of this; it is a Spanish wine which our friend Athos thought much of."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000045_000000|At that moment the steward came in to consult his master upon the proceedings of the next day and also with regard to the shooting party which had been proposed.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000046_000000|"Tell me, Mouston," said Porthos, "are my arms in good condition?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000047_000000|"Your arms, my lord-what arms?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000048_000000|"Zounds! my weapons."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000049_000000|"What weapons?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000050_000000|"My military weapons."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000051_000000|"Yes, my lord; at any rate, I think so."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000052_000000|"Make sure of it, and if they want it, have them burnished up.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000052_000001|Which is my best cavalry horse?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000053_000000|"Vulcan."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000056_000000|"What horse dost thou choose for thyself?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000058_000000|"Strong, thinkest thou?"
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000059_000000|"Half Norman, half Mecklenburger; will go night and day."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000060_000002|Polish up or make some one else polish my arms.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000060_000003|Then take pistols with thee and a hunting knife."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000061_000000|"Are we then going to travel, my lord?" asked Mousqueton, rather uneasy.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000062_000000|"Something better still, Mouston."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000065_000000|"Into the service-the king's service?" Mousqueton trembled; even his fat, smooth cheeks shook as he spoke, and he looked at D'Artagnan with an air of reproach; he staggered, and his voice was almost choked.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000066_000000|"Yes and no
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000066_000001|We shall serve in a campaign, seek out all sorts of adventures-return, in short, to our former life."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000067_000000|These last words fell on Mousqueton like a thunderbolt.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000067_000001|It was those very terrible old days that made the present so excessively delightful, and the blow was so great he rushed out, overcome, and forgot to shut the door.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000068_000000|The two friends remained alone to speak of the future and to build castles in the air.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000070_000000|"But-formerly-it appears," began Mousqueton timidly.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000071_000000|"Oh!" said D'Artagnan, "we don't now make war as we did formerly.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000072_000000|Mousqueton inquired, therefore, the state of the case of his old friend, who confirmed the statement of D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000072_000001|"But," he added, "in this war prisoners stand a chance of being hung."
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000074_000000|Porthos, meantime, asked D'Artagnan to give him his instructions how to proceed on his journey.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000076_000000|"That's agreed," said Porthos.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000078_000000|The friends then took leave of each other on the very border of the estate of Pierrefonds, to which Porthos escorted his friend.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000081_000000|"My Lord,--I have already one man to offer to your eminence, and he is well worth twenty men.
train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000081_000001|I am just setting out for Blois.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000001_000000|twenty two.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000003_000001|In the first place he himself furbished a sword, which he drew from its perfumed leather sheath; he examined it to see if its hilt was well guarded and if the blade was firmly attached to the hilt.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000004_000000|At length, after occupying about an hour in these preparations, he opened the door of the room in which the vicomte slept, and entered.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000005_000000|The sun, already high, penetrated into the room through the window, the curtains of which Raoul had neglected to close on the previous evening. He was still sleeping, his head gracefully reposing on his arm.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000006_000003|Between the past and the present was an ineffable abyss.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000007_000000|In recalling all he had been through, he foresaw all that Raoul might suffer; and the expression of the deep and tender compassion which throbbed in his heart was pictured in the moist eye with which he gazed on the young man.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000008_000000|At this moment Raoul awoke, without a cloud on his face without weariness or lassitude; his eyes were fixed on those of Athos and perhaps he comprehended all that passed in the heart of the man who was awaiting his awakening as a lover awaits the awakening of his mistress, for his glance, in return, had all the tenderness of love.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000009_000000|"You are there, sir?" he said, respectfully.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000011_000000|"And you did not awaken me?"
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000016_000000|"Perfectly well; quite rested, sir."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000021_000000|"And I was asleep," cried Raoul, "whilst you, sir, you had the kindness to attend to all these details.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000027_000000|"Monsieur le vicomte has no sword."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000028_000000|"'tis well," said Athos, "I will take care of that."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000029_000001|When they reached the steps Raoul saw three horses.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000033_000000|Athos mounted more slowly, after speaking in a low voice to the lackey, who, instead of following them immediately, returned to their rooms. Raoul, delighted at the count's companionship, perceived, or affected to perceive nothing of this byplay.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000034_000000|They set out, passing over the Pont Neuf; they pursued their way along the quay then called L'Abreuvoir Pepin, and went along by the walls of the Grand Chatelet.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000035_000000|After passing through the Porte Saint Denis, Athos looked at Raoul's way of riding and observed:
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000036_000000|"Take care, Raoul!
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000036_000002|See! your horse is tired already, he froths at the mouth, whilst mine looks as if he had only just left the stable.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000036_000003|You hold the bit too tight and so make his mouth hard, so that you will not be able to make him manoeuvre quickly.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000039_000000|The young man stored in his mind the admonition whilst he admired the delicate tenderness with which it was bestowed.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000040_000000|"I have remarked also another thing," said Athos, "which is, that in firing off your pistol you hold your arm too far outstretched.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000040_000002|So in twelve times you thrice missed the mark."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000042_000000|"Because I bent my arm and rested my hand on my elbow-so; do you understand what I mean?"
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000043_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000043_000001|I have fired since in that manner and have been quite successful."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000044_000001|Apropos, if you fire-and you will do so, for you are recommended to a young general who is very fond of powder-remember that in single combat, which often takes place in the cavalry, never to fire the first shot.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000044_000002|He who fires the first shot rarely hits his man, for he fires with the apprehension of being disarmed, before an armed foe; then, whilst he fires, make your horse rear; that manoeuvre has saved my life several times."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000046_000001|They are.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000046_000002|Then another important thing, Raoul: should you be wounded in a battle, and fall from your horse, if you have any strength left, disentangle yourself from the line that your regiment has formed; otherwise, it may be driven back and you will be trampled to death by the horses.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000048_000000|They arrived that very moment at the gate of the town, guarded by two sentinels.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000050_000000|"How do you make that out?" inquired Athos.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000051_000000|"By his manner, sir, and his age; he's the second to day."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000053_000000|"Faith, yes, with a haughty presence, a fine equipage; such as the son of a noble house would have."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000057_000000|The two gentlemen then went into the church.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000057_000002|A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000060_000001|The sepulchral depths of the descent were dimly lighted by a silver lamp on the lowest step; and just below this lamp there was laid, wrapped in a flowing mantle of violet velvet, worked with fleurs de lis of gold, a catafalque resting on trestles of oak.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000061_000000|There was profound silence.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000062_000000|Then Athos raised his hand and pointing to the coffin:
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000003|If Richelieu made the king, by comparison, seem small, he made royalty great.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000004|The Palace of the Louvre contains two things-the king, who must die, and royalty, which never dies.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000005|The minister, so feared, so hated by his master, has descended into the tomb, drawing after him the king, whom he would not leave alone on earth, lest his work should be destroyed.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000006|So blind were his contemporaries that they regarded the cardinal's death as a deliverance; and I, even I, opposed the designs of the great man who held the destinies of France within the hollow of his hand.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000007|Raoul, learn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000008|Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material appearance for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000009|Raoul, I seem to read your future destiny as through a cloud.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000011|Different in your fate from us, you will have a king without a minister, whom you may serve, love, respect.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000012|Should the king prove a tyrant, for power begets tyranny, serve, love, respect royalty, that Divine right, that celestial spark which makes this dust still powerful and holy, so that we-gentlemen, nevertheless, of rank and condition-are as nothing in comparison with the cold corpse there extended."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000064_000000|"I shall adore God, sir," said Raoul, "respect royalty and ever serve the king.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000064_000001|And if death be my lot, I hope to die for the king, for royalty and for God.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000064_000002|Have I, sir, comprehended your instructions?"
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000065_000000|Athos smiled.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000066_000000|"Yours is a noble nature." he said; "here is your sword."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000067_000000|Raoul bent his knee to the ground.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000068_000000|"It was worn by my father, a loyal gentleman.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000068_000002|Should your hand still be too weak to use this sword, Raoul, so much the better.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000068_000003|You will have the more time to learn to draw it only when it ought to be used."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000069_000001|I will wear it, I swear to you, as a grateful man should do."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000072_000000|"Adieu," faltered the count, who felt his heart die away within him; "adieu, and think of me."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000073_000000|"Oh! for ever and ever!" cried the youth; "oh!
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000078_000000|Raoul obeyed.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000079_000000|"Adieu, Raoul," said the count; "adieu, my dearest boy!"
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000080_000000|"Adieu, sir, adieu, my beloved protector."
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000081_000000|Athos waved his hand-he dared not trust himself to speak: and Raoul went away, his head uncovered.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000081_000001|Athos remained motionless, looking after him until he turned the corner of the street.
train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000082_000000|Then the count threw the bridle of his horse into the hands of a peasant, remounted the steps, went into the cathedral, there to kneel down in the darkest corner and pray.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000000_000001|The Place Royale.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000001_000000|They proceeded silently to the centre of the Place, but as at this very moment the moon had just emerged from behind a cloud, they thought they might be observed if they remained on that spot and therefore regained the shade of the lime trees.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000003_000000|After a few minutes of silent embarrassment, Athos spoke.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000005_000000|"Hear me, count," replied D'Artagnan; "instead of making compliments to each other, let us explain our conduct to each other, like men of right and honest hearts."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000006_000000|"I wish for nothing more; have you any cause of complaint against me or Monsieur d'Herblay?
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000006_000001|If so, speak out," answered Athos.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000007_000000|"I have," replied D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000007_000001|"When I saw you at your chateau at Bragelonne, I made certain proposals to you which you perfectly understood; instead of answering me as a friend, you played with me as a child; the friendship, therefore, that you boast of was not broken yesterday by the shock of swords, but by your dissimulation at your castle."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000009_000001|You ask what I have against you; I tell you.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000009_000002|And I have the same sincerity to show you, if you wish, Monsieur d'Herblay; I acted in a similar way to you and you also deceived me."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000001|"You came seeking me to make to me certain proposals, but did you make them?
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000002|No, you sounded me, nothing more.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000005|But that is all.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000009|Were you a party man?
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000010|There is no doubt of that.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000011|Well, why should not we, too, belong to a party?
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000012|You had your secret and we had ours; we didn't exchange them.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000013|So much the better; it proves that we know how to keep our secrets."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000012_000000|"And what do you find in it that is worthy of blame?" asked Aramis, haughtily.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000013_000000|The blood mounted instantly to the temples of D'Artagnan, who arose, and replied:
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000014_000000|"I consider it worthy conduct of a pupil of Jesuits."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000015_000000|On seeing D'Artagnan rise, Porthos rose also; these four men were therefore all standing at the same time, with a menacing aspect, opposite to each other.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000016_000000|Upon hearing D'Artagnan's reply, Aramis seemed about to draw his sword, when Athos prevented him.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000017_000000|"D'Artagnan," he said, "you are here to night, still infuriated by yesterday's adventure.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000019_000002|However, because I was prudent you must not take me for a fool.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000020_000000|"What are you meddling with?" cried Aramis, pale with anger, suspecting that D'Artagnan had acted as a spy on him and had seen him with Madame de Longueville.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000022_000000|Porthos, who had not spoken one word, answered merely by a word and a gesture.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000024_000000|Aramis started back and drew his.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000024_000001|D'Artagnan bent forward, ready either to attack or to stand on his defense.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000025_000000|Athos at that moment extended his hand with the air of supreme command which characterized him alone, drew out his sword and the scabbard at the same time, broke the blade in the sheath on his knee and threw the pieces to his right.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000025_000001|Then turning to Aramis:
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000026_000000|"Aramis," he said, "break your sword."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000027_000000|Aramis hesitated.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000028_000000|"It must be done," said Athos; then in a lower and more gentle voice, he added.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000028_000001|"I wish it."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000029_000000|Then Aramis, paler than before, but subdued by these words, snapped the serpent blade between his hands, and then folding his arms, stood trembling with rage.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000030_000000|These proceedings made D'Artagnan and Porthos draw back.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000030_000001|D'Artagnan did not draw his sword; Porthos put his back into the sheath.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000000|"Never!" exclaimed Athos, raising his right hand to Heaven, "never!
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000001|I swear before God, who seeth us, and who, in the darkness of this night heareth us, never shall my sword cross yours, never my eye express a glance of anger, nor my heart a throb of hatred, at you.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000003|D'Artagnan, I have always loved you as my son; Porthos, we slept six years side by side; Aramis is your brother as well as mine, and Aramis has once loved you, as I love you now and as I have ever loved you.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000007|I repeat my words, Aramis, and then, if you desire it, and if they desire it, let us separate forever from our old friends."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000033_000000|"I swear," he said, with a calm brow and kindly glance, but in a voice still trembling with recent emotion, "I swear that I no longer bear animosity to those who were once my friends.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000033_000001|I regret that I ever crossed swords with you, Porthos; I swear not only that it shall never again be pointed at your breast, but that in the bottom of my heart there will never in future be the slightest hostile sentiment; now, Athos, come."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000034_000000|Athos was about to retire.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000037_000000|"And as for me," said Porthos, "I swear nothing, but I'm choked. Forsooth!
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000000|"My friends," said Athos, "this is what I expected from such hearts as yours.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000001|Yes, I have said it and I now repeat it: our destinies are irrevocably united, although we now pursue divergent roads.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000002|I respect your convictions, and whilst we fight for opposite sides, let us remain friends.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000003|Ministers, princes, kings, will pass away like mountain torrents; civil war, like a forest flame; but we-we shall remain; I have a presentiment that we shall."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000042_000000|"You speak charmingly," said Porthos.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000043_000000|"And are the first of men!" added D'Artagnan.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000043_000001|"You excel us all."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000044_000000|Athos smiled with ineffable pleasure.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000045_000001|Gentlemen, your hands; are we not pretty good Christians?"
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000046_000000|"Egad!" said D'Artagnan, "by Heaven! yes."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000047_000000|"We should be so on this occasion, if only to be faithful to our oath," said Aramis.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000048_000001|Devil take me if I've ever been so happy as at this moment."
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000049_000000|And he wiped his eyes, still moist.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000051_000000|Aramis smiled and drew from his vest a cross of diamonds, which was hung around his neck by a chain of pearls.
train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000052_000000|"Well," resumed Athos, "swear on this cross, which, in spite of its magnificent material, is still a cross; swear to be united in spite of everything, and forever, and may this oath bind us to each other, and even, also, our descendants!
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000000|FAR away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter named Eliza.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000001|The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast and a sword by his side.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000003|Their sister Eliza sat on a little stool of plate glass, and had a book full of pictures which had cost as much as half a kingdom.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000005|Their father, who was King of the country, married a very wicked Queen who did not love the poor children at all. They knew this from the very first day after the wedding.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000007|The week after she sent little Eliza into the country to a peasant and his wife, and then she told the King so many untrue things about the young princes that he gave himself no more trouble respecting them.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000000|"Go out into the world and get your own living," said the Queen.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000002|Then, with a strange cry, they flew through the windows of the palace, over the park, to the forest beyond.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000004|They hovered over the roof, twisted their long necks, and flapped their wings; but no one heard them or saw them, so they were at last obliged to fly away, high up in the clouds; and over the wide world they flew till they came to a thick, dark wood, which stretched far away to the seashore.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000005|Poor little Eliza was alone in her room playing with a green leaf, for she had no other playthings, and she pierced a hole through the leaf and looked through it at the sun, and it was as if she saw her brothers' clear eyes, and when the warm sun shone on her cheeks she thought of all the kisses they had given her.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000007|At fifteen she returned home, but when the Queen saw how beautiful she was, she became full of spite and hatred toward her.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000009|Early one morning the Queen went into the bathroom; it was built of marble, and had soft cushions trimmed with the most beautiful tapestry.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000012|As Eliza dipped her head under the water one of the toads sat on her hair, a second on her forehead, and a third on her breast, but she did not seem to notice them, and when she rose out of the water there were three red poppies floating upon it.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000016|When the wicked Queen saw this, she rubbed her face with walnut juice, so that she was quite brown; then she tangled her beautiful hair and smeared it with disgusting ointment, till it was quite impossible to recognize the beautiful Eliza.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000000|When her father saw her, he was much shocked and declared she was not his daughter.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000001|No one but the watchdog and the swallows knew her, and they were only dumb animals and could say nothing.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000002|Then poor Eliza wept, and thought of her eleven brothers who were all away.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000006|All nature was still, and the soft, mild air fanned her forehead.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000007|The light of hundreds of glowworms shone amidst the grass and the moss, like green fire; and if she touched a twig with her hand ever so lightly, the brilliant fireflies fell down around her like shooting stars.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000004_000002|She saw them writing with their diamond pencils on golden slates, while she looked at the beautiful picture book which had cost half a kingdom.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000004_000004|In the picture book, too, everything was living.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000001|There was a sweet fragrance from the fresh verdure, and the birds almost perched upon her shoulders.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000002|She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing into a lake with golden sands. Bushes grew thickly around the lake, and at one spot an opening had been made by a deer, through which Eliza went down to the water.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000007|She thought of her brothers, and felt sure that God would not forsake her.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000008|It is God who makes the wild apples grow in the wood to satisfy the hungry, and He now led her to one of these trees, which was so loaded with fruit that the boughs bent beneath its weight.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000007_000006|Glass, iron, stones, everything that lay there mingled together, had taken its shape from the same power, and felt as smooth, or even smoother, than her own delicate hand.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000007_000027|Two days longer we can remain here, and then must we fly away to a beautiful land which is not our home; and how can we take you with us?
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000008_000003|Toward evening the rest came back, and as the sun went down they resumed their natural forms.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000008_000006|Have you courage to go with us?
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000002|It was very large and strong.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000003|Eliza laid herself down on the net, and when the sun rose and her brothers again became wild swans, they took up the net with their beaks and flew up to the clouds with their dear sister, who still slept. The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared over her head, so that his broad wing might shade her.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000006|By her side lay a branch full of beautiful ripe berries and a bundle of sweet roots; the youngest of her brothers had gathered them for her, and placed them by her side.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000010|Altogether it formed a more beautiful picture than she had ever seen; but as the sun rose higher, and the clouds were left behind, the shadowy picture vanished away.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000015|When the sun set they would change to men, fall into the sea, and be drowned.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000016|Then she offered a prayer from her inmost heart, but still no appearance of the rock.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000021|They sank so rapidly that at the moment their feet touched the rock the sun shone only like a star, and at last disappeared like the last spark in a piece of burned paper.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000023|There was but just room enough for them, and not the smallest space to spare.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000025|The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000036|So there continued to pass before her eyes a constant change of scene, till at last she saw the real land to which they were bound, with its blue mountains, its cedar forests, and its cities and palaces.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000010_000007|These you must gather even while they burn blisters on your hands.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000010_000008|Break them to pieces with your hands and feet, and they will become flax, from which you must spin and weave eleven coats with long sleeves; if these are then thrown over the eleven swans the spell will be broken.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000010_000010|The first word you utter will pierce through the hearts of your brothers like a deadly dagger. Their lives hang upon your tongue.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000004|So she bruised the nettles with her bare feet and spun the flax.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000005|At sunset her brothers returned and were very much frightened when they found her dumb.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000008|She kept at her work all night, for she could not rest till she had released her dear brothers.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000009|During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absent, she sat in solitude, but never before had the time flown so quickly.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000011|The sound came nearer and nearer; she heard the dogs barking, and fled with terror into the cave.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000013|Immediately a great dog came bounding toward her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000014|In a very few minutes all the huntsmen stood before the cave, and the handsomest of them was the King of the country.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000012_000001|But Eliza shook her head.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000012_000002|She dared not speak, at the cost of her brothers' lives.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000000|"Come with me," he said; "here you cannot remain.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000001|If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk and velvet, I will place a golden crown on your head, and you shall dwell and rule and make your home in my richest castle." And then he lifted her on his horse.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000009|She looked the very picture of grief.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000010|Then the King opened the door of a little chamber in which she was to sleep; it was adorned with rich green tapestry, and resembled the cave in which he had found her.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000012|These things had been brought away from the cave as curiosities by one of the huntsmen.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000014_000000|"Here you can dream yourself back again in the old home in the cave," said the King; "here is the work with which you employed yourself.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000001|She thought of her brothers, and their release made her so joyful that she kissed the King's hand.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000004|Then the archbishop whispered wicked words in the King's ear, but they did not sink into his heart.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000009|But she loved the kind, handsome King, who did everything to make her happy, more and more each day; she loved him with her whole heart, and her eyes beamed with the love she dared not speak.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000010|Oh, if she had only been able to confide in him and tell him of her grief!
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000012|Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had been decked out to look like the cave, and quickly wove one coat after another.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000015|How should she get out there?
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000017|"I must venture; I shall not be denied help from heaven." Then with a trembling heart, as if she were about to perform a wicked deed, she crept into the garden in the broad moonlight, and passed through the narrow walks and the deserted streets till she reached the churchyard.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000019|These hideous creatures took off their rags, as if they intended to bathe, and then, clawing open the grassy graves with their long skinny fingers, pulled out the bones and threw them about!
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000022|Now he thought his opinion was evidently correct.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000023|All was not right with the Queen.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000001|From day to day his brow became darker, and Eliza saw it and did not understand the reason, but it alarmed her and made her heart tremble for her brothers.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000005|She thought with terror of the solitary walk, and of the horrible ghouls, but her will was firm, as well as her trust in Providence.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000007|They saw her vanish through the wicket gate into the churchyard, and when they came nearer they saw the ghouls sitting on the tombstone as Eliza had seen them, and the King turned away his head, for he thought she was with them-she whose head had rested on his breast that very evening.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000008|"The people must condemn her," said he, and she was very quickly condemned by everyone to suffer death by fire.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000015|The archbishop withdrew, uttering bitter words against her; but poor Eliza knew that she was innocent, and diligently continued her work.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000000|It was still twilight and at least an hour before sunrise when the eleven brothers stood at the castle gate and demanded to be brought before the King.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000001|They were told it could not be, it was yet almost night, and as the King slept they dared not disturb him.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000002|They threatened, they entreated.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000003|Then the guard appeared, and even the King himself, inquiring what all the noise meant.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000000|And now all the people came streaming forth from the gates of the city to see the witch burned.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000001|An old horse drew the cart on which she sat They had dressed her in a garment of coarse sackcloth.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000002|Her lovely hair hung loose on her shoulders, her cheeks were deadly pale, her lips moved silently, while her fingers still worked at the green flax.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000003|Even on the way to death she would not give up her task.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000004|The ten coats of mail lay at her feet, she was working hard at the eleventh, while the mob jeered her and said, "See the witch, how she mutters!
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000006|She sits there with her ugly sorcery.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000007|Let us tear it in a thousand pieces."
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000021_000000|And then they pressed toward her, and would have destroyed the coats of mail, but at the same moment eleven wild swans flew over her and alighted on the cart.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000021_000001|Then they flapped their large wings and the crowd drew on one side in alarm.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000023_000000|As the executioner seized her by the hand to lift her out of the cart, she hastily threw the eleven coats of mail over the swans, and they immediately became eleven handsome princes; but the youngest had a swan's wing instead of an arm, for she had not been able to finish the last sleeve of the coat.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000024_000000|"Now I may speak!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000024_000001|"I am innocent."
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000000|"Yes, she is innocent," said the eldest brother; and then he related all that had taken place, and while he spoke there rose in the air a fragrance as from millions of flowers.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000001|Every piece of fagot in the pile had taken root, and thrown out branches, and appeared a thick hedge, large and high, covered with roses, while above all bloomed a white and shining blossom that glittered like a star.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000002|This flower the King plucked and placed in Eliza's bosom, when she awoke from her swoon with peace and happiness in her heart.
train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000003|And all the church bells rang of themselves and the birds came in great troops.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000004_000000|Chapter twenty three
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000005_000000|Dinner Time
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000006_000001|But mr Mills, the butler, assured him that Captain Donnithorne had given particular orders about it, and would be very angry if Adam was not there.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000008_000000|"Nay, nay, lad," said Seth, "thy honour's our honour; and if thee get'st respect, thee'st won it by thy own deserts.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000010_000000|"Well, thee canst say thee wast ordered to come without being told the reason.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000010_000001|That's the truth.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000011_000000|Adam was not the only guest invited to come upstairs on other grounds than the amount he contributed to the rent roll.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000011_000001|There were other people in the two parishes who derived dignity from their functions rather than from their pocket, and of these Bartle Massey was one.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000011_000003|Opportunities of getting to Hetty's side would be sure to turn up in the course of the day, and Adam contented himself with that for he disliked any risk of being "joked" about Hetty-the big, outspoken, fearless man was very shy and diffident as to his love making.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000013_000000|"Ah!" said Bartle, pausing, with one hand on his back.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000013_000001|"Then there's something in the wind-there's something in the wind.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000013_000002|Have you heard anything about what the old squire means to do?"
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000014_000000|"Why, yes," said Adam; "I'll tell you what I know, because I believe you can keep a still tongue in your head if you like, and I hope you'll not let drop a word till it's common talk, for I've particular reasons against its being known."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000015_000000|"Trust to me, my boy, trust to me.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000015_000002|If you trust a man, let him be a bachelor-let him be a bachelor."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000016_000002|But if anybody asks any questions upstairs, just you take no notice, and turn the talk to something else, and I'll be obliged to you.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000017_000000|"I know what to do, never fear," said Bartle, moving on.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000017_000001|"The news will be good sauce to my dinner.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000017_000002|Aye, aye, my boy, you'll get on.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000018_000000|When they got upstairs, the question which Arthur had left unsettled, as to who was to be president, and who vice, was still under discussion, so that Adam's entrance passed without remark.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000019_000001|I wasn't butler fifteen year without learning the rights and the wrongs about dinner."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000024_000000|"Why, the broadest man," said Bartle; "and then he won't take up other folks' room; and the next broadest must sit at bottom."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000025_000000|This happy mode of settling the dispute produced much laughter-a smaller joke would have sufficed for that mr Casson, however, did not feel it compatible with his dignity and superior knowledge to join in the laugh, until it turned out that he was fixed on as the second broadest man.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000025_000001|Martin Poyser the younger, as the broadest, was to be president, and mr Casson, as next broadest, was to be vice.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000026_000000|Owing to this arrangement, Adam, being, of course, at the bottom of the table, fell under the immediate observation of mr Casson, who, too much occupied with the question of precedence, had not hitherto noticed his entrance.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000026_000001|mr Casson, we have seen, considered Adam "rather lifted up and peppery like": he thought the gentry made more fuss about this young carpenter than was necessary; they made no fuss about mr Casson, although he had been an excellent butler for fifteen years.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000028_000000|"No, mr Casson," said Adam, in his strong voice, that could be heard along the table; "I've never dined here before, but I come by Captain Donnithorne's wish, and I hope it's not disagreeable to anybody here."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000029_000000|"Nay, nay," said several voices at once, "we're glad ye're come.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000030_000001|"That's a song I'm uncommon fond on."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000031_000001|I've never cared about singing myself; I've had something better to do.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000031_000003|But a second cousin o' mine, a drovier, was a rare hand at remembering the Scotch tunes.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000031_000004|He'd got nothing else to think on."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000032_000001|They're fit for nothing but to frighten the birds with-that's to say, the English birds, for the Scotch birds may sing Scotch for what I know.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000034_000000|"Why, the Scotch tunes are just like a scolding, nagging woman," Bartle went on, without deigning to notice mr Craig's remark.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000035_000000|Adam minded the less about sitting by mr Casson, because this position enabled him to see Hetty, who was not far off him at the next table. Hetty, however, had not even noticed his presence yet, for she was giving angry attention to Totty, who insisted on drawing up her feet on to the bench in antique fashion, and thereby threatened to make dusty marks on Hetty's pink and white frock.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000035_000001|No sooner were the little fat legs pushed down than up they came again, for Totty's eyes were too busy in staring at the large dishes to see where the plum pudding was for her to retain any consciousness of her legs.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000035_000002|Hetty got quite out of patience, and at last, with a frown and pout, and gathering tears, she said, "Oh dear, Aunt, I wish you'd speak to Totty; she keeps putting her legs up so, and messing my frock."
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000000|Adam was looking at Hetty, and saw the frown, and pout, and the dark eyes seeming to grow larger with pettish half gathered tears.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000002|And it was quite true that if Hetty had been plain, she would have looked very ugly and unamiable at that moment, and no one's moral judgment upon her would have been in the least beguiled.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000003|But really there was something quite charming in her pettishness: it looked so much more like innocent distress than ill humour; and the severe Adam felt no movement of disapprobation; he only felt a sort of amused pity, as if he had seen a kitten setting up its back, or a little bird with its feathers ruffled.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000004|He could not gather what was vexing her, but it was impossible to him to feel otherwise than that she was the prettiest thing in the world, and that if he could have his way, nothing should ever vex her any more.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000005|And presently, when Totty was gone, she caught his eye, and her face broke into one of its brightest smiles, as she nodded to him.
train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000006|It was a bit of flirtation-she knew Mary Burge was looking at them.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000003_000001|He liked to feel his own importance, and besides that, he cared a great deal for the good will of these people: he was fond of thinking that they had a hearty, special regard for him.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000003_000002|The pleasure he felt was in his face as he said, "My grandfather and I hope all our friends here have enjoyed their dinner, and find my birthday ale good.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000000|Hereupon a glorious shouting, a rapping, a jingling, a clattering, and a shouting, with plentiful da capo, pleasanter than a strain of sublimest music in the ears that receive such a tribute for the first time.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000001|Arthur had felt a twinge of conscience during mr Poyser's speech, but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000002|Did he not deserve what was said of him on the whole?
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000003|If there was something in his conduct that Poyser wouldn't have liked if he had known it, why, no man's conduct will bear too close an inspection; and Poyser was not likely to know it; and, after all, what had he done?
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000004|Gone a little too far, perhaps, in flirtation, but another man in his place would have acted much worse; and no harm would come-no harm should come, for the next time he was alone with Hetty, he would explain to her that she must not think seriously of him or of what had passed.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000005|It was necessary to Arthur, you perceive, to be satisfied with himself.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000006|Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future, which can be formed so rapidly that he had time to be uncomfortable and to become easy again before mr Poyser's slow speech was finished, and when it was time for him to speak he was quite light-hearted.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000006_000001|In the course of things we may expect that, if I live, I shall one day or other be your landlord; indeed, it is on the ground of that expectation that my grandfather has wished me to celebrate this day and to come among you now; and I look forward to this position, not merely as one of power and pleasure for myself, but as a means of benefiting my neighbours.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000006_000005|But the pleasure I feel in having my own health drunk by you would not be perfect if we did not drink the health of my grandfather, who has filled the place of both parents to me.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000000|Perhaps there was no one present except mr Irwine who thoroughly understood and approved Arthur's graceful mode of proposing his grandfather's health.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000002|But the toast could not be rejected and when it had been drunk, Arthur said, "I thank you, both for my grandfather and myself; and now there is one more thing I wish to tell you, that you may share my pleasure about it, as I hope and believe you will.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000005|I'm proud to say that I was very fond of Adam when I was a little boy, and I have never lost my old feeling for him-I think that shows that I know a good fellow when I find him.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000006|It has long been my wish that he should have the management of the woods on the estate, which happen to be very valuable, not only because I think so highly of his character, but because he has the knowledge and the skill which fit him for the place.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000010|I know you have all reason to love him, but no one of his parishioners has so much reason as i Come, charge your glasses, and let us drink to our excellent rector-three times three!"
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000008_000001|The superior refinement of his face was much more striking than that of Arthur's when seen in comparison with the people round them.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000009_000000|"This is not the first time, by a great many," he said, "that I have had to thank my parishioners for giving me tokens of their goodwill, but neighbourly kindness is among those things that are the more precious the older they get.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000009_000005|That feeling is his value and respect for Adam Bede.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000009_000008|He is one of those to whom honour is due, and his friends should delight to honour him.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000010_000000|As mr Irwine paused, Arthur jumped up and, filling his glass, said, "A bumper to Adam Bede, and may he live to have sons as faithful and clever as himself!"
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000011_000000|No hearer, not even Bartle Massey, was so delighted with this toast as mr Poyser.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000011_000001|"Tough work" as his first speech had been, he would have started up to make another if he had not known the extreme irregularity of such a course.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000011_000003|If Jonathan Burge and a few others felt less comfortable on the occasion, they tried their best to look contented, and so the toast was drunk with a goodwill apparently unanimous.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000012_000000|Adam was rather paler than usual when he got up to thank his friends.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000012_000002|But he felt no shyness about speaking, not being troubled with small vanity or lack of words; he looked neither awkward nor embarrassed, but stood in his usual firm upright attitude, with his head thrown a little backward and his hands perfectly still, in that rough dignity which is peculiar to intelligent, honest, well built workmen, who are never wondering what is their business in the world.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000013_000000|"I'm quite taken by surprise," he said.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000013_000008|And as to this new employment I've taken in hand, I'll only say that I took it at Captain Donnithorne's desire, and that I'll try to fulfil his expectations.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000014_000002|There was none of the strong ale here, of course, but wine and dessert-sparkling gooseberry for the young ones, and some good sherry for the mothers.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000017_000000|"What! you think you could have made it better for him?" said mr Irwine, laughing.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000018_000000|"Well, sir, when I want to say anything, I can mostly find words to say it in, thank God.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000019_000000|"I'm sure I never saw a prettier party than this," Arthur said, looking round at the apple cheeked children.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000019_000001|"My aunt and the Miss Irwines will come up and see you presently.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000019_000002|They were afraid of the noise of the toasts, but it would be a shame for them not to see you at table."
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000020_000001|Arthur did not venture to stop near Hetty, but merely bowed to her as he passed along the opposite side.
train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000020_000002|The foolish child felt her heart swelling with discontent; for what woman was ever satisfied with apparent neglect, even when she knows it to be the mask of love?
train-clean-360/2758/161217/2758_161217_000002_000000|THE HARPIES.
train-clean-360/2758/161217/2758_161217_000013_000001|In their hands they bear either a dagger, scourge, torch, or serpent.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000003_000000|In a little village that stood on a wide plain, where you could see the sun from the moment he rose to the moment he set, there lived two couples side by side.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000003_000001|The men, who worked under the same master, were quite good friends, but the wives were always quarrelling, and the subject they quarrelled most about was-which of the two had the stupidest husband.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000004_000000|Unlike most women-who think that anything that belongs to them must be better than what belongs to anyone else-each thought her husband the more foolish of the two.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000005_000001|'He puts on the baby's frock upside down, and, one day, I found him trying to feed her with boiling soup, and her mouth was scalded for days after. Then he picks up stones in the road and sows them instead of potatoes, and one day he wanted to go into the garden from the top window, because he declared it was a shorter way than through the door.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000006_000000|'That is bad enough, of course,' answered the other; 'but it is really NOTHING to what I have to endure every day from MY husband.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000006_000001|If, when I am busy, I ask him to go and feed the poultry, he is certain to give them some poisonous stuff instead of their proper food, and when I visit the yard next I find them all dead.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000006_000002|Once he even took my best bonnet, when I had gone away to my sick mother, and when I came back I found he had given it to the hen to lay her eggs in.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000008_000000|So, about the time that she expected her husband home from work, she got out her spinning wheel, and sat busily turning it, taking care not even to look up from her work when the man came in.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000008_000001|For some minutes he stood with his mouth open watching her, and as she still remained silent, he said at last:
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000010_000000|'YOU may think that there is nothing on it,' answered she, 'but I can assure you that there is a large skein of wool, so fine that nobody can see it, which will be woven into a coat for you.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000011_000000|'Dear me!' he replied, 'what a clever wife I have got!
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000012_000001|At last she got up, and said to her husband: 'I am too tired to finish it to night, so I shall go to bed, and to morrow I shall only have the cutting and stitching to do.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000013_000000|So the next morning she got up early, and after she had cleaned her house, and fed her chickens, and put everything in its place again, she bent over the kitchen table, and the sound of her big scissors might be heard snip!
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000013_000001|snap! as far as the garden.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000013_000002|Her husband could not see anything to snip at; but then he was so stupid that was not surprising!
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000014_000000|After the cutting came the sewing.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000017_000000|'That is because it is so fine,' answered she; 'you do not want it to be as thick as the rough clothes you wear every day.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000018_000000|He DID, but was ashamed to say so, and only answered: 'Well, I am sure it must be beautiful since you say so, and I shall be smarter than anyone in the whole village.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000018_000001|"What a splendid coat!" they will exclaim when they see me.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000019_000000|Meanwhile the other wife was not idle.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000020_000000|'Why do you stare at me so?
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000020_000001|Is there anything the matter?' asked he.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000021_000000|'Oh! go to bed at once,' she cried; 'you must be very ill indeed to look like that!'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000022_000000|The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well that evening; but the moment his wife spoke he became quite certain that he had something dreadful the matter with him, and grew quite pale.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000026_000000|'Oh, bad; very bad indeed,' answered he; 'I have not slept for a moment. Can you think of nothing to make me better?'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000027_000001|'I will get some dried herbs and make you a drink, but I am very much afraid that it is too late.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000027_000002|Why did you not tell me before?'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000028_000000|'I thought perhaps the pain would go off in a day or two; and, besides, I did not want to make you unhappy,' answered the man, who was by this time quite sure he had been suffering tortures, and had borne them like a hero.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000028_000001|'Of course, if I had had any idea how ill I really was, I should have spoken at once.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000029_000000|'Well, well, I will see what can be done,' said the wife, 'but talking is not good for you.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000029_000001|Lie still, and keep yourself warm.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000030_000000|All that day the man lay in bed, and whenever his wife entered the room and asked him, with a shake of the head, how he felt, he always replied that he was getting worse.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000030_000001|At last, in the evening, she burst into tears, and when he inquired what was the matter, she sobbed out:
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000031_000000|'Oh, my poor, poor husband, are you really dead?
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000031_000001|I must go to morrow and order your coffin.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000033_000001|Indeed, I think I shall go out to work.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000034_000000|'You will do no such thing,' replied his wife.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000034_000001|'Just keep quite quiet, for before the sun rises you will be a dead man.'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000035_000000|The man was very frightened at her words, and lay absolutely still while the undertaker came and measured him for his coffin; and his wife gave orders to the gravedigger about his grave.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000035_000001|That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o'clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker's men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000035_000002|Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman's husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000037_000001|Then they rushed with one accord to the coffin, and lifted the lid so that the man could step out amongst them.
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000038_000001|'And if not, why did you let yourself be buried?'
train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000039_000000|At this the wives both confessed that they had each wished to prove that her husband was stupider than the other.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000003_000000|Long, long ago, in the days when fairies, witches, giants and ogres still visited the earth, there lived a king who reigned over a great and beautiful country.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000003_000001|He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children-a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000004_000000|The king and queen were very anxious to bring their children up well, and the young prince and princess were taught everything likely to make them clever and accomplished.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000005_000000|Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open air life, and from his earliest childhood he had longed to live entirely in the forest close by.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000006_000000|'Now,' said he to his sister, 'I will have the trees hollowed out, and then I will make rooms in them and furnish them so that I shall be able to live out in the forest.'
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000007_000000|'Oh, Asmund!' exclaimed Signy, 'what a delightful idea!
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000007_000002|I will bring all my pretty things and ornaments, and the trees are so near home we shall be quite safe in them.'
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000009_000000|Unfortunately sadder days were to come.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000009_000002|During his absence the queen fell ill, and after lingering for some time she died, to the great grief of her children.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000010_000000|Now, I must tell you, in another country a long way off, there reigned a king who had an only son named Ring.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000010_000001|Prince Ring had heard so much about the beauty and goodness of Princess Signy that he determined to marry her if possible.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000010_000002|So he begged his father to let him have a ship for the voyage, set sail with a favourable wind, and after a time landed in the country where Signy lived.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000011_000000|The prince lost no time in setting out for the royal palace, and on his way there he met such a wonderfully lovely woman that he felt he had never seen such beauty in all his life.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000012_000000|'I am Signy, the king's daughter,' was the reply.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000014_000000|Ring was quite deceived by her, and never guessed that she was not Princess Signy at all, but a strong, gigantic, wicked witch bent on deceiving him under a beautiful shape.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000015_000000|The witch listened to all he said and, much pleased, ended by accepting his offer; but she begged him to return to his ship for a little while as she wished to go some way further into the forest, promising to join him later on.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000017_000000|Here she resumed her own gigantic shape, tore up the trees by their roots, threw one of them over her back and clasped the other to her breast, carried them down to the shore and waded out with them to the ship.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000018_000000|She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directly she got on board she once more changed to her former lovely appearance and told the prince that her luggage was now all on board, and that they need wait for nothing more.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000019_000000|The prince gave orders to set sail at once, and after a fine voyage landed in his own country, where his parents and his only sister received him with the greatest joy and affection.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000021_000000|'Yes,' said she, quite pleased, 'I am quite ready to marry you whenever you like.'
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000022_000000|'Then,' replied Ring, 'let us decide on this day fortnight.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000022_000001|And see, I have brought you some stuff to make your wedding dress of.' So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000023_000000|The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper shape and tore about the room, raging and storming and flinging the beautiful silk on the floor.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000024_000000|'What was SHE to do with such things?' she roared.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000025_000002|The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the chest was quite empty the giant put it on his shoulder and disappeared as he had come, without leaving any trace of his visit.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000026_000000|But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at the rich brocade as if she wanted to destroy it, stamping about and shouting angrily.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000027_000000|Now, all this time Prince Asmund and his sister sat in their trees just outside the window and saw all that was going on.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000029_000000|'I will try,' said Signy; 'it won't be an easy matter, but it's worth while taking some trouble to have a little peace.'
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000030_000000|So she watched for an opportunity and managed to carry off the brocade the first time the witch left her room.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000030_000001|Then she set to work, cutting out and sewing as best she could, and by the end of six days she had turned it into an elegant robe with a long train and a mantle.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000030_000002|When it was finished she climbed to the top of her tree and contrived to throw the clothes on to a table through the open window.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000031_000001|The next time Prince Ring came to see her she gave them to him, and he paid her many compliments on her skilful work, after which he took leave of her in the most friendly manner.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000031_000002|But he had scarcely left the house when the witch began to rage as furiously as ever, and never stopped till her brother Ironhead appeared.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000032_000001|He went to Prince Ring and said: 'Do come with me and see the strange things that are happening in the new princess's room.'
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000033_000000|The prince was not a little surprised, but he consented to hide himself with Asmund behind the panelling of the room, from where they could see all that went on through a little slit.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000033_000001|The witch was raving and roaring as usual, and said to her brother:
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000034_000000|'Once I am married to the king's son I shall be better off than now. I shall take care to have all that pack of courtiers put to death, and then I shall send for all my relations to come and live here instead. I fancy the giants will enjoy themselves very much with me and my husband.'
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000036_000001|The prince was quite astonished at them and at all their contents, but still more so at the extreme beauty of Signy.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000036_000002|He fell in love with her at once, and entreated her to marry him, which, after a time, she consented to do.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000036_000003|Asmund, on his side, asked for the hand of Prince Ring's sister, which was gladly granted him, and the double wedding was celebrated with great rejoicings.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000037_000000|After this Prince Asmund and his bride returned to his country to live with the king his father.
train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000037_000002|And that is the end of the story.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000003_000000|"He would have taught you how you might employ Yourself; and many did to him repair, And, certes, not in vain; he had inventions rare." --WORDSWORTH.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000004_000001|These were from the public schools of the city.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000005_000001|Nearly all of the pupils, who were from ten to sixteen years of age, acquired two or three, if not all, of these arts, and then very easily found employment in factories or fabrics, etc
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000006_000000|Many people believed that this was all waste of money and time, and, quite unknown to me, at their instigation an inquiry was made of all the teachers in the public schools as to the standing of my art pupils in their other classes, it being confidently anticipated that they would be found to have fallen behind.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000006_000001|And the result of the investigation was that the two hundred were in advance of the one hundred and ten thousand in every branch-geography, arithmetic, history, and so on.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000007_000000|It was not remarkable, because boys and girls who had, at an average age of twelve or thirteen, learned the principles of design and its practical application to several kinds of handiwork, and knew the differences and characteristics of Gothic, Arabesque, or Greek patterns, all developed a far greater intelligence in general thought and conversation than others.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000007_000001|They had at least one topic on which they could converse intelligently with any grown up person, and in which they were really superior to most.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000011_000000|The manner in which most artists form an idea, or project their minds to a plan or invention, be it a statue or picture; and the way they think it over and anticipate it-very often actually seeing the picture in a finished state in imagination-all amounts to foresight and hypnotic preparation in a crude, imperfect form.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000000|It is probable that half the general average cleverness of men is due to their having learned, as boys, games, or the art of making something, or mending and repairing.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000001|In any case, if they had learned to use their hands and their inventiveness or adaptability, they would have been the better for it.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000002|That the innumerable multitude of people who can do nothing of the kind, and who take no real interest in anything except spending money and gossiping, are to be really pitied, is true.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000003|Some of them once had minds-and these are the most pitiful or pitiable of all.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000014_000001|Those who desire to become artists, can greatly facilitate their work, if beginning for example with very simple outline decorative designs, and having learned the principles on which they are constructed, they would repeat or revise them to themselves before sleep, resolving to remember them.
train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000014_000002|The same principle is applicable to all kinds of designs, with the proviso that they be at first very easy.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000000_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000001_000000|Stephen Gresham was in his early sixties, but he could have still worn his World War one uniform without anything giving at the seams, and buckled the old Sam Browne at the same hole.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000002_000000|"Why, hello, Jeff!" he greeted the detective, grasping his hand heartily. "You haven't been around for months.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000002_000001|What have you been doing, and why don't you come out to Rosemont to see us?
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000002_000002|Dot and Irene were wondering what had become of you."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000000|"I'm afraid I've been neglecting too many of my old friends lately," Rand admitted, sitting down and getting his pipe out.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000001|"Been busy as the devil.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000002|Fact is, it was business that finally brought me around here.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000003|I understand that you and some others are forming a pool to buy the Lane Fleming collection."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000004_000000|"Yes!" Gresham became enthusiastic.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000004_000001|"Want in on it?
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000004_000003|We're going to need all the money we can scrape together, with this damned Rivers bidding against us."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000005_000000|"I'm afraid you will, at that, Stephen," Rand told him.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000005_000001|"And not necessarily on account of Rivers.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000005_000002|You see, the Fleming estate has just employed me to expertize the collection and handle the sale for them." Rand got his pipe lit and drawing properly.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000006_000002|Humphrey Goode isn't competent to handle that.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000006_000003|What we were all afraid of was a public auction at some sales gallery."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000000|Rand shook his head.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000001|"Worst thing they could do; a collection like that would go for peanuts at auction.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000003|Why, here; I'm going to be in Rosemont, staying at the Fleming place, working on the collection, for the next week or so.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000004|I suppose your crowd wouldn't want to make an offer until I have everything listed, but I'd like to talk to your associates, in a group, as soon as possible."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000008_000000|"Well, we all know pretty much what's in the collection," Gresham said. "We were neighbors of his, and collectors are a gregarious lot.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000008_000001|But we aren't anxious to make any premature offers.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000009_000002|I'm not obliged to call for sealed bids, or anything like that, so when I've heard from everybody, I'll give you a chance to bid against the highest offer in hand.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000010_000000|"Why, Jeff, I appreciate that," Gresham said.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000010_000001|"I think you're entirely within your rights, but naturally, we won't mention this outside.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000010_000002|I can imagine Arnold Rivers, for instance, taking a very righteous view of such an arrangement."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000011_000000|"Yes, so can i Of course, if he'd call me a crook, I'd take that as a compliment," Rand said.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000011_000001|"I wonder if I could meet your group, say tomorrow evening?
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000011_000002|I want to be in a position to assure the Fleming family and Humphrey Goode that you're all serious and responsible."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000001|You can look us up, if you wish.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000003|Pierre was a Marine captain, invalided home after being wounded on Peleliu; he writes science fiction for the pulps.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000004|Karen has a little general antique business in Rosemont.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000005|They intend using their share of the collection, plus such culls and duplicates as the rest of us can consign to them, to go into the arms business, with a general antique sideline, which Karen can manage while Pierre's writing....
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000006|Tell you what; I'll call a meeting at my place tomorrow evening, say at eight thirty.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000007|That suit you?"
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000013_000000|That, Rand agreed, would be all right.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000014_000000|"About two years ago; right after I got back from Germany.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000014_000001|You remember, we went there together, one evening in March."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000000|"Yes, that's right.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000001|We didn't have time to see everything," Gresham said. "My God, Jeff!
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000002|Twenty five wheel locks!
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000003|Ten snaphaunces.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000005|And about a hundred and fifty Colts, all models and most variants.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000007|He got that one in nineteen twenty four, at the Fred Hines sale, at the old Walpole Galleries.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000008|And seven Paterson Colts, including a couple of cased sets.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000010|A Hall flintlock breech loader; an Elisha Collier flintlock revolver; a pair of Forsythe detonator lock pistols....
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000011|Oh, that's a collection to end collections."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000016_000000|"By the way, Humphrey Goode showed me a pair of big ball butt wheel locks, all covered with ivory inlay," Rand mentioned.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000017_000000|Gresham laughed heartily.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000017_000001|"Aren't they the damnedest ever seen, though?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000017_000002|"Made in Germany, about eighteen seventy or 'eighty, about the time arms collecting was just getting out of the family heirloom stage, wouldn't you say?"
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000018_000000|"I'd say made in Japan, about nineteen twenty," Rand replied.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000018_000001|"Remember, there were a couple of small human figures on each pistol, a knight and a huntsman? Did you notice that they had slant eyes?" He stopped laughing, and looked at Gresham seriously.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000000|Gresham shook his head.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000001|"They're all.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000002|They were Lane Fleming's one false step.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000003|Ordinarily, Lane was a careful buyer; he must have let himself get hypnotized by all that ivory and gold, and all that documentation on crested notepaper.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000004|You know, Fleming's death was an undeserved stroke of luck for Arnold Rivers.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000005|If he hadn't been killed just when he was, he'd have run Rivers out of the old arms business."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000000|"No; the National Rifle Association stopped his ad, and lifted his membership card for good measure," Gresham said.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000001|"Rivers sold a rifle to a collector down in Virginia, about three years ago, while you were still occupying Germany.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000002|A fine, early flintlock Kentuck, that had been made out of a fine, late percussion Kentuck by sawing off the breech end of the barrel, rethreading it for the breech plug, drilling a new vent, and fitting the lock with a flint hammer and a pan and frizzen assembly, and shortening the fore end to fit.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000004|I have an example of Umholtz's craftsmanship, myself.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000005|The collector who bought this spurious flintlock spotted what had been done, and squawked to the Rifle Association, and to the postal authorities."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000022_000000|"Rivers claimed, I suppose, that he had gotten it from a family that had owned it ever since it was made, and showed letters signed 'D.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000022_000001|Boone' and 'Davy Crockett' to prove it?"
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000023_000000|"No, he claimed to have gotten it in trade from some wayfaring collector," Gresham replied.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000024_000000|"Wasn't there some talk about Whitneyville Walker Colts that had been made out of eighteen forty eight Model Colt Dragoons?" Rand asked.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000000|"Oh Lord, yes!
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000001|This fellow Umholtz was practically turning them out on an assembly line, for a while.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000003|I hate to see him prostitute his talents the way he does by making these fake antiques for Rivers.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000005|That story you find in Sawyer's book."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000026_000000|"Why, that story's been absolutely disproved," Rand said.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000027_000000|"Not till Umholtz made one," Gresham replied.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000028_000000|"This fellow who bought it, now; did he see Belden and Haven's Colt book, when it came out in nineteen forty?"
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000029_000000|"Yes, and he was plenty burned up, but what could he do?
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000029_000001|Rivers was dug in behind this innocent purchase and sale in good faith Maginot Line of his.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000029_000002|You know, that bastard took me, once, just one tenth as badly, with a fake u s North and Cheney Navy flintlock seventeen ninety nine Model that had been made out of a French seventeen seventy seven Model." The lawyer muttered obscenely.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000030_000001|"You might not have gotten anything, but you'd have given him a lot of dirty publicity. That's all Fleming was expecting to do about those wheel locks."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000031_000000|"I'm not Fleming.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000031_000001|He could afford litigation like that; I can't.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000031_000002|I want my money, and if I don't get it in cash, I'm going to beat it out of that dirty little swindler's hide," Gresham replied, an ugly look appearing on his face.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000032_000000|"I wouldn't blame you.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000033_000000|Gresham frowned.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000033_000001|"I really don't know; I didn't see it.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000034_000000|Rand nodded.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000034_000001|He was familiar with the type.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000000|"The story is that Fleming found it hanging back of the counter at some roadside lunch stand, along with a lot of other old pistols, and talked the proprietor into letting it go for a few dollars," Gresham continued. "It was supposed to have been loaded at the time, and went off while Fleming was working on it, at home." He shook his head.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000001|"I can't believe that, Jeff.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000002|Lane Fleming would know a loaded revolver when he saw one.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000003|I believe he deliberately shot himself, and the family faked the accident and fixed the authorities.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000004|The police never made any investigation; it was handled by the coroner alone.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000005|And our coroner, out in Scott County, is eminently fixable, if you go about it right; a pitiful little nonentity with a tremendous inferiority complex."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000036_000000|"But good Lord, why?" Rand demanded.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000036_000001|"I never heard of Fleming having any troubles worth killing himself over."
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000037_000001|"Jeff, I'm not supposed to talk about this, but the fact is that I believe Fleming was about to lose control of the Premix Company," he said.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000037_000003|"Lane Fleming's death is on record as accidental, Jeff.
train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000037_000004|It's been written off as such.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty seven
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000001_000000|WHAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER THE FLOOR
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000002_000000|The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap 'villa' in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood,--the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000003_000000|Atherton leaped out on to the grass grown rubble which was meant for a footpath.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000005_000000|Nor did I,--I saw nothing but what appeared to be an unoccupied ramshackle brick abomination.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000008_000000|'What do you mean?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000010_000000|He knocked.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000010_000001|While we waited for a response I questioned him.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000011_000000|'Why did you leave the door open when you went?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000012_000000|'I hardly know,--I imagine that it was with some dim idea of Marjorie's being able to get in if she returned while I was absent,--but the truth is I was in such a condition of helter skelter that I am not prepared to swear that I had any reasonable reason.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000013_000000|'I suppose there is no doubt that you did leave it open?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000015_000000|'Was it open when you returned from your pursuit of Holt?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000016_000000|'Wide open,--I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room,--I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn't there.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000018_000000|'None,--there were no signs of anything.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000018_000001|Everything was just as I had left it, with the exception of the ring which I trod on in the passage, and which Lessingham has.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000019_000000|'If Miss Lindon has returned, it does not look as if she were in the house at present.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000020_000000|It did not,--unless silence had such meaning.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000021_000000|'It strikes me that this is another case of seeking admission through that hospitable window at the back.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000022_000000|Atherton led the way to the rear.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000022_000002|There was not even an apology for a yard, still less a garden,--there was not even a fence of any sort, to serve as an enclosure, and to shut off the house from the wilderness of waste land.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000022_000003|The kitchen window was open.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000024_000000|While he spoke, he scrambled over the sill.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000024_000001|We followed.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000024_000002|When he was in, he shouted at the top of his voice,
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000025_000000|'Marjorie!
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000025_000001|Marjorie!
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000000|The words echoed through the house.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000001|Only silence answered.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000002|He led the way to the front room.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000003|Suddenly he stopped.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000000|'Hollo!' he cried.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000001|'The blind's down!' I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000002|'It was up when I went, that I'll swear.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000003|That someone has been here is pretty plain,--let's hope it's Marjorie.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000029_000000|'My stars!--here's a sudden clearance!--Why, the place is empty,-- everything's clean gone!'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000030_000000|'What do you mean?--was it furnished when you left?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000031_000000|The room was empty enough then.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000032_000001|They seem to have evaporated into smoke,--which may be a way which is common enough among Eastern curiosities, though it's queer to me.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000033_000000|Atherton was staring about him as if he found it difficult to credit the evidence of his own eyes.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000034_000000|'How long ago is it since you left?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000035_000000|He referred to his watch.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000036_000000|'Something over an hour,--possibly an hour and a half; I couldn't swear to the exact moment, but it certainly isn't more.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000037_000000|'Did you notice any signs of packing up?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000038_000000|'Not a sign.' Going to the window he drew up the blind,--speaking as he did so.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000039_000001|Sydney perceived him too.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000039_000002|He threw up the sash.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000040_000000|'What's the matter with you?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000041_000000|'Excuse me, sir, but who's the old gent?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000043_000000|'Why the old gent peeping through the window of the room upstairs?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000044_000001|I followed rather more soberly,--his methods were a little too flighty for me.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000044_000002|When I reached the landing, dashing out of the front room he rushed into the one at the back,--then through a door at the side.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000044_000003|He came out shouting.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000045_000000|'What's the idiot mean!--with his old gent!
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000045_000001|I'd old gent him if I got him!--There's not a creature about the place!'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000046_000000|He returned into the front room,--I at his heels.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000046_000001|That certainly was empty,--and not only empty, but it showed no traces of recent occupation.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000046_000002|The dust lay thick upon the floor,--there was that mouldy, earthy smell which is so frequently found in apartments which have been long untenanted.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000047_000000|'Are you sure, Atherton, that there is no one at the back?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000048_000001|Jehu's drunk.' Throwing up the sash he addressed the driver.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000048_000002|'What do you mean with your old gent at the window?--what window?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000049_000000|'That window, sir.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000050_000000|'Go to!--you're dreaming, man!--there's no one here.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000051_000000|'Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000053_000001|I saw him peeping through that bottom broken pane on your left hand as plainly as I see you.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000053_000002|He must be somewhere about,--he can't have got away,--he's at the back.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000053_000003|Ain't there a cupboard nor nothing where he could hide?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000000|The cabman's manner was so extremely earnest that I went myself to see.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000002|The room behind was small, and, despite the splintered glass in the window frame, stuffy.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000003|Fragments of glass kept company with the dust on the floor, together with a choice collection of stones, brickbats, and other missiles,--which not improbably were the cause of their being there.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000004|In the corner stood a cupboard,--but a momentary examination showed that that was as bare as the other.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000005|The door at the side, which Sydney had left wide open, opened on to a closet, and that was empty.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000006|I glanced up,--there was no trap door which led to the roof.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000007|No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000055_000000|I returned to Sydney's shoulder to tell the cabman so.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000056_000000|'There is no place in which anyone could hide, and there is no one in either of the rooms,--you must have been mistaken, driver.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000057_000000|The man waxed wroth.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000058_000000|'Don't tell me!
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000058_000001|How could I come to think I saw something when I didn't?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000059_000000|'One's eyes are apt to play us tricks;--how could you see what wasn't there?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000000|'That's what I want to know.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000004|When the gentleman took to knocking, back he came,--to the same old spot, and flopped down on his knees.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000007|But when you pulls up the blind downstairs, to my surprise back he come once more.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000008|He shoves his old nose right through the smash in the pane, and wags his old head at me like a chattering magpie.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000010|But for you to say that he wasn't there, and never had been,--blimey! that cops the biscuit.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000001|That the man was serious was unmistakable.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000002|As he himself suggested, what inducement could he have had to tell a lie like that?
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000003|That he believed himself to have seen what he declared he saw was plain.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000004|But, on the other hand, what could have become-in the space of fifty seconds!--of his 'old gent'?
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000062_000000|Atherton put a question.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000063_000000|'What did he look like,--this old gent of yours?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000064_000000|'Well, that I shouldn't hardly like to say.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000064_000001|It wasn't much of his face I could see, only his face and his eyes,--and they wasn't pretty.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000064_000002|He kept a thing over his head all the time, as if he didn't want too much to be seen.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000066_000000|'Why,--one of them cloak sort of things, like them Arab blokes used to wear what used to be at Earl's Court Exhibition,--you know!'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000067_000000|This piece of information seemed to interest my companions more than anything he had said before.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000068_000000|'A burnoose do you mean?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000069_000000|'How am I to know what the thing's called?
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000070_000000|Mr Lessingham turned to me, all quivering with excitement.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000072_000001|It is strange, to say the least of it, that the cabman should be the only person to see or hear anything of him.'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000073_000000|'Some devil's trick has been played,--I know it, I feel it!--my instinct tells me so!'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000074_000000|I stared.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000075_000000|'By the Lord, I believe the Apostle's right,--the whole place reeks to me of hankey pankey,--it did as soon as I put my nose inside.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000075_000001|In matters of prestidigitation, Champnell, we Westerns are among the rudiments,--we've everything to learn,--Orientals leave us at the post.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000076_000000|He moved towards the door.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000077_000000|'Something tripped me up,--what's this?' He was stamping on the floor with his foot.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000077_000001|'Here's a board loose.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000077_000003|Who knows what mystery's beneath?'
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000000|I went to his aid.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000002|His stepping on it unawares had caused his stumble.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000003|Together we prised it out of its place,--Lessingham standing by and watching us the while.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000004|Having removed it, we peered into the cavity it disclosed.
train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000079_000000|There was something there.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty four
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000002_000000|The Inspector spoke to me.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000003_000000|'If what the boy says is correct it sounds as if the person whom you are seeking may have had a finger in the pie.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000004_000000|I was of the same opinion, as, apparently, were Lessingham and Sidney.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000004_000001|Atherton collared the youth by the shoulder which Mr Pleesman had left disengaged.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000005_000000|'What sort of looking bloke is it who's been murdered?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000006_000003|"'Gustus Barley," she says, "a bloke's been murdered.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000006_000006|That's all I knows about it.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000007_000000|We went four in the hansom which had been waiting in the street to Mrs Henderson's in Paradise Place,--the Inspector and we three.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000007_000001|'Mr Pleesman' and ''Gustus Barley' followed on foot.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000007_000002|The Inspector was explanatory.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000008_000000|'Mrs Henderson keeps a sort of lodging house,--a "Sailors' Home" she calls it, but no one could call it sweet.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000008_000001|It doesn't bear the best of characters, and if you asked me what I thought of it, I should say in plain English that it was a disorderly house.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000001|So far as could be seen in the dark it consisted of a row of houses of considerable dimensions,--and also of considerable antiquity.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000002|They opened on to two or three stone steps which led directly into the street.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000003|At one of the doors stood an old lady with a shawl drawn over her head.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000004|This was Mrs Henderson.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000005|She greeted us with garrulous volubility.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000011_000000|Mr Phillips dismissed her inquiry, curtly.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000012_000000|'Never you mind who they are.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000013_000001|'Don't you speak so loud, Mr Phillips.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000013_000002|No one don't know nothing about it as yet.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000013_000003|The parties what's in my 'ouse is most respectable,--most! and they couldn't abide the notion of there being police about the place.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000014_000000|'We quite believe that, Mrs Henderson.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000015_000000|The Inspector's tone was grim.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000016_000000|Mrs Henderson led the way up a staircase which would have been distinctly the better for repairs.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000018_000001|I locked the door so that nothing mightn't be disturbed.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000018_000002|I knows 'ow particular you pleesmen is.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000019_000000|She turned the key.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000019_000001|We all went in-we, this time, in front, and she behind.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000000|A candle was guttering on a broken and dilapidated single washhand stand.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000001|A small iron bedstead stood by its side, the clothes on which were all tumbled and tossed.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000003|I could see nothing in the shape of a murdered man.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000004|Nor, it appeared, could the Inspector either.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000021_000001|I don't see anything here.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000023_000000|We all four went hastily forward.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000023_000001|Atherton and I went to the head of the bed, Lessingham and the Inspector, leaning right across the bed, peeped over the side.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000023_000002|There, on the floor in the space which was between the bed and the wall, lay the murdered man.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000024_000000|At sight of him an exclamation burst from Sydney's lips.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000025_000000|'It's Holt!'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000027_000000|The relief in his tone was unmistakable.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000027_000001|That the one was gone was plainly nothing to him in comparison with the fact that the other was left.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000000|Thrusting the bed more into the centre of the room I knelt down beside the man on the floor.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000001|A more deplorable spectacle than he presented I have seldom witnessed.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000003|I doubt if there was an ounce of flesh on the whole of his body.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000004|His cheeks and the sockets of his eyes were hollow.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000005|The skin was drawn tightly over his cheek bones,--the bones themselves were staring through.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000006|Even his nose was wasted, so that nothing but a ridge of cartilage remained.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000007|I put my arm beneath his shoulder and raised him from the floor; no resistance was offered by the body's gravity,--he was as light as a little child.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000029_000000|'I doubt,' I said, 'if this man has been murdered.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000029_000001|It looks to me like a case of starvation, or exhaustion,--possibly a combination of both.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000030_000000|'What's that on his neck?' asked the Inspector,--he was kneeling at my side.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000031_000000|He referred to two abrasions of the skin,--one on either side of the man's neck.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000032_000000|'They look to me like scratches.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000032_000001|They seem pretty deep, but I don't think they're sufficient in themselves to cause death.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000033_000000|'They might be, joined to an already weakened constitution.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000033_000001|Is there anything in his pockets?--let's lift him on to the bed.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000034_000000|We lifted him on to the bed,--a featherweight he was to lift.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000034_000001|While the Inspector was examining his pockets-to find them empty --a tall man with a big black beard came bustling in.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000034_000002|He proved to be Dr Glossop, the local police surgeon, who had been sent for before our quitting the Station House.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000035_000000|His first pronouncement, made as soon as he commenced his examination, was, under the circumstances, sufficiently startling.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000036_000000|'I don't believe the man's dead.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000036_000001|Why didn't you send for me directly you found him?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000037_000000|The question was put to Mrs Henderson.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000041_000000|'You'll find it a joke if you have to hang, as you ought to, you-' The doctor said what he did say to himself, under his breath.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000041_000001|I doubt if it was flattering to Mrs Henderson. 'Have you got any brandy in the house?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000043_000000|'Then send for some,--to the tap downstairs, if that's the nearest!
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000043_000001|If this man dies before you've brought it I'll have you locked up as sure as you're a living woman.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000044_000000|The arrival of the brandy was not long delayed,--but the man on the bed had regained consciousness before it came.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000044_000001|Opening his eyes he looked up at the doctor bending over him.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000045_000001|that's more like the time of day!
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000045_000002|How are you feeling?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000046_000001|Atherton bent down beside the doctor.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000047_000000|'I'm glad to see you looking better, Mr Holt.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000047_000001|You know me don't you?
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000047_000002|I've been running about after you all day long.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000048_000000|'You are-you are-' The man's eyes closed, as if the effort at recollection exhausted him.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000048_000001|He kept them closed as he continued to speak.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000049_000000|'I know who you are.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000050_000001|And I daresay you're feeling pretty well done up, and in want of something to eat and drink,--here's some brandy for you.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000000|The doctor had some in a tumbler.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000001|He raised the patient's head, allowing it to trickle down his throat.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000002|The man swallowed it mechanically, motionless, as if unconscious what it was that he was doing.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000004|The doctor laid him back upon the bed, feeling his pulse with one hand, while he stood and regarded him in silence.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000052_000000|Then, turning to the Inspector, he said to him in an undertone;
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000053_000000|'If you want him to make a statement he'll have to make it now, he's going fast.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000053_000001|You won't be able to get much out of him,--he's too far gone, and I shouldn't bustle him, but get what you can.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000054_000000|The Inspector came to the front, a notebook in his hand.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000055_000000|'I understand from this gentleman-' signifying Atherton-'that your name's Robert Holt.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000055_000001|I'm an Inspector of police, and I want you to tell me what has brought you into this condition.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000056_000001|Sydney, stooping over him, endeavoured to explain.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000057_000000|'The Inspector wants to know how you got here, has anyone been doing anything to you?
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000057_000001|Has anyone been hurting you?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000000|The man's eyelids were partially closed.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000001|Then they opened wider and wider.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000002|His mouth opened too.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000003|On his skeleton features there came a look of panic fear.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000004|He was evidently struggling to speak.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000005|At last words came.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000059_000000|'The beetle!' He stopped.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000059_000001|Then, after an effort, spoke again.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000059_000002|'The beetle!'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000060_000000|'What's he mean?' asked the Inspector.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000061_000002|Well, has the beetle done anything to you?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000062_000000|'It took me by the throat!'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000063_000000|'Is that the meaning of the marks upon your neck?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000064_000000|'The beetle killed me.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000065_000000|The lids closed.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000065_000001|The man relapsed into a state of lethargy.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000065_000002|The Inspector was puzzled;--and said so.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000066_000000|'What's he mean about a beetle?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000067_000000|Atherton replied.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000068_000000|'I think I understand what he means,--and my friends do too.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000068_000001|We'll explain afterwards.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000069_000001|There isn't much-only seconds.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000070_000000|Sydney endeavoured to rouse the man from his stupor.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000071_000000|'You've been with Miss Lindon all the afternoon and evening, haven't you, Mr Holt?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000072_000000|Atherton had reached a chord in the man's consciousness.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000072_000001|His lips moved,--in painful articulation.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000073_000000|'Yes-all the afternoon-and evening-God help me!'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000074_000000|'I hope God will help you my poor fellow; you've been in need of His help if ever man was.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000074_000001|Miss Lindon is disguised in your old clothes, isn't she?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000075_000000|'Yes,--in my old clothes.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000075_000001|My God!'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000076_000000|'And where is Miss Lindon now?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000077_000001|Now he opened them, wide; there came into them the former staring horror.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000077_000002|He became possessed by uncontrollable agitation,--half raising himself in bed.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000077_000003|Words came from his quivering lips as if they were only drawn from him by the force of his anguish.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000078_000000|'The beetle's going to kill Miss Lindon.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000079_000000|A momentary paroxysm seemed to shake the very foundations of his being.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000079_000001|His whole frame quivered.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000079_000003|The doctor examined him in silence-while we too were still.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000080_000000|'This time he's gone for good, there'll be no conjuring him back again.'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000081_000000|I felt a sudden pressure on my arm, and found that Lessingham was clutching me with probably unconscious violence.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000081_000002|He trembled.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000081_000003|I turned to the doctor.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000082_000000|'Doctor, if there is any of that brandy left will you let me have it for my friend?'
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000084_000000|The Inspector was speaking to the woman of the house.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000085_000000|'Now, Mrs Henderson, perhaps you'll tell us what all this means.
train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000085_000001|Who is this man, and how did he come in here, and who came in with him, and what do you know about it altogether?
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000001_000000|MAGNETIC ORE MILLING WORK
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000002_000000|DURING the Hudson Fulton celebration of October, nineteen o nine, Burgomaster Van Leeuwen, of Amsterdam, member of the delegation sent officially from Holland to escort the Half Moon and participate in the functions of the anniversary, paid a visit to the Edison laboratory at Orange to see the inventor, who may be regarded as pre-eminent among those of Dutch descent in this country.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000004_000001|In other words, mr Edison was at least a quarter of a century ahead of the times in the work now to be considered.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000005_000004|During the twenty eight years that have intervened it has never come back." This incident was really the prelude to the development set forth in this chapter.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000006_000001|This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000006_000002|Hence the iron and steel mills east of the Alleghanies-compelled to rely on limited local deposits of Bessemer ore, and upon foreign ores which were constantly rising in value-began to sustain a serious competition with Western mills, even in Eastern markets.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000007_000002|To pay railroad charges on ores carrying perhaps eighty to ninety per cent. of useless material would be prohibitive.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000007_000003|Hence the elimination of the worthless "gangue" by concentration of the iron particles associated with it, seemed to be the only solution of the problem.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000008_000000|Many attempts had been made in by gone days to concentrate the iron in such ores by water processes, but with only a partial degree of success. The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000008_000003|At the time he took up the matter, however, no one seems to have realized the full meaning of the tremendous problems involved.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000000|From eighteen eighty to eighteen eighty five, while still very busy in the development of his electric light system, Edison found opportunity to plan crushing and separating machinery.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000001|His first patent on the subject was applied for and issued early in eighteen eighty.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000003|It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high grade ore.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000005|It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000010_000000|Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000010_000003|The non magnetic gangue descends in a straight line to the other side of the partition.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000010_000004|Thus a complete separation is effected.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000011_000000|Simple though the principle appears, it was in its application to vast masses of material and in the solving of great engineering problems connected therewith that Edison's originality made itself manifest in the concentrating works that he established in New Jersey, early in the nineties.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000011_000002|These are too numerous to specify in detail, as they extended throughout the various ramifications of the plant, but the principal ones are worthy of mention, such as:
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000013_000001|His genius as an inventor is revealed in many details of the great concentrating plant....
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000014_000000|A cursory glance at these problems will reveal their import.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000000|"I knew it was a commercial problem to produce high grade Bessemer ore from these deposits, and took steps to acquire a large amount of the property.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000001|I also planned a great magnetic survey of the East, and I believe it remains the most comprehensive of its kind yet performed.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000002|I had a number of men survey a strip reaching from Lower Canada to North Carolina.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000003|The only instrument we used was the special magnetic needle. We started in Lower Canada and travelled across the line of march twenty five miles; then advanced south one thousand feet; then back across the line of march again twenty five miles; then south another thousand feet, across again, and so on.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000004|Thus we advanced all the way to North Carolina, varying our cross-country march from two to twenty five miles, according to geological formation.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000006|We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000016_000000|"The amount of ore disclosed by this survey was simply fabulous.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000016_000002|I also secured sixteen thousand acres in which the deposit was proportionately as large.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000016_000003|These few acres alone contained sufficient ore to supply the whole United States iron trade, including exports, for seventy years."
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000018_000000|Edison realized from the start that the true solution of this problem lay in the continuous treatment of the material, with the maximum employment of natural forces and the minimum of manual labor and generated power.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000019_000000|It is hardly necessary to devote space to the beginnings of the enterprise, although they are full of interest.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000019_000001|They served, however, to convince Edison that if he ever expected to carry out his scheme on the extensive scale planned, he could not depend upon the market to supply suitable machinery for important operations, but would be obliged to devise and build it himself.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000000|No such departure was as radical as that of the method of crushing the ore.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000001|Existing machinery for this purpose had been designed on the basis of mining methods then in vogue, by which the rock was thoroughly shattered by means of high explosives and reduced to pieces of one hundred pounds or less.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000002|These pieces were then crushed by power directly applied.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000004|From a consideration of these facts, and with his usual tendency to upset traditional observances, Edison conceived the bold idea of constructing gigantic rolls which, by the force of momentum, would be capable of crushing individual rocks of vastly greater size than ever before attempted.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000005|He reasoned that the advantages thus obtained would be fourfold: a minimum of machinery and parts; greater compactness; a saving of power; and greater economy in mining.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000006|As this last named operation precedes the crushing, let us first consider it as it was projected and carried on by him.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000001|The faith that "moves mountains" had a new opportunity.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000004|Hence, he believed that only the minimum of work should be done with the costly explosive; and, therefore, planned to use dynamite merely to dislodge great masses of rock, and depended upon the steam shovel, operated by coal under the boiler, to displace, handle, and remove the rock in detail.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000005|This was the plan that was subsequently put into practice in the great works at edison new jersey.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000006|A series of three inch holes twenty feet deep were drilled eight feet apart, about twelve feet back of the ore bank, and into these were inserted dynamite cartridges.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000007|The blast would dislodge thirty to thirty five thousand tons of rock, which was scooped up by great steam shovels and loaded on to skips carried by a line of cars on a narrow gauge railroad running to and from the crushing mill.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000009|The problem included handling and crushing the "run of the mine," without selection.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000010|The steam shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. When the skips arrived at the giant rolls, their contents were dumped automatically into a superimposed hopper.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000011|The rolls were well named, for with ear splitting noise they broke up in a few seconds the great pieces of rock tossed in from the skips.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000022_000000|It is not easy to appreciate to the full the daring exemplified in these great crushing rolls, or rather "rock crackers," without having watched them in operation delivering their "solar plexus" blows.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000001|To the faces of these rolls were bolted a series of heavy, chilled iron plates containing a number of projecting knobs two inches high.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000003|The rolls were set face to face fourteen inches apart, in a heavy frame, and the total weight was one hundred and thirty tons, of which seventy tons were in moving parts.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000004|The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000005|The giant rolls were belt driven, in opposite directions, through friction clutches, although the belt was not depended upon for the actual crushing.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000006|Previous to the dumping of a skip, the rolls were speeded up to a circumferential velocity of nearly a mile a minute, thus imparting to them the terrific momentum that would break up easily in a few seconds boulders weighing five or six tons each.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000008|In other words, it was the kinetic energy of the rolls that crumbled up the rocks with pile driver effect.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000010|The act of breaking and crushing would naturally decrease the tremendous momentum, but after the rock was reduced and the pieces had passed through, the belt would again come into play, and once more speed up the rolls for a repetition of their regular prize fighter duty.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000000|On leaving the giant rolls the rocks, having been reduced to pieces not larger than fourteen inches, passed into the series of "Intermediate Rolls" of similar construction and operation, by which they were still further reduced, and again passed on to three other sets of rolls of smaller dimensions.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000001|These latter rolls were also face lined with chilled iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one half inch size, or smaller.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000002|The whole crushing operation of reduction from massive boulders to small pebbly pieces having been done in less time than the telling has occupied, the product was conveyed to the "Dryer," a tower nine feet square and fifty feet high, heated from below by great open furnace fires.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000004|The crushed rock, being delivered at the top, would fall down from plate to plate, constantly exposing different surfaces to the heat, until it landed completely dried in the lower portion of the tower, where it fell into conveyors which took it up to the stock house.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000025_000000|This method of drying was original with Edison.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000025_000001|At the time this adjunct to the plant was required, the best dryer on the market was of a rotary type, which had a capacity of only twenty tons per hour, with the expenditure of considerable power.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000025_000002|As Edison had determined upon treating two hundred and fifty tons or more per hour, he decided to devise an entirely new type of great capacity, requiring a minimum of power (for elevating the material), and depending upon the force of gravity for handling it during the drying process.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000026_000003|His nature revolted at such an immense loss of power, especially as he proposed the crushing of vast quantities of ore.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000027_000000|A brief description of this remarkable machine will probably interest the reader.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000027_000001|In the two end pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders-one in the centre, another below, and the other above-all three being in a vertical line.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000027_000005|In operation the material passed first through the upper and middle rolls, and then between the middle and lowest rolls.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000028_000000|This pressure was applied in a most ingenious manner.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000030_000000|The rocks having thus been reduced to fine powder, the mass was ready for screening on its way to the magnetic separators.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000030_000001|Here again Edison reversed prior practice by discarding rotary screens and devising a form of tower screen, which, besides having a very large working capacity by gravity, eliminated all power except that required to elevate the material.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000030_000002|The screening process allowed the finest part of the crushed rock to pass on, by conveyor belts, to the magnetic separators, while the coarser particles were in like manner automatically returned to the rolls for further reduction.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000031_000000|In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000031_000002|This batch of material goes back for another crushing, so that everything is subjected to an equality of refining.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000031_000005|Obviously, at each step the percentage of felspar and phosphorus is less and less until in the final concentrates the percentage of iron oxide is ninety one to ninety three per cent.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000032_000000|This sand was transported automatically by belt conveyors to the rear of the works to be stored and sold.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000032_000002|The concentrate, in fine powdery form, was delivered in similar manner to a stock house.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000001|Furnacemen object to more than a very small proportion of fine ore in their mixtures, particularly when the ore is magnetic, not easily reduced.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000002|The problem to be solved was to market an agglomerated material so as to avoid the drawbacks of fine ore.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000004|It must be hard enough to bear transportation, and to carry the furnace burden without crumbling to pieces.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000006|In many respects the attainment of these somewhat conflicting ends was the most perplexing of the problems which confronted mr Edison.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000007|The agglomeration of the concentrates having been decided upon, two other considerations, not mentioned above, were of primary importance-first, to find a suitable cheap binding material; and, second, its nature must be such that very little would be necessary per ton of concentrates.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000008|These severe requirements were staggering, but mr Edison's courage did not falter. Although it seemed a well nigh hopeless task, he entered upon the investigation with his usual optimism and vim.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000009|After many months of unremitting toil and research, and the trial of thousands of experiments, the goal was reached in the completion of a successful formula for agglomerating the fine ore and pressing it into briquettes by special machinery."
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000034_000000|This was the final process requisite for the making of a completed commercial product.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000036_000000|Thus, with never failing persistence and patience, coupled with intense thought and hard work, Edison met and conquered, one by one, the complex difficulties that confronted him.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000037_000000|"The furnace at which the test was made produces from one hundred to one hundred and ten tons per day when running on the ordinary mixture.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000037_000001|The charging of briquettes was begun with a percentage of twenty five per cent., and was carried up to one hundred per cent.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000037_000002|The following is the record of the results:
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000041_000000|"These figures prove that the yield of the furnace is considerably increased.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000041_000001|The Crane trial was too short to settle the question to what extent the increase in product may be carried.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000041_000002|This increase in output, of course, means a reduction in the cost of labor and of general expenses.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000042_000000|"The richness of the ore and its purity of course affect the limestone consumption.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000042_000001|In the case of the Crane trial there was a reduction from thirty per cent. to twelve per cent. of the ore charge.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000043_000000|"Finally, the fuel consumption is reduced, which in the case of the Eastern plants, with their relatively costly coke, is a very important consideration.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000043_000001|It is regarded as possible that Eastern furnaces will be able to use a smaller proportion of the costlier coke and correspondingly increase in anthracite coal, which is a cheaper fuel in that section.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000043_000002|So far as foundry iron is concerned, the experience at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, brief as it has been, shows that a stronger and tougher metal is made."
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000002|They saw I was very anxious to sell it, and they would take advantage of my necessity.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000004|They ought to help you, for it will help us out.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000005|I am willing to help you.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000006|I mix a little sentiment with business, and I will give you an order for one hundred thousand tons.' And he sat right down and gave me the order."
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000045_000000|The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000045_000003|Interesting as it might be to follow at length the numerous phases of ingenious and resourceful development that took place during those busy years, the limit of present space forbids their relation.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000045_000006|The second item was the ingenious and varied forms of conveyor belt, devised and used by Edison at the concentrating works, and subsequently developed into a separate and extensive business by an engineer to whom he gave permission to use his plans and patterns.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000000|Edison's native shrewdness and knowledge of human nature was put to practical use in the busy days of plant construction.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000001|It was found impossible to keep mechanics on account of indifferent residential accommodations afforded by the tiny village, remote from civilization, among the central mountains of New Jersey.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000003|Fifty were quickly built and fully described in advertising for mechanics.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000004|Three days' advertisements brought in over six hundred and fifty applications, and afterward Edison had no trouble in obtaining all the first-class men he required, as settlers in the artificial Yosemite he was creating.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000047_000001|During some of these waits mr Edison had seen me play billiards.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000047_000002|At the particular time this incident happened, mrs Edison and her family were away for the summer, and I was staying at the Glenmont home on the Orange Mountains.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000002|I took off the cloth, got out the balls, picked out a cue for mr Edison, and when we banked for the first shot I won and started the game.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000003|After making two or three shots I missed, and a long carom shot was left for mr Edison, the cue ball and object ball being within about twelve inches of each other, and the other ball a distance of nearly the length of the table.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000004|mr Edison attempted to make the shot, but missed it and said 'Put the balls back.' So I put them back in the same position and he missed it the second time.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000005|I continued at his request to put the balls back in the same position for the next fifteen minutes, until he could make the shot every time-then he said: 'I don't want to play any more.'"
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000002|In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain side of success-scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000003|But, alas!
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000006|At the former price he could have supplied the market and earned a liberal profit on his investment, but at three dollars and fifty cents per ton he was left without a reasonable chance of competition.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000007|Thus was swept away the possibility of reaping the reward so richly earned by years of incessant thought, labor, and care.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000008|This great and notable plant, representing a very large outlay of money, brought to completion, ready for business, and embracing some of the most brilliant and remarkable of Edison's inventions and methods, must be abandoned by force of circumstances over which he had no control, and with it must die the high hopes that his progressive, conquering march to success had legitimately engendered.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000000|The financial aspect of these enterprises is often overlooked and forgotten.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000001|In this instance it was of more than usual import and seriousness, as Edison was virtually his own "backer," putting into the company almost the whole of all the fortune his inventions had brought him.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000003|It is an absolute fact that the great electrical inventors and the men who stood behind them have had little return for their foresight and courage.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000005|Let mr Mallory give an instance: "During the latter part of the panic of eighteen ninety three there came a period when we were very hard up for ready cash, due largely to the panicky conditions; and a large pay roll had been raised with considerable difficulty.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000007|When I had finished he said: 'It is too bad the money is gone, but I will tell you what to do.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000008|Go and see the president of the bank which paid the forged checks. Get him to admit the bank's liability, and then say to him that mr Edison does not think the bank should suffer because he happened to have a dishonest clerk in his employ.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000009|Also say to him that I shall not ask them to make the amount good.' This was done; the bank admitting its liability and being much pleased with this action.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000010|When I reported to mr Edison he said: 'That's all right.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000051_000000|This iron ore concentrating project had lain close to Edison's heart and ambition-indeed, it had permeated his whole being to the exclusion of almost all other investigations or inventions for a while.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000051_000001|For five years he had lived and worked steadily at Edison, leaving there only on Saturday night to spend Sunday at his home in Orange, and returning to the plant by an early train on Monday morning.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000051_000004|Even the scenery is austere.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000054_000000|"In the discussion that followed he suggested several kinds of work which he had in his mind, and which might prove profitable.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000054_000002|So these two lines of work were taken up by mr Edison with just as much enthusiasm and energy as is usual with him, the commercial failure of the concentrating plant seeming not to affect his spirits in any way.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000000|It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000001|In fact, over two million dollars were spent in the attempt.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000003|When we arrived at Dover, New Jersey, we got a New York newspaper, and I called his attention to the quotation of that day on General Electric.
train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000004|mr Edison then asked: 'If I hadn't sold any of mine, what would it be worth to day?' and after some figuring I replied: 'Over four million dollars.' When mr Edison is thinking seriously over a problem he is in the habit of pulling his right eyebrow, which he did now for fifteen or twenty seconds.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000004_000000|CHAPTER five-AT BOMBARDA'S
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000005_000000|The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had been set up in the Champs Elysees by that famous restaurant keeper, Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near Delorme Alley.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000007_000000|"They made beneath the table A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable,"
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000008_000000|says Moliere.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000009_000000|This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in the morning, had reached at half past four in the afternoon.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000009_000001|The sun was setting; their appetites were satisfied.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000010_000001|The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000010_000002|Carriages were going and coming.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000010_000003|A squadron of magnificent body guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000012_000000|"Give us back our father from Ghent, Give us back our father."
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000000|"Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be feared from these people.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000002|These are very pretty men, Sire.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000004|There is nothing to be feared on the part of the populace of Paris the capital.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000006|It is not dangerous.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000007|In short, it is an amiable rabble."
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000003|The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose colored" a light; it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000005|Give him a pike, he will produce the tenth of August; give him a gun, you will have Austerlitz.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000006|He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's resource.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000007|Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of liberty, he tears up the pavements.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000009|Take care! he will make of the first Rue Grenetat which comes to hand Caudine Forks.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000010|When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000011|It is, thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with arms, conquers Europe.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000012|He sings; it is his delight.
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000013|Proportion his song to his nature, and you will see!
train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000016_000001|The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000002_000000|BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000003_000000|ADAPTED BY e NESBIT
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000004_000000|Once upon a time there was a rich merchant, who had three daughters. They lived in a very fine house in a beautiful city, and had many servants in grand liveries to wait upon them.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000005_000000|The two eldest were called Marigold and Dressalinda.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000005_000001|Never a day passed but these two went out to some feast or junketing; but Beauty, the youngest, loved to stay at home and keep her old father company.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000006_000000|Now, it happened that misfortune came upon the merchant.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000007_000000|There was still left to him a little house in the country, and to this, when everything else had been sold, he retired.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000007_000001|His three daughters, of course, went with him.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000008_000000|Marigold and Dressalinda were very cross to think that they had lost all their money, and after being so rich and sought after, they must now live in a miserable cottage.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000009_000000|But Beauty's only thought was to cheer her old father, and while her two sisters sat on wooden chairs and cried and bewailed themselves, Beauty lighted the fire and got the supper ready, for the merchant was now so poor that he could not even keep a servant.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000010_000001|The two eldest sisters would do nothing but sulk in corners, while Beauty swept the floors and washed the dishes, and did her best to make the poor cottage pleasant.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000010_000002|They led their sister a dreadful life too, with their complaints, for not only did they refuse to do anything themselves, but they said that everything she did was done wrong.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000010_000003|But Beauty bore all their unkindness patiently, for her father's sake.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000000|"My dear children," he said, "at last our luck has turned.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000002|We shall not be so rich as before, but we shall have enough to keep us in comfort.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000003|Get me my traveling cloak, Beauty.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000004|I will set out at once to claim my ship.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000005|And now tell me, girls, what shall I bring you when I come back?"
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000015_000000|"I want a new silk dress," said Dressalinda, "an apple green one, sewn with seed pearls, and green shoes with red heels, and a necklace of emeralds, and a box of gloves."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000016_000000|"And what shall I bring for you, my Beauty?" asked the father, as his little daughter helped him to put on his traveling cloak.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000017_000000|"Oh, bring me a rose," said Beauty hastily.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000018_000000|Her father kissed her fondly, and set out.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000019_000000|"You silly girl," said Marigold, "you just want our father to think you are more unselfish than we are-that's what you want!
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000020_000000|"Indeed, sister," said Beauty, "that was not the reason.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000022_000000|In the meantime the merchant went his way to the city, full of hope and great plans as to what he would do with his money.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000023_000000|But when he got there, he found that some one had played a trick on him, and no ship of his had come into harbor, so he was just as badly off as before.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000024_000000|He spent the whole day looking about to make sure there was no truth in the letter he had received, and it was beginning to get dusk when he started out, with a sad heart, to make the journey home again.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000027_000000|He knocked at the gates, but no one answered, and presently, driven by hunger and cold, he made bold to enter, and mounted the marble steps into the great hall.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000028_000001|There was a big fire in the hall, and when he had warmed himself, he set out to look for the master of the house.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000028_000002|But he did not look far, for behind the first door he opened was a cosy little room with supper set for one, a supper the mere look of which made you hungry.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000029_000000|So the merchant sat down as bold as you please, and made a very hearty supper, after which he again thought he would look for the master of the house.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000030_000000|He started off and opened another door, but there he saw a bed, merely to look at which made you sleepy, so he said to himself:
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000031_000000|"This is some fairies' work.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000031_000001|I had better not look any farther for the master of the house."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000032_000000|And with that he tumbled into bed, and, being very tired, he went to sleep at once, and slept like a top till it was time to get up in the morning.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000033_000000|When he awoke he was quite surprised to find himself in such a soft and comfortable bed, but presently he remembered all that had happened to him.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000034_000000|"I must be going," he said to himself, "but I wish I could thank my host for my good rest and my good supper."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000035_000000|When he got out of bed he found he had something else to be grateful for, for on the chair by the bedside lay a fine suit of new clothes, marked with his name, and with ten gold pieces in every pocket.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000036_000000|When he went downstairs, he found a good breakfast waiting for him in the little room where he had supped the night before, and when he had made a good meal, he thought he would go for a stroll in the garden.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000037_000000|Down the marble steps he went, and when he came to the garden, he saw that it was full of roses, red and white and pink and yellow, and the merchant looked at them, and remembered Beauty's wish.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000039_000000|So he stretched out his hand and plucked the biggest red rose within his reach.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000040_000000|As the stalk snapped in his fingers, he started back in terror, for he heard an angry roar, and the next minute a dreadful Beast sprang upon him.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000041_000000|"Ungrateful wretch!" said the Beast.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000042_000000|"Mercy! mercy!" cried the merchant.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000043_000000|"No," said the Beast, "you must die!"
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000043_000001|The poor merchant fell upon his knees and tried to think of something to say to soften the heart of the cruel Beast; and at last he said, "Sir, I only stole this rose because my youngest daughter asked me to bring her one.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000043_000002|I did not think, after all you have given me, that you would grudge me a flower."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000044_000001|"Is she a good girl?"
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000046_000000|"Oh!" he cried, "what will my poor children do without me?"
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000047_000000|"You should have thought of that before you stole the rose," said the Beast.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000048_000000|The wretched man promised.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000049_000000|"At any rate," he thought, "I shall have three months more of life."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000050_000000|Then the Beast said, "I will not let you go empty handed."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000051_000000|So the merchant followed him back into the palace.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000051_000001|There, on the floor of the hall, lay a great and beautiful chest of wrought silver.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000053_000000|And the merchant filled it up with precious things from the Beast's treasure house.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000054_000000|"I will send it home for you," said the Beast, shutting down the lid.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000056_000000|The merchant put these into Beauty's hand when she ran to meet him at the door of their cottage.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000057_000000|"Take them, my child," he said, "and cherish them, for they have cost your poor father his life."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000058_000000|And with that he sat down and told them the whole story.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000058_000001|The two elder sisters wept and wailed, and of course blamed Beauty for all that had happened.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000062_000000|Her father went with her, to show her the way.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000062_000002|Only this time the table was laid for two.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000063_000000|"Come, father dear," said Beauty, "take comfort.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000063_000001|I do not think the Beast means to kill me, or surely he would not have given me such a good supper."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000064_000000|But the next moment the Beast came into the room.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000065_000000|"Don't be frightened," said the Beast gently, "but tell me, do you come here of your own free will?"
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000066_000000|"Yes," said Beauty, trembling.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000068_000000|They went to bed and slept soundly, and the next morning the father departed, weeping bitterly.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000069_000000|Beauty, left alone, tried not to feel frightened.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000070_000000|The most beautiful set of rooms in the palace had written over the doors, "Beauty's Rooms," and in them she found books and music, canary birds and Persian cats, and everything that could be thought of to make the time pass pleasantly.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000071_000000|"Oh, dear!" she said; "if only I could see my poor father I should be almost happy."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000072_000000|As she spoke, she happened to look at a big mirror, and in it she saw the form of her father reflected, just riding up to the door of his cottage.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000073_000000|That night, when Beauty sat down to supper, the Beast came in.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000074_000000|"May I have supper with you?" said he.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000075_000000|"That must be as you please," said Beauty.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000076_000000|So the Beast sat down to supper with her, and when it was finished, he said:
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000077_000000|"I am very ugly, Beauty, and I am very stupid, but I love you; will you marry me?"
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000078_000000|"No, Beast," said Beauty gently.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000079_000000|The poor Beast sighed and went away.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000080_000000|And every night the same thing happened.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000080_000001|He ate his supper with her, and then asked her if she would marry him.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000080_000002|And she always said, "No, Beast."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000081_000000|All this time she was waited on by invisible hands, as though she had been a queen.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000081_000001|Beautiful music came to her ears without her being able to see the musicians, but the magic looking glass was best of all, for in it she could see whatever she wished.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000081_000002|As the days went by, and her slightest wish was granted, almost before she knew what she wanted, she began to feel that the Beast must love her very dearly, and she was very sorry to see how sad he looked every night when she said "No" to his offer of marriage.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000082_000000|One day, she saw in her mirror that her father was ill, so that night she said to the Beast:
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000083_000000|"Dear Beast, you are so good to me, will you let me go home to see my father?
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000083_000001|He is ill, and he thinks that I am dead.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000083_000002|Do let me go and cheer him up, and I will promise faithfully to return to you."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000086_000001|When she wanted to come back, she was to do the same thing.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000089_000000|"I wish we had gone," said Marigold.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000091_000000|So Beauty, thinking it would amuse them to hear, told them, and their envy increased day by day.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000091_000001|At last Dressalinda said to Marigold:
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000092_000000|"She has promised to return in a week.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000092_000001|If we could only make her forget the day, the Beast might be angry and kill her, and then there would be a chance for us."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000093_000000|So on the day before she ought to have gone back, they put, some poppy juice in a cup of wine which they gave her, and this made her so sleepy that she slept for two whole days and nights.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000093_000001|At the end of that time her sleep grew troubled, and she dreamed that She saw the Beast lying dead among the roses in the beautiful gardens of his palace; and from this dream she awoke crying bitterly.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000095_000000|She did not know where his rooms in the palace were, but she felt she could not wait till supper time before seeing him, so she ran hither and thither, calling his name.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000095_000001|But the palace was empty, and no one answered her when she called.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000096_000000|Then she ran through the gardens, calling his name again and again, but still there was silence.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000097_000000|"Oh! what shall I do if I cannot find him?" she said.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000097_000001|"I shall never be happy again."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000099_000000|Beauty flung herself on her knees beside him.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000100_000000|"Oh, dear Beast," she cried, "and are you really dead?
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000100_000001|Alas! alas! then I, too, will die, for I cannot live without you."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000101_000000|Immediately the Beast opened his eyes, sighed, and said:
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000104_000000|"Yes, yes, dear Beast, for I love you dearly."
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000105_000001|He knelt at Beauty's feet and clasped her hands.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000106_000000|"Dear Beauty," he said, "nothing but your love could have disenchanted me.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000107_000000|So they returned to the palace, which by this time was crowded with courtiers, eager to kiss the hands of the Prince and his bride.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000107_000001|And the Prince whispered to one of his attendants, who went out, and in a very little time came back with Beauty's father and sisters.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000108_000001|But Beauty, happily married to her Prince, went secretly to the statues every day and wept over them.
train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000109_000000|And by her tears their stony hearts were softened, and they were changed into flesh and blood again, and were good and kind for the rest of their lives.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000003_000000|ION.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000004_000000|Ion was the son of Creusa (the beauteous daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens) and the sun god Phoebus Apollo, to whom she was united without the knowledge of her father.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000000|Fearing the anger of Erechtheus, Creusa placed her new born babe in a little wicker basket, and hanging some golden charms round his neck, invoked for him the protection of the gods, and concealed him in a lonely cave.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000001|Apollo, pitying his deserted child, sent Hermes to convey him to Delphi, where he deposited his charge on the steps of the temple.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000002|Next morning the Delphic priestess discovered the infant, and was so charmed by his engaging appearance that she adopted him as her own son.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000003|The young child was carefully tended and reared by his kind foster mother, and was brought up in the service of the temple, where he was intrusted with some of the minor duties of the holy edifice.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000006_000000|And now to return to Creusa.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000006_000001|During a war with the Euboeans, in which the latter were signally defeated, Xuthus, son of AEolus, greatly distinguished himself on the side of the Athenians, and as a reward for his valuable services, the hand of Creusa, the king's daughter, was bestowed upon him in marriage.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000006_000003|The response was, that Xuthus should regard the first person who met him on leaving the sanctuary as his son.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000007_000000|When, upon the occasion of the public adoption of his son, Xuthus gave a grand banquet, the old servant of Creusa contrived to mix a strong poison in the wine of the unsuspecting Ion.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000008_000002|Unprepared for this sudden attack he admitted his guilt, but pointed to the wife of Xuthus as the instigator of the crime.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000008_000003|Ion was about to avenge himself upon Creusa, when, by means of the divine intervention of Apollo, his foster mother, the Delphic priestess appeared on the scene, and explained the true relationship which existed between Creusa and Ion.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000010_000000|DAEDALUS and ICARUS.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000011_000000|Daedalus, a descendant of Erechtheus, was an Athenian architect, sculptor, and mechanician.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000012_000000|But great as was his genius, still greater was his vanity, and he could brook no rival.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000012_000001|Now his nephew and pupil, Talus, exhibited great talent, having invented both the saw and the compass, and Daedalus, fearing lest he might overshadow his own fame, secretly killed him by throwing him down from the citadel of Pallas Athene.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000012_000002|The murder being discovered, Daedalus was summoned before the court of the Areopagus and condemned to death; but he made his escape to the island of Crete, where he was received by king Minos in a manner worthy of his great reputation.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000013_000000|Daedalus constructed for the king the world renowned labyrinth, which was an immense building, full of intricate passages, intersecting each other in such a manner, that even Daedalus himself is said, upon one occasion, to have nearly lost his way in it; and it was in this building the king placed the Minotaur, a monster with the head and shoulders of a bull and the body of a man.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000014_000000|In the course of time the great artist became weary of his long exile, more especially as the king, under the guise of friendship, kept him almost a prisoner.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000014_000002|Having awaited a favourable opportunity, father and son commenced their flight, and were well on their way when Icarus, pleased with the novel sensation, forgot altogether his father's oft repeated injunction not to approach too near the sun
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000014_000004|The body of the unfortunate Icarus was washed up by the tide, and was buried by the bereaved father on an island which he called after his son, Icaria.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000015_000002|Cocalus feigned compliance and invited Minos to his palace, where he was treacherously put to death in a warm bath.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000015_000003|The body of their king was brought to Agrigent by the Cretans, where it was buried with great pomp, and over his tomb a temple to Aphrodite was erected.
train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000016_000000|Daedalus passed the remainder of his life tranquilly in the island of Sicily, where he occupied himself in the construction of various beautiful works of art.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000010_000000|Chapter fourteen
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000011_000000|MOUNT OLYMPUS
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000012_000000|Wretched in spirit, groaning under the feeling of insult, self condemning, and ill satisfied in every way, Bold returned to his London lodgings.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000012_000001|Ill as he had fared in his interview with the archdeacon, he was not the less under the necessity of carrying out his pledge to Eleanor; and he went about his ungracious task with a heavy heart.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000013_000000|The attorneys whom he had employed in London received his instructions with surprise and evident misgiving; however, they could only obey, and mutter something of their sorrow that such heavy costs should only fall upon their own employer,--especially as nothing was wanting but perseverance to throw them on the opposite party.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000000|He next thought of the newspapers.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000002|He had been very intimate with Tom Towers, and had often discussed with him the affairs of the hospital.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000004|He did not even know, as a fact, that they had been written by his friend.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000005|Tom Towers had never said that such a view of the case, or such a side in the dispute, would be taken by the paper with which he was connected.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000007|Nevertheless Bold believed that to him were owing those dreadful words which had caused such panic at Barchester,--and he conceived himself bound to prevent their repetition.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000008|With this view he betook himself from the attorneys' office to that laboratory where, with amazing chemistry, Tom Towers compounded thunderbolts for the destruction of all that is evil, and for the furtherance of all that is good, in this and other hemispheres.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000015_000000|Who has not heard of Mount Olympus,--that high abode of all the powers of type, that favoured seat of the great goddess Pica, that wondrous habitation of gods and devils, from whence, with ceaseless hum of steam and never ending flow of Castalian ink, issue forth fifty thousand nightly edicts for the governance of a subject nation?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000000|Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000001|It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,--and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000003|Should a stranger make his way thither at dull noonday, or during the sleepy hours of the silent afternoon, he would find no acknowledged temple of power and beauty, no fitting fane for the great Thunderer, no proud facades and pillared roofs to support the dignity of this greatest of earthly potentates.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000004|To the outward and uninitiated eye, Mount Olympus is a somewhat humble spot,--undistinguished, unadorned,--nay, almost mean.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000006|"Is this Mount Olympus?" asks the unbelieving stranger.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000007|"Is it from these small, dark, dingy buildings that those infallible laws proceed which cabinets are called upon to obey; by which bishops are to be guided, lords and commons controlled, judges instructed in law, generals in strategy, admirals in naval tactics, and orange women in the management of their barrows?" "Yes, my friend-from these walls.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000008|From here issue the only known infallible bulls for the guidance of British souls and bodies. This little court is the Vatican of England.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000001|With what endless care, with what unsparing labour, do we not strive to get together for our great national council the men most fitting to compose it.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000006|Why should we look to Lord john Russell;--why should we regard Palmerston and Gladstone, when Tom Towers without a struggle can put us right?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000007|Look at our generals, what faults they make; at our admirals, how inactive they are.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000008|What money, honesty, and science can do, is done; and yet how badly are our troops brought together, fed, conveyed, clothed, armed, and managed. The most excellent of our good men do their best to man our ships, with the assistance of all possible external appliances; but in vain. All, all is wrong-alas! alas!
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000009|Tom Towers, and he alone, knows all about it.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000010|Why, oh why, ye earthly ministers, why have ye not followed more closely this heaven sent messenger that is among us?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000018_000001|Would it not be wise in us to abandon useless talking, idle thinking, and profitless labour?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000018_000003|Is not Tom Towers here, able to guide us and willing?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000019_000000|Yes indeed, able and willing to guide all men in all things, so long as he is obeyed as autocrat should be obeyed,--with undoubting submission: only let not ungrateful ministers seek other colleagues than those whom Tom Towers may approve; let church and state, law and physic, commerce and agriculture, the arts of war, and the arts of peace, all listen and obey, and all will be made perfect.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000019_000003|From a bishopric in New Zealand to an unfortunate director of a north-west passage, is he not the only fit judge of capability?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000020_000000|No established religion has ever been without its unbelievers, even in the country where it is the most firmly fixed; no creed has been without scoffers; no church has so prospered as to free itself entirely from dissent.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000021_000001|It may probably be said that no place in this nineteenth century is more worthy of notice.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000021_000002|No treasury mandate armed with the signatures of all the government has half the power of one of those broad sheets, which fly forth from hence so abundantly, armed with no signature at all.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000022_000001|He rises in the morning degraded, mean, and miserable; an object of men's scorn, anxious only to retire as quickly as may be to some German obscurity, some unseen Italian privacy, or indeed, anywhere out of sight.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000022_000003|what has so afflicted him?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000023_000000|It was not to Mount Olympus that our friend Bold betook himself.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000023_000003|With such ideas, half ambitious and half awe struck, had Bold regarded the silent looking workshop of the gods; but he had never yet by word or sign attempted to influence the slightest word of his unerring friend.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000023_000004|On such a course was he now intent; and not without much inward palpitation did he betake himself to the quiet abode of wisdom, where Tom Towers was to be found o' mornings inhaling ambrosia and sipping nectar in the shape of toast and tea.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000024_000000|Not far removed from Mount Olympus, but somewhat nearer to the blessed regions of the West, is the most favoured abode of Themis.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000000|Here, on the choicest spot of this choice ground, stands a lofty row of chambers, looking obliquely upon the sullied Thames; before the windows, the lawn of the Temple Gardens stretches with that dim yet delicious verdure so refreshing to the eyes of Londoners.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000001|If doomed to live within the thickest of London smoke you would surely say that that would be your chosen spot.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000002|Yes, you, you whom I now address, my dear, middle aged bachelor friend, can nowhere be so well domiciled as here.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000003|No one here will ask whether you are out or at home; alone or with friends; here no Sabbatarian will investigate your Sundays, no censorious landlady will scrutinise your empty bottle, no valetudinarian neighbour will complain of late hours.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000004|If you love books, to what place are books so suitable?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000005|The whole spot is redolent of typography.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000006|Would you worship the Paphian goddess, the groves of Cyprus are not more taciturn than those of the Temple. Wit and wine are always here, and always together; the revels of the Temple are as those of polished Greece, where the wildest worshipper of Bacchus never forgot the dignity of the god whom he adored.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000007|Where can retirement be so complete as here?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000008|where can you be so sure of all the pleasures of society?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000000|It was here that Tom Towers lived, and cultivated with eminent success the tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000001|But let it not be supposed that his chambers were such, or so comfortless, as are frequently the gaunt abodes of legal aspirants.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000003|He indulged in four rooms on the first floor, each of which was furnished, if not with the splendour, with probably more than the comfort of Stafford House.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000007|This picture was not hung, as pictures usually are, against the wall; there was no inch of wall vacant for such a purpose: it had a stand or desk erected for its own accommodation; and there on her pedestal, framed and glazed, stood the devotional lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000027_000000|Our modern artists, whom we style Pre Raphaelites, have delighted to go back, not only to the finish and peculiar manner, but also to the subjects of the early painters.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000027_000003|But they are anything but happy in their change.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000000|It was easy, from his rooms, to see that Tom Towers was a Sybarite, though by no means an idle one.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000001|He was lingering over his last cup of tea, surrounded by an ocean of newspapers, through which he had been swimming, when john Bold's card was brought in by his tiger.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000002|This tiger never knew that his master was at home, though he often knew that he was not, and thus Tom Towers was never invaded but by his own consent.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000003|On this occasion, after twisting the card twice in his fingers, he signified to his attendant imp that he was visible; and the inner door was unbolted, and our friend announced.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000001|There was no very great difference in their ages, for Towers was still considerably under forty; and when Bold had been attending the London hospitals, Towers, who was not then the great man that he had since become, had been much with him.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000003|It is true he wore no ermine, bore no outward marks of a world's respect; but with what a load of inward importance was he charged!
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000004|It is true his name appeared in no large capitals; on no wall was chalked up "Tom Towers for ever;"--"Freedom of the Press and Tom Towers;" but what member of Parliament had half his power?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000006|This kind of hidden but still conscious glory suited the nature of the man.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000008|He loved to watch the great men of whom he daily wrote, and flatter himself that he was greater than any of them.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000009|Each of them was responsible to his country, each of them must answer if inquired into, each of them must endure abuse with good humour, and insolence without anger.
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000010|But to whom was he, Tom Towers, responsible?
train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000011|No one could insult him; no one could inquire into him.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000007_000001|'Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to herself, 'and she's all over pins!--may I put your shawl straight for you?' she added aloud.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000008_000000|'I don't know what's the matter with it!' the Queen said, in a melancholy voice.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000010_000000|'The brush has got entangled in it!' the Queen said with a sigh.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000011_000000|Alice carefully released the brush, and did her best to get the hair into order.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000011_000001|'Come, you look rather better now!' she said, after altering most of the pins.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000012_000001|'Twopence a week, and jam every other day.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000014_000000|'It's very good jam,' said the Queen.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000015_000000|'Well, I don't want any TO DAY, at any rate.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000017_000000|'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to day,"' Alice objected.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000019_000000|'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000020_000000|'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first-'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000023_000001|'I can't remember things before they happen.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000024_000000|'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000025_000000|'What sort of things do YOU remember best?' Alice ventured to ask.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000027_000000|'Suppose he never commits the crime?' said Alice.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000029_000000|Alice felt there was no denying THAT. 'Of course it would be all the better,' she said: 'but it wouldn't be all the better his being punished.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000031_000000|'Only for faults,' said Alice.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000033_000000|'Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,' said Alice: 'that makes all the difference.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000034_000000|'But if you HADN'T done them,' the Queen said, 'that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!' Her voice went higher with each 'better,' till it got quite to a squeak at last.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000035_000000|Alice was just beginning to say 'There's a mistake somewhere-,' when the Queen began screaming so loud that she had to leave the sentence unfinished.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000037_000000|'What IS the matter?' she said, as soon as there was a chance of making herself heard.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000037_000001|'Have you pricked your finger?'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000042_000000|'That accounts for the bleeding, you see,' she said to Alice with a smile.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000043_000000|'But why don't you scream now?' Alice asked, holding her hands ready to put over her ears again.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000044_000000|'Why, I've done all the screaming already,' said the Queen. 'What would be the good of having it all over again?'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000045_000000|By this time it was getting light.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000045_000001|'The crow must have flown away, I think,' said Alice: 'I'm so glad it's gone.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000046_000001|'Only I never can remember the rule.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000000|'Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000001|'Consider what a great girl you are.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000003|Consider what o'clock it is.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000004|Consider anything, only don't cry!'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000049_000000|Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. 'Can YOU keep from crying by considering things?' she asked.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000050_000001|Let's consider your age to begin with-how old are you?'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000051_000000|'I'm seven and a half exactly.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000053_000000|'I can't believe THAT!' said Alice.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000054_000000|'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000055_000000|Alice laughed.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000056_000000|'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000056_000001|Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000056_000002|There goes the shawl again!'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000057_000001|The Queen spread out her arms again, and went flying after it, and this time she succeeded in catching it for herself.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000058_000000|'Then I hope your finger is better now?' Alice said very politely, as she crossed the little brook after the Queen.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000059_000000|'Oh, much better!' cried the Queen, her voice rising to a squeak as she went on.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000000|She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000001|Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000002|She couldn't make out what had happened at all.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000004|And was that really-was it really a SHEEP that was sitting on the other side of the counter?
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000061_000000|'What is it you want to buy?' the Sheep said at last, looking up for a moment from her knitting.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000062_000000|'I don't QUITE know yet,' Alice said, very gently.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000062_000001|'I should like to look all round me first, if I might.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000066_000001|'And this one is the most provoking of all-but I'll tell you what-' she added, as a sudden thought struck her, 'I'll follow it up to the very top shelf of all.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000066_000002|It'll puzzle it to go through the ceiling, I expect!'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000068_000000|'Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000074_000001|Feather!' the Sheep cried again, taking more needles.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000074_000002|'You'll be catching a crab directly.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000075_000000|'A dear little crab!' thought Alice. 'I should like that.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000076_000000|'Didn't you hear me say "Feather"?' the Sheep cried angrily, taking up quite a bunch of needles.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000079_000000|'WHY do you say "feather" so often?' Alice asked at last, rather vexed. 'I'm not a bird!'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000082_000000|'Oh, please!
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000082_000002|'There really are-and SUCH beauties!'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000084_000000|'No, but I meant-please, may we wait and pick some?' Alice pleaded.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000084_000001|'If you don't mind stopping the boat for a minute.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000087_000000|'I only hope the boat won't tipple over!' she said to herself.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000087_000002|Only I couldn't quite reach it.' 'And it certainly DID seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000091_000000|However, she wasn't hurt, and was soon up again: the Sheep went on with her knitting all the while, just as if nothing had happened.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000091_000001|'That was a nice crab you caught!' she remarked, as Alice got back into her place, very much relieved to find herself still in the boat.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000092_000000|'Was it?
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000092_000001|I didn't see it,' Said Alice, peeping cautiously over the side of the boat into the dark water.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000093_000000|'Are there many crabs here?' said Alice.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000094_000000|'Crabs, and all sorts of things,' said the Sheep: 'plenty of choice, only make up your mind.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000096_000000|'I should like to buy an egg, please,' she said timidly.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000096_000001|'How do you sell them?'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000097_000000|'Fivepence farthing for one-Twopence for two,' the Sheep replied.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000098_000000|'Then two are cheaper than one?' Alice said in a surprised tone, taking out her purse.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000099_000000|'Only you MUST eat them both, if you buy two,' said the Sheep.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000100_000001|For she thought to herself, 'They mightn't be at all nice, you know.'
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000101_000000|The Sheep took the money, and put it away in a box: then she said 'I never put things into people's hands-that would never do-you must get it for yourself.' And so saying, she went off to the other end of the shop, and set the egg upright on a shelf.
train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000102_000002|Why, it's got branches, I declare!
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000002_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000003_000001|There was of course the usual amount of gossip concerning him, but as he refrained from eccentricities of dress when asked to dinner, and did not bet that he would ride his horse into the smoking room of the Somerset Club, the gossip soon lost ground against the list of his good qualities.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000001|But the scenes about him were too new, and very many of the faces he saw were too attractive, to allow of his brooding for long over his misfortune.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000003|He had gone to see Joe, arriving during luncheon, in the expectation of seeing her alone again.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000004|There would be a scene of solemn farewell, in which he would bid her be happy in her own way, in a tone of semi paternal benevolence, after which he would give her his blessing, and bid farewell to the pomps and vanities of society.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000005|He would naturally retire gloomily from the gay world, and end his miserable existence in the approved Guy Livingstone fashion of life, between cavendish tobacco, deep drinking, and high play.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000006|Joe would then repent of the ruin she had caused, and that would be a great satisfaction.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000009|It serves my father right for not buying me my gloves." That was Ronald's state of mind.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000011|But surely, for a disappointed lover there could be no course so proper as a speedy death by dissipation-which would serve Joe right.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000012|Therefore, on his return to his hotel, he ordered whiskey, in a sepulchral tone of voice.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000013|He tasted it, and thought it detestable.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000005_000000|On reflection, he would put off the commencement of his wild career until the evening after he had seen Joe again.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000005_000002|He changed his tie for one of a darker hue, ate sparingly of a beefsteak, and went back to bid Joe a last farewell.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000000|Sybil Brandon and Miss Schenectady were elements in the solemn leave taking which Ronald had not anticipated.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000001|Sybil, moreover, made a great effort, for she was anxious to help Joe as much as possible in her difficulties.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000002|She talked to Ronald with a vivacity that was unusual, and Joe herself was astonished at the brilliance of her conversation.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000003|She had always thought Sybil very reserved, if not somewhat shy.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000000|Perhaps Sybil pitied Ronald a little.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000002|He was grateful after a time, and he was also flattered.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000003|Besides, he could not help noticing that his new acquaintance was extremely beautiful.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000004|His conscience smote him as he realized that he was thinking of her appearance, and he immediately quieted the qualm by saying that it was but natural admiration for an artistic object.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000005|Ronald did not know much about artists and that sort of people, but the expression formed itself conveniently in his mind.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000008_000000|The consequence was that he accepted an invitation to drive with the two girls after luncheon, and when they left him at his hotel, a proceeding against which he vehemently protested on the score of propriety, he reluctantly acknowledged to himself that he had enjoyed the afternoon very much.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000009_000000|"Come and see us after five o'clock," said Sybil.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000009_000002|Nine hundred and thirty six, Beacon Street," she added, laughing.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000010_000000|"With great pleasure-thanks," said Ronald.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000011_000000|"Good by, Ronald dear," said Joe pleasantly.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000012_000000|"Good by," he answered in a doubtful tone of voice, as he raised his hat; and the two girls drove away.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000014_000000|"Do not be frightened, Joe dearest," she said.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000015_000000|"Really, I do not believe he is-so very much, you know," Joe answered. But she was thoughtful, and did not speak again for some time.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000016_000000|It was on the morning after this that Joe read the article on John's speech, and met him by the Common.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000016_000002|Sybil did not go to parties, and john probably had too much to do.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000016_000003|But at supper Joe chanced to be standing near mrs Sam Wyndham.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000017_000000|"Oh, I so much wanted to see you, Miss Thorn," said the latter.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000017_000002|He came today, and I have asked him to dinner to morrow."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000018_000000|"Yes?" said Joe, turning a shade paler.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000018_000002|He is a very nice boy."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000019_000000|"He is perfectly lovely," said mrs Sam, enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000021_000000|"Oh my dear," said mrs Wyndham, "I always forget you are not one of us. Besides, you are, you see."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000022_000000|mrs Wyndham rarely said a tactless thing, but this evening she was in such good spirits that she said what came uppermost in her thoughts.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000022_000001|Joe was not offended; she was only bored.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000023_000000|"Will you not come and dine too, to morrow night?" asked mrs Wyndham, who was anxious to atone.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000025_000000|Pocock Vancouver, pale and exquisite as ever, came up to the two ladies.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000026_000000|"Can I get you anything, mrs Wyndham?" he inquired, after a double bow.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000027_000000|"No, thank you.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000027_000001|Johnny Hannibal is taking care of me," answered mrs Sam, coldly.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000028_000000|"Miss Thorn, what can I get you?" he asked, turning to Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000000|"Nothing, thanks," said Joe, "mr
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000001|Biggielow is getting me something." She did not look at Vancouver as she answered, and the angry color began to rise to her temples.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000002|Vancouver, who was not used to repulses such as these, and was too old a soldier to give up a situation so easily, stood a moment playing with his coat tails.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000003|A sudden thought passed through Joe's mind.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000004|It struck her that, considering the situation of affairs, it would be unwise to break off her acquaintance with Vancouver at the present time.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000007|In the first place, there might be more to be learnt which might be of service to john; secondly, people would talk about it if she cut him, and would invent some story to the effect that he had proposed to marry her, or that she had proposed to marry him.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000008|It was contrary to her nature to pretend anything she did not feel, but it would nevertheless be a mistake to quarrel openly with Vancouver.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000030_000000|"On second thoughts-if you would get me a glass of water"--she said, speaking to him.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000030_000001|He instantly disappeared; but even in the moment before he departed to execute her command he had time to express by his look a sense of injury forgiven, which did not escape Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000031_000000|"What a hypocrite the man is!" she thought.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000032_000000|Vancouver on his part could form no conception of the cause of the coldness the two ladies had shown him.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000032_000001|He could not know that Joe had discovered in him the writer of the article, still less could he have guessed that Joe had told john, and that john had told mrs Sam.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000032_000002|He could only suppose that the two had been talking of something, and were annoyed at being interrupted.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000033_000002|mr Bonamy Biggielow was a little poet.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000034_000000|"I ought to thank you, Miss Thorn, instead of you thanking me," said Vancouver, in a seductive voice, on one side of Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000036_000000|"Why?" said Joe, eating her salad and looking straight before her.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000038_000000|mr Biggielow also answered Joe's interrogation.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000039_000000|"Well," he said, "I mean it is thronged with people.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000040_000000|"Youth and beauty?
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000040_000001|That sort of thing?" said Joe to Biggielow.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000040_000002|Then turning to Vancouver, she added, "Why should I send you away?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000041_000000|"I hope there is no reason," he said gravely.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000041_000001|"In fact, I am sure there is none, except that you would of course always do exactly as you pleased about that and everything else."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000042_000000|"Yes, indeed," Joe answered, and her lip curled a little proudly, "you are quite right about that.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000042_000001|But then, you know, I did not send you away."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000043_000000|"Thanks, again," said Vancouver.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000044_000000|"Do let me get you something more, Miss Thorn," suggested mr Biggielow. "No?
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000044_000002|You always like"--
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000045_000000|"Of course you have heard about Harrington?" said Vancouver in a low voice close to Josephine's ear.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000046_000001|"Will you take my plate?
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000046_000003|"You mean about the senatorship?" asked Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000047_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000048_000000|"Among whom you count yourself, doubtless," remarked Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000049_000000|"Not politically, of course.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000049_000001|I take no active part"--
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000050_000000|"Yes, I know." Joe knew the remainder of the sentence by heart.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000051_000000|"Oh, if it comes to that," said Vancouver mildly, "I would rather see Harrington senator than some of our own men.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000051_000001|At all events, he is honest."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000052_000000|"At all events!" Joe repeated.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000052_000001|"You think, perhaps, that some man of your own party may be elected who will not turn out to be honest?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000053_000000|"Well, the thing is possible.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000053_000001|You see, politics are such a dirty business-all kinds of men get in."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000054_000002|Nevertheless, he was fascinated by her.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000055_000000|"It is not long since you told me that mr Harrington's very mild remark about extinguishing bribery and corruption was a piece of gross exaggeration," said Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000055_000001|"Why do you say politics are dirty work?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000056_000000|"There is a great difference," answered Vancouver.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000057_000000|"What difference?
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000057_000001|Between what?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000058_000000|"Between saying that the business of politics is not clean, and saying that all public officers are liars, like the Cretans."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000059_000000|"Who is exaggerating now?" asked Joe scornfully.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000060_000000|"Of course it is I," answered Vancouver, submissively.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000060_000001|"If it is not a rude question, did not that dress come from Egypt?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000061_000002|Cut square at the neck, it showed her dazzling throat at its best advantage, and a knot of pink lilies at the waist harmonized delicately with the color of the whole.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000062_000000|"It is just like you," said Vancouver, "to have something different from everybody else.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000063_000000|"I am glad you like it," said Joe, indifferently.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000064_000000|"I am so anxious to meet your cousin, Miss Thorn," said Vancouver, trying a new subject.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000064_000001|"I hear there is to be a dinner for him to morrow night at mrs Sam Wyndham's.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000064_000002|But of course I am not asked."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000065_000000|"Why 'of course'?" inquired Joe quickly.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000066_000000|"I believe mrs Wyndham thinks I dislike Englishmen," said Vancouver at random.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000067_000000|"Really?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000068_000000|"Yes-I should be willing to like any number of Englishmen for the sake of being liked by one Englishwoman." He looked at Joe expressively as he spoke.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000069_000000|"Really?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000071_000000|"Oh, yes," said Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000071_000001|"Why should I not believe you?" Her voice was calm, but that same angry flush that had of late so often shown itself began to rise slowly at her temples.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000071_000002|Vancouver saw it, and thought she was blushing at what he said.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000072_000000|"I trust you will," said Vancouver.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000072_000001|"I trust that some day you will let me tell you who that Englishwoman is."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000073_000000|It was horrible; he was making love to her, this wretch, whom she despised.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000000|"Thanks-no, if you do not mind," said she.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000001|"I do not care to receive confidences,--I always forget to forget them." It was not in order that Pocock Vancouver might make love to her that she had sent away Bonamy Biggielow, the harmless little poet.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000002|She wished him back again, but he was embarked in an enterprise to dispute with Johnny Hannibal a place near Miss saint Joseph.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000003|mrs Wyndham had long since disappeared.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000000|"Will you please take me back to my aunt?" said Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000001|As they passed from the supper room they suddenly came upon john Harrington, who was wandering about in an unattached fashion, apparently looking for some one.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000002|He bowed and stared a little at seeing Joe on Vancouver's arm, but she gave him a look of such earnest entreaty that he turned and followed her at a distance to see what would happen.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000003|Seeing her sit down by her aunt, he came up and spoke to her, almost thrusting Vancouver aside with his broad shoulders.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000077_000000|It is amazing what a difference the common knowledge of a secret will make in the intimacy of two people.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000078_000000|"I was rather taken aback at seeing you with him," said john.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000078_000001|"Not that it can make any difference to you," he added quickly, "only you seemed so angry at him this morning."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000079_000000|"But it does"--Joe began, impulsively.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000079_000001|"That is, I began by meaning to cut him, and then I thought it would be a mistake to make a scandal."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000080_000001|Besides, I would not for all the world have you take a part in this thing.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000080_000002|It would do no good, and it might do harm."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000081_000000|"I think I have taken a part already," said Joe, somewhat hurt.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000082_000000|"Yes, I know.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000082_000001|I am very grateful, but I hope you will not think any more about it, nor allow it to influence you in any way."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000084_000000|john looked at her earnestly for a few seconds, and saw that she was perfectly sincere.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000084_000001|He had grown to like Josephine of late, and he was grateful to her for her friendship.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000084_000002|Her manner that morning, when she told him of her discovery, had made a deep impression on him.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000085_000000|"My dear Miss Thorn," he said earnestly, in a low voice, "you are too good and kind, and I thank you very heartily for your friendship.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000085_000001|But I think you were very wise not to cut Vancouver, and I hope you will not quarrel with anybody for any matter so trivial." The color came to Joe's face, but not for anger this time.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000086_000000|"Trivial!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000087_000000|"Yes, trivial," john repeated.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000087_000001|"Remember that it is the policy of that paper to abuse me, and that if Vancouver had not written the article, the editor could have found some one else easily enough who would have done it."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000088_000001|"He always says to every one that he has the greatest respect for you, and then he does a thing like this.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000088_000002|If I were you I would kill him-I am sure I would."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000090_000000|"Oh, I would not care about that," said Joe, hotly.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000090_000002|"You do not seem to mind it at all."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000091_000000|"It is not worth while to lose one's temper or one's soul for the iniquities of mr Pocock Vancouver," said john.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000091_000001|"The man may do me harm, but as I never expected his friendship or help, he neither falls nor rises in my estimation on that account.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000092_000001|"But one cannot help expecting men who have the reputation of being gentlemen to behave decently."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000093_000000|"Vancouver has a right to his political opinions, and a perfect right to express them in any way he sees fit," said john.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000001|"This is a free country, and that sort of thing.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000003|I think that writing violent articles in a newspaper is a very active part indeed.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000004|And he should not go about saying that he has the highest reverence for a man, and then call him a lunatic and a charlatan in print, unless he is willing to sign his name to it, and take the consequences.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000005|Should he?
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000006|I think it is vile, and horrid, and abominable, and nasty, and I hate him."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000096_000000|"Then why do you defend him?" asked Joe, with flashing eyes.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000097_000000|"Because, on general principles, I do not think a man is so much worse than his fellows because he does things they would very likely do in his place.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000097_000001|There are things done every day, all over the world, quite as bad as that, and no one takes much notice of them.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000097_000002|Almost every businessman is trying to get the better of some other business man by fair means or foul."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000098_000000|"You do not seem to have a very exalted idea of humanity," said Joe.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000099_000000|"A large part of humanity is sick," said john, "and it is as well to be prepared for the worst in any illness."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000100_000000|"I wish you were not so tremendously calm, you know," said Joe, looking thoughtfully into John's face.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000100_000001|"I am afraid it will injure you."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000101_000000|"Why in the world should it injure me?" asked john, much astonished at the remark.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000102_000000|"I have a presentiment"--she checked herself suddenly.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000102_000001|"I do not like to tell you," she added.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000103_000000|"I would like to hear what you think, if you will tell me," said john, gravely.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000104_000000|"Well, do not be angry.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000104_000001|I have a presentiment that you will not be made senator.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000104_000002|Are you angry?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000105_000000|"No indeed.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000105_000001|But why?"
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000106_000000|"Just for that very reason; you are too calm.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000106_000001|You are not enough of a partisan.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000106_000002|Every one is a partisan here."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000000|john was silent, and his face was grave and thoughtful.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000001|The remark was profound in its way, and showed a far deeper insight into political matters than he imagined Joe possessed.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000002|He had long regarded mrs Wyndham as a woman of fine sense and judgment, and had often asked her opinion on important questions.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000003|But in all his experience she had never said anything that seemed to strike so deeply at the root of things as this simple remark of Josephine's.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000108_000000|"I am afraid you are angry," said Joe, seeing that he was grave and silent.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000109_000000|"You have set me thinking, Miss Thorn," he answered.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000110_000000|"You think I may be right?" she said.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000111_000000|"The idea is quite new to me, I think it is perhaps the best definition of the fact that I ever heard.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000111_000001|But it is not what ought to be."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000112_000000|"Of course not," Joe answered.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000112_000001|"Nothing is just what it ought to be.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000112_000002|But one has to take things as they are."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000113_000000|"And make them what they should be," added john, and the look of strong determination came into his face.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000114_000000|"Ah, yes," said Joe, softly.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000114_000001|"Make things what they should be.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000115_000000|"Perhaps we might go home, Joe," said Miss Schenectady, who had been conversing for a couple of hours with another old lady of literary tastes.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000117_000000|"Shall I see you to morrow night at mrs Wyndham's dinner?" asked john, as they parted.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000118_000000|"No, I refused.
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000118_000001|Good night."
train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000119_000000|As Joe sat by her aunt's side in the deep dark carriage on the way home, her hands were cold and she trembled from head to foot.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000005_000000|CONSTITUENTS OF THE APPLE.--All apples contain sugar, malic acid, or the acid of apples; mucilage, or gum; woody fibre, and water; together with some aroma, on which their peculiar flavour depends.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000005_000001|The hard acid kinds are unwholesome if eaten raw; but by the process of cooking, a great deal of this acid is decomposed and converted into sugar.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000005_000002|The sweet and mellow kinds form a valuable addition to the dessert.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000007_000000|twelve thirty.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000013_000001|The room should be dry, and well aired, but should not admit the sun
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000014_000000|BAKED APPLE PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000016_000000|twelve thirty one.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000021_000000|BOILED APPLE PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000022_000000|twelve thirty two.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000028_000000|APPLE TART o r PIE.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000029_000000|twelve thirty three.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000029_000002|of unpared apples allow two ounces. of moist sugar, one half teaspoonful of finely minced lemon peel, one tablespoonful of lemon juice.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000030_000001|When it is three parts done, take it out of the oven, put the white of an egg on a plate, and, with the blade of a knife, whisk it to a froth; brush the pie over with this, then sprinkle upon it some sifted sugar, and then a few drops of water.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000030_000002|Put the pie back into the oven, and finish baking, and be particularly careful that it does not catch or burn, which it is very liable to do after the crust is iced.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000037_000000|QUINCES.--The environs of Corinth originally produced the most beautiful quinces, but the plant was subsequently introduced into Gaul with the most perfect success.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000037_000001|The ancients preserved the fruit by placing it, with its branches and leaves, in a vessel filled with honey or sweet wine, which was reduced to half the quantity by ebullition.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000037_000002|Quinces may be profitably cultivated in this country as a variety with other fruit trees, and may be planted in espaliers or as standards.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000039_000000|twelve thirty four.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000039_000002|of pared and cored apples, allow two ounces. of moist sugar, one half teaspoonful of minced lemon peel, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, one half pint of boiled custard.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000040_000002|Fill up with a nicely made boiled custard, grate a little nutmeg over the top, and the pie is ready for table.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000045_000000|APPLE SNOWBALLS.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000046_000000|twelve thirty five.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000052_000000|twelve thirty six.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000053_000001|Line a large round plate with the paste, place a narrow rim of the same round the outer edge, and lay the apples thickly in the middle.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000053_000003|This tourte may be eaten either hot or cold, and is sufficient to fill two large sized plates.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000000|APPLES.--No fruit is so universally popular as the apple.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000002|The apple, uncooked, is less digestible than the pear; the degree of digestibility varying according to the firmness of its texture and flavour.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000004|Entremets of apples are made in great variety.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000005|Apples, when peeled, cored, and well cooked, are a most grateful food for the dyspeptic.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000059_000000|ALMA PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000061_000001|When all the ingredients are well stirred and mixed, butter a mould that will hold the mixture exactly, tie it down with a cloth, put the pudding into boiling water, and boil for five hours; when turned out, strew some powdered sugar over it, and serve.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000065_000000|BAKED APRICOT PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000071_000000|APRICOT TART.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000073_000001|Line the edge of the dish with paste, put on the cover, and ornament the pie in any of the usual modes.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000073_000003|Short crust merely requires a little sifted sugar sprinkled over it before being sent to table.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000000|APRICOTS.--The apricot is indigenous to the plains of Armenia, but is now cultivated in almost every climate, temperate or tropical.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000001|There are several varieties.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000003|A good apricot, when perfectly ripe, is an excellent fruit.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000004|It has been somewhat condemned for its laxative qualities, but this has possibly arisen from the fruit having been eaten unripe, or in too great excess.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000005|Delicate persons should not eat the apricot uncooked, without a liberal allowance of powdered sugar.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000006|The apricot makes excellent jam and marmalade, and there are several foreign preparations of it which are considered great luxuries.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000085_000000|A BACHELOR'S PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000090_000000|BAKEWELL PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000098_000000|twelve forty three.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000102_000000|BARONESS PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000104_000000|twelve forty four.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000105_000002|Serve merely with plain sifted sugar, a little of which may be sprinkled over the pudding.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000109_000001|The recipe was kindly given to her family by a lady who bore the title here prefixed to it; and with all who have partaken of it, it is an especial favourite.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000001|In this respect, it nearly approaches the tamarind.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000002|When boiled with sugar, it makes a very agreeable preserve or jelly, according to the different modes of preparing it.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000003|Barberries are also used as a dry sweetmeat, and in sugarplums or comfits; are pickled with vinegar, and are used for various culinary purposes.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000005|The berries, arranged on bunches of nice curled parsley, make an exceedingly pretty garnish for supper dishes, particularly for white meats, like boiled fowl a la Bechamel, the three colours, scarlet, green, and white, contrasting so well, and producing a very good effect.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000119_000000|BAKED BATTER PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000120_000000|twelve forty six.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000121_000001|Baked in small cups, this makes very pretty little puddings, and should be eaten with the same accompaniments as above.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000124_000000|BAKED BATTER PUDDING, with Dried or Fresh Fruit.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000126_000003|It must be sent quickly to table, and covered plentifully with sifted sugar.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000131_000000|BOILED BATTER PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000132_000000|twelve forty eight.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000133_000001|This pudding may also be boiled in a floured cloth that has been wetted in hot water; it will then take a few minutes less than when boiled in a basin.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000136_000000|ORANGE BATTER PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000138_000001|As soon as it is turned out of the basin, put a small jar of orange marmalade all over the top, and send the pudding very quickly to table.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000142_000000|BAKED BREAD PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000143_000000|twelve fifty.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000149_000000|VERY PLAIN BREAD PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000150_000000|twelve fifty one.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000151_000001|Let these stand till the water is cool; then press it out, and mash the bread with a fork until it is quite free from lumps.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000151_000002|Measure this pulp, and to every quart stir in salt, nutmeg, sugar, and currants in the above proportion; mix all well together, and put it into a well buttered pie dish.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000151_000004|Boiling milk substituted for the boiling water would very much improve this pudding.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000154_000000|BOILED BREAD PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000155_000000|twelve fifty two.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000159_000000|BREAD.--Bread contains, in its composition, in the form of vegetable albumen and vegetable fibrine, two of the chief constituents of flesh, and, in its incombustible constituents, the salts which are indispensable for sanguification, of the same quality and in the same proportion as flesh.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000162_000001|Put in the remaining ingredients; beat the pudding well for a few minutes; put it into a buttered basin or mould; tie it down tightly, and boil for nearly four hours.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000162_000002|Send sweet sauce to table with it.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000166_000000|MINIATURE BREAD PUDDINGS.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000167_000000|twelve fifty four.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000168_000001|Beat the eggs, mix these with the bread crumbs, add the remaining ingredients, and stir well until all is thoroughly mixed.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000168_000003|A few currants may be added to these puddings: about three ounces. will be found sufficient for the above quantity.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000172_000000|BAKED BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000173_000000|twelve fifty five.
train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000174_000002|This pudding may be very much enriched by adding cream, candied peel, or more eggs than stated above.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000006_000000|THE ADVENTURE OF THE CANTANKEROUS OLD LADY
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000007_000000|On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to go round the world.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000000|It was my stepfather's death that drove me to it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000001|I had never seen my stepfather.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000003|I owed him nothing, except my poverty.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000004|He married my dear mother when I was a girl at school in Switzerland; and he proceeded to spend her little fortune, left at her sole disposal by my father's will, in paying his gambling debts.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000006|So, when the Colonel died, in the year I was leaving college, I did not think it necessary to go into mourning for him.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000007|Especially as he chose the precise moment when my allowance was due, and bequeathed me nothing but his consolidated liabilities.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000009_000000|'Of course you will teach,' said Elsie Petheridge, when I explained my affairs to her.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000000|I looked at her, aghast.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000003|That's just like you dear good schoolmistresses!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000004|You go to Cambridge, and get examined till the heart and life have been examined out of you; then you say to yourselves at the end of it all, "Let me see; what am I good for now?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000007|Nature did not cut me out for a high-school teacher.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000008|I couldn't swallow a poker if I tried for weeks.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000009|Pokers don't agree with me.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000010|Between ourselves, I am a bit of a rebel.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000011_000000|'You are, Brownie,' she answered, pausing in her papering, with her sleeves rolled up-they called me 'Brownie,' partly because of my dark complexion, but partly because they could never understand me.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000011_000001|'We all knew that long ago.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000012_000000|I laid down the paste brush and mused.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000013_000001|I was a bomb shell in your midst in those days; why, you yourself were almost afraid at first to speak to me.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000014_000000|'You see, you had a bicycle,' Elsie put in, smoothing the half papered wall; 'and in those days, of course, ladies didn't bicycle.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000014_000002|You terrified us so.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000014_000003|And yet, after all, there isn't much harm in you.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000015_000000|'I hope not,' I said devoutly.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000015_000001|'I was before my time, that was all; at present, even a curate's wife may blamelessly bicycle.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000016_000000|'But if you don't teach,' Elsie went on, gazing at me with those wondering big blue eyes of hers, 'whatever will you do, Brownie?' Her horizon was bounded by the scholastic circle.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000017_000000|'I haven't the faintest idea,' I answered, continuing to paste.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000017_000002|I couldn't teach' (teaching, like mauve, is the refuge of the incompetent); 'and I don't, if possible, want to sell bonnets.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000018_000000|'As a milliner's girl?' Elsie asked, with a face of red horror.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000000|'As a milliner's girl; why not?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000001|'tis an honest calling.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000002|Earls' daughters do it now.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000003|But you needn't look so shocked.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000004|I tell you, just at present, I am not contemplating it.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000000|I paused and reflected.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000002|I submit myself to fate; or, if you prefer it, I leave my future in the hands of Providence.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000003|I shall stroll out this morning, as soon as I've "cleaned myself," and embrace the first stray enterprise that offers. Our Bagdad teems with enchanted carpets.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000004|Let one but float my way, and, hi, presto, I seize it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000005|I go where glory or a modest competence waits me.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000006|I snatch at the first offer, the first hint of an opening.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000000|Elsie stared at me, more aghast and more puzzled than ever.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000001|'But, how?' she asked.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000002|'Where?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000003|When?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000005|What will you do to find one?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000023_000000|'Put on my hat and walk out,' I answered.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000023_000003|Omnibuses traverse it from end to end-even, I am told, to Islington and Putney; within, folk sit face to face who never saw one another before in their lives, and who may never see one another again, or, on the contrary, may pass the rest of their days together.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000024_000000|I had a lovely harangue all pat in my head, in much the same strain, on the infinite possibilities of entertaining angels unawares, in cabs, on the Underground, in the aerated bread shops; but Elsie's widening eyes of horror pulled me up short like a hansom in Piccadilly when the inexorable upturned hand of the policeman checks it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000002|You don't understand the language.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000003|No, no; I am going out, simply in search of adventure.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000004|What adventure may come, I have not at this moment the faintest conception.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000005|The fun lies in the search, the uncertainty, the toss up of it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000006|What is the good of being penniless-with the trifling exception of twopence-unless you are prepared to accept your position in the spirit of a masked ball at Covent Garden?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000027_000000|'I have never been to one,' Elsie put in.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000028_000000|'Gracious heavens, neither have I! What on earth do you take me for?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000028_000001|But I mean to see where fate will lead me.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000029_000000|'I may go with you?' Elsie pleaded.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000030_000001|'That would spoil all.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000030_000002|Your dear little face would be quite enough to scare away a timid adventure.' She knew what I meant.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000031_000000|So, when we had finished that wall, I popped on my best hat, and popped out by myself into Kensington Gardens.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000000|I am told I ought to have been terribly alarmed at the straits in which I found myself-a girl of twenty one, alone in the world, and only twopence short of penniless, without a friend to protect, a relation to counsel her.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000002|Nature had endowed me with a profusion of crisp black hair, and plenty of high spirits.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000004|I croak with difficulty.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000005|So I accepted my plight as an amusing experience, affording full scope for the congenial exercise of courage and ingenuity.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000000|How boundless are the opportunities of Kensington Gardens-the Round Pond, the winding Serpentine, the mysterious seclusion of the Dutch brick Palace!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000001|Genii swarm there.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000002|One jostles possibilities.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000003|It is a land of romance, bounded on the north by the Abyss of Bayswater, and on the south by the Amphitheatre of the Albert Hall.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000004|But for a centre of adventure I choose the Long Walk; it beckoned me somewhat as the north-west Passage beckoned my seafaring ancestors-the buccaneering mariners of Elizabethan Devon.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000005|I sat down on a chair at the foot of an old elm with a poetic hollow, prosaically filled by a utilitarian plate of galvanised iron.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000006|Two ancient ladies were seated on the other side already-very grand looking dames, with the haughty and exclusive ugliness of the English aristocracy in its later stages.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000007|For frank hideousness, commend me to the noble dowager.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000008|They were talking confidentially as I sat down; the trifling episode of my approach did not suffice to stem the full stream of their conversation.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000035_000001|She had a Roman nose, and her skin was wrinkled like a wilted apple; she wore coffee coloured point lace in her bonnet, with a complexion to match.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000035_000002|'But what could I do, my dear?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000035_000005|So there was the end of it.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000036_000000|'Still, you go to Schlangenbad on Monday?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000037_000000|'That's the point.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000037_000004|Now, there the difficulty comes in.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000038_000000|'You could get a temporary maid,' her friend suggested, in a lull of the tornado.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000000|The Cantankerous Old Lady flared up.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000001|'Yes, and have my jewel case stolen!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000003|Or nurse her on the boat when I want to give my undivided attention to my own misfortunes.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000006|I put my foot down there.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000040_000000|I saw my chance.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000040_000001|This was a delightful idea.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000040_000002|Why not start for Schlangenbad with the Cantankerous Old Lady?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000000|Of course, I had not the slightest intention of taking a lady's maid's place for a permanency.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000001|Nor even, if it comes to that, as a passing expedient.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000003|The Rhine leads you on to the Danube, the Danube to the Black Sea, the Black Sea to Asia; and so, by way of India, China, and Japan, you reach the Pacific and San Francisco; whence one returns quite easily by New York and the White Star Liners.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000004|I began to feel like a globe trotter already; the Cantankerous Old Lady was the thin end of the wedge-the first rung of the ladder!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000005|I proceeded to put my foot on it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000043_000001|'Excuse me,' I said, in my suavest voice, 'but I think I see a way out of your difficulty.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000000|My first impression was that the Cantankerous Old Lady would go off in a fit of apoplexy.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000001|She grew purple in the face with indignation and astonishment, that a casual outsider should venture to address her; so much so, indeed, that for a second I almost regretted my well meant interposition.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000002|Then she scanned me up and down, as if I were a girl in a mantle shop, and she contemplated buying either me or the mantle.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000003|At last, catching my eye, she thought better of it, and burst out laughing.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000045_000000|'What do you mean by this eavesdropping?' she asked.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000046_000000|I flushed up in turn.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000000|The Cantankerous Old Lady regarded me once more from head to foot.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000001|I did not quail.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000002|Then she turned to her companion.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000003|'The girl has spirit,' she remarked, in an encouraging tone, as if she were discussing some absent person.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000004|'Upon my word, Amelia, I rather like the look of her.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000005|Well, my good woman, what do you want to suggest to me?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000000|'Merely this,' I replied, bridling up and crushing her.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000001|'I am a Girton girl, an officer's daughter, no more a good woman than most others of my class; and I have nothing in particular to do for the moment.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000002|I don't object to going to Schlangenbad.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000003|I would convoy you over, as companion, or lady help, or anything else you choose to call it; I would remain with you there for a week, till you could arrange with your Gretchen, presumably unsophisticated; and then I would leave you.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000005|I accept the chance as a cheap opportunity of attaining Schlangenbad.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000000|The yellow faced old lady put up her long handled tortoise shell eyeglasses and inspected me all over again.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000001|'Well, I declare,' she murmured.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000002|'What are girls coming to, I wonder?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000004|You speak Greek, of course; but how about German?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000050_000000|'Like a native,' I answered, with cheerful promptitude.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000050_000001|'I was at school in Canton Berne; it is a mother tongue to me.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000052_000000|'Pardon me,' I answered, in German. 'What I say, that I mean.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000052_000001|The never to be forgotten music of the Fatherland's speech has on my infant ear from the first beginning impressed itself.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000053_000000|The old lady laughed aloud.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000000|'Don't jabber it to me, child,' she cried.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000001|'I hate the lingo.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000002|It's the one tongue on earth that even a pretty girl's lips fail to render attractive.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000003|You yourself make faces over it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000004|What's your name, young woman?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000055_000000|'Lois Cayley.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000056_000001|I never heard of any Lois in my life before, except Timothy's grandmother.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000057_000000|'Not to my knowledge,' I answered, gravely.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000058_000000|She burst out laughing again.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000000|'Well, you'll do, I think,' she said, catching my arm.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000002|I adore originality.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000003|It was clever of you to catch at the suggestion of this arrangement.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000004|Lois Cayley, you say; any relation of a madcap Captain Cayley whom I used once to know, in the Forty second Highlanders?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000060_000000|'His daughter,' I answered, flushing.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000000|'Ha!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000001|I remember; he died, poor fellow; he was a good soldier-and his'--I felt she was going to say 'his fool of a widow,' but a glance from me quelled her; 'his widow went and married that good looking scapegrace, Jack Watts Morgan.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000002|Never marry a man, my dear, with a double barrelled name and no visible means of subsistence; above all, if he's generally known by a nickname.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000003|So you're poor Tom Cayley's daughter, are you?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000004|Well, well, we can settle this little matter between us.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000005|Mind, I'm a person who always expects to have my own way.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000000|She smiled at my audacity.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000001|We passed on to terms.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000002|They were quite satisfactory.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000003|She wanted no references.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000004|'Do I look like a woman who cares about a reference?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000006|You take my fancy; that's the point!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000007|And poor Tom Cayley!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000064_000000|'I will not contradict your wildest misstatement,' I answered, smiling.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000066_000001|'My dear,' she murmured, 'my name is the one thing on earth I'm really ashamed of.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000066_000002|My parents chose to inflict upon me the most odious label that human ingenuity ever devised for a Christian soul; and I've not had courage enough to burst out and change it.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000067_000000|A gleam of intuition flashed across me, 'You don't mean to say,' I exclaimed, 'that you're called Georgina?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000068_000000|The Cantankerous Old Lady gripped my arm hard.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000068_000001|'What an unusually intelligent girl!' she broke in.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000068_000002|'How on earth did you guess?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000000|'Fellow feeling,' I answered.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000001|'So is mine, Georgina Lois.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000002|But as I quite agree with you as to the atrocity of such conduct, I have suppressed the Georgina.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000003|It ought to be made penal to send innocent girls into the world so burdened.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000070_000000|'My opinion to a T! You are really an exceptionally sensible young woman.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000070_000001|There's my name and address; I start on Monday.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000071_000000|I glanced at her card.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000071_000001|The very copperplate was noisy.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000071_000002|'Lady Georgina Fawley, forty nine Fortescue Crescent, w'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000072_000000|It had taken us twenty minutes to arrange our protocols.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000072_000001|As I walked off, well pleased, Lady Georgina's friend ran after me quickly.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000073_000001|'You've caught a Tartar.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000074_000000|'So I suspect,' I answered.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000075_000000|'She has an awful temper.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000076_000000|'That's nothing.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000076_000001|So have i Appalling, I assure you.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000076_000002|And if it comes to blows, I'm bigger and younger and stronger than she is.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000077_000000|'Well, I wish you well out of it.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000000|'Thank you.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000001|It is kind of you to give me this warning.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000002|But I think I can take care of myself.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000003|I come, you see, of a military family.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000079_000000|I nodded my thanks, and strolled back to Elsie's.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000079_000001|Dear little Elsie was in transports of surprise when I related my adventure.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000080_000000|'Will you really go?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000080_000001|And what will you do, my dear, when you get there?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000081_000000|'I haven't a notion,' I answered; 'that's where the fun comes in.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000081_000001|But, anyhow, I shall have got there.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000082_000000|'Oh, Brownie, you might starve!'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000083_000000|'And I might starve in London.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000083_000001|In either place, I have only two hands and one head to help me.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000084_000001|You might stop with me for ever.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000000|I kissed her fluffy forehead.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000002|I came here to help you.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000003|I couldn't go on eating your hard earned bread and doing nothing.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000004|I know how sweet you are; but the last thing I want is to add to your burdens.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000005|Now let us roll up our sleeves again and hurry on with the dado.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000086_000000|'But, Brownie, you'll want to be getting your own things ready. Remember, you're off to Germany on Monday.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000000|I shrugged my shoulders.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000001|'tis a foreign trick I picked up in Switzerland.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000002|'What have I got to get ready?' I asked.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000005|I cut out half her clothes for her; her own ideas were almost entirely limited to differential calculus.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000006|And cutting out a blouse by differential calculus is weary, uphill work for a high-school teacher.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000088_000000|By Monday I had papered and furnished the rooms, and was ready to start on my voyage of exploration.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000088_000001|I met the Cantankerous Old Lady at Charing Cross, by appointment, and proceeded to take charge of her luggage and tickets.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000000|Oh my, how fussy she was!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000001|'You will drop that basket!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000003|You have to change there.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000004|Now, mind you notice how much the luggage weighs in English pounds, and make the man at the office give you a note of it to check those horrid Belgian porters.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000006|Foreigners have no consciences.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000007|They just go to the priest and confess, you know, and wipe it all out, and start fresh again on a career of crime next morning.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000009|The only country in the world fit to live in is England.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000010|No mosquitoes, no passports, no-goodness gracious, child, don't let that odious man bang about my hat box!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000011|Have you no immortal soul, porter, that you crush other people's property as if it was blackbeetles?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000012|No, I will not let you take this, Lois; this is my jewel box-it contains all that remains of the Fawley family jewels.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000013|I positively decline to appear at Schlangenbad without a diamond to my back.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000015|It's hard enough nowadays to keep body and skirt together.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000000|We got into our first-class carriage.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000001|It was clean and comfortable; but the Cantankerous Old Lady made the porter mop the floor, and fidgeted and worried till we slid out of the station.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000002|Fortunately, the only other occupant of the compartment was a most urbane and obliging Continental gentleman-I say Continental, because I couldn't quite make out whether he was French, German, or Austrian-who was anxious in every way to meet Lady Georgina's wishes.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000003|Did madame desire to have the window open?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000004|Oh, certainly, with pleasure; the day was so sultry.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000006|No?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000007|Then perhaps she would like this valise for a footstool?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000010|This is Kent that we traverse; ah, the garden of England!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000092_000000|'Monsieur is attached to the Embassy in London?' Lady Georgina inquired, growing affable.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000093_000002|What gaiety!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000094_000000|'If mystery means fog, it challenges the world,' I interposed.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000095_000000|He gazed at me with fixed eyes.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000095_000002|'Whatever your great country attempts-were it only a fog-it achieves consummately.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000096_000000|I have quick intuitions.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000096_000001|I felt the foreign gentleman took an instinctive dislike to me.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000097_000000|To make up for it, he talked much, and with animation, to Lady Georgina. They ferreted out friends in common, and were as much surprised at it as people always are at that inevitable experience.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000098_000000|'Ah yes, madame, I recollect him well in Vienna.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000098_000002|He was a charming man; you read his masterly paper on the Central Problem of the Dual Empire?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000000|'You were in Vienna then!' the Cantankerous Old Lady mused back.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000001|'Lois, my child, don't stare'--she had covenanted from the first to call me Lois, as my father's daughter, and I confess I preferred it to being Miss Cayley'd.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000002|'We must surely have met.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000003|Dare I ask your name, monsieur?'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000100_000000|I could see the foreign gentleman was delighted at this turn.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000100_000001|He had played for it, and carried his point.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000100_000002|He meant her to ask him.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000101_000001|'I think you knew my husband, Sir Evelyn Fawley, and my father, Lord Kynaston.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000000|The Count looked profoundly surprised and delighted.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000001|'What! you are then Lady Georgina Fawley!' he cried, striking an attitude.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000002|'Indeed, miladi, your admirable husband was one of the very first to exert his influence in my favour at Vienna.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000004|If I recall him!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000007|But your face had impressed itself on my sub conscious self!' (I did not learn till later that the esoteric doctrine of the sub conscious self was Lady Georgina's favourite hobby.) 'The moment chance led me to this carriage this morning, I said to myself, "That face, those features: so vivid, so striking: I have seen them somewhere.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000011|I have it. Vienna, a carriage with footmen in red livery, a noble presence, a crowd of wits-poets, artists, politicians-pressing eagerly round the landau." That was my mental picture as I sat and confronted you: I understand it all now; this is Lady Georgina Fawley!'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000103_000000|I thought the Cantankerous Old Lady, who was a shrewd person in her way, must surely see through this obvious patter; but I had under estimated the average human capacity for swallowing flattery.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000103_000001|Instead of dismissing his fulsome nonsense with a contemptuous smile, Lady Georgina perked herself up with a conscious air of coquetry, and asked for more.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000103_000002|'Yes, they were delightful days in Vienna,' she said, simpering; 'I was young then, Count; I enjoyed life with a zest.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000105_000001|'Growing old is a foolish habit of the stupid and the vacant.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000106_000000|'I have had my moments,' Lady Georgina murmured, with her head on one side.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000000|Thenceforward to Dover, they talked together with ceaseless animation. The Cantankerous Old Lady was capital company.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000001|She had a tang in her tongue, and in the course of ninety minutes she had flayed alive the greater part of London society, with keen wit and sprightliness.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000002|I laughed against my will at her ill tempered sallies; they were too funny not to amuse, in spite of their vitriol.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000003|As for the Count, he was charmed.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000004|He talked well himself, too, and between them I almost forgot the time till we arrived at Dover.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000000|It was a very rough passage.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000001|The Count helped us to carry our nineteen hand packages and four rugs on board; but I noticed that, fascinated as she was with him, Lady Georgina resisted his ingenious efforts to gain possession of her precious jewel case as she descended the gangway.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000002|She clung to it like grim death, even in the chops of the Channel. Fortunately I am a good sailor, and when Lady Georgina's sallow cheeks began to grow pale, I was steady enough to supply her with her shawl and her smelling bottle.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000003|She fidgeted and worried the whole way over.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000005|Those horrid Belgians had no right to stick their deck chairs just in front of her.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000007|Did the baggages pretend they considered themselves ladies?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000008|Oh, that placid old gentleman in the episcopal gaiters was their father, was he?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000011|The working classes were driving trade out of the country, and the consequence was, we couldn't build a boat which didn't reek like an oil shop.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000014|But the children of the lower classes never learnt their catechism nowadays; they were too much occupied with literatoor, jography, and free 'and drawrin'.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000015|Happily for my nerves, a good lurch to leeward put a stop for a while to the course of her thoughts on the present distresses.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000110_000001|She had a fixed habit, I believe, of sticking fast to that jewel case; for she was too overpowered by the Count's urbanity, I feel sure, to suspect for a moment his honesty of purpose.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000110_000002|But whenever she travelled, I fancy, she clung to her case as if her life depended upon it; it contained the whole of her valuable diamonds.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000111_000002|To my great amazement, I found the Cantankerous Old Lady and the egregious Count comfortably seated there.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000111_000003|'Monsieur has been good enough to accept a place in our carriage,' she observed, as I entered.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000112_000000|He bowed and smiled.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000113_000000|'Would you like some lunch, Lady Georgina?' I asked, in my chilliest voice.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000114_000000|'An admirable inspiration,' the Count murmured.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000115_000000|'You will come, Lois?' Lady Georgina asked.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000116_000000|'No, thank you,' I answered, for I had an idea.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000001|'I hope you won't allow them to stick in any horrid foreigners!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000002|They will try to force them on you unless you insist.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000004|You have the tickets, I trust?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000007|Don't let those dreadful porters touch my cloaks.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000008|And if anybody attempts to get in, be sure you stand in front of the door as they mount to prevent them.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000000|The Count handed her out; he was all high courtly politeness.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000002|I don't think she noticed it, but automatically once more she waved him aside.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000003|Then she turned to me.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000004|'Here, my dear,' she said, handing it to me, 'you'd better take care of it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000006|But mind, don't let it out of your hands on any account.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000007|Hold it so, on your knee; and, for Heaven's sake, don't part with it.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000120_000000|By this time my suspicions of the Count were profound.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000120_000001|From the first I had doubted him; he was so blandly plausible.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000120_000002|But as we landed at Ostend I had accidentally overheard a low whispered conversation when he passed a shabby looking man, who had travelled in a second class carriage from London. 'That succeeds?' the shabby looking man had muttered under his breath in French, as the haughty nobleman with the waxed moustache brushed by him.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000121_000000|'That succeeds admirably,' the Count had answered, in the same soft undertone.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000122_000000|I understood him to mean that he had prospered in his attempt to impose on Lady Georgina.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000124_000000|I gripped it hard with both hands.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000125_000000|'You mistrust me?' he cried, looking black.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000125_000001|'You doubt my honour?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000126_000001|'But I have Lady Georgina's orders to stick to this case; and till Lady Georgina returns I stick to it.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000127_000000|He murmured some indignant remark below his breath, and walked off.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000127_000001|The shabby looking passenger was pacing up and down the platform outside in a badly made dust coat.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000127_000002|As they passed their lips moved.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000000|However, he did not desist even so.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000001|I saw he meant to go on with his dangerous little game.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000003|I felt sure it would be useless to warn her, so completely had the Count succeeded in gulling her; but I took my own steps.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000004|I examined the jewel case closely.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000005|It had a leather outer covering; within was a strong steel box, with stout bands of metal to bind it.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000006|I took my cue at once, and acted for the best on my own responsibility.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000000|When Lady Georgina and the Count returned, they were like old friends together.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000001|The quails in aspic and the sparkling hock had evidently opened their hearts to one another.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000003|Lady Georgina was now in her finest vein of spleen: her acid wit grew sharper and more caustic each moment.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000004|Not a reputation in Europe had a rag left to cover it as we steamed in beneath the huge iron roof of the main central junction.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000130_000002|But he waved me aside, with one lordly hand.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000130_000003|I had not told Lady Georgina of his vain attempt to take possession of her jewel case; and the bare fact of my silence made him increasingly suspicious of me.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000131_000000|'Pardon me, mademoiselle,' he said, coldly; 'you do not understand these lines as well as I do.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000000|The Count, however, was still unsatisfied.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000002|Then he returned to us, all fuming.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000003|'It is as I said,' he exclaimed, flinging open the door.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000004|'These rogues have deceived us.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000006|You must dismount at once, miladi, and take the train just opposite.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000000|I felt sure he was wrong, and I ventured to say so.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000001|But Lady Georgina cried, 'Nonsense, child!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000003|Get out at once! Bring my bag and the rugs!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000004|Mind that cloak!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000005|Don't forget the sandwich tin!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000006|Thanks, Count; will you kindly take charge of my umbrellas?
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000007|Hurry up, Lois; hurry up! the train is just starting!'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000137_000001|The Count jumped in, jumped about, arranged our parcels, jumped out again.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000137_000002|He spoke to a porter; then he rushed back excitedly.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000137_000005|You were right, after all, mademoiselle!
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000138_000000|With singular magnanimity, I refrained from saying, 'I told you so.'
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000139_000001|Both trains were just starting.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000139_000002|In her hurry, at last, she let the Count take possession of her jewel case. I rather fancy that as he passed one window he handed it in to the shabby looking passenger; but I am not certain.
train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000139_000003|At any rate, when we were comfortably seated in our own compartment once more, and he stood on the footboard just about to enter, of a sudden he made an unexpected dash back, and flung himself wildly into a Paris carriage.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000001|Our eyes beheld Messiah certainly now come, so long Expected of our fathers; we have heard His words, his wisdom full of grace and truth. 'Now, now, for sure, deliverance is at hand; The kingdom shall to Israel be restored:' Thus we rejoiced, but soon our joy is turned Into perplexity and new amaze. For whither is he gone?
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000002|what accident Hath rapt him from us?
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000006|But now, Full grown to man, acknowledged, as I hear, By john the Baptist, and in public shewn, Son owned from Heaven by his Father's voice, I looked for some great change.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000007|To honour?
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000010|Some great intent Conceals him.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000011|When twelve years he scarce had seen, I lost him, but so found as well I saw He could not lose himself, but went about His Father's business.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000015|But these haunts Delight not all.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000022|Four times ten days I have passed Wandering this woody maze, and human food Nor tasted, nor had appetite.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000023|That fast To virtue I impute not, or count part Of what I suffer here.
train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000025|Yet God Can satisfy that need some other way, Though hunger still remain.
train-clean-360/2816/156159/2816_156159_000020_000004|Well, now I had come; there to the south was Tenedos, and here at my side was Imbros, all right, and according to the map, but aloft over Imbros, aloft in a far away heaven, was Samothrace, the watch tower of Neptune!
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000005_000001|I'll go out with the mowers and mow, and you shall mind the house at home."
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000006_000000|Yes, the husband thought that would do very well.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000006_000001|He was quite willing, he said.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000008_000003|He caught it, too, just as it ran out of doors, and gave it such a kick that piggy lay for dead on the spot.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000008_000004|Then all at once he remembered he had the tap in his hand; but when he got down to the cellar, every drop of ale had run out of the cask.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000009_000003|Now their house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000011_000001|When he had done that, he thought the cow might perhaps fall off the thatch and break her legs or her neck.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000011_000002|So he got up on the house to tie her up.
train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000012_000001|There he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung half-way down the wall, swinging between heaven and earth, for she could neither get down nor up.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000007_000002|But now good advice is dear, and I do not know what to do."
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000008_000000|"Go with us to Bremen.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000008_000002|The three vagabonds soon came near a farmyard, where, upon the barn door, the cock was sitting crowing with all his might.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000009_000000|"That is the way I prophesy fine weather," said the cock; "but because grand guests are coming for the Sunday, the housewife has no pity, and has told the cook maid to make me into soup for the morrow; and this evening my head will be cut off.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000010_000000|"Ah, but you, Red comb," replied the ass, "rather come away with us. We are going to Bremen, to find there something better than death; you have a good voice, and if we make music together it will have full play."
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000011_000000|The cock consented to this plan, and so all four traveled on together. They could not, however, reach Bremen in one day, and at evening they came into a forest, where they meant to pass the night.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000011_000001|The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cock climbed up into the branches, but the latter flew right to the top, where he was most safe.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000011_000005|"What do you see, Gray horse?" asked the cock.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000012_000000|"That would be the right sort of thing for us," said the cock.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000013_000001|Then these animals took counsel together how they should contrive to drive away the robbers, and at last they thought of a way.
train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000015_000001|The messenger, finding all still, went into the kitchen to strike a light, and, taking the glistening, fiery eyes of the cat for live coals, he held a lucifer match to them, expecting it to take fire.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000000_000000|THE THREE SILLIES
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000001_000000|ADAPTED BY JOSEPH JACOBS
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000000|Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000001|Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000002|So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and she happened to look up at the ceiling while she was drawing, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000003|It must have been there a long, long time, but somehow or other she had never noticed it before, and she began a thinking.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000003_000002|"Oh, mother!" says she, "look at that horrid mallet!
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000003_000004|what a dreadful thing it would be!" said the mother, and she sat her down beside the daughter and started crying too.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000003_000005|Then after a bit the father began to wonder that they didn't come back, and he went down into the cellar to look after them himself, and there they two sat crying, and the beer running all over the floor.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000004_000001|And he ran straight and turned the tap. Then he said: "Whatever are you three doing, sitting there crying, and letting the beer run all over the floor?" "Oh!" says the father, "look at that horrid mallet!
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000004_000002|Suppose you and our daughter was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him!" And then they all started crying worse than before.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000000|Well, he set out, and he traveled a long way, and at last he came to a woman's cottage that had some grass growing on the roof.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000001|And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000002|So the gentleman asked the woman what she was doing.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000003|"Why, lookye," she said, "look at all that beautiful grass.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000006|And the gentleman went on his way, but he hadn't gone far when the cow tumbled off the roof, and hung by the string tied round her neck, and it strangled her.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000006_000000|Well, that was one big silly.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000007_000002|At last he stopped and wiped his face with his handkerchief.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000007_000004|I can't think who could have invented such things.
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000007_000005|It takes me the best part of an hour to get into mine every morning, and I get so hot!
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000009_000001|And they had rakes, and brooms, and pitchforks, reaching into the pond; and the gentleman asked what was the matter. "Why," they say, "matter enough!
train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000010_000001|So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000001_000000|Like a servant of the Lord, with his bible and his sword, Our general rode along us, to form us for the fight. --Macaulay.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000001|The captains and the armies that, after long years of dreary campaigning and bloody, stubborn fighting, brought the war to a close, have left us more than a reunited realm.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000002|North and South, all Americans, now have a common fund of glorious memories.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000003|We are the richer for each grim campaign, for each hard fought battle.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000004|We are the richer for valor displayed alike by those who fought so valiantly for the right, and by those who, no less valiantly, fought for what they deemed the right.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000005|We have in us nobler capacities for what is great and good because of the infinite woe and suffering, and because of the splendid ultimate triumph.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000007|But we recognize gladly that, South as well as North, when the fight was once on, the leaders of the armies, and the soldiers whom they led, displayed the same qualities of daring and steadfast courage, of disinterested loyalty and enthusiasm, and of high devotion to an ideal.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000000|The greatest general of the South was Lee, and his greatest lieutenant was Jackson.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000001|Both were Virginians, and both were strongly opposed to disunion.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000002|Lee went so far as to deny the right of secession, while Jackson insisted that the South ought to try to get its rights inside the Union, and not outside.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000003|But when Virginia joined the Southern Confederacy, and the war had actually begun, both men cast their lot with the South.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000000|It is often said that the Civil War was in one sense a repetition of the old struggle between the Puritan and the Cavalier; but Puritan and Cavalier types were common to the two armies.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000001|In dash and light-hearted daring, Custer and Kearney stood as conspicuous as Stuart and Morgan; and, on the other hand, no Northern general approached the Roundhead type-the type of the stern, religious warriors who fought under Cromwell-so closely as Stonewall Jackson.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000002|He was a man of intense religious conviction, who carried into every thought and deed of his daily life the precepts of the faith he cherished.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000004|The vein of fanaticism that ran through his character helped to render him a terrible opponent.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000005|He knew no such word as falter, and when he had once put his hand to a piece of work, he did it thoroughly and with all his heart.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000006|It was quite in keeping with his character that this gentle, high minded, and religious man should, early in the contest, have proposed to hoist the black flag, neither take nor give quarter, and make the war one of extermination.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000000|In the first battle in which Jackson took part, the confused struggle at Bull Run, he gained his name of Stonewall from the firmness with which he kept his men to their work and repulsed the attack of the Union troops.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000001|From that time until his death, less than two years afterward, his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success; whether serving with an independent command in the Valley, or acting under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan, Pope, and Burnside.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000002|Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a lieutenant as Jackson.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000003|He was a master of strategy and tactics, fearless of responsibility, able to instil into his men his own intense ardor in battle, and so quick in his movements, so ready to march as well as fight, that his troops were known to the rest of the army as the "foot cavalry."
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000006_000000|In the spring of eighteen sixty three Hooker had command of the Army of the Potomac. Like McClellan, he was able to perfect the discipline of his forces and to organize them, and as a division commander he was better than McClellan, but he failed even more signally when given a great independent command.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000006_000001|He had under him one hundred twenty thousand men when, toward the end of April, he prepared to attack Lee's army, which was but half as strong.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000007_000000|The Union army lay opposite Fredericksburg, looking at the fortified heights where they had received so bloody a repulse at the beginning of the winter.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000000|Lee fully realized his danger, and saw that his only chance was, first to beat back Hooker, and then to turn and overwhelm Sedgwick, who was in his rear.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000001|He consulted with Jackson, and Jackson begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank attacks upon the Union army; attacks which could have been successfully delivered only by a skilled and resolute general, and by troops equally able to march and to fight.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000002|Lee consented, and Jackson at once made off.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000003|The country was thickly covered with a forest of rather small growth, for it was a wild region, in which there was still plenty of game.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000004|Shielded by the forest, Jackson marched his gray columns rapidly to the left along the narrow country roads until he was square on the flank of the Union right wing, which was held by the Eleventh Corps, under Howard.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000005|The Union scouts got track of the movement and reported it at headquarters, but the Union generals thought the Confederates were retreating; and when finally the scouts brought word to Howard that he was menaced by a flank attack he paid no heed to the information, and actually let his whole corps be surprised in broad daylight.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000006|Yet all the while the battle was going on elsewhere, and Berdan's sharpshooters had surrounded and captured a Georgia regiment, from which information was received showing definitely that Jackson was not retreating, and must be preparing to strike a heavy blow.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000000|The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be assailed.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000002|Many of them had stacked their muskets and were lounging about, some playing cards, others cooking supper, intermingled with the pack mules and beef cattle.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000003|While they were thus utterly unprepared Jackson's gray clad veterans pushed straight through the forest and rushed fiercely to the attack.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000004|The first notice the troops of the Eleventh Corps received did not come from the pickets, but from the deer, rabbits and foxes which, fleeing from their coverts at the approach of the Confederates, suddenly came running over and into the Union lines.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000005|In another minute the frightened pickets came tumbling back, and right behind them came the long files of charging, yelling Confederates; With one fierce rush Jackson's men swept over the Union lines, and at a blow the Eleventh Corps became a horde of panicstruck fugitives.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000006|Some of the regiments resisted for a few moments, and then they too were carried away in the flight.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000010_000000|For a while it seemed as if the whole army would be swept off; but Hooker and his subordinates exerted every effort to restore order.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000010_000001|It was imperative to gain time so that the untouched portions of the army could form across the line of the Confederate advance.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000011_000000|Keenan's regiment of Pennsylvania cavalry, but four hundred sabers strong, was accordingly sent full against the front of the ten thousand victorious Confederates.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000012_000000|Keenan himself fell, pierced by bayonets, and the charge was repulsed at once; but a few priceless moments had been saved, and Pleasanton had been given time to post twenty two guns, loaded with double canister, where they would bear upon the enemy.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000013_000000|The Confederates advanced in a dense mass, yelling and cheering, and the discharge of the guns fairly blew them back across the work's they had just taken.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000013_000001|Again they charged, and again were driven back; and when the battle once more began the Union reinforcements had arrived.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000000|It was about this time that Jackson himself was mortally wounded.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000002|He and his staff were fired at, at close range, by the Union troops, and, as they turned, were fired at again, through a mistake, by the Confederates behind them.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000003|Jackson fell, struck in several places.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000004|He was put in a litter and carried back; but he never lost consciousness, and when one of his generals complained of the terrible effect of the Union cannonade he answered:
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000015_000000|"You must hold your ground."
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000016_000000|For several days he lingered, hearing how Lee beat Hooker, in detail, and forced him back across the river.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000016_000001|Then the old Puritan died.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000016_000002|At the end his mind wandered, and he thought he was again commanding in battle, and his last words were.
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000017_000000|"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade."
train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000018_000000|Thus perished Stonewall Jackson, one of the ablest of soldiers and one of the most upright of men, in the last of his many triumphs.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000002_000000|What flag is this you carry Along the sea and shore? The same our grandsires lifted up- The same our fathers bore. In many a battle's tempest It shed the crimson rain- What God has woven in his loom Let no man rend in twain. To Canaan, to Canaan, The Lord has led us forth, To plant upon the rebel towers The banners of the North. --Holmes.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000003_000001|The complete possession of the Mississippi was absolutely essential to the National Government, because the control of that great river would cut the Confederacy in two, and do more, probably, than anything else, to make the overthrow of the Rebellion both speedy and certain.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000000|The natural way to invest and capture so strong a place, defended and fortified as Vicksburg was, would have been, if the axioms of the art of war had been adhered to, by a system of gradual approaches.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000001|A strong base should have been established at Memphis, and then the army and the fleet moved gradually forward, building storehouses and taking strong positions as they went.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000002|To do this, however, it first would have been necessary to withdraw the army from the positions it then held not far above Vicksburg, on the western bank of the river.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000003|But such a movement, at that time, would not have been understood by the country, and would have had a discouraging effect on the public mind, which it was most essential to avoid.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000004|The elections of eighteen sixty two had gone against the government, and there was great discouragement throughout the North. Voluntary enlistments had fallen off, a draft had been ordered, and the peace party was apparently gaining rapidly in strength.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000005|General Grant, looking at this grave political situation with the eye of a statesman, decided, as a soldier, that under no circumstances would he withdraw the army, but that, whatever happened, he would "press forward to a decisive victory."
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000006|In this determination he never faltered, but drove straight at his object until, five months later, the great Mississippi stronghold fell before him.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000000|Efforts were made through the winter to reach Vicksburg from the north by cutting canals, and by attempts to get in through the bayous and tributary streams of the great river.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000001|All these expedients failed, however, one after another, as Grant, from the beginning, had feared that they would.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000002|He, therefore, took another and widely different line, and determined to cross the river from the western to the eastern bank below Vicksburg, to the south.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000003|With the aid of the fleet, which ran the batteries successfully, he moved his army down the west bank until he reached a point beyond the possibility of attack, while a diversion by Sherman at Haines' Bluff, above Vicksburg, kept Pemberton in his fortifications.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000004|On april twenty sixth, Grant began to move his men over the river and landed them at Bruinsburg.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000005|"When this was effected," he writes, "I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equaled since.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000006|Vicksburg was not yet taken, it is true, nor were its defenders demoralized by any of our previous movements.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000007|I was now in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies, but I was on dry ground, on the same side of the river with the enemy."
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000000|The situation was this: The enemy had about sixty thousand men at Vicksburg, Haines' Bluff, and at jackson mississippi, about fifty miles east of Vicksburg.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000001|Grant, when he started, had about thirty three thousand men.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000002|It was absolutely necessary for success that Grant, with inferior numbers, should succeed in destroying the smaller forces to the eastward, and thus prevent their union with Pemberton and the main army at Vicksburg.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000003|His plan, in brief; was to fight and defeat a superior enemy separately and in detail.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000004|He lost no time in putting his plan into action, and pressing forward quickly, met a detachment of the enemy at Port Gibson and defeated them.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000005|Thence he marched to Grand Gulf, on the Mississippi, which he took, and which he had planned to make a base of supply.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000006|When he reached Grand Gulf, however, he found that he would be obliged to wait a month, in order to obtain the reinforcements which he expected from General Banks at Port Hudson.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000007|He, therefore, gave up the idea of making Grand Gulf a base, and Sherman having now joined him with his corps, Grant struck at once into the interior.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000008|He took nothing with him except ammunition, and his army was in the lightest marching order.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000009|This enabled him to move with great rapidity, but deprived him of his wagon trains, and of all munitions of war except cartridges.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000010|Everything, however, in this campaign, depended on quickness, and Grant's decision, as well as all his movements, marked the genius of the great soldier, which consists very largely in knowing just when to abandon the accepted military axioms.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000000|Pressing forward, Grant met the enemy, numbering between seven and eight thousand, at Raymond, and readily defeated them.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000001|He then marched on toward Jackson, fighting another action at Clinton, and at Jackson he struck General Joseph Johnston, who had arrived at that point to take command of all the rebel forces.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000003|There was a sharp fight, but Grant easily defeated the enemy, and took possession of the town.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000004|This was an important point, for Jackson was the capital of the State of Mississippi, and was a base of military supplies.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000005|Grant destroyed the factories and the munitions of war which were gathered there, and also came into possession of the line of railroad which ran from Jackson to Vicksburg.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000006|While he was thus engaged, an intercepted message revealed to him the fact that Pemberton, in accordance with Johnston's orders, had come out of Vicksburg with twenty five thousand men, and was moving eastward against him.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000007|Pemberton, however, instead of holding a straight line against Grant, turned at first to the south, with the view of breaking the latter's line of communication.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000008|This was not a success, for, as Grant says, with grim humor, "I had no line of communication to break"; and, moreover, it delayed Pemberton when delay was of value to Grant in finishing Johnston.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000009|After this useless turn to the southward Pemberton resumed his march to the east, as he should have done in the beginning, in accordance with Johnston's orders; but Grant was now more than ready.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000010|He did not wait the coming of Pemberton. Leaving Jackson as soon as he heard of the enemy's advance from Vicksburg, he marched rapidly westward and struck Pemberton at Champion Hills.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000011|The forces were at this time very nearly matched, and the severest battle of the campaign ensued, lasting four hours.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000012|Grant, however, defeated Pemberton completely, and came very near capturing his entire force.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000013|With a broken army, Pemberton fell back on Vicksburg. Grant pursued without a moment's delay, and came up with the rear guard at Big Black River.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000014|A sharp engagement followed, and the Confederates were again defeated.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000015|Grant then crossed the Big Black and the next day was before Vicksburg, with his enemy inside the works.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000008_000001|"The bearer of the despatch insisted that I ought to obey the order, and was giving arguments to support the position, when I heard a great cheering to the right of our line, and looking in that direction, saw Lawler, in his shirt sleeves, leading a charge on the enemy.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000008_000002|I immediately mounted my horse and rode in the direction of the charge, and saw no more of the officer who had delivered the message; I think not even to this day." When Grant reached Vicksburg, there was no further talk of recalling him to Grand Gulf or Port Hudson.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000008_000003|The authorities at Washington then saw plainly enough what had been done in the interior of Mississippi, far from the reach of telegraphs or mail.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000000|As soon as the National troops reached Vicksburg an assault was attempted, but the place was too strong, and the attack was repulsed, with heavy loss.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000001|Grant then settled down to a siege, and Lincoln and Halleck now sent him ample reinforcements.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000002|He no longer needed to ask for them.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000003|His campaign had explained itself, and in a short time he had seventy thousand men under his command.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000004|His lines were soon made so strong that it was impossible for the defenders of Vicksburg to break through them, and although Johnston had gathered troops again to the eastward, an assault from that quarter on the National army, now so largely reinforced, was practically out of the question.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000008|On the same day Lee was beaten at Gettysburg, and these two great victories really crushed the Rebellion, although much hard fighting remained to be done before the end was reached.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000000|Grant's campaign against Vicksburg deserves to be compared with that of Napoleon which resulted in the fall of Ulm.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000001|It was the most brilliant single campaign of the war.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000002|With an inferior force, and abandoning his lines of communication, moving with a marvelous rapidity through a difficult country, Grant struck the superior forces of the enemy on the line from Jackson to Vicksburg.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000003|He crushed Johnston before Pemberton could get to him, and he flung Pemberton back into Vicksburg before Johnston could rally from the defeat which had been inflicted.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000004|With an inferior force, Grant was superior at every point of contest, and he won every fight.
train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000005|Measured by the skill displayed and the result achieved, there is no campaign in our history which better deserves study and admiration.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000001_000001|So, since they refused to pay for their mending any more she was preparing to make them pay, pretty smartly too, in other ways.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000001_000002|The pattern was of little bunches of pink roses peeping out through trellis work, and it was these which she had just begun to cut out.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000000|The hot weather had continued late into September and showed no signs of breaking yet, and it would be agreeable to her and acutely painful to others that just at the end of the summer she should appear in a perfectly new costume, before the days of jumpers and heavy skirts and large woollen scarves came in.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000001|She was preparing, therefore, to take the light white jacket which she wore over her blouse, and cover the broad collar and cuffs of it with these pretty roses.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000003|The jacket and skirt had already gone to the dyer's, and would be back in a day or two, white no longer, but of a rich purple hue, and by that time she would have hundreds of these little pink roses ready to be tacked on.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000004|Perhaps a piece of the chintz, trellis and all, could be sewn over the belt, but she was determined to have single little bunches of roses peppered all over the collar and cuffs of the jacket, and, if possible, round the edge of the skirt.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000006|When carefully sewn on they looked as if they were a design in the stuff.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000000|She let the circumcised roses fall on to the window seat, and from time to time, when they grew numerous, swept them into a cardboard box.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000001|Though she worked with zealous diligence, she had an eye to the movements in the street outside, for it was shopping hour, and there were many observations to be made.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000003|It was odd to go to your grocer's every day like that: groceries twice a week was sufficient for most people.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000004|From here on the floor above the street she could easily look into Elizabeth's basket, and she certainly was carrying nothing away with her from the grocer's, for the only thing there was a small bottle done up in white paper with sealing wax, which, Diva had no need to be told, certainly came from the chemist's, and was no doubt connected with too many plums.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000000|Miss Mapp crossed the street to the pavement below Diva's house, and precisely as she reached it, Diva's maid opened the door into the drawing room, bringing in the second post, or rather not bringing in the second post, but the announcement that there wasn't any second post.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000002|Diva managed to beat most of them down again, but two fluttered out of the window.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000003|Precisely then, and at no other time, Miss Mapp looked up, and one settled on her face, the other fell into her basket.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000004|Her trained faculties were all on the alert, and she thrust them both inside her glove for future consideration, without stopping to examine them just then.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000005|She only knew that they were little pink roses, and that they had fluttered out of Diva's window. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000007_000000|Diva's head looked out like a cuckoo in a clock preparing to chime the hour.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000008_000001|"Want me?"
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000009_000000|"May I pop up for a moment, dear?" said Miss Mapp.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000009_000001|"That's to say if you're not very busy."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000010_000001|She was quite aware that Miss Mapp said "pop" in crude inverted commas, so to speak, for purposes of mockery, and so she said it herself more than ever.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000010_000002|"I'll tell my maid to pop down and open the door."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000011_000000|While this was being done, Diva bundled her chintz curtains together and stored them and the roses she had cut out into her work cupboard, for secrecy was an essential to the construction of these decorations.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000011_000002|Even among her sweet flowers.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000011_000003|Her eye fell on it the moment she entered the room, and she tucked the two chintz roses more securely into her glove.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000012_000000|"I thought I would just pop across from the grocer's," she said. "What a pretty scarf, dear!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000013_000000|This was clearly ironical, and had best be answered by irony.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000013_000001|Diva was no coward.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000014_000000|"Couldn't say, I'm sure," she said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000015_000000|Miss Mapp appeared to recollect, and smiled as far back as her wisdom teeth. (Diva couldn't do that.)
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000016_000001|"It was the wool I ordered at Heynes's, and then he sold it you, and I couldn't get any more."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000017_000001|"Upset you a bit.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000017_000002|There was the wool in the shop.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000017_000003|I bought it."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000018_000000|"Yes, dear; I see you did.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000018_000001|But that wasn't what I popped in about. This coal strike, you know."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000019_000000|"Got a cellar full," said Diva.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000020_000000|"Diva, you've not been hoarding, have you?" asked Miss Mapp with great anxiety.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000020_000001|"They can take away every atom of coal you've got, if so, and fine you I don't know what for every hundredweight of it."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000022_000000|"Yes, love, pooh by all means, if you like poohing!" said Miss Mapp.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000024_000000|"But how much do they allow you to have?" she asked.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000025_000000|"Oh, quite a little: enough to go on with.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000025_000002|I just took the trouble to come and warn you."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000026_000000|Diva did remember something about hoarding; there had surely been dreadful exposures of prudent housekeepers in the papers which were very uncomfortable reading.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000027_000000|"But all these orders were only for the period of the war," she said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000000|"No doubt you're right, dear," said Miss Mapp brightly.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000003|Food hoarding, too.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000004|Twemlow-such a civil man- tells me that he thinks we shall have plenty of food, or anyhow sufficient for everybody for quite a long time, provided that there's no hoarding.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000005|Not been hoarding food, too, dear Diva?
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000006|You naughty thing: I believe that great cupboard is full of sardines and biscuits and Bovril."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000029_000001|"You shall see for yourself"--and then she suddenly remembered that the cupboard was full of chintz curtains and little bunches of pink roses, neatly cut out of them, and a pair of nail scissors.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000000|There was a perfectly perceptible pause, during which Miss Mapp noticed that there were no curtains over the window.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000001|There certainly used to be, and they matched with the chintz cover of the window seat, which was decorated with little bunches of pink roses peeping through trellis.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000003|That she humbly hoped that she had accomplished.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000004|She got up.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000031_000000|"Must be going," she said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000031_000001|"Such a lovely little chat!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000031_000002|But what has happened to your pretty curtains?"
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000033_000000|"Liar," thought Miss Mapp, as she tripped downstairs.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000033_000001|"Diva would have sent the cover of the window seat too, if that was the case. Liar," she thought again as she kissed her hand to Diva, who was looking gloomily out of the window.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000000|As soon as Miss Mapp had gained her garden room, she examined the mysterious treasures in her left hand glove.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000001|Without the smallest doubt Diva had taken down her curtains (and high time too, for they were sadly shabby), and was cutting the roses out of them.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000002|But what on earth was she doing that for?
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000003|For what garish purpose could she want to use bunches of roses cut out of chintz curtains?
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000035_000000|Miss Mapp had put the two specimens of which she had so providentially become possessed in her lap, and they looked very pretty against the navy blue of her skirt.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000035_000001|Diva was very ingenious: she used up all sorts of odds and ends in a way that did credit to her undoubtedly parsimonious qualities.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000036_000001|There was one-it had once adorned the sofa in the garden room-covered with red poppies (very easy to cut out), and Miss Mapp dragged it dustily from its corner, setting in motion a perfect cascade of cardboard lids and some door handles.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000037_000000|Withers had answered the telephone, and came to announce that Twemlow the grocer regretted he had only two large tins of corned beef, but-
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000038_000000|"Then say I will have the tongue as well, Withers," said Miss Mapp. "Just a tongue-and then I shall want you and Mary to do some cutting out for me."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000039_000000|The three went to work with feverish energy, for Diva had got a start, and by four o'clock that afternoon there were enough poppies cut out to furnish, when in seed, a whole street of opium dens. The dress selected for decoration was, apart from a few mildew spots, the colour of ripe corn, which was superbly appropriate for September.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000039_000001|"Poppies in the corn," said Miss Mapp over and over to herself, remembering some sweet verses she had once read by Bernard Shaw or Clement Shorter or somebody like that about a garden of sleep somewhere in Norfolk. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000000|"No one can work as neatly as you, Withers," she said gaily, "and I shall ask you to do the most difficult part.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000001|I want you to sew my lovely poppies over the collar and facings of the jacket, just spacing them a little and making a dainty irregularity.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000003|I shall be at home to nobody, Withers, this afternoon, even if the Prince of Wales came and sat on my doorstep again.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000004|We'll all work together in the garden, shall we, and you and Mary must scold me if you think I'm not working hard enough.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000005|It will be delicious in the garden."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000041_000000|Thanks to this pleasant plan, there was not much opportunity for Withers and Mary to be idle. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000042_000000|Just about the time that this harmonious party began their work, a far from harmonious couple were being just as industrious in the grand spacious bunker in front of the tee to the last hole on the golf links.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000043_000001|That about settles it," said Major Flint boisterously. "Bad place to top a ball!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000043_000002|Give me the hole?"
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000000|This insolent question needed no answer, and Major Flint drove, skying the ball to a prodigious height.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000001|But it had to come to earth sometime, and it fell like Lucifer, son of the morning, in the middle of the same bunker. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000002|So the Army played three more, and, sweating profusely, got out.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000003|Then it was the Navy's turn, and the Navy had to lie on its keel above the boards of the bunker, in order to reach its ball at all, and missed it twice.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000045_000000|"Better give it up, old chap," said Major Flint.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000045_000001|"Unplayable."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000047_000000|"We shall miss the tram," said the Major, and, with the intention of giving annoyance, he sat down in the bunker with his back to Captain Puffin, and lit a cigarette.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000047_000001|At his third attempt nothing happened; at the fourth the ball flew against the boards, rebounded briskly again into the bunker, trickled down the steep, sandy slope and hit the Major's boot.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000048_000000|"Hit you, I think," said Captain Puffin.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000048_000001|"Ha!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000048_000002|So it's my hole, Major!"
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000049_000000|Major Flint had a short fit of aphasia.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000049_000001|He opened and shut his mouth and foamed.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000049_000002|Then he took a half crown from his pocket.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000050_000000|"Give that to the Captain," he said to his caddie, and without looking round, walked away in the direction of the tram.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000000|Weak and trembling from passion, Major Flint found that after a few tottering steps in the direction of Tilling he would be totally unable to get there unless fortified by some strong stimulant, and turned back to the club house to obtain it.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000002|Summoning his last remaining strength Major Flint roared for whisky, and was told that, according to regulation, he could not be served until six.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000003|There was lemonade and stone ginger beer. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000005|Even the threat that he would instantly resign his membership unless provided with drink produced no effect on a polite steward, and he sat down to recover as best he might with an old volume of Punch.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000006|This seemed to do him little good.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000007|His forced abstemiousness was rendered the more intolerable by the fact that Captain Puffin, hobbling in immediately afterwards, fetched from his locker a large flask of the required elixir, and proceeded to mix himself a long, strong tumblerful. After the Major's rudeness in the matter of the half crown, it was impossible for any sailor of spirit to take the first step towards reconciliation.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000052_000000|Thirst is a great leveller.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000052_000001|By the time the refreshed Puffin had penetrated half-way down his glass, the Major found it impossible to be proud and proper any longer.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000052_000002|He hated saying he was sorry (no man more) and he wouldn't have been sorry if he had been able to get a drink.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000053_000001|"A man's no business to let a game ruffle him."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000054_000000|Puffin gave his alto cackling laugh.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000055_000000|"Oh, that's all right, Major," he said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000055_000001|"I know it's awfully hard to lose like a gentleman."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000057_000000|"Have a drink, old chap?"
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000058_000000|Major Flint flew to his feet.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000059_000001|"Now where's that soda water you offered me just now?" he shouted to the steward.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000060_000001|This one had been a shade more acute than most, and the drop into amity again was a shade more precipitous.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000061_000000|Major Flint in his eagerness had put most of his moustache into the life giving tumbler, and dried it on his handkerchief.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000062_000000|"After all, it was a most amusing incident," he said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000062_000002|I must remember that.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000062_000003|I'll serve you with the same spoon some day, at least I would if I thought it sportsmanlike.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000063_000000|Captain Puffin helped himself to rather more than half of what now remained in the flask.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000064_000000|"Help yourself, Major," he said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000065_000000|"Well, thank ye, I don't mind if I do," he said, reversing the flask over the tumbler.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000065_000001|"There's a good tramp in front of us now that the last tram has gone.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000065_000002|Tram and tramp!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000065_000003|Upon my word, I've half a mind to telephone for a taxi."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000002|This casual drink did not constitute the usual drink stood by the winner, and paid for with cash over the counter.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000003|A drink (or two) from a flask was not the same thing. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000004|Puffin naturally saw it in another light.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000005|He had paid for the whisky which Major Flink had drunk (or owed for it) in his wine merchant's bill.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000006|That was money just as much as a florin pushed across the counter.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000007|But he was so excessively pleased with himself over the adroitness with which he had claimed the last hole, that he quite overstepped the bounds of his habitual parsimony.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000068_000000|"Done with you," said the other.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000070_000000|"Lunching at the Poppit's to morrow?" asked Major Flint.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000071_000001|Meet you there?
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000071_000002|Good.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000071_000003|Bridge afterwards I suppose."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000072_000000|"Sure to be.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000074_000000|"Camouflage for the fair sex," he said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000074_000001|"A woman will lick up half a bottle of brandy if it's called plum pudding, and ask for more, whereas if you offered her a small brandy and soda, she would think you were insulting her."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000075_000000|"Bless them, the funny little fairies," said the Major.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000076_000000|"Well, what I tell you is true, Major," said Puffin.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000076_000001|"There's old Mapp.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000077_000000|"So she was," said the Major.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000077_000002|Said good bye to us on her doorstep as if she thought she was a perfect Venus Ana-Ana something."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000081_000000|"Now none of your sailor talk ashore, Captain," said the Major, in high good humour.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000081_000001|"I'm not a marrying man any more than you are. Better if I had been perhaps, more years ago than I care to think about.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000081_000002|Dear me, my wound's going to trouble me to night."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000083_000001|Think of old times a bit over my diaries."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000085_000000|"No, sir, I am not," said Major Flint.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000085_000001|"Perhaps a hundred years hence-the date I have named in my will for their publication- someone may think them not so uninteresting.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000089_000000|The ice was not broken, but it was cracking in all directions under this unexampled thaw.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000089_000001|The two had clearly indicated a mutual suspicion of each other's industrious habits after dinner. . . . They had never got quite so far as this before: some quarrel had congealed the surface again.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000090_000000|"Yes, that's true enough," said Puffin.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000090_000001|"Long roads they were, and dry roads at that, and if I stuck to them from after my supper every evening till midnight or more I should be smothered in dust."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000091_000000|"Unless you washed the dust down just once in a while," said Major Flint.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000000|"Just so.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000001|Brain work's an exhausting process; requires a little stimulant now and again," said Puffin.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000002|"I sit in my chair, you understand, and perhaps doze for a bit after my supper, and then I'll get my maps out, and have them handy beside me.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000006|Tiresome to go into long explanations.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000007|In fact," added Puffin in a burst of confidence, "the study I've done on Roman roads these last six months wouldn't cover a threepenny piece."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000093_000000|Major Flint gave a loud, choking guffaw and beat his fat leg.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000094_000000|"Well, if that's not the best joke I've heard for many a long day," he said.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000094_000001|"There I've been in the house opposite you these last two years, seeing your light burning late night after night, and thinking to myself: 'There's my friend Puffin still at it!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000094_000002|Fine thing to be an enthusiastic archæologist like that.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000095_000000|Puffin added his falsetto cackle to this merriment.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000097_000000|The Major's laughter boomed out again.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000000|"And I never kept a diary in my life!" he cried.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000001|"Why there's enough cream in this situation to make a dishful of meringues.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000002|You and I, you know, the students of Tilling!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000005|Recommended me to get earlier to bed, and do my work between six and eight in the morning!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000006|Six and eight in the morning!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000007|That's a queer time of day to recommend an old campaigner to be awake at!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000008|Often she's talked to you, too, I bet my hat, about sitting up late and exhausting the nervous faculties."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000099_000000|Major Flint choked and laughed and inhaled tobacco smoke till he got purple in the face.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000000|"And you sitting up one side of the street," he gasped, "pretending to be interested in Roman roads, and me on the other pulling a long face over my diaries, and neither of us with a Roman road or a diary to our names.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000001|Let's have an end to such unsociable arrangements, old friend; you lining your Roman roads and the bottle to lay the dust over to me one night, and I'll bring my diaries and my peg over to you the next.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000004|I'm blessed if I ever heard of two such pompous old frauds as you and I, Captain!
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000007|But no more solitary confinement of an evening for Benjamin Flint, as long as you're agreeable."
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000101_000000|The advent of the taxi was announced, and arm in arm they limped down the steep path together to the road.
train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000101_000001|A little way off to the left was the great bunker which, primarily, was the cause of their present amity.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000003|The window of his bedroom was dark too: he must have already put out his light, and Miss Mapp made haste over her little tidyings so that she might not be found a transgressor to her own precepts.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000004|But there was a light in Captain Puffin's house: he had a less impressionable nature than the Major and was in so many ways far inferior.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000006|Miss Mapp sincerely hoped that he did, and that it was nothing else of less pure and innocent allurement that kept him up. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000008|But she would now cross him-dear man-and his late habits, out of the list of riddles about Tilling which awaited solution.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000009|Whatever it had been (diaries or what not) that used to keep him up, he had broken the habit now, whereas Captain Puffin had not.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000010|She took her poppy bordered skirt over her arm, and smiled her thankful way to bed.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000011|She could allow herself to wonder with a little more definiteness, now that the Major's lights were out and he was abed, what it could be which rendered Captain Puffin so oblivious to the passage of time, when he was investigating Roman roads.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000012|How glad she was that the Major was not with him. . . . "Benjamin Flint!" she said to herself as, having put her window open, she trod softly (so as not to disturb the slumberer next door) across her room on her fat white feet to her big white bed. "Good night, Major Benjy," she whispered, as she put her light out.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000003_000002|"But we've had a good supply all the summer," added agreeable mr Wootten, "and all my customers have got their cellars well stocked."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000005_000000|"Oh, but, mr Wootten," she said, "Miss Mapp popped-dropped in to see me just now.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000005_000001|Told me she had hardly got any."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000006_000000|mr Wootten turned up his ledger.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000006_000001|It was not etiquette to disclose the affairs of one client to another, but if there was a cantankerous customer, one who was never satisfied with prices and quality, that client was Miss Mapp. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000007_000000|He allowed a broad grin to overspread his agreeable face.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000008_000000|"Well, ma'am, if in a month's time I'm short of coal, there are friends of yours in Tilling who can let you have plenty," he permitted himself to say. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000009_000001|Had she not been so prudent as to make inquiries, as likely as not she would have sent a ton of coal that very day to the hospital, so strongly had Elizabeth's perfidious warning inflamed her imagination as to the fate of hoarders, and all the time Elizabeth's own cellars were glutted, though she had asserted that she was almost fuelless.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000009_000003|And all because of a wretched piece of rose madder worsted. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000010_000000|By degrees she calmed down, for it was no use attempting to plan revenge with a brain at fever heat.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000010_000002|As the cooling process went on she began to wonder whether it was worsted alone that had prompted her friend's diabolical suggestion.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000010_000003|It seemed more likely that another motive (one strangely Elizabethan) was the cause of it.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000011_000001|He spoke in a lucid telephone voice.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000012_000000|"We've only two of the big tins of corned beef," he said; and there was a pause, during which, to a psychic, Diva's ears might have seemed to grow as pointed with attention as a satyr's.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000012_000001|But she could only hear little hollow quacks from the other end.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000013_000000|"Tongue as well.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000013_000001|Very good.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000013_000002|I'll send them up at once," he added, and came forward into the shop.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000000|"Good morning," said Diva.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000001|Her voice was tremulous with anxiety and investigation.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000002|"Got any big tins of corned beef?
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000003|The ones that contain six pounds."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000015_000000|"Very sorry, ma'am.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000015_000001|We've only got two, and they've just been ordered."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000016_000000|"A small pot of ginger then, please," said Diva recklessly.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000016_000001|"Will you send it round immediately?"
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000017_000000|"Yes, ma'am.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000017_000001|The boy's just going out."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000018_000000|That was luck.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000018_000002|This was a favourite place for observation, for you appeared to be quite taken up by the topics of the day, and kept an oblique eye on the true object of your scrutiny. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000019_000000|Having refreshed himself he turned up the steep street.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000020_000001|He had no errand to the Major's house or to the Captain's.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000020_000004|He put the basket on his head and came down the street again, shrilly whistling.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000021_000000|Now she had already noticed that Elizabeth had paid visits to the grocer's on three consecutive days (three consecutive days: think of it!), and given that her purchases on other occasions had been on the same substantial scale as to day, it became a matter of thrilling interest as to where she kept these stores.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000021_000001|She could not keep them in the coal cellar, for that was already bursting with coal, and Diva, who had assisted her (the base one) in making a prodigious quantity of jam that year from her well stocked garden, was aware that the kitchen cupboards were like to be as replete as the coal cellar, before those hoardings of dead oxen began.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000021_000002|Then there was the big cupboard under the stairs, but that could scarcely be the site of this prodigious cache, for it was full of cardboard and curtains and carpets and all the rubbishy accumulations which Elizabeth could not bear to part with.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000022_000002|It lay embedded in the wall of the garden room, cloaked and concealed behind the shelves of a false book case, which contained no more than the simulacra of books, just books with titles that had never yet appeared on any honest book.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000022_000003|There were twelve volumes of "The Beauties of Nature", a shelf full of "Elegant Extracts", there were volumes simply called "Poems", there were "Commentaries", there were "Travels" and "Astronomy" and the lowest and tallest shelf was full of "Music".
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000023_000000|She attacked her chintz curtains again with her appetite for the pink roses agreeably whetted.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000023_000001|Another hour's work would give her sufficient bunches for her purpose, and unless the dyer was as perfidious as Elizabeth, her now purple jacket and skirt would arrive that afternoon.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000024_000002|She would attempt it, anyhow, and if it proved to be beyond her, she could entrust the more difficult parts to that little dressmaker whom Elizabeth employed, and who was certainly very capable.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000001|It was certainly very odd that, having gone to bed at so respectable an hour last night, he should be calling for his porridge only now, but with an impulse of unusual optimism, she figured him as having been at work on his diaries before breakfast, and in that absorbing occupation having forgotten how late it was growing.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000002|That, no doubt, was the explanation, though it would be nice to know for certain, if the information positively forced itself on her notice. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000004|Sometimes in moments of gallantry he called her "Miss Elizabeth", and she meant, when she had got accustomed to it by practice, to say "Major Benjy" to him by accident, and he would, no doubt, beg her to make a habit of that friendly slip of the tongue. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000005|"Tongue" led to a new train of thought, and presently she paused in her work, and pulling the card table away from the deceptive book case, she pressed the concealed catch of the door, and peeped in.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000000|There was still room for further small precautions against starvation owing to the impending coal strike, and she took stock of her provisions.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000002|This with considerable exertion she transferred to a high shelf in the cupboard, instead of allowing it to remain standing on the floor, for Withers had informed her of an unpleasant rumour about a mouse, which Mary had observed, lost in thought in front of the cupboard.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000003|"So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now," thought Miss Mapp.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000004|"Mousie shall try his teeth on tins." . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000005|There was tea and coffee in abundance, jars of jam filled the kitchen shelves, and if this morning she laid in a moderate supply of dried fruits, there was no reason to face the future with anything but fortitude.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000006|She would see about that now, for, busy though she was, she could not miss the shopping parade.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000009|That would be fun!
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000027_000001|That made it clear that he was still at breakfast, and that if he had been working at his diaries in the fresh morning hours and forgetting the time, early rising, in spite of his early retirement last night, could not be supposed to suit his Oriental temper.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000027_000002|But a change of habits was invariably known to be upsetting, and Miss Mapp was hopeful that in a day or two he would feel quite a different man.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000027_000003|Farther down the street was quaint Irene lounging at the door of her new studio (a converted coach house), smoking a cigarette and dressed like a jockey.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000028_000001|"Come and have a look round my new studio.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000028_000002|You haven't seen it yet.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000028_000004|Bridge party!"
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000029_000000|Miss Mapp tried to steel herself for the hundredth time to appear quite unconscious that she was being addressed when Irene said "Mapp" in that odious manner.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000029_000001|But she never could summon up sufficient nerve to be rude to so awful a mimic. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000030_000000|"Good morning, dear one," she said sycophantically.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000030_000001|"Shall I peep in for a moment?"
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000001|There was a German stove in the corner made of pink porcelain, the rafters and roof were painted scarlet, the walls were of magenta distemper and the floor was blue.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000002|In the corner was a very large orange coloured screen.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000003|The walls were hung with specimens of Irene's art, there was a stout female with no clothes on at all, whom it was impossible not to recognize as being Lucy; there were studies of fat legs and ample bosoms, and on the easel was a picture, evidently in process of completion, which represented a man.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000004|From this Miss Mapp instantly averted her eyes.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000033_000000|Miss Mapp naturally guessed that the gentleman who was almost in the same costume was Adam, and turned completely away from him.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000034_000000|"And what a lovely idea to have a blue floor, dear," she said. "How original you are.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000034_000001|And that pretty scarlet ceiling.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000035_000000|"Not a bit: they stimulate your sense of colour."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000036_000000|Miss Mapp moved towards the screen.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000037_000000|"What a delicious big screen," she said.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000038_000000|"Yes, but don't go behind it, Mapp," said Irene, "or you'll see my model undressing."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000039_000001|Terrible though it all was, she was conscious of an unbridled curiosity to know who Adam was.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000039_000002|It was dreadful to think that there could be any man in Tilling so depraved as to stand to be looked at with so little on. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000042_000001|"How clever!
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000042_000002|Legs and things!
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000042_000003|But when you have your bridge party, won't you perhaps cover some of them up, or turn them to the wall?
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000000|They were approaching the corner of the room where the screen stood, when a movement there as if Adam had hit it with his elbow made Miss Mapp turn round.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000001|The screen fell flat on the ground and within a yard of her stood mr Hopkins, the proprietor of the fish shop just up the street.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000002|Often and often had Miss Mapp had pleasant little conversations with him, with a view to bringing down the price of flounders.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000003|He had little bathing drawers on. . . .
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000044_000000|"Hullo, Hopkins, are you ready," said Irene.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000044_000001|"You know Miss Mapp, don't you?"
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000045_000000|Miss Mapp had not imagined that Time and Eternity combined could hold so embarrassing a moment.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000045_000001|She did not know where to look, but wherever she looked, it should not be at Hopkins.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000045_000002|But (wherever she looked) she could not be unaware that Hopkins raised his large bare arm and touched the place where his cap would have been, if he had had one.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000046_000000|"Good morning, Hopkins," she said.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000046_000001|"Well, Irene darling, I must be trotting, and leave you to your-" she hardly knew what to call it- "to your work."
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000047_000000|She tripped from the room, which seemed to be entirely full of unclothed limbs, and redder than one of mr Hopkins's boiled lobsters hurried down the street.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000047_000002|Her head was in a whirl at the brazenness of mankind, especially womankind.
train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000047_000003|How had Irene started the overtures that led to this?
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000000_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000001_000000|Kirsty
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000000|My father had a housekeeper, a trusty woman, he considered her.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000002|I suppose she was about forty.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000003|She was not pleasant, for she was grim faced and censorious, with a very straight back, and a very long upper lip.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000004|Indeed the distance from her nose to her mouth was greater than the length of her nose.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000005|When I think of her first, it is always as making some complaint to my father against us.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000008|The consequence was that the older we grew, the more our minds were alienated from her, and the more we came to regard her as our enemy. If she really meant to be our friend after the best fashion she knew, it was at least an uncomely kind of friendship, that showed itself in constant opposition, fault finding, and complaint.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000009|The real mistake was that we were boys.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000010|There was something in her altogether antagonistic to the boy nature.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000013|On reflection, I think a little better; but the girl would have been worse off, because she could not have escaped from her as we did.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000003_000000|"Very well, mrs Mitchell; I will speak to them about it."
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000004_000002|Then he would set forth to us where we had been wrong, if we were wrong, and send us away with an injunction not to provoke mrs Mitchell, who couldn't help being short in her temper, poor thing!
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000005_000000|She was saving even to stinginess.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000007_000000|"God didn't make the fees, Kirsty!"
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000009_000000|Davie was silent for a while.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000009_000001|Then he opened his mouth and spake like a discontented prophet of old:
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000012_000000|All this set me thinking.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000012_000002|It was, in fact, the same question, only with a more important object in the eye of it.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000016_000000|"Oh! she's not a bad sort," said Kirsty; "though I must say, if I was her, I would try to be a little more agreeable."
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000017_000002|Oh! she was dear, and good, and kind, our Kirsty!
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000019_000000|And then her stories!
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000019_000001|There was nothing like them in all that countryside.
train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000019_000004|It was delight indeed to sit by her fire and listen to them. That would be after the men had had their supper, early of a winter night, and had gone, two of them to the village, and the other to attend to the horses.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000003_000000|Other Defects of the Present Confederation
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000004_000000|For the Independent Journal.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000004_000001|wednesday december twelfth seventeen eighty seven
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000005_000000|HAMILTON
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000007_000000|HAVING in the three last numbers taken a summary review of the principal circumstances and events which have depicted the genius and fate of other confederate governments, I shall now proceed in the enumeration of the most important of those defects which have hitherto disappointed our hopes from the system established among ourselves.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000007_000001|To form a safe and satisfactory judgment of the proper remedy, it is absolutely necessary that we should be well acquainted with the extent and malignity of the disease.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000008_000001|The United States, as now composed, have no powers to exact obedience, or punish disobedience to their resolutions, either by pecuniary mulcts, by a suspension or divestiture of privileges, or by any other constitutional mode.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000008_000004|It will appear, from the specimens which have been cited, that the American Confederacy, in this particular, stands discriminated from every other institution of a similar kind, and exhibits a new and unexampled phenomenon in the political world.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000009_000000|The want of a mutual guaranty of the State governments is another capital imperfection in the federal plan.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000001|Usurpation may rear its crest in each State, and trample upon the liberties of the people, while the national government could legally do nothing more than behold its encroachments with indignation and regret.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000002|A successful faction may erect a tyranny on the ruins of order and law, while no succor could constitutionally be afforded by the Union to the friends and supporters of the government.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000003|The tempestuous situation from which Massachusetts has scarcely emerged, evinces that dangers of this kind are not merely speculative.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000005|Who can predict what effect a despotism, established in Massachusetts, would have upon the liberties of New Hampshire or Rhode Island, of Connecticut or New York?
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000002|It could be no impediment to reforms of the State constitution by a majority of the people in a legal and peaceable mode.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000003|This right would remain undiminished.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000005|Towards the preventions of calamities of this kind, too many checks cannot be provided.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000006|The peace of society and the stability of government depend absolutely on the efficacy of the precautions adopted on this head.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000008|The natural cure for an ill administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000009|A guaranty by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and outrages of faction and sedition in the community.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000012_000002|I speak of it now solely with a view to equality among the States.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000012_000003|Those who have been accustomed to contemplate the circumstances which produce and constitute national wealth, must be satisfied that there is no common standard or barometer by which the degrees of it can be ascertained.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000014_000002|This, however, is an evil inseparable from the principle of quotas and requisitions.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000001|Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000002|The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000003|The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000004|If inequalities should arise in some States from duties on particular objects, these will, in all probability, be counterbalanced by proportional inequalities in other States, from the duties on other objects.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000016_000001|They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000016_000002|When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four." If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000016_000003|This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000000|Impositions of this kind usually fall under the denomination of indirect taxes, and must for a long time constitute the chief part of the revenue raised in this country.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000001|Those of the direct kind, which principally relate to land and buildings, may admit of a rule of apportionment. Either the value of land, or the number of the people, may serve as a standard.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000002|The state of agriculture and the populousness of a country have been considered as nearly connected with each other.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000003|And, as a rule, for the purpose intended, numbers, in the view of simplicity and certainty, are entitled to a preference.
train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000004|In every country it is a herculean task to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in improvement, the difficulties are increased almost to impracticability.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty two.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000000|IT WAS Friday night, and Diamond, like the rest of the household, had had very little to eat that day.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000001|The mother would always pay the week's rent before she laid out anything even on food.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000002|His father had been very gloomy-so gloomy that he had actually been cross to his wife.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000004|This comes of not having faith enough in God, and shows how necessary this faith is, for when we lose it, we lose even the kindness which alone can soothe the suffering.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000005|Diamond in consequence had gone to bed very quiet and thoughtful-a little troubled indeed.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000001|When Diamond went to his bed, which was in a tiny room in the roof, he heard it like the sea moaning; and when he fell asleep he still heard the moaning.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000002|All at once he said to himself, "Am I awake, or am I asleep?" But he had no time to answer the question, for there was North Wind calling him.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000004|He jumped out of bed, and looked everywhere, but could not see her.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000005|"Diamond, come here," she said again and again; but where the here was he could not tell.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000003_000000|"Dear North Wind," said Diamond, "I want so much to go to you, but I can't tell where."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000004_000000|"Come here, Diamond," was all her answer.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000005_000000|Diamond opened the door, and went out of the room, and down the stair and into the yard.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000005_000001|His little heart was in a flutter, for he had long given up all thought of seeing her again.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000005_000003|It blew him right up to the stable door, and went on blowing.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000006_000000|"She wants me to go into the stable," said Diamond to himself, "but the door is locked."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000007_000001|He ran to the place, however: just as he reached it there came a wild blast, and down fell the key clanging on the stones at his feet.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000007_000002|He picked it up, and ran back and opened the stable door, and went in.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000008_000002|This is what he saw.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000009_000000|But what do you think he heard?
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000010_000000|He heard the two horses talking to each other-in a strange language, which yet, somehow or other, he could understand, and turn over in his mind in English.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000010_000001|The first words he heard were from Diamond, who apparently had been already quarrelling with Ruby.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000012_000000|"There's no harm in being fat," said Ruby in a deprecating tone.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000013_000000|"No harm?" retorted Diamond.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000014_000001|"I must attend to my own master's interests, and eat all that is given me, and be sleek and fat as I can, and go no faster than I need."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000000|"Now really if the rest of the horses weren't all asleep, poor things-they work till they're tired-I do believe they would get up and kick you out of the stable.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000001|You make me ashamed of being a horse.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000002|You dare to say my master ain't your master!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000003|That's your gratitude for the way he feeds you and spares you!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000004|Pray where would your carcass be if it weren't for him?"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000016_000000|"He doesn't do it for my sake.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000016_000001|If I were his own horse, he would work me as hard as he does you."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000000|"And I'm proud to be so worked.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000004|He's something like a horse-all skin and bone.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000005|And his master ain't over kind to him either.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000006|He put a stinging lash on his whip last week.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000007|But that old horse knows he's got the wife and children to keep-as well as his drunken master-and he works like a horse.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000008|I daresay he grudges his master the beer he drinks, but I don't believe he grudges anything else."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000018_000000|"Well, I don't grudge yours what he gets by me," said Ruby.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000019_000000|"Gets!" retorted Diamond.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000019_000001|"What he gets isn't worth grudging.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000019_000002|It comes to next to nothing-what with your fat and shine.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000020_000000|"Well, at least you ought to be thankful you're the better for it.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000021_000001|You go along like a buttock of beef upon castors-you do."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000000|"Kick!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000002|You might heave your rump up half a foot, but for lashing out-oho!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000004|It's my belief, once out, they'd stick out for ever.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000005|Talk of kicking!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000006|Why don't you put one foot before the other now and then when you're in the cab?
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000007|The abuse master gets for your sake is quite shameful.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000008|No decent horse would bring it on him.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000009|Depend upon it, Ruby, no cabman likes to be abused any more than his fare.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000011|Indeed they are."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000024_000000|"Well, you see, Diamond, I don't want to go lame again."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000025_000000|"I don't believe you were so very lame after all-there!"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000026_000000|"Oh, but I was."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000000|"Then I believe it was all your own fault.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000005|There you are with your huge carcass crushing down your poor legs all night long.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000006|You don't even care for your own legs-so long as you can eat, eat, and sleep, sleep.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000007|You a horse indeed!"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000028_000000|"But I tell you I was lame."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000029_000001|But my belief is, it wasn't even grease-it was fat."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000030_000000|"I tell you I put my foot on one of those horrid stones they make the roads with, and it gave my ankle such a twist."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000000|"Ankle indeed!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000001|Why should you ape your betters?
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000003|And so long as you don't lift your feet better, but fall asleep between every step, you'll run a good chance of laming all your ankles as you call them, one after another.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000004|It's not your lively horse that comes to grief in that way.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000005|I tell you I believe it wasn't much, and if it was, it was your own fault.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000006|There!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000008|I'll try to think as well of you as I can.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000009|If you would but step out a bit and run off a little of your fat!"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000032_000000|"I say, Diamond, I can't bear to have an honest old horse like you think of me like that.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000032_000001|I will tell you the truth: it was my own fault that I fell lame."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000035_000000|At the words, the old horse arose with a scramble like thunder, shot his angry head and glaring eye over into Ruby's stall, and said-
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000000|"You grease tub!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000002|I thought you were a humbug!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000003|Why did you want to get fat?
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000004|There's no truth to be got out of you but by cross questioning.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000005|You ain't fit to be a horse."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000039_000000|"Because once I am fat, my nature is to keep fat for a long time; and I didn't know when master might come home and want to see me."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000000|"You conceited, good for nothing brute!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000001|You're only fit for the knacker's yard.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000002|You wanted to look handsome, did you?
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000003|Hold your tongue, or I'll break my halter and be at you-with your handsome fat!"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000041_000000|"Never mind, Diamond.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000041_000002|You can't hurt me."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000042_000000|"Can't hurt you!
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000042_000001|Just let me once try."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000043_000000|"No, you can't."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000044_000000|"Why then?"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000045_000000|"Because I'm an angel."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000046_000000|"What's that?"
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000047_000000|"Of course you don't know."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000000|"I know you don't.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000001|An ignorant, rude old human horse, like you, couldn't know it.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000002|But there's young Diamond listening to all we're saying; and he knows well enough there are horses in heaven for angels to ride upon, as well as other animals, lions and eagles and bulls, in more important situations.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000004|Well, I'm one of them."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000052_000000|"Never before.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000052_000001|But you've confessed to shamming lame."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000000|"Nothing of the sort.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000001|It was necessary I should grow fat, and necessary that good Joseph, your master, should grow lean.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000002|I could have pretended to be lame, but that no horse, least of all an angel horse would do.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000003|So I must be lame, and so I sprained my ankle-for the angel horses have ankles-they don't talk horse slang up there-and it hurt me very much, I assure you, Diamond, though you mayn't be good enough to be able to believe it."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000054_000000|Old Diamond made no reply.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000054_000002|When young Diamond found this, he thought he might venture to take up the dropt shuttlecock of the conversation.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000055_000000|"I'm good enough to believe it, Ruby," he said.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000056_000000|But Ruby never turned his head, or took any notice of him.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000056_000001|I suppose he did not understand more of English than just what the coachman and stableman were in the habit of addressing him with.
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000056_000002|Finding, however, that his companion made no reply, he shot his head over the partition and looking down at him said-
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000057_000000|"You just wait till to morrow, and you'll see whether I'm speaking the truth or not.--I declare the old horse is fast asleep!--Diamond!--No I won't."
train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000058_000000|Ruby turned away, and began pulling at his hayrack in silence.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty four.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000000_000001|IN THE COUNTRY
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000001_000000|BEFORE the end of the month, Ruby had got respectably thin, and Diamond respectably stout.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000001_000001|They really began to look fit for double harness.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000002_000000|Joseph and his wife got their affairs in order, and everything ready for migrating at the shortest notice; and they felt so peaceful and happy that they judged all the trouble they had gone through well worth enduring.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000002_000003|Besides, she was more attached to Jim than to Diamond: Jim was a reasonable being, Diamond in her eyes at best only an amiable, over grown baby, whom no amount of expostulation would ever bring to talk sense, not to say think it.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000002_000004|Now that she could manage the baby as well as he, she judged herself altogether his superior.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000003_000002|But when at length she went to live with Diamond's family, Jim was willing enough to go and see her.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000003_000003|It was after one of his visits, during which they had been talking of her new prospects, that Nanny expressed to Diamond her opinion of the country.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000007_000000|"Ain't they?
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000007_000001|They're so beautiful, they make you happy to look at them."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000009_000000|Diamond smiled with a far away look, as if he were gazing through clouds of green leaves and the vision contented him.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000010_000000|"Ah! how do you do, Diamond?" said mr Raymond; "I am glad to see you."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000011_000000|And he was indeed, for he had grown very fond of him.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000011_000001|His opinion of him was very different from Nanny's.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000014_000002|What is it now?"
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000015_000000|"There's a friend of Nanny's, a lame boy, called Jim."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000016_000000|"I've heard of him," said mr Raymond.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000016_000001|"Well?"
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000017_000000|"Nanny doesn't care much about going to the country, sir."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000020_000001|That is, if you can show good reason for it."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000021_000000|"He's a good boy, sir."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000022_000000|"Well, so much the better for him."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000023_000000|"I know he can shine boots, sir."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000024_000000|"So much the better for us."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000025_000000|"You want your boots shined in the country-don't you, sir?"
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000026_000000|"Yes, to be sure."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000027_000000|"It wouldn't be nice to walk over the flowers with dirty boots-would it, sir?"
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000031_000000|"Then Nanny would be better pleased to go, sir."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000032_000002|I don't quite see it."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000033_000000|"No, sir; I didn't mean that.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000033_000001|I meant, if you would take Jim with you to clean your boots, and do odd jobs, you know, sir, then Nanny would like it better.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000034_000000|"Now you come to the point, Diamond.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000034_000001|I see what you mean, exactly.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000034_000002|I will turn it over in my mind.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000035_000000|"I'll try, sir.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000036_000000|What mr Raymond thought, I dare hardly attempt to put down here.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000037_000001|People's kind to lame boys, you know, sir.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000037_000002|But after dark, there ain't so much doing."
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000038_000000|Diamond succeeded in bringing Jim to mr Raymond, and the consequence was that he resolved to give the boy a chance.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000038_000002|All I will say is, that Diamond, who is my only care, was full of quiet delight-a gladness too deep to talk about.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000040_000002|So they have their fun over, and are ready to go to bed again by the time the trees are dressed.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000040_000004|But all the time, he was dreaming of the country at the back of the north wind, and trying to recall the songs the river used to sing.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000041_000000|These were very different times from those when he used to drive the cab, but you must not suppose that Diamond was idle.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000041_000002|mr Raymond advised his father to give him plenty of liberty.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000043_000000|Joseph assented heartily, smiling to himself at the idea of pushing Diamond.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000043_000001|After doing everything that fell to his share, the boy had a wealth of time at his disposal.
train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000043_000002|And a happy, sometimes a merry time it was.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000003_000000|BARTON'S NIGHT ERRAND.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000005_000000|ANONYMOUS.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000000|The events recorded in the last chapter took place on a Tuesday.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000001|On Thursday afternoon Mary was surprised, in the midst of some little bustle in which she was engaged, by the entrance of Will Wilson. He looked strange, at least it was strange to see any different expression on his face to his usual joyous beaming appearance.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000002|He had a paper parcel in his hand.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000003|He came in, and sat down, more quietly than usual.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000007_000000|"Why, Will! what's the matter with you?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000007_000001|You seem quite cut up about something!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000008_000001|I'm come to say good bye; and few folk like to say good bye to them they love."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000009_000000|"Good bye!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000009_000001|Bless me, Will, that's sudden, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000010_000000|Mary left off ironing, and came and stood near the fire place.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000010_000001|She had always liked Will; but now it seemed as if a sudden spring of sisterly love had gushed up in her heart, so sorry did she feel to hear of his approaching departure.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000012_000001|"No, it isn't;" rousing himself, to think of what he was saying.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000012_000002|"The captain told me in a fortnight he would be ready to sail again; but it comes very sudden on me, I had got so fond of you all."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000013_000000|Mary understood the particular fondness that was thus generalised. She spoke again.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000014_000000|"But it's not a fortnight since you came.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000014_000001|Not a fortnight since you knocked at Jane Wilson's door, and I was there, you remember.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000014_000002|Nothing like a fortnight!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000001|But, you see, I got a letter this afternoon from Jack Harris, to tell me our ship sails on Tuesday next; and it's long since I promised my uncle (my mother's brother, him that lives at Kirk Christ, beyond Ramsay, in the Isle of Man) that I'd go and see him and his, this time of coming ashore.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000002|I must go.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000003|I'm sorry enough; but I mustn't slight poor mother's friends.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000004|I must go.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000005|Don't try to keep me," said he, evidently fearing the strength of his own resolution, if hard pressed by entreaty.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000016_000000|"I'm not a going, Will.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000017_000000|"To night.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000017_000001|I shan't see you again."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000018_000000|"To night! and you go to Liverpool!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000018_000001|May be you and father will go together.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000018_000002|He's going to Glasgow, by way of Liverpool."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000019_000000|"No! I'm walking; and I don't think your father will be up to walking."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000020_000001|You can get by railway for three and sixpence."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000001|"It's a fine clear night, and I shall set off betimes, and get in afore the Manx packet sails. Where's your father going?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000002|To Glasgow, did you say?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000003|Perhaps he and I may have a bit of a trip together then, for, if the Manx boat has sailed when I get into Liverpool, I shall go by a Scotch packet. What's he going to do in Glasgow?--Seek for work?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000004|Trade is as bad there as here, folk say."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000002|It's very hard to keep up one's heart.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000003|I wish I were a boy, I'd go to sea with you. It would be getting away from bad news at any rate; and now, there's hardly a creature that crosses the door step, but has something sad and unhappy to tell one.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000004|Father is going as a delegate from his Union, to ask help from the Glasgow folk.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000005|He's starting this evening."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000025_000000|"You say no one crosses the threshold but has something sad to say; you don't mean that Margaret Jennings has any trouble?" asked the young sailor, anxiously.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000026_000000|"No!" replied Mary, smiling a little, "she's the only one I know, I believe, who seems free from care.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000026_000001|Her blindness almost appears a blessing sometimes; she was so downhearted when she dreaded it, and now she seems so calm and happy when it's downright come.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000026_000002|No! Margaret's happy, I do think."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000027_000000|"I could almost wish it had been otherwise," said Will, thoughtfully. "I could have been so glad to comfort her, and cherish her, if she had been in trouble."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000028_000000|"And why can't you cherish her, even though she is happy?" asked Mary.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000029_000001|I don't know.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000029_000003|And her voice! When I hear it, and think of the wishes that are in my heart, it seems as much out of place to ask her to be my wife, as it would be to ask an angel from heaven."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000030_000000|Mary could not help laughing outright, in spite of her depression, at the idea of Margaret as an angel; it was so difficult (even to her dress making imagination) to fancy where, and how, the wings would be fastened to the brown stuff gown, or the blue and yellow print.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000031_000001|Then he said-
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000033_000001|It was unkind of him.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000033_000002|He did not notice her change of look and of complexion.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000034_000000|"I thought-I think, that when I come back from this voyage, I will speak.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000035_000000|Mary had a very decided opinion of her own on the subject, but she did not feel as if she had any right to give it.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000036_000000|"You must ask Margaret, not me, Will; she's never named your name to me." His countenance fell.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000036_000001|"But I should say that was a good sign from a girl like her.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000036_000002|I've no right to say what I think; but, if I was you, I would not leave her now without speaking."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000001|I cannot speak!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000002|I have tried.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000003|I've been in to wish them good bye, and my voice stuck in my throat.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000006|So, will you give it to her, Mary, when I'm gone?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000007|and, if you can slip in something tender,--something, you know, of what I feel,--may be she would listen to you, Mary."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000038_000000|Mary promised that she would do all that he asked.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000001|You'll often speak of me to her, Mary?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000002|And if I should meet with any mischance, tell her how dear, how very dear, she was to me, and bid her, for the sake of one who loved her well, try and comfort my poor aunt Alice.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000007|How pleased I used to be when she would take me into the fields with her to gather herbs! I've tasted tea in China since then, but it wasn't half so good as the herb tea she used to make for me o' Sunday nights.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000008|And she knew such a deal about plants and birds, and their ways!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000010|Dear! and how different it is!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000011|Here is she still in a back street o' Manchester, never likely to see her own home again; and I, a sailor, off for America next week.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000012|I wish she had been able to go to Burton once afore she died."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000040_000000|"She would may be have found all sadly changed," said Mary, though her heart echoed Will's feeling.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000041_000001|I dare say it's best.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000041_000003|Oh Mary! many a hasty word comes sorely back on the heart, when one thinks one shall never see the person whom one has grieved again!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000042_000000|They both stood thinking.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000042_000001|Suddenly Mary started.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000043_000000|"That's father's step.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000043_000001|And his shirt's not ready!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000044_000000|She hurried to her irons, and tried to make up for lost time.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000045_000000|john Barton came in.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000045_000002|He looked at Will, but spoke no word of greeting or welcome.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000046_000000|"I'm come to bid you good bye," said the sailor, and would in his sociable friendly humour have gone on speaking.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000046_000001|But john answered abruptly,
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000048_000000|There was that in his manner which left no doubt of his desire to get rid of the visitor, and Will accordingly shook hands with Mary, and looked at john, as if doubting how far to offer to shake hands with him.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000049_000000|"You'll think on me on Tuesday, Mary.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000049_000001|That's the day we shall hoist our blue peter, Jack Harris says."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000002|He was so restless; not speaking (she wished he would), but starting up and then sitting down, and meddling with her irons; he seemed so fierce, too, to judge from his face.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000003|She wondered if he disliked Will being there; or if he were vexed to find that she had not got further on with her work.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000004|At last she could bear his nervous way no longer, it made her equally nervous and fidgetty.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000005|She would speak.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000051_000000|"When are you going, father?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000052_000000|"And why shouldst thou know?" replied he, gruffly.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000053_000000|"I wanted to get you something to eat first," answered she, gently.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000054_000000|"Thou dost not know that I'm larning to do without food," said he.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000055_000000|Mary looked at him to see if he spoke jestingly.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000055_000001|No! he looked savagely grave.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000056_000000|She finished her bit of ironing, and began preparing the food she was sure her father needed; for by this time her experience in the degrees of hunger had taught her that his present irritability was increased, if not caused, by want of food.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000058_000000|"If thou'rt doing that for me, Mary, thou may'st spare thy labour.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000058_000001|I telled thee I were not for eating."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000059_000000|"Just a little bit, father, before starting," coaxed Mary, perseveringly.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000001|It was not often he came, but when he did pay visits, Mary knew from past experience they were any thing but short.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000002|Her father's countenance fell back into the deep gloom from which it was but just emerging at the sound of Mary's sweet voice, and pretty pleading.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000004|Job, however, did not stand upon ceremony.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000005|He had come to pay a visit, and was not to be daunted from his purpose.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000006|He was interested in john Barton's mission to Glasgow, and wanted to hear all about it; so he sat down, and made himself comfortable, in a manner that Mary saw was meant to be stationary.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000063_000000|"When art starting?"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000064_000000|"To night."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000065_000001|But by what train?"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000000|That was just what Mary wanted to know; but what apparently her father was in no mood to tell.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000001|He got up without speaking, and went up stairs.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000002|Mary knew from his step, and his way, how much he was put out, and feared Job would see it, too.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000003|But no! Job seemed imperturbable.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000004|So much the better, and perhaps she could cover her father's rudeness by her own civility to so kind a friend.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000068_000000|"When does thy father start, Mary?"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000069_000000|That plaguing question again.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000070_000001|I'm just getting him a bit of supper.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000070_000002|Is Margaret very well?"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000071_000000|"Yes, she's well enough.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000072_000000|"Yes, they've given him a sovereign.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000073_000003|there's no harm in that.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000073_000004|But then they won't let me be silly in peace and quietness, but will force me to be as wise as they are; now that's not British liberty, I say.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000073_000005|I'm forced to be wise according to their notions, else they parsecute me, and sarve me out."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000074_000000|What could her father be doing up stairs?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000074_000002|Or why did not Job go?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000074_000003|The supper would be spoilt.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000075_000000|But Job had no notion of going.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000000|"You see my folly is this, Mary.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000001|I would take what I could get; I think half a loaf is better than no bread.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000002|I would work for low wages rather than sit idle and starve.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000003|But, comes the Trades' Union, and says, 'Well, if you take the half loaf, we'll worry you out of your life.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000077_000000|Creak, creak, went the stairs.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000077_000001|Her father was coming down at last.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000078_000000|Yes, he came down, but more doggedly fierce than before, and made up for his journey, too; with his little bundle on his arm.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000078_000001|He went up to Job, and, more civilly than Mary expected, wished him good bye.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000078_000002|He then turned to her, and in a short cold manner, bade her farewell.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000079_000000|"Oh! father, don't go yet.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000079_000001|Your supper is all ready.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000079_000002|Stay one moment!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000080_000000|But he pushed her away, and was gone.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000080_000001|She followed him to the door, her eyes blinded by sudden tears; she stood there looking after him. He was so strange, so cold, so hard.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000080_000002|Suddenly, at the end of the court, he turned, and saw her standing there; he came back quickly, and took her in his arms.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000081_000000|"God bless thee, Mary!--God in heaven bless thee, poor child!" She threw her arms round his neck.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000082_000000|"Don't go yet, father; I can't bear you to go yet.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000082_000001|Come in, and eat some supper; you look so ghastly; dear father, do!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000000|"No," he said, faintly and mournfully.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000001|"It's best as it is.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000002|I couldn't eat, and it's best to be off.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000003|I cannot be still at home. I must be moving."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000084_000000|So saying, he unlaced her soft twining arms, and kissing her once more, set off on his fierce errand.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000000|And he was out of sight!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000001|She did not know why, but she had never before felt so depressed, so desolate.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000002|She turned in to Job, who sat there still.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000003|Her father, as soon as he was out of sight, slackened his pace, and fell into that heavy listless step, which told as well as words could do, of hopelessness and weakness.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000004|It was getting dark, but he loitered on, returning no greeting to any one.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000000|A child's cry caught his ear.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000001|His thoughts were running on little Tom; on the dead and buried child of happier years.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000003|So, aided by inquiries here and there from a passer by, he led and carried the little fellow home, where his mother had been too busy to miss him, but now received him with thankfulness, and with an eloquent Irish blessing.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000004|When john heard the words of blessing, he shook his head mournfully, and turned away to retrace his steps.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000087_000000|Let us leave him.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000088_000000|Mary took her sewing after he had gone, and sat on, and sat on, trying to listen to Job, who was more inclined to talk than usual. She had conquered her feeling of impatience towards him so far as to be able to offer him her father's rejected supper; and she even tried to eat herself.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000088_000001|But her heart failed her.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000088_000002|A leaden weight seemed to hang over her; a sort of presentiment of evil, or perhaps only an excess of low spirited feeling in consequence of the two departures which had taken place that afternoon.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000089_000000|She wondered how long Job Legh would sit.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000089_000001|She did not like putting down her work, and crying before him, and yet she had never in her life longed so much to be alone in order to indulge in a good hearty burst of tears.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000090_000001|Only I wonder as Margaret is not come back."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000091_000000|"But perhaps she is," suggested Mary.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000092_000001|Look ye here!" and he pulled out the great house key.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000094_000001|At first I were afraid o' trusting her, and I used to follow her a bit behind; never letting on, of course.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000094_000002|But, bless you! she goes along as steadily as can be; rather slow, to be sure, and her head a bit on one side as if she were listening.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000094_000005|Hark! that's her!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000096_000000|"What's the matter, my wench?" said Job, hastily.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000097_000000|"Oh! grandfather!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000097_000001|Alice Wilson's so bad!" She could say no more, for her breathless agitation.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000098_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000098_000001|Do tell us, Margaret!" said Mary, placing her in a chair, and loosening her bonnet strings.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000101_000001|She spoke a bit, but not much; but that were only natural, for mrs Wilson likes to have the talk to hersel, you know.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000102_000000|"Where was Jem?
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000102_000001|Why didn't he go for the doctor?"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000000|"No, no," said Margaret.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000001|"But, oh!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000002|grandfather; it's now I feel how hard it is to have lost my sight.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000003|I should have so loved to nurse her; and I did try, until I found I did more harm than good.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000004|Oh! grandfather; if I could but see!"
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000106_000000|She sobbed a little; and they let her give that ease to her heart. Then she went on-
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000107_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000107_000001|I went round by mrs Davenport's, and she were hard at work; but, the minute I told my errand, she were ready and willing to go to Jane Wilson, and stop up all night with Alice."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000108_000000|"And what does the doctor say?" asked Mary.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000109_000001|He's ordered her leeches to her head."
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000110_000000|Margaret, having told her tale, leant back with weariness, both of body and mind.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000110_000001|Mary hastened to make her a cup of tea; while Job, lately so talkative, sat quiet and mournfully silent.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000113_000001|"It's perhaps as well he shouldn't see her now, for they say her face is sadly drawn.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000000|With a few more sorrowful remarks they separated for the night, and Mary was left alone in her house, to meditate on the heavy day that had passed over her head.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000002|Will gone; her father gone-and so strangely too!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000003|And to a place so mysteriously distant as Glasgow seemed to be to her!
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000004|She had felt his presence as a protection against Harry Carson and his threats; and now she dreaded lest he should learn she was alone.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000005|Her heart began to despair, too, about Jem.
train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000006|She feared he had ceased to love her; and she-she only loved him more and more for his seeming neglect.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000001_000000|Some Grave Talk In Gay Company
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000002_000004|He shook hands with her warmly, and looked inquiringly in her face, and then drew her into a quiet corner in a window seat, where they could talk without being much observed.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000002_000005|Elsie did not sit beside them, but left them to their own conversation, assured that she would hear all that she cared to know by and by; yet she was not neglected, for Miss Rennie had taken a great fancy to her, and was determined, if possible, to get her partners.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000002_000007|Miss Rennie had judged hardly of Jane's personal appearance at first sight, but she thought Elsie a most elegant and interesting creature.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000005_000000|"No news," said Jane.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000005_000001|"I wrote to you of Elsie's last bitter disappointment.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000008_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000008_000001|Jane, my cup of prosperity has very many bitter drops in it."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000009_000001|If any one had told me beforehand of these months that I have passed since my uncle's death, I should have thought them absolutely intolerable, and would have preferred death. But there is no human lot without its mitigations and ameliorations. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000009_000002|I am not happy, perhaps; but I am not miserable.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000009_000005|He will make a figure in the world, and I will help him to do so.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000012_000000|"Very much, indeed; all the more as I acquired the language.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000018_000000|"So far as I can see, she appears to be happy.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000021_000000|"Indeed!" said Jane, "I thought it would have pleased you to be acknowledged."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000022_000001|I had a mother who did not care for me, and a father who did his duty, as he fancied, by me, but who disliked me, and they appear to have hated one another."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000024_000002|She was prettier than her daughter, at least in repose; but neither of them were at all like my ideal; for I forgot the French class of face, and embodied my fancy portraits in an English type."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000026_000000|"Very much, indeed.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000026_000001|The art of conversing these French people carry to great perfection.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000028_000004|I should like to try an experiment.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000028_000005|You know that sand flat, that is worth very little but for scanty pasture, at the back of the Black Hill, as it is called.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000029_000000|"What an excellent idea!" said Jane.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000030_000002|I have got plans for the cottages which I wanted you to look at this morning; I think they will do."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000031_000000|"You must let Peggy see them; she was brought up in one of those cottages you speak of, and will know all their deficiencies.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000031_000001|It will set a good example to the neighbourhood," said Jane.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000032_000000|"And, after all, it will not cost me more to build these cottages, and make thirty families more comfortable and more self respecting, than it would to enlarge Cross Hall, as mr Chalmers advises me strongly to do-by building a new wing and adding a conservatory in the place of your modest little greenhouse.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000032_000003|Our picked men, and many of our picked women, emigrate to America and Australia.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000032_000005|I confess that if I were in their place I should do the same; but let my experiment succeed, it may be imitated."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000033_000001|I will watch the result with the greatest interest.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000033_000002|You know nothing could give me greater pleasure than your success in such a noble work," said Jane, with sparkling eyes.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000037_000002|For myself, I think just as highly of my own abilities and acquirements as ever I did.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000037_000003|I am sorry that your minister has left his church, for I hoped to become acquainted with him; and he looked so cheerful that I thought he might do Elsie good. This new clergyman does not strike me as being so genial or kindly, though I certainly like his sermons and his devotional services very much.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000038_000000|"Can you not place your sister in the same care?" asked Francis.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000041_000000|"How did our friends get acquainted with mr Dalzell?" said Jane.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000043_000001|mr Dalzell, I forgot you."
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000045_000002|Miss Wilson was ward of mrs Rennie's, as Jane had heard, a West Indian heiress, somewhat stupid, and very much impressed with her own wealth and importance.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000045_000004|She had just left school, having made all the progress which money without natural ability or any of the usual incentives to application could attain, and was to live at the Rennies', which she thought a very dull place.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000046_000000|"Now," said Miss Rennie, "I have done my best for mr Dalzell.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000046_000001|I must attend to my other stranger before I fulfil my engagement to you, mr Hogarth, and I hope you will excuse me, when it is to get a partner for Alice.
train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000046_000002|Miss Melville, I suppose, does not care about dancing, she is so dreadfully matter of fact.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000003_000000|It was not mere fancy on Jane's part that Elsie was ill and unhappy. She had magnanimously made up her mind to go to work with industry and spirit, and mrs Dunn was perfectly satisfied with her.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000003_000008|But they formed a pleasant little clique of their own, less exclusive than most cliques, and generally disposed to hold up each one his own particular colony as preferable to the others.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000003_000009|They might contrast it unfavourably with Britain, but as compared with the other colonies, it ought to bear the palm.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000004_000001|When she came home after a long day's work, she thought she ought to try to keep up a little of her sister's discipline with the Lowries, and went over their lessons with them.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000005_000001|It was not far from Peggy's house to mrs Dunn's place of business, and it was a very monotonous walk.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000005_000002|The white regular houses, all of one size and height, with their thousands of windows exactly on the same model, seemed always staring her out of countenance, and made her feel depressed even in the early morning.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000007_000001|Elsie would rather not have had dealings with so many old acquaintances, but mrs Dunn thought it was a just reward for her kindness that she had this increase of custom.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000009_000000|"It is really a case; Laura is engaged to mr Dalzell, your old friend and neighbour, and she is going to give one of her wedding orders here. mrs Dunn should be greatly obliged to you, for we never would have come to the house but for you.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000009_000004|After all, what better luck could she look for than to be married for her money?
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000010_000000|"Well, Laura dear, have you made up your mind about the dresses?" continued Miss Rennie, in a louder voice.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000011_000001|"I must keep to my own department."
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000012_000000|"Oh, Laura wants your taste to help us to decide; you know better what suits than mademoiselle," said Miss Rennie.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000016_000000|"This is one of your nieces, I suppose?" said Miss Rennie.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000017_000000|"Yes, this is Grace Forrester, my youngest niece, who has been doing so well at school, and been such a good girl altogether, that I must needs give her a new frock for a party she is invited to next week, and get it fashionably made, too, no doubt."
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000018_000001|We must go to the next room for Grace's frock," said Miss Rennie.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000022_000000|"I can make to please Peggy Walker," said Elsie, smiling; "but you will wish for more style-a compromise between fashion and comfort."
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000023_000001|"Are you still living with Peggy Walker?
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000024_000001|I hope, however, to see her soon, for mrs Phillips has been so good as to ask me to spend a few weeks in London, and mrs Dunn is going to spare me."
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000026_000001|"He told us about them."
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000027_000000|"Well, I'm not clear about the allotments; but the cottages I do most highly approve of, and I am coming upon my landlord to build me eight or nine, after the same plan, as near as may be.
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000027_000002|If I asked for five hundred pounds to add to the farmhouse, I would get it at once, for I am a good tenant; but my landlord demurred at such an expenditure for cot houses. I think I will carry my point, however."
train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000031_000000|dr Phillips had wished that Elsie should join her sister before she left Derbyshire, and spend a week or so at his house, for he had been so delighted with Jane that he had a desire to become acquainted with Elsie also; so that mr Brandon had come sooner than he had intended, and proposed an early departure.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000005_000000|THE LARGER SYNTHESIS
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000000|We have seen that the essential process arising out of the growth of science and mechanism, and more particularly out of the still developing new facilities of locomotion and communication science has afforded, is the deliquescence of the social organizations of the past, and the synthesis of ampler and still ampler and more complicated and still more complicated social unities.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000003|The nations and boundaries of to day do no more than mark claims to exemptions, privileges, and corners in the market-claims valid enough to those whose minds and souls are turned towards the past, but absurdities to those who look to the future as the end and justification of our present stresses.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000004|The claim to political liberty amounts, as a rule, to no more than the claim of a man to live in a parish without observing sanitary precautions or paying rates because he had an excellent great grandfather.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000005|Against all these old isolations, these obsolescent particularisms, the forces of mechanical and scientific development fight, and fight irresistibly; and upon the general recognition of this conflict, upon the intelligence and courage with which its inflexible conditions are negotiated, depends very largely the amount of bloodshed and avoidable misery the coming years will hold.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000007_000002|We may cherish animosities, we may declare imperishable distances, we may plot and counter plot, make war and "fight to a finish;" the net tightens for all that.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000000|Already the need of some synthesis at least ampler than existing national organizations is so apparent in the world, that at least five spacious movements of coalescence exist to day; there is the movement called Anglo Saxonism, the allied but finally very different movement of British Imperialism, the Pan Germanic movement, Pan Slavism, and the conception of a great union of the "Latin" peoples.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000001|Under the outrageous treatment of the white peoples an idea of unifying the "Yellow" peoples is pretty certain to become audibly and visibly operative before many years.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000002|These are all deliberate and justifiable suggestions, and they all aim to sacrifice minor differences in order to link like to like in greater matters, and so secure, if not physical predominance in the world, at least an effective defensive strength for their racial, moral, customary, or linguistic differences against the aggressions of other possible coalescences.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000007|The greater the social organism the more complex and varied its parts, the more intricate and varied the interplay of culture and breed and character within it.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000009_000003|And the difficulties in the way of the pan Slavic dream are far graver.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000009_000004|Its realization is enormously hampered by the division of its languages, and the fact that in the Bohemian language, in Polish and in Russian, there exist distinct literatures, almost equally splendid in achievement, but equally insufficient in quantity and range to establish a claim to replace all other Slavonic dialects.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000010_000001|She will be an Ireland without emigration, a place for famines.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000011_000000|So much for the Pan Slavic synthesis.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000012_000010|The intellectual development of the Germans is defined to a very large extent by a court directed officialdom.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000012_000014|A great number of fine and capable persons must be failing to develop, failing to tell, under the shadow of this too prepotent monarchy.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000012_000022|That, after all, is the vital question, and not whether her policy is wise or foolish, or her commercial development inflated or sound.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000000|Moreover, before Germany can unify to the East she must fight the Russian, and to unify to the West she must fight the French and perhaps the English, and she may have to fight a combination of these powers.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000002|Upon this matter m Bloch should be read.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000011|She will fight for Switzerland or Luxembourg, or the mouth of the Rhine.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000012|She will fight with the gravity of remembered humiliations, with the whole awakened Slav race at the back of her antagonist, and very probably with the support of the English speaking peoples.
train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000017_000004|Europe will have her Irelands as well as her Scotlands, her Irelands of unforgettable wrongs, kicking, squalling, bawling most desolatingly, for nothing that any one can understand. There will be great scope for the shareholding dilettanti, great opportunities for literary quacks, in "national" movements, language leagues, picturesque plotting, and the invention of such "national" costumes as the world has never seen.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000000_000001|Bread and Salt.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000003_000001|"But you," he said, "with that light dress, and without anything to cover you but that gauze scarf, perhaps you feel cold?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000004_000000|"Do you know where I am leading you?" said the countess, without replying to the question.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000005_000000|"No, madame," replied Monte Cristo; "but you see I make no resistance."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000007_000000|The count looked at Mercedes as if to interrogate her, but she continued to walk on in silence, and he refrained from speaking.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000007_000001|They reached the building, ornamented with magnificent fruits, which ripen at the beginning of July in the artificial temperature which takes the place of the sun, so frequently absent in our climate.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000007_000004|"Pray excuse me, madame," replied Monte Cristo, "but I never eat Muscatel grapes."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000008_000002|Mercedes drew near, and plucked the fruit.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000008_000003|"Take this peach, then," she said.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000011_000000|"But," said the countess, breathlessly, with her eyes fixed on Monte Cristo, whose arm she convulsively pressed with both hands, "we are friends, are we not?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000012_000000|The count became pale as death, the blood rushed to his heart, and then again rising, dyed his cheeks with crimson; his eyes swam like those of a man suddenly dazzled.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000012_000003|"Thank you," she said.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000012_000004|And they walked on again.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000015_000000|"Doubtless," replied the count, "since no one hears me complain."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000016_000000|"And your present happiness, has it softened your heart?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000017_000000|"My present happiness equals my past misery," said the count.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000018_000000|"Are you not married?" asked the countess.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000018_000001|"I, married?" exclaimed Monte Cristo, shuddering; "who could have told you so?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000020_000000|"She is a slave whom I bought at Constantinople, madame, the daughter of a prince.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000022_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000023_000000|"You have no sister-no son-no father?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000024_000000|"I have no one."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000026_000002|I thought she loved me well enough to wait for me, and even to remain faithful to my memory.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000026_000004|This is the history of most men who have passed twenty years of age.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000026_000005|Perhaps my heart was weaker than the hearts of most men, and I suffered more than they would have done in my place; that is all." The countess stopped for a moment, as if gasping for breath.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000027_000000|"Never."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000028_000000|"Never?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000029_000000|"I never returned to the country where she lived."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000030_000000|"To Malta?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000031_000000|"Yes; Malta."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000032_000000|"She is, then, now at Malta?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000033_000000|"I think so."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000035_000000|"Her,--yes."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000000|"I hate them?
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000002|The countess placed herself before Monte Cristo, still holding in her hand a portion of the perfumed grapes.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000003|"Take some," she said.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000004|"Madame, I never eat Muscatel grapes," replied Monte Cristo, as if the subject had not been mentioned before. The countess dashed the grapes into the nearest thicket, with a gesture of despair.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000006|Monte Cristo remained as unmoved as if the reproach had not been addressed to him.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000007|Albert at this moment ran in.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000008|"Oh, mother," he exclaimed, "such a misfortune has happened!"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000038_000000|"What?
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000038_000001|What has happened?" asked the countess, as though awakening from a sleep to the realities of life; "did you say a misfortune?
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000038_000002|Indeed, I should expect misfortunes."
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000040_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000046_000000|"Ah, indeed?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000048_000000|"Albert, Albert," said Madame de Morcerf, in a tone of mild reproof, "what are you saying?
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000048_000001|Ah, count, he esteems you so highly, tell him that he has spoken amiss." And she took two or three steps forward. Monte Cristo watched her with an air so thoughtful, and so full of affectionate admiration, that she turned back and grasped his hand; at the same time she seized that of her son, and joined them together.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000049_000000|"We are friends; are we not?" she asked.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000050_000000|"Oh, madame, I do not presume to call myself your friend, but at all times I am your most respectful servant." The countess left with an indescribable pang in her heart, and before she had taken ten steps the count saw her raise her handkerchief to her eyes.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000050_000001|"Do not my mother and you agree?" asked Albert, astonished.
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000051_000000|"On the contrary," replied the count, "did you not hear her declare that we were friends?"
train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000051_000001|They re-entered the drawing room, which Valentine and Madame de Villefort had just quitted.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000000|Reflection (reflexio) is not occupied about objects themselves, for the purpose of directly obtaining conceptions of them, but is that state of the mind in which we set ourselves to discover the subjective conditions under which we obtain conceptions.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000001|It is the consciousness of the relation of given representations to the different sources or faculties of cognition, by which alone their relation to each other can be rightly determined.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000002|The first question which occurs in considering our representations is to what faculty of cognition do they belong?
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000003|To the understanding or to the senses?
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000004|Many judgements are admitted to be true from mere habit or inclination; but, because reflection neither precedes nor follows, it is held to be a judgement that has its origin in the understanding.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000005|All judgements do not require examination, that is, investigation into the grounds of their truth.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000006|For, when they are immediately certain (for example: "Between two points there can be only one straight line"), no better or less mediate test of their truth can be found than that which they themselves contain and express.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000007|But all judgement, nay, all comparisons require reflection, that is, a distinction of the faculty of cognition to which the given conceptions belong.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000008|The act whereby I compare my representations with the faculty of cognition which originates them, and whereby I distinguish whether they are compared with each other as belonging to the pure understanding or to sensuous intuition, I term transcendental reflection.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000010|The proper determination of these relations rests on the question, to what faculty of cognition they subjectively belong, whether to sensibility or understanding?
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000011|For, on the manner in which we solve this question depends the manner in which we must cogitate these relations.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000005_000001|For this reason we ought to call these conceptions, conceptions of comparison (conceptus comparationis).
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000005_000006|We shall now proceed to fulfil this duty, and thereby throw not a little light on the question as to the determination of the proper business of the understanding.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000006_000000|one.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000006_000001|Identity and Difference.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000007_000001|Agreement and Opposition.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000000|three.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000001|The Internal and External.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000002|In an object of the pure understanding, only that is internal which has no relation (as regards its existence) to anything different from itself.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000004|Substance in space we are cognizant of only through forces operative in it, either drawing others towards itself (attraction), or preventing others from forcing into itself (repulsion and impenetrability).
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000006|But what other internal attributes of such an object can I think than those which my internal sense presents to me?
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000001|Matter and Form.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000002|These two conceptions lie at the foundation of all other reflection, so inseparably are they connected with every mode of exercising the understanding.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000003|The former denotes the determinable in general, the second its determination, both in a transcendental sense, abstraction being made of every difference in that which is given, and of the mode in which it is determined.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000004|Logicians formerly termed the universal, matter, the specific difference of this or that part of the universal, form.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000007|In respect to things in general, unlimited reality was regarded as the matter of all possibility, the limitation thereof (negation) as the form, by which one thing is distinguished from another according to transcendental conceptions.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000008|The understanding demands that something be given (at least in the conception), in order to be able to determine it in a certain manner.
train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000012|But being merely sensuous intuitions, in which we determine all objects solely as phenomena, the form of intuition (as a subjective property of sensibility) must antecede all matter (sensations), consequently space and time must antecede all phenomena and all data of experience, and rather make experience itself possible.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000002_000004|The Populace with loud Acclamations attended him to the Palace Gate.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000002_000005|The Queen, who had heard of his Arrival, was in the utmost Agony, between Hope and Despair.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000002_000008|Every Eye was surpriz'd, tho' charm'd at the same Time to see him again: But then none were to be admitted into the Assembly Room except the Knights.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000003_000001|As the Reputation of his being a Man of the strictest Honour and Veracity was so strongly imprinted on their Minds, the Motion of his Admittance was carried in the Affirmative, without the least Opposition.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000001|His reply was, that a Man of his Merit had something else to think on, than idle Riddles; 'twas enough for him, that he was acknowledg'd the Hero of the Circus.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000003|Nothing, said he, can be longer, since 'tis the Measure of Eternity; Nothing is shorter, since there is Time always wanting to accomplish what we aim at.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000005|It's Extent is to Infinity, in the Whole; and divisible to Infinity in part.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000006|All Men neglect it in the Passage; and all regret the Loss of it when 'tis past.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000007|Nothing can possibly be done without it; it buries in Oblivion whatever is unworthy of being transmitted down to Posterity; and it renders all illustrious Actions immortal.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000006_000000|The next Question that was started, was, What is the Thing we receive, without being ever thankful for it; which we enjoy, without knowing how we came by it; which we give away to others, without knowing where 'tis to be found; and which we lose, without being any ways conscious of our Misfortune?
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000007_000000|Each pass'd his Verdict.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000007_000003|What Pity 'tis, said some who were present, that one of so comprehensive a Genius, should make such a scurvy Cavalier?
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000008_000002|He imagin'd, it is plain, that it would do him more Honour than his own Green one.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000010_000001|The Queen and He ador'd the Divine Providence.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000012_000001|The envious Informer indeed, died with Shame and Vexation.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000012_000002|The Empire was glorious abroad, and in the full Enjoyment of Tranquility, Peace and Plenty, at home: This, in short, was the true golden Age.
train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000012_000003|The whole Country was sway'd by Love and Justice.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000000|After sensations and images, we have to name among the phenomena of consciousness, the whole series of affective states-our pleasures and our pains, our joys and our griefs, our sentiments, our emotions, and our passions.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000005|It is I who suffer, we say, I who complain, I who hope.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000006|It is true that this attribution is not absolutely characteristic of mental phenomena, for it happens that we put a part of our Ego into material objects, such as our bodies, and even into objects separate from our bodies, and whose sole relation to us is that of a legal proprietorship.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000007|We must guard against the somewhat frequent error of identifying the Ego with the psychical.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000000|These two reasons sufficiently explain the tendency to see only psychological states in the emotional ones; and, in fact, those authors who have sought to oppose mind to matter have not failed to introduce emotion into their parallel as representing the essence of mind.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000001|On this point I will recall the fine ironical image used by Tyndall, the illustrious English physicist, to show the abyss which separates thought from the molecular states of the brain.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000003|We should then know that when we love, a movement is produced in one direction, and when we hate, in another.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000004|But the Why would remain without an answer."
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000004_000000|The question of knowing what place in our metaphysical theory we ought to secure for emotion seems difficult to resolve, and we even find some pleasure in leaving it in suspense, in order that it may be understood that a metaphysician is not compelled to explain everything.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000004_000001|Besides, the difficulties which atop us here are peculiarly of a psychological order.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000004_000002|They proceed from the fact that studies on the nature of the emotions are still very little advanced. The physical conditions of these states are pretty well known, and their psychical and social effects have been abundantly described; but very little is known as to what distinguishes an emotion from a thought.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000005_000000|Two principal opinions may be upheld in the actual state of our acquaintance with the psychology of the feelings.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000005_000001|When we endeavour to penetrate their essential and final nature, we have a choice between two contrary theories.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000000|The second bears the name of the intellectualist theory.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000001|It consists in expunging the characteristic of the affective states.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000003|However, this particular point is of slight Importance.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000004|The intellectualist theory is more vast than Herbartism; it exists in all doctrines in which the characteristic difference between thought and feeling is expunged and feeling is brought back to thought.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000006|To perceive is, in fact, the property of intelligence; to reason, to imagine, to judge, to understand, is always, in a certain sense, to perceive.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000007|It has been imagined that emotion is nothing else than a perception of a certain kind, an intellectual act strictly comparable to the contemplation of a landscape.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000008|Only, in the place of a landscape with placid features you must put a storm, a cataclysm of nature; and, instead of supposing this storm outside us, let it burst within us, let it reach us, not by the outer senses of sight and condition, but by the inner senses.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000009|What we then perceive will be an emotion.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000002|Their theory, at first sight, appears singular, like everything which runs counter to our mental habits.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000005|Or it is the heart, which hastens or slackens its beats, or makes them irregular, or enfeebles, or augments them.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000007|Or else it is the secretion of the saliva or of the sweat, which flows in abundance or dries up.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000008|Or the muscular force, which is increased or decays.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000009|Or the almost undefinable organic troubles revealed to us by the singing in the ears, constriction of the epigastrium, the jerks, the trembling, vertigo, or nausea-all this collection of organic troubles which comes more or less confusedly to our consciousness under the form of tactile, muscular, thermal, and other sensations.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000010|Until now this category of phenomena has been somewhat neglected, because we saw in it effects and consequences of which the role in emotion itself seemed slight, since, if they could have been suppressed, it was supposed that emotion would still remain.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000011|The new theory commences by changing the order of events.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000013|The change is directed to the nature of emotion.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000014|It is considered to exist in the organic derangements indicated above.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000015|These derangements are the basis of emotion, its physical basis, and to be moved is to perceive them.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000016|Take away from the consciousness this physical reflex, and emotion ceases. It is no longer anything but an idea.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000009_000000|This theory has at least the merit of originality.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000009_000002|It eliminates all difference which may exist between a perception and an emotion.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000009_000003|Emotion is no longer anything but a certain kind of perception, the perception of the organic sensations.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000010_000000|This reduction, if admitted, would much facilitate the introduction of emotion into our system, which, being founded on the distinction between the consciousness and the object, is likewise an intellectualist system.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000010_000001|The definition of emotion, as it is taught by w james, seems expressly made for us who are seeking to resolve all intellectual states into physical impressions accompanied by consciousness.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000000|By the side of emotion we may place, as demanding the same analytical study, the feeling of effort.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000002|It is again the same author, that true genius, w james, who has attempted this reduction.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000003|I do not know whether he has taken into account the parallelism of the two theories, but it is nevertheless evident.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000005|To be conscious of an effort would then be nothing else than to receive all these centripetal sensations; and what proves this is, that the consciousness of effort when most clearly manifested is accompanied by some muscular energy, some strong contraction, or some respiratory trouble, and yields if we render the respiration again regular and put the muscles back into repose.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000000|To my great regret I can state nothing very clear regarding these problems.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000002|But we remain perplexed, and we ask ourselves whether this clearness of perception is not somewhat artificial, whether affectivity, emotivity, tendency, will, are really all reduced to perceptions, or whether they are not rather irreducible elements which should be added to the consciousness.
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000003|Does not, for instance, desire represent a complement of the consciousness?
train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000005|This question I leave unanswered.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000001_000000|JACOB BOeHMEN.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000000|It is now time to speak of Jacob Boehmen, who thought he could discover the secret of the transmutation of metals in the Bible, and who invented a strange heterogeneous doctrine of mingled alchymy and religion, and founded upon it the sect of the Aurea crucians.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000001|He was born at Goerlitz, in Upper Lusatia, in fifteen seventy five, and followed till his thirtieth year the occupation of a shoemaker.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000002|In this obscurity he remained, with the character of a visionary and a man of unsettled mind, until the promulgation of the Rosicrucian philosophy in his part of Germany, toward the year sixteen o seven or sixteen o eight.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000003|From that time he began to neglect his leather, and buried his brain under the rubbish of metaphysics.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000005|But he was nothing daunted by the miseries and privations of the flesh; his mind was fixed upon the beings of another sphere, and in thought he was already the new apostle of the human race.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000008|He contended that the divine grace operated by the same rules, and followed the same methods, that the divine providence observed in the natural world; and that the minds of men were purged from their vices and corruptions in the very same manner that metals were purified from their dross, namely, by fire.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000000|Besides the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders, he acknowledged various ranks and orders of demons.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000001|He pretended to invisibility and absolute chastity.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000005|He neglected this good advice, and continued his studies; burning minerals and purifying metals one day, and mystifying the Word of God on the next.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000006|He afterwards wrote three other works, as sublimely ridiculous as the first.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000005_000000|Boehmen died in sixteen twenty four, leaving behind him a considerable number of admiring disciples.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000007_000001|He applied to the States General to grant him a public audience, that he might explain the tenets of the sect, and disclose a plan for rendering Holland the happiest and richest country on the earth, by means of the philosopher's stone and the service of the elementary spirits.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000007_000002|The States General wisely resolved to have nothing to do with him.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000007_000003|He thereupon determined to shame them by printing his book, which he did at Leyden the same year.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000000|Poetry and romance are deeply indebted to the Rosicrucians for many a graceful creation.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000001|The literature of England, France, and Germany contains hundreds of sweet fictions, whose machinery has been borrowed from their day dreams.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000004|Sir Walter Scott also endowed the White Lady of Avenel with many of the attributes of the undines or water sprites.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000005|German romance and lyrical poetry teem with allusions to sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders; and the French have not been behind in substituting them, in works of fiction, for the more cumbrous mythology of Greece and Rome.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000007|Having these obligations to the Rosicrucians, no lover of poetry can wish, however absurd they were, that such a sect of philosophers had never existed.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000000|Just at the time that Michael Mayer was making known to the world the existence of such a body as the Rosicrucians, there was born in Italy a man who was afterwards destined to become the most conspicuous member of the fraternity.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000003|At the age of sixteen Joseph was sent to finish his education at the Jesuits' college in Rome, where he distinguished himself by his extraordinary memory.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000004|He learned every thing to which he applied himself with the utmost ease.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000007|By the aid of his friends he established himself as a physician in Rome, and also obtained some situation in the pope's household.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000011|At the age of thirty seven he found that he could not live by the practice of medicine, and began to look about for some other employment.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000000|All at once a sudden change was observed in his conduct.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000001|The abandoned rake put on the outward sedateness of a philosopher; the scoffing sinner proclaimed that he had forsaken his evil ways, and would live thenceforth a model of virtue.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000002|To his friends this reformation was as pleasing as it was unexpected; and Borri gave obscure hints that it had been brought about by some miraculous manifestation of a superior power.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000003|He pretended that he held converse with beneficent spirits; that the secrets of God and nature were revealed to him; and that he had obtained possession of the philosopher's stone.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000004|Like his predecessor, Jacob Boehmen, he mixed up religious questions with his philosophical jargon, and took measures for declaring himself the founder of a new sect.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000000|The reputation of his great sanctity had gone before him; and he found many persons ready to attach themselves to his fortunes.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000002|"Whoever shall refuse," said he, "to enter into my new sheepfold shall be destroyed by the papal armies, of whom God has predestined me to be the chief.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000003|To those who follow me all joy shall be granted.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000004|I shall soon bring my chemical studies to a happy conclusion, by the discovery of the philosopher's stone, and by this means we shall all have as much gold as we desire.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000005|I am assured of the aid of the angelic hosts, and more especially of the archangel Michael's.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000007|In sign of it I saw a palm tree, surrounded with all the glory of paradise.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000008|The angels come to me whenever I call, and reveal to me all the secrets of the universe.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000010|They were to the full as ridiculous as his philosophical pretensions.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000011|As the number of his followers increased, he appears to have cherished the idea of becoming one day a new Mahomet, and of founding, in his native city of Milan, a monarchy and religion of which he should be the king and the prophet.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000014_000001|Borri's trial proceeded in his absence, and lasted for upwards of two years.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000001|He afterwards went to Strasbourg, intending to fix his residence in that town.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000002|He was received with great cordiality, as a man persecuted for his religious opinions, and withal a great alchymist.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000003|He found that sphere too narrow for his aspiring genius, and retired in the same year to the more wealthy city of Amsterdam.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000008|He performed several able cures, and increased his reputation so much that he was vaunted as a prodigy.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000010|This hope never abandoned him, even in the worst extremity of his fortunes; and in his prosperity it led him into the most foolish expenses: but he could not long continue to live so magnificently upon the funds he had brought from Italy; and the philosopher's stone, though it promised all for the wants of the morrow, never brought any thing for the necessities of to day.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000012|With this diminution of splendour came a diminution of renown.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000016|Borri now thought it high time to change his quarters.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000017|With this view he borrowed money wherever he could get it, and succeeded in obtaining two hundred thousand florins from a merchant named De Meer, to aid, as he said, in discovering the water of life.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000018|He also obtained six diamonds of great value, on pretence that he could remove the flaws from them without diminishing their weight.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000019|With this booty he stole away secretly by night, and proceeded to Hamburgh.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000016_000000|On his arrival in that city, he found the celebrated Christina, the ex queen of Sweden.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000016_000001|He procured an introduction to her, and requested her patronage in his endeavour to discover the philosopher's stone.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000017_000000|This prince was a firm believer in the transmutation of metals.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000017_000004|He became in time much attached to him; and defended him from the jealous attacks of his courtiers, and the indignation of those who were grieved to see their monarch the easy dupe of a charlatan.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000017_000007|He lived six years in this manner at the court of Frederick; but that monarch dying in sixteen seventy he was left without a protector.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000001|He went first to Saxony; but met so little encouragement, and encountered so much danger from the emissaries of the Inquisition, that he did not remain there many months.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000004|In vain he protested his innocence, and divulged his real name and profession.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000005|He was detained in prison, and a letter despatched to the Emperor Leopold, to know what should be done with him.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000009|The request was complied with; and Borri, closely manacled, was sent under an escort of soldiers to the prison of the Inquisition at Rome.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000010|He was too much of an impostor to be deeply tinged with fanaticism, and was not unwilling to make a public recantation of his heresies, if he could thereby save his life.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000011|When the proposition was made to him, he accepted it with eagerness.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000015|Queen Christina, during her residence at Rome, frequently visited the old man, to converse with him upon chemistry and the doctrines of the Rosicrucians.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000016|She even obtained permission that he should leave his prison occasionally for a day or two, and reside in her palace, she being responsible for his return to captivity.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000017|She encouraged him to search for the great secret of the alchymists, and provided him with money for the purpose.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000018|It may well be supposed that Borri benefited most by this acquaintance, and that Christina got nothing but experience.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000000|Besides the pretenders to the philosopher's stone whose lives have been already narrated, this and the preceding century produced a great number of writers, who inundated literature with their books upon the subject.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000004|He says, that, sitting one day in his study, a man, who was dressed as a respectable burgher of North Holland, and very modest and simple in his appearance, called upon him, with the intention of dispelling his doubts relative to the philosopher's stone.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000010|After his departure, Helvetius procured a crucible and a portion of lead, into which, when in a state of fusion, he threw the stolen grain from the philosopher's stone.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000011|He was disappointed to find that the grain evaporated altogether, leaving the lead in its original state.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000023_000000|Some weeks afterwards, when he had almost forgotten the subject, he received another visit from the stranger.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000023_000003|They tried the experiment, and succeeded to their heart's content.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000023_000004|Helvetius repeated the experiment alone, and converted six ounces of lead into very pure gold.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000026_000002|All the alchymists were in arms immediately, to refute this formidable antagonist.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000027_000000|It was also pretended that Gustavus Adolphus transmuted a quantity of quicksilver into pure gold.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000027_000001|The learned Borrichius relates, that he saw coins which had been struck of this gold; and Lenglet du Fresnoy deposes to the same circumstance.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000029_000002|He pretended to find the elixir of life, and Louis expected by his means to have enjoyed the crown for a century.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000029_000003|Van Helmont also pretended to have once performed with success the process of transmuting quicksilver, and was in consequence invited by the Emperor Rudolph the second. to fix his residence at the court of Vienna.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000002|The trick to which they oftenest had recourse was to use a double bottomed crucible, the under surface being of iron or copper, and the upper one of wax, painted to resemble the same metal.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000003|Between the two they placed as much gold or silver dust as was necessary for their purpose.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000004|They then put in their lead, quicksilver, or other ingredients, and placed their pot upon the fire.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000006|The same result was produced in many other ways.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000007|Some of them used a hollow wand, filled with gold or silver dust, and stopped at the ends with wax or butter.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000031_000002|M. Geoffroy produced several of these nails to the Academy of Sciences, and shewed how nicely the two parts were soldered together.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000031_000004|A nail of this description was, for a long time, in the cabinet of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000031_000006|Nothing at one time was more common than to see coins, half gold and half silver, which had been operated upon by alchymists, for the same purposes of trickery.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000003_000003|He then disguised himself as a pilgrim, and returned to France.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000000|"I have something to relate to you, my dear cousin, which will be interesting to you and your friends.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000003|He turns lead into gold, and iron into silver, by merely heating these metals red hot, and pouring upon them in that state some oil and powder he is possessed of; so that it would not be impossible for any man to make a million a day, if he had sufficient of this wondrous mixture.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000005|He also sold twenty pounds weight of it to a merchant of Digne, named Taxis.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000008|He promised to give me one of them, in a long conversation which I had with him the other day, by order of the Bishop of Senes, who saw his operations with his own eyes, and detailed all the circumstances to me.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000002|This excellent workman received, a short time ago, a very kind letter from the superintendent of the royal household, which I read.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000003|He offered to use all his influence with the ministers to prevent any attempts upon his liberty, which has twice been attacked by the agents of government.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000006|He told me that it generally took him six months to make all his preparations.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000007|I told him that, apparently, the king wanted to see him.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000008|He replied that he could not exercise his art in every place, as a certain climate and temperature were absolutely necessary to his success. The truth is, that this man appears to have no ambition.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000009|He only keeps two horses and two men servants.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000010|Besides, he loves his liberty, has no politeness, and speaks very bad French; but his judgment seems to be solid.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000015|At all events, posterity will hear of him."
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000001|A good deal of that was only hearsay, but now I am enabled to speak from my own experience.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000002|I have in my possession a nail, half iron and half silver, which I made myself.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000004|All the country have their eyes upon this gentleman; some deny loudly, others are incredulous; but those who have seen acknowledge the truth.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000005|I have read the passport that has been sent to him from court, with orders that he should present himself at Paris early in the spring.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000006|He told me that he would go willingly, and that it was himself who fixed the spring for his departure; as he wanted to collect his materials, in order that, immediately on his introduction to the king, he might make an experiment worthy of his majesty, by converting a large quantity of lead into the finest gold.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000008|As I had the honour to dine with him on Thursday last, the twentieth of this month, being seated at his side, I told him in a whisper that he could, if he liked, humble all the enemies of France.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000009|He did not deny it, but began to smile.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000010|In fact, this man is the miracle of art.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000002|For five years this man was looked upon as a madman or a cheat; but the public mind is now disabused with respect to him.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000010|Delisle transmutes his metals in public.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000011|He rubs the lead or iron with his powder, and puts it over burning charcoal.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000013|Delisle is altogether an illiterate person.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000015|He is unpolite, fantastic, and a dreamer, and acts by fits and starts."
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000008_000000|Delisle, it would appear, was afraid of venturing to Paris.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000008_000001|He knew that his sleight of hand would be too narrowly watched in the royal presence; and upon some pretence or other he delayed the journey for more than two years.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000006|I offered him some iron nails, which he changed into silver in the chimney place before six or seven credible witnesses.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000008|Still, however, I was not quite satisfied.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000010|I therefore summoned the alchymist to come to me at Castellane.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000011|He came; and I had him escorted by eight or ten vigilant men, to whom I had given notice to watch his hands strictly. Before all of us he changed two pieces of lead into gold and silver.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000013|My former bad opinion of Delisle was now indeed shaken.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000016|A hundred persons in my diocese have been witnesses of these things.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000018|My reason was convinced by my eyes; and the phantoms of impossibility which I had conjured up were dissipated by the work of my own hands.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000006|This mere suspicion, without any proof whatever, had caused him to be condemned for contumacy; a common case enough with judges, who always proceed with much rigour against those who are absent.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000010|His year, strictly speaking, consists only of the four summer months; and when by any means he is prevented from making the proper use of them, he loses a whole year.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000012|What I have now told you, sir, removes the third objection, and is the reason why, at the present time, he cannot go to Paris to the king, in fulfilment of his promises made two years ago.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000013|Two, or even three, summers have been lost to him, owing to the continual inquietude he has laboured under.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000014|He has, in consequence, been unable to work, and has not collected a sufficient quantity of his oil and powder, or brought what he has got to the necessary degree of perfection.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000013_000000|"Permit me, sir, in conclusion, to repeat, that such an artist as this should not be driven to the last extremity, nor forced to seek an asylum offered to him in other countries, but which he has despised, as much from his own inclinations as from the advice I have given him.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000013_000001|You risk nothing in giving him a little time, and in hurrying him you may lose a great deal.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000016_000000|That Delisle was no ordinary impostor, but a man of consummate cunning and address, is very evident from this letter.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000016_000002|But this did not suit the plans of Delisle.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000016_000003|In the provinces he was regarded as a man of no small importance; the servile flattery that awaited him wherever he went was so grateful to his mind that he could not willingly relinquish it, and run upon certain detection at the court of the monarch.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000001|Delisle performed the part of a father towards him, and thought he could shew no stronger proof of his regard, than by giving him the necessary instructions to carry on the deception which had raised himself to such a pitch of greatness.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000003|He discoursed learnedly upon projections, cimentations, sublimations, the elixir of life, and the universal alkahest; and on the death of Delisle gave out that the secret of that great adept had been communicated to him, and to him only.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000005|The fate of Delisle was no inducement for them to stop in France.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000007|They travelled about the Continent for several years, sponging upon credulous rich men, and now and then performing successful transmutations by the aid of double bottomed crucibles and the like.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000010|The duke afterwards boasted to Lenglet du Fresnoy of his achievements as an alchymist, and regretted that he had not been able to discover the secret of the precious powder by which he performed them.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000021_000003|It was his usual practice to pretend that he possessed only a few grains of his powder, with which he would operate in any house where he intended to fix his quarters for the season.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000022_000004|Suspecting that all was not right, he left Aix secretly the same evening, and proceeded to Marseilles.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000023_000000|As the proofs against him were too convincing to leave him much hope of an acquittal, he planned an escape from durance.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000000|When he left Marseilles, he had not a shoe to his foot or a decent garment to his back, but was provided with some money and clothes by his wife in a neighbouring town.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000001|They then found their way to Brussels, and by dint of excessive impudence, brought themselves into notice.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000002|He took a house, fitted up a splendid laboratory, and gave out that he knew the secret of transmutation.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000010|He withdrew secretly in the night, and retired to Paris.
train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000011|Here all trace of him is lost.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000001|That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed to be far above the stars.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000002|The professor had himself invented the flying machine, and had also invented nearly everything in it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000003|Every sort of tool or apparatus had, in consequence, to the full, that fantastic and distorted look which belongs to the miracles of science.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000004|For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000000|All the tools of Professor Lucifer were the ancient human tools gone mad, grown into unrecognizable shapes, forgetful of their origin, forgetful of their names.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000001|That thing which looked like an enormous key with three wheels was really a patent and very deadly revolver.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000002|That object which seemed to be created by the entanglement of two corkscrews was really the key.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000003|The thing which might have been mistaken for a tricycle turned upside-down was the inexpressibly important instrument to which the corkscrew was the key.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000005|This he had been born too late actually to inaugurate, but he believed at least, that he had considerably improved it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000000|There was, however, another man on board, so to speak, at the time.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000001|Him, also, by a curious coincidence, the professor had not invented, and him he had not even very greatly improved, though he had fished him up with a lasso out of his own back garden, in Western Bulgaria, with the pure object of improving him.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000002|He was an exceedingly holy man, almost entirely covered with white hair.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000003|You could see nothing but his eyes, and he seemed to talk with them.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000005|They were really very plausible and thoughtful heresies, and it was really a creditable or even glorious circumstance, that the old monk had been intellectual enough to detect their fallacy; the only misfortune was that nobody in the modern world was intellectual enough even to understand their argument.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000007|And now that his luck had lifted him above all the mountains in the society of a wild physicist, he made himself happy still.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000000|"I have no intention, my good Michael," said Professor Lucifer, "of endeavouring to convert you by argument.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000002|It is folly to talk of this or that demonstrating the rationalist philosophy.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000003|Everything demonstrates it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000004|Rubbing shoulders with men of all kinds----"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000000|"An entertaining retort, in the narrow and deductive manner of the Middle Ages," replied the Professor, calmly, "but even upon your own basis I will illustrate my point.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000001|We are up in the sky.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000002|In your religion and all the religions, as far as I know (and I know everything), the sky is made the symbol of everything that is sacred and merciful.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000003|Well, now you are in the sky, you know better.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000004|Phrase it how you like, twist it how you like, you know that you know better.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000005|You know what are a man's real feelings about the heavens, when he finds himself alone in the heavens, surrounded by the heavens.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000009|You know that since our science has spoken, the bottom has fallen out of the Universe.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000010|Now, heaven is the hopeless thing, more hopeless than any hell.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000012|And the time will come when you will all hide in them, to escape the horror of the stars."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000007_000000|"I hope you will excuse my interrupting you," said Michael, with a slight cough, "but I have always noticed----"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000010_000000|"Come, come," said the Professor, encouragingly, "I'll help you out.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000011_000000|"Well, the truth is, I know I don't express it properly, but somehow it seemed to me that you always convey ideas of that kind with most eloquence, when-er-when----"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000012_000000|"Oh! get on," cried Lucifer, boisterously.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000013_000000|"Well, in point of fact when your flying ship is just going to run into something.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000013_000001|I thought you wouldn't mind my mentioning it, but it's running into something now."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000014_000000|Lucifer exploded with an oath and leapt erect, leaning hard upon the handle that acted as a helm to the vessel.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000014_000002|Now, through a sort of purple haze, could be seen comparatively near to them what seemed to be the upper part of a huge, dark orb or sphere, islanded in a sea of cloud.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000014_000003|The Professor's eyes were blazing like a maniac's.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000015_000002|This star and not that other vulgar one shall be 'Lucifer, sun of the morning.' Here we will have no chartered lunacies, here we will have no gods.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000015_000003|Here man shall be as innocent as the daisies, as innocent and as cruel-here the intellect----"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000016_000000|"There seems," said Michael, timidly, "to be something sticking up in the middle of it."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000017_000000|"So there is," said the Professor, leaning over the side of the ship, his spectacles shining with intellectual excitement.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000017_000001|"What can it be?
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000018_000000|Then a shriek indescribable broke out of him of a sudden, and he flung up his arms like a lost spirit.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000001|As the flying ship swept towards it, this plain of cloud looked as dry and definite and rocky as any grey desert.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000002|Hence it gave to the mind and body a sharp and unearthly sensation when the ship cut and sank into the cloud as into any common mist, a thing without resistance.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000004|It was as if they had cloven into ancient cliffs like so much butter.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000006|For a moment their eyes and nostrils were stopped with darkness and opaque cloud; then the darkness warmed into a kind of brown fog.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000007|And far, far below them the brown fog fell until it warmed into fire.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000008|Through the dense London atmosphere they could see below them the flaming London lights; lights which lay beneath them in squares and oblongs of fire.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000009|The fog and fire were mixed in a passionate vapour; you might say that the fog was drowning the flames; or you might say that the flames had set the fog on fire.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000010|Beside the ship and beneath it (for it swung just under the ball), the immeasurable dome itself shot out and down into the dark like a combination of voiceless cataracts.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000011|Or it was like some cyclopean sea beast sitting above London and letting down its tentacles bewilderingly on every side, a monstrosity in that starless heaven.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000012|For the clouds that belonged to London had closed over the heads of the voyagers sealing up the entrance of the upper air.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000013|They had broken through a roof and come into a temple of twilight.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000020_000001|Above it the cross already draped in the dark mists of the borderland was shadowy and more awful in shape and size.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000021_000000|Professor Lucifer slapped his hand twice upon the surface of the great orb as if he were caressing some enormous animal.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000021_000001|"This is the fellow," he said, "this is the one for my money."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000002|So satisfied.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000003|Not like that scraggy individual, stretching his arms in stark weariness." And he pointed up to the cross, his face dark with a grin.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000005|What could possibly express your philosophy and my philosophy better than the shape of that cross and the shape of this ball?
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000006|This globe is reasonable; that cross is unreasonable.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000007|It is a four legged animal, with one leg longer than the others.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000008|The globe is inevitable.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000010|Above all the globe is at unity with itself; the cross is primarily and above all things at enmity with itself.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000011|The cross is the conflict of two hostile lines, of irreconcilable direction.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000012|That silent thing up there is essentially a collision, a crash, a struggle in stone.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000013|Pah! that sacred symbol of yours has actually given its name to a description of desperation and muddle.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000015|The very shape of it is a contradiction in terms."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000000|"What you say is perfectly true," said Michael, with serenity.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000001|"But we like contradictions in terms.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000002|Man is a contradiction in terms; he is a beast whose superiority to other beasts consists in having fallen.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000004|Every form of life is a struggle in flesh.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000005|The shape of the cross is irrational, just as the shape of the human animal is irrational.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000025_000001|But surely the cross is the lower development and the sphere the higher.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000025_000002|After all it is easy enough to see what is really wrong with Wren's architectural arrangement."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000026_000000|"And what is that, pray?" inquired Michael, meekly.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000027_000000|"The cross is on top of the ball," said Professor Lucifer, simply.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000027_000002|The ball should be on top of the cross.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000027_000003|The cross is a mere barbaric prop; the ball is perfection.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000028_000000|"Oh!" said the monk, a wrinkle coming into his forehead, "so you think that in a rationalistic scheme of symbolism the ball should be on top of the cross?"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000029_000000|"It sums up my whole allegory," said the professor.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000030_000001|You would see, I think, that thing happen which is always the ultimate embodiment and logical outcome of your logical scheme."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000031_000000|"What are you talking about?" asked Lucifer.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000031_000001|"What would happen?"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000032_000000|"I mean it would fall down," said the monk, looking wistfully into the void.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000034_000000|"I once knew a man like you, Lucifer," he said, with a maddening monotony and slowness of articulation.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000034_000001|"He took this----"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000035_000000|"There is no man like me," cried Lucifer, with a violence that shook the ship.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000000|"As I was observing," continued Michael, "this man also took the view that the symbol of Christianity was a symbol of savagery and all unreason.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000002|It is also a perfect allegory of what happens to rationalists like yourself.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000005|Then he began to grow fiercer and more eccentric; he would batter the crosses by the roadside; for he lived in a Roman Catholic country.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000006|Finally in a height of frenzy he climbed the steeple of the Parish Church and tore down the cross, waving it in the air, and uttering wild soliloquies up there under the stars.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000007|Then one still summer evening as he was wending his way homewards, along a lane, the devil of his madness came upon him with a violence and transfiguration which changes the world.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000009|Not a light shifted, not a leaf stirred, but he saw as if by a sudden change in the eyesight that this paling was an army of innumerable crosses linked together over hill and dale.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000010|And he whirled up his heavy stick and went at it as if at an army.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000011|Mile after mile along his homeward path he broke it down and tore it up.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000012|For he hated the cross and every paling is a wall of crosses.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000013|When he returned to his house he was a literal madman.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000014|He sat upon a chair and then started up from it for the cross bars of the carpentry repeated the intolerable image.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000037_000000|Lucifer was looking at him with a bitten lip.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000038_000000|"Is that story really true?" he asked.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000000|"Oh, no," said Michael, airily.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000001|"It is a parable.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000004|We leave you saying that nobody ought to join the Church against his will.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000005|When we meet you again you are saying that no one has any will to join it with.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000007|We find you saying that there is no such place as Ireland.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000008|You start by hating the irrational and you come to hate everything, for everything is irrational and so----"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000040_000001|"Ah," he screamed, "to every man his madness.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000040_000002|You are mad on the cross.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000040_000003|Let it save you."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000041_000000|And with a herculean energy he forced the monk backwards out of the reeling car on to the upper part of the stone ball.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000041_000001|Michael, with as abrupt an agility, caught one of the beams of the cross and saved himself from falling.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000041_000002|At the same instant Lucifer drove down a lever and the ship shot up with him in it alone.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000043_000000|"For practical purposes of support," replied Michael grimly, "it is at any rate a great deal better than the ball.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000000|"Yes, yes.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000001|I mount!
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000002|I mount!" cried the professor in ungovernable excitement.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000004|My path is upward."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000045_000000|"How often have you told me, Professor, that there is really no up or down in space?" said the monk.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000045_000001|"I shall mount up as much as you will."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000046_000000|"Indeed," said Lucifer, leering over the side of the flying ship.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000046_000001|"May I ask what you are going to do?"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000047_000000|The monk pointed downward at Ludgate Hill.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000047_000001|"I am going," he said, "to climb up into a star."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000000|Those who look at the matter most superficially regard paradox as something which belongs to jesting and light journalism.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000001|Paradox of this kind is to be found in the saying of the dandy, in the decadent comedy, "Life is much too important to be taken seriously." Those who look at the matter a little more deeply or delicately see that paradox is a thing which especially belongs to all religions.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000002|Paradox of this kind is to be found in such a saying as "The meek shall inherit the earth." But those who see and feel the fundamental fact of the matter know that paradox is a thing which belongs not to religion only, but to all vivid and violent practical crises of human living.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000003|This kind of paradox may be clearly perceived by anybody who happens to be hanging in mid space, clinging to one arm of the Cross of saint Paul's.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000000|Father Michael in spite of his years, and in spite of his asceticism (or because of it, for all I know), was a very healthy and happy old gentleman.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000001|And as he swung on a bar above the sickening emptiness of air, he realized, with that sort of dead detachment which belongs to the brains of those in peril, the deathless and hopeless contradiction which is involved in the mere idea of courage.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000002|He was a happy and healthy old gentleman and therefore he was quite careless about it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000003|And he felt as every man feels in the taut moment of such terror that his chief danger was terror itself; his only possible strength would be a coolness amounting to carelessness, a carelessness amounting almost to a suicidal swagger.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000004|His one wild chance of coming out safely would be in not too desperately desiring to be safe.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000005|There might be footholds down that awful facade, if only he could not care whether they were footholds or no
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000006|If he were foolhardy he might escape; if he were wise he would stop where he was till he dropped from the cross like a stone.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000008|Now he knew the truth that is known to all fighters, and hunters, and climbers of cliffs.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000009|He knew that even his animal life could only be saved by a considerable readiness to lose it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000000|Some will think it improbable that a human soul swinging desperately in mid-air should think about philosophical inconsistencies.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000001|But such extreme states are dangerous things to dogmatize about.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000003|And if it is impossible to dogmatize about such states, it is still more impossible to describe them.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000004|To this spasm of sanity and clarity in Michael's mind succeeded a spasm of the elemental terror; the terror of the animal in us which regards the whole universe as its enemy; which, when it is victorious, has no pity, and so, when it is defeated has no imaginable hope.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000007|And of this ultimate resignation or certainty it is even less possible to write; it is something stranger than hell itself; it is perhaps the last of the secrets of God.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000008|At the highest crisis of some incurable anguish there will suddenly fall upon the man the stillness of an insane contentment. It is not hope, for hope is broken and romantic and concerned with the future; this is complete and of the present.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000010|It is not knowledge, for the intellect seems to have no particular part in it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000011|Nor is it (as the modern idiots would certainly say it is) a mere numbness or negative paralysis of the powers of grief.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000012|It is not negative in the least; it is as positive as good news.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000014|It seems almost as if there were some equality among things, some balance in all possible contingencies which we are not permitted to know lest we should learn indifference to good and evil, but which is sometimes shown to us for an instant as a last aid in our last agony.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000000|Michael certainly could not have given any sort of rational account of this vast unmeaning satisfaction which soaked through him and filled him to the brim.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000001|He felt with a sort of half witted lucidity that the cross was there, and the ball was there, and the dome was there, that he was going to climb down from them, and that he did not mind in the least whether he was killed or not.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000002|This mysterious mood lasted long enough to start him on his dreadful descent and to force him to continue it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000004|By the time he had reached that place of safety he almost felt (as in some impossible fit of drunkenness) that he had two heads; one was calm, careless, and efficient; the other saw the danger like a deadly map, was wise, careful, and useless.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000005|He had fancied that he would have to let himself vertically down the face of the whole building.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000006|When he dropped into the upper gallery he still felt as far from the terrestrial globe as if he had only dropped from the sun to the moon.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000007|He paused a little, panting in the gallery under the ball, and idly kicked his heels, moving a few yards along it.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000008|And as he did so a thunderbolt struck his soul. A man, a heavy, ordinary man, with a composed indifferent face, and a prosaic sort of uniform, with a row of buttons, blocked his way.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000010|He merely let his mind float in an endless felicity about the man.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000013|A moment before he had been dying alone.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000015|In the gallery below the ball Father Michael had found that man who is the noblest and most divine and most lovable of all men, better than all the saints, greater than all the heroes-man Friday.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000052_000001|He also seemed to be asking how Michael "got up" there.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000052_000002|This beautiful man evidently felt as Michael did that the earth was a star and was set in heaven.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000000|At length Michael sated himself with the mere sensual music of the voice of the man in buttons.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000002|Michael realized that the image of God in nickel buttons was asking him how he had come there.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000004|On his giving this answer the demeanour of the image of God underwent a remarkable change.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000006|He seemed particularly anxious to coax him away from the balustrade.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000007|He led him by the arm towards a door leading into the building itself, soothing him all the time.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000009|Michael followed him, however, if only out of politeness, down an apparently interminable spiral of staircase.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000010|At one point a door opened.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000012|But he only wished to stand; to stand and stare. He had stepped as it were into another infinity, out under the dome of another heaven.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000013|But this was a dome of heaven made by man.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000017|Michael felt almost as if he were a god, and all the voices were hurled at him.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000054_000000|"No, the pretty things aren't here," said the demi god in buttons, caressingly.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000054_000001|"The pretty things are downstairs.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000000|Evidently the man in buttons did not feel like a god, so Michael made no attempt to explain his feelings to him, but followed him meekly enough down the trail of the serpentine staircase.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000001|He had no notion where or at what level he was.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000003|He felt suddenly happy and suddenly indescribably small.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000005|Men who have escaped death by a hair have it, and men whose love is returned by a woman unexpectedly, and men whose sins are forgiven them.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000006|Everything his eye fell on it feasted on, not aesthetically, but with a plain, jolly appetite as of a boy eating buns.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000007|He relished the squareness of the houses; he liked their clean angles as if he had just cut them with a knife.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000008|The lit squares of the shop windows excited him as the young are excited by the lit stage of some promising pantomime.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000009|He happened to see in one shop which projected with a bulging bravery on to the pavement some square tins of potted meat, and it seemed like a hint of a hundred hilarious high teas in a hundred streets of the world.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000010|He was, perhaps, the happiest of all the children of men.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000011|For in that unendurable instant when he hung, half slipping, to the ball of saint Paul's, the whole universe had been destroyed and re created.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000056_000002|And the police already had their hands on a very tall young man, with dark, lank hair and dark, dazed eyes, with a grey plaid over his shoulder, who had just smashed the shop window with a single blow of his stick.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000057_000001|Did you see what it said?
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000000|"Father, did you see what they said?" he cried, trembling.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000001|"Did you see what they dared to say?
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000002|I didn't understand it at first.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000003|I read it half through before I broke the window."
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000000|Michael felt he knew not how.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000001|The whole peace of the world was pent up painfully in his heart.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000002|The new and childlike world which he had seen so suddenly, men had not seen at all.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000003|Here they were still at their old bewildering, pardonable, useless quarrels, with so much to be said on both sides, and so little that need be said at all.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000005|They should not move till they saw their own sweet and startling existence.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000006|They should not go from that place till they went home embracing like brothers and shouting like men delivered.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000008|Perhaps if he had spoken there for an hour in his illumination he might have founded a religion on Ludgate Hill. But the heavy hand of his guide fell suddenly on his shoulder.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000000|"This poor fellow is dotty," he said good humouredly to the crowd.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000001|"I found him wandering in the Cathedral.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000002|Says he came in a flying ship.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000003|Is there a constable to spare to take care of him?"
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000061_000000|There was a constable to spare.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000061_000001|Two other constables attended to the tall young man in grey; a fourth concerned himself with the owner of the shop, who showed some tendency to be turbulent.
train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000061_000002|They took the tall young man away to a magistrate, whither we shall follow him in an ensuing chapter.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000003_000000|SLAVES
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000005_000000|I glanced at Perry as the thing passed me to inspect him.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000005_000002|When it passed on, he turned to me.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000006_000000|"A rhamphorhynchus of the Middle Olitic, David," he said, "but, gad, how enormous!
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000000|As we continued on through the main avenue of Phutra we saw many thousand of the creatures coming and going upon their daily duties. They paid but little attention to us.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000003|The streets are broad and of a uniform height of twenty feet.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000004|At intervals tubes pierce the roof of this underground city, and by means of lenses and reflectors transmit the sunlight, softened and diffused, to dispel what would otherwise be Cimmerian darkness.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000005|In like manner air is introduced.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000001|The method of communication between these two was remarkable in that no spoken words were exchanged.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000002|They employed a species of sign language.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000003|As I was to learn later, the Mahars have no ears, not any spoken language.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000004|Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000009_000000|I never did quite grasp him, though he endeavored to explain it to me upon numerous occasions.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000009_000001|I suggested telepathy, but he said no, that it was not telepathy since they could only communicate when in each others' presence, nor could they talk with the Sagoths or the other inhabitants of Pellucidar by the same method they used to converse with one another.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000010_000000|"What they do," said Perry, "is to project their thoughts into the fourth dimension, when they become appreciable to the sixth sense of their listener.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000010_000001|Do I make myself quite clear?"
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000011_000000|"You do not, Perry," I replied.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000011_000001|He shook his head in despair, and returned to his work.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000011_000002|They had set us to carrying a great accumulation of Maharan literature from one apartment to another, and there arranging it upon shelves.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000012_000000|During this period my thoughts were continually upon Dian the Beautiful.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000013_000001|So great were the number of slaves who waited upon the inhabitants of Phutra that none of us was apt to be overburdened with work, nor were our masters unkind to us.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000014_000000|We hid our new weapons beneath the skins which formed our beds, and then Perry conceived the idea of making bows and arrows-weapons apparently unknown within Pellucidar.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000015_000000|We had completed these arrangements for our protection after leaving Phutra when the Sagoths who had been sent to recapture the escaped prisoners returned with four of them, of whom Hooja was one.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000015_000001|Dian and two others had eluded them.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000015_000004|What had become of them he had not the faintest conception-they might be wandering yet, lost within the labyrinthine tunnel, if not dead from starvation.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000016_000000|I was now still further apprehensive as to the fate of Dian, and at this time, I imagine, came the first realization that my affection for the girl might be prompted by more than friendship.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000016_000001|During my waking hours she was constantly the subject of my thoughts, and when I slept her dear face haunted my dreams.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000018_000000|"Diminutive world!" he scoffed.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000019_000000|"Look," he cried, pointing to it, "this is evidently water, and all this land.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000019_000001|Do you notice the general configuration of the two areas? Where the oceans are upon the outer crust, is land here.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000019_000002|These relatively small areas of ocean follow the general lines of the continents of the outer world.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000000|"We know that the crust of the globe is five hundred miles in thickness; then the inside diameter of Pellucidar must be seven thousand miles, and the superficial area one hundred sixty five million four hundred eighty thousand square miles.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000002|Think of it!
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000004|Our own world contains but fifty three million square miles of land, the balance of its surface being covered by water.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000005|Just as we often compare nations by their relative land areas, so if we compare these two worlds in the same way we have the strange anomaly of a larger world within a smaller one!
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000022_000000|The proposition was a corker.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000024_000000|Perry and I sought him out and put the question straight to him.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000026_000000|"They will set the thipdars upon us," he said, "and then we shall be killed; but-" he hesitated-"I would take the chance if I thought that I might possibly escape and return to my own people."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000027_000000|"Could you find your way back to your own land?" asked Perry.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000028_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000029_000000|"But how," persisted Perry, "could you travel to strange country without heavenly bodies or a compass to guide you?"
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000030_000001|He seemed surprised to think that we found anything wonderful in it.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000030_000002|Perry said it must be some sort of homing instinct such as is possessed by certain breeds of earthly pigeons.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000030_000003|I didn't know, of course, but it gave me an idea.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000031_000000|"Then Dian could have found her way directly to her own people?" I asked.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000033_000001|I didn't see what accident could befall a whole community in a land of perpetual daylight where the inhabitants had no fixed habits of sleep.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000034_000001|At first I thought they were dead, but later their regular breathing convinced me of my error.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000035_000000|Hastening back to Perry where he pored over a musty pile of, to me, meaningless hieroglyphics, I explained my plan to him.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000035_000001|To my surprise he was horrified.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000036_000000|"It would be murder, David," he cried.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000037_000000|"Murder to kill a reptilian monster?" I asked in astonishment.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000038_000001|"Here they are the dominant race-we are the 'monsters'--the lower orders.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000038_000003|These terrible convulsions of nature time and time again wiped out the existing species-but for this fact some monster of the Saurozoic epoch might rule today upon our own world.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000038_000004|We see here what might well have occurred in our own history had conditions been what they have been here.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000039_000000|"Life within Pellucidar is far younger than upon the outer crust.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000039_000003|They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men-they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000039_000004|They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000000|"What is there horrible about it, David?" the old man asked.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000002|Why, I have come across here very learned discussions of the question as to whether gilaks, that is men, have any means of communication.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000003|One writer claims that we do not even reason-that our every act is mechanical, or instinctive.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000004|The dominant race of Pellucidar, David, have not yet learned that men converse among themselves, or reason.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000006|It is thus that we reason in relation to the brutes of our own world.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000007|They know that the Sagoths have a spoken language, but they cannot comprehend it, or how it manifests itself, since they have no auditory apparatus.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000008|They believe that the motions of the lips alone convey the meaning.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000009|That the Sagoths can communicate with us is incomprehensible to them.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000042_000000|"Yes, David," he concluded, "it would entail murder to carry out your plan."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000043_000000|"Very well then, Perry." I replied.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000043_000001|"I shall become a murderer."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000045_000000|"I wonder, David," he said at length, "as you are determined to carry out your wild scheme, if we could not accomplish something of very real and lasting benefit for the human race of Pellucidar at the same time. Listen, I have learned much of a most surprising nature from these archives of the Mahars.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000046_000000|"Once the males were all powerful, but ages ago the females, little by little, assumed the mastery.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000046_000003|Science took vast strides.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000046_000005|Finally a certain female scientist announced the fact that she had discovered a method whereby eggs might be fertilized by chemical means after they were laid-all true reptiles, you know, are hatched from eggs.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000000|"What happened?
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000001|Immediately the necessity for males ceased to exist-the race was no longer dependent upon them.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000002|More ages elapsed until at the present time we find a race consisting exclusively of females.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000003|But here is the point.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000048_000000|"For two reasons they hide it away and guard it jealously.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000049_000001|The very thought of it fairly overpowered me.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000049_000002|Why, we two would be the means of placing the men of the inner world in their rightful place among created things.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000049_000003|Only the Sagoths would then stand between them and absolute supremacy, and I was not quite sure but that the Sagoths owed all their power to the greater intelligence of the Mahars-I could not believe that these gorilla like beasts were the mental superiors of the human race of Pellucidar.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000050_000000|"Why, Perry," I exclaimed, "you and I may reclaim a whole world! Together we can lead the races of men out of the darkness of ignorance into the light of advancement and civilization.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000050_000001|At one step we may carry them from the Age of Stone to the twentieth century.
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000050_000002|It's marvelous-absolutely marvelous just to think about it."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000051_000000|"David," said the old man, "I believe that God sent us here for just that purpose-it shall be my life work to teach them His word-to lead them into the light of His mercy while we are training their hearts and hands in the ways of culture and civilization."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000052_000000|"You are right, Perry," I said, "and while you are teaching them to pray I'll be teaching them to fight, and between us we'll make a race of men that will be an honor to us both."
train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000053_000001|When I had outlined it to him, he seemed about as horror struck as Perry had been; but for a different reason.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000002_000001|There were no nights to mask our attempted escape.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000002_000002|All must be done in broad daylight-all but the work I had to do in the apartment beneath the building.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000004_000000|What the purpose or nature of the general exodus we did not know, but presently through the line of captives ran the rumor that two escaped slaves had been recaptured-a man and a woman-and that we were marching to witness their punishment, for the man had killed a Sagoth of the detachment that had pursued and overtaken them.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000007_000000|"Naught," he replied.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000008_000000|Along the crowded avenue we marched, the guards showing unusual cruelty toward us, as though we, too, had been implicated in the murder of their fellow.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000008_000001|The occasion was to serve as an object lesson to all other slaves of the danger and futility of attempted escape, and the fatal consequences of taking the life of a superior being, and so I imagine that Sagoths felt amply justified in making the entire proceeding as uncomfortable and painful to us as possible.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000009_000000|They jabbed us with their spears and struck at us with the hatchets at the least provocation, and at no provocation at all.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000009_000002|Benches surrounded this open space upon three sides, and along the fourth were heaped huge bowlders which rose in receding tiers toward the roof.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000010_000000|At first I couldn't make out the purpose of this mighty pile of rock, unless it were intended as a rough and picturesque background for the scenes which were enacted in the arena before it, but presently, after the wooden benches had been pretty well filled by slaves and Sagoths, I discovered the purpose of the bowlders, for then the Mahars began to file into the enclosure.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000011_000000|They marched directly across the arena toward the rocks upon the opposite side, where, spreading their bat like wings, they rose above the high wall of the pit, settling down upon the bowlders above.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000011_000001|These were the reserved seats, the boxes of the elect.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000012_000001|Here they lolled, blinking their hideous eyes, and doubtless conversing with one another in their sixth sense fourth dimension language.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000013_000000|For the first time I beheld their queen.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000015_000000|And then the music started-music without sound!
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000016_000002|They beat their great wings up and down, and smote their rocky perches with their mighty tails until the ground shook. Then the band started another piece, and all was again as silent as the grave.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000017_000003|I leaned forward in my seat to scrutinize the female-hoping against hope that she might prove to be another than Dian the Beautiful.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000018_000000|Presently a door in one side of the arena wall was opened to admit a huge, shaggy, bull like creature.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000019_000001|"His kind roamed the outer crust with the cave bear and the mammoth ages and ages ago.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000019_000002|We have been carried back a million years, David, to the childhood of a planet-is it not wondrous?"
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000022_000001|I could not at first see the beast from which emanated this fearsome challenge, but the sound had the effect of bringing the two victims around with a sudden start, and then I saw the girl's face-she was not Dian!
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000022_000002|I could have wept for relief.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000023_000002|In contour and markings it was not unlike the noblest of the Bengals of our own world, but as its dimensions were exaggerated to colossal proportions so too were its colorings exaggerated.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000023_000003|Its vivid yellows fairly screamed aloud; its whites were as eider down; its blacks glossy as the finest anthracite coal, and its coat long and shaggy as a mountain goat.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000023_000004|That it is a beautiful animal there is no gainsaying, but if its size and colors are magnified here within Pellucidar, so is the ferocity of its disposition.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000025_000002|Never in my life had I heard such an infernal din as the two brutes made, and to think it was all lost upon the hideous reptiles for whom the show was staged!
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000027_000000|There ensued a battle royal which for sustained and frightful ferocity transcends the power of imagination or description.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000028_000000|For a while the man and woman busied themselves only with keeping out of the way of the two creatures, but finally I saw them separate and each creep stealthily toward one of the combatants.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000028_000001|The tiger was now upon the bull's broad back, clinging to the huge neck with powerful fangs while its long, strong talons ripped the heavy hide into shreds and ribbons.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000029_000001|It was with difficulty that the girl avoided the first mad rush of the wounded animal.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000032_000002|Before him slaves and gorilla men fought in mad stampede to escape the menace of the creature's death agonies, for such only could that frightful charge have been.
train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000034_000000|I ran to the right, passing several exits choked with the fear mad mob that were battling to escape.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000008_000000|When Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every purpose in the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, it was a source of regret that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him to his heart.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000008_000001|Therefore Jehovah said, I will destroy from the face of the ground man whom I have created, for I regret that I have made mankind.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000012_000000|And without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing with God; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000013_000000|Rare is the man who can look back over his life and not confess, at least to himself, that the things which have made him most a man are the very things from which he tried with all his soul to escape.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000014_000000|If we would attain happiness, We must first attain helpfulness.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000017_000000|THE TWO BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE FLOOD.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000000|These fundamental variations and the presence of duplicate versions of the same incidents point, some writers think, to two originally distinct accounts of the flood which have been closely woven together by the final editor of the book of genesis.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000003|It has the flowing, vivid, picturesque, literary style and the point of view of the prophetic teacher.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000004|In this account the number seven prevails.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000005|Seven of each clean beast and bird are taken into the ark to provide food for Noah and his family.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000006|Seven days the waters rose, and at intervals of seven days he sent out a raven and a dove.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000007|The flood from its beginning to the time when Noah disembarked continued sixty eight days.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000001|The style is that of a legal writer-formal, exact and repetitious.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000002|In this account only two of each kind of beast and bird are taken into the ark.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000003|The flood lasts for over a year and is universal, covering even the tops of the highest mountains.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000004|No animals are sacrificed, for according to the priestly writer this custom was first instituted by Moses.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000006|This later account is dated by this group of modern Biblical scholars about four hundred b c
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000022_000000|THE CORRESPONDING BABYLONIAN FLOOD STORIES.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000001|The older Babylonian account is found in the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic, which comes from the library of Asshurbanipal.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000002|This great conqueror lived contemporaneously with Manasseh during whose reign Assyrian influence was paramount in the kingdom of Judah.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000004|In response to Gilgamesh's question as to how he, a mortal, attained immortality the Babylonian Noah recounts the story of the flood.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000005|It was brought about by the Babylonian gods in order to destroy the city of Shurippak, situated on the banks of the Euphrates.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000025_000000|A detailed account then follows of the building of the ark.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000025_000001|Its dimensions were one hundred and twenty cubits in each direction. It was built in six stories, each of which was divided into nine parts.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000025_000002|Plentiful provisions were next carried on board and a great feast was held to commemorate the completion of the ark.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000026_000000|All the living creatures of all kinds I loaded on it. I brought on board my family and household; Cattle of the field, beasts of the field, the craftsmen, All of them I brought on board.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000027_000000|In the evening at the command of the god Shamash the rains began to descend.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000027_000002|The description of the tempest that follows is exceedingly vivid and picturesque.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000000|For six days and nights the storm raged, but on the seventh day it subsided and the flood began to abate.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000001|Of the race of mortals, however, every voice was hushed.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000002|At last the ship approached the mountain Nisir which lay on the northern horizon, as viewed from the Tigris Euphrates valley.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000003|Here the ship grounded.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000004|Then,
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000002|At the command of the god he built a great ship fifteen stadia long and two in width.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000003|Into this he took not only his family and provisions, but quadrupeds and birds of all kinds. When the flood began to recede, he sent out a bird, which quickly returned.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000004|After a few days he sent forth another bird, which returned with mud on its feet.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000005|When the third bird failed to return, he took off the cover of the ship and found that it had stranded on a mountain of Armenia.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000006|The mountain in the Biblical account is identified with Mount Ararat.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000007|Disembarking, the Babylonian Noah kissed the earth and, after building an altar, offered a sacrifice to the gods.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000001|Which Biblical account does the earliest Babylonian narrative resemble most closely?
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000002|In what details do they agree?
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000003|Are these coincidences merely accidental or do they point possibly to a common tradition?
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000004|How far do the later Biblical and Babylonian accounts agree?
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000005|What is the significance of these points of agreement?
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000034_000000|three.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000035_000000|HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL FLOOD STORIES.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000000|On the basis of the preceding comparisons some writers attempt to trace tentatively the history of the flood tradition current among the peoples of southwestern Asia.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000001|A fragment of the Babylonian flood story, coming from at least as early as two thousand b c, has recently been discovered.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000002|The probability is that the tradition goes back to the earliest beginnings of Babylonian history.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000004|The description of the construction of the ark in genesis chapter six verses fourteen to sixteen is not only closely parallel to that found in the Babylonian account, but the method-the smearing of the ark within and without with bitumen-is peculiar to the Tigris Euphrates valley.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000005|Many scholars believe, therefore, that Babylonia was the original home of the Biblical flood story.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000000|Its exact origin, however, is not so certain.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000001|Many of its details were doubtless suggested by the annual floods and fogs which inundate that famous valley and recall the primeval chaos so vividly pictured in the corresponding Babylonian story of the creation.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000002|It may have been based on the remembrances of a great local inundation, possibly due to the subsidence of great areas of land.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000003|In the earliest Hebrew records there is no trace of this tradition, although it may have been known to the Aramean ancestors of the hebrews.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000006|Even in the temple at Jerusalem the Babylonians' gods, the host of heaven, were worshipped by certain of the hebrews.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000007|The few literary inscriptions which come from this period, those found in the mound at Gezer, are written in the Assyrian script and contain the names of Assyrian officials.
train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000038_000000|Later when the Jewish exiles were carried to Babylonia, they naturally came into contact again with the Babylonian account of the flood, but in its later form, as the comparisons already instituted clearly indicate.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000001_000000|AIM OF THE BIBLICAL WRITERS IN RECOUNTING THE FLOOD STORY.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000002_000002|Is it possible that the prophetic and priestly historians found these stories on the lips of the people and sought in this heroic way to divest them of their polytheistic form and, in certain respects, immoral implications?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000001|In this respect the two variant Biblical narratives are in perfect agreement.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000002|The destruction of mankind came not as the fiat of an arbitrary Deity, but because of the purpose which God had before him in the work of creation, and because that purpose was good.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000003|Men by their sins and wilful failure to observe his benign laws were thwarting that purpose.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000004|Hence in accord with the just laws of the universe their destruction was unavoidable, and it came even as effect follows cause.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000005|On the other hand, these ancient teachers taught with inimitable skill that God would not destroy that which was worthy of preservation.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000001|The story as told is not merely an illustration of the truth that righteousness brings its just reward, but of the profounder principle that it is the morally fit who survive.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000002|In both of the versions Noah in a very true sense represents the beginning of a new creation: he is the traditional father of a better race.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000003|To him are given the promises which God was eager to realize in the life of humanity.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000004|In the poetic fancy of the ancient East even the resplendent rainbow, which proclaimed the return of the sun after the storm, was truly interpreted as evidence of God's fatherly love and care for his children.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000005|In the light of these profound religious teachings may any one reasonably question the right of these stories to a place in the Bible?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000007|Is it not evidence of superlative teaching skill to use that which is familiar and, therefore, of interest to those taught, in order to inculcate the deeper moral and religious truths of life?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000007_000000|It is interesting and illuminating to note how the ancient Hebrew prophets in their religious teaching forecast the discoveries and scientific methods of our day.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000007_000001|This was because they had grasped universal principles.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000009_000000|This principle, since that day, has been thoroughly worked out in practically all the important fields of both the plant and animal world.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000009_000001|Moreover, the doctrine of evolution, dependent upon this principle, has exerted so great an influence upon the process of investigation and thinking in all fields of activity that the resulting change in method has amounted to a revolution.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000009_000002|The principle is applied not only in the field of biology, but also in the realm of astronomy, where we study the evolution of worlds, and in psychology, history, social science, where we speak of the development of human traits and of the growth of economic, political and social institutions.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000011_000001|It is, therefore, one of the most suggestive and interesting of the writings of the early Israelites.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000015_000002|Business success in the long run, is so strongly based upon mutual confidence and trust, that, especially in these later days of credit organization, the dishonest man or even the tricky man cannot prosper long.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000015_000003|A sales manager of a prominent institution said lately that the chief difficulty that he had with his men was to make them always tell the truth.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000015_000004|For the sake of making an important sale they were often inclined to misrepresent his goods.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000016_000000|It may perhaps have been true in the days of Machiavelli that cruelty and treachery would aid the unscrupulous petty despot of Italy to secure and at times to maintain his dukedom; but certainly in modern days, when in all civilized countries permanently prosperous government is based ultimately upon the will of the people, the successful ruler can no longer be treacherous and cruel.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000016_000001|Even among our so-called "spoils" politicians and corrupt bosses, who hold their positions by playing upon the selfishness of their followers and the ignorance and apathy of the public, there must be rigid faithfulness to promises, and, at any rate, the appearance of promoting the public welfare.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000016_000002|Otherwise their term of power is short.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000017_000000|If we look back through the history of modern times, we shall find that the statesmen who rank high among the successful rulers of their countries are men of unselfish patriotism, and almost invariably men of personal uprightness and morality, and usually of deep religious feeling.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000017_000002|Pick out the leading statesmen of the last half century in England, Germany and Italy. Do they not all stand for unselfish, patriotic purpose in their actions, and in character for individual honor and integrity?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000000|The same is true in our social intercourse.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000001|Brilliancy of intellect, however important in many fields of activity, counts for relatively little in home and social life, if not accompanied by graciousness of manner, kindness of heart, uprightness of character.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000002|It may sometimes seem that the brilliant rascal succeeds, that the unscrupulous business man becomes rich, and that the hypocrite prospers through his hypocrisy.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000005|Or, even there, would the adage, "There must be honor among thieves," hold, when it came to permanent organization?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000006|But, whatever your answer, society fortunately is not made up of hypocrites or rascals of any kind.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000007|With all the weakness of human nature found in every society, the growing success of the rule of the people throughout the world proves that fundamentally men and women are honest and true.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000008|Generally common human nature is for the right.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000009|Almost universally, if a mooted question touching morals can be put simply and squarely before the people, they will see and choose the right.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000021_000001|How do you explain the striking points of similarity between the flood stories of peoples far removed from each other?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000022_000000|Is there geological evidence that the earth, during human history, has been completely inundated?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000023_000000|What do you mean by a calamity?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000025_000000|What were the effects of the Chicago fire and the San Francisco earthquake upon these cities?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000026_000000|To what extent is the modern progress in sanitation due to natural calamities?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000026_000001|What calamities?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000027_000001|What illustrations can you cite?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000001|How do circumstances affect the kind of act that will be successful?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000002|During the Chinese revolution of nineteen twelve in Peking and Nanking, looting leaders of mobs and plundering soldiers when captured were promptly decapitated without trial.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000003|Was such an act right?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000004|Was it necessary?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000006|Would the same act tend equally to preserve the government in both countries?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000030_000000|(one) Flood Stories among Primitive Peoples.
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000034_000000|Did these different methods under the special circumstances result in the survival of the fittest?
train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000034_000001|The fittest morally?
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train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000004_000000|By Jane Austen
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000006_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000007_000000|Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000009_000000|Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in mr Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000000|Sorrow came-a gentle sorrow-but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness.--Miss Taylor married.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000001|It was Miss Taylor's loss which first brought grief.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000003|The wedding over, and the bride people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together, with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000004|Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000000|The event had every promise of happiness for her friend.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000001|mr Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self denying, generous friendship she had always wished and promoted the match; but it was a black morning's work for her.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000003|She recalled her past kindness-the kindness, the affection of sixteen years-how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old-how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health-and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000004|A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unreserve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recollection.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000013_000000|How was she to bear the change?--It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a mrs Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Taylor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from intellectual solitude.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000013_000001|She dearly loved her father, but he was no companion for her.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000013_000002|He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000000|Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000002|All looked up to them.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000004|It was a melancholy change; and Emma could not but sigh over it, and wish for impossible things, till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000005|His spirits required support.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000006|He was a nervous man, easily depressed; fond of every body that he was used to, and hating to part with them; hating change of every kind.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000017_000000|"Poor Miss Taylor!--I wish she were here again.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000017_000001|What a pity it is that mr Weston ever thought of her!"
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000018_000000|"I cannot agree with you, papa; you know I cannot.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000021_000000|"My dear, how am I to get so far?
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000021_000001|Randalls is such a distance.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000021_000002|I could not walk half so far."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000022_000000|"No, papa, nobody thought of your walking.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000022_000001|We must go in the carriage, to be sure."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000023_000001|But james will not like to put the horses to for such a little way;--and where are the poor horses to be while we are paying our visit?"
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000000|"They are to be put into mr Weston's stable, papa.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000002|We talked it all over with mr Weston last night.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000006|You got Hannah that good place.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000007|Nobody thought of Hannah till you mentioned her-james is so obliged to you!"
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000025_000000|"I am very glad I did think of her.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000025_000001|It was very lucky, for I would not have had poor james think himself slighted upon any account; and I am sure she will make a very good servant: she is a civil, pretty spoken girl; I have a great opinion of her.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000026_000000|Emma spared no exertions to maintain this happier flow of ideas, and hoped, by the help of backgammon, to get her father tolerably through the evening, and be attacked by no regrets but her own.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000026_000001|The backgammon table was placed; but a visitor immediately afterwards walked in and made it unnecessary.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000000|mr Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight and thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000003|It was a happy circumstance, and animated mr Woodhouse for some time.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000004|mr Knightley had a cheerful manner, which always did him good; and his many inquiries after "poor Isabella" and her children were answered most satisfactorily.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000005|When this was over, mr Woodhouse gratefully observed, "It is very kind of you, mr Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000006|I am afraid you must have had a shocking walk."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000028_000000|"Not at all, sir.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000029_000001|I wish you may not catch cold."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000030_000000|"Dirty, sir!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000030_000002|Not a speck on them."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000031_000000|"Well! that is quite surprising, for we have had a vast deal of rain here.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000031_000001|It rained dreadfully hard for half an hour while we were at breakfast.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000031_000002|I wanted them to put off the wedding."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000032_000001|Being pretty well aware of what sort of joy you must both be feeling, I have been in no hurry with my congratulations; but I hope it all went off tolerably well.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000032_000002|How did you all behave?
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000032_000003|Who cried most?"
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000033_000000|"Ah! poor Miss Taylor!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000000|"My dearest papa!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000002|What a horrible idea!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000004|mr Knightley loves to find fault with me, you know-in a joke-it is all a joke.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000005|We always say what we like to one another."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000039_000000|"Emma knows I never flatter her," said mr Knightley, "but I meant no reflection on any body.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000039_000001|Miss Taylor has been used to have two persons to please; she will now have but one.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000039_000002|The chances are that she must be a gainer."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000040_000000|"Well," said Emma, willing to let it pass-"you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000040_000001|Every body was punctual, every body in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000043_000001|I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said mr Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000044_000000|mr Knightley shook his head at her.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000044_000001|Her father fondly replied, "Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000000|"I promise you to make none for myself, papa; but I must, indeed, for other people.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000001|It is the greatest amusement in the world!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000002|And after such success, you know!--Every body said that mr Weston would never marry again.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000003|Oh dear, no! mr Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occupied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful-mr
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000006|Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000007|All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000046_000001|I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match making."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000000|"I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'" said mr Knightley. "Success supposes endeavour.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000002|A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000003|But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Taylor if mr Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000005|What are you proud of?
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000001|There is always some talent in it.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000003|You have drawn two pretty pictures; but I think there may be a third-a something between the do nothing and the do all.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000004|If I had not promoted mr Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000005|I think you must know Hartfield enough to comprehend that."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000050_000000|"Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others," rejoined mr Woodhouse, understanding but in part.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000000|"Only one more, papa; only for mr Elton.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000001|Poor mr Elton!
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000002|You like mr Elton, papa,--I must look about for a wife for him.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000004|I think very well of mr Elton, and this is the only way I have of doing him a service."
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000052_000002|That will be a much better thing.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000053_000000|"With a great deal of pleasure, sir, at any time," said mr Knightley, laughing, "and I agree with you entirely, that it will be a much better thing.
train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000053_000001|Invite him to dinner, Emma, and help him to the best of the fish and the chicken, but leave him to chuse his own wife.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000002_000001|He liked very much to have his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from his long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his fortune, his house, and his daughter, he could command the visits of his own little circle, in a great measure, as he liked.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000002_000002|He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000002_000004|Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card table for him.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000000|mrs Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000002|Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000003|She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000004|Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000008|The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000009|She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited mr Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000006_000002|It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000006_000003|She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea visit; and having formerly owed much to mr Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000007_000000|These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power; though, as far as she was herself concerned, it was no remedy for the absence of mrs Weston.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000008_000000|As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from mrs Goddard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000009_000000|Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000009_000001|Somebody had placed her, several years back, at mrs Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour boarder.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000009_000002|This was all that was generally known of her history. She had no visible friends but what had been acquired at Highbury, and was now just returned from a long visit in the country to some young ladies who had been at school there with her.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000011_000002|The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000011_000003|The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000014_000000|Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000000|"mrs Bates, let me propose your venturing on one of these eggs.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000001|An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000005|Ours are all apple tarts.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000007|I do not advise the custard.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000010|I do not think it could disagree with you."
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000016_000000|Emma allowed her father to talk-but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.
train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000016_000001|The happiness of Miss Smith was quite equal to her intentions.
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000008_000000|"'Little goat, if you're able, Pray deck out my table,'
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000010_000000|"'Little goat, when you're able, Remove my nice table,'
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000013_000000|"Little goat, if you're able, Come and deck my pretty table."
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000015_000000|"Little goat, when you're able, Remove my nice table."
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000024_000000|"Little goat, when you are able, Come and clear away my table."
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000037_000000|On saying this the wise woman vanished.
train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000044_000000|"Three Eyes," said the mother, "climb up, and try what you can do; perhaps you will be able to see better with your three eyes than One Eye can."
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000002_000000|FINDING AND LOSING A FORTUNE
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000003_000000|OUR youthful dream of becoming farmers was now realized in fullest measure.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000003_000002|The comfort and plenty we had hoped and struggled for was attained.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000004_000000|This unexpected prosperity came to us through the hop growing industry, upon which we entered with all our force.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000004_000001|The business was well started by the time of my father's death in eighteen sixty nine, and in the fifteen years following the acreage planted to hops was increased until the crop yield of eighteen eighty two, a yield of more than seventy one tons, gave the Puyallup valley the banner crop, as to quantity, of the United States-and, some persons asserted, of the world.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000005_000001|Therefore it seems fitting to tell here the story of the beginnings of an industry that came to have great importance.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000006_000000|In March of eighteen sixty five, Charles Wood of Olympia sent about three pecks of hop roots to Steilacoom for my father, Jacob r Meeker, who then lived on his claim in the Puyallup valley.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000006_000004|This was sold for eighty five cents a pound, or a little more than a hundred and fifty dollars for the bale.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000000|This sum was more money than had been received by any of the settlers in the Puyallup valley, except perhaps two, from the products of their farms for that year.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000001|My father's near neighbors obtained a barrel of hop roots from California the next year, and planted them the following spring-four acres.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000002|I obtained what roots I could get that year, but not enough to plant an acre.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000003|The following year (eighteen sixty seven) I planted four acres, and for twenty six successive years thereafter we added to the area planted, until our holdings reached past the five hundred acre mark and our production was more than four hundred tons a year.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000008_000000|None of us knew anything about the hop business, and it was entirely by accident that we engaged in it.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000008_000001|But seeing that there were possibilities of great gain, I took pains to study hop culture, and found that by allowing our hops to mature thoroughly, curing them at a low temperature, and baling them while hot, we could produce hops that would compete with any product in the world.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000008_000002|Others of my neighbors planted them, and so did many people in Oregon, until soon there came to be a field for purchasing and shipping hops.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000010_000000|Finally, during the failure of the world's hop crop in the year eighteen eighty two, there came to be unheard of prices for hops, and fully one third of the crop of the Puyallup valley was sold for a dollar a pound.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000001|It still stands in Pioneer Park in Puyallup.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000002|We frequently employed more than a thousand people during harvest time.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000003|Many of these were Indians, some of whom would come for a thousand miles down the coast from British Columbia and even the confines of Alaska; they came in the great cedar log canoes manned with twenty paddlers or more.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000005|Once I had to tie up two of them to a tree for getting drunk; their friends came and stole away the prisoners-which was what I intended they should do.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000012_000001|I had to go through the mud to the Columbia River, then out over the bar to the Pacific Ocean, and down to San Francisco.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000012_000002|Then there was the seven days' journey over the Central and Union Pacific and connecting lines; this meant sitting bolt upright all the way, for there were no sleeping cars then, and no diners either.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000013_000001|Finally our annual shipments reached eleven thousand bales a year, or the equivalent in value of half a million dollars-said at that time to be the largest export hop business of any one concern in the United States.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000013_000002|At one time I had two full trainloads between the Pacific and the Atlantic, on their way to London.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000013_000003|I spent four winters in London dealing in the hop market.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000014_000000|Little as I had thought ever to handle an international business, still less had I thought ever to write a book.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000014_000001|My first publication was an eighty page pamphlet descriptive of Washington Territory, printed in eighteen seventy.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000014_000003|I mention this fact simply as one instance out of the many that could be given of the unexpected lines of development that life in the new land opened out to the pioneers.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000015_000001|We actually pressed the English growers so closely that more than fifteen thousand acres of hops were destroyed in that country.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000000|Our great prosperity was not to last.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000001|One evening in eighteen ninety two, as I stepped out of my office and cast my eyes toward one group of hop houses, it struck me that the hop foliage of a field near by was off color-did not look natural.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000002|One of my clerks from the office said the same thing-the vines did not look natural.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000003|I walked down to the yards, a quarter of a mile away, and there first saw the hop louse.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000005|I issued a hop circular, sending it to more than six hundred correspondents all along the coast in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, and before the week was out I began to receive samples from them, and letters asking what was the matter with the hops.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000017_000000|It appeared that the attack of lice was simultaneous in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, extending over a distance coastwise of more than five hundred miles, and even inland up the Skagit River, where there was an isolated yard.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000017_000001|This plague was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky to us.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000000|I sent my second son, Fred Meeker, to London to learn the English methods of fighting the pest and to import some spraying machinery.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000001|We found to our cost, however, in the course of time, that the English methods did not suit our different conditions; for while we could kill the lice, we had to use so much spraying material on the dense foliage that, in killing them, we virtually destroyed the hops.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000002|Instead of being able to sell our hops at the top price of the market, we saw our product fall to the foot of the list.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000003|The last crop I raised cost me eleven cents a pound and sold for three under the hammer at sheriff's sale.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000019_000000|At that time I had advanced to my neighbors and others upon their hop crops more than a hundred thousand dollars, which was lost.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000019_000001|These people simply could not pay, and I forgave the debt, taking no judgments against them, and I have never regretted the action.
train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000019_000002|All my accumulations were swept away, and I quit the business-or, rather, the business quit me.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000000_000001|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000003_000000|ARMY LETTERS FROM AN OFFICER'S WIFE
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000005_000000|PREFACE
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000006_000000|PERHAPS it is not necessary to say that the events mentioned in the letters are not imaginary-perhaps the letters themselves tell that! They are truthful accounts of experiences that came into my own life with the Army in the far West, whether they be about Indians, desperadoes, or hunting-not one little thing has been stolen.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000006_000002|All flowery descriptions have been omitted, as it seemed that a simple, concise narration of events as they actually occurred, was more in keeping with the life, and that which came into it.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000008_000000|KIT CARSON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, eighteen seventy one.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000003|They looked, in the moonlight, like huge cakes of clay, where spooks and creepy things might be found.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000004|The hotel is much like the houses, and appears to have been made of dirt, and a few drygoods boxes.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000005|Even the low roof is of dirt.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000006|The whole place is horrible, and dismal beyond description, and just why anyone lives here I cannot understand.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000010_000000|I am all upset!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000010_000001|Faye has just been in to say that only one of my trunks can be taken on the stage with us, and of course I had to select one that has all sorts of things in it, and consequently leave my pretty dresses here, to be sent for-all but the Japanese silk which happens to be in that trunk.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000010_000003|And then, to make my shortcomings the more vexatious, Faye will be simply fine all the time, in his brand new uniform!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000012_000000|FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, eighteen seventy one.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000013_000000|AFTER months of anticipation and days of weary travel we have at last got to our army home!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000013_000001|As you know, Fort Lyon is fifty miles from Kit Carson, and we came all that distance in a funny looking stage coach called a "jerkey," and a good name for it, too, for at times it seesawed back and forth and then sideways, in an awful breakneck way.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000013_000002|The day was glorious, and the atmosphere so clear, we could see miles and miles in every direction.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000000|It was dark when we reached the post, so of course we could see nothing that night.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000001|General and mrs Phillips gave us a most cordial welcome-just as though they had known us always.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000002|Dinner was served soon after we arrived, and the cheerful dining room, and the table with its dainty china and bright silver, was such a surprise-so much nicer than anything we had expected to find here, and all so different from the terrible places we had seen since reaching the plains.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000003|It was apparent at once that this was not a place for spooks!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000005|I was so disappointed when I was told this, but Faye says that he is very much afraid that I will have cause, sooner or later, to think that the grade of captain is quite high enough.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000006|He thinks this way because, having graduated at West Point this year, he is only a second lieutenant just now, and General Phillips is his captain and company commander.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000001|At least that is what they tell me.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000003|Most girls would.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000004|A soldier in uniform waited upon us at dinner, and that seemed so funny.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000005|I wanted to watch him all the time, which distracted me, I suppose, for once I called General Phillips "Mister!"
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000006|It so happened, too, that just that instant there was not a sound in the room, so everyone heard the blunder. General Phillips straightened back in his chair, and his little son gave a smothered giggle-for which he should have been sent to bed at once. But that was not all!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000007|That soldier, who had been so dignified and stiff, put his hand over his mouth and fairly rushed from the room so he could laugh outright.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000008|And how I longed to run some place, too-but not to laugh, oh, no!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000016_000003|When I told Faye about it, he looked vexed and said I must never laugh at an enlisted man-that it was not dignified in the wife of an officer to do so.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000016_000005|I wanted to say more, but Faye suddenly left the room.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000017_000001|There is no high wall around it as there is at Fort Trumbull.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000017_000005|A little ditch-they call it acequia-runs all around the post, and brings water to the trees and lawns, but water for use in the houses is brought up in wagons from the Arkansas River, and is kept in barrels.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000000|Yesterday morning-our first here-we were awakened by the sounds of fife and drum that became louder and louder, until finally I thought the whole Army must be marching to the house.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000001|I stumbled over everything in the room in my haste to get to one of the little dormer windows, but there was nothing to be seen, as it was still quite dark.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000002|The drumming became less loud, and then ceased altogether, when a big gun was fired that must have wasted any amount of powder, for it shook the house and made all the windows rattle.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000003|Then three or four bugles played a little air, which it was impossible to hear because of the horrible howling and crying of dogs-such howls of misery you never heard-they made me shiver.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000005|There was the same performance this morning, and at breakfast I asked General Phillips why soldiers required such a beating of drums, and deafening racket generally, to awaken them in the morning.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000019_000001|So it is apparent to me that the safest thing to do is to call everyone general-there seem to be so many here.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000019_000002|If I make a mistake, it will be on the right side, at least.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000001|But instead of the smile and gracious acquiescence I had expected, there was another straightening back in the chair, and a silence that was ominous and chilling.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000002|Finally, he recovered sufficient breath to tell me that at present, there were no good carpenters in the company.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000003|Later on, however, I learned that only captains and officers of higher rank can have such things.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000004|The captains seem to have the best of everything, and the lieutenants are expected to get along with smaller houses, much less pay, and much less everything else, and at the same time perform all of the disagreeable duties.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000021_000000|Faye is wonderfully amiable about it, and assures me that when he gets to be a captain I will see that it is just and fair.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000021_000001|But I happen to remember that he told me not long ago that he might not get his captaincy for twenty years.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000021_000002|Just think of it-a whole long lifetime-and always a Mister, too-and perhaps by that time it will be "just and fair" for the lieutenants to have everything!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000022_000002|It has a hall with a pretty stairway, three rooms and a large shed downstairs, and two rooms and a very large hall closet on the second floor.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000022_000003|A soldier is cleaning the windows and floors, and making things tidy generally.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000022_000004|Many of the men like to cook, and do things for officers of their company, thereby adding to their pay, and these men are called strikers.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000000|There are four companies here-three of infantry and one troop of cavalry.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000001|You must always remember that Faye is in the infantry.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000002|With the cavalry he has a classmate, and a friend, also, which will make it pleasant for both of us.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000003|In my letters to you I will disregard army etiquette, and call the lieutenants by their rank, otherwise you would not know of whom I was writing-an officer or civilian.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000004|Lieutenant Baldwin has been on the frontier many years, and is an experienced hunter of buffalo and antelope.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000005|He says that I must commence riding horseback at once, and has generously offered me the use of one of his horses.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000006|mrs Phillips insists upon my using her saddle until I can get one from the East, so I can ride as soon as our trunks come.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000007|And I am to learn to shoot pistols and guns, and do all sorts of things.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000000|We are to remain with General and mrs Phillips several days, while our own house is being made habitable, and in the meantime our trunks and boxes will come, also the colored cook.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000001|I have not missed my dresses very much-there has been so much else to think about.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000002|There is a little store just outside the post that is named "Post Trader's," where many useful things are kept, and we have just been there to purchase some really nice furniture that an officer left to be sold when he was retired last spring.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000003|We got only enough to make ourselves comfortable during the winter, for it seems to be the general belief here that these companies of infantry will be ordered to Camp Supply, Indian Territory, in the spring.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000004|It must be a most dreadful place-with old log houses built in the hot sand hills, and surrounded by almost every tribe of hostile Indians.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000026_000000|FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, eighteen seventy one.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000028_000000|Well, I have seen an Indian-a number of Indians-but they were not Red Jackets, neither were they noble red men.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000028_000001|They were simply, and only, painted, dirty, and nauseous smelling savages!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000029_000001|There are several small stores in the half Mexican village, where curious little things from Mexico can often be found, if one does not mind poking about underneath the trash and dirt that is everywhere.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000029_000003|As they came toward us in their imperious way, never once looking to the right or to the left, they seemed like giants, and to increase in size and numbers with every step.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000030_000000|Their coming was so sudden we did not have a chance to get out of their way, and it so happened that mrs Phillips and I were in their line of march, and when the one in the lead got to us, we were pushed aside with such impatient force that we both fell over on the counter.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000030_000001|The others passed on just the same, however, and if we had fallen to the floor, I presume they would have stepped over us, and otherwise been oblivious to our existence.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000031_000000|As soon as they got to the counter they demanded powder, balls, and percussion caps, and as these things were given them, they were stuffed down their muzzle loading rifles, and what could not be rammed down the barrels was put in greasy skin bags and hidden under their blankets.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000031_000001|I saw one test the sharp edge of a long, wicked looking knife, and then it, also, disappeared under his blanket.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000031_000002|All this time the other Indians were on their ponies in front, watching every move that was being made around them.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000000|It was an awful situation to be in, and one to terrify anybody.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000001|We were actually prisoners-penned in with all those savages, who were evidently in an ugly mood, with quantities of ammunition within their reach, and only two white men to protect us.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000002|Even the few small windows had iron bars across.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000003|They could have killed every one of us, and ridden far away before anyone in the sleepy town found it out.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000034_000000|Well, when those inside had been given, or had helped themselves to, whatever they wanted, out they all marched again, quickly and silently, just as they had come in.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000034_000001|They instantly mounted their ponies, and all rode down the street and out of sight at race speed, some leaning so far over on their little beasts that one could hardly see the Indian at all. The pony that was ridden into the store door was without a bridle, and was guided by a long strip of buffalo skin which was fastened around his lower jaw by a slipknot.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000001|The Utes and Cheyennes are bitter enemies.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000002|He said that the Utes were very cross-ready for the blood of Indian or white man-therefore he had permitted them to do about as they pleased while in the store, particularly as we were there, and he saw that we were frightened.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000003|That young man did not know that his own swarthy face was a greenish white all the time those Indians were in the store!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000004|Not one penny did they pay for the things they carried off.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000001|There was hatred in their eyes as they approached us in that store, and there was restrained murder in the hand that pushed mrs Phillips and me over.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000002|They were all hideous-with streaks of red or green paint on their faces that made them look like fiends.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000004|These were their scalp locks.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000006|They were not tall, but rather short and stocky.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000007|The odor of those skins, and of the Indians themselves, in that stuffy little shop, I expect to smell the rest of my life!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000037_000000|We heard this morning that those very savages rode out on the plains in a roundabout way, so as to get in advance of the Cheyennes, and then had hidden themselves on the top of a bluff overlooking the trail they knew the Cheyennes to be following, and had fired upon them as they passed below, killing two and wounding a number of others.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000037_000001|You can see how treacherous these Indians are, and how very far from noble is their method of warfare!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000037_000002|They are so disappointing, too-so wholly unlike Cooper's red men.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000000|We were glad enough to get in the ambulance and start on our way to the post, but alas! our troubles were not over.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000001|The mules must have felt the excitement in the air, for as soon as their heads were turned toward home they proceeded to run away with us.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000002|We had the four little mules that are the special pets of the quartermaster, and are known throughout the garrison as the "shaved tails," because the hair on their tails is kept closely cut down to the very tips, where it is left in a square brush of three or four inches.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000003|They are perfectly matched-coal black all over, except their little noses, and are quite small.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000004|They are full of mischief, and full of wisdom, too, even for government mules, and when one says, "Let's take a sprint," the others always agree-about that there is never the slightest hesitation.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000039_000001|But we got over the narrow bridge without meeting more than one man, who climbed over the railing and seemed less anxious to meet us than we were to meet him. As soon as we got on the road again, those mules, with preliminary kicks and shakes of their big heads, began to demonstrate how fast they could go.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000040_000001|When we reached the post they made a wonderful turn and took us safely to the government corral, where they stopped, just when they got ready.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000040_000002|One leader looked around at us and commenced to bray, but the driver was in no mood for such insolence, and jerked the poor thing almost down.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000000|Three tired, disheveled women walked from the corral to their homes; and very glad one of them was to get home, too!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000001|Hereafter I shall confine myself to horseback riding-for, even if john is frisky at times, I prefer to take my chances with the one horse, to four little long eared government mules!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000002|But I have learned to ride very well, and have a secure seat now.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000003|My teachers, Faye and Lieutenant Baldwin, have been most exacting, but that I wanted.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000004|Of course I ride the army way, tight in the saddle, which is more difficult to learn.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000005|Any attempt to "rise" when on a trot is ridiculed at once here, and it does look absurd after seeing the splendid and graceful riding of the officers.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000043_000000|IN many of my letters I have written about learning to ride and to shoot, and have told you, also, of having followed the greyhounds after coyotes and rabbits with Faye and Lieutenant Baldwin.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000043_000001|These hunts exact the very best of riding and a fast horse, for coyotes are very swift, and so are jack rabbits, too, and one look at a greyhound will tell anyone that he can run-and about twice as fast as the big eared foxhounds in the East.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000043_000002|But I started to write you about something quite different from all this-to tell you of a really grand hunt I have been on-a splendid chase after buffalo!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000044_000000|A week or so ago it was decided that a party of enlisted men should be sent out to get buffalo meat for Thanksgiving dinner for everybody-officers and enlisted men-and that Lieutenant Baldwin, who is an experienced hunter, should command the detail.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000044_000001|You can imagine how proud and delighted I was when asked to go with them.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000044_000002|Lieutenant Baldwin saying that the hunt would be worth seeing, and well repay one for the fatigue of the hard ride.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000000|So, one morning after an early breakfast, the horses were led up from the stables, each one having on a strong halter, and a coiled picket rope with an iron pin fastened to the saddle.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000001|These were carried so that if it should be found necessary to secure the horses on the plains, they could be picketed out.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000002|The bachelors' set of quarters is next to ours, so we all got ready together, and I must say that the deliberate way in which each girth was examined, bridles fixed, rifles fastened to saddles, and other things done, was most exasperating.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000003|But we finally started, about seven o'clock, Lieutenant Baldwin and I taking the lead, and Faye and Lieutenant Alden following.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000046_000001|Two large army wagons followed us, each drawn by four mules, and carrying several enlisted men.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000046_000002|Mounted orderlies led extra horses that officers and men were to ride when they struck the herd.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000000|Well, we rode twelve miles without seeing one living thing, and then we came to a little adobe ranch where we dismounted to rest a while.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000001|By this time our feet and hands were almost frozen, and Faye suggested that I should remain at the ranch until they returned; but that I refused to do-to give up the hunt was not to be thought of, particularly as a ranchman had just told us that a small herd of buffalo had been seen that very morning only two miles farther on.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000002|So, when the horses were a little rested, we started, and, after riding a mile or more, we came to a small ravine, where we found one poor buffalo, too old and emaciated to keep up with his companions, and who, therefore, had been abandoned by them, to die alone.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000003|He had eaten the grass as far as he could reach, and had turned around and around until the ground looked as though it had been spaded.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000000|He got up on his old legs as we approached him, and tried to show fight by dropping his head and throwing his horns to the front, but a child could have pushed him over.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000001|One of the officers tried to persuade me to shoot him, saying it would be a humane act, and at the same time give me the prestige of having killed a buffalo!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000002|But the very thought of pointing a pistol at anything so weak and utterly helpless was revolting in the extreme.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000004|He was very tall, had a fine head, with an uncommonly long beard, and showed every indication of having been a grand specimen of his kind.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000049_000000|We left him undisturbed, but only a few minutes later we heard the sharp report of a rifle, and at once suspected, what we learned to be a fact the next day, that one of the men with the wagons had killed him. Possibly this was the most merciful thing to do, but to me that shot meant murder.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000049_000001|The pitiful bleary eyes of the helpless old beast have haunted me ever since we saw him.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000000|We must have gone at least two miles farther before we saw the herd we were looking for, making fifteen or sixteen miles altogether that we had ridden.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000002|We immediately fell back a short distance and waited for the wagons, and when they came up there was great activity, I assure you.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000004|Faye would not join in the hunt, but remained with me the entire day.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000005|He and I rode over the hill, stopping when we got where we could command a good view of the valley and watch the run.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000051_000000|It seemed only a few minutes when we saw the buffalo start, going from some of the men, of course, who at once began to chase them.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000051_000001|This kept them running straight ahead, and, fortunately, in Lieutenant Baldwin's direction, who apparently was holding his horse in, waiting for them to come.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000051_000002|We saw through our field glasses that as soon as they got near enough he made a quick dash for the herd, and cutting one out, had turned it so it was headed straight for us.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000052_000002|But he would not go back one step, assuring me that my horse was a trained hunter and accustomed to such sights.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000053_000000|Lieutenant Baldwin gained steadily on the buffalo, and in a wonderfully short time both passed directly in front of us-within a hundred feet, Faye said.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000053_000001|Lieutenant Baldwin was close upon him then, his horse looking very small and slender by the side of the grand animal that was taking easy, swinging strides, apparently without effort and without speed, his tongue lolling at one side.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000053_000002|But we could see that the pace was really terrific-that Lieutenant Baldwin was freely using the spur, and that his swift thoroughbred was stretched out like a greyhound, straining every muscle in his effort to keep up.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000054_000000|My horse behaved very well-just whirling around a few times-but Faye was kept busy a minute or two by his, for the poor horse was awfully frightened, and lunged and reared and snorted; but I knew that he could not unseat Faye, so I rather enjoyed it, for you know I had wanted to go back a little!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000000|Lieutenant Baldwin and the buffalo were soon far away, and when our horses had quieted down we recalled that shots had been fired in another direction, and looking about, we saw a pathetic sight.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000001|Lieutenant Alden was on his horse, and facing him was an immense buffalo, standing perfectly still with chin drawn in and horns to the front, ready for battle.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000002|It was plain to be seen that the poor horse was not enjoying the meeting, for every now and then he would try to back away, or give a jump sideways.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000003|The buffalo was wounded and unable to run, but he could still turn around fast enough to keep his head toward the horse, and this he did every time Lieutenant Alden tried to get an aim at his side.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000000|There was no possibility of his killing him without assistance, and of course the poor beast could not be abandoned in such a helpless condition, so Faye decided to go over and worry him, while Lieutenant Alden got in the fatal shot.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000001|As soon as Faye got there I put my fingers over my ears so that I would not hear the report of the pistol.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000002|After a while I looked across, and there was the buffalo still standing, and both Faye and Lieutenant Alden were beckoning for me to come to them.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000004|I saw no glory in shooting a wounded animal, so I turned my horse back again, but had not gone far before I heard the pistol shot.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000057_000001|They said he was a magnificent specimen-unusually large, and very black-what they call a blue skin-with a splendid head and beard.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000058_000000|Very soon after that Faye and I came on home, reaching the post about seven o'clock.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000058_000002|But I got through the day very well, considering the very short time I have been riding-that is, really riding.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000000|The rest of the party did not come in until several hours later; but they brought the meat and skins of four buffalo, and the head of Lieutenant Alden's, which he will send East to be mounted.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000001|The skin he intends to take to an Indian camp, to be tanned by the squaws. Lieutenant Baldwin followed his buffalo until he got in the position he wanted, and then killed him with one shot.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000002|Faye says that only a cool head and experience could have done that.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000003|Much depends upon the horse, too, for so many horses are afraid of a buffalo, and lunge sideways just at the critical moment.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000060_000000|Several experienced hunters tell marvelous tales of how they have stood within a few yards of a buffalo and fired shot after shot from a Springfield rifle, straight at his head, the balls producing no effect whatever, except, perhaps, a toss of the head and the flying out of a tuft of hair.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000060_000001|Every time the ball would glance off from the thick skull. The wonderful mat of curly hair must break the force some, too.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000061_000000|FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, December, eighteen seventy one.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000000|OUR first Christmas on the frontier was ever so pleasant, but it certainly was most vexatious not to have that box from home.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000001|And I expect that it has been at Kit Carson for days, waiting to be brought down.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000002|We had quite a little Christmas without it, however, for a number of things came from the girls, and several women of the garrison sent pretty little gifts to me.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000004|All the little presents were spread out on a table, and in a way to make them present as fine an appearance as possible.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000006|I did this to let everyone know that we had not been forgotten by home people.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000063_000000|They have such a charming custom in the Army of going along the line Christmas morning and giving each other pleasant greetings and looking at the pretty things everyone has received.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000063_000001|This is a rare treat out here, where we are so far from shops and beautiful Christmas displays. We all went to the bachelors' quarters, almost everyone taking over some little remembrance-homemade candy, cakes, or something of that sort.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000000|I had a splendid cake to send over that morning, and I will tell you just what happened to it.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000001|At home we always had a large fruit cake made for the holidays, long in advance, and I thought I would have one this year as near like it as possible.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000002|But it seemed that the only way to get it was to make it.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000003|So, about four weeks ago, I commenced.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000000|Well, for two long, tiresome days I worked over that cake, preparing with my own fingers every bit of the fruit, which I consider was a fine test of perseverance and staying qualities.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000001|After the ingredients were all mixed together there seemed to be enough for a whole regiment, so we decided to make two cakes of it.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000002|They looked lovely when baked, and just right, and smelled so good, too!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000003|I wrapped them in nice white paper that had been wet with brandy, and put them carefully away-one in a stone jar, the other in a tin box-and felt that I had done a remarkably fine bit of housekeeping.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000004|The bachelors have been exceedingly kind to me, and I rejoiced at having a nice cake to send them Christmas morning.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000005|But alas!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000006|I forgot that the little house was fragrant with the odor of spice and fruit, and that there was a man about who was ever on the lookout for good things to eat.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000007|It is a shame that those cadets at West Point are so starved.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000008|They seem to be simply famished for months after they graduate.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000066_000000|It so happened that there was choir practice that very evening, and that I was at the chapel an hour or so.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000066_000002|Before I was quite in the room they all stood up and began to praise the cake.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000066_000003|I think Faye was the first to mention it, saying it was a "great success"; then the others said "perfectly delicious," and so on, but at the same time assuring me that a large piece had been left for me.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000000|For one minute I stood still, not in the least grasping their meaning; but finally I suspected mischief, they all looked so serenely contented. So I passed on to the dining room, and there, on the table, was one of the precious cakes---at least what was left of it, the very small piece that had been so generously saved for me.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000001|And there were plates with crumbs, and napkins, that told the rest of the sad tale-and there was wine and empty glasses, also.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000003|Their early Christmas had been a fine one.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000004|There was nothing for me to say or do-at least not just then-so I went back to the little living room and forced myself to be halfway pleasant to the four men who were there, each one looking precisely like the cat after it had eaten the canary!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000005|The cake was scarcely cold, and must have been horribly sticky-and I remember wondering, as I sat there, which one would need the doctor first, and what the doctor would do if they were all seized with cramps at the same time.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000006|But they were not ill-not in the least-which proved that the cake was well baked.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000001|We sang our Christmas music, and received many compliments.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000003|Both General Phillips and Major Pierce have fine voices.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000004|One of the infantry sergeants plays the organ now, for it was quite too hard for me to sing and work those old pedals.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000005|Once I forgot them entirely, and everybody smiled-even the chaplain!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000000|From the chapel we-that is, the company officers and their wives-went to the company barracks to see the men's dinner tables.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000001|When we entered the dining hall we found the entire company standing in two lines, one down each side, every man in his best inspection uniform, and every button shining.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000002|With eyes to the front and hands down their sides they looked absurdly like wax figures waiting to be "wound up," and I did want so much to tell the little son of General Phillips to pinch one and make him jump.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000003|He would have done it, too, and then put all the blame upon me, without loss of time.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000070_000000|The first sergeant came to meet us, and went around with us.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000070_000001|There were three long tables, fairly groaning with things upon them: buffalo, antelope, boiled ham, several kinds of vegetables, pies, cakes, quantities of pickles, dried "apple duff," and coffee, and in the center of each table, high up, was a huge cake thickly covered with icing. These were the cakes that mrs Phillips, mrs Barker, and I had sent over that morning.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000070_000002|It is the custom in the regiment for the wives of the officers every Christmas to send the enlisted men of their husbands' companies large plum cakes, rich with fruit and sugar.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000071_000000|The hall was very prettily decorated with flags and accoutrements, but one missed the greens.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000071_000001|There are no evergreen trees here, only cottonwood.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000071_000002|Before coming out, General Phillips said a few pleasant words to the men, wishing them a "Merry Christmas" for all of us. Judging from the laughing and shuffling of feet as soon as we got outside, the men were glad to be allowed to relax once more.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000000|At six o'clock Faye and I, Lieutenant Baldwin, and Lieutenant Alden dined with Doctor and mrs Wilder.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000001|It was a beautiful little dinner, very delicious, and served in the daintiest manner possible.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000002|But out here one is never quite sure of what one is eating, for sometimes the most tempting dishes are made of almost nothing.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000003|At holiday time, however, it seems that the post trader sends to saint Louis for turkeys, celery, canned oysters, and other things.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000004|We have no fresh vegetables here, except potatoes, and have to depend upon canned stores in the commissary for a variety, and our meat consists entirely of beef, except now and then, when we may have a treat to buffalo or antelope.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000003|The music consisted of one violin with accordion accompaniment.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000004|This would seem absurd in the East, but I can assure you that one accordion, when played well by a German, is an orchestra in itself.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000005|And Doos plays very well.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000006|The girls East may have better music to dance by, and polished waxed floors to slip down upon, but they cannot have the excellent partners one has at an army post, and I choose the partners!
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000000|The officers are excellent dancers-every one of them-and when you are gliding around, your chin, or perhaps your nose, getting a scratch now and then from a gorgeous gold epaulet, you feel as light as a feather, and imagine yourself with a fairy prince.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000001|Of course the officers were in full dress uniform Friday night, so I know just what I am talking about, scratches and all.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000002|Every woman appeared in her finest gown.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000003|I wore my nile green silk, which I am afraid showed off my splendid coat of tan only too well.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000000|The party was given for Doctor and mrs Anderson, who are guests of General Bourke for a few days.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000002|mrs Anderson was very handsome in an elegant gown of London smoke silk.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000003|I am to assist mrs Phillips in receiving New Year's day, and shall wear my pearl colored Irish poplin.
train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000004|We are going out now for a little ride.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000005_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000006_000000|The three of us went back towards the pavilion.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000007_000000|"That's where the murderer came from to get into the pavilion."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000009_000000|"That path is as you see, topped with gravel," he said; "the man must have passed along it going to the pavilion, since no traces of his steps have been found on the soft ground.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000009_000001|The man didn't have wings; he walked; but he walked on the gravel which left no impression of his tread.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000010_000000|"After all it is very possible," I said.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000012_000000|I begged of him not to be angry; but he was too much irritated to listen to me and declared, ironically, that he admired the prudent doubt with which certain people approached the most simple problems, risking nothing by saying "that is so, or 'that is not so." Their intelligence would have produced about the same result if nature had forgotten to furnish their brain pan with a little grey matter.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000012_000001|As I appeared vexed, my young friend took me by the arm and admitted that he had not meant that for me; he thought more of me than that.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000000|"If I did not reason as I do in regard to this gravel," he went on, "I should have to assume a balloon!--My dear fellow, the science of the aerostation of dirigible balloons is not yet developed enough for me to consider it and suppose that a murderer would drop from the clouds!
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000001|So don't say a thing is possible, when it could not be otherwise.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000003|The fact of the presence of the chambermaid-who had come to clean up The Yellow Room-in the laboratory, when Monsieur Stangerson and his daughter returned from their walk, at half past one, permits us to affirm that at half past one the murderer was not in the chamber under the bed, unless he was in collusion with the chambermaid.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000004|What do you say, Monsieur Darzac?"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000014_000000|Monsieur Darzac shook his head and said he was sure of the chambermaid's fidelity, and that she was a thoroughly honest and devoted servant.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000015_000000|"Besides," he added, "at five o'clock Monsieur Stangerson went into the room to fetch his daughter's hat."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000017_000001|It was an act which would necessarily draw the attention of those who had left it open."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000021_000000|"And what is your hypothesis?"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000022_000000|"You will never know if it does not turn out to be the truth.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000025_000000|I could not but observe that Monsieur Darzac was deeply moved; and I suspected that Rouletabille's confident assertion was not pleasing to him.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000029_000000|We were passing by the thicket, of which the young reporter had spoken to us a minute before.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000031_000000|Having said this, he asked me for the paper pattern of the footprint which he had given me to take care of, and applied it to a very clear footmark behind the thicket.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000031_000001|"Aha!" he said, rising.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000033_000001|See, just in front of the little path leading to the lake, that was his nearest way to get out."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000035_000001|There must be some important marks there."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000036_000000|A few minutes later we reached the lake.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000037_000001|The great Fred may have seen us approaching, but we probably interested him very little, for he took hardly any notice of us and continued to be stirring with his cane something which we could not see.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000038_000001|The man continued his flight to Paris."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000039_000000|"What makes you think that?" I asked, "since these footmarks are not continued on the path?"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000040_000000|"What makes me think that?--Why these footprints, which I expected to find!" he cried, pointing to the sharply outlined imprint of a neat boot.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000040_000001|"See!"--and he called to Frederic Larsan.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000041_000000|"Monsieur Fred, these neat footprints seem to have been made since the discovery of the crime."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000042_000001|"You see, there are steps that come, and steps that go back."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000043_000000|"And the man had a bicycle!" cried the reporter.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000044_000000|Here, after looking at the marks of the bicycle, which followed, going and coming, the neat footprints, I thought I might intervene.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000000|"The bicycle explains the disappearance of the murderer's big foot prints," I said.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000001|"The murderer, with his rough boots, mounted a bicycle.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000002|His accomplice, the wearer of the neat boots, had come to wait for him on the edge of the lake with the bicycle.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000003|It might be supposed that the murderer was working for the other."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000046_000001|"I have expected to find these footmarks from the very beginning.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000046_000002|These are not the footmarks of the murderer!"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000047_000000|"Then there were two?"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000049_000000|"Very good!--Very good!" cried Frederic Larsan.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000050_000002|If there had been a man on the bicycle, the wheels would have sunk deeply into the soil.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000050_000003|No, no; there was but one man there, the murderer on foot."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000051_000000|"Bravo!--bravo!" cried Fred again, and coming suddenly towards us and, planting himself in front of Monsieur Robert Darzac, he said to him:
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000052_000000|"If we had a bicycle here, we might demonstrate the correctness of the young man's reasoning, Monsieur Robert Darzac.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000052_000001|Do you know whether there is one at the chateau?"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000053_000000|"No!" replied Monsieur Darzac.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000053_000001|"There is not.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000055_000000|"Yes," said my young friend; "I have an idea."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000056_000001|There are no two ways of reasoning in this affair.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000056_000002|I am waiting for the arrival of my chief before offering any explanation to the examining magistrate."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000057_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000058_000000|"Yes, this afternoon.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000058_000001|He is going to summon, before the magistrate, in the laboratory, all those who have played any part in this tragedy.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000060_000000|"Really-you are an extraordinary fellow-for your age!" replied the detective in a tone not wholly free from irony.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000060_000001|"You'd make a wonderful detective-if you had a little more method-if you didn't follow your instincts and that bump on your forehead.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000060_000004|You have seen the stain on the wall, but I have only seen the handkerchief."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000062_000002|You are right, when you say that Mademoiselle Stangerson fired her revolver, but you are wrong when you say that she wounded the murderer in the hand."
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000064_000000|Fred, imperturbable, interrupted him:
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000066_000000|The great Fred spoke quite seriously.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000066_000001|However, I could not refrain from uttering an exclamation.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000067_000000|The reporter looked gravely at Fred, who looked gravely at him.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000068_000000|"The man allowed the blood to flow into his hand and handkerchief, and dried his hand on the wall.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000069_000001|After a moment he said:
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000070_000000|"There is something-a something, Monsieur Frederic Larsan, much graver than the misuse of logic the disposition of mind in some detectives which makes them, in perfect good faith, twist logic to the necessities of their preconceived ideas.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000070_000001|You, already, have your idea about the murderer, Monsieur Fred.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000071_000000|And laughing a little, in a slightly bantering tone, his hands in his pockets, Rouletabille fixed his cunning eyes on the great Fred.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000072_000000|Frederic Larsan silently contemplated the young reporter who pretended to be as wise as himself.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000072_000001|Shrugging his shoulders, he bowed to us and moved quickly away, hitting the stones on his path with his stout cane.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000074_000000|"I shall beat him!" he cried.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000074_000001|"I shall beat the great Fred, clever as he is; I shall beat them all!"
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000075_000000|And he danced a double shuffle.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000075_000001|Suddenly he stopped.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000075_000002|My eyes followed his gaze; they were fixed on Monsieur Robert Darzac, who was looking anxiously at the impression left by his feet side by side with the elegant footmarks.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000076_000000|We thought he was about to faint.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000076_000001|His eyes, bulging with terror, avoided us, while his right hand, with a spasmodic movement, twitched at the beard that covered his honest, gentle, and now despairing face.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000078_000000|He, also, appeared to be deeply concerned.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000078_000001|From his pocket book he took a piece of white paper as I had seen him do before, and with his scissors, cut out the shape of the neat bootmarks that were on the ground.
train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000078_000002|Then he fitted the new paper pattern with the one he had previously made-the two were exactly alike.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000002_000000|CHAPTER ten "We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat-Now"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000003_000000|The Donjon Inn was of no imposing appearance; but I like these buildings with their rafters blackened with age and the smoke of their hearths-these inns of the coaching days, crumbling erections that will soon exist in the memory only.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000003_000001|They belong to the bygone days, they are linked with history.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000003_000002|They make us think of the Road, of those days when highwaymen rode.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000004_000000|I saw at once that the Donjon Inn was at least two centuries old-perhaps older.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000005_000000|When we were close to him, he deigned to see us and asked us, in a tone anything but engaging, whether we wanted anything.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000005_000001|He was, no doubt, the not very amiable landlord of this charming dwelling place.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000005_000002|As we expressed a hope that he would be good enough to furnish us with a breakfast, he assured us that he had no provisions, regarding us, as he said this, with a look that was unmistakably suspicious.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000007_000000|"I'm not afraid of the police-I'm not afraid of anyone!" replied the man.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000008_000000|I had made my friend understand by a sign that we should do better not to insist; but, being determined to enter the inn, he slipped by the man on the doorstep and was in the common room.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000009_000000|"Come on," he said, "it is very comfortable here."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000010_000001|The room was a tolerably large one, furnished with two heavy tables, some stools, a counter decorated with rows of bottles of syrup and alcohol.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000010_000003|A coloured advertisement lauded the many merits of a new vermouth.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000010_000004|On the mantelpiece was arrayed the innkeeper's collection of figured earthenware pots and stone jugs.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000011_000001|"We have no chicken-not even a wretched rabbit," said the landlord.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000012_000000|"I know," said my friend slowly; "I know-We shall have to eat red meat-now."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000014_000000|Meantime the man had pushed open a little side door and called to somebody to bring him half a dozen eggs and a piece of beefsteak.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000015_000000|The innkeeper said to her roughly:
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000017_000000|She disappeared.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000017_000002|The landlord let us do our own cooking and set our table near one of the windows.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000020_000002|There was no need for me to draw Rouletabille's attention; he had already left our omelette and had joined the landlord at the window.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000021_000001|He carried a fowling piece slung at his back.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000021_000003|He wore eye glasses and appeared to be about five and forty years of age.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000023_000000|"He has done well not to come in here to day!" he hissed.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000025_000001|"Don't you know him?
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000025_000002|Then all the better for you.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000025_000003|He is not an acquaintance to make.--Well, he is Monsieur Stangerson's forest keeper."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000027_000001|He's an upstart who must once have had a fortune of his own; and he forgives nobody because, in order to live, he has been compelled to become a servant.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000027_000004|He'll not let a poor creature eat a morsel of bread on the grass his grass!"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000028_000000|"Does he often come here?"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000029_000000|"Too often.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000029_000001|But I've made him understand that his face doesn't please me, and, for a month past, he hasn't been here.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000029_000004|Why, the concierges of the chateau would turn their eyes away from a picture of him!"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000030_000000|"The concierges of the chateau are honest people, then?"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000031_000000|"Yes, they are, as true as my name's Mathieu, monsieur.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000032_000000|"Yet they've been arrested?"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000033_000000|"What does that prove?--But I don't want to mix myself up in other people's affairs."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000035_000000|"Of the murder of poor Mademoiselle Stangerson?--A good girl much loved everywhere in the country.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000037_000000|The innkeeper looked at him sideways and said gruffly:
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000038_000000|"Not even yours."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000042_000000|And she entered, followed by a cat, larger than any I had ever believed could exist.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000042_000001|The beast looked at us and gave so hopeless a miau that I shuddered.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000045_000000|As the Green Man entered, Daddy Mathieu had started violently; but visibly mastering himself he said:
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000046_000000|"I've no more cider; I served the last bottles to these gentlemen."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000050_000000|"Quite well, thank you."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000052_000001|Mother Angenoux was still standing, leaning on her stick, the cat at her feet.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000054_000000|"Yes, Monsieur keeper.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000054_000002|There was no one to care for me but the Bete du bon Dieu!"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000055_000000|"Did she not leave you?"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000057_000000|"Are you sure of that?"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000060_000000|Mother Angenoux planted herself in front of the forest keeper and struck the floor with her stick.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000000|"I don't know anything about it," she said.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000001|"But shall I tell you something?
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000002|There are no two cats in the world that cry like that.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000004|I crossed myself when I heard that, as if I had heard the devil."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000062_000000|I looked at the keeper when he put the last question, and I am much mistaken if I did not detect an evil smile on his lips.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000062_000003|The Green Man quickly rose and hurried to the door by the side of the fireplace; but it was opened by the landlord who appeared, and said to the keeper:
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000064_000000|He held out a packet to the old woman, who took it eagerly and went out by the door, closely followed by her cat.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000067_000001|Take yourself off."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000068_000000|The Green Man quietly refilled his pipe, lit it, bowed to us, and went out.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000069_000000|"I don't know who you are who tell me 'We shall have to eat red meat-now'; but if it will interest you to know it-that man is the murderer!"
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000071_000000|"Now we'll grill our steak.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000071_000001|How do you like the cider?--It's a little tart, but I like it."
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000072_000000|We saw no more of Daddy Mathieu that day, and absolute silence reigned in the inn when we left it, after placing five francs on the table in payment for our feast.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000073_000000|Rouletabille at once set off on a three mile walk round Professor Stangerson's estate.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000074_000000|"You don't think, then, that the keeper knows anything of it?" I asked.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000075_000000|"We shall see that, later," he replied.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000075_000002|The landlord hates him.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000076_000001|With the skill of an acrobat, he got into the lodge by an upper window which had been left open, and returned ten minutes later.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000076_000002|He said only, "Ah!"--a word which, in his mouth, signified many things.
train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000077_000000|We were about to take the road leading to the chateau, when a considerable stir at the park gate attracted our attention.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000000_000000|Their substance we consider absolutely and in relation to corporeal things.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000001_000000|Concerning their substance absolutely considered, there are five points of inquiry:
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000009_000000|Objection one: It would seem that an angel is not entirely incorporeal. For what is incorporeal only as regards ourselves, and not in relation to God, is not absolutely incorporeal.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000011_000002|Therefore, every creature is corporeal.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000001|For what is principally intended by God in creatures is good, and this consists in assimilation to God Himself.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000002|And the perfect assimilation of an effect to a cause is accomplished when the effect imitates the cause according to that whereby the cause produces the effect; as heat makes heat.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000004|Hence the perfection of the universe requires that there should be intellectual creatures.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000005|Now intelligence cannot be the action of a body, nor of any corporeal faculty; for every body is limited to "here" and "now." Hence the perfection of the universe requires the existence of an incorporeal creature.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000014_000000|The ancients, however, not properly realizing the force of intelligence, and failing to make a proper distinction between sense and intellect, thought that nothing existed in the world but what could be apprehended by sense and imagination.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000015_000000|But the very fact that intellect is above sense is a reasonable proof that there are some incorporeal things comprehensible by the intellect alone.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000016_000001|Now the medium compared to one extreme appears to be the other extreme, as what is tepid compared to heat seems to be cold; and thus it is said that angels, compared to God, are material and corporeal, not, however, as if anything corporeal existed in them.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000017_000001|Therefore an angel is called an ever mobile substance, because he is ever actually intelligent, and not as if he were sometimes actually and sometimes potentially, as we are.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000020_000000|Whether an Angel Is Composed of Matter and Form?
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000000|Objection one: It would seem that an angel is composed of matter and form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000001|For everything which is contained under any genus is composed of the genus, and of the difference which added to the genus makes the species.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000003|Therefore everything which is in a genus is composed of matter and form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000005|Therefore he is composed of matter and form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000022_000002|Therefore an angel is composed of matter and form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000023_000001|So what is form only is pure act.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000023_000002|But an angel is not pure act, for this belongs to God alone.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000024_000001|So the form which is not in matter is an infinite form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000024_000002|But the form of an angel is not infinite, for every creature is finite.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000024_000003|Therefore the form of an angel is in matter.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000026_000001|Now as regards incorporeal substance, the intellect apprehends that which distinguishes it from corporeal substance, and that which it has in common with it.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000026_000002|Hence he concludes that what distinguishes incorporeal from corporeal substance is a kind of form to it, and whatever is subject to this distinguishing form, as it were something common, is its matter.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000026_000003|Therefore, he asserts the universal matter of spiritual and corporeal things is the same; so that it must be understood that the form of incorporeal substance is impressed in the matter of spiritual things, in the same way as the form of quantity is impressed in the matter of corporeal things.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000000|But one glance is enough to show that there cannot be one matter of spiritual and of corporeal things.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000001|For it is not possible that a spiritual and a corporeal form should be received into the same part of matter, otherwise one and the same thing would be corporeal and spiritual.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000002|Hence it would follow that one part of matter receives the corporeal form, and another receives the spiritual form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000004|Therefore it would follow that the matter of spiritual things is subject to quantity; which cannot be.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000005|Therefore it is impossible that corporeal and spiritual things should have the same matter.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000000|It is, further, impossible for an intellectual substance to have any kind of matter.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000001|For the operation belonging to anything is according to the mode of its substance.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000002|Now to understand is an altogether immaterial operation, as appears from its object, whence any act receives its species and nature.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000003|For a thing is understood according to its degree of immateriality; because forms that exist in matter are individual forms which the intellect cannot apprehend as such.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000004|Hence it must be that every individual substance is altogether immaterial.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000029_000000|But things distinguished by the intellect are not necessarily distinguished in reality; because the intellect does not apprehend things according to their mode, but according to its own mode.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000029_000001|Hence material things which are below our intellect exist in our intellect in a simpler mode than they exist in themselves.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000030_000003|Nevertheless, this differs in our mode of conception; for, inasmuch as our intellect considers it as indeterminate, it derives the idea of their genus; and inasmuch as it considers it determinately, it derives the idea of their "difference."
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000031_000001|But this is clearly false. For matter receives the form, that thereby it may be constituted in some species, either of air, or of fire, or of something else.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000001|And this can be made evident if we consider the nature of material things which contain a twofold composition.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000002|The first is that of form and matter, whereby the nature is constituted.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000003|Such a composite nature is not its own existence but existence is its act.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000004|Hence the nature itself is related to its own existence as potentiality to act.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000006|And such a kind of composition is understood to be in the angels; and this is what some say, that an angel is composed of, "whereby he is," and "what is," or "existence," and "what is," as Boethius says.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000033_000001|But there is nothing against a creature being considered relatively infinite.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000033_000002|Material creatures are infinite on the part of matter, but finite in their form, which is limited by the matter which receives it.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000033_000003|But immaterial created substances are finite in their being; whereas they are infinite in the sense that their forms are not received in anything else; as if we were to say, for example, that whiteness existing separate is infinite as regards the nature of whiteness, forasmuch as it is not contracted to any one subject; while its "being" is finite as determined to some one special nature.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000036_000000|Whether the Angels Exist in Any Great Number?
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000037_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the angels are not in great numbers. For number is a species of quantity, and follows the division of a continuous body.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000037_000002|Therefore the angels cannot exist in any great number.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000038_000001|But among other created natures the angelic nature approaches nearest to God. Therefore since God is supremely one, it seems that there is the least possible number in the angelic nature.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000039_000001|But the movements of the heavenly bodies fall within some small determined number, which we can apprehend.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000039_000002|Therefore the angels are not in greater number than the movements of the heavenly bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000040_000003|Therefore it seems that the multiplication of intellectual substances can only be according to the requirements of the first bodies-that is, of the heavenly ones, so that in some way the shedding form of the aforesaid rays may be terminated in them; and hence the same conclusion is to be drawn as before.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000042_000001|Plato contended that the separate substances are the species of sensible things; as if we were to maintain that human nature is a separate substance of itself: and according to this view it would have to be maintained that the number of the separate substances is the number of the species of sensible things.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000042_000003|Consequently the separate substances cannot be the exemplar species of these sensible things; but have their own fixed natures, which are higher than the natures of sensible things.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000043_000001|It is, however, quite foreign to the custom of the Scriptures for the powers of irrational things to be designated as angels.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000044_000000|Hence it must be said that the angels, even inasmuch as they are immaterial substances, exist in exceeding great number, far beyond all material multitude.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000044_000004|We see, in fact, that incorruptible bodies, exceed corruptible bodies almost incomparably in magnitude; for the entire sphere of things active and passive is something very small in comparison with the heavenly bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000044_000005|Hence it is reasonable to conclude that the immaterial substances as it were incomparably exceed material substances as to multitude.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000047_000002|For thus the immaterial substances would exist to no purpose, unless some movement from them were to appear in corporeal things.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000047_000003|But it is not true that the immaterial substances exist on account of the corporeal, because the end is nobler than the means to the end.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000047_000006|He was forced to make use of this argument, since only through sensible things can we come to know intelligible ones.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000051_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the angels do not differ in species. For since the "difference" is nobler than the 'genus,' all things which agree in what is noblest in them, agree likewise in their ultimate constitutive difference; and so they are the same according to species.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000051_000001|But all angels agree in what is noblest in them-that is to say, in intellectuality.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000052_000001|But the angels seem to differ only from one another according to more and less-namely, as one is simpler than another, and of keener intellect.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000052_000002|Therefore the angels do not differ specifically.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000054_000001|But this would not be so if there were but one individual under one species.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000057_000000|But this is impossible.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000057_000001|For such things as agree in species but differ in number, agree in form, but are distinguished materially.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000057_000003|For it would be necessary for matter to be the principle of distinction of one from the other, not, indeed, according to the division of quantity, since they are incorporeal, but according to the diversity of their powers; and such diversity of matter causes diversity not merely of species, but of genus.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000060_000001|Hence it is much better for the species to be multiplied in the angels than for individuals to be multiplied in the one species.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000063_000000|Whether the Angels Are Incorruptible?
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000066_000001|Therefore, since the angels were made by God, it would appear that they are corruptible of their own nature.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000001|The reason for this is, that nothing is corrupted except by its form being separated from the matter.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000003|For what belongs to anything considered in itself can never be separated from it; but what belongs to a thing, considered in relation to something else, can be separated, when that something else is taken away, in view of which it belonged to it.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000004|Roundness can never be taken from the circle, because it belongs to it of itself; but a bronze circle can lose roundness, if the bronze be deprived of its circular shape.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000005|Now to be belongs to a form considered in itself; for everything is an actual being according to its form: whereas matter is an actual being by the form.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000006|Consequently a subject composed of matter and form ceases to be actually when the form is separated from the matter.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000069_000001|Now the species and nature of the operation is understood from the object.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000069_000002|But an intelligible object, being above time, is everlasting.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000072_000001|Hence it is not repugnant to a necessary or incorruptible being to depend for its existence on another as its cause.
train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000072_000002|Therefore, when it is said that all things, even the angels, would lapse into nothing, unless preserved by God, it is not to be gathered therefrom that there is any principle of corruption in the angels; but that the nature of the angels is dependent upon God as its cause.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000000_000000|QUESTION fifty one
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000002_000000|We next inquire about the angels in comparison with corporeal things; and in the first place about their comparison with bodies; secondly, of the angels in comparison with corporeal places; and, thirdly, of their comparison with local movement.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000009_000000|Objection one: It would seem that angels have bodies naturally united to them.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000009_000004|Therefore angels have bodies naturally united to them.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000013_000001|For whatever belongs to any nature as an accident is not found universally in that nature; thus, for instance, to have wings, because it is not of the essence of an animal, does not belong to every animal.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000013_000006|Consequently not all intellectual substances are united to bodies; but some are quite separated from bodies, and these we call angels.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000018_000000|Whether Angels Assume Bodies?
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000019_000000|Objection one: It would seem that angels do not assume bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000019_000001|For there is nothing superfluous in the work of an angel, as there is nothing of the kind in the work of nature.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000019_000003|Therefore an angel does not assume a body.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000023_000002|Yet Divine Scripture from time to time introduces angels so apparent as to be seen commonly by all; just as the angels who appeared to Abraham were seen by him and by his whole family, by Lot, and by the citizens of Sodom; in like manner the angel who appeared to Tobias was seen by all present.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000023_000004|Now by such a vision only a body can be beheld.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000024_000001|Moreover that angels assumed bodies under the Old Law was a figurative indication that the Word of God would take a human body; because all the apparitions in the Old Testament were ordained to that one whereby the Son of God appeared in the flesh.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000029_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the angels exercise functions of life in assumed bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000029_000001|For pretence is unbecoming in angels of truth.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000030_000002|Consequently, the angel perceives by the assumed body; and this is the most special function of life.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000032_000001|But it is evident from many passages of Sacred Scripture that angels spoke in assumed bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000032_000002|Therefore in their assumed bodies they exercise functions of life.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000035_000001|Therefore they cannot exercise functions of life through assumed bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000037_000001|For the bodies are assumed merely for this purpose, that the spiritual properties and works of the angels may be manifested by the properties of man and of his works.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000037_000002|This could not so fittingly be done if they were to assume true men; because the properties of such men would lead us to men, and not to angels.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000038_000001|Consequently it can in no way be said that the angels perceive through the organs of their assumed bodies.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000039_000001|Yet the angels are moved accidentally, when such bodies are moved, since they are in them as movers are in the moved; and they are here in such a way as not to be elsewhere, which cannot be said of God.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000039_000002|Accordingly, although God is not moved when the things are moved in which He exists, since He is everywhere; yet the angels are moved accidentally according to the movement of the bodies assumed.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000042_000001|But the food taken by angels was neither changed into the assumed body, nor was the body of such a nature that food could be changed into it; consequently, it was not a true eating, but figurative of spiritual eating.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000044_000002|Hence it is folly to deny it.
train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000044_000004|Hence by the sons of God are to be understood the sons of Seth, who were good; while by the daughters of men the Scripture designates those who sprang from the race of Cain.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000000_000000|Part one
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000003_000002|He lived in Panama, Pennsylvania.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000003_000003|He had never been "captain" of anything except the Crescent Volunteer Fire Company, but he owned the title because he collected rents, wrote insurance, and meddled with lawsuits.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000004_000004|He was aimlessly industrious, crotchety but kind, and almost quixotically honest.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000016_000002|Her mouth was as kind as her spirited eyes, but it drooped.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000025_000000|Not that she wanted to be a teacher!
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000025_000004|Of course she would teach!
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000028_000008|Una was facing the feminist problem, without knowing what the word "feminist" meant.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000031_000001|This she knew scientifically.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000031_000008|Una crossed blessed matrimony off the list as a commercial prospect.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000042_000002|While she trudged home-a pleasant, inconspicuous, fluffy haired young woman, undramatic as a field daisy-a cataract of protest poured through her.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000045_000005|There was no place to which she could flee.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000046_000000|"Poor, poor little mother, working away happy up there, and I've got to go and scold you," Una agonized.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000047_000001|She pounced on it.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000048_000000|mr and mrs Albert Sessions, of Panama, had gone to New York.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000048_000002|They liked New York.
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000054_000000|"Mumsie!" she cried, "we're going to New York!
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000056_000002|Is it the letter from Emma Sessions?
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000057_000000|"She suggested it, but we are going up independent."
train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000058_000000|"But can we afford to?...
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000001_000000|THE ESCAPE OF THE DEAD
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000001|I attempted to spring to my feet but was horrified to discover that my muscles refused to respond to my will.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000002|I was now thoroughly awake, but as unable to move a muscle as though turned to stone.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000003|It was then, for the first time, that I noticed a slight vapor filling the cave.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000005|There also came to my nostrils a faintly pungent odor, and I could only assume that I had been overcome by some poisonous gas, but why I should retain my mental faculties and yet be unable to move I could not fathom.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000003_000000|I lay facing the opening of the cave and where I could see the short stretch of trail which lay between the cave and the turn of the cliff around which the trail led.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000003_000002|I remember that I hoped they would make short work of me as I did not particularly relish the thought of the innumerable things they might do to me if the spirit prompted them.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000005_000000|The fellow, instead of approaching, merely stood and stared; his eyes bulging and his jaw dropped.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000005_000001|And then another savage face appeared, and a third and fourth and fifth, craning their necks over the shoulders of their fellows whom they could not pass upon the narrow ledge.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000005_000002|Each face was the picture of awe and fear, but for what reason I did not know, nor did I learn until ten years later.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000005_000003|That there were still other braves behind those who regarded me was apparent from the fact that the leaders passed back whispered word to those behind them.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000006_000001|So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000006_000002|Their wild cries echoed in the canyon for a short time, and then all was still once more.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000007_000000|The sound which had frightened them was not repeated, but it had been sufficient as it was to start me speculating on the possible horror which lurked in the shadows at my back.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000007_000001|Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in previous positions of danger and by those that I have passed through since; but I can say without shame that if the sensations I endured during the next few minutes were fear, then may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000008_000000|To be held paralyzed, with one's back toward some horrible and unknown danger from the very sound of which the ferocious Apache warriors turn in wild stampede, as a flock of sheep would madly flee from a pack of wolves, seems to me the last word in fearsome predicaments for a man who had ever been used to fighting for his life with all the energy of a powerful physique.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000009_000000|Several times I thought I heard faint sounds behind me as of somebody moving cautiously, but eventually even these ceased, and I was left to the contemplation of my position without interruption.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000011_000003|And then something gave, there was a momentary feeling of nausea, a sharp click as of the snapping of a steel wire, and I stood with my back against the wall of the cave facing my unknown foe.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000012_000001|I looked first at my lifeless clay there upon the floor of the cave and then down at myself in utter bewilderment; for there I lay clothed, and yet here I stood but naked as at the minute of my birth.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000001|My first thought was, is this then death!
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000002|Have I indeed passed over forever into that other life!
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000003|But I could not well believe this, as I could feel my heart pounding against my ribs from the exertion of my efforts to release myself from the anaesthesis which had held me.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000004|My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out from every pore of my body, and the ancient experiment of pinching revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000015_000001|My carbine was in its boot, strapped to my saddle, and as my horse had wandered off I was left without means of defense.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000016_000000|Unable longer to resist the temptation to escape this horrible place I leaped quickly through the opening into the starlight of a clear Arizona night.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000016_000001|The crisp, fresh mountain air outside the cave acted as an immediate tonic and I felt new life and new courage coursing through me.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000016_000003|I reasoned with myself that I had lain helpless for many hours within the cave, yet nothing had molested me, and my better judgment, when permitted the direction of clear and logical reasoning, convinced me that the noises I had heard must have resulted from purely natural and harmless causes; probably the conformation of the cave was such that a slight breeze had caused the sounds I heard.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000017_000000|I decided to investigate, but first I lifted my head to fill my lungs with the pure, invigorating night air of the mountains.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000017_000001|As I did so I saw stretching far below me the beautiful vista of rocky gorge, and level, cacti studded flat, wrought by the moonlight into a miracle of soft splendor and wondrous enchantment.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000000|As I stood thus meditating, I turned my gaze from the landscape to the heavens where the myriad stars formed a gorgeous and fitting canopy for the wonders of the earthly scene.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000001|My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000002|As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination-it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000003|As I gazed at it on that far gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000020_000000|My longing was beyond the power of opposition; I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms toward the god of my vocation and felt myself drawn with the suddenness of thought through the trackless immensity of space.
train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000020_000001|There was an instant of extreme cold and utter darkness.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000002_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000003_000000|A FAIR CAPTIVE FROM THE SKY
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000004_000000|The third day after the incubator ceremony we set forth toward home, but scarcely had the head of the procession debouched into the open ground before the city than orders were given for an immediate and hasty return.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000004_000001|As though trained for years in this particular evolution, the green Martians melted like mist into the spacious doorways of the nearby buildings, until, in less than three minutes, the entire cavalcade of chariots, mastodons and mounted warriors was nowhere to be seen.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000005_000000|Sola and I had entered a building upon the front of the city, in fact, the same one in which I had had my encounter with the apes, and, wishing to see what had caused the sudden retreat, I mounted to an upper floor and peered from the window out over the valley and the hills beyond; and there I saw the cause of their sudden scurrying to cover.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000005_000001|A huge craft, long, low, and gray painted, swung slowly over the crest of the nearest hill.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000005_000002|Following it came another, and another, and another, until twenty of them, swinging low above the ground, sailed slowly and majestically toward us.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000006_000001|I could see figures crowding the forward decks and upper works of the air craft.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000006_000002|Whether they had discovered us or simply were looking at the deserted city I could not say, but in any event they received a rude reception, for suddenly and without warning the green Martian warriors fired a terrific volley from the windows of the buildings facing the little valley across which the great ships were so peacefully advancing.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000008_000000|The fire from the vessels was most ineffectual, owing, as I afterward learned, to the unexpected suddenness of the first volley, which caught the ship's crews entirely unprepared and the sighting apparatus of the guns unprotected from the deadly aim of our warriors.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000010_000000|Twenty minutes after the first volley the great fleet swung trailing off in the direction from which it had first appeared.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000010_000001|Several of the craft were limping perceptibly, and seemed but barely under the control of their depleted crews.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000011_000000|One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000011_000002|Slowly she swung from her course, circling back toward us in an erratic and pitiful manner.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000011_000003|Instantly the warriors ceased firing, for it was quite apparent that the vessel was entirely helpless, and, far from being in a position to inflict harm upon us, she could not even control herself sufficiently to escape.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000012_000000|As she neared the city the warriors rushed out upon the plain to meet her, but it was evident that she still was too high for them to hope to reach her decks.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000012_000001|From my vantage point in the window I could see the bodies of her crew strewn about, although I could not make out what manner of creatures they might be.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000012_000002|Not a sign of life was manifest upon her as she drifted slowly with the light breeze in a southeasterly direction.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000014_000000|As the craft neared the building, and just before she struck, the Martian warriors swarmed upon her from the windows, and with their great spears eased the shock of the collision, and in a few moments they had thrown out grappling hooks and the big boat was being hauled to ground by their fellows below.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000015_000000|After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000015_000001|I could see them examining the dead sailors, evidently for signs of life, and presently a party of them appeared from below dragging a little figure among them.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000015_000002|The creature was considerably less than half as tall as the green Martian warriors, and from my balcony I could see that it walked erect upon two legs and surmised that it was some new and strange Martian monstrosity with which I had not as yet become acquainted.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000016_000001|This operation required several hours, during which time a number of the chariots were requisitioned to transport the loot, which consisted in arms, ammunition, silks, furs, jewels, strangely carved stone vessels, and a quantity of solid foods and liquids, including many casks of water, the first I had seen since my advent upon Mars.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000000|This operation concluded, they hastily clambered over her sides, sliding down the guy ropes to the ground.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000001|The last warrior to leave the deck turned and threw something back upon the vessel, waiting an instant to note the outcome of his act.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000002|As a faint spurt of flame rose from the point where the missile struck he swung over the side and was quickly upon the ground.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000003|Scarcely had he alighted than the guy ropes were simultaneously released, and the great warship, lightened by the removal of the loot, soared majestically into the air, her decks and upper works a mass of roaring flames.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000019_000001|The sight was awe inspiring in the extreme as one contemplated this mighty floating funeral pyre, drifting unguided and unmanned through the lonely wastes of the Martian heavens; a derelict of death and destruction, typifying the life story of these strange and ferocious creatures into whose unfriendly hands fate had carried it.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000020_000000|Much depressed, and, to me, unaccountably so, I slowly descended to the street.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000021_000000|Close at my heel, in his now accustomed place, followed Woola, the hound, and as I emerged upon the street Sola rushed up to me as though I had been the object of some search on her part.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000021_000001|The cavalcade was returning to the plaza, the homeward march having been given up for that day; nor, in fact, was it recommenced for more than a week, owing to the fear of a return attack by the air craft.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000022_000000|Lorquas Ptomel was too astute an old warrior to be caught upon the open plains with a caravan of chariots and children, and so we remained at the deserted city until the danger seemed passed.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000024_000001|She did not see me at first, but just as she was disappearing through the portal of the building which was to be her prison she turned, and her eyes met mine.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000024_000003|Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000025_000000|She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000026_000001|Just a moment we gazed upon each other, and then the look of hope and renewed courage which had glorified her face as she discovered me, faded into one of utter dejection, mingled with loathing and contempt.
train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000026_000002|I realized I had not answered her signal, and ignorant as I was of Martian customs, I intuitively felt that she had made an appeal for succor and protection which my unfortunate ignorance had prevented me from answering.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000001_000000|I LEARN THE LANGUAGE
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000002_000000|As I came back to myself I glanced at Sola, who had witnessed this encounter and I was surprised to note a strange expression upon her usually expressionless countenance.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000003_000000|As I reached the doorway of our building a strange surprise awaited me. A warrior approached bearing the arms, ornaments, and full accouterments of his kind.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000003_000001|These he presented to me with a few unintelligible words, and a bearing at once respectful and menacing.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000004_000000|Later, Sola, with the aid of several of the other women, remodeled the trappings to fit my lesser proportions, and after they completed the work I went about garbed in all the panoply of war.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000005_000000|From then on Sola instructed me in the mysteries of the various weapons, and with the Martian young I spent several hours each day practicing upon the plaza.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000005_000001|I was not yet proficient with all the weapons, but my great familiarity with similar earthly weapons made me an unusually apt pupil, and I progressed in a very satisfactory manner.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000006_000001|They make the powder, the cartridges, the firearms; in fact everything of value is produced by the females.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000006_000002|In time of actual warfare they form a part of the reserves, and when the necessity arises fight with even greater intelligence and ferocity than the men.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000007_000001|They make the laws as they are needed; a new law for each emergency.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000007_000002|They are unfettered by precedent in the administration of justice.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000007_000004|In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000010_000001|After they had retired for the night it was customary for the adults to carry on a desultory conversation for a short time before lapsing into sleep, and now that I could understand their language I was always a keen listener, although I never proffered any remarks myself.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000011_000000|On the night following the prisoner's visit to the audience chamber the conversation finally fell upon this subject, and I was all ears on the instant.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000011_000001|I had feared to question Sola relative to the beautiful captive, as I could not but recall the strange expression I had noted upon her face after my first encounter with the prisoner.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000011_000002|That it denoted jealousy I could not say, and yet, judging all things by mundane standards as I still did, I felt it safer to affect indifference in the matter until I learned more surely Sola's attitude toward the object of my solicitude.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000012_000000|Sarkoja, one of the older women who shared our domicile, had been present at the audience as one of the captive's guards, and it was toward her the question turned.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000013_000000|"When," asked one of the women, "will we enjoy the death throes of the red one? or does Lorquas Ptomel, Jed, intend holding her for ransom?"
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000015_000000|"What will be the manner of her going out?" inquired Sola.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000015_000001|"She is very small and very beautiful; I had hoped that they would hold her for ransom."
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000017_000000|"It is sad, Sola, that you were not born a million years ago," snapped Sarkoja, "when all the hollows of the land were filled with water, and the peoples were as soft as the stuff they sailed upon.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000017_000001|In our day we have progressed to a point where such sentiments mark weakness and atavism.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000000|"I see nothing wrong with my expression of interest in this red woman," retorted Sola.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000001|"She has never harmed us, nor would she should we have fallen into her hands.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000002|It is only the men of her kind who war upon us, and I have ever thought that their attitude toward us is but the reflection of ours toward them.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000003|They live at peace with all their fellows, except when duty calls upon them to make war, while we are at peace with none; forever warring among our own kind as well as upon the red men, and even in our own communities the individuals fight amongst themselves.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000019_000000|This wild outbreak on the part of Sola so greatly surprised and shocked the other women, that, after a few words of general reprimand, they all lapsed into silence and were soon asleep.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000020_000001|But where to go, and how, was as much of a puzzle to me as the age old search for the spring of eternal life has been to earthly men since the beginning of time.
train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000021_000000|I decided that at the first opportunity I would take Sola into my confidence and openly ask her to aid me, and with this resolution strong upon me I turned among my silks and furs and slept the dreamless and refreshing sleep of Mars.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000002_000000|Published his second book containing these laws in sixteen o nine.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000002_000001|Death of Rudolph in sixteen twelve, and subsequent increased misery and misfortune of Kepler.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000002_000002|Ultimately discovered the connection between the times and distances of the planets for which he had been groping all his mature life, and announced it in sixteen eighteen:--
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000000|The book in which this law was published ("On Celestial Harmonies") was dedicated to james of England.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000001|In sixteen twenty had to intervene to protect his mother from being tortured for witchcraft.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000002|Accepted a professorship at Linz.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000003|Published the Rudolphine tables in sixteen twenty seven, embodying Tycho's observations and his own theory.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000004|Made a last effort to overcome his poverty by getting the arrears of his salary paid at Prague, but was unsuccessful, and, contracting brain fever on the journey, died in November, sixteen thirty, aged fifty nine.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000005_000000|A man of keen imagination, indomitable perseverance, and uncompromising love of truth, Kepler overcame ill health, poverty, and misfortune, and placed himself in the very highest rank of scientific men.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000005_000001|His laws, so extraordinarily discovered, introduced order and simplicity into what else would have been a chaos of detailed observations; and they served as a secure basis for the splendid erection made on them by Newton.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000012_000000|LECTURE three
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000013_000000|KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000015_000000|The one, rich, noble, vigorous, passionate, strong in mechanical ingenuity and experimental skill, but not above the average in theoretical and mathematical power.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000016_000000|The other, poor, sickly, devoid of experimental gifts, and unfitted by nature for accurate observation, but strong almost beyond competition in speculative subtlety and innate mathematical perception.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000017_000000|The one is the complement of the other; and from the fact of their following each other so closely arose the most surprising benefits to science.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000018_000000|The outward life of Kepler is to a large extent a mere record of poverty and misfortune.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000018_000001|I shall only sketch in its broad features, so that we may have more time to attend to his work.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000003|His parents seem to have been of fair condition, but by reason, it is said, of his becoming surety for a friend, the father lost all his slender income, and was reduced to keeping a tavern.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000004|Young john Kepler was thereupon taken from school, and employed as pot boy between the ages of nine and twelve.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000005|He was a sickly lad, subject to violent illnesses from the cradle, so that his life was frequently despaired of.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000006|Ultimately he was sent to a monastic school and thence to the University of Tuebingen, where he graduated second on the list.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000007|Meanwhile home affairs had gone to rack and ruin. His father abandoned the home, and later died abroad.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000021_000000|An astronomical lectureship at Graz happening to offer itself, he was urged to take it, and agreed to do so, though stipulating that it should not debar him from some more brilliant profession when there was a chance.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000022_000000|For astronomy in those days seems to have ranked as a minor science, like mineralogy or meteorology now.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000022_000001|It had little of the special dignity with which the labours of Kepler himself were destined so greatly to aid in endowing it.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000023_000000|Well, he speedily became a thorough Copernican, and as he had a most singularly restless and inquisitive mind, full of appreciation of everything relating to number and magnitude-was a born speculator and thinker just as Mozart was a born musician, or Bidder a born calculator-he was agitated by questions such as these: Why are there exactly six planets?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000023_000001|Is there any connection between their orbital distances, or between their orbits and the times of describing them? These things tormented him, and he thought about them day and night.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000023_000003|Nowadays, we should simply record the fact and look out for a seventh.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000025_000000|Once more, the further the planet the slower it moved; there seemed to be some law connecting speed and distance.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000025_000001|This also Kepler made continual attempts to discover.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000027_000000|One of his ideas concerning the law of the successive distances was based on the inscription of a triangle in a circle.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000027_000002|Then try inscribing and circumscribing squares, hexagons, and other figures, and see if the circles thus defined would correspond to the several planetary orbits. But they would not give any satisfactory result.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000027_000003|Brooding over this disappointment, the idea of trying solid figures suddenly strikes him. "What have plane figures to do with the celestial orbits?" he cries out; "inscribe the regular solids." And then-brilliant idea-he remembers that there are but five.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000029_000000|On the other hand, he inscribes in the sphere of the earth's orbit an icosahedron; and inside the sphere determined by that, an octahedron; which figures he takes to inclose the spheres of Venus and of Mercury respectively.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000030_000000|The imagined discovery is purely fictitious and accidental.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000030_000001|First of all, eight planets are now known; and secondly, their real distances agree only very approximately with Kepler's hypothesis.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000032_000000|Nevertheless, the idea gave him great delight.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000032_000001|He says:--"The intense pleasure I have received from this discovery can never be told in words. I regretted no more the time wasted; I tired of no labour; I shunned no toil of reckoning, days and nights spent in calculation, until I could see whether my hypothesis would agree with the orbits of Copernicus, or whether my joy was to vanish into air."
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000033_000000|He then went on to speculate as to the cause of the planets' motion. The old idea was that they were carried round by angels or celestial intelligences.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000033_000001|Kepler tried to establish some propelling force emanating from the sun, like the spokes of a windmill.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000034_000000|This first book of his brought him into notice, and served as an introduction to Tycho and to Galileo.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000036_000000|Tycho immediately replied, "Come, not as a stranger, but as a very welcome friend; come and share in my observations with such instruments as I have with me, and as a dearly beloved associate." After this visit, Tycho wrote again, offering him the post of mathematical assistant, which after hesitation was accepted.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000036_000001|Part of the hesitation Kepler expresses by saying that "for observations his sight was dull, and for mechanical operations his hand was awkward.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000036_000002|He suffered much from weak eyes, and dare not expose himself to night air." In all this he was, of course, the antipodes of Tycho, but in mathematical skill he was greatly his superior.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000037_000000|On his way to Prague he was seized with one of his periodical illnesses, and all his means were exhausted by the time he could set forward again, so that he had to apply for help to Tycho.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000038_000000|It is clear, indeed, that for some time now he subsisted entirely on the bounty of Tycho, and he expresses himself most deeply grateful for all the kindness he received from that noble and distinguished man, the head of the scientific world at that date.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000039_000000|To illustrate Tycho's kindness and generosity, I must read you a letter written to him by Kepler.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000039_000002|Tycho's secretary replied quietly enough, pointing out the groundlessness and ingratitude of the accusation.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000040_000000|Kepler repents instantly, and replies:--
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000041_000000|"MOST NOBLE TYCHO," (these are the words of his letter), "how shall I enumerate or rightly estimate your benefits conferred on me?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000041_000001|For two months you have liberally and gratuitously maintained me, and my whole family; you have provided for all my wishes; you have done me every possible kindness; you have communicated to me everything you hold most dear; no one, by word or deed, has intentionally injured me in anything; in short, not to your children, your wife, or yourself have you shown more indulgence than to me.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000042_000000|Tycho accepted the apology thus heartily rendered, and the temporary breach was permanently healed.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000043_000000|In sixteen o one, Kepler was appointed "Imperial mathematician," to assist Tycho in his calculations.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000044_000001|While Bohemia suffered, however, the world has benefited at his hands; and the tables upon which Tycho was now engaged are well called the Rudolphine tables.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000045_000000|These tables of planetary motion Tycho had always regarded as the main work of his life; but he died before they were finished, and on his death bed he intrusted the completion of them to Kepler, who loyally undertook their charge.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000046_000000|The Imperial funds were by this time, however, so taxed by wars and other difficulties that the tables could only be proceeded with very slowly, a staff of calculators being out of the question.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000046_000001|In fact, Kepler could not get even his own salary paid: he got orders, and promises, and drafts on estates for it; but when the time came for them to be honoured they were worthless, and he had no power to enforce his claims.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000047_000000|So everything but brooding had to be abandoned as too expensive, and he proceeded to study optics.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000047_000001|He gave a very accurate explanation of the action of the human eye, and made many hypotheses, some of them shrewd and close to the mark, concerning the law of refraction of light in dense media: but though several minor points of interest turned up, nothing of the first magnitude came out of this long research.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000048_000000|The true law of refraction was discovered some years after by a Dutch professor, Willebrod Snell.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000049_000000|We must now devote a little time to the main work of Kepler's life.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000049_000001|All the time he had been at Prague he had been making a severe study of the motion of the planet Mars, analyzing minutely Tycho's books of observations, in order to find out, if possible, the true theory of his motion.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000049_000002|Aristotle had taught that circular motion was the only perfect and natural motion, and that the heavenly bodies therefore necessarily moved in circles.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000050_000000|So firmly had this idea become rooted in men's minds, that no one ever seems to have contemplated the possibility of its being false or meaningless.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000051_000001|The carrying circle was called the Deferent.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000051_000002|If for any reason the earth had to be placed out of the centre, the main planetary orbit was called an Excentric, and so on.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000052_000000|But although the planetary paths might be roughly represented by a combination of circles, their speeds could not, on the hypothesis of uniform motion in each circle round the earth as a fixed body.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000053_000000|But now that Kepler had the accurate observations of Tycho to refer to, he found immense difficulty in obtaining the true positions of the planets for long together on any such theory.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000000|He specially attacked the motion of the planet Mars, because that was sufficiently rapid in its changes for a considerable collection of data to have accumulated with respect to it.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000001|He tried all manner of circular orbits for the earth and for Mars, placing them in all sorts of aspects with respect to the sun
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000002|The problem to be solved was to choose such an orbit and such a law of speed, for both the earth and Mars, that a line joining them, produced out to the stars, should always mark correctly the apparent position of Mars as seen from the earth.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000003|He had to arrange the size of the orbits that suited best, then the positions of their centres, both being supposed excentric with respect to the sun; but he could not get any such arrangement to work with uniform motion about the sun
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000055_000000|The equants might divide the line in any arbitrary ratio.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000055_000001|All sorts of combinations had to be tried, the relative positions of the earth and Mars to be worked out for each, and compared with Tycho's recorded observations.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000055_000002|It was easy to get them to agree for a short time, but sooner or later a discrepancy showed itself.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000057_000001|Grope he did, however, with unexampled diligence.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000058_000000|At length he hit upon a point that seemed nearly right.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000058_000001|He thought he had found the truth; but no, before long the position of the planet, as calculated, and as recorded by Tycho, differed by eight minutes of arc, or about one eighth of a degree.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000058_000003|No, he had known Tycho, and knew that he was never wrong eight minutes in an observation.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000059_000000|So he set out the whole weary way again, and said that with those eight minutes he would yet find out the law of the universe.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000059_000001|He proceeded to see if by making the planet librate, or the plane of its orbit tilt up and down, anything could be done.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000059_000002|He was rewarded by finding that at any rate the plane of the orbit did not tilt up and down: it was fixed, and this was a simplification on Copernicus's theory.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000001|To simplify calculation, he divided the orbit into triangles, and tried if making the triangles equal would do.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000002|A great piece of luck, they did beautifully: the rate of description of areas (not arcs) is uniform.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000003|Over this discovery he greatly rejoices.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000004|He feels as though he had been carrying on a war against the planet and had triumphed; but his gratulation was premature.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000006|Thus he announces it himself:--
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000062_000000|"While thus triumphing over Mars, and preparing for him, as for one already vanquished, tabular prisons and equated excentric fetters, it is buzzed here and there that the victory is vain, and that the war is raging anew as violently as before.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000062_000001|For the enemy left at home a despised captive has burst all the chains of the equations, and broken forth from the prisons of the tables."
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000000|Still, a part of the truth had been gained, and was not to be abandoned any more.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000001|The law of speed was fixed: that which is now known as his second law.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000002|But what about the shape of the orbit-Was it after all possible that Aristotle, and every philosopher since Aristotle, had been wrong?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000003|that circular motion was not the perfect and natural motion, but that planets might move in some other closed curve?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000064_000000|Suppose he tried an oval.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000064_000001|Well, there are a great variety of ovals, and several were tried: with the result that they could be made to answer better than a circle, but still were not right.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000065_000000|Now, however, the geometrical and mathematical difficulties of calculation, which before had been tedious and oppressive, threatened to become overwhelming; and it is with a rising sense of despondency that Kepler sees his six years' unremitting labour leading deeper and deeper into complication.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000066_000000|One most disheartening circumstance appeared, viz. that when he made the circuit oval his law of equable description of areas broke down.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000067_000002|This coincidence, in his own words, woke him out of sleep; and for some reason or other impelled him instantly to try making the planet oscillate in the diameter of its epicycle instead of revolve round it-a singular idea, but Copernicus had had a similar one to explain the motions of Mercury.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000000|Away he started through his calculations again.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000001|A long course of work night and day was rewarded by finding that he was now able to hit off the motions better than before; but what a singularly complicated motion it was.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000002|Could it be expressed no more simply?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000003|Yes, the curve so described by the planet is a comparatively simple one: it is a special kind of oval-the ellipse.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000004|Strange that he had not thought of it before. It was a famous curve, for the Greek geometers had studied it as one of the sections of a cone, but it was not so well known in Kepler's time. The fact that the planets move in it has raised it to the first importance, and it is familiar enough to us now.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000005|But did it satisfy the law of speed?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000006|Could the rate of description of areas be uniform with it?
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000007|Well, he tried the ellipse, and to his inexpressible delight he found that it did satisfy the condition of equable description of areas, if the sun was in one focus.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000008|So, moving the planet in a selected ellipse, with the sun in one focus, at a speed given by the equable area description, its position agreed with Tycho's observations within the limits of the error of experiment.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000009|Mars was finally conquered, and remains in his prison house to this day.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000010|The orbit was found.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000071_000000|In a paroxysm of delight Kepler celebrates his victory by a triumphant figure, sketched actually on his geometrical diagram-the diagram which proves that the law of equable description of areas can hold good with an ellipse.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000071_000001|The above is a tracing of it.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000072_000000|Such is a crude and bald sketch of the steps by which Kepler rose to his great generalizations-the two laws which have immortalized his name.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000073_000000|All the complications of epicycle, equant, deferent, excentric, and the like, were swept at once away, and an orbit of striking and beautiful properties substituted.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000073_000001|Well might he be called, as he was, "the legislator," or law interpreter, "of the heavens."
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000000|He concludes his book on the motions of Mars with a half comic appeal to the Emperor to provide him with the sinews of war for an attack on Mars's relations-father Jupiter, brother Mercury, and the rest-but the death of his unhappy patron in sixteen twelve put an end to all these schemes, and reduced Kepler to the utmost misery.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000001|While at Prague his salary was in continual arrear, and it was with difficulty that he could provide sustenance for his family.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000002|He had been there eleven years, but they had been hard years of poverty, and he could leave without regret were it not that he should have to leave Tycho's instruments and observations behind him.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000003|While he was hesitating what best to do, and reduced to the verge of despair, his wife, who had long been suffering from low spirits and despondency, and his three children, were taken ill; one of the sons died of small pox, and the wife eleven days after of low fever and epilepsy.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000004|No money could be got at Prague, so after a short time he accepted a professorship at Linz, and withdrew with his two quite young remaining children.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000076_000001|He is continually attacking and throwing sarcasm at astrology, but it was the only thing for which people would pay him, and on it after a fashion he lived.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000076_000002|We do not find that his circumstances were ever prosperous, and though eight thousand crowns were due to him from Bohemia he could not manage to get them paid.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000000|About this time occurred a singular interruption to his work.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000001|His old mother, of whose fierce temper something has already been indicated, had been engaged in a law suit for some years near their old home in Wuertemberg.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000002|A change of judge having in process of time occurred, the defendant saw his way to turn the tables on the old lady by accusing her of sorcery.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000003|She was sent to prison, and condemned to the torture, with the usual intelligent idea of extracting a "voluntary" confession. Kepler had to hurry from Linz to interpose.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000004|He succeeded in saving her from the torture, but she remained in prison for a year or so.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000005|Her spirit, however, was unbroken, for no sooner was she released than she commenced a fresh action against her accuser.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000006|But fresh trouble was averted by the death of the poor old dame at the age of nearly eighty.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000078_000000|This narration renders the unflagging energy shown by her son in his mathematical wrestlings less surprising.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000080_000000|It might well have been that there was no connection, that it was purely imaginary, like his old idea of the law of the successive distances of the planets, and like so many others of the guesses and fancies which he entertained and spent his energies in probing.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000080_000001|But fortunately this time there was a connection, and he lived to have the joy of discovering it.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000081_000000|The connection is this, that if one compares the distance of the different planets from the sun with the length of time they take to go round him, the cube of the respective distances is proportional to the square of the corresponding times.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000081_000001|In other words, the ratio of r cubed to T squared for every planet is the same.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000081_000003|The product of the distance into the square of the speed is the same for each planet.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000082_000000|This (however stated) is called Kepler's third law.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000082_000001|It welds the planets together, and shows them to be one system.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000082_000002|His rapture on detecting the law was unbounded, and he breaks out into an exulting rhapsody:--
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000083_000001|It is not eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light, three months since the dawn, very few days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst upon me.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000083_000003|If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you are angry, I can bear it; the die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which; it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000085_000000|This honour, however, gave Kepler no satisfaction-it rather occasioned him dismay, especially as it deprived him of all pecuniary benefit, and made it almost impossible for him to get a publisher to undertake another book.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000086_000000|Still he worked on at the Rudolphine tables of Tycho, and ultimately, with some small help from Vienna, completed them; but he could not get the means to print them.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000086_000001|He applied to the Court till he was sick of applying: they lay idle four years.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000086_000002|At last he determined to pay for the type himself.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000087_000000|This great publication marks an era in astronomy.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000088_000000|After this, the Grand Duke of Tuscany sent Kepler a golden chain, which is interesting inasmuch as it must really have come from Galileo, who was in high favour at the Italian Court at this time.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000089_000000|Once more Kepler made a determined attempt to get his arrears of salary paid, and rescue himself and family from their bitter poverty.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000089_000002|His body was buried at Ratisbon, and a century ago a proposal was made to erect a marble monument to his memory, but nothing was done.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000089_000003|It matters little one way or the other whether Germany, having almost refused him bread during his life, should, a century and a half after his death, offer him a stone.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000000|The contiguity of the lives of Kepler and Tycho furnishes a moral too obvious to need pointing out.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000001|What Kepler might have achieved had he been relieved of those ghastly struggles for subsistence one cannot tell, but this much is clear, that had Tycho been subjected to the same misfortune, instead of being born rich and being assisted by generous and enlightened patrons, he could have accomplished very little.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000002|His instruments, his observatory-the tools by which he did his work-would have been impossible for him.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000003|Frederick and Sophia of Denmark, and Rudolph of Bohemia, are therefore to be remembered as co-workers with him.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000092_000000|Kepler, with his ill health and inferior physical energy, was unable to command the like advantages.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000092_000001|Much, nevertheless, he did; more one cannot but feel he might have done had he been properly helped.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000092_000002|Besides, the world would have been free from the reproach of accepting the fruits of his bright genius while condemning the worker to a life of misery, relieved only by the beauty of his own thoughts and the ecstasy awakened in him by the harmony and precision of Nature.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000001|He maps out his route like a traveller.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000002|In fact he compares himself to Columbus or Magellan, voyaging into unknown lands, and recording his wandering route.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000003|This being remembered, it will be found that his methods do not differ so utterly from those used by other philosophers in like case.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000004|His imagination was perhaps more luxuriant and was allowed freer play than most men's, but it was nevertheless always controlled by rigid examination and comparison of hypotheses with fact.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000000|Brewster says of him:--"Ardent, restless, burning to distinguish himself by discovery, he attempted everything; and once having obtained a glimpse of a clue, no labour was too hard in following or verifying it.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000001|A few of his attempts succeeded-a multitude failed.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000002|Those which failed seem to us now fanciful, those which succeeded appear to us sublime.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000003|But his methods were the same.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000004|When in search of what really existed he sometimes found it; when in pursuit of a chimaera he could not but fail; but in either case he displayed the same great qualities, and that obstinate perseverance which must conquer all difficulties except those really insurmountable."
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000095_000001|Astronomy is so clear and so thoroughly explored now, that it is difficult to put oneself into a contemporary attitude.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000095_000002|But take some other science still barely developed: meteorology, for instance.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000095_000003|The science of the weather, the succession of winds and rain, sunshine and frost, clouds and fog, is now very much in the condition of astronomy before Kepler.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000096_000000|We have passed through the stage of ascribing atmospheric disturbances-thunderstorms, cyclones, earthquakes, and the like-to supernatural agency; we have had our Copernican era: not perhaps brought about by a single individual, but still achieved.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000096_000001|Something of the laws of cyclone and anticyclone are known, and rude weather predictions across the Atlantic are roughly possible.
train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000097_000000|Observation is heaped on observation; tables are compiled; volumes are filled with data; the hours of sunshine are recorded, the fall of rain, the moisture in the air, the kind of clouds, the temperature-millions of facts; but where is the Kepler to study and brood over them?
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000002_000003|It is the story of the Butterfly that Stamped.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000004_000001|He understood what the beasts said, what the birds said, what the fishes said, and what the insects said.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000005_000002|When he turned it once, Afrits and Djinns came Out of the earth to do whatever he told them.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000005_000003|When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them; and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water carrier, and told him the news of the three worlds, Above-Below-and Here.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000006_000002|Once he tried to feed all the animals in all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000009_000001|So, when they quarrelled too much, he only walked by himself in one part of the beautiful Palace gardens and wished he had never been born.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000011_000000|And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, 'O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000014_000000|Presently two Butterflies flew under the tree, quarrelling.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000015_000001|Don't you know that if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman bin Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000017_000001|What made you tell that awful fib to your wife?--for doubtless she is your wife.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000018_000001|She is my wife; and you know what wives are like.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000019_000000|Suleiman bin Daoud smiled in his beard and said, 'Yes, I know, little brother.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000020_000001|I said that to quiet her.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000021_000001|Go back to your wife, little brother, and let me hear what you say.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000022_000000|Back flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was all of a twitter behind a leaf, and she said, 'He heard you!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000026_000000|'Gracious!' said his wife, and sat quite quiet; but Suleiman bin Daoud laughed till the tears ran down his face at the impudence of the bad little Butterfly.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000027_000001|She thought, 'If I am wise I can yet save my Lord from the persecutions of these quarrelsome Queens,' and she held out her finger and whispered softly to the Butterfly's Wife, 'Little woman, come here.' Up flew the Butterfly's Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis's white hand.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000029_000000|The Butterfly's Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Queen's eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she picked up her courage with both wings and said, 'O Queen, be lovely for ever.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000031_000001|They never mean half they say.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000031_000002|If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman bin Daoud's Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I'm sure I don't care.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000031_000003|He'll forget all about it to morrow.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000032_000001|Ask him to stamp, and see what will happen.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000032_000002|We know what men folk are like, don't we?
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000033_000000|Away flew the Butterfly's Wife to her husband, and in five minutes they were quarrelling worse than ever.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000034_000000|'Remember!' said the Butterfly.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000034_000001|'Remember what I can do if I stamp my foot.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000035_000000|'I don't believe you one little bit,' said the Butterfly's Wife.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000035_000001|'I should very much like to see it done.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000035_000002|Suppose you stamp now.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000036_000000|'I promised Suleiman bin Daoud that I wouldn't,' said the Butterfly, 'and I don't want to break my promise.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000000|'It wouldn't matter if you did,' said his wife.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000001|'You couldn't bend a blade of grass with your stamping.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000002|I dare you to do it,' she said. Stamp!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000003|Stamp!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000004|Stamp!'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000038_000000|Suleiman bin Daoud, sitting under the camphor tree, heard every word of this, and he laughed as he had never laughed in his life before.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000038_000002|He just laughed with joy, and Balkis, on the other side of the tree, smiled because her own true love was so joyful.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000039_000000|Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor tree and said to Suleiman, 'She wants me to stamp!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000041_000000|'Slaves,' said Suleiman bin Daoud, 'when this gentleman on my finger' (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) 'stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000041_000001|When he stamps again you will bring them back carefully.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000042_000000|'Now, little brother,' he said, 'go back to your wife and stamp all you've a mind to.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000000|Away flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was crying, 'I dare you to do it!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000001|I dare you to do it!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000002|Stamp!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000003|Stamp now!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000044_000001|The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder clap, and everything grew inky black.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000044_000002|The Butterfly's Wife fluttered about in the dark, crying, 'Oh, I'll be good!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000044_000003|I'm so sorry I spoke.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000045_000000|The Butterfly was nearly as frightened as his wife, and Suleiman bin Daoud laughed so much that it was several minutes before he found breath enough to whisper to the Butterfly, 'Stamp again, little brother.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000045_000001|Give me back my Palace, most great magician.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000046_000000|'Yes, give him back his Palace,' said the Butterfly's Wife, still flying about in the dark like a moth.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000047_000001|Of course it doesn't make any difference to me-I'm used to this kind of thing-but as a favour to you and to Suleiman bin Daoud I don't mind putting things right.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000048_000000|So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens, without even a bump.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000048_000001|The sun shone on the dark green orange leaves; the fountains played among the pink Egyptian lilies; the birds went on singing, and the Butterfly's Wife lay on her side under the camphor tree waggling her wings and panting, 'Oh, I'll be good!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000048_000002|I'll be good!'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000049_000001|He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, 'O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000051_000000|They stood on the marble steps one hundred abreast and shouted, 'What is our trouble?
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000051_000001|We were living peacefully in our golden palace, as is our custom, when upon a sudden the Palace disappeared, and we were left sitting in a thick and noisome darkness; and it thundered, and Djinns and Afrits moved about in the darkness!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000051_000002|That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000053_000000|Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen-the daughter of a Pharoah-and she said, 'Our Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like a leek for the sake of a little insect.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000053_000001|No! Suleiman bin Daoud must be dead, and what we heard and saw was the earth thundering and darkening at the news.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000055_000001|Go in peace, little folk!' And he kissed them on the wings, and they flew away.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000057_000000|Then they put their veils over their heads, and they put their hands over their mouths, and they tiptoed back to the Palace most mousy quiet.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000059_000000|And Suleiman bin Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight, said, 'O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when did this happen?
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000060_000000|Balkis-The tender and Most Lovely Balkis-said, 'O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor tree and saw it all.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000060_000001|It was I who told the Butterfly's Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp, because I hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic and that the Queens would see it and be frightened.' And she told him what the Queens had said and seen and thought.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000061_000000|Then Suleiman bin Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor tree, and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said, 'O my Lady and Sweetener of my Days, know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the sake of pride or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals, I should certainly have been put to shame.
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000061_000001|But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly, and-behold-it has also delivered me from the vexations of my vexatious wives!
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000061_000002|Tell me, therefore, O my Lady and Heart of my Heart, how did you come to be so wise?' And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into Suleiman bin Daoud's eyes and put her head a little on one side, just like the Butterfly, and said, 'First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women folk are.'
train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000065_000000|There was never a King like Solomon, Not since the world began; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000001_000002|A step startled her, and looking up she saw her brother coming down the path with folded arms, bent head, and the absent air of one absorbed in deep thought.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000003_000000|'What are you at here, Mischief?' asked Demi, with an Irvingesque start, as he felt rather than saw a disturbing influence in his day dream.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000004_000000|'Getting flowers for "our brides".
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000005_000000|'A bride or a flower?' asked Demi calmly, though he eyed the blooming bush as if it had a sudden and unusual interest for him.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000006_000000|'Both; you get the one, and I'll give you the other.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000007_000000|'Wish I could!' and Demi picked a little bud, with a sigh that went to Josie's warm heart.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000008_000001|It's lovely to see people so happy.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000010_000000|'Don't be a hypocrite.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000010_000002|Now, Jack, I'm fond of you, and want to help; it's so interesting-all these lovers and weddings and things, and we ought to have our share.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000012_000000|'You are very kind, child.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000013_000000|'Oh, well, there are various ways, you know.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000013_000004|You've tried it, I dare say.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000014_000001|I want to tell her so; but I lose my head when I try, and don't care to make a fool of myself.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000018_000000|'I've got it! perfectly lovely!
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000018_000001|just suit her, and you too, being a poet!' cried Josie, with a skip.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000019_000000|'What is it?
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000019_000001|Don't be ridiculous, please,' begged the bashful lover, eager, but afraid of this sharp tongued bit of womanhood.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000020_000003|She is coming to dress with Daisy, so I can do it nicely.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000024_000000|DEAR ALICE, You know what the flowers mean.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000028_000000|'I trust you, Jo.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000028_000002|No jokes, dear, if you love me.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000000|Was it wise and kind to ask him to wait, to bind him by any promise, or even to put into words the love and honour she felt for him?
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000001|No; it would be more generous to make the sacrifice alone, and spare him the pain of hope deferred.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000002|He was young; he would forget; and she would do her duty better, perhaps, if no impatient lover waited for her.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000003|With eyes that saw but dimly, and a hand that lingered on the stem he had stripped of thorns, she laid the half blown flower by the rose, and asked herself if even the little bud might be worn.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000004|It looked very poor and pale beside the others; yet being in the self sacrificing mood which real love brings, she felt that even a small hope was too much to give, if she could not follow it up with more.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000033_000000|As she sat looking sadly down on the symbols of an affection that grew dearer every moment, she listened half unconsciously to the murmur of voices in the adjoining room.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000033_000001|Open windows, thin partitions, and the stillness of summer twilight made it impossible to help hearing, and in a few moments more she could not refrain; for they were talking of john.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000000|'Yes, mother.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000001|Did you see him jump up when Alice ended her oration? He'd have gone to her if I hadn't held him back.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000002|I don't wonder he was pleased and proud.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000003|I spoilt my gloves clapping, and quite forgot my dislike of seeing women on platforms, she was so earnest and unconscious and sweet after the first moment.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000037_000000|'No; and I guess why.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000037_000001|The kind boy thinks it would make me unhappy.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000037_000002|It wouldn't.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000038_000000|'It must.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000038_000003|He told me last night, and I've had no time since to tell you.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000038_000006|He was in despair, sick and poor, and too proud to beg; and our dear boy found it out, and took every penny he had, and never told even his mother till she made him.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000039_000000|Alice did not hear what Daisy answered, for she was busy with her own emotions-happy ones now, to judge from the smile that shone in her eyes and the decided gesture with which she put the little bud in her bosom, as if she said: 'He deserves some reward for that good deed, and he shall have it.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000040_000000|Mrs Meg was speaking, and still of john, when she could hear again:
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000042_000000|'It is his having nothing to offer that keeps him silent, I think.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000042_000002|But he forgets that love is everything.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000042_000003|I know he's rich in that; I see and feel it; and any woman should be glad to get it.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000043_000000|'Right, dear.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000044_000000|'So she will be, and I hope they will find it out.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000044_000001|But she is so dutiful and good, I'm afraid she won't let herself be happy.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000044_000002|You would like it, mother?'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000045_000000|'Heartily; for a better, nobler girl doesn't live.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000045_000001|She is all I want for my son; and I don't mean to lose the dear, brave creature if I can help it.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000045_000002|Her heart is big enough for both love and duty; and they can wait more happily if they do it together-for wait they must, of course.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000046_000000|'I'm so glad his choice suits you, mother, and he is spared the saddest sort of disappointment.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000047_000000|Daisy's voice broke there; and a sudden rustle, followed by a soft murmur, seemed to tell that she was in her mother's arms, seeking and finding comfort there.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000048_000002|As she thought thus, the half blown rose went to join the bud; and then, after a pause, she slowly kissed the perfect rose, and added it to the tell tale group, saying to herself with a sort of sweet solemnity, as if the words were a vow:
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000050_000001|Demi meantime was escorting certain venerable personages about the college, and helping his grandfather entertain them with discussion of the Socratic method of instruction, Pythagoras, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and the rest, whom he devoutly wished at the bottom of the Red Sea, and no wonder, for his head and his heart were full of love and roses, hopes and fears.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000051_000001|Yes, she has a flower at her throat; one, two, oh, blessed sight! he saw it all across the room, and gave a rapturous sigh which caused Miss Perry's frizzled crop to wave with a sudden gust.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000052_000000|'I saw no wine at any of the spreads; but it is plain that young Brooke has had too much.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000052_000001|Quite gentlemanly, but evidently a trifle intoxicated, my dear.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000053_000001|He saw her standing by the piano now, idly turning over music as she talked with several gentlemen.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000053_000002|Hiding his impatience under an air of scholastic repose, Demi hovered near, ready to advance when the happy moment came, wondering meantime why elderly persons persisted in absorbing young ones instead of sensibly sitting in corners with their contemporaries.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000053_000003|The elderly persons in question retired at length, but only to be replaced by two impetuous youths who begged Miss Heath to accompany them to Parnassus and join the dance. Demi thirsted for their blood, but was appeased by hearing George and Dolly say, as they lingered a moment after her refusal:
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000054_000000|'Really, you know, I'm quite converted to co education and almost wish I'd remained here.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000055_000000|'Yes, by Jove! we fellows will have to look out or you'll carry off all the honours.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000055_000001|You were superb today, and held us all like magic, though it was so hot there, I really think I couldn't have stood it for anyone else,' added Dolly, labouring to be gallant and really offering a touching proof of devotion; for the heat melted his collar, took the curl out of his hair, and ruined his gloves.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000056_000000|'There is room for all; and if you will leave us the books, we will cheerfully yield the baseball, boating, dancing, and flirting, which seem to be the branches you prefer,' answered Alice sweetly.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000057_000000|'Ah, now you are too hard upon us!
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000057_000001|We can't grind all the time and you ladies don't seem to mind taking a turn at the two latter "branches" you mention,' returned Dolly, with a glance at George which plainly said, 'I had her there.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000058_000000|'Some of us do in our first years.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000058_000001|Later we give up childish things, you see.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000059_000000|'You got it there, Doll.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000059_000001|Better not try to fence with these superior girls.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000059_000002|Sure to be routed, horse, foot, and dragoons,' said Stuffy, lumbering away, somewhat cross with too many spreads.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000060_000000|'So deuced sarcastic!
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000061_000001|I'm faint with so much talking.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000061_000002|Old Plock cornered me and made my head spin with Kant and Hegel and that lot.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000062_000000|'I promised Dora West I'd give her a turn.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000062_000001|Must look her up; she's a jolly little thing, and doesn't bother about anything but keeping in step.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000063_000001|As she bent to turn a page, the eager young man behind the piano saw the rose and was struck speechless with delight.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000063_000002|A moment he gazed, then hastened to seize the coveted place before a new detachment of bores arrived.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000064_000000|'Alice, I can't believe it-did you understand-how shall I ever thank you?' murmured Demi, bending as if he, too, read the song, not a note or word of which did he see, however.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000065_000001|I understood-I don't deserve it-we are too young, we must wait, but-I'm very proud and happy, john!'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000000|'Music?
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000002|People are thinning out, and we all want a little refreshment.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000003|My brain fairly reels with the 'ologies and 'isms I've heard discussed tonight.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000004|Yes, give us this; sweet thing!
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000005|Scotch songs are always charming.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000069_000000|BIDE A WEE
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000071_000000|'I fear me sair they're failing baith; For when I sit apart, They talk o' Heaven so earnestly, It well nigh breaks my heart. So, laddie, dinna urge me now, It surely winna be; I canna leave the auld folk yet. We'd better bide a wee.'
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000072_000000|The room was very still before the first verse ended; and Alice skipped the next, fearing she could not get through; for John's eyes were on her, showing that he knew she sang for him and let the plaintive little ballad tell what her reply must be.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000072_000001|He took it as she meant it, and smiled at her so happily that her heart got the better of her voice, and she rose abruptly, saying something about the heat.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000073_000000|'Yes, you are tired; come out and rest, my dearest'; and with a masterful air Demi took her into the starlight, leaving Tom to stare after them winking as if a sky rocket had suddenly gone off under his nose.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000074_000000|'Bless my soul! the Deacon really meant business last summer and never told me.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000074_000001|Won't Dora laugh?' And Tom departed in hot haste to impart and exult over his discovery.
train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000075_000000|What was said in the garden was never exactly known; but the Brooke family sat up very late that night, and any curious eye at the window would have seen Demi receiving the homage of his womankind as he told his little romance.
train-clean-360/3070/166421/3070_166421_000010_000001|"Where are you going?"
train-clean-360/3070/166421/3070_166421_000011_000003|He might get away."
train-clean-360/3070/166421/3070_166421_000014_000000|"Anywhere you say suits me," he answered.
train-clean-360/3070/166423/3070_166423_000005_000002|I'll look after ruth--er-I mean Miss Ventnor."
train-clean-360/3070/166423/3070_166423_000010_000002|Then we'll make a start.
train-clean-360/3070/166423/3070_166423_000024_000001|Now I could see that the ring was not continuous.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000001|He was a crippled old mountain man, with a profound contempt for "tenderfeet," a contempt that in my case was accentuated by the fact that I wore spectacles-which at that day and in that region were usually held to indicate a defective moral character in the wearer.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000003|He was very rheumatic and liked to lie abed late, so that I usually had to get breakfast, and, in fact, do most of the work around camp.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000013|I answered "all right," that if I could not I could not, and began to move around to get some flour and salt pork.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000017|Managing to get near it, I whipped it up and threw the bead on him, calling, "Hands up!" He of course put up his hands, and then said, "Oh, come, I was only joking"; to which I answered, "Well, I am not.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000018|Now straighten your legs and let your rifle go to the ground." He remonstrated, saying the rifle would go off, and I told him to let it go off.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000020|I then made him move back, and picked up the rifle.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000021|By this time he was quite sober, and really did not seem angry, looking at me quizzically.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000002_000002|I then traveled till dark, and that night, for the only time in my experience, I used in camping a trick of the old time trappers in the Indian days.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000002_000003|I did not believe I would be followed, but still it was not possible to be sure, so, after getting supper, while my pony fed round, I left the fire burning, repacked the mare and pushed ahead until it literally became so dark that I could not see.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000002_000007|It was while hunting in vain for a grouse that I came on the bear and killed it as above described.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000003_000002|It was midwinter.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000003_000004|I could not help grinning when I found out that they did not even allude to me as the Vice President elect, let alone as a hunter, but merely as "Johnny Goff's tourist."
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000002|When I worked on a ranch, I needed no form of exercise except my work, but when I worked in an office the case was different. A couple of summers I played polo with some of my neighbors.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000005|My two ponies were the only occupants of my stable except a cart horse.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000006|My wife and I rode and drove them, and they were used for household errands and for the children, and for two afternoons a week they served me as polo ponies.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000007|Polo is a good game, infinitely better for vigorous men than tennis or golf or anything of that kind.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000009|But at Oyster Bay our great and permanent amusements were rowing and sailing; I do not care for the latter, and am fond of the former.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000010|I suppose it sounds archaic, but I cannot help thinking that the people with motor boats miss a great deal.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000012|But I rarely took exercise merely as exercise.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000013|Primarily I took it because I liked it. Play should never be allowed to interfere with work; and a life devoted merely to play is, of all forms of existence, the most dismal.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000014|But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000002|I dropped the wrestling earliest.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000005|The oarsman turned out to know very little about wrestling.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000006|He could not even take care of himself, not to speak of me.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000009|After that I took up boxing again.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000010|While President I used to box with some of the aides, as well as play single stick with General Wood.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000011|After a few years I had to abandon boxing as well as wrestling, for in one bout a young captain of artillery cross countered me on the eye, and the blow smashed the little blood vessels.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000013|Accordingly I thought it better to acknowledge that I had become an elderly man and would have to stop boxing.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000014|I then took up jiu jitsu for a year or two.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000006_000000|When I was in the Legislature and was working very hard, with little chance of getting out of doors, all the exercise I got was boxing and wrestling.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000000|Naturally, being fond of boxing, I grew to know a good many prize fighters, and to most of those I knew I grew genuinely attached. I have never been able to sympathize with the outcry against prize fighters.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000001|The only objection I have to the prize ring is the crookedness that has attended its commercial development.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000004|But this is true of football games and of most other rough and vigorous sports.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000008|Many of these young fellows were not naturally criminals at all, but they had to have some outlet for their activities.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000010|I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000011|Of course boxing should be encouraged in the army and navy.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000008_000004|It is idle to compare them with bull fighting; the torture and death of the wretched horses in bull fighting is enough of itself to blast the sport, no matter how great the skill and prowess shown by the bull fighters. Any sport in which the death and torture of animals is made to furnish pleasure to the spectators is debasing.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000008_000007|Of course the men who look on ought to be able to stand up with the gloves, or without them, themselves; I have scant use for the type of sportsmanship which consists merely in looking on at the feats of some one else.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000001|Take Mike Donovan, of New York.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000002|He and his family represent a type of American citizenship of which we have a right to be proud.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000006|It culminated in a lively set to between myself and a Tammany Senator who was a very good fellow, but whose ideas of temperance differed radically from mine, and, as the event proved, from those of the majority of the meeting.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000007|Mike evidently regarded himself as my backer-he was sitting on the platform beside me-and I think felt as pleased and interested as if the set to had been physical instead of merely verbal.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000008|Afterward I grew to know him well both while I was Governor and while I was President, and many a time he came on and boxed with me.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000010_000001|Bob Fitzsimmons was another good friend of mine.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000010_000005|When I went to Africa he presented me with a gold mounted rabbit's foot for luck.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000010_000006|I carried it through my African trip; and I certainly had good luck.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000004|He was my sister's favorite son, and I always took a special interest in him myself.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000005|I did my best to bring him up the way he ought to go.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000006|But there was just nothing to be done with him.
train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000007|His tastes were naturally low.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000000_000002|Often, especially in the winters and early springs, we would arrange for a point to point walk, not turning aside for anything-for instance, swimming Rock Creek or even the Potomac if it came in our way.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000000_000005|If we swam the Potomac, we usually took off our clothes.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000001_000002|Once I invited an entire class of officers who were attending lectures at the War College to come on one of these walks; I chose a route which gave us the hardest climbing along the rocks and the deepest crossings of the creek; and my army friends enjoyed it hugely-being the right sort, to a man.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000002_000001|At the end of the lunch Seth Bullock suddenly reached forward, swept aside a mass of flowers which made a centerpiece on the table, and revealed a bronze cougar by Proctor, which was a parting gift to me.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000002_000002|The lunch party and the cougar were then photographed on the lawn.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000004_000007|This seems unbelievable; but Leonard assures me it is true. He did not inform me at the time, being afraid to "get in wrong" with his permanent superiors.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000016_000000|"To such men the book is invaluable.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000017_000001|They will look at the pictures and say it is a good book, but they won't read it.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000025_000002|They take no exercise.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000032_000001|But he can do so, if only he will take the trouble.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000033_000000|I once made a speech to which I gave the title "The Strenuous Life." Afterwards I published a volume of essays with this for a title.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000035_000007|From the study of the first he can learn inspiration, he can get uplift and lofty enthusiasm. From the study of the second he can, if he chooses, find out how to win a similar success himself.
train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000037_000004|(I am using my own language, not Marryat's.) This was the theory upon which I went.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000002_000000|THE LIFE, CAREER AND DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITE.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000003_000001|She took great care of his education, and when he was grown up, as he had an inclination to the sea, procured him the king's letter.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000004_000001|White's story obliges me, though I beg leave to take notice of their barbarity to the English prisoners, for they would set them up as a butt or mark to shoot at; several of whom were thus murdered in cold blood, by way of diversion.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000006_000000|After some time cruising along the coast, the pirates doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and shaped their course for Madagascar, where, being drunk and mad, they knocked their ship on the head, at the south end of the island, at a place called by the natives Elexa.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000008_000001|His humanity not only provided for such, but the first European vessel that came in, he always obliged to take in the unfortunate people, let the vessel be what it would; for he had no notion of any difference between pirates and merchants.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000009_000000|At the expiration of the above term, a pirate brigantine came in, on board which the king obliged them to enter, or travel by land to some other place, which they durst not do; and of two evils chose the least, that of going on board the pirate vessel, which was commanded by one William Read, who received them very civilly.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000010_000001|His crew, however, did not exceed forty men.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000010_000003|However, it was impracticable, for the French pretending to lord it over the natives, whom they began to treat inhumanly, were set upon by them, one half of their number cut off, and the other half made slaves.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000011_000000|Read, with this gang, and a brigantine of sixty tons, steered his course for the Persian Gulf, where they met a grab, (a one masted vessel) of about two hundred tons, which was made a prize.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000012_000001|Read fell ill and died, and was succeeded by one james.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000013_000000|They stayed here all the monsoon time, which is about six months; after which they resolved for Madagascar.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000013_000002|They gave chase on both sides, so that they soon met.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000015_000000|The pirates, who were headed by George Booth, now commander of the ship, went on board, (as they had often done,) to the number of ten, and carried money with them under pretence of purchasing what they wanted. This Booth had formerly been gunner of a pirate ship, called the Dolphin.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000016_000000|They were all searched, but they however contrived to get on board four pistols, which were all the arms they had for the enterprise, though Fourgette had twenty hands on board, and his small arms on the awning, to be in readiness.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000017_000000|The captain invited them into the cabin to dinner, but Booth chose to dine with the petty officer, though one Johnson, Isaac and another, went down.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000017_000002|Standing near the awning, and being a nimble fellow, at one spring he threw himself upon it, drew the arms to him, fired his pistol among the men, one of whom he wounded, (who jumping overboard was lost) and gave the signal.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000018_000000|Three, I said, were in the cabin, and seven upon deck, who with handspikes and the arms seized, secured the ship's crew.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000019_000000|I hope this digression, as it was in a manner needful, will be excused. I shall now proceed.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000020_000001|Mosson's ship lay at anchor, between the island and the main.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000020_000002|This gentleman and his whole ship's company had been cut off at the instigation of Ort Vantyle, a Dutchman of New York.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000022_000001|White.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000022_000002|They joined company, came to an anchor together in the above named river, where they had cleaned, salted and took in their provisions, and were ready to go to sea, when a large ship appeared in sight, and stood into the same river.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000023_000000|The pirates knew not whether she was a merchantman or man of war.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000023_000001|She had been the latter, belonging to the French king, and could mount fifty guns; but being taken by the English, she was bought by some London merchants, and fitted out from that port to slave at Madagascar, and go to Jamaica.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000023_000002|The captain was a young, inexperienced man, who was put in with a nurse.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000000|The captain of the Speaker sent his purser ashore, to go up the country to the king, who lived about twenty four miles from the coast, to carry a couple of small arms inlaid with gold, a couple of brass blunderbusses, and a pair of pistols, as presents, and to require trade.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000001|As soon as the purser was ashore, he was taken prisoner, by one Tom Collins, a Welshman, born in Pembroke, who lived on shore, and had belonged to the Charming Mary, of Barbadoes, which went out with a commission but was converted to a pirate.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000002|He told the purser he was his prisoner, and must answer the damage done to two merchants who were slaving.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000003|The purser answered, that he was not commander; that the captain was a hot rash youth, put into business by his friends, which he did not understand; but however, satisfaction should be made.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000029_000003|However, he, for a hundred pounds, undertook to wet all the priming, and assist in taking the ship.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000000|After some days the captain of the Speaker came on shore, and was received with great civility by the heads of the pirates, having agreed before to make satisfaction.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000001|In a day or two after, he was invited by them to eat a barbacued shoat, which invitation he accepted.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000003|Bowen, who was, I have already said, a prisoner on board the French pirate, but now become one of the fraternity, and master of the grab, went out, and returned with a case of pistols in his hand, and told the Captain of the Speaker, whose name I won't mention, that he was his prisoner.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000004|He asked, upon what account?
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000005|Bowen answered, "they wanted his ship, his was a good one, and they were resolved to have her, to make amends for the damage he had done them."
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000033_000001|At eight o'clock they manned the twelve oared boat, and the one they found at Mayotta, with twenty four men, and set out for the ship.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000033_000004|Booth asked what he wanted!
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000034_000001|"All well," said the mate, "get the lights over the side;" but spying the second boat, he asked what boat that was?
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000034_000003|They boarded in the instant, and made themselves masters of her, without the loss of a man on either side.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000036_000001|james, a pirate.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000037_000004|The long boat, which lay off a grappling, was immediately put in by those who looked after her.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000037_000006|The quarter master ran down sword in hand, and though he was attacked by many, he behaved himself so well, that he got into a little canoe, put off, and reached the long boat.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000039_000000|Things being thus settled, they came to the mouth of the Red Sea, and fell in with thirteen sail of Moor ships, which they kept company with the greater part of the day, but afraid to venture on them, as they took them for Portuguese men of war.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000039_000001|At length part were for boarding, and advised it.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000039_000004|The adventures of these pirates on this coast are already set down in Captain Bowen's life, to which I refer the reader, and shall only observe, that Captain White was all this time before the mast, being a forced man from the beginning.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000040_000001|They came on board in the night and surprised her, though not without resistance, in which the captain and chief mate were killed, and several others wounded.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000000|Those who were ashore with Captain White, resolving to enter in this ship, determined him to go also, rather than be left alone with the natives, hoping, by some accident or other, to have an opportunity of returning home.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000004|They touched at Augustin, expecting the ship, but she not appearing in a week, the time they waited, the king ordered them to be gone, telling them they imposed on him with lies, for he did not believe they had any ship: however he gave them fresh provision: they took in water, and made for Methelage.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000005|Here as Captain White was known to the king, they were kindly received, and staid about a fortnight in expectation of the ship, but she not appearing they raised their boat a streak, salted the provision the king gave them, put water aboard, and stood for the north end of the island, designing to go round, believing their ship might be at the island of saint Mary.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000007|Wherefore they got into a harbor, of which there are many for small vessels.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000002|At length, having fine weather, and the strength of the current abating, they got round; and after sailing about forty miles on the east side, they went into a harbor, where they found a piece of a jacket, which they knew belonged to one of those men who had left them to go over land.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000003|He had been a forced man, and a ship carpenter.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000004|This they supposed he had torn to wrap round his feet; that part of the country being barren and rocky.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000006|The latter was given them, but they could get no information of their companions.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000044_000001|They knew it to be the hand of one of their former shipmates.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000046_000000|The rest of them were settled in small companies of about twelve or fourteen together, more or less, up the said river, and along the coast, every nation by itself, as the English, French, Dutch, and c.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000046_000003|But the others did not think it reasonable he should have the boat, but that it should be set to sale for the benefit of the company.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000000|Captain White, finding these men proposed joining him, and going round to Ambonavoula, to make up a company, it was agreed upon, and they unanimously chose him commander.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000001|They accordingly put to sea, and stood away round the south end of the island, and touched at Don Mascarenhas, where he took in a surgeon, and stretching over again to Madagascar, fell in with Ambonavoula, and made up his complement of sixty men.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000002|From hence he shaped his course for the island of Mayotta, where he cleaned his ship, and waited for the season to go into the Red Sea.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000003|His provisions being taken in, the time proper, and the ship well fitted, he steered for Babel Mandeb, and running into a harbor, waited for the Mocha ships.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000048_000001|These he plundered of what was for his turn, kept them a fortnight by him, and let them go.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000048_000003|A few days after, they met with a large ship of about one thousand tons and six hundred men, called the Malabar, which they chased, kept company with her all night, and took in the morning, with the loss of only their boatswain, and two or three men wounded.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000049_000004|They answered in the affirmative, but the captain could not believe them.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000049_000005|However they took what they liked, and kept him with them.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000050_000000|After two days they met with the Dorothy, an English ship, Captain Penruddock, commander, coming from Mocha.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000050_000002|On a vote, they gave Captain Penruddock (from whom they took a considerable quantity of money) the Portuguese ship and cargo, with what bale he pleased to take out of his own, bid him go about his business, and make what he could of her.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000051_000005|Besides, they made a gathering among themselves, and made a present to Stacy's mate, and other of his inferior officers, and about one hundred twenty dollars to the children.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000051_000006|They then discharged Stacy and his crew, and made the best of their way out of the Red Sea.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000052_000000|They came into the bay of Defarr, where they found a ketch at anchor, which the people had made prize of, by seizing the master and boat's crew ashore.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000052_000001|They found a French gentleman, one Monsieur Berger, on board, whom they carried with them, took out about two thousand dollars, and sold the ketch to the chief ashore for provisions.
train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000053_000001|Here taking in fresh provisions, White steered for Madagascar, and fell in with Hopeful Point where they shared their goods, and took up settlements ashore, where White built a house, bought cattle, took off the upper deck of ship, and was fitting her up for the next season.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000004_000000|TO FRANCES, MY WIFE
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000005_000000|IN MEMORY OF THAT BEAUTIFUL SUMMER IN THE OZARK HILLS, WHEN, SO OFTEN, WE FOLLOWED THE OLD TRAIL AROUND THE RISE OF MUTTON HOLLOW-THE TRAIL THAT IS NOBODY KNOWS HOW OLD-AND FROM SAMMY'S LOOKOUT WATCHED THE DAY GO OVER THE WESTERN RIDGES.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000006_000000|"That all with one consent praise new born gawds, Tho they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er dusted."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000007_000000|TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000008_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000010_000000|It was corn planting time, when the stranger followed the Old Trail into the Mutton Hollow neighborhood.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000000|All day a fine rain had fallen steadily, and the mists hung heavy over the valley.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000001|The lower hills were wrapped as in a winding sheet; dank and cold.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000002|The trees were dripping with moisture.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000003|The stranger looked tired and wet.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000012_000001|His form stooped a little in the shoulders, perhaps with weariness, but he carried himself with the unconscious air of one long used to a position of conspicuous power and influence; and, while his well kept hair and beard were strongly touched with white, the brown, clear lighted eyes, that looked from under their shaggy brows, told of an intellect unclouded by the shadows of many years.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000012_000002|It was a face marked deeply by pride; pride of birth, of intellect, of culture; the face of a scholar and poet; but it was more-it was the countenance of one fairly staggering under a burden of disappointment and grief.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000013_000000|As the stranger walked, he looked searchingly into the mists on every hand, and paused frequently as if questioning the proper course.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000014_000000|As the figure of the traveler emerged from the mists, the native checked his horse to greet the newcomer with the customary salutation of the backwoods, "Howdy."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000015_000000|The man returned Jed's greeting cordially, and, resting his satchel on a rock beside the narrow path, added, "I am very glad to meet you.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000015_000001|I fear that I am lost."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000016_000000|The voice was marvelously pure, deep, and musical, and, like the brown eyes, betrayed the real strength of the man, denied by his gray hair and bent form.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000016_000002|The boy looked at the speaker in wide eyed wonder; he had a queer feeling that he was in the presence of a superior being.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000018_000000|"Where am I trying to get to?" As the man repeated Jed's question, he drew his hand wearily across his brow; "I-I-it doesn't much matter, boy.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000018_000002|Do you live near here?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000019_000001|Hit'll be plumb dark 'gin I git home.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000019_000003|What might YER name be, Mister?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000020_000000|The other, looking back over the way he had come, seemed not to hear Jed's question, and the native continued, "Mine's Holland. Pap an' Mam they come from Tennessee.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000021_000002|"Very true, very true, indeed," he mused.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000022_000000|"Jim Lane lives up the trail 'bout half a quarter.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000022_000001|Ever hear tell o' Jim?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000024_000004|I'll hep you hunt hit, if you want me to, Mister."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000025_000000|"No," said the other, "I am not looking for mines of lead or zinc; there is greater wealth in these hills and forests, young man."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000026_000002|Lemme hep you, Mister.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000028_000002|You know the Matthews's, I reckon?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000029_000002|Will mr Matthews keep me, do you think?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000031_000001|"What is it?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000032_000000|The native shook his head.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000032_000001|"Durned if I know, Mister.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000034_000000|"A hant, a ghost, some calls 'em," explained Jed.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000035_000000|The other interrupted.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000037_000000|Again Jed's question was ignored.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000037_000001|"You think then that mr Matthews will keep me?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000038_000001|They'll take anybody in.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000038_000002|I know they're to home 'cause they was a fixin' t' leave the mill when I left 'bout an hour ago. Was the river up much when you come acrost?" As the native spoke he was still peering uneasily into the woods.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000039_000000|"I did not cross the river.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000039_000001|How far is it to this Matthews place, and how do I go?"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000040_000000|"Jest foller this Old Trail.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000040_000003|'bout three mile, I'd say.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000041_000001|Thank you, very much, for your assistance.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000041_000002|I will go on, now, for I must hurry, or night will overtake me, and I shall not be able to find the path."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000042_000002|"Reckon you must be from Kansas City or Chicago?
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000042_000003|I heard tell they're mighty big towns."
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000043_000000|The stranger's only answer was a curt "Good by," as his form vanished in the mist.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000044_000001|Must be from New York, sure!"
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000045_000000|Slowly the old man toiled up the mountain; up from the mists of the lower ground to the ridge above; and, as he climbed, unseen by him, a shadowy form flitted from tree to tree in the dim, dripping forest.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000046_000000|As the stranger came in sight of the Lane cabin, a young woman on a brown pony rode out of the gate and up the trail before him; and when the man reached the open ground on the mountain above, and rounded the shoulder of the hill, he saw the pony, far ahead, loping easily along the little path.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000046_000001|A moment he watched, and horse and rider passed from sight.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000047_000000|The clouds were drifting far away.
train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000047_000002|In an old tree that leaned far out over the valley, a crow shook the wet from his plumage and dried himself in the warm light; while far below the mists rolled, and on the surface of that gray sea, the traveler saw a company of buzzards, wheeling and circling above some dead thing hidden in its depth.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000004_000000|mr Matthews was a giant.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000004_000001|Fully six feet four inches in height, with big bones, broad shoulders, and mighty muscles.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000004_000003|And still, throughout the country side, the old folks tell with pride tales of the marvelous feats of strength performed in the days when "Old Matt" was young.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000005_000000|Of the son, "Young Matt," the people called him, it is enough to say that he seemed made of the same metal and cast in the same mold as the father; a mighty frame, softened yet by young manhood's grace; a powerful neck and well poised head with wavy red brown hair; and blue eyes that had in them the calm of summer skies or the glint of battle steel.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000005_000001|It was a countenance fearless and frank, but gentle and kind, and the eyes were honest eyes.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000006_000000|Anyone meeting the pair, as they walked with the long swinging stride of the mountaineer up the steep mill road that gray afternoon, would have turned for a second look; such men are seldom seen.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000007_000000|When they reached the big log house that looks down upon the Hollow, the boy went at once with his axe to the woodpile, while the older man busied himself with the milking and other chores about the barn.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000008_000000|Young Matt had not been chopping long when he heard, coming up the hill, the sound of a horse's feet on the Old Trail.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000008_000001|The horse stopped at the house and a voice, that stirred the blood in the young man's veins, called, "Howdy, Aunt Mollie."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000009_000000|mrs Matthews appeared in the doorway; by her frank countenance and kindly look anyone would have known her at a glance as the boy's mother.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000009_000002|How are you, honey?"
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000011_000000|"It's about time you was a comin' over," replied the woman in the doorway; "I was a tellin' the menfolks this mornin' that you hadn't been nigh the whole blessed week.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000011_000001|mr Matthews 'lowed maybe you was sick."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000012_000000|The other returned with a gay laugh, "I was never sick a minute in my life that anybody ever heard tell.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000012_000001|I'm powerful hungry, though. You'd better put in another pan of corn bread." She turned her pony's head toward the barn.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000013_000000|"Seems like you are always hungry," laughed the older woman, in return.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000014_000000|Operations at the woodpile suddenly ceased and Young Matt was first at the barn yard gate.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000000|But what is the use?
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000001|When all this is written, those who knew Sammy will say, "'tis but a poor picture, for she is something more than all this." Uncle Ike, the postmaster at the Forks, did it much better when he said to "Preachin' Bill," the night of the "Doin's" at the Cove School, "Ba thundas!
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000003|WHAT!
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000005|What!" And the little shrivelled up old hillsman, who keeps the ferry, removed his cob pipe long enough to reply, with all the emphasis possible to his squeaky voice, "She sure do, Ike. She sure do.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000018_000000|"I've been a lookin' for you over," said Sammy, a teasing light in her eyes.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000018_000001|"Didn't you know that Mandy was stoppin' with me?
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000019_000001|"Why didn't you tell me before?
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000019_000002|I reckon she'll get over it alright, though," he added with a smile, as he raised his arms to assist the girl to dismount.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000020_000000|The teasing light vanished as the young woman placed her hands on the powerful shoulders of the giant, and as she felt the play of the swelling muscles that swung her to the ground so easily, her face flushed with admiration.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000021_000000|When the girl was gone, the big fellow led the horse away to the stable, where he crossed his arms upon the saddle and hid his face from the light.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000021_000001|mr Matthews coming quietly to the door a few minutes later saw the boy standing there, and the rugged face of the big mountaineer softened at the sight.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000021_000002|Quietly he withdrew to the other side of the barn, to return later when the saddle and bridle had been removed, and the young man stood stroking the pony, as the little horse munched his generous feed of corn.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000022_000000|The elder man laid his hand on the broad shoulder of the lad so like him, and looked full into the clear eyes.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000022_000001|"Is it alright, son?" he asked gruffly; and the boy answered, as he returned his father's look, "It's alright, Dad."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000023_000000|"Then let's go to the house; Mother called supper some time ago."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000024_000000|Just as the little company were seating themselves at the table, the dog in the yard barked loudly.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000024_000001|Young Matt went to the door. The stranger, whom Jed had met on the Old Trail, stood at the gate.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000025_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000026_000000|THE VOICE FROM OUT THE MISTS.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000027_000000|While Young Matt was gone to the corral in the valley to see that the sheep were safely folded for the night, and the two women were busy in the house with their after supper work, mr Matthews and his guest sat on the front porch.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000028_000000|"My name is Howitt, Daniel Howitt," the man said in answer to the host's question.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000028_000001|But, as he spoke, there was in his manner a touch of embarrassment, and he continued quickly as if to prevent further question, "You have two remarkable children, sir; that boy is the finest specimen of manhood I have ever seen, and the girl is remarkable-remarkable, sir.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000029_000000|The grim face of the elder Matthews showed both pleasure and amusement.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000029_000002|I doubt if there's a man in the hills can match him to day; not excepting Wash Gibbs; an' he's a mighty good boy, too.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000029_000003|But the girl is a daughter of a neighbor, and no kin at all."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000031_000000|The amused smile left the face of the old mountaineer, as he answered slowly, "There was six boys, sir; this one, Grant, is the youngest.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000031_000001|The others lie over there." He pointed with his pipe to where a clump of pines, not far from the house, showed dark and tall, against the last red glow in the sky.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000032_000000|The stranger glanced at the big man's face in quick sympathy.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000032_000003|The boy grew to be a man, and now he has left me." The deep voice faltered.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000033_000000|There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionalities.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000033_000001|As the two men sat in the hush of the coming night, their faces turned toward the somber group of trees, they felt strongly drawn to one another.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000034_000000|The mountaineer's companion spoke again half to himself; "I wish that my dear ones had a resting place like that.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000035_000000|For some time the stranger sat thus, while his host spoke no word. Then lifting his head, the man looked away over the ridges just touched with the lingering light, and the valley below wrapped in the shadowy mists.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000035_000002|"This is good for me; it somehow seems to help me know how big God is.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000036_000000|The mountaineer puffed hard at his pipe for a while, then said gruffly, "Seems that way, Mister, to them that don't know.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000036_000002|I used to feel like you do, but I can't no more.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000036_000003|They 'mind me now of him that blackened my life; he used to take on powerful about the beauty of the country and all the time he was a turnin' it into a hell for them that had to stay here after he was gone."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000037_000000|As he spoke, anger and hatred grew dark in the giant's face, and the stranger saw the big hands clench and the huge frame grow tense with passion.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000037_000002|It'll fair up by morning, I reckon.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000037_000003|You can see a long way from here, of a clear day, Mister."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000038_000000|"Yes, indeed," replied mr Howitt, in an odd tone.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000039_000000|"You live in the city, then, when you are at home?" asked mr Matthews, looking curiously at his guest.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000041_000000|Old Matt leaned forward in his chair as if to speak again; then paused; someone was coming up the hill; and soon they distinguished the stalwart form of the son.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000041_000001|Sammy coming from the house with an empty bucket met the young man at the gate, and the two went toward the spring together.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000042_000001|It was a weird scene, almost supernatural in its beauty.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000043_000001|Howitt, you've got education; it's easy to see that; I've always wanted to ask somebody like you, do you believe in hants?
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000043_000002|Do you reckon folks ever come back once they're dead and gone?"
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000044_000000|The man from the city saw that his big host was terribly in earnest, and answered quietly, "No, I do not believe in such things, mr Matthews; but if it should be true, I do not see why we should fear the dead."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000045_000000|The other shook his head; "I don't know-I don't know, sir; I always said I didn't believe, but some things is mighty queer." He seemed to be shaping his thought for further speech, when again the girl's laugh rang clear along the mountain side.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000045_000001|The young people were returning from the spring.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000046_000000|The mountaineer relighted his pipe, while Young Matt and Sammy seated themselves on the step, and mrs Matthews coming from the house joined the group.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000047_000000|"We've just naturally got to find somebody to stay with them sheep, Dad," said the son; "there ain't nobody there to night, and as near as I can make out there's three ewes and their lambs missing.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000047_000001|There ain't a bit of use in us trying to depend on Pete."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000048_000000|"I'll ride over on Bear Creek to morrow, and see if I can get that fellow Buck told us about," returned the father.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000049_000000|"You find it hard to get help on the ranch?" inquired the stranger.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000000|"Yes, sir, we do," answered Old Matt.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000002|But with some a stayin' out on the range, an' not comin' in, an' the wolves a gettin' into the corral at night, we'll lose mighty nigh all the profits this year.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000003|The worst of it is, there ain't much show to get a man; unless that one over on Bear Creek will come.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000004|I reckon, though, he'll be like the rest." He sat staring gloomily into the night.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000051_000000|"Is the work so difficult?" mr Howitt asked.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000052_000000|"Difficult, no; there ain't nothing to do but tendin' to the sheep.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000052_000001|The man has to stay at the ranch of nights, though."
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000053_000000|mr Howitt was wondering what staying at the ranch nights could have to do with the difficulty, when, up from the valley below, from out the darkness and the mists, came a strange sound; a sound as if someone were singing a song without words.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000053_000001|So wild and weird was the melody; so passionately sweet the voice, it seemed impossible that the music should come from human lips.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000053_000002|It was more as though some genie of the forest clad hills wandered through the mists, singing as he went with the joy of his possessions.
train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000054_000001|Young Matt rose to his feet and moved closer to the girl, who was also standing.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000008_000000|Mr Jones during this interval attempted once or twice to speak, but was absolutely incapable, muttering only, or rather sighing out, some broken words; when Sophia at length, partly out of pity to him, and partly to turn the discourse from the subject which she knew well enough he was endeavouring to open, said-
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000002|Justice I know must condemn me.--Yet not for the letter I sent to Lady Bellaston.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000008|Indeed, you have acted strangely.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000011|Think, most adorable creature, of my unhappy situation, of my despair.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000015|No repentance was ever more sincere.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000018|You must expect, however, that if I can be prevailed on by your repentance to pardon you, I will at least insist on the strongest proof of its sincerity." "Name any proof in my power," answered Jones eagerly.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000019|"Time," replied she; "time alone, Mr Jones, can convince me that you are a true penitent, and have resolved to abandon these vicious courses, which I should detest you for, if I imagined you capable of persevering in them." "Do not imagine it," cries Jones.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000020|"On my knees I intreat, I implore your confidence, a confidence which it shall be the business of my life to deserve." "Let it then," said she, "be the business of some part of your life to shew me you deserve it.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000021|I think I have been explicit enough in assuring you, that, when I see you merit my confidence, you will obtain it. After what is past, sir, can you expect I should take you upon your word?"
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000001|"What is that?" said Sophia, a little surprized.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000004|Impossible! my Sophia; they would fix a Dorimant, a Lord Rochester.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000007|The first moment of hope that my Sophia might be my wife taught it me at once; and all the rest of her sex from that moment became as little the objects of desire to my sense as of passion to my heart." "Well," says Sophia, "the proof of this must be from time.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000011|I will not dare to press anything further than you permit me.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000013|Nay, I will not."--"O! don't look unkindly thus, my Sophia," cries he.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000014|"I do not, I dare not press you.--Yet permit me at least once more to beg you would fix the period.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000016|"O! my Sophia," cries he, "you have named an eternity."--"Perhaps it may be something sooner," says she; "I will not be teazed.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000000|At this instant Western, who had stood some time listening, burst into the room, and, with his hunting voice and phrase, cried out, "To her, boy, to her, go to her.----That's it, little honeys, O that's it! Well! what, is it all over?
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000007|Come, confess, and be an honest girl for once.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000008|What, art dumb?
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000009|Why dost not speak?"
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000012|All the spirit of contrary, that's all.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000012_000003|Dost repent heartily of thy promise, dost not, Sophia?"
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000014_000000|In which the history is concluded.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000015_000001|There likewise he met his uncle, who was returned to town in quest of his new married daughter.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000016_000000|This marriage was the luckiest incident which could have happened to the young gentleman; for these brothers lived in a constant state of contention about the government of their children, both heartily despising the method which each other took.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000017_000000|As for the other, who really loved his daughter with the most immoderate affection, there was little difficulty in inclining him to a reconciliation.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000017_000001|He was no sooner informed by his nephew where his daughter and her husband were, than he declared he would instantly go to her.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000019_000000|There have not, I believe, been many instances of a number of people met together, where every one was so perfectly happy as in this company.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000019_000003|These were the charms which he could not bear to think his son had sacrificed to the daughter of Mrs Miller.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000021_000008|Mr Western!"
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000021_000009|He began, indeed, once to debate the matter, and assert his right to talk to his own daughter as he thought fit; but, as nobody seconded him, he was soon reduced to order.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000023_000003|In confidence of this secrecy she went through the day pretty well, till the squire, who was now advanced into the second bottle, could contain his joy no longer, but, filling out a bumper, drank a health to the bride.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000024_000001|These two, therefore, sat stoutly to it during the whole evening, and long after that happy hour which had surrendered the charming Sophia to the eager arms of her enraptured Jones.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000025_000000|Thus, reader, we have at length brought our history to a conclusion, in which, to our great pleasure, though contrary, perhaps, to thy expectation, Mr Jones appears to be the happiest of all humankind; for what happiness this world affords equal to the possession of such a woman as Sophia, I sincerely own I have never yet discovered.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000027_000001|He is also lately turned Methodist, in hopes of marrying a very rich widow of that sect, whose estate lies in that part of the kingdom.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000028_000000|Square died soon after he writ the before mentioned letter; and as to Thwackum, he continues at his vicarage.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000029_000000|Mrs Fitzpatrick is separated from her husband, and retains the little remains of her fortune.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000029_000001|She lives in reputation at the polite end of the town, and is so good an economist, that she spends three times the income of her fortune, without running into debt.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000029_000002|She maintains a perfect intimacy with the lady of the Irish peer; and in acts of friendship to her repays all obligations she owes her husband.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000033_000000|Black George, hearing the discovery that had been made, ran away, and was never since heard of; and Jones bestowed the money on his family, but not in equal proportions, for Molly had much the greatest share.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000035_000000|We now return to take leave of Mr Jones and Sophia, who, within two days after their marriage, attended Mr Western and Mr Allworthy into the country.
train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000038_000001|They preserve the purest and tenderest affection for each other, an affection daily encreased and confirmed by mutual endearments and mutual esteem.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixty nine
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000003_000000|NOT TO BE PUT UP WITH
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000000|The coat of arms, devised for me by the Royal heralds, was of great size, and rich colours, and full of bright imaginings.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000001|They did me the honour to consult me first, and to take no notice of my advice.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000003|But the gentlemen would not hear of this; and to find something more appropriate, they inquired strictly into the annals of our family.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000006|Moreover, the name of our farm was pure proof; a plover being a wild bird, just the same as a raven is.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000007|Upon this chain of reasoning, and without any weak misgivings, they charged my growing escutcheon with a black raven on a ground of red.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000009|All this was very fierce and fine; and so I pressed for a peaceful corner in the lower dexter, and obtained a wheat sheaf set upright, gold upon a field of green.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000005_000000|Here I was inclined to pause, and admire the effect; for even De Whichehalse could not show a bearing so magnificent.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000005_000001|But the heralds said that it looked a mere sign board, without a good motto under it; and the motto must have my name in it.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000005_000003|Thirdly, they gave me, 'Ridd never be ridden,' and fearing to make any further objections, I let them inscribe it in bronze upon blue.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000006_000000|Now being in a hurry-so far at least as it is in my nature to hurry-to get to the end of this narrative, is it likely that I would have dwelled so long upon my coat of arms, but for some good reason?
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000006_000002|And half in fun, and half in earnest, she called me 'Sir john' so continually, that at last I was almost angry with her; until her eyes were bedewed with tears; and then I was angry with myself.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000007_000000|Beginning to be short of money, and growing anxious about the farm, longing also to show myself and my noble escutcheon to mother, I took advantage of Lady Lorna's interest with the Queen, to obtain my acquittance and full discharge from even nominal custody.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000007_000001|It had been intended to keep me in waiting, until the return of Lord Jeffreys, from that awful circuit of shambles, through which his name is still used by mothers to frighten their children into bed.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000007_000002|And right glad was I-for even London shrank with horror at the news-to escape a man so bloodthirsty, savage, and even to his friends (among whom I was reckoned) malignant.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000008_000000|Earl Brandir was greatly pleased with me, not only for having saved his life, but for saving that which he valued more, the wealth laid by for Lord Alan.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000008_000001|And he introduced me to many great people, who quite kindly encouraged me, and promised to help me in every way when they heard how the King had spoken.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000008_000002|As for the furrier, he could never have enough of my society; and this worthy man, praying my commendation, demanded of me one thing only-to speak of him as I found him.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000010_000000|Lorna was moved with equal longing towards the country and country ways; and she spoke quite as much of the glistening dew as she did of the smell of our oven.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000010_000001|And here let me mention-although the two are quite distinct and different-that both the dew and the bread of Exmoor may be sought, whether high or low, but never found elsewhere.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000000|Now while I was walking daily in and out great crowds of men (few of whom had any freedom from the cares of money, and many of whom were even morbid with a worse pest called 'politics'), I could not be quit of thinking how we jostle one another.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000001|God has made the earth quite large, with a spread of land large enough for all to live on, without fighting. Also a mighty spread of water, laying hands on sand and cliff with a solemn voice in storm time; and in the gentle weather moving men to thoughts of equity.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000002|This, as well, is full of food; being two thirds of the world, and reserved for devouring knowledge; by the time the sons of men have fed away the dry land.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000003|Yet before the land itself has acknowledged touch of man, upon one in a hundred acres; and before one mile in ten thousand of the exhaustless ocean has ever felt the plunge of hook, or combing of the haul nets; lo, we crawl, in flocks together upon the hot ground that stings us, even as the black grubs crowd upon the harried nettle!
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000004|Surely we are too much given to follow the tracks of each other.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000001|Such a man must be very wretched in this pure dearth of morality; like a fisherman where no fish be; and most of us have enough to do to attend to our own morals.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000002|Enough that I resolved to go; and as Lorna could not come with me, it was even worse than stopping.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000003|Nearly everybody vowed that I was a great fool indeed, to neglect so rudely-which was the proper word, they said-the pushing of my fortunes.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000004|But I answered that to push was rude, and I left it to people who had no room; and thought that my fortune must be heavy, if it would not move without pushing.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000015_000001|They shook hands with me; and said that they could not deny but that there was reason in my view of the matter.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000015_000002|And although they themselves must be the losers-which was a handsome thing to say-they would wait until I was a little older and more aware of my own value.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000016_000001|I have seen at times, a little, both of one and of the other, and making more than due allowance for the difficulties of language, and the difference of training, upon the whole, the balance is in favour of our people.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000017_000000|Yet some people may be surprised that men with any love of justice, whether inborn or otherwise, could continue to abide the arrogance, and rapacity, and tyranny of the Doones.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000018_000001|Twenty sheep a week, and one fat ox, and two stout red deer (for wholesome change of diet), as well as threescore bushels of flour, and two hogsheads and a half of cider, and a hundredweight of candles, not to mention other things of almost every variety which they got by insisting upon it-surely these might have sufficed to keep the people in their place, with no outburst of wantonness.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000019_000000|Now these two maidens were known, because they had served the beer at an ale house; and many men who had looked at them, over a pint or quart vessel (especially as they were comely girls), thought that it was very hard for them to go in that way, and perhaps themselves unwilling.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000019_000001|And their mother (although she had taken some money, which the Doones were always full of) declared that it was a robbery; and though it increased for a while the custom, that must soon fall off again.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000019_000002|And who would have her two girls now, clever as they were and good?
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000020_000000|Before we had finished meditating upon this loose outrage-for so I at least would call it, though people accustomed to the law may take a different view of it-we had news of a thing far worse, which turned the hearts of our women sick.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000020_000001|This I will tell in most careful language, so as to give offence to none, if skill of words may help it.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000022_000000|Mistress Margery Badcock, a healthy and upright young woman, with a good rich colour, and one of the finest hen roosts anywhere round our neighbourhood, was nursing her child about six of the clock, and looking out for her husband.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000022_000001|Now this child was too old to be nursed, as everybody told her; for he could run, say two yards alone, and perhaps four or five, by holding to handles.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000022_000002|And he had a way of looking round, and spreading his legs, and laughing, with his brave little body well fetched up, after a desperate journey to the end of the table, which his mother said nothing could equal.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000023_000000|Christopher Badcock was a tenant farmer, in the parish of Martinhoe, renting some fifty acres of land, with a right of common attached to them; and at this particular time, being now the month of February, and fine open weather, he was hard at work ploughing and preparing for spring corn.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000023_000001|Therefore his wife was not surprised although the dusk was falling, that farmer Christopher should be at work in 'blind man's holiday,' as we call it.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000024_000000|But she was surprised, nay astonished, when by the light of the kitchen fire (brightened up for her husband), she saw six or seven great armed men burst into the room upon her; and she screamed so that the maid in the back kitchen heard her, but was afraid to come to help.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000024_000002|In spite of tears, and shrieks, and struggles, they tore the babe from the mother's arms, and cast it on the lime ash floor; then they bore her away to their horses (for by this time she was senseless), and telling the others to sack the house, rode off with their prize to the valley.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000024_000003|And from the description of one of those two, who carried off the poor woman, I knew beyond all doubt that it was Carver Doone himself.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000025_000000|The other Doones being left behind, and grieved perhaps in some respects, set to with a will to scour the house, and to bring away all that was good to eat.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000025_000001|And being a little vexed herein (for the Badcocks were not a rich couple) and finding no more than bacon, and eggs, and cheese, and little items, and nothing to drink but water; in a word, their taste being offended, they came back, to the kitchen, and stamped; and there was the baby lying.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000000|By evil luck, this child began to squeal about his mother, having been petted hitherto, and wont to get all he wanted, by raising his voice but a little.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000001|Now the mark of the floor was upon his head, as the maid (who had stolen to look at him, when the rough men were swearing upstairs) gave evidence.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000002|And she put a dish cloth under his head, and kissed him, and ran away again.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000004|If it had been her own baby, instinct rather than reason might have had the day with her; but the child being born of her mistress, she wished him good luck, and left him, as the fierce men came downstairs.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000005|And being alarmed by their power of language (because they had found no silver), she crept away in a breathless hurry, and afraid how her breath might come back to her.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000027_000000|While this good maid was in the oven, by side of back kitchen fireplace, with a faggot of wood drawn over her, and lying so that her own heart beat worse than if she were baking; the men (as I said before) came downstairs, and stamped around the baby.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000028_000001|Fetch down the staves of the rack, my boy.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000028_000002|What was farmer to have for supper?'
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000030_000000|'No game!
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000030_000001|Then let us have a game of loriot with the baby!
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000030_000002|It will be the best thing that could befall a lusty infant heretic.
train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000031_000000|The cruelty of this man is a thing it makes me sick to speak of; enough that when the poor baby fell (without attempt at cry or scream, thinking it part of his usual play, when they tossed him up, to come down again), the maid in the oven of the back kitchen, not being any door between, heard them say as follows,--
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000003_000001|TEMPERATURES THE BODY CAN ENDURE.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000002|Everybody knows that if it is not too hot the water will spread over the surface and evaporate; but if it is too hot, the water will glance off without wetting the iron, and if this drop be allowed to fall on the hand it will be found that it is still cool.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000003|The fact is that the water never touches the hot iron at all, provided the heat is sufficiently intense, but assumes a slightly elliptical shape and is supported by a cushion of vapor.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000004|If, instead of a flat iron, we use a concave metal disk about the size and shape of a watch crystal, some very interesting results may be obtained.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000007|By a careful manipulation of the dropper, the disk may be filled with water which, notwithstanding the intense heat, never reaches the boiling point.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000008|On the other hand, if boiling water be dropped on the superheated disk its temperature will immediately be REDUCED to six degrees below the boiling point; thus the hot metal really cools the water.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000005_000000|By taking advantage of the fact that different liquids assume a spheroidal form at widely different temperatures, one may obtain some startling results.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000005_000002|Even mercury can be frozen in this way by a combination of chemicals.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000006_000000|Through the action of this principle it is possible to dip the hand for a short time into melted lead, or even into melted copper, the moisture of the skin supplying a vapor which prevents direct contact with the molten metal; no more than an endurable degree of heat reaches the hand while the moisture lasts, although the temperature of the fusing copper is one thousand nine hundred ninety six degrees.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000006_000001|The natural moisture of the hand is usually sufficient for this result, but it is better to wipe the hand with a damp towel.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000008_000000|Beckmann, in his History of Inventions, vol
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000009_000001|He then squeezed the fingers of his horny hand close together, put it for a few minutes under his armpit, to make it sweat, as he said; and, taking it again out, drew it over a ladle filled with melted copper, some of which he skimmed off, and moved his hand backwards and forwards, very quickly, by way of ostentation.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000010_000000|While I was viewing this performance, I remarked a smell like that of singed horn or leather, though his hand was not burnt.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000012_000001|They told him that if the hand had been wet it would have been badly scalded.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000013_000000|Thus far our interest in heat resistance has uncovered secrets of no very great practical value, however entertaining the uses to which we have seen them put.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000013_000002|As long ago as eighteen twenty nine, for instance, an English newspaper printed the following:
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000014_000001|His experiment is stated to have given satisfaction.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000014_000002|The pompiers were clothed in asbestos, over which was a network of iron. Some of them, it was stated, who wore double gloves of amianthus, held a red hot bar during four minutes.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000015_000001|Sir David says:
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000000|In our own times the art of defending the hands and face, and indeed the whole body, from the action of heated iron and intense fire, has been applied to the nobler purpose of saving human life, and rescuing property from the flames.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000002|Sir h Davy had long ago shown that a safety lamp for illuminating mines, containing inflammable air, might be constructed of wire gauze, alone, which prevented the flame within, however large or intense, from setting fire to the inflammable air without.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000003|This valuable property, which has been long in practical use, he ascribed to the conducting and radiating power of the wire gauze, which carried off the heat of the flame, and deprived it of its power. The Chevalier Aldini conceived the idea of applying the same material, in combination with other badly conducting substances, as a protection against fire.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000004|The incombustible pieces of dress which he uses for the body, arms, and legs, are formed out of strong cloth, which has been steeped in a solution of alum, while those for the head, hands, and feet, are made of cloth of asbestos or amianthus.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000005|The head dress is a large cap which envelops the whole head down to the neck, having suitable perforations for the eyes, nose, and mouth.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000017_000001|All these pieces are made of iron wire gauze, having the interval between its threads the twenty fifth part of an inch.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000018_000000|In order to prove the efficacy of this apparatus, and inspire the firemen with confidence in its protection, he showed them that a finger first enveloped in asbestos, and then in a double case of wire gauze, might be held a long time in the flame of a spirit lamp or candle before the heat became inconvenient.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000018_000002|On other occasions the fireman handled blazing wood and burning substances, and walked during five minutes upon an iron grating placed over flaming fagots.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000019_000000|In order to show how the head, eyes, and lungs are protected, the fireman put on the asbestos and wire gauze cap, and the cuirass, and held the shield before his breast.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000019_000001|A fire of shavings was then lighted, and kept burning in a large raised chafing dish; the fireman plunged his head into the middle of the flames with his face to the fuel, and in that position went several times round the chafing dish for a period longer than a minute.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000019_000002|In a subsequent trial, at Paris, a fireman placed his head in the middle of a large brazier filled with flaming hay and wood, and resisted the action of the fire during five or six minutes and even ten minutes.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000020_000000|In the experiments which were made at Paris in the presence of a committee of the Academy of Sciences, two parallel rows of straw and brushwood supported by iron wires, were formed at the distance of three feet from each other, and extended thirty feet in length.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000001|Two towers were erected two stories high, and were surrounded with heaps of inflamed materials consisting of fagots and straw.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000002|The firemen braved the danger with impunity.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000004|The violence of the fire was so great that he could not be seen, while a thick black smoke spread around, throwing out a heat which was unsupportable by spectators.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000005|The fireman remained so long invisible that serious doubts were entertained of his safety. He at length, however, issued from the fiery gulf uninjured, and proud of having succeeded in braving so great a danger.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000022_000000|It is a remarkable result of these experiments, that the firemen are able to breathe without difficulty in the middle of the flames.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000022_000001|This effect is owing not only to the heat being intercepted by the wire gauze as it passes to the lungs, in consequence of which its temperature becomes supportable, but also to the singular power which the body possesses of resisting great heats, and of breathing air of high temperatures.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000023_000003|Whenever they breathed upon a thermometer it sunk several degrees; every expiration, particularly if strongly made, gave a pleasant impression of coolness to their nostrils, and their cold breath cooled their fingers whenever it reached them.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000023_000005|Hence they concluded that the human body possesses the power of destroying a certain degree of heat when communicated with a certain degree of quickness.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000023_000008|A familiar instance of this occurred in the heated room.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000023_000009|All the pieces of metal there, even their watch chains, felt so hot that they could scarcely bear to touch them for a moment, while the air from which the metal had derived all its heat was only unpleasant.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000001|Sir Charles Blagden went into a room where the heat was one degree or two degrees above two hundred sixty degrees, and remained eight minutes in this situation, frequently walking about to all the different parts of the room, but standing still most of the time in the coolest spot, where the heat was above two hundred forty degrees.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000002|The air, though very hot, gave no pain, and Sir Charles and all the other gentlemen were of opinion that they could support a much greater heat.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000004|His pulse was then one hundred forty four, double its ordinary quickness.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000005|In order to prove that there was no mistake respecting the degree of heat indicated by the thermometer, and that the air which they breathed was capable of producing all the well-known effects of such a heat on inanimate matter, they placed some eggs and a beef steak upon a tin frame near the thermometer, but more distant from the furnace than from the wall of the room.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000006|In the space of twenty minutes the eggs were roasted quite hard, and in forty seven minutes the steak was not only dressed, but almost dry.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000007|Another beef steak, similarly placed, was rather overdone in thirty three minutes.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000001|The furnace which he employs for drying his moulds is about fourteen feet long, twelve feet high, and twelve feet broad.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000002|When it is raised to its highest temperature, with the doors closed, the thermometer stands at three hundred fifty degrees, and the iron floor is red hot.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000003|The workmen often enter it at a temperature of three hundred forty degrees, walking over the iron floor with wooden clogs, which are of course charred on the surface.
train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000004|On one occasion Sir f Chantrey, accompanied by five or six of his friends, entered the furnace, and, after remaining two minutes, they brought out a thermometer which stood at three hundred twenty degrees.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000013_000000|Yes, I agree.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000021_000000|Yes, he said, that is the only adequate image of him.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000023_000000|Yes, he said, that is the way in which the tyrannical man is generated.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000025_000000|I should not wonder.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000027_000000|He has.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000032_000001|And next, how does he live?
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000036_000000|Yes; and every day and every night desires grow up many and formidable, and their demands are many.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000038_000000|His revenues, if he has any, are soon spent.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000040_000000|Then comes debt and the cutting down of his property.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000043_000000|Yes, that is sure to be the case.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000051_000000|Yes, probably.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000055_000000|Yes, indeed, he said; I believe that he would.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000059_000000|Yes, indeed, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000067_000000|Exactly.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000071_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000074_000000|Also they are utterly unjust, if we were right in our notion of justice?
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000082_000000|And must not the tyrannical man be like the tyrannical State, and the democratical man like the democratical State; and the same of the others?
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000099_000000|Yes, he said, I see that there are-a few; but the people, speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded and enslaved.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000113_000000|Yes, indeed.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000126_000000|One of whom I am about to speak.
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000127_000000|Who is that?
train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000130_000000|Yes, I replied, but in this high argument you should be a little more certain, and should not conjecture only; for of all questions, this respecting good and evil is the greatest.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000004_000000|The case of rich individuals in cities who possess many slaves: from them you may form an idea of the tyrant's condition, for they both have slaves; the only difference is that he has more slaves.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000005_000000|Yes, that is the difference.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000009_000000|Yes; the reason is, that the whole city is leagued together for the protection of each individual.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000011_000000|Yes, he said, he will be in the utmost fear.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000012_000000|The time has arrived when he will be compelled to flatter divers of his slaves, and make many promises to them of freedom and other things, much against his will-he will have to cajole his own servants.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000013_000000|Yes, he said, that will be the only way of saving himself.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000014_000000|And suppose the same god, who carried him away, to surround him with neighbours who will not suffer one man to be the master of another, and who, if they could catch the offender, would take his life?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000016_000000|And is not this the sort of prison in which the tyrant will be bound-he who being by nature such as we have described, is full of all sorts of fears and lusts?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000019_000000|Yes, he said, the similitude is most exact.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000023_000000|Very true, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000024_000000|Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000029_000000|Make the proclamation yourself, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000031_000000|Let the words be added.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000032_000000|Then this, I said, will be our first proof; and there is another, which may also have some weight.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000033_000000|What is that?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000034_000000|The second proof is derived from the nature of the soul: seeing that the individual soul, like the State, has been divided by us into three principles, the division may, I think, furnish a new demonstration.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000035_000000|Of what nature?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000036_000000|It seems to me that to these three principles three pleasures correspond; also three desires and governing powers.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000037_000000|How do you mean?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000037_000001|he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000042_000000|Again, is not the passionate element wholly set on ruling and conquering and getting fame?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000044_000000|Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious-would the term be suitable?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000045_000000|Extremely suitable.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000047_000000|Far less.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000048_000000|'Lover of wisdom,' 'lover of knowledge,' are titles which we may fitly apply to that part of the soul?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000049_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000051_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000052_000000|Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000053_000000|Exactly.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000056_000000|Now, if you examine the three classes of men, and ask of them in turn which of their lives is pleasantest, each will be found praising his own and depreciating that of others: the money maker will contrast the vanity of honour or of learning if they bring no money with the solid advantages of gold and silver?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000058_000000|And the lover of honour-what will be his opinion?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000058_000001|Will he not think that the pleasure of riches is vulgar, while the pleasure of learning, if it brings no distinction, is all smoke and nonsense to him?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000059_000000|Very true.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000062_000000|Since, then, the pleasures of each class and the life of each are in dispute, and the question is not which life is more or less honourable, or better or worse, but which is the more pleasant or painless-how shall we know who speaks truly?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000063_000000|I cannot myself tell, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000064_000000|Well, but what ought to be the criterion?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000065_000000|There cannot be a better, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000066_000000|Then, I said, reflect.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000066_000001|Of the three individuals, which has the greatest experience of all the pleasures which we enumerated?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000067_000000|The philosopher, he replied, has greatly the advantage; for he has of necessity always known the taste of the other pleasures from his childhood upwards: but the lover of gain in all his experience has not of necessity tasted-or, I should rather say, even had he desired, could hardly have tasted-the sweetness of learning and knowing truth.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000069_000000|Yes, very great.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000073_000000|Far better.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000075_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000077_000000|What faculty?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000079_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000080_000000|And reasoning is peculiarly his instrument?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000081_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000083_000000|Assuredly.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000084_000000|Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000087_000000|The only inference possible, he replied, is that pleasures which are approved by the lover of wisdom and reason are the truest.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000089_000000|Unquestionably, he said, the wise man speaks with authority when he approves of his own life.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000090_000000|And what does the judge affirm to be the life which is next, and the pleasure which is next?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000091_000000|Clearly that of the soldier and lover of honour; who is nearer to himself than the money maker.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000092_000000|Last comes the lover of gain?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000094_000000|Twice in succession, then, has the just man overthrown the unjust in this conflict; and now comes the third trial, which is dedicated to Olympian Zeus the saviour: a sage whispers in my ear that no pleasure except that of the wise is quite true and pure-all others are a shadow only; and surely this will prove the greatest and most decisive of falls?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000095_000000|Yes, the greatest; but will you explain yourself?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000101_000000|There is.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000103_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000106_000000|That after all nothing is pleasanter than health.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000107_000000|Yes, I know, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000108_000000|And when persons are suffering from acute pain, you must have heard them say that there is nothing pleasanter than to get rid of their pain?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000109_000000|I have.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000111_000000|Yes, he said; at the time they are pleased and well content to be at rest.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000112_000000|Again, when pleasure ceases, that sort of rest or cessation will be painful?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000113_000000|Doubtless, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000114_000000|Then the intermediate state of rest will be pleasure and will also be pain?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000116_000000|But can that which is neither become both?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000117_000000|I should say not.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000119_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000121_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000122_000000|How, then, can we be right in supposing that the absence of pain is pleasure, or that the absence of pleasure is pain?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000123_000000|Impossible.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000124_000000|This then is an appearance only and not a reality; that is to say, the rest is pleasure at the moment and in comparison of what is painful, and painful in comparison of what is pleasant; but all these representations, when tried by the test of true pleasure, are not real but a sort of imposition?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000126_000000|Look at the other class of pleasures which have no antecedent pains and you will no longer suppose, as you perhaps may at present, that pleasure is only the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000127_000000|What are they, he said, and where shall I find them?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000128_000000|There are many of them: take as an example the pleasures of smell, which are very great and have no antecedent pains; they come in a moment, and when they depart leave no pain behind them.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000129_000000|Most true, he said.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000130_000000|Let us not, then, be induced to believe that pure pleasure is the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000131_000000|no
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000132_000000|Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000133_000000|That is true.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000135_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000139_000000|I should.
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000141_000000|To be sure, he said; how can he think otherwise?
train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000143_000000|No doubt.
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train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000007_000000|INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000010_000010|seven. OF ABSTRACT IDEAS.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000011_000000|PART two.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000012_000004|three. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME. SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000012_000009|OF THE IDEA OF EXISTENCE, AND OF EXTERNAL EXISTENCE.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000013_000000|PART three.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000006|OF THE COMPONENT PARTS OF OUR REASONINGS CONCERNING CAUSE AND EFFECT. SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000011|eight.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000019|thirteen.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000022|fifteen.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000015_000000|PART four.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000015_000001|OF THE SCEPTICAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000017_000000|VOLUME two
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000018_000000|BOOK two OF THE PASSIONS
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000019_000000|PART one OF PRIDE AND HUMILITY
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000020_000011|twelve OF THE PRIDE AND HUMILITY OF ANIMALS
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000021_000000|PART two OF LOVE AND HATRED
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000022_000000|SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000022_000003|three DIFFICULTIES SOLVED SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000022_000011|twelve OF THE LOVE AND HATRED OF ANIMALS
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000023_000000|PART three OF THE WILL AND DIRECT PASSIONS
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000024_000000|SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000025_000000|BOOK three OF MORALS
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000027_000002|two MORAL DISTINCTIONS DERIVED FROM A MORAL SENSE
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000028_000000|PART two OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000029_000000|SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000029_000003|three OF THE RULES WHICH DETERMINE PROPERTY SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000029_000011|twelve OF CHASTITY AND MODESTY
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000030_000000|PART three OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES
train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000031_000000|SECT.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000008_000000|INTRODUCTION.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000009_000003|Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000000|Nor is there required such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the rabble without doors may, judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000001|There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000002|The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000004|Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000000|From hence in my opinion arises that common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings of all kinds, even amongst those, who profess themselves scholars, and have a just value for every other part of literature.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000001|By metaphysical reasonings, they do not understand those on any particular branch of science, but every kind of argument, which is any way abstruse, and requires some attention to be comprehended.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000003|And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000004|For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000005|I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000012_000001|Even.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000014_000001|From this station we may extend our conquests over all those sciences, which more intimately concern human life, and may afterwards proceed at leisure to discover more fully those, which are the objects of pore curiosity. There is no question of importance, whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none, which can be decided with any certainty, before we become acquainted with that science.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000014_000002|In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat system of the sciences, built on a foundation almost entirely new, and the only one upon which they can stand with any security.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000015_000000|And as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000015_000002|Locke, my Lord Shaftesbury, dr Mandeville, mr Hutchinson, dr Butler, etc] in England, who have begun to put the science of man on a new footing, and have engaged the attention, and excited the curiosity of the public.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000016_000000|Nor ought we to think, that this latter improvement in the science of man will do less honour to our native country than the former in natural philosophy, but ought rather to esteem it a greater glory, upon account of the greater importance of that science, as well as the necessity it lay under of such a reformation.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000016_000001|For to me it seems evident, that the essence of the mind being equally unknown to us with that of external bodies, it must be equally impossible to form any notion of its powers and qualities otherwise than from careful and exact experiments, and the observation of those particular effects, which result from its different circumstances and situations.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000016_000002|And though we must endeavour to render all our principles as universal as possible, by tracing up our experiments to the utmost, and explaining all effects from the simplest and fewest causes, it is still certain we cannot go beyond experience; and any hypothesis, that pretends to discover the ultimate original qualities of human nature, ought at first to be rejected as presumptuous and chimerical.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000017_000000|I do not think a philosopher, who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a great master in that very science of human nature, which he pretends to explain, or very knowing in what is naturally satisfactory to the mind of man.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000017_000001|For nothing is more certain, than that despair has almost the same effect upon us with enjoyment, and that we are no sooner acquainted with the impossibility of satisfying any desire, than the desire itself vanishes.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000000|But if this impossibility of explaining ultimate principles should be esteemed a defect in the science of man, I will venture to affirm, that it is a defect common to it with all the sciences, and all the arts, in which we can employ ourselves, whether they be such as are cultivated in the schools of the philosophers, or practised in the shops of the meanest artizans.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000002|Moral philosophy has, indeed, this peculiar disadvantage, which is not found in natural, that in collecting its experiments, it cannot make them purposely, with premeditation, and after such a manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty which may be.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000003|When I am at a loss to know the effects of one body upon another in any situation, I need only put them in that situation, and observe what results from it.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000004|But should I endeavour to clear up after the same manner any doubt in moral philosophy, by placing myself in the same case with that which I consider, it is evident this reflection and premeditation would so disturb the operation of my natural principles, as must render it impossible to form any just conclusion from the phenomenon.
train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000005|We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000001_000000|PART one OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION, etc
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000000|All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000001|The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000002|Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions: and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000003|By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning; such as, for instance, are all the perceptions excited by the present discourse, excepting only those which arise from the sight and touch, and excepting the immediate pleasure or uneasiness it may occasion.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000005|Every one of himself will readily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000007|Thus in sleep, in a fever, in madness, or in any very violent emotions of soul, our ideas may approach to our impressions, As on the other hand it sometimes happens, that our impressions are so faint and low, that we cannot distinguish them from our ideas.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000008|But notwithstanding this near resemblance in a few instances, they are in general so very different, that no one can make a scruple to rank them under distinct heads, and assign to each a peculiar name to mark the difference [Footnote one.].
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000004_000001|I here make use of these terms, impression and idea, in a sense different from what is usual, and I hope this liberty will be allowed me.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000004_000002|Perhaps I rather restore the word, idea, to its original sense, from which Mr LOCKE had perverted it, in making it stand for all our perceptions.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000005_000001|This division is into SIMPLE and COMPLEX.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000005_000004|Though a particular colour, taste, and smell, are qualities all united together in this apple, it is easy to perceive they are not the same, but are at least distinguishable from each other.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000002|The one seem to be in a manner the reflexion of the other; so that all the perceptions of the mind are double, and appear both as impressions and ideas.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000003|When I shut my eyes and think of my chamber, the ideas I form are exact representations of the impressions I felt; nor is there any circumstance of the one, which is not to be found in the other.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000004|In running over my other perceptions, I find still the same resemblance and representation. Ideas and impressions appear always to correspond to each other.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000005|This circumstance seems to me remarkable, and engages my attention for a moment.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000007_000000|Upon a more accurate survey I find I have been carried away too far by the first appearance, and that I must make use of the distinction of perceptions into simple and complex, to limit this general decision, that all our ideas and impressions are resembling.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000008_000001|We may next consider how the case stands with our simple, perceptions.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000008_000002|After the most accurate examination, of which I am capable, I venture to affirm, that the rule here holds without any exception, and that every simple idea has a simple impression, which resembles it, and every simple impression a correspondent idea.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000008_000004|That the case is the same with all our simple impressions and ideas, it is impossible to prove by a particular enumeration of them.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000010_000000|The full examination of this question is the subject of the present treatise; and therefore we shall here content ourselves with establishing one general proposition, THAT ALL OUR SIMPLE IDEAS IN THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ARE DERIVED FROM SIMPLE IMPRESSIONS, WHICH ARE CORRESPONDENT TO THEM, AND WHICH THEY EXACTLY REPRESENT.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000000|In seeking for phenomena to prove this proposition, I find only those of two kinds; but in each kind the phenomena are obvious, numerous, and conclusive.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000001|I first make myself certain, by a new, review, of what I have already asserted, that every simple impression is attended with a correspondent idea, and every simple idea with a correspondent impression.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000003|Such a constant conjunction, in such an infinite number of instances, can never arise from chance; but clearly proves a dependence of the impressions on the ideas, or of the ideas on the impressions.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000004|That I may know on which side this dependence lies, I consider the order of their first appearance; and find by constant experience, that the simple impressions always take the precedence of their correspondent ideas, but never appear in the contrary order.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000005|To give a child an idea of scarlet or orange, of sweet or bitter, I present the objects, or in other words, convey to him these impressions; but proceed not so absurdly, as to endeavour to produce the impressions by exciting the ideas.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000006|Our ideas upon their appearance produce not their correspondent impressions, nor do we perceive any colour, or feel any sensation merely upon thinking of them.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000012_000000|To confirm this I consider Another plain and convincing phaenomenon; which is, that, where ever by any accident the faculties, which give rise to any impressions, are obstructed in their operations, as when one is born blind or deaf; not only the impressions are lost, but also their correspondent ideas; so that there never appear in the mind the least traces of either of them.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000012_000002|We cannot form to ourselves a just idea of the taste of a pine apple, without having actually tasted it.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000013_000002|Now if this be true of different colours, it must be no less so of the different shades of the same colour, that each of them produces a distinct idea, independent of the rest.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000013_000003|For if this should be denied, it is possible, by the continual gradation of shades, to run a colour insensibly into what is most remote from it; and if you will not allow any of the means to be different, you cannot without absurdity deny the extremes to be the same.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000013_000004|Suppose therefore a person to have enjoyed his sight for thirty years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with colours of all kinds, excepting one particular shade of blue, for instance, which it never has been his fortune to meet with.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000014_000001|Ideas produce the images of themselves in new ideas; but as the first ideas are supposed to be derived from impressions, it still remains true, that all our simple ideas proceed either mediately or immediately, from their correspondent impressions.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000015_000000|This then is the first principle I establish in the science of human nature; nor ought we to despise it because of the simplicity of its appearance.
train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000015_000002|We may observe, that in order to prove the ideas of extension and colour not to be innate, philosophers do nothing but shew that they are conveyed by our senses.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000003_000000|But the youngest wished something better still.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000004_000000|So, when they had all wished their wishes, the two elder were for setting out to see the world; and Boots, their youngest brother, asked if he mightn't go along with them; but they wouldn't hear of such a thing.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000005_000000|'Wherever we go', they said, 'we shall be treated as counts and kings; but you, you starveling wretch, who haven't a penny, and never will have one, who do you think will care a bit about you?'
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000007_000000|At last, after begging and praying, he got leave to go with them, if he would be their servant, else they wouldn't hear of it.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000017_000000|'I don't care a farthing for such a pack of rubbish', said the wife; 'if they don't like what they get they may lump it, and eat what they brought with them.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000020_000000|'Into the kitchen with you, and don't stand glowering after lads', he said.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000025_000001|But Boots, he had to stand outside here too, and look after the things in the carriage.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000000|'Well! well!' she said, 'as for them, I don't care a pin.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000001|If they can't wait till the custards are baked, they may go without-that's all.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000005|Oh! what a darling!
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000006|What a darling!'
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000030_000000|So the wife had off to her custards as fast as she could, for she knew that her husband would stand no nonsense; but as she stood there over the fire she stole out into the yard, and gave Boots a tap.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000031_000000|'If you only turn this tap', she said; 'you'll get the finest drink of whatever kind you choose, both mead, and wine, and brandy; and this you shall have because you are so handsome.'
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000032_000004|This the king had ordered, because he wouldn't have the mirth at the palace spoilt by those dirty blackguards; and thither, too, only just as much food as would keep body and soul together was sent over everyday.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000032_000005|Now Boots' brothers saw very well that the guard was rowing him over to the island, but they were glad to be rid of him, and didn't pay the least heed to him.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000033_000000|But when Boots got over there, he just pulled out his scissors and began to snip and cut in the air; so the scissors cut out the finest clothes any one would wish to see; silk and satin both, and all the beggars on the island were soon dressed far finer than the king and all his guests in the palace.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000033_000001|After that, Boots pulled out his table cloth, and spread it out, and so they got food too, the poor beggars. Such a feast had never been seen at the king's palace, as was served that day at the Beggars' Isle.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000037_000000|'And as for the porridge and cheese we took, they wouldn't even taste them, so proud have they got', they said.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000038_000000|One of them, too, had smelt out that the lad had a pair of scissors which he cut out the clothes with.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000039_000000|'When he only snips with those scissors up in the air he snips and cuts out nothing but silk and satin', said he.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000040_000000|So, when the Princess heard that, she had neither peace nor rest till she saw the lad and his scissors that cut out silk and satin from the air; such a pair was worth having, she thought, for with its help she would soon get all the finery she wished for.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000040_000001|Well, she begged the king so long and hard, he was forced to send a messenger for the lad who owned the scissors; and when he came to the palace, the Princess asked him if it were true that he had such and such a pair of scissors, and if he would sell it to her.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000040_000002|Yes, it was all true he had such a pair, said Boots, but sell it he wouldn't; and with that he took the scissors out of his pocket, and snipped and snipped with them in the air till strips of silk and satin flew all about him.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000043_000000|'No! sell them I won't', said Boots; 'but all the same, if I can get leave to sleep one night on the floor of the Princess' bedroom, close by the door, I'll give her the scissors.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000044_000000|Yes! the Princess was glad enough to give him leave, for she was ready to grant him anything if she only got the scissors.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000044_000001|So Boots lay on the floor inside the Princess' bedroom that night, and two men stood watch there too; but the Princess didn't get much rest after all; for when she ought to have been asleep, she must open her eyes to look at Boots, and so it went on the whole night.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000045_000001|But one of those who brought the food contrived to smell out that the lad who had owned the scissors owned also a table cloth, which he only needed to spread out, and it was covered with all the good things he could wish for.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000045_000002|So when he got back to the palace, he wasn't long before he said:
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000046_000000|'Such hot joints and such custards I never saw the like of in the king's palace.'
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000047_000001|The Princess must and would have the cloth of him, and offered him gold and green woods for it, but Boots wouldn't sell it at any price.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000048_000000|'But if I may have leave to lie on the bench by the Princess' bed side to night, she shall have the cloth; but if she's afraid, she is welcome to set four men to watch inside the room.'
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000049_000000|Yes! the Princess agreed to this, so Boots lay down on the bench by the bed side, and the four men watched; but if the Princess hadn't much sleep the night before, she had much less this, for she could scarce get a wink of sleep; there she lay wide awake looking at the lovely lad the whole night through, and after all, the night seemed too short.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000050_000003|So when he came back to the palace, he couldn't keep his mouth shut this time any more than before; he went about telling high and low about the tap, and how easy it was to draw all sorts of drink out of it.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000052_000000|So when the Princess heard that, she was all for getting the tap, and was nothing loath to strike a bargain with the owner either.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000053_000000|So when Boots came up to the palace, the Princess asked whether it were true he had a tap which could do such and such things?
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000053_000001|'Yes! he had such a tap in his waistcoat pocket', said Boots; but when the Princess wished with all her might to buy it, Boots said, as he had said twice before, he wouldn't sell it, even if the Princess bade half the kingdom for it.
train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000054_000000|'But all the same', said Boots; 'if I may have leave to sleep on the Princess' bed to night, outside the quilt, she shall have my tap. I'll not do her any harm; but, if she's afraid, she may set eight men to watch in her room.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000004_000000|'Will you come and serve me?' said the man.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000009_000001|If you do, I'll take your life when I come back.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000010_000001|But when the man had been gone three or four days, the lad couldn't bear it any longer, but went into the first room, and when he got inside he looked round, but he saw nothing but a shelf over the door where a bramble bush rod lay.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000012_000000|So when the eight days were out, the man came home, and the first thing he said was:
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000014_000000|'No, no; that I haven't', said the lad.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000017_000000|Then the lad begged and prayed so hard that he got off with his life, but the man gave him a good thrashing.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000018_000000|Some time after the man set off again, and said he should be away fourteen days; but before he went he forbade the lad to go into any of the rooms he had not been in before; as for that he had been in, he might go into that, and welcome.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000018_000002|In this room, too, he saw nothing but a shelf over the door, and a big stone, and a pitcher of water on it.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000019_000000|But when the man came back, he asked if he had been into any of the rooms.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000019_000001|No, the lad hadn't done anything of the kind.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000022_000001|Then after fourteen days the lad couldn't bear it, but crept into the room, but he saw nothing at all in there but a trap door on the floor; and when he lifted it up and looked down, there stood a great copper cauldron which bubbled and boiled away down there; but he saw no fire under it.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000023_000000|'Well, I should just like to know if it's hot,' thought the lad, and stuck his finger down into the broth, and when he pulled it out again, lo! it was gilded all over.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000023_000001|So the lad scraped and scrubbed it, but the gilding wouldn't go off, so he bound a piece of rag round it; and when the man came back, and asked what was the matter with his finger, the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000023_000002|But the man tore off the rag, and then he soon saw what was the matter with the finger.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000024_000000|So after a while the man started off again, and this time he was to be away a month.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000024_000001|But before he went, he said to the lad, if he went into the fourth room he might give up all hope of saving his life.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000025_000002|Then the lad thought this all wrong, so he changed them about, and put the hay at his head.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000026_000000|'Since you are so good at heart as to let me have some food, I'll set you free, that I will.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000026_000001|For if the Troll comes back and finds you here, he'll kill you outright.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000026_000002|But now you must go up to the room which lies just over this, and take a coat of mail out of those that hang there; and mind, whatever you do, don't take any of the bright ones, but the most rusty of all you see, that's the one to take; and sword and saddle you must choose for yourself just in the same way.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000028_000000|When he came back, the Horse told him to pull off his clothes and get into the cauldron which stood and boiled in the other room, and bathe himself there.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000028_000001|'If I do', thought the lad, 'I shall look an awful fright'; but for all that, he did as he was told.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000028_000002|So when he had taken his bath, he became so handsome and sleek, and as red and white as milk and blood, and much stronger than he had been before.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000029_000000|'Do you feel any change?' asked the Horse.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000031_000000|'Try to lift me, then', said the Horse.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000032_000000|Oh yes! he could do that, and as for the sword, he brandished it like a feather.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000033_000000|'Now saddle me', said the Horse, 'and put on the coat of mail, and then take the bramble bush rod, and the stone, and the pitcher of water, and the pot of ointment, and then we'll be off as fast as we can.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000034_000000|So when the lad had got on the horse, off they went at such a rate, he couldn't at all tell how they went.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000035_000000|'I think I hear a noise; look round! can you see anything?'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000036_000000|'Yes; there are ever so many coming after us, at least a score', said the lad.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000037_000000|'Aye, aye, that's the Troll coming', said the Horse; 'now he's after us with his pack.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000039_000000|'Now throw your bramble bush rod behind you, over your shoulder', said the Horse; 'but mind you throw it a good way off my back.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000040_000000|So the lad did that, and all at once a close, thick bramble wood grew up behind them.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000040_000002|But at last, the Horse said again.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000041_000000|'Look behind you! can you see anything now?'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000042_000000|'Yes, ever so many', said the lad, 'as many as would fill a large church.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000043_000000|'Aye, aye, that's the Troll and his crew', said the Horse; 'now he's got more to back him; but now throw down the stone, and mind you throw it far behind me.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000044_000000|And as soon as the lad did what the Horse said, up rose a great black hill of rock behind him.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000044_000002|But still the Horse begged him to look behind him, and then he saw a troop like a whole army behind him, and they glistened in the sunbeams.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000045_000000|'Aye, aye', said the Horse, 'that's the Troll, and now he's got his whole band with him, so throw the pitcher of water behind you, but mind you don't spill any of it upon me.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000046_000000|So the lad did that; but in spite of all the pains he took, he still spilt one drop on the horse's flank.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000046_000001|So it became a great deep lake; and because of that one drop, the horse found himself far out in it, but still he swam safe to land.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000046_000002|But when the Trolls came to the lake, they lay down to drink it dry; and so they swilled and swilled till they burst.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000048_000000|So when they had gone a long, long while, they came to a green patch in a wood.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000049_000000|'Now, strip off all your arms', said the Horse, 'and only put on your ragged clothes, and take the saddle off me, and let me loose, and hang all my clothing and your arms up inside that great hollow lime tree yonder.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000049_000001|Then make yourself a wig of fir moss, and go up to the king's palace, which lies close here, and ask for a place.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000049_000002|Whenever you need me, only come here and shake the bridle, and I'll come to you.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000050_000001|Then he went up to the king's palace and begged first for leave to be in the kitchen, and bring in wood and water for the cook, but then the kitchen maid asked him:
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000052_000000|'No, I can't do that', said the lad; 'for I'm not quite right in my head.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000054_000001|'You'd best go down to the gardener', said he; 'you're best fit to go about and dig in the garden.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000055_000000|So he got leave to be with the gardener, but none of the other servants would sleep with him, and so he had to sleep by himself under the steps of the summerhouse.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000055_000001|It stood upon beams, and had a high staircase.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000055_000002|Under that he got some turf for his bed, and there he lay as well as he could.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000056_000000|So, when he had been some time at the palace, it happened one morning, just as the sun rose, that the lad had taken off his wig, and stood and washed himself, and then he was so handsome, it was a joy to look at him.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000061_000000|'Do you think I'll do any such thing?' said the lad.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000061_000001|'Why they'd say next there was something between me and the Princess.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000064_000000|So, when he was to go up the steps in the evening, he tramped and stamped so on the way, that they had to beg him to tread softly lest the King should come to know it.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000064_000001|So he came into the Princess' bedroom, lay down, and began to snore at once.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000065_000000|'Go gently, and just pull his wig off'; and she went up to him.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000066_000001|After that he lay down again, and began to snore.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000066_000002|Then the Princess gave her maid a wink, and this time she whisked off the wig; and there lay the lad so lovely, and white and red, just as the Princess had seen him in the morning sun
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000067_000000|After that the lad slept every night in the Princess' bedroom.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000068_000002|All that she begged, and all that she prayed, for the lad and herself, was no good.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000068_000003|The King was only more wroth than ever.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000069_000003|So he got that, and an old broken down hack besides, which went upon three legs and dragged the fourth after it.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000070_000000|Then they went out to meet the foe; but they hadn't got far from the palace before the lad got stuck fast in a bog with his hack.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000070_000001|There he sat and dug his spurs in, and cried, 'Gee up, gee up!' to his hack. And all the rest had their fun out of this, and laughed, and made game of the lad as they rode past him.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000071_000000|But when the lad came up the battle had begun, and the king was in a sad pinch; but no sooner had the lad rushed into the thick of it than the foe was beaten back, and put to flight.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000073_000001|Every one wondered what strange champion it could be that had helped them, but no one got so near him as to say a word to him; and no one guessed it could be the lad; that's easy to understand.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000074_000000|So when they went home at night, and saw the lad still sitting there on his hack, they burst out laughing at him again, and one of them shot an arrow at him and hit him in the leg.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000074_000001|So he began to shriek and to bewail; 'twas enough to break one's heart; and so the king threw his pocket handkerchief to him to bind his wound.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000076_000000|'Gee up! gee up!' he said to his hack.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000077_000000|'Nay, nay', said the king's men; 'if he won't stick there till he's starved to death.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000078_000000|And then they rode on, and laughed at him till they were fit to fall from their horses.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000078_000001|When they were gone, he ran again to the lime, and came up to the battle just in the very nick of time.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000078_000002|This day he slew the enemy's king, and then the war was over at once.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000081_000000|Then he took the pot of ointment and rubbed himself on the leg, and after that he rubbed all the wounded, and so they all got well again in a moment.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000083_000000|'Now I have helped you on, and now I won't live any longer.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000083_000001|So just take the sword, and cut my head off.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000085_000000|'Well', said the Horse, 'If you don't do as I tell you, see if I don't take your life somehow.'
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000086_000001|But as soon as ever he had cut off the head, there stood the loveliest Prince on the spot where the horse had stood.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000087_000000|'Why, where in all the world did you come from?' asked the king.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000088_000001|He it was who threw this Troll's shape over me, and sold me to the Troll.
train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000088_000002|But now he is slain I get my own again, and you and I will be neighbour kings, but war we will never make on one another.'
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000001_000000|TORNADOES
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000002_000001|Keep your radio or television set tuned to a local station for information and advice from your local government or the Weather Bureau.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000002_000002|Also, keep watching the sky, especially to the south and southwest.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000002_000003|(When a tornado watch is announced during the approach of a hurricane, however, keep watching the sky to the east.) If you see any revolving, funnel shaped clouds, report them by telephone immediately to your local police department, sheriff's office or Weather Bureau office.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000003_000001|The warning means that a tornado has actually been sighted, and this (or other tornadoes) may strike in your vicinity.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000003_000003|Your best protection is an underground shelter or cave, or a substantial steel framed or reinforced concrete building. But if none of these is available, there are other places where you can take refuge:
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000004_000001|If not, go to a corner of your home basement and take cover under a sturdy workbench or table (but not underneath heavy appliances on the floor above).
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000004_000002|If your home has no basement, take cover under heavy furniture on the ground floor in the center part of the house, or in a small room on the ground floor that is away from outside walls and windows.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000004_000004|Do not remain in a trailer or mobile home if a tornado is approaching; take cover elsewhere.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000005_000001|In a factory, go to a shelter area, or to the basement if there is one.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000006_000001|If there isn't time to do this-or if you are walking-take cover and lie flat in the nearest depression, such as a ditch, culvert, excavation, or ravine.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000007_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000008_000000|WINTER STORMS
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000009_000000|Here is advice that will help you protect yourself and your family against the hazards of winter storms-blizzards, heavy snows, ice storms, freezing rain, or sleet.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000010_000001|Use your radio, television and newspapers to keep informed of current weather conditions and forecasts in your area.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000010_000003|You should also understand the terms commonly used in weather forecasts:
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000011_000001|It combines cold air, heavy snow, and strong winds that blow the snow about and may reduce visibility to only a few yards.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000015_000001|If you live in a rural area, make sure you could survive at home for a week or two in case a storm isolated you and made it impossible for you to leave.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000015_000002|You should:
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000000|--Keep an adequate supply of heating fuel on hand and use it sparingly, as your regular supplies may be curtailed by storm conditions.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000001|If necessary, conserve fuel by keeping the house cooler than usual, or by "closing off" some rooms temporarily.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000003|This could be a camp stove with fuel, or a supply of wood or coal if you have a fireplace.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000004|If your furnace is controlled by a thermostat and your electricity is cut off by a storm, the furnace probably would not operate and you would need emergency heat.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000017_000000|--Stock an emergency supply of food and water, as well as emergency cooking equipment such as a camp stove.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000017_000001|Some of this food should be of the type that does not require refrigeration or cooking.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000018_000000|--Make sure you have a battery powered radio and extra batteries on hand, so that if your electric power is cut off you could still hear weather forecasts, information and advice broadcast by local authorities.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000018_000001|Also, flashlights or lanterns would be needed.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000019_000000|--Consult page seventy two of this handbook for other supplies and equipment that you may need if isolated at home.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000019_000001|Be sure to keep on hand the simple tools and equipment needed to fight a fire.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000019_000002|Also, be certain that all family members know how to take precautions that would prevent fire at such a time, when the help of the fire department may not be available.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000020_000001|Avoid all unnecessary trips.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000020_000002|If you must travel, use public transportation if possible.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000020_000003|However, if you are forced to use your automobile for a trip of any distance, take these precautions:
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000021_000000|--Make sure your car is in good operating condition, properly serviced, and equipped with chains or snow tires.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000022_000000|--Take another person with you if possible.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000023_000000|--Make sure someone knows where you are going, your approximate schedule, and your estimated time of arrival at your destination.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000024_000000|--Have emergency "winter storm supplies" in the car, such as a container of sand, shovel, windshield scraper, tow chain or rope, extra gasoline, and a flashlight.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000024_000001|It also is good to have with you heavy gloves or mittens, overshoes, extra woolen socks, and winter headgear to cover your head and face.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000025_000000|--Travel by daylight and use major highways if you can.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000025_000001|Keep the car radio turned on for weather information and advice.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000026_000000|--Drive with all possible caution.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000026_000001|Don't try to save time by travelling faster than road and weather conditions permit.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000027_000000|--Don't be daring or foolhardy.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000027_000001|Stop, turn back, or seek help if conditions threaten that may test your ability or endurance, rather than risk being stalled, lost or isolated.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000001|If your car breaks down during a storm, or if you become stalled or lost, don't panic.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000002|Think the problem through, decide what's the safest and best thing to do, and then do it slowly and carefully.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000003|If you are on a well traveled road, show a trouble signal.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000004|Set your directional lights to flashing, raise the hood of your car, or hang a cloth from the radio aerial or car window.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000005|Then stay in your car and wait for help to arrive.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000006|If you run the engine to keep warm, remember to open a window enough to provide ventilation and protect you from carbon monoxide poisoning.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000029_000000|Wherever you are, if there is no house or other source of help in sight, do not leave your car to search for assistance, as you may become confused and get lost.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000030_000001|Every winter many unnecessary deaths occur because people-especially older persons, but younger ones as well-engage in more strenuous physical activity than their bodies can stand.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000030_000003|If you add to this physical exercise, especially exercise that you are not accustomed to-such as shovelling snow, pushing an automobile, or even walking fast or far-you are risking a heart attack, a stroke, or other damage to your body.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000030_000004|In winter weather, and especially in winter storms, be aware of this danger, and avoid overexertion.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000031_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000032_000000|EARTHQUAKES
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000033_000000|If your area is one of the places in the United States where earthquakes occur, keep these points in mind:
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000034_000001|Don't run or panic.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000034_000002|If you take the proper precautions, the chances are you will not be hurt.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000035_000000|--REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000035_000001|If you are outdoors, stay outdoors; if indoors, stay indoors.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000035_000002|In earthquakes, most injuries occur as people are entering or leaving buildings (from falling walls, electric wires, etc).
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000036_000000|--If you are indoors, sit or stand against an inside wall (preferably in the basement), or in an inside doorway; or else take cover under a desk, table or bench (in case the wall or ceiling should fall).
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000036_000001|Stay away from windows and outside doors.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000037_000000|--If you are outdoors, stay away from overhead electric wires, poles or anything else that might shake loose and fall (such as the cornices of tall buildings).
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000038_000001|Remain in the car until the disturbance subsides.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000038_000002|When you drive on, watch for hazards created by the earthquake, such as fallen or falling objects, downed electric wires, and broken or undermined roadways.
train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000039_000000|AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000012_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000013_000000|ESTER'S HOME.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000014_000000|She did not look very much as if she were asleep, nor acted as though she expected to get a chance to be very soon.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000014_000001|There was no end to the things which she had to do, for the kitchen was long and wide, and took many steps to set it in order, and it was drawing toward tea time of a Tuesday evening, and there were fifteen boarders who were, most of them, punctual to a minute.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000016_000000|So Ester hurried to and from the pantry, with quick, nervous movements, as the sun went toward the west, saying to Maggie who was ironing with all possible speed:
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000017_000001|Then: "No, no, Birdie, don't touch!" in quite a different tone to Minnie, who laid loving hands on a box of raisins.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000020_000000|Sadie Ried opened the door that led from the dining room to the kitchen, and peeped in a thoughtless young head, covered with bright brown curls:
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000021_000000|"How are you, Ester?"
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000022_000000|And she emerged fully into the great warm kitchen, looking like a bright flower picked from the garden, and put out of place.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000022_000001|Her pink gingham dress, and white, ruffled apron-yes, and the very school books which she swung by their strap, waking a smothered sigh in Ester's heart.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000023_000000|"O, my patience!" was her greeting.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000024_000001|Then school is out".
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000025_000001|"We've been down to the river since school."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000026_000000|"Sadie, won't you come and cut the beef and cake, and make the tea?
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000026_000001|I did not know it was so late, and I'm nearly tired to death."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000027_000000|Sadie looked sober.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000027_000002|Besides, mr Hammond said he would show me about my algebra if I'd go out on the piazza this minute."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000029_000000|"Here, Julia"--to the ten year old newcomer-"Go away from that raisin box, this minute.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000029_000001|Go up stairs out of my way, and Alfred too. Sadie, take Minnie with you; I can't have her here another instant. You can afford to do that much, perhaps."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000030_000000|"O, Ester, you're cross!" said Sadie, in a good humored tone, coming forward after the little girl.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000031_000000|"Come, Birdie, Auntie Essie's cross, isn't she?
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000032_000000|And Minnie-Ester's darling, who never received other than loving words from her-went gleefully off, leaving another heartburn to the weary girl.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000033_000000|Back and forth, from dining room to pantry, from pantry to dining room, went the quick feet At last she spoke:
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000035_000000|"I'm just ironing mr Holland's shirt," objected Maggie.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000037_000000|The tall clock in the dining room struck five, and the dining bell pealed out its prompt summons through the house.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000037_000002|There was a moment's hush while mr Hammond asked a blessing on the food; then the merry talk went on.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000038_000000|"This has been one of the scorching days," mr Holland said.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000038_000001|"It was as much as I could do to keep cool in the store, and we generally ARE well off for a breeze there."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000039_000001|"I gave it up long ago in despair."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000040_000000|Ester's lip curled a little.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000040_000001|mrs Holland had nothing in the world to do, from morning until night, but to keep herself cool.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000041_000000|"Miss Ester looks as though the heat had been too much for her cheeks," mrs Brookley said, laughing.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000042_000000|"Something besides keeping cool," Ester answered soberly.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000043_000000|"Which is a difficult thing to do, however," dr Van Anden said, speaking soberly too.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000044_000000|"I don't know, sir; if I had nothing to do but that, I think I could manage it."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000045_000000|"I have found trouble sometimes in keeping myself at the right temperature even in January."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000046_000000|Ester's cheeks glowed yet more.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000046_000001|She understood dr Van Anden, and she knew her face did not look very self controlled.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000046_000002|No one knows what prompted Minnie to speak just then.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000047_000001|Were you, Auntie Essie?"
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000048_000000|The household laughed, and Sadie came to the rescue.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000049_000000|"Why, Minnie! you must not tell what Aunt Sadie says.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000051_000000|Sadie hovered around the pale, sad faced woman while she ate.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000052_000001|I've been worried half to pieces about you all day."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000053_000000|"O, yes; I'm better.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000053_000001|Ester, you look dreadfully tired.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000053_000002|Have you much more to do?"
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000054_000000|"Only to trim the lamps, and make three beds that I had not time for this morning, and get things ready for breakfast, and finish Sadie's dress."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000055_000000|"Can't Maggie do any of these things?"
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000056_000000|"Maggie is ironing."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000057_000000|mrs Ried sighed.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000057_000002|Sadie, are you going to the lyceum tonight?"
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000058_000000|"Yes, ma'am.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000058_000002|Ester, can't you go down?
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000058_000003|Never mind that dress; let it go to Guinea."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000059_000000|"You wouldn't think so by to morrow evening," Ester said, shortly. "No, I can't go."
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000060_000000|The work was all done at last, and Ester betook herself to her room. How tired she was!
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000060_000001|Every nerve seemed to quiver with weariness.
train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000061_000000|It was a pleasant little room, this one which she entered, with its low windows looking out toward the river, and its cosy furniture all neatly arranged by Sadie's tasteful fingers.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000002_000000|A COUNTRY WITH A THOUSAND RIVERS-VENEZUELA
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000000|Years ago two miners worked together for months and finally came to know each other as Tom and Jack.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000001|One day Tom was not well and could not do much but watch Jack dig.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000002|After noting some movements of the body that seemed familiar he said: "Jack, where did you come from?" The two men sat down and talked of boyhood days and found that they were born in the same community and had played together when they were small boys.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000003|Here they had worked together for months without knowing that they were neighbors; they actually got up and shook hands with each other.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000000|Venezuela is our nearest neighbor to the south.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000001|This country is nearer to Florida than New Orleans is to New York and yet we have lived side by side for four hundred years and hardly knew we were neighbors.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000002|We might have been friends and greatly assisted each other all these years.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000003|Is it not about time we were getting acquainted and shaking hands with each other?
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000000|It is surprising to know that Venezuela is as large as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, the two Virginias, North and South Carolina and Georgia combined.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000001|It is a country that has a thousand rivers.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000002|In some parts of it you can travel for days in regions where as yet no white man has ever set his foot.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000003|One writer says that of all the countries in the world Venezuela is the one for which God has done the most and man has done the least.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000001|Its treasury has been looted again and again.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000002|Even the president of Venezuela was for years a criminal.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000003|He robbed merchants of other countries who tried to do business with his government.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000004|He imprisoned those who refused to assist him and ran things in a high handed way.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000005|Business firms of other lands found this out and did not care to do business with such a country or help develop its resources in any way.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000007_000000|We are not ashamed of our revolution in seventeen seventy six for its purpose was to gain our independence.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000007_000001|During the past seventy or eighty years Venezuela has had more than a half hundred revolutions but generally they were gotten up to give an excuse for pillage and robbery rather than to make a better country or government.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000007_000002|Things are better now, however, and a new day is dawning for these unhappy people.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000000|The main port or entrance to this country is La Guaira and sailors say it is about the worst port to enter in the world.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000001|This port city contains about fifteen thousand people and has but a single street.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000002|The high mountains are so near the sea that there is only a narrow strip of land at the foot and on this narrow strip the city is built.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000003|The sea is nearly always rough and the weather always hot.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000004|How people can endure such extreme heat all the time is a mystery.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000000|All along this coast strip of Venezuela are plantations generally covered with cocoa trees.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000001|From the beans of this tree are made cocoa and chocolate.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000002|Coffee is also a staple crop.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000003|At the piers will be noticed bags of coffee and cocoa beans, great quantities of rubber and piles of hides.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000004|As we are nearer to them than other foreign countries we now use much of their products.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000005|The population of this great country is only a little more than that of the state of Iowa.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000001|This city, Caracas, is about as large as Sioux city iowa, but to get to it is some job.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000002|It is only about twenty five miles by rail and this railroad was about as difficult to build as any of our mountain railroads.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000003|The tracks cling to the mountain sides almost like vines cling to brick walls, and the curves are so short that one riding in the end coach can nearly reach the engineer.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000004|One can look hundreds of feet into caverns and gorges that seem almost like the bottomless pit.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000011_000000|Venezuela got its name from Venice, Italy, in the following way.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000012_000000|Here lived Las Casas, a priest who was the Indian's greatest champion in the early days and who is said to be the father of African Slavery in the new world.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000012_000001|It was he who suggested that negroes be imported to labor in the fields and mines that the Indians might have an easier time. Brought from Africa to work that the Indians might rest, these black people became the slaves of all.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000013_000001|Even the coins of the old days were stamped with Bolivar's name and everywhere he is revered as the George Washington of that country.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000014_000000|In one of the large museums is a room in which are kept the great liberator's clothing, saddle, boots and spears and these things are as sacred to them as the Ark of the Covenant was to the Jews.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000014_000001|In this same room is a portrait of Washington upon which is the inscription: "This picture of the liberator of North America is sent by his adopted son to him who acquired equal glory in South America."
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000015_000000|Through this country runs one of the world's greatest rivers, the Orinoco, which with its tributaries furnishes more than four thousand miles of navigable rivers.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000015_000001|This great river system drains a territory of three hundred and sixty thousand square miles.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000016_000000|It is rather strange that in this country with lovely and productive valleys whose irrigated orchards and gardens make a regular paradise, that the farming classes should be poor and ignorant, without ambition or education and be satisfied to live in comfortless, tumble down huts without furniture or any of the improvements that make life worth living.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000016_000002|Here where there are millions of coffee trees, fields of sugar cane and orchards of oranges, lemons and all kinds of tropical fruit, where the farmer could be happiest, he is about the most miserable creature that could be found.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000016_000003|In his miserable home he has no lamp or candle, no books or papers of any sort.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000017_000001|This is asphalt, or mineral pitch as it is sometimes called.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000017_000002|This makes the smoothest street paving of any material known.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000017_000003|It is also used extensively for calking vessels, making waterproof roofs, lining cold storage plants, making varnishes as well as shoe blacking as well as in a hundred other ways.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000018_000000|At the mouth of the Orinoco river is the Island of Trinidad upon which is the famous pitch lake.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000018_000001|This is the most noted deposit of asphalt known.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000018_000002|This lake is a mile and a half across and looks, from a distance, like a pond surrounded with trees.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000019_000000|This material is of a dark green color and at the border is hard and strong enough to bear quite a heavy weight, but near the center it is almost like a boiling mass.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000019_000001|The asphalt is dug from the edges of the lake, loaded on carts, hauled to the port and from there shipped to nearly every country on the globe.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000019_000002|Two hundred thousand tons per year have been taken from the lake and yet there is no hole to be seen.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000020_000000|The government of Trinidad has leased the asphalt lake to an American company and the income amounts to nearly a quarter of a million dollars per year.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000020_000001|Nobody knows how deep the asphalt bed is for borings have been made a hundred feet or more deep and there was no bottom.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000020_000002|The heat is intense all around this lake.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000021_000001|Some believe that the two deposits are connected by a subterranean passage and supplied from the same source.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000021_000002|It was from this inland lake of asphalt that the material was procured to protect the New York subway tunnels from moisture, so it is said.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000022_000001|The chief industry here is cattle raising.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000022_000002|More than two million head of cattle feed, upon these llanos, but they are capable of feeding many times that number.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000023_000000|One reason why the people of this country have no ambition to lay up for the future or even get large herds of cattle has been because of the numerous revolutions of the past.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000023_000001|Every time they have succeeded in getting large herds of cattle or stores of grain a revolution would come and their property be seized and often destroyed.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000024_000000|No people can be prosperous and happy without a stable government, schools and colleges and the influences that are uplifting.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000024_000001|This is the great need of many of the countries of South America today.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000024_000002|Just here it is well for the farmers of this country to congratulate themselves.
train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000025_000000|It is therefore with pride that one can say that considering all the complex problems with which the American farmer has to grapple, he is a hundred times better off than his brother farmers in any country in the world.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000002_000000|THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT-PHILIPPINES
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000003_000000|Of all the islands in the eastern seas, none are more interesting than our own Philippines.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000004_000000|This is a land where the storms of winter never blow but where from month to month and age to age there is good old summer time.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000004_000001|Children are born, grow to manhood, old age, and die without ever seeing fire to keep them warm for they never need it.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000004_000002|A range of twenty degrees is about all that the spirits in the thermometer ever show, for the minimum is seventy two and the maximum ninety two degrees.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000000|About the most unpleasant feature is the little tiny ants.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000001|They find their way into everything.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000002|Table legs must be placed in jars of water and yet they find their way to the top of the tables.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000003|Then there is dampness everywhere.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000004|Books soon become mildewed or unglued and the finest library will soon have the appearance of a secondhand bookshop.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000006_000001|I drove out from Manila to the home of mr Lyon, who is a regular Burbank. He located on some of the worst soil to be found and undertook to demonstrate that anything that will grow on any spot on the earth will grow there and he practically succeeded.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000007_000000|The story of how these islands came into our possession is still fresh and vivid in the memory of thousands.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000008_000000|The transformation brought about since that memorable day is almost unbelievable.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000008_000005|This force is somewhat similar to the mounted police system of Saskatchewan in Canada and is a terror to evil doers.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000009_000002|The number of cases of small pox has been reduced from forty thousand to a few hundred per year.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000009_000004|With a dozen or more great hospitals and more than three hundred boards of health, great things have been accomplished.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000010_000002|America was criticised and even ridiculed for her altruism in dealing with this problem.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000010_000003|The idea of training tropical people for independence was thought to be idealistic and impracticable.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000011_000001|The city contains an area of more than fifteen square miles and is more densely populated per mile of street than New York.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000011_000004|The river and dirty canals divided and subdivided the city.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000011_000005|There was practically no water system and disease and death lurked in almost every shadow.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000012_000000|Now the city is fast becoming one of the world's great cities and one of the most healthful cities on the globe.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000012_000001|The streets have been widened, many of them, and are kept clean.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000012_000002|A water system brings pure water to almost every household and a great sewer system takes away the filth. The Manila Hotel is worth a million and a park or square on the water front covers hundreds of acres of ground.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000013_000000|The great y m c a buildings were thronged as in no other city the writer ever visited.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000013_000002|This prison covers seventeen acres of ground, making it one of the largest in the world. Many of its fifty buildings are built around a circle and in the tower at the center, watchmen, who can see the entire prison, stand night and day.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000000|Through the kindness of the officials the writer was allowed to go into this tower one afternoon as the five thousand prisoners came from the shops, formed into companies and went through a thirty minute drill.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000001|The band played throughout and as the men were formed into companies we from the tower could see each individual company although they were hidden from each other.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000003|They stood, knelt, touched hands, lay down, arose, walked and exercised, keeping time with the music in a way that was wonderful to behold.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000005|They mingle in companies in large sunny, clean, dormitories, where they visit, read and sing.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000015_000001|It is the old, old capital city and its story is the story of the Philippines.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000015_000002|The old walls of this inner city were built some four hundred years ago and could they speak, the whole world would listen with amazement and horror.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000015_000003|There were seven gates in this old wall and they were closed and opened by means of gigantic windlasses.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000016_000002|The stories that center around this old fort make one shudder to hear them. Possibly they are exaggerated, but there are many today who believe them.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000016_000004|The child had never had even a glimpse of the sunlight.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000018_000001|For a whole week they were afraid to venture from their homes.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000020_000000|mr Stuntz said the whole thing seemed so strange to him that he was silent for a moment, when the man continued: "Sir, this is a very important question to us Filipinos.
train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000020_000004|I want to know if it is safe."
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000001_000000|POSTSCRIPT
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000002_000001|I therefore add this epilogue, which must also be so brief as possibly to remedy but little the defect.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000000|Originality cannot be expected in a field like this, where all the attitudes and tempers that are possible have been exhibited in literature long ago, and where any new writer can immediately be classed under a familiar head.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000003|If not regular transcendental idealists, they at least obey the Kantian direction enough to bar out ideal entities from interfering causally in the course of phenomenal events.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000007|In this the refined supernaturalists think that it muddles disparate dimensions of existence.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000008|For them the world of the ideal has no efficient causality, and never bursts into the world of phenomena at particular points.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000009|The ideal world, for them, is not a world of facts, but only of the meaning of facts; it is a point of view for judging facts.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000010|It appertains to a different "-ology," and inhabits a different dimension of being altogether from that in which existential propositions obtain.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000011|It cannot get down upon the flat level of experience and interpolate itself piecemeal between distinct portions of nature, as those who believe, for example, in divine aid coming in response to prayer, are bound to think it must.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000004_000002|It takes the facts of physical science at their face value, and leaves the laws of life just as naturalism finds them, with no hope of remedy, in case their fruits are bad.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000005_000000|It confines itself to sentiments about life as a whole, sentiments which may be admiring and adoring, but which need not be so, as the existence of systematic pessimism proves.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000005_000001|In this universalistic way of taking the ideal world, the essence of practical religion seems to me to evaporate.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000001|We owe it to the Absolute that we have a world of fact at all.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000002|"A world" of fact!--that exactly is the trouble.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000003|An entire world is the smallest unit with which the Absolute can work, whereas to our finite minds work for the better ought to be done within this world, setting in at single points.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000004|Our difficulties and our ideals are all piecemeal affairs, but the Absolute can do no piecework for us; so that all the interests which our poor souls compass raise their heads too late.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000005|We should have spoken earlier, prayed for another world absolutely, before this world was born.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000009_000000|I state the matter thus bluntly, because the current of thought in academic circles runs against me, and I feel like a man who must set his back against an open door quickly if he does not wish to see it closed and locked.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000010_000003|I am so impressed by the importance of these phenomena that I adopt the hypothesis which they so naturally suggest.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000010_000004|At these places at least, I say, it would seem as though transmundane energies, God, if you will, produced immediate effects within the natural world to which the rest of our experience belongs.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000000|The difference in natural "fact" which most of us would assign as the first difference which the existence of a God ought to make would, I imagine, be personal immortality.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000002|God is the producer of immortality; and whoever has doubts of immortality is written down as an atheist without farther trial.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000005|Yet I sympathize with the urgent impulse to be present ourselves, and in the conflict of impulses, both of them so vague yet both of them noble, I know not how to decide.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000006|It seems to me that it is eminently a case for facts to testify.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000007|Facts, I think, are yet lacking to prove "spirit return," though I have the highest respect for the patient labors of Messrs.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000008|Myers, Hodgson, and Hyslop, and am somewhat impressed by their favorable conclusions.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000009|I consequently leave the matter open, with this brief word to save the reader from a possible perplexity as to why immortality got no mention in the body of this book.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000012_000002|Nevertheless, in the interests of intellectual clearness, I feel bound to say that religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000012_000004|Philosophy, with its passion for unity, and mysticism with its monoideistic bent, both "pass to the limit" and identify the something with a unique God who is the all inclusive soul of the world.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000012_000005|Popular opinion, respectful to their authority, follows the example which they set.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000013_000001|All that the facts require is that the power should be both other and larger than our conscious selves.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000000|Upholders of the monistic view will say to such a polytheism (which, by the way, has always been the real religion of common people, and is so still to day) that unless there be one all inclusive God, our guarantee of security is left imperfect.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000001|In the Absolute, and in the Absolute only, ALL is saved.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000002|If there be different gods, each caring for his part, some portion of some of us might not be covered with divine protection, and our religious consolation would thus fail to be complete.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000005|The ordinary moralistic state of mind makes the salvation of the world conditional upon the success with which each unit does its part.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000006|Partial and conditional salvation is in fact a most familiar notion when taken in the abstract, the only difficulty being to determine the details.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000007|Some men are even disinterested enough to be willing to be in the unsaved remnant as far as their persons go, if only they can be persuaded that their cause will prevail-all of us are willing, whenever our activity excitement rises sufficiently high.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000008|I think, in fact, that a final philosophy of religion will have to consider the pluralistic hypothesis more seriously than it has hitherto been willing to consider it.
train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000009|For practical life at any rate, the CHANCE of salvation is enough. No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000001_000000|mr Bennet had very often wished before this period of his life that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000001_000002|Had he done his duty in that respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000002_000000|He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little advantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother in law, and he was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance, and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000003_000001|The son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000003_000003|This event had at last been despaired of, but it was then too late to be saving.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000003_000004|mrs Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000002|This was one point, with regard to Lydia, at least, which was now to be settled, and mr Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000003|In terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother, though expressed most concisely, he then delivered on paper his perfect approbation of all that was done, and his willingness to fulfil the engagements that had been made for him.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000004|He had never before supposed that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter, it would be done with so little inconvenience to himself as by the present arrangement.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000005|He would scarcely be ten pounds a year the loser by the hundred that was to be paid them; for, what with her board and pocket allowance, and the continual presents in money which passed to her through her mother's hands, Lydia's expenses had been very little within that sum.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000005_000002|His letter was soon dispatched; for, though dilatory in undertaking business, he was quick in its execution.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000005_000003|He begged to know further particulars of what he was indebted to his brother, but was too angry with Lydia to send any message to her.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000006_000000|The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000006_000001|It was borne in the latter with decent philosophy.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000007_000001|No sentiment of shame gave a damp to her triumph.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000007_000002|The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and servants.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000007_000003|She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000008_000000|"Haye Park might do," said she, "if the Gouldings could quit it-or the great house at Stoke, if the drawing room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off!
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000008_000001|I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for Pulvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000009_000001|But when they had withdrawn, he said to her: "mrs Bennet, before you take any or all of these houses for your son and daughter, let us come to a right understanding.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000009_000003|I will not encourage the impudence of either, by receiving them at Longbourn."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000000|A long dispute followed this declaration; but mr Bennet was firm.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000001|It soon led to another; and mrs Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000002|He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000003|mrs Bennet could hardly comprehend it.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000004|That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all she could believe possible.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000005|She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000013_000000|From such a connection she could not wonder that he would shrink.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000013_000001|The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000013_000005|She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000015_000001|His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000016_000000|But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000017_000000|How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000017_000001|But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000018_000000|mr Gardiner soon wrote again to his brother.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000018_000002|The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that mr Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000000|"It was greatly my wish that he should do so," he added, "as soon as his marriage was fixed on.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000002|It is mr Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are still some who are able and willing to assist him in the army.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000004|It is an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000005|He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, where they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000007|And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin a list according to his information?
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000008|He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000009|Haggerston has our directions, and all will be completed in a week.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000020_000001|GARDINER."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000021_000001|But mrs Bennet was not so well pleased with it.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000022_000000|"She is so fond of mrs Forster," said she, "it will be quite shocking to send her away!
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000023_000000|His daughter's request, for such it might be considered, of being admitted into her family again before she set off for the North, received at first an absolute negative.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000023_000004|Elizabeth was surprised, however, that Wickham should consent to such a scheme, and had she consulted only her own inclination, any meeting with him would have been the last object of her wishes.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000024_000000|Chapter fifty one
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000025_000001|The carriage was sent to meet them at ----, and they were to return in it by dinner time.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000025_000002|Their arrival was dreaded by the elder Miss Bennets, and Jane more especially, who gave Lydia the feelings which would have attended herself, had she been the culprit, and was wretched in the thought of what her sister must endure.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000026_000000|They came.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000026_000002|Smiles decked the face of mrs Bennet as the carriage drove up to the door; her husband looked impenetrably grave; her daughters, alarmed, anxious, uneasy.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000027_000000|Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000000|Their reception from mr Bennet, to whom they then turned, was not quite so cordial.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000001|His countenance rather gained in austerity; and he scarcely opened his lips.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000002|The easy assurance of the young couple, indeed, was enough to provoke him.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000003|Elizabeth was disgusted, and even Miss Bennet was shocked.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000005|She turned from sister to sister, demanding their congratulations; and when at length they all sat down, looked eagerly round the room, took notice of some little alteration in it, and observed, with a laugh, that it was a great while since she had been there.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000029_000000|Wickham was not at all more distressed than herself, but his manners were always so pleasing, that had his character and his marriage been exactly what they ought, his smiles and his easy address, while he claimed their relationship, would have delighted them all.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000029_000001|Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000030_000000|There was no want of discourse.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000030_000001|The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough; and Wickham, who happened to sit near Elizabeth, began inquiring after his acquaintance in that neighbourhood, with a good humoured ease which she felt very unable to equal in her replies.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000030_000002|They seemed each of them to have the happiest memories in the world.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000032_000000|Her father lifted up his eyes.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000033_000000|Elizabeth could bear it no longer.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000033_000001|She got up, and ran out of the room; and returned no more, till she heard them passing through the hall to the dining parlour.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000034_000000|It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment from which she had been so wholly free at first.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000034_000001|Her ease and good spirits increased.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000000|"Well, mamma," said she, when they were all returned to the breakfast room, "and what do you think of my husband?
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000002|I am sure my sisters must all envy me.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000004|They must all go to Brighton.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000006|What a pity it is, mamma, we did not all go."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000036_000000|"Very true; and if I had my will, we should.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000036_000001|But my dear Lydia, I don't at all like your going such a way off.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000037_000002|I shall like it of all things.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000037_000004|We shall be at Newcastle all the winter, and I dare say there will be some balls, and I will take care to get good partners for them all."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000038_000000|"I should like it beyond anything!" said her mother.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000040_000000|"I thank you for my share of the favour," said Elizabeth; "but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000041_000000|Their visitors were not to remain above ten days with them.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000041_000001|mr Wickham had received his commission before he left London, and he was to join his regiment at the end of a fortnight.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000042_000001|These parties were acceptable to all; to avoid a family circle was even more desirable to such as did think, than such as did not.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000045_000000|One morning, soon after their arrival, as she was sitting with her two elder sisters, she said to Elizabeth:
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000046_000001|You were not by, when I told mamma and the others all about it.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000046_000002|Are not you curious to hear how it was managed?"
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000047_000000|"No really," replied Elizabeth; "I think there cannot be too little said on the subject."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000002|But I must tell you how it went off.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000003|We were married, you know, at saint Clement's, because Wickham's lodgings were in that parish.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000004|And it was settled that we should all be there by eleven o'clock.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000005|My uncle and aunt and I were to go together; and the others were to meet us at the church.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000006|Well, Monday morning came, and I was in such a fuss!
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000010|I longed to know whether he would be married in his blue coat."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000049_000002|Not one party, or scheme, or anything.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000049_000007|But, luckily, he came back again in ten minutes' time, and then we all set out.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000050_000000|"mr Darcy!" repeated Elizabeth, in utter amazement.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000000|"Oh, yes!--he was to come there with Wickham, you know.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000001|But gracious me!
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000002|I quite forgot!
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000004|I promised them so faithfully!
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000052_000000|"If it was to be secret," said Jane, "say not another word on the subject.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000052_000001|You may depend upon my seeking no further."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000053_000000|"Oh! certainly," said Elizabeth, though burning with curiosity; "we will ask you no questions."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000054_000000|"Thank you," said Lydia, "for if you did, I should certainly tell you all, and then Wickham would be angry."
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000055_000000|On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her power, by running away.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000056_000000|But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible; or at least it was impossible not to try for information.
train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000057_000000|"You may readily comprehend," she added, "what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and (comparatively speaking) a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000001|When all the world outside is dark and damp and cold, the light and warmth of the place are comforting.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000002|There is a pleasant air of solidity about the interior of a bank.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000003|The green shaded lamps look cosy.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000004|And, the outside world offering so few attractions, the worker, perched on his stool, feels that he is not so badly off after all.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000002_000000|Mike, except for a fortnight at the beginning of his career in the New Asiatic Bank, had not had to stand the test of sunshine.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000002_000001|At present, the weather being cold and dismal, he was almost entirely contented. Now that he had got into the swing of his work, the days passed very quickly; and with his life after office hours he had no fault to find at all.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000000|His life was very regular.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000002|That was at ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000003|From ten to eleven he would potter.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000005|From eleven to half past twelve he would put in a little gentle work.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000007|More work from two till half past three.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000008|From half past three till half past four tea in the tearoom, with a novel.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000009|And from half past four till five either a little more work or more pottering, according to whether there was any work to do or not.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000000|Then there was no doubt that it was an interesting little community, that of the New Asiatic Bank.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000003|The employees of the New Asiatic Bank, having plenty of time on their hands, were able to retain their individuality.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000004|They had leisure to think of other things besides their work.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000005|Indeed, they had so much leisure that it is a wonder they thought of their work at all.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000000|The place was full of quaint characters.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000001|There was West, who had been requested to leave Haileybury owing to his habit of borrowing horses and attending meets in the neighbourhood, the same being always out of bounds and necessitating a complete disregard of the rules respecting evening chapel and lock up.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000002|He was a small, dried up youth, with black hair plastered down on his head.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000003|He went about his duties in a costume which suggested the sportsman of the comic papers.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000006_000000|There was also Hignett, who added to the meagre salary allowed him by the bank by singing comic songs at the minor music halls.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000006_000001|He confided to Mike his intention of leaving the bank as soon as he had made a name, and taking seriously to the business.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000006_000002|He told him that he had knocked them at the Bedford the week before, and in support of the statement showed him a cutting from the Era, in which the writer said that 'Other acceptable turns were the Bounding Zouaves, Steingruber's Dogs, and Arthur Hignett.' Mike wished him luck.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000008_000000|Mike found himself, by degrees, growing quite attached to the New Asiatic Bank.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000009_000002|No action of this young prodigy was withheld from Mike.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000010_000000|On this particular day, however, the cashier was silent and absent minded.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000000|Mike could not make it out.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000001|He did not like to ask if there was anything the matter.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000002|Mr Waller's face had the unreasonable effect on him of making him feel shy and awkward.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000004|He had always envied the cooing readiness of the hero on the stage when anyone was in trouble.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000012_000001|It was his hour for pottering, so he pottered round to the Postage Department, where he found the old Etonian eyeing with disfavour a new satin tie which Bristow was wearing that morning for the first time.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000014_000001|Mike led the way to a quiet corner of the Telegrams Department.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000015_000001|The fight is beginning to be too much for me.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000015_000004|It's hard, Comrade Jackson, it's hard, I tell you.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000000|'Look here, Smith,' said Mike, 'I wish you'd go round to the Cash and find out what's up with old Waller.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000001|He's got the hump about something. He's sitting there looking absolutely fed up with things.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000002|I hope there's nothing up.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000003|He's not a bad sort.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000018_000000|'So other people have troubles as well as myself,' he murmured musingly.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000018_000003|I will reel round and make inquiries.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000019_000000|'Good man,' said Mike.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000000|'His kid's ill, poor chap,' he said briefly.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000001|'Pretty badly too, from what I can gather.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000002|Pneumonia.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000003|Waller was up all night.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000004|He oughtn't to be here at all today.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000006|Look here, you'd better nip back and do as much of the work as you can.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000007|I shouldn't talk to him much if I were you.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000008|Buck along.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000000|Mike went.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000001|Mr Waller was still sitting staring out across the aisle. There was something more than a little gruesome in the sight of him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000002|He wore a crushed, beaten look, as if all the life and fight had gone out of him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000003|A customer came to the desk to cash a cheque.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000005|Mike could guess what he was feeling, and what he was thinking about.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000009|It was this which drew to him those who had intelligence enough to see beyond his sometimes rather forbidding manner, and to realize that his blunt speech was largely due to shyness.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000023_000000|Psmith's injunction to him not to talk much was unnecessary.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000023_000001|Mike, as always, was rendered utterly dumb by the sight of suffering.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000023_000002|He sat at his desk, occupying himself as best he could with the driblets of work which came to him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000001|The habit of years had made his work mechanical.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000002|Probably few of the customers who came to cash cheques suspected that there was anything the matter with the man who paid them their money.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000003|After all, most people look on the cashier of a bank as a sort of human slot machine.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000005|It is no affair of yours whether life is treating the machine well or ill that day.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000025_000000|The hours dragged slowly by till five o'clock struck, and the cashier, putting on his coat and hat, passed silently out through the swing doors.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000025_000001|He walked listlessly.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000025_000002|He was evidently tired out.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000027_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000027_000001|Concerning a Cheque
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000000|Things never happen quite as one expects them to.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000001|Mike came to the office next morning prepared for a repetition of the previous day.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000002|He was amazed to find the cashier not merely cheerful, but even exuberantly cheerful.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000004|The cashier was overflowing with happiness and goodwill towards his species.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000006|His attitude towards the latest actions of His Majesty's Government was that of one who felt that, after all, there was probably some good even in the vilest of his fellow creatures, if one could only find it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000029_000001|All was joy, jollity, and song.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000001|I may now think of my own troubles.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000002|Comrade Bristow has blown into the office today in patent leather boots with white kid uppers, as I believe the technical term is.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000004|Henceforth my services, for what they are worth, are at the disposal of Comrade Bickersdyke.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000005|My time from now onward is his.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000006|He shall have the full educative value of my exclusive attention.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000008|Made straight for the corner flag, you understand,' he added, as Mr Rossiter emerged from his lair, 'and centred, and Sandy Turnbull headed a beautiful goal.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000009|I was just telling Jackson about the match against Blackburn Rovers,' he said to Mr Rossiter.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000031_000000|'Just so, just so.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000031_000001|But get on with your work, Smith.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000031_000003|I think perhaps it would be as well not to leave it just yet.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000034_000000|The day passed quickly.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000034_000001|Mr Waller, in the intervals of work, talked a good deal, mostly of Edward, his doings, his sayings, and his prospects.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000034_000003|Most of the goals towards which the average man strives struck him as too unambitious for the prodigy.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000035_000000|By the end of the day Mike had had enough of Edward.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000000|We do not claim originality for the statement that things never happen quite as one expects them to.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000001|We repeat it now because of its profound truth.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000002|The Edward's pneumonia episode having ended satisfactorily (or, rather, being apparently certain to end satisfactorily, for the invalid, though out of danger, was still in bed), Mike looked forward to a series of days unbroken by any but the minor troubles of life.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000003|For these he was prepared.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000004|What he did not expect was any big calamity.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000037_000001|The sky was blue and free from all suggestions of approaching thunderbolts.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000037_000002|Mr Waller, still chirpy, had nothing but good news of Edward.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000037_000003|Mike went for his morning stroll round the office feeling that things had settled down and had made up their mind to run smoothly.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000038_000000|When he got back, barely half an hour later, the storm had burst.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000039_000000|There was no one in the department at the moment of his arrival; but a few minutes later he saw Mr Waller come out of the manager's room, and make his way down the aisle.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000040_000001|It was the same limp, crushed walk which Mike had seen when Edward's safety still hung in the balance.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000042_000000|Mr Waller caught sight of him and quickened his pace.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000043_000000|'Jackson,' he said.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000044_000000|Mike came forward.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000046_000000|'Yes.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000046_000001|It came in the morning, rather late.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000000|Mike remembered the cheque perfectly well, owing to the amount.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000001|It was the only three figure cheque which had come across the counter during the day.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000003|He recollected the man who had presented it, a tallish man with a beard.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000005|The former had been so very cheery and breezy, the latter so dazed and silent.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000048_000000|'Why,' he said.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000049_000000|'It was a forgery,' muttered Mr Waller, sitting down heavily.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000050_000000|Mike could not take it in all at once.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000050_000001|He was stunned.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000050_000002|All he could understand was that a far worse thing had happened than anything he could have imagined.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000051_000000|'A forgery?' he said.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000000|'A forgery.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000001|And a clumsy one.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000002|Oh it's hard.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000003|I should have seen it on any other day but that.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000004|I could not have missed it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000006|I could not believe that I had passed it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000007|I don't remember doing it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000008|My mind was far away.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000009|I don't remember the cheque or anything about it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000010|Yet there it is.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000000|Once more Mike was tongue tied.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000001|For the life of him he could not think of anything to say.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000003|But he could find nothing that would not sound horribly stilted and cold.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000004|He sat silent.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000003|They are both furious.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000004|I shall be dismissed.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000005|I shall lose my place.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000006|I shall be dismissed.' He was talking more to himself than to Mike.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000007|It was dreadful to see him sitting there, all limp and broken.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000000|'I shall lose my place.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000001|Mr Bickersdyke has wanted to get rid of me for a long time.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000002|He never liked me.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000003|I shall be dismissed.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000004|What can I do? I'm an old man.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000005|I can't make another start.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000006|I am good for nothing. Nobody will take an old man like me.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000056_000000|His voice died away.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000056_000001|There was a silence.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000056_000002|Mike sat staring miserably in front of him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000000|Then, quite suddenly, an idea came to him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000001|The whole pressure of the atmosphere seemed to lift.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000002|He saw a way out.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000003|It was a curious crooked way, but at that moment it stretched clear and broad before him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000058_000000|He got up, smiling.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000059_000000|The cashier did not notice the movement.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000059_000001|Somebody had come in to cash a cheque, and he was working mechanically.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000061_000000|The manager was in his chair at the big table.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000061_000001|Opposite him, facing slightly sideways, was a small, round, very red faced man.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000061_000002|Mr Bickersdyke was speaking as Mike entered.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000062_000000|'I can assure you, Sir john--' he was saying.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000063_000000|He looked up as the door opened.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000064_000000|'Well, Mr Jackson?'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000065_000000|Mike almost laughed.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000066_000000|'Mr Waller has told me-' he began.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000067_000000|'I have already seen Mr Waller.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000068_000000|'I know.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000068_000001|He told me about the cheque.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000068_000002|I came to explain.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000069_000000|'Explain?'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000070_000000|'Yes.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000070_000001|He didn't cash it at all.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000071_000000|'I don't understand you, Mr Jackson.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000073_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000075_000000|Focusing his attention with some reluctance upon this blot on the horizon, he discovered that the exploiter of rainbow waistcoats and satin ties was addressing him.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000076_000001|He spoke in rather an awed voice.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000077_000001|'You have our ear. You would seem to have something on your chest in addition to that Neapolitan ice garment which, I regret to see, you still flaunt.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000077_000002|If it is one tithe as painful as that, you have my sympathy.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000077_000003|Jerk it out, Comrade Bristow.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000078_000000|'Jackson isn't half copping it from old Bick.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000079_000001|What exactly did you say?'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000080_000000|'He's getting it hot on the carpet.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000082_000000|Bristow chuckled.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000083_000001|Blooming hurricane, more like it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000083_000002|I was in Bick's room just now with a letter to sign, and I tell you, the fur was flying all over the bally shop.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000083_000003|There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000085_000000|'Jackson wasn't saying much.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000085_000001|He jolly well hadn't a chance.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000085_000002|Old Bick was shooting it out fourteen to the dozen.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000086_000001|He has, as you suggest, a ready flow of speech.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000086_000002|What, exactly was the cause of the turmoil?'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000000|'I couldn't wait to hear.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000001|I was too jolly glad to get away.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000002|Old Bick looked at me as if he could eat me, snatched the letter out of my hand, signed it, and waved his hand at the door as a hint to hop it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000003|Which I jolly well did.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000004|He had started jawing Jackson again before I was out of the room.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000001|Comrade Jackson is essentially a Sensitive Plant, highly strung, neurotic.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000002|I cannot have his nervous system jolted and disorganized in this manner, and his value as a confidential secretary and adviser impaired, even though it be only temporarily.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000003|I must look into this.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000004|I will go and see if the orgy is concluded.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000005|I will hear what Comrade Jackson has to say on the matter.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000006|I shall not act rashly, Comrade Bristow.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000007|If the man Bickersdyke is proved to have had good grounds for his outbreak, he shall escape uncensured.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000008|I may even look in on him and throw him a word of praise.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000009|But if I find, as I suspect, that he has wronged Comrade Jackson, I shall be forced to speak sharply to him.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000001|He felt confused and rattled.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000003|But, then, trouble is such an elastic word.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000005|Mike had expected sentence of dismissal, and he had got it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000007|But he had not expected it to come to him riding high on the crest of a great, frothing wave of verbal denunciation.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000009|He had thundered at Mike as if Mike had been his Majesty's Government or the Encroaching Alien, or something of that sort.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000010|And that kind of thing is a little overwhelming at short range.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000011|Mike's head was still spinning.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000090_000000|It continued to spin; but he never lost sight of the fact round which it revolved, namely, that he had been dismissed from the service of the bank.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000090_000001|And for the first time he began to wonder what they would say about this at home.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000091_000000|Up till now the matter had seemed entirely a personal one.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000091_000002|Mike's was one of those direct, honest minds which are apt to concentrate themselves on the crisis of the moment, and to leave the consequences out of the question entirely.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000092_000001|That was the point.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000000|Again, what could he do by way of earning a living?
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000001|He did not know much about the City and its ways, but he knew enough to understand that summary dismissal from a bank is not the best recommendation one can put forward in applying for another job.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000002|And if he did not get another job in the City, what could he do?
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000003|If it were only summer, he might get taken on somewhere as a cricket professional.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000004|Cricket was his line.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000005|He could earn his pay at that.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000095_000001|When my informant left, he tells me, Comrade b had got a half Nelson on you, and was biting pieces out of your ear.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000095_000002|Is this so?'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000097_000000|'Look here, Smith,' he said, 'I want to speak to you.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000097_000001|I'm in a bit of a hole, and perhaps you can tell me what to do.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000097_000003|I can't tell you about it here.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000001|Naturally I shall be missed, if I go out.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000002|But my absence will not spell irretrievable ruin, as it would at a period of greater commercial activity.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000003|Comrades Rossiter and Bristow have studied my methods.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000004|They know how I like things to be done.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000005|They are fully competent to conduct the business of the department in my absence.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000006|Let us, as you say, scud forth.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000007|We will go to a Mecca.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000008|Why so-called I do not know, nor, indeed, do I ever hope to know.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000099_000000|The Mecca, except for the curious aroma which pervades all Meccas, was deserted.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000100_000000|'Dominoes,' he said, 'is one of the few manly sports which have never had great attractions for me.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000100_000001|A cousin of mine, who secured his chess blue at Oxford, would, they tell me, have represented his University in the dominoes match also, had he not unfortunately dislocated the radius bone of his bazooka while training for it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000100_000004|Tell me all.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000101_000000|He listened gravely while Mike related the incidents which had led up to his confession and the results of the same.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000101_000001|At the conclusion of the narrative he sipped his coffee in silence for a moment.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000000|'This habit of taking on to your shoulders the harvest of other people's bloomers,' he said meditatively, 'is growing upon you, Comrade Jackson.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000001|You must check it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000004|If you had stopped there, all might have been well.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000005|But the thing, once started, fascinated you.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000008|When you were free and without ties, it did not so much matter.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000010|Your secretarial duties must be paramount.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000011|Nothing must be allowed to interfere with them.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000012|Yes.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000013|The thing must stop before it goes too far.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000103_000000|'It seems to me,' said Mike, 'that it has gone too far.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000103_000001|I've got the sack.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000103_000002|I don't know how much farther you want it to go.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000001|You must recollect that Comrade Bickersdyke spoke in the heat of the moment.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000002|That generous temperament was stirred to its depths.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000003|He did not pick his words.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000004|But calm will succeed storm, and we may be able to do something yet.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000005|I have some little influence with Comrade Bickersdyke.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000007|If he sees that I am opposed to this step, he may possibly reconsider it.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000009|However, we shall see.'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000106_000000|'I bet we shall!' said Mike ruefully.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000001|Naturally, to pacify the aggrieved bart., Comrade b had to lay it on regardless of expense.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000002|In America, as possibly you are aware, there is a regular post of mistake clerk, whose duty it is to receive in the neck anything that happens to be coming along when customers make complaints.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000003|He is hauled into the presence of the foaming customer, cursed, and sacked.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000006|Now, possibly, in your case-'
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000108_000000|'In my case,' interrupted Mike, 'there was none of that rot. Bickersdyke wasn't putting it on.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000108_000001|He meant every word.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000110_000000|'Get some of his own back!' he repeated.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000111_000001|I yield to nobody in my respect for our manager.
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000111_000003|No!
train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000111_000004|I prefer to think that Comrade Bickersdyke regards me as his friend and well wisher, and will lend a courteous ear to any proposal I see fit to make.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000001_000000|OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000002_000002|It was the duchess, however, who spoke first, saying:
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000008_000000|They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now, There where I most did sin.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000009_000000|And according to that the gentleman has good reason to say he would rather be a labouring man than a king, if vermin are to eat him."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000010_000000|The duchess could not help laughing at the simplicity of her duenna, or wondering at the language and proverbs of Sancho, to whom she said, "Worthy Sancho knows very well that when once a knight has made a promise he strives to keep it, though it should cost him his life.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000010_000001|My lord and husband the duke, though not one of the errant sort, is none the less a knight for that reason, and will keep his word about the promised island, in spite of the envy and malice of the world.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000012_000002|For in truth and earnest, I know from good authority that the coarse country wench who jumped up on the ass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, and that worthy Sancho, though he fancies himself the deceiver, is the one that is deceived; and that there is no more reason to doubt the truth of this, than of anything else we never saw.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000013_000002|But, senora, your excellence must not therefore think me ill disposed, for a dolt like me is not bound to see into the thoughts and plots of those vile enchanters.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000014_000000|"That is true," said the duchess; "but tell me, Sancho, what is this you say about the cave of Montesinos, for I should like to know."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000015_000000|Sancho upon this related to her, word for word, what has been said already touching that adventure, and having heard it the duchess said, "From this occurrence it may be inferred that, as the great Don Quixote says he saw there the same country wench Sancho saw on the way from El Toboso, it is, no doubt, Dulcinea, and that there are some very active and exceedingly busy enchanters about."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000016_000000|"So I say," said Sancho, "and if my lady Dulcinea is enchanted, so much the worse for her, and I'm not going to pick a quarrel with my master's enemies, who seem to be many and spiteful.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000016_000001|The truth is that the one I saw was a country wench, and I set her down to be a country wench; and if that was Dulcinea it must not be laid at my door, nor should I be called to answer for it or take the consequences.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000017_000001|In fact, to speak in his own style, 'under a bad cloak there's often a good drinker.'"
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000018_000000|"Indeed, senora," said Sancho, "I never yet drank out of wickedness; from thirst I have very likely, for I have nothing of the hypocrite in me; I drink when I'm inclined, or, if I'm not inclined, when they offer it to me, so as not to look either strait laced or ill bred; for when a friend drinks one's health what heart can be so hard as not to return it?
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000018_000001|But if I put on my shoes I don't dirty them; besides, squires to knights errant mostly drink water, for they are always wandering among woods, forests and meadows, mountains and crags, without a drop of wine to be had if they gave their eyes for it."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000021_000000|"What is Dapple?" said the duchess.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000024_000000|"That will do," said the duchess; "no more of this; hush, Dona Rodriguez, and let Senor Panza rest easy and leave the treatment of Dapple in my charge, for as he is a treasure of Sancho's, I'll put him on the apple of my eye."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000026_000000|"Take him to your government, Sancho," said the duchess, "and there you will be able to make as much of him as you like, and even release him from work and pension him off."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000029_000000|CHAPTER thirty four.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000031_000002|Having, therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000032_000001|Sancho, however, took what they gave him, meaning to sell it the first opportunity.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000000|The appointed day having arrived, Don Quixote armed himself, and Sancho arrayed himself, and mounted on his Dapple (for he would not give him up though they offered him a horse), he placed himself in the midst of the troop of huntsmen.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000003|The duke and Don Quixote likewise dismounted and placed themselves one at each side of her.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000004|Sancho took up a position in the rear of all without dismounting from Dapple, whom he dared not desert lest some mischief should befall him.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000006|As soon as he saw him Don Quixote, bracing his shield on his arm, and drawing his sword, advanced to meet him; the duke with boar spear did the same; but the duchess would have gone in front of them all had not the duke prevented her.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000007|Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000010|Don Quixote went over and unhooked Sancho, who, as soon as he found himself on the ground, looked at the rent in his huntingcoat and was grieved to the heart, for he thought he had got a patrimonial estate in that suit.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000036_000000|"That," said Don Quixote, "was a Gothic king, who, going a hunting, was devoured by a bear."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000044_000004|In their fear, silence fell upon them, and a postillion, in the guise of a demon, passed in front of them, blowing, in lieu of a bugle, a huge hollow horn that gave out a horrible hoarse note.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000045_000000|"Ho there! brother courier," cried the duke, "who are you?
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000048_000000|"By God and upon my conscience," said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000049_000000|"This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000054_000003|This was done, and he came to himself by the time that one of the carts with the creaking wheels reached the spot.
train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000054_000007|Then another cart came by at the same pace, but the occupant of the throne was not old like the others, but a man stalwart and robust, and of a forbidding countenance, who as he came up said in a voice far hoarser and more devilish, "I am the enchanter Archelaus, the mortal enemy of Amadis of Gaul and all his kindred," and then passed on.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000000_000000|THE BLUE BELT
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000001_000000|Once on a time there was an old beggar woman, who had gone out to beg.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000001_000001|She had a little lad with her, and when she had got her bag full, she struck across the hills towards her own home.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000001_000002|So when they had gone a bit up the hill side, they came upon a little blue belt, which lay where two paths met, and the lad asked his mother's leave to pick it up.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000002_000000|'No', said she, 'maybe there's witchcraft in it'; and so with threats she forced him to follow her.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000002_000001|But when they had gone a bit further, the lad said he must turn aside a moment out of the road, and meanwhile his mother sat down on a tree stump.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000002_000002|But the lad was a long time gone, for as soon as he got so far into the wood, that the old dame could not see him, he ran off to where the belt lay, took it up, tied it round his waist, and lo! he felt as strong as if he could lift the whole hill.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000003_000000|'Dear mother', said the lad, 'mayn't I just go up to the top of this high crag while you rest, and try if I can't see some sign of folk hereabouts?'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000004_000000|Yes! he might do that; so when he had got to the top, he saw a light shining from the north.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000004_000001|So he ran down and told his mother.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000005_000000|'We must get on, mother; we are near a house, for I see a bright light shining quite close to us in the north.' Then she rose and shouldered her bag, and set off to see; but they hadn't gone far, before there stood a steep spur of the hill, right across their path.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000006_000000|'Just as I thought!' said the old dame; 'now we can't go a step farther; a pretty bed we shall have here!'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000007_000000|But the lad took the bag under one arm, and his mother under the other, and ran straight up the steep crag with them.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000008_000000|'Now, don't you see!
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000008_000001|don't you see that we are close to a house! don't you see the bright light?'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000009_000000|But the old dame said those were no Christian folk, but Trolls, for she was at home in all that forest far and near, and knew there was not a living soul in it, until you were well over the ridge, and had come down on the other side.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000009_000001|But they went on, and in a little while they came to a great house which was all painted red.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000010_000000|'What's the good?' said the old dame, 'we daren't go in, for here the Trolls live.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000011_000000|'Don't say so; we must go in.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000011_000001|There must be men where the lights shine so', said the lad.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000012_000000|'Good evening, grandfather!' said the lad.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000014_000000|'But what's come over your mother?' said the man, after they had chattered a while.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000014_000001|'I think she swooned away; you had better look after her.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000015_000000|So the lad went and took hold of the old dame; and dragged her up the hall along the floor.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000015_000001|That brought her to herself, and she kicked, and scratched, and flung herself about, and at last sat down upon a heap of firewood in the corner; but she was so frightened that she scarce dared to look one in the face.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000016_000000|After a while, the lad asked if they could spend the night there.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000017_000000|'Yes, to be sure', said the man.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000019_000000|'Of course', said the man, 'that might be got too.' And after he had sat a while longer, he rose up and threw six loads of dry pitch pine on the fire.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000019_000001|This made the old hag still more afraid.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000020_000000|'Oh! now he's going to roast us alive', she said, in the corner where she sat
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000021_000000|And when the wood had burned down to glowing embers, up got the man and strode out of his house.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000022_000000|'Heaven bless and help us! what a stout heart you have got', said the old dame; 'don't you see we have got amongst Trolls?'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000023_000000|'Stuff and nonsense!' said the lad; 'no harm if we have.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000000|In a little while back came the man with an ox so fat and big, the lad had never seen its like, and he gave it one blow with his fist under the ear, and down it fell dead on the floor.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000001|When that was done, he took it up by all the four legs, and laid it on the glowing embers, and turned it and twisted it about till it was burnt brown outside.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000002|After that, he went to a cupboard and took out a great silver dish, and laid the ox on it; and the dish was so big that none of the ox hung over on any side.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000003|This he put on the table, and then he went down into the cellar, and fetched a cask of wine, knocked out the head, and put the cask on the table, together with two knives, which were each six feet long.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000004|When this was done, he bade them go and sit down to supper and eat.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000005|So they went, the lad first and the old dame after, but she began to whimper and wail, and to wonder how she should ever use such knives.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000006|But her son seized one, and began to cut slices out of the thigh of the ox, which he placed before his mother.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000025_000000|'Well!
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000026_000000|As for beds', he said, 'I don't know what's to be done.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000027_000000|'Thank you kindly, that'll do nicely', said the lad; and with that he pulled off his clothes and lay down in the cradle; but, to tell you the truth; it was quite as big as a four poster.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000028_000000|'Well!' thought the lad to himself, ''twill never do to go to sleep yet.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000028_000001|I'd best lie awake and listen how things go as the night wears on.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000029_000000|So after a while the man began to talk to the old dame, and at last he said:
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000031_000000|'But do you know how to settle him?
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000031_000001|Is that what you're thinking of?' said she.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000032_000000|'Nothing easier', said he; at any rate he would try.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000032_000002|All this the lad lay and listened to.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000033_000000|Next day the Troll-for it was a Troll as clear as day-asked if the old dame would stay and keep house for him a few days; and as the day went on he took a great iron crowbar, and asked the lad if he had a mind to go with him up the hill and quarry a few corner stones.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000034_000000|'Oh!' said the lad to the Troll, 'now I see what you mean to do with me.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000034_000001|You want to crush me to death; so just go down yourself and look after the cracks and refts in the rock, and I'll stand up above.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000035_000000|The Troll did not dare to do otherwise than the lad bade him, and the end of it was that the lad rolled down a great rock, which fell upon the Troll, and broke one of his thighs.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000036_000000|'Well! you are in a sad plight', said the lad, as he strode down, lifted up the rock, and set the man free.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000036_000001|After that he had to put him on his back and carry him home; so he ran with him as fast as a horse, and shook him so that the Troll screamed and screeched as if a knife were run into him.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000038_000000|'Well', said the old dame, 'if you can't hit on a plan to get rid of him, I'm sure I can't.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000039_000000|'Let me see', said the Troll; 'I've got twelve lions in a garden; if they could only get hold of the lad they'd soon tear him to pieces.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000040_000001|She would sham sick, and say she felt so poorly, nothing would do her any good but lion's milk.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000040_000002|All that the lad lay and listened to; and when he got up in the morning his mother said she was worse than she looked, and she thought she should never be right again unless she could get some lion's milk.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000041_000000|'Then I'm afraid you'll be poorly a long time, mother', said the lad, 'for I'm sure I don't know where any is to be got.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000000|'Oh! if that be all', said the Troll, 'there's no lack of lion's milk, if we only had the man to fetch it'; and then he went on to say how his brother had a garden with twelve lions in it, and how the lad might have the key if he had a mind to milk the lions.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000001|So the lad took the key and a milking pail, and strode off; and when he unlocked the gate and got into the garden, there stood all the twelve lions on their hind paws, rampant and roaring at him.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000003|So when the rest saw that, they were so afraid that they crept up and lay at his feet like so many curs.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000004|After that they followed him about wherever he went, and when he got home, they lay down outside the house, with their fore paws on the door sill.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000043_000000|'Now, mother, you'll soon be well', said the lad, when he went in, 'for here is the lion's milk.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000044_000000|He had just milked a drop in the pail.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000045_000001|He was sure the lad was not the man to milk lions.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000046_000000|When the lad heard that, he forced the Troll to get out of bed, threw open the door, and all the lions rose up and seized the Troll, and at last the lad had to make them leave their hold.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000047_000000|That night the Troll began to talk to the old dame again.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000050_000000|'Well!' said the Troll, 'I have two brothers in a castle; they are twelve times as strong as I am, and that's why I was turned out and had to put up with this farm.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000050_000001|They hold that castle, and round it there is an orchard with apples in it, and whoever eats those apples sleeps for three days and three nights.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000050_000002|If we could only get the lad to go for the fruit, he wouldn't be able to keep from tasting the apples, and as soon as ever he fell asleep my brothers would tear him in pieces.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000051_000000|The old dame said she would sham sick, and say she could never be herself again unless she tasted those apples; for she had set her heart on them.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000052_000000|All this the lad lay and listened to.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000000|Oh! the lad was ready to go that instant; but the eleven lions went with him.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000001|So when he came to the orchard, he climbed up into the apple tree and ate as many apples as he could, and he had scarce got down before he fell into a deep sleep; but the lions all lay round him in a ring.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000002|The third day came the Troll's brothers, but they did not come in man's shape.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000003|They came snorting like man eating steeds, and wondered who it was that dared to be there, and said they would tear him to pieces, so small that there should not be a bit of him left.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000004|But up rose the lions and tore the Trolls into small pieces, so that the place looked as if a dung heap had been tossed about it; and when they had finished the Trolls they lay down again.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000005|The lad did not wake till late in the afternoon, and when he got on his knees and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, he began to wonder what had been going on, when he saw the marks of hoofs.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000006|But when he went towards the castle, a maiden looked out of a window who had seen all that had happened, and she said:
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000055_000000|'You may thank your stars you weren't in that tussle, else you must have lost your life.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000056_000000|'What!
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000056_000002|No fear of that, I think,' said the lad.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000000|So she begged him to come in, that she might talk with him, for she hadn't seen a Christian soul ever since she came there.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000003|She never wished it, she said; 'twas quite against her will. They had seized her by force, and she was the King of Arabia's daughter.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000004|So they talked on, and at last she asked him what he would do; whether she should go back home, or whether he would have her to wife.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000005|Of course he would have her, and she shouldn't go home.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000058_000000|After that they went round the castle, and at last they came to a great hall, where the Trolls' two great swords hung high up on the wall.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000060_000000|'Who?--I?' said the lad.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000060_000001|''Twould be a pretty thing if I couldn't wield one of these.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000061_000001|After he had thus got down, he thrust the sword under his arm and carried it about with him.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000062_000000|So, when they had lived a little while in the castle, the Princess thought she ought to go home to her parents, and let them know what had become of her; so they loaded a ship, and she set sail from the castle.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000063_000000|After she had gone, and the lad had wandered about a little, he called to mind that he had been sent on an errand thither, and had come to fetch something for his mother's health; and though he said to himself, 'After all, the old dame was not so bad but she's all right by this time'--still he thought he ought to go and just see how she was.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000063_000001|So he went and found both the man and his mother quite fresh and hearty.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000064_000000|'What wretches you are to live in this beggarly hut', said the lad. 'Come with me up to my castle, and you shall see what a fine fellow I am.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000065_000000|Well! they were both ready to go, and on the way his mother talked to him, and asked, 'How it was he had got so strong?'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000067_000000|'Have you got it still?' asked she.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000068_000000|'Yes'--he had.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000068_000001|It was tied round his waist.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000071_000000|Then she seized it with both hands, tore it off, and twisted it round her fist.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000072_000000|'Now', she cried, 'what shall I do with such a wretch as you?
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000072_000001|I'll just give you one blow, and dash your brains out!'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000073_000001|'No! let's first burn out his eyes, and then turn him adrift in a little boat.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000074_000000|So they burned out his eyes and turned him adrift, in spite of his prayers and tears; but, as the boat drifted, the lions swam after, and at last they laid hold of it and dragged it ashore on an island, and placed the lad under a fir tree.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000074_000001|They caught game for him, and they plucked the birds and made him a bed of down; but he was forced to eat his meat raw, and he was blind.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000074_000002|At last, one day the biggest lion was chasing a hare which was blind, for it ran straight over stock and stone, and the end was, it ran right up against a fir stump and tumbled head over heels across the field right into a spring; but lo! when it came out of the spring it saw its way quite plain, and so saved its life.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000075_000001|So, when he had got his sight again, he went down to the shore and made signs to the lions that they should all lie close together like a raft; then he stood upon their backs while they swam with him to the mainland.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000075_000002|When he had reached the shore he went up into a birchen copse, and made the lions lie quiet.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000075_000003|Then he stole up to the castle, like a thief, to see if he couldn't lay hands on his belt; and when he got to the door, he peeped through the keyhole, and there he saw his belt hanging up over a door in the kitchen.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000077_000000|'Thank you kindly', said he.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000077_000001|'Now you shall have the doom you passed on me', and he fulfilled it on the spot.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000078_000000|'Well, you may live', said the lad, 'but you shall undergo the same punishment you gave me'; and so he burned out the Troll's eyes, and turned him adrift on the sea in a little boat, but he had no lions to follow him.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000001|So he loaded four ships and set sail for Arabia.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000002|For some time they had fair wind and fine weather, but after that they lay wind bound under a rocky island.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000003|So the sailors went ashore and strolled about to spend the time, and there they found a huge egg, almost as big as a little house.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000004|So they began to knock it about with large stones, but, after all, they couldn't crack the shell.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000005|Then the lad came up with his sword to see what all the noise was about, and when he saw the egg, he thought it a trifle to crack it; so he gave it one blow and the egg split, and out came a chicken as big as an elephant.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000080_000001|Yes! they were good to do that, they said, so they set sail with a fine breeze, and got to Arabia in three and twenty hours.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000080_000002|As soon as they landed, the lad ordered all the sailors to go and bury themselves up to the eyes in a sandhill, so that they could barely see the ships. The lad and the captains climbed a high crag and sate down under a fir.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000081_000000|In a little while came a great bird flying with an island in its claws, and let it fall down on the fleet, and sunk every ship.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000081_000001|After it had done that, it flew up to the sandhill and flapped its wings, so that the wind nearly took off the heads of the sailors, and it flew past the fir with such force that it turned the lad right about, but he was ready with his sword, and gave the bird one blow and brought it down dead.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000000|After that he went to the town, where every one was glad because the king had got his daughter back; but now the king had hidden her away somewhere himself, and promised her hand as a reward to any one who could find her, and this though she was betrothed before.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000002|At last the news came to the king's ears, that there never had been such fun in the town before, for here was a white bear that danced and cut capers just as it was bid.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000003|So a messenger came to say the bear must come to the castle at once, for the king wanted to see its tricks.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000004|So when it got to the castle every one was afraid, for such a beast they had never seen before; but the captain said there was no danger unless they laughed at it.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000005|They mustn't do that, else it would tear them to pieces.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000006|When the king heard that, he warned all the court not to laugh.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000007|But while the fun was going on, in came one of the king's maids, and began to laugh and make game of the bear, and the bear flew at her and tore her, so that there was scarce a rag of her left.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000008|Then all the court began to bewail, and the captain most of all.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000084_000001|'It's no good your going away, when it's so late', said the king.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000084_000002|'The bear had best sleep here.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000085_000000|'Perhaps it might sleep in the ingle by the kitchen fire', said the captain.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000000|But at midnight the king came with a lamp in his hand and a big bunch of keys, and carried off the white bear.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000001|He passed along gallery after gallery, through doors and rooms, up stairs and down stairs, till at last he came to a pier which ran out into the sea.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000002|Then the king began to pull and haul at posts and pins, this one up and that one down, till at last a little house floated up to the water's edge. There he kept his daughter, for she was so dear to him that he had hid her, so that no one could find her out.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000003|He left the white bear outside while he went in and told her how it had danced and played its pranks.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000005|So they brought the bear in, and locked the door, and it danced and played its tricks; but just when the fun was at its height, the Princess's maid began to laugh.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000006|Then the lad flew at her and tore her to bits, and the Princess began to cry and sob.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000088_000000|'Stuff and nonsense', cried the king; 'all this fuss about a maid! I'll get you just as good a one again.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000089_000000|'Well!' said the Princess, 'if it sleeps here, I'm sure I won't.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000000|But just then the bear curled himself up and lay down by the stove; and it was settled at last that the Princess should sleep there too, with a light burning.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000001|But as soon as the king was well gone, the white bear came and begged her to undo his collar.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000002|The Princess was so scared she almost swooned away; but she felt about till she found the collar, and she had scarce undone it before the bear pulled his head off.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000005|So in the morning when they heard the king rattling at the posts outside, the lad drew on the hide, and lay down by the stove.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000091_000000|'Well, has it lain still?' the king asked.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000092_000000|'I should think so', said the Princess; 'it hasn't so much as turned or stretched itself once.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000093_000000|When they got up to the castle again, the captain took the bear and led it away, and then the lad threw off the hide, and went to a tailor and ordered clothes fit for a prince; and when they were fitted on he went to the king, and said he wanted to find the Princess.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000094_000000|'You're not the first who has wished the same thing', said the king, 'but they have all lost their lives; for if any one who tries can't find her in four and twenty hours his life is forfeited.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000000|Yes; the lad knew all that.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000001|Still he wished to try, and if he couldn't find her, 'twas his look out.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000002|Now in the castle there was a band that played sweet tunes, and there were fair maids to dance with, and so the lad danced away.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000003|When twelve hours were gone, the king said:
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000096_000000|'I pity you with all my heart.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000097_000000|'Stuff!' said the lad; 'while there's life there's hope!
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000101_000000|So the lad went the same way which the king had led him the night before, and he bade the king unlock door after door till they came down to the pier which ran out into the sea.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000103_000000|'Still five minutes more', said the lad, as he pulled and pushed at the posts and pins, and the house floated up.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000104_000000|'Now the time is up', bawled the king; 'come hither, headsman, and take off his head.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000105_000000|'Nay, nay!' said the lad; 'stop a bit, there are still three minutes! Out with the key, and let me get into this house.'
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000106_000000|But there stood the king and fumbled with his keys, to draw out the time.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000106_000001|At last he said he hadn't any key.
train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000108_000000|At the door the Princess met him, and told her father this was her deliverer, on whom her heart was set.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000001_000000|NOT A PIN TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000000|Once on a time there was a man, and he had a wife.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000001|Now this couple wanted to sow their fields, but they had neither seed corn nor money to buy it with.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000002|But they had a cow, and the man was to drive it into town and sell it, to get money to buy corn for seed.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000003|But when it came to the pinch, the wife dared not let her husband start for fear he should spend the money in drink, so she set off herself with the cow, and took besides a hen with her.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000003_000000|Close by the town she met a butcher, who asked:
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000004_000000|'Will you sell that cow, Goody?'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000007_000001|I must have five shillings for the cow, but you shall have the hen for ten pounds.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000008_000000|'Very good!' said the man; 'I don't want the hen, and you'll soon get it off your hands in the town, but I'll give you five shillings for the cow.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000009_000000|Well, she sold her cow for five shillings, but there was no one in the town who would give ten pounds for a lean tough old hen, so she went back to the butcher, and said:
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000010_000000|'Do all I can, I can't get rid of this hen, master! you must take it too, as you took the cow.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000011_000001|But while she slept, the butcher took and dipped her into a tar barrel, and then laid her down on a heap of feathers; and when she woke up, she was feathered all over, and began to wonder what had befallen her.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000000|'Is it me, or is it not me?
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000001|No, it can never be me; it must be some great strange bird.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000002|But what shall I do to find out whether it is me or not.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000003|Oh!
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000004|I know how I shall be able to tell whether it is me; if the calves come and lick me, and our dog Tray doesn't bark at me when I get home, then it must be me, and no one else.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000014_000000|'Ah, deary me', said she, 'I thought so; it can't be me surely.' So she went to the straw yard, and the calves wouldn't lick her, when they snuffed in the strong smell of tar.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000014_000001|'No, no!' she said, 'it can't be me; it must be some strange outlandish bird.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000015_000000|So she crept up on the roof of the safe and began to flap her arms, as if they had been wings, and was just going to fly off.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000018_000000|'If it's you', said her husband, 'don't stand up there like a goat on a house top, but come down and let me hear what you have to say for yourself.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000019_000000|So she crawled down again, but she hadn't a shilling to shew, for the crown she had got from the butcher she had thrown away in her drunkenness.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000020_000000|So he toddled off, and when he had walked a little way he saw a Goody, who was running in and out of a newly built wooden cottage with an empty sieve, and every time she ran in, she threw her apron over the sieve just as if she had something in it, and when she got in she turned it upside down on the floor.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000021_000000|'Why, Goody!' he asked, 'what are you doing?'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000022_000000|'Oh', she answered, 'I'm only carrying in a little sun; but I don't know how it is, when I'm outside, I have the sun in my sieve, but when I get inside, somehow or other I've thrown it away.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000022_000001|But in my old cottage I had plenty of sun, though I never carried in the least bit.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000022_000002|I only wish I knew some one who would bring the sun inside; I'd give him three hundred dollars and welcome.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000023_000000|'Have you got an axe?' asked the man.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000024_000000|So he got an axe and cut windows in the cottage, for the carpenters had forgotten them; then the sun shone in, and he got his three hundred dollars.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000025_000000|'That was one of them', said the man to himself, as he went on his way.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000026_000000|After a while he passed by a house, out of which came an awful screaming and bellowing; so he turned in and saw a Goody, who was hard at work banging her husband across the head with a beetle, and over his head she had drawn a shirt without any slit for the neck.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000028_000000|'No', she said, 'I only must have a hole in this shirt for his neck to come through.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000029_000000|All the while the husband kept on screaming and calling out:
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000032_000000|So he got a pair of scissors, and snipped a hole in the neck, and went off with his three hundred dollars.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000033_000000|'That was another of them', he said to himself, as he walked along.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000034_000000|Last of all, he came to a farm, where he made up his mind to rest a bit.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000034_000001|So when he went in, the mistress asked him:
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000035_000000|'Whence do you come, master?'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000036_000000|'Oh!' said he, 'I come from Paradise Place', for that was the name of his farm.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000037_000000|'From Paradise Place!' she cried, 'you don't say so!
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000037_000001|Why, then, you must know my second husband peter, who is dead and gone, God rest his soul.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000038_000000|For you must know this Goody had been married three times, and as her first and last husbands had been bad, she had made up her mind that the second only was gone to heaven.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000040_000000|'Well', asked the Goody, 'how do things go with him, poor dear soul?'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000041_000001|As for money, he hasn't a sixpence to bless himself with.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000000|'Mercy on me', cried out the Goody; 'he never ought to go about such a figure when he left so much behind him.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000001|Why, there's a whole cupboard full of old clothes up stairs which belonged to him, besides a great chest full of money yonder.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000002|Now, if you will take them with you, you shall have a horse and cart to carry them.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000003|As for the horse, he can keep it, and sit on the cart, and drive about from house to house, and then he needn't trudge on foot.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000043_000000|So the man got a whole cart load of clothes, and a chest full of shining dollars, and as much meat and drink as he would; and when he had got all he wanted, he jumped into the cart and drove off.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000044_000000|'That was the third', he said to himself, as he went along.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000046_000000|'Well, well, if I ever!' he said, as peter the third came riding up. 'No!
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000047_000000|Then peter stood and looked at him for some time, wondering what had come over him; but at last he asked:
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000048_000000|'What do you lie there staring at?'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000049_000000|'No', kept on the man, 'I never did see anything like it!--here is a man going straight up to heaven on a black horse, and here you see his horse's tail still hanging in this birch; and yonder up in the sky you see the black horse.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000050_000000|peter looked first at the man, and then at the sky, and said:
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000051_000000|'I see nothing but the horse hair in the birch; that's all I see!'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000052_000000|'Of course you can't where you stand', said the man; 'but just come and lie down here, and stare straight up, and mind you don't take your eyes off the sky; and then you shall see what you shall see.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000053_000000|But while peter the third lay and stared up at the sky till his eyes filled with tears, the man from Paradise Place took his horse and jumped on its back and rode off both with it and the cart and horse.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000054_000000|When the hoofs thundered along the road, peter the third jumped up; but he was so taken aback when he found the man had gone off with his horse that he hadn't the sense to run after him till it was too late.
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000055_000000|He was rather down in the mouth when he got home to his Goody; but when she asked him what he had done with the horse, he said,
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000056_000000|'I gave it to the man too for peter the second, for I thought it wasn't right he should sit in a cart, and scramble about from house to house; so now he can sell the cart and buy himself a coach to drive about in.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000057_000000|'Thank you heartily!' said his wife; 'I never thought you could be so kind.'
train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000058_000000|Well, when the man reached home, who had got the six hundred dollars and the cart load of clothes and money, he saw that all his fields were ploughed and sown, and the first thing he asked his wife was, where she had got the seed corn from.
train-clean-360/3187/168497/3187_168497_000018_000000|THE JOCOSE GODS
train-clean-360/3187/168497/3187_168497_000021_000000|WAR
train-clean-360/3215/5757/3215_5757_000022_000002|No, Halbert!
train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000008_000001|Besides, look at our country; God's gift of freedom is stamped upon it.
train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000008_000002|Our mountains are his seal.
train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000010_000000|Lady Mar looked at her.
train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000027_000000|"Then it is worthy its destination.
train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000029_000001|Thus time flew, till the sand glass told her it was the eighth hour.
train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000009_000002|"Oh!" cried she, "to what am I betrayed?
train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000010_000000|Thunder now peaked over her head, and lightning shot across the mountains.
train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000023_000000|"My lord," answered the affrighted woman, "you know best.
train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000023_000001|You terrified the poor young creature.
train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000025_000001|You have slain her!"
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty seven.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000002_000000|WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000003_000001|God bless me, how he hated them, that same apothecary! And so what I'm thinking is, if all duennas, of whatever sort or condition they may be, are plagues and busybodies, what must they be that are distressed, like this Countess Three skirts or Three tails!--for in my country skirts or tails, tails or skirts, it's all one."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000004_000000|"Hush, friend Sancho," said Don Quixote; "since this lady duenna comes in quest of me from such a distant land she cannot be one of those the apothecary meant; moreover this is a countess, and when countesses serve as duennas it is in the service of queens and empresses, for in their own houses they are mistresses paramount and have other duennas to wait on them."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000006_000000|"For all that," said Sancho, "there's so much to be clipped about duennas, so my barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even though it sticks.'"
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000007_000002|By my faith, if it were permitted me and time allowed, I could prove, not only to those here present, but to all the world, that there is no virtue that is not to be found in a duenna."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000009_000000|To which Sancho replied, "Ever since I have sniffed the governorship I have got rid of the humours of a squire, and I don't care a wild fig for all the duennas in the world."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000010_000000|They would have carried on this duenna dispute further had they not heard the notes of the fife and drums once more, from which they concluded that the Distressed Duenna was making her entrance.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000010_000001|The duchess asked the duke if it would be proper to go out to receive her, as she was a countess and a person of rank.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000011_000000|"In respect of her being a countess," said Sancho, before the duke could reply, "I am for your highnesses going out to receive her; but in respect of her being a duenna, it is my opinion you should not stir a step."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000014_000000|"Sancho is right," said the duke; "we'll see what the countess is like, and by that measure the courtesy that is due to her."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000016_000000|CHAPTER thirty eight.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000017_000000|WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000019_000003|On seeing this the duke, the duchess, and Don Quixote went some twelve paces forward to meet her.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000023_000001|I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose calling it is to give aid to the needy of all sorts; and that being so, it is not necessary for you, senora, to make any appeal to benevolence, or deal in preambles, only to tell your woes plainly and straightforwardly: for you have hearers that will know how, if not to remedy them, to sympathise with them."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000026_000003|Then, it must not be supposed her intelligence was childish; she was as intelligent as she was fair, and she was fairer than all the world; and is so still, unless the envious fates and hard hearted sisters three have cut for her the thread of life.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000026_000004|But that they have not, for Heaven will not suffer so great a wrong to Earth, as it would be to pluck unripe the grapes of the fairest vineyard on its surface.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000028_000001|Another time he sang:
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000029_000000|Come Death, so subtly veiled that I Thy coming know not, how or when, Lest it should give me life again To find how sweet it is to die.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000030_000009|No, no, not that; marriage must come first in any business of this sort that I take in hand.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000032_000000|"I will," replied the countess.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000035_000000|By every word that Sancho uttered, the duchess was as much delighted as Don Quixote was driven to desperation.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000036_000000|"She died, no doubt," said Sancho.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000039_000000|"Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for with a knight errant, if he has but two fingers' breadth of good fortune, it is on the cards to become the mightiest lord on earth.
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000039_000001|But let senora the Distressed One proceed; for I suspect she has got yet to tell us the bitter part of this so far sweet story."
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000041_000001|Don Quixote and Sancho were overwhelmed with amazement, and the bystanders lost in astonishment, while the Trifaldi went on to say: "Thus did that malevolent villain Malambruno punish us, covering the tenderness and softness of our faces with these rough bristles!
train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000041_000004|What father or mother will feel pity for her?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000002_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000003_000000|THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF LIFE HAS ALREADY ARISEN IN OUR SOCIETY, AND WILL INFALLIBLY PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF OUR LIFE BASED ON FORCE-WHEN THAT WILL BE.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000005_000000|The position of Christian humanity with its prisons, galleys, gibbets, its factories and accumulation of capital, its taxes, churches, gin palaces, licensed brothels, its ever increasing armament and its millions of brutalized men, ready, like chained dogs, to attack anyone against whom their master incites them, would be terrible indeed if it were the product of violence, but it is pre eminently the product of public opinion.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000005_000001|And what has been established by public opinion can be destroyed by public opinion-and, indeed, is being destroyed by public opinion.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000007_000000|And to bring this to pass, nothing new need be brought before men's minds.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000007_000001|Only let the mist, which veils from men's eyes the true meaning of certain acts of violence, pass away, and the Christian public opinion which is springing up would overpower the extinct public opinion which permitted and justified acts of violence.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000001|But the rising Christian ideal, which must at a certain stage of development replace the heathen ideal of life, already makes its influence felt.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000002|A dead tree stands apparently as firmly as ever-it may even seem firmer because it is harder-but it is rotten at the core, and soon must fall.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000003|It is just so with the present order of society, based on force.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000004|The external aspect is unchanged.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000009_000000|The oppressors, that is, those who take part in government, and those who profit by oppression, that is, the rich, no longer imagine, as they once did, that they are the elect of the world, and that they constitute the ideal of human happiness and greatness, to attain which was once the highest aim of the oppressed.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000012_000000|The position of a government official or of a rich man is no longer, as it once was, and still is among non Christian peoples, regarded as necessarily honorable and deserving of respect, and under the special blessing of God.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000012_000001|The most delicate and moral people (they are generally also the most cultivated) avoid such positions and prefer more humble callings that are not dependent on the use of force.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000014_000001|They are the men whose praises are celebrated in poetry, who are honored by sculpture and received with triumphant jubilations.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000015_000000|The best men of our day are all striving for such places of honor. Consequently the class from which the wealthy and the government officials are drawn grows less in number and lower in intelligence and education, and still more in moral qualities.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000016_000001|One may often nowadays hear from persons in authority the naive complaint that the best people are always, by some strange-as it seems to them-fatality, to be found in the camp of the opposition.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000018_000004|And even this duty they perform less and less successfully.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000018_000005|The majority of them do not keep up their old unapproachable majesty, but become more and more democratized and even vulgarized, casting aside the external prestige that remained to them, and thereby destroying the very thing it was their function to maintain.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000000|It is just the same with the army.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000002|In the last plots against the Russian Government many of the conspirators were in the army.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000004|And it often happens (there was a case, indeed, within the last few days) that when called upon to quell disturbances they refuse to fire upon the people.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000005|Military exploits are openly reprobated by the military themselves, and are often the subject of jests among them.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000020_000003|The prosecutors themselves often refuse to proceed, and even when they do proceed, often in spite of the law, really defend those they ought to be accusing.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000020_000004|The learned jurists whose business it is to justify the violence of authority, are more and more disposed to deny the right of punishment and to replace it by theories of irresponsibility and even of moral insanity, proposing to deal with those they call criminals by medical treatment only.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000000|Jailers and overseers of galleys generally become the champions of those whom they ought to torture.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000005|Governors, police officials, tax collectors often have compassion on the people and try to find pretexts for not collecting the tax from them.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000006|The rich are not at ease in spending their wealth only on themselves, and lavish it on works of public utility.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000008|Millowners and manufacturers build hospitals, schools, savings banks, asylums, and dwellings for their workpeople.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000009|Some of them form co-operative associations in which they have shares on the same terms as the others. Capitalists expend a part of their capital on educational, artistic, philanthropic, and other public institutions.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000022_000000|All these phenomena might seem to be mere exceptions, except that they can all be referred to one common cause.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000022_000001|Just as one might fancy the first leaves on the budding trees in April were exceptional if we did not know that they all have a common cause, the spring, and that if we see the branches on some trees shooting and turning green, it is certain that it will soon be so with all.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000024_000001|And when there are no longer men willing to fill these offices, these offices themselves will disappear too.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000025_000000|But this is not the only way in which public opinion is leading men to the abolition of the prevailing order and the substitution of a new order.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000025_000001|As the positions based on the rule of force become less attractive and fewer men are found willing to fill them, the more will their uselessness be apparent.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000026_000000|Everywhere throughout the Christian world the same rulers, and the same governments, the same armies, the same law courts, the same tax gatherers, the same priests, the same rich men, landowners, manufacturers, and capitalists, as ever, but the attitude of the world to them, and their attitude to themselves is altogether changed.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000028_000001|One year, ten, twenty years pass by.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000028_000002|And it becomes less and less possible to rely on the army for the pacification of riots, and more and more evident, consequently, that generals, and officers, and soldiers are only figures in solemn processions-objects of amusement for governments-a sort of immense-and far too expensive-CORPS DE BALLET.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000029_000000|The same lawyers and judges, and the same assizes, but it becomes more and more evident that the civil courts decide cases on the most diverse grounds, but regardless of justice, and that criminal trials are quite senseless, because the punishments do not attain the objects aimed at by the judges themselves.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000030_000000|The same priests and archbishops and churches and synods, but it becomes more and more evident that they have long ago ceased to believe in what they preach, and therefore they can convince no one of the necessity of believing what they don't believe themselves.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000031_000000|The same tax collectors, but they are less and less capable of taking men's property from them by force, and it becomes more and more evident that people can collect all that is necessary by voluntary subscription without their aid.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000032_000000|The same rich men, but it becomes more and more evident that they can only be of use by ceasing to administer their property in person and giving up to society the whole or at least a part of their wealth.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000033_000001|Wouldn't it be better, as some humorist suggested, to make a queen of india rubber?"
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000034_000000|And what good to us are these armies with their generals and bands and horses and drums?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000035_000000|And what is the use of these lawyers and judges who don't decide civil cases with justice and recognize themselves the uselessness of punishments in criminal cases?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000036_000000|And what is the use of tax collectors who collect the taxes unwillingly, when it is easy to raise all that is wanted without them?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000038_000000|And what is the use of capital in the hands of private persons, when it can only be of use as the property of all?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000040_000000|But even before those who support these institutions decide to abolish them, the men who occupy these positions will be reduced to the necessity of throwing them up.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000041_000001|And hence they must become more and more superfluous.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000000|I once took part in Moscow in a religious meeting which used to take place generally in the week after Easter near the church in the Ohotny Row.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000002|It was absolutely unnecessary for the officer to disperse it.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000003|A group of twenty men was no obstruction to anyone, but he had been standing there the whole morning, and he wanted to do something.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000005|It might do you good"; and turning round he continued his discourse.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000006|The policeman turned his horse and went off without a word.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000043_000000|That is just what should be done in all cases of violence.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000000|The officer was bored, he had nothing to do.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000001|He had been put, poor fellow, in a position in which he had no choice but to give orders.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000003|And this is the position in which all these unlucky rulers, ministers, members of parliament, governors, generals, officers, archbishops, priests, and even rich men find themselves to some extent already, and will find themselves altogether as time goes on.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000004|They can do nothing but give orders, and they give orders and send their messengers, as the officer sent the policeman, to interfere with people.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000005|And because the people they hinder turn to them and request them not to interfere, they fancy they are very useful indeed.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000046_000000|The time will come and is inevitably coming when all institutions based on force will disappear through their uselessness, stupidity, and even inconvenience becoming obvious to all.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000001|And to him came two tailors, who promised to make him some extraordinary clothes.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000002|The emperor engages them and they begin to sew at them, but they explain that the clothes have the extraordinary property of remaining invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000006|The day of the procession comes in which the emperor is to go out in his new clothes.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000007|The emperor undresses and puts on his new clothes, that is to say, remains naked, and naked he walks through the town.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000008|But remembering the magic property of the clothes, no one ventures to say that he has nothing on till a little child cries out: "Look, he is naked!"
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000050_000002|All those things are the work of men.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000050_000004|And already they are beginning to understand it.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000052_000000|But when will it be?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000053_000003|For it may come any time, in such an hour as ye think not.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000054_000002|Men cannot know when the day and the hour of the kingdom of God will come, because its coming depends on themselves alone.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000055_000000|The answer is like that of the wise man who, when asked whether it was far to the town, answered, "Walk!"
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000056_000000|How can we tell whether it is far to the goal which humanity is approaching, when we do not know how men are going toward it, while it depends on them whether they go or do not go, stand still, slacken their pace or hasten it?
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000056_000001|All we can know is what we who make up mankind ought to do, and not to do, to bring about the coming of the kingdom of God.
train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000056_000002|And that we all know.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000002_000000|If You Read It in Stanley Browne
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000003_000001|Going to a bartending machine, von Schlichten dialed the cocktail they had decided upon and inserted his key to charge the drinks to his account, filling a four portion jug.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000004_000000|As they turned away, they almost collided with Hideyoshi O'Leary and Paula Quinton.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000005_000001|"Feel better, now?...
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000005_000002|Miss Quinton, this is Lieutenant Governor Blount.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000005_000003|Eric, Miss Paula Quinton."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000006_000000|"Delighted, Miss Quinton," Blount said.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000006_000001|"Carlos tells us he found you standing over poor Mohammed Ferriera, fighting like a commando.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000006_000003|No danger, I hope; we all like him."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000007_000000|Mohammed Ferriera was still unconscious, the girl reported; he had a minor concussion, but the medics were not greatly disturbed, and expected him to be fully recovered in a few weeks.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000007_000001|Von Schlichten invited her and her escort to join him and Blount.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000008_000000|"I suppose you think it's a joke, our being nearly murdered by the people we came to help," Paula began, a trifle defensively.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000009_000001|"It's been played on us till it's lost its humor."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000012_000001|"When you get up north, watch how the peasants kill these little things like six legged iguanas that they raise for food."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000013_000000|"That isn't the reason, though," von Schlichten said.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000013_000001|"As we use it, the word's pure onomatopoeia.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000015_000001|Even in the absence of any native, she used her handkerchief to mask the act.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000016_000002|"Why, that's exactly how they'd pronounce it!"
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000017_000003|That's Rakkeed the Prophet's whole gospel."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000018_000000|"So you see," Eric Blount rammed home the moral, "this is just another case of nobody with any right to call anybody else's kettle black.... Cigarette?"
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000019_000001|"I suspect that of being a principle you'd like me to bear in mind at the polar mines, when I see, let's say, some laborer being beaten by a couple of overseers with three foot lengths of three quarter inch steel cable."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000020_000003|And most of the geek landowners are bitterly critical of the way we treat our labor at the mines; they claim we make them dissatisfied with the treatment they get at home."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000021_000000|"Of course, they're always glad to have the peasants taken off their hands during a slack agricultural season," Blount added, "and we train workers to handle contragravity power equipment.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000021_000001|I won't deny that there's a lot of unnecessary brutality on the part of the native foremen and overseers, which we're trying, gradually, to eliminate. You'll have to remember, though, that we're dealing with a naturally brutal race."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000022_000001|"That's been SOP on every planet our Association's had any experience with."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000024_000000|"Well, I must admit, the Ullerans who work there are very well treated.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000026_000000|"I put in two years there, too," Blount supported him.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000026_000002|You know what the setup is, there, don't you? The Terran Federation Space Navy discovered and explored both Uller and Niflheim, which made both planets public domain.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000001|"You know what the seasons are like, at the poles of this planet.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000003|There's the most intense sort of thermal erosion you can imagine-the ice cap melts in the spring to a sea, which boils away completely by the middle of the summer.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000005|Then, when the winds fall, we move in for a couple of months. It isn't really mining, or even quarrying; we just scoop up ore from the surface, load it onto ore boats, and fly it down to Skilk and Krink and Grank, where it's smelted through the winter.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000007|In the north, metallurgy and food preparation have always been combined that way."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000033_000000|"That's a fair question," Blount replied, inverting a cocktail jug over his glass to extract the last few drops.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000034_000001|"They're the nomads who hire out to the northern merchants as caravan drivers, and also prey, or used to prey, on the caravans as brigands.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000035_000000|Both jugs were empty.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000036_000003|At Skilk, Rakkeed comes and goes openly; at Krink he has a price on his head."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000039_000000|"Oh, but they're just a parasite race on the Terrans," dr Paula Quinton objected.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000039_000001|"You find races like that all through the explored galaxy-pathetic cultural mongrels."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000040_000002|Blount told him.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000041_000000|"Ha!
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000043_000000|"Stanley Browne is one author you can depend on," O'Leary assured her. "If you read it in Stanley Browne, it's wrong.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000044_000000|Von Schlichten allowed himself to be smitten by an idea.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000044_000004|That's four days from today."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000045_000000|"I'm sure I could.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000045_000001|Why?"
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000046_000003|That would give us about two to three hours.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000046_000004|If you think the Kragans are 'pathetic cultural mongrels,' what you'll see there will open your eyes.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000002|They raided into Konkrook and Keegark territory, too.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000003|Well, we had to break that up.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000007|We've taught them a lot-you'll see how much when you visit their town-but they aren't cultural mongrels.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000008|You'll like them."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000049_000000|"Well, general, I'll take you up," she said.
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000049_000001|"But I warn you; if this is some scheme to indoctrinate me with the Uller Company's side of the case and blind me to unjust exploitation of the natives here, I don't propagandize very easily."
train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000050_000001|Just stay scientific about it and I'll be satisfied.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000000_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000002_000001|Being all come aboard, they consider where to get provisions, especially flesh, seeing they scarce eat anything else; and of this the most common sort is pork; the next food is tortoises, which they salt a little: sometimes they rob such or such hog yards, where the Spaniards often have a thousand head of swine together.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000002|No prey, no pay.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000003|First, therefore, they mention how much the captain is to have for his ship; next, the salary of the carpenter, or shipwright, who careened, mended, and rigged the vessel: this commonly amounts to one hundred or one hundred and fifty pieces of eight, according to the agreement.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000004|Afterwards, for provisions and victualling, they draw out of the same common stock about two hundred pieces of eight; also a salary for the surgeon, and his chest of medicaments, which usually is rated at two hundred or two hundred and fifty pieces of eight.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000006|All which sums are taken out of the common stock of what is gotten by their piracy, and a very exact and equal dividend is made of the remainder.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000004_000003|They refresh themselves at one island or another, but especially at those on the south of Cuba; here they careen their vessels, while some hunt, and others cruise in canoes for prizes.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000005_000001|The pirates knowing these seasons (being very diligent in their inquiries) always cruise between the places above mentioned; but in case they light on no considerable booty, they commonly undertake some more hazardous enterprises: one remarkable instance of which I shall here give you.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000006_000002|Every vessel has at least two negroes in it, who are very dextrous in diving to the depth of six fathoms, where they find good store of pearls.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000008_000002|All of which would have made this a greater prize than he could desire, which he had certainly carried off, if his main mast had not been lost, as we said before.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000000|Another bold attempt like this, no less remarkable, I shall also give you.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000001|A certain pirate of Portugal, thence called Bartholomew Portugues, was cruising in a boat of thirty men and four small guns from Jamaica, upon the Cape de Corriente in Cuba, where he met a great ship from Maracaibo and Carthagena, bound for the Havannah, well provided with twenty great guns and seventy men, passengers and mariners; this ship he presently assaulted, which they on board as resolutely defended.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000003|The Portuguese lost only ten men, and had four wounded; so that he had still remaining twenty fighting men, whereas the Spaniards had double the number.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000004|Having possessed themselves of the ship, the wind being contrary to return to Jamaica, they resolved to steer to Cape saint Anthony (which lies west of Cuba), there to repair and take in fresh water, of which they were then in great want.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000010_000002|Two days after this misfortune, there arose a great storm, which separated the ships from one another.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000013_000000|Those of the city next day made diligent search for him in the woods, where they concluded him to be.
train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000015_000000|Being masters of the ship, they immediately weighed anchor and set sail from the port, lest they should be pursued by other vessels.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000001_000000|Nor less considerable are the actions of another pirate who now lives at Jamaica, who on several occasions has performed very surprising things. He was born at Groninghen in the United Provinces.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000002_000001|One day some of the mariners quarrelled with their captain to that degree, that they left the boat. Brasiliano following them, was chosen their leader, who having fitted out a small vessel, they made him captain.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000000|To the Spaniards he was always very barbarous and cruel, out of an inveterate hatred against that nation.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000001|Of these he commanded several to be roasted alive on wooden spits, for not showing him hog yards where he might steal swine.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000005|Brasiliano, perceiving their imminent danger, encouraged his companions, telling them they were better soldiers, and ought rather to die under their arms fighting, as it became men of courage, than surrender to the Spaniards, who would take away their lives with the utmost torments.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000006|The pirates were but thirty; yet, seeing their brave commander oppose the enemy with such courage, resolved to do the like: hereupon they faced the troop of Spaniards, and discharged their muskets on them so dextrously, that they killed one horseman almost with every shot.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000007|The fight continued for an hour, till at last the Spaniards were put to flight.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000008|They stripped the dead, and took from them what was most for their use; such as were also not quite dead they dispatched with the ends of their muskets.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000005_000000|Having vanquished the enemy, they mounted on horses they found in the field, and continued their journey; Brasiliano having lost but two of his companions in this bloody fight, and had two wounded.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000005_000002|Having given notice to their companions, they boarded them, and also took the little man of war, their convoy.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000005_000003|Being thus masters of this fleet, they wanted only provisions, of which they found little aboard those vessels: but this defect was supplied by the horses, which they killed, and salted with salt, which by good fortune the wood cutters had brought with them, with which they supported themselves till they could get better.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000006_000001|Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night, not leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000006_000002|My own master would buy sometimes a pipe of wine, and, placing it in the street, would force those that passed by to drink with him, threatening also to pistol them if they would not.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000006_000003|He would do the like with barrels of beer or ale; and very often he would throw these liquors about the streets, and wet peoples' clothes without regarding whether he spoiled their apparel.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000007_000001|In taverns and alehouses they have great credit; but at Jamaica they ought not to run very deep in debt, seeing the inhabitants there easily sell one another for debt.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000007_000002|This happened to my patron, to be sold for a debt of a tavern wherein he had spent the greatest part of his money.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000009_000002|They got in this voyage, all together, five hundred pieces of eight; so that they tarried not long there after their arrival.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000009_000003|Providing themselves with necessaries, they returned to Jamaica, from whence they set forth again to sea, committing greater robberies and cruelties than before; but especially abusing the poor Spaniards, who fell into their hands, with all sorts of cruelty.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000010_000001|But neither was this of any service; for the pirates, finding few ships at sea, began to gather into companies, and to land on their dominions, ruining cities, towns, and villages; pillaging, burning, and carrying away as much as they could.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000011_000004|But the bold attempts and actions of john Davis, born at Jamaica, ought not to be forgotten, being some of the most remarkable; especially his rare prudence and valour showed in the fore mentioned kingdom of Granada.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000011_000005|This pirate, having long cruised in the Gulf of Pocatauro, on the ships expected to Carthagena, bound for Nicaragua, and not meeting any of them, resolved at last to land in Nicaragua, leaving his ship hid on the coast.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000001|His intent was to rob the churches, and rifle the houses of the chief citizens of Nicaragua.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000003|Being arrived at the city the third night, the sentinel, who kept the post of the river, thought them to be fishermen that had been fishing in the lake: and most of the pirates understanding Spanish, he doubted not, as soon as he heard them speak. They had in their company an Indian who had run away from his master, who would have enslaved him unjustly.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000004|He went first ashore, and instantly killed the sentinel: this done, they entered the city, and went directly to three or four houses of the chief citizens, where they knocked softly.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000005|These, believing them to be friends, opened the doors; and the pirates, suddenly possessing themselves of the houses, stole all the money and plate they could find.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000006|Nor did they spare the churches and most sacred things; all of which were pillaged and profaned, without any respect or veneration.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000013_000001|Thus they got to their ship, and with all speed put to sea, forcing the prisoners, before they let them go, to procure them as much flesh as was necessary for their voyage to Jamaica.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000013_000002|But no sooner had they weighed anchor, when they saw a troop of about five hundred Spaniards, all well armed, at the sea side: against these they let fly several guns, wherewith they forced them to quit the sands, and retire, with no small regret to see these pirates carry away so much plate of their churches and houses, though distant at least forty leagues from the sea.
train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000014_000002|He began his new command by directing his fleet to the north of Cuba, there to wait for the fleet from New Spain; but missing his design, they determined for Florida.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000000|Our pirates therefore had many canoes of the Indians in the isle of Sambale, five leagues from the coasts of Jucatan.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000001|Here is great quantity of amber, but especially when any storm arises from towards the east; whence the waves bring many things, and very different.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000002|Through this sea no vessels can pass, unless very small, it being too shallow.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000003|In the lands that are surrounded by this sea, is found much Campechy wood, and other things that serve for dyeing, much esteemed in Europe, and would be more, if we had the skill of the Indians, who make a dye or tincture that never fades.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000004_000000|The ship being taken, they found not in her what they thought, being already almost unladen.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000006_000002|They brought away some of the inhabitants as prisoners, with all they had, which was of no great importance, by reason of the poverty of the place, which exerciseth no other trade than working in the mines, where some of the inhabitants constantly attend, while none seek for gold, but only slaves.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000009_000001|From the bottom of the sea I saw them take up an anchor of six hundredweight, tying a cable to it with great dexterity, and pulling it from a rock.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000009_000002|Their arms are made of wood, without any iron point; but some instead thereof use a crocodile's tooth.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000009_000008|The nimble Frenchman escaped; but the Spaniard being not so swift, was taken and heard of no more.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000010_000004|They had good provision of Spanish wheat, bananas, racoven, and other things; with the wheat they made bread, and baked it in portable ovens, brought with them.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000012_000005|Hither Lolonois came (brought by his evil conscience that cried for punishment), thinking to act his cruelties; but the Indians within a few days after his arrival took him prisoner, and tore him in pieces alive, throwing his body limb by limb into the fire, and his ashes into the air, that no trace or memory might remain of such an infamous, inhuman creature.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000012_000006|One of his companions gave me an exact account of this tragedy, affirming that himself had escaped the same punishment with the greatest difficulty; he believed also that many of his comrades, who were taken in that encounter by those Indians, were, as their cruel captain, torn in pieces and burnt alive.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000013_000001|This fellow came from Jamaica, with intent to land at Gracias a Dios, and from thence to enter the river with his canoes, and take the city of Carthagena.
train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000013_000004|These, because they were now considerably strengthened, to effect with greater satisfaction their designs. Hereupon, as soon as they were arrived at Gracias a Dios, they all put themselves into canoes, and entered the river, being five hundred men, leaving only five or six persons in each ship to keep them.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000001|When Sir Percivale saw him do so he marvelled what he meant.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000004|Alas, said Sir Percivale, what have I done?
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000005|I was sent by the queen for to seek you, and so I have sought you nigh this two year, and yonder is Sir Ector de Maris, your brother abideth me on the other side of the yonder water.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000006|Now for God's sake, said Sir Percivale, forgive me mine offences that I have here done.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000007|It is soon forgiven, said Sir Launcelot.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000003_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000000|NOW leave we Sir Launcelot in the Joyous Isle with the Lady Dame Elaine, and Sir Percivale and Sir Ector playing with them, and turn we to Sir Bors de Ganis and Sir Lionel, that had sought Sir Launcelot nigh by the space of two year, and never could they hear of him.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000001|And as they thus rode, by adventure they came to the house of Brandegore, and there Sir Bors was well known, for he had gotten a child upon the king's daughter fifteen year to fore, and his name was Helin le Blank.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000002|And when Sir Bors saw that child it liked him passing well.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000003|And so those knights had good cheer of the King Brandegore.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000005|Sir, said the king, ye may well take him with you, but he is over tender of age.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000006|As for that, said Sir Bors, I will have him with me, and bring him to the house of most worship of the world.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000007|So when Sir Bors should depart there was made great sorrow for the departing of Helin le Blank, and great weeping was there made.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000008|But Sir Bors and Sir Lionel departed, and within a while they came to Camelot, where was King Arthur.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000000|Now will we turn to our matter of Sir Launcelot.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000001|It befell upon a day Sir Ector and Sir Percivale came to Sir Launcelot and asked him what he would do, and whether he would go with them unto King Arthur or not.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000002|Nay, said Sir Launcelot, that may not be by no mean, for I was so entreated at the court that I cast me never to come there more.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000003|Sir, said Sir Ector, I am your brother, and ye are the man in the world that I love most; and if I understood that it were your disworship, ye may understand I would never counsel you thereto; but King Arthur and all his knights, and in especial Queen Guenever, made such dole and sorrow that it was marvel to hear and see.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000006_000001|And when Sir Launcelot should depart Dame Elaine made great sorrow.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000006_000002|My lord, Sir Launcelot, said Dame Elaine, at this same feast of Pentecost shall your son and mine, Galahad, be made knight, for he is fully now fifteen winter old.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000006_000004|As for that, said Dame Elaine, I doubt not he shall prove the best man of his kin except one.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000006_000005|Then shall he be a man good enough, said Sir Launcelot.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000000|THEN they departed, and within five days' journey they came to Camelot, that is called in English, Winchester.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000001|And when Sir Launcelot was come among them, the king and all the knights made great joy of him.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000003|And ever as Sir Ector and Sir Percivale told these tales of Sir Launcelot, Queen Guenever wept as she should have died. Then the queen made great cheer.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000004|O Jesu, said King Arthur, I marvel for what cause ye, Sir Launcelot, went out of your mind.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000007|And therewithal the king spake no more. But all Sir Launcelot's kin knew for whom he went out of his mind.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000008|And then there were great feasts made and great joy; and many great lords and ladies, when they heard that Sir Launcelot was come to the court again, they made great joy.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000009_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000010_000003|Alas, said Sir Tristram, that caused some debate betwixt him and Queen Guenever.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000000|Thereof am I glad, said Sir Tristram, and now shall ye and I make us ready, for both ye and I will be at the feast.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000004|What shall be said among all knights?
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000005|See how Sir Tristram hunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with his lady, and forsaketh your worship.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000007|Also what shall queens and ladies say of me? It is pity that I have my life, that I will hold so noble a knight as ye are from his worship.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000009|But there shall no man nor child ride with me, but myself.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000012_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000013_000001|Then Sir Tristram repented him that he was not armed, and then he hoved still.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000014_000002|That is truth, said Sir Tristram, I understand thy valiantness well.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000014_000003|Ye say well, said Sir Palomides; now, I require you, tell me a question that I shall say to you.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000014_000009|As for that I may choose, said Sir Tristram, either to ride or to abide.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000015_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000016_000001|By my head, said Tristram, as for one battle thou shalt not seek it no longer.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000016_000002|For God defend, said Sir Tristram, that through my default thou shouldst longer live thus a Saracen, for yonder is a knight that ye, Sir Palomides, have hurt and smitten down.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000016_000004|As ye will, said Palomides, so it shall be.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000001|Sir knight, said Sir Tristram, I require you tell me your right name.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000002|Sir, he said, my name is Sir Galleron of Galway, and knight of the Table Round.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000004|Sir, said the hurt knight, ye shall have it with a good will; but ye must beware, for I warn you that knight is wight.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000008|So God me help, said Sir Tristram, either he shall slay me or I him but that he shall be christened or ever we depart in sunder. My lord Sir Tristram, said Sir Galleron, your renown and worship is well known through many realms, and God save you this day from shenship and shame.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000018_000000|Then Sir Tristram unarmed Galleron, the which was a noble knight, and had done many deeds of arms, and he was a large knight of flesh and bone.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000018_000001|And when he was unarmed he stood upon his feet, for he was bruised in the back with a spear; yet so as Sir Galleron might, he armed Sir Tristram.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000019_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000000|Then Palomides stood still and beheld his sword with a sorrowful heart. How now, said Sir Tristram unto Palomides, now have I thee at advantage as thou haddest me this day; but it shall never be said in no court, nor among good knights, that Sir Tristram shall slay any knight that is weaponless; and therefore take thou thy sword, and let us make an end of this battle.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000002|And for this cause, said Palomides: mine offence to you is not so great but that we may be friends.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000004|And as for her, I dare say she is peerless above all other ladies, and also I proffered her never no dishonour; and by her I have gotten the most part of my worship.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000006|And then will we all ride together unto the court of Arthur, that we be there at the high feast.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000007|Now take your horse, said Sir Tristram, and as ye say so it shall be, and all thine evil will God forgive it you, and I do.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000008|And here within this mile is the Suffragan of Carlisle that shall give you the sacrament of baptism.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000000|Then they took their horses and Sir Galleron rode with them.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000003|And then soon after they departed, riding toward Camelot, where King Arthur and Queen Guenever was, and for the most part all the knights of the Round Table.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000004|And so the king and all the court were glad that Sir Palomides was christened.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000006|And so therewithal departed and dissevered all the knights of the Round Table.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000007|And Sir Tristram returned again unto Joyous Gard, and Sir Palomides followed the Questing Beast.
train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000023_000001|But here is no rehersal of the third book.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000001|And then he came into a fair meadow, and there was a fair lodge of boughs.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000003|Also there were cloths covered upon the earth, and many delicious meats set thereon.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000004|Sir Melias beheld this adventure, and thought it marvellous, but he had no hunger, but of the crown of gold he took much keep; and therewith he stooped down and took it up, and rode his way with it.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000006|Then Sir Melias blessed him and said: Fair lord of heaven, help and save thy new made knight.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000007|And then they let their horses run as fast as they might, so that the other knight smote Sir Melias through hauberk and through the left side, that he fell to the earth nigh dead.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000008|And then he took the crown and went his way; and Sir Melias lay still and had no power to stir.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000000|In the meanwhile by fortune there came Sir Galahad and found him there in peril of death.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000001|And then he said: Ah Melias, who hath wounded you? therefore it had been better to have ridden the other way.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000002|And when Sir Melias heard him speak: Sir, he said, for God's love let me not die in this forest, but bear me unto the abbey here beside, that I may be confessed and have my rights.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000004|With that Sir Galahad heard in the leaves cry on high: Knight, keep thee from me.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000006|Sir Galahad answered: Sir knight, come on your peril.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000007|Then either dressed to other, and came together as fast as their horses might run, and Galahad smote him so that his spear went through his shoulder, and smote him down off his horse, and in the falling Galahad's spear brake.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000000|With that came out another knight out of the leaves, and brake a spear upon Galahad or ever he might turn him.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000001|Then Galahad drew out his sword and smote off the left arm of him, so that it fell to the earth.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000002|And then he fled, and Sir Galahad pursued fast after him.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000003|And then he turned again unto Sir Melias, and there he alighted and dressed him softly on his horse to fore him, for the truncheon of his spear was in his body; and Sir Galahad stert up behind him, and held him in his arms, and so brought him to the abbey, and there unarmed him and brought him to his chamber.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000005|And when he had received Him he said unto Sir Galahad: Sir, let death come when it pleaseth him.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000006|And therewith he drew out the truncheon of the spear out of his body: and then he swooned.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000004_000001|And anon he ransacked him; and then he said unto Sir Galahad: I shall heal him of his wound, by the grace of God, within the term of seven weeks.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000004_000002|Then was Sir Galahad glad, and unarmed him, and said he would abide there three days.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000004_000004|Then he said he was turned unto helping, God be thanked.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000005_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000001|Sir, said a good man, for his sin he was thus wounded; and I marvel, said the good man, how ye durst take upon you so rich a thing as the high order of knighthood without clean confession, and that was the cause ye were bitterly wounded.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000002|For the way on the right hand betokeneth the highway of our Lord Jesu Christ, and the way of a good true good liver.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000003|And the other way betokeneth the way of sinners and of misbelievers.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000004|And when the devil saw your pride and presumption, for to take you in the quest of the Sangreal, that made you to be overthrown, for it may not be enchieved but by virtuous living. Also, the writing on the cross was a signification of heavenly deeds, and of knightly deeds in God's works, and no knightly deeds in worldly works.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000005|And pride is head of all deadly sins, that caused this knight to depart from Galahad.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000006|And where thou tookest the crown of gold thou sinnest in covetise and in theft: all this were no knightly deeds.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000007|And this Galahad, the holy knight, the which fought with the two knights, the two knights signify the two deadly sins which were wholly in this knight Melias; and they might not withstand you, for ye are without deadly sin.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000007_000001|Sir Melias said: My lord Galahad, as soon as I may ride I shall seek you. God send you health, said Galahad, and so took his horse and departed, and rode many journeys forward and backward, as adventure would lead him.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000007_000002|And at the last it happened him to depart from a place or a castle the which was named Abblasoure; and he had heard no mass, the which he was wont ever to hear or ever he departed out of any castle or place, and kept that for a custom.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000008_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000003|Therefore, I counsel you, sir knight, to turn again.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000004|Sir, said Galahad, wit you well I shall not turn again.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000005|Then looked Sir Galahad on his arms that nothing failed him, and then he put his shield afore him; and anon there met him seven fair maidens, the which said unto him: Sir knight, ye ride here in a great folly, for ye have the water to pass over.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000006|Why should I not pass the water? said Galahad.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000007|So rode he away from them and met with a squire that said: Knight, those knights in the castle defy you, and defenden you ye go no further till that they wit what ye would.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000008|Fair sir, said Galahad, I come for to destroy the wicked custom of this castle.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000000|Then the squire entered into the castle.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000002|And when they saw Galahad they cried: Knight, keep thee, for we assure thee nothing but death.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000003|Why, said Galahad, will ye all have ado with me at once?
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000005|Then Galahad put forth his spear and smote the foremost to the earth, that near he brake his neck.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000006|And therewithal the other smote him on his shield great strokes, so that their spears brake.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000007|Then Sir Galahad drew out his sword, and set upon them so hard that it was marvel to see it, and so through great force he made them to forsake the field; and Galahad chased them till they entered into the castle, and so passed through the castle at another gate.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000000|And there met Sir Galahad an old man clothed in religious clothing, and said: Sir, have here the keys of this castle.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000001|Then Sir Galahad opened the gates, and saw so much people in the streets that he might not number them, and all said: Sir, ye be welcome, for long have we abiden here our deliverance.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000002|Then came to him a gentlewoman and said: These knights be fled, but they will come again this night, and here to begin again their evil custom.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000003|What will ye that I shall do? said Galahad. Sir, said the gentlewoman, that ye send after all the knights hither that hold their lands of this castle, and make them to swear for to use the customs that were used heretofore of old time.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000004|I will well, said Galahad.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000005|And there she brought him an horn of ivory, bounden with gold richly, and said: Sir, blow this horn which will be heard two mile about this castle.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000006|When Sir Galahad had blown the horn he set him down upon a bed.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000002|And then they took the maiden and the treasure of the castle.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000003|And then by great force they held all the knights of this castle against their will under their obeissance, and in great service and truage, robbing and pilling the poor common people of all that they had.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000004|So it happened on a day the duke's daughter said: Ye have done unto me great wrong to slay mine own father, and my brother, and thus to hold our lands: not for then, she said, ye shall not hold this castle for many years, for by one knight ye shall be overcome.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000006|Well, said the seven knights, sithen ye say so, there shall never lady nor knight pass this castle but they shall abide maugre their heads, or die therefore, till that knight be come by whom we shall lose this castle.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000007|And therefore is it called the Maidens' Castle, for they have devoured many maidens.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000008|Now, said Galahad, is she here for whom this castle was lost? Nay sir, said the priest, she was dead within these three nights after that she was thus enforced; and sithen have they kept her younger sister, which endureth great pains with mo other ladies.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000013_000000|By this were the knights of the country come, and then he made them do homage and fealty to the king's daughter, and set them in great ease of heart.
train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000013_000002|I suppose well, said Sir Galahad, and took his armour and his horse, and commended them unto God.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000004|Sir, said he, for ye be wicked and sinful, and he is full blessed.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000005|Right as they thus stood talking there came in riding Sir Gareth.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000006|And then they made joy either of other.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000010|And either promised other of the three knights not to depart while they were in that quest, but if fortune caused it.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000001_000002|And then they took the way under the castle, and there they lost the way that Sir Galahad rode, and there everych of them departed from other; and Sir Gawaine rode till he came to an hermitage, and there he found the good man saying his evensong of Our Lady; and there Sir Gawaine asked harbour for charity, and the good man granted it him gladly.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000002_000000|Then the good man asked him what he was.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000002_000005|For certes had ye not been so wicked as ye are, never had the seven brethren been slain by you and your two fellows.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000002_000006|For Sir Galahad himself alone beat them all seven the day to fore, but his living is such he shall slay no man lightly. Also I may say you the Castle of Maidens betokeneth the good souls that were in prison afore the Incarnation of Jesu Christ.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000003_000002|Well, said the good man, and then he held his peace.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000003_000004|And by adventure he met with Sir Aglovale and Sir Griflet, two knights of the Table Round.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000003_000005|And they two rode four days without finding of any adventure, and at the fifth day they departed. And everych held as fell them by adventure.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000004_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000000|So when Sir Galahad was departed from the Castle of Maidens he rode till he came to a waste forest, and there he met with Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale, but they knew him not, for he was new disguised.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000001|Right so Sir Launcelot, his father, dressed his spear and brake it upon Sir Galahad, and Galahad smote him so again that he smote down horse and man.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000003|This jousts was done to fore the hermitage where a recluse dwelled.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000004|And when she saw Sir Galahad ride, she said: God be with thee, best knight of the world.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000005|Ah certes, said she, all aloud that Launcelot and Percivale might hear it: An yonder two knights had known thee as well as I do they would not have encountered with thee.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000007|Then perceived they both that he was Galahad; and up they gat on their horses, and rode fast after him, but in a while he was out of their sight.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000008|And then they turned again with heavy cheer.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000009|Let us spere some tidings, said Percivale, at yonder recluse.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000000|When Sir Percivale came to the recluse she knew him well enough, and Sir Launcelot both.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000001|But Sir Launcelot rode overthwart and endlong in a wild forest, and held no path but as wild adventure led him.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000004|And within he found a fair altar, full richly arrayed with cloth of clean silk, and there stood a fair clean candlestick, which bare six great candles, and the candlestick was of silver.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000005|And when Sir Launcelot saw this light he had great will for to enter into the chapel, but he could find no place where he might enter; then was he passing heavy and dismayed.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000006|Then he returned and came to his horse and did off his saddle and bridle, and let him pasture, and unlaced his helm, and ungirt his sword, and laid him down to sleep upon his shield to fore the cross.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000007_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000008_000001|And when he was nigh the cross he there abode still.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000008_000005|With that Sir Launcelot saw the candlestick with the six tapers come before the cross, and he saw nobody that brought it.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000001|Then the sick knight dressed him up and kissed the cross; anon his squire brought him his arms, and asked his lord how he did.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000002|Certes, said he, I thank God right well, through the holy vessel I am healed.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000004|I dare right well say, said the squire, that he dwelleth in some deadly sin whereof he was never confessed.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000006|And when he was clean armed he took Sir Launcelot's horse, for he was better than his; and so departed they from the cross.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000010_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000000|THEN anon Sir Launcelot waked, and set him up, and bethought him what he had seen there, and whether it were dreams or not.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000001|Right so heard he a voice that said: Sir Launcelot, more harder than is the stone, and more bitter than is the wood, and more naked and barer than is the leaf of the fig tree; therefore go thou from hence, and withdraw thee from this holy place.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000002|And when Sir Launcelot heard this he was passing heavy and wist not what to do, and so departed sore weeping, and cursed the time that he was born.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000003|For then he deemed never to have had worship more.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000006|And then he called himself a very wretch, and most unhappy of all knights; and there he said: My sin and my wickedness have brought me unto great dishonour.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000007|For when I sought worldly adventures for worldly desires, I ever enchieved them and had the better in every place, and never was I discomfit in no quarrel, were it right or wrong.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000009|So thus he sorrowed till it was day, and heard the fowls sing: then somewhat he was comforted.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000010|But when Sir Launcelot missed his horse and his harness then he wist well God was displeased with him.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000000|Then he departed from the cross on foot into a forest; and so by prime he came to an high hill, and found an hermitage and a hermit therein which was going unto mass.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000001|And then Launcelot kneeled down and cried on Our Lord mercy for his wicked works.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000002|So when mass was done Launcelot called him, and prayed him for charity for to hear his life.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000003|With a good will, said the good man.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000013_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000000|THEN Sir Launcelot wept with heavy cheer, and said: Now I know well ye say me sooth.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000001|Sir, said the good man, hide none old sin from me.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000002|Truly, said Sir Launcelot, that were me full loath to discover.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000003|For this fourteen year I never discovered one thing that I have used, and that may I now wite my shame and my disadventure.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000004|And then he told there that good man all his life.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000007|Then Sir Launcelot said: I pray you counsel me.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000009|And then Sir Launcelot promised him he nold, by the faith of his body.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000015_000000|Holy father, said Sir Launcelot, I marvel of the voice that said to me marvellous words, as ye have heard to forehand.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000001|Now shall I shew thee why thou art more naked and barer than the fig tree.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000002|It befell that Our Lord on Palm Sunday preached in Jerusalem, and there He found in the people that all hardness was harboured in them, and there He found in all the town not one that would harbour him.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000003|And then He went without the town, and found in midst of the way a fig tree, the which was right fair and well garnished of leaves, but fruit had it none.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000004|Then Our Lord cursed the tree that bare no fruit; that betokeneth the fig tree unto Jerusalem, that had leaves and no fruit.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000006|Certes, said Sir Launcelot, all that you have said is true, and from henceforward I cast me, by the grace of God, never to be so wicked as I have been, but as to follow knighthood and to do feats of arms.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000017_000001|I will well, said Sir Launcelot, for I have neither helm, nor horse, nor sword.
train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000017_000002|As for that, said the good man, I shall help you or to morn at even of an horse, and all that longed unto you.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000004_000001|'Look here!
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000004_000002|Biscuits.'
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000005_000000|Rather broken and crumbled, certainly, but still biscuits.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000006_000000|'I got them this morning — cook — and I'd quite forgotten,' he explained as he divided them with scrupulous fairness into four heaps.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000008_000000|'Yes, but look here, Squirrel,' said Robert; 'you're so clever at explaining about invisibleness and all that.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000010_000000|'Then if we HAD the mutton it would be real,' said Robert. 'Oh, don't I wish we could find it!'
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000016_000003|It is true that, directly he bit a piece off, the rest vanished; but it was all right, because he knew he had it in his hand though he could neither see nor feel it.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000026_000000|'I think I'm glad it's only a game; it IS only a game, isn't it?' said Jane.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000031_000001|She went to Martha and said, 'May we have just biscuits for tea?
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000031_000004|And I'll tell the others to fetch theirs.'
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000040_000001|They looked at Robert with surprised respect.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000042_000001|'He's been getting ready to be brave all the afternoon.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000053_000000|'No,' bawled Robert, 'of course we don't!
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000053_000001|Never,
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000054_000000|Never, NEVER!'
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000057_000000|'Cheer,' said Robert in a fierce whisper.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000057_000001|'Cheer to show them we aren't afraid, and rattle the daggers to make more noise.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000063_000002|Another man had swum over, and his fingers were on the window ledge.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000063_000004|But he saw the clinging fingers, and hit them as hard as he could with an iron bar that he caught up from the floor.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000064_000000|Then they stood in the arched gate house, breathing hard and looking at each other.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000065_000000|'Cheer up, jenny,' said Robert - 'it won't last much longer.'
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000066_000001|The pavement they stood on seemed to tremble.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000072_000000|'I should just hope we HAD!' he said; 'I'd give something for a jolly good boiling kettle of lead.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000078_000002|They heard a splash below, but no one below seemed to have felt it.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000088_000000|'Look here,' she said, 'it's just come into my head.
train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000090_000006|A new cap, and everything!'
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000001_000002|We soon became good friends, my purse was his, but, twenty years later, he assisted me to a far greater extent in Munich.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000001_000003|Zawoiski was honest, he had only a small dose of intelligence, but it was enough for his happiness.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000001_000005|I will speak of him in another part of these Memoirs.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000002_000000|This amiable young man, who was a favourite with everybody and was thought a free thinker because he frequented the society of Angelo Querini and Lunardo Venier, presented me one day, as we were out walking, to an unknown countess who took my fancy very strongly.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000002_000001|We called on her in the evening, and, after introducing me to her husband, Count Rinaldi, she invited us to remain and have supper.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000003_000000|The count made a faro bank in the course of the evening, I punted with his wife as a partner, and won some fifty ducats.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000000|Very much pleased with my new acquaintance, I called alone on the countess the next morning.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000001|The count, apologizing for his wife who was not up yet, took me to her room.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000002|She received me with graceful ease, and, her husband having left us alone, she had the art to let me hope for every favour, yet without committing herself; when I took leave of her, she invited me to supper for the evening.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000003|After supper I played, still in partnership with her, won again, and went away very much in love.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000004|I did not fail to pay her another visit the next morning, but when I presented myself at the house I was told that she had gone out.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000000|I called again in the evening, and, after she had excused herself for not having been at home in the morning, the faro bank began, and I lost all my money, still having the countess for my partner.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000003|I went away in great sorrow.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000004|I was bound in honour to pay the next morning, and I did not possess a groat.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000006|He kindly encouraged me to confess my troubles to him.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000009|I took an oath to that effect, and kissing his hand, I went out for a walk, relieved from a great load.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000011|I felt that it gave new strength to my hopes, and that feeling prevented me from regretting my heavy loss, but grateful for the great generosity of my benefactor I was fully determined on keeping my promise.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000008_000000|"Here is a parcel for you."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000009_000000|I opened it, and found some forty sequins.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000010_000001|My wife begs to send him half of the gold which he has lost in cash.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000010_000002|"COUNT RINALDI."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000012_000000|"This evening," said my clever physician, "you can have a gay supper with the charming countess."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000013_000000|"This evening, my dear, respected benefactor, I will have supper with you.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000013_000001|You have given me a masterly lesson."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000014_000000|"The next time you lose money upon trust, you had better not pay it."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000015_000000|"But I should be dishonoured."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000016_000000|"Never mind.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000016_000002|It is therefore more prudent not to wait until then."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000018_000000|"No doubt of it, for then you will save both your honour and your purse. But, as you are fond of games of chance, I advise you never to punt. Make the bank, and the advantage must be on your side."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000019_000000|"Yes, but only a slight advantage."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000020_000000|"As slight as you please, but it will be on your side, and when the game is over you will find yourself a winner and not a loser.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000020_000001|The punter is excited, the banker is calm.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000020_000002|The last says, 'I bet you do not guess,' while the first says, 'I bet I can guess.' Which is the fool, and which is the wise man?
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000021_000000|"Why an idiot?
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000021_000001|Fortune is very fickle."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000022_000001|Leave off playing, believe me, the very moment you see luck turning, even if you should, at that moment, win but one groat."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000024_000001|I did not think it necessary to undeceive him, but I did not go again to Count Rinaldi's, whom I saw sixteen years afterwards in Milan.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000024_000002|As to Zawoiski, I did not tell him the story till I met him in Carlsbad, old and deaf, forty years later.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000025_000001|I had become acquainted, through Zawoiski, with a Frenchman called L'Abbadie, who was then soliciting from the Venetian Government the appointment of inspector of the armies of the Republic. The senate appointed, and I presented him to my protector, who promised him his vote; but the circumstance I am going to relate prevented him from fulfilling his promise.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000028_000000|"I should not dare to do so, dear father."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000029_000000|"Try him; I am certain that he will be glad to lend you that sum."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000030_000000|"I doubt it, but I will try."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000000|I called upon L'Abbadie on the following day, and after a short exchange of compliments I told him the service I expected from his friendship.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000001|He excused himself in a very polite manner, drowning his refusal in that sea of commonplaces which people are sure to repeat when they cannot or will not oblige a friend.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000002|Zawoiski came in as he was still apologizing, and I left them together.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000004|He merely remarked that the Frenchman was deficient in intelligence.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000032_000000|It just happened that it was the very day on which the appointment of the inspectorship was to be brought before the senate.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000032_000001|I went out to attend to my business (I ought to say to my pleasure), and as I did not return home till after midnight I went to bed without seeing my father. In the morning I said in his presence that I intended to call upon L'Abbadie to congratulate him upon his appointment.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000033_000000|"You may spare yourself that trouble; the senate has rejected his nomination."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000034_000000|"How so?
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000035_000000|"He was right then, for he would have been appointed if I had not made up my mind to speak against him.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000035_000001|I have proved to the senate that a right policy forbade the government to trust such an important post to a foreigner."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000036_000000|"I am much surprised, for your excellency was not of that opinion the day before yesterday."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000037_000003|That refusal has cost him an important appointment and an income of three thousand crowns, which would now be his."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000038_000000|When I was taking my walk on the same day I met Zawoiski with L'Abbadie, and did not try to avoid them.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000041_000000|The Frenchman's resentment proved very useful to me, because he related the circumstance to everybody.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000042_000001|It was the converted Jew who had purchased for His Majesty the gallery of the Duke of Modena for one hundred thousand sequins. Guarienti and my brother left Venice for Rome, where Jean remained in the studio of the celebrated painter Raphael Mengs, whom we shall meet again hereafter.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000044_000000|In the early part of October, seventeen forty six, the theatres being opened, I was walking about with my mask on when I perceived a woman, whose head was well enveloped in the hood of her mantle, getting out of the Ferrara barge which had just arrived.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000000|She hesitates, I insist, and she gives way.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000002|I take off my mask, and out of politeness she must put down the hood of her mantle.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000003|A large muslin head dress conceals half of her face, but her eyes, her nose, and her pretty mouth are enough to let me see on her features beauty, nobleness, sorrow, and that candour which gives youth such an undefinable charm.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000004|I need not say that, with such a good letter of introduction, the unknown at once captivated my warmest interest.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000048_000000|"You have then some hope of recalling him to the path of duty?
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000048_000001|I suppose he has promised you marriage?"
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000049_000000|"He has engaged his faith to me in writing.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000049_000001|The only favour I claim from your kindness is to take me to his house, to leave me there, and to keep my secret."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000050_000002|Have entire confidence in me, for I already take a deep interest in all your concerns.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000050_000003|Tell me his name."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000051_000000|"Alas! sir, I give way to fate."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000052_000000|With these words, she takes out of her bosom a paper which she gives me; I recognize the handwriting of Zanetto Steffani.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000052_000002|When I have read the paper, I return it to her, saying that I knew the writer quite well, that he was connected with the chancellor's office, known as a great libertine, and deeply in debt, but that he would be rich after his mother's death.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000053_000000|"For God's sake take me to his house."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000000|"I will do anything you wish; but have entire confidence in me, and be good enough to hear me.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000001|I advise you not to go to his house.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000002|He has already done you great injury, and, even supposing that you should happen to find him at home, he might be capable of receiving you badly; if he should not be at home, it is most likely that his mother would not exactly welcome you, if you should tell her who you are and what is your errand.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000003|Trust to me, and be quite certain that God has sent me on your way to assist you.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000055_000000|"Good God! where shall I go to night?"
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000056_000000|"To a respectable house, of course."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000059_000000|I knew an honest widow who resided in a lane, and who had two furnished rooms.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000059_000001|I persuade the young countess to follow me, and we take a gondola.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000000|"I was unfortunate enough," she continued, "to inspire him with love, and he postponed his departure.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000001|He remained one month in C----, never going out but in the evening, and spending every night under my windows conversing with me.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000004|He would beg of me to make up my mind to run away with him, unknown to everybody, promising that my honour should not suffer from such a step, because, three days after my departure, everybody should receive notice of my being his wife, and he assured me that he would bring me back on a visit to my native place shortly after our marriage.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000005|Alas, sir! what shall I say now?
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000006|Love blinded me; I fell into the abyss; I believed him; I agreed to everything.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000007|He gave me the paper which you have read, and the following night I allowed him to come into my room through the window under which he was in the habit of conversing with me.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000000|"I consented to be guilty of a crime which I believed would be atoned for within three days, and he left me, promising that the next night he would be again under my window, ready to receive me in his arms.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000001|Could I possibly entertain any doubt after the fearful crime I had committed for him?
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000002|I prepared a small parcel, and waited for his coming, but in vain. Oh! what a cruel long night it was!
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000004|I adopted the only plan that despair could suggest, and that, of course, was not the right one.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000006|I walked all night and nearly the whole day, without taking any food, until I got into the barge, which brought me here in twenty four hours. I travelled in the boat with five men and two women, but no one saw my face or heard my voice, I kept constantly sitting down in a corner, holding my head down, half asleep, and with this prayer book in my hands.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000062_000000|"You know all now, sir; but I entreat you not to judge me too severely; I have been virtuous all through my life; one month ago I had never committed a fault which could call a blush upon my face, and the bitter tears which I shed every day will, I hope, wash out my crime in the eyes of God.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000062_000001|I have been carefully brought up, but love and the want of experience have thrown me into the abyss.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000062_000002|I am in your hands, and I feel certain that I shall have no cause to repent it."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000063_000001|I told her unsparingly that Steffani had seduced and abandoned her of malice aforethought, and that she ought to think of him only to be revenged of his perfidy.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000064_000000|We reached the widow's house.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000064_000002|I then took an affectionate leave of her, promising to see her early in the morning.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000065_000000|On leaving this interesting but hapless girl, I proceeded to the house of Steffani.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000067_000000|Very early the next morning I called upon her.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000067_000001|She was still asleep.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000067_000002|The widow told me that she had made a pretty good supper, but without speaking a single word, and that she had locked herself up in her room immediately afterwards.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000068_000000|Her features bore the stamp of deep sorrow, but she looked calmer, and her complexion was no longer pale.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000068_000003|Without giving her time to answer I told her all the particulars I had learned concerning her honourable family, which caused her real satisfaction.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000069_000000|"I have no objection," she said, "to your going to C----, and I thank you for the generosity of your offer, but I beg you will postpone your journey.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000069_000001|I still hope that Steffani will return, and then I can take a decision."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000070_000000|"I think you are quite right," I said.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000070_000001|"Will you allow me to have some breakfast with you?"
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000071_000000|"Do you suppose I could refuse you?"
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000072_000000|"I should be very sorry to disturb you in any way.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000073_000000|"I am very fond of books and music; my harpsichord was my delight."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000001|She blushed, and thanked me with great feeling.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000002|She had walked a long distance, her shoes were evidently worn out, her feet sore, and she appreciated the delicacy of my present. As I had no improper design with regard to her, I enjoyed her gratitude, and felt pleased at the idea she evidently entertained of my kind attentions.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000003|I had no other purpose in view but to restore calm to her mind, and to obliterate the bad opinion which the unworthy Steffani had given her of men in general.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000004|I never thought of inspiring her with love for me, and I had not the slightest idea that I could fall in love with her.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000006|Situated as she was, I could not suppose her heart susceptible of harbouring a new affection, and I would have despised myself if I had tried to seduce her by any means in my power.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000076_000001|That singular meeting, which gave me the useful opportunity of finding myself endowed with generous dispositions, stronger even than my love for pleasure, flattered my self love more than I could express.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000077_000000|On the third day, in the midst of expressions of gratitude which I could not succeed in stopping she told me that she could not conceive why I shewed her so much sympathy, because I ought to have formed but a poor opinion of her in consequence of the readiness with which she had followed me into the cafe.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000077_000001|She smiled when I answered that I could not understand how I had succeeded in giving her so great a confidence in my virtue, when I appeared before her with a mask on my face, in a costume which did not indicate a very virtuous character.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000078_000000|"It was easy for me, madam," I continued, "to guess that you were a beauty in distress, when I observed your youth, the nobleness of your countenance, and, more than all, your candour.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000078_000002|Your fault was that of a warm heart seduced by love, over which reason could have no sway, and your flight- the action of a soul crying for reparation or for revenge fully justifies you.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000078_000003|Your cowardly seducer must pay with his life the penalty due to his crime, and he ought never to receive, by marrying you, an unjust reward, for he is not worthy of possessing you after degrading himself by the vilest conduct."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000079_000000|"Everything you say is true.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000079_000001|My brother, I hope, will avenge me."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000080_000000|"You are greatly mistaken if you imagine that Steffani will fight your brother; Steffani is a coward who will never expose himself to an honourable death."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000081_000000|As I was speaking, she put her hand in her pocket and drew forth, after a few moments' consideration, a stiletto six inches long, which she placed on the table.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000082_000000|"What is this?" I exclaimed.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000000|"It is a weapon upon which I reckoned until now to use against myself in case I should not succeed in obtaining reparation for the crime I have committed.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000001|But you have opened my eyes.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000002|Take away, I entreat you, this stiletto, which henceforth is useless to me.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000003|I trust in your friendship, and I have an inward certainty that I shall be indebted to you for my honour as well as for my life."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000084_000000|I was struck by the words she had just uttered, and I felt that those words, as well as her looks, had found their way to my heart, besides enlisting my generous sympathy.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000084_000001|I took the stiletto, and left her with so much agitation that I had to acknowledge the weakness of my heroism, which I was very near turning into ridicule; yet I had the wonderful strength to perform, at least by halves, the character of a Cato until the seventh day.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000085_000003|It seemed to me that the best way to thank me for my attentive kindness would have been to give me a specimen of her musical talent.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000085_000004|Had she deceived me? If so, she would lose my esteem.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000085_000005|But, unwilling to form a hasty judgment, I kept on my guard, with a firm determination to make good use of the first opportunity that might present itself to clear up my doubts.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000086_000000|I called upon her the next day after dinner, which was not my usual time, having resolved on creating the opportunity myself.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000086_000002|I tendered my apologies for my sudden appearance at an unusual hour; she excused herself for not having completed her toilet, and the widow went on with her work.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000086_000004|I remained in silent contemplation.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000087_000000|I blushed for very shame, for I ought to have thought of that.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000088_000003|He is two years older than I, and is an officer in the papal army."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000089_000001|I feared she might be offended, and I assured her of my respect.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000090_000000|"Ah, sir!" she answered, "in the situation in which I am placed, I must think of defending myself against my own self much more than against you."
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000091_000001|Yet I felt my love taking such proportions that I did not know how to keep it a mystery any longer.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000092_000001|I was in ecstacy.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000092_000002|I entreated her to sing; after some little ceremony, she took one of the music books I had given her, and she sang at sight in a manner which fairly ravished me.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000092_000003|I begged that she would allow me to kiss her hand, and she did not say yes, but when I took it and pressed my lips on it, she did not oppose any resistance; I had the courage to smother my ardent desires, and the kiss I imprinted on her lovely hand was a mixture of tenderness, respect, and admiration.
train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000093_000000|I took leave of her, smitten, full of love, and almost determined on declaring my passion.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000001_000001|But the number of students, of both sexes, continued to increase.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000001_000004|As a result, we finally decided to undertake the construction of a still larger building-a building that would contain rooms for the girls and boarding accommodations for all.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000002_000003|We decided to call the proposed building Alabama Hall, in honour of the state in which we were labouring.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000002_000004|Again Miss Davidson began making efforts to enlist the interest and help of the coloured and white people in and near Tuskegee.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000002_000005|They responded willingly, in proportion to their means. The students, as in the case of our first building, Porter Hall, began digging out the dirt in order to allow the laying of the foundations.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000000|When we seemed at the end of our resources, so far as securing money was concerned, something occurred which showed the greatness of General Armstrong-something which proved how far he was above the ordinary individual.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000001|When we were in the midst of great anxiety as to where and how we were to get funds for the new building, I received a telegram from General Armstrong asking me if I could spend a month travelling with him through the North, and asking me, if I could do so, to come to Hampton at once.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000003|On arriving there I found that the General had decided to take a quartette of singers through the North, and hold meetings for a month in important cities, at which meetings he and I were to speak.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000004|Imagine my surprise when the General told me, further, that these meetings were to be held, not in the interests of Hampton, but in the interests of Tuskegee, and that the Hampton Institute was to be responsible for all the expenses.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000004_000001|A weak and narrow man would have reasoned that all the money which came to Tuskegee in this way would be just so much taken from the Hampton Institute; but none of these selfish or short sighted feelings ever entered the breast of General Armstrong.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000004_000002|He was too big to be little, too good to be mean.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000004_000004|The General knew, too, that the way to strengthen Hampton was to make it a centre of unselfish power in the working out of the whole Southern problem.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000005_000001|He said: "Give them an idea for every word." I think it would be hard to improve upon this advice; and it might be made to apply to all public speaking.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000005_000002|From that time to the present I have always tried to keep his advice in mind.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000006_000000|Meetings were held in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, and other large cities, and at all of these meetings General Armstrong pleased, together with myself, for help, not for Hampton, but for Tuskegee.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000006_000001|At these meetings an especial effort was made to secure help for the building of Alabama Hall, as well as to introduce the school to the attention of the general public.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000006_000002|In both these respects the meetings proved successful.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000007_000004|As far as the science of what is called begging can be reduced to rules, I would say that I have had but two rules.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000007_000005|First, always to do my whole duty regarding making our work known to individuals and organizations; and, second, not to worry about the results.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000008_000000|In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000009_000002|I know wealthy people who receive as much as twenty calls a day for help.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000009_000003|More than once when I have gone into the offices of rich men, I have found half a dozen persons waiting to see them, and all come for the same purpose, that of securing money.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000009_000004|And all these calls in person, to say nothing of the applications received through the mails. Very few people have any idea of the amount of money given away by persons who never permit their names to be known.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000010_000000|As an example of this, there are two ladies in New York, whose names rarely appear in print, but who, in a quiet way, have given us the means with which to erect three large and important buildings during the last eight years.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000010_000002|And they not only help Tuskegee, but they are constantly seeking opportunities to help other worthy causes.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000011_000001|I have usually proceeded on the principle that persons who possess sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away, and that the mere making known of the facts regarding Tuskegee, and especially the facts regarding the work of the graduates, has been more effective than outright begging.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000012_000001|Such work gives one a rare opportunity to study human nature.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000012_000002|It also has its compensations in giving one an opportunity to meet some of the best people in the world-to be more correct, I think I should say the best people in the world.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000013_000004|It is a privilege to have a share in it.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000015_000000|In the early years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or travelled country roads in the North for days and days without receiving a dollar.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000016_000002|After some difficulty I succeeded in securing an interview with him.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000017_000000|Two years after this visit a letter came to Tuskegee from this man, which read like this: "Enclosed I send you a New York draft for ten thousand dollars, to be used in furtherance of your work.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000017_000002|I recall with pleasure your visit to me two years ago."
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000018_000001|It was by far the largest single donation which up to that time the school had ever received.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000019_000000|In our case I felt a double responsibility, and this made the anxiety all the more intense.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000019_000001|If the institution had been officered by white persons, and had failed, it would have injured the cause of Negro education; but I knew that the failure of our institution, officered by Negroes, would not only mean the loss of a school, but would cause people, in a large degree, to lose faith in the ability of the entire race.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000019_000002|The receipt of this draft for ten thousand dollars, under all these circumstances, partially lifted a burden that had been pressing down upon me for days.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000020_000000|From the beginning of our work to the present I have always had the feeling, and lose no opportunity to impress our teachers with the same idea, that the school will always be supported in proportion as the inside of the institution is kept clean and pure and wholesome.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000021_000000|The first time I ever saw the late Collis p Huntington, the great railroad man, he gave me two dollars for our school.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000021_000002|Between these two gifts there were others of generous proportions which came every year from both mr and mrs Huntington.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000001|No, it was not luck.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000003|Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000006|I noted that just in proportion as the usefulness of the school grew, his donations increased.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000007|Never did I meet an individual who took a more kindly and sympathetic interest in our school than did mr Huntington.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000008|He not only gave money to us, but took time in which to advise me, as a father would a son, about the general conduct of the school.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000023_000000|More than once I have found myself in some pretty tight places while collecting money in the North.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000023_000002|One morning I found myself in providence rhode island, without a cent of money with which to buy breakfast.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000023_000003|In crossing the street to see a lady from whom I hoped to get some money, I found a bright new twenty five cent piece in the middle of the street track.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000024_000000|At one of our Commencements I was bold enough to invite the Rev. e Winchester Donald, d d, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, to preach the Commencement sermon.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000026_000000|It was not very long before the rain ceased and dr Donald finished his sermon; and an excellent sermon it was, too, in spite of the weather. After he had gone to his room, and had gotten the wet threads of his clothes dry, dr Donald ventured the remark that a large chapel at Tuskegee would not be out of place.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000027_000000|A short time ago we received twenty thousand dollars from mr Andrew Carnegie, to be used for the purpose of erecting a new library building. Our first library and reading room were in a corner of a shanty, and the whole thing occupied a space about five by twelve feet.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000027_000001|It required ten years of work before I was able to secure mr Carnegie's interest and help.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000027_000002|The first time I saw him, ten years ago, he seemed to take but little interest in our school, but I was determined to show him that we were worthy of his help.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000032_000000|We have over twelve thousand books, periodicals, etc, gifts from our friends, but we have no suitable place for them, and we have no suitable reading room.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000033_000000|Our graduates go to work in every section of the South, and whatever knowledge might be obtained in the library would serve to assist in the elevation of the whole Negro race.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000034_000001|All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc, would be done by the students.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000035_000000|If you wish further information, I shall be glad to furnish it.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000036_000000|Yours truly,
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000037_000000|Booker t Washington, Principal.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000039_000000|I have found that strict business methods go a long way in securing the interest of rich people.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000039_000001|It has been my constant aim at Tuskegee to carry out, in our financial and other operations, such business methods as would be approved of by any New York banking house.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000040_000000|I have spoken of several large gifts to the school; but by far the greater proportion of the money that has built up the institution has come in the form of small donations from persons of moderate means. It is upon these small gifts, which carry with them the interest of hundreds of donors, that any philanthropic work must depend largely for its support.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000040_000001|In my efforts to get money I have often been surprised at the patience and deep interest of the ministers, who are besieged on every hand and at all hours of the day for help.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000040_000003|In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000041_000000|This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000041_000001|These contributions range from twenty five cents up to ten dollars.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000000|Soon after beginning our third year's work we were surprised to receive money from three special sources, and up to the present time we have continued to receive help from them.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000001|First, the State Legislature of Alabama increased its annual appropriation from two thousand dollars to three thousand dollars; I might add that still later it increased this sum to four thousand five hundred dollars a year.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000004|Foster, the member of the Legislature from Tuskegee.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000005|Second, we received one thousand dollars from the john f Slater Fund.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000006|Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000009|This was at first five hundred dollars, but it has since been increased to fifteen hundred dollars.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000002|j l m Curry, of Washington, who is the general agent for these two funds, and mr Morris k Jessup, of New York.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000004|I shall never forget the first time I met him.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000006|I had heard much about him.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000007|When I first went into his presence, trembling because of my youth and inexperience, he took me by the hand so cordially, and spoke such encouraging words, and gave me such helpful advice regarding the proper course to pursue, that I came to know him then, as I have known him ever since, as a high example of one who is constantly and unselfishly at work for the betterment of humanity.
train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000044_000000|mr Morris k Jessup, the treasurer of the Slater Fund, I refer to because I know of no man of wealth and large and complicated business responsibilities who gives not only money but his time and thought to the subject of the proper method of elevating the Negro to the extent that is true of mr Jessup.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000000_000000|THE MASTER THIEF
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000001_000000|Once upon a time there was a poor cottager who had three sons.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000001_000001|He had nothing to leave them when he died, and no money with which to put them to any trade, so that he did not know what to make of them.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000001_000002|At last he said he would give them leave to take to anything each liked best, and to go whithersoever they pleased, and he would go with them a bit of the way; and so he did.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000000|So it fell out one night as he was going through a great wood that such bad weather overtook him.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000001|It blew, and sleeted, and drove so that he could scarce keep his eyes open; and in a trice, before he knew how it was, he got bewildered, and could not find either road or path.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000002|But as he went on and on, at last he saw a glimmering of light far far off in the wood.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000004|There it was in a large house, and the fire was blazing so brightly inside, that he could tell the folk had not yet gone to bed; so he went in and saw an old dame bustling about and minding the house.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000003_000000|'Good evening!' said the youth.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000004_000000|'Good evening!' said the old dame.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000006_000000|'So it is', said she.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000007_000000|'Can I get leave to have a bed and shelter here to night?' asked the youth.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000008_000000|'You'll get no good by sleeping here', said the old dame; 'for if the folk come home and find you here, they'll kill both me and you.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000010_000001|And a bad lot of them too', said the old dame.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000010_000002|'They stole me away when I was little, and have kept me as their housekeeper ever since.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000011_000000|'Well, for all that, I think I'll just go to bed', said the youth. 'Come what may, I'll not stir out at night in such weather.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000013_000000|With that the youth got into a bed which stood there, but he dared not go to sleep, and very soon after in came the robbers; so the old dame told them how a stranger fellow had come in whom she had not been able to get out of the house again.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000015_000000|'Such a one as he money!' said the old dame, 'the tramper!
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000015_000001|Why, if he had clothes to his back, it was as much as he had.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000016_000000|Then the robbers began to talk among themselves what they should do with him; if they should kill him outright, or what else they should do.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000016_000001|Meantime the youth got up and began to talk to them, and to ask if they didn't want a servant, for it might be that he would be glad to enter their service.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000018_000000|'It's all one to me what trade I follow', said the youth; 'for when I left home, father gave me leave to take to any trade I chose.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000020_000000|'I don't care', said the youth, for he thought it would not take long to learn that trade.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000021_000000|Now there lived a man a little way off who had three oxen.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000022_000001|So when the man came by he saw the shoe at once.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000023_000000|'That's a nice shoe', said he.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000024_000000|Then the youth took up the shoe, and made all the haste he could to get before the man by a short cut through the wood, and laid it down before him in the road again.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000000|So he set off, and hunted and hunted up and down for the shoe, but no shoe did he find; and at length he had to go back with the one he had.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000001|But, meanwhile the youth had taken the ox and gone off with it; and when the man came and saw his ox gone, he began to cry and bewail, for he was afraid his old dame would kill him outright when she came to know that the ox was lost.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000002|But just then it came across his mind that he would go home and take the second ox, and drive it to the town, and not let his old dame know anything about the matter. So he did this, and went home and took the ox without his dame's knowing it, and set off with it to the town.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000003|But the robbers knew all about it, and they said to the youth, if he could get this ox too, without the man's knowing it, and without his doing him any harm, he should be as good as any one of them.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000004|If that were all, the youth said, he did not think it a very hard thing.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000026_000000|This time he took with him a rope, and hung himself up under the arm pits to a tree right in the man's way.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000026_000001|So the man came along with his ox, and when he saw such a sight hanging there he began to feel a little queer.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000027_000001|Down slipped the youth from the tree, and ran by a footpath, and got before the man, and hung himself up right in his way again.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000028_000001|Aye, aye! you may hang for all I care, whether you are a ghost or whatever you are.' So he passed on with his ox.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000029_000000|Now the youth did just as he had done twice before; he jumped down from the tree, ran through the wood by a footpath, and hung himself up right in the man's way again.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000029_000001|But when the man saw this sight for the third time, he said to himself:
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000000|'Well! this is an ugly business!
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000001|Is it likely now that they should have been so heavy at heart as to hang themselves, all these three? No!
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000002|I cannot think it is anything else than a piece of witchcraft that I see.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000003|But now I'll soon know for certain; if the other two are still hanging there, it must be really so; but if they are not, then it can be nothing but witchcraft that I see.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000031_000000|So he tied up his ox, and ran back to see if the others were still really hanging there.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000031_000001|But while he went and peered up into all the trees, the youth jumped down and took his ox and ran off with it. When the man came back and found his ox gone, he was in a sad plight, and, as any one might know without being told, he began to cry and bemoan; but at last he came to take it easier, and so he thought:
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000032_000000|'There's no other help for it than to go home and take the third ox without my dame's knowing it, and to try and drive a good bargain with it, so that I may get a good sum of money for it.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000000|So he went home and set off with the ox, and his old dame knew never a word about the matter.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000001|But the robbers, they knew all about it, and they said to the youth, that if he could steal this ox as he had stolen the other two, then he should be master over the whole band. Well, the youth set off, and ran into the wood; and as the man came by with his ox he set up a dreadful bellowing, just like a great ox in the wood.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000002|When the man heard that, you can't think how glad he was, for it seemed to him that he knew the voice of his big bullock, and he thought that now he should find both of them again; so he tied up the third ox, and ran off from the road to look for them in the wood; but meantime the youth went off with the third ox.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000003|Now, when the man came back and found he had lost this ox too, he was so wild that there was no end to his grief.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000004|He cried and roared and beat his breast, and, to tell the truth, it was many days before he dared go home; for he was afraid lest his old dame should kill him outright on the spot.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000034_000000|As for the robbers, they were not very well pleased either, when they had to own that the youth was master over the whole band.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000035_000001|So he drove up to the door as if he were any other great man.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000035_000002|After that he went in and asked if he could have a lodging?
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000037_000000|'You always were a stingy old hunks', said the youth, 'and so you are still, when you won't take your own son in.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000038_000000|'What, you my son!' said the man.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000039_000000|'Don't you know me again?' said the youth.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000039_000001|Well, after a little while he did know him again.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000041_000000|'Oh!
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000041_000001|I'll soon tell you', said the youth.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000041_000002|'You said I might take to any trade I chose, and so I bound myself apprentice to a pack of thieves and robbers, and now I've served my time out, and am become a Master Thief.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000042_000000|Now there lived a Squire close by to his father's cottage, and he had such a great house, and such heaps of money, he could not tell how much he had.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000042_000001|He had a daughter too, and a smart and pretty girl she was.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000043_000000|'If he asks by what trade I get my living, you can say I'm a Master Thief.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000044_000000|'I think you've lost your wits', said the man, 'for you can't be in your right mind when you think of such stuff.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000045_000000|No! he had not lost his wits, his father must and should go to the Squire, and ask for his daughter.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000047_000000|Yes, there was no help for it, said the Master Thief; he should go whether he would or no; and if he did not go by fair means, he would soon make him go by foul.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000047_000001|But the man was still loath to go; so he stepped after him, and rubbed him down with a good birch cudgel, and kept on till the man came crying and sobbing inside the Squire's door.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000048_000000|'How now, my man! what ails you?' said the Squire.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000048_000001|So he told him the whole story; how he had three sons who set off one day, and how he had given them leave to go whithersoever they would, and to follow whatever calling they chose.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000048_000002|'And here now is the youngest come home, and has thrashed me till he has made me come to you and ask for your daughter for him to wife; and he bids me say, besides, that he's a Master Thief.' And so he fell to crying and sobbing again.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000049_000000|'Never mind, my man', said the Squire, laughing; 'just go back and tell him from me, he must prove his skill first.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000049_000002|Just go and tell him that.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000050_000000|So he went back and told the youth, who thought it would be an easy job.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000050_000001|So he set about and caught three hares alive, and put them into a bag, and dressed himself in some old rags, until he looked so poor and filthy that it made one's heart bleed to see; and then he stole into the passage at the back door of the Squire's house on the Sunday forenoon, with his bag, just like any other beggar boy.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000050_000002|But the Squire himself and all his household were in the kitchen watching the roast.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000051_000000|'Oh, just look at that hare!' said the folk in the kitchen, and were all for running out to catch it.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000052_000000|Yes, the Squire saw it running too.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000052_000001|'Oh, let it run', said he; 'there's no use in thinking to catch a hare on the spring.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000053_000000|A little while after, the youth let the second hare go, and they saw it in the kitchen, and thought it was the same they had seen before, and still wanted to run out and catch it; but the Squire said again it was no use.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000053_000002|Now, they saw it from the kitchen, and still thought it was the same hare that kept on running about, and were all eager to be out after it.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000054_000000|'Well, it is a fine hare', said the Squire; 'come let's see if we can't lay our hands on it.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000055_000000|So out he ran, and the rest with him-away they all went, the hare before, and they after; so that it was rare fun to see.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000055_000001|But meantime the youth took the roast and ran off with it; and where the Squire got a roast for his dinner that day I don't know; but one thing I know, and that is, that he had no roast hare, though he ran after it till he was both warm and weary.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000058_000000|'Very well-only keep a sharp look out', said the Squire; 'maybe he'll come to see you before you know a word of it.' But the Priest stuck to his text-that he did, and made game of the Squire because he had been so taken in.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000059_000000|Later in the afternoon came the Master Thief, and wanted to have the Squire's daughter, as he had given his word.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000059_000001|But the Squire began to talk him over, and said, 'Oh, you must first prove your skill a little more; for what you did to day was no great thing, after all. Couldn't you now play off a good trick on the Priest, who is sitting in there, and making game of me for letting such a fellow as you twist me round his thumb.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000060_000000|'Well, as for that, it wouldn't be hard', said the Master Thief.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000060_000002|And when the Priest came home in the evening, the youth began to bawl out:
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000061_000000|'Father Laurence!
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000061_000001|Father Laurence!'--for that was the Priest's name.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000062_000000|'Who is that calling me?' said the Priest.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000063_000000|'I am an angel', said the Master Thief, 'sent from God to let you know that you shall be taken up alive into heaven for your piety's sake.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000063_000001|Next Monday night you must hold yourself ready for the journey, for I shall come then to fetch you in a sack; and all your gold and your silver, and all that you have of this world's goods, you must lay together in a heap in your dining room.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000067_000000|'This is the narrow way which leadeth unto the kingdom of heaven', said the Master Thief, who went on dragging him along till he had nearly broken every bone in his body.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000067_000001|At last he tumbled him into a goose house that belonged to the Squire, and the geese began pecking and pinching him with their bills, so that he was more dead than alive.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000068_000000|'Now you are in the flames of purgatory, to be cleansed and purified for life everlasting', said the Master Thief; and with that he went his way, and took all the gold which the Priest had laid together in his dining room.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000068_000001|The next morning, when the goose girl came to let the geese out, she heard how the Priest lay in the sack, and bemoaned himself in the goose house.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000070_000000|'Oh!' said the Priest, 'if you are an angel from heaven, do let me out, and let me return again to earth, for it is worse here than in hell.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000070_000001|The little fiends keep on pinching me with tongs.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000072_000000|'Oh!' groaned the Priest, 'this is all that Master Thief's doing.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000072_000001|Ah! my gold and my silver, and my fine clothes.' And he beat his breast, and hobbled home at such a rate that the girl thought he had lost his wits all at once.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000074_000000|'You must do one masterpiece better still, that I may see plainly what you are fit for.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000074_000001|Now, I have twelve horses in my stable, and on them I will put twelve grooms, one on each.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000075_000000|'Very well, I daresay I can do it', said the Master Thief; 'but shall I really have your daughter if I can?'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000000|'Yes, if you can, I'll do my best for you', said the Squire.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000001|So the Master Thief set off to a shop, and bought brandy enough to fill two pocket flasks, and into one of them he put a sleepy drink, but into the other only brandy.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000002|After that he hired eleven men to lie in wait at night, behind the Squire's stable yard; and last of all, for fair words and a good bit of money, he borrowed a ragged gown and cloak from an old woman; and so, with a staff in his hand, and a bundle at his back, he limped off, as evening drew on, towards the Squire's stable.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000003|Just as he got there they were watering the horses for the night, and had their hands full of work.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000004|'What the devil do you want?' said one of the grooms to the old woman.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000079_000000|'To the devil with your leave', said one.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000080_000000|'Oh! the poor old bag of bones', said another, whose heart took pity on her, 'the old hag may sit inside and welcome; such a one as she can do no harm.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000082_000000|As the night wore on, the men found it rather cold work to sit so still and quiet on horseback.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000084_000000|'That it is', said another; 'I freeze so, that my teeth chatter.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000088_000001|Then she pulled out the flask with brandy in it, and her hand shook so that the spirit splashed about in the flask, and then she took such a gulp, that it went 'bop' in her throat.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000089_000000|'What's that you've got in your flask, old girl?' said one of the grooms.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000091_000002|Do let me have a drop', screamed the whole twelve, one after another.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000092_000001|Then the Master Thief threw off his beggar's rags, and took one groom after the other so softly off their horses, and set them astride on the beams between the stalls; and so he called his eleven men, and rode off with the Squire's twelve horses.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000092_000002|But when the Squire got up in the morning, and went to look after his grooms, they had just begun to come to; and some of them fell to spurring the beams with their spurs, till the splinters flew again, and some fell off, and some still hung on and sat there looking like fools.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000093_000000|'Ho! ho!' said the Squire; 'I see very well who has been here; but as for you, a pretty set of blockheads you must be to sit here and let the Master Thief steal the horses from between your legs.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000094_000000|So they all got a good leathering because they had not kept a sharper look out.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000095_000000|Further on in the day came the Master Thief again, and told how he had managed the matter, and asked for the Squire's daughter, as he had promised; but the Squire gave him one hundred dollars down, and said he must do something better still.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000096_000001|I daresay I could', said the Master Thief, 'if I were really sure of getting your daughter.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000000|Well, well, the Squire would see what he could do; and he told the Master Thief a day when he would be taking a ride on a great common where they drilled the troops.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000001|So the Master Thief soon got hold of an old worn out jade of a mare, and set to work, and made traces and collar of withies and broom twigs, and bought an old beggarly cart and a great cask.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000003|No harm should happen to her; she should only be driven about a little; and if he took his finger out more than once, she was to have ten dollars more.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000004|Then he threw a few rags and tatters over himself, and stuffed himself out, and put on a wig and a great beard of goat's hair, so that no one could know him again, and set off for the common, where the Squire had already been riding about a good bit.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000098_000000|At last the Squire rode right up to him, and asked if he had seen any one lurking about in the wood thereabouts.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000098_000001|'No', said the man, 'I haven't seen a soul.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000099_000000|'Harkye, now', said the Squire, 'if you have a mind to ride into the wood, and hunt about and see if you can fall upon any one lurking about there, you shall have the loan of my horse, and a shilling into the bargain, to drink my health, for your pains.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000101_000000|'Ride off', said the Squire; 'I'll look after your horse and cask.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000102_000001|At last the Squire grew weary of standing there with his finger in the taphole, so he took it out.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000103_000001|The day after, he came to the Squire and would have his daughter, as he had given his word; but the Squire put him off again with fine words, and gave him two hundred dollars, and said he must do one more masterpiece.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000103_000002|If he could do that, he should have her.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000104_000000|'Do you think, now', said the Squire, 'you can steal the sheet off our bed, and the shift off my wife's back.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000104_000001|Do you think you could do that?'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000105_000000|'It shall be done', said the Master Thief. 'I only wish I was as sure of getting your daughter.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000106_000000|So when night began to fall, the Master Thief went out and cut down a thief who hung on the gallows, and threw him across his shoulders, and carried him off.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000106_000001|Then he got a long ladder and set it up against the Squire's bedroom window, and so climbed up, and kept bobbing the dead man up and down, just for all the world like one that was peeping in at the window.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000107_000000|'That's the Master Thief, old lass!' said the Squire, and gave his wife a nudge on the side.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000107_000001|'Now see if I don't shoot him, that's all.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000108_000000|So saying he took up a rifle which he had laid at his bedside.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000109_000000|'No! no! pray don't shoot him after telling him he might come and try', said his wife.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000111_000000|'Well', said the Squire, 'it is quite true that I am the chief magistrate in these parts; but people are fond of talking, and it would be a bore if they came to see this dead man's body.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000112_000000|'You must do as you think best, dear', said his wife.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000113_000000|'Why, dear, back already!' said she, for she thought it was her husband.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000114_000000|'O yes, I only just put him into a hole, and threw a little earth over him.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000114_000002|But just let me have the sheet to wipe myself with-he was so bloody-and I have made myself in such a mess with him.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000115_000000|So he got the sheet.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000116_000000|After a while he said:
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000117_000000|'Do you know I am afraid you must let me have your nightshift too, for the sheet won't do by itself; that I can see.'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000118_000001|But just then it came across his mind that he had forgotten to lock the house door, so he must step down and look to that before he came back to bed, and away he went with both shift and sheet.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000119_000000|A little while after came the true Squire.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000120_000000|'Why! what a time you've taken to lock the door, dear!' said his wife; 'and what have you done with the sheet and shift?'
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000121_000000|'What do you say?' said the Squire.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000122_000000|'Why, I am asking what you have done with the sheet and shift that you had to wipe off the blood', said she.
train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000124_000001|So the Master Thief lived well and happily from that time forward.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000000_000000|"Well, then what?" Harrington asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000001_000000|Von Schlichten dropped ash from his cigarette into the tray that served all three of them.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000000|"Nothing much," he replied.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000002|We picked up a few of his ragtag and bobtail, and they're being questioned now, but I doubt if they'll tell us anything we don't know already.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000003|The dog had been kept in a lean to back of the house; it had been removed, probably as soon as Keeluk called in his goon gang.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000004|At least one of the rabbits had been kept on the premises, too, some time ago.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000005|No trace of the goat."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000000|He watched Blount move one of his pieces and nodded approvingly.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000002|There is also the equivalent of a regiment of King Jaikark's infantry-spearmen, crossbowmen, and a few riflemen-and two of those outsize cavalry companies of his, helping hold the lid down.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000003|They're making mass arrests, indiscriminately.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000004|More slaves for Jaikark's court favorite, of course."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000004_000000|"Or else Gurgurk wants them to use for patronage," Blount added.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000004_000001|"He's been building quite a political organization, lately.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000004_000002|Getting ready to shove Jaikark off the throne, I'd say."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000005_000000|Harrington pushed one of his pieces out along a radial line toward the rim.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000005_000002|He shifted another piece, a sort of combination knight and bishop, to threaten the piece Harrington had moved.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000006_000000|"Oh, Gurgurk wouldn't dare try anything like that," the Governor General said.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000006_000001|"He knows we wouldn't let him get away with it. We have too much of an investment in King Jaikark."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000000|"Then why's Gurgurk been supporting this damned Rakkeed?" Blount wanted to know, hastily interposing a piece.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000001|"Gurgurk can follow one of two lines of policy.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000002|He can undertake to heave Jaikark off the throne and seize power, or he has to support Jaikark on the throne. We're subsidizing Jaikark.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000003|Rakkeed has been preaching this crusade against the Terrans, and against Jaikark, whom we control.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000004|Gurgurk has been subsidizing Rakkeed...."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000008_000000|"You haven't any proof of that," Harrington protested.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000009_000000|"My Intelligence Section has," von Schlichten put in.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000009_000001|"We can give sums of money, and dates, and the names of the intermediaries through whom they were paid to Rakkeed.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000009_000002|Eric is absolutely correct in making that statement."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000001|That will put him in the position of the friend of the Company, and most of his dupes will be rounded up and sold as slaves, and King Gurgurk'll pocket the proceeds.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000002|The only question is, will Rakkeed let himself be used that way?
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000003|I think Rakkeed's bigger than Gurgurk ever can be.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000004|And more of a threat to the Company.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000005|Everywhere we turn, Rakkeed's at the bottom of whatever happens to be wrong.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000006|This business, for instance; Keeluk's one of Rakkeed's followers."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000011_000000|"Eric, you have Rakkeed on the brain!" Harrington exclaimed impatiently, then moved the threatened piece counterclockwise on the circle where he had placed it.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000011_000001|"He's just a barbarian caravan driver."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000012_000000|Eric Blount moved the piece that had taken Harrington's pawn.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000013_000000|"Your king's in danger," he warned.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000013_000001|"And Hitler was just a paper hanger."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000014_000000|"Rakkeed has no following, except among the rabble." Harrington puffed furiously at his pipe, trying to figure the best protection for his king.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000015_000001|"Here in Konkrook, he's always entertained by one or another of the big ship owning nobles. They probably deprecate his table manners, but they just love his politics.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000016_000000|"The last time Rakkeed was in Konkrook, he was the guest of the Keegarkan Ambassador," von Schlichten stated.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000016_000001|"Intelligence got that from a spy we'd planted among the embassy servants."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000017_000000|"You sure this spy wasn't just romancing?" Harrington asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000017_000001|"You get so confounded many wild stories about Rakkeed.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000018_000000|"No mystery to that," von Schlichten said.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000018_000001|"He travels on our ships, in disguise, coolie class, on the geek deck."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000019_000001|"One of the lower deck loading ports could be left unlocked, by carelessness, and he could blunder overboard at about five thousand feet." He watched Harrington make a deceptively pointless looking move.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000019_000002|"Sid, this damn dog business worries me."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000020_000000|"Worries me, too.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000020_000001|I'm fond of that mutt, and God only knows what sort of stuff he's been getting to eat.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000020_000002|And I hate to think of why those geeks stole him, too."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000000|"A mr Keeluk, a clergyman," von Schlichten quoted.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000001|He chain lit another cigarette and stubbed out the old one.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000002|"Maybe the Rev.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000003|Keeluk wanted Stalin for sacramental purposes."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000023_000001|"Ritual killing?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000023_000002|"Or sympathetic magic?"
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000024_000000|Von Schlichten shrugged.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000024_000001|"Take your choice.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000024_000002|Maybe Rakkeed wanted the dog, to kill before a congregation of his followers, killing us by proxy, or in effigy.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000025_000000|That wasn't the first time he'd made that wish.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000025_000002|At the same time, the average Ulleran probably had complexes and neuroses that would have had Freud talking to himself, and they certainly indulged in practices that would have even stood Krafft Ebing's hair on end.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000026_000001|"It doesn't take any Ulleran psychologist to know that about eighty percent of them hate us poisonously."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000027_000000|"Oh, rubbish!" Harrington blew the exclamation out around his pipe stem with a gush of smoke.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000027_000001|"A few fanatics hate us, and a few merchants who lost money when we replaced this primitive barter economy of theirs, but nine tenths of them have benefited enormously from us, and continue to benefit...."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000028_000000|"And hate us more deeply with each new benefit," Blount added.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000028_000001|"They resent everything we've done for them."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000029_000000|"Yes, this spaceport proposition of King Orgzild of Keegark looks like it, now doesn't it?" Harrington retorted.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000029_000001|"He hates and resents us so much that he's offered us a spaceport at his city...."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000030_000000|"What's it going to cost him?" Blount asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000030_000001|"He furnishes the land-sequestered from the estate of some noble he executed for treason-and the labor-all forced.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000030_000002|We furnish the structural steel, the machine equipment, the engineering.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000031_000000|He made a move.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000031_000001|Instantly, Harrington slashed out from the middle of the board with one of his heavy duty, all purpose pieces and took a piece, then moved again.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000032_000000|"Now look whose king's threatened!" he crowed.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000033_000000|"Yes, I see." Blount brought a piece clockwise around the board and took the threatening piece, then moved again.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000033_000001|"I hope you see whose king's threatened, now."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000034_000000|Harrington swore, reached out to move a piece, and then jerked his hand back as though the piece were radioactive.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000034_000001|For a while, he sat puffing his pipe and staring at the board.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000036_000000|"Where's he getting the plutonium?" von Schlichten asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000037_000000|"Where can he get it?" Harrington replied.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000038_000000|"That's a hell of a lot of plutonium," Blount said.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000038_000001|"I wonder if he mightn't have some idea of what else plutonium can be used for, beside generating power."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000039_000000|"Oh, God, I hope not!" Harrington exclaimed.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000039_000001|"You're going to get me started seeing burglars under the bed, next...."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000000|"Maybe there are burglars," Blount said, pointing with his cigarette holder to Harrington's threatened king.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000001|"Can't you do something about that, Sid?" Then he turned to von Schlichten.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000002|"Before we get off the subject, how about those letters the Rev.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000003|Keeluk gave to the Quinton girl?"
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000000|"All addressed to Skilkans known to be Rakkeed disciples and rabidly anti Terran," von Schlichten replied.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000001|"We radioed the list to Skilk; Colonel Cheng Li, our intelligence man there, teleprinted us back a lot of material on them that looks like the Newgate Calendar.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000002|We turned the letters themselves over to Doc Petrie, the Ulleran philology sharp, who is a pretty fair cryptanalyst.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000003|He couldn't find any indications of cipher, but there was a lot of gossip about Keeluk's friends and parishioners which might have arbitrary code meanings.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000042_000000|Harrington had gotten his king temporarily out of danger, losing a piece doing it.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000043_000000|"Think she'll listen to you?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000043_000001|"These Extraterrestrials' Rights Association people are a lot of blasted fanatics, themselves. We're a gang of bloody handed, flint hearted, imperialistic sons of bitches in their book, and anything we say's sure to be a Hitler sized lie."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000044_000000|"Oh, they're not as bad as all that.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000044_000001|I never met the girl before today, but old Mohammed Ferriera's a decent bloke.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000044_000003|For one thing, they put an end to the peonage system on Yggdrasill, and I know what conditions were like, there, before they did."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000045_000000|A calculating look came into Harrington's eye.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000045_000001|He puffed slowly at his pipe and slid a piece from the center toward the sector of the board nearest him.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000045_000002|Blount whistled softly and made a quick re arrangement.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000000|"Carlos, did you say she told you she was going to Skilk, in the near future?" Harrington asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000002|Why don't you invite her to make the trip with you?
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000003|You can be quite attractive to young ladies, when you try, and she'll be grateful for that rescue this afternoon, which is always a good foundation.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000004|Maybe you can plant a couple of ideas where they'll do the most good.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000006|You know and I know and we all know that there are a lot of things up there at the polar mines that would look like hell to anybody who didn't understand local conditions...."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000047_000001|"I won't guarantee anything, of course...."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000048_000002|He flipped a switch and spoke into the box.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000049_000000|"Governor," a voice replied out of it, "there's a geek procession just landed from a water barge in front, and is coming up the roadway to Company House.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000049_000001|A platoon of Jaikark's Household Guards, with rifles; the Spear of State; a royal litter; about thirty geek nobles, on foot; a gift litter; another platoon of riflemen, if you say the last syllable quick enough."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000050_000000|"That'll be Gurgurk, coming to tell us how unhappy his Sodden and Inebriated Geekship is about that fracas on Seventy second Street," Harrington said.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000050_000003|Take them to the Reception Hall, and hold them there till I signal from the Audience Hall, and then herd them in."
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000051_000000|He came back and made a move.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000051_000001|Immediately, Blount took one of his pieces, moved again, took another, and made the third move to which he was entitled.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000052_000000|"I'll mate you in four moves," he predicted.
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000052_000001|"Want to play it out, before we go down?"
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000053_000000|"Sure; what's time to a geek?
train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000053_000002|Good Lord!
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000000_000001|He didn't look particularly regal, even on that high seat-with his ruddy outdoorsman's face and his ragged gray mustache and his old tweed coat spotted with pipe ashes, he might have been any of the dozen odd country gentleman neighbors of von Schlichten's boyhood in the Argentine.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000000|He took the false palate and tongue clicker, officially designated as an "enunciator, Ulleran" and, colloquially, as a geek speaker, out of his coat pocket and shoved it into his mouth.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000001|Von Schlichten and Blount put in theirs, and Harrington pressed the floor button with his toe.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000002|After a brief interval, the wide doors at the other end of the hall slid open, and the Konkrookan notables, attended by a dozen Company native officers and a guard of Kragan Rifles, entered.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000003|The honor guard advanced in two columns; between them marched an unclad and heavily armed native carrying an ornate spear with a three foot blade upright in front of him with all four hands.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000004|It was the Konkrookan Spear of State; it represented the proxy presence of King Jaikark.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000006|He was considerably past the Ulleran prime of life-seventy or eighty, to judge from the worn appearance of his opal teeth, the color of his skin, and the predominantly reddish tint of his quartz speckles.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000007|An immature Ulleran would be a very light gray, white under the arms, and his quartz specks would run from white to pale yellow.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000002_000000|Four slaves brought up the rear carrying an ornately inlaid box on poles.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000002_000001|When the spear bearer reached the exact middle of the hall, he halted and grounded his regalia weapon with a thump.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000002_000004|Von Schlichten regarded the assemblage sourly through his monocle.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000003_000001|Out of the corner of his eye, von Schlichten watched a couple of Kragan mercenaries with fifty shot machine rifles move unobtrusively to positions from whence they could, if necessary, spray the visitors with bullets without endangering the Terrans.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000004_000000|"Welcome, Gurgurk," Harrington gibbered through his false palate.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000004_000001|"The Company is honored by this visit."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000007_000000|More protocol about welcoming Gorkrink.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000007_000001|Then Gurgurk cleared his throat with a series of barking sounds.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000009_000001|He probably hadn't even heard of the riot.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000011_000000|"Within minutes, Your Excellency," von Schlichten replied gravely. "Their promptness, valor, and efficiency were most exemplary."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000012_000000|Gurgurk spoke at length, expressing himself as delighted, on behalf of his royal master, at hearing such high praise from so distinguished a soldier.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000013_000001|He also managed to convey King Orgzild's pleasure at having obtained the plutonium.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000013_000003|When a geek prince hired out as a laborer for a year on Niflheim, he did so for only one purpose-to learn Terran technologies.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000014_000000|Gurgurk then announced that so enormous a crime against the friends of His Sublime etcetera had not been allowed to go unpunished, signaling behind him with one of his lower hands for the box to be brought forward.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000014_000002|On this, from the box, they placed twenty four newly severed opal grinning heads, in four neat rows.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000014_000003|They had all been freshly scrubbed and polished, but they still smelled like crushed cockroaches.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000000|The three Terrans looked at them gravely.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000001|A double dozen heads was standard payment for an attack in which no Terran had been killed. Ostensibly, they were the heads of the ringleaders: in practice, they were usually lopped from the first two dozen prisoners or over age slaves at hand, without regard for whether the victims had even heard of the crime which they were expiating.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000002|If the Extraterrestrial's Rights Association were really serious about the rights of these geeks, they'd advocate booting out all these native princes and turning the whole planet over to the Company.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000003|That had been the Terran Federation's idea, from the beginning; why else give the Company's chief representative the title of Governor General?
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000016_000000|There was another long speech from Gurgurk, with the nobles behind him murmuring antiphonal agreement-standard procedure, for which there was a standard pun, geek chorus-and a speech of response from Sid Harrington.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000017_000000|They walked back from the door, whence they had escorted the delegation, and stood looking down at the saurian heads on the rug. Harrington raised his voice and called to a Kragan sergeant whose chevrons were painted on all four arms.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000002|"See that head, there?" he asked, rolling it over with his toe.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000003|"I killed that geek, myself, with my pistol, while Them and Hid were getting Ferriera into the car.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000004|Miss Quinton killed that one with the bolo; see where she chopped him on the back of the neck?
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000005|The cut that took off the head was a little low, and missed it.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000008|I don't like this butchery of worn out slaves and petty thieves any better than anybody else, but this I don't like either. Six months ago, Gurgurk wouldn't have tried to pull anything like this.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000009|Now he's laughing up his non-existent sleeve at us."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000020_000000|"That's what I've been preaching, all along," Eric Blount took up after him.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000020_000001|"These geeks need having the fear of Terra thrown into them."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000021_000000|"Oh, nonsense, Eric; you're just as bad as Carlos, here!" Harrington tut tutted.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000021_000001|"Next, you'll be saying that we ought to depose Jaikark and take control ourselves."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000022_000000|"Well, what's wrong with that, for an idea?" von Schlichten demanded. "Don't you think we could?
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000022_000001|Our Kragans could go through that army of Jaikark's like fast neutrons through toilet paper."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000023_000000|"My God!" Harrington exploded.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000023_000001|"Don't let me hear that kind of talk again!
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000024_000000|He turned and walked away, out of the Audience Hall, leaving von Schlichten and Blount to watch the removal of the geek heads.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000025_000000|"You know, I went a little too far," von Schlichten confessed.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000025_000001|"Or too fast, rather.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000025_000002|He's got to be conditioned to accept that idea."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000026_000000|"We can't go too slowly, either," Blount replied.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000026_000001|"If we wait for him to change his mind, it'll be the same as waiting for him to retire. And that'll be waiting too long."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000027_000000|Von Schlichten nodded seriously.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000027_000001|"Did you notice the green specks in the hide of that Prince Gorkrink?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000029_000001|You know, four of our best native Intelligence operatives have been murdered in Keegark in the last three months, and six more have just vanished there."
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000030_000000|"Well, I'm going there in a few days, myself, to talk to Orgzild about this spaceport deal," Blount said.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000030_000001|"I'll have a talk with Hendrik Lemoyne and MacKinnon.
train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000030_000002|And I'll see what I can find out for myself."
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000009_000000|From The Taking Of Jerusalem By Antiochus Epiphanes, To The Death Of Herod The Great.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000010_000000|CHAPTER one.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000011_000000|How The City Jerusalem Was Taken, And The Temple Pillaged [By Antiochus Epiphanes].
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000011_000001|As Also Concerning The Actions Of The Maccabees, Matthias And Judas; And Concerning The Death Of Judas.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000012_000002|The king being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favored Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000012_000003|He also spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000014_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000014_000002|So he came to the government by this his success, and became the prince of his own people by their own free consent, and then died, leaving the government to Judas, his eldest son.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000015_000002|He also built another altar, and began to offer the sacrifices; and when the city had already received its sacred constitution again, Antiochus died; whose son Antiochus succeeded him in the kingdom, and in his hatred to the Jews also.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000000|five.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000001|So this Antiochus got together fifty thousand footmen, and five thousand horsemen, and fourscore elephants, and marched through Judea into the mountainous parts.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000002|He then took Bethsura, which was a small city; but at a place called Bethzacharis, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000004|Now he that governed the elephant was but a private man; and had he proved to be Antiochus, Eleazar had performed nothing more by this bold stroke than that it might appear he chose to die, when he had the bare hope of thereby doing a glorious action; nay, this disappointment proved an omen to his brother [Judas] how the entire battle would end.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000006|And when a great many of his men were slain, Judas took the rest with him, and fled to the toparchy of Gophna.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000007|So Antiochus went to Jerusalem, and staid there but a few days, for he wanted provisions, and so he went his way.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000008|He left indeed a garrison behind him, such as he thought sufficient to keep the place, but drew the rest of his army off, to take their winter quarters in Syria.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000017_000000|six.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000017_000001|Now, after the king was departed, Judas was not idle; for as many of his own nation came to him, so did he gather those that had escaped out of the battle together, and gave battle again to Antiochus's generals at a village called Adasa; and being too hard for his enemies in the battle, and killing a great number of them, he was at last himself slain also.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000017_000002|Nor was it many days afterward that his brother john had a plot laid against him by Antiochus's party, and was slain by them.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000018_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000020_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000020_000001|When Jonathan, who was Judas's brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people; and he corroborated his authority by preserving his friendship with the romans.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000020_000002|He also made a league with Antiochus the son.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000000|two.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000001|However, Simon managed the public affairs after a courageous manner, and took Gazara, and Joppa, and Jamnia, which were cities in his neighborhood.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000002|He also got the garrison under, and demolished the citadel.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000004|He also sent his sons with a band of strong men against Antiochus, while he took part of the army himself with him, and fell upon him from another quarter.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000005|He also laid a great many men in ambush in many places of the mountains, and was superior in all his attacks upon them; and when he had been conqueror after so glorious a manner, he was made high priest, and also freed the Jews from the dominion of the Macedonians, after one hundred and seventy years of the empire [of Seleucus].
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000022_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000023_000000|four.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000023_000003|Now John's case was this: When he considered the courage of his mother, and heard her entreaty, he set about his attacks; but when he saw her beaten, and torn to pieces with the stripes, he grew feeble, and was entirely overcome by his affections.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000024_000000|five.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000024_000002|Moreover, he was the first of the Jews that had money enough, and began to hire foreign auxiliaries also.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000000|six.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000003|He also proceeded as far as Samaria, where is now the city Sebaste, which was built by Herod the king, and encompassed it all round with a wall, and set his sons, Aristobulus and Antigonus, over the siege; who pushed it on so hard, that a famine so far prevailed within the city, that they were forced to eat what never was esteemed food.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000005|So they returned back to Samaria, and shut the multitude again within the wall; and when they had taken the city, they demolished it, and made slaves of its inhabitants.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000006|And as they had still great success in their undertakings, they did not suffer their zeal to cool, but marched with an army as far as Scythopolis, and made an incursion upon it, and laid waste all the country that lay within Mount Carmel.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000001|But then these successes of john and of his sons made them be envied, and occasioned a sedition in the country; and many there were who got together, and would not be at rest till they brake out into open war, in which war they were beaten.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000002|So john lived the rest of his life very happily, and administered the government after a most extraordinary manner, and this for thirty three entire years together.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000003|He died, leaving five sons behind him.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000004|He was certainly a very happy man, and afforded no occasion to have any complaint made of fortune on his account.
train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000005|He it was who alone had three of the most desirable things in the world,--the government of his nation, and the high priesthood, and the gift of prophecy.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000001|For after the death of their father, the elder of them, Aristobulus, changed the government into a kingdom, and was the first that put a diadem upon his head, four hundred seventy and one years and three months after our people came down into this country, when they were set free from the Babylonian slavery.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000003|He also put his mother in bonds, for her contesting the government with him; for john had left her to be the governess of public affairs.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000004|He also proceeded to that degree of barbarity as to cause her to be pined to death in prison.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000004_000001|But vengeance circumvented him in the affair of his brother Antigonus, whom he loved, and whom he made his partner in the kingdom; for he slew him by the means of the calumnies which ill men about the palace contrived against him.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000005_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000007_000000|five.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000007_000001|And truly any one would be surprised at Judas upon this occasion.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000007_000002|He was of the sect of the Essens, and had never failed or deceived men in his predictions before.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000000|six.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000001|Hereupon Aristobulus repented of the great crime he had been guilty of, and this gave occasion to the increase of his distemper.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000005|O thou most impudent body!
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000007|How long shall I myself spend my blood drop by drop? let them take it all at once; and let their ghosts no longer be disappointed by a few parcels of my bowels offered to them." As soon as he had said these words, he presently died, when he had reigned no longer than a year.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000009_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000010_000000|What Actions Were Done By Alexander Janneus, Who Reigned Twenty Seven Years.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000011_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000011_000001|And now the king's wife loosed the king's brethren, and made Alexander king, who appeared both elder in age, and more moderate in his temper than the rest; who, when he came to the government, slew one of his brethren, as affecting to govern himself; but had the other of them in great esteem, as loving a quiet life, without meddling with public affairs.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000012_000003|Whereupon Theodopus marched against him, and took what belonged to himself as well as the king's baggage, and slew ten thousand of the Jews.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000012_000004|However, Alexander recovered this blow, and turned his force towards the maritime parts, and took Raphia and Gaza, with Anthedon also, which was afterwards called Agrippias by king Herod.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000013_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000001|However, when he fought with Obodas, king of the Arabians, who had laid an ambush for him near Golan, and a plot against him, he lost his entire army, which was crowded together in a deep valley, and broken to pieces by the multitude of camels.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000002|And when he had made his escape to Jerusalem, he provoked the multitude, which hated him before, to make an insurrection against him, and this on account of the greatness of the calamity that he was under.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000003|However, he was then too hard for them; and, in the several battles that were fought on both sides, he slew not fewer than fifty thousand of the Jews in the interval of six years.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000005|But this mutability and irregularity of his conduct made them hate him still more.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000006|And when he asked them why they so hated him, and what he should do in order to appease them, they said, by killing himself; for that it would be then all they could do to be reconciled to him, who had done such tragical things to them, even when he was dead.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000003|Now, before they joined battle, the kings made proclamation, and endeavored to draw off each other's soldiers, and make them revolt; while Demetrius hoped to induce Alexander's mercenaries to leave him, and Alexander hoped to induce the Jews that were with Demetrius to leave him.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000004|But since neither the Jews would leave off their rage, nor the Greeks prove unfaithful, they came to an engagement, and to a close fight with their weapons.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000005|In which battle Demetrius was the conqueror, although Alexander's mercenaries showed the greatest exploits, both in soul and body.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000006|Yet did the upshot of this battle prove different from what was expected, as to both of them; for neither did those that invited Demetrius to come to them continue firm to him, though he was conqueror; and six thousand Jews, out of pity to the change of Alexander's condition, when he was fled to the mountains, came over to him.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000007|Yet could not Demetrius bear this turn of affairs; but supposing that Alexander was already become a match for him again, and that all the nation would [at length] run to him, he left the country, and went his way.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000016_000001|However, the rest of the [Jewish] multitude did not lay aside their quarrels with him, when the [foreign] auxiliaries were gone; but they had a perpetual war with Alexander, until he had slain the greatest part of them, and driven the rest into the city Berneselis; and when he had demolished that city, he carried the captives to Jerusalem.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000016_000002|Nay, his rage was grown so extravagant, that his barbarity proceeded to the degree of impiety; for when he had ordered eight hundred to be hung upon crosses in the midst of the city, he had the throats of their wives and children cut before their eyes; and these executions he saw as he was drinking and lying down with his concubines.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000016_000003|Upon which so deep a surprise seized on the people, that eight thousand of his opposers fled away the very next night, out of all Judea, whose flight was only terminated by Alexander's death; so at last, though not till late, and with great difficulty, he, by such actions, procured quiet to his kingdom, and left off fighting any more.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000017_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000017_000003|But still he was not able to exclude Antiochus, for he burnt the towers, and filled up the trenches, and marched on with his army.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000018_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000018_000001|About this time it was that the people of Damascus, out of their hatred to Ptolemy, the son of Menhens, invited Aretas [to take the government], and made him king of Celesyria.
train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000018_000002|This man also made an expedition against Judea, and beat Alexander in battle; but afterwards retired by mutual agreement.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000002_000000|CHAPTER five.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000003_000000|Alexandra Reigns Nine Years, During Which Time The Pharisees Were The Real Rulers Of The Nation.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000004_000001|Now Alexander left the kingdom to Alexandra his wife, and depended upon it that the Jews would now very readily submit to her, because she had been very averse to such cruelty as he had treated them with, and had opposed his violation of their laws, and had thereby got the good will of the people.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000004_000002|Nor was he mistaken as to his expectations; for this woman kept the dominion, by the opinion that the people had of her piety; for she chiefly studied the ancient customs of her country, and cast those men out of the government that offended against their holy laws.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000004_000004|But she retained the younger, Aristobulus, with her as a private person, by reason of the warmth of his temper.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000005_000001|And now the Pharisees joined themselves to her, to assist her in the government.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000005_000004|She was a sagacious woman in the management of great affairs, and intent always upon gathering soldiers together; so that she increased the army the one half, and procured a great body of foreign troops, till her own nation became not only very powerful at home, but terrible also to foreign potentates, while she governed other people, and the Pharisees governed her.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000006_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000006_000002|Now she was so superstitious as to comply with their desires, and accordingly they slew whom they pleased themselves.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000006_000004|But when Alexandra sent out her army to Damascus, under pretense that Ptolemy was always oppressing that city, she got possession of it; nor did it make any considerable resistance.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000007_000001|In the mean time, Alexandra fell sick, and Aristobulus, her younger son, took hold of this opportunity, with his domestics, of which he had a great many, who were all of them his friends, on account of the warmth of their youth, and got possession of all the fortresses.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000007_000003|It was, as I have already said, of old called the Citadel; but afterwards got the name of Antonia, when Antony was [lord of the East], just as the other cities, Sebaste and Agrippias, had their names changed, and these given them from Sebastus and Agrippa.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000007_000004|But Alexandra died before she could punish Aristobulus for his disinheriting his brother, after she had reigned nine years.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000008_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000009_000001|At Last Pompey Is Made The Arbitrator Of The Dispute Between The Brothers.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000010_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000012_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000013_000002|However, neither was Aristobulus wanting to himself in this case, as relying on the bribes that Scaurus had received: he was also there himself, and adorned himself after a manner the most agreeable to royalty that he was able.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000000|five.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000002|But when he had passed by Pella and Scythopolis, and was come to Corea, where you enter into the country of Judea, when you go up to it through the Mediterranean parts, he heard that Aristobulus was fled to Alexandrium, which is a strong hold fortified with the utmost magnificence, and situated upon a high mountain; and he sent to him, and commanded him to come down.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000003|Now his inclination was to try his fortune in a battle, since he was called in such an imperious manner, rather than to comply with that call.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000005|And when his brother invited him again [to plead his cause], he came down and spake about the justice of it, and then went away without any hinderance from Pompey; so he was between hope and fear.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000006|And when he came down, it was to prevail with Pompey to allow him the government entirely; and when he went up to the citadel, it was that he might not appear to debase himself too low.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000007|However, Pompey commanded him to give up his fortified places, and forced him to write to every one of their governors to yield them up; they having had this charge given them, to obey no letters but what were of his own hand writing.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000015_000000|six.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000015_000003|So Pompey pitched his camp in that place one night, and then hasted away the next morning to Jerusalem; but Aristobulus was so affrighted at his approach, that he came and met him by way of supplication.
train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000015_000004|He also promised him money, and that he would deliver up both himself and the city into his disposal, and thereby mitigated the anger of Pompey.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000002_000000|In a few days these arrived and were speedily set to work, and immense masses of stone were hurled at the walls.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000003_000000|Walter continued to act as the countess's especial squire.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000004_000000|The effect of the new machines was speedily visible.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000004_000005|The wily bishop set to work, and the consequences were soon visible.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000004_000006|Open grumbling broke forth at the hardships which were endured, and at the prospect of the wholesale slaughter which would attend a storm when all hope of a successful resistance was at an end.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000005_000004|I point out to them that contrary winds have been blowing, and that at any moment he may arrive; but they will not hear me.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000007_000001|The breaches were open, and the enemy might pour in at any time and put all to the sword.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000009_000000|"Come with me, Walter," he said, "we must fain persuade the countess.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000009_000003|Such resistance as we can offer will but inflame them to fury, and all the horrors of a sack will be inflicted upon the inhabitants. There she is, poor lady, on the turret, gazing, as usual, seaward."
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000010_000002|The English fleet are coming!"
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000011_000000|"Run up, Walter," Sir john exclaimed, "maybe the countess is distraught with her sorrows."
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000012_000000|Walter dashed up to the turret, and looking seaward beheld rising over the horizon a number of masts.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000013_000001|Sir john," he shouted, "we are saved, the English fleet is in sight."
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000014_000000|Many others heard the shout, and the tidings ran like lightning through the town.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000014_000001|In wild excitement the people ran to the battlements and roofs, and with cheering and clapping of hands hailed the appearance of the still far distant fleet.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000016_000001|I had given you up for lost.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000018_000002|And now, sir, will you follow me?
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000019_000002|In a few minutes the knights were armed and mounted.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000019_000003|Three hundred knights and esquires were to take part in the sortie, they were to be followed by a strong body of men at arms.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000020_000002|Sir Walter himself and his mounted companions dashed forward to the nearer tents of the French camps, cut down all who opposed them, and setting fire to the huts retired towards the city.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000021_000002|Turning their horses, therefore, and laying their lances in rest, they charged the pursuing French.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000022_000001|The knights wheeled and presented a firm face to the enemy, covering the entrance of their followers into the gate.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000023_000000|The arrival of the reinforcements and the proof of skill and vigour given by the English leader, together with the terror caused by the terrible effect of the English arrows, shook the resolution of Don Louis and his troops.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000024_000001|Accordingly the French laid siege to and captured many small towns and castles.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000024_000003|On his way the Spaniard captured the small fortress of Conquet and put the garrison to the sword.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000024_000008|He now sent back to Charles of Blois the greater part of the French troops who accompanied him, and embarked with the Genoese and Spanish, eight thousand in number, and sailed to Quimperle, a rich and populous town in Lower Brittany.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000025_000000|Anchoring in the River Leita, he disembarked his troops, and leaving a guard to protect the vessels marched to the interior, plundering and burning, and from time to time despatching his booty to swell the immense mass which he had brought in his ships from the sack of Guerande.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000027_000000|The English columns marched at a short distance apart so as to be able to give each other assistance in case of attack.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000028_000000|The English fought desperately, but the odds of seven to one were too great, and they would have been overpowered had not the other two divisions arrived on the spot and fallen upon the enemy's flanks. After a severe and prolonged struggle the Genoese and Spaniards were completely routed.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000028_000006|Most of them were killed in the attempt, but a few escaped and made their way to Hennebon.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000001|The king was not yet ready, but at the beginning of August he despatched a force under the command of the Earl of Northampton and Robert of Artois.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000005|Hennebon was, however, much better prepared than at first for resistance.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000006|The walls had been repaired, provisions and military stores laid up, and machines constructed.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000007|The garrison was very much larger, and was commanded by one of the most gallant knights of the age, and the citizens beheld undaunted the approach of the great French army.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000032_000000|So furious did the Spanish prince become that he took a step unprecedented in those days of chivalry.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000032_000003|"These English," he said, "have pursued, discomforted, and wounded me, and have killed the nephew whom I loved so well, and as I have none other mode of vengeance I will cut off their heads before their companions who lie within those walls."
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000034_000001|At first they could not believe that he was in earnest, for such a proceeding was so utterly opposed to the spirit of the times that it seemed impossible to them.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000034_000002|Finding that he was in earnest they warned him of the eternal stain which such a deed would bring upon his name.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000035_000001|The news, therefore, of what was intended speedily reached the garrison, whom it filled with indignation and horror.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000035_000002|A council was immediately called, and Sir Walter Manny proposed a plan, which was instantly adopted.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000036_000001|The latter took post at once along the edge of the ditches.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000037_000002|Here he was joined by the archers, who with bent bows prepared to resist the advance of the French.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000038_000000|In the meantime Sir Walter Manny, with one hundred men at arms and five hundred horse archers, issued by a sally port on the other side of the town, and with all speed rode round to the rear of the French camp.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000040_000000|Accordingly, next morning he drew off his army and marched to Carhaix.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000041_000002|During the darkness a tremendous storm burst upon them and the combatants separated.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000041_000004|The Spaniards captured four small ships which had been separated in the storm from their consorts, but did not succeed in regaining the coast of Brittany, being driven south by the storm as far as Spain.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000042_000001|The walls, however, were so strong that there seemed little prospect of success attending such an attempt, and a plan was therefore determined upon by which the enemy might be thrown off their guard.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000042_000002|The assault commenced at three points in the early morning and was continued all day.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000042_000003|No great vigour, however, was shown in these attempts which were repulsed at all points.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000001|The assailants, however, did not disarm, but after a sufficient time had elapsed to allow the garrison to lay aside their armour two strong parties attacked the principal gates of the town, while Sir Walter Manny and the Earl of Oxford moved round to the opposite side with ladders for an escalade. The plan was successful.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000002|The garrison, snatching up their arms, hurried to repel their attack upon the gates, every man hastening in that direction.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000003|Sir Walter Manny with his party were therefore enabled to mount the walls unobserved and make their way into the town; here they fell upon the defenders in the rear, and the sudden onslaught spread confusion and terror among them.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000005|Robert of Artois, with the Earl of Stafford, was left with a garrison to hold the town.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000045_000001|"It is possible," he said to Walter, "that we may have fighting here.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000046_000000|Sir John's previsions were speedily verified.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000046_000003|The little garrison prepared for the defence.
train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000047_000000|"The outlook is bad, Walter," Sir john Powis said.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten: A PLACE OF REFUGE
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000002_000005|Sir john Powis and his party repulsed over and over again the efforts of the assailants against that part of the wall entrusted to them, but at other points the French gained a footing, and swarming up rushed along the walls, slaying all whom they encountered.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000003_000000|"All is lost," Sir john exclaimed; "let us fall back to the castle and die fighting there."
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000005_000007|The bucket hung at the windlass.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000010_000000|With great efforts they managed to rid themselves of their armour, and then held on with ease to the rope.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000010_000002|Putting their feet in this, they were able to stand with their heads above the surface without difficulty.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000011_000000|"This is a nice fix," Ralph exclaimed.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000013_000000|"But we are no better off if they don't," Ralph remarked, "for we must die here if we are not hauled out.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000015_000000|Ten minutes later they saw two heads appear above, and instantly withdrew their feet from the bucket and made a stroke to the side, which was but four feet distant, being careful as they did that no motion was imparted to the rope.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000015_000001|Then though it was too dark to see anything, they heard the bucket lifted from the water.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000015_000002|A minute later it fell back again with a splash, then all was quiet.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000016_000002|And now we must think about climbing up."
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000018_000003|If we tie them four feet apart we can go up step by step; I don't see much difficulty about that."
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000020_000001|The rope was cut up and unravelled, and the strands cut into pieces about two feet long.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000020_000005|This was done by tying a knot close to one end of a piece of the strand, then sufficient was left to form the loop, and the remainder was wound round the rope in such a way that the weight only served to tighten its hold.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000021_000000|"Shall we begin at once?" Ralph said, when success was achieved.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000023_000000|"Do you think we have sufficient bits of rope," Ralph asked.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000025_000000|In a short time the fading brightness of the circle of light far overhead told them that twilight had commenced, and shortly afterwards they attached the first strand to the rope some three feet above the water.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000026_000000|"Now," Walter said, "I will go first, at any rate for a time.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000027_000000|They now set to work, and step by step mounted the rope.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000027_000001|They found the work less arduous than they had expected.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000027_000005|Descending a step or two he held parley with Ralph.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000029_000000|"I am ready to try it, Master Walter," Ralph replied, "for I ache from head to foot with holding on to this rope.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000030_000000|In another minute both stood in the courtyard.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000030_000001|It was a retired spot, and none were passing.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000030_000002|Going along the passage they issued into the main yard.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000032_000001|He also picked up a sword for Ralph-his own still hung in its sheath-and then he joined his companion, and the two putting on the steel caps and cloaks walked quietly to the gate.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000036_000000|At first Walter and his friend feared that their retreat was cut off for the night, but several other people presently arrived, and the officer on guard said, coming out, "You must wait a while; the last batch have only just gone, and I cannot keep opening and closing the gate; in half an hour I will let you out."
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000037_000000|Before that time elapsed some fifty or sixty people, anxious to return to their villages, gathered round the gate.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000038_000000|"Best lay aside your steel cap, Ralph, before we join them," Walter said.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000038_000001|"In the dim light of that lamp none will notice that we have head gear, but if it were to glint upon the steel cap the officer might take us for deserters and question us as to who we are."
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000039_000000|Presently the officer came out from the guard room again.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000039_000001|There was a forward movement of the little crowd, and Walter and Ralph closed in to their midst.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000039_000002|The gates were opened, and without any question the villagers passed out, and the gates were shut instantly behind them.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000040_000003|They were, too, dog tired, and were asleep a few minutes after they lay down.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000042_000000|"I feel ravenous too, Ralph, but there is no help for it.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000042_000002|Draw your belt an inch or two tighter, it will help to keep out the wolf."
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000043_000001|It was well that it was no further, for both were so exhausted from want of food that they could with difficulty drag their legs along.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000044_000001|Sir Walter had just risen, and was delighted at the sight of his esquire.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000045_000000|"I had given you up for dead," he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000045_000001|"By what miracle could you have escaped?
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000046_000000|"I have with me only my faithful follower Ralph Smith, who is below; but, Sir Walter, for mercy's sake order that some food be placed before us, or we shall have escaped from the French only to die of hunger here. We have tasted nought since the attack on Vannes began.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000046_000001|Have any beside us escaped?"
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000048_000000|In a few minutes a cold capon, several manchets of bread, and a stoop of wine were placed before Walter, while Ralph's wants were attended to below.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000050_000000|All present joined in expressions of praise at the lad's coolness and presence of mind.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000053_000002|In the meantime Edward opened negotiations with many of the Breton lords, who, seeing that such powerful aid had arrived for the cause of the Countess of Montford, were easily persuaded to change sides.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000054_000001|Uniting their forces they advanced towards the town.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000054_000002|Before the force of the French, forty thousand strong, the Earl of Norfolk had fallen back and rejoined the king, but even after this junction the French forces exceeded those of Edward fourfold.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000056_000002|It was agreed that the truce should embrace not only the sovereigns, but all the adherents of each of them.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000060_000000|The time now for a while passed very quietly.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000060_000002|Walter learned to bear himself well on horseback and to tilt in the ring.
train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000060_000003|He was already a skilful swordsman, but he spared no pains to improve himself with his weapons.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000000|Until Prince Andrew settled in Bogucharovo its owners had always been absentees, and its peasants were of quite a different character from those of Bald Hills.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000001|They differed from them in speech, dress, and disposition.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000002|They were called steppe peasants.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000003|The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000002_000002|Rumors of the war with Bonaparte and his invasion were connected in their minds with the same sort of vague notions of Antichrist, the end of the world, and "pure freedom."
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000003_000000|In the vicinity of Bogucharovo were large villages belonging to the crown or to owners whose serfs paid quitrent and could work where they pleased.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000003_000002|One instance, which had occurred some twenty years before, was a movement among the peasants to emigrate to some unknown "warm rivers." Hundreds of peasants, among them the Bogucharovo folk, suddenly began selling their cattle and moving in whole families toward the southeast.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000003_000006|Now in eighteen twelve, to anyone living in close touch with these people it was apparent that these undercurrents were acting strongly and nearing an eruption.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000004_000001|He learned from domestic serfs loyal to him that the peasant Karp, who possessed great influence in the village commune and had recently been away driving a government transport, had returned with news that the Cossacks were destroying deserted villages, but that the French did not harm them.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000004_000002|Alpatych also knew that on the previous day another peasant had even brought from the village of Visloukhovo, which was occupied by the French, a proclamation by a French general that no harm would be done to the inhabitants, and if they remained they would be paid for anything taken from them.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000004_000003|As proof of this the peasant had brought from Visloukhovo a hundred rubles in notes (he did not know that they were false) paid to him in advance for hay.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000001|Yet there was no time to waste.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000002|On the fifteenth, the day of the old prince's death, the Marshal had insisted on Princess Mary's leaving at once, as it was becoming dangerous.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000003|He had told her that after the sixteenth he could not be responsible for what might happen.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000004|On the evening of the day the old prince died the Marshal went away, promising to return next day for the funeral.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000005|But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000008_000000|Soon after the migration to the "warm rivers," in which he had taken part like the rest, Dron was made village Elder and overseer of Bogucharovo, and had since filled that post irreproachably for twenty three years.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000009_000001|Though the peasants paid quitrent, Alpatych thought no difficulty would be made about complying with this order, for there were two hundred and thirty households at work in Bogucharovo and the peasants were well to do.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000010_000000|Dron replied that the horses of these peasants were away carting.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000010_000001|Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000010_000002|It seemed that no horses could be had even for the carriages, much less for the carting.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000011_000000|Alpatych looked intently at Dron and frowned.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000011_000005|He noticed this hesitation in Dron's look and therefore frowned and moved closer up to him.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000012_000000|"Now just listen, Dronushka," said he.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000012_000002|His excellency Prince Andrew himself gave me orders to move all the people away and not leave them with the enemy, and there is an order from the Tsar about it too.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000012_000003|Anyone who stays is a traitor to the Tsar.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000017_000000|"Eh, Dron, drop it!" Alpatych repeated, withdrawing his hand from his bosom and solemnly pointing to the floor at Dron's feet.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000019_000000|"You drop this nonsense and tell the people to get ready to leave their homes and go to Moscow and to get carts ready for tomorrow morning for the princess' things.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000019_000001|And don't go to any meeting yourself, do you hear?"
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000021_000001|Take the keys from me and discharge me, for Christ's sake!"
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000022_000000|"Stop that!" cried Alpatych sternly.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000024_000001|What are you thinking of, eh?"
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000025_000000|"What am I to do with the people?" said Dron.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000025_000001|"They're quite beside themselves; I have already told them..."
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000026_000000|"'Told them,' I dare say!" said Alpatych.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000026_000001|"Are they drinking?" he asked abruptly.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000027_000000|"Quite beside themselves, Yakov Alpatych; they've fetched another barrel."
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000028_000000|"Well, then, listen!
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000028_000001|I'll go to the police officer, and you tell them so, and that they must stop this and the carts must be got ready."
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000029_000000|"I understand."
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000030_000001|He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey.
train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000031_000000|And so it was, for when evening came no carts had been provided.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000001_000000|Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which, according to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000002_000000|It was about eleven o'clock.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000000|From above on the left, bisecting that amphitheater, wound the Smolensk highroad, passing through a village with a white church some five hundred paces in front of the knoll and below it.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000001|This was Borodino.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000002|Below the village the road crossed the river by a bridge and, winding down and up, rose higher and higher to the village of Valuevo visible about four miles away, where Napoleon was then stationed.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000005|Here and there over the whole of that blue expanse, to right and left of the forest and the road, smoking campfires could be seen and indefinite masses of troops-ours and the enemy's.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000006|The ground to the right-along the course of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers-was broken and hilly.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000007|Between the hollows the villages of Bezubova and Zakharino showed in the distance.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000008|On the left the ground was more level; there were fields of grain, and the smoking ruins of Semenovsk, which had been burned down, could be seen.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000004_000000|All that Pierre saw was so indefinite that neither the left nor the right side of the field fully satisfied his expectations.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000004_000001|Nowhere could he see the battlefield he had expected to find, but only fields, meadows, troops, woods, the smoke of campfires, villages, mounds, and streams; and try as he would he could descry no military "position" in this place which teemed with life, nor could he even distinguish our troops from the enemy's.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000005_000000|"I must ask someone who knows," he thought, and addressed an officer who was looking with curiosity at his huge unmilitary figure.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000006_000000|"May I ask you," said Pierre, "what village that is in front?"
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000008_000000|"Borodino," the other corrected him.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000009_000000|The officer, evidently glad of an opportunity for a talk, moved up to Pierre.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000010_000000|"Are those our men there?" Pierre inquired.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000011_000000|"Yes, and there, further on, are the French," said the officer.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000011_000001|"There they are, there... you can see them."
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000012_000000|"Where?
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000012_000001|Where?" asked Pierre.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000013_000000|"One can see them with the naked eye...
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000013_000001|Why, there!"
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000015_000000|"Ah, those are the French!
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000015_000001|And over there?..." Pierre pointed to a knoll on the left, near which some troops could be seen.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000018_000000|"That's his again," said the officer. (It was the Shevardino Redoubt.) "It was ours yesterday, but now it is his."
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000000|"Our position?" replied the officer with a smile of satisfaction.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000001|"I can tell you quite clearly, because I constructed nearly all our entrenchments.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000004|"That's where one crosses the Kolocha.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000006|That's our center.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000007|Our right flank is over there"--he pointed sharply to the right, far away in the broken ground-"That's where the Moskva River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000008|The left flank..." here the officer paused.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000009|"Well, you see, that's difficult to explain....
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000010|Yesterday our left flank was there at Shevardino, you see, where the oak is, but now we have withdrawn our left wing-now it is over there, do you see that village and the smoke?
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000011|That's Semenovsk, yes, there," he pointed to Raevski's knoll.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000012|"But the battle will hardly be there.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000013|His having moved his troops there is only a ruse; he will probably pass round to the right of the Moskva.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000021_000000|An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000022_000000|"Gabions must be sent for," said he sternly.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000024_000000|"Well, send number three company again," the officer replied hurriedly.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000025_000000|"And you, are you one of the doctors?"
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000028_000001|There they are...
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000031_000001|The Iberian Mother of God!" someone cried.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000032_000000|"The Smolensk Mother of God," another corrected him.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000033_000001|Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments-one little old man in a hood with attendants and singers.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000000|At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000002|The singing did not sound loud under the open sky.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000004|Behind the priest and a chanter stood the notabilities on a spot reserved for them.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000005|A bald general with a saint George's Cross on his neck stood just behind the priest's back, and without crossing himself (he was evidently a German) patiently awaited the end of the service, which he considered it necessary to hear to the end, probably to arouse the patriotism of the Russian people.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000035_000000|The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000035_000001|Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000036_000001|Pierre recognized him at once by his peculiar figure, which distinguished him from everybody else.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000000|With a long overcoat on his exceedingly stout, round shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000001|He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000002|Behind Kutuzov was Bennigsen and the suite.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000003|Despite the presence of the commander in chief, who attracted the attention of all the superior officers, the militiamen and soldiers continued their prayers without looking at him.
train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000038_000001|His white head twitched with the effort.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight: THE CRAB SPIDER
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000003_000000|What will posterity do in face of the rising tide of a barbarous vocabulary which, under the pretence of progress, stifles real knowledge? It will relegate the whole business to the quagmire of oblivion.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000004_000000|Like the Crab, the Thomisus walks sideways; she also has forelegs stronger than her hind legs.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000004_000001|The only thing wanting to complete the resemblance is the front pair of stone gauntlets, raised in the attitude of self defence.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000005_000000|The Spider with the Crab like figure does not know how to manufacture nets for catching game.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000005_000001|Without springs or snares, she lies in ambush, among the flowers, and awaits the arrival of the quarry, which she kills by administering a scientific stab in the neck.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000005_000002|The Thomisus, in particular, the subject of this chapter, is passionately addicted to the pursuit of the Domestic Bee.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000000|The Bee appears, seeking no quarrel, intent upon plunder.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000001|She tests the flowers with her tongue; she selects a spot that will yield a good return.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000003|While she is filling her baskets and distending her crop, the Thomisus, that bandit lurking under cover of the flowers, issues from her hiding place, creeps round behind the bustling insect, steals up close and, with a sudden rush, nabs her in the nape of the neck.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000004|In vain, the Bee protests and darts her sting at random; the assailant does not let go.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000007_000000|Besides, the bite in the neck is paralysing, because the cervical nerve centres are affected.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000007_000002|The murderess now sucks the victim's blood at her ease and, when she has done, scornfully flings the drained corpse aside.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000007_000003|She hides herself once more, ready to bleed a second gleaner should the occasion offer.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000008_000003|These hateful discords amid the general harmony perplex the thinker, all the more as we shall see the cruel vampire become a model of devotion where her family is concerned.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000010_000001|The comparison is not inappropriate as regards many Spiders who tie their prey with a thread to subdue it and consume it at their ease; but it just happens that the Thomisus is at variance with her label.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000010_000002|She does not fasten her Bee, who, dying suddenly of a bite in the neck, offers no resistance to her consumer.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000011_000001|The fact that the Bee huntress carries a heavy paunch is no reason to refer to this as a distinctive characteristic.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000011_000002|Nearly all Spiders have a voluminous belly, a silk warehouse where, in some cases, the rigging of the net, in others, the swan's down of the nest is manufactured.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000012_000002|When all is said, the scientific term is composed of a misconception and a worthless epithet.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000012_000003|How difficult it is to name animals rationally!
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000013_000000|As the technical name tells the reader nothing, how shall he be informed? I see but one means, which is to invite him to the May festivals, in the waste lands of the South.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000013_000003|This glorious efflorescence goes on for five or six weeks.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000014_000001|Their persecutrix knows of this affluence.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000014_000002|She posts herself in her watch house, under the rosy screen of a petal.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000014_000005|The thug has struck her blow; she is draining the blood of the departed.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000000|After all, this cutter of Bees' throats is a pretty, a very pretty creature, despite her unwieldy paunch fashioned like a squat pyramid and embossed on the base, on either side, with a pimple shaped like a camel's hump.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000001|The skin, more pleasing to the eye than any satin, is milk white in some, in others lemon yellow.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000002|There are fine ladies among them who adorn their legs with a number of pink bracelets and their back with carmine arabesques.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000003|A narrow pale green ribbon sometimes edges the right and left of the breast.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000005|Novice fingers, which shrink from touching any other Spider, allow themselves to be enticed by these attractions; they do not fear to handle the beauteous Thomisus, so gentle in appearance.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000016_000000|Well, what can this gem among Spiders do?
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000016_000001|In the first place, she makes a nest worthy of its architect.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000016_000003|Herself a lover of high places, the Thomisus selects as the site of her nest one of the upper twigs of the rock rose, her regular hunting ground, a twig withered by the heat and possessing a few dead leaves, which curl into a little cottage.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000018_000000|When the eggs are laid, the mouth of the receptacle is hermetically closed with a lid of the same white silk.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000018_000001|Lastly, a few threads, stretched like a thin curtain, form a canopy above the nest and, with the curved tips of the leaves, frame a sort of alcove wherein the mother takes up her abode.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000019_000001|Greatly emaciated by the laying of her eggs and by her expenditure of silk, she lives only for the protection of her nest.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000000|Should some vagrant pass near by, she hurries from her watch tower, lifts a limb and puts the intruder to flight.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000001|If I tease her with a straw, she parries with big gestures, like those of a prize fighter.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000002|She uses her fists against my weapon.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000003|When I propose to dislodge her in view of certain experiments, I find some difficulty in doing so.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000004|She clings to the silken floor, she frustrates my attacks, which I am bound to moderate lest I should injure her.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000005|She is no sooner attracted outside than she stubbornly returns to her post.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000000|Even so does the Narbonne Lycosa struggle when we try to take away her pill.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000003|Those hallowed words, maternal love, were out of place here: it is an impetuous, an almost mechanical impulse, wherein real affection plays no part whatever.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000005|When moved from her nest to another of the same kind, she settles upon it and never stirs from it, even though the different arrangement of the leafy fence be such as to warn her that she is not really at home.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000006|Provided that she have satin under her feet, she does not notice her mistake; she watches over another's nest with the same vigilance which she might show in watching over her own.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000000|The Lycosa surpasses her in maternal blindness.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000001|She fastens to her spinnerets and dangles, by way of a bag of eggs, a ball of cork polished with my file, a paper pellet, a little ball of thread.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000002|In order to discover if the Thomisus is capable of a similar error, I gathered some broken pieces of silk worm's cocoon into a closed cone, turning the fragments so as to bring the smoother and more delicate inner surface outside.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000003|My attempt was unsuccessful.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000004|When removed from her home and placed on the artificial wallet, the mother Thomisus obstinately refused to settle there.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000006|Perhaps so.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000007|Let us not be too extravagant with our praise, however; the imitation of the bag was a very clumsy one.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000000|The work of laying is finished by the end of May, after which, lying flat on the ceiling of her nest, the mother never leaves her guard room, either by night or day.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000001|Seeing her look so thin and wrinkled, I imagine that I can please her by bringing her a provision of Bees, as I was wont to do.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000003|The Bee, hitherto her favourite dish, tempts her no longer.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000005|She lives exclusively upon maternal devotion, a commendable but unsubstantial fare.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000007|What is the withered thing waiting for, before expiring?
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000008|She is waiting for her children to emerge; the dying creature is still of use to them.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000001|There is none to come to their assistance; and they have not the strength to free themselves unaided.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000002|The balloon has to split automatically and to scatter the youngsters and their flossy mattress all mixed up together.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000003|The Thomisus' wallet, sheathed in leaves over the greater part of its surface, never bursts; nor does the lid rise, so carefully is it sealed down.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000005|Who contrived this window, which was not there at first?
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000025_000000|The fabric is too thick and tough to have yielded to the twitches of the feeble little prisoners.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000025_000002|She persists in living for five or six weeks, despite her shattered health, so as to give a last helping hand and open the door for her family.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000025_000003|After performing this duty, she gently lets herself die, hugging her nest and turning into a shrivelled relic.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000026_000000|When July comes, the little ones emerge.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000026_000002|All of them pass through the wire gauze and form a group on the summit of the brushwood, where they swiftly weave a spacious lounge of criss cross threads.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000026_000003|Here they remain, pretty quietly, for a day or two; then foot bridges begin to be flung from one object to the next.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000027_000000|I put the bunch laden with beasties on a small table, in the shade, before the open window.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000027_000002|There are hesitations, retrogressions, perpendicular falls at the end of a thread, ascents that bring the hanging Spider up again. In short much ado for a poor result.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000028_000000|As matters continue to drag, it occurs to me, at eleven o'clock, to take the bundle of brushwood swarming with the little Spiders, all eager to be off, and place it on the window sill, in the glare of the sun
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000028_000001|After a few minutes of heat and light, the scene assumes a very different aspect. The emigrants run to the top of the twigs, bustle about actively.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000028_000003|I do not see the ropes manufactured and sent floating at the mercy of the air; but I guess their presence.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000000|Three or four Spiders start at a time, each going her own way in directions independent of her neighbours'.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000001|All are moving upwards, all are climbing some support, as can be perceived by the nimble motion of their legs.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000002|Moreover, the road is visible behind the climber, it is of double thickness, thanks to an added thread.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000003|Then, at a certain height, individual movement ceases.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000004|The tiny animal soars in space and shines, lit up by the sun
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000005|Softly it sways, then suddenly takes flight.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000000|What has happened?
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000001|There is a slight breeze outside.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000002|The floating cable has snapped and the creature has gone off, borne on its parachute.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000003|I see it drifting away, showing, like a spot of light, against the dark foliage of the near cypresses, some forty feet distant.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000005|Others follow, some higher, some lower, hither and thither.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000000|But the throng has finished its preparations; the hour has come to disperse in swarms.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000003|The comparison is correct down to the dazzling light itself.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000005|What a glorious send off!
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000006|What an entrance into the world!
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000000|Sooner or later, nearer or farther, the fall comes.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000002|The Crested Lark crumbles the mule droppings in the road and thus picks up his food, the oaten grain which he would never find by soaring in the sky, his throat swollen with song.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000003|We have to descend; the stomach's inexorable claims demand it.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000005|Gravity, tempered by the parachute, is kind to her.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000033_000000|The rest of her story escapes me.
train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000033_000001|What infinitely tiny Midges does she capture before possessing the strength to stab her Bee?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen: THE LABYRINTH SPIDER
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000004_000001|Some of them are celebrities of long-standing renown, who are mentioned in all the books.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000005_000001|The Lycosa surrounds the mouth of her shaft with a simple parapet, a mere collection of tiny pebbles, sticks and silk; the others fix a movable door to theirs, a round shutter with a hinge, a groove and a set of bolts.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000005_000003|If the aggressor persist and seek to raise the trap door, the recluse pushes the bolt, that is to say, plants her claws into certain holes on the opposite side to the hinge, props herself against the wall and holds the door firmly.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000006_000000|Another, the Argyroneta, or Water Spider, builds herself an elegant silken diving bell, in which she stores air.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000006_000001|Thus supplied with the wherewithal to breathe, she awaits the coming of the game and keeps herself cool meanwhile.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000006_000002|At times of scorching heat, hers must be a regular sybaritic abode, such as eccentric man has sometimes ventured to build under water, with mighty blocks of stone and marble.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000000|If I possessed documents derived from personal observation, I should like to speak of these ingenious workers; I would gladly add a few unpublished facts to their life history.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000001|But I must abandon the idea.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000002|The Water Spider is not found in my district.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000005|Opportunity, as we know, is fleeting.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000007|The opportunity fled and has never returned.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000000|Let us make up for it with trivial things of frequent encounter, a condition favourable to consecutive study.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000001|What is common is not necessarily unimportant.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000002|Give it our sustained attention and we shall discover in it merits which our former ignorance prevented us from seeing.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000003|When patiently entreated, the least of creatures adds its note to the harmonies of life.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000009_000002|In the open country and especially in hilly places laid bare by the wood man's axe, the favourite sites are tufts of bracken, rock rose, lavender, everlasting and rosemary cropped close by the teeth of the flocks.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000009_000003|This is where I resort, as the isolation and kindliness of the supports lend themselves to proceedings which might not be tolerated by the unfriendly hedge.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000010_000000|Several times a week, in July, I go to study my Spiders on the spot, at an early hour, before the sun beats fiercely on one's neck.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000010_000002|They lend me their good eyes and supple limbs.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000010_000003|The expedition promises to be fruitful.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000011_000000|We soon discover high silk buildings, betrayed at a distance by the glittering threads which the dawn has converted into dewy rosaries.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000011_000003|A splendid spectacle indeed is that of our Spider's labyrinth, heavy with the tears of the night and lit up by the first rays of the sun
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000011_000004|Accompanied as it is by the Thrushes' symphony, this alone is worth getting up for.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000000|Half an hour's heat; and the magic jewels disappear with the dew.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000001|Now is the moment to inspect the webs.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000002|Here is one spreading its sheet over a large cluster of rock roses; it is the size of a handkerchief.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000004|There is not a twig but supplies a contact point.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000005|Entwined on every side, surrounded and surmounted, the bush disappears from view, veiled in white muslin.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000013_000001|The central portion is a cone shaped gulf, a funnel whose neck, narrowing by degrees, dives perpendicularly into the leafy thicket to a depth of eight or nine inches.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000014_000000|At the entrance to the tube, in the gloom of that murderous alley, sits the Spider, who looks at us and betrays no great excitement at our presence.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000014_000001|She is grey, modestly adorned on the thorax with two black ribbons and on the abdomen with two stripes in which white specks alternate with brown.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000014_000002|At the tip of the belly, two small, mobile appendages form a sort of tail, a rather curious feature in a Spider.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000015_000000|The crater shaped web is not of the same structure throughout.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000000|The Spider never ceases working at her carpet, which represents her investigation platform.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000001|Every night she goes to it, walks over it, inspecting her snares, extending her domain and increasing it with new threads.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000002|The work is done with the silk constantly hanging from the spinnerets and constantly extracted as the animal moves about.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000003|The neck of the funnel, being more often walked upon than the rest of the dwelling, is therefore provided with a thicker upholstery.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000004|Beyond it are the slopes of the crater, which are also much frequented regions.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000006|This part has been strengthened by the nightly rounds of inspection.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000007|Lastly come the less visited expanses, which consequently have a thinner carpet.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000017_000000|At the bottom of the passage dipping into the brushwood, we might expect to find a secret cabin, a wadded cell where the Spider would take refuge in her hours of leisure.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000000|It is well to know this arrangement of the home, if you wish to capture the Spider without hurting her.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000001|When attacked from the front, the fugitive runs down and slips through the postern gate at the bottom.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000002|To look for her by rummaging in the brushwood often leads to nothing, so swift is her flight; besides, a blind search entails a great risk of maiming her.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000003|Let us eschew violence, which is but seldom successful, and resort to craft.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000019_000001|If practicable, squeeze the bottom of the tuft, containing the neck of the funnel, with both hands.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000019_000003|Feeling its retreat cut off, it readily darts into the paper bag held out to it; if necessary, it can be stimulated with a bit of straw.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000019_000004|In this way, I fill my cages with subjects that have not been demoralized by contusions.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000000|The surface of the crater is not exactly a snare.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000001|It is just possible for the casual pedestrian to catch his legs in the silky carpets; but giddy pates who come here for a walk must be very rare.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000002|What is wanted is a trap capable of securing the game that hops or flies.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000003|The Epeira has her treacherous limed net; the Spider of the bushes has her no less treacherous labyrinth.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000021_000000|Look above the web.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000021_000001|What a forest of ropes!
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000021_000004|There are long ropes and short ropes, upright and slanting, straight and bent, taut and slack, all criss cross and a tangle, to the height of three feet or so in inextricable disorder.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000000|We have here nothing similar to the lime threads used by the Garden Spiders.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000001|The threads are not sticky; they act only by their confused multitude.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000003|Throw a small Locust into the rigging.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000004|Unable to obtain a steady foothold on that shaky support, he flounders about; and the more he struggles the more he entangles his shackles.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000005|The Spider, spying on the threshold of her abyss, lets him have his way.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000006|She does not run up the shrouds of the mast work to seize the desperate prisoner; she waits until his bonds of threads, twisted backwards and forwards, make him fall on the web.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000023_000000|He falls; the other comes and flings herself upon her prostrate prey.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000023_000001|The attack is not without danger.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000023_000002|The Locust is demoralized rather than tied up; it is merely bits of broken thread that he is trailing from his legs. The bold assailant does not mind.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000000|The bite is usually given at the lower end of a haunch: not that this place is more vulnerable than any other thin skinned part, but probably because it has a better flavour.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000001|The different webs which I inspect to study the food in the larder show me, among other joints, various Flies and small Butterflies and carcasses of almost untouched Locusts, all deprived of their hind legs, or at least of one.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000002|Locusts' legs often dangle, emptied of their succulent contents, on the edges of the web, from the meat hooks of the butcher's shop.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000003|In my urchin days, days free from prejudices in regard to what one ate, I, like many others, was able to appreciate that dainty.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000004|It is the equivalent, on a very small scale, of the larger legs of the Crayfish.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000000|The rigging builder, therefore, to whom we have just thrown a Locust attacks the prey at the lower end of a thigh.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000001|The bite is a lingering one: once the Spider has planted her fangs, she does not let go.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000002|She drinks, she sips, she sucks.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000003|When this first point is drained, she passes on to others, to the second haunch in particular, until the prey becomes an empty hulk without losing its outline.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000026_000003|The Labyrinth Spider knows nothing of the diversions of the table; she flings the drained remnants out of her web, without chewing them.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000026_000004|Although it lasts long, the meal is eaten in perfect safety.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000026_000005|From the first bite, the Locust becomes a lifeless thing; the Spider's poison has settled him.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000027_000001|It is hardly more than a shapeless scaffolding, run up anyhow.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000027_000002|And yet, like the others, the builder of this slovenly edifice must have her own principles of beauty and accuracy.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000027_000003|As it is, the prettily latticed mouth of the crater makes us suspect this; the nest, the mother's usual masterpiece, will prove it to the full.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000000|When laying time is at hand, the Spider changes her residence; she abandons her web in excellent condition; she does not return to it.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000001|Whoso will can take possession of the house.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000003|But where?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000005|Mornings are spent in fruitless searches.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000006|In vain I ransack the bushes that carry the webs: I never find aught that realizes my hopes.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000000|I learn the secret at last.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000001|I chance upon a web which, though deserted, is not yet dilapidated, proving that it has been but lately quitted. Instead of hunting in the brushwood whereon it rests, let us inspect the neighbourhood, to a distance of a few paces.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000002|If these contain a low, thick cluster, the nest is there, hidden from the eye.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000003|It carries an authentic certificate of its origin, for the mother invariably occupies it.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000000|By this method of investigation, far from the labyrinth trap, I become the owner of as many nests as are needed to satisfy my curiosity.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000001|They do not by a long way come up to my idea of the maternal talent.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000002|They are clumsy bundles of dead leaves, roughly drawn together with silk threads. Under this rude covering is a pouch of fine texture containing the egg casket, all in very bad condition, because of the inevitable tears incurred in its extrication from the brushwood.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000003|No, I shall not be able to judge of the artist's capacity by these rags and tatters.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000031_000000|The insect, in its buildings, has its own architectural rules, rules as unchangeable as anatomical peculiarities.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000031_000001|Each group builds according to the same set of principles, conforming to the laws of a very elementary system of aesthetics; but often circumstances beyond the architect's control-the space at her disposal, the unevenness of the site, the nature of the material and other accidental causes-interfere with the worker's plans and disturb the structure.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000031_000002|Then virtual regularity is translated into actual chaos; order degenerates into disorder.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000032_000000|We might discover an interesting subject of research in the type adopted by each species when the work is accomplished without hindrances.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000032_000003|As yet, what I have seen of her work is but an unsightly bundle.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000033_000001|Toiling in the midst of a dense thicket, among a tangle of dead leaves and twigs, she may well produce a very inaccurate piece of work; but compel her to labour when free from all impediment: she will then-I am convinced of it beforehand-apply her talents without constraint and show herself an adept in the building of graceful nests.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000000|As laying time approaches, towards the middle of August, I instal half a dozen Labyrinth Spiders in large wire gauze cages, each standing in an earthen pan filled with sand.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000001|A sprig of thyme, planted in the centre, will furnish supports for the structure, together with the trellis work of the top and sides.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000003|By way of provision, Locusts, every day.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000004|They are readily accepted, provided they be tender and not too large.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000035_000000|The experiment works perfectly.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000035_000002|The latitude of the workshop has enabled the spinstress to follow the inspiration of her instinct without serious obstacles; and the result is a masterpiece of symmetry and elegance, if we allow for a few angularities demanded by the suspension points.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000000|It is an oval of exquisite white muslin, a diaphanous abode wherein the mother must make a long stay to watch over the brood.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000002|The cabin is open at either end.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000003|The front entrance broadens into a gallery; the back entrance tapers into a funnel neck.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000005|As for the opening in front, which is wider, this is, beyond a doubt, a victualling door.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000006|I see the Spider, at intervals, standing here on the look out for the Locust, whom she consumes outside, taking care not to soil the spotless sanctuary with corpses.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000000|The structure of the nest is not without a certain similarity to that of the home occupied during the hunting season.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000003|In front of the bell shaped mouth is a tangle of threads wherein the passers by are caught.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000004|Each species, in this way, possesses a primary architectural model which is followed as a whole, in spite of altered conditions.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000005|The animal knows its trade thoroughly, but it does not know and will never know aught else, being incapable of originality.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000000|Now this palace of silk, when all is said, is nothing more than a guard house.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000001|Behind the soft, milky opalescence of the wall glimmers the egg tabernacle, with its form vaguely suggesting the star of some order of knighthood.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000002|It is a large pocket, of a splendid dead white, isolated on every side by radiating pillars which keep it motionless in the centre of the tapestry.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000003|These pillars are about ten in number and are slender in the middle, expanding at one end into a conical capital and at the other into a base of the same shape.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000005|The mother walks gravely to and fro under the arches of her cloisters, she stops first here, then there; she makes a lengthy auscultation of the egg wallet; she listens to all that happens inside the satin wrapper.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000006|To disturb her would be barbarous.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000000|For a closer examination, let us use the dilapidated nests which we brought from the fields.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000001|Apart from its pillars, the egg pocket is an inverted conoid, reminding us of the work of the Silky Epeira.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000002|Its material is rather stout; my pincers, pulling at it, do not tear it without difficulty.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000005|Let us put everything into a glass tube to study the hatching.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000040_000000|We will now retrace our steps a little.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000040_000001|When laying time comes, the mother forsakes her dwelling, her crater into which her falling victims dropped, her labyrinth in which the flight of the Midges was cut short; she leaves intact the apparatus that enabled her to live at her ease. Thoughtful of her natural duties, she goes to found another establishment at a distance.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000000|She has still a few long months to live and she needs nourishment.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000001|Were it not better, then, to lodge the eggs in the immediate neighbourhood of the present home and to continue her hunting with the excellent snare at her disposal?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000002|The watching of the nest and the easy acquisition of provender would go hand in hand.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000003|The Spider is of another opinion; and I suspect the reason.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000042_000000|The sheet net and the labyrinth that surmounts it are objects visible from afar, owing to their whiteness and the height whereat they are placed.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000042_000002|Whoso comes to look at the bright thing too closely dies the victim of his curiosity.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000042_000003|There is nothing better for playing upon the folly of the passer by, but also nothing more dangerous to the safety of the family.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000043_000000|Harpies will not fail to come running at this signal, showing up against the green; guided by the position of the web, they will assuredly find the precious purse; and a strange grub, feasting on a hundred new laid eggs, will ruin the establishment.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000043_000001|I do not know these enemies, not having sufficient materials at my disposal for a register of the parasites; but, from indications gathered elsewhere, I suspect them.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000044_000000|The Banded Epeira, trusting to the strength of her stuff, fixes her nest in the sight of all, hangs it on the brushwood, taking no precautions whatever to hide it.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000044_000003|Nothing but empty shells was left inside the central keg; the germs were completely exterminated.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000044_000004|There are other Ichneumon flies, moreover, addicted to robbing Spiders' nests; a basket of fresh eggs is their offspring's regular food.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000000|Like any other, the Labyrinth Spider dreads the scoundrelly advent of the pickwallet; she provides for it and, to shield herself against it as far as possible, chooses a hiding place outside her dwelling, far removed from the tell tale web.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000001|When she feels her ovaries ripen, she shifts her quarters; she goes off at night to explore the neighbourhood and seek a less dangerous refuge.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000002|The points selected are, by preference, the low brambles dragging along the ground, keeping their dense verdure during the winter and crammed with dead leaves from the oaks hard by.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000003|Rosemary tufts, which gain in thickness what they lose in height on the unfostering rock, suit her particularly.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000046_000000|So far, there is no departure from current usage.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000046_000002|Very few neglect this precaution; each, in her own manner, conceals the eggs she lays.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000047_000000|In the case of the Labyrinth Spider, the protection of the brood is complicated by another condition.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000047_000001|In the vast majority of instances, the eggs, once lodged in a favourable spot, are abandoned to themselves, left to the chances of good or ill fortune.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000047_000002|The Spider of the brushwood, on the contrary, endowed with greater maternal devotion, has, like the Crab Spider, to mount guard over hers until they hatch.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000048_000000|With a few threads and some small leaves joined together, the Crab Spider builds, above her lofty nest, a rudimentary watch tower where she stays permanently, greatly emaciated, flattened into a sort of wrinkled shell through the emptying of her ovaries and the total absence of food.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000048_000001|And this mere shred, hardly more than a skin that persists in living without eating, stoutly defends her egg sack, shows fight at the approach of any tramp.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000048_000002|She does not make up her mind to die until the little ones are gone.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000000|The Labyrinth Spider is better treated.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000001|After laying her eggs, so far from becoming thin, she preserves an excellent appearance and a round belly.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000002|Moreover, she does not lose her appetite and is always prepared to bleed a Locust.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000003|She therefore requires a dwelling with a hunting box close to the eggs watched over.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000000|Remember the magnificent oval guard room, running into a vestibule at either end; the egg chamber slung in the centre and isolated on every side by half a score of pillars; the front hall expanding into a wide mouth and surmounted by a network of taut threads forming a trap.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000002|Her cloister of vaulted passages enables her to proceed to any point of the star shaped pouch containing the eggs. Indefatigable in her rounds, she stops here and there; she fondly feels the satin, listens to the secrets of the wallet.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000003|If I shake the net at any point with a straw, she quickly runs up to enquire what is happening. Will this vigilance frighten off the Ichneumon and other lovers of omelettes?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000004|Perhaps so.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000005|But, though this danger be averted, others will come when the mother is no longer there.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000000|Her attentive watch does not make her overlook her meals.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000001|One of the Locusts whereof I renew the supply at intervals in the cages is caught in the cords of the great entrance hall.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000002|The Spider arrives hurriedly, snatches the giddy pate and disjoints his shanks, which she empties of their contents, the best part of the insect.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000004|The meal is taken outside the guard room, on the threshold, never indoors.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000000|These are not capricious mouthfuls, serving to beguile the boredom of the watch for a brief while; they are substantial repasts, which require several sittings.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000001|Such an appetite astonishes me, after I have seen the Crab Spider, that no less ardent watcher, refuse the Bees whom I give her and allow herself to die of inanition.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000002|Can this other mother have so great a need as that to eat?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000003|Yes, certainly she has; and for an imperative reason.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000053_000001|The walls never seem thick enough; the Spider is always working at them.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000053_000002|To satisfy this lavish expenditure, she must incessantly, by means of feeding, fill her silk glands as and when she empties them by spinning.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000053_000003|Food is the means whereby she keeps the inexhaustible factory going.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000000|A month passes and, about the middle of September, the little ones hatch, but without leaving their tabernacle, where they are to spend the winter packed in soft wadding.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000001|The mother continues to watch and spin, lessening her activity from day to day.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000002|She recruits herself with a Locust at longer intervals; she sometimes scorns those whom I myself entangle in her trap.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000003|This increasing abstemiousness, a sign of decrepitude, slackens and at last stops the work of the spinnerets.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000000|For four or five weeks longer, the mother never ceases her leisurely inspection rounds, happy at hearing the new born Spiders swarming in the wallet.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000001|At length, when October ends, she clutches her offspring's nursery and dies withered.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000002|She has done all that maternal devotion can do; the special providence of tiny animals will do the rest.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000003|When spring comes, the youngsters will emerge from their snug habitation, disperse all over the neighbourhood by the expedient of the floating thread and weave their first attempts at a labyrinth on the tufts of thyme.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000056_000000|Accurate in structure and neat in silk work though they be, the nests of the caged captives do not tell us everything; we must go back to what happens in the fields, with their complicated conditions.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000056_000002|We inspect the stunted rosemaries along the edge of a path sheltered by a rocky, wooded slope; we lift the branches that spread over the ground.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000056_000004|In a couple of hours, I am the owner of some nests.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000001|It needs the eyes of faith to see in these ruins the equivalent of the edifices built inside my cages.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000002|Fastened to the creeping branch, the unsightly bundle lies on the sand heaped up by the rains.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000003|Oak leaves, roughly joined by a few threads, wrap it all round.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000004|One of these leaves, larger than the others, roofs it in and serves as a scaffolding for the whole of the ceiling.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000005|If we did not see the silky remnants of the two vestibules projecting and feel a certain resistance when separating the parts of the bundle, we might take the thing for a casual accumulation, the work of the rain and the wind.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000058_000000|Let us examine our find and look more closely into its shapelessness. Here is the large room, the maternal cabin, which rips as the coating of leaves is removed; here are the circular galleries of the guard room; here are the central chamber and its pillars, all in a fabric of immaculate white.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000058_000001|The dirt from the damp ground has not penetrated to this dwelling protected by its wrapper of dead leaves.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000000|Now open the habitation of the offspring.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000001|What is this?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000003|Put aside that idea, says the satin wall, which itself is perfectly clean inside.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000005|The grains of sand are stuck together with a cement of silk; and the whole resists the pressure of the fingers.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000060_000000|If we continue to unshell the kernel, we find, below this mineral layer, a last silken tunic that forms a globe around the brood.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000060_000001|No sooner do we tear this final covering than the frightened little ones run away and scatter with an agility that is singular at this cold and torpid season.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000061_000000|To sum up, when working in the natural state, the Labyrinth Spider builds around the eggs, between two sheets of satin, a wall composed of a great deal of sand and a little silk.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000061_000001|To stop the Ichneumon's probe and the teeth of the other ravagers, the best thing that occurred to her was this hoarding which combines the hardness of flint with the softness of muslin.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000000|This means of defence seems to be pretty frequent among Spiders.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000002|Other species, living in the open under stones, work in the same way.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000003|They wrap their eggs in a mineral shell held together with silk.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000004|The same fears have inspired the same protective methods.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000000|Then how comes it that, of the five mothers reared in my cages, not one has had recourse to the clay rampart?
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000001|After all, sand abounded: the pans in which the wire gauze covers stood were full of it.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000002|On the other hand, under normal conditions, I have often come across nests without any mineral casing.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000003|These incomplete nests were placed at some height from the ground, in the thick of the brushwood; the others, on the contrary, those supplied with a coating of sand, lay on the ground.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000000|The method of the work explains these differences.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000001|The concrete of our buildings is obtained by the simultaneous manipulation of gravel and mortar.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000003|The operation would be impossible if, after cementing each grain of sand, it were necessary to stop the work of the spinnerets and go to a distance to fetch further stony elements.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000004|Those materials have to be right under her legs; otherwise the Spider does without and continues her work just the same.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000000|In my cages, the sand is too far off.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000001|To obtain it, the Spider would have to leave the top of the dome, where the nest is being built on its trellis work support; she would have to come down some nine inches.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000002|The worker refuses to take this trouble, which, if repeated in the case of each grain, would make the action of the spinnerets too irksome.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000003|She also refuses to do so when, for reasons which I have not fathomed, the site chosen is some way up in the tuft of rosemary.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000004|But, when the nest touches the ground, the clay rampart is never missing.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000066_000001|No inference is permissible in either direction.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000066_000002|The Labyrinth Spider has simply taught us that instinct possesses resources which are employed or left latent according to the conditions of the moment.
train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000066_000003|Place sand under her legs and the spinstress will knead concrete; refuse her that sand, or put it out of her reach, and the Spider will remain a simple silk worker, always ready, however, to turn mason under favourable conditions.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000002_000002|Answer my questions truthfully and it may be that we shall return through that door."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000004_000002|I can show it to you."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000005_000000|I had not been blind to the flash of malice, of cunning, that had shot across the wrinkled face.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000006_000002|Does your way lead to them, Yuruk?"
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000008_000001|"The way leads to them; to their place.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000009_000001|"Those who are unlike us smote those who are like us and drove them back when they would have taken and slain us.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000010_000001|"Cherkis would forgive much for her.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000011_000000|He spat-in a way that made me want to kill him.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000013_000000|"Cherkis?" I asked.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000014_000000|"Cherkis," he whined.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000014_000003|Much, I think.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000014_000004|Go then to him-unafraid."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000000|Cherkis?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000001|There was a familiar sound to that.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000002|Cherkis?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000003|Of course-it was the name of Xerxes, the Persian Conqueror, corrupted by time into this-Cherkis.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000004|And Iskander?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000005|Equally, of course-Alexander.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000006|Ventnor had been right.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000017_000000|"Long ago," he answered; "long, long ago there was trouble in their city, even in the great dwelling place of Cherkis.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000020_000001|The goddess was born here.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000020_000004|Was not the father of Iskander the god Zeus Ammon, who came to Iskander's mother in the form of a great snake?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000020_000005|Well?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000021_000000|"Cleave to your kind!
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000021_000002|Cleave to your kind.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000022_000001|Over the floor he slid, still holding fast to me, and pressed against the farther wall.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000024_000000|"Follow it." He pointed.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000024_000001|"Take those who came with you and follow it."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000026_000001|"You will take them and go by that path?"
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000027_000000|"Not yet," I answered absently.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000027_000001|"Not yet."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000028_000000|And was brought abruptly to full alertness, vigilance, by the flame of rage that filled the eyes thrust so close.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000029_000000|"Lead back," I directed curtly.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000029_000001|He slid the door into place, turned sullenly.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000030_000000|And by that curious human habit of seeking for the complex when the simple answer lies close, failed to recognize that it was jealousy of us that was the root of his behavior; that he wished to be, as it would seem he had been for years, the only human thing near Norhala; failed to realize this, and with ruth and Drake was terribly to pay for this failure.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000032_000000|"Sit," I ordered the eunuch.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000032_000001|"And turn your back to me."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000035_000001|Clearly it came to me that these were sense organs!
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000038_000001|A secretion of the brain? The cumulative expression, wholly chemical, of the multitudes of cells that form us?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000039_000000|Is it what many call the soul?
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000041_000000|So thinking I became aware of increasing light; strode past Yuruk to the door and peeped out.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000041_000002|I stooped over Drake, shook him.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000041_000003|On the instant he was awake, alert.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000042_000000|"I only need a little sleep, Dick," I said.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000043_000000|"Why, it's dawn," he whispered.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000043_000001|"Goodwin, you ought not to have let me sleep so long.
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000043_000002|I feel like a damned pig."
train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000044_000001|"But watch the eunuch closely."
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000002_000000|As the Thenardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000003_000002|The poor child found herself in the dark.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000003_000003|She plunged into it.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000004_000003|Is it a werewolf child?"
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000004_000004|Then the woman recognized Cosette.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000004_000005|"Well," said she, "it's the Lark!"
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000003|But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened mechanically, as it were.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000004|When she had passed the corner of the last house, Cosette paused.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000008|Black and desert space was before her.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000010|She took a good look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw spectres moving in the trees.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000003|What was she to do?
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000004|What was to become of her?
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000005|Where was she to go?
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000010|She only paused in her course when her breath failed her; but she did not halt in her advance.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000009_000002|On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an atom.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000010_000002|Strange to say, she did not get lost.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000010_000003|A remnant of instinct guided her vaguely.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000011_000001|A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little noise.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000000|Cosette did not take time to breathe.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000001|It was very dark, but she was in the habit of coming to this spring.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000004|While thus bent over, she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into the spring.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000007|She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it on the grass.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000013_000001|She would have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000013_000002|She was forced to sit down.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000015_000000|Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like masses of smoke.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000016_000000|Jupiter was setting in the depths.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000000|The darkness was bewildering.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000001|Man requires light.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000002|Whoever buries himself in the opposite of day feels his heart contract.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000003|When the eye sees black, the heart sees trouble.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000021_000000|Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more terrible even than terror; she shivered.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000022_000000|Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of the things about her.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000022_000001|Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the lighted candles.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000022_000002|Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; such was the fright which the Thenardier inspired in her, that she dared not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both hands; she could hardly lift the pail.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000023_000002|After some seconds of repose she set out again. She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000027_000002|This anguish was mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000028_000000|At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously.
train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000028_000001|She raised her head.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000005_000000|CHAPTER one-THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000000|The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning himself, has been absent from Paris for many years.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000001|Paris has been transformed since he quitted it.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000003|There is no need for him to say that he loves Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000005|He must be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000008_000000|May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present?
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000008_000001|That said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000009_000000|Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being followed.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000011_000000|This manoeuvre is peculiar to the hunted stag.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000012_000000|The moon was full that night.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000012_000004|He did not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the dark side escaped him.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000013_000000|Cosette walked on without asking any questions.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000013_000002|Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of destiny.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000013_000003|And then she was with him, and she felt safe.
train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000014_000005|Was not he disguised?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000003_000000|Yes, I said; and you may add that they are only fed, and not paid in addition to their food, like other men; and therefore they cannot, if they would, take a journey of pleasure; they have no money to spend on a mistress or any other luxurious fancy, which, as the world goes, is thought to be happiness; and many other accusations of the same nature might be added.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000005_000000|You mean to ask, I said, what will be our answer?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000006_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000004|Our potters also might be allowed to repose on couches, and feast by the fireside, passing round the winecup, while their wheel is conveniently at hand, and working at pottery only as much as they like; in this way we might make every class happy-and then, as you imagine, the whole State would be happy.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000005|But do not put this idea into our heads; for, if we listen to you, the husbandman will be no longer a husbandman, the potter will cease to be a potter, and no one will have the character of any distinct class in the State.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000008|But, if so, we mean different things, and he is speaking of something which is not a State.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000009|And therefore we must consider whether in appointing our guardians we would look to their greatest happiness individually, or whether this principle of happiness does not rather reside in the State as a whole.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000011|And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000008_000000|I think that you are quite right.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000010_000000|What may that be?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000012_000000|What are they?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000013_000000|Wealth, I said, and poverty.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000014_000000|How do they act?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000016_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000018_000000|Very true.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000019_000000|And the result will be that he becomes a worse potter?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000022_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000024_000000|That is evident.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000026_000000|What evils?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000027_000000|Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000030_000000|How so?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000032_000000|That is true, he said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000033_000000|And do you not suppose, Adeimantus, that a single boxer who was perfect in his art would easily be a match for two stout and well to do gentlemen who were not boxers?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000034_000000|Hardly, if they came upon him at once.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000035_000000|What, now, I said, if he were able to run away and then turn and strike at the one who first came up?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000035_000001|And supposing he were to do this several times under the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more than one stout personage?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000037_000000|And yet rich men probably have a greater superiority in the science and practise of boxing than they have in military qualities.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000038_000000|Likely enough.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000042_000000|That is not likely; and yet there might be a danger to the poor State if the wealth of many States were to be gathered into one.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000044_000000|Why so?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000045_000000|You ought to speak of other States in the plural number; not one of them is a city, but many cities, as they say in the game.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000046_000000|That is most true, he said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000047_000000|And what, I said, will be the best limit for our rulers to fix when they are considering the size of the State and the amount of territory which they are to include, and beyond which they will not go?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000049_000000|I would allow the State to increase so far as is consistent with unity; that, I think, is the proper limit.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000050_000000|Very good, he said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000051_000000|Here then, I said, is another order which will have to be conveyed to our guardians: Let our city be accounted neither large nor small, but one and self sufficing.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000054_000000|Yes, he said; that is not so difficult.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000056_000000|What may that be?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000056_000001|he asked.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000059_000000|Also, I said, the State, if once started well, moves with accumulating force like a wheel.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000060_000000|Very possibly, he said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000063_000000|they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000063_000001|So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;--he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000066_000000|Yes, he said; the lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000067_000000|Yes, I replied, in the form of amusement; and at first sight it appears harmless.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000069_000000|Is that true?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000069_000001|I said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000070_000000|That is my belief, he replied.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000072_000000|Very true, he said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000073_000000|And when they have made a good beginning in play, and by the help of music have gained the habit of good order, then this habit of order, in a manner how unlike the lawless play of the others! will accompany them in all their actions and be a principle of growth to them, and if there be any fallen places in the State will raise them up again.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000074_000000|Very true, he said.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000076_000000|What do you mean?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000078_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000081_000001|Does not like always attract like?
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000082_000000|To be sure.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000084_000000|That is not to be denied.
train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000085_000000|And for this reason, I said, I shall not attempt to legislate further about them.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000003_000000|Merlin was the son of no mortal father, but of an Incubus, one of a class of beings not absolutely wicked, but far from good, who inhabit the regions of the air.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000004_000000|At this time Vortigern reigned in Britain.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000004_000003|The edifice, when brought by the workmen to a certain height, three times fell to the ground, without any apparent cause.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000005_000004|The red dragon was slain, and the white one, gliding through a cleft in the rock, disappeared.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000006_000003|Merlin became his chief adviser, and often assisted the king by his magical arts.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000009_000001|At one time he appeared as a dwarf, at others as a damsel, a page, or even a greyhound or a stag.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000015_000000|After this event Merlin was never more known to hold converse with any mortal but Viviane, except on one occasion.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000015_000006|But do thou hasten to King Arthur, and charge him from me to undertake, without delay, the quest of the Sacred Graal.
train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000024_000000|[Footnote: Buried under beare.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000002_000002|The following is the address which I delivered:--
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000015_000001|This, this, coupled with our material prosperity, will bring into our beloved South a new heaven and a new earth.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000022_000000|october sixth eighteen ninety five.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000026_000000|Yours very truly,
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000029_000003|He is too great for that.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000031_000003|The picture painted was a rather black one-or, since I am black, shall I say "white"?
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000034_000003|If he is right, time will show it.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000036_000000|Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000037_000000|President's Office, september thirtieth eighteen ninety five.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000038_000002|A line by telegraph will be welcomed.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000039_000000|Yours very truly,
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000040_000000|d c Gilman
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000043_000000|Let me illustrate my meaning.
train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000043_000003|I do not think so.
train-clean-360/3340/170982/3340_170982_000017_000004|But will you let me assume, without reciting them, that these things are true?
train-clean-360/3340/170982/3340_170982_000018_000000|Certainly, he said, what you say is true.
train-clean-360/3340/170982/3340_170982_000020_000000|Yes, he said; and they are fair and lasting.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000004_000000|"Tally one for me," said the Scarecrow, calmly "What's wrong, my man?" he added, addressing the Soldier.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000005_000001|The City is conquered!" gasped the Royal Army, who was all out of breath.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000006_000000|"This is quite sudden," said the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000009_000000|"Good afternoon, noble parent!" he cried, delightedly.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000009_000001|"I'm glad to see you are here.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000009_000002|That terrible Saw Horse ran away with me."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000010_000000|"I suspected it," said Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000010_000001|"Did you get hurt?
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000010_000002|Are you cracked at all?"
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000011_000000|"No, I arrived safely," answered Jack, "and his Majesty has been very kind indeed to me.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000014_000000|"By the way, who has conquered me?"
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000021_000000|"Where can you go?" asked Jack Pumpkinhead.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000030_000000|"But we also are in danger," said the Pumpkinhead, anxiously.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000030_000001|"If any of these girls understand cooking, my end is not far off!"
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000031_000000|"Nonsense!" exclaimed the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000031_000001|"they're too busy to cook, even if they know how!"
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000033_000000|"Ah! then you would not be fit to associate with," returned the Scarecrow. "The matter is more serious than I suspected."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000034_000000|"You," said the Pumpkinhead, gloomily, "are liable to live for many years. My life is necessarily short.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000035_000000|"There, there!
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000035_000001|Don't worry," answered the Scarecrow soothingly; "if you'll keep quiet long enough for me to think, I'll try to find some way for us all to escape."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000038_000000|"Where is the Saw Horse you rode here?" he asked the Pumpkinhead.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000040_000000|"It was the only place I could think of your Majesty," added the Soldier, fearing he had made a blunder.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000041_000000|"It pleases me very much," said the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000041_000001|"Has the animal been fed?"
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000043_000000|"Excellent!" cried the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000043_000001|"Bring the horse here at once."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000045_000001|"He doesn't seem especially graceful!" he remarked, musingly.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000045_000002|"but I suppose he can run?"
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000049_000000|"He can't carry four!" objected Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000050_000002|For, from the ease with which he was conquered, I have little confidence in his powers."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000052_000000|"I expected this blow" said the Soldier, sulkily; "but I can bear it.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000053_000000|"Perhaps you are right," observed his Majesty.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000053_000001|"But, for my part, not being a soldier, I am fond of danger.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000053_000002|Now, my boy, you must mount first.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000055_000000|"Fetch a clothesline," said the King to his Army, "and tie us all together. Then if one falls off we will all fall off."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000058_000000|"I have to be as careful as you do," said Jack.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000059_000000|"Not exactly," replied the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000061_000000|"Now throw open the gates," commanded the Scarecrow, "and we will make a dash to liberty or to death."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000063_000000|"Now," said Tip to the horse, "you must save us all.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000063_000001|Run as fast as you can for the gate of the City, and don't let anything stop you."
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000068_000002|Tip got one small prick in his left arm, which smarted for an hour afterward; but the needles had no effect upon the Scarecrow or Jack Pumpkinhead, who never even suspected they were being prodded.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000069_000000|As for the Saw Horse, he made a wonderful record upsetting a fruit cart, overturning several meek looking men, and finally bowling over the new Guardian of the Gate-a fussy little fat woman appointed by General Jinjur.
train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000075_000002|"My straw is all shaking down into my legs."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000003_000000|Tip awoke soon after dawn, but the Scarecrow had already risen and plucked, with his clumsy fingers, a double handful of ripe berries from some bushes near by.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000003_000001|These the boy ate greedily, finding them an ample breakfast, and afterward the little party resumed its Journey.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000007_000000|Is the Tin Woodman the Emperor of the Winkies?" asked the horse.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000008_000000|"Yes, indeed.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000010_000000|"I thought that 'Emperor' was the title of a person who rules an empire," said Tip, "and the Country of the Winkies is only a Kingdom."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000011_000000|"Don't mention that to the Tin Woodman!" exclaimed the Scarecrow, earnestly. "You would hurt his feelings terribly.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000011_000001|He is a proud man, as he has every reason to be, and it pleases him to be termed Emperor rather than King."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000012_000000|"I'm sure it makes no difference to me," replied the boy.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000013_000000|The Saw Horse now ambled forward at a pace so fast that its riders had hard work to stick upon its back; so there was little further conversation until they drew up beside the palace steps.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000014_000001|Said the Scarecrow to his personage:
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000015_000000|"Show us at once to your master, the Emperor."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000019_000000|"How is that?" enquired the Scarecrow, anxiously." I hope nothing has happened to him."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000020_000000|"Oh, no; nothing serious," returned the man.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000020_000001|"But this is his Majesty's day for being polished; and just now his august presence is thickly smeared with putz pomade."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000021_000001|"My friend was ever inclined to be a dandy, and I suppose he is now more proud than ever of his personal appearance."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000022_000000|"He is, indeed," said the man, with a polite bow.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000023_000000|"Good Gracious!" the Scarecrow exclaimed at hearing this.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000023_000001|"If his wit bears the same polish, how sparkling it must be!
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000027_000000|The travelers were at first somewhat awed by their surroundings, and even the Scarecrow seemed impressed as he examined the rich hangings of silver cloth caught up into knots and fastened with tiny silver axes.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000027_000001|Upon a handsome center table stood a large silver oil can, richly engraved with scenes from the past adventures of the Tin Woodman, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow: the lines of the engraving being traced upon the silver in yellow gold.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000029_000000|"Well! well!
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000030_000000|And then the door burst open and Nick Chopper rushed into their midst and caught the Scarecrow in a close and loving embrace that creased him into many folds and wrinkles.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000031_000000|"My dear old friend!
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000036_000000|But, alas! the face of the Scarecrow and many portions of his body bore great blotches of putz pomade; for the Tin Woodman, in his eagerness to welcome his friend, had quite forgotten the condition of his toilet and had rubbed the thick coating of paste from his own body to that of his comrade.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000037_000000|"Dear me!" said the Scarecrow dolefully.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000040_000001|"But tell me, how came your Majesty here?
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000040_000002|and who are your companions?"
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000041_000000|The Scarecrow, with great politeness, introduced Tip and Jack Pumpkinhead, and the latter personage seemed to interest the Tin Woodman greatly.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000042_000000|"You are not very substantial, I must admit," said the Emperor.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000045_000000|"I hope you are enjoying good health?" continued the Woodman.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000046_000000|"At present, yes;" replied the Pumpkinhead, with a sigh; "but I am in constant terror of the day when I shall spoil."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000047_000000|"Nonsense!" said the Emperor-but in a kindly, sympathetic tone.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000047_000001|"Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000047_000002|For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000049_000001|He rattled and clanked a little, as he moved, but in the main he seemed to be most cleverly constructed, and his appearance was only marred by the thick coating of polishing paste that covered him from head to foot.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000050_000000|The boy's intent gaze caused the Tin Woodman to remember that he was not in the most presentable condition, so he begged his friends to excuse him while he retired to his private apartment and allowed his servants to polish him. This was accomplished in a short time, and when the emperor returned his nickel plated body shone so magnificently that the Scarecrow heartily congratulated him on his improved appearance.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000051_000000|"That nickel plate was, I confess, a happy thought," said Nick; "and it was the more necessary because I had become somewhat scratched during my adventurous experiences.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000051_000001|You will observe this engraved star upon my left breast.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000054_000001|"It is, I am convinced, a strictly orthodox heart, although somewhat larger and warmer than most people possess."
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000055_000000|Then he turned to the Scarecrow and asked:
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000056_000000|"Are your subjects happy and contented, my dear friend?"
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000057_000000|"I cannot, say" was the reply.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000058_000000|"Great Goodness!" cried the Tin Woodman, "What a calamity!
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000060_000001|What an extraordinary idea!" cried the Emperor, who was both shocked and surprised.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000066_000000|"I was sure you would help me," remarked the Scarecrow in a pleased voice. "How large an army can you assemble?"
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000068_000000|"We five," corrected the Pumpkinhead.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000069_000000|"Five?" repeated the Tin Woodman.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000071_000000|The Tin Woodman looked around him in a puzzled way, for the Saw Horse had until now remained quietly standing in a corner, where the Emperor had not noticed him.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000072_000001|How came this creature alive?"
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000073_000000|"I did it with a magic powder," modestly asserted the boy.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000075_000000|"He enabled us to escape the rebels," added the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000076_000001|"A live Saw Horse is a distinct novelty, and should prove an interesting study.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000076_000002|Does he know anything?"
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000077_000000|"Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life," the Saw Horse answered for himself.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000078_000000|"Perhaps you do," said the emperor; "for experience does not always mean wisdom.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000078_000001|But time is precious Just now, so let us quickly make preparations to start upon our Journey.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000079_000001|Meanwhile the Scarecrow was taken apart and the painted sack that served him for a head was carefully laundered and restuffed with the brains originally given him by the great Wizard.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000079_000002|His clothes were also cleaned and pressed by the Imperial tailors, and his crown polished and again sewed upon his head, for the Tin Woodman insisted he should not renounce this badge of royalty.
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000079_000003|The Scarecrow now presented a very respectable appearance, and although in no way addicted to vanity he
train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000080_000001|While this was being done Tip mended the wooden limbs of Jack Pumpkinhead and made them stronger than before, and the Saw Horse was also inspected to see if he was in good working order.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000002_000000|"It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle Bug," began the creature, in a frank and friendly tone.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000002_000001|"Knowing no better, I used my arms as well as my legs for walking, and crawled under the edges of stones or hid among the roots of grasses with no thought beyond finding a few insects smaller than myself to feed upon.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000003_000000|"The chill nights rendered me stiff and motionless, for I wore no clothing, but each morning the warm rays of the sun gave me new life and restored me to activity.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000004_000000|"But Destiny had singled me out, humble though I was, for a grander fate! One day I crawled near
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000006_000000|"No one noticed so small a creature as a Woggle Bug, and when I found that the hearth was even warmer and more comfortable than the sunshine, I resolved to establish my future home beside it.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000007_000001|Not one of them was more attentive than the humble, unnoticed Woggle Bug, and I acquired in this way a fund of knowledge that I will myself confess is simply marvelous.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000007_000002|That is why I place 't e' Thoroughly Educated upon my cards; for my greatest pride lies in the fact that the world cannot produce another Woggle Bug with a tenth part of my own culture and erudition."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000008_000000|"I do not blame you," said the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000008_000001|"Education is a thing to be proud of.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000008_000002|I'm educated myself.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000010_000000|"Nevertheless," interrupted the Tin Woodman, "a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000011_000000|"To me," said the Saw Horse, "a good leg is more desirable than either."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000012_000000|"Could seeds be considered in the light of brains?" enquired the Pumpkinhead, abruptly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000013_000000|"Keep quiet!" commanded Tip, sternly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000014_000000|"Very well, dear father," answered the obedient Jack.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000015_000000|The Woggle Bug listened patiently-even respectfully-to these remarks, and then resumed his story.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000016_000000|"I must have lived fully three years in that secluded school house hearth," said he, "drinking thirstily of the ever flowing fount of limpid knowledge before me."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000017_000000|"Quite poetical," commented the Scarecrow, nodding his head approvingly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000018_000000|"But one, day" continued the Bug, "a marvelous circumstance occurred that altered my very existence and brought me to my present pinnacle of greatness.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000018_000001|The
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000021_000000|"'My dear children,' said he, 'I have captured a Woggle Bug-a very rare and interesting specimen.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000022_000000|"'No!' yelled the scholars, in chorus.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000025_000000|"The students stood up on their stools and craned their heads forward to get a better view of me, and two little girls jumped upon the sill of an open window where they could see more plainly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000030_000001|My action, being unexpected, must have startled them, for one of the little girls perched upon the window sill gave a scream and fell backward out the window, drawing her companion with her as she disappeared.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000031_000000|"The Professor uttered a cry of horror and rushed away through the door to see if the poor children were injured by the fall.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000031_000001|The scholars followed after him in a wild mob, and I was left alone in the school room, still in a Highly Magnified state and free to do as I pleased.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000032_000000|"It immediately occurred to me that this was a good opportunity to escape.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000032_000001|I was proud of my great size, and realized that now I could safely travel anywhere in the world, while my superior culture would make me a fit associate for the most learned person I might chance to meet.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000034_000000|"Wonderful!" exclaimed the Pumpkinhead, admiringly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000035_000000|"It was, indeed," agreed the Woggle Bug.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000035_000001|"I
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000039_000000|"I didn't know before," said Tip, looking at the
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000041_000000|"Nor do they, in their natural state," returned the stranger.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000041_000001|"But in the course of my wanderings I had the good fortune to save the ninth life of a tailor-tailors having, like cats, nine lives, as you probably know.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000041_000002|The fellow was exceedingly grateful, for had he lost that ninth life it would have been the end of him; so he begged permission to furnish me with the stylish costume I now wear.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000042_000000|"He must have been a good tailor," said the Scarecrow, somewhat enviously.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000043_000000|"He was a good hearted tailor, at any rate," observed Nick Chopper.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000044_000000|"But where were you going, when you met us?" Tip asked the Woggle Bug.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000045_000000|"Nowhere in particular," was the reply, "although it is my intention soon to visit the Emerald City and arrange to give a course of lectures to select audiences on the 'Advantages of Magnification.'"
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000046_000000|"We are bound for the Emerald City now," said the Tin Woodman; "so, if it pleases you to do so, you are welcome to travel in our company."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000048_000000|The Woggle Bug bowed with profound grace.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000050_000000|"That is true," acknowledged the Pumpkinhead.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000050_000001|"We are quite as congenial as flies and honey."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000052_000000|"Not more so than yourself," answered the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000052_000001|"Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000053_000000|"What rare philosophy!" exclaimed the Woggle Bug, admiringly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000054_000000|"Yes; my brains are working well today," admitted the Scarecrow, an accent of pride in his voice.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000055_000000|"Then, if you are sufficiently rested and refreshed, let us bend our steps toward the Emerald City," suggested the magnified one.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000056_000000|"We can't," said Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000056_000002|And there is no wood around to make him a new limb from.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000058_000000|"How very unfortunate!" cried the Woggle Bug.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000058_000001|Then he looked the party over carefully and said:
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000059_000000|"If the Pumpkinhead is to ride, why not use one of his legs to make a leg for the horse that carries him?
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000059_000001|I judge that both are made of wood."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000060_000000|"Now, that is what I call real cleverness," said the Scarecrow, approvingly. "I wonder my brains did not think of that long ago!
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000060_000001|Get to work, my dear Nick, and fit the Pumpkinhead's leg to the Saw Horse."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000061_000000|Jack was not especially pleased with this idea; but he submitted to having his left leg amputated by the Tin Woodman and whittled down to fit the left leg of the Saw Horse.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000061_000001|Nor was the Saw Horse especially pleased with the operation, either; for he growled a good deal about being "butchered," as he called it, and afterward declared that the new leg was a disgrace to a respectable Saw Horse.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000062_000000|"I beg you to be more careful in your speech," said the Pumpkinhead, sharply.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000062_000001|"Remember, if you please, that it is my leg you are abusing."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000063_000000|"I cannot forget it," retorted the Saw Horse, "for it is quite as flimsy as the rest of your person."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000064_000000|"Flimsy! me flimsy!" cried Jack, in a rage.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000064_000001|"How dare you call me flimsy?"
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000065_000000|"Because you are built as absurdly as a jumping
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000066_000001|"Even your head won't stay straight, and you never can tell whether you are looking backwards or forwards!"
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000067_000000|"Friends, I entreat you not to quarrel!" pleaded the Tin Woodman, anxiously." As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each others' faults."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000068_000000|"An excellent suggestion," said the Woggle Bug, approvingly.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000068_000001|"You must have an excellent heart, my metallic friend."
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000069_000000|"I have," returned Nick, well pleased.
train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000069_000001|"My heart is quite the best part of me.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000002_000000|The Tin Woodman was usually a peaceful man, but when occasion required he could fight as fiercely as a Roman gladiator.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000003_000001|Some of them pecked at the eyes of the Gump, which hung over the nest in a helpless condition; but the Gump's eyes were of glass and could not be injured. Others of the Jackdaws rushed at the Saw Horse; but that animal, being still upon his back, kicked out so viciously with his wooden legs that he beat off as many assailants as did the Woodman's axe.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000005_000000|Finding themselves thus opposed, the birds fell upon the Scarecrow's straw, which lay at the center of the nest, covering Tip and the Woggle Bug and Jack's pumpkin head, and began tearing it away and flying off with it, only to let it drop, straw by straw into the great gulf beneath.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000007_000000|When the last foe had disappeared, Tip crawled from under the sofas and assisted the Woggle Bug to follow him.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000008_000000|"We are saved!" shouted the boy, delightedly.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000009_000000|"We are, indeed!" responded the Educated Insect, fairly hugging the stiff head of the Gump in his joy.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000009_000001|"and we owe it all to the flopping of the Thing, and the good axe of the Woodman!"
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000011_000001|He also set the Saw Horse upright, and said to it:
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000013_000000|"I really think we have escaped very nicely," remarked the Tin Woodman, in a tone of pride.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000014_000000|"Not so!" exclaimed a hollow voice.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000015_000000|At this they all turned in surprise to look at the Scarecrow's head, which lay at the back of the nest.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000016_000000|"I am completely ruined!" declared the Scarecrow, as he noted their astonishment.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000017_000000|The awful question startled them all.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000017_000002|The
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000021_000001|"The Scarecrow's clothing is still safe."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000022_000000|"Yes," answered the Tin Woodman; "but our friend's clothes are useless without stuffing."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000023_000000|"Why not stuff him with money?" asked Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000024_000000|"Money!" they all cried, in an amazed chorus.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000025_000000|"To be sure," said the boy.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000025_000003|Why not use the money?"
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000028_000000|There was an immense fortune lying in that inaccessible nest; and Tip's suggestion was, with the Scarecrow's consent, quickly acted upon.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000029_000001|The Scarecrow's left leg and boot were stuffed with five dollar bills; his right leg was stuffed with ten dollar bills, and his body so closely filled with fifties, one hundreds and one thousands that he could scarcely button his jacket with comfort.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000030_000000|"You are now" said the Woggle Bug, impressively, when the task had been completed, "the most valuable member of our party; and as you
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000033_000000|"Thank you," returned the Scarecrow, gratefully.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000034_000000|"Well, the emergency is here," observed Tip; "and unless your brains help us out of it we shall be compelled to pass the remainder of our lives in this nest."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000035_000000|"How about these wishing pills?" enquired the Scarecrow, taking the box from his jacket pocket.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000036_000000|"Not unless we can count seventeen by twos," answered the Tin Woodman.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000036_000001|"But our friend the Woggle Bug claims to be highly educated, so he ought easily to figure out how that can be done."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000039_000000|"Stop! stop!" cried the Pumpkinhead.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000039_000001|"You're making my head ache."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000040_000000|"And mine," added the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000040_000001|"Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000040_000002|I am certain that if the thing can be accomplished at all, it is in a very simple manner."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000041_000000|"Yes," said Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000042_000000|"Why not start counting at a half of one?" asked the Saw Horse, abruptly. "Then anyone can count up to seventeen by twos very easily."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000043_000000|They looked at each other in surprise, for the Saw Horse was considered the most stupid of the entire party.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000046_000000|"I wonder I didn't think of that myself," said the Pumpkinhead.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000000|"I don't," returned the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000001|"You're no wiser than the rest of us, are you?
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000002|But let us make a wish at once.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000003|Who will swallow the first pill?"
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000049_000000|"Suppose you do it," suggested Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000050_000000|"I can't," said the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000052_000000|"Yes; but my mouth is painted on, and there's no swallow connected with it,' answered the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000052_000001|"In fact," he continued, looking from one to another critically, "I believe the boy and the Woggle Bug are the only ones in our party that are able to swallow."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000053_000000|Observing the truth of this remark, Tip said:
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000054_000000|"Then I will undertake to make the first wish.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000054_000001|Give me one of the Silver Pills."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000055_000000|This the Scarecrow tried to do; but his padded gloves were too clumsy to clutch so small an object, and he held the box toward the boy while Tip selected one of the pills and swallowed it.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000056_000000|"Count!" cried the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000057_000000|"One half, one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven,!" counted Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000057_000001|thirteen, fifteen, seventeen.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000058_000000|"Now wish!" said the Tin Woodman anxiously:
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000059_000000|But Just then the boy began to suffer such fearful pains that he became alarmed.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000061_000003|Murder! Fire!
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000062_000000|"What can we do for you.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000062_000001|Speak, I beg!" entreated the Tin Woodman, tears of sympathy running down his nickel cheeks.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000065_000000|"What's happened?" asked the boy, a little ashamed of his recent exhibition.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000066_000000|"Why, the three pills are in the box again!" said the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000067_000000|"Of course they are," the Woggle Bug declared.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000067_000003|So of course they are all three in the box."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000068_000000|"That may be; but the pill gave me a dreadful pain, just the same," said the boy.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000069_000000|"Impossible!" declared the Woggle
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000071_000002|And as your wish, being granted, proves you did not swallow the pill, it is also plain that you suffered no pain."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000072_000001|We've wasted one wish already."
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000073_000000|"Oh, no, we haven't!" protested the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000074_000000|"Now you're making my head ache," said Tip.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000074_000001|"I can't understand the thing at all.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000074_000002|But I won't take another pill, I promise you!" and with this remark he retired sulkily to the back of the nest.
train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000075_000000|"Well," said the Woggle Bug, "it remains for me to save us in my most Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated manner; for I seem to be the only one able and willing to make a wish.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000001_000000|ROMAN WOMEN.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000003_000000|The time when the Roman women began to appear in public, marks a particular era in history.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000000|The Roman women, for many ages, were respected over the whole world. Their victorious husbands re visited them with transport, at their return from battle.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000001|They laid at their feet the spoils of the enemy, and endeared themselves in their eyes by the wounds which they had received for them and for the state.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000002|Those warriors often came from imposing commands upon kings, and in their own houses accounted it an honor to obey.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000003|In vain the too rigid laws made them the arbiters of life and death.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000004|More powerful than the laws, the women ruled their judges.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000005|In vain the legislature, foreseeing the wants which exist only among a corrupt people, permitted divorce.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000006|The indulgence of the polity was proscribed by the manners.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000005_000000|Such was the influence of beauty at Rome before the licentious intercourse of the sexes had corrupted both.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000006_000000|The Roman matrons do not seem to have possessed that military courage which Plutarch has praised in certain Greek and barbarian women; they partook more of the nature of their sex; or, at least, they departed less from its character.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000006_000001|Their first quality was decency.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000000|To these austere manners, the Roman women joined an enthusiastic love of their country, which discovered itself upon many great occasions.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000001|On the death of Brutus, they all clothed themselves in mourning.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000002|In the time of Coriolanus they saved the city.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000004|The senate decreed them public thanks, ordered the men to give place to them upon all occasions, caused an altar to be erected for them on the spot where the mother had softened her son, and the wife her husband; and the sex were permitted to add another ornament to their head dress.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000008_000000|The Roman women saved the city a second time, when besieged by Brennus. They gave up all their gold as its ransom.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000008_000001|For that instance of their generosity, the senate granted them the honor of having funeral orations pronounced in the rostrum, in common with patriots and heroes.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000002|The women sought an orator to defend their cause, but found none.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000003|Nobody would reason against those who had the power of life and death.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000004|The daughter of the celebrated Hortensius alone appeared.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000005|She revived the memory of her father's abilities, and supported with intrepidity her own cause and that of her sex.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000006|The ruffians blushed and revoked their orders.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000011_000000|Hortensia was conducted home in triumph, and had the honor of having given, in one day, an example of courage to men, a pattern of eloquence to women, and a lesson of humanity to tyrants.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000012_000002|They were desirous to join admiration to esteem, 'till they learned to exceed esteem itself.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000012_000003|For in all countries, in proportion as the love of virtue diminishes, we find the love of talents to increase.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000013_000001|The vast inequality of ranks, the enormous fortunes of individuals, the ridicule, affixed by the imperial court to moral ideas, all contributed to hasten the period of corruption.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000014_000001|Portia, the daughter of Cato, and wife of Brutus, showed herself worthy to be associated with the first of human kind, and trusted with the fate of empires.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000015_000000|The example of Portia was followed by that of Arria, who seeing her husband hesitating and afraid to die, in order to encourage him, pierced her own breast, and delivered to him the dagger with a smile.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000017_000001|But the empress Julia the wife of Septimius Severus, possessed a species of merit so very different from any of those already mentioned, as to claim particular attention.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000018_000000|This lady was born in Syria, and a daughter of a priest of the sun
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000018_000001|It was predicted that she would rise to sovereign dignity; and her character justified the prophecy.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000000|Julia, while on the throne, loved, or pretended passionately to love, letters.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000001|Either from taste, from a desire to instruct herself, from a love of renown, or possibly from all these together, she spent her life with philosophers.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000002|Her rank of empress would not, perhaps, have been sufficient to subdue those bold spirits; but she joined to that the more powerful influences of wit and beauty.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000003|These three kinds of empire rendered less necessary to her that which consists only in art; and which, attentive to their tastes and their weaknesses, govern great minds by little means.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000020_000000|It is said she was a philosopher.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000000|Julia was, in short, an empress and a politician, occupied at the same time about literature, and affairs of state, while she mingled her pleasures freely with both.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000001|She had courtiers for her lovers, scholars for her friends, and philosophers for her counsellors.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000003|Julia arrived at the highest celebrity; but as among all her excellencies, we find not those of her sex, the virtues of a woman, our admiration is lost in blame.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000004|In her life time she obtained more praise than respect; and posterity, while it has done justice to her talents and her accomplishments, has agreed to deny her esteem.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000022_000000|LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000023_000000|The Roman women, as well as the Grecian, were under perpetual guardianship; and were not at any age, nor in any condition, ever trusted with the management of their own fortunes.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000024_000000|Every father had power of life and death over his own daughters: but this power was not restricted to daughters only; it extended also to sons.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000025_000000|The Oppian law prohibited women from having more than half an ounce of gold employed in ornamenting their persons, from wearing clothes of divers colors, and from riding in chariots, either in the city, or a thousand paces round it.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000026_000001|For either of these faults they were liable to be divorced by their husbands.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000029_000000|Fabius Pictor relates, that the parents of a Roman lady, having detected her picking the lock of a chest which contained some wine, shut her up and starved her to death.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000030_000001|They were also liable to be divorced for barrenness, which, if it could be construed into a fault, was at least the fault of nature, and might sometimes be that of the husband.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000031_000000|A few sumptuary laws, a subordination to the men, and a total want of authority, do not so much affect the sex, as to be coldly and indelicately treated by their husbands.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000032_000000|Such a treatment is touching them in the tenderest part.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000033_000001|The principal eunuch of Justinian the Second, threatened to chastise the Empress, his master's wife, in the manner that children are chastised at school, if she did not obey his orders.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000034_000000|With regard to the private diversions of the Roman ladies, history is silent.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000034_000001|Their public ones, were such as were common to both sexes; as bathing, theatrical representations, horse races, shows of wild beasts, which fought against one another, and sometimes against men, whom the emperors, in the plenitude of their despotic power, ordered to engage them.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000035_000000|The romans, of both sexes, spent a great deal of time at the baths; which at first, perhaps, were interwoven with their religion, but at last were only considered as refinements in luxury.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000035_000001|They were places of public resort, where people met with their acquaintances and friends, where public libraries were kept for such as chose to read, and where poets recited their works to such as had patience to hear.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000036_000000|In the earlier periods of Rome, separate baths were appropriated to each sex.
train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000036_000001|Luxury, by degrees getting the better of decency, the men and women at last bathed promiscuously together.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000001_000000|SPANISH WOMEN.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000002_000000|As the Spanish ladies are under a greater seclusion from general society, than the sex is in other European countries, their desires of an adequate degree of liberty are consequently more strong and urgent.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000002_000001|A free and open communication being denied them, they make it their business to secure themselves a secret and hidden one.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000002_000002|Hence it is that Spain is the country of intrigue.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000003_000000|The Spanish women are little or nothing indebted to education.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000003_000003|Thus in Spain, as in all countries where the sex is kept much out of sight, the thoughts of men are continually employed in devising methods to break into their concealments.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000000|There is in the Spaniards a native dignity; which, though the source of many inconveniences, has nevertheless this salutary effect, that it sets them above almost every species of meanness and infidelity.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000001|This quality is not peculiar to the men; it diffuses itself, in a great measure, among the women also.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000003|Their affections are not to be gained by a bit of sparkling lace, or a tawdry set of liveries.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000004|Their deportment is rather grave and reserved; and, on the whole, they have much more of the prude than the coquette in their composition.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000006_000000|A lady to whom a gentleman pays his addresses, is sole mistress of his time and money; and, should he refuse her any request, whether reasonable or capricious, it would reflect eternal dishonor upon him among the men, and make him the detestation of all the women.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000007_000000|But, in no situation does their character appear so whimsical, or their power so conspicuous, as when they are pregnant.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000007_000001|In this case, whatever they long for, whatever they ask, or whatever they have an inclination to do, they must be indulged in.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000008_000000|ENGLISH WOMEN.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000009_000000|The women of England are eminent for many good qualities both of the head and of the heart.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000009_000001|There we meet with that inexpressible softness and delicacy of manners, which, cultivated by education, appears as much superior to what it does without it, as the polished diamond appears superior to that which is rough from the mine.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000009_000003|In England they consist not only in abstinence from evil, but in doing good.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000010_000000|There we see the sex every day exerting themselves in acts of benevolence and charity, in relieving the distresses of the body, and binding up the wounds of the mind; in reconciling the differences of friends, and preventing the strife of enemies; and, to sum up all, in that care and attention to their offspring, which is so necessary and essential a part of their duty.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000011_000001|The king's wife is considered as a subject; but is exempted from the law which forbids any married woman to possess property in her own right during the lifetime of her husband; she may sue any person at law without joining her husband in the suit; may buy and sell lands without his interference; and she may dispose of her property by will, as if she were a single woman.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000011_000002|She cannot be fined by any court of law; but is liable to be tried and punished for crimes by peers of the realm.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000011_000005|A peeress can only be tried by a jury of peers.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000012_000001|A piece of sharp iron entered the mouth, and severely pricked the tongue whenever the culprit attempted to move it.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000001|Misconduct and divorces are not unfrequent among the former, because their mode of life corrupts their principles, and they deem themselves above the jurisdiction of popular opinion; the latter feel as if they were beneath the influence of public censure, and find it very difficult to be virtuous, on account of extreme poverty, and the consequent obstructions in the way of marriage.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000002|But the general character of English women is modest, reserved, sincere, and dignified. They have strong passions and affections, which often develope themselves in the most beautiful forms of domestic life.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000003|They are in general remarkable for a healthy appearance, and an exquisite bloom of complexion.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000004|Perhaps the world does not present a lovelier or more graceful picture than the English home of a virtuous family.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000014_000000|RUSSIAN WOMEN.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000016_000000|A late empress of Russia, as a punishment for some female frailties, ordered a most beautiful young lady of family to be publicly chastised, in a manner which was hardly less indelicate than severe.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000018_000002|As soon as a young man is old enough to be married, his parents seek a wife for him, and all is settled before the young couple know any thing of the matter.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000019_000000|Their nuptial ceremonies are peculiar to themselves; and formerly consisted of many whimsical rites, some of which are now disused.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000019_000001|On her wedding day, the bride is crowned with a garland of wormwood; and, after the priest has tied the nuptial knot, his clerk or sexton throws a handful of hops upon the head of the bride, wishing that she might prove as fruitful as that plant.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000019_000002|She is then led home, with abundance of coarse ceremonies, which are now wearing off even among the lowest ranks; and the barbarous treatment of wives by their husbands is either guarded against by the laws of the country, or by particular stipulations in the marriage contract.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000020_000000|In the conversation and actions of the Russian ladies, there is hardly any thing of that softness and delicacy which distinguishes the sex in other parts of Europe.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000020_000001|Even their exercises and diversions have more of the masculine than the feminine.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000020_000002|The present empress, with the ladies of her court, sometimes divert themselves by shooting at a mark. Drunkenness, the vice of almost every cold climate, they are so little ashamed of, that not many years ago, when a lady got drunk at the house of a friend, it was customary for her to return next day, and thank him for the pleasure he had done her.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000021_000000|Females, however, in Russia, possess several advantages.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000021_000001|They share the rank and splendor of the families from which they are sprung, and are even allowed the supreme authority.
train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000021_000002|This a few years ago, was enjoyed by an empress, whose head did honor to her nation and to her sex; although, on some occasions, the virtues of her heart have been much suspected. The sex, in general, are protected from insult, by many salutary laws; and, except among the peasants, are exempted from every kind of toil and slavery.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000000_000000|Chapter twenty three
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000001_000000|Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, reflecting on what she had heard, and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it, when Sir William Lucas himself appeared, sent by his daughter, to announce her engagement to the family.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000001_000001|With many compliments to them, and much self gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses, he unfolded the matter-to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for mrs Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed:
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000002_000000|"Good Lord!
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000002_000001|Sir William, how can you tell such a story?
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000002_000002|Do not you know that mr Collins wants to marry Lizzy?"
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000000|mrs Bennet was in fact too much overpowered to say a great deal while Sir William remained; but no sooner had he left them than her feelings found a rapid vent.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000001|In the first place, she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter; secondly, she was very sure that mr Collins had been taken in; thirdly, she trusted that they would never be happy together; and fourthly, that the match might be broken off.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000002|Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000003|Nothing could console and nothing could appease her.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000004|Nor did that day wear out her resentment.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000005|A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her, a month passed away before she could speak to Sir William or Lady Lucas without being rude, and many months were gone before she could at all forgive their daughter.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000006_000000|mr Bennet's emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, and such as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000007_000000|Jane confessed herself a little surprised at the match; but she said less of her astonishment than of her earnest desire for their happiness; nor could Elizabeth persuade her to consider it as improbable.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000007_000001|Kitty and Lydia were far from envying Miss Lucas, for mr Collins was only a clergyman; and it affected them in no other way than as a piece of news to spread at Meryton.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000009_000000|Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000009_000001|Her disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her sister, of whose rectitude and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken, and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious, as Bingley had now been gone a week and nothing more was heard of his return.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000010_000000|Jane had sent Caroline an early answer to her letter, and was counting the days till she might reasonably hope to hear again.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000010_000001|The promised letter of thanks from mr Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelvemonth's abode in the family might have prompted.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000000|mr Collins's return into Hertfordshire was no longer a matter of pleasure to mrs Bennet.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000001|On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000002|It was very strange that he should come to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient and exceedingly troublesome.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000003|She hated having visitors in the house while her health was so indifferent, and lovers were of all people the most disagreeable.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000004|Such were the gentle murmurs of mrs Bennet, and they gave way only to the greater distress of mr Bingley's continued absence.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000012_000000|Neither Jane nor Elizabeth were comfortable on this subject.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000012_000001|Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed mrs Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000013_000000|Even Elizabeth began to fear-not that Bingley was indifferent-but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000013_000001|Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonorable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently occurring.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000013_000002|The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters and of his overpowering friend, assisted by the attractions of Miss Darcy and the amusements of London might be too much, she feared, for the strength of his attachment.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000014_000001|But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her impatience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000014_000002|It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000015_000000|mr Collins returned most punctually on Monday fortnight, but his reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious as it had been on his first introduction.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000015_000001|He was too happy, however, to need much attention; and luckily for the others, the business of love making relieved them from a great deal of his company.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000015_000002|The chief of every day was spent by him at Lucas Lodge, and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000000|mrs Bennet was really in a most pitiable state.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000001|The very mention of anything concerning the match threw her into an agony of ill humour, and wherever she went she was sure of hearing it talked of.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000002|The sight of Miss Lucas was odious to her.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000004|Whenever Charlotte came to see them, she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and whenever she spoke in a low voice to mr Collins, was convinced that they were talking of the Longbourn estate, and resolving to turn herself and her daughters out of the house, as soon as mr Bennet were dead.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000005|She complained bitterly of all this to her husband.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000018_000000|"My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000018_000001|Let us hope for better things.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000018_000002|Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor."
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000019_000000|This was not very consoling to mrs Bennet, and therefore, instead of making any answer, she went on as before.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000020_000000|"I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate.
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000020_000001|If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it."
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000021_000000|"What should not you mind?"
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000022_000000|"I should not mind anything at all."
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000023_000000|"Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility."
train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000024_000000|"I never can be thankful, mr Bennet, for anything about the entail.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000001_000000|Chapter forty
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000002_000000|Elizabeth's impatience to acquaint Jane with what had happened could no longer be overcome; and at length, resolving to suppress every particular in which her sister was concerned, and preparing her to be surprised, she related to her the next morning the chief of the scene between mr Darcy and herself.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000003_000000|Miss Bennet's astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000003_000001|She was sorry that mr Darcy should have delivered his sentiments in a manner so little suited to recommend them; but still more was she grieved for the unhappiness which her sister's refusal must have given him.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000004_000000|"His being so sure of succeeding was wrong," said she, "and certainly ought not to have appeared; but consider how much it must increase his disappointment!"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000005_000000|"Indeed," replied Elizabeth, "I am heartily sorry for him; but he has other feelings, which will probably soon drive away his regard for me. You do not blame me, however, for refusing him?"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000006_000000|"Blame you!
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000006_000001|Oh, no"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000007_000000|"But you blame me for having spoken so warmly of Wickham?"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000010_000000|She then spoke of the letter, repeating the whole of its contents as far as they concerned George Wickham.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000010_000002|Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery. Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear the one without involving the other.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000000|"This will not do," said Elizabeth; "you never will be able to make both of them good for anything.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000001|Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000002|There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000003|For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Darcy's; but you shall do as you choose."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000012_000000|It was some time, however, before a smile could be extorted from Jane.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000000|"I do not know when I have been more shocked," said she.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000001|"Wickham so very bad!
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000002|It is almost past belief.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000003|And poor mr Darcy!
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000004|Dear Lizzy, only consider what he must have suffered.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000005|Such a disappointment! and with the knowledge of your ill opinion, too! and having to relate such a thing of his sister!
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000006|It is really too distressing.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000014_000000|"Oh! no, my regret and compassion are all done away by seeing you so full of both.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000014_000001|I know you will do him such ample justice, that I am growing every moment more unconcerned and indifferent.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000014_000002|Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000015_000000|"Poor Wickham! there is such an expression of goodness in his countenance! such an openness and gentleness in his manner!"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000016_000000|"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000018_000000|"And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000018_000001|It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000019_000000|"Lizzy, when you first read that letter, I am sure you could not treat the matter as you do now."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000000|"Indeed, I could not.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000001|I was uncomfortable enough, I may say unhappy.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000002|And with no one to speak to about what I felt, no Jane to comfort me and say that I had not been so very weak and vain and nonsensical as I knew I had!
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000003|Oh! how I wanted you!"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000000|"Certainly.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000001|But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000002|There is one point on which I want your advice.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000003|I want to be told whether I ought, or ought not, to make our acquaintances in general understand Wickham's character."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000023_000000|Miss Bennet paused a little, and then replied, "Surely there can be no occasion for exposing him so dreadfully.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000023_000001|What is your opinion?"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000000|"That it ought not to be attempted.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000001|mr Darcy has not authorised me to make his communication public.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000002|On the contrary, every particular relative to his sister was meant to be kept as much as possible to myself; and if I endeavour to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me?
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000003|The general prejudice against mr Darcy is so violent, that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton to attempt to place him in an amiable light.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000004|I am not equal to it.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000005|Wickham will soon be gone; and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000006|Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000007|At present I will say nothing about it."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000000|"You are quite right.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000001|To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000002|He is now, perhaps, sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000003|We must not make him desperate."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000000|The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000002|But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000003|She dared not relate the other half of mr Darcy's letter, nor explain to her sister how sincerely she had been valued by her friend.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000004|Here was knowledge in which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothing less than a perfect understanding between the parties could justify her in throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000005|"And then," said she, "if that very improbable event should ever take place, I shall merely be able to tell what Bingley may tell in a much more agreeable manner himself.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000006|The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!"
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000027_000000|She was now, on being settled at home, at leisure to observe the real state of her sister's spirits.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000027_000001|Jane was not happy.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000027_000002|She still cherished a very tender affection for Bingley.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000001|For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000002|I told my sister Phillips so the other day.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000003|But I cannot find out that Jane saw anything of him in London.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000004|Well, he is a very undeserving young man-and I do not suppose there's the least chance in the world of her ever getting him now.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000029_000000|"I do not believe he will ever live at Netherfield any more."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000000|"Oh well! it is just as he chooses.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000001|Nobody wants him to come.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000002|Though I shall always say he used my daughter extremely ill; and if I was her, I would not have put up with it.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000003|Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart; and then he will be sorry for what he has done."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000031_000000|But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000001|Well, well, I only hope it will last.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000002|And what sort of table do they keep?
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000003|Charlotte is an excellent manager, I dare say.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000004|If she is half as sharp as her mother, she is saving enough.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000033_000000|"No, nothing at all."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000034_000004|Well, much good may it do them!
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000034_000005|And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000035_000000|"It was a subject which they could not mention before me."
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000036_000000|"No; it would have been strange if they had; but I make no doubt they often talk of it between themselves.
train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000036_000001|Well, if they can be easy with an estate that is not lawfully their own, so much the better.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000005_000000|Chapter twenty six
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000006_000000|IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000007_000000|"From ocean to ocean"--so say the Americans; and these four words compose the general designation of the "great trunk line" which crosses the entire width of the United States.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000008_000000|New York and San Francisco are thus united by an uninterrupted metal ribbon, which measures no less than three thousand seven hundred and eighty six miles.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000008_000001|Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in eighteen forty five, began to colonise.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000009_000000|The journey from New York to San Francisco consumed, formerly, under the most favourable conditions, at least six months.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000009_000001|It is now accomplished in seven days.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000010_000000|It was in eighteen sixty two that, in spite of the Southern Members of Congress, who wished a more southerly route, it was decided to lay the road between the forty first and forty second parallels.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000010_000001|President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000010_000002|The work was at once commenced, and pursued with true American energy; nor did the rapidity with which it went on injuriously affect its good execution.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000011_000000|The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000012_000000|Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg-at least, so he hoped-to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the eleventh for Liverpool.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000013_000000|The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels, and with no compartments in the interior.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000013_000001|It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms. These platforms were found throughout the train, and the passengers were able to pass from one end of the train to the other.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000013_000002|It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants, and smoking cars; theatre cars alone were wanting, and they will have these some day.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000014_000000|Book and news dealers, sellers of edibles, drinkables, and cigars, who seemed to have plenty of customers, were continually circulating in the aisles.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000015_000000|The train left Oakland station at six o'clock.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000015_000001|It was already night, cold and cheerless, the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000015_000002|The train did not proceed rapidly; counting the stoppages, it did not run more than twenty miles an hour, which was a sufficient speed, however, to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000000|There was but little conversation in the car, and soon many of the passengers were overcome with sleep.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000001|Passepartout found himself beside the detective; but he did not talk to him.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000002|After recent events, their relations with each other had grown somewhat cold; there could no longer be mutual sympathy or intimacy between them.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000003|Fix's manner had not changed; but Passepartout was very reserved, and ready to strangle his former friend on the slightest provocation.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000017_000000|Snow began to fall an hour after they started, a fine snow, however, which happily could not obstruct the train; nothing could be seen from the windows but a vast, white sheet, against which the smoke of the locomotive had a greyish aspect.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000000|At eight o'clock a steward entered the car and announced that the time for going to bed had arrived; and in a few minutes the car was transformed into a dormitory.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000001|The backs of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by an ingenious system, berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveller had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000002|The sheets were clean and the pillows soft.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000003|It only remained to go to bed and sleep which everybody did-while the train sped on across the State of California.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000019_000000|The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting point, extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000019_000001|The line from San Francisco to Sacramento runs in a north easterly direction, along the American River, which empties into San Pablo Bay.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000020_000001|The railway track wound in and out among the passes, now approaching the mountain sides, now suspended over precipices, avoiding abrupt angles by bold curves, plunging into narrow defiles, which seemed to have no outlet.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000022_000000|The train entered the State of Nevada through the Carson Valley about nine o'clock, going always northeasterly; and at midday reached Reno, where there was a delay of twenty minutes for breakfast.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000023_000000|From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000024_000001|Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes, massing together in the distance, seemed like a moveable dam.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000024_000002|These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains; thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together, in compact ranks.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000025_000000|This happened, indeed, to the train in which mr Fogg was travelling. About twelve o'clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the track.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000025_000001|The locomotive, slackening its speed, tried to clear the way with its cow catcher; but the mass of animals was too great.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000025_000003|There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course; it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000026_000000|The travellers gazed on this curious spectacle from the platforms; but Phileas Fogg, who had the most reason of all to be in a hurry, remained in his seat, and waited philosophically until it should please the buffaloes to get out of the way.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000027_000000|Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned, and longed to discharge his arsenal of revolvers upon them.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000028_000000|"What a country!" cried he.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000028_000001|"Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000028_000003|I should like to know if mr Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme! And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000029_000000|The engineer did not try to overcome the obstacle, and he was wise.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000029_000001|He would have crushed the first buffaloes, no doubt, with the cow catcher; but the locomotive, however powerful, would soon have been checked, the train would inevitably have been thrown off the track, and would then have been helpless.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000030_000000|The best course was to wait patiently, and regain the lost time by greater speed when the obstacle was removed.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000030_000001|The procession of buffaloes lasted three full hours, and it was night before the track was clear.
train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000030_000002|The last ranks of the herd were now passing over the rails, while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000003_000000|Where, then, is justice, and where is injustice, and in what part of the State did they spring up?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000004_000000|Probably in the dealings of these citizens with one another.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000004_000001|I cannot imagine that they are more likely to be found any where else.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000005_000000|I dare say that you are right in your suggestion, I said; we had better think the matter out, and not shrink from the enquiry.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000006_000005|And they will take care that their families do not exceed their means; having an eye to poverty or war.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000007_000000|But, said Glaucon, interposing, you have not given them a relish to their meal.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000008_000001|And with such a diet they may be expected to live in peace and health to a good old age, and bequeath a similar life to their children after them.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000009_000000|Yes, Socrates, he said, and if you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would you feed the beasts?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000010_000001|I replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000011_000000|Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life. People who are to be comfortable are accustomed to lie on sofas, and dine off tables, and they should have sauces and sweets in the modern style.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000012_000000|Yes, I said, now I understand: the question which you would have me consider is, not only how a State, but how a luxurious State is created; and possibly there is no harm in this, for in such a State we shall be more likely to see how justice and injustice originate.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000012_000001|In my opinion the true and healthy constitution of the State is the one which I have described.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000013_000000|True, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000014_000001|Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any natural want; such as the whole tribe of hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colours; another will be the votaries of music-poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, including women's dresses.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000014_000004|They must not be forgotten: and there will be animals of many other kinds, if people eat them.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000015_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000016_000000|And living in this way we shall have much greater need of physicians than before?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000017_000000|Much greater.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000018_000000|And the country which was enough to support the original inhabitants will be too small now, and not enough?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000019_000000|Quite true.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000020_000000|Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000021_000000|That, Socrates, will be inevitable.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000022_000001|Shall we not?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000023_000000|Most certainly, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000025_000000|Undoubtedly.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000027_000000|Why? he said; are they not capable of defending themselves?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000029_000000|Very true, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000030_000000|But is not war an art?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000031_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000032_000000|And an art requiring as much attention as shoemaking?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000033_000000|Quite true.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000001|Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000002|But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000003|No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000004|How then will he who takes up a shield or other implement of war become a good fighter all in a day, whether with heavy armed or any other kind of troops?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000035_000000|Yes, he said, the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000036_000000|And the higher the duties of the guardian, I said, the more time, and skill, and art, and application will be needed by him?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000037_000000|No doubt, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000038_000000|Will he not also require natural aptitude for his calling?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000039_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000040_000000|Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000041_000000|It will.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000042_000000|And the selection will be no easy matter, I said; but we must be brave and do our best.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000043_000000|We must.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000044_000000|Is not the noble youth very like a well bred dog in respect of guarding and watching?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000045_000000|What do you mean?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000046_000000|I mean that both of them ought to be quick to see, and swift to overtake the enemy when they see him; and strong too if, when they have caught him, they have to fight with him.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000047_000000|All these qualities, he replied, will certainly be required by them.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000048_000000|Well, and your guardian must be brave if he is to fight well?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000050_000000|And is he likely to be brave who has no spirit, whether horse or dog or any other animal?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000051_000000|I have.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000053_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000055_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000057_000000|A difficulty by no means easy to overcome, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000058_000000|Whereas, I said, they ought to be dangerous to their enemies, and gentle to their friends; if not, they will destroy themselves without waiting for their enemies to destroy them.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000059_000000|True, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000060_000000|What is to be done then?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000060_000001|I said; how shall we find a gentle nature which has also a great spirit, for the one is the contradiction of the other?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000061_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000063_000000|I am afraid that what you say is true, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000064_000000|Here feeling perplexed I began to think over what had preceded.--My friend, I said, no wonder that we are in a perplexity; for we have lost sight of the image which we had before us.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000065_000001|he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000068_000000|Many animals, I replied, furnish examples of them; our friend the dog is a very good one: you know that well bred dogs are perfectly gentle to their familiars and acquaintances, and the reverse to strangers.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000069_000000|Yes, I know.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000071_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000072_000000|Would not he who is fitted to be a guardian, besides the spirited nature, need to have the qualities of a philosopher?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000073_000000|I do not apprehend your meaning.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000074_000000|The trait of which I am speaking, I replied, may be also seen in the dog, and is remarkable in the animal.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000075_000000|What trait?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000076_000000|Why, a dog, whenever he sees a stranger, is angry; when an acquaintance, he welcomes him, although the one has never done him any harm, nor the other any good.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000076_000001|Did this never strike you as curious?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000077_000000|The matter never struck me before; but I quite recognise the truth of your remark.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000078_000000|And surely this instinct of the dog is very charming;--your dog is a true philosopher.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000079_000000|Why?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000080_000000|Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000080_000001|And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000081_000000|Most assuredly.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000082_000000|And is not the love of learning the love of wisdom, which is philosophy?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000083_000000|They are the same, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000084_000000|And may we not say confidently of man also, that he who is likely to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must by nature be a lover of wisdom and knowledge?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000085_000000|That we may safely affirm.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000087_000000|Undoubtedly.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000088_000000|Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we have found them, how are they to be reared and educated?
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000089_000000|Adeimantus thought that the enquiry would be of great service to us.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000090_000000|Then, I said, my dear friend, the task must not be given up, even if somewhat long.
train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000091_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000005_000000|And what shall be their education?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000005_000001|Can we find a better than the traditional sort?--and this has two divisions, gymnastic for the body, and music for the soul.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000006_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000007_000000|Shall we begin education with music, and go on to gymnastic afterwards?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000008_000000|By all means.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000009_000000|And when you speak of music, do you include literature or not?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000010_000000|I do.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000011_000000|And literature may be either true or false?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000012_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000014_000000|I do not understand your meaning, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000016_000000|Very true.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000017_000000|That was my meaning when I said that we must teach music before gymnastics.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000018_000000|Quite right, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000020_000000|Quite true.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000021_000000|And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000022_000000|We cannot.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000023_000000|Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000024_000001|he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000025_000000|You may find a model of the lesser in the greater, I said; for they are necessarily of the same type, and there is the same spirit in both of them.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000026_000000|Very likely, he replied; but I do not as yet know what you would term the greater.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000029_000000|A fault which is most serious, I said; the fault of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad lie.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000030_000000|But when is this fault committed?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000031_000000|Whenever an erroneous representation is made of the nature of gods and heroes,--as when a painter paints a portrait not having the shadow of a likeness to the original.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000032_000000|Yes, he said, that sort of thing is certainly very blameable; but what are the stories which you mean?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000033_000000|First of all, I said, there was that greatest of all lies in high places, which the poet told about Uranus, and which was a bad lie too,--I mean what Hesiod says that Uranus did, and how Cronus retaliated on him.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000037_000002|But the narrative of Hephaestus binding Here his mother, or how on another occasion Zeus sent him flying for taking her part when she was being beaten, and all the battles of the gods in Homer-these tales must not be admitted into our State, whether they are supposed to have an allegorical meaning or not.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000037_000003|For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000038_000000|There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking-how shall we answer him?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000039_000000|I said to him, You and I, Adeimantus, at this moment are not poets, but founders of a State: now the founders of a State ought to know the general forms in which poets should cast their tales, and the limits which must be observed by them, but to make the tales is not their business.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000040_000000|Very true, he said; but what are these forms of theology which you mean?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000041_000000|Something of this kind, I replied:--God is always to be represented as he truly is, whatever be the sort of poetry, epic, lyric or tragic, in which the representation is given.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000042_000000|Right.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000043_000000|And is he not truly good? and must he not be represented as such?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000044_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000045_000000|And no good thing is hurtful?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000046_000000|No, indeed.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000047_000000|And that which is not hurtful hurts not?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000048_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000049_000000|And that which hurts not does no evil?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000050_000000|no
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000051_000000|And can that which does no evil be a cause of evil?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000052_000000|Impossible.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000054_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000055_000000|And therefore the cause of well-being?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000056_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000057_000000|It follows therefore that the good is not the cause of all things, but of the good only?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000058_000000|Assuredly.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000059_000000|Then God, if he be good, is not the author of all things, as the many assert, but he is the cause of a few things only, and not of most things that occur to men.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000059_000001|For few are the goods of human life, and many are the evils, and the good is to be attributed to God alone; of the evils the causes are to be sought elsewhere, and not in him.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000060_000000|That appears to me to be most true, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000062_000000|'Lie at the threshold of Zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots,'
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000064_000000|'Sometimes meets with evil fortune, at other times with good;'
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000065_000000|but that he to whom is given the cup of unmingled ill,
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000066_000000|'Him wild hunger drives o'er the beauteous earth.'
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000067_000000|And again-
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000068_000000|'Zeus, who is the dispenser of good and evil to us.'
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000070_000000|'God plants guilt among men when he desires utterly to destroy a house.'
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000072_000000|I agree with you, he replied, and am ready to give my assent to the law.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000073_000000|Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform,--that God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000074_000000|That will do, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000075_000000|And what do you think of a second principle?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000076_000000|I cannot answer you, he said, without more thought.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000077_000000|Well, I said; but if we suppose a change in anything, that change must be effected either by the thing itself, or by some other thing?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000078_000000|Most certainly.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000079_000000|And things which are at their best are also least liable to be altered or discomposed; for example, when healthiest and strongest, the human frame is least liable to be affected by meats and drinks, and the plant which is in the fullest vigour also suffers least from winds or the heat of the sun or any similar causes.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000080_000000|Of course.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000081_000000|And will not the bravest and wisest soul be least confused or deranged by any external influence?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000082_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000083_000000|And the same principle, as I should suppose, applies to all composite things-furniture, houses, garments: when good and well made, they are least altered by time and circumstances.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000084_000000|Very true.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000085_000000|Then everything which is good, whether made by art or nature, or both, is least liable to suffer change from without?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000086_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000087_000000|But surely God and the things of God are in every way perfect?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000088_000000|Of course they are.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000090_000000|He cannot.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000091_000000|But may he not change and transform himself?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000092_000000|Clearly, he said, that must be the case if he is changed at all.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000093_000000|And will he then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000095_000000|Very true, Adeimantus; but then, would any one, whether God or man, desire to make himself worse?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000096_000000|Impossible.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000097_000000|Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to change; being, as is supposed, the fairest and best that is conceivable, every God remains absolutely and for ever in his own form.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000098_000000|That necessarily follows, he said, in my judgment.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000100_000000|'The gods, taking the disguise of strangers from other lands, walk up and down cities in all sorts of forms;'
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000101_000000|and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised in the likeness of a priestess asking an alms
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000103_000000|--let us have no more lies of that sort.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000104_000000|Heaven forbid, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000106_000000|Perhaps, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000107_000000|Well, but can you imagine that God will be willing to lie, whether in word or deed, or to put forth a phantom of himself?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000108_000000|I cannot say, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000110_000000|What do you mean?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000110_000001|he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000111_000000|I mean that no one is willingly deceived in that which is the truest and highest part of himself, or about the truest and highest matters; there, above all, he is most afraid of a lie having possession of him.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000112_000000|Still, he said, I do not comprehend you.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000114_000000|There is nothing more hateful to them.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000115_000001|Am I not right?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000116_000000|Perfectly right.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000117_000000|The true lie is hated not only by the gods, but also by men?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000118_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000120_000000|Very true, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000121_000000|But can any of these reasons apply to God?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000121_000001|Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000122_000000|That would be ridiculous, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000123_000000|Then the lying poet has no place in our idea of God?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000124_000000|I should say not.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000126_000000|That is inconceivable.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000127_000000|But he may have friends who are senseless or mad?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000128_000000|But no mad or senseless person can be a friend of God.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000129_000000|Then no motive can be imagined why God should lie?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000130_000000|None whatever.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000131_000000|Then the superhuman and divine is absolutely incapable of falsehood?
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000133_000000|Then is God perfectly simple and true both in word and deed; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000134_000000|Your thoughts, he said, are the reflection of my own.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000135_000000|You agree with me then, I said, that this is the second type or form in which we should write and speak about divine things.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000135_000001|The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000136_000000|I grant that.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000138_000000|'Was celebrating in song her fair progeny whose days were to be long, and to know no sickness.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000138_000001|And when he had spoken of my lot as in all things blessed of heaven he raised a note of triumph and cheered my soul.
train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000138_000002|And I thought that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy, would not fail.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000002_000000|Such then, I said, are our principles of theology-some tales are to be told, and others are not to be told to our disciples from their youth upwards, if we mean them to honour the gods and their parents, and to value friendship with one another.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000003_000000|Yes; and I think that our principles are right, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000004_000000|But if they are to be courageous, must they not learn other lessons besides these, and lessons of such a kind as will take away the fear of death?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000005_000000|Certainly not, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000007_000000|Impossible.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000008_000000|Then we must assume a control over the narrators of this class of tales as well as over the others, and beg them not simply to revile but rather to commend the world below, intimating to them that their descriptions are untrue, and will do harm to our future warriors.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000009_000000|That will be our duty, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000010_000000|Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000011_000000|'I would rather be a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to nought.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000012_000000|We must also expunge the verse, which tells us how Pluto feared,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000014_000000|And again:--
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000015_000000|'O heavens! verily in the house of Hades there is soul and ghostly form but no mind at all!'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000016_000000|Again of Tiresias:--
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000017_000000|'(To him even after death did Persephone grant mind,) that he alone should be wise; but the other souls are flitting shades.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000018_000000|Again:--
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000019_000000|'The soul flying from the limbs had gone to Hades, lamenting her fate, leaving manhood and youth.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000020_000000|Again:--
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000021_000000|'And the soul, with shrilling cry, passed like smoke beneath the earth.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000022_000000|And,--
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000023_000000|'As bats in hollow of mystic cavern, whenever any of them has dropped out of the string and falls from the rock, fly shrilling and cling to one another, so did they with shrilling cry hold together as they moved.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000024_000000|And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm of them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000025_000000|Undoubtedly.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000026_000001|I do not say that these horrible stories may not have a use of some kind; but there is a danger that the nerves of our guardians may be rendered too excitable and effeminate by them.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000027_000000|There is a real danger, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000028_000000|Then we must have no more of them.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000029_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000031_000000|Clearly.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000032_000000|And shall we proceed to get rid of the weepings and wailings of famous men?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000033_000000|They will go with the rest.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000034_000000|But shall we be right in getting rid of them?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000034_000001|Reflect: our principle is that the good man will not consider death terrible to any other good man who is his comrade.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000035_000000|Yes; that is our principle.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000036_000000|And therefore he will not sorrow for his departed friend as though he had suffered anything terrible?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000037_000000|He will not.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000039_000000|True, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000040_000000|And for this reason the loss of a son or brother, or the deprivation of fortune, is to him of all men least terrible.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000041_000000|Assuredly.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000042_000000|And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000044_000000|Then we shall be right in getting rid of the lamentations of famous men, and making them over to women (and not even to women who are good for anything), or to men of a baser sort, that those who are being educated by us to be the defenders of their country may scorn to do the like.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000046_000001|Nor should he describe Priam the kinsman of the gods as praying and beseeching,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000047_000000|'Rolling in the dirt, calling each man loudly by his name.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000049_000000|'Alas! my misery!
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000049_000001|Alas! that I bore the bravest to my sorrow.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000050_000000|But if he must introduce the gods, at any rate let him not dare so completely to misrepresent the greatest of the gods, as to make him say-
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000051_000000|'O heavens! with my eyes verily I behold a dear friend of mine chased round and round the city, and my heart is sorrowful.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000052_000000|Or again:--
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000054_000001|And instead of having any shame or self control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000055_000000|Yes, he said, that is most true.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000056_000000|Yes, I replied; but that surely is what ought not to be, as the argument has just proved to us; and by that proof we must abide until it is disproved by a better.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000057_000000|It ought not to be.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000058_000000|Neither ought our guardians to be given to laughter.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000058_000001|For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000059_000000|So I believe.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000060_000000|Then persons of worth, even if only mortal men, must not be represented as overcome by laughter, and still less must such a representation of the gods be allowed.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000061_000000|Still less of the gods, as you say, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000063_000000|'Inextinguishable laughter arose among the blessed gods, when they saw Hephaestus bustling about the mansion.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000064_000000|On your views, we must not admit them.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000065_000000|On my views, if you like to father them on me; that we must not admit them is certain.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000067_000000|Clearly not, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000068_000000|Then if any one at all is to have the privilege of lying, the rulers of the State should be the persons; and they, in their dealings either with enemies or with their own citizens, may be allowed to lie for the public good.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000070_000000|If, then, the ruler catches anybody beside himself lying in the State,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000071_000000|'Any of the craftsmen, whether he be priest or physician or carpenter,'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000072_000000|he will punish him for introducing a practice which is equally subversive and destructive of ship or State.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000073_000000|Most certainly, he said, if our idea of the State is ever carried out.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000074_000000|In the next place our youth must be temperate?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000075_000000|Certainly.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000077_000000|True.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000078_000000|Then we shall approve such language as that of Diomede in Homer,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000079_000000|'Friend, sit still and obey my word,'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000080_000000|and the verses which follow,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000081_000000|'The Greeks marched breathing prowess, ...in silent awe of their leaders,'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000083_000000|We shall.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000084_000000|What of this line,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000087_000000|They are ill spoken.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000088_000000|They may very possibly afford some amusement, but they do not conduce to temperance.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000089_000000|Yes.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000090_000000|And then, again, to make the wisest of men say that nothing in his opinion is more glorious than
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000091_000000|'When the tables are full of bread and meat, and the cup bearer carries round wine which he draws from the bowl and pours into the cups,'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000092_000000|is it fit or conducive to temperance for a young man to hear such words? Or the verse
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000093_000000|'The saddest of fates is to die and meet destiny from hunger?'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000095_000000|'Without the knowledge of their parents;'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000096_000000|or that other tale of how Hephaestus, because of similar goings on, cast a chain around Ares and Aphrodite?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000097_000000|Indeed, he said, I am strongly of opinion that they ought not to hear that sort of thing.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000100_000000|Certainly, he said.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000101_000000|In the next place, we must not let them be receivers of gifts or lovers of money.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000102_000000|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000103_000000|Neither must we sing to them of
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000104_000000|'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000105_000000|Neither is Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, to be approved or deemed to have given his pupil good counsel when he told him that he should take the gifts of the Greeks and assist them; but that without a gift he should not lay aside his anger.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000105_000001|Neither will we believe or acknowledge Achilles himself to have been such a lover of money that he took Agamemnon's gifts, or that when he had received payment he restored the dead body of Hector, but that without payment he was unwilling to do so.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000106_000000|Undoubtedly, he said, these are not sentiments which can be approved.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000107_000000|Loving Homer as I do, I hardly like to say that in attributing these feelings to Achilles, or in believing that they are truly attributed to him, he is guilty of downright impiety.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000107_000001|As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence to Apollo, where he says,
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000108_000000|'Thou hast wronged me, O far darter, most abominable of deities.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000110_000000|You are quite right, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000112_000000|Assuredly not.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000113_000000|And further they are likely to have a bad effect on those who hear them; for everybody will begin to excuse his own vices when he is convinced that similar wickednesses are always being perpetrated by-
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000115_000000|and who have
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000116_000000|'the blood of deities yet flowing in their veins.'
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000117_000000|And therefore let us put an end to such tales, lest they engender laxity of morals among the young.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000120_000000|Very true.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000121_000000|And what shall we say about men?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000121_000001|That is clearly the remaining portion of our subject.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000123_000000|But we are not in a condition to answer this question at present, my friend.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000124_000000|Why not?
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000126_000000|To be sure we shall, he replied.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000128_000000|I grant the truth of your inference.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000129_000000|That such things are or are not to be said about men is a question which we cannot determine until we have discovered what justice is, and how naturally advantageous to the possessor, whether he seem to be just or not.
train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000130_000000|Most true, he said.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000000|The Lady Harriet, who remained at the hall, was a great invalid, and never went out in the carriage, and the Lady Anne preferred riding on horseback with her brother or cousins.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000001|She was a perfect horsewoman, and as gay and gentle as she was beautiful.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000003|I enjoyed these rides very much in the clear cold air, sometimes with Ginger, sometimes with Lizzie.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000004|This Lizzie was a bright bay mare, almost thoroughbred, and a great favorite with the gentlemen, on account of her fine action and lively spirit; but Ginger, who knew more of her than I did, told me she was rather nervous.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000005_000001|"Are you tired of your good Black Auster?"
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000006_000000|"Oh, no, not at all," she replied, "but I am amiable enough to let you ride him for once, and I will try your charming Lizzie.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000007_000000|"Do let me advise you not to mount her," he said; "she is a charming creature, but she is too nervous for a lady.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000007_000001|I assure you, she is not perfectly safe; let me beg you to have the saddles changed."
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000008_000000|"My dear cousin," said Lady Anne, laughing, "pray do not trouble your good careful head about me.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000009_000000|There was no more to be said; he placed her carefully on the saddle, looked to the bit and curb, gave the reins gently into her hand, and then mounted me.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000009_000002|"Would they ask this question for her at dr Ashley's, and bring the answer?"
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000010_000000|The village was about a mile off, and the doctor's house was the last in it.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000010_000001|We went along gayly enough till we came to his gate.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000010_000002|There was a short drive up to the house between tall evergreens.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000012_000000|He looked at her doubtfully.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000012_000001|"I will not be five minutes," he said.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000013_000000|"Oh, do not hurry yourself; Lizzie and I shall not run away from you."
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000001|Lizzie was standing quietly by the side of the road a few paces off, with her back to me.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000002|My young mistress was sitting easily with a loose rein, humming a little song.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000003|I listened to my rider's footsteps until they reached the house, and heard him knock at the door.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000005|It was so sudden that Lady Anne was nearly unseated, but she soon recovered herself.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000006|I gave a loud, shrill neigh for help; again and again I neighed, pawing the ground impatiently, and tossing my head to get the rein loose.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000007|I had not long to wait.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000001|Long before we came to the bend she was out of sight.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000002|Which way had she turned?
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000003|A woman was standing at her garden gate, shading her eyes with her hand, and looking eagerly up the road.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000004|Scarcely drawing the rein, Blantyre shouted, "Which way?" "To the right!" cried the woman, pointing with her hand, and away we went up the right-hand road; then for a moment we caught sight of her; another bend and she was hidden again.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000016_000000|We had hardly turned on the common, when we caught sight again of the green habit flying on before us.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000016_000001|My lady's hat was gone, and her long brown hair was streaming behind her.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000018_000000|About halfway across the heath there had been a wide dike recently cut, and the earth from the cutting was cast up roughly on the other side. Surely this would stop them!
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000018_000003|I gathered myself well together and with one determined leap cleared both dike and bank.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000002|Gently he turned her face upward: it was ghastly white and the eyes were closed.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000003|"Annie, dear Annie, do speak!"
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000004|But there was no answer.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000005|He unbuttoned her habit, loosened her collar, felt her hands and wrist, then started up and looked wildly round him for help.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000020_000000|At no great distance there were two men cutting turf, who, seeing Lizzie running wild without a rider, had left their work to catch her.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000021_000000|Blantyre's halloo soon brought them to the spot.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000022_000000|"Can you ride?"
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000026_000001|He had no whip, which seemed to trouble him; but my pace soon cured that difficulty, and he found the best thing he could do was to stick to the saddle and hold me in, which he did manfully.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000026_000003|Woah!
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000026_000004|Steady!" On the highroad we were all right; and at the doctor's and the hall he did his errand like a good man and true.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000028_000000|Ginger was saddled and sent off in great haste for Lord George, and I soon heard the carriage roll out of the yard.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000029_000000|It seemed a long time before Ginger came back, and before we were left alone; and then she told me all that she had seen.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000000|"I can't tell much," she said.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000001|"We went a gallop nearly all the way, and got there just as the doctor rode up.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000003|The doctor poured something into her mouth, but all that I heard was, 'She is not dead.' Then I was led off by a man to a little distance.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000004|After awhile she was taken to the carriage, and we came home together.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000005|I heard my master say to a gentleman who stopped him to inquire, that he hoped no bones were broken, but that she had not spoken yet."
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000031_000000|When Lord George took Ginger for hunting, York shook his head; he said it ought to be a steady hand to train a horse for the first season, and not a random rider like Lord George.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000032_000000|Ginger used to like it very much, but sometimes when she came back I could see that she had been very much strained, and now and then she gave a short cough.
train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000033_000000|Two days after the accident Blantyre paid me a visit; he patted me and praised me very much; he told Lord George that he was sure the horse knew of Annie's danger as well as he did.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000001_000000|thirty two A Horse Fair
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000002_000000|No doubt a horse fair is a very amusing place to those who have nothing to lose; at any rate, there is plenty to see.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000004_000001|I was put with two or three other strong, useful looking horses, and a good many people came to look at us.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000000|There was one man, I thought, if he would buy me, I should be happy. He was not a gentleman, nor yet one of the loud, flashy sort that call themselves so.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000002|I knew in a moment by the way he handled me, that he was used to horses; he spoke gently, and his gray eye had a kindly, cheery look in it.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000004|He offered twenty three pounds for me, but that was refused, and he walked away.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000007|One or two more came who did not mean business.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000008|Then the hard faced man came back again and offered twenty three pounds.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000009|A very close bargain was being driven, for my salesman began to think he should not get all he asked, and must come down; but just then the gray eyed man came back again.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000010|I could not help reaching out my head toward him.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000011|He stroked my face kindly.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000007_000001|I'll give twenty four for him."
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000008_000000|"Say twenty five and you shall have him."
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000009_000000|"Twenty four ten," said my friend, in a very decided tone, "and not another sixpence-yes or no?"
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000010_000000|"Done," said the salesman; "and you may depend upon it there's a monstrous deal of quality in that horse, and if you want him for cab work he's a bargain."
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000001|He gave me a good feed of oats and stood by while I ate it, talking to himself and talking to me.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000002|Half an hour after we were on our way to London, through pleasant lanes and country roads, until we came into the great London thoroughfare, on which we traveled steadily, till in the twilight we reached the great city.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000003|The gas lamps were already lighted; there were streets to the right, and streets to the left, and streets crossing each other, for mile upon mile.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000004|I thought we should never come to the end of them.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000012_000000|"Halloo!" cried a voice.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000012_000001|"Have you got a good one?"
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000013_000000|"I think so," replied my owner.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000014_000000|"I wish you luck with him."
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000015_000000|"Thank you, governor," and he rode on.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000015_000001|We soon turned up one of the side streets, and about halfway up that we turned into a very narrow street, with rather poor looking houses on one side, and what seemed to be coach houses and stables on the other.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000016_000000|My owner pulled up at one of the houses and whistled.
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000017_000000|"Now, then, Harry, my boy, open the gates, and mother will bring us the lantern."
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000019_000000|"Is he gentle, father?"
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000020_000000|"Yes, Dolly, as gentle as your own kitten; come and pat him."
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000021_000001|How good it felt!
train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000023_000000|"Do, Polly, it's just what he wants; and I know you've got a beautiful mash ready for me."
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000001_000000|There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000001_000001|They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000002_000000|Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000000|A king's son soon came.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000002|There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000003|But the king's son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their shoes were full of holes.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000004|The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000004_000000|Now it chanced that an old soldier, who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned: and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000000|He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000001|Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000003|When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!' Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000004|But the youngest said, 'I don't know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.' 'You simpleton,' said the eldest, 'you are always afraid; have you forgotten how many kings' sons have already watched in vain? And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.'
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000007_000003|That never happened before.' But the eldest said, 'It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.'
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000008_000000|Then they came to another grove of trees, where all the leaves were of gold; and afterwards to a third, where the leaves were all glittering diamonds.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000009_000000|One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat with the youngest.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000010_000001|There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000010_000003|They danced on till three o'clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave off. The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000011_000000|When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, 'Now all is quite safe'; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000011_000002|However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000000|As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000001|And when the king asked him.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000002|'Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?' he answered, 'With twelve princes in a castle under ground.' And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him.
train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000004|And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, 'I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.'--And they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king's heir.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000002_000000|"Be done, boys!
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000002_000001|Who's there?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000003_000000|I says:
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000005_000000|"Who's me?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000006_000000|"George Jackson, sir."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000007_000000|"What do you want?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000008_000000|"I don't want nothing, sir.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000010_000000|"I warn't prowling around, sir, I fell overboard off of the steamboat."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000011_000000|"Oh, you did, did you?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000011_000001|Strike a light there, somebody.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000012_000000|"George Jackson, sir.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000012_000001|I'm only a boy."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000000|"Look here, if you're telling the truth you needn't be afraid  nobody'll hurt you.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000001|But don't try to budge; stand right where you are.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000002|Rouse out Bob and Tom, some of you, and fetch the guns.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000003|George Jackson, is there anybody with you?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000014_000000|"No, sir, nobody."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000015_000000|I heard the people stirring around in the house now, and see a light. The man sung out:
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000016_000000|"Snatch that light away, Betsy, you old fool  ain't you got any sense? Put it on the floor behind the front door.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000016_000001|Bob, if you and Tom are ready, take your places."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000017_000000|"All ready."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000018_000000|"Now, George Jackson, do you know the Shepherdsons?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000019_000000|"No, sir; I never heard of them."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000020_000001|Now, all ready.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000020_000002|Step forward, George Jackson.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000020_000004|If there's anybody with you, let him keep back  if he shows himself he'll be shot. Come along now.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000021_000001|I took one slow step at a time and there warn't a sound, only I thought I could hear my heart. The dogs were as still as the humans, but they followed a little behind me.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000021_000002|When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard them unlocking and unbarring and unbolting.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000023_000000|"There; I reckon it's all right.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000023_000001|Come in."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000024_000002|So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000024_000003|He told me to make myself easy and at home, and tell all about myself; but the old lady says:
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000026_000000|"True for you, Rachel  I forgot."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000028_000000|"Betsy" (this was a nigger woman), "you fly around and get him something to eat as quick as you can, poor thing; and one of you girls go and wake up Buck and tell him  oh, here he is himself.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000028_000001|Buck, take this little stranger and get the wet clothes off from him and dress him up in some of yours that's dry."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000029_000000|Buck looked about as old as me  thirteen or fourteen or along there, though he was a little bigger than me.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000029_000001|He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy headed.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000030_000000|"Ain't they no Shepherdsons around?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000031_000000|They said, no, 'twas a false alarm.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000032_000000|"Well," he says, "if they'd a ben some, I reckon I'd a got one."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000033_000000|They all laughed, and Bob says:
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000034_000000|"Why, Buck, they might have scalped us all, you've been so slow in coming."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000035_000000|"Well, nobody come after me, and it ain't right I'm always kept down; I don't get no show."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000036_000001|Go 'long with you now, and do as your mother told you."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000037_000000|When we got up stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000038_000000|"Well, guess," he says.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000040_000000|"But you can guess, can't you?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000040_000001|It's just as easy."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000042_000000|"Why, any candle," he says.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000043_000000|"I don't know where he was," says I; "where was he?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000044_000001|That's where he was!"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000045_000000|"Well, if you knowed where he was, what did you ask me for?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000000|"Why, blame it, it's a riddle, don't you see?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000002|You got to stay always.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000004|Do you own a dog?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000006|Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that kind of foolishness?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000009|I reckon I'd better put 'em on, but I'd ruther not, it's so warm.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000010|Are you all ready?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000011|All right.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000000|Cold corn pone, cold corn beef, butter and buttermilk  that is what they had for me down there, and there ain't nothing better that ever I've come across yet.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000002|They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talked.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000003|The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down their backs.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000007|So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says:
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000048_000000|"Can you spell, Buck?"
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000049_000000|"Yes," he says.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000050_000000|"I bet you can't spell my name," says i
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000051_000000|"I bet you what you dare I can," says he.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000052_000000|"All right," says I, "go ahead."
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000053_000000|"G e o r g e J a x o n  there now," he says.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000054_000000|"Well," says I, "you done it, but I didn't think you could.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000000|It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000004|There was a big fireplace that was bricked on the bottom, and the bricks was kept clean and red by pouring water on them and scrubbing them with another brick; sometimes they wash them over with red water paint that they call Spanish brown, same as they do in town.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000005|They had big brass dog irons that could hold up a saw log.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000006|There was a clock on the middle of the mantelpiece, with a picture of a town painted on the bottom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swinging behind it.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000007|It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000057_000000|Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000057_000002|They squeaked through underneath.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000057_000003|There was a couple of big wild turkey wing fans spread out behind those things.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000001|It come all the way from Philadelphia, they said.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000002|There was some books, too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000003|One was a big family Bible full of pictures.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000004|One was Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000006|The statements was interesting, but tough.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000007|Another was Friendship's Offering, full of beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn't read the poetry.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000008|Another was Henry Clay's Speeches, and another was dr Gunn's Family Medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000009|There was a hymn book, and a lot of other books.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000010|And there was nice split bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too  not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000059_000004|But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000059_000005|She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000059_000007|Other times it was hid with a little curtain.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000060_000000|This young girl kept a scrap book when she was alive, and used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head. It was very good poetry.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000062_000000|And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000062_000001|And did the sad hearts thicken, And did the mourners cry?
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000064_000000|No whooping cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000065_000000|Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low, Young Stephen Dowling Bots.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000066_000000|O no Then list with tearful eye, Whilst I his fate do tell.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000067_000000|They got him out and emptied him; Alas it was too late; His spirit was gone for to sport aloft In the realms of the good and great.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000001|Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000004|She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful. Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her "tribute" before he was cold.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000005|She called them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker  the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000006|She warn't ever the same after that; she never complained, but she kinder pined away and did not live long.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000007|Poor thing, many's the time I made myself go up to the little room that used to be hers and get out her poor old scrap book and read in it when her pictures had been aggravating me and I had soured on her a little.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000008|I liked all that family, dead ones and all, and warn't going to let anything come between us.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000009|Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn't seem right that there warn't nobody to make some about her now she was gone; so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself, but I couldn't seem to make it go somehow.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000069_000000|Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000069_000002|The walls of all the rooms was plastered, and most had carpets on the floors, and the whole house was whitewashed on the outside.
train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000070_000000|It was a double house, and the big open place betwixt them was roofed and floored, and sometimes the table was set there in the middle of the day, and it was a cool, comfortable place.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000004_000000|In brief, Mitya was informed that he was, from that moment, a prisoner, and that he would be driven at once to the town, and there shut up in a very unpleasant place.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000004_000001|Mitya listened attentively, and only shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000005_000000|"Well, gentlemen, I don't blame you.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000005_000002|I understand that there's nothing else for you to do."
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000006_000000|Nikolay Parfenovitch informed him gently that he would be escorted at once by the rural police officer, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, who happened to be on the spot....
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000000|"Gentlemen, we're all cruel, we're all monsters, we all make men weep, and mothers, and babes at the breast, but of all, let it be settled here, now, of all I am the lowest reptile!
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000001|I've sworn to amend, and every day I've done the same filthy things.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000003|Never, never should I have risen of myself!
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000004|But the thunderbolt has fallen.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000005|I accept the torture of accusation, and my public shame, I want to suffer and by suffering I shall be purified.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000006|Perhaps I shall be purified, gentlemen?
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000007|But listen, for the last time, I am not guilty of my father's blood.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000008|I accept my punishment, not because I killed him, but because I meant to kill him, and perhaps I really might have killed him.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000009|Still I mean to fight it out with you.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000010|I warn you of that. I'll fight it out with you to the end, and then God will decide.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000012|Oh, I was still such a fool then....
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000014|Saying good by to you, I say it to all men."
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000009_000000|His voice quivered and he stretched out his hand, but Nikolay Parfenovitch, who happened to stand nearest to him, with a sudden, almost nervous movement, hid his hands behind his back.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000009_000001|Mitya instantly noticed this, and started.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000009_000002|He let his outstretched hand fall at once.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000010_000000|"The preliminary inquiry is not yet over," Nikolay Parfenovitch faltered, somewhat embarrassed.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000010_000001|"We will continue it in the town, and I, for my part, of course, am ready to wish you all success ... in your defense.... As a matter of fact, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I've always been disposed to regard you as, so to speak, more unfortunate than guilty.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000010_000002|All of us here, if I may make bold to speak for all, we are all ready to recognize that you are, at bottom, a young man of honor, but, alas, one who has been carried away by certain passions to a somewhat excessive degree...."
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000011_000000|Nikolay Parfenovitch's little figure was positively majestic by the time he had finished speaking.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000013_000000|"Certainly, but considering ... in fact, now it's impossible except in the presence of-"
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000014_000000|"Oh, well, if it must be so, it must!"
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000015_000001|Grushenka made a deep bow to Mitya.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000016_000000|"I have told you I am yours, and I will be yours.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000016_000001|I will follow you for ever, wherever they may send you.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000016_000002|Farewell; you are guiltless, though you've been your own undoing."
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000017_000000|Her lips quivered, tears flowed from her eyes.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000018_000000|"Forgive me, Grusha, for my love, for ruining you, too, with my love."
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000000|Mitya would have said something more, but he broke off and went out.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000001|He was at once surrounded by men who kept a constant watch on him.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000003|Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, a sturdy, thick set man with a wrinkled face, was annoyed about something, some sudden irregularity.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000004|He was shouting angrily.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000005|He asked Mitya to get into the cart with somewhat excessive surliness.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000020_000001|At the gates there was a crowd of people, peasants, women and drivers.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000020_000003|All stared at Mitya.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000021_000000|"Forgive me at parting, good people!" Mitya shouted suddenly from the cart.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000022_000000|"Forgive us too!" he heard two or three voices.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000023_000000|"Good by to you, too, Trifon Borissovitch!"
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000000|But Trifon Borissovitch did not even turn round.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000001|He was, perhaps, too busy.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000002|He, too, was shouting and fussing about something.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000003|It appeared that everything was not yet ready in the second cart, in which two constables were to accompany Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000006|The peasant persisted and besought them to wait.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000000|"You see what our peasants are, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000001|They've no shame!" exclaimed Trifon Borissovitch.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000003|You've drunk it all and now you cry out.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000004|I'm simply surprised at your good nature, with our low peasants, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, that's all I can say."
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000000|"But what do we want a second cart for?" Mitya put in.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000001|"Let's start with the one, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000002|I won't be unruly, I won't run away from you, old fellow.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000003|What do we want an escort for?"
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000027_000000|"I'll trouble you, sir, to learn how to speak to me if you've never been taught.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000027_000001|I'm not 'old fellow' to you, and you can keep your advice for another time!" Mavriky Mavrikyevitch snapped out savagely, as though glad to vent his wrath.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000000|Mitya was reduced to silence.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000001|He flushed all over.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000002|A moment later he felt suddenly very cold.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000003|The rain had ceased, but the dull sky was still overcast with clouds, and a keen wind was blowing straight in his face.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000029_000000|"I've taken a chill," thought Mitya, twitching his shoulders.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000030_000000|At last Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, too, got into the cart, sat down heavily, and, as though without noticing it, squeezed Mitya into the corner.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000030_000001|It is true that he was out of humor and greatly disliked the task that had been laid upon him.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000031_000000|"Good by, Trifon Borissovitch!" Mitya shouted again, and felt himself, that he had not called out this time from good nature, but involuntarily, from resentment.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000033_000000|"Good by, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, good by!" he heard all at once the voice of Kalganov, who had suddenly darted out.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000033_000001|Running up to the cart he held out his hand to Mitya.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000033_000002|He had no cap on.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000034_000000|Mitya had time to seize and press his hand.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000035_000001|I shan't forget your generosity," he cried warmly.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000036_000000|But the cart moved and their hands parted.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000036_000001|The bell began ringing and Mitya was driven off.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000037_000000|Kalganov ran back, sat down in a corner, bent his head, hid his face in his hands, and burst out crying.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000037_000001|For a long while he sat like that, crying as though he were a little boy instead of a young man of twenty.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000037_000002|Oh, he believed almost without doubt in Mitya's guilt.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000038_000000|"What are these people?
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000038_000001|What can men be after this?" he exclaimed incoherently, in bitter despondency, almost despair.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000038_000002|At that moment he had no desire to live.
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000039_000000|"Is it worth it?
train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000039_000001|Is it worth it?" exclaimed the boy in his grief.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000004_000000|EPILOGUE
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000005_000000|Chapter one Plans For Mitya's Escape
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000000|Very early, at nine o'clock in the morning, five days after the trial, Alyosha went to Katerina Ivanovna's to talk over a matter of great importance to both of them, and to give her a message.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000001|She sat and talked to him in the very room in which she had once received Grushenka.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000002|In the next room Ivan Fyodorovitch lay unconscious in a high fever.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000003|Katerina Ivanovna had immediately after the scene at the trial ordered the sick and unconscious man to be carried to her house, disregarding the inevitable gossip and general disapproval of the public.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000005|But if both had gone away, Katerina Ivanovna would have adhered to her resolution, and would have gone on nursing the sick man and sitting by him day and night.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000006|Varvinsky and Herzenstube were attending him.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000007|The famous doctor had gone back to Moscow, refusing to give an opinion as to the probable end of the illness.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000008|Though the doctors encouraged Katerina Ivanovna and Alyosha, it was evident that they could not yet give them positive hopes of recovery.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000007_000000|Alyosha came to see his sick brother twice a day.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000007_000001|But this time he had specially urgent business, and he foresaw how difficult it would be to approach the subject, yet he was in great haste.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000007_000002|He had another engagement that could not be put off for that same morning, and there was need of haste.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000008_000000|They had been talking for a quarter of an hour.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000008_000001|Katerina Ivanovna was pale and terribly fatigued, yet at the same time in a state of hysterical excitement.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000002|He must escape. That unhappy man, that hero of honor and principle-not he, not Dmitri Fyodorovitch, but the man lying the other side of that door, who has sacrificed himself for his brother," Katya added, with flashing eyes-"told me the whole plan of escape long ago.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000004|I've told you something already....
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000006|Oh, it's a long way off yet.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000008|To morrow perhaps I will show you in detail the whole plan which Ivan Fyodorovitch left me on the eve of the trial in case of need....
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000009|That was when-do you remember?--you found us quarreling.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000010|He had just gone down stairs, but seeing you I made him come back; do you remember?
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000011|Do you know what we were quarreling about then?"
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000000|"Of course he did not tell you.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000001|It was about that plan of escape.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000002|He had told me the main idea three days before, and we began quarreling about it at once and quarreled for three days.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000003|We quarreled because, when he told me that if Dmitri Fyodorovitch were convicted he would escape abroad with that creature, I felt furious at once-I can't tell you why, I don't know myself why....
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000005|"As soon as Ivan Fyodorovitch saw that I was furious about that woman, he instantly imagined I was jealous of Dmitri and that I still loved Dmitri.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000006|That is how our first quarrel began.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000007|I would not give an explanation, I could not ask forgiveness.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000009|It was only resentment against that creature that made me angry with him.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000010|Three days later, on the evening you came, he brought me a sealed envelope, which I was to open at once, if anything happened to him.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000011|Oh, he foresaw his illness!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000012|He told me that the envelope contained the details of the escape, and that if he died or was taken dangerously ill, I was to save Mitya alone.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000013|Then he left me money, nearly ten thousand-those notes to which the prosecutor referred in his speech, having learnt from some one that he had sent them to be changed.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000014|I was tremendously impressed to find that Ivan Fyodorovitch had not given up his idea of saving his brother, and was confiding this plan of escape to me, though he was still jealous of me and still convinced that I loved Mitya.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000015|Oh, that was a sacrifice!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000016|No, you cannot understand the greatness of such self sacrifice, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000017|I wanted to fall at his feet in reverence, but I thought at once that he would take it only for my joy at the thought of Mitya's being saved (and he certainly would have imagined that!), and I was so exasperated at the mere possibility of such an unjust thought on his part that I lost my temper again, and instead of kissing his feet, flew into a fury again!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000018|Oh, I am unhappy!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000019|It's my character, my awful, unhappy character!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000020|Oh, you will see, I shall end by driving him, too, to abandon me for another with whom he can get on better, like Dmitri.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000021|But ... no, I could not bear it, I should kill myself.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000023|I said that malicious thing on purpose to wound him again.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000024|He had never, never persuaded me that his brother was a murderer.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000025|On the contrary, it was I who persuaded him!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000026|Oh, my vile temper was the cause of everything!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000027|I paved the way to that hideous scene at the trial.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000028|He wanted to show me that he was an honorable man, and that, even if I loved his brother, he would not ruin him for revenge or jealousy.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000029|So he came to the court ...
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000001|Oh, Alyosha knew another terrible reason of her present misery, though she had carefully concealed it from him during those days since the trial; but it would have been for some reason too painful to him if she had been brought so low as to speak to him now about that.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000002|She was suffering for her "treachery" at the trial, and Alyosha felt that her conscience was impelling her to confess it to him, to him, Alyosha, with tears and cries and hysterical writhings on the floor.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000003|But he dreaded that moment and longed to spare her.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000004|It made the commission on which he had come even more difficult.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000000|"It's all right, it's all right, don't be anxious about him!" she began again, sharply and stubbornly.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000001|"All that is only momentary, I know him, I know his heart only too well.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000002|You may be sure he will consent to escape. It's not as though it would be immediately; he will have time to make up his mind to it.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000003|Ivan Fyodorovitch will be well by that time and will manage it all himself, so that I shall have nothing to do with it.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000005|He has agreed already: do you suppose he would give up that creature?
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000006|And they won't let her go to him, so he is bound to escape.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000007|It's you he's most afraid of, he is afraid you won't approve of his escape on moral grounds.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000009|She paused and smiled.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000000|"He talks about some hymn," she went on again, "some cross he has to bear, some duty; I remember Ivan Fyodorovitch told me a great deal about it, and if you knew how he talked!" Katya cried suddenly, with feeling she could not repress, "if you knew how he loved that wretched man at the moment he told me, and how he hated him, perhaps, at the same moment.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000001|And I heard his story and his tears with sneering disdain.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000002|Brute!
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000003|Yes, I am a brute.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000004|I am responsible for his fever.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000005|But that man in prison is incapable of suffering," Katya concluded irritably.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000006|"Can such a man suffer?
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000007|Men like him never suffer!"
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000015_000000|There was a note of hatred and contemptuous repulsion in her words.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000015_000001|And yet it was she who had betrayed him.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000015_000002|"Perhaps because she feels how she's wronged him she hates him at moments," Alyosha thought to himself.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000016_000000|"I sent for you this morning to make you promise to persuade him yourself. Or do you, too, consider that to escape would be dishonorable, cowardly, or something ... unchristian, perhaps?" Katya added, even more defiantly.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000017_000000|"Oh, no I'll tell him everything," muttered Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000017_000002|She started, and drew back a little from him on the sofa.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000018_000000|"Me?
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000018_000001|Can that be?" she faltered, turning pale.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000000|"It can and ought to be!" Alyosha began emphatically, growing more animated.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000001|"He needs you particularly just now.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000002|I would not have opened the subject and worried you, if it were not necessary.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000003|He is ill, he is beside himself, he keeps asking for you.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000004|It is not to be reconciled with you that he wants you, but only that you would go and show yourself at his door.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000005|So much has happened to him since that day.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000006|He realizes that he has injured you beyond all reckoning.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000007|He does not ask your forgiveness-'It's impossible to forgive me,' he says himself-but only that you would show yourself in his doorway."
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000020_000000|"It's so sudden...." faltered Katya.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000020_000001|"I've had a presentiment all these days that you would come with that message.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000020_000002|I knew he would ask me to come.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000001|Only think, he realizes for the first time how he has wounded you, the first time in his life; he had never grasped it before so fully.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000004|Think-you must visit him; though he is ruined, he is innocent," broke like a challenge from Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000006|For the sake of his infinite sufferings in the future visit him now.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000007|Go, greet him on his way into the darkness-stand at his door, that is all....
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000008|You ought to do it, you ought to!" Alyosha concluded, laying immense stress on the word "ought."
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000022_000000|"I ought to ... but I cannot...." Katya moaned.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000022_000001|"He will look at me....
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000022_000002|I can't."
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000023_000000|"Your eyes ought to meet.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000023_000001|How will you live all your life, if you don't make up your mind to do it now?"
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000024_000000|"Better suffer all my life."
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000025_000000|"You ought to go, you ought to go," Alyosha repeated with merciless emphasis.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000026_000000|"But why to day, why at once?...
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000026_000001|I can't leave our patient-"
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000027_000000|"You can for a moment.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000027_000002|If you don't come, he will be in delirium by to night.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000027_000003|I would not tell you a lie; have pity on him!"
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000029_000000|"Then you will come," said Alyosha firmly, seeing her tears.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000029_000001|"I'll go and tell him you will come directly."
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000030_000000|"No, don't tell him so on any account," cried Katya in alarm.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000030_000001|"I will come, but don't tell him beforehand, for perhaps I may go, but not go in....
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000030_000002|I don't know yet-"
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000031_000001|She gasped for breath.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000033_000000|"That's just why you must go now, to avoid meeting any one.
train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000033_000002|We will expect you," he concluded emphatically, and went out of the room.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000001_000000|Give thy thoughts no tongue. SHAKESPEARE
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000002_000003|I do not scruple to tell you, that I am unhappy, and that the watch of the last night has not assisted me to discover Ludovico; upon every occurrence of the night you must excuse my reserve.'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000011_000000|In the evening, the Count called, as he had promised, at the convent, and Emily was surprised to perceive a mixture of playful ridicule and of reserve in his mention of the north apartment.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000012_000000|Soon after, he took leave, and, when Emily joined some of the nuns, she was surprised to find them acquainted with a circumstance, which she had carefully avoided to mention, and expressing their admiration of his intrepidity in having dared to pass a night in the apartment, whence Ludovico had disappeared; for she had not considered with what rapidity a tale of wonder circulates.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000015_000000|'The guilty cannot claim that protection!' said sister Agnes, 'let the Count look to his conduct, that he do not forfeit his claim!
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000017_000001|I mean you are yet innocent of any great crime!--But you have passions in your heart,--scorpions; they sleep now-beware how you awaken them!--they will sting you, even unto death!'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000020_000001|'We are taught to hope, that prayer and penitence will work our salvation.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000020_000002|There is hope for all who repent!'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000022_000002|I see them now-now!'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000023_000005|Was not that the vesper bell?'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000024_000000|'No,' replied Frances, 'the evening service is passed.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000025_000000|'You are right,' replied sister Agnes, 'I shall be better there.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000033_000001|Your services have already awakened her gratitude, and your sufferings her pity; and trust me, my friend, in a heart so sensible as hers, gratitude and pity lead to love.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000037_000003|By what means he did this, I never could learn; but he secreted her in this convent, where he afterwards prevailed with her to take the veil, while a report was circulated in the world, that she was dead, and the father, to save his daughter, assisted the rumour, and employed such means as induced her husband to believe she had become a victim to his jealousy.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000039_000001|At first, she was frantic and melancholy by quick alternatives; then, she sunk into a deep and settled melancholy, which still, however, has, at times, been interrupted by fits of wildness, and, of late, these have again been frequent.'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000046_000000|Emily did not appear to notice this question, but remained thoughtful, for a few moments, and then said, 'It was about that same period that the Marchioness de Villeroi expired.'
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000047_000000|'That is an odd remark,' said Frances.
train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000052_000000|'I do not doubt it,' replied the Count, 'and I will not deny myself and Blanche the pleasure of visiting you, if your affairs should allow you to be at La Vallee, about the time when we can meet you there.'
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000003_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000004_000000|Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine, than the physician. MACBETH
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000006_000000|Emily expressed her sincere concern.
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000007_000000|'Her death presents to us a great and awful lesson,' continued the abbess; 'let us read it, and profit by it; let it teach us to prepare ourselves for the change, that awaits us all!
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000017_000004|Hah! there again!
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000027_000002|When she had finished, she returned the miniature to Emily. 'Keep it,' said she, 'I bequeath it to you, for I must believe it is your right.
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000035_000007|What are riches-grandeur-health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul;--and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair-to the anguish of an afflicted one!
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000035_000010|I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge-but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000053_000002|What!
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000053_000003|Blood-blood too!--There was no blood-thou canst not say it!--Nay, do not smile,--do not smile so piteously!'
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000056_000005|Du Pont to invite him to the chateau.
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000063_000001|Du Pont he recited some particulars of his late sufferings, when it appeared, that he had been confined for several months in one of the prisons of Paris, with little hope of release, and without the comfort of seeing his wife, who had been absent in the country, endeavouring, though in vain, to procure assistance from his friends.
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000064_000002|He succeeded; the heavy debt, that oppressed me, was discharged; and, when I would have expressed my sense of the obligation I had received, my benefactor was fled from my search.
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000064_000004|Amiable and unfortunate Valancourt!'
train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000071_000010|Bonnac, if it had been possible for him to forget the benevolent Valancourt, would have wished that Emily might accept the just Du Pont.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000001_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000002|Plainly she was the mere puppet of her moods, and more than that, any cunning nurse who knew her well enough could call or send away those moods almost as she pleased, like a showman pulling strings behind a show.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000003|Agnes, on the contrary, seldom changed her mood, but kept that of calm assured self satisfaction.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000004|Father nor mother had ever by wise punishment helped her to gain a victory over herself, and do what she did not like or choose; and their folly in reasoning with one unreasonable had fixed her in her conceit.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000005|She would actually nod her head to herself in complacent pride that she had stood out against them.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000000|Whether it be a good thing or a bad not to be afraid depends on what the fearlessness is founded upon.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000001|Some have no fear, because they have no knowledge of the danger: there is nothing fine in that.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000002|Some are too stupid to be afraid: there is nothing fine in that.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000003|Some who are not easily frightened would yet turn their backs and run, the moment they were frightened: such never had more courage than fear.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000004|But the man who will do his work in spite of his fear is a man of true courage.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000005|The fearlessness of Agnes was only ignorance: she did not know what it was to be hurt; she had never read a single story of giant, or ogress or wolf; and her mother had never carried out one of her threats of punishment.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000000|Nothing such, however, was in the wise woman's plan for the curing of her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000001|On and on she carried her without a word.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000002|She knew that if she set her down she would never run after her like the princess, at least not before the evil thing was already upon her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000003|On and on she went, never halting, never letting the light look in, or Agnes look out.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000004|She walked very fast, and got home to her cottage very soon after the princess had gone from it.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000005_000000|But she did not set Agnes down either in the cottage or in the great hall.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000005_000001|She had other places, none of them alike.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000005_000002|The place she had chosen for Agnes was a strange one-such a one as is to be found nowhere else in the wide world.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000006_000000|It was a great hollow sphere, made of a substance similar to that of the mirror which Rosamond had broken, but differently compounded.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000006_000002|It had neither door, nor window, nor any opening to break its perfect roundness.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000007_000000|The wise woman carried Agnes into a dark room, there undressed her, took from her hand her knitting needles, and put her, naked as she was born, into the hollow sphere.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000000|What sort of a place it was she could not tell.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000001|She could see nothing but a faint cold bluish light all about her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000002|She could not feel that any thing supported her, and yet she did not sink.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000003|She stood for a while, perfectly calm, then sat down.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000005|And, indeed, it was but this: she had cared only for Somebody, and now she was going to have only Somebody.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000006|Her own choice was going to be carried a good deal farther for her than she would have knowingly carried it for herself.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000009_000000|After sitting a while, she wished she had something to do, but nothing came.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000009_000001|A little longer, and it grew wearisome.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000009_000002|She would see whether she could not walk out of the strange luminous dusk that surrounded her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000000|Walk she found she could, well enough, but walk out she could not.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000001|On and on she went, keeping as much in a straight line as she might, but after walking until she was thoroughly tired, she found herself no nearer out of her prison than before.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000002|She had not, indeed, advanced a single step; for, in whatever direction she tried to go, the sphere turned round and round, answering her feet accordingly.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000003|Like a squirrel in his cage she but kept placing another spot of the cunningly suspended sphere under her feet, and she would have been still only at its lowest point after walking for ages.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000000|At length she cried aloud; but there was no answer.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000001|It grew dreary and drearier-in her, that is: outside there was no change.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000002|Nothing was overhead, nothing under foot, nothing on either hand, but the same pale, faint, bluish glimmer.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000003|She wept at last, then grew very angry, and then sullen; but nobody heeded whether she cried or laughed.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000004|It was all the same to the cold unmoving twilight that rounded her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000005|On and on went the dreary hours-or did they go at all?--"no change, no pause, no hope;"--on and on till she FELT she was forgotten, and then she grew strangely still and fell asleep.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000012_000000|The moment she was asleep, the wise woman came, lifted her out, and laid her in her bosom; fed her with a wonderful milk, which she received without knowing it; nursed her all the night long, and, just ere she woke, laid her back in the blue sphere again.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000000|When first she came to herself, she thought the horrors of the preceding day had been all a dream of the night.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000001|But they soon asserted themselves as facts, for here they were!--nothing to see but a cold blue light, and nothing to do but see it.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000002|Oh, how slowly the hours went by!
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000003|She lost all notion of time.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000004|If she had been told that she had been there twenty years, she would have believed it-or twenty minutes-it would have been all the same: except for weariness, time was for her no more.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000014_000000|Another night came, and another still, during both of which the wise woman nursed and fed her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000014_000001|But she knew nothing of that, and the same one dreary day seemed ever brooding over her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000015_000000|All at once, on the third day, she was aware that a naked child was seated beside her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000015_000001|But there was something about the child that made her shudder.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000015_000003|She was the color of pale earth, with a pinched nose, and a mere slit in her face for a mouth.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000016_000000|"How ugly she is!" thought Agnes.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000016_000001|"What business has she beside me!"
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000000|But it was so lonely that she would have been glad to play with a serpent, and put out her hand to touch her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000001|She touched nothing.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000002|The child, also, put out her hand-but in the direction away from Agnes. And that was well, for if she had touched Agnes it would have killed her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000003|Then Agnes said, "Who are you?" And the little girl said, "Who are you?"
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000004|"I am Agnes," said Agnes; and the little girl said, "I am Agnes." Then Agnes thought she was mocking her, and said, "You are ugly;" and the little girl said, "You are ugly."
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000000|Then Agnes lost her temper, and put out her hands to seize the little girl; but lo! the little girl was gone, and she found herself tugging at her own hair.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000002|Agnes was furious now, and flew at her to bite her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000003|But she found her teeth in her own arm, and the little girl was gone-only to return again; and each time she came back she was tenfold uglier than before.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000004|And now Agnes hated her with her whole heart.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000019_000000|The moment she hated her, it flashed upon her with a sickening disgust that the child was not another, but her Self, her Somebody, and that she was now shut up with her for ever and ever-no more for one moment ever to be alone.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000019_000001|In her agony of despair, sleep descended, and she slept.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000020_000000|When she woke, there was the little girl, heedless, ugly, miserable, staring at her own toes.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000020_000001|All at once, the creature began to smile, but with such an odious, self satisfied expression, that Agnes felt ashamed of seeing her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000021_000000|She turned sick at herself, and would gladly have been put out of existence, but for three days the odious companionship went on.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000021_000001|By the third day, Agnes was not merely sick but ashamed of the life she had hitherto led, was despicable in her own eyes, and astonished that she had never seen the truth concerning herself before.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000022_000000|The next morning she woke in the arms of the wise woman; the horror had vanished from her sight, and two heavenly eyes were gazing upon her. She wept and clung to her, and the more she clung, the more tenderly did the great strong arms close around her.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000023_000000|When she had lain thus for a while, the wise woman carried her into her cottage, and washed her in the little well; then dressed her in clean garments, and gave her bread and milk.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000023_000001|When she had eaten it, she called her to her, and said very solemnly,--
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000000|"Agnes, you must not imagine you are cured.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000001|That you are ashamed of yourself now is no sign that the cause for such shame has ceased.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000002|In new circumstances, especially after you have done well for a while, you will be in danger of thinking just as much of yourself as before.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000003|So beware of yourself.
train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000004|I am going from home, and leave you in charge of the house.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifty three.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000002_000000|A FRIEND IN NEED.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000003_000000|Mary left the house, and saw no one on her way.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000003_000001|But it was better, she said to herself, that he should lie there untended, than be waited on by unloving hands.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000000|The night was very dark.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000001|There was no moon, and the stars were hidden by thick clouds.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000002|She must walk all the way to Testbridge.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000003|She felt weak, but the fresh air was reviving.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000000|She had not gone far when the moon rose, and from behind the clouds diminished the darkness a little.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000001|The first part of her journey lay along a narrow lane, with a small ditch, a rising bank, and a hedge on each side.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000002|About the middle of the lane was a farmyard, and a little way farther a cottage.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000003|Soon after passing the gate of the farmyard, she thought she heard steps behind her, seemingly soft and swift, and naturally felt a little apprehension; but her thoughts flew to the one hiding place for thoughts and hearts and lives, and she felt no terror. At the same time something moved her to quicken her pace.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000004|As she drew near the common, she heard the steps more plainly, still soft and swift, and almost wished she had sought refuge in the cottage she had just passed-only it bore no very good character in the neighborhood. When she reached the spot where the paths united, feeling a little at home, she stopped to listen.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000006|The same moment the clouds thinned about the moon, and a pale light came filtering through upon the common in front of her.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000007|She cast one look over her shoulder, saw something turn a corner in the lane, and sped on again.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000008|She would have run, but there was no place of refuge now nearer than the corner of the turnpike road, and she knew her breath would fail her long before that.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000009|How lonely and shelterless the common looked!
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000000|Was that music she heard?
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000001|She dared not stop to listen.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000002|But immediately, thereupon, was poured forth on the dim air such a stream of pearly sounds as if all the necklaces of some heavenly choir of woman angels were broken, and the beads came pelting down in a cataract of hurtless hail.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000003|From no source could they come save the bow and violin of Joseph Jasper!
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000004|Where could he be?
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000005|She was so rejoiced to know that he must be somewhere near, that, for very delight of unsecured safety, she held her peace, and had almost stopped.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000006|But she ran on again.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000008|In the mean time the moon had been growing out of the clouds, clearer and clearer.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000009|The hut came in sight.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000011|Absorbed in his music, he did not see her.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000012|She called out, "Joseph!
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000013|Joseph!"
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000014|He started, threw his bow from him, tucked his violin under his arm, and bounded to meet her.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000016|The consequence was that she fell-but safe in the smith's arms.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000018|He half stopped, and, turning from the path, took to the common.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000019|Jasper handed his violin to Mary, and darted after him.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000021|Joseph seized him by the wrist, saw something glitter in his other hand, and turned sick.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000022|The fellow had stabbed him.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000023|With indignation, as if it were a snake that had bit him, the blacksmith flung from him the hand he held.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000024|The man gave a cry, staggered, recovered himself, and ran.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000025|Joseph would have followed again, but fell, and for a minute or two lost consciousness.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000026|When he came to himself, Mary was binding up his arm.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000007_000002|But my father was just the same, and he was a stronger man than I'm like to be, I fancy."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000008_000000|"It is no such wonder as you think," said Mary; "you have lost a good deal of blood."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000009_000000|Her voice faltered.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000009_000001|She had been greatly alarmed-and the more that she had not light enough to get the edges of the wound properly together.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000010_000000|"You've stopped it-ain't you, miss?"
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000011_000000|"I think so."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000012_000000|"Then I'll be after the fellow."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000000|"No, no; you must not attempt it.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000001|You must lie still awhile.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000002|But I don't understand it at all!
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000003|That cottage used to be a mere hovel, without door or window!
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000004|It can't be you live in it?"
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000014_000001|It's mine-bought and paid for."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000015_000000|"But what made you think of coming here?"
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000016_000000|"Let's go into the smithy-house I won't presume to call it," said Joseph, "though it has a lean to for the smith-and I'll tell you everything about it.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000016_000001|But really, miss, you oughtn't to be out like this after dark.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000016_000002|There's too many vagabonds about."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000017_000000|With but little need of the help Mary yet gave him, Joseph got up, and led her to what was now a respectable little smithy, with forge and bellows and anvil and bucket.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000018_000000|"Anyhow, miss," he said, "you'll never come from there alone in the dark again!"
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000019_000000|"I understand you, Joseph," answered Mary, "for I know you would not have me leave doing what I can for the poor man up there, because of a little danger in the way."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000020_000001|That would be as much as to say you would do the will of God when the devil would let you.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000021_000000|"I must not take you from your work, you know, Joseph."
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000022_000001|Any time you want to go anywhere, don't forget as you've got enemies about, and just send for me.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000022_000002|You won't have long to wait till I come.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000023_000000|Part of this conversation, and a good deal more, passed on their way to Testbridge, whither, as soon as Joseph seemed all right, Mary, who had forgotten her hunger and faintness, insisted on setting out at once.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000023_000001|In her turn she questioned Joseph, and learned that, as soon as he knew she was going to settle at Testbridge, he started off to find if possible a place in the neighborhood humble enough to be within his reach, and near enough for the hope of seeing her sometimes, and having what help she might please to give him.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000023_000002|The explanation afforded Mary more pleasure than she cared to show.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000024_000000|When they came to the suburbs, she sent him home, and went straight to mr Brett with mr Redmain's message.
train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000024_000001|He undertook to be at Durnmelling at the time appointed, and to let nothing prevent him from seeing his new client.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifty five.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000002_000000|DISAPPEARANCE.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000004_000000|"No," said mr Redmain; "she must stay where she is.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000004_000001|I fancy something happened last night which she has got to tell us about."
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000005_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000005_000001|What was that?" asked mr Brett, facing round on her.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000006_000000|Mary began her story with the incident of her having been pursued by some one, and rescued by the blacksmith, whom she told her listeners she had known in London.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000006_000001|Then she narrated all that had happened the night before, from first to last, not forgetting the flame that lighted the closet as they approached the window.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000007_000000|"Just let me see those memoranda," said mr Brett to mr Redmain, rising, and looking for the paper where he had left it the day before.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000008_000000|"It was of that paper I was this moment thinking," answered mr Redmain.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000009_000000|"It is not here!" said mr Brett.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000000|"I thought as much!
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000001|The fool!
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000002|There was a thousand pounds there for her!
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000003|I didn't want to drive her to despair: a dying man must mind what he is about.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000011_000000|Mewks came, in evident anxiety.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000012_000001|mr Brett took it for granted he had deliberately and intentionally shut out Mary, and Mewks did not attempt to deny it, protesting he believed she was boring his master.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000012_000002|The grin on that master's face at hearing this was not very pleasant to behold. When examined as to the missing paper, he swore by all that was holy he knew nothing about it.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000013_000000|mr Brett next requested the presence of Miss Yolland.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000013_000001|She was nowhere to be found.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000013_000002|The place was searched throughout, but there was no trace of her.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000015_000000|Lady Malice was grievously hurt at the examination she found had been going on.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000019_000000|Hesper sought Mary, and kissed her with some appearance of gratitude. She saw what a horrible suspicion, perhaps even accusation, she had saved her from.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000019_000001|The behavior and disappearance of Sepia seemed to give her little trouble.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000021_000000|Almost every evening, until he left Durnmelling, Mary went to see mr Redmain.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000021_000002|And something did seem to be getting into, or waking up in, him.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000021_000005|When suffering, he would occasionally break into fierce and evil language, then be suddenly silent.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000000|For some time it remained doubtful whether this attack was not, after all, going to be the last: the doctor himself was doubtful, and, having no reason to think his death would be a great grief in the house, did not hesitate much to express his doubt.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000001|And, indeed, it caused no gloom.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000002|For there was little love in the attentions the Mortimers paid him; and in what other hope could Hesper have married, than that one day she would be free, with a freedom informed with power, the power of money!
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000003|But to the mother's suggestions as to possible changes in the future, the daughter never responded: she had no thought of plans in common with her.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000023_000000|Strange rumors came abroad.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000023_000002|There was a conspiracy in that house to ruin the character of the loveliest woman in creation!
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000023_000003|But when a week after week passed, and he heard nothing of or from her, he became anxious, and at last lowered his pride so far as to call on Mary, under the pretense of buying something in the shop.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000024_000000|His troubled look filled her with sympathy, but she could not help being glad afresh that he had escaped the snares laid for him.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000024_000001|He looked at her searchingly, and at last murmured a request that she would allow him to have a little conversation with her.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000025_000000|She led the way to her parlor, closed the door, and asked him to take a seat.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000025_000001|But Godfrey was too proud or too agitated to sit.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000026_000000|"You will be surprised to see me on such an errand, Miss Marston!" he said.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000027_000000|"I do not yet know your errand," replied Mary; "but I may not be so much surprised as you think."
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000028_000000|"Do not imagine," said Godfrey, stiffly, "that I believe a word of the contemptible reports in circulation.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000028_000001|I come only to ask you to tell me the real nature of the accusations brought against Miss Yolland: your name is, of course, coupled with them."
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000029_000001|As it is, allow me to refer you to mr Brett, the lawyer, whom I dare say you know."
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000031_000000|Some time after, it came out that the same night on which the presence of Joseph rescued Mary from her pursuer, a man speaking with a foreign accent went to one of the surgeons in Testbridge to have his shoulder set, which he said had been dislocated by a fall.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000031_000001|When Joseph heard it, he smiled, and thought he knew what it meant.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000032_000000|Hesper was no sooner in London, than she wrote to Mary, inviting her to go and visit her.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000032_000001|But Mary answered she could no more leave home, and must content herself with the hope of seeing mrs Redmain when she came to Durnmelling.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000001|But they never had any more talk about the things Mary loved most.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000002|That he continued to think of those things, she had one ground of hoping, namely, the kindness with which he invariably received her, and the altogether gentler manner he wore as often and as long as she saw him.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000003|Whether the change was caused by something better than physical decay, who knows save him who can use even decay for redemption?
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000004|He lived two years more, and died rather suddenly.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000035_000001|He grew a rich man, and died happy-so his friends said, and said as they saw.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000037_000000|Letty was diligent in business, but it never got into her heart.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000037_000001|She continued to be much liked, and in the shop was delightful.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000038_000000|After a year or so, mrs Wardour began to take a little notice of her again; but she never asked her to Thornwick until she found herself dying.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000038_000001|Perhaps she then remembered a certain petition in the Lord's prayer.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000038_000002|But will it not be rather a dreadful thing for some people if they are forgiven as they forgive?
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000039_000000|Old mr Duppa died, and a young man came to minister to his congregation who thought the baptism of the spirit of more importance than the most correct of opinions concerning even the baptizing spirit. From him Mary found she could learn, and would be much to blame if she did not learn.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000039_000001|From him Letty also heard what increased her desire to be worth something before she went to rejoin Tom.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000040_000000|Joseph Jasper became once more Mary's pupil.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000040_000001|She was now no more content with her little cottage piano, but had an instrument of quite another capacity on which to accompany the violin of the blacksmith.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000041_000000|To him trade came in steadily, and before long he had to build a larger shoeing shed.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000041_000002|He soon found it necessary to make arrangement with a carpenter and wheelwright to work on his premises.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000041_000003|Before two years were over, he was what people call a flourishing man, and laying by a little money.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000042_000000|"But," he said to Mary, "I can't go on like this, you know, miss.
train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000042_000001|I don't want money.
train-clean-360/3389/130127/3389_130127_000018_000000|"On the way to Yokohama?"
train-clean-360/3389/130127/3389_130127_000021_000006|At this thought Passepartout tore his hair.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000003_000000|He had come down to the office very early, and for a few minutes was by himself.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000006_000001|It will make up three columns and a half.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000008_000000|"Yes-no
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000009_000000|He took the type written matter just as it came from the telegraph editor and ran over it carefully.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000014_000000|"But-"
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000015_000000|"I don't think, Clark, that it ought to be printed, and that's the end of it," said Norman, looking up from his desk.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000017_000000|"Do you mean that the paper is to go to press without a word of the prize fight in it?"
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000019_000001|All the other papers will print it.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000020_000000|Norman looked at Clark thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000022_000000|Clark came in and the two men faced each other alone.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000024_000001|I have decided not to do a thing in connection with the paper for a whole year that I honestly believe Jesus would not do."
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000000|"I think it will simply ruin the paper," replied Clark promptly.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000003|You can't make it pay. Just as sure as you live, if you shut out this prize fight report you will lose hundreds of subscribers.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000005|The very best people in town are eager to read it.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000007|Surely, you can't afford to disregard the wishes of the public to such an extent.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000008|It will be a great mistake if you do, in my opinion."
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000029_000001|Then he spoke gently but firmly.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000030_000000|"Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct?
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000033_000001|It can't be done.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000034_000000|Norman did not reply at once.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000036_000000|Clark rose.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000036_000001|"The report does not go in?"
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000037_000000|"It does not.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000040_000000|Clark walked out of the room to his own desk feeling as if the bottom had dropped out of everything.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000045_000005|NEWS, sir?"
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000047_000002|There's no prize fight here!
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000049_000001|Look!"
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000052_000002|But he couldn't tell why, and ran over to the NEWS office to find out.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000055_000000|"What's the matter here, George?" he asked the clerk as he noted the unusual confusion.
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000057_000001|Boys, count them out, and I'll buy them tonight."
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000060_000000|"Fair!
train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000062_000000|He walked out of the office and went home.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000001_000001|Two or three of these letters may be of interest.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000002_000000|Editor of the News:
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000003_000000|Dear Sir-I have been thinking for some time of changing my paper.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000003_000001|I want a journal that is up to the times, progressive and enterprising, supplying the public demand at all points.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000003_000002|The recent freak of your paper in refusing to print the account of the famous contest at the Resort has decided me finally to change my paper.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000007_000000|Edward Norman,
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000009_000003|It's dangerous to experiment much along that line.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000009_000005|The public wants prize fights and such.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000010_000000|Yours,-------
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000011_000000|Here followed the name of one of Norman's old friends, the editor of a daily in an adjoining town.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000012_000000|My Dear mr Norman:
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000013_000001|It is a splendid beginning and no one feels the value of it more than I do.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000013_000002|I know something of what it will cost you, but not all.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000013_000003|Your pastor,
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000014_000000|HENRY MAXWELL.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000015_000000|One other letter which he opened immediately after reading this from Maxwell revealed to him something of the loss to his business that possibly awaited him.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000018_000001|I enclose check for payment in full and shall consider my account with your paper closed after date.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000019_000000|Very truly yours,-------
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000020_000001|He had been in the habit of inserting a column of conspicuous advertising and paying for it a very large price.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000021_000000|Norman laid this letter down thoughtfully, and then after a moment he took up a copy of his paper and looked through the advertising columns.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000022_000000|But the letter directed Norman's attention to the advertising phase of his paper.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000022_000001|He had not considered this before.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000023_000000|As he glanced over the columns he could not escape the conviction that his Master could not permit some of them in his paper.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000000|What would He do with that other long advertisement of choice liquors and cigars?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000002|No one thought anything about it.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000004|Why not?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000006|He was simply doing what every other business man in Raymond did.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000009|Could it live?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000012|"What would Jesus do?"
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000026_000001|This was Thursday.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000027_000000|"Clark," said Norman, speaking slowly and carefully, "I have been looking at our advertising columns and have decided to dispense with some of the matter as soon as the contracts run out.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000029_000000|"This will mean a great loss to the NEWS.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000031_000001|But what has that to do with us?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000032_000000|"Why not?" asked Norman quietly.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000033_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000033_000002|"We shall certainly bankrupt the paper with this sort of business policy."
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000035_000000|"You may direct Marks to do as I have said.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000000|Clark went back to his desk feeling as if he had been in the presence of a very peculiar person.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000001|He could not grasp the meaning of it all.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000004|It would upset every custom and introduce endless confusion.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000006|It was downright idiocy.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000010|Was he going to bankrupt the whole business?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000037_000000|But Edward Norman had not yet faced his most serious problem.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000038_000001|No matter whether it paid.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000038_000003|Besides, the regular subscribers had paid for a seven day paper.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000000|He was honestly perplexed by the question.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000002|He was sole proprietor of the paper; it was his to shape as he chose.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000003|He had no board of directors to consult as to policy.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000008|It was a very unusual proceeding, but they all agreed that the paper was being run on new principles anyhow, and they all watched mr Norman carefully as he spoke.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000040_000001|I understand very well that some things I have already done are regarded by the men as very strange.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000040_000002|I wish to state my motive in doing what I have done."
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000043_000002|In order to make up to the subscribers the amount of reading matter they may suppose themselves entitled to, we can issue a double number on Saturday, as is done by many evening papers that make no attempt at a Sunday edition.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000043_000007|The change itself is one that will take place.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000043_000008|So far as I can see, the loss will fall on myself.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000044_000000|He looked around the room and no one spoke.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000044_000001|He was struck for the first time in his life with the fact that in all the years of his newspaper life he had never had the force of the paper together in this way.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000044_000002|Would Jesus do that?
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000045_000000|He caught himself drawing almost away from the facts of typographical unions and office rules and reporters' enterprise and all the cold, businesslike methods that make a great daily successful.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000000|Clark came in and had a long, serious talk with his chief.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000004|Clark was a very valuable man.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000005|It would be difficult to fill his place.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000006|But he was not able to give any reasons for continuing the Sunday paper that answered the question, "What would Jesus do?" by letting Jesus print that edition.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000047_000000|"It comes to this, then," said Clark frankly, "you will bankrupt the paper in thirty days.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000048_000000|"I don't think we shall.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000048_000001|Will you stay by the NEWS until it is bankrupt?" asked Norman with a strange smile.
train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000050_000000|"I don't know myself either, Clark.
train-clean-360/3389/13250/3389_13250_000008_000001|"That's harder to decide.
train-clean-360/3389/13250/3389_13250_000008_000002|But I've about made up my mind.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000001_000000|HERLAND
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000003_000001|A Not Unnatural Enterprise
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000004_000000|This is written from memory, unfortunately.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000004_000003|We had some bird's eyes of the cities and parks; a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of the women themselves.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000005_000002|But it's got to be done somehow; the rest of the world needs to know about that country.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000006_000001|They will not be wanted, I can tell them that, and will fare worse than we did if they do find it.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000007_000000|It began this way.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000007_000001|There were three of us, classmates and friends-Terry o Nicholson (we used to call him the Old Nick, with good reason), Jeff Margrave, and I, Vandyck Jennings.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000008_000001|All of us were interested in science.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000009_000002|He used to make all kinds of a row because there was nothing left to explore now, only patchwork and filling in, he said.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000009_000003|He filled in well enough-he had a lot of talents-great on mechanics and electricity.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000011_000000|Jeff Margrave was born to be a poet, a botanist-or both-but his folks persuaded him to be a doctor instead.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000011_000001|He was a good one, for his age, but his real interest was in what he loved to call "the wonders of science."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000013_000000|Terry was strong on facts-geography and meteorology and those; Jeff could beat him any time on biology, and I didn't care what it was they talked about, so long as it connected with human life, somehow.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000013_000001|There are few things that don't.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000014_000001|They needed a doctor, and that gave Jeff an excuse for dropping his just opening practice; they needed Terry's experience, his machine, and his money; and as for me, I got in through Terry's influence.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000016_000000|But this story is not about that expedition.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000016_000001|That was only the merest starter for ours.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000017_000000|My interest was first roused by talk among our guides.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000017_000001|I'm quick at languages, know a good many, and pick them up readily.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000018_000000|And as we got farther and farther upstream, in a dark tangle of rivers, lakes, morasses, and dense forests, with here and there an unexpected long spur running out from the big mountains beyond, I noticed that more and more of these savages had a story about a strange and terrible Woman Land in the high distance.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000019_000000|"Up yonder," "Over there,"
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000019_000001|"Way up"--was all the direction they could offer, but their legends all agreed on the main point-that there was this strange country where no men lived-only women and girl children.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000020_000001|It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000020_000002|But there were tales of long ago, when some brave investigator had seen it-a Big Country, Big Houses, Plenty People-All Women.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000021_000001|Yes-a good many-but they never came back.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000022_000000|I told the boys about these stories, and they laughed at them.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000022_000001|Naturally I did myself.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000022_000002|I knew the stuff that savage dreams are made of.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000023_000000|But when we had reached our farthest point, just the day before we all had to turn around and start for home again, as the best of expeditions must in time, we three made a discovery.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000024_000000|The main encampment was on a spit of land running out into the main stream, or what we thought was the main stream.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000025_000000|I happened to speak of that river to our last guide, a rather superior fellow with quick, bright eyes.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000026_000000|He told me that there was another river-"over there, short river, sweet water, red and blue."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000028_000000|Yes, he pointed to the river, and then to the southwestward. "River-good water-red and blue."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000031_000000|I told him.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000034_000000|The man indicated a short journey; I judged about two hours, maybe three.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000036_000000|"May be indigo," Jeff suggested, with his lazy smile.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000037_000000|It was early yet; we had just breakfasted; and leaving word that we'd be back before night, we got away quietly, not wishing to be thought too gullible if we failed, and secretly hoping to have some nice little discovery all to ourselves.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000038_000000|It was a long two hours, nearer three.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000038_000003|But there was one, and I could see Terry, with compass and notebook, marking directions and trying to place landmarks.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000039_000000|We came after a while to a sort of marshy lake, very big, so that the circling forest looked quite low and dim across it.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000039_000001|Our guide told us that boats could go from there to our camp-but "long way-all day."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000041_000002|They crop out like that."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000042_000001|We heard running water before we reached it, and the guide pointed proudly to his river.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000043_000000|It was short.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000043_000001|We could see where it poured down a narrow vertical cataract from an opening in the face of the cliff.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000043_000002|It was sweet water. The guide drank eagerly and so did we.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000044_000001|"Must come from way back in the hills."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000045_000000|But as to being red and blue-it was greenish in tint.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000045_000001|The guide seemed not at all surprised.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000045_000002|He hunted about a little and showed us a quiet marginal pool where there were smears of red along the border; yes, and of blue.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000046_000000|Terry got out his magnifying glass and squatted down to investigate.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000047_000000|"Chemicals of some sort-I can't tell on the spot.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000047_000001|Look to me like dyestuffs.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000047_000002|Let's get nearer," he urged, "up there by the fall."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000048_000000|We scrambled along the steep banks and got close to the pool that foamed and boiled beneath the falling water.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000048_000001|Here we searched the border and found traces of color beyond dispute.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000048_000002|More-Jeff suddenly held up an unlooked for trophy.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000049_000000|It was only a rag, a long, raveled fragment of cloth.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000049_000001|But it was a well woven fabric, with a pattern, and of a clear scarlet that the water had not faded.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000052_000000|"Come down," he said, pointing to the cataract.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000052_000001|"Woman Country-up there."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000053_000000|Then we were interested.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000053_000002|He could tell us only what the others had-a land of women-no men-babies, but all girls.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000053_000003|No place for men-dangerous.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000001|No place for men?
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000002|Dangerous?
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000003|He looked as if he might shin up the waterfall on the spot.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000004|But the guide would not hear of going up, even if there had been any possible method of scaling that sheer cliff, and we had to get back to our party before night.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000056_000000|But Terry stopped in his tracks.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000056_000001|"Look here, fellows," he said.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000056_000002|"This is our find.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000057_000000|We looked at him, much impressed.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000059_000000|"There is no such cloth made by any of these local tribes," I announced, examining those rags with great care.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000061_000001|What's that old republic up in the Pyrenees somewhere-Andorra?
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000061_000003|Then there's Montenegro-splendid little state-you could lose a dozen Montenegroes up and down these great ranges."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000062_000000|We discussed it hotly all the way back to camp.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000062_000002|We discussed it after that, still only among ourselves, while Terry was making his arrangements.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000065_000000|We had provisions and preventives and all manner of supplies.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000065_000001|His previous experience stood him in good stead there.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000065_000002|It was a very complete little outfit.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000068_000000|"Those natives can't get into it, or hurt it, or move it," Terry explained proudly.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000068_000001|"We'll start our flier from the lake and leave the boat as a base to come back to."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000069_000000|"If we come back," I suggested cheerfully.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000070_000000|"'Fraid the ladies will eat you?" he scoffed.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000071_000000|"We're not so sure about those ladies, you know," drawled Jeff.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000071_000001|"There may be a contingent of gentlemen with poisoned arrows or something."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000072_000000|"You don't need to go if you don't want to," Terry remarked drily.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000073_000000|"Go?
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000073_000001|You'll have to get an injunction to stop me!" Both Jeff and I were sure about that.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000075_000002|Our absolute lack of facts only made the field of discussion wider.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000076_000000|"We'll leave papers with our consul where the yacht stays," Terry planned.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000076_000001|"If we don't come back in-say a month-they can send a relief party after us."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000077_000001|"If the ladies do eat us we must make reprisals."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000079_000000|"Yes, but how will they get up?" asked Jeff.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000080_000000|"Same way we do, of course.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000080_000001|If three valuable American citizens are lost up there, they will follow somehow-to say nothing of the glittering attractions of that fair land-let's call it 'Feminisia,'" he broke off.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000000|"You're right, Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000001|Once the story gets out, the river will crawl with expeditions and the airships rise like a swarm of mosquitoes." I laughed as I thought of it.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000003|Save us!
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000004|What headlines!"
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000082_000000|"Not much!" said Terry grimly.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000082_000001|"This is our party.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000082_000002|We're going to find that place alone."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000084_000001|I think he thought that country-if there was one-was just blossoming with roses and babies and canaries and tidies, and all that sort of thing.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000086_000000|But I thought-then-that I could form a far clearer idea of what was before us than either of them.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000087_000000|"You're all off, boys," I insisted.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000087_000003|This is a condition known to have existed-here's just a survival.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000087_000004|They've got some peculiarly isolated valley or tableland up there, and their primeval customs have survived. That's all there is to it."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000091_000000|"Danger enough, Terry, and we'll have to be mighty careful.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000091_000001|Women of that stage of culture are quite able to defend themselves and have no welcome for unseasonable visitors."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000092_000000|We talked and talked.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000096_000001|"Women always do. We mustn't look to find any sort of order and organization."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000097_000001|"It will be like a nunnery under an abbess-a peaceful, harmonious sisterhood."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000099_000002|These are just women, and mothers, and where there's motherhood you don't find sisterhood-not much."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000100_000000|"No, sir-they'll scrap," agreed Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000102_000000|"Oh, cloth!
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000102_000002|But there they stop-you'll see."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000103_000000|We joked Terry about his modest impression that he would be warmly received, but he held his ground.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000104_000002|I'll get myself elected king in no time-whew! Solomon will have to take a back seat!"
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000106_000000|"Couldn't risk it," he asserted solemnly.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000108_000003|And he was a good boy; he lived up to his ideals.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000109_000001|I always liked Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000109_000002|He was a man's man, very much so, generous and brave and clever; but I don't think any of us in college days was quite pleased to have him with our sisters.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000109_000004|But Terry was "the limit." Later on-why, of course a man's life is his own, we held, and asked no questions.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000112_000000|But I got out of patience with Jeff, too.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000115_000000|It was not hard to find the river, just poking along that side till we came to it, and it was navigable as far as the lake.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000117_000000|There was some talk, even then, of skirting the rock wall and seeking a possible footway up, but the marshy jungle made that method look not only difficult but dangerous.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000118_000000|Terry dismissed the plan sharply.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000001|We've decided that.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000002|It might take months-we haven't got the provisions.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000003|No, sir-we've got to take our chances.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000004|If we get back safe-all right.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000005|If we don't, why, we're not the first explorers to get lost in the shuffle.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000120_000000|So we got the big biplane together and loaded it with our scientifically compressed baggage: the camera, of course; the glasses; a supply of concentrated food.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000120_000001|Our pockets were magazines of small necessities, and we had our guns, of course-there was no knowing what might happen.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000121_000000|Up and up and up we sailed, way up at first, to get "the lay of the land" and make note of it.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000122_000001|It ran back on either side, apparently, to the far off white crowned peaks in the distance, themselves probably inaccessible.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000123_000000|"Let's make the first trip geographical," I suggested.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000123_000002|With your tremendous speed we can reach that range and back all right.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000123_000003|Then we can leave a sort of map on board-for that relief expedition."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000125_000000|So we made a long skirting voyage, turned the point of the cape which was close by, ran up one side of the triangle at our best speed, crossed over the base where it left the higher mountains, and so back to our lake by moonlight.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000126_000000|"That's not a bad little kingdom," we agreed when it was roughly drawn and measured.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000126_000001|We could tell the size fairly by our speed.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000126_000002|And from what we could see of the sides-and that icy ridge at the back end-"It's a pretty enterprising savage who would manage to get into it," Jeff said.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000127_000001|It appeared to be well forested about the edges, but in the interior there were wide plains, and everywhere parklike meadows and open places.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000128_000001|It looked-well, it looked like any other country-a civilized one, I mean.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000129_000000|We had to sleep after that long sweep through the air, but we turned out early enough next day, and again we rose softly up the height till we could top the crowning trees and see the broad fair land at our pleasure.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000130_000000|"Semitropical.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000130_000001|Looks like a first rate climate.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000130_000002|It's wonderful what a little height will do for temperature." Terry was studying the forest growth.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000131_000001|Is that what you call little?" I asked.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000132_000000|"Mighty lucky piece of land, I call it," Terry pursued.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000132_000001|"Now for the folks-I've had enough scenery."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000133_000000|So we sailed low, crossing back and forth, quartering the country as we went, and studying it.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000133_000001|We saw-I can't remember now how much of this we noted then and how much was supplemented by our later knowledge, but we could not help seeing this much, even on that excited day-a land in a state of perfect cultivation, where even the forests looked as if they were cared for; a land that looked like an enormous park, only it was even more evidently an enormous garden.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000134_000000|"I don't see any cattle," I suggested, but Terry was silent.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000134_000001|We were approaching a village.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000135_000001|We had our glasses out; even Terry, setting his machine for a spiral glide, clapped the binoculars to his eyes.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000136_000000|They heard our whirring screw.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000136_000002|We stared and stared until it was almost too late to catch the levers, sweep off and rise again; and then we held our peace for a long run upward.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000137_000000|"Gosh!" said Terry, after a while.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000138_000000|"Only women there-and children," Jeff urged excitedly.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000142_000000|"There's a fine landing place right there where we came over," he insisted, and it was an excellent one-a wide, flat topped rock, overlooking the lake, and quite out of sight from the interior.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000143_000000|"They won't find this in a hurry," he asserted, as we scrambled with the utmost difficulty down to safer footing.
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000143_000001|"Come on, boys-there were some good lookers in that bunch."
train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000145_000001|But we were three young men.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000001_000001|Rash Advances
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000002_000000|Not more than ten or fifteen miles we judged it from our landing rock to that last village.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000002_000001|For all our eagerness we thought it wise to keep to the woods and go carefully.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000003_000000|Even Terry's ardor was held in check by his firm conviction that there were men to be met, and we saw to it that each of us had a good stock of cartridges.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000004_000001|But there are men somewhere-didn't you see the babies?"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000005_000000|We had all seen babies, children big and little, everywhere that we had come near enough to distinguish the people.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000005_000001|And though by dress we could not be sure of all the grown persons, still there had not been one man that we were certain of.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000006_000001|Terry studied it as we progressed.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000007_000000|"Talk of civilization," he cried softly in restrained enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000008_000000|They left me for a landmark and made a limited excursion on either side.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000000|"Food bearing, practically all of them," they announced returning.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000001|"The rest, splendid hardwood.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000002|Call this a forest?
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000003|It's a truck farm!"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000010_000000|"Good thing to have a botanist on hand," I agreed.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000010_000001|"Sure there are no medicinal ones?
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000010_000002|Or any for pure ornament?"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000011_000000|As a matter of fact they were quite right.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000011_000001|These towering trees were under as careful cultivation as so many cabbages.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000013_000000|"They don't kill birds, and apparently they do kill cats," Terry declared.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000013_000001|"MUST be men here.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000013_000002|Hark!"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000014_000000|We had heard something: something not in the least like a birdsong, and very much like a suppressed whisper of laughter-a little happy sound, instantly smothered.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000014_000001|We stood like so many pointers, and then used our glasses, swiftly, carefully.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000015_000000|"It couldn't have been far off," said Terry excitedly.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000016_000001|It was trimmed underneath some twenty feet up, and stood there like a huge umbrella, with circling seats beneath.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000017_000001|"There are short stumps of branches left to climb on.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000017_000002|There's someone up that tree, I believe."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000018_000000|We stole near, cautiously.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000019_000001|"In my heart, more likely," he answered.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000019_000002|"Gee!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000019_000003|Look, boys!"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000020_000003|By the time we had reached about as far as three men together dared push, they had left the main trunk and moved outward, each one balanced on a long branch that dipped and swayed beneath the weight.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000021_000000|We paused uncertain.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000021_000001|If we pursued further, the boughs would break under the double burden.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000021_000002|We might shake them off, perhaps, but none of us was so inclined.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000024_000000|They were girls, of course, no boys could ever have shown that sparkling beauty, and yet none of us was certain at first.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000025_000000|We saw short hair, hatless, loose, and shining; a suit of some light firm stuff, the closest of tunics and kneebreeches, met by trim gaiters. As bright and smooth as parrots and as unaware of danger, they swung there before us, wholly at ease, staring as we stared, till first one, and then all of them burst into peals of delighted laughter.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000026_000000|Then there was a torrent of soft talk tossed back and forth; no savage sing song, but clear musical fluent speech.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000027_000000|We met their laughter cordially, and doffed our hats to them, at which they laughed again, delightedly.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000028_000000|Then Terry, wholly in his element, made a polite speech, with explanatory gestures, and proceeded to introduce us, with pointing finger.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000028_000002|"mr Vandyck Jennings"--I also tried to make an effective salute and nearly lost my balance.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000030_000000|Again they laughed delightedly, and the one nearest me followed his tactics.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000031_000000|"Celis," she said distinctly, pointing to the one in blue; "Alima"--the one in rose; then, with a vivid imitation of Terry's impressive manner, she laid a firm delicate hand on her gold green jerkin-"Ellador." This was pleasant, but we got no nearer.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000032_000002|He suggested, by signs, that we all go down together; but again they shook their heads, still merrily.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000033_000000|"Have to use bait," grinned Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000033_000002|He held it up, swung it, glittering in the sun, offered it first to one, then to another, holding it out as far as he could reach toward the girl nearest him.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000033_000003|He stood braced in the fork, held firmly by one hand-the other, swinging his bright temptation, reached far out along the bough, but not quite to his full stretch.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000034_000001|Then, softly and slowly, she drew nearer.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000034_000002|This was Alima, a tall long limbed lass, well knit and evidently both strong and agile. Her eyes were splendid, wide, fearless, as free from suspicion as a child's who has never been rebuked.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000000|The others moved a bit farther out, holding firmly, watching.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000002|I could already see it happen-the dropped necklace, the sudden clutching hand, the girl's sharp cry as he seized her and drew her in.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000003|But it didn't happen.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000004|She made a timid reach with her right hand for the gay swinging thing-he held it a little nearer-then, swift as light, she seized it from him with her left, and dropped on the instant to the bough below.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000036_000001|They dropped from the ends of the big boughs to those below, fairly pouring themselves off the tree, while we climbed downward as swiftly as we could.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000037_000000|"No use," gasped Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000037_000002|My word!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000037_000003|The men of this country must be good sprinters!"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000038_000000|"Inhabitants evidently arboreal," I grimly suggested.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000038_000001|"Civilized and still arboreal-peculiar people."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000040_000000|But it was no use grumbling, and Terry refused to admit any mistake. "Nonsense," he said.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000040_000001|"They expected it.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000040_000002|Women like to be run after.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000041_000001|There it was, about four miles off, the same town, we concluded, unless, as Jeff ventured, they all had pink houses.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000041_000002|The broad green fields and closely cultivated gardens sloped away at our feet, a long easy slant, with good roads winding pleasantly here and there, and narrower paths besides.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000042_000000|"Look at that!" cried Jeff suddenly.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000042_000001|"There they go!"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000044_000001|It can't be the same ones," I urged.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000044_000002|But through the glasses we could identify our pretty tree climbers quite plainly, at least by costume.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000000|Terry watched them, we all did for that matter, till they disappeared among the houses.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000001|Then he put down his glass and turned to us, drawing a long breath.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000002|"Mother of Mike, boys-what Gorgeous Girls!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000003|To climb like that! to run like that! and afraid of nothing.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000004|This country suits me all right.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000005|Let's get ahead."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000047_000000|We set forth in the open, walking briskly.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000048_000000|"What a perfect road!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000048_000001|What a heavenly country!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000048_000002|See the flowers, will you?"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000049_000000|This was Jeff, always an enthusiast; but we could agree with him fully.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000052_000000|Here was evidently a people highly skilled, efficient, caring for their country as a florist cares for his costliest orchids.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000052_000001|Under the soft brilliant blue of that clear sky, in the pleasant shade of those endless rows of trees, we walked unharmed, the placid silence broken only by the birds.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000053_000000|Presently there lay before us at the foot of a long hill the town or village we were aiming for.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000054_000000|Jeff drew a long breath.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000055_000000|"They've got architects and landscape gardeners in plenty, that's sure," agreed Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000000|I was astonished myself.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000001|You see, I come from California, and there's no country lovelier, but when it comes to towns-!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000003|But this place!
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000004|It was built mostly of a sort of dull rose colored stone, with here and there some clear white houses; and it lay abroad among the green groves and gardens like a broken rosary of pink coral.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000057_000000|"Those big white ones are public buildings evidently," Terry declared. "This is no savage country, my friend.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000057_000001|But no men?
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000057_000002|Boys, it behooves us to go forward most politely."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000058_000000|The place had an odd look, more impressive as we approached.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000058_000001|"It's like an exposition."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000058_000002|"It's too pretty to be true." "Plenty of palaces, but where are the homes?" "Oh there are little ones enough-but-." It certainly was different from any towns we had ever seen.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000059_000001|"There's no smoke," he added after a little.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000060_000000|"There's no noise," I offered; but Terry snubbed me-"That's because they are laying low for us; we'd better be careful how we go in there."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000061_000000|Nothing could induce him to stay out, however, so we walked on.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000062_000000|Everything was beauty, order, perfect cleanness, and the pleasantest sense of home over it all.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000062_000001|As we neared the center of the town the houses stood thicker, ran together as it were, grew into rambling palaces grouped among parks and open squares, something as college buildings stand in their quiet greens.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000063_000000|And then, turning a corner, we came into a broad paved space and saw before us a band of women standing close together in even order, evidently waiting for us.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000064_000000|We stopped a moment and looked back.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000064_000001|The street behind was closed by another band, marching steadily, shoulder to shoulder.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000064_000002|We went on-there seemed no other way to go-and presently found ourselves quite surrounded by this close massed multitude, women, all of them, but-
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000000|They were not young.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000001|They were not old.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000002|They were not, in the girl sense, beautiful.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000005|It was that sense of being hopelessly in the wrong that I had so often felt in early youth when my short legs' utmost effort failed to overcome the fact that I was late to school.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000066_000002|But Terry showed no such consciousness.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000067_000000|Yet they were not old women.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000067_000002|They had no weapons, and we had, but we had no wish to shoot.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000068_000001|"What do they want with us anyhow?
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000068_000002|They seem to mean business." But in spite of that businesslike aspect, he determined to try his favorite tactics.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000068_000003|Terry had come armed with a theory.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000069_000000|He stepped forward, with his brilliant ingratiating smile, and made low obeisance to the women before him.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000069_000001|Then he produced another tribute, a broad soft scarf of filmy texture, rich in color and pattern, a lovely thing, even to my eye, and offered it with a deep bow to the tall unsmiling woman who seemed to head the ranks before him.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000069_000002|She took it with a gracious nod of acknowledgment, and passed it on to those behind her.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000070_000000|He tried again, this time bringing out a circlet of rhinestones, a glittering crown that should have pleased any woman on earth.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000070_000002|Again his gift was accepted and, as before, passed out of sight.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000073_000000|"Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000073_000002|But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000074_000000|We looked for nervousness-there was none.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000075_000000|For terror, perhaps-there was none.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000077_000000|Six of them stepped forward now, one on either side of each of us, and indicated that we were to go with them.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000078_000000|A large building opened before us, a very heavy thick walled impressive place, big, and old looking; of gray stone, not like the rest of the town.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000079_000000|"This won't do!" said Terry to us, quickly.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000079_000002|All together, now-"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000080_000000|We stopped in our tracks.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000080_000001|We began to explain, to make signs pointing away toward the big forest-indicating that we would go back to it-at once.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000081_000001|We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women-why, they would be no obstacles at all.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000082_000001|Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women-those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000083_000000|And now here they were, in great numbers, evidently indifferent to what he might think, evidently determined on some purpose of their own regarding him, and apparently well able to enforce their purpose.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000084_000000|We all thought hard just then.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000084_000001|It had not seemed wise to object to going with them, even if we could have; our one chance was friendliness-a civilized attitude on both sides.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000085_000000|But once inside that building, there was no knowing what these determined ladies might do to us.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000085_000001|Even a peaceful detention was not to our minds, and when we named it imprisonment it looked even worse.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000086_000000|So we made a stand, trying to make clear that we preferred the open country.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000086_000001|One of them came forward with a sketch of our flier, asking by signs if we were the aerial visitors they had seen.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000087_000000|This we admitted.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000088_000000|They pointed to it again, and to the outlying country, in different directions-but we pretended we did not know where it was, and in truth we were not quite sure and gave a rather wild indication of its whereabouts.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000089_000001|All around us and behind they were massed solidly-there was simply nothing to do but go forward-or fight.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000090_000000|We held a consultation.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000092_000000|"We can't fight them, of course," Jeff urged.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000092_000001|"They're all women, in spite of their nondescript clothes; nice women, too; good strong sensible faces.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000092_000002|I guess we'll have to go in."
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000093_000002|Look at those faces!"
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000094_000000|They had stood at ease, waiting while we conferred together, but never relaxing their close attention.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000095_000000|Their attitude was not the rigid discipline of soldiers; there was no sense of compulsion about them.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000095_000002|They had just the aspect of sturdy burghers, gathered hastily to meet some common need or peril, all moved by precisely the same feelings, to the same end.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000097_000000|We observed pretty closely just then, for all of us felt that it was a crucial moment.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000098_000000|The leader gave some word of command and beckoned us on, and the surrounding mass moved a step nearer.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000099_000000|"We've got to decide quick," said Terry.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000100_000000|"I vote to go in," Jeff urged.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000100_000001|But we were two to one against him and he loyally stood by us.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000100_000002|We made one more effort to be let go, urgent, but not imploring.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000101_000000|"Now for a rush, boys!" Terry said.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000103_000001|Terry soon found that it was useless, tore himself loose for a moment, pulled his revolver, and fired upward.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000103_000002|As they caught at it, he fired again-we heard a cry-.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000104_000000|Instantly each of us was seized by five women, each holding arm or leg or head; we were lifted like children, straddling helpless children, and borne onward, wriggling indeed, but most ineffectually.
train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000106_000000|So carried and so held, we came into a high inner hall, gray and bare, and were brought before a majestic gray haired woman who seemed to hold a judicial position.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000004_000000|mr
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000007_000002|It simply leaves the inquiry: What was the understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned?
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000008_000000|What is the frame of Government under which we live?
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000011_000000|Their names, being familiar to nearly all, and accessible to quite all, need not now be repeated.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000015_000001|This affirmation and denial form an issue, and this issue-this question is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood "better than we."
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000017_000002|The other of the four-james McHenry voted against the prohibition, showing that, for some cause, he thought it improper to vote for it.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000020_000006|Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Claimer, Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, james Madison.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000023_000003|Under these circumstances, Congress, on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely prohibit slavery within them.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000023_000009|They all, probably, voted for it.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000024_000000|In eighteen o three, the Federal Government purchased the Louisiana country.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000024_000002|In eighteen o four, Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which now constitutes the State of Lousiana.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000024_000003|New Orleans, lying within that part, was an old and comparatively large city.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000025_000000|First.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000026_000000|Second.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000029_000001|Many votes were taken, by yeas and nays, in both branches of Congress, upon the various phases of the general question.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000037_000003|The Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, plant themselves upon the fifth amendment, which provides that no person shall be deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law"; while Senator Douglas and his peculiar adherents plant themselves upon the tenth amendment, providing that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000043_000003|But he should, at the same time, brave the responsibility of declaring that, in his opinion, he understands their principles better than they did themselves; and especially should he not shirk that responsibility by asserting that they "understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now."
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000044_000002|This is all Republicans ask-all Republicans desire-in relation to slavery.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000046_000001|Still, when you speak of us Republicans, you do so only to denounce us as reptiles, or, at the best, as no better than outlaws.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000001|We deny it.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000002|That makes an issue; and the burden of proof is upon you.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000012|If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit of ours, or for any other object, then our principle, and we with it, are sectional, and are justly opposed and denounced as such.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000014|Do you accept the challenge?
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000049_000002|We respect that warning of Washington, and we commend it to you, together with his example pointing to the right application of it.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000050_000000|But you say you are conservative-eminently conservative-while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something, of the sort.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000050_000001|What is conservatism?
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000051_000001|We deny it.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000051_000002|We admit that it is more prominent, but we deny that we made it so.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000052_000001|We deny it; and what is your proof'?
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000053_000001|We do not believe it.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000053_000004|The elections came, and your expectations were not quite fulfilled.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000054_000003|The indispensable concert of action cannot be attained.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000054_000005|The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000055_000002|This is the rule; and the slave revolution in Hayti was not an exception to it, but a case occurring under peculiar circumstances.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000055_000004|In that case, only about twenty were admitted to the secret; and yet one of them, in his anxiety to save a friend, betrayed the plot to that friend, and, by consequence, averted the calamity.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000057_000001|He spoke of Virginia; and, as to the power of emancipation, I speak of the slave holding States only.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000058_000006|He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000061_000001|But we are proposing no such thing.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000067_000000|To show all this, is easy and certain.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000070_000001|In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us!
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000070_000002|That is cool.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000071_000000|To be sure, what the robber demanded of me my money was my own, and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000072_000001|Let us Republicans do our part to have it so.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000072_000002|Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000073_000001|We know they will not.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000073_000002|In all their present complaints against us, the Territories are scarcely mentioned.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000073_000005|We know it will not.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000074_000001|Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must, somehow, convince them that we do let them alone.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000074_000002|This, we know by experience, is no easy task.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000074_000004|In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000075_000000|These natural and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them?
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000075_000002|And this must be done thoroughly-done in acts as well as in words.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000076_000002|They will continue to accuse us of doing, until we cease saying.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000077_000003|Demanding what they do, and for the reason they do, they can voluntarily stop nowhere short of this consummation.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000001|If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000002|If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension-its enlargement.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000003|All they ask we could readily grant if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000004|Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000005|Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition, as being right; but thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them?
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000002_000001|The potentate was on deck.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000003_000007|Bêche de mer was purely fortuitous, but it was fortuitous in the deterministic way.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000004|Everything is related.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000008|I wanted two or three pairs of the large clam shells (measuring three feet across), but I did not want the meat inside.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000010|My instruction to the natives finally ripened into the following "You fella bring me fella big fella clam—kai kai he no stop, he walk about.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000011|You fella bring me fella small fella clam—kai kai he stop."
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000005_000001|Walk about is a quaint phrase.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000006_000000|Too much, by the way, does not indicate anything excessive.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000005|The white men were all seamen, and so capsize and sing out were introduced into the lingo.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000006|One would not tell a Melanesian cook to empty the dish water, but he would tell him to capsize it.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000007|To sing out is to cry loudly, to call out, or merely to speak.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000008|Sing sing is a song.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000008_000000|Savvee or catchee are practically the only words which have been introduced straight from pigeon English.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000008_000001|Of course, pickaninny has happened along, but some of its uses are delicious.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000008_000004|My word, as an exclamation with a thousand significances, could have arrived from nowhere else than Old England.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000009_000001|Harry, the schooner captain, started to write the letter, but was stopped by peter at the end of the second sentence.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000011_000001|He hereby wants twelve pounds." (At this point peter began dictation).
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000011_000003|I like him six tin biscuit, four bag rice, twenty four tin bullamacow.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000012_000000|"peter."
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000006|On his head was a top hat.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000007|He possessed a trade box full of calico, beads, porpoise teeth, and tobacco.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000011|Another confiscated the strings of beads from around his neck.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000013|Finally, one of them took his trade box, which represented three years' toil, and dropped it into a canoe alongside.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000014|"That fella belong you?" the captain asked the recruit, referring to the thief.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000016|"Then why in Jericho do you let him take the box?" the captain demanded indignantly. Quoth the recruit, "Me speak along him, say bokkis he stop, that fella he cross along me"—which was the recruit's way of saying that the other man would murder him.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000017|God's wrath, when He sent the Flood, was merely a case of being cross along mankind.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000001|It all depends on how it is uttered.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000002|It may mean: What is your business?
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000003|What do you mean by this outrageous conduct?
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000005|What is the thing you are after?
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000020_000000|"Before long time altogether no place he stop.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000020_000001|God big fella marster belong white man, him fella He make 'm altogether.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000002|He name belong him.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000004|Him fella Adam all the same sick; he no savvee kai kai; he walk about all the time.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000006|God big fella marster belong white man, He scratch 'm head belong Him.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000007|God say: 'What name?
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000008|Me no savvee what name this fella Adam he want.'
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000022_000001|He call him this fella Mary, Eve.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000022_000003|One fella tree he tambo (taboo) along you altogether.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000022_000004|This fella tree belong apple.'
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000023_000002|What name?
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000023_000006|When they finish eat 'm, my word, they fright like hell, and they go hide along scrub.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000000|"And God He come walk about along garden, and He sing out, 'Adam!' Adam he no speak.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000001|He too much fright.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000002|My word!
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000003|And God He sing out, 'Adam!' And Adam he speak, 'You call 'm me?' God He speak, 'Me call 'm you too much.' Adam he speak, 'Me sleep strong fella too much.' And God He speak, 'You been eat 'm this fella apple.' Adam he speak, 'No, me no been eat 'm.' God He speak.
train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000026_000000|"So Adam Eve these two fella go along scrub.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000001_000001|She was ketch rigged, carrying flying jib, jib, fore staysail, main sail, mizzen, and spinnaker.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000001_000002|There were six feet of head room below, and she was crown decked and flush decked.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000001_000005|A five horse power engine ran the pumps when it was in order, and on two occasions proved capable of furnishing juice for the search light.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000002_000004|Caught under full sail in tropic squalls, she buried her rail and deck many times, but stubbornly refused to turn turtle.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000002_000005|She steered easily, and she could run day and night, without steering, close by, full and by, and with the wind abeam.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000003_000002|Then came anarchy.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000003_000003|Six months overdue in the building, I sailed the shell of her to Hawaii to be finished, the engine lashed to the bottom, building materials lashed on deck.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000003_000005|As it was, partly built, she cost four times what she ought to have cost.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000004_000002|To save themselves, the newspapers could not tell the truth about her.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000004_000003|When I discharged an incompetent captain, they said I had beaten him to a pulp.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000004_000004|When one young man returned home to continue at college, it was reported that I was a regular Wolf Larsen, and that my whole crew had deserted because I had beaten it to a pulp.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000005_000005|Down in the uttermost South Sea isle this myth obtained, and I paid accordingly.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000006_000004|No case like it had ever been reported.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000006_000005|It extended from my hands to my feet so that at times I was as helpless as a child.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000000|The Australian specialists agreed that the malady was non parasitic, and that, therefore, it must be nervous.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000001|It did not mend, and it was impossible for me to continue the voyage.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000004|Still further, I reasoned that in my own climate of California I had always maintained a stable nervous equilibrium.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000005|So back I came.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000008_000003|Then I knew.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000008_000004|Later, I met Colonel Woodruff, and learned that he had been similarly afflicted.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000008_000005|Himself an Army surgeon, seventeen Army surgeons sat on his case in the Philippines, and, like the Australian specialists, confessed themselves beaten.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000000|In passing, I may mention that among the other afflictions that jointly compelled the abandonment of the voyage, was one that is variously called the healthy man's disease, European Leprosy, and Biblical Leprosy. Unlike True Leprosy, nothing is known of this mysterious malady.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000001|No doctor has ever claimed a cure for a case of it, though spontaneous cures are recorded.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000002|It comes, they know not how.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000003|It is, they know not what. It goes, they know not why.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000005|The only hope the doctors had held out to me was a spontaneous cure, and such a cure was mine.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000010_000000|A last word: the test of the voyage.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000010_000002|But there is a better witness, the one woman who made it from beginning to end.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000012_000000|FOOTNOTES
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000014_000000|Ulava, thursday march twelfth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000016_000000|Ulava, friday march thirteenth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000017_000001|Mate and skipper down with fever.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000018_000000|Ulava, saturday march fourteenth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000019_000002|Mate down with fever.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000021_000000|At daybreak found that the boy Bagua had died during the night, on dysentery.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000021_000001|He was about fourteen days sick.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000022_000000|At sea, monday march sixteenth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000023_000000|Set course for Sikiana at four p m
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000023_000001|Wind broke off.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000023_000002|Heavy squalls during the night.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000024_000000|At sea, tuesday march seventeenth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000025_000001|Mate fever.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000026_000000|At sea, wednesday march eighteenth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000027_000000|Big sea.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000027_000004|Mate fever.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000028_000000|At sea, thursday march nineteenth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000029_000000|Too thick to see anything.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000029_000001|Blowing a gale all the time.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000030_000000|At sea, friday march twentieth nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000032_000000|At sea, saturday march twenty first nineteen o eight.
train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000033_000000|Turned back from Sikiana.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000001_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000001|Then, entering the Lucchese territory, they besieged Camaiore, the inhabitants of which, although faithful to their rulers, being influenced more by immediate danger than by attachment to their distant friends, surrendered.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000006|You are well acquainted with the ancient enmity of the Florentines against you, which is not occasioned by any injuries you have done them, or by fear on their part, but by our weakness and their own ambition; for the one gives them hope of being able to oppress us, and the other incites them to attempt it.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000009|But who is so simple as to be surprised at it? for were it in our power, we should do just the same to them, or even worse.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000011|You know, that without the aid of some powerful ally we are incapable of self defense, and that none can render us this service more powerfully or faithfully than the duke.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000012|He restored our liberty; it is reasonable to expect he will defend it.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000015|We have often been deprived of every hope, except in God and the casualties which time might produce, and both have proved our friends.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000004_000004|The duke, influenced by his inveterate hostility against the Florentines, his new obligation to the Lucchese, and, above all, by his desire to prevent so great an acquisition from falling into the hands of his ancient enemies, determined either to send a strong force into Tuscany, or vigorously to assail the Venetians, so as to compel the Florentines to give up their enterprise and go to their relief.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000005_000000|It was soon known in Florence that the duke was preparing to send forces into Tuscany.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000006_000002|There still remained another difficulty, which, depending on circumstances beyond the reach of their influence, created more doubts and uneasiness than the former; the count would not consent to pass the Po, and the Venetians refused to accept him on any other condition.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000006_000004|To the Venetians, on the other hand, they averred that this private letter was sufficiently binding, and therefore they ought to be content; for if they could save the count from breaking with his father in law, it was well to do so, and that it could be of no advantage either to themselves or the Venetians to publish it without some manifest necessity.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000007_000001|The prospect of this connection had great influence with the count, for, as the duke had no sons, it gave him hope of becoming sovereign of Milan.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000008_000001|To induce the Venetians to retain the count in the command, Cosmo de' Medici went to Venice, hoping his influence would prevail with them, and discussed the subject at great length before the senate, pointing out the condition of the Italian states, the disposition of their armies, and the great preponderance possessed by the duke.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000008_000002|He concluded by saying, that if the count and the duke were to unite their forces, they (the Venetians) might return to the sea, and the Florentines would have to fight for their liberty.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000008_000005|Cosmo returned without having effected any part of his object.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000009_000000|The Florentines used the weightiest arguments they could adopt to prevent the count from quitting the service of the League, a course he was himself reluctant to follow, but his desire to conclude the marriage so embarrassed him, that any trivial accident would have been sufficient to determine his course, as indeed shortly happened.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000001|As before observed, Niccolo Fortebraccio was dead.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000002|He had married a daughter of the Count di Poppi, who, at the decease of his son in law, held the Borgo San Sepolcro, and other fortresses of that district, and while Niccolo lived, governed them in his name.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000003|Claiming them as his daughter's portion, he refused to give them up to the pope, who demanded them as property held of the church, and who, upon his refusal, sent the patriarch with forces to take possession of them.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000004|The count, finding himself unable to sustain the attack, offered them to the Florentines, who declined them; but the pope having returned to Florence, they interceded with him in the count's behalf.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000005|Difficulties arising, the patriarch attacked the Casentino, took Prato Vecchio, and Romena, and offered them also to the Florentines, who refused them likewise, unless the pope would consent they should restore them to the count, to which, after much hesitation, he acceded, on condition that the Florentines should prevail with the Count di Poppi to restore the Borgo to him.
train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000006|The pope was thus satisfied, and the Florentines having so far completed the building of their cathedral church of Santa Reparata, which had been commenced long ago, as to enable them to perform divine service in it, requested his holiness to consecrate it.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000002_000000|THE HUES OF LOVE.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000003_000000|CAPTAIN BRAMBLE did not long remain contented on board his ship.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000003_000002|He felt that he had been overreached by Captain Ratlin, and also that he had good grounds of suspecting his successful rival of being either directly or indirectly engaged in the illegal trade of the coast, and, determined, if possible, to discover his secret, he again became a frequent visitor of Don Leonardo's house, where he was sure to meet him constantly.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000004_000001|We refer to Captain Bramble and Maud the Quadroon.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000004_000002|Both now hated Captain Ratlin, and would gladly have been revenged in any way for the gratification of their feelings upon her whom he so fondly loved. With this similarity of sentiment it was not singular that they should ere long discover themselves and feelings to each other.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000004_000003|Indeed Maud, who had been a secret witness of the deed, already realized that Captain Bramble was the enemy of him whom she had once loved, and whom she now so bitterly despised.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000007_000000|"Have I anything to gain by a lie?" responded Maud, with a curling lip.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000000|"No, I presume not," he answered.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000001|"I merely ask from ordinary precaution.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000002|But what do you propose to reveal to me?
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000003|Something touching this Captain Ratlin?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000009_000001|"It is of him I would speak.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000009_000002|You are an English officer, agent of your government, and sent here to suppress this vile traffic?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000010_000000|"True."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000011_000000|"And have you suspected nothing since your vessel has been here?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000012_000000|"I suspect that this Captain Ratlin is in some way connected with the trade."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000013_000000|"He is, and but now awaits the gathering of a cargo in my father's barracoons, to sail with them to the West Indies.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000013_000001|It is not his first voyage, either."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000014_000000|"But where is his vessel?
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000014_000001|he cannot go to sea without one," said the Englishman.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000015_000000|"That is what I would reveal to you.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000015_000001|I will discover to you his ship if you swear to arrest him, seize the vessel, and if possible hang him!"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000017_000000|"I have reason to be," answered Maud, calming her feelings by an effort.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000019_000000|"Yes, he loves the white woman whom he brought to my father's house."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000020_000000|"Thus far, at all events, my good girl, we have mutual cause for hate, and we will work heartily together.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000021_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000022_000000|"Is it far from here?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000023_000000|"Less than a league."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000024_000000|"Indeed!
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000024_000001|These fellows are cunning," mused the officer.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000024_000002|"When will you guide me and a party of my people thither?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000025_000000|"To night."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000026_000001|I will be prepared.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000026_000002|Where shall we meet?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000027_000000|"At the end of the cape, where you and he met a few days since."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000028_000001|"How knew you of that?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000029_000000|"I saw it."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000030_000000|"The duel?"
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000031_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000032_000000|"It is strange.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000033_000000|"He has moved in no direction since this woman has been here that I have not followed.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000033_000001|There I hoped to see him fall; but he was strangely preserved."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000034_000001|"Take this and wear it for my sake," he added, unloosing a fine gold chain from his watch and tossing it around her neck, "and be punctual at that spot to night after the last ray of twilight."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000035_000000|"I will," answered the Quadroon, as she regarded the fine workmanship of the chain for a moment with idle and childlike pleasure, then turning from the spot, they both returned, though by different paths, from the jungle towards the dwelling of her father.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000036_000000|Captain Bramble dined with Don Leonardo that day, and his good spirits and pleasant converse were afterwards the subject of comment, exhibiting him in a fair more favorable light than he had appeared in since his arrival at the factory.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000037_000000|Captain Ratlin, on his part, was ever the same; he found that he must wait some weeks even yet before he could prosecute the purpose of his voyage, and indeed he seemed to have lost all interest in it.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000038_000002|In the presence of that fair and pure minded girl he was as a child, impressible, and ready to follow her simplest instructions.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000039_000001|I have done with this trade, never more to engage in it."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000040_000000|"That is honorable, noble in you, Captain Ratlin, so promptly to relinquish all connection with a calling, which though it affords fortune and command, can never permit you self respect."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000041_000000|"The ship will probably be despatched within these two weeks, and then I will take any birth in legitimate commerce, where I may win an honorable name and reputation."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000043_000000|The young commander took the hand respectfully that waits extended to him, but when he raised his eyes to her face and detected that tear, a thought for a moment ran through his brain, a faint shadow of hope that perhaps she loved him, or might at some future time do so, and bending over the fair hand he held he pressed it gently to his lips.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000043_000001|He was not repulsed, nor chided, but she delicately rose and turned to her mother's apartment.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000044_000000|How small a things will affect the whole tenor of a life time; trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of destiny.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000044_000001|Captain Ratlin turned from that brief interview with a feeling he had never before experienced.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000044_000002|The idea that Miss Huntington really cared for him beyond the ordinary interest, that the circumstances of their acquaintances had caused, had not thus far been entertained by him; had this been otherwise he would doubtless have differently interpreted many agreeable tokens which she had granted him, and to which his mind now went back eagerly to recall and consider under the new phase of feeling which actuated him.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000045_000000|How else could he interpret that tear but as springing from a heart that was full of kindly feeling towards him.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000000|This was the bright tide of the picture which his imagination, aided by that gaudy painter and fancy colorer, Hope, had conjured up before his mind's eye, but the reverse side of the picture was at hand, and now he paused to ask himself seriously: "Can this be?
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000001|Who am I? a poor unknown sailor, fortuneless, friendless, nameless.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000002|Who is she? a lady of refined cultivation, high family, wealth, and beauty.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000003|Is it likely that two such persons as I have considered should be joined by intimate friendship? can such barriers as these be broken down by love?
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000004|Alas, I am not so blind, so foolish, so unreasonable, as to believe it for a moment." So once more the heart of the young commander was heavy within his breast.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000047_000000|In the mean time Captain Bramble had found an opportunity that afternoon to see Maud, and to learn from her that Captain Ratlin almost always slept on board his ship, departing soon after dark for the spot through the jungle.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000047_000003|But all seemed now propitious, and he awaited the darkness with impatience, when he might disembark a couple of boat loads of sailors and marines, and with the Quadroon for guide follow the path through the jungle to where the "Sea Witch" lay.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000050_000000|"Fortunate, my dear?
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000050_000001|I don't exactly know about that.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000050_000002|Here we have been confined at this slave factory, little better than the slaves themselves, these four weeks."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000051_000000|"Well, mother, Captain Bramble says he shall sail soon, and then we can go round to Sierra Leone, and from thence take passage direct for England."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000053_000000|"He says that business and duty, which he cannot explain, detain him here, but that he will soon leave, of which he will give us due notice."
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000055_000000|This conversation will explain to the reader in part, the reason why mrs Huntington and her daughter, English subjects and in distress upon the coast, had not at once gone on board the vessel of their sovereign which lay in the harbor, and been carried upon their destination.
train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000057_000000|"Do I, mother?" she answered, vacantly.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000004_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000005_000000|THE CONFLICT.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000006_000001|He was not wanting in personal courage, and therefore, with a well selected body of sailors and marines, and one or two officers, he quietly pulled away from the ship's side, under cover of the night, and landed at the proposed spot.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000007_000000|On the whole body pressed in silence, through a tangled and narrow path, being more than once startled by the growl of some wild animal, whose haunts they disturbed.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000007_000001|It was weary struggling by this path through the wood, but it was the only way to approach the desired point by land. Maud hesitated not, but stole or glided through the tangled undergrowth, as though she had passed her whole life time in the deep, tangled ways of the jungle.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000008_000001|Hark! those voices are not from the tongues of natives; that is English which they speak.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000009_000000|"Hist! hist!" whispered the Quadroon, "we are almost upon them!"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000010_000000|"In which direction?" asked the English officer.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000012_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000013_000000|"That is the river's bed, and they lie on board their craft, moored close to us."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000014_000000|"How many do they number?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000015_000000|"I know not."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000016_000000|"It is not important," continued the Englishman, turning to his followers, and in a low voice bidding them look to their weapons, for the game was near at hand.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000017_000000|A few more steps brought the party to the skirts of the thicket, where it bordered on a small clearing, opening upon the river, and looking across which-while they were themselves screened by the jungle-they discovered the dark hull of the "Sea Witch," with her lower masts and their standing rigging.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000017_000001|The vessel was moored close to the shore, with which a portable gangway connected it.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000017_000003|Voices were heard issuing from the fore hatch, and two or three petty officers were seated about the entrance to the cabin, smoking cigars and pipes, all unconscious of any danger.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000018_000000|"There is your prey!
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000018_000001|Spring upon it, and be quick, for they will fight like mad, and he will lay a dozen of you by the heels before you take the 'Sea Witch!'" said Maud.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000021_000000|This division of his forces was the best manouvre he could possibly make, and succeeded admirably, since his own people outnumbered the slavers, and by dividing them he strengthened his own power and weakened theirs.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000021_000001|Once more upon their deck, the hand to hand battle was short, bloody and decisive, until towards its close, Captain Bramble found himself driven into the forecastle with a number of his followers, and at the same moment saw the mate of the "Sea Witch," with those of his people that were left alive hastening to embark in a quarterboat, and pull away from the vessel's side with great speed.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000022_000001|Scarcely had they gained the shade of the thick undergrowth, when a report like that of a score of cannons rang upon the night air, and high in the air soared a body of flame and wreck in terrific confusion.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000023_000001|She realized the result of her treachery, but looked in vain for the object on whom she had hoped to reck the strength of her indignation and her hate. Where was he?
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000027_000001|"Stand back, I say!
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000027_000002|I carry the lives of six of you in this weapon, and I am not one to miss my aim, as your valiant leader yonder well knows.--Now, Captain Bramble, I will surrender to you, provided you accede to my terms, otherwise you cannot take me alive!"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000028_000000|"Well, sir, what have you to offer?" said the English officer, positively quailing before the stern and manly front of the young commander.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000029_000000|"That you accept my word of honor to obey your directions as a prisoner, but that you shall not bind my arms or confine me otherwise."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000030_000000|"Have your own way," replied the Englishman, doggedly; "but give up your weapons."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000031_000000|"Do you promise me this, Captain Bramble?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000032_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000034_000000|As soon as Maud saw him, she sprang to her feet, and with all the bitterness of expression which her countenance was capable of, she scowled upon his upright figure and handsome features.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000035_000000|"Maud," he said, in a low, but reproachful tone, "is it you who have betrayed us?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000037_000000|"Maud, Maud! have I ever wronged you or your father?" asked Captain Ratlin, reproachfully.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000038_000000|"Do you not love that white faced girl you brought hither?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000039_000000|"And if I did, Maud, what wrong is that to thee?
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000039_000001|Did I promise thee love?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000040_000000|"Nay; I asked it not of you," said the angry girl.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000041_000000|"But you have done me a great wrong, Maud; one that you do not yourself understand.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000041_000001|I forgive you though, poor girl; you are hardly to blame."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000043_000000|As they came upon the open spot where stand the barracoons and Don Leonardo's dwelling, they found the entire family aroused and on the watch, the heavy explosion of the "Sea Witch's" magazine having seemed to them like an earthquake.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000043_000001|Don Leonardo, who shrewdly suspected the truth, seemed satisfied at a single glance as to the state of affairs, and walking up to the young commander, and watching for a favorable opportunity, when not overheard, he asked, significantly: "Treachery?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000044_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000045_000000|"Whom?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000046_000000|"It matters not," was the magnanimous reply; for Captain Ratlin was too generous to betray the Quadroon to her father, though she had proved thus treacherous to him.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000047_000001|They felt that his advice was good, as truly disinterested, and both agreed to abide strictly by it; but doubted not that as Captain Ratlin had not been engaged in any slave commerce, and indeed had not been in the late action at all, that he would be very soon liberated, and free to choose his own calling.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000049_000001|And yet he did so; true, he did not actually importune Miss Huntington, but his attentions and services were all rendered under that guise and aspect which rendered them to her most repulsive.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000051_000000|Maud kept by herself.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000051_000002|The English officer looked upon her with mingled feelings of admiration for her strange beauty, with contempt for her treachery, and with a thought that she might be made perhaps the subject of his pleasure by a little management by and by.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000051_000003|It was natural for a heart so vile as his to couple every circumstance and connection in some such selfish spirit with himself; it was like him.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000053_000000|"Well," she answered, lifting her handsome face from her hands, where she often hid it.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000054_000000|"You have lost one lover?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000055_000000|The girl only answered by a flashing glance of contempt.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000056_000000|"How would you like another?"
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000057_000000|"Who?" she said, sternly.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000058_000000|"Me!" answered Captain Bramble.
train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000060_000001|Taking her lonely place in the cabin, after the conversation just referred to, she again hid her face in her hands, and remained with her head bowed in her lap for a long, long while, half dreaming, half waking.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000005_000000|Chapter seven
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000006_000000|mr Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000006_000001|Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000007_000000|She had a sister married to a mr Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000009_000000|Their visits to mrs Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000011_000000|"From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000011_000001|I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000014_000000|"If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000020_000001|What is it about?
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000020_000002|What does he say?
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000020_000003|Well, Jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my love."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000021_000000|"It is from Miss Bingley," said Jane, and then read it aloud.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000024_000000|"CAROLINE BINGLEY"
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000025_000000|"With the officers!" cried Lydia.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000026_000000|"Dining out," said mrs Bennet, "that is very unlucky."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000027_000000|"Can I have the carriage?" said Jane.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000028_000000|"No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000029_000000|"That would be a good scheme," said Elizabeth, "if you were sure that they would not offer to send her home."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000034_000000|"But if you have got them to day," said Elizabeth, "my mother's purpose will be answered."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000035_000002|Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000036_000000|"This was a lucky idea of mine, indeed!" said mrs Bennet more than once, as if the credit of making it rain were all her own.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000037_000000|"MY DEAREST LIZZY,--
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000038_000000|"I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000039_000000|"Well, my dear," said mr Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness-if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of mr Bingley, and under your orders."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000040_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000043_000000|"I shall be very fit to see Jane-which is all I want."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000044_000000|"Is this a hint to me, Lizzy," said her father, "to send for the horses?"
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000045_000000|"No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000045_000002|I shall be back by dinner."
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000047_000000|"We will go as far as Meryton with you," said Catherine and Lydia. Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off together.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000050_000001|She was received, however, very politely by them; and in their brother's manners there was something better than politeness; there was good humour and kindness.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000050_000002|mr Darcy said very little, and mr Hurst nothing at all.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000050_000004|The latter was thinking only of his breakfast.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000051_000001|Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000051_000003|She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and when Miss Bingley left them together, could attempt little besides expressions of gratitude for the extraordinary kindness she was treated with.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000051_000004|Elizabeth silently attended her.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000052_000002|The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely.
train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000052_000003|Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment; nor were the other ladies often absent; the gentlemen being out, they had, in fact, nothing to do elsewhere.
train-clean-360/345/1120/345_1120_000035_000000|"I wish it may."
train-clean-360/345/1120/345_1120_000042_000000|"I think she will.
train-clean-360/345/1120/345_1120_000046_000000|"Yes, all of them, I think.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000001_000000|Chapter nineteen
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000002_000000|The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000002_000002|Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances, which he supposed a regular part of the business.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000002_000003|On finding mrs Bennet, Elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon after breakfast, he addressed the mother in these words:
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000003_000000|"May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the course of this morning?"
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000004_000000|Before Elizabeth had time for anything but a blush of surprise, mrs Bennet answered instantly, "Oh dear!--yes-certainly.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000004_000001|I am sure Lizzy will be very happy-I am sure she can have no objection.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000004_000002|Come, Kitty, I want you up stairs." And, gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out:
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000000|"Dear madam, do not go.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000001|I beg you will not go.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000002|mr Collins must excuse me.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000003|He can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000004|I am going away myself."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000007_000000|Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction-and a moment's consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again and tried to conceal, by incessant employment the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000007_000001|mrs Bennet and Kitty walked off, and as soon as they were gone, mr Collins began.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000008_000000|"Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that your modesty, so far from doing you any disservice, rather adds to your other perfections.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000008_000002|You can hardly doubt the purport of my discourse, however your natural delicacy may lead you to dissemble; my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000002|Collins, you must marry.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000005|This is my advice.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000007|You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000008|Thus much for my general intention in favour of matrimony; it remains to be told why my views were directed towards Longbourn instead of my own neighbourhood, where I can assure you there are many amiable young women.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000011|And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000013|On that head, therefore, I shall be uniformly silent; and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are married."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000000|"You are too hasty, sir," she cried.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000001|"You forget that I have made no answer.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000002|Let me do it without further loss of time.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000004|I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than to decline them."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000013_000000|"I am not now to learn," replied mr Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000013_000001|I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000000|"Upon my word, sir," cried Elizabeth, "your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000001|I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000002|I am perfectly serious in my refusal.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000004|Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000015_000001|And you may be certain when I have the honour of seeing her again, I shall speak in the very highest terms of your modesty, economy, and other amiable qualification."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000000|"Indeed, mr Collins, all praise of me will be unnecessary.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000001|You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000002|I wish you very happy and very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise. In making me the offer, you must have satisfied the delicacy of your feelings with regard to my family, and may take possession of Longbourn estate whenever it falls, without any self reproach.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000003|This matter may be considered, therefore, as finally settled." And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had mr Collins not thus addressed her:
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000018_000000|"Really, mr Collins," cried Elizabeth with some warmth, "you puzzle me exceedingly.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000000|"You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000001|My reasons for believing it are briefly these: It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000003|Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000004|As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000001|I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000002|I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000003|My feelings in every respect forbid it.
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000004|Can I speak plainer?
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000005|Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart."
train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000021_000000|"You are uniformly charming!" cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; "and I am persuaded that when sanctioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable."
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000001_000000|For the reason just stated, the little girls were sent home in the autumn of eighteen twenty five, when Charlotte was little more than nine years old.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000002_000001|She remained there, as a member of the household, for thirty years; and from the length of her faithful service, and the attachment and respect which she inspired, is deserving of mention.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000002_000003|She abounded in strong practical sense and shrewdness.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000002_000004|Her words were far from flattery; but she would spare no deeds in the cause of those whom she kindly regarded.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000003_000001|What is more, she had known the "bottom," or valley, in those primitive days when the fairies frequented the margin of the "beck" on moonlight nights, and had known folk who had seen them.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000004_000000|Miss Branwell instructed the children at regular hours in all she could teach, making her bed chamber into their schoolroom.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000004_000001|Their father was in the habit of relating to them any public news in which he felt an interest; and from the opinions of his strong and independent mind they would gather much food for thought; but I do not know whether he gave them any direct instruction.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000005_000000|Patrick Branwell, their only brother, was a boy of remarkable promise, and, in some ways, of extraordinary precocity of talent.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000006_000001|I have had a curious packet confided to me, containing an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space; tales, dramas, poems, romances, written principally by Charlotte, in a hand which it is almost impossible to decipher without the aid of a magnifying glass.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000006_000002|No description will give so good an idea of the extreme minuteness of the writing as the annexed facsimile of a page.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000008_000000|CATALOGUE OF MY BOOKS, WITH THE PERIOD OF THEIR COMPLETION, UP TO august third eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000009_000000|Two romantic tales in one volume; viz., The Twelve Adventurers and the Adventures in Ireland, april second eighteen twenty nine.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000010_000000|The Search after Happiness, a Tale, august first eighteen twenty nine.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000012_000000|The Adventures of Edward de Crack, a Tale, february second eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000014_000000|An interesting Incident in the Lives of some of the most eminent Persons of the Age, a Tale, june tenth eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000000|Tales of the Islanders, in four volumes.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000006|The strange Incident in the Duke of Wellington's Life; three.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000008|The Marquis of Douro and Lord Charles Wellesley's Tale to his little King and Queen; completed december second eighteen twenty nine.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000010|The Duke of Wellington's Adventure in the Cavern; two.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000011|The Duke of Wellington and the little King's and Queen's visit to the Horse Guards; completed may eighth eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000013|The three old Washer women of Strathfieldsaye; two.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000016_000000|Characters of Great Men of the Present Age, december seventeenth eighteen twenty nine.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000001|A True Story; two.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000005|A True Story continued; six.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000006|The Spirit of Cawdor; seven.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000007|Interior of a Pothouse, a Poem; eight.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000009|The Silver Cup, a Tale; ten.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000014|Scene in my Tun, a Tale; fifteen.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000015|An American Tale; sixteen.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000017|The Lay of the Glass Town; eighteen.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000021|Chief Genii in Council; twenty two.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000022|Harvest in Spain; twenty three.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000023|The Swiss Artists continued; twenty four.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000002|The Beauty of Nature; two.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000003|A Short Poem; three.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000004|Meditations while Journeying in a Canadian Forest; four.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000006|On Seeing the Ruins of the Tower of Babel; six.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000008|Lines written on the Bank of a River one fine Summer Evening; eight.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000000|Miscellaneous Poems, finished may thirtieth eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000002|The Churchyard; two.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000003|Description of the Duke of Wellington's Palace on the Pleasant Banks of the Lusiva; this article is a small prose tale or incident; three.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000005|Lines written on the Summit of a high Mountain of the North of England; five.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000006|Winter; six.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000007|Two Fragments, namely, first, The Vision; second, A Short untitled Poem; the Evening Walk, a Poem, june twenty third eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000021_000000|Making in the whole twenty two volumes.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000023_000000|As each volume contains from sixty to a hundred pages, and the size of the page lithographed is rather less than the average, the amount of the whole seems very great, if we remember that it was all written in about fifteen months.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000023_000001|So much for the quantity; the quality strikes me as of singular merit for a girl of thirteen or fourteen.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000025_000001|One night, about the time when the cold sleet and stormy fogs of November are succeeded by the snow storms, and high piercing night winds of confirmed winter, we were all sitting round the warm blazing kitchen fire, having just concluded a quarrel with Tabby concerning the propriety of lighting a candle, from which she came off victorious, no candle having been produced.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000025_000002|A long pause succeeded, which was at last broken by Branwell saying, in a lazy manner, 'I don't know what to do.' This was echoed by Emily and Anne.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000027_000001|'I'd rather do anything than that.'
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000028_000002|Oh! suppose we had each an island of our own.'
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000029_000001|'If we had I would choose the Island of Man.'
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000032_000001|'And mine shall be Guernsey.'
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000002|I chose the Duke of Wellington and two sons, Christopher North and Co., and mr Abernethy.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000003|Here our conversation was interrupted by the, to us, dismal sound of the clock striking seven, and we were summoned off to bed.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000004|The next day we added many others to our list of men, till we got almost all the chief men of the kingdom.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000005|After this, for a long time, nothing worth noticing occurred.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000006|In June, eighteen twenty eight, we erected a school on a fictitious island, which was to contain one thousand children.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000007|The manner of the building was as follows.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000034_000001|Tabby moves about in her quaint country dress, frugal, peremptory, prone to find fault pretty sharply, yet allowing no one else to blame her children, we may feel sure.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000034_000003|Moreover, they do not confine themselves to local heroes; their range of choice has been widened by hearing much of what is not usually considered to interest children.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000034_000004|Little Anne, aged scarcely eight, picks out the politicians of the day for her chief men.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000035_000000|There is another scrap of paper, in this all but illegible handwriting, written about this time, and which gives some idea of the sources of their opinions.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000036_000000|THE HISTORY OF THE YEAR eighteen twenty nine.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000000|"Once Papa lent my sister Maria a book.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000001|It was an old geography book; she wrote on its blank leaf, 'Papa lent me this book.' This book is a hundred and twenty years old; it is at this moment lying before me.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000004|Papa and Branwell are gone to Keighley.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000007|We take two and see three newspapers a week.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000008|We take the 'Leeds Intelligencer,' Tory, and the 'Leeds Mercury,' Whig, edited by mr Baines, and his brother, son in law, and his two sons, Edward and Talbot.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000009|We see the 'john Bull;' it is a high Tory, very violent.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000011|The Editor is mr Christopher North, an old man seventy four years of age; the first of April is his birth day; his company are Timothy Tickler, Morgan O'Doherty, Macrabin Mordecai, Mullion, Warnell, and james Hogg, a man of most extraordinary genius, a Scottish shepherd.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000015|Best plays mean secret plays; they are very nice ones.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000016|All our plays are very strange ones.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000017|Their nature I need not write on paper, for I think I shall always remember them.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000019|I will sketch out the origin of our plays more explicitly if I can.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000021|Emily and I jumped out of bed, and I snatched up one and exclaimed, 'This is the Duke of Wellington!
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000022|This shall be the Duke!' When I had said this, Emily likewise took up one and said it should be hers; when Anne came down, she said one should be hers.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000023|Mine was the prettiest of the whole, and the tallest, and the most perfect in every part.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000039_000000|"Guido Reni, Julio Romano, Titian, Raphael, Michael Angelo, Correggio, Annibal Caracci, Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo, Carlo Cignani, Vandyke, Rubens, Bartolomeo Ramerghi."
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000042_000001|Oh, those six months, from the time of the King's speech to the end!
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000042_000002|Nobody could write, think, or speak on any subject but the Catholic question, and the Duke of Wellington, and mr Peel.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000042_000003|I remember the day when the Intelligence Extraordinary came with mr Peel's speech in it, containing the terms on which the Catholics were to be let in!
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000000|It will be interesting to some of my readers to know what was the character of her purely imaginative writing at this period.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000001|While her description of any real occurrence is, as we have seen, homely, graphic, and forcible, when she gives way to her powers of creation, her fancy and her language alike run riot, sometimes to the very borders of apparent delirium.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000002|Of this wild weird writing, a single example will suffice.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000003|It is a letter to the editor of one of the "Little Magazines."
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000047_000001|Politics were evidently their grand interest; the Duke of Wellington their demi god. All that related to him belonged to the heroic age.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000047_000002|Did Charlotte want a knight errant, or a devoted lover, the Marquis of Douro, or Lord Charles Wellesley, came ready to her hand.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000048_000000|As one evidence how Wellesley haunted her imagination, I copy out a few of the titles to her papers in the various magazines.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000049_000000|"Liffey Castle," a Tale by Lord c Wellesley.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000051_000000|"An Extraordinary Dream," by Lord c Wellesley.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000052_000000|"The Green Dwarf, a Tale of the Perfect Tense," by the Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000053_000000|"Strange Events," by Lord c a f Wellesley.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000054_000000|Life in an isolated village, or a lonely country house, presents many little occurrences which sink into the mind of childhood, there to be brooded over.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000054_000003|This peculiarity I perceive very strongly in Charlotte's writings at this time.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000054_000004|Indeed, under the circumstances, it is no peculiarity.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000055_000000|To counterbalance this tendency in Charlotte, was the strong common sense natural to her, and daily called into exercise by the requirements of her practical life.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000055_000002|Thus we see that, while her imagination received vivid impressions, her excellent understanding had full power to rectify them before her fancies became realities.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000055_000003|On a scrap of paper, she has written down the following relation:--
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000056_000000|"june twenty second eighteen thirty, six o'clock p.m. "Haworth, near Bradford.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000000|"The following strange occurrence happened on the twenty second of June, eighteen thirty:--At the time Papa was very ill, confined to his bed, and so weak that he could not rise without assistance.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000001|Tabby and I were alone in the kitchen, about half past nine ante meridian.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000002|Suddenly we heard a knock at the door; Tabby rose and opened it.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000003|An old man appeared, standing without, who accosted her thus:--
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000066_000001|He desires me to say that the Bridegroom is coming, and that we must prepare to meet him; that the cords are about to be loosed, and the golden bowl broken; the pitcher broken at the fountain.'
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000067_000001|As Tabby closed the door, I asked her if she knew him.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000067_000002|Her reply was, that she had never seen him before, nor any one like him.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000067_000003|Though I am fully persuaded that he was some fanatical enthusiast, well meaning perhaps, but utterly ignorant of true piety; yet I could not forbear weeping at his words, spoken so unexpectedly at that particular period."
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000068_000000|Though the date of the following poem is a little uncertain, it may be most convenient to introduce it here.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000068_000001|It must have been written before eighteen thirty three, but how much earlier there are no means of determining.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000068_000002|I give it as a specimen of the remarkable poetical talent shown in the various diminutive writings of this time; at least, in all of them which I have been able to read.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000069_000000|THE WOUNDED STAG.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000070_000000|Passing amid the deepest shade Of the wood's sombre heart, Last night I saw a wounded deer Laid lonely and apart.
train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000071_000000|Such light as pierced the crowded boughs (Light scattered, scant and dim,) Passed through the fern that formed his couch And centred full on him.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000000|This is perhaps a fitting time to give some personal description of Miss Bronte.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000002|They were large and well shaped; their colour a reddish brown; but if the iris was closely examined, it appeared to be composed of a great variety of tints.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000003|The usual expression was of quiet, listening intelligence; but now and then, on some just occasion for vivid interest or wholesome indignation, a light would shine out, as if some spiritual lamp had been kindled, which glowed behind those expressive orbs.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000004|I never saw the like in any other human creature.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000006|Her hands and feet were the smallest I ever saw; when one of the former was placed in mine, it was like the soft touch of a bird in the middle of my palm.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000007|The delicate long fingers had a peculiar fineness of sensation, which was one reason why all her handiwork, of whatever kind-writing, sewing, knitting-was so clear in its minuteness.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000008|She was remarkably neat in her whole personal attire; but she was dainty as to the fit of her shoes and gloves.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000010_000000|I can well imagine that the grave serious composure, which, when I knew her, gave her face the dignity of an old Venetian portrait, was no acquisition of later years, but dated from that early age when she found herself in the position of an elder sister to motherless children.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000011_000005|It is just such a neighbourhood as the monks loved, and traces of the old Plantagenet times are to be met with everywhere, side by side with the manufacturing interests of the West Riding of to day.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000011_000010|Within six miles of Miss W---'s house-on the left of the road, coming from Leeds-lie the remains of Howley Hall, now the property of Lord Cardigan, but formerly belonging to a branch of the Saviles.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000012_000001|These are to be seen in every direction, picturesque, many gabled, with heavy stone carvings of coats of arms for heraldic ornament; belonging to decayed families, from whose ancestral lands field after field has been shorn away, by the urgency of rich manufacturers pressing hard upon necessity.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000001|Take Oakwell Hall, for instance.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000002|It stands in a pasture field, about a quarter of a mile from the high road.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000005|From the "Bloody Lane," overshadowed by trees, you come into the field in which Oakwell Hall is situated.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000006|It is known in the neighbourhood to be the place described as "Field Head," Shirley's residence.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000014_000000|They show a bloody footprint in a bed chamber of Oakwell Hall, and tell a story connected with it, and with the lane by which the house is approached.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000016_000000|But the Oakwell property passed out of the hands of the Batts at the beginning of the last century; collateral descendants succeeded, and left this picturesque trace of their having been.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000016_000004|Lanes branch off for three or four miles to heaths and commons on the higher ground, which formed pleasant walks on holidays, and then comes the white gate into the field path leading to Roe Head itself.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000019_000000|The kind motherly nature of Miss W---, and the small number of the girls, made the establishment more like a private family than a school. Moreover, she was a native of the district immediately surrounding Roe Head, as were the majority of her pupils.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000020_000001|The time referred to is her first appearance at Roe Head, on january nineteenth eighteen thirty one.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000000|"I first saw her coming out of a covered cart, in very old-fashioned clothes, and looking very cold and miserable.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000001|She was coming to school at Miss W---'s.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000002|When she appeared in the schoolroom, her dress was changed, but just as old.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000003|She looked a little old woman, so short sighted that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000004|She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000022_000002|"E." was younger than she, and her tender heart was touched by the apparently desolate condition in which she found the oddly dressed, odd looking little girl that winter morning, as "sick for home she stood in tears," in a new strange place, among new strange people.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000023_000000|To quote again from "Mary's" letter:--
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000024_000000|"We thought her very ignorant, for she had never learnt grammar at all, and very little geography."
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000000|This account of her partial ignorance is confirmed by her other school fellows.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000001|But Miss W--- was a lady of remarkable intelligence and of delicate tender sympathy.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000002|She gave a proof of this in her first treatment of Charlotte.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000003|The little girl was well read, but not well grounded.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000000|"She would confound us by knowing things that were out of our range altogether.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000002|She had a habit of writing in italics (printing characters), and said she had learnt it by writing in their magazine.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000004|No one wrote in it, and no one read it, but herself, her brother, and two sisters.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000005|She promised to show me some of these magazines, but retracted it afterwards, and would never be persuaded to do so.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000006|In our play hours she sate, or stood still, with a book, if possible.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000008|She said she had never played, and could not play.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000009|We made her try, but soon found that she could not see the ball, so we put her out. She took all our proceedings with pliable indifference, and always seemed to need a previous resolution to say 'No' to anything.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000011|We understood but little of it.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000012|She said that at Cowan Bridge she used to stand in the burn, on a stone, to watch the water flow by.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000014|She always showed physical feebleness in everything.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000015|She ate no animal food at school.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000016|It was about this time I told her she was very ugly.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000019|Whenever an opportunity offered of examining a picture or cut of any kind, she went over it piecemeal, with her eyes close to the paper, looking so long that we used to ask her 'what she saw in it.' She could always see plenty, and explained it very well.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000020|She made poetry and drawing at least exceedingly interesting to me; and then I got the habit, which I have yet, of referring mentally to her opinion on all matters of that kind, along with many more, resolving to describe such and such things to her, until I start at the recollection that I never shall."
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000028_000000|"We used to be furious politicians, as one could hardly help being in eighteen thirty two.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000028_000002|She worshipped the Duke of Wellington, but said that Sir Robert Peel was not to be trusted; he did not act from principle like the rest, but from expediency.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000031_000000|"She used to speak of her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who died at Cowan Bridge.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000031_000001|I used to believe them to have been wonders of talent and kindness.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000031_000003|I was eager for her to go on, and when she said there was no more, I said, 'but go on!
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000000|"This habit of 'making out' interests for themselves that most children get who have none in actual life, was very strong in her.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000002|I told her sometimes they were like growing potatoes in a cellar.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000003|She said, sadly, 'Yes!
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000004|I know we are!'
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000000|"This is the epitome of her life.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000002|We had a rage for practicality, and laughed all poetry to scorn.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000004|Charlotte, at school, had no plan of life beyond what circumstances made for her.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000005|She knew that she must provide for herself, and chose her trade; at least chose to begin it once.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000006|Her idea of self improvement ruled her even at school.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000007|It was to cultivate her tastes.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000000|What I have heard of her school days from other sources, confirms the accuracy of the details in this remarkable letter.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000001|She was an indefatigable student: constantly reading and learning; with a strong conviction of the necessity and value of education, very unusual in a girl of fifteen.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000002|She never lost a moment of time, and seemed almost to grudge the necessary leisure for relaxation and play hours, which might be partly accounted for by the awkwardness in all games occasioned by her shortness of sight.
train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000003|Yet, in spite of these unsociable habits, she was a great favourite with her school fellows.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000002_000000|Incredible Treason
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000004_000000|A careful survey of the territory showed that it was only the northern sections and slopes that had been "beamed" by the first Han ship.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000005_000001|The forest screen above it, however, had been annihilated, and it was determined to abandon it, after removing all usable machinery and evidences of the processes that might be of interest to the Han scientists, should they return to the valley in the future.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000006_000000|The ammunition plant, and the rocket ship plant, which had just been about to start operation at the time of the raid, were intact, as were the other important plants.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000007_000000|Hart brought the Camboss up from the Susquanna Works, and laid out new camp locations, scattering them farther to the south, and avoiding ground which had been seared by the Han beams and the immediate locations of the Han wrecks.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000009_000001|On our return, we had a camp of our own, of course.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000009_000003|And as might be expected, we had a great deal of banter over which one of us was Camp Boss.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000001|The Wyomings had a high morale, and had prospered under the rule of Big Boss Hart for many years.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000002|But many of the gangs, I found, were badly organized, lacked strong hands in authority, and were rife with intrigue.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000003|On the whole, I thought I would be wise to stay with a group which had already proved its friendliness, and in which I seemed to have prospects of advancement.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000004|Under these modern social and economic conditions, the kind of individual freedom to which I had been accustomed in the twentieth Century was impossible.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000005|I would have been as much of a nonentity in every phase of human relationship by attempting to avoid alliances, as any man of the twentieth Century would have been politically, who aligned himself with no political party.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000011_000000|This entire modern life, it appeared to me, judging from my ancient viewpoint, was organized along what I called "political" lines.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000011_000002|He was just as much of an autocrat, and just as much dependent upon the general popularity of his actions for the ability to maintain his autocracy.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000012_000000|The sub boss who could not command the loyalty of his followers was as quickly deposed, either by them or by his superiors, as the ancient ward leader of the twentieth Century who lost control of his votes.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000013_000001|I tremble to think what would have happened, had the attempt been made to handle the a e f this way during the First World War, instead of by that rigid military discipline and complete assumption of the individual as a mere standardized cog in the machine.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000014_000000|But owing to the centuries of desperate suffering the people had endured at the hands of the Hans, there developed a spirit of self sacrifice and consideration for the common good that made the scheme applicable and efficient in all forms of human co-operation.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000015_000000|I have a little heresy about all this, however.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000015_000001|My associates regard the thought with as much horror as many worthy people of the twentieth Century felt in regard to any heretical suggestion that the original outline of government as laid down in the First Constitution did not apply as well to twentieth Century conditions as to those of the early nineteenth.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000016_000001|I have seen signs of the reawakening of greed, of selfishness.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000016_000002|The eternal cycle seems to be at work.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000017_000000|All this, however, is wandering afar from my story, which concerns our early battles against the Hans, and not our more modern problems of self control.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000018_000000|Our victory over the seven Han ships had set the country ablaze.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000018_000002|There was feverish activity in the ammunition plants, and the hunting of stray Han ships became an enthusiastic sport.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000018_000003|The results were disastrous to our hereditary enemies.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000001|A dozen Sacramentos had caught the hazy outlines of its rep rays approaching them, head on, in the twilight, like ghostly pillars reaching into the sky.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000003|They got one rep ray. The other was not strong enough to hold it up.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000004|It floated to earth, nose down, and since it was unarmed and unarmored, they had no difficulty in shooting it to pieces and massacring its crew and passengers.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000006|But then I did not have centuries of bitter persecution in my blood.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000020_000001|The Sand snipers, practically invisible in their sand colored clothing, and half buried along the beaches, lay in wait for days, risking the play of dis beams along the route, and finally registering four hits within a week.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000020_000002|The Hans discontinued their service along this route, and as evidence that they were badly shaken by our success, sent no raiders down the Beaches.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000000|"Tony," he said, "There are two things I want to talk to you about.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000001|One of them will become public property in a few days, I think.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000002|We aren't going to get any more Han ships by shooting up their repellor rays unless we use much larger rockets.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000003|They are wise to us now.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000004|They're putting armor of great thickness in the hulls of their ships below the rep ray machines.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000005|Near Bah flo this morning a party of Eries shot one without success.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000006|The explosions staggered her, but did not penetrate.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000008|Our reports indicate that the Eries' rockets bounced off harmlessly.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000009|Most of the party was wiped out as the dis rays went into action on them.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000023_000002|The first move is to develop sectional organization by Zones.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000000|"We're in for it now.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000001|The Hans are sure to launch reprisal expeditions. If we're to save the race we must keep them away from our camps and plants.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000002|I'm thinking of developing a permanent field force, along the lines of the regular armies of the twentieth Century you told me about.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000004|I'm going to need your help in this.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000025_000002|You know, a hundred and fifteen or twenty years ago there were certain of these people's ancestors who actually degraded themselves by mating with the Hans, sometimes even serving them as slaves, in the days before they brought all their service machinery to perfection.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000026_000001|But I hardly suspect the Pineys. There is little intelligence among them.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000027_000000|"Just what evidence is there that anybody has been clearing information to the Hans?" I asked.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000000|"Well," he replied, "first of all there was that raid upon us.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000001|That first Han ship knew the location of our plants exactly.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000003|Then, the Hans quite obviously have learned that we are picking up their electrophone waves, for they've gone back to their old, but extremely accurate, system of directional control.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000004|But we've been getting them for the past week by installing automatic re broadcast units along the scar paths.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000005|This is what the Americans called those strips of country directly under the regular ship routes of the Hans, who as a matter of precaution frequently blasted them with their dis beams to prevent the growth of foliage which might give shelter to the Americans.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000006|But they've been beaming those paths so hard, it looks as though they even had information of this strategy.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000007|And in addition, they've been using code.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000008|Finally, we've picked up three of their messages in which they discuss, with some nervousness, the existence of our 'mysterious' ultrophone."
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000029_000000|"But they still have no knowledge of the nature and control of ultronic activity?" I asked.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000031_000000|"Then it's quite clear," I ventured, "that whoever is 'clearing' us to them is doing it piecemeal.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000031_000001|It sounds like a bit of occasional barter, rather than an out and out alliance.
train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000031_000002|They're holding back as much information as possible for future bartering, perhaps."
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000002_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000003_000000|Hypnotic Torture
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000000|Some twenty minutes later the ship arrived.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000001|It settled down slowly into the ravine on its repeller rays until it was but a few feet above the tree tops.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000002|There it was stopped, and floated steadily, while a little cage was let down on a wire.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000003|Into this I was hustled and locked, whereupon the cage rose swiftly again to a hole in the bottom of the hull, into which it fitted snugly, and I stepped into the interior of a craft not unlike the one with which I had had my fateful encounter, the cage being unlocked.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000006_000000|The ship rose to a great height, and headed westward at such speed that the hum of the air past its smooth plates rose to a shrill, almost inaudible moan.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000007_000000|Nor was there any sheen of shimmering disintegrator rays surrounding it, to interfere with the sparkling sight.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000007_000002|And this, I was the more ready to believe after my own recent experience.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000008_000000|I spent two months as a prisoner in Lo Tan.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000008_000003|Most elaborately staged attempts at seduction were made upon me with drugs, with women. Hypnotism was resorted to.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000008_000004|Viewplates were faked to picture to me the complete rout of American forces all over the continent.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000009_000000|Surrender of what?
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000010_000002|Perhaps had my love for her been less great, I would have succumbed.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000010_000003|But all the while I knew subconsciously that this was not Wilma.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000010_000004|Product of the utmost of nobility in this modern virile, rugged American race, she would have died under even worse torture than these vicious Han scientists knew how to inflict, before she would have pleaded with me this way to betray my race and her honor.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000011_000000|But these were things that not even the most skilled of the Han hypnotists and psychoanalysts could drag from me.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000011_000002|Had they done so, it might have made a difference.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000011_000004|But even in the Twentieth Century we had learned that hypnotism cannot make a person violate his fundamental concepts of morality against his will, and steadfastly I steeled my will against them.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000012_000000|I have since thought that I was greatly aided by my newness to this age. I have never, as a matter of fact, become entirely attuned to it.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000012_000002|Now that my Wilma has been at rest these many years, I wish that I might go back to the year nineteen twenty seven, and take up my old life where I left it off, in the abandoned mine near Scranton.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000013_000000|And at the period of which I speak, I was less attuned than now to the modern world.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000013_000001|Real as my life was, and my love for my wife, there was much about it all that was like a dream, and in the midst of my tortures by the Hans, this complex-this habit of many months-helped me to tell myself that this, too, was all a dream, that I must not succumb, for I would wake up in a moment.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000014_000000|And so they failed.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000016_000000|Among these was San Lan himself, the ruler.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000016_000002|Instead of having me executed, he continued to shower luxuries and attentions on me, and frequently commanded my attendance upon him.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000017_000001|This creature, his most prized possession, San Lan with the utmost moral callousness ordered to seduce me, urging her to apply without stint and to its fullest extent, her knowledge of evil arts.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000018_000000|Had San Lan only known it, he might have had a better chance of breaking down my resistance through another bit of femininity in his household, the little nine year old Princess Lu Yan, his daughter.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000019_000001|But he did not realize this, and could not; for even the most natural and fundamental affection of the human race, that of parents for their offspring, had been so degraded and suppressed in this vicious Han civilization as to be unrecognizable.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000019_000002|Naturally San Lan could not understand the nature of my pity for this poor child, nor the fact that it might have proved a weak spot in my armor.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000019_000003|But had he done so, I truly believe he would have been ready to inflict degradation, torture and even death upon her, to make me surrender the information he wanted.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000020_000001|There were times when he seemed to sense vaguely, gropingly, wonderingly, that he might have a soul.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000021_000001|Its conception embraced nothing but electrons, protons and molecules, and still was struggling desperately for some shred of evidence that thoughts, will power and consciousness of self were nothing but chemical reactions.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000021_000003|They had succeeded in producing, by synthesis, what appeared to be living tissues, and even animals of moderately complex structure and rudimentary brains, but they could not give these creatures the full complement of life's characteristics, nor raise the brains to more than mechanical control of muscular tissues.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000000|It was my own opinion that they never could succeed in doing so.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000001|This opinion impressed San Lan greatly.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000002|I had expected him to snort his disgust, as the extreme school of evolutionists would have done in the Twentieth Century.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000003|But the idea was as new to him and the scientists of his court as Darwinism was to the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000004|So it was received with much respect.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000005|Painfully and with enforced mental readjustments, they began a philosophical search for excuses and justifications for the idea.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000023_000002|But the prestige I had gained among them, and the novelty of my expressed opinion carried much weight with them.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000024_000000|Yet, did not even brilliant scientists frequently exhibit the same lack of logic back in the Twentieth Century?
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000024_000001|Did not the historians, the philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome show themselves to be the same shrewd observers as those of succeeding centuries, the same masters of the logical and slaves of the illogical?
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000025_000000|After all, I reflected, man makes little progress within himself. Through succeeding generations he piles up those resources which he possesses outside of himself, the tools of his hands, and the warehouses of knowledge for his brain, whether they be parchment manuscripts, printed book, or electronorecordographs.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000025_000001|For the rest he is born today, as in ancient Greece, with a blank brain, and struggles through to his grave, with a more or less beclouded understanding, and with distinct limitations to what we used to call his "think tank."
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000026_000000|This particular reflection of mine proved unpopular with them, for it stabbed their vanity, and neither my prestige nor the novelty of the idea was sufficient salve.
train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000026_000002|Yet through these same centuries they had been busily engaged in the extermination of "weaklings," whom, by their very persecutions, they had turned into "super men," now rising in mighty wrath to destroy them; and in reducing themselves to the depths of softening vice and flabby moral fiber.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000003_000000|I am an old man.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000003_000001|I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000000|The peasantry, who inhabit the wilderness beyond, say that I am mad. That is because I will have nothing to do with them.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000001|I live here alone with my old sister, who is also my housekeeper.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000002|We keep no servants-I hate them.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000003|I have one friend, a dog; yes, I would sooner have old Pepper than the rest of Creation together.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000004|He, at least, understands me-and has sense enough to leave me alone when I am in my dark moods.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000005_000000|I have decided to start a kind of diary; it may enable me to record some of the thoughts and feelings that I cannot express to anyone; but, beyond this, I am anxious to make some record of the strange things that I have heard and seen, during many years of loneliness, in this weird old building.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000006_000000|For a couple of centuries, this house has had a reputation, a bad one, and, until I bought it, for more than eighty years no one had lived here; consequently, I got the old place at a ridiculously low figure.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000007_000000|I am not superstitious; but I have ceased to deny that things happen in this old house-things that I cannot explain; and, therefore, I must needs ease my mind, by writing down an account of them, to the best of my ability; though, should this, my diary, ever be read when I am gone, the readers will but shake their heads, and be the more convinced that I was mad.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000008_000001|Little curved towers and pinnacles, with outlines suggestive of leaping flames, predominate; while the body of the building is in the form of a circle.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000009_000000|I have heard that there is an old story, told amongst the country people, to the effect that the devil built the place.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000009_000001|However, that is as may be.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000009_000002|True or not, I neither know nor care, save as it may have helped to cheapen it, ere I came.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000000|I must have been here some ten years before I saw sufficient to warrant any belief in the stories, current in the neighborhood, about this house.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000001|It is true that I had, on at least a dozen occasions, seen, vaguely, things that puzzled me, and, perhaps, had felt more than I had seen.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000002|Then, as the years passed, bringing age upon me, I became often aware of something unseen, yet unmistakably present, in the empty rooms and corridors.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000003|Still, it was as I have said many years before I saw any real manifestations of the so-called supernatural.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000000|It was not Halloween.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000001|If I were telling a story for amusement's sake, I should probably place it on that night of nights; but this is a true record of my own experiences, and I would not put pen to paper to amuse anyone.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000002|no
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000003|It was after midnight on the morning of the twenty first day of January.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000004|I was sitting reading, as is often my custom, in my study. Pepper lay, sleeping, near my chair.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000012_000000|Without warning, the flames of the two candles went low, and then shone with a ghastly green effulgence.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000013_000000|Down on the floor, I heard a faint, frightened whimper, and something pressed itself in between my two feet.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000013_000002|Pepper, usually as brave as a lion!
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000014_000001|I had been considerably startled when the lights burnt first green and then red; but had been momentarily under the impression that the change was due to some influx of noxious gas into the room.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000014_000002|Now, however, I saw that it was not so; for the candles burned with a steady flame, and showed no signs of going out, as would have been the case had the change been due to fumes in the atmosphere.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000000|I did not move.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000001|I felt distinctly frightened; but could think of nothing better to do than wait.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000002|For perhaps a minute, I kept my glance about the room, nervously.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000004|Still, I sat watching; while a sort of dreamy indifference seemed to steal over me; banishing altogether the fear that had begun to grip me.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000016_000001|Steadily it grew, filling the room with gleams of quivering green light; then they sank quickly, and changed-even as the candle flames had done-into a deep, somber crimson that strengthened, and lit up the room with a flood of awful glory.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000017_000000|The light came from the end wall, and grew ever brighter until its intolerable glare caused my eyes acute pain, and involuntarily I closed them.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000017_000001|It may have been a few seconds before I was able to open them.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000017_000002|The first thing I noticed was that the light had decreased, greatly; so that it no longer tried my eyes.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000000|Gradually, as I became more accustomed to the idea, I realized that I was looking out on to a vast plain, lit with the same gloomy twilight that pervaded the room.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000001|The immensity of this plain scarcely can be conceived.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000002|In no part could I perceive its confines.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000003|It seemed to broaden and spread out, so that the eye failed to perceive any limitations.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000019_000000|Suddenly, I became conscious that I was no longer in the chair. Instead, I seemed to be hovering above it, and looking down at a dim something, huddled and silent.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000019_000001|In a little while, a cold blast struck me, and I was outside in the night, floating, like a bubble, up through the darkness.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000019_000002|As I moved, an icy coldness seemed to enfold me, so that I shivered.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000000|After a time, I looked to right and left, and saw the intolerable blackness of the night, pierced by remote gleams of fire.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000001|Onward, outward, I drove.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000002|Once, I glanced behind, and saw the earth, a small crescent of blue light, receding away to my left.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000003|Further off, the sun, a splash of white flame, burned vividly against the dark.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000021_000000|An indefinite period passed.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000021_000001|Then, for the last time, I saw the earth-an enduring globule of radiant blue, swimming in an eternity of ether.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000021_000002|And there I, a fragile flake of soul dust, flickered silently across the void, from the distant blue, into the expanse of the unknown.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000000|A great while seemed to pass over me, and now I could nowhere see anything.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000001|I had passed beyond the fixed stars and plunged into the huge blackness that waits beyond.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000002|All this time I had experienced little, save a sense of lightness and cold discomfort.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000003|Now however the atrocious darkness seemed to creep into my soul, and I became filled with fear and despair.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000004|What was going to become of me?
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000005|Where was I going?
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000006|Even as the thoughts were formed, there grew against the impalpable blackness that wrapped me a faint tinge of blood.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000023_000000|Slowly, the distant redness became plainer and larger; until, as I drew nearer, it spread out into a great, somber glare-dull and tremendous. Still, I fled onward, and, presently, I had come so close, that it seemed to stretch beneath me, like a great ocean of somber red.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000023_000001|I could see little, save that it appeared to spread out interminably in all directions.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000024_000000|In a further space, I found that I was descending upon it; and, soon, I sank into a great sea of sullen, red hued clouds.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000024_000001|Slowly, I emerged from these, and there, below me, I saw the stupendous plain that I had seen from my room in this house that stands upon the borders of the Silences.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000025_000000|Presently, I landed, and stood, surrounded by a great waste of loneliness.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000025_000001|The place was lit with a gloomy twilight that gave an impression of indescribable desolation.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000026_000000|Afar to my right, within the sky, there burnt a gigantic ring of dull red fire, from the outer edge of which were projected huge, writhing flames, darted and jagged.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000026_000001|The interior of this ring was black, black as the gloom of the outer night.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000026_000002|I comprehended, at once, that it was from this extraordinary sun that the place derived its doleful light.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000027_000000|From that strange source of light, I glanced down again to my surroundings.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000027_000001|Everywhere I looked, I saw nothing but the same flat weariness of interminable plain.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000027_000002|Nowhere could I descry any signs of life; not even the ruins of some ancient habitation.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000028_000000|Gradually, I found that I was being borne forward, floating across the flat waste.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000028_000001|For what seemed an eternity, I moved onward.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000028_000002|I was unaware of any great sense of impatience; though some curiosity and a vast wonder were with me continually.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000029_000000|Presently, in a half conscious manner, I noticed that there was a faint mistiness, ruddy in hue, lying over its surface.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000029_000001|Still, when I looked more intently, I was unable to say that it was really mist; for it appeared to blend with the plain, giving it a peculiar unrealness, and conveying to the senses the idea of unsubstantiality.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000030_000000|Gradually, I began to weary with the sameness of the thing.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000030_000001|Yet, it was a great time before I perceived any signs of the place, toward which I was being conveyed.
train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000031_000000|"At first, I saw it, far ahead, like a long hillock on the surface of the Plain.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000001_000000|Further reading of the log produced no new evidence.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000001_000003|He never lived to change his mind.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000004_000000|"Kerk must see this book," Jason said.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000007_000001|It took Jason a moment to realize that it was a mechanical signal, not a human voice.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000008_000000|"What is it?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000009_000000|Kerk burst through the door and headed for the street entrance.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000009_000002|Meta looked confused, leaning towards the door, then looking back at Jason.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000010_000000|"What does it mean?
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000010_000001|Can't you tell me?" He shook her arm.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000012_000002|I'll be all right."
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000017_000002|He used it for general commands.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000018_000000|"All perimeter stations send twenty five per cent of your complement to Area Twelve."
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000019_000000|The small images reappeared and the babble increased, red lights flickering from face to face.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000020_000000|"... Abandon the first floor, acid bombs can't reach."
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000023_000002|Orders?"
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000028_000003|He lay there, his chest heaving.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000029_000006|Other than that he couldn't determine the nature of the battle.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000030_000005|He couldn't have been more wrong.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000033_000002|When he smiled it was a grimace of pain, empty of humor.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000033_000004|I can still shoot.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000033_000005|Two half men-maybe we equal one whole." Jason was laboring too hard to even notice the insult.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000035_000001|"They found the napalm.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000037_000000|"Back quick.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000037_000001|They don't like heat," he said.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000038_000000|This was putting it very mildly.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000038_000001|The napalm caught, tongues of flame and roiling, greasy smoke climbed up to the sky.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000038_000005|It was immense, at least two meters thick and with no indication of its length. The flames didn't stop it at all, just annoyed it.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000039_000003|Not that it seemed to have any effect.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000042_000002|But what area?
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000044_000000|It was too late.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000044_000002|Safety lay ahead.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000044_000003|Only in front of it rose an arch of dirt encrusted gray.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000045_000000|There are seconds of time that seem to last an eternity.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000045_000001|A moment of subjective time that is grabbed and stretched to an infinite distance. This was one of those moments.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000045_000002|Jason stood, frozen.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000046_000002|Shaped like a plant, yet with the motions of an animal. And cracking, splitting.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000047_000000|Seams and openings appeared.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000048_000001|He should have died.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000048_000003|Jason knew nothing.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000051_000000|It was too late.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000052_000000|Jason crawled.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000052_000006|He offered no protest and could not have even if Kerk had killed him.
train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000053_000001|He did not lose consciousness as the truck bounced away, yet he could not move.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000002_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000009_000001|Something caught in his throat and he coughed to clear it, spitting out blood.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000009_000005|He ended up shouting and shaking his fist at nothing in particular, but it helped.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000009_000006|The anger washed away the fear and brought him back to reality.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000010_000000|Sitting on the ground felt good now.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000011_000001|Well battered, but still alive.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000014_000000|When nightfall came it was still raining.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000018_000003|The way he felt.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000019_000000|Pneumonia.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000019_000001|He had all the symptoms.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000020_000002|Well, he had the remedy for this one, too.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000022_000000|A choking growl echoed behind him.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000024_000003|Did they hunt in packs, too?
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000025_000000|As soon as the thought hit him he looked up-not a moment too soon.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000027_000002|Yet the fact didn't bother him greatly.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000027_000003|Nothing really mattered.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000028_000004|One of them exposed himself and Jason pulled the trigger.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000029_000000|There was only a slight click.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000029_000002|The gun was empty, as was the spare clip pouch at his belt.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000000|This, then, was the end.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000002|Though they shouldn't talk.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000003|It would kill them all in the end, too. Pyrrans never died in bed.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000004|Old Pyrrans never died, they just got et.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000032_000000|It leaped.
train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000034_000000|Grubbers.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000003_000000|Ahead, on the far side of a burnt corridor, stood the perimeter.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000003_000003|Generations of attackers had bruised, broken, and undermined it. Repairs had been quickly made, patches thrust roughly into place and fixed there.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000003_000005|This overlapped a length of pitted metal, large plates riveted together.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000006_000001|There were only thirty men in the party.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000006_000002|What they had to do could only be done with a fast, light force.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000007_000003|That isn't the danger.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000008_000000|"He's right," Naxa snorted.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000008_000002|Death, death up by that wall.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000008_000003|Do like 'e says."
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000010_000001|"Biggest thing I 'ver heard.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000011_000000|Jason was aware of part of it.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000011_000002|It would work, he knew, if they could only keep the attack confined to a small area.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000012_000000|"They hit!" Naxa said suddenly.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000013_000000|The men were on their feet now, staring in the direction of the city. Jason had felt the twist as the attack had been driven home, and knew that this was it.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000015_000005|The other three were bitten or scratched and treatment came too late.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000016_000000|"Dam' beasts hurt m'head," Naxa muttered.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000017_000001|"We wait for the signal."
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000018_000003|It was turned on, but only a hiss of atmospheric static came from the speaker.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000021_000000|The sound from the speaker changed.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000024_000000|"Wait," Jason said, taking him by the arm.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000024_000003|"We have four minutes to the next one-we hit the long period!"
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000026_000002|If he was wrong, they were all dead.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000027_000000|The first men had slapped their wads of sticky congealed sap against the wall.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000028_000001|Others grabbed on and bent the jagged pieces aside.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000028_000002|The hole was filled with smoke and nothing was visible through it.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000029_000000|He was inside the city.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000031_000002|But they were Pyrrans, too.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000031_000005|The ship stood ahead.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000032_000001|A hail of bolts from the bows crashed into it with no effect.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000033_000000|"Keep going!" Jason shouted.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000034_000000|This time three men didn't make it.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000034_000006|Their time was running out.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000035_000002|It broke off in his hand but the hatch remained closed.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000036_000000|The big guns had stopped now and they could hear again.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000037_000001|"It would blow this thing open."
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000040_000000|He returned quickly, darting into the open to throw the gun to them. Before he could dive back to safety the shells caught him.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000041_000000|Jason grabbed up the gun as it skidded almost to his feet.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000041_000003|They were all through the air lock before the first truck appeared.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000042_000001|The single city Pyrran looked like a pin cushion.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000043_000001|He found the communications screen and snapped it on.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000000|"Yes, it's me," Jason answered.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000002|"Listen to me, Kerk-and don't doubt anything I say.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000004|Do you hear that sound?"
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000006|"That's the main fuel pump.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000007|If I let it run-which I won't right now-it could quickly fill the drive chamber with raw fuel.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000008|Pour in so much that it would run out of the stern tubes.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000046_000000|There was only silence in the cabin now, the men who had won the ship turned to face him.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000047_000000|"What do you want, Jason-what are you trying to do?
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000047_000001|Why did you lead those animals in here ..." His voice cracked and broke as anger choked him and spilled over.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000000|"Watch your tongue, Kerk," Jason said with soft menace.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000002|If you want them to share it with you, you had better learn to talk nicely. Now come over here at once-and bring Brucco and Meta." Jason looked at the older man's florid and swollen face and felt a measure of sympathy. "Don't look so unhappy, it's not the end of the world.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000003|In fact, it might be the beginning of one.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000004|And another thing, leave this channel open when you go.
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000006|Make sure it's taped too, for replay."
train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000049_000000|Kerk started to say something, but changed his mind before he did.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000002_000002|And say!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000002_000003|Girlie!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000002_000006|We'll just take out the leaves.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000004_000000|"Thank you," she said, wearily, "but that wouldn't do me any good."
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000005_000000|"Why not?" asked the man sharply.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000005_000001|"Your boss would never know it got out through you."
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000007_000000|"It wouldn't be your fault.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000007_000001|You couldn't have helped it!"
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000008_000000|"Oh, yes, I could, and I ought.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000002|Well, anyhow, buck up, and let's have some tea.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000006|See?
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000007|Hennie!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000010|Bring in them things from the cupboard and let's get to work."
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000012_000000|The man frowned when she declined to come to supper, but a moment later stumbled awkwardly across the room with a slopping cup of coffee and set it down beside her.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000013_000000|"Buck up, girlie!" he growled.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000013_000001|"Drink that and you'll feel better."
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000014_000002|But she tried to look a bit brighter.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000017_000000|"Shut up!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000020_000000|"Beat it!" he cried in a hoarse whisper.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000020_000003|I bet they heard her singin'!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000021_000005|The man swore at her, grasped her arm till he hurt her and she cried out.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000022_000000|"You shut up or I'll shoot you!" he said with an oath.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000024_000001|It was then she heard Graham's voice calling:
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000025_000000|"Shirley!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000025_000002|I'm coming!"
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000027_000002|Joe stood between two policemen with a rope bound about his body spirally, and the boy Hennie, also bound, beside his fallen bicycle, turned his ferret eyes from side to side as if he hoped even yet to escape.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000028_000000|"Oh, my dear Miss Hollister!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000033_000000|"Yes, mr Barnard, they got my note book, but not the notes!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000033_000002|Won't you please get them out, for I'm afraid I can't hold them on any longer, my feet ache so!"
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000035_000001|No one of that group but Shirley could fully appreciate the ludicrous picture he made.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000039_000001|You will see, we shall not forget it!" he puffed as he rose with beads of perspiration on his brow.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000040_000001|"She's rounded up the whole gang for us, and that's more than anybody else has been able to do yet!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000042_000000|"I say, pard!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000042_000001|I guess you're the winner!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000042_000003|You certainly had your nerve!"
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000044_000001|"You were-as fine as you could be to me under the circumstances, I suppose!
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000045_000000|The man met her gaze for an instant, a flippant reply upon his lips, but checked it and dropping his eyes, was silent.
train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000046_000000|Then, quietly, Graham led her away to his car with Barnard and the detectives following.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000003_000000|Douglas Dale could not attend that inquest.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000003_000001|He was stricken down with fever; the fate of the woman he had so loved, so unjustly suspected, nearly cost him his life, and when he recovered sufficiently, he left England, not to return for three years.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000003_000002|Before his departure he saw Lady Eversleigh and her mother, and established with them a bond of friendship as close as that of their kin.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000004_000000|Victor Carrington's mother retired into a convent, and was probably as happy as she had ever been.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000004_000001|She had loved him but little, whose only virtue was that he had loved her much.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000005_000001|He was almost jealous of Rosamond Jernam, when he found how great a hold she had obtained on the heart of her charge; but his jealousy was mingled with gratitude, and he joined Lady Eversleigh in testifying his friendship for the tender hearted woman who had protected and cherished the heiress of Raynham in the hour of her desolation.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000008_000000|"That woman's wealth must be boundless," exclaimed aristocratic dowagers, for whom the grip of poverty's bony fingers had been tight and cruel.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000008_000001|"Her husband left her magnificent estates, and an enormous amount of funded property; and now a mother drops down from the skies for her benefit-a mother who is reported to be almost as rich as herself."
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000009_000000|Amongst those who envied Lady Eversleigh's good fortune, there was none whose envy was so bitter as that of her husband's disappointed nephew, Sir Reginald.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000010_000001|Instead of this, he heard of her exaltation, and he hated her with an intense hatred which was almost childish in its purposeless fury.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000011_000002|But now he found himself quite alone; and there was no voice to promise future triumph.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000011_000003|He knew that the game of life had been played to the last card, and that it was lost.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000015_000000|Here he could afford to buy brandy, for at that date brandy was much cheaper in France than it is now.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000016_000002|Form and features, complexion and expression, were alike degraded.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000018_000000|Had he any consciousness of his degradation?
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000019_000000|Yes; that was the undying vulture which preyed upon his entrails-the consuming fire that was never quenched.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000020_000000|During the brief interval of each day in which he was sober, Sir Reginald Eversleigh was wont to reflect upon the past.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000020_000001|He knew himself to be the wretch and outcast he was; and, looking back at his start in life, he could but remember how different his career might have been had he so chosen.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000021_000000|In those hours the slow tears made furrows in his haggard cheeks-the tears of remorse, vain repentance, that came too late for earth; but not, perhaps, utterly too late for heaven, since, even for this last and worst of sinners, there might be mercy.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000022_000000|Thus his life passed-a changeless routine, unbroken by one bright interval, one friendly visit, one sign or token to show that there was any link between this lonely wretch and the rest of humanity.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000024_000001|"I have not seen him to day nor yesterday, nor for many days.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000024_000002|He must be ill.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000026_000001|A trap door in the roof, which he had been accustomed to open for the ventilation of his garret, had been closed by the wind, and the baronet had passed unconsciously from sleep to death.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000029_000000|Yes, Anna was at peace; surrounded by friends; delighted day by day to watch the budding loveliness, the sportive grace of Gertrude Eversleigh, the idolized heiress of Raynham.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000029_000001|As Lady Eversleigh paced the terraces of an Italian garden, her mother by her side, with Gertrude clinging to her side; as she looked out over the vast domain which owned her as mistress-it might seem that fortune had lavished her fairest gifts into the lap of her who had been once a friendless stranger, singing in the taverns of Wapping.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000001|The difference in their social position made no difference to her; and no more frequent or more welcome guests were seen at Raynham than Captain Duncombe, his daughter and son in law, and honest Joyce Harker.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000002|Lady Eversleigh had a particular regard for the man who had so true and faithful a heart, and she would often talk to him; but she never mentioned the subject of that miserable night on which he had seen her down at Wapping.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000003|That subject was tacitly avoided by both.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000004|There was a pain too intense, a memory too dark, associated with the events of that period.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000000|And so the story ends.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000002|Is it not the fate of the innocent to suffer in this life for the sins of the wicked?
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000003|Lady Eversleigh's widowhood, Douglas Dale's lonely life, are the work of Victor Carrington-a work not to be undone upon this earth.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000004|If he has failed in all else, he has succeeded at least in this: he has ruined the happiness of two lives.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000007|But in the heart of Douglas Dale there is an empty place which can never be filled upon earth.
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000036_000000|Had not Paulina been "weary, and heavy laden," bowed down by the burden of a false accusation, friendless, hopeless, from her very cradle?
train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000037_000000|He thought of the illimitable Mercy, and he dared to hope for the day in which he should meet her he loved "Beyond the Veil."
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000003_000000|He had not gone far when he met friend Fox, on his rounds that way.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000005_000000|'I am going to the King for what he owes me.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000006_000000|'Oh! take me with thee!'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000008_000000|'Happy thought!' says friend Fox.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000013_000000|'I am going to the King for what he owes me.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000014_000000|'Oh! take me with thee!'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000015_000000|Drakestail said to himself: 'One can't have too many friends.' ... 'I will,' says he, 'but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000019_000000|'I am going to the King, you know, for what he owes me.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000021_000000|Drakestail said to himself: 'We can't be too many friends.'... 'I will,' says he, 'but you who sleep while you walk will soon be tired.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000021_000001|Make yourself quite small, get into my throat-go into my gizzard and I will carry you.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000023_000000|She takes bag and baggage, and glou, glou, glou, she takes her place between friend Fox and my friend Ladder.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000027_000000|'I am going to the King for what he owes me.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000028_000000|'Oh! take me with thee!'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000029_000000|Drakestail said to himself, 'One can't have too many friends.'... 'I will,' says he, 'but with your battalion to drag along, you will soon be tired.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000029_000001|Make yourself quite small, go into my throat-get into my gizzard and I will carry you.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000031_000000|And left file! he takes the same road to join the others with all his party.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000031_000001|There was not much more room, but by closing up a bit they managed....
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000033_000000|He strikes with the knocker: 'Toc! toc!'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000034_000000|'Who is there?' asks the porter, putting his head out of the wicket.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000035_000000|''tis I, Drakestail.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000035_000001|I wish to speak to the King.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000036_000000|'Speak to the King!...
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000036_000002|The King is dining, and will not be disturbed.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000037_000000|'Tell him that it is I, and I have come he well knows why.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000039_000002|Make him come in, and put him with the turkeys and chickens.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000040_000000|The porter descends.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000041_000000|'Have the goodness to enter.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000042_000000|'Good!' says Drakestail to himself, 'I shall now see how they eat at court.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000043_000000|'This way, this way,' says the porter.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000043_000001|'One step further....
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000043_000002|There, there you are.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000044_000000|'How? what?
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000044_000001|in the poultry yard?'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000045_000000|Fancy how vexed Drakestail was!
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000046_000001|'Wait!
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000047_000000|'What is it?
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000047_000001|what does he want?'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000049_000000|'I am lost!' said Drakestail to himself, when by good luck he remembers his comrade friend Fox, and he cries:
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000050_000000|'Reynard, Reynard, come out of your earth, Or Drakestail's life is of little worth.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000051_000000|Then friend Fox, who was only waiting for these words, hastens out, throws himself on the wicked fowls, and quick!
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000051_000001|quack! he tears them to pieces; so much so that at the end of five minutes there was not one left alive.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000054_000000|And it was done as he commanded.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000055_000000|'Ladder, Ladder, come out of thy hold, Or Drakestail's days will soon be told.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000059_000000|The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid; he counted on his sweetheart, my friend River.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000060_000000|'River, River, outward flow, Or to death Drakestail must go.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000064_000000|'Bring him here, and I'll cut his throat! bring him here quick!' cried he.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000067_000001|He thought this time it was all up with him.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000070_000001|'The brave Wasp's nest rushes out with all his wasps.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000071_000000|Behold Drakestail much astonished, all alone in the big saloon and master of the field.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000071_000001|He could not get over it.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000072_000000|Nevertheless, he remembered shortly what he had come for to the palace, and improving the occasion, he set to work to hunt for his dear money. But in vain he rummaged in all the drawers; he found nothing; all had been spent.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000074_000000|'The King is dead, long live the King! Heaven has sent us down this thing.'
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000075_000000|Drakestail, who was no longer surprised at anything, received the acclamations of the people as if he had never done anything else all his life.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000077_000000|Thus he became King.
train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000078_000000|'And now,' said he after the ceremony, 'ladies and gentlemen, let's go to supper.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000006_000001|The more they killed the more came.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000015_000000|The Town Counsellor, who was considered clever, reassured them.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000017_000000|'Leave it to the Town Counsellor,' said the citizens one to another.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000023_000002|When the people of Hamel heard of the bargain, they too exclaimed: 'A gros a head! but this will cost us a deal of money!'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000024_000000|'Leave it to the Town Counsellor,' said the town council with a malicious air.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000024_000001|And the good people of Hamel repeated with their counsellors, 'Leave it to the Town Counsellor.'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000029_000000|Arrived there he turned round; the rats were following.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000030_000002|hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000034_000000|'Are they all there, friend Blanchet?' asked the bagpiper.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000038_000000|'Well reckoned?'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000039_000000|'Well reckoned.'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000044_000000|'All your rats took a jump into the river yesterday,' said he to the counsellors, 'and I guarantee that not one of them comes back.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000044_000002|Reckon!'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000046_000000|The ratcatcher did not expect this treacherous stroke.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000047_000000|'The heads!' cried he, 'if you care about them, go and find them in the river.'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000049_000000|'Keep your recompense for yourself,' replied the ratcatcher proudly.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000049_000001|'If you do not pay me I will be paid by your heirs.'
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000054_000000|'Our children! where are our poor children?' was the cry that was soon heard in all the streets.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000055_000000|Then through the east door of the town came three little boys, who cried and wept, and this is what they told:
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000056_000002|There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000056_000004|At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper had gone in with them, after which it had closed again. Only the three little ones who told the adventure had remained outside, as if by a miracle.
train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000062_000002|These people also declared that they came from Germany, but they did not know how they chanced to be in this strange country.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000001_000000|THE SECRET
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000002_000001|And dropping her fingers quickly and turning away from the glass, she exclaimed, "How dare you, Hortense, come in without knocking?"
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000004_000000|"Not exactly money, ma'am," said the man, "for I don't suppose you have much here.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000005_000002|Should she dare to scream?
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000007_000000|"There he goes!" cried Dick, "in her room.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000007_000002|Well, I must catch him." So without the preamble of knocking, the boy dashed into the dressing room.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000009_000000|"Go back!" cried mrs Chatterton hoarsely, "you'll be killed."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000010_000002|There was no chance for her to escape, she knew, but she could save Dick.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000011_000000|"Go back!" she screamed again.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000011_000001|There was only a moment to think, but Dick dashed in, and with a mighty spirit, but small fists, he flung himself against the stalwart arms and shoulders.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000012_000003|Help-help!"
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000016_000000|"Where are you, Dick?" cried Polly's voice outside, and rapping at the door.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000016_000001|"mrs Chatterton, have you seen him?"
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000018_000000|Polly threw wide the door.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000019_000001|"I'll take care of him till you get help.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000019_000002|Hurry!"
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000020_000000|"Oh, Dick!" cried Polly in a breath, with a fearful glance at the boy lying there.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000021_000000|"I think he's all right, Polly." She dared say no more, for Dick had not stirred.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000022_000001|"A burglar-a burglar!" and he dashed into mrs Chatterton's room.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000023_000001|"I'm a splendid markswoman."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000024_000001|"I won't stir."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000025_000001|"Well, here are the men."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000026_000000|Jasper had seized a table spread, and as Michael and the undergardeners advanced, he went back of the robber, and cleverly threw it over his head.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000026_000001|It was easy to secure and bind him then.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000026_000002|Polly rushed over to Dick.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000027_000000|"Turn the creature over and let us see how he looks," said mr King, hurrying in as the last knot of the rope was made fast.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000027_000002|"He's no beauty, and that's a fact."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000028_000000|"I've seen that fellow round here for many a day," said Michael, giving the recumbent legs a small kick.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000000|"I want to tie one rope," cried a voice.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000001|Dick opened his eyes, rubbed them, and felt of his head.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000002|"I'm all right, Polly.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000003|I saw stars, but I've got over it, I guess.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000004|Let me give him the last knot." He staggered blindly to his feet.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000031_000000|"Tell his mother so, do, somebody," said old mr King.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000033_000002|Call Hortense, will you?"
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000035_000001|"I'll peep.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000035_000002|She put me up to it; we was goin' shares on the old lady's stuff."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000036_000000|With that mrs Chatterton's spirit returned.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000039_000001|"Oh, Dick! do tell over again how it all happened."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000042_000000|"No, not a bit," declared Dick, shaking his brown poll.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000045_000000|"Do let me bathe it," she begged.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000000|"No, I won't," said Dick.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000001|"It smells awfully, and I've had so much of it for my leg.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000002|I'm all right, Phronsie.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000003|See his wings now-he's stretching."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000048_000001|"May I?"
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000049_000000|Dick made a wry face.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000049_000001|"Worse and worse."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000052_000001|"Boys like to get hurt, you know.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000052_000002|'Tisn't manly to be fixed up."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000053_000000|Phronsie gave a sigh, which so went to Dick's heart, that he said, "All right, bring on some water if you want to.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000056_000000|"Oh!" Polly gasped.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000060_000000|"How can we ever leave the boys!
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000060_000001|Oh!
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000060_000003|As they danced lightly down the long hall, dr Fisher leaned against a pillar, and watched them.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000061_000000|"Have to," said Jasper, guiding his partner deftly in the intricacies of the chairs and statuary.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000063_000000|"I'm almost tempted to dance myself," said dr Fisher.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000063_000001|"If I wasn't such an old fellow, I'd try; that is, if anybody asked me."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000064_000000|"I will," said Polly, laughing.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000064_000001|"Come, Papa Fisher," holding out her hand, "do give me the honor."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000065_000000|"All right," said dr Fisher bravely.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000065_000001|So Jasper took the deserted post by the pillar, and whistled a Strauss waltz.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000065_000002|Thereupon a most extraordinary hopping up and down the hall was commenced, the two figures bobbing like a pair of corks on a quivering water surface.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000067_000000|"I couldn't help it," said the little doctor, coming up red and animated, and wiping his forehead.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000067_000002|"It looked so nice to see Jasper and Polly, I thought I'd try it.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000068_000000|"Humph!" laughed mr King, "it looks like it.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000068_000001|Just see Polly."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000069_000000|"Oh, Papa Fisher!" cried Polly with a merry peal in which Jasper, unpuckering his lips from the Strauss effort, had joined, "we must have looked"--Here she went off again.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000070_000000|"Yes," said Jasper, "you did.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000070_000001|That's just it, Polly, you did.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000070_000002|Lucky you two caperers didn't break anything."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000071_000000|"Well, if you've got through laughing," observed dr Fisher, "I'll remark that the secret is out."
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000072_000000|"Do you like it, Polly?" asked mr King, holding out his hand.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000072_000001|"Say, my girl?" And then before she could answer, he went on, "You see, we can't do anything without a doctor on our travels.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000072_000002|Now Providence has given us one, though rather an obstinate specimen," he pointed to Father Fisher.
train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000073_000000|"When?" demanded Polly breathlessly.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000001|When thoroughly mixed, add three pints of cold water.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000003|When lukewarm, stir in half a pint of family yeast, (if brewers' yeast is used, a less quantity will answer,) a table spoonful of salt, knead in flour till stiff enough to mould up, and free from lumps.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000004|The more the bread is kneaded, the better it will be.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000005|Cover it over with a thick cloth, and if the weather is cold, set it near a fire.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000006|To ascertain when it has risen, cut it through the middle with a knife-if full of small holes like a sponge, it is sufficiently light for baking.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000007|It should be baked as soon as light.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000009|The bread should stand ten or twelve minutes in the pans before baking it.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000010|If you like your bread baked a good deal, let it stand in the oven an hour and a half.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000011|When the wheat is grown, it makes better bread to wet the flour entirely with boiling water.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000012|It should remain till cool before working in the yeast.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000013|Some cooks have an idea that it kills the life of the flour to scald it, but it is a mistaken idea-it is sweeter for it, and will keep good much longer.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000014|Bread made in this way is nearly as good as that which is wet with milk.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000015|Care must be taken not to put the yeast in when the dough is hot, as it will scald it, and prevents its rising.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000016|Most ovens require heating an hour and a half for bread.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000017|A brisk fire should be kept up, and the doors of the room should be kept shut, if the weather is cold.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000018|Pine and ash, mixed together, or birch wood, is the best for heating an oven.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000019|To ascertain if your oven is of the right temperature, when cleaned, throw in a little flour; if it browns in the course of a minute, it is sufficiently hot; if it turns black directly, wait several minutes, before putting in the things that are to be baked.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000020|If the oven does not bake well, set in a furnace of live coals.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000003_000001|Let it remain till lukewarm, then add a tea cup full of family, or half a tea cup of distillery yeast.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000003_000002|Set it in a warm place to rise.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000003_000003|When light, knead in flour till stiff enough to mould up, then let it stand till risen again, before moulding it up.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000000|Wet up rye flour with lukewarm milk, (water will do to wet it with, but it will not make the bread so good.) Put in the same proportion of yeast as for wheat bread.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000001|For four or five loaves of bread, put in a couple of tea spoonsful of salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000003|It should not be kneaded as stiff as wheat bread, or it will be hard when baked.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000004|When light, take it out into pans, without moulding it up-let it remain in them about twenty minutes, before baking.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000007_000000|Brown bread is made by scalding Indian meal, and stirring into it, when lukewarm, about the same quantity of rye flour as Indian meal-add yeast and salt in the same proportion as for other kinds of bread.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000007_000001|Bake it between two and three hours.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000009_000001|When light, take it out into buttered pans, let it remain a few minutes, then bake it two hours and a half.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000000|Boil the potatoes very soft, then peel and mash them fine.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000001|Put in salt, and very little butter-then rub them with the flour-wet the flour with lukewarm water-then work in the yeast, and flour till stiff to mould up.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000002|It will rise quicker than common wheat bread, and should be baked as soon as risen, as it turns sour very soon.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000003|The potatoes that the bread is made of should be mealy, and mixed with the flour in the proportion of one third of potatoes to two thirds of flour.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000013_000000|Boil a pint of rice till soft-then mix it with a couple of quarts of rice or wheat flour.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000013_000001|When cool, add half a tea cup of yeast, a little salt, and milk to render it of the consistency of rye bread.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000013_000002|When light, bake it in small buttered pans.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000000|Turn a quart of lukewarm milk on to a quart of flour.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000001|Melt a couple of ounces of butter, and put to the milk and flour, together with a couple of eggs, and a tea spoonful of salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000002|When cool, stir in half a tea cup of yeast, and flour to make it stiff enough to mould up.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000003|Put it in a warm place.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000004|When light, do it up into small rolls-lay the rolls on flat buttered tins-let them remain twenty minutes before baking.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000000|Boil a small handful of hops in a couple of quarts of water.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000002|When lukewarm, stir in a tea cup of yeast-keep it in a warm place till risen.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000003|When of a frothy appearance, it is sufficiently light.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000005|Some people keep yeast in bottles, but they are apt to burst-some use jugs, but they cannot be cleaned so easily as jars.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000006|Whenever your yeast gets sour, the jar should be thoroughly cleaned before fresh is put in-if not cleaned, it will spoil the fresh yeast.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000007|Yeast made in this manner will keep good a fortnight in warm weather; in cold weather longer.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000008|If your yeast appears to be a little changed, add a little saleratus to it before you mix it with your bread.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000009|If it does not foam well, when put in, it is too stale to use.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000010|Milk yeast makes sweeter bread than any other kind of yeast, but it will not keep good long.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000011|It is very nice to make biscuit of.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000012|Take half the quantity of milk you need for your biscuit-set it in a warm place, with a little flour, and a tea spoonful of salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000013|When light, mix it with the rest of the milk, and use it directly for the biscuit.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000014|It takes a pint of this yeast for five or six loaves of bread.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000015|Another method of making yeast, which is very good, is to take about half a pound of your bread dough, when risen, and roll it out thin, and dry it. When you wish to make bread, put a quart of lukewarm milk to it, set it near the fire to rise-when light, scald the flour, and let it be till lukewarm-then add the yeast and salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000016|This will raise the bread in the course of an hour.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000017|The dough will need a little fresh hop liquor put to it, in the course of three or four times baking.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000000|Stir into a pint of good lively yeast a table spoonful of salt, and rye or wheat flour to make a thick batter.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000001|When risen, stir in Indian meal till of the right consistency to roll out.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000002|When risen again, roll them out very thin, cut them into cakes with a tumbler, and dry them in the shade in clear windy weather.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000003|Care must be taken to keep them from the sun, or they will ferment.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000004|When perfectly dry, tie them up in a bag, and keep them in a cool dry place.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000006|Yeast cakes will keep good five or six months.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000007|They are very convenient to use in summer, as common yeast is so apt to ferment.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000000|Melt a tea cup of butter-mix it with two thirds of a pint of milk, (if you have not any milk, water may be substituted, but the biscuit will not be as nice.) Put in a tea spoonful of salt, half a tea cup of yeast, (milk yeast is the best, see directions for making it)--stir in flour till it is stiff enough to mould up.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000001|A couple of eggs improve the biscuit, but are not essential.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000002|Set the dough in a warm place when risen, mould the dough with the hand into small cakes, lay them on flat tins that have been buttered.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000003|Let them remain half an hour before they are baked.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000023_000000|Dissolve a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a tea cup of sour milk-mix it with a pint of butter milk, and a couple of tea spoonsful of salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000023_000001|Stir in flour until stiff enough to mould up.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000023_000002|Mould it up into small cakes, and bake them immediately.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000025_000000|Weigh out four pounds of flour, and rub three pounds and a half of it with four ounces of butter, four beaten eggs, and a couple of tea spoonsful of salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000025_000002|Bake them in a quick oven.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000027_000000|Put a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a pint of sour milk.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000027_000002|Mould them up into small biscuit, and bake them immediately.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000000|Boil mealy potatoes very soft, peel and mash them.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000001|To four good sized potatoes, put a piece of butter, of the size of a hen's egg, a tea spoonful of salt.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000002|When the butter has melted, put in half a pint of cold milk.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000003|If the milk cools the potatoes, put in a quarter of a pint of yeast, and flour to make them of the right consistency to mould up.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000004|Set them in a warm place-when risen, mould them up with the hand-let them remain ten or fifteen minutes before baking them.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000031_000001|When light, drop this mixture by the large spoonful on to flat, buttered tins, several inches apart.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000031_000002|Let them remain a few minutes before baking.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000031_000003|Bake them in a quick oven till they are a light brown.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000033_000000|Rub six ounces of butter with two pounds of flour-dissolve a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a wine glass of milk, and strain it on to the flour-add a tea spoonful of salt, and milk enough to enable you to roll it out.
train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000033_000001|Beat it with a rolling pin for half an hour, pounding it out thin-cut it into cakes with a tumbler-bake them about fifteen minutes, then take them from the oven.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000005_000000|Your majesty, replied the minister calmly, cannot bring yourself off.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000006_000000|We'll pay them in money-said the king.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000007_000000|Sire, there are not sixty thousand crowns in the treasury, answered the minister.--I'll pawn the best jewel in my crown, quoth Francis the First.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000008_000000|Your honour stands pawn'd already in this matter, answered Monsieur le Premier.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000013_000000|--But can the thing be undone, Yorick? said my father-for in my opinion, continued he, it cannot.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000013_000003|All that is requisite, continued Yorick, is to apprize Didius, and let him manage a conversation after dinner so as to introduce the subject.--Then my brother Toby, cried my father, clapping his two hands together, shall go with us.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000014_000000|--Let my old tye wig, quoth my uncle Toby, and my laced regimentals, be hung to the fire all night, Trim.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000022_000001|For my own part, I am but just set up in the business, so know little about it-but, in my opinion, to write a book is for all the world like humming a song-be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000023_000000|--This is the reason, may it please your reverences, that some of the lowest and flattest compositions pass off very well-(as Yorick told my uncle Toby one night) by siege.--My uncle Toby looked brisk at the sound of the word siege, but could make neither head or tail of it.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000000_000000|THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000001_000000|THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000001_000002|Blood was its Avatar and its seal-the redness and the horror of blood.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000000|But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000002|This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000003|A strong and lofty wall girdled it in.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000006|The abbey was amply provisioned.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000007|With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000008|The external world could take care of itself.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000009|In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000010|The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000011|There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000012|All these and security were within.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000013|Without was the "Red Death."
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000000|It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000002|There were seven-an imperial suite.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000004|Here the case was very different; as might have been expected from the duke's love of the bizarre.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000006|There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000007|To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suite.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000010|The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000011|The third was green throughout, and so were the casements.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000012|The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000014|But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000015|The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood color.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000018|But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000019|And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000005_000000|It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000006_000001|He had a fine eye for colors and effects.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000006_000002|He disregarded the decora of mere fashion.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000006_000004|There are some who would have thought him mad.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000001|Be sure they were grotesque.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000004|There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of dreams.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000007|And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000008|The dreams are stiff frozen as they stand.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000008_000000|But these other apartments were densely crowded, and in them beat feverishly the heart of life.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000008_000001|And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000008_000004|And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise-then, finally, of terror, of horror, and of disgust.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000001|There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000004|The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000007|But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000008|His vesture was dabbled in blood-and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000011_000000|"Who dares?" he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him-"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000013_000001|At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment was also near at hand, and now, with deliberate and stately step, made closer approach to the speaker.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000000|And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000002|And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000003|And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay.
train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000004|And the flames of the tripods expired.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000001_000000|It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance:
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000003_000000|"You are still hard at work, I see?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000004_000000|After a long silence, the head was lifted for another moment, and the voice replied, "Yes-I am working." This time, a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner, before the face had dropped again.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000002|Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000003|It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000004|So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000005|So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000006|So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000006_000000|Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000008_000000|The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then similarly, at the floor on the other side of him; then, upward at the speaker.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000009_000000|"What did you say?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000011_000000|"I must bear it, if you let it in." (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.)
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000012_000000|The opened half door was opened a little further, and secured at that angle for the time.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000012_000001|A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000012_000003|He had a white beard, raggedly cut, but not very long, a hollow face, and exceedingly bright eyes.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000013_000000|He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000013_000001|So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze, pausing in his work.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000013_000002|He never looked at the figure before him, without first looking down on this side of himself, then on that, as if he had lost the habit of associating place with sound; he never spoke, without first wandering in this manner, and forgetting to speak.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000014_000000|"Are you going to finish that pair of shoes to day?" asked Defarge, motioning to mr Lorry to come forward.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000015_000000|"What did you say?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000016_000000|"Do you mean to finish that pair of shoes to day?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000017_000000|"I can't say that I mean to.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000017_000001|I suppose so.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000019_000000|mr Lorry came silently forward, leaving the daughter by the door.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000019_000001|When he had stood, for a minute or two, by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000019_000002|He showed no surprise at seeing another figure, but the unsteady fingers of one of his hands strayed to his lips as he looked at it (his lips and his nails were of the same pale lead colour), and then the hand dropped to his work, and he once more bent over the shoe.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000021_000000|"What did you say?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000023_000000|The shoemaker looked up as before, but without removing a hand from his work.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000024_000003|Take it, monsieur."
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000025_000000|mr Lorry took it in his hand.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000027_000000|There was a longer pause than usual, before the shoemaker replied:
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000028_000000|"I forget what it was you asked me.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000028_000001|What did you say?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000029_000000|"I said, couldn't you describe the kind of shoe, for monsieur's information?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000030_000002|It is in the present mode.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000031_000000|"And the maker's name?" said Defarge.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000032_000001|The task of recalling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some disclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast dying man.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000033_000000|"Did you ask me for my name?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000036_000000|"Is that all?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000037_000000|"One Hundred and Five, North Tower."
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000040_000000|His haggard eyes turned to Defarge as if he would have transferred the question to him: but as no help came from that quarter, they turned back on the questioner when they had sought the ground.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000041_000000|"I am not a shoemaker by trade?
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000041_000002|I I learnt it here.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000041_000004|I asked leave to-"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000042_000000|He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000043_000000|"I asked leave to teach myself, and I got it with much difficulty after a long while, and I have made shoes ever since."
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000045_000000|"Monsieur Manette, do you remember nothing of me?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000046_000000|The shoe dropped to the ground, and he sat looking fixedly at the questioner.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000047_000000|"Monsieur Manette"; mr Lorry laid his hand upon Defarge's arm; "do you remember nothing of this man?
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000047_000001|Look at him.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000047_000002|Look at me.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000048_000000|As the captive of many years sat looking fixedly, by turns, at mr Lorry and at Defarge, some long obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the forehead, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000048_000001|They were overclouded again, they were fainter, they were gone; but they had been there.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000049_000002|Finally, with a deep long sigh, he took the shoe up, and resumed his work.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000050_000000|"Have you recognised him, monsieur?" asked Defarge in a whisper.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000051_000001|At first I thought it quite hopeless, but I have unquestionably seen, for a single moment, the face that I once knew so well.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000051_000002|Hush!
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000052_000000|She had moved from the wall of the garret, very near to the bench on which he sat
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000052_000001|There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000053_000001|She stood, like a spirit, beside him, and he bent over his work.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000000|It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000002|He had taken it up, and was stooping to work again, when his eyes caught the skirt of her dress.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000003|He raised them, and saw her face.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000004|The two spectators started forward, but she stayed them with a motion of her hand.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000005|She had no fear of his striking at her with the knife, though they had.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000055_000001|By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say:
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000056_000000|"What is this?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000057_000000|With the tears streaming down her face, she put her two hands to her lips, and kissed them to him; then clasped them on her breast, as if she laid his ruined head there.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000058_000000|"You are not the gaoler's daughter?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000060_000000|"Who are you?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000061_000000|Not yet trusting the tones of her voice, she sat down on the bench beside him.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000061_000001|He recoiled, but she laid her hand upon his arm.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000062_000001|Advancing his hand by little and little, he took it up and looked at it.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000062_000002|In the midst of the action he went astray, and, with another deep sigh, fell to work at his shoemaking.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000063_000000|But not for long.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000063_000002|After looking doubtfully at it, two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000063_000003|He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two long golden hairs, which he had, in some old day, wound off upon his finger.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000064_000003|When was it!
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000065_000000|As the concentrated expression returned to his forehead, he seemed to become conscious that it was in hers too.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000065_000001|He turned her full to the light, and looked at her.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000066_000000|"She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out-she had a fear of my going, though I had none-and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000067_000000|He formed this speech with his lips many times before he could utter it. But when he did find spoken words for it, they came to him coherently, though slowly.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000069_000000|Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000069_000001|But she sat perfectly still in his grasp, and only said, in a low voice, "I entreat you, good gentlemen, do not come near us, do not speak, do not move!"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000070_000000|"Hark!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000070_000001|"Whose voice was that?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000071_000000|His hands released her as he uttered this cry, and went up to his white hair, which they tore in a frenzy.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000071_000001|It died out, as everything but his shoemaking did die out of him, and he refolded his little packet and tried to secure it in his breast; but he still looked at her, and gloomily shook his head.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000001|It can't be.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000002|See what the prisoner is.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000004|No, no
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000005|She was-and He was-before the slow years of the North Tower-ages ago.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000073_000000|Hailing his softened tone and manner, his daughter fell upon her knees before him, with her appealing hands upon his breast.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000074_000000|"O, sir, at another time you shall know my name, and who my mother was, and who my father, and how I never knew their hard, hard history.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000074_000001|But I cannot tell you at this time, and I cannot tell you here.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000074_000003|Kiss me, kiss me!
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000075_000000|His cold white head mingled with her radiant hair, which warmed and lighted it as though it were the light of Freedom shining on him.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000077_000000|She held him closer round the neck, and rocked him on her breast like a child.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000000|"If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000003|Good gentlemen, thank God!
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000005|O, see!
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000006|Thank God for us, thank God!"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000080_000001|He had gradually dropped to the floor, and lay there in a lethargy, worn out.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000082_000000|"But, consider.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000082_000001|Is he fit for the journey?" asked mr Lorry.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000084_000001|"More than that; Monsieur Manette is, for all reasons, best out of France. Say, shall I hire a carriage and post horses?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000085_000000|"That's business," said mr Lorry, resuming on the shortest notice his methodical manners; "and if business is to be done, I had better do it."
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000086_000000|"Then be so kind," urged Miss Manette, "as to leave us here.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000086_000001|You see how composed he has become, and you cannot be afraid to leave him with me now.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000086_000003|If you will lock the door to secure us from interruption, I do not doubt that you will find him, when you come back, as quiet as you leave him.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000087_000001|But, as there were not only carriage and horses to be seen to, but travelling papers; and as time pressed, for the day was drawing to an end, it came at last to their hastily dividing the business that was necessary to be done, and hurrying away to do it.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000088_000001|The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000089_000001|Monsieur Defarge put this provender, and the lamp he carried, on the shoemaker's bench (there was nothing else in the garret but a pallet bed), and he and mr Lorry roused the captive, and assisted him to his feet.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000090_000002|They tried speaking to him; but, he was so confused, and so very slow to answer, that they took fright at his bewilderment, and agreed for the time to tamper with him no more.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000091_000000|In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings, that they gave him to wear.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000092_000000|They began to descend; Monsieur Defarge going first with the lamp, mr Lorry closing the little procession.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000093_000001|You remember coming up here?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000094_000000|"What did you say?"
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000095_000000|But, before she could repeat the question, he murmured an answer as if she had repeated it.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000096_000000|"Remember?
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000096_000002|It was so very long ago."
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000097_000000|That he had no recollection whatever of his having been brought from his prison to that house, was apparent to them.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000097_000002|On their reaching the courtyard he instinctively altered his tread, as being in expectation of a drawbridge; and when there was no drawbridge, and he saw the carriage waiting in the open street, he dropped his daughter's hand and clasped his head again.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000098_000002|Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge-who leaned against the door post, knitting, and saw nothing.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000099_000002|She quickly brought them down and handed them in;--and immediately afterwards leaned against the door post, knitting, and saw nothing.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000001|Soldiers with lanterns, at the guard house there.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000002|"Your papers, travellers!" "See here then, Monsieur the Officer," said Defarge, getting down, and taking him gravely apart, "these are the papers of monsieur inside, with the white head.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000005|"Adieu!" from Defarge.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000006|And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars.
train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000103_000000|"I hope you care to be recalled to life?"
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000002|A new style comes into vogue and remains in favor for a season, and, at least so long as it is a novelty, people very generally find the new style attractive.
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000003|The prevailing fashion is felt to be beautiful.
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000004|This is due partly to the relief it affords in being different from what went before it, partly to its being reputable.
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000007|When seen in the perspective of half a dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000008_000001|This is the priestly class.
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000008_000003|Even more strikingly than the everyday habit of the priest, the vestments, properly so called, are ornate, grotesque, inconvenient, and, at least ostensibly, comfortless to the point of distress.
train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000008_000005|The shaven face of the priest is a further item to the same effect.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000005_000000|THE ENCHANTED CANARY
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000007_000001|He ate four meals a day, slept twelve hours out of the twenty four, and the only thing he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow and arrow.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000008_000000|Still, with all his practice he shot very badly, he was so fat and heavy, and as he grew daily fatter, he was at last obliged to give up walking, and be dragged about in a wheel chair, and the people made fun of him, and gave him the name of my Lord Tubby.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000009_000000|Now, the only trouble that Lord Tubby had was about his son, whom he loved very much, although they were not in the least alike, for the young Prince was as thin as a cuckoo.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000010_000000|Instead of chatting with them in the dusk, he wandered about the woods, whispering to the moon.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000000|'What is the matter with you?' his father often said to him.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000001|'You have everything you can possibly wish for: a good bed, good food, and tuns full of beer.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000002|The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wife that can bring you broad, rich lands.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000003|So marry, and you will be perfectly happy.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000012_000001|All the girls here are pink and white, and I am tired to death of their eternal lilie and roses.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000013_000000|'My faith!' cried Tubby; 'do you want to marry a negress, and give me grandchildren as ugly as monkeys and as stupid as owls?'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000014_000000|'No, father, nothing of the sort.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000014_000001|But there must be women somewhere in the world who are neither pink nor white, and I tell you, once for all, that I will never marry until I have found one exactly to my taste.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000017_000000|That evening Tubby and his son ate the golden apples at supper, and thought them delicious.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000018_000001|Then he went, all dressed for a journey, to the bedside of Tubby, and found him smoking his first pipe.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000000|'Father,' he said gravely, 'I have come to bid you farewell.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000001|Last night I dreamed that I was walking in a wood, where the trees were covered with golden apples.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000002|I gathered one of them, and when I opened it there came out a lovely princess with a golden skin.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000003|That is the wife I want, and I am going to look for her.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000021_000001|He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubby had ceased laughing.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000022_000000|'A yellow wife!
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000022_000001|He must be mad! fit for a strait waistcoat!' cried the good man, when he was able to speak.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000022_000002|'Here! quick! bring him back to me.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000023_000000|The servants mounted their horses and rode after the Prince; but as they did not know which road he had taken, they went all ways except the right one, and instead of bringing him back they returned themselves when it grew dark, with their horses worn out and covered with dust.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000025_000001|He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns, mountains, valleys, and plains, but always pushing south, where every day the sun seemed hotter and more brilliant.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000000|At last one day at sunset Desire felt the sun so warm, that he thought he must now be near the place of his dream.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000001|He was at that moment close to the corner of a wood where stood a little hut, before the door of which his horse stopped of his own accord.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000002|An old man with a white beard was sitting on the doorstep enjoying the fresh air.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000003|The Prince got down from his horse and asked leave to rest.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000027_000000|'Come in, my young friend,' said the old man; 'my house is not large, but it is big enough to hold a stranger.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000028_000000|The traveller entered, and his host put before him a simple meal.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000028_000001|When his hunger was satisfied the old man said to him:
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000029_000000|'If I do not mistake, you come from far.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000029_000001|May I ask where you are going?'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000030_000001|I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orange trees, and that in one of the oranges I should find a beautiful princess who is to be my wife.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000030_000002|It is she I am seeking.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000031_000000|'Why should I laugh?' asked the old man.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000031_000001|'Madness in youth is true wisdom.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000031_000002|Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000033_000000|The next day the Prince arose early and took leave of his host.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000000|'The wood that you saw in your dream is not far from here,' said the old man.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000001|'It is in the depth of the forest, and this road will lead you there.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000002|You will come to a vast park surrounded by high walls.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000003|In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000004|Behind the castle is the orange grove.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000005|Follow the wall till you come to a heavy iron gate.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000006|Don't try to press it open, but oil the hinges with this,' and the old man gave him a small bottle.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000000|'The gate will open of itself,' he continued, 'and a huge dog which guards the castle will come to you with his mouth wide open, but just throw him this oat cake.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000001|Next, you will see a baking woman leaning over her heated oven.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000002|Give her this brush.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000003|Lastly, you will find a well on your left; do not forget to take the cord of the bucket and spread it in the sun
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000004|When you have done this, do not enter the castle, but go round it and enter the orange grove.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000005|Then gather three oranges, and get back to the gate as fast as you can.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000006|Once out of the gate, leave the forest by the opposite side.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000036_000000|'Now, attend to this: whatever happens, do not open your oranges till you reach the bank of a river, or a fountain.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000036_000001|Out of each orange will come a princess, and you can choose which you like for your wife.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000036_000002|Your choice once made, be very careful never to leave your bride for an instant, and remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000001|In less than an hour he arrived at the wall, which was very high indeed.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000002|He sprang to the ground, fastened his horse to a tree, and soon found the iron gate.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000003|Then he took out his bottle and oiled the hinges, when the gate opened of itself, and he saw an old castle standing inside.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000004|The Prince entered boldly into the courtyard.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000039_000000|Suddenly he heard fierce howls, and a dog as tall as a donkey, with eyes like billiard balls, came towards him, showing his teeth, which were like the prongs of a fork.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000040_000000|A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red hot gaping mouth.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000041_000000|Then he went on to the well, drew up the cord, which was half rotten, and stretched it out in the sun
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000042_000000|Lastly he went round the castle, and plunged into the orange grove. There he gathered the three most beautiful oranges he could find, and turned to go back to the gate.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000044_000000|'Baker, baker, take him by his feet, and throw him into the oven!'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000045_000000|'No,' replied the baker; 'a long time has passed since I first began to scour this oven with my own flesh.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000045_000001|YOU never cared to give me a brush; but he has given me one, and he shall go in peace.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000046_000000|'Rope, O rope!' cried the voice again, 'twine yourself round his neck and strangle him.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000047_000000|'No,' replied the rope; 'you have left me for many years past to fall to pieces with the damp.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000047_000001|He has stretched me out in the sun
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000047_000002|Let him go in peace.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000048_000000|'Dog, my good dog,' cried the voice, more and more angry, 'jump at his throat and eat him up.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000049_000000|'No,' replied the dog; 'though I have served you long, you never gave me any bread.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000049_000001|He has given me as much as I want.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000049_000002|Let him go in peace.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000050_000000|'Iron gate, iron gate,' cried the voice, growling like thunder, 'fall on him and grind him to powder.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000051_000000|'No,' replied the gate; 'it is a hundred years since you left me to rust, and he has oiled me.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000051_000001|Let him go in peace.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000053_000000|Once outside, the young adventurer put his oranges into a bag that hung from his saddle, mounted his horse, and rode quickly out of the forest.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000054_000000|Now, as he was longing to see the princesses, he was very anxious to come to a river or a fountain, but, though he rode for hours, a river or fountain was nowhere to be seen.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000054_000001|Still his heart was light, for he felt that he had got through the most difficult part of his task, and the rest was easy.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000055_000000|About mid day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000055_000001|Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000056_000000|But the gourd was empty; in the excitement of his joy he had forgotten to fill it.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000056_000001|He rode on, struggling with his sufferings, but at last he could bear it no longer.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000057_000000|He let himself slide to the earth, and lay down beside his horse, his throat burning, his chest heaving, and his head going round.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000057_000001|Already he felt that death was near him, when his eyes fell on the bag where the oranges peeped out.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000059_000000|'Ah!' he said to himself.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000059_000001|'If only these oranges were real fruit-fruit as refreshing as what I ate in Flanders!
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000059_000002|And, after all, who knows?'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000060_000000|This idea put some life into him.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000060_000001|He had the strength to lift himself up and put his hand into his bag.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000060_000002|He drew out an orange and opened it with his knife.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000061_000000|Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000062_000000|'Give me something to drink, I am dying of thirst,' said the golden bird.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000063_000001|Out of it flew another canary, and she too began to cry:
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000064_000000|'I am dying of thirst; give me something to drink.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000065_000000|Then Tubby's son saw his folly, and while the two canaries flew away he sank on the ground, where, exhausted by his last effort, he lay unconscious.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000066_000000|seven
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000067_000000|When he came to himself, he had a pleasant feeling of freshness all about him.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000067_000001|It was night, the sky was sparkling with stars, and the earth was covered with a heavy dew.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000068_000000|The traveller having recovered, mounted his horse, and at the first streak of dawn he saw a stream dancing in front of him, and stooped down and drank his fill.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000069_000000|He hardly had courage to open his last orange.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000069_000001|Then he remembered that the night before he had disobeyed the orders of the old man.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000069_000002|Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and suppose, even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream, that he did not find in it the princess that he sought?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000070_000000|He took his knife and cut it open.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000070_000001|Alas! out of it flew a little canary, just like the others, who cried:
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000071_000000|'I am thirsty; give me something to drink.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000072_000001|However, he was determined not to let this bird fly away; so he took up some water in the palm of his hand and held it to its beak.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000073_000000|Scarcely had the canary drunk when she became a beautiful girl, tall and straight as a poplar tree, with black eyes and a golden skin.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000074_000000|On her side she seemed quite bewildered, but she looked about her with happy eyes, and was not at all afraid of her deliverer.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000075_000000|He asked her name.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000075_000001|She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about sixteen years old, and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange, in the shape of a canary.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000076_000000|'Well, then, my charming Zizi,' said the young Prince, who was longing to marry her, 'let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000078_000000|'To my father's castle,' he said.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000079_000000|He mounted his horse and took her in front of him, and, holding her carefully in his arms, they began their journey.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000080_000000|eight
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000081_000002|It is so delightful to teach those one loves!
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000082_000000|Once she inquired what the girls in his country were like.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000083_000000|'They are pink and white,' he replied, 'and their eyes are blue.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000085_000000|'And no doubt,' went on the Princess, 'one of them is your intended bride?'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000086_000000|Still he was silent, and Zizi drew herself up proudly.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000087_000000|'No,' he said at last.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000087_000001|'None of the girls of my own country are beautiful in my eyes, and that is why I came to look for a wife in the land of the sun
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000087_000002|Was I wrong, my lovely Zizi?'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000088_000000|This time it was Zizi's turn to be silent.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000090_000001|When they were about four stone throws from the gates they dismounted in the forest, by the edge of a fountain.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000091_000000|'My dear Zizi,' said Tubby's son, 'we cannot present ourselves before my father like two common people who have come back from a walk.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000091_000001|We must enter the castle with more ceremony.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000091_000002|Wait for me here, and in an hour I will return with carriages and horses fit for a princess.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000092_000000|'Don't be long,' replied Zizi, and she watched him go with wistful eyes.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000093_000000|When she was left by herself the poor girl began to feel afraid.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000093_000001|She was alone for the first time in her life, and in the middle of a thick forest.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000094_000000|Suddenly she heard a noise among the trees.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000094_000001|Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trunk of a willow tree which hung over the fountain.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000094_000002|It was big enough to hold her altogether, but she peeped out, and her pretty head was reflected in the clear water.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000095_000000|Then there appeared, not a wolf, but a creature quite as wicked and quite as ugly.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000095_000001|Let us see who this creature was.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000097_000001|Now, fifteen years before this time, the father in walking through the forest found a little girl, who had been deserted by the gypsies.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000097_000002|He carried her home to his wife, and the good woman was sorry for her, and brought her up with her own sons.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000097_000003|As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for strength and cunning than for sense or beauty. She had a low forehead, a flat nose, thick lips, coarse hair, and a skin not golden like that of Zizi, but the colour of clay.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000098_000000|As she was always being teased about her complexion, she got as noisy and cross as a titmouse.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000098_000001|So they used to call her Titty.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000099_000000|Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fountain, and as she was very proud and lazy the gypsy disliked this very much.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000100_000000|It was she who had frightened Zizi by appearing with her pitcher on her shoulder.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000100_000001|Just as she was stooping to fill it, she saw reflected in the water the lovely image of the Princess.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000101_000000|'What a pretty face!' she exclaimed, 'Why, it must be mine!
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000101_000001|How in the world can they call me ugly?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000101_000002|I am certainly much too pretty to be their water carrier!'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000102_000000|So saying, she broke her pitcher and went home.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000103_000000|'Where is your pitcher?' asked the bricklayer.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000104_000000|'Well, what do you expect?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000104_000001|The pitcher may go many times to the well....'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000105_000000|'But at last it is broken.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000105_000001|Well, here is a bucket that will not break.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000106_000000|The gypsy returned to the fountain, and addressing once more the image of Zizi, she said:
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000107_000000|'No; I don't mean to be a beast of burden any longer.' And she flung the bucket so high in the air that it stuck in the branches of an oak.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000108_000000|'I met a wolf,' she told the bricklayer, 'and I broke the bucket across his nose.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000109_000000|The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000113_000001|It was not at all easy to fill the milk can, which was large and round.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000113_000002|It would not go down into the well, and the gypsy had to try again and again.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000114_000000|At last her arms grew so tired that when she did manage to get the can properly under the water she had no strength to pull it up, and it rolled to the bottom.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000115_000000|On seeing the can disappear, she made such a miserable face that Zizi, who had been watching her all this time, burst into fits of laughter.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000116_000000|Titty turned round and perceived the mistake she had made; and she felt so angry that she made up her mind to be revenged at once.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000117_000000|'What are you doing there, you lovely creature?' she said to Zizi.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000118_000000|'I am waiting for my lover,' Zizi replied; and then, with a simplicity quite natural in a girl who so lately had been a canary, she told all her story.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000119_000000|The gypsy had often seen the young Prince pass by, with his gun on his shoulder, when he was going after crows.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000119_000001|She was too ugly and ragged for him ever to have noticed her, but Titty on her side had admired him, though she thought he might well have been a little fatter.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000120_000000|'Dear, dear!' she said to herself.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000120_000001|'So he likes yellow women!
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000120_000002|Why, I am yellow too, and if I could only think of a way----'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000121_000000|It was not long before she did think of it.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000122_000001|Get down at once, my poor child, and let me dress your hair for you!'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000123_000000|The innocent Zizi came down at once, and stood by Titty.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000123_000001|The gypsy began to comb her long brown locks, when suddenly she drew a pin from her stays, and, just as the titmouse digs its beak into the heads of linnets and larks, Titty dug the pin into the head of Zizi.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000124_000000|No sooner did Zizi feel the prick of the pin than she became a bird again, and, spreading her wings, she flew away.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000125_000000|'That was neatly done,' said the gypsy.
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train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000127_000000|Meanwhile the Prince was coming as fast as his horse could carry him. He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of the lords and ladies sent by Tubby to bring back Zizi.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000128_000000|At the sight of the hideous gypsy he was struck dumb with surprise and horror.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000129_000000|'Ah me!' said Titty, 'so you don't know your poor Zizi?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000129_000001|While you were away the wicked witch came, and turned me into this.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000129_000002|But if you only have the courage to marry me I shall get back my beauty.' And she began to cry bitterly.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000000|'Poor girl,' he thought to himself.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000001|'It is not her fault, after all, that she has grown so ugly, it is mine.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000002|Oh! why did I not follow the old man's advice?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000003|Why did I leave her alone?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000004|And besides, it depends on me to break the spell, and I love her too much to let her remain like this.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000132_000000|So he presented the gypsy to the lords and ladies of the Court, explaining to them the terrible misfortune which had befallen his beautiful bride.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000133_000000|They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the false princess the rich dresses they had brought for Zizi.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000134_000000|She was then perched on the top of a magnificent ambling palfrey, and they set forth to the castle.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000136_000000|Bells were pealing, chimes ringing, and the people filling the streets and standing at their doors to watch the procession go by, and they could hardly believe their eyes as they saw what a strange bride their Prince had chosen.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000137_000000|In order to do her more honour, Tubby came to meet her at the foot of the great marble staircase.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000137_000001|At the sight of the hideous creature he almost fell backwards.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000138_000000|'What!' he cried.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000138_000001|'Is this the wonderful beauty?'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000139_000001|'But she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000140_000000|'Does she say so?
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000140_000001|Well, if you believe that, you may drink cold water and think it bacon,' the unhappy Tubby answered crossly.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000141_000000|But all the same, as he adored his son, he gave the gypsy his hand and led her to the great hall, where the bridal feast was spread.
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train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000143_000001|However, to make up, the other guests ate greedily, and, as for Tubby, nothing ever took away his appetite.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000144_000000|When the moment arrived to serve the roast goose, there was a pause, and Tubby took the opportunity to lay down his knife and fork for a little. But as the goose gave no sign of appearing, he sent his head carver to find out what was the matter in the kitchen.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000145_000000|Now this was what had happened.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000148_000000|'Good morning, lovely golden bird,' replied the chief of the scullions, who had been well brought up.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000149_000000|'I pray that Heaven may send you to sleep,' said the golden bird, 'and that the goose may burn, so that there may be none left for Titty.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000150_000000|And instantly the chief of the scullions fell fast asleep, and the goose was burnt to a cinder.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000152_000000|While it was browning at the fire, Tubby inquired for his goose a second time.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000152_000001|The Master Cook himself mounted to the hall to make his excuses, and to beg his lord to have a little patience.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000152_000002|Tubby showed his patience by abusing his son.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000153_000000|'As if it wasn't enough,' he grumbled between his teeth, 'that the boy should pick up a hag without a penny, but the goose must go and burn now.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000155_000000|While the Master Cook was upstairs, the golden bird came again to perch on the window sill, and called in his clear voice to the head scullion, who was watching the spit:
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000156_000000|'Good morning, my fine Scullion!'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000157_000000|'Good morning, lovely Golden Bird,' replied the Scullion, whom the Master Cook had forgotten in his excitement to warn.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000158_000000|'I pray Heaven,' went on the Canary, 'that it will send you to sleep, and that the goose may burn, so that there may be none left for Titty.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000159_000000|And the Scullion fell fast asleep, and when the Master Cook came back he found the goose as black as the chimney.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000160_000000|In a fury he woke the Scullion, who in order to save himself from blame told the whole story.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000161_000000|'That accursed bird,' said the Cook; 'it will end by getting me sent away.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000161_000001|Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch it and wring its neck.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000162_000000|He spitted a third goose, lit a huge fire, and seated himself by it.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000163_000000|The bird appeared a third time, and said: 'Good morning, my fine Cook.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000000|'Good morning, lovely Golden Bird,' replied the Cook, as if nothing had happened, and at the moment that the Canary was beginning, 'I pray Heaven that it may send,' a scullion who was hidden outside rushed out and shut the shutters.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000001|The bird flew into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000002|Then all the cooks and scullions sprang after it, knocking at it with their aprons. At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000003|He had come to see for himself why the goose had never made its appearance.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000165_000000|The Scullion stopped at once, just as he was about to wring the Canary's neck.
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train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000168_000000|'Your Excellency, it is the bird,' replied the Scullion, and he placed it in his hand.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000169_000000|'Nonsense!
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000169_000001|What a lovely bird!' said Tubby, and in stroking its head he touched a pin that was sticking between its feathers.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000169_000002|He pulled it out, and lo! the Canary at once became a beautiful girl with a golden skin who jumped lightly to the ground.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000170_000000|'Gracious! what a pretty girl!' said Tubby.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000172_000000|And he took her in his arms, crying: 'My darling Zizi, how happy I am to see you once more!'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000173_000000|'Well, and the other one?' asked Tubby.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000174_000000|The other one was stealing quietly to the door.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000175_000000|'Stop her! called Tubby.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000175_000001|'We will judge her cause at once.'
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000176_000000|And he seated himself solemnly on the oven, and condemned Titty to be burned alive.
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train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000178_000000|The marriage took place a few days later.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000178_000001|All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000179_000000|Zizi obtained Titty's pardon, and she was sent back to the brick fields, followed and hooted at by all the boys.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000179_000001|And this is why to day the country boys always throw stones at a titmouse.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000180_000000|On the evening of the wedding day all the larders, cellars, cupboards and tables of the people, whether rich or poor, were loaded as if by enchantment with bread, wine, beer, cakes and tarts, roast larks, and even geese, so that Tubby could not complain any more that his son had married Famine.
train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000181_000000|Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country, and since that time, too, you see in the midst of the fair haired blue eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls, whose eyes are black and whose skins are the colour of gold.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000004_000000|By Booth Tarkington
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000006_000006|'Keep out of the night air.'"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000008_000001|My grandmother----"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000009_000000|"Oh, I guess your GRANDmother thought so, mr Adams!
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000010_000000|"Sleep?" he said.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000010_000001|"Likely!"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000011_000001|"It's miraculous what the human frame WILL survive," he admitted on the last evening of that month.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000014_000000|"Sleep?
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000014_000001|Oh, CERTAINLY, thank you!"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000016_000001|They "pressed on his nerves," as he put it; and so did almost everything else, for that matter.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000017_000005|Listen to the darn brute!
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000018_000000|"Sleep?
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000025_000000|"Oh, you're better again!
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000029_000000|"No doubt in the world!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000030_000000|"Oh, I will?"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000031_000001|"Of course you will," she repeated, absently. "You'll be as strong as you ever were; maybe stronger." She paused for a moment, not looking at him, then added, cheerfully, "So that you can fly around and find something really good to get into."
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000033_000000|"So that's it," he said.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000033_000001|"That's what you're hinting at."
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000034_000000|"'Hinting?'" mrs Adams looked surprised and indulgent.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000034_000001|"Why, I'm not doing any hinting, Virgil."
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000035_000000|"What did you say about my finding 'something good to get into?'" he asked, sharply.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000038_000000|"'Old hole?' That's what you call it, is it?"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000040_000000|"Don't tell me what I know, please!"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000041_000001|"Virgil, you WON'T go back to that hole?"
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000042_000000|"That's a nice word to use to me!" he said.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000044_000000|He looked up at her fiercely.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000045_000001|"Fine!" he repeated, with husky indignation.
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000045_000002|"Fine way to cure a sick man!
train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000046_000000|"And give us our daily bread!" he added, meaning that his wife's little performance was no novelty.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000003_000001|See here, bub, does your mother know you're out?"
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000007_000000|"Welcome, Friend of the Ace."
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000010_000000|But Georgie was disposed to be informal.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000011_000000|"Well-" said Charlie Johnson uneasily.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000011_000001|"Listen!
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000013_000000|"Oh, you are, are you?" said George skeptically.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000020_000000|"All right," said Georgie.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000020_000002|Now we'll hold another election."
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000000|Georgie addressed the members.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000001|"I'd like to know who got up this thing in the first place," he said.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000003|Who got this room rent free?
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000004|Who got the janitor to let us have most of this furniture?
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000008|Well, if that's what you want, you can have it.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000011|"I guess all I better do is-resign!"
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000034_000001|"I let them get in with me, Charlie," he said in a tone of gentle explanation.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000034_000002|"It's vulgar to do any other way.
train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000034_000003|Did I tell you the nickname they gave me-'King'?
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000003_000003|Indeed I should!...
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000003_000004|Of course.. ..
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000016_000001|"How do you do, George," he said.
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000026_000001|"Or try the side door-or the kitchen!"
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000030_000000|"Why, Georgie!"
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000033_000000|"Did you have plenty to eat?"
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000034_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000039_000000|"Another one?" Isabel said, surprised.
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000042_000000|"He didn't say."
train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000043_000002|"You have been investing!" and as she came across the room for a closer view, "Is it-is it Lucy?" she asked half timidly, half archly.
train-clean-360/3549/171171/3549_171171_000017_000005|Now, so far as had been digged of old, they went onward along it without disturbance; but where they met with solid earth, they dug a mine under ground, and this in hopes that they should be able to proceed so far as to rise from under ground in a safe place, and by that means escape.
train-clean-360/3549/171171/3549_171171_000017_000006|But when they came to make the experiment, they were disappointed of their hope; for the miners could make but small progress, and that with difficulty also; insomuch that their provisions, though they distributed them by measure, began to fail them.
train-clean-360/3549/171171/3549_171171_000017_000007|And now Simon, thinking he might be able to astonish and elude the romans, put on a white frock, and buttoned upon him a purple cloak, and appeared out of the ground in the place where the temple had formerly been.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000004_000000|In the little world of Fort Caroline, a miniature France, cliques and parties, conspiracy and sedition, were fast stirring into life. Hopes had been dashed, and wild expectations had come to naught.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000004_000001|The adventurers had found, not conquest and gold, but a dull exile in a petty fort by a hot and sickly river, with hard labor, bad fare, prospective famine, and nothing to break the weary sameness but some passing canoe or floating alligator.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000004_000002|Gathered in knots, they nursed each other's wrath, and inveighed against the commandant.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000005_000000|The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000001|But for Laudonniere, he said, their fortunes would all be made.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000002|He found an ally in a gentleman named Genre, one of Laudonniere's confidants, who, while still professing fast adherence to his interests, is charged by him with plotting against his life.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000005|On this, Genre made advances to the apothecary, urging him to put arsenic into his medicine; but the apothecary shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000006|They next devised a scheme to blow him up by hiding a keg of gunpowder under his bed; but here, too, they failed.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000007_000001|The malcontents took the opportunity to send home charges against Laudonniere of peculation, favoritism, and tyranny.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000001|When he returned, about the tenth of November, Laudonniere persuaded him to carry home seven or eight of the malcontent soldiers.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000003|The exchange proved most disastrous. These pirates joined with others whom they had won over, stole Laudonniere's two pinnaces, and set forth on a plundering excursion to the West Indies.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000004|They took a small Spanish vessel off the coast of Cuba, but were soon compelled by famine to put into Havana and give themselves up.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000005|Here, to make their peace with the authorities, they told all they knew of the position and purposes of their countrymen at Fort Caroline, and thus was forged the thunderbolt soon to be hurled against the wretched little colony.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000010_000000|Laudonniere refused, but assured them that, as soon as the defences of the fort should be completed, a search should be begun in earnest for the Appalachian gold mine, and that meanwhile two small vessels then building on the river should be sent along the coast to barter for provisions with the Indians.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000000|A severe illness again seized Laudonniere, and confined him to his bed. Improving their advantage, the malcontents gained over nearly all the best soldiers in the fort.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000001|The ringleader was one Fourneaux, a man of good birth, but whom Le Moyne calls an avaricious hypocrite.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000005|It was late in the night.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000007|Forcing an entrance, they wounded a gentleman who opposed them, and crowded around the sick man's bed.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000008|Fourneaux, armed with steel cap and cuirass, held his arquebuse to Laudonniere's throat, and demanded leave to go on a cruise among the Spanish islands.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000012_000004|The sick commandant, imprisoned in the ship with one attendant, at first refused; but receiving a message from the mutineers, that, if he did not comply, they would come on board and cut his throat, he at length yielded.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000000|The buccaneers now bestirred themselves to finish the two small vessels on which the carpenters had been for some time at work.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000002|Trenchant, an excellent pilot, was forced to join the party.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000003|Their favorite object was the plunder of a certain church on one of the Spanish islands, which they proposed to assail during the midnight mass of Christmas, whereby a triple end would be achieved: first, a rich booty; secondly, the punishment of idolatry; thirdly, vengeance on the arch enemies of their party and their faith.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000004|They set sail on the eighth of December, taunting those who remained, calling them greenhorns, and threatening condign punishment if, on their triumphant return, they should be refused free entrance to the fort.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000000|They were no sooner gone than the unfortunate Laudonniere was gladdened in his solitude by the approach of his fast friends Ottigny and Arlac, who conveyed him to the fort and reinstated him.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000001|The entire command was reorganized, and new officers appointed.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000002|The colony was wofully depleted; but the bad blood had been drawn off, and thenceforth all internal danger was at an end.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000004|Laudonniere sent to reconnoitre. The stranger lay anchored at the mouth of the river.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000008|Discomfited, woebegone, and drunk, they were landed under a guard.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000011|Embarking in her, they next fell in with a caravel, which also they captured.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000013|She made a desperate fight, but was taken at last, and with her a rich booty.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000015|Hence it happened that at daybreak three armed vessels fell upon them, retook the prize, and captured or killed all the pirates but twenty six, who, cutting the moorings of their brigantine, fled out to sea.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000016|Among these was the ringleader Fourneaux, and also the pilot Trenchant, who, eager to return to Fort Caroline, whence he had been forcibly taken, succeeded during the night in bringing the vessel to the coast of Florida.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000018|They chose the latter course, and bore away for the saint John's.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000020|As the wine mounted to their heads, in the mirth of drink and desperation, they enacted their own trial.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000015_000000|"Say what you like," said one of them, after hearing the counsel for the defence; "but if Laudonniere does not hang us all, I will never call him an honest man."
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000016_000001|A court martial was called near Fort Caroline, and all were found guilty.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000017_000000|"Comrades," said one of the condemned, appealing to the soldiers, "will you stand by and see us butchered?"
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000018_000000|"These," retorted Laudonniere, "are no comrades of mutineers and rebels."
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000019_000000|At the request of his followers, however, he commuted the sentence to shooting.
train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000020_000000|A file of men, a rattling volley, and the debt of justice was paid.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000000_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000002_000000|"I s'pose the time when you learned all these knowing things, mr Creedle, was when you was in the militia?"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000000|"Well, yes.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000001|I seed the world at that time somewhat, certainly, and many ways of strange dashing life.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000002|Not but that Giles has worked hard in helping me to bring things to such perfection to day. 'Giles,' says I, though he's maister.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000003|Not that I should call'n maister by rights, for his father growed up side by side with me, as if one mother had twinned us and been our nourishing."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000004_000000|"I s'pose your memory can reach a long way back into history, mr Creedle?"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000005_000001|Ancient days, when there was battles and famines and hang fairs and other pomps, seem to me as yesterday.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000005_000003|There, he's calling for more plates.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000006_000001|He could not get over the initial failures in his scheme for advancing his suit, and hence he did not know that he was eating mouthfuls of bread and nothing else, and continually snuffing the two candles next him till he had reduced them to mere glimmers drowned in their own grease.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000007_000000|A splash followed.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000007_000001|Grace gave a quick, involuntary nod and blink, and put her handkerchief to her face.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000008_000000|"Good heavens! what did you do that for, Creedle?" said Giles, sternly, and jumping up.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000009_000000|"'tis how I do it when they baint here, maister," mildly expostulated Creedle, in an aside audible to all the company.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000010_000000|"Well, yes-but-" replied Giles.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000011_000000|"Oh no," she said.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000011_000001|"Only a sprinkle on my face.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000011_000002|It was nothing."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000012_000000|"Kiss it and make it well," gallantly observed mr Bawtree.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000013_000000|Miss Melbury blushed.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000014_000000|The timber merchant said, quickly, "Oh, it is nothing!
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000014_000001|She must bear these little mishaps." But there could be discerned in his face something which said "I ought to have foreseen this."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000015_000000|Giles himself, since the untoward beginning of the feast, had not quite liked to see Grace present.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000015_000002|He had done it, in dearth of other friends, that the room might not appear empty.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000016_000003|Every now and then the comparatively few remarks of the players at the round game were harshly intruded on by the measured jingle of Farmer Bawtree and the hollow turner from the back of the room:
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000019_000000|The timber merchant showed his feelings by talking with a satisfied sense of weight in his words, and by praising the party in a patronizing tone, when Winterborne expressed his fear that he and his were not enjoying themselves.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000000|"Oh yes, yes; pretty much.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000001|What handsome glasses those are!
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000002|I didn't know you had such glasses in the house.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000004|I can't get such coats.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000005|You dress better than i"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000000|After supper there was a dance, the bandsmen from Great Hintock having arrived some time before.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000001|Grace had been away from home so long that she had forgotten the old figures, and hence did not join in the movement.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000002|Then Giles felt that all was over.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000003|As for her, she was thinking, as she watched the gyrations, of a very different measure that she had been accustomed to tread with a bevy of sylph like creatures in muslin, in the music room of a large house, most of whom were now moving in scenes widely removed from this, both as regarded place and character.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000022_000000|A woman she did not know came and offered to tell her fortune with the abandoned cards.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000022_000001|Grace assented to the proposal, and the woman told her tale unskilfully, for want of practice, as she declared.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000000|mr Melbury was standing by, and exclaimed, contemptuously, "Tell her fortune, indeed!
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000001|Her fortune has been told by men of science-what do you call 'em?
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000003|You can't teach her anything new.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000004|She's been too far among the wise ones to be astonished at anything she can hear among us folks in Hintock."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000024_000000|At last the time came for breaking up, Melbury and his family being the earliest to leave, the two card players still pursuing their game doggedly in the corner, where they had completely covered Giles's mahogany table with chalk scratches.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000024_000001|The three walked home, the distance being short and the night clear.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000025_000000|"Well, Giles is a very good fellow," said mr Melbury, as they struck down the lane under boughs which formed a black filigree in which the stars seemed set.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000027_000000|When they were opposite an opening through which, by day, the doctor's house could be seen, they observed a light in one of his rooms, although it was now about two o'clock.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000028_000000|"The doctor is not abed yet," said mrs Melbury.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000029_000000|"Hard study, no doubt," said her husband.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000030_000000|"One would think that, as he seems to have nothing to do about here by day, he could at least afford to go to bed early at night.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000030_000001|'tis astonishing how little we see of him."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000031_000001|"It is natural enough," he replied.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000031_000002|"What can a man of that sort find to interest him in Hintock?
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000031_000003|I don't expect he'll stay here long."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000033_000000|At this moment the two exclusive, chalk mark men, having at last really finished their play, could be heard coming along in the rear, vociferously singing a song to march time, and keeping vigorous step to the same in far reaching strides-
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000034_000000|"She may go, oh! She may go, oh! She may go to the d---- for me!"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000035_000000|The timber merchant turned indignantly to mrs Melbury.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000035_000002|"For us old folk it didn't matter; but for Grace-Giles should have known better!"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000036_000000|Meanwhile, in the empty house from which the guests had just cleared out, the subject of their discourse was walking from room to room surveying the general displacement of furniture with no ecstatic feeling; rather the reverse, indeed.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000036_000001|At last he entered the bakehouse, and found there Robert Creedle sitting over the embers, also lost in contemplation.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000037_000000|"Well, Robert, you must be tired.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000038_000002|But 'tis well to think the day IS done, when 'tis done."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000039_000000|Winterborne had abstractedly taken the poker, and with a wrinkled forehead was ploughing abroad the wood embers on the broad hearth, till it was like a vast scorching Sahara, with red hot bowlders lying about everywhere.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000039_000001|"Do you think it went off well, Creedle?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000040_000000|"The victuals did; that I know.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000040_000001|And the drink did; that I steadfastly believe, from the holler sound of the barrels.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000040_000003|Still, I don't deny I'm afeared some things didn't go well with He and his." Creedle nodded in a direction which signified where the Melburys lived.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000041_000000|"I'm afraid, too, that it was a failure there!"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000042_000001|Not but what that snail might as well have come upon anybody else's plate as hers."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000043_000000|"What snail?"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000047_000000|"But, Robert, of all places, that was where he shouldn't have been!"
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000048_000000|"Well, 'twas his native home, come to that; and where else could we expect him to be?
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000048_000001|I don't care who the man is, snails and caterpillars always will lurk in close to the stump of cabbages in that tantalizing way."
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000049_000000|"He wasn't alive, I suppose?" said Giles, with a shudder on Grace's account.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000050_000000|"Oh no
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000051_000000|"Oh yes-'tis all over!" murmured Giles to himself, shaking his head over the glooming plain of embers, and lining his forehead more than ever.
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000051_000001|"Do you know, Robert," he said, "that she's been accustomed to servants and everything superfine these many years?
train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000051_000002|How, then, could she stand our ways?"
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000003_000000|This prisoner was no other than Rabbi Aser Abarbanel, a Jew of Arragon, who-accused of usury and pitiless scorn for the poor-had been daily subjected to torture for more than a year.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000003_000001|Yet "his blindness was as dense as his hide," and he had refused to abjure his faith.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000004_000000|Proud of a filiation dating back thousands of years, proud of his ancestors-for all Jews worthy of the name are vain of their blood-he descended Talmudically from Othoniel and consequently from Ipsiboa, the wife of the last judge of Israel, a circumstance which had sustained his courage amid incessant torture.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000004_000001|With tears in his eyes at the thought of this resolute soul rejecting salvation, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, approaching the shuddering rabbi, addressed him as follows:
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000000|"My son, rejoice: your trials here below are about to end.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000001|If in the presence of such obstinacy I was forced to permit, with deep regret, the use of great severity, my task of fraternal correction has its limits.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000002|You are the fig tree which, having failed so many times to bear fruit, at last withered, but God alone can judge your soul.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000003|Perhaps Infinite Mercy will shine upon you at the last moment!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000005|So sleep in peace to night.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000008|Placed in the last row, you will have time to invoke God and offer to Him this baptism of fire, which is of the Holy Spirit.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000009|Hope in the Light, and rest."
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000006_000000|With these words, having signed to his companions to unchain the prisoner, the prior tenderly embraced him.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000006_000002|This ceremony over, the captive was left, solitary and bewildered, in the darkness.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000001|Closed?
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000005|Then, very gently and cautiously, slipping one finger into the crevice, he drew the door toward him.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000006|Marvelous!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000007|By an extraordinary accident the familiar who closed it had turned the huge key an instant before it struck the stone casing, so that the rusty bolt not having entered the hole, the door again rolled on its hinges.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000008_000000|The rabbi ventured to glance outside.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000008_000001|By the aid of a sort of luminous dusk he distinguished at first a semicircle of walls indented by winding stairs; and opposite to him, at the top of five or six stone steps, a sort of black portal, opening into an immense corridor, whose first arches only were visible from below.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000000|Stretching himself flat he crept to the threshold.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000001|Yes, it was really a corridor, but endless in length.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000005|What a terrible silence!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000006|Yet, yonder, at the far end of that passage there might be a doorway of escape!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000010_000000|Without hesitating, he ventured on the flags, keeping close under the loopholes, trying to make himself part of the blackness of the long walls.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000010_000001|He advanced slowly, dragging himself along on his breast, forcing back the cry of pain when some raw wound sent a keen pang through his whole body.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000011_000002|Well, it was over, no doubt.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000011_000003|He pressed himself into a niche and, half lifeless with terror, waited.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000001|He passed swiftly by, holding in his clenched hand an instrument of torture-a frightful figure-and vanished.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000002|The suspense which the rabbi had endured seemed to have suspended the functions of life, and he lay nearly an hour unable to move.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000003|Fearing an increase of tortures if he were captured, he thought of returning to his dungeon.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000005|A miracle had happened.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000006|He could doubt no longer.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000007|He began to crawl toward the chance of escape.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000008|Exhausted by suffering and hunger, trembling with pain, he pressed onward.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000013_000001|He again heard footsteps, but this time they were slower, more heavy.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000013_000002|The white and black forms of two inquisitors appeared, emerging from the obscurity beyond.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000013_000003|They were conversing in low tones, and seemed to be discussing some important subject, for they were gesticulating vehemently.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000015_000000|Just opposite to him the two inquisitors paused under the light of the lamp-doubtless owing to some accident due to the course of their argument.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000015_000001|One, while listening to his companion, gazed at the rabbi! And, beneath the look-whose absence of expression the hapless man did not at first notice-he fancied he again felt the burning pincers scorch his flesh, he was to be once more a living wound.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000015_000002|Fainting, breathless, with fluttering eyelids, he shivered at the touch of the monk's floating robe.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000016_000001|Amid the horrible confusion of the rabbi's thoughts, the idea darted through his brain: "Can I be already dead that they did not see me?" A hideous impression roused him from his lethargy: in looking at the wall against which his face was pressed, he imagined he beheld two fierce eyes watching him!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000016_000003|Yet, no! no
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000017_000000|Forward!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000017_000001|He must hasten toward that goal which he fancied (absurdly, no doubt) to be deliverance, toward the darkness from which he was now barely thirty paces distant.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000017_000002|He pressed forward faster on his knees, his hands, at full length, dragging himself painfully along, and soon entered the dark portion of this terrible corridor.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000018_000000|Suddenly the poor wretch felt a gust of cold air on the hands resting upon the flags; it came from under the little door to which the two walls led.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000001|Every nerve in the miserable fugitive's body thrilled with hope.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000002|He examined it from top to bottom, though scarcely able to distinguish its outlines in the surrounding darkness.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000003|He passed his hand over it: no bolt, no lock!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000004|A latch!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000005|He started up, the latch yielded to the pressure of his thumb: the door silently swung open before him.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000020_000000|"HALLELUIA!" murmured the rabbi in a transport of gratitude as, standing on the threshold, he beheld the scene before him.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000000|The door had opened into the gardens, above which arched a starlit sky, into spring, liberty, life!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000001|It revealed the neighboring fields, stretching toward the sierras, whose sinuous blue lines were relieved against the horizon.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000002|Yonder lay freedom!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000003|Oh, to escape!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000004|He would journey all night through the lemon groves, whose fragrance reached him.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000005|Once in the mountains and he was safe!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000006|He inhaled the delicious air; the breeze revived him, his lungs expanded!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000008|And to thank once more the God who had bestowed this mercy upon him, he extended his arms, raising his eyes toward Heaven.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000009|It was an ecstasy of joy!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000022_000000|Then he fancied he saw the shadow of his arms approach him-fancied that he felt these shadowy arms inclose, embrace him-and that he was pressed tenderly to some one's breast.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000022_000002|He lowered his eyes-and remained motionless, gasping for breath, dazed, with fixed eyes, fairly driveling with terror.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000023_000000|Horror!
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000023_000001|He was in the clasp of the Grand Inquisitor himself, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, who gazed at him with tearful eyes, like a good shepherd who had found his stray lamb.
train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000024_000000|The dark robed priest pressed the hapless Jew to his heart with so fervent an outburst of love, that the edges of the monochal haircloth rubbed the Dominican's breast.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000002_000000|Citizen Deputy.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000009_000000|After that last glimmer of life beside the deathbed of his son, the old Duc had practically ceased to be.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000013_000000|The Archbishop was consulted.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000015_000002|He would make no promises.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000017_000002|He was busy consoling a monarch for the loss of his throne, and preparing himself and his royal patron for the scaffold.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000019_000000|Juliette was one of those who escaped condemnation.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000019_000001|How or why, she herself could not have told.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000020_000002|When he died, she looked upon her spiritual guide's death as a direct warning from God, that nothing could relieve her of her oath.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000025_000000|Two years later, she had heard the cries of an entire people exulting over a regicide.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000025_000001|Then the murder of Marat, by a young girl like herself, the pale faced, large eyed Charlotte, who had commited a crime for the sake of a conviction.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000026_000000|"Greater than Brutus!"
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000027_000000|Juliette followed the trial of Charlotte Corday with all the passionate ardour of her exalted temperament.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000031_000001|I killed Marat!"
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000033_000000|"I killed Marat!"
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000041_000000|But there was no further comment.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000041_000003|His hospital would cover quite a good many defalcations.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000043_000000|Juliette heard it all.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000043_000001|The knitters round her were talking loudly.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000045_000000|Charlotte Corday was condemned.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000046_000000|Juliette left the court in a state of mad exultation.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000047_000000|What scenes!
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000047_000001|Great God!
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000048_000000|And now to wait for an opportunity!
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000049_000002|Juliette felt impelled by duty, and duty at best is not so prompt a counsellor as love or hate.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000050_000000|Her adventure outside Deroulede's house had not been premeditated. Impulse and coincidence had worked their will with her.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000051_000001|Once or twice she saw him coming or going from home. Once she caught sight of the inner hall, and of a young girl in a dark kirtle and snow white kerchief bidding him good bye at his door.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000051_000002|Another time she caught sight of him at the corner of the street, helping that same young girl over the muddy pavement.
train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000052_000000|Chivalrous-eh?--and innately so, evidently, for the girl was slightly deformed: hardly a hunchback, but weak and unattractive looking, with melancholy eyes, and a pale, pinched face.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000002_000000|The Scarlet Pimpernel.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000003_000000|It was some few hours later.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000005_000000|A tall, somewhat lazy looking figure, he was sitting at a table face to face with the Citizen Deputy.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000005_000001|On a chair beside him lay a heavy caped coat, covered with the dust and the splashings of a long journey, but he himself was attired in clothes that suggested the most fastidious taste, and the most perfect of tailors; he wore with apparent ease the eccentric fashion of the time, the short waisted coat of many lapels, the double waistcoat and billows of delicate lace.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000008_000000|"La!
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000008_000001|I took care of that!" responded Blakeney with his short, pleasant laugh.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000008_000002|"I sent Tinville my autograph this morning."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000010_000000|"Not altogether, my friend.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000010_000001|My faith!
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000011_000000|"Fun, you call it?" queried the other bitterly.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000013_000000|"Then why did you come?"
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000014_000000|"To-What shall I say, my friend?" rejoined Sir Percy Blakeney, with that inimitable drawl of his.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000017_000000|"Three things," he continued quietly; "an imprisoned Queen, about to be tried for her life, the temperament of a Frenchman-some of them-and the idiocy of mankind generally.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000022_000000|"I know it.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000022_000001|I guessed it, that is why I came: that is also why I sent a pleasant little note to the Committee of Public Safety, signed with the device they know so well: The Scarlet Pimpernel."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000023_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000024_000000|"Well! the result is obvious.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000025_000000|"But in the meanwhile they'll discover you, and they'll not let you escape a second time."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000026_000002|There is someone over the water now who weeps when I don't return-No! no! never fear-they'll not get The Scarlet Pimpernel this journey ..."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000029_000000|"By every means in my power," replied Blakeney, "save the insane.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000029_000001|But I will help to get you all out of the demmed hole, when you have failed."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000032_000000|"Will you tell me your plans?"
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000035_000000|"Yes?"
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000038_000002|I must get them out of France, however, in case-in case ..."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000039_000000|"Of course," rejoined the other simply.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000040_000001|You see the trial of the Queen has not yet been decided on, but I know that it is in the air.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000040_000005|Usually they drink and play cards all night long.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000040_000007|It should be easy, for I have a strong fist, and after that ..."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000041_000000|"Well?
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000045_000004|No figure wrapped in a mantle will from this day forth leave Paris unchallenged."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000047_000002|Alas for her!
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000047_000004|Can you take hold of Marie Antoinette by the shoulders, shove her into the bottom of a cart and pile sacks of potatoes on the top of her?
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000047_000006|She'd rebuke you publicly, and betray herself and you in a flash, sooner than submit to a loss of dignity."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000000|"Ah! there's the trouble, friend.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000002|We are still twenty strong, and heart and soul in sympathy with your mad schemes.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000003|The poor, poor Queen!
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000004|But you are bound to fail, and then who will help you all, if we too are put out of the way?"
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000053_000001|He unlocked it and drew forth a bundle of papers.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000054_000000|"Will you look through these?" he asked, handing them to Sir Percy Blakeney.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000055_000000|"What are they?"
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000057_000000|"Burn them, my friend," said Blakeney laconically.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000058_000000|"I can't burn these.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000059_000000|"Better that than papers in these times, my friend: these papers, if found, would send you, untried, to the guillotine."
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000060_000000|"I am careful, and, at present, quite beyond suspicion.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000061_000000|He suddenly paused.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000062_000000|He turned, and there in the doorway, holding back the heavy portiere, stood Juliette, graceful, smiling, a little pale, this no doubt owing to the flickering light of the unsnuffed candles.
train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000066_000000|"In a moment, mademoiselle," he replied lightly, "my friend and I have just finished our talk.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000000_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000001_000000|Atonement.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000006_000000|"It is only the soldiers come back for me," said Juliette quietly.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000007_000000|"For you?"
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000008_000000|"Yes; they are coming to take me away.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000010_000000|In his hand he held a leather case, all torn, and split at one end, and a few tiny scraps of half charred paper.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000011_000000|"These are yours?" he said roughly.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000012_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000014_000000|She nodded quietly in reply.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000015_000000|"What were these papers which you burnt?"
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000016_000000|"Love letters."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000017_000000|"You lie!"
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000018_000000|She shrugged her shoulders.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000019_000000|"As you please," she said curtly.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000020_000000|"What were these papers?" he repeated, with a loud obscene oath which, however, had not the power to disturb the young girl's serenity.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000021_000000|"I have told you," she said: "love letters, which I wished to burn."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000022_000000|"Who was your lover?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000025_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000028_000000|He thrust his face quite close to hers, and she closed her eyes, sick with the horror of this contact with the degraded wretch.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000029_000001|She shuddered at the loathsome touch, but her quietude never forsook her for a moment.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000031_000002|Was that it?"
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000033_000000|"Yes," she replied firmly.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000037_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000039_000000|"I knew it."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000044_000000|"Nothing," she replied.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000049_000001|Resistance would only aggravate your case."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000053_000002|March!
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000054_000000|Juliette was too proud to insist any further.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000055_000000|But that one word was not to be spoken.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000057_000001|The crippled girl was face to face with a psychological problem, which in itself was far beyond her comprehension, but vaguely she felt that it was a problem.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000059_000000|Juliette seemed to wake as if from a dream.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000060_000001|Tell him."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000062_000001|Tell him," whispered Juliette.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000063_000000|"Now then," shouted Merlin, "out of the way, hunchback, unless you want to come along too."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000065_000000|Then the men pushed her roughly aside.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000065_000001|But at the door Juliette turned to her once more, and said:
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000067_000000|And with a firm step she followed the soldiers out of the room.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000069_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000074_000000|Madame Guillotine was, above all, catholic in her tastes, her gaunt arms, painted blood red, were open alike to the murderer and the thief, the aristocrats of ancient lineage, and the proletariat from the gutter.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000075_000000|But lately the executions had been almost exclusively of a political character.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000076_000000|There were twelve prisons in Paris then, and forty thousand in France, and they were all full.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000076_000002|There was no room for separate cells, no room for privacy, no cause or desire for the most elementary sense of delicacy.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000077_000000|Women, men, children-all were herded together, for one day, perhaps two, and a night or so, and then death would obliterate the petty annoyances, the womanly blushes caused by this sordid propinquity.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000078_000000|Death levelled all, erased everything.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000079_000000|When Marie Antoinette mounted the guillotine she had forgotten that for six weeks she practically lived day and night in the immediate companionship of a set of degraded soldiery.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000080_000000|Juliette, as she marched through the streets between two men of the National Guard, and followed by Merlin, was hooted and jeered at, insulted, pelted with mud.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000080_000001|One woman tried to push past the soldiers, and to strike her in the face-a woman! not thirty!--and who was dragging a pale, squalid little boy by the hand.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000081_000001|"Spit on the aristocrat!" And the child tortured its own small, parched mouth so that, in obedience to its mother, it might defile and bespatter a beautiful, innocent girl.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000083_000000|But Juliette had seen nothing of it all.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000084_000000|She was walking as in a dream.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000084_000001|The mob did not exist for her; she heard neither insult nor vituperation.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000085_000000|She was happy-supremely, completely happy.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000085_000001|She had saved him from the consequences of her own iniquitous crime, and she was about to give her life for him, so that his safety might be more completely assured.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000086_000000|Her love for him he would never know; now he knew only her crime, but presently, when she would be convicted and condemned, confronted with a few scraps of burned paper and a torn letter case, then he would know that she had stood her trial, self accused, and meant to die for him.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000087_000002|It was ethereal, and perhaps not altogether human, but it was hers.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000087_000003|She had been his divinity, his madonna; he had loved in her that, which was her truer, her better self.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000088_000001|That awful oath, sworn so solemnly, had been her relentless tyrant; and her religion-a religion of superstition and of false ideals-had blinded her, and dragged her into crime.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000089_000000|She had arrogated to herself that which was God's alone-"Vengeance!" which is not for man.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000090_000000|That through it all she should have known love, and learned its tender secrets, was more than she deserved.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000093_000001|She was handed over to the governor of the prison, a short, thick set man in black trousers and black shag woollen shirt, and wearing a dirty red cap, with tricolour rosette on the side of his unkempt head.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000096_000000|"Yes," replied Merlin laconically.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000097_000000|"You understand," added the governor; "we are so crowded.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000098_000000|"Certainly," said Merlin, "you will be personally responsible for this prisoner to the Committee of Public Safety."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000100_000000|"Certainly not, without the special permission of the Public Prosecutor."
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000102_000001|Well, perhaps that would be best.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000102_000002|She would have been afraid to meet Deroulede again, afraid to read in his eyes that story of his dead love, which alone might have destroyed her present happiness.
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000103_000002|It consisted of a few words, a kiss-the last one-on her hand, and that passionate murmur which had escaped from his lips when he knelt at her feet:
train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000104_000000|"Juliette!"
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000000_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000001_000000|CAP'S COUNTRY CAPERS.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000002_000000|"A willful elf-an uncle's child, That half a pet and half a pest, Was still reproved, endured, caressed, Yet never tamed, though never spoiled."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000003_000000|Capitola at first was delighted and half incredulous at the great change in her fortunes.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000004_000000|Sometimes of a morning, after a very vivid dream of the alleys, cellars and gutters, ragpickers, newsboys, and beggars of New York, she would open her eyes upon her own comfortable chamber, with its glowing fire and crimson curtains, and bright mirror crowning the walnut bureau between them, she would jump up and gaze wildly around, not remembering where she was or how she came thither.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000005_000000|Sometimes, suddenly startled by an intense realization of the contrast between her past and her present life, she would mentally inquire:
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000000|"Can this be really I, myself, and not another?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000001|I, the little houseless wanderer through the streets and alleys of New York?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000002|I, the little newsgirl in boy's clothes?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000003|I, the wretched little vagrant that was brought up before the recorder and was about to be sent to the House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000004|Can this be I, Capitola, the little outcast of the city, now changed into Miss Black, the young lady, perhaps the heiress of a fine old country seat; calling a fine old military officer uncle; having a handsome income of pocket money settled upon me; having carriages and horses and servants to attend me?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000005|No; it can't be!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000006|It's just impossible!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000007|No; I see how it is.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000008|I'm crazy!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000009|that's what I am, crazy!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000010|For, now I think of it, the last thing I remember of my former life was being brought before the recorder for wearing boy's clothes.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000013|This fine old military officer whom I call uncle is the head doctor.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000014|The servants who come at my call are the keepers.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000007_000000|"There is no figure out of my past life in my present one except Herbert Greyson.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000007_000001|But, p shaw! he is not 'the nephew of his uncle;' he is only my old comrade, Herbert Greyson, the sailor lad, who comes here to the madhouse to see me, and, out of compassion, humors all my fancies.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000000|"I wonder how long they'll keep me here?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000001|Forever, I hope.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000003|I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000004|It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000006|Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000007|I'm too sharp for that.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000008|I didn't grow up in Rag Alley, New York, for nothing."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000009_000000|So, half in jest and half in earnest, Capitola soliloquized upon her change of fortune.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000000|Her education was commenced, but progressed rather irregularly.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000001|Old Hurricane bought her books and maps, slates and copy books, set her lessons in grammar, geography and history, and made her write copies, do sums and read and recite lessons to him.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000002|mrs Condiment taught her the mysteries of cutting and basting, back stitching and felling, hemming and seaming.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000003|A pupil as sharp as Capitola soon mastered her tasks, and found herself each day with many hours of leisure with which she did not know what to do.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000011_000000|These hours were at first occupied with exploring the old house, with all its attics, cuddies, cock lofts and cellars; then in wandering through the old ornamental grounds, that were, even in winter and in total neglect, beautiful with their wild growth of evergreens; thence she extended her researches into the wild and picturesque country around.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000012_000000|She was never weary of admiring the great forest that climbed the heights of the mountains behind their house; the great bleak precipices of gray rock seen through the leafless branches of the trees; the rugged falling ground that lay before the house and between it and the river; and the river itself, with its rushing stream and raging rapids.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000000|Capitola had become a skilful as she had first been a fearless rider. But her rides were confined to the domain between the mountain range and the river; she was forbidden to ford the one or climb the other.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000001|Perhaps if such a prohibition had never been made Capitola would never have thought of doing the one or the other; but we all know the diabolical fascination there is in forbidden pleasures for young human nature.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000002|And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000003|And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000005|If she could only get rid of Wool, she resolved to go upon a limited exploring expedition.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000000|One day a golden opportunity occurred.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000001|It was a day of unusual beauty, when autumn seemed to be smiling upon the earth with her brightest smiles before passing away.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000002|In a word, it was Indian summer.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000003|The beauty of the weather had tempted Old Hurricane to ride to the county seat on particular business connected with his ward herself.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000015_000000|Capitola, left alone, amused herself with her tasks until the afternoon; then, calling a boy, she ordered him to saddle her horse and bring him around.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000016_000000|"My dear, what do you want with your horse?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000016_000001|There is no one to attend you; Wool has gone with his master," said mrs Condiment, as she met Capitola in the hall, habited for her ride.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000017_000000|"I know that; but I cannot be mewed up here in the old house and deprived of my afternoon ride," exclaimed Capitola decidedly.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000018_000000|"But, my dear, you must never think of riding out alone," exclaimed the dismayed mrs Condiment.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000019_000000|"Indeed I shall, though-and glad of the opportunity," added Cap, mentally.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000020_000000|"But, my dear love, it is improper, imprudent, dangerous."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000021_000000|"Why so?" asked Cap.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000022_000000|"Good gracious, upon every account!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000022_000001|Suppose you were to meet with ruffians; suppose-oh, heaven!--suppose you were to meet with-Black Donald!"
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000023_000000|"mrs Condiment, once for all do tell me who this terrible Black Donald is?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000023_000001|Is he the Evil One himself, or the Man in the Iron Mask, or the individual that struck Billy Patterson, or-who is he?"
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000024_000000|"Who is Black Donald?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000024_000001|Good gracious, child, you ask me who is Black Donald!"
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000025_000001|where is he?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000025_000002|what is he?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000000|"Black Donald!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000001|Oh, my child, may you never know more of Black Donald than I can tell you.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000002|Black Donald is the chief of a band of ruthless desperadoes that infest these mountain roads, robbing mail coaches, stealing negroes, breaking into houses and committing every sort of depredation.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000003|Their hands are red with murder and their souls black with darker crimes."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000027_000000|"Darker crimes than murder!" ejaculated Capitola.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000028_000000|"Yes, child, yes; there are darker crimes.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000028_000001|Only last winter he and three of his gang broke into a solitary house where there was a lone woman and her daughter, and-it is not a story for you to hear; but if the people had caught Black Donald then they would have burned him at the stake! His life is forfeit by a hundred crimes.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000028_000002|He is an outlaw, and a heavy price is set upon his head."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000030_000000|"No, my dear; at least, no one has been able to do so yet.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000030_000001|His very haunts are unknown, but are supposed to be in concealed mountain caverns."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000031_000000|"How I would like the glory of capturing Black Donald!" said Capitola.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000032_000000|"You, child!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000032_000001|You capture Black Donald!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000032_000002|You are crazy!"
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000033_000000|"Oh, by stratagem, I mean, not by force.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000033_000001|Oh, how I should like to capture Black Donald!--There's my horse; good by!" and before mrs Condiment could raise another objection Capitola ran out, sprang into her saddle and was seen careering down the hill toward the river as fast as her horse could fly.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000034_000000|"My Lord, but the major will be hopping if he finds it out!" was good mrs Condiment's dismayed exclamation.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000035_000001|Then, gathering up her riding skirt and throwing it over the neck of her horse she plunged boldly into the stream, and, with the water splashing and foaming all around her, urged him onward till they crossed the river and climbed up the opposite bank. A bridle path lay before her, leading from the fording place through a deep wood.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000035_000002|That path attracted her; she followed it, charmed alike by the solitude of the wood, the novelty of the scene and her own sense of freedom.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000035_000003|But one thought was given to the story of Black Donald, and that was a reassuring one:
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000036_000000|"If Black Donald is a mail robber, then this little bridle path is far enough off his beat."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000037_000000|And, so saying, she gayly galloped along, singing as she went, following the narrow path up hill and down dale through the wintry woods.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000038_000001|On her left hand the sun was sinking like a ball of fire below the horizon; all around her everywhere were the wintry woods; far away, in the direction whence she had come, she saw the tops of the mountains behind Hurricane Hall, looking like blue clouds against the southern horizon; the Hall itself and the river below were out of sight.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000000|"I wonder how far I am from home?" said Capitola, uneasily; "somewhere between six and seven miles, I reckon.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000001|Dear me, I didn't mean to ride so far.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000002|I've got over a great deal of ground in these two hours.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000003|I shall not get back so soon; my horse is tired to death; it will take me three hours to reach Hurricane Hall.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000004|Good gracious! it will be pitch dark before I get there.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000005|No, thank heaven, there will be a moon.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000006|But won't there be a row though?
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000008|Well, I must turn about and lose no time. Come, Gyp, get up, Gyp, good horse; we're going home."
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000041_000000|She had gone on for about a mile, and it was growing dark, and her horse was again slackening his pace, when she thought she heard the sound of another horse's hoofs behind her.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000041_000001|She drew rein and listened, and was sure of it.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000042_000000|Now, without being the least of a coward, Capitola thought of the loneliness of the woods, the lateness of the hour, her own helplessness, and-Black Donald!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000042_000001|And thinking "discretion the better part of valor," she urged her horse once more into a gallop for a few hundred yards; but the jaded beast soon broke into a trot and subsided into a walk that threatened soon to come to a standstill.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000043_000000|The invisible pursuer gained on her.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000045_000000|The thundering footfalls of the pursuing horse were close in the rear.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000046_000000|"Oh, Gyp, is it possible that, instead of my capturing Black Donald, you are going to let Black Donald or somebody else catch me?" exclaimed Capitola, in mock despair, as she urged her wearied steed.
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000047_000000|In vain!
train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000048_000000|"Whither away so fast, pretty one?"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000000_000000|DOLLY'S LESSON.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000001_000000|"What is presence of mind, any way?" demanded little Dolly Ware, as she sat, surrounded by her family, watching the sunset.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000000|The sunset hour is best of all the twenty four in Nantucket.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000001|At no other time is the sea so blue and silvery, or the streaks of purple and pale green which mark the place of the sand spits and shallows that underlie the island waters so defined, or of such charming colors.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000002|The wind blows across softly from the south shore, and brings with it scents of heath and thyme, caught from the high upland moors above the town.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000003|The sun dips down, and sends a flash of glory to the zenith; and small pink clouds curl up about the rising moon, fondle her, as it were, and seem to love her.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000004|It is a delightful moment, and all Nantucket dwellers learn to watch for it.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000003_000001|It was the hour when jokes were cracked and questions asked, and when Mamma, who was apt to be pretty busy during the daytime, had leisure to answer them.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000000|Dolly was youngest of the family,--a thin, wiry child, tall for her years, with a brown bang lying like a thatch over a pair of bright inquisitive eyes, and a thick pig tail braided down her back.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000001|Phyllis, the next in age, was short and fat; then came Harry, then Erma, just sixteen (named after a German great grandmother), and, last of all, Jack, tallest and jolliest of the group, who had just "passed his preliminaries," and would enter college next year.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000002|mrs Ware might be excused for the little air of motherly pride with which she gazed at her five.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000003|They were fine children, all of them,--frank, affectionate, generous, with bright minds and healthy bodies.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000005_000000|"Presence of mind sometimes means absence of body," remarked Jack, in answer to Dolly's question.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000006_000000|"I was speaking to Mamma," said Dolly, with dignity.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000006_000001|"I wasn't asking you."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000007_000000|"I am aware of the fact, but I overlooked the formality, for once.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000007_000001|What makes you want to know, midget?"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000008_000000|"There was a story in the paper about a girl who hid the kerosene can when the new cook came, and it said she showed true presence of mind," replied Dolly.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000009_000000|"Oh, that was only fun!
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000009_000001|It didn't mean anything."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000010_000000|"Isn't there any such thing, then?"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000011_000000|"Why, of course there is.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000011_000001|Picking up a shell just before it bursts in a hospital tent, and throwing it out of the door, is presence of mind."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000012_000000|"Yes, and tying a string round the right place on your leg when you've cut an artery," added Harry, eagerly.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000013_000000|"Swallowing a quart of whiskey when a rattlesnake bites you," suggested Jack.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000014_000000|"Saving the silver, instead of the waste paper basket, when the house is on fire," put in Erma.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000015_000000|Dolly looked from one to the other.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000016_000000|"What funny things!" she cried.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000016_000001|"I don't believe you know anything about it.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000016_000002|Mamma, tell me what it really means."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000017_000000|"I think," said mrs Ware, in those gentle tones to which her children always listened, "that presence of mind means keeping cool, and having your wits about you, at critical moments.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000017_000001|Our minds-our reasoning faculties, that is-are apt to be stunned or shocked when we are suddenly frightened or excited; they leave us, and go away, as it were, and it is only afterward that we pick ourselves up, and realize what we ought to have done.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000018_000000|"Should you be proud of me if I showed presence of mind?" asked Dolly, leaning her arms on her mother's lap.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000019_000000|"Very proud," replied mrs Ware, smiling as she stroked the brown head,--"very proud, indeed."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000020_000000|"I mean to do it," said Dolly, in a firm tone.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000021_000000|There was a general laugh.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000022_000000|"How will you go to work?" asked Jack.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000022_000001|"Shall I step down to Hussey's, and get a shell for you to practise on?"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000023_000000|"She'll be setting the house on fire some night, to show what she can do," added Harry, teasingly.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000000|"I shall do no such thing," protested Dolly, indignantly.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000001|"How foolish you are!
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000002|You don't understand a bit!
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000003|I don't want to make things happen; but, if they do happen, I shall try to keep cool and have my wits about me, and perhaps I shall."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000025_000000|"It would be lovely to be brave and do heroic things," remarked Phyllis.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000026_000000|"You could at least be brave enough to use your common sense," said her mother.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000026_000001|"Yours is a very good resolution, Dolly dear, and I hope you'll keep to it."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000027_000000|"I will," said Dolly, and marched undauntedly off to bed.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000027_000001|Later, she found herself repeating, as if it were a lesson to be learned, "Presence of mind means keeping cool, and having your wits about you;" and she said it over and over every morning and evening after that, as she braided her hair.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000000|It is not given to all of us to test ourselves, and discover by actual experiment just how much a mental resolution has done for us.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000001|Dolly, however, was to have the chance.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000002|The bathing beach at Nantucket is a particularly safe one, and the water through the summer months most warm and delicious.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000003|All the children who lived on the sandy bluff known as "The Cliff" were in the habit of bathing; and the daily dip taken in company was the chief event of the day, in their opinion.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000004|The little Wares all swam like ducks; and no one thought of being nervous or apprehensive if Harry struck out boldly for the jetty, or if Erma and Phyllis were seen side by side at a point far beyond the depth of either of them, or little Dolly took a "header" into deep water off an old boat.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000029_000000|It happened, about two months after the talk on the piazza, that Dolly was bathing with Kitty Allen, a small neighbor of her own age.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000029_000001|Kitty had just been learning to swim, and was very proud of her new accomplishment; but she was by no means so sure of herself or so much at home in the water as Dolly, who had learned three years before, and practised continually.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000030_000000|The two children had swam out for quite a distance; then, as they turned to go back, Kitty suddenly realized her distance from the shore, and was seized with immediate and paralyzing terror.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000001|"How far out we are!
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000002|We shall never get back in the world!
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000003|We shall be drowned!
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000004|Dolly Ware, we shall certainly be drowned!"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000032_000000|She made a vain clutch at Dolly, and, with a wild scream, went down, and disappeared.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000033_000000|Dolly dived after her, only to be met by Kitty coming up to the surface again, and frantically reaching out, as drowning persons do, for something to hold by.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000033_000001|The first thing she touched was Dolly's large pig tail, and, grasping that tight, she sank again, dragging Dolly down with her, backward.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000034_000000|It was really a hazardous moment.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000034_000001|Many a good swimmer has lost his life under similar circumstances.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000034_000002|Nothing is more dangerous than to be caught and held by a person who cannot swim, or who is too much disabled by fear to use his powers.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000000|And now it was that Dolly's carefully conned lesson about presence of mind came to her aid.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000001|"Keep cool; have your wits about you," rang through her ears, as, held in Kitty's desperate grasp, she was dragged down, down into the sea.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000002|A clear sense of what she ought to do flashed across her mind.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000003|She must escape from Kitty and hold her up, but not give Kitty any chance to drag her down again.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000004|As they rose, she pulled her hair away with a sudden motion, and seized Kitty by the collar of her bathing dress, behind.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000036_000000|"Float, and I'll hold you up," she gasped.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000037_000000|Kitty was too far gone to make any very serious struggle.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000037_000001|Then Dolly, striking out strongly, and pushing Kitty before her, sent one wild cry for help toward the beach.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000000|The cry was heard.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000001|It seemed to Dolly a terribly long time before any answer came, but it was in reality less than five minutes before a boat was pushed into the water.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000002|Dolly saw it rowing toward her, and held on bravely.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000003|"Be cool; have your wits about you," she said to herself.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000004|And she kept firm grasp of her mind, and would not let the fright, of whose existence she was conscious, get possession of her.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000039_000000|Oh, how welcome was the dash of the oars close at hand, how gladly she relinquished Kitty to the strong arms that lifted her into the boat! But when the men would have helped her in too, she refused.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000000|"No, thank you; I'll swim!" she said.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000001|It seemed nothing to get herself to shore, now that the responsibility of Kitty and Kitty's weight were taken from her.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000002|She swam pluckily along, the boat keeping near, lest her strength should give out, and reached the beach just as Jack, that moment aware of the situation, was dashing into the water after her.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000003|She was very pale, but declared herself not tired at all, and she dressed and marched sturdily up the cliff, refusing all assistance.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000041_000000|There was quite a little stir among the summer colony over the adventure, and mrs Ware had many compliments paid her for her child's behavior.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000041_000001|mr Allen came over, and had much to say about the extraordinary presence of mind which Dolly had shown.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000042_000000|"It was really remarkable," he said.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000042_000001|"If she had fought with Kitty, or if she had tried to swim ashore and had not called for assistance, they might easily have both been drowned.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000042_000002|It is extraordinary that a child of that age should keep her head, and show such coolness and decision."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000043_000000|"It wasn't remarkable at all," Dolly declared, as soon as he was gone. "It was just because you said that on the piazza that night."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000044_000000|"Said what?"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000045_000000|"Why, Mamma, surely you haven't forgotten.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000045_000001|It was that about presence of mind, you know.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000045_000002|I taught it to myself, and have said it over and over ever since,--'Keep cool; have your wits about you.' I said it in the water when Kitty was pulling me under."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000046_000000|"Did you, really?"
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000047_000000|"Indeed, I did.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000047_000001|And then I seemed to know what to do."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000048_000000|"Well, it was a good lesson," said mrs Ware, with glistening eyes.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000048_000001|"I am glad and thankful that you learned it when you did, Dolly."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000049_000000|"Are you proud of me?" demanded Dolly.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000050_000000|"Yes, I am proud of you."
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000051_000000|This capped the climax of Dolly's contentment.
train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000051_000001|Mamma was proud of her; she was quite satisfied.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000002_000000|And now I come to perhaps the strangest adventure that happened to us in all this strange business, and one which shows how wonderfully things are brought about.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000003_000000|I was walking along quietly, some way in front of the other two, down the banks of the stream which runs from the oasis till it is swallowed up in the hungry desert sands, when suddenly I stopped and rubbed my eyes, as well I might.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000003_000001|There, not twenty yards in front of me, placed in a charming situation, under the shade of a species of fig tree, and facing to the stream, was a cosy hut, built more or less on the Kafir principle with grass and withes, but having a full length door instead of a bee hole.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000001|I thought that I must have got a touch of the sun
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000002|It was impossible.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000003|No hunter ever came to such a place as this.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000005|I stared and stared, and so did the other man, and just at that juncture Sir Henry and Good walked up.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000005_000000|"Look here, you fellows," I said, "is that a white man, or am I mad?"
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000006_000000|Sir Henry looked, and Good looked, and then all of a sudden the lame white man with a black beard uttered a great cry, and began hobbling towards us.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000006_000001|When he was close he fell down in a sort of faint.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000007_000000|With a spring Sir Henry was by his side.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000009_000000|At the sound of this disturbance, another figure, also clad in skins, emerged from the hut, a gun in his hand, and ran towards us.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000010_000000|"Macumazahn," he halloed, "don't you know me, Baas?
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000010_000001|I'm Jim the hunter. I lost the note you gave me to give to the Baas, and we have been here nearly two years." And the fellow fell at my feet, and rolled over and over, weeping for joy.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000012_000001|But whatever they had quarrelled about in the past-I suspect it was a lady, though I never asked-it was evidently forgotten now.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000013_000000|"My dear old fellow," burst out Sir Henry at last, "I thought you were dead.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000015_000000|Then I came up.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000016_000002|It is all so very strange, and, when a man has ceased to hope, so very happy!"
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000000|That evening, over the camp fire, George Curtis told us his story, which, in its way, was almost as eventful as our own, and, put shortly, amounted to this.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000002|As for the note I had sent him by Jim, that worthy lost it, and he had never heard of it till to day.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000003|But, acting upon information he had received from the natives, he headed not for Sheba's Breasts, but for the ladder like descent of the mountains down which we had just come, which is clearly a better route than that marked out in old Dom Silvestra's plan.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000004|In the desert he and Jim had suffered great hardships, but finally they reached this oasis, where a terrible accident befell George Curtis.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000005|On the day of their arrival he was sitting by the stream, and Jim was extracting the honey from the nest of a stingless bee which is to be found in the desert, on the top of a bank immediately above him.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000006|In so doing he loosened a great boulder of rock, which fell upon George Curtis's right leg, crushing it frightfully.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000018_000000|As for food, however, they got on pretty well, for they had a good supply of ammunition, and the oasis was frequented, especially at night, by large quantities of game, which came thither for water.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000018_000001|These they shot, or trapped in pitfalls, using the flesh for food, and, after their clothes wore out, the hides for clothing.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000019_000000|"And so," George Curtis ended, "we have lived for nearly two years, like a second Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday, hoping against hope that some natives might come here to help us away, but none have come. Only last night we settled that Jim should leave me, and try to reach Sitanda's Kraal to get assistance.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000019_000001|He was to go to morrow, but I had little hope of ever seeing him back again.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000019_000003|It is the most wonderful thing that I have ever heard of, and the most merciful too."
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000020_000000|Then Sir Henry set to work, and told him the main facts of our adventures, sitting till late into the night to do it.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000021_000000|"By Jove!" said George Curtis, when I showed him some of the diamonds: "well, at least you have got something for your pains, besides my worthless self."
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000022_000000|Sir Henry laughed.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000022_000001|"They belong to Quatermain and Good.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000023_000000|This remark set me thinking, and having spoken to Good, I told Sir Henry that it was our joint wish that he should take a third portion of the diamonds, or, if he would not, that his share should be handed to his brother, who had suffered even more than ourselves on the chance of getting them.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000023_000001|Finally, we prevailed upon him to consent to this arrangement, but George Curtis did not know of it until some time afterwards.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000024_000002|But we did accomplish it somehow, and to give its details would only be to reproduce much of what happened to us on the former occasion.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000026_000000|p s--Just as I had written the last word, a Kafir came up my avenue of orange trees, carrying a letter in a cleft stick, which he had brought from the post.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000026_000001|It turned out to be from Sir Henry, and as it speaks for itself I give it in full.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000029_000001|We got off the boat at Southampton, and went up to town.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000030_000000|He is furious, especially as some ill natured person has printed it in a Society paper.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000031_000000|To come to business, Good and I took the diamonds to Streeter's to be valued, as we arranged, and really I am afraid to tell you what they put them at, it seems so enormous.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000031_000003|They offer, however, a hundred and eighty thousand for a very small portion of them.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000032_000002|His time is too much occupied in shaving, and other matters connected with the vain adorning of the body.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000032_000004|He told me that since he had been home he hadn't seen a woman to touch her, either as regards her figure or the sweetness of her expression.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000000|I want you to come home, my dear old comrade, and to buy a house near here.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000001|You have done your day's work, and have lots of money now, and there is a place for sale quite close which would suit you admirably.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000002|Do come; the sooner the better; you can finish writing the story of our adventures on board ship.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000003|We have refused to tell the tale till it is written by you, for fear lest we shall not be believed.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000004|If you start on receipt of this you will reach here by Christmas, and I book you to stay with me for that.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000005|Good is coming, and George; and so, by the way, is your boy Harry (there's a bribe for you).
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000006|I have had him down for a week's shooting, and like him.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000007|He is a cool young hand; he shot me in the leg, cut out the pellets, and then remarked upon the advantages of having a medical student with every shooting party!
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000034_000000|Good bye, old boy; I can't say any more, but I know that you will come, if it is only to oblige
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000036_000000|p s--The tusks of the great bull that killed poor Khiva have now been put up in the hall here, over the pair of buffalo horns you gave me, and look magnificent; and the axe with which I chopped off Twala's head is fixed above my writing table.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000036_000001|I wish that we could have managed to bring away the coats of chain armour.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000036_000002|Don't lose poor Foulata's basket in which you brought away the diamonds.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000037_000000|h c
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000038_000000|To day is Tuesday.
train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000039_000000|ALLAN QUATERMAIN.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000000_000000|This is a LibriVox recording.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000000_000001|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000003_000000|ALLAN QUATERMAIN
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000004_000000|By h Rider Haggard
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000009_000000|december twenty third
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000000|'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000002|Who am I that I should complain?
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000003|The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late-it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000004|We do not prostrate ourselves before it like the poor Indians; we fly hither and thither-we cry for mercy; but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000001|He was doing so well at the hospital, he had passed his last examination with honours, and I was proud of them, much prouder than he was, I think.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000002|And then he must needs go to that smallpox hospital.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000003|He wrote to me that he was not afraid of smallpox and wanted to gain the experience; and now the disease has killed him, and I, old and grey and withered, am left to mourn over him, without a chick or child to comfort me.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000004|I might have saved him, too-I have money enough for both of us, and much more than enough-King Solomon's Mines provided me with that; but I said, "No, let the boy earn his living, let him labour that he may enjoy rest." But the rest has come to him before the labour.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000012_000000|'I am like the man in the Bible who laid up much goods and builded barns-goods for my boy and barns for him to store them in; and now his soul has been required of him, and I am left desolate.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000000|'We buried him this afternoon under the shadow of the grey and ancient tower of the church of this village where my house is.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000002|The coffin was put down by the grave, and a few big flakes lit upon it.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000003|They looked very white upon the black cloth!
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000004|There was a little hitch about getting the coffin down into the grave-the necessary ropes had been forgotten: so we drew back from it, and waited in silence watching the big flakes fall gently one by one like heavenly benedictions, and melt in tears on Harry's pall.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000005|But that was not all. A robin redbreast came as bold as could be and lit upon the coffin and began to sing.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000014_000000|The above, signed 'Allan Quatermain', is an extract from my diary written two years and more ago.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000014_000001|I copy it down here because it seems to me that it is the fittest beginning to the history that I am about to write, if it please God to spare me to finish it.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000014_000003|That extract was penned seven thousand miles or so from the spot where I now lie painfully and slowly writing this, with a pretty girl standing by my side fanning the flies from my august countenance. Harry is there and I am here, and yet somehow I cannot help feeling that I am not far off Harry.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000002|On all the four walls of this vestibule were placed pairs of horns-about a hundred pairs altogether, all of which I had shot myself.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000003|They are beautiful specimens, as I never keep any horns which are not in every way perfect, unless it may be now and again on account of the associations connected with them.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000004|In the centre of the room, however, over the wide fireplace, there was a clear space left on which I had fixed up all my rifles.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000005|Some of them I have had for forty years, old muzzle loaders that nobody would look at nowadays.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000008|And many an elephant have I shot with that old gun.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000016_000002|Yes, as I walked, I began to long to see the moonlight gleaming silvery white over the wide veldt and mysterious sea of bush, and watch the lines of game travelling down the ridges to the water.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000016_000003|The ruling passion is strong in death, they say, and my heart was dead that night.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000016_000004|But, independently of my trouble, no man who has for forty years lived the life I have, can with impunity go coop himself in this prim English country, with its trim hedgerows and cultivated fields, its stiff formal manners, and its well dressed crowds.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000000|Ah! this civilization, what does it all come to?
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000002|A great gulf fixed?
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000003|No, only a very little one, that a plain man's thought may spring across.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000005|It is a depressing conclusion, but in all essentials the savage and the child of civilization are identical.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000006|I dare say that the highly civilized lady reading this will smile at an old fool of a hunter's simplicity when she thinks of her black bead bedecked sister; and so will the superfine cultured idler scientifically eating a dinner at his club, the cost of which would keep a starving family for a week.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000000|There, I might go on for ever, but what is the good?
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000002|A vainglory is it, and like a northern light, comes but to fade and leave the sky more dark.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000004|Do not let me, however, be understood as decrying our modern institutions, representing as they do the gathered experience of humanity applied for the good of all.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000005|Of course they have great advantages-hospitals for instance; but then, remember, we breed the sickly people who fill them.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000006|In a savage land they do not exist. Besides, the question will arise: How many of these blessings are due to Christianity as distinct from civilization?
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000000|I make no apology for this digression, especially as this is an introduction which all young people and those who never like to think (and it is a bad habit) will naturally skip.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000001|It seems to me very desirable that we should sometimes try to understand the limitations of our nature, so that we may not be carried away by the pride of knowledge.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000002|Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000004|It is the one fixed unchangeable thing-fixed as the stars, more enduring than the mountains, as unalterable as the way of the Eternal.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000006|But the composing elements remain the same, nor will there be one more bit of coloured glass nor one less for ever and ever.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000020_000001|It is on the nineteen rough serviceable savage portions that we fall back on emergencies, not on the polished but unsubstantial twentieth.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000020_000002|Civilization should wipe away our tears, and yet we weep and cannot be comforted.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000021_000000|So, when the heart is stricken, and the head is humbled in the dust, civilization fails us utterly.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000022_000000|And so in my trouble, as I walked up and down the oak panelled vestibule of my house there in Yorkshire, I longed once more to throw myself into the arms of Nature.
train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000022_000002|I would go again where the wild game was, back to the land whereof none know the history, back to the savages, whom I love, although some of them are almost as merciless as Political Economy.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000002_000000|one.--Oriental Canapes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000000|Take some lobster or crab meat and pound in a mortar.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000001|Mix with one tablespoonful of butter; season with salt and pepper, a pinch each of mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and curry powder and moisten with lemon juice.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000002|Cut small rounds of toasted bread; scoop out some of the centre; fill with the mixture and cover with a curry sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000003|Sprinkle with fine bread crumbs and let bake in the oven a few minutes. Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000004_000000|two.--Haggis (SCOTCH).
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000005_000000|Chop a sheep's tongue, liver and heart and one pound of bacon.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000005_000003|Then clean the pouch of the sheep and fill with the mixture. Lay in boiling water and let boil three hours.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000005_000004|Serve with apple sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000006_000000|three.--Austrian Braised Tongue.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000000|Boil a large fresh beef tongue in salted water until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000001|Remove the tongue and lard it with thin strips of bacon; sprinkle with paprica; lay in a baking pan; add one onion sliced thin and one cup of the water in which the tongue was cooked and pour over one pint of cream. Let bake in a moderate oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000002|Baste often with the sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000003|Serve hot, and pour over the sauce; garnish with parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000008_000000|four.--Russian Omelet.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000000|Chop two shallots with a little parsley and cook in hot water.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000001|Add two tablespoonfuls of caviare and a teaspoonful of lemon juice; season to taste.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000002|Beat four eggs with one tablespoonful of cream, salt and pepper, and fry in an omelet pan with hot butter until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000003|Put the mixture in the centre; turn in the ends and serve at once.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000010_000000|five.--Madras Potato Curry.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000000|Cut boiled potatoes into thin slices; then fry one chopped onion in two tablespoonfuls of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000001|Add three ounces of grated cocoanut, one teaspoonful of curry powder and one cup of milk, salt and cayenne pepper to taste.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000002|Let boil up.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000003|Add the sliced potatoes and a sprig of parsley chopped.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000004|Let simmer a few minutes and serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000012_000000|six.--Swiss Baked Eggs.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000013_000000|Melt one ounce of butter in a baking pan; then cover the bottom of the pan with thin slices of Swiss cheese.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000013_000001|Break in six eggs; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000013_000002|Pour over four tablespoonfuls of cream; sprinkle with grated Swiss cheese, and let bake in the oven to a delicate brown. Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000014_000000|seven.--Jewish Stewed Shad.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000015_000000|Clean and cut a shad into large slices; sprinkle with salt, pepper and ginger.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000015_000003|Let boil until done and pour over the fish.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000015_000004|Garnish with sliced lemon and sprigs of parsley and serve cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000016_000000|eight.--Bombay Spinach.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000017_000000|Boil the spinach in salted water until tender; drain and chop fine. Fry one chopped onion in two tablespoonfuls of butter; add the chopped spinach, a pinch of pepper and curry powder.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000017_000001|Cover and let simmer five minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000017_000002|Serve on a platter with stewed prawns and garnish with croutons.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000018_000000|nine.--Spanish Fricasseed Shrimps.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000000|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter; add one onion chopped and two cups of tomatoes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000002|Stir in the yolk of an egg.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000004|Put some boiled rice on a platter; add the shrimps and pour over the sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000005|Serve very hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000020_000000|ten.--Irish Baked Potatoes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000021_000000|Peel and boil potatoes in salted water until tender; drain and mash with a lump of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000021_000002|Put in the oven to brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000021_000003|Serve with boiled fish.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000022_000000|eleven.--Russian Stewed Chicken.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000023_000000|Cut a fat chicken into pieces at the joints and let stew, well seasoned with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000023_000001|Then add some small whole onions, some cauliflower, mushrooms and one cup of French peas.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000023_000002|Let all cook until tender; then serve hot on a large platter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000024_000000|twelve.--Dutch Baked Mackerel.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000025_000000|Place the mackerel in a baking dish; sprinkle with pepper and chopped parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000025_000001|Cover with fried bread crumbs and bits of butter, and moisten with cream.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000025_000002|Then bake until brown on top and serve hot with stewed potatoes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000026_000000|thirteen.--Polish Roast Mutton.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000000|Season a leg of mutton with salt, pepper and a pinch of cloves.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000001|Lay in a baking pan with one sliced onion, two celery roots, three cloves of garlic and two carrots cut fine, one bay leaf, a sprig of thyme and a few peppercorns.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000002|Pour over one cup of vinegar and one cup of hot water.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000003|Dredge with flour and let bake in a hot oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000004|Baste often with the sauce in the pan until nearly done; then add one pint of sour cream and let bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000005|Thicken with flour; boil up and pour over the roast.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000028_000000|fourteen.--Italian Sugar Cakes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000030_000000|fifteen.--Oriental Stewed Prawns.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000031_000000|Clean and pick three dozen prawns.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000031_000002|Add one pint of stock and let simmer half an hour until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000031_000003|Serve on a border of boiled rice; garnish with fried parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000032_000000|sixteen.--Swiss Steak.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000033_000000|Season a round steak with salt, black pepper and paprica; dredge with flour and let fry in hot lard on both sides until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000033_000002|Cover and let simmer half an hour.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000034_000000|seventeen.--Berlin Herring Salad.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000035_000000|Soak the herring over night; remove the milch and mash fine.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000035_000001|Cut off the head, skin and bone; chop the herring; add chopped apples, pickles, potatoes, olives and capers.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000036_000000|eighteen.--German Lentil Soup.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000000|To one gallon of soup stock, add one quart of lentils.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000001|Let boil until lentils are soft, with one sliced onion.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000002|Then add some small sausages. Let boil five minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000003|Season to taste and serve the soup with the sausages and croutons fried in butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000038_000000|nineteen.--French Spiced Venison.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000000|Rub the venison with salt, pepper, vinegar, cloves and allspice; then put in a baking pan.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000001|Pour over a cup of melted butter; add one onion sliced, some thyme, parsley, the juice of a lemon, and a cup of hot water.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000002|Let bake, covered, in a hot oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000003|Baste often with the sauce when nearly done.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000004|Sprinkle with flour; add a glass of sherry and let brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000005|Serve with celery and currant jelly.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000040_000000|twenty.--Spanish Mushrooms.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000041_000000|Drain one can of mushrooms and heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000041_000001|Add six shallots and one clove of garlic chopped fine, some parsley and thyme and the mushrooms.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000041_000002|Let all fry a few minutes; then add the mushroom liquor and two tablespoonfuls of white wine, salt and pepper to taste. Let simmer five minutes and serve hot on slices of toast.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000043_000000|Boil some fine noodles in salted water for ten minutes; let drain. Beat the yolks of five eggs with one cup of pulverized sugar and mix with the noodles.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000043_000002|Put in a well buttered pudding dish and bake until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000044_000000|twenty two.--Dutch Sweet Potato Puff.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000045_000000|Peel and boil three sweet potatoes in salted water until tender; then mash well with three beaten yolks of eggs, one cup of milk, three tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of nutmeg and lemon juice. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt to a stiff froth; add to the potatoes and put in a well buttered baking dish and bake.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000045_000001|Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000046_000000|twenty three.--Spaghetti (ITALIAN).
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000047_000001|Drain.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000047_000003|Then add one cup of milk; let boil and pour over the spaghetti.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000047_000004|Sprinkle with salt, pepper and grated cheese and let bake in the oven until done. Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000048_000000|twenty four.--Russian Beet Soup.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000000|Boil five medium sized beets until tender; then chop and add to a highly seasoned chicken broth.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000001|Add the juice of one lemon, some cinnamon and nutmeg; let boil fifteen minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000002|Then add one glass of red wine, mixed with a teaspoonful of brown sugar.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000003|Let boil a few minutes longer and serve with fried croutons.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000050_000000|twenty five.--Boulettes.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000001|Add one tablespoonful of lemon juice, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000002|Season highly with salt, black pepper and a pinch of cayenne.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000003|Mix with one egg and form into balls; roll in flour and fry in deep hot lard until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000004|Serve hot with tomato sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000052_000000|twenty six.--Baden Stewed Lentils.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000000|Boil one quart of lentils until tender; then heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000001|Add one chopped onion and stir in one tablespoonful of flour until brown; add some cold water mixed with vinegar.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000003|Season with salt and pepper, and serve with small boiled sausages.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000004|Sprinkle the top with bread crumbs fried in butter until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000054_000000|twenty seven.--Duck aux Champignons.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000055_000001|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; add the ducks, one large onion chopped fine, two cloves of garlic and one herb bouquet chopped.
train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000055_000002|Cover and brown a few minutes; add one cup of water and stew until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000001_000000|one.--Italian Tongue.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000000|Boil a beef tongue until tender; skin and slice thin.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000001|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000002|Add one chopped onion and two cloves of garlic minced fine.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000004|Let boil.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000006|Simmer ten minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000007|Serve with baked macaroni.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000003_000000|two.--German Prune Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000004_000000|Cook one pound of prunes in a large saucepan with sliced lemon, a piece of stick cinnamon and brown sugar.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000004_000003|Add flour sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Make into a large roll; place in the centre of the prunes; cover with brown sugar and a tablespoonful of molasses and put in the oven to bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000004_000004|Serve hot or cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000005_000000|three.--Swiss Pot Roast.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000000|Season a breast of veal with salt, pepper and ginger.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000001|Heat a cupful of dripping; lay the meat in the stew pan with the dripping, one onion, some celery seed, carroway seed, a few peppercorns and parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000002|Cover and let stew slowly until nearly done; then add one cup of tomato sauce and cook slowly until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000003|Serve with baked potatoes.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000007_000000|four.--Mushrooms a la Bordelaise.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000008_000000|Drain one can of mushrooms; chop six shallots very fine and saute in one tablespoonful of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000008_000001|Add the chopped mushrooms; sprinkle with salt, pepper, some chopped parsley and one minced bay leaf.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000008_000003|Serve hot on slices of French toast.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000009_000000|five.--Turkish Soup.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000010_000000|Season and fry some lamb chops; add two green peppers sliced thin, one onion chopped and an herb bouquet.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000010_000002|Pour all together and let cook until meat is very tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000010_000003|Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000011_000000|six.--Scotch Omelet.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000012_000000|Boil young tender leeks in salted water; let drain.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000012_000001|Chop to a fine mince and fry in hot butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000012_000002|Add six well beaten eggs, sprinkle with salt and pepper and fold into an omelet and serve on a hot dish.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000013_000000|seven.--Jewish Egg Bread.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000014_000001|Add a pinch of sugar and let them fry in hot rendered butter until a golden brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000014_000002|Sprinkle with pulverized sugar and cinnamon and serve hot with coffee.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000015_000000|eight.--Bombay Broiled Kidney.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000000|Clean sheep's kidneys and cut into thin slices.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000001|Sprinkle with salt, cayenne pepper and grated lemon peel.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000002|Then dip in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs and broil on a hot greased gridiron.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000003|Serve on buttered toast, spread with curry paste.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000017_000000|nine.--German Prune Kuchen.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000000|Boil some prunes until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000001|Remove the kernels and mash the prunes well.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000002|Mix with sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice to taste.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000003|Make a rich biscuit dough, roll out and place on a well buttered baking pan.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000004|Fill with the prunes and let bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000005|Serve cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000019_000000|ten.--French Roast with Carrots.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000000|Lard a round of beef with slices of bacon and put in a large saucepan. Cover and let brown a few minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000001|Add sliced onion and boiling water to cover.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000002|Let cook slowly until tender; then scrape six carrots and cut thin; add two sliced onions, two cloves of garlic and let cook until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000003|Thicken with butter and flour.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000004|Season highly with salt, pepper and parsley; add to the meat, and let all cook together a half hour and serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000021_000000|eleven.--Spanish Fried Chicken.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000022_000000|Cut a fat hen into pieces at the joints and boil until tender; season and fry with one onion and two green peppers chopped fine.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000022_000001|Add one cup of tomato sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000022_000002|Serve the chicken on a platter with boiled rice.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000023_000000|twelve.--Hungarian Bread Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000024_000003|Sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg and grated lemon peel; then mix with the yolks of four eggs and the whites beaten stiff.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000024_000004|Put in a well buttered pudding dish, and let bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000024_000005|Serve hot with wine sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000025_000000|thirteen.--Swedish Baked Turnips.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000000|Peel small tender turnips; heat one tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000001|Place the turnips in whole, sprinkle with salt and pepper; add a tablespoonful of sugar.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000002|Pour over a cup of water; cover and let cook for one hour until tender but not broken.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000003|Thicken the sauce with flour and milk.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000004|Add a little water and set in the oven a half hour, covered with paper; then serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000027_000000|fourteen.--Belgian Baked Bananas.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000000|Skin fine bananas and lay them whole in a baking dish.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000001|Sprinkle with sugar and grated lemon peel.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000003|Let bake in a quick oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000004|Put the bananas in a glass dish and pour over the sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000005|Let get cold and serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000029_000000|fifteen.--Japanese Rice.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000030_000000|Boil one cup of rice; add three chopped shallots, one teaspoonful of soy and salt to taste.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000030_000001|Place on a platter, cover with chopped hard boiled eggs, sprinkle with salt, paprica and chopped parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000030_000002|Garnish with some thin slices of smoked salmon.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000031_000000|sixteen.--Scotch Loaf Cake.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000032_000001|Make a loaf a half inch thick and bake in a moderate oven until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000033_000000|seventeen.--English Meat Loaf.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000034_000001|Sprinkle with pepper, mace and chopped parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000034_000002|Moisten with beef stock and let bake in the oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000034_000003|Serve cold, sliced very thin, garnished with watercress.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000035_000000|eighteen.--Jewish Purim Cakes.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000002|Put on a well floured baking board.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000003|Roll out a half inch thick.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000004|Cut into triangles and drop in a kettle of hot rendered butter; fry until a golden brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000005|Then mix some powdered sugar with a little milk and flavor with vanilla.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000006|Spread on the top.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000037_000000|nineteen.--Swiss Pie.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000038_000000|Make a rich pie dough.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000038_000001|Line a buttered pie dish with the dough; then slice three onions very thin and let cook in hot butter until tender; add a pinch of salt.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000038_000002|Fill the pie with the onions, cover the top with cream and let bake in a moderate oven until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000038_000003|Serve hot or cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000039_000000|twenty.--French Apple Fritters.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000040_000000|Peel and slice large apples; sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice and make a rich egg batter.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000040_000002|Lay the sliced apples in the batter and fry in deep hot lard to a golden brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000041_000000|twenty one.--Jewish Purim Torte.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000042_000000|Line a well buttered baking dish with a rich pie paste.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000042_000002|Add the whites beaten stiff; then fill with the mixture and let bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000043_000000|twenty two.--English Boiled Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000044_000002|Add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth; put in a buttered pudding mold, and let boil until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000044_000003|Serve with brandy sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000045_000000|twenty three.--German Stewed Brains.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000046_000000|Clean the brains.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000046_000001|Heat one tablespoonful of drippings in a pan; add the brains, one sliced onion, some parsley, salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000046_000002|Let stew fifteen minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000047_000000|twenty four.--Scotch Cream Muffins.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000048_000000|Sift one pint of flour with one teaspoonful of baking powder; beat three yolks of eggs with a pinch of salt; add one pint of cream and one tablespoonful of melted butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000048_000001|Stir in the flour; add the whites beaten to a stiff froth.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000048_000002|Beat all well together.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000049_000000|twenty five.--French Tart.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000000|Make a rich pie dough.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000002|Add the beaten whites; fill the pie and bake in a moderate oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000004|Mix one ounce of granulated sugar with one tablespoonful of cold water and let come to a boil.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000005|Put on the pie when cool and serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000051_000000|twenty six.--Polish Stewed Beans.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000052_000000|Break string beans into pieces and let boil in salted water until tender; then heat one tablespoonful of butter; stir in one tablespoonful of flour until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000052_000002|Let sauce boil.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000052_000003|Add the beans and simmer ten minutes. Serve hot with a beef pot roast.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000053_000000|twenty seven.--Vienna Milk Rolls.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000054_000001|Beat all up well with one pint of milk; let raise over night.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000054_000002|Roll out an inch thick; cut with a biscuit cutter; rub with melted butter; lay in a buttered baking pan; let raise one hour; then bake in a hot oven twenty minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000055_000000|twenty eight.--Scotch Potato Stew.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000000|Cut the potatoes into small dice pieces and fry in hot lard.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000001|Then fry one onion cut fine in hot butter, but do not brown; stir in some flour; then add milk, salt, pepper and parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000002|Let boil up once and add the potatoes to the sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000003|Let all get very hot and serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000057_000000|twenty nine.--Jewish Dumplings.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000000|Soak six crackers in water; then press dry.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000001|Fry one chopped onion in butter and pour over the crackers.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000002|Add three eggs and chopped parsley; sprinkle with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000003|Mix all with some cracker meal until you can form into balls and boil in salted water until done. Serve hot with melted butter poured over them, and garnish with parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000059_000000|thirty.--Italian Soup.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000001_000000|one.--Portugal Iced Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000002_000001|Then place in the freezer to harden and serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000003_000000|two.--English Chicken Salad.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000000|Mix one cup of cold chicken cut fine with one cup of chopped celery, one cup of cooked chestnuts chopped and two green peppers cut fine.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000001|Season with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000002|Put on crisp lettuce leaves in the salad bowl; cover with a mayonnaise dressing.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000003|Serve cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000005_000000|three.--Turkish Stewed Lamb.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000001|Lay in a large stew pan and cover with hot water.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000002|Add one sliced onion, two sliced green peppers and two tomatoes, one red pepper and two sprigs of parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000003|Let stew slowly until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000004|Then fry thin slices of egg plant and add to the stew.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000005|Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000007_000000|four.--Irish Apple Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000008_000000|Pare and slice apples and lay them in a buttered pie dish.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000008_000002|Then cover with a rich pie paste and let bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000009_000000|five.--Indian Rice.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000010_000000|Boil one cup of rice in chicken broth; add a pinch of curry powder and season to taste with salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000010_000002|Serve very hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000011_000000|six.--Hungarian Chicken Soup.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000012_000000|Boil a large chicken in three quarts of water; season with salt, sage and pepper; add one onion chopped and cook until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000012_000001|Remove the chicken and chop it fine; then add to the soup with the yolks of three well beaten eggs; let all get very hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000012_000002|Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve at once.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000013_000000|seven.--Yorkshire Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000000|Beat three eggs with a pinch of salt; add one pint of milk and two thirds of a cup of flour.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000001|Stir until smooth.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000002|Then pour into a well greased pan and bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000003|Serve with English roast beef, and pour over the gravy.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000015_000000|eight.--Portugal Salad.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000016_000000|Slice two cucumbers, two tomatoes, one onion and two green peppers.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000016_000001|Then sprinkle with one chopped clove of garlic, salt and pepper and cover with some thin slices of bread.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000017_000000|nine.--English Chocolate Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000018_000000|Soak six ounces of bread crumbs in milk and press dry; add two ounces of butter mixed with three ounces of sugar and three ounces of chocolate; add the yolks of six eggs well beaten, and flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla; add the whites beaten to a stiff froth.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000018_000001|Bake in a quick oven and serve at once.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000019_000000|ten.--Spanish Canapes.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000000|Prepare circular pieces of buttered toast.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000001|Then mix one cup of chopped fish with three sweet pickles minced fine, and two tablespoonfuls of Madras chutney; moisten with two tablespoonfuls of Hollandaise sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000002|Spread this mixture over eight pieces of toast; sprinkle with three tablespoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000003|Let bake for five minutes and serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000021_000000|eleven.--French Strawberry Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000022_000000|Dip enough macaroons in wine to line the pudding dish; cover with sweetened strawberries.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000022_000001|Beat the yolks of four eggs with sugar and flavor with vanilla; pour over the strawberries; put in the oven to bake. Beat the whites to a stiff froth with some pulverized sugar; put on top of the pudding and let brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000022_000002|Serve cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000000|Chop cold veal.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000001|Mix with some sweetbread and mushrooms chopped.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000002|Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000003|Add a sprig of parsley and a little onion chopped fine.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000004|Mix with a beaten egg and bread crumbs; sprinkle with nutmeg.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000005|Form into croquettes.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000006|Dip in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs and fry in deep hot lard.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000007|Serve hot with a cream sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000025_000000|thirteen.--German Cheese Pie.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000000|Line a pie plate with a rich pie dough.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000002|Mix well.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000003|Fill the pie.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000004|Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake until light brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000005|Serve hot or cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000027_000000|fourteen.--Italian Veal Pates.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000000|Chop cooked veal with some onion, parsley, thyme and one clove of garlic; season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000001|Add some chopped ham, lemon juice and two eggs.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000002|Mix with bread crumbs and melted butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000003|Fill into small pate shells; rub with butter and beaten egg.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000004|Place a paper over the top and let bake in a moderate oven.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000005|Serve with tomato sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000029_000000|fifteen.--Hungarian Noodle Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000001|Add the beaten whites.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000002|Line the pudding dish with a rich pie paste.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000003|Fill with the noodles and pour over some melted butter. Bake until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000004|Serve hot with lemon sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000031_000000|sixteen.--Polish Stewed Chicken.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000032_000001|Let cook until tender and serve on a platter with cooked rice.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000033_000000|seventeen.--Madras Curried Apples.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000034_000000|Peel and core four sour apples and cut into rings; then sprinkle with curry powder and let fry until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000034_000001|Add a few thinly cut shallots. Cover and let simmer until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000034_000002|Serve on a platter with boiled rice and pour over a curry sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000035_000000|eighteen.--Irish Batter Cakes.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000036_000000|Beat the yolks of four eggs; add a pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one small cup of milk and sifted flour enough to make a smooth batter.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000036_000001|Beat well.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000036_000002|Add the whites of eggs, beaten stiff and let fry a golden color; then spread with jam and serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000037_000000|nineteen.--Spanish Baked Eggs.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000000|Poach eggs as soft as possible.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000001|Butter a baking dish; add a layer of bread crumbs and grated cheese.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000002|Place the eggs on the crumbs; sprinkle with salt, pepper, grated cheese and chopped parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000003|Cover with bread crumbs and pour over some cream sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000004|Let bake in a hot oven until brown on top.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000005|Serve with toast.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000039_000000|twenty.--Scotch Stewed Onions.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000040_000001|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000040_000003|Add the onions; let boil up and serve.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000041_000000|twenty one.--German Baked Cabbage.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000001|Chop all the cabbage from the inside and fry in hot grease with one sliced onion.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000002|Remove from the fire.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000005|Let bake until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000006|Serve hot.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000043_000000|twenty two.--Dutch Veal Stew.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000000|Season three pounds of veal with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000001|Put a few slices of bacon in a stew pan; when hot, add the veal.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000002|Cover and let brown a few minutes; then add two carrots and one onion sliced thin, some thyme and mace; pour over one cup of hot water.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000003|Cover and let cook slowly until tender.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000045_000000|twenty three.--French Baked Apple Dumplings.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000000|Peel and core apples; sprinkle well with sugar.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000001|Then mix some cold boiled rice with one egg, a pinch of salt, sugar and cinnamon, flour enough to make a dough.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000002|Cover the apples with the dough; put in a well buttered baking dish with two tablespoonfuls of butter and bake to a delicate brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000003|Serve with whipped cream.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000047_000000|twenty four.--Bavarian Fried Brains.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000000|Clean and boil the brains in salted water; add one onion sliced; let cook ten minutes.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000001|Remove the brains and mash up well with one tablespoonful of butter, some bread crumbs and parsley chopped, salt and pepper to taste; add two eggs.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000002|Mix together and fry in deep hot lard by the tablespoonful until brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000003|Serve with tomato sauce.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000049_000000|twenty five.--Polish Bread Pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000050_000001|Mix well and bake until brown; then beat the whites to a stiff froth with three tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000050_000002|Spread the pudding with jelly and cover with the beaten whites; set in the oven to brown.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000051_000000|twenty six.--Vienna Cherry Cake.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000052_000001|Stone black cherries.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000052_000002|Sprinkle the dough with flour and cover with the cherries.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000052_000003|Sprinkle with sugar and let bake until done. Then cover with a sweetened egg custard and bake until brown. Serve cold.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000053_000000|twenty seven.--Belgian Poached Eggs.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000000|Cut thin round slices of bread and toast them.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000001|Spread with chopped anchovies and chopped ham.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000002|Cover the top with whipped whites of eggs and place a raw yoke on each slice of bread.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000003|Set in the oven to bake long enough to heat the egg, and serve at once.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000055_000000|twenty eight.--Bavarian Apple Pie.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000001|Let bake and fill with chopped apples, raisins and chopped nuts, sugar and a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000002|Then cover with cake crumbs and let bake until done.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000003|Beat three whites of eggs with pulverized sugar; flavor with lemon and spread over the pudding.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000004|Set in the oven a few minutes to brown on top.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000057_000000|twenty nine.--Russian Fried Sweetbreads.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000058_000000|Clean and season the sweetbreads with salt and pepper and sprinkle with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000058_000001|Roll in fine bread crumbs and fry in hot lard.
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000002_000001|I was put into the dog cart, and john went with his master.
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000003_000000|The man at the gate said the river was rising fast, and he feared it would be a bad night.
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000005_000000|"I wish we were well out of this wood," said my master.
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000006_000000|"Yes, sir," said john, "it would be rather awkward if one of these branches came down upon us."
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000010_000002|I dare not go forward, and I made a dead stop.
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000013_000002|stop!" he cried.
train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000018_000002|I have been so anxious, fancying all sorts of things.
train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000002_000003|"'twas no use going twice when once would do, and he chose to get business forward."
train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000004_000003|"Get on, you lazy fellow," he said, "or I'll make you."
train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000011_000000|"Pray, stop; I think I can help you if you will let me."
train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000020_000001|You won't put that rein on again, will you?" for he was just going to hitch it up on the old plan.
train-clean-360/362/123048/362_123048_000012_000000|"Can your horse do it, or can't he?" said the blustering man.
train-clean-360/362/123048/362_123048_000021_000001|"I have no meadows to nurse sick horses in-he might get well or he might not; that sort of thing don't suit my business; my plan is to work 'em as long as they'll go, and then sell 'em for what they'll fetch, at the knacker's or elsewhere."
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000001_000000|APPENDIX C
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000002_000000|ACOUSTICS
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000004_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000007_000002|These particles lie so close together that no movement at all can be detected, and it is only when the disturbance finally reaches the air particles that are in contact with the ear drum that any effect is evident.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000008_000000|This phenomenon of sound transmission may perhaps be made more clear by the old illustration of a series of eight billiard balls in a row on a table: if the first ball is tapped lightly, striking gently against ball number two, the latter (as well as numbers three, four, five, six, and seven) will not apparently move at all, but ball number eight at the other end will roll away.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000010_000001|This medium may be air, water, a bar of iron or steel, the earth, etc
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000012_000000|five.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000012_000002|If there is such a surface in an auditorium (as often occurs) there will be a certain point where everything can be heard very easily, but in the rest of the room it may be very difficult to understand what is being said or sung.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000014_000002|The duration of the reverberation depends upon the size and height of the room, material of floor and walls, furniture, size of audience, etc
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000015_000000|six.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000016_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000017_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000017_000001|Pitch.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000019_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000019_000001|Quality (timbre).
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000020_000001|It depends upon rate of vibration.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000020_000002|If a body vibrates only eight or ten times per second no tone is heard at all: but if it vibrates regularly at the rate of sixteen or eighteen per seconds a tone of very low pitch is heard.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000020_000004|The highest tone that can ordinarily be heard is the E[flat] four octaves higher than the highest E[flat] of the piano.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000022_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000023_000000|The intensity of tones varies with the medium conveying them, being usually louder at night because the air is then more elastic.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000023_000002|If two strings of the same length are stretched side by side and one set in vibration so as to produce tone the other will soon begin to vibrate also and the combined tone will be louder than if only one string produced it.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000024_000002|A series of simple vibrations will cause a simple (or colorless) tone, while complex vibrations (giving rise to overtones of various kinds and in a variety of proportions) cause more individualistic peculiarities of quality.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000024_000004|nine above.)
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000001|Practically every musical tone really consists of a combination of several tones sounding simultaneously, the combined effect upon the ear giving the impression of a single tone.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000003|The first of these overtones is the octave above the fundamental; the second is the fifth above this octave; the third, two octaves above the fundamental, and so on through the series as shown in the figure below.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000007|A similar series might be worked out from any other fundamental.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000027_000004|The characteristic tone of the oboe on the other hand has many overtones and is therefore highly individualistic: this enables us to recognize the tone of the instrument even though we cannot see the player.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000028_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000028_000002|There would be many other disadvantages in such a system, notably the inability to modulate freely to other keys, and since modulation is one of the predominant and most striking characteristics of modern music, this would constitute a serious barrier to advances in composition.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000029_000001|He called the collection "The Well tempered Clavichord."
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000030_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000030_000004|In eighteen ninety one a convention of piano manufacturers at Philadelphia adopted this same pitch for the United States, and it has been in practically universal use ever since.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000002_000001|If a man has been affected pleasurably or painfully by anyone, of a class or nation different from his own, and if the pleasure or pain has been accompanied by the idea of the said stranger as cause, under the general category of the class or nation: the man will feel love or hatred, not only to the individual stranger, but also to the whole class or nation whereto he belongs.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000004_000001|Joy arising from the fact, that anything we hate is destroyed, or suffers other injury, is never unaccompanied by a certain pain in us.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000005_000001|For in so far as we conceive a thing similar to ourselves to be affected with pain, we ourselves feel pain.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000002|For, as we have said, when the image of the thing in question, is aroused, inasmuch as it involves the thing's existence, it determines the man to regard the thing with the same pain as he was wont to do, when it actually did exist.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000003|However, since he has joined to the image of the thing other images, which exclude its existence, this determination to pain is forthwith checked, and the man rejoices afresh as often as the repetition takes place.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000004|This is the cause of men's pleasure in recalling past evils, and delight in narrating dangers from which they have escaped.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000005|For when men conceive a danger, they conceive it as still future, and are determined to fear it; this determination is checked afresh by the idea of freedom, which became associated with the idea of the danger when they escaped therefrom: this renders them secure afresh: therefore they rejoice afresh.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000007_000001|Love or hatred towards, for instance, peter is destroyed, if the pleasure involved in the former, or the pain involved in the latter emotion, be associated with the idea of another cause: and will be diminished in proportion as we conceive peter not to have been the sole cause of either emotion.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000008_000001|note).
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000008_000002|For pleasure is called love towards peter, and pain is called hatred towards peter, simply in so far as peter is regarded as the cause of one emotion or the other.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000008_000003|When this condition of causality is either wholly or partly removed, the emotion towards peter also wholly or in part vanishes.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000009_000001|Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other conditions being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000010_000003|note) love it or hate it, and shall do so with the utmost love or hatred that can arise from the given emotion.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000010_000005|Part one) conceive it not as the sole cause, but as one of the causes of the emotion, and therefore our love or hatred towards it will be less.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000014_000000|Note.--Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000014_000005|However, I do not think it worth while to point out here the vacillations springing from hope and fear; it follows from the definition of these emotions, that there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope, as I will duly explain in the proper place.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000005_000000|Chapter three.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000005_000001|The Brothers Make Friends
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000002|Waiters were continually darting to and fro in it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000003|The only customer in the room was an old retired military man drinking tea in a corner.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000004|But there was the usual bustle going on in the other rooms of the tavern; there were shouts for the waiters, the sound of popping corks, the click of billiard balls, the drone of the organ.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000006|So he must have come here, he reflected, simply to meet Dmitri by arrangement.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000007|Yet Dmitri was not there.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000008_000000|"Let me have soup, and tea afterwards, I am hungry," said Alyosha gayly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000009_000000|"And cherry jam?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000009_000001|They have it here.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000009_000002|You remember how you used to love cherry jam when you were little?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000010_000000|"You remember that?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000010_000001|Let me have jam too, I like it still."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000000|"I remember everything, Alyosha, I remember you till you were eleven, I was nearly fifteen.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000001|There's such a difference between fifteen and eleven that brothers are never companions at those ages.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000002|I don't know whether I was fond of you even.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000003|When I went away to Moscow for the first few years I never thought of you at all.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000004|Then, when you came to Moscow yourself, we only met once somewhere, I believe.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000005|And now I've been here more than three months, and so far we have scarcely said a word to each other.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000006|To morrow I am going away, and I was just thinking as I sat here how I could see you to say good by and just then you passed."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000013_000000|"Were you very anxious to see me, then?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000000|"Very.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000001|I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then to say good by.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000002|I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000003|I've noticed how you've been looking at me these three months.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000004|There has been a continual look of expectation in your eyes, and I can't endure that.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000005|That's how it is I've kept away from you.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000007|The little man stands firm, I thought.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000008|Though I am laughing, I am serious.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000009|You do stand firm, don't you? I like people who are firm like that whatever it is they stand by, even if they are such little fellows as you.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000010|Your expectant eyes ceased to annoy me, I grew fond of them in the end, those expectant eyes.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000011|You seem to love me for some reason, Alyosha?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000015_000003|You are a riddle to me even now.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000015_000004|But I understand something in you, and I did not understand it till this morning."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000017_000000|"You won't be angry?" Alyosha laughed too.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000018_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000019_000000|"That you are just as young as other young men of three and twenty, that you are just a young and fresh and nice boy, green in fact!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000019_000001|Now, have I insulted you dreadfully?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000000|"On the contrary, I am struck by a coincidence," cried Ivan, warmly and good humoredly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000001|"Would you believe it that ever since that scene with her, I have thought of nothing else but my youthful greenness, and just as though you guessed that, you begin about it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000003|At thirty, though, I shall be sure to leave the cup, even if I've not emptied it, and turn away-where I don't know.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000004|But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything-every disillusionment, every disgust with life.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000005|I've asked myself many times whether there is in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't, that is till I am thirty, and then I shall lose it of myself, I fancy.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000006|Some driveling consumptive moralists-and poets especially-often call that thirst for life base.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000007|It's a feature of the Karamazovs, it's true, that thirst for life regardless of everything; you have it no doubt too, but why is it base?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000008|The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000009|I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000010|Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000011|I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000012|I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one's heart prizes them.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000013|Here they have brought the soup for you, eat it, it will do you good.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000014|It's first rate soup, they know how to make it here.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000015|I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000016|Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been nothing but a graveyard.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000018|It's not a matter of intellect or logic, it's loving with one's inside, with one's stomach.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000019|One loves the first strength of one's youth.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000020|Do you understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?" Ivan laughed suddenly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000022_000000|"Love life more than the meaning of it?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000023_000000|"Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000024_000000|"You are trying to save me, but perhaps I am not lost!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000024_000001|And what does your second half mean?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000025_000000|"Why, one has to raise up your dead, who perhaps have not died after all. Come, let me have tea.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000026_000000|"I see you are feeling inspired.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000026_000002|You are a steadfast person, Alexey.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000026_000003|Is it true that you mean to leave the monastery?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000028_000001|We shall meet before I am thirty, when I shall begin to turn aside from the cup.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000028_000002|Father doesn't want to turn aside from his cup till he is seventy, he dreams of hanging on to eighty in fact, so he says.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000028_000005|But to hang on to seventy is nasty, better only to thirty; one might retain 'a shadow of nobility' by deceiving oneself.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000030_000000|"But he begged me not to tell Dmitri that he had told me about him," added Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000031_000000|"Are you frowning on Smerdyakov's account?" asked Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000032_000000|"Yes, on his account.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000032_000001|Damn him, I certainly did want to see Dmitri, but now there's no need," said Ivan reluctantly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000033_000000|"But are you really going so soon, brother?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000035_000000|"What of Dmitri and father?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000035_000001|how will it end?" asked Alyosha anxiously.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000000|"You are always harping upon it!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000001|What have I to do with it?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000003|"Cain's answer about his murdered brother, wasn't it? Perhaps that's what you're thinking at this moment?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000004|Well, damn it all, I can't stay here to be their keeper, can I? I've finished what I had to do, and I am going.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000006|I finished it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000007|I am going.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000008|I finished it just now, you were witness."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000000|"Yes, and I've released myself once for all.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000001|And after all, what have I to do with Dmitri?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000002|Dmitri doesn't come in.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000003|I had my own business to settle with Katerina Ivanovna.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000004|You know, on the contrary, that Dmitri behaved as though there was an understanding between us.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000006|It's all too funny.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000007|Ah, Alyosha, if you only knew how light my heart is now!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000008|Would you believe, it, I sat here eating my dinner and was nearly ordering champagne to celebrate my first hour of freedom.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000010|It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it off.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000011|I could never have guessed even yesterday, how easy it would be to put an end to it if I wanted."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000000|"Of my love, if you like.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000001|I fell in love with the young lady, I worried myself over her and she worried me.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000002|I sat watching over her ... and all at once it's collapsed!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000004|Would you believe it?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000005|Yes, it's the literal truth."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000041_000000|"You seem very merry about it now," observed Alyosha, looking into his face, which had suddenly grown brighter.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000000|"But how could I tell that I didn't care for her a bit!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000001|Ha ha!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000002|It appears after all I didn't.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000003|And yet how she attracted me!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000004|How attractive she was just now when I made my speech!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000005|And do you know she attracts me awfully even now, yet how easy it is to leave her.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000006|Do you think I am boasting?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000043_000000|"No, only perhaps it wasn't love."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000001|How you rushed into the discussion this morning!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000003|But how she tormented me!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000004|It certainly was sitting by a 'laceration.' Ah, she knew how I loved her!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000005|She loved me and not Dmitri," Ivan insisted gayly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000006|"Her feeling for Dmitri was simply a self laceration.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000008|Well, it's better so; I can simply go away for good.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000010|What happened after I departed?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000045_000000|Alyosha told him she had been hysterical, and that she was now, he heard, unconscious and delirious.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000046_000000|"Isn't Madame Hohlakov laying it on?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000047_000000|"I think not."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000000|"I must find out.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000001|Nobody dies of hysterics, though.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000002|They don't matter.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000003|God gave woman hysterics as a relief.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000004|I won't go to her at all.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000005|Why push myself forward again?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000049_000000|"But you told her that she had never cared for you."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000050_000000|"I did that on purpose.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000050_000001|Alyosha, shall I call for some champagne?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000050_000002|Let us drink to my freedom.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000051_000000|"No, brother, we had better not drink," said Alyosha suddenly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000051_000001|"Besides I feel somehow depressed."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000052_000000|"Yes, you've been depressed a long time, I've noticed it."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000000|"Morning?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000001|I didn't say I should go in the morning....
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000002|But perhaps it may be the morning.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000003|Would you believe it, I dined here to day only to avoid dining with the old man, I loathe him so.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000004|I should have left long ago, so far as he is concerned.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000005|But why are you so worried about my going away? We've plenty of time before I go, an eternity!"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000055_000000|"If you are going away to morrow, what do you mean by an eternity?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000001|"We've time enough for our talk, for what brought us here.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000002|Why do you look so surprised?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000003|Answer: why have we met here?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000004|To talk of my love for Katerina Ivanovna, of the old man and Dmitri? of foreign travel? of the fatal position of Russia?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000005|Of the Emperor Napoleon?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000006|Is that it?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000057_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000000|"Then you know what for.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000001|It's different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000002|That's what we care about.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000004|Just when the old folks are all taken up with practical questions.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000005|Why have you been looking at me in expectation for the last three months?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000006|To ask me, 'What do you believe, or don't you believe at all?' That's what your eyes have been meaning for these three months, haven't they?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000059_000000|"Perhaps so," smiled Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000000|"Me laughing!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000001|I don't want to wound my little brother who has been watching me with such expectation for three months.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000002|Alyosha, look straight at me!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000003|Of course I am just such a little boy as you are, only not a novice.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000004|And what have Russian boys been doing up till now, some of them, I mean?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000005|In this stinking tavern, for instance, here, they meet and sit down in a corner.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000006|They've never met in their lives before and, when they go out of the tavern, they won't meet again for forty years.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000007|And what do they talk about in that momentary halt in the tavern?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000008|Of the eternal questions, of the existence of God and immortality.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000009|And those who do not believe in God talk of socialism or anarchism, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, so that it all comes to the same, they're the same questions turned inside out.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000010|And masses, masses of the most original Russian boys do nothing but talk of the eternal questions!
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000011|Isn't it so?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000061_000000|"Yes, for real Russians the questions of God's existence and of immortality, or, as you say, the same questions turned inside out, come first and foremost, of course, and so they should," said Alyosha, still watching his brother with the same gentle and inquiring smile.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000062_000000|"Well, Alyosha, it's sometimes very unwise to be a Russian at all, but anything stupider than the way Russian boys spend their time one can hardly imagine.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000062_000001|But there's one Russian boy called Alyosha I am awfully fond of."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000063_000000|"How nicely you put that in!" Alyosha laughed suddenly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000064_000000|"Well, tell me where to begin, give your orders.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000064_000001|The existence of God, eh?"
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000065_000000|"Begin where you like.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000065_000001|You declared yesterday at father's that there was no God." Alyosha looked searchingly at his brother.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000066_000000|"I said that yesterday at dinner on purpose to tease you and I saw your eyes glow.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000066_000001|But now I've no objection to discussing with you, and I say so very seriously.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000066_000002|I want to be friends with you, Alyosha, for I have no friends and want to try it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000067_000000|"Yes, of course, if you are not joking now."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000000|"Joking?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000001|I was told at the elder's yesterday that I was joking.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000002|You know, dear boy, there was an old sinner in the eighteenth century who declared that, if there were no God, he would have to be invented.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000004|And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000005|So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit it does to man.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000006|As for me, I've long resolved not to think whether man created God or God man.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000007|And I won't go through all the axioms laid down by Russian boys on that subject, all derived from European hypotheses; for what's a hypothesis there, is an axiom with the Russian boy, and not only with the boys but with their teachers too, for our Russian professors are often just the same boys themselves.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000008|And so I omit all the hypotheses.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000009|For what are we aiming at now?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000010|I am trying to explain as quickly as possible my essential nature, that is what manner of man I am, what I believe in, and for what I hope, that's it, isn't it?
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000011|And therefore I tell you that I accept God simply. But you must note this: if God exists and if He really did create the world, then, as we all know, He created it according to the geometry of Euclid and the human mind with the conception of only three dimensions in space.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000012|Yet there have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of being, was only created in Euclid's geometry; they even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000013|I have come to the conclusion that, since I can't understand even that, I can't expect to understand about God.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000014|I acknowledge humbly that I have no faculty for settling such questions, I have a Euclidian earthly mind, and how could I solve problems that are not of this world? And I advise you never to think about it either, my dear Alyosha, especially about God, whether He exists or not.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000015|All such questions are utterly inappropriate for a mind created with an idea of only three dimensions.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000017|I believe in the Word to Which the universe is striving, and Which Itself was 'with God,' and Which Itself is God and so on, and so on, to infinity.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000018|There are all sorts of phrases for it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000019|I seem to be on the right path, don't I? Yet would you believe it, in the final result I don't accept this world of God's, and, although I know it exists, I don't accept it at all.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000020|It's not that I don't accept God, you must understand, it's the world created by Him I don't and cannot accept.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000021|Let me make it plain.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000023|I won't accept it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000024|Even if parallel lines do meet and I see it myself, I shall see it and say that they've met, but still I won't accept it.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000025|That's what's at the root of me, Alyosha; that's my creed.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000026|I am in earnest in what I say.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000027|I began our talk as stupidly as I could on purpose, but I've led up to my confession, for that's all you want.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000028|You didn't want to hear about God, but only to know what the brother you love lives by.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000029|And so I've told you."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000070_000000|"And why did you begin 'as stupidly as you could'?" asked Alyosha, looking dreamily at him.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000000|"To begin with, for the sake of being Russian.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000001|Russian conversations on such subjects are always carried on inconceivably stupidly.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000002|And secondly, the stupider one is, the closer one is to reality.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000003|The stupider one is, the clearer one is.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000004|Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000005|Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000006|I've led the conversation to my despair, and the more stupidly I have presented it, the better for me."
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000072_000000|"You will explain why you don't accept the world?" said Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000073_000000|"To be sure I will, it's not a secret, that's what I've been leading up to.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000002_000000|Chapter three.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000002_000002|The Speech At The Stone
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000000|He really was late.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000001|They had waited for him and had already decided to bear the pretty flower decked little coffin to the church without him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000002|It was the coffin of poor little Ilusha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000003|He had died two days after Mitya was sentenced.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000004|At the gate of the house Alyosha was met by the shouts of the boys, Ilusha's schoolfellows.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000005|They had all been impatiently expecting him and were glad that he had come at last.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000006|There were about twelve of them, they all had their school bags or satchels on their shoulders.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000007|"Father will cry, be with father," Ilusha had told them as he lay dying, and the boys remembered it.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000008|Kolya Krassotkin was the foremost of them.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000004_000000|"How glad I am you've come, Karamazov!" he cried, holding out his hand to Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000004_000001|"It's awful here.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000004_000004|I am always manly, but this is awful. Karamazov, if I am not keeping you, one question before you go in?"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000005_000000|"What is it, Kolya?" said Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000000|"Is your brother innocent or guilty?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000001|Was it he killed your father or was it the valet?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000002|As you say, so it will be.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000003|I haven't slept for the last four nights for thinking of it."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000007_000000|"The valet killed him, my brother is innocent," answered Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000009_000000|"So he will perish an innocent victim!" exclaimed Kolya; "though he is ruined he is happy!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000009_000001|I could envy him!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000010_000000|"What do you mean?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000010_000001|How can you?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000011_000000|"Oh, if I, too, could sacrifice myself some day for truth!" said Kolya with enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000012_000000|"But not in such a cause, not with such disgrace and such horror!" said Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000013_000000|"Of course ...
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000013_000001|I should like to die for all humanity, and as for disgrace, I don't care about that-our names may perish.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000013_000002|I respect your brother!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000014_000000|"And so do I!" the boy, who had once declared that he knew who had founded Troy, cried suddenly and unexpectedly, and he blushed up to his ears like a peony as he had done on that occasion.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000000|Alyosha went into the room.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000001|Ilusha lay with his hands folded and his eyes closed in a blue coffin with a white frill round it.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000002|His thin face was hardly changed at all, and strange to say there was no smell of decay from the corpse.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000003|The expression of his face was serious and, as it were, thoughtful.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000004|His hands, crossed over his breast, looked particularly beautiful, as though chiseled in marble.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000006|But there were flowers too from Katerina Ivanovna, and when Alyosha opened the door, the captain had a bunch in his trembling hands and was strewing them again over his dear boy.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000007|He scarcely glanced at Alyosha when he came in, and he would not look at any one, even at his crazy weeping wife, "mamma," who kept trying to stand on her crippled legs to get a nearer look at her dead boy.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000008|Nina had been pushed in her chair by the boys close up to the coffin.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000010|There was something crazy about his gestures and the words that broke from him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000012|It was his habit to call Ilusha "old man," as a term of affection when he was alive.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000016_000000|"Father, give me a flower, too; take that white one out of his hand and give it me," the crazy mother begged, whimpering.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000016_000001|Either because the little white rose in Ilusha's hand had caught her fancy or that she wanted one from his hand to keep in memory of him, she moved restlessly, stretching out her hands for the flower.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000017_000000|"I won't give it to any one, I won't give you anything," Snegiryov cried callously.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000017_000001|"They are his flowers, not yours!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000017_000002|Everything is his, nothing is yours!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000018_000000|"Father, give mother a flower!" said Nina, lifting her face wet with tears.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000019_000000|"I won't give away anything and to her less than any one!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000019_000002|She took away his little cannon and he gave it to her," the captain broke into loud sobs at the thought of how Ilusha had given up his cannon to his mother.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000019_000003|The poor, crazy creature was bathed in noiseless tears, hiding her face in her hands.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000020_000000|The boys, seeing that the father would not leave the coffin and that it was time to carry it out, stood round it in a close circle and began to lift it up.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000021_000000|"I don't want him to be buried in the churchyard," Snegiryov wailed suddenly; "I'll bury him by the stone, by our stone!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000021_000001|Ilusha told me to.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000021_000002|I won't let him be carried out!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000022_000000|He had been saying for the last three days that he would bury him by the stone, but Alyosha, Krassotkin, the landlady, her sister and all the boys interfered.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000000|"What an idea, bury him by an unholy stone, as though he had hanged himself!" the old landlady said sternly.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000001|"There in the churchyard the ground has been crossed.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000002|He'll be prayed for there.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000003|One can hear the singing in church and the deacon reads so plainly and verbally that it will reach him every time just as though it were read over his grave."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000024_000001|But on seeing that precious little face, which for the last three days she had only looked at from a distance, she trembled all over and her gray head began twitching spasmodically over the coffin.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000000|"Mother, make the sign of the cross over him, give him your blessing, kiss him," Nina cried to her.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000001|But her head still twitched like an automaton and with a face contorted with bitter grief she began, without a word, beating her breast with her fist.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000002|They carried the coffin past her.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000003|Nina pressed her lips to her brother's for the last time as they bore the coffin by her.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000004|As Alyosha went out of the house he begged the landlady to look after those who were left behind, but she interrupted him before he had finished.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000026_000000|"To be sure, I'll stay with them, we are Christians, too." The old woman wept as she said it.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000000|They had not far to carry the coffin to the church, not more than three hundred paces.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000001|It was a still, clear day, with a slight frost.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000004|He seemed in a state of bewildered anxiety.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000005|At one minute he stretched out his hand to support the head of the coffin and only hindered the bearers, at another he ran alongside and tried to find a place for himself there.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000006|A flower fell on the snow and he rushed to pick it up as though everything in the world depended on the loss of that flower.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000028_000000|"And the crust of bread, we've forgotten the crust!" he cried suddenly in dismay.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000028_000001|But the boys reminded him at once that he had taken the crust of bread already and that it was in his pocket.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000028_000002|He instantly pulled it out and was reassured.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000029_000000|"Ilusha told me to, Ilusha," he explained at once to Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000029_000001|"I was sitting by him one night and he suddenly told me: 'Father, when my grave is filled up crumble a piece of bread on it so that the sparrows may fly down, I shall hear and it will cheer me up not to be lying alone.' "
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000030_000000|"That's a good thing," said Alyosha, "we must often take some."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000031_000000|"Every day, every day!" said the captain quickly, seeming cheered at the thought.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000000|They reached the church at last and set the coffin in the middle of it. The boys surrounded it and remained reverently standing so, all through the service.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000001|It was an old and rather poor church; many of the ikons were without settings; but such churches are the best for praying in.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000002|During the mass Snegiryov became somewhat calmer, though at times he had outbursts of the same unconscious and, as it were, incoherent anxiety.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000004|During the prayer, "Like the Cherubim," he joined in the singing but did not go on to the end.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000000|At last came the funeral service itself and candles were distributed.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000001|The distracted father began fussing about again, but the touching and impressive funeral prayers moved and roused his soul.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000002|He seemed suddenly to shrink together and broke into rapid, short sobs, which he tried at first to smother, but at last he sobbed aloud.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000003|When they began taking leave of the dead and closing the coffin, he flung his arms about, as though he would not allow them to cover Ilusha, and began greedily and persistently kissing his dead boy on the lips.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000004|At last they succeeded in persuading him to come away from the step, but suddenly he impulsively stretched out his hand and snatched a few flowers from the coffin.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000005|He looked at them and a new idea seemed to dawn upon him, so that he apparently forgot his grief for a minute.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000006|Gradually he seemed to sink into brooding and did not resist when the coffin was lifted up and carried to the grave.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000007|It was an expensive one in the churchyard close to the church, Katerina Ivanovna had paid for it.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000010|He did not seem to understand fully what was happening.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000011|When they began filling up the grave, he suddenly pointed anxiously at the falling earth and began trying to say something, but no one could make out what he meant, and he stopped suddenly.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000012|Then he was reminded that he must crumble the bread and he was awfully excited, snatched up the bread and began pulling it to pieces and flinging the morsels on the grave.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000034_000000|"Come, fly down, birds, fly down, sparrows!" he muttered anxiously.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000000|One of the boys observed that it was awkward for him to crumble the bread with the flowers in his hands and suggested he should give them to some one to hold for a time.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000001|But he would not do this and seemed indeed suddenly alarmed for his flowers, as though they wanted to take them from him altogether.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000002|And after looking at the grave, and as it were, satisfying himself that everything had been done and the bread had been crumbled, he suddenly, to the surprise of every one, turned, quite composedly even, and made his way homewards.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000003|But his steps became more and more hurried, he almost ran.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000004|The boys and Alyosha kept up with him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000036_000000|"The flowers are for mamma, the flowers are for mamma!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000036_000001|I was unkind to mamma," he began exclaiming suddenly.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000000|Some one called to him to put on his hat as it was cold.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000001|But he flung the hat in the snow as though he were angry and kept repeating, "I won't have the hat, I won't have the hat." Smurov picked it up and carried it after him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000004|He missed them, of course, and went on crying as he ran.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000006|But the boys instantly overtook him and caught hold of him on all sides.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000007|Then he fell helpless on the snow as though he had been knocked down, and struggling, sobbing, and wailing, he began crying out, "Ilusha, old man, dear old man!" Alyosha and Kolya tried to make him get up, soothing and persuading him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000038_000000|"Captain, give over, a brave man must show fortitude," muttered Kolya.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000039_000000|"You'll spoil the flowers," said Alyosha, "and mamma is expecting them, she is sitting crying because you would not give her any before.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000039_000001|Ilusha's little bed is still there-"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000000|"Yes, yes, mamma!" Snegiryov suddenly recollected, "they'll take away the bed, they'll take it away," he added as though alarmed that they really would.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000001|He jumped up and ran homewards again.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000002|But it was not far off and they all arrived together.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000003|Snegiryov opened the door hurriedly and called to his wife with whom he had so cruelly quarreled just before:
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000041_000000|"Mamma, poor crippled darling, Ilusha has sent you these flowers," he cried, holding out to her a little bunch of flowers that had been frozen and broken while he was struggling in the snow.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000041_000001|But at that instant he saw in the corner, by the little bed, Ilusha's little boots, which the landlady had put tidily side by side.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000041_000002|Seeing the old, patched, rusty looking, stiff boots he flung up his hands and rushed to them, fell on his knees, snatched up one boot and, pressing his lips to it, began kissing it greedily, crying, "Ilusha, old man, dear old man, where are your little feet?"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000042_000000|"Where have you taken him away?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000042_000001|Where have you taken him?" the lunatic cried in a heartrending voice.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000042_000002|Nina, too, broke into sobs.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000043_000000|"Let them weep," he said to Kolya, "it's no use trying to comfort them just now.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000043_000001|Let us wait a minute and then go back."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000044_000000|"No, it's no use, it's awful," Kolya assented.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000044_000001|"Do you know, Karamazov," he dropped his voice so that no one could hear them, "I feel dreadfully sad, and if it were only possible to bring him back, I'd give anything in the world to do it."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000045_000000|"Ah, so would I," said Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000046_000000|"What do you think, Karamazov?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000046_000001|Had we better come back here to night? He'll be drunk, you know."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000047_000000|"Perhaps he will.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000047_000001|Let us come together, you and I, that will be enough, to spend an hour with them, with the mother and Nina.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000047_000002|If we all come together we shall remind them of everything again," Alyosha suggested.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000048_000000|"The landlady is laying the table for them now-there'll be a funeral dinner or something, the priest is coming; shall we go back to it, Karamazov?"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000049_000000|"Of course," said Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000051_000000|"They are going to have salmon, too," the boy who had discovered about Troy observed in a loud voice.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000052_000000|"I beg you most earnestly, Kartashov, not to interrupt again with your idiotic remarks, especially when one is not talking to you and doesn't care to know whether you exist or not!" Kolya snapped out irritably.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000052_000001|The boy flushed crimson but did not dare to reply.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000054_000000|"There's Ilusha's stone, under which they wanted to bury him."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000055_000000|They all stood still by the big stone.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000055_000001|Alyosha looked and the whole picture of what Snegiryov had described to him that day, how Ilusha, weeping and hugging his father, had cried, "Father, father, how he insulted you," rose at once before his imagination.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000056_000000|A sudden impulse seemed to come into his soul.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000056_000001|With a serious and earnest expression he looked from one to another of the bright, pleasant faces of Ilusha's schoolfellows, and suddenly said to them:
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000057_000000|"Boys, I should like to say one word to you, here at this place."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000058_000000|The boys stood round him and at once bent attentive and expectant eyes upon him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000000|"Boys, we shall soon part.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000001|I shall be for some time with my two brothers, of whom one is going to Siberia and the other is lying at death's door. But soon I shall leave this town, perhaps for a long time, so we shall part.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000003|And whatever happens to us later in life, if we don't meet for twenty years afterwards, let us always remember how we buried the poor boy at whom we once threw stones, do you remember, by the bridge?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000004|and afterwards we all grew so fond of him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000005|He was a fine boy, a kind hearted, brave boy, he felt for his father's honor and resented the cruel insult to him and stood up for him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000006|And so in the first place, we will remember him, boys, all our lives.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000007|And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honor or fall into great misfortune-still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us, for the time we were loving that poor boy, better perhaps than we are.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000008|My little doves-let me call you so, for you are very like them, those pretty blue birds, at this minute as I look at your good dear faces.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000011|People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000012|If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000013|Perhaps we may even grow wicked later on, may be unable to refrain from a bad action, may laugh at men's tears and at those people who say as Kolya did just now, 'I want to suffer for all men,' and may even jeer spitefully at such people.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000015|What's more, perhaps, that one memory may keep him from great evil and he will reflect and say, 'Yes, I was good and brave and honest then!' Let him laugh to himself, that's no matter, a man often laughs at what's good and kind.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000016|That's only from thoughtlessness.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000017|But I assure you, boys, that as he laughs he will say at once in his heart, 'No, I do wrong to laugh, for that's not a thing to laugh at.' "
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000060_000000|"That will be so, I understand you, Karamazov!" cried Kolya, with flashing eyes.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000061_000000|The boys were excited and they, too, wanted to say something, but they restrained themselves, looking with intentness and emotion at the speaker.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000000|"I say this in case we become bad," Alyosha went on, "but there's no reason why we should become bad, is there, boys?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000001|Let us be, first and above all, kind, then honest and then let us never forget each other!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000002|I say that again.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000003|I give you my word for my part that I'll never forget one of you.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000004|Every face looking at me now I shall remember even for thirty years.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000005|Just now Kolya said to Kartashov that we did not care to know whether he exists or not.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000006|But I cannot forget that Kartashov exists and that he is not blushing now as he did when he discovered the founders of Troy, but is looking at me with his jolly, kind, dear little eyes.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000008|But why am I talking about those two?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000009|You are all dear to me, boys, from this day forth, I have a place in my heart for you all, and I beg you to keep a place in your hearts for me!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000010|Well, and who has united us in this kind, good feeling which we shall remember and intend to remember all our lives?
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000012|Let us never forget him.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000013|May his memory live for ever in our hearts from this time forth!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000063_000000|"Yes, yes, for ever, for ever!" the boys cried in their ringing voices, with softened faces.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000064_000000|"Let us remember his face and his clothes and his poor little boots, his coffin and his unhappy, sinful father, and how boldly he stood up for him alone against the whole school."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000065_000001|"He was brave, he was good!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000066_000000|"Ah, how I loved him!" exclaimed Kolya.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000067_000001|How good life is when one does something good and just!"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000068_000000|"Yes, yes," the boys repeated enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000069_000000|"Karamazov, we love you!" a voice, probably Kartashov's, cried impulsively.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000070_000000|"We love you, we love you!" they all caught it up.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000070_000001|There were tears in the eyes of many of them.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000071_000000|"Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya shouted ecstatically.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000072_000000|"And may the dead boy's memory live for ever!" Alyosha added again with feeling.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000073_000000|"For ever!" the boys chimed in again.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000074_000000|"Karamazov," cried Kolya, "can it be true what's taught us in religion, that we shall all rise again from the dead and shall live and see each other again, all, Ilusha too?"
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000075_000000|"Certainly we shall all rise again, certainly we shall see each other and shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!" Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000000|"Well, now we will finish talking and go to his funeral dinner.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000001|Don't be put out at our eating pancakes-it's a very old custom and there's something nice in that!" laughed Alyosha.
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000002|"Well, let us go!
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000003|And now we go hand in hand."
train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000078_000001|Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya cried once more rapturously, and once more the boys took up his exclamation: "Hurrah for Karamazov!"
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000004_000000|mr Watson gave a start of astonishment.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000005_000000|"Very well, Jane," he said, briefly.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000008_000000|"Yes?" he said, enquiringly, and drew from his pocket a pencil and paper.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000010_000000|"Yes, Jane," jotting down the memorandum.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000011_000000|"And to Elizabeth a like sum."
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000012_000000|The lawyer seemed disappointed.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000013_000000|"Also to my brother, john Merrick, the sum of five thousand dollars," she resumed.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000014_000000|"To your brother?"
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000018_000000|"Jane!"
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000019_000000|"Did you hear me?"
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000020_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000021_000000|"Then do as I bid you, Silas Watson."
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000022_000000|He leaned back in his chair and looked at her thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000024_000001|I liked the child from the first.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000024_000002|She's frank and open and brave, and will do credit to my judgment."
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000027_000000|The lawyer sighed.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000028_000001|You seem to have forgotten him," he said.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000029_000000|"Drat the boy!
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000037_000000|"And the boy?" he asked, persistently.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000040_000000|"Make it ten, Jane."
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000041_000001|"Now leave me, and prepare the paper at once.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000045_000003|Here Patricia was also brought in her wheel chair by Beth, who then left the two invalids together.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000046_000001|Then she loosened her tongue, and in her voluable Irish way berated her aunt until poor Phibbs stood aghast at such temerity, and even mr Watson, who arrived to enquire after his client and friend, was filled with amazement.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000048_000000|"Patricia is quite right, Silas," she declared, "and I deserve all that she has said.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000053_000000|After that it became the daily program for Patsy to spend her mornings in Aunt Jane's little garden, and although they sometimes clashed, and, as Phibbs told Beth, "had dreadful fights," they both enjoyed these hours very much.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000059_000001|The four had many excursions and picnics into the country together; but Kenneth and Patsy were recognized as especial chums, and the other girls did not interfere in their friendship except to tease them, occasionally, in a good natured way.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000060_000001|His fits of gloomy abstraction and violent bursts of temper had alike vanished, or only prevailed at brief intervals.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000061_000000|Although he had no teacher, as yet, he had begun to understand color a little, and succeeded in finishing one or two water color sketches which Patsy, who knew nothing at all of such things, pronounced "wonderfully fine." Of course the boy blushed with pleasure and was encouraged to still greater effort.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000063_000000|One day she said calmly to Aunt Jane:
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000064_000000|"I've invited Kenneth to dinner this evening."
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000065_000000|The woman flew angry in an instant.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000066_000000|"Who gave you such authority?" she demanded.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000067_000001|I just took it," said Patsy, saucily.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000068_000000|"He shall not come," declared Aunt Jane, sternly.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000068_000002|Phibbs, call Louise!"
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000069_000001|Presently Louise appeared.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000071_000000|"Also, Louise," said Patsy, "tell them not to lay a plate for me, and ask Oscar to be ready with the wagon at five o'clock.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000072_000000|Louise hesitated, and looked from Miss Jane to Patsy, and back again. They were glaring upon each other like two gorgons.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000073_000000|Then she burst into laughter; she could not help it, the sight was too ridiculous.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000075_000000|"How?" asked Patsy.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000078_000000|Patsy was radiant with delight, and the next day Aunt Jane remarked casually that she did not object to the boy's presence at dinner, at all, and he could come whenever he liked.
train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000079_000000|This arrangement gave great pleasure to both Uncle john and mr Watson, the latter of whom was often present at the "state dinner," and both men congratulated Patsy upon the distinct victory she had won.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000002_000003|The appurtenances of the writing tables, about which Alexey Alexandrovitch was himself very fastidious, were exceptionally good.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000002_000004|He could not help observing this. One of the clerks, without getting up, turned wrathfully to Alexey Alexandrovitch, half closing his eyes.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000002_000005|"What are you wanting?"
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000005_000000|"Can't he spare time to see me?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000006_000000|"He has no time free; he is always busy.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000006_000001|Kindly wait your turn."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000008_000000|The clerk took the card and, obviously not approving of what he read on it, went to the door.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000009_000001|His whole life had been spent in administrative work, and consequently, when he did not approve of anything, his disapproval was softened by the recognition of the inevitability of mistakes and the possibility of reform in every department.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000009_000003|But till then he had had nothing to do with the law courts, and so had disapproved of their publicity simply in theory; now his disapprobation was strengthened by the unpleasant impression made on him in the lawyer's waiting room.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000010_000000|"Coming immediately," said the clerk; and two minutes later there did actually appear in the doorway the large figure of an old solicitor who had been consulting with the lawyer himself.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000011_000000|The lawyer was a little, squat, bald man, with a dark, reddish beard, light colored long eyebrows, and an overhanging brow.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000011_000001|He was attired as though for a wedding, from his cravat to his double watch chain and varnished boots.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000011_000002|His face was clever and manly, but his dress was dandified and in bad taste.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000012_000000|"Pray walk in," said the lawyer, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch; and, gloomily ushering Karenin in before him, he closed the door.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000013_000001|He sat down himself, and, rubbing his little hands with short fingers covered with white hairs, he bent his head on one side.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000013_000003|The lawyer, with a swiftness that could never have been expected of him, opened his hands, caught the moth, and resumed his former attitude.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000019_000000|"I know you and the good"--again he caught a moth-"work you are doing, like every Russian," said the lawyer, bowing.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000020_000000|Alexey Alexandrovitch sighed, plucking up his courage.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000020_000001|But having once made up his mind he went on in his shrill voice, without timidity-or hesitation, accentuating here and there a word.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000021_000000|"I have the misfortune," Alexey Alexandrovitch began, "to have been deceived in my married life, and I desire to break off all relations with my wife by legal means-that is, to be divorced, but to do this so that my son may not remain with his mother."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000022_000000|The lawyer's gray eyes tried not to laugh, but they were dancing with irrepressible glee, and Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that it was not simply the delight of a man who has just got a profitable job: there was triumph and joy, there was a gleam like the malignant gleam he saw in his wife's eyes.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000023_000000|"You desire my assistance in securing a divorce?"
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000024_000000|"Yes, precisely so; but I ought to warn you that I may be wasting your time and attention.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000024_000002|I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000024_000003|It is very possible that if that form does not correspond with my requirements I may give up a legal divorce."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000025_000000|"Oh, that's always the case," said the lawyer, "and that's always for you to decide."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000026_000000|He let his eyes rest on Alexey Alexandrovitch's feet, feeling that he might offend his client by the sight of his irrepressible amusement.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000026_000001|He looked at a moth that flew before his nose, and moved his hands, but did not catch it from regard for Alexey Alexandrovitch's position.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000028_000000|"You would be glad," the lawyer, without lifting his eyes, responded, adopting, with a certain satisfaction, the tone of his client's remarks, "for me to lay before you all the methods by which you could secure what you desire?"
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000030_000000|"Divorce by our laws," he said, with a slight shade of disapprobation of our laws, "is possible, as you are aware, in the following cases.... Wait a little!" he called to a clerk who put his head in at the door, but he got up all the same, said a few words to him, and sat down again. "...
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000030_000002|And therefore, guided by precedents, I must inform you that in practice cases of divorce may all be reduced to the following-there's no physical defect, I may assume, nor desertion?..."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000032_000000|"--May be reduced to the following: adultery of one of the married parties, and the detection in the fact of the guilty party by mutual agreement, and failing such agreement, accidental detection.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000032_000001|It must be admitted that the latter case is rarely met with in practice," said the lawyer, and stealing a glance at Alexey Alexandrovitch he paused, as a man selling pistols, after enlarging on the advantages of each weapon, might await his customer's choice.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000032_000003|I should not permit myself to express it so, speaking with a man of no education," he said, "but I imagine that to you this is comprehensible."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000034_000000|"People cannot go on living together-here you have a fact.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000034_000001|And if both are agreed about it, the details and formalities become a matter of no importance.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000035_000001|But he had religious scruples, which hindered the execution of such a plan.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000036_000000|"That is out of the question in the present case," he said.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000038_000002|If one wants the result, one must admit the means."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000041_000000|On his way back he caught unobserved another moth.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000041_000001|"Nice state my rep curtains will be in by the summer!" he thought, frowning.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000043_000000|"I will communicate my decision to you by letter," said Alexey Alexandrovitch, getting up, and he clutched at the table.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000044_000001|"When can I reckon on receiving information from you?" he asked, moving towards the door, his eyes and his varnished boots shining.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000045_000000|"In a week's time.
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000045_000001|Your answer as to whether you will undertake to conduct the case, and on what terms, you will be so good as to communicate to me."
train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000046_000000|"Very good."
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000001_000000|THE IMPOSTOR
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000003_000001|The shrubberies loomed big in the violet twilight and afar out the sea lay placid, steel blue and mysterious.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000005_000000|Amongst other thoughts which crowded into the brain of mr Povey were the warm feelings he had experienced towards Charlotte when, as he thought, he lay dying in Enrico's death chamber, and he told himself that they were very right thoughts to have.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000001|The thought that the time had now come when his part in her affairs was done was a very bitter one, but as day followed day the feeling that he was an impostor grew stronger.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000002|He had long thought that he must get away from it all.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000003|Every kind word, every smile was a stab to him.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000004|To explain matters now would do no good, spoiling as it would Galva's happiness.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000008_000000|From there he had seen the procession leave the palace, had noted the enthusiasm of the holiday crowd, and, best of all, had seen Galva turn in her carriage and wave her bouquet of orchids at his balcony.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000009_000001|He had seen the yachts in the bay gay with little flags.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000009_000002|He had heard, too, the bells pealing joyously from the tall belfry of the Cathedral, the firing of the guns on the fort, and the distant murmur of the people cheering their Queen.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000010_000000|He had said a little prayer for everybody and had fallen asleep there on the flower decked balcony.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000012_000000|"A right down, regular, Royal Queen," she quoted gaily as she dropped an elegant curtsey.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000012_000001|"Oh, guardy dear, it's been splendid-just splendid-nothing but sun and cheers and flowers-and joy."
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000013_000000|She turned to her husband who was standing a little behind her, for the ceremonies in the Cathedral had been twofold that day, and the Archbishop who had placed the crown on the little head, had, in the little private chapel, placed a circlet of gold also on the Queen's finger.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000014_000003|there would have been no joy, then, only----"
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000016_000001|It was time for him to leave the stage, to take off the motley, for he had no part in the next act of the drama.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000017_000000|The attendant, who in the gorgeous Estrato livery was slowly propelling the chair, pulled up rather suddenly, as, turning into one of the alley ways which led back to the palace he came in sight of the figure of a woman.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000017_000002|Her manner, too, as she came towards him, was, he thought, a little strained.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000023_000000|A moment's final hesitation, then Edward took the plunge.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000025_000000|"But you will come back, mr Sydney?"
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000026_000000|"Oh yes-that is, I----Oh, I'm sure to come back-yes-sure-to-come-back."
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000027_000002|As she felt the paper under her fingers she smiled.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000029_000001|Why, I walked twice round the palace this morning; besides, I'm not going to morrow." Now that his departure had been decided on, and he had burnt his boats, he felt disposed to allow himself the luxury of delay.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000029_000002|"It may be a month before I really go," he added.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000032_000003|She selected a tiny key from the bunch at her waist and, opening the case, took out a box, a little cardboard box, which had once contained chocolates.
train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000032_000004|The lid was broken here and there, and had been carefully pasted together with scraps of plaster paper.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000003_000000|BOOK three.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000005_000000|From Vespasian's Coming To Subdue The Jews To The Taking Of Gamala.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000006_000000|CHAPTER one.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000007_000000|Vespasian Is Sent Into Syria By Nero In Order To Make War With The Jews.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000008_000002|Yet did the disturbance that was in his soul plainly appear by the solicitude he was in [how to recover his affairs again].
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000010_000001|So Nero esteemed these circumstances as favorable omens, and saw that Vespasian's age gave him sure experience, and great skill, and that he had his sons as hostages for his fidelity to himself, and that the flourishing age they were in would make them fit instruments under their father's prudence.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000010_000002|Perhaps also there was some interposition of Providence, which was paving the way for Vespasian's being himself emperor afterwards.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000011_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000012_000000|A Great Slaughter About Ascalon.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000013_000002|Accordingly, they presently got together a great multitude of all their most hardy soldiers, and marched away for Ascalon.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000016_000002|At this city also the inhabitants of Sepphoris of Galilee met him, who were for peace with the romans.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000016_000005|And indeed the danger of losing Sepphoris would be no small one, in this war that was now beginning, seeing it was the largest city of Galilee, and built in a place by nature very strong, and might be a security of the whole nation's [fidelity to the romans].
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000017_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000018_000000|A Description Of Galilee, Samaria, And Judea.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000020_000002|Moreover, the cities lie here very thick, and the very many villages there are here are every where so full of people, by the richness of their soil, that the very least of them contain above fifteen thousand inhabitants.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000021_000002|It is also sufficiently watered with torrents, which issue out of the mountains, and with springs that never fail to run, even when the torrents fail them, as they do in the dog days.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000022_000002|They have abundance of trees, and are full of autumnal fruit, both that which grows wild, and that which is the effect of cultivation.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000023_000002|This is the northern boundary of Judea.
train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000023_000003|The southern parts of Judea, if they be measured lengthways, are bounded by a Village adjoining to the confines of Arabia; the Jews that dwell there call it Jordan.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000002_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000004_000002|The foot were put into the city to be a guard to it, but the horse lodged abroad in the camp.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000005_000002|Now these ten cohorts had severally a thousand footmen, but the other thirteen cohorts had no more than six hundred footmen apiece, with a hundred and twenty horsemen.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000009_000004|The camp, and all that is in it, is encompassed with a wall round about, and that sooner than one would imagine, and this by the multitude and the skill of the laborers; and, if occasion require, a trench is drawn round the whole, whose depth is four cubits, and its breadth equal.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000012_000002|The footmen are armed with breastplates and head pieces, and have swords on each side; but the sword which is upon their left side is much longer than the other, for that on the right side is not longer than a span.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000012_000004|The horsemen have a long sword on their right sides, axed a long pole in their hand; a shield also lies by them obliquely on one side of their horses, with three or more darts that are borne in their quiver, having broad points, and not smaller than spears.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000012_000005|They have also head pieces and breastplates, in like manner as have all the footmen.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000014_000003|In a case, therefore, where counsel still goes before action, and where, after taking the best advice, that advice is followed by so active an army, what wonder is it that Euphrates on the east, the ocean on the west, the most fertile regions of Libya on the south, and the Danube and the Rhine on the north, are the limits of this empire?
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000014_000004|One might well say that the Roman possessions are not inferior to the romans themselves.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000015_000001|This account I have given the reader, not so much with the intention of commending the romans, as of comforting those that have been conquered by them, and for the deterring others from attempting innovations under their government.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000015_000002|This discourse of the Roman military conduct may also perhaps be of use to such of the curious as are ignorant of it, and yet have a mind to know it.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000015_000003|I return now from this digression.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000016_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000017_000000|Placidus Attempts To Take Jotapata And Is Beaten Off. Vespasian Marches Into Galilee.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000018_000005|However, three men of the Jews' side were slain, and a few wounded; so Placidus, finding himself unable to assault the city, ran away.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000002|He ordered those auxiliaries which were lightly armed, and the archers, to march first, that they might prevent any sudden insults from the enemy, and might search out the woods that looked suspiciously, and were capable of ambuscades.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000003|Next to these followed that part of the romans which was completely armed, both footmen and horsemen.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000005|Behind these he set such carriages of the army as belonged both to himself and to the other commanders, with a considerable number of their horsemen for their security.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000007|After these came the peculiar cavalry of his own legion, for there were a hundred and twenty horsemen that peculiarly belonged to every legion.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000008|Next to these came the mules that carried the engines for sieges, and the other warlike machines of that nature.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000009|After these came the commanders of the cohorts and tribunes, having about them soldiers chosen out of the rest.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000011|Then came the main army in their squadrons and battalions, with six men in depth, which were followed at last by a centurion, who, according to custom, observed the rest.
train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000013|But behind all the legions came the whole multitude of the mercenaries; and those that brought up the rear came last of all for the security of the whole army, being both footmen, and those in their armor also, with a great number of horsemen.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000002_000000|Vespasian, When He Had Taken The City Gadaea Marches To Jotapata.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000003_000001|So Vespasian marched to the city Gadara, and took it upon the first onset, because he found it destitute of any considerable number of men grown up and fit for war.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000004_000006|Accordingly, he wrote these things, and sent messengers immediately to carry his letter to Jerusalem.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000001|Now Vespasian was very desirous of demolishing Jotapata, for he had gotten intelligence that the greatest part of the enemy had retired thither, and that it was, on other accounts, a place of great security to them.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000002|Accordingly, he sent both foot men and horsemen to level the road, which was mountainous and rocky, not without difficulty to be traveled over by footmen, but absolutely impracticable for horsemen.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000003|Now these workmen accomplished what they were about in four days' time, and opened a broad way for the army.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000005|And a certain deserter told this good news to Vespasian, that Josephus had removed himself thither, which made him make haste to the city, as supposing that with taking that he should take all Judea, in case he could but withal get Josephus under his power.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000006|So he took this news to be of the vastest advantage to him, and believed it to be brought about by the providence of God, that he who appeared to be the most prudent man of all their enemies, had, of his own accord, shut himself up in a place of sure custody.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000007|Accordingly, he sent Placidus with a thousand horsemen, and Ebutius a decurion, a person that was of eminency both in council and in action, to encompass the city round, that Josephus might not escape away privately.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000002|But when Vespasian had set against them the archers and slingers, and the whole multitude that could throw to a great distance, he permitted them to go to work, while he himself, with the footmen, got upon an acclivity, whence the city might easily be taken.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000003|Josephus was then in fear for the city, and leaped out, and all the Jewish multitude with him; these fell together upon the romans in great numbers, and drove them away from the wall, and performed a great many glorious and bold actions.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000004|Yet did they suffer as much as they made the enemy suffer; for as despair of deliverance encouraged the Jews, so did a sense of shame equally encourage the romans.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000005|These last had skill as well as strength; the other had only courage, which armed them, and made them fight furiously.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000006|And when the fight had lasted all day, it was put an end to by the coming on of the night.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000007|They had wounded a great many of the romans, and killed of them thirteen men; of the Jews' side seventeen were slain, and six hundred wounded.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000008_000001|On the next day the Jews made another attack upon the romans, and went out of the walls and fought a much more desperate battle with them than before.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000009_000002|It is only to be come at on the north side, where the utmost part of the city is built on the mountain, as it ends obliquely at a plain.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000009_000003|This mountain Josephus had encompassed with a wall when he fortified the city, that its top might not be capable of being seized upon by the enemies.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000009_000004|The city is covered all round with other mountains, and can no way be seen till a man comes just upon it. And this was the strong situation of Jotapata.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000002|To that end he called the commanders that were under him to a council of war, and consulted with them which way the assault might be managed to the best advantage.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000003|And when the resolution was there taken to raise a bank against that part of the wall which was practicable, he sent his whole army abroad to get the materials together.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000005|These hurdles they spread over their banks, under cover whereof they formed their bank, and so were little or nothing hurt by the darts that were thrown upon them from the wall, while others pulled the neighboring hillocks to pieces, and perpetually brought earth to them; so that while they were busy three sorts of ways, nobody was idle.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000006|However, the Jews cast great stones from the walls upon the hurdles which protected the men, with all sorts of darts also; and the noise of what could not reach them was yet so terrible, that it was some impediment to the workmen.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000011_000001|Vespasian then set the engines for throwing stones and darts round about the city.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000012_000003|He also built a good number of towers upon the wall, and fitted it to strong battlements.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000012_000004|This greatly discouraged the romans, who in their own opinions were already gotten within the walls, while they were now at once astonished at Josephus's contrivance, and at the fortitude of the citizens that were in the city.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000014_000002|Nor were the romans unacquainted with the state they were in, for when they stood over against them, beyond the wall, they could see them running together, and taking their water by measure, which made them throw their javelins thither the place being within their reach, and kill a great many of them.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000015_000002|At this sight the romans were discouraged, and under consternation, when they saw them able to throw away in sport so much water, when they supposed them not to have enough to drink themselves.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000016_000001|However, Josephus contrived another stratagem besides the foregoing, to get plenty of what they wanted.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000017_000005|Yet did not this plea move the people, but inflamed them the more to hang about him.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000018_000001|Now Josephus thought, that if he resolved to stay, it would be ascribed to their entreaties; and if he resolved to go away by force, he should be put into custody.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000018_000002|His commiseration also of the people under their lamentations had much broken that his eagerness to leave them; so he resolved to stay, and arming himself with the common despair of the citizens, he said to them, "Now is the time to begin to fight in earnest, when there is no hope of deliverance left.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000019_000002|So he repelled the Jews in great measure by the Arabian archers, and the Syrian slingers, and by those that threw stones at them, nor was there any intermission of the great number of their offensive engines.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000019_000003|Now the Jews suffered greatly by these engines, without being able to escape from them; and when these engines threw their stones or javelins a great way, and the Jews were within their reach, they pressed hard upon the romans, and fought desperately, without sparing either soul or body, one part succoring another by turns, when it was tired down.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000020_000003|This was the experiment which the Roman general betook himself to, when he was eagerly bent upon taking the city; but found lying in the field so long to be to his disadvantage, because the Jews would never let him be quiet.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000020_000005|This brought matters to such a pass that none of the Jews durst mount the walls, and then it was that the other romans brought the battering ram that was cased with hurdles all over, and in the tipper part was secured by skins that covered it, and this both for the security of themselves and of the engine.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000020_000006|Now, at the very first stroke of this engine, the wall was shaken, and a terrible clamor was raised by the people within the city, as if they were already taken.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000021_000001|And now, when Josephus saw this ram still battering the same place, and that the wall would quickly be thrown down by it, he resolved to elude for a while the force of the engine.
train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000021_000002|With this design he gave orders to fill sacks with chaff, and to hang them down before that place where they saw the ram always battering, that the stroke might be turned aside, or that the place might feel less of the strokes by the yielding nature of the chaff.
train-clean-360/3686/171133/3686_171133_000004_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3686/171133/3686_171133_000007_000000|six.
train-clean-360/3686/171133/3686_171133_000007_000005|These romans being in great fear, lest the place should be taken by force, made an agreement with them to depart upon certain conditions; and when they had obtained the security they desired, they delivered up the citadel, into which the people of Machaerus put a garrison for their own security, and held it in their own power.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000007_000000|CHAPTER thirty five
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000008_000000|In the Shark's body Pinocchio finds whom?
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000010_000000|As he walked his feet splashed in a pool of greasy and slippery water, which had such a heavy smell of fish fried in oil that Pinocchio thought it was Lent.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000011_000000|The farther on he went, the brighter and clearer grew the tiny light.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000011_000001|On and on he walked till finally he found-I give you a thousand guesses, my dear children!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000011_000003|They wriggled so that, now and again, one of them slipped out of the old man's mouth and escaped into the darkness under the table.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000012_000000|At this sight, the poor Marionette was filled with such great and sudden happiness that he almost dropped in a faint.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000012_000001|He wanted to laugh, he wanted to cry, he wanted to say a thousand and one things, but all he could do was to stand still, stuttering and stammering brokenly.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000014_000001|"Are you really my own dear Pinocchio?"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000000|"Yes, yes, yes!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000001|It is I! Look at me!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000002|And you have forgiven me, haven't you?
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000003|Oh, my dear Father, how good you are!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000004|And to think that I-Oh, but if you only knew how many misfortunes have fallen on my head and how many troubles I have had!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000005|Just think that on the day you sold your old coat to buy me my A B C book so that I could go to school, I ran away to the Marionette Theater and the proprietor caught me and wanted to burn me to cook his roast lamb!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000006|He was the one who gave me the five gold pieces for you, but I met the Fox and the Cat, who took me to the Inn of the Red Lobster.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000007|There they ate like wolves and I left the Inn alone and I met the Assassins in the wood.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000010|It grew and it grew, till I couldn't get it through the door of the room.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000014|The trap caught me and the Farmer put a collar on me and made me a watchdog.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000015|He found out I was innocent when I caught the Weasels and he let me go.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000016_000001|The sea was rough and the whitecaps overturned the boat.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000017_000000|"And how long have you been shut away in here?"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000019_000002|And the matches with which to light it-where did you get them?"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000020_000001|The sailors were all saved, but the ship went right to the bottom of the sea, and the same Terrible Shark that swallowed me, swallowed most of it."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000021_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000021_000001|Swallowed a ship?" asked Pinocchio in astonishment.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000022_000000|"At one gulp.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000022_000002|To my own good luck, that ship was loaded with meat, preserved foods, crackers, bread, bottles of wine, raisins, cheese, coffee, sugar, wax candles, and boxes of matches.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000023_000000|"And then?"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000025_000000|"Then, my dear Father," said Pinocchio, "there is no time to lose.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000025_000001|We must try to escape."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000026_000000|"Escape!
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000026_000001|How?"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000027_000000|"We can run out of the Shark's mouth and dive into the sea."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000028_000000|"You speak well, but I cannot swim, my dear Pinocchio."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000029_000000|"Why should that matter?
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000029_000001|You can climb on my shoulders and I, who am a fine swimmer, will carry you safely to the shore."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000031_000001|And in any case, if it is written that we must die, we shall at least die together."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000033_000000|"Follow me and have no fear."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000034_000000|They walked a long distance through the stomach and the whole body of the Shark.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000034_000001|When they reached the throat of the monster, they stopped for a while to wait for the right moment in which to make their escape.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000035_000000|I want you to know that the Shark, being very old and suffering from asthma and heart trouble, was obliged to sleep with his mouth open. Because of this, Pinocchio was able to catch a glimpse of the sky filled with stars, as he looked up through the open jaws of his new home.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000000|"The time has come for us to escape," he whispered, turning to his father.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000001|"The Shark is fast asleep.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000002|The sea is calm and the night is as bright as day.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000003|Follow me closely, dear Father, and we shall soon be saved."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000037_000001|They climbed up the throat of the monster till they came to that immense open mouth.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000037_000002|There they had to walk on tiptoes, for if they tickled the Shark's long tongue he might awaken-and where would they be then?
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000037_000003|The tongue was so wide and so long that it looked like a country road.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000038_000000|To make matters worse, the candle went out and father and son were left in the dark.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000039_000000|"And now?" asked Pinocchio with a serious face.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000040_000000|"Now we are lost."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000041_000000|"Why lost?
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000041_000001|Give me your hand, dear Father, and be careful not to slip!"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000042_000000|"Where will you take me?"
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000043_000000|"We must try again.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000043_000001|Come with me and don't be afraid."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000044_000000|With these words Pinocchio took his father by the hand and, always walking on tiptoes, they climbed up the monster's throat for a second time.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000044_000002|But before they took the last great leap, the Marionette said to his father:
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000045_000000|"Climb on my back and hold on tightly to my neck.
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000045_000001|I'll take care of everything else."
train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000046_000000|As soon as Geppetto was comfortably seated on his shoulders, Pinocchio, very sure of what he was doing, dived into the water and started to swim.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty six
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000003_000000|Without another word, he swam swiftly away in an effort to reach land as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000003_000001|All at once he noticed that Geppetto was shivering and shaking as if with a high fever.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000000|Was he shivering from fear or from cold?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000001|Who knows?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000002|Perhaps a little of both.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000003|But Pinocchio, thinking his father was frightened, tried to comfort him by saying:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000005_000000|"Courage, Father!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000005_000001|In a few moments we shall be safe on land."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000006_000001|"Here I am searching on all sides and I see nothing but sea and sky."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000007_000001|"Remember, Father, that I am like a cat.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000008_000000|Poor Pinocchio pretended to be peaceful and contented, but he was far from that.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000008_000001|He was beginning to feel discouraged, his strength was leaving him, and his breathing was becoming more and more labored.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000008_000002|He felt he could not go on much longer, and the shore was still far away.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000009_000000|He swam a few more strokes.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000009_000001|Then he turned to Geppetto and cried out weakly:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000010_000000|"Help me, Father!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000011_000000|Father and son were really about to drown when they heard a voice like a guitar out of tune call from the sea:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000012_000000|"What is the trouble?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000013_000000|"It is I and my poor father."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000014_000001|You are Pinocchio."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000015_000001|And you?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000016_000000|"I am the Tunny, your companion in the Shark's stomach."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000017_000000|"And how did you escape?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000018_000000|"I imitated your example.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000019_000000|"Tunny, you arrived at the right moment!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000019_000001|I implore you, for the love you bear your children, the little Tunnies, to help us, or we are lost!"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000020_000000|"With great pleasure indeed.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000020_000001|Hang onto my tail, both of you, and let me lead you.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000020_000002|In a twinkling you will be safe on land."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000021_000000|Geppetto and Pinocchio, as you can easily imagine, did not refuse the invitation; indeed, instead of hanging onto the tail, they thought it better to climb on the Tunny's back.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000022_000000|"Are we too heavy?" asked Pinocchio.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000023_000000|"Heavy?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000023_000002|You are as light as sea shells," answered the Tunny, who was as large as a two year old horse.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000024_000000|As soon as they reached the shore, Pinocchio was the first to jump to the ground to help his old father.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000025_000000|"Dear friend, you have saved my father, and I have not enough words with which to thank you!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000025_000001|Allow me to embrace you as a sign of my eternal gratitude."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000026_000000|The Tunny stuck his nose out of the water and Pinocchio knelt on the sand and kissed him most affectionately on his cheek.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000026_000001|At this warm greeting, the poor Tunny, who was not used to such tenderness, wept like a child.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000026_000002|He felt so embarrassed and ashamed that he turned quickly, plunged into the sea, and disappeared.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000027_000000|In the meantime day had dawned.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000028_000000|Pinocchio offered his arm to Geppetto, who was so weak he could hardly stand, and said to him:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000029_000000|"Lean on my arm, dear Father, and let us go.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000029_000001|We will walk very, very slowly, and if we feel tired we can rest by the wayside."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000031_000000|"To look for a house or a hut, where they will be kind enough to give us a bite of bread and a bit of straw to sleep on."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000033_000000|It was the Fox and the Cat, but one could hardly recognize them, they looked so miserable.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000033_000003|That sly thief had fallen into deepest poverty, and one day he had been forced to sell his beautiful tail for a bite to eat.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000034_000002|We are old, tired, and sick."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000035_000000|"Sick!" repeated the Cat.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000036_000000|"Addio, false friends!" answered the Marionette.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000036_000001|"You cheated me once, but you will never catch me again."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000037_000000|"Believe us!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000037_000001|Today we are truly poor and starving."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000038_000000|"Starving!" repeated the Cat.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000039_000000|"If you are poor; you deserve it!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000040_000000|"Have mercy on us!"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000041_000000|"On us."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000042_000000|"Addio, false friends.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000044_000000|"Abandon us," repeated the Cat.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000045_000000|"Addio, false friends.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000045_000001|Remember the old proverb: 'Whoever steals his neighbor's shirt, usually dies without his own.'"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000047_000001|"Let us see for ourselves."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000051_000000|"Turn the key and the door will open," said the same little voice.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000052_000000|Pinocchio turned the key and the door opened.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000052_000001|As soon as they went in, they looked here and there and everywhere but saw no one.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000053_000000|"Oh-ho, where is the owner of the hut?" cried Pinocchio, very much surprised.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000056_000000|"Oh, my dear Cricket," said Pinocchio, bowing politely.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000058_000000|"You are right, dear Cricket.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000058_000002|I deserve it! But spare my poor old father."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000059_000000|"I am going to spare both the father and the son.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000060_000000|"You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000061_000000|"This cottage was given to me yesterday by a little Goat with blue hair."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000062_000000|"And where did the Goat go?" asked Pinocchio.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000063_000000|"I don't know."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000065_000000|"She will never come back.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000066_000001|Then it was she-it was-my dear little Fairy," cried out Pinocchio, sobbing bitterly.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000066_000002|After he had cried a long time, he wiped his eyes and then he made a bed of straw for old Geppetto.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000067_000000|"Tell me, little Cricket, where shall I find a glass of milk for my poor Father?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000068_000000|"Three fields away from here lives Farmer john.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000068_000002|Go there and he will give you what you want."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000069_000000|Pinocchio ran all the way to Farmer John's house.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000069_000001|The Farmer said to him:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000071_000000|"I want a full glass."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000072_000000|"A full glass costs a penny.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000072_000001|First give me the penny."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000073_000000|"I have no penny," answered Pinocchio, sad and ashamed.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000074_000000|"Very bad, my Marionette," answered the Farmer, "very bad.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000074_000001|If you have no penny, I have no milk."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000075_000000|"Too bad," said Pinocchio and started to go.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000076_000000|"Wait a moment," said Farmer john.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000076_000002|Do you know how to draw water from a well?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000077_000000|"I can try."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000079_000000|"Very well."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000080_000000|"After you have finished, I shall give you a glass of warm sweet milk."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000081_000000|"I am satisfied."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000082_000000|Farmer john took the Marionette to the well and showed him how to draw the water.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000082_000001|Pinocchio set to work as well as he knew how, but long before he had pulled up the one hundred buckets, he was tired out and dripping with perspiration.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000082_000002|He had never worked so hard in his life.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000084_000000|"Will you take me to see him?" said Pinocchio.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000086_000002|After looking at him a long time, he said to himself: "I know that Donkey!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000086_000003|I have seen him before."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000090_000000|"Oh, my poor Lamp Wick," said Pinocchio in a faint voice, as he wiped his eyes with some straw he had picked up from the ground.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000091_000001|"What should I do-I, who have paid my good money for him?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000092_000000|"But, you see, he was my friend."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000093_000000|"Your friend?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000094_000000|"A classmate of mine."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000000|"What," shouted Farmer john, bursting out laughing.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000001|"What!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000002|You had donkeys in your school?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000003|How you must have studied!"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000096_000000|The Marionette, ashamed and hurt by those words, did not answer, but taking his glass of milk returned to his father.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000000|From that day on, for more than five months, Pinocchio got up every morning just as dawn was breaking and went to the farm to draw water. And every day he was given a glass of warm milk for his poor old father, who grew stronger and better day by day.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000001|But he was not satisfied with this.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000002|He learned to make baskets of reeds and sold them.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000003|With the money he received, he and his father were able to keep from starving.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000098_000000|Among other things, he built a rolling chair, strong and comfortable, to take his old father out for an airing on bright, sunny days.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000000|In the evening the Marionette studied by lamplight.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000001|With some of the money he had earned, he bought himself a secondhand volume that had a few pages missing, and with that he learned to read in a very short time.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000002|As far as writing was concerned, he used a long stick at one end of which he had whittled a long, fine point.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000003|Ink he had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000005|He succeeded, not only in his studies, but also in his work, and a day came when he put enough money together to keep his old father comfortable and happy.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000006|Besides this, he was able to save the great amount of fifty pennies.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000007|With it he wanted to buy himself a new suit.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000101_000000|"I am going to the market place to buy myself a coat, a cap, and a pair of shoes.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000101_000001|When I come back I'll be so dressed up, you will think I am a rich man."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000103_000000|"Don't you recognize me?" said the Snail.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000104_000000|"Yes and no"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000105_000001|Do you not remember how she opened the door for you one night and gave you something to eat?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000000|"I remember everything," cried Pinocchio.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000001|"Answer me quickly, pretty Snail, where have you left my Fairy?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000002|What is she doing?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000005|Does she still love me?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000107_000000|At all these questions, tumbling out one after another, the Snail answered, calm as ever:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000108_000000|"My dear Pinocchio, the Fairy is lying ill in a hospital."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000109_000000|"In a hospital?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000110_000001|She has been stricken with trouble and illness, and she hasn't a penny left with which to buy a bite of bread."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000000|"Really?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000002|My poor, dear little Fairy!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000004|But I have only fifty pennies.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000005|Here they are.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000006|I was just going to buy some clothes.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000007|Here, take them, little Snail, and give them to my good Fairy."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000112_000000|"What about the new clothes?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000000|"What does that matter?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000002|Go, and hurry.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000003|Come back here within a couple of days and I hope to have more money for you!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000004|Until today I have worked for my father.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000005|Now I shall have to work for my mother also.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000006|Good by, and I hope to see you soon."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000114_000000|The Snail, much against her usual habit, began to run like a lizard under a summer sun
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000115_000000|When Pinocchio returned home, his father asked him:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000116_000000|"And where is the new suit?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000117_000000|"I couldn't find one to fit me.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000117_000001|I shall have to look again some other day."
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000118_000000|That night, Pinocchio, instead of going to bed at ten o'clock waited until midnight, and instead of making eight baskets, he made sixteen.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000119_000000|After that he went to bed and fell asleep.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000119_000001|As he slept, he dreamed of his Fairy, beautiful, smiling, and happy, who kissed him and said to him, "Bravo, Pinocchio!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000119_000003|Boys who love and take good care of their parents when they are old and sick, deserve praise even though they may not be held up as models of obedience and good behavior.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000120_000000|At that very moment, Pinocchio awoke and opened wide his eyes.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000121_000003|There, he found a new suit, a new hat, and a pair of shoes.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000122_000000|As soon as he was dressed, he put his hands in his pockets and pulled out a little leather purse on which were written the following words:
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000124_000000|The Marionette opened the purse to find the money, and behold-there were fifty gold coins!
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000125_000000|Pinocchio ran to the mirror.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000125_000001|He hardly recognized himself.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000125_000002|The bright face of a tall boy looked at him with wide awake blue eyes, dark brown hair and happy, smiling lips.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000126_000000|Surrounded by so much splendor, the Marionette hardly knew what he was doing.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000126_000001|He rubbed his eyes two or three times, wondering if he were still asleep or awake and decided he must be awake.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000127_000000|"And where is Father?" he cried suddenly.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000127_000001|He ran into the next room, and there stood Geppetto, grown years younger overnight, spick and span in his new clothes and gay as a lark in the morning.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000127_000002|He was once more Mastro Geppetto, the wood carver, hard at work on a lovely picture frame, decorating it with flowers and leaves, and heads of animals.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000128_000000|"Father, Father, what has happened?
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000128_000001|Tell me if you can," cried Pinocchio, as he ran and jumped on his Father's neck.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000130_000000|"What have I to do with it?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000131_000000|"Just this.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000132_000000|"I wonder where the old Pinocchio of wood has hidden himself?"
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000133_000001|And he pointed to a large Marionette leaning against a chair, head turned to one side, arms hanging limp, and legs twisted under him.
train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000135_000000|"How ridiculous I was as a Marionette!
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000002_000001|Her little chin has grown quite pointed and her eyes are actually frightening," was an early observation.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000002_000002|But girls who are going into galloping consumption cough and look hectic and are weaker day by day and she had no cough, nor was she hectic and, though it was known that dr Redcliff saw her frequently, she insisted that she was not ill and begged the Duchess to let her go on with her work.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000003_000002|It cries out aloud.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000005_000001|She asked herself questions and with great care sat on foot a gradual and delicate cross examination of Robin herself.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000005_000002|But she discovered no reason common or uncommon for the thing she recognised each time she looked at her.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000005_000004|She could not avoid seeing that he was preoccupied.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000006_000000|"I almost feel as if your interest in her had lapsed," she said at last.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000007_000000|"no
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000008_000001|Something came to life in each pair of eyes and it was something disturbed and reluctant. The Duchess spoke first.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000009_000000|"She has had no companions," she said painfully.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000009_000001|"The War put an end to what I thought I might do for her.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000010_000001|"The old leisurely habit of observing details no longer exists.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000010_000002|As Redcliff said in speaking of her-and girls generally-all the gates are thrown wide open."
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000015_000000|"Two weeks ago she gave me something to reflect on.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000015_000001|Her feeling for her daughter is that of a pretty cat like woman for something enragingly younger than herself.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000015_000004|She said to me one afternoon, 'I hope the Duchess is still pleased with her companion.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000016_000000|After a few seconds-
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000002|I asked him if he had seen her since the dance and he owned that he had-and then was cross at himself for making the slip.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000007|I have been thinking constantly ever since." There was a brief silence between them; then he proceeded.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000011|It is one of the tragedies.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000012|Perhaps you and I together-"
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000019_000000|The Duchess was seeing again the two who had come forth shining from the conservatory.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000019_000001|She continued to see them as Lord Coombe went on speaking, telling her what dr Redcliff had told him.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000020_000000|On her part Robin scarcely understood anything which was happening because nothing seemed to matter.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000020_000005|Perhaps after people died they walked about as she did and did not understand that others could not see them and they were not alive.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000020_000006|But if she were dead she would surely see Donal.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000021_000000|Before she went to dr Redcliff the Duchess took her hand and held it closely in both her own.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000022_000000|"My poor child," she said.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000022_000001|"Whatsoever he tells you don't be frightened. Don't think you are without friends.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000001|What she thought of chiefly was the Head of the House of Coombe.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000005|He would not be indignant, or annoyed or embarrassed.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000007|Sometimes she had felt that this had even verged on a tenderness of which he was himself remotely, if at all, conscious.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000009|He had believed fine things of him and had watched him silently.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000010|He had wished he had been his own flesh and blood.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000025_000001|"What he will do will be different.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000025_000002|It might seem cold; it might be merely judicial-but it might be surprising."
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000027_000000|"I wish to God I had known him better!
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000031_000001|But she had on her small hat and coat and what the Duchess seemed chiefly to see was the wide darkness of her eyes set in a face suddenly pinched, small and snow white.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000031_000002|She looked like a starved baby.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000033_000000|"To-Mersham Wood," the Duchess felt aghast-and then suddenly a flood of thought rushed upon her.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000034_000001|"I must go, please!
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000034_000003|I must!
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000034_000004|Just-to Mersham Wood!"
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000036_000000|"Child," she said.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000037_000000|Robin went to her-oh, poor little soul!--in utter obedience.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000039_000000|"Stay here, my poor child and talk to me," the Duchess said.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000039_000001|"The time has come when you must talk to some one."
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000040_000000|"When I come back-I will try.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000041_000000|"It is not far.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000041_000002|mrs Bennett is there.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000041_000003|She loves me."
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000000|Hapless young creatures in her plight must always be touching, but her touchingness was indescribable-almost unendurable to the ripe aged woman of the world who watched and heard her.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000003|And it was so awfully plain that there was some tragic connection with the Wood and that her whole soul cried out to it.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000005|Such things had been known.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000007|Why not?
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000008|All the world was mad was the older woman's thought, and she herself after all the years, had for this moment no sense of balance and felt as if all old reasons for things had been swept away.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000045_000000|"If you will come back," she said.
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000045_000001|"I will let you go."
train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000046_000001|But then again she said to herself, "Oh why, after all, should she be asked questions?
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty six
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000002_000001|It was of an order requiring a more serious atmosphere.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000003_000000|"Since the Dowager took her up she's far too grand for the likes of us," she said.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000000|So to speak, Feather blew about from one place to another.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000001|She had never found life so exciting and excitement had become more vitally necessary to her existence as the years had passed.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000002|She still looked extraordinarily youthful and if her face was at times rather marvelous in its white and red, and her lips daring in their pomegranate scarlet, the fine grain of her skin aided her effects and she was dazzlingly in the fashion.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000003|She had never worn such enchanting clothes and never had seemed to possess so many.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000001|"That's my gift. Helene says I have genius.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000003|I have a little slave woman who does that by the day.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000004|She admires me and will do anything that I tell her.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000005|Things are so delightfully scant and short now that you can cut two or three frocks out of one of your old petticoats-and mine were never very old."
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000000|There was probably a modicum of truth in this-the fact remained that the garments which were more scant and shorter than those of any other feathery person were also more numerous and exquisite.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000001|Her patriotic entertainment of soldiers who required her special order of support and recreation was fast and furious.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000003|She was such a success that important personages smiled on her and asked her to appear under undreamed of auspices.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000004|Secretly triumphant though she was, she never so far lost her head as to do anything which would bore her or cause her to appear at less than an alluring advantage.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000006|She found herself strung to her highest pitch of excitement by the air raids, which in the midst of their terrors had the singular effect of exciting many people and filling them with an insane recklessness.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000007|Those so excited somehow seemed to feel themselves immune. Feather chattered about "Zepps" as if bombs could only wreak their vengeance upon coast towns and the lower orders.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000007_000000|When Lord Coombe definitely refused to allow her to fit up the roof of the slice of a house as a sort of luxurious Royal Box from which she and her friends might watch the spectacle, she found among her circle acquaintances who shared her thrills and had prepared places for themselves.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000007_000001|Sometimes she was even rather indecently exhilarated by her sense of high adventure.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000007_000002|The fact was that the excitement of the seething world about her had overstrung her trivial being and turned her light head until it whirled too fast.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000008_000002|And interesting heroic men coming and going in swarms and being so grateful for kindness and entertainment. One is really doing good all the time-and being adored for it.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000008_000003|I own I like being adored myself-and of course one likes doing good.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000008_000004|I never was so happy in my life."
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000009_000000|"I used to be rather a coward, I suppose," she chattered gaily on another occasion.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000009_000002|I believe the War and living among soldiers has had an effect on me and made me braver. The Zepps don't frighten me at all-at least they excite me so that they make me forget to be frightened.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000009_000003|I don't know what they do to me exactly.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000000|She saw Lord Coombe but infrequently at this time, the truth being that her exhilaration and her War Work fatigued him, apart from which his hours were filled.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000001|He also objected to a certain raffishness which in an extremely mixed crowd of patriots rather too obviously "swept away silly old fads" and left the truly advanced to do as they liked.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000003|Feather herself had no need of him. An athletic and particularly well favoured young actor who shared her thrills of elation seemed to permeate the atmosphere about her.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000004|He and Feather together at times achieved the effect, between raids, of waiting impatiently for a performance and feeling themselves ill treated by the long delays between the acts.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000000|"Are we growing callous, or are we losing our wits through living at such high temperature?" the Duchess asked.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000001|"There's a delirium in the air.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000002|Among those who are not shuddering in cellars there are some who seem possessed by a sort of light insanity, half defiance, half excited curiosity.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000003|People say exultantly, 'I had a perfectly splendid view of the last Zepp!' A mother whose daughter was paying her a visit said to her, 'I wish you could have seen the Zepps while you were here.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000004|It is such an experience.'"
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000012_000000|"They have not been able to bring about the wholesale disaster Germany hoped for and when nothing serious happens there is a relieved feeling that the things are futile after all," said Coombe.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000012_000001|"When the results are tragic they must be hushed up as far as is possible to prevent panic."
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000000|Dowie faithfully sent him her private bulletin.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000001|Her first fears of peril had died away, but her sense of mystification had increased and was more deeply touched with awe.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000002|She opened certain windows every night and felt that she was living in the world of supernatural things.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000003|Robin's eyes sometimes gave her a ghost of a shock when she came upon her sitting alone with her work in her idle hands.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000004|But supported by the testimony of such realities as breakfasts, long untiring walks and unvarying blooming healthfulness, she thanked God hourly.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000014_000000|"Doctor Benton says plain that he has never had such a beautiful case and one that promised so well," she wrote.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000014_000001|"He says she's as strong as a young doe bounding about on the heather.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000014_000003|He is a clever gentleman with some wonderful comforting new ideas about things, my lord.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000015_000000|Robin herself wrote to Coombe-letters whose tender hearted comprehension of what he was doing always held the desire to surround him with the soothing quiet he had so felt when he was with her.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000015_000001|What he discovered was that she had been born of the elect,--the women who know what to say, what to let others say and what to beautifully leave unsaid.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000015_000002|Her unconscious genius was quite exquisite.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000000|Now and then he made the night journey to Darreuch Castle and each time she met him with her frank childlike kiss he was more amazed and uplifted by her aspect.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000001|Their quiet talks together were wonderful things to remember.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000002|She had done much fine and dainty work which she showed him with unaffected sweetness.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000003|She told him stories of Dowie and Mademoiselle and how they had taught her to sew and embroider.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000004|Once she told him the story of her first meeting with Donal-but she passed over the tragedy of their first parting.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000017_000000|"It was too sad," she said.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000018_000000|He noticed that she never spoke of sad and dark hours.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000018_000001|He was convinced that she purposely avoided them and he was profoundly glad.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000019_000000|"I know," she said once, "that you do not want me to talk to you about the War."
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000020_000000|"Thank you for knowing it," he answered.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000020_000001|"I come here on a pilgrimage to a shrine where peace is.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000020_000002|Darreuch is my shrine."
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000022_000000|"Yes, I think it is," his look at her was deep.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000022_000001|Suddenly but gently he laid his hand on her shoulder.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000023_000001|Blot the accursed thing out of the Universe while-you are here.
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000023_000002|For you there must be no war."
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000024_000000|"How kind his face looked," was Robin's thought as he hesitated a second and then went on:
train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000026_000000|It was she who now put her hand on his arm.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000000|MISS GRANDISON had resolved upon taking a house in London for the season, and had obtained a promise from her uncle and aunt to be her guests.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000002|As for Ferdinand, the spring had gradually restored him to health, but not to his former frame of mind.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000003|He remained moody and indolent, incapable of exertion, and a prey to the darkest humours; circumstances, however, occurred which rendered some energy on his part absolutely necessary. His creditors grew importunate, and the arrangement of his affairs or departure from his native land was an alternative now inevitable.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000004|The month of April, which witnessed the arrival of the Temples and Lord Montfort in England, welcomed also to London Miss Grandison and her guests.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000003_000000|A sudden residence in a vast metropolis, after a life of rural seclusion, has without doubt a very peculiar effect upon the mind.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000004_000000|It was in this mood, exhausted by a visit to his lawyer, that he stepped into a military club and took up a newspaper.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000004_000001|Caring little for politics, his eye wandered over, uninterested, its pugnacious leading articles and tedious parliamentary reports; and he was about to throw it down when a paragraph caught his notice which instantly engrossed all his attention.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000004_000002|It was in the 'Morning Post' that he thus read:
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000001|His lordship is considered one of the most accomplished noblemen of the day, and was celebrated at Rome for his patronage of the arts. Lord Montfort will shortly be united to the beautiful Miss Temple, the only daughter of the Right Honourable Pelham Temple.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000002|Miss Temple is esteemed one of the richest heiresses in England, as she will doubtless inherit the whole of the immense fortune to which her father so unexpectedly acceded.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000003|mr Temple is a widower, and has no son.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000004|mr Temple was formerly our minister at several of the German Courts, where he was distinguished by his abilities and his hospitality to his travelling countrymen.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000006|The personal property is also very considerable.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000008|Lord Montfort accompanied mr Temple and his amiable daughter to this country.'
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000000|What a wild and fiery chaos was the mind of Ferdinand Armine when he read this paragraph.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000001|The wonders it revealed succeeded each other with such rapidity that for some time he was deprived of the power of reflection.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000002|Henrietta Temple in England!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000003|Henrietta Temple one of the greatest heiresses in the country!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000004|Henrietta Temple about to be immediately married to another!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000005|His Henrietta Temple, the Henrietta Temple whom he adored, and by whom he had been worshipped!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000006|The Henrietta Temple whose beautiful lock of hair was at this very moment on his heart!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000007|The Henrietta Temple for whom he had forfeited fortune, family, power, almost life!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000000|O Woman, Woman!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000001|Put not thy trust in woman!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000002|And yet, could he reproach her?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000003|Did she not believe herself trifled with by him, outraged, deceived, deluded, deserted?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000004|And did she, could she love another?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000005|Was there another to whom she had poured forth her heart as to him, and all that beautiful flow of fascinating and unrivalled emotion?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000006|Was there another to whom she had pledged her pure and passionate soul?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000007|Ah, no! he would not, he could not believe it.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000008|Light and false Henrietta could never be.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000000|But she was not yet married.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000001|They were, according to these lines, to be soon united.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000004|Could he not explain all?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000005|Could he not prove that his heart had ever been true and fond?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000007|And when she found that Ferdinand, her own Ferdinand, had indeed never deceived her, was worthy of her choice affection, and suffering even at this moment for her sweet sake, what were all the cold blooded ties in which she had since involved herself?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000008|She was his by an older and more ardent bond.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000009|Should he not claim his right?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000010|Could she deny it?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000009_000000|Claim what?
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000009_000003|Whatever she might think, his conduct had been faultless to her. It was not for Henrietta to complain.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000009_000004|She was not the victim, if one indeed there might chance to be.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000010_000000|Poor Ferdinand Armine! it was the first time he had experienced the maddening pangs of jealousy.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000011_000000|Yet how he had loved this woman!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000011_000002|And now they might have been so happy!
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000011_000003|There is nothing that depresses a man so much as the conviction of bad fortune.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000012_000000|It so happened that he had promised this day to dine at his cousin's; for Glastonbury, who was usually his companion, had accepted an invitation this day to dine with the noble widow of his old patron. Ferdinand, however, found himself quite incapable of entering into any society, and he hurried to his hotel to send a note of excuse to Brook street.
train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000012_000001|As he arrived, Glastonbury was just about to step into a hackney coach, so that Ferdinand had no opportunity of communicating his sorrows to his friend, even had he been inclined.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000000|He had been drowned.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000001|He was floating in a sea of light, and now and then shining little fishes swam inquisitively up to him and stared.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000003|They hurtled through the murky light like shooting stars.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000004|And once two of them dashed together and burst like a rocket.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000005|The sparks came falling down through a billion miles of space, and as they fell they built up planets and systems of their own.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000006|Until a dark coil that had the shape of a dragon slithered across the milky way and began to devour them one by one.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000007|The sparks disappeared into its dark maw.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000002_000000|Jack Odin groaned in pain and awoke.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000002_000002|But strong hands were holding him down.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000003_000000|He became conscious of a buzzing, murmuring sound.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000003_000001|It was neither sad nor glad.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000000|Something was falling across the back of his neck and spreading out across his shoulders.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000002|Perhaps it was a bit coarser.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000003|But not much.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000004|But then, just as the strange soothing feeling was putting him back to sleep, the hairs changed their soft caress and a dozen of them plunged into his spinal cord and upward into that small old brain where all the bogies of the stone age still cowered.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000005_000000|Odin yelled in pain and fought.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000005_000001|But the hands held him tight.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000005_000003|The voice was Gunnar's.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000006_000003|And once when he almost struggled clear, a strong knee was thrust into his back and forced him down.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000007_000000|At intervals, he could hear Gunnar's voice-and his own-crying, pleading, threatening.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000008_000000|Then at last it was over.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000008_000001|The hands turned Odin upon his back and he lay there, gasping and hurting, like one who has just come up from deep water.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000009_000000|The lights were so bright that at first he could see nothing.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000010_000001|Beside Odin on another bed was Gunnar, lying flat on his back and stripped to the waist.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000010_000002|Gunnar was howling curses and kicking like a frog.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000011_000000|A doctor and a nurse were there.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000011_000002|He was not completely conscious-and for a second she looked like a high priestess of the Amazon, holding two mummified heads before her-
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000012_000000|The pain left him.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000013_000000|Ato and n e a smiled at them.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000014_000000|"God, that was a close one," Ato said, and wiped his forehead.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000014_000002|And it was touch and go all the time."
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000015_000000|"What happened?" Odin asked.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000015_000001|He remembered something about a glittering tomb and Maya awakening from her long sleep and Grim Hagen.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000015_000003|But these were mere scenes that flashed before his mind.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000017_000000|She smiled proudly.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000017_000002|You see, I have two of them now.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000017_000008|You were electrocuted."
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000018_000002|You might say that we are master electronicians, rebuilding circuits, repairing transistors and condensers-"
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000019_000000|"You were plenty rough," Gunnar grumbled.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000000|"We had to be.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000002|Here." She held her two precious Kalis in one arm while she tapped the base of her skull.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000004|It is a simple, worrying brain.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000007|It was convinced that you were dead.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000008|We had to arouse it."
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000021_000000|Odin fancied that he could hear the two Kalis purring contentedly like cats.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000021_000002|Let them purr.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000022_000000|Gunnar sat up and began grumbling anew: "Well, thanks.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000022_000001|Now, get me some clothes.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000022_000003|And tell me where we are?"
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000023_000001|"I threw The Nebula into the Fourth Drive some time ago.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000023_000002|That may have helped to save your lives too.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000024_000000|"Will you please tell me where we are?" Gunnar demanded.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000000|"Give me time, little man," Ato retorted.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000001|"We are back in Trans Einsteinian space, and Aldebaran and its worlds are far behind us.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000005|Also, a dozen Brons. Maybe more, but not many.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000007|The people were bled white.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000008|Graft, corruption, and patronage had taken its toll.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000012|They won, of course.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000015|They gathered at the Old Ship and took off.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000017|We decided to have one last try for Maya. But we found you two and a dead Bron and the head of a native.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000019|All this time I have had a fix on Hagen."
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000029_000001|"We had time on our side before. Now, if he gets away from us he can live out his days on some obscure planet.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000029_000002|The years will pass like a whirlwind-while we go dashing this way and that, and in a surprisingly short time our willing and unwilling fugitives will have lived out their lives.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000031_000000|"Then, what have you done?" Odin asked.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000001|I have a fix upon him.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000002|We sapped all the energy from Aldebaran that we could.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000003|We have power enough, but there are no stars nearby.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000004|As I said before, he is heading for a dust cloud.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000007|After all, we are behind him.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000033_000001|"If not destroyed, it has a chance to improve its percentage when the pursuer has made its pass."
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000034_000000|"True enough," Ato admitted.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000034_000001|"That is why I propose to stay close behind it.
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000034_000003|It must be far, far away."
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000035_000001|"What is far?
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000035_000002|What is near?
train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000036_000000|Ato flushed in anger.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000001_000000|The Wounded Lion
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000002_000000|Cuentos Populars Catalans.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000003_000000|There was once a girl so poor that she had nothing to live on, and wandered about the world asking for charity.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000003_000001|One day she arrived at a thatched cottage, and inquired if they could give her any work.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000003_000002|The farmer said he wanted a cowherd, as his own had left him, and if the girl liked the place she might take it.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000003_000003|So she became a cowherd.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000004_000000|One morning she was driving her cows through the meadows when she heard near by a loud groan that almost sounded human.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000004_000001|She hastened to the spot from which the noise came, and found it proceeded from a lion who lay stretched upon the ground.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000005_000000|You can guess how frightened she was!
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000005_000002|She pulled out the thorn and bound up the place, and the lion was grateful, and licked her hand by way of thanks with his big rough tongue.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000006_000001|Then he said, 'Now you will have to look after the asses.'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000007_000000|So every day she had to take the asses to the woods to feed, until one morning, exactly a year after she had found the lion, she heard a groan which sounded quite human.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000007_000001|She went straight to the place from which the noise came, and, to her great surprise, beheld the same lion stretched on the ground with a deep wound across his face.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000008_000000|This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000009_000000|After that she returned to her flock, but they were nowhere to be seen.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000009_000001|She searched here and she searched there, but they had vanished completely!
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000010_000000|Then she had to go home and confess to her master, who first scolded her and afterwards beat her.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000010_000001|'Now go,' he ended, 'and look after the pigs!'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000011_000000|So the next day she took out the pigs, and found them such good feeding grounds that they grew fatter every day.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000012_000000|Another year passed by, and one morning when the maiden was out with her pigs she heard a groan which sounded quite human.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000012_000001|She ran to see what it was, and found her old friend the lion, wounded through and through, fast dying under a tree.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000013_000000|She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, and laid healing herbs upon them.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000013_000001|And the lion licked her hands and thanked her, and asked if she would not stay and sit by him.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000013_000002|But the girl said she had her pigs to watch, and she must go and see after them.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000014_000000|So she ran to the place where she had left them, but they had vanished as if the earth had swallowed them up.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000014_000001|She whistled and called, but only the birds answered her.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000015_000000|Then she sank down on the ground and wept bitterly, not daring to return home until some hours had passed away.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000016_000001|But it was no use; there was not a sign of the pigs.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000017_000000|At last she thought that perhaps if she climbed a tree she might see further.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000017_000001|But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000017_000002|This was a handsome young man who was coming down the path; and when he had almost reached the tree he pulled aside a rock and disappeared behind it.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000018_000000|The maiden rubbed her eyes and wondered if she had been dreaming.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000018_000001|Next she thought, 'I will not stir from here till I see him come out, and discover who he is.' Accordingly she waited, and at dawn the next morning the rock moved to one side and a lion came out.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000000|When he had gone quite out of sight the girl climbed down from the tree and went to the rock, which she pushed aside, and entered the opening before her.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000001|The path led to a beautiful house.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000002|She went in, swept and dusted the furniture, and put everything tidy.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000003|Then she ate a very good dinner, which was on a shelf in the corner, and once more clambered up to the top of her tree.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000020_000000|As the sun set she saw the same young man walking gaily down the path, and, as before, he pushed aside the rock and disappeared behind it.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000021_000000|Next morning out came the lion.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000021_000001|He looked sharply about him on all sides, but saw no one, and then vanished into the forest.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000022_000000|The maiden then came down from the tree and did exactly as she had done the day before.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000022_000001|Thus three days went by, and every day she went and tidied up the palace.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000022_000002|At length, when the girl found she was no nearer to discovering the secret, she resolved to ask him, and in the evening when she caught sight of him coming through the wood she came down from the tree and begged him to tell her his name.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000023_000000|The young man looked very pleased to see her, and said he thought it must be she who had secretly kept his house for so many days.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000023_000001|And he added that he was a prince enchanted by a powerful giant, but was only allowed to take his own shape at night, for all day he was forced to appear as the lion whom she had so often helped; and, more than this, it was the giant who had stolen the oxen and the asses and the pigs in revenge for her kindness.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000024_000000|And the girl asked him, 'What can I do to disenchant you?'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000025_000000|But he said he was afraid it was very difficult, because the only way was to get a lock of hair from the head of a king's daughter, to spin it, and to make from it a cloak for the giant, who lived up on the top of a high mountain.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000026_000000|'Very well,' answered the girl, 'I will go to the city, and knock at the door of the king's palace, and ask the princess to take me as a servant.'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000027_000000|So they parted, and when she arrived at the city she walked about the streets crying, 'Who will hire me for a servant?
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000027_000001|Who will hire me for a servant?' But, though many people liked her looks, for she was clean and neat, the maiden would listen to none, and still continued crying, 'Who will hire me for a servant?
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000027_000002|Who will hire me for a servant?'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000028_000000|At last there came the waiting maid of the princess.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000029_000000|'What can you do?' she said; and the girl was forced to confess that she could do very little.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000030_000000|'Then you will have to do scullion's work, and wash up dishes,' said she; and they went straight back to the palace.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000031_000000|Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very neat and smart, and everyone admired and praised her, till by and bye it came to the ears of the princess.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000032_000000|Now the hair of the princess was very thick and long, and shone like the sun
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000033_000000|The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea of parting with any of it, so she said no
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000033_000001|But the girl could not give up hope, and each day she entreated to be allowed to cut off just one tress.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000033_000002|At length the princess lost patience, and exclaimed, 'You may have it, then, on condition that you shall find the handsomest prince in the world to be my bridegroom!'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000034_000000|And the girl answered that she would, and cut off the lock, and wove it into a coat that glittered like silk, and brought it to the young man, who told her to carry it straight to the giant.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000034_000001|But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had with her, or else he would spring upon her and run her through with his sword.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000035_000000|So the maiden departed and climbed up the mountain, but before she reached the top the giant heard her footsteps, and rushed out breathing fire and flame, having a sword in one hand and a club in the other.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000035_000001|But she cried loudly that she had brought him the coat, and then he grew quiet, and invited her to come into his house.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000036_000000|He tried on the coat, but it was too short, and he threw it off, and declared it was no use.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000036_000001|And the girl picked it up sadly, and returned quite in despair to the king's palace.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000037_000000|The next morning, when she was combing the princess's hair, she begged leave to cut off another lock.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000038_000000|The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the lock into shining stuff, and fastened it on to the end of the coat.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000039_000000|This time it fitted him, and he was quite pleased, and asked her what he could give her in return.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000039_000001|And she said that the only reward he could give her was to take the spell off the lion and bring him back to his own shape.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000040_000000|For a long time the giant would not hear of it, but in the end he gave in, and told her exactly how it must all be done.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000040_000001|She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she must burn him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water the prince would come free from enchantment for ever.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000041_000000|But the maiden went away weeping, lest the giant should have deceived her, and that after she had killed the lion she would find she had also slain the prince.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000043_000000|And the maiden believed what the prince told her; and in the morning when he put on his lion's form she took a knife and slew him, and cut him up very small, and burnt him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water came the prince, beautiful as the day, and as glad to look upon as the sun himself.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000044_000000|Then the young man thanked the maiden for all she had done for him, and said she should be his wife and none other.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000045_000000|But the prince replied, 'If it is the princess, we must go quickly.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000045_000001|Come with me.'
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000046_000000|So they went together to the king's palace.
train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000046_000001|And when the king and queen and princess saw the young man a great joy filled their hearts, for they knew him for the eldest son, who had long ago been enchanted by a giant and lost to them.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000002_000000|Once upon a time there lived a man with one daughter and he made her work hard all the day.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000003_000000|The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet smelling rosemary for herself.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000003_000001|But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last, determined not to be beaten, she gave one great tug, and the rosemary remained in her hands.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000004_000000|Then she heard a voice close to her saying, 'Well?' and turning she saw before her a handsome young man, who asked why she had come to steal his firewood.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000005_000000|The girl, who felt much confused, only managed to stammer out as an excuse that her father had sent her.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000006_000000|'Very well,' replied the young man; 'then come with me.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000007_000000|So he took her through the opening made by the torn up root, and they travelled till they reached a beautiful palace, splendidly furnished, but only lighted from the top.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000007_000001|And when they had entered he told her that he was a great lord, and that never had he seen a maiden so beautiful as she, and that if she would give him her heart they would be married and live happy for ever after.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000008_000000|And the maiden said 'yes, she would,' and so they were married.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000009_000000|The next day the old dame who looked after the house handed her all the keys, but pointed her out one that she would do well never to use, for if she did the whole palace would fall to the ground, and the grass would grow over it, and the damsel herself would be remembered no more.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000000|The bride promised to be careful, but in a little while, when there was nothing left for her to do, she began to wonder what could be in the chest, which was opened by the key.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000002|But the lock was stiff and resisted all her efforts, and in the end she had to break it.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000003|And what was inside after all?
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000005|She burst into a flood of bitter tears, partly at her own folly, but more for the loss of her husband, whom she dearly loved.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000006|Then, breaking a sprig of rosemary off a bush hard by, she resolved, cost what it might, to seek him through the world till she found him.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000007|So she walked and she walked and she walked, till she arrived at a house built of straw.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000008|And she knocked at the door, and asked if they wanted a servant.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000009|The mistress said she did, and if the girl was willing she might stay.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000010|But day by day the poor maiden grew more and more sad, till at last her mistress begged her to say what was the matter.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000011|Then she told her story-how she was going through the world seeking after her husband.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000012_000000|On hearing these words the damsel set forth once more, and walked till she reached the Golden Castle, where lived the sun
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000012_000001|And she knocked boldly at the door, saying, 'All hail, O Sun!
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000012_000002|I have come to ask if, of your charity, you will help me in my need.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000013_000000|'Indeed!' spoke the sun
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000013_000001|'Do you, rich as you are, need help?
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000013_000002|But though you live in a palace without windows, the Sun enters everywhere, and he knows you.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000014_000000|Then the bride told him the whole story. and did not hide her own ill doing.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000014_000001|And the Sun listened, and was sorry for her; and though he could not tell her where to go, he gave her a nut, and bid her open it in a time of great distress.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000014_000002|The damsel thanked him with all her heart, and departed, and walked and walked and walked, till she came to another castle, and knocked at the door which was opened by an old woman.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000015_000000|'All hail!' said the girl.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000015_000001|'I have come, of your charity, to ask your help!'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000016_000000|'It is my mistress, the Moon, you seek.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000016_000001|I will tell her of your prayer.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000017_000000|So the Moon came out, and when she saw the maiden she knew her again, for she had watched her sleeping both in the cottage and in the palace. And she spake to her and said:
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000018_000000|'Do you, rich as you are, need help?'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000019_000001|So the damsel thanked her, and departed, and walked and walked and walked till she came to another castle.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000019_000002|And she knocked at the door, and said:
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000020_000001|I have come to ask if, of your charity, you will help me in my need.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000021_000000|'It is my lord, the Wind, that you want,' answered the old woman who opened it.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000022_000000|And the Wind looked on her and knew her again, for he had seen her in the cottage and in the palace, and he spake to her and said:
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000024_000001|And the Wind listened, and was sorry for her, and he gave her a walnut that she was to eat in time of need. But the girl did not go as the Wind expected.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000024_000002|She was tired and sad, and knew not where to turn, so she began to weep bitterly.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000024_000003|The Wind wept too for company, and said:
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000025_000000|'Don't be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000026_000000|And the Wind departed with a great noise and fuss, and in the twinkling of an eye he was back again, beaming with delight.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000027_000000|'From what one person and another have let fall,' he exclaimed, 'I have contrived to learn that he is in the palace of the king, who keeps him hidden lest anyone should see him; and that to morrow he is to marry the princess, who, ugly creature that she is, has not been able to find any man to wed her.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000028_000000|Who can tell the despair which seized the poor maiden when she heard this news!
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000028_000001|As soon as she could speak she implored the Wind to do all he could to get the wedding put off for two or three days, for it would take her all that time to reach the palace of the king.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000029_000000|The Wind gladly promised to do what he could, and as he travelled much faster than the maiden he soon arrived at the palace, where he found five tailors working night and day at the wedding clothes of the princess.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000030_000002|After them ran the tailors, catching, jumping, climbing, but all to no purpose!
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000030_000003|The lace was torn, the satin stained, the pearls knocked off!
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000030_000005|It was plainly quite impossible that the wedding clothes could be ready next day.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000031_000000|However, the king was much too anxious to see his daughter married to listen to any excuses, and he declared that a dress must be put together somehow for the bride to wear.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000031_000001|But when he went to look at the princess, she was such a figure that he agreed that it would be unfitting for her position to be seen in such a gown, and he ordered the ceremony and the banquet to be postponed for a few hours, so that the tailors might take the dress to pieces and make it fit.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000032_000000|But by this time the maiden had arrived footsore and weary at the castle, and as soon as she reached the door she cracked her nut and drew out of it the most beautiful mantle in the world.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000032_000001|Then she rang the bell, and asked:
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000033_000000|'Is not the princess to be married to day?'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000034_000000|'Yes, she is.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000035_000000|'Ask her if she would like to buy this mantle.'
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000036_000000|And when the princess saw the mantle she was delighted, for her wedding mantle had been spoilt with all the other things, and it was too late to make another.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000037_000000|The maiden fixed a large sum, many pieces of gold, but the princess had set her heart on the mantle, and gave it readily.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000038_000000|Now the maiden hid her gold in the pocket of her dress, and turned away from the castle.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000038_000001|The moment she was out of sight she broke her almond, and drew from it the most magnificent petticoats that ever were seen. Then she went back to the castle, and asked if the princess wished to buy any petticoats.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000038_000003|And the maiden named many pieces of gold, which the princess paid her gladly, so pleased was she with her new possessions.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000039_000000|Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cracked her walnut, and out came the most splendid court dress that any dressmaker had ever invented; and, carrying it carefully in her arms, she knocked at the door, and asked if the princess wished to buy a court dress.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000040_000000|When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with delight, for she had been thinking that after all it was not much use to have a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats if she had no dress, and she knew the tailors would never be ready in time.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000040_000001|So she sent at once to say she would buy the dress, and what sum did the maiden want for it.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000041_000000|This time the maiden answered that the price of the dress was the permission to see the bridegroom.
train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000042_000000|The princess was not at all pleased when she heard the maiden's reply, but, as she could not do without the dress, she was forced to give in, and contented herself with thinking that after all it did not matter much.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven THE SECRET ORCHARD
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000002_000000|Once outside the noisy coffee room, alone in the dimly lighted passage, Marguerite Blakeney seemed to breathe more freely.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000002_000001|She heaved a deep sigh, like one who had long been oppressed with the heavy weight of constant self control, and she allowed a few tears to fall unheeded down her cheeks.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000003_000000|Outside the rain had ceased, and through the swiftly passing clouds, the pale rays of an after storm sun shone upon the beautiful white coast of Kent and the quaint, irregular houses that clustered round the Admiralty Pier.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000005_000000|"Armand!" said Marguerite Blakeney, as soon as she saw him approaching from the distance, and a happy smile shone on her sweet face, even through the tears.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000010_000000|"Half an hour," she said, looking wistfully out to sea, "half an hour more and you'll be far from me, Armand!
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000010_000001|Oh!
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000010_000002|I can't believe that you are going, dear!
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000012_000000|"Nay, 'tis not the distance, Armand-but that awful Paris . . . just now . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000013_000000|They had reached the edge of the cliff.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000013_000002|She tried to pierce the distance far away, beyond which lay the shores of France: that relentless and stern France which was exacting her pound of flesh, the blood tax from the noblest of her sons.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000014_000000|"Our own beautiful country, Marguerite," said Armand, who seemed to have divined her thoughts.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000015_000000|"They are going too far, Armand," she said vehemently.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000016_000000|"Hush!--" said Armand, instinctively, as he threw a quick, apprehensive glance around him.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000018_000000|Her voice was choked in sobs, her eyes, tender, blue and loving, gazed appealingly at the young man, who in his turn looked steadfastly into hers.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000019_000000|"You would in any case be my own brave sister," he said gently, "who would remember that, when France is in peril, it is not for her sons to turn their backs on her."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000021_000000|"Oh! Armand!" she said quaintly, "I sometimes wish you had not so many lofty virtues. . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000021_000001|I assure you little sins are far less dangerous and uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000021_000002|But you WILL be prudent?" she added earnestly.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000022_000000|"As far as possible . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000022_000001|I promise you."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000024_000000|"Nay, sweet one, you have other interests now.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000024_000001|Percy cares for you . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000025_000000|A look of strange wistfulness crept into her eyes as she murmured,--
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000026_000000|"He did . . . once . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000027_000000|"But surely . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000028_000000|"There, there, dear, don't distress yourself on my account.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000028_000001|Percy is very good . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000029_000000|"Nay!" he interrupted energetically, "I will distress myself on your account, my Margot.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000029_000001|Listen, dear, I have not spoken of these things to you before; something always seemed to stop me when I wished to question you.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000029_000002|But, somehow, I feel as if I could not go away and leave you now without asking you one question. . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000030_000000|"What is it?" she asked simply.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000031_000001|I mean, does he know the part you played in the arrest of the Marquis de st Cyr?"
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000032_000000|She laughed-a mirthless, bitter, contemptuous laugh, which was like a jarring chord in the music of her voice.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000033_000001|Yes, he does know. . . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000033_000002|I told him after I married him. . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000034_000000|"You told him all the circumstances-which so completely exonerated you from any blame?"
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000035_000001|I could no longer plead extenuating circumstances: I could not demean myself by trying to explain-"
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000036_000000|"And?"
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000037_000000|"And now I have the satisfaction, Armand, of knowing that the biggest fool in England has the most complete contempt for his wife."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000039_000000|"But Sir Percy loved you, Margot," he repeated gently.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000000|"Loved me?--Well, Armand, I thought at one time that he did, or I should not have married him.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000001|I daresay," she added, speaking very rapidly, as if she were about to lay down a heavy burden, which had oppressed her for months, "I daresay that even you thought-as everybody else did-that I married Sir Percy because of his wealth-but I assure you, dear, that it was not so.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000003|I had never loved any one before, as you know, and I was four and twenty then-so I naturally thought that it was not in my nature to love.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000004|But it has always seemed to me that it MUST be HEAVENLY to be loved blindly, passionately, wholly . . . worshipped, in fact-and the very fact that Percy was slow and stupid was an attraction for me, as I thought he would love me all the more.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000006|I thought that a fool would worship, and think of nothing else.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000007|And I was ready to respond, Armand; I would have allowed myself to be worshipped, and given infinite tenderness in return. . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000042_000002|She had been young, misguided, ill advised perhaps.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000000|Yet even now, his own sister puzzled him.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000002|Could it be that with the waning of her husband's love, Marguerite's heart had awakened with love for him?
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000004|Marguerite was gazing out towards the sunset.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000005|Armand could not see her face, but presently it seemed to him that something which glittered for a moment in the golden evening light, fell from her eyes onto her dainty fichu of lace.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000044_000000|But he could not broach that subject with her.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000044_000001|He knew her strange, passionate nature so well, and knew that reserve which lurked behind her frank, open ways.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000045_000000|This was his first visit to England since her marriage, and the few months of separation had already seemed to have built up a slight, thin partition between brother and sister; the same deep, intense love was still there, on both sides, but each now seemed to have a secret orchard, into which the other dared not penetrate.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000046_000001|And Marguerite could not speak to her brother about the secrets of her heart; she hardly understood them herself, she only knew that, in the midst of luxury, she felt lonely and unhappy.
train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000047_000001|She would not spoil these last few sadly sweet moments by speaking about herself.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000002_000000|At what particular moment the strange doubt first crept into Marguerite's mind, she could not herself have said.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000003_000000|Stupidly, senselessly, now, sitting beneath the shade of an overhanging sycamore, she was looking at the plain gold shield, with the star shaped little flower engraved upon it.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000004_000002|Had not everybody about town recently made a point of affecting the device of that mysterious and heroic Scarlet Pimpernel?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000000|Did she herself wear it embroidered on her gowns?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000001|set in gems and enamel in her hair?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000002|What was there strange in the fact that Sir Percy should have chosen to use the device as a seal ring?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000003|He might easily have done that . . . yes . . . quite easily . . . and . . . besides . . . what connection could there be between her exquisite dandy of a husband, with his fine clothes and refined, lazy ways, and the daring plotter who rescued French victims from beneath the very eyes of the leaders of a bloodthirsty revolution?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000006_000000|Her thoughts were in a whirl-her mind a blank . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000008_000001|You did not expect me quite so soon, did you, my darling little Margot CHERIE?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000010_000000|"Indeed, sweet one," she said with a smile, "it is delightful to have you all to myself, and for a nice whole long day. . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000010_000001|You won't be bored?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000011_000000|"Oh! bored!
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000011_000001|Margot, how CAN you say such a wicked thing.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000012_000000|"And to talk secrets."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000013_000000|The two young girls had linked their arms in one another's and began wandering round the garden.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000014_000000|"Oh! how lovely your home is, Margot, darling," said little Suzanne, enthusiastically, "and how happy you must be!"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000015_000001|I ought to be happy-oughtn't I, sweet one?" said Marguerite, with a wistful little sigh.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000016_000000|"How sadly you say it, CHERIE. . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000016_000002|Do you remember?--some we did not even confide to Sister Theresa of the Holy Angels-though she was such a dear."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000017_000001|"Faith, there's naught to be ashamed of!
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000018_000000|"Indeed, CHERIE, I am not ashamed," rejoined Suzanne, softly; "and it makes me very, very proud to hear you speak so well of him.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000018_000001|I think maman will consent," she added thoughtfully, "and I shall be-oh! so happy-but, of course, nothing is to be thought of until papa is safe. . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000019_000000|Marguerite started.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000019_000001|Suzanne's father!
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000019_000002|the Comte de Tournay!--one of those whose life would be jeopardised if Chauvelin succeeded in establishing the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000021_000000|Armand's peril, Chauvelin's threat, his cruel "Either-or-" which she had accepted.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000022_000000|And then her own work in the matter, which should have culminated at one o'clock in Lord Grenville's dining room, when the relentless agent of the French Government would finally learn who was this mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, who so openly defied an army of spies and placed himself so boldly, and for mere sport, on the side of the enemies of France.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000023_000000|Since then she had heard nothing from Chauvelin.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000023_000001|She had concluded that he had failed, and yet, she had not felt anxious about Armand, because her husband had promised her that Armand would be safe.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000000|But now, suddenly, as Suzanne prattled merrily along, an awful horror came upon her for what she had done.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000001|Chauvelin had told her nothing, it was true; but she remembered how sarcastic and evil he looked when she took final leave of him after the ball.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000002|Had he discovered something then?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000003|Had he already laid his plans for catching the daring plotter, red handed, in France, and sending him to the guillotine without compunction or delay?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000025_000000|Marguerite turned sick with horror, and her hand convulsively clutched the ring in her dress.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000026_000000|"You are not listening, CHERIE," said Suzanne, reproachfully, as she paused in her long, highly interesting narrative.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000027_000000|"Yes, yes, darling-indeed I am," said Marguerite with an effort, forcing herself to smile.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000027_000001|"I love to hear you talking . . . and your happiness makes me so very glad. . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000027_000003|Sir Andrew Ffoulkes is a noble English gentleman; he has money and position, the Comtesse will not refuse her consent. . . . But . . . now, little one . . . tell me . . . what is the latest news about your father?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000028_000000|"Oh!" said Suzanne with mad glee, "the best we could possibly hear.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000028_000001|My Lord Hastings came to see maman early this morning.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000028_000002|He said that all is now well with dear papa, and we may safely expect him here in England in less than four days."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000029_000000|"Yes," said Marguerite, whose glowing eyes were fastened on Suzanne's lips, as she continued merrily:
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000030_000000|"Oh, we have no fear now!
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000030_000001|You don't know, CHERIE, that that great and noble Scarlet Pimpernel himself has gone to save papa.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000030_000002|He has gone, CHERIE . . . actually gone . . ." added Suzanne excitedly, "he was in London this morning; he will be in Calais, perhaps, to morrow . . . where he will meet papa . . . and then . . . and then . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000031_000000|The blow had fallen.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000031_000002|He had gone to Calais, had been in London this morning . . . he . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000031_000003|Percy Blakeney . . . her husband . . . whom she had betrayed last night to Chauvelin.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000032_000000|Percy . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000032_000001|Percy . . . her husband . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000032_000002|Oh! how could she have been so blind?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000033_000000|And all for the sheer sport and devilry of course!--saving men, women and children from death, as other men destroy and kill animals for the excitement, the love of the thing.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000035_000001|No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies, both in France and in England.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000036_000000|Had his astute mind guessed the secret, then?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000036_000001|Here lay the whole awful, horrible, amazing puzzle.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000036_000002|In betraying a nameless stranger to his fate in order to save her brother, had Marguerite Blakeney sent her husband to his death?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000038_000000|"But what is it, CHERIE?" said little Suzanne, now genuinely alarmed, for Marguerite's colour had become dull and ashen.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000038_000001|"Are you ill, Marguerite?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000038_000002|What is it?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000039_000000|"Nothing, nothing, child," she murmured, as in a dream.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000039_000002|You said . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel had gone today . . . ?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000040_000001|You frighten me. . . ."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000041_000001|I must be alone a minute-and-dear one . . .
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000041_000003|I may have to go away-you'll understand?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000042_000000|"I understand that something has happened, CHERIE, and that you want to be alone.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000042_000002|Don't think of me.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000042_000003|My maid, Lucile, has not yet gone . . . we will go back together . . . don't think of me."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000043_000001|Child as she was, she felt the poignancy of her friend's grief, and with the infinite tact of her girlish tenderness, she did not try to pry into it, but was ready to efface herself.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000044_000001|Marguerite did not move, she remained there, thinking . . . wondering what was to be done.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000045_000000|Just as little Suzanne was about to mount the terrace steps, a groom came running round the house towards his mistress.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000045_000001|He carried a sealed letter in his hand.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000045_000002|Suzanne instinctively turned back; her heart told her that here perhaps was further ill news for her friend, and she felt that poor Margot was not in a fit state to bear any more.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000046_000000|The groom stood respectfully beside his mistress, then he handed her the sealed letter.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000047_000000|"What is that?" asked Marguerite.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000048_000000|"Just come by runner, my lady."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000049_000000|Marguerite took the letter mechanically, and turned it over in her trembling fingers.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000050_000000|"Who sent it?" she said.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000051_000000|"The runner said, my lady," replied the groom, "that his orders were to deliver this, and that your ladyship would understand from whom it came."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000052_000000|Marguerite tore open the envelope.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000052_000001|Already her instinct told her what it contained, and her eyes only glanced at it mechanically.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000055_000000|Marguerite's senses reeled, her very soul seemed to be leaving her body; she tottered, and would have fallen but for Suzanne's arm round her waist.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000055_000001|With superhuman effort she regained control over herself-there was yet much to be done.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000056_000000|"Bring that runner here to me," she said to the servant, with much calm. "He has not gone?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000057_000000|"No, my lady."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000058_000000|The groom went, and Marguerite turned to Suzanne.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000059_000000|"And you, child, run within.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000059_000001|Tell Lucile to get ready.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000059_000002|I fear that I must send you home, child.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000060_000000|Suzanne made no reply.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000060_000001|She kissed Marguerite tenderly and obeyed without a word; the child was overawed by the terrible, nameless misery in her friend's face.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000061_000000|A minute later the groom returned, followed by the runner who had brought the letter.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000062_000000|"Who gave you this packet?" asked Marguerite.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000063_000000|"A gentleman, my lady," replied the man, "at 'The Rose and Thistle' inn opposite Charing Cross.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000063_000001|He said you would understand."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000064_000000|"At 'The Rose and Thistle'?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000065_000000|"He was waiting for the coach, your ladyship, which he had ordered."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000066_000000|"The coach?"
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000067_000000|"Yes, my lady.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000067_000001|A special coach he had ordered.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000067_000002|I understood from his man that he was posting straight to Dover."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000068_000000|"That's enough.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000068_000001|You may go." Then she turned to the groom: "My coach and the four swiftest horses in the stables, to be ready at once."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000069_000001|Marguerite remained standing for a moment on the lawn quite alone.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000069_000002|Her graceful figure was as rigid as a statue, her eyes were fixed, her hands were tightly clasped across her breast; her lips moved as they murmured with pathetic heart breaking persistence,--
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000070_000000|"What's to be done?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000070_000001|What's to be done?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000070_000002|Where to find him?--Oh, God! grant me light."
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000071_000000|But this was not the moment for remorse and despair.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000071_000001|She had done-unwittingly-an awful and terrible thing-the very worst crime, in her eyes, that woman ever committed-she saw it in all its horror.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000071_000003|She ought to have known! she ought to have known!
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000072_000000|How could she imagine that a man who could love with so much intensity as Percy Blakeney had loved her from the first-how could such a man be the brainless idiot he chose to appear?
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000072_000001|She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000074_000000|But there was no time now to go over the past.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000074_000001|By her own blindness she had sinned; now she must repay, not by empty remorse, but by prompt and useful action.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000075_000000|Percy had started for Calais, utterly unconscious of the fact that his most relentless enemy was on his heels.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000075_000001|He had set sail early that morning from London Bridge.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000075_000002|Provided he had a favourable wind, he would no doubt be in France within twenty four hours; no doubt he had reckoned on the wind and chosen this route.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000076_000000|Chauvelin, on the other hand, would post to Dover, charter a vessel there, and undoubtedly reach Calais much about the same time.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000076_000001|Once in Calais, Percy would meet all those who were eagerly waiting for the noble and brave Scarlet Pimpernel, who had come to rescue them from horrible and unmerited death.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000076_000002|With Chauvelin's eyes now fixed upon his every movement, Percy would thus not only be endangering his own life, but that of Suzanne's father, the old Comte de Tournay, and of those other fugitives who were waiting for him and trusting in him.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000078_000000|Unfortunately, she could not do all this quite alone.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000078_000001|Once in Calais she would not know where to find her husband, whilst Chauvelin, in stealing the papers at Dover, had obtained the whole itinerary.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000078_000002|Above every thing, she wished to warn Percy.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000079_000000|She knew enough about him by now to understand that he would never abandon those who trusted in him, that he would not turn his back from danger, and leave the Comte de Tournay to fall into the bloodthirsty hands that knew of no mercy.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000079_000001|But if he were warned, he might form new plans, be more wary, more prudent.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000079_000002|Unconsciously, he might fall into a cunning trap, but-once warned-he might yet succeed.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000081_000000|Her whole body stiffened as with a great and firm resolution.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000081_000001|This she meant to do, if God gave her wits and strength.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000081_000002|Her eyes lost their fixed look; they glowed with inward fire at the thought of meeting him again so soon, in the very midst of most deadly perils; they sparkled with the joy of sharing these dangers with him-of helping him perhaps-of being with him at the last-if she failed.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000000|The childlike sweet face had become hard and set, the curved mouth was closed tightly over her clenched teeth.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000001|She meant to do or die, with him and for his sake.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000002|A frown, which spoke of an iron will and unbending resolution, appeared between the two straight brows; already her plans were formed.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000003|She would go and find Sir Andrew Ffoulkes first; he was Percy's best friend, and Marguerite remembered, with a thrill, with what blind enthusiasm the young man always spoke of his mysterious leader.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000083_000000|He would help her where she needed help; her coach was ready.
train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000083_000001|A change of raiment, and a farewell to little Suzanne, and she could be on her way.
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train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000003_000000|THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000006_000000|General Introduction
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000007_000000|For the Independent Journal.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000007_000001|saturday october twenty seventh seventeen eighty seven
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000008_000000|HAMILTON
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000009_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000010_000002|It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000010_000003|If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000000|This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000001|Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000002|But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000003|The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000002|Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable-the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000003|So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000005|And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000006|Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000007|Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000014_000000|And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000014_000004|It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000000|In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000001|You will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them, that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000002|Yes, my countrymen, I own to you that, after having given it an attentive consideration, I am clearly of opinion it is your interest to adopt it. I am convinced that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000004|I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000006|I shall not, however, multiply professions on this head.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000009|They shall at least be offered in a spirit which will not disgrace the cause of truth.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000016_000000|I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars:
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000018_000000|In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavor to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance, that may seem to have any claim to your attention.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000019_000000|It may perhaps be thought superfluous to offer arguments to prove the utility of the UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people in every State, and one, which it may be imagined, has no adversaries.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000019_000002|For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new Constitution or a dismemberment of the Union.
train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000019_000004|This shall accordingly constitute the subject of my next address.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000006_000000|For the Independent Journal.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000006_000001|wednesday october thirty first seventeen eighty seven
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000008_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000009_000000|WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000011_000000|It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000011_000001|But politicians now appear, who insist that this opinion is erroneous, and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereignties. However extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless has its advocates; and certain characters who were much opposed to it formerly, are at present of the number.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000011_000002|Whatever may be the arguments or inducements which have wrought this change in the sentiments and declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be wise in the people at large to adopt these new political tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sound policy.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000012_000001|Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000015_000002|As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000016_000000|A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000016_000001|They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and well balanced government for a free people.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000016_000002|It is not to be wondered at, that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000017_000000|This intelligent people perceived and regretted these defects.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000017_000001|Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being persuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000018_000000|This convention composed of men who possessed the confidence of the people, and many of whom had become highly distinguished by their patriotism, virtue and wisdom, in times which tried the minds and hearts of men, undertook the arduous task.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000018_000001|In the mild season of peace, with minds unoccupied by other subjects, they passed many months in cool, uninterrupted, and daily consultation; and finally, without having been awed by power, or influenced by any passions except love for their country, they presented and recommended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unanimous councils.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000000|Admit, for so is the fact, that this plan is only RECOMMENDED, not imposed, yet let it be remembered that it is neither recommended to BLIND approbation, nor to BLIND reprobation; but to that sedate and candid consideration which the magnitude and importance of the subject demand, and which it certainly ought to receive.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000001|But this (as was remarked in the foregoing number of this paper) is more to be wished than expected, that it may be so considered and examined.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000002|Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000003|It is not yet forgotten that well grounded apprehensions of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of seventeen seventy four. That body recommended certain measures to their constituents, and the event proved their wisdom; yet it is fresh in our memories how soon the press began to teem with pamphlets and weekly papers against those very measures.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000005|Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority of the people reasoned and decided judiciously; and happy they are in reflecting that they did so.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000020_000000|They considered that the Congress was composed of many wise and experienced men.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000020_000001|That, being convened from different parts of the country, they brought with them and communicated to each other a variety of useful information.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000020_000003|That they were individually interested in the public liberty and prosperity, and therefore that it was not less their inclination than their duty to recommend only such measures as, after the most mature deliberation, they really thought prudent and advisable.
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000022_000003|Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one?
train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000022_000005|That certainly would be the case, and I sincerely wish that it may be as clearly foreseen by every good citizen, that whenever the dissolution of the Union arrives, America will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet: "FAREWELL!
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000004_000000|The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000005_000000|For the Independent Journal.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000005_000001|wednesday november seventh seventeen eighty seven
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000006_000000|JAY
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000007_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000009_000000|But the safety of the people of America against dangers from FOREIGN force depends not only on their forbearing to give JUST causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to INVITE hostility or insult; for it need not be observed that there are PRETENDED as well as just causes of war.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000012_000000|With them and with most other European nations we are rivals in navigation and the carrying trade; and we shall deceive ourselves if we suppose that any of them will rejoice to see it flourish; for, as our carrying trade cannot increase without in some degree diminishing theirs, it is more their interest, and will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000013_000000|In the trade to China and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to partake in advantages which they had in a manner monopolized, and as we thereby supply ourselves with commodities which we used to purchase from them.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000015_000000|Spain thinks it convenient to shut the Mississippi against us on the one side, and Britain excludes us from the Saint Lawrence on the other; nor will either of them permit the other waters which are between them and us to become the means of mutual intercourse and traffic.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000017_000001|That situation consists in the best possible state of defense, and necessarily depends on the government, the arms, and the resources of the country.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000000|One government can collect and avail itself of the talents and experience of the ablest men, in whatever part of the Union they may be found.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000002|It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000003|In the formation of treaties, it will regard the interest of the whole, and the particular interests of the parts as connected with that of the whole.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000004|It can apply the resources and power of the whole to the defense of any particular part, and that more easily and expeditiously than State governments or separate confederacies can possibly do, for want of concert and unity of system.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000005|It can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, as it were, consolidate them into one corps, and thereby render them more efficient than if divided into thirteen or into three or four distinct independent companies.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000020_000000|What would the militia of Britain be if the English militia obeyed the government of England, if the Scotch militia obeyed the government of Scotland, and if the Welsh militia obeyed the government of Wales? Suppose an invasion; would those three governments (if they agreed at all) be able, with all their respective forces, to operate against the enemy so effectually as the single government of Great Britain would?
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000021_000000|We have heard much of the fleets of Britain, and the time may come, if we are wise, when the fleets of America may engage attention.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000021_000001|But if one national government, had not so regulated the navigation of Britain as to make it a nursery for seamen-if one national government had not called forth all the national means and materials for forming fleets, their prowess and their thunder would never have been celebrated.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000022_000000|Apply these facts to our own case.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000022_000001|Leave America divided into thirteen or, if you please, into three or four independent governments-what armies could they raise and pay-what fleets could they ever hope to have?
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000000|But admit that they might be willing to help the invaded State or confederacy.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000001|How, and when, and in what proportion shall aids of men and money be afforded?
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000003|Who shall settle the terms of peace, and in case of disputes what umpire shall decide between them and compel acquiescence?
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000004|Various difficulties and inconveniences would be inseparable from such a situation; whereas one government, watching over the general and common interests, and combining and directing the powers and resources of the whole, would be free from all these embarrassments, and conduce far more to the safety of the people.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000024_000000|But whatever may be our situation, whether firmly united under one national government, or split into a number of confederacies, certain it is, that foreign nations will know and view it exactly as it is; and they will act toward us accordingly.
train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000024_000001|If they see that our national government is efficient and well administered, our trade prudently regulated, our militia properly organized and disciplined, our resources and finances discreetly managed, our credit re-established, our people free, contented, and united, they will be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000000_000001|mr Williams pointed at the sunflower, but I was forced to be very reserved to him; for the poor gentleman has no guard, no caution at all.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000001_000000|We have just supped together, all three: and I cannot yet think that all must be right.--Only I am resolved not to marry, if I can help it; and I will give no encouragement, I am resolved, at least, till I am with you.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000003_000000|Your ever dutiful DAUGHTER.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000004_000000|MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000000|She pressed me, when she came to bed, very much, to give encouragement to mr Williams, and said many things in his behalf; and blamed my shyness to him.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000001|I told her, I was resolved to give no encouragement, till I had talked to my father and mother.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000002|She said, he fancied I thought of somebody else, or I could never be so insensible.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000003|I assured her, as I could do very safely, that there was not a man on earth I wished to have: and as to mr Williams, he might do better by far: and I had proposed so much happiness in living with my poor father and mother, that I could not think of any scheme of life with pleasure, till I had tried that.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000004|I asked her for my money; and she said, it was above in her strong box, but that I should have it to morrow.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000005|All these things look well, as I said.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000007_000001|But pray don't encourage him, as I said; for he is much too heady and precipitate as to this matter, in my way of thinking; though, to be sure, he is a very good man, and I am much obliged to him.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000008_000000|Monday morning.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000009_000000|Alas a day! we have bad news from poor mr Williams.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000009_000001|He has had a sad mischance; fallen among rogues in his way home last night: but by good chance has saved my papers.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000009_000002|This is the account he gives of it to mrs Jewkes:
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000010_000000|'GOOD mrs
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000010_000001|JEWKES,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000000|'I have had a sore misfortune in going from you.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000002|They rummaged my pockets, and took from me my snuff box, my seal ring, and half a guinea, and some silver, and halfpence; also my handkerchief, and two or three letters I had in my pockets.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000003|By good fortune, the letter mrs Pamela gave me was in my bosom, and so that escaped but they bruised my head and face, and cursing me for having no more money, tipped me into the dam, crying, be there, parson, till to morrow!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000004|My shins and knees were bruised much in the fall against one of the stumps; and I had like to have been suffocated in water and mud.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000005|To be sure, I shan't be able to stir out this day or two: for I am a frightful spectacle!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000007|My cassock is sadly torn, as is my band. To be sure, I was much frightened, for a robbery in these parts has not been known many years.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000008|Diligent search is making after the rogues.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000010|This did not hinder me in writing a letter, though with great pain, as I do this, (To be sure this good man can keep no secret!) and sending it away by a man and horse, this morning.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000011|I am, good mrs Jewkes,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000012_000000|'Your most obliged humble servant.'
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000000|'God be praised it is no worse!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000001|And I find I have got no cold, though miserably wet from top to toe.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000002|My fright, I believe, prevented me from catching cold: for I was not rightly myself for some hours, and know not how I got home.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000003|I will write a letter of thanks this night, if I am able, to my kind patron, for his inestimable goodness to me.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000014_000000|The wicked brute fell a laughing, when she had read this letter, till her fat sides shook.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000014_000001|Said she, I can but think how the poor parson looked, after parting with his pretty mistress in such high spirits, when he found himself at the bottom of the dam!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000014_000002|And what a figure he must cut in his tattered band and cassock, and without a hat and wig, when he got home.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000015_000000|I heeded not her reflections; but as I have been used to causes for mistrusts, I cannot help saying, that I don't like this thing: And their taking his letters most alarms me.--How happy it was they missed my packet!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000015_000001|I knew not what to think of it!--But why should I let every accident break my peace?
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000015_000002|Yet it will do so, while I stay here.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000016_000000|mrs Jewkes is mightily at me, to go with her in the chariot, to visit mr Williams.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000016_000002|And she is gone without me.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000000|I have strange temptations to get away in her absence, for all these fine appearances.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000002|But, alas for me!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000003|I have no money, if I should, to buy any body's civilities, or to pay for necessaries or lodgings.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000004|But I'll go into the garden, and resolve afterwards----
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000018_000001|I could not see I was watched; so this looks well.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000018_000002|But if any thing should go bad afterwards, I should never forgive myself, for not taking this opportunity.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000019_000001|So I got in again, for fear he should come at me.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000019_000002|Nobody saw me, however.--Do you think there are such things as witches and spirits?
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000019_000003|If there be, I believe, in my heart, mrs Jewkes has got this bull of her side.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000020_000001|I will go down again, I think!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000020_000002|But yet my heart misgives me, because of the difficulties before me, in escaping; and being so poor and so friendless!--O good God! the preserver of the innocent! direct me what to do!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000021_000000|Well, I have just now a sort of strange persuasion upon me, that I ought to try to get way, and leave the issue to Providence.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000001|I have not the courage to go, neither can I think to stay.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000002|But I must resolve.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000003|The gardener was in sight last time; so made me come up again.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000005|Once more I'll venture.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000006|God direct my footsteps, and make smooth my path and my way to safety!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000000|Well, here I am, come back again!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000001|frightened, like a fool, out of all my purposes!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000002|O how terrible every thing appears to me!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000005|And now I am gone, to be sure!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000024_000001|God forgive me, (but I had a sad lie at my tongue's end,) said I; Though mrs Jewkes is sometimes a little hard upon me, yet I know not where I am without her: I go up, and I come down to walk about in the garden; and, not having her, know scarcely what to do with myself.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000025_000000|So here I am again, and here likely to be; for I have no courage to help myself any where else.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000026_000000|Monday afternoon.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000000|So, mrs Jewkes is returned from her visit: Well, said she, I would have you set your heart at rest; for mr Williams will do very well again.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000001|He is not half so bad as he fancied.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000003|He has only a few scratches on his face; which, said she, I suppose he got by grappling among the gravel at the bottom of the dam, to try to find a hole in the ground, to hide himself from the robbers.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000005|He says in his letter, he was a frightful spectacle: He might be so, indeed, when he first came in a doors; but he looks well enough now: and, only for a few groans now and then, when he thinks of his danger, I see nothing is the matter with him.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000006|So, mrs Pamela, said she, I would have you be very easy about it.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000007|I am glad of it, said I, for all your jokes, to mrs Jewkes.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000000|Well, said she, he talks of nothing but you: and when I told him I would fain have persuaded you to come with me, the man was out of his wits with his gratitude to me: and so has laid open all his heart to me, and told me all that has passed, and was contriving between you two.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000003|mrs Jewkes, mrs Jewkes, this might have done with me, had he had any thing that he could have told you of.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000004|But you know well enough, that had we been disposed, we had no opportunity for it, from your watchful care and circumspection.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000005|No, said she, that's very true, mrs Pamela; not so much as for that declaration that he owned before me, he had found opportunity, for all my watchfulness, to make you.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000006|Come, come, said she, no more of these shams with me!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000007|You have an excellent head piece for your years; but may be I am as cunning as you.--However, said she, all is well now; because my watchments are now over, by my master's direction.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000008|How have you employed yourself in my absence?
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000030_000000|She was so earnest, that I mistrusted she did this to pump me; and I knew how, now, to account for her kindness to mr Williams in her visit to him; which was only to get out of him what she could.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000031_000001|But I am sure he must have said more than he should.--And I am the more apprehensive all is not right, because she has now been actually, these two hours, shut up a writing; though she pretended she had given me up all her stores of papers, etc and that I should write for her.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000031_000002|I begin to wish I had ventured every thing and gone off, when I might.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000032_000001|Indeed, said I, I have no thanks to give, till I am with my father and mother: and besides, I sent a letter, as you know; but have had no answer to it.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000032_000002|She said, she thought that his letter to mr Williams was sufficient; and the least I could do was to thank him, if but in two lines.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000032_000003|No need of it, said I; for I don't intend to have mr Williams: What then is that letter to me?
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000000|I don't like all this.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000001|O my foolish fears of bulls and robbers!--For now all my uneasiness begins to double upon me.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000002|O what has this incautious man said!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000003|That, no doubt, is the subject of her long letter.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000034_000000|I will close this day's writing, with just saying, that she is mighty silent and reserved, to what she was: and says nothing but No, or Yes, to what I ask.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000034_000003|This cut me to the heart; and, at the same time, stopped my mouth.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000035_000000|Tuesday, Wednesday.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000001|He asked, If I would take a turn in the garden with mrs Jewkes and him.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000002|No, said she, I can't go. Said he, May not mrs Pamela take a walk?--No, said she; I desire she won't.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000003|Why, mrs Jewkes? said he: I am afraid I have somehow disobliged you.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000004|Not at all, replied she; but I suppose you will soon be at liberty to walk together as much as you please: and I have sent a messenger for my last instructions, about this and more weighty matters; and when they come I shall leave you to do as you both will; but, till then, it is no matter how little you are together.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000005|This alarmed us both; and he seemed quite struck of a heap, and put on, as I thought, a self accusing countenance.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000037_000000|I left them both together, and retired to my closet to write a letter for the tiles; but having no time for a copy, I will give you the substance only.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000038_000001|I put this in the usual place in the evening; and now wait with impatience for an answer.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000039_000000|Thursday.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000040_000000|I have the following answer:
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000041_000000|'DEAREST MADAM,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000000|'I am utterly confounded, and must plead guilty to all your just reproaches.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000003|I would expose him all the world over if he did.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000004|But it is not, cannot be in him.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000006|This gives me a little pain; but I hope all will end well, and we shall soon hear, if it be necessary to pursue our former intentions.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000007|If it be, I will lose no time to provide a horse for you, and another for myself; for I can never do either God or myself better service, though I were to forego all my expectations for it here, I am 'Your most faithful humble servant.'
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000000|'I was too free indeed with mrs Jewkes, led to it by her dissimulation, and by her pretended concern to make me happy with you.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000001|I hinted, that I would not have scrupled to have procured your deliverance by any means; and that I had proposed to you, as the only honourable one, marriage with me.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000002|But I assured her, though she would hardly believe me, that you discouraged my application: which is too true!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000003|But not a word of the back door key, etc'
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000044_000000|mrs Jewkes continues still sullen and ill natured, and I am almost afraid to speak to her.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000044_000001|She watches me as close as ever, and pretends to wonder why I shun her company as I do.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000045_000000|I have just put under the tiles these lines inspired by my fears, which are indeed very strong; and, I doubt, not without reason.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000046_000000|'SIR,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000000|'Every thing gives me additional disturbance.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000001|The missed letter of john Arnold's makes me suspect a plot.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000003|Are you sure, however, the London journey is not to be a Lincolnshire one?
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000004|May not john, who has been once a traitor, be so again?--Why need I be thus in doubt?--If I could have this horse, I would turn the reins on his neck, and trust to Providence to guide him for my safeguard!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000005|For I would not endanger you, now just upon the edge of your preferment.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000048_000000|'Were my life in question, instead of my honesty, I would not wish to involve you, or any body, in the least difficulty, for so worthless a poor creature.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000048_000001|But, O sir! my soul is of equal importance with the soul of a princess; though my quality is inferior to that of the meanest slave.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000052_000000|Friday.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000054_000000|'MADAM,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000000|'I think you are too apprehensive by much; I am sorry for your uneasiness.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000001|You may depend upon me, and all I can do.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000002|But I make no doubt of the London journey, nor of John's contrition and fidelity. I have just received, from my Gainsborough friend, this letter, as I suppose, from your good father, in a cover, directed for me, as I had desired.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000003|I hope it contains nothing to add to your uneasiness.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000005|Things, I hope, must be better than you expect.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000056_000000|'Your most faithful humble servant.'
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000058_000000|'My DEAREST DAUGHTER,
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000000|'Our prayers are at length heard, and we are overwhelmed with joy.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000002|Blessed be the Divine goodness, which has enabled thee to withstand so many temptations!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000003|We have not yet had leisure to read through your long accounts of all your hardships.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000004|I say long, because I wonder how you could find time and opportunity for them: but otherwise they are the delight of our spare hours; and we shall read them over and over, as long as we live, with thankfulness to God, who has given us so virtuous and so discreet a daughter.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000005|How happy is our lot in the midst of our poverty!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000006|O let none ever think children a burden to them; when the poorest circumstances can produce so much riches in a Pamela!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000007|Persist, my dear daughter, in the same excellent course; and we shall not envy the highest estate, but defy them to produce such a daughter as ours.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000060_000000|'I said, we had not read through all yours in course.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000060_000002|But seeing your virtue, his heart is touched; and he has, no doubt, been awakened by your good example.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000001|God bless him!--happy.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000003|But, as you say, you had rather not marry at present, far be it from us to offer violence to your inclination!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000005|But, alas! my child, what can we do for you?--To partake our hard lot, and involve yourself into as hard a life, would not help us, but add to your afflictions.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000006|But it will be time enough to talk of these things, when we have the pleasure you now put us in hope of, of seeing you with us; which God grant.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000007|Amen, amen, say 'Your most indulgent parents.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000008|Amen!'
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000062_000001|Again we say, God bless him for ever!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000000|'O what a deal we have to say to you!
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000001|God give us a happy meeting! We understand the 'squire is setting out for London.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000002|He is a fine gentleman, and has wit at will.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000004|But I hope he will now reform.'
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000065_000000|But I will proceed with my hopeless story.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000065_000001|I saw mr Williams was a little nettled at my impatience; and so I wrote to assure him I would be as easy as I could, and wholly directed by him; especially as my father, whose respects I mentioned, had assured me my master was setting out for London, which he must have somehow from his own family or he would not have written me word of it.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000066_000000|Saturday, Sunday.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000067_000000|mr Williams has been here both these days, as usual; but is very indifferently received still by mrs Jewkes; and, to avoid suspicion, I left them together, and went up to my closet, most of the time he was here.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000067_000001|He and she, I found by her, had a quarrel: and she seems quite out of humour with him: but I thought it best not to say any thing: and he said, he would very little trouble the house till he had an answer to his letter from mr B----.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000067_000002|And she returned, The less, the better. Poor man! he has got but little by his openness, making mrs Jewkes his confidant, as she bragged, and would have had me to do likewise.
train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000068_000000|I am more and more satisfied there is mischief brewing; and shall begin to hide my papers, and be circumspect.
train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000007_000000|"Howdye, little girl!" And the cat had got her tongue.
train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000007_000009|What should she do?
train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000019_000000|"Go home, I tell ye-Uncle Judd's shot.
train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000020_000000|"No, no, NO!
train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000022_000000|"Dad!" she said.
train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000024_000000|"No-no!"
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000009_000000|There was more.
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000014_000000|"Sure!
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000018_000000|"Well, see you again.
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000026_000000|"No, but one's comin'--Dave."
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000034_000000|"Where you goin'?"
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000037_000000|"I'm not worried."
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000038_000000|"Well, you better be," said Budd sharply.
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000044_000000|"Look here, Jack, you're seein' things wrong.
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000051_000000|"Don't you worry, Jack."
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000052_000000|"All right, Sam."
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000057_000000|"I've heard."
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000064_000000|"But I ain't."
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000067_000000|That was what Budd said.
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000067_000001|Well, had he given her a chance?
train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000075_000000|Hale choked.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000006_000001|And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his other sons, they hated him, and could not speak to him.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000008_000000|And Jehovah was with Joseph and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison, so that the keeper of the prison gave to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the prison, and for whatever they did he was responsible.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000009_000000|And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have appointed you over all the land of Egypt.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000009_000002|Then they cried before him, Bow the knee!
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000013_000000|He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000017_000000|The late Samuel l Clemens (Mark Twain) advised a young man who desired to enter business to select the firm with which he wished to be associated, then ask that they give him work, without mentioning the subject of compensation.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000017_000003|It concretely illustrates the fact that the first essential of success is the willingness to serve.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000019_000001|Do you accept George Eliot's definition of genius as "the capacity for unlimited work"? To what extent does a man's faith in God and in his fellow men determine his ability to win success?
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000021_000000|THE LIMITATIONS AND TEMPTATIONS OF JOSEPH'S EARLY LIFE.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000025_000000|In what ways did his father show his favoritism towards Joseph? The Hebrew word rendered in the older translations, "coat of many colors," means literally, "long sleeved tunic."
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000025_000001|This garment, like those worn by wealthy Chinese when in native costume, distinguished the rich or the nobility, who were not under the necessity of engaging in manual labor.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000030_000000|Egypt, with its marvelous natural resources, its peculiar climate, its irrigation, which usually guarantees good crops, and its versatile people, has always been pre eminently the land of opportunity.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000030_000003|A certain Dudu (David) was one of the most trusted officials of this king.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000030_000006|This was perhaps the Joseph of the Biblical account.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000031_000000|Is there any evidence that Joseph complained because of the injustice of his brothers?
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000031_000003|What influences led him to resist this temptation?
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000031_000004|Analyze his probable motives in detail.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000033_000000|In modern life as in the ancient story, the place usually seeks the man who is fitted to fill it.
train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000033_000005|If not, why not?
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000009_000000|And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000010_000000|Love is the fulfilling of the law.--saint Paul.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000014_000000|If chosen men could never be alone, In deep mid silence, open doored with God No greatness ever had been dreamed or done.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000017_000000|THE NEEDS THAT GIVE RISE TO LAW.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000018_000001|According to the researches of the best anthropologists, savages live in very loosely organized groups, with no permanent ruler, no regular family law.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000018_000002|Each separate group has its totem, its general rules with reference to the marriage relation, to hunting and fishing, to shelter and protection.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000018_000005|They are largely negative.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000021_000001|Soon through his activities these almost instinctive habits, guided by rules, assume the nature of customs that have a sanction, often of religion, practically always of enforcement through the patriarch.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000024_000002|Later, as the tribe enters the pastoral state, private property is established and laws for its care are made.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000027_000003|Among them the less disciplined, the less intelligently directed groups perish.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000029_000000|But as this sense of fear or right or justice or love, associated with a Being felt to be divine, is not universal, inasmuch as many members of society are found ready to act selfishly, taking the law into their own hands, force is needed in all stages of society to put the rules and laws into effect.
train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000029_000001|With every law, as Austin says, must go a penalty.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000017_000000|Arise, O Jehovah, And let thine enemies be scattered, And let those who hate thee flee before thee.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000018_000000|And when it rested, he would say,
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000025_000000|THE WILDERNESS ENVIRONMENT.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000026_000002|They must be interpreted in the light of the peculiar background of the wilderness and of the nomadic life which flourishes there to day as it did in the past. The hebrews on escaping from Egypt entered the South Country, which extends seventy miles from the rocky hills of Judah southward until it merges into the barren desert.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000026_000004|Parallel to these are deep, hot and for the most part waterless valleys.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000027_000000|The home of the hebrews at this time, like that of the modern Arabs, was the tent.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000027_000006|Some scholars hold that this coarse food was the manna of the Biblical accounts.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000032_000004|Upon the complete devotion of each man to the interest of the tribe hung his fate, as well as that of the community as a whole.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000037_000003|Hence, throughout their troubled career the hebrews have been conscious of the presence of God and have found in him their defender and personal friend as has no other people in human history.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000038_000000|As later generations meditated on the perils of the wilderness through which their ancestors passed, they naturally felt that only under the immediate guidance of a divine power could they have escaped.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000038_000001|They were familiar with the way in which the caravans travel through the desert: in front of the leader is borne aloft a brazier filled with coals.
train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000038_000003|At night these glowing coals seem like a pillar of fire, telling of the presence of their leader and protector.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000003_000002|Is it for you, who keep an inn, to treat passengers at this rate?
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000005_000000|More and more surprising things still----
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000010_000002|For I must be 'Yours, and only yours.'
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000011_000000|'Monday morn, near three o'clock.'
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000015_000005|I am 'Yours, etc'
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000017_000002|Should I go back, or should I not?--I doubt he has got too great hold in my heart, for me to be easy presently, if I should refuse: And yet this gipsy information makes me fearful.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000030_000002|'tis well for her she can sleep so purely.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000030_000005|I did not think I could have lived under such fatigue.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000031_000002|He asked, What?
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000031_000003|And she said, I was come.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000031_000005|And he said, Why, these tender fair ones, I think, bear fatigue better than us men.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000032_000001|Will she come?
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000034_000001|My heart is too full of it to express myself as I ought.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000035_000001|I said I had, and hoped it would be brought.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000035_000002|He said it was doubly kind.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000036_000003|She said she would, to be sure.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000042_000000|'Your much grieved sister.'
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000051_000002|But I shall see what light this new honour will procure me!--So I'll get ready.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000051_000003|But I won't, I think, change my garb.
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000052_000001|Blessed be God for it!
train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000053_000001|What would you say?--Sir, said I, (a little ashamed,) I think it is too great an honour to go into the chariot with you.
train-clean-360/3790/39761/3790_39761_000001_000000|BOOK fourteen.
train-clean-360/3790/39761/3790_39761_000007_000007|He also proposed to make him presents on that account. At length he prevailed with Aretas in his suit.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000003_000000|Hale opened his eyes next morning on the little old woman in black, moving ghost like through the dim interior to the kitchen.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000009_000000|"Shore!
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000009_000003|She's growed some-an' if she ain't purty, well I'd tell a man!
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000011_000001|Keep yo' mouth plum' shut about this here war.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000017_000001|Uncle Billy was bewildered.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000033_000001|Uncle Billy turned back from the gate to the porch.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000035_000001|He's too old fer her."
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000049_000000|"She ain't?"
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000050_000000|"No, indeed, she ain't."
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000057_000001|"It's for you.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000058_000000|"I reckon I will," she said with a happy smile.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000059_000000|Hale watched her while she munched a striped stick of peppermint.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000059_000002|Her teeth were even and white, and most of them flashed when her red lips smiled.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000062_000000|"I hate her," she said fiercely.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000065_000000|"Go away!" she said, digging her fist into her eyes until her face was calm again.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000066_000000|They had reached the spot on the river where he had seen her first, and beyond, the smoke of the cabin was rising above the undergrowth.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000069_000000|Straightway her face was a ray of sunlight.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000070_000000|"Would-I like-to-go-over-"
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000078_000001|I'm a gittin' too big."
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000082_000000|"I reckon you can," laughed Hale.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000093_000001|Sarved you right fer blabbin' things that hain't yo' business." He shook with laughter.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000099_000000|"Tell June to come down here.
train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000104_000003|With this thought in his brain, he rode down from the luminous upper world of the moon and stars toward the nether world of drifting mists and black ravines.
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000031_000000|The day passed away in utter silence-night came without recurrence of the noise.
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000041_000001|Day came, the jailer entered.
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000065_000000|"A Frenchman."
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000069_000000|"A sailor."
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000073_000000|"I am innocent."
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000076_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000087_000000|"A corridor."
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000093_000000|"But then you would be close to the sea?"
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000099_000000|"All?"
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000109_000002|Wait."
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000110_000000|"How long?"
train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000114_000000|"Then you will love me.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000007_000003|The little fellow patronized the feeble and disappointed old man.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000008_000001|But proper pride and this poor lady had never had much acquaintance together.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000008_000003|The very thought of them is odious and low.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000009_000002|O you poor women!
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000009_000005|The kindness was too much for the poor epileptic creature.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000010_000002|Little George visited her captivity sometimes and consoled it with feeble gleams of encouragement.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000010_000003|Russell Square was the boundary of her prison: she might walk thither occasionally, but was always back to sleep in her cell at night; to perform cheerless duties; to watch by thankless sick beds; to suffer the harassment and tyranny of querulous disappointed old age.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000011_000000|The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise, and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000011_000002|Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000011_000003|Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000012_000000|They buried Amelia's mother in the churchyard at Brompton, upon just such a rainy, dark day as Amelia recollected when first she had been there to marry George.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000012_000002|She remembered the old pew woman and clerk.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000012_000003|Her thoughts were away in other times as the parson read.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000000|So she determined with all her might and strength to try and make her old father happy.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000002|What sad, unsatisfactory thoughts those of the widow were!
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000003|The children running up and down the slopes and broad paths in the gardens reminded her of George, who was taken from her; the first George was taken from her; her selfish, guilty love, in both instances, had been rebuked and bitterly chastised.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000004|She strove to think it was right that she should be so punished.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000006|She was quite alone in the world.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000015_000000|Old Sedley grew very fond of his daughter after his wife's death, and Amelia had her consolation in doing her duty by the old man.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000018_000001|The idea that he should never see her again depressed him in his lucid hours.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000018_000004|He desired to be buried with a little brown hair chain which he wore round his neck and which, if the truth must be known, he had got from Amelia's maid at Brussels, when the young widow's hair was cut off, during the fever which prostrated her after the death of George Osborne on the plateau at Mount saint John.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000019_000002|But whether it was the sea air, or the hope which sprung up in him afresh, from the day that the ship spread her canvas and stood out of the roads towards home, our friend began to amend, and he was quite well (though as gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000021_000000|For indeed it was no other than our stout friend who was also a passenger on board the Ramchunder.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000023_000000|After leaving saint Helena he became very generous, disposing of a great quantity of ship stores, claret, preserved meats, and great casks packed with soda water, brought out for his private delectation.
train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000025_000001|Jos, a little testy about his father's misfortunes and unceremonious applications to him, was soothed down by the Major, who pointed out the elder's ill fortunes and old age.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifty nine
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000002_000000|The Old Piano
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000003_000000|The Major's visit left old john Sedley in a great state of agitation and excitement.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000004_000000|Emmy smiled.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000005_000000|"You don't know anything about business, my dear," answered the sire, shaking his head with an important air.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000005_000002|All these twopenny documents arranged on a side table, old Sedley covered them carefully over with a clean bandanna handkerchief (one out of Major Dobbin's lot) and enjoined the maid and landlady of the house, in the most solemn way, not to disturb those papers, which were arranged for the arrival of mr Joseph Sedley the next morning, "mr
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000000|Amelia found him up very early the next morning, more eager, more hectic, and more shaky than ever.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000001|"I didn't sleep much, Emmy, my dear," he said.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000003|I wish she was alive, to ride in Jos's carriage once again.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000004|She kept her own and became it very well." And his eyes filled with tears, which trickled down his furrowed old face.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000007_000001|Amelia, as she read out the letter to her father, paused over the latter word; her brother, it was clear, did not know what had happened in the family.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000010_000002|Having partaken of a copious breakfast, with fish, and rice, and hard eggs, at Southampton, he had so far rallied at Winchester as to think a glass of sherry necessary.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000010_000004|At Farnham he stopped to view the Bishop's Castle and to partake of a light dinner of stewed eels, veal cutlets, and French beans, with a bottle of claret.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000010_000005|He was cold over Bagshot Heath, where the native chattered more and more, and Jos Sahib took some brandy and water; in fact, when he drove into town he was as full of wine, beer, meat, pickles, cherry brandy, and tobacco as the steward's cabin of a steam packet.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000011_000001|Jos descended from the post chaise and down the creaking swaying steps in awful state, supported by the new valet from Southampton and the shuddering native, whose brown face was now livid with cold and of the colour of a turkey's gizzard.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000001|The old man was very much affected; so, of course, was his daughter; nor was Jos without feeling.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000003|Distance sanctifies both. Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000004|Jos was unaffectedly glad to see and shake the hand of his father, between whom and himself there had been a coolness-glad to see his little sister, whom he remembered so pretty and smiling, and pained at the alteration which time, grief, and misfortune had made in the shattered old man.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000005|Emmy had come out to the door in her black clothes and whispered to him of her mother's death, and not to speak of it to their father.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000017_000003|Not that she would encourage him in the least-the poor uncouth monster-of course not.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000018_000003|Not Miss Binny, she was too old and ill tempered; Miss Osborne? too old too.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000021_000001|Jos's carriage (the temporary one, not the chariot under construction) arrived one day and carried off old Sedley and his daughter-to return no more.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000022_000000|As for Miss Mary, her sorrow at Amelia's departure was such as I shall not attempt to depict.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000022_000001|From childhood upwards she had been with her daily and had attached herself so passionately to that dear good lady that when the grand barouche came to carry her off into splendour, she fainted in the arms of her friend, who was indeed scarcely less affected than the good-natured girl.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000022_000002|Amelia loved her like a daughter. During eleven years the girl had been her constant friend and associate.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000023_000000|Let us hope she was wrong in her judgement.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000024_000002|She had to bear all the blame of his misdoings, and indeed was so utterly gentle and humble as to be made by nature for a victim.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000026_000000|Major Dobbin was exceedingly pleased when, as he was superintending the arrangements of Jos's new house-which the Major insisted should be very handsome and comfortable-the cart arrived from Brompton, bringing the trunks and bandboxes of the emigrants from that village, and with them the old piano.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000027_000002|"I was afraid you didn't care about it."
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000029_000000|"Do you, Amelia?" cried the Major.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000032_000002|It was not George's gift; the only one which she had received from her lover, as she thought-the thing she had cherished beyond all others-her dearest relic and prize.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000032_000004|It was not George's relic.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000033_000000|Then, according to her custom, she rebuked herself for her pettishness and ingratitude and determined to make a reparation to honest William for the slight she had not expressed to him, but had felt for his piano.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000033_000001|A few days afterwards, as they were seated in the drawing room, where Jos had fallen asleep with great comfort after dinner, Amelia said with rather a faltering voice to Major Dobbin-
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000035_000000|"About what?" said he.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000036_000003|Thank you, William." She held out her hand, but the poor little woman's heart was bleeding; and as for her eyes, of course they were at their work.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000037_000000|But William could hold no more.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000039_000000|"No, only indifferent," Dobbin continued desperately.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000039_000004|I forgot, or I should never have spoken of it so.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000040_000002|How could I love any other but him?
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000040_000006|Our dearest, truest, kindest friend and protector?
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000040_000007|Had you come a few months sooner perhaps you might have spared me that-that dreadful parting.
train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000042_000000|"Yes, often," Amelia said.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve-ON CLERICAL SNOBS AND SNOBBISHNESS
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000002_000000|'Dear mr Snob,' an amiable young correspondent writes, who signs himself Snobling, 'ought the clergyman who, at the request of a noble Duke, lately interrupted a marriage ceremony between two persons perfectly authorised to marry, to be ranked or not among the Clerical Snobs?'
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000003_000001|One of the illustrated weekly papers has already seized hold of the clergyman, and blackened him most unmercifully, by representing him in his cassock performing the marriage service.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000003_000002|Let that be sufficient punishment; and, if you please, do not press the query.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000004_000000|It is very likely that if Miss Smith had come with a licence to marry Jones, the parson in question, not seeing old Smith present, would have sent off the beadle in a cab to let the old gentleman know what was going on; and would have delayed the service until the arrival of Smith senior.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000006_000000|In either of which cases, you see, dear Snobling, that though the parson would not have been authorised, yet he might have been excused for interfering.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000006_000001|He has no more right to stop my marriage than to stop my dinner, to both of which, as a free born Briton, I am entitled by law, if I can pay for them.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000007_000000|But if the clergyman did in the Duke's case what he would NOT do in Smith's; if he has no more acquaintance with the Coeurdelion family than I have with the Royal and Serene House of Saxe Coburg Gotha,--THEN, I confess, my dear Snobling, your question might elicit a disagreeable reply, and one which I respectfully decline to give.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000007_000001|I wonder what Sir George Tufto would say, if a sentry left his post because a noble lord (not the least connected with the service) begged the sentinel not to do his duty!
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000008_000002|What, gentlemen, can't we even in the Church acknowledge a republic?
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000008_000003|There, at least, the Heralds' College itself might allow that we all of us have the same pedigree, and are direct descendants of Eve and Adam, whose inheritance is divided amongst us.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000000|A story is current of a celebrated NOUVEAU RICHE, who having had occasion to oblige that excellent prelate the Bishop of Bullocksmithy, asked his Lordship, in return, to confirm his children privately in his Lordship's own chapel; which ceremony the grateful prelate accordingly performed.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000001|Can satire go farther than this?
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000003|It is as if a man wouldn't go to heaven unless he went in a special train, or as if he thought (as some people think about vaccination) Confirmation more effectual when administered at first hand.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000005|This is only a little more openly and undisguisedly snobbish than the cases before alluded to.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000006|A well bred Snob is just as secretly proud of his riches and honours as a PARVENU Snob who makes the most ludicrous exhibition of them; and a high born Marchioness or Duchess just as vain of herself and her diamonds, as Queen Quashyboo, who sews a pair of epaulets on to her skirt, and turns out in state in a cocked hat and feathers.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000001|When, for instance, Tom Sniffle first went into the country as Curate for mr Fuddleston (Sir Huddleston Fuddleston's brother), who resided on some other living, there could not be a more kind, hardworking, and excellent creature than Tom.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000003|His conduct to his poor was admirable.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000004|He wrote annually reams of the best intentioned and vapid sermons.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000005|When Lord Brandyball's family came down into the country, and invited him to dine at Brandyball Park, Sniffle was so agitated that he almost forgot how to say grace, and upset a bowl of currant jelly sauce in Lady Fanny Toffy's lap.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000013_000001|He quarrelled with his aunt for dining out every night.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000013_000003|He DOUBLE BARRELLED his name, (as many poor Snobs do,) and instead of t Sniffle, as formerly, came out, in a porcelain card, as Rev.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000015_000000|As for poor Tom, he was over head and ears in debt as well as in love: his creditors came down upon him.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000015_000001|mr Hemp, of Portugal Street, proclaimed his name lately as a reverend outlaw; and he has been seen at various foreign watering places; sometimes doing duty; sometimes 'coaching' a stray gentleman's son at Carlsruhe or Kissingen; sometimes-must we say it?--lurking about the roulette tables with a tuft to his chin.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000016_000000|If temptation had not come upon this unhappy fellow in the shape of a Lord Brandyball, he might still have been following his profession, humbly and worthily.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000016_000001|He might have married his cousin with four thousand pounds, the wine merchant's daughter (the old gentleman quarrelled with his nephew for not soliciting wine orders from Lord b for him): he might have had seven children, and taken private pupils, and eked out his income, and lived and died a country parson.
train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000017_000000|Could he have done better?
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000006_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000000|Is it not unaccountable that, in the midst of all my increased veneration for my patron, the first tumult of my emotion was scarcely subsided, before the old question that had excited my conjectures recurred to my mind, Was he the murderer?
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000001|It was a kind of fatal impulse, that seemed destined to hurry me to my destruction.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000003|That was as completely accounted for from the consideration of his excessive sensibility in matters of honour, as it would have been upon the supposition of the most atrocious guilt.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000004|Knowing, as he did, that such a charge had once been connected with his name, he would of course be perpetually uneasy, and suspect some latent insinuation at every possible opportunity.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000005|He would doubt and fear, lest every man with whom he conversed harboured the foulest suspicion against him.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000006|In my case he found that I was in possession of some information, more than he was aware of, without its being possible for him to decide to what it amounted, whether I had heard a just or unjust, a candid or calumniatory tale.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000000|The fluctuating state of my mind produced a contention of opposite principles, that by turns usurped dominion over my conduct.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000002|mr Falkland, who was most painfully alive to every thing that related to his honour, saw these variations, and betrayed his consciousness of them now in one manner, and now in another, frequently before I was myself aware, sometimes almost before they existed.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000003|The situation of both was distressing; we were each of us a plague to the other; and I often wondered, that the forbearance and benignity of my master was not at length exhausted, and that he did not determine to thrust from him for ever so incessant an observer.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000005|I had some consolation in the midst of my restlessness.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000006|Curiosity is a principle that carries its pleasures, as well as its pains, along with it.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000008|But to mr Falkland there was no consolation.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000009|What he endured in the intercourse between us appeared to be gratuitous evil.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000010|He had only to wish that there was no such person as myself in the world, and to curse the hour when his humanity led him to rescue me from my obscurity, and place me in his service.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000001|The constant state of vigilance and suspicion in which my mind was retained, worked a very rapid change in my character.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000002|It seemed to have all the effect that might have been expected from years of observation and experience.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000003|The strictness with which I endeavoured to remark what passed in the mind of one man, and the variety of conjectures into which I was led, appeared, as it were, to render me a competent adept in the different modes in which the human intellect displays its secret workings.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000005|As to his guilt, I could scarcely bring myself to doubt that in some way or other, sooner or later, I should arrive at the knowledge of that, if it really existed.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000001|I shall come soon enough to the story of my own misery.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000002|I have already said, that one of the motives which induced me to the penning of this narrative, was to console myself in my insupportable distress.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000004|While I recollect or describe past scenes, which occurred in a more favourable period of my life, my attention is called off for a short interval, from the hopeless misfortune in which I am at present involved.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000005|The man must indeed possess an uncommon portion of hardness of heart, who can envy me so slight a relief.--To proceed.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000000|For some time after the explanation which had thus taken place between me and mr Falkland, his melancholy, instead of being in the slightest degree diminished by the lenient hand of time, went on perpetually to increase.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000002|It was no longer practicable wholly to conceal them from the family, and even from the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000003|He would sometimes, without any previous notice, absent himself from his house for two or three days, unaccompanied by servant or attendant.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000005|But it was impossible that a man of mr Falkland's distinction and fortune should long continue in such a practice, without its being discovered what was become of him; though a considerable part of our county was among the wildest and most desolate districts that are to be found in South Britain.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000006|mr Falkland was sometimes seen climbing among the rocks, reclining motionless for hours together upon the edge of a precipice, or lulled into a kind of nameless lethargy of despair by the dashing of the torrents.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000007|He would remain for whole nights together under the naked cope of heaven, inattentive to the consideration either of place or time; insensible to the variations of the weather, or rather seeming to be delighted with that uproar of the elements, which partially called off his attention from the discord and dejection that occupied his own mind.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000000|At first, when we received intelligence at any time of the place to which mr Falkland had withdrawn himself, some person of his household, mr Collins or myself, but most generally myself, as I was always at home, and always, in the received sense of the word, at leisure, went to him to persuade him to return.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000001|But, after a few experiments, we thought it advisable to desist, and leave him to prolong his absence, or to terminate it, as might happen to suit his own inclination.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000003|At one time he would suddenly yield to his humble, venerable friend, murmuring grievously at the constraint that was put upon him, but without spirit enough even to complain of it with energy.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000004|At another time, even though complying, he would suddenly burst out in a paroxysm of resentment.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000005|Upon these occasions there was something inconceivably, savagely terrible in his anger, that gave to the person against whom it was directed the most humiliating and insupportable sensations.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000006|Me he always treated, at these times, with fierceness, and drove me from him with a vehemence lofty, emphatical, and sustained, beyond any thing of which I should have thought human nature to be capable.
train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000007|These sallies seemed always to constitute a sort of crisis in his indisposition; and, whenever he was induced to such a premature return, he would fall immediately after into a state of the most melancholy inactivity, in which he usually continued for two or three days.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000000|To produce a good balance staff requires more skill than to produce any other turned portion of a watch, and your success will depend not alone on your knowledge of its proper shape and measurements, nor the tools at your command, but rather upon your skill with the graver and your success in hardening and tempering.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000001|There are many points worthy of consideration in the making of a balance staff that are too often neglected.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000002|I have seen staffs that were models as regards execution and finish, that were nearly worthless from a practical standpoint, simply because the maker had devoted all his time and energy to the execution of a beautiful piece of lathe work, and had given no thought or study to the form and size of the pivots.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000004|To have good tools and the right ideas is one thing, and to use these tools properly and make a practical demonstration of your theory is another.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000001|To the reader who takes this view of the situation I simply want to say, kindly follow me to the end of this paragraph, and if you are still of the same opinion, then you are wasting your time in following me farther.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000005|This state of affairs leads to makeshifts, and they in turn lead to botch work.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000006|The watchmaker who does not possess the experience or necessary qualifications to make a new balance staff and make it in a neat and workmanlike manner, is never certain of having exactly what is needed, and cannot hope to long retain the confidence of his customers.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000007|In fact, he is not a watchmaker at all, but simply an apprentice or student, even though he be working for a salary or be his own master.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000008|There are undoubtedly many worthy members of the trade, who are not familiar with the making of a balance staff, who will take exceptions to this statement; but it is nevertheless true.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000009|They may be good workmen as far as they go; they may be painstaking; but they cannot be classed as watchmakers.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000023_000000|Good tools, in good condition, are the most essential requisites in making a new staff.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000000|The balance staff should be made of the best steel, tempered to such a degree as to give the longest service and yet not so hard as to endanger the breakage of the pivots.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000002|Be careful in selecting your chuck that you pick one that fits the wire fairly close.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000003|The chuck holds the work truest that comes the nearest to fitting it.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000004|If you try to use a chuck that is too large or too small for the work, you will only ruin the chuck for truth.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000006|The hardening and tempering may be effected in various ways, and I am scarcely prepared to say which method is the best, as there are several which give about the same general results.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000007|One method of hardening is to smear the blank with common yellow soap, heat it to a cherry red, and drop endwise into linseed oil.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000008|Petroleum is preferred by some to linseed oil, but, to tell the truth, I can see no difference in the action of linseed, petroleum or olive oil.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000010|The main object in using the soap in hardening is that it may form a scale upon the blank, and if the heating is effected gradually the soap will melt and form a practically air tight case around the blank.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000011|This scale, if the hardening is carefully and properly done, will generally chip and fall off when the blank is plunged in the oil, particularly if the oil is cool, and if it does not fall off of its own accord, it can easily be removed by rolling the blank upon the bench.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000012|If it does not come out clean, or if soap is not used, it may be brightened by again inserting in the lathe and bringing it in contact with a piece of fine emery paper or cloth.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000026_000003|This piece of metal, when nicely fitted into a file handle, will answer all the purposes of the bluing pan and presents quite a neat appearance.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000026_000004|Having placed the blank in the angle, lay on it a piece of yellow wax about the size of a bean, and heat it over your lamp until the wax takes fire and burns.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000026_000005|Blow out the flame and allow the staff to cool, and it will be found to be of about the right hardness.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000000|We have now arrived at an important station in staff making, a junction, we may term it, where many lines branch off from the main road.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000001|At this particular spot is where authorities differ.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000002|I have no hesitation in saying that at this particular point the split chuck should be removed from the lathe head and carefully placed in the chuck box and the cement chuck put in its place.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000003|I believe that all of the remaining work upon a staff should be executed while it is held in a cement chuck.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000005|All I have got to say is that they had more confidence in the truth of their chucks than I have in mine.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000006|I have even read of watchmakers who made the entire staff in a split chuck, but I must confess I am somewhat curious to examine a staff made in that way, and must have the privilege of examining it before I will admit that a true staff can be so made.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000029_000000|We will suppose that the workman has a moderately true chuck, and that he prefers to turn and finish all the lower portions in this way.
train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000029_000001|Of course the directions for using a cement chuck on the upper part of a staff are equally applicable to the lower.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000000_000001|peter AND PAUL.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000001_000000|"As I was saying," the other Professor resumed, "if you'll just think over any Poem, that contains the words-such as,
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000002_000000|'peter is poor,' said noble Paul, 'And I have always been his friend: And, though my means to give are small, At least I can afford to lend. How few, in this cold age of greed, Do good, except on selfish grounds! But I can feel for Peter's need, And I WILL LEND HIM FIFTY POUNDS!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000005_000001|peter said. 'The First of April, as I think. Five little weeks will soon be fled: One scarcely will have time to wink! Give me a year to speculate- To buy and sell-to drive a trade-' Said Paul 'I cannot change the date. On May the Fourth it must be paid.'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000006_000000|'Well, well!' said peter, with a sigh. 'Hand me the cash, and I will go. I'll form a Joint Stock Company, And turn an honest pound or so.' 'I'm grieved,' said Paul, 'to seem unkind: The money shalt of course be lent: But, for a week or two, I find It will not be convenient.'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000007_000000|So, week by week, poor peter came And turned in heaviness away; For still the answer was the same, 'I cannot manage it to day.' And now the April showers were dry- The five short weeks were nearly spent- Yet still he got the old reply, 'It is not quite convenient!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000008_000000|The Fourth arrived, and punctual Paul Came, with his legal friend, at noon. 'I thought it best,' said he, 'to call: One cannot settle things too soon.' Poor peter shuddered in despair: His flowing locks he wildly tore: And very soon his yellow hair Was lying all about the floor.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000010_000000|Said Paul 'How bitterly I rue That fatal morning when I called! Consider, peter, what you do! You won't be richer when you're bald! Think you, by rending curls away, To make your difficulties less? Forbear this violence, I pray: You do but add to my distress!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000012_000001|Yet why so strict? Is this to act a friendly part? However legal it may be To pay what never has been lent, This style of business seems to me Extremely inconvenient!
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000016_000000|'But pay your debts!' cried honest Paul. 'My gentle peter, pay your debts! What matter if it swallows all That you describe as your "assets"? Already you're an hour behind: Yet Generosity is best. It pinches me-but never mind! I WILL NOT CHARGE YOU INTEREST!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000017_000001|How great!' poor peter cried. 'Yet I must sell my Sunday wig- The scarf pin that has been my pride- My grand piano-and my pig!' Full soon his property took wings: And daily, as each treasure went, He sighed to find the state of things Grow less and less convenient.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000018_000000|Weeks grew to months, and months to years: peter was worn to skin and bone: And once he even said, with tears, 'Remember, Paul, that promised Loan!' Said Paul' I'll lend you, when I can, All the spare money I have got- Ah, peter, you're a happy man! Yours is an enviable lot!
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000021_000000|Said peter 'I am well aware Mine is a state of happiness: And yet how gladly could I spare Some of the comforts I possess! What you call healthy appetite I feel as Hunger's savage tooth: And, when no dinner is in sight, The dinner bell's a sound of ruth!
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000022_000000|'No scare crow would accept this coat: Such boots as these you seldom see. Ah, Paul, a single five pound note Would make another man of me!' Said Paul 'It fills me with surprise To hear you talk in such a tone: I fear you scarcely realise The blessings that are all your own!
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000024_000000|Said peter 'Though I cannot sound The depths of such a man as you, Yet in your character I've found An inconsistency or two. You seem to have long years to spare When there's a promise to fulfil: And yet how punctual you were In calling with that little bill!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000025_000000|'One can't be too deliberate,' Said Paul, 'in parting with one's pelf. With bills, as you correctly state, I'm punctuality itself: A man may surely claim his dues: But, when there's money to be lent, A man must be allowed to choose Such times as are convenient!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000026_000000|It chanced one day, as peter sat Gnawing a crust-his usual meal- Paul bustled in to have a chat, And grasped his hand with friendly zeal. 'I knew,' said he, 'your frugal ways: So, that I might not wound your pride By bringing strangers in to gaze, I've left my legal friend outside!
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000027_000000|'You well remember, I am sure, When first your wealth began to go, And people sneered at one so poor, I never used my peter so! And when you'd lost your little all, And found yourself a thing despised, I need not ask you to recall How tenderly I sympathised!
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000028_000000|'Then the advice I've poured on you, So full of wisdom and of wit: All given gratis, though 'tis true I might have fairly charged for it! But I refrain from mentioning Full many a deed I might relate For boasting is a kind of thing That I particularly hate.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000030_000001|You little guessed How deep it drained my slender store: But there's a heart within this breast, And I WILL LEND YOU FIFTY MORE!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000031_000000|'Not so,' was Peter's mild reply, His cheeks all wet with grateful tears; No man recalls, so well as I, Your services in bygone years: And this new offer, I admit, Is very very kindly meant- Still, to avail myself of it Would not be quite convenient!'
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000032_000000|You'll see in a moment what the difference is between 'convenient' and 'inconvenient.' You quite understand it now, don't you?" he added, looking kindly at Bruno, who was sitting, at Sylvie's side, on the floor.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000033_000000|"Yes," said Bruno, very quietly.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000033_000001|Such a short speech was very unusual, for him: but just then he seemed, I fancied, a little exhausted.
train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000033_000002|In fact, he climbed up into Sylvie's lap as he spoke, and rested his head against her shoulder.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty three.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000001_000001|AN OUTLANDISH WATCH.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000002_000000|As I entered the little town, I came upon two of the fishermen's wives interchanging that last word "which never was the last": and it occurred to me, as an experiment with the Magic Watch, to wait till the little scene was over, and then to 'encore' it.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000005_000000|A casual observer might have thought "and there ends the dialogue!" That casual observer would have been mistaken.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000006_000000|"Ah, she'll like 'em, I war'n' ye!
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000006_000001|They'll not treat her bad, yer may depend.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000006_000003|Good night!"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000007_000001|Good night!"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000008_000000|"Good night!
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000008_000001|And ye'll send us word if she writes?"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000010_000000|And at last they parted.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000010_000001|I waited till they were some twenty yards apart, and then put the Watch a minute back.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000010_000002|The instantaneous change was startling: the two figures seemed to flash back into their former places.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000012_000000|"But the real usefulness of this magic power," I thought, "would be to undo some harm, some painful event, some accident-"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000013_000000|I had not long to wait for an opportunity of testing this property also of the Magic Watch, for, even as the thought passed through my mind, the accident I was imagining occurred.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000013_000001|A light cart was standing at the door of the 'Great Millinery Depot' of Elveston, laden with card board packing cases, which the driver was carrying into the shop, one by one. One of the cases had fallen into the street, but it scarcely seemed worth while to step forward and pick it up, as the man would be back again in a moment.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000013_000005|I helped them in emptying the cart, and placing in it some pillows for the wounded man to rest on; and it was only when the driver had mounted to his place, and was starting for the Surgery, that I bethought me of the strange power I possessed of undoing all this harm.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000015_000000|Instantly I stepped out into the street, picked up the box, and replaced it in the cart: in the next moment the bicycle had spun round the corner, passed the cart without let or hindrance, and soon vanished in the distance, in a cloud of dust.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000016_000000|"Delightful power of magic!" I thought.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000016_000001|"How much of human suffering I have-not only relieved, but actually annihilated!" And, in a glow of conscious virtue, I stood watching the unloading of the cart, still holding the Magic Watch open in my hand, as I was curious to see what would happen when we again reached the exact time at which I had put back the hand.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000018_000000|"Oh mocking Magic Watch!" I said to myself, as I passed out of the little town, and took the seaward road that led to my lodgings.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000001|"Here is my chance," I thought, "for testing the reverse action of the Magic Watch!" I pressed the 'reversal peg' and walked in.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000003|They would first wonder who I was, then see me, then look down, and think no more about me.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000004|And as to being expelled with violence, that event would necessarily come first in this case.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000005|"So, if I can once get in," I said to myself, "all risk of expulsion will be over!"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000022_000001|"He that takes my life," he seemed to be saying, wheezily, to himself, "takes trash: But he that takes the Daily Telegraph-!" But this awful contingency I did not face.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000000|When the needle work had been unfolded, and they were all ready to begin, their mother said "Come, that's done, at last!
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000001|You may fold up your work, girls." But the children took no notice whatever of the remark; on the contrary, they set to work at once sewing-if that is the proper word to describe an operation such as I had never before witnessed.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000002|Each of them threaded her needle with a short end of thread attached to the work, which was instantly pulled by an invisible force through the stuff, dragging the needle after it: the nimble fingers of the little sempstress caught it at the other side, but only to lose it again the next moment.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000004|Now and then one of the children would pause, as the recovered thread became inconveniently long, wind it on a bobbin, and start again with another short end.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000026_000000|At last all the work was picked to pieces and put away, and the lady led the way into the next room, walking backwards, and making the insane remark "Not yet, dear: we must get the sewing done first."
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000026_000001|After which, I was not surprised to see the children skipping backwards after her, exclaiming "Oh, mother, it is such a lovely day for a walk!"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000040_000000|The longer I thought over this strange adventure, the more hopelessly tangled the mystery became: and it was a real relief to meet Arthur in the road, and get him to go with me up to the Hall, to learn what news the telegraph had brought.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000040_000001|I told him, as we went, what had happened at the Station, but as to my further adventures I thought it best, for the present, to say nothing.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000041_000002|"Muriel is gone to bed-the excitement of that terrible scene was too much for her-and Eric has gone to the hotel to pack his things, to start for London by the early train."
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000043_000000|"Did you not hear?
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000043_000001|Oh, I had forgotten: it came in after you left the Station.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000043_000002|Yes, it's all right: Eric has got his commission; and, now that he has arranged matters with Muriel, he has business in town that must be seen to at once."
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000044_000001|"Do you mean that they are engaged?"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000045_000001|I could never be happy with my child married to a man without an object to live for-without even an object to die for!"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000046_000000|"I hope they will be happy," a strange voice said.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000046_000003|"Who spoke?" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000048_000000|"Thank you," the old man said, simply and heartily.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000049_000000|A silence followed: then I rose, feeling sure that Arthur would wish to be alone, and bade our gentle host 'Good night': Arthur took his hand, but said nothing: nor did he speak again, as we went home till we were in the house and had lit our bed room candles.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000049_000002|I never understood those words till now."
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000050_000000|The next few days passed wearily enough.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000050_000001|I felt no inclination to call by myself at the Hall; still less to propose that Arthur should go with me: it seemed better to wait till Time-that gentle healer of our bitterest sorrows should have helped him to recover from the first shock of the disappointment that had blighted his life.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000051_000001|"But I hope to run down again in a month," I added.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000051_000002|"I would stay now, if I could.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000052_000001|"But don't think about me.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000052_000002|I have made up my mind to accept a post in India, that has been offered me.
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000052_000004|'This life of mine I guard, as God's high gift, from scathe and wrong, Not greatly care to lose!'"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000054_000003|"But you will return, will you not?"
train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000056_000000|"Do," said Arthur: "and you shall write and tell me of our friends.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000000|Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was in fact fulfilled.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000001|Next day during the service at the palace church in honor of the Emperor's birthday, Prince Volkonski was called out of the church and received a dispatch from Prince Kutuzov.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000002|It was Kutuzov's report, written from Tatarinova on the day of the battle.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000004|It followed that there must have been a victory.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000005|And at once, without leaving the church, thanks were rendered to the Creator for His help and for the victory.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000002_000000|Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was justified, and all that morning a joyously festive mood reigned in the city.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000002_000001|Everyone believed the victory to have been complete, and some even spoke of Napoleon's having been captured, of his deposition, and of the choice of a new ruler for France.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000000|It is very difficult for events to be reflected in their real strength and completeness amid the conditions of court life and far from the scene of action.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000001|General events involuntarily group themselves around some particular incident.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000003|It was like a successfully arranged surprise.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000005|In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000006|Everybody knew him, the Emperor liked him, and he was young and interesting.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000007|That day everyone met with the words:
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000004_000000|"What a wonderful coincidence!
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000004_000001|Just during the service.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000004_000003|How sorry I am!"
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000005_000000|"What did I tell about Kutuzov?" Prince Vasili now said with a prophet's pride.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000005_000001|"I always said he was the only man capable of defeating Napoleon."
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000006_000001|The courtiers suffered because of the suffering the suspense occasioned the Emperor.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000000|"Fancy the Emperor's position!" said they, and instead of extolling Kutuzov as they had done the day before, they condemned him as the cause of the Emperor's anxiety.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000002|Moreover, toward evening, as if everything conspired to make Petersburg society anxious and uneasy, a terrible piece of news was added.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000003|Countess Helene Bezukhova had suddenly died of that terrible malady it had been so agreeable to mention.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000005|It was said that Prince Vasili and the old count had turned upon the Italian, but the latter had produced such letters from the unfortunate deceased that they had immediately let the matter drop.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000009_000000|On the third day after Kutuzov's report a country gentleman arrived from Moscow, and news of the surrender of Moscow to the French spread through the whole town.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000009_000001|This was terrible!
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000009_000002|What a position for the Emperor to be in!
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000010_000000|"I only wonder that the fate of Russia could have been entrusted to such a man."
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000012_000002|Sire!
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000012_000003|Kutuzov's action decides the fate of the capital and of your empire!
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000012_000006|I have had everything removed, and it only remains for me to weep over the fate of my fatherland.
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000013_000000|On receiving this dispatch the Emperor sent Prince Volkonski to Kutuzov with the following rescript:
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000014_000000|Prince Michael Ilarionovich!
train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000014_000002|You can yourself imagine the effect this news has had on me, and your silence increases my astonishment.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000001_000000|Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutuzov reached Petersburg with the official announcement of that event.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000007_000000|"Have you brought me sad news, Colonel?"
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000008_000000|"Very sad, sire," replied Michaud, lowering his eyes with a sigh.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000008_000001|"The abandonment of Moscow."
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000011_000000|The Emperor listened in silence, not looking at Michaud.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000012_000000|"Has the enemy entered the city?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000013_000000|"Yes, sire, and Moscow is now in ashes.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000013_000001|I left it all in flames," replied Michaud in a decided tone, but glancing at the Emperor he was frightened by what he had done.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000014_000000|The Emperor began to breathe heavily and rapidly, his lower lip trembled, and tears instantly appeared in his fine blue eyes.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000015_000001|He suddenly frowned, as if blaming himself for his weakness, and raising his head addressed Michaud in a firm voice:
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000016_000000|"I see, Colonel, from all that is happening, that Providence requires great sacrifices of us...
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000016_000002|Did you not notice discouragement?..."
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000019_000000|"Colonel, I always require it," replied the Emperor.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000019_000001|"Conceal nothing from me, I wish to know absolutely how things are."
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000021_000000|"How is that?" the Emperor interrupted him, frowning sternly.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000021_000001|"Would misfortune make my Russians lose heart?...
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000021_000002|Never!"
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000022_000000|Michaud had only waited for this to bring out the phrase he had prepared.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000023_000000|"Sire," he said, with respectful playfulness, "they are only afraid lest Your Majesty, in the goodness of your heart, should allow yourself to be persuaded to make peace.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000024_000001|"You set me at ease, Colonel."
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000025_000000|He bent his head and was silent for some time.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000026_000000|"Well, then, go back to the army," he said, drawing himself up to his full height and addressing Michaud with a gracious and majestic gesture, "and tell our brave men and all my good subjects wherever you go that when I have not a soldier left I shall put myself at the head of my beloved nobility and my good peasants and so use the last resources of my empire.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000027_000002|The Emperor's mild and handsome face was flushed and his eyes gleamed with resolution and anger.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000028_000001|"We can no longer both reign together.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000028_000002|I have learned to know him, and he will not deceive me any more...."
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000029_000000|And the Emperor paused, with a frown.
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000031_000000|"Sire!" said he, "Your Majesty is at this moment signing the glory of the nation and the salvation of Europe!"
train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000032_000000|With an inclination of the head the Emperor dismissed him.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000001|The tales and descriptions of that time without exception speak only of the self sacrifice, patriotic devotion, despair, grief, and the heroism of the Russians.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000002|But it was not really so.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000003|It appears so to us because we see only the general historic interest of that time and do not see all the personal human interests that people had.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000004|Yet in reality those personal interests of the moment so much transcend the general interests that they always prevent the public interest from being felt or even noticed.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000001|Even those, fond of intellectual talk and of expressing their feelings, who discussed Russia's position at the time involuntarily introduced into their conversation either a shade of pretense and falsehood or useless condemnation and anger directed against people accused of actions no one could possibly be guilty of.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000002|In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000003|Only unconscious action bears fruit, and he who plays a part in an historic event never understands its significance.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000004|If he tries to realize it his efforts are fruitless.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000008_000000|The more closely a man was engaged in the events then taking place in Russia the less did he realize their significance.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000009_000000|As the war had caught him in the service, Nicholas Rostov took a close and prolonged part in the defense of his country, but did so casually, without any aim at self sacrifice, and he therefore looked at what was going on in Russia without despair and without dismally racking his brains over it.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000012_000001|When-free from soldiers, wagons, and the filthy traces of a camp-he saw villages with peasants and peasant women, gentlemen's country houses, fields where cattle were grazing, posthouses with stationmasters asleep in them, he rejoiced as though seeing all this for the first time.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000012_000002|What for a long while specially surprised and delighted him were the women, young and healthy, without a dozen officers making up to each of them; women, too, who were pleased and flattered that a passing officer should joke with them.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000014_000001|He received Nicholas brusquely (imagining this to be characteristically military) and questioned him with an important air, as if considering the general progress of affairs and approving and disapproving with full right to do so.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000014_000002|Nicholas was in such good spirits that this merely amused him.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000015_000000|From the commander of the militia he drove to the governor.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000015_000001|The governor was a brisk little man, very simple and affable.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000015_000002|He indicated the stud farms at which Nicholas might procure horses, recommended to him a horse dealer in the town and a landowner fourteen miles out of town who had the best horses, and promised to assist him in every way.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000016_000000|"You are Count Ilya Rostov's son?
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000016_000001|My wife was a great friend of your mother's.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000017_000000|Immediately on leaving the governor's, Nicholas hired post horses and, taking his squadron quartermaster with him, drove at a gallop to the landowner, fourteen miles away, who had the stud.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000018_000000|The landowner to whom Nicholas went was a bachelor, an old cavalryman, a horse fancier, a sportsman, the possessor of some century old brandy and some old Hungarian wine, who had a snuggery where he smoked, and who owned some splendid horses.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000019_000000|In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles-to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000019_000001|After dining and taking rather too much of the Hungarian wine, Nicholas- having exchanged kisses with the landowner, with whom he was already on the friendliest terms-galloped back over abominable roads, in the brightest frame of mind, continually urging on the driver so as to be in time for the governor's party.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000020_000000|When he had changed, poured water over his head, and scented himself, Nicholas arrived at the governor's rather late, but with the phrase "better late than never" on his lips.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000024_000001|Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000024_000002|The Italian was, as it were, a war trophy.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000024_000003|Nicholas felt this, it seemed to him that everyone regarded the Italian in the same light, and he treated him cordially though with dignity and restraint.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000025_000001|At posting stations, at inns, and in the landowner's snuggery, maidservants had been flattered by his notice, and here too at the governor's party there were (as it seemed to Nicholas) an inexhaustible number of pretty young women, married and unmarried, impatiently awaiting his notice.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000025_000003|Among these was the governor's wife herself, who welcomed Rostov as a near relative and called him "Nicholas."
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000000|Catherine Petrovna did actually play valses and the ecossaise, and dancing began in which Nicholas still further captivated the provincial society by his agility.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000001|His particularly free manner of dancing even surprised them all.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000002|Nicholas was himself rather surprised at the way he danced that evening.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000003|He had never danced like that in Moscow and would even have considered such a very free and easy manner improper and in bad form, but here he felt it incumbent on him to astonish them all by something unusual, something they would have to accept as the regular thing in the capital though new to them in the provinces.
train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000027_000000|All the evening Nicholas paid attention to a blue eyed, plump and pleasing little blonde, the wife of one of the provincial officials.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000010_000003|Her position in Carentan ought to be made clear, if the reader is to appreciate the expression of keen curiosity and cunning fanaticism on the countenances of these Norman citizens, and, what is of most importance, the part that the lady played among them.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000010_000004|Many a one during the days of the Revolution has doubtless passed through a crisis as difficult as hers at that moment, and the sympathies of more than one reader will fill in all the coloring of the picture.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000011_000002|Her calculations, based on a thorough knowledge of the district, proved correct.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000011_000003|The Revolution made little disturbance in Lower Normandy.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000012_000000|She was about thirty eight years of age, and still preserved, not the fresh, high colored beauty of the Basse Normandes, but a fragile loveliness of what may be called an aristocratic type.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000012_000001|Her figure was lissome and slender, her features delicate and clearly cut; the pale face seemed to light up and live when she spoke; but there was a quiet and devout look in the great dark eyes, for all their graciousness of expression-a look that seemed to say that the springs of her life lay without her own existence.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000000|In her early girlhood she had been married to an elderly and jealous soldier.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000002|She had been compelled to set constant restraint upon her frank impulses and emotions at an age when a woman feels rather than thinks, and the depths of passion in her heart had never been stirred.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000003|In this lay the secret of her greatest charm, a youthfulness of the inmost soul, betrayed at times by her face, and a certain tinge of innocent wistfulness in her ideas.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000004|She was reserved in her demeanor, but in her bearing and in the tones of her voice there was still something that told of girlish longings directed toward a vague future.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000006|Her great soul, strengthened by the cruel ordeals through which she had passed, seemed to set her too far above the ordinary level, and these men weighed themselves, and instinctively felt that they were found wanting.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000007|Such a nature demanded an exalted passion.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000014_000001|All the happiness and joy that she had not known as a wife, she had found later in her boundless love for him.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000014_000003|She was miserable when they were apart, and nervous about him while he was away; she could never see enough of him, and lived through and for him alone.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000015_000000|The late Comte de Dey was the last of his race, and she, his wife, was the sole heiress and descendant of her house.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000015_000001|So worldly ambitions and family considerations, as well as the noblest cravings of the soul, combined to heighten in the Countess a sentiment that is strong in every woman's heart.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000015_000002|The child was all the dearer, because only with infinite care had she succeeded in rearing him to man's estate; medical science had predicted his death a score of times, but she had held fast to her presentiments and her hopes, and had known the inexpressible joy of watching him pass safely through the perils of infancy, of seeing his constitution strengthen in spite of the decrees of the Faculty.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000016_000000|Thanks to her constant care, the boy had grown up and developed so favorably, that at twenty years of age he was regarded as one of the most accomplished gentlemen at the Court of Versailles.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000016_000001|One final happiness that does not always crown a mother's efforts was hers-her son worshiped her; and between these two there was the deep sympathy of kindred souls.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000016_000002|If they had not been bound to each other already by a natural and sacred tie, they would instinctively have felt for each other a friendship that is rarely met with between two men.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000001|She was rich, noble, and the mother of an Emigrant.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000002|With the one desire to look after her son's great fortune, she had denied herself the happiness of being with him; and when she read the rigorous laws in virtue of which the Republic was daily confiscating the property of Emigrants at Carentan, she congratulated herself on the courageous course that she had taken. Was she not keeping watch over the wealth of her son at the risk of her life?
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000003|Later, when news came of the horrible executions ordered by the Convention, she slept, happy in the knowledge that her own treasure was in safety, out of reach of peril, far from the scaffolds of the Revolution.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000005|She had foreseen the difficulties that would beset her at Carentan.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000006|Did she not tempt the scaffold by the very fact of going thither to take a prominent place?
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000007|Yet, sustained by a mother's courage, she succeeded in winning the affection of the poor, ministering without distinction to everyone in trouble; and made herself necessary to the well to do, by providing amusements for them.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000001|He was the most formidable of all her suitors.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000002|He alone knew the amount of the large fortune of his sometime client, and his fervor was inevitably increased by the cupidity of greed, and by the consciousness that he wielded an enormous power, the power of life and death in the district.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000004|But, in despite of the danger of matching herself against Norman cunning, she used all the craft and inventiveness that Nature has bestowed on women to play off the rival suitors one against another.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000005|She hoped, by gaining time, to emerge safe and sound from her difficulties at last; for at that time Royalists in the provinces flattered themselves with a hope, daily renewed, that the morrow would see the end of the Revolution-a conviction that proved fatal to many of them.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000021_000000|In spite of difficulties, the Countess had maintained her independence with considerable skill until the day when, by an inexplicable want of prudence, she took occasion to close her salon.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000022_000000|To all these questions, Brigitte, the housekeeper, answered with the same formula: her mistress was keeping her room, and would see no one, not even her own servants.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000023_000000|"If she were ill, she would have sent for the doctor," said gossip number one; "now the doctor has been playing chess in my house all day. He said to me, laughing, that in these days there is only one disease, and that, unluckily, it is incurable."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000000|The joke was hazarded discreetly.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000001|Women and men, elderly folk and young girls, forthwith betook themselves to the vast fields of conjecture. Everyone imagined that there was some secret in it, and every head was busy with the secret.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000002|Next day the suspicions became malignant. Everyone lives in public in a small town, and the women kind were the first to find out that Brigitte had laid in an extra stock of provisions.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000003|The thing could not be disputed.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000004|Brigitte had been seen in the market place betimes that morning, and, wonderful to relate, she had bought the one hare to be had.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000025_000000|Elderly gentlemen, taking their constitutional, noticed a sort of suppressed bustle in the Countess's house; the symptoms were the more apparent because the servants were at evident pains to conceal them. The man servant was beating a carpet in the garden.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000025_000001|Only yesterday no one would have remarked the fact, but to day everybody began to build romances upon that harmless piece of household stuff.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000025_000002|Everyone had a version.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000026_000001|He was a retired merchant, a married man, a strictly honorable soul; everyone respected him, and the Countess held him in high regard.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000026_000002|There all the rich widows' suitors were fain to invent more or less probable fictions, each one thinking the while how to turn to his own advantage the secret that compelled her to compromise herself in such a manner.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000027_000001|The mayor had a belief in a priest who had refused the oath, a refugee from La Vendee; but this left him not a little embarrassed how to account for the purchase of a hare on a Friday.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000027_000003|Others voted for a noble escaped from the prisons of Paris.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000027_000005|The public prosecutor, moreover, said, in a low voice, that they must hush the matter up, and try to save the unfortunate lady from the abyss toward which she was hastening.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000028_000000|"If you spread reports about," he added, "I shall be obliged to take cognizance of the matter, and to search the house, and then!..."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000029_000000|He said no more, but everyone understood what was left unsaid.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000030_000001|The old merchant took a bolder step.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000030_000002|He called that morning upon the lady.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000031_000000|"She has given refuge to her lover, no doubt," thought the old man, struck with pity for the charming woman before him.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000032_000000|The Countess's face wore a strange look, that confirmed his suspicions. Deeply moved by the devotion so natural to women, but that always touches us, because all men are flattered by the sacrifices that any woman makes for any one of them, the merchant told the Countess of the gossip that was circulating in the town, and showed her the danger that she was running.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000032_000001|He wound up at last with saying that "if there are some of our public functionaries who are sufficiently ready to pardon a piece of heroism on your part so long as it is a priest that you wish to save, no one will show you any mercy if it is discovered that you are sacrificing yourself to the dictates of your heart."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000034_000000|"Come in," she said, taking him by the hand to bring him to her room, and as soon as she had assured herself that they were alone, she drew a soiled, torn letter from her bodice.--"Read it!" she cried, with a violent effort to pronounce the words.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000035_000000|She dropped as if exhausted into her armchair.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000035_000001|While the old merchant looked for his spectacles and wiped them, she raised her eyes, and for the first time looked at him with curiosity; then, in an uncertain voice, "I trust in you," she said softly.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000036_000000|"Why did I come but to share in your crime?" the old merchant said simply.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000037_000000|She trembled.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000037_000001|For the first time since she had come to the little town her soul found sympathy in another soul.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000037_000002|A sudden light dawned meantime on the old merchant; he understood the Countess's joy and her prostration.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000038_000000|Her son had taken part in the Granville expedition; he wrote to his mother from his prison, and the letter brought her a sad, sweet hope. Feeling no doubts as to his means of escape, he wrote that within three days he was sure to reach her, disguised.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000038_000002|The paper shook in the old man's hands.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000039_000001|She sprang to her feet, took back the letter, and walked up and down.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000040_000000|"You have set to work imprudently," the merchant remarked, addressing her.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000040_000001|"Why did you buy provisions?"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000041_000000|"Why, he may come in dying of hunger, worn out with fatigue, and-" She broke off.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000042_000000|"I am sure of my brother," the old merchant went on; "I will engage him in your interests."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000043_000001|Matching his shrewdness against Norman wits in the cross examination he underwent in every family as to the Countess's complaint, he succeeded in putting almost everyone who took an interest in the mysterious affair upon the wrong scent.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000044_000002|The Countess, he said, had lain in danger of her life for the past two days; but after carefully following out Tronchin's singular prescription, she was now sufficiently recovered to receive visitors that evening.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000045_000000|This tale had an immense success in Carentan.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000046_000000|They found the Countess seated in a corner of the great chimney piece in her room, which was almost as modestly furnished as similar apartments in Carentan; for she had given up the enjoyment of luxuries to which she had formerly been accustomed, for fear of offending the narrow prejudices of her guests, and she had made no changes in her house.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000046_000001|The floor was not even polished.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000046_000003|She even went so far as to affect avarice to recommend herself to these sordid natures; and had the ingenuity to make it appear that certain concessions to luxury had been made at the instance of others, to whom she had graciously yielded.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000001|The old merchant's sympathetic glances sustained the mistress of the house through this ordeal; with wonderful strength of mind, she underwent the curious scrutiny of her guests, and bore with their trivial prosings.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000002|Every time there was a knock at the door, at every sound of footsteps in the street, she hid her agitation by raising questions of absorbing interest to the countryside.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000003|She led the conversation on to the burning topic of the quality of various ciders, and was so well seconded by her friend who shared her secret, that her guests almost forgot to watch her, and her face wore its wonted look; her self possession was unshaken.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000004|The public prosecutor and one of the judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal kept silence, however; noting the slightest change that flickered over her features, listening through the noisy talk to every sound in the house.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000005|Several times they put awkward questions, which the Countess answered with wonderful presence of mind. So brave is a mother's heart!
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000048_000001|She elicited a suggestion of loto, and saying that no one else knew where to find the game, she left the room.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000000|"My good Brigitte, I cannot breathe down there!" she cried, brushing away the tears that sprang to her eyes that glittered with fever, sorrow, and impatience.--She had gone up to her son's room, and was looking round it.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000001|"He does not come," she said.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000002|"Here I can breathe and live.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000003|A few minutes more, and he will be here, for he is alive, I am sure that he is alive! my heart tells me so.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000004|Do you hear nothing, Brigitte?
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000005|Oh!
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000006|I would give the rest of my life to know whether he is still in prison or tramping across the country.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000007|I would rather not think."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000050_000000|Once more she looked to see that everything was in order.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000050_000001|A bright fire blazed on the hearth, the shutters were carefully closed, the furniture shone with cleanliness, the bed had been made after a fashion that showed that Brigitte and the Countess had given their minds to every trifling detail.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000050_000003|A dainty meal, the best of wine, clean linen, slippers-no necessary, no comfort, was lacking for the weary traveler, and all the delights of home heaped upon him should reveal his mother's love.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000051_000000|"Oh, Brigitte!..." cried the Countess, with a heart rending inflection in her voice.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000052_000001|He is not far off....
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000052_000002|I haven't a doubt that he is living and on his way," Brigitte answered.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000052_000003|"I put a key in the Bible and held it on my fingers while Cottin read the Gospel of saint John, and the key did not turn, madame."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000053_000000|"Is that a certain sign?" the Countess asked.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000054_000000|"Why, yes, madame! everybody knows that.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000054_000001|He is still alive; I would stake my salvation on it; God cannot be mistaken."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000055_000000|"If only I could see him here in the house, in spite of the danger."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000056_000000|"Poor Monsieur Auguste!" cried Brigitte; "I expect he is tramping along the lanes!"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000057_000000|"And that is eight o'clock striking now!" cried the Countess in terror.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000000|She was afraid that she had been too long in the room where she felt sure that her son was alive; all those preparations made for him meant that he was alive.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000001|She went down, but she lingered a moment in the peristyle for any sound that might waken the sleeping echoes of the town.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000002|She smiled at Brigitte's husband, who was standing there on guard; the man's eyes looked stupid with the strain of listening to the faint sounds of the night.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000003|She stared into the darkness, seeing her son in every shadow everywhere; but it was only for a moment.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000005|But from time to time she complained of feeling unwell, and went to sit in her great chair by the fireside.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000002|The exigencies of the moment scarcely admitted of soldiers being equipped at once, and it was no uncommon thing to see the roads thronged with conscripts in their ordinary clothes.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000003|The young fellows went ahead of their company to the next halting place, or lagged behind it; it depended upon their fitness to bear the fatigues of a long march.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000004|This particular wayfarer was some considerable way in advance of a company of conscripts on the way to Cherbourg, whom the mayor was expecting to arrive every hour, for it was his duty to distribute their billets.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000005|The young man's footsteps were still firm as he trudged along, and his bearing seemed to indicate that he was no stranger to the rough life of a soldier.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000006|The moon shone on the pasture land about Carentan, but he had noticed great masses of white cloud that were about to scatter showers of snow over the country, and doubtless the fear of being overtaken by a storm had quickened his pace in spite of his weariness.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000000|The wallet on his back was almost empty, and he carried a stick in his hand, cut from one of the high, thick box hedges that surround most of the farms in Lower Normandy.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000002|He met no one in the silent streets that rang with the echoes of his own footsteps, and was obliged to ask the way to the mayor's house of a weaver who was working late. The magistrate was not far to seek, and in a few minutes the conscript was sitting on a stone bench in the mayor's porch waiting for his billet.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000003|He was sent for, however, and confronted with that functionary, who scrutinized him closely.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000004|The foot soldier was a good looking young man, who appeared to be of gentle birth.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000061_000000|"What is your name?" asked the mayor, eying him shrewdly.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000063_000000|"From-?" queried the official, and an incredulous smile stole over his features.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000064_000000|"From Paris."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000065_000000|"Your comrades must be a good way behind?" remarked the Norman in sarcastic tones.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000066_000000|"I am three leagues ahead of the battalion."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000067_000001|"All right, all right!" he added, with a wave of the hand, seeing that the young man was about to speak.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000067_000002|"We know where to send you.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000068_000001|The conscript read the direction curiously.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000001|"He is uncommonly bold!
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000002|God guide him!...
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000003|He has an answer ready for everything.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000004|Yes, but if somebody else had asked to see his papers it would have been all up with him!"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000070_000000|The clocks in Carentan struck half past nine as he spoke.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000070_000002|The card players settled their accounts, and everybody went out together, after the fashion of all little country towns.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000071_000001|And, as a matter of fact, that redoubtable functionary was alone with the Countess, who waited trembling till he should go.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000071_000002|There was something appalling in their long silence.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000074_000000|"Have you nothing to tell me?"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000075_000000|"Nothing!" she answered, in amazement.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000076_000002|I have watched your character, your soul, your manner, too closely to share the error into which you have managed to lead your visitors to night.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000076_000003|You are expecting your son, I could not doubt it."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000077_000000|The Countess made an involuntary sign of denial, but her face had grown white and drawn with the struggle to maintain the composure that she did not feel, and no tremor was lost on the merciless prosecutor.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000078_000000|"Very well," the Revolutionary official went on, "receive him; but do not let him stay under your roof after seven o'clock to morrow morning; for to morrow, as soon as it is light, I shall come with a denunciation that I will have made out, and-"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000079_000000|She looked at him, and the dull misery in her eyes would have softened a tiger.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000080_000000|"I will make it clear that the denunciation was false by making a thorough search," he went on in a gentle voice; "my report shall be such that you will be safe from any subsequent suspicion.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000081_000001|A knock at the door rang through the house.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000082_000000|"Oh!..." cried the terrified mother, falling upon her knees; "save him! save him!"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000084_000000|"Lost!" she wailed.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000084_000001|The prosecutor raised her politely.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000086_000000|"Madame, he is-" cried Brigitte, thinking that her mistress was alone. At the sight of the public prosecutor, the old servant's joy flushed countenance became haggard and impassive.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000087_000000|"Who is it, Brigitte?" the prosecutor asked kindly, as if he too were in the secret of the household.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000088_000000|"A conscript that the mayor has sent here for a night's lodging," the woman replied, holding out the billet.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000089_000000|"So it is," said the prosecutor, when he had read the slip of paper.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000089_000001|"A battalion is coming here to night."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000090_000000|And he went.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000091_000000|The Countess's need to believe in the faith of her sometime attorney was so great, that she dared not entertain any suspicion of him.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000091_000001|She fled upstairs; she felt scarcely strength enough to stand; she opened the door, and sprang, half dead with fear, into her son's arms.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000092_000000|"Oh! my child! my child!" she sobbed, covering him with almost frenzied kisses.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000093_000000|"Madame!..." said a stranger's voice.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000094_000000|"Oh! it is not he!" she cried, shrinking away in terror, and she stood face to face with the conscript, gazing at him with haggard eyes.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000097_000000|"Ah! monsieur," she said, leaning on the arm of Brigitte's husband, feeling for the first time the full extent of a sorrow that had all but killed her at its first threatening; "ah! monsieur, I cannot stay to see you any longer ... permit my servants to supply my place, and to see that you have all that you want."
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000098_000000|She went down to her own room, Brigitte and the old serving man half carrying her between them.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000098_000001|The housekeeper set her mistress in a chair, and broke out:
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000099_000001|Why, if they were to guillotine me for it, I-"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000101_000000|Brigitte said no more.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000102_000000|"Hold your tongue, chatterbox," said her husband, in a low voice; "do you want to kill madame?"
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000103_000000|A sound came from the conscript's room as he drew his chair to the table.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000000|She still wavered between the fear that she had lost her son and the hope of seeing him once more.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000001|That night was hideously silent.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000002|Once, for the Countess, there was an awful interval, when the battalion of conscripts entered the town, and the men went by, one by one, to their lodgings.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000003|Every footfall, every sound in the street, raised hopes to be disappointed; but it was not for long, the dreadful quiet succeeded again.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000004|Toward morning the Countess was forced to return to her room. Brigitte, ever keeping watch over her mistress's movements, did not see her come out again; and when she went, she found the Countess lying there dead.
train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000106_000001|That must have killed her."
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000001_000000|The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000002_000003|The only two other continents where such work, of like volume and value, remains to be done are Africa and Asia; and neither Africa nor Asia offers a more inviting field for the best kind of field worker in geographical exploration and in zoological, geological, and paleontological investigation.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000002_000004|The explorer is merely the most adventurous kind of field geographer; and there are two or three points worth keeping in mind in dealing with the South American work of the field geographer and field zoologist.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000003_000000|Roughly, the travellers who now visit (like those who for the past century have visited) South America come in three categories- although, of course, these categories are not divided by hard and fast lines.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000004_000000|First, there are the travellers who skirt the continent in comfortable steamers, going from one great seaport to another, and occasionally taking a short railway journey to some big interior city not too far from the coast.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000004_000001|This is a trip well worth taking by all intelligent men and women who can afford it; and it is being taken by such men and women with increasing frequency.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000001|Such travelling is difficult in the sense that travelling in parts of Spain or southern Italy or the Balkan states is difficult.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000003|In economic, social, and political matters the studies and observations of these travellers are essential in order to supplement, and sometimes to correct, those of travellers of the first category; for it is not safe to generalize overmuch about any country merely from a visit to its capital or its chief seaport.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000004|These travellers of the second category can give us most interesting and valuable information about quaint little belated cities; about backward country folk, kindly or the reverse, who show a mixture of the ideas of savagery with the ideas of an ancient peasantry; and about rough old highways of travel which in comfort do not differ much from those of mediaeval Europe.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000006|They can add little to our geographical knowledge; but if they are competent zoologists or archaeologists, especially if they live or sojourn long in a locality, their work may be invaluable from the scientific standpoint.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000006_000000|Of course travellers of this kind need to remember that their experiences in themselves do not qualify them to speak as wilderness explorers.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000006_000002|To cross the Andes on mule back along the regular routes is a feat comparable to the feats of the energetic tourists who by thousands traverse the mule trails in out of the way nooks of Switzerland.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000000|A hundred years ago, even seventy or eighty years ago, before the age of steamboats and railroads, it was more difficult than at present to define the limits between this class and the next; and, moreover, in defining these limits I emphatically disclaim any intention of thereby attempting to establish a single standard of value for books of travel.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000001|Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" is to me the best book of the kind ever written; it is one of those classics which decline to go into artificial categories, and which stand by themselves; and yet Darwin, with his usual modesty, spoke of it as in effect a yachting voyage.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000002|Humboldt's work had a profound effect on the thought of the civilized world; his trip was one of adventure and danger; and yet it can hardly be called exploration proper.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000003|He visited places which had been settled and inhabited for centuries and traversed places which had been travelled by civilized men for years before he followed in their footsteps.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000004|But these places were in Spanish colonies, and access to them had been forbidden by the mischievous and intolerant tyranny- ecclesiastical, political, and economic-which then rendered Spain the most backward of European nations; and Humboldt was the first scientific man of intellectual independence who had permission to visit them.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000007|He never went off the native routes of ordinary travel. But he was a devoted and able naturalist.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000008_000000|Travel of the third category includes the work of the true wilderness explorers who add to our sum of geographical knowledge and of the scientific men who, following their several bents, also work in the untrodden wilds.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000009_000001|It can be accomplished with reasonable thoroughness only by the efforts of very many different workers, each in his own special field.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000010_000000|But as a rule the work must be specialized; and in its final shape it must be specialized everywhere.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000010_000002|This is true even of exploration done along the courses of unknown rivers; it is more true of the exploration, which must in South America become increasingly necessary, done across country, away from the rivers.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000011_000000|The scientific work proper of these early explorers must be of a somewhat preliminary nature; in other words the most difficult and therefore ordinarily the most important pieces of first-hand exploration are precisely those where the scientific work of the accompanying cartographer, geologist, botanist, and zoologist must be furthest removed from finality.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000011_000001|The zoologist who works to most advantage in the wilderness must take his time, and therefore he must normally follow in the footsteps of, and not accompany, the first explorers. The man who wishes to do the best scientific work in the wilderness must not try to combine incompatible types of work nor to cover too much ground in too short a time.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000012_000000|There is no better example of the kind of zoologist who does first class field work in the wilderness than john d Haseman, who spent from nineteen o seven to nineteen ten in painstaking and thorough scientific investigation over a large extent of South American territory hitherto only partially known or quite unexplored.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000012_000001|Haseman's primary object was to study the characteristics and distribution of South American fishes, but as a matter of fact he studied at first hand many other more or less kindred subjects, as may be seen in his remarks on the Indians and in his excellent pamphlet on "Some Factors of Geographical Distribution in South America."
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000000|Haseman made his long journey with a very slender equipment, his extraordinarily successful field work being due to his bodily health and vigor and his resourcefulness, self reliance, and resolution.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000003|There is, however, one serious criticism to be made on Haseman: the extreme obscurity of his style-an obscurity mixed with occasional bits of scientific pedantry, which makes it difficult to tell whether or not on some points his thought is obscure also.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000004|Modern scientists, like modern historians and, above all, scientific and historical educators, should ever keep in mind that clearness of speech and writing is essential to clearness of thought and that a simple, clear, and, if possible, vivid style is vital to the production of the best work in either science or history.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000006|The thought is essential, but ability to give it clear expression is only less essential.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000007|Ability to write well, if the writer has nothing to write about, entitles him to mere derision.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000010|Surely, if he will take as much pains with his writing as he has with the far more difficult business of exploring and collecting, he will become able to express his thought clearly and forcefully.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000012|He can take pains to see that his whole thought is expressed, instead of leaving vacancies which must be filled by the puzzled and groping reader.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000013|His own views and his quotations from the views of others about the static and dynamic theories of distribution are examples of an important principle so imperfectly expressed as to make us doubtful whether it is perfectly apprehended by the writer.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000016|mr Haseman drags it in continually when its use is either pointless and redundant or else serves purely to darken wisdom. He speaks of the "Antillean complex" when he means the Antilles, of the "organic complex" instead of the characteristic or bodily characteristics of an animal or species, and of the "environmental complex" when he means nothing whatever but the environment.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000015_000001|He holds that life has been intermittently distributed southward along these continental masses when there were no breaks in their southward connection, and intermittently exchanged between them when they were connected in the north; and he also upholds the view that from a common ancestral form the same species has been often developed in entirely disconnected localities when in these localities the conditions of environment were the same.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000000|The opposite view is that there have been frequent connections between the great land masses, alike in the tropics, in the south temperate zone, and in the Antarctic region.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000002|Unquestionably, the distribution of many forms of life, past and present, offers problems which with our present paleontological knowledge we are wholly unable to solve.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000003|If we consider only the biological facts concerning some one group of animals it is not only easy but inevitable to conclude that its distribution must be accounted for by the existence of some former direct land bridge extending, for instance, between Patagonia and Australia, or between Brazil and South Africa, or between the West Indies and the Mediterranean, or between a part of the Andean region and northeastern Asia.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000004|The trouble is that as more groups of animals are studied from the standpoint of this hypothesis the number of such land bridges demanded to account for the existing facts of animal distribution is constantly and indefinitely extended.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000005|A recent book by one of the most learned advocates of this hypothesis calls for at least ten such land bridges between South America and all the other continents, present and past, of the world since a period geologically not very remote.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000006|These land bridges, moreover, must, many of them, have been literally bridges; long, narrow tongues of land thrust in every direction across the broad oceans.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000008|By parity of reasoning, the land bridges could be made a hundred instead of merely ten in number.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000002|But he generalized with complete recklessness from the slenderest data; and even these data he often completely misunderstood or misinterpreted.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000004|In addition to valuable investigations of fossil bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000005|But of his main theses he proves none, and what evidence we have tells against them. At the Museum of La Plata I found that the authorities were practically a unit in regarding his remains of tertiary men and proto men as being either the remains of tertiary American monkeys or of American Indians from strata that were long post tertiary.
train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000007|The evidence we have, so far as it goes, tends to show that the South American fauna always has been more archaic in type than the arctogeal fauna of the same chronological level.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000000_000000|ORNITHOLOGY ON A COTTON PLANTATION.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000000|On one of my first jaunts into the suburbs of Tallahassee I noticed not far from the road a bit of swamp,--shallow pools with muddy borders and flats.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000001|It was a likely spot for "waders," and would be worth a visit.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000003|Ordinarily I call myself a simple bird gazer, an amateur, a field naturalist, if you will; but on occasions like the present I assume-with myself, that is-all the rights and titles of an ornithologist proper, a man of science strictly so called.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000004|In the interest of science, then, I climbed the fence and picked my way across the field.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000005|True enough, about the edges of the water were two or three solitary sandpipers, and at least half a dozen of the smaller yellowlegs,--two additions to my Florida list,--not to speak of a little blue heron and a green heron, the latter in most uncommonly green plumage.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000007|"The letter killeth" is a pretty good text in emergencies of this kind.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000009|The herons, meanwhile, had taken French leave, but the smaller birds were less suspicious; I watched them at my leisure, and left them still feeding.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000002|He pulled up his horse and bade me good afternoon.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000006|As it was, he protected the birds on his plantation, and the place was full of them.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000009|"We have orioles here," he added; and so far, at any rate, he was right; I had seen perhaps twenty that day (orchard orioles, that is), and one sat in a tree before us at the moment.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000010|His whole manner was most kindly and hospitable,--as was that of every Tallahassean with whom I had occasion to speak,--and I told him with sincere gratitude that I should certainly avail myself of his courtesy and stroll through his woods.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000000|I approached them, two mornings afterward, from the opposite side, where, finding no other place of entrance, I climbed a six barred, tightly locked gate-feeling all the while like "a thief and a robber"--in front of a deserted cabin.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000001|Then I had only to cross a grassy field, in which meadow larks were singing, and I was in the woods.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000002|I wandered through them without finding anything more unusual or interesting than summer tanagers and yellow throated warblers, which were in song there, as they were in every such place, and after a while came out into a pleasant glade, from which different parts of the plantation could be seen, and through which ran a plantation road.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000003|Here was a wooden fence,--a most unusual thing,--and I lost no time in mounting it, to rest and look about me.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000004|It is one of the marks of a true Yankee, I suspect, to like such a perch.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000005|My own weakness in that direction is a frequent subject of mirth with chance fellow travelers. The attitude is comfortable and conducive to meditation; and now that I was seated and at my ease, I felt that this was one of the New England luxuries which, almost without knowing it, I had missed ever since I left home.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000001|In the latter case, indeed, and perhaps in the former as well, it would seem more reasonable to draw an exactly opposite inference.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000002|But, quibbles apart, one thing I do remember: I sat for some time on the fence, in the shade of a tree, with an eye upon the cane swamp and an ear open for bird voices.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000003|Yes, and it comes to me at this moment that here I heard the first and only bull frog that I heard anywhere in Florida.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000004|It was like a voice from home, and belonged with the fence.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000006|One chorus brought me out of bed in Daytona-in the evening-after a succession of February dog day showers.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000009|No doubt the creatures were frogs, but of some kind new to me, with voices more lugubrious and homesick than I should have supposed could possibly belong to any batrachian.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000010|A week or two later, in the New Smyrna flat woods, I heard in the distance a sound which I took for the grunting of pigs.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000012|A man was approaching, and when we met I asked him what was making that noise yonder.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000013|"Frogs," he said.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000014|At another time, in the flat woods of Port Orange (I hope I am not taxing my reader's credulity too far, or making myself out a man of too imaginative an ear), I heard the bleating of sheep.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000016|But this frog in the sugar cane swamp was the same fellow that on summer evenings, ever and ever so many years ago, in sonorous bass that could be heard a quarter of a mile away, used to call from Reuben Loud's pond, "Pull him in!
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000018|Jug o' rum!"
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000000|I dismounted from my perch at last, and was sauntering idly along the path (idleness like this is often the best of ornithological industry), when suddenly I had a vision!
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000001|Before me, in the leafy top of an oak sapling, sat a blue grosbeak.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000002|I knew him on the instant.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000004|Here was a new bird, a bird about which I had felt fifteen years of curiosity; and, more than that, a bird which here and now was quite unexpected, since it was not included in either of the two Florida lists that I had brought with me from home.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000005|For perhaps five seconds I had my opera glass on the blue head and the thick set, dark bill, with its lighter colored under mandible.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000006|Then I heard the clatter of a horse's hoofs, and lifted my eyes.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000007|My friend the owner of the plantation was coming down the road at a gallop, straight upon me.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000008|If I was to see the grosbeak and make sure of him, it must be done at once.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000009|I moved to bring him fully into view, and he flew into the thick of a pine tree out of sight.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000011|A bright thought came to me.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000014|Alas! he had too much courtesy to pass his own guest without speaking.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000015|"Still after the birds?" he said, as he checked his horse.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000016|I responded, as I hope, without any symptom of annoyance.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000017|Then, of course, he wished to know what I was looking at, and I told him that a blue grosbeak had just flown into that pine tree, and that I was most distressingly anxious to see more of him.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000018|He looked at the pine tree.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000019|"I can't see him," he said. No more could i "It wasn't a blue jay, was it?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000021|By this time the grosbeak had disappeared utterly.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000022|Possibly he had gone to a bit of wood on the opposite side of the cane swamp.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000023|I scaled a barbed wire fence and made in that direction, but to no purpose.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000024|The grosbeak was gone for good.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000026|Could the planter have read my thoughts just then he would perhaps have been angry with himself, and pretty certainly he would have been angry with me.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000027|That a Yankee should accept his hospitality, and then load him with curses and call him all manner of names!
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000028|How should he know that I was so insane a hobbyist as to care more for the sight of a new bird than for all the laws and customs of ordinary politeness?
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000029|As my feelings cooled, I saw that I was stepping over hills or rows of some strange looking plants just out of the ground.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000000|I was preparing to surmount the barbed wire fence again, when the planter returned and halted for another chat.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000002|There were a great many kinds of sparrows in that country, he said, and also of woodpeckers.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000005|As he rode off he called my attention to a great blue heron just then flying over the swamp.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000006|"They are very shy," he said.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000007|Then, from further away, he shouted once more to ask if I heard the mocking bird singing yonder, pointing with his whip in the direction of the singer.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000007_000000|For some time longer I hung about the glade, vainly hoping that the grosbeak would again favor my eyes.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000007_000001|Then I crossed more planted fields,--climbing more barbed wire fences, and stopping on the way to enjoy the sweetly quaint music of a little chorus of white crowned sparrows,--and skirted once more the muddy shore of the cane swamp, where the yellowlegs and sandpipers were still feeding.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000007_000003|At that point, as I now remember, the air was full of vultures (carrion crows), a hundred or more, soaring over the fields in some fit of gregariousness.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000000|Once back at the hotel, I opened my Coues's Key to refresh my memory as to the exact appearance of that bird.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000001|"Feathers around base of bill black," said the book.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000002|I had not noticed that.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000004|A black line between the almost black beak and the dark blue head would be inconspicuous at the best, and quite naturally would escape a glimpse so hasty as mine had been.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000005|And yet, while I reasoned in this way, I foresaw plainly enough that, as time passed, doubt would get the better of assurance, as it always does, and I should never be certain that I had not been the victim of some illusion.
train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000009_000001|But that was not on a cotton plantation, and is part of another story.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000001_000000|A FLORIDA SHRINE.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000001|It is one of the most conveniently accessible of those "points of interest" with which guide books so anxiously, and with so much propriety, concern themselves.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000002|What a tourist prays for is something to see.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000003|If I had ever been a tourist in Boston, no doubt I should before now have surveyed the world from the top of the Bunker Hill monument.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000004|In Tallahassee, at all events, I went to the Murat estate.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000005|In fact, I went more than once; but I remember especially my first visit, which had a livelier sentimental interest than the others because I was then under the agreeable delusion that the Prince himself had lived there.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000006|The guide book told me so, vouchsafing also the information that after building the house he "interested himself actively in local affairs, became a naturalized citizen, and served successively as postmaster, alderman, and mayor"--a model immigrant, surely, though it is rather the way of immigrants, perhaps, not to refuse political responsibilities.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000003_000001|Here lived once the son of the King of Naples; himself a Prince, and-worthy son of a worthy sire-alderman and then mayor of the city of Tallahassee.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000003_000002|Thus did an uncompromising democrat pay court to the shades of Royalty, while a mocking bird sang from a fringe bush by the gate, and an oriole flew madly from tree to tree in pursuit of a fair creature of the reluctant sex.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000000|The inconsistency, if such it was, was quickly punished.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000001|For, alas!
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000003|I appealed to the guide book.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000005|For once, the guide book compiler must have been misinformed.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000005_000000|The question, happily, was one of no great consequence.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000005_000003|Prince Murat, or no Prince Murat, I should love to travel that road to day, instead of sitting before a Massachusetts fire, with the ground deep under snow, and the air full of thirty or forty degrees of frost.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000006_000000|In the front yard of one of the cabins opposite the car wheel foundry, and near the station, as I now remember, a middle aged negress was cutting up an oak log.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000006_000001|She swung the axe with vigor and precision, and the chips flew; but I could not help saying, "You ought to make the man do that."
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000007_000000|She answered on the instant.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000008_000000|"I'm sure you would," I thought.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000008_000001|Her tongue was as sharp as her axe.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000001|His wife had died a year before, he said, and so far, though he had not let the grass grow under his feet, he had found no one to take her place.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000002|He still meant to do so, if he could.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000003|He was only seventy four years old, and it was not good for a man to be alone.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000004|He seemed a gentle spirit, and I withheld all mention of the stalwart and manless wood cutter.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000005|I hope he went farther, and fared better.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000006|So youthful as he was, surely there was no occasion for haste.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000010_000000|When I had skirted a cotton field-the crop just out of the ground-and a bit of wood on the right, and a swamp with a splendid display of white water lilies on the left, and had begun to ascend the gentle slope, I met a man of considerably more than seventy four years.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000011_000000|"Can you tell me just where the Murat place is?" I inquired.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000000|He grinned broadly, and thought he could.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000001|He was one of the old Murat servants, as his father had been before him.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000002|"I was borned on to him," he said, speaking of the Prince.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000006|He "never was for barbarizing a poor colored person at all." Whipping?
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000007|Oh, yes.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000008|"He didn't miss your fault.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000013_000000|The old man was thankful to be free; but to his mind emancipation had not made everything heavenly.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000013_000002|They had "sold their birthright," though exactly what he meant by that remark I did not gather.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000013_000003|"They ain't got no sense," he declared, "and what sense they has got don't do 'em no good."
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000014_000000|I told him finally that I was from the North.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000014_000001|"Oh, I knows it," he exclaimed, "I knows it;" and he beamed with delight.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000014_000005|Anybody would know it that had any jedgment at all.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000015_000002|So it will be with us, if we live so long.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000015_000003|May we find once in a while a patient listener.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000000|This patriarch's unfavorable opinion as to the prospects of the colored people was shared by my hopeful young widower before mentioned, who expressed himself quite as emphatically.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000002|But he was less perspicacious than the older man.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000003|He was one of the very few persons whom I met at the South who did not recognize me at sight as a Yankee.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000005|But perhaps, after all, he only meant to flatter me.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000017_000000|If I am long on the way, it is because, as I love always to have it, the going and coming were the better part of the pilgrimage.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000017_000001|The estate itself is beautifully situated, with far away horizons; but it has fallen into great neglect, while the house, almost in ruins, and occupied by colored people, is to Northern eyes hardly more than a larger cabin.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000017_000004|"Have you seen any of those fine old country mansions," he asked, "about which we read so often in descriptions of Southern, life?" He had been on the lookout for them, he averred, ever since he left home, and had yet to find the first one; and from his tone it was evident that he thought the Southern idea of a "fine old mansion" must be different from his.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000018_000000|The Murat house, certainly, was never a palace, except as love may have made it so.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000018_000001|But it was old; people had lived in it, and died in it; those who once owned it, whose name and memory still clung to it, were now in narrower houses; and it was easy for the visitor-for one visitor, at least-to fall into pensive meditation.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000001|I recall in particular some white crowned sparrows, the first ones I had seen in Florida.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000002|At a bend in the road opposite the water lily swamp, while I was cooling myself in the shade of a friendly pine tree,--enjoying at the same time a fence overrun with Cherokee roses,--a man and his little boy came along in a wagon.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000003|The man seemed really disappointed when I told him that I was going into town, instead of coming from it.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000004|It was pretty warm weather for walking, and he had meant to offer me a lift.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000005|He was a Scandinavian, who had been for some years in Florida.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000007|He talked of his crops, his children, the climate, and so on, all in a cheerful strain, pleasant to hear.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000008|If the pessimists are right,--which may I be kept from believing,--the optimists are certainly more comfortable to live with, though it be only for ten minutes under a roadside shade tree.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000020_000000|When I reached the street car track at the foot of the hill, the one car which plies back and forth through the city was in its place, with the driver beside it, but no mules.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000021_000000|"Are you going to start directly?" I asked.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000022_000001|Do about!"
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000025_000000|Half a minute afterwards two very neatly dressed little colored boys stepped upon the rear platform.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000026_000001|"Uptown?"
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000028_000000|"Well, come inside.
train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000029_000002|"Sit down there," he said, "right there." They obeyed, and as he turned away he added, what I found more and more to be true, as I saw more of him, "I ain't de boss, but I's got right smart to say."
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000005_000001|The fretful children were crying in their cradles; the horse destined for the knacker dozed forlorn in the field of his imprisonment; the cats waited stealthily in corners for the coming night.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000009_000000|"mr Bashwood!" she exclaimed, in loud, clear tones indicative of the utmost astonishment, "what a surprise to find you here!
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000009_000006|Directly!
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000011_000005|No?
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000011_000009|Hush!
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000015_000003|"Why am I stopping here?"
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000017_000001|The spy fell into the snare laid for him.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000024_000000|"I wonder whether I'm strong enough to throw you after your hat?" she said.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000024_000001|"I'll take a turn and consider it."
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000025_000000|She sauntered on a few steps toward the figure advancing along the road. The spy followed her close.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000026_000001|He was a dark man, his black hair was powdered with dust, and his black eyes were looking steadfastly forward along the road before him.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000029_000002|"Miss Gwilt!" he exclaimed, and mechanically held out his hand.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000030_000003|He has been following me, and annoying me all the way from the town."
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000001|"I have been forced to give up my situation, and I am followed and watched by a paid spy.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000004|Let the wretch go.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000007|May I-may I ask for the support of your arm?
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000013|"I am treating you like an old friend.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000035_000000|They went on toward the town.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000036_000002|"It is clean and quiet; I am too poor to want or expect more.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000037_000000|The magnetic influence of her touch was thrilling through him while she spoke.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000046_000003|We are both victims.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000047_000001|"Why, Allan himself told me-"
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000049_000001|His eyes dropped before hers, and his dark color deepened.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000050_000006|Anyhow, the conspiracy has succeeded.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000051_000002|"Pray excuse my anxiety, Miss Gwilt: Allan's good name is as dear to me as my own!"
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000052_000005|Let us go back to what we were talking about.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000059_000012|What could I do?
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000059_000014|My pride (Heaven help me, I was brought up like a gentlewoman, and I have sensibilities that are not blunted even yet!)--my pride got the better of me, and I left my place.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000059_000022|But he has even used me more cruelly still; he persists in suspecting me; it is he who is having me watched.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000061_000001|"If the man told you that, the man lied.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000061_000002|I beg your pardon, Miss Gwilt; I beg your pardon from the bottom of my heart.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000061_000008|Let me go and clear it up at once.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000066_000003|She drew back from it, after a moment's absorption in her own thoughts, with a start of terror.
train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000073_000000|The front of the house was dark, and closed for the night.
train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000011_000003|He had all thirty two of his teeth.
train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000011_000013|She seemed to him to be eight years old.
train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000014_000012|He was a connoisseur of painting.
train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000018_000003|"What a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with his blue ribbon!"
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000001_000015|"Thirty francs."
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000001_000016|"What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty francs, and you shall be called Nicolette."
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000001|He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts of liberties.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000013|You are finely taken aback, and really, you are excessively ignorant.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000020|This manner of procedure was good tempered.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000025|He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000039|He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the back of one hand.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000008_000002|He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door was open.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000010_000001|They had come into the world ten years apart.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000011_000001|No paradise becomes terrestrial in our day.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000011_000002|The younger wedded the man of her dreams, but she died.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000013_000001|Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man had beheld her garter.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000014_000000|Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000016_000000|In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: Prude, under which we have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000018_000002|Mademoiselle Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a single spot of intelligence.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000019_000001|This is the case with passive natures.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000019_000004|There breathed from her whole person the stupor of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning.
train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000022_000000|This was his grandson.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000002_000000|Chapter six.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000002_000001|For Awhile A Very Obscure One
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000003_000003|He would again be as solitary as ever, and though he had great hopes, and great-too great-expectations from life, he could not have given any definite account of his hopes, his expectations, or even his desires.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000002|No, it's not that either.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000003|Is it the parting with Alyosha and the conversation I had with him?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000005|No doubt that came in, that vexation, it must have done indeed; but yet that was not it, that was not it either.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000006|"I feel sick with depression and yet I can't tell what I want.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000007|Better not think, perhaps."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000005_000001|What made his depression so vexatious and irritating was that it had a kind of casual, external character-he felt that.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000007_000001|It all dawned upon him suddenly and became clear.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000007_000003|Afterwards, as he talked, Smerdyakov had been forgotten for the time; but still he had been in his mind, and as soon as Ivan parted with Alyosha and was walking home, the forgotten sensation began to obtrude itself again.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000007_000004|"Is it possible that a miserable, contemptible creature like that can worry me so much?" he wondered, with insufferable irritation.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000001|He had even begun to notice in himself a growing feeling that was almost of hatred for the creature. Perhaps this hatred was accentuated by the fact that when Ivan first came to the neighborhood he had felt quite differently.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000002|Then he had taken a marked interest in Smerdyakov, and had even thought him very original.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000006|It had first given rise to his aversion.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000008|Grushenka had come on the scene, and there had been the scandals with his brother Dmitri-they discussed that, too.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000009|But though Smerdyakov always talked of that with great excitement, it was impossible to discover what he desired to come of it.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000011|But what finally irritated Ivan most and confirmed his dislike for him was the peculiar, revolting familiarity which Smerdyakov began to show more and more markedly.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000013|He always spoke in a tone that suggested that those two had some kind of compact, some secret between them, that had at some time been expressed on both sides, only known to them and beyond the comprehension of those around them.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000000|With a feeling of disgust and irritation he tried to pass in at the gate without speaking or looking at Smerdyakov.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000003|With anger and repulsion he looked at Smerdyakov's emasculate, sickly face, with the little curls combed forward on his forehead.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000004|His left eye winked and he grinned as if to say, "Where are you going?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000005|You won't pass by; you see that we two clever people have something to say to each other."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000010_000001|"Get away, miserable idiot.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000010_000002|What have I to do with you?" was on the tip of his tongue, but to his profound astonishment he heard himself say, "Is my father still asleep, or has he waked?"
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000011_000000|He asked the question softly and meekly, to his own surprise, and at once, again to his own surprise, sat down on the bench.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000011_000001|For an instant he felt almost frightened; he remembered it afterwards.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000011_000002|Smerdyakov stood facing him, his hands behind his back, looking at him with assurance and almost severity.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000012_000000|"His honor is still asleep," he articulated deliberately ("You were the first to speak, not I," he seemed to say).
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000012_000001|"I am surprised at you, sir," he added, after a pause, dropping his eyes affectedly, setting his right foot forward, and playing with the tip of his polished boot.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000014_000001|"Why I smile you must understand of yourself, if you are a clever man," his screwed up left eye seemed to say.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000015_000000|"Why should I go to Tchermashnya?" Ivan asked in surprise.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000016_000000|Smerdyakov was silent again.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000017_000001|"I put you off with a secondary reason," he seemed to suggest, "simply to say something."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000018_000000|"Damn you!
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000019_000000|Smerdyakov drew his right foot up to his left, pulled himself up, but still looked at him with the same serenity and the same little smile.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000020_000000|"Substantially nothing-but just by way of conversation."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000021_000001|They did not speak for nearly a minute.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000021_000004|At last he moved to get up.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000021_000005|Smerdyakov seemed to seize the moment.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000022_000001|I don't know how to help myself," he said resolutely and distinctly, and at his last word he sighed.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000001|"I am speaking of your parent and your brother Dmitri Fyodorovitch.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000002|Here Fyodor Pavlovitch will get up directly and begin worrying me every minute, 'Has she come?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000003|Why hasn't she come?' and so on up till midnight and even after midnight.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000005|When will she come?'--as though I were to blame for it.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000006|On the other side it's no better. As soon as it gets dark, or even before, your brother will appear with his gun in his hands: 'Look out, you rogue, you soup maker.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000007|If you miss her and don't let me know she's been-I'll kill you before any one.' When the night's over, in the morning, he, too, like Fyodor Pavlovitch, begins worrying me to death.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000008|'Why hasn't she come?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000009|Will she come soon?' And he, too, thinks me to blame because his lady hasn't come.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000024_000000|"And why have you meddled?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000024_000001|Why did you begin to spy for Dmitri Fyodorovitch?" said Ivan irritably.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000025_000000|"How could I help meddling?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000025_000001|Though, indeed, I haven't meddled at all, if you want to know the truth of the matter.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000025_000002|I kept quiet from the very beginning, not daring to answer; but he pitched on me to be his servant. He has had only one thing to say since: 'I'll kill you, you scoundrel, if you miss her,' I feel certain, sir, that I shall have a long fit to morrow."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000027_000001|I fell from the garret that time.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000027_000002|The struggling ceased and then began again, and for three days I couldn't come back to my senses.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000027_000004|I might have died."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000028_000001|What makes you say you will have one to morrow?" Ivan inquired, with a peculiar, irritable curiosity.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000029_000000|"That's just so.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000029_000001|You can't tell beforehand."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000000|"I climb up to the garret every day.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000001|I might fall from the garret again to morrow.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000002|And, if not, I might fall down the cellar steps.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000003|I have to go into the cellar every day, too."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000032_000000|Ivan took a long look at him.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000033_000000|"You are talking nonsense, I see, and I don't quite understand you," he said softly, but with a sort of menace.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000033_000001|"Do you mean to pretend to be ill to morrow for three days, eh?"
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000034_000000|Smerdyakov, who was looking at the ground again, and playing with the toe of his right foot, set the foot down, moved the left one forward, and, grinning, articulated:
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000035_000000|"If I were able to play such a trick, that is, pretend to have a fit-and it would not be difficult for a man accustomed to them-I should have a perfect right to use such a means to save myself from death.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000035_000002|He'd be ashamed to."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000036_000001|All my brother Dmitri's threats are only hasty words and mean nothing.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000037_000000|"He'd kill me first of all, like a fly.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000037_000001|But even more than that, I am afraid I shall be taken for an accomplice of his when he does something crazy to his father."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000038_000000|"Why should you be taken for an accomplice?"
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000040_000000|"What signals?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000040_000001|Whom did you tell?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000040_000002|Confound you, speak more plainly."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000000|"I'm bound to admit the fact," Smerdyakov drawled with pedantic composure, "that I have a secret with Fyodor Pavlovitch in this business.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000001|As you know yourself (if only you do know it) he has for several days past locked himself in as soon as night or even evening comes on.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000002|Of late you've been going upstairs to your room early every evening, and yesterday you did not come down at all, and so perhaps you don't know how carefully he has begun to lock himself in at night, and even if Grigory Vassilyevitch comes to the door he won't open to him till he hears his voice.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000004|That's the arrangement he made himself ever since this to do with Agrafena Alexandrovna began.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000007|You look out for her,' says he, 'till midnight and later; and if she does come, you run up and knock at my door or at the window from the garden.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000009|At first, two knocks, and then, after an interval, another much louder.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000010|Then he will understand that something has happened suddenly and that I must see him, and he will open to me so that I can go and speak to him.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000011|That's all in case Agrafena Alexandrovna can't come herself, but sends a message.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000012|Besides, Dmitri Fyodorovitch might come, too, so I must let him know he is near.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000013|His honor is awfully afraid of Dmitri Fyodorovitch, so that even if Agrafena Alexandrovna had come and were locked in with him, and Dmitri Fyodorovitch were to turn up anywhere near at the time, I should be bound to let him know at once, knocking three times.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000014|So that the first signal of five knocks means Agrafena Alexandrovna has come, while the second signal of three knocks means 'something important to tell you.' His honor has shown me them several times and explained them.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000016|Well, those signals are known to Dmitri Fyodorovitch too, now."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000042_000000|"How are they known?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000042_000001|Did you tell him?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000042_000002|How dared you tell him?"
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000043_000001|How could I dare to keep it back from him?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000043_000003|I'll break both your legs for you.' So I told him those secret signals that he might see my slavish devotion, and might be satisfied that I was not deceiving him, but was telling him all I could."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000046_000000|"Hang it!
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000046_000001|How can you be so sure you are going to have a fit, confound you?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000046_000002|Are you laughing at me?"
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000001|I am in no laughing humor with this fear on me.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000002|I feel I am going to have a fit.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000003|I have a presentiment.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000004|Fright alone will bring it on."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000048_000000|"Confound it!
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000048_000001|If you are laid up, Grigory will be on the watch.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000048_000002|Let Grigory know beforehand; he will be sure not to let him in."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000001|And as for Grigory Vassilyevitch hearing him and not admitting him, he has been ill ever since yesterday, and Marfa Ignatyevna intends to give him medicine to morrow.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000003|It's a very strange remedy of hers.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000004|Marfa Ignatyevna knows of a preparation and always keeps it.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000006|And when Grigory Vassilyevitch wakes up he is perfectly well after it, but Marfa Ignatyevna always has a headache from it.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000007|So, if Marfa Ignatyevna carries out her intention to morrow, they won't hear anything and hinder Dmitri Fyodorovitch. They'll be asleep."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000050_000000|"What a rigmarole!
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000050_000001|And it all seems to happen at once, as though it were planned.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000051_000000|"How could I?...
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000051_000002|If he means to do anything, he'll do it; but if not, I shan't be thrusting him upon his father."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000052_000001|"You say that yourself, and all the while I've been here, I've felt sure it was all the old man's fancy, and the creature won't come to him.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000052_000002|Why should Dmitri break in on him if she doesn't come? Speak, I want to know what you are thinking!"
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000053_000000|"You know yourself why he'll come.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000053_000002|His honor will come simply because he is in a rage or suspicious on account of my illness perhaps, and he'll dash in, as he did yesterday through impatience to search the rooms, to see whether she hasn't escaped him on the sly.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000053_000003|He is perfectly well aware, too, that Fyodor Pavlovitch has a big envelope with three thousand roubles in it, tied up with ribbon and sealed with three seals.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000054_000001|"Dmitri won't come to steal money and kill my father to do it.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000054_000002|He might have killed him yesterday on account of Grushenka, like the frantic, savage fool he is, but he won't steal."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000001|You don't know in what need he is," Smerdyakov explained, with perfect composure and remarkable distinctness.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000002|"He looks on that three thousand as his own, too.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000003|He said so to me himself.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000004|'My father still owes me just three thousand,' he said.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000006|It's as good as certain, so to say, that Agrafena Alexandrovna will force him, if only she cares to, to marry her-the master himself, I mean, Fyodor Pavlovitch-if only she cares to, and of course she may care to.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000007|All I've said is that she won't come, but maybe she's looking for more than that-I mean to be mistress here.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000009|And she's got plenty of sense.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000012|But if your father were to die now, there'd be some forty thousand for sure, even for Dmitri Fyodorovitch whom he hates so, for he's made no will....
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000013|Dmitri Fyodorovitch knows all that very well."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000056_000000|A sort of shudder passed over Ivan's face.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000056_000001|He suddenly flushed.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000057_000001|What did you mean by that?
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000058_000000|"Precisely so," said Smerdyakov, softly and reasonably, watching Ivan intently, however.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000059_000000|"What do you mean by 'precisely so'?" Ivan questioned him, with a menacing light in his eyes, restraining himself with difficulty.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000060_000000|"I spoke because I felt sorry for you.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000060_000001|If I were in your place I should simply throw it all up ... rather than stay on in such a position," answered Smerdyakov, with the most candid air looking at Ivan's flashing eyes.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000060_000002|They were both silent.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000061_000001|He was about to pass straight through the gate, but he stopped short and turned to Smerdyakov.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000061_000002|Something strange followed.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000062_000000|"I am going away to Moscow to morrow, if you care to know-early to morrow morning.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000062_000001|That's all!" he suddenly said aloud angrily, and wondered himself afterwards what need there was to say this then to Smerdyakov.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000063_000000|"That's the best thing you can do," he responded, as though he had expected to hear it; "except that you can always be telegraphed for from Moscow, if anything should happen here."
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000000|Ivan stopped again, and again turned quickly to Smerdyakov.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000001|But a change had passed over him, too.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000002|All his familiarity and carelessness had completely disappeared.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000003|His face expressed attention and expectation, intent but timid and cringing.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000067_000000|"From Tchermashnya, too ... you could be sent for," Smerdyakov muttered, almost in a whisper, looking disconcerted, but gazing intently into Ivan's eyes.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000068_000000|"Only Moscow is farther and Tchermashnya is nearer.
train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000068_000001|Is it to save my spending money on the fare, or to save my going so far out of my way, that you insist on Tchermashnya?"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000008_000000|Chapter seven.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000008_000001|"It's Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000001|Meeting Fyodor Pavlovitch in the drawing room directly he went in, he shouted to him, waving his hands, "I am going upstairs to my room, not in to you.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000002|Good by!" and passed by, trying not even to look at his father.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000003|Very possibly the old man was too hateful to him at that moment; but such an unceremonious display of hostility was a surprise even to Fyodor Pavlovitch.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000004|And the old man evidently wanted to tell him something at once and had come to meet him in the drawing room on purpose.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000005|Receiving this amiable greeting, he stood still in silence and with an ironical air watched his son going upstairs, till he passed out of sight.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000011_000001|Who can tell?" the valet muttered evasively.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000000|"Confound him!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000001|Let him be angry then.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000002|Bring in the samovar, and get along with you.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000003|Look sharp!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000013_000001|Half an hour later the house was locked, and the crazy old man was wandering along through the rooms in excited expectation of hearing every minute the five knocks agreed upon.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000013_000002|Now and then he peered out into the darkness, seeing nothing.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000001|He sat up late that night, till two o'clock.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000002|But we will not give an account of his thoughts, and this is not the place to look into that soul-its turn will come.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000003|And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give an account of them, for there were no thoughts in his brain, but something very vague, and, above all, intense excitement.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000004|He felt himself that he had lost his bearings.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000005|He was fretted, too, by all sorts of strange and almost surprising desires; for instance, after midnight he suddenly had an intense irresistible inclination to go down, open the door, go to the lodge and beat Smerdyakov.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000006|But if he had been asked why, he could not have given any exact reason, except perhaps that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted him more gravely than any one in the world.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000007|On the other hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror, which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000008|His head ached and he was giddy.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000009|A feeling of hatred was rankling in his heart, as though he meant to avenge himself on some one.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000011|At moments he hated himself intensely.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000012|Of Katerina Ivanovna he almost forgot to think, and wondered greatly at this afterwards, especially as he remembered perfectly that when he had protested so valiantly to Katerina Ivanovna that he would go away next day to Moscow, something had whispered in his heart, "That's nonsense, you are not going, and it won't be so easy to tear yourself away as you are boasting now."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000015_000000|Remembering that night long afterwards, Ivan recalled with peculiar repulsion how he had suddenly got up from the sofa and had stealthily, as though he were afraid of being watched, opened the door, gone out on the staircase and listened to Fyodor Pavlovitch stirring down below, had listened a long while-some five minutes-with a sort of strange curiosity, holding his breath while his heart throbbed.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000015_000001|And why he had done all this, why he was listening, he could not have said.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000015_000003|For Fyodor Pavlovitch himself he felt no hatred at that moment, but was simply intensely curious to know how he was walking down there below and what he must be doing now. He wondered and imagined how he must be peeping out of the dark windows and stopping in the middle of the room, listening, listening-for some one to knock.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000001|And he did fall asleep at once, and slept soundly without dreams, but waked early, at seven o'clock, when it was broad daylight.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000002|Opening his eyes, he was surprised to feel himself extraordinarily vigorous.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000003|He jumped up at once and dressed quickly; then dragged out his trunk and began packing immediately.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000006|And his departure certainly was sudden.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000008|At last his trunk and bag were ready.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000009|It was about nine o'clock when Marfa Ignatyevna came in with her usual inquiry, "Where will your honor take your tea, in your own room or downstairs?"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000010|He looked almost cheerful, but there was about him, about his words and gestures, something hurried and scattered.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000011|Greeting his father affably, and even inquiring specially after his health, though he did not wait to hear his answer to the end, he announced that he was starting off in an hour to return to Moscow for good, and begged him to send for the horses.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000012|His father heard this announcement with no sign of surprise, and forgot in an unmannerly way to show regret at losing him.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000013|Instead of doing so, he flew into a great flutter at the recollection of some important business of his own.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000000|"What a fellow you are!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000001|Not to tell me yesterday!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000003|Do me a great service, my dear boy.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000004|Go to Tchermashnya on the way.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000005|It's only to turn to the left from the station at Volovya, only another twelve versts and you come to Tchermashnya."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000018_000000|"I'm sorry, I can't.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000018_000001|It's eighty versts to the railway and the train starts for Moscow at seven o'clock to night.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000018_000002|I can only just catch it."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000000|"You'll catch it to morrow or the day after, but to day turn off to Tchermashnya.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000001|It won't put you out much to humor your father!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000002|If I hadn't had something to keep me here, I would have run over myself long ago, for I've some business there in a hurry.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000003|But here I ... it's not the time for me to go now....
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000004|You see, I've two pieces of copse land there.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000005|The Maslovs, an old merchant and his son, will give eight thousand for the timber.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000006|But last year I just missed a purchaser who would have given twelve.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000007|There's no getting any one about here to buy it.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000008|The Maslovs have it all their own way.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000009|One has to take what they'll give, for no one here dare bid against them.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000010|The priest at Ilyinskoe wrote to me last Thursday that a merchant called Gorstkin, a man I know, had turned up.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000011|What makes him valuable is that he is not from these parts, so he is not afraid of the Maslovs.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000012|He says he will give me eleven thousand for the copse.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000014|But he'll only be here, the priest writes, for a week altogether, so you must go at once and make a bargain with him."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000020_000000|"Well, you write to the priest; he'll make the bargain."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000000|"He can't do it.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000002|He is a perfect treasure, I'd give him twenty thousand to take care of for me without a receipt; but he has no eye for business, he is a perfect child, a crow could deceive him. And yet he is a learned man, would you believe it?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000004|That's the common complaint.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000005|He is a liar.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000007|He told me the year before last that his wife was dead and that he had married another, and would you believe it, there was not a word of truth in it?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000009|So what you have to find out is whether he is lying or speaking the truth, when he says he wants to buy it and would give eleven thousand."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000000|"Stay, wait a bit!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000002|I've done business with him a long time.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000003|You see, you must watch his beard; he has a nasty, thin, red beard. If his beard shakes when he talks and he gets cross, it's all right, he is saying what he means, he wants to do business.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000004|But if he strokes his beard with his left hand and grins-he is trying to cheat you.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000005|Don't watch his eyes, you won't find out anything from his eyes, he is a deep one, a rogue-but watch his beard!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000007|If you come to an understanding with him, and see it's all right, write here at once.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000008|You need only write: 'He's not lying.' Stand out for eleven thousand; one thousand you can knock off, but not more.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000009|Just think!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000012|Only let me know it's serious, and I'll run over and fix it up.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000013|I'll snatch the time somehow.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000014|But what's the good of my galloping over, if it's all a notion of the priest's?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000015|Come, will you go?"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000024_000000|"Oh, I can't spare the time.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000024_000001|You must excuse me."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000001|I shan't forget it.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000002|You've no heart, any of you-that's what it is?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000004|Where are you going now-to Venice?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000005|Your Venice will keep another two days.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000007|I send you just because you are a clever fellow.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000009|You know nothing about timber, but you've got an eye.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000011|I tell you, watch his beard-if his beard shakes you know he is in earnest."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000027_000000|Fyodor Pavlovitch did not catch, or would not catch, the malignancy, but he caught the smile.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000028_000000|"Then you'll go, you'll go?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000028_000001|I'll scribble the note for you at once."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000029_000001|I don't know.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000029_000002|I'll decide on the way."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000000|"Nonsense!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000001|Decide at once.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000002|My dear fellow, decide!
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000003|If you settle the matter, write me a line; give it to the priest and he'll send it on to me at once.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000004|And I won't delay you more than that.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000006|The priest will give you horses back to Volovya station."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000000|The old man was quite delighted.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000001|He wrote the note, and sent for the horses.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000002|A light lunch was brought in, with brandy.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000005|He was quite unmoved by the parting, and seemed, in fact, at a loss for something to say.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000007|"He must be bored with me," he thought.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000008|Only when accompanying his son out on to the steps, the old man began to fuss about.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000010|His father saw it at once, and instantly pulled himself up.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000032_000000|"Well, good luck to you, good luck to you!" he repeated from the steps. "You'll come again some time or other?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000032_000003|Well, Christ be with you!"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000033_000000|Ivan got into the carriage.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000034_000001|Don't be too hard on me!" the father called for the last time.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000036_000000|"You see ...
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000036_000002|Again, as the day before, the words seemed to drop of themselves, and he laughed, too, a peculiar, nervous laugh.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000036_000003|He remembered it long after.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000000|The carriage rolled away.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000002|And all of a sudden he felt very happy.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000003|He tried to talk to the driver, and he felt intensely interested in an answer the peasant made him; but a minute later he realized that he was not catching anything, and that he had not really even taken in the peasant's answer.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000004|He was silent, and it was pleasant even so.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000007|But he softly smiled, blew softly on the friendly phantoms, and they flew away.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000008|"There's plenty of time for them," he thought.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000009|They reached the station quickly, changed horses, and galloped to Volovya.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000010|"Why is it worth while speaking to a clever man?
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000011|What did he mean by that?"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000012|The thought seemed suddenly to clutch at his breathing.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000013|"And why did I tell him I was going to Tchermashnya?" They reached Volovya station.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000015|He told them to harness the horses.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000016|He went into the station house, looked round, glanced at the overseer's wife, and suddenly went back to the entrance.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000039_000001|Am I too late to reach the railway by seven, brothers?"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000040_000000|"We shall just do it.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000040_000001|Shall we get the carriage out?"
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000041_000000|"At once.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000042_000000|"To be sure.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000042_000001|Mitri here will."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000044_000001|I've known Fyodor Pavlovitch a long time."
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000046_000001|"Thank you, sir.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000001|I've done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000002|To a new life, new places and no looking back!" But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known in his life before.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000003|He was thinking all the night.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000004|The train flew on, and only at daybreak, when he was approaching Moscow, he suddenly roused himself from his meditation.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000048_000000|"I am a scoundrel," he whispered to himself.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000000|Fyodor Pavlovitch remained well satisfied at having seen his son off.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000001|For two hours afterwards he felt almost happy, and sat drinking brandy.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000002|But suddenly something happened which was very annoying and unpleasant for every one in the house, and completely upset Fyodor Pavlovitch's equanimity at once.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000003|Smerdyakov went to the cellar for something and fell down from the top of the steps.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000004|Fortunately, Marfa Ignatyevna was in the yard and heard him in time.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000005|She did not see the fall, but heard his scream-the strange, peculiar scream, long familiar to her-the scream of the epileptic falling in a fit.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000006|They could not tell whether the fit had come on him at the moment he was descending the steps, so that he must have fallen unconscious, or whether it was the fall and the shock that had caused the fit in Smerdyakov, who was known to be liable to them.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000007|They found him at the bottom of the cellar steps, writhing in convulsions and foaming at the mouth.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000008|It was thought at first that he must have broken something-an arm or a leg-and hurt himself, but "God had preserved him," as Marfa Ignatyevna expressed it-nothing of the kind had happened.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000009|But it was difficult to get him out of the cellar.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000010|They asked the neighbors to help and managed it somehow.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000011|Fyodor Pavlovitch himself was present at the whole ceremony.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000012|He helped, evidently alarmed and upset.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000013|The sick man did not regain consciousness; the convulsions ceased for a time, but then began again, and every one concluded that the same thing would happen, as had happened a year before, when he accidentally fell from the garret. They remembered that ice had been put on his head then.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000014|There was still ice in the cellar, and Marfa Ignatyevna had some brought up.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000016|He was a most estimable old man, and the most careful and conscientious doctor in the province.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000017|After careful examination, he concluded that the fit was a very violent one and might have serious consequences; that meanwhile he, Herzenstube, did not fully understand it, but that by to morrow morning, if the present remedies were unavailing, he would venture to try something else.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000018|The invalid was taken to the lodge, to a room next to Grigory's and Marfa Ignatyevna's.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000000|Then Fyodor Pavlovitch had one misfortune after another to put up with that day.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000001|Marfa Ignatyevna cooked the dinner, and the soup, compared with Smerdyakov's, was "no better than dish water," and the fowl was so dried up that it was impossible to masticate it.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000002|To her master's bitter, though deserved, reproaches, Marfa Ignatyevna replied that the fowl was a very old one to begin with, and that she had never been trained as a cook.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000003|In the evening there was another trouble in store for Fyodor Pavlovitch; he was informed that Grigory, who had not been well for the last three days, was completely laid up by his lumbago.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000004|Fyodor Pavlovitch finished his tea as early as possible and locked himself up alone in the house.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000005|He was in terrible excitement and suspense.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000007|He had received from Smerdyakov that morning an assurance "that she had promised to come without fail." The incorrigible old man's heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and down his empty rooms listening.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000008|He had to be on the alert.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000009|Dmitri might be on the watch for her somewhere, and when she knocked on the window (Smerdyakov had informed him two days before that he had told her where and how to knock) the door must be opened at once.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000010|She must not be a second in the passage, for fear-which God forbid!--that she should be frightened and run away.
train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000011|Fyodor Pavlovitch had much to think of, but never had his heart been steeped in such voluptuous hopes.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000001_000000|SEVENTY TWO.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000002_000001|He could not now go to Lord Cantrip, as the hours were too precious to him, and, as he felt, too short.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000002_000004|There should be nothing written; he had tried that before in old days, and had broken down with the effort.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000003_000000|After a late breakfast he walked out far away, into the Regent's Park, and there, wandering among the uninteresting paths, he devised triumphs of oratory for himself.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000003_000002|Dim ideas of a definition of political honesty crossed his brain, bringing with him, however, a conviction that his thought must be much more clearly worked out than it could be on that day before he might venture to give it birth in the House of Commons.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000003_000005|But he knew also that it would behove him to abstain from speaking of himself unless he could do so in close reference to some point specially in dispute between the two parties.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000000|He entered the House with the Speaker at four o'clock, and took his seat without uttering a word to any man.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000005|He did not doubt but that Bonteen had shown the correspondence to his friends, and that the Ratlers and Erles had conceded that he, Phineas, was put out of court by it.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000006|He sat doggedly still, at the end of a bench behind mr Gresham, and close to the gangway.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000007|When mr Gresham entered the House he was received with much cheering; but Phineas did not join in the cheer.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000014|Alas! of what avail was that?
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000005_000002|But the prospect of an explanation,--or otherwise of a fight,--between two leading politicians will fill the House; and any allusion to our Eastern Empire will certainly empty it.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000005_000003|An aptitude for such encounters is almost a necessary qualification for a popular leader in Parliament, as is a capacity for speaking for three hours to the reporters, and to the reporters only,--a necessary qualification for an under-secretary of State for India.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000001|Let a man doubt ever so much his own capacity for some public exhibition which he has undertaken; yet he will always prefer to fail,--if fail he must,--before a large audience.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000002|But on this occasion there was no failure.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000008|That such a measure should be carried by the gentlemen opposite, in their own teeth, at the bidding of the right honourable gentleman who led them, he thought to be impossible.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000012|But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000013|To have told any individual Conservative,--Sir Orlando Drought for instance,--that he was abandoning all the convictions of his life, because he was a creature at the command of mr Daubeny, would have been an insult that would have moved even the Speaker from his serenity; but you can hardly be personal to a whole bench of Conservatives,--to bench above bench of Conservatives.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000015|It might probably have been mr Daubeny's for choice, had any real cutting of a throat been possible.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000019|But unfortunately the whole country was convinced that the Conservative party as a body was supporting this measure, unwillingly, and at the bidding of one man;--and, for himself, he was bound to say that he agreed with the country.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000007_000003|And he did not doubt that he would hereafter be found to have been equally practical in the view that he had expressed on the hustings at Tankerville, for he was convinced that before long the anomaly of which he had spoken would cease to exist under the influence of a Government that would really believe in the work it was doing.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000008_000003|But in reading the general barometer of the party as regarded himself, he did not find that the mercury went up.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000008_000008|His fate,--and what a fate it was!--would then be absolutely in the hands of mr Gresham.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000008_000010|He had given up everything in the world with the view of getting into office; and now that the opportunity had come,--an opportunity which if allowed to slip could hardly return again in time to be of service to him,--the prize was to elude his grasp!
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000009_000001|He told his friend that a correspondence had taken place between himself and mr Bonteen, in which he thought that he had been ill used, and as to which he was quite anxious to ask His Lordship's advice.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000009_000002|"I heard that you and he had been tilting at each other," said Lord Cantrip, smiling.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000013_000000|"You can't quarrel with Bonteen for showing them to Fawn, if you intend to show them to me."
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000014_000000|"He may publish them at Charing Cross if he likes."
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000015_000000|"Exactly.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000016_000003|They two, Lord Cantrip and Phineas, had at one period been on most intimate terms together;--had worked in the same office, and had thoroughly trusted each other.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000016_000004|The elder of the two,--for Lord Cantrip was about ten years senior to Phineas,--had frequently expressed the most lively interest in the prospects of the other; and Phineas had felt that in any emergency he could tell his friend all his hopes and fears.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000016_000005|But now he did not say a word of his position, nor did Lord Cantrip allude to it.
train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000017_000001|This was much higher than any man had expected.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000009_000000|CHAPTER forty three.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000010_000000|THE SECOND THUNDERBOLT.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000001|The political phase, though it was perhaps the best understood, was not the most engrossing.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000002|There was the personal phase,--which had reference to the direct altercation that had taken place between the two gentlemen, and to the correspondence between them which had followed, as to which phase it may be said that though there were many rumours abroad, very little was known.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000005|And there was a third, --which may perhaps be called the general social phase, and which unfortunately dealt with the name of Lady Laura Kennedy.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000007|mr Gresham, the Prime Minister, was supposed to be very much concerned in this matter.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000012|This murder had been nearly accomplished in the centre of the metropolis,--by daylight, as if that made it worse,--on a Sunday, which added infinitely to the delightful horror of the catastrophe; and yet no public notice had been taken of it!
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000012_000000|No doubt general opinion was adverse to poor Phineas Finn, but he was not without his party in the matter.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000014_000002|I don't quite believe it all,--it would be too delicious; but a great many do." Madame Goesler, however, was strong in her opinion that the report in reference to Lady Laura was scandalous.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000007|Contradiction he would take for simple argument.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000010|And with it all he had an assurance in his own position,--a knowledge of the strength derived from his intellect, his industry, his rank, and his wealth,--which made him altogether fearless of others.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000011|When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000012|mr Bonteen snarled a good deal, and the new Lord Privy Seal thought that the new President of the Board of Trade was not comfortable within himself.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000013|But at last the little dog took the big dog by the ear, and then the big dog put out his paw and knocked the little dog over.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000017_000001|He had not chosen to throw mr Gresham over at once, or to make difficulties at the moment;--but he would not continue to hold his present position or to support the Government without a seat in the Cabinet.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000017_000002|Palliser had become quite useless,--so mr Bonteen said,--since his accession to the dukedom, and was quite unfit to deal with decimal coinage.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000018_000001|The People's Banner was the organ, and mr Quintus Slide was, of course, the organist.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000019_000004|We are far from imputing evil motives, or even indiscretion, to that functionary; but we are of opinion that the moral feeling of the country would have been served by the publication, and we are sure that undue steps were taken by the member for Tankerville to procure that injunction.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000020_000001|We think that we need hardly answer that question.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000000|One piece of advice which we ventured to give mr Gresham in our former article he has been wise enough to follow. We took upon ourselves to tell him that if, after what has occurred, he ventured to place the member for Tankerville again in office, the country would not stand it;--and he has abstained.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000002|That scandal is, we think, over,--and for ever.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000004|But we cannot say that we are as yet satisfied in this matter, or that we believe that the public has got to the bottom of it,--as it has a right to do in reference to all matters affecting the public service.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000005|We have never yet learned why it is that mr Bonteen, after having been nominated Chancellor of the Exchequer,--for the appointment to that office was declared in the House of Commons by the head of his party,--was afterwards excluded from the Cabinet, and placed in an office made peculiarly subordinate by the fact of that exclusion.
train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000022_000003|We should not be at all surprised if, as the result of this disgraceful manoeuvring, mr Bonteen found himself at the head of the Liberal party before the Session be over. If so, evil would have worked to good.
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train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000002_000000|CHAPTER five-HIS FRONTIERS
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000003_000000|The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something of the sage in him.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000003_000001|Urbis amator, like Fuscus; ruris amator, like Flaccus.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000004_000000|To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, notably Paris.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000004_000001|To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of the wheel ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000006_000000|He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000001|The campagna of Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000002|The spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped with a certain piercing melancholy.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000003|Nature and humanity both appeal to you at the same time there.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000004|Local originalities there make their appearance.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000002|The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the suburbs belong to them.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000003|There they are eternally playing truant.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000004|There they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000006|These encounters with strange children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the environs of Paris.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000009_000000|Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of rye, gay, haggard, barefooted.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000009_000001|They can be seen devouring cherries among the wheat.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000009_000002|In the evening they can be heard laughing.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000010_000000|Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth to those children.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000010_000001|They never venture beyond this.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000010_000002|They can no more escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the water.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000011_000000|CHAPTER six-A BIT OF HISTORY
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000012_000001|The statistics give an average of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process of construction, and under the arches of the bridges.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000012_000002|One of these nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000000|Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000001|In a relative measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the exception is just.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000002|While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the surface, is almost intact on the interior.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000003|It is a magnificent thing to put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of the ocean.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000014_000000|What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken family.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000014_000001|In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the public highway.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000014_000002|Hence these obscure destinies.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000000|Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not discouraged by the ancient monarchy.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000001|A little of Egypt and Bohemia in the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of the powerful.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000002|The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000004|Such was the countersign. Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000016_000000|Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in that case it skimmed the streets.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000000|Under Louis the fourteenth., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired to create a fleet.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000001|The idea was a good one.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000002|But let us consider the means.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000006|A man kept his hat on in the presence of a procession-it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000007|A child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the galleys.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000000|Under Louis the fifteenth. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000001|People whispered with terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000003|It sometimes happened that the exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who had fathers.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000004|The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000005|In that case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung.
train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000006|Who?
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000001_000000|Chapter Ten
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000002_000000|Under Water
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000000|When night fell all the interior of the Great Dome, streets and houses, became lighted with brilliant incandescent lamps, which rendered it bright as day.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000001|Dorothy thought the island must look beautiful by night from the outer shore of the lake.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000002|There was revelry and feasting in the Queen's palace, and the music of the royal band could be plainly heard in Lady Aurex's house, where Ozma and Dorothy remained with their hostess and keeper.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000003|They were prisoners, but treated with much consideration.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000004_000000|Lady Aurex gave them a nice supper and when they wished to retire showed them to a pretty room with comfortable beds and wished them a good night and pleasant dreams.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000005_000000|"What do you think of all this, Ozma?" Dorothy anxiously inquired when they were alone.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000006_000000|"I am glad we came," was the reply, "for although there may be mischief done to morrow, it was necessary I should know about these people, whose leaders are wild and lawless and oppress their subjects with injustice and cruelties.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000006_000002|I have no doubt I can accomplish this in time."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000007_000000|"Just now, though, we're in a bad fix," asserted Dorothy.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000007_000001|"If Queen Coo ee oh conquers to morrow, she won't be nice to us, and if the Su dic conquers, he'll be worse."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000008_000000|"Do not worry, dear," said Ozma, "I do not think we are in danger, whatever happens, and the result of our adventure is sure to be good."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000009_000000|Dorothy was not worrying, especially.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000009_000001|She had confidence in her friend, the fairy Princess of Oz, and she enjoyed the excitement of the events in which she was taking part.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000010_000000|A sort of grating, grinding sound awakened her.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000010_000002|Dorothy sat up in bed, rubbing her eyes to get the sleep out of them, and then found it was daybreak.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000012_000000|"What is it?" asked Dorothy, jumping out of bed.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000013_000000|"I'm not sure," answered Ozma "but it feels as if the island is sinking."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000014_000000|As soon as possible they finished dressing, while the creaking and swaying continued.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000014_000001|Then they rushed into the living room of the house and found Lady Aurex, fully dressed, awaiting them.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000015_000000|"Do not be alarmed," said their hostess.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000015_000001|"Coo ee oh has decided to submerge the island, that is all.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000015_000002|But it proves the Flatheads are coming to attack us."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000016_000000|"What do you mean by sub sub merging the island?" asked Dorothy.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000017_000000|"Come here and see," was the reply.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000018_000000|Lady Aurex led them to a window which faced the side of the great dome which covered all the village, and they could see that the island was indeed sinking, for the water of the lake was already half way up the side of the dome.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000018_000001|Through the glass could be seen swimming fishes, and tall stalks of swaying seaweeds, for the water was clear as crystal and through it they could distinguish even the farther shore of the lake.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000019_000000|"The Flatheads are not here yet," said Lady Aurex.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000019_000001|"They will come soon, but not until all of this dome is under the surface of the water."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000020_000000|"Won't the dome leak?" Dorothy inquired anxiously.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000021_000000|"No, indeed."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000022_000000|"Was the island ever sub sub sunk before?"
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000000|"Oh, yes; on several occasions.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000001|But Coo ee oh doesn't care to do that often, for it requires a lot of hard work to operate the machinery.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000002|The dome was built so that the island could disappear.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000003|I think," she continued, "that our Queen fears the Flatheads will attack the island and try to break the glass of the dome."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000024_000000|"Well, if we're under water, they can't fight us, and we can't fight them," asserted Dorothy.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000025_000000|"They could kill the fishes, however," said Ozma gravely.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000029_000000|By this time the top of the dome was quite under water and suddenly the island stopped sinking and became stationary.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000030_000000|"See!" cried Lady Aurex, pointing to the shore.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000030_000001|"The Flatheads have come."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000031_000000|On the bank, which was now far above their heads, a crowd of dark figures could be seen.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000032_000000|"Now let us see what Coo ee oh will do to oppose them," continued Lady Aurex, in a voice that betrayed her excitement.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000033_000000|The Flatheads, pushing their way through the line of palm trees, had reached the shore of the lake just as the top of the island's dome disappeared beneath the surface.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000033_000001|The water now flowed from shore to shore, but through the clear water the dome was still visible and the houses of the Skeezers could be dimly seen through the panes of glass.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000034_000000|"Good!" exclaimed the Su dic, who had armed all his followers and had brought with him two copper vessels, which he carefully set down upon the ground beside him.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000035_000000|"Kill them, then, while we have time, and then we can go home again," advised one of the chief officers.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000036_000000|"Not yet," objected the Su dic.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000037_000000|"Look out!" suddenly exclaimed the officers, pointing into the lake; "something's going to happen."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000038_000000|From the submerged dome a door opened and something black shot swiftly out into the water.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000039_000000|"What is that?" Dorothy asked the Lady Aurex.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000040_000001|"It is all enclosed, and can move under water.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000040_000002|Coo ee oh has several of these boats which are kept in little rooms in the basement under our village. When the island is submerged, the Queen uses these boats to reach the shore, and I believe she now intends to fight the Flatheads with them."
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000041_000000|The Su dic and his people knew nothing of Coo ee oh's submarines, so they watched with surprise as the under water boat approached them. When it was quite near the shore it rose to the surface and the top parted and fell back, disclosing a boat full of armed Skeezers.
train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000042_000000|The boat halted and Coo ee oh drew back her arm to throw the silver rope toward the Su dic, who was now but a few feet from her.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000000_000003|His queen set out in quest of him, but was taken ill on her journey, and died, leaving an infant son, whom, from the melancholy circumstances of his birth, she called Tristram.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000001_000000|Gouvernail, the queen's squire, who had accompanied her, took charge of the child, and restored him to his father, who had at length burst the enchantments of the fairy, and returned home.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000002_000001|In particular, he devoted himself to the chase and to all woodland sports, so that he became distinguished above all other chevaliers of the court for his knowledge of all that relates to hunting.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000002_000002|No wonder that Belinda, the king's daughter, fell in love with him; but as he did not return her passion, she, in a sudden impulse of anger, excited her father against him, and he was banished the kingdom.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000002_000003|The princess soon repented of her act, and in despair destroyed herself, having first written a most tender letter to Tristram, sending him at the same time a beautiful and sagacious dog, of which she was very fond, desiring him to keep it as a memorial of her.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000003_000003|The knights of Cornwall are in ill repute in romance for their cowardice, and they exhibited it on this occasion.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000003_000004|King Mark could find no champion who dared to encounter the Irish knight, till his nephew Tristram, who had not yet received the honors of knighthood, craved to be admitted to the order, offering at the same time to fight the battle of Cornwall against the Irish champion.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000003_000005|King Mark assented with reluctance; Tristram received the accolade, which conferred knighthood upon him, and the place and time were assigned for the encounter.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000000|The kingdom of Cornwall was thus delivered from its tribute. Tristram, weakened by loss of blood, fell senseless.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000002|They dressed his wounds, which in general healed readily; but the lance of Moraunt was poisoned, and one wound which it made yielded to no remedies, but grew worse day by day.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000004|Tristram asked permission of his uncle to depart, and seek for aid in the kingdom of Loegria (England).
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000008|The strange harper was sent for, and conveyed to the palace, where, finding that he was in Ireland, whose champion he had lately slain, he concealed his name, and called himself Tramtris.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000009|The queen undertook his cure, and by a medicated bath gradually restored him to health.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000000|At this time a tournament was held, at which many knights of the Round Table, and others, were present.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000001|On the first day a Saracen prince, named Palamedes, obtained the advantage over all.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000004|Palamedes could not behold them without emotion, and made no effort to conceal his love.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000005|Tristram perceived it, and the pain he felt from jealousy taught him how dear the fair Isoude had already become to him.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000007_000000|Next day the tournament was renewed.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000007_000001|Tristram, still feeble from his wound, rose during the night, took his arms, and concealed them in a forest near the place of the contest, and, after it had begun, mingled with the combatants.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000007_000003|But his exertions caused his wound to reopen; he bled fast, and in this sad state, yet in triumph, they bore him to the palace.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000000|It happened one day that a damsel of the court, entering the closet where Tristram's arms were deposited, perceived that a part of the sword had been broken off.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000001|It occurred to her that the missing portion was like that which was left in the skull of Moraunt, the Irish champion.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000002|She imparted her thought to the queen, who compared the fragment taken from her brother's wound with the sword of Tristram, and was satisfied that it was part of the same, and that the weapon of Tristram was that which reft her brother's life.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000003|She laid her griefs and resentment before the king, who satisfied himself with his own eyes of the truth of her suspicions.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000004|Tristram was cited before the whole court, and reproached with having dared to present himself before them after having slain their kinsman.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000005|He acknowledged that he had fought with Moraunt to settle the claim for tribute, and said that it was by force of winds and waves alone that he was thrown on their coast.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000006|The queen demanded vengeance for the death of her brother; the fair Isoude trembled and grew pale, but a murmur rose from all the assembly that the life of one so handsome and so brave should not be taken for such a cause, and generosity finally triumphed over resentment in the mind of the king.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000000|King Mark made his nephew give him a minute recital of his adventures.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000002|King Mark was fascinated with the description, and, choosing a favorable time, demanded a boon[Footnote: "Good faith was the very corner stone of chivalry.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000003|Whenever a knight's word was pledged (it mattered not how rashly) it was to be redeemed at any price.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000006|The history of the times presents authentic transactions equally embarrassing and absurd"--SCOTT, note to Sir Tristram.] of his nephew, who readily granted it.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000010_000000|Tristram believed it was certain death for him to return to Ireland; and how could he act as ambassador for his uncle in such a cause?
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000010_000001|Yet, bound by his oath, he hesitated not for an instant. He only took the precaution to change his armor.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000010_000002|He embarked for Ireland; but a tempest drove him to the coast of England, near Camelot, where King Arthur was holding his court, attended by the knights of the Round Table, and many others, the most illustrious in the world.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000001|He took part in many justs; he fought many combats, in which he covered himself with glory.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000003|This prince, accused of treason against his liege sovereign, Arthur, came to Camelot to free himself from the charge.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000007|Argius heard of the great renown of the unknown knight; he also was witness of his exploits.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000008|He sought him, and conjured him to adopt his defence, and on his oath declared that he was innocent of the crime of which he was accused.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000009|Tristram readily consented, and made himself known to the king, who on his part promised to reward his exertions, if successful, with whatever gift he might ask.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000000|Tristram fought with Blaanor, and overthrew him, and held his life in his power.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000002|"God forbid," said Tristram, "that I should take the life of so brave a knight!" He raised him up and restored him to his friends.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000003|The judges of the field decided that the king of Ireland was acquitted of the charge against him, and they led Tristram in triumph to his tent.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000005|They departed together, and arrived in Ireland; and the queen, forgetting her resentment for her brother's death, exhibited to the preserver of her husband's life nothing but gratitude and good will.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000014_000001|Brengwain, her favorite maid of honor, was to accompany her.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000001|A favorable wind filled the sails, and promised them a fortunate voyage.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000003|Love seemed to light up all his fires on their lips, as in their hearts.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000004|The day was warm; they suffered from thirst.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000006|He took it, gave some of it to the charming Isoude, and drank the remainder himself.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000009|He loaded him with honors, and made him chamberlain of his palace, thus giving him access to the queen at all times.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000000|In the midst of the festivities of the court which followed the royal marriage, an unknown minstrel one day presented himself, bearing a harp of peculiar construction.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000001|He excited the curiosity of King Mark by refusing to play upon it till he should grant him a boon.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000003|King Mark could not by the laws of knighthood withhold the boon.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000004|The lady was mounted on her horse, and led away by her triumphant lover. Tristram, it is needless to say, was absent at the time, and did not return until their departure.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000008|"Ah, lady," said he, "I will obey you; but I beseech you that you will not for ever steel your heart against me." "Palamedes," she replied, "may I never taste of joy again if I ever quit my first love." Palamedes then went his way.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000000|The king showed much gratitude to Tristram, but in the bottom of his heart he cherished bitter jealousy of him.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000002|A base and cowardly knight of the court, named Andret, spied them through a keyhole.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000003|They sat at a table of chess, but were not attending to the game.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000004|Andret brought the king, having first raised his suspicions, and placed him so as to watch their motions.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000005|The king saw enough to confirm his suspicions, and he burst into the apartment with his sword drawn, and had nearly slain Tristram before he was put on his guard.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000006|But Tristram avoided the blow, drew his sword, and drove before him the cowardly monarch, chasing him through all the apartments of the palace, giving him frequent blows with the flat of his sword, while he cried in vain to his knights to save him.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000018_000000|A proof of the great popularity of the tale of Sir Tristram is the fact that the Italian poets, Boiardo and Ariosto, have founded upon it the idea of the two enchanted fountains, which produced the opposite effects of love and hatred.
train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000018_000001|Boiardo thus describes the fountain of hatred:
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000020_000000|"It hasn't been a question for me.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000020_000001|If you've had your woman I've had," she said, "my man."
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000021_000000|"And you mean that makes you all right?"
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000023_000000|"I don't know why it shouldn't make me-humanly, which is what we're speaking of-as right as it makes you."
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000024_000000|"I see," Marcher returned.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000024_000001|"'Humanly,' no doubt, as showing that you're living for something.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000024_000002|Not, that is, just for me and my secret."
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000025_000000|May Bartram smiled.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000025_000001|"I don't pretend it exactly shows that I'm not living for you.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000025_000002|It's my intimacy with you that's in question."
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000000|He laughed as he saw what she meant.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000001|"Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, ordinary, you're-aren't you?
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000003|You help me to pass for a man like another.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000005|Is that it?"
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000027_000000|She had another of her waits, but she spoke clearly enough.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000027_000001|"That's it. It's all that concerns me-to help you to pass for a man like another."
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000028_000000|He was careful to acknowledge the remark handsomely.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000028_000001|"How kind, how beautiful, you are to me!
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000028_000002|How shall I ever repay you?"
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000029_000000|She had her last grave pause, as if there might be a choice of ways.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000029_000001|But she chose.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000029_000002|"By going on as you are."
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000000|It was into this going on as he was that they relapsed, and really for so long a time that the day inevitably came for a further sounding of their depths.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000001|These depths, constantly bridged over by a structure firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000002|A difference had been made moreover, once for all, by the fact that she had all the while not appeared to feel the need of rebutting his charge of an idea within her that she didn't dare to express-a charge uttered just before one of the fullest of their later discussions ended.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000003|It had come up for him then that she "knew" something and that what she knew was bad-too bad to tell him.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000004|When he had spoken of it as visibly so bad that she was afraid he might find it out, her reply had left the matter too equivocal to be let alone and yet, for Marcher's special sensibility, almost too formidable again to touch.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000005|He circled about it at a distance that alternately narrowed and widened and that still wasn't much affected by the consciousness in him that there was nothing she could "know," after all, any better than he did.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000006|She had no source of knowledge he hadn't equally-except of course that she might have finer nerves.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000007|That was what women had where they were interested; they made out things, where people were concerned, that the people often couldn't have made out for themselves.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000008|Their nerves, their sensibility, their imagination, were conductors and revealers, and the beauty of May Bartram was in particular that she had given herself so to his case.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000009|He felt in these days what, oddly enough, he had never felt before, the growth of a dread of losing her by some catastrophe-some catastrophe that yet wouldn't at all be the catastrophe: partly because she had almost of a sudden begun to strike him as more useful to him than ever yet, and partly by reason of an appearance of uncertainty in her health, co incident and equally new.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000000|When the day came, as come it had to, that his friend confessed to him her fear of a deep disorder in her blood, he felt somehow the shadow of a change and the chill of a shock.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000001|He immediately began to imagine aggravations and disasters, and above all to think of her peril as the direct menace for himself of personal privation.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000002|This indeed gave him one of those partial recoveries of equanimity that were agreeable to him-it showed him that what was still first in his mind was the loss she herself might suffer.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000004|It would have been brutal, in the early stages of her trouble, to put that question to her; but it had immediately sounded for him to his own concern, and the possibility was what most made him sorry for her.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000005|If she did "know," moreover, in the sense of her having had some-what should he think?--mystical irresistible light, this would make the matter not better, but worse, inasmuch as her original adoption of his own curiosity had quite become the basis of her life.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000007|These reflexions, as I say, quickened his generosity; yet, make them as he might, he saw himself, with the lapse of the period, more and more disconcerted.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000008|It lapsed for him with a strange steady sweep, and the oddest oddity was that it gave him, independently of the threat of much inconvenience, almost the only positive surprise his career, if career it could be called, had yet offered him.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000011|If she was old, or almost, john Marcher assuredly was, and yet it was her showing of the lesson, not his own, that brought the truth home to him.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000001|He had never so unreservedly qualified her as while confronted in thought with such a possibility; in spite of which there was small doubt for him that as an answer to his long riddle the mere effacement of even so fine a feature of his situation would be an abject anticlimax.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000002|It would represent, as connected with his past attitude, a drop of dignity under the shadow of which his existence could only become the most grotesques of failures.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000003|He had been far from holding it a failure-long as he had waited for the appearance that was to make it a success.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000004|He had waited for quite another thing, not for such a thing as that.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000005|The breath of his good faith came short, however, as he recognised how long he had waited, or how long at least his companion had.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000007|It grew more grave as the gravity of her condition grew, and the state of mind it produced in him, which he himself ended by watching as if it had been some definite disfigurement of his outer person, may pass for another of his surprises.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000008|This conjoined itself still with another, the really stupefying consciousness of a question that he would have allowed to shape itself had he dared.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000011|Since it was in Time that he was to have met his fate, so it was in Time that his fate was to have acted; and as he waked up to the sense of no longer being young, which was exactly the sense of being stale, just as that, in turn, was the sense of being weak, he waked up to another matter beside.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000012|It all hung together; they were subject, he and the great vagueness, to an equal and indivisible law. When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000013|It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000014|And so, in the dark valley into which his path had taken its unlooked for twist, he wondered not a little as he groped.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000003|She was a sphinx, yet with her white petals and green fronds she might have been a lily too-only an artificial lily, wonderfully imitated and constantly kept, without dust or stain, though not exempt from a slight droop and a complexity of faint creases, under some clear glass bell.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000004|The perfection of household care, of high polish and finish, always reigned in her rooms, but they now looked most as if everything had been wound up, tucked in, put away, so that she might sit with folded hands and with nothing more to do.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000005|She was "out of it," to Marcher's vision; her work was over; she communicated with him as across some gulf or from some island of rest that she had already reached, and it made him feel strangely abandoned.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000006|Was it-or rather wasn't it-that if for so long she had been watching with him the answer to their question must have swum into her ken and taken on its name, so that her occupation was verily gone?
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000008|It was a point he had never since ventured to press, vaguely fearing as he did that it might become a difference, perhaps a disagreement, between them.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000010|There was something, it seemed to him, that the wrong word would bring down on his head, something that would so at least ease off his tension.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000011|But he wanted not to speak the wrong word; that would make everything ugly.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000012|He wanted the knowledge he lacked to drop on him, if drop it could, by its own august weight.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000002_000001|It had ever been the mark of their talk that the oldest allusions in it required but a little dismissal and reaction to come out again, sounding for the hour as new. She could thus at present meet his enquiry quite freshly and patiently. "Oh yes, I've repeatedly thought, only it always seemed to me of old that I couldn't quite make up my mind.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000002_000002|I thought of dreadful things, between which it was difficult to choose; and so must you have done."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000003_000000|"Rather!
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000003_000001|I feel now as if I had scarce done anything else.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000003_000002|I appear to myself to have spent my life in thinking of nothing but dreadful things. A great many of them I've at different times named to you, but there were others I couldn't name."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000004_000000|"They were too, too dreadful?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000005_000000|"Too, too dreadful-some of them."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000000|It deepened the strangeness to see her, as such a figure in such a picture, talk of "horrors," but she was to do in a few minutes something stranger yet-though even of this he was to take the full measure but afterwards-and the note of it already trembled.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000001|It was, for the matter of that, one of the signs that her eyes were having again the high flicker of their prime.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000002|He had to admit, however, what she said.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000004|Well, he wished it were; and the consummation depended for him clearly more and more on his friend.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000008_000001|"Oh far-!"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000010_000000|She was frail and ancient and charming as she continued to look at him, yet it was rather as if she had lost the thread.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000010_000001|"Do you consider that we went far?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000012_000000|"Including each other?" She still smiled.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000012_000001|"But you're quite right. We've had together great imaginations, often great fears; but some of them have been unspoken."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000013_000002|I feel," he explained, "as if I had lost my power to conceive such things." And he wondered if he looked as blank as he sounded.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000013_000003|"It's spent."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000015_000000|"Because you've given me signs to the contrary.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000015_000001|It isn't a question for you of conceiving, imagining, comparing.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000015_000002|It isn't a question now of choosing." At last he came out with it.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000015_000003|"You know something I don't. You've shown me that before."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000016_000000|These last words had affected her, he made out in a moment, exceedingly, and she spoke with firmness.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000017_000000|He shook his head.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000017_000001|"You can't hide it."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000018_000000|"Oh, oh!" May Bartram sounded over what she couldn't hide.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000018_000001|It was almost a smothered groan.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000000|"You admitted it months ago, when I spoke of it to you as of something you were afraid I should find out.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000001|Your answer was that I couldn't, that I wouldn't, and I don't pretend I have.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000002|But you had something therefore in mind, and I see now how it must have been, how it still is, the possibility that, of all possibilities, has settled itself for you as the worst.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000003|This," he went on, "is why I appeal to you.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000004|I'm only afraid of ignorance to day-I'm not afraid of knowledge." And then as for a while she said nothing: "What makes me sure is that I see in your face and feel here, in this air and amid these appearances, that you're out of it. You've done.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000005|You've had your experience.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000006|You leave me to my fate."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000020_000002|"I mean the thing I've never said."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000021_000000|It hushed him a moment.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000022_000001|Isn't that what you sufficiently express," she asked, "in calling it the worst?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000023_000000|Marcher thought.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000023_000001|"Assuredly-if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are thinkable."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000024_000001|"What we're speaking of, remember, is only my idea."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000000|"It's your belief," Marcher returned.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000001|"That's enough for me.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000002|I feel your beliefs are right.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000003|Therefore if, having this one, you give me no more light on it, you abandon me."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000026_000001|"I'm with you-don't you see?--still." And as to make it more vivid to him she rose from her chair-a movement she seldom risked in these days-and showed herself, all draped and all soft, in her fairness and slimness.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000026_000002|"I haven't forsaken you."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000000|It was really, in its effort against weakness, a generous assurance, and had the success of the impulse not, happily, been great, it would have touched him to pain more than to pleasure.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000001|But the cold charm in her eyes had spread, as she hovered before him, to all the rest of her person, so that it was for the minute almost a recovery of youth.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000002|He couldn't pity her for that; he could only take her as she showed-as capable even yet of helping him.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000003|It was as if, at the same time, her light might at any instant go out; wherefore he must make the most of it. There passed before him with intensity the three or four things he wanted most to know; but the question that came of itself to his lips really covered the others.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000004|"Then tell me if I shall consciously suffer."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000028_000001|"Never!"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000029_000000|It confirmed the authority he imputed to her, and it produced on him an extraordinary effect.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000029_000001|"Well, what's better than that?
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000000|She seemed to mean something so special that he again sharply wondered, though still with the dawn of a prospect of relief.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000002|After which, as their eyes, over his question, met in a silence, the dawn deepened, and something to his purpose came prodigiously out of her very face.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000003|His own, as he took it in, suddenly flushed to the forehead, and he gasped with the force of a perception to which, on the instant, everything fitted.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000004|The sound of his gasp filled the air; then he became articulate.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000005|"I see-if I don't suffer!"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000032_000000|In her own look, however, was doubt.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000032_000001|"You see what?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000033_000000|"Why what you mean-what you've always meant."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000034_000000|She again shook her head.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000034_000001|"What I mean isn't what I've always meant. It's different."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000035_000000|"It's something new?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000036_000000|She hung back from it a little.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000036_000001|"Something new.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000036_000002|It's not what you think.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000037_000000|His divination drew breath then; only her correction might be wrong.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000038_000000|"A mistake?" she pityingly echoed.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000038_000002|"Oh no," she declared; "it's nothing of that sort.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000038_000003|You've been right."
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000039_000000|Yet he couldn't help asking himself if she weren't, thus pressed, speaking but to save him.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000039_000001|It seemed to him he should be most in a hole if his history should prove all a platitude.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000040_000003|The door isn't shut. The door's open," said May Bartram.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000041_000000|"Then something's to come?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000001|"It's never too late." She had, with her gliding step, diminished the distance between them, and she stood nearer to him, close to him, a minute, as if still charged with the unspoken.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000002|Her movement might have been for some finer emphasis of what she was at once hesitating and deciding to say.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000003|He had been standing by the chimney piece, fireless and sparely adorned, a small perfect old French clock and two morsels of rosy Dresden constituting all its furniture; and her hand grasped the shelf while she kept him waiting, grasped it a little as for support and encouragement. She only kept him waiting, however; that is he only waited.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000004|It had become suddenly, from her movement and attitude, beautiful and vivid to him that she had something more to give him; her wasted face delicately shone with it-it glittered almost as with the white lustre of silver in her expression.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000006|This, prompting bewilderment, made him but gape the more gratefully for her revelation, so that they continued for some minutes silent, her face shining at him, her contact imponderably pressing, and his stare all kind but all expectant.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000007|The end, none the less, was that what he had expected failed to come to him.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000008|Something else took place instead, which seemed to consist at first in the mere closing of her eyes.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000009|She gave way at the same instant to a slow fine shudder, and though he remained staring-though he stared in fact but the harder-turned off and regained her chair.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000010|It was the end of what she had been intending, but it left him thinking only of that.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000043_000000|"Well, you don't say-?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000044_000000|She had touched in her passage a bell near the chimney and had sunk back strangely pale.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000045_000000|"Too ill to tell me?" it sprang up sharp to him, and almost to his lips, the fear she might die without giving him light.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000047_000000|"'Now'--?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000047_000001|She had spoken as if some difference had been made within the moment.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000049_000000|"Are you in pain?" he asked as the woman went to her.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000051_000000|Her maid, who had put an arm round her as if to take her to her room, fixed on him eyes that appealingly contradicted her; in spite of which, however, he showed once more his mystification.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000052_000000|"What then has happened?"
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000053_000000|She was once more, with her companion's help, on her feet, and, feeling withdrawal imposed on him, he had blankly found his hat and gloves and had reached the door.
train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000053_000001|Yet he waited for her answer.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000002_000000|Chapter eight.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000003_000000|What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome. Grushenka was the first to call for wine.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000004_000000|"I want to drink.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000004_000001|I want to be quite drunk, as we were before.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000004_000002|Do you remember, Mitya, do you remember how we made friends here last time!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000005_000000|Mitya himself was almost delirious, feeling that his happiness was at hand.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000005_000001|But Grushenka was continually sending him away from her.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000001|Tell them to dance, to make merry, 'let the stove and cottage dance'; as we had it last time," she kept exclaiming.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000002|She was tremendously excited.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000003|And Mitya hastened to obey her.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000004|The chorus were in the next room.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000005|The room in which they had been sitting till that moment was too small, and was divided in two by cotton curtains, behind which was a huge bed with a puffy feather mattress and a pyramid of cotton pillows. In the four rooms for visitors there were beds.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000006|Grushenka settled herself just at the door.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000007|Mitya set an easy chair for her.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000008|She had sat in the same place to watch the dancing and singing "the time before," when they had made merry there.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000009|All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long expected cart had arrived with the wines and provisions.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000000|Mitya bustled about.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000001|All sorts of people began coming into the room to look on, peasants and their women, who had been roused from sleep and attracted by the hopes of another marvelous entertainment such as they had enjoyed a month before.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000003|He uncorked bottles and poured out wine for every one who presented himself.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000004|Only the girls were very eager for the champagne.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000005|The men preferred rum, brandy, and, above all, hot punch.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000006|Mitya had chocolate made for all the girls, and ordered that three samovars should be kept boiling all night to provide tea and punch for everyone to help himself.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000000|An absurd chaotic confusion followed, but Mitya was in his natural element, and the more foolish it became, the more his spirits rose.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000001|If the peasants had asked him for money at that moment, he would have pulled out his notes and given them away right and left.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000002|This was probably why the landlord, Trifon Borissovitch, kept hovering about Mitya to protect him. He seemed to have given up all idea of going to bed that night; but he drank little, only one glass of punch, and kept a sharp look out on Mitya's interests after his own fashion.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000003|He intervened in the nick of time, civilly and obsequiously persuading Mitya not to give away "cigars and Rhine wine," and, above all, money to the peasants as he had done before.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000004|He was very indignant, too, at the peasant girls drinking liqueur, and eating sweets.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000009_000001|"I'd give them a kick, every one of them, and they'd take it as an honor-that's all they're worth!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000000|Mitya remembered Andrey again, and ordered punch to be sent out to him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000002|Maximov, blissfully drunk, never left his side.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000003|Grushenka, too, was beginning to get drunk.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000004|Pointing to Kalganov, she said to Mitya:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000011_000000|"What a dear, charming boy he is!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000012_000000|And Mitya, delighted, ran to kiss Kalganov and Maximov.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000012_000002|She had said nothing yet, and seemed, indeed, purposely to refrain from speaking.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000012_000004|At last she suddenly gripped his hand and drew him vigorously to her.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000001|Have you walked in!...
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000002|I was frightened.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000003|So you wanted to give me up to him, did you?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000004|Did you really want to?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000014_000000|"I didn't want to spoil your happiness!" Mitya faltered blissfully.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000015_000000|"Well, go and enjoy yourself ..." she sent him away once more.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000015_000001|"Don't cry, I'll call you back again."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000017_000000|"Come, sit beside me, tell me, how did you hear about me, and my coming here yesterday?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000017_000001|From whom did you first hear it?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000018_000000|And Mitya began telling her all about it, disconnectedly, incoherently, feverishly.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000018_000001|He spoke strangely, often frowning, and stopping abruptly.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000019_000000|"What are you frowning at?" she asked.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000020_000000|"Nothing....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000020_000001|I left a man ill there.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000020_000002|I'd give ten years of my life for him to get well, to know he was all right!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000001|So you meant to shoot yourself to morrow!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000003|What for?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000004|I like such reckless fellows as you," she lisped, with a rather halting tongue.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000005|"So you would go any length for me, eh?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000006|Did you really mean to shoot yourself to morrow, you stupid?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000007|No, wait a little.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000008|To morrow I may have something to say to you....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000009|I won't say it to day, but to morrow.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000010|You'd like it to be to day? No, I don't want to to day.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000022_000000|Once, however, she called him, as it were, puzzled and uneasy.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000001|I see you're sad....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000002|Yes, I see it," she added, looking intently into his eyes.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000003|"Though you keep kissing the peasants and shouting, I see something.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000004|No, be merry.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000005|I'm merry; you be merry, too.... I love somebody here.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000024_000001|He was, in fact, drunk, and had dropped asleep for a moment, sitting on the sofa.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000024_000003|And the dances were as bad.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000024_000004|Two girls dressed up as bears, and a lively girl, called Stepanida, with a stick in her hand, acted the part of keeper, and began to "show them."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000025_000000|"Look alive, Marya, or you'll get the stick!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000026_000000|The bears rolled on the ground at last in the most unseemly fashion, amid roars of laughter from the closely packed crowd of men and women.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000027_000000|"Well, let them!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000027_000001|Let them!" said Grushenka sententiously, with an ecstatic expression on her face.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000027_000002|"When they do get a day to enjoy themselves, why shouldn't folks be happy?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000029_000000|"It's swinish, all this peasant foolery," he murmured, moving away; "it's the game they play when it's light all night in summer."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000030_000000|He particularly disliked one "new" song to a jaunty dance tune.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000030_000001|It described how a gentleman came and tried his luck with the girls, to see whether they would love him:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000031_000000|The master came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000032_000000|But the girls could not love the master:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000033_000000|He would beat me cruelly And such love won't do for me.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000034_000000|Then a gypsy comes along and he, too, tries:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000035_000000|The gypsy came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000036_000000|But they couldn't love the gypsy either:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000037_000000|He would be a thief, I fear, And would cause me many a tear.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000039_000000|The soldier came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000040_000000|But the soldier is rejected with contempt, in two indecent lines, sung with absolute frankness and producing a furore in the audience.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000041_000000|The merchant came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000042_000000|And it appears that he wins their love because:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000043_000000|The merchant will make gold for me And his queen I'll gladly be.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000045_000000|"That's just a song of yesterday," he said aloud.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000045_000001|"Who writes such things for them?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000046_000000|And, almost as though it were a personal affront, he declared, on the spot, that he was bored, sat down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep. His pretty little face looked rather pale, as it fell back on the sofa cushion.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000047_000000|"Look how pretty he is," said Grushenka, taking Mitya up to him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000047_000001|"I was combing his hair just now; his hair's like flax, and so thick...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000048_000000|And, bending over him tenderly, she kissed his forehead.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000049_000001|"Stay with me a minute. Mitya, run and find his Maximov."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000050_000000|Maximov, it appeared, could not tear himself away from the girls, only running away from time to time to pour himself out a glass of liqueur.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000050_000001|He had drunk two cups of chocolate.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000050_000002|His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist and mawkishly sweet.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000051_000000|"They taught me all those well bred, aristocratic dances when I was little...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000052_000000|"Go, go with him, Mitya, and I'll watch from here how he dances," said Grushenka.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000000|"No, no, I'm coming to look on, too," exclaimed Kalganov, brushing aside in the most naive way Grushenka's offer to sit with him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000001|They all went to look on.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000002|Maximov danced his dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000005|Kalganov did not like it at all, but Mitya kissed the dancer.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000000|"Thanks.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000001|You're tired perhaps?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000002|What are you looking for here?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000003|Would you like some sweets?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000004|A cigar, perhaps?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000055_000000|"A cigarette."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000057_000000|"I'll just have a liqueur....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000057_000001|Have you any chocolates?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000058_000000|"Yes, there's a heap of them on the table there.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000059_000000|"I like one with vanilla ... for old people.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000060_000000|"No, brother, we've none of that special sort."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000061_000000|"I say," the old man bent down to whisper in Mitya's ear.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000061_000002|How would it be if you were to help me make friends with her?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000062_000000|"So that's what you're after!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000062_000001|No, brother, that won't do!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000064_000000|"Oh, all right, all right.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000064_000001|They only come here to dance and sing, you know, brother.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000064_000004|Don't you want money?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000066_000000|"All right, all right...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000000|Mitya's head was burning.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000001|He went outside to the wooden balcony which ran round the whole building on the inner side, overlooking the courtyard.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000002|The fresh air revived him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000003|He stood alone in a dark corner, and suddenly clutched his head in both hands.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000004|His scattered thoughts came together; his sensations blended into a whole and threw a sudden light into his mind.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000005|A fearful and terrible light!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000006|"If I'm to shoot myself, why not now?" passed through his mind.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000007|"Why not go for the pistols, bring them here, and here, in this dark dirty corner, make an end?" Almost a minute he stood, undecided.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000009|But yet it was easier for him then.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000000|But now?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000001|Was it the same as then?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000002|Now one phantom, one terror at least was at an end: that first, rightful lover, that fateful figure had vanished, leaving no trace.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000004|It would never return.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000005|She was ashamed, and from her eyes he could see now whom she loved.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000006|Now he had everything to make life happy ... but he could not go on living, he could not; oh, damnation!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000007|"O God! restore to life the man I knocked down at the fence!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000008|Let this fearful cup pass from me!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000009|Lord, thou hast wrought miracles for such sinners as me!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000010|But what, what if the old man's alive?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000000|Yet there was a ray of light and hope in his darkness.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000001|He jumped up and ran back to the room-to her, to her, his queen for ever!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000002|Was not one moment of her love worth all the rest of life, even in the agonies of disgrace?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000003|This wild question clutched at his heart.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000005|He thought he looked gloomy and worried, and fancied he had come to find him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000070_000000|"What is it, Trifon Borissovitch? are you looking for me?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000071_000000|"No, sir." The landlord seemed disconcerted.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000071_000001|"Why should I be looking for you?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000071_000002|Where have you been?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000000|"Why do you look so glum?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000001|You're not angry, are you?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000002|Wait a bit, you shall soon get to bed....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000003|What's the time?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000073_000000|"It'll be three o'clock.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000073_000001|Past three, it must be."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000074_000000|"We'll leave off soon.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000074_000001|We'll leave off."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000075_000000|"Don't mention it; it doesn't matter.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000075_000001|Keep it up as long as you like...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000000|"What's the matter with him?" Mitya wondered for an instant, and he ran back to the room where the girls were dancing.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000002|She was not in the blue room either; there was no one but Kalganov asleep on the sofa.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000003|Mitya peeped behind the curtain-she was there.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000004|She was sitting in the corner, on a trunk.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000005|Bent forward, with her head and arms on the bed close by, she was crying bitterly, doing her utmost to stifle her sobs that she might not be heard.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000006|Seeing Mitya, she beckoned him to her, and when he ran to her, she grasped his hand tightly.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000000|"Mitya, Mitya, I loved him, you know.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000001|How I have loved him these five years, all that time!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000003|No, him, him! It's a lie that it was my anger I loved and not him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000005|And now, O Lord, it's not the same man.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000006|Even his face is not the same; he's different altogether.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000008|I drove here with Timofey, and all the way I was thinking how I should meet him, what I should say to him, how we should look at one another.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000009|My soul was faint, and all of a sudden it was just as though he had emptied a pail of dirty water over me.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000010|He talked to me like a schoolmaster, all so grave and learned; he met me so solemnly that I was struck dumb.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000011|I couldn't get a word in.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000012|At first I thought he was ashamed to talk before his great big Pole.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000014|It must have been his wife that ruined him; you know he threw me up to get married.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000015|She must have changed him like that.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000016|Mitya, how shameful it is!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000017|Oh, Mitya, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed for all my life.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000018|Curse it, curse it, curse those five years!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000078_000000|And again she burst into tears, but clung tight to Mitya's hand and did not let it go.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000000|"Mitya, darling, stay, don't go away.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000002|"Listen, tell me who it is I love?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000003|I love one man here.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000004|Who is that man?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000005|That's what you must tell me."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000080_000000|A smile lighted up her face that was swollen with weeping, and her eyes shone in the half darkness.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000001|'Fool! that's the man you love!' That was what my heart whispered to me at once.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000002|You came in and all grew bright.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000005|For you were frightened; you couldn't speak.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000006|It's not them he's afraid of-could you be frightened of any one?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000007|It's me he's afraid of, I thought, only me.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000009|Do you forgive me, Mitya?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000010|Do you forgive me or not?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000012|Do you love me?" She jumped up and held him with both hands on his shoulders.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000000|"You will forgive me for having tormented you?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000001|It was through spite I tormented you all.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000002|It was for spite I drove the old man out of his mind....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000005|He kissed me once, and now he draws back and looks and listens.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000006|Why listen to me?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000007|Kiss me, kiss me hard, that's right.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000009|I'll be your slave now, your slave for the rest of my life.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000010|It's sweet to be a slave. Kiss me!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000011|Beat me, ill treat me, do what you will with me....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000012|And I do deserve to suffer.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000013|Stay, wait, afterwards, I won't have that...." she suddenly thrust him away.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000015|Mitya followed like a drunken man.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000000|"Yes, come what may-whatever may happen now, for one minute I'd give the whole world," he thought.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000001|Grushenka did, in fact, toss off a whole glass of champagne at one gulp, and became at once very tipsy.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000002|She sat down in the same chair as before, with a blissful smile on her face.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000004|Even Kalganov felt a stir at the heart and went up to her.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000000|"Did you feel how I kissed you when you were asleep just now?" she said thickly.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000001|"I'm drunk now, that's what it is....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000002|And aren't you drunk?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000003|And why isn't Mitya drinking?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000004|Why don't you drink, Mitya?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000005|I'm drunk, and you don't drink...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000085_000000|"I am drunk!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000000|He drank off another glass, and-he thought it strange himself-that glass made him completely drunk.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000001|He was suddenly drunk, although till that moment he had been quite sober, he remembered that.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000002|From that moment everything whirled about him, as though he were delirious.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000003|He walked, laughed, talked to everybody, without knowing what he was doing.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000004|Only one persistent burning sensation made itself felt continually, "like a red hot coal in his heart," he said afterwards.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000005|He went up to her, sat beside her, gazed at her, listened to her....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000007|When the girl came up, she either kissed her, or made the sign of the cross over her.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000009|She was greatly amused by the "little old man," as she called Maximov.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000010|He ran up every minute to kiss her hands, "each little finger," and finally he danced another dance to an old song, which he sang himself.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000011|He danced with special vigor to the refrain:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000000|"Give him something, Mitya," said Grushenka.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000001|"Give him a present, he's poor, you know.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000002|Ah, the poor, the insulted!...
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000003|Do you know, Mitya, I shall go into a nunnery.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000006|But to day let us dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000007|To morrow to the nunnery, but to day we'll dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000008|I want to play to day, good people, and what of it?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000009|God will forgive us.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000012|I gave a little onion.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000013|Wicked as I've been, I want to pray.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000014|Mitya, let them dance, don't stop them.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000015|Every one in the world is good.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000016|Every one-even the worst of them.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000017|The world's a nice place.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000020|You know I am good.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000021|I'm very good....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000022|Come, why am I so good?"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000000|So Grushenka babbled on, getting more and more drunk.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000002|She got up from her chair, staggering.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000003|"Mitya, don't give me any more wine-if I ask you, don't give it to me.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000004|Wine doesn't give peace.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000006|I want to dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000007|Let every one see how I dance ... let them see how beautifully I dance...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000000|She really meant it.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000001|She pulled a white cambric handkerchief out of her pocket, and took it by one corner in her right hand, to wave it in the dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000002|Mitya ran to and fro, the girls were quiet, and got ready to break into a dancing song at the first signal.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000003|Maximov, hearing that Grushenka wanted to dance, squealed with delight, and ran skipping about in front of her, humming:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000001|Mitya, why don't they come?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000002|Let every one come ... to look on.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000003|Call them in, too, that were locked in....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000004|Why did you lock them in?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000005|Tell them I'm going to dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000006|Let them look on, too...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000094_000000|Mitya walked with a drunken swagger to the locked door, and began knocking to the Poles with his fist.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000095_000002|Come, she's going to dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000095_000003|She calls you."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000097_000001|You're a little scoundrel, that's what you are."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000098_000001|He too was drunk.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000099_000000|"Be quiet, boy!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000099_000001|If I call him a scoundrel, it doesn't mean that I called all Poland so.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000099_000003|Be quiet, my pretty boy, eat a sweetmeat."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000100_000001|As though they were not men.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000100_000002|Why won't they make friends?" said Grushenka, and went forward to dance.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000100_000003|The chorus broke into "Ah, my porch, my new porch!" Grushenka flung back her head, half opened her lips, smiled, waved her handkerchief, and suddenly, with a violent lurch, stood still in the middle of the room, looking bewildered.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000000|"I'm weak...." she said in an exhausted voice.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000001|"Forgive me....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000002|I'm weak, I can't....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000003|I'm sorry."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000102_000000|She bowed to the chorus, and then began bowing in all directions.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000103_000000|"I'm sorry....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000103_000001|Forgive me...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000104_000000|"The lady's been drinking.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000104_000001|The pretty lady has been drinking," voices were heard saying.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000105_000000|"The lady's drunk too much," Maximov explained to the girls, giggling.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000106_000000|"Mitya, lead me away ... take me," said Grushenka helplessly.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000106_000001|Mitya pounced on her, snatched her up in his arms, and carried the precious burden through the curtains.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000107_000000|"Well, now I'll go," thought Kalganov, and walking out of the blue room, he closed the two halves of the door after him.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000107_000002|Mitya laid Grushenka on the bed and kissed her on the lips.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000000|"Don't touch me...." she faltered, in an imploring voice.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000001|"Don't touch me, till I'm yours....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000002|I've told you I'm yours, but don't touch me ... spare me....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000003|With them here, with them close, you mustn't.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000004|He's here.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000005|It's nasty here...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000109_000000|"I'll obey you!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000109_000001|I won't think of it ...
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000109_000002|I worship you!" muttered Mitya. "Yes, it's nasty here, it's abominable."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000111_000000|"I know, though you're a brute, you're generous," Grushenka articulated with difficulty.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000111_000001|"It must be honorable ... it shall be honorable for the future ... and let us be honest, let us be good, not brutes, but good ... take me away, take me far away, do you hear?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000111_000002|I don't want it to be here, but far, far away...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000112_000000|"Oh, yes, yes, it must be!" said Mitya, pressing her in his arms.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000112_000001|"I'll take you and we'll fly away....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000112_000002|Oh, I'd give my whole life for one year only to know about that blood!"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000113_000000|"What blood?" asked Grushenka, bewildered.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000114_000000|"Nothing," muttered Mitya, through his teeth.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000114_000001|"Grusha, you wanted to be honest, but I'm a thief.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000114_000002|But I've stolen money from Katya....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000000|"From Katya, from that young lady?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000001|No, you didn't steal it.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000003|Why make a fuss?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000004|Now everything of mine is yours.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000005|What does money matter?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000006|We shall waste it anyway....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000007|Folks like us are bound to waste money.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000008|But we'd better go and work the land.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000009|I want to dig the earth with my own hands.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000010|We must work, do you hear?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000012|I won't be your mistress, I'll be faithful to you, I'll be your slave, I'll work for you.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000013|We'll go to the young lady and bow down to her together, so that she may forgive us, and then we'll go away.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000014|And if she won't forgive us, we'll go, anyway.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000016|Don't love her any more.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000017|If you love her, I shall strangle her....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000018|I'll put out both her eyes with a needle...."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000116_000000|"I love you.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000116_000001|I love only you.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000000|"Why Siberia?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000002|I don't care ... we'll work ... there's snow in Siberia....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000003|I love driving in the snow ... and must have bells....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000004|Do you hear, there's a bell ringing?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000005|Where is that bell ringing?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000006|There are people coming....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000007|Now it's stopped."
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000118_000001|Mitya let his head sink on her breast.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000118_000003|Grushenka opened her eyes.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000000|"What's the matter?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000002|Yes ... a bell ...
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000003|I've been asleep and dreamt I was driving over the snow with bells, and I dozed.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000005|And far, far away.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000120_000000|"Close to you," murmured Mitya, kissing her dress, her bosom, her hands. And suddenly he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that she was looking straight before her, not at him, not into his face, but over his head, with an intent, almost uncanny fixity.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000120_000001|An expression of wonder, almost of alarm, came suddenly into her face.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000122_000000|Mitya turned, and saw that some one had, in fact, parted the curtains and seemed to be watching them.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000122_000001|And not one person alone, it seemed.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000123_000000|He jumped up and walked quickly to the intruder.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000124_000000|"Here, come to us, come here," said a voice, speaking not loudly, but firmly and peremptorily.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000000|Mitya passed to the other side of the curtain and stood stock still.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000001|The room was filled with people, but not those who had been there before.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000003|He recognized all those people instantly.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000005|And that "consumptive looking" trim dandy, "who always has such polished boots"--that was the deputy prosecutor.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000006|"He has a chronometer worth four hundred roubles; he showed it to me." And that small young man in spectacles....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000008|And this man-the inspector of police, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, a man he knew well.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000009|And those fellows with the brass plates on, why are they here?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000010|And those other two ... peasants.... And there at the door Kalganov with Trifon Borissovitch....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000126_000000|"Gentlemen!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000126_000001|What's this for, gentlemen?" began Mitya, but suddenly, as though beside himself, not knowing what he was doing, he cried aloud, at the top of his voice:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000128_000000|The young man in spectacles moved forward suddenly, and stepping up to Mitya, began with dignity, though hurriedly:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000129_000000|"We have to make ... in brief, I beg you to come this way, this way to the sofa....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000130_000000|"The old man!" cried Mitya frantically.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000131_000000|And he sank, almost fell, on a chair close by, as though he had been mown down by a scythe.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000132_000000|"You understand?
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000132_000002|Monster and parricide!
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000132_000003|Your father's blood cries out against you!" the old captain of police roared suddenly, stepping up to Mitya.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000133_000000|He was beside himself, crimson in the face and quivering all over.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000134_000000|"This is impossible!" cried the small young man.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000134_000001|"Mihail Makarovitch, Mihail Makarovitch, this won't do!...
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000134_000002|I beg you'll allow me to speak.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000135_000000|"This is delirium, gentlemen, raving delirium," cried the captain of police; "look at him: drunk, at this time of night, in the company of a disreputable woman, with the blood of his father on his hands....
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000136_000000|"I beg you most earnestly, dear Mihail Makarovitch, to restrain your feelings," the prosecutor said in a rapid whisper to the old police captain, "or I shall be forced to resort to-"
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000137_000000|But the little lawyer did not allow him to finish.
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000137_000001|He turned to Mitya, and delivered himself in a loud, firm, dignified voice:
train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000139_000000|He said something more, and the prosecutor, too, put in something, but though Mitya heard them he did not understand them.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000000_000002|The Babe
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000000|The examination of the witnesses began.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000001|But we will not continue our story in such detail as before.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000002|And so we will not dwell on how Nikolay Parfenovitch impressed on every witness called that he must give his evidence in accordance with truth and conscience, and that he would afterwards have to repeat his evidence on oath, how every witness was called upon to sign the protocol of his evidence, and so on.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000003|We will only note that the point principally insisted upon in the examination was the question of the three thousand roubles, that is, was the sum spent here, at Mokroe, by Mitya on the first occasion, a month before, three thousand or fifteen hundred?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000004|And again had he spent three thousand or fifteen hundred yesterday?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000005|Alas, all the evidence given by every one turned out to be against Mitya.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000006|There was not one in his favor, and some witnesses introduced new, almost crushing facts, in contradiction of his, Mitya's, story.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000001|He was not in the least abashed as he stood before the lawyers.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000002|He had, on the contrary, an air of stern and severe indignation with the accused, which gave him an appearance of truthfulness and personal dignity.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000003|He spoke little, and with reserve, waited to be questioned, answered precisely and deliberately. Firmly and unhesitatingly he bore witness that the sum spent a month before could not have been less than three thousand, that all the peasants about here would testify that they had heard the sum of three thousand mentioned by Dmitri Fyodorovitch himself.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000005|He wasted a thousand, I daresay, on them alone."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000003_000001|"It's a pity I didn't count the money at the time, but I was drunk...."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000004_000000|Mitya was sitting sideways with his back to the curtains.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000004_000001|He listened gloomily, with a melancholy and exhausted air, as though he would say:
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000005_000000|"Oh, say what you like.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000005_000001|It makes no difference now."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000000|"More than a thousand went on them, Dmitri Fyodorovitch," retorted Trifon Borissovitch firmly.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000001|"You flung it about at random and they picked it up. They were a rascally, thievish lot, horse stealers, they've been driven away from here, or maybe they'd bear witness themselves how much they got from you.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000002|I saw the sum in your hands, myself-count it I didn't, you didn't let me, that's true enough-but by the look of it I should say it was far more than fifteen hundred ... fifteen hundred, indeed!
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000004|We can judge of amounts...."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000007_000000|As for the sum spent yesterday he asserted that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had told him, as soon as he arrived, that he had brought three thousand with him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000008_000000|"Come now, is that so, Trifon Borissovitch?" replied Mitya.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000008_000001|"Surely I didn't declare so positively that I'd brought three thousand?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000000|"You did say so, Dmitri Fyodorovitch.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000001|You said it before Andrey.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000002|Andrey himself is still here.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000003|Send for him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000004|And in the hall, when you were treating the chorus, you shouted straight out that you would leave your sixth thousand here-that is with what you spent before, we must understand.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000005|Stepan and Semyon heard it, and Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov, too, was standing beside you at the time.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000006|Maybe he'd remember it...."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000010_000001|They were delighted with this new mode of reckoning; three and three made six, three thousand then and three now made six, that was clear.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000011_000000|They questioned all the peasants suggested by Trifon Borissovitch, Stepan and Semyon, the driver Andrey, and Kalganov.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000011_000001|The peasants and the driver unhesitatingly confirmed Trifon Borissovitch's evidence.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000012_000000|The psychological Ippolit Kirillovitch heard this with a subtle smile, and ended by recommending that these remarks as to where Dmitri Fyodorovitch would go should be "included in the case."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000001|He began by saying that "he knew nothing about it and didn't want to." But it appeared that he had heard of the "sixth" thousand, and he admitted that he had been standing close by at the moment.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000002|As far as he could see he "didn't know" how much money Mitya had in his hands.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000003|He affirmed that the Poles had cheated at cards.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000004|In reply to reiterated questions he stated that, after the Poles had been turned out, Mitya's position with Agrafena Alexandrovna had certainly improved, and that she had said that she loved him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000006|In spite of the young man's obvious repugnance at giving evidence, Ippolit Kirillovitch examined him at great length, and only from him learnt all the details of what made up Mitya's "romance," so to say, on that night. Mitya did not once pull Kalganov up.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000007|At last they let the young man go, and he left the room with unconcealed indignation.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000000|The Poles, too, were examined.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000001|Though they had gone to bed in their room, they had not slept all night, and on the arrival of the police officers they hastily dressed and got ready, realizing that they would certainly be sent for.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000003|The little Pole turned out to be a retired official of the twelfth class, who had served in Siberia as a veterinary surgeon.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000004|His name was Mussyalovitch.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000005|Pan Vrublevsky turned out to be an uncertificated dentist.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000006|Although Nikolay Parfenovitch asked them questions on entering the room they both addressed their answers to Mihail Makarovitch, who was standing on one side, taking him in their ignorance for the most important person and in command, and addressed him at every word as "Pan Colonel." Only after several reproofs from Mihail Makarovitch himself, they grasped that they had to address their answers to Nikolay Parfenovitch only.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000007|It turned out that they could speak Russian quite correctly except for their accent in some words.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000008|Of his relations with Grushenka, past and present, Pan Mussyalovitch spoke proudly and warmly, so that Mitya was roused at once and declared that he would not allow the "scoundrel" to speak like that in his presence!
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000009|Pan Mussyalovitch at once called attention to the word "scoundrel" and begged that it should be put down in the protocol. Mitya fumed with rage.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000015_000000|"He's a scoundrel!
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000015_000002|You can put that down.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000015_000003|And put down, too, that, in spite of the protocol I still declare that he's a scoundrel!" he cried.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000016_000001|After sternly reprimanding Mitya, he cut short all further inquiry into the romantic aspect of the case, and hastened to pass to what was essential.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000017_000000|The prosecutor positively pounced on this piece of evidence.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000017_000002|This would explain the circumstance, so baffling for the prosecution, that only eight hundred roubles were to be found in Mitya's hands.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000018_000000|"And you imagine he would have accepted such a deed as a substitute for two thousand three hundred roubles in cash?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000019_000000|"He certainly would have accepted it," Mitya declared warmly.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000019_000001|"Why, look here, he might have grabbed not two thousand, but four or six, for it.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000019_000002|He would have put his lawyers, Poles and Jews, on to the job, and might have got, not three thousand, but the whole property out of the old man."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000020_000001|Then they let the Poles go.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000020_000003|Nikolay Parfenovitch was too well pleased with them, as it was, and did not want to worry them with trifles, moreover, it was nothing but a foolish, drunken quarrel over cards.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000020_000004|There had been drinking and disorder enough, that night....
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000021_000000|Then old Maximov was summoned.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000021_000001|He came in timidly, approached with little steps, looking very disheveled and depressed.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000021_000003|So that she herself began trying to pacify and comfort him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000022_000000|"Have you ever seen so much as twenty thousand before, then?" inquired Nikolay Parfenovitch, with a smile.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000023_000000|"To be sure I have, not twenty, but seven, when my wife mortgaged my little property.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000023_000002|It was a very thick bundle, all rainbow colored notes.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000000|He was not kept long.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000001|At last it was Grushenka's turn.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000002|Nikolay Parfenovitch was obviously apprehensive of the effect her appearance might have on Mitya, and he muttered a few words of admonition to him, but Mitya bowed his head in silence, giving him to understand "that he would not make a scene." Mihail Makarovitch himself led Grushenka in.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000003|She entered with a stern and gloomy face, that looked almost composed and sat down quietly on the chair offered her by Nikolay Parfenovitch.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000004|She was very pale, she seemed to be cold, and wrapped herself closely in her magnificent black shawl.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000005|She was suffering from a slight feverish chill-the first symptom of the long illness which followed that night.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000006|Her grave air, her direct earnest look and quiet manner made a very favorable impression on every one.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000008|But this was received with positive indignation by the ladies, who immediately called him a "naughty man," to his great satisfaction.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000025_000000|As she entered the room, Grushenka only glanced for an instant at Mitya, who looked at her uneasily.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000025_000001|But her face reassured him at once.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000000|"He was an acquaintance.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000002|She had never meant to go to Fyodor Pavlovitch, she had simply been laughing at him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000003|"I had no thoughts for either of them all this last month.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000004|I was expecting another man who had wronged me.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000005|But I think," she said in conclusion, "that there's no need for you to inquire about that, nor for me to answer you, for that's my own affair."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000027_000000|Nikolay Parfenovitch immediately acted upon this hint.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000029_000000|To which Grushenka replied that she had heard him say so before other people, and had heard him say so when they were alone.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000031_000000|Ippolit Kirillovitch was very well satisfied with this piece of evidence. Further examination elicited that Grushenka knew, too, where that money had come from, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had got it from Katerina Ivanovna.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000032_000000|"And did you never, once, hear that the money spent a month ago was not three thousand, but less, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had saved half that sum for his own use?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000033_000000|"No, I never heard that," answered Grushenka.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000034_000000|It was explained further that Mitya had, on the contrary, often told her that he hadn't a farthing.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000035_000000|"He was always expecting to get some from his father," said Grushenka in conclusion.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000038_000000|"Once or several times?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000039_000000|"He mentioned it several times, always in anger."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000040_000000|"And did you believe he would do it?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000041_000000|"No, I never believed it," she answered firmly.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000041_000001|"I had faith in his noble heart."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000043_000000|"You can speak," Nikolay Parfenovitch assented.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000044_000000|"Agrafena Alexandrovna!" Mitya got up from his chair, "have faith in God and in me.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000044_000001|I am not guilty of my father's murder!"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000045_000001|Grushenka stood up and crossed herself devoutly before the ikon.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000000|"As he has spoken now, believe it!
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000001|I know him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000002|He'll say anything as a joke or from obstinacy, but he'll never deceive you against his conscience.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000003|He's telling the whole truth, you may believe it."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000047_000000|"Thanks, Agrafena Alexandrovna, you've given me fresh courage," Mitya responded in a quivering voice.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000048_000001|And to the question where he got the money, she said that he had told her that he had "stolen" it from Katerina Ivanovna, and that she had replied to that that he hadn't stolen it, and that he must pay the money back next day.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000051_000000|She went out.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000051_000001|Mitya was calm, and even looked more cheerful, but only for a moment.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000051_000002|He felt more and more oppressed by a strange physical weakness. His eyes were closing with fatigue.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000052_000000|He had a strange dream, utterly out of keeping with the place and the time.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000001|He was cold, it was early in November, and the snow was falling in big wet flakes, melting as soon as it touched the earth.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000002|And the peasant drove him smartly, he had a fair, long beard.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000003|He was not an old man, somewhere about fifty, and he had on a gray peasant's smock.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000005|And in her arms was a little baby crying.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000006|And her breasts seemed so dried up that there was not a drop of milk in them.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000054_000001|Why are they crying?" Mitya asked, as they dashed gayly by.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000057_000000|"But why is it weeping?" Mitya persisted stupidly, "why are its little arms bare?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000057_000001|Why don't they wrap it up?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000058_000000|"The babe's cold, its little clothes are frozen and don't warm it."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000059_000000|"But why is it?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000059_000001|Why?" foolish Mitya still persisted.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000060_000000|"Why, they're poor people, burnt out.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000060_000001|They've no bread.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000060_000002|They're begging because they've been burnt out."
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000001|"Tell me why it is those poor mothers stand there?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000002|Why are people poor?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000003|Why is the babe poor? Why is the steppe barren?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000004|Why don't they hug each other and kiss?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000005|Why don't they sing songs of joy?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000006|Why are they so dark from black misery?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000007|Why don't they feed the babe?"
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000062_000000|And he felt that, though his questions were unreasonable and senseless, yet he wanted to ask just that, and he had to ask it just in that way.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000063_000000|"And I'm coming with you.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000063_000001|I won't leave you now for the rest of my life, I'm coming with you," he heard close beside him Grushenka's tender voice, thrilling with emotion.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000063_000002|And his heart glowed, and he struggled forward towards the light, and he longed to live, to live, to go on and on, towards the new, beckoning light, and to hasten, hasten, now, at once!
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000001|Where?" he exclaimed opening his eyes, and sitting up on the chest, as though he had revived from a swoon, smiling brightly.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000002|Nikolay Parfenovitch was standing over him, suggesting that he should hear the protocol read aloud and sign it.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000004|He was suddenly struck by the fact that there was a pillow under his head, which hadn't been there when he had leant back, exhausted, on the chest.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000065_000000|"Who put that pillow under my head?
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000065_000001|Who was so kind?" he cried, with a sort of ecstatic gratitude, and tears in his voice, as though some great kindness had been shown him.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000066_000000|He never found out who this kind man was; perhaps one of the peasant witnesses, or Nikolay Parfenovitch's little secretary, had compassionately thought to put a pillow under his head; but his whole soul was quivering with tears.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000066_000001|He went to the table and said that he would sign whatever they liked.
train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000067_000000|"I've had a good dream, gentlemen," he said in a strange voice, with a new light, as of joy, in his face.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000002_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000002_000001|SWEETWATER IN A NEW ROLE
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000003_000000|A few days later three men were closeted in the district attorney's office.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000003_000001|Two of them were officials-the district attorney himself, and our old friend, the inspector.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000003_000002|The third was the detective, Sweetwater, chosen by them to keep watch on mr Grey.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000004_000000|Sweetwater had just come to town,--this was evident from the gripsack he had set down in a corner on entering, also from a certain tousled appearance which bespoke hasty rising and but few facilities for proper attention to his person.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000004_000001|These details counted little, however, in the astonishment created by his manner.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000004_000002|For a hardy chap he looked strangely nervous and indisposed, so much so that, after the first short greeting, the inspector asked him what was up, and if he had had another Fairbrother house experience.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000005_000000|He replied with a decided no; that it was not his adventure which had upset him, but the news he had to bring.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000006_000000|Here he glanced at every door and window; and then, leaning forward over the table at which the two officials sat, he brought his head as nearly to them as possible and whispered five words.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000007_000000|They produced a most unhappy sensation.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000007_000001|Both the men, hardened as they were by duties which soon sap the sensibilities, started and turned as pale as the speaker himself.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000007_000002|Then the district attorney, with one glance at the inspector, rose and locked the door.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000008_000000|It was a prelude to this tale which I give, not as it came from his mouth, but as it was afterward related to me.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000009_000000|The detective had just been with mr Grey to the coast of Maine. Why there, will presently appear.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000009_000001|His task had been to follow this gentleman, and follow him he did.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000010_000000|mr Grey was a very stately man, difficult of approach, and was absorbed, besides, by some overwhelming care.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000011_000000|This was a great stroke of luck, he thought, but he little knew how big a stroke or into what a series of adventures it was going to lead him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000012_000000|Once on the platform of the small station at which mr Grey had bidden him to stop, he noticed two things: the utter helplessness of the man in all practical matters, and his extreme anxiety to see all that was going on about him without being himself seen.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000012_000002|Women did not interest him in the least. They could pass and repass without arousing his attention, but the moment a man stepped his way, he shrank from him only to betray the greatest curiosity concerning him the moment he felt it safe to turn and observe him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000012_000003|All of which convinced Sweetwater that the Englishman's errand was in connection with a man whom he equally dreaded and desired to meet.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000013_000000|Of this he was made absolutely certain a little later.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000014_000000|"I want you to get me a room at a very quiet hotel.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000014_000002|Do this and you will earn a week's salary in one day."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000015_000001|Not till he had found what he wished, and installed the Englishman in his room, did he venture to open the precious memorandum and read the name he had been speculating over for an hour.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000015_000002|It was not the one he had anticipated, but it came near to it. It was that of james Wellgood.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000017_000001|The train on which he had just come had been a mail train, and he calculated that he would find half the town there.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000018_000000|His calculation was a correct one.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000019_000000|The man behind the boxes was used to the name and reached out a hand toward a box unusually well stacked, but stopped half-way there and gave Sweetwater a sharp look.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000020_000000|"Who are you?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000021_000000|"A stranger," that young man put in volubly, "looking for james Wellgood.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000021_000001|I thought, perhaps, you could tell me where to find him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000021_000002|I see that his letters pass through this office."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000022_000000|"You're taking up another man's time," complained the postmaster.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000022_000002|"Ask Dick over there; he knows him."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000023_000000|The detective was glad enough to escape and ask Dick.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000023_000001|But he was better pleased yet when Dick-a fellow with a squint whose hand was always in the sugar-told him that mr Wellgood would probably be in for his mail in a few moments.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000023_000002|"That is his buggy standing before the drug store on the opposite side of the way."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000024_000000|So! he had netted Jones' quondam waiter at the first cast!
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000024_000001|"Lucky!" was what he said to himself, "still lucky!"
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000025_000000|Sauntering to the door, he watched for the owner of that buggy.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000025_000001|He had learned, as such fellows do, that there was a secret hue and cry after this very man by the New York police; that he was supposed by some to be Sears himself.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000025_000002|In this way he would soon be looking upon the very man whose steps he had followed through the Fairbrother house a few nights before, and through whose resolute action he had very nearly run the risk of a lingering death from starvation.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000026_000000|"A dangerous customer," thought he.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000026_000001|"I wonder if my instinct will go so far as to make me recognize his presence.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000028_000001|It was enough.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000028_000002|The man was commonplace,--commonplace in feature, dress and manner, but his eye gave him away.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000000|He had taken in Sweetwater as he passed, but Sweetwater was of a commonplace type, too, and woke no corresponding dread in the other's mind; for he went whistling into the store, from which he presently reissued with a bundle of mail in his hand.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000002|But how, with the conditions laid on him by mr Grey, was this to be done?
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000003|He knew nothing of the man's circumstances or of his position in the town.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000004|How, then, go to work to secure his cooperation in a scheme possibly as mysterious to him as it was to himself?
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000005|He could stop this stranger in mid street, with some plausible excuse, but it did not follow that he would succeed in luring him to the hotel where mr Grey could see him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000006|Wellgood, or, as he believed, Sears, knew too much of life to be beguiled by any open clap trap, and Sweetwater was obliged to see him drive off without having made the least advance in the purpose engrossing him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000030_000000|But that was nothing.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000030_000001|He had all the evening before him, and reentering the store, he took up his stand near the sugar barrel.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000030_000002|He had perceived that in the pauses of weighing and tasting, Dick talked; if he were guided with suitable discretion, why should he not talk of Wellgood?
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000000|He was guided, and he did talk and to some effect.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000001|That is, he gave information of the man which surprised Sweetwater.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000003|He had not been long in town and was somewhat of a stranger yet, but he wouldn't be so long.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000004|He was going to make things hum, he was.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000005|Money for this, money for that, a horse where another man would walk, and mail-well, that alone would make this post office worth while.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000006|Then the drugs ordered by wholesale.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000007|Those boxes over there were his, ready to be carted out to his manufactory.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000008|Count them, some one, and think of the bottles and bottles of stuff they stand for.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000009|If it sells as he says it will-then he will soon be rich: and so on, till Sweetwater brought the garrulous Dick to a standstill by asking whether Wellgood had been away for any purpose since he first came to town.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000011|Sweetwater felt all his convictions confirmed, and ended the colloquy with the final question:
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000032_000000|"And where is his manufactory?
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000032_000001|Might be worth visiting, perhaps."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000033_000000|The other made a gesture, said something about northwest and rushed to help a customer.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000033_000001|Sweetwater took the opportunity to slide away.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000034_000000|Sweetwater made only one stop on his way to mr Grey's hotel rooms, and that was at the stables.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000034_000001|Here he learned whatever else there was to know, and, armed with definite information, he appeared before mr Grey, who, to his astonishment, was dining in his own room.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000035_000001|He looked up eagerly, however, when Sweetwater entered, and asked what news.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000036_000000|The detective, with some semblance of respect, answered that he had seen Wellgood, but that he had been unable to detain him or bring him within his employer's observation.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000037_000000|"He is a patent medicine man," he then explained, "and manufactures his own concoctions in a house he has rented here on a lonely road some half mile out of town."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000038_000000|"Wellgood does?
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000038_000001|the man named Wellgood?" mr Grey exclaimed with all the astonishment the other secretly expected.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000039_000000|"Yes; Wellgood, james Wellgood.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000042_000000|"Ah!"
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000043_000000|mr Grey rose precipitately.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000043_000001|His manner had changed.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000044_000000|"I must see him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000044_000001|What you tell me makes it all the more necessary for me to see him.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000044_000002|How can you bring it about?"
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000046_000001|Couldn't you rap him up at his own door, and hold him in talk a minute, while I looked on from the carriage or whatever vehicle we can get to carry us there?
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000046_000002|The least glimpse of his face would satisfy me.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000046_000003|That is, to night."
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000047_000000|"I'll try," said Sweetwater, not very sanguine as to the probable result of this effort.
train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000048_000000|Returning to the stables, he ordered the team.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000001_000000|CHAPTER seventy five.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000000|In these fine early autumn days spent at Matching, the great Trumpeton Wood question was at last settled.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000001|During the summer considerable acerbity had been added to the matter by certain articles which had appeared in certain sporting papers, in which the new Duke of Omnium was accused of neglecting his duty to the county in which a portion of his property lay.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000002|The question was argued at considerable length.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000003|Is a landed proprietor bound, or is he not, to keep foxes for the amusement of his neighbours?
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000004|To ordinary thinkers, to unprejudiced outsiders,--to Americans, let us say, or Frenchmen,--there does not seem to be room even for an argument.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000005|By what law of God or man can a man be bound to maintain a parcel of injurious vermin on his property, in the pursuit of which he finds no sport himself, and which are highly detrimental to another sport in which he takes, perhaps, the keenest interest?
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000006|Trumpeton Wood was the Duke's own,--to do just as he pleased with it.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000007|Why should foxes be demanded from him then any more than a bear to be baited, or a badger to be drawn, in, let us say, his London dining room?
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000008|But a good deal had been said which, though not perhaps capable of convincing the unprejudiced American or Frenchman, had been regarded as cogent arguments to country bred Englishmen.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000009|The Brake Hunt had been established for a great many years, and was the central attraction of a district well known for its hunting propensities.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000010|The preservation of foxes might be an open question in such counties as Norfolk and Suffolk, but could not be so in the Brake country.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000012|The Duke might have his foxes destroyed if he pleased, but he could hardly do so and remain a popular magnate in England.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000014|As it happened, Trumpeton Wood was, and always had been, the great nursery of foxes for that side of the Brake country.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000015|Gorse coverts make, no doubt, the charm of hunting, but gorse coverts will not hold foxes unless the woodlands be preserved.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000016|The fox is a travelling animal.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000017|Knowing well that "home staying youths have ever homely wits," he goes out and sees the world.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000019|If all foxes so wandering be doomed to death, if poison, and wires, and traps, and hostile keepers await them there instead of the tender welcome of the loving fox preserver, the gorse coverts will soon be empty, and the whole country will be afflicted with a wild dismay.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000000|But our dear old friend, only the other day a duke, Planty Pall as he was lately called, devoted to work and to Parliament, an unselfish, friendly, wise man, who by no means wanted other men to cut their coats according to his pattern, was the last man in England to put himself forward as the enemy of an established delight.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000001|He did not hunt himself,--but neither did he shoot, or fish, or play cards.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000002|He recreated himself with Blue Books, and speculations on Adam Smith had been his distraction;--but he knew that he was himself peculiar, and he respected the habits of others.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000003|It had fallen out in this wise.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000001|The animal becomes sacred, and his preservation is a religion.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000004|He had mistaken it for a hare, and had done the deed in the presence of keepers, owner, and friends.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000005|His feelings were so acute and his remorse so great that, in their pity, they had resolved to spare him; and then, on the spot, entered into a solemn compact that no one should be told.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000006|Encouraged by the forbearing tenderness, the unfortunate one ventured to return to the house of his friend, the owner of the wood, hoping that, in spite of the sacrilege committed, he might be able to face a world that would be ignorant of his crime.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000007|As the vulpicide, on the afternoon of the day of the deed, went along the corridor to his room, one maid servant whispered to another, and the poor victim of an imperfect sight heard the words-"That's he as shot the fox!"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000008|The gentleman did not appear at dinner, nor was he ever again seen in those parts.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000000|mr Fothergill had become angry.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000002|And even the Duke was angry.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000003|The Duke was angry because Lord Chiltern had been violent;--and Lord Chiltern had been violent because mr Fothergill's conduct had been, to his thinking, not only sacrilegious, but one continued course of wilful sacrilege.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000005|To kill a certain number of foxes in the year, after the legitimate fashion, had become to him the one great study of life;--and he did it with an energy equal to that which the Duke devoted to decimal coinage.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000006|His huntsman was always well mounted, with two horses; but Lord Chiltern would give up his own to the man and take charge of a weary animal as a common groom when he found that he might thus further the object of the day's sport.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000011|He devoted his life to the Brake Hounds.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000012|And it was too much for him that such a one as mr Fothergill should be allowed to wire foxes in Trumpeton Wood!
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000013|The Duke's property, indeed!
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000014|Surely all that was understood in England by this time.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000015|Now he had consented to come to Matching, bringing his wife with him, in order that the matter might be settled.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000016|There had been a threat that he would give up the country, in which case it was declared that it would be impossible to carry on the Brake Hunt in a manner satisfactory to masters, subscribers, owners of coverts, or farmers, unless a different order of things should be made to prevail in regard to Trumpeton Wood.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000000|The Duke, however, had declined to interfere personally.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000001|He had told his wife that he should be delighted to welcome Lord and Lady Chiltern,--as he would any other friends of hers.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000002|The guests, indeed, at the Duke's house were never his guests, but always hers.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000003|But he could not allow himself to be brought into an argument with Lord Chiltern as to the management of his own property.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000004|The Duchess was made to understand that she must prevent any such awkwardness.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000005|And she did prevent it.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000007|Lady Chiltern and Madame Goesler were present, and also Phineas Finn.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000008_000000|"Well;--how about them?" said the lord, showing by the fiery eagerness of his eye, and the increased redness of his face, that though the matter had been introduced somewhat jocosely, there could not really be any joke about it.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000009_000000|"Why couldn't you keep it all out of the newspapers?"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000010_000000|"I don't write the newspapers, Duchess.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000011_000000|"We may have traps if we like it, Lord Chiltern."
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000012_000000|"Certainly;--only say so, and we shall know where we are." He looked very angry, and poor Lady Chiltern was covered with dismay.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000013_000000|"But we don't like traps, Lord Chiltern;--nor yet poison, nor anything that is wicked.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000013_000001|I'd go and nurse the foxes myself if I knew how, wouldn't I, Marie?"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000014_000000|"They have robbed the Duchess of her sleep for the last six months," said Madame Goesler.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000015_000000|"And if they go on being not properly brought up and educated, they'll make an old woman of me.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000015_000001|As for the Duke, he can't be comfortable in his arithmetic for thinking of them.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000015_000002|But what can one do?"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000016_000000|"Change your keepers," said Lord Chiltern energetically.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000017_000001|How am I to set about it? To whom can I apply to appoint others?
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000017_000002|Don't you know what vested interests mean, Lord Chiltern?"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000018_000000|"Then nobody can manage his own property as he pleases?"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000000|"Nobody can,--unless he does the work himself.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000001|If I were to go and live in Trumpeton Wood I could do it; but you see I have to live here.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000002|I vote that we have an officer of State, to go in and out with the Government,--with a seat in the Cabinet or not according as things go, and that we call him Foxmaster General.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000003|It would be just the thing for mr Finn."
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000021_000000|"Then I suppose that nothing can be done," said Lord Chiltern.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000000|"My dear Lord Chiltern, everything has been done.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000001|Vested interests have been attended to.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000002|Keepers shall prefer foxes to pheasants, wires shall be unheard of, and Trumpeton Wood shall once again be the glory of the Brake Hunt.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000003|It won't cost the Duke above a thousand or two a year."
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000023_000000|"I should be very sorry indeed to put the Duke to any unnecessary expense," said Lord Chiltern solemnly,--still fearing that the Duchess was only playing with him.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000024_000000|"Do not think of it.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000024_000001|We have pensioned poor mr Fothergill, and he retires from the administration."
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000025_000000|"Then it'll be all right," said Lord Chiltern.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000026_000000|"I am so glad," said his wife.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000027_000000|"And so the great mr Fothergill falls from power, and goes down into obscurity," said Madame Goesler.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000028_000000|"He was an impudent old man, and that's the truth," said the Duchess;--"and he has always been my thorough detestation.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000028_000001|But if you only knew what I have gone through to get rid of him,--and all on account of Trumpeton Wood,--you'd send me every brush taken in the Brake country during the next season."
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000029_000000|"Your Grace shall at any rate have one of them," said Lord Chiltern.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000030_000000|On the next day Lord and Lady Chiltern went back to Harrington Hall. When the end of August comes, a Master of Hounds,--who is really a master,--is wanted at home.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000030_000001|Nothing short of an embassy on behalf of the great coverts of his country would have kept this master away at present; and now, his diplomacy having succeeded, he hurried back to make the most of its results.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000030_000002|Lady Chiltern, before she went, made a little speech to Phineas Finn.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000031_000000|"You'll come to us in the winter, mr Finn?"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000032_000000|"I should like."
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000033_000000|"You must.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000033_000001|No one was truer to you than we were, you know.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000034_000000|"Oh, Lady Chiltern!"
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000035_000000|"Of course you'll come.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000035_000001|You owe it to us to come.
train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000035_000002|And may I say this? If there be anybody to come with you, that will make it only so much the better.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000001_000000|ADRIFT ON AN ICE PAN
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000020_000000|BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000021_000000|"MOST NOBLE VICE CHANCELLOR, AND YOU, EMINENT PROCTORS:
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000000|"A citizen of Britain is before you, once a student in this University, now better known to the people of the New World than to our own.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000001|This is the man who fifteen years ago went to the coast of Labrador, to succor with medical aid the solitary fishermen of the northern sea; in executing which service he despised the perils of the ocean, which are there most terrible, in order to bring comfort and light to the wretched and sorrowing.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000002|Thus, up to the measure of human ability, he seems to follow, if it is right to say it of any one, in the footsteps of Christ Himself, as a truly Christian man.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000003|Rightly then we praise him by whose praise not he alone, but our University also is honored.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000023_000001|With these fitting words was presented a man whose simple faith has been the motive power of his works, to whom pain and weariness of flesh have called no stay since there was discouragement never, to whom personal danger has counted as nothing since fear is incomprehensible.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000023_000002|"As the Lord wills, whether for wreck or service, I am about His business." On november ninth of the preceding year, the King of England gave one of his "Birthday Honors" to the same man, making him a Companion of saint Michael and saint George (c m g).
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000024_000001|Algernon Sydney Grenfell and Jane Georgiana Hutchinson, was born on the twenty eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty five, at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, by Chester, England, of an ancestry which laid a firm foundation for his career and in surroundings which fitted him for it.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000024_000002|On both sides of his inheritance have been exhibited the courage, patience, persistence, and fighting and teaching qualities which are exemplified in his own abilities to command, to administer, and to uplift.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000025_000000|On his father's side were the Grenvilles, who made good account of themselves in such cause as they approved, among them Basil Grenville, commander of the Royalist Cornish Army, killed at Lansdown in sixteen forty three in defence of King Charles.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000026_000000|"Four wheels to Charles's wain: Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning, Godolphin slain."
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000027_000000|There was also Sir Richard Grenville, immortalized by Tennyson in "The Revenge," and john Pascoe Grenville, the right-hand man of Admiral Cochrane, who boarded the Spanish admiral's ship, the Esmeralda, on the port side, while Cochrane came up on the starboard, when together they made short work of the capture.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000027_000001|Nor has the strain died out, as is demonstrated in the present generation by many of dr Grenfell's cousins, among them General Francis Wallace Grenfell, Lord Kilvey, and by dr Grenfell himself on the Labrador in the fight against disease and disaster and distress along a stormy and uncharted coast.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000028_000000|On his mother's side, four of her brothers were generals or colonels in the trying times of service in India.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000028_000001|The eldest fought with distinction throughout the Indian Mutiny and in the defence of Lucknow, and another commanded the crack cavalry regiment, the "Guides," at Peshawar, and fell fighting in one of the turbulent North of India wars.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000029_000000|Of teachers, there was dr Grenfell's paternal grandfather, the reverend Algernon Grenfell, the second of three brothers, house master at Rugby under Arnold, and a fine classical scholar, whose elder and younger brothers each felt the ancestral call of the sea and became admirals, with brave records of daring and success.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000030_000000|dr Grenfell's father, after a brilliant career at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, became assistant master at Repton, and later, when he married, head master of Mostyn House School, a position which he resigned in eighteen eighty two to become Chaplain of the London Hospital.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000030_000001|"He was a man of much learning, with a keen interest in science, a remarkable eloquence, and a fervent evangelistic faith."
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000031_000000|Mostyn House School still stands, enlarged and modernized, in the charge of dr Grenfell's elder brother, and in it his mother is still the real head and controlling genius.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000000|Parkgate, at one time a seaport of renown, when Liverpool was still unimportant, and later a seaside health resort to which came the fashion and beauty of England, had fallen, through the silting of the estuary and the broadening of the "Sands of Dee," to the level of a hamlet in the time of dr Grenfell's boyhood.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000001|The broad stretch of seaward trending sand, with its interlacing rivulets of fresh and brackish water, made a tempting though treacherous playground, alluring alike in the varied forms of life it harbored and in the adventure which whetted exploration.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000002|Thither came Charles Kingsley, Canon of Chester, who married a Grenfell, and who coupled his verse with scientific study and made geological excursions to the river's mouth with the then Master of Mostyn House School.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000003|In these excursions the youthful Wilfred was a participant, and therein he learned some of his first lessons in that accuracy of observation essential to his later life work.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000000|From the school days at Parkgate came the step to Marlborough College, where three years were marked by earnest study, both in books and in play, for the one gained a scholarship and the other an enduring interest in Rugby football.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000001|Matriculating later at the University of London, Grenfell entered the London Hospital, and there laid not only the foundation of his medical education, but that of his friendship with Sir Frederick Treves, renowned surgeon and daring sailor and master mariner as well.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000002|With plenty of work to the fore, as a hospital interne, the ruling spirit still asserted itself, and the young doctor became an inspiration among the waifs of the teeming city; he was one of the founders of the great Lads' Brigades which have done much good, and fostered more, in the example that they have set for allied activities.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000003|Nor were the needs of his own bodily machine neglected; football, rowing, and the tennis court kept him in condition, and his athletics served to strengthen his appeals to the London boys whom he enrolled in the brigades.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000004|He founded the inter hospital rowing club at Putney and rowed in the first inter hospital race; he played on the Varsity football team, and won the "throwing the hammer" at the sports.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000035_000000|A couple of terms at Queen's College, Oxford, followed the London experience, but here the conditions were too easy and luxurious for one who, by both inheritance and training, had within him the incentive to the strenuous life.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000035_000001|Need called, misery appealed, the message of life, of hope, and of salvation awaited, and the young doctor turned from Oxford to the medical mission work in which his record stands among the foremost for its effectiveness and for the spirituality of its purpose.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000036_000000|Seeking some way in which he could satisfy his medical aspirations, as well as his desire for adventure and for definite Christian work, he appealed to Sir Frederick Treves, a member of the Council of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, who suggested his joining the staff of the mission and establishing a medical mission to the fishermen of the North Sea.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000036_000001|The conditions of the life were onerous, the existing traffic in spirituous liquors and in all other demoralizing influences had to be fought step by step, prejudice and evil habit had to be overcome and to be replaced by better knowledge and better desire, there was room for both fighting and teaching, and the medical mission won its way.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000036_000002|"When you set out to commend your gospel to men who don't want it, there's only one way to go about it,--to do something for them that they'll be sure to understand.
train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000039_000000|To accomplish this, to make of the scattered settlements a united and independent people, to safeguard their future by such measures as the establishment of a Seamen's Institute at saint John's, Newfoundland, and the insurance of communication with the outside world, and to raise, by personal solicitation, the money needed for these enterprises, requires an unusual personality.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000000_000006|Our old tracks are drifted up, deep in places, and toothed sastrugi have formed over them.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000002_000002|This has brought us to our Southern Depot, and we pick up four days' food.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000000|Night Camp r three.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000004|At first with full sail we went along at a great rate; then we got on to an extraordinary surface, the drifting snow lying in heaps; it clung to the ski, which could only be pushed forward with an effort.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000005|The pulling was really awful, but we went steadily on and camped a short way beyond our cairn of the fourteenth.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000010|It is everything now to keep up a good marching pace; I trust we shall be able to do so and catch the ship.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000011|Total march, eighteen and a half miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000004_000001|ten thousand ten.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000004_000003|now.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000007_000001|We are just about on the eighty ninth parallel.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000007_000002|To night Bowers got a rating sight.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000007_000006|I thought we were climbing to day, but the barometer gives no change.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000008_000002|Little wind and heavy marching at start.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000008_000004|The old tracks show so remarkably well that we can follow them without much difficulty-a great piece of luck.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000009_000002|Bowers hung on to the sledge, Evans and Oates had to lengthen out.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000009_000005|Got the tent up with some difficulty, and now pretty cosy after good hoosh.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000010_000003|Oates gets cold feet.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000010_000006|The weather seems to be breaking up.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000010_000007|Pray God we have something of a track to follow to the Three Degree Depot-once we pick that up we ought to be right.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000002|Things beginning to look a little serious.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000006|Bowers guided the sledge alone for the first hour, then both Oates and he remained alongside it; they had a fearful time trying to make the pace between the soft patches.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000011|I don't like the look of it.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000012|Is the weather breaking up?
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000013|If so, God help us, with the tremendous summit journey and scant food.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000012_000012|Needless to say I shall sleep much better with our provision bag full again.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000012_000014|The tracks seem as good as ever so far, sometimes for thirty or forty yards we lose them under drifts, but then they reappear quite clearly raised above the surface.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000012_000015|If the light is good there is not the least difficulty in following.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000013_000004|There was a good stiff breeze and plenty of drift, but the tracks held.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000013_000006|But beyond the camp we found the tracks completely wiped out.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000013_000011|I hope to goodness we can follow it to morrow.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000004|Barometer low?
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000006|The forenoon march was over the belt of storm tossed sastrugi; it looked like a rough sea.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000007|Wilson and I pulled in front on ski, the remainder on foot.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000008|It was very tricky work following the track, which pretty constantly disappeared, and in fact only showed itself by faint signs anywhere-a foot or two of raised sledge track, a dozen yards of the trail of the sledge meter wheel, or a spatter of hard snow flicks where feet had trodden.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000012|However, by hook or crook, we managed to stick on the old track.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000013|Came on the cairn quite suddenly, marched past it, and camped for lunch at seven miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000015_000003|If we get to the next depot in a few marches (it is now less than sixty miles and we have a full week's food) we ought to be able to open out a little, but we can't look for a real feed till we get to the pony food depot.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000016_000007|It is very difficult to say if we are going up or down hill; the barometer is quite different from outward readings.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000016_000009|We are camped opposite our lunch cairn of the fourth, only half a day's march from the point at which the last supporting party left us.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000017_000001|We picked up the boots and mits on the track, and to night we found the pipe lying placidly in sight on the snow.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000017_000007|We are pretty thin, especially Evans, but none of us are feeling worked out.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000005|Excellent march of nineteen and a half miles, ten point five before lunch.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000006|Wind helping greatly, considerable drift; tracks for the most part very plain.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000007|Some time before lunch we picked up the return track of the supporting party, so that there are now three distinct sledge impressions.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000009|Given a fine day to morrow we ought to get it without difficulty.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000019_000005|We have passed the last cairn before the depot, the track is clear ahead, the weather fair, the wind helpful, the gradient down-with any luck we should pick up our depot in the middle of the morning march.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000019_000006|This is the bright side; the reverse of the medal is serious.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000019_000008|Of course, he is full of pluck over it, but I don't like the idea of such an accident here.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000020_000005|In the afternoon the surface became fearfully bad, the wind dropped to light southerly air.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000020_000006|Ill luck that this should happen just when we have only four men to pull.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000020_000007|Wilson rested his leg as much as possible by walking quietly beside the sledge; the result has been good, and to night there is much less inflammation.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000006|Wind light.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000008|Started well in the afternoon and came down a steep slope in quick time; then the surface turned real bad-sandy drifts-very heavy pulling.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000011|We have opened out on the one seventh increase and it makes a lot of difference.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000012|Wilson's leg much better.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000001|R. sixteen.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000004|Soon got to a steep grade, when the sledge overran and upset us one after another.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000006|Started in the afternoon on foot, going very strong.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000007|We noticed a curious circumstance towards the end of the forenoon.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000009|In the afternoon we soon came to a steep slope-the same on which we exchanged sledges on december twenty eighth.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000010|All went well till, in trying to keep the track at the same time as my feet, on a very slippery surface, I came an awful 'purler' on my shoulder.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000012|We shall be lucky if we get through without serious injury.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000001|We lost the track.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000002|Later, on soft snow, we picked up e Evans' return track, which we are now following.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000004|The extra food is certainly helping us, but we are getting pretty hungry.
train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000006|It is time we were off the summit-Pray God another four days will see us pretty well clear of it.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000002_000002|Height nine thousand forty feet.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000002_000007|To night we are near camp of december twenty sixth, but cannot see cairn.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000003_000003|The extra food is doing us all good, but we ought to have more sleep.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000001|eight thousand six hundred twenty feet.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000004|Just before lunch unexpectedly fell into crevasses, Evans and I together-a second fall for Evans, and I camped.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000005|After lunch saw disturbance ahead, and what I took for disturbance (land) to the right.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000006|We went on ski over hard shiny descending surface.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000007|Did very well, especially towards end of march, covering in all eighteen point one.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000008|We have come down some hundreds of feet.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000009|Half way in the march the land showed up splendidly, and I decided to make straight for mount Darwin, which we are rounding.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000010|Every sign points to getting away off this plateau.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000013|Bowers is splendid, full of energy and bustle all the time.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000003|A good forenoon, few crevasses; we covered ten point two miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000004|In the afternoon we soon got into difficulties.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000006|An hour after starting we came on huge pressures and great street crevasses partly open.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000007|We had to steer more and more to the west, so that our course was very erratic.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000008|Late in the march we turned more to the north and again encountered open crevasses across our track.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000003|On turning out found sky overcast; a beastly position amidst crevasses.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000004|Luckily it cleared just before we started.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000005|We went straight for mount Darwin, but in half an hour found ourselves amongst huge open chasms, unbridged, but not very deep, I think.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000006|We turned to the north between two, but to our chagrin they converged into chaotic disturbance.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000010|Towards the end of the march we realised the certainty of maintaining a more or less straight course to the depot, and estimate distance ten to fifteen miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000000|Food is low and weather uncertain, so that many hours of the day were anxious; but this evening, though we are not as far advanced as I expected, the outlook is much more promising.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000001|Evans is the chief anxiety now; his cuts and wounds suppurate, his nose looks very bad, and altogether he shows considerable signs of being played out.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000002|Things may mend for him on the glacier, and his wounds get some respite under warmer conditions.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000004|It took us twenty seven days to reach the Pole and twenty one days back-in all forty eight days-nearly seven weeks in low temperature with almost incessant wind.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000001|Height seven thousand one hundred.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000004|A wretched day with satisfactory ending.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000005|First panic, certainty that biscuit box was short.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000007|Bowers is dreadfully disturbed about it.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000008|The shortage is a full day's allowance.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000011_000001|The temperature is higher, but there is a cold wind to night.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000001|Height six thousand two hundred sixty.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000002|Start Temp.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000005|nine point two miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000008|Wind very strong and cold.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000009|Steered in for mount Darwin to visit rock.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000011|He obtained several specimens, all of much the same type, a close grained granite rock which weathers red.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000012|Hence the pink limestone.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000013|After he rejoined we skidded downhill pretty fast, leaders on ski, Oates and Wilson on foot alongside sledge-Evans detached.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000015|However, better things were to follow.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000016|We decided to steer for the moraine under mount Buckley and, pulling with crampons, we crossed some very irregular steep slopes with big crevasses and slid down towards the rocks.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000018|It has been extremely interesting.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000019|We found ourselves under perpendicular cliffs of Beacon sandstone, weathering rapidly and carrying veritable coal seams.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000021|In one place we saw the cast of small waves on the sand.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000022|To night Bill has got a specimen of limestone with archeo cyathus-the trouble is one cannot imagine where the stone comes from; it is evidently rare, as few specimens occur in the moraine.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000023|There is a good deal of pure white quartz.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000024|Altogether we have had a most interesting afternoon, and the relief of being out of the wind and in a warmer temperature is inexpressible.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000028|It is like going ashore after a sea voyage.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000001|Height five thousand two hundred ten feet.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000005|About thirteen miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000006|Kept along the edge of moraine to the end of mount Buckley.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000007|Stopped and geologised.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000009|Too tired to write geological notes.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000010|We all felt very slack this morning, partly rise of temperature, partly reaction, no doubt.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000013|The crevasses were much firmer than expected and we got down with some difficulty, found our night camp of december twentieth, and lunched an hour after.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000014|Did pretty well in the afternoon, marching three and three quarters hours; the sledge meter is unshipped, so cannot tell distance traversed.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000017|It is remarkable to be able to stand outside the tent and sun oneself.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000001|Lunch Temp.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000004|Got off a good morning march in spite of keeping too far east and getting in rough, cracked ice.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000006|After lunch the land began to be obscured.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000007|We held a course for two and a half hours with difficulty, then the sun disappeared, and snow drove in our faces with northerly wind-very warm and impossible to steer, so camped.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000009|The fallen snow crystals are quite feathery like thistledown.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000010|We have two full days' food left, and though our position is uncertain, we are certainly within two outward marches from the middle glacier depot.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000011|However, if the weather doesn't clear by to morrow, we must either march blindly on or reduce food.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000012|It is very trying.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000013|Another night to make up arrears of sleep.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000014|The ice crystals that first fell this afternoon were very large.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000003|The worst day we have had during the trip and greatly owing to our own fault.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000007|We went on for six hours, hoping to do a good distance, which in fact I suppose we did, but for the last hour or two we pressed on into a regular trap.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000012|It got worse, harder, more icy and crevassed.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000013|We could not manage our ski and pulled on foot, falling into crevasses every minute-most luckily no bad accident.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000014|At length we saw a smoother slope towards the land, pushed for it, but knew it was a woefully long way from us.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000015|The turmoil changed in character, irregular crevassed surface giving way to huge chasms, closely packed and most difficult to cross.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000017|We won through at ten p m and I write after twelve hours on the march.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000019|We had three pemmican meals left and decided to make them into four.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000020|To morrow's lunch must serve for two if we do not make big progress.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000022|We have come through well.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000023|A good wind has come down the glacier which is clearing the sky and surface.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000025|Short sleep to night and off first thing, I hope.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000001|In a very critical situation.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000004|In the afternoon, refreshed by tea, we went forward, confident of covering the remaining distance, but by a fatal chance we kept too far to the left, and then we struck uphill and, tired and despondent, arrived in a horrid maze of crevasses and fissures.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000005|Divided councils caused our course to be erratic after this, and finally, at nine p m we landed in the worst place of all.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000006|After discussion we decided to camp, and here we are, after a very short supper and one meal only remaining in the food bag; the depot doubtful in locality.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000007|We must get there to morrow.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000008|Meanwhile we are cheerful with an effort.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000009|It's a tight place, but luckily we've been well fed up to the present.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000010|Pray God we have fine weather to morrow.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000019_000000|[At this point the bearings of the mid glacier depot are given, but need not be quoted.]
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000002|Last night we all slept well in spite of our grave anxieties.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000003|For my part these were increased by my visits outside the tent, when I saw the sky gradually closing over and snow beginning to fall.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000007|At nine we got up, deciding to have tea, and with one biscuit, no pemmican, so as to leave our scanty remaining meal for eventualities.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000009|Here the surface was much smoother and improved rapidly.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000011|Then the whole place got smoother and we turned outward a little.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000014|It was an immense relief, and we were soon in possession of our three and a half days' food.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000015|The relief to all is inexpressible; needless to say, we camped and had a meal.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000000|Marching in the afternoon, I kept more to the left, and closed the mountain till we fell on the stone moraines.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000001|Here Wilson detached himself and made a collection, whilst we pulled the sledge on.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000002|We camped late, abreast the lower end of the mountain, and had nearly our usual satisfying supper.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000003|Yesterday was the worst experience of the trip and gave a horrid feeling of insecurity.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000004|Now we are right up, we must march.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000005|In future food must be worked so that we do not run so short if the weather fails us.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000006|We mustn't get into a hole like this again.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000008|Evans seems to have got mixed up with pressures like ourselves.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000009|It promises to be a very fine day to morrow.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000010|The valley is gradually clearing.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000011|Bowers has had a very bad attack of snow blindness, and Wilson another almost as bad.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000012|Evans has no power to assist with camping work.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000004|We started a little late and pulled on down the moraine.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000005|At first I thought of going right, but soon, luckily, changed my mind and decided to follow the curving lines of the moraines.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000006|This course has brought us well out on the glacier.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000008|At lunch these were scraped and sand papered.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000009|After lunch we got on snow, with ice only occasionally showing through.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000010|A poor start, but the gradient and wind improving, we did six and a half miles before night camp.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000000|There is no getting away from the fact that we are not going strong.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000001|Probably none of us: Wilson's leg still troubles him and he doesn't like to trust himself on ski; but the worst case is Evans, who is giving us serious anxiety.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000003|It delayed us on the march, when he had to have his crampon readjusted.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000004|Sometimes I fear he is going from bad to worse, but I trust he will pick up again when we come to steady work on ski like this afternoon.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000005|He is hungry and so is Wilson.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000006|We can't risk opening out our food again, and as cook at present I am serving something under full allowance.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000007|We are inclined to get slack and slow with our camping arrangements, and small delays increase.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000001|Lunch Temp.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000004|Again we are running short of provision.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000005|We don't know our distance from the depot, but imagine about twenty miles.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000007|We are pulling for food and not very strong evidently.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000008|In the afternoon it was overcast; land blotted out for a considerable interval.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000009|We have reduced food, also sleep; feeling rather done.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000003|A rather trying position.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000004|Evans has nearly broken down in brain, we think.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000007|We are on short rations with not very short food; spin out till to morrow night.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000008|We cannot be more than ten or twelve miles from the depot, but the weather is all against us.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000009|After lunch we were enveloped in a snow sheet, land just looming.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000010|Memory should hold the events of a very troublesome march with more troubles ahead.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000003|The surface was awful, the soft recently fallen snow clogging the ski and runners at every step, the sledge groaning, the sky overcast, and the land hazy.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000005|Half an hour later he dropped out again on the same plea.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000006|He asked Bowers to lend him a piece of string.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000008|We had to push on, and the remainder of us were forced to pull very hard, sweating heavily.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000009|Abreast the Monument Rock we stopped, and seeing Evans a long way astern, I camped for lunch.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000012|By this time we were alarmed, and all four started back on ski.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000014|Asked what was the matter, he replied with a slow speech that he didn't know, but thought he must have fainted.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000015|We got him on his feet, but after two or three steps he sank down again.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000016|He showed every sign of complete collapse.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000017|Wilson, Bowers, and I went back for the sledge, whilst Oates remained with him.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000018|When we returned he was practically unconscious, and when we got him into the tent quite comatose.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000019|He died quietly at twelve thirty a m
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000020|On discussing the symptoms we think he began to get weaker just before we reached the Pole, and that his downward path was accelerated first by the shock of his frostbitten fingers, and later by falls during rough travelling on the glacier, further by his loss of all confidence in himself.
train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000022|It is a terrible thing to lose a companion in this way, but calm reflection shows that there could not have been a better ending to the terrible anxieties of the past week.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000000_000000|On the last day of the journey as the railway train Philip was on was leaving a large city, a lady timidly entered the drawing room car, and hesitatingly took a chair that was at the moment unoccupied.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000001_000000|"Now you can't sit there.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000001_000001|That seat's taken.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000001_000002|Go into the other car."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000003_000000|"There aint any.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000003_000001|Car's full.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000003_000002|You'll have to leave."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000004_000000|"But, sir," said the lady, appealingly, "I thought-"
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000005_000000|"Can't help what you thought-you must go into the other car."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000006_000000|"The train is going very fast, let me stand here till we stop."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000007_000000|"The lady can have my seat," cried Philip, springing up.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000008_000000|The conductor turned towards Philip, and coolly and deliberately surveyed him from head to foot, with contempt in every line of his face, turned his back upon him without a word, and said to the lady,
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000009_000000|"Come, I've got no time to talk.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000009_000001|You must go now."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000000|The lady, entirely disconcerted by such rudeness, and frightened, moved towards the door, opened it and stepped out.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000001|The train was swinging along at a rapid rate, jarring from side to side; the step was a long one between the cars and there was no protecting grating.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000002|The lady attempted it, but lost her balance, in the wind and the motion of the car, and fell!
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000003|She would inevitably have gone down under the wheels, if Philip, who had swiftly followed her, had not caught her arm and drawn her up.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000004|He then assisted her across, found her a seat, received her bewildered thanks, and returned to his car.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000011_000000|The conductor was still there, taking his tickets, and growling something about imposition.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000011_000001|Philip marched up to him, and burst out with,
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000012_000000|"You are a brute, an infernal brute, to treat a woman that way."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000013_000000|"Perhaps you'd like to make a fuss about it," sneered the conductor.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000014_000000|Philip's reply was a blow, given so suddenly and planted so squarely in the conductor's face, that it sent him reeling over a fat passenger, who was looking up in mild wonder that any one should dare to dispute with a conductor, and against the side of the car.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000015_000000|He recovered himself, reached the bell rope, "Damn you, I'll learn you," stepped to the door and called a couple of brakemen, and then, as the speed slackened; roared out,
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000016_000000|"Get off this train."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000017_000000|"I shall not get off.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000018_000000|"We'll see," said the conductor, advancing with the brakemen.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000018_000001|The passengers protested, and some of them said to each other, "That's too bad," as they always do in such cases, but none of them offered to take a hand with Philip.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000018_000002|The men seized him, wrenched him from his seat, dragged him along the aisle, tearing his clothes, thrust him from the car, and, then flung his carpet bag, overcoat and umbrella after him. And the train went on.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000019_000000|The conductor, red in the face and puffing from his exertion, swaggered through the car, muttering "Puppy, I'll learn him." The passengers, when he had gone, were loud in their indignation, and talked about signing a protest, but they did nothing more than talk.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000020_000000|The next morning the Hooverville Patriot and Clarion had this "item":--
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000000|"We learn that as the down noon express was leaving H---- yesterday a lady! (God save the mark) attempted to force herself into the already full palatial car.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000001|Conductor Slum, who is too old a bird to be caught with chaff, courteously informed her that the car was full, and when she insisted on remaining, he persuaded her to go into the car where she belonged.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000002|Thereupon a young sprig, from the East, blustered like a Shanghai rooster, and began to sass the conductor with his chin music. That gentleman delivered the young aspirant for a muss one of his elegant little left handers, which so astonished him that he began to feel for his shooter.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000003|Whereupon mr Slum gently raised the youth, carried him forth, and set him down just outside the car to cool off. Whether the young blood has yet made his way out of Bascom's swamp, we have not learned.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000004|Conductor Slum is one of the most gentlemanly and efficient officers on the road; but he ain't trifled with, not much.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000005|We learn that the company have put a new engine on the seven o'clock train, and newly upholstered the drawing room car throughout.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000006|It spares no effort for the comfort of the traveling public."
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000023_000002|He was somewhat bruised, but he was too angry to mind that.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000023_000004|In the scuffle, his railway check had disappeared, and he grimly wondered, as he noticed the loss, if the company would permit him to walk over their track if they should know he hadn't a ticket.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000000|Philip had to walk some five miles before he reached a little station, where he could wait for a train, and he had ample time for reflection. At first he was full of vengeance on the company.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000001|He would sue it.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000002|He would make it pay roundly.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000003|But then it occurred to him that he did not know the name of a witness he could summon, and that a personal fight against a railway corporation was about the most hopeless in the world. He then thought he would seek out that conductor, lie in wait for him at some station, and thrash him, or get thrashed himself.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000000|But as he got cooler, that did not seem to him a project worthy of a gentleman exactly.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000002|And when he came to this point, he began to ask himself, if he had not acted very much like a fool.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000003|He didn't regret striking the fellow-he hoped he had left a mark on him.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000004|But, after all, was that the best way?
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000005|Here was he, Philip Sterling, calling himself a gentleman, in a brawl with a vulgar conductor, about a woman he had never seen before.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000006|Why should he have put himself in such a ridiculous position?
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000007|Wasn't it enough to have offered the lady his seat, to have rescued her from an accident, perhaps from death?
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000008|Suppose he had simply said to the conductor, "Sir, your conduct is brutal, I shall report you." The passengers, who saw the affair, might have joined in a report against the conductor, and he might really have accomplished something.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000009|And, now!
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000010|Philip looked at his torn clothes, and thought with disgust of his haste in getting into a fight with such an autocrat.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000026_000001|He was a kindly sort of man, and seemed very much interested.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000027_000000|"Dum 'em," said he, when he had heard the story.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000028_000000|"Do you think any thing can be done, sir?"
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000030_000000|When next morning, he read the humorous account in the Patriot and Clarion, he saw still more clearly what chance he would have had before the public in a fight with the railroad company.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000031_000000|Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000031_000001|He confessed that neither he nor any citizen had a right to consult his own feelings or conscience in a case where a law of the land had been violated before his own eyes.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000032_000000|The result of this little adventure was that Philip did not reach Ilium till daylight the next morning, when he descended sleepy and sore, from a way train, and looked about him.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000032_000002|It consisted of the plank platform on which he stood, a wooden house, half painted, with a dirty piazza (unroofed) in front, and a sign board hung on a slanting pole-bearing the legend, "Hotel.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000032_000003|P. Dusenheimer," a sawmill further down the stream, a blacksmith shop, and a store, and three or four unpainted dwellings of the slab variety.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000033_000000|As Philip approached the hotel he saw what appeared to be a wild beast crouching on the piazza.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000033_000001|It did not stir, however, and he soon found that it was only a stuffed skin.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000033_000003|Philip examined his ugly visage and strong crooked fore arm, as he was waiting admittance, having pounded upon the door.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000035_000000|"Morgen!
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000036_000000|Philip was shown into a dirty bar room.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000036_000001|It was a small room, with a stove in the middle, set in a long shallow box of sand, for the benefit of the "spitters," a bar across one end-a mere counter with a sliding glass case behind it containing a few bottles having ambitious labels, and a wash sink in one corner.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000037_000001|Philip managed to complete his toilet by the use of his pocket handkerchief, and declining the hospitality of the landlord, implied in the remark, "You won'd dake notin'?" he went into the open air to wait for breakfast.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000038_000000|The country he saw was wild but not picturesque.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000038_000001|The mountain before him might be eight hundred feet high, and was only a portion of a long unbroken range, savagely wooded, which followed the stream.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000038_000002|Behind the hotel, and across the brawling brook, was another level topped, wooded range exactly like it.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000039_000000|Philip was recalled from the contemplation of Ilium by the rolling and growling of the gong within the hotel, the din and clamor increasing till the house was apparently unable to contain it; when it burst out of the front door and informed the world that breakfast was on the table.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000040_000000|The dining room was long, low and narrow, and a narrow table extended its whole length.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000040_000006|He begged for a glass of milk, after trying that green hued compound called coffee, and made his breakfast out of that and some hard crackers which seemed to have been imported into Ilium before the introduction of the iron horse, and to have withstood a ten years siege of regular boarders, Greeks and others.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000041_000000|The land that Philip had come to look at was at least five miles distant from Ilium station.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000041_000001|A corner of it touched the railroad, but the rest was pretty much an unbroken wilderness, eight or ten thousand acres of rough country, most of it such a mountain range as he saw at Ilium.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000042_000000|His first step was to hire three woodsmen to accompany him.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000042_000001|By their help he built a log hut, and established a camp on the land, and then began his explorations, mapping down his survey as he went along, noting the timber, and the lay of the land, and making superficial observations as to the prospect of coal.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000043_000002|He spent a month in traveling over the land and making calculations; and made up his mind that a fine vein of coal ran through the mountain about a mile from the railroad, and that the place to run in a tunnel was half way towards its summit.
train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000044_000000|Acting with his usual promptness, Philip, with the consent of mr Bolton, broke ground there at once, and, before snow came, had some rude buildings up, and was ready for active operations in the spring.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000000|LET me think where we were.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000001|Oh, yes... that conversation took place on the fourth of August, nineteen thirteen.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000002|I remember saying to her that, on that day, exactly nine years before, I had made their acquaintance, so that it had seemed quite appropriate and like a birthday speech to utter my little testimonial to my friend Edward.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000003|I could quite confidently say that, though we four had been about together in all sorts of places, for all that length of time, I had not, for my part, one single complaint to make of either of them.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000004|And I added, that that was an unusual record for people who had been so much together.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000005|You are not to imagine that it was only at Nauheim that we met.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000006|That would not have suited Florence.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000001|He made another short visit to us in December of that year-the first year of our acquaintance.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000002|It must have been during this visit that he knocked Mr Jimmy's teeth down his throat.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000003|I daresay Florence had asked him to come over for that purpose. In nineteen o five he was in Paris three times-once with Leonora, who wanted some frocks.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000004|In nineteen o six we spent the best part of six weeks together at Mentone, and Edward stayed with us in Paris on his way back to London.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000005|That was how it went.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000000|The fact was that in Florence the poor wretch had got hold of a Tartar, compared with whom Leonora was a sucking kid.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000001|He must have had a hell of a time.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000002|Leonora wanted to keep him for-what shall I say-for the good of her church, as it were, to show that Catholic women do not lose their men.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000003|Let it go at that, for the moment.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000004|I will write more about her motives later, perhaps.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000005|But Florence was sticking on to the proprietor of the home of her ancestors.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000006|No doubt he was also a very passionate lover.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000007|But I am convinced that he was sick of Florence within three years of even interrupted companionship and the life that she led him....
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000001|I daresay he would have faced it out; I daresay he would have thrown over Florence and taken the risk of exposure.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000002|But there he had Leonora to deal with. And Leonora assured him that, if the minutest fragment of the real situation ever got through to my senses, she would wreak upon him the most terrible vengeance that she could think of.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000004|Florence called for more and more attentions from him as the time went on.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000006|Oh, yes, it was a difficult job for him.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000007_000000|For Florence, if you please, gaining in time a more composed view of nature, and overcome by her habits of garrulity, arrived at a frame of mind in which she found it almost necessary to tell me all about it-nothing less than that.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000000|She proposed to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California....
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000003|Besides she had got it into her head that Leonora, who was as sound as a roach, was consumptive.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000004|She was always begging Leonora, before me, to go and see a doctor.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000005|But, none the less, poor Edward seems to have believed in her determination to carry him off.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000006|He would not have gone; he cared for his wife too much.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000008|And she could have made it pretty hot for him in ten or a dozen different ways.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000010|She was determined to spare my feelings.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000009_000001|Let me come to the fourth of August, nineteen thirteen, the last day of my absolute ignorance-and, I assure you, of my perfect happiness.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000009_000002|For the coming of that dear girl only added to it all.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000010_000003|Florence, I remember, had said at first that she would remain with Leonora, and me, and Edward and the girl had gone off alone.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000010_000004|And then Leonora had said to Florence with perfect calmness:
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000000|"I wish you would go with those two.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000001|I think the girl ought to have the appearance of being chaperoned with Edward in these places.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000002|I think the time has come." So Florence, with her light step, had slipped out after them.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000004|Americans are particular in those matters.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000012_000002|The man called Bagshawe had been reading The Times on the other side of the room, but then he moved over to me with some trifling question as a prelude to suggesting an acquaintance.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000012_000003|I fancy he asked me something About the poll tax on Kur guests, and whether it could not be sneaked out of.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000012_000004|He was that sort of person.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000013_000000|Well, he was an unmistakable man, with a military figure, rather exaggerated, with bulbous eyes that avoided your own, and a pallid complexion that suggested vices practised in secret along with an uneasy desire for making acquaintance at whatever cost....
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000013_000001|The filthy toad... .
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000014_000000|He began by telling me that he came from Ludlow Manor, near Ledbury. The name had a slightly familiar sound, though I could not fix it in my mind.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000014_000001|Then he began to talk about a duty on hops, about Californian hops, about Los Angeles, where he had been.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000014_000002|He fencing for a topic with which he might gain my affection.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000000|And then, quite suddenly, in the bright light of the street, I saw Florence running.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000001|It was like that-I saw Florence running with a face whiter than paper and her hand on the black stuff over her heart.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000002|I tell you, my own heart stood still; I tell you I could not move.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000003|She rushed in at the swing doors.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000004|She looked round that place of rush chairs, cane tables and newspapers.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000005|She saw me and opened her lips.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000006|She saw the man who was talking to me.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000007|She stuck her hands over her face as if she wished to push her eyes out.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000016_000000|I could not move; I could not stir a finger.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000000|"By Jove: Florry Hurlbird." He turned upon me with an oily and uneasy sound meant for a laugh.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000001|He was really going to ingratiate himself with me.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000002|"Do you know who that is?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000003|"The last time I saw that girl she was coming out of the bedroom of a young man called Jimmy at five o'clock in the morning.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000005|You saw her recognize me." He was standing on his feet, looking down at me.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000006|I don't know what I looked like.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000007|At any rate, he gave a sort of gurgle and then stuttered:
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000000|"Oh, I say...." Those were the last words I ever heard of Mr Bagshawe's. A long time afterwards I pulled myself out of the lounge and went up to Florence's room.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000001|She had not locked the door-for the first time of our married life.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000002|She was lying, quite respectably arranged, unlike Mrs Maidan, on her bed.
train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000003|She had a little phial that rightly should have contained nitrate of amyl, in her right hand.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000000|"I suppose I ought to enjoy the joke of what's going on here," I wrote, "but somehow it doesn't amuse me.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000004|I delight in his nonsense myself; why is it therefore that I grudge these happy folk their artless satisfaction?
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000005|Mystery of the human heart-abyss of the critical spirit! mrs Wimbush thinks she can answer that question, and as my want of gaiety has at last worn out her patience she has given me a glimpse of her shrewd guess.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000007|To be intimate with him is a feather in my cap; it gives me an importance that I couldn't naturally pretend to, and I seek to deprive him of social refreshment because I fear that meeting more disinterested people may enlighten him as to my real motive.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000008|All the disinterested people here are his particular admirers and have been carefully selected as such. There's supposed to be a copy of his last book in the house, and in the hall I come upon ladies, in attitudes, bending gracefully over the first volume.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000010|There's a sociable circle or a confidential couple, and the relinquished volume lies open on its face and as dropped under extreme coercion.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000011|Somebody else presently finds it and transfers it, with its air of momentary desolation, to another piece of furniture.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000013|I'm sure it's rather smudgy about the twentieth page.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000014|I've a strong impression, too, that the second volume is lost-has been packed in the bag of some departing guest; and yet everybody has the impression that somebody else has read to the end.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000015|You see therefore that the beautiful book plays a great part in our existence.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000016|Why should I take the occasion of such distinguished honours to say that I begin to see deeper into Gustave Flaubert's doleful refrain about the hatred of literature?
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000017|I refer you again to the perverse constitution of man.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000002|She can't have a personal taste any more than, when her husband succeeds, she can have a personal crown, and her opinion on any matter is rusty and heavy and plain-made, in the night of ages, to last and be transmitted.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000003|I feel as if I ought to 'tip' some custode for my glimpse of it.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000004|She has been told everything in the world and has never perceived anything, and the echoes of her education respond awfully to the rash footfall-I mean the casual remark-in the cold Valhalla of her memory.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000006|He's perpetually detailed for this job, and he tells me it has a peculiarly exhausting effect.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000007|Every one's beginning-at the end of two days-to sidle obsequiously away from her, and mrs Wimbush pushes him again and again into the breach.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000008|None of the uses I have yet seen him put to infuriate me quite so much.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000010|Last night I had some talk with him about going to day, cutting his visit short; so sure am I that he'll be better as soon as he's shut up in his lighthouse.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000011|He told me that this is what he would like to do; reminding me, however, that the first lesson of his greatness has been precisely that he can't do what he likes.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000013|When I hint that a violent rupture with our hostess would be the best thing in the world for him he gives me to understand that if his reason assents to the proposition his courage hangs woefully back.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000014|He makes no secret of being mortally afraid of her, and when I ask what harm she can do him that she hasn't already done he simply repeats: 'I'm afraid, I'm afraid!
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000015|Don't enquire too closely,' he said last night; 'only believe that I feel a sort of terror.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000017|At any rate, I'd as soon overturn that piece of priceless Sevres as tell her I must go before my date.' It sounds dreadfully weak, but he has some reason, and he pays for his imagination, which puts him (I should hate it) in the place of others and makes him feel, even against himself, their feelings, their appetites, their motives.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000020|He's too beastly intelligent.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000003|I never willingly talk to these people about him, but see what a comfort I find it to scribble to you!
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000004|I appreciate it-it keeps me warm; there are no fires in the house.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000005|mrs Wimbush goes by the calendar, the temperature goes by the weather, the weather goes by God knows what, and the Princess is easily heated.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000008|When I asked her what she was looking for she said she had mislaid something that mr Paraday had lent her.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000010|When I expressed my surprise that he should have bandied about anything so precious (I happen to know it's his only copy-in the most beautiful hand in all the world) Lady Augusta confessed to me that she hadn't had it from himself, but from mrs Wimbush, who had wished to give her a glimpse of it as a salve for her not being able to stay and hear it read.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000005_000002|Meanwhile mrs Wimbush has found out about him, and is actively wiring to him.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000006_000001|The clear thing is that mrs Wimbush doesn't guard such a treasure so jealously as she might.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000007_000000|"'Poor dear, she has the Princess to guard!
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000007_000001|mr Paraday lent her the manuscript to look over.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000008_000000|"'She spoke, you mean, as if it were the morning paper?'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000009_000000|"Lady Augusta stared-my irony was lost on her.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000009_000001|'She didn't have time, so she gave me a chance first; because unfortunately I go to morrow to Bigwood.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000010_000000|"'And your chance has only proved a chance to lose it?'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000011_000000|"'I haven't lost it.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000011_000002|I told my maid to give it to Lord Dorimont-or at least to his man.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000012_000000|"'And Lord Dorimont went away directly after luncheon.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000013_000000|"'Of course he gave it back to my maid-or else his man did,' said Lady Augusta. 'I dare say it's all right.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000014_000001|They haven't time to look over a priceless composition; they've only time to kick it about the house.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000014_000003|Their questions are too delightful!
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000014_000004|I declared to Lady Augusta briefly that nothing in the world can ever do so well as the thing that does best; and at this she looked a little disconcerted.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000015_000001|Oh the Princess will get up!' said Lady Augusta.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000016_000000|"'I thought she was mr Paraday's greatest admirer.'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000017_000000|"'I dare say she is-she's so awfully clever.
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000017_000001|But what's the use of being a Princess-'
train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000018_000000|"'If you can't dissemble your love?' I asked as Lady Augusta was vague. She said at any rate she'd question her maid; and I'm hoping that when I go down to dinner I shall find the manuscript has been recovered."
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000001_000000|TELLS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT IN CULLEN MAYLE'S BEDROOM
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000000|I was very tired, but in spite of my fatigue it was some while before I fell asleep.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000001|Parmiter had thrown a new light upon the business tonight, and by the help of that light I arrayed afresh my scanty knowledge.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000002|The strangeness of my position, besides, kept me in some excitement.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000004|Finally, there was the adventure of that night.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000006|I heard again that unearthly screeching which had so frightened Dick and perplexed me, It perplexed me still.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000007|I could not for a moment entertain Dick's supposition of a spirit.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000009|Ghosts and bogies might do very well for the island of Tresco, but mr Berkeley was not to be terrified with any such old wives' stories, and so mr Berkeley fell asleep.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000003_000001|The room was so dark that I could not have read my watch, even if I had looked at it, which I did not think to do.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000003_000002|But at some time during that night I woke up quite suddenly with a clear sense that I had been waked up.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000001|The fog was still thick about the house, so that hardly a glimmer of light came from the window.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000005|It was taller than any human being that I had seen.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000007|And then it made a sound, and all the blood in my veins stood still.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000008|I thought that my heart would stop or my brain burst.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000009|For the sound was neither a screech like that which rose from the hollow, nor a groan, nor any ghostly noise.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000010|It was purely human, it was a kecking sound in the throat, such as one makes who gasps for breath.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000011|The white thing was a live thing of flesh and blood.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000005_000000|I sprang up on the bed and jumped to the foot of it.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000005_000002|Her eyes were open and they stared into mine.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000005_000003|I could see the whites of them; our heads were so near they almost touched.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000001|I wondered what it was on which she stood.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000002|I noticed a streak of white which ran straight up towards the ceiling from behind her head, and I wondered what that was.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000004|She was standing on nothing whatever!
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000005|Again the queer gasping coughing noise broke from her lips, and at last I understood it.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000008|With the other arm I felt about her neck.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000009|A thick soft scarf-silk it seemed to the touch-was knotted tightly round it, and the end of the scarf ran up to the cross beam above the bed posts.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000010|The scarf was the streak of white.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000007_000000|I fumbled at the knot with my fingers.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000007_000001|It was a slip knot, and now that no weight kept it taut, it loosened easily.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000007_000002|I slipped the noose back over her head and left it dangling.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000008_000000|I flung up the window and the cold fog poured into the room.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000008_000003|I groped for the chair and set it to face the open night.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000008_000004|Then I carried the woman to the window and placed her in the chair, and supported her so that she might not fall.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000000|Such light as there was, glimmered upon the woman's face.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000001|I saw that she was young, little more than a girl indeed, with hair and eyes of an extreme blackness.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000002|She was of a slight figure as I knew from the ease with which I carried her, but tall.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000003|I could not doubt who it was, for one thing the white dress she wore was of some fine soft fabric, and even in that light it was easy to see that she was beautiful.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000010_000000|I held her thus with the cold salt air blowing upon her face, and in a little, she began to recover.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000010_000001|She moved her hands upon her lap, and finally lifted one and held her throat with it.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000011_000000|"Very likely there will be some water in the room," said i "If you are safe, if you will not fall, I will look for it."
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000012_000000|"Thank you," she murmured.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000013_000001|I took my arm from her waist and groped about the room for the water jug.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000013_000002|I found it at last and a glass beside it.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000013_000003|These I carried back to the window.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000000|The girl was still seated on the chair, but she had changed her attitude.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000001|She had leaned her arms upon the sill and her head upon her arms.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000002|I poured out the water from the jug into the tumbler.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000004|I spoke to her.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000005|She did not answer me.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000006|A horrible fear turned me cold.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000007|I knelt down by her side, and setting down the water gently lifted her head.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000009|Her eyes were closed, but she was breathing.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000010|I could feel her breath upon my cheek and it came steadily and regular.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000011|I cannot describe my astonishment; she was in a deep sleep.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000015_000000|I pondered for a moment what I should do!
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000015_000001|Should I wake the household? Should I explain what had happened and my presence in the house?
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000000|I propped her securely in the chair, then crossed the room, opened the door and listened.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000001|The house was very still; so far no one had been disturbed.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000002|A long narrow passage stretched in front of me, with doors upon either side.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000003|Remembering what Dick Parmiter had told me, I mean that every sound reverberated through the house, I crept down the landing on tiptoe.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000004|I had only my stockings upon my feet and I crept forward so carefully that I could not hear my own footfalls.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000017_000000|I had taken some twenty paces when the passage opened out to my right. I put out my hand and touched a balustrade.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000018_000000|I crept forward, and at last at the far end of the house and on the left hand of the passage I came to that for which I searched, and which I barely hoped to find-an open door.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000018_000001|I held my breath and listened in the doorway, but there was no sound of any one breathing, so I stepped into the room.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000001|I looked round the room.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000002|It was a large bedroom, and the bed had not been slept in.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000004|It had two big windows looking out towards the sea, and as I stood in the dim grey light, I wondered whether it was from one of those windows that Adam Mayle had looked years before, and seen the brigantine breaking up upon the Golden Ball Reef.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000005|But the light was broadening with the passage of every minute.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000007|Helen Mayle was still asleep, and she had not moved from her posture.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000008|I raised her in my arms, and still she did not wake.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000009|I carried her down the passage, through the open door and laid her on the bed.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000011|She nestled down beneath it and her lips smiled very prettily, and she uttered a little purring murmur of content; but this she did in her sleep.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000012|She slept with the untroubled sleep of a child.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000013|Her face was pale, but that I took to be its natural complexion.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000014|Her long black eyelashes rested upon her cheeks.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000015|There was no hint of any trouble in her expression, no trace of any passionate despair.
train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000020_000000|Yet there was no doubt possible.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000004_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000006_000000|At the side farthest from the town, close under a bluff, there was an extensive marah, or sheepcot, ages old.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000006_000001|In some long forgotten foray, the building had been unroofed and almost demolished. The enclosure attached to it remained intact, however, and that was of more importance to the shepherds who drove their charges thither than the house itself.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000006_000003|On the inner side of the wall, and as an additional security against the constant danger, a hedge of the rhamnus had been planted, an invention so successful that now a sparrow could hardly penetrate the overtopping branches, armed as they were with great clusters of thorns hard as spikes.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000007_000000|The day of the occurrences which occupy the preceding chapters, a number of shepherds, seeking fresh walks for their flocks, led them up to this plain; and from early morning the groves had been made ring with calls, and the blows of axes, the bleating of sheep and goats, the tinkling of bells, the lowing of cattle, and the barking of dogs.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000009_000000|Such were the shepherds of Judea!
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000009_000001|In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs sitting with them around the blaze; in fact, simple minded, tender hearted; effects due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000010_000000|They rested and talked, and their talk was all about their flocks, a dull theme to the world, yet a theme which was all the world to them.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000012_000001|On Sabbaths they were accustomed to purify themselves, and go up into the synagogues, and sit on the benches farthest from the ark.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000013_000000|While they talked, and before the first watch was over, one by one the shepherds went to sleep, each lying where he had sat
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000000|By the gate, hugging his mantle close, the watchman walked; at times he stopped, attracted by a stir among the sleeping herds, or by a jackal's cry off on the mountain side.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000001|The midnight was slow coming to him; but at last it came.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000002|His task was done; now for the dreamless sleep with which labor blesses its wearied children!
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000003|He moved towards the fire, but paused; a light was breaking around him, soft and white, like the moon's.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000004|He waited breathlessly. The light deepened; things before invisible came to view; he saw the whole field, and all it sheltered.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000005|A chill sharper than that of the frosty air-a chill of fear-smote him.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000006|He looked up; the stars were gone; the light was dropping as from a window in the sky; as he looked, it became a splendor; then, in terror, he cried,
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000016_000000|"Awake, awake!"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000019_000000|The men clambered to their feet, weapons in hand.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000020_000000|"What is it?" they asked, in one voice.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000021_000000|"See!" cried the watchman, "the sky is on fire!"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000023_000000|"Fear not!"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000025_000000|"Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000028_000000|Directly the angel continued:
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000029_000000|"For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord!"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000033_000000|"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men!"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000034_000000|Not once the praise, but many times.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000035_000001|Long after he was gone, down from the sky fell the refrain in measure mellowed by distance, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000036_000000|When the shepherds came fully to their senses, they stared at each other stupidly, until one of them said, "It was Gabriel, the Lord's messenger unto men."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000038_000000|"Christ the Lord is born; said he not so?"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000039_000000|Then another recovered his voice, and replied, "That is what he said."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000040_000001|And that we should find him a babe in swaddling clothes?"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000042_000001|Brethren, let us go see this thing which has come to pass.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000042_000002|The priests and doctors have been a long time looking for the Christ.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000042_000004|Let us go up and worship him."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000043_000000|"But the flocks!"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000044_000000|"The Lord will take care of them.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000044_000001|Let us make haste."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000045_000000|Then they all arose and left the marah.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000047_000000|"What would you have?" he asked.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000048_000000|"We have seen and heard great things to night," they replied.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000049_000001|What did you hear?"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000050_000000|"Let us go down to the cave in the enclosure, that we may be sure; then we will tell you all.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000050_000001|Come with us, and see for yourself."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000051_000000|"It is a fool's errand."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000052_000000|"No, the Christ is born."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000053_000000|"The Christ!
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000053_000001|How do you know?"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000054_000000|"Let us go and see first."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000055_000000|The man laughed scornfully.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000056_000000|"The Christ indeed!
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000056_000001|How are you to know him?"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000058_000000|"The cave?"
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000059_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000059_000001|Come with us."
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000060_000000|They went through the court yard without notice, although there were some up even then talking about the wonderful light.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000060_000001|The door of the cavern was open.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000061_000000|"I give you peace," the watchman said to Joseph and the Beth Dagonite.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000065_000001|Then the bystanders collected about the two.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000066_000000|"It is the Christ!" said a shepherd, at last.
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000067_000000|"The Christ!" they all repeated, falling upon their knees in worship. One of them repeated several times over,
train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000069_000001|In the khan, to all the people aroused and pressing about them, they told their story; and through the town, and all the way back to the marah, they chanted the refrain of the angels, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men!"
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000004_000000|Few mothers, perhaps, have had less trouble with their children during their minority than myself.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000004_000001|In general, my children were friendly to each other, and it was very seldom that I knew them to have the least difference or quarrel: so far, indeed, were they from rendering themselves or me uncomfortable, that I considered myself happy-more so than commonly falls to the lot of parents, especially to women.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000001|After Thomas and john arrived to manhood, in addition to the former charge, john got two wives, with whom he lived till the time of his death.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000002|Although polygamy was tolerated in our tribe, Thomas considered it a violation of good and wholesome rules in society, and tending directly to destroy that friendly social intercourse and love, that ought to be the happy result of matrimony and chastity.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000003|Consequently, he frequently reprimanded john, by telling him that his conduct was beneath the dignity, and inconsistent with the principles of good Indians; indecent and unbecoming a gentleman; and, as he never could reconcile himself to it, he was frequently, almost constantly, when they were together, talking to him on the same subject.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000004|john always resented such reprimand, and reproof, with a great degree of passion, though they never quarrelled, unless Thomas was intoxicated.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000006_000000|In his fits of drunkenness, Thomas seemed to lose all his natural reason, and to conduct like a wild or crazy man, without regard to relatives, decency or propriety.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000006_000001|At such times he often threatened to take my life for having raised a witch, (as he called john,) and has gone so far as to raise his tomahawk to split my head.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000006_000002|He, however, never struck me; but on John's account he struck Hiokatoo, and thereby excited in john a high degree of indignation, which was extinguished only by blood.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000000|For a number of years their difficulties, and consequent unhappiness, continued and rather increased, continually exciting in my breast the most fearful apprehensions, and greatest anxiety for their safety.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000001|With tears in my eyes, I advised them to become reconciled to each other, and to be friendly; told them the consequences of their continuing to cherish so much malignity and malice, that it would end in their destruction, the disgrace of their families, and bring me down to the grave.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000002|No one can conceive of the constant trouble that I daily endured on their account-on the account of my two oldest sons, whom I loved equally, and with all the feelings and affection of a tender mother, stimulated by an anxious concern for their fate.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000003|Parents, mothers especially, will love their children, though ever so unkind and disobedient.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000004|Their eyes of compassion, of real sentimental affection, will be involuntarily extended after them, in their greatest excesses of iniquity; and those fine filaments of consanguinity, which gently entwine themselves around the heart where filial love and parental care is equal, will be lengthened, and enlarged to cords seemingly of sufficient strength to reach and reclaim the wanderer.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000008_000000|My advice and expostulations with my sons were abortive; and year after year their disaffection for each other increased.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000008_000002|He caught Thomas by the hair of his head, dragged him out at the door and there killed him, by a blow which he gave him on the head with his tomahawk!
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000000|I returned soon after, and found my son lifeless at the door, on the spot where he was killed!
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000001|No one can judge of my feelings on seeing this mournful spectacle; and what greatly added to my distress, was the fact that he had fallen by the murderous hand of his brother!
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000002|I felt my situation unsupportable.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000003|Having passed through various scenes of trouble of the most cruel and trying kind, I had hoped to spend my few remaining days in quietude, and to die in peace, surrounded by my family.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000004|This fatal event, however, seemed to be a stream of woe poured into my cup of afflictions, filling it even to overflowing, and blasting all my prospects.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000010_000001|Shanks set out on his errand immediately,--and john, fearing that he should be apprehended and punished for the crime he had committed, at the same time went off towards Caneadea.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000014_000002|He was manly in his deportment, courageous and, active; and commanded respect.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000014_000003|Though he appeared well pleased with peace, he was cunning in Indian warfare, and succeeded to admiration in the execution of his plans.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000000|At the age of fourteen or fifteen years, he went into the war with manly fortitude, armed with a tomahawk and scalping knife; and when he returned, brought one white man a prisoner, whom he had taken with his own hands, on the west branch of the Susquehannah river.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000001|It so happened, that as he was looking out for his enemies, he discovered two men boiling sap in the woods.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000002|He watched them unperceived, till dark when he advanced with a noiseless step to where they were standing, caught one of them before they were apprized of danger, and conducted him to the camp.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000003|He was well treated while a prisoner, and redeemed at the close of the war.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000016_000001|He was a great Counsellor and a Chief when quite young; and in the last capacity, went two or three times to Philadelphia to assist in making treaties with the people of the states.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000017_000000|Thomas had four wives, by whom he had eight children.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000017_000001|Jacob Jemison, his second son by his last wife, who is at this time twenty seven or twenty eight years of age, went to Dartmouth college, in the spring of eighteen sixteen, for the purpose of receiving a good education, where it was said that he was an industrious scholar, and made great proficiency in the study of the different branches to which he attended.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000017_000002|Having spent two years at that Institution, he returned in the winter of eighteen eighteen, and is now at Buffalo; where I have understood that he contemplates commencing the study of medicine, as a profession.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000018_000000|Thomas, at the time he was killed, was a few moons over fifty two years old, and john was forty eight.
train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000018_000002|He fell a victim to the use of ardent spirits-a poison that will soon exterminate the Indian tribes in this part of the country, and leave their names without a root or branch.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000001_000000|Chapter forty one.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000002_000000|The State Prison.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000003_000000|The regent's re entrance into the citadel of Stirling, being on the evening preceding the day he had promised should see the English lords depart for their country, De Warenne, as a mark of respect to a man whom he could not but regard with admiration, went to the barbican gate to bid him welcome.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000006_000000|After having transferred his captives to the charge of Lord Mar, Wallace went alone to the chamber of Montgomery, to see whether the state of his wounds would allow him to march on the morrow.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000006_000001|While he was yet there, an invitation arrived from the Countess of Mar, requesting his presence at an entertainment which, by her husband's consent, she meant to give that night at Snawdoun, to the Southron lords before their departure for England.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000007_000000|"I fear you dare not expend your strength on this party?" inquired Wallace, turning to Montgomery.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000008_000000|"Certainly not," returned he; "but I shall see you amidst your noble friends, at some future period.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000008_000001|When the peace your arms must win, is established between the two nations, I shall then revisit Scotland; and openly declare my friendship for Sir William Wallace."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000000|"Sanguinary have been the instruments of my sovereign's rule in Scotland," replied Montgomery; "but such cruelty is foreign to his gallant heart; and without offending that high souled patriotism, which would make me revere its possessor, were he the lowliest man in your legions, allow me, noblest of Scots, to plead one word in vindication of him to whom my allegiance is pledged.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000001|Had he come hither, conducted by war alone, what would Edward have been worse than any other conqueror?
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000002|But on the reverse, was not his right to the supremacy of Scotland acknowledged by the princes who contended for the crown?
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000003|And besides, did not all the great lords swear fealty to England, on the day he nominated their king?"
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000011_000001|All the princes whom you speak of, excepting Bruce of Annandale, did assent to the newly offered claim of Edward on Scotland; but who, amongst them, had any probable chance for the throne, but Bruce or Baliol?
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000011_000002|Such ready acquiescence was meant to create them one.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000011_000003|Bruce, conscious of his inherent rights, rejected the iniquitous demand of Edward; Baliol accorded with it, and was made king.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000003|Terrible as such ambition was, it is innocence to what Edward has done.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000005|Was this honor?
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000006|Was this the right of conquest?
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000007|The cheek of Alexander would have blushed deep as his Tyrian robe; and the face of Charlemagne turned pale as the lilies, at the bare suspicion of being capable of such a deed.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000013_000000|"No, Lord Montgomery, it is not our conqueror we are opposing; it is a traitor, who, under the mask of friendship, has attempted to usurp our rights, destroy our liberties, and make a desert of our once happy country.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000014_000000|"I will think of this discourse," returned Montgomery, "when I am far distant; and rely on it, noble Wallace that I will assert the privilege of my birth, and counsel my king as becomes an honest man."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000015_000000|"Highly would he estimate such counsel," cried Wallace, "had he virtue to feel that he who will be just to his sovereign's enemies must be of an honor that will bind him with double fidelity to his king.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000015_000001|Such proof give your sovereign; and, if he have one spark of that greatness of mind which you say he possesses, though he may not adopt your advice, he must respect the adviser."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000000|As Wallace pressed the hand of his new friend, to leave him to repose, a messenger entered from Lord Mar, to request the regent's presence in his closet.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000001|He found him with Lord de Warenne.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000002|The latter presented him with another dispatch from the Prince of Wales.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000003|It was to say, that news had reached him of Wallace's design to attack the castles garrisoned by England, on the eastern coast.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000017_000001|Both the castles and the fleets are taken; and what punishment must we now expect from this terrible threatener?"
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000018_000000|"Little from him, or his headlong counselors," replied De Warenne; "but Thomas Earl of Lancaster, the king's nephew, is come from abroad with a numerous army.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000018_000001|He is to conduct the Scottish prisoners to the borders, and then to fall upon Scotland with all his strength, unless you previously surrender, not only Berwick, but Stirling, and the whole of the district between the Forth and the Tweed, into his hands."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000019_000000|"My Lord de Warenne," replied Wallace, "you can expect but one return to these absurd demands.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000019_000001|I shall accompany you myself to the Scottish borders, and there made my reply."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000021_000002|Is not the greater part of the Lowlands free?
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000021_000007|Let Edward yield to that, and though he has pierced us with many wounds, we will yet forgive him."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000022_000000|De Warenne shook his head; "I know my king too well to expect pacific measures.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000022_000001|He may die with the sword in his hand; but he will never grant an hour's repose to this country till it submits to his scepter."
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000023_000001|If the blood of Abel called for vengeance on his murderer, what must be the vials of wrath which are reserved for thee?"
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000025_000001|All warfare that is not defensive is criminal; and he who draws his sword to oppress, or merely to aggrandize, is a murderer and a robber.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000026_000001|I revere your principle, Sir William Wallace; but it is too sublime to be mine.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000026_000002|Nay, nor would it be politic for one who holds his possessions in England by the right of conquest to question the virtue of the deed.
train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000026_000003|By the sword my ancestors gained their estates; and with the sword I have no objection to extend my territories."
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000004_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000006_000001|Repeated experiments have proved that no brood can be raised in a hive, unless the bees are supplied with it.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000006_000002|It contains none of the elements of wax, but is rich in what chemists call nitrogenous substances, which are not contained in honey, and which furnish ample nourishment for the development of the growing bee.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000006_000003|dr Hunter dissected some immature bees, and found their stomachs to contain farina, but not a particle of honey.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000000|We are indebted to Huber for the discovery of the use made by the bees of pollen.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000001|That it did not serve as food for the mature bees, was evident from the fact that large supplies are often found in hives whose inmates have starved to death.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000002|It was this fact which led the old observers to conclude that it was gathered for the purpose of building comb.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000003|After Huber had demonstrated that wax is secreted from an entirely different substance, he was soon led to conjecture that the bee bread must be used for the nourishment of the embryo bees.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000004|By rigid experiments he proved the truth of this supposition.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000005|Bees were confined to their hive without any pollen, after being supplied with honey, eggs and larvae.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000006|In a short time the young all perished.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000007|A fresh supply of brood was given to them, with an ample allowance of pollen, and the development of the larvae then proceeded in the natural way.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000000|In the backward spring of eighteen fifty two, I had an excellent opportunity of testing the value of this substance.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000001|In one of my hives, was an artificial swarm of the previous year.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000002|The hive was well protected, being double, and the situation was warm.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000003|I opened it on the fifth of February, and although the weather, until within a week of that time, had been unusually cold, I found many of the cells filled with brood.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000001|My experiments do not corroborate this theory, but tend to confirm the views of Huber, and to show the absolute necessity of pollen to the development of brood.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000002|The same able contributor to Apiarian science, thinks that pollen is used by the bees when they are engaged in comb building; and that unless they are well supplied with it, they cannot rapidly secrete wax, without very severely taxing their strength.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000003|But as all the elements of wax are found in honey, and none of them in pollen, this opinion does not seem to me, to be entitled to much weight.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000004|That bees cannot live upon pollen without any honey, is proved by the fact, that large stores of it are often found, in hives whose occupants have died of starvation; that they can live without it, is equally well known; but that the full grown bees make some use of it in connection with honey, for their own nourishment, I believe to be highly probable.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000014_000001|The body of the bee appears, to the naked eye, to be covered with fine hairs; to these, when the bee alights on a flower, the farina adheres.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000000|It has been observed that a bee, in gathering pollen, always confines herself to the same kind of flower on which she begins, even when that is not so abundant as some others.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000001|Thus if you examine a ball of this substance taken from her thigh, it is found to be of one uniform color throughout: the load of one will be yellow, another red, and a third brown; the color varying according to that of the plant from which it was obtained.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000002|It is probable that the pollen of different kinds of flowers would not pack so well together.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000003|It is certain that if they flew from one species to another, there would be a much greater mixture of different varieties than there now is, for they carry on their bodies the pollen or fertilizing principle, and thus aid most powerfully in the impregnation of plants.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000018_000000|He must be blind indeed, who will not see, at every step in the natural history of this insect, the plainest proofs of the wisdom of its Creator.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000019_000001|At first the importance of its products, when honey was the only natural sweet, served most powerfully to attract his attention to its curious habits; and now since the cultivation of the sugar cane has diminished the relative value of its luscious sweets, the superior knowledge which has been obtained of its instincts, is awakening an increasing enthusiasm in its cultivation.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000020_000000|Virgil in the fourth book of his Georgics, which is entirely devoted to bees, speaks of them as having received a direct emanation from the Divine Intelligence.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000020_000001|And many modern Apiarians are almost disposed to rank the bee for sagacity, as next in the scale of creation to man.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000021_000007|The feeding is continued till the bees cease to carry away the meal; that is, until the natural supplies furnish them with a preferable article.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000021_000008|The average consumption of each colony is about two pounds of meal!
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000022_000000|At the last annual Apiarian Convention in Germany, a cultivator recommended wheat flour as an excellent substitute for pollen.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000022_000001|He says that in February, eighteen fifty two, he used it with the best results.
train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000023_000000|The construction of my hives, permits the flour to be placed, at once, where the bees can take it, without being compelled to waste their time in going out for it, or to suffer for the want of it, when the weather confines them at home.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000000|The unwillingness of a swarm of bees, which has been deprived of its queen, to receive another, until after some time has elapsed, must always be borne in mind, by those who have anything to do with making artificial swarms.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000002|To prevent such losses, I adopt the German plan of confining the queen, in what they call, "a queen cage." A small hole, about as large as a thimble, may be gouged out of a block, and covered over with wire gauze, or any other kind of perforated cover, so that when the queen is put in, the bees cannot enter to destroy her.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000003|Before long, they will cultivate an acquaintance, by thrusting their antennae through to her; so that, when she is liberated the next day, they will gladly adopt her in place of the one they have lost.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000004|If a hole large enough for her to creep out, is closed with wax, they will gnaw the wax away, and liberate her themselves, from her confinement.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000005|Queens that seem bent on departing to the woods, may be confined in the same way, until the colony has given up all thoughts of forsaking its hive.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000006|A small paste board box with suitable holes, or a wooden match box thoroughly scalded, I have found to answer a very good purpose.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000001|A solid block about an inch and a quarter thick, is substituted for one of my frames; holes, about one and a half inches in diameter, are bored through it, and covered on both sides, with gauze wire slides; the wire ought to be such as will allow a common bee to pass through, but should be too small to permit a queen to do the same.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000002|Any kind of perforated cover may be made to answer the same purpose as the gauze wire.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000003|If a number of sealed queens are on hand, and there is danger that some may hatch, and destroy the others, before the Apiarian can make use of them in forming artificial swarms, he may very carefully cut out the combs containing them, and place them each in a separate cradle!
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000004|The bees having access to them, will give them proper attention, and as soon as they are hatched, will supply them with food, and thus they will always be on hand for use when they are needed.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000008|Nine things out of ten may work to a charm, and yet the tenth may be so connected with the other nine, that its failure renders their success of no account.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000009|When I first used this Nursery, I did not give the bees access to it, and I found that the queens were not properly developed, and died in their cells.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000002_000000|Last Spring, I made one queen supply several hives with eggs, so as to keep them strong in numbers while they were constantly engaged in rearing a large number of spare queens.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000002_000005|Two queens may in this way, be made in six hives to furnish all the supernumerary queens which will be wanted in quite a large Apiary.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000000|I am now prepared to answer an objection which doubtless has been present in the minds of many, all the time that they have been reading the various processes on which I rely for the multiplication of colonies.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000001|A very large number of persons who keep bees, or who wish to keep them, are so much afraid of them that they object entirely even to natural swarming, because they are in danger of being stung in the process of hiving the bees.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000002|How are such persons to manage bees on my plan, which seems like bearding a lion in its very den!
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000004|By managing bees according to the directions furnished in this treatise, almost any one can learn, by using a bee dress, to superintend them, with very little risk; while those who are favorites with them, may dispense entirely with any protection.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000005_000002|There never will be a "royal road" to profitable bee keeping.
train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000007_000001|"The use of these frames will, I am persuaded, give a new impulse to the easy and profitable management of bees; and will render the making of artificial swarms an easy operation."
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000003_000003|sixteen, I found that when water was admitted to it, only one fourth of the air was imbibed.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000003_000004|Probably the whole of it would have been rendered immiscible in water, if the electrical operation had been continued a sufficient time. This air continued several days in water, and was even agitated in water without any farther diminution.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000003_000005|It was not, however, common air, for it was not diminished by nitrous air.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000004_000000|By means of iron filings and brimstone I have, since my former experiments, procured a considerable quantity of this kind of air in a method something different from that which I used before.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000004_000001|For having placed a pot of this mixture under a receiver, and exhausted it with a pump of mr Smeaton's construction, I filled it with fixed air, and then left it plunged under water; so that no common air could have access to it.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000004_000002|In this manner, and in about a week, there was, as near as I can recollect, one sixth, or at least one eighth of the whole converted into a permanent air, not imbibed by water.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000005_000001|Perhaps more time may be requisite for this purpose, for this process was not continued more than a day and a night.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000006_000000|Iron filings and brimstone, I have observed, ferment with great heat in nitrous air, and I have since observed that this process is attended with greater heat in fixed air than in common air.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000007_000000|Though fixed air incorporated with water dissolves iron, fixed air without water has no such power, as I observed before.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000007_000001|I imagined that, if it could have dissolved iron, the phlogiston would have united with the air, and have made it immiscible with water, as in the former instances; but after being confined in a phial full of nails from the fifteenth of December to the fourth of October following, neither the iron nor the air appeared to have been affected by their mutual contact.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000009_000001|In this manner I procured a very considerable quantity of fixed air, so that I judged it was all discharged from the tartar.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000011_000000|MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000012_000000|one.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000000|I put about the quantity of half a nut shell full of ether, inclosed in a glass tube, through a body of quicksilver, into an ounce measure of common air, confined by quicksilver; upon which it presently began to expand, till it occupied the space of two ounce measures.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000003|Withdrawing the quicksilver, and admitting water to this air, without any agitation, it began to be absorbed; but only about half an ounce measure had disappeared after it had stood an hour in the water.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000004|But by once passing it through water the air was reduced to its original dimensions.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000005|Being tried by a mixture of nitrous air, it appeared not to be so good as fresh air, though the injury it had received was not considerable.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000014_000000|All the phenomena of dilatation and contraction were nearly the same, when, instead of common air, I used nitrous air, fixed air, inflammable air, or any species of phlogisticated common air.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000014_000001|The quantity of each of these kinds of air was nearly doubled while they were kept in quicksilver, but fixed air was not so much increased as the rest, and phlogisticated air less; but after passing through the water, they appeared not to have been sensibly changed by the process.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000015_000002|To what this appearance was owing I cannot tell, and indeed I did not examine into it.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000016_000000|three.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000017_000001|As some of the circumstances attending the ignition of this paper in some of the kinds of air were a little remarkable, I shall just recite them.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000019_000002|I repeated this experiment with the same event.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000020_000000|Paper dipped in a solution of mercury, zinc, or iron, in nitrous acid, has, in a small degree, the same property with paper dipped in a solution of copper in the same acid.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000021_000001|Gunpowder is also fired in all kinds of air, and, in the quantity in which I tried it, did not make any sensible change in them, except that the common air in which it was fired would not afterwards admit a candle to burn in it.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000021_000002|In order to try this experiment I half exhausted a receiver, and then with a burning glass fired the gunpowder which had been previously put into it.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000021_000003|By this means I could fire a greater quantity of gunpowder in a small quantity of air, and avoid the hazard of blowing up, and breaking my receiver.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000023_000001|In the experiment with inflammable air a considerable mixture of common air would have been exceedingly hazardous: for, by that assistance, the inflammable air might have exploded in such a manner, as to have been dangerous to the operator. Indeed, I believe I should not have ventured to have made the experiment at all with any other pump besides mr Smeaton's.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000024_000000|Sometimes, I filled a glass vessel with quicksilver, and introduced the air to it, when it was inverted in a bason of quicksilver.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000024_000001|By this means I intirely avoided any mixture of common air; but then it was not easy to convey the gunpowder into it, in the exact quantity that was requisite for my purpose.
train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000024_000002|This, however, was the only method by which I could contrive to fire gunpowder in acid or alkaline air, in which it exploded just as it did in nitrous or fixed air.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000005_000000|"My lord," he said at last, "I do know the road for which you ask, but your kindness and the friendship I have conceived for you make me loth to point it out."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000006_000000|"But why not?" inquired the prince.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000006_000001|"What danger can there be?"
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000007_000000|"The very greatest danger," answered the dervish.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000007_000001|"Other men, as brave as you, have ridden down this road, and have put me that question.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000007_000002|I did my best to turn them also from their purpose, but it was of no use. Not one of them would listen to my words, and not one of them came back.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000008_000001|But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a good sword cannot meet?"
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000009_000000|"And suppose," answered the dervish, "that your enemies are invisible, how then?"
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000011_000004|On each side you will see vast heaps of big black stones, and will hear a multitude of insulting voices, but pay no heed to them, and, above all, beware of ever turning your head. If you do, you will instantly become a black stone like the rest.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000011_000005|For those stones are in reality men like yourself, who have been on the same quest, and have failed, as I fear that you may fail also.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000013_000001|Then it came to a sudden halt, and the prince at once got down and flung the bridle on his horse's neck.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000014_000000|"Who is this imbecile?" cried some, "stop him at once." "Kill him," shrieked others, "Help! robbers!
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000019_000003|Still, we must hope for better luck."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000021_000000|"That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother, who is now dead, though how he died I cannot say."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000026_000001|But may I ask the purpose of your question?"
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000027_000000|"Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing descriptions of these three things, that I cannot rest till I possess them."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000028_000000|"Madam," said the dervish, "they are far more beautiful than any description, but you seem ignorant of all the difficulties that stand in your way, or you would hardly have undertaken such an adventure. Give it up, I pray you, and return home, and do not ask me to help you to a cruel death."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000029_000000|"Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should be in despair if I turned back without having attained my object.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000032_000001|It is possible that you may succeed, but all the same, the risk is great."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000035_000000|The first thing the princess did on arriving at the mountain was to stop her ears with cotton, and then, making up her mind which was the best way to go, she began her ascent.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000036_000000|At the sight of the bird, the princess hastened her steps, and without vexing herself at the noise which by this time had grown deafening, she walked straight up to the cage, and seizing it, she said: "Now, my bird, I have got you, and I shall take good care that you do not escape." As she spoke she took the cotton from her ears, for it was needed no longer.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000037_000001|Although confined in a cage, I was content with my lot, but if I must become a slave, I could not wish for a nobler mistress than one who has shown so much constancy, and from this moment I swear to serve you faithfully. Some day you will put me to the proof, for I know who you are better than you do yourself.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000039_000001|She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still something else, where shall I find the Singing Tree?"
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000042_000000|When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promised her by the old woman, she said to the bird: "All that is not enough. It was owing to you that my brothers became black stones.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000044_000000|"No, I have not forgotten," replied the bird, "but what you ask is very difficult.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000044_000003|Take it, and, as you go down the mountain, scatter a little of the water it contains over every black stone and you will soon find your two brothers."
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000045_000000|Princess Parizade took the pitcher, and, carrying with her besides the cage the twig and the flask, returned down the mountain side.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000045_000001|At every black stone she stopped and sprinkled it with water, and as the water touched it the stone instantly became a man.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000046_000000|"Why, what are you doing here?" she cried.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000047_000000|"We have been asleep," they said.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000048_000002|Look round and see if there is one left.
train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000051_000000|Then they rode away, followed by the knights and gentlemen, who begged to be permitted to escort them.
train-clean-360/3979/10702/3979_10702_000059_000000|The bird stopped singing at once, and all the other birds stopped too.
train-clean-360/3979/10702/3979_10702_000068_000001|This was done.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000002_000001|I had lost myself completely in work, when I heard footsteps outside.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000002_000002|There was a steep footpath between the upper and the lower road, which I climbed to shorten the way, as the children had taught me, but I believed that mrs Todd would find it inaccessible, unless she had occasion to seek me in great haste.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000002_000004|Then I looked, and saw Captain Littlepage passing the nearest window; the next moment he tapped politely at the door.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000003_000001|I stepped down from the desk and offered him a chair by the window, where he seated himself at once, being sadly spent by his climb.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000003_000002|I returned to my fixed seat behind the teacher's desk, which gave him the lower place of a scholar.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000004_000000|"You ought to have the place of honor, Captain Littlepage," I said.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000006_000001|Then he glanced at me, and looked all about him as pleased as a child.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000007_000002|"Shakespeare was a great poet; he copied life, but you have to put up with a great deal of low talk."
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000008_000003|He looked, with his careful precision of dress, as if he were the object of cherishing care on the part of elderly unmarried sisters, but I knew Mari' Harris to be a very common place, inelegant person, who would have no such standards; it was plain that the captain was his own attentive valet.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000008_000006|The captain was very grave indeed, and I bade my inward spirit keep close to discretion.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000009_000000|"Poor mrs Begg has gone," I ventured to say.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000011_000000|I thought of the Countess of Carberry, and felt that history repeated itself.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000012_000001|"She was very much looked up to in this town, and will be missed."
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000013_000000|I wondered, as I looked at him, if he had sprung from a line of ministers; he had the refinement of look and air of command which are the heritage of the old ecclesiastical families of New England.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000014_000001|I began to be very eager to know upon what errand he had come.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000015_000001|"We may know it all, the next step; where mrs Begg is now, for instance. Certainty, not conjecture, is what we all desire."
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000016_000000|"I suppose we shall know it all some day," said i
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000017_000001|"We have not looked for truth in the right direction.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000021_000000|"You must have left the sea a good many years ago, then, Captain Littlepage?" I said.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000023_000000|Now we were approaching dangerous ground, but a sudden sense of his sufferings at the hands of the ignorant came to my help, and I asked to hear more with all the deference I really felt.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000023_000001|A swallow flew into the schoolhouse at this moment as if a kingbird were after it, and beat itself against the walls for a minute, and escaped again to the open air; but Captain Littlepage took no notice whatever of the flurry.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000027_000000|I began to find this unexpected narrative a little dull.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000029_000000|"It was a hard life at sea in those days, I am sure," said I, with redoubled interest.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000031_000001|"It accounts for the change in a great many things,--the sad disappearance of sea captains,--doesn't it?"
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000032_000007|No: when folks left home in the old days they left it to some purpose, and when they got home they stayed there and had some pride in it.
train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000034_000001|It sounded like the strange warning wave that gives notice of the turn of the tide.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000008_000000|"It's a lie!
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000019_000001|So they were at last going to fight.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000026_000001|She had then covered her face with the quilt.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000000|A certain light haired girl had made vivacious fun at his martial spirit, but there was another and darker girl whom he had gazed at steadfastly, and he thought she grew demure and sad at sight of his blue and brass.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000002|As he perceived her, she had immediately begun to stare up through the high tree branches at the sky.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000003|He had seen a good deal of flurry and haste in her movement as she changed her attitude.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000004|He often thought of it.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000000|On the way to Washington his spirit had soared.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000001|The regiment was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth had believed that he must be a hero.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000002|There was a lavish expenditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000003|As he basked in the smiles of the girls and was patted and complimented by the old men, he had felt growing within him the strength to do mighty deeds of arms.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000000|He was brought then gradually back to his old ideas.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000001|Greeklike struggles would be no more.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000002|Men were better, or more timid.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000003|Secular and religious education had effaced the throat grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000042_000000|He had grown to regard himself merely as a part of a vast blue demonstration.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000042_000001|His province was to look out, as far as he could, for his personal comfort.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000042_000002|For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals. Also, he was drilled and drilled and reviewed, and drilled and drilled and reviewed.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000000|The only foes he had seen were some pickets along the river bank.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000001|They were a sun tanned, philosophical lot, who sometimes shot reflectively at the blue pickets.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000002|When reproached for this afterward, they usually expressed sorrow, and swore by their gods that the guns had exploded without their permission.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000003|The youth, on guard duty one night, conversed across the stream with one of them.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000004|He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000005|The youth liked him personally.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000044_000000|"Yank," the other had informed him, "yer a right dum good feller." This sentiment, floating to him upon the still air, had made him temporarily regret war.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000045_000000|Various veterans had told him tales.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000045_000001|Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000045_000002|Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000046_000000|Still, he could not put a whole faith in veteran's tales, for recruits were their prey.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000046_000001|They talked much of smoke, fire, and blood, but he could not tell how much might be lies.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000047_000000|However, he perceived now that it did not greatly matter what kind of soldiers he was going to fight, so long as they fought, which fact no one disputed.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000047_000002|He lay in his bunk pondering upon it.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000047_000003|He tried to mathematically prove to himself that he would not run from a battle.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000048_000000|Previously he had never felt obliged to wrestle too seriously with this question.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000050_000000|A little panic fear grew in his mind.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000050_000001|As his imagination went forward to a fight, he saw hideous possibilities.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000050_000002|He contemplated the lurking menaces of the future, and failed in an effort to see himself standing stoutly in the midst of them.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000001|Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000002|He was an unknown quantity.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000003|He saw that he would again be obliged to experiment as he had in early youth.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000004|He must accumulate information of himself, and meanwhile he resolved to remain close upon his guard lest those qualities of which he knew nothing should everlastingly disgrace him. "Good Lord!" he repeated in dismay.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000053_000001|The loud private followed.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000053_000002|They were wrangling.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000054_000001|He waved his hand expressively.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000054_000002|"You can believe me or not, jest as you like.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000055_000000|His comrade grunted stubbornly.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000055_000001|For a moment he seemed to be searching for a formidable reply.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000055_000002|Finally he said: "Well, you don't know everything in the world, do you?"
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000056_000001|He began to stow various articles snugly into his knapsack.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000057_000000|The youth, pausing in his nervous walk, looked down at the busy figure. "Going to be a battle, sure, is there, Jim?" he asked.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000058_000000|"Of course there is," replied the tall soldier.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000058_000002|You jest wait."
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000061_000000|"Huh!" said the loud one from a corner.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000000|"Not much it won't," replied the tall soldier, exasperated.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000001|"Not much it won't.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000002|Didn't the cavalry all start this morning?" He glared about him.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000003|No one denied his statement.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000007|The regiment's got orders, too. A feller what seen 'em go to headquarters told me a little while ago. And they're raising blazes all over camp-anybody can see that."
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000064_000000|"Shucks!" said the loud one.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000065_000000|The youth remained silent for a time.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000065_000001|At last he spoke to the tall soldier.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000065_000002|"Jim!"
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000066_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000068_000001|He made a fine use of the third person.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000070_000000|"Oh, there may be a few of 'em run, but there's them kind in every regiment, 'specially when they first goes under fire," said the other in a tolerant way.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000070_000002|But you can't bet on nothing.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000071_000000|"Oh, you think you know-" began the loud soldier with scorn.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000072_000000|The other turned savagely upon him.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000072_000001|They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000073_000000|The youth at last interrupted them.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000073_000001|"Did you ever think you might run yourself, Jim?" he asked.
train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000073_000002|On concluding the sentence he laughed as if he had meant to aim a joke.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000001_000000|WHY peter RABBIT CANNOT FOLD HIS HANDS
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000000|Happy Jack Squirrel sat with his hands folded across his white waistcoat.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000001|He is very fond of sitting with his hands folded that way. A little way from him sat peter Rabbit.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000002|peter was sitting up very straight, but his hands dropped right down in front.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000003|Happy Jack noticed it.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000005_000000|"You mean you can't!" jeered Happy Jack.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000007_000000|"I really believe he can't fold his hands," said Happy Jack to himself, but speaking aloud.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000008_000000|"He can't, and none of his family can," said a gruff voice.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000010_000000|"Why not?" asked Happy Jack.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000011_000000|"Ask Grandfather Frog; he knows," replied Old mr Toad, and started on about his business.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000012_000000|And this is how it happens that Grandfather Frog told this story to the little meadow and forest people gathered around him on the bank of the Smiling Pool.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000013_000003|It was all because he was so dreadfully curious about other people's business, just as peter Rabbit is now.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000013_000004|It seemed that he was just born to be curious and so, of course, to get into trouble.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000015_000001|Old King Bear put on his blackest coat.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000015_000004|Then everybody began to fix up their homes and make them as neat and nice as they knew how-everybody but mr Rabbit.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000000|"Now mr Rabbit was lazy.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000003|The very sight of work scared old mr Rabbit.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000004|You see, he was so busy minding other people's business that he didn't have time to attend to his own. So his brown and gray coat always was rumpled and tumbled and dirty. His house was a tumble down affair in which no one but mr Rabbit would ever have thought of living, and his garden-oh, dear me, such a garden you never did see!
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000005|It was all weeds and brambles.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000017_000000|"Now when old mr Rabbit heard that Old Mother Nature was coming, his heart sank way, way down, for he knew just how angry she would be when she saw his house, his garden and his shabby suit.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000018_000000|"'Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000018_000001|Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000020_000000|"Now mr Woodchuck was a worker and very, very neat.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000020_000001|He meant to have his home looking just as fine as he could make it.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000020_000002|He brought up some clean yellow sand from deep down in the ground and sprinkled it smoothly over his doorstep.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000022_000000|"That gave mr Rabbit an idea.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000022_000001|He would ask all his neighbors to help him, and perhaps then he could get his house and garden in order by the time Old Mother Nature arrived.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000022_000002|So mr Rabbit called on mr Skunk and mr Coon and mr Mink and mr Squirrel and mr Chipmunk, and all the rest of his neighbors, telling them of his trouble and asking them to help.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000023_000000|"Instead of hurrying home and getting to work himself, mr Rabbit stopped a while after each call and sat with his arms folded, watching the one he was calling on work.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000023_000002|It was very comfortable.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000024_000000|"'If you want the rest of us to help you, you'd better get things started yourself,' said old mr Skunk, carefully combing out his big, plumy tail.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000025_000000|"'That's right, mr Skunk!
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000027_000000|"Finally mr Rabbit had made the round of all his friends and neighbors, and he once more reached his tumble down house.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000027_000002|It will be a lot easier to work when all my friends are here to help,' So he sighed once more and folded his arms, instead of beginning work as he should have done.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000028_000000|"Now Old Mother Nature likes to take people by surprise, and it happened that she chose this very day to make her promised visit.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000028_000001|She was greatly pleased with all she saw as she went along, until she came to the home of mr Rabbit.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000029_000000|"'Mercy me!' exclaimed Old Mother Nature, throwing up her hands as she saw the tumble down house almost hidden by the brambles and weeds. 'Can it be possible that any one really lives here?'
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000030_000000|Then, peering through the tangle of brambles, she spied old mr Rabbit sitting on his broken down doorstep with his arms folded and fast asleep.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000031_000002|But as she watched him sitting there, dreaming in the warm sunshine, her anger began to melt away.
train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000031_000003|The fact is, Old Mother Nature was like all the rest of mr Rabbit's neighbors-she just couldn't help loving happy go lucky mr Rabbit in spite of all his faults.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000000_000000|"Probably he is taking a nap in that big house of his," said Johnny Chuck, "and if he is we'll have to sit here until he wakes up, or else go back home and visit him some other time."
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000001_000000|"That's so," replied peter.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000001_000001|"I don't see what he has his house in the water for, anyway.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000001_000003|Funny place to build a house, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000000|Johnny Chuck scratched his head thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000001|"It does seem a funny place," he admitted.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000002|"It certainly does seem a funny place.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000003|But then, Jerry Muskrat is a funny fellow.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000005|That seems funny to me.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000003_000000|peter Rabbit suddenly brightened up.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000003_000001|"I do believe you are right, Johnny Chuck, and if you are, there must be a story about it, and if there is a story, Grandfather Frog will be sure to know it.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000003_000003|Let's go ask him why Jerry Muskrat builds his house in the water."
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000004_000000|Grandfather Frog saw them coming, and he guessed right away that they were coming for a story.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000004_000001|He grinned to himself and pretended to go to sleep.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000005_000000|"Good morning, Grandfather Frog," said Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000005_000001|Grandfather Frog didn't answer.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000005_000002|Johnny tried again, and still no reply.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000006_000000|"He's asleep," said Johnny, looking dreadfully disappointed, "and I guess we'd better not disturb him, for he might wake up cross, and of course we wouldn't get a story if he did."
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000000|peter looked at Grandfather Frog sharply.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000001|He wasn't so sure that that was a real nap.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000002|It seemed to him that there was just the least little hint of a smile in the corners of Grandfather Frog's big mouth.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000003|"You sit here a minute," he whispered in Johnny Chuck's ear.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000000|So Johnny Chuck sat down where he was, which was right where Grandfather Frog could see him by lifting one eyelid just the teeniest bit, and peter hopped along the bank until he was right behind Grandfather Frog.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000001|Now just at that place on the bank was growing a toadstool.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000002|peter looked over at Johnny Chuck and winked.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000003|Then he turned around, and with one of his long hind feet, he kicked the toadstool with all his might.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000004|Now toadstools, as you all know, are not very well fastened at the roots, and this one was no different from the rest.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000005|When peter kicked it it flew out into the air and landed with a great splash in the Smiling Pool, close beside the big green lily pad on which Grandfather Frog was sitting.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000006|Of course he didn't see it coming, and of course it gave him a great start.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000009_000000|"Chug a rum!" exclaimed Grandfather Frog and dived head first into the water.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000011_000000|At first Grandfather Frog was angry, very angry indeed.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000011_000002|So presently he climbed back on to his big green lily pad, blinking his great, goggly eyes and looking just a wee bit foolish.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000012_000002|What do you mean by frightening an old fellow like me this way?"
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000013_000000|"Just trying to get even with you for trying to fool us into thinking that you were asleep when you were wide awake," replied peter.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000013_000001|"Oh, Grandfather Frog, do tell us why it is that Jerry Muskrat builds his house in the water.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000013_000002|Please do!"
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000014_000000|"I have a mind not to, just to get even with you," said Grandfather Frog, settling himself comfortably, "but I believe I will, to show you that there are some folks who can take a joke without losing their temper."
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000015_000000|"Goody!" cried peter and Johnny Chuck together, sitting down side by side on the very edge of the bank.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000016_000000|Grandfather Frog folded his hands across his white and yellow waistcoat and half closed his eyes, as if looking way, way back into the past.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000017_000000|"Chug a rum!" he began.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000017_000001|"A long, long time ago, when the world was young, there was very little dry land, and most of the animals lived in the water.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000017_000002|Yes, Sir, most of the animals lived in the water, as sensible animals do to day."
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000018_000000|peter nudged Johnny Chuck.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000018_000001|"He means himself and his family," he whispered with a chuckle.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000019_000000|"After a time," continued Grandfather Frog, "there began to be more land and still more.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000019_000001|Then some of the animals began to spend most of their time on the land.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000019_000003|Now Old Mother Nature had been keeping a sharp watch, as she always does, and when she found that they were foolish enough to like the land best, she did all that she could to make things comfortable for them.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000020_000001|At first they only laughed, but after a while they found that quite often there were times when it would be very nice to be at home in the water as they once had been.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000020_000003|Some could swim as long as they could keep their heads above water, but as soon as they put their heads under water they were likely to drown.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000021_000000|peter nodded.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000023_000000|"'What's the matter, mr Muskrat?' she asked.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000026_000000|"mr Muskrat hesitated.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000027_000001|None of his friends on land had such a big, fine house, and mr Muskrat was very proud of it.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000027_000002|But with all his pride he never forgot that it was a reward for trying to be content with his surroundings and making the best of them.
train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000028_000000|"So from that day to this, the Muskrats have built their houses in the water, and have been among the most industrious, contented, and happy of all the animals.
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train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000002_000000|WHY SPOTTY THE TURTLE CARRIES HIS HOUSE WITH HIM
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000001|He had sat that way for the longest time without once moving.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000002|peter Rabbit had seen him when he went by on his way to the Laughing Brook and the Green Forest to look for some one to pass the time of day with.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000003|Spotty was still there when peter returned a long time after, and he didn't look as if he had moved.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000004|A sudden thought struck peter.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000004_000000|"Hi, Spotty!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000005_000000|Spotty slowly turned his head and looked up at peter.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000005_000001|There was a twinkle in his eyes, though peter didn't see it.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000006_000001|Where else should I live?" he replied.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000007_000000|"I mean, where is your house?" returned peter.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000007_000001|"Of course I know you live in the Smiling Pool, but where is your house?
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000007_000002|Is it in the bank or down under water?"
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000008_000000|"It is just wherever I happen to be.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000008_000001|Just now it is right here," said Spotty.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000008_000002|"I always take it with me wherever I go; I find it much the handiest way."
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000000|With that Spotty disappeared.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000001|That is to say, his head and legs and tail disappeared.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000002|peter stared very hard.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000003|Then he began to laugh, for it came to him that what Spotty had said was true.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000004|His house was with him, and now he had simply retired inside.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000005|He didn't need any other house than just that hard, spotted shell, inside of which he was now so cosily tucked away.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000011_000000|"That's a great idea!
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000011_000002|That's a great idea!" shouted peter.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000012_000000|"Of course it is," replied Spotty, putting nothing but his head out, "You will always find me at home whenever you call, peter, and that is more than you can say of most other people."
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000013_000000|All the way to his own home in the dear Old Briar patch, peter thought about Spotty and how queer it was that he should carry his house around with him.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000000|"I wonder how it happens that he does it," thought he.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000001|"No wonder he is so slow.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000004|Still, when he is in a hurry to get away from an enemy, it must be very awkward to have to carry his house on his back.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000006|He doesn't have to run away at all!
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000007|All he has got to do is to go inside his house and stay there until the danger is past!
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000008|I never thought of that before. Why, that is the handiest thing I ever heard of."
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000000|Now peter knew that there must be a good story about Spotty and his house, and you know peter dearly loves a good story.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000001|So at the very first opportunity the next day, he hurried over to the Smiling Pool to ask Grandfather Frog about it.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000002|As usual, Grandfather Frog was sitting on his big green lily pad.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000003|No sooner did peter pop his head above the edge of the bank of the Smiling Pool than Grandfather Frog exclaimed:
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000016_000001|You've kept me waiting a long time, peter Rabbit.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000016_000002|I don't like to be kept waiting.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000016_000003|If you wanted to know about Spotty the Turtle, why didn't you come earlier?" All the time there was a twinkle in the big, goggly eyes of Grandfather Frog.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000000|peter was so surprised that he couldn't find his tongue.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000001|He hadn't said a word to any one about Spotty, so how could Grandfather Frog know what he had come for?
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000002|For a long time he had had a great deal of respect for Grandfather Frog, who, as you know, is very old and very wise, but now peter felt almost afraid of him.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000003|You see, it seemed to peter as if Grandfather Frog had read his very thoughts.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000018_000000|"I-I didn't know you were waiting.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000018_000001|Truly I didn't," stammered peter. "If I had, I would have been here long ago.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000018_000002|If you please, how did you know that I was coming and what I was coming for?"
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000019_000000|"Never mind how I knew.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000019_000001|I know a great deal that I don't tell, which is more than some folks can say," replied Grandfather Frog.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000020_000000|peter wondered if he meant him, for you know peter is a great gossip. But he didn't say anything, because he didn't know just what to say, and in a minute Grandfather Frog began the story peter so much wanted.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000001|And of course you know that that reason is because of something that happened a long time ago, way back in the days when the world was young.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000002|Almost everything to day is the result of things that happened in those long ago days.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000003|The great great ever so great grandfather of Spotty the Turtle lived then, and unlike Spotty, whom you know, he had no house.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000004|He was very quiet and bashful, was mr Turtle, and he never meddled with any one's business, because he believed that the best way of keeping out of trouble was to attend strictly to his own affairs.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000001|If he had had, he would have been saved a great deal of trouble and worry. For a long time everybody lived at peace with everybody else.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000002|Then came the trying time, of which you already know, when those who lived on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest had the very hardest kind of work to find enough to eat, and were hungry most of the time.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000003|Now mr Turtle, living in the Smiling Pool, had plenty to eat.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000004|He had nothing to worry about on that score.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000005|Everybody who lives in the Smiling Pool knows that it is the best place in the world, anyway."
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000023_000000|Grandfather Frog winked at Jerry Muskrat, who was listening, and Jerry nodded his head.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000000|"But presently mr Turtle discovered that the big people were eating the little people whenever they could catch them, and that he wasn't safe a minute when on shore, and not always safe in the water," continued Grandfather Frog.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000001|"He had two or three very narrow escapes, and these set him to thinking.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000002|He was too slow and awkward to run or to fight.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000003|The only thing he could do was to keep out of sight as much as possible.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000004|So he learned to swim with only his head out of water, and sometimes with only the end of his nose out of water.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000025_000002|At first he was annoyed and started to shake it off.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000025_000004|It was mr Fisher, and he was very hungry and fierce.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000025_000005|He looked at the piece of bark under which mr Turtle was hiding, but all he saw was the bark, because, you know, mr Turtle had drawn himself wholly under.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000026_000000|"'I believe,' said mr Fisher, talking out loud to himself, 'that I'll have a look around the Smiling Pool and see if I can catch that slow moving Turtle who lives there.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000026_000001|I believe he'll make me a good dinner.'
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000000|"Of course mr Turtle heard just what he said, and he blessed the piece of bark which had hidden him from mr Fisher's sight.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000001|For a long time he lay very still.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000002|When he did go on, he took the greatest care not to shake off that piece of bark, for he didn't know but that any minute he might want to hide under it again.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000003|At last he reached the Smiling Pool and slipped into the water, leaving the piece of bark on the bank.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000004|Thereafter, when he wanted to go on land, he would first make sure that no one was watching.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000005|Then he would crawl under the piece of bark and get it on his back.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000006|Wherever he went he carried the piece of bark so as to have it handy to hide under.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000000|"Now all this time Old Mother Nature had been watching mr Turtle, and it pleased her to see that he was smart enough to think of such a clever way of fooling his enemies.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000001|So she began to study how she could help mr Turtle.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000002|One day she came up behind him just as he sat down to rest.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000003|The piece of bark was uncomfortable and scratched his back, 'I wish,' said he, talking to himself, for he didn't know that any one else was near, 'I wish that I had a house of my own that I could carry on my back all the time and be perfectly safe when I was inside of it.'
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000029_000000|"'You shall have,' said Old Mother Nature, and reaching out, she touched his back and turned the skin into hard shell.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000029_000001|Then she touched the skin of his stomach and turned that into hard shell.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000029_000002|'Now draw in your head and your legs and your tail,' said she.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000030_000000|"mr Turtle did as he was told to do, and there he was in the very best and safest kind of a house, perfectly hidden from all his enemies!
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000031_000000|"'Oh, Mother Nature, how can I ever thank you?' he cried.
train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000032_000000|"'By doing as you always have done, attending wholly to your own affairs,' replied Old Mother Nature.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000004_000000|PART one
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000006_000000|(This part is related by peter Hagstrom, p h d)
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000007_000000|"The ability to communicate ideas from one individual to another," said a professor of sociology to his class, "is the principal distinction between human beings and their brute forbears.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000007_000001|The increase and refinement of this ability to communicate is an index of the degree of civilization of a people.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000000|As usual, the observation burst harmlessly over the heads of most of the students in the class, who were preoccupied with more immediate things-with the evening's movies and the week end's dance.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000001|But upon two young men in the class, it made a powerful impression.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000002|It crystallized within them certain vague conceptions and brought them to a conscious focus, enabling the young men to turn formless dreams into concrete acts.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000003|That is why I take the position that the above enthusiastic words of this sociology professor, whose very name I have forgotten, were the prime moving influence which many years later succeeded in saving Occidental civilization from a catastrophe which would have been worse than death and destruction.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000010_000000|One of these young men was myself, and the other was my lifelong friend and chum, Carl Benda, who saved his country by solving a tremendously difficult scientific puzzle in a simple way, by sheer reasoning power, and without apparatus.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000010_000001|The sociology professor struck a responsive chord in us: for since our earliest years we had wigwagged to each other as Boy Scouts, learned the finger alphabet of the deaf and dumb so that we might maintain communication during school hours, strung a telegraph wire between our two homes, admired Poe's "Gold Bug" together and devised boyish cipher codes in which to send each other postcards when chance separated us.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000010_000002|But we had always felt a little foolish about what we considered our childish hobbies, until the professor's words suddenly roused us to the realization that we were a highly civilized pair of youngsters.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000011_000000|Not only did we then and there cease feeling guilty about our secret ciphers and our dots and dashes, but the determination was born within us to make of communication our life's work.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000011_000001|It turned out that both of us actually did devote our lives to the cause of communication; but the passing years saw us engaged in widely and curiously divergent phases of the work.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000011_000002|Thirty years later, I was Professor of the Psychology of Language at Columbia University, and Benda was Maintenance Engineer of the Bell Telephone Company of New York City; and on his knowledge and skill depended the continuity and stability of that stupendously complex traffic, the telephone communication of Greater New York.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000012_000001|But we still kept up our intimate friendship and our intense interest in our beloved subject.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000012_000002|We were just as close chums at the age of fifty as we had been at ten, and just as thrilled at new advances in communication: at television, at the international language, at the supposed signals from Mars.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000013_000000|That was the state of affairs between us up to a year ago.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000013_000001|At about that time Benda resigned his position with the New York Bell Telephone Company to accept a place as the Director of Communication in the Science Community.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000013_000002|This, for many reasons, was a most amazing piece of news to myself and to anyone who knew Benda.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000014_000000|Of course, it was commonly known that Benda was being sought by Universities and corporations: I know personally of several tempting offers he had received.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000014_000001|But the New York Bell is a wealthy corporation and had thus far managed to hold Benda, both by the munificence of its salary and by the attractiveness of the work it offered him.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000014_000002|That the Science Community would want Benda was easy to understand; but, that it could outbid the New York Bell, was, to say the least, a surprise.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000015_000000|Furthermore, that a man like Benda would want to have anything at all to do with the Science Community seemed strange enough in itself.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000015_000001|He had the most practical common sense-well balanced habits of thinking and living, supported by an intellect so clear and so keen that I knew of none to excel it.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000015_000002|What the Science Community was, no one knew exactly; but that there was something abnormal, fanatical, about it, no one doubted.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000016_000000|The Science Community, situated in Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, had first been heard of many years ago, when it was already a going concern.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000016_000001|At the time of which I now speak, the novelty had worn off, and no one paid any more attention to it than they do to Zion City or the Dunkards.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000016_000003|It was modern to the highest degree in construction and operation; there was very little manual labor there; no poverty; every person had all the benefits of modern developments in power, transportation, and communication, and of all other resources provided by scientific progress.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000017_000000|So much, visitors and reporters were able to say.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000018_000000|The rumors that it was a vast socialistic organization, without private property, with equal sharing of all privileges, were never confirmed.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000018_000003|It was obvious that as an organization, the Science Community must also be wealthy.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000018_000004|If any of its individual citizens were wealthy, no one knew it.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000019_000000|I knew Benda as well as I knew myself, and if I was sure of anything in my life, it was that he was not the type of man to leave a fifty thousand dollar job and join a communist city on an equal footing with the clerks in the stores.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000019_000001|As it happens, I was also intimately acquainted with john Edgewater Smith, recently Power Commissioner of New York City and the most capable power engineer in North America, who, following Benda by two or three months, resigned his position, and accepted what his letter termed the place of Director of Power in the Science Community.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000019_000002|I was personally in a position to state that neither of these men could be lightly persuaded into such a step, and that neither of them would work for a small salary.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000000|Benda's first letter to me stated that he was at the Science Community on a visit.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000001|He had heard of the place, and while at Washington on business had taken advantage of the opportunity to drive out and see it. Fascinated by the equipment he saw there, he had decided to stay a few days and study it.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000002|The next letter announced his acceptance of the position.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000003|I would give a month's salary to get a look at those letters now; but I neglected to preserve them.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000004|I should like to see them because I am curious as to whether they exhibit the characteristics of the subsequent letters, some of which I now have.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000000|As I have stated, Benda and I had been on the most intimate terms for forty years.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000001|His letters had always been crisp and direct, and thoroughly familiar and confidential.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000002|I do not know just how many letters I received from him from the Science Community before I noted the difference, but I have one from the third month of his stay there (he wrote every two or three weeks), characterized by a verbosity that sounded strange for him.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000003|He seemed to be writing merely to cover the sheet, trifles such as he had never previously considered worth writing letters about.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000004|Four pages of letter conveyed not a single idea.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000005|Yet Benda was, if anything, a man of ideas.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000022_000000|There followed several months of letters like that: a lot of words, evasion of coming to the point about anything; just conventional letters.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000022_000003|Something had changed Benda.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000000|I pondered on it a good deal, and could think of no hypothesis to account for it.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000001|In the meanwhile, New York City lost a third technical man to the Science Community.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000002|Donald Francisco, Commissioner of the Water Supply, a sanitary engineer of international standing, accepted a position in the Science Community as Water Director.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000003|I did not know whether to laugh and compare it to the National Baseball League's trafficking in "big names," or to hunt for some sinister danger sign in it.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000002|The average man would have done that, but my long years of training in psychological interpretation told me that a character and a friendship built during forty years does not change in six months, and that there must be some other explanation for this.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000003|I wrote him that I was coming.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000005|It involved a drive of about fifty miles northwest, through a picturesque section of the country.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000007|The city of my destination was back in the hills, and very much isolated.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000008|During the last ten miles we met no traffic at all, and I was the only passenger left in the bus. Suddenly the vehicle stopped.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000025_000000|"Far as we go!" the driver shouted.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000026_000000|I looked about in consternation.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000026_000001|All around were low, wild looking hills.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000026_000002|The road went on ahead through a narrow pass.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000028_000000|He was right.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000028_000001|A small, neat looking bus drove through the pass and stopped for me.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000029_000001|"What do I owe you?"
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000030_000000|"Nothing," he said curtly.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000030_000001|"Fill that out." He handed me a card.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000000|An impertinent thing, that card was.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000001|Besides asking for my name, address, nationality, vocation, and position, it requested that I state whom I was visiting in the Science Community, the purpose of my visit, the nature of my business, how long I intended to stay, did I have a place to stay arranged for, and if so, where and through whom.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000002|It looked for all the world as though they had something to conceal; Czarist Russia couldn't beat that for keeping track of people and prying into their business.
train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000003|Sign here, the card said.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000001_000000|Chapter Seventeen
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000002_000000|Under the Great Dome
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000005_000001|So I think our best plan will be to go to the Skeezer Country, raise the sunken island and save our friends and the imprisoned Skeezers.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000006_000000|"That is sensible," approved the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000006_000001|"I quite agree with you."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000007_000000|The others, too, seemed to think the Wizard's plan the best, and Glinda herself commended it, so on they marched toward the line of palm trees that hid the Skeezers' lake from view.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000008_000000|Pretty soon they came to the palms.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000008_000001|These were set closely together, the branches, which came quite to the ground, being so tightly interlaced that even the Glass Cat could scarcely find a place to squeeze through.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000008_000002|The path which the Flatheads used was some distance away.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000009_000000|"Here's a job for the Tin Woodman," said the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000012_000000|Of course every eye was at first fixed upon this dome, where Ozma and Dorothy and the Skeezers were still fast prisoners.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000012_000001|But soon their attention was caught by a more brilliant sight, for here was the Diamond Swan swimming just before them, its long neck arched proudly, the amethyst eyes gleaming and all the diamond sprinkled feathers glistening splendidly under the rays of the sun
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000014_000000|"She's wonderfully beautiful now," remarked the Frogman.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000015_000000|"It doesn't seem like much of a punishment," said Trot.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000016_000000|"I am sure Coo ee oh is punished," said Glinda, "for she has lost all her magic power and her grand palace and can no longer misrule the poor Skeezers."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000018_000001|Before anyone could speak Coo ee oh called to them in a rasping voice-for the voice of a swan is always harsh and unpleasant-and said with much pride:
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000019_000000|"Admire me, Strangers!
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000019_000002|Admire me!"
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000020_000000|"Handsome is as handsome does," replied the Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000021_000001|What deeds can a swan do but swim around and give pleasure to all beholders?" said the sparkling bird.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000022_000000|"Have you forgotten your former life?
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000022_000001|Have you forgotten your magic and witchcraft?" inquired the Wizard.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000023_000003|I wouldn't go back to it if I could.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000023_000004|Don't you admire my beauty, Strangers?"
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000024_000000|"Tell us, Coo ee oh," said Glinda earnestly, "if you can recall enough of your witchcraft to enable us to raise the sunken island to the surface of the lake.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000024_000001|Tell us that and I'll give you a string of pearls to wear around your neck and add to your beauty."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000025_000000|"Nothing can add to my beauty, for I'm the most beautiful creature anywhere in the whole world."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000026_000000|"But how can we raise the island?"
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000027_000001|If ever I knew I've forgotten, and I'm glad of it," was the response.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000027_000002|"Just watch me circle around and see me glitter!
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000028_000000|"It's no use," said Button Bright; "the old Swan is too much in love with herself to think of anything else."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000031_000000|"But how?" asked Uncle Henry in a grave voice, for he could not bear to think of his dear niece Dorothy being out there under water; "how shall we do it?"
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000033_000000|"If it were just an ordinary sunken island," said the powerful sorceress, "there would be several ways by which I might bring it to the surface again.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000033_000002|I do not despair in the least, but it will require some deep study to solve this difficult problem.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000034_000000|"It seems to me," said the Wizard after a brief silence had followed Glinda's speech, "that there are three fishes in this lake that used to be Adepts at Magic and from whom Coo ee oh stole much of her knowledge. If we could find those fishes and return them to their former shapes, they could doubtless tell us what to do to bring the sunken island to the surface."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000036_000000|You will understand, of course, that had Glinda been at home in her castle, where the Great Book of Records was, she would have known that Ervic the Skeezer already had taken the gold and silver and bronze fishes from the lake.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000037_000000|"I think I see a boat yonder on the shore," said Ojo the Munchkin boy, pointing to a place around the edge of the lake.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000037_000001|"If we could get that boat and row all over the lake, calling to the magic fishes, we might be able to find them."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000038_000000|"Let us go to the boat," said the Wizard.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000039_000000|They walked around the lake to where the boat was stranded upon the beach, but found it empty.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000039_000001|It was a mere shell of blackened steel, with a collapsible roof that, when in position, made the submarine watertight, but at present the roof rested in slots on either side of the magic craft.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000039_000002|There were no oars or sails, no machinery to make the boat go, and although Glinda promptly realized it was meant to be operated by witchcraft, she was not acquainted with that sort of magic.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000040_000000|"However," said she, "the boat is merely a boat, and I believe I can make it obey a command of sorcery, as well as it did the command of witchcraft.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000040_000001|After I have given a little thought to the matter, the boat will take us wherever we desire to go."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000041_000000|"Not all of us," returned the Wizard, "for it won't hold so many.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000041_000001|But, most noble Sorceress, provided you can make the boat go, of what use will it be to us?"
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000042_000000|"Can't we use it to catch the three fishes?" asked Button Bright.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000000|"It will not be necessary to use the boat for that purpose," replied Glinda.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000001|"Wherever in the lake the enchanted fishes may be, they will answer to my call.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000002|What I am trying to discover is how the boat came to be on this shore, while the island on which it belongs is under water yonder.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000003|Did Coo ee oh come here in the boat to meet the Flatheads before the island was sunk, or afterward?"
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000044_000000|No one could answer that question, of course; but while they pondered the matter three young men advanced from the line of trees, and rather timidly bowed to the strangers.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000045_000000|"Who are you, and where did you come from?" inquired the Wizard.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000046_000000|"We are Skeezers," answered one of them, "and our home is on the Magic Isle of the Lake.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000046_000001|We ran away when we saw you coming, and hid behind the trees, but as you are Strangers and seem to be friendly we decided to meet you, for we are in great trouble and need assistance."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000047_000000|"If you belong on the island, why are you here?" demanded Glinda.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000049_000001|The young men told how, in the night when they were asleep, their comrade Ervic had mysteriously disappeared, while the boat in some strange manner had floated to the shore and stranded upon the beach.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000050_000000|That was all they knew.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000050_000001|They had searched in vain for three days for Ervic.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000050_000002|As their island was under water and they could not get back to it, the three Skeezers had no place to go, and so had waited patiently beside their boat for something to happen.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000051_000000|Being questioned by Glinda and the Wizard, they told all they knew about Ozma and Dorothy and declared the two girls were still in the village under the Great Dome.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000051_000001|They were quite safe and would be well cared for by Lady Aurex, now that the Queen who opposed them was out of the way.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000052_000000|When they had gleaned all the information they could from these Skeezers, the Wizard said to Glinda:
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000053_000000|"If you find you can make this boat obey your sorcery, you could have it return to the island, submerge itself, and enter the door in the basement from which it came.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000053_000001|But I cannot see that our going to the sunken island would enable our friends to escape.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000053_000002|We would only Join them as prisoners."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000054_000000|"Not so, friend Wizard," replied Glinda.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000054_000001|"If the boat would obey my commands to enter the basement door, it would also obey my commands to come out again, and I could bring Ozma and Dorothy back with me."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000055_000000|"And leave all of our people still imprisoned?" asked one of the Skeezers reproachfully.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000056_000000|"By making several trips in the boat, Glinda could fetch all your people to the shore," replied the Wizard.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000057_000000|"But what could they do then?" inquired another Skeezer.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000057_000001|"They would have no homes and no place to go, and would be at the mercy of their enemies, the Flatheads."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000058_000000|"That is true," said Glinda the Good.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000058_000002|I believe the best plan will be to summon the three fishes and learn from them how to raise the island."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000059_000000|The little Wizard seemed to think that this was rather a forlorn hope.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000061_000000|"That is something we must consider carefully," responded stately Glinda, with a serene smile.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000061_000001|"I think I can find a way."
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000062_000000|All of Ozma's counsellors applauded this sentiment, for they knew well the powers of the Sorceress.
train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000063_000000|"Very well," agreed the Wizard.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000001_000001|MARY'S HALL-THANKSGIVING DAY IN CALIFORNIA-ANOTHER BROTHER IN LAW.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000002_000000|"mrs Brunner has become too childish to have the responsibility of young girls," had been frequently remarked before Elitha's visit; and after her departure, the same friends expressed regret that she had not taken us away with her.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000003_000000|These whispered comments, which did not improve our situation, suddenly ceased, for the smallpox made its appearance in Sonoma, and helpers were needed to care for the afflicted.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000003_000002|In fact, she had such confidence in her method of treating it, that she would not have Georgia and me vaccinated while the epidemic prevailed, insisting that if we should take the disease she could nurse us through it without disfigurement, and we would thenceforth be immune.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000003_000003|She did not expose us during what she termed the "catching stage," but after that had passed, she called us to share her work and become familiar with its details, and taught us how to brew the teas, make the ointments, and apply them.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000004_000000|I do not remember a death among her patients, and only two who were badly disfigured.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000004_000002|Grandma was called hurriedly in the night, because the afflicted girl, in delirium, had loosened the straps which held her upon her bed, and while her attendant was out of the room had rushed from the house into the rain, and was not found until after she had become thoroughly drenched.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000005_000000|The other was our arch enemy, Castle, who seemed so near death that one night as grandma was peering into the darkness for signal lights from the homes of the sick, she exclaimed impulsively, "Hark, children! there goes the Catholic bell.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000005_000001|Count its strokes.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000000|She was right.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000001|Later he came to us to recuperate, and was the most exacting and profane man we ever waited on.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000002|He conceived a special grudge against Georgia, whom he had caught slyly laughing when she first observed the change in his appearance.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000003|Yet months previous, he had laid the foundation for her mirth.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000010_000000|He was then a handsome, rugged fellow, and particularly proud of the shape of his nose.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000010_000002|Now, look at mine, large and finely shaped.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000011_000000|Georgia fled, and cried in anger over this indignity, declaring that she hated Castle and would not be sorry if something should happen to spoil his fine nose.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000011_000001|So when he came to us from the sick room, soured and crestfallen because disease had deeply pitted and seamed that feature which had formerly been his pride, she laughingly whispered, "Well, I don't care, my nose could never look like his, even if I had the smallpox, for there is not so much of it to spoil."
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000015_000001|I raised my sleeve, showed the welt on my arm, and replied, "I am going to see if I can't find a home where they will treat me kindly."
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000016_000000|Poor grandma was conscience stricken, drew me into her own room, and did not let me leave it until after she had soothed my hurts and we had become friends again.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000017_000000|Georgia went to mrs Bergwald's, and remained quite a while.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000017_000001|When she came back speaking English, and insisting that she was an American, grandma became very angry, and threatened to send her away among strangers; then hesitated, as if realizing how fully Georgia belonged to me and I to her, and that we would cling together whatever might happen.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000017_000002|In her perplexity, she besought mrs Bergwald's advice.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000018_000000|Now, mrs Bergwald was a native of Stockholm, a lady of rare culture, and used the French language in conversing with grandma.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000019_000000|Thereafter grandma changed her methods.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000019_000003|Sometimes she would let us bring her, from under the sofa, her gorgeous prints, illustrating "Wilhelm Tell," and would repeat the text relating to the scenes as we examined each picture with eager interest.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000000|We were also allowed to go to Sunday school oftener, and later, she sent me part of the term to the select school for girls recently established by dr Ver Mehr, an Episcopalian clergyman.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000001|In fact, my tuition was expected to offset the school's milk bill, yet that did not lessen my enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000002|I was eager for knowledge.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000003|I also expected to meet familiar faces in that great building, which had been the home of mr Jacob Leese.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000005|The bell rang, I followed to the recitation hall, and was assigned a seat below the rest, because I was the only small Sonoma girl yet enrolled.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000021_000002|Nor was there a class for me.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000023_000002|My delighted sister was soon in touch with a crowd of other little girls, and brought home many of their bright sayings for my edification.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000025_000000|Grandma was pleased that I was invited, and declared that she would send a liberal donation of milk and cheese as a mark of appreciation.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000026_000000|I caught much of Georgia's spirit of delight, for I had a vivid recollection of the grand dinner given in commemoration of our very first legally appointed Thanksgiving Day in California; I had only to close my eyes, and in thought would reappear the longest and most bountifully spread table I had ever seen.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000026_000001|Turkey, chicken, and wild duck, at the ends; a whole roasted pig in the centre, and more than enough delicious accompaniments to cover the spaces between.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000000|There, I wore a dark calico dress and sun bonnet, both made by poor mrs McCutchen of the Donner Party, who had to take in sewing for a livelihood; but to the Seminary, I should wear grandpa's gift, a costly alpaca, changeable in the sunlight to soft mingling bluish and greenish colors of the peacock.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000001|Its wide skirt reached to my shoetops, and the gathers to its full waist were gauged to a sharp peak in front.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000002|A wide open V from the shoulder down to the peak displayed an embroidered white Swiss chemisette.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000003|The sleeves, small at the wrist, were trimmed with folds of the material and a quilling of white lace at the hand.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000029_000000|Did I look old fashioned?
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000029_000001|Yes, for grandma said, "Thou art like a picture I saw somewhere long ago." Then she continued brightly, "Here are thy mits, and thy little embroidered handkerchief folded in a square.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000029_000002|Carry it carefully so it won't get mussed before the company see it, and come not back late for milking."
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000030_000000|The Seminary playground was so noisy with chatter and screams of joy, that it was impossible to remember all the games we played; and later the dining room and its offerings were so surprising and so beautifully decorated that the sight nearly deprived me of my appetite.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000031_000000|"Mumps.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000031_000002|True enough, the least taste of anything sour produced the tell tale shock.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000031_000003|But the most aggravating feature of the illness was that it developed the week that sister Elitha and mr Benjamin w Wilder were married in Sacramento; and when they reached Sonoma on their wedding tour, we could not visit with them, because neither had had the disease.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000032_000000|They came to our house, and we had a hurried little talk with a closed window between us, and were favorably impressed by our tall "Brother Ben," who had very blue eyes and soft brown hair.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000032_000001|He was the second of the three Wilder brothers, who had been among the early gold seekers, and tried roughing it in the mines.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000032_000002|Though a native of Rhode Island, and of Puritan ancestry, he was quite Western in appearance.
train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000033_000001|He was also interested in a stage line running between Sacramento and the gold regions.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000001_000001|But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000003_000003|Let us try to understand him.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000005_000002|It has to be sought for because of its depth at once and its simplicity.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000005_000003|But it is so complete, so imaginatively comprehensive, so immediately operative on the conscience through its poetic suggestiveness, that when it is once understood, there is nothing more to be said, but everything to be done.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000006_000000|"Why not lay up for ourselves treasures upon earth?"
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000007_000000|"Because there the moth and rust and the thief come."
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000009_000000|"Yes; by the moth and the rust and the thief."
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000012_000000|"Of course the heart will be where the treasure is; but what has that to do with the argument?"
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000013_000000|This: that what is with the treasure must fare as the treasure; that the heart which haunts the treasure house where the moth and rust corrupt, will be exposed to the same ravages as the treasure, will itself be rusted and moth eaten.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000014_000000|Many a man, many a woman, fair and flourishing to see, is going about with a rusty moth eaten heart within that form of strength or beauty.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000015_000000|"But this is only a figure."
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000016_000000|True.
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000016_000001|But is the reality intended, less or more than the figure?
train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000018_000002|Therein lies the hurt.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000001|Was it the cry of relief at the touch of death?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000002|Was it the cry of victory?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000007|It may have been all in one.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000015|And the mighty story ends with a cry.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000006_000001|Every highest human act is just a giving back to God of that which he first gave to us.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000006_000006|I am thine, and therefore I am mine.'" The vast operations of the spiritual as of the physical world, are simply a turning again to the source.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000004|Am I going to do a good deed?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000007|Am I going to die?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000008|Thou knowest, if only from the cry of thy Son, how terrible that is; and if it comes not to me in so terrible a shape as that in which it came to him, think how poor to bear I am beside him.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000009|I do not know what the struggle means; for, of the thousands who pass through it every day, not one enlightens his neighbour left behind; but shall I not long with agony for one breath of thy air, and not receive it?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000012|Thou wilt know every shade of my suffering; thou wilt care for me with thy perfect fatherhood; for that makes my sonship, and inwraps and infolds it.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000014|I care not for the pain, so long as my spirit is strong, and into thy hands I commend that spirit.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000000|Think, brothers, think, sisters, we walk in the air of an eternal fatherhood.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000002|Whither else dare we send them?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000003|How the earthly father would love a child who would creep into his room with angry, troubled face, and sit down at his feet, saying when asked what he wanted: "I feel so naughty, papa, and I want to get good"!
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000004|Would he say to his child: "How dare you!
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000005|Go away, and be good, and then come to me?" And shall we dare to think God would send us away if we came thus, and would not be pleased that we came, even if we were angry as jonah?
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000011|Bread, at least, will be given, and not a stone; water, at least, will be sure, and not vinegar mingled with gall.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000012_000001|We may commend any brother, any sister, to the common fatherhood.
train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000012_000004|For he cannot be our father save as he is their father; and if we do not see him and feel him as their father, we cannot know him as ours.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000001|The question is called forth by what the Lord had just said concerning his kingdom, closing with the statement that it was not of this world.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000004|He might have had them.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000008|He did not care for government.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000014|Government, I repeat, was to him flat, stale, unprofitable.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000005|His subjects must be of his own kind, in their very nature and essence kings.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000006|To understand his answer to Pilate, see wherein consists his kingship; what it is that makes him a king; what manifestation of his essential being gives him a claim to be king.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000007|The Lord's is a kingdom in which no man seeks to be above another: ambition is of the dirt of this world's kingdoms.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000012|Neither Pilate nor they ask the one true question, 'How am I to be a true man?
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000014|They will kill him, but it matters not: the truth is as he says!
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000000|Jesus is a king because his business is to bear witness to the truth. What truth?
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000009|My judgment is the faultless rule of things.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000010|My right is-what I desire. The more I am all in all to myself, the greater I am.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000016|My will is all for his will, for his will is right.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000017|He is righteousness itself.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000022|He is the truth, and I am the truth.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000025|I fear nothing you can do to me.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000028|You do not like to hear it because you are not like him.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000029|I am low in your eyes which measure things by their show; therefore you say I blaspheme.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000032|I came into the world to show him.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000006_000001|If I mistake, he will forgive me.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000007_000004|Of the men who before Christ bare witness to the truth, some were sawn asunder, some subdued kingdoms; it mattered nothing which: they witnessed.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000008_000000|The truth is God; the witness to the truth is Jesus.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000008_000003|The thought of God is the truth of everything.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000008_000005|The man who responds to this with his whole being, is of the truth.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000009_000002|When his witness is treated as a lie, then most he witnesses, for he gives it still.
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000000|Is every Christian expected to bear witness?
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000005|Are we careful to be true?
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000008|When contempt is cast on the truth, do we smile?
train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000013|We are not bound to say all we think, but we are bound not even to look what we do not think.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000004_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000008_000002|This did not hinder Caesar from seizing in the space of a few days Severeto, Scarlino, the isle of Elba, and La Pianosa; but he was obliged to stop short at the castle, which opposed a serious resistance.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000008_000003|As Louis the twelfth's army was continuing its way towards Rome, and he received a fresh order to join it, he took his departure the next day, leaving behind him, Vitellozzo and Gian Paolo Bagliani to prosecute the siege in his absence.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000009_000000|Louis the twelfth was this time advancing upon Naples, not with the incautious ardour of Charles the eighth, but, on the contrary, with that prudence and circumspection which characterised him.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000009_000003|This partition was all the more likely to be made, in fact, because Frederic, supposing all the time that Ferdinand was his good and faithful friend, would open the gates of his towns, only to receive into his fortresses conquerors and masters instead of allies.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000009_000004|All this perhaps was not very loyal conduct on the part of a king who had so long desired and had just now received the surname of Catholic, but it mattered little to Louis, who profited by treasonable acts he did not have to share.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000012_000000|But the feeling of safety inspired by Frederic's faithless ally was not destined to endure long: on their arrival at Rome, the French and Spanish ambassadors presented to the pope the treaty signed at Grenada on the eleventh of November, fifteen hundred, between Louis the twelfth and Ferdinand the Catholic, a treaty which up, to that time had been secret.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000012_000002|It was demonstrated that the arrangement had only been undertaken to provide the Christian princes with another weapon for attacking the Ottoman Empire, and before this consideration, one may readily suppose, all the pope's scruples vanished; on the twenty fifth of June, therefore, it was decided to call a consistory which was to declare Frederic deposed from the throne of Naples.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000013_000000|These dispositions were scarcely made when d'Aubigny, having passed the Volturno, approached to lay siege to Capua, and invested the town on both sides of the river.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000002|Such negotiations, made with cunning supported by bribery, proved as usual more prompt and efficacious than any others.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000003|At the very moment when Fabrizio Colonna in a fortified outpost was discussing the conditions of capitulation with the French captains, suddenly great cries of distress were heard.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000005|The French, when they saw that the town was half taken, rushed on the gates with such impetuosity that the besieged did not even attempt to defend themselves any longer, and forced their way into Capua by three separate sides: nothing more could be done then to stop the issue.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000006|Butchery and pillage had begun, and the work of destruction must needs be completed: in vain did Fabrizio Colonna, Ranuzio di Marciano, and Don Ugo di Cardona attempt to make head against the French and Spaniards with such men as they could get together.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000009|The Duke of Valentinois broke in the doors, chased out for himself forty of the most beautiful, and handed over the rest to his army.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000015_000000|The pillage continued for three days.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000016_000000|Capua once taken, Frederic saw that it was useless any longer to attempt defence.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000016_000001|So he shut himself up in Castel Nuovo and gave permission to Gaeta and to Naples to treat with the conqueror.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000016_000004|The terms of this capitulation were faithfully adhered to on both sides: d'Aubigny entered Naples, and Frederic retired to Ischia.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000017_000001|His eldest son, Dan Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, retired to Spain, where he was permitted to marry twice, but each time with a woman who was known to be barren; and there he died in fifteen fifty.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000019_000000|The capture of Naples gave the Duke of Valentinois his liberty again; so he left the French army, after he had received fresh assurances on his own account of the king's friendliness, and returned to the siege of Piombino, which he had been forced to interrupt.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000021_000000|His Holiness was now having a run of good fortune, and he learned on the same day that Piombino was taken and that Duke Hercules had given the King of France his assent to the marriage.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000025_000000|We humbly ask forgiveness of our readers, and especially of our lady readers; but though we have found words to describe the first part of the spectacle, we have sought them in vain for the second; suffice it to say that just as there had been prizes for feats of adroitness, others were given now to the dancers who were most daring and brazen.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000026_000003|Lucrezia showed the utmost delight in accepting these gifts; then she retired into the next room, leaning on the pope's arm, and followed by the ladies of her suite, leaving the Duke of Valentinois to do the honours of the Vatican to the men.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000026_000004|That evening the guests met again, and spent half the night in dancing, while a magnificent display of fireworks lighted up the Piazza of San Paolo.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000029_000000|This man was Ramiro d'Orco.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000033_000001|The apparent object of this journey was that the new subjects might take their oath to Caesar, and the real object was to form an arsenal in Jacopo d'Appiano's capital within reach of Tuscany, a plan which neither the pope nor his son had ever seriously abandoned.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000033_000003|The pontifical court made a stay there of several days, partly with a view of making the duke known to the inhabitants, and also in order to be present at certain ecclesiastical functions, of which the most important was a service held on the third Sunday in Lent, in which the Cardinal of Cosenza sang a mass and the pope officiated in state with the duke and the cardinals.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000033_000004|After these solemn functions the customary pleasures followed, and the pope summoned the prettiest girls of the country and ordered them to dance their national dances before him.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000034_000000|Following on these dances came feasts of unheard of magnificence, during which the pope in the sight of all men completely ignored Lent and did not fast.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000034_000001|The object of all these fetes was to scatter abroad a great deal of money, and so to make the Duke of Valentinois popular, while poor Jacopo d'Appiano was forgotten.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000036_000001|At last they arrived in sight of Corneto, and there the duke, who was not on the same vessel as the pope, seeing that his ship could not get in, had a boat put out, and so was taken ashore.
train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000036_000006|Almost at the same time d'Albret arrived in quest of his cardinal's hat.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000005_000000|"What do you wonder?"
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000007_000000|"That's easy," replied Johnny.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000007_000002|What is it this time?"
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000010_000000|"I don't know," he confessed finally.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000021_000002|They grew harder and harder.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000022_000005|Now I can't run fast, because my legs are too short.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000022_000007|The only thing I can do is to dig.'
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000024_000002|When it was finished, he was tired, so he curled up at the bottom for a nap.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000026_000001|Mole,' replied mr Badger.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000028_000000|"'Yes,' replied mr Fox.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000030_000001|'It's of no use,' thought mr Mole. 'If I go outside, they will soon find me, and if I stay here, they will dig me out.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000030_000002|Oh, dear, oh, dear!
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000033_000002|It was a splendid idea!
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000033_000004|And then he made a discovery-such a splendid discovery!
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000037_000000|Just then up came peter Rabbit, all out of breath.
train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000039_000000|"Yes," replied Striped Chipmunk, winking at Grandfather Frog, "and now we are going back home perfectly happy and satisfied."
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train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000002_000000|THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000006_000000|PREFACE
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000010_000000|The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000010_000002|The helmsman used to stand by with tears in his eyes; he knew it was all wrong, but alas!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000010_000003|Rule forty two of the Code, "No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm," had been completed by the Bellman himself with the words "and the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one." So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done till the next varnishing day.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000011_000001|Such is Human Perversity.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000012_000001|Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000013_000001|Now open your mouth and speak.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000015_000000|"Under which king, Bezonian?
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000015_000001|Speak or die!"
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000017_000000|Fit the First
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000018_000000|THE LANDING
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000020_000000|"Just the place for a Snark!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000020_000001|I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000020_000002|I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true."
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000021_000000|The crew was complete: it included a Boots- A maker of Bonnets and Hoods- A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes- And a Broker, to value their goods.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000022_000000|A Billiard marker, whose skill was immense, Might perhaps have won more than his share- But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense, Had the whole of their cash in his care.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000023_000000|There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck, Or would sit making lace in the bow: And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck, Though none of the sailors knew how.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000024_000000|There was one who was famed for the number of things He forgot when he entered the ship: His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings, And the clothes he had bought for the trip.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000025_000000|He had forty two boxes, all carefully packed, With his name painted clearly on each: But, since he omitted to mention the fact, They were all left behind on the beach.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000027_000000|He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry, Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" To "What you may call um!" or "What was his name!" But especially "Thing um a jig!"
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000028_000000|While, for those who preferred a more forcible word, He had different names from these: His intimate friends called him "Candle ends," And his enemies "Toasted cheese."
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000029_000000|"His form is ungainly-his intellect small-" (So the Bellman would often remark) "But his courage is perfect!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000029_000001|And that, after all, Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000031_000000|He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late- And it drove the poor Bellman half mad- He could only bake Bridecake-for which, I may state, No materials were to be had.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000032_000000|The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being "Snark," The good Bellman engaged him at once.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000033_000000|He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, When the ship had been sailing a week, He could only kill Beavers.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000033_000001|The Bellman looked scared, And was almost too frightened to speak:
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000034_000000|But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone, There was only one Beaver on board; And that was a tame one he had of his own, Whose death would be deeply deplored.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000035_000000|The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark, Protested, with tears in its eyes, That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark Could atone for that dismal surprise!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000036_000000|It strongly advised that the Butcher should be Conveyed in a separate ship: But the Bellman declared that would never agree With the plans he had made for the trip:
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000037_000000|Navigation was always a difficult art, Though with only one ship and one bell: And he feared he must really decline, for his part, Undertaking another as well.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000038_000000|The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure A second-hand dagger proof coat- So the Baker advised it-and next, to insure Its life in some Office of note:
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000039_000000|This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire (On moderate terms), or for sale, Two excellent Policies, one Against Fire, And one Against Damage From Hail.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000040_000000|Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000041_000000|Fit the Second
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000043_000000|The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! Such solemnity, too!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000043_000001|One could see he was wise, The moment one looked in his face!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000044_000000|He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000045_000000|"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000046_000000|"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave Captain to thank:" (So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best- A perfect and absolute blank!"
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000047_000000|This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000048_000000|He was thoughtful and grave-but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!" What on earth was the helmsman to do?
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000049_000000|Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes: A thing, as the Bellman remarked, That frequently happens in tropical climes, When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000050_000000|But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000052_000000|The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low, And repeated in musical tone Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe- But the crew would do nothing but groan.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000053_000000|He served out some grog with a liberal hand, And bade them sit down on the beach: And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand, As he stood and delivered his speech.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000055_000000|"We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks, (Four weeks to the month you may mark), But never as yet ('tis your Captain who speaks) Have we caught the least glimpse of a Snark!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000056_000000|"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days, (Seven days to the week I allow), But a Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaze, We have never beheld till now!
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000057_000000|"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again The five unmistakable marks By which you may know, wheresoever you go, The warranted genuine Snarks.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000058_000000|"Let us take them in order.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000058_000001|The first is the taste, Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp: Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist, With a flavour of Will o'-the wisp.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000059_000000|"Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea, And dines on the following day.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000060_000000|"The third is its slowness in taking a jest. Should you happen to venture on one, It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed: And it always looks grave at a pun.
train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000063_000000|"For, although common Snarks do no manner of harm, Yet, I feel it my duty to say, Some are Boojums-"
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000002_000000|Fit the Third
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000003_000000|THE BAKER'S TALE
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000004_000000|They roused him with muffins-they roused him with ice- They roused him with mustard and cress- They roused him with jam and judicious advice- They set him conundrums to guess.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000005_000000|When at length he sat up and was able to speak, His sad story he offered to tell; And the Bellman cried "Silence!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000005_000001|Not even a shriek!" And excitedly tingled his bell.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000006_000000|There was silence supreme!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000006_000001|Not a shriek, not a scream, Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called "Ho!" told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000007_000000|"My father and mother were honest, though poor-" "Skip all that!" cried the Bellman in haste. "If it once becomes dark, there's no chance of a Snark- We have hardly a minute to waste!"
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000008_000000|"I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000009_000000|"A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named) Remarked, when I bade him farewell-" "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed, As he angrily tingled his bell.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000010_000000|"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men, "'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right: Fetch it home by all means-you may serve it with greens, And it's handy for striking a light.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000011_000000|"'You may seek it with thimbles-and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway share; You may charm it with smiles and soap-'"
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000012_000000|("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold In a hasty parenthesis cried, "That's exactly the way I have always been told That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000013_000000|"'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000014_000000|"It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul, When I think of my uncle's last words: And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000015_000000|"It is this, it is this-"
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000015_000001|"We have had that before!" The Bellman indignantly said. And the Baker replied "Let me say it once more. It is this, it is this that I dread!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000017_000000|"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, In a moment (of this I am sure), I shall softly and suddenly vanish away- And the notion I cannot endure!"
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000018_000000|Fit the fourth
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000020_000000|The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention it now, With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000022_000000|"It's excessively awkward to mention it now- As I think I've already remarked." And the man they called "Hi!" replied, with a sigh, "I informed you the day we embarked.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000023_000000|"You may charge me with murder-or want of sense- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000024_000000|"I said it in Hebrew-I said it in Dutch- I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000025_000000|"'tis a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose face Had grown longer at every word: "But, now that you've stated the whole of your case, More debate would be simply absurd.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000027_000000|"To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; To pursue it with forks and hope; To threaten its life with a railway share; To charm it with smiles and soap!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000028_000000|"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't Be caught in a commonplace way. Do all that you know, and try all that you don't: Not a chance must be wasted to day!
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000029_000000|"For England expects-I forbear to proceed: 'tis a maxim tremendous, but trite: And you'd best be unpacking the things that you need To rig yourselves out for the fight."
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000030_000000|Then the Banker endorsed a blank cheque (which he crossed), And changed his loose silver for notes. The Baker with care combed his whiskers and hair, And shook the dust out of his coats.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000031_000000|The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade- Each working the grindstone in turn: But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed No interest in the concern:
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000033_000000|The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned A novel arrangement of bows: While the Billiard marker with quivering hand Was chalking the tip of his nose.
train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000034_000000|But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, With yellow kid gloves and a ruff- Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000001_000000|Fit the Fifth
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000002_000000|THE BEAVER'S LESSON
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000003_000000|They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000004_000000|Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan For making a separate sally; And had fixed on a spot unfrequented by man, A dismal and desolate valley.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000005_000000|But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred: It had chosen the very same place: Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word, The disgust that appeared in his face.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000006_000000|Each thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark" And the glorious work of the day; And each tried to pretend that he did not remark That the other was going that way.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000007_000000|But the valley grew narrow and narrower still, And the evening got darker and colder, Till (merely from nervousness, not from goodwill) They marched along shoulder to shoulder.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000008_000000|Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the shuddering sky, And they knew that some danger was near: The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail, And even the Butcher felt queer.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000009_000000|He thought of his childhood, left far far behind- That blissful and innocent state- The sound so exactly recalled to his mind A pencil that squeaks on a slate!
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000010_000000|"'tis the voice of the Jubjub!" he suddenly cried. (This man, that they used to call "Dunce.") "As the Bellman would tell you," he added with pride, "I have uttered that sentiment once.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000011_000000|"'tis the note of the Jubjub!
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000011_000002|The proof is complete, If only I've stated it thrice."
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000012_000000|The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care, Attending to every word: But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair, When the third repetition occurred.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000013_000000|It felt that, in spite of all possible pains, It had somehow contrived to lose count, And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains By reckoning up the amount.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000016_000000|The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens, And ink in unfailing supplies: While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens, And watched them with wondering eyes.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000020_000000|"The method employed I would gladly explain, While I have it so clear in my head, If I had but the time and you had but the brain- But much yet remains to be said.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000021_000000|"In one moment I've seen what has hitherto been Enveloped in absolute mystery, And without extra charge I will give you at large A Lesson in Natural History."
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000022_000000|In his genial way he proceeded to say (Forgetting all laws of propriety, And that giving instruction, without introduction, Would have caused quite a thrill in Society),
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000023_000000|"As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird, Since it lives in perpetual passion: Its taste in costume is entirely absurd- It is ages ahead of the fashion:
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000024_000000|"But it knows any friend it has met once before: It never will look at a bribe: And in charity meetings it stands at the door, And collects-though it does not subscribe.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000026_000000|"You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue: You condense it with locusts and tape: Still keeping one principal object in view- To preserve its symmetrical shape."
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000027_000000|The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day, But he felt that the lesson must end, And he wept with delight in attempting to say He considered the Beaver his friend.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000028_000000|While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks More eloquent even than tears, It had learned in ten minutes far more than all books Would have taught it in seventy years.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000030_000000|Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became, Have seldom if ever been known; In winter or summer, 'twas always the same- You could never meet either alone.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000031_000000|And when quarrels arose-as one frequently finds Quarrels will, spite of every endeavour- The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds, And cemented their friendship for ever!
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000032_000000|Fit the Sixth
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000033_000000|THE BARRISTER'S DREAM
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000034_000000|They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000035_000000|But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain That the Beaver's lace making was wrong, Fell asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain That his fancy had dwelt on so long.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000036_000000|He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court, Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye, Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig On the charge of deserting its sty.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000037_000000|The Witnesses proved, without error or flaw, That the sty was deserted when found: And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law In a soft under current of sound.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000038_000000|The indictment had never been clearly expressed, And it seemed that the Snark had begun, And had spoken three hours, before any one guessed What the pig was supposed to have done.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000039_000000|The Jury had each formed a different view (Long before the indictment was read), And they all spoke at once, so that none of them knew One word that the others had said.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000040_000000|"You must know-" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!" That statute is obsolete quite! Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends On an ancient manorial right.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000042_000000|"The fact of Desertion I will not dispute; But its guilt, as I trust, is removed (So far as related to the costs of this suit) By the Alibi which has been proved.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000044_000000|But the Judge said he never had summed up before; So the Snark undertook it instead, And summed it so well that it came to far more Than the Witnesses ever had said!
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000045_000000|When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined, As the word was so puzzling to spell; But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind Undertaking that duty as well.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000046_000000|So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned, It was spent with the toils of the day: When it said the word "GUILTY!" the Jury all groaned, And some of them fainted away.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000047_000000|Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite Too nervous to utter a word: When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night, And the fall of a pin might be heard.
train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000050_000000|The Judge left the Court, looking deeply disgusted: But the Snark, though a little aghast, As the lawyer to whom the defense was entrusted, Went bellowing on to the last.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000004_000000|CHAPTER three: THE GOTHS
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000005_000006|'Was his call of the spirit or of the flesh?' How should he test that problem?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000005_000008|True; but, he wished to convert the world.... was not that spiritual?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000007_000003|The barbarians shouted with delight.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000022_000000|'Asgard?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000028_000002|Where was the Caucasus?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000028_000004|In Paradise-in Indian Aethiopia-in Aethiopian India.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000028_000005|Where were they?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000030_000000|'As good as Thor's when he caught Snake Midgard with the bullock's head,' said Wulf.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000033_000000|'Fresh beef cheap there, Prince Wulf, eh?' quoth Smid; 'I must look over the arrow heads.'
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000035_000000|'Curse the monk!' growled Wulf.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000039_000000|'Why should he not know as well as the prefect?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000042_000000|'Don't look so cross at me, Prince Wulf; I'm sure it's not my fault; I could only say what the monk told me,' whispered poor Pelagia.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000043_000000|'Who looks cross at you, my queen?' roared the Amal. 'Let me have him out here, and by Thor's hammer, I'll-'
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000044_000002|I shall do as I threatened, and run away with Prince Wulf, if you are not good.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000000|'See you here, Wulf the son of Ovida, and warriors all!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000003|Don't look angry, Wulf.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000009|Let's go back; send over for any of the tribes; send to Spain for those Vandals-they have had enough of Adolf by now, curse him!--I'll warrant them; get together an army, and take Constantinople.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000010|I'll be Augustus, and Pelagia, Augusta; you and Smid here, the two Caesars; and we'll make the monk the chief of the eunuchs, eh?--anything you like for a quiet life; but up this accursed kennel of hot water I go no farther.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000012|Women are all prophetesses, every one of them.'
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000047_000000|'When they are not harlots,' growled Wulf to himself.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000050_000003|And did we not keep our oath?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000052_000002|If the bison bull lie down and wallow, what will the herd do for a leader? If the king wolf lose the scent, how will the pack hold it?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000056_000000|'Can you answer that, Wulf?' shouted a dozen voices.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000057_000001|Did not Alaric the king love it well?
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000068_000000|'Not for worlds!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000068_000003|That's right, my Smid, don't use the knife!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000073_000000|He spoke the heart of the crew; the sleeping wolf in them had been awakened by the struggle, and blood they would have; and not frantically, like Celts or Egyptians, but with the cool humorous cruelty of the Teuton, they rose altogether, and turning Philammon over on his back, deliberated by what death he should die.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000076_000002|I cannot bear it!'
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000077_000000|'The warriors are free men, my darling, and know what is proper.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000077_000001|And what can the life of such a brute be to you?'
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000083_000000|The Goths drew back.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000085_000000|'Go back, pretty woman!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000085_000002|Smid, give him to me.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000086_000000|'Give him us, Prince Wulf!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000088_000000|And he lifted up the prostrate monk.
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000000|'He shakes his head!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000001|He does not like it!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000002|He is craven!
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000003|Let us have him!'
train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000092_000004|However, we may as well make him useful at once; so give him an oar.'
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000002_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000003_000000|AN INVITATION.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000004_000000|It is a curious fact, and makes life very interesting, that, generally speaking, none of us have any expectation that things are going to happen till the very moment when they do happen.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000004_000003|No instinct bids us to delay or to hasten the opening of the letter or telegram, or the lifting of the latch of the door at which stands the messenger of good or ill.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000004_000004|And because it may be, and often is, happy tidings that come, and joyful things which happen, each fresh day as it dawns upon us is like an unread story, full of possible interest and adventure, to be made ours as soon as we have cut the pages and begun to read.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000000|Nothing whispered to Katy Carr, as she sat at the window mending a long rent in Johnnie's school coat, and saw mrs Ashe come in at the side gate and ring the office bell, that the visit had any special significance for her.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000001|mrs Ashe often did come to the office to consult dr Carr.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000002|Amy might not be quite well, Katy thought, or there might be a letter with something about Walter in it, or perhaps matters had gone wrong at the house, where paperers and painters were still at work.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000004|For mrs Ashe was asking papa to let her do the very thing of all others that she most longed to do; she was asking him to let Katy go with her to Europe!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000006_000001|"I got tired and run down while Walter was ill, and I don't seem to throw it off as I hoped I should.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000006_000003|Don't you think so yourself?"
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000007_000000|"Yes, I do," dr Carr admitted.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000008_000001|But if you will let me have Katy, dr Carr, it will settle all my difficulties.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000008_000003|I do hope you will consent."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000009_000000|"How long do you mean to be away?" asked dr Carr, divided between pleasure at these compliments to Katy and dismay at the idea of losing her.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000000|"About a year, I think.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000001|My plans are rather vague as yet; but my idea was to spend a few weeks in Scotland and England first,--I have some cousins in London who will be good to us; and an old friend of mine married a gentleman who lives on the Isle of Wight; perhaps we might go there.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000002|Then we could cross over to France and visit Paris and a few other places; and before it gets cold go down to Nice, and from there to Italy.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000003|Katy would like to see Italy.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000004|Don't you think so?"
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000011_000000|"I dare say she would," said dr Carr, with a smile.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000011_000001|"She would be a queer girl if she didn't."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000003|Then toward spring I should like to go to Florence and Venice, and visit the Italian lakes and Switzerland in the early summer. But all this depends on your letting Katy go.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000004|If you decide against it, I shall give the whole thing up.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000007|You understand, Doctor, she is to be my guest all through.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000009|I am sure you won't deny me, when I have so set my heart upon having her."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000013_000000|mrs Ashe was very pretty and persuasive, but still dr Carr hesitated. To send Katy for a year's pleasuring in Europe was a thing that had never occurred to his mind as possible.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000013_000002|He finally consented to take time for consideration before making his decision.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000014_000000|"I will talk it over with Katy," he said.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000014_000001|"The child ought to have a say in the matter; and whatever we decide, you must let me thank you in her name as well as my own for your great kindness in proposing it."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000000|"Doctor, I'm not kind at all, and I don't want to be thanked.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000001|My desire to take Katy with me to Europe is purely selfish.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000002|I am a lonely person," she went on; "I have no mother or sister, and no cousins of my own age. My brother's profession keeps him at sea; I scarcely ever see him.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000003|I have no one but a couple of old aunts, too feeble in health to travel with me or to be counted on in case of any emergency.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000004|You see, I am a real case for pity."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000016_000000|mrs Ashe spoke gayly, but her brown eyes were dim with tears as she ended her little appeal.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000016_000001|dr Carr, who was soft hearted where women were concerned, was touched.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000016_000002|Perhaps his face showed it, for mrs Ashe added in a more hopeful tone,--
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000017_000000|"But I won't tease any more.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000017_000001|I know you will not refuse me unless you think it right and necessary; and," she continued mischievously, "I have great faith in Katy as an ally.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000017_000002|I am pretty sure that she will say that she wants to go."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000000|And indeed Katy's cry of delight when the plan was proposed to her said that sufficiently, without need of further explanation.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000001|To go to Europe for a year with mrs Ashe and Amy seemed simply too delightful to be true.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000003|dr Carr's objections, his reluctance to part with her, melted before the radiance of her satisfaction.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000004|He had no idea that Katy would care so much about it.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000005|After all, it was a great chance,--perhaps the only one of the sort that she would ever have. mrs Ashe could well afford to give Katy this treat, he knew; and it was quite true what she said, that it was a favor to her as well as to Katy.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000006|This train of reasoning led to its natural results.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000007|dr Carr began to waver in his mind.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000000|But, the first excitement over, Katy's second thoughts were more sober ones.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000001|How could papa manage without her for a whole year, she asked herself.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000002|He would miss her, she well knew, and might not the charge of the house be too much for Clover?
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000004|A host of housewifely cares began to troop through Katy's mind, and a little pucker came into her forehead, and a worried look across the face which had been so bright a few minutes before.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000020_000000|"She is only twenty one," he reflected; "hardly out of childhood.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000020_000001|I don't want her to settle into an anxious, drudging state and lose her youth with caring for us all.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000020_000002|She shall go; though how we are to manage without her I don't see.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000021_000000|"Little Clover" came gallantly "to the fore" when the first shock of surprise was over, and she had relieved her mind with one long private cry over having to do without Katy for a year.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000021_000002|Anything and everything seemed possible to secure it for her; and she made light of all Katy's many anxieties and apprehensions.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000000|"My dear child, I know a flannel undershirt when I see one, just as well as you do," she declared.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000001|"Tucks in Johnnie's dress, forsooth!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000002|why, of course.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000003|Ripping out a tuck doesn't require any superhuman ingenuity! Give me your scissors, and I'll show you at once.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000004|Quince marmalade? Debby can make that.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000006|I'll make the spiced peaches!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000007|I'll order the kindling!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000009|Don't worry about us.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000011|Wouldn't that be fine?" and Clover laughed merrily.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000012|"So, Katy darling, cast that shadow from your brow, and look as a girl ought to look who's going to Europe.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000023_000000|"Not a very convenient position for packing," said Katy, smiling.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000024_000000|"Yes, it is, if you just turn your trunk upside down!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000024_000001|When I think of all the delightful things you are going to do, I can hardly sit still.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000025_000000|"So do I," said Katy, soberly.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000025_000001|"It was the kindest thing!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000025_000002|I can't think why she did it."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000000|"Well, I can," replied Clover, always ready to defend Katy even against herself.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000001|"She did it because she wanted you, and she wanted you because you are the dearest old thing in the world, and the nicest to have about.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000002|You needn't say you're not, for you are!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000003|Now, Katy, don't waste another thought on such miserable things as pickles and undershirts.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000004|We shall get along perfectly well, I do assure you.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000005|Just fix your mind instead on the dome of saint Peter's, or try to fancy how you'll feel the first time you step into a gondola or see the Mediterranean.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000006|There will be a moment!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000007|I feel a forty horse power of housekeeping developing within me; and what fun it will be to get your letters!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000009|We shall stick out all over with knowledge before you come back; and this makes it a plain duty to go, if it were only for our sakes." With these zealous promises, Katy was forced to be content.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000010|Indeed, contentment was not difficult with such a prospect of delight before her.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000011|When once her little anxieties had been laid aside, the idea of the coming journey grew in pleasantness every moment.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000013|But they didn't know that, and it made no real difference.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000000|Katy learned a great deal while thus talking over what she was to see and do.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000001|She read every scrap she could lay her hand on which related to Rome or Florence or Venice or London.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000002|The driest details had a charm for her now that she was likely to see the real places.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000003|She went about with scraps of paper in her pocket, on which were written such things as these: "Forum.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000004|When built?
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000005|By whom built?
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000006|More than one?"
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000008|"Cecilia Metella.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000010|People always wish this when they are starting for Europe; and they wish it more and more after they get there, and realize of what value exact ideas and information and a fuller knowledge of the foreign languages are to all travellers; how they add to the charm of everything seen, and enhance the ease of everything done.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000000|All Burnet took an interest in Katy's plans, and almost everybody had some sort of advice or help, or some little gift to offer.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000002|Debby's sister in law brought a bundle of dried chamomile for the same purpose.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000005|mrs Hall's gift was a warm and very pretty woollen wrapper of dark blue flannel, with a pair of soft knitted slippers to match.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000006|Old mr Worrett sent a note of advice, recommending Katy to take a quinine pill every day that she was away, never to stay out late, because the dews "over there" were said to be unwholesome, and on no account to drink a drop of water which had not been boiled.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000001|Miss Inches sent a "History of Europe" in five fat volumes, which was so heavy that it had to be left at home.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000002|In fact, a good many of Katy's presents had to be left at home, including a bronze paper weight in the shape of a griffin, a large pair of brass screw candlesticks, and an ormolu inkstand with a pen rest attached, which weighed at least a pound and a half.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000003|These Katy laid aside to enjoy after her return.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000004|mrs Ashe and Cousin Helen had both warned her of the inconvenient consequences of weight in baggage; and by their advice she had limited herself to a single trunk of moderate size, besides a little flat valise for use in her stateroom.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000030_000000|Clover's gift was a set of blank books for notes, journals, etc
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000030_000001|In one of these, Katy made out a list of "Things I must see," "Things I must do," "Things I would like to see," "Things I would like to do." Another she devoted to various good shopping addresses which had been given her; for though she did not expect to do any shopping herself, she thought mrs Ashe might find them useful.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000030_000003|He also gave her five English sovereigns.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000031_000000|"Those are for immediate use," he said.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000031_000001|"Put the notes away carefully, and don't lose them.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000031_000003|mrs Ashe will explain how.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000032_000000|"But, papa," protested Katy, opening wide her candid eyes, "I didn't expect you to give me any money, and I'm afraid you are giving me too much.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000032_000002|Really and truly, I don't want to buy things.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000032_000003|I shall see everything, you know, and that's enough."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000033_000000|Her father only laughed.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000034_000000|"You'll be wiser and greedier before the year is out, my dear," he replied.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000034_000001|"Three hundred dollars won't go far, as you'll find.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000035_000000|"Papa!
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000035_000001|I should think not!" cried Katy, with unsophisticated horror.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000036_000000|One very interesting thing was to happen before they sailed, the thought of which helped both Katy and Clover through the last hard days, when the preparations were nearly complete, and the family had leisure to feel dull and out of spirits.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000036_000001|Katy was to make Rose Red a visit.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000037_000000|Rose had by no means been idle during the three years and a half which had elapsed since they all parted at Hillsover, and during which the girls had not seen her.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000037_000002|mrs Ashe had taken passage in the "Spartacus," sailing from Boston; and it was arranged that Katy should spend the last two days before sailing, with Rose, while mrs Ashe and Amy visited an old aunt in Hingham.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000037_000003|To see Rose in her own home, and Rose's husband, and Rose's baby, was only next in interest to seeing Europe.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000000|"My dearest child,--Your note made me dance with delight.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000002|It is too enchanting, the whole of it.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000003|I put it at the head of all the nice things that ever happened, except my baby.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000004|Write the moment you get this by what train you expect to reach Boston, and when you roll into the station you will behold two forms, one tall and stalwart, the other short and fatsome, waiting for you.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000005|They will be those of Deniston and myself.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000007|The baby is both good and beautiful, and you will adore her.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000008|I am neither; but you know all about me, and I always did adore you and always shall.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000010|My funny little house, which is quite a dear little house too, assumes a new interest in my eyes from the fact that you so soon are to see it.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000040_000000|"I saw Silvery Mary the other day and told her you were coming.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000041_000000|"Your loving
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000042_000000|"ROSE RED."
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000043_000000|"She never signs herself Browne, I observe," said Clover, as she finished the letter.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000044_000000|"Oh, Rose Red Browne would sound too funny.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000044_000002|What fun it will be to see her and little Rose!"
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000045_000000|"And Deniston Browne," put in Clover.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000048_000000|The last day came, as last days will.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000048_000003|He now proceeded to prepare and paste on two square cards, labelled respectively, "Hold" and "State room." mrs Hall had told them that this was the correct thing to do.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000000|The first bell rang.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000001|Katy kissed everybody quietly and went on board with her father.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000002|Her parting from him, hardest of all, took place in the midst of a crowd of people; then he had to leave her, and as the wheels began to revolve she went out on the side deck to have a last glimpse of the home faces.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000004|Why had she said she would go?
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000005|What was all Europe in comparison with what she was leaving?
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000006|Life was so short, how could she take a whole year out of it to spend away from the people she loved best?
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000051_000000|But it was not left for her to choose.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000051_000003|But there were mrs Ashe and Amy, inclined to be homesick also, and in need of cheering; and Katy, as she tried to brighten them, gradually grew bright herself, and recovered her hopeful spirits.
train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000051_000004|Burnet pulled less strongly as it got farther away, and Europe beckoned more brilliantly now that they were fairly embarked on their journey.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight-GREAT CITY SNOBS
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000002_000001|Notes of admiration (!), of interrogation (?), of remonstrance, approval, or abuse, come pouring into mr
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000002_000002|PUNCH'S box.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000004_000000|No; far from it.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000004_000001|If his lordship's boots are dirty, it is because he is Lord b, and walks.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000004_000002|There is nothing snobbish in having only one pair of boots, or a favourite pair; and certainly nothing snobbish in desiring to have them cleaned.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000000|Great City Snobs are the next in the hierarchy, and ought to be considered.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000001|But here is a difficulty.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000002|The great City Snob is commonly most difficult of access.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000003|Unless you are a capitalist, you cannot visit him in the recesses of his bank parlour in Lombard Street.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000004|Unless you are a sprig of nobility there is little hope of seeing him at home.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000005|In a great City Snob firm there is generally one partner whose name is down for charities, and who frequents Exeter Hall; you may catch a glimpse of another (a scientific City Snob) at my Lord N----'s SOIREES, or the lectures of the London Institution; of a third (a City Snob of taste) at picture auctions, at private views of exhibitions, or at the Opera or the Philharmonic.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000006|But intimacy is impossible, in most cases, with this grave, pompous, and awful being.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000000|In other countries of Europe, the Banking Snob is more expansive and communicative than with us, and receives all the world into his circle.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000002|They entertain all the world, even the poor, at their FETES.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000003|Prince Polonia, at Rome, and his brother, the Duke of Strachino, are also remarkable for their hospitalities.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000004|I like the spirit of the first named nobleman.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000006|It is a comfort to be able to gratify such grandees with a farthing or two; it makes the poorest man feel that he can do good.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000007|'The Polonias have intermarried with the greatest and most ancient families of Rome, and you see their heraldic cognizance (a mushroom or on an azure field) quartered in a hundred places in the city with the arms of the Colonnas and Dorias.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000001|I like to see such.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000002|I am of a savage and envious nature,--I like to see these two humbugs which, dividing, as they do, the social empire of this kingdom between them, hate each other naturally, making truce and uniting, for the sordid interests of either.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000003|I like to see an old aristocrat, swelling with pride of race, the descendant of illustrious Norman robbers, whose blood has been pure for centuries, and who looks down upon common Englishmen as a free American does on a nigger,--I like to see old Stiffneck obliged to bow down his head and swallow his infernal pride, and drink the cup of humiliation poured out by Pump and Aldgate's butler.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000004|'Pump and Aldgate, says he, 'your grandfather was a bricklayer, and his hod is still kept in the bank.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000005|Your pedigree begins in a workhouse; mine can be dated from all the royal palaces of Europe.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000006|I came over with the Conqueror; I am own cousin to Charles Martel, Orlando Furioso, Philip Augustus, peter the Cruel, and Frederick Barbarossa. I quarter the Royal Arms of Brentford in my coat.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000007|I despise you, but I want money; and I will sell you my beloved daughter, Blanche Stiffneck, for a hundred thousand pounds, to pay off my mortgages.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000000|Old Pump and Aldgate clutches at the bargain.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000001|And a comfortable thing it is to think that birth can be bought for money.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000002|So you learn to value it.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000003|Why should we, who don't possess it, set a higher store on it than those who do?
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000010_000000|Old Pump and Aldgate buys the article and pays the money.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000010_000001|The sale of the girl's person is blessed by a Bishop at saint George's, Hanover Square, and next year you read, 'At Roehampton, on Saturday, the Lady Blanche Pump, of a son and heir.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000011_000000|After this interesting event, some old acquaintance, who saw young Pump in the parlour at the bank in the City, said to him, familiarly, 'How's your wife, Pump, my boy?'
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000012_000000|mr Pump looked exceedingly puzzled and disgusted, and, after a pause, said, 'LADY BLANCHE PUMP' is pretty well, I thank you.'
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000013_000000|'OH, I THOUGHT SHE WAS YOUR WIFE!' said the familiar brute, Snooks, wishing him good bye; and ten minutes after, the story was all over the Stock Exchange, where it is told, when young Pump appears, to this very day.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000014_000000|We can imagine the weary life this poor Pump, this martyr to Mammon, is compelled to undergo.
train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000015_000001|Pump the Second becomes chief of the house, spins more and more money, marries his son to an Earl's daughter.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000002_000000|A NIGHT'S WORK
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000003_000000|For a few seconds Darrell tried vainly to recall what had awakened him. Low, confused sounds occasionally reached his ears, but they seemed part of his own troubled dreams.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000003_000001|The heat was intolerable; he raised himself to the open window that he might get a breath of cooler air; his head whirled, but the half sitting posture seemed to clear his brain, and he recalled his surroundings.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000004_000000|Suddenly he heard a muttered oath in one of the sections, followed by an order, low, but peremptory,--
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000005_000000|"No noise!
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000005_000001|Hand over, and be quick about it!"
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000006_000000|Instantly Darrell comprehended the situation.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000006_000001|Peering cautiously between the curtains, he saw, at the forward end of the sleeper, a masked man with a revolver in each hand, while the mirror behind him revealed another figure at the rear, masked and armed in like manner.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000006_000003|He thought at once of young Whitcomb, but no sound came from the opposite section, and he sank quietly back upon his pillow.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000008_000000|"Hand out your valuables!"
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000009_000000|A man of medium height, wearing a mask and full beard, stood over him. Darrell quietly handed over his watch and purse, noting as he did so the man's hands, white, well formed, well kept.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000009_000001|He half expected a further demand, as the purse contained only a few small bills and some change, the bulk of his money being secreted about the mattress, as was his habit; but the man turned with peculiar abruptness to the opposite section, as one who had a definite object in view and was in haste to accomplish it.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000009_000003|The man had been a spy sent out by the band now holding the train, and Whitcomb's money was without doubt the particular object of the hold up.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000011_000000|"Hand over that money, young man, and no fuss about it, either!"
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000012_000000|Whitcomb, instantly awake, gazed at the masked face without a word or movement.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000012_000001|Darrell, powerless to aid his friend, watched intently, dreading some rash act on his part to which his impetuous nature might prompt him.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000014_000000|"No fooling!
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000014_000001|Hand that money over, lively!"
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000015_000001|A quick, desperate, silent struggle followed.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000016_000000|"Fool!" he heard the man mutter, with an oath.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000020_000000|"For God's sake, see if there is a surgeon aboard!
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000020_000001|Here is a man stabbed, dying; don't stop to talk of money when a life is at stake!"
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000021_000001|When it became known throughout the train what had occurred, the greatest excitement followed.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000022_000001|His lips moved; Darrell bent his head still lower to listen.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000026_000000|"How did it happen?" the latter inquired, recognizing Darrell for the first time in the dim light.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000028_000000|"Too bad!" said Parkinson.
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000028_000001|"He ought never to have made a bluff of that sort; there were too many odds against him."
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000030_000001|Yes, that was bad business for him, poor fellow!
train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000030_000002|I wonder, by the way, if it was all taken."
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000005_000000|"mr Walcott, there is no use dallying or beating about the bush; I want this partnership terminated at once.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000008_000001|You will not kill him?" she breathed rather than whispered.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000010_000002|As Walcott listened, the sneer on his face deepened.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000013_000001|"Supposing we come at once to the point of dissolving our partnership; it cannot be done any too quickly for me. May I inquire on what terms you propose to settle?"
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000017_000000|"Not a step farther, or you are a dead man!"
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000021_000000|"I am all right," she cried, brightly; "look after papa, first; then we will attend to this creature."
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000022_000000|With the revolver still levelled at Walcott, Kate slowly advanced towards him.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000023_000000|"Give me that weapon!" she demanded.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000026_000000|At sight of her, Walcott's face grew livid.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000030_000000|"No, no, Senor, a little turn of the wrist, so slight you would not see, would cause death.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000030_000001|I will take it from him; the viper dare not sting me!"
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000037_000000|"Here is one, papa, to whom we owe much.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000042_000000|"Yes, Senor; I have the papers to prove it."
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000045_000000|"How about the past year?
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000046_000000|He raised his hand and the revolver gleamed in the light.
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000047_000001|"Don't be rash or foolish; let the law take its course."
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000048_000003|No, by God!
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000052_000000|As Kate and her strange companion parted, the former inquired, "Why did you ask me not to shoot him?
train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000052_000001|You surely cannot love him!"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000003_000000|"Who is it?" inquired Montague.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000004_000003|Tell Alice to take my word for him."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000006_000002|His face was round like a full moon, and out of it looked two little eyes like those of a pig.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000008_000000|"Good evening.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000009_000000|There was a moment's pause.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000012_000000|"mr Gamble comes from Pittsburg," interposed Oliver.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000013_000001|"Are you in business there?"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000014_000001|"Made my pile, so to speak, and got out.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000014_000002|I want to see the world a bit before I get too old."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000016_000000|But it proved not very difficult to talk with the gentleman from Pittsburg.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000017_000002|He spoke for himself, however,--he had important work to do, and must be excused.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000019_000001|"Glad to see you again."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000021_000000|"Yes, do," said mr Gamble, cordially.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000025_000001|"Poor chap-it really was hard luck, you know.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000025_000002|It wasn't his fault.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000026_000000|"No," said Montague, but he knew to what the other referred.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000027_000000|"He is an old friend of mine," said Gamble; "he told me all about it.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000027_000003|And the public went wild, and they made him resign-just imagine it!"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000030_000000|"They're a lively crowd, the Steel fellows," laughed the other. "They want to make Davidson resign, too, but he'll fight them.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000030_000002|You should hear his story!"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000000|"It's too bad," said the other, earnestly.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000001|"I have talked to them sometimes, but it don't do any good.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000003|If you're buying pictures, there's an end to it-you get your walls covered sooner or later.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000005|"Too bad, too bad," he repeated.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000034_000001|I've been fighting the Trust, and last year they bought me out, and now I'm seeing the world."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000035_000000|mr Gamble relapsed into thought again.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000037_000000|"No, no, they live in Pittsburg," was the answer.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000037_000001|"I've got four daughters-all in college.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000037_000002|They're stunning girls, I tell you-I'd like you to meet them, mr Montague."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000042_000000|"That man," exclaimed the other.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000043_000000|"Why, I thought you would like to meet him," said Oliver; "he is an interesting chap."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000045_000000|"Why, you are talking nonsense!" exclaimed Oliver; "he knows the best people-"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000046_000000|"Where did you meet him?" asked Montague.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000047_000002|He has been living in Brooklyn this winter.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000047_000003|He knows all the navy people."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000052_000000|Montague stared at him.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000052_000001|"Oliver, you don't mean it," he said.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000052_000002|"That fellow in Society!"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000053_000001|Why not?"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000054_000000|"But his wife and his daughters!" exclaimed the other.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000055_000000|"Oh, that's not it-the family stays in Pittsburg.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000059_000000|"Leave that to him."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000063_000000|"Oh, stuff!" said Oliver.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000063_000003|He won't hurt Alice.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000063_000004|He gave her a good time this evening, and I wager she'll like him before he gets through. He's really a good-natured chap; the chief trouble with him is that he gets confidential."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000064_000002|"Is there nothing we can do about it?"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000071_000000|"I hope so," said Montague.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000072_000000|"They say he's making barrels of money," said Oliver; then he added, longingly, "My God, I wish I had a trust company to play with!"
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000073_000000|"Why a trust company particularly?" asked the other.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000074_000000|"It's the easiest graft that's going," said Oliver.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000078_000000|"He might just as well own it," was the reply.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000079_000000|"By the way," Oliver remarked after a moment, "the Prentices have asked Alice up to Newport.
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000079_000001|Alice seems to be quite taken with that young chap, Curtiss."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000080_000001|"He seems a very decent fellow."
train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000081_000000|"No doubt," said the other.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000002_000000|fourteen
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000003_000000|HE DEFENDS CAMPAIGN METHODS
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000004_000001|"This is a fine Sunday morning in spite of the gloom into which the approaching death of the campaign should plunge us all."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000005_000000|"You think that, do you?" observed the Bibliomaniac.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000005_000001|"Well, I don't agree with you.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000005_000002|I for one am sick and tired of politics, and it will be a great relief to me when it is all over."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000001|"Do you mean to say that a Presidential campaign does not keep your nerve centres in a constant state of pleasurable titillation?
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000002|Why, to me it is what a bag full of nuts must be to a squirrel.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000003|I fairly gloat over these quadrennial political campaigns of ours.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000004|They are to me among the most exhilarating institutions of modern life.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000005|They satisfy all one's zest for warfare without the distressing shedding of blood which attends real war, and regarded from the standpoint of humor, I know of nothing that, to the eye of an ordinarily keen observer, is more provocative of good, honest, wholesome mirth."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000000|"I don't see it," said mr Bib.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000001|"To my mind, the average political campaign is just a vulgar scrap in which men who ought to know better descend to all sorts of despicable trickery merely to gain the emoluments of office.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000002|This quest for the flesh pots of politics, so far from being diverting, is, to my notion, one of the most deplorable exhibitions of human weakness that modern civilization, so called, has produced.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000003|A couple of men are put up for the most dignified office known to the world-both are gentlemen by birth and education, men of honor, men who, you would think, would scorn baseness as they hate poison-and then what happens?
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000004|For three weary months the followers of each attack the character and intelligence of the other until, if you really believed what was said of either, neither in your estimation would have a shred of reputation left.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000005|Is that either diverting or elevating or educational or, indeed, anything but deplorable?"
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000008_000000|"It's perfectly fine," said the Idiot, "to think that we have men in the country whose characters are such that they can stand four months of such a test.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000008_000001|That's what I find elevating in it.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000008_000003|Even old Diogenes, who spent his life looking for an honest man, would have to admit every four years that he could spot him instantly by merely coming to this country and taking his choice from among the several candidates."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000009_000000|"You must admit, however," said the Bibliomaniac, "that a man with an honorable name must find it unpleasant to have such outrageous stories told of him."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000000|"Not a bit of it," laughed the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000002|You know well enough that he either never did what is charged against him, or at least that the story is greatly exaggerated-he may have stuck a pin into the cook, and played some boyish trick upon some of his relatives-but the story on the face of it is untrue and therefore harmless.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000003|Similarly with the Democratic candidate.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000005|It hurts no one, therefore, and provokes a great deal of innocent mirth.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000006|You don't yourself believe that last yarn about the Prohibition candidate, do you?"
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000011_000000|"I haven't heard any yarn about him," said the Bibliomaniac.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000012_000000|"That he is the owner of a brewery up in Rochester, and backs fifteen saloons and a pool room in New York?" said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000013_000000|"Of course I don't," said the Bibliomaniac.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000013_000001|"Who does?"
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000014_000000|"Nobody," said the Idiot; "and therefore the story doesn't hurt the man's reputation a bit, or interfere with his chances of election in the least.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000014_000001|Take that other story published in a New York newspaper that on the tenth of last August Thompson Bondifeller's yacht was seen anchored for six hours off Tom Watson's farm, two hundred miles from the sea, and that the Populist candidate, disguised as a bank president, went off with the trust magnate on a cruise from atlanta georgia, to Oklahoma-you don't believe that, do you?"
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000015_000000|"It's preposterous on the face of it," said mr Bib.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000000|"Well, that's the way the thing works," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000001|"And that's why I think there's a lot of bully good fun to be had out of a political campaign.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000002|I love anything that arouses the imagination of a people too much given over to the pursuit of the cold, hard dollar.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000004|No people can progress that lacks imagination.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000005|Politics is an emery wheel that keeps our wits polished."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000017_000000|"Well, granting all that you say is true," said the Bibliomaniac, "the intrusion upon a man's private life that politics makes possible-surely you cannot condone that."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000018_000000|The Idiot laughed.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000000|"That's the strangest argument of all," he said.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000001|"The very idea of a man who deliberately chooses public life as the sphere of his activities seeking to hide behind his private life is preposterous.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000002|The fellow who does that, mr Bib, wants to lead a double life, and that is reprehensible.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000003|The man who offers himself to the people hasn't any business to tie a string to any part of him.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000005|If he beats his mother in law, and eats asparagus with the sugar tongs, and doesn't pay his grocer, the public have a right to know it.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000006|If he has children, the voters are perfectly justified in asking what kind of children they are, since the voters own the White House furniture, and if the Jim Jones children wipe their feet on plush chairs, and shoot holes in the paintings with their bean snappers and putty blowers, Uncle Sam, as a landlord and owner of the premises, ought to be warned beforehand.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000007|You wouldn't yourself rent a furnished residence to a man whose children were known to have built bonfires in the parlor of their last known home, would you?"
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000020_000000|"I think not," smiled the Bibliomaniac.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000000|"Then you cannot complain if Uncle Sam is equally solicitous about the personal paraphernalia of the man who asks to occupy his little cottage on the Potomac," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000001|"So it happens that when a man runs for the Presidency the persons who intrude upon his private life, as you put it, are conferring a real service upon their fellow citizens.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000003|You may say that the lady is not running for a public office, and that, therefore, she should be protected from public scrutiny, but that is a fallacy.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000004|A man's wife is his better half and his children are a good part of the remainder, and what they do or don't do becomes a matter of legitimate public concern.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000022_000000|"Then you approve of these stories of candidates' cousins, the prattling anecdotes of their grandchildren, these paragraphs narrating the doings of their uncles in law, and all that?" sneered the Bibliomaniac.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000023_000000|"Certainly, I do," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000024_000000|"Say, mr Idiot," put in the Poet, at this point, "who are you going to vote for, anyhow?"
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000025_000000|"Don't ask me," laughed the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000025_000001|"I don't know yet.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000025_000002|I admire all the candidates personally very much."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000026_000000|"But what are your politics-Republican or Democratic?" asked the Lawyer.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000027_000000|"Oh, that's different," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000027_000001|"I'm a Sammycrat."
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000028_000000|"A what?" cried the Idiot's fellow boarders in unison.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000029_000000|"A Sammycrat," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000029_000001|"I'm for Uncle Sam every time.
train-clean-360/4071/39913/4071_39913_000060_000000|"'Yes.
train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000017_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000038_000000|"But WHAT DID you see?
train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000072_000001|"I will not have it; I will not do it!
train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000072_000003|I will tell everything!
train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000075_000000|"But I will go first!" said the shadow.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000000_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000001_000000|OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000002_000000|What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000002_000002|How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000003_000000|Each will receive its proper share, if each has that which more particularly concerns it.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000003_000001|To individuality should belong the part of life in which it is chiefly the individual that is interested; to society, the part which chiefly interests society.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000004_000002|These conditions society is justified in enforcing, at all costs to those who endeavour to withhold fulfilment.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000004_000007|But there is no room for entertaining any such question when a person's conduct affects the interests of no persons besides himself, or needs not affect them unless they like (all the persons concerned being of full age, and the ordinary amount of understanding).
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000004_000008|In all such cases there should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000002|But disinterested benevolence can find other instruments to persuade people to their good, than whips and scourges, either of the literal or the metaphorical sort.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000003|I am the last person to undervalue the self regarding virtues; they are only second in importance, if even second, to the social.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000004|It is equally the business of education to cultivate both.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000005|But even education works by conviction and persuasion as well as by compulsion, and it is by the former only that, when the period of education is past, the self regarding virtues should be inculcated.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000006|Human beings owe to each other help to distinguish the better from the worse, and encouragement to choose the former and avoid the latter.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000007|They should be for ever stimulating each other to increased exercise of their higher faculties, and increased direction of their feelings and aims towards wise instead of foolish, elevating instead of degrading, objects and contemplations.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000008|But neither one person, nor any number of persons, is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years, that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000011|In this department, therefore, of human affairs, Individuality has its proper field of action.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000013|Considerations to aid his judgment, exhortations to strengthen his will, may be offered to him, even obtruded on him, by others; but he himself is the final judge.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000014|All errors which he is likely to commit against advice and warning, are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to what they deem his good.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000001|This is neither possible nor desirable.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000002|If he is eminent in any of the qualities which conduce to his own good, he is, so far, a proper object of admiration.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000003|He is so much the nearer to the ideal perfection of human nature.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000007|It would be well, indeed, if this good office were much more freely rendered than the common notions of politeness at present permit, and if one person could honestly point out to another that he thinks him in fault, without being considered unmannerly or presuming.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000008|We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000010|We have a right, and it may be our duty, to caution others against him, if we think his example or conversation likely to have a pernicious effect on those with whom he associates.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000011|We may give others a preference over him in optional good offices, except those which tend to his improvement.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000012|In these various modes a person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself; but he suffers these penalties only in so far as they are the natural, and, as it were, the spontaneous consequences of the faults themselves, not because they are purposely inflicted on him for the sake of punishment.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000007_000004|They may be proofs of any amount of folly, or want of personal dignity and self respect; but they are only a subject of moral reprobation when they involve a breach of duty to others, for whose sake the individual is bound to have care for himself.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000007_000005|What are called duties to ourselves are not socially obligatory, unless circumstances render them at the same time duties to others.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000007_000006|The term duty to oneself, when it means anything more than prudence, means self respect or self development; and for none of these is any one accountable to his fellow creatures, because for none of them is it for the good of mankind that he be held accountable to them.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000008_000002|If he displeases us, we may express our distaste, and we may stand aloof from a person as well as from a thing that displeases us; but we shall not therefore feel called on to make his life uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000008_000004|He may be to us an object of pity, perhaps of dislike, but not of anger or resentment; we shall not treat him like an enemy of society: the worst we shall think ourselves justified in doing is leaving him to himself, if we do not interfere benevolently by showing interest or concern for him.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000008_000005|It is far otherwise if he has infringed the rules necessary for the protection of his fellow creatures, individually or collectively.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000008_000006|The evil consequences of his acts do not then fall on himself, but on others; and society, as the protector of all its members, must retaliate on him; must inflict pain on him for the express purpose of punishment, and must take care that it be sufficiently severe.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000009_000000|The distinction here pointed out between the part of a person's life which concerns only himself, and that which concerns others, many persons will refuse to admit.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000009_000003|If he injures his property, he does harm to those who directly or indirectly derived support from it, and usually diminishes, by a greater or less amount, the general resources of the community.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000000|And even (it will be added) if the consequences of misconduct could be confined to the vicious or thoughtless individual, ought society to abandon to their own guidance those who are manifestly unfit for it?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000003|And as a supplement to the unavoidable imperfections of law, ought not opinion at least to organise a powerful police against these vices, and visit rigidly with social penalties those who are known to practise them?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000004|There is no question here (it may be said) about restricting individuality, or impeding the trial of new and original experiments in living.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000006|There must be some length of time and amount of experience, after which a moral or prudential truth may be regarded as established: and it is merely desired to prevent generation after generation from falling over the same precipice which has been fatal to their predecessors.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000011_000003|George Barnwell murdered his uncle to get money for his mistress, but if he had done it to set himself up in business, he would equally have been hanged.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000011_000007|No person ought to be punished simply for being drunk; but a soldier or a policeman should be punished for being drunk on duty.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000000|But with regard to the merely contingent, or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000001|If grown persons are to be punished for not taking proper care of themselves, I would rather it were for their own sake, than under pretence of preventing them from impairing their capacity of rendering to society benefits which society does not pretend it has a right to exact.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000002|But I cannot consent to argue the point as if society had no means of bringing its weaker members up to its ordinary standard of rational conduct, except waiting till they do something irrational, and then punishing them, legally or morally, for it.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000003|Society has had absolute power over them during all the early portion of their existence: it has had the whole period of childhood and nonage in which to try whether it could make them capable of rational conduct in life.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000005|If society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children, incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives, society has itself to blame for the consequences.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000007|Nor is there anything which tends more to discredit and frustrate the better means of influencing conduct, than a resort to the worse.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000000|But the strongest of all the arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000003|But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000004|And a person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000006|But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000008|These teach that things are right because they are right; because we feel them to be so.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000014_000002|That is too weighty a subject to be discussed parenthetically, and by way of illustration.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000014_000004|And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000000|As a first instance, consider the antipathies which men cherish on no better grounds than that persons whose religious opinions are different from theirs, do not practise their religious observances, especially their religious abstinences.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000002|There are few acts which Christians and Europeans regard with more unaffected disgust, than Mussulmans regard this particular mode of satisfying hunger.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000004|Their aversion to the flesh of the "unclean beast" is, on the contrary, of that peculiar character, resembling an instinctive antipathy, which the idea of uncleanness, when once it thoroughly sinks into the feelings, seems always to excite even in those whose personal habits are anything but scrupulously cleanly, and of which the sentiment of religious impurity, so intense in the Hindoos, is a remarkable example.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000007|The practice is really revolting to such a public.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000008|They also sincerely think that it is forbidden and abhorred by the Deity.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000009|Neither could the prohibition be censured as religious persecution.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000011|The only tenable ground of condemnation would be, that with the personal tastes and self regarding concerns of individuals the public has no business to interfere.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000001|The people of all Southern Europe look upon a married clergy as not only irreligious, but unchaste, indecent, gross, disgusting.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000002|What do Protestants think of these perfectly sincere feelings, and of the attempt to enforce them against non Catholics?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000003|Yet, if mankind are justified in interfering with each other's liberty in things which do not concern the interests of others, on what principle is it possible consistently to exclude these cases?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000004|or who can blame people for desiring to suppress what they regard as a scandal in the sight of God and man?
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000000|The preceding instances may be objected to, although unreasonably, as drawn from contingencies impossible among us: opinion, in this country, not being likely to enforce abstinence from meats, or to interfere with people for worshipping, and for either marrying or not marrying, according to their creed or inclination.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000001|The next example, however, shall be taken from an interference with liberty which we have by no means passed all danger of.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000002|Wherever the Puritans have been sufficiently powerful, as in New England, and in Great Britain at the time of the Commonwealth, they have endeavoured, with considerable success, to put down all public, and nearly all private, amusements: especially music, dancing, public games, or other assemblages for purposes of diversion, and the theatre.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000005|This is precisely what should be said to every government and every public, who have the pretension that no person shall enjoy any pleasure which they think wrong.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000000|To imagine another contingency, perhaps more likely to be realised than the one last mentioned.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000001|There is confessedly a strong tendency in the modern world towards a democratic constitution of society, accompanied or not by popular political institutions.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000004|We have only further to suppose a considerable diffusion of Socialist opinions, and it may become infamous in the eyes of the majority to possess more property than some very small amount, or any income not earned by manual labour.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000007|And they employ a moral police, which occasionally becomes a physical one, to deter skilful workmen from receiving, and employers from giving, a larger remuneration for a more useful service.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000008|If the public have any jurisdiction over private concerns, I cannot see that these people are in fault, or that any individual's particular public can be blamed for asserting the same authority over his individual conduct, which the general public asserts over people in general.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000004|The organ of the Alliance, who would "deeply deplore the recognition of any principle which could be wrested to justify bigotry and persecution," undertakes to point out the "broad and impassable barrier" which divides such principles from those of the association.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000006|Selling fermented liquors, however, is trading, and trading is a social act.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000009|It destroys my primary right of security, by constantly creating and stimulating social disorder.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000010|It invades my right of equality, by deriving a profit from the creation of a misery, I am taxed to support.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000013|The doctrine ascribes to all mankind a vested interest in each other's moral, intellectual, and even physical perfection, to be defined by each claimant according to his own standard.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000002|But this justification, grounded on the direct interest which others have in each individual's observance of the practice, does not apply to the self chosen occupations in which a person may think fit to employ his leisure; nor does it hold good, in the smallest degree, for legal restrictions on amusements.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000003|It is true that the amusement of some is the day's work of others; but the pleasure, not to say the useful recreation, of many, is worth the labour of a few, provided the occupation is freely chosen, and can be freely resigned.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000004|The operatives are perfectly right in thinking that if all worked on Sunday, seven days' work would have to be given for six days' wages: but so long as the great mass of employments are suspended, the small number who for the enjoyment of others must still work, obtain a proportional increase of earnings; and they are not obliged to follow those occupations, if they prefer leisure to emolument.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000005|If a further remedy is sought, it might be found in the establishment by custom of a holiday on some other day of the week for those particular classes of persons.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000008|It remains to be proved that society or any of its officers holds a commission from on high to avenge any supposed offence to Omnipotence, which is not also a wrong to our fellow creatures.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000011|It is a determination not to tolerate others in doing what is permitted by their religion, because it is not permitted by the persecutor's religion.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000012|It is a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not hold us guiltless if we leave him unmolested.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000000|I cannot refrain from adding to these examples of the little account commonly made of human liberty, the language of downright persecution which breaks out from the press of this country, whenever it feels called on to notice the remarkable phenomenon of Mormonism.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000005|Other countries are not asked to recognise such unions, or release any portion of their inhabitants from their own laws on the score of Mormonite opinions.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000010|Let them send missionaries, if they please, to preach against it; and let them, by any fair means (of which silencing the teachers is not one), oppose the progress of similar doctrines among their own people.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000011|If civilisation has got the better of barbarism when barbarism had the world to itself, it is too much to profess to be afraid lest barbarism, after having been fairly got under, should revive and conquer civilisation.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000012|A civilisation that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy, must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000013|If this be so, the sooner such a civilisation receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go on from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians.
train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000024_000003|What was at first obedience to authority became a second nature, and the Parsees to this day abstain both from beef and pork.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000002_000000|THE MEETING.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000003_000000|But Denis Oglethorpe did not appear again for several days.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000003_000001|Perhaps business detained him; perhaps he went oftener to see Priscilla.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000003_000002|At any rate, he did not call again until the end of the week.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000000|Lady Throckmorton was in her private room when he came, and as he made his entrance with as little ceremony as usual, he ran in upon Theodora. Now, to tell the truth, he had, until this moment, forgotten all about that young person's very existence.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000001|He saw so many pretty girls in a day's round, and he was so often too busy to notice half of them-though he was an admirer of pretty girls-that it was nothing new to see one and forget her, until chance threw them together again.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000002|Of course, he had noticed Theodora North that first night.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000003|How could a man help noticing her?
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000004|And the something beautifully over awed and bashfully curious in her lovely, uncommon eyes, had half amused him.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000005|And yet, until this moment, he had forgotten her, with the assistance of proofs, and printers, and Priscilla.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000006_000001|"To be sure; I had forgotten Theodora."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000000|But Theodora had not forgotten him.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000001|The moment she saw him she stood up blushing, and with a light in her eyes.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000002|It was odd how un English she looked, and yet how thoroughly English she was in that delicious, uncomfortable trick of blushing vividly upon all occasions.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000004|She did not feel stately at all; she only felt somewhat confused, and rather glad that mr Denis Oglethorpe had surprised her by coming again.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000005|How mr Denis Oglethorpe would have smiled if he had known what an innocent commotion his simple presence created!
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000008_000001|"I will go and tell her you are here." There were no bells in the house at Downport, and no servants to answer if any one had rang one, and, very naturally, Theo forgot she was not at Downport.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000000|"Excuse me.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000001|No," said mr Denis Oglethorpe.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000002|"I would not disturb her on any account; and, besides, I know she will be down directly.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000003|She never reads late in the evening.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000004|This is a very handsome dog, Miss North."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000010_000000|"Very handsome, indeed," was Theo's reply.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000010_000001|"Come here, Sabre."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000011_000000|Sabre stalked majestically to her side, and laid his head upon her knee. Theo stroked him softly, raising her eyes quite seriously to mr Oglethorpe's face.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000012_000000|"He reminds me of Sir Dugald himself," she said.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000013_000000|mr Denis Oglethorpe smiled faintly.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000014_000000|"Does he?" he returned, as quietly as possible, and then his glance meeting Theo's, she broke into a little burst of horror stricken self reproach.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000015_000000|"Oh, dear!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000015_000001|"I oughtn't to have said that, ought I? I forgot how rude it would sound; but, indeed, I only meant that Sabre was so slow and heavy, and-and so indifferent to people, somehow.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000015_000002|I don't think he cares about being liked at all."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000016_000000|She was so abashed at her blunder, that she looked absolutely imploring, and mr Denis Oglethorpe smiled again.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000017_000000|"There is a little girl staying at Lady Throckmorton's," he had said to Priscilla.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000017_000001|"A relative of hers.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000017_000002|A pretty creature, too, Priscilla, for a bread and butter Miss."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000000|But just at this moment, he thought better of the matter.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000001|What tender, speechful eyes she had!
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000002|He was aroused to a recognition of their beauty all at once.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000003|What contour there was in the turn of arm and shoulder under the close fitting purple cloth!
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000005|Her unconscious stateliness of girlish form, and the conscious shyness of her manner, were the loveliest inconsistency in the world.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000019_000001|I don't know anything in London so like Sir Dugald as Sir Dugald's dog."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000000|Theodora stroked Sabre, apologetically, but could scarcely find courage to speak.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000001|She had stood somewhat in awe of mr Denis Oglethorpe, even at first, and her discomfort was rapidly increasing.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000002|He must think her dreadfully stupid, though he was good humored enough to make light of her silly speech.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000003|Certainly Priscilla never made such a silly speech in her life; but then, how could one teach French and Latin, and be anything but ponderously discreet?
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000000|mr Denis Oglethorpe was not thinking of Priscilla's wisdom, however; he was thinking of Theodora North; he was thinking that he must have been very blind not to have seen before that his friend's niece was a beauty of the first water, young as she was.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000001|But he had been tired and fagged out, he remembered, on the first occasion of their meeting-too tired to think of anything but his appointment at Broome street, and Priscilla's Greek grammar.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000002|And now in recognizing what he had before passed by, he was quite glad to find the girl so young and inexperienced-so modest, in a sweet way.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000003|It was easy, as well as proper enough, to talk to her unceremoniously without the trouble of being diffuse and complimentary. So he made himself agreeable, and Theodora listened until she quite forgot Sir Dugald, and only remembered Sabre, because his big heavy head was on her knee, and she was stroking it.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000023_000000|"No, sir," Theo answered.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000023_000002|I was never even out of Downport before."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000024_000000|"Then we must take you to see the lions," he said, "if Lady Throckmorton will let us, Miss Theodora.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000024_000003|How should you like that?"
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000025_000000|"Better than anything in the world," glowing with delighted surprise. "If it wouldn't be too much trouble," she added, quite apologetically.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000026_000000|mr Denis Oglethorpe smiled.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000027_000000|"It would be simply delightful," he said.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000027_000001|"I should like it better than anything in the world, too.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000027_000002|We will appeal to Lady Throckmorton."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000028_000000|"When Priscilla was in London-"
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000028_000001|Theodora was beginning a minute later, when the handsome face changed suddenly as her companion turned upon her in evident surprise.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000029_000000|"Priscilla?" he repeated, after her.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000030_000001|"I meant to say Pamela. My eldest sister's name is Pamela, and-and-"
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000031_000000|"And you said Priscilla by mistake," interposed Oglethorpe, with a sudden accession of gravity.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000031_000001|"Priscilla is a little like Pamela."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000000|It needed nothing more than this simple slip of Theodora North's tongue to assure him that Lady Throckmorton had been telling her the story of his engagement to Miss Gower, and, as might be anticipated, he was not as devoutly grateful to her ladyship as he might have been.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000001|He was careless to a fault in some things, and punctilious to a fault in others; and he was very punctilious about Priscilla Gower.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000002|He was not an ardent lover, but he was a conscientiously honorable one, and, apart from his respect for his betrothed, he was very impatient of interference with his affairs; and my lady was not chary of interfering when the fancy seized her.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000003|It roused his pride to think how liberally he must have been discussed, and, consequently, when Lady Throckmorton joined them, he was not in the most amiable of moods.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000004|But he managed to end his conversation with Theo unconstrainedly enough.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000005|He even gained her ladyship's consent to their plan.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000007|She had been so used to Pamela, that she would have felt half afraid of being treated with any greater ceremony; but still she could clearly understand that mr Oglethorpe did not speak to her as he would have spoken to Miss Gower.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000008|But free from any touch of light gallantry as his manner toward the girl was, Denis Oglethorpe did not forget her this night.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000010|But he thought of her carelessly and honestly enough, as a beautiful young creature years behind him in experience, and utterly beyond him in all possibility of any sentimental fancy.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000000|The friendship existing between Lady Throckmorton and this young man was a queer, inconsistent sentiment enough, and yet was a friendship, and a mature one.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000001|The two had encountered each other some years ago, when Denis had been by no means in his palmiest days.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000002|In fact, my lady had picked him up when he stood in sore need of friends, and Oglethorpe never forgot a favor.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000003|He never forgot to be grateful to Lady Throckmorton; and so, despite the wide difference between their respective ages and positions, their mutual liking had ripened into a familiarity of relationship which made them more like elder sister and younger brother than anything else.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000004|Oglethorpe, junior, was pretty much what Oglethorpe, senior, had been, and notwithstanding her practical views, Lady Throckmorton liked him none the worse for it.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000006|In fact, she was a woman of caprices even at sixty five, and Denis Oglethorpe was one of her caprices.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000034_000000|And, in like manner, Theodora North became another of them.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000034_000001|Finding her tractable, she became quite fond of her, in her own way, and was at least generous to lavishness in her treatment of her.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000035_000000|"You are very handsome, indeed, Theodora," she said to her a few days after her arrival.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000035_000002|Your figure is perfect, and you have eyes like a Syrian, instead of a commonplace English woman.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000035_000004|Rose pink is just your shade, and some day, when we go out together, I will lend you some of my diamonds."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000036_000002|Theodora was an actual beauty, of an uncommon type, in the face of her ignorance of manners and customs. Pamela had never, at her best, been more than a delicately pretty girl.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000000|In the meantime, Denis Oglethorpe made friendly calls as usual, and always meeting Theodora, found her very pleasant to talk to and look at. He found out her enthusiastic admiration for the poetic effusions of his youth, and in consideration thereof, good humoredly presented her with a copy of the volume, with some very witty verses written on the fly leaf in a flourishing hand.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000001|It was worth while to amuse Theodora, she was so pretty and unassuming in her delight at his carelessly amiable efforts for her entertainment.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000002|She was only a mere child after all at sixteen, with Downport in the background; so he felt quite honestly at ease in being attentive to her girlish requirements.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000003|Better that he should amuse her than that she should be left to the mercy of men who would perhaps have the execrable taste to spoil her pretty childish ways with flattery.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000038_000000|"Don't let all these fine people and fine speeches turn your head, Theodora," he would say, in a tone that might either have been jest or earnest.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000038_000001|"They spoiled me in my infancy, and my unfortunate experience causes me to warn you."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000000|But whether he jested or not, Theo was always inclined to listen to him with some degree of serious belief.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000001|She took his advice when it was proffered, and regarded his wisdom as the wisdom of an oracle.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000002|Who should know better than he what was right?
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000003|His indifference to the rule of opinion could only be the result of conscious perfection, and his careless satires were to her the most brilliant of witticisms.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000004|He paid her his first compliment the night the rose colored satin dress came home.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000041_000000|He was conscious of a faint shock of delight on first beholding her.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000041_000001|He had just left Priscilla, pale and heavy eyed, in dun colored merino, poring over a Greek dictionary, and the sudden entering the bright room, and finding himself facing Theodora North in rose colored satin, was a little like electricity.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000042_000000|"Oh! it's Theodora, is it?" he said, slowly, when he recovered himself. "Thank you, Theodora."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000043_000000|"What for?" asked Theo, blushing.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000044_000000|"For the rose colored satin," he returned, complacently.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000044_000001|"It is so very becoming.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000044_000002|You look like a sultana, my dear Theodora."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000045_000000|Theo looked up at him for a second, and then looked down.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000045_000001|Much as she admired mr Denis Oglethorpe, she never quite comprehended him.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000045_000002|He had such an eccentric fashion of being almost curt sometimes.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000046_000000|"I have been making a fine speech to Theodora," he said to Lady Throckmorton, when she came in.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000046_000001|"And she does not comprehend it in the least."
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000047_000000|It was somewhat singular, Theo thought, that he should be so silent after this, for he was silent.
train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000047_000002|He did not talk to her as much as usual, and she was quite sure he paid very little attention to Faust.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000005_000000|But during the final act she found that he was not looking at the stage at all; but was sitting in the shadow of the box curtain watching herself.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000005_000001|She had been deeply interested in Marguerite a minute before, and, in her heart touched pleasure, had leant upon the edge of the box, her whole face thrilled with excitement.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000007_000000|"What is it, Theodora?" he asked, in a low, clear voice.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000007_000001|"Is it Marguerite?"
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000008_000000|She looked at him in a little fright at herself.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000008_000001|She did not know why she had exclaimed-she scarcely knew how; but when she met his unembarrassed eyes, she began to think that possibly it might be Marguerite.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000008_000002|Indeed, a second later, she was quite sure it had been Marguerite.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000009_000000|"Yes-I think so," she faltered.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000009_000001|"Poor Marguerite!
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000009_000002|If she could only have saved him?"
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000010_000000|"How?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000011_000000|"I don't-at least I scarcely know; but I think the author ought to have made her save him, someway.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000011_000001|If-if she could have suffered something, or sacrificed something-"
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000012_000000|"Would she have done it if she could?" commented Denis, languidly.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000012_000001|He had quite recovered himself by this time.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000013_000000|"I would have done it if I had been Marguerite," Theo half whispered.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000014_000000|In his surprise he forgot his self possession.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000014_000001|He turned upon her suddenly, and meeting her sweet, world ignorant eyes, felt the faint, pained shock once more, and strangely enough his first thought was a disconnected one of Priscilla Gower.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000015_000000|"You?" he said, the next moment.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000015_000001|"Yes, I believe you would, Theodora."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000016_000000|He was sure she would, after that swift glance of his, and-Well, what a happy man he would be for whom this tender young Marguerite would suffer or be sacrificed.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000017_000000|He sat by her side until the curtain fell; but his silent mood seemed to have come upon him again.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000018_000000|Bright as the future was, it left a sense of discomfort, he could not explain why.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000018_000001|He dismissed the carriage, and walked down the street, feeling fairly depressed in spirits.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000000|He had, perhaps, never given the girl a thought before, unless when chance had thrown them together, and even then his thoughts had been common admiring ones.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000001|She had pleased him, and he had tried to amuse her in a careless, well meant fashion, though he had never made fine speeches to her, as nine men out of ten would have done.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000002|He had been so used to Priscilla, that it never occurred to him that a girl so young as this one could be a woman.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000003|And, after all, his blindness had not been the result of any frivolous lack of thought.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000004|A sharp experience had made him as thoroughly a man of the world as a man may be; but it had not made him callous or indifferent to the beauties of life.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000005|No one would ever have called him emotional, or prone to enthusiasms of a weak kind, and yet he was by no means hard of heart.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000006|He had quiet fancies of his own about people and things, and many of these reticent, rarely expressed ideas were reverent, chivalrous ones of women.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000007|The opposing force of a whole world could never have shaken his faith in Priscilla Gower, or touched his respect for her; but though, perhaps, he had never understood it so, he had never felt very enthusiastically concerning her.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000008|Truly, Priscilla Gower and enthusiasm were not in accordance with each other.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000010|Propinquity is the strongest of agents in a love affair, and in Denis Oglethorpe's love affair, propinquity had accomplished what nothing else would have been likely to have done.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000011|The desperate young scribbler of twenty years had been the lodger of the elder Miss Gower, and Priscilla, aged seventeen, had brought in his frugal dinners to him, and receipted his modest bills on their weekly payment.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000000|Priscilla at seventeen, silent, practical, grave and handsome, had, perhaps, softened unconsciously at the sight of his often pale face-he worked so hard and so far into the night; when at length they became friends, Priscilla gravely, and without any hesitation, volunteered to help him.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000001|She could copy well and clearly, and he could come into her aunt's room-it would save fires.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000003|It is easy to guess how the matter terminated.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000004|If ever he won success he determined to give it to Priscilla-and so he told her.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000006|He had worked steadily for her sake, and shielded her from every care that it lay within his power to lighten.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000007|He was not old Miss Elizabeth Gower's lodger now-he was her niece's husband in perspective. He was to marry Priscilla Gower in eight months.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000008|This was why Theodora North, in glistening rose pink satin, sent him home confronting a suddenly raised spirit of pain.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000009|Twice, in one night, he had found himself feeling toward Theodora North as he had never felt toward Priscilla Gower in his life.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000010|Twice, in one night, he had turned his eyes upon this girl of sixteen, and suffered a sudden shock of enthusiasm, or something like it.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000012|She had no right to win such admiration from him-he had no right to give it.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000000|But as his walk in the night air cooled him, it cooled his ardor of self examination somewhat.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000001|His discontent was modified by the time he reached his own door, and took his latch key out of his pocket.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000002|The face that had looked down upon him beneath the light at the head of the stair case, had faded into less striking color-it was only a girl's face again.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000003|He was on better terms with himself, and his weakness seemed less formidable.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000022_000000|"I will keep my promise to morrow," he said, "and Priscilla shall go with us.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000022_000001|Poor Priscilla!--poor girl!
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000023_000000|The promise he had made was nothing more than a ratification of the old one.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000023_000001|They were to see the lions together, and Priscilla was to guide them.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000000|And when the morrow came, he found it, after all, safe enough, and an easy enough matter, to tuck Theodora's small, gloved hand under his arm, when they set out on their tour of investigation and discovery.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000001|The girl was pretty enough, too, in her soft, black merino-her "best" dress in Downport-but she was not dazzling.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000002|The little round, black plumed hat was becoming also; but in his now more prosaic mood, he could stand that, too, pretty as it was in an innocent, unconsciously coquettish way.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000003|Theo was never coquettish herself in the slightest degree.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000004|She was not world wise enough for that yet.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000026_000000|She glanced up into his face, brightly.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000026_000001|She remembered what he had told her about his lady friend.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000028_000000|"Do you?" was his reply.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000028_000001|"Then say it to me-let me hear it."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000029_000000|"Miss Gower," she answered, softly, in a pretty reverence for him.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000029_000001|"Miss Priscilla Gower."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000030_000000|He nodded, slightly, with a curious mixture of expressions in his face.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000031_000000|"Yes," he said.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000031_000001|"Miss Gower, or rather Miss Priscilla Gower, as you say. Number twenty three, Broome street; and Broome street is not a fashionable locality, my dear Theodora."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000032_000000|"Isn't it?" queried Theo.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000032_000001|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000033_000000|He shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000034_000000|"Ask Lady Throckmorton," he said.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000034_000001|"But do you know who Miss Priscilla Gower is, Theodora?"
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000035_000000|Her bright eyes crept up to his, half timidly; but she said nothing, so he continued.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000036_000000|"Miss Priscilla Gower is the young lady to whom I am to be married next July.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000036_000001|Did you know that?"
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000037_000000|"Yes," answered Theo, looking actually pleased, and blushing beautifully as he looked down at her.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000037_000001|"But I am very much obliged to you for telling me, mr Oglethorpe."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000038_000000|"Why?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000038_000001|It was very preposterous, that even though his mood was so prosaic and paternal a one, he was absurdly, vacantly sensible of feeling some uneasiness at the brightness of her upturned face.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000038_000002|For pity's sake, why was it that he was impelled to such a puerile weakness-such a vanity, as he sternly called it.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000039_000001|I hope-oh!
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000039_000002|I do hope Miss Priscilla Gower will like me."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000040_000000|He had been looking straight before him while she spoke, but this brought his eyes to hers again, and to her face-bright, appealing, upturned-and he found himself absolutely obliged to steady himself with a jesting speech.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000041_000000|"My dearest Theodora," he said.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000041_000001|"Miss Priscilla Gower could not possibly help it."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000002|She was a trifle afraid of Miss Priscilla.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000003|Miss Priscilla was sitting at the table reading when they entered, and as she rose to greet them, holding her book in one hand, the thought entered Theo's mind that she could comprehend dimly why Lady Throckmorton disliked her, and thought her unsuited to Denis Oglethorpe.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000004|There was an absence of anything girl like in her fine, ivory pale face, somehow, though it was a young face and a handsome face, at whose fine lines and clear contour even a connoisseur could not have caviled.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000005|Its long almond shaped, agate gray eyes, black fringed and lustrous as they were, still were silent eyes-they did not speak even to Denis Oglethorpe.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000043_000000|"I am glad you have come," she said, simply, extending her hand in acknowledgment of Denis's introduction.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000043_000001|The quietness of this greeting speech was a fair sample of all her manner.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000043_000003|She was constitutionally unenthusiastic, if such a thing may be.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000044_000001|The fact that Denis had spoken of her admiringly was sufficient to arouse in her mind an interest in this young creature, who was at once, and so inconsistently, beautiful, timid, and regal, without consciousness.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000045_000000|"Three years more will make her something wonderful, as far as beauty is concerned," he had said; and, accordingly, she had felt some slight pleasure in the anticipation of seeing her.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000046_000000|Yet Theo had some faint misgivings during the day as to whether Miss Priscilla Gower would like her or not.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000046_000002|As Lady Throckmorton had said, it was not a matter of age.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000047_000000|"I hope," said Theodora, when, after their sight seeing was over, she stood on the pavement before the door in Broome street, her nice little hand on Denis Oglethorpe's arm, "I hope you will let me come to see you again, Miss Gower."
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000048_000000|Priscilla, standing upon the door step, smiled down on her blooming girl's face, a smile that was a little like moonlight.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000048_000001|All Priscilla's smiles were like moonlight.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000049_000000|"Yes," she said, in her practical manner.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000049_000001|"It will please me very much to see you, Miss Theodora.
train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000049_000002|Come as often as you can spare the time."
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000003_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000006_000003|The route lay through Indianapolis, Dayton, Cleveland, Columbus, Buffalo, albany new york, Trenton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to Washington.
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000027_000003|The police accused the stablemen of being parties to the theft, in which I think they were right.
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000028_000000|Money could not buy that dog.
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000028_000004|Next came a fight with a wolf; following this, came a narrow escape from a rattlesnake in the road.
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000028_000006|I thought he was a "goner" that time for sure, but he soon straightened up.
train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000030_000001|Six years later it chanced that I lost Jim.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000004_000000|"Oh, Gee," said Ogden wearily.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000006_000001|"I'm feeling a lot worse."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000007_000000|"You haven't drunk your nice soup."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000008_000000|"Feed it to the cat."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000009_000000|"Could you eat a nice bowl of bread and milk, precious?"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000010_000000|"Have a heart," replied the sufferer.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000011_000004|She had always mistrusted the man.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000011_000006|How right events had proved this instinctive feeling.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000012_000002|Through the open window floated sounds of warmth and Summer.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000016_000000|Lord Wisbeach hated little dogs.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000017_000000|"Can I have a word with you, mrs Pett?"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000018_000000|"Certainly, Lord Wisbeach."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000020_000000|"In private, you know."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000021_000000|He then looked meaningly at mrs Pett.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000024_000000|"All right," he said.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000025_000000|"Poor Oggie is not at all well to day," said mrs Pett, when he was gone.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000025_000001|"He is very subject to these attacks.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000025_000002|What do you want to tell me, Lord Wisbeach?"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000027_000000|"mrs Pett, you remember what I told you yesterday?"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000028_000000|"Of course."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000030_000000|mrs Pett started.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000030_000003|It is one of the effects of a successful hunch that it breeds other hunches.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000030_000004|She had been right about Jerry Mitchell; was she to be proved right about the self styled Jimmy Crocker?
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000032_000000|"Never.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000032_000001|But-"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000033_000000|"That man," said Lord Wisbeach impassively, "is not your nephew."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000035_000000|"But you-"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000036_000001|Just so.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000036_000002|For a purpose.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000036_000003|I wanted to make him think that I suspected nothing."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000037_000000|"Then you think-?"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000038_000000|"Remember what I said to you yesterday."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000039_000000|"But Skinner-the butler-recognised him?"
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000000|"Exactly.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000002|They are working together.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000003|The thing is self evident. Look at it from your point of view.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000004|How simple it is.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000050_000000|"You must come here at once, Lord Wisbeach.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000053_000001|Let us leave it at this then.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000053_000002|I will come here to night and will make it my business to watch these two men.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000054_000000|"It is wonderful of you, Lord Wisbeach."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000055_000000|"Not at all," replied his lordship.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000055_000001|"It will be a pleasure."
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000057_000000|When he had gone, mrs Pett remained for some minutes, thinking. She was aflame with excitement.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000057_000007|She felt that she must have further assistance.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000059_000004|He needed to be helped in spite of himself.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000060_000000|A happy solution struck mrs Pett.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000062_000000|She unhooked the receiver, and gave a number.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000063_000000|"I want to speak to mr Sturgis," she said.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000000|"Oh, mr Sturgis," said mrs Pett.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000003|Yes, the mother of Ogden Ford.
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000004|I want to consult-You will come up at once?
train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000005|Thank you so much.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000004_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000005_000000|CHICAGO ED.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000008_000000|mr Crocker seemed to feel this himself.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000010_000000|"How?
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000011_000000|mr Crocker surveyed his repellent features doubtfully.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000012_000001|"Suppose he has a fit!"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000014_000001|mr Crocker eyed this sadly.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000015_000000|"I wish you hadn't thrown that stuff away, Jim.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000015_000001|I could have done with it.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000015_000002|I'm feeling nervous."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000016_000000|"Nonsense, dad!
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000016_000001|You're all right!
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000032_000000|"Don't do that!" he said huskily.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000032_000001|"It might go off!"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000033_000000|"I should worry!" replied Ogden coldly.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000033_000001|"I'm at the right end of it.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000033_000004|"I got this with cigarette coupons, to shoot rabbits when we went to the country.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000034_000000|"Do you want to murder me?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000035_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000036_000000|mr Crocker's make-up was trickling down his face in sticky streams.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000037_000000|"Say, did you come to kidnap me?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000039_000001|Nix on the rough stuff!"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000040_000000|"Keep those hands up!" advised Ogden.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000041_000000|"Sure!
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000044_000001|"I'm wit Buck."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000045_000000|"Why didn't Buck come himself?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000047_000000|To mr Crocker's profound relief Ogden lowered the pistol.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000048_000000|"I'm strong for Buck," he said conversationally.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000048_000001|"We're old pals. Did you see the piece in the paper about him kidnapping me last time?
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000049_000000|"Sure," said mr Crocker.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000050_000000|"Say, listen.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000050_000001|If you take me now, Buck's got to come across.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000050_000004|See?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000051_000000|"I get you, kid."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000052_000000|"Well, if that's understood, all right.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000052_000001|Give me a minute to get some clothes on, and I'll be with you."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000053_000000|"Don't make a noise," said mr Crocker.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000054_000000|"Who's making any noise?
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000058_000001|"Who's working this with you?
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000059_000000|"Naw.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000059_000001|A new guy."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000060_000000|"Oh?
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000060_000001|Say, I don't remember you, if it comes to that."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000061_000000|"You don't?" said mr Crocker a little discomposed.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000062_000001|Which of them are you?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000063_000000|"Chicago Ed's my monaker."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000065_000000|"Well, you will after dis!" said mr Crocker, happily inspired.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000067_000000|"Take that mask off and let's have a look at you."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000069_000000|"How am I to know you're on the level?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000070_000000|mr Crocker played a daring card.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000071_000000|"All right," he said, making a move towards the door.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000071_000001|"It's up to youse.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000072_000001|"I'm not saying anything against you.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000072_000002|There's no need to fly off the handle like that."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000073_000000|"I'll tell Buck I couldn't get you," said mr Crocker, moving another step.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000074_000000|"Here, stop!
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000074_000001|What's the matter with you?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000076_000000|"Sure, if you get the conditions.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000078_000000|"All right, then.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000078_000001|Wait till I've got this shoe on, and let's start.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000078_000002|Now I'm ready."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000079_000000|"Beat it quietly."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000080_000001|Sing?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000081_000000|"Step dis way!" said mr Crocker jocosely.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000082_000000|They left the room cautiously.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000083_000001|One was large, the other small.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000083_000002|They crossed the room together.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000084_000000|Whispered words reached him.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000085_000000|"I thought you said you came in this way."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000086_000000|"Sure."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000087_000000|"Then why's the shutter closed?"
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000088_000000|"I fixed it after I was in."
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000089_000000|There was a faint scraping sound, followed by a click.
train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000089_000002|The figures passed through.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000001_000000|A block from the palace we bunched together and, by sheer mass and ferocity, actually stopped the machinelike advance for a few moments. Miscellaneous weapons had been brought from the houses-sledges, stone benches, anything that might break the Quabos' helmets-and handed to us in silence by the noncombatants.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000002_000000|Somebody tugged at my sleeve.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000002_000001|Looking down I saw a little girl.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000004_000000|Disregarding the clutching tentacles entirely, I swung the bar against the helmet.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000004_000001|It cracked.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000004_000002|I swung again and it fell in fragments, spilling the gallons of water it had contained.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000007_000001|"Why art thou here!
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000007_000002|Go back to the palace at once!"
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000008_000000|"I came to fight beside thee," she answered composedly, though her delicate lips quivered.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000010_000000|Fighting vainly, the population of Zyobor was swept into the palace grounds, then into the building itself.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000011_000001|An ironic picture came to me of the crowding masses of Quabos stuffed into the protection of the outer cave, waiting the outcome of the fight being waged by their warriors.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000011_000003|Though there was little doubt in the minds of any of us as to what the outcome would be.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000012_000001|The Quabos, able only to enter one at a time, halted a moment and there was a badly needed breathing spell.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000013_000000|"We've got to find some drastic means of defence," said the Professor, "or we won't last another three hours."
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000014_000000|"If you asked me, I'd say we couldn't last another three hours anyway," replied Stanley with a shrug.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000014_000001|"These fish have out thought us!"
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000015_000000|"Nonsense!
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000016_000000|"A brace of machine guns...." I murmured hopefully.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000017_000000|"You might as well wish for a dozen light cannon!" snapped the Professor.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000017_000001|"Please try to concentrate, and see if any effective weapon suggests itself to you-something more available at the moment than machine guns."
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000019_000000|Frankly I could think of nothing.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000019_000003|What weapon could be called forth to be effective against the thick glass helmets?
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000021_000001|"Glass.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000021_000002|What destroys it?
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000022_000000|He turned excitedly to the Queen.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000023_000000|"I think we have it!
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000023_000001|At least it's worth trying.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000024_000000|"Hast thou, in the palace, any lengths of pipe like to that which the Quabos drag behind them?"
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000025_000001|Then she interrupted herself.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000025_000002|"Ah, yes!
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000027_000001|The length of hose-made of some linen like fabric of tough, shredded sea weed and covered with a flexible metal sheath-was cut into three pieces each about fifty yards long.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000027_000002|These were connected to three of the largest gas vents of the palace.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000028_000000|Stanley, the Professor and I each took an end.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000028_000001|And we prepared to fight, with fire, the creatures of water.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000029_000000|"It ought to work," Stanley, repeated several times as though trying to reassure himself as well as us.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000030_000000|"Unless," retorted the Professor, "their glass has some special heat and cold resisting quality."
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000031_000000|Stanley shrugged.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000032_000001|How such creatures can make glass at all is beyond me!"
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000033_000000|Dragging our hose to the big front entrance of the palace, and warning the crowded people to keep their feet clear of it, we prepared to test out the efficiency of this, our last resource against the enemy.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000034_000000|For an instant we paused just inside the doorway, looking out at the ugly, glassed in Things that were massing to attack us again.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000035_000000|The ranks of Quabos had closed in now, till they extended down the street for several hundred yards in close formation-a forest of great pulpy heads with huge eyes that glared unblinkingly at the glittering, pink building that was their objective.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000036_000000|"Light up!" ordered Stanley, setting an example by touching his hose nozzle to the nearest wall jet.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000036_000001|A spurt of fire belched from his hose, streaming out for four or five feet in a solid red cone.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000036_000002|The Professor and I touched off our torches; and we moved slowly out the door toward the ranks of Quabos.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000040_000001|The Quabos in front, supplied with slack in their hoses by those behind, leaped at us with incredible agility.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000040_000002|We fell back a step so that none should get at our backs.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000041_000000|The last stand was begun.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000042_000000|It was not a battle so much as a series of fierce duels.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000042_000002|We parried and thrust with the flaming hoses in an equally desperate effort to prevent it.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000043_000003|There was a sickening smell-and the tentacle was jerked spasmodically away.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000044_000000|I caught the hose in my left hand and turned the fiery jet against the water filled helmet.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000045_000000|A shout of savage exultation broke from my lips.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000046_000000|The tentacle around my arm tightened, then relaxed.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000047_000000|I went toward the next one, swinging the flaring hose in a slow arc as I advanced.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000047_000001|The creature lunged at me and threshed at the burning jet with all four of its feelers.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000048_000000|Nevertheless with a swift move it slapped a tentacle squarely down over the hose nozzle.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000048_000001|The flame was extinguished as the flame of a candle is pinched out between thumb and forefinger.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000048_000002|I retreated.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000049_000000|"Catch!" came a voice behind me.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000050_000000|The Professor swung his four foot jet my way.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000052_000003|And still there appeared to be hundreds of the Quabos left.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000053_000000|By order of the Queen three stout Zyobites stepped up to us and relieved us of our exhausting labor.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000054_000001|And here the Professor took command again.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000055_000002|They move so slowly that you can easily cut off their retreat."
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000000|"There's plenty of it.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000001|The Quabos brought it with them." The Professor turned to me again.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000002|"Take metal saws with you.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000004|Run!"
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000058_000002|Four of our number were caught, but the rest got through unscathed.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000059_000000|Down a side street we raced, and along a parallel avenue toward the tunnel.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000059_000001|As we went I prayed that all the Quabos had centered their attention on the palace and left their vulnerable water hoses unguarded.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000060_000000|They had!
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000060_000001|When we stole up the last block toward the break we found the nearest Quabo was a hundred yards down the street-and working further away with every move.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000061_000000|At once we set to work on the scores of hoses that quivered over the floor with each move of the distant monsters.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000062_000001|The metal was soft enough to be sheered through by the stroke.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000062_000002|The cut ends were smashed so that they could not be crammed down over the tapering jets; but we could use our metal saws for cleaner severances at the other ends.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000063_000000|The giant with the ax stepped from hose to hose.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000064_000000|The end was certain and not long in coming.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000065_000000|We sprayed the monsters with fire as workmen spray fruit trees with insect poison.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000065_000001|Stanley, the Professor and a Zyobite came up in the rear with their three hoses.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000066_000000|Caught between the two forces, the beaten fish milled in hopeless confusion and indecision.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000067_000000|In half an hour they were all reduced to huddles of slimy wet flesh that dotted the pavement from the break back to the palace grounds.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000000|"Now," said the Professor triumphantly, "we have only to knock out the bottom half of the tunnel wall, empty the tunnel and make sure there are no more Quabos lurking there.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000001|After that we can fill it in with solid cement.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000002|The Queen can order her fish servants to guard the outer cave and see that no food gets in to the starving monsters there.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000004|The Quabos are as good as exterminated at this moment. And I can get back to my zoological work...."
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000069_000001|We knew each others thoughts well enough.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000071_000000|With the menace of the Quabos banished forever, the city of Zyobor resumed its normal way.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000072_000001|The daily tasks and pleasures were picked up where they had been dropped.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000073_000002|He is second to me in power.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000073_000003|The Professor is the official wise man of the city.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000074_000001|We are more than content with our lot here.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000075_000000|Now we have thought of a way in which, with luck, we may communicate with the upper world.
train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000076_000001|Aboard her were a Professor George Berry and the owner, Stanley Browne.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000003_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000005_000000|Stranger, more thrilling even than had been the flight of the Earth after being forced out of its orbit, was the flight of those dozen aircars of the Moon, bearing the rebels of Dalis' Gens back to Earth.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000007_000000|For the light which glowed from the bodies of the rebels, which had been given them by their passage through the white flames, was transmitted to the cars themselves, so that they glowed as with an inner radiance of their own-like comets flashing across the night.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000008_000000|Strange alchemy, which Sarka wondered about and, wondering, looked ahead to the time when he should be able, within his laboratory, to analyze the force it embodied, and thus gain new scientific knowledge of untold value to people of the Earth.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000000|That there was an alliance between Mars and the Moon seemed almost unbelievable.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000001|How had they managed the first contact, the first negotiations leading to the compact between two such alien peoples?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000002|Had there been any flights exchanged by the two worlds, surely the scientists of Earth would have known about it.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000003|But there had not, though there had been times and times when Sarka had peered closely enough at the surface of both the Moon and of Mars to see the activities, or the results of the activities, of the peoples of the two worlds.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000011_000000|Somehow, however, communication, if Sarka the Second had guessed correctly, had been managed between Mars and the Moon; and now that the Earth was a free flying orb the two were in alliance against it, perhaps for the same reason that the Earth had gone a voyaging.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000012_000000|Side by side sat Sarka and Jaska, their eager eyes peering through the forward end of the flashing aircar toward the Earth, growing minute by minute larger.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000012_000001|They were able, after some hours, to make out the outlines of what had once been continents, to see the shadows in valleys which had once held the oceans of Earth....
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000013_000000|And always, as they stared and literally willed the cubes which piloted and were the motive power of the aircars to speed and more speed, that marvelous display of interplanetary fireworks which had aroused the concern of Sarka the Second.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000014_000000|What were those lights?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000014_000001|Whence did they emanate?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000014_000002|Sarka the Second had said that they came from Mars, yet Mars was invisible to those in the speeding aircars, which argued that it was hidden behind the Earth. There was no way of knowing how close it was to the home of these rebels of Dalis' Gens.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000015_000000|And ever, as they flashed forward, Sarka was recalling that vague hint on the lips of Jaska, to the effect that Luar, for all her sovereignty of the Moon, might be, nonetheless, a native of the Earth.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000015_000001|But....
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000000|How?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000001|Why?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000002|When?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000003|There were no answers to any of the questions yet.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000004|If she were a native of Earth, how had she reached the Moon?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000006|Who was she?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000007|Her name, Luar, was a strange one, and Sarka studied it for many minutes, rolling the odd syllables of it over his tongue, wondering where, on the Earth, he had heard names, or words, similar to it.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000008|This produced no result, until he tried substituting various letters; then, again, adding various letters.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000019_000000|His mind went back to the clucking sounds which, among the Gnomes of the Moon, passed for speech.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000019_000001|He pondered anew.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000021_000000|"Yes, Jaska," he said suddenly, "somewhere on Earth, when we reach it, we may discover the secret of Luar-and know far more about Dalis than we have ever known before!"
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000022_000001|By intuition, she already knew.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000022_000002|Let Sarka arrive at her conclusion by scientific methods if he desired, and she would simply smile anew.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000023_000000|Sarka thought of the manner in which Jaska and he had been transported to the Moon; of how much Dalis seemed to know of the secrets of the laboratory of the Sarkas.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000023_000001|Might he not have known, two centuries ago, of the Secret Exit Dome, and somehow managed to make use of it in some ghastly experiment?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000023_000002|And still the one question remained unanswered: Who was Luar?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000024_000000|The Earth was now so close that details were plainly seen.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000024_000001|The Himalayas were out of sight, over the Earth, and by a mental command Sarka managed to change slightly the course of the dozen aircars.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000025_000000|In their flight, which had been, to them a flight through the glories of a super heavenly Universe, they had lost all count of time.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000025_000001|Neither Sarka nor Jaska, nor yet the people in those other aircars, could have told how long they had been flying, when, coming over the curve of the Earth, at an elevation of something like three miles, they were able at last to see into the area which had once housed the Gens of Dalis.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000027_000000|The Gens of Dalis had occupied all the territory northward to the Pole, from a line drawn east and west through the southernmost of what had once been the Hawaiian Islands.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000027_000001|Upon this area had struck the strange blue light from the deep Cone of the Moon.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000028_000000|Here, however, the light was invisible, and Sarka flew on in fear that somehow his aircars would blunder into it, and be destroyed-for that the blue light was an agent of ghastly destruction became instantly apparent.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000029_000000|The dwellings of the Gens of Dalis were broken and smashed into chaotic ruins.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000029_000003|For, in order for the Gens of Dalis to be in position to launch their attack against the Moon, he had managed, by manipulating the speed of the Beryls, to bring that area into position directly opposite the Moon.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000030_000000|Had it been otherwise, the blue column might have struck anywhere, and wiped out millions of lives!
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000031_000000|"God, Jaska," murmured Sarka.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000031_000001|"Look!"
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000000|Think of a shoreline, once lined with mighty buildings, after the passage of a tidal wave greater than ever before known to man.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000001|The devastation would be indescribable.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000002|Multiply that shoreline by the vast area which had housed the Gens of Dalis, and the mental picture is almost too big to grasp.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000003|Chaos, catastrophe, approaching an infinity of destruction.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000034_000000|Yet, Sarka knew, remembering the murmuring of the blue column as it came out of the cone, all this devastation had been caused in almost absolute silence.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000034_000001|People could have watched and seen these deserted buildings slowly fuse together, run together as molten metal runs together, like the lava from a volcano of long ago under the ponderous moving to and fro of some invisible, juggernautlike agency.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000035_000000|Sarka shuddered, trying to picture in his mind the massing of the minions of Mars, who thus saw a new country given into their hands-if they could take it.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000035_000001|Had the Earth been taken by surprise?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000035_000002|Had Sarka the Second been able to prepare for the approaching catastrophe?
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000036_000000|"Father," he sent his thoughts racing on ahead of him, "are those lights which are striking the Earth causing any damage?"
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000037_000000|"Only," came back the instant answer, "in that they destroy the courage of the people of the Earth!
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000037_000001|The people, however, now know that Sarka is returning, and their courage rises again!
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000037_000002|The flames are merely a hint of what faces us; but the people will rise and follow you wherever you lead!"
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000038_000000|So, as they raced across the area of devastation, the face of Sarka became calm again.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000038_000001|On a chance, he sent a single sentence of strange meaning to his father.
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000039_000000|"The ruler of the Moon is a woman called Luar, which seems a contraction of Lunar!"
train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000040_000000|For many minutes Sarka the Second made no answer.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000004_000001|Compared to the oncoming flames from Mars, the preceding display of lights had been as nothing. The whole Heavens between the Earth and Mars seemed alight with an unearthly glare, as though the very heart of the sun had burst and hurled part of its flaming mass outward into space.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000005_000000|On it came with unbelievable speed.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000006_000000|But there was no telling, yet, the form of the things which were coming.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000000|"What are they?" whispered Jaska, standing fearlessly at Sarka's side. "Interplanetary cars?
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000001|Rockets?
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000002|Balls of fire?
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000003|Or beings of Mars?"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000008_000000|"I think," said Sarka, after studying the display for a few minutes, "that they are either rockets or fireballs, perhaps both together!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000008_000001|But the Martians cannot consolidate any position on the Earth without coming to handgrips.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000008_000002|Since they must know this, we can expect to see the people of Mars themselves when, or soon after, those balls of fire strike the Earth!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000009_000000|Sarka raced back to the room of the Master Beryl as a strident humming came through to him.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000010_000000|The Spokesmen of the Gens whose borders touched those of the devasted Dalis area, were reporting again, and their voices were high pitched with fear that threatened to break the bounds of sanity.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000011_000000|"The ferment in the devasted area," was the gist of their report, "is assuming myriads of shapes!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000012_000000|"What forms?" snapped Sarka.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000012_000001|"Quickly!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000013_000003|The columnar formations are topped by globes which emit an ethereal radiance!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000014_000000|"Listen!" Sarka's voice was vibrant with excitement.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000014_000001|"Spokesmen of the Gens, make sure that every individual member of your Gens is fully equipped with flying clothing including belts and ovoids-prepared for an indefinite stay outside on the roof of the world!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000014_000002|Get your people out swiftly, keeping them in formation!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000015_000000|The contacts were broken.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000015_000001|Sarka stared into the Beryl, glancing swiftly in all directions, to see whether his orders were obeyed.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000016_000001|The advance fires from Mars seemed to have no effect on them, which Sarka had expected, since the fires seemed to consume nothing they had touched previously.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000017_000001|People dressed in the clothing of this Gens or that, wearing each the insignia of the house of his Spokesman.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000017_000002|A brave show.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000018_000000|Strange, too, that the fireballs made no noise.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000018_000001|Noiseless flame which rebounded from the surface of the Earth broke in silence, deluging the heavens with shooting stars of great brilliance.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000018_000002|Through its display flew the people of the Gens, mustering in flight above flight, each to his own level, under command of the Spokesmen of the Gens.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000019_000000|"How long, father," queried Sarka, "should it take to empty the Gens areas?"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000021_000000|"I wonder," mused Sarka, "if that is soon enough!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000022_000000|Perhaps yes, perhaps no
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000022_000001|It would be a race, in any case.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000023_000000|Even as the last flights of the Gens of Earth were slipping into the icy air from the roof of the world, the Moon cubes began their terrifying, appalling attack, every detail of which could be seen by Sarka from the Master Beryl.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000024_000001|The top of each of them was a gleaming globe whose eery light played over the country immediately surrounding each column, their weird light reflected in the squares, rectangles and globes that other cubes had formed.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000025_000000|Sarka sought swiftly among the columns for the one which might conceivably be in supreme command; but even as he sought the Moon cubes moved to the attack.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000025_000001|The globes on the tops of the columns dimmed their lights, and the squares, rectangles and globes got instantly into terrible motion.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000026_000000|Southward from the position in which they had formed they began to move, the squares and rectangles apparently sliding along the surface of the scarred and broken soil, the globes rolling.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000028_000000|Within a minute, Sarka was conscious of a trembling of all the laboratory, and the eyes of Jaska were wide with fear.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000029_000000|The cube army struck the dwellings, disappeared into them as though they had been composed of tissue paper, and continued on!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000030_000000|"God!" cried Sarka, his voice so tense that both his father and Jaska heard it above the roaring which shook and rocked the world.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000030_000001|"Do you see?
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000030_000002|The Moon cubes are destroying the dwelling of our people, and the Martians are to destroy the people who have fled!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000031_000000|"There must be a way," said Sarka the Second quietly, "to circumvent the cubes!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000031_000001|But what?
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000031_000002|Your will still rules the cubes which piloted you from the Moon?"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000032_000000|"Yes," replied Sarka tersely, "but there are only a dozen of the cubes. What can they do against countless millions of them?
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000032_000001|Cubes which are Moon cubes, brought to the Earth in the heart of that blue column, here reformed to create an army which is invincible, because it cannot be slain!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000032_000003|When they have laid waste the Earth, the Martians have but to finish the fight!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000034_000000|"Then what of the Spokesmen of the Gens, who will be out of contact with me?"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000035_000000|"They must stand on their own feet, must fight their own battle!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000035_000001|Call to you the people who have passed through the white flames, and fight with the distant will of Luar and of Dalis for control of the cube army!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000036_000000|Again that exaltation, which convinced him he could move mountains with his two hands, coursed through the being of Sarka.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000037_000000|Quietly be answered Jaska.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000038_000000|"I believe you are right," he said softly.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000038_000001|"Those of us who have passed through the flames which bore these Moon cubes will control the cubes, even bend them to our will.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000038_000002|The Spokesmen must vanquish the Martians or perish!"
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000039_000000|Then he sent his mental commands to the Spokesmen:
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000040_000000|"Meet the Martians when they arrive and destroy or drive them back!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000040_000001|You live only if you win!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000040_000002|We speak no more until victory is ours!
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000041_000001|Jaska had thought spoken them, before he could prevent.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000041_000002|He turned upon her, lips shaping a command that she remain behind.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000041_000003|But she forestalled him.
train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000042_000000|"I, too, have been through the white flames!
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000001_000000|Men are very strange people.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000001_000001|They are like those sums in algebra that you think about and worry about and cry about and try to get help from other women about, and then, all of a sudden, X works itself out into perfectly good sense.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000004_000000|I was tempted to say, "Why not my heart?" I was glad she didn't know how good that heart did feel under my blouse when the boy brought that basket of fish from Judge Wade's fishing expedition Saturday.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000004_000001|I have firmly determined not to blush any more at the thought of that gorgeous man-at least outwardly.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000010_000000|"Delightful indeed!
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000012_000001|Not me!
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000012_000002|Miss Clinton!
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000018_000002|And I bought things!
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000019_000000|First I went to see Madam Courtier for corsets.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000019_000002|But that didn't matter!
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000025_000001|He only said politely, "And I am delighted that the trousseau is perfectly satisfactory to you, madame."
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000026_000000|That was an awful shock, and I hope I didn't show it as I murmured "Perfectly, thank you."
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000027_000001|I felt queer all the afternoon as I packed those trunks for the five o'clock train.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000036_000003|The judge is like that.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000048_000001|I couldn't stand that.
train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000052_000001|Don't you want to tell me what a little girl like you did in a big city, and-and read me part of that Paris letter I saw the postman give Jane this afternoon?"
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000002|But this torture book found that out about me, and stopped it the very first thing on page three.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000003|The command is to sleep as little as possible to keep the nerves in a good condition-"eight hours at the most, and seven would be better." What earthly good would a seven hour nap do me?
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000004|I want ten hours to sleep and twelve if I get a good tired start.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000005|To see me stagger out of my perfectly nice bed at six o'clock every morning now would wring the sternest heart with compassion and admiration at my faithfulness-to whom?
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000005_000004|Anyhow, it made me take a resolve.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000005_000005|After breakfast, I went into the kitchen to speak to Jane.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000000|"Jane," I said, looking past her head, "my health is not very good, and you can bring my breakfast to me in bed after this." Poor mr Carter always wanted breakfast on the stroke of seven.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000001|Jane has buried husbands.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000003|Jane understands everything I say to her.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000005|But that was before my martyrdom to this book had begun.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000006|I get up now!
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000007_000002|I was thinking about things.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000009_000000|The subject of the conduct of widows is a serious one.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000012_000002|It was the dearest old-fashioned tune ever written, and Billy sang the words as distinctly as if he had been a boy chorister doing a difficult recitative.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000012_000003|My heart beat so it shook the lace on my breast, like a breeze from heaven, as he took the high note and then let it go on the last few words.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000015_000003|Lift me up, and I can put him in the waterglass on your table." He held up one muddy hand to me, and promptly I lifted him up into my arms.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000016_000000|"That was a lovely song you sang about 'Molly darling,' Billy," I said. "Where did you hear it?"
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000018_000000|"Who taught it to you, sugar sweet?" I persisted as I poured water in on the frog under his direction.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000019_000000|"Nobody taught it to me.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000019_000002|He don't know no good songs like 'Black eyed Susan' or 'Little Boy Blue.' I go to sleep quick 'cause he makes me feel tired with his slow tune what's only good for frogs and things.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000022_000000|There is one exercise here on page twenty that I hate worst of all.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000022_000003|Hereafter I'll get up at the time directed on page three, or maybe earlier.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000022_000005|I won't let myself even think "perfect flower" and "scarlet runner." If I do, I get warm and happy all over.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000023_000003|I've put it away on the top shelf of a cupboard, for it is a torment to look at it.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000025_000002|He never stopped coming to see me occasionally, and mr Carter liked him.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000028_000001|I'm not sore, why should you be?
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000028_000002|Aren't you happy with me?"
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000031_000001|I was just planning a gorgeous dinner party I want to have for her when you came so suddenly.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000031_000002|Do you think we could arrange it for Tuesday evening?"
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000032_000000|"Good gracious, Molly, don't knock the town down like that!
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000034_000000|"Help!
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000034_000001|Let my kinship protect me!" exclaimed Tom in alarm, and he pretended to move an inch away from me.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000036_000003|Then we both laughed and began to plan what Tom called a conflagration.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000038_000000|Miss Clinton was delightfully gracious about the dinner-I almost called it the debut dinner-and the expression on the judge's face when he accepted!
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000038_000001|I was glad she was sitting beside him and couldn't see. Some women like to make other women unhappy, but I think it is best for you to keep them blissfully unconscious until you get what you want. Anyhow, I like that girl all over, and I can't see that her neck is so absolutely impossibly flowery.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000039_000001|That, mrs Johnson just couldn't stand, and she came across the street immediately and called me back to the gate.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000041_000000|"He's just a week younger, mrs Johnson, and I wouldn't tie him for worlds, even if I married him," I said meekly.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000042_000001|Well, I must go home now to see that Sally cooks up a few of mr Johnson's crotchets for supper." And she began to hurry away.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000044_000003|She doesn't know it yet; but I do.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000046_000000|I'll never forget my first real party.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000046_000004|I can hardly stand thinking about how he looked even now.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000046_000006|Candle light, pretty women's frocks, black coat sleeves, cut glass and flowers are good ingredients for a joy drink, and why not?
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000048_000000|I sat down at the long table by the window and slowly prepared to enjoy myself.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000048_000003|I had just lifted it high in the air when out of the lilac scented dark of the garden came a laugh.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000049_000001|The spoon crashed on the table, and I turned and crashed into words.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000050_000000|"You are cruel, cruel, john Moore, and I hate you worse than I ever did before, if that is possible.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000050_000001|I'm hungry, hungry to death, and now you've spoiled it all!
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000051_000002|I was glad myself.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000052_000001|Again I had that sensation of being against something warm and great and good, and I don't know how I controlled it enough not to-to-
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000054_000000|"Thank you, I will, all of it, and the bread and butter, too," he answered, in that detestable friendly tone of voice, as he drew himself up and sat in the window.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000055_000000|"Supper," I sniffed, as I spread the jam on those lovely, lovely slices of bread and thick butter that I had fixed for my own self.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000055_000001|"I am so tired of that apple toast combination now that I forget it if I can." As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness, I turned my head away.
train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000056_000001|Forget-" He didn't finish his sentence, and I'm glad.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000005_000000|"HADN'T we better take a policeman along?" said one of the girls with a nervous laugh.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000005_000001|"It really isn't safe down there, you know."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000006_000000|"There's no danger," said Virginia briefly.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000007_000000|"Is it true that your brother Rollin has been converted?" asked the first speaker, looking at Virginia curiously.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000007_000001|It impressed her during the drive to the Rectangle that all three of her friends were regarding her with close attention as if she were peculiar.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000008_000000|"Yes, he certainly is."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000009_000001|Doesn't that seem funny?" said the girl with the red silk parasol.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000001|The sights and smells and sounds which had become familiar to Virginia struck the senses of these refined, delicate society girls as something horrible.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000003|"Slumming" had never been a fad with Raymond society, and this was perhaps the first time that the two had come together in this way.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000004|The girls felt that instead of seeing the Rectangle they were being made the objects of curiosity.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000005|They were frightened and disgusted.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000011_000000|"Let's go back.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000011_000001|I've seen enough," said the girl who was sitting with Virginia.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000012_000000|They were at that moment just opposite a notorious saloon and gambling house.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000012_000002|She was singing in a broken, drunken sob that seemed to indicate that she partly realized her awful condition, "Just as I am, without one plea"--and as the carriage rolled past she leered at it, raising her face so that Virginia saw it very close to her own.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000012_000003|It was the face of the girl who had kneeled sobbing, that night with Virginia kneeling beside her and praying for her.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000000|"Stop!" cried Virginia, motioning to the driver who was looking around.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000001|The carriage stopped, and in a moment she was out and had gone up to the girl and taken her by the arm.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000004|The girls in the carriage were smitten into helpless astonishment.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000005|The saloon keeper had come to the door of the saloon and was standing there looking on with his hands on his hips.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000006|And the Rectangle from its windows, its saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk, gutter and roadway, paused, and with undisguised wonder stared at the two girls.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000007|Over the scene the warm sun of spring poured its mellow light.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000008|A faint breath of music from the band stand in the park floated into the Rectangle.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000009|The concert had begun, and the fashion and wealth of Raymond were displaying themselves up town on the boulevard.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000014_000000|When Virginia left the carriage and went up to Loreen she had no definite idea as to what she would do or what the result of her action would be.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000015_000000|She looked around now as she stood close by Loreen, and the whole scene was cruelly vivid to her.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000017_000000|The girl with the red parasol seemed to gasp at the word "friend," when Virginia spoke it.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000017_000001|She did not say anything.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000018_000000|The other girls seemed speechless.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000019_000000|"Go on.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000019_000002|The driver started the horses slowly.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000019_000003|One of the girls leaned a little out of the carriage.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000020_000000|"Can't we-that is-do you want our help?
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000020_000001|Couldn't you-"
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000021_000000|"No, no!" exclaimed Virginia.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000021_000001|"You cannot be of any help to me."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000000|The carriage moved on and Virginia was alone with her charge.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000001|She looked up and around.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000002|Many faces in the crowd were sympathetic.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000004|The Holy Spirit had softened a good deal of the Rectangle.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000023_000000|"Where does she live?" asked Virginia.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000024_000000|No one answered.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000000|"You shall not touch me!
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000001|Leave me!
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000002|Let me go to hell!
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000003|That's where I belong!
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000004|The devil is waiting for me.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000005|See him!" she exclaimed hoarsely.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000006|She turned and pointed with a shaking finger at the saloon keeper.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000007|The crowd laughed.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000008|Virginia stepped up to her and put her arm about her.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000026_000000|"Loreen," she said firmly, "come with me.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000026_000001|You do not belong to hell. You belong to Jesus and He will save you.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000026_000002|Come."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000027_000000|The girl suddenly burst into tears.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000027_000001|She was only partly sobered by the shock of meeting Virginia.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000028_000000|Virginia looked around again.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000028_000001|"Where does mr Gray live?" she asked. She knew that the evangelist boarded somewhere near the tent.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000028_000002|A number of voices gave the direction.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000000|So the two moved on through the Rectangle toward the evangelist's lodging place.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000001|The sight seemed to impress the Rectangle seriously. It never took itself seriously when it was drunk, but this was different.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000003|The event of Loreen's stumbling through the gutter dead drunk always made the Rectangle laugh and jest.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000005|The Rectangle viewed it with soberness and more or less wondering admiration.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000031_000000|When they finally reached mr Gray's lodging place the woman who answered Virginia's knock said that both mr and mrs Gray were out somewhere and would not be back until six o'clock.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000032_000000|Virginia had not planned anything farther than a possible appeal to the Grays, either to take charge of Loreen for a while or find some safe place for her until she was sober.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000032_000001|She stood now at the door after the woman had spoken, and she was really at a loss to know what to do.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000032_000003|Virginia eyed the miserable figure of the girl with a feeling that she was afraid would grow into disgust.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000000|Finally a thought possessed her that she could not escape.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000001|What was to hinder her from taking Loreen home with her?
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000005|But that was not the question with Virginia just now.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000006|"What would Jesus do with Loreen?"
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000007|That was what Virginia faced, and she finally answered it by touching the girl again.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000034_000000|"Loreen, come.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000034_000002|We will take the car here at the corner."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000001|She had expected resistance or a stubborn refusal to move. When they reached the corner and took the car it was nearly full of people going uptown.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000002|Virginia was painfully conscious of the stare that greeted her and her companion as they entered.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000003|But her thought was directed more and more to the approaching scene with her grandmother.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000004|What would Madam Page say?
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000036_000001|But she was lapsing into a state of stupor.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000036_000002|Virginia was obliged to hold fast to her arm.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000036_000003|Several times the girl lurched heavily against her, and as the two went up the avenue a curious crowd of so-called civilized people turned and gazed at them.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000037_000000|Madam Page was in the library.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000037_000001|Hearing Virginia come in, she came into the hall.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000037_000002|Virginia stood there supporting Loreen, who stared stupidly at the rich magnificence of the furnishings around her.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000038_000000|"Grandmother," Virginia spoke without hesitation and very clearly, "I have brought one of my friends from the Rectangle.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000039_000000|Madam Page glanced from her granddaughter to Loreen in astonishment.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000041_000000|"Yes, I said so." Virginia's face flushed, but she seemed to recall a verse that mr Gray had used for one of his recent sermons, "A friend of publicans and sinners." Surely, Jesus would do this that she was doing.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000042_000000|"Do you know what this girl is?" asked Madam Page, in an angry whisper, stepping near Virginia.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000000|"I know very well.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000001|She is an outcast.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000003|I know it even better than you do.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000004|She is drunk at this minute.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000005|But she is also a child of God.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000009|Grandmother, we call ourselves Christians.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000010|Here is a poor, lost human creature without a home, slipping back into a life of misery and possibly eternal loss, and we have more than enough.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000000|Madam Page glared at Virginia and clenched her hands.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000001|All this was contrary to her social code of conduct.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000004|To Madam Page society represented more than the church or any other institution. It was a power to be feared and obeyed.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000005|The loss of its good will was a loss more to be dreaded than anything except the loss of wealth itself.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000045_000000|She stood erect and stern and confronted Virginia, fully roused and determined.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000045_000001|Virginia placed her arm about Loreen and calmly looked her grandmother in the face.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000000|"You shall not do this, Virginia!
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000001|You can send her to the asylum for helpless women.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000002|We can pay all the expenses.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000003|We cannot afford for the sake of our reputations to shelter such a person."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000047_000000|"Grandmother, I do not wish to do anything that is displeasing to you, but I must keep Loreen here tonight, and longer if it seems best."
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000048_000000|"Then you can answer for the consequences!
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000048_000002|Virginia stopped her before she could speak the next word.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000000|"Grandmother, this house is mine.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000002|But in this matter I must act as I fully believe Jesus would in my place.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000003|I am willing to bear all that society may say or do.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000004|Society is not my God.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000000|"I shall not stay here, then!" said Madam Page.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000001|She turned suddenly and walked to the end of the hall.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000002|She then came back, and going up to Virginia said, with an emphasis that revealed her intensive excitement of passion: "You can always remember that you have driven your grandmother out of your house in favor of a drunken woman;" then, without waiting for Virginia to reply, she turned again and went upstairs.
train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000003|Virginia called a servant and soon had Loreen cared for.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000002_000000|"Master, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000003_000000|THE Saturday afternoon matinee at the Auditorium in Chicago was just over and the usual crowd was struggling to get to its carriage before any one else.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000004_000001|r s" in gilt letters on the panel of the door.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000005_000000|Two girls stepped out of the crowd towards the carriage.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000006_000000|"Come, Felicia!
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000006_000002|I shall freeze to death!" called the voice from the carriage.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000007_000001|He took them, with a look of astonishment and a "Thank ye, lady!" and instantly buried a very grimy face in the bunch of perfume.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000009_000000|"Am I? What have I done that is queer now, Rose?" asked the other, looking up suddenly and turning her head towards her sister.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000010_000000|"Oh, giving those violets to that boy!
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000010_000001|He looked as if he needed a good hot supper more than a bunch of violets.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000010_000003|I shouldn't have been surprised if you had.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000000|"'Queer' isn't just the word, of course," replied Rose indifferently.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000001|"It would be what Madam Blanc calls 'outre.' Decidedly.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000002|Therefore you will please not invite him or others like him to hot suppers because I suggested it.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000004|I'm awfully tired."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000014_000000|"The concert was stupid and the violinist was simply a bore.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000014_000001|I don't see how you could sit so still through it all," Rose exclaimed a little impatiently.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000015_000000|"I liked the music," answered Felicia quietly.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000016_000000|"You like anything.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000016_000001|I never saw a girl with so little critical taste."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000000|Felicia colored slightly, but would not answer.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000001|Rose yawned again, and then hummed a fragment of a popular song.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000002|Then she exclaimed abruptly: "I'm sick of 'most everything.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000003|I hope the 'Shadows of London' will be exciting tonight."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000018_000000|"The 'Shadows of Chicago,'" murmured Felicia.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000018_000002|You know we have a box with the Delanos tonight."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000019_000000|Felicia turned her face towards her sister.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000019_000001|Her great brown eyes were very expressive and not altogether free from a sparkle of luminous heat.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000020_000000|"And yet we never weep over the real thing on the actual stage of life.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000020_000001|What are the 'Shadows of London' on the stage to the shadows of London or Chicago as they really exist?
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000000|"Because the actual people are dirty and disagreeable and it's too much bother, I suppose," replied Rose carelessly.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000001|"Felicia, you can never reform the world.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000002|What's the use?
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000003|We're not to blame for the poverty and misery.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000005|We ought to be thankful we're rich."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000022_000000|"Suppose Christ had gone on that principle," replied Felicia, with unusual persistence.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000002|I tell you, Felicia, there will always be poor and rich in spite of all we can do.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000003|Ever since Rachel Winslow has written about those queer doings in Raymond you have upset the whole family.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000004|People can't live at that concert pitch all the time.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000005|You see if Rachel doesn't give it up soon.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000006|It's a great pity she doesn't come to Chicago and sing in the Auditorium concerts.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000007|She has received an offer.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000008|I'm going to write and urge her to come.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000009|I'm just dying to hear her sing."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000024_000002|It was an elegant mansion of gray stone furnished like a palace, every corner of it warm with the luxury of paintings, sculpture, art and modern refinement.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000000|The owner of it all, mr Charles r Sterling, stood before an open grate fire smoking a cigar.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000003|She had been an invalid for several years.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000004|The two girls, Rose and Felicia, were the only children.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000005|Rose was twenty one years old, fair, vivacious, educated in a fashionable college, just entering society and already somewhat cynical and indifferent.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000006|A very hard young lady to please, her father said, sometimes playfully, sometimes sternly.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000008|There was that in Felicia that would easily endure any condition in life if only the liberty to act fully on her conscientious convictions were granted her.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000026_000000|"Here's a letter for you, Felicia," said mr Sterling, handing it to her.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000027_000000|Felicia sat down and instantly opened the letter, saying as she did so: "It's from Rachel."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000028_000000|"Well, what's the latest news from Raymond?" asked mr Sterling, taking his cigar out of his mouth and looking at Felicia with half shut eyes, as if he were studying her.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000029_000000|"Rachel says dr Bruce has been staying in Raymond for two Sundays and has seemed very much interested in mr Maxwell's pledge in the First Church."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000030_000000|"What does Rachel say about herself?" asked Rose, who was lying on a couch almost buried under elegant cushions.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000031_000000|"She is still singing at the Rectangle.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000032_000001|She ought not to throw away her voice in that railroad town upon all those people who don't appreciate her."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000033_000001|She might set Chicago wild with her voice if she sang in the Auditorium.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000033_000002|And there she goes on throwing it away on people who don't know what they are hearing."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000034_000000|"Rachel won't come here unless she can do it and keep her pledge at the same time," said Felicia, after a pause.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000000|"What pledge?" mr Sterling asked the question and then added hastily: "Oh, I know, yes!
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000002|Alexander Powers used to be a friend of mine.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000003|We learned telegraphy in the same office.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000005|And he's back at his telegraph again.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000006|There have been queer doings in Raymond during the past year.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000008|I must have a talk with him about it."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000036_000000|"He is at home and will preach tomorrow," said Felicia.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000036_000001|"Perhaps he will tell us something about it."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000037_000000|There was silence for a minute.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000037_000001|Then Felicia said abruptly, as if she had gone on with a spoken thought to some invisible hearer: "And what if he should propose the same pledge to the Nazareth Avenue Church?"
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000038_000000|"Who?
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000038_000001|What are you talking about?" asked her father a little sharply.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000039_000000|"About dr Bruce.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000041_000000|"It's a very impracticable movement, to my mind," said mr Sterling shortly.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000042_000000|"I understand from Rachel's letter that the Raymond church is going to make an attempt to extend the idea of the pledge to other churches.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000042_000001|If it succeeds it will certainly make great changes in the churches and in people's lives," said Felicia.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000000|"Oh, well, let's have some tea first!" said Rose, walking into the dining room.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000002|mrs Sterling had her meals served in her room.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000003|mr Sterling was preoccupied.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000004|He ate very little and excused himself early, and although it was Saturday night, he remarked as he went out that he should be down town on some special business.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000000|"Oh, I don't know!
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000001|I hadn't noticed anything unusual," replied Rose. After a silence she said: "Are you going to the play tonight, Felicia?
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000002|mrs Delano will be here at half past seven.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000003|I think you ought to go.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000004|She will feel hurt if you refuse."
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000046_000001|I don't care about it.
train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000047_000000|"That's a doleful remark for a girl nineteen years old to make," replied Rose.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000001_000000|POLLY IS COMFORTED
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000000|Yes, it must be confessed.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000001|Polly was homesick.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000002|All her imaginations of her mother's hard work, increased by her absence, loomed up before her, till she was almost ready to fly home without a minute's warning.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000004|It got to be noticed finally; and one and all redoubled their exertions to make everything twice as pleasant as ever!
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000003_000000|The only place, except in front of the grand piano, where Polly approached a state of comparative happiness, was in the greenhouse.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000004_000000|Here she would stay, comforted and soothed among the lovely plants and rich exotics, rejoicing the heart of Old Turner the gardener, who since Polly's first rapturous entrance, had taken her into his good graces for all time.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000005_000000|Every chance she could steal after practice hours were over, and after the clamorous demands of the boys upon her time were fully satisfied, was seized to fly on the wings of the wind, to the flowers.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000007_000000|"Polly don't like us," at last said Van one day in despair.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000010_000000|"Well," said Van, and he showed signs of relenting a little at that; "but Percy is perfectly awful, mamma, you don't know; and he feels so smart too," he said vindictively.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000011_000000|"Well," said mrs Whitney, softly, "let's think what we can do for Polly; it makes me feel very badly to see her sad little face."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000013_000000|"I'm afraid those wouldn't quite answer the purpose," said his mamma, smiling-"especially the last; yet we must think of something."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000014_000001|So, with a great many chucklings and shruggings when no one was by, he had departed after breakfast one day, simply saying he shouldn't be back to lunch.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000015_000002|If she could only see Phronsie for just one moment!
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000015_000003|"I shall have to give up!" she moaned.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000015_000004|"I can't bear it!" and over went her head on the music rack.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000017_000000|"Oh, she's always at the piano," said Van.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000017_000001|"She must be there now, somewhere," and then somebody laughed.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000019_000000|Polly sat up very straight, and whisked off the tears quickly.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000019_000001|Up came mr King with an enormous bundle in his arms; and he marched up to the piano, puffing with his exertions.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000020_000000|"Here, Polly, hold your arms," he had only strength to gasp.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000021_000000|At this, the bundle opened suddenly, and-out popped Phronsie!
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000022_000001|I'm here, Polly!"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000023_000000|But Polly couldn't speak; and if Jasper hadn't caught her just in time, she would have tumbled over backward from the stool, Phronsie and all!
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000024_000000|"Aren't you glad I've come, Polly?" asked Phronsie, with her little face close to Polly's own.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000025_000000|That brought Polly to.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000025_000001|"Oh, Phronsie!" she cried, and strained her to her heart; while the boys crowded around, and plied her with sudden questions.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000026_000000|"Now you'll stay," cried Van; "say, Polly, won't you."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000027_000000|"Weren't you awfully surprised?" cried Percy; "say, Polly, awfully?"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000028_000000|"Is her name Phronsie," put in Dick, unwilling to be left out, and not thinking of anything else to ask.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000029_000000|"Boys," whispered their mother, warningly, "she can't answer you; just look at her face."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000030_000000|And to be sure, our Polly's face was a study to behold.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000032_000000|"Isn't he splendid!" cried Jasper in intense pride, swelling up.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000032_000001|"Father knew how to do it."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000033_000001|"There, there," he said soothingly, patting her brown, fuzzy head. Something was going down the old gentleman's neck, that wet his collar, and made him whisper very tenderly in her ear, "don't give way now, Polly; Phronsie'll see you."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000034_000000|"I know," gasped Polly, controlling her sobs; "I won't-only-I can't thank you!"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000035_000000|"Phronsie," said Jasper quickly, "what do you suppose Prince said the other day?"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000036_000000|"What?" asked Phronsie in intense interest slipping down out of Polly's arms, and crowding up close to Jasper's side.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000036_000001|"What did he, Jasper?"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000038_000000|"Be still," said Jappy warningly, while Phronsie stood surveying them all with grave eyes.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000039_000001|Bark!'"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000041_000000|"Yes, all alone by himself," asserted Jasper, vehemently, and winking furiously to the others to stop their laughing; "he did now, truly, Phronsie."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000042_000001|yes, pretty soon now?"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000047_000000|"Don't mind it, Polly," whispered Jasper; "twasn't her fault."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000048_000000|"Phronsie," said mrs Whitney, smilingly, stooping over the child, "would you like to see a little pussy I have for you?"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000049_000000|But the chubby face didn't look up brightly, as usual: and the next moment, without a bit of warning, Phronsie sprang past them all, even Polly, and flung herself into mr King's arms, in a perfect torrent of sobs.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000051_000001|All Jasper's frantic efforts at comfort, utterly failed.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000051_000002|To think that Phronsie had left her for any one!--even good mr King!
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000052_000001|The fat, little arms unclasped their hold, and transferred themselves willingly to Polly's neck; and Phronsie hugged up comfortingly to Polly's heart, who poured into her ear all the loving words she had so longed to say.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000054_000000|"She's the cunningest little thing I ever saw," said mrs Whitney, enthusiastically, afterward, aside to mr King.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000055_000000|"I didn't have any fears, if I worked it rightly," said the old gentleman complacently.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000055_000001|"I wasn't coming without her, Marian, if it could possibly be managed.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000055_000003|"So you see, I was just in time; in the very nick of time, in fact!"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000056_000000|"So her mother was willing?" asked his daughter, curiously.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000056_000003|At last he came out of them, and wiped his face vigorously.
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000058_000000|"Well, she's a nice child," he said, "a very nice child; and," straightening himself up to his fullest height, and looking so very handsome, that his daughter could not conceal her admiration, "I shall always take care of Phronsie Pepper, Marian!"
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000059_000000|"So I hope," said mrs Whitney; "and father, I do believe they'll repay you; for I do think there's good blood there; these children have a look about them that shows them worthy to be trusted."
train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000060_000000|"So they have: so they have," assented mr King, and then the conversation dropped.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000001_000001|To night Ponting has photographed the hand.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000002_000000|As I expected, some amendment of Atkinson's tale as written last night is necessary, partly due to some lack of coherency in the tale as first told and partly a reconsideration of the circumstances by Atkinson himself.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000004_000000|He seems in this predicament to have clung to the old idea of walking up wind, and it must be considered wholly providential that on this course he next struck Tent Island.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000004_000003|The distance of Tent Island, four to five miles, partly accounts for the time he took in returning.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000005_000000|For some time past some of the ponies have had great irritation of the skin.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000006_000001|A dilute solution of carbolic is expected to rid the poor beasts of their pests, but meanwhile one or two of them have rubbed off patches of hair which they can ill afford to spare in this climate.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000008_000002|Frostbiting weather!
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000009_000002|A new pair of sealskin overshoes for ski made by Evans seem to be a complete success.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000009_000004|I am very pleased with this arrangement.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000010_000000|I find it exceedingly difficult to settle down to solid work just at present and keep putting off the tasks which I have set myself.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000014_000000|I was the victim of a very curious illusion to day.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000014_000001|On our small heating stove stands a cylindrical ice melter which keeps up the supply of water necessary for the dark room and other scientific instruments.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000016_000000|Apropos.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000019_000001|It was my turn for duty on Saturday night, and on the occasions when I had to step out of doors I was struck with the impossibility of enduring such conditions for any length of time.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000019_000004|Twice whilst engaged in this task I had literally to lean against the wind with head bent and face averted and so stagger crab like on my course.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000019_000005|In those two days of really terrible weather our thoughts often turned to absentees at Cape Crozier with the devout hope that they may be safely housed.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000020_000000|They are certain to have been caught by this gale, but I trust before it reached them they had managed to get up some sort of shelter.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000021_000000|To day with the temperature at zero one can walk about outside without inconvenience in spite of a fifty-mile wind.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000022_000002|This is the fourth day of gale; if one reflects on the quantity of transported air (nearly four thousand miles) one gets a conception of the transference which such a gale effects and must conclude that potentially warm upper currents are pouring into our polar area from more temperate sources.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000023_000003|It was so warm that I could have slept very comfortably.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000024_000000|I have been amused and pleased lately in observing the manners and customs of the persons in charge of our stores; quite a number of secret caches exist in which articles of value are hidden from public knowledge so that they may escape use until a real necessity arises.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000024_000001|The policy of every storekeeper is to have something up his sleeve for a rainy day.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000024_000002|For instance, Evans (p o), after thoroughly examining the purpose of some individual who is pleading for a piece of canvas, will admit that he may have a small piece somewhere which could be used for it, when, as a matter of fact, he possesses quite a number of rolls of that material.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000025_000000|Tools, metal material, leather, straps and dozens of items are administered with the same spirit of jealous guardianship by Day, Lashly, Oates and Meares, while our main storekeeper Bowers even affects to bemoan imaginary shortages.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000026_000002|It would be hardly possible for a tearing, raging wind to make itself more visible.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000028_000000|The snow is so hard blown that only the fiercest gusts raise the drifting particles-it is interesting to note the balance of nature whereby one evil is eliminated by the excess of another.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000029_000001|Out for exercise at this time I was obliged to lean against the wind, my light overall clothes flapping wildly and almost dragged from me; later when the wind rose again it was quite an effort to stagger back to the hut against it.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000031_000000|The work goes on very steadily-the men are making crampons and ski boots of the new style.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000031_000001|Evans is constructing plans of the Dry Valley and Koettlitz Glacier with the help of the Western Party.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000032_000000|Science cannot be served by 'dilettante' methods, but demands a mind spurred by ambition or the satisfaction of ideals.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000033_000000|Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000000|At noon yesterday one of the best ponies, 'Bones,' suddenly went off his feed-soon after it was evident that he was distressed and there could be no doubt that he was suffering from colic.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000001|Oates called my attention to it, but we were neither much alarmed, remembering the speedy recovery of 'Jimmy Pigg' under similar circumstances.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000002|Later the pony was sent out for exercise with Crean.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000003|I passed him twice and seemed to gather that things were well, but Crean afterwards told me that he had had considerable trouble.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000004|Every few minutes the poor beast had been seized with a spasm of pain, had first dashed forward as though to escape it and then endeavoured to lie down.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000011|But as hour after hour passed without improvement, it was impossible not to realise that the poor beast was dangerously ill.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000037_000003|Within three minutes it had drunk a bucket of water and had started to feed.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000040_000002|It can scarcely be coincidence that the two ponies which have suffered so far are those which are nearest the stove end of the stable.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000042_000001|'Bones' seems to be getting on well, though not yet quite so buckish as he was before his trouble.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000042_000003|It is not easy to get over the alarm of Thursday night-the situation is altogether too critical.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000044_000000|Usual Sunday routine.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000047_000003|If we can get these people to run about at football all will be well.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000047_000004|Anyway the return of the light should cure all ailments physical and mental.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000049_000000|This fleeting hour of light is very pleasant, but of course dependent on a clear sky, very rare.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000050_000003|The course of events is not very clear, but it looks as though the gale pressed up the crack, raising broken pieces of the thin ice formed after recent opening movements.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000050_000005|It is surprising to find such a big disturbance from what appears to be a simple cause.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000051_000003|Yesterday the planet Venus appeared under similar circumstances as a ship's side light or Japanese lantern.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000051_000004|In both cases there was a flickering in the light and a change of colour from deep orange yellow to blood red, but the latter was dominant.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000055_000002|higher.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000055_000005|We passed a quiet Sunday with the usual Service to break the week day routine.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000055_000008|I went to see the crack at which soundings were taken a week ago-then it was several feet open with thin ice between-now it is pressed up into a sharp ridge three to four feet high: the edge pressed up shows an eighteen inch thickness-this is of course an effect of the warm weather.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000057_000000|The light comes on apace.
train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000059_000000|The light, merry humour of our company has never been eclipsed, the good-natured, kindly chaff has never ceased since those early days of enthusiasm which inspired them-they have survived the winter days of stress and already renew themselves with the coming of spring.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000000_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000001_000000|ON THE "SPARTACUS."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000002_000000|The ulster and the felt hat soon came off again, for a head wind lay waiting in the offing, and the "Spartacus" began to pitch and toss in a manner which made all her unseasoned passengers glad to betake themselves to their berths.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000002_000001|mrs Ashe and Amy were among the earliest victims of sea sickness; and Katy, after helping them to settle in their staterooms, found herself too dizzy and ill to sit up a moment longer, and thankfully resorted to her own.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000001|The "Spartacus" had the reputation of being a dreadful "roller," and seemed bound to justify it on this particular voyage.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000002|Down, down, down the great hull would slide till Katy would hold her breath with fear lest it might never right itself again; then slowly, slowly the turn would be made, and up, up, up it would go, till the cant on the other side was equally alarming.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000003|On the whole, Katy preferred to have her own side of the ship, the downward one; for it was less difficult to keep herself in the berth, from which she was in continual danger of being thrown.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000004|The night seemed endless, for she was too frightened to sleep except in broken snatches; and when day dawned, and she looked through the little round pane of glass in the port hole, only gray sky and gray weltering waves and flying spray and rain met her view.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000004_000000|"Oh, dear, why do people ever go to sea, unless they must?" she thought feebly to herself.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000004_000001|She wanted to get up and see how mrs Ashe had lived through the night, but the attempt to move made her so miserably ill that she was glad to sink again on her pillows.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000005_000000|The stewardess looked in with offers of tea and toast, the very idea of which was simply dreadful, and pronounced the other lady "'orridly ill, worse than you are, Miss," and the little girl "takin' on dreadful in the h'upper berth." Of this fact Katy soon had audible proof; for as her dizzy senses rallied a little, she could hear Amy in the opposite stateroom crying and sobbing pitifully.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000005_000001|She seemed to be angry as well as sick, for she was scolding her poor mother in the most vehement fashion.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000000|"I hate being at sea," Katy heard her say.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000001|"I won't stay in this nasty old ship.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000002|Mamma!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000003|Mamma! do you hear me?
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000004|I won't stay in this ship!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000005|It wasn't a bit kind of you to bring me to such a horrid place.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000007|I want to go back, mamma.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000008|Tell the captain to take me back to the land.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000009|Mamma, why don't you speak to me?
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000011|Don't you wish you were dead?
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000012|I do!"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000007_000000|And then came another storm of sobs, but never a sound from mrs Ashe, who, Katy suspected, was too ill to speak.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000007_000001|She felt very sorry for poor little Amy, raging there in her high berth like some imprisoned creature, but she was powerless to help her.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000007_000002|She could only resign herself to her own discomforts, and try to believe that somehow, sometime, this state of things must mend,--either they should all get to land or all go to the bottom and be drowned, and at that moment she didn't care very much which it turned out to be.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000000|The gale increased as the day wore on, and the vessel pitched dreadfully.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000001|Twice Katy was thrown out of her berth on the floor; then the stewardess came and fixed a sort of movable side to the berth, which held her in, but made her feel like a child fastened into a railed crib. At intervals she could still hear Amy crying and scolding her mother, and conjectured that they were having a dreadful time of it in the other stateroom.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000002|It was all like a bad dream.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000003|"And they call this travelling for pleasure!" thought poor Katy.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000000|One droll thing happened in the course of the second night,--at least it seemed droll afterward; at the time Katy was too uncomfortable to enjoy it.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000001|Amid the rush of the wind, the creaking of the ship's timbers, and the shrill buzz of the screw, she heard a sound of queer little footsteps in the entry outside of her open door, hopping and leaping together in an odd irregular way, like a regiment of mice or toy soldiers.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000002|Nearer and nearer they came; and Katy opening her eyes saw a procession of boots and shoes of all sizes and shapes, which had evidently been left on the floors or at the doors of various staterooms, and which in obedience to the lurchings of the vessel had collected in the cabin.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000003|They now seemed to be acting in concert with one another, and really looked alive as they bumped and trotted side by side, and two by two, in at the door and up close to her bedside.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000004|There they remained for several moments executing what looked like a dance; then the leading shoe turned on its heel as if giving a signal to the others, and they all hopped slowly again into the passage way and disappeared.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000005|It was exactly like one of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Katy wrote to Clover afterward.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000006|She heard them going down the cabin; but how it ended, or whether the owners of the boots and shoes ever got their own particular pairs again, she never knew.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000010_000000|Toward morning the gale abated, the sea became smoother, and she dropped asleep.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000010_000001|When she woke the sun was struggling through the clouds, and she felt better.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000012_000000|"And 'ere's a letter, ma'am, which has come for you by post this morning," said the nice old stewardess, producing an envelope from her pocket, and eying her patient with great satisfaction.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000013_000000|"By post!" cried Katy, in amazement; "why, how can that be?" Then catching sight of Rose's handwriting on the envelope, she understood, and smiled at her own simplicity.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000015_000000|The letter was not long, but it was very like its writer.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000018_000000|"But this horrible ship keeps on, And is never a moment still, And I yearn for the touch of the nice dry land, Where I needn't feel so ill!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000019_000000|"Break! break!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000019_000001|break! There is no good left in me; For the dinner I ate on the shore so late Has vanished into the sea!"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000020_000001|Amy had fallen asleep at last and must not be waked up, so their interview was conducted in whispers.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000020_000002|mrs Ashe had by no means got to the tea and toast stage yet, and was feeling miserable enough.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000021_000001|"All day yesterday, when she wasn't sick she was raging at me from the upper berth, and I too ill to say a word in reply.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000021_000003|And it seemed very neglectful not to come to see after you, poor dear child! but really I couldn't raise my head."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000022_000000|"Neither could I, and I felt just as guilty not to be taking care of you," said Katy.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000022_000001|"Well, the worst is over with all of us, I hope.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000022_000002|The vessel doesn't pitch half so much now, and the stewardess says we shall feel a great deal better as soon as we get on deck.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000024_000000|"Oh no, h'indeed, mum,--no, you won't," put in mrs Barrett, who at that moment appeared, gruel cup in hand.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000024_000002|I h'always gets them on deck as soon as possible to get the h'air.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000025_000000|Stewardesses are all powerful on board ship, and mrs Barrett was so persuasive as well as positive that it was not possible to resist her. She got Katy into her dress and wraps, and seated her on deck in a chair with a great rug wrapped about her feet, with very little effort on Katy's part.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000025_000002|Amy gave a scream of joy at the sight of Katy, and cuddled down in her lap under the warm rug with a sigh of relief and satisfaction.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000026_000000|"I thought I was never going to see you again," she said, with a little squeeze.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000026_000001|"Oh, Miss Katy, it has been so horrid!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000026_000002|I never thought that going to Europe meant such dreadful things as this!"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000027_000000|"This is only the beginning; we shall get across the sea in a few days, and then we shall find out what going to Europe really means.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000027_000001|But what made you behave so, Amy, and cry and scold poor mamma when she was sick? I could hear you all the way across the entry."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000028_000000|"Could you?
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000028_000001|Then why didn't you come to me?"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000029_000000|"I wanted to; but I was sick too, so sick that I couldn't move.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000030_000000|"I didn't mean to be naughty, but I couldn't help crying.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000030_000001|You would have cried too, and so would Johnnie, if you had been cooped up in a dreadful old berth at the top of the wall that you couldn't get out of, and hadn't had anything to eat, and nobody to bring you any water when you wanted some.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000030_000002|And mamma wouldn't answer when I called to her."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000031_000000|"She couldn't answer; she was too ill," explained Katy.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000032_000000|"Mabel looks quite pale; she was sick, too," said Amy, regarding the doll in her arms with an anxious air.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000032_000001|"I hope the fresh h'air will do her good."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000033_000000|"Is she going to have any fresh hair?" asked Katy, wilfully misunderstanding.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000034_000000|"That was what that woman called it,--the fat one who made me come up here.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000034_000001|But I'm glad she did, for I feel heaps better already; only I keep thinking of poor little Maria Matilda shut up in the trunk in that dark place, and wondering if she's sick.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000035_000000|"They say that you don't feel the motion half so much in the bottom of the ship," said Katy.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000035_000001|"Perhaps she hasn't noticed it at all.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000035_000003|I wish they would bring us something to eat."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000036_000000|A good many passengers had come up by this time; and Robert, the deck steward, was going about, tray in hand, taking orders for lunch.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000036_000001|Amy and Katy both felt suddenly ravenous; and when mrs Ashe awhile later was helped up the stairs, she was amazed to find them eating cold beef and roasted potatoes, with the finest appetites in the world.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000036_000002|"They had served out their apprenticeships," the kindly old captain told them, "and were made free of the nautical guild from that time on." So it proved; for after these two bad days none of the party were sick again during the voyage.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000037_000001|It might with equal propriety have been called "The Adventures of two little Girls who didn't have any Adventures," for nothing in particular happened to either Violet or Emma during the whole course of their long drawn out history.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000037_000002|Amy, however, found them perfectly enchanting, and was never weary of hearing how they went to school and came home again, how they got into scrapes and got out of them, how they made good resolutions and broke them, about their Christmas presents and birthday treats, and what they said and how they felt.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000000|Captain Bryce was exactly the kind of sea captain that is found in story books, but not always in real life.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000001|He was stout and grizzled and brown and kind.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000002|He had a bluff weather beaten face, lit up with a pair of shrewd blue eyes which twinkled when he was pleased; and his manner, though it was full of the habit of command, was quiet and pleasant.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000003|He was a Martinet on board his ship.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000004|Not a sailor under him would have dared dispute his orders for a moment; but he was very popular with them, notwithstanding; they liked him as much as they feared him, for they knew him to be their best friend if it came to sickness or trouble with any of them.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000000|Katy and he grew quite intimate during their long morning talk.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000001|The Captain liked girls.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000002|He had one of his own, about Katy's age, and was fond of talking about her.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000003|Lucy was his mainstay at home, he told Katy. Her mother had been "weakly" now this long time back, and Bess and Nanny were but children yet, so Lucy had to take command and keep things ship shape when he was away.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000041_000000|"She'll be on the lookout when the steamer comes in," said the Captain. "There's a signal we've arranged which means 'All's well,' and when we get up the river a little way I always look to see if it's flying.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000041_000001|It's a bit of a towel hung from a particular window; and when I see it I say to myself, 'Thank God! another voyage safely done and no harm come of it.' It's a sad kind of work for a man to go off for a twenty four days' cruise leaving a sick wife on shore behind him.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000042_000002|She seemed such a very nice girl, and Katy thought she should like to know her.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000043_000000|The deck had dried fast in the fresh sea wind, and the Captain had just arranged Katy in her chair, and was wrapping the rug about her feet in a fatherly way, when mrs Barrett, all smiles, appeared from below.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000044_000001|I couldn't think what 'ad come to you so early; and you're looking ever so well again, I'm pleased to see; and 'ere's a bundle just arrived, Miss, by the Parcels Delivery."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000045_000000|"What!" cried simple Katy.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000045_000001|Then she laughed at her own foolishness, and took the "bundle," which was directed in Rose's unmistakable hand.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000046_000000|It contained a pretty little green bound copy of Emerson's Poems, with Katy's name and "To be read at sea," written on the flyleaf.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000046_000002|With a half happy, half tearful pleasure Katy recognized the fact that distance counts for little if people love one another, and that hearts have a telegraph of their own whose messages are as sure and swift as any of those sent over the material lines which link continent to continent and shore with shore.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000047_000000|Later in the morning, Katy, going down to her stateroom for something, came across a pallid, exhausted looking lady, who lay stretched on one of the long sofas in the cabin, with a baby in her arms and a little girl sitting at her feet, quite still, with a pair of small hands folded in her lap.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000047_000001|The little girl did not seem to be more than four years old. She had two pig tails of thick flaxen hair hanging over her shoulders, and at Katy's approach raised a pair of solemn blue eyes, which had so much appeal in them, though she said nothing, that Katy stopped at once.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000048_000000|"Can I do anything for you?" she asked.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000048_000001|"I am afraid you have been very ill."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000049_000000|At the sound of her voice the lady on the sofa opened her eyes.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000049_000001|She tried to speak, but to Katy's dismay began to cry instead; and when the words came they were strangled with sobs.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000050_000001|"If you would give my little girl something to eat!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000051_000001|How did it happen?"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000000|"Everybody has been sick on our side the ship," explained the poor lady, "and I suppose the stewardess thought, as I had a maid with me, that I needed her less than the others.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000001|But my maid has been sick, too; and oh, so selfish!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000002|She wouldn't even take the baby into the berth with her; and I have had all I could do to manage with him, when I couldn't lift up my head.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000003|Little Gretchen has had to go without anything; and she has been so good and patient!"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000053_000000|Katy lost no time, but ran for mrs Barrett, whose indignation knew no bounds when she heard how the helpless party had been neglected.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000054_000002|I'm h'ashamed that such a thing should 'appen on the 'Spartacus,' ma'am,--I h'am, h'indeed.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000055_000000|All the time that she talked mrs Barrett was busy in making mrs Ware-for that, it seemed, was the sick lady's name-more comfortable; and Katy was feeding Gretchen out of a big bowl full of bread and milk which one of the stewards had brought.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000055_000001|The little uncomplaining thing was evidently half starved, but with the mouthfuls the pink began to steal back into her cheeks and lips, and the dark circles lessened under the blue eyes.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000057_000001|They kept her on deck with them a great deal, and she was perfectly content with them and very good, though always solemn and quiet.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000057_000002|Pleasant people turned up among the passengers, as always happens on an ocean steamship, and others not so pleasant, perhaps, who were rather curious and interesting to watch.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000000|Katy grew to feel as if she knew a great deal about her fellow travellers as time went on.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000001|There was the young girl going out to join her parents under the care of a severe governess, whom everybody on board rather pitied.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000002|There was the other girl on her way to study art, who was travelling quite alone, and seemed to have nobody to meet her or to go to except a fellow student of her own age, already in Paris, but who seemed quite unconscious of her lonely position and competent to grapple with anything or anybody.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000004|A great sea going steamer is a little world in itself, and gives one a glimpse of all sorts and conditions of people and characters.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000059_000000|On the whole, there was no one on the "Spartacus" whom Katy liked so well as sedate little Gretchen except the dear old Captain, with whom she was a prime favorite.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000059_000001|He gave mrs Ashe and herself the seats next to him at table, looked after their comfort in every possible way, and each night at dinner sent Katy one of the apple dumplings made specially for him by the cook, who had gone many voyages with the Captain and knew his fancies.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000059_000002|Katy did not care particularly for the dumpling, but she valued it as a mark of regard, and always ate it when she could.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000000|Meanwhile, every morning brought a fresh surprise from that dear, painstaking Rose, who had evidently worked hard and thought harder in contriving pleasures for Katy's first voyage at sea.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000001|mrs Barrett was enlisted in the plot, there could be no doubt of that, and enjoyed the joke as much as any one, as she presented herself each day with the invariable formula, "A letter for you, ma'am," or "A bundle, Miss, come by the Parcels Delivery." On the fourth morning it was a photograph of Baby Rose, in a little flat morocco case.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000002|The fifth brought a wonderful epistle, full of startling pieces of news, none of them true.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000003|On the sixth appeared a long narrow box containing a fountain pen.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000004|Then came mr Howells's "A Foregone Conclusion," which Katy had never seen; then a box of quinine pills; then a sachet for her trunk; then another burlesque poem; last of all, a cake of delicious violet soap, "to wash the sea smell from her hands," the label said.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000005|It grew to be one of the little excitements of ship life to watch for the arrival of these daily gifts; and "What did the mail bring for you this time, Miss Carr?" was a question frequently asked.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000000|Katy never forgot the thrill that went through her when, after so many days of sea, her eyes first caught sight of the dim line of the Irish coast.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000002|It was late afternoon when they entered the Mersey, and dusk had fallen before the Captain got out his glass to look for the white fluttering speck in his own window which meant so much to him.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000003|Long he studied before he made quite sure that it was there.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000004|At last he shut the glass with a satisfied air.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000062_000000|"It's all right," he said to Katy, who stood near, almost as much interested as he.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000062_000001|"Lucy never forgets, bless her!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000062_000003|It's a load taken from my mind."
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000063_000000|The moon had risen and was shining softly on the river as the crowded tender landed the passengers from the "Spartacus" at the Liverpool docks.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000064_000000|"We shall meet again in London or in Paris," said one to another, and cards and addresses were exchanged.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000065_000000|"Four wheeler or hansom, ma'am?" said a porter to mrs Ashe.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000066_000000|"Which, Katy?"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000067_000000|"Oh, let us have a hansom!
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000067_000001|I never saw one, and they look so nice in 'Punch.'"
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000068_000000|So a hansom cab was called, the two ladies got in, Amy cuddled down between them, the folding doors were shut over their knees like a lap robe, and away they drove up the solidly paved streets to the hotel where they were to pass the night.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000069_000000|"How lovely it will be to sleep in a bed that doesn't tip or roll from side to side!" said mrs Ashe.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000070_000000|"Yes, and that is wide enough and long enough and soft enough to be comfortable!" replied Katy.
train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000070_000001|"I feel as if I could sleep for a fortnight to make up for the bad nights at sea."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000004_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000005_000000|THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000006_000000|"Go," said Ella, as she hastened from the room, "and open the door, while I go upstairs and take my hat off."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000007_000001|There were two persons at the door-Jack Martyn and another.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000008_000000|"This," said Jack, referring to his companion, "is a friend of mine."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000009_000000|It was dark in the passage, and Madge was a little flurried.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000009_000001|She perceived that Jack had a companion, and that was all.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000010_000001|Ella has gone to take her hat off."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000011_000000|Presently, returning with the lighted lamp in her hand, placing it on the table, she glanced at Jack's companion-and stared.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000011_000001|In her astonishment, she all but knocked the lamp over.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000011_000002|Jack laughed.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000012_000000|"I believe," he said, "you two have met before."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000013_000000|Madge continued speechless.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000013_000001|She passed her hand before her eyes, as if to make sure she was not dreaming.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000013_000002|Jack laughed again.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000014_000000|"I repeat that I believe you two have met before."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000015_000000|Madge drew herself up to her straightest and her stiffest.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000015_000001|Her tone was icy.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000016_000000|"Yes, I rather believe we have."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000017_000000|She rather believed they had?--If she could credit the evidence of her own eyes the man in front of her was the stranger who had so unwarrantably intruded on pretence of seeking music lessons-who had behaved in so extraordinary a fashion!
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000018_000000|"This," went on Jack airily, "is a friend of mine, Bruce Graham,--Graham, this is Miss Brodie."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000019_000000|Madge acknowledged the introduction with an inclination of the head which was so faint as to be almost imperceptible.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000019_000001|mr Graham, on the contrary, bent almost double-he seemed scarcely more at his ease than she was.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000020_000000|"I'm afraid, Miss Brodie, that I've behaved very badly.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000020_000001|I trust you will allow me to express my contrition."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000022_000000|There came a voice from behind her.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000023_000000|"You needn't-Ella is aware of it already."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000024_000000|As Ella came into the room, she moved to leave it.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000024_000001|Jack caught her by the arm.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000025_000001|Do you know that we're standing in the presence of a romance in real life-on the verge of a blood curdling mystery? Fact!--aren't we, Graham?"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000026_000000|mr Graham's language was slightly less emphatic.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000028_000000|Jack waved his arm excitedly.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000029_000000|"I say it's the most extraordinary thing.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000029_000001|Now, honestly, Graham, isn't it a most extraordinary thing?"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000030_000000|"It certainly is rather a striking illustration of the long arm of coincidence."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000000|"Listen to him.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000001|Isn't he cold blooded?
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000002|If you'd heard him an hour or two ago, he was hot enough to melt all the ice cream in town.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000003|But you wait a bit.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000004|This is my show, and I'll let you know it.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000005|Sit down, Ella-sit down, Madge-Graham, take a chair.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000006|To you a tale I will unfold."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000032_000000|Taking up his position on the hearthrug in front of the fireplace, he commenced to orate.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000000|"You see this man.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000001|His name's Graham.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000002|He digs in the same house I do. To be perfectly frank, his rooms are on the opposite side of the landing.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000003|You may have heard me speak of him."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000034_000001|Often!"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000034_000002|This was Ella.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000000|"Have you?
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000001|You must know, Graham, that there are frequently occasions on which I have nothing whatever to talk about, so I fill up the blanks with what I may call padding.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000002|I say this, because I don't want you to misunderstand the situation.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000003|This morning he lunched at the same crib I did.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000006|'I'm always insulting a lady.'--I may explain that when I made that remark, Ella, you were the lady I had in my mind's eye.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000007|At this point I would pause to inquire why, Miss Brodie, you did not take me into your confidence yesterday afternoon?"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000036_000000|"I did."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000037_000000|"You did not."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000038_000000|"I did."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000039_000000|"You told me about the lunatic lady, because, I suppose, you could not help it-since you were caught in the act-but you said nothing about a lunatic gentleman." He wagged his finger portentously.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000039_000001|"Don't think you deceive me, Madge Brodie-I smell a rat, and one of considerable size."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000041_000000|This was Ella.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000001|If you bustle me, I'll keep going on for ever.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000002|Don't I tell you this is my show?
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000003|Do you want to queer it?
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000004|Well, as I was about to observe-when I was interrupted-Graham started spinning a yarn about how he had forced his way into a house, in which there was a young woman all alone, by herself, and, so far as I could make out, gone on awful.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000005|'May I ask,' I said, beginning to think that his yarn smelt somewhat fishy, 'what house this was?' 'The place,' he replied, as cool as a cucumber, 'is called Clover Cottage.' 'What's that!' I cried-I almost jumped out of my chair.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000006|'I say that the place is called Clover Cottage.' I had to hold on to the hair of my head with both my hands.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000007|'And whereabouts may Clover Cottage be?' 'On Wandsworth Common.' When he said that, as calmly as if he were asking me to pass the salt, I collapsed.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000008|I daresay he thought that I'd gone mad."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000043_000000|"I began to wonder."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000043_000001|This was Graham.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000000|"Did you?
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000001|Let me tell you, sir, that as far as you were concerned, I had long since passed the stage of wonder, and had reached the haven of assurance.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000002|'Are you aware?' I cried, 'that Clover Cottage, Wandsworth Common, is the residence of the lady whom I hope to make my wife?' 'Good Lord!' he said.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000004|'It seems to me,' I said, 'that if the lady you insulted was not the lady whom I hope to make my wife, it was that lady's friend, which is the same thing----'"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000045_000000|"Is it?" interposed Ella.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000046_000000|"I hear."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000000|"'Which is the same thing,'" continued Jack.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000001|"'And therefore, sir, I must ask you to explain.' He explained, I am bound to admit that he explained there and then.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000002|He gave me an explanation which I have no hesitation in asserting"--Jack, holding his left hand out in front of him, brought his right list solemnly down upon his open palm-"was the most astonishing I ever heard.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000003|It shows the hand of Providence; it shows that the age of miracles is not yet past; it shows----"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000048_000000|Ella cut the orator short.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000049_000000|"Never mind what it shows; what's the explanation?"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000050_000000|Jack shook his head sadly.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000000|"I was about to point out several other things which that explanation shows, with a view, as I might phrase it, of improving the occasion, but, having been interrupted for the third time, I refrain.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000001|The explanation itself you will hear from Graham's own lips-after tea.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000002|He is here for the purpose of giving you that explanation-after tea.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000003|I believe, Graham, I am correct in saying so?"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000052_000000|"Perfectly.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000052_000001|Only, so far as I am concerned, I am ready to give my explanation now.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000052_000002|I cannot but feel that I shall occupy an invidious position in, at any rate, Miss Brodie's eyes until I have explained."
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000053_000000|"Then feel!
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000053_000001|I'll be hanged if you shall explain now.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000053_000002|Dash it, man, I want my tea; I want a high tea, a good tea-at once!"
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000054_000000|Ella sprang up from her chair.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000000|It was a curious meal-if only because of the curious terms on which two members of the party stood toward each other.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000001|The two girls sat at each end of the table, the men on either side.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000002|Madge, unlike her usual self, was reserved and frosty; what little she did say was addressed to Ella or to Jack.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000003|mr Graham she ignored, treating his timorous attempts in a conversational direction with complete inattention.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000004|His position could hardly have been more uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000005|Ella, influenced by Madge's attitude, seemed as if she could not make up her mind how to treat him on her own account; her bearing towards him, to say the least, was chilly.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000006|On the other hand.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000007|Jack's somewhat cumbrous attempts at humour and sociability did not mend matters; and more than once before the meal was over mr Graham must have heartily wished that he had never sat down to it.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000000|Still, even Madge might have admitted, and perhaps in her heart she did admit, that, under the circumstances, he bore himself surprisingly well; that he looked as if he was deserving of better treatment.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000001|Half unconsciously to herself-and probably quite unconsciously to him-she kept a corner of her eye upon him all the time.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000002|He scarcely looked the sort of man to do anything unworthy.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000003|The strong rough face suggested honesty, the bright clear eyes were frank and open; the broad brow spelt intellect, the lines of the mouth and jaw were bold and firm. The man's whole person was suggestive of strength, both physical and mental.
train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000004|And when he came to tell the story which Jack Martyn had foreshadowed, it was difficult, as one listened, not to believe that he was one who had been raised by nature above the common sort.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000002_000000|VOLTAIRE.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000003_000001|Her Grace had issued cards for a concert; and after mature deliberation it was decided that her rival should strike out something new, and announce a christening for the same night.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000004_000002|In the utmost delight the fond mother drove away to consult her confidants upon the name and decorations of the child, whom she had not even looked at for many days.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000005_000000|Everything succeeded to admiration.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000007_000000|Lady Juliana glanced over the first line of the letter, then looked at the signature, resolved to read the rest as soon as she should have time to answer it; and in the meantime tossed it into a drawer, amongst old visiting cards and unpaid bills.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000008_000000|After vainly waiting for an answer, much beyond the accustomed time when children are baptized, mrs Douglas could no longer refuse to accede to the desires of the venerable inmates of Glenfern; and about a month before her favoured sister received her more elegant appellations, the neglected twin was baptized by the name of Mary.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000009_000000|mrs Douglas's letter had been enclosed in the following one from Miss Grizzy, and as it had not the good fortune to be perused by the person to whom it was addressed, we deem it but justice to the writer to insert it here:--
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000000|"My DEAREST NIECE, LADY JULIANA-I am Certain, as indeed we all are, that it will Afford your Ladyship and our dear Nephew the greatest Pleasure to see this letter Franked by our Worthy and Respectable Friend Sir Sampson Maclaughlan, Bart., especially as it is the First he has ever franked; out of compliment to you, as I assure you he admires you excessively, as indeed we all do.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000001|At the same Time, you will of course, I am sure, Sympathise with us all in the distress Occasioned by the melancholy Death of our late Most Obliging Member, Duncan M'Dunsmuir, Esquire, of Dhunacrag and Auchnagoil, who you never have had the Pleasure of seeing.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000003|This ought to be a warning to all Young people to take care of Wet feet, and Especially eating Raw oysters, which are certainly Highly dangerous, particularly where there is any Tendency to Gout.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000004|I hope, my dear Niece, you have got a pair of Stout walking shoes, and that both Henry and you remember to Change your feet after Walking. I am told Raw Oysters are much the fashion in London at present; but when this Fatal Event comes to be Known, it will of course Alarm people very much, and put them upon their guard both as to Damp Feet and Raw oysters.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000005|Lady Maclaughlan is in High spirits at Sir Sampson's Success, though, at the Same Time, I assure you, she Felt much for the Distress of poor mr M'Dunsmuir, and had sent him a Large Box of Pills, and a Bottle of Gout Tincture, only two days before he died.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000007|I hope Harry wont take it amiss if Sir Sampson does not pay him so much Attention as he might expect; but he says that he will not be master of a moment of his own Time in London.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000008|He will be so much taken up with the King and the Duke of York, that he is afraid he will Disoblige a great Number of the Nobility by it, besides injuring his own health by such Constant application to business.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000009|He is to make a very fine Speech in Parliament, but it is not yet Fixed what his First Motion is to be upon.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000014|This Place is in great Beauty at present, and the new Byre is completely finished.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000016|Our dear Little Grand niece is in great health, and much improved.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000017|We reckon her Extremely like our Family, Particularly Becky; though she has a great Look of Bella, at the Same Time, Then she Laughs.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000018|Excuse the Shortness of this Letter, my dear Niece, as I shall Write a much Longer one by Lady Maclaughlan.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000015_000001|aunt,
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000017_000001|Such jewels! such dresses! such a house! such a husband! so easy and good-natured, and rich and generous!
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000017_000003|She might give what parties she pleased, go where she liked, spend as much money as she chose, and he would never, trouble his head about the matter.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000018_000002|When, shutting the drawing room doors, he said, with earnestness, "I think, Julia, you were talking of Lady Lindore this morning: oblige me by repeating what you said, as I was reading the papers, and really did not attend much to what passed."
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000000|Her Ladyship, in extreme surprise, wondered how Harry could be so tiresome and absurd as to stop her airing for any such purpose.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000001|She really did not know what she said.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000002|How could she?
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000003|It was more than an hour ago.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000020_000000|"Well, then, say what you think of her now," cried Douglas impatiently.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000021_000000|"Think of her!
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000021_000001|why, what all the world must think-that she is the happiest woman in it.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000021_000003|After that, I quite lost sight of her."
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000022_000000|"As everyone else has done.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000022_000001|She has not been seen since.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000023_000000|Even Lady Juliana was shocked at this intelligence, though the folly, more than the wickedness, of the thing, seemed to strike her mind; but Henry was no nice observer, and was therefore completely satisfied with the disapprobation she expressed for her sister in law's conduct.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000024_000000|"I am so sorry for poor dear Lindore," said Lady Juliana after having exhausted herself in invectives against his wife.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000024_000002|If he had been an ill natured stingy wretch it would have been nothing; but Frederick is such a noble hearted fellow-I dare say he would give me a thousand pounds if I were to ask him, for he don't care about money."
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000025_000000|"Lord Lindore takes the matter very coolly, understand," replied her husband; "but-don't be alarmed, dear Julia-your father has suffered a little from the violence of his feelings.
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000025_000001|He has had a sort of apoplectic fit, but is not considered in immediate danger."
train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000026_000000|Lady Juliana burst into tears, desired the carriage might be put up, as she should not go out, and even declared her intention of abstaining from mrs D-----'s assembly that evening.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000005_000000|Chapter twenty two
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000006_000000|It was six o'clock already, and so, in order to be there quickly, and at the same time not to drive with his own horses, known to everyone, Vronsky got into Yashvin's hired fly, and told the driver to drive as quickly as possible.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000006_000001|It was a roomy, old-fashioned fly, with seats for four.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000006_000002|He sat in one corner, stretched his legs out on the front seat, and sank into meditation.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000007_000000|A vague sense of the order into which his affairs had been brought, a vague recollection of the friendliness and flattery of Serpuhovskoy, who had considered him a man that was needed, and most of all, the anticipation of the interview before him-all blended into a general, joyous sense of life.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000007_000001|This feeling was so strong that he could not help smiling.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000007_000002|He dropped his legs, crossed one leg over the other knee, and taking it in his hand, felt the springy muscle of the calf, where it had been grazed the day before by his fall, and leaning back he drew several deep breaths.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000000|"I'm happy, very happy!" he said to himself.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000001|He had often before had this sense of physical joy in his own body, but he had never felt so fond of himself, of his own body, as at that moment.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000002|He enjoyed the slight ache in his strong leg, he enjoyed the muscular sensation of movement in his chest as he breathed.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000003|The bright, cold August day, which had made Anna feel so hopeless, seemed to him keenly stimulating, and refreshed his face and neck that still tingled from the cold water.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000004|The scent of brilliantine on his whiskers struck him as particularly pleasant in the fresh air.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000009_000000|"Get on, get on!" he said to the driver, putting his head out of the window, and pulling a three rouble note out of his pocket he handed it to the man as he looked round.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000009_000001|The driver's hand fumbled with something at the lamp, the whip cracked, and the carriage rolled rapidly along the smooth highroad.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000000|"I want nothing, nothing but this happiness," he thought, staring at the bone button of the bell in the space between the windows, and picturing to himself Anna just as he had seen her last time.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000001|"And as I go on, I love her more and more.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000003|Where?
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000004|How?
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000005|Why did she fix on this place to meet me, and why does she write in Betsy's letter?" he thought, wondering now for the first time at it.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000006|But there was now no time for wonder.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000007|He called to the driver to stop before reaching the avenue, and opening the door, jumped out of the carriage as it was moving, and went into the avenue that led up to the house.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000008|There was no one in the avenue; but looking round to the right he caught sight of her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000009|Her face was hidden by a veil, but he drank in with glad eyes the special movement in walking, peculiar to her alone, the slope of the shoulders, and the setting of the head, and at once a sort of electric shock ran all over him.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000012_000000|"You're not angry that I sent for you?
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000012_000001|I absolutely had to see you," she said; and the serious and set line of her lips, which he saw under the veil, transformed his mood at once.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000013_000000|"I angry!
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000013_000001|But how have you come, where from?"
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000014_000000|"Never mind," she said, laying her hand on his, "come along, I must talk to you."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000015_000000|He saw that something had happened, and that the interview would not be a joyous one.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000015_000001|In her presence he had no will of his own: without knowing the grounds of her distress, he already felt the same distress unconsciously passing over him.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000016_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000016_000001|what?" he asked her, squeezing her hand with his elbow, and trying to read her thoughts in her face.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000017_000000|She walked on a few steps in silence, gathering up her courage; then suddenly she stopped.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000019_000000|He heard her, unconsciously bending his whole figure down to her as though hoping in this way to soften the hardness of her position for her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000019_000001|But directly she had said this he suddenly drew himself up, and a proud and hard expression came over his face.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000000|"Yes, yes, that's better, a thousand times better!
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000001|I know how painful it was," he said.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000002|But she was not listening to his words, she was reading his thoughts from the expression of his face.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000003|She could not guess that that expression arose from the first idea that presented itself to Vronsky-that a duel was now inevitable.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000004|The idea of a duel had never crossed her mind, and so she put a different interpretation on this passing expression of hardness.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000000|When she got her husband's letter, she knew then at the bottom of her heart that everything would go on in the old way, that she would not have the strength of will to forego her position, to abandon her son, and to join her lover.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000002|But this interview was still of the utmost gravity for her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000003|She hoped that this interview would transform her position, and save her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000005|But this news had not produced what she had expected in him; he simply seemed as though he were resenting some affront.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000022_000000|"It was not in the least painful to me.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000022_000001|It happened of itself," she said irritably; "and see..." she pulled her husband's letter out of her glove.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000023_000000|"I understand, I understand," he interrupted her, taking the letter, but not reading it, and trying to soothe her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000023_000001|"The one thing I longed for, the one thing I prayed for, was to cut short this position, so as to devote my life to your happiness."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000024_000000|"Why do you tell me that?" she said.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000024_000002|If I doubted..."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000025_000000|"Who's that coming?" said Vronsky suddenly, pointing to two ladies walking towards them.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000025_000001|"Perhaps they know us!" and he hurriedly turned off, drawing her after him into a side path.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000000|"Oh, I don't care!" she said.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000001|Her lips were quivering.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000002|And he fancied that her eyes looked with strange fury at him from under the veil.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000003|"I tell you that's not the point-I can't doubt that; but see what he writes to me.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000004|Read it." She stood still again.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000027_000000|Again, just as at the first moment of hearing of her rupture with her husband, Vronsky, on reading the letter, was unconsciously carried away by the natural sensation aroused in him by his own relation to the betrayed husband.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000027_000002|And at that instant there flashed across his mind the thought of what Serpuhovskoy had just said to him, and what he had himself been thinking in the morning-that it was better not to bind himself-and he knew that this thought he could not tell her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000000|Having read the letter, he raised his eyes to her, and there was no determination in them.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000001|She saw at once that he had been thinking about it before by himself.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000002|She knew that whatever he might say to her, he would not say all he thought.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000003|And she knew that her last hope had failed her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000029_000000|"You see the sort of man he is," she said, with a shaking voice; "he..."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000030_000001|"For God's sake, let me finish!" he added, his eyes imploring her to give him time to explain his words.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000030_000002|"I rejoice, because things cannot, cannot possibly remain as he supposes."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000031_000000|"Why can't they?" Anna said, restraining her tears, and obviously attaching no sort of consequence to what he said.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000031_000001|She felt that her fate was sealed.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000032_000000|Vronsky meant that after the duel-inevitable, he thought-things could not go on as before, but he said something different.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000033_000000|"It can't go on.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000033_000001|I hope that now you will leave him.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000033_000002|I hope"--he was confused, and reddened-"that you will let me arrange and plan our life. Tomorrow..." he was beginning.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000034_000000|She did not let him go on.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000035_000000|"But my child!" she shrieked.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000035_000001|"You see what he writes!
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000035_000002|I should have to leave him, and I can't and won't do that."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000036_000000|"But, for God's sake, which is better?--leave your child, or keep up this degrading position?"
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000037_000000|"To whom is it degrading?"
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000038_000000|"To all, and most of all to you."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000000|"You say degrading ... don't say that.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000001|Those words have no meaning for me," she said in a shaking voice.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000002|She did not want him now to say what was untrue.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000003|She had nothing left her but his love, and she wanted to love him.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000004|"Don't you understand that from the day I loved you everything has changed for me?
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000005|For me there is one thing, and one thing only-your love.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000006|If that's mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000007|I am proud of my position, because ... proud of being ... proud...." She could not say what she was proud of.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000008|Tears of shame and despair choked her utterance.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000040_000000|He felt, too, something swelling in his throat and twitching in his nose, and for the first time in his life he felt on the point of weeping.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000040_000001|He could not have said exactly what it was touched him so.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000040_000002|He felt sorry for her, and he felt he could not help her, and with that he knew that he was to blame for her wretchedness, and that he had done something wrong.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000041_000000|"Is not a divorce possible?" he said feebly.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000041_000001|She shook her head, not answering.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000041_000002|"Couldn't you take your son, and still leave him?"
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000042_000000|"Yes; but it all depends on him.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000042_000001|Now I must go to him," she said shortly.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000042_000002|Her presentiment that all would again go on in the old way had not deceived her.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000043_000000|"On Tuesday I shall be in Petersburg, and everything can be settled."
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000044_000000|"Yes," she said.
train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000044_000001|"But don't let us talk any more of it."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000001_000001|A MUSICAL GARDENER.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000002_000001|"The smaller animal ought to go to bed at once," he said with an air of authority.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000003_000000|"Why at once?" said the Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000004_000000|"Because he can't go at twice," said the Other Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000005_000000|The Professor gently clapped his hands.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000005_000002|"Nobody else could have thought of the reason, so quick.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000005_000004|It would hurt him to be divided."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000006_000000|This remark woke up Bruno, suddenly and completely.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000006_000001|"I don't want to be divided," he said decisively.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000007_000000|"It does very well on a diagram," said the Other Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000007_000001|"I could show it you in a minute, only the chalk's a little blunt."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000008_000000|"Take care!" Sylvie anxiously exclaimed, as he began, rather clumsily, to point it.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000008_000001|"You'll cut your finger off, if you hold the knife so!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000009_000001|Bruno thoughtfully added.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000010_000000|"It's like this," said the Other Professor, hastily drawing a long line upon the black board, and marking the letters 'A,' 'B,' at the two ends, and 'C' in the middle: "let me explain it to you.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000011_000000|"It would be drownded," Bruno pronounced confidently.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000012_000000|The Other Professor gasped.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000012_000001|"What would be drownded?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000013_000000|"Why the bumble bee, of course!" said Bruno.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000013_000001|"And the two bits would sink down in the sea!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000014_000000|Here the Professor interfered, as the Other Professor was evidently too much puzzled to go on with his diagram.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000015_000000|"When I said it would hurt him, I was merely referring to the action of the nerves-"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000016_000000|The Other Professor brightened up in a moment.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000016_000001|"The action of the nerves," he began eagerly, "is curiously slow in some people.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000017_000000|"And if you only pinched him?" queried Sylvie.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000018_000000|"Then it would take ever so much longer, of course.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000018_000001|In fact, I doubt if the man himself would ever feel it, at all.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000018_000002|His grandchildren might."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000019_000000|"I wouldn't like to be the grandchild of a pinched grandfather, would you, Mister Sir?" Bruno whispered.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000019_000001|"It might come just when you wanted to be happy!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000020_000000|That would be awkward, I admitted, taking it quite as a matter of course that he had so suddenly caught sight of me.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000020_000001|"But don't you always want to be happy, Bruno?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000021_000000|"Not always," Bruno said thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000021_000001|"Sometimes, when I's too happy, I wants to be a little miserable.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000021_000003|Then it's all right."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000022_000000|"I'm sorry you don't like lessons," I said.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000024_000000|"Well, so am I!" said Bruno.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000025_000001|"You're as busy as the day is short!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000026_000000|"Well, what's the difference?" Bruno asked.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000026_000001|"Mister Sir, isn't the day as short as it's long?
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000026_000002|I mean, isn't it the same length?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000027_000000|Never having considered the question in this light, I suggested that they had better ask the Professor; and they ran off in a moment to appeal to their old friend.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000027_000001|The Professor left off polishing his spectacles to consider.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000027_000002|"My dears," he said after a minute, "the day is the same length as anything that is the same length as it." And he resumed his never ending task of polishing.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000028_000000|The children returned, slowly and thoughtfully, to report his answer. "Isn't he wise?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000029_000000|Sylvie asked in an awestruck whisper.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000030_000000|"You appear to be talking to somebody-that isn't here," the Professor said, turning round to the children.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000030_000001|"Who is it?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000031_000000|Bruno looked puzzled.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000031_000001|"I never talks to nobody when he isn't here!" he replied.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000000|The Professor looked anxiously in my direction, and seemed to look through and through me without seeing me.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000001|"Then who are you talking to?" he said.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000003|"Children!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000004|Help to look for him!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000005|Quick!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000006|He's got lost again!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000033_000000|The children were on their feet in a moment.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000034_000000|"Where shall we look?" said Sylvie.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000035_000000|"Anywhere!" shouted the excited Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000035_000001|"Only be quick about it!" And he began trotting round and round the room, lifting up the chairs, and shaking them.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000036_000000|Bruno took a very small book out of the bookcase, opened it, and shook it in imitation of the Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000036_000001|"He isn't here," he said.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000038_000001|"I should have shooked him out, if he'd been in there!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000039_000000|"Has he ever been lost before?" Sylvie enquired, turning up a corner of the hearth rug, and peeping under it.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000040_000000|"Once before," said the Professor: "he once lost himself in a wood-"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000041_000000|"And couldn't he find his self again?" said Bruno.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000041_000001|"Why didn't he shout? He'd be sure to hear his self, 'cause he couldn't be far off, oo know."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000042_000000|"Lets try shouting," said the Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000043_000000|"What shall we shout?" said Sylvie.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000044_000000|"On second thoughts, don't shout," the Professor replied.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000044_000001|"The Vice Warden might hear you.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000044_000002|He's getting awfully strict!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000000|This reminded the poor children of all the troubles, about which they had come to their old friend.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000001|Bruno sat down on the floor and began crying.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000002|"He is so cruel!" he sobbed.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000003|"And he lets Uggug take away all my toys!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000047_000000|"A little piece of a dead crow," was Bruno's mournful reply.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000048_000000|"He means rook pie," Sylvie explained.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000049_000001|"And there were a apple pudding-and Uggug ate it all-and I got nuffin but a crust!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000049_000003|"It's all true, Professor dear!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000050_000001|"But what can I do?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000051_000000|"We know the way to Fairyland-where Father's gone-quite well," said Sylvie: "if only the Gardener would let us out."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000052_000000|"Won't he open the door for you?" said the Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000053_000000|"Not for us," said Sylvie: "but I'm sure he would for you.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000053_000001|Do come and ask him, Professor dear!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000054_000000|"I'll come this minute!" said the Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000055_000000|Bruno sat up and dried his eyes.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000055_000001|"Isn't he kind, Mister Sir?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000056_000000|"He is indeed," said i But the Professor took no notice of my remark. He had put on a beautiful cap with a long tassel, and was selecting one of the Other Professor's walking sticks, from a stand in the corner of the room.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000056_000001|"A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful," he was saying to himself.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000056_000002|"Come along, dear children!" And we all went out into the garden together.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000057_000000|"I shall address him, first of all," the Professor explained as we went along, "with a few playful remarks on the weather.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000057_000001|I shall then question him about the Other Professor.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000057_000002|This will have a double advantage.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000058_000000|On our way, we passed the target, at which Uggug had been made to shoot during the Ambassador's visit.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000059_000000|"See!" said the Professor, pointing out a hole in the middle of the bull's eye.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000059_000001|"His Imperial Fatness had only one shot at it; and he went in just here!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000060_000000|Bruno carefully examined the hole.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000062_000000|"He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny Postage Stamp. 'You'd best be getting home,' he said: 'The nights are very damp!'"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000064_000000|"Would it be afraid of catching cold?" said Bruno.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000065_000000|"If it got very damp," Sylvie suggested, "it might stick to something, you know."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000066_000001|"Suppose it was a cow!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000066_000002|Wouldn't it be dreadful for the other things!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000067_000001|"That's what makes the song so interesting."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000068_000000|"He must have had a very curious life," said Sylvie.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000069_000000|"You may say that!" the Professor heartily rejoined.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000070_000000|"Of course she may!" cried Bruno.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000071_000000|By this time we had come up to the Gardener, who was standing on one leg, as usual, and busily employed in watering a bed of flowers with an empty watering can.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000072_000000|"It hasn't got no water in it!" Bruno explained to him, pulling his sleeve to attract his attention.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000073_000000|"It's lighter to hold," said the Gardener.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000073_000001|"A lot of water in it makes one's arms ache." And he went on with his work, singing softly to himself,
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000074_000000|"The nights are very damp!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000075_000000|"In digging things out of the ground which you probably do now and then," the Professor began in a loud voice; "in making things into heaps-which no doubt you often do; and in kicking things about with one heel-which you seem never to leave off doing; have you ever happened to notice another Professor something like me, but different?"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000076_000001|"There ain't such a thing!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000077_000000|"We will try a less exciting topic," the Professor mildly remarked to the children.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000077_000001|"You were asking-"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000078_000000|"We asked him to let us through the garden door," said Sylvie: "but he wouldn't: but perhaps he would for you!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000079_000000|The Professor put the request, very humbly and courteously.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000080_000000|"I wouldn't mind letting you out," said the Gardener.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000080_000003|Not for one and sixpence!"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000081_000000|The Professor cautiously produced a couple of shillings.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000082_000000|"That'll do it!" the Gardener shouted, as he hurled the watering can across the flower bed, and produced a handful of keys-one large one, and a number of small ones.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000083_000000|"But look here, Professor dear!" whispered Sylvie.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000083_000001|"He needn't open the door for us, at all.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000083_000002|We can go out with you."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000084_000000|"True, dear child!" the Professor thankfully replied, as he replaced the coins in his pocket.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000084_000001|"That saves two shillings!" And he took the children's hands, that they might all go out together when the door was opened.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000085_000001|"Why not try the large one?
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000087_000000|The Professor shook his head.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000087_000002|And now it's open, we are going out by Rule-the Rule of Three."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000088_000000|The Gardener looked puzzled, and let us go out; but, as he locked the door behind us, we heard him singing thoughtfully to himself,
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000089_000000|"He thought he saw a Garden Door That opened with a key: He looked again, and found it was A Double Rule of Three: 'And all its mystery,' he said, 'Is clear as day to me!'"
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000090_000000|"I shall now return," said the Professor, when we had walked a few yards: "you see, it's impossible to read here, for all my books are in the house."
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000091_000000|But the children still kept fast hold of his hands.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000091_000001|"Do come with us!" Sylvie entreated with tears in her eyes.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000001|"Perhaps I'll come after you, some day soon.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000002|But I must go back now.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000003|You see I left off at a comma, and it's so awkward not knowing how the sentence finishes! Besides, you've got to go through Dogland first, and I'm always a little nervous about dogs.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000004|But it'll be quite easy to come, as soon as I've completed my new invention-for carrying one's self, you know.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000094_000000|"Well, no, my child.
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000094_000001|You see, whatever fatigue one incurs by carrying, one saves by being carried!
train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000094_000003|Good bye, Sir!" he added to my intense surprise, giving my hand an affectionate squeeze.
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train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000011_000001|Owen was still in the same state of moody abstraction as when Darrow had left him at the piano; and even Anna's face, to her friend's vigilant eye, revealed not, perhaps, a personal preoccupation, but a vague sense of impending disturbance.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000012_000000|She smiled, she bore a part in the talk, her eyes dwelt on Darrow's with their usual deep reliance; but beneath the surface of her serenity his tense perceptions detected a hidden stir.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000013_000000|He was sufficiently self possessed to tell himself that it was doubtless due to causes with which he was not directly concerned.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000013_000002|But this, again, was negatived by the fact that, during the afternoon's shooting, young Leath had been in a mood of almost extravagant expansiveness, and that, from the moment of his late return to the house till just before dinner, there had been, to Darrow's certain knowledge, no possibility of a private talk between himself and his step mother.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000014_000000|This obscured, if it narrowed, the field of conjecture; and Darrow's gropings threw him back on the conclusion that he was probably reading too much significance into the moods of a lad he hardly knew, and who had been described to him as subject to sudden changes of humour.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000002|On the score of that one, at least, his mind, if not easy, was relieved.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000005|It had been his first business to convince the girl that their secret was safe with him; but it was far from easy to square this with the equally urgent obligation of safe guarding Anna's responsibility toward her child. Darrow was not much afraid of accidental disclosures.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000006|Both he and Sophy Viner had too much at stake not to be on their guard.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000007|The fear that beset him was of another kind, and had a profounder source.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000016_000001|This discrepancy, which at the time had seemed to simplify the incident, now turned out to be its most galling complication.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000016_000002|The bare truth, indeed, was that he had hardly thought of her at all, either at the time or since, and that he was ashamed to base his judgement of her on his meagre memory of their adventure.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000017_000000|The essential cheapness of the whole affair-as far as his share in it was concerned-came home to him with humiliating distinctness.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000017_000001|He would have liked to be able to feel that, at the time at least, he had staked something more on it, and had somehow, in the sequel, had a more palpable loss to show.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000017_000002|But the plain fact was that he hadn't spent a penny on it; which was no doubt the reason of the prodigious score it had since been rolling up.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000018_000000|The night brought no aid to the solving of this problem; but it gave him, at any rate, the clear conviction that no time was to be lost.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000018_000001|His first step must be to obtain from Miss Viner the chance of another and calmer talk; and he resolved to seek it at the earliest hour.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000019_000000|He had gathered that Effie's lessons were preceded by an early scamper in the park, and conjecturing that her governess might be with her he betook himself the next morning to the terrace, whence he wandered on to the gardens and the walks beyond.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000020_000000|The atmosphere was still and pale.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000021_000000|The stillness was presently broken by joyful barks, and Darrow, tracking the sound, overtook Effie flying down one of the long alleys at the head of her pack.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000022_000000|The girl, coming forward at his approach, returned his greeting almost gaily.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000022_000002|For the first time he saw in her again the sidelong grace that had charmed his eyes in Paris; but he saw it now as in a painted picture.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000023_000000|"Shall we sit down a minute?" he asked, as Effie trotted off.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000024_000000|The girl looked away from him.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000024_000001|"I'm afraid there's not much time; we must be back at lessons at half past nine."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000025_000000|"But it's barely ten minutes past.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000025_000001|Let's at least walk a little way toward the river."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000026_000001|"If you like," she said in a low voice, with one of her quick fluctuations of colour; but instead of taking the way he proposed she turned toward a narrow path which branched off obliquely through the trees.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000000|Darrow was struck, and vaguely troubled, by the change in her look and tone.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000001|There was in them an undefinable appeal, whether for help or forbearance he could not tell.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000002|Then it occurred to him that there might have been something misleading in his so pointedly seeking her, and he felt a momentary constraint.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000003|To ease it he made an abrupt dash at the truth.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000028_000001|I want to hear more about you-about your plans and prospects.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000029_000000|Her face instantly sharpened to distrust.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000029_000001|"I had to live," she said in an off hand tone.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000030_000000|"I understand perfectly that you should like it here-for a time." His glance strayed down the gold roofed windings ahead of them.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000030_000001|"It's delightful: you couldn't be better placed.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000031_000000|She waited for a moment before answering: "I suppose I'm less restless than I used to be."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000032_000000|"It's certainly natural that you should be less restless here than at mrs Murrett's; yet somehow I don't seem to see you permanently given up to forming the young."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000000|"What-exactly-DO you seem to see me permanently given up to?
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000001|You know you warned me rather emphatically against the theatre." She threw off the statement without impatience, as though they were discussing together the fate of a third person in whom both were benevolently interested.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000002|Darrow considered his reply.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000003|"If I did, it was because you so emphatically refused to let me help you to a start."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000034_000000|She stopped short and faced him "And you think I may let you now?"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000035_000000|Darrow felt the blood in his cheek.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000035_000004|But he had a fixed purpose ahead and could only push on to it.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000036_000000|"I hope, at any rate, you'll listen to my reasons.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000036_000001|There's been time, on both sides, to think them over since----"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000037_000000|She walked on beside him, her eyes on the ground.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000037_000001|"Then I'm to understand-definitely-that you DO renew your offer?" she asked
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000038_000000|"With all my heart!
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000038_000001|If you'll only let me----"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000039_000001|"It's extremely friendly of you-I DO believe you mean it as a friend-but I don't quite understand why, finding me, as you say, so well placed here, you should show more anxiety about my future than at a time when I was actually, and rather desperately, adrift."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000040_000000|"Oh, no, not more!"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000042_000000|Darrow stood still in the path.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000043_000000|Effie sprang past them, and Darrow took up the girl's challenge.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000044_000002|It's true enough that I want to help you; but the wish isn't due to...to any past kindness on your part, but simply to my own interest in you.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000045_000000|She took a few hesitating steps and then paused again.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000047_000001|"A long time-yes."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000048_000000|"She told me you were friends-great friends"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000049_000000|"Yes," he admitted, "we're great friends."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000000|"Then you might naturally feel yourself justified in telling her that you don't think I'm the right person for Effie." He uttered a sound of protest, but she disregarded it.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000001|"I don't say you'd LIKE to do it.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000002|You wouldn't: you'd hate it.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000004|But supposing that failed, and you saw I was determined to stay?
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000005|THEN you might think it your duty to tell mrs Leath."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000051_000000|She laid the case before him with a cold lucidity.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000052_000000|"I shouldn't feel justified in telling her, behind your back, if I thought you unsuited for the place; but I should certainly feel justified," he rejoined after a pause, "in telling YOU if I thought the place unsuited to you."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000053_000000|"And that's what you're trying to tell me now?"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000056_000001|You're too various, too gifted, too personal, to tie yourself down, at your age, to the dismal drudgery of teaching."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000057_000000|"And is THAT what you've told mrs Leath?"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000058_000000|She rushed the question out at him as if she expected to trip him up over it.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000059_000000|"I've told her exactly nothing," he replied.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000060_000000|"And what-exactly-do you mean by 'nothing'?
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000061_000000|Darrow felt his blood rise at the thrust.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000062_000000|"I've told her, simply, that I'd seen you once or twice at mrs Murrett's."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000063_000000|"And not that you've ever seen me since?"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000066_000000|He uttered a protesting exclamation, and his flush reflected itself in the girl's cheek.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000067_000000|"Oh, I beg your pardon!
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000067_000001|I didn't mean to ask you that." She halted, and again cast a rapid glance behind and ahead of her.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000067_000002|Then she held out her hand.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000068_000002|And you'll give me a chance to talk things over with you?"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000069_000000|She shook her head with a faint smile.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000069_000001|"I'm not thinking of the stage. I've had another offer: that's all."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000070_000000|The relief was hardly less great.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000071_000000|"You'll tell me about that, then-won't you?"
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000072_000000|Her smile flickered up.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000072_000001|"Oh, you'll hear about it soon...I must catch Effie now and drag her back to the blackboard."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000073_000000|She walked on for a few yards, and then paused again and confronted him. "I've been odious to you-and not quite honest," she broke out suddenly.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000074_000000|"Not quite honest?" he repeated, caught in a fresh wave of wonder.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000075_000000|"I mean, in seeming not to trust you.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000075_000001|It's come over me again as we talked that, at heart, I've always KNOWN I could..."
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000076_000000|Her colour rose in a bright wave, and her eyes clung to his for a swift instant of reminder and appeal.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000076_000001|For the same space of time the past surged up in him confusedly; then a veil dropped between them.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000078_000003|Perhaps no one less familiar with her face than Darrow would have discerned the tension of the smile she transferred from himself to Owen Leath, or have remarked that her eyes had hardened from misty grey to a shining darkness.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000000|The change, for Darrow, was less definable; but, perhaps for that reason, it struck him as more sharply significant.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000001|Only-just what did it signify?
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000002|Owen, like Sophy Viner, had the kind of face which seems less the stage on which emotions move than the very stuff they work in.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000004|Darrow, through the rapid flight of the shadows, could not seize on any specific indication of feeling: he merely perceived that the young man was unaccountably surprised at finding him with Miss Viner, and that the extent of his surprise might cover all manner of implications.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000080_000000|Darrow's first idea was that Owen, if he suspected that the conversation was not the result of an accidental encounter, might wonder at his step mother's suitor being engaged, at such an hour, in private talk with her little girl's governess.
train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000080_000002|Presently he was struck by the fact that Owen Leath and the girl were silent also; and this gave a new turn to his thoughts.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000001_000001|A PORTRAIT FROM LIFE
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000004_000000|This young man with a livid face-a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance has an indescribable fascination, sober in speech as in conduct, dressed in black, lean as a consumptive, but nevertheless vigorously framed-visited the family of his former master and the house of his cashier less from affection than from self interest.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000004_000007|The young fellow looked at Modeste precisely as he would have looked at a cheap lithograph.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000009_000001|His little eyes, of a calm blue, were like bits of steel.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000009_000003|His physical strength, well-known to every one, put him above all danger of attack.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000010_000002|Her face expressed the pleasure she took in the smooth petals of the flower she was working.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000012_000000|It was eight o'clock.
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000012_000003|Modeste,--blossom enclosed, like that of Catullus,--was she worth all these precautions?
train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000013_000004|It seemed, like a pearl, to have its orient.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000002_000001|Admission to the class is gained by exercise of the pecuniary aptitudes-aptitudes for acquisition rather than for serviceability. There is, therefore, a continued selective sifting of the human material that makes up the leisure class, and this selection proceeds on the ground of fitness for pecuniary pursuits.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000003_000000|The most immediate and unequivocal expression of that archaic human nature which characterizes man in the predatory stage is the fighting propensity proper.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000003_000001|In cases where the predatory activity is a collective one, this propensity is frequently called the martial spirit, or, latterly, patriotism.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000003_000003|Indeed, the leisure class claims the distinction as a matter of pride, and no doubt with some grounds.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000010_000000|In the male child the predaceous interval is ordinarily fairly well marked and lasts for some time, but it is commonly terminated (if at all) with the attainment of maturity.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000010_000001|This last statement may need very material qualification.
train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000014_000010|The same is true of the encouragement given to the growth of "college spirit," college athletics, and the like, in the higher institutions of learning.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000000|Harold remained for four months longer with his cousin.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000001|The Indians had made several attacks upon settlements at other points of the frontier, but they had not repeated their incursion in the neighborhood of the lake.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000002|The farming operations had gone on regularly, but the men always worked with their rifles ready to their hand.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000004|mr Welch's farm was the only one along the lake that had escaped, and the loss the Indians had sustained in attacking it had been so heavy that they were not likely to make an expedition in that quarter, where the chances of booty were so small and the certainty of a desperate resistance so great.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000003_000000|Other matters occurred which rendered the renewal of the attack improbable.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000003_000001|The news was brought by a wandering hunter that a quarrel had arisen between the Shawnees and the Iroquois, and that the latter had recalled their braves from the frontier to defend their own villages in case of hostilities breaking out between them and the rival tribe.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000004_000000|There was no occasion for Harold to wait for news from home, for his father had, before starting, definitely fixed the day for his return, and when that time approached Harold started on his eastward journey, in order to be at home about the date of their arrival.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000006_000000|Upon the day after Harold's return two gentlemen called upon Captain Wilson and asked him to sign the agreement which a number of colonists had entered into to resist the mother country to the last. This Captain Wilson positively refused to do.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000000|"I am an Englishman," he said, "and my sympathies are wholly with my country.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000001|I do not say that the whole of the demands of England are justifiable.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000003|But I consider that it has done nothing whatever to justify the attitude of the colonists.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000004|The soldiers of England have fought for you against French and Indians and are still stationed here to protect you.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000005|The colonists pay nothing for their land; they pay nothing toward the expenses of the government of the mother country; and it appears to me to be perfectly just that people here, free as they are from all the burdens that bear so heavily on those at home, should at least bear the expense of the army stationed here.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000006|I grant that it would have been far better had the colonists taxed themselves to pay the extra amount, instead of the mother country taxing them; but this they would not do.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000007|Some of the colonists paid their quota, others refused to do so, and this being the case, it appears to me that England is perfectly justified in laying on a tax.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000009|The stamp tax would in no way have affected the poorer classes in the colonies.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000012|There are, of course, among them a large number of men-among them, gentlemen, I place you-who conscientiously believe that they are justified in doing nothing whatever for the land which gave them or their ancestors birth; who would enjoy all the great natural wealth of this vast country without contributing toward the expense of the troops to whom it is due that they enjoy peace and tranquility.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000013|Such, gentlemen, are not my sentiments.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000016|France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands all monopolize the trade of their colonies; all, far more than does England, regard their colonies as sources of revenue.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000008_000000|"The time will come, sir," one of the gentlemen said, "when you will have reason to regret the line which you have now taken."
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000009_000000|"No, sir," Captain Wilson said haughtily.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000010_000000|When the deputation had departed Harold, who had been a wondering listener to the conversation, asked his father to explain to him the exact position in which matters stood.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000001|The success of England, in her struggle with France for the supremacy of North America had cost her a great deal of money.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000002|At home the burdens of the people were extremely heavy.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000003|The expense of the army and navy was great, and the ministry, in striving to lighten the burdens of the people, turned their eyes to the colonies.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000004|They saw in America a population of over two million people, subjects of the king, like themselves, living free from rent and taxes on their own land and paying nothing whatever to the expenses of the country.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000005|They were, it is true, forced to trade with England, but this obligation was set wholly at naught.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000012_000000|Their first step was to strengthen the naval force on the American coast and by additional vigilance to put some sort of check on the wholesale smuggling which prevailed.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000012_000001|This step caused extreme discontent among the trading classes of America, and these set to work vigorously to stir up a strong feeling of disaffection against England.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000012_000002|The revenue officers were prevented, sometimes by force, from carrying out their duties.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000013_000001|The colonists were furious at the imposition of this tax.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000013_000003|Meetings were everywhere held, at which the strongest and most treasonable language was uttered, and such violent threats were used against the persons employed as stamp collectors that these, in fear of their lives, resigned their posts.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000014_000000|The stamp tax remained uncollected and was treated by the colonists as if it were not in existence.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000015_000000|The whole of the States now began to prepare for war.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000000|In England neither the spirit nor the strength of the colonists was understood.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000001|Men could not bring themselves to believe that these would fight rather than submit, still less that if they did fight it would be successfully.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000004|It is true that even had England at this point abandoned altogether her determination to raise taxes in America the result would probably have been the same.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000006|As it was, Parliament agreed to let the stamp tax drop, and in its place established some import duties on goods entering the American ports.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000017_000000|The colonists, however, were determined that they would submit to no taxation whatever.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000017_000001|The English government, in its desire for peace, abandoned all the duties with the exception of that on tea; but even this concession was not sufficient to satisfy the colonists.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000018_000001|There were throughout the country a large number of gentlemen, like Captain Wilson, wholly opposed to the general feeling.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000018_000002|New York refused to send members to the Congress, and in many other provinces the adhesion given to the disaffected movement was but lukewarm.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000019_000000|So far but few acts of violence had taken place.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000020_000000|The Congress drilled, armed, and organized; the English brought over fresh troops and prepared for the struggle.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000020_000001|It was December when Harold returned home to his parents, and for the next three months the lull before the storm continued.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000021_000000|The disaffected of Massachusetts had collected a large quantity of military stores at Concord.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000023_000000|Captain Wilson and his household were startled from sleep by the sudden ringing of the alarm bells, and a negro servant, Pompey, who had been for many years in their service, was sent down into the town, which lay a quarter of a mile from the house, to find out what was the news.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000023_000001|He returned in half an hour.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000024_000002|Down wid de redcoats!
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000026_000000|"Nothing, my boy.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000027_000000|"May I go with you, father?"
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000000|"Yes, if you like, my boy.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000001|Pompey, saddle two horses at once.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000002|You are not afraid of being left alone, Mary?" he said, turning to his wife. "There is no chance of any disturbance here.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000003|Our house lies beyond the town, and whatever takes place will be in Concord.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000001|The horses were soon brought round, and Captain Wilson and his son mounted and rode off at full speed.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000003|The alarm had evidently been given all along the line.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000004|At every village the bells were ringing, the people were assembling in the streets, all carrying arms, while numbers were flocking in from the farmhouses around.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000005|Once or twice Captain Wilson was stopped and asked where he was going.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000030_000001|If he has orders to come at all hazards, my words will not stop him; if it is left to his discretion, possibly he may pause before he brings on so dire a calamity."
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000032_000000|Just as Captain Wilson rode in a messenger ran up with the news that the head of the British column was close at hand.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000032_000002|john Parker, who commanded them, ordered the drums to beat and the alarm guns to be fired, and his men drew up in two ranks across the road.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000033_000001|"Let us get out of the line of fire."
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000034_000000|The British, hearing the drums and the alarm guns, loaded, and the advance company came on at the double.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000034_000001|Major Pitcairne was at their head and shouted to the militia to lay down their arms.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000035_000001|The Americans assert that it was the English; the English say that as they advanced several shots were fired at them from behind a stone wall and from some of the adjoining houses, which wounded one man and hit Major Pitcairne's horse in two places.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000000|As they approached the town the militia retreated from it.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000003|In destroying the stores by fire the court house took flames.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000004|At the sight of this fire the militia and armed countrymen advanced down the hill toward the bridge.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000005|The English tried to pull up the planks, but the Americans ran forward rapidly.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000007|Half an hour later Colonel Smith, having performed the duty that he was sent to do, resumed the homeward march with the whole of his troops.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000040_000000|Such was the beginning of the war of independence.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000040_000001|Many American writers have declared that previous to that battle there was no desire for independence on the part of the colonists, but this is emphatically contradicted by the language used at the meetings and in the newspapers which have come down to us.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000042_000006|It was but the spark in the powder.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000044_000000|From an eminence at some distance from the line of retreat Captain Wilson and his son watched sorrowfully the attack upon the British troops.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000045_000000|"The die is cast," he said to his wife as she met him at the door. "The war has begun, and I fear it can have but one termination.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000045_000007|I have pointed out to him that as he was born here he can without dishonor remain neutral in the struggle.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000045_000009|To this I have agreed.
train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000046_000005|She would, too, be living among her friends and would meet with many of the same convictions and opinions as her husband's, whereas in Concord the whole population would be hostile.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000002_000003|mr Wicker though interested and attentive, gave Chris the impression that what he had been told was not new to him.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000003_000001|So there was nothing left to do but to work as fast and as well as he could.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000005_000000|For Chris was now as accepted a member of the household as mr Wicker himself, and had it not been for the robust guffaws of Ned Cilley, and the ministrations of the now devoted Becky, Chris's days would have been tedious indeed.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000006_000002|He went straight to the bowl and addressed the fish.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000007_000000|"Sir," he said to the goldfish, "I am here.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000007_000001|What shall I do first?"
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000009_000000|"How you have improved, my boy!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000009_000001|"It is now time for you to try, and this is as good a change as any."
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000010_000000|All at once, at the imminent prospect of really changing himself into some other form, Chris became frightened and his hands grew cold.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000011_000000|"Oh, sir!
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000011_000001|Do you really think I know how?" he cried, gazing up into the face of his master.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000011_000002|"Suppose I change and can't change back?"
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000012_000000|mr Wicker shook his head with a smile.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000000|"Never fear, Christopher.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000001|You know enough to start, and I feel reasonably sure that you will be quite able to change back again.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000002|If you get stuck I can help you.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000003|Come now," he said, putting out his hand to touch Chris's shoulder in a reassuring way, "here you go.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000004|Remember Incantation Seventy three, Book One."
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000014_000000|Chris stared at the fishbowl, empty now.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000015_000000|Then as nothing happened, with a voice like a whip mr Wicker said: "Start at once!"
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000016_000001|As he went on, concentrating on becoming a goldfish in the bowl on the table, he became aware of a humming sensation in his head.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000016_000002|This grew until it seemed that all his body was filled with the strange new vibration, tingling from his feet to the crown of his head.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000016_000004|His head swam and he felt faint and a little sick, but he persisted through the final words.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000019_000000|"Better come back now.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000019_000002|Seventy four, Book One: The Return."
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000021_000000|"This will seem to smoke.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000021_000001|Sniff the smoke and drink the liquid that remains," he said.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000024_000001|A peculiar feeling, but as you come to do it more often and more quickly, the change will come more rapidly and in time you will be scarcely aware of the sensations at all." He looked at his pupil with pride.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000025_000000|From that time, Chris became increasingly proficient, and as his ability grew he began to find magic a wonderful game, which he and mr Wicker played together.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000025_000001|They played this new and unique form of hide and seek, each one taking a new shape, turn by turn, as a challenge to the other's powers of imagination and detection.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000025_000002|Soon Chris could turn himself into a limited number of things, for even mr Wicker's magic had a limit: a singing bird in a cage, a part of the pattern in the brocaded curtains, or a section of the design in the Indian rug.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000026_000002|This afternoon, a rainy one, he had tired of changing himself into and out of objects.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000028_000000|Without interest at first, Chris stared at the little Negro boy, so gaily dressed in full red trousers, gilded jacket and white turban. The figure's shoes, carved in some Eastern style, had curved up pointing toes.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000028_000001|Then all at once the idea came to Chris.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000028_000002|If he was to be a magician, could he make this boy come to life?
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000029_000000|The prospect excited him wildly, for he had no companion with whom to laugh and share jokes.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000030_000002|He heard the magician going up the spiral staircase to his room above, and after changing himself to a mouse to slip under the door and see that the room was really empty, Chris resumed his proper shape and opened the doors of the cupboard at the far end of the room.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000031_000000|On its top shelf was Book Three, a book a foot thick and bound in heavy brass studded with semi precious stones in the form of signs and symbols.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000031_000001|With difficulty, standing on tiptoe, Chris lifted it down, and placing it on the floor, turned over page after page.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000032_000000|The afternoon, rainy before, increased in storm.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000032_000001|Dusk came two hours before its time; thunder snarled in the sky.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000033_000001|There were the words, and there the charm. Certain elements were to be mixed and poured at the proper time.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000033_000002|He hurried, memorizing as he closed the book, and hoisted it once more to its high shelf.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000035_000001|Chris, his cheeks hot from excitement and the fire, tiptoed out just as mr Wicker's step creaked on the topmost tread of the spiral stair.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000035_000002|With infinite caution Chris closed the door silently behind him, and running lightly forward, reached the figure of the Negro boy.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000036_000000|The words came out, interrupted by peals and cracks of thunder.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000036_000001|The shop was black except for the paler crescent of the bow window giving onto the street.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000038_000000|For in the blackness lit only by the lightning and its own eerie glow, the wood was changing as he watched.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000000|It was as if the stiffness melted.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000001|Under his eyes the wooden folds of cloth became rich silk, embroidery gleamed in its reality upon the coat, and oh! the face!
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000002|The wooden grin loosened, the large eyes turned, the hand holding the hard bouquet of carved flowers moved, and let the bouquet fall.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000003|The feet of the boy twitched and shifted in their pointed shoes.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000041_000001|Outside, the rain poured down as if over some skyward dam.
train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000044_000000|And as they turned, the light and the dark hands holding firm, the firelight was streaming from the distant door and mr Wicker waited.
train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000003_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000007_000001|That is change enough from a carved wooden figure.
train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000026_000000|"Go and feel of it, Christopher," mr Wicker urged.
train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000028_000000|"Gee!
train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000028_000002|"This is the best yet-except for amos.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000002|If the weather is hot, it will keep but a short time.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000003|It should be kept in a cool, airy place, away from the flies, and if there is any danger of its spoiling, a little salt should be rubbed over it.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000006|Boiling is the cheapest way of cooking meat, provided you make a soup of the liquor; if not, it is the dearest, as most of the gelatine is extracted by the process of boiling, which is the most nourishing part, and if not used for soup, is completely lost.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000008|When it is put down to roast, there should be a little water in the dripping pan.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000010|The bars of the gridiron should be concave, and terminate in a trough, to catch the juices, or they will drop in the fire and smoke the meat.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000013|The dish should be very hot on which broiled meat is put, and it should not be seasoned till taken up.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000014|If you wish to fry meat, cut a small piece of pork into slices, and fry them a light brown, then take them up and put in your meat, which should be perfectly dry.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000015|When the meat is sufficiently fried, take it up, remove the frying pan from the fire to cool; when so, turn in a little cold water for the gravy, put it on the fire-when it boils, stir in a little mixed flour and water, let it boil, then turn it over the meat.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000008_000000|The tender loin and first and second cuts off the rack are the best roasting pieces-the third and fourth cuts are good.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000008_000002|When the bones get well heated through, turn the meat, and keep a brisk fire-baste it frequently while roasting.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000008_000004|If it is a thick piece, allow fifteen minutes to each pound to roast it in-if thin, less time will be required.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000009_000000|three.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000000|The tender loin is the best piece for broiling-a steak from the round or shoulder clod is good and comes cheaper.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000001|If the beef is not very tender, it should be laid on a board and pounded, before broiling or frying it.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000003|If broiled slow, it will not be good.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000004|It takes from fifteen to twenty minutes to broil a steak.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000005|For seven or eight pounds of beef, cut up about a quarter of a pound of butter.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000006|Heat the platter very hot that the steak is to be put on, lay the butter on it, take up the steak, salt and pepper it on both sides.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000007|Beef steak to be good, should be eaten as soon as cooked.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000009|There should always be a trough to catch the juices of the meat when broiled.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000010|The same pieces that are good broiled are good for frying.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000011|Fry a few slices of salt pork, brown, then take them up and put in the beef.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000011_000000|four.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000012_000002|When it has stewed a couple of hours, turn the reserved dressing on top of the meat, heat the bake pan lid hot enough to brown the dressing, stew it an hour and a half longer.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000013_000000|five.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000014_000000|Liver is very good fried, but the best way to cook it, is to broil it ten minutes, with four or five slices of salt pork.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000014_000001|Then take it, cut it into small strips together with the pork, put it in a stew pan, with a little water, butter, and pepper.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000015_000000|six.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000000|To every gallon of cold water, put a quart of rock salt, an ounce of salt petre, quarter of a pound of brown sugar-(some people use molasses, but it is not as good)--no boiling is necessary.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000001|Put the beef in the brine.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000004|When a piece of beef is put in the brine, rub a little salt over it.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000005|If the weather is hot, cut a gash to the bone of the meat, and fill it with salt.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000007|In very hot weather, it is difficult to corn beef in cold brine before it spoils.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000008|On this account it is good to corn it in the pot when boiled.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000017_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000000|The saddle is the best part to roast-the shoulder and leg are good roasted; but the best mode to cook the latter, is to boil it with a piece of salt pork.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000001|A little rice boiled with it, improves the looks of it.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000002|Mutton for roasting, should have a little butter rubbed on it, and a little salt and pepper sprinkled on it-some people like cloves and allspice.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000004|The bony side should be turned towards the fire first, and roasted.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000005|For boiling or roasting mutton, allow a quarter of an hour to each pound of meat.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000006|The leg is good cut in gashes, and filled with a dressing, and baked.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000007|The dressing is made of soaked bread, a little butter, salt, and pepper, and a couple of eggs.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000009|The leg is also good, cut into slices and broiled.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000010|It is good corned a few days, and then boiled.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000011|The rack is good for broiling-it should be divided, each bone by itself, broiled quick, and buttered, salted and peppered.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000012|The breast of mutton is nice baked.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000013|The joints of the brisket should be separated, the sharp ends of the ribs sawed off, the outside rubbed over with a little piece of butter-salt it, and put it in a bake pan, with a pint of water.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000014|When done, take it up, and thicken the gravy with a little flour and water, and put in a small piece of butter.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000016|The neck of mutton makes a good soup.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000017|Parsely or celery heads are a pretty garnish for mutton.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000019_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000020_000001|The breast and rack are good roasted.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000020_000002|The breast also is good made into a pot pie, and the rack cut into small pieces and broiled.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000020_000006|The fillet is good baked, the bone should be cut out, and the place filled with a dressing, made of bread soaked soft in cold water, a little salt, pepper, a couple of eggs, and a table spoonful of melted butter put in-then sew it up, put it in your bake pan, with about a pint of water, cover the top of the meat with some of the dressing.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000021_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000003|When the veal is fried brown, dip it into the batter, then put it back into the fat, and fry it until brown again.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000005|Thicken the gravy and turn it over the whole.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000006|It takes about an hour to cook this dish.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000007|If the meat is tough, it will be better to stew it half an hour before frying it.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000023_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000000|Boil the head two hours, together with the lights and feet.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000002|Before the head is done, tie the brains in a bag, and boil them with it; when the brains are done, take them up, season them with salt, pepper, butter, and sweet herbs, or spices if you like-use this as a dressing for the head.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000003|Some people prefer part of the liver and feet for dressing-they are prepared like the brains.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000004|The liquor that the calf's head is boiled in, makes a good soup, seasoned in a plain way like any other veal soup, or seasoned turtle fashion.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000005|The liquor should stand until the next day after the head is boiled, in order to have the fat rise, and skimmed off.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000006|If you wish to have your calf's head look brown, take it up when tender, rub a little butter over it, sprinkle on salt, pepper, and allspice-sprinkle flour over it, and put before the fire, with a Dutch oven over it, or in a brick oven where it will brown quick.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000007|Warm up the brains with a little water, butter, salt, and pepper.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000008|Add wine and spices if you like.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000009|Serve it up as a dressing for the head.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000010|Calf's head is also good, baked.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000012|Bake it in a quick oven, and garnish it with slices of lemon, or force meat balls.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000025_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000026_000001|Do them up into balls about the size of half an egg, and fry them brown.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000027_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000028_000000|Boil them with the head, until tender, then split and lay them round the head, or dredge them with flour after they have been boiled tender, and fry them brown.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000028_000001|If you wish for gravy for them, when you have taken them up, stir a little flour into the fat they were fried in; season it with salt, pepper, and mace.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000029_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000030_000000|Are good, broiled or fried.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000030_000001|Some people like the liver stuffed and baked.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000031_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000000|Cut part of a leg of veal into pieces, three or four inches broad-sprinkle flour on them, fry them in butter until brown, then turn in water enough to cover the veal.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000001|When it boils, take off the scum, put in two or three onions, a blade of mace, a little salt and pepper.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000002|When stewed tender, take up the meat, thicken the gravy with flour and water, mixed smoothly together, squeeze in the juice of half a lemon, then turn it over the collops.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000003|Garnish them with a lemon cut in thin slices.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000033_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000000|Boil a piece of lean veal till tender.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000001|Take it up, cut it into strips three or four inches long, put it back into the pot, with the liquor it was boiled in, with a tea cup of rice to three pounds of veal.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000002|Put in a piece of butter, of the size of a hen's egg; season it with salt, pepper, and sweet herbs if you like; stew it gently till the rice is tender, and the water nearly stewed away.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000003|A little curry powder in this, converts it into a curry dish.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000035_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000036_000000|Cut off the shank of a leg of veal, and cut gashes in the remainder. Make a dressing of bread, soaked soft in cold water, and mashed; season it with salt, pepper, and sweet herbs; chop a little raw pork fine, put it in the dressing, and if you have not pork, use a little butter instead.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000036_000003|A leg of veal is nice prepared in this manner, and roasted.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000037_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000001|Sprinkle salt and pepper on the lamb, turn the bony side towards the fire first; if not fat, rub a little butter on it, and put a little in the dripping pan; baste it frequently.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000002|These pieces are good stuffed like a fillet of veal, and roasted.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000003|The leg is also good, cooked in the same manner; but it is better boiled with a pound of salt pork.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000004|Allow fifteen minutes boiling to each pound of meat.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000006|The fore quarter, with the ribs divided, is good broiled.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000008|A little salt, pepper, and butter, should be put on it when you take it up.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000009|Lamb is very apt to spoil in warm weather.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000010|If you wish to keep a leg several days, put it in brine.
train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000011|It should not be put with pork, as fresh meat is apt to injure it.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000002_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000003_000000|THE "BALLOT TEST."--THE OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS "DISEASED" RELATIVES.--A "HUNGRY SPIRIT."--"PALMING" A BALLOT.--REVELATIONS ON STRIPS OF PAPER.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000005_000001|His mode of operating was "the ballot test," and was as follows:
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000006_000002|Supposing the names written were Mary, Joseph, and Samuel, being, respectively, the investigator's mother, father, and brother.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000011_000001|"But I say Mister, what has them papers to do with a sperit communication?"
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000012_000000|"You will see, directly," replied the medium.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000014_000003|Your loving wife, BETSEY."
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000023_000000|The reply was, an emphatic affirmative.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000028_000000|Dropping that and taking another:
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000034_000000|"That paper," says he to the investigator, "probably contains the name of the spirit who rapped; please hold it in your hand."
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000038_000001|His terms are only five dollars an hour.
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000039_000001|For instance:
train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000040_000000|"BROTHER SAMUEL:--Will you communicate with me through this medium? WILLIAM FRANKLIN."
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000004_000003|There were also, as a class apart, the bruisers, which did not lacerate the flesh, but only crushed the bone.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000006_000003|The wound brought on lockjaw, of which he died.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000013_000000|"What's that?" said Suke, starting up in bed.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000015_000002|Hark!"
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000018_000000|Tim was puzzled.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000024_000001|Thus far it was according to Tim's conjecture.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000029_000000|The man trap was thrown; and between its jaws was part of a woman's clothing-a patterned silk skirt-gripped with such violence that the iron teeth had passed through it, skewering its tissue in a score of places.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000033_000001|Right and left of the narrow pass between the oaks were dense bushes; and now from behind these a female figure glided, whose appearance even in the gloom was, though graceful in outline, noticeably strange.
train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000049_000001|They went on together.
train-clean-360/4238/12538/4238_12538_000003_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY
train-clean-360/4238/12538/4238_12538_000014_000001|The ship struck on an uncharted rock.
train-clean-360/4238/12538/4238_12538_000021_000002|I saw a great big cat sharpening his claws on a great big tree, just the way pussy does!" she said as soon as she could catch her breath.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000004_000000|A FRONTIER FARM.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000005_000000|"Concord, march first seventeen seventy four.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000006_000000|"MY DEAR COUSIN: I am leaving next week with my husband for England, where we intend to pass some time visiting his friends.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000006_000001|john and I have determined to accept the invitation you gave us last summer for Harold to come and spend a few months with you.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000006_000002|His father thinks that a great future will, ere many years, open in the West, and that it is therefore well the boy should learn something of frontier life. For myself, I would rather that he stayed quietly at home, for he is at present over fond of adventure; but as my husband is meditating selling his estate here and moving West, it is perhaps better for him.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000000|"Massachusetts is in a ferment, as indeed are all the Eastern States, and the people talk openly of armed resistance against the Government.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000003|As an American woman, it seems to me that the colonists have been dealt with somewhat hardly by the English Parliament, and that the measures of the latter have been high handed and arbitrary.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000004|Upon the other hand, I naturally incline toward my husband's views.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000005|He maintains that, as the king's army has driven out the French, and gives protection to the colony, it is only fair that the colonists should contribute to its expenses. The English ask for no contributions toward the expense of their own country, but demand that, at least, the expenses of the protection of the colony shall not be charged upon the heavily taxed people at home.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000008_000001|Then our life was a peaceful and quiet one; now there is nothing but wrangling and strife.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000008_000002|The dissenting clergy are, as my husband says was the case in England before the great civil war, the fomenters of this discontent.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000009_000001|One has heard so many dreadful stories of Indian fights and massacres that I tremble a little at the prospect; but I do not mention this to john, for as other women are, like yourself, brave enough to support these dangers, I would not appear a coward in his eyes.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000009_000006|john joins me in kind love to yourself and your husband, and believe me to remain,
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000010_000000|"Your Affectionate Cousin,
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000011_000000|"MARY WILSON."
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000012_000001|Behind them was a large clearing of about a hundred acres in extent; a comfortable house, with buildings for cattle, stood at a distance of some three hundred yards from the lake; broad fields of yellow corn waved brightly in the sun; and from the edge of the clearing came the sound of a woodsman's ax, showing that the proprietor was still enlarging the limits of his farm.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000013_000000|William Welch had settled ten years before on this spot, which was then far removed from the nearest habitation.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000022_000005|I hoped that nothing would come of it, but I might have known better.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000025_000005|I stopped at Burns' and Hooper's. Burns said he should clear out at once, but Hooper talked about seeing it through.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000029_000013|If they succeed there and get lots of booty and plenty of scalps, they may march back without touching you; they will be in a hurry to get to their villages and have their feasts and dancing.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000029_000014|If they are beaten off at the settlements I reckon they will pay you a visit for sure; they won't go back without scalps.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000035_000004|Of course you will take your rifles with you and keep a sharp lookout; but they will have heard the bell, if they are in the neighborhood, and will guess that we are on the alert, so they are not likely to attempt a surprise.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000050_000000|"What is it?" they exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000051_000000|"He went out to scout round the house, leaving me at the gate," Harold said.
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000052_000002|mr Welch," he shouted, "it is all safe here, so far as we know; we are all on the lookout to cover you as you come up."
train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000055_000000|"I thought it was something of the sort.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty eight
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000002_000000|THE SCOTTISH TERRIER
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000000|The Scottish Terrier as a show dog dates from about eighteen seventy seven to eighteen seventy nine.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000001|He seems almost at once to have attained popularity, and he has progressed gradually since then, ever in an upward direction, until he is to day one of the most popular and extensively owned varieties of the dog.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000003|At the end of his report on the kennel the writer adds these words: "It was certainly one of the happiest days of my life to have the pleasure of looking over so many grand little dogs, but to find them in England quite staggered me.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000005|I know but few that take such a delight in the brave little 'die hards' as mr Pigott, and he may well feel proud of the lot he has got together at great trouble and expense."
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000008_000000|Granite was unquestionably a typical Scottish Terrier, even as we know them at the present day.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000008_000001|He was certainly longer in the back than we care for nowadays, and his head also was shorter, and his jaw more snipy than is now seen, but his portrait clearly shows he was a genuine Scottish Terrier, and there is no doubt that he, with his kennel mates, Tartan, Crofter, Syringa, Cavack, and Posey, conferred benefit upon the breed.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000009_000000|To dive deeper into the antiquity of the Scottish Terrier is a thing which means that he who tries it must be prepared to meet all sorts of abuse, ridicule, and criticism.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000010_000000|It is a most extraordinary fact that Scotland should have unto herself so many different varieties of the terrier.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000010_000001|There is strong presumption that they one and all came originally from one variety, and it is quite possible, nay probable, that different crosses into other varieties have produced the assortment of to day.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000011_000000|Scottish Terriers frequently go by the name of Aberdeen Terriers-an appellation, it is true, usually heard only from the lips of people who do not know much about them.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000000|Sir Paynton Pigott's kennel of the breed assumed quite large proportions, and was most successful, several times winning all the prizes offered in the variety at different shows.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000001|He may well be called the Father of the breed in England, for when he gave up exhibiting, a great deal of his best blood got into the kennels of mr h j Ludlow, who, as everyone knows, has done such a tremendous amount of good in popularising the breed and has also himself produced such a galaxy of specimens of the very best class.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000002|mr Ludlow's first terrier was a bitch called Splinter two.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000003|The name of Kildee is, in the breed, almost world famous, and it is interesting to note that in every line does he go back to the said Splinter two.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000004|Rambler-called by the great authorities the first pillar of the stud book-was a son of a dog called Bon Accord, and it is to this latter dog and Roger Rough, and also the aforesaid Tartan and Splinter two. that nearly all of the best present day pedigrees go back.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000007|Alister especially was quite an extraordinary stud dog.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000010|He was apparently too much inbred to, and though he produced or was responsible for several beautiful terriers, it is much to be doubted whether in a breed which is suffering from the ill effects of too much inbreeding, he was not one of the greatest sinners.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000013_000000|The Scottish Terrier Club was formed in the year eighteen eighty two.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000013_000001|In the same year a joint committee drew up a standard of perfection for the breed, Messrs.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000013_000002|j b Morison and Thomson Gray, two gentlemen who were looked upon as great authorities, having a good deal to do with it.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000001|It should not be quite flat, as there should be a sort of stop or drop between the eyes.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000002|MUZZLE-Very powerful, and gradually tapering towards the nose, which should always be black and of a good size.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000003|The jaws should be perfectly level, and the teeth square, though the nose projects somewhat over the mouth which gives the impression of the upper jaw being longer than the under one.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000004|EYES-A dark brown or hazel colour; small, piercing, very bright and rather sunken. EARS-Very small, prick or half prick (the former is preferable), but never drop.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000005|They should also be sharp pointed, and the hair on them should not be long, but velvety, and they should not be cut.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000006|The ears should be free from any fringe at the top.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000007|NECK-Short, thick and muscular; strongly set on sloping shoulders.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000008|CHEST-Broad in comparison to the size of the dog, and proportionately deep.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000009|BODY-Of moderate length, but not so long as a Skye's, and rather flat sided; well ribbed up, and exceedingly strong in hind quarters.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000010|LEGS AND FEET-Both fore and hind legs should be short and very heavy in bone, the former being straight and well set on under the body, as the Scottish Terrier should not be out at elbows.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000011|The hocks should be bent, and the thighs very muscular, and the feet strong, small and thickly covered with short hair, the fore feet being larger than the hind ones.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000012|TAIL-Should be about seven inches long, never docked, carried with a slight bend and often gaily.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000013|COAT-Should be rather short (about two inches), intensely hard and wiry in texture, and very dense all over the body.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000015|COLOUR-Steel or iron grey, black brindle, brown brindle, grey brindle, black, sandy and wheaten.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000016|White markings are objectionable, and can only be allowed on the chest and to a small extent.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000017|GENERAL APPEARANCE-The face should wear a very sharp, bright and active expression, and the head should be carried up.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000019|In fact, a Scottish Terrier, though essentially a terrier, cannot be too powerfully put together, and should be from about nine inches to twelve inches in height.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000000|SPECIAL FAULTS: MUZZLE-Either under or over hung.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000001|EYES-Large or light coloured.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000002|EARS-Large, round at the points or drop.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000003|It is also a fault if they are too heavily covered with hair.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000004|LEGS-Bent, or slightly bent, and out at elbows.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000016_000004|Callum Dhu, mr McCandlish's Ems Cosmetic, mr Chapman's Heather Bob and Heather Charm, mr Kinnear's Seafield Rascal, mr Wood's Hyndman Chief, Messrs.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000016_000007|Carter Laddie.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000017_000000|It is highly probable that of all the terrier tribe, the "Scottie," taken as a whole, is the best companion.
train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000017_000001|He makes a most excellent house dog, is not too big, does not leave white hairs about all over the place, loves only his master and his master's household, and is, withal, a capable and reliable guard.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000002_000000|Chris and amos lay belly down in a low clump of pine scrub at the top of a precipitous rocky pinnacle.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000002_000001|Below them in the blistering noon lay the palace walls of the Lord of the Seven Seas, Descendant of the Sun and the Moon, Overlord of the Mountains and the Plains, Prince of all the Isles, Father of Plenty, and Brilliance Before Which All Cast Down Their Eyes, the Emperor of China.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000003_000000|The two boys were uninterested in titles.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000003_000001|Somewhere within that city within a city, inside the enormous spread of the palace walls that were surrounded in their turn by the city of Peking, lay the goal they had come so far to seek, the Jewel Tree of the Princess of China. Now, like a general planning his campaign, Chris lay looking down at the high angular walls, thinking of how he would gain entry.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000004_000001|He had given much thought to what he considered would be the last dangerous section of the journey, and after listening to what his master said through the shell, was permitted to take amos on this stage of the voyage.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000004_000002|It was reasoned if something happened to Chris, amos might be able to carry out their mission by himself.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000005_000000|The boys had come to Peking on camel back, a camel made from the magic rope.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000005_000001|As amos had never seen a real camel, he thought the rope animal quite natural, and as remarkable a creature as a real one.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000005_000002|Chris took care to make it or disentangle it out of Amos's sight, and so many were the strange and wonderful things to be seen, that amos had no time to concern himself over the reality of a camel.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000006_000000|The arid countryside was blanched by the excessive heat.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000006_000001|Flies droned over the dates and figs that the boys pulled from their pockets to eat.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000006_000002|amos wriggled with excitement as he pointed out details to Chris.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000000|"Chris!
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000001|Look at that procession going in the big gate!
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000002|All those pigtailed gentlemen dressed in embroidered coats.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000004|No, I'd sooner have the black satin one with the dragon in red and yellow!" He looked again more closely.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000005|"Or the one with the peacock in green and purple.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000006|Which would you sooner have?"
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000000|Chris paid little attention to Amos's exclamations.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000001|Leaning on his elbows and looking at the scene below, his mind worked busily on these last vital problems.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000002|But amos was not waiting for an answer.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000003|His mind was on the present moment and the present scene, forgetful of what lay ahead of them, a few hours away.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000004|He chattered on.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000009_000000|"I like their funny black hats and droopy mustaches.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000009_000001|Why don't they look like us, Chris?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000009_000002|And then, "Who all's in the curtained stretcher they're carrying?"
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000011_000000|"It's a palanquin, amos.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000011_000001|They carry dignitaries in them."
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000012_000000|"Hate to be a dignitary in all this heat," amos said, unenviously. "What are they doing now?" he enquired, and both boys parted the prickly pine needles to look out and down.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000013_000000|The leader of the procession rapped three times on the great gate with a gold staff.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000013_000001|Sentinels and guards came forward, walking on the broad gate top, and after talking with the members of the procession, turned to give an order.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000015_000000|Gaily dressed trumpeters with dragon masks on the visors of their helmets raised long brass trumpets.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000015_000003|Sixteen men came into sight, eight on either side, pushing wide the gates.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000000|"Gee!
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000001|Imagine the weight of those doors!" Chris murmured, and taking out his spyglass looked through it.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000002|"Golly Moses!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000003|"Take a look, amos.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000004|Those gates are made of bronze, nearly three feet thick!
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000005|And now they have the gates open, look at the depth of the walls.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000017_000000|The waiting procession, the richly dressed courtiers and curtained palanquin, moved inside and the gates were slowly pulled close by lines of men dragging at ropes and chains to shut them.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000017_000001|From within the main gate drifted out the sound, becoming fainter and fainter, of other trumpets sounding the order for the opening of other gates.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000018_000001|"Ten walls and ten gates-at the very least!
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000018_000002|'Course we don't know-" He rolled his worried eyes toward Chris, "We don't know whether those folks got to the Emperor or not.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000018_000003|Likely he's in behind a couple more walls, just to be on the safe side." He searched his friend's face. "How are we going past all that many guards and trumpets, Chris?
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000019_000000|amos need not have been so concerned, for Chris had a good plan.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000019_000001|But just at that moment the heat overcame Chris.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000019_000002|Putting his head down on his arms, he slept.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000020_000000|amos slept too, and it must have been several hours later that the rising sound of a crowd talking and laughing with excitement penetrated their sleep and brought them to consciousness.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000020_000001|For a moment they both lay rubbing their eyes and peering out.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000020_000002|Then they realized, by the growing crowd on either side of the palace gate and along the narrow street leading away from it, that someone of importance was about to come from the palace and parade through the streets of Peking.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000021_000001|Boys climbed upon one another's shoulders, teakwood stools were brought for the richer people to stand on, and along the street that led away to the right around the palace walls, Chris and amos could see embroidered silks hung from all the windows, and Chinese people in their best holiday clothes laughing excitedly.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000021_000002|All were looking toward the gates, and at last, from far within, even more distantly than before, came the first sound of trumpets.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000021_000003|These had a sweeter, clearer sound than those the boys had heard at noon.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000022_000000|"Never heard a sweeter note," amos said.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000025_000000|The trumpeters atop the great outer gates were now differently dressed, and there were not two but a dozen lined along the deep palace walls.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000025_000002|As they were blown, the final gates were pushed aside.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000000|A long procession emerged of such fantasy and variety of color that the two boys were spellbound.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000001|Elephants and camels, llamas and horses, all richly caparisoned in Eastern silks, passed along with their riders.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000002|Guards with curved swords and many thonged whips formed a double hedge between those in the procession and the bystanders.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000003|Still others led leopards and black panthers on chains as an added protection to those they guarded.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000004|Palanquin after palanquin passed by, but still the crowd seemed to be waiting for something.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000028_000000|Then, as the silver trumpets continued their sweet lingering notes, a murmur arose from the crowd.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000028_000001|Four lines of youths preceded a palanquin more finely decked than the rest, and the murmur rose.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000028_000002|After it came four lines of Chinese girls, fanning the air with peacock fans on long staves, fans of white egret feathers, and ostrich plumes dyed a yellow gold.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000030_000000|"amos!" Chris breathed, "That color!
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000030_000001|Yellow is the royal color of China!"
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000031_000001|Made of silver and rock crystal, studded with diamonds and pearls, and hung about with sheer curtains of embroidered yellow silk, the palanquin belonged without doubt to a young girl of the royal house.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000031_000002|As it appeared under the high arch of the outer gate, a roar of joy and greeting arose from the waiting crowd and with one accord every man bowed low, covering his eyes with the wide sleeve of his left arm.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000032_000001|The thin silk was transparent enough under the strong focus of the glass, and behind it Chris could perceive, leaning delicately against silk cushions, a Chinese girl as beautiful as a dream.
train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000032_000002|Her slightly uptilted eyes were large and dark, her skin put a magnolia flower to shame, her mouth was lifted in a charming smile, and her long exquisite fingers held a spray of jeweled flowers.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000001_000000|Chris put down his spyglass and the two boys, hidden on the piny knoll, watched the procession out of sight.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000002_000000|"I'm supposed to take something from her," Chris said with his eyes sparkling, "but I know now what I'm going to give her back in return. I feel sort of sorry for that girl," he added thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000003_000001|"What all comes next, and have we some more of those dates?"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000004_000000|Chris passed him some.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000004_000001|"We have to wait until dusk anyway," he said, his voice abstracted, "and by the look of the light that won't be long."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000005_000001|Too precipitous on which to build houses, it rose far above the surrounding roofs of Peking.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000005_000002|The green and scarlet of curved tiles spread under the boys' sight like a curling sea.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000006_000000|Listening and watching, the boys gathered by the silver trumpet notes that the Princess and her retinue had re-entered the palace walls by another gate.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000000|Thinking about it Chris mused: I wonder if that first palanquin held someone she's to marry?
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000001|It could be.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000003|I can't imagine a woman leaving a thing like that behind.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000004|He paused, remembering.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000005|She held a spray of jeweled flowers in her hand, maybe off the Tree, and I never saw anything like it.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000006|Well, can't do a thing until dusk comes down.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000008_000000|The evening was not long in coming, and Chris, who had been sitting cross legged under the little crooked pines, looked across with great concern to where amos lay on his back, dozing.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000009_000000|I can't take him along, Chris thought, and I can't leave him alone, if I should get caught.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000009_000001|What in the world do I do?
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000010_000000|Then, remembering the bag of magic "odds and ends," Chris put his hand inside it and drew out a small folded piece of silk and netting.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000010_000001|On it a piece of paper, like a label, showed mr Wicker's fine script.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000010_000002|Chris looked closer and read: "Strike three."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000011_000000|"Strike three."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000012_000000|Chris held the folded object in his hand, and then glanced at amos. amos slept.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000012_000001|Going softly out of the pine grove to a narrow ledge of rock where he was out of sight, Chris put the object down and said: "Strike three."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000013_000000|Nothing happened.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000013_000001|The object remained an object.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000013_000002|Then, suddenly understanding, Chris struck the stone ledge three times.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000000|At once the folded object began to unfold itself and to puff itself up like a little mushroom.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000001|In a matter of seconds, Chris could see what it was becoming, and before he could wink ten times, a balloon with a basket hanging from it, quite big enough for two boys, hung swaying in the air.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000002|Chris examined it with pleasure and then struck the ground three times again.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000003|The balloon gently collapsed and refolded itself, basket and all, into its original neat shape.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000016_000000|"Now, if that isn't handy!" Chris exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000017_000000|"amos!" he said, shaking his friend's shoulder, "it's time for me to go.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000017_000001|Are you awake?"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000018_000000|amos blinked a few times and said he thought so.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000019_000000|"Then listen to me," Chris told him earnestly, "and listen hard!" amos sat up more alertly.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000001|"Well, I don't know how you could, myself.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000002|But don't you cross any bridges until you come to them.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000003|Look." He held out the folded balloon.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000004|"If I'm not back by two sunups from now-I may have to hide all during tomorrow-if I'm not back by then, put this package out beyond the trees in the clearing.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000005|That's very important.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000006|You've got that?"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000024_000000|"I haven't got anything but a few old dried up fruits," amos pouted. "That's all."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000025_000001|"I mean, do you understand that much?"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000026_000000|amos brightened at once and broke into a broad grin.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000000|"Oh yes, of course.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000001|Why didn't you say so in the first place?
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000002|You said, put the package out in the clear.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000003|Where's that, on this tippy top of a hill?" amos asked, looking about.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000028_000000|"The ledge near where we climbed up.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000028_000001|That's big enough," Chris reminded him.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000029_000000|"Oh yes," amos said, looking wise.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000030_000000|"Well," Chris took up again, "you put the package on the ledge and strike the ground three times-"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000031_000000|"Like this?" And before Chris could stop him, amos had struck the earth beside him twice before Chris seized his hand in mid-air.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000032_000002|If someone comes after you, or if I don't come back.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000033_000000|amos raised his right hand looking very solemn.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000033_000001|"I promise," he said. "Only," he added, looking bewildered and already somewhat forlorn, "what happens when I do hit three times?"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000035_000000|"A what?" amos stuck his head forward, trying hard to understand.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000036_000001|Oh."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000037_000000|Chris stopped and stared at amos.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000037_000001|Perhaps balloons had not yet been invented.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000037_000002|How very confusing!
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000038_000000|"It's something that will hold you up in the air.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000038_000001|There's a basket for you to sit in-"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000039_000002|Not me."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000040_000000|Chris was becoming exasperated.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000040_000001|He had important things to do.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000000|"Look, amos.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000001|If you have to use it, you'll be in such a bad fix that being up in the air will seem like the very best thing that could happen.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000002|Stop running.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000003|I'll be back-I hope."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000042_000000|He turned away toward the ledge and clearing.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000043_000000|"And now, wish me luck, and stay here and wait for me.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000043_000001|Don't follow me now, or watch, or I might fail."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000044_000000|amos jumped up from the pine covered ground.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000044_000001|"Oh, Chris!" he cried, his voice sharp with distress, "can't I go?
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000044_000002|You might get hurt. There's no telling what could happen if you're all alone!"
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000000|"No," he said after a long moment.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000001|"Better not.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000002|But I'd sure like to, amos.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000003|Now don't lose that package.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000004|It's your escape.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000005|Wish me luck."
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000047_000000|amos clasped his hand, and then, rushing off, dashed back again.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000000|"Here, Chris.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000001|Our fruits.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000002|Better not to eat strange food in this foreigny place.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000003|Good luck," he added.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000049_000000|Chris stuffed the dried fruit in his pocket.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000049_000001|amos turned back into the darkening pine knoll, and Chris pushed his way out to the narrow steep ledge, hanging high above the roofs of Peking.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000000|Chris uncoiled the magic rope from around his waist, and standing as far out on the rock ledge as he dared, in order to have the greatest possible freedom of movement, he attempted for the first time to draw an eagle in the air with the rope.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000001|It was a complicated, fast maneuver.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000003|Its wings were not wide enough, its back very insecure to look at.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000004|In short, Chris knew, it was a total failure.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000051_000000|He tried again, racing against the oncoming darkness, and this time he succeeded, although, when he pulled it close and straddled the body of the magic bird, his heart was in his throat that it might unfurl itself, become just a rope, and hurl him to his death far below.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000052_000000|But this second eagle seemed secure enough.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000052_000001|Chris pressed his hands on the wings spread out on either side, with a jolt they flapped, and the boy's strange conveyance moved somewhat unsteadily through the air.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000053_000000|Chris, frightened but resolute, found that by touching the head of the bird in the direction he wanted to go, the magic eagle would turn, and after a few moments to test out his new method of travel, Chris coasted over the gaily tiled roofs as he hunted for something.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000055_000000|Peking at that time had many palaces.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000055_000001|Wealthy Chinese and people of title and family owned beautiful houses set in terraced gardens surrounded by parks and ancient trees.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000055_000002|Somewhere, Chris had heard of this and remembered it, and now in the dusk that was nearly night, the eagle carried him silently over the city as he looked for what he wanted to find.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000056_000001|Pools of water reflected the first stars among their lilypads.
train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000056_000002|The shaded walks and lawns were deserted at that hour.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000002_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000021_000001|They resolved to build one, opened the subscription at once, and appointed a committee to carry the work forward.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000024_000000|As we journeyed on down the Platte, we passed thrifty ranches and thriving little towns.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000024_000004|All along the way was a spirit of good cheer and hearty welcome.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000025_000002|Here the Laramie River and the Platte meet.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000029_000002|One of the old barracks, three hundred feet long, was in good preservation in nineteen o six, being utilized by the owner, Joseph Wilde, for a store, post office, hotel, and residence.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000033_000003|Tradition says: "A trapper named Scott, while returning to the States, was robbed and stripped by the Indians.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000033_000004|He crawled to these Bluffs and there famished.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000033_000007|This occurred prior to eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000035_000000|The tire bore this simple inscription: "Rebecca Winters, aged fifty years." The hoofs of stock tramped the sunken grave and trod it into dust, but the arch of the tire remained to defy the strength of thoughtless hands that would have removed it.
train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000040_000000|About twenty miles from Scott's Bluff stands old Chimney Rock.
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000002_000000|A BIT OF BAD LUCK
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000003_000004|I finally stopped, put him on the off side, gave him the long end of the yoke, and tied his head back with the halter strap to the chain; but to no purpose, for he pulled by the head very heavily.
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000003_000005|I finally unyoked, gave him a quart of lard, a gill of vinegar, and a handful of sugar, but all to no purpose, for he soon fell down and in two hours was dead."
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000007_000003|And yet, am I sure that at some points I did not abuse him?
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000013_000000|But one cow would not go at all!
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000016_000000|"What is this cow worth to you?"
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000017_000000|"Thirty dollars."
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000019_000000|The fact gradually became apparent that the loss of that fine ox was almost irreparable.
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000021_000000|Yes, the ox has passed, for in all Nebraska I was unable to find even one yoke.
train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000036_000004|Dave and Dandy made good team mates.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000009_000001|Clearly he was one of those invaluable subordinates whom to possess is a legitimate cause of boasting.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000001|Not that dr Monygham was a prodigal either of laughter or of words.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000002|He was bitterly taciturn when at his best.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000003|At his worst people feared the open scornfulness of his tongue.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000004|Only mrs Gould could keep his unbelief in men's motives within due bounds; but even to her (on an occasion not connected with Nostromo, and in a tone which for him was gentle), even to her, he had said once, "Really, it is most unreasonable to demand that a man should think of other people so much better than he is able to think of himself."
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000000|And mrs Gould had hastened to drop the subject.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000001|There were strange rumours of the English doctor.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000002|Years ago, in the time of Guzman Bento, he had been mixed up, it was whispered, in a conspiracy which was betrayed and, as people expressed it, drowned in blood.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000003|His hair had turned grey, his hairless, seamed face was of a brick dust colour; the large check pattern of his flannel shirt and his old stained Panama hat were an established defiance to the conventionalities of Sulaco.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000004|Had it not been for the immaculate cleanliness of his apparel he might have been taken for one of those shiftless Europeans that are a moral eyesore to the respectability of a foreign colony in almost every exotic part of the world.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000005|The young ladies of Sulaco, adorning with clusters of pretty faces the balconies along the Street of the Constitution, when they saw him pass, with his limping gait and bowed head, a short linen jacket drawn on carelessly over the flannel check shirt, would remark to each other, "Here is the Senor doctor going to call on Dona Emilia.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000009|He was old, ugly, learned-and a little "loco"--mad, if not a bit of a sorcerer, as the common people suspected him of being.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000010|The little white jacket was in reality a concession to mrs Gould's humanizing influence.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000011|The doctor, with his habit of sceptical, bitter speech, had no other means of showing his profound respect for the character of the woman who was known in the country as the English Senora.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000012|He presented this tribute very seriously indeed; it was no trifle for a man of his habits.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000013|mrs Gould felt that, too, perfectly.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000014|She would never have thought of imposing upon him this marked show of deference.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000000|She kept her old Spanish house (one of the finest specimens in Sulaco) open for the dispensation of the small graces of existence.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000002|She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000004|She would have protested that she had done nothing for them, with a low laugh and a surprised widening of her grey eyes, had anybody told her how convincingly she was remembered on the edge of the snow line above Sulaco.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000005|But directly, with a little capable air of setting her wits to work, she would have found an explanation.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000006|"Of course, it was such a surprise for these boys to find any sort of welcome here.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000008|I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick."
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000013_000000|She was always sorry for homesick people.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000014_000000|Born in the country, as his father before him, spare and tall, with a flaming moustache, a neat chin, clear blue eyes, auburn hair, and a thin, fresh, red face, Charles Gould looked like a new arrival from over the sea.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000014_000001|His grandfather had fought in the cause of independence under Bolivar, in that famous English legion which on the battlefield of Carabobo had been saluted by the great Liberator as Saviours of his country.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000014_000004|Thus, at least, the priests explained its disappearance to the barefooted multitude that streamed in, awestruck, to gaze at the hole in the side of the ugly box of bricks before the great altar.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000015_000003|His accent had never been English; but there was something so indelible in all these ancestral Goulds-liberators, explorers, coffee planters, merchants, revolutionists-of Costaguana, that he, the only representative of the third generation in a continent possessing its own style of horsemanship, went on looking thoroughly English even on horseback.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000016_000001|The other Carlos, turning off to the left with a rapid clatter of hoofs on the disjointed pavement-Don Carlos Gould, in his English clothes, looked as incongruous, but much more at home than the kingly cavalier reining in his steed on the pedestal above the sleeping leperos, with his marble arm raised towards the marble rim of a plumed hat.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000000|The weather stained effigy of the mounted king, with its vague suggestion of a saluting gesture, seemed to present an inscrutable breast to the political changes which had robbed it of its very name; but neither did the other horseman, well known to the people, keen and alive on his well shaped, slate coloured beast with a white eye, wear his heart on the sleeve of his English coat.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000001|His mind preserved its steady poise as if sheltered in the passionless stability of private and public decencies at home in Europe.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000003|In the early days of her Costaguana life, the little lady used to clench her hands with exasperation at not being able to take the public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000004|She saw in them a comedy of naive pretences, but hardly anything genuine except her own appalled indignation.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000005|Charles, very quiet and twisting his long moustaches, would decline to discuss them at all.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000006|Once, however, he observed to her gently-
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000000|"My dear, you seem to forget that I was born here." These few words made her pause as if they had been a sudden revelation.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000001|Perhaps the mere fact of being born in the country did make a difference.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000002|She had a great confidence in her husband; it had always been very great.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000003|He had struck her imagination from the first by his unsentimentalism, by that very quietude of mind which she had erected in her thought for a sign of perfect competency in the business of living.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000004|Don Jose Avellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had represented his country at several European Courts (and had suffered untold indignities as a state prisoner in the time of the tyrant Guzman Bento), used to declare in Dona Emilia's drawing room that Carlos had all the English qualities of character with a truly patriotic heart.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000000|mrs Gould, raising her eyes to her husband's thin, red and tan face, could not detect the slightest quiver of a feature at what he must have heard said of his patriotism.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000001|Perhaps he had just dismounted on his return from the mine; he was English enough to disregard the hottest hours of the day.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000002|Basilio, in a livery of white linen and a red sash, had squatted for a moment behind his heels to unstrap the heavy, blunt spurs in the patio; and then the Senor Administrator would go up the staircase into the gallery.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000003|Rows of plants in pots, ranged on the balustrade between the pilasters of the arches, screened the corredor with their leaves and flowers from the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the shifting of light and shadow on the flagstones.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000020_000001|Don Jose chose to come over at tea time because the English rite at Dona Emilia's house reminded him of the time he lived in London as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of saint James.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000020_000002|He did not like tea; and, usually, rocking his American chair, his neat little shiny boots crossed on the foot rest, he would talk on and on with a sort of complacent virtuosity wonderful in a man of his age, while he held the cup in his hands for a long time.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000020_000003|His close cropped head was perfectly white; his eyes coalblack.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000021_000000|On seeing Charles Gould step into the sala he would nod provisionally and go on to the end of the oratorial period.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000021_000001|Only then he would say-
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000022_000001|Always the true English activity.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000022_000002|No?
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000022_000003|What?"
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000000|Then giving up the empty cup into his young friend's hand, extended with a smile, he continued to expatiate upon the patriotic nature of the San Tome mine for the simple pleasure of talking fluently, it seemed, while his reclining body jerked backwards and forwards in a rocking chair of the sort exported from the United States.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000001|The ceiling of the largest drawing room of the Casa Gould extended its white level far above his head.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000002|The loftiness dwarfed the mixture of heavy, straight backed Spanish chairs of brown wood with leathern seats, and European furniture, low, and cushioned all over, like squat little monsters gorged to bursting with steel springs and horsehair.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000003|There were knick knacks on little tables, mirrors let into the wall above marble consoles, square spaces of carpet under the two groups of armchairs, each presided over by a deep sofa; smaller rugs scattered all over the floor of red tiles; three windows from the ceiling down to the ground, opening on a balcony, and flanked by the perpendicular folds of the dark hangings.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000004|The stateliness of ancient days lingered between the four high, smooth walls, tinted a delicate primrose colour; and mrs Gould, with her little head and shining coils of hair, sitting in a cloud of muslin and lace before a slender mahogany table, resembled a fairy posed lightly before dainty philtres dispensed out of vessels of silver and porcelain.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000001|Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000002|Whole tribes of Indians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was abandoned, since with this primitive method it had ceased to make a profitable return, no matter how many corpses were thrown into its maw.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000003|Then it became forgotten.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000004|It was rediscovered after the War of Independence.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000005|An English company obtained the right to work it, and found so rich a vein that neither the exactions of successive governments, nor the periodical raids of recruiting officers upon the population of paid miners they had created, could discourage their perseverance.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000009|The mine, which by every law, international, human, and divine, reverts now to the Government as national property, shall remain closed till the sword drawn for the sacred defence of liberal principles has accomplished its mission of securing the happiness of our beloved country."
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000001|What advantage that Government had expected from the spoliation, it is impossible to tell now.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000003|But afterwards another Government bethought itself of that valuable asset.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000004|It was an ordinary Costaguana Government-the fourth in six years-but it judged of its opportunities sanely.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000006|The father of Charles Gould, for a long time one of the most wealthy merchants of Costaguana, had already lost a considerable part of his fortune in forced loans to the successive Governments.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000007|He was a man of calm judgment, who never dreamed of pressing his claims; and when, suddenly, the perpetual concession of the San Tome mine was offered to him in full settlement, his alarm became extreme.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000008|He was versed in the ways of Governments.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000009|Indeed, the intention of this affair, though no doubt deeply meditated in the closet, lay open on the surface of the document presented urgently for his signature.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000027_000000|mr Gould, senior, defended himself from this fatal favour with many arguments and entreaties, but without success.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000027_000003|It was no longer an abandoned mine; it was a wild, inaccessible, and rocky gorge of the Sierra, where vestiges of charred timber, some heaps of smashed bricks, and a few shapeless pieces of rusty iron could have been found under the matted mass of thorny creepers covering the ground.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000027_000004|mr Gould, senior, did not desire the perpetual possession of that desolate locality; in fact, the mere vision of it arising before his mind in the still watches of the night had the power to exasperate him into hours of hot and agitated insomnia.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000001|Now, after reaching his exalted position, that politician had proclaimed his intention to repay evil with good to Senor Gould-the poor man.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000003|Marta, in a soft and implacable voice, and with such malicious glances that mr Gould's best friends advised him earnestly to attempt no bribery to get the matter dropped.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000004|It would have been useless.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000006|She was good-natured, and her despondency was genuine.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000008|The friend of mr Gould, charged with the delicate mission, used to say afterwards that she was the only honest person closely or remotely connected with the Government he had ever met.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000009|"No go," she had said with a cavalier, husky intonation which was natural to her, and using turns of expression more suitable to a child of parents unknown than to the orphaned daughter of a general officer.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000010|"No; it's no go.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000013|Ah! zut!
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000029_000000|For a moment, biting her carmine lip, she deplored inwardly the tyranny of the rigid principles governing the sale of her influence in high places.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000000|After such a warning there was nothing for it but to sign and pay. mr Gould had swallowed the pill, and it was as though it had been compounded of some subtle poison that acted directly on his brain.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000001|He became at once mine ridden, and as he was well read in light literature it took to his mind the form of the Old Man of the Sea fastened upon his shoulders.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000004|His position in Costaguana was no worse than before.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000005|But man is a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000006|Everybody around him was being robbed by the grotesque and murderous bands that played their game of governments and revolutions after the death of Guzman Bento.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000007|His experience had taught him that, however short the plunder might fall of their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to suffer itself to be baffled by the want of a pretext.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000009|mr Gould knew that very well, and, armed with resignation, had waited for better times.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000010|But to be robbed under the forms of legality and business was intolerable to his imagination.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000011|mr Gould, the father, had one fault in his sagacious and honourable character: he attached too much importance to form.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000012|It is a failing common to mankind, whose views are tinged by prejudices.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000013|There was for him in that affair a malignancy of perverted justice which, by means of a moral shock, attacked his vigorous physique.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000014|"It will end by killing me," he used to affirm many times a day.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000015|And, in fact, since that time he began to suffer from fever, from liver pains, and mostly from a worrying inability to think of anything else.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000016|The Finance Minister could have formed no conception of the profound subtlety of his revenge.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000017|Even mr Gould's letters to his fourteen year old boy Charles, then away in England for his education, came at last to talk of practically nothing but the mine.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000018|He groaned over the injustice, the persecution, the outrage of that mine; he occupied whole pages in the exposition of the fatal consequences attaching to the possession of that mine from every point of view, with every dismal inference, with words of horror at the apparently eternal character of that curse.
train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000020|He implored his son never to return to Costaguana, never to claim any part of his inheritance there, because it was tainted by the infamous Concession; never to touch it, never to approach it, to forget that America existed, and pursue a mercantile career in Europe.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000004_000005|They encamped in the fields at night, because the habit they indulged in of stealing everything for which they had a fancy, caused them to fear being disturbed in the towns.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000004_000006|It was not long, however, before many of them were arrested and put to death for theft, when the rest speedily decamped.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000006_000003|However, whether because a considerable number remained on the road, or because they had been reinforced by others of the same tribe during the year, a troop of fifty men, accompanied by a number of hideous women and filthy children, made their appearance in the neighbourhood of Augsburg.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000006_000004|These vagabonds gave out that they were exiles from Lower Egypt, and pretended to know the art of predicting coming events.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000007_000003|Few men, however, left the house of the so-called Duke of Egypt without having their purses stolen, and but few women escaped without having the skirts of their dresses cut.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000007_000004|The Egyptian women walked about the town in groups of six or seven, and whilst some were talking to the townspeople, telling them their fortunes, or bartering in shops, one of their number would lay her hands on anything which was within reach.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000007_000005|So many robberies were committed in this way, that the magistrates of the town and the ecclesiastical authorities forbad the inhabitants from visiting the Egyptians' camp, or from having any intercourse with them, under penalty of excommunication and of a fine of fifty livres.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000009_000001|They also modified their original tale, and stated that they were descendants of the Egyptians who refused hospitality to the Holy Virgin and to saint Joseph during their flight into Egypt: they also declared that, in consequence of this crime, God had doomed their race to perpetual misery and exile.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000000|Five years later we find them in the neighbourhood of Paris.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000009|What was worse, either by magic, by Satanic agency, or by sleight of hand, they managed to empty people's purses whilst talking to them....
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000010|So, at least, every one said.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000011|At last accounts respecting them reached the ears of the Bishop of Paris.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000012|He went to them with a Franciscan friar, called Le Petit Jacobin, who, by the bishop's order, delivered an earnest address to them, and excommunicated all those who had anything to do with them, or who had their fortunes told.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000013|He further advised the gipsies to go away, and, on the festival of Notre Dame, they departed for Pontoise."
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000013_000001|Suffice it to say that their quarrels with the authorities, or the inhabitants of the countries which had the misfortune to be periodically visited by them, have left numerous traces in history.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000014_000000|On the seventh of November, fourteen fifty three, from sixty to eighty gipsies, coming from Courtisolles, arrived at the entrance of the town of Cheppe, near Chalons sur Marne.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000014_000002|During their unwilling retreat, they were pursued by many of the inhabitants of the town, one of whom killed a gipsy named Martin de la Barre: the murderer, however, obtained the King's pardon.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000015_000000|In fifteen thirty two, at Pleinpalais, a suburb of Geneva, some rascals from among a band of gipsies, consisting of upwards of three hundred in number, fell upon several of the officers who were stationed to prevent their entering the town.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000015_000002|The gipsies retired to the monastery of the Augustin friars, in which they fortified themselves: the bourgeois besieged them, and would have committed summary justice on them, but the authorities interfered, and some twenty of the vagrants were arrested, but they sued for mercy, and were discharged.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000017_000001|The whole of them were killed, with the exception of their chief, who was taken prisoner and brought before the Parliament of Bordeaux, and ordered to be hung.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000017_000003|On the twenty first of July, sixteen twenty two, the same magistrates ordered the gipsies to leave the parish of Eysines within twenty four hours, under penalty of the lash.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000018_000000|It was not often that the gipsies used violence or openly resisted authority; they more frequently had recourse to artifice and cunning in order to attain their end.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000002|In this difficulty, they pretended that one of them had committed a crime, and had been condemned to be hung a quarter of a league from the village, where they betook themselves with all their goods.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000003|The man, at the foot of the gibbet, asked for a confessor, and they went to fetch the cure.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000004|He, at first, refused to go, but his parishioners compelled him.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000007|I expected he would appeal." Immediately they packed up, secured the prisoner, and were far enough away from the scene before the cure re-entered his house.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000000|Tallemant relates another good trick.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000002|The butcher then went away; whereupon the gipsy pulled the sheep from a sack into which he had put it, and substituted for it a child belonging to his tribe.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000003|He then ran after the butcher, and said, "Give me five livres, and you shall have the sack into the bargain." The butcher paid him the money, and went away.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000004|When he got home he opened the sack, and was much astonished when he saw a little boy jump out of it, who, in an instant, caught up the sack and ran off.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000005|"Never was a poor man so thoroughly hoaxed as this butcher," says Tallemant des Reaux.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000003|Those who are well armed and mounted he sends off with a good almanac, on which are marked all the fairs, and they continually change their dress and their horses.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000004|When they take up their quarters in any village they steal very little in its immediate vicinity, but in the neighbouring parishes they rob and plunder in the most daring manner.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000005|If they find a sum of money they give notice to the captain, and make a rapid flight from the place.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000006|They coin counterfeit money, and put it into circulation.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000008|When they buy food they pay for it in good money the first time, as they are held in such distrust; but, when they are about to leave a neighbourhood, they again buy something, for which they tender false coin, receiving the change in good money.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000009|In harvest time all doors are shut against them; nevertheless they contrive, by means of picklocks and other instruments, to effect an entrance into houses, when they steal linen, cloaks, silver, and any other movable article which they can lay their hands on.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000010|They give a strict account of everything to their captain, who takes his share of all they get, except of what they earn by fortune telling.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000024_000000|After having forbidden them, with a threat of six years at the galleys, to sojourn in Spain, Charles the fifth ordered them to leave Flanders under penalty of death.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000024_000001|In fifteen forty five, a gipsy who had infringed the sentence of banishment was condemned by the Court of Utrecht to be flogged till the blood appeared, to have his nostrils slit, his hair removed, his beard shaved off, and to be banished for life.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000025_000002|The answer seems to us to be clear.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000025_000003|Receiving into their ranks all those whom crime, the fear of punishment, an uneasy conscience, or the charm of a roaming life, continually threw in their path, they made use of them either to find their way into countries of which they were ignorant, or to commit robberies which would otherwise have been impracticable.
train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000025_000004|Themselves adepts in all sorts of bad practices, they were not slow to form an alliance with profligate characters who sometimes worked in concert with them, and sometimes alone, and who always framed the model for their own organization from that of the gipsies."
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000004_000004|In this place I found a mud house, half buried, very shaky from old age and rottenness, and only eight metres square; but in which, nevertheless, some fifty families are living, who have the charge of a large number of children, many of whom are stolen or illegitimate....
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000005_000003|Some came and paid him the tribute which was required of them by the statutes of the craft; others rendered him an account of what they had done, and what they had earned during the year.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000005_000004|When they had executed their work badly, he ordered them to be punished, either corporally or pecuniarily, according to the gravity of their offences.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000005_000005|When he had not himself properly governed his people, he was dethroned, and a successor was appointed by acclamation.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000008_000003|We will therefore only mention those which were more especially Italian.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000008_000007|They asserted that these treasures could not be discovered without danger, except by means of fastings and offerings, which they and their brethren could alone make, in consideration of which they entered into a bargain, and received a certain sum of money from the owners.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000008_000014|In giving a description, therefore, of the mendicity practised in these two countries during the Middle Ages, we are sure to be representing what it was in other parts of Europe.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000011_000003|On this account they were looked upon with the utmost horror by the infidels, who dreaded more their savage ferocity than the valour of the Crusaders.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000012_000001|He was killed before Sandwich, in twelve seventeen.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000012_000004|We know that this charming poet, who was at the same time a most expert thief, narrowly escaped hanging on two occasions.
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000014_000000|The meaning of this doggrel, which is somewhat broad, may be rendered-"He dines well who escapes without paying a penny, and who bids farewell to the innkeeper by wiping his nose on the tablecloth."
train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000016_000000|Brantome relates that King Charles the ninth. had the curiosity to wish to "know how the cut purses performed their arts with so much skill and dexterity," and begged Captain La Chambre to introduce to him, on the occasion of a banquet and a ball, the cleverest cut purses, giving them full liberty to exhibit their skill.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000001_000000|THREE months had gone by since the Sunday morning when dr Bruce came into his pulpit with the message of the new discipleship.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000001_000001|They were three months of great excitement in Nazareth Avenue Church. Never before had reverend Calvin Bruce realized how deep the feeling of his members flowed.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000001_000002|He humbly confessed that the appeal he had made met with an unexpected response from men and women who, like Felicia, were hungry for something in their lives that the conventional type of church membership and fellowship had failed to give them.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000002_000000|But dr Bruce was not yet satisfied for himself.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000003_000000|"You know what I have come in this evening for?" the Bishop was saying after the friends had been talking some time about the results of the pledge with the Nazareth Avenue people.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000004_000000|dr Bruce looked over at the Bishop and shook his head.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000007_000000|"Edward," dr Bruce spoke abruptly, "I have not yet been able to satisfy myself, either, in obeying my promise.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000007_000001|But I have at last decided on my course.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000007_000002|In order to follow it I shall be obliged to resign from Nazareth Avenue Church."
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000009_000000|dr Bruce turned and walked up to his friend.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000009_000001|They were both laboring under a repressed excitement.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000003|I have had a beautiful house to live in, the most expensive food, clothing and physical pleasures.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000004|I have been able to go abroad at least a dozen times, and have enjoyed for years the beautiful companionship of art and letters and music and all the rest, of the very best.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000006|And I have been unable to silence the question of late: 'What have I suffered for the sake of Christ?' Paul was told what great things he must suffer for the sake of his Lord.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000008|Where has my suffering come in?
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000011|I cannot endure this any longer.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000013|I have not been walking in His steps.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000013_000000|The Bishop had risen now and walked over to the window.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000000|"Calvin, this is a terrible city in which we live!
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000001|Its misery, its sin, its selfishness, appall my heart.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000005|Rather, I have followed the conventional soft habits of my position and have lived in the society of the rich, refined, aristocratic members of my congregations.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000006|Where has the suffering come in?
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000008|Do you know, Calvin," he turned abruptly toward his friend, "I have been tempted of late to lash myself with a scourge. If I had lived in Martin Luther's time I should have bared my back to a self inflicted torture."
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000015_000000|dr Bruce was very pale.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000000|dr Bruce spoke at last: "Edward, I do not need to say that you have expressed my feelings also.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000001|I have been in a similar position for years.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000002|My life has been one of comparative luxury.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000004|But I cannot say that I have suffered any for Jesus.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000005|That verse in peter constantly haunts me: 'Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that ye should follow His steps.' I have lived in luxury.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000009|The sin and misery of this great city have beaten like waves against the stone walls of my church and of this house in which I live, and I have hardly heeded them, the walls have been so thick.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000010|I have reached a point where I cannot endure this any longer. I am not condemning the Church.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000011|I love her.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000012|I am not forsaking the Church.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000013|I believe in her mission and have no desire to destroy. Least of all, in the step I am about to take do I desire to be charged with abandoning the Christian fellowship.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000015|In this action I judge no other minister and pass no criticism on others' discipleship.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000016|But I feel as you do.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000018|And I know that to do that I must sever my immediate connection with Nazareth Avenue Church.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000019|I do not see any other way for myself to suffer for His sake as I feel that I ought to suffer."
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000017_000000|Again that sudden silence fell over those two men.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000017_000001|It was no ordinary action they were deciding.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000018_000000|"What is your plan?"
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000018_000002|The Bishop's face grew in glory now every day.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000019_000001|My wife is fully in accord with me.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000021_000001|He was exultant.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000021_000002|So was dr Bruce from the same cause.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000022_000004|And in this particular case it was the nearest approach to anything that would satisfy the hunger of these two men to suffer for Christ.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000023_000000|There had sprung up in them at the same time a longing that amounted to a passion, to get nearer the great physical poverty and spiritual destitution of the mighty city that throbbed around them.
train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000024_000002|That was what they had promised.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000004_000004|Those who went with him in making the promise breathed into the church the very breath of divine life, and are continuing that life giving work at this present time.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000005_000001|The Bishop one afternoon came out of the Settlement and walked around the block, intending to go on a visit to one of his new friends in the district.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000006_000001|There were two windows in the front, very clean, and that was remarkable to begin with.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000007_000000|"Felicia!" exclaimed the Bishop.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000009_000000|"Why, don't you know?
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000009_000001|These are the only clean windows in the block."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000011_000002|Although, to speak truth for him, he had no desire to go back to it.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000012_000000|"Well, dear Bishop," said Felicia, who had always called him so, "I knew how overwhelmed you were with your work.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000012_000005|I am an expert and I have a plan I want you to admire and develop.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000014_000001|You see, I thought I would get settled first and work out something, and then come with some real thing to offer.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000014_000002|I'm able to earn my own living now."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000015_000000|"You are?" the Bishop said a little incredulously.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000015_000001|"How?
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000015_000002|Making those things?"
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000016_000000|"Those things!" said Felicia with a show of indignation.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000018_000001|"You poor Bishop!
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000020_000001|This is the Bishop.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000023_000002|But you must come to the Settlement.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000023_000005|I begin to see what your plan is. You can be of infinite help to us.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000024_000001|"That is my gospel.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000024_000002|Shall I not follow it?"
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000025_000000|"Aye, Aye!
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000025_000001|You're right.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000026_000004|It was good.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000026_000005|It belonged to God.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000028_000001|It was a small but well equipped carpenter's shop.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000028_000003|He looked up as the two entered, and took off his cap.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000029_000000|"Miss Sterling, mr Stephen Clyde," said the Bishop.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000031_000000|"We have met before," said Felicia looking at Clyde frankly.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000033_000000|"Yes." Felicia hesitated.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000033_000001|"I am very glad to see you."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000034_000000|"Are you?"
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000034_000001|The flush of pleasure mounted to the young carpenter's forehead.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000034_000002|"You have had a great deal of trouble since-since-then," he said, and then he was afraid he had wounded her, or called up painful memories.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000035_000000|"Yes, and you also.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000035_000001|How is it that you're working here?"
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000000|"It is a long story, Miss Sterling.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000001|My father lost his money and I was obliged to go to work.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000002|A very good thing for me.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000003|The Bishop says I ought to be very grateful.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000004|I am.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000005|I am very happy now.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000006|I learned the trade, hoping some time to be of use, I am night clerk at one of the hotels.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000007|That Sunday morning when you took the pledge at Nazareth Avenue Church, I took it with the others."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000037_000000|"Did you?" said Felicia slowly.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000037_000001|"I am glad."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000040_000000|"Yes, 'back in the world,' dear Bishop.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000042_000000|"We were very good friends," added Felicia.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000043_000000|"But nothing more?" the Bishop ventured to ask.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000044_000000|Felicia's face glowed for an instant.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000044_000001|Then she looked her companion in the eyes frankly and answered: "Truly and truly, nothing more."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000045_000001|It was almost like the old pang over Camilla.
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000045_000004|Love is older than I am, and wiser."
train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000047_000000|"Hold up your hands, and be quick about it!" said the man with the pistol.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty three
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000002_000000|When Chris awoke he saw that amos had already stolen out of the cabin, for his hammock was rolled up and put away.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000002_000001|By the strength of the sun and the heat that seeped even through the boards of the ship, Chris judged that the morning was well advanced.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000003_000000|Dressing was rapid, for Chris, like the rest of the sailors in the tropic heat, wore only his breeches.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000004_000000|Running up to the bridge he was startled at first, at coming on deck, at the sudden green shade everywhere.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000004_000002|That side of the ship that could be seen from the sea through the narrow channel entrance had been completely covered with green.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000004_000003|The work was not yet finished, but most of the crew were sleeping during the hot hours, while a handful had volunteered to complete the job.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000006_000001|The deep water, with a white base of coral sand, flashed in emerald, turquoise, or sapphire blue.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000007_000000|He put these thoughts from his mind until the time came, and decided to tackle what was most pressing.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000010_000000|He paused, and Chris, looking up, saw that the Captain's gaze was fixed on Zachary Heigh.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000010_000002|It would be only a few minutes more before up he would jump once more to pace the deck or lean at the ship's rail.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000012_000001|Before the words could leave his mouth, he was interrupted by the appearance of red faced Ned Cilley.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000012_000002|Cheerful as a sand flea at the prospect of going ashore, Ned had come from his rest with a small company of the sailors to ask permission of the Captain if they might leave the ship.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000015_000000|Chris and amos were shoved along with their friends, Chris hiking up his breeches to cover the coil of the magic rope around his waist; the leathern bag hanging in plain sight about his neck.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000015_000003|Zachary Heigh, the Captain, and mr Finney were not to be found.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000016_000001|How could he change himself to a fish or other shape, unobserved?
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000018_000000|Chris knew the voice of the sailor was right, and was on the point of jumping into one of the dinghies, where they lay pulled up on the beach.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000019_000002|He wondered too if he could row over in time, or if he would be blown up with the ship.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000000|The boy had his hands on the scorching wood of a dinghy, his muscles tensed to thrust it into the waters of the cove, when out over the still harbor, jangling in the heat, came a prolonged and piercing scream.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000001|Hot as he was, Chris felt himself go cold at the sound.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000002|He knew instantly, although he had never heard it before, that this was the death cry of a man.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000003|The scream came a second time, terrified and despairing, and out over the water following it came a low, scattered rumble.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000021_000001|A babble of voices broke out, and one by one the boats were hastily launched, heading back to the ship, leaving Chris shaking and unnerved on the sand.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000021_000002|Over the water as brawny backs bent to the oars the words came floating back:
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000022_000000|"Someone's dead for sartin sure-"
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000026_000000|It was a little later that Chris remembered amos having taken his arm and led him into the shade, and of how sick he was-the heat and the scream, the fear, and a sense of having failed in warning the Captain, combining to churn his insides into a queasy place that violently rejected his pleasant breakfast of so short a time before.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000027_000000|Chris must have dozed, for when he came to himself the light had changed, and men were carrying a shapeless bundle wrapped in canvas to a grave dug in the sand.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000027_000001|Chris started up and joined the men gathered solemnly about the grave, and as he searched among them, knew a great sense of relief and joy when he saw, standing at the grave head, the Captain and mr Finney.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000027_000002|As Chris came up to them, Captain Blizzard was speaking, a Bible in his hand.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000028_000001|We harbored a viper, men, who meant to destroy our ship and cargo and leave us to who knows what fate?
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000029_000000|He paused again, but there was not a stir from his audience.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000029_000001|From under their dirty headkerchiefs or straggly unkempt hair, the men who knew no other life but the sea, no happiness or danger unconnected with it, never took their eyes from their captain.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000030_000001|Therefore, feeling as I do for my ship and my men, I cannot bring myself to read the holy words over this man who had no charity in his heart."
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000033_000001|It is not proper that he should be left without even a token of respect." He gestured with his plump hand to the Bible.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000035_000000|"I am the Resurrection and the Life-"
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000036_000000|But Chris, watching the disappearing backs of the Captain and first mate, was thinking what a curious and fortunate thing it was that the bales had fallen on Zachary just at the right time, and when there was not a ripple on the cove.
train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000037_000000|Chris watched the fat short man and the tall lean one go, resolution and anger still evident even in the set of their shoulders.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000000|Stir a quart of milk gradually into a quart of flour-put in a tea spoonful of salt, and seven beaten eggs.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000001|Drop them by the large spoonful into hot lard, and fry them till a very light brown color.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000002|They are the lightest fried in a great deal of fat, but less greasy if fried in just fat enough to keep them from sticking to the frying pan.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000003|Serve them up with liquid pudding sauce.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000005_000001|Make a batter of a quart of milk, a quart of flour, eight eggs-grate in the rind of two lemons, and the juice and apples.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000005_000002|Drop the batter by the spoonful into hot lard, taking care to have a slice of apple in each fritter.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000000|Pare tart, mellow apples-take out the cores with a small knife, and fill the holes with sugar.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000001|Make good pie crust-roll it out about two thirds of an inch thick, cut it into pieces just large enough to enclose one apple.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000002|Lay the apples on them, and close the crust tight over them-tie them up in small pieces of thick cloth, that has been well floured-put the dumplings in a pot of boiling water, and boil them an hour without any intermission-if allowed to stop boiling, they will be heavy.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000003|Serve them up with pudding sauce, or butter and sugar.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000013_000000|Pare thin the rind of fresh lemons, squeeze out the juice, and to a pint of it, when strained, put a pound and three quarters of sugar, and the rind of the lemons.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000013_000002|When cool, bottle, cork, and seal it tight, and keep it in a cool place.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000000|Squeeze out the juice of fresh oranges, and strain it.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000001|To a pint of the juice, put a pound and a half of sugar-set it on a moderate fire-when the sugar has dissolved, put in the peel of the oranges, and set the syrup where it will boil slowly for six or eight minutes-then strain it, till clear, through a flannel bag.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000002|The bag should not be squeezed while the syrup is passing through it, or it will not be clear.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000003|Bottle, cork, and seal it tight.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000016_000000|three hundred.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000000|Procure nice, high vine blackberries, that are perfectly ripe-the low vine blackberries will not answer for syrup, as they do not possess the medicinal properties of the high vine blackberries.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000002|Boil the whole together fifteen minutes-strain it, and when cool, add to each pint of syrup a wine glass of French brandy. Bottle, cork, and seal it-keep it in a cool place.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000003|This, mixed with cold water, in the proportion of a wine glass of syrup to two thirds of a tumbler of water, is an excellent remedy for the dysentery, and similar complaints.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000004|It is also a very pleasant summer beverage.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000019_000000|Wash and strain the berries, which should be perfectly ripe.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000019_000001|To a pint of juice, put a pint of molasses.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000019_000003|This is an excellent remedy for a tight cough.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000000|Mix eight pounds of light sugar house or New Orleans molasses, eight pounds of water, one pound of powdered charcoal.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000001|Boil the whole together twenty minutes, then strain it through a flannel bag.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000002|When lukewarm, put in the beaten whites of a couple of eggs, and put it on the fire.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000003|As soon as it boils, take it from the fire, and skim it till clear-then put it on the fire, and let it boil till it becomes a thick syrup-strain it for use.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000000|Put your sugar into the preserving kettle, turn in the quantity of cold water that you think will be sufficient to cover the fruit that is to be preserved in it.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000001|Beat the whites of eggs to a froth, allowing one white of an egg to three pounds of sugar-mix the whites of the eggs with the sugar and water, set it on a slow fire, and let the sugar dissolve, then stir the whole up well together, and set it where it will boil.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000002|As soon as it boils up well, take it from the fire, let it remain for a minute, then take off the scum-set it back on the fire, and let it boil a minute, then take it off, and skim it again.
train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000003|This operation repeat till the syrup is clear-put in the fruit when the syrup is cold.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000004_000000|CHAPTER twenty six
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000005_000000|THE WINGED VICTORY
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000000|KATE turned and placing the baby on the front seat, she knelt and put her arms around the little thing, but her lips only repeated the words: "Praise the Lord for this precious baby!" Her heart was filled with high resolve.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000001|She would rear the baby with such care.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000002|She would be more careful with Adam.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000003|She would make heroic effort to help him to clean, unashamed manhood.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000004|She would be a better sister to all her family.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000005|She would be friendlier, and have more patience with the neighbours.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000006|She would join in whatever effort the church was making to hold and increase its membership among the young people, and to raise funds to keep up the organization.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000008|Kate arose with the benediction, picked up the baby, and started down the aisle among the people she had known all her life.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000009|On every side strong hands stretched out to greet and welcome her.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000011|They all knew how she could work, and what she could give if she chose; while that she had stood at the altar and been baptized, meant that something not customary with the Bates family was taking place in her heart.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000012|So they welcomed her, and praised the beauty and sweetness of the baby until Kate went out into the sunshine, her face glowing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000007_000000|Slowly she walked home and as she reached the veranda, Adam took the baby.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000008_000000|"Been to the cemetery?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000009_000000|Kate nodded and dropped into a chair.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000010_000000|"That's too far to walk and carry this great big woman," he said, snuggling his face in the baby's neck, while she patted his cheeks and pulled his hair.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000010_000001|"Why didn't you tell me you wanted to go, and let me get out the car?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000011_000000|Kate looked at him speculatively.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000012_000002|I'm going to church as often as I can after this, and I'm going to help with the work of running it."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000013_000001|"Why didn't you let me go with you?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000000|Kate sat staring down the road.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000001|She was shocked speechless.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000002|Again she had followed an impulse, without thinking of any one besides herself. Usually she could talk, but in that instant she had nothing to say. Then a carriage drew into the line of her vision, stopped at York's gate, and mr York alighted and swung to the ground a slim girlish figure and then helped his wife.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000004|"But you would want to wait a little and join with Milly, wouldn't you?" she asked.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000005|"Uncle Robert always has been a church member.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000006|I think it's a fine stand for a man to take."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000015_000000|"Maybe that would be better," he said.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000015_000001|"I didn't think of Milly.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000015_000002|I only thought I'd like to have been with you and Little Poll."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000000|She was a very substantial woman, but for the remainder of that day she felt that she was moving with winged feet.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000001|She sang, she laughed, she was unspeakably happy.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000003|It never occurred to Kate that she had done an unprecedented thing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000004|She had done as her heart dictated. She did not know that she put the minister into a most uncomfortable position, when he followed her request to baptize her and the child. She had never thought of probations, and examinations, and catechisms. She had read the Bible, as was the custom, every morning before her school.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000005|In that book, when a man wanted to follow Jesus, he followed; Jesus accepted him; and that was all there was to it, with Kate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000018_000000|The middle of the week Nancy Ellen came flying up the walk on winged feet, herself.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000018_000001|She carried photographs of several small children, one of them a girl so like Little Poll that she might have been the original of the picture.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000000|"They just came," said Nancy Ellen rather breathlessly.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000001|"I was wild for that little darling at once.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000002|I had Robert telegraph them to hold her until we could get there.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000003|We're going to start on the evening train and if her blood seems good, and her ancestors respectable, and she looks like that picture, we're going to bring her back with us. Oh, Kate, I can scarcely wait to get my fingers on her.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000004|I'm hungry for a baby all of my own."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000020_000000|Kate studied the picture.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000021_000000|"She's charming!" she said.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000022_000000|Nancy Ellen looked at Kate and smiled peculiarly.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000023_000002|I can't imagine a Bates joining church."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000000|"If that is joining church, it's the easiest thing in the world," said Kate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000001|"We just loved doing it, didn't we, Little Poll?
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000002|Adam and Milly are going to come in soon, I'm almost sure.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000003|At least he is willing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000004|I don't know what it is that I am to do, but I suppose they will give me my work soon."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000000|"You bet they'll give you work soon, and enough," said Nancy Ellen, laughing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000002|You'll just put it through, as you do things out here.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000003|Kate, you are making this place look fine.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000004|I used to say I'd rather die than come back here to live, but lately it has been growing so attractive, I've been here about half my time, and wished I were the other half."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000026_000000|Kate slipped her arm around Nancy Ellen as they walked to the gate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000027_000001|Usually it's sickness, and sorrow, and losing their friends that bring people to the consolations of the church.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000027_000002|You bore those things like a stoic.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000027_000004|Kate, you make me think of the 'Winged Victory,' this afternoon. If I get this darling little girl, will she make me big, and splendid, and fine, like you?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000028_000000|Kate suddenly drew Nancy Ellen to her and kissed her a long, hard kiss on the lips.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000029_000001|Good bye and good luck to you, and remember me to Robert."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000030_000000|Nancy Ellen stood intently studying the picture she held in her hand. Then she looked at Kate, smiling with misty eyes: "I think, Kate, I'm very close, if I am not really where you are this minute," she said. Then she started her car; but she looked back, waving and smiling until the car swerved so that Kate called after her: "Do drive carefully, Nancy Ellen!"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000031_000000|Kate went slowly up the walk.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000031_000001|She stopped several times to examine the shrubs and bushes closely, to wish for rain for the flowers.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000031_000002|She sat on the porch a few minutes talking to Little Poll, then she went inside to answer the phone.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000032_000000|"Kate?" cried a sharp voice.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000033_000000|"Yes," said Kate, recognizing a neighbour, living a few miles down the road.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000034_000000|"Did Nancy Ellen just leave your house?" came a breathless query.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000035_000000|"Yes," said Kate again.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000036_000000|"I just saw a car that looked like hers slip in the fresh sand at the river levee, and it went down, and two or three times over."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000037_000000|"O God!" said Kate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000037_000002|I'll phone Robert, and come as soon as I can get there."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000038_000000|Kate called dr Gray's office.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000038_000003|Rush him!"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000001|Kate was at the little garage they had built, and had the door open.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000002|She told him what she had heard, ran to get the baby, and met him at the gate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000004|You know where her things are, and how to feed her.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000005|Don't you dare let them change any way I do.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000006|Baby knows Milly; she will be good for her and for you.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000007|You'll be careful?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000040_000000|"Of course, Mother," said Adam.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000041_000000|He called her attention to the road.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000042_000000|"Look at those tracks," he said.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000042_000001|"Was she sick?
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000042_000002|She might have been drunk, from them."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000043_000001|She WAS drunk, drunken with joy. She had a picture of the most beautiful little baby girl.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000043_000002|They were to start to Chicago after her to night.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000043_000004|Oh, my God, have mercy!"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000044_000000|They had come to deep grooves in loose gravel, then the cut in the embankment, then they could see the wrecked car standing on the engine and lying against a big tree, near the water, while two men and a woman were carrying a limp form across the meadow toward the house.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000044_000001|As their car stopped, Kate kissed the baby mechanically, handed her to Adam, and ran into the house where she dragged a couch to the middle of the first room she entered, found a pillow, and brought a bucket of water and a towel from the kitchen.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000044_000004|Kate gathered her sister's feet in her arms and hid her face beside them. The neighbours silently began taking away things that had been used, while mrs Howe chose her whitest sheet, and laid it on a chair near Robert.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000000|Two days later they laid Nancy Ellen beside her mother.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000001|Then they began trying to face the problem of life without her.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000002|Robert said nothing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000003|He seemed too stunned to think.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000004|Kate wanted to tell him of her final visit with Nancy Ellen, but she could not at that time. Robert's aged mother came to him, and said she could remain as long as he wanted her, so that was a comfort to Kate, who took time to pity him, even in her blackest hour.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000005|She had some very black ones.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000006|She could have wailed, and lamented, and relinquished all she had gained, but she did not.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000007|She merely went on with life, as she always had lived it, to the best of her ability when she was so numbed with grief she scarcely knew what she was doing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000009|Every Sabbath, and often during the week, her feet carried her to the cemetery, where she sat in the deep grass and looked at those three long mounds and tried to understand life; deeper still, to fathom death.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000000|She and her mother had agreed that there was "something." Now Kate tried as never before to understand what, and where, and why, that "something" was.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000002|One day after she had arranged the fall roses she had grown, and some roadside asters she had gathered in passing, she sat in deep thought, when a car stopped on the road.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000003|Kate looked up to see Robert coming across the churchyard with his arms full of greenhouse roses.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000004|He carried a big bunch of deep red for her mother, white for Polly, and a large sheaf of warm pink for Nancy Ellen.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000005|Kate knelt up and taking her flowers, she moved them lower, and silently helped Robert place those he had brought.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000006|Then she sat where she had been, and looked at him.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000047_000000|Finally he asked: "Still hunting the 'why,' Kate?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000048_000001|Polly had a clear case of uric poison, while I'd stake my life Nancy Ellen was gloating over the picture she carried when she ran into that loose sand.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000048_000002|In each of their cases I am satisfied as to 'why,' as well as about Father.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000048_000003|The thing that holds me, and fascinates me, and that I have such a time being sure of, is 'where.'"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000049_000000|Robert glanced upward and asked: "Isn't there room enough up there, Kate?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000050_000000|"Too much!" said Kate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000050_000001|"And what IS the soul, and HOW can it bridge the vortex lying between us and other worlds, that man never can, because of the lack of air to breathe, and support him?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000051_000000|"I don't know," said Robert; "and in spite of the fact that I do know what a man CANNOT do, I still believe in the immortality of the soul."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000052_000000|"Oh, yes," said Kate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000052_000001|"If there is any such thing in science as a self evident fact, that is one.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000052_000002|THAT is provable."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000053_000000|Robert looked at her eager face.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000053_000001|"How would you go about proving it, Kate?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000001|They all reproduce themselves, they all make something intended for music, they all express a feeling in their hearts by the exercise we call dance, they all believe in the after life of the soul.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000002|This belief is as much a PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet. Whether he believes his soul enters a cat and works back to man again after long transmigration, or goes to a Happy Hunting Ground as our Indians, makes no difference with the fact that he enters this world with belief in after life of some kind.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000003|We see material evidence in increase that man is not defeated in his desire to reproduce himself; we have advanced to something better than tom toms and pow wows for music and dance; these desires are fulfilled before us, now tell me why the very strongest of all, the most deeply rooted, the belief in after life, should come to nothing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000004|Why should the others be real, and that a dream?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000055_000000|"I don't think it is," said Robert.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000000|"It's my biggest self evident fact," said Kate, conclusively.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000001|"I never heard any one else say these things, but I think them, and they are provable.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000003|She stood in full evening light, I looked straight in her face, and Robert, you know I'm no creature of fancies and delusions, I tell you I SAW HER SOUL PASS.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000004|I saw the life go from her and go on, and on.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000005|I saw her body stand erect, long enough for me to reach her, and pick her up, after its passing.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000006|That I know."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000057_000000|"I shouldn't think of questioning it, Kate," said Robert.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000000|"Oh, I don't know," said Kate.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000001|"Air to breathe and food to sustain are presupposed.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000002|Man LEARNS to fight in self defense, and to acquire what he covets.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000003|He learns to covet by seeing stronger men, in better locations, surpass his achievements, so if he is strong enough he goes and robs them by force.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000004|He learns the desire for the chase in food hunting; I think four are plenty to start with."
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000059_000001|"I must go now. Shall I take you home?"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000000|Kate glanced at the sun and shook her head.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000001|"I can stay half an hour longer.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000002|I don't mind the walk.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000003|I need exercise to keep me in condition.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000004|Good bye!"
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000061_000000|As he started his car he glanced back.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000061_000002|Kate sat looking straight before her until time to help with the evening work, and prepare supper, then she arose.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000061_000003|She stood looking down a long time; finally she picked up a fine specimen of each of the roses and slowly dropped them on her father's grave.
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000062_000000|"There!
train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000062_000001|You may have that many," she said.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000000_000000|WHAT THE WAR OF eighteen twelve DEMONSTRATED
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000002_000003|That incapacity in national politics should appear as a leading trait in American character was unexpected by Americans, but might naturally result from their conditions.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000005_000003|Every vestige of hostile fleets had been swept away, until, after the battle of Trafalgar, British frigates ceased practice with their guns.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000005_000005|Nothing showed that Nelson's line of battle ships, frigates, or sloops were, as a rule, better fought than the Macedonian and Java, the Avon and Reindeer.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000009_000004|According to the reports, the two infantry lines in the centre never came nearer than eighty yards. Major General Riall reported that then, owing to severe losses, his troops broke and could not be rallied.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000009_000007|Riall reported one hundred and forty eight killed; Scott reported sixty one.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000010_000000|The conclusion seemed incredible, but it was supported by the results of the naval battles.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000003|The number of graduates before the year eighteen twelve was very small; but at the outbreak of the war the corps of engineers was already efficient.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000005|The lieutenant colonel in eighteen twelve was Walker Keith Armistead, of Virginia,--the third graduate, who planned the defenses of Norfolk.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000006|Major William McRee, of North Carolina, became chief engineer to General Brown and constructed the fortifications at Fort Erie, which cost the British General Gordon Drummond the loss of half his army, besides the mortification of defeat.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000008|Captain Joseph Gilbert Totten, of New York, was chief engineer to General Izard at Plattsburg, where he directed the fortifications that stopped the advance of Prevost's great army.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000017_000001|The next day it came on a richer prize.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000017_000003|The Constitution, the best frigate in the United States service, sailed into the midst of Broke's five ships.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000018_000002|Hull put out his boats to tow the Constitution; Broke summoned the boats of the squadron to tow the Shannon.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000018_000007|All night the British and American crews toiled on, and when morning came the Belvidera, proving to be the best sailer, got in advance of her consorts, working two kedge anchors, until at two o'clock in the afternoon she tried in her turn to reach the Constitution with her bow guns, but in vain.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000018_000008|Hull expected capture, but the Belvidera could not approach nearer without bringing her boats under the Constitution's stern guns; and the wearied crews toiled on, towing and kedging, the ships barely out of gunshot, till another morning came.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000020_000000|Hull could not expect to keep command of the Constitution.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000022_000003|For about an hour the two ships wore and wore again, trying to get advantage of position; until at last, a few minutes before six o'clock, they came together side by side, within pistol shot, the wind almost astern, and running before it, they pounded each other with all their strength.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000023_000002|In every respect, and in proportion of ten to seven, the Constitution was the better ship; her crew was more numerous in proportion of ten to six.
train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000024_000001|He never fully understood the causes of his defeat, and never excused it by pleading, as he might have done, the great superiority of his enemy.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten-THE KITE
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000002_000000|On the following day, a little after four o'clock, Adam set out for Mercy.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000003_000000|He was home just as the clocks were striking six.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000003_000001|He was pale and upset, but otherwise looked strong and alert.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000003_000002|The old man summed up his appearance and manner thus: "Braced up for battle."
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000004_000000|"Now!" said Sir Nathaniel, and settled down to listen, looking at Adam steadily and listening attentively that he might miss nothing-even the inflection of a word.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000000|"I found Lilla and Mimi at home.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000001|Watford had been detained by business on the farm.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000002|Miss Watford received me as kindly as before; Mimi, too, seemed glad to see me.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000004|He was followed closely by the negro, who was puffing hard as if he had been running-so it was probably he who watched.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000006|However, we got on very well.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000007|He talked pleasantly on all sorts of questions.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000010|True, they seemed to be very deep and earnest, but there was no offence in them.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000011|Had it not been for the drawing down of the brows and the stern set of the jaws, I should not at first have noticed anything.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000012|But the stare, when presently it began, increased in intensity.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000013|I could see that Lilla began to suffer from nervousness, as on the first occasion; but she carried herself bravely.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000014|However, the more nervous she grew, the harder mr Caswall stared.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000015|It was evident to me that he had come prepared for some sort of mesmeric or hypnotic battle.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000017|It was evidently intended to give some sign to the negro, for he came, in his usual stealthy way, quietly in by the hall door, which was open.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000018|Then mr Caswall's efforts at staring became intensified, and poor Lilla's nervousness grew greater.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000020|This evidently made a difficulty for mr Caswall, for his efforts, without appearing to get feebler, seemed less effective.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000022|Then there was a diversion.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000024|I had seen her coming through the great window.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000025|Without a word she crossed the room and stood beside mr Caswall.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000026|It really was very like a fight of a peculiar kind; and the longer it was sustained the more earnest-the fiercer-it grew. That combination of forces-the over lord, the white woman, and the black man-would have cost some-probably all of them-their lives in the Southern States of America.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000027|To us it was simply horrible.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000028|But all that you can understand.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000029|This time, to go on in sporting phrase, it was understood by all to be a 'fight to a finish,' and the mixed group did not slacken a moment or relax their efforts.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000031|She grew pale-a patchy pallor, which meant that her nerves were out of order.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000032|She trembled like an aspen, and though she struggled bravely, I noticed that her legs would hardly support her.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000033|A dozen times she seemed about to collapse in a faint, but each time, on catching sight of Mimi's eyes, she made a fresh struggle and pulled through.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000000|"By now mr Caswall's face had lost its appearance of passivity.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000001|His eyes glowed with a fiery light.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000003|His companions in the baleful work seemed to have taken on something of his feeling.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000004|Lady Arabella looked like a soulless, pitiless being, not human, unless it revived old legends of transformed human beings who had lost their humanity in some transformation or in the sweep of natural savagery.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000005|As for the negro-well, I can only say that it was solely due to the self restraint which you impressed on me that I did not wipe him out as he stood-without warning, without fair play-without a single one of the graces of life and death.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000006|Lilla was silent in the helpless concentration of deadly fear; Mimi was all resolve and self forgetfulness, so intent on the soul struggle in which she was engaged that there was no possibility of any other thought.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000007|As for myself, the bonds of will which held me inactive seemed like bands of steel which numbed all my faculties, except sight and hearing.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000009|Something must happen, though the power of guessing was inactive.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000011|Mechanically it touched that of Lilla, and in that instant she was transformed.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000012|It was as if youth and strength entered afresh into something already dead to sensibility and intention. As if by inspiration, she grasped the other's band with a force which blenched the knuckles.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000013|Her face suddenly flamed, as if some divine light shone through it.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000015|Towards the door he retreated, she following.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000016|There was a sound as of the cooing sob of doves, which seemed to multiply and intensify with each second.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000017|The sound from the unseen source rose and rose as he retreated, till finally it swelled out in a triumphant peal, as she with a fierce sweep of her arm, seemed to hurl something at her foe, and he, moving his hands blindly before his face, appeared to be swept through the doorway and out into the open sunlight.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000007_000000|"All at once my own faculties were fully restored; I could see and hear everything, and be fully conscious of what was going on.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000007_000001|Even the figures of the baleful group were there, though dimly seen as through a veil-a shadowy veil.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000008_000000|By the next morning, daylight showed the actual danger which threatened. From every part of the eastern counties reports were received concerning the enormous immigration of birds.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000008_000001|Experts were sending-on their own account, on behalf of learned societies, and through local and imperial governing bodies-reports dealing with the matter, and suggesting remedies.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000000|The reports closer to home were even more disturbing.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000002|Each bird seemed to sound some note of fear or anger or seeking, and the whirring of wings never ceased nor lessened.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000003|The air was full of a muttered throb.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000005|So monotonous it was, so cheerless, so disheartening, so melancholy, that all longed, but in vain, for any variety, no matter how terrible it might be.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000010_000000|The second morning the reports from all the districts round were more alarming than ever.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000010_000002|And as yet it was only a warning of evil, not the evil accomplished; the ground began to look bare whenever some passing sound temporarily frightened the birds.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000000|Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000002|The experience was of some years ago in China, far up country, towards the head waters of the Yang tze kiang, where the smaller tributaries spread out in a sort of natural irrigation scheme to supply the wilderness of paddy fields.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000005|The kite was shaped like a great hawk; and the moment it rose into the air the birds began to cower and seek protection-and then to disappear.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000008|Then he and his men, with a sufficiency of cord, began to fly it high overhead.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000009|The experience of China was repeated.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000010|The moment the kite rose, the birds hid or sought shelter.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000013|All the birds were cowed; their sounds stopped. Neither song nor chirp was heard-silence seemed to have taken the place of the normal voices of bird life.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000014|But that was not all.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000015|The silence spread to all animals.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000000|The fear and restraint which brooded amongst the denizens of the air began to affect all life.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000001|Not only did the birds cease song or chirp, but the lowing of the cattle ceased in the fields and the varied sounds of life died away.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000005|One and all, the faces of men and women seemed bereft of vitality, of interest, of thought, and, most of all, of hope.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000006|Men seemed to have lost the power of expression of their thoughts.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000013_000001|Everything was affected; gloom was the predominant note.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000013_000002|Joy appeared to have passed away as a factor of life, and this creative impulse had nothing to take its place.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000014_000000|After a few days, men began to grow desperate; their very words as well as their senses seemed to be in chains.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000014_000001|Edgar Caswall again tortured his brain to find any antidote or palliative of this greater evil than before.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000014_000002|He would gladly have destroyed the kite, or caused its flying to cease; but the instant it was pulled down, the birds rose up in even greater numbers; all those who depended in any way on agriculture sent pitiful protests to Castra Regis.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000015_000000|It was strange indeed what influence that weird kite seemed to exercise. Even human beings were affected by it, as if both it and they were realities.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000015_000001|As for the people at Mercy Farm, it was like a taste of actual death.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000015_000002|Lilla felt it most.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000000|Of course, some of those already drawn into the vortex noticed the effect on individuals.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000001|Those who were interested took care to compare their information.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000002|Strangely enough, as it seemed to the others, the person who took the ghastly silence least to heart was the negro.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000003|By nature he was not sensitive to, or afflicted by, nerves.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000004|This alone would not have produced the seeming indifference, so they set their minds to discover the real cause.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000006|Thus the black had a never failing source of amusement.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000017_000000|Lady Arabella's cold nature rendered her immune to anything in the way of pain or trouble concerning others.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000017_000002|mr Watford, mr Salton, and Sir Nathaniel were all concerned in the issue, partly from kindness of heart-for none of them could see suffering, even of wild birds, unmoved-and partly on account of their property, which had to be protected, or ruin would stare them in the face before long.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000000|Lilla suffered acutely.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000001|As time went on, her face became pinched, and her eyes dull with watching and crying.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000002|Mimi suffered too on account of her cousin's suffering.
train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000003|But as she could do nothing, she resolutely made up her mind to self restraint and patience.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000001_000000|MISTLETOE.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000004|And he was handsome too, and good humoured, though these qualities told less with her than the others.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000005|And now she was to meet him in the house of her great relations,--in a position in which her rank and her fashion would seem to be equal to his own.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000006|And she would meet him with the remembrance fresh in his mind as in her own of those passages of love at Rufford.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000007|It would be impossible that he should even seem to forget them.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000008|The most that she could expect would be four or five days of his company, and she knew that she must be upon her mettle.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000009|She must do more now than she had ever attempted before.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000010|She must scruple at nothing that might bind him.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000011|She would be in the house of her uncle and that uncle a duke, and she thought that those facts might help to quell him.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000013|She thought of it all, and made her plans carefully and even painfully.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000014|She would be at any rate two days in the house before his arrival.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000000|She had stretched her means and her credit to the utmost in regard to her wardrobe, and was aware that she had never been so well equipped since those early days of her career in which her father and mother had thought that her beauty, assisted by a generous expenditure, would serve to dispose of her without delay.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000001|A generous expenditure may be incurred once even by poor people, but cannot possibly be maintained over a dozen years.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000002|Now she had taken the matter into her own hands and had done that which would be ruinous if not successful. She was venturing her all upon the die,--with the prospect of drowning herself on the way out to Patagonia should the chances of the game go against her.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000003|She forgot nothing.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000004|She could hardly hope for more than one day's hunting and yet that had been provided for as though she were going to ride with the hounds through all the remainder of the season.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000000|When she reached Mistletoe there were people going and coming every day, so that an arrival was no event.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000002|Everybody knew that she was a Trefoil and her presence therefore raised no question.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000003|The Duchess of Omnium was among the guests.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000004|The Duchess knew all about her and vouchsafed to her the smallest possible recognition.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000005|Lady Chiltern had met her before, and as Lady Chiltern was always generous, she was gracious to Arabella. She was sorry to see Lady Drummond, because she connected Lady Drummond with the Foreign Office and feared that the conversation might be led to Patagonia and its new minister.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000007|The girl was his niece and the Duke had an idea that he should be kind to the family of which he was the head.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000008|His brother's wife had become objectionable to him, but as to the girl, if she wanted a home for a week or two, he thought it to be his duty to give it to her.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000005_000001|There is nothing in England more ugly or perhaps more comfortable.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000005_000005|He was a grey haired comely man of sixty, with a large body and a wonderful appetite.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000005_000006|By many who understood the subject he was supposed to be the best amateur judge of wine in England.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000006_000000|During the first evening Arabella did contrive to make herself very agreeable.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000006_000002|After dinner, something having been said of the respectable old game called cat's cradle, she played it to perfection with Sir Jeffrey,--till her aunt thought that she must have been unaware that Sir Jeffrey had a wife and family.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000006_000003|She was all smiles and all pleasantness, and seemed to want no other happiness than what the present moment gave her.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000001|Such a thing had never happened to her before.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000002|She could not recollect that, on any of those annual visits which she had made to Mistletoe for more years than she now liked to think of, she had ever had five minutes' conversation alone with her aunt.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000003|It had always seemed that she was to be allowed to come and go by reason of her relationship, but that she was to receive no special mark of confidence or affection.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000004|The message was whispered into her ear by her aunt's own woman as she was listening with great attention to Lady Drummond's troubles in regard to her nursery arrangements.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000005|She nodded her head, heard a few more words from Lady Drummond, and then, with a pretty apology and a statement made so that all should hear her, that her aunt wanted her, followed the maid up stairs.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000006|"My dear," said her aunt, when the door was closed, "I want to ask you whether you would like me to ask mr Morton to come here while you are with us?" A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000008|It would utterly subvert everything and rob her of every chance.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000009|With a great effort she restrained all emotion and simply shook her head.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000010|She did it very well, and betrayed nothing.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000011|"I ask," said the Duchess, "because I have been very glad to hear that you are engaged to marry him.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000012|Lord Drummond tells me that he is a most respectable young man."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000009_000000|"And I thought that if it were so, you would be glad that he should meet you here.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000009_000001|I could manage it very well, as the Drummonds are here, and Lord Drummond would be glad to meet him."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000011_000000|"You are engaged to him?"
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000012_000000|"Well; I was going to tell you.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000013_000000|"But you were engaged to him?"
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000014_000001|"Yes," said Arabella; "I was engaged to him."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000017_000000|"I suppose you will go with him?"
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000018_000001|She could not say that she certainly was not going with him.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000018_000002|And yet she had to remember that her coming campaign with Lord Rufford must be carried on in part beneath her aunt's eyes. When she had come to Mistletoe she had fondly hoped that none of the family there would know anything about mr Morton.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000018_000003|And now she was called upon to answer these horrid questions without a moment's notice!
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000000|"I hope not.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000001|You should think of it very seriously.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000002|As for money, you know, you have none of your own, and I am told that he has a very nice property in Rufford.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000003|There is a neighbour of his coming here to morrow, and perhaps he knows him."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000021_000000|"Lord Rufford.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000021_000001|He is coming to shoot.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000021_000002|I will ask him about the property."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000023_000000|"Know Lord Rufford very well!"
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000024_000000|"As one does know men that one meets about."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000025_000000|"I thought it might settle everything if we had mr Morton here."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000026_000000|"I couldn't meet him, aunt; I couldn't indeed.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000026_000003|After what Arabella had told her mr Morton could not be asked there to meet her niece. But all the slight feeling of kindness to the girl which had been created by the tidings of so respectable an engagement were at once obliterated from the Duchess's bosom.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000026_000004|Arabella, with many expressions of thanks and a good humoured countenance, left the room, cursing the untowardness of her fate which would let nothing run smooth.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000027_000000|Lord Rufford was to come.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000027_000001|That at any rate was now almost certain. Up to the present she had doubted, knowing the way in which such men will change their engagements at the least caprice.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000027_000002|But the Duchess expected him on the morrow.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000000|When she went up to dress for dinner on the day of his expected arrival Lord Rufford had not come.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000002|When she came into the drawing room, a little late, he was not there.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000003|"We won't wait, Duchess," said the Duke to his wife at three minutes past eight.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000004|The Duke's punctuality at dinner time was well known, and everybody else was then assembled.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000005|Within two minutes after the Duke's word dinner was announced, and a party numbering about thirty walked away into the dinner room.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000006|Arabella, when they were all settled, found that there was a vacant seat next herself.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000007|If the man were to come, fortune would have favoured her in that.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000029_000000|The fish and soup had already disappeared and the Duke was wakening himself to eloquence on the first entree when Lord Rufford entered the room.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000029_000001|"There never were trains so late as yours, Duchess," he said, "nor any part of the world in which hired horses travel so slowly.
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000029_000002|I beg the Duke's pardon, but I suffer the less because I know his Grace never waits for anybody."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000030_000000|"Certainly not," said the Duke, "having some regard for my friends' dinners."
train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000031_000000|"And I find myself next to you," said Lord Rufford as he took his seat.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000004_000000|"Jack is here," said Lord Rufford, as soon as the fuss of his late arrival had worn itself away.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000005_000000|"I shall be proud to renew my acquaintance."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000006_000000|"Can you come to morrow?"
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000007_000000|"Oh yes," said Arabella, rapturously.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000000|"There are difficulties, and I ought to have written to you about them.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000001|I am going with the Fitzwilliam." Now Mistletoe was in Lincolnshire, not very far from Peterborough, not very far from Stamford, not very far from Oakham.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000004|And a postchaise could meet him here or there.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000005|But when a lady is added, the difficulty is often increased fivefold.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000009_000000|"Is it very far?" asked Arabella.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000010_000000|"It is a little far.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000010_000001|I wonder who are going from here?"
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000011_000000|"Heaven only knows.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000011_000001|I have passed my time in playing cat's cradle with Sir Jeffrey Bunker for the amusement of the company, and in confidential communications with my aunt and Lady Drummond.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000012_000001|The Duke said that he did not know of anything on wheels going to Holcombe Cross.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000012_000002|Then a hunting man who had heard the question said that he and another intended to travel by train to Oundle.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000012_000003|Upon this Lord Rufford turned round and looked at Arabella mournfully.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000013_000000|"Cannot I go by train to Oundle?" she asked.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000014_000000|"Nothing on earth so jolly if your pastors and masters and all that will let you."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000016_000000|"The Duchess!" suggested Lord Rufford.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000017_000000|"I thought all that kind of nonsense was over," said Arabella.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000018_000000|"I believe a great deal is over.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000018_000001|You can do many things that your mother and grandmother couldn't do; but absolute freedom,--what you may call universal suffrage,--hasn't come yet, I fear.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000019_000000|"But the railway!"
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000020_000000|"I'm afraid that would be worse.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000020_000001|We couldn't ride back, you know, as we did at Rufford.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000020_000004|To tell you the truth I'm the least bit in the world afraid of the Duchess."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000021_000000|"I am not at all," said Arabella, angrily.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000000|Then Lord Rufford ate his dinner and seemed to think that that matter was settled.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000001|Arabella knew that he might have hunted elsewhere,--that the Cottesmore would be out in their own county within twelve miles of them, and that the difficulty of that ride would be very much less.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000002|The Duke might have been persuaded to send a carriage that distance.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000003|But Lord Rufford cared more about the chance of a good run than her company!
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000006|"And is that to be the end of Jack as far as I'm concerned?"
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000023_000000|"I have been thinking about it ever since.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000023_000001|This is Thursday."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000024_000000|"Not a doubt about it."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000025_000000|"To morrow will be Friday and the Duke has his great shooting on Saturday.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000025_000002|I shall go with the Pytchley if I don't shoot, but I shall have to get up just when other people are going to bed.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000025_000003|That wouldn't suit you."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000026_000000|"I wouldn't mind if I didn't go to bed at all."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000027_000000|"At any rate it wouldn't suit the Duchess.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000027_000002|I hate being anywhere on Sunday except in a railway carriage. But if I thought the Duke would keep me till Tuesday morning we might manage Peltry on Monday.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000027_000003|I meant to have got back to Surbiton's on Sunday and have gone from there."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000028_000000|"Where is Peltry?"
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000029_000000|"It's a Cottesmore meet,--about five miles this side of Melton."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000030_000000|"We could ride from here."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000000|"It's rather far for that, but we could talk over the Duke to send a carriage.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000001|Ladies always like to see a meet, and perhaps we could make a party.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000002|If not we must put a good face on it and go in anything we can get.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000003|I shouldn't fear the Duchess so much for twelve miles as I should for twenty."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000032_000000|"I don't mean to let the Duchess interfere with me," said Arabella in a whisper.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000033_000003|It was, however, understood that she was to have a place in the carriage.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000000|Arabella had gained two things.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000001|She would have her one day's hunting, and she had secured the presence of Lord Rufford at Mistletoe for Sunday.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000002|With such a man as his lordship it was almost impossible to find a moment for confidential conversation.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000003|He worked so hard at his amusements that he was as bad a lover as a barrister who has to be in Court all day,--almost as bad as a sailor who is always going round the world.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000004|On this evening it was ten o'clock before the gentlemen came into the drawing room, and then Lord Rufford's time was spent in arranging the party for the meet on Monday.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000005|When the ladies went up to bed Arabella had had no other opportunity than what Fortune had given her at dinner.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000000|And even then she had been watched.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000003|The Duchess, though she was at some distance down the table, had seen that her niece and Lord Rufford were intimate, and remembered immediately what had been said up stairs.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000004|They could not have talked as they were then talking,--sometimes whispering as the Duchess could perceive very well,--unless there had been considerable former intimacy.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000005|She began gradually to understand various things;--why Arabella Trefoil had been so anxious to come to Mistletoe just at this time, why she had behaved so unlike her usual self before Lord Rufford's arrival, and why she had been so unwilling to have mr Morton invited.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000006|The Duchess was in her way a clever woman and could see many things.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000007|She could see that though her niece might be very anxious to marry Lord Rufford, Lord Rufford might indulge himself in a close intimacy with the girl without any such intention on his part.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000008|And, as far as the family was concerned, she would have been quite contented with the Morton alliance.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000009|She would have asked Morton now only that it would be impossible that he should come in time to be of service.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000011|The Duchess of Omnium had since declared that she also would go, and there were to be two carriages.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000012|But still it never occurred to the Duchess that Arabella intended to hunt.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000013|Nor did Arabella intend that she should know it till the morning came.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000036_000000|The Friday was very dull.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000036_000004|She did not see Lord Rufford before dinner, and at dinner sat between Sir Jeffrey and an old gentleman out of Stamford who dined at Mistletoe that evening.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000036_000005|"We've had no such luck to night," Lord Rufford said to her in the drawing room.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000037_000000|"The old dragon took care of that," replied Arabella.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000039_000000|"Because-; I can't very well tell you why, but I dare say you know."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000041_000001|"Of course there is a little danger, but who is going to be stopped by that?"
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000042_000000|He could make no reply to this because the Duchess called him away to give some account to Lady Chiltern about Goarly and the u r u, Lady Chiltern's husband being a master of hounds and a great authority on all matters relating to hunting.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000042_000001|"Nasty old dragon!" Arabella said to herself when she was thus left alone.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000000|The Saturday was the day of the great shooting and at two o'clock the ladies went out to lunch with the gentlemen by the side of the wood.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000001|Lord Rufford had at last consented to be one of the party.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000002|With logs of trees, a few hurdles, and other field appliances, a rustic banqueting hall was prepared and everything was very nice.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000003|Tons of game had been killed, and tons more were to be killed after luncheon. The Duchess was not there and Arabella contrived so to place herself that she could be waited upon by Lord Rufford, or could wait upon him.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000005|Nobody was present who could dare to interfere with her.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000007|She had come to feel that the time was slipping between her fingers and that she must say something effective.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000009|"Do we hunt or shoot to morrow?" she said.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000044_000000|"To morrow is Sunday."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000045_000000|"I am quite aware of that, but I didn't know whether you could live a day without sport."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000046_000000|"The country is so full of prejudice that I am driven to Sabbatical quiescence."
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000047_000000|"Take a walk with me to morrow," said Arabella.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000048_000000|"But the Duchess?" exclaimed Lord Rufford in a stage whisper.
train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000048_000001|One of the beaters was so near that he could not but have heard;--but what does a beater signify?
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000004_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000006_000000|While there is a great deal of literary reference in all the following argument, I realize, looking back over many attempts to paraphrase it for various audiences, that its appeal is to those who spend the best part of their student life in classifying, and judging, and producing works of sculpture, painting, and architecture.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000006_000001|I find the eyes of all others wandering when I make talks upon the plastic artist's point of view.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000007_000000|This book tries to find that fourth dimension of architecture, painting, and sculpture, which is the human soul in action, that arrow with wings which is the flash of fire from the film, or the heart of man, or Pygmalion's image, when it becomes a woman.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000000|The nineteen fifteen edition was used by Victor o Freeburg as one of the text books in the Columbia University School of Journalism, in his classes in photoplay writing.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000003|Now I realize that those who approach the theory from the general University standpoint, or from the history of the drama, had best begin with Freeburg's book, for he is not only learned in both matters, but presents the special analogies with skill.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000006|From there it must work its way out.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000007|Of course those bodies touch on a thousand others.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000000|The work is being used as one basis of the campaign for the New Denver Art Museum, and I like to tell the story of how George w Eggers of Denver first began to apply the book when the Director of the Art Institute, Chicago, that it may not seem to the merely University type of mind a work of lost abstractions.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000001|One of the most gratifying recognitions I ever received was the invitation to talk on the films in Fullerton Hall, Chicago Art Institute.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000002|Then there came invitations to speak at Chicago University, and before the Fortnightly Club, Chicago, all around nineteen sixteen-seventeen.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000004|I talked at these three and other places, but hardly knew how to go about crossing the commercial bridge.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000007|It took a deal of will and breaking of precedent, on the part of all concerned, to show this film, The Wild Girl of the Sierras, and I retired from the field a long time. But now this same Eggers is starting, in Denver, an Art Museum from its very foundations, but on the same constructive scale.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000008|So this enterprise, in my fond and fatuous fancy, is associated with the sweet Mae Marsh as The Wild Girl of the Sierras-one of the loveliest bits of poetry ever put into screen or fable.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000010_000000|For about one year, off and on, I had the honor to be the photoplay critic of The New Republic, this invitation also based on the first edition of this book.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000011_000000|But when I was through with all these dashes into the field, and went back to reciting verses again, no one had given me any light as to who should make the disinterested, non-commercial film for these immediate times, the film that would class, in our civilization, with The New Republic or The Atlantic Monthly or the poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000011_000002|The school was to be largely devoted to producing music for the photoplay, in defiance of chapter fourteen.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000011_000004|Neither music nor films have as yet shaken the world.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000012_000001|I felt that once it was started the films would take their proper place and dominate the project, disinterested non-commercial films to be classed with the dramas so well stimulated by the great drama department under Professor Baker of Harvard.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000000|As I look back over this history I see that the printed page had counted too much, and the real forces of the visible arts in America had not been definitely enlisted.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000001|They should take the lead.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000003|No three people would more welcome opportunities to outline the idealistic possibilities of this future art.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000004|And a well-known American painter was talking to me of a midnight scolding Charlie Chaplin gave to some Los Angeles producer, in a little restaurant, preaching the really beautiful film, and denouncing commerce like a member of Coxey's illustrious army.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000007|He is praised for a kind of o Henry double meaning to his antics.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000008|He is said to be like one of o Henry's misquotations of the classics.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000009|He looks to me like that artist Edgar Poe, if Poe had been obliged to make millions laugh.
train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000010|I do not like Chaplin's work, but I have to admit the good intentions and the enviable laurels.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000000|As spring approached, the starving multitude on Isle saint Joseph grew reckless with hunger.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000001|Along the main shore, in spots where the sun lay warm, the spring fisheries had already begun, and the melting snow was uncovering the acorns in the woods.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000005|The ice was still thick, but the advancing season had softened it; and, as a body of them were crossing, it broke under their feet.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000006|Some were drowned; while others dragged themselves out, drenched and pierced with cold, to die miserably on the frozen lake, before they could reach a shelter.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000002|So, too, our starving Hurons were driven out of a town which had become an abode of horror.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000007|And, in fact, only a few days passed before we heard of the disaster which we had foreseen.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000008|These poor people fell into ambuscades of our Iroquois enemies.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000009|Some were killed on the spot; some were dragged into captivity; women and children were burned.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000012|Go where they would, they met with slaughter on all sides.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000008_000000|The Jesuits at saint Joseph knew not what course to take.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000008_000001|The doom of their flock seemed inevitable.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000000|"Take courage, brother," continued one of the chiefs, addressing Ragueneau.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000002|Turn your eyes towards Quebec, and transport thither what is left of this ruined country.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000007|If you do as we wish, we will form a church under the protection of the fort at Quebec.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000008|Our faith will not be extinguished.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000011_000003|Their resolution once taken, they pushed their preparations with all speed, lest the Iroquois might learn their purpose, and lie in wait to cut them off. Canoes were made ready, and on the tenth of June they began the voyage, with all their French followers and about three hundred Hurons.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000013_000001|Their scouts came in, and reported that they had found fresh footprints of men in the forest.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000013_000002|These proved, however, to be the tracks, not of enemies, but of friends.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000014_000002|Bressani's party outnumbered them six to one; but they resolved that it should not pass without a token of their presence. Late on a dark night, the French and Hurons lay encamped in the forest, sleeping about their fires.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000014_000003|They had set guards: but these, it seems, were drowsy or negligent; for the ten Iroquois, watching their time, approached with the stealth of lynxes, and glided like shadows into the midst of the camp, where, by the dull glow of the smouldering fires, they could distinguish the recumbent figures of their victims.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000014_000007|The Iroquois were surrounded, and a desperate fight ensued in the dark.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000015_000000|The united parties soon after reached Montreal; but the Hurons refused to remain in a spot so exposed to the Iroquois.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000015_000003|Their good will exceeded their power; for food was scarce at Quebec, and the Jesuits themselves had to bear the chief burden of keeping the sufferers alive.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000001|A party of Christian Indians, chiefly from Sillery, planned a stroke of retaliation, and set out for the Mohawk country, marching cautiously and sending forward scouts to scour the forest.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000004|He had come, he declared, with no other thought than that of joining them, and turning Iroquois, as they had done.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000007|The Iroquois, in great delight, demanded to be shown where they were.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000010|Not long after, he came to Canada, and, with a view, as it was thought, to some further treachery, rejoined the French. A sharp cross questioning put him to confusion, and he presently confessed his guilt.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000017_000000|In the course of the summer, the French at Three Rivers became aware that a band of Iroquois was prowling in the neighborhood, and sixty men went out to meet them.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000000|In the forests far north of Three Rivers dwelt the tribe called the Atticamegues, or Nation of the White Fish.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000001|From their remote position, and the difficult nature of the intervening country, they thought themselves safe; but a band of Iroquois, marching on snow shoes a distance of twenty days' journey northward from the saint Lawrence, fell upon one of their camps in the winter, and made a general butchery of the inmates.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000008|With him were a large party of Atticamegues, and several Frenchmen.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000009|Game was exceedingly scarce, and they were forced by hunger to separate, a Huron convert and a Frenchman named Fontarabie remaining with the missionary.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000010|The snows had melted, and all the streams were swollen.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000012|They toiled through the naked forest, among the wet, black trees, over tangled roots, green, spongy mosses, mouldering leaves, and rotten, prostrate trunks, while the cataract foamed amidst the rocks hard by.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000013|The Indian led the way with the canoe on his head, while Buteux and the other Frenchman followed with the baggage.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000014|Suddenly they were set upon by a troop of Iroquois, who had crouched behind thickets, rocks, and fallen trees, to waylay them.
train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000016|The Iroquois rushed upon them, mangled their bodies with tomahawks and swords, stripped them, and then flung them into the torrent.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000004_000000|Iroquois bullets and tomahawks had killed the Hurons by hundreds, but famine and disease had killed incomparably more.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000004_000004|Game was very scarce; and, without agriculture, the country could support only a scanty and scattered population like that which maintained a struggling existence in the wilderness of the lower saint Lawrence.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000004_000005|The mortality among the exiles was prodigious.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000007_000004|This brought them in contact with the Illinois, an Algonquin people, at that time very numerous, but who, like many other tribes at this epoch, were doomed to a rapid diminution from wars with other savage nations.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000007_000010|Thus it appears that the Wyandots, whose name is so conspicuous in the history of our border wars, are descendants of the ancient Hurons, and chiefly of that portion of them called the Tobacco Nation.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000001|They took possession of the stone fort which the French had abandoned, and where, with reasonable vigilance, they could maintain themselves against attack.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000002|In the succeeding autumn a small Iroquois war party had the audacity to cross over to the island, and build a fort of felled trees in the woods.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000005|A Huron war chief, named Etienne Annaotaha, whose life is described as a succession of conflicts and adventures, and who is said to have been always in luck, landed with a few companions, and fell into an ambuscade of the Iroquois.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000007|Etienne suspected treachery, but concealed his distrust, and advanced towards the Iroquois with an air of the utmost confidence. They received him with open arms, and pressed him to accept their invitation; but he replied, that there were older and wiser men among the Hurons, whose counsels all the people followed, and that they ought to lay the proposal before them.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000010|He set out accordingly with three of the principal Iroquois.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000010_000002|Etienne seized the opportunity to take aside four or five of the principal chiefs, and secretly tell them his suspicions that the Iroquois were plotting to compass their destruction under cover of overtures of peace; and he proposed that they should meet treachery with treachery.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000010_000005|The squaws began their preparations at once, and all was bustle and alacrity; for the Hurons themselves were no less deceived than were the Iroquois envoys.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000011_000001|Etienne's time had come.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000011_000003|Three of the Iroquois, immediately before the slaughter began, had received from Etienne a warning of their danger in time to make their escape.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000013_000001|The miseries of the Hurons were lighted up with a brief gleam of joy; but it behooved them to make a timely retreat from their island before the Iroquois came to exact a bloody retribution.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000013_000004|The fugitives directed their course to the Grand Manitoulin Island, where they remained for a short time, and then, to the number of about four hundred, descended the Ottawa, and rejoined their countrymen who had gone to Quebec the year before.
train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000017_000004|It was built of brick, like its original, of which it was an exact facsimile; and it stood in the centre of a quadrangle, the four sides of which were formed by the bark dwellings of the Hurons, ranged with perfect order in straight lines.
train-clean-360/434/132644/434_132644_000006_000001|We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000002_000000|A VISIT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000000|That same afternoon Baldos, blissfully ignorant of the stir he had created in certain circles, rode out for the first time as a member of the Castle Guard.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000001|He and Haddan were detailed by Colonel Quinnox to act as private escort to Miss Calhoun until otherwise ordered.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000002|If Haddan thought himself wiser than Baldos in knowing that their charge was not the princess, he was very much mistaken; if he enjoyed the trick that was being played on his fellow guardsman, his enjoyment was as nothing as compared to the pleasure Baldos was deriving from the situation.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000003|The royal victoria was driven to the fortress, conveying the supposed princess and the Countess Dagmar to the home of Count Marlanx.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000005|Baldos was mildly surprised and puzzled by the homage paid the young American girl.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000006|It struck him as preposterous that the entire population of Edelweiss could be in the game to deceive him.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000005_000000|"The Countess Dagmar, cousin to her highness.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000007_000001|She even went so far as to whisper in Beverly's ear that he did not remember her face, and probably would not recognize Yetive as one of the eavesdroppers.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000007_000002|The princess had flatly refused to accompany them on the visit to the fortress because of Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000007_000003|Struck by a sudden impulse, Beverly called Baldos to the side of the vehicle.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000009_000000|"I am happy to have pleased your highness," he said steadily.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000011_000000|"Yes, your highness, it certainly is interesting," he said, as he fell back into position beside Haddan.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000011_000001|During the remainder of the ride he caught himself time after time gazing reflectively at the back of her proud little head, possessed of an almost uncontrollable desire to touch the soft brown hair.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000013_000000|Count Marlanx welcomed his visitors with a graciousness that awoke wonder in the minds of his staff.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000013_000001|His marked preference for the American girl did not escape attention.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000014_000002|The new guard could not help hearing the sarcastic remark.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000015_000000|"You didn't have him beaten?" cried Beverly, stopping short.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000016_000000|"No, but I imagine it would have been preferable.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000018_000000|The count provided a light luncheon in his quarters after the ladies had gone over the fortress.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000018_000003|Count Marlanx's home was in the southeast corner of the enclosure, near the gates.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000018_000006|Beverly thought him extremely silly and sentimental, much preferring him in the character of the harsh, implacable martinet.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000019_000001|He was patrolling the narrow piazza which fronted the house.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000019_000002|Toward the close of the rather trying luncheon she was almost unable to control the impulse to rush out and compel him to relax that imposing, machine like stride.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000019_000003|She hungered for a few minutes of the old time freedom with him.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000020_000002|Servants came in to clear the tables, but the count harshly ordered them to wait until the guests had departed.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000021_000002|The count's eyes followed the graceful curves of her white forearm with an eagerness that was annoying.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000022_000001|"It came from Rome; it has a history which I shall try to tell you some day, and which makes it almost invaluable.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000022_000002|A German nobleman offered me a small fortune if I would part with it."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000024_000000|"I was saving it for an occasion, your highness," he said, his steely eyes glittering.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000024_000001|"The glad hour has come when I can part with it for a recompense far greater than the baron's gold."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000025_000000|"Oh, isn't it lucky you kept it?" she cried.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000026_000000|"The recompense of a sweet smile, a tender blush and the unguarded thanks of a pretty woman.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000026_000001|The candlestick is yours, Miss Calhoun,--if you will repay me for my sacrifice by accepting it without reservation."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000027_000000|Slowly Beverly Calhoun set the candlestick down upon the table her eyes meeting his with steady disdain.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000028_000000|"What a rare old jester you are, Count Marlanx," she said without a smile.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000028_000004|She and I have promised to play tennis with the princess at three o'clock." The count's glare of disappointment lasted but a moment. The diplomacy of egotism came to his relief, and he held back the gift for another day, but not for another woman.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000029_000000|"It grieves me to have you hurry away.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000029_000001|My afternoon is to be a dull one, unless you permit me to watch the tennis game," he said.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000031_000002|His eyes for the moment held her spellbound.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000031_000003|He was drawing the hand to his lips when a shadow darkened the French window, and a saber rattled warningly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000032_000001|Baldos stood at the window in an attitude of alert attention.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000032_000002|Beverly drew her arm away spasmodically and took a step toward the window.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000035_000001|"Report to me in half an hour.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000036_000000|"He cannot come in half an hour," she cried quickly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000037_000000|"My ears are excellent," said Marlanx stiffly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000038_000000|"I fancy Baldos's must be even better, for he heard me," said Beverly, herself once more.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000038_000001|The shadow of a smile crossed the face of the guard.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000039_000000|"He is impertinent, insolent, your highness.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000039_000002|Now, go!" commanded the count.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000040_000000|"Wait a minute, Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000040_000001|We are going out, too.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000043_000000|She was disturbed by his threat to reprimand Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000043_000001|For some time her mind had been struggling with what the count had said about "the lesson." It grew upon her that her friend had been bullied and humiliated, perhaps in the presence of spectators.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000043_000003|While the general was explaining one of the new gun carriages to the countess, Beverly walked deliberately over to where Baldos was standing.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000045_000000|"He meant to alarm your highness."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000046_000000|"Didn't he give you a talking to?"
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000047_000000|"He coached me in ethics."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000048_000000|"You are evading the question, sir.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000048_000002|Tell me; I want to know."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000049_000000|"Well, he said things that a soldier must endure.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000049_000001|A civilian or an equal might have run him through for it, your highness." A flush rose to his cheeks and his lips quivered ever so slightly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000050_000000|"That settles it," she said rigidly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000050_000001|"You are not to report to him at nine tomorrow."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000051_000000|"But he will have me shot, your highness," said he gladly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000052_000000|"He will do nothing of the kind.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000052_000003|"Count Marlanx," she said, with entrancing dimples, "will you report to me at nine to morrow morning?"
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000053_000000|"I have an appointment," he said slowly, but with understanding.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000054_000000|"But you will break it, I am sure," she asserted confidently.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000054_000001|"I want to give you a lesson in-in lawn tennis."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000055_000000|Later on, when the victoria was well away from the fort, Dagmar took her companion to task for holding in public friendly discourse with a member of the guard, whoever he might be.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000056_000000|"It is altogether contrary to custom, and-" but Beverly put her hand over the critical lips and smiled like a guilty child.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000057_000000|"Now, don't scold," she pleaded, and the countess could go no further.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000000|The following morning Count Marlanx reported at nine o'clock with much better grace than he had suspected himself capable of exercising.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000001|What she taught him of tennis on the royal courts, in the presence of an amused audience, was as nothing to what he learned of strategy as it can be practiced by a whimsical girl.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000002|Almost before he knew it she had won exemption for Baldos, that being the stake for the first set of singles.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000003|To his credit, the count was game.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000004|He took the wager, knowing that he, in his ignorance, could not win from the blithe young expert in petticoats.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000005|Then he offered to wager the brass candlestick against her bracelet.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000006|She considered for a moment and then, in a spirit of enthusiasm, accepted the proposition.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000007|After all, she coveted the candlestick.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000008|Half an hour later an orderly was riding to the fort with instructions to return at once with Miss Calhoun's candlestick.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000009|It is on record that they were "love" sets, which goes to prove that Beverly took no chances.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000059_000001|Beverly, quite happy in her complete victory, enjoyed a nap of profound sweetness and then was ready for her walk with the princess.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000059_000002|They were strolling leisurely about the beautiful grounds, safe in the shade of the trees from the heat of the July sun, when Baron Dangloss approached.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000061_000000|"It has to do with Baldos, I'll take oath," said Beverly, with conviction.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000000|"Yes, with your guard.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000001|Yesterday he visited the fortress.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000002|He went in an official capacity, it is true, but he was privileged to study the secrets of our defense with alarming freedom.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000003|It would not surprise me to find that this stranger has learned everything there is to know about the fort." His listeners were silent.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000005|"I am not saying that he would betray us-"
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000063_000000|"No, no!" protested Beverly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000064_000000|"--but he is in a position to give the most valuable information to an enemy.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000064_000001|An officer has just informed me that Baldos missed not a detail in regard to the armament, or the location of vital spots in the construction of the fortress."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000066_000002|Count Marlanx is not at all in sympathy with him, you are aware.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000067_000000|"Neither am I one of you," said Beverly stoutly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000068_000000|"You have no quarrel with us, Miss Calhoun," said Dangloss.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000069_000000|"If anything happens, then, I am to be blamed for it," she cried in deep distress.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000069_000001|"I brought him to Edelweiss, and I believe in him."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000070_000000|"For his own sake, your highness, and Miss Calhoun, I suggest that no opportunity should be given him to communicate with the outside world.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000071_000000|"You mean inside the city walls?" asked Yetive.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000072_000000|"Yes, your highness, and as far as possible from the fortress."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000000|"I think it is a wise precaution.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000001|Don't be angry, Beverly," the princess said gently.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000002|"It is for his own sake, you see.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000003|I am acting on the presumption that he is wholly innocent of any desire to betray us."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000075_000000|"And it would be just like someone, too," agreed Beverly, her thoughts, with the others', going toward none but one man "high in power."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000076_000000|Later in the day she called Baldos to her side as they were riding in the castle avenue.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000078_000000|"I could overthrow it after half an hour's bombardment, your highness," he answered, without thinking.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000079_000000|"Is it possible?
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000079_000001|Are there so many weak points?" she went on, catching her breath.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000080_000000|"There are three vital points of weakness, your highness.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000081_000000|"Good heavens!" gasped poor Beverly.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000081_000001|"Have you studied all this out?"
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000082_000001|"It was impossible for me not to see the defects in your fort."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000083_000000|"You-you haven't told anyone of this, have you?" she cried, white faced and anxious.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000084_000000|"No one but your highness.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000085_000002|I mean about the weak spots."
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000087_000000|"You may expect to be summoned then, so hold yourself in readiness.
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000087_000001|And, Baldos-"
train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000088_000000|"Yes, your highness?"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000003_000000|A PROPOSAL
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000000|She shrank back with a great dread in her heart.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000001|Marlanx, of all men! Why was he in the park at this hour of the night?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000002|There could be but one answer, and the very thought of it almost suffocated her.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000003|He was drawing the net with his own hands, he was spying with his own eyes.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000004|For a full minute it seemed to her that her heart would stop beating.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000006|What had he seen or heard?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000007|Involuntarily she peered over the rail for a glimpse of Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000009|A throb of thankfulness assailed her heart.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000010|She was not thinking of her position, but of his.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000001|The tread of a man impelled her to glance below once more before fleeing to her room.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000003|She fled swiftly, pausing at the window to lower the friendly but forgotten umbrella.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000005|Once more she stopped to listen.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000007|It was beyond the power of woman to keep from laughing.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000009|Once she was inside, however, it did not seem so amusing.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000010|Still, it gave her an immense amount of satisfaction to slam the windows loudly, as if in pure defiance.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000011|Then she closed the blinds, shutting out the night completely.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000006_000000|Turning up the light at her dressing table, she sat down in a state of sudden collapse.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000006_000001|For a long time she stared at her face in the mirror.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000006_000002|She saw the red of shame and embarrassment mount to her cheeks and then she covered her eyes with her hands.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000007_000000|"Oh, what a fool you've been," she half sobbed, shrinking from the mirror as if it were an accuser.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000000|She prepared for bed with frantic haste.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000002|The next she was at the windows and the slats were closed with a rattle like a volley of firearms.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000003|Then she jumped into bed.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000004|She wondered if the windows were locked.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000000|"Now, I reckon I'm safe," she murmured a moment later, again getting into bed.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000001|"I love to go to sleep with the rain pattering outside like that.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000002|Oh, dear, I'm so sorry he has to walk all night In this rain. Poor fellow!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000004|Goodness, it's raining cats and dogs!"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000000|But in spite of the rain she could not go to sleep.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000001|Vague fears began to take possession of her.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000002|Something dreadful told her that Count Marlanx was on the balcony and at her window, notwithstanding the rain pour.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000003|The fear became oppressive, maddening.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000005|He was there, she knew it.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000011_000001|Consumed by the fear that the window might open slowly at any moment, she reached forth and clutched the weapon.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000011_000002|Then she shrank back in the bed, her eyes fixed upon the black space across the room.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000011_000003|For hours she shivered and waited for the window to open, dozing away time and again only to come back to wakefulness with a start.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000000|The next morning she confessed to herself that her fears had been silly.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000001|Her first act after breakfasting alone in her room was to seek out Colonel Quinnox, commander of the castle guard.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000002|In her mind she was greatly troubled over the fate of the bold visitor of the night before.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000004|Vagabond though he was, he had conquered where princes had failed.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000005|Her better judgment told her that she could be nothing to this debonair knight of the road, yet her heart stubbornly resisted all the arguments that her reason put forth.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000000|Colonel Quinnox was pleasant, but he could give Beverly no promise of leniency in regard to Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000001|Instructions had come to him from General Marlanx, and he could not set them aside at will.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000002|Her plea that he might once more be assigned to old time duties found the colonel regretfully obdurate.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000003|Baldos could not ride with her again until Marlanx withdrew the order which now obtained, Beverly swallowed her pride and resentment diplomatically, smiled her sweetest upon the distressed colonel, and marched defiantly back to the castle.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000004|Down in her rebellious, insulted heart she was concocting all sorts of plans for revenge.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000005|Chief among them was the terrible overthrow of the Iron Count.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000006|Her wide scope of vengeance even contemplated the destruction of Graustark if her end could be obtained in no other way.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000014_000000|Full of these bitter sweet thoughts she came to the castle doors before she saw who was waiting for her upon the great verandah.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000014_000002|The early hour was responsible for the bright solitude which marked the place.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000015_000000|She stopped with a sharp exclamation of surprise.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000015_000001|Then scorn and indignation rushed in to fill the place of astonishment.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000016_000000|"Good morning," he said, extending his hand, which she did not see.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000016_000001|She was wondering how much he had seen and heard at midnight.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000017_000000|"I thought the troops were massing this morning," she said coldly.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000017_000001|"Don't you mass, too?"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000018_000000|"There is time enough for that, my dear.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000018_000001|I came to have a talk with you-in private," he said meaningly.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000019_000000|"It is sufficiently private here, Count Marlanx.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000019_000001|What have you to say to me?"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000022_000000|"An involuntary observer, believe me-and a jealous one.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000022_000002|What I saw last night shocked me beyond expression."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000023_000000|"Well, you shouldn't have looked," she retorted, tossing her chin; and the red feather in her hat bobbed angrily.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000025_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000026_000000|"I mean that I saw everything that occurred."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000027_000001|"Good bye, Count Marlanx."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000000|"One moment, please.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000001|I cannot let you off so easily.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000002|What right had you to take that man into your room, a place sacred in the palace of Graustark?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000003|Answer me, Miss Calhoun."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000029_000000|Beverly drew back in horror and bewilderment.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000030_000000|"Into my room?" she gasped.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000031_000001|I saw him come from your window, and I saw all that passed between you in the balcony.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000031_000002|Love's eyes are keen.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000031_000003|What occurred in your chamber I can only-"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000000|"Stop!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000001|How dare you say such a thing to me?" she fiercely cried.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000002|"You miserable coward!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000004|Take it back-take back every word of that lie!"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000005|She was white with passion, cold with terror.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000000|"Bah!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000001|This is childish.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000004|It's useless to deny it.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000005|And to think that I have spared him from death to have it come to this!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000006|You need not look so horrified.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000007|Your secret is safe with me.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000008|I come to make terms with you.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000010|It's worth it to you.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000011|One word from me, you are disgraced and Baldos dies.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000012|Come, my fair lady, give me your promise, it's a good bargain for both."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000034_000000|Beverly was trembling like a leaf.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000034_000001|This phase of his villainy had not occurred to her.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000034_000002|She was like a bird trying to avoid the charmed eye of the serpent.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000000|"Oh, you-you miserable wretch!" she cried, hoarse with anger and despair.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000001|"What a cur you are!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000003|I have never wronged you-"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000004|She was almost in tears, impotent with shame and fear.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000000|"It has been a pretty game of love for you and the excellent Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000001|You have deceived those who love you best and trust you most.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000002|What will the princess say when she hears of last night's merry escapade?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000003|What will she say when she learns who was hostess to a common guardsman at the midnight hour?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000004|It is no wonder that you look terrified.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000005|It is for you to say whether she is to know or not.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000006|You can bind me to silence.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000007|You have lost Baldos.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000008|Take me and all that I can give you in his stead, and the world never shall know the truth.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000009|You love him, I know, and there is but one way to save him.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000010|Say the word and he goes free to the hills; decline and his life is not worth a breath of air."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000037_000000|"And pretending to believe this of me, you still ask me to be your wife.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000038_000000|"My wife?" he said harshly.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000038_000001|"Oh, no
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000038_000002|You are not the wife of Baldos," he added significantly.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000000|"Good God!" gasped Beverly, crushed by the brutality of it all.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000001|"I would sooner die.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000002|Would to heaven my father were here, he would shoot you as he would a dog!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000004|Don't you try to stop me!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000005|I shall go to the princess myself.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000006|She shall know what manner of beast you are."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000040_000000|She was racing up the steps, flaming with anger and shame.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000000|"Remember, I can prove what I have said.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000001|Beware what you do.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000003|Think well over it.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000004|Your honor and his life!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000005|It rests with you," he cried eagerly, following her to the door.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000042_000000|"You disgusting old fool," she hissed, turning upon him as she pulled the big brass knocker on the door.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000043_000000|"I must have my answer to night, or you know what will happen," he snarled, but he felt in his heart that he had lost through his eagerness.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000044_000001|Between sobs and feminine maledictions she poured the whole story, in all its ugliness, into the ears of the princess.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000000|"I cannot prevent General Marlanx from preferring serious charges against Baldos, dear.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000003|"You may depend upon me to protect you from Marlanx.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000004|He can make it very unpleasant for Baldos, but he shall pay dearly for this insult to you.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000005|He has gone too far."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000047_000000|"I don't think he has any proof against Baldos," said Beverly, thinking only of the guardsman.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000049_000000|"He seems to think he can get wives as easily as he gets rid of them, I observe.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000049_000001|I was going back to Washington soon, Yetive, but I'll stay on now and see this thing to the end.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000049_000003|I'll telegraph for my brother Dan to come over here and punch his head to pieces."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000050_000000|"Now, now,--don't be so high and mighty, dear.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000050_000002|Whereupon the hot headed girl from Dixie suspended hostilities and became a very demure young woman.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000050_000003|Before long she was confessing timidly, then boldly, that she loved Baldos better than anything in all the world.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000001|I know I oughtn't to, but what is there to do when one can't help it?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000002|There would be an awful row at home if I married him.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000004|Maybe he won't.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000005|In fact, I'm sure he won't.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000006|I shan't give him a chance.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000007|But if he does ask me I'll just keep putting him off.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000008|I've done it before, you know.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000009|You see, for a long, long time, I fancied he might be a prince, but he isn't at all.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000010|I've had his word for it.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000011|He's just an ordinary person-like-like-well, like I am.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000012|Only he doesn't look so ordinary.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000013|Isn't he handsome, Yetive?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000016|Wouldn't that have surprised old Marlanx?" Beverly gave a merry laugh.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000017|The troubles of the morning seemed to fade away under the warmth of her humor.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000018|Yetive sat back and marvelled at the manner in which this blithe young American cast out the "blue devils."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000000|"You must not do anything foolish, Beverly," she cautioned, "Your parents would never forgive me if I allowed you to marry or even to fall in love with any Tom, Dick or Harry over here.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000003|I wish now that I had not humored you in your plan to bring him to the castle.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000004|I'm afraid I have done wrong.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000006|Beverly kissed her rapturously.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000000|"Don't worry about me, Yetive.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000001|I know how to take care of myself.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000003|"Now let's talk about the war.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000004|Marlanx won't do anything until he hears from me.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000005|What's the use worrying?"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000054_000000|Nightfall brought General Marlanx in from the camps outside the gates.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000054_000002|She promptly answered that she did not want to see him and would not.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000054_000003|Without a moment's hesitation he appealed for an audience with the princess, and it was granted.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000000|He proceeded, with irate coolness, to ask how far she believed herself bound to protect the person of Baldos, the guard.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000001|He understood that she was under certain obligations to Miss Calhoun and he wanted to be perfectly sure of his position before taking a step which now seemed imperative.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000002|Baldos was a spy in the employ of Dawsbergen.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000003|He had sufficient proof to warrant his arrest and execution; there were documents, and there was positive knowledge that he had conferred with strangers from time to time, even within the walls of the castle grounds.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000004|Marlanx cited instances in which Baldos had been seen talking to a strange old man inside the grounds, and professed to have proof that he had gone so far as to steal away by night to meet men beyond the city walls.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000005|He was now ready to seize the guard, but would not do so until he had conferred with his sovereign.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000056_000000|"Miss Calhoun tells me that you have made certain proposals to her, Count Marlanx," said Yetive coldly, her eyes upon his hawkish face.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000057_000000|"I have asked her to be my wife, your highness."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000058_000000|"You have threatened her, Count Marlanx."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000059_000000|"She has exposed herself to you?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000059_000001|I would not have told what I saw last night."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000000|"Would it interest you to know that I saw everything that passed on the balcony last night?
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000001|You will allow me to say, general, that you have behaved in a most outrageous manner in approaching my guest with such foul proposals.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000002|Stop, sir!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000003|She has told me everything and I believe her.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000004|I believe my own eyes.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000005|There is no need to discuss the matter further.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000006|You have lost the right to be called a man.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000007|For the present I have only to say that you shall be relieved of the command of my army.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000008|The man who makes war on women is not fit to serve one.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000009|As for Baldos, you are at liberty to prefer the charges.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000010|He shall have a fair trial, rest assured."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000061_000000|"Your highness, hear me," implored Marlanx, white to the roots of his hair.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000000|"I can but stand condemned, then, your highness, without a hearing.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000001|My vindication will come, however.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000003|You may depose me, but you cannot ask me to neglect my duty to Graustark.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000004|I have tried to save him for Miss Calhoun's sake-" But her hand was pointing to the door.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000064_000000|Ten minutes later Beverly was hearing everything from the lips of the princess, and Marlanx was cursing his way toward the barracks, vengeance in his heart.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000064_000001|But a swift messenger from the castle reached the guard room ahead of him.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000064_000002|Colonel Quinnox was reading an official note from the princess when Marlanx strode angrily into the room.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000065_000000|"Bring this fellow Baldos to me, Colonel Quinnox," he said, without greeting.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000066_000000|"I regret to say that I have but this instant received a message from her highness, commanding me to send him to the castle," said Quinnox, with a smile.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000067_000000|"The devil!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000068_000000|"Have a care, sir," said Quinnox stiffly.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000068_000001|"It is of the princess you speak."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000069_000000|"Bah!
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000069_000002|It is more important than-"
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000070_000000|"Nevertheless, sir, he goes to the castle first.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000070_000001|This note says that I am to disregard any command you may give until further notice."
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000071_000000|Marlanx fell back amazed and stunned.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000071_000001|At this juncture Baldos entered the room.
train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000071_000002|Quinnox handed him an envelope, telling him that it was from the princess and that he was to repair at once to the castle, Baldos glanced at the handwriting, and his face lit up proudly.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000003_000001|For my part, I see no necessary connection between discomfort and devotion.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000004_000002|The singing seats, projecting from the central portion of the gallery, furnished me with another hebdomadal study, in large gilt letters of antique awkwardness, which so impressed themselves on my mind that I see them now.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000004_000003|This was the golden legend: "BUILT, seventeen seventy.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000004_000004|ENLARGED, seventeen ninety five." I remember hearing a wag propose to add as another remarkable fact, "SCOURED, eighteen eighteen."
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000005_000000|Opposite to the singing seats towered the pulpit, from which the clergyman looked down upon us like a sparrow upon the house top.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000006_000001|But in winter the vast airy space had a peculiar and searching chill.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000006_000003|The minister stood upon a heated slab of soap stone.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000001|The chorister, even, was frequently among the missing, but was charitably supposed to be subject to the ague. Efforts were made to prevail upon the elderly part of the parish to permit the introduction of stoves with long funnels.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000003|Their fathers had worshipped in the cold, and their sons might.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000008|The stoves were provided, and an uncommonly full attendance the next Sabbath showed the very general interest the matter had excited.
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000009|How would it seem?
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000010|Would any one faint?
train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000008_000001|No one could see across the church, and the minister loomed up, as if in a dense fog; all eyes were fountains of tears.
train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000005_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000006_000000|ARTS AT HULL HOUSE
train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000010_000000|The exhibits afforded pathetic evidence that the older immigrants do not expect the solace of art in this country; an Italian expressed great surprise when he found that we, although Americans, still liked pictures, and said quite naively that he didn't know that Americans cared for anything but dollars-that looking at pictures was something people only did in Italy.
train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000019_000000|"Who was it made the coal? Our God as well as theirs."
train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000020_000000|seemed to relieve the tension of the moment.
train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000021_000000|"The roaring of the wheels has filled my ears, The clashing and the clamor shut me in, Myself, my soul, in chaos disappears, I cannot think or feel amid the din."
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000008_000000|CHAPTER thirty.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000008_000001|WAITING ON DESTINY
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000009_000000|Throughout the day Marian kept her room.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000009_000003|At times she lay in silent anguish; frequently her tears broke forth, and she sobbed until weariness overcame her.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000010_000000|At five her mother brought tea.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000012_000000|'To bed?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000012_000001|But I am going out in an hour or two.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000013_000000|'Oh, you can't, dear!
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000013_000001|It's so bitterly cold.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000013_000002|It wouldn't be good for you.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000014_000000|'I have to go out, mother, so we won't speak of it.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000015_000001|Mrs Yule sat down, and watched the girl raise the cup to her mouth with trembling hand.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000016_000000|'This won't make any difference to you-in the end, my darling,' the mother ventured to say at length, alluding for the first time to the effect of the catastrophe on Marian's immediate prospects.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000017_000000|'Of course not,' was the reply, in a tone of self persuasion.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000020_000000|'You feel much better now, don't you?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000021_000000|'Much.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000021_000001|I am quite well again.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000022_000000|At seven, Marian went out.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000022_000001|Finding herself weaker than she had thought, she stopped an empty cab that presently passed her, and so drove to the Milvains' lodgings.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000023_000000|Jasper was at home, and working.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000024_000000|'Your father has been behaving brutally,' he said, holding her hands and gazing anxiously at her.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000025_000000|'There is something far worse than that, Jasper.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000027_000001|Jasper gave a whistle of consternation, and looked vacantly from the paper to Marian's countenance.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000028_000000|'How the deuce comes this about?' he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000029_000000|'Perhaps he was.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000030_000000|'You are the only one affected?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000031_000000|'So father says.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000032_000001|Sit down, Marian.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000032_000002|When did the letter come?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000034_000000|'And you have been fretting over it all day.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000035_000000|Even whilst he spoke his eyes wandered absently.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000035_000002|Marian's look was fixed upon him, and he became conscious of it.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000035_000003|He tried to smile.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000038_000000|It was as necessary to him as to her to have a respite before the graver discussion began.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000039_000001|'I only wanted to make myself indispensable to them, and at the end of this year I shall feel pretty sure of that.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000041_000000|'Oh, I shall transfer myself to a better paper presently.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000043_000000|'What shall we do, Jasper?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000044_000000|'Work and wait, I suppose.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000000|'There's something I must tell you.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000002|If I do that, I shall have a right to the money, I think.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000003|It will at least be eight guineas.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000004|And why shouldn't I go on writing for myself-for us?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000005|You can help me to think of subjects.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000046_000000|'First of all, what about my letter to your father?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000046_000001|We are forgetting all about it.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000049_000001|Surely that is extreme behaviour.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000050_000001|Jasper stood rather stiffly, and threw his head back.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000051_000000|'You know the reason, dear.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000052_000000|'Well, well; it isn't a matter of much moment.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000052_000001|But what I have in mind is this.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000053_000001|And I was thinking more of-'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000054_000000|'Of what?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000056_000000|She spoke with shaken voice, her eyes fixed upon his face.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000058_000000|'no
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000058_000001|I only meant-'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000061_000000|'No; I quite understand that.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000062_000000|'Can you promise to keep a little love for me all that time?' he asked with a constrained smile.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000063_000000|'You know me too well to fear.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000064_000000|'I thought you seemed a little doubtful.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000065_000003|He had never satisfied her heart's desire of infinite love; she never spoke with him but she was oppressed with the suspicion that his love was not as great as hers, and, worse still, that he did not wholly comprehend the self surrender which she strove to make plain in every word.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000066_000000|'You don't say that seriously, Jasper?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000071_000000|'Why no, of course not.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000072_000000|'Oh, but how coldly you speak, Jasper!'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000073_000000|She could not breathe a word which might be interpreted as fear lest the change of her circumstances should make a change in his feeling. Yet that was in her mind.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000073_000001|The existence of such a fear meant, of course, that she did not entirely trust him, and viewed his character as something less than noble.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000074_000001|Her heart ached because, in her great misery, he had not fondled her, and intoxicated her senses with loving words.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000075_000000|'How can I make you feel how much I love you?' she murmured.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000078_000000|'I am content for you to think so,' she said.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000079_000000|'Well now, we are quite sure of each other.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000080_000000|The question made her wince.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000083_000002|I'm not the fellow to be beaten.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000086_000000|'Not a bit of it.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000086_000006|You understand?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000087_000000|'You are right.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000088_000000|She was on the point of confessing that she had swooned, but something restrained her.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000089_000000|'Your father can hardly be sorry,' said Jasper.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000091_000001|If the blackguards pay ten shillings in the pound you will get two thousand five hundred out of them, and that's something.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000091_000002|But how do you stand?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000093_000000|'But of course your interests will be properly looked after.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000094_000000|'No, indeed.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000096_000000|'Oh, no doubt.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000098_000000|'Not to night.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000100_000000|He again lost himself in anxious reverie.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000104_000000|'That isn't exactly the question.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000104_000001|Could you do anything that would sell? With very moderate success in fiction you might make three times as much as you ever will by magazine pot boilers.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000104_000002|A girl like you.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000105_000000|'A girl like me?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000106_000001|For the first time Jasper saw her cheeks colour deeply, and it was with anything but pleasure.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000109_000000|'I know you didn't, Jasper.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000109_000001|But you make me think that-'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000110_000001|Come here and forgive me.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000111_000000|She did not approach, but only because the painful thought he had excited kept her to that spot.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000112_000000|'Come, Marian!
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000112_000001|Then I must come to you.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000114_000002|The experiment is worth a try I'm certain.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000115_000002|That thought which at times gives trouble to all women of strong emotions was working in her: had she been too demonstrative, and made her love too cheap?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000115_000003|Now that Jasper's love might be endangered, it behoved her to use any arts which nature prompted.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000115_000004|And so, for once, he was not wholly satisfied with her, and at their parting he wondered what subtle change had affected her manner to him.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000116_000000|'Why didn't Marian come to speak a word?' said Dora, when her brother entered the girls' sitting room about ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000122_000000|The girls were appalled.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000124_000000|'Well, I shouldn't be surprised if that were found necessary,' replied her brother caustically.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000125_000000|'And shall we have to go back to our old lodgings again?' inquired Maud.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000126_000000|Jasper gave no answer, but kicked a footstool savagely out of his way and paced the room.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000129_000000|Maud glanced at her sister, but Dora was preoccupied.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000132_000000|He bit the ends of his moustache, and his eyes glared at the impalpable thwarting force that to imagination seemed to fill the air about him.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000133_000000|'A lesson against being over hasty,' he muttered, again kicking the footstool.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000134_000000|'Did you make that considerate remark to Marian?' asked Maud.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000136_000000|'I suppose she's wretched?' said Dora.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000137_000000|'What else can you expect?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000140_000000|He walked about and ejaculated splenetic phrases on the subject of his ill luck.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000141_000000|'We are here, and here we must stay,' was the final expression of his mood.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000141_000005|Suppose we had married, and after that lost the money!'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000142_000000|'You would have been no worse off than plenty of literary men,' said Dora.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000143_000000|'Perhaps not.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000143_000002|I have to rely upon my own efforts. What's the time?
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000144_000000|And nodding a good night he left them.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000147_000001|We have talked about it.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000148_000000|'What does he wish you to do, dear?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000150_000000|'Father has been telling me something, Marian,' said Mrs Yule after a long silence.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000150_000003|He'll get worse and worse, until there has been an operation; and perhaps he'll never be able to use his eyes properly again.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000151_000000|The girl listened in an attitude of despair.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000152_000000|'He has seen an oculist?--a really good doctor?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000154_000000|'And how did he speak to you?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000155_000001|He talked of going to the workhouse, and things like that.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000155_000003|Wouldn't somebody help him?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000156_000000|'There's not much help to be expected in this world,' answered the girl.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000157_000001|A fog veiled sky added its weight to crush her spirit; at the hour when she usually rose it was still all but as dark as midnight.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000158_000001|It could be smelt and tasted.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000160_000000|'Your father has asked to see you when you come down,' Mrs Yule whispered.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000162_000000|Marian entered the study.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000162_000002|He did not immediately move.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000162_000003|When he raised his head Marian saw that he looked older, and she noticed-or fancied she did-that there was some unfamiliar peculiarity about his eyes.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000163_000000|'I am obliged to you for coming,' he began with distant formality. 'Since I saw you last I have learnt something which makes a change in my position and prospects, and it is necessary to speak on the subject.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000000|'I understand.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000006|If the disease prove irremediable, I must prepare myself for the worst.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000007|What I wish to say is, that it will be better if from to day you consider yourself as working for your own subsistence.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000009|But it is right that you should understand what my prospects are.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000172_000000|'I am prepared to do that, father.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000173_000002|If you marry, I wish you a happy life.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000176_000000|'Is there no remedy for cataract in its early stages?' asked Marian.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000177_000000|'None.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000177_000002|I prefer not to speak of it.'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000178_000000|'Will you let me be what help to you I can?'
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000180_000000|Marian withdrew.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000180_000002|With the dissipation of the fog rain had set in; its splashing upon the muddy pavement was audible.
train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000181_000001|Marian took a place beside her.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000002_000000|CHAPTER forty five
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000004_000002|The dogs were, and are to this day, jealously guarded under the supervision of the Chief Eunuch of the Court, and few have ever found their way into the outer world.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000005_000002|Lord john and another naval officer, a cousin of the late Duchess of Richmond's, each secured two dogs; the fifth was taken by General Dunne, who presented it to Queen Victoria.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000008_000000|The Duchess of Richmond occasionally gave away a dog to intimate friends, such as the Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others, but in those days the Pekinese was practically an unknown quantity, and it can therefore be more readily understood what interest was aroused about eleven years ago by the appearance of a small dog, similar in size, colour, and general type to those so carefully cherished at Goodwood.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000009_000004|Gia Gia, Manchu Tao Tai, Goodwood Ming, Marland Myth, and others.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000011_000000|Is it therefore to be wondered at that confusion exists as to what is the true type?
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000012_000000|The following is the scale of points as issued by the Pekinese Club:--
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000001|NOSE-Black, broad, very short and flat.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000003|STOP-Deep. EARS-Heart shaped; not set too high; leather never long enough to come below the muzzle; not carried erect, but rather drooping, long feather.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000004|MUZZLE-Very short and broad; not underhung nor pointed; wrinkled.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000009|Black masks, and spectacles round the eyes, with lines to the ears, are desirable.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000010|LEGS-Short; fore legs heavy, bowed out at elbows; hind legs lighter, but firm and well shaped.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000011|FEET-Flat, not round; should stand well up on toes, not on ankles.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000012|TAIL-Curled and carried well up on loins; long, profuse straight feather.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000013|SIZE-Being a toy dog the smaller the better, provided type and points are not sacrificed.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000015_000000|In every case a black muzzle is indispensable, also black points to the ears, with trousers, tail and feathering a somewhat lighter shade than the body.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000018_000000|It would not be fitting to close an article on Pekinese without bearing testimony to their extraordinarily attractive characteristics. They are intensely affectionate and faithful, and have something almost cat like in their domesticity.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000018_000001|They display far more character than the so-called "toy dog" usually does, and for this reason it is all important that pains should be taken to preserve the true type, in a recognition of the fact that quality is more essential than quantity.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000000|As their breed name implies, these tiny black and white, long haired lap dogs are reputed to be natives of the land of the chrysanthemum. The Japanese, who have treasured them for centuries, have the belief that they are not less ancient than the dogs of Malta.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000004|It is fairly certain that they are indigenous to the Far East, whence we have derived so many of our small snub nosed, large eyed, and long haired pets.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000005|The Oriental peoples have always bred their lap dogs to small size, convenient for carrying in the sleeve.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000006|The "sleeve dog" and the "chin dog" are common and appropriate appellations in the East.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000000|The Japanese Spaniel was certainly known in England half a century ago, and probably much earlier.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000003|Their colours were not invariably white and black.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000005|The colouring other than white was usually about the long fringed ears and the crown of the head, with a line of white running from the point of the snub black nose between the eyes as far as the occiput.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000006|This blaze up the face was commonly said to resemble the body of a butterfly, whose closed wings were represented by the dog's expansive ears.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000000|The white and black colouring is now the most frequent.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000003|The legs are by preference slender and much feathered, the feet large and well separated.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000004|An important point is the coat.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000006|The Japanese Spaniel is constitutionally delicate, requiring considerable care in feeding.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000007|A frequent-almost a daily-change of diet is to be recommended, and manufactured foods are to be avoided.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000008|Rice usually agrees well; fresh fish, sheep's head, tongue, chicken livers, milk or batter puddings are also suitable; and occasionally give oatmeal porridge, alternated with a little scraped raw meat as an especial favour.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000009|For puppies newly weaned it is well to limit the supply of milk foods and to avoid red meat.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000010|Finely minced rabbit, or fish are better.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000022_000003|Daddy Jap.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000024_000000|The following is the official standard issued by the Club:--
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000002|NOSE-Very short in the muzzle part.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000005|EARS-Small and V shaped, nicely feathered, set wide apart and high on the head and carried slightly forward.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000008|LEGS-The bones of the legs should be small, giving them a slender appearance, and they should be well feathered.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000011|TAIL-Carried in a tight curl over the back. It should be profusely feathered so as to give the appearance of a beautiful "plume" on the animal's back.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000012|COAT-Profuse, long, straight, rather silky.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000013|It should be absolutely free from wave or curl, and not lie too flat, but have a tendency to stand out, especially at the neck, so as to give a thick mane or ruff, which with profuse feathering on thighs and tail gives a very showy appearance.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000015|The term red includes all shades, sable, brindle, lemon or orange, but the brighter and clearer the red the better.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000016|The white should be clear white, and the colour, whether black or red, should be evenly distributed in patches over the body, cheeks, and ears.
train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000017|HEIGHT AT SHOULDER-About ten inches.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000003_000002|He appears almost to prefer equine to human companionship, and he is as fond of being among horses as the Collie is of being in the midst of sheep.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000003_000003|Yet he is of friendly disposition, and it must be insisted that he is by no means so destitute of intelligence as he is often represented to be.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000003_000004|On the contrary, he is capable of being trained into remarkable cleverness, as circus proprietors have discovered.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000004_000001|Of late years, however, these dogs have so far degenerated as to be looked upon simply as companions, or as exhibition dogs, for only very occasionally can it be found that any pains have been taken to train them systematically for gun work.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000005_000001|At that period they were looked upon as a novelty, and, though the generosity and influence of a few admirers ensured separate classes being provided for the breed at the leading shows, it did not necessitate the production of such perfect specimens as those which a few years afterwards won prizes.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000005_000006|Berolina.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000006_000000|In appearance the Dalmatian should be very similar to a Pointer except in head and marking.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000006_000003|Those which are flesh coloured in this particular should be discarded, however good they may be in other respects.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000006_000004|The density and pureness of colour, in both blacks and browns, is of great importance, but should not be permitted to outweigh the evenness of the distribution of spots on the body; no black patches, or even mingling of the spots, should meet with favour, any more than a ring tail or a clumsy looking, heavy shouldered dog should command attention.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000007_000002|The clearer and whiter they are the better they are likely to be.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000007_000003|There should not be the shadow of a mark or spot on them.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000007_000004|When about a fortnight old, however, they generally develop a dark ridge on the belly, and the spots will then begin to show themselves; first about the neck and ears, and afterwards along the back, until at about the sixteenth day the markings are distinct over the body, excepting only the tail, which frequently remains white for a few weeks longer.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000008_000000|The standard of points as laid down by the leading club is sufficiently explicit to be easily understood, and is as follows:--
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000000|GENERAL APPEARANCE-The Dalmatian should represent a strong, muscular, and active dog, symmetrical in outline, and free from coarseness and lumber, capable of great endurance combined with a fair amount of speed.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000003|MUZZLE-The muzzle should be long and powerful; the lips clean, fitting the jaws moderately close.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000006|THE RIM ROUND THE EYES in the black spotted variety should be black, in the liver spotted variety brown-never flesh colour in either.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000007|EARS-The ears should be set on rather high, of moderate size, rather wide at the base, and gradually tapering to a round point.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000008|They should be carried close to the head, be thin and fine in texture, and always spotted-the more profusely the better. NOSE-The nose in the black spotted variety should always be black, in the liver spotted variety always brown.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000012|LEGS AND FEET-The legs and feet are of great importance.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000013|The fore legs should be perfectly straight, strong, and heavy in bone; elbows close to the body; fore feet round, compact with well arched toes (cat footed), and round, tough, elastic pads.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000016|TAIL-The tail should not be too long, strong at the insertion, and gradually tapering towards the end, free from coarseness.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000017|It should not be inserted too low down, but carried with a slight curve upwards, and never curled.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000018|It should be spotted, the more profusely the better.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000020|COLOUR AND MARKINGS-These are most important points.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000021|The ground colour in both varieties should be pure white, very decided, and not intermixed.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000023|The spots should not intermingle, but be as round and well defined as possible, the more distinct the better; in size they should be from that of a sixpence to a florin.
train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000025|WEIGHT-Dogs, fifty five pounds.; bitches, fifty pounds.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000002_000001|Why the breed was first called the Southern Hound, or when his use became practical in Great Britain, must be subjects of conjecture; but that there was a hound good enough to hold a line for many hours is accredited in history that goes very far back into past centuries.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000002_000002|The hound required three centuries ago even was all the better esteemed for being slow and unswerving on a line of scent, and in many parts of the Kingdom, up to within half that period, the so-called Southern Hound had been especially employed.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000008_000002|His holt can very well be passed, his delicious scent may be overrun; but the pure bred Otterhound is equal to all occasions.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000008_000008|To be equal to such prey, the hound must have a Bulldog's courage, a Newfoundland's strength in water, a Pointer's nose, a Retriever's sagacity, the stamina of the Foxhound, the patience of a Beagle, the intelligence of a Collie.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000001|With a narrow forehead, ascending to a moderate peak.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000003|They show a considerable amount of the haw. NOSE-The nose is large and well developed, the nostrils expanding. MUZZLE-The muzzle well protected from wiry hair.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000005|NECK-The neck is strong and muscular, but rather long.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000006|The dewlap is loose and folded.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000007|CHEST-The chest, deep and capacious, but not too wide.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000008|BACK-The back is strong, wide and arched.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000009|SHOULDERS-The shoulders ought to be sloping, the arms and thighs substantial and muscular.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000010|FEET-The feet, fairly large and spreading, with firm pads and strong nails to resist sharp rocks. STERN-The stern when the hound is at work is carried gaily, like that of a rough Welsh Harrier.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000011|It is thick and well covered, to serve as a rudder.
train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000013|COLOUR-Grey, or buff, or yellowish, or black, or rufus red, mixed with black or grey.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000010_000000|"Poor thing!" said the old poet, as he went to open the door.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000000|"Poor child!" said the old poet, as he took the boy by the hand.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000002|Thou shalt have wine and roasted apples, for thou art verily a charming child!" And the boy was so really.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000003|His eyes were like two bright stars; and although the water trickled down his hair, it waved in beautiful curls.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000004|He looked exactly like a little angel, but he was so pale, and his whole body trembled with cold.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000013_000000|"You are a merry fellow," said the old man.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000013_000001|"What's your name?"
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000014_000000|"My name is Cupid," answered the boy.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000014_000001|"Don't you know me?
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000014_000003|Look, the weather is now clearing up, and the moon is shining clear again through the window."
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000018_000000|The poor poet lay on the earth and wept, for the arrow had really flown into his heart.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000019_000002|I will tell all children about him, that they may take care and not play with him, for he will only cause them sorrow and many a heartache."
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000000|And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000004|Yes, he is forever following people.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000007|Ask them only and you will hear what they'll tell you.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000009|He is forever running after everybody.
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000010|Only think, he shot an arrow once at your old grandmother!
train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000011|But that is a long time ago, and it is all past now; however, a thing of that sort she never forgets.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000008_000000|Now Karen was old enough to be confirmed; she had new clothes and was to have new shoes also.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000008_000003|All this looked charming, but the old lady could not see well, and so had no pleasure in them.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000008_000004|In the midst of the shoes stood a pair of red ones, just like those the princess had worn.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000013_000000|The next Sunday there was the sacrament, and Karen looked at the black shoes, looked at the red ones-looked at them again, and put on the red shoes.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000014_000000|The sun shone gloriously; Karen and the old lady walked along the path through the corn; it was rather dusty there.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000016_000001|"Sit firm when you dance"; and he put his hand out towards the soles.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000021_000000|And Karen could not help dancing a step or two, and when she began her feet continued to dance; it was just as though the shoes had power over them.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000022_000000|The shoes were placed in a closet at home, but Karen could not avoid looking at them.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000024_000001|She danced, and was forced to dance straight out into the gloomy wood.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000028_000000|"Dance shalt thou!" said he.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000028_000004|Dance shalt thou-!"
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000029_000000|"Mercy!" cried Karen.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000031_000002|Here, she knew, dwelt the executioner; and she tapped with her fingers at the window, and said, "Come out!
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000031_000003|Come out!
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000031_000004|I cannot come in, for I am forced to dance!"
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000033_000000|"Don't strike my head off!" said Karen.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000033_000001|"Then I can't repent of my sins! But strike off my feet in the red shoes!"
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000038_000001|And the clergyman's wife was sorry for her and took her into service; and she was industrious and thoughtful.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000040_000001|And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.
train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000040_000004|For the church itself had come to the poor girl in her narrow chamber, or else she had come into the church.
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000005_000000|twenty two.
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000005_000001|L'Apprenti Sorcier
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000009_000001|In Praise of Solid People
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000013_000000|Yet not unfaithful nor unkind, with work day virtues surely staid, Theirs is the sane and humble mind, And dull affections undismayed.
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000014_000000|O happy people!
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000018_000000|I look around the empty room, The clock still ticking in its place, And all else silent as the tomb, Till suddenly, I think, a face
train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000020_000000|And dusky galleys past me sail, Full freighted on a faerie sea; I hear the silken merchants hail Across the ringing waves to me
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000000|--The Fight of Heriot's Ford. 'THIS is a cheerful life,' said Dick, some days later.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000001|'Torp's away; Bessie hates me; I can't get at the notion of the Melancolia; Maisie's letters are scrappy; and I believe I have indigestion.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000002|What give a man pains across the head and spots before his eyes, Binkie?
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000003|Shall us take some liver pills?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000005_000002|She explained her enduring hatred for Dick, and made it clear to him that she only sat for the sake of his money.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000005_000003|'And mr Torpenhow's ten times a better man than you,' she concluded.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000006_000001|That's why he went away.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000007_000001|'To me!
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000007_000002|I'd like to catch you!
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000000|Dick smiled wearily.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000001|It is not pleasant to live in the company of a notion that will not work out, a fox terrier that cannot talk, and a woman who talks too much.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000002|He would have answered, but at that moment there unrolled itself from one corner of the studio a veil, as it were, of the flimsiest gauze.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000003|He rubbed his eyes, but the gray haze would not go.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000010_000001|Binkie, we will go to a medicine man. We can't have our eyes interfered with, for by these we get our bread; also mutton chop bones for little dogs.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000011_000000|The doctor was an affable local practitioner with white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to describe the gray film in the studio.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000000|'We all want a little patching and repairing from time to time,' he chirped.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000001|'Like a ship, my dear sir,--exactly like a ship.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000004|A little patching and repairing from time to time is all we want.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000005|An oculist, by all means.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000013_000000|Dick sought an oculist,--the best in London.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000014_000000|'I've neglected the warnings of my lord the stomach too long.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000014_000001|Hence these spots before the eyes, Binkie.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000014_000002|I can see as well as I ever could.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000015_000000|As he entered the dark hall that led to the consulting room a man cannoned against him.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000015_000001|Dick saw the face as it hurried out into the street.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000000|'That's the writer type.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000001|He has the same modelling of the forehead as Torp.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000002|He looks very sick.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000003|Probably heard something he didn't like.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000017_000000|Even as he thought, a great fear came upon Dick, a fear that made him hold his breath as he walked into the oculist's waiting room, with the heavy carved furniture, the dark green paper, and the sober hued prints on the wall.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000017_000001|He recognised a reproduction of one of his own sketches.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000018_000000|Many people were waiting their turn before him.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000018_000001|His eye was caught by a flaming red and gold Christmas carol book.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000018_000002|Little children came to that eye doctor, and they needed large type amusement.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000019_000000|'That's idolatrous bad Art,' he said, drawing the book towards himself.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000021_000000|The next good joy that Mary had, It was the joy of three, To see her good Son Jesus Christ Making the blind to see; Making the blind to see, good Lord, And happy we may be.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000000|Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost To all eternity! Dick read and re read the verse till his turn came, and the doctor was bending above him seated in an arm chair.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000002|The doctor's hand touched the scar of the sword cut on Dick's head, and Dick explained briefly how he had come by it.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000003|When the flame was removed, Dick saw the doctor's face, and the fear came upon him again.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000004|The doctor wrapped himself in a mist of words.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000023_000000|'Verdict?' he said faintly.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000023_000002|What do you make of it?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000024_000000|Again the whirl of words, but this time they conveyed a meaning.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000025_000000|'Can you give me anything to drink?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000026_000000|Many sentences were pronounced in that darkened room, and the prisoners often needed cheering.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000026_000001|Dick found a glass of liqueur brandy in his hand.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000027_000000|'As far as I can gather,' he said, coughing above the spirit, 'you call it decay of the optic nerve, or something, and therefore hopeless.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000027_000001|What is my time limit, avoiding all strain and worry?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000028_000000|'Perhaps one year.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000029_000001|And if I don't take care of myself?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000000|'I really could not say.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000001|One cannot ascertain the exact amount of injury inflicted by the sword cut.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000002|The scar is an old one, and-exposure to the strong light of the desert, did you say?--with excessive application to fine work?
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000003|I really could not say?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000031_000000|'I beg your pardon, but it has come without any warning.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000031_000001|If you will let me, I'll sit here for a minute, and then I'll go.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000034_000000|'We've got it very badly, little dog!
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000034_000001|Just as badly as we can get it. We'll go to the Park to think it out.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000035_000000|They headed for a certain tree that Dick knew well, and they sat down to thin, because his legs were trembling under him and there was cold fear at the pit of his stomach.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000000|'How could it have come without any warning?
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000002|It's the living death, Binkie.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000004|'Binkie, we must think.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000005|Let's see how it feels to be blind.' Dick shut his eyes, and flaming commas and Catherine wheels floated inside the lids.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000006|Yet when he looked across the Park the scope of his vision was not contracted.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000007|He could see perfectly, until a procession of slow wheeling fireworks defiled across his eyeballs.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000037_000000|'Little dorglums, we aren't at all well.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000037_000001|Let's go home.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000037_000002|If only Torp were back, now!'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000038_000001|His letters were brief and full of mystery.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000001|He argued, in the loneliness of his studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blindness, all the Torpenhows in the world could not save him.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000002|'I can't call him off his trip to sit down and sympathise with me.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000003|I must pull through this business alone,' he said.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000004|He was lying on the sofa, eating his moustache and wondering what the darkness of the night would be like.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000006|Looking down, he saw that his life blood was going from him.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000007|The stupid bewilderment on his face was so intensely comic that both Dick and Torpenhow, still panting and unstrung from a fight for life, had roared with laughter, in which the man seemed as if he would join, but, as his lips parted in a sheepish grin, the agony of death came upon him, and he pitched grunting at their feet.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000008|Dick laughed again, remembering the horror.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000009|It seemed so exactly like his own case.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000040_000000|'But I have a little more time allowed me,' he said.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000040_000001|He paced up and down the room, quietly at first, but afterwards with the hurried feet of fear.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000040_000002|It was as though a black shadow stood at his elbow and urged him to go forward; and there were only weaving circles and floating pin dots before his eyes.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000000|'We need to be calm, Binkie; we must be calm.' He talked aloud for the sake of distraction.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000003|We must do something.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000004|Our time is short.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000005|I shouldn't have believed that this morning; but now things are different.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000042_000000|Binkie smiled from ear to ear, as a well bred terrier should, but made no suggestion.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000043_000002|'What can I do?
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000043_000003|What can I do?
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000044_000001|'You won't do, and you won't do,' he said, at each inspection.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000044_000004|Sudden death comes home too nearly, and this is battle and murder for me.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000045_000001|'Allah Almighty!' he cried despairingly, 'help me through the time of waiting, and I won't whine when my punishment comes.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000045_000002|What can I do now, before the light goes?'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000001|Dick waited till he could regain some sort of control over himself.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000002|His hands were shaking, and he prided himself on their steadiness; he could feel that his lips were quivering, and the sweat was running down his face.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000003|He was lashed by fear, driven forward by the desire to get to work at once and accomplish something, and maddened by the refusal of his brain to do more than repeat the news that he was about to go blind.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000004|'It's a humiliating exhibition,' he thought, 'and I'm glad Torp isn't here to see.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000005|The doctor said I was to avoid mental worry.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000047_000000|Come here and let me pet you, Binkie.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000001|Not quite so gentle as we could wish, but we'll discuss that later.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000002|I think I see my way to it now.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000003|All those studies of Bessie's head were nonsense, and they nearly brought your master into a scrape.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000005|That's for myself.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000000|'Understand the speech and feel a stir Of fellowship in all disastrous fight. "In all disastrous fight"?
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000001|That's better than painting the thing merely to pique Maisie.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000002|I can do it now because I have it inside me.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000005|Come here.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000051_000000|Binkie swung head downward for a moment without speaking.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000052_000000|'Rather like holding a guinea pig; but you're a brave little dog, and you don't yelp when you're hung up.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000053_000000|Binkie went to his own chair, and as often as he looked saw Dick walking up and down, rubbing his hands and chuckling.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000053_000001|That night Dick wrote a letter to Maisie full of the tenderest regard for her health, but saying very little about his own, and dreamed of the Melancolia to be born.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000053_000002|Not till morning did he remember that something might happen to him in the future.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000054_000000|He fell to work, whistling softly, and was swallowed up in the clean, clear joy of creation, which does not come to man too often, lest he should consider himself the equal of his God, and so refuse to die at the appointed time.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000054_000001|He forgot Maisie, Torpenhow, and Binkie at his feet, but remembered to stir Bessie, who needed very little stirring, into a tremendous rage, that he might watch the smouldering lights in her eyes.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000055_000000|He threw himself without reservation into his work, and did not think of the doom that was to overtake him, for he was possessed with his notion, and the things of this world had no power upon him.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000056_000000|'You're pleased to day,' said Bessie.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000057_000000|Dick waved his mahl stick in mystic circles and went to the sideboard for a drink.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000059_000001|There was a delightful sense of irresponsibility upon him, such as they feel who walking among their fellow men know that the death sentence of disease is upon them, and, seeing that fear is but waste of the little time left, are riotously happy.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000059_000002|The days passed without event.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000001|The Melancolia began to flame on the canvas, in the likeness of a woman who had known all the sorrow in the world and was laughing at it.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000002|It was true that the corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film and retired into the darkness, that the spots in his eyes and the pains across his head were very troublesome, and that Maisie's letters were hard to read and harder still to answer.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000003|He could not tell her of his trouble, and he could not laugh at her accounts of her own Melancolia which was always going to be finished.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000004|But the furious days of toil and the nights of wild dreams made amends for all, and the sideboard was his best friend on earth.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000061_000001|She used to shriek with rage when Dick stared at her between half closed eyes.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000000|Torpenhow had been absent for six weeks.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000001|An incoherent note heralded his return.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000002|'News! great news!' he wrote.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000003|'The Nilghai knows, and so does the Keneu.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000004|We're all back on Thursday.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000005|Get lunch and clean your accoutrements.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000063_000000|Dick showed Bessie the letter, and she abused him for that he had ever sent Torpenhow away and ruined her life.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000064_000000|'Well,' said Dick, brutally, 'you're better as you are, instead of making love to some drunken beast in the street.' He felt that he had rescued Torpenhow from great temptation.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000065_000000|'I don't know if that's any worse than sitting to a drunken beast in a studio.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000065_000001|You haven't been sober for three weeks.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000066_000000|'What d'you mean?' said Dick.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000067_000000|'Mean!
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000067_000001|You'll see when mr Torpenhow comes back.'
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000068_000000|It was not long to wait.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000068_000001|Torpenhow met Bessie on the staircase without a sign of feeling.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000069_000000|'Drinking like a fish,' Bessie whispered.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000069_000001|'He's been at it for nearly a month.' She followed the men stealthily to hear judgment done.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000070_000000|They came into the studio, rejoicing, to be welcomed over effusively by a drawn, lined, shrunken, haggard wreck,--unshaven, blue white about the nostrils, stooping in the shoulders, and peering under his eyebrows nervously.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000070_000001|The drink had been at work as steadily as Dick.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000071_000000|'Is this you?' said Torpenhow.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000072_000000|'All that's left of me.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000072_000001|Sit down.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000072_000002|Binkie's quite well, and I've been doing some good work.' He reeled where he stood.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000000|Torpenhow turned to his companions appealingly, and they left the room to find lunch elsewhere.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000002|After a time the culprit began to feel the need of a little self respect.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000003|He was quite sure that he had not in any way departed from virtue, and there were reasons, too, of which Torpenhow knew nothing.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000004|He would explain.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000075_000000|He rose, tried to straighten his shoulders, and spoke to the face he could hardly see.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000001|'But I am right, too.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000002|After you went away I had some trouble with my eyes.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000003|So I went to an oculist, and he turned a gasogene-I mean a gas engine-into my eye.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000005|He said, "Scar on the head,--sword cut and optic nerve." Make a note of that.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000006|So I am going blind.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000007|I have some work to do before I go blind, and I suppose that I must do it.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000008|I cannot see much now, but I can see best when I am drunk.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000009|I did not know I was drunk till I was told, but I must go on with my work.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000077_000000|Torpenhow said nothing, and Dick began to whimper feebly, for joy at seeing Torpenhow again, for grief at misdeeds-if indeed they were misdeeds-that made Torpenhow remote and unsympathetic, and for childish vanity hurt, since Torpenhow had not given a word of praise to his wonderful picture.
train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000078_000000|Bessie looked through the keyhole after a long pause, and saw the two walking up and down as usual, Torpenhow's hand on Dick's shoulder.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000003_000000|BOOK three.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000003_000001|Containing The Interval Of Two Years.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000004_000000|From The exodus Out Of Egypt, To The Rejection Of That Generation.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000005_000000|CHAPTER one.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000005_000001|How Moses When He Had Brought The People Out Of Egypt Led Them To Mount Sinai; But Not Till They Had Suffered Much In Their Journey.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000002|He therefore betook himself to prayer to God, that he would change the water from its present badness, and make it fit for drinking.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000003|And when God had granted him that favor, he took the top of a stick that lay down at his feet, and divided it in the middle, and made the section lengthways.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000004|He then let it down into the well, and persuaded the hebrews that God had hearkened to his prayers, and had promised to render the water such as they desired it to be, in case they would be subservient to him in what he should enjoin them to do, and this not after a remiss or negligent manner.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000006|So they labored at it till the water was so agitated and purged as to be fit to drink.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000008_000002|And when they dug into the sand, they met with no water; and if they took a few drops of it into their hands, they found it to be useless, on account of its mud.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000008_000005|And by fixing their attention upon nothing but their present misfortunes, they were hindered from remembering what deliverances they had received from God, and those by the virtue and wisdom of Moses also; so they were very angry at their conductor, and were zealous in their attempt to stone him, as the direct occasion of their present miseries.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000009_000001|But as for Moses himself, while the multitude were irritated and bitterly set against him, he cheerfully relied upon God, and upon his consciousness of the care he had taken of these his own people; and he came into the midst of them, even while they clamored against him, and had stones in their hands in order to despatch him.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000009_000003|Seeing it is probable that God tries their virtue, and exercises their patience by these adversities, that it may appear what fortitude they have, and what memory they retain of his former wonderful works in their favor, and whether they will not think of them upon occasion of the miseries they now feel.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000009_000006|That as for himself, he shall not be so much concerned for his own preservation; for if he die unjustly, he shall not reckon it any affliction, but that he is concerned for them, lest, by casting stones at him, they should be thought to condemn God himself.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000010_000002|Accordingly God promised he would take care of them, and afford them the succor they were desirous of.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000010_000005|So he placed himself in the midst of them, and told them he came to bring them from God a deliverance from their present distresses.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000010_000007|Upon which Moses returned thanks to God for affording them his assistance so suddenly, and sooner than he had promised them.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000003|So he tasted it, and gave them some of it, that they might be satisfied about what he told them.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000004|They also imitated their conductor, and were pleased with the food, for it was like honey in sweetness and pleasant taste, but like in its body to bdellium, one of the sweet spices, and in bigness equal to coriander seed.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000008|It also supplied the want of other sorts of food to those that fed on it.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000010|Now the hebrews call this food manna: for the particle man, in our language, is the asking of a question. What is this?
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000011|So the hebrews were very joyful at what was sent them from heaven.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000005|When Moses had received this command from God, he came to the people, who waited for him, and looked upon him, for they saw already that he was coming apace from his eminence.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000006|As soon as he was come, he told them that God would deliver them from their present distress, and had granted them an unexpected favor; and informed them, that a river should run for their sakes out of the rock.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000008|But they were astonished at this wonderful effect; and, as it were, quenched their thirst by the very sight of it.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000009|So they drank this pleasant, this sweet water; and such it seemed to be, as might well be expected where God was the donor.
train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000010|They were also in admiration how Moses was honored by God; and they made grateful returns of sacrifices to God for his providence towards them.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000000|Purblind and short sighted friends!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000002|If we were blind, we should be abundantly pitied, but as we are only half blind, such comments as these are all the consolation we get.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000004|Yes, it is very fashionable now a days for young ladies to carry eye glasses, and call themselves near sighted!" Or, "Pooh!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000005|It's all affectation.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000006|She can see as well as any body, if she chooses.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000008|I did not see you." "O no!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000010|In vain I protest that I could not see her,--that three yards is a great distance to my eyes.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000011|She leaves me with an incredulous smile, and that most provoking phrase, "O yes!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000013|Alas! we see just enough to seal our own condemnation.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000002_000000|Who is free from this malady?
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000002_000001|As I look around in society, I see staring glassy ellipses on every side "in the place where eyes ought to grow,"--and perhaps most of the unfortunate owls get along very comfortably with their artificial eyes.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000002_000002|But imagine a bashful youth, awkward and near sighted, whose friends dissuade him from wearing glasses.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000000|See that little boy, who, having put on his father's spectacles, is enjoying for the first time a clear and distinct view of the evening sky.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000001|"Oh! is that pretty little yellow dot a star?" exclaims the delighted child.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000002|Poor innocent! a star had always been to him a dim, cloudy spot, a little nebula, which the magic glass has now resolved; and he can hardly believe that this brilliant point is not an optical illusion.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000003|But when his mother assures him that the stars always appear so to her, and he turns to look in her face, he says, "Why, mother! how beautiful you look!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000001|They were accompanied, I was told, by a Boston lady, a stranger to us.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000006|Have you quite forgotten me?
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000007|Ah!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000009|I was petrified.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000010|I could not smile, I could not speak.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000011|My only feeling was mortification at my most awkward mistake.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000005_000000|"Why, Julia! what is the matter?
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000006_000002|As he was passing her, he thought he perceived that her fur boa or tippet had escaped from her neck, and, carefully lifting the end of it with one hand, he made a low bow, raising his hat with the other, and said in his blandest tone, "Madam, you are losing your tippet!" And what thanks did the worthy Doctor receive, do you think, for this truly kind and polite deed?
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000000|The Rev.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000002|Numerous are the traditionary accounts of his peculiarities,--of his odd manners and customs,--which I have heard; but it is only of one little incident that I am now going to speak.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000003|A favorite employment of this good man was the care of his garden, and he might be seen any pleasant afternoon in summer, rigged out in a hideous yellow calico robe, or blouse, with a dusty old black straw hat stuck on the back of his head, hoeing and digging in that beloved patch of ground.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000004|One day as he was thus occupied, his wife emerged from the house, dressed in a dark brown gingham, and bearing in her hand some "muslins," which she began to spread upon the gooseberry bushes to whiten.
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000005|She was very busily engaged, so that she was not aware that her husband was approaching her with a large stick, until she felt a smart blow across her shoulders, and heard his peculiar, sharp voice shouting in her ears, "Go 'long! old cow!
train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000006|Go 'long! old cow!"
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000003|There was no such fuss when I was young; in those good old times these airy notions had not come into fashion.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000006|No, indeed!
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000010|When we crowded joyfully round a crackling, sparkling wood fire, even while our faces glowed with the intense heat, cold shivers were creeping down our backs, and sudden draughts from an opening door set our teeth chattering.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000011|I often wished myself on a spit, to revolve slowly before the fire until thoroughly roasted.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000002|Fresh air is my bane.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000003|I banish all books on the subject from my table.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000006|I call in a physician; lo!
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000011|Even the poor babies are not safe from this popular insanity.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000013|The old-fashioned blanket, in which the baby was done up head and all, like a bundle, is thrown aside.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000014|The child is not quite so often carried upside down.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000015|I suppose, under the new system, but what difference does it make whether the poor thing is smothered or frozen to death?
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000004_000003|I always took to flight.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000004_000006|She always walked fast, and the more the wind blew, the warmer she felt, I might be assured.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000004_000007|As soon as she had gone, I established myself in comfort by the side of a glowing grate, happy but for dreading her return.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000005_000002|I devoutly hoped she would leave it behind in some of our numerous stopping places, and with an eye to that possibility, I must confess, I hung it in the most out of the way corners I could find; but it seemed to be on her mind continually.
train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000005_000003|She never forgot it, and always packed it very carefully, too.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000005_000000|A long time ago there lived a king and queen who had no children, although they both wished very much for a little son.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000005_000001|They tried not to let each other see how unhappy they were, and pretended to take pleasure in hunting and hawking and all sorts of other sports; but at length the king could bear it no longer, and declared that he must go and visit the furthest corners of his kingdom, and that it would be many months before he should return to his capital.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000006_000000|By that time he hoped he would have so many things to think about that he would have forgotten to trouble about the little son who never came.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000007_000000|The country the king reigned over was very large, and full of high, stony mountains and sandy deserts, so that it was not at all easy to go from one place to another.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000007_000001|One day the king had wandered out alone, meaning to go only a little distance, but everything looked so alike he could not make out the path by which he had come.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000007_000003|On the surface floated a silver cup with a golden handle, but as it bobbed about whenever the king tried to seize it, he was too thirsty to wait any longer and knelt down and drank his fill.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000008_000000|When he had finished he began to rise from his knees, but somehow his beard seemed to have stuck fast in the water, and with all his efforts he could not pull it out.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000008_000001|After two or three jerks to his head, which only hurt him without doing any good, he called out angrily, 'Let go at once!
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000008_000002|Who is holding me?'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000009_000001|'You have drunk from my spring, and I shall not let you go until you promise to give me the most precious thing your palace contains, which was not there when you left it.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000010_000002|But as he felt much stronger and better he made up his mind that this strange adventure must really have happened, and he sprang on his horse and rode off with a light heart to look for his companions.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000011_000000|In a few weeks they began to set out on their return home, which they reached one hot day, eight months after they had all left.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000011_000002|On the steps of the palace stood the queen, with a splendid golden cushion in her arms, and on the cushion the most beautiful boy that ever was seen, wrapped about in a cloud of lace.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000011_000004|But try as he would and work as hard as he might he could never forget his promise, and every time he let the baby out of his sight he thought that he had seen it for the last time.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000013_000001|'How are you my unlooked for Prince?' he said.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000013_000002|'You kept them waiting a good long time!'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000014_000000|'And who are you?' asked the prince.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000015_000001|When you go home give my compliments to your father and tell him that I wish he would square accounts with me.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000015_000002|If he neglects to pay his debts he will bitterly repent it.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000016_000000|So saying the old man disappeared, and the prince returned to the palace and told his father what had happened.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000017_000000|The king turned pale and explained to his son the terrible story.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000018_000000|'Do not grieve over it, father,' answered the prince.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000018_000001|'It is nothing so dreadful after all!
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000018_000003|But if I do not come back in a year's time, you must give up all hopes of ever seeing me.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000019_000000|Then the prince began to prepare for his journey.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000019_000001|His father gave him a complete suit of steel armour, a sword, and a horse, while his mother hung round his neck a cross of gold.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000019_000002|So, kissing him tenderly, with many tears they let him go.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000000|He rode steadily on for three days, and at sunset on the fourth day he found himself on the seashore.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000001|On the sand before him lay twelve white dresses, dazzling as the snow, yet as far as his eyes could reach there was no one in sight to whom they could belong.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000002|Curious to see what would happen, he took up one of the garments, and leaving his horse loose, to wander about the adjoining fields, he hid himself among some willows and waited.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000003|In a few minutes a flock of geese which had been paddling about in the sea approached the shore, and put on the dresses, struck the sand with their feet and were transformed in the twinkling of an eye into eleven beautiful young girls, who flew away as fast as they could.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000021_000000|'Oh Prince, give me back my dress, and I shall be for ever grateful to you.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000000|'I thank you, noble Prince, for having granted my request.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000001|I am the youngest daughter of Kostiei the immortal, who has twelve daughters and rules over the kingdoms under the earth.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000002|Long time my father has waited for you, and great is his anger.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000003|But trouble not yourself and fear nothing, only do as I bid you.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000005|That which will happen after, you will know in time.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000006|Now let us go.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000024_000000|At these words she struck the ground with her foot and a gulf opened, down which they went right into the heart of the earth.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000024_000002|And the prince, as he had been bidden, entered boldly into the hall.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000025_000001|His green eyes glittered like glass, his hands were as the claws of a crab.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000025_000002|When he caught sight of the prince he uttered piercing yells, which shook the walls of the palace.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000025_000004|When he had almost reached it, the king broke out into a laugh and said:
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000026_000000|'It has been very lucky for you that you have been able to make me laugh.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000026_000001|Stay with us in our underground empire, only first you will have to do three things.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000026_000003|Go to sleep; to morrow I will tell you.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000027_000001|He got up and dressed, and hastened to the presence chamber, where the little king was seated on his throne.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000000|'Now, Prince, this is what you have to do.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000001|By to night you must build me a marble palace, with windows of crystal and a roof of gold.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000002|It is to stand in the middle of a great park, full of streams and lakes.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000003|If you are able to build it you shall be my friend.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000004|If not, off with your head.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000029_000000|The prince listened in silence to this startling speech, and then returning to his room set himself to think about the certain death that awaited him.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000029_000001|He was quite absorbed in these thoughts, when suddenly a bee flew against the window and tapped, saying, 'Let me come in.' He rose and opened the window, and there stood before him the youngest princess.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000030_000000|'What are you dreaming about, Prince?'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000031_000000|'I was dreaming of your father, who has planned my death.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000032_000000|'Fear nothing.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000032_000001|You may sleep in peace, and to morrow morning when you awake you will find the palace all ready.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000033_000000|What she said, she did.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000034_000001|To morrow all my twelve daughters shall stand in a row before you, and if you cannot tell me which of them is the youngest, off goes your head.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000035_000000|'What!
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000035_000001|Not recognise the youngest princess!' said the Prince to himself, as he entered his room, 'a likely story!'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000037_000000|'Then what must I do?'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000038_000000|'This.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000038_000002|Be very careful.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000038_000003|Now good bye.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000000|Next morning King Kostiei again sent for the prince.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000001|The young princesses were all drawn up in a row, dressed precisely in the same manner, and with their eyes all cast down.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000002|As the prince looked at them, he was amazed at their likeness.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000003|Twice he walked along the line, without being able to detect the sign agreed upon.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000004|The third time his heart beat fast at the sight of a tiny speck upon the eyelid of one of the girls.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000040_000000|'This one is the youngest,' he said.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000041_000000|'How in the world did you guess?' cried Kostiei in a fury.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000041_000002|But you are not going to escape me so easily. In three hours you shall come here and give me another proof of your cleverness.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000041_000004|If not, off goes your head.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000042_000000|So the prince returned sadly into his room, but the bee was there before him.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000043_000000|'Why do you look so melancholy, my handsome Prince?'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000044_000001|Does he take me for a shoemaker?'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000045_000000|'What do you think of doing?'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000046_000000|'Not of making boots, at any rate!
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000046_000001|I am not afraid of death.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000046_000002|One can only die once after all.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000047_000000|'No, Prince, you shall not die.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000047_000001|I will try to save you.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000047_000002|And we will fly together or die together.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000048_000000|As she spoke she spat upon the ground, and then drawing the prince after her out of the room, she locked the door behind her and threw away the key.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000048_000001|Holding each other tight by the hand, they made their way up into the sunlight, and found themselves by the side of the same sea, while the prince's horse was still quietly feeding in the neighbouring meadow. The moment he saw his master, the horse whinnied and galloped towards him.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000048_000002|Without losing an instant the prince sprang into the saddle, swung the princess behind him, and away they went like an arrow from a bow.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000049_000000|When the hour arrived which Kostiei had fixed for the prince's last trial, and there were no signs of him, the king sent to his room to ask why he delayed so long.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000049_000001|The servants, finding the door locked, knocked loudly and received for answer, 'In one moment.' It was the spittle, which was imitating the voice of the prince.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000050_000001|He waited; still no prince.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000050_000002|He sent the servants back again, and the same voice replied, 'Immediately.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000051_000000|'He is making fun of me!' shrieked Kostiei in a rage.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000051_000001|'Break in the door, and bring him to me!'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000052_000000|The servants hurried to do his bidding.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000052_000001|The door was broken open.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000052_000002|Nobody inside; but just the spittle in fits of laughter!
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000053_000000|By this time the prince and princess had got a good start, and were feeling quite happy, when suddenly they heard the sound of a gallop far behind them.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000053_000001|The prince sprang from the saddle, and laid his ear to the ground.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000055_000000|'Then there is no time to be lost,' answered the princess; and as she spoke she changed herself into a river, the prince into a bridge, the horse into a crow, and divided the wide road beyond the bridge into three little ones.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000055_000001|When the soldiers came up to the bridge, they paused uncertainly.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000055_000002|How were they to know which of the three roads the fugitives had taken?
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000056_000000|'Idiots!' he exclaimed, in a passion.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000056_000002|Do you mean to say you never thought of that?
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000056_000003|Go back at once!' and off they galloped like lightning.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000058_000000|'I hear a horse,' cried the princess.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000059_000000|The prince jumped down and laid his ear to the ground.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000060_000000|'Yes,' he said, 'they are not far off now.'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000061_000000|In an instant prince, princess, and horse had all disappeared, and instead was a dense forest, crossed and recrossed by countless paths. Kostiei's soldiers dashed hastily into the forest, believing they saw before them the flying horse with its double burden.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000061_000001|They seemed close upon them, when suddenly horse, wood, everything disappeared, and they found themselves at the place where they started.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000062_000000|'A horse! a horse!' cried the king.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000062_000001|'I will go after them myself.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000062_000002|This time they shall not escape.' And he galloped off, foaming with anger.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000063_000000|'I think I hear someone pursuing us,' said the princess
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000064_000000|'Yes, so do i'
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000065_000000|'And this time it is Kostiei himself.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000065_000001|But his power only reaches as far as the first church, and he can go no farther.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000065_000002|Give me your golden cross.' So the prince unfastened the cross which was his mother's gift, and the princess hastily changed herself into a church, the prince into a priest, and the horse into a belfry.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000067_000000|'Greeting, monk.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000068_000000|'Yes, the prince and Kostiei's daughter have just gone by.
train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000068_000001|They have entered the church, and told me to give you their greetings if I met you.'
train-clean-360/4433/16802/4433_16802_000025_000005|Compare ALLOW.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000002_000001|Any of them may be planted in company, for all their colours harmonise.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000002_000003|The plantation is long in shape, straggling over a space of about half an acre, the largest and strongest coloured group being in an open clearing about midway in the length.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000001|Though both enjoy a moist peat soil, and have a near botanical relationship, they are incongruous in appearance, and impossible to group together for colour.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000002|This must be understood to apply to the two classes of plants of the hardy kinds, as commonly grown in gardens.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000003|There are tender kinds of the East Indian families that are quite harmonious, but those now in question are the ordinary varieties of so-called Ghent Azaleas, and the hardy hybrid Rhododendrons.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000004|In the case of small gardens, where there is only room for one bed or clump of peat plants, it would be better to have a group of either one or the other of these plants, rather than spoil the effect by the inharmonious mixture of both.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000000|I always think it desirable to group together flowers that bloom at the same time.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000001|It is impossible, and even undesirable, to have a garden in blossom all over, and groups of flower beauty are all the more enjoyable for being more or less isolated by stretches of intervening greenery.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000003|The old Guelder Rose or Snowball tree is beautiful anywhere, but I think it best of all on the cold side of a wall.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000005|Moreover, as there is necessarily less wood in a flat wall tree than in a round bush, and as the front shoots must be pruned close back, it follows that much more strength is thrown into the remaining wood, and the blooms are much larger.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000005_000001|The two flower at the same time, their growths mingling in friendly fashion, while their unlikeness of habit makes the companionship all the more interesting.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000005_000002|The Guelder Rose is a stiff wooded thing, the character of its main stems being a kind of stark uprightness, though the great white balls hang out with a certain freedom from the newly grown shoots.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000005_000003|The Clematis meets it with an exactly opposite way of growth, swinging down its great swags of many flowered garland masses into the head of its companion, with here and there a single flowering streamer making a tiny wreath on its own account.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000006_000001|Buttresses flank the doorway on this side, dying away into the general thickness of the wall above the arch by a kind of roofing of broad flat stones that lay back at an easy pitch.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000006_000003|Above all is the same white Clematis, some of its abundant growth having been trained over the south side, so that this one plant plays a somewhat important part in two garden scenes.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000007_000002|Thus the Paeonies are protected all round, for they like a sheltered place, and the Moutans do best with even a little passing shade at some time of the day.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000007_000004|For an immense hardy flower of beautiful colouring what can equal the salmon rose Moutan Reine Elizabeth?
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000007_000006|The Tree Paeonies are also beautiful in leaf; the individual leaves are large and important, and so carried that they are well displayed.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000001|This is probably the reason why they are so difficult to establish, and so slow to grow, especially on light soils, even when their beds have been made deep and liberally enriched with what one judges to be the most gratifying comfort.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000002|Every now and then, just before blooming time, a plant goes off all at once, smitten with sudden death.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000003|At the time of making my collection I was unable to visit the French nurseries where these plants are so admirably grown, and whence most of the best kinds have come.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000005|Many of the plants therefore had to be shifted into better groups for colour after their first blooming, a matter the more to be regretted as Paeonies dislike being moved.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000011_000001|Though among these, as is the case with all the kinds, there is a preponderance of pink or rose crimson colouring of a decidedly rank quality, yet the number of varieties is so great, that among the minority of really good colouring there are plenty to choose from, including a good number of beautiful whites and whites tinged with yellow.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000011_000002|Of those I have, the kinds I like best are-
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000013_000000|Many of the lovely flowers in this class have a rather strong, sweet smell, something like a mixture of the scents of Rose and Tulip.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000014_000001|They are in three distinct colourings-full rich crimson, crimson rose, and pale pink changing to dull white.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000014_000002|These are the earliest to flower, and with them it is convenient, from the garden point of view, to class some of the desirable species.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000015_000000|Some years ago my friend mr Barr kindly gave me a set of the Paeony species as grown by him.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000015_000001|I wished to have them, not for the sake of making a collection, but in order to see which were the ones I should like best to grow as garden flowers.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000015_000002|In due time they grew into strong plants and flowered.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000016_000000|All Paeonies are strong feeders.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000017_000000|Friends often ask me vaguely about Paeonies, and when I say, "What kind of Paeonies?" they have not the least idea.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000018_000000|Broadly, and for garden purposes, one may put them into three classes-
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000019_000000|one.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000021_000000|three.
train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000022_000001|They are in a wide border on the north side of the high wall and partly shaded by it.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000008_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000009_000000|JUNE
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000000|What is one to say about June-the time of perfect young summer, the fulfilment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade?
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000002|It is the offering of the Hymn of Praise!
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000003|The lizards run in and out of the heathy tufts in the hot sunshine, and as the long day darkens the night jar trolls out his strange song, so welcome because it is the prelude to the perfect summer night; here and there a glowworm shows its little lamp.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000004|June is here-June is here; thank God for lovely June!
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000000|And June is the time of Roses.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000002|I do not know the origin of this charming Rose, but by its appearance it should be related to the Damask.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000004|The white is a creamy white, the outsides of the outer petals are stained with red, first showing clearly in the bud.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000005|The scent is delicate and delightful, with a faint suspicion of Magnolia.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000006|A few years ago this pretty old Rose found its way to one of the meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, where it gained much praise.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000007|It was there that I recognised my old friend, and learned its name.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000013_000001|How seldom one sees these Roses except in cottage gardens; but what good taste it shows on the cottager's part, for what Rose is so perfectly at home upon the modest little wayside porch?
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000014_000000|I have also learnt from cottage gardens how pretty are some of the old Roses grown as standards.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000014_000001|The picture of my neighbour, mrs Edgeler, picking me a bunch from her bush, shows how freely they flower, and what fine standards they make.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000000|What a fine thing, among the cluster Roses, is the old Dundee Rambler!
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000001|I trained one to go up a rather upright green Holly about twenty five feet high, and now it has rushed up and tumbles out at the top and sides in masses of its pretty bloom.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000002|It is just as good grown as a "fountain," giving it a free space where it can spread at will with no training or support whatever.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000003|These two ways I think are much the best for growing the free, rambling Roses.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000005|The Garland Rose, another old sort, is just as suitable for this kind of growth as Dundee Rambler, and the individual flowers, of a tender blush colour, changing to white, are even more delicate and pretty.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000000|The newer Crimson Rambler is a noble plant for the same use, in sunlight gorgeous of bloom, and always brilliant with its glossy bright green foliage.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000001|Of the many good plants from Japan, this is the best that has reached us of late years.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000004|One of the bushes in this garden covers a space thirty four feet across-more than a hundred feet round.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000006|Directly the flower is over it throws up rods of young growth eighteen to twenty feet long; as they mature they arch over, and next year their many short lateral shoots will be smothered with bloom.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000017_000001|I have them on an east fence, where they yield a large quantity of bloom for cutting; indeed, they have been so useful in this way that I have planted several more, but this time for training down to an oak trellis, like the one that supports the row of Bouquet d'Or, in order to bring the flowers within easier reach.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000001|The wild plant is widely distributed in England, though somewhat local. It grows on moors in Scotland, and on Beachy Head in Sussex, and near Tenby in South Wales, favouring wild places within smell of the sea.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000002|The rather dusky foliage sets off the lemon white of the wild, and the clear white, pink, rose, and pale yellow of the double garden kinds.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000003|The hips are large and handsome, black and glossy, and the whole plant in late autumn assumes a fine bronzy colouring between ashy black and dusky red. Other small old garden Roses are coming into bloom.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000005|The leaves turn a brilliant yellow in autumn, and after they have fallen the bushes are still bright with the coloured stems and the large clusters of bright red hips.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000006|It is the saint Mark's Rose of Venice, where it is usually in flower on saint Mark's Day, april twenty fifth.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000020_000000|After many years of fruitless effort I have to allow that I am beaten in the attempt to grow the Grand Roses in the Hybrid Perpetual class.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000020_000001|They plainly show their dislike to our dry hill, even when their beds are as well enriched as I can contrive or afford to make them.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000000|But the Tea Roses are more accommodating, and do fairly well, though, of course, not so well as in a stiffer soil.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000001|If I were planting again I should grow a still larger proportion of the kinds I have now found to do best.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000002|Far beyond all others is Madame Lambard, good alike early and late, and beautiful at all times.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000003|In this garden it yields quite three times as much bloom as any other; nothing else can approach it either for beauty or bounty.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000006|It is well to remember that the tying or pegging down of Roses always makes them bloom better: every joint from end to end wants to make a good Rose; if the shoots are more upright, the blooming strength goes more to the top.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000000|The pruning of Tea Roses is quite different from the pruning required for the Hybrid Perpetuals.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000001|In these the last year's growth is cut back in March to within two to five eyes from where it leaves the main branch, according to the strength of the kind.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000002|This must not be done with the Teas.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000003|With these the oldest wood is cut right out from the base, and the blooming shoots left full length.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000004|But it is well, towards the end of July or beginning of August, to cut back the ends of soft summer shoots in order to give them a chance of ripening what is left. When an old Tea looks worn out, if cut right down in March or April it will often throw out vigorous young growth, and quite renew its life.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000000|Within the first days of June we can generally pick some Sweet Peas from the rows sown in the second week of September.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000001|They are very much stronger than those sown in spring.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000002|By November they are four inches high, and seem to gain strength and sturdiness during the winter; for as soon as spring comes they shoot up with great vigour, and we know that the spray used to support them must be two feet higher than for those that are spring sown.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000003|The flower stalks are a foot long, and many have four flowers on a stalk.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000005|A few doses of liquid manure are a great help when they are getting towards blooming strength.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000000|I am very fond of the Elder tree.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000001|It is a sociable sort of thing; it seems to like to grow near human habitations.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000002|In my own mind it is certainly the tree most closely associated with the pretty old cottage and farm architecture of my part of the country; no bush or tree, not even the apple, seems to group so well or so closely with farm buildings.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000004|They look just right, and are, moreover, every year loaded with their useful fruit.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000005|This is ripe quite early in September, and is made into Elder wine, to be drunk hot in winter, a comfort by no means to be despised.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000001|Now is the time to look out for the seeds.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000002|A few ripen on the plant, but most of them fall while green, and then ripen in a few days while lying on the ground.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000003|I shake the seeds carefully out, and leave them lying round the parent plant; a week later, when they will be ripe, they are lightly scratched into the ground.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000004|Some young plants of last year's growth I mark with a bit of stick, in case of wanting some later to plant elsewhere, or to send away; the plant dies away completely, leaving no trace above ground, so that if not marked it would be difficult to find what is wanted.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000030_000002|Two year old plants come up with thick clumps of matted root that is now useless.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000030_000003|I cut off the whole mass of old root about an inch below the crown, when it can easily be divided into nice little bits for replanting.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000030_000004|Many other spring flowering plants may with advantage be divided now, such as Aubrietia, Arabis, Auricula, Tiarella, and Saxifrage.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000031_000000|The young Primrose plants, sown in March, have been planted out in their special garden, and are looking well after some genial rain.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000002|Both are seen at their best either quite early in the morning, or in the evening, or in half shade, as, like all their kind, they do not expand their bloom in bright sunshine.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000003|Both are excellent plants on poor soils.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000005|It does well in any waste spaces of poor soil, where, by having plants of all ages, there will be some to flower every year.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000006|The Mullein moth is sure to find them out, and it behoves the careful gardener to look for and destroy the caterpillars, or he may some day find, instead of his stately Mulleins, tall stems only clothed with unsightly grey rags.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000007|The caterpillars are easily caught when quite small or when rather large; but midway in their growth, when three quarters of an inch long, they are wary, and at the approach of the avenging gardener they will give a sudden wriggling jump, and roll down into the lower depths of the large foliage, where they are difficult to find.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000008|But by going round the plants twice a day for about a week they can all be discovered.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000000|Towards the end of June the bracken that covers the greater part of the ground of the copse is in full beauty.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000001|No other manner of undergrowth gives to woodland in so great a degree the true forest like character. This most ancient plant speaks of the old, untouched land of which large stretches still remain in the south of England-land too poor to have been worth cultivating, and that has therefore for centuries endured human contempt.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000002|In the early part of the present century, William Cobbett, in his delightful book, "Rural Rides," speaking of the heathy headlands and vast hollow of Hindhead, in Surrey, calls it "certainly the most villainous spot God ever made."
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000003|This gives expression to his view, as farmer and political economist, of such places as were incapable of cultivation, and of the general feeling of the time about lonely roads in waste places, as the fields for the lawless labours of smuggler and highwayman.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000004|Now such tracts of natural wild beauty, clothed with stretches of Heath and Fern and Whortleberry, with beds of Sphagnum Moss, and little natural wild gardens of curious and beautiful sub aquatic plants in the marshy hollows and undrained wastes, are treasured as such places deserve to be, especially when they still remain within fifty miles of a vast city.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000005|The height to which the bracken grows is a sure guide to the depth of soil.
train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000006|On the poorest, thinnest ground it only reaches a foot or two; but in hollow places where leaf mould accumulates and surface soil has washed in and made a better depth, it grows from six feet to eight feet high, and when straggling up through bushes to get to the light a frond will sometimes measure as much as twelve feet.
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train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000000|All that day and all the next day Wemyss was Lucy's tower of strength and rock of refuge.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000001|He did everything that had to be done of the business part of death-that extra wantonness of misery thrown in so grimly to finish off the crushing of a mourner who is alone.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000002|It is true the doctor was kind and ready to help, but he was a complete stranger; she had never seen him till he was fetched that dreadful morning; and he had other things to see to besides her affairs,--his own patients, scattered widely over a lonely countryside.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000003|Wemyss had nothing to see to.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000004|He could concentrate entirely on Lucy.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000005|And he was her friend, linked to her so strangely and so strongly by death.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000006|She felt she had known him for ever.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000007|She felt that since the beginning of time she and he had been advancing hand in hand towards just this place, towards just this house and garden, towards just this year, this August, this moment of existence.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000003_000000|Wemyss dropped quite naturally into the place a near male relative would have been in if there had been a near male relative within reach; and his relief at having something to do, something practical and immediate, was so immense that never were funeral arrangements made with greater zeal and energy,--really one might almost say with greater gusto.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000003_000002|There were no anxieties, there were no worries, and there was a grateful little girl.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000003_000003|After each fruitful visit to the undertaker, and he paid several in his zeal, he came back to Lucy and she was grateful; and she was not only grateful, but very obviously glad to get him back.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000004_000000|He saw she didn't like it when he went away, off along the top of the cliff on his various business visits, purpose in each step, a different being from the indignantly miserable person who had dragged about that very cliff killing time such a little while before; he could see she didn't like it.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000004_000001|She knew he had to go, she was grateful and immensely expressive of her gratitude-Wemyss thought he had never met any one so expressively grateful-that he should so diligently go, but she didn't like it.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000004_000002|He saw she didn't like it; he saw that she clung to him; and it pleased him.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000005_000000|'Don't be long,' she murmured each time, looking at him with eyes of entreaty; and when he got back, and stood before her again mopping his forehead, having triumphantly advanced the funeral arrangements another stage, a faint colour came into her face and she had the relieved eyes of a child who has been left alone in the dark and sees its mother coming in with a candle.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000005_000001|Vera usedn't to look like that.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000005_000002|Vera had accepted everything he did for her as a matter of course.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000006_000002|What she would have done without him Wemyss couldn't think.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000007_000000|He felt he was being delicate and tactful in this about the drawing room sofa.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000011_000001|'What would I have done without you?'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000013_000001|Why this calm should have been interrupted, and so cruelly, he couldn't imagine.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000013_000002|It wasn't as if he had deserved it.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000014_000000|'Oh, but you have done good,' said Lucy, her voice, too, dropped into more than ordinary gentleness by the night, the silence, and the occasion; besides which it vibrated with feeling, it was lovely with seriousness, with simple conviction.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000014_000001|'Always, always I know that you've been doing good,' she said, 'being kind.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000014_000002|I can't imagine you anything else but a help to people and a comfort.'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000015_000000|And Wemyss said, Well, he had done his best and tried, and no man could say more, but judging from what-well, what people had said to him, it hadn't been much of a success sometimes, and often and often he had been hurt, deeply hurt, by being misunderstood.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000016_000000|And Lucy said, How was it possible to misunderstand him, to misunderstand any one so transparently good, so evidently kind?
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000017_000001|It wasn't much to ask.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000017_000002|Vera----
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000018_000000|'Who is Vera?' asked Lucy.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000019_000000|'My wife.'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000020_000000|'Ah, don't,' said Lucy earnestly, taking his hand very gently in hers. 'Don't talk of that to night please don't let yourself think of it.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000020_000001|If I could only, only find the words that would comfort you----'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000022_000000|'Aren't we like two children,' he said, his voice, like hers, deepened by feeling, 'two scared, unhappy children, clinging to each other alone in the dark.'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000023_000000|So they talked on in subdued voices as people do who are in some holy place, sitting close together, looking out at the starlit sea, darkness and coolness gathering round them, and the grass smelling sweetly after the hot day, and the little waves, such a long way down, lapping lazily along the shingle, till Wemyss said it must be long past bedtime, and she, poor girl, must badly need rest.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000024_000000|'How old are you?' he asked suddenly, turning to her and scrutinising the delicate faint outline of her face against the night.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000025_000000|'Twenty two,' said Lucy.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000026_000000|'You might just as easily be twelve,' he said, 'except for the sorts of things you say.'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000027_000000|'It's my hair,' said Lucy.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000027_000001|'My father liked-he liked----'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000028_000001|'Don't cry again. Don't cry any more to night.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000028_000003|It's time you were in bed.'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000029_000000|And he helped her up, and when they got into the light of the hall he saw that she had, this time, successfully strangled her tears.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000030_000000|'Good night,' she said, when he had lit her candle for her, 'good night, and-God bless you.'
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000032_000000|'He has,' said Lucy. 'Indeed He has already, in sending me you.' And she smiled up at him.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000033_000000|For the first time since he had known her-and he too had the feeling that he had known her ever since he could remember-he saw her smile, and the difference it made to her marred, stained face surprised him.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000035_000000|'Do what?' asked Lucy.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000037_000000|Then she laughed; but the sound of it in the silent, brooding house was shocking.
train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000039_000000|'Remember you're to go to sleep and not think of anything,' Wemyss ordered as she went slowly upstairs.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000000_000000|fifteen
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000001_000000|Early in their engagement Wemyss had expounded his theory to Lucy that there should be the most perfect frankness between lovers, while as for husband and wife there oughtn't to be a corner anywhere about either of them, mind, body, or soul, which couldn't be revealed to the other one.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000000|'You can talk about everything to your Everard,' he assured her.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000001|'Tell him your innermost thoughts, whatever they may be.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000002|You need no more be ashamed of telling him than of thinking them by yourself.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000006|That, little Love, is real marriage.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000007|What do you think of it?'
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000003_000000|Lucy thought so highly of it that she had no words with which to express her admiration, and fell to kissing him instead.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000003_000003|Her mind was a chalice filled only with love, and so clear and bright was the love that even at the bottom, when she stirred it up to look, there wasn't a trace of sediment.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000004_000000|But marriage-or was it sleeplessness?--completely changed this, and there were perfect crowds of thoughts in her mind that she was thoroughly ashamed of.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000005_000000|Wemyss pricked up his ears, thinking it was something interesting to do with sex, and waited with an amused, inquisitive smile.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000005_000001|But Lucy in such matters was content to follow him, aware of her want of experience and of the abundance of his, and the thought that was worrying her only had to do with a waiter.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000005_000002|A waiter, if you please.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000006_000000|Wemyss's smile died away.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000006_000001|He had had occasion to reprimand this waiter at lunch for gross negligence, and here was Lucy alleging he had done so without any reason that she could see, and anyhow roughly.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000006_000002|Would he remove the feeling of discomfort she had at being forced to think her own heart's beloved, the kindest and gentlest of men, hadn't been kind and gentle but unjust, by explaining?
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000000|Well, that was at the very beginning.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000001|She soon learned that a doubt in her mind was better kept there.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000002|If she brought it out to air it and dispel it by talking it over with him, all that happened was that he was hurt, and when he was hurt she instantly became perfectly miserable. Seeing, then, that this happened about small things, how impossible it was to talk with him of big things; of, especially, her immense doubt in regard to The Willows.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000003|For a long while she was sure he was bearing her feeling in mind, since it couldn't have changed since Christmas, and that when she arrived there she would find that he had had everything altered and all traces of Vera's life there removed.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000004|Then, when he began to talk about The Willows, she found that such an idea as alterations hadn't entered his head.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000005|She was to sleep in the very room that had been his and Vera's, in the very bed.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000006|And positively, so far was it from true that she could tell him every thought and talk everything over with him, when she discovered this she wasn't able to say more than that hesitating remark on the chateau terrace at Amboise about supposing he was going to change his bedroom.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000001|What a comfort if, even if he had thought her too silly and morbid to be laughed at, he had indulged her and consented to alter those rooms.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000003|There seemed to be no moment when it was in a condition of becoming, and she might have slipped in a suggestion or laid a wish before him; his plans were sprung upon her full fledged, and they were unalterable.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000004|Sometimes he said, 'Would you like----?' and if she didn't like, and answered truthfully, as she answered at first before she learned not to, there was trouble.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000005|Silent trouble.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000009_000000|Of course as far as the minor wishes and preferences of every day went it was all quite easy, once she had grasped the right answer to the question, 'Would you like?' She instantly did like.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000000|How difficult it was sometimes.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000001|When he said to her, 'You'll like the view from your sitting room at The Willows,' she naturally wanted to cry out that she wouldn't, and ask him how he could suppose she would like what was to her a view for ever associated with death?
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000002|Why shouldn't she be able to cry out naturally if she wanted to, to talk to him frankly, to get his help to cure herself of what was so ridiculous by laughing at it with him?
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000003|She couldn't laugh all alone, though she was always trying to; with him she could have, and so have become quite sensible.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000004|For he was so much bigger than she was, so wonderful in the way he had triumphed over diseased thinking, and his wholesomeness would spread over her too, a purging, disinfecting influence, if only he would let her talk, if only he would help her to laugh.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000011_000000|'Is it possible,' she thought, 'that I am abject?'
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000000|Yes, she was extremely abject, she reflected, lying awake at night considering her behaviour during the day.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000001|Love had made her so.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000002|Love did make one abject, for it was full of fear of hurting the beloved.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000003|The assertion of the Scriptures that perfect love casteth out fear only showed, seeing that her love for Everard was certainly perfect, how little the Scriptures really knew what they were talking about.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000000|Well, if she couldn't tell him the things she was feeling, why couldn't she get rid of the sorts of feelings she couldn't tell him, and just be wholesome?
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000003|Sometimes Lucy would be sure that deep in his character there was a wonderful store of simple courage.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000004|He didn't speak of Vera's death, naturally he didn't wish to speak of that awful afternoon, but how often he must think of it, hiding his thoughts even from her, bearing them altogether alone.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000005|Sometimes she was sure of this, and sometimes she was equally sure of the very opposite.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000007|But this was too incredible.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000008|She couldn't believe it.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000009|What had perhaps happened, she thought, was that in self defence, for the preservation of his peace, he had made up his mind never to think of Vera.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000010|Only by banishing her altogether from his mind would he be safe.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000011|Yet that couldn't be true either, for several times on the honeymoon he had begun talking of her, of things she had said, of things she had liked, and it was she, Lucy, who stopped him.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000012|She shrank from hearing anything about Vera.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000013|She especially shrank from hearing her mentioned casually.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000016|She might be too morbid, but wasn't it possible to be too wholesome?
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000018|That, at least, ought to be kept free from her.
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000019|Later on at The Willows....
train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000014_000000|Lucy fought and fought against it, but always at the back of her mind was the thought, not looked at, slunk away from, but nevertheless fixed, that there at The Willows, waiting for her, was Vera.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000001_000000|Early one evening, struggling with a sonnet that twisted all awry the beauty and thought that trailed in glow and vapor through his brain, Martin was called to the telephone.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000002_000000|"It's a lady's voice, a fine lady's," mr Higginbotham, who had called him, jeered.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000001|In his battle with the sonnet he had forgotten her existence, and at the sound of her voice his love for her smote him like a sudden blow.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000002|And such a voice!--delicate and sweet, like a strain of music heard far off and faint, or, better, like a bell of silver, a perfect tone, crystal pure. No mere woman had a voice like that.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000003|There was something celestial about it, and it came from other worlds.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000004|He could scarcely hear what it said, so ravished was he, though he controlled his face, for he knew that mr Higginbotham's ferret eyes were fixed upon him.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000000|Would he!
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000001|He fought to suppress the eagerness in his voice.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000004|And he had never dared to ask her to go anywhere with him.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000005|Quite irrelevantly, still at the telephone and talking with her, he felt an overpowering desire to die for her, and visions of heroic sacrifice shaped and dissolved in his whirling brain.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000006|He loved her so much, so terribly, so hopelessly.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000008|It was the only fit way in which he could express the tremendous and lofty emotion he felt for her.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000009|It was the sublime abnegation of true love that comes to all lovers, and it came to him there, at the telephone, in a whirlwind of fire and glory; and to die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000010|And he was only twenty one, and he had never been in love before.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000006_000000|His hand trembled as he hung up the receiver, and he was weak from the organ which had stirred him.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000006_000001|His eyes were shining like an angel's, and his face was transfigured, purged of all earthly dross, and pure and holy.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000007_000000|"Makin' dates outside, eh?" his brother in law sneered.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000007_000001|"You know what that means.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000007_000002|You'll be in the police court yet."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000000|But Martin could not come down from the height.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000001|Not even the bestiality of the allusion could bring him back to earth.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000002|Anger and hurt were beneath him.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000003|He had seen a great vision and was as a god, and he could feel only profound and awful pity for this maggot of a man.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000004|He did not look at him, and though his eyes passed over him, he did not see him; and as in a dream he passed out of the room to dress.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000005|It was not until he had reached his own room and was tying his necktie that he became aware of a sound that lingered unpleasantly in his ears.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000006|On investigating this sound he identified it as the final snort of Bernard Higginbotham, which somehow had not penetrated to his brain before.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000001|It was not unalloyed bliss, taking her to the lecture.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000002|He did not know what he ought to do.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000003|He had seen, on the streets, with persons of her class, that the women took the men's arms.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000004|But then, again, he had seen them when they didn't; and he wondered if it was only in the evening that arms were taken, or only between husbands and wives and relatives.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000010_000000|Just before he reached the sidewalk, he remembered Minnie.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000010_000001|Minnie had always been a stickler.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000010_000003|And Minnie had made a practice of kicking his heels, whenever they crossed from one side of the street to the other, to remind him to get over on the outside.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000000|It wouldn't do any harm to try it, he decided, by the time they had reached the sidewalk; and he swung behind ruth and took up his station on the outside.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000001|Then the other problem presented itself.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000003|He had never offered anybody his arm in his life.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000004|The girls he had known never took the fellows' arms.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000006|But this was different.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000007|She wasn't that kind of a girl. He must do something.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000001|And then the wonderful thing happened.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000002|He felt her hand upon his arm.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000003|Delicious thrills ran through him at the contact, and for a few sweet moments it seemed that he had left the solid earth and was flying with her through the air.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000004|But he was soon back again, perturbed by a new complication.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000005|They were crossing the street. This would put him on the inside.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000006|He should be on the outside.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000007|Should he therefore drop her arm and change over?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000008|And if he did so, would he have to repeat the manoeuvre the next time?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000009|And the next?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000010|There was something wrong about it, and he resolved not to caper about and play the fool.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000011|Yet he was not satisfied with his conclusion, and when he found himself on the inside, he talked quickly and earnestly, making a show of being carried away by what he was saying, so that, in case he was wrong in not changing sides, his enthusiasm would seem the cause for his carelessness.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000000|As they crossed Broadway, he came face to face with a new problem.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000001|In the blaze of the electric lights, he saw Lizzie Connolly and her giggly friend.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000002|Only for an instant he hesitated, then his hand went up and his hat came off.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000003|He could not be disloyal to his kind, and it was to more than Lizzie Connolly that his hat was lifted.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000004|She nodded and looked at him boldly, not with soft and gentle eyes like Ruth's, but with eyes that were handsome and hard, and that swept on past him to ruth and itemized her face and dress and station.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000005|And he was aware that ruth looked, too, with quick eyes that were timid and mild as a dove's, but which saw, in a look that was a flutter on and past, the working class girl in her cheap finery and under the strange hat that all working class girls were wearing just then.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000014_000000|"What a pretty girl!" ruth said a moment later.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000015_000000|Martin could have blessed her, though he said:-
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000016_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000016_000001|I guess it's all a matter of personal taste, but she doesn't strike me as being particularly pretty."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000000|"Why, there isn't one woman in ten thousand with features as regular as hers.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000001|They are splendid.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000002|Her face is as clear cut as a cameo.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000003|And her eyes are beautiful."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000018_000000|"Do you think so?" Martin queried absently, for to him there was only one beautiful woman in the world, and she was beside him, her hand upon his arm.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000019_000000|"Do I think so?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000019_000001|If that girl had proper opportunity to dress, mr Eden, and if she were taught how to carry herself, you would be fairly dazzled by her, and so would all men."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000020_000000|"She would have to be taught how to speak," he commented, "or else most of the men wouldn't understand her.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000020_000001|I'm sure you couldn't understand a quarter of what she said if she just spoke naturally."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000021_000000|"Nonsense!
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000000|"You forget how I talked when you first met me.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000001|I have learned a new language since then.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000002|Before that time I talked as that girl talks.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000003|Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl's language.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000004|And do you know why she carries herself the way she does?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000005|I think about such things now, though I never used to think about them, and I am beginning to understand-much."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000023_000000|"But why does she?"
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000000|"She has worked long hours for years at machines.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000001|When one's body is young, it is very pliable, and hard work will mould it like putty according to the nature of the work.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000002|I can tell at a glance the trades of many workingmen I meet on the street.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000003|Look at me.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000004|Why am I rolling all about the shop?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000005|Because of the years I put in on the sea.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000007|And so with that girl. You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000008|She has never been sheltered.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000009|She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like-like yours, for example."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000025_000000|"I think you are right," ruth said in a low voice.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000025_000001|"And it is too bad. She is such a pretty girl."
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000026_000000|He looked at her and saw her eyes luminous with pity.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000026_000001|And then he remembered that he loved her and was lost in amazement at his fortune that permitted him to love her and to take her on his arm to a lecture.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000000|Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking glass, that night when he got back to his room.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000002|Who are you?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000003|What are you?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000004|Where do you belong?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000005|You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000006|You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and vulgar, and unbeautiful.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000007|You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000008|There are the stale vegetables now.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000009|Those potatoes are rotting.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000010|Smell them, damn you, smell them.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000012|Who are you? and what are you?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000013|damn you!
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000014|And are you going to make good?
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000028_000000|He shook his fist at himself in the glass, and sat down on the edge of the bed to dream for a space with wide eyes.
train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000028_000001|Then he got out note book and algebra and lost himself in quadratic equations, while the hours slipped by, and the stars dimmed, and the gray of dawn flooded against his window.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000011_000000|Let us return to eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000013_000000|Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the masses; he pleased.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000014_000000|He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers in, by ballet dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000014_000001|He had no heart.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000017_000000|This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000023_000001|Louis Philippe is eighteen thirty made man.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000023_000004|He had lived by his own labor.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000026_000001|His case is, as yet, only in the lower court.
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000028_000005|Often, in the midst of his gravest souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do?
train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000028_000007|He obstinately maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, those chatterers of the law, as he called them.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000000|Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orleans, exercised no personal initiative.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000001|He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have been elected King.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000002|He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance with duty.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000003|Hence his possession was in good faith.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000007|Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these formidable collisions.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000008|Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, human irresponsibility is mingled with them.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000005_000000|Let us complete this exposition.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000006_000001|Born yesterday, it was obliged to fight to day.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000008_000000|Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the preceding evening.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000008_000001|From month to month the hostility increased, and from being concealed it became patent.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000009_000000|The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have said.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000010_000000|God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text written in a mysterious tongue.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000010_000001|Men immediately make translations of it; translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. Very few minds comprehend the divine language.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000010_000002|The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000011_000000|Power itself is often a faction.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000012_000000|There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are the old parties.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000000|For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the right to revolt against them.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000001|Error.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000002|For in these revolutions, the one who revolts is not the people; it is the king.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000004|Every revolution, being a normal outcome, contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives even when stained with blood.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000014_000000|Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000014_000001|A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000014_000002|It is because it must be that it is.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000015_000001|Errors make excellent projectiles.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000015_000002|They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000015_000003|They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000000|This cry was uttered equally by the republicans.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000001|But coming from them, this cry was logical.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000002|What was blindness in the legitimists was clearness of vision in the democrats.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000003|eighteen thirty had bankrupted the people. The enraged democracy reproached it with this.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000017_000000|Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the establishment of July struggled.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000001|To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000002|A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000003|From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000004|The Royalty of July reared up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European cabinets.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000005|Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking straps.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000006|Pushed on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers in Europe.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000007|After having been towed, it undertook to tow.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000019_000000|Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above society, a terrible slope.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000020_000000|Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became manifest.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000021_000000|Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with indescribably vague epileptic shocks.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000022_000000|This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated epoch.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000023_000000|These men left to political parties the question of rights, they occupied themselves with the question of happiness.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000024_000000|The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from society.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000025_000000|They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000025_000002|These men who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000026_000000|From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works embraced everything.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000027_000000|The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the questions raised by socialism.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000027_000001|We confine ourselves to indicating them.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000029_000000|First problem: To produce wealth.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000030_000000|Second problem: To share it.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000031_000000|The first problem contains the question of work.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000032_000000|The second contains the question of salary.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000033_000000|In the first problem the employment of forces is in question.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000034_000000|In the second, the distribution of enjoyment.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000035_000000|From the proper employment of forces results public power.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000036_000000|From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000037_000000|By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must be understood.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000038_000000|From these two things combined, the public power without, individual happiness within, results social prosperity.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000039_000000|Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000000|England solves the first of these two problems.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000001|She creates wealth admirably, she divides it badly.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000002|This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000003|All enjoyments for some, all privations for the rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudalism, born from toil itself.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000004|A false and dangerous situation, which sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State in the sufferings of the individual.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000005|A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000001|Their division kills production.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000002|Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000003|It is a partition made by the butcher, which kills that which it divides.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000004|It is therefore impossible to pause over these pretended solutions.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000042_000000|The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000042_000001|The two problems must be combined and made but one.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000043_000000|Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will be England.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000043_000001|You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000043_000003|And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a virtue or an idea.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000044_000001|The nations always have our respect and our sympathy.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000044_000002|Venice, as a people, will live again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is immortal.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000044_000003|That said, we continue.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000047_000000|Efforts worthy of admiration!
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000047_000001|Sacred attempts!
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000049_000000|He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000000|Piles of shadows covered the horizon.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000001|A strange shade, gradually drawing nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shade which came from wraths and systems.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000002|Everything which had been hastily stifled was moving and fermenting.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000004|Spirits trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, a stranger, brought light.
train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000005|Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000012_000000|Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a plan.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000013_000003|Brujon, of whom it is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, and an atrocious smile.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000013_000005|His first studies in his art had been directed to roofs.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000014_000002|Up above there were scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the direction of liberty.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000015_000000|The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000021_000000|This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000026_000000|There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half jailers, half thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000029_000000|An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the surrounding wall.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000038_000000|At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was relieved, and replaced by a conscript.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000044_000000|How had he got there?
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000045_000000|The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000046_000001|A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the pavement of the street.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000047_000000|The rope which he had was too short.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000054_000000|"Let's cut.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000054_000001|What are we up to here?"
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000059_000000|"There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000061_000000|As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed him.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000062_000000|Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:--
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000063_000000|"What are you jabbering about?
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000063_000003|You have to be a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to work the business."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000065_000005|He's recaptured, there!
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000076_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000081_000000|"I can't budge."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000083_000000|"My hands are benumbed."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000085_000000|"I can't."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000089_000000|It was very narrow.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000092_000000|"A brat must be got," resumed Brujon.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000105_000000|"Climb up that flue."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000107_000000|"And fasten it," continued Brujon.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000113_000000|"Is that all!"
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000117_000000|And he took off his shoes.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000125_000000|"Now, whom are we to eat?"
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000127_000000|"Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000128_000000|"Well! why not?" demanded Thenardier.
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000132_000000|"Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up."
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000133_000000|In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence posts; he waited a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, then he put on his shoes again, and said:--
train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000134_000000|"Is that all?
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000004_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000008_000004|Renewed efforts were made in every direction.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000012_000004|If you will come here-with papa's permission-after tea, my views on the subject of Falkland will be at your disposal.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000013_000003|"I know I can't do it," he said.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000016_000000|"A mistake, mr Vanstone," chimed in Miss Garth.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000016_000001|"Made with the best intentions-but a mistake for all that."
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000018_000005|The Marrables are respectable people, and keep the best company in Clifton.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000028_000000|Knowing by experience that interference would be hopeless, under these circumstances, Miss Garth turned sharply and left the room.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000028_000002|The female mind does occasionally-though not often-project itself into the future.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000028_000003|Miss Garth was prophetically pitying Magdalen's unfortunate husband.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000003|"I have conceived the part of Lucy," she observed, with the demurest gravity.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000004|"The next difficulty is to make Frank conceive the part of Falkland.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000006|No, papa-no wine to day, thank you.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000007|I must keep my intelligence clear.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000030_000005|The clock on the mantel piece pointed to half past eleven before Lucy the resolute permitted Falkland the helpless to shut up his task book for the night.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000030_000007|"I'm to come to morrow, and hear more of her views-if you have no objection.
train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000030_000011|Goodnight."
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000025_000000|"Yes, mr Starr."
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000030_000000|"No, Harry.
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000034_000000|"And your mother?"
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000041_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000046_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000046_000001|In the Dochart pit?"
train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000050_000003|And are you happy there?"
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000000_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000000_000001|THE STORY GIRL DOES PENANCE
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000003_000001|I had read the story before, and it had been my opinion that it was "rot." No king, I felt certain, would ever marry a beggar maid when he had princesses galore from whom to choose.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000003_000002|But now I understood it all.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000004_000001|And she had.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000005_000000|"Sara is real sick," she said, with regret, and something that was not regret mingled in her voice.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000005_000001|"She has a cold and sore throat, and she is feverish.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000005_000002|mrs Ray says if she isn't better by the morning she's going to send for the doctor.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000007_000000|"Oh, do you suppose she caught them at the magic lantern show?" she said miserably.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000008_000000|"Where else could she have caught them?" said Felicity mercilessly.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000009_000001|The Story Girl was not to be comforted.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000011_000000|I don't think she did.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000011_000002|But, for all that, there was a certain exhilaration about her.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000012_000000|"I'm going to do penance all day for coaxing Sara to disobey her mother," she announced with chastened triumph.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000013_000000|"Penance?" we murmured in bewilderment.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000001|I'm going to deny myself everything I like, and do everything I can think of that I don't like, just to punish myself for being so wicked.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000002|And if any of you think of anything I don't, just mention it to me.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000003|I thought it out last night.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000015_000000|"He can see it anyhow, without your doing anything," said Cecily.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000016_000000|"Well, my conscience will feel better."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000018_000000|But the rest of us rather looked with favour on the Story Girl's idea. We felt sure that she would do penance as picturesquely and thoroughly as she did everything else.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000020_000001|I never thought of that.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000020_000002|I'll get some after breakfast. I'm not going to eat a single thing all day, except bread and water-and not much of that!"
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000021_000001|To sit down to one of Aunt Janet's meals, in ordinary health and appetite, and eat nothing but bread and water-that would be penance with a vengeance!
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000021_000002|We felt WE could never do it.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000021_000003|But the Story Girl did it.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000023_000000|"no
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000023_000003|So I'm going to do penance all day.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000023_000004|You don't mind, do you?"
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000025_000000|"Not if you don't go too far with your nonsense," she said tolerantly.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000026_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000027_000000|"There isn't any; I used the last in the soup yesterday."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000028_000001|"Then I suppose I'll have to do without.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000030_000000|"You'll do nothing of the sort," said Aunt Janet.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000030_000001|"Sara must not do penance in that way.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000030_000002|She would wear holes in her stockings, and might seriously bruise her feet."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000032_000000|"I wouldn't SAY anything," retorted Aunt Janet.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000032_000002|You'd find that penance enough."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000033_000000|The Story Girl was crimson with indignation.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000034_000001|But the Story Girl would not come.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000035_000002|And I'm going to work buttonholes all over this cotton.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000037_000000|"It isn't any good.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000037_000002|So it doesn't matter what you do, whether it's useful or not, so long as it's nasty.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000039_000000|"I've thought of a great penance," said Cecily eagerly.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000039_000001|"Don't go to the missionary meeting to night."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000040_000000|The Story Girl looked piteous.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000000|"I thought of that myself-but I CAN'T stay home, Cecily.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000002|I MUST hear that missionary speak.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000005|No, I must go, but I'll tell you what I'll do.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000006|I'll wear my school dress and hat.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000007|THAT will be penance.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000009|I hate it so.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000011|It's such dreadful tasting stuff-but it's a good blood purifier, so Aunt Janet can't object to it."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000042_000001|All day she sat in the kitchen and worked buttonholes, subsisting on bread and water and Mexican Tea.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000002|The smell of raisin pies is something to tempt an anchorite; and the Story Girl was exceedingly fond of them.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000003|Felicity ate two in her very presence, and then brought the rest out to us in the orchard.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000005|But she worked on at her buttonholes.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000007|Pat came over, but his most seductive purrs won no notice from his mistress, who refused herself the pleasure of even patting him.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000044_000003|The Story Girl slipped over home, and when she came back we gasped.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000046_000001|I want to mortify the flesh-"
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000047_000001|Go right home and dress yourself decently-or eat your supper in the kitchen."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000049_000001|And she had tied her hair with a snuff brown ribbon which was very unbecoming to her.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000050_000000|The first person we saw in the church porch was mrs Ray.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000000|"Oh, I don't know.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000001|I feel better since I punished myself.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000002|But I'm going to make up for it to morrow," said the Story Girl energetically.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000003|"In fact, I'll begin to night.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000005|Wasn't the missionary splendid?
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000006|That cannibal story was simply grand.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000054_000000|"I'd like to be a missionary and have adventures like that," said Felix.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000059_000000|Two cents more a week out of Cecily's egg money, meant something of a sacrifice.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000059_000001|It inspired the rest of us.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000002|I won't be able to give much.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000004|But I'll do the best I can.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000006|Are there any Methodist heathen?
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000007|I s'pose I ought to give my box to them, rather than to Presbyterian heathen."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000061_000000|"No, it's only after they're converted that they're anything in particular," said Felicity.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000061_000001|"Before that, they're just plain heathen. But if you want your money to go to a Methodist missionary you can give it to the Methodist minister at Markdale.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000061_000002|I guess the Presbyterians can get along without it, and look after their own heathen."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000062_000001|"Her roses are all out and that bed of Sweet William is a sight by daylight."
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000064_000000|"It wouldn't do," said Felicity decidedly.
train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000064_000001|"You could see through it."
train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000002_000004|Aunt Janet had forgotten to warn Uncle Roger to keep an eye on our bedtime snacks, and we ate what seemed good unto us.
train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000007_000001|The mince pie was to blame for THAT wish.
train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000016_000000|"Hush!
train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000035_000000|"Shut up," he said.
train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000042_000001|"Felicity, put on the kettle.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000001_000001|And now the question was between the moon and the cottage.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000001_000002|The princess thought she knew the worst of the moon, and she knew nothing at all about the cottage, therefore she would stay with the moon.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000001_000003|Strange, was it not, that she should have been so long with the wise woman, and yet know NOTHING about that cottage?
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000001|First of all, the soft wind blowing gently through the dry stalks of the heather and its thousands of little bells raised a sweet rustling, which the princess took for the hissing of serpents, for you know she had been naughty for so long that she could not in a great many things tell the good from the bad.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000002|Then nobody could deny that there, all round about the heath, like a ring of darkness, lay the gloomy fir wood, and the princess knew what it was full of, and every now and then she thought she heard the howling of its wolves and hyenas.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000003|And who could tell but some of them might break from their covert and sweep like a shadow across the heath?
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000004|Indeed, it was not once nor twice that for a moment she was fully persuaded she saw a great beast coming leaping and bounding through the moonlight to have her all to himself.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000005|She did not know that not a single evil creature dared set foot on that heath, or that, if one should do so, it would that instant wither up and cease.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000007|The wise woman, too, she felt sure, although her cottage looked asleep, was watching her at some little window.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000008|In this, however, she would have been quite right, if she had only imagined enough-namely, that the wise woman was watching OVER her from the little window.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000010|Hardly had the possibility arisen in her mind, before she was on her feet: if the woman was any thing short of an ogress, her cottage must be better than that horrible loneliness, with nothing in all the world but a stare; and even an ogress had at least the shape and look of a human being.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000003_000001|But, to her surprise, she came only to another back, for no door was to be seen. She tried the farther end, but still no door.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000003_000002|She must have passed it as she ran-but no-neither in gable nor in side was any to be found.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000004_000000|A cottage without a door!--she rushed at it in a rage and kicked at the wall with her feet.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000004_000003|Suddenly, however, she remembered how her screaming had brought the horde of wolves and hyenas about her in the forest, and, ceasing at once, lay still, gazing yet again at the moon.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000000|But the old woman-as the princess called her, not knowing that her real name was the Wise Woman-had told her that she must knock at the door: how was she to do that when there was no door?
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000001|But again she bethought herself-that, if she could not do all she was told, she could, at least, do a part of it: if she could not knock at the door, she could at least knock-say on the wall, for there was nothing else to knock upon-and perhaps the old woman would hear her, and lift her in by some window.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000002|Thereupon, she rose at once to her feet, and picking up a stone, began to knock on the wall with it.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000004|For a moment she feared the old woman would be offended, but the next, there came a voice, saying,
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000006_000000|"Who is there?"
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000007_000000|The princess answered,
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000008_000000|"Please, old woman, I did not mean to knock so loud."
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000009_000000|To this there came no reply.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000010_000000|Then the princess knocked again, this time with her knuckles, and the voice came again, saying,
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000011_000000|"Who is there?"
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000012_000000|And the princess answered,
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000013_000000|"Rosamond."
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000014_000001|But the princess soon ventured to knock a third time.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000015_000000|"What do you want?" said the voice.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000016_000000|"Oh, please, let me in!" said the princess.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000018_000000|Then the door opened, and the princess entered.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000018_000001|She looked all around, but saw nothing of the wise woman.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000000|It was a single bare little room, with a white deal table, and a few old wooden chairs, a fire of fir wood on the hearth, the smoke of which smelt sweet, and a patch of thick growing heath in one corner.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000002|And what with the sufferings and terrors she had left outside, the new kind of tears she had shed, the love she had begun to feel for her parents, and the trust she had begun to place in the wise woman, it seemed to her as if her soul had grown larger of a sudden, and she had left the days of her childishness and naughtiness far behind her.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000003|People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed!
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000004|Those who are good tempered because it is a fine day, will be ill tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in the one case, the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000020_000000|Then in her terror the princess grew angry, and saying to herself, "She must be somewhere in the place, else who was there to open the door to me?" began to shout and yell, and call the wise woman all the bad names she had been in the habit of throwing at her nurses.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000021_000001|On the contrary, she thought she had a perfect right to be angry, for was she not most desperately ill used-and a princess too?
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000021_000002|But the wind howled on, and the rain kept pouring down the chimney, and every now and then the lightning burst out, and the thunder rushed after it, as if the great lumbering sound could ever think to catch up with the swift light!
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000022_000001|But being in a bad temper always makes people stupid, and presently she struck her forehead such a blow against something-she thought herself it felt like the old woman's cloak-that she fell back-not on the floor, though, but on the patch of heather, which felt as soft and pleasant as any bed in the palace.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000001|It was no use stopping to look about her, for what had she to do but forever look about her as she went on and on and on-never seeing any thing, and never expecting to see any thing!
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000002|The only shadow of a hope she had was, that she might by slow degrees grow thinner and thinner, until at last she wore away to nothing at all; only alas! she could not detect the least sign that she had yet begun to grow thinner.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000003|The hopelessness grew at length so unendurable that she woke with a start.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000004|Seeing the face of the wise woman bending over her, she threw her arms around her neck and held up her mouth to be kissed.
train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000005|And the kiss of the wise woman was like the rose gardens of Damascus.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000000|On a fair Saturday afternoon in November Penrod's little old dog Duke returned to the ways of his youth and had trouble with a strange cat on the back porch.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000001|This indiscretion, so uncharacteristic, was due to the agitation of a surprised moment, for Duke's experience had inclined him to a peaceful pessimism, and he had no ambition for hazardous undertakings of any sort.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000002|He was given to musing but not to avoidable action, and he seemed habitually to hope for something which he was pretty sure would not happen.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000003|Even in his sleep, this gave him an air of wistfulness.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000004_000000|Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance-for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse can.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000000|This cat was, for a cat, needlessly tall, powerful, independent, and masculine.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000001|Once, long ago, he had been a roly poly pepper and salt kitten; he had a home in those days, and a name, "Gipsy," which he abundantly justified.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000002|He was precocious in dissipation.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000003|Long before his adolescence, his lack of domesticity was ominous, and he had formed bad companionships.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000004|Meanwhile, he grew so rangy, and developed such length and power of leg and such traits of character, that the father of the little girl who owned him was almost convincing when he declared that the young cat was half broncho and half Malay pirate-though, in the light of Gipsy's later career, this seems bitterly unfair to even the lowest orders of bronchos and Malay pirates.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000000|No; Gipsy was not the pet for a little girl.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000001|The rosy hearthstone and sheltered rug were too circumspect for him.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000002|Surrounded by the comforts of middle class respectability, and profoundly oppressed, even in his youth, by the Puritan ideals of the household, he sometimes experienced a sense of suffocation.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000005|He went forth in a May twilight, carrying the evening beefsteak with him, and joined the underworld.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000000|His extraordinary size, his daring, and his utter lack of sympathy soon made him the leader-and, at the same time, the terror-of all the loose lived cats in a wide neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000001|He contracted no friendships and had no confidants.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000003|In appearance he did not lack distinction of an ominous sort; the slow, rhythmic, perfectly controlled mechanism of his tail, as he impressively walked abroad, was incomparably sinister.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000004|This stately and dangerous walk of his, his long, vibrant whiskers, his scars, his yellow eye, so ice cold, so fire hot, haughty as the eye of Satan, gave him the deadly air of a mousquetaire duellist.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000006|Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature which now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000008_000000|The scrutiny was searching but not prolonged.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000008_000002|It was a desirable fishbone, large, with a considerable portion of the fish's tail still attached to it.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000000|It was about a foot from Duke's nose, and the little dog's dreams began to be troubled by his olfactory nerve.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000001|This faithful sentinel, on guard even while Duke slept, signalled that alarums and excursions by parties unknown were taking place, and suggested that attention might well be paid.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000002|Duke opened one drowsy eye.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000003|What that eye beheld was monstrous.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000010_000000|Here was a strange experience-the horrific vision in the midst of things so accustomed.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000010_000001|Sunshine fell sweetly upon porch and backyard; yonder was the familiar stable, and from its interior came the busy hum of a carpenter shop, established that morning by Duke's young master, in association with Samuel Williams and Herman.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000000|Gipsy had seized the fishbone by the middle.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000001|Out from one side of his head, and mingling with his whiskers, projected the long, spiked spine of the big fish: down from the other side of that ferocious head dangled the fish's tail, and from above the remarkable effect thus produced shot the intolerable glare of two yellow eyes.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000002|To the gaze of Duke, still blurred by slumber, this monstrosity was all of one piece-the bone seemed a living part of it.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000005|Indeed, Duke was not in a position to think the matter over quietly.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000006|If he had been able to do that, he would have said to himself: "We have here an animal of most peculiar and unattractive appearance, though, upon examination, it seems to be only a cat stealing a fishbone. Nevertheless, as the thief is large beyond all my recollection of cats and has an unpleasant stare, I will leave this spot at once."
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000000|On the contrary, Duke was so electrified by his horrid awakening that he completely lost his presence of mind.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000001|In the very instant of his first eye's opening, the other eye and his mouth behaved similarly, the latter loosing upon the quiet air one shriek of mental agony before the little dog scrambled to his feet and gave further employment to his voice in a frenzy of profanity.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000003|It was Gipsy's war cry, and, at the sound of it, Duke became a frothing maniac.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000004|He made a convulsive frontal attack upon the hobgoblin-and the massacre began.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000001|Such was not his purpose, however, for, having attained his greatest possible altitude, he partially sat down and elevated his right arm after the manner of a semaphore.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000002|This semaphore arm remained rigid for a second, threatening; then it vibrated with inconceivable rapidity, feinting.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000003|But it was the treacherous left that did the work.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000004|Seemingly this left gave Duke three lightning little pats upon the right ear, but the change in his voice indicated that these were no love taps.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000014_000000|Never had such a shattering uproar, all vocal, broken out upon a peaceful afternoon.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000014_000001|Gipsy possessed a vocabulary for cat swearing certainly second to none out of Italy, and probably equal to the best there, while Duke remembered and uttered things he had not thought of for years.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000015_000000|The hum of the carpenter shop ceased, and Sam Williams appeared in the stable doorway.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000015_000001|He stared insanely.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000016_000000|"My gorry!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000016_000001|"Duke's havin' a fight with the biggest cat you ever saw in your life!
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000016_000002|C'mon!"
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000000|His feet were already in motion toward the battlefield, with Penrod and Herman hurrying in his wake.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000001|Onward they sped, and Duke was encouraged by the sight and sound of these reinforcements to increase his own outrageous clamours and to press home his attack.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000002|But he was ill advised.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000003|This time it was the right arm of the semaphore that dipped-and Duke's honest nose was but too conscious of what happened in consequence.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000018_000001|They rushed upon him from two directions, cutting off the steps of the porch.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000018_000002|Undaunted, the formidable cat raked Duke's nose again, somewhat more lingeringly, and prepared to depart with his fishbone.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000018_000003|He had little fear for himself, because he was inclined to think that, unhampered, he could whip anything on earth; still, things seemed to be growing rather warm and he saw nothing to prevent his leaving.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000000|Therefore, on small accounts he decided to leave the field to his enemies and to carry the fishbone elsewhere.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000001|He took two giant leaps. The first landed him upon the edge of the porch.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000002|There, without an instant's pause, he gathered his fur sheathed muscles, concentrated himself into one big steel spring, and launched himself superbly into space.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000003|He made a stirring picture, however brief, as he left the solid porch behind him and sailed upward on an ascending curve into the sunlit air.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000004|His head was proudly up; he was the incarnation of menacing power and of self confidence.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000005|It is possible that the white fish's spinal column and flopping tail had interfered with his vision, and in launching himself he may have mistaken the dark, round opening of the cistern for its dark, round cover.
train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000006|In that case, it was a leap calculated and executed with precision, for as the boys clamoured their pleased astonishment, Gipsy descended accurately into the orifice and passed majestically from public view, with the fishbone still in his mouth and his haughty head still high.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000000_000000|"Yes," answered Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000000_000001|"Why not break 'through the ends of all the cars-so we can get back and forth without having to climb over the roofs!"
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000001_000000|"All right-but hurry.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000001_000001|Uncouple just as soon as you can."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000000|Tom climbed over the logs in the tender; then, balancing carefully, he stood up and clutched the top of the swaying freight car.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000001|In an instant he had swung himself over and was running down the roofs of the cars, silhouetted against the cloudy sky.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000002|When he reached the end of the train he lay on his stomach and looked down.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000004|The hole was large enough so that he could climb down the ladder, swing around the corner, and enter.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000004_000001|They passed the remaining ties and the rails forward.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000005_000000|"I'll pull the pin," said Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000005_000002|"No-here, shove a tie off.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000005_000003|Well see if we can wreck her."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000006_000001|It struck one wheel of the detached car, bounded, struck again and then bounded out of the way. The men silently watched the car rolling along behind them.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000000|Tom shook his head in disgust.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000001|"Let's knock the ends of these cars out," he said.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000002|Once again they took the rail up and battered their way through.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000003|Tom climbed up over the end of the tender and reported to Andrews.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000008_000000|"We tried to wreck it," he said, "but the tie bounced out of the way."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000000|Andrews nodded and leaned from the cab.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000001|"We're within a mile of Reseca bridge," he said slowly.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000002|"I don't dare to stop and build a fire.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000003|They're too close upon us."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000010_000000|Now, for the first time, Tom realized that the raid might fail in its purpose.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000010_000001|The excitement of the race, of reaching this point where the road to Chattanooga lay clear before them, had been upon him; it had never entered his head that their long struggle against so many obstacles could end in anything but glorious success.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000010_000002|Surely they could do something to block the way of the pursuing engine.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000011_000000|"Can't we stop and fight?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000011_000002|We're all armed."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000000|"No," answered Andrews; "they'll be better armed." He still believed that the engine in their rear had come from Atlanta-probably with a detachment of soldiers aboard, prepared for a battle.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000001|"There are bridges ahead-the Chickamauga bridges.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000002|We'll drop another car on the Reseca bridge.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000003|Go back and tell them.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000005|Try to wreck it in the shed."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000013_000000|Tom hurried back again over the wood pile.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000014_000000|The Reseca bridge which ran over the Oostenaula River was covered by a long shed.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000014_000001|And, as it was built upon a curve in the road, a box car-either wrecked or merely left standing-could not be seen until the pursuing engine was almost upon it.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000015_000002|The train's speed decreased.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000016_000000|"Get ready," yelled Ross; then, as they entered the shed, "Go!"
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000000|Tom drew the pin.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000002|Ties streamed out upon the track.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000003|The wheels of the abandoned car knocked several out of the way; then, as the train swung about the curve, leaving the car hidden in the shed, Tom saw one tie resting at an angle across the track.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000004|The wheels struck it, and the car lurched heavily....
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000005|They could see no more.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000018_000001|Andrews slapped him on the back.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000019_000000|"We'll have to break the wires above here," he said as the little station in Reseca flashed past them.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000019_000001|"Stop about a mile up here, Knight.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000019_000002|On a curve."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000020_000000|"Wood!" yelled Brown.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000021_000001|He stopped once, and pointed to the wood pile.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000021_000002|Fuel was running low.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000022_000000|"At Green's Station," said Andrews.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000023_000000|"Water there, too?" asked Brown.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000024_000000|"At Tilton-just a few miles farther on." Andrews waved to Knight to shut off the power.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000025_000001|"Put an obstruction here!
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000025_000002|That bent rail!"
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000026_000001|It was the one they had ripped from the ties north of Calhoun.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000027_000000|"Keep dropping ties, men," ordered Andrews.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000028_000001|Tom put the last of the fuel in the fire, and leaned wearily against the cab.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000028_000003|Instinctively they turned toward Andrews. He was in the fireman's seat, hands clenched and face set, staring ahead. He did not move until they were within sight of Green's Station.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000029_000001|The keeper of the yard came running toward them.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000029_000002|Andrews waved him aside.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000030_000000|"Throw that wood aboard, men," he said.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000030_000001|But they had already attacked the pile.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000031_000001|The men paused and looked at Andrews.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000032_000001|Hurry!" he yelled.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000033_000001|"What's this train!"
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000034_000000|Andrews seemed not to hear him.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000034_000001|Four Confederate soldiers who were standing several hundred yards away yelled and pointed in the direction of the whistling.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000000|"'Board," called Andrews.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000001|As he climbed into the cab of the General, Tom saw that his face had become suddenly drawn.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000002|There was no talking now.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000003|The race had reached the final test of strength.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000004|While Tom, in the tender, yanked logs loose from the pile, Andrews stood ready to pass them to Knight, who shoved them into the fire box.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000000|"The wood's wet," said Knight.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000001|The others heard him and made no reply.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000002|He worked with the drafts, coaxing the fire.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000003|Occasionally, Brown glanced at the steam gauge; then the two engineers would exchange glances.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000004|Slowly the needle of the gauge crept up.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000037_000000|In the box car the men silently dropped ties upon the tracks.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000037_000001|Sometimes there was a mumble of satisfaction as a tie fell squarely across the rails; or a grunt of disgust when one tumbled end for end and landed out of position.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000038_000001|There were moments when the smoke paused and mounted straight into the sky; then a few seconds later it flattened out and rose in a long black stream.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000038_000003|How had they done it? How had they passed the broken rail, the ties along the track, the box cars and the snag?
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000038_000004|Those questions were pounding in the brains of Andrews' men.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000000|If ever a man combined determination with luck it was Fuller.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000001|He had started on foot from Big Shanty in complete ignorance of what was happening to his stolen train.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000002|Undoubtedly, if he had known that a party of Northern raiders had taken it, he would have waited until a locomotive came from Atlanta.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000003|The idea of running after a locomotive would have seemed too ridiculous.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000008|And still they pressed on.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000040_000000|Fuller and Murphy, still sitting on the edge of the tender, saw the abandoned box car as they swerved around the bend.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000040_000001|Fuller waved his arms up and down slowly to the engineer as a signal to come to a gradual stop.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000040_000002|They coasted down upon the box car, picked it up and carried it on with them. Fuller and Murphy climbed to the top of it; Murphy, staying at the rear end to repeat the signals of Fuller, who was perched on the front.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000041_000000|At the sight of ties lying across the track, Fuller's arms shot up.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000041_000002|Then, when the decreasing speed of the train gave his legs the advantage, Fuller was ahead, heaving ties from the road.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000042_000003|Then they swept around the curve and the bridge lay before them, indistinct in the drizzle of rain.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000042_000004|It appeared intact, but Fuller knew that long curving shed too well through his years of travel over the road not to be suspicious of what lurked inside.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000044_000000|"Wait here," he yelled, sliding down the ladder.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000000|The left forward wheel of the box car had mounted upon one of the ties thrown before it.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000001|The tie was wedged diagonally across the track, and the flange had cut a deep groove in it.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000002|The right wheel was nearly a foot off the track.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000003|Apparently the car had struck the tie just at the moment of losing momentum.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000046_000001|Murphy was coming forward to meet him.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000000|"They've dropped the second box car in there," explained Fuller.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000001|"The front wheels are off the track.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000002|We can drag it back, I think.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000003|We'll have to find a coupling pin."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000048_000001|"Will this be all right?" he asked, holding up a short crow bar.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000049_000000|"Yes," answered Fuller.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000051_000000|"Careful now," yelled Fuller, as the two box cars came closer together. "Easy-easy!" The cars met gently.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000052_000000|"Now run back slowly-an inch at a time," ordered Fuller.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000053_000001|The left wheel followed back along the groove its flange had cut in the tie.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000053_000002|Fuller watched it breathlessly.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000054_000002|They swept out of the shed, pushing the two cars.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000055_000001|As it was, the cars cleared it.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000055_000002|The snag caught on the low cow catcher of the engine and gave the train a mighty jerk.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000055_000003|They were past it before they knew what had happened.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000056_000000|He motioned Murphy ahead.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000056_000001|"What was that?" he asked.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000057_000001|Something on the track.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000057_000002|Thought the engine was going off for a second."
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000058_000000|"They'll probably stop at Green's for wood," said Fuller.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000060_000000|Fuller's arms went up again, and he was on the ground removing ties.
train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000061_000000|"We'll have to stop for fuel," yelled Murphy.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000001_000000|CAPTURED
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000002_000000|"Halt there!"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000003_000001|They whipped about and found themselves facing a raised rifle.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000003_000003|He waved the rifle from one to the other.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000004_000000|"Where're you going?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000005_000000|"Chattanooga," answered Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000005_000001|He said it coolly but it required an effort.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000007_000000|"That so?" asked Wilson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000007_000001|"I can think of better company if you're going to keep that rifle waving around in the air.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000007_000002|What's the matter with you?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000009_000000|"Well, this way we won't take the wrong road again," said Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000009_000001|"I'd rather walk at the end of a rifle than drown in this mud.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000009_000002|The folks at home'll laugh when they hear that we were held up just as soon as we got in the South."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000010_000000|"Hey?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000010_000001|What's that?" demanded the man.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000011_000000|"If you're after our money you won't get much," Tom replied.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000012_000001|"I'm after you."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000014_000000|"Huh?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000015_000000|"I'm asking what sort of a Yank trick this is?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000017_000000|"Then what do you want?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000018_000001|That's what I want."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000019_000000|"Burning what?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000020_000000|"Burning bridges!" shouted the man.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000021_000000|"You seem to be running the talking match," said Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000021_000001|"What do you want us to do?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000022_000000|"And you might have the decency," answered Wilson, "to ask us who we are before you go any further."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000024_000001|What was it we burned, Tom?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000025_000000|"Bridges," replied Tom, laughing.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000028_000000|"Then let's go," said Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000029_000000|"I'll walk you back to Judson, an' you can tell yer story there.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000029_000001|I ain't believing you and I ain't disbelieving you.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000029_000003|I'll let a bullet go smack into the first man that makes a move he shouldn't."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000000|Here was a man they couldn't talk down.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000001|He was probably a good shot, and ready to keep his threat.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000002|If only they could get him at a disadvantage, and pull their revolvers before he could fire.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000003|But such hopes were shattered a few minutes later when two horsemen pulled up before them.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000004|They yelled when they saw the three prisoners.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000031_000000|"Good work, Alf!" said one of the men.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000031_000002|Hello there, Yanks."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000032_000000|"You're a Yank yourself," answered Tom hotly.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000033_000000|"What's that?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000035_000000|"Don't believe 'em," said Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000036_000000|"Why not wait until we get back to Judson?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000036_000001|Easier to do it there."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000037_000000|"All right," replied Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000037_000002|I'm done up totin' this gun."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000038_000000|The procession started again.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000000|It was nearly six o'clock when they reached the little town of Judson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000001|As they went down the main street, men and boys tagged along beside them, plying the guards with questions.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000002|The guards waved them aside, and answered, "Don't know if it's them or not.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000003|Picked 'em up a piece down the road."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000000|They stopped at a two story frame building labeled "Hotel." One of the guards went in, then motioned to the others to bring the prisoners. Presently they found themselves in a big room, lighted by two lamps which hung from the ceiling.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000001|The air was cloudy with smoke.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000003|Instantly there was commotion.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000004|Everyone commenced talking.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000044_000000|"You better keep your mouth shut," yelled Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000045_000000|"No use talkin' like that, Alf," said the man addressed as Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000045_000001|"Where did you find them?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000046_000000|"Down the Ringgold road about five miles."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000047_000000|A murmur arose from the men.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000048_000000|"I can tell a Yank one mile off," boasted Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000049_000000|"I can tell a fool just as far away as I can see you," interrupted Wilson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000050_000000|"You...."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000051_000000|"Now, Alf, keep quiet," said the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000052_000000|"We were trying to get to Chattanooga," Tom replied, "We got started on the wrong road this morning."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000053_000000|Wilson broke in: "We tried to tell this wild man with his rifle that we were going to enlist in the army.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000053_000001|We've sneaked through the Union lines from Kentucky, and came across the Tennessee yesterday.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000053_000003|This fellow held us up and arrested us in the name of the law for something or other.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000054_000001|"That's what I arrested you for."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000000|"All right," answered Wilson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000001|"We're arrested for burning bridges.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000002|Whose bridges?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000003|What bridges?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000057_000000|"He's crazier than any Yank I've ever seen in my life," remarked Shadrack, nodding toward Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000058_000000|"Search 'em," demanded Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000000|"Now, Alf," said the Judge, "you go on out to the kitchen and get something to eat.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000002|Go on, now." He pushed Alf gently toward the door.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000003|Alf, still protesting, disappeared reluctantly into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000004|The Judge shook his head, laughing.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000060_000000|"That man acts a little crazy," said Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000000|"Oh, he's hot headed," said the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000001|"He gets one idea and he can't think of anything else.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000002|Lock the door, Joe, so we won't be disturbed.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000004|Now let's search these men, and see what we can find."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000062_000000|Tom, Shadrack, and Wilson held their arms up, while the men dumped the contents of their pockets on a table.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000062_000001|Three revolvers, handkerchiefs, Confederate money....
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000062_000002|They found nothing of importance.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000063_000000|"Now let's sit down here and talk this thing over," said the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000063_000001|"Where do you men say you come from!"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000064_000000|"From Fleming county kentucky," replied Wilson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000064_000003|It was easy.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000065_000000|"Where did you come across the river?" demanded the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000067_000000|One of the men beside the Judge interrupted: "There aren't any ferries running up there."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000068_000000|"I know there aren't," answered Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000069_000000|"A raft!" exclaimed the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000070_000000|"Yes, out of logs.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000070_000002|Look at my hands." He spread his hands out upon the table, palms up.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000070_000003|They had been torn and bruised by the logs he had yanked from the tender.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000072_000001|They were trying to pull me aboard, but every time they came to help me the raft tilted so that they had to crawl back."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000073_000000|"And finally," said Wilson, "I got down on my stomach and held to his wrists, while Shadrack sat on the other side and balanced us."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000075_000000|It was a good yarn, and they enlarged upon it.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000076_000000|"And so you're going to enlist, eh?" asked the Judge finally.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000077_000001|"We thought that Chattanooga would be a good place for us.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000077_000002|It's near Beauregard and we'll probably get into action pretty soon."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000078_000000|"It's not so near to Beauregard as you think," the Judge answered.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000078_000001|"The Yanks have taken a bite out of the railroad between there and Corinth."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000079_000000|"They have?" asked Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000079_000001|"Is that what this man Alf was so excited about!"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000080_000000|"No-not exactly," replied the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000080_000001|"Some Yanks stole a train on the Georgia State Railroad yesterday and burned a bridge."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000081_000000|"Stole a train!"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000082_000000|"That's what they did!" He gave them a wild and inaccurate account of what Andrews' raiders had done.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000083_000000|"Judge, we're famished," said Wilson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000083_000001|"Do you think we could get some supper here?"
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000084_000000|"Joe, run out to the kitchen and see if mrs james can give these boys some dinner.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000084_000001|And tell Alf that I don't want to be disturbed."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000000|Dinner came and they ate ravenously.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000001|The Judge sat across the table from them, talking with some of his friends.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000002|Obviously, the atmosphere had changed, now that Alf was no longer there to incite trouble, but they noticed that the Judge took good care to keep the revolvers out of their reach.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000003|What did he think?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000004|Did he believe their story?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000005|Were they to be set free again, or would they be taken to Chattanooga?
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000086_000000|"Now, boys," said the Judge as they pushed back from the table, "I want you to stay here in this hotel for the night.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000086_000001|Tomorrow you can go to Chattanooga and enlist."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000086_000002|It was a request which amounted to a command.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000087_000001|We need it."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000088_000000|"Joe, you show them their rooms.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000088_000001|I'll keep these for the present, if you don't mind." He motioned towards the revolvers.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000088_000002|"You can take the other things."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000089_000000|They nodded and said good night.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000089_000001|Joe handed them candles and they followed him upstairs.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000089_000003|"Two of you can sleep there."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000090_000000|"You and Shadrack take it," said Tom to Wilson.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000090_000001|"Good night."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000090_000002|They shook hands.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000000|"Here's the other," said Joe, leading the way down the corridor.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000003|He opened the window and looked down.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000004|In the dim light which came from the room in which they had been sitting downstairs he could see a wagon drawn up beside the house; there was a stack of farm tools against the wagon, and the ground was strewn with objects he could not make out. Just a mixture of things which had been thrown there for want of a better place, he thought.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000006|He leaned over and peered in, but he could see nothing.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000007|Then he put his ear against the thin wall and listened.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000012|Then he put his ear down and listened.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000092_000000|Alf had just returned to the room.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000092_000001|"Why not take 'em to Chattanooga now?" he was demanding.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000000|"Now, Alf," said the Judge, "I'm taking care of this.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000001|The men are upstairs going to bed, and Joe is in the hall on guard.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000004|I'm going over to Chattanooga with them in the morning and turn them over to the authorities.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000005|They can do whatever they think best."
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000094_000000|"I'd take 'em over tonight," answered Alf.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000095_000000|The conversation, carried along upon those lines, lasted for half an hour, with the Judge dominating.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000096_000000|Tom left the hole, and continued his investigations.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000096_000002|But perhaps Joe might leave for a moment.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000096_000005|But first he barred the door with a chair.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000097_000002|The man who had entered announced: "They've captured two of the engine stealers over at Julian's Gap!
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000098_000000|"What!" yelled the Judge.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000099_000000|"There you are!" Alf shouted triumphantly.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000000|Tom jumped to his feet.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000002|He could hear the boots pounding up the stairs.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000004|To jump on that mess of farm tools below him would probably mean a broken leg.
train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000005|Leaning far out, he reached around and pushed up the window of the next room, climbed in and closed his own window.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000000_000000|"Here we are, Marjorie." He went forward to meet her.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000000_000001|"Thanks a thousand times for all you've done.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000000_000003|I'm going on-so that they won't catch me here."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000001_000001|"I won't let you. Here!--Joe and Sam-put those things down and stay here.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000001_000002|Oh, Tom, they'll surely catch you if you try it." She clutched his arm as though to hold him from running into the woods.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000002_000001|"Please go back. Don't you see what it'll mean if I'm found near here?
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000002|You'll have to stay here, Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000003|I'll hide you in the house-Matty'll hide you over the kitchen.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000004|Let me do that for you-let me take the risk.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000005|Please!"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000001|If they get me, they'll get me in the open.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000002|No, Marjorie.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000003|Go on back."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000005_000000|"Then take a horse from the stable.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000005_000001|Take my horse."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000006_000000|"Yours?"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000007_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000007_000001|Uncle gave him to me, and I give him to you.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000007_000002|You must...."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000008_000000|"But they'll know...."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000009_000000|"No, they won't...."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000010_000000|"But tomorrow when they find...."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000001|"Matty's husband is the stableman.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000002|He knows about you.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000004|You must....
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000005|Joe!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000006|Sam!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000008|Run!"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000012_000001|They disappeared into the darkness.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000012_000002|Tom's protest was smothered under Marjorie's hand.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000013_000000|"Can you ride?
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000013_000001|Are you strong enough?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000014_000000|"Yes-if I once get my legs wrapped around him I can stick there.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000016_000000|"You're worth a dozen soldiers!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000000|There was a moment of silence.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000001|"Poor Tom!" she said softly.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000002|"It's all so terrible, isn't it?
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000003|And so wonderful!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000004|You men have left the whole South gasping at your bravery.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000018_000000|"But you-you're from the North."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000000|"Yes," she answered.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000001|"We don't talk about the war.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000002|He just takes it for granted that I believe everything he believes.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000003|I've been here two years now.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000004|When mother and father were alive I lived in Albany.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000005|I'm going back just as soon as I can.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000020_000000|There were more horses on the road.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000000|"They're coming to join Kirby," she said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000001|"I heard him say that more men were coming.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000002|When Uncle went down to let them in, I went to the head of the stairs to hear what they were saying.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000003|Uncle took them into the dining room to give them something to eat and drink; then I dressed and stole down."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000022_000000|"But how did they know that I was in this part of the country?"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000000|"There was something about a boat.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000001|It was found ashore a few miles down the river, and there was a report from Chattanooga that the boat had been taken.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000002|I didn't wait to hear it all.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000004|Men are going out in all directions, and Kirby is taking the road to Wartrace.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000005|If you're ahead of him they'll never catch you.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000006|Star can run like the wind."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000024_000000|"Star?"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000025_000000|"My horse," she explained.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000025_000001|"He's a beautiful horse....
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000025_000002|Oh, I wish they'd hurry." There was anguish in her voice.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000026_000001|"Why don't you go back to the house now!"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000028_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000028_000001|Please go back now."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000029_000002|Then, too...." She faltered and stopped.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000030_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000000|"You can't leave by the main road.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000001|I'm going to show you the way through the woods.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000002|Then there's a fence to jump.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000003|I'm going to take Star over it."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000000|It was useless to protest, for she became calm again and determined.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000001|"I want to do it," she said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000002|"You've come to me for help, and it's my right to help you all I can.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000003|And remember, I'll always be proud of it.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000004|Oh, so proud!" She slipped her hand into his and they sat there quietly, straining to catch the first sounds of the negroes returning.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000033_000000|"There they are-General Marjorie," he said presently.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000000|She jumped up and ran to the horse.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000001|Tom could see her pressing her cheek to the horse's nose, stroking its head and neck.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000002|"Go back now," she said to the negroes.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000003|"Take everything with you.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000004|If Matty is up, tell her that I'll be home in a few minutes."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000036_000001|"No, don't argue!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000036_000002|Hurry!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000000|Laboriously, he did as he was told to do.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000001|With Marjorie leading Star, they made their way through the woods.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000002|Once she stopped and listened.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000003|"They haven't started yet," she said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000000|A few minutes later she stopped again.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000001|"There's the fence," she said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000002|"Let me mount now.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000003|You hold Star while I fix the stirrups." He slid to the ground and stood there, while she measured the straps with her arms and fixed the buckles.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000004|He could see her plainly now in the soft moonlight which was flooding the world.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000005|Ahead of them was the black wall of the rail fence.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000039_000000|"Now," she said, "if you'll help me mount." He held his hands braced against his knees so that they formed a step for her.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000039_000001|She was up, adjusting herself to the saddle, stroking Star's neck, talking to him softly.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000039_000003|Once again he did as he was told to do.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000040_000001|"Put it on the top rail as a marker," she said, as she turned back for the run.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000041_000000|Tom spread the handkerchief on the fence-a tiny spot of white to guide Star over.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000041_000001|Then he watched her, as she retreated into the black background of the woods, his heart thumping so that it hurt.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000042_000000|Star's hoofs pounded upon the soft turf, then his body emerged from the shadows.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000042_000001|Tom could see Marjorie crouching, riding to his gait, holding him down for the jump.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000042_000003|He had cleared it by a foot.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000043_000000|Marjorie wheeled about, dismounted, and readjusted the stirrups.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000043_000001|"There!" she said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000043_000002|"Now-now, go."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000044_000000|"I can never thank you," he began.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000045_000000|"Don't-please don't even try," she interrupted.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000045_000001|"Good luck once again. Good by, Star dear." She pressed her cheek against the horse's head. "Good by, Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000000|He mounted and for a moment they delayed the parting.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000001|He reached down and took her hand.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000002|"Always, little soldier, always," he said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000003|"Good by."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000047_000001|The sounds of shouting came from the Beecham's.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000047_000002|"They're starting.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000047_000003|Go straight ahead until you come to the road, then to your left."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000048_000000|He gave Star the reins, and above the beat of hoofs heard her call: "Good luck, Tom!" He glanced back and saw her standing there, her arms raised above her head.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000049_000001|Then, when they turned northward, Tom could feel all the strength of the fine, valiant animal he was riding.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000049_000002|It was a strength which seemed to flow into the road, which carried him forward in long, swinging leaps.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000050_000000|"Go it, Star!" he said.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000050_000001|"Go it, boy!"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000050_000003|He leaned forward, riding easily, peering ahead at the road.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000051_000000|Star was willing, but no horse could stand such a pace forever, so he reined in to a trot.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000051_000002|"They'll stop there, old fellow," he confided.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000051_000003|"You've shown them what a pair of hind hoofs look like."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000052_000001|Through each settlement he walked Star quietly, but always ready to throw himself forward, dig his heels into the horse's flanks and race away.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000052_000002|An hour passed ... two hours ... three hours.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000000|The first light of dawn found him a mile south of Manchester.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000001|"Guess we'd better begin to step lively, Star," he said, reaching forward and stroking the horse's neck.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000002|Star snorted and shook his head.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000003|They trotted around a bend in the road.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000004|Ahead of them Tom distinguished a man who had dismounted and was standing beside his horse.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000054_000000|"Get ready, boy," he whispered, reining in slightly.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000055_000000|"Hey!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000055_000001|You!" called the man.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000000|"None of your business!" he replied.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000001|Then with his hat he slapped the man's horse on the head.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000002|He whooped, and dug his heels into Star's flanks.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000003|As they shot forward, he saw the other horse rear up, pawing the air.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000005|Tom, flat against Star's neck, with the black mane whipping his face, sped down the road-past the spot where they had met Andrews that first day of the raid, past the Widow Fry's and down the one street of Manchester at a full gallop.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000000|"Keep it up, Star!" he urged.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000001|"Go it, Star!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000002|We're almost there, old boy.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000004|His neck was outstretched and his head was thrust forward as though he were devouring the road.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000000|Tom did not look back, but he cast out short, broken sentences to console his pursuer.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000001|"Huh!
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000002|Race me-on that hunk o'--dog meat.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000006|We'll race-anything that-wears four legs.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000007|Won't we-Star?
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000008|Huh!"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000060_000000|Presently he eased Star's gait, for the horse was beginning to breath too heavily.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000060_000002|"Wonder how much ground we covered then.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000060_000003|Must be pretty close...."
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000062_000000|It was a cry that brought a yell of exultation to Tom's lips.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000062_000001|There was no mistaking it.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000062_000002|No civilian could say halt in that tone.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000063_000000|Tom pulled on the reins and Star planted his feet; they went sliding past the Sentry with his rifle glinting in the moonlight.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000063_000001|"Halt there!" came the second warning as Star came to a stop.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000063_000002|"Put your hands up!"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000064_000000|Tom dropped the reins and raised his hands.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000064_000001|Star, almost winded, seemed propped upon his legs, rather than standing upon them.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000064_000002|His head drooped and each breath came as a great heave.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000066_000000|"Friend," answered Tom.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000067_000000|"Password?"
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000068_000000|"Haven't got it.
train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000068_000001|I'm...."
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000003_000000|BOOK thirty four.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000003_000001|SANDS AT SEVENTY
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000004_000000|Mannahatta
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000006_000000|Paumanok
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000011_000000|To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead, To calm, devoted engineers-to over ardent travelers-to pilots on their ships, To many a lofty song and picture without recognition-I'd rear laurel cover'd monument, High, high above the rest-To all cut off before their time, Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire, Quench'd by an early death.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000012_000000|A Carol Closing Sixty Nine
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000014_000000|The Bravest Soldiers
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000016_000000|A Font of Type
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000018_000000|As I Sit Writing Here
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000020_000000|My Canary Bird
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000023_000000|Approaching, nearing, curious, Thou dim, uncertain spectre-bringest thou life or death? Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier? Or placid skies and sun?
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000026_000000|The First Dandelion
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000027_000000|Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass-innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000028_000000|America
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000029_000000|Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair'd in the adamant of Time.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000030_000000|Memories
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000031_000000|How sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams-the meditation of old times resumed --their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000035_000000|After the dazzle of day is gone, Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars; After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000036_000000|Abraham Lincoln, Born february twelfth eighteen o nine
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000037_000000|To day, from each and all, a breath of prayer-a pulse of thought, To memory of Him-to birth of Him.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000038_000000|Out of May's Shows Selected
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000039_000000|Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms; Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green; The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning; The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000040_000000|Halcyon Days
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000047_000000|[three] You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000001|you power that does this work! You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread, Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations, What are the messages by you from distant stars to us?
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000002|what Sirius'? what Capella's? What central heart-and you the pulse-vivifies all?
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000003|what boundless aggregate of all? What subtle indirection and significance in you?
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000004|what clue to all in you?
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000051_000000|How they sweep down and out!
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000051_000001|how they mutter! Poets unnamed-artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs, Love's unresponse-a chorus of age's complaints-hope's last words, Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000052_000000|On to oblivion then! On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide! On for your time, ye furious debouche!
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000056_000000|Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing, Long it holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling, All throbs, dilates-the farms, woods, streets of cities-workmen at work, Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing-steamers' pennants of smoke-and under the forenoon sun, Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound, Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000057_000000|[seven] By That Long Scan of Waves
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000059_000000|[eight] Then Last Of All
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000060_000000|Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill, Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning: Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same, The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000061_000000|Election Day, November, eighteen eighty four
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000062_000001|it serves to purify-while the heart pants, life glows: These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000063_000000|With Husky Haughty Lips, O Sea!
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000065_000000|Death of General Grant
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000067_000000|Red Jacket (From Aloft)
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000069_000000|Washington's Monument February, eighteen eighty five
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000071_000000|Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000073_000000|Broadway
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000075_000000|To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000076_000000|To get the final lilt of songs, To penetrate the inmost lore of poets-to know the mighty ones, Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakespere, Tennyson, Emerson; To diagnose the shifting delicate tints of love and pride and doubt- to truly understand, To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance price, Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000077_000000|Old Salt Kossabone
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000083_000000|Yonnondio
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000085_000000|Life
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000090_000000|Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest-namely, One's Self- a simple, separate person.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000090_000001|That, for the use of the New World, I sing. Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000090_000003|The Female equally with the Male, I sing. Nor cease at the theme of One's Self.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000091_000000|True Conquerors
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000093_000000|The United States to Old World Critics
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000094_000000|Here first the duties of to day, the lessons of the concrete, Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty; As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice, Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps, The solid planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000097_000000|Thanks in Old Age
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000105_000000|Thine eyes, ears-all thy best attributes-all that takes cognizance of natural beauty, Shall wake and fill.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000107_000000|While not the past forgetting, To day, at least, contention sunk entire-peace, brotherhood uprisen; For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands, Lay on the graves of all dead soldiers, North or South, (Nor for the past alone-for meanings to the future,) Wreaths of roses and branches of palm.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000110_000000|Stronger Lessons
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000111_000000|Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000112_000000|A Prairie Sunset
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000113_000000|Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors; The light, the general air possess'd by them-colors till now unknown, No limit, confine-not the Western sky alone-the high meridian- North, South, all, Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000115_000001|What of the future?)
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000118_000000|Twilight
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000122_000000|Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000124_000000|The Dead Emperor
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000126_000000|As the Greek's Signal Flame
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000128_000000|The Dismantled Ship
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000130_000000|Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000131_000001|Beat!
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000131_000002|Drums! or To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod, Or Captain!
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000131_000003|My Captain!
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000134_000000|Old Age's Lambent Peaks
train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000136_000000|After the Supper and Talk
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000002_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000003_000000|COMING TO AN UNDERSTANDING.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000004_000001|He went straight to his room, at his mother's old house, and did not breakfast with the Rowlands.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000004_000002|He knocked at their door when breakfast was finished, and sent to request Mrs Rowland's presence in the drawing room.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000005_000000|There was all due politeness in Enderby's way of inducing his sister to sit down, and of asking after the health of herself and her children.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000006_000000|"We are all wonderfully improved, thank you, brother.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000006_000002|Mr Walcot's care will be new life to us."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000007_000000|"Whose care?"
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000000|"Mr Walcot's.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000001|We brought him with us last night; and he is to go at once into my mother's house.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000002|He is a surgeon of the first degree of eminence.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000003|I think myself extremely fortunate in having secured him. The chief reason, however, of my inviting him here was, that my poor mother might be properly taken care of.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000005|Now that she will be in good hands, I shall feel that I have done my duty."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000009_000000|"And, pray, does Rowland know of your having brought this stranger here?"
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000010_000000|"Of course.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000010_000001|Mr Walcot is our guest till his own house can be prepared for him.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000010_000002|As I tell you, he arrived with me, last night."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000011_000000|"And now let me tell you, sister, that either Mr Walcot is not a man of honour, or you have misinformed him of the true state of affairs here: I suspect the latter to be the case.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000011_000001|It is of a piece with the whole of your conduct, towards Mr Hope-conduct unpardonable for its untruthfulness, and hateful for its malice."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000013_000001|Mr Hope must have justice, and you have no one to blame but yourself that justice must be done at your expense.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000013_000002|I give you fair notice that I shall discharge my duty fully, in the painful circumstances in which you have contrived to place all your family."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000014_000000|"Do what you will, Philip.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000014_000001|My first duty is to take care of the health of my parent and my children; and if, by the same means, Deerbrook is provided with a medical man worthy of its confidence, all Deerbrook will thank me."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000015_000000|"Ignorant and stupid as Deerbrook is about many things, Priscilla, it is not so wicked as to thank any one for waging a cowardly war against the good, for disparaging the able and accomplished, and fabricating and circulating injurious stories against people too magnanimous for the slanderer to understand."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000016_000000|"I do not know what you mean, Philip."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000001|You do not know that he and his wife are not happy.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000002|You know that Hope is an able and most humane man in his profession, and that he does not steal dead bodies.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000003|You know the falsehood of the whole set of vulgar stories that you have put into circulation against him.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000004|You know, also, that my mother has entire confidence in him, and that it will go near to break her heart to have him dismissed for any one else.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000005|This is the meaning of what I say.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000006|As for what I mean to do-it is this.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000007|I shall speak to Mr Walcot at once, before his intention to settle here is known."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000018_000000|"You are too late, my dear sir.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000019_000000|"So much the worse for you, Priscilla.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000019_000001|I shall explain the whole of Hope's case to Mr Walcot, avoiding, if possible, all exposure of you-."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000020_000000|"Oh, pray do not disturb yourself about that.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000020_000001|Mr Walcot knows me very well.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000020_000002|I am not afraid."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000021_000001|If this gentleman be honourable, he will decline attending my mother, and go away more willingly than he came.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000022_000000|"You take the tone of defiance, I see, Philip.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000022_000001|I have not the slightest objection.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000023_000002|I give you peremptory warning, leaving you opportunity to retrieve yourself, to repair the mischief you have done, and to alleviate the misery which I see is coming upon you."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000024_000000|"You are very good: but I know what I am about, and I shall proceed in my own way.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000024_000001|I mean to get rid of these Hopes; and, perhaps, you may be surprised to see how soon I succeed."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000025_000000|"The Hopes shall remain as long as they wish to stay, if truth can prevail against falsehood.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000025_000001|I am sorry for you, if you cannot endure the presence of neighbours whose whole minds and conduct are noble and humane, and known by you to be so.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000025_000003|I would have you look to it."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000026_000000|"Is your sermon ended?
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000027_000000|"What I have to say is not finished.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000028_000000|"I said so, because it is true."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000029_000000|The cool assurance with which she said this was too much for Enderby's gravity.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000029_000001|He burst out a laughing.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000000|"If not precisely true when I said it, it was sure to be so soon; which is just the same thing.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000001|I mean that it shall be true.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000002|I have set my heart upon your marrying, and upon your marrying Mary Bruce.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000003|I know she would like it, and-"
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000000|"Stop there!
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000002|I will not have you take liberties with her name to me; and this is not the first time I have told you so.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000003|It is not true that she would like it-no more true than many other things that you have said: and if you were to repeat it till night, it would make no sort of impression upon me.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000004|Miss Bruce knows little, and cares less, about me; and beware how you say to the contrary!--And now for the plain fact.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000005|I am engaged elsewhere."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000033_000000|"Yes; I am."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000034_000000|"You will marry no one but Mary Bruce at last, you will see, whatever you may think now."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000036_000000|"I dare say you are?
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000036_000001|Margaret Ibbotson!
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000038_000000|"I hope you will all make yourselves happy with your greatness and your beauty: for these friends of yours seem likely to have little else left to comfort themselves with."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000000|"They will be happy with their greatness and loveliness, sister; for it is Heaven's decree that they should.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000002|Why will you not throw off the restraint of bad feelings, and do magnanimous justice to this family, and, having thus opened and freed your mind, glory in their goodness- the next best thing to being as good as they?
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000003|You have power of mind to do this: the very force with which you persist in persecuting them shows that you have power for better things.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000004|Believe me, they are full of the spirit of forgiveness.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000005|Do but try-"
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000040_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000040_000002|If they forgive me for anything, it shall be for my power."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000000|"That is not for you to determine, happily.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000001|To what extent they forgive is between God and themselves.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000002|You lie under their forgiveness, whether you will or not.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000003|I own, Priscilla, I would fain bestow on Margaret a sister whom she might respect rather than forgive."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000043_000000|"Very few; for your sake, scarcely any.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000043_000003|You must now get out of the scrape in your own way."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000044_000000|"I am glad you have told so few people of your entanglement.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000044_000002|I shall deny the engagement everywhere."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000045_000000|"That will hardly avail against my testimony."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000046_000000|"It will, when you are gone.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000046_000002|Indeed, I think I have the majority with me now, as the events of last night pretty plainly show."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000047_000001|Oh, Priscilla, I am unwilling to give you up!
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000047_000002|Let me hope, that the pride, the insane pride of this morning, is but the reaction of your internal suffering from witnessing the results of your influence in the outrages of last night.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000047_000003|Confide this to me now, and give yourself such ease as you yet can."
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000000|"Thank you: but you are quite mistaken.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000001|I was extremely glad to arrive when I did.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000002|It satisfied me as to the necessity of getting rid of these people; and it proved to Mr Walcot, as I observed to him at the time, how much he was wanted here.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000003|Now, if you have nothing more to say to me, I must go.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000049_000000|Philip fixed his eyes upon her with an earnestness from which, for one moment, she shrank; but she instantly rallied, and returned him a stare which lasted till she reached the door.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000000|"There is something almost sublime in audacity like this," thought he. "But it cannot last.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000001|It comes from internal torture-a thing as necessarily temporary as faith (the source of the other kind of strength) is durable.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000002|Not the slightest compunction has she for having caused the misery she knows of: and not a whit would she relent, if she could become aware (which she never shall) of what she made Margaret suffer.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000005|No; not the only comfort.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000006|She does not suffer from these things as she did.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000009|Now for Mr Walcot!
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000010|I must catch him as he comes out of church, and see what I can make of him.
train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000011|If he is an honourable man, all may turn out well.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000001_000000|He had arrived within sight, and fortunately within rifle range of the spot, at that critical moment when the jaguar was preparing to spring.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000005_000000|Fortunate for Zeb, that the mustanger's knife had been left upon land. As it was, he came near being throttled; and only after throwing aside his rifle, and employing all his strength, was he able to protect himself against the unlooked for assault.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000006_000000|A struggle ensued, which ended in Zeb flinging his colossal arms around the young Irishman, and bearing him bodily to the bank.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000007_000000|It was not all over.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000008_000000|The hunter suspected his intent.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000008_000001|Standing over six feet, he saw the bloody knife blade lying along the cloak.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000008_000002|It was for that the mustanger was making!
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000010_000000|"Speel up thur, Pheelum!" shouted he.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000012_000000|Still the struggle was not over.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000015_000000|The Galwegian, believing it so, began uttering a series of lugubrious cries-the "keen" of Connemara.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000002|He's no more dead than you air-only fented.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000004|No," he continued, after stooping down and giving a short examination, "I kin see no wound worth makin' a muss about.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000007|What kin they be?
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000009|They air more like the claws o' a tom cat.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000017_000000|The hunter had all the talking to himself.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000019_000000|Zeb took no notice of these grotesque demonstrations; but, once more bending over the prostrate form, proceeded to complete the examination already begun.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000020_000000|Becoming satisfied that there was no serious wound, he rose to his feet, and commenced taking stock of the odd articles around him.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000020_000001|He had already noticed the Panama hat, that still adhered to the head of the mustanger; and a strange thought at seeing it there, had passed through his mind.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000021_000002|It was possible he might have seen fit to change the fashion.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000023_000000|It was not from any suspicion of its being honestly in possession of him now wearing it that the hunter stooped down, and took it off with the design to examine it.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000025_000000|"HENRY POINDEXTER."
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000026_000000|The cloak now came under his notice.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000028_000000|"Hats, heads, an everythin'.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000028_000002|By the 'tarnal thur's somethin' goed astray!
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000031_000000|The hunter seemed to cogitate on how he was to effect this purpose.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000032_000004|How air it to be done?
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000033_000001|Two saplings of at least ten feet in length were cut from the chapparal, and trimmed clear of twigs.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000035_000000|In the mode of using it, it more resembled the latter than the former: since he who was to be borne upon it, again deliriously raging, had to be strapped to the trestles!
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000036_000000|Unlike the ordinary stretcher, it was not carried between two men; but a man and a mare-the mare at the head, the man bearing behind.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000037_000000|It was he of Connemara who completed the ill matched team.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000038_000000|He was taking it, or rather getting it-Zeb having appointed himself to the easier post of conductor.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000039_000000|The idea was not altogether original.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000043_000000|In strong but tender arms the wounded man was transferred from the stretcher to the skin couch, on which he had been accustomed to repose.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000044_000000|He was unconscious of where he was, and knew not the friendly faces bending over him.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000044_000002|He was experiencing an interval of calm.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000045_000001|But there were wild words upon his lips that forbade it-suggesting only serious thoughts.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000048_000000|It was not from any unfaithfulness on the part of the foster brother, that he seemed thus to disregard his duty; but simply because Zeb had requested him to lie down-telling him there was no occasion for both to remain awake.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000050_000000|And alone he sate listening to them-throughout the live long night.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000051_000000|He heard speeches that surprised him, and names that did not.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000052_000000|But there was another name also often pronounced-with speeches less pleasant to his ear.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000053_000000|It was the name of Louise's brother.
train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000054_000000|The speeches were disjointed-incongruous, and almost unintelligible.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000001_000000|CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000003_000000|After getting clear of the enclosures of Casa del Corvo, the hunter headed his animal up stream-in the direction of the Port and town.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000004_000000|It was the former he intended to reach-which he did in a ride of less than a quarter of an hour.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000005_000000|Commonly it took him three to accomplish this distance; but on this occasion he was in an unusual state of excitement, and he made speed to correspond.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000005_000001|The old mare could go fast enough when required-that is when Zeb required her and he had a mode of quickening her speed-known only to himself, and only employed upon extraordinary occasions.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000005_000002|It simply consisted in drawing the bowie knife from his belt, and inserting about in inch of its blade into the mare's hip, close to the termination of the spine.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000007_000000|On the present occasion there was no necessity for such excessive speed; and the Fort was reached after fifteen minutes' sharp trotting.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000009_000000|The old hunter had no difficulty in obtaining an interview with the military chief of Fort Inge.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000009_000001|Looked upon by the officers as a sort of privileged character, he had the entree at all times, and could go in without countersign, or any of the other formalities usually demanded from a stranger.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000010_000000|From his first words, the latter appeared to have been expecting him.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000001|Glad to see you so soon.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000002|Have you made any discovery in this queer affair?
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000003|From your quick return, I can almost say you have.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000005|What have you learnt?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000013_000000|"In welcome.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000013_000001|What is it you have to say?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000000|"I have.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000001|You speak quite truly about that, Mr Stump.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000002|And as to the power, I have that, too, in a certain sense.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000004|I can go so far as to hinder any open violation of the law; but I cannot go against the law itself."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000017_000000|"Who?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000019_000001|You may speak your mind freely."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000021_000000|"That's my own belief.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000021_000001|You know it already.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000021_000002|Have you nothing more to communicate?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000023_000000|"So far as I am concerned, I'm quite contented to wait for your return; the more willingly that I know you are acting on the side of justice. But what would you have me do?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000024_000001|The rest will be all right."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000025_000000|"How long?
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000025_000001|You know that it must come on according to the usual process in the Criminal Court.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000025_000003|But there is a party, who are crying out for vengeance; and he may be ruled by them."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000028_000003|Kin ye promise me three days?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000029_000000|"Three days!
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000029_000001|For what?"
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000030_000000|"Afore the trial kims on."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000031_000003|Even if the judge of the Supreme Court should require him to be delivered up inside that time, I can make objections that will delay his being taken from the guard house.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000031_000004|I shall undertake to do that."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000032_000003|Don't ask me who.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000033_000002|Innocent or guilty, for that time he shall be protected."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000035_000001|Mr Stump, you may rely upon my pledged word."
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000037_000000|With this complimentary leave taking the hunter strode out of head quarters, and made his way back to the place where he had left his old mare.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000038_000000|Once more mounting her, he rode rapidly away.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000039_000000|On reaching the outskirts of Poindexter's plantation, he left the low lands of the Leona bottom, and spurred his old mare 'gainst the steep slope ascending to the upper plain.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000040_000000|He reached it, at a point where the chapparal impinged upon the prairie, and there reined up under the shade of a mezquit tree.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000040_000001|He did not alight, nor show any sign of an intention to do so; but sate in the saddle, stooped forward, his eyes turned upon the ground, in that vacant gaze which denotes reflection.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000041_000009|But it want.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000044_000000|He looked round, as if in search of some one to answer the interrogatory.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000047_000000|Having advanced about a mile in the direction of the Nueces river, he abruptly changed his course; but with a coolness that told of a predetermined purpose.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000048_000000|It was now nearly due west, and at right angles to the different trails going towards the Rio Grande.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000049_000000|There was a simultaneous change in his bearing-in the expression of his features-and his attitude in the saddle.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000049_000001|No longer looking listlessly around, he sate stooping forward, his eye carefully scanning the sward, over a wide space on both sides of the path he was pursuing.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000051_000000|Nothing loth, the "critter" came to a stand; Zeb, at the same time, flinging himself out of the saddle.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000052_000000|Leaving the old mare to ruminate upon this eccentric proceeding, he advanced a pace or two, and dropped down upon his knees.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000053_000000|Then drawing the piece of curved iron out of his capacious pocket, he applied it to a hoof print conspicuously outlined in the turf.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000053_000001|It fitted.
train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000054_000000|"Fits!" he exclaimed, with a triumphant gesticulation, "Dog goned if it don't!"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000003_000000|thirteen
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000004_000000|THE REBEL
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000005_000001|They proceeded to a near by park, where a game of aerial punt ball was already in progress.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000006_000000|Billie took great interest in the darting play of the little flylike machines, the action of the mechanical catapults, and the ease with which the twelve inch ball was usually caught in the baskets on the machines' prows.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000007_000001|But Fort was content for a while to merely watch Mona, who was driving.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000008_000000|Finally the conversation made an opening for him to say, "I asked your mother, Mona, what she thought of me as a prospective son in law."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000009_000002|Didn't she?"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000010_000001|Then his boldness returned.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000010_000003|And now that I've done it-do you love me well enough to marry me, Mona?"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000012_000000|"I think-I rather think I like you too well to marry you.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000012_000002|You're too well satisfied with yourself.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000000|Fort looked as though he would, with an ounce more provocation, take her in his arms and say something to get quick results.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000001|But he didn't.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000002|"I see," pretty soberly, for him.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000004|Like Powart?" suddenly.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000014_000001|"It's only fair to say that I've given him an ultimatum, too." She hinted at what she had told the chairman.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000014_000002|"I said nothing about-you."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000015_000001|Mona gave him a glance or two, and Billie could see a startling change come over him.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000016_000000|"This makes everything very different!" he declared; and even his voice was altered.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000016_000001|There was a determined, purposeful ring about it which was altogether unlike his usual reckless tones.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000017_000001|"Clearly, I should tell him myself.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000017_000003|After that it is up to me!"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000018_000000|Next instant he had thrown off his seriousness, and for the remainder of the flight was his former jovial self.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000018_000001|He seemed a trifle ashamed, however, of his old lightheartedness; so much so that Mona warned him not to tamper too much with his disposition.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000018_000002|"I like it too well, boy."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000020_000000|"I have the honor to inform you," said Fort, coming straight to the point, "that Miss Mona has seen fit to encourage my suit.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000020_000002|I thought it only right that you should know."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000022_000000|"You are considerate," he stated with the faintest trace of sarcasm. "Let me call your attention to the fact that, because of the position which recent events have forced upon me, it is quite within my power to dispose of your opposition"--significantly.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000023_000000|"Quite so!
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000023_000002|"On second thoughts, however, you can't afford to be other than considerate.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000023_000003|If anything happens to me now, Miss Mona will naturally think of you; for she knows I have come here!"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000024_000001|However, he spoke with his usual coolness and certainty.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000025_000002|I take it"--evenly-"that you hope to accomplish something-big?"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000026_000000|Fort bowed.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000027_000000|For the first time Powart laughed.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000028_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000029_000000|Fort dropped his seriousness for an instant.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000029_000002|Thanks for the exemption.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000029_000003|In return, I assure you that whatever I do will be as truly in the interests of the people as what you have done."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000031_000000|A few minutes later Billie, through Mona, knew that Fort was reporting progress.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000031_000001|He did it by telephone.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000032_000000|"Thought you'd like to know," he finished.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000032_000001|"Hope I didn't rouse you out of bed."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000033_000000|It was night in Mona's part of the world, and Billie had come upon the girl just as she was preparing for bed.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000034_000001|"I was just about to retire.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000034_000002|Good luck"--another yawn-"and good-"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000001|"mr
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000002|Fort!" sharply.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000003|"Powart's declaration of war on Alma is a frame up!
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000004|Never mind how I happen to know; it is true; they are not planning to invade us at all!
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000005|He trumped up this affair in order to make himself dictator!"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000036_000000|"What!"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000036_000001|The athlete was astounded.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000036_000002|"Are you sure of this, Mona?"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000037_000000|The girl's manner had changed again.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000037_000001|"I beg your pardon?" she inquired, vastly confused.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000039_000000|She was still bewildered.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000039_000001|"I do not!" Then gathering her poise again, "What did I say?"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000040_000000|"You said-"
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000041_000000|"Mona, you told me something which could have come only through a supernatural agency.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000041_000001|I am sure of it, from your manner.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000041_000002|You were temporarily possessed." He paused again.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000042_000001|"It is not impossible.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000042_000002|I have heard of such things before.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000042_000003|I was sleepy, and-the point is, what did I say?" she demanded.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000043_000001|What I learned gives me a great advantage over Powart; that's all I can say.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000046_000002|"Come again any time you like."
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000047_000000|Which Fort did, the very next day.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000052_000000|"Then you can tell me.
train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000052_000002|Are the men entirely content with their treatment?"
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000002_000000|CHAPTER five Advice from a Caterpillar
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000003_000000|The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000004_000000|'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000005_000000|This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000005_000001|Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I-I hardly know, sir, just at present-at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000006_000000|'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000006_000001|'Explain yourself!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000008_000000|'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000009_000000|'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000010_000000|'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000011_000000|'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis-you will some day, you know-and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000012_000000|'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000014_000000|'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000014_000001|'Who are YOU?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000015_000000|Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000016_000000|'Why?' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000017_000000|Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000018_000000|'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000018_000001|'I've something important to say!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000019_000000|This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000020_000000|'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000022_000000|'No,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000023_000000|Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000023_000001|For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000024_000000|'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things as I used-and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000025_000000|'Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000026_000000|'Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE," but it all came different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000028_000000|Alice folded her hands, and began:--
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000029_000000|'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head- Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000030_000000|'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000031_000000|'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door- Pray, what is the reason of that?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000032_000000|'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, 'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment-one shilling the box- Allow me to sell you a couple?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000033_000000|'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak- Pray how did you manage to do it?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000034_000000|'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000035_000000|'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose- What made you so awfully clever?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000036_000000|'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000037_000000|'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000038_000000|'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words have got altered.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000039_000000|'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000040_000000|The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000041_000000|'What size do you want to be?' it asked.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000042_000000|'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000043_000000|'I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000044_000000|Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000045_000000|'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000046_000000|'Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched height to be.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000048_000000|'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000049_000000|'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000050_000000|This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000050_000001|In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000050_000002|Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000051_000000|'One side of WHAT?
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000051_000001|The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000052_000000|'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000053_000000|Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000053_000001|However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000054_000000|'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000055_000000|She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000055_000001|Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000056_000000|'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000057_000000|'What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And where HAVE my shoulders got to?
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000057_000001|And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000058_000000|As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000058_000001|She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000059_000000|'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000060_000000|'I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000060_000001|'Let me alone!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000061_000000|'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000062_000000|'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said Alice.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000063_000000|'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those serpents!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000063_000001|There's no pleasing them!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000064_000000|Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000065_000000|'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look out for serpents night and day!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000065_000001|Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000066_000000|'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000067_000000|'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000067_000001|Ugh, Serpent!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000068_000000|'But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a-I'm a-'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000069_000000|'Well!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000069_000001|WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000069_000002|'I can see you're trying to invent something!'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000070_000000|'I-I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000071_000000|'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000071_000002|No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000072_000000|'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000073_000000|'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000074_000000|This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?'
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000076_000000|'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000076_000001|Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000076_000002|After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000000|It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual.
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000001|'Come, there's half my plan done now!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000002|How puzzling all these changes are!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000003|I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!
train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000004|However, I've got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden-how IS that to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000001_000000|thirteen
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000003_000000|THE appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was altogether changed.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000003_000001|Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast. Grey coloured woods covered a large part of the surface.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000004_000000|The HISPANIOLA was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000004_000001|The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000006_000001|I volunteered for one of the boats, where I had, of course, no business.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000006_000002|The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000006_000003|Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000007_000000|"Well," he said with an oath, "it's not forever."
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000008_000000|I thought this was a very bad sign, for up to that day the men had gone briskly and willingly about their business; but the very sight of the island had relaxed the cords of discipline.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000011_000000|We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000011_000001|The bottom was clean sand.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000011_000002|The plunge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods, but in less than a minute they were down again and all was once more silent.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000012_000000|The place was entirely land locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000012_000002|From the ship we could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees; and if it had not been for the chart on the companion, we might have been the first that had ever anchored there since the island arose out of the seas.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000013_000000|There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000013_000001|A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage-a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000014_000000|"I don't know about treasure," he said, "but I'll stake my wig there's fever here."
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000000|If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when they had come aboard.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000001|They lay about the deck growling together in talk.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000002|The slightest order was received with a black look and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000004|Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder cloud.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000016_000000|And it was not only we of the cabin party who perceived the danger.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000016_000001|Long john was hard at work going from group to group, spending himself in good advice, and as for example no man could have shown a better.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000016_000002|He fairly outstripped himself in willingness and civility; he was all smiles to everyone.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000017_000000|Of all the gloomy features of that gloomy afternoon, this obvious anxiety on the part of Long john appeared the worst.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000018_000000|We held a council in the cabin.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000001|You see, sir, here it is.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000002|I get a rough answer, do I not?
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000003|Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes; if I don't, Silver will see there's something under that, and the game's up.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000004|Now, we've only one man to rely on."
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000020_000000|"And who is that?" asked the squire.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000000|"Silver, sir," returned the captain; "he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000001|This is a tiff; he'd soon talk 'em out of it if he had the chance, and what I propose to do is to give him the chance. Let's allow the men an afternoon ashore.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000002|If they all go, why we'll fight the ship.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000003|If they none of them go, well then, we hold the cabin, and God defend the right.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000022_000000|It was so decided; loaded pistols were served out to all the sure men; Hunter, Joyce, and Redruth were taken into our confidence and received the news with less surprise and a better spirit than we had looked for, and then the captain went on deck and addressed the crew.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000023_000000|"My lads," said he, "we've had a hot day and are all tired and out of sorts.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000023_000001|A turn ashore'll hurt nobody-the boats are still in the water; you can take the gigs, and as many as please may go ashore for the afternoon.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000023_000002|I'll fire a gun half an hour before sundown."
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000024_000000|I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a faraway hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000000|The captain was too bright to be in the way.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000001|He whipped out of sight in a moment, leaving Silver to arrange the party, and I fancy it was as well he did so.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000002|Had he been on deck, he could no longer so much as have pretended not to understand the situation.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000003|It was as plain as day. Silver was the captain, and a mighty rebellious crew he had of it.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000004|The honest hands-and I was soon to see it proved that there were such on board-must have been very stupid fellows.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000005|Or rather, I suppose the truth was this, that all hands were disaffected by the example of the ringleaders-only some more, some less; and a few, being good fellows in the main, could neither be led nor driven any further.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000006|It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000026_000000|At last, however, the party was made up.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000026_000001|Six fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000000|Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000001|If six men were left by Silver, it was plain our party could not take and fight the ship; and since only six were left, it was equally plain that the cabin party had no present need of my assistance.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000002|It occurred to me at once to go ashore.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000003|In a jiffy I had slipped over the side and curled up in the fore sheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment she shoved off.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000028_000000|No one took notice of me, only the bow oar saying, "Is that you, Jim? Keep your head down." But Silver, from the other boat, looked sharply over and called out to know if that were me; and from that moment I began to regret what I had done.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000029_000000|The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000031_000000|But you may suppose I paid no heed; jumping, ducking, and breaking through, I ran straight before my nose till I could run no longer.
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train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000001_000000|The First Blow
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000002_000000|I WAS so pleased at having given the slip to Long john that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000003_000000|I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000003_000001|On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000000|I now felt for the first time the joy of exploration.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000001|The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000002|I turned hither and thither among the trees.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000003|Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000004|Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000005_000000|Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees-live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called-which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000005_000001|The thicket stretched down from the top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way into the anchorage.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000005_000002|The marsh was steaming in the strong sun, and the outline of the Spy glass trembled through the haze.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000006_000000|All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000006_000001|I judged at once that some of my shipmates must be drawing near along the borders of the fen.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000006_000002|Nor was I deceived, for soon I heard the very distant and low tones of a human voice, which, as I continued to give ear, grew steadily louder and nearer.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000007_000000|This put me in a great fear, and I crawled under cover of the nearest live oak and squatted there, hearkening, as silent as a mouse.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000008_000000|Another voice answered, and then the first voice, which I now recognized to be Silver's, once more took up the story and ran on for a long while in a stream, only now and again interrupted by the other.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000008_000001|By the sound they must have been talking earnestly, and almost fiercely; but no distinct word came to my hearing.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000009_000000|At last the speakers seemed to have paused and perhaps to have sat down, for not only did they cease to draw any nearer, but the birds themselves began to grow more quiet and to settle again to their places in the swamp.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000010_000000|And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000011_000000|I could tell the direction of the speakers pretty exactly, not only by the sound of their voices but by the behaviour of the few birds that still hung in alarm above the heads of the intruders.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000012_000000|Crawling on all fours, I made steadily but slowly towards them, till at last, raising my head to an aperture among the leaves, I could see clear down into a little green dell beside the marsh, and closely set about with trees, where Long john Silver and another of the crew stood face to face in conversation.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000013_000000|The sun beat full upon them.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000013_000001|Silver had thrown his hat beside him on the ground, and his great, smooth, blond face, all shining with heat, was lifted to the other man's in a kind of appeal.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000014_000000|"Mate," he was saying, "it's because I thinks gold dust of you-gold dust, and you may lay to that!
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000014_000001|If I hadn't took to you like pitch, do you think I'd have been here a warning of you?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000000|"Silver," said the other man-and I observed he was not only red in the face, but spoke as hoarse as a crow, and his voice shook too, like a taut rope-"Silver," says he, "you're old, and you're honest, or has the name for it; and you've money too, which lots of poor sailors hasn't; and you're brave, or I'm mistook.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000001|And will you tell me you'll let yourself be led away with that kind of a mess of swabs?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000002|Not you!
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000003|As sure as God sees me, I'd sooner lose my hand.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000004|If I turn agin my dooty-"
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000000|And then all of a sudden he was interrupted by a noise.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000001|I had found one of the honest hands-well, here, at that same moment, came news of another.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000002|Far away out in the marsh there arose, all of a sudden, a sound like the cry of anger, then another on the back of it; and then one horrid, long drawn scream.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000003|The rocks of the Spy glass re echoed it a score of times; the whole troop of marsh birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000017_000000|Tom had leaped at the sound, like a horse at the spur, but Silver had not winked an eye.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000017_000001|He stood where he was, resting lightly on his crutch, watching his companion like a snake about to spring.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000018_000000|"john!" said the sailor, stretching out his hand.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000019_000000|"Hands off!" cried Silver, leaping back a yard, as it seemed to me, with the speed and security of a trained gymnast.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000020_000000|"Hands off, if you like, john Silver," said the other.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000020_000001|"It's a black conscience that can make you feared of me.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000020_000002|But in heaven's name, tell me, what was that?"
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000021_000000|"That?" returned Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. "That?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000022_000000|And at this point Tom flashed out like a hero.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000000|"Alan!" he cried.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000001|"Then rest his soul for a true seaman!
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000002|And as for you, john Silver, long you've been a mate of mine, but you're mate of mine no more.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000003|If I die like a dog, I'll die in my dooty.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000004|You've killed Alan, have you?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000005|Kill me too, if you can.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000006|But I defies you."
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000024_000000|And with that, this brave fellow turned his back directly on the cook and set off walking for the beach.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000024_000001|But he was not destined to go far. With a cry john seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his armpit, and sent that uncouth missile hurtling through the air. It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the middle of his back.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000024_000002|His hands flew up, he gave a sort of gasp, and fell.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000000|Whether he were injured much or little, none could ever tell.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000001|Like enough, to judge from the sound, his back was broken on the spot.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000002|But he had no time given him to recover.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000003|Silver, agile as a monkey even without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in that defenceless body.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000004|From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000026_000000|I do not know what it rightly is to faint, but I do know that for the next little while the whole world swam away from before me in a whirling mist; Silver and the birds, and the tall Spy glass hilltop, going round and round and topsy turvy before my eyes, and all manner of bells ringing and distant voices shouting in my ear.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000027_000000|When I came again to myself the monster had pulled himself together, his crutch under his arm, his hat upon his head.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000000|But now john put his hand into his pocket, brought out a whistle, and blew upon it several modulated blasts that rang far across the heated air.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000001|I could not tell, of course, the meaning of the signal, but it instantly awoke my fears.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000002|More men would be coming.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000003|I might be discovered.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000004|They had already slain two of the honest people; after Tom and Alan, might not I come next?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000029_000000|Instantly I began to extricate myself and crawl back again, with what speed and silence I could manage, to the more open portion of the wood.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000029_000001|As I did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger lent me wings.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000029_000002|As soon as I was clear of the thicket, I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers; and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me until it turned into a kind of frenzy.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000000|Indeed, could anyone be more entirely lost than I?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000001|When the gun fired, how should I dare to go down to the boats among those fiends, still smoking from their crime?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000002|Would not the first of them who saw me wring my neck like a snipe's?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000003|Would not my absence itself be an evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore of my fatal knowledge?
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000004|It was all over, I thought.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000005|Good bye to the HISPANIOLA; good bye to the squire, the doctor, and the captain!
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000006|There was nothing left for me but death by starvation or death by the hands of the mutineers.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000031_000000|All this while, as I say, I was still running, and without taking any notice, I had drawn near to the foot of the little hill with the two peaks and had got into a part of the island where the live oaks grew more widely apart and seemed more like forest trees in their bearing and dimensions.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000031_000001|Mingled with these were a few scattered pines, some fifty, some nearer seventy, feet high.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000031_000002|The air too smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.
train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000032_000000|And here a fresh alarm brought me to a standstill with a thumping heart.
train-clean-360/4590/18005/4590_18005_000010_000007|It was the man eater, cautiously stalking us.
train-clean-360/4590/18005/4590_18005_000012_000008|To my dismay, however, it was not there.
train-clean-360/4590/18005/4590_18005_000012_000009|The terror of the sudden charge had proved too much for Mahina, and both he and the carbine were by this time well on their way up a tree.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000003_000001|As the piers and abutments progressed in height, the question of how to lift the large stones into their positions had to be solved.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000003_000003|These were bolted together at the top, while the other ends were fixed at a distance of about ten feet apart in a large block of wood. This contrivance acted capitally, and by manipulation of ropes and pulleys the heavy stones were swung into position quickly and without difficulty, so that in a very short time the masonry of the bridge was completed.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000004_000003|It was next "jacked" up from the trucks, which were hauled away empty, the temporary bridge was dismantled, and the girder finally lowered gently into position.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000004_000004|When the last girder was thus successfully placed, no time was lost in linking up the permanent way, and very soon I had the satisfaction of seeing the first train cross the finished work.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000005_000000|Curiously enough, only a day or so after the bridge had been completed and the intermediate cribs cleared away, a tremendous rain storm broke over the country.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000005_000005|On it came, and with it an additional bank of stormy looking water.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000005_000010|I confess that I witnessed the whole occurrence with a thrill of pride.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000006_000001|These animals did a great deal of damage to the herds of sheep and goats which were kept to supply the commissariat, and there was always great rejoicing when a capture was made in one of the many traps that were laid for them.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000007_000001|I happened at the time to have a flock of about thirty sheep and goats which I kept for food and for milk, and which were secured at sundown in a grass hut at one corner of my boma.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000007_000002|One particularly dark night we were startled by a tremendous commotion in this shed, but as this was before the man eaters were killed, no one dared stir out to investigate the cause of the disturbance.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000007_000006|He had not eaten one of the flock, but had killed them all out of pure love of destruction.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000005|As we approached the shed, the leopard made a frantic spring in our direction as far as the chain would allow him, and this so frightened the chaukidar that he fled in terror, leaving me in utter darkness.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000006|The night was as black as had been the previous one, and I could see absolutely nothing; but I knew the general direction in which to fire and accordingly emptied my magazine at the beast.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000007|As far as I could make out, he kept dodging in and out through the broken wall of the goat house; but in a short time my shots evidently told, as his struggles ceased and all was still.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000008|I called out that he was dead, and at once everyone in the boma turned out, bringing all the lanterns in the place.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000010|Whereupon he levelled his revolver at the dead leopard, and shutting his eyes tightly, fired four shots in rapid succession.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000013|I of course assented to this proposal, and in a very few minutes the skin had been neatly taken off, and the famishing natives began a ravenous meal on the raw flesh.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000009_000000|Wild dogs are also very destructive, and often caused great losses among our sheep and goats.
train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000009_000003|He was a fine looking beast, bigger than a collie, with jet black hair and a white tipped bushy tail.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000000|Pierre was shown into the large, brightly lit dining room; a few minutes later he heard footsteps and Princess Mary entered with Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000001|Natasha was calm, though a severe and grave expression had again settled on her face.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000002|They all three of them now experienced that feeling of awkwardness which usually follows after a serious and heartfelt talk.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000003|It is impossible to go back to the same conversation, to talk of trifles is awkward, and yet the desire to speak is there and silence seems like affectation.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000005|The footmen drew back the chairs and pushed them up again.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000003_000001|"They even tell me wonders I myself never dreamed of!
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000003_000003|Stepan Stepanych also instructed me how I ought to tell of my experiences.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000003_000004|In general I have noticed that it is very easy to be an interesting man (I am an interesting man now); people invite me out and tell me all about myself."
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000004_000000|Natasha smiled and was on the point of speaking.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000005_000000|"We have been told," Princess Mary interrupted her, "that you lost two millions in Moscow.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000005_000001|Is that true?"
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000006_000000|"But I am three times as rich as before," returned Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000008_000000|"What I have certainly gained is freedom," he began seriously, but did not continue, noticing that this theme was too egotistic.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000012_000000|"No," answered Pierre, evidently not considering awkward the meaning Princess Mary had given to his words.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000012_000002|We were not an exemplary couple," he added quickly, glancing at Natasha and noticing on her face curiosity as to how he would speak of his wife, "but her death shocked me terribly.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000012_000005|I am very, very sorry for her," he concluded, and was pleased to notice a look of glad approval on Natasha's face.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000013_000000|"Yes, and so you are once more an eligible bachelor," said Princess Mary.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000014_000000|Pierre suddenly flushed crimson and for a long time tried not to look at Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000014_000001|When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000016_000000|Pierre laughed.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000017_000000|"No, not once!
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000018_000000|Supper was over, and Pierre who at first declined to speak about his captivity was gradually led on to do so.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000021_000000|At first he spoke with the amused and mild irony now customary with him toward everybody and especially toward himself, but when he came to describe the horrors and sufferings he had witnessed he was unconsciously carried away and began speaking with the suppressed emotion of a man re experiencing in recollection strong impressions he has lived through.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000000|Princess Mary with a gentle smile looked now at Pierre and now at Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000001|In the whole narrative she saw only Pierre and his goodness.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000002|Natasha, leaning on her elbow, the expression of her face constantly changing with the narrative, watched Pierre with an attention that never wandered-evidently herself experiencing all that he described.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000003|Not only her look, but her exclamations and the brief questions she put, showed Pierre that she understood just what he wished to convey.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000004|It was clear that she understood not only what he said but also what he wished to, but could not, express in words.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000006|One was snatched out before my eyes... and there were women who had their things snatched off and their earrings torn out..." he flushed and grew confused.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000024_000000|Pierre continued.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000024_000001|When he spoke of the execution he wanted to pass over the horrible details, but Natasha insisted that he should not omit anything.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000025_000000|Pierre began to tell about Karataev, but paused.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000025_000002|Then he added:
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000026_000000|"No, you can't understand what I learned from that illiterate man-that simple fellow."
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000027_000001|"Where is he?"
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000028_000000|"They killed him almost before my eyes."
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000029_000000|And Pierre, his voice trembling continually, went on to tell of the last days of their retreat, of Karataev's illness and his death.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000030_000000|He told of his adventures as he had never yet recalled them.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000030_000004|She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000031_000001|She saw the possibility of love and happiness between Natasha and Pierre, and the first thought of this filled her heart with gladness.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000032_000000|It was three o'clock in the morning.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000001|Natasha continued to look at him intently with bright, attentive, and animated eyes, as if trying to understand something more which he had perhaps left untold.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000002|Pierre in shamefaced and happy confusion glanced occasionally at her, and tried to think what to say next to introduce a fresh subject.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000003|Princess Mary was silent.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000004|It occurred to none of them that it was three o'clock and time to go to bed.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000034_000002|While there is life there is happiness.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000034_000003|There is much, much before us.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000034_000004|I say this to you," he added, turning to Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000036_000000|Pierre looked intently at her.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000037_000000|"Yes, and nothing more," said Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000038_000000|"It's not true, not true!" cried Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000038_000001|"I am not to blame for being alive and wishing to live-nor you either."
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000039_000000|Suddenly Natasha bent her head, covered her face with her hands, and began to cry.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000040_000000|"What is it, Natasha?" said Princess Mary.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000041_000000|"Nothing, nothing." She smiled at Pierre through her tears.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000041_000001|"Good night!
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000042_000000|Pierre rose and took his leave.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000043_000001|They talked of what Pierre had told them.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000043_000002|Princess Mary did not express her opinion of Pierre nor did Natasha speak of him.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000044_000000|"Well, good night, Mary!" said Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000045_000000|Princess Mary sighed deeply and thereby acknowledged the justice of Natasha's remark, but she did not express agreement in words.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000000|"It did me so much good to tell all about it today.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000002|"I am sure he really loved him.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000003|That is why I told him...
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000004|Was it all right?" she added, suddenly blushing.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000048_000000|"To tell Pierre?
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000048_000001|Oh, yes.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000048_000002|What a splendid man he is!" said Princess Mary.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000049_000000|"Do you know, Mary..." Natasha suddenly said with a mischievous smile such as Princess Mary had not seen on her face for a long time, "he has somehow grown so clean, smooth, and fresh-as if he had just come out of a Russian bath; do you understand?
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000049_000001|Out of a moral bath.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000049_000002|Isn't it true?"
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000050_000000|"Yes," replied Princess Mary.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000051_000000|"With a short coat and his hair cropped; just as if, well, just as if he had come straight from the bath... Papa used to..."
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000053_000000|"Yes, and yet he is quite different.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000053_000001|They say men are friends when they are quite different.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000053_000002|That must be true.
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000054_000000|"Yes, but he's wonderful."
train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000055_000000|"Well, good night," said Natasha.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000004_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000005_000000|It was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep that night.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000006_000000|He was thinking of Prince Andrew, of Natasha, and of their love, at one moment jealous of her past, then reproaching himself for that feeling.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000006_000001|It was already six in the morning and he still paced up and down the room.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000007_000000|"Well, what's to be done if it cannot be avoided?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000007_000001|What's to be done?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000007_000002|Evidently it has to be so," said he to himself, and hastily undressing he got into bed, happy and agitated but free from hesitation or indecision.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000008_000000|"Strange and impossible as such happiness seems, I must do everything that she and I may be man and wife," he told himself.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000009_000000|A few days previously Pierre had decided to go to Petersburg on the Friday.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000009_000001|When he awoke on the Thursday, Savelich came to ask him about packing for the journey.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000000|"What, to Petersburg?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000001|What is Petersburg?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000002|Who is there in Petersburg?" he asked involuntarily, though only to himself.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000004|"Why?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000005|But perhaps I shall go.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000006|What a good fellow he is and how attentive, and how he remembers everything," he thought, looking at Savelich's old face, "and what a pleasant smile he has!"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000011_000000|"Well, Savelich, do you still not wish to accept your freedom?" Pierre asked him.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000012_000000|"What's the good of freedom to me, your excellency?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000012_000001|We lived under the late count-the kingdom of heaven be his!--and we have lived under you too, without ever being wronged."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000013_000000|"And your children?"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000014_000001|With such masters one can live."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000015_000000|"But what about my heirs?" said Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000015_000001|"Supposing I suddenly marry... it might happen," he added with an involuntary smile.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000017_000002|Too soon or too late... it is terrible!"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000019_000000|"No, I'll put it off for a bit.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000019_000004|Shall I have a talk with him and see what he thinks?" Pierre reflected.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000019_000005|"No, another time."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000020_000000|At breakfast Pierre told the princess, his cousin, that he had been to see Princess Mary the day before and had there met-"Whom do you think?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000020_000001|Natasha Rostova!"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000022_000000|"Do you know her?" asked Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000023_000000|"I have seen the princess," she replied.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000023_000002|It would be a very good thing for the Rostovs, they are said to be utterly ruined."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000025_000000|"I heard about that affair of hers at the time.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000025_000001|It was a great pity."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000026_000000|"No, she either doesn't understand or is pretending," thought Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000026_000001|"Better not say anything to her either."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000027_000000|The princess too had prepared provisions for Pierre's journey.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000028_000000|"How kind they all are," thought Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000028_000002|And all for me!"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000029_000000|On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000000|"And this man too," thought Pierre, looking into the face of the Chief of Police.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000001|"What a fine, good looking officer and how kind.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000002|Fancy bothering about such trifles now!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000003|And they actually say he is not honest and takes bribes.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000004|What nonsense!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000005|Besides, why shouldn't he take bribes?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000006|That's the way he was brought up, and everybody does it.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000007|But what a kind, pleasant face and how he smiles as he looks at me."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000031_000000|Pierre went to Princess Mary's to dinner.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000032_000000|As he drove through the streets past the houses that had been burned down, he was surprised by the beauty of those ruins.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000032_000001|The picturesqueness of the chimney stacks and tumble down walls of the burned out quarters of the town, stretching out and concealing one another, reminded him of the Rhine and the Colosseum.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000032_000003|Let's see what will come of it!"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000033_000002|She was in the same black dress with soft folds and her hair was done the same way as the day before, yet she was quite different.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000033_000003|Had she been like this when he entered the day before he could not for a moment have failed to recognize her.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000034_000001|A bright questioning light shone in her eyes, and on her face was a friendly and strangely roguish expression.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000035_000000|Pierre dined with them and would have spent the whole evening there, but Princess Mary was going to vespers and Pierre left the house with her.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000000|Next day he came early, dined, and stayed the whole evening.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000001|Though Princess Mary and Natasha were evidently glad to see their visitor and though all Pierre's interest was now centered in that house, by the evening they had talked over everything and the conversation passed from one trivial topic to another and repeatedly broke off.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000002|He stayed so long that Princess Mary and Natasha exchanged glances, evidently wondering when he would go.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000003|Pierre noticed this but could not go.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000004|He felt uneasy and embarrassed, but sat on because he simply could not get up and take his leave.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000037_000000|Princess Mary, foreseeing no end to this, rose first, and complaining of a headache began to say good night.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000038_000000|"So you are going to Petersburg tomorrow?" she asked.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000039_000001|"Yes... no.. to Petersburg?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000039_000002|Tomorrow-but I won't say good by yet.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000039_000003|I will call round in case you have any commissions for me," said he, standing before Princess Mary and turning red, but not taking his departure.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000040_000000|Natasha gave him her hand and went out.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000040_000001|Princess Mary on the other hand instead of going away sank into an armchair, and looked sternly and intently at him with her deep, radiant eyes.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000040_000002|The weariness she had plainly shown before had now quite passed off.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000041_000000|When Natasha left the room Pierre's confusion and awkwardness immediately vanished and were replaced by eager excitement.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000041_000001|He quickly moved an armchair toward Princess Mary.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000001|"Princess, help me!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000003|Can I hope?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000004|Princess, my dear friend, listen!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000007|But I want to be a brother to her.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000008|No, not that, I don't, I can't..."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000043_000000|He paused and rubbed his face and eyes with his hands.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000001|"I don't know when I began to love her, but I have loved her and her alone all my life, and I love her so that I cannot imagine life without her.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000002|I cannot propose to her at present, but the thought that perhaps she might someday be my wife and that I may be missing that possibility... that possibility... is terrible.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000003|Tell me, can I hope?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000004|Tell me what I am to do, dear princess!" he added after a pause, and touched her hand as she did not reply.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000045_000001|"This is what I will say.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000046_000000|Princess Mary stopped.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000046_000001|She was going to say that to speak of love was impossible, but she stopped because she had seen by the sudden change in Natasha two days before that she would not only not be hurt if Pierre spoke of his love, but that it was the very thing she wished for.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000048_000000|"But what am I to do?"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000049_000000|"Leave it to me," said Princess Mary.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000049_000001|"I know..."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000050_000000|Pierre was looking into Princess Mary's eyes.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000051_000000|"Well?...
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000051_000001|Well?..." he said.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000052_000000|"I know that she loves... will love you," Princess Mary corrected herself.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000053_000000|Before her words were out, Pierre had sprung up and with a frightened expression seized Princess Mary's hand.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000054_000000|"What makes you think so?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000054_000001|You think I may hope?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000054_000002|You think...?"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000055_000001|"Write to her parents, and leave it to me.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000055_000003|I wish it to happen and my heart tells me it will."
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000000|"No, it cannot be!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000001|How happy I am!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000002|But it can't be....
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000003|How happy I am!
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000004|No, it can't be!" Pierre kept saying as he kissed Princess Mary's hands.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000057_000000|"Go to Petersburg, that will be best.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000057_000001|And I will write to you," she said.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000058_000000|"To Petersburg?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000058_000001|Go there?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000058_000003|But I may come again tomorrow?"
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000059_000000|Next day Pierre came to say good by.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000059_000001|Natasha was less animated than she had been the day before; but that day as he looked at her Pierre sometimes felt as if he was vanishing and that neither he nor she existed any longer, that nothing existed but happiness.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000059_000002|"Is it possible?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000060_000000|When on saying good by he took her thin, slender hand, he could not help holding it a little longer in his own.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000062_000000|"Good bye, Count," she said aloud.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000062_000001|"I shall look forward very much to your return," she added in a whisper.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000063_000000|And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre.
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000063_000001|"'I shall look forward very much to your return....' Yes, yes, how did she say it?
train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000063_000003|What is happening to me?
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000004_000002|She gave it up just because it was so powerfully seductive.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000004_000004|She acted in contradiction to all those rules.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000004_000006|She felt that her unity with her husband was not maintained by the poetic feelings that had attracted him to her, but by something else-indefinite but firm as the bond between her own body and soul.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000005_000001|To adorn herself for others might perhaps have been agreeable-she did not know-but she had no time at all for it.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000007_000000|The subject which wholly engrossed Natasha's attention was her family: that is, her husband whom she had to keep so that he should belong entirely to her and to the home, and the children whom she had to bear, bring into the world, nurse, and bring up.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000008_000000|And the deeper she penetrated, not with her mind only but with her whole soul, her whole being, into the subject that absorbed her, the larger did that subject grow and the weaker and more inadequate did her powers appear, so that she concentrated them wholly on that one thing and yet was unable to accomplish all that she considered necessary.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000010_000000|These questions, then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in marriage but the pleasure married people get from one another, that is, only the beginnings of marriage and not its whole significance, which lies in the family.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000011_000000|Discussions and questions of that kind, which are like the question of how to get the greatest gratification from one's dinner, did not then and do not now exist for those for whom the purpose of a dinner is the nourishment it affords; and the purpose of marriage is the family.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000013_000000|If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a family.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000014_000000|If the purpose of food is nourishment and the purpose of marriage is the family, the whole question resolves itself into not eating more than one can digest, and not having more wives or husbands than are needed for the family-that is, one wife or one husband.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000016_000002|From the very first days of their married life Natasha had announced her demands.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000016_000003|Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000017_000002|At home Natasha placed herself in the position of a slave to her husband, and the whole household went on tiptoe when he was occupied-that is, was reading or writing in his study.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000017_000003|Pierre had but to show a partiality for anything to get just what he liked done always.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000017_000004|He had only to express a wish and Natasha would jump up and run to fulfill it.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000018_000000|The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000018_000002|And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000019_000000|Thus in a time of trouble ever memorable to him after the birth of their first child who was delicate, when they had to change the wet nurse three times and Natasha fell ill from despair, Pierre one day told her of Rousseau's view, with which he quite agreed, that to have a wet nurse is unnatural and harmful.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000020_000000|It very often happened that in a moment of irritation husband and wife would have a dispute, but long afterwards Pierre to his surprise and delight would find in his wife's ideas and actions the very thought against which she had argued, but divested of everything superfluous that in the excitement of the dispute he had added when expressing his opinion.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000000|After seven years of marriage Pierre had the joyous and firm consciousness that he was not a bad man, and he felt this because he saw himself reflected in his wife.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000001|He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000002|But only what was really good in him was reflected in his wife, all that was not quite good was rejected.
train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000003|And this was not the result of logical reasoning but was a direct and mysterious reflection.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000002_000000|A moment later Bates entered with a fresh supply of wood.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000002_000001|I watched him narrowly for some sign of perturbation, but he was not to be caught off guard.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000003_000000|"Is there anything further, sir?"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000004_000000|"I believe not, Bates.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000004_000001|Oh! here's a hammer I picked up out in the grounds a bit ago.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000004_000002|I wish you'd see if it belongs to the house."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000006_000000|"It doesn't belong here, I think, sir.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000006_000001|But we sometimes find tools left by the carpenters that worked on the house.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000007_000000|"Never mind.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000007_000001|I need such a thing now and then and I'll keep it handy."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000008_000000|"Very good, mr Glenarm.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000008_000001|It's a bit sharper to night, but we're likely to have sudden changes at this season."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000009_000000|"I dare say."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000010_000000|We were not getting anywhere; the fellow was certainly an incomparable actor.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000011_000000|"You must find it pretty lonely here, Bates.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000011_000001|Don't hesitate to go to the village when you like."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000012_000001|I keep a few books by me for the evenings.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000012_000002|Annandale is not what you would exactly call a diverting village."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000013_000000|"I fancy not.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000013_000001|But the caretaker over at the summer resort has even a lonelier time, I suppose.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000013_000002|That's what I'd call a pretty cheerless job,—watching summer cottages in the winter."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000014_000000|"That's Morgan, sir.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000014_000001|I meet him occasionally when I go to the village; a very worthy person, I should call him, on slight acquaintance."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000015_000000|"No doubt of it, Bates.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000015_000001|Any time through the winter you want to have him in for a social glass, it's all right with me."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000000|He met my gaze without flinching, and lighted me to the stair with our established ceremony.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000002|I had no intention of being killed, and now that I had due warning of danger, I resolved to protect myself from foes without and within.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000003|Both Bates and Morgan, the caretaker, were liars of high attainment.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000004|Morgan was, moreover, a cheerful scoundrel, and experience taught me long ago that a knave with humor is doubly dangerous.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000017_000000|Before going to bed I wrote a long letter to Larry Donovan, giving him a full account of my arrival at Glenarm House.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000017_000001|The thought of Larry always cheered me, and as the pages slipped from my pen I could feel his sympathy and hear him chuckling over the lively beginning of my year at Glenarm.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000017_000002|The idea of being fired upon by an unseen foe would, I knew, give Larry a real lift of the spirit.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000000|The next morning I walked into the village, mailed my letter, visited the railway station with true rustic instinct and watched the cutting out of a freight car for Annandale with a pleasure I had not before taken in that proceeding.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000001|The villagers stared at me blankly as on my first visit.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000002|A group of idle laborers stopped talking to watch me; and when I was a few yards past them they laughed at a remark by one of the number which I could not overhear.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000003|But I am not a particularly sensitive person; I did not care what my Hoosier neighbors said of me; all I asked was that they should refrain from shooting at the back of my head through the windows of my own house.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000000|On this day I really began to work.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000001|I mapped out a course of reading, set up a draftsman's table I found put away in a closet, and convinced myself that I was beginning a year of devotion to architecture.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000002|Such was, I felt, the only honest course.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000003|I should work every day from eight until one, and my leisure I should give to recreation and a search for the motives that lay behind the crafts and assaults of my enemies.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000020_000000|When I plunged into the wood in the middle of the afternoon it was with the definite purpose of returning to the upper end of the lake for an interview with Morgan, who had, so Bates informed me, a small house back of the cottages.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000000|I took the canoe I had chosen for my own use from the boat house and paddled up the lake.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000001|The air was still warm, but the wind that blew out of the south tasted of rain.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000002|I scanned the water and the borders of the lake for signs of life,—more particularly, I may as well admit, for a certain maroon colored canoe and a girl in a red tam o'-shanter, but lake and summer cottages were mine alone.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000004|There were many paths through the woods back of the cottages, and I followed several futilely before I at last found a small house snugly bid away in a thicket of young maples.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000022_000000|The man I was looking for came to the door quickly in response to my knock.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000023_000000|"Good afternoon, Morgan."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000024_000000|"Good afternoon, mr Glenarm," he said, taking the pipe from his mouth the better to grin at me.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000024_000001|He showed no sign of surprise, and I was nettled by his cool reception.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000024_000002|There was, perhaps, a certain element of recklessness in my visit to the house of a man who had shown so singular an interest in my affairs, and his cool greeting vexed me.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000025_000000|"Morgan—"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000025_000001|I began.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000026_000000|"Won't you come in and rest yourself, mr Glenarm?" he interrupted.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000026_000001|"I reckon you're tired from your trip over—"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000027_000000|"Thank you, no," I snapped.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000029_000000|"Morgan, you are an infernal blackguard.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000029_000001|You have tried twice to kill me—"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000031_000000|He lifted the gray fedora hat from his head, and poked his finger through a hole in the top.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000000|"You're a pretty fair shot, mr Glenarm.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000001|The fact about me is,"—and he winked,—"the honest truth is, I'm all out of practice.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000002|Why, sir, when I saw you paddling out on the lake this afternoon I sighted you from the casino half a dozen times with my gun, but I was afraid to risk it."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000003|He seemed to be shaken with inner mirth.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000001|I know of nothing in the way of social adventure that is quite equal to it.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000002|Morgan was a fellow of intelligence and, whatever lay back of his designs against me, he was clearly a foe to reckon with.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000003|He stood in the doorway calmly awaiting my next move.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000004|I struck a match on my box and lighted a cigarette.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000034_000001|I hadn't seen him for several years before he died.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000034_000002|I was never at Glenarm before in my life, so it's a little rough for you to visit your displeasure on me."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000035_000000|He smiled tolerantly as I spoke.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000035_000001|I knew—and he knew that I did—that no ill feeling against my grandfather lay back of his interest in my affairs.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000036_000000|"You're not quite the man your grandfather was, mr Glenarm.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000036_000001|You'll excuse my bluntness, but I take it that you're a frank man.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000036_000002|He was a very keen person, and, I'm afraid,"—he chuckled with evident satisfaction to himself,—"I'm really afraid, mr Glenarm, that you're not!"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000037_000000|"There you have it, Morgan!
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000037_000001|I fully agree with you! I'm as dull as an oyster; that's the reason I've called on you for enlightenment.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000037_000002|Consider that I'm here under a flag of truce, and let's see if we can't come to an agreement."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000038_000001|There was a time when we might have done some business; but that's past now.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000038_000002|You seem like a pretty decent fellow, too, and I'm sorry I didn't see you sooner; but better luck next time."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000039_000000|He stroked his yellow beard reflectively and shook his head a little sadly.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000039_000001|He was not a bad looking fellow; and he expressed himself well enough with a broad western accent.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000040_000000|"Well,"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000040_000001|I said, seeing that I should only make myself ridiculous by trying to learn anything from him, "I hope our little spats through windows and on walls won't interfere with our pleasant social relations.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000040_000002|And I don't hesitate to tell you,"—I was exerting myself to keep down my anger,—"that if I catch you on my grounds again I'll fill you with lead and sink you in the lake."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000042_000000|"And now, if you'll promise not to fire into my back I'll wish you good day.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000043_000000|He snatched off his hat and bowed profoundly.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000043_000001|"It'll suit me much better to continue handling the case on your grounds," he said, as though he referred to a business matter.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000043_000002|"Killing a man on your own property requires some explaining—you may have noticed it?"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000000|"Yes; I commit most of my murders away from home,"
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000001|I said.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000002|"I formed the habit early in life.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000003|Good day, Morgan."
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000045_000000|As I turned away he closed his door with a slam,—a delicate way of assuring me that he was acting in good faith, and not preparing to puncture my back with a rifle ball.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000045_000001|I regained the lake shore, feeling no great discouragement over the lean results of my interview, but rather a fresh zest for the game, whatever the game might be.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000045_000002|Morgan was not an enemy to trifle with; he was, on the other hand, a clever and daring foe; and the promptness with which he began war on me the night of my arrival at Glenarm House, indicated that there was method in his hostility.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000000|It was assuredly a spot for a pipe and a mood, and as the shadows crept through the wood before me and the water, stirred by the rising wind, began to beat below, I invoked the one and yielded to the other.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000001|Something in the withered grass at my feet caught my eye. I bent and picked up a string of gold beads, dropped there, no doubt, by some girl from the school or a careless member of the summer colony.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000002|I counted the separate beads—they were round and there were fifty of them.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000003|The proper length for one turn about a girl's throat, perhaps; not more than that!
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000004|I lifted my eyes and looked off toward saint Agatha's.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000049_000000|With this foolishness I rose, thrust the beads into my pocket, and paddled home in the waning glory of the sunset.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000000|That night, as I was going quite late to bed, bearing a candle to light me through the dark hall to my room, I heard a curious sound, as of some one walking stealthily through the house.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000001|At first I thought Bates was still abroad, but I waited, listening for several minutes, without being able to mark the exact direction of the sound or to identify it with him.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000002|I went on to the door of my room, and still a muffled step seemed to follow me,—first it had come from below, then it was much like some one going up stairs,—but where?
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000003|In my own room I still heard steps, light, slow, but distinct.
train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000004|Again there was a stumble and a hurried recovery,—ghosts, I reflected, do not fall down stairs!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000002_000000|The next morning Bates placed a letter postmarked Cincinnati at my plate.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000003_000002|Very truly yours, Arthur Pickering, Executor of the Estate of john Marshall Glenarm.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000004_000000|"Very truly the devil's," growled Larry, snapping his cigarette case viciously.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000000|"How did he find out?"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000001|I asked lamely, but my heart sank like lead.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000002|Had Marian Devereux told him!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000003|How else could he know?
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000006_000000|"Probably from the stars,—the whole universe undoubtedly saw you skipping off to meet your lady love. Bah, these women!"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000007_000003|Take that for your impertinence.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000007_000004|But perhaps it was Bates?"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000008_000000|I did not wait for an answer.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000008_000001|I was not in a mood for reflection or nice distinctions.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000008_000002|The man came in just then with a fresh plate of toast.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000009_000000|"Bates, mr Pickering has learned that I was away from the house on the night of the attack, and I'm ordered off for having broken my agreement to stay here. How do you suppose he heard of it so promptly?"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000010_000000|"From Morgan, quite possibly.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000011_000000|He placed before me a note bearing the same date as my own.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000011_000001|It was a sharp rebuke of Bates for his failure to report my absence, and he was ordered to prepare to leave on the first of February.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000011_000002|"Close your accounts at the shopkeepers' and I will audit your bills on my arrival."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000012_000000|The tone was peremptory and contemptuous.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000012_000001|Bates had failed to satisfy Pickering and was flung off like a smoked out cigar.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000014_000000|He met my gaze imperturbably.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000017_000000|He was carrying away the coffee tray and his eyes wandered to the windows.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000018_000001|You see—"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000019_000000|"But I don't see!"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000021_000000|He left hurriedly, as though to escape from the consequences of his words, and when I came to myself Larry was gloomily invoking his strange Irish gods.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000000|"Larry Donovan, I've been tempted to kill that fellow a dozen times!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000001|This thing is too damned complicated for me.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000002|I wish my lamented grandfather had left me something easy.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000003|To think of it—that fellow, after my treatment of him—my cursing and abusing him since I came here!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000004|Great Scott, man, I've been enjoying his bounty, I've been living on his money!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000023_000000|"As I have said before, you're rather lacking at times in perspicacity.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000023_000001|Your intelligence is marred by large opaque spots.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000023_000004|And now we've got to go to work."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000024_000000|Bah, these women!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000024_000001|My own heart caught the words. I was enraged and bitter.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000024_000002|No wonder she had been anxious for me to avoid Pickering after daring me to follow her!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000025_000000|We called a council of war for that night that we might view matters in the light of Pickering's letter. His assuredness in ordering me to leave made prompt and decisive action necessary on my part.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000025_000001|I summoned Stoddard to our conference, feeling confident of his friendliness.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000026_000000|"Of course," said the broad shouldered chaplain, "if you could show that your absence was on business of very grave importance, the courts might construe in that you had not really violated the will."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000027_000000|Larry looked at the ceiling and blew rings of smoke languidly.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000027_000001|I had not disclosed to either of them the cause of my absence.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000027_000002|On such a matter I knew I should get precious little sympathy from Larry, and I had, moreover, a feeling that I could not discuss Marian Devereux with any one; I even shrank from mentioning her name, though it rang like the call of bugles in my blood.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000000|She was always before me,—the charmed spirit of youth, linked to every foot of the earth, every gleam of the sun upon the ice bound lake, every glory of the winter sunset.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000001|All the good impulses I had ever stifled were quickened to life by the thought of her.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000002|Amid the day's perplexities I started sometimes, thinking I heard her voice, her girlish laughter, or saw her again coming toward me down the stairs, or holding against the light her fan with its golden butterflies.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000004|I wished to be alone, to yield to the sweet mood that the thought of her brought me.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000005|The doubt that crept through my mind as to any possibility of connivance between her and Pickering was as vague and fleeting as the shadow of a swallow's wing on a sunny meadow.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000029_000000|"You don't intend fighting the fact of your absence, do you?" demanded Larry, after a long silence.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000030_000000|"Of course not!" I replied quietly.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000030_000002|And it would not be square to my grandfather, —who never harmed a flea, may his soul rest in blessed peace!—to lie about it.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000030_000003|They might nail me for perjury besides."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000034_000000|"So much the worse for the sheriff and the rest of them!" I declared.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000000|"Spoken like a man of spirit.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000001|And now we'd better stock up at once, in case we should be shut off from our source of supplies.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000003|Better let Bates raid the village shops to morrow.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000004|I've tried being hungry, and I don't care to repeat the experience."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000036_000000|And Larry reached for the tobacco jar.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000037_000000|"I can't imagine, I really can't believe," began the chaplain, "that Miss Devereux will want to be brought into this estate matter in any way.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000037_000002|I suppose there's no way of preventing a man from leaving his property to a young woman, who has no claim on him,—who doesn't want anything from him."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000038_000000|"Bah, these women!
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000038_000002|Of course she'll take it."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000039_000000|Then his eyes widened and met mine in a gaze that reflected the mystification and wonder that struck both of us.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000039_000001|Stoddard turned from the fire suddenly:
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000040_000000|"What's that?
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000040_000001|There's some one up stairs!"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000042_000000|"Where's Bates?" demanded the chaplain.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000043_000000|"I'll thank you for the answer,"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000043_000001|I replied.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000044_000000|Larry stood at the top of the staircase, holding a candle at arm's length in front of him, staring about.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000046_000000|The noise ceased suddenly, leaving us with no hint of its whereabouts.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000047_000000|I went directly to the rear of the house and found Bates putting the dishes away in the pantry.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000048_000000|"Where have you been?"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000048_000001|I demanded.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000050_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000051_000000|I joined the others in the library.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000000|"Why didn't you tell me this feudal imitation was haunted?" asked Larry, in a grieved tone.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000001|"All it needed was a cheerful ghost, and now I believe it lacks absolutely nothing.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000002|I'm increasingly glad I came.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000003|How often does it walk?"
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000053_000000|"It's not on a schedule.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000053_000001|Just now it's the wind in the tower probably; the wind plays queer pranks up there sometimes."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000054_000000|"You'll have to do better than that, Glenarm," said Stoddard.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000054_000001|"It's as still outside as a country graveyard."
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000056_000001|Certain things were planned that night.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000056_000002|We determined to exercise every precaution to prevent a surprise from without, and we resolved upon a new and systematic sounding of walls and floors, taking our clue from the efforts made by Morgan and his ally to find hiding places by this process.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000056_000003|Pickering would undoubtedly arrive shortly, and we wished to anticipate his movements as far as possible.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000000|We resolved, too, upon a day patrol of the grounds and a night guard.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000001|The suggestion came, I believe, from Stoddard, whose interest in my affairs was only equaled by the fertility of his suggestions.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000002|One of us should remain abroad at night, ready to sound the alarm in case of attack.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000003|Bates should take his turn with the rest—Stoddard insisted on it.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000058_000000|Within two days we were, as Larry expressed it, on a war footing.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000058_000001|We added a couple of shot guns and several revolvers to my own arsenal, and piled the library table with cartridge boxes.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000059_000000|It was a cheerful company of conspirators that now gathered around the big hearth.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000059_000001|Larry, always restless, preferred to stand at one side, an elbow on the mantel shelf, pipe in mouth; and Stoddard sought the biggest chair,—and filled it.
train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000059_000002|He and Larry understood each other at once, and Larry's stories, ranging in subject from undergraduate experiences at Dublin to adventures in Africa and always including endless conflicts with the Irish constabulary, delighted the big boyish clergyman.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000001_000000|Bates had been into Annandale to mail some letters, and I was staring out upon the park from the library windows when he entered.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000001_000001|Stoddard, having kept watch the night before, was at home asleep, and Larry was off somewhere in the house, treasure hunting.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000001_000002|I was feeling decidedly discouraged over our failure to make any progress with our investigations, and Bates' news did not interest me.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000002_000000|"Well, what of it?" I demanded, without turning round.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000003_000000|"Nothing, sir; but Miss Devereux has come back!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000004_000000|"The devil!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000006_000000|"I said Miss Devereux," he repeated in dignified rebuke. "She came up this morning, and the Sister left at once for Chicago.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000006_000001|Sister Theresa depends particularly upon Miss Devereux,—so I've heard, sir.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000007_000000|"You seem full of information,"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000007_000001|I remarked, taking another step toward my hat and coat.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000009_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000010_000000|"They all came together, sir."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000011_000000|"Who came; if you please, Bates?"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000012_000001|That's what I learned in the village.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000012_000002|And mr Pickering is going to stay—"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000013_000000|"Pickering stay!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000014_000001|The reason is that he's worn out with his work, and wishes quiet. The other people went back to New York in the car."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000015_000000|"He's opened a summer cottage in mid winter, has he?"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000000|I had been blue enough without this news.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000001|Marian Devereux had come back to Annandale with Arthur Pickering; my faith in her snapped like a reed at this astounding news.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000002|She was now entitled to my grandfather's property and she had lost no time in returning as soon as she and Pickering had discussed together at the Armstrongs' my flight from Annandale.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000003|Her return could have no other meaning than that there was a strong tie between them, and he was now to stay on the ground until I should be dispossessed and her rights established.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000004|She had led me to follow her, and my forfeiture had been sealed by that stolen interview at the Armstrongs'.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000005|It was a black record, and the thought of it angered me against myself and the world.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000017_000000|"Tell mr Donovan that I've gone to saint Agatha's," I said, and I was soon striding toward the school.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000018_000001|I heard the sound of a piano, somewhere in the building, and I consigned the inventor of pianos to hideous torment as scales were pursued endlessly up and down the keys.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000018_000002|Two girls passing through the hall made a pretext of looking for a book and came in and exclaimed over their inability to find it with much suppressed giggling.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000000|The piano pounding continued and I waited for what seemed an interminable time.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000002|I took a book from the table.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000003|It was The Life of Benvenuto Cellini and "Marian Devereux" was written on the fly leaf, by unmistakably the same hand that penned the apology for Olivia's performances.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000004|I saw in the clear flowing lines of the signature, in their lack of superfluity, her own ease, grace and charm; and, in the deeper stroke with which the x was crossed, I felt a challenge, a readiness to abide by consequences once her word was given. Then my own inclination to think well of her angered me.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000005|It was only a pretty bit of chirography, and I dropped the book impatiently when I heard her step on the threshold.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000020_000000|"I am sorry to have kept you waiting, mr Glenarm. But this is my busy hour."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000021_000000|"I shall not detain you long.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000021_000001|I came,"—I hesitated, not knowing why I had come.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000022_000000|She took a chair near the open door and bent forward with an air of attention that was disquieting.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000022_000001|She wore black—perhaps to fit her the better into the house of a somber Sisterhood.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000022_000004|The silence grew intolerable; she was waiting for me to speak, and I blurted:
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000023_000000|"I suppose you have come to take charge of the property."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000024_000000|"Do you?" she asked.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000025_000000|"And you came back with the executor to facilitate matters.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000025_000001|I'm glad to see that you lose no time."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000026_000000|"Oh!" she said lingeringly, as though she were finding with difficulty the note in which I wished to pitch the conversation.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000026_000001|Her calmness was maddening.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000027_000000|"I suppose you thought it unwise to wait for the bluebird when you had beguiled me into breaking a promise, when I was trapped, defeated,—"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000029_000000|"I remember now the first time!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000029_000001|I exclaimed, more angry than I had ever been before in my life.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000030_000000|"That is quite remarkable," she said, and nodded her head ironically.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000031_000000|"It was at Sherry's; you were with Pickering—you dropped your fan and he picked it up, and you turned toward me for a moment.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000031_000001|You were in black that night; it was the unhappiness in your face, in your eyes, that made me remember."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000032_000000|I was intent upon the recollection, eager to fix and establish it.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000033_000000|"You are quite right.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000033_000001|It was at Sherry's.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000033_000002|I was wearing black then; many things made me unhappy that night."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000034_000000|Her forehead contracted slightly and she pressed her lips together.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000035_000000|"I suppose that even then the conspiracy was thoroughly arranged,"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000035_000001|I said tauntingly, laughing a little perhaps, and wishing to wound her, to take vengeance upon her.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000036_000000|She rose and stood by her chair, one hand resting upon it.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000036_000001|I faced her; her eyes were like violet seas. She spoke very quietly.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000038_000000|"You probably thought I was a fool," I retorted.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000000|"No;"—she smiled slightly—"I thought—I believe I have said this to you before!—you were a gentleman. I really did, mr Glenarm.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000001|I must say it to justify myself.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000002|I relied upon your chivalry; I even thought, when I played being Olivia, that you had a sense of honor.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000003|But you are not the one and you haven't the other.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000004|I even went so far, after you knew perfectly well who I was, as to try to help you—to give you another chance to prove yourself the man your grandfather wished you to be.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000005|And now you come to me in a shocking bad humor,—I really think you would like to be insulting, mr Glenarm, if you could."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000040_000000|"But Pickering,—you came back with him; he is here and he's going to stay!
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000040_000001|And now that the property belongs to you, there is not the slightest reason why we should make any pretense of anything but enmity. When you and Arthur Pickering stand together I take the other side of the barricade!
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000040_000002|I suppose chivalry would require me to vacate, so that you may enjoy at once the spoils of war."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000041_000000|"I fancy it would not be very difficult to eliminate you as a factor in the situation," she remarked icily.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000042_000000|"And I suppose, after the unsuccessful efforts of mr Pickering's allies to assassinate me, as a mild form of elimination, one would naturally expect me to sit calmly down and wait to be shot in the back.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000042_000002|I hope it will not embarrass you to deliver the message."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000043_000000|"I quite sympathize with your reluctance to deliver it yourself," she said.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000043_000001|"Is this all you came to say?"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000044_000001|I had accepted your own renouncement of the legacy in good part, but now, please believe me, it shall be yours to morrow. I'll yield possession to you whenever you ask it,—but never to Arthur Pickering!
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000044_000002|As against him and his treasure hunters and assassins I will hold out for a dozen years!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000045_000000|"Nobly spoken, mr Glenarm!
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000045_000001|Yours is really an admirable, though somewhat complex character."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000046_000000|"My character is my own, whatever it is," I blurted.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000048_000001|Your blustering here this afternoon can hardly conceal the fact of your failure,—your inability to keep a promise.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000048_000003|But, of course, that is all a matter of past history now."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000049_000000|Her tone, changing from cold indifference to the most severe disdain, stung me into self pity for my stupidity in having sought her.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000049_000001|My anger was not against her, but against Pickering, who had, I persuaded myself, always blocked my path.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000049_000002|She went on.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000050_000001|mr Pickering is decidedly more than a match for you, mr Glenarm, —even in humor."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000051_000000|She left me so quickly, so softly, that I stood staring like a fool at the spot where she had been, and then I went gloomily back to Glenarm House, angry, ashamed and crestfallen.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000052_000000|While we were waiting for dinner I made a clean breast of my acquaintance with her to Larry, omitting nothing,—rejoicing even to paint my own conduct as black as possible.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000053_000000|"You may remember her," I concluded, "she was the girl we saw at Sherry's that night we dined there.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000053_000001|She was with Pickering, and you noticed her,—spoke of her, as she went out."
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000054_000001|Bless me!
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000054_000002|Why her eyes haunted me for days.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000056_000000|"Of course I mean it!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000056_000001|I thundered at him.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000057_000000|He took the pipe from his mouth, pressed the tobacco viciously into the bowl, and swore steadily in Gaelic until I was ready to choke him.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000058_000000|"Stop!"
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000058_000001|I bawled.
train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000060_000000|The trilling of his r's was like the whirring rise of a flock of quails.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000003_000003|He scowled, but when we reached the trap in the room floor grid, we found him standing aside to admit us.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000000|I flung a swift glance around.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000001|It was a metallic cubby, not much over fifteen feet square, with an eight foot arched ceiling.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000002|There were instrument panels.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000003|The range finder for the giant projector was here; its telescope with the trajectory apparatus and the firing switch were unmistakable.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000004|And the signaling apparatus was here!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000005_000000|I saw too, what seemed to be weapons: a row of small fragile glass globes, hanging on clips along the wall-bombs, each the size of a man's fist.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000005_000001|And a broad belt with bombs in its padded compartments.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000007_000001|This upper trap was open.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000007_000002|Four feet above the room's roof was the arch of the dome, with the entrance to the exit lock directly above us.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000008_000001|I must gain his confidence at once. Anita had laid her helmet aside.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000008_000002|She spoke first.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000009_000001|You heard of it?
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000009_000002|We know where the treasure is."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000010_000001|A tremendous, beetle browed, scowling fellow. He stood with hands on his hips, his leather garbed legs spread wide; and as I confronted him, I felt like a child.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000012_000000|"You speak English?" I asked.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000012_000001|"We are not skilled with Martian."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000013_000001|I hoped not: it would not be easy to trick him and find an opportunity to flash a signal.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000013_000002|But that task was some hours away as yet; I would worry about it when the time came.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000013_000004|If we could persuade this duty man to turn the projector on them!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000015_000001|And this is the sister of George Prince-what do you want up here?"
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000016_000000|"I am a navigator.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000017_000000|"This is not the control room."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000019_000002|He did not speak: he was still scowling.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000020_000002|He sent up a signal-you saw it, didn't you?--just before Miss Prince and I came aboard.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000020_000003|He was trying to pretend he was your Earth party, Miko and Coniston."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000021_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000022_000000|The fellow turned his scowl on me, but Anita brought his gaze back to her.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000022_000001|She put in quickly:
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000024_000001|You have its firing mechanism here."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000026_000000|I gestured.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000026_000001|"I see it here.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000026_000002|It's obvious: I'm skilled at trajectory firing.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000027_000000|"Is it connected?" Anita demanded boldly.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000028_000000|"Yes," he said.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000028_000002|Then go."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000029_000000|But that was what we did not want to do.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000030_000000|She said sweetly, "Are you in charge of this room?
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000030_000001|Show me how the projector is operated.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000000|I had my back to them for a moment.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000002|And my heart suddenly leaped into my throat.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000003|It seemed that down there in the Earthlit shadows, where the spreading base of the giant crater joined the plains, a light was bobbing.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000004|I gazed, stricken.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000005|Miko's lights?
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000007|I tried to gauge the distance; it was not over two miles from here.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000032_000001|With the naked eye, I could not be sure. Perhaps there was a telescope finder here in the cubby....
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000035_000000|He saw me coming.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000035_000001|He held her with one arm! his other flung at me, caught me, knocked me backward.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000036_000000|"Get out of here!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000036_000001|Go up to the dome-"
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000038_000002|I grasped its barrel, reached upward and struck with its heavy metal butt.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000039_000000|We went down together, falling partly upon Anita.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000039_000002|I lay panting.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000039_000004|Blood from the giant's head was welling out, hot and sticky against my face as I lay sprawled on him.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000040_000000|I cast him off.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000040_000001|He was dead, his fragile Martian skull split open by my blow.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000041_000000|There had been no alarm.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000041_000002|Anita and I crouched by the floor.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000042_000000|"Dead."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000043_000000|"Oh Gregg-"
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000044_000000|It forced our hand.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000047_000000|And they were being answered from the ship!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000049_000001|And they are answering him!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000049_000002|Get your helmet: I'll try firing the projector."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000050_000001|There would be no time to do both: we must escape out of here.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000051_000002|I rushed to it.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000051_000005|One of them called up to me, but I ignored him.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000000|Then Potan looked up and saw me.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000001|He shouted in Martian at the duty man, whom he doubtless thought was behind me: "Be ready!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000002|We may fire on them.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000003|I'll give you the word."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000053_000000|The signals were proceeding.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000053_000001|It had only been a moment.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000054_000000|I was aiming the projector.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000054_000002|I pushed her back.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000055_000000|"Put on your helmet!"
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000057_000000|At the deck window the giant projector spat its deadly electronic stream.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000057_000002|I heard Potan's voice, his shout of protest and anger.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000000|But down in the Earth glow at the crater base, Miko's lights had not vanished!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000001|I had missed!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000002|An error in the range?
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000003|Abruptly I knew it was not that.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000004|Miko's lights were still there.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000005|His signals still coming. And I noticed now a faint distortion about them, the glow of his little group of hand lights faintly distorted and vaguely shot with a greenish cast.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000006|Benson curve lights!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000059_000002|He had gone back to his camp, equipped all his lights with the Benson curve. He was somewhere at the crater base now.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000060_000000|Anita was plucking at me.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000060_000001|"Gregg, come."
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000061_000000|"I can't hit him," I gasped.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000062_000000|Should I try the flash signal to Earth?
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000062_000001|Did we dare linger here?
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000062_000002|I stood another few seconds at the window.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000063_000003|By the Almighty-his giant stature-Brotow, look!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000001|"Disconnect that projector!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000002|It's Miko down there!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000003|This Haljan is a trickster!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000004|Where is he? Braile-Braile, you accursed fool!
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000005|Are Haljan and the girl up there with you?"
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000065_000000|But the duty man lay in his blood at our feet.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000066_000000|I had dropped back from the window.
train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000067_000000|The ship rang with the alarm.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000002_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000003_000000|As soon as she was left alone, Agnes set to work tidying and dusting the cottage, made up the fire, watered the bed, and cleaned the inside of the windows: the wise woman herself always kept the outside of them clean.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000003_000001|When she had done, she found her dinner-of the same sort she was used to at home, but better-in the hole of the wall.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000003_000002|When she had eaten it, she went to look at the pictures.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000000|By this time her old disposition had begun to rouse again.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000001|She had been doing her duty, and had in consequence begun again to think herself Somebody.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000002|However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000004|What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets?
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000005|A thief who was trying to reform would.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000006|To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000007|Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible?
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000008|Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000005_000000|So Agnes began to stroke herself once more, forgetting her late self stroking companion, and never reflecting that she was now doing what she had then abhorred.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000005_000001|And in this mood she went into the picture gallery.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000006_000000|The first picture she saw represented a square in a great city, one side of which was occupied by a splendid marble palace, with great flights of broad steps leading up to the door.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000006_000001|Between it and the square was a marble paved court, with gates of brass, at which stood sentries in gorgeous uniforms, and to which was affixed the following proclamation in letters of gold, large enough for Agnes to read:--
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000007_000000|"By the will of the King, from this time until further notice, every stray child found in the realm shall be brought without a moment's delay to the palace.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000009_000000|"Can there be such a city in the world?" she said to herself.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000009_000001|"If I only knew where it was, I should set out for it at once.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000009_000002|THERE would be the place for a clever girl like me!"
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000010_000000|Her eyes fell on the picture which had so enticed Rosamond.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000010_000001|It was the very country where her father fed his flocks.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000010_000002|Just round the shoulder of the hill was the cottage where her parents lived, where she was born and whence she had been carried by the beggar woman.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000011_000000|"Ah!" she said, "they didn't know me there.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000011_000001|They little thought what I could be, if I had the chance.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000011_000002|If I were but in this good, kind, loving, generous king's palace, I should soon be such a great lady as they never saw!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000012_000000|As she said this, she turned her back with disdain upon the picture of her home, and setting herself before the picture of the palace, stared at it with wide ambitious eyes, and a heart whose every beat was a throb of arrogant self esteem.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000013_000000|The shepherd child was now worse than ever the poor princess had been. For the wise woman had given her a terrible lesson one of which the princess was not capable, and she had known what it meant; yet here she was as bad as ever, therefore worse than before.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000013_000002|Nestling in her very heart, where most of all she had her company, and least of all could see her.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000014_000000|After gazing a while at the palace picture, during which her ambitious pride rose and rose, she turned yet again in condescending mood, and honored the home picture with one stare more.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000015_000000|"What a poor, miserable spot it is compared with this lordly palace!" she said.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000016_000000|But presently she spied something in it she had not seen before, and drew nearer.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000016_000001|It was the form of a little girl, building a bridge of stones over one of the hill brooks.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000000|"Ah, there I am myself!" she said.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000001|"That is just how I used to do.--No," she resumed, "it is not me.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000002|That snub nosed little fright could never be meant for me!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000005|What a dull, dirty, insignificant spot it is!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000006|And what a life to lead there!"
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000018_000000|She turned once more to the city picture.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000018_000001|And now a strange thing took place.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000018_000002|In proportion as the other, to the eyes of her mind, receded into the background, this, to her present bodily eyes, appeared to come forward and assume reality.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000000|"I do believe it is real!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000001|That frame is only a trick of the woman to make me fancy it a picture lest I should go and make my fortune.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000002|She is a witch, the ugly old creature!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000003|It would serve her right to tell the king and have her punished for not taking me to the palace-one of his poor lost children he is so fond of!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000004|I should like to see her ugly old head cut off.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000005|Anyhow I will try my luck without asking her leave.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000006|How she has ill used me!"
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000000|But at that moment, she heard the voice of the wise woman calling, "Agnes!" and, smoothing her face, she tried to look as good as she could, and walked back into the cottage.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000001|There stood the wise woman, looking all round the place, and examining her work.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000002|She fixed her eyes upon Agnes in a way that confused her, and made her cast hers down, for she felt as if she were reading her thoughts.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000003|The wise woman, however, asked no questions, but began to talk about her work, approving of some of it, which filled her with arrogance, and showing how some of it might have been done better, which filled her with resentment.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000004|But the wise woman seemed to take no care of what she might be thinking, and went straight on with her lesson.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000006|Ere it had time to sink down again, the wise woman caught up the little mirror, and held it before her: Agnes saw her Somebody-the very embodiment of miserable conceit and ugly ill temper.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000007|She gave such a scream of horror that the wise woman pitied her, and laying aside the mirror, took her upon her knees, and talked to her most kindly and solemnly; in particular about the necessity of destroying the ugly things that come out of the heart-so ugly that they make the very face over them ugly also.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000021_000001|Would you believe it?--instead of thinking how to kill the ugly things in her heart, she was with all her might resolving to be more careful of her face, that is, to keep down the things in her heart so that they should not show in her face, she was resolving to be a hypocrite as well as a self worshipper.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000021_000002|Her heart was wormy, and the worms were eating very fast at it now.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000022_000000|Then the wise woman laid her gently down upon the heather bed, and she fell fast asleep, and had an awful dream about her Somebody.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000023_000000|When she woke in the morning, instead of getting up to do the work of the house, she lay thinking-to evil purpose.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000023_000001|In place of taking her dream as a warning, and thinking over what the wise woman had said the night before, she communed with herself in this fashion:--
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000000|"If I stay here longer, I shall be miserable, It is nothing better than slavery.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000002|If I don't run away, that frightful blue prison and the disgusting girl will come back, and I shall go out of my mind.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000003|How I do wish I could find the way to the good king's palace!
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000004|I shall go and look at the picture again-if it be a picture-as soon as I've got my clothes on.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000005|The work can wait.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000006|It's not my work.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000007|It's the old witch's; and she ought to do it herself."
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000000|She jumped out of bed, and hurried on her clothes.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000001|There was no wise woman to be seen; and she hastened into the hall.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000002|There was the picture, with the marble palace, and the proclamation shining in letters of gold upon its gates of brass.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000003|She stood before it, and gazed and gazed; and all the time it kept growing upon her in some strange way, until at last she was fully persuaded that it was no picture, but a real city, square, and marble palace, seen through a framed opening in the wall.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000005|FREE was she, with that creature inside her?
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000000|The same moment a terrible storm of thunder and lightning, wind and rain, came on.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000001|The uproar was appalling.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000002|Agnes threw herself upon the ground, hid her face in her hands, and there lay until it was over.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000004|There was the city far away on the horizon.
train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000005|Without once turning to take a farewell look of the place she was leaving, she set off, as fast as her feet would carry her, in the direction of the city.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000003_000002|Fortunately this anecdote is well authenticated, and moreover is intrinsically probable; I say fortunately, because it is always painful to have to give up these child learnt anecdotes, like Alfred and the cakes and so on.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000003_000003|This anecdote of the apple we need not resign.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000003_000004|The tree was blown down in eighteen twenty and part of its wood is preserved.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000004_000000|I have mentioned Voltaire in connection with Newton's philosophy.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000005_000000|He now began to turn his attention to optics, and, as was usual with him, his whole mind became absorbed in this subject as if nothing else had ever occupied him.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000005_000003|Accordingly he calculated out their proper curves, just as Descartes had also done, and then proceeded to grind them as near as he could to those figures. But the images did not please him; they were always blurred and rather indistinct.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000000|At length, it struck him that perhaps it was not the lenses but the light which was at fault.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000002|Perhaps the law of refraction was not quite accurate, but only an approximation.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000003|So he bought a prism to try the law.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000005|The patch on the screen was not a round disk, as it would have been without the prism, but was an elongated oval and was coloured at its extremities.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000006|Evidently refraction was not a simple geometrical deflection of a ray, there was a spreading out as well.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000000|Why did the image thus spread out?
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000001|If it were due to irregularities in the glass a second prism should rather increase them, but a second prism when held in appropriate position was able to neutralise the dispersion and to reproduce the simple round white spot without deviation. Evidently the spreading out of the beam was connected in some definite way with its refraction.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000004|Pierce the screen to let one of the constituents through and interpose a second prism in its path.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000005|If the spreading out depended on the prism only it should spread out just as much as before, but if it depended on the complex character of white light, this isolated simple constituent should be able to spread out no more.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000007|It differed from sunlight in being simple.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000009|White light was not simple but compound. It could be sorted out by a prism into an infinite number of constituent parts which were differently refracted, and the most striking of which Newton named violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000000|At once the true nature of colour became manifest.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000002|Red glass for instance adds nothing to sunlight.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000003|The light does not get dyed red by passing through the glass; all that the red glass does is to stop and absorb a large part of the sunlight; it is opaque to the larger portion, but it is transparent to that particular portion which affects our eyes with the sensation of red.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000005|Coloured media act like filters, stopping certain kinds but allowing the rest to go through.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000006|Leonardo's and all the ancient doctrines of colour had been singularly wrong; colour is not in the object but in the light.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000012_000000|Refraction analysed out the various constituents of white light and displayed them in the form of a series of overlapping images of the aperture, each of a different colour; this series of images we call a spectrum, and the operation we now call spectrum analysis.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000012_000003|If light be simple it acts well, but if ordinary white light fall upon a lens, its different constituents have different foci; every bright object is fringed with colour, and nothing like a clear image can be obtained.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000014_000002|Beyond the crossing point or focus the order of cones is reversed, as the above figure shows.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000015_000000|If a screen be held anywhere nearer the lens than the place marked one there will be a whitish centre to the patch of light and a red and orange fringe or border.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000015_000001|Held anywhere beyond the region two, the border of the patch will be blue and violet.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000015_000003|Each point of an object will be represented in the image not by a point but by a coloured patch: a fact which amply explains the observed blurring and indistinctness.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000017_000001|So he gave up his "glass works"; and proceeded to think of reflexion from metal specula.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000017_000002|A concave mirror forms an image just as a lens does, but since it does so without refraction or transmission through any substance, there is no accompanying dispersion or chromatic aberration.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000018_000001|It acted as well as a three or four feet refractor of that day, and showed Jupiter's moons.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000020_000001|Fifty years elapsed before it was much improved on, and then, first by Hadley and afterwards by Herschel and others, large and good reflectors were constructed.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000021_000000|The largest telescope ever made, that of Lord Rosse, is a Newtonian reflector, fifty feet long, six feet diameter, with a mirror weighing four tons.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000021_000001|The sextant, as used by navigators, was also invented by Newton.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000022_000000|The year after the plague, in sixteen sixty seven, Newton returned to Trinity College, and there continued his experiments on optics.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000028_000002|However, he was known as an accomplished young mathematician, and was made a fellow of his college.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000028_000004|It happened, about sixteen sixty nine, that a mathematical discovery of some interest was being much discussed, and dr Barrow happened to mention it to Newton, who said yes, he had worked out that and a few other similar things some time ago.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000029_000000|Still, however, his method of fluxions was unknown, and still he did not publish it.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000029_000001|He lectured first on optics, giving an account of his experiments.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000029_000002|His lectures were afterwards published both in Latin and English, and are highly valued to this day.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000001|Boyle was a great experimenter, a worthy follower of dr Gilbert.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000002|Hooke began as his assistant, but being of a most extraordinary ingenuity he rapidly rose so as to exceed his master in importance.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000004|With great ingenuity, remarkable scientific insight, and consummate experimental skill, he stands in many respects almost on a level with Galileo.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000006|Of Christopher Wren I need not say much.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000007|He is well known as an architect, but he was a most accomplished all round man, and had a considerable taste and faculty for science.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000032_000001|He communicated to them an account of his reflecting telescope, and presented them with the instrument.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000037_000000|Comparisons in different departments are but little help perhaps, nevertheless it seems to me that in his own department, and considered simply as a man of science, Newton towers head and shoulders over, not only his contemporaries-that is a small matter-but over every other scientific man who has ever lived, in a way that we can find no parallel for in other departments.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000038_000004|Armed with this new datum, his old speculation concerning gravity occurred to him.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000038_000006|What if it should turn out to be true after all!
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000039_000001|If gravity were the force keeping the moon in its orbit, it would fall toward the earth sixteen feet every minute.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000039_000002|How far did it fall?
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000039_000004|He throws down the pen; and the secret of the universe is, to one man, known.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000040_000000|But of course it had to be worked out.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000041_000001|During those years he lived but to calculate and think, and the most ludicrous stories are told concerning his entire absorption and inattention to ordinary affairs of life.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000041_000002|Thus, for instance, when getting up in a morning he would sit on the side of the bed half dressed, and remain like that till dinner time.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000042_000001|After waiting a long time, dr Stukely removed the cover and ate the chicken underneath it, replacing and covering up the bones again.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000044_000000|The first part of the work having been done, any ordinary mortal would have proceeded to publish it; but the fact is that after he had sent to the Royal Society his papers on optics, there had arisen controversies and objections; most of them rather paltry, to which he felt compelled to find answers.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000044_000004|This shows how much he cared for contemporary fame.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000046_000001|The theory of gravitation seemed to be in the air, and Wren, Hooke, and Halley had many a talk about it.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000002|It does not obey Kepler's laws; still it was a striking experiment.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000003|They had guessed at a law of inverse squares, and their difficulty was to prove what curve a body subject to it would describe.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000004|They knew it ought to be an ellipse if it was to serve to explain the planetary motion, and Hooke said he could prove that an ellipse it was; but he was nothing of a mathematician, and the others scarcely believed him.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000006|He surmised also that gravity was the force concerned, and asserted that the path of an ordinary projectile was an ellipse, like the path of a planet-which is quite right.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000008|We should never have had them stated in the same form, nor proved with the same marvellous lucidity and simplicity, but the facts themselves we should by this time have arrived at.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000009|Their developments and completions, due to such men as Clairaut, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Laplace, Airy, Leverrier, Adams, we should of course not have had to the same extent; because the lives and energies of these great men would have been partially consumed in obtaining the main facts themselves.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000048_000001|He had been at Cambridge, doubtless had heard Newton lecture, and had acquired a great veneration for him.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000002|So at last, in August, Halley went over to Cambridge to speak to Newton about the difficult problem and secure his aid.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000004|He said, "What path will a body describe if it be attracted by a centre with a force varying as the inverse square of the distance." To which Newton at once replied, "An ellipse." "How on earth do you know?" said Halley in amazement.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000005|"Why, I have calculated it," and began hunting about for the paper.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000006|He actually couldn't find it just then, but sent it him shortly by post, and with it much more-in fact, what appeared to be a complete treatise on motion in general.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000001|The Society at his representation wrote to mr Newton asking leave that it might be printed.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000002|To this he consented; but the Royal Society wisely appointed mr Halley to see after him and jog his memory, in case he forgot about it.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000003|However, he set to work to polish it up and finish it, and added to it a great number of later developments and embellishments, especially the part concerning the lunar theory, which gave him a deal of trouble-and no wonder; for in the way he has put it there never was a man yet living who could have done the same thing.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000004|Mathematicians regard the achievement now as men might stare at the work of some demigod of a bygone age, wondering what manner of man this was, able to wield such ponderous implements with such apparent ease.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000051_000001|For though he ultimately suffered no pecuniary loss, rather the contrary, yet there was considerable risk in bringing out a book which not a dozen men living could at the time comprehend.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000051_000002|It is no small part of the merit of Halley that he recognized the transcendent value of the yet unfinished work, that he brought it to light, and assisted in its becoming understood to the best of his ability.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000053_000002|In less than twenty years the edition was sold out, and copies fetched large sums.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000053_000004|The only useful way really to read a book like that is to pore over every sentence: it is no book to be skimmed.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000054_000002|Oxford had given way, and the Dean of Christ Church was a creature of James's choosing.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000055_000000|By this time Newton was only forty five years old, but his main work was done.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000056_000000|By some fatality, principally no doubt because of the interest they excited, every discovery he published was the signal for an outburst of criticism and sometimes of attack.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000059_000000|By indiscreet friends these two great men were set somewhat at loggerheads, and worse might have happened had they not managed to come to close quarters, and correspond privately in a quite friendly manner, instead of acting through the mischievous medium of third parties.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000059_000001|In the next edition Newton liberally recognizes the claims of both Hooke and Wren.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000060_000000|However, fortunately, Halley was able to prevail upon him to publish the third book also.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000061_000000|Some years later, when his method of fluxions was published, another and a worse controversy arose-this time with Leibnitz, who had also independently invented the differential calculus.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000063_000002|He went, I believe, as a Whig, but it is not recorded that he spoke.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000063_000003|It is, in fact, recorded that he was once expected to speak when on a Royal Commission about some question of chronometers, but that he would not.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000063_000004|However, I dare say he made a good average member.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000064_000000|Then a little later it was realized that Newton was poor, that he still had to teach for his livelihood, and that though the Crown had continued his fellowship to him as Lucasian Professor without the necessity of taking orders, yet it was rather disgraceful that he should not be better off.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000065_000000|But what a pitiful business it all is!
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000065_000002|It is not to be supposed that he had lost his power, for he frequently solved problems very quickly which had been given out by great Continental mathematicians as a challenge to the world.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000066_000002|Certainly Newton did not know it.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000066_000003|He several times talks of giving up philosophy altogether; and though he never really does it, and perhaps the feeling is one only born of some temporary overwork, yet he does not sacrifice everything else to it as he surely must had he been conscious of his own greatness. No; self consciousness was the last thing that affected him.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000066_000004|It is for a great man's contemporaries to discover him, to make much of him, and to put him in surroundings where he may flourish luxuriantly in his own heaven intended way.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000067_000000|However, it is difficult for us to judge of these things.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000067_000001|Perhaps if he had been maintained at the national expense to do that for which he was preternaturally fitted, he might have worn himself out prematurely; whereas by giving him routine work the scientific world got the benefit of his matured wisdom and experience.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000000|The events of his later life I shall pass over lightly.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000002|His silver white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000004|He died quietly, after a painful illness, at the ripe age of eighty five.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000005|His body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, six peers bearing the pall.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000070_000002|He lived frugally with his niece and her husband, mr Conduit, who succeeded him as Master of the Mint.
train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000073_000004|Much ought to be sacrificed to obtain those conditions.
train-clean-360/4681/13056/4681_13056_000005_000000|mrs Parker's Sorrows
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000001_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000002_000000|AFTER SHILOH.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000001|Although defeated they had not been conquered.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000002|They had set forth from Corinth in the highest hopes, fully expecting to drive Grant's army into the Tennessee River.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000003|This hope was almost realized, when it suddenly perished: twenty thousand fresh troops had arrived upon the field, and the Confederates were forced to retreat.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000004|But they had fallen back unmolested, for the Federal army had been too severely punished to think of pursuing.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000005_000001|They had fought as only brave men can fight; they left one third of their number on the field, killed and wounded.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000005_000004|No charge could pierce that line of heroes.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000005_000005|With faces to the foe, they slowly fell back, contesting every inch of ground.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000008_000001|"It looks to me," said Breckinridge, with a sigh, "that if we are forced to give up Corinth, our cause in the West will be lost.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000008_000002|I am in favor of holding Corinth to the last man."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000009_000000|"What is your opinion, Morgan?" asked one of the officers, turning to the captain of whom we have spoken.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000011_000000|"What! would you give up Corinth without a struggle?" asked the officer, in surprise.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000012_000001|Corinth is nothing; the army is everything."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000013_000000|"Then you believe, Captain, that Corinth could be lost, and our cause not greatly suffer?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000014_000000|"Certainly.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000016_000000|"No joke about it.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000019_000000|A murmur of surprise arose, and then Trabue asked: "Will Beauregard let you make the hazardous attempt?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000021_000000|"Well, good bye, john, if you try it," said one of the officers, laughing.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000022_000000|"Why good bye, Colonel?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000024_000000|"Perhaps!" answered Morgan, dryly, as he arose to go.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000026_000000|"A perfect dare devil.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000028_000000|"He said he must see you," continued the orderly, "and if necessary he would wait all night."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000030_000000|Morgan gave him a swift glance, and then exclaimed: "Bless my heart!
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000030_000004|Let's see! You were on the staff of the late lamented Governor Johnson, were you not?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000031_000000|"Yes," replied Calhoun; and his voice trembled, and tears came into his eyes in spite of himself, as he thought of the death of his beloved chief.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000032_000001|"Now that he has gone, what do you propose doing?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000033_000000|"That is what I have come to see you about.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000034_000002|Of course you are going to accept?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000037_000000|Calhoun's brow clouded.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000037_000001|"Yes," he answered; "but why do you say the late Colonel Shackelford?
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000037_000002|Uncle Dick is not dead."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000038_000000|"Is that so?
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000038_000001|I am rejoiced to hear it.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000039_000000|"He was desperately wounded," answered Calhoun, "but he did not die, and he is now a prisoner in the hands of the Yankees.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000041_000001|But that is not all.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000042_000000|"Captured?" echoed Morgan, in surprise.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000044_000000|"Then you escaped?" queried Morgan.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000045_000001|I was dressed in citizen's clothes.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000046_000002|But as I failed to get him, I believe you would make a splendid substitute.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000047_000000|"A thousand times, yes.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000048_000000|Morgan's eyes sparkled.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000048_000003|Let's see!
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000048_000004|How would you like to go back to Kentucky?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000050_000000|"Yes, to recruit for my command.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000050_000001|Do you think you could dodge the Yankees?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000051_000000|"I believe I could.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000051_000001|I could at least try," answered Calhoun, his face aglow with the idea.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000052_000001|My present force is small-not much over four hundred.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000052_000002|I do not look for much help from the Confederate Government.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000052_000007|When can you start?"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000054_000004|Good night, now, for it is getting late."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000055_000000|Thus dismissed Calhoun went away with a light heart.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000058_000000|"True, General," replied Calhoun, "but if Morgan can keep thousands of the enemy in the rear guarding their communications, the great armies of the North will be depleted by that number."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000059_000001|I have recommended him for a colonelcy.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000060_000003|May God bless you, and crown your efforts with victory!"
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000065_000000|"I believe I have heard of Captain Conway," said Calhoun, with a smile.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000065_000001|"I have heard a cousin of mine speak of him."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000067_000000|Conway fairly turned purple with rage.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000070_000000|With these words he turned on his heel and stalked away.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000071_000001|"He can never forget that trick your cousin played on him."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000072_000003|I noticed that he greeted me rather coldly."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000075_000002|To my mind, Pennington is no better than that sneak of a cousin of his, and Morgan will find it out some day."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000076_000000|"Better keep a still tongue in your head, Conway," dryly replied the officer, a Captain Matthews, to whom Conway was complaining.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000079_000000|Just as Calhoun was ready to start, Morgan gave him his secret instructions.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000003|Much depends on your success.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000005|If possible (and I think it is), I shall try to reach Kentucky.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000007|If I could be joined by a thousand when I reach Kentucky, I believe I could sweep clear to the Ohio River.
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000010|I expect to be in Glasgow by the tenth of May at the latest."
train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000081_000000|"All right," replied Calhoun, "I will try to meet you there at that time, with at least one or two good companies."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000002_000000|At the time Calhoun started for Kentucky, General Halleck was concentrating his immense army at Pittsburg Landing, preparatory to an attack on Corinth.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000003_000001|Here he found little trouble in finding means to cross the Tennessee River.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000004_000001|They were mostly country boys, rough, uncouth, and with little or no education.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000007_000000|"The whelps and robbers!" he exclaimed; "how I should like to get at them! But their time will come.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000010_000000|"She will, she must," cried Calhoun.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000010_000001|"Already thousands of her sons are flocking to the Southern standard.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000012_000000|"He can if any one can.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000012_000003|'Under no consideration,' says Morgan, 'should Beauregard allow himself to be cooped up in Corinth.' "
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000013_000000|"I reckon he is right," sighed the Doctor; "but may the time never come when he will have to give it up."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000016_000000|Near Mount Pleasant he met a Confederate officer with a party of recruits which he was taking south.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000016_000002|I have no fears but that you can capture it, even with your small force."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000017_000002|He was discovered by a squad of Federal cavalry, which immediately gave chase. But he was mounted on a splendid horse, one that he had brought with him from Kentucky.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000019_000000|"Only one," muttered Calhoun, looking back, as a pistol ball whistled by his head; "I can settle him," and he reached for a revolver in his holster.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000020_000000|"Surrender, you Rebel!" cried the officer, but quick as a flash, Calhoun snatched a small revolver which he carried in his belt, and fired.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000021_000002|A scattering volley was fired by the foremost of the pursuers, but it did no harm, and Calhoun was soon across the field.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000023_000001|Did you get him?" asked the Lieutenant.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000024_000001|He got across that field as if Old Nick was after him.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000024_000003|I took a crack at him, but missed."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000027_000000|"My leg is sprained," he groaned; "but the worst of it is, Jupiter is dead.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000027_000002|I would make him pay dearly for that horse."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000028_000001|I caught him!" exclaimed one of the men, leading up Calhoun's horse, which he had captured.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000029_000001|Wonder who that feller can be.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000029_000005|I thought you had him sure, Lieutenant."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000033_000000|Sergeant Latham took the roll, which was securely strapped behind Calhoun's saddle, and began to unroll it as carefully as if he suspected it might be loaded.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000034_000000|"A fine rubber and a good woollen blanket," remarked the Sergeant.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000034_000002|Bet your life, they are a part of the plunder from Shiloh.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000035_000000|"Give them to me," said the Lieutenant.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000037_000002|We will see." He tore open one of the letters.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000038_000000|He had read but a few lines when he exclaimed, with a strong expletive, "Boys, I would give a month's pay if we had captured that fellow!"
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000039_000000|"Who was he?
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000001|He was a Lieutenant Calhoun Pennington, and he was from the Rebel army at Corinth.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000003|Morgan-Morgan, I have heard of that fellow before.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000004|He played the deuce with us in Kentucky last winter: burned the railroad bridge over Bacon Creek, captured trains, tore up the railroad, and played smash generally.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000006|But he may have carried important dispatches on his person.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000007|We let a rare prize slip through our fingers."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000041_000000|"Can't be helped now," dryly remarked Sergeant Latham.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000041_000001|"If you had captured him it might have put one bar, if not two, on your shoulder strap."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000042_000000|The Lieutenant scowled, but did not reply.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000042_000001|All the letters were read and passed around.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000043_000000|"Golly!
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000044_000000|"Or took fire from their warmth," put in a boyish looking soldier.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000045_000002|I tell you it was hot stuff.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000045_000003|'My dearest Polly!' it commenced, 'I----' "
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000047_000000|"A fight! a fight!" shouted the men, and crowded around to see the fun.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000048_000000|"Stop that!" roared the Lieutenant, "or I will have you both bucked and gagged when we get to camp.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000048_000001|Sergeant Latham, see that both of those men are put on extra duty to night."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000050_000006|It was thought he sheltered these wandering bands of Confederates who make it dangerous to step outside the camp.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000052_000000|"Shut up, or I will have you reduced to the ranks," growled the Lieutenant.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000053_000000|The subject was rather a painful one to the Lieutenant, for during his visit to the Osbornes the week before, when he tried to make himself agreeable to the daughter, the lady told him in very plain words what she thought of Yankees.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000055_000001|It was a beautiful place. The country had not yet been devastated by the cruel hand of war, and the landscape, rich with the growing crops, lay glowing under the bright April sky.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000056_000000|From underneath a rock near the house gushed forth a spring, whose waters, clear as crystal, ran away in a rippling stream.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000056_000001|It was near this spring that Lieutenant Haines, for that was the officer's name, halted his troops.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000057_000001|After you get the guard posted, we will search the house."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000059_000001|I trust that the telegraph wire has not been cut, or the railroad torn up again."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000062_000000|The invitation nearly took away the Lieutenant's breath, but he accepted it gladly.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000062_000002|Are you afraid of an attack?
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000062_000003|I know of no body of Confederates in the vicinity."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000063_000000|"The truth is," replied Haines, "we ran into a lone Confederate about a mile from here.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000063_000001|We captured his horse, but he succeeded in escaping to the woods, after killing my horse.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000064_000000|"Do as you please," replied mr Osborne, coldly; "I have seen no such Confederate; but if I had, I should have concealed him if I could.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000064_000001|But do not let this circumstance spoil our good nature, or our dinner."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000065_000000|Just then they met Sergeant Latham returning from posting the guard. "Sergeant, you may withdraw the guard," said the Lieutenant; "mr
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000066_000000|The Sergeant turned back to carry out the order, muttering, "Confederate! Confederate!
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000068_000001|No wonder Lieutenant Haines felt his heart beat faster when he looked upon her.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000068_000002|When he met her the week before, she treated him with the utmost disdain; now she greeted him with a smile, and said, "I trust you have not come to carry papa away in captivity.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000068_000003|If not, you are welcome."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000070_000000|"Thank you," she answered, with a smile.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000070_000001|"Now, you must stay and take dinner with us while your men rest."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000074_000000|"Better let the Lieutenant tell the story, for I know nothing of it," answered mr Osborne; "but he spoke of searching the house for a supposed concealed Confederate."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000075_000000|As mr Osborne said this, Miss Osborne gave a little gasp and turned pale, but quickly recovering herself, she turned a pair of inquiring eyes on the Lieutenant-eyes that emitted flames of angry light and seemed to look him through and through.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000076_000000|Lieutenant Haines turned very red.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000076_000002|"Your father has assured me he has neither seen nor concealed any Confederate officer, and his word is good with me. Make yourself easy.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000078_000000|"Only my poor horse; he was killed," answered Haines.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000079_000001|"You must admit yourself vanquished!"
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000082_000000|"Yes, but to all appearances a most gallant one."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000083_000001|The place for true knights, at this time, is at Corinth."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000084_000000|"From letters captured with his horse, I take it he was from Corinth," said Haines.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000084_000001|"From those letters we learned that his name was Calhoun Pennington, that he was a lieutenant in the command of Captain john h Morgan, a gentleman who has given us considerable trouble, and may give us more, and that he was on his way back to Kentucky to recruit for Morgan's command."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000086_000000|"Yes, a whole package of them.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000086_000001|They were from members of Morgan's command to their friends back in Kentucky.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000088_000000|"Some of them were rich," laughed Haines; "they were written by loving swains to their girls.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000089_000000|"Lieutenant, there was nothing in those letters of value to you from a military standpoint, was there?" suddenly asked Miss Osborne.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000090_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000091_000001|Will you not give them to me?"
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000092_000000|"Why, Miss Osborne, what can you do with them?" asked Haines, in surprise.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000093_000000|"I can at least keep them sacred.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000093_000003|Oh! give them to me, Lieutenant Haines, and you will sleep the sweeter to night."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000095_000000|"Thank you!
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000098_000001|I see nothing more we can accomplish here," answered the Lieutenant.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000099_000000|The Sergeant saluted and turned to go, when the officer stopped him with, "Say, Sergeant, you can gather up all those letters we captured and send them up here with my horse."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000102_000000|The family had accompanied Lieutenant Haines to the porch.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000102_000002|I will catch up with you in a few moments.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000103_000000|"Yes, sir," answered the soldier, saluting, and handing the package to his commander.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000104_000000|"Very well, you may go now."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000109_000002|"Oh, how could you betray us!" and stood with clasped hands, and with face as pale as death.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000110_000002|Lower that weapon!"
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000114_000000|mr Osborne flushed deeply, but before he could reply, his daughter sprang in front of him, and faced Lieutenant Haines with flashing eye.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000115_000001|I alone am to blame, and I told you nothing.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000115_000002|I strove to entertain you and keep you from searching the house, and I accomplished my purpose."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000117_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000118_000000|Lieutenant Haines groaned.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000119_000001|"I did not intend that Lieutenant Pennington should show himself.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000121_000000|mr Osborne now spoke.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000121_000003|As my guest, you are entitled to my protection, and I shall make what reparation is in my power." Then turning to the colored boy who had stood by with mouth and eyes wide open, he said, "Tom, go and saddle and bridle Starlight, and bring him around for this gentleman."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000123_000002|So you see, after all, I am out nothing."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000127_000002|I suspected something was wrong all the time."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000130_000000|"Thank you, Sergeant, for your watchfulness.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000130_000001|I shall remember it."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000133_000000|"Yes; the girl worked it fine."
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000137_000000|The Lieutenant sighed.
train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000137_000002|"Gods!
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000010_000002|Not above ten miles, I dare say."
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000012_000001|there is not much difference.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000017_000000|"My dear," said he to his lady, "it is very provoking that we should be so few.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000021_000000|"My love you contradict every body," said his wife with her usual laugh.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000033_000003|He declares he won't.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000040_000000|"Well-I am so glad you do.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000044_000000|"Don't pretend to deny it, because you know it is what every body talks of.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000048_000000|"But I do assure you it was so, for all that, and I will tell you how it happened.
train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000058_000002|It is so delightful that you should live at the cottage!
train-clean-360/472/129994/472_129994_000032_000000|"I think, Elinor," she presently added, "we must employ Edward to take care of us in our return to Barton.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000002_000006|The years passed slowly, and I continued to serve them, and at the same time grew into strong, healthy womanhood.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000002_000008|The salary was small, and we still had to practise the closest economy.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000004_000001|I drew myself up proudly, firmly, and said: "No, mr Bingham, I shall not take down my dress before you.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000000|My words seemed to exasperate him.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000001|He seized a rope, caught me roughly, and tried to tie me.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000003|Then he picked up a rawhide, and began to ply it freely over my shoulders.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000005|It cut the skin, raised great welts, and the warm blood trickled down my back.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000006|Oh God!
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000006_000000|"Go away," he gruffly answered, "do not bother me."
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000007_000000|I would not be put off thus.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000008_000003|No, I could not sleep, for I was suffering mental as well as bodily torture.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000008_000015|We struggled, and he struck me many savage blows.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000008_000021|My distress even touched her cold, jealous heart.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000008_000027|These revolting scenes created a great sensation at the time, were the talk of the town and neighborhood, and I flatter myself that the actions of those who had conspired against me were not viewed in a light to reflect much credit upon them.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000009_000004|The child of which he was the father was the only child that I ever brought into the world.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000010_000001|In this connection I desire to state that Rev.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000011_000000|"HILLSBORO', april tenth eighteen thirty eight.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000002|I really believe you and all the family have forgotten me, if not I certainly should have heard from some of you since you left Boyton, if it was only a line; nevertheless I love you all very dearly, and shall, although I may never see you again, nor do I ever expect to.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000004|I have often wished that I lived where I knew I never could see you, for then I would not have my hopes raised, and to be disappointed in this manner; however, it is said that a bad beginning makes a good ending, but I hardly expect to see that happy day at this place.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000005|Give my love to all the family, both white and black. I was very much obliged to you for the presents you sent me last summer, though it is quite late in the day to be thanking for them.
train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000006|Tell Aunt Bella that I was very much obliged to her for her present; I have been so particular with it that I have only worn it once.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000000_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000004_000000|Most of the women of the middle and upper classes in America seem secure in their knowledge of contraceptives as a means of birth control.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000004_000002|Nevertheless, so strong is their purpose that they do obtain it and use it, correctly or incorrectly.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000005_000001|Being given their choice by society-to continue to be overburdened mothers or to submit to a humiliating, repulsive, painful and too often gravely dangerous operation, those women in whom the feminine urge to freedom is strongest choose the abortionist.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000006_000000|"Our examinations," says dr Max Hirsch, an authority on the subject, "have informed us that the largest number of abortions (in the United States) are performed on married women.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000006_000001|This fact brings us to the conclusion that contraceptive measures among the upper classes and the practice of abortion among the lower class, are the real means employed to regulate the number of offspring."
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000007_000000|Thus a high percentage of women in comfortable circumstances escape overbreeding by the use of contraceptives.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000007_000002|When accidental conception takes place, some women of both classes resort to abortion if they can obtain the services of an abortionist.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000008_000000|When society holds up its hands in horror at the "crime" of abortion, it forgets at whose door the first and principal responsibility for this practice rests.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000008_000003|The abortionist could not continue his practice for twenty four hours if it were not for the fact that women come desperately begging for such operations.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000009_000002|The question that society must answer is this: Shall family limitation be achieved through birth control or abortion?
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000009_000003|Shall normal, safe, effective contraceptives be employed, or shall we continue to force women to the abnormal, often dangerous surgical operation?
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000011_000001|Knowledge of these processes will also enable us to comprehend more thoroughly the dangers to which woman is exposed by our antiquated laws, and how much better it would be for her to employ such preventive measures as would keep her out of the hands of the abortionist, into which the laws now drive her.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000012_000001|They are in every female at birth, and as the girl develops into womanhood, these ovules develop also.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000013_000002|If fertilization takes place, the fertilized ovule or ovum will cling to the lining of the womb and there gather its nourishment. If fertilization does not take place, the ovum passes out of the body and the uterus throws off its surplus blood supply.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000013_000003|This is called the menstrual period.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000013_000004|It occurs about once a month or every twenty eight days.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000014_000002|In the semen is the life giving principle called the sperm.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000015_000000|When intercourse takes place, if no preventive is employed, the semen is deposited in the woman's vagina.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000015_000004|This process is called fertilization, conception or impregnation.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000016_000001|When scientific means are employed to prevent this meeting, one is said to practice birth control.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000016_000002|The means used is known as a contraceptive.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000018_000001|An abortion is as important a matter as a confinement and requires as much attention as the birth of a child at its full term.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000022_000002|It is these, too, who are most often forced to resort to such operations.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000023_000000|If death does not result, the woman who has undergone an abortion is not altogether safe from harm.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000025_000001|Even such drugs as are prescribed by physicians have harmful effects, and nostrums recommended by druggists are often worse still.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000026_000000|Even more drastic may be the effect upon the unborn child, for many women fill their systems with poisonous drugs during the first weeks of their pregnancy, only to decide at last, when drugs have failed, as they usually do, to bring the child to birth.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000027_000000|There are no statistics, of course, by which we may compute the amount of suffering to mother and child from the use of such drugs, but we know that the total of physical weakness and disease must be astounding.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000027_000001|We know that the woman's own system feels the strain of these drugs and that the embryo is usually poisoned by them.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000028_000001|The suffering and the death of these women is squarely upon the heads of the lawmakers and the puritanical, masculine minded person who insist upon retaining the abominable legal restrictions.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000029_000000|Try as they will they cannot escape the truth, nor hide it under the cloak of stupid hypocrisy.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000030_000000|"He who would combat abortion," says dr Hirsch, "and at the same time combat contraceptive measures may be likened to the person who would fight contagious diseases and forbid disinfection.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000031_000001|It follows, therefore, that America stands at the head of all nations in the huge number of abortions."
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000000|There is the case in a nutshell.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000001|Family limitation will always be practiced as it is now being practiced-either by birth control or by abortion.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000002|We know that.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000003|The one means health and happiness-a stronger, better race.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000033_000001|These conditions give her the choice between the surgeon's instruments and the sacrificing of what is highest and holiest in her-her aspiration to freedom, her desire to protect the children already hers.
train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000033_000002|These conditions-not the woman-outface society with this question:
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000002_000000|LEGISLATING WOMAN'S MORALS
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000003_000001|This will be no easy undertaking; it is usually much easier to enact statutes than to revise them.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000003_000002|Laws are seldom exactly what they seem, rarely what their advocates claim for them.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000005_000000|Woman, bent upon her freedom and seeking to make a better world, will not permit the indecent and unclean forces of reaction to mask themselves forever behind the plea that it is necessary to keep her in ignorance to preserve her purity.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000005_000001|In the birth control movement, she has already begun to fight for her right to have, without legal interference, all knowledge pertaining to her sex nature.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000005_000003|It is most important because it is to purify the very fountain of the race and make the race completely free.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000006_000000|The first and most dramatic of the three great struggles for liberty reached its apex, as we know, in the American Revolution.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000006_000001|It had for its object the right to hold such political beliefs as one might choose, and to act in accordance with those beliefs.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000008_000001|If the obscenity laws are not radically revised or repealed, few reactionaries will dare to face the public derision that will greet their attempts to use them to stay woman's progress.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000000|The French have a saying concerning "mort main"--the dead hand.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000001|This hand of the past reaches up into the present to smother the rising flame of modern ideals, to reforge our chains when we have broken them, to arrest progress.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000002|It is the hand of such as have lived on earth but have not loved humanity.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000003|At the call of those who fear progress and freedom, it rises from the gloom of forgotten things to oppress the living.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000010_000000|It is the dead hand that holds imprisoned within the obscenity laws all direct information concerning birth control.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000010_000001|It is the dead hand that thus compels millions of American women to remain in the bondage of maternity.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000011_000001|In that year, however, the General Assembly of New York passed an act which specifically included the subject of contraceptives.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000011_000002|The act made it exactly as great an offense to give such information as to exhibit the sort of pictures and writings at which the legislation was ostensibly aimed.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000012_000003|This act made it a crime to use the mails to convey contraceptives or information concerning contraceptives.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000013_000001|Meanwhile, the provisions regarding contraceptives had been dropped from the amended New York State law of eighteen seventy two.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000013_000002|In eighteen seventy three, however, a new section, said to have been drafted by Comstock himself, was substituted for the one enacted in eighteen seventy two, and that section is essentially the substance of the present law.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000013_000003|None of these acts made it an offense to prevent conception-all of them provided punishment for anyone disseminating information concerning the prevention of conception.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000014_000000|Comstock has passed out of public notice.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000014_000001|His body has been entombed but the evil that he did lives after him.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000014_000006|Each year this hand reaches out to compel the birth of hundreds of thousands of infants who must die before they are twelve months old.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000000|Like many laws upon our statute books, these are being persistently and intelligently violated.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000002|They limit their families to one, two or three well cared for children.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000003|Usually the prosecutor who presents the case against a birth control advocate, trapped by a detective hired by the Comstock Society, has no children at all or a small family.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000004|The family of the judge who passes upon the case is likely to be smaller still.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000005|The words "It is the law" sums it all up for these officials when they pass sentence in court.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000016_000001|Millions of them know nothing of reliable contraceptives. When women of the impoverished strata of society do not break these laws against contraceptives, they violate those laws of their inner beings which tell them not to bring children into the world to live in want, disease and general misery.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000016_000002|They break the first law of nature, which is that of self preservation.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000017_000003|The darkness that surrounded the whole field of sex was made as complete as possible.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000018_000001|The rapidity with which women are going into industry, the increasing hardship and poverty of the lower strata of society, the arousing of public conscience, have all operated to give force and volume to the demand for woman's right to control her own body that she may work out her own salvation.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000019_000000|Those who believe in strictly legal measures, as well as those who believe both in legal measures and in open defiance of these brutal and unjust laws, are demanding amendments to the obscenity statutes, which shall remove information concerning contraceptives from its present classification among things filthy and obscene.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000022_000000|This proposed amendment should without doubt include midwives as well as nurses.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000022_000003|It does exist, however, and was specifically declared by the New York State Court of Appeals, as we shall see when we consider that court's opinion in the Sanger case, farther on in the book.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000024_000000|Shall we go on indefinitely driving the now healthy mother of two children into the hands of the abortionist, where she goes in preference to constant ill health, overwork and the witnessing of dying and starving babies?
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000025_000003|They will do it at once unless, like men, they use the ballot for those political honors which many years of experience have taught men to be hollow.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000026_000000|It is only a question of how long it will take women to make up their minds to this result.
train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000026_000002|Man has not protected woman in matters most vital to her-but she is awaking and will sooner or later realize this and assert herself.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000001|It might have been an unfortunate affair for his poor dad, and the whole story threw a queer light upon the social and political life of Costaguana.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000008|Mines had acquired for him a dramatic interest.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000009|He studied their peculiarities from a personal point of view, too, as one would study the varied characters of men.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000012|Their desolation appealed to him like the sight of human misery, whose causes are varied and profound.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000003_000002|He simply went on acting and thinking in her sight.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000003_000005|For this natural reason these discussions were precious to mrs Gould in her engaged state.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000003_000006|Charles feared that mr Gould, senior, was wasting his strength and making himself ill by his efforts to get rid of the Concession.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000005_000001|You were born there, too."
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000006_000000|He knew his answer.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000007_000000|"That's different.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000009_000000|"It has killed him!" he said.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000012_000000|"It has killed him!" he repeated.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000012_000001|"He ought to have had many years yet. We are a long lived family."
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000013_000001|It was only when, turning suddenly to her, he blurted out twice, "I've come to you-I've come straight to you-," without being able to finish his phrase, that the great pitifulness of that lonely and tormented death in Costaguana came to her with the full force of its misery.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000015_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000016_000000|And then they stopped.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000016_000001|Everywhere there were long shadows lying on the hills, on the roads, on the enclosed fields of olive trees; the shadows of poplars, of wide chestnuts, of farm buildings, of stone walls; and in mid-air the sound of a bell, thin and alert, was like the throbbing pulse of the sunset glow.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000016_000005|That slight girl, with her little feet, little hands, little face attractively overweighted by great coils of hair; with a rather large mouth, whose mere parting seemed to breathe upon you the fragrance of frankness and generosity, had the fastidious soul of an experienced woman.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000017_000002|They corrupted him thoroughly, the poor old boy.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000017_000004|But now I shall know how to grapple with this."
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000018_000000|After pronouncing these words with immense assurance, he glanced down at her, and at once fell a prey to distress, incertitude, and fear.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000020_000000|She did.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000020_000001|She would.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000020_000004|When her feet touched the ground again, the bell was still ringing in the valley; she put her hands up to her hair, breathing quickly, and glanced up and down the stony lane.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000021_000000|They turned back, and after she had slipped her hand on his arm, the first words he pronounced were-
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000022_000001|You've heard its name.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000022_000003|I am so glad poor father did get that house.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000022_000006|You shall be the new mistress of the Casa Gould."
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000003|Uncle Harry was no adventurer.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000006|He made use of the political cry of his time.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000007|It was Federation.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000008|But he was no politician.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000011|He went to work in his own way because it seemed right, just as I feel I must lay hold of that mine."
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000026_000000|He explained those things.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000026_000001|It was late when they parted.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000027_000005|Action is consolatory.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000027_000010|Such were the-properly speaking-emotions of Charles Gould.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000027_000012|Not one of them could be aware beforehand what enormous changes the death of any given individual may produce in the very aspect of the world.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000028_000006|The words it pronounces have the value of acts of integrity, tolerance, and compassion.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000029_000001|She jested most agreeably, they thought; and Charles Gould, besides knowing thoroughly what he was about, had shown himself a real hustler.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000029_000002|These facts caused them to be well disposed towards his wife.
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000029_000007|Captain Mitchell had snatched at the occasion of leave taking to remark to mrs Gould, in a low, confidential mutter, "This marks an epoch."
train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000030_000000|mrs Gould loved the patio of her Spanish house.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000001_000000|one: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000002_000000|Nature is that condition, that reality, which in appearance consists in life and death, or, in other words, in the composition and decomposition of all things.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000000|But when you look at Nature itself, you see that it has no intelligence, no will.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000001|For instance, the nature of fire is to burn; it burns without will or intelligence.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000002|The nature of water is fluidity; it flows without will or intelligence.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000003|The nature of the sun is radiance; it shines without will or intelligence.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000004|The nature of vapor is to ascend; it ascends without will or intelligence.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000005|Thus it is clear that the natural movements of all things are compelled; there are no voluntary movements except those of animals and, above all, those of man.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000007|For example, he invented the telegraph, which is the means of communication between the East and the West.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000005_000000|Now, when you behold in existence such organizations, arrangements and laws, can you say that all these are the effect of Nature, though Nature has neither intelligence nor perception?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000005_000001|If not, it becomes evident that this Nature, which has neither perception nor intelligence, is in the grasp of Almighty God, Who is the Ruler of the world of Nature; whatever He wishes, He causes Nature to manifest.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000006_000000|One of the things which has appeared in the world of existence, and which is one of the requirements of Nature, is human life.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000006_000001|Considered from this point of view man is the branch; nature is the root.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000008_000000|two: PROOFS AND EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000009_000000|One of the proofs and demonstrations of the existence of God is the fact that man did not create himself: nay, his creator and designer is another than himself.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000010_000000|It is certain and indisputable that the creator of man is not like man because a powerless creature cannot create another being.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000010_000001|The maker, the creator, has to possess all perfections in order that he may create.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000000|Can the creation be perfect and the creator imperfect?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000001|Can a picture be a masterpiece and the painter imperfect in his art?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000002|For it is his art and his creation.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000003|Moreover, the picture cannot be like the painter; otherwise, the painting would have created itself.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000004|However perfect the picture may be, in comparison with the painter it is in the utmost degree of imperfection.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000012_000001|The imperfections of the contingent world are in themselves a proof of the perfections of God.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000013_000000|For example, when you look at man, you see that he is weak.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000013_000004|In the contingent world there is ignorance; necessarily knowledge exists, because ignorance is found; for if there were no knowledge, neither would there be ignorance.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000014_000001|Because a characteristic of contingent beings is dependency, and this dependency is an essential necessity, therefore, there must be an independent being whose independence is essential.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000017_000000|Throughout the world of existence it is the same; the smallest created thing proves that there is a creator.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000017_000001|For instance, this piece of bread proves that it has a maker.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000018_000000|Praise be to God! the least change produced in the form of the smallest thing proves the existence of a creator: then can this great universe, which is endless, be self created and come into existence from the action of matter and the elements?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000019_000000|These obvious arguments are adduced for weak souls; but if the inner perception be open, a hundred thousand clear proofs become visible.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000020_000000|three: THE NEED OF AN EDUCATOR
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000021_000000|When we consider existence, we see that the mineral, vegetable, animal and human worlds are all in need of an educator.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000022_000000|If the earth is not cultivated, it becomes a jungle where useless weeds grow; but if a cultivator comes and tills the ground, it produces crops which nourish living creatures.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000022_000001|It is evident, therefore, that the soil needs the cultivation of the farmer.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000022_000003|These are rational proofs; in this age the peoples of the world need the arguments of reason.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000024_000002|If a man be left alone in a wilderness where he sees none of his own kind, he will undoubtedly become a mere brute; it is then clear that an educator is needed.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000025_000000|But education is of three kinds: material, human and spiritual.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000028_000000|Now we need an educator who will be at the same time a material, human and spiritual educator, and whose authority will be effective in all conditions.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000030_000000|He must also impart spiritual education, so that intelligence and comprehension may penetrate the metaphysical world, and may receive benefit from the sanctifying breeze of the Holy Spirit, and may enter into relationship with the Supreme Concourse.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000031_000001|How can one solitary person without help and without support lay the foundations of such a noble construction?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000031_000003|Certainly nothing short of a divine power could accomplish so great a work.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000031_000004|We ought to consider this with justice, for this is the office of justice.
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000032_000000|A Cause which all the governments and peoples of the world, with all their powers and armies, cannot promulgate and spread, one Holy Soul can promote without help or support!
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000032_000001|Can this be done by human power?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000032_000002|No, in the name of God!
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000001|If He does not show forth such a holy power, He will not be able to educate, for if He be imperfect, how can He give a perfect education?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000002|If He be ignorant, how can He make others wise?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000003|If He be unjust, how can He make others just?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000004|If He be earthly, how can He make others heavenly?
train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000035_000000|Therefore, it must be our task to prove to the thoughtful by reasonable arguments the prophethood of Moses, of Christ and of the other Divine Manifestations.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000001_000000|four: ABRAHAM
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000002_000001|He opposed His own nation and people, and even His own family, by rejecting all their gods.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000002_000002|Alone and without help He resisted a powerful tribe, a task which is neither simple nor easy.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000003_000000|These people believed not in one God but in many gods, to whom they ascribed miracles; therefore, they all arose against Him, and no one supported Him except Lot, His brother's son, and one or two other people of no importance.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000003_000002|In reality they banished Him in order that He might be crushed and destroyed, and that no trace of Him might be left.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000003|As a result the teachings of Abraham were spread abroad, a Jacob appeared among His posterity, and a Joseph who became ruler in Egypt.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000004|In consequence of His exile a Moses and a being like Christ were manifested from His posterity, and Hagar was found from whom Ishmael was born, one of whose descendants was Muhammad.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000006|And so it will continue for ever and ever.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000008|See what a power it is that enabled a Man Who was a fugitive from His country to found such a family, to establish such a faith, and to promulgate such teachings.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000010|We must be just: was this Man an Educator or not?
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000007_000000|five: MOSES
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000008_000000|Moses was for a long time a shepherd in the wilderness.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000009_000000|It was such a Man as this that freed a great nation from the chains of captivity, made them contented, brought them out from Egypt, and led them to the Holy Land.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000010_000000|This people from the depths of degradation were lifted up to the height of glory.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000010_000001|They were captive; they became free.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000010_000002|They were the most ignorant of peoples; they became the most wise.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000011_000002|Later the people of Greece rose in opposition to him, accused him of impiety, arraigned him before the Areopagus, and condemned him to death by poison.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000012_000000|Now, how could a Man Who was a stammerer, Who had been brought up in the house of Pharaoh, Who was known among men as a murderer, Who through fear had for a long time remained in concealment, and Who had become a shepherd, establish so great a Cause, when the wisest philosophers on earth have not displayed one thousandth part of this influence?
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000012_000001|This is indeed a prodigy.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000013_000000|A Man Who had a stammering tongue, Who could not even converse correctly, succeeded in sustaining this great Cause!
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000013_000004|How is it that a shepherd could acquire all of this knowledge?
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000013_000005|It is beyond doubt that He must have been assisted by an omnipotent power.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000014_000000|Consider also what trials and difficulties arise for people.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000014_000001|To prevent an act of cruelty, Moses struck down an Egyptian and afterward became known among men as a murderer, more notably because the man He had killed was of the ruling nation.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000014_000002|Then He fled, and it was after that that He was raised to the rank of a Prophet!
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000016_000000|six: CHRIST
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000017_000000|Afterward Christ came, saying, "I am born of the Holy Spirit." Though it is now easy for the Christians to believe this assertion, at that time it was very difficult.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000018_000000|Briefly, this Man, Who, apparently, and in the eyes of all, was lowly, arose with such great power that He abolished a religion that had lasted fifteen hundred years, at a time when the slightest deviation from it exposed the offender to danger or to death.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000018_000001|Moreover, in the days of Christ the morals of the whole world and the condition of the Israelites had become completely confused and corrupted, and Israel had fallen into a state of the utmost degradation, misery and bondage.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000019_000000|This young Man, Christ, by the help of a supernatural power, abrogated the ancient Mosaic Law, reformed the general morals, and once again laid the foundation of eternal glory for the Israelites.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000019_000001|Moreover, He brought to humanity the glad tidings of universal peace, and spread abroad teachings which were not for Israel alone but were for the general happiness of the whole human race.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000020_000001|To all outward appearances they overcame Him and brought Him into direst distress.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000020_000002|At last they crowned Him with the crown of thorns and crucified Him.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000020_000004|Nay, all their standards have been overthrown, while the banner of that Oppressed One has been raised to the zenith.
train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000021_000000|But this is opposed to all the rules of human reason.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000000|mrs Bittacy had never liked their present home.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000001|She preferred a flat, more open country that left approaches clear.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000002|She liked to see things coming.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000003|This cottage on the very edge of the old hunting grounds of William the Conqueror had never satisfied her ideal of a safe and pleasant place to settle down in.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000002_000001|In those weeks of solitude the feeling had matured.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000002_000003|In this particular case, yielding to his strong desire, she thought the battle won, but the terror of the trees came back before the first month had passed.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000002_000004|They laughed in her face.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000003_000001|Far from morbid naturally, she did her best to deny the thought, and so simple and unartificial was her type of mind that for weeks together she would wholly lose it.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000003_000003|It was not only in her mind; it existed apart from any mere mood; a separate fear that walked alone; it came and went, yet when it went-went only to watch her from another point of view.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000003_000004|It was in abeyance-hidden round the corner.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000000|The Forest never let her go completely.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000001|It was ever ready to encroach. All the branches, she sometimes fancied, stretched one way-towards their tiny cottage and garden, as though it sought to draw them in and merge them in itself.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000003|It would absorb and smother them if it could.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000005|They had angered its great soul.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000006|At its heart was this deep, incessant roaring.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000001|But instinctively she felt it; and more besides.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000003|Chiefly, moreover, for her husband.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000004|Merely for herself, the nightmare might have left her cold.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000005|It was David's peculiar interest in the trees that gave the special invitation.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000007|It had decided his vocation, fed his ambition, nourished his dreams, desires, hopes.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000008|All his best years of active life had been spent in the care and guardianship of trees.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000010|He could not live for long away from them without a strange, acute nostalgia that stole his peace of mind and consequently his strength of body.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000012|Trees influenced the sources of his life, lowered or raised the very heart beat in him.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000013|Cut off from them he languished as a lover of the sea can droop inland, or a mountaineer may pine in the flat monotony of the plains.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000006_000000|This she could understand, in a fashion at least, and make allowances for.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000006_000002|It has the genuine air and mystery, the depth and splendor, the loneliness, and there and there the strong, untamable quality of old time forests as Bittacy of the Department knew them.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000007_000001|He consented to a cottage on the edge, instead of in the heart of it.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000008_000000|Only with the last two years or so-with his own increasing age, and physical decline perhaps-had come this marked growth of passionate interest in the welfare of the Forest.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000009_000000|The six weeks they annually spent away from their English home, each regarded very differently, of course.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000001|The discipline would certainly be severe-she did not dream at the moment how severe!--but this fine, consistent little Christian saw it plain; she accepted it, too, without any sighing of the martyr, though the courage she showed was of the martyr order.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000002|Her husband should never know the cost.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000003|In all but this one passion his unselfishness was ever as great as her own.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000005|She loved to suffer for them both.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000006|Besides, the way her husband had put it to her was singular.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000007|It did not take the form of a mere selfish predilection.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000008|Something higher than two wills in conflict seeking compromise was in it from the beginning.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000001|"My duty and my happiness lie here with the Forest and with you. My life is deeply rooted in this place.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000002|Something I can't define connects my inner being with these trees, and separation would make me ill-might even kill me.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000003|My hold on life would weaken; here is my source of supply.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000004|I cannot explain it better than that." He looked up steadily into her face across the table so that she saw the gravity of his expression and the shining of his steady eyes.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000012_000000|"David, you feel it as strongly as that!" she said, forgetting the tea things altogether.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000013_000000|"Yes," he replied, "I do.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000013_000001|And it's not of the body only, I feel it in my soul."
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000000|The reality of what he hinted at crept into that shadow covered room like an actual Presence and stood beside them.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000003|She felt suddenly cold, confused a little, frightened.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000004|She almost felt the rush of foliage in the wind.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000005|It stood between them.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000015_000000|"There are things-some things," she faltered, "we are not intended to know, I think." The words expressed her general attitude to life, not alone to this particular incident.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000000|And after a pause of several minutes, disregarding the criticism as though he had not heard it-"I cannot explain it better than that, you see," his grave voice answered.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000001|"There is this deep, tremendous link,--some secret power they emanate that keeps me well and happy and-alive.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000002|If you cannot understand, I feel at least you may be able to-forgive." His tone grew tender, gentle, soft.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000003|"My selfishness, I know, must seem quite unforgivable.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000004|I cannot help it somehow; these trees, this ancient Forest, both seem knitted into all that makes me live, and if I go-"
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000017_000001|He stopped abruptly, and sank back in his chair.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000018_000000|"My dear," she murmured, "God will direct.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000019_000000|"My selfishness afflicts me-" he began, but she would not let him finish.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000020_000000|"David, He will direct.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000020_000001|Nothing shall harm you.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000020_000002|You've never once been selfish, and I cannot bear to hear you say such things.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000021_000000|And then he had suggested that she should go alone perhaps for a shorter time, and stay in her brother's villa with the children, Alice and Stephen.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000022_000002|I cannot leave this Forest that I love so well.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000022_000004|My life and happiness lie here together."
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000001|He loved the Forest better than herself, for he placed it first.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000002|Behind the words, moreover, hid the unuttered thought that made her so uneasy.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000003|The terror Sanderson had brought revived and shook its wings before her very eyes. For the whole conversation, of which this was a fragment, conveyed the unutterable implication that while he could not spare the trees, they equally could not spare him.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000004|The vividness with which he managed to conceal and yet betray the fact brought a profound distress that crossed the border between presentiment and warning into positive alarm.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000025_000001|I think you need me really,--don't you?" Eagerly, with a touch of heart felt passion, the words poured out.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000026_000000|"Now more than ever, dear.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000026_000001|God bless you for you sweet unselfishness. And your sacrifice," he added, "is all the greater because you cannot understand the thing that makes it necessary for me to stay."
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000027_000000|"Perhaps in the spring instead-" she said, with a tremor in the voice.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000000|"In the spring-perhaps," he answered gently, almost beneath his breath. "For they will not need me then.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000001|All the world can love them in the spring.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000003|I wish to stay with them particularly then.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000004|I even feel I ought to-and I must."
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000029_000000|And in this way, without further speech, the decision was made.
train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000029_000001|mrs Bittacy, at least, asked no more questions.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000001_000000|TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000002_000000|"Is the poor privilege to turn the key Upon the captive, freedom?
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000002_000001|He's as far From the enjoyment of the earth and air Who watches o'er the chains, as they who wear."
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000001|The inhabitants of New Orleans look with as much certainty for the appearance of the yellow fever, small pox, or cholera, in the hot season, as the Londoner does for fog in the month of November.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000002|In the summer of eighteen thirty one, the people of New Orleans were visited with one of these epidemics.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000003|It appeared in a form unusually repulsive and deadly.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000004|It seized persons who were in health, without any premonition.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000005|Sometimes death was the immediate consequence.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000006|The disorder began in the brain, by an oppressive pain accompanied or followed by fever.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000007|The patient was devoured with burning thirst. The stomach, distracted by pains, in vain sought relief in efforts to disburden itself.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000008|Fiery veins streaked the eye; the face was inflamed, and dyed of a dark dull red colour; the ears from time to time rang painfully.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000009|Now mucous secretions surcharged the tongue, and took away the power of speech; now the sick one spoke, but in speaking had a foresight of death.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000012|The progress of the heat within was marked by yellowish spots, which spread over the surface of the body.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000013|If, then, a happy crisis came not, all hope was gone.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000014|Soon the breath infected the air with a fetid odour, the lips were glazed, despair painted itself in the eyes, and sobs, with long intervals of silence, formed the only language.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000015|From each side of the mouth spread foam, tinged with black and burnt blood.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000017|This was the Yellow Fever.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000019|On an average, more than four hundred died daily.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000020|In the midst of disorder and confusion, death heaped victims on victims.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000021|Friend followed friend in quick succession.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000022|The sick were avoided from the fear of contagion, and for the same reason the dead were left unburied.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000023|Nearly two thousand dead bodies lay uncovered in the burial ground, with only here and there a little lime thrown over them, to prevent the air becoming infected.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000002|Like too many, Morton had been dealing extensively in lands and stocks; and though apparently in good circumstances was, in reality, deeply involved in debt. Althesa, although as white as most white women in a southern clime, was, as we already know, born a slave.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000007|Yet such was the fact.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000010|The girls themselves had never heard that their mother had been a slave, and therefore knew nothing of the danger hanging over their heads.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000011|An inventory of the property was made out by james Morton, and placed in the hands of the creditors; and the young ladies, with their uncle, were about leaving the city to reside for a few days on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain, where they could enjoy a fresh air that the city could not afford.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000012|But just as they were about taking the train, an officer arrested the whole party; the young ladies as slaves, and the uncle upon the charge of attempting to conceal the property of his deceased brother.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000013|Morton was overwhelmed with horror at the idea of his nieces being claimed as slaves, and asked for time, that he might save them from such a fate.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000014|He even offered to mortgage his little farm in Vermont for the amount which young slave women of their ages would fetch.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000015|But the creditors pleaded that they were "an extra article," and would sell for more than common slaves; and must, therefore, be sold at auction.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000016|They were given up, but neither ate nor slept, nor separated from each other, till they were taken into the New Orleans slave market, where they were offered to the highest bidder.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000001|We need not add that had those young girls been sold for mere house servants or field hands, they would not have brought one half the sums they did.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000003|Ellen, the eldest, was sold to an old gentleman, who purchased her, as he said, for a housekeeper.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000007|She had taken poison.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000008|Jane was purchased by a dashing young man, who had just come into the possession of a large fortune.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000011|This was a most singular spot, remote, in a dense forest spreading over the summit of a cliff that rose abruptly to a great height above the sea; but so grand in its situation, in the desolate sublimity which reigned around, in the reverential murmur of the waves that washed its base, that, though picturesque, it was a forest prison.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000001|The poverty of the young man, and the youthful age of the girl, had caused their feelings to be kept from the young lady's parents.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000002|At the death of his master, Volney had returned to his widowed mother at Mobile, and knew nothing of the misfortune that had befallen his mistress, until he received a letter from her.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000004|There she remained more than a fortnight, and with the exception of a daily visit from her master, she saw no one but the old Negress who waited upon her.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000005|One bright moonlight evening as she was seated at the window, she perceived the figure of a man beneath her window.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000008|He had no sooner received her letter, than he set out for New Orleans; and finding on his arrival there, that his mistress had been taken away, resolved to follow her.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000010|She dared not trust the old Negress with her secret, for fear that it might reach her master.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000011|Jane wrote a hasty note and threw it out of the window, which was eagerly picked up by the young man, and he soon disappeared in the woods. Night passed away in dreariness to her, and the next morning she viewed the spot beneath her window with the hope of seeing the footsteps of him who had stood there the previous night.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000016|Soon the young maiden was seen descending, and the enthusiastic lover, with his arms extended, waiting to receive his mistress.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000018|At this moment the sharp sound of a rifle was heard, and the young man fell weltering in his blood, at the feet of his mistress.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000019|Jane fell senseless by his side.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000021|The slow recovery of her reason settled into the most intense melancholy, which gained at length the compassion even of her cruel master.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000022|The beautiful bright eyes, always pleading in expression, were now so heart piercing in their sadness, that he could not endure their gaze.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000023|In a few days the poor girl died of a broken heart, and was buried at night at the back of the garden by the Negroes; and no one wept at the grave of her who had been so carefully cherished, and so tenderly beloved.
train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000007_000000|This, reader, is an unvarnished narrative of one doomed by the laws of the Southern States to be a slave.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000000_000001|The impressive phenomena which characterize it, the prodigious noise, the awful flash, the portentous gloom, the blast, the rain, have left a profound impression on the myths of every land.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000000_000002|Fire from water, warmth and moisture from the destructive breath of the tempest, this was the riddle of riddles to the untutored mind.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000000_000003|"Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong came forth sweetness." It was the visible synthesis of all the divine manifestations, the winds, the waters, and the flames.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000001_000003|"There is no end to the fancies entertained by the Sioux concerning thunder," observes mrs Eastman.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000001_000004|They typified the paradoxical nature of the storm under the character of the giant Haokah. To him cold was heat, and heat cold; when sad he laughed, when merry groaned; the sides of his face and his eyes were of different colors and expressions; he wore horns or a forked headdress to represent the lightning, and with his hands he hurled the meteors.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000000|As nations rose in civilization these fancies put on a more complex form and a more poetic fulness.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000003|For this crime they destroyed him, but their sister proved pregnant, and died in her labor, giving birth to two eggs.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000005|The former was the more powerful.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000007|For this reason they adored him as their maker.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000008|He it was, they thought, who produced the thunder and the lightning by hurling stones with his sling; and the thunderbolts that fall, said they, are his children.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000009|Few villages were willing to be without one or more of these.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000010|They were in appearance small, round, smooth stones, but had the admirable properties of securing fertility to the fields, protecting from lightning, and, by a transition easy to understand, were also adored as gods of the Fire, as well material as of the passions, and were capable of kindling the dangerous flames of desire in the most frigid bosom.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000011|Therefore they were in great esteem as love charms.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000000|Apocatequil's statue was erected on the mountains, with that of his mother on one hand, and his brother on the other.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000001|"He was Prince of Evil and the most respected god of the Peruvians.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000002|From Quito to Cuzco not an Indian but would give all he possessed to conciliate him.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000003|Five priests, two stewards, and a crowd of slaves served his image.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000005_000000|Garcilasso de la Vega, a descendant of the Incas, has preserved an ancient indigenous poem of his nation, presenting the storm myth in a different form, which as undoubtedly authentic and not devoid of poetic beauty I translate, preserving as much as possible the trochaic tetrasyllabic verse of the original Quichua:--
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000007_000000|In this pretty waif that has floated down to us from the wreck of a literature now forever lost, there is more than one point to attract the notice of the antiquary.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000000|Again, twice in this poem is the triple nature of the storm adverted to. This is observable in many of the religions of America.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000001|It constitutes a sort of Trinity, not in any point resembling that of Christianity, nor yet the Trimurti of India, but the only one in the New World the least degree authenticated, and which, as half seen by ignorant monks, has caused its due amount of sterile astonishment.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000004|Therefore he was the patron of husbandry.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000005|He was invoked at seed time and harvest; and as purveyor of nourishment he was addressed as grandfather, and his worshippers styled themselves his grandchildren.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000006|He rode through the heavens on the clouds, and the thunderbolts which split the forest trees were the stones he hurled at his enemies.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000001|Moreover, as has already been pointed out, the thunder god was usually ruler of the winds, and thus another reason for his quadruplicate nature was suggested.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000002|Hurakan, Haokah, Tlaloc, and probably Heno, are plural as well as singular nouns, and are used as nominatives to verbs in both numbers.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000003|Tlaloc was appealed to as inhabiting each of the cardinal points and every mountain top.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000004|His statue rested on a square stone pedestal, facing the east, and had in one hand a serpent of gold.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000005|Ribbons of silver, crossing to form squares, covered the robe, and the shield was composed of feathers of four colors, yellow, green, red, and blue.
train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000007|Tohil, the god who gave the Quiches fire by shaking his sandals, was represented by a flint stone. He is distinctly said to be the same as Quetzalcoatl, one of whose commonest symbols was a flint (tecpatl).
train-clean-360/475/124994/475_124994_000016_000001|He was debating what tie would go with which waistcoat.
train-clean-360/475/124994/475_124994_000030_000000|There were symptoms of a stampede.
train-clean-360/475/124994/475_124994_000033_000001|Never . . .
train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000002_000000|REGINALD'S CHOIR TREAT
train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000006_000001|The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.
train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000014_000001|A good life is infinitely preferable to good looks."
train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000017_000006|After all, he said, it is the spirit of the thing that counts.
train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000017_000007|Following the etiquette of dramatic authors on first nights, he remained discreetly in the background while the procession, with extreme diffidence and the goat, wound its way lugubriously towards the village.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000002_000000|There was a fellow I stayed with once in Warwickshire who farmed his own land, but was otherwise quite steady.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000002_000003|Still, that's better than a domestic scandal; a woman who leaves her cook never wholly recovers her position in Society.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000000|I suppose the same thing holds good with the hosts; they seldom have more than a superficial acquaintance with their guests, and so often just when they do get to know you a bit better, they leave off knowing you altogether.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000004|And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000007|I breakfasted upstairs myself.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000008|I gathered afterwards that the meal was tinged with a very unchristian spirit.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000009|I suppose it's unlucky to bring peacock's feathers into a house; anyway, there was a blue pencilly look in my hostess's eye when I took my departure.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000004_000001|She eventually finds her way to India and gets married, and comes home to admire the Royal Academy, and to imagine that an indifferent prawn curry is for ever an effective substitute for all that we have been taught to believe is luncheon.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000004_000003|I told her whole crowds, as long as she kept the door shut, and the idea didn't seem to have struck her before; at least, she brooded over it for the rest of dinner.
train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000005_000003|England must wake up, as the Duke of Devonshire said the other day; wasn't it?
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000002_000000|"A most variable climate," said the Duchess; "and how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! So distressing for the poor."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000003_000000|"Someone has observed that Providence is always on the side of the big dividends," remarked Reginald.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000005_000000|Reginald had left the selection of a feeding ground to her womanly intuition, but he chose the wine himself, knowing that womanly intuition stops short at claret.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000005_000001|A woman will cheerfully choose husbands for her less attractive friends, or take sides in a political controversy without the least knowledge of the issues involved-but no woman ever cheerfully chose a claret.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000006_000000|"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me," said Reginald: "they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like-and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000006_000004|You see that type of Briton very much in hotels abroad.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000006_000005|And nowadays there are always the Johannesbourgeois, who bring a Cape to Cairo atmosphere with them-what may be called the Rand Manner, I suppose."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000007_000002|Such a sweet woman"--
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000000|"And so silly.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000001|In these days of the over education of women she's quite refreshing.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000002|They say some people went through the siege of Paris without knowing that France and Germany were at war; but the Beauwhistle aunt is credited with having passed the whole winter in Paris under the impression that the Humberts were a kind of bicycle . . .
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000004|How frightfully embarrassing to meet a whole shoal of whitebait you had last known at Prince's!
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000007|I know if I were served up at a cannibal feast I should be dreadfully annoyed if anyone found fault with me for not being tender enough, or having been kept too long."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000009_000000|"My idea about the lecture," resumed the Duchess hurriedly, "is to inquire whether promiscuous Continental travel doesn't tend to weaken the moral fibre of the social conscience.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000010_000000|"The people with what I call Tauchnitz morals," observed Reginald.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000010_000001|"On the whole, I think they get the best of two very desirable worlds.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000011_000000|"A scandal, my dear Reginald, is as much to be avoided at Monaco or any of those places as at Exeter, let us say."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000012_000000|"Scandal, my dear Irene-I may call you Irene, mayn't I?"
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000013_000000|"I don't know that you have known me long enough for that."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000014_000003|Tell me, who is the woman with the old lace at the table on our left?
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000015_000000|"mrs Spelvexit?
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000015_000001|Quite a charming woman; separated from her husband"--
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000017_000000|"Oh, nothing of that sort.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000017_000001|By miles of frozen ocean, I was going to say. He explores ice floes and studies the movements of herrings, and has written a most interesting book on the home life of the Esquimaux; but naturally he has very little home life of his own."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000019_000001|She collects postage stamps. Such a resource.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000019_000002|Those people with her are the Whimples, very old acquaintances of mine; they're always having trouble, poor things."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000020_000000|"Trouble is not one of those fancies you can take up and drop at any moment; it's like a grouse moor or the opium habit-once you start it you've got to keep it up."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000021_000000|"Their eldest son was such a disappointment to them; they wanted him to be a linguist, and spent no end of money on having him taught to speak-oh, dozens of languages!--and then he became a Trappist monk.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000021_000001|And the youngest, who was intended for the American marriage market, has developed political tendencies, and writes pamphlets about the housing of the poor.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000022_000000|"There are different ways of taking disappointment.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000022_000003|That's what I call being vindictive."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000023_000000|"Life is full of its disappointments," observed the Duchess, "and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000023_000001|But that, my dear Reginald, becomes more difficult as one grows older."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000024_000000|"I think it's more generally practised than you imagine.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000024_000001|The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000025_000000|"After all," said the Duchess, "the disillusions of life may depend on our way of assessing it.
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000025_000001|In the minds of those who come after us we may be remembered for qualities and successes which we quite left out of the reckoning."
train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000026_000001|There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the mediaeval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000003_000001|"Private talk.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000003_000002|Let's go where it's quiet."
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000000|"Deepest well in all Wrychester under that," he remarked.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000001|"You'd never think it-it's a hundred feet deep-and more!
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000005|"Had that put in," he continued, "and turned the top of the building into a little snuggery.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000006|Come up!"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000012_000001|"Good stuff, those."
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000018_000000|"Aye, doctor," he said.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000020_000001|"The fact is-I came here to tell you so!--I know a good deal about everything."
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000021_000001|"You've got some limitation to it, I should think.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000022_000002|Ever since Braden was found at the foot of those stairs in Paradise, and I was fetched to him, I've interested myself.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000024_000000|"Oh!" he said after a pause.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000024_000001|"Dear me!
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000025_000000|"Lots!" answered Bryce.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000025_000001|"I came to tell you-on seeing that Glassdale had been with you.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000025_000002|Because-I was with Glassdale this morning."
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000026_000001|But Bryce saw that his cool, almost indifferent manner was changing-he was beginning, under the surface, to get anxious.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000027_000000|"When I left Glassdale-at noon," continued Bryce, "I'd no idea-and I don't think he had-that he was coming to see you.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000029_000002|But all that Glassdale knows is nothing-to what I know."
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000030_000001|He threw it away, took a fresh one from the box, and slowly struck a match and lighted it.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000031_000000|"What might you know, now?" he asked after another pause.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000032_000004|I went back-to the time when Braden was married.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000002|He got to know-got into close touch with a Barthorpe man who, about the time of Brake's marriage, left Barthorpe end settled in London.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000005|I know what happened-he used to let them have money for short financial transactions-to be refunded within a very brief space.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000008|He had to stand the racket.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000009|He stood it-to the tune of ten years' penal servitude.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000036_000000|"The name of the particular one was Wraye-Falkiner Wraye," replied Bryce promptly.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000036_000001|"Of the other-the man of lesser importance-Flood."
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000038_000001|"I will!--it's deeply interesting.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000038_000002|mr Falkiner Wraye, after cheating and deceiving Brake, and leaving him to pay the penalty of his over trustfulness, cleared out of England and carried his money making talents to foreign parts.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000041_000002|What is it?"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000000|"We've not come to that," retorted Bryce.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000001|"You're a bit mistaken.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000003|Look here!
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000006|Come, now!--whose?"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000043_000001|"That's a fact?"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000045_000000|"Then who had?" demanded Bryce.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000046_000001|He was evidently thinking deeply, and Bryce made no attempt to disturb him.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000046_000002|Some minutes went by before Folliot took the cigar from his lips and leaning against the chimneypiece looked fixedly at his visitor.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000049_000000|"Collishaw?"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000052_000001|"Supposing that all you say is true about-about past matters?
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000056_000000|"As if there must be!" interrupted Bryce.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000059_000000|"That's about it," assented Folliot laconically.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000060_000000|Bryce laughed cynically.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000061_000001|"Here!
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000067_000000|"What!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000071_000001|"Never!
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000071_000005|What-"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000072_000001|A sharp exclamation from him took Bryce to his side.
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000073_000001|"Hell and-What's this mean?"
train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000074_000000|Bryce looked in the direction pointed out.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000002_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000004_000000|john Lexman-A.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000004_000002|A day to him was the beginning and the end of an eternity.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000005_000002|The future meant Sunday chapel; the present whatever task they found him.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000007_000001|They were desperate men, peculiarly interesting to him, and he had watched their faces furtively in the early period of his imprisonment.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000008_000002|It was usual to have twelve months at the Scrubbs before testing the life of a convict establishment.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000008_000003|He believed there was some talk of sending him to Parkhurst, and here he traced the influence which t x would exercise, for Parkhurst was a prisoner's paradise.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000009_000000|He heard his warder's voice behind him.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000010_000000|"Right turn, forty three, quick march."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000012_000000|The house was as yet without a tenant.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000020_000000|"What have you got!"
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000023_000000|"Hardly," said Lexman, drily.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000025_000000|john Lexman looked at him enviously.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000027_000000|The drive in the brake to the station, the ride to London in creased, but comfortable clothing, free as the air, at liberty to go to bed and rise when he liked, to choose his own dinner, to answer no call save the call of his conscience, to see-he checked himself.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000029_000000|"Conspiracy and fraud," said the other cheerfully.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000029_000002|Damn rough luck, wasn't it?"
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000035_000001|"He's coming out next month, too, and we are all fixed up proper.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000035_000002|We are going to get the pile and then we're off to South America, and you won't see us for dust."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000037_000000|The warder's step on the stones outside reduced them to silence. Suddenly his voice came up the stairs.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000038_000000|"Forty three," he called sharply, "I want you down here."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000039_000000|john took his paint pot and brush and went clattering down the uncarpeted stairs.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000040_000000|"Where's the other man?" asked the warder, in a low voice.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000041_000000|"He's upstairs in the back room."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000042_000001|Coming up from Princetown was a big, grey car.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000043_000000|"Put down your paint pot," he said.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000045_000000|"I am going upstairs.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000045_000001|When that car comes abreast of the gate, ask no questions and jump into it.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000045_000002|Get down into the bottom and pull a sack over you, and do not get up until the car stops."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000049_000000|Like an automaton john put down his brushes, and walked slowly to the gate.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000049_000005|Now it was going fast, now faster, now it rocked and swayed as it gathered speed.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000051_000000|"Get out," said a voice.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000054_000001|Where could he go?
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000056_000001|At the foot there was a smooth stretch of green sward.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000059_000000|"But, I do not understand.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000067_000001|They discovered your escape," he said. "Get in."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000070_000000|He clicked over a lever and with a roar the big three bladed tractor screw spun.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000072_000000|Up, up, they climbed in one long sweeping ascent, passing through drifting clouds till the machine soared like a bird above the blue sea.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000073_000000|john Lexman looked down.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000074_000000|Talking was impossible.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000075_000000|Kara was evidently a skilful pilot.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000075_000001|From time to time he consulted the compass on the board before him, and changed his course ever so slightly.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000076_000000|john Lexman read:
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000077_000000|"If you cannot swim there is a life belt under your seat."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000082_000000|A white steam yacht, long and narrow of beam, was steaming slowly westward.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000082_000001|He could see the feathery wake in her rear, and as the aeroplane fell he had time to observe that a boat had been put off.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000082_000002|Then with a jerk the monoplane flattened out and came like a skimming bird to the surface of the water; her engines stopped.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000083_000000|"We ought to be able to keep afloat for ten minutes," said Kara, "and by that time they will pick us up."
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000085_000000|In less than five minutes the boat had come alongside, manned, as Lexman gathered from a glimpse of the crew, by Greeks.
train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000085_000002|Kara was by his side.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000000_000000|three
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000001_000000|THE ADVENTURE OF mrs
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000001_000001|GASTER'S MAID
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000000|Two days after my bargain with mr Harold Van Gilt, in which he acquired possession of the Scrappe jades and mrs Van Raffles and I shared the proceeds of the ten thousand dollars check, I was installed at Bolivar Lodge as head butler and steward, my salary to consist of what I could make out of it on the side, plus ten per cent. of the winnings of my mistress.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000005|This went very much against the grain at first, for, although I am scarcely more than a thief after all, I am an artistic one, and still retain the prejudice against inferior associations which an English gentleman whatever the vicissitudes of his career can never quite rid himself of.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000006|I had to join their club-an exclusive organization of butlers and "gentlemen's gentlemen"--otherwise valets-and in order to quiet all suspicion of my real status in the Van Raffles household I was compelled to act the part in a fashion which revolted me.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000007|Otherwise the position was pleasant, and, as I have intimated, more than lucrative.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000003_000000|It did not take me many days to discover that Henriette was a worthy successor to her late husband.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000003_000001|Few opportunities for personal profit escaped her eye, and I was able to observe as time went on and I noted the accumulation of spoons, forks, nutcrackers, and gimcracks generally that she brought home with her after her calls upon or dinners with ladies of fashion that she had that quality of true genius which never overlooks the smallest details.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000004_000001|Henriette had been to a bridge afternoon at mrs Gaster's and upon her return manifested an extraordinary degree of excitement.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000004_000002|Her color was high, and when she spoke her voice was tremulous.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000004_000005|I must do something to warn her against this momentary weakness.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000006_000000|"Yes," she replied.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000006_000002|How did you guess?"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000007_000001|This won't do, Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000001|"As if I cared about my losses at bridge!
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000003|You don't suppose that I am going to risk my popularity with these Newport ladies by winning, do you?
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000006|For the good of our cause it is my task to lose steadily and with good grace.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000007|This establishes my credit, proves my amiability, and confirms my popularity."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000010_000000|"But you are very much excited by something, Henriette," said i "You cannot deny that."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000011_000000|"I don't-but it is the prospect of future gain, not the reality of present losses, that has taken me off my poise," she said.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000013_000002|We must get her, Bunny."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000014_000001|"All this powwow over another woman's maid!"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000015_000000|"You don't understand," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000015_000002|You can't guess who she was."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000016_000000|"How should I?" I demanded.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000017_000000|"She was Fiametta de Belleville, one of the most expert hands in our business.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000017_000001|Poor old Raffles used to say that she diminished his income a good ten thousand pounds a year by getting in her fine work ahead of his," explained Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000017_000002|"He pointed her out to me in Piccadilly once and I have never forgotten her face."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000019_000000|"No, indeed-she never saw me before, so how could she?
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000019_000001|But I knew her the minute she took my cloak," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000019_000004|When I got the cloak back both were gone.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000020_000000|"What for-to rob you?"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000021_000000|"No," returned Henrietta, "rather that we-but there, there, Bunny, I'll manage this little thing myself.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000021_000001|It's a trifle too subtle for a man's intellect-especially when that man is you."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000022_000000|"What do you suppose she is doing here?" I asked.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000025_000001|"That cuts us out, doesn't it?"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000026_000000|"Does it?" asked Henriette, enigmatically.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000027_000002|Henriette and I, of course, knew that Fiametta de Belleville had accomplished her mission, but apparently no one else knew it.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000028_000000|"She'll skip now," said i
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000029_000001|"To disappear now would be a confession of guilt.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000030_000000|"Where then?" I asked.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000031_000001|"The fact is," she added, "I have already engaged her.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000033_000000|"All right, Bunny, I'll remember," smiled mrs Van Raffles, and there the matter was dropped for the moment.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000034_000003|The woman's presence in our household could not be but a source of danger to our peace of mind as well as to our profits, and for the life of me I could not see why Henriette should want her there.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000035_000000|A week after Fiametta's arrival mrs Raffles rang hurriedly for me.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000036_000000|"Yes, madam," I said, responding immediately to her call.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000037_000001|I have just sent Fiametta on an errand to Providence.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000038_000000|"Yes!" said i "What of it?"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000039_000000|"I want you during her absence to go with me to her room-"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000041_000000|"Yes!" I cried, breathlessly.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000041_000001|"And search her trunks?"
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000042_000000|"No, Bunny, no-the eaves," whispered Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000042_000002|I am inclined to think-well, the moment she leaves the city let me know.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000043_000000|Oh, that woman!
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000043_000001|If I had not adored her before I-but enough.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000043_000002|This is no place for sentiment.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000044_000000|I followed out Henriette's instructions to the letter, and an hour later returned with the information that Fiametta was, indeed, safely on her way.
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000045_000001|"And now, Bunny, for the Gaster jewels."
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000046_000002|There were religious pictures upon the bureau, prayer books, and some volumes of essays of a spiritual nature were scattered about-nothing was there to indicate that the occupant was anything but a simple, sweet child of innocence except-
train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000047_000000|Well, Henriette was right-except the Gaster jewels.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000000_000001|Are you ready for a coup requiring a lot of it?"
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000001_000000|"Well," I replied, pluming myself a bit, "I don't wish to boast, Henriette, but I think it is pretty good.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000001_000001|I managed to raise twenty seven hundred dollars on my own account by the use of it last night."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000002_000000|"Indeed?" said Henriette, with a slight frown.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000002_000001|"How, Bunny?
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000002_000002|You know you are likely to complicate matters for all of us if you work on the side. What, pray, did you do last night?"
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000000|"I was spending the evening at the Gentlemen's Gentlemen's Club," I explained, "when word came over the telephone to Digby, mr de Pelt's valet, that mr de Pelt was at the Rockerbilts' and in no condition to go home alone.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000001|It happened that it was I who took the message, and observing that Digby was engaged in a game of billiards, and likely to remain so for some time to come, I decided to go after the gentleman myself without saying anything to Digby about it.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000002|Muffling myself up so that no one could recognize me, I hired a cab and drove out to the Rockerbilt mansion, sent in word that mr de Pelt's man was waiting for him, and in ten minutes had the young gentleman in my possession.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000003|I took him to his apartment, dismissed the cab, and, letting ourselves into his room with his own latch key, put him to bed.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000004|His clothes I took, as a well ordered valet should, from his bed chamber into an adjoining room, where, after removing the contents of his pockets, I hung them neatly over a chair and departed, taking with me, of course, everything of value the young gentleman had about him, even down to the two brilliant rubies he wore in his garter buckles.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000005|This consisted of two handfuls of crumpled twenty dollar bills from his trousers, three rolls of one hundred dollar bills from his waistcoat, and sundry other lots of currency, both paper and specie, that I found stowed away in his overcoat and dinner coat pockets.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000005_000000|"Mercy, Bunny, that was a terribly risky thing.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000005_000001|Suppose he had recognized you?" cried Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000006_000000|"Oh, he did-or at least he thought he did," I replied, smiling broadly at the recollection.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000006_000003|He was very genial."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000007_000000|"Well, Bunny," said Henriette, "you are very clever at times, but do be careful.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000007_000001|I am delighted to have you show your nerve now and then, but please don't take any serious chances.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000008_000000|Again I laughed.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000009_000000|"I, Bunny?
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000009_000001|Why, I haven't seen you since dinner," she demurred.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000011_000001|You know mrs Gushington Andrews?"
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000012_000000|"Yes," said i "She is the lady who asked me for the olives at your last dinner."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000013_000001|"You possibly observed also that wherever she goes she wears about sixty nine yards of pearl rope upon her person."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000014_000000|"Rope?" I laughed.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000014_000001|"I shouldn't call that rope.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000014_000002|Cable, yes-frankly, when she came into the dining room the other night I thought it was a feather boa she had on."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000015_000000|"All pearls, Bunny, of the finest water," said Henriette, enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000015_000001|"There isn't one of the thousands that isn't worth anywhere from five hundred to twenty five hundred."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000000|"Sarcasm does not suit your complexion, Bunny," retorted Henriette. "Your best method is to follow implicitly the directions of wiser brains.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000001|You are a first-class tool, but as a principal-well-well, never mind.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000002|You do what I tell you and some of those pearls will be ours.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000005|Where most people nod she describes a complete circle with her head.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000006|When a cold, formal handshake is necessary she perpetrates an embrace, and that is where we come in.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000007|At my next Tuesday tea she will be present.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000008|She will wear her pearls-she'll be strung with them from head to foot.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000009|A rope walk won't be in it with her, and every single little jewel will be worth a small fortune.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000010|You, Bunny, will be in the room to announce her when she arrives.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000019_000000|"No, Bunny-you will behave like a gentleman, that is all," she responded, haughtily; "or rather like a butler with the instincts of a gentleman.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000019_000001|At my cry of dismay over the accident-"
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000020_000000|"Better call it the incident," I put in.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000021_000000|"Hush!
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000021_000003|Now, do you see?"
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000023_000000|"Nothing of the sort, Bunny; just do as I tell you-only bring your gloves to me just before the guests arrive, that is all," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000023_000001|"Instinct will carry you through the rest of it."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000024_000000|And then the conspiracy stopped for the moment.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000000|The following Tuesday at five the second of mrs Van Raffles's Tuesday afternoons began.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000001|Fortune favored us in that it was a beautiful day and the number of guests was large.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000002|Henriette was charming in her new gown specially imported from Paris-a gown of Oriental design with row upon row of brilliantly shining, crescent shaped ornaments firmly affixed to the front of it and every one of them as sharp as a steel knife.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000003|I could see at a glance that even if so little as one of these fastened its talons upon the pearl rope of mrs Gushington Andrews nothing under heaven could save it from laceration.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000026_000000|What a marvellous mind there lay behind those exquisite, childlike eyes of the wonderful Henriette!
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000027_000000|"Remember, Bunny-calm deliberation-your gloves now," were her last words to me.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000029_000000|"Hush!
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000029_000001|Just watch me," she replied.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000031_000000|"There!" she said-and at last I understood.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000032_000000|An hour later our victim arrived and scarce an inch of her but shone like a snow clad hill with the pearls she wore.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000033_000000|"You dear, sweet thing!" cried mrs Gushington Andrews.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000035_000002|There was a cry of dismay both from Henriette and her guest, and the rug beneath their feet was simply white with riches. In a moment I was upon my knees scooping them up by the handful.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000036_000001|"Here, dear," she added, holding out a pair of teacups.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000037_000001|"Tell me quickly-what was the result?"
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000038_000000|"These, madam," said I, handing her a small plush bag into which I had poured the "salvage" taken from my sticky palms.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000039_000000|And, egad, it was: seventeen pearls of a value of twelve hundred dollars each, fifteen worth scarcely less than nine hundred dollars apiece, and some twenty seven or eight smaller ones that we held to be worth in the neighborhood of five hundred dollars each.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000040_000000|"Splendid!" cried Henrietta "Roughly speaking, Bunny, we've pulled in between forty and fifty thousand dollars to day."
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000042_000000|"About that," said I, with an inward chuckle, for I, of course, did not tell Henriette of eight beauties I had kept out of the returns for myself.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000043_000000|"I shall provide for that," said this wonderful woman.
train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000043_000003|Even then we'll be thirty five thousand dollars to the good.
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000007_000000|"I am dreadfully afraid it WILL be mouse!" said Duchess to herself-"I really couldn't, COULDN'T eat mouse pie.
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000009_000000|"Oh what a good idea!
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000011_000000|"The top oven bakes too quickly," said Ribby to herself.
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000014_000000|When Ribby had laid the table she went out down the field to the farm, to fetch milk and butter.
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000018_000001|They only bowed to one another; they did not speak, because they were going to have a party.
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000028_000000|She sat down before the fire to wait for the little dog.
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000033_000000|"Oh, what lovely flowers!
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000034_000001|"Just a shade longer; I will pour out the tea, while we wait. Do you take sugar, my dear Duchess?"
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000077_000001|"Do you not think that I had better go home before it gets dark?"
train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000083_000002|Well I never did! . . .
train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000015_000000|ten O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved? And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone? And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000035_000000|fifteen To the tally of my soul, Loud and strong kept up the gray brown bird, With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000036_000000|Loud in the pines and cedars dim, Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp perfume, And I with my comrades there in the night.
train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000043_000000|O Captain!
train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000052_000000|This Dust Was Once the Man
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000002_000000|FOOD FOR THE SICK.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000003_000000|Remarks on Preparing Food for the Sick.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000004_000000|Few young persons understand cooking for the sick.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000004_000001|It is very important to know how to prepare their food in an inviting manner; every thing should be perfectly clean and nice.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000004_000003|It is well to have a stand or small table by the bed side, that you can set any thing on.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000006_000000|Boiled Custard.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000008_000000|Panada.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000009_000000|Put some crackers, crusts of dry bread or dried rusk, in a sauce pan with cold water, and a few raisins; after it has boiled half an hour, put in sugar, nutmeg, and half a glass of wine, if the patient has no fever.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000010_000000|If you have dried rusk, it is a quicker way to put the rusk in a bowl with some sugar, and pour boiling water on it out of the tea kettle. If the patient can take nothing but liquids, this makes a good drink when strained.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000011_000000|Egg Panada.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000012_000000|Boil a handful of good raisins in a quart of water; toast a slice of bread and cut it up; beat two eggs with a spoonful of sugar, and mix it with the bread; when the raisins are done, pour them on the toast and eggs, stirring all the time; season to your taste with wine, nutmeg and butter.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000013_000000|Oat meal Gruel.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000015_000000|Corn Gruel.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000017_000000|Arrow root.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000018_000001|In cooking arrow root for children, it is a very good way to make it very thick, and thin it afterwards with milk.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000019_000000|Sago.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000021_000000|Tapioca Jelly.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000023_000000|Milk Porridge.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000027_000000|To Poach Eggs.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000028_000001|This is a very delicate way of cooking eggs.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000029_000000|Barley Panada.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000031_000000|Calf's Foot Blancmange.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000032_000001|This is very nice for a sick person, and is easily made.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000033_000000|Cream Toast.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000036_000001|This is very good for sick persons, and can be eaten without much exertion. In making water toast, the butter should be melted in boiling water, and put on while hot.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000037_000000|To Stew Dried Beef.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000038_000000|Chip some beef very thin, pour hot water on it, and let it stand a minute or two, then drain it off, and stew it in a skillet with a little cream and butter.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000038_000001|If it is preferred dry, it may be fried in butter alone.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000040_000000|Cut a slice of ham into small pieces, and pour boiling water on it; let it soak a few minutes to extract the salt, and stew it in a little water; just before it is done, put in some cream and parsley.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000042_000000|To Stew Chickens or Birds.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000044_000000|Chicken Water.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000045_000000|If you have a small chicken, it will take half of it to make a pint of chicken water.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000045_000002|This is valuable in cases of dysentery and cholera morbus, particularly when made of old fowls.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000051_000000|Mutton and Veal Broth.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000052_000001|Veal broth may be made in the same way, and is more delicate for sick persons.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000053_000000|Wine Whey.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000055_000000|Rennet Whey.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000060_000000|Beat together an egg, a glass of wine, and a spoonful of sugar; pour on it half a pint of hot water; stir all the time to keep it from curdling, and when you pour it in a tumbler, grate a little nutmeg over it.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000061_000000|Toast Water.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000062_000001|Toast water will allay thirst better than almost any thing else.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000062_000002|If it is wanted to drink through the night, it should always be made early in the evening.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000065_000000|Tamarinds, currant or grape jelly, cranberries, or dried fruit of any kind, make a good drink.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000066_000000|Coffee.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000067_000000|Sick persons should have their coffee made separate from the family, as standing in the tin pot spoils the flavor.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000068_000000|Chocolate.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000069_000000|To make a cup of chocolate, grate a large tea spoonful in a mug, and pour a tea cup of boiling water on it; let it stand covered by the fire a few minutes, when you can put in sugar and cream.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000070_000000|Black Tea.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000071_000000|Black tea is much more suitable than green for sick persons, as it does not affect the nerves.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000071_000001|Pat a tea spoonful in a pot that will hold about two cups, and pour boiling water on it.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000071_000002|Let it set by the fire to draw five or ten minutes.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000072_000000|Rye Mush.
train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000073_000001|Four large spoonsful of rye flour mixed smooth in a little water, and stirred in a pint of boiling water; let it boil twenty minutes, stirring frequently.
train-clean-360/480/126292/480_126292_000002_000000|'The nuts are quite ripe now,' said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, 'suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.' 'With all my heart,' said Partlet, 'let us go and make a holiday of it together.'
train-clean-360/480/126292/480_126292_000003_000000|So they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.
train-clean-360/480/126292/480_126292_000006_000001|However, the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000001|Then the princess came in, and as she passed by them she had something spiteful to say to every one.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000002|The first was too fat: 'He's as round as a tub,' said she.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000003|The next was too tall: 'What a maypole!' said she.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000004|The next was too short: 'What a dumpling!' said she.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000005|The fourth was too pale, and she called him 'Wallface.' The fifth was too red, so she called him 'Coxcomb.' The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker's oven.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000007|'Look at him,' said she; 'his beard is like an old mop; he shall be called Grisly beard.' So the king got the nickname of Grisly beard.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000003_000000|But the old king was very angry when he saw how his daughter behaved, and how she ill treated all his guests; and he vowed that, willing or unwilling, she should marry the first man, be he prince or beggar, that came to the door.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000004_000002|When this was over the king said, 'Now get ready to go-you must not stay here-you must travel on with your husband.'
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000005_000002|'Whose are these beautiful green meadows?' said she.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000006_000000|Then they came to a great city.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000006_000002|Am not I good enough for you?'
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000007_000000|At last they came to a small cottage.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000007_000004|When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000007_000006|You must learn to weave baskets.' Then he went out and cut willows, and brought them home, and she began to weave; but it made her fingers very sore.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000008_000000|But her husband did not care for that, and said she must work, if she did not wish to die of hunger.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000008_000001|At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000008_000004|'Ah! what will become of me?' said she; 'what will my husband say?' So she ran home and told him all.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000009_000000|Thus the princess became a kitchen maid, and helped the cook to do all the dirtiest work; but she was allowed to carry home some of the meat that was left, and on this they lived.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000010_000001|Everything was ready, and all the pomp and brightness of the court was there.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000010_000002|Then she bitterly grieved for the pride and folly which had brought her so low.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000002|Then everybody laughed and jeered at her; and she was so abashed, that she wished herself a thousand feet deep in the earth.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000005|I brought you there because I really loved you.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000006|I am also the soldier that overset your stall.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000007|I have done all this only to cure you of your silly pride, and to show you the folly of your ill treatment of me.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000008|Now all is over: you have learnt wisdom, and it is time to hold our marriage feast.'
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000012_000000|Then the chamberlains came and brought her the most beautiful robes; and her father and his whole court were there already, and welcomed her home on her marriage.
train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000012_000001|Joy was in every face and every heart.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000000_000000|Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly boat's Last Trip
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000000|THIS fifth trip was quite different from any of the others.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000001|In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000002|Five grown men, and three of them-Trelawney, Redruth, and the captain-over six feet high, was already more than she was meant to carry.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000003|Add to that the powder, pork, and bread bags.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000004|The gunwale was lipping astern.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000005|Several times we shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000002_000001|All the same, we were afraid to breathe.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000003_000001|Even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft, but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing place behind the point.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000004_000000|"I cannot keep her head for the stockade, sir," said I to the captain. I was steering, while he and Redruth, two fresh men, were at the oars. "The tide keeps washing her down.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000004_000001|Could you pull a little stronger?"
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000005_000001|"You must bear up, sir, if you please-bear up until you see you're gaining."
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000006_000000|I tried and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000007_000000|"We'll never get ashore at this rate," said i
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000008_000000|"If it's the only course that we can lie, sir, we must even lie it," returned the captain.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000008_000001|"We must keep upstream.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000010_000000|"Thank you, my man," said I, quite as if nothing had happened, for we had all quietly made up our minds to treat him like one of ourselves.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000011_000000|Suddenly the captain spoke up again, and I thought his voice was a little changed.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000012_000000|"The gun!" said he.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000013_000001|"They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods."
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000014_000000|"Look astern, doctor," replied the captain.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000015_000000|We had entirely forgotten the long nine; and there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about her, getting off her jacket, as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000016_000000|"Israel was Flint's gunner," said Gray hoarsely.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000017_000000|At any risk, we put the boat's head direct for the landing place.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000017_000001|By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000018_000000|I could hear as well as see that brandy faced rascal Israel Hands plumping down a round shot on the deck.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000019_000000|"Who's the best shot?" asked the captain.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000021_000000|"mr Trelawney, will you please pick me off one of these men, sir? Hands, if possible," said the captain.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000022_000001|He looked to the priming of his gun.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000023_000000|"Now," cried the captain, "easy with that gun, sir, or you'll swamp the boat.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000023_000001|All hands stand by to trim her when he aims."
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000025_000000|They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000025_000001|However, we had no luck, for just as Trelawney fired, down he stooped, the ball whistled over him, and it was one of the other four who fell.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000026_000000|The cry he gave was echoed not only by his companions on board but by a great number of voices from the shore, and looking in that direction I saw the other pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling into their places in the boats.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000028_000000|"Give way, then," cried the captain.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000028_000001|"We mustn't mind if we swamp her now.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000028_000002|If we can't get ashore, all's up."
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000000|"They'll have a hot run, sir," returned the captain.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000001|"Jack ashore, you know.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000002|It's not them I mind; it's the round shot.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000003|Carpet bowls!
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000004|My lady's maid couldn't miss.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000005|Tell us, squire, when you see the match, and we'll hold water."
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000000|In the meanwhile we had been making headway at a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped but little water in the process.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000001|We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000002|The gig was no longer to be feared; the little point had already concealed it from our eyes.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000003|The ebb tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000004|The one source of danger was the gun.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000032_000000|"If I durst," said the captain, "I'd stop and pick off another man."
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000033_000000|But it was plain that they meant nothing should delay their shot.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000033_000001|They had never so much as looked at their fallen comrade, though he was not dead, and I could see him trying to crawl away.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000034_000000|"Ready!" cried the squire.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000035_000000|"Hold!" cried the captain, quick as an echo.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000036_000000|And he and Redruth backed with a great heave that sent her stern bodily under water.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000036_000002|This was the first that Jim heard, the sound of the squire's shot not having reached him.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000036_000003|Where the ball passed, not one of us precisely knew, but I fancy it must have been over our heads and that the wind of it may have contributed to our disaster.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000038_000000|So far there was no great harm.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000038_000003|Mine I had snatched from my knees and held over my head, by a sort of instinct.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000038_000005|The other three had gone down with the boat.
train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000040_000000|With all this in our minds, we waded ashore as fast as we could, leaving behind us the poor jolly boat and a good half of all our powder and provisions.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000002_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000003_000000|"A tumbler of the old Marcobrunner, David, and a slice of the game pie-before I say one word about what we owe to that angel upstairs.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000003_000001|Off with the wine, my dear boy; you look as pale as death!"
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000004_000000|With those words mr Engelman lit his pipe, and waited in silence until the good eating and drinking had done their good work.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000005_000000|"Now carry your mind back to last night," he began.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000005_000001|"You remember my going out to get a breath of fresh air.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000005_000002|Can you guess what that meant?"
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000006_000000|I guessed of course that it meant a visit to Madame Fontaine.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000000|"Quite right, David.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000005|I told her that one of the doctors was evidently puzzled, and that the other had acknowledged that the malady was so far incomprehensible to him.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000006|She clasped her hands in despair-she said, 'Oh, if my poor husband had been alive!' I naturally asked what she meant.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000007|I wish I could give her explanation, David, in her own delightful words.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000009|Some person in her husband's employment at the University of Wurzburg had been attacked by a malady presenting exactly the same symptoms from which mr Keller was suffering.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000011|Alone among them Doctor Fontaine understood the case.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000012|He made up the medicine that he administered with his own hand.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000013|Madame Fontaine, under her husband's instructions, assisted in nursing the sick man, and in giving the nourishment prescribed when he was able to eat.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000014|His extraordinary recovery is remembered in the University to this day."
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000008_000000|I interrupted mr Engelman at that point.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000008_000001|"Of course you asked her for the prescription?" I said.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000008_000002|"I begin to understand it now."
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000000|"No, David; you don't understand it yet.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000001|I certainly asked her for the prescription.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000002|No such thing was known to be in existence-she reminded me that her husband had made up the medicine himself.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000003|But she remembered that the results had exceeded his anticipations, and that only a part of the remedy had been used.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000004|The bottle might still perhaps be found at Wurzburg.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000005|Or it might be in a small portmanteau belonging to her husband, which she had found in his bedroom, and had brought away with her, to be examined at some future time.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000006|'I have not had the heart to open it yet,' she said; 'but for mr Keller's sake, I will look it over before you go away.' There is a Christian woman, David, if ever there was one yet! After the manner in which poor Keller had treated her, she was as eager to help him as if he had been her dearest friend.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000007|Minna offered to take her place.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000008|'Why should you distress yourself, mamma?' she said.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000009|'Tell me what the bottle is like, and let me try if I can find it.' No!
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000010|It was quite enough for Madame Fontaine that there was an act of mercy to be done.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000011|At any sacrifice of her own feelings, she was prepared to do it."
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000010_000000|I interrupted him again, eager to hear the end.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000012_000001|"I can show it to you, if you like.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000012_000002|She has herself requested me to keep it under lock and key, so long as it is wanted in this house."
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000000|He opened an old cabinet, and took out a long narrow bottle of dark blue glass.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000002|The glass stopper was carefully secured by a piece of leather, for the better preservation, I suppose, of the liquid inside. Down one side of the bottle ran a narrow strip of paper, notched at regular intervals to indicate the dose that was to be given.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000003|No label appeared on it; but, examining the surface of the glass carefully, I found certain faintly marked stains, which suggested that the label might have been removed, and that some traces of the paste or gum by which it had been secured had not been completely washed away.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000004|I held the bottle up to the light, and found that it was still nearly half full.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000005|mr Engelman forbade me to remove the stopper.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000006|It was very important, he said, that no air should be admitted to the bottle, except when there was an actual necessity for administering the remedy.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000000|"I took it away with me the same night," he went on.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000002|Madame Fontaine, always just in her views, said, 'You had better wait and consult the doctors.' She made but one condition (the generous creature!) relating to herself.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000003|'If the remedy is tried,' she said, 'I must ask you to give it a fair chance by permitting me to act as nurse; the treatment of the patient when he begins to feel the benefit of the medicine is of serious importance.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000004|I know this from my husband's instructions, and it is due to his memory (to say nothing of what is due to mr Keller) that I should be at the bedside.' It is needless to say that I joyfully accepted the offered help.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000005|So the night passed.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000006|The next morning, soon after you fell asleep, the doctors came.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000007|You may imagine what they thought of poor Keller, when I tell you that they recommended me to write instantly to Fritz in London summoning him to his father's bedside.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000008|I was just in time to catch the special mail which left this morning.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000009|Don't blame me, David.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000010|I could not feel absolutely sure of the new medicine; and, with time of such terrible importance, and London so far off, I was really afraid to miss a post."
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000015_000000|I was far from blaming him-and I said so.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000015_000001|In his place I should have done what he did.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000015_000002|We arranged that I should write to Fritz by that night's mail, on the chance that my announcement of the better news might reach him before he left London.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000000|"My letter despatched," mr Engelman continued, "I begged both the doctors to speak with me before they went away, in my private room.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000001|There I told them, in the plainest words I could find, exactly what I have told you.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000002|Doctor Dormann behaved like a gentleman.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000003|He said, 'Let me see the lady, and speak to her myself, before the new remedy is tried.' As for the other, what do you think he did?
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000004|Walked out of the house (the old brute!) and declined any further attendance on the patient.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000017_000000|After what I had seen myself of the housekeeper's temper on the previous evening, this last piece of news failed to surprise me.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000000|"Well," mr Engelman resumed, "Doctor Dormann asked his questions, and smelt and tasted the medicine, and with Madame Fontaine's full approval took away a little of it to be analyzed.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000001|That came to nothing!
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000002|The medicine kept its own secret.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000005|Half an hour since we tried the second.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000008|But for you we might never have known Madame Fontaine."
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000000|The door opened as he spoke, and I found myself confronted by a second surprise.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000001|Minna came in, wearing a cook's apron, and asked if her mother had rung for her yet.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000002|Under the widow's instructions, she was preparing the peculiar vegetable diet which had been prescribed by Doctor Fontaine as part of the cure.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000003|The good girl was eager to make herself useful to us in any domestic capacity.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000004|What a charming substitute for the crabbed old housekeeper who had just left us!
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000001|What would Fritz think, when he knew of it?
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000002|What would mr Keller say when he recognized his nurse, and when he heard that she had saved his life?
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000003|"All's well that ends well" is a good proverb.
train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000004|But we had not got as far as that yet.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000004_000004|The apartments were supplied with every book which it could have been supposed might amuse her; there were guitars of the city and of Florence, and even an English piano; a library of the choicest music; and all the materials of art.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000004|Her lively and refined taste, and her highly cultured mind, could not refrain from responding to these glorious spectacles.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000009|Short visits, but numerous ones, was his system.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000010|Sometimes they entered merely to see a statue or a picture they were reading or conversing about the preceding eve; and then they repaired to some modern studio, where their entrance always made the sculptor's eyes sparkle.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000015|The colour returned to Henrietta's cheek and the lustre to her languid eye: her form regained its airy spring of health; the sunshine of her smile burst forth once more.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000006_000001|Perhaps he prided himself upon his skill as a physician, but he certainly watched the apparent convalescence of his friend's daughter with zealous interest.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000009_000000|'I should like it very much,' said mr Temple.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000011_000000|All the best families in Rome were present, and not a single English person.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000013_000001|That constraint which at first she had attributed to reserve, but which of late she had ascribed to modesty, now entirely quitted him.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000013_000002|Frank, yet always dignified, smiling, apt, and ever felicitous, it seemed that he had a pleasing word for every ear, and a particular smile for every face.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000013_000004|It was they whom he wished to catch.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000014_000001|I would not ask this favour of you unless I thought you would be pleased.'
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000015_000005|Lord Montfort approached Miss Temple. 'There is one room in the palace you have never yet visited,' he said, 'my tribune; 'tis open to night for the first time.'
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000016_000000|Henrietta accepted his proffered arm.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000017_000000|At the end of the principal gallery, Henrietta perceived an open door which admitted them into a small octagon chamber, of Ionic architecture. The walls were not hung with pictures, and one work of art alone solicited their attention.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000017_000001|Elevated on a pedestal of porphyry, surrounded by a rail of bronze arrows of the lightest workmanship, was that statue of Diana which they had so much admired at Pisa.
train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000017_000002|The cheek, by an ancient process, the secret of which has been recently regained at Rome, was tinted with a delicate glow.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000003_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000010_000001|'If he knew all that had occurred he would shrink from blending his life with mine.'
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000012_000000|'Indeed!' said Miss Temple.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000013_000000|'He loves you, Henrietta,' said her father.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000014_000002|No, Lord Montfort cannot love me.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000016_000001|But it is too late.'
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000017_000002|Lean upon your father, listen to him, be guided by his advice.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000017_000010|For his sake, for my sake, for all our sakes, dearest Henrietta, grant his wish.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000020_000001|Henrietta seemed plunged in thought. Suddenly she said, 'I cannot rest until this is settled.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000021_000001|He seated himself at her side, but he was unusually constrained.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000025_000000|'The only aim of my life is to make you happy,' said Lord Montfort.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000026_000004|Why------'
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000027_000001|You make me wretched.
train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000028_000005|It is my wish.'
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train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000003_000000|THE GAMBLER
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000004_000000|By
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000005_000000|FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000000|At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000001|I received from them a welcome quite different to that which I had expected.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000002|The General eyed me coldly, greeted me in rather haughty fashion, and dismissed me to pay my respects to his sister.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000003|It was clear that from SOMEWHERE money had been acquired.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000004|I thought I could even detect a certain shamefacedness in the General's glance.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000007|Polina Alexandrovna, on seeing me, inquired why I had been so long away.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000008|Then, without waiting for an answer, she departed.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000009|Evidently this was not mere accident, and I felt that I must throw some light upon matters.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000010|It was high time that I did so.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000000|I was assigned a small room on the fourth floor of the hotel (for you must know that I belonged to the General's suite).
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000001|So far as I could see, the party had already gained some notoriety in the place, which had come to look upon the General as a Russian nobleman of great wealth.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000003|Later, I was about to take Mischa and Nadia for a walk when a summons reached me from the staircase that I must attend the General. He began by deigning to inquire of me where I was going to take the children; and as he did so, I could see that he failed to look me in the eyes.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000004|He WANTED to do so, but each time was met by me with such a fixed, disrespectful stare that he desisted in confusion.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000005|In pompous language, however, which jumbled one sentence into another, and at length grew disconnected, he gave me to understand that I was to lead the children altogether away from the Casino, and out into the park. Finally his anger exploded, and he added sharply:
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000010_000000|"I suppose you would like to take them to the Casino to play roulette? Well, excuse my speaking so plainly, but I know how addicted you are to gambling.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000011_000000|"I have no money for gambling," I quietly replied.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000013_000000|"Let us calculate," he went on.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000013_000001|"We must translate these roubles into thalers.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000013_000003|The rest will be safe in my hands."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000014_000000|In silence I took the money.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000015_000001|"You are too touchy about these things.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000016_000000|When returning home with the children before luncheon, I met a cavalcade of our party riding to view some ruins.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000016_000003|The passers by stopped to stare at them, for the effect was splendid-the General could not have improved upon it.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000001|To think, therefore, that I should suddenly encounter him again here, in Roulettenberg!
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000002|Never in my life had I known a more retiring man, for he was shy to the pitch of imbecility, yet well aware of the fact (for he was no fool).
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000004|How he had come to make the General's acquaintance I do not know, but, apparently, he was much struck with Polina.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000005|Also, he was delighted that I should sit next him at table, for he appeared to look upon me as his bosom friend.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000019_000002|Interminably he discoursed on finance and Russian politics, and though, at times, the General made feints to contradict him, he did so humbly, and as though wishing not wholly to lose sight of his own dignity.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000023_000000|This I said in French.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000026_000000|"To spit into it?" the General inquired with grave disapproval in his tone, and a stare, of astonishment, while the Frenchman looked at me unbelievingly.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000000|"Just so," I replied.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000003|After listening politely, but with great reserve, to my account of myself, this sacristan asked me to wait a little.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000006|I ventured to remind the good man of my own business also; whereupon, with an expression of, if anything, increased dryness, he again asked me to wait.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000008|This made me very angry.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000010|Upon this the sacristan shrunk back in astonishment.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000028_000000|"What?
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000028_000001|While he is engaged with a Cardinal?" screeched the sacristan, again shrinking back in horror.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000029_000002|He looked at me with an air of infinite resentment.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000029_000005|Here it is now, if you care to see it,"--and I pulled out the document, and exhibited the Roman visa.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000031_000000|"What really saved you was the fact that you proclaimed yourself a heretic and a barbarian," remarked the Frenchman with a smile.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000032_000001|Why, when they settle here they dare not utter even a word-they are ready even to deny the fact that they are Russians!
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000032_000004|That man was then a boy of ten and his family are still residing in Moscow."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000034_000000|"Nevertheless the incident was as I say," I replied.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000034_000001|"A very respected ex captain told me the story, and I myself could see the scar left on his cheek."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000036_000000|Of course, we began by talking on business matters.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000036_000001|Polina seemed furious when I handed her only seven hundred gulden, for she had thought to receive from Paris, as the proceeds of the pledging of her diamonds, at least two thousand gulden, or even more.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000037_000000|"Come what may, I MUST have money," she said.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000039_000001|In the first place, my grandmother is very ill, and unlikely to last another couple of days.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000039_000002|We had this from Timothy Petrovitch himself, and he is a reliable person.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000039_000003|Every moment we are expecting to receive news of the end."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000042_000000|"Looking for it?"
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000043_000000|"Yes, looking for it.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000044_000000|"Yes, I believe that you WILL come in for a good deal," I said with some assurance.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000046_000000|I answered this question with another one.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000046_000001|"That Marquis of yours," I said, "--is HE also familiar with your family secrets?"
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000047_000000|"And why are you yourself so interested in them?" was her retort as she eyed me with dry grimness.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000048_000000|"Never mind.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000049_000000|"It may be so."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000051_000002|I thought you ought to know that."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000052_000000|"Then he has only just begun his courting?
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000053_000000|"You KNOW he has not," retorted Polina angrily.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000055_000000|"He is very shy," I said, "and susceptible.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000055_000001|Also, he is in love with you.--"
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000056_000000|"Yes, he is in love with me," she replied.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000057_000001|In fact, what does the Frenchman possess?
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000057_000002|To me it seems at least doubtful that he possesses anything at all."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000000|"Oh, no, there is no doubt about it.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000001|He does possess some chateau or other.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000002|Last night the General told me that for certain.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000003|NOW are you satisfied?"
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000059_000000|"Nevertheless, in your place I should marry the Englishman."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000062_000000|"Yes?
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000062_000001|But then the Frenchman is a marquis, and the cleverer of the two," remarked Polina imperturbably.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000063_000000|"Is that so?" I repeated.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000064_000000|"Yes; absolutely."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000065_000000|Polina was not at all pleased at my questions; I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the brusquerie of her answers.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000065_000001|But I took no notice of this.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000066_000000|"It amuses me to see you grow angry," she continued.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000068_000000|Polina giggled.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000069_000001|Some day I may remind you of that saying, in order to see if you will be as good as your word.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000069_000003|I hate you because I have allowed you to go to such lengths, and I also hate you and still more-because you are so necessary to me.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000069_000004|For the time being I want you, so I must keep you."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000070_000000|Then she made a movement to rise.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000070_000001|Her tone had sounded very angry. Indeed, of late her talks with me had invariably ended on a note of temper and irritation-yes, of real temper.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000072_000001|Blanche.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000072_000002|Nothing further has transpired.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000072_000004|Blanche, with her mother and her cousin, the Marquis, know very well that, as things now stand, we are ruined."
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000074_000000|"That has nothing to do with it.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000074_000001|Listen to me.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000074_000002|Take these seven hundred florins, and go and play roulette with them.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000000|So saying, she called Nadia back to her side, and entered the Casino, where she joined the rest of our party.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000002|Something had seemed to strike my brain when she told me to go and play roulette.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000005|Indeed, on one occasion (this happened in Switzerland, when I was asleep in the train) I had spoken aloud to her, and set all my fellow travellers laughing.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000006|Again, therefore, I put to myself the question: "Do I, or do I not love her?" and again I could return myself no answer or, rather, for the hundredth time I told myself that I detested her.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000010|Yes, this I knew well.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000013|Hitherto (I concluded) she had looked upon me in the same light that the old Empress did upon her servant-the Empress who hesitated not to unrobe herself before her slave, since she did not account a slave a man.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000014|Yes, often Polina must have taken me for something less than a man!"
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000076_000000|Still, she had charged me with a commission-to win what I could at roulette.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000076_000001|Yet all the time I could not help wondering WHY it was so necessary for her to win something, and what new schemes could have sprung to birth in her ever fertile brain.
train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000076_000003|Well, it behoved me to divine them, and to probe them, and that as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000001_000002|In fact, it almost upset my balance, and I entered the gaming rooms with an angry feeling at my heart.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000001_000003|At first glance the scene irritated me.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000001_000005|Those journalists are not paid for doing so: they write thus merely out of a spirit of disinterested complaisance.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000001|For one thing, the crowd oppressed me.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000004|However ridiculous it may seem to you that I was expecting to win at roulette, I look upon the generally accepted opinion concerning the folly and the grossness of hoping to win at gambling as a thing even more absurd.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000006|How, for instance, is it worse than trade?
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000007|True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine?
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000005_000003|As to the question whether stakes and winnings are, in themselves, immoral is another question altogether, and I wish to express no opinion upon it.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000006_000004|Herein, as said, I draw sharp distinctions.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000006_000012|In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000006_000014|Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted three hundred francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000007_000002|Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob (for preference, through a lorgnette), even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000007_000004|At the same time, to stare fixedly about one is unbecoming; for that, again, is ungentlemanly, seeing that no spectacle is worth an open stare-are no spectacles in the world which merit from a gentleman too pronounced an inspection.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000008_000000|However, to me personally the scene DID seem to be worth undisguised contemplation-more especially in view of the fact that I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000008_000001|As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000008_000004|Another standard altogether has directed my life....
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000009_000002|As for the crowd itself-well, it consisted mostly of Frenchmen.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000000|At first the proceedings were pure Greek to me.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000001|I could only divine and distinguish that stakes were hazarded on numbers, on "odd" or "even," and on colours.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000004|It was an unpleasant sensation, and I tried hard to banish it.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000005|I had a feeling that, once I had begun to play for Polina, I should wreck my own fortunes.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000006|Also, I wonder if any one has EVER approached a gaming table without falling an immediate prey to superstition?
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000007|I began by pulling out fifty gulden, and staking them on "even." The wheel spun and stopped at thirteen.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000008|I had lost!
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000011|Again I staked the whole sum, and again the red turned up.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000012|Clutching my four hundred gulden, I placed two hundred of them on twelve figures, to see what would come of it.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000011_000003|In his opinion, such conduct would greatly compromise him-especially if I were to lose much.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000011_000005|"Of course I have no RIGHT to order your actions, but you yourself will agree that..." As usual, he did not finish his sentence.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000012_000000|"Why not?" she asked excitedly.
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000015_000000|I said very seriously, "Yes," and then added: "Possibly my certainty about winning may seem to you ridiculous; yet, pray leave me in peace."
train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000017_000000|"Well, absurd though it be, I place great hopes on your playing of roulette," she remarked musingly; "wherefore, you ought to play as my partner and on equal shares; wherefore, of course, you will do as I wish."
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000000_000000|Money cannot buy happiness, but most of us are willing to make the experiment.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000002_000000|Money is the root of much friendship.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000005_000000|MACARONI.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000006_000000|MAP.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000006_000001|That part of the human face which is visible above the collar.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000008_000000|MARVEL.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000010_000001|The fellow who butts in and says you're not entitled to a medal.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000011_000001|A man who has all the money he wants but wants more.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000016_000000|No matter how many good things our friends say about us, we are never surprised.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000017_000000|Nothing is so astonishing to us as another man's success.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000019_000000|Nothing ventured nothing wonderful.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000021_000000|NABOB.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000021_000001|A man who can put on a new suit of clothes every fifteen minutes.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000022_000000|NATION.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000022_000001|A large principality ready to go to war at a moment's notice. For example: Carrie Nation.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000023_000000|NATURE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000024_000000|NECESSITY.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000024_000001|The mother of many an empty stomach.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000026_000000|NECK.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000027_000000|NEXT.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000027_000001|The battle cry in a barber shop before blood is shed.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000028_000000|NIT.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000028_000001|An abbreviation of Nix.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000029_000000|NIX.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000030_000000|NOPE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000032_000000|NOISE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000033_000000|NODDLE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000033_000001|The place where some people think they think.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000034_000000|NOVEL.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000034_000001|A book that sells better than it reads.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000037_000000|Oh, yes, the man with a jag can hold on to the fence, but he can't hold on to his reputation.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000042_000000|OATS.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000043_000000|OBEY.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000046_000000|OIL. See john d Rockerfeller-if you can.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000047_000000|OLD HEN.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000048_000000|OLIVE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000048_000001|A green grape dropped in a cocktail so the customer can pull it out with his fingers.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000049_000000|ONION.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000050_000000|OPERA.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000051_000000|OPPORTUNITY.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000052_000000|ORIGINALITY.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000053_000000|OSLER.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000053_000001|A modern abbreviation of chloroform.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000056_000001|To pour chloroform over an old man's breakfast food and telephone for the undertaker.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000057_000001|An attack of hysteria which broke out at a banquet and became epidemic in the newspapers.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000062_000000|Perhaps you have met the man who is so wrapped up in himself that he thinks he is a warm baby.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000063_000000|Pleasure travels with a brass band, but Trouble sneaks in on rubber shoes.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000064_000000|Philosophers do not believe half the things they tell themselves.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000066_000000|PAINT.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000066_000001|A polite name for balloon juice.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000066_000002|See the bartender.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000067_000000|PALPITATION OF THE TONGUE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000067_000001|A disease that affects many women.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000069_000000|PATHOS.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000069_000001|A poor man laughing at his rich wife's poor joke.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000070_000000|PEACH.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000070_000001|A bit of domestic fruit, consisting of blonde tresses, a dimple, and three bows of pink ribbon.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000071_000000|PEEKABOO.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000071_000002|It is constructed by making one stitch and forgetting seven. The Peekaboo is the only friend the mosquito has on earth.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000073_000001|A man who can size himself up and forget the result.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000074_000000|PLAN.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000074_000001|Something which any fool can lay, but it takes patience like a hen to hatch it.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000075_000000|PLEASURE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000075_000001|Fun you have to day so you can worry over it to morrow.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000078_000000|POLITICS.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000078_000001|The place where a man gets it-sometimes in the neck, sometimes in the bank.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000079_000000|POLITICIAN.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000080_000000|POPULARITY.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000080_000001|The cold storage house where the world sends her favorites before she forgets them.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000081_000000|POSTERITY.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000081_000001|A lot of people who will forget all about you before they are born.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000082_000000|PRACTICAL JOKE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000082_000001|When Nature makes a pink lobster look like a man.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000083_000000|PREDICTION.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000083_000002|He says what he thinks it will be and then the weather is what it pleases.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000085_000000|PROMISE.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000088_000000|Quitters cannot be trained to quit quitting.
train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000090_000000|Quotation marks cover a multitude of plagiarists.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000005_000000|RAG.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000006_000000|RAKE.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000007_000001|The way you get roast beef when you order it well done.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000008_000000|REFORM.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000008_000001|A bird which is always flying towards us but which never gets here.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000009_000001|A man who marries for money and finds it is all in Confederate bills.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000011_000000|RICHES.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000011_000001|Something which is said to have wings, but I can't prove it, because they never flew my way.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000018_000000|RIDDLE.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000018_000001|A question mark gone mad.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000020_000002|How old will Ann's mother be when the book gets back?
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000022_000001|james wrote two letters, one to his wife and one to his lady typewriter.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000022_000002|Ten minutes after mailing them he discovered that the right letter was in the wrong envelope.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000023_000000|Ann took a dollar bill and went to a department store.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000023_000001|She saved twenty cents for car fare and spent eighty cents for lunch.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000023_000002|What were the clerks swearing at after Ann went out?
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000025_000001|One of them paints sawdust in a delicatessen factory at twelve dollars per.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000025_000003|What time does the dinner bell ring and who squares it with the grocer?
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000029_000000|Some people's talk is too cheap at any price.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000035_000000|SALOON.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000035_000001|Something which can be opened on credit, but it takes cash to start a church.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000036_000001|A thirty dollar Panama hat on a thirty cent man.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000037_000000|SATAN.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000038_000000|SCEPTIC.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000039_000001|A violent disease which breaks out all over people when the weather gets warm.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000039_000002|The cure costs anywhere from two dollars to fifteen dollars per day, according to the mood the landlord is in.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000040_000001|What our friends think about us when our backs are turned.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000041_000001|Paying a nickle for a seat in a street car and then waiting till you get it.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000043_000000|SUCKERS.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000043_000001|The bait used by those who go fishing for compliments.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000045_000001|Failure kicked to pieces by hard work.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000049_000000|Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Riding down town on the "L." He jumped to his feet Gave a lady his seat- I'm a liar, but don't it sound well.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000050_000000|--Oliver Goldsmith, page thirty four.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000058_000000|Brave and strong men climb into a street car and they are full of health and life and vigor, but a few blocks up the road they fall out backwards and inquire feebly for a sanitarium.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000061_000000|To get in some of the street cars about six o'clock is a problem, and to get out again is an assassination.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000062_000000|One evening I rode from Forty second Street to Fifty ninth without once touching the floor with my feet.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000064_000000|Some of our street cars lead a double life, because they are used all winter to act the part of a refrigerator.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000069_000000|Often while riding in the street cars I have felt a germ rubbing against my ankle like a kitten, but being a gentleman, I did not reach down and kick it away because the law says we must not be disrespectful to the dumb brutes of the field.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000070_000000|Many of our street cars are made out of the same idea as a can of condensed milk.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000071_000000|The only difference is that the street cars have a sour taste like a lemon squeezer.
train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000078_000000|We are a very nervous and careless people in America.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000007_000000|ON THE MOOR
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000000|After tea my father went to his study, for it was late in the week, and he was a most conscientious writer of sermons.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000001|I read for an hour, and then, tired alike of my book and my own company, I strolled up and down the drive.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000002|This restlessness was one of my greatest troubles.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000003|When the fit came I could neither work nor read nor think connectedly.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000004|It was a phase of incipient dissatisfaction with life, morbid, but inevitable.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000005|At the end of the drive nearest the road, I met Alice, my youngest sister, walking briskly with a book under her arm, and a quiet smile upon her homely face.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000006|I watched her coming towards me, and I almost envied her.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000007|What a comfort to be blessed with a placid disposition and an optimistic frame of mind!
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000000|"So I have-after a fashion," she answered, good humoredly.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000001|"Are you wise to be without a hat, Kate?
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000002|To look at your airy attire one would imagine that it was summer instead of autumn.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000003|Come back into the house with me."
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000011_000000|I laughed at her in contempt.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000011_000001|There was a difference indeed between my muslin gown and the plain black skirt and jacket, powdered with dust, which was Alice's usual costume.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000012_000000|"Have you ever known me to catch cold through wearing thin clothes or going without a hat?" I asked.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000012_000001|"I am tired of being indoors.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000012_000002|There have been people here all the afternoon.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000013_000001|Alice was always so painfully literal.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000014_000001|I was in an evil mood, and I determined to shock her.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000015_000000|"So I do sometimes," I answered; "but to day my callers have been all women, winding up with an hour and a half of Lady Naselton.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000015_000001|One gets so tired of one's own sex!
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000015_000002|Not a single man all the afternoon.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000016_000000|Alice pursed up her lips, and turned her head away with a look of displeasure.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000017_000000|"I am surprised to hear you talk like that, Kate," she said, quietly.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000017_000001|"Do you think that it is quite good taste?"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000000|"Be off, you little goose!" I called after her as she passed on towards the house with quickened step and rigid head.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000001|The little sober figure turned the bend and disappeared without looking around.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000003|She was the right person in the right place.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000004|She had the supreme good fortune to be in accord with her environment.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000006|I looked after her and sighed.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000000|I had no desire to go in; on the other hand, there was nothing to stay out for.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000004|I leaned over the gate with my face turned towards the great indistinct front of Deville Court.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000005|There was nothing to look at.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000006|The trees had taken to themselves fantastic shapes, little wreaths of white mist were rising from the hollows of the park.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000007|The landscape was grey, colorless, monotonous.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000008|My whole life was like that, I thought, with a sudden despondent chill.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000010|In our little family Alice absorbed the domesticity.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000011|There was not one shred of it in my disposition.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000020_000000|I realized with a start that I was becoming morbid, and turned from the gate towards the house.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000020_000001|Suddenly I heard an unexpected sound-the sound of voices close at hand.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000020_000003|A deep voice rang out upon the still, damp air-
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000021_000001|Get over, Marvel!"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000001|There must have been quite twenty of them, all of the same breed-beagles-and amongst them two people were walking, a man and a woman.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000002|The man was nearest to me, and I could see him more distinctly.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000003|He was tall and very broad, with a ragged beard and long hair.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000004|He wore no collar, and there was a great rent in his shabby shooting coat.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000005|Of his features I could see nothing.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000006|He wore knickerbockers, and stockings, and thick shoes.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000007|He was by no means an ordinary looking person, but he was certainly not prepossessing.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000008|The most favorable thing about him was his carriage, which was upright and easy, but even that was in a measure spoiled by a distinct suggestion of surliness.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000009|The woman by his side I could only see very indistinctly.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000011|As they came nearer to me, I slipped from the drive on to the verge of the shrubbery, standing for a moment in the shadow of a tall laurel bush.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000012|I was not seen, but I could hear their voices.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000013|The woman was speaking.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000023_000001|I fancy I heard that one was expected."
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000025_000001|The parson was bound to come, I suppose, but what the mischief does he want with a daughter?"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000026_000000|A little laugh from the woman-a pleasant, musical laugh.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000027_000000|"Daughters, I believe-I heard some one say that there were two.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000028_000000|There was a contemptuous snort, and a moment's silence.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000028_000002|The man's huge form stood out with almost startling distinctness against the grey sky.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000028_000003|He was lashing the thistles by the side of the road with his long whip.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000000|I smothered a laugh.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000001|I was the pale faced, black haired chit, but it was scarcely a polite way of alluding to me, mr Bruce Deville.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000003|The sound of their voices came to me indistinctly; but I could hear the deep bass of the man as he slung some scornful exclamation out upon the moist air.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000004|His great figure, looming unnaturally large through the misty twilight, was the last to vanish.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000005|It was my first glimpse of mr Bruce Deville of Deville Court.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000000|I turned round with a terrified start.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000001|Almost at my side some heavy body had fallen to the ground with a faint groan.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000002|A single step, and I was bending over the prostrate form of a man.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000003|I caught his hand and gazed into his face with horrified eyes.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000004|It was my father.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000005|He must have been within a yard of me when he fell.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000032_000000|His eyes were half closed, and his hands were cold.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000033_000000|I met Alice in the hall.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000033_000001|"Get some brandy!" I cried, breathlessly.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000033_000003|Quick!"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000000|She brought it in a moment.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000002|He had not moved.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000003|His cheeks were ghastly pale, and his eyes were still closed.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000004|I felt his pulse and his heart, and unfastened his collar.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000035_000000|"There is nothing serious the matter-at least I think not," I whispered to Alice.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000035_000001|"It is only a fainting fit."
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000036_000001|Presently he opened his eyes, and raised his head a little, looking half fearfully around.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000000|"It was her voice," he whispered, hoarsely.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000002|Where is she?
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000003|What have you done with her?
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000004|There was a rustling of the leaves-and then I heard her speak!"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000038_000001|"You must have been fancying things.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000038_000002|Are you better?"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000039_000000|"Better!"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000002|I must have fainted!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000003|"I remember the study was close, and I came to get cool.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000004|Yet, I thought-I thought----"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000041_000001|He was still white and shaken, but evidently his memory was returning.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000042_000000|"I remember it was close in the study," he said-"very close; I was tired too.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000042_000002|I don't like it though.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000042_000003|I must see a doctor; I must certainly see a doctor!"
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000000|Alice bent over him full of sympathy, and he took her arm.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000001|I walked behind him in silence.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000002|A curious thought had taken possession of me.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000003|I could not get rid of the impression of my father's first words, and his white, terrified face.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000004|Was it indeed a wild fancy of his, or had he really heard this voice which had stirred him so deeply?
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000005|I tried to laugh at the idea.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000006|I could not.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000007|His cry was so natural, his terror so apparent!
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000008|He had heard a voice.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000009|He had been stricken with a sudden terror.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000010|Whose was the voice-whence his fear of it?
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000011|I watched him leaning slightly upon Alice's arm, and walking on slowly in front of me towards the house.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000012|Already he was better.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000013|His features had reassumed their customary air of delicate and reserved strength.
train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000014|I looked at him with new and curious eyes.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000000|mrs McLane had called on mrs Talbot.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000001|That was known to all San Francisco, for her carriage had stood in front of the Occidental Hotel for an hour.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000003|No one wasted time on a second effort to gossip with their leader; it was known that just so often mrs McLane drew down the blinds, informed her household that she was not to be disturbed, disposed herself on the sofa with her back to the room and indulged in the luxury of blues for three days.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000004|She took no nourishment but milk and broth and spoke to no one.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000005|Today this would be a rest cure and was equally beneficial.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000006|When the attack was over mrs McLane would arise with a clear complexion, serene nerves, and renewed strength for social duties.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000007|Her friends knew that her retirement on this occasion was timed to finish on the morning of her reception and had not the least misgiving that her doors would still be closed.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000003_000001|A magnificent crystal chandelier depended from the high and lightly frescoed ceiling and there were side brackets beside the doors and the low mantel piece.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000000|The rooms filled early.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000001|mrs McLane stood before the north windows receiving her friends with her usual brilliant smile, her manner of high dignity and sweet cordiality.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000003|She wore her prematurely white hair in a tall pompadour, and this with the rich velvets she affected, ample and long, made her look like a French marquise of the eighteenth century, stepped down from the canvas.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000004|The effect was by no means accidental.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000005|mrs McLane's grandmother had been French and she resembled her.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000006_000000|Unlike as a reception of that day was in background and costumes from the refinements of modern art and taste, it possessed one contrast that was wholly to its advantage.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000006_000001|Its men were gentlemen and the sons and grandsons of gentlemen.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000007_000001|If they took up less room than the women they certainly were more decorative.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000000|dr Talbot and his wife had not arrived.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000001|To all eager questions mrs McLane merely replied that "they" would "be here." She had the dramatic instinct of the true leader and had commanded the doctor not to bring his bride before four o'clock.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000002|The reception began at three.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000003|They should have an entrance.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000004|But mrs Abbott, a lady of three chins and an eagle eye, who had clung for twenty five years to black satin and bugles, was too persistent to be denied.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000005|She extracted the information that the Bostonian had sent her own furniture by a previous steamer and that her drawing room was graceful, French, and exquisite.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000009_000000|At ten minutes after the hour the buzz and chatter stopped abruptly and every face was turned, every neck craned toward the door.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000009_000001|The colored butler had announced with a grand flourish:
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000010_000000|"dr and mrs Talbot."
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000000|The doctor looked as rubicund, as jovial, as cynical as ever.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000001|But few cast him more than a passing glance.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000002|Then they gave an audible gasp, induced by an ingenuous compound of amazement, disappointment, and admiration.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000003|They had been prepared to forgive, to endure, to make every allowance.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000004|The poor thing could no more help being plain and dowdy than born in Boston, and as their leader had satisfied herself that she "would do," they would never let her know how deeply they deplored her disabilities.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000001|mrs Talbot was unquestionably a product of the best society.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000002|The South could have done no better.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000003|She was tall and supple and self possessed.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000004|She was exquisitely dressed in dark blue velvet with a high collar of point lace tapering almost to her bust, and revealing a long white throat clasped at the base by a string of pearls.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000005|On her head, as proudly poised as mrs McLane's, was a blue velvet hat, higher in the crown than the prevailing fashion, rolled up on one side and trimmed only with a drooping gray feather.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000006|And her figure, her face, her profile!
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000009|Her skin was as white as the San Francisco fogs, her lips were scarlet, her cheeks pink, her hair and eyes a bright golden brown.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000010|Her features were delicate and regular, the mouth not too small, curved and sensitive; her refinement was almost excessive.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000012|As she moved forward and stood in front of mrs McLane, or acknowledged introductions to those that stood near, the women gave another gasp, this time of consternation.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000015|Or was this lovely creature of surpassing elegance, a law unto herself?
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000013_000000|Her skirt was full but straight and did not disguise the lines of her graceful figure; above her small waist it fitted as closely as a riding habit.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000013_000002|mrs Abbott, who was given to primitive sounds, snorted.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000013_000005|mrs Ballinger, who had been the belle of Richmond and was still adjudged the handsomest woman in San Francisco, lifted the eyebrows to which sonnets had been written with an air of haughty resignation; but made up her mind to abate her scorn of the North and order her gowns from New York hereafter.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000015_000000|They all met her in the course of the afternoon.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000015_000001|She was sweet and gracious, but although there was not a hint of embarrassment she made no attempt to shine, and they liked her the better for that.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000015_000002|The young men soon discovered they could make no impression on this lovely importation, for her eyes strayed constantly to her husband; until he disappeared in search of cronies, whiskey, and a cigar: then she looked depressed for a moment, but gave a still closer attention to the women about her.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000000|In love with her husband but a woman of the world.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000001|Manners as fine as mrs McLane's, but too aloof and sensitive to care for leadership.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000002|She had made the grand tour in Europe, they discovered, and enjoyed a season in Washington.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000003|She should continue to live at the Occidental Hotel as her husband would be out so much at night and she was rather timid.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000004|And she was bright, unaffected, responsive.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000007|The girls drew little unconscious sighs of relief.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000009|mrs Abbott succumbed.
train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000010|In short they all took her to their hearts.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000002_000002|And, indeed, his government did present these two phases, so different and inharmonious.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000002_000004|Let us follow these two portions of Louis the twelfth's reign, each separately, without mixing up one with the other by reason of identity of dates.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000002_000005|We shall thus get at a better understanding and better appreciation of their character and their results.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000000|Outside of France, Milaness [the Milanese district] was Louis the twelfth's first thought, at his accession, and the first object of his desire.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000001|He looked upon it as his patrimony.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000003|The Duke of Milan, Ludovic, the Moor, had by his sagacity and fertile mind, by his taste for arts and sciences and the intelligent patronage he bestowed upon them, by his ability in speaking, and by his facile character, obtained in Italy a position far beyond his real power.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000004|Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most eminent amongst the noble geniuses of the age, lived on intimate terms with him; but Ludovic was, nevertheless, a turbulent rascal and a greedy tyrant, of whom those who did not profit by his vices or the enjoyments of his court were desirous of being relieved.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000006|As early as the twentieth of April, fourteen ninety eight, a fortnight after his accession, Louis the twelfth. addressed to the Venetians a letter "most gracious," says the contemporary chronicler Marino Sanuto, "and testifying great good will;" and the special courier who brought it declared that the king had written to nobody in Italy except the pope, the Venetians, and the Florentines.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000010|There is certainly a royal castle, in the which lives the queen, the wife of the deceased king; nevertheless his Majesty was pleased to give audience in this hostelry, all covered expressly with cloth of Alexandrine velvet, with lilies of gold at the spot where the king was placed.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000011|As soon as the speech was ended, his Majesty rose up and gave quite a brotherly welcome to the brilliant ambassadors.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000005_000001|It provided for an alliance between the King of France and the Venetian government, for the purpose of making war in common upon the Duke of Milan, Ludovic Sforza, on and against every one, save the lord pope of Rome, and for the purpose of insuring to the Most Christian king restoration to the possession of the said duchy of Milan as his rightful and olden patrimony.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000005_000002|And on account of the charges and expenses which would be incurred by the Venetian government whilst rendering assistance to the Most Christian king in the aforesaid war, the Most Christian king bound himself to approve and consent that the city of Cremona and certain forts or territories adjacent, specially indicated, should belong in freehold and perpetuity to the Venetian government.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000005_000003|The treaty, at the same time, regulated the number of troops and the military details of the war on behalf of the two contracting powers, and it provided for divers political incidents which might be entailed, and to which the alliance thus concluded should or should not be applicable according to the special stipulations which were drawn up with a view to those very incidents.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000001|Duke Ludovic Sforza opposed to it a force pretty nearly equal in number, but far less full of confidence and of far less valor.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000002|In less than three weeks the duchy was conquered; in only two cases was any assault necessary; all the other places were given up by traitors or surrendered without a show of resistance.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000004|Milan and Cremona alone remained to be occupied.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000005|Ludovic Sforza "appeared before his troops and his people like the very spirit of lethargy," says a contemporary unpublished chronicle, "with his head bent down to the earth, and for a long while he remained thus pensive and without a single word to say.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000002|The Venetians did not deserve his censure.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000003|By allying themselves, in fourteen ninety nine, with Louis the twelfth. against the Duke of Milan, they did not fall into Louis's hands, for, between fourteen ninety nine and fifteen fifteen, and many times over, they sided alternately with and against him, always preserving their independence and displaying it as suited them at the moment.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000004|And these vicissitudes in their policy did not bring about their ruin, for at the death of Louis the twelfth. their power and importance in Southern Europe had not declined.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000005|It was Louis the twelfth. who deserved Machiavelli's strictures for having engaged, by means of diplomatic alliances of the most contradictory kind, at one time with the Venetians' support, and at another against them, in a policy of distant and incoherent conquests, without any connection with the national interests of France, and, in the long run, without any success.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000002|Unfortunately Trivulzio was himself a Milanese and of the faction of the Guelphs.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000004|A plot was formed in favor of the fallen tyrant, who was in Germany expecting it, and was recruiting, during expectancy, amongst the Germans and Swiss in order to take advantage of it.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000005|On the twenty fifth of January, fifteen hundred, the insurrection broke out; and two months later Ludovic Sforza had once more become master of Milaness, where the French possessed nothing but the castle of Milan.
train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000006|In one of the fights brought about by this sudden revolution the young Chevalier Bayard, carried away by the impetuosity of his age and courage, pursued right into Milan the foes he was driving before him, without noticing that his French comrades had left him; and he was taken prisoner in front of the very palace in which were the quarters of Ludovic Sforza.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000000_000000|Whilst matters were thus going on in the north of Italy, Louis the twelfth. was preparing for his second great Italian venture, the conquest of the kingdom of Naples, in which his predecessor Charles the eighth. had failed.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000000_000007|He forgot, moreover, that Ferdinand had at the head of his armies a tried chieftain, Gonzalvo of Cordova, already known throughout Europe as the great captain, who had won that name in campaigns against the Moors, the Turks, and the Portuguese, and who had the character of being as free from scruple as from fear.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000000_000009|The King of France, whatever sacrifices he might already have made and might still make in order to insure their co-operation, could no more count upon it than upon the loyalty of the King of Spain in the conquest they were entering upon together.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000000|The outset of the campaign was attended with easy success.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000001|The French army, under the command of Stuart d'Aubigny, a valiant Scot, arrived on the twenty fifth of June, fifteen o one, before Rome, and there received a communication in the form of a bull of the pope which removed the crown of Naples from the head of Frederick the third., and partitioned that fief of the Holy See between the Kings of France and Spain.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000002|Fortified with this authority, the army continued its march, and arrived before Capua on the sixth of July.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000003|Gonzalvo of Cordova was already upon Neapolitan territory with a Spanish army, which Ferdinand the Catholic had hastily sent thither at the request of Frederick the third. himself, who had counted upon the assistance of his cousin the King of Arragon against the French invasion. Great was his consternation when he heard that the ambassadors of France and Spain had proclaimed at Rome the alliance between their masters.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000005|A French fleet, commanded by Philip de Ravenstein, arrived off Naples when D'Aubigny was already master of it.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000006|The unhappy King Frederick took refuge in the island of Ischia; and, unable to bear the idea of seeking an asylum in Spain with his cousin who had betrayed him so shamefully, he begged the French admiral himself to advise him in his adversity.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000010|It does not appear that Frederick ever had an idea of doing so, for his name is completely lost to history up to the day of his death, which took place at Tours on the ninth of November, fifteen o four, after three years' oblivion and exile.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000002_000002|In giving the senate an account of his mission, one of the ambassadors, Dominic of Treviso, drew the following portrait of Louis the twelfth.: "The king is in stature tall and thin, and temperate in eating, taking scarcely anything but boiled beef; he is by nature miserly and retentive; his great pleasure is hawking; from September to April he hawks.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000002_000008|The French and the Spaniards, D'Aubigny and Gonzalvo of Cordova, at first gave their attention to nothing but establishing themselves firmly, each in the interests of the king his master, in those portions of the kingdom which were to belong to them.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000001|D'Aubigny fell ill; and Louis the twelfth. sent to Naples, with the title of viceroy, Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, a brave warrior, but a negotiator inclined to take umbrage and to give offence.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000002|The disputes soon took the form of hostilities.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000003|The French essayed to drive the Spaniards from the points they had occupied in the disputed territories; and at first they had the advantage.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000006|The very day after his success Gonzalvo heard that a Spanish corps, lately disembarked in Calabria, had also beaten, on the twenty first of April, at Seminara, a French corps commanded by D'Aubigny.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000007|The great captain was as eager to profit by victory as he had been patient in waiting for a chance of it.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000008|He marched rapidly on Naples, and entered it on the fourteenth of May, almost without resistance; and the two forts defending the city, the Castel Nuovo and the Castel dell' Uovo surrendered, one on the eleventh of June and the other on the first of July.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000011|He found Gonzalvo of Cordova posted with his army on the left bank of the Garigliano, either to invest the place or to repulse re enforcements that might arrive for it.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000014|Gonzalvo, who was kept well informed of his enemies' condition, threw, on the twenty seventh of December, a bridge over the Garigliano, attacked the French suddenly, and forced them to fall back upon Gaeta, which they did not succeed in entering until they had lost artillery, baggage, and a number of prisoners.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000018|The French captains, seeing that fortune was not kind to them, and that they had provisions for a week only, were all for taking this offer.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000019|All the prisoners, captains, men at arms, and common soldiers were accordingly given up, put to sea, and sailed for Genoa, where they were well received and kindly treated by the Genoese, which did them great good, for they were much in need of it.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000005_000009|But the candidature of Cardinal d'Amboise failed; a four weeks' pope, Pius the third., succeeded Alexander the sixth.; and, when the Holy See suddenly became once more vacant, Cardinal d'Amboise failed again; and the new choice was Cardinal Julian della Rovera, Pope Julius the second., who soon became the most determined and most dangerous foe of Louis the twelfth., already assailed by so many enemies.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000006_000000|The Venetian, Dominic of Treviso, was quite right; Louis the twelfth. was "of unstable mind, saying yes and no" On such characters discouragement tells rapidly.
train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000006_000002|With those political miscalculations was connected a more personal and more disinterested feeling.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000002|Two other small towns, Marano and Osopo, followed her example; and for several months this was all that the Venetians preserved of their continental possessions.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000003|But at the commencement of July, fifteen o nine, they heard that the important town of Padua, which had fallen to the share of Emperor Maximilian, was uttering passionate murmurs against its new master, and wished for nothing better than to come back beneath the old sway; and, in spite of the opposition shown by the doge, Loredano, the Venetians resolved to attempt the venture.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000004|During the night between the sixteenth and seventeenth of July, a small detachment, well armed and well led, arrived beneath the walls of Padua, which was rather carelessly guarded.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000008|It blazed forth again immediately, but at first between the Venetians and the Emperor Maximilian almost alone by himself.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000002_000001|The doge, Leonardo Loredano, the same who had but lately opposed the surprisal of Padua, rose up and delivered in the senate a long speech, of which only the essential and characteristic points can be quoted here:--
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000003_000000|"Everybody knows, excellent gentlemen of the senate," said he, "that on the preservation of Padua depends all hope, not only of recovering our empire, but of maintaining our own liberty.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000003_000004|To save it who would refuse to risk his own life and that of his children?
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000003_000005|If the defence of Padua is the pledge for the salvation of Venice, who would hesitate to go and defend it?
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000004_000004|On returning to his quarters he sent for a French secretary of his, whom he bade write to the lord of La Palisse a letter, whereof this was the substance: 'Dear cousin, I have this morning been to look at the breach, which I find more than practicable for whoever would do his duty.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000004_000006|I pray you, so soon as my big drum sounds, which will be about midday, that you do incontinently hold ready all the French gentlemen who are under your orders at my service, by command of my brother the King of France, to go to the said assault along with my foot; and I hope that, with God's help we shall carry it.'
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000005_000000|"The lord of La Palisse," continues the chronicler, "thought this a somewhat strange manner of proceeding; howbeit he hid his thought, and said to the secretary, 'I am astounded that the emperor did not send for my comrades and me for to deliberate more fully of this matter; howbeit you will tell him that I will send to fetch them, and when they are come I will show them the letter.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000005_000001|I do not think there will be many who will not be obedient to that which the emperor shall be pleased to command.'
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000006_000002|They all looked at one another, laughing, for to see who would speak first.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000007_000002|Maximilian was personally brave and free from depravity or premeditated perfidy, but he was coarse, volatile, inconsistent, and not very able.
train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000008_000001|When he became pope, he had three objects: to recover and extend the temporal possessions of the papacy, to exercise to the full his spiritual power, and to drive the foreigner from Italy.
train-clean-360/4846/18524/4846_18524_000011_000000|"Oh, it's so far up in the air," answered old mr King.
train-clean-360/4846/18524/4846_18524_000087_000000|"Not a bit," said Tom.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000003_000001|What work did my father do to support us?"
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000004_000000|His mother replied: "Your father was a hunter.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000004_000001|He set traps, and we ate what he caught in them."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000005_000001|I, too, will set traps, and see if we can't get enough to eat."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000008_000000|The third day he twisted cocoanut fiber into ropes.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000009_000000|The fourth day he set up as many traps as time would permit.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000010_000000|The fifth day he set up the remainder of the traps.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000013_000001|Take me out of this trap and let me go.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000001|He started to the village to give the alarm, but the snake shouted: "Come back, son of Adam; don't call the people from the village to come and kill me.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000002|I am Neeo'ka, the snake.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000003|Let me out of this trap, I pray you.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000004|Save me from the rain to day, that I may be able to save you from the sun to morrow, if you should be in need of help."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000023_000001|He was so wretched and tired that he felt he must lie down and die, when suddenly he heard some one calling him, and looking up he saw Neeanee, the ape, who said, "Son of Adam, where are you going?"
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000025_000000|"Well, well," said the ape; "don't worry.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000026_000001|Is there anything else you want?
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000028_000000|And the youth answered, as dolefully as before, "I don't know; I'm lost."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000029_000000|"Come, cheer up," said the very old lion, "and rest yourself here a little.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000029_000001|I want to repay with kindness to day the kindness you showed me on a former day."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000030_000001|Simba Kongway went away, but soon returned with some game he had caught, and then he brought some fire, and the young man cooked the game and ate it.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000031_000001|Won't you make it?" But he answered: "My good woman, I am not a doctor, I am a hunter, and never used medicine in my life.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000031_000002|I can not help you."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000032_000000|When he came to the road leading to the principal city he saw a well, with a bucket standing near it, and he said to himself: "That's just what I want.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000032_000001|I'll take a drink of nice well water.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000032_000002|Let me see if the water can be reached."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000033_000000|As he peeped over the edge of the well, to see if the water was high enough, what should he behold but a great big snake, which, directly it saw him, said, "Son of Adam, wait a moment." Then it came out of the well and said: "How?
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000033_000001|Don't you know me?"
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000035_000000|"Well, well!" said the snake; "I could never forget you.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000035_000001|I am Neeoka, whom you released from the trap.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000036_000001|Then they parted very cordially.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000038_000001|But although he pretends to be a man, I know that he is a snake who has power to look like a man."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000041_000001|There is the great snake that lives in the well, and he stays by you.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000041_000002|Tell him to go away."
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000042_000000|But Neeoka would not stir.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000043_000000|Then the sultan asked him, "Why should this man invite you to his home and then speak ill of you?"
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000045_000000|And the sultan said: "Although men are often ungrateful, they are not always so; only the bad ones.
train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000045_000001|As for this fellow, he deserves to be put in a sack and drowned in the sea.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000003_000001|Nothing, however, was allowed to divert them from their ostensible object of making a survey of the coast of the Mediterranean, and accordingly they persevered in following that singular boundary which had revealed itself to their extreme astonishment.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000004_000000|Having rounded the great promontory that had barred her farther progress to the north, the schooner skirted its upper edge.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000004_000002|Yes, of France.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000005_000001|Who shall paint the look of consternation with which he gazed upon the stony rampart-rising perpendicularly for a thousand feet-that had replaced the shores of the smiling south?
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000005_000002|Who shall reveal the burning anxiety with which he throbbed to see beyond that cruel wall?
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000006_000000|But there seemed no hope.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000006_000002|It might have been supposed that Servadac's previous experiences would have prepared him for the discovery that the catastrophe which had overwhelmed other sites had brought destruction to his own country as well.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000006_000003|But he had failed to realize how it might extend to France; and when now he was obliged with his own eyes to witness the waves of ocean rolling over what once had been the lovely shores of Provence, he was well nigh frantic with desperation.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000007_000003|There is-there must be-something more behind that frowning rock.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000007_000005|By Heaven, I adjure you, let us disembark, and mount the summit and explore!
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000009_000000|With her steam at high pressure, the yacht made rapid progress towards the east.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000009_000002|Of the planets, some, it was observed, seemed to be fading away in remote distance.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000009_000004|The inference was irresistible that Gallia was receding from the sun, and traveling far away across the planetary regions.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000013_000000|Count Timascheff and the lieutenant were scarcely less impatient than the captain, and little needed his urgent and repeated solicitations: "Come on!
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000013_000001|Quick!
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000014_000001|The bit of strand was only a few square yards in area, quite a narrow strip.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000014_000002|Upon it might have been recognized some fragments of that agglutination of yellow limestone which is characteristic of the coast of Provence.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000015_000000|The narrow ravine was not only perfectly dry, but manifestly had never been the bed of any mountain torrent.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000019_000000|"So cold, do you think," asked Servadac, "that animal life must be extinct?"
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000020_000000|"I do not say that, captain," answered the lieutenant; "for, however far our little world may be removed from the sun, I do not see why its temperature should fall below what prevails in those outlying regions beyond our system where sky and air are not." "And what temperature may that be?" inquired the captain with a shudder.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000021_000000|"Fourier estimates that even in those vast unfathomable tracts, the temperature never descends lower than sixty degrees," said Procope.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000022_000000|"Sixty!
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000022_000001|Sixty degrees below zero!" cried the count.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000022_000002|"Why, there's not a Russian could endure it!"
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000023_000002|When Captain Parry was on Melville Island, he knew the thermometer to fall to fifty six degrees," said Procope.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000024_000000|As the explorers advanced, they seemed glad to pause from time to time, that they might recover their breath; for the air, becoming more and more rarefied, made respiration somewhat difficult and the ascent fatiguing.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000025_000000|Eagerly and anxiously did they look around.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000000|Servadac could not suppress a cry of dismay.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000001|Where was his beloved France?
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000003|His heart sank within him.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000027_000000|The whole region appeared to consist of nothing but the same strange, uniform mineral conglomerate, crystallized into regular hexagonal prisms.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000027_000003|Of the vegetable kingdom, there was not a single representative; the most meager of Arctic plants, the most insignificant of lichens, could obtain no hold upon that stony waste.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000027_000005|The mineral kingdom reigned supreme.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000028_000001|Silent and tearful, he stood upon an ice bound rock, straining his eyes across the boundless vista of the mysterious territory.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000028_000002|"It cannot be!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000028_000005|By all that's pitiful, I entreat you, come and explore the farthest verge of the ice bound track!"
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000029_000002|It proved to be a fragment of dis colored marble, on which several letters were inscribed, of which the only part at all decipherable was the syllable "Vil."
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000030_000000|"Vil-Villa!" he cried out, in his excitement dropping the marble, which was broken into atoms by the fall.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000031_000000|What else could this fragment be but the sole surviving remnant of some sumptuous mansion that once had stood on this unrivaled site?
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000031_000002|And did it not give in its sad and too convincing testimony that Antibes itself had been involved in the great destruction?
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000031_000003|Servadac gazed upon the shattered marble, pensive and disheartened.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000033_000000|He shook his head mournfully.
train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000035_000000|Servadac smiled faintly, and replied that he felt rather compelled to take up the despairing cry of Dante, "All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000001_000002|It was sad to see his name disappear from the newspapers; sadder still to see it resurrected at intervals, shorn of its aforetime gaudy gear of compliments and clothed on with rhetorical tar and feathers.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000002_000001|He was a cork that could not be kept under the water many moments at a time.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000004_000001|There's two hundred thousand dollars coming, and that will set things booming again: Harry seems to be having some difficulty, but that's to be expected-you can't move these big operations to the tune of Fisher's Hornpipe, you know.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000007_000000|"The grave?"
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000008_000000|"Well, no-not that exactly; but you can't understand these things, Polly dear-women haven't much head for business, you know.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000008_000002|Why bless you, let the appropriation lag, if it wants to-that's no great matter-there's a bigger thing than that."
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000000|"Bigger, child?--why, what's two hundred thousand dollars?
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000001|Pocket money!
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000002|Mere pocket money! Look at the railroad!
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000003|Did you forget the railroad?
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000005|Where'll it be by the middle of summer?
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000006|Just stop and fancy a moment-just think a little-don't anything suggest itself? Bless your heart, you dear women live right in the present all the time-but a man, why a man lives----
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000011_000000|"In the future, Beriah?
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000011_000007|I know you're doing all you can, and I don't want to seem repining and ungrateful-for I'm not, Beriah-you know I'm not, don't you?"
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000012_000002|And I'll bring things all right yet, honey-cheer up and don't you fear.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000012_000003|The railroad----"
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000013_000000|"Oh, I had forgotten the railroad, dear, but when a body gets blue, a body forgets everything.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000014_000001|Things ain't so dark, are they?
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000014_000003|Now just think for a moment-just figure up a little on the future dead moral certainties.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000014_000004|For instance, call this waiter saint Louis.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000015_000000|"And we'll lay this fork (representing the railroad) from saint Louis to this potato, which is Slouchburg:
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000016_000000|"Then with this carving knife we'll continue the railroad from Slouchburg to Doodleville, shown by the black pepper:
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000018_000000|"Thence by the pipe to Belshazzar, which is the salt cellar:
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000019_000000|"Thence to, to-that quill-Catfish-hand me the pincushion, Marie Antoinette:
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000021_000000|"Then by the spoon to Bloody Run-thank you, the ink:
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000022_000000|"Thence to Hail Columbia-snuffers, Polly, please move that cup and saucer close up, that's Hail Columbia:
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000024_000000|"And there we strike Columbus River-pass me two or three skeins of thread to stand for the river; the sugar bowl will do for Hawkeye, and the rat trap for Stone's Landing-Napoleon, I mean-and you can see how much better Napoleon is located than Hawkeye.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000000|"Now then-there you are!
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000001|It's a beautiful road, beautiful.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000003|But ain't it a ripping road, though?
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000004|I tell you, it'll make a stir when it gets along.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000005|Just see what a country it goes through.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000007|And now we come to the Brimstone region-cattle raised there till you can't rest-and corn, and all that sort of thing.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000009|Then from Catfish to Babylon it's a little swampy, but there's dead loads of peat down under there somewhere.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000010|Next is the Bloody Run and Hail Columbia country-tobacco enough can be raised there to support two such railroads.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000011|Next is the sassparilla region.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000012|I reckon there's enough of that truck along in there on the line of the pocket knife, from Hail Columbia to Hark from the Tomb to fat up all the consumptives in all the hospitals from Halifax to the Holy Land.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000015|And I'll fix that, you know.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000026_000000|"But Beriah, dear-"
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000027_000000|"Don't interrupt me; Polly-I don't want you to lose the run of the map-well, take your toy horse, james Fitz james, if you must have it-and run along with you.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000027_000003|Look at that, now.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000027_000004|Perfectly straight line straight as the way to the grave.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000000|And see where it leaves Hawkeye clear out in the cold, my dear, clear out in the cold.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000002|Polly, mark my words-in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. You'll see.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000003|And just look at that river-noblest stream that meanders over the thirsty earth!--calmest, gentlest artery that refreshes her weary bosom!
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000008|It's enough, I should judge. Now here we are at Napoleon.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000010|That's all right-that will come.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000011|And it's no bad country now for calmness and solitude, I can tell you-though there's no money in that, of course.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000014|And patriotic?--why they named it after Congress itself.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000016|That railroad's fetching it.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000020|That's all right.
train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000030_000002|Open the letter-open it quick, and let's know all about it before we stir out of our places.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000005_000001|This reason or cause must either be contained in the nature of the thing in question, or be external to it.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000005_000002|For instance, the reason for the non-existence of a square circle is indicated in its nature, namely, because it would involve a contradiction.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000005_000003|On the other hand, the existence of substance follows also solely from its nature, inasmuch as its nature involves existence.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000006_000001|From the latter it must follow, either that a triangle necessarily exists, or that it is impossible that it should exist.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000006_000002|So much is self-evident.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000007_000000|If, then, no cause or reason can be given, which prevents the existence of God, or which destroys his existence, we must certainly conclude that he necessarily does exist.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000007_000001|If such a reason or cause should be given, it must either be drawn from the very nature of God, or be external to him-that is, drawn from another substance of another nature.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000007_000002|For if it were of the same nature, God, by that very fact, would be admitted to exist.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000008_000001|To make such an affirmation about a being absolutely infinite and supremely perfect is absurd; therefore, neither in the nature of God, nor externally to his nature, can a cause or reason be assigned which would annul his existence.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000009_000000|Another proof.--The potentiality of non-existence is a negation of power, and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power, as is obvious.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000009_000001|If, then, that which necessarily exists is nothing but finite beings, such finite beings are more powerful than a being absolutely infinite, which is obviously absurd; therefore, either nothing exists, or else a being absolutely infinite necessarily exists also.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000000|Note.--In this last proof, I have purposely shown God's existence a posteriori, so that the proof might be more easily followed, not because, from the same premises, God's existence does not follow a priori.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000001|For, as the potentiality of existence is a power, it follows that, in proportion as reality increases in the nature of a thing, so also will it increase its strength for existence.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000003|Perhaps there will be many who will be unable to see the force of this proof, inasmuch as they are accustomed only to consider those things which flow from external causes.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000004|Of such things, they see that those which quickly come to pass-that is, quickly come into existence-quickly also disappear; whereas they regard as more difficult of accomplishment-that is, not so easily brought into existence-those things which they conceive as more complicated.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000011_000001|Things which are produced by external causes, whether they consist of many parts or few, owe whatsoever perfection or reality they possess solely to the efficacy of their external cause; and therefore their existence arises solely from the perfection of their external cause, not from their own.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000011_000002|Contrariwise, whatsoever perfection is possessed by substance is due to no external cause; wherefore the existence of substance must arise solely from its own nature, which is nothing else but its essence.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000011_000003|Thus, the perfection of a thing does not annul its existence, but, on the contrary, asserts it. Imperfection, on the other hand, does annul it; therefore we cannot be more certain of the existence of anything, than of the existence of a being absolutely infinite or perfect-that is, of God.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000014_000001|Substance absolutely infinite is indivisible.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000015_000000|Proof.--If it could be divided, the parts into which it was divided would either retain the nature of absolutely infinite substance, or they would not.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000016_000000|Corollary.--It follows, that no substance, and consequently no extended substance, in so far as it is substance, is divisible.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000019_000001|If it could be conceived, it would necessarily have to be conceived as existent; but this (by the first part of this proof) is absurd.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000021_000000|Corollary two.--It follows: two.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000022_000001|Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000000|Note.--Some assert that God, like a man, consists of body and mind, and is susceptible of passions.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000002|But these I pass over.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000004|Of this they find excellent proof in the fact that we understand by body a definite quantity, so long, so broad, so deep, bounded by a certain shape, and it is the height of absurdity to predicate such a thing of God, a being absolutely infinite.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000005|But meanwhile by other reasons with which they try to prove their point, they show that they think corporeal or extended substance wholly apart from the divine nature, and say it was created by God.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000010|Hence we drew the conclusion that extended substance is one of the infinite attributes of God.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000011|However, in order to explain more fully, I will refute the arguments of my adversaries, which all start from the following points:----
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000000|Extended substance, in so far as it is substance, consists, as they think, in parts, wherefore they deny that it can be infinite, or consequently, that it can appertain to God.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000002|If extended substance, they say, is infinite, let it be conceived to be divided into two parts; each part will then be either finite or infinite.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000003|If the former, then infinite substance is composed of two finite parts, which is absurd.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000004|If the latter, then one infinite will be twice as large as another infinite, which is also absurd.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000026_000000|Further, if an infinite line be measured out in foot lengths, it will consist of an infinite number of such parts; it would equally consist of an infinite number of parts, if each part measured only an inch: therefore, one infinity would be twelve times as great as the other.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000027_000000|Lastly, if from a single point there be conceived to be drawn two diverging lines which at first are at a definite distance apart, but are produced to infinity, it is certain that the distance between the two lines will be continually increased, until at length it changes from definite to indefinable.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000027_000001|As these absurdities follow, it is said, from considering quantity as infinite, the conclusion is drawn, that extended substance must necessarily be finite, and, consequently, cannot appertain to the nature of God.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000028_000002|It follows, therefore, that extended substance does not appertain to the essence of God.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000029_000007|If, from this absurdity of theirs, they persist in drawing the conclusion that extended substance must be finite, they will in good sooth be acting like a man who asserts that circles have the properties of squares, and, finding himself thereby landed in absurdities, proceeds to deny that circles have any center, from which all lines drawn to the circumference are equal.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000030_000003|For if extended substance could be so divided that its parts were really separate, why should not one part admit of being destroyed, the others remaining joined together as before?
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000030_000005|Surely in the case of things, which are really distinct one from the other, one can exist without the other, and can remain in its original condition.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000030_000006|As, then, there does not exist a vacuum in nature (of which anon), but all parts are bound to come together to prevent it, it follows from this that the parts cannot really be distinguished, and that extended substance in so far as it is substance cannot be divided.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000000|If anyone asks me the further question, Why are we naturally so prone to divide quantity?
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000001|I answer, that quantity is conceived by us in two ways; in the abstract and superficially, as we imagine it; or as substance, as we conceive it solely by the intellect.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000003|This will be plain enough to all who make a distinction between the intellect and the imagination, especially if it be remembered, that matter is everywhere the same, that its parts are not distinguishable, except in so far as we conceive matter as diversely modified, whence its parts are distinguished, not really, but modally.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000004|For instance, water, in so far as it is water, we conceive to be divided, and its parts to be separated one from the other; but not in so far as it is extended substance; from this point of view it is neither separated nor divisible.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000032_000000|I think I have now answered the second argument; it is, in fact, founded on the same assumption as the first-namely, that matter, in so far as it is substance, is divisible, and composed of parts.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000032_000002|All things, I repeat, are in God, and all things which come to pass, come to pass solely through the laws of the infinite nature of God, and follow (as I will shortly show) from the necessity of his essence.
train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000032_000003|Wherefore it can in nowise be said, that God is passive in respect to anything other than himself, or that extended substance is unworthy of the Divine nature, even if it be supposed divisible, so long as it is granted to be infinite and eternal.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000003_000000|Corollary two.--It also follows that God is a cause in himself, and not through an accident of his nature.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000004_000000|Corollary three.--It follows, thirdly, that God is the absolutely first cause.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000008_000000|Corollary two.--It follows: two.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000008_000001|That God is the sole free cause.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000009_000000|Note.--Others think that God is a free cause, because he can, as they think, bring it about, that those things which we have said follow from his nature-that is, which are in his power, should not come to pass, or should not be produced by him.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000009_000001|But this is the same as if they said, that God could bring it about, that it should follow from the nature of a triangle that its three interior angles should not be equal to two right angles; or that from a given cause no effect should follow, which is absurd.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000000|Moreover, I will show below, without the aid of this proposition, that neither intellect nor will appertain to God's nature.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000001|I know that there are many who think that they can show, that supreme intellect and free will do appertain to God's nature; for they say they know of nothing more perfect, which they can attribute to God, than that which is the highest perfection in ourselves.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000002|Further, although they conceive God as actually supremely intelligent, they yet do not believe that he can bring into existence everything which he actually understands, for they think that they would thus destroy God's power.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000006|This manner of treating the question attributes to God an omnipotence, in my opinion, far more perfect.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000007|For, otherwise, we are compelled to confess that God understands an infinite number of creatable things, which he will never be able to create, for, if he created all that he understands, he would, according to this showing, exhaust his omnipotence, and render himself imperfect.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000008|Wherefore, in order to establish that God is perfect, we should be reduced to establishing at the same time, that he cannot bring to pass everything over which his power extends; this seems to be a hypothesis most absurd, and most repugnant to God's omnipotence.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000000|Further (to say a word here concerning the intellect and the will which we attribute to God), if intellect and will appertain to the eternal essence of God, we must take these words in some significance quite different from those they usually bear.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000001|For intellect and will, which should constitute the essence of God, would perforce be as far apart as the poles from the human intellect and will, in fact, would have nothing in common with them but the name; there would be about as much correspondence between the two as there is between the Dog, the heavenly constellation, and a dog, an animal that barks.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000002|This I will prove as follows.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000006|This seems to have been recognized by those who have asserted, that God's intellect, God's will, and God's power, are one and the same.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000007|As, therefore, God's intellect is the sole cause of things, namely, both of their essence and existence, it must necessarily differ from them in respect to its essence, and in respect to its existence.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000008|For a cause differs from a thing it causes, precisely in the quality which the latter gains from the former.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000012_000001|Wherefore, a thing which is the cause both of the essence and of the existence of a given effect, must differ from such effect both in respect to its essence, and also in respect to its existence.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000014_000002|This is our second point.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000014_000003|God, therefore, is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000015_000001|God, and all the attributes of God, are eternal.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000017_000002|of my "Principles of the Cartesian Philosophy"), I have proved the eternity of God, in another manner, which I need not here repeat.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000018_000001|The existence of God and his essence are one and the same.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000019_000001|Therefore the same attributes of God which explain his eternal essence, explain at the same time his eternal existence-in other words, that which constitutes God's essence constitutes at the same time his existence.
train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000021_000002|For if they could be changed in respect to existence, they must also be able to be changed in respect to essence-that is, obviously, be changed from true to false, which is absurd.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000002_000000|FORGING THE FETTERS
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000003_000000|During the weeks immediately following Darrell's departure the daily routine of life at The Pines continued in the accustomed channels, but there was not a member of the family, including mr Underwood himself, to whom it did not seem strangely empty, as though some essential element were missing.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000004_000001|But she was learning the lesson that all must learn; that the world sweeps relentlessly onward with no pause for individual woe, and each must keep step in its ceaseless march, no matter how weary the brain or how heavy the heart.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000005_000000|Walcott's visits continued with the same frequency, but he was less annoying in his attentions than formerly.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000005_000002|He was not displeased at the discovery; on the contrary, he looked forward with all the keener anticipation to the pleasure of what he mentally termed the "taming" process, once she was fairly within his power.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000007_000001|An hour or more passed pleasantly, and Walcott inquired, casually,--
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000008_000001|I have not seen him for three weeks or more, and his attentions to me were so marked I naturally miss them."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000009_000000|"Duke is at the mining camp," Kate answered, with a faint smile.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000010_000000|Walcott raised his eyebrows incredulously.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000015_000000|Kate made no reply, but the lines about her mouth deepened.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000015_000001|For a moment he watched her silently; then he continued slowly, in low, nonchalant tones:
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000017_000000|"mr Walcott," said Kate, facing him with sudden hauteur of tone and manner, "you are correct.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000017_000001|If ever I consent to marry you I can tell you now as well as then my reason for doing so: it will be simply and solely for my dear father's sake, for the love I bear him, out of consideration for his wishes, and with no more thought of you than if you did not exist."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000021_000000|"After what I have just told you, mr Walcott, do you still ask me to be your wife?" Kate demanded, indignantly.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000023_000000|She rose, drawing herself proudly to her full height.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000024_000000|"Take me to my father," she said, imperiously.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000027_000000|"Some time ago, mr Underwood," he began, smoothly and easily, "I asked you for your daughter's hand in marriage, and you honored me with your consent.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000027_000002|Feeling now that I have given her abundance of time I have this evening asked her to become my wife, and insisted that I was entitled to a decision.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000028_000000|"How is this, Kate?" her father asked, not unkindly; "I supposed you and I had settled this matter long ago."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000029_000000|Her voice was clear, her tones unfaltering, as she replied: "Before giving my answer I wanted to ask you, papa, for the last time, whether, knowing the circumstances as you do and how I regard mr Walcott, it is still your wish that I marry him?"
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000030_000000|"It is; and I expect my child to be governed by my wishes in this matter rather than by her own feelings."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000032_000000|"No, my child, no!"
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000033_000000|"Then I shall not attempt it at this late day.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000035_000000|Kate smiled sadly.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000035_000001|"No home can ever seem to me like The Pines, papa, but I appreciate your kindness, and I want you to know that I am taking this step solely for your happiness."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000036_000000|She then turned, facing Walcott, who advanced slightly, while mr Underwood made a movement as though to place her hand in his.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000037_000000|"Not yet, papa," she said, gently; then, addressing Walcott, she continued:
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000040_000000|"There can be no love between us, either in our engagement or our marriage, for, as I have told you, I can never love you, and you yourself are incapable of love in its best sense; you have not even the slightest knowledge of what it is.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000040_000001|For this reason any token of love between us would be only a mockery, a farce, and true wedded love is something too holy, too sacred, to be travestied in any such manner.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000041_000000|"Kate," interposed her father, sternly, "this is preposterous!
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000041_000001|I cannot allow such absurdity;" but Walcott silenced him with a deprecatory wave of his hand, and, taking Kate's hand in his, replied, with smiling indifference,--
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000042_000001|I suppose," he added, addressing Kate, at the same time producing a superb diamond ring, "you will not object to wearing this?"
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000044_000000|"Conventionality, I believe, would require that it be placed on your hand with a kiss and some appropriate bit of sentiment, but since that sort of thing is tabooed between us, we will have to dispense with that part of the ceremony."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000045_000000|Then turning to mr Underwood, who stood looking on frowningly, somewhat troubled by the turn matters had taken, Walcott added, playfully,--
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000050_000000|"It was the only way for me, papa," Kate answered, gravely and decidedly.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000051_000001|That sort of thing, you know," he added, his lip curling just perceptibly, "is apt to get a little monotonous after a while."
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000053_000000|"Well," said mr Underwood, resignedly, "fix it up between you any way to suit yourselves; but for heaven's sake, don't do anything to cause comment or remarks!"
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000054_000000|"Papa, you can depend on me not to make myself conspicuous in any way," Kate replied, with dignity.
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000056_000000|As Walcott bade Kate good night at a late hour he inquired, "What do you think of the little comedy I suggested to night for our future line of action?
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000056_000001|Does it meet with your approval?"
train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000057_000000|She was quick to catch the significance of the question, and, looking him straight in the eyes, she replied, calmly,--
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000003_000000|Something of this kind must have happened to me now.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000003_000001|Preoccupied as I was, by the condition of the patient, the professional habit of rapid and close observation caused me to direct a searching glance at the man before me.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000003_000004|It was this:
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000004_000000|As mr Weiss stood, with his head slightly turned, I was able to look through one glass of his spectacles at the wall beyond.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000004_000001|On the wall was a framed print; and the edge of the frame, seen through the spectacle glass, appeared quite unaltered and free from distortion, magnification or reduction, as if seen through plain window glass; and yet the reflections of the candle flame in the spectacles showed the flame upside down, proving conclusively that the glasses were concave on one surface at least.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000004_000002|The strange phenomenon was visible only for a moment or two, and as it passed out of my sight it passed also out of my mind.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000005_000000|"No," I said, replying to the last question; "I can think of no way in which he could have effectually hidden a store of morphine.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000005_000001|Judging by the symptoms, he has taken a large dose, and, if he has been in the habit of consuming large quantities, his stock would be pretty bulky.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000006_000000|"I suppose you consider him quite out of danger now?"
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000007_000001|I think we can pull him round if we persevere, but he must not be allowed to sink back into a state of coma.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000007_000002|We must keep him on the move until the effects of the drug have really passed off.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000007_000003|If you will put him into his dressing gown we will walk him up and down the room for a while."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000008_000000|"But is that safe?" mr Weiss asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000009_000000|"Quite safe," I answered.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000009_000001|"I will watch his pulse carefully.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000012_000000|"If you will excuse me, doctor," said he, "I will go now and attend to some rather important business that I have had to leave unfinished.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000012_000002|In case I should not see you again I will say 'good night.' I hope you won't think me very unceremonious."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000000|The melancholy progress up and down the room re commenced, and with it the mumbled protests from the patient.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000001|As we walked, and especially as we turned, I caught frequent glimpses of the housekeeper's face.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000002|But it was nearly always in profile.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000006|It struck me, even at the time, as an odd affair, but I was too much concerned about my charge to give it much consideration.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000017_000000|"S'quite s'fficient, thang you.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000017_000002|Much 'bliged frall your kindness"--here I turned him round-"no, really; m'feeling rather tired.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000019_000000|He looked at me with a curious, dull surprise, and reflected awhile as if in some perplexity.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000019_000001|Then he looked at me again and said:
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000020_000000|"Thing, sir, you are mistake-mistaken me-mist-"
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000022_000000|"The doctor thinks it's good for you to walk about.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000022_000001|You've been sleeping too much.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000022_000002|He doesn't want you to sleep any more just now."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000023_000000|"Don't wanter sleep; wanter lie down," said the patient.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000024_000000|"But you mustn't lie down for a little while.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000024_000001|You must walk about for a few minutes more.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000024_000002|And you'd better not talk.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000025_000000|"There's no harm in his talking," said I; "in fact it's good for him.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000025_000001|It will help to keep him awake."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000027_000001|Apparently he took in the very broad hint contained in the concluding sentence, for he trudged wearily and unsteadily up and down the room for some time without speaking, though he continued to look at me from time to time as if something in my appearance puzzled him exceedingly.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000027_000002|At length his intolerable longing for repose overcame his politeness and he returned to the attack.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000028_000001|Feeling very tired.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000028_000002|Am really.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000029_000000|"Don't you think he might lie down for a little while?" mrs Schallibaum asked.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000030_000000|I felt his pulse, and decided that he was really becoming fatigued, and that it would be wiser not to overdo the exercise while he was so weak. Accordingly, I consented to his returning to bed, and turned him round in that direction; whereupon he tottered gleefully towards his resting place like a tired horse heading for its stable.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000031_000000|As soon as he was tucked in, I gave him a full cup of coffee, which he drank with some avidity as if thirsty.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000032_000000|"Does your head ache, mr Graves?" I asked.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000033_000000|"The doctor says 'does your head ache?'" mrs Schallibaum squalled, so loudly that the patient started perceptibly.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000034_000001|"Not deaf you know.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000034_000002|Yes.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000034_000003|Head aches a good deal.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000035_000000|"He says you are to keep awake.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000035_000001|You mustn't go to sleep again, and you are not to close your eyes."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000036_000001|Keep'm open," and he proceeded forthwith to shut them with an air of infinite peacefulness.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000036_000002|I grasped his hand and shook it gently, on which he opened his eyes and looked at me sleepily.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000037_000001|It is getting very late and you have a long way to go."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000038_000000|I looked doubtfully at the patient.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000038_000001|I was loath to leave him, distrusting these people as I did.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000039_000000|"I think I heard the carriage some time ago," mrs Schallibaum added.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000040_000000|I rose hesitatingly and looked at my watch.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000040_000001|It had turned half past eleven.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000041_000001|You clearly understand that?"
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000042_000000|"Yes, quite clearly.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000044_000000|"Very well," I said.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000044_000001|"On that understanding I will go now; and I shall hope to find our friend quite recovered at my next visit."
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000046_000000|"Good bye, mr Graves!" I said.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000046_000001|"I am sorry to have to disturb your repose so much; but you must keep awake, you know.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000047_000002|But I think you're mistak'n-"
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000050_000000|"Now it's of no use for you to ask a lot of questions," mrs Schallibaum said playfully; "we'll talk to you to morrow.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000050_000001|Good night, doctor.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000051_000000|Taking this definite dismissal, I retired, followed by a dreamily surprised glance from the sick man.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000051_000001|The housekeeper held the candle over the balusters until I reached the bottom of the stairs, when I perceived through the open door along the passage a glimmer of light from the carriage lamps.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000052_000000|I lit my little pocket lamp and hung it on the back cushion.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000052_000002|But it seemed rather unnecessary to take a fresh set of notes, and, to tell the truth, I rather shirked the labour, tired as I was after my late exertions; besides, I wanted to think over the events of the evening, while they were fresh in my memory.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000052_000003|Accordingly I put away the notebook, filled and lighted my pipe, and settled myself to review the incidents attending my second visit to this rather uncanny house.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000000|Considered in leisurely retrospect, that visit offered quite a number of problems that called for elucidation.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000003|mr Graves was certainly under the influence of morphine, and the only doubtful question was how he had become so.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000004|That he had taken the poison himself was incredible.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000005|No morphinomaniac would take such a knock down dose.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000006|It was practically certain that the poison had been administered by someone else, and, on mr Weiss's own showing, there was no one but himself and the housekeeper who could have administered it.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000007|And to this conclusion all the other very queer circumstances pointed.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000000|What were these circumstances?
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000004|That departure coincided in time with the sick man's recovery of the power of speech.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000006|It looked rather like it.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000007|And yet he had gone away and left me with the patient and the housekeeper.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000000|But when I came to think about it I remembered that mrs Schallibaum had shown some anxiety to prevent the patient from talking.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000001|She had interrupted him more than once, and had on two occasions broken in when he seemed to be about to ask me some question.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000002|I was "mistaken" about something.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000003|What was that something that he wanted to tell me?
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000056_000001|Germans are not usually tea drinkers and they do take coffee.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000056_000002|But perhaps there was nothing in this.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000000|There were other points, too.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000001|I recalled the word that sounded like "Pol'n," which mr Graves had used in speaking to the housekeeper. Apparently it was a Christian name of some kind; but why did mr Graves call the woman by her Christian name when mr Weiss addressed her formally as mrs Schallibaum?
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000002|And, as to the woman herself: what was the meaning of that curious disappearing squint?
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000003|Physically it presented no mystery.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000006|Was it only feminine vanity-mere sensitiveness respecting a slight personal disfigurement?
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000008|It was impossible to say.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000001|And here I met with a real poser.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000003|Now they obviously could not be both flat and concave; but yet they had the properties peculiar to both flatness and concavity.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000004|And there was a further difficulty.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000005|If I could see objects unaltered through them, so could mr Weiss.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000007|If they leave the appearances unchanged they are useless.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000009|After puzzling over it for quite a long time, I had to give it up; which I did the less unwillingly inasmuch as the construction of mr Weiss's spectacles had no apparent bearing on the case.
train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000059_000001|Having made up a mixture for mr Graves and handed it to the coachman, I raked the ashes of the surgery fire together and sat down to smoke a final pipe while I reflected once more on the singular and suspicious case in which I had become involved.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000000_000000|THE ISLE OF BLASTED HOPES.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000001_000001|It is the Isle of Blasted Hopes. Its enchanting landscape has allured many a landsman to his ruin, and its beacon, seen through the haze of a south-east gale, has guided many a watchful mariner to shipwreck and death.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000000|After the discovery of Gippsland, Pearson and Black first occupied the island under a grazing license, and they put eleven thousand sheep on it, with some horses, bullocks, and pigs.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000001|The sheep began to die, so they sold them to Captain Cole at ten shillings a head, giving in the other stock.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000002|They were of the opinion that they had made an excellent bargain, but when the muster was made nine thousand six hundred of the sheep were missing.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000003|The pigs ran wild, but multiplied.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000004|When the last sheep had perished, Cole sold his license to a man named Thomas, who put on more sheep, and afterwards exchanged as many as he could find with john King for cattle and horses.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000005|Morrison next occupied the island until he was starved out. Then another man named Thomas took the fatal grazing license, but he did not live on the land.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000006|He placed his brother in charge of it, to be out of the way of temptation, as he was too fond of liquor.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000007|The brother was not allowed the use of a boat; he, with his wife and family, was virtually a prisoner, condemned to sobriety.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000008|But by this time a lighthouse had been erected, and Watts the keeper of it had a boat, and was, moreover, fond of liquor.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000009|The two men soon became firm friends, and often found it necessary to make voyages to Port Albert for flour, or tea, or sugar.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000010|The last time they sailed together the barometer was low, and a gale was brewing.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000011|When they left the wharf they had taken on board all the stores they required, and more; they were happy and glorious.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000012|Next day the masthead of their boat was seen sticking out of the water near Sunday Island. The pilot schooner went down and hauled the boat to the surface, but nothing was found in her except the sand ballast and a bottle of rum. Her sheet was made fast, and when the squall struck her she had gone down like a stone.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000013|The Isle of Blasted Hopes was useless even as an asylum for inebriates.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000000|The 'Ecliptic' was carrying coals from Newcastle.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000001|The time was midnight, the sky was misty, and the gale was from the south-east, when the watch reported a light ahead.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000002|The cabin boy was standing on deck near the captain, when he held a consultation with his mate, who was also his son.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000003|Father and son agreed; they said the light ahead was the one on Kent's Group, and then the vessel grounded amongst the breakers.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000004|The seamen stripped off their heavy clothing, and went overboard; the captain and his son plunged in together and swam out of sight.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000005|There were nine men in the water, while the cabin boy stood shivering on deck.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000007|He could not make up his mind to jump overboard.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000008|He heard the men in the water shouting to one another, "Make for the light." That course led them away from the nearest land, which they could not see.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000009|At length a great sea swept the boy among the breakers, but his good angel pushed a piece of timber within reach, and he held on to it until he could feel the ground with his feet; he then let the timber go, and scrambled out of reach of the angry surge; but when he came to the dry sand he fainted and fell down.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000010|When he recovered his senses he began to look for shelter; there was a signal station not far off, but he could not see it.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000011|He went away from the pitiless sea through an opening between low conical hills, covered with dark scrub, over a pathway composed of drift sand and broken shells.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000012|He found an old hut without a door.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000013|There was no one in it; he went inside, and lay down shivering.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000004_000000|At daybreak a boy, the son of Ratcliff, the signal man, started out to look for his goats, and as they sometimes passed the night in the old fowlhouse, he looked in for them.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000004_000001|But instead of the goats, he saw the naked cabin boy.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000004_000002|"Who are you?" he said, "and what are you doing here, and where did you come from?"
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000005_000000|"I have been shipwrecked," replied the cabin boy; and then he sat up and began to cry.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000000|Young Ratcliff ran off to tell his father what he had found; and the boy was brought to the cottage, put to bed, and supplied with food and drink.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000001|The signal for a wreck was hoisted at the flagstaff, but when the signallman went to look for a wreck he could not find one. He searched along the shore and found the dead body of the captain, and a piece of splintered spar seven or eight feet long, on which the cabin boy had come ashore.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000002|The 'Ecliptic', with her cargo and crew, had completely disappeared, while the signalman, near at hand, slept peacefully, undisturbed by her crashing timbers, or the shouts of the drowning seamen.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000003|Ratcliff was not a seer, and had no mystical lore. He was a runaway sailor, who had, in the forties, travelled daily over the Egerton run, unconscious of the tons of gold beneath his feet.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000007_000000|There was a fair wind and a smooth sea when the 'Clonmel' went ashore at three o'clock in the morning of the second day of January, eighteen forty one. Eighteen hours before she had taken a fresh departure from Ram's Head to Wilson's Promontory.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000007_000001|The anchors were let go, she swung to wind, and at the fall of the tide she bedded herself securely in the sand, her hull, machinery, and cargo uninjured.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000007_000002|The seventy five passengers and crew were safely landed; sails, lumber, and provisions were taken ashore in the whaleboats and quarter boats; tents were erected; the food supplies were stowed away under a capsized boat, and a guard set over them by Captain Tollervey.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000008_000000|Next morning seven volunteers launched one of the whaleboats, boarded the steamer, took in provisions, made a lug out of a piece of canvas, hoisted the Union Jack to the mainmast upside down, and pulled safely away from the 'Clonmel' against a head wind.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000008_000001|They hoisted the lug and ran for one of the Seal Islands, where they found a snug little cove, ate a hearty meal, and rested for three hours.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000008_000002|They then pulled for the mainland, and reached Sealer's Cove about midnight, where they landed, cooked supper, and passed the rest of the night in the boat for fear of the blacks.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000009_000000|Next morning three men went ashore for water and filled the breaker, when they saw three blacks coming down towards them; so they hurried on board, and the anchor was hauled up.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000010_000001|At eight o'clock in the evening they brought up in a small bay at the eastern extremity of Western Port, glad to get ashore and stretch their weary limbs.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000010_000002|After a night's refreshing repose on the sandy beach, they started at break of day, sailing along very fast with a strong and steady breeze from the east, although they were in danger of being swamped, as the sea broke over the boat repeatedly.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000010_000003|At two o'clock p.m. they were abreast of Port Philip Heads; but they found a strong ebb tide, with such a ripple and broken water that they did not consider it prudent to run over it.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000011_000000|Captain Lewis, the harbour master, went to rescue the crew and passengers and brought them all to Melbourne, together with the mails, which had been landed on the island since known by the name of the 'Clonmel'.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000012_000000|For fifty two years the black boilers of the 'Clonmel' have lain half buried in the sandspit, and they may still be seen among the breakers from the deck of every vessel sailing up the channel to Port Albert.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000013_000000|The 'Clonmel', with her valuable cargo, was sold in Sydney, and the purchaser, mr Grose, set about the business of making his fortune out of her.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000013_000001|He sent a party of wreckers who pitched their camps on Snake Island, where they had plenty of grass, scrub, and timber.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000013_000002|The work of taking out the cargo was continued under various captains for six years, and then mr Grose lost a schooner and was himself landed in the Court of Insolvency.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000000|One morning the wreckers had gone to the wreck; a man named Kennedy was left in charge of the camp; Sambo, the black cook, was attending to his duties at the fire; and mrs Kennedy, the only lady of the party, was at the water hole washing clothes.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000001|Her husband had left the camp with his gun in the hope of shooting some wattle birds, which were then fat with feeding on the sweet blossoms of the honeysuckle.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000003|She stood with her hands on her hips, pensively contemplating the garments.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000004|She had her troubles, and was turning them over in her mind, while her husband was thinking of something else quite different.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000005|It is, I believe, a thing that often happens.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000016_000000|"I am thinking, Flora," he said, "that this would be a grand island to live on-far better than Skye, because it has no rocks on it.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000018_000001|Their hopes and troubles had come to a sudden end.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000019_000001|The tents occupied by the wreckers had been enclosed in a thick hedge of scrub to protect them from the drifting sand.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000019_000002|There was only one opening in the hedge, through which the blacks could see Sambo cooking the wreckers' dinner before a fire.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000020_000000|The hearing of the Australian aboriginal is acute, and his talent for mimicry astonishing; he can imitate the notes of every bird and the call of every animal with perfect accuracy.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000021_000001|It was first heard with tremendous applause in New Orleans, it was received with enthusiasm by every audience in the Great Republic, and it had been the delight of every theatre in the British Empire.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000023_000000|they forgot their murderous errand.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000024_000000|At last there was an echo of the closing words which seemed to come from a large gum tree beyond the tents, against which a ladder had been reared to the forks, used for the purpose of a look out by Captain Leebrace.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000025_000001|The echo was repeated, and then he wheeled about in real earnest, transfixed with horror, unable to move a limb.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000025_000002|The blacks were close to him now, but even their colour could not restore his courage.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000025_000004|But first they examined their game critically, poking their fingers about him, pinching him in various parts of the body, stroking his broad nose and ample lips with evident admiration, and trying to pull out the curls on his woolly head.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000026_000000|Sambo was usually proud of his personal appearance, but just now fear prevented him from enjoying the applause of the strangers.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000027_000000|At length he recovered his presence of mind sufficiently to make an effort to avert his impending doom.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000027_000001|If the blacks could be induced to eat the dinner he was cooking their attention to himself might be diverted, and their appetites appeased, so he pointed towards the pots, saying, "Plenty beef, pork, plum duff."
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000028_000000|The blacks seemed to understand his meaning, and they began to inspect the dinner; so instead of taking the food like sensible men, they upset all the pots with their waddies, and scattered the beef, pork, plum duff and potatoes, so that they were covered with sand and completely spoiled.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000029_000001|But there was a sound of voices from the waterhole, and they quickly gathered together their stolen goods and disappeared.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000029_000002|In a few minutes Captain Leebrace and the wreckers arrived at the camp, bringing with them Kennedy and his wife, who had recovered their senses, and were able to tell what had happened.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000000|Captain Leebrace soon resolved on a course of reprisals.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000001|He went up the ladder to the forks of the gum tree with his telescope, and soon obtained a view of the retreating thieves, appearing occasionally and disappearing among the long grass and timber; and after observing the course they were taking he came down the ladder.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000002|He selected two of his most trustworthy men, and armed them and himself with double barrelled guns, one barrel being smooth bore and the other rifled, weapons suitable for game both large and small.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000003|During the pursuit the captain every now and then, from behind a tree, searched for the enemy with his telescope, until at last he could see that they had halted, and had joined a number of their tribe.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000032_000000|Three of the blacks were wearing the stolen shirts, a fourth had put on the lilac dress, and they were strutting around to display their brave apparel just like white folks.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000032_000002|He whispered to his men, "I don't like to shoot at a gown; there may be a lubra in it, but I'll take the middle fellow in the shirt, and you take the other two, one to the right, the other to the left; when I say one, two, three, fire."
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000035_000000|The men who had guns-Campbell, Shay, and Davy-fetched them out of their huts and stood ready to receive the enemy; even McClure, although very weak, left his bed and came outside to assist in the fight.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000035_000002|They were not in hundreds, as the boys imagined, their number apparently not exceeding forty; but it was evident that they were threatening death and destruction to the invaders of their territory.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000035_000003|None, however, but the very bravest ventured far into the cleared space, and they showed no disposition to make a rush or anything like a concerted attack.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000037_000000|He went into his store to get the charge ready.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000037_000001|He tied some powder tightly in a piece of calico and rammed it home.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000037_000002|On this he put a nine pound shot; but, reflecting that the aim at the dancing savages would be uncertain, he put in a double charge, consisting of some broken glass and a handful of nails.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000000|He then thrust a wooden skewer down the touch hole into the powder bag below, primed and directed the piece towards the scrub, giving it, as he judged, sufficient elevation to send the charge among the thickest of the foe.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000002|He then selected a long piece of bark, which he lighted at the fire, and, standing behind an angle of the building, he applied the light to the touch hole.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000003|Every man was watching the scrub to see the effect of the discharge.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000004|There was a fearful explosion, succeeded by shrieks of horror and fear from the blacks, as the ball and nails and broken glass went whistling over their heads through the trees.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000005|Then there was a moment of complete silence.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000006|Campbell, like a skilful general, ordered his men to pursue at once the flying foe, in order to reap to the full the fruits of victory, and they ran across the open ground to deliver a volley; but on arriving at the scrub no foe was to be seen, either dead or alive.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000007|The elevation of the artillery had been too great, and the missiles had passed overhead; but the result was all that could be hoped for, for two months afterwards not a single native was visible.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000039_000000|Two victories had been gained by the pioneers, and it was felt that they deserved some commemoration.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000039_000002|The twelve canoes, the spoils of victory, were of little value; they were placed on the camp fire one after another, and reduced to ashes.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000040_000001|They dipped pannikins of tea out of the iron pot.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000041_000000|When Burke and Wills were starving at Cooper's Creek on a diet of nardoo, the latter recorded in his diary that what the food wanted was sugar; he believed that nardoo and sugar would keep him alive. The pioneers at the Old Port were convinced that their great want was fat; with that their supper would have been perfect.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000000|McClure was dying of consumption as everybody knew but himself; he could not believe that he had come so far from home only to die, and he joined the revellers at the camp fire.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000001|He said to kindly enquirers that he felt quite well, and would soon regain his strength.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000002|Before that terrible journey over the mountains he had been the life and soul of the Port.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000003|He could play on the violin, on the bagpipes-both Scotch and Irish-and he was always so pleasant and cheerful, looking as innocent as a child, that no one could be long dispirited in his company, and the most impatient growler became ashamed of himself.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000044_000000|But by degrees the musician grew weary, and began to play odds and ends of old tunes, sacred and profane.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000000|He went into his tent.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000001|It was high tide, and there was a gentle swish of long low waves lapping the sandy beach.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000002|The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb.
train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000003|He was the first man who died at the Old Port, and he was buried on the bank of the river where Friday first saw its waters flowing towards the mountain.
train-clean-360/487/129440/487_129440_000004_000001|Awake My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found, Heav'ns last best gift, my ever new delight, Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us, we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended Plants, how blows the Citron Grove, What drops the Myrrhe, and what the balmie Reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the Bee Sits on the Bloom extracting liquid sweet.
train-clean-360/487/129440/487_129440_000018_000002|On whom the Angel HAILE Bestowd, the holy salutation us'd Long after to blest MARIE, second EVE.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000001_000000|three
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000002_000000|july sixteenth.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000003_000000|My school days are over!
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000003_000001|I have come off with flying colors, and mother is pleased at my success.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000003_000002|I said to her today that I should now have time to draw and practice to my heart's content.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000004_000000|"You will not find your heart content with either," she said.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000005_000000|"Why, mother!" I cried, "I thought you liked to see me happy!"
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000006_000000|"And so I do," she said, quietly.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000007_000000|"I am sure I hope so," I returned.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000007_000001|"On the whole, I haven't got much so far."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000000|Amelia is now on such terms with Jenny Underhill that I can hardly see one without seeing the other After the way in which I have loved her, this seems rather hard.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000001|Sometimes I am angry about it, and sometimes grieved.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000002|However, I find Jenny quite nice.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000003|She buys all the new books and lends them to me.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000004|I wish I liked more solid reading; but I don't.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000005|And I wish I were not so fond of novels; but I am.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000006|If it were not for mother I should read nothing else.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000007|And I am sure I often feel quite stirred up by a really good novel, and admire and want to imitate every high minded, noble character it describes.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000000|Jenny has a miniature of her brother "Charley" in a locket, which she always wears, and often shows me.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000001|According to her, he is exactly like the heroes I most admire in books.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000002|She says she knows he would like me if we should meet.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000003|But that is not probable.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000004|Very few like me.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000005|Amelia says it is because I say just what I think.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000012_000000|"Dear me!" I said, "so then I have some virtues after all!"
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000013_000000|And I really think I must have, for Jenny's brother, who has come here for the sake of being near her, seems to like me very much. Nobody ever liked me so much before, not even Amelia.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000013_000001|But how foolish to write that down!
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000000|Thursday.-Jenny's brother has been here all evening.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000001|He has the most perfect manners I ever saw.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000002|I am sure that mother, who thinks so much of such things, would be charmed with him but she happened to be out, mrs Jones having sent for her to see about her baby.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000003|He gave me an account of his mother's death, and how he and Jenny nursed her day and night.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000004|He has a great deal of feeling.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000005|I was going to tell him about my father's death, sorrow seems to bring people together so, but I could not.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000015_000000|sunday august fifth.-Jenny's brother has been at our church all day.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000015_000001|He walked home with me this afternoon.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000015_000002|Mother, after being up all night with mrs Jones and her baby, was not able to go out.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000016_000000|Dr Cabot preaches as if we had all got to die pretty soon, or else have something almost as bad happen to us.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000016_000001|How can old people always try to make young people feel uncomfortable, and as if things couldn't last?
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000001|I suppose mother would say my head was turned by my good fortune, but it is not.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000002|I am getting quite sober and serious.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000003|It is a great thing to be-to be-well-liked.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000005|I could not like a man who did not possess such sentiments as his.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000018_000000|Perhaps mother would think I ought not to put such things into my journal.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000002|She and her brother are so much alike!
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000003|The plan is for us three girls, Jenny, Amelia and myself, to form ourselves into a little class to read and to study together.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000004|She says "Charley" will direct our readings and help us with our studies.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000005|It is perfectly delightful.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000020_000000|september first.-Somehow I forgot to tell mother that mr Underhill was to be our teacher.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000020_000001|So when it came my turn to have the class meet here, she was not quite pleased.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000020_000002|I told her she could stay and watch us, and then she would see for herself that we all behaved ourselves.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000021_000000|september nineteenth.-The class met at Amelia's to night.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000021_000001|Mother insisted on sending for me, though mr Underhill had proposed to see me home himself.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000021_000002|So he stayed after I left.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000000|september twenty eighth-We met at Jenny's this evening.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000002|Jenny idled over her lessons, and at last took a book and began to read.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000003|I studied awhile with mr Underhill.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000004|At last he said, scribbling something on a bit of paper:
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000023_000000|"Here is a sentence I hope you can translate."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000024_000000|I took it, and read these words:
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000025_000000|"You are the brightest, prettiest, most warm hearted little thing in the world.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000025_000001|And I love you more than tongue can tell.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000025_000002|You must love me in the same way."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000026_000001|But I pretended to laugh, and said I could not translate Greek.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000026_000002|I shall have to tell mother, and what will she say?
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000028_000000|"Kate, I do not like these lessons of yours.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000028_000001|At your age, with your judgment quite unformed, it is not proper that you should spend so much time with a young man.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000029_000000|"Jenny is always there, and Amelia," I replied.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000030_000000|"That makes no difference.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000030_000001|I wish the whole thing stopped.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000030_000003|mrs Gordon says-"
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000031_000000|"mrs Gordon!
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000032_000000|"If what you say of Amelia is true, it is most ungenerous in you to tell of it.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000032_000001|But I do not believe it.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000033_000000|I began to cry.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000034_000000|"He likes me," I got out, "he likes me ever so much.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000034_000002|Nobody ever said such nice things to me.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000034_000003|And I don't want such horrid things said about him."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000036_000000|I kept on crying.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000037_000000|"Is it possible," she went on, "that with your good sense, and the education you have had, you are captivated by this mere boy?"
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000038_000000|"He is not a boy," I said.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000039_000000|"The child actually keeps his birthdays!" cried mother.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000042_000000|This time my mouth shut itself up, and no mortal force could open it. I stopped crying, and sat with folded arms.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000042_000001|Mother said what she had to say, and then I came to you, my dear old Journal.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000000|Yes, he likes me and I like him.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000001|Come now, let's out with it once for all.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000002|He loves me and I love him.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000003|You are just a little bit too late, mother.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000000|october first.-I never can write down all the things that have happened.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000001|The very day after I wrote that mother had forbidden my going to the class, Charley came to see her, and they had a regular fight together.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000003|Then, as he could not prevail, his uncle wrote, told her it would be the making of Charley to be settled down on one young lady instead of hovering from flower to flower, as he was doing now.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000004|Then Jenny came with her pretty ways, and cried, and told mother what a darling brother Charley was.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000005|She made a good deal, too, out of his having lost both father and mother, and needing my affection so much.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000006|Mother shut herself up, and I have no doubt prayed over it.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000008|Then she sent for me and talked beautifully, and I behaved abominably.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000000|At last she said she would put us on one year's probation.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000001|Charley might spend one evening here every two weeks, when she should always be present.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000002|We were never to be seen together in public, nor would she allow us to correspond.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000003|If, at the end of the year, we were both as eager for it as we are now, she would consent to our engagement. Of course we shall be, so I consider myself as good as engaged now. Dear me!
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000004|how funny it seems.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000000|october second.-Charley is not at all pleased with mother's terms, but no one would guess it from his manner to her.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000001|His coming is always the signal for her trotting down stairs; he goes to meet her and offers her a chair, as if he was delighted to see her.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000002|We go on with the lessons, as this gives us a chance to sit pretty close together, and when I am writing my exercises and he corrects them, I rather think a few little things get on to the paper that sound nicely to us, but would not strike mother very agreeably.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000003|For instance, last night Charley wrote:
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000047_000001|A nice little headache or two would be so convenient to us!"
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000048_000000|And I wrote back.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000049_000000|"You dear old horrid thing How can you be so selfish?"
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000050_000000|january fifteenth eighteen thirty three.-I have been trying to think whether I am any happier today than I was at this time a year ago.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000050_000001|If I am not, I suppose it is the tantalizing way in which I am placed in regard to Charley.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000050_000003|He says he entered into no contract not to write, and keeps slipping little notes into my hand; but I don't think that quite right.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000051_000000|"I would not argue with him, if I were you.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000051_000001|He never will yield."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000054_000000|"Oh, you may as well finish it!" I cried.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000054_000001|"I know you think him a fool."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000055_000000|Then mother burst out,
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000056_000000|"Oh, my child," she said, "before it is too late, do be persuaded by me to give up this whole thing.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000056_000001|I shrink from paining or offending you, but it is my duty, as your mother, to warn you against a marriage that will make shipwreck of your happiness."'
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000057_000000|"Marriage!" I fairly shrieked out.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000057_000002|I felt a chill creep over me.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000000|"Yes, marriage!" mother repeated.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000002|How can you fail to see, what I see, oh! so plainly, that Charley Underhill can never, never meet the requirements of your soul.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000003|You are captivated by what girls of your age call beauty, regular features, a fair complexion and soft eyes.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000004|His flatteries delude, and his professions of affection gratify you.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000005|You do not see that he is shallow, and conceited, and selfish and "
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000059_000000|"Oh mother!
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000059_000001|How can you be so unjust?
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000059_000002|His whole study seems to be to please others."
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000060_000000|"Seems to be-that is true," she replied.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000060_000001|"His ruling passion is love of admiration; the little pleasing acts that attract you are so many traps set to catch the attention and the favorable opinion of those about him.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000060_000002|He has not one honest desire to please because it is right to be pleasing.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000061_000000|I felt very angry.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000062_000000|"I thought the Bible forbade back biting," I said.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000063_000001|And then I came up here and wrote some poetry, which was very good (for me), though I don't suppose she would think so.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000064_000001|But being engaged is not half so nice as I expected it would be.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000064_000002|I suppose it is owing to my being obliged to defy mother's judgment in order to gratify my own.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000064_000003|People say she has great insight into character, and sees, at a glance, what others only learn after much study.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000065_000000|october tenth.-I have taken a dreadful cold.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000065_000001|It is too bad.
train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000065_000002|I dare say I shall be coughing all winter, and instead of going out with Charley, be shut up at home.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000001_000000|Chapter five
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000003_000000|april sixth.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000000|I have taken it at last.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000002|My class is perfectly delightful.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000003|There are twelve dear little things in it, of all ages between eight and nine.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000005|When I get them all about me, and their sweet innocent faces look up into mine, I am so happy that I can hardly help stopping every now and then to kiss them.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000006|They ask the very strangest questions I mean to spend a great deal of time in preparing the lesson, and in hunting up stories to illustrate it.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000005_000000|april thirteenth.-Sunday has come again, and with it my darling little class! dr Cabot has preached delightfully all day, and I feel that I begin to understand his preaching better, and that it must do me good.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000000|april twentieth.-Now that I have these twelve little ones to instruct, I am more than ever in earnest about setting them a good example through the week.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000001|It is true they do not, most of them, know how I spend my time, nor how I act.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000002|But I know, and whenever I am conscious of not practicing what I preach, I am bitterly ashamed and grieved.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000003|How much work, badly done, I am now having to undo.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000004|If I had begun in earnest to serve God when I was as young as these children are, how many wrong habits I should have avoided; habits that entangle me now, as in so many nets.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000006|Poor Johnny Ross is not so docile as they are, and tries my patience to the last degree.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000000|april twenty seventh.-This morning I had my little flock about me, and talked to them out of the very bottom of my heart about Jesus.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000001|They left their seats and got close to me in a circle, leaning on my lap and drinking in every word.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000002|All of a sudden I was aware, as by a magnetic influence, that a great lumbering man in the next seat was looking at me out of two of the blackest eyes I ever saw, and evidently listening to what I was saying.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000003|I was disconcerted at first, then angry.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000004|What impertinence.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000005|What rudeness!
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000006|I am sure he must have seen my displeasure in my face, for he got up what I suppose he meant for a blush, that is he turned several shades darker than he was before, giving one the idea that he is full of black rather than red blood.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000007|I should not have remembered it, however by it I mean his impertinence-if he had not shortly after made a really excellent address to the children.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000008|Perhaps it was a little above their comprehension, but it showed a good deal of thought and earnestness. I meant to ask who he was, but forgot it.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000008_000000|This has been a delightful Sunday.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000008_000002|But I am satisfied that there is something in religion I do not yet comprehend.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000008_000003|I do wish I positively knew that God had forgiven and accepted me.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000009_000000|may sixth.-Last evening Clara Ray had a little party and I was there.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000010_000000|I sang several songs, and so did Clara, but they all said my voice was finer and in better training than hers.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000010_000001|It is delightful to be with cultivated, agreeable people.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000010_000002|I could have stayed all night, but mother sent for me before any one else had thought of going.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000011_000000|may seventh.-I have been on a charming excursion to day with Clara Ray and all her set.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000011_000001|I was rather tired, but had an invitation to a concert this evening which I could not resist.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000012_000002|My prayers are dull and short, and full of wandering thoughts.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000012_000003|I am brimful of vivacity and good humor in company, and as soon as I get home am stupid and peevish.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000013_000000|july twenty fourth.-Clara Ray says the girls think me reckless and imprudent in speech.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000013_000001|I've a good mind not to go with her set any more.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000013_000002|I am afraid I have been a good deal dazzled by the attentions I have received of late; and now comes this blow at my vanity.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000014_000000|On the whole, I feel greatly out of sorts this evening.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000015_000001|On Sundays I am pretty good, and always seem to start afresh; but on week days I am drawn along with those about me.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000015_000003|But these things distract me; they absorb me; they make religious duties irksome.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000015_000004|I almost wish I could shut myself up in a cell, and so get out of the reach of temptation.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000016_000000|The truth is, the journey heavenward is all up hill I have to force myself to keep on.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000016_000001|The wonder is that anybody gets there with so much to oppose--- so little to help one!
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000000|july twenty ninth.-It is high time to stop and think.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000003|I feel restless and ill at ease.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000005|I want Him but I want to have my own way, too.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000006|I want to walk humbly and softly before Him, and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000008|To God?
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000009|Or to myself?
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000018_000000|july thirtieth.-I met dr Cabot to day, and could not, help asking the question:
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000019_000000|"Is it right for me to sing and play in company when all I do it for is to be admired?"
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000020_000000|"Are you sure it is all you do it for?" he returned.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000021_000000|"Oh," I said, "I suppose there may be a sprinkling of desire to entertain and please, mixed with the love of display."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000022_000000|"Do you suppose that your love of display, allowing you have it, would be forever slain by your merely refusing to sing in company?"
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000024_000001|"No child, go on singing; God has given you this power of entertaining and, gratifying your friends.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000024_000002|But ,pray without ceasing, that you may sing from pure benevolence and not from pure self love."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000025_000000|"Why, do people pray about such things as that?" I cried.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000026_000000|"Of course they do.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000026_000001|Why, I would pray about my little finger, if my little finger went astray."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000027_000000|I looked at his little finger, but saw no signs of its becoming schismatic.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000028_000000|august third.-This morning I took great delight in praying for my little scholars, and went to Sunday school as on wings.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000028_000001|But on reaching my seat, what was my horror to find Maria Perry there!
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000029_000000|Oh, your seat is changed," said she.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000029_000001|"I am to have half your class, and I like this seat better than those higher up.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000029_000002|I suppose you don't care?"
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000030_000001|I shall speak to mr Williams about it directly."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000031_000001|"It is just as pleasant to me to have pretty children to teach as it is to you.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000031_000002|mr Williams said he had no doubt you would be glad to divide your class with me, as it is so large; and I doubt if you gain anything by speaking to him.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000032_000001|I went to my new seat with great disgust, and found it very inconvenient.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000032_000002|The children could not cluster around me as they did before, and I got on with the lesson very badly.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000032_000003|I am sure Maria Perry has no gift at teaching little children, and I feel quite vexed and disappointed.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000000|august ninth.-mr
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000001|Williams called this evening to say that I am to have my old seat and all the children again.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000004|I should have been greatly elated by these compliments, but for the display I made of myself to Maria Perry on Sunday.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000005|Oh, that I could learn to bridle my unlucky tongue!
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000034_000001|That sounds very old, yet I feel pretty much as I did before.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000034_000003|As a general rule, I do not think poor people are very interesting, and they are always ungrateful.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000000|We went first to see old Jacob Stone.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000003|He seemed in great distress of mind, and begged mother to pray with him.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000004|I do not see how she could.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000006|How tenderly she prayed for him!
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000036_000001|She had made a carpet for her room by sewing together little bits of pieces given her, I suppose, by persons for whom she works, for she goes about fitting and making carpets.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000036_000002|It looked bright and cheerful.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000037_000000|"Mercy on us!" she cried out, "it ain't to sleep in!
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000038_000000|Mother looked a little amused, and then she sat and listened, patiently, to a long account of how the poor old thing had invested her money; how mr Jones did not pay the interest regularly, and how mr Stevens haggled about the percentage.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000038_000001|After we came away, I asked mother how she could listen to such a rigmarole in patience, and what good she supposed she had done by her visit.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000039_000000|"Why the poor creature likes to show off her bright carpet and nice bed, her chairs, her vases and her knick knacks, and she likes to talk about her beloved money, and her bank stock.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000039_000001|I may not have done her any good; but I have given her a pleasure, and so have you."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000040_000000|"Why, I hardly spoke a word."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000041_000000|"Yes, but your mere presence gratified her.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000041_000001|And if she ever gets into trouble, she will feel kindly towards us for the sake of our sympathy with her pleasures, and will let us sympathize with her sorrows."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000042_000000|I confess this did not seem a privilege to be coveted.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000042_000001|She is not nice at all, and takes snuff.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000000|We went next to see Bridget Shannon.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000001|Mother had lost sight of her for some years, and had just heard that she was sick and in great want. We found her in bed; there was no furniture in the room, and three little half naked children sat with their bare feet in some ashes where there had been a little fire.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000002|Three such disconsolate faces I never saw.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000004|I am going to cut up one or two old dresses to make the poor things something to cover them.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000007|Those few visits used up the very time I usually spend in drawing.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000008|But on the whole I am glad I went with mother, because it has gratified her.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000009|Besides, one must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000045_000000|"Look at the dear little thing, mother!" I cried; "doesn't she look like a line of poetry?"
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000000|"You foolish, romantic child!" quoth mother.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000001|"She looks, to me, like a very ordinary line of prose.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000002|A slice of bread and butter and a piece of gingerbread mean more to her than these elaborate ringlets possibly can.
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000003|They get in her eyes, and make her neck cold; see, they are dripping with water, and the child is all in a shiver."
train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000047_000000|So saying, mother folded a towel round its neck, to catch the falling drops, and went for bread and butter, of which the child consumed a quantity that, was absolutely appalling.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000001_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000002_000000|march twentieth.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000001|I had a busy day before me; the usual Saturday baking and Sunday dinner to oversee, the children's lessons for to morrow to superintend and hear them repeat, their clean clothes to lay out, and a basket of stockings to mend.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000002|My mind was somewhat distracted with these cares, and I found it a little difficult to keep on with my morning devotions in spite of them.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000003|But I have learned, at least, to face and fight such distractions, instead of running away from them as I used to do.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000004|My faith in prayer, my resort to it, becomes more and more the foundation of my life, and I believe, with one wiser and better than myself, that nothing but prayer stands between my soul and the best gifts of God; in other words, that I can and shall get what I ask for.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000000|I went down into the kitchen, put on my large baking apron, and began my labors; of course the door bell rang, and a poor woman was announced.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000001|It is very sweet to follow Fenelon's counsel and give oneself to Christ in all these interruptions; but this time I said, "oh, dear!" before I thought.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000002|Then I wished I hadn't, and went up, with a cheerful face at any rate, to my unwelcome visitor, who proved to be one of my aggravating poor folks a great giant of a woman, in perfect health, and with a husband to support her if he will.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000003|I told her that I could do no more for her; she answered me rudely, and kept urging her claims.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000005|At last she went off, abusing me in a way that chilled my heart.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000007|Off came my apron, and up two pairs of stairs I ran; after a long search it came to light.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000008|Work resumed; door bell again.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000009|Aunty wanted the children to come to an early dinner.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000011|Bridget had let the milk I was going to use boil over, and finally burn up.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000012|I was annoyed and irritated, and already tired,. and did not see how I was to get more, as Mary was cleaning the silver (to be sure, there is not much of it), and had other extra Saturday work to do.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000015|It isn't good for him, and how much precious time is wasted over just this one thing?" However, I reflected, that arbitrarily refusing to indulge him in this respect is not exactly my mission as his wife; he is perfectly well, and likes his little luxuries as well as other people do.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000016|So I humbled my pride and asked Bridget to go for the milk, which she did, in a lofty way of her own.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000017|While she was gone the marketing came home, and I had everything to dispose of.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000018|Ernest had sent home some apples, which plainly said, "I want some apple pie, Katy." I looked nervously at the clock, and undertook to gratify him.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000000|At last I got through with the kitchen, the Sunday dinner being well under way, and ran upstairs to put away the host of little garments the children had left when they took their flight, and to make myself presentable at lunch.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000001|Then I began to be uneasy lest Ernest should not be punctual, and Mary be delayed; but he came just as the clock struck one.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000002|I ran joyfully to meet him, very glad now that I had something good to give him.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000005|She had a fashionable young lady with her, a stranger to me, as well as a Miss Somebody else, from Albany, whose name I did not catch.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000006_000000|"Now be bright and animated, and like yourself," she whispered, "for I have brought these girls here on purpose to hear you talk, and they are prepared to fall in love with you on the spot"
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000007_000000|This speech sufficed to shut my mouth.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000000|Mary had to get ready for these unexpected guests, whose appetites proved equal to a raid on a good many things besides bread and butter.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000001|mrs Fry said, after she had devoured nearly half a loaf of cake, that she would really try to eat a morsel more, which Ernest remarked, dryly, was a great triumph of mind over matter.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000002|As they talked and 'laughed and ate leisurely on, Mary stood looking the picture of despair.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000004|Winthrop, from Brooklyn, one of Ernest's patients a few years ago, when she lived here.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000005|She professed herself greatly indebted to him, and said she had come at this hour because she should make sure of seeing him.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000000|Ernest did not receive his "favorite" with any special warmth; but invited her out to lunch and gallanted her to the table we had just left.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000001|Just like a man!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000002|Poor Mary! she had to fly round and get up what she could; mrs Winthrop devoted herself to Ernest with a persistent ignoring of me that I thought rude and unwomanly.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000005|"But she contrives to read the reports of all the murders, of which the newspapers are full."
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000010_000001|Helen came home, and Mary went.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000010_000002|I gave Helen an account of my morning; she laughed heartily, and it did me good to hear that musical sound once more.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000011_000001|It isn't living to live so.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000011_000002|Who is the better for my being in the world since six o'clock this morning?"
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000012_000000|"I am for one," she said, kissing my hot cheeks; "and you have given a great deal of pleasure to several persons.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000012_000001|Your and Ernest's hospitality is always graceful.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000013_000000|At the dinner table Ernest complimented me on my good housekeeping.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000015_000000|"And yet you said that outrageous thing about my reading about nothing but murders!" I said.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000016_000000|"Oh, well, you understood it," he said, laughingly.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000017_000000|"But that dreadful mrs Winthrop took it literally."
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000018_000000|"What do we care for mrs Winthrop?" he returned.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000018_000001|"If you could have seen the contrast between you two in my eyes!"
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000019_000000|After all, one must take life as it comes, its homely details are so mixed up with its sweet charities, and loves, and friendships that one is forced to believe that God has joined them together and does not will that they should be put asunder.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000019_000001|It is something that my husband has been satisfied with his wife and his home to day; that does me good.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000001|It must, be delightful to feel well and strong while one's children are young, there is so much to do for them.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000002|I do it; but no one can tell the effort, it costs me. What a contrast there is between their vitality and the languor under which I suffer!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000004|As I sat with this precious little group about me, Ernest opened the door, looked in, gravely and without a word, and instantly disappeared.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000006|Was I indulging the children too much, or what was it?
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000022_000000|Oh, I am glad I have got this written down!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000023_000000|april first.-This has been a sad day to our church.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000023_000001|Our dear dr Cabot has gone to his eternal home, and left us as sheep without a shepherd.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000000|His death was sudden at the last and found us all unprepared for it. But my tears of sorrow are mingled with tears of joy.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000002|Poor mrs Cabot!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000003|She is left very desolate, for all their children are married and settled at a distance.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000004|But she bears this sorrow like one who has long felt herself a pilgrim and a stranger on earth.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000005|How strange that we ever forget that we are all such!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000025_000000|april sixteenth.-The desolate pilgrimage was not long.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000026_000001|I find it hard not to wish and pray that I may as speedily follow my precious husband, should God call him away first.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000026_000002|But it is not for me to choose.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000001|Almost all the disappointments and sorrows of my life have had their Christian sympathy, particularly the daily, wasting solicitude concerning my darling Una, for they to watched for years over as delicate a flower, and saw it fade and die.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000002|Only those who have suffered thus can appreciate the heart soreness through which, no matter how outwardly cheerful I may be, I am always passing.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000003|But what then!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000004|Have I not ten thousand times made this my prayer, that in the words of Leighton, my will might become, identical with God's will."
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000028_000001|Something seemed to say, this captive sings in his cage because it has never known liberty, and cannot regret a lost freedom.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000028_000003|Yes, and does sing them! What should we do without her gentle, loving presence, whose frailty calls forth our tenderest affections and whose sweet face makes sunshine in the shadiest places!
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000028_000004|I am sure that the boys are truly blessed by having a sister always at home to welcome them, and that their best manliness is appealed to by her helplessness.
train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000029_000000|What this child is to me I cannot tell And yet, if the skillful and kind Gardener should house this delicate plant before frosts come, should I dare to complain?
train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000003_000000|Chapter one
train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000004_000000|IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000011_000000|Had he travelled?
train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000021_000002|I've been an itinerant singer, a circus rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin.
train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000028_000000|"You are four minutes too slow.
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000002_000000|The circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000003_000000|The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the ninth of October, at Suez.
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000005_000000|"So you say, consul," asked he for the twentieth time, "that this steamer is never behind time?"
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000008_000000|"Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience, mr Fix; she will not be late.
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000012_000001|Fix," said the consul, "I like your way of talking, and hope you'll succeed; but I fear you will find it far from easy.
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000027_000000|Fix took up a position, and carefully examined each face and figure which made its appearance.
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000029_000000|"No, it's my master's."
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000033_000000|"Oh, is that necessary?"
train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000034_000000|"Quite indispensable."
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000000_000000|Chapter nine
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000002_000004|The best of fare was spread upon the cabin tables at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the eight o'clock supper, and the ladies scrupulously changed their toilets twice a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games.
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000007_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000007_000001|I quite recognise you.
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000009_000000|"Fix."
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000011_000000|"Like you, to Bombay."
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000012_000000|"That's capital!
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000014_000000|"Then you know India?"
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000020_000000|"Quite well, and I too.
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000022_000000|"Never; he hasn't the least curiosity."
train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000031_000000|The Mongolia was due at Bombay on the twenty second; she arrived on the twentieth. This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains.
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000005_000000|Fix did not look at the state of things in the same light.
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000005_000001|The storm greatly pleased him.
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000006_000002|Had the hour of adversity come? Passepartout was as much excited as if the twenty thousand pounds were to come from his own pocket.
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000006_000003|The storm exasperated him, the gale made him furious, and he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience. Poor fellow!
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000007_000003|Passepartout shook it, but with no perceptible effect; for neither shaking nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind.
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000015_000000|"The Carnatic."
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000017_000000|"Yes, sir; but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so her departure was postponed till to morrow."
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000027_000000|Aouda at first said nothing.
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000027_000002|Then, in her sweet, soft voice, she said: "What ought I to do, mr Fogg?"
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000029_000000|"But I cannot intrude-"
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000031_000000|"Monsieur."
train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000032_000000|"Go to the Carnatic, and engage three cabins."
train-clean-360/4926/23281/4926_23281_000049_000001|He answered,
train-clean-360/4926/23311/4926_23311_000072_000000|"Your daughter did you call her?
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000002_000000|Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eye water, from eye water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000000|Arrived at the finest dwelling in the town, they entered it and were at home.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000001|Washington was introduced to mrs Boswell, and his imagination was on the point of flitting into the vapory realms of speculation again, when a lovely girl of sixteen or seventeen came in.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000002|This vision swept Washington's mind clear of its chaos of glittering rubbish in an instant.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000003|Beauty had fascinated him before; many times he had been in love even for weeks at a time with the same object but his heart had never suffered so sudden and so fierce an assault as this, within his recollection.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000000|Louise Boswell occupied his mind and drifted among his multiplication tables all the afternoon.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000001|He was constantly catching himself in a reverie-reveries made up of recalling how she looked when she first burst upon him; how her voice thrilled him when she first spoke; how charmed the very air seemed by her presence.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000002|Blissful as the afternoon was, delivered up to such a revel as this, it seemed an eternity, so impatient was he to see the girl again.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000003|Other afternoons like it followed.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000004|Washington plunged into this love affair as he plunged into everything else-upon impulse and without reflection.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000005|As the days went by it seemed plain that he was growing in favor with Louise,--not sweepingly so, but yet perceptibly, he fancied.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000006|His attentions to her troubled her father and mother a little, and they warned Louise, without stating particulars or making allusions to any special person, that a girl was sure to make a mistake who allowed herself to marry anybody but a man who could support her well.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000005_000001|He longed for riches now as he had never longed for them before.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000006_000001|Sellers, and had been discouraged to note that the Colonel's bill of fare was falling off both in quantity and quality-a sign, he feared, that the lacking ingredient in the eye water still remained undiscovered-though Sellers always explained that these changes in the family diet had been ordered by the doctor, or suggested by some new scientific work the Colonel had stumbled upon.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000006_000002|But it always turned out that the lacking ingredient was still lacking-though it always appeared, at the same time, that the Colonel was right on its heels.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000007_000000|Every time the Colonel came into the real estate office Washington's heart bounded and his eyes lighted with hope, but it always turned out that the Colonel was merely on the scent of some vast, undefined landed speculation-although he was customarily able to say that he was nearer to the all necessary ingredient than ever, and could almost name the hour when success would dawn.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000007_000001|And then Washington's heart would sink again and a sigh would tell when it touched bottom.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000008_000001|It was thought best that Washington should come home.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000009_000000|All the way home he nursed his woe and exalted it.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000009_000001|He pictured himself as she must be picturing him: a noble, struggling young spirit persecuted by misfortune, but bravely and patiently waiting in the shadow of a dread calamity and preparing to meet the blow as became one who was all too used to hard fortune and the pitiless buffetings of fate.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000009_000002|These thoughts made him weep, and weep more broken heartedly than ever; and he wished that she could see his sufferings now.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000010_000000|There was nothing significant in the fact that Louise, dreamy and distraught, stood at her bedroom bureau that night, scribbling "Washington" here and there over a sheet of paper.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000010_000001|But there was something significant in the fact that she scratched the word out every time she wrote it; examined the erasure critically to see if anybody could guess at what the word had been; then buried it under a maze of obliterating lines; and finally, as if still unsatisfied, burned the paper.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000001|The darkened room, the labored breathing and occasional moanings of the patient, the tip toeing of the attendants and their whispered consultations, were full of sad meaning.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000002|For three or four nights mrs Hawkins and Laura had been watching by the bedside; Clay had arrived, preceding Washington by one day, and he was now added to the corps of watchers.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000003|mr Hawkins would have none but these three, though neighborly assistance was offered by old friends.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000004|From this time forth three hour watches were instituted, and day and night the watchers kept their vigils.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000005|By degrees Laura and her mother began to show wear, but neither of them would yield a minute of their tasks to Clay.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000007|And, he had noticed, also, that when midnight struck, the patient turned his eyes toward the door, with an expectancy in them which presently grew into a longing but brightened into contentment as soon as the door opened and Laura appeared.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000008|And he did not need Laura's rebuke when he heard his father say:
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000012_000000|"Clay is good, and you are tired, poor child; but I wanted you so."
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000013_000000|"Clay is not good, father-he did not call me.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000013_000001|I would not have treated him so.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000013_000002|How could you do it, Clay?"
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000015_000001|It was a wintry one. The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000016_000001|Hawkins roused out of a doze, looked about him and was evidently trying to speak.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000016_000002|Instantly Laura lifted his head and in a failing voice he said, while something of the old light shone in his eyes:
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000017_000000|"Wife-children-come nearer-nearer.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000017_000001|The darkness grows.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000017_000002|Let me see you all, once more."
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000000|"I am leaving you in cruel poverty.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000001|I have been-so foolish-so short sighted.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000002|But courage!
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000003|A better day is-is coming.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000005|Be wary.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000006|There is wealth stored up for you there-wealth that is boundless!
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000007|The children shall hold up their heads with the best in the land, yet.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000008|Where are the papers?--Have you got the papers safe?
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000009|Show them-show them to me!"
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000000|Under his strong excitement his voice had gathered power and his last sentences were spoken with scarcely a perceptible halt or hindrance. With an effort he had raised himself almost without assistance to a sitting posture.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000001|But now the fire faded out of his eyes and he fell back exhausted.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000002|The papers were brought and held before him, and the answering smile that flitted across his face showed that he was satisfied.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000003|He closed his eyes, and the signs of approaching dissolution multiplied rapidly.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000004|He lay almost motionless for a little while, then suddenly partly raised his head and looked about him as one who peers into a dim uncertain light.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000005|He muttered:
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000000|"Gone?
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000001|No-I see you-still.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000003|But you are-safe.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000004|Safe. The Ten-----"
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000022_000001|The emaciated fingers began to pick at the coverlet, a fatal sign.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000022_000002|After a time there were no sounds but the cries of the mourners within and the gusty turmoil of the wind without.
train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000022_000004|Then she closed the dead eyes, and crossed the hands upon the breast; after a season, she kissed the forehead reverently, drew the sheet up over the face, and then walked apart and sat down with the look of one who is done with life and has no further interest in its joys and sorrows, its hopes or its ambitions.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000000|Major Lackland had once been a man of note in the State-a man of extraordinary natural ability and as extraordinary learning.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000001|He had been universally trusted and honored in his day, but had finally, fallen into misfortune; while serving his third term in Congress, and while upon the point of being elevated to the Senate-which was considered the summit of earthly aggrandizement in those days-he had yielded to temptation, when in distress for money wherewith to save his estate; and sold his vote.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000002|His crime was discovered, and his fall followed instantly.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000003|Nothing could reinstate him in the confidence of the people, his ruin was irretrievable-his disgrace complete.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000004|All doors were closed against him, all men avoided him.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000005|After years of skulking retirement and dissipation, death had relieved him of his troubles at last, and his funeral followed close upon that of mr Hawkins.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000006|He died as he had latterly lived-wholly alone and friendless.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000008|The coroner's jury found certain memoranda upon his body and about the premises which revealed a fact not suspected by the villagers before viz., that Laura was not the child of mr and mrs Hawkins.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000003_000000|The gossips were soon at work.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000003_000001|They were but little hampered by the fact that the memoranda referred to betrayed nothing but the bare circumstance that Laura's real parents were unknown, and stopped there. So far from being hampered by this, the gossips seemed to gain all the more freedom from it.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000003_000002|They supplied all the missing information themselves, they filled up all the blanks.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000001|Her pride was stung.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000002|She was astonished, and at first incredulous.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000003|She was about to ask her mother if there was any truth in these reports, but upon second thought held her peace.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000004|She soon gathered that Major Lackland's memoranda seemed to refer to letters which had passed between himself and Judge Hawkins.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000005|She shaped her course without difficulty the day that that hint reached her.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000005_000000|That night she sat in her room till all was still, and then she stole into the garret and began a search.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000005_000002|One bundle was marked "private," and in that she found what she wanted.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000005_000003|She selected six or eight letters from the package and began to devour their contents, heedless of the cold.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000006_000001|They were all from Major Lackland to mr Hawkins.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000006_000002|The substance of them was, that some one in the east had been inquiring of Major Lackland about a lost child and its parents, and that it was conjectured that the child might be Laura.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000008_000000|In one letter the Major said he agreed with mr Hawkins that the inquirer seemed not altogether on the wrong track; but he also agreed that it would be best to keep quiet until more convincing developments were forthcoming.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000009_000000|Another letter said that "the poor soul broke completely down when he saw Laura's picture, and declared it must be she."
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000002|It is this: his lost memory returns to him when he is delirious, and goes away again when he is himself just as old Canada Joe used to talk the French patois of his boyhood in the delirium of typhus fever, though he could not do it when his mind was clear.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000004|It was not for me to assist him, of course.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000005|But now in his delirium it all comes out: the names of the boats, every incident of the explosion, and likewise the details of his astonishing escape-that is, up to where, just as a yawl boat was approaching him (he was clinging to the starboard wheel of the burning wreck at the time), a falling timber struck him on the head.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000006|But I will write out his wonderful escape in full to morrow or next day.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000007|Of course the physicians will not let me tell him now that our Laura is indeed his child-that must come later, when his health is thoroughly restored.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000008|His case is not considered dangerous at all; he will recover presently, the doctors say.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000009|But they insist that he must travel a little when he gets well-they recommend a short sea voyage, and they say he can be persuaded to try it if we continue to keep him in ignorance and promise to let him see l as soon as he returns." The letter that bore the latest date of all, contained this clause:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000013_000002|Random remarks here and there, being pieced together gave Laura a vague impression of a man of fine presence, about forty three or forty five years of age, with dark hair and eyes, and a slight limp in his walk-it was not stated which leg was defective.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000013_000003|And this indistinct shadow represented her father.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000013_000005|They had probably been burned; and she doubted not that the ones she had ferreted out would have shared the same fate if mr Hawkins had not been a dreamer, void of method, whose mind was perhaps in a state of conflagration over some bright new speculation when he received them.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000000|She sat long, with the letters in her lap, thinking-and unconsciously freezing.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000002|If she could only have found these letters a month sooner!
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000003|That was her thought.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000004|But now the dead had carried their secrets with them.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000005|A dreary, melancholy settled down upon her.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000006|An undefined sense of injury crept into her heart.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000007|She grew very miserable.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000015_000000|She had just reached the romantic age-the age when there is a sad sweetness, a dismal comfort to a girl to find out that there is a mystery connected with her birth, which no other piece of good luck can afford.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000015_000002|One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of his heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead that seem greater.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000016_000000|The recent wearing days and nights of watching, and the wasting grief that had possessed her, combined with the profound depression that naturally came with the reaction of idleness, made Laura peculiarly susceptible at this time to romantic impressions.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000017_000000|Now a former thought struck her-she would speak to mrs Hawkins.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000017_000001|And naturally enough mrs Hawkins appeared on the stage at that moment.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000018_000003|Finally mrs Hawkins said:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000019_000000|"Speak to me, child-do not forsake me.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000019_000001|Forget all this miserable talk. Say I am your mother!--I have loved you so long, and there is no other. I am your mother, in the sight of God, and nothing shall ever take you from me!"
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000020_000000|All barriers fell, before this appeal.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000020_000001|Laura put her arms about her mother's neck and said:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000021_000000|"You are my mother, and always shall be.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000000|There was no longer any sense of separation or estrangement between them.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000001|Indeed their love seemed more perfect now than it had ever been before.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000003|But it transpired that mrs Hawkins had never known of this correspondence between her husband and Major Lackland.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000004|With his usual consideration for his wife, mr Hawkins had shielded her from the worry the matter would have caused her.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000023_000000|Laura went to bed at last with a mind that had gained largely in tranquility and had lost correspondingly in morbid romantic exaltation. She was pensive, the next day, and subdued; but that was not matter for remark, for she did not differ from the mournful friends about her in that respect.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000023_000002|The great secret was new to some of the younger children, but their love suffered no change under the wonderful revelation.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000000|It is barely possible that things might have presently settled down into their old rut and the mystery have lost the bulk of its romantic sublimity in Laura's eyes, if the village gossips could have quieted down.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000001|But they could not quiet down and they did not.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000002|Day after day they called at the house, ostensibly upon visits of condolence, and they pumped away at the mother and the children without seeming to know that their questionings were in bad taste.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000003|They meant no harm they only wanted to know.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000004|Villagers always want to know.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000025_000000|The family fought shy of the questionings, and of course that was high testimony "if the Duchess was respectably born, why didn't they come out and prove it?--why did they, stick to that poor thin story about picking her up out of a steamboat explosion?"
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000000|Under this ceaseless persecution, Laura's morbid self communing was renewed.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000001|At night the day's contribution of detraction, innuendo and malicious conjecture would be canvassed in her mind, and then she would drift into a course of thinking.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000002|As her thoughts ran on, the indignant tears would spring to her eyes, and she would spit out fierce little ejaculations at intervals.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000003|But finally she would grow calmer and say some comforting disdainful thing-something like this:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000027_000000|"But who are they?--Animals!
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000027_000002|Let them talk-I will not stoop to be affected by it.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000027_000003|I could hate----. Nonsense-nobody I care for or in any way respect is changed toward me, I fancy."
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000028_000000|She may have supposed she was thinking of many individuals, but it was not so-she was thinking of only one.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000028_000001|And her heart warmed somewhat, too, the while.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000028_000002|One day a friend overheard a conversation like this:--and naturally came and told her all about it:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000029_000000|"Ned, they say you don't go there any more.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000029_000001|How is that?"
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000030_000001|I think she is a fine girl every way, and so would you if you knew her as well as I do; but you know how it is when a girl once gets talked about-it's all up with her-the world won't ever let her alone, after that."
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000032_000001|He is well favored in person, and well liked, too, I believe, and comes of one of the first families of the village.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000032_000003|I attended their funerals.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000032_000004|Well, other people have hoped and been disappointed; I am not alone in that.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000033_000000|But Maria could not stay.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000033_000001|She had come to mingle romantic tears with Laura's over the lover's defection and had found herself dealing with a heart that could not rise to an appreciation of affliction because its interest was all centred in sausages.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000034_000000|But as soon as Maria was gone, Laura stamped her expressive foot and said:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000000|"The coward!
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000001|Are all books lies?
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000002|I thought he would fly to the front, and be brave and noble, and stand up for me against all the world, and defy my enemies, and wither these gossips with his scorn!
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000004|I do begin to despise this world!"
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000036_000000|She lapsed into thought.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000036_000001|Presently she said:
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000038_000000|She could not find a word that was strong enough, perhaps.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000039_000000|"Well, I am glad of it-I'm glad of it.
train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000039_000001|I never cared anything for him anyway!"
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000005_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000006_000002|No particular reason except one which he preferred to keep to himself-viz. that he could not bear to be away from Louise.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000006_000003|It occurred to him, now, that the Colonel had not invited him lately-could he be offended?
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000006_000005|It was a good idea; especially as Louise had absented herself from breakfast that morning, and torn his heart; he would tear hers, now, and let her see how it felt.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000007_000001|For an instant the Colonel looked nonplussed, and just a bit uncomfortable; and mrs Sellers looked actually distressed; but the next moment the head of the house was himself again, and exclaimed:
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000000|"All right, my boy, all right-always glad to see you-always glad to hear your voice and take you by the hand.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000003|You can't please us any better than that, Washington; the little woman will tell you so herself.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000004|We don't pretend to style.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000005|Plain folks, you know-plain folks.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000006|Just a plain family dinner, but such as it is, our friends are always welcome, I reckon you know that yourself, Washington.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000008|To visit such a family, was to find one's self confronted by a congress made up of representatives of the imperial myths and the majestic dead of all the ages.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000009|There was something thrilling about it, to a stranger, not to say awe inspiring.]--stand off the cat's tail, child, can't you see what you're doing?--Come, come, come, Roderick Dhu, it isn't nice for little boys to hang onto young gentlemen's coat tails-but never mind him, Washington, he's full of spirits and don't mean any harm.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000010|Children will be children, you know.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000009_000000|Washington contemplated the banquet, and wondered if he were in his right mind.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000009_000001|Was this the plain family dinner?
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000009_000002|And was it all present? It was soon apparent that this was indeed the dinner: it was all on the table: it consisted of abundance of clear, fresh water, and a basin of raw turnips-nothing more.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000001|The poor woman's face was crimson, and the tears stood in her eyes.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000002|Washington did not know what to do.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000006|No?
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000007|Well, you're right, you're right. Some people like mustard with turnips, but-now there was Baron Poniatowski-Lord, but that man did know how to live!--true Russian you know, Russian to the back bone; I say to my wife, give me a Russian every time, for a table comrade.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000008|The Baron used to say, 'Take mustard, Sellers, try the mustard,--a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without, mustard,' but I always said, 'No, Baron, I'm a plain man and I want my food plain-none of your embellishments for Beriah Sellers-no made dishes for me!
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000010|How does that fruit strike you?"
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000011_000000|Washington said he did not know that he had ever tasted better.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000011_000001|He did not add that he detested turnips even when they were cooked-loathed them in their natural state.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000011_000002|No, he kept this to himself, and praised the turnips to the peril of his soul.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000000|"I thought you'd like them.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000001|Examine them-examine them-they'll bear it.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000002|See how perfectly firm and juicy they are-they can't start any like them in this part of the country, I can tell you.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000005|These are the Early Malcolm-it's a turnip that can't be produced except in just one orchard, and the supply never is up to the demand.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000006|Take some more water, Washington-you can't drink too much water with fruit-all the doctors say that.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000007|The plague can't come where this article is, my boy!"
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000013_000000|"Plague?
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000013_000001|What plague?"
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000014_000000|"What plague, indeed?
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000001|And whoever it touches can make his will and contract for the funeral. Well you can't cure it, you know, but you can prevent it.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000002|How?
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000003|Turnips! that's it!
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000004|Turnips and water!
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000005|Nothing like it in the world, old McDowells says, just fill yourself up two or three times a day, and you can snap your fingers at the plague.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000006|Sh!--keep mum, but just you confine yourself to that diet and you're all right.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000007|I wouldn't have old McDowells know that I told about it for anything-he never would speak to me again.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000008|Take some more water, Washington-the more water you drink, the better.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000011|There, now.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000012|Absorb those.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000013|They're, mighty sustaining-brim full of nutriment-all the medical books say so.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000015|You'll feel like a fighting cock next day."
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000001|One was, that he discovered, to his confusion and shame, that in allowing himself to be helped a second time to the turnips, he had robbed those hungry children.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000002|He had not needed the dreadful "fruit," and had not wanted it; and when he saw the pathetic sorrow in their faces when they asked for more and there was no more to give them, he hated himself for his stupidity and pitied the famishing young things with all his heart.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000003|The other matter that disturbed him was the dire inflation that had begun in his stomach.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000004|It grew and grew, it became more and more insupportable.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000005|Evidently the turnips were "fermenting." He forced himself to sit still as long as he could, but his anguish conquered him at last.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000019_000000|He rose in the midst of the Colonel's talk and excused himself on the plea of a previous engagement.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000019_000003|He immediately bent his steps toward home.
train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000020_000000|In bed he passed an hour that threatened to turn his hair gray, and then a blessed calm settled down upon him that filled his heart with gratitude.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000006_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000007_000000|The next morning, when Lord Elmwood and Sandford met at breakfast, the latter was pale with fear for the success of Lady Elmwood's letter-the Earl was pale too, but there was besides upon his face, something which evidently marked he was displeased.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000007_000001|Sandford observed it, and was all humbleness, both in his words and looks, in order to soften him.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000008_000000|As soon as the breakfast was removed, Lord Elmwood drew the letter from his pocket, and holding it towards Sandford, said,
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000010_000000|Sandford called up a look of surprise, as if he did not know the letter again.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000012_000000|Sandford took it, and putting it up, asked fearfully, "What those two reasons were?"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000015_000000|"Be not hasty in your gratitude; you may have cause to recall it."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000016_000000|"I know what you have said;" replied Sandford, "you have said you grant Lady Elmwood's request-you cannot recall these words, nor I my gratitude."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000018_000000|"Not exactly, my Lord-I told you before, I did not; but it is no doubt something in favour of her child."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000019_000000|"I think not," he replied: "such as it is, however, I grant it: but in the strictest sense of the word-no farther-and one neglect of my commands, releases me from this promise totally."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000020_000000|"We will take care, Sir, not to disobey them."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000021_000000|"Then listen to what they are, for to you I give the charge of delivering them again.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000021_000002|In the literal sense, to suffer that she may reside at one of my seats; dispensing at the same time with my ever seeing her."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000022_000000|"And you will comply?"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000023_000000|"I will, till she encroaches on this concession, and dares to hope for a greater.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000023_000001|I will, while she avoids my sight, or the giving me any remembrance of her.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000023_000002|But if, whether by design or by accident, I ever see or hear from her, that moment, my compliance to her mother's supplication ceases, and I abandon her once more."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000024_000000|Sandford sighed.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000024_000001|Lord Elmwood continued:
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000025_000000|"I am glad her request stopped where it did.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000025_000001|I would rather comply with her desires than not; and I rejoice they are such as I can grant with ease and honour to myself.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000025_000002|I am seldom now at Elmwood castle; let her daughter go there; the few weeks or months I am down in the summer, she may easily in that extensive house avoid me-while she does, she lives in security-when she does not-you know my resolution."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000026_000000|Sandford bowed-the Earl resumed:
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000028_000000|Sandford interrupted the menace prepared for utterance, saying, "and you still mean, I suppose, to make mr Rushbrook your heir?"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000000|"Have you not heard me say so?
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000001|And do you imagine I have changed my determination?
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000002|I am not given to alter my resolutions, mr Sandford; and I thought you knew I was not; besides, will not my title be extinct, whoever I make my heir?
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000003|Could any thing but a son have preserved my title?"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000031_000000|"By marrying again, you mean?
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000031_000001|No-no-I have had enough of marriage-and Henry Rushbrook I shall leave my heir.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000031_000002|Therefore, Sir----"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000032_000000|"My Lord, I do not presume-"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000033_000000|"Do not, Sandford, and we may still be good friends.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000033_000001|But I am not to be controlled as formerly; my temper is changed of late; changed to what it was originally; till your religious precepts reformed it.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000034_000000|Sandford again repeated, "He should not presume-"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000035_000000|To which Lord Elmwood again made answer, "Do not, Sandford;" and added, "for I have a sincere regard for you, and should be loath, at these years, to quarrel with you seriously."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000036_000000|Sandford turned away his head to conceal his feelings.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000037_000000|"Nay, if we do quarrel," resumed Lord Elmwood, "You know it must be your own fault; and as this is a theme the most likely of any, nay, the only one on which we can have a difference (such as we cannot forgive) take care never from this day to resume it; indeed that of itself, would be an offence I could not pardon.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000037_000001|I have been clear and explicit in all I have said; there can be no fear of mistaking my meaning; therefore, all future explanation is unnecessary-nor will I permit a word, or a hint on the subject from any one, without shewing my resentment even to the hour of my death." He was going out of the room.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000038_000000|"But before we bid adieu to the subject for ever, my Lord-there was another person whom I named to you-"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000039_000000|"Do you mean Miss Woodley?
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000039_000001|Oh, by all means let her live at Elmwood House too.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000040_000000|"She is a good woman, my Lord," cried Sandford, pleased.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000041_000000|"You need not tell me that, mr Sandford; I know her worth." And he left the room.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000042_000001|But before he left London, Giffard, the steward, took an opportunity to wait upon him, and let him know, that his Lord had acquainted him with the consent he had given for his daughter to be admitted at Elmwood Castle, and upon what restrictions: that he had farther uttered the severest threats, should these restrictions ever be infringed.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000042_000002|Sandford thanked Giffard for his friendly information.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000042_000003|It served him as a second warning of the circumspection that was necessary; and having taken leave of his friend and patron, under the pretence that "He could not live in the smoke of London," he set out for the North.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000000|It is unnecessary to say with what delight Sandford was received by Miss Woodley, and the hapless daughter of Lady Elmwood, even before he told his errand.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000001|They both loved him sincerely; more especially Lady Matilda, whose forlorn state, and innocent sufferings, had ever excited his compassion and caused him to treat her with affection, tenderness, and respect.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000002|She knew, too, how much he had been her mother's friend; for that, she also loved him; and for being honoured with the friendship of her father, she looked up to him with reverence.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000003|For Matilda (with an excellent understanding, a sedateness above her years, and early accustomed to the most private converse between Lady Elmwood and Miss Woodley) was perfectly acquainted with the whole fatal history of her mother; and was, by her, taught the respect and admiration of her father's virtues which they justly merited.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000044_000000|Notwithstanding the joy of mr Sandford's presence, once more to cheer their solitary dwelling; no sooner were the first kind greetings over, than the dread of what he might have to inform them of, possessed poor Matilda and Miss Woodley so powerfully, that all their gladness was changed into affright.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000044_000001|Their apprehensions were far more forcible than their curiosity; they dared not ask a question, and even began to wish he would continue silent upon the subject on which they feared to listen.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000044_000002|For near two hours he was so.----At length, after a short interval from speaking, (during which they waited with anxiety for what he might next say) he turned to Lady Matilda, and said,
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000045_000000|"You don't ask for your father, my dear."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000046_000000|"I did not know it was proper:" she replied, timidly.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000049_000000|"Do not think I reproved you," said Sandford; "I only told you what was right."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000050_000000|"Nay," said Miss Woodley, "she does not weep for that-she fears her father has not complied with her mother's request.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000050_000001|Perhaps-not even read her letter?"
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000052_000000|"Oh Heavens!" exclaimed Matilda, clasping her hands together, and the tears falling still faster.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000053_000000|"Do not be so much alarmed, my dear," said Miss Woodley; "you know we are prepared for the worst; and you know you promised your mother, whatever your fate should be, to submit with patience."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000054_000000|"Yes," replied Matilda, "and I am prepared for every thing, but my father's refusal to my dear mother."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000055_000000|"Your father has not refused your mother's request," replied Sandford.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000056_000000|She was leaping from her seat in ecstasy.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000058_000000|"Not entirely," replied Matilda, "and since it is granted, I am careless.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000058_000001|But she told me her letter concerned none but me."
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000059_000001|She listened sometimes with tears, sometimes with hope, but always with awe, and with terror, to every sentence in which her father was concerned.
train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000059_000002|Once she called him cruel-then exclaimed "He was kind;" but at the end of Sandford's intelligence, concluded "that she was happy and grateful for the boon bestowed." Even her mother had not a more exalted idea of Lord Elmwood's worth than his daughter had formed; and this little bounty just obtained, would not have been greater in her mother's estimation, than it was now in hers.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000004_000000|PEGGY HAS REVENGE.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000005_000000|Joe Wegg made a rapid recovery, his strength returning under the influence of pleasant surroundings and frequent visits from Ethel and Uncle John's three nieces.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000005_000002|Joe was planning to exploit a new patent as soon as he could earn enough to get it introduced, and Ethel exhibited a sublime confidence in the boy's ability that rendered all question of money insignificant.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000006_000000|Joe's sudden appearance in the land of his birth and his generally smashed up condition were a nine days' wonder in Millville.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000006_000001|The gossips wanted to know all the whys and wherefores, but the boy kept his room in the hotel, or only walked out when accompanied by Ethel or one of the three nieces.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000007_000000|McNutt, always busy over somebody else's affairs, was very curious to know what had caused the accident Joe had suffered.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000007_000002|But that did not deter him from indulging in various vivid speculations about Joe Wegg, which the simple villagers listened to with attention.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000007_000003|For one thing, he confided to "the boys" at the store that, in his opinion, the man who had murdered Cap'n Wegg had tried to murder his son also, and it wasn't likely Joe could manage to escape him a second time.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000009_000000|He waylaid the nieces once or twice, and tried to secure from them a verification of his somber suspicions, which they mischievously fostered.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000010_000000|The girls found him a source of much amusement, and relieved their own disappointment at finding the "Wegg Mystery" a pricked bubble by getting McNutt excited over many sly suggestions of hidden crimes.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000011_000001|These he had fostered with great care since the plants had first sprouted through the soil, and in these late August days two or three hundreds of fine, big melons were just getting ripe.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000011_000002|He showed the patch with much pride one day to the nieces, saying:
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000012_000001|Dan Brayley he thinks he kin raise mellings, but the ol' fool ain't got a circumstance to this.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000013_000000|"It seems to me," observed Patsy, gravely, "that Brayley's are just as good.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000013_000001|We passed his place this morning and wondered how he could raise such enormous melons."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000014_000000|"'Normous!
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000014_000001|Brayley's!"
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000015_000000|"I'm sure they are finer than these," said Beth.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000016_000000|"Well, I'll be jiggered!" Peggy's eyes stared as they had never stared before.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000017_000000|"What do you charge for melons, mr McNutt?" inquired Louise.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000018_000000|"Charge?
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000018_000001|Why-er-fifty cents a piece is my price to nabobs; an' dirt cheap at that!"
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000019_000000|"That is too much," declared Patsy.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000020_000000|"Him!
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000020_000001|Fifteen cents!" gasped Peggy, greatly disappointed.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000022_000000|"But they ain't.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000023_000000|"How impolite."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000024_000000|"But that's Dan Brayley.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000025_000000|"Tell me," said Patsy, with a smile, "did you ever rob a melon patch, mr McNutt?"
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000026_000000|"Me?
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000027_000000|"But the ones you grow are worth fifty cents each, are they not?"
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000028_000000|"Sure; mine is."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000029_000000|"Then every time you eat one of your own melons you eat fifty cents.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000029_000001|If you were eating one of mr Brayley's melons you would only eat fifteen cents."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000030_000000|"And it would be Brayley's fifteen cents, too," added Beth, quickly.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000031_000000|Peggy turned his protruding eyes from one to the other, and a smile slowly spread over his features.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000032_000000|"By jinks, let's rob Brayley's melling patch!" he cried.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000033_000000|"All right; we'll help you," answered Patsy, readily.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000035_000000|"It will be such fun," replied her cousin, with eyes dancing merrily. "Boys always rob melon patches, so I don't see why girls shouldn't.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000035_000001|When shall we do it, mr McNutt?"
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000037_000000|"It's a bargain," declared Patsy.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000037_000001|"We will come for you in the surrey at ten o'clock, and all drive together to the back of Brayley's yard and take all the melons we want."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000039_000000|"Don't betray us, sir," pleaded Beth.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000041_000000|Patsy was overjoyed at the success of her plot, which she had conceived on the spur of the moment, as most clever plots are conceived.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000041_000001|On the way home she confided to her cousins a method of securing revenge upon the agent for selling them the three copies of the "Lives of the Saints."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000042_000000|"McNutt wants to get even with Brayley, he says, and we want to get even with McNutt.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000042_000001|I think our chances are best, don't you?" she asked.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000043_000000|And they decided to join the conspiracy.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000045_000000|McNutt was waiting for them when they quietly drew up before his house. The village was dark and silent, for its inhabitants retired early to bed.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000046_000000|They put McNutt on the back seat with Louise, cautioned him to be quiet, and then drove away.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000046_000003|The back seat was hemmed in by side curtains and the canopy, so it would be no wonder if he lost all sense of direction, even had not the remarks of the girl at his side completely absorbed him.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000048_000000|But now the most difficult part of the enterprise lay before them.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000048_000001|The girls turned down the lane back of the main street and bumped over the ruts until they thought they had arrived at a spot opposite McNutt's own melon patch.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000051_000000|McNutt thrust his head out and peered into the blackness.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000052_000000|"Drive along a little," he whispered.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000053_000000|The girl obeyed.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000054_000001|"I think that's them contwisted fifteen cent mellings-over there!"
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000055_000000|They all got out and Beth tied the horse to the fence.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000055_000001|Peggy climbed over and at once whispered:
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000056_000001|It's them, all right."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000057_000000|Through the drifting clouds there was just enough light to enable them to perceive the dark forms of the melons lying side by side upon their vines.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000057_000001|The agent took out his big clasp knife and recklessly slashed one of them open.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000058_000000|"Green's grass!" he grumbled, and slashed another.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000059_000000|Patsy giggled, and the others felt a sudden irresistible impulse to join her.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000060_000000|"Keep still!" cautioned McNutt.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000060_000002|Say-here's a ripe one.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000061_000000|They all felt for the slices he offered and ate the fruit without being able to see it.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000061_000001|But it really tasted delicious.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000062_000000|As the girls feasted they heard a crunching sound and inquired in low voices what it was.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000063_000000|McNutt was stumping over the patch and plumping his wooden foot into every melon he could find, smashing them wantonly against the ground. The discovery filled them with horror.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000063_000001|They had thought inducing the agent to rob his own patch of a few melons, while under the delusion that they belonged to his enemy Brayley, a bit of harmless fun; but here was the vindictive fellow actually destroying his own property by the wholesale.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000064_000001|Please don't, mr McNutt!" pleaded Patsy, in frightened accents.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000065_000000|"Yes, I will," declared the agent, stubbornly.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000066_000000|"But it's wrong-it's wicked!" protested Beth.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000068_000001|"It's the law of retribution. Poor Peggy will be sorry for this tomorrow."
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000069_000000|The man had not the faintest suspicion where he was.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000069_000001|He knew his own melon patch well enough, having worked in it at times all the summer; but he had never climbed over the fence and approached it from the rear before, so it took on a new aspect to him from this point of view, and moreover the night was dark enough to deceive anybody.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000070_000000|If he came across an especially big melon McNutt would lug it to the carriage and dump it in.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000070_000001|And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that survived the massacre.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000071_000000|Beth unhitched the horse and they all took their places in the carriage again, having some difficulty to find places for their feet on account of the cargo of melons.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000071_000001|McNutt was stowed away inside, with Louise, and they drove away up the lane.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000074_000000|"Oh, it were Brayley's, all right," McNutt retorted.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000075_000000|"Are you sure?" asked Louise.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000078_000000|"Feelin's jest the same," declared the little man, confidently.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000081_000000|He took rather more than his share of the spoils, but the girls had no voice to object.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000081_000001|They were by this time so convulsed with suppressed merriment that they had hard work not to shriek aloud their laughter. For, in spite of the tragic revelations the morrow would bring forth, the situation was so undeniably ridiculous that they could not resist its humor.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000082_000001|"Good night, gals.
train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000083_000001|Good night."
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000003_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000004_000000|THE PEBBLE AND THE WINDOW.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000005_000000|MISS MEADOWCROFT and I were the only representatives of the family at the farm who attended the trial.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000006_000000|I have purposely abstained from encumbering my narrative with legal details.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000006_000001|I now propose to state the nature of the defense in the briefest outline only.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000000|We insisted on making both the prisoners plead not guilty.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000001|This done, we took an objection to the legality of the proceedings at starting.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000002|We appealed to the old English law, that there should be no conviction for murder until the body of the murdered person was found, or proof of its destruction obtained beyond a doubt.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000003|We denied that sufficient proof had been obtained in the case now before the court.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000008_000000|The judges consulted, and decided that the trial should go on.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000000|We took our next objection when the confessions were produced in evidence.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000001|We declared that they had been extorted by terror, or by undue influence; and we pointed out certain minor particulars in which the two confessions failed to corroborate each other.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000002|For the rest, our defense on this occasion was, as to essentials, what our defense had been at the inquiry before the magistrate.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000003|Once more the judges consulted, and once more they overruled our objection.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000004|The confessions were admitted in evidence.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000005|On their side, the prosecution produced one new witness in support of their case.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000006|It is needless to waste time in recapitulating his evidence.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000007|He contradicted himself gravely on cross examination.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000008|We showed plainly, and after investigation proved, that he was not to be believed on his oath.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000010_000000|The chief justice summed up.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000000|He charged, in relation to the confessions, that no weight should be attached to a confession incited by hope or fear; and he left it to the jury to determine whether the confessions in this case had been so influenced.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000002|As for Silas, he was proved to have been beside himself with terror when he made his abominable charge against his brother.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000003|We had vainly trusted to the evidence on these two points to induce the court to reject the confessions: and we were destined to be once more disappointed in anticipating that the same evidence would influence the verdict of the jury on the side of mercy.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000004|After an absence of an hour, they returned into court with a verdict of "Guilty" against both the prisoners.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000012_000001|This statement was not noticed by the bench.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000012_000002|The prisoners were both sentenced to death.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000013_000001|Miss Meadowcroft informed her of the result of the trial.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000013_000002|Half an hour later, one of the women servants handed to me an envelope bearing my name on it in Naomi's handwriting.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000014_000000|The envelope inclosed a letter, and with it a slip of paper on which Naomi had hurriedly written these words: "For God's sake, read the letter I send to you, and do something about it immediately!"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000000|I looked at the letter.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000001|It assumed to be written by a gentleman in New York.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000002|Only the day before, he had, by the merest accident, seen the advertisement for john Jago cut out of a newspaper and pasted into a book of "curiosities" kept by a friend.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000005|To his surprise, he was informed that the clerk had not appeared at his desk that day.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000006|His employer had sent to his lodgings, and had been informed that he had suddenly packed up his hand bag after reading the newspaper at breakfast; had paid his rent honestly, and had gone away, nobody knew where!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000016_000000|It was late in the evening when I read these lines.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000016_000001|I had time for reflection before it would be necessary for me to act.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000000|The newspaper at his breakfast had no doubt given him his first information of the "finding" of the grand jury, and of the trial to follow.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000001|It was in my experience of human nature that he should venture back to Narrabee under these circumstances, and under the influence of his infatuation for Naomi.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000002|More than this, it was again in my experience, I am sorry to say, that he should attempt to make the critical position of Ambrose a means of extorting Naomi's consent to listen favorably to his suit.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000003|Cruel indifference to the injury and the suffering which his sudden absence might inflict on others was plainly implied in his secret withdrawal from the farm.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000004|The same cruel indifference, pushed to a further extreme, might well lead him to press his proposals privately on Naomi, and to fix her acceptance of them as the price to be paid for saving her cousin's life.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000019_000000|To these conclusions I arrived after much thinking.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000019_000001|I had determined, on Naomi's account, to clear the matter up; but it is only candid to add that my doubts of john Jago's existence remained unshaken by the letter.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000019_000002|I believed it to be nothing more nor less than a heartless and stupid "hoax."
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000020_000001|I counted the strokes-midnight!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000000|I rose to go up to my room.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000001|Everybody else in the farm had retired to bed, as usual, more than an hour since.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000002|The stillness in the house was breathless.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000003|I walked softly, by instinct, as I crossed the room to look out at the night.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000004|A lovely moonlight met my view; it was like the moonlight on the fatal evening when Naomi had met john Jago on the garden walk.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000022_000000|My bedroom candle was on the side table; I had just lighted it.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000022_000001|I was just leaving the room, when the door suddenly opened, and Naomi herself stood before me!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000023_000000|Recovering the first shook of her sudden appearance, I saw instantly in her eager eyes, in her deadly pale cheeks, that something serious had happened.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000023_000001|A large cloak was thrown over her; a white handkerchief was tied over her head.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000023_000002|Her hair was in disorder; she had evidently just risen in fear and in haste from her bed.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000024_000000|"What is it?" I asked, advancing to meet her.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000026_000000|"john Jago!" she whispered.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000027_000000|You will think my obstinacy invincible.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000027_000001|I could hardly believe it, even then!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000028_000000|"Where?" I asked.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000029_000000|"In the back yard," she replied, "under my bedroom window!"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000030_000000|The emergency was far too serious to allow of any consideration for the small proprieties of every day life.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000031_000000|"Let me see him!" I said.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000032_000000|"I am here to fetch you," she answered, in her frank and fearless way. "Come upstairs with me."
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000033_000000|Her room was on the first floor of the house, and was the only bedroom which looked out on the back yard.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000033_000001|On our way up the stairs she told me what had happened.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000000|"I was in bed," she said, "but not asleep, when I heard a pebble strike against the window pane.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000001|I waited, wondering what it meant.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000002|Another pebble was thrown against the glass.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000003|So far, I was surprised, but not frightened.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000004|I got up, and ran to the window to look out.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000005|There was john Jago looking up at me in the moonlight!"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000035_000000|"Did he see you?"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000036_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000036_000001|He said, 'Come down and speak to me!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000037_000000|"Did you answer him?"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000038_000001|What shall I do?"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000040_000000|We entered her room.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000040_000001|Keeping cautiously behind the window curtain, I looked out.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000041_000000|There he was!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000041_000001|His beard and mustache were shaved off; his hair was close cut.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000042_000000|"What shall I do?" Naomi repeated.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000045_000000|"Very good.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000045_000001|Show yourself at the window, and say to him, 'I am coming directly.'"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000046_000000|The brave girl obeyed me without a moment's hesitation.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000047_000000|There had been no doubt about his eyes and his gait; there was no doubt now about his voice, as he answered softly from below-"All right!"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000049_000000|We left the house together, and separated silently.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000049_000001|Naomi followed my instructions with a woman's quick intelligence where stratagems are concerned.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000049_000002|I had hardly been a minute in the tool house before I heard him speaking to Naomi on the other side of the door.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000050_000000|The first words which I caught distinctly related to his motive for secretly leaving the farm.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000050_000001|Mortified pride-doubly mortified by Naomi's contemptuous refusal and by the personal indignity offered to him by Ambrose-was at the bottom of his conduct in absenting himself from Morwick.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000050_000002|He owned that he had seen the advertisement, and that it had actually encouraged him to keep in hiding!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000051_000001|It rests with you, Miss Naomi, to keep me here, and to persuade me to save Ambrose by showing myself and owning to my name."
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000053_000000|He lowered his voice; but I could still hear him.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000054_000000|"Promise you will marry me," he said, "and I will go before the magistrate to morrow, and show him that I am a living man."
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000055_000000|"Suppose I refuse?"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000056_000000|"In that case you will lose me again, and none of you will find me till Ambrose is hanged."
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000058_000000|"If you attempt to give the alarm," he answered, "as true as God's above us, you will feel my hand on your throat!
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000058_000001|It's my turn now, miss; and I am not to be trifled with.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000058_000002|Will you have me for your husband-yes or no?"
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000059_000000|"No!" she answered, loudly and firmly.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000000|I burst open the door, and seized him as he lifted his hand on her.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000003|She struck up his pistol as he pulled it out of his pocket with his free hand and presented it at my head.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000004|The bullet was fired into the air.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000005|I tripped up his heels at the same moment.
train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000006|The report of the pistol had alarmed the house.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000000_000001|Concerning Daniel And What Befell Him At Babylon.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000001_000003|Now among these there were four of the family of Zedekiah, of most excellent dispositions, one of whom was called Daniel, another was called Ananias, another Misael, and the fourth Azarias; and the king of Babylon changed their names, and commanded that they should make use of other names.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000001_000004|Daniel he called Baltasar; Ananias, Shadrach; Misael, Meshach; and Azarias, Abednego. These the king had in esteem, and continued to love, because of the very excellent temper they were of, and because of their application to learning, and the profess they had made in wisdom.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000002_000001|Now Daniel and his kinsmen had resolved to use a severe diet, and to abstain from those kinds of food which came from the king's table, and entirely to forbear to eat of all living creatures.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000003_000006|Accordingly, God, out of pity to those that were in danger, and out of regard to the wisdom of Daniel, made known to him the dream and its interpretation, that so the king might understand by him its signification also.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000003_000008|So when he had with them returned thanks to God, who had commiserated their youth, when it was day he came to Arioch, and desired him to bring him to the king, because he would discover to him that dream which he had seen the night before.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000005_000003|When therefore all the rest, upon the hearing of the sound of the trumpet, worshipped the image, they relate that Daniel's kinsmen did not do it, because they would not transgress the laws of their country.
train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000005_000006|This it was which recommended them to the king as righteous men, and men beloved of God, on which account they continued in great esteem with him.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000001_000000|seven
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000002_000000|How the Speckled Hen Got
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000000|Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, there was a little white hen.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000001|One day she was busily engaged in scratching the soil to find worms and insects for her breakfast.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000004|"This must be a letter. One time when the king, the great ruler of our country, held his court in the meadow close by, many people brought him letters and laid them at his feet.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000005|Now I, too, even I, the little white hen, have a letter. I am going to carry my letter to the king."
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000005_000003|The little white hen had never been so far from home in all her life.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000006_000002|Once upon a time she had helped the fox to escape from a trap and the fox had never forgotten her kindness to him.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000009_000000|"Indeed, little white hen," said the fox, "I should like to go with you.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000000|The fox climbed into the little brown basket.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000001|After the little white hen had gone on for some distance farther she met a river.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000002|Once upon a time the little white hen had done the river a kindness.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000003|He had, with great difficulty, thrown some ugly worms upon the bank and he was afraid they would crawl back in again.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000004|The little white hen had eaten them for him.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000005|Always after that the river had been her friend.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000015_000000|The little white hen told the river that he might go with her and asked him to ride in the little brown basket.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000015_000001|So the river climbed into the little brown basket.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000016_000002|The grass had given the fire new life and always after that he had been the friend of the little white hen.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000021_000000|The little white hen journeyed on and on, and finally she arrived at the royal palace.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000026_000002|There were marks of dirt upon it where the friendly fox's feet had rested.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000026_000004|It had tiny holes in it where the fire had sat after he had turned himself into hot ashes.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000027_000002|I always knew that hens were stupid little creatures but you are quite the stupidest little hen I ever saw in all my life."
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000028_000001|I think we will have her for dinner to morrow."
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000030_000003|One pulled off the cover of the little brown basket.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000031_000000|Out sprang the fox from the little brown basket and in the twinkling of an eye he fell upon the fowls of the royal poultry yard.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000033_000002|They couldn't get across without canoes.
train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000035_000002|The chickens of the little white hen (who was now a little speckled hen) were all speckled too.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000004_000000|Not a word was said in the cab as Lord Silverbridge took his sister to Carlton Terrace, and he was leaving her without any reference to the scene which had taken place, when an idea struck him that this would be cruel.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000005_000000|"It was not my doing."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000006_000000|"I suppose it was nobody's doing.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000006_000002|I think that you should have controlled yourself."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000008_000000|"I think so."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000009_000000|"No;--if you mean by controlling myself, holding my tongue.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000009_000001|He is the man I love,--whom I have promised to marry."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000010_000000|"But, Mary,--do ladies generally embrace their lovers in public?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000011_000000|"No;--nor should i I never did such a thing in my life before.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000011_000002|Do you think I should have done it if you all had not been there?" Then again she burst into tears.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000012_000000|He did not quite know what to make of it.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000012_000003|"I was thinking of the governor," he said.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000013_000000|"He shall be told everything."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000014_000000|"That you met Tregear?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000015_000000|"Certainly; and that I-kissed him.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000015_000001|I will do nothing that I am ashamed to tell everybody."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000016_000000|"He will be very angry."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000017_000002|mr Tregear is a gentleman.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000017_000003|Why did he let him come?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000017_000006|The thing is settled.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000018_000000|On that night Mary told the whole of her story to Lady Cantrip.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000018_000001|There was nothing that she tried to conceal.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000020_000000|"No;--no!
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000020_000001|Nothing had been planned.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000020_000003|Now I want you to tell papa all about it."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000021_000002|As this objectionable lover had either contrived a meeting, or had met her without contriving, it was necessary that the Duke should be informed.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000001|It cannot in any circumstance be easy to write to a father as to his daughter's love for an objectionable lover; but the Duke's character added much to the severity of the task.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000003|She knew that the Duke would be struck with horror as he read of such a tale, and she found herself almost struck with horror as she attempted to write it.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000005|"I fear there was a good deal of warmth shown on both sides," she said, feeling that she was calumniating the man, as to whose warmth she had heard nothing.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000006|"It is quite clear," she added, "that this is not a passing fancy on her part."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000023_000002|He understood also that the meeting had taken place in the presence of Silverbridge and of Lady Mabel.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000023_000003|"No doubt it was all an accident," Lady Cantrip wrote.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000023_000004|How could it be an accident?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000024_000000|"You had Mary up in town on Friday," he said to his son on the following Sunday morning.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000025_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000026_000000|"And that friend of yours came in?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000027_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000028_000000|"Do you not know what my wishes are?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000029_000000|"Certainly I do;--but I could not help his coming.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000029_000001|You do not suppose that anybody had planned it?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000030_000000|"I hope not."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000031_000000|"It was simply an accident.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000031_000001|Such an accident as must occur over and over again,--unless Mary is to be locked up."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000033_000000|"I only meant that of course they will stumble across each other in London."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000034_000000|"I think I will go abroad," said the Duke.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000034_000001|He was silent for awhile, and then repeated his words.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000034_000002|"I think I will go abroad."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000035_000000|"Not for long, I hope, sir."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000036_000000|"Yes;--to live there.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000036_000001|Why should I stay here?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000036_000002|What good can I do here?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000039_000000|"So much as that!
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000041_000000|"Not exactly, sir."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000042_000002|As for your sister, I think she will break my heart." Silverbridge found it to be quite impossible to say anything in answer to this.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000042_000003|"Are you going to church?" asked the Duke.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000043_000000|"I was not thinking of doing so particularly."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000046_000000|"I had thought of going, but my mind is too much harassed.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000001|And there were various matters also which harassed him.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000003|And he had made these bets under the influence of Major Tifto.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000004|It was the remembrance of this, after the promise made to his father, that annoyed him the most. He was imbued with a feeling that it behoved him as a man to "pull himself together," as he would have said himself, and to live in accordance with certain rules.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000005|He could make the rules easily enough, but he had never yet succeeded in keeping any one of them.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000006|He had determined to sever himself from Tifto, and, in doing that, had intended to sever himself from affairs of the turf generally.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000001|He had so committed himself that the offer must now be made.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000002|He did not specially regret that, though he wished that he had been more reticent.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000003|"What a fool a man is to blurt out everything!" he said to himself.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000004|A wife would be a good thing for him; and where could he possibly find a better wife than Mabel Grex?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000008|No doubt there were objections to marriage.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000010|But then, if he were married, he might be sure that Tifto would be laid aside.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000012|It meant complete independence in money matters.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000000|Then his mind ran away to a review of his father's affairs.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000002|Of all the griefs which weighed upon the Duke's mind, that in reference to his sister was the heaviest.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000003|The money which Gerald owed at Cambridge would be nothing if that other sorrow could be conquered.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000004|Nor had Tifto and his own extravagance caused the Duke any incurable wounds. If Tregear could be got out of the way, his father, he thought, might be reconciled to other things.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000050_000000|He had wandered into saint James's Park, and had lighted by this time half a dozen cigarettes one after another, as he sat on one of the benches.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000050_000003|He now sat with his legs stretched out, with his cane in his hands, looking down upon the water.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000050_000006|But the bench was hard and, upon the whole, he was not satisfied with his position.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000054_000000|"What on earth makes you sit there?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000054_000003|Do you often come?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000055_000001|I strolled in because I had things to think of."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000056_000000|"Questions to be asked in Parliament?
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000057_000000|"Go on, old fellow."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000058_000000|"Or perhaps Major Tifto has made important revelations."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000059_000000|"D---- Major Tifto."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000060_000000|"With all my heart," said Tregear.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000062_000000|"That was kind."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000063_000000|"And I was determined to go to you.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000063_000001|All this about my sister must be given up."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000064_000000|"Must be given up?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000065_000000|"It can never lead to any good.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000065_000001|I mean that there never can be a marriage." Then he paused, but Tregear was determined to hear him out.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000066_000000|"I dare say I should.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000066_000001|When I see people unhappy I always pity them. What I would ask you to think of is this.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000068_000000|"And so will your father."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000069_000000|"He has a right to have his own opinion on such a matter."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000070_000004|I have no right to ask your father for a penny, and I will never do so.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000070_000007|We did meet, as you saw, the other day, by the merest chance.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000070_000008|After that, do you think that your sister wishes me to give her up?"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000071_000000|"As for supposing that girls are to have what they wish, that is nonsense."
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000072_000000|"For young men I suppose equally so.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000072_000001|Life ought to be a life of self denial, no doubt.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000072_000002|Perhaps it might be my duty to retire from this affair, if by doing so I should sacrifice only myself.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000075_000000|"In that way you support each other.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000076_000000|Silverbridge as he said this looked forward steadfastly on to the water, regretting much that cause for quarrel should have arisen, but thinking that Tregear would find himself obliged to quarrel. But Tregear, after a few moments' silence, having thought it out, determined that he would not quarrel.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000077_000000|"Well then!"
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000078_000000|"I have to examine myself, and find out whether I am guilty of the meanness which I might perhaps be too ready to impute to another. I have done so, and I am quite sure that I am not drawn to your sister by any desire for her money.
train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000078_000001|I did not seek her because she was a rich man's daughter, nor,--because she is a rich man's daughter,--will I give her up.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000003_000000|Everything had gone wrong with Polly that day.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000003_000001|It began with her boots.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000004_000000|Of all things in the world that tried Polly's patience most were the troublesome little black buttons that originally adorned those useful parts of her clothing, and that were fondly supposed to be there when needed.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000004_000001|But they never were.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000004_000003|For one thing mrs Pepper was very strict about-and that was, Polly should do nothing else till the buttons were all on again, and the boots buttoned up firm and snug.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000005_000000|"Oh dear!" said Polly, sitting down on the floor, and pulling on her stockings.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000006_000000|"What's the matter with it?" said mrs Pepper straightening the things on the bureau.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000006_000001|"You haven't worn it out already, Polly?"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000007_000003|I don't care! I wish they'd all go; they might as well!" she cried, tossing that boot on the floor in intense scorn, while she investigated the state of the other one.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000008_000001|"Every one, Polly?"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000009_000000|"No," said Polly, "but I wish they were, mean old things; when I was going down to play a duet with Jasper!
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000010_000000|"No," said mrs Pepper firmly, "there isn't any time but now.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000010_000001|And piano playing isn't very nice when you've got to stick your toes under it to keep your shoes on."
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000011_000001|Oh-here it is on the window seat." A rattle of spools, scissors and necessary utensils showed plainly that Polly had found it, followed by a jumble of words and despairing ejaculations as she groped hurriedly under chairs and tables to collect the scattered contents.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000012_000000|When she got back with a very red face, she found Phronsie, who had crawled out of bed, sitting down on the floor in her little nightgown and examining the boot with profound interest.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000015_000000|"Tisn't very cold," said Phronsie, tucking up her toes under the night gown, but Polly hurried her into bed, where she curled herself up under the clothes, watching her make a big knot.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000015_000002|And then the thread kinked horribly, and got all twisted up in disagreeable little snarls that took all Polly's patience to unravel.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000016_000002|"There now, let mother see what's the matter."
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000017_000003|I wish there wasn't such a thing as shoes in the world!" And she gave a flounce and sat up straight in front of her mother.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000018_000001|There now, here they are.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000019_000000|"Oh, mamsie!" cried Polly, ignoring for a moment the delights of the finished shoe to fling her arms around her mother's neck and give her a good hug.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000019_000002|Which done, she flew at the rest of her preparations and tried to make up for lost time.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000020_000000|But 'twas all of no use.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000020_000001|The day seemed to be always just racing ahead of her, and turning a corner, before she could catch up to it, and Ben and the other boys only caught dissolving views of her as she flitted through halls or over stairs.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000021_000000|"Where's Polly?" said Percy at last, coming with great dissatisfaction in his voice to the library door.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000025_000000|"I didn't tease," said Percy indignantly, coming up to the sofa, boat in hand, to enforce his words.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000026_000002|Now, says I, for the sails." And she began to flap out a long white piece of cotton cloth on the table to trim into just the desired shape.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000027_000000|"That isn't the way," said Percy, crowding up, the brightness that had flashed over his face at Polly's appearance beginning to fade.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000028_000000|"I haven't finished," said Polly, snipping away vigorously, and longing to get back to mamsie.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000028_000001|"Wait till they're done; then they'll be good-as good as can be!"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000029_000000|"And it's bad enough to have to make them," put in Jasper, flinging aside his book and rolling over to watch them, "without having to be found fault with every second, Percy."
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000030_000000|"They're too big," said Percy, surveying them critically, and then looking at his boat.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000031_000000|"Oh, that corner's coming off," cried Polly cheerfully, giving it a sharp cut that sent it flying on the floor.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000031_000002|There," as she held one up for inspection, "that's just the way I used to make Ben's and mine, when we sailed boats."
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000032_000000|"Is it?" asked Percy, looking with more respect at the piece of cloth Polly was waving alluringly before him.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000032_000001|"Just exactly like it, Polly?"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000034_000000|"And were theirs just like this?" asked Percy, laying his hand on the sail she had finished cutting out.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000035_000000|"Pre cisely," said Polly, with a pin in her mouth.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000035_000001|"Just as like as two peas, Percy Whitney."
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000037_000000|"Oh now, that's too bad!" he cried, seeing Polly fold up the remaining bits of cloth, and pick up the scraps on the floor.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000039_000000|"I forgot-" began Percy, "and she cut 'em so quick-and-"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000040_000000|"And I've been waiting," said Van, in a loud wrathful key, "and waiting-and waiting!"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000042_000000|"They're done and done beautifully, aren't they?" he said, holding up one.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000043_000000|But this only proved fresh fuel for the fire of Van's indignation.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000045_000001|"I cut-all the keel-and the bow-and-"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000046_000000|"Oh dear!" said Polly, in extreme dismay, looking at Jasper.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000046_000001|"Come, I'll tell you what I'll do, boys."
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000047_000000|"What?" said Van, cooling off a little, and allowing Percy to edge into a corner with the beloved boat and one sail.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000047_000001|"What will you, Polly?"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000052_000002|"You did say so, Polly!
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000052_000003|You know you did!"
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000053_000000|"Of course I did, Vanny," said Polly, smiling down into his eager face, "and we'll have a splendid pair in just-one-minute!" she sang.
train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000054_000000|And so the sails were cut out, and the hems turned down and basted, and tucked away into Polly's little work basket ready for the sewing on the morrow.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000019_000000|'Morning, sir!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000019_000001|Morning!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000019_000002|Morning!'
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000029_000000|'Oh!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000029_000002|No!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000035_000000|'He hasn't,' repeated the other to his knotted stick, as he gave it a hug; 'he hasn't got-ha!--ha!--to keep it warm!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000037_000000|'Do you like it?'
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000043_000001|Think it over.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000043_000002|Nick, or Noddy.'
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000001|'Noddy.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000002|That's my name.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000003|Noddy-or Nick-Boffin.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000004|What's your name?'
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000049_000000|'Right, Wegg, right!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000059_000002|Why, its delightful!'
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000061_000002|I'm coming to it!
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000069_000001|Then consider this.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000071_000001|'That ain't no word for it.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000075_000000|'Now, look here.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000077_000000|'Man alive, don't I tell you?
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000077_000001|A diseased governor?
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000079_000000|'Yes.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000086_000000|'Would it come dearer?' Mr Boffin asked.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000106_000003|I shall have no peace or patience till you come.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000135_000001|This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000141_000000|'Sorry to deprive you of a pipe, Wegg,' he said, filling his own, 'but you can't do both together.
train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000141_000001|Oh! and another thing I forgot to name!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty two
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000001_000000|AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000002_000000|Upon the night when Nancy, having lulled mr Sikes to sleep, hurried on her self imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London, by the Great North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this history should bestow some attention.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000003_000001|The woman was young, but of a robust and hardy make, as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back. Her companion was not encumbered with much luggage, as there merely dangled from a stick which he carried over his shoulder, a small parcel wrapped in a common handkerchief, and apparently light enough.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000005_000001|What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000006_000000|'It's a heavy load, I can tell you,' said the female, coming up, almost breathless with fatigue.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000000|'Heavy!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000001|What are yer talking about?
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000002|What are yer made for?' rejoined the male traveller, changing his own little bundle as he spoke, to the other shoulder.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000004|Well, if yer ain't enough to tire anybody's patience out, I don't know what is!'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000009_000000|'Much farther!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000009_000002|'Look there!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000009_000003|Those are the lights of London.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000013_000000|'Where do you mean to stop for the night, Noah?' she asked, after they had walked a few hundred yards.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000014_000000|'How should I know?' replied Noah, whose temper had been considerably impaired by walking.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000015_000000|'Near, I hope,' said Charlotte.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000016_000000|'No, not near,' replied mr Claypole. 'There!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000017_000000|'Why not?'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000020_000000|'A pretty thing it would be, wouldn't it to go and stop at the very first public house outside the town, so that Sowerberry, if he come up after us, might poke in his old nose, and have us taken back in a cart with handcuffs on,' said mr Claypole in a jeering tone.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000020_000003|And serve yer right for being a fool.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000021_000000|'I know I ain't as cunning as you are,' replied Charlotte; 'but don't put all the blame on me, and say I should have been locked up.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000021_000001|You would have been if I had been, any way.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000025_000000|'No; you trusted in me, and let me carry it like a dear, and so you are,' said the lady, chucking him under the chin, and drawing her arm through his.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000026_000001|Of course, he entered at this juncture, into no explanation of his motives, and they walked on very lovingly together.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000027_000000|In pursuance of this cautious plan, mr Claypole went on, without halting, until he arrived at the Angel at Islington, where he wisely judged, from the crowd of passengers and numbers of vehicles, that London began in earnest.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000027_000001|Just pausing to observe which appeared the most crowded streets, and consequently the most to be avoided, he crossed into Saint John's Road, and was soon deep in the obscurity of the intricate and dirty ways, which, lying between Gray's Inn Lane and Smithfield, render that part of the town one of the lowest and worst that improvement has left in the midst of London.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000028_000000|Through these streets, Noah Claypole walked, dragging Charlotte after him; now stepping into the kennel to embrace at a glance the whole external character of some small public house; now jogging on again, as some fancied appearance induced him to believe it too public for his purpose.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000030_000000|'Cripples,' said Charlotte.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000031_000001|Now, then! Keep close at my heels, and come along.' With these injunctions, he pushed the rattling door with his shoulder, and entered the house, followed by his companion.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000032_000000|There was nobody in the bar but a young Jew, who, with his two elbows on the counter, was reading a dirty newspaper.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000032_000001|He stared very hard at Noah, and Noah stared very hard at him.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000033_000000|If Noah had been attired in his charity boy's dress, there might have been some reason for the Jew opening his eyes so wide; but as he had discarded the coat and badge, and wore a short smock frock over his leathers, there seemed no particular reason for his appearance exciting so much attention in a public house.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000039_000000|Barney complied by ushering them into a small back room, and setting the required viands before them; having done which, he informed the travellers that they could be lodged that night, and left the amiable couple to their refreshment.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000042_000000|'Strangers!' repeated the old man in a whisper.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000044_000000|Fagin appeared to receive this communication with great interest.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000046_000000|'Aha!' he whispered, looking round to Barney, 'I like that fellow's looks.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000047_000000|He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000048_000001|'No more jolly old coffins, Charlotte, but a gentleman's life for me: and, if yer like, yer shall be a lady.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000050_000000|'Tills be blowed!' said mr Claypole; 'there's more things besides tills to be emptied.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000051_000000|'What do you mean?' asked his companion.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000052_000000|'Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mail coaches, banks!' said mr Claypole, rising with the porter.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000053_000000|'But you can't do all that, dear,' said Charlotte.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000054_000000|'I shall look out to get into company with them as can,' replied Noah. 'They'll be able to make us useful some way or another.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000056_000000|'There, that'll do: don't yer be too affectionate, in case I'm cross with yer,' said Noah, disengaging himself with great gravity.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000057_000001|He was meditating another, when the sudden opening of the door, and the appearance of a stranger, interrupted him.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000058_000000|The stranger was mr Fagin.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000059_000001|'From the country, I see, sir?'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000061_000000|'We have not so much dust as that in London,' replied Fagin, pointing from Noah's shoes to those of his companion, and from them to the two bundles.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000062_000001|'Ha! ha! only hear that, Charlotte!'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000064_000000|Fagin followed up this remark by striking the side of his nose with his right forefinger,--a gesture which Noah attempted to imitate, though not with complete success, in consequence of his own nose not being large enough for the purpose.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000064_000001|However, mr Fagin seemed to interpret the endeavour as expressing a perfect coincidence with his opinion, and put about the liquor which Barney reappeared with, in a very friendly manner.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000067_000000|mr Claypole no sooner heard this extract from his own remarks than he fell back in his chair, and looked from the Jew to Charlotte with a countenance of ashy paleness and excessive terror.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000068_000000|'Don't mind me, my dear,' said Fagin, drawing his chair closer.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000068_000002|It was very lucky it was only me.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000070_000000|'No matter who's got it, or who did it, my dear,' replied Fagin, glancing, nevertheless, with a hawk's eye at the girl and the two bundles.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000070_000001|'I'm in that way myself, and I like you for it.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000072_000000|'In that way of business,' rejoined Fagin; 'and so are the people of the house.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000072_000001|You've hit the right nail upon the head, and are as safe here as you could be.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000072_000002|There is not a safer place in all this town than is the Cripples; that is, when I like to make it so.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000074_000000|'I'll tell you more,' said Fagin, after he had reassured the girl, by dint of friendly nods and muttered encouragements.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000074_000001|'I have got a friend that I think can gratify your darling wish, and put you in the right way, where you can take whatever department of the business you think will suit you best at first, and be taught all the others.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000076_000000|'What advantage would it be to me to be anything else?' inquired Fagin, shrugging his shoulders.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000076_000001|'Here!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000076_000002|Let me have a word with you outside.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000077_000000|'There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000077_000001|'She'll take the luggage upstairs the while.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000077_000002|Charlotte, see to them bundles.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000079_000000|'She's kept tolerably well under, ain't she?' he asked as he resumed his seat: in the tone of a keeper who had tamed some wild animal.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000080_000000|'Quite perfect,' rejoined Fagin, clapping him on the shoulder.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000080_000001|'You're a genius, my dear.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000085_000000|'Regular town maders?' asked mr Claypole.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000088_000000|'It couldn't possibly be done without,' replied Fagin, in a most decided manner.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000001|Payment stopped at the Bank?
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000002|Ah!
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000003|It's not worth much to him.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000004|It'll have to go abroad, and he couldn't sell it for a great deal in the market.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000091_000000|'When could I see him?' asked Noah doubtfully.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000092_000000|'To morrow morning.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000094_000000|'Here.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000098_000000|'But, yer see,' observed Noah, 'as she will be able to do a good deal, I should like to take something very light.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000099_000000|'A little fancy work?' suggested Fagin.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000100_000000|'Ah! something of that sort,' replied Noah. 'What do you think would suit me now?
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000100_000001|Something not too trying for the strength, and not very dangerous, you know.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000100_000002|That's the sort of thing!'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000103_000000|'That's true!' observed the Jew, ruminating or pretending to ruminate. 'No, it might not.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000106_000001|'I don't think that would answer my purpose.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000106_000002|Ain't there any other line open?'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000107_000001|'The kinchin lay.'
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000109_000000|'The kinchins, my dear,' said Fagin, 'is the young children that's sent on errands by their mothers, with sixpences and shillings; and the lay is just to take their money away-they've always got it ready in their hands,--then knock 'em into the kennel, and walk off very slow, as if there were nothing else the matter but a child fallen down and hurt itself.
train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000109_000001|Ha! ha!
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000003_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000004_000000|HOW THE GOSPELS CAME TO BE WRITTEN
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000006_000000|But how did the story of the Saviour's life on earth come to be written?
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000007_000000|We have seen that many years passed before any one thought of writing it down at all.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000008_000000|But as the years passed, the number of those who had seen Christ grew less, and the need of a written Gospel became ever greater.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000008_000001|Precious words would be forgotten, precious facts passed over, unless they were collected together and put down in black and white.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000008_000002|Some of those, therefore, who had seen and heard Christ began to write down all they remembered of His life.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000009_000001|They loved it and searched its pages eagerly, as they realized that all its words spoke of Christ!
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000010_000000|But about the time that saint Paul was imprisoned at Rome we think that the Gospel according to saint Mark was written.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000011_000004|eleven.)
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000013_000000|Now a Christian writer, named Papias, who lived about sixty years after this time, tells us that Mark wrote his Gospel story from what peter had told him about Christ; so we think this Gospel writing is really the Apostle Peter's account of our Lord's life on earth.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000014_000000|Very likely, as Mark journeyed with the Apostle from place to place, and heard him tell and retell the wonderful story of His Master's life on earth, the thought came into the young man's mind, 'Why not write down what peter says, so that his words shall not be forgotten?'
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000015_000000|And so fresh and vivid are the words of Mark's Gospel, so full of little natural touches, that most people agree that old Papias must have been right.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000015_000001|The very things saint Peter would have noticed are mentioned by Mark.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000016_000000|matthew, the writer of the Gospel which comes the first in our New Testament, was a Levite; that is, he belonged to the tribe of Levi, and this tribe was specially chosen in the time of Moses to learn the Law and serve God in His Temple.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000016_000001|matthew, therefore, was very learned in the books of the Law, and in the writings of the old prophets.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000016_000002|As you all know, the Lord Jesus chose matthew to be one of His special companions; and as matthew followed his Master day by day, he saw more and more clearly how all the old prophecies which he knew so well pointed to the coming of Christ.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000018_000001|This is why we find in the Gospel according to matthew more quotations from the Old Testament than in the writings of any of the other evangelists.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000019_000000|'See, My Book has always spoken of the coming of My Son.' This is the wonderful message which God gave to the world through Matthew's knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000020_000000|Years passed, and those who had seen Christ in His earthly life had nearly all died, while Gentile Christians everywhere were asking eagerly for the written story of His life.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000021_000000|Twenty years after Matthew's Gospel was written, God called a Greek scholar, named luke, to write what was to be a most important part of our Bible.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000022_000001|This is because the whole work is written from the Gentile point of view-it is the world's history of Christ.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000024_000001|fourteen), and besides being highly educated and gifted, he took infinite pains with his work.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000024_000002|He collected all the information he could both from books and eye witnesses-either from the Saviour's Mother herself, or from some of her relations-and to him we owe many of the most beautiful and touching facts of our Lord's life on earth.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000025_000000|Written last of all, we have the good news-that is, Gospel, told by saint John.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000026_000000|When the Saviour ascended into Heaven, john was still a young man, but he lived to be older than all the other Apostles.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000026_000001|By the time that saint John wrote his Gospel, Jerusalem had been destroyed and her inhabitants slain or scattered.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000026_000002|He was able, therefore, to mention details, and give the actual names of people and places, which, if told earlier, might have endangered the lives of those of whom he wrote.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000027_000000|Many instances of this will be found by those who read carefully.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000028_000000|So filled with love was the Apostle john that before he died his spirit became altogether one with Christ's spirit, and the sayings of Jesus, which he had only half understood whilst his Master had walked this earth, grew quite clear to him, so that he remembered them distinctly.
train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000029_000000|Therefore, that others might understand also, God's Spirit called john, when he was an old man, to write out those precious words of Jesus Christ's which were always echoing in his heart, and which the other writers had not known, or had forgotten.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000002_000000|SOME OTHER WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000004_000000|Let us now look at the rest of the books which make up the New Testament.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000004_000001|In the days when Paul preached at Athens, the old capital of Greece, much of the ancient splendour and power of the Greek people had passed away, for the romans had conquered their country, and they were no longer a free nation.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000005_000000|Yet, although the Greeks had been forced to yield to Rome, their conquerors knew that the Grecian scholars and artists were far better educated and more highly gifted than themselves, and Greek statues and writings had therefore become the fashion throughout the Roman Empire. Indeed, many of the Greek sculptors and authors are remembered and admired to this day.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000005_000001|Homer, the greatest Greek poet, who lived about a thousand years b c, is still world famous.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000007_000000|The picture it gives of the old heathen religion is terrible, for Homer described the 'gods' and 'goddesses' in whom he believed as being far more cruel and unjust than the worst men and women of his time. According to his ideas, Jupiter, Diana, Apollo, Mars, and the rest came down to earth and took part in the battle.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000008_000000|In vain did the great hero, Hector, fight his bravest; in vain did he sacrifice himself, and strive to make up for the wrong doing of his brother; he failed utterly, for Homer tells us that he was hated by some of the 'gods' for no fault of his own, and so they doomed him to destruction, and guided the hand of the man who slew him.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000008_000001|How little those clever Greeks had been able to discover of the mercy and justice of God!
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000009_000000|But although the men of this great nation knew nothing of our wise and loving Heavenly Father, He knew and loved them every one, and as we have seen, He called a Greek Christian author to help Him in the wonderful work of writing the Bible.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000012_000000|The Apostle Paul's life would be almost a blank.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000012_000001|Stephen's victorious death would be all unknown to us.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000012_000002|Above all, the story of our Saviour's ascension into Heaven, and the marvellous fulfilment of His promises in the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, would have been left untold.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000013_000000|The Book of the Acts stands alone.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000014_000000|There are four Gospels-written from four different points of view, but of the four writers, luke, the Greek, was the only one who wrote a sequel and showed the results which our Saviour's Life, and Death, and Resurrection produced at once in the world.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000015_000000|The marvellous accuracy of saint Luke and his keen observation become every year more striking as fresh discoveries in the lands of which he wrote show how true he is in the tiniest detail; while his modesty is equally remarkable, for only by carefully noticing when he says 'we' and when 'they' can we discover when he shared saint Paul's dangers and trials.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000017_000001|eleven) wrote the Apostle from his Roman prison.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000017_000002|The beloved physician was faithful to his great leader to the last.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000018_000001|He wrote on papyrus-that is, on reed paper, using an ink like black paint, and a reed pen.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000020_000001|luke.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000021_000000|Homer's book belongs to the forgotten past, for the heathen religion of Greece is to day as though it had never been.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000022_000000|But the writings of saint Luke are as full of blessing and power as ever, and the war he wrote about grows more wonderful every day.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000023_000000|The Apostle peter, in contrast to saint Luke, was only a fisherman when the Lord bade him leave his boat and his nets to preach and teach the Gospel.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000024_000000|His ideas were very limited when Jesus Christ first came into his life, and he knew little or nothing of the various branches of knowledge which had become a second nature to the Greek scholar; but the fisherman was to receive his education in a very different fashion from luke, for his teacher was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000025_000000|How impossible it would have seemed to peter, in the days when he washed his nets by the Lake of Galilee, that his writings should ever form a part of the Scriptures-God's Book, which he had learned from his childhood to love and reverence!
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000026_000000|Yet with God all things are possible.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000027_000001|Thus it is that Peter's contribution to our Bible has become one of the strongest witnesses to the truth of the words written down in the Gospels.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000027_000002|There is no possibility of a mistake; the man who wrote this Epistle could have been none other than the Apostle peter who had been with the Lord from the beginning of His public work.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000030_000001|eight.) 'Charity' should have been translated 'love.'
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000034_000000|This Epistle of saint Peter was written, we believe, to comfort God's people under the heavy trial of Paul's second imprisonment.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000036_000002|This vow is often mentioned in the Old Testament.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000036_000003|james had not believed that Jesus Christ was the Saviour of the world until after His Resurrection, when the Lord appeared to him.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000036_000005|seven.)
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000038_000002|three we learn that he was one of the Lord's brethren, and, like his brother, james, did not believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah until after the Resurrection. This jude must not be confused with the Apostle jude.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000039_000000|These writers of the New Testament as they took their reed pens in their hands, and spread out their rolls of whitey brown papyrus paper, were not like Moses.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000039_000001|True, they knew that the Holy Spirit was bidding them write, but that their written words should ever be used by God to form a part of the Bible would have seemed impossible to them all.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000041_000000|The last and by far the latest writer of God's Book was saint John, the beloved disciple.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000043_000000|Three of the shortest and yet most beautiful Books of the Bible are the three epistles which bear John's name.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000043_000002|It may well be then that these calm and loving letters were the last of all the Bible words to be written.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000044_000000|Now the 'revelation,' though placed at the end of our Bible, was not the last Book to be written.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000045_000000|It was probably composed whilst Nero, the wicked Emperor, was torturing and burning the followers of Christ.
train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000046_000000|Among the fragments of the oldest Bibles in the world recently discovered, the Book of revelation takes a prominent place.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000003_000000|THE FIRST BIBLE PICTURES
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000005_000000|Those boys and girls who love their Bibles are fond of Bible pictures. Even tiny children delight to see a picture of Jesus Christ holding the little ones in His arms; and how sad children feel when they are shown a painting or engraving of the Saviour led away to die!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000006_000000|We have learnt much now of the Bible, and of how the Old and New Testaments were written, but who first thought of making pictures from the Bible?
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000008_000000|A few miles from the city of Rome, deep, deep underground, are those wonderful networks of galleries and chambers called 'The Catacombs.'
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000009_000000|'Catacomb' means 'scooped out.' Miles and miles of passages are there, some low and narrow, others wide and lofty; they cross and re cross each other, like the streets of a town, and all are scooped out of the solid earth.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000011_000000|For all this great underground city is in reality one huge cemetery: the quiet resting place where the first Christians of heathen Rome buried their dead, where the martyred bodies so cruelly tortured by Nero were laid at last.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000012_000000|How wonderful to read the names of those who loved Christ and suffered for His sake so long, long ago!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000012_000001|Their very names speak to us of the courage and joy which, in spite of torture, Christ had brought into their lives.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000014_000000|'Rest,' 'Constancy,' 'God's will.' Many names have meanings like these.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000015_000001|Our beloved mother, our little child, our dear brother is with Christ; the parting is only for a time. Yonder, in our beautiful Heavenly Home, we shall meet once more.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000016_000000|How different from the words carved over heathen tombs!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000016_000001|We know what these were like, for not very far away is a heathen catacomb.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000017_000001|So the Christian woman was laid to rest.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000019_000000|'Spare your tears, dear husband and daughter, and believe that it is forbidden to weep for one who lives in God.' How beautiful to know that we shall one day meet the woman in Heaven of whom these words are written!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000020_000000|Now, about the time of Nero's cruel persecution, the Christians of Rome began to use the Catacombs for meetings and services.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000020_000001|Their heathen tormentors had a horror of death, and therefore among the quiet dead the Christians were safe for a while.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000021_000000|So they met deep underground in the dim galleries, their little oil lamps twinkling like stars, and there they listened to the Word of God, and prayed and sang together.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000022_000000|Many touching stories are told of these days; and of the meetings held underground in these Catacombs, where the living were surrounded by the bodies of the martyred dead.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000023_000000|Now, these first Christians loved the Bible with all their hearts, and just as you like to see hanging in your room the picture of the Good Shepherd with the little lamb, so they began to long for pictures from their Bible.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000023_000001|Every heathen Roman had his house decorated with pictures and carvings from his pagan religion, but it was in the dim underground galleries that the first Bible pictures appeared.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000024_000000|Some of the subjects were taken from the Old Testament, some from the New.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000024_000001|Only Bible pictures interested the first Christians.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000025_000002|So will God keep safe all those who trust in Him.'
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000026_000000|There are many pictures of jonah and the whale, and one of the three children in the burning fiery furnace, for this had special messages for the martyrs as we can well understand.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000028_000001|The artist who carved this had once been a heathen; perhaps in former days he had made and sold idols, but now all his life and talents were consecrated to God.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000029_000000|And here carved in stone, is the Good Shepherd, Christ bearing the lost lamb on His shoulder, just as He does in the picture you love so well at home; Christ, the Good Shepherd of your life, just as surely as He was the Saviour and Friend of these men and women who fell asleep so long ago!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000031_000000|Now, there is one very wonderful thing about all these pictures: although so many martyrs lie buried here, nearly all the pictures and inscriptions are cheerful!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000032_000000|The heathen Roman writers tell a great deal about the dreadful sufferings of the Christians, but there is very little said about it on the tombs of the martyrs themselves.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000033_000000|How thoroughly these first Christians knew their Bible!
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000033_000002|Had all the writings of the New Testament been lost, we should have known the most important events of our Lord's life on earth from these faded paintings and worn carvings alone.
train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000034_000001|This is the message which these first Bible pictures bring to us all.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000001_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000002_000000|ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000000|There is a strange sensation often experienced in the presence of an audience.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000001|It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes that turn upon the speaker, especially if he permits himself to steadily return that gaze.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000002|Most speakers have been conscious of this in a nameless thrill, a real something, pervading the atmosphere, tangible, evanescent, indescribable.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000003|All writers have borne testimony to the power of a speaker's eye in impressing an audience.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000008_000000|Apply horse sense to ridding yourself of self consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000008_000001|You can never attain freedom from stage fright by reading a treatise.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000009_000001|You must learn to speak by speaking.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000010_000000|The Apostle Paul tells us that every man must work out his own salvation.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000010_000001|All we can do here is to offer you suggestions as to how best to prepare for your plunge.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000010_000002|The real plunge no one can take for you.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000000|Do not be disheartened if at first you suffer from stage fright.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000001|Dan Patch was more susceptible to suffering than a superannuated dray horse would be.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000002|It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000003|A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000004|The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000015_000000|Apply the blacksmith's homely principle when you are speaking.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000000|Self consciousness is undue consciousness of self, and, for the purpose of delivery, self is secondary to your subject, not only in the opinion of the audience, but, if you are wise, in your own.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000001|To hold any other view is to regard yourself as an exhibit instead of as a messenger with a message worth delivering.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000002|Do you remember Elbert Hubbard's tremendous little tract, "A Message to Garcia"?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000003|The youth subordinated himself to the message he bore.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000006|Say this to yourself sternly, and shame your self consciousness into quiescence.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000007|If the theater caught fire you could rush to the stage and shout directions to the audience without any self consciousness, for the importance of what you were saying would drive all fear thoughts out of your mind.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000017_000000|Far worse than self consciousness through fear of doing poorly is self consciousness through assumption of doing well.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000017_000001|The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000017_000002|Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise."
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000000|Nothing advertises itself so thoroughly as conceit.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000002|Voltaire said, "We must conceal self love." But that can not be done.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000003|You know this to be true, for you have recognized overweening self love in others.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000005|There are things in this world bigger than self, and in working for them self will be forgotten, or-what is better-remembered only so as to help us win toward higher things.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000000|The trouble with many speakers is that they go before an audience with their minds a blank.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000001|It is no wonder that nature, abhorring a vacuum, fills them with the nearest thing handy, which generally happens to be, "I wonder if I am doing this right!
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000002|How does my hair look?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000003|I know I shall fail." Their prophetic souls are sure to be right.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000000|It is not enough to be absorbed by your subject-to acquire self confidence you must have something in which to be confident.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000001|If you go before an audience without any preparation, or previous knowledge of your subject, you ought to be self conscious-you ought to be ashamed to steal the time of your audience.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000002|Prepare yourself.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000003|Know what you are going to talk about, and, in general, how you are going to say it.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000004|Have the first few sentences worked out completely so that you may not be troubled in the beginning to find words.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000005|Know your subject better than your hearers know it, and you have nothing to fear.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000023_000000|Let your bearing be modestly confident, but most of all be modestly confident within.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000023_000001|Over confidence is bad, but to tolerate premonitions of failure is worse, for a bold man may win attention by his very bearing, while a rabbit hearted coward invites disaster.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000024_000000|Humility is not the personal discount that we must offer in the presence of others-against this old interpretation there has been a most healthy modern reaction.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000025_000000|Washington Irving once introduced Charles Dickens at a dinner given in the latter's honor.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000025_000001|In the middle of his speech Irving hesitated, became embarrassed, and sat down awkwardly.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000025_000002|Turning to a friend beside him he remarked, "There, I told you I would fail, and I did."
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000026_000000|If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000026_000001|You will.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000027_000000|Rid yourself of this I am a poor worm in the dust idea.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000027_000001|You are a god, with infinite capabilities.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000027_000002|"All things are ready if the mind be so." The eagle looks the cloudless sun in the face.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000001|Either you or your audience are going to possess the positive factor.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000003|If you assume the negative you are sure to be negative.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000005|Summon all your power of self direction, and remember that though your audience is infinitely more important than you, the truth is more important than both of you, because it is eternal.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000006|If your mind falters in its leadership the sword will drop from your hands.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000007|Your assumption of being able to instruct or lead or inspire a multitude or even a small group of people may appall you as being colossal impudence-as indeed it may be; but having once essayed to speak, be courageous.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000030_000000|Reflect that your audience will not hurt you.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000031_000000|In facing your audience, pause a moment and look them over-a hundred chances to one they want you to succeed, for what man is so foolish as to spend his time, perhaps his money, in the hope that you will waste his investment by talking dully?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000033_000000|Do not make haste to begin-haste shows lack of control.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000034_000000|Do not apologize.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000034_000001|It ought not to be necessary; and if it is, it will not help.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000034_000002|Go straight ahead.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000035_000001|You will not find it half so bad as you imagined; really, it is like taking a cold plunge: after you are in, the water is fine.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000035_000002|In fact, having spoken a few times you will even anticipate the plunge with exhilaration.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000035_000004|Instead of fearing it, you ought to be as anxious as the fox hounds straining at their leashes, or the race horses tugging at their reins.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000000|So cast out fear, for fear is cowardly-when it is not mastered.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000001|The bravest know fear, but they do not yield to it.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000003|In your audience lies some victory for you and the cause you represent.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000004|Go win it.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000007|But remember that men erect no monuments and weave no laurels for those who fear to do what they can.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000037_000000|Is all this unsympathetic, do you say?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000038_000000|Man, what you need is not sympathy, but a push.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000038_000001|No one doubts that temperament and nerves and illness and even praiseworthy modesty may, singly or combined, cause the speaker's cheek to blanch before an audience, but neither can any one doubt that coddling will magnify this weakness.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000039_000000|In this foundation chapter we have tried to strike the tone of much that is to follow.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000040_000000|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000041_000000|one.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000041_000001|What is the cause of self consciousness?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000042_000001|Why are animals free from it?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000043_000000|three.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000043_000001|What is your observation regarding self consciousness in children?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000044_000001|Why are you free from it under the stress of unusual excitement?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000045_000000|five.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000046_000000|six.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000046_000002|Which is the more important?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000047_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000047_000001|What effect does confidence on the part of the speaker have on the audience?
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000048_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000048_000001|Write out a two minute speech on "Confidence and Cowardice."
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000049_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000049_000002|In this connection read the chapter on "Right Thinking and Personality."
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000050_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000050_000001|Write out very briefly any experience you may have had involving the teachings of this chapter.
train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000051_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000001_000000|Chapter ten
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000002_000000|A MARRIAGE CONTRACT
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000002|He invests his property.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000003|He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000005|Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000007|Where does he come from?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000008|Shares.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000009|Where is he going to?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000011|What are his tastes?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000012|Shares. Has he any principles?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000014|What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000015|Perhaps he never of himself achieved success in anything, never originated anything, never produced anything?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000002|Wards of his, perhaps?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000003|Yet that can scarcely be, for they are older than himself. Veneering has been in their confidence throughout, and has done much to lure them to the altar.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000004|He has mentioned to Twemlow how he said to Mrs Veneering, 'Anastatia, this must be a match.' He has mentioned to Twemlow how he regards Sophronia Akershem (the mature young lady) in the light of a sister, and Alfred Lammle (the mature young gentleman) in the light of a brother.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000006|He has answered, 'Not exactly.' Whether Sophronia was adopted by his mother?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000007|He has answered, 'Not precisely so.' Twemlow's hand has gone to his forehead with a lost air.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000007_000000|'My dear Twemlow,' says Veneering, 'your ready response to Anastatia's unceremonious invitation is truly kind, and like an old, old friend.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000008_000001|Not, however, that he has the least notion of its being his own case.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000009_000000|'Our friends, Alfred and Sophronia,' pursues Veneering the veiled prophet: 'our friends Alfred and Sophronia, you will be glad to hear, my dear fellows, are going to be married.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000009_000001|As my wife and I make it a family affair the entire direction of which we take upon ourselves, of course our first step is to communicate the fact to our family friends.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000010_000000|('Oh!' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes on Podsnap, 'then there are only two of us, and he's the other.')
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000011_000000|'I did hope,' Veneering goes on, 'to have had Lady Tippins to meet you; but she is always in request, and is unfortunately engaged.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000013_000000|'Mortimer Lightwood,' resumes Veneering, 'whom you both know, is out of town; but he writes, in his whimsical manner, that as we ask him to be bridegroom's best man when the ceremony takes place, he will not refuse, though he doesn't see what he has to do with it.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000014_000000|('Oh!' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes rolling, 'then there are four of us, and HE'S the other.')
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000016_000000|('Then,' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes shut, 'there are si-' But here collapses and does not completely recover until dinner is over and the Analytical has been requested to withdraw.)
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000017_000000|'We now come,' says Veneering, 'to the point, the real point, of our little family consultation.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000017_000001|Sophronia, having lost both father and mother, has no one to give her away.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000000|'My dear Podsnap, no
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000002|Firstly, because I couldn't take so much upon myself when I have respected family friends to remember.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000003|Secondly, because I am not so vain as to think that I look the part.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000004|Thirdly, because Anastatia is a little superstitious on the subject and feels averse to my giving away anybody until baby is old enough to be married.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000021_000000|'My dear Mr Podsnap, it's very foolish I know, but I have an instinctive presentiment that if Hamilton gave away anybody else first, he would never give away baby.' Thus Mrs Veneering; with her open hands pressed together, and each of her eight aquiline fingers looking so very like her one aquiline nose that the bran new jewels on them seem necessary for distinction's sake.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000022_000000|'But, my dear Podsnap,' quoth Veneering, 'there IS a tried friend of our family who, I think and hope you will agree with me, Podsnap, is the friend on whom this agreeable duty almost naturally devolves.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000022_000001|That friend,' saying the words as if the company were about a hundred and fifty in number, 'is now among us.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000022_000002|That friend is Twemlow.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000023_000000|'Certainly!' From Podsnap.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000024_000000|'That friend,' Veneering repeats with greater firmness, 'is our dear good Twemlow.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000026_000001|Also how the fair bride was married from the house of Hamilton Veneering, Esquire, of Stucconia, and was given away by Melvin Twemlow, Esquire, of Duke Street, saint James's, second cousin to Lord Snigsworth, of Snigsworthy Park.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000026_000002|While perusing which composition, Twemlow makes some opaque approach to perceiving that if the Reverend Blank Blank and the Reverend Dash Dash fail, after this introduction, to become enrolled in the list of Veneering's dearest and oldest friends, they will have none but themselves to thank for it.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000027_000001|And after her, appears Alfred (whom Twemlow has seen once in his lifetime), to do the same and to make a pasty sort of glitter, as if he were constructed for candle light only, and had been let out into daylight by some grand mistake.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000028_000005|A waste, a waste, a waste, my Twemlow!' And so drops asleep, and has galvanic starts all over him.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000029_000001|Who, who, who? Why, why, why?') begins to be dyed and varnished for the interesting occasion.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000029_000003|Whereabout in the bonnet and drapery announced by her name, any fragment of the real woman may be concealed, is perhaps known to her maid; but you could easily buy all you see of her, in Bond Street; or you might scalp her, and peel her, and scrape her, and make two Lady Tippinses out of her, and yet not penetrate to the genuine article.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000029_000004|She has a large gold eye glass, has Lady Tippins, to survey the proceedings with.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000030_000000|'Mortimer, you wretch,' says Lady Tippins, turning the eyeglass about and about, 'where is your charge, the bridegroom?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000032_000000|'Miserable!
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000032_000001|Is that the way you do your duty?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000034_000000|Eugene is also in attendance, with a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral, and of being disappointed.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000000|But, hark!
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000001|A carriage at the gate, and Mortimer's man arrives, looking rather like a spurious Mephistopheles and an unacknowledged member of that gentleman's family.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000002|Whom Lady Tippins, surveying through her eye glass, considers a fine man, and quite a catch; and of whom Mortimer remarks, in the lowest spirits, as he approaches, 'I believe this is my fellow, confound him!' More carriages at the gate, and lo the rest of the characters.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000003|Whom Lady Tippins, standing on a cushion, surveying through the eye glass, thus checks off.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000004|'Bride; five and forty if a day, thirty shillings a yard, veil fifteen pound, pocket handkerchief a present.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000005|Bridesmaids; kept down for fear of outshining bride, consequently not girls, twelve and sixpence a yard, Veneering's flowers, snub nosed one rather pretty but too conscious of her stockings, bonnets three pound ten.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000007|Mrs Veneering; never saw such velvet, say two thousand pounds as she stands, absolute jeweller's window, father must have been a pawnbroker, or how could these people do it?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000008|Attendant unknowns; pokey.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000000|Ceremony performed, register signed, Lady Tippins escorted out of sacred edifice by Veneering, carriages rolling back to Stucconia, servants with favours and flowers, Veneering's house reached, drawing rooms most magnificent.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000001|Here, the Podsnaps await the happy party; Mr Podsnap, with his hair brushes made the most of; that imperial rocking horse, Mrs Podsnap, majestically skittish.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000004|Veneering launching himself upon this trustee as his oldest friend (which makes seven, Twemlow thought), and confidentially retiring with him into the conservatory, it is understood that Veneering is his co trustee, and that they are arranging about the fortune.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000006|Pokey unknowns, amazed to find how intimately they know Veneering, pluck up spirit, fold their arms, and begin to contradict him before breakfast.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000007|What time Mrs Veneering, carrying baby dressed as a bridesmaid, flits about among the company, emitting flashes of many coloured lightning from diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000037_000000|The Analytical, in course of time achieving what he feels to be due to himself in bringing to a dignified conclusion several quarrels he has on hand with the pastrycook's men, announces breakfast.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000037_000002|Splendid cake, covered with Cupids, silver, and true lovers' knots.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000037_000003|Splendid bracelet, produced by Veneering before going down, and clasped upon the arm of bride.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000038_000000|Another dismal circumstance is, that Veneering, having the captivating Tippins on one side of him and the bride's aunt on the other, finds it immensely difficult to keep the peace.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000038_000002|And this snort being regular in its reproduction, at length comes to be expected by the company, who make embarrassing pauses when it is falling due, and by waiting for it, render it more emphatic when it comes.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000038_000004|Aware of her enemy, Lady Tippins tries a youthful sally or two, and tries the eye glass; but, from the impenetrable cap and snorting armour of the stoney aunt all weapons rebound powerless.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000039_000000|Another objectionable circumstance is, that the pokey unknowns support each other in being unimpressible.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000039_000001|They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice pails.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000039_000002|They even seem to unite in some vague utterance of the sentiment that the landlord and landlady will make a pretty good profit out of this, and they almost carry themselves like customers.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000040_000000|In which state of affairs, the usual ceremonies rather droop and flag, and the splendid cake when cut by the fair hand of the bride has but an indigestible appearance.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000042_000000|All over, that is to say, for the time being.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000042_000001|But, there is another time to come, and it comes in about a fortnight, and it comes to Mr and Mrs Lammle on the sands at Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000043_000001|As if he were of the Mephistopheles family indeed, and had walked with a drooping tail.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000045_000000|Thus he begins after a long silence, when Sophronia flashes fiercely, and turns upon him.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000047_000000|Mr Lammle falls silent again, and they walk as before.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000047_000001|Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000049_000001|'The what?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000051_000000|He is at her side again in a pace or two, and he retorts, 'That is not what you said.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000051_000001|You said disingenuousness.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000052_000000|'What if I did?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000053_000000|'There is no "if" in the case.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000053_000001|You did.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000054_000001|And what of it?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000055_000000|'What of it?' says Mr Lammle. 'Have you the face to utter the word to me?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000056_000000|'The face, too!' replied Mrs Lammle, staring at him with cold scorn. 'Pray, how dare you, sir, utter the word to me?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000057_000000|'I never did.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000059_000000|After a little more walking and a little more silence, Mr Lammle breaks the latter.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000060_000001|You claim a right to ask me do I mean to tell you.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000060_000002|Do I mean to tell you what?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000061_000000|'That you are a man of property?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000062_000000|'no'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000063_000000|'Then you married me on false pretences?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000065_000000|'no'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000067_000000|'If you were so dull a fortune hunter that you deceived yourself, or if you were so greedy and grasping that you were over willing to be deceived by appearances, is it my fault, you adventurer?' the lady demands, with great asperity.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000068_000000|'I asked Veneering, and he told me you were rich.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000069_000000|'Veneering!' with great contempt.' And what does Veneering know about me!'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000070_000000|'Was he not your trustee?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000071_000001|I have no trustee, but the one you saw on the day when you fraudulently married me.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000072_000000|Mr Lammle bestows a by no means loving look upon the partner of his joys and sorrows, and he mutters something; but checks himself.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000073_000000|'Question for question.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000074_000000|'You made me suppose you so.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000075_000000|'But you asked somebody, too.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000076_000000|'I asked Veneering.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000080_000000|'Neither will I,' returns the bridegroom.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000081_000000|With that, they walk again; she, making those angry spirts in the sand; he, dragging that dejected tail.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000081_000004|A taunting roar comes from the sea, and the far out rollers mount upon one another, to look at the entrapped impostors, and to join in impish and exultant gambols.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000082_000000|'Do you pretend to believe,' Mrs Lammle resumes, sternly, 'when you talk of my marrying you for worldly advantages, that it was within the bounds of reasonable probability that I would have married you for yourself?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000083_000001|What do you pretend to believe?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000085_000001|I have originated nothing.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000086_000000|'Was mine!' the bride repeats, and her parasol breaks in her angry hand.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000088_000000|'Throw it away,' he coolly recommends as to the parasol; 'you have made it useless; you look ridiculous with it.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000089_000000|Whereupon she calls him in her rage, 'A deliberate villain,' and so casts the broken thing from her as that it strikes him in falling.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000001|Then she says that if she had the courage to kill herself, she would do it.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000002|Then she calls him vile impostor.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000003|Then she asks him, why, in the disappointment of his base speculation, he does not take her life with his own hand, under the present favourable circumstances.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000004|Then she cries again.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000008|Also his livid lips are parted at last, as if he were breathless with running. Yet he is not.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000092_000000|She sits upon her stone, and takes no heed of him.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000093_000000|'Get up, I tell you.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000094_000000|Raising her head, she looks contemptuously in his face, and repeats, 'You tell me!
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000094_000001|Tell me, forsooth!'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000096_000002|Do you hear?
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000096_000003|Get up.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000098_000002|In a nut shell, there's the state of the case.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000099_000000|'You sought me out-'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000100_000005|I am disappointed and cut a poor figure.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000101_000000|'Am I no one?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000102_000001|You, too, are disappointed and cut a poor figure.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000103_000000|'An injured figure!'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000104_000000|'You are now cool enough, Sophronia, to see that you can't be injured without my being equally injured; and that therefore the mere word is not to the purpose.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000104_000001|When I look back, I wonder how I can have been such a fool as to take you to so great an extent upon trust.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000105_000000|'And when I look back-' the bride cries, interrupting.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000106_000000|'And when you look back, you wonder how you can have been-you'll excuse the word?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000108_000002|I cannot get rid of you; you cannot get rid of me.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000001|A mutual understanding follows, and I think it may carry us through.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000002|Here I split my discourse (give me your arm, Sophronia), into three heads, to make it shorter and plainer.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000003|Firstly, it's enough to have been done, without the mortification of being known to have been done.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000004|So we agree to keep the fact to ourselves.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000112_000000|'Possible!
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000112_000001|We have pretended well enough to one another.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000112_000003|Agreed.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000112_000004|Secondly, we owe the Veneerings a grudge, and we owe all other people the grudge of wishing them to be taken in, as we ourselves have been taken in.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000113_000001|Agreed.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000000|'We come smoothly to thirdly.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000004|So are you, my dear.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000005|So are many people.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000006|We agree to keep our own secret, and to work together in furtherance of our own schemes.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000115_000000|'What schemes?'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000117_000000|She answers, after a little hesitation, 'I suppose so.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000117_000001|Agreed.'
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000118_000001|Now, Sophronia, only half a dozen words more. We know one another perfectly.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000118_000004|To wind up all:--You have shown temper today, Sophronia.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000119_000000|So, the happy pair, with this hopeful marriage contract thus signed, sealed, and delivered, repair homeward.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000119_000001|If, when those infernal finger marks were on the white and breathless countenance of Alfred Lammle, Esquire, they denoted that he conceived the purpose of subduing his dear wife Mrs Alfred Lammle, by at once divesting her of any lingering reality or pretence of self respect, the purpose would seem to have been presently executed.
train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000119_000002|The mature young lady has mighty little need of powder, now, for her downcast face, as he escorts her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty four
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000003_000000|It was the wedding day of four happy people.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000003_000001|The day was bright, the sky blue, and Sherwood had taken upon itself early summer raiment.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000004_000000|The old church of Nottingham was already crowded to excess.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000006_000002|Richard meant to employ these fellows shrewdly and test their loyalty.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000007_000000|The hour was reached, and at once a small company was seen issuing forth from Nottingham Castle.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000008_000004|Arthur a Bland, with a gold chain about his neck, given him by the knight Sir Richard, walked with Middle the Tinker on his left and Much the Miller on his right.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000009_000000|They came to the lych gate, and the crowd jostled itself in its admiration.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000009_000001|As they walked, rather consciously, up the narrow path between the smiling ranks of their fellows the crowd cheered them radiantly.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000011_000001|For Robin Hood and Will Scarlett the Bishop had enmity and contempt, but towards the Earls of Huntingdon and Nottingham this time serving man could only profess an abundance of respect.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000012_000000|The brides were to be escorted from Gamewell by no other person than the King himself.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000012_000001|He was to give them both in marriage, and had promised them jewels and to spare when they were come to Court.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000013_000001|The people were wild with joy at having their King amongst them like this.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000014_000001|As the King jumped down from his horse before the lych gate, and held out his strong hand to help the brides from off their milk white mares, the whole place became alive with excitement and rapture.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000015_000000|Little maids, with baskets of violets and primroses, flung their offerings prettily under the feet of the two beauteous blushing brides, who leaned so timidly upon the King's proud arms.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000016_000001|The Bishop had spoken the Latin service impressively and with unction.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000017_000000|In the first row stood Monceux, in all the pomp of his shrievalty, with his councilmen and aldermen.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000017_000001|Master Simeon, with face leaner than ever and inturning eyes, glared impotently at the chief actors in this historic scene.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000018_000002|But now that the double marriage was nearly made she suddenly appeared, thrusting her way rudely through the gathered crowd at the church door.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000018_000003|She was wild eyed, dishevelled, her dress fastened all awry.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000018_000004|Folks looked once at her, and then exchanged glances between themselves.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000019_000000|"Stay this mockery of marriage, my lord," she cried, fiercely facing the Bishop.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000020_000002|Is no crime too great for you?"
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000021_000001|Seize this woman, some of you, and take her without. I will deal with her later." He imperiously signed to his guards, and at once the demoiselle was gripped harshly by both arms.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000023_000002|At the door of the church she turned once as though to renew her preposterous charges, but contented herself merely with a single glance towards them of malignant hate.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000023_000003|Then she was gone; and people stirred themselves uneasily, as folks do when having been within touch of the plague.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000024_000001|When he saw that she was gone, that the dreadful episode was done, he gasped hurriedly and sat down.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000025_000001|Then all signed their names in the church books, and the trumpeters and heralds made music for them.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000000|They returned through the streets of Nottingham, gay now with flags and merry with a joyful populace.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000003|All the treasure that they had accumulated in their caves at Barnesdale the King's bowmen freely distributed this day.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000004|All were happy-the nightmare of unjust dealings, of Norman oppression, of laws for the poor and none for the rich, was ended.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000005|The King had said it, and the King had already made good the promise in his words.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000027_000001|Sir Richard of the Lee and his son became members of the Star Chamber, with grants of land in perpetuity.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000000|Turning to Marian, the King wished her every joy that she could wish herself, and gave to her the lands of Broadweald in Lancashire to hold in her own right for ever.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000001|"Thus you shall have wealth to share with your Robin; and I counsel you both to make good use of your days.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000002|My subjects who are loyal to me shall have no cause to regret it.
train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000005|Help her to administer her riches, Geoffrey, wisely and well; and be you all ready when I shall call upon you.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000003_000000|CHOICE OF PUNISHMENTS.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000001|Then the Bishop came in with the Lady Superior, and the Abbess who had charge of the kitchen when I left.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000002|The Bishop read to me three punishments of which he said, I could take my choice.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000003|First.--To fast five days in the fasting room.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000005|Third.--To fast four days, in the cell.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000007|At first, I thought I did not care, and I said I had no choice about it; but when I came to see the rooms, I was thankful that I was not allowed to abide by that decision.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000005_000000|I was blindfolded, and taken to the lime room first.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000005_000002|At length we entered a room where the atmosphere seemed laden with hot vapor.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000005_000006|Around the sides of the room, a great number of hooks and chains were fastened to the wall, and a large hook hung in the center overhead.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000000|The priest directed me to stand upon the bench, and turning to the men, he bade them raise the door.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000002|Surprised and terrified, I stood wondering what was to come next.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000003|At my feet yawned a deep pit, from which, arose a suffocating vapor, so hot, it almost scorched my face and nearly stopped my breath.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000004|The priest pointed to the heaving, tumbling billows of smoke that were rolling below, and; asked, "How would you like to be thrown into the lime?" "Not at all," I gasped, in a voice scarcely audible, "it would burn me to death." I suppose he thought I was sufficiently frightened, for he bade his men close the door.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000003|But the sight that met my eyes when my blinder was removed, I cannot describe, nor the sensations with which I gazed upon it.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000004|I can only give the reader some faint idea of the place, which, they said, was called the fasting room, and here incorrigible offenders fasted until they starved to death.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000005|Nor was this all.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000006|Their dead bodies were not even allowed a decent burial, but were suffered to remain in the place where they died, until the work of death was complete and dust returned to dust.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000007|Thus the atmosphere became a deadly poison to the next poor victim who was left to breathe the noxious effluvia of corruption and decay.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000009|In this room were placed several large iron kettles, so deep that a person could sit in them, and many of them contained the remains of human beings.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000010|In one the corpse looked as though it had been dead but a short time.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000002|Was I to meet a fate like this?
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000003|I might, perchance, escape it for that time, but what assurance had I that I was not ultimately destined to such an end?
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000004|These thoughts filled my mind, as I followed the priest from the room; and for a long time I continued to speculate upon what I had seen.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000005|They called it the fasting room; but if fasting were the only object, why were they placed in those kettles, instead of being allowed to sit on chairs or benches, or even on the floor?
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000007|Why were they not made of wood?
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000008|It would have answered the purpose quite as well, if fasting or starvation were the only objects in view.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000009|Then came the fearful suggestion, were these kettles ever heated?
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000011|The thought was too shocking to be cherished for a moment; but I could not drive it from my mind.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000009_000003|One end of a long chain was fastened around my waist, and the other firmly secured to an iron ring in the floor; but the chain, though large and heavy, was long enough to allow me to go all over the room.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000009_000004|I could not see how it was lighted, but it must have been in some artificial manner, for it was quite as light at night, as in the day.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000009_000010|I wished to know whether it would really bite me or not, but it looked so frightful I did not dare to hazard the experiment.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000010_000005|I believed them all to be instruments of torture, and I thought they gave me a long chain in the hope and expectation that my curiosity would lead me into some of the numerous traps the room contained.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000011_000001|He would blow white froth from his mouth, but he never spoke to me, and when he went out, he locked the door after him and took away the key.
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000011_000006|And what will he do with it?
train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000011_000008|Or, are the priests on such friendly terms with his satanic majesty that they lend him their keys?
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000002_000000|Fighting the Flames With Dynamite.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000000|Shaken by earthquake, swept by flames, the water supply cut off by the breaking of the mains, the authorities of the doomed city for a time stood appalled.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000001|What could be done to stay the fierce march of the flames which were sweeping resistlessly over palace and hovel alike, over stately hall and miserable hut?
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000002|Water was not to be had; what was to take its place?
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000003|Nothing remained but to meet ruin with ruin, to make a desert in the path of the fire and thus seek to stop its march.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000004|They had dynamite, gunpowder and other explosives, and in the frightful exigency there was nothing else to be used.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000000|While the soldiers under General Funston took military charge of the city, squads of cavalry and troops of infantry patrolling the streets and guarding the sections that had not yet been touched by the flames, Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police Dinan sprang into the breach and prepared to make a desperate charge against the platoons of the fire. This was not all that was needed to be done.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000001|From the "Barbary Coast," as the resort of the vicious and criminal classes was called, hordes of wretches poured out as soon as night fell, seeking to slip through the guards and loot stores and rob the dead in the burning section.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000002|Orders were given to the soldiers to kill all who were engaged in such work, and these orders were carried out.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000003|An associated Press reporter saw three of these thieves shot and fatally wounded, and doubtless others of them were similarly dealt with elsewhere.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000000|A band of fire fighters was quickly organized by the Mayor and Chief of Police, and the devoted firemen put themselves in the face of the flames, determined to do their utmost to stay them in their course.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000001|Cut off from the use of their accustomed engines and water streams, which might have been effective if brought into play at the beginning of the struggle, there was nothing to work with but the dynamite cartridge and the gunpowder mine, and they set bravely to work to do what they could with these.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000002|On every side the roar of explosions could be heard, and the crash of falling walls came to the ear, while people were forced to leave buildings which still stood, but which it was decided must be felled.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000003|Frequently a crash of stone and brick, followed by a cloud of dust, gave warning to pedestrians that destruction was going on in the forefront of the flames, and that travel in such localities was unsafe.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000006_000000|FIGHTING THE FLAMES.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000000|One instance of the peril they ran may be given.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000003|While he was in the building the explosion took place, and he received injuries that seemed likely to prove fatal, his skull being fractured and several bones broken, while he was injured internally.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000004|In the early morning, when the fire reached the municipal building on Portsmouth Square, the nurses, with the aid of soldiers, got out fifty bodies which were in the temporary morgue and a number of patients from the receiving hospital. Just after they reached the street with their gruesome charge a building was blown up, and the flying bricks and splinters came falling upon them.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000005|The nurses fortunately escaped harm, but several of the soldiers were hurt, and had to be taken with the other patients to the out of doors Presidio hospital.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000009_000000|The Southern Pacific Hospital, at Fourteenth and Missouri Streets, was among the buildings destroyed by dynamite, the patients having been removed to places of safety, and the Linda Vista and the Pleasanton, two large family hotels on Jones Street, in the better part of the city, were also among those blown up to stay the progress of the conflagration.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000010_000000|THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE FIRE.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000011_000001|As day broke the flames seized upon this beautiful structure, and the Council was forced to retreat to new quarters.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000011_000002|They finally met in the North End Police Station, on Sacramento Street, and there entered actively upon their duties of seeking to check the progress of the flames, maintain order in the city and control and direct the host of fugitives, many of whom, still in a state of semi panic, were moving helplessly to and fro and sadly needed wise counsels and a helping hand.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000012_000000|The fire fighters meanwhile kept up their indefatigable work under the direction of the Mayor and the chief of their department.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000012_000002|The cloud of despair grew darker still as the report spread that the city's supply of dynamite had given out.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000013_000000|"No more dynamite!
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000014_000000|"No more dynamite!
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000014_000001|O God! no more dynamite!
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000015_000000|A NEW SUPPLY OF EXPLOSIVES.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000017_000000|Had all been like these the entire city would have been doomed, but there were those at the head of affairs who never for a moment gave up their resolution.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000017_000003|Hitherto much of the work had been ignorantly and carelessly done, and by the hasty and premature use of explosives more harm than good had been occasioned.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000018_000000|As the fire continued to spread in spite of the heroic work of the fighting corps, the Committee of Safety called a meeting at noon on Friday and decided to blow up all the residences on the east side of Van Ness Avenue, between Golden Gate and Pacific Avenues, a distance of one mile.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000019_000001|They declared that should the fire cross Van Ness Avenue and the wind continue its earlier direction toward the west, the destruction of San Francisco would be virtually complete.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000019_000002|The district west of Van Ness Avenue and north of McAllister constitutes the finest part of the metropolis.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000019_000003|Here are located all of the finer homes of the well to do and wealthier classes, and the resolution to destroy them was the last resort of desperation.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000020_000000|Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doomed district to warn the people to flee.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000020_000001|They heroically responded to the demand of law and went bravely on their way, leaving their loved homes and trudging painfully over the pavements with the little they could carry away of their treasured possessions.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000021_000000|The reply of a grizzled fire engineer standing at O'Farrell Street and Van Ness Avenue, beside a blackened engine, may not have been as terse as that of Hugo's guardsman at Waterloo, but the pathos of it must have been as great.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000022_000000|"We are waiting for it to come.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000022_000001|When it gets here we will make one more stand.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000022_000002|If it crosses Van Ness Avenue the city is gone."
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000023_000000|THE SAVERS OF THE CITY.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000024_000000|Yet the work now to be done was much too important to be left to the hands of untrained volunteers.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000024_000001|Skilled engineers were needed, men used to the scientific handling of explosives, and it was men of this kind who finally saved what is left to day of the city.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000024_000002|Three men saved San Francisco, so far as any San Francisco existed after the fire had worked its will, these three constituting the dynamite squad who faced and defied the demon at Van Ness Avenue.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000000|When the burning city seemed doomed and the flames lit the sky farther and farther to the west, Admiral McCalla sent a trio of his most trusted men from Mare Island with orders to check the conflagration at any cost of property.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000001|With them they brought a ton and a half of guncotton.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000002|The terrific power of the explosive was equal to the maniac determination of the fire.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000003|Captain MacBride was in charge of the squad, Chief Gunner Adamson placed the charges and the third gunner set them off.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000001|A million dollars' worth of property, noble residences and worthless shacks alike, were blown to drifting dust, but that destruction broke the fire and sent the raging flames back over their own charred path.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000002|The whole east side of Van Ness Avenue, from the Golden Gate to Greenwich, a distance of twenty two blocks, or a mile and a half, was dynamited a block deep, though most of the structures as yet had stood untouched by spark or cinder.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000003|Not one charge failed.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000004|Not one building stood upon its foundation.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000028_000001|Every pound of guncotton did its work, and though the ruins burned, it was but feebly.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000028_000002|From Golden Gate Avenue north the fire crossed the wide street in but one place.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000028_000003|That was at the Claus Spreckels place, on the corner of California Street.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000029_000001|Yet they made their way to the foundations, carrying their explosives, despite the furnace like heat.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000029_000002|The charge had to be placed so swiftly and the fuse lit in such a hurry that the explosion was not quite successful from the trained viewpoint of the gunners.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000029_000003|But though the walls still stood, it was only an empty victory for the fire, as bare brick and smoking ruins are poor food for flames.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000030_000000|Captain MacBride's dynamiting squad had realized that a stand was hopeless except on Van Ness Avenue, their decision thus coinciding with that of the authorities.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000030_000001|They could have forced their explosives farther in the burning section, but not a pound of guncotton could be or was wasted.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000030_000002|The ruined blocks of the wide thoroughfare formed a trench through the clustered structures that the conflagration, wild as it was, could not leap.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000031_000000|The desolate waste straight through the heart of the city remained a mute witness to the most heroic and effective work of the whole calamity.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000031_000001|Three men did this, and when their work was over and what stood of the city rested quietly for the first time, they departed as modestly as they had come.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000031_000002|They were ordered to save San Francisco, and they obeyed orders, and Captain MacBride and his two gunners made history on that dreadful night.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000032_000000|They stayed the march of the conflagration at that critical point, leaving it no channel to spread except along the wharf region, in which its final force was spent.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000032_000001|One side of Van Ness Avenue was gone; the other remained, the fire leaping the broad open space only feebly in a few places, where it was easily extinguished.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000033_000000|In this connection it is well to put on record an interesting circumstance.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000033_000001|This is that there is one place within pistol shot of San Francisco that the earthquake did not touch, that did not lose a chimney or feel a tremor.
train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000033_000002|That spot is Alcatraz Island.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000001_000000|Disaster Spreads Over the Golden State
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000002_000000|The first news that the world received of the earthquake came direct from San Francisco and was confined largely to descriptions of the disaster which had overwhelmed that city.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000002_000001|It was so sudden, so appalling, so tragic in its nature, that for the time being it quite overshadowed the havoc and misery wrought in a number of other California towns of lesser note.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000004_000000|THE DESTRUCTION OF SANTA ROSA.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000005_000000|In Santa Rosa, sixty miles to the north of San Francisco, and one of the most beautiful towns of California, practically every building was destroyed or badly damaged.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000005_000001|The brick and stone business blocks, together with the public buildings, were thrown down.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000005_000002|The Court House, Hall of Records, the Occidental and Santa Rosa Hotels, the Athenaeum Theatre, the new Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows' Block, all the banks, everything went, and in all the city not one brick or stone building was left standing, except the California Northwestern Depot.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000006_000001|From the ruins of the fallen houses fifty eight bodies were taken out and interred during the first few days, and the total of dead and injured was close to a hundred.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000006_000002|The money loss at this small city is estimated at three million dollars.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000007_000000|The destruction of Santa Rosa gave rise to general sorrow among the residents of the interior of the State.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000007_000001|It was one of the show towns of California, and not only one of the most prosperous cities in the fine county of Sonoma, but one of the most picturesque in the State. Surrounding it there were miles of orchards, vineyards and corn fields. The beautiful drives of the city were adorned with bowers of roses, which everywhere were seen growing about the homes of the people.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000007_000002|In its vicinity are the famous gardens of Luther Burbank, the "California wizard," but these fortunately escaped injury.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000000|At San Jose, another very beautiful city of over twenty thousand population, not a single brick or stone building of two stories or over was left standing.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000001|Among those wrecked were the Hall of justice, just completed at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars; the new High School, the Presbyterian Church and saint Patrick's Cathedral.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000002|Numbers of people were caught in the ruins and maimed or killed.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000003|The death list appears to have been small, but the property damage was not less than five million dollars.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000004|The Agnew State Insane Asylum, in the vicinity of San Jose, was entirely destroyed, more than half the inmates being killed or injured.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000009_000000|THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000010_000000|The Leland Stanford junior, University, at Palo Alto (about thirty miles south of San Francisco), felt the full force of the earthquake and was badly wrecked.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000010_000001|Only two lives were lost as a result of the earthquake, one of a student, the other of a fireman, but eight students were injured more or less seriously.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000010_000002|The damage to the buildings is estimated by President Jordan to amount to about four million dollars.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000011_000000|The memorial church, with its twelve marble figures of the apostles, each weighing two tons, was badly injured by the fall of its Gothic spire, which crashed through the roof and demolished much of the interior; the great entrance archway was split in twain and wrecked; so, too, were the library, the gymnasium and the power house.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000011_000001|A number of other buildings in the outer quadrangle and some of the small workshops were seriously damaged.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000012_000000|Encina Hall and the inner quadrangle were practically uninjured, and the bulk of the books, collections and apparatus escaped damage.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000015_000000|THE EARTHQUAKE AT OTHER CITIES.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000016_000000|At Alameda, on the bay opposite San Francisco, a score of chimneys were shaken down and other injuries done.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000016_000001|Railroad tracks were twisted, and over six hundred feet of track of the Oakland Transit Company's railway sank four feet.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000016_000002|The total damage done amounted to probably two hundred thousand dollars, but no lives were lost.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000017_000000|At Los Panos several buildings were wrecked, causing damage to the extent of seventy five thousand dollars, but no lives were lost.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000018_000000|At Loma Prieta the earthquake caused a mine house to slip down the side of a mountain, ten men being buried in the ruins.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000019_000000|Fort Bragg, one of the principal lumbering towns in Mendocino County, was practically wiped out by fire following the earthquake, but out of a population of five thousand only one was killed, though scores were injured.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000020_000000|The town of Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, suffered considerable damage from twisted structures, fallen walls and broken chimneys, the greatest injury being in the collapse of the town hall and the ruin of the deaf and dumb asylum.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000020_000001|The University of California, situated here, was fortunate in escaping injury, it being reported that not a building was harmed in the slightest degree.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000020_000002|Another public edifice of importance and interest, in a different section of the State, the famous Lick Astronomical Observatory, was equally fortunate, no damage being done to the buildings or the instruments.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000021_000000|AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000022_000000|Salinas, a town down the coast near Monterey, suffered severely, the place being to a large extent destroyed, with an estimated loss of over one million dollars.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000022_000001|The Spreckels' sugar factory and a score of other buildings were reported ruined and a number of lives lost.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000022_000002|During the succeeding week several other shocks of some strength were reported from this town.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000023_000000|Thus the ruinous work of the earthquake stretched over a broad track of prosperous, peaceful and happy country, embracing one of the best sections of California, laying waste not only the towns in its path, but doing much damage to ranch houses and country residences.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000023_000001|Strange manifestations of nature were reported from the interior, where the ground was opened in many places like a ploughed field.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000023_000002|Great rents in the earth were reported, and for many miles north from Los Angeles miniature geysers are said to have spouted volcano like streams of hot mud.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000024_000000|Railroad tracks in some localities were badly injured, sinking or lifting, and being put out of service until repaired.
train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000024_000001|In fact, the ruinous effects of the earthquake immensely exceeded those of any similar catastrophe ever before known in the United States, and when the destruction done by the succeeding conflagration in San Francisco is taken into account the California earthquake of nineteen o six takes rank with the most destructive of those recorded in history.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000001_000000|THE BIRD OF PREY BROUGHT DOWN
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000003_000000|'Gaffer's boat, Gaffer in luck again, and yet no Gaffer!' So spake Riderhood, staring disconsolate.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000004_000002|Perhaps fire, like the higher animal and vegetable life it helps to sustain, has its greatest tendency towards death, when the night is dying and the day is not yet born.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000008_000000|Astonished by his friend's unusual heat, Lightwood stared too, and then said: 'What can have become of this man?'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000009_000000|'Can't imagine.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000011_000000|'She's fast enough till the tide runs back.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000012_000001|While they were doing so, Riderhood still sat staring disconsolate.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000013_000000|'All right.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000015_000001|Steady!' cried Eugene (he had recovered immediately on embarking), as they bumped heavily against a pile; and then in a lower voice reversed his late apostrophe by remarking ('I wish the boat of my honourable and gallant friend may be endowed with philanthropy enough not to turn bottom upward and extinguish us!) Steady, steady!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000015_000002|Sit close, Mortimer.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000015_000003|Here's the hail again.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000016_000000|Indeed he had the full benefit of it, and it so mauled him, though he bent his head low and tried to present nothing but the mangy cap to it, that he dropped under the lee of a tier of shipping, and they lay there until it was over.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000016_000001|The squall had come up, like a spiteful messenger before the morning; there followed in its wake a ragged tear of light which ripped the dark clouds until they showed a great grey hole of day.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000017_000000|They were all shivering, and everything about them seemed to be shivering; the river itself; craft, rigging, sails, such early smoke as there yet was on the shore.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000017_000001|Black with wet, and altered to the eye by white patches of hail and sleet, the huddled buildings looked lower than usual, as if they were cowering, and had shrunk with the cold.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000018_000003|And everything so vaunted the spoiling influences of water-discoloured copper, rotten wood, honey combed stone, green dank deposit-that the after consequences of being crushed, sucked under, and drawn down, looked as ugly to the imagination as the main event.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000021_000000|('With a morbid expectation,' murmured Eugene to Lightwood, 'that somebody is always going to tell him the truth.')
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000022_000000|'This is Hexam's boat,' said Mr Inspector. 'I know her well.'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000023_000000|'Look at the broken scull.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000024_000000|Mr Inspector stepped into the boat.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000027_000001|His luck's got fouled under the keels of the barges.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000028_000000|'I must have it up,' said Mr Inspector. 'I am going to take this boat ashore, and his luck along with it.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000029_000000|He tried easy now; but the luck resisted; wouldn't come.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000030_000000|'I mean to have it, and the boat too,' said Mr Inspector, playing the line.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000031_000000|But still the luck resisted; wouldn't come.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000032_000000|'Take care,' said Riderhood.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000032_000001|'You'll disfigure.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000033_000000|'I am not going to do either, not even to your Grandmother,' said Mr Inspector; 'but I mean to have it.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000033_000002|You MUST come up. I mean to have you.'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000035_000000|'I told you so,' quoth Mr Inspector, pulling off his outer coat, and leaning well over the stern with a will.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000035_000001|'Come!'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000037_000001|Go ahead you, and keep out in pretty open water, that I mayn't get fouled again.'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000038_000000|His directions were obeyed, and they pulled ashore directly; two in one boat, two in the other.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000041_000000|'By the Lord, he's done me!'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000043_000000|He pointed behind him at the boat, and gasped to that degree that he dropped upon the stones to get his breath.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000044_000001|It's Gaffer!'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000045_000000|They ran to the rope, leaving him gasping there.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000000|Father, was that you calling me?
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000001|Father!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000002|I thought I heard you call me twice before!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000004|The wind sweeps jeeringly over Father, whips him with the frayed ends of his dress and his jagged hair, tries to turn him where he lies stark on his back, and force his face towards the rising sun, that he may be shamed the more.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000007|Father, was that you calling me?
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000008|Was it you, the voiceless and the dead?
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000011|Why not speak, Father?
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000014|Speak, Father.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000048_000000|They had helped to release the rope, and of course not.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000049_000000|'And you will have observed before, and you will observe now, that this knot, which was drawn chock tight round his neck by the strain of his own arms, is a slip knot': holding it up for demonstration.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000051_000000|'Likewise you will have observed how he had run the other end of this rope to his boat.'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000001|It's a wild tempestuous evening when this man that was,' stooping to wipe some hailstones out of his hair with an end of his own drowned jacket, '--there!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000002|Now he's more like himself; though he's badly bruised,--when this man that was, rows out upon the river on his usual lay.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000003|He carries with him this coil of rope.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000008|Last evening he does this. Worse for him!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000009|He dodges about in his boat, does this man, till he gets chilled.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000011|He sees some object that's in his way of business, floating.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000012|He makes ready to secure that object.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000014|He makes it too secure, as it happens.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000016|His object drifts up, before he is quite ready for it.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000018|Now see!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000022|You'll ask me how I make out about the pockets?
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000024|How do I make that out? Simple and satisfactory.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000025|Because he's got it here.' The lecturer held up the tightly clenched right hand.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000054_000000|'What is to be done with the remains?' asked Lightwood.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000055_000000|'If you wouldn't object to standing by him half a minute, sir,' was the reply, 'I'll find the nearest of our men to come and take charge of him;--I still call it HIM, you see,' said Mr Inspector, looking back as he went, with a philosophical smile upon the force of habit.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000057_000000|He raised his voice and called 'Eugene!
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000058_000000|It was broad daylight now, and he looked about.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000059_000001|Mr Inspector could not exactly say that he had seen him go, but had noticed that he was restless.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000060_000000|'Singular and entertaining combination, sir, your friend.'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000062_000000|We could, and we did.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000062_000001|In a public house kitchen with a large fire.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000062_000003|Mr Inspector having to Mr Riderhood announced his official intention of 'keeping his eye upon him', stood him in a corner of the fireplace, like a wet umbrella, and took no further outward and visible notice of that honest man, except ordering a separate service of brandy and water for him: apparently out of the public funds.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000064_000000|'Here just before us, you see,' said Mr Inspector.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000066_000000|'And had hot brandy and water too, you see,' said Mr Inspector, 'and then cut off at a great rate.'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000071_000001|But he offered such ample apologies, and was so very penitent, that when Lightwood got out of the cab, he gave the driver a particular charge to be careful of him.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000072_000000|In short, the night's work had so exhausted and worn out this actor in it, that he had become a mere somnambulist.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000073_000002|He had just come home.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000074_000000|'Why what bloodshot, draggled, dishevelled spectacle is this!' cried Mortimer.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000075_000002|But consider.
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000075_000003|Such a night for plumage!'
train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000077_000001|I also felt that I had committed every crime in the Newgate Calendar.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000002_000001|Mr Boffin's face denoted Care and Complication.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000002_000004|It is curious to consider, in such a case as Mr Boffin's, what a cheap article ink is, and how far it may be made to go.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000005_000000|Mr Boffin drew a long breath, laid down his pen, looked at his notes as doubting whether he had the pleasure of their acquaintance, and appeared, on a second perusal of their countenances, to be confirmed in his impression that he had not, when there was announced by the hammer headed young man:
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000006_000000|'Mr Rokesmith.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000007_000000|'Oh!' said Mr Boffin. 'Oh indeed!
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000007_000002|Yes.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000007_000003|Ask him to come in.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000008_000000|Mr Rokesmith appeared.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000009_000001|'Mrs Boffin you're already acquainted with.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000009_000002|Well, sir, I am rather unprepared to see you, for, to tell you the truth, I've been so busy with one thing and another, that I've not had time to turn your offer over.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000010_000000|'That's apology for both of us: for Mr Boffin, and for me as well,' said the smiling Mrs Boffin. 'But Lor! we can talk it over now; can't us?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000012_000001|'It was Secretary that you named; wasn't it?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000013_000000|'I said Secretary,' assented Mr Rokesmith.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000014_000000|'It rather puzzled me at the time,' said Mr Boffin, 'and it rather puzzled me and Mrs Boffin when we spoke of it afterwards, because (not to make a mystery of our belief) we have always believed a Secretary to be a piece of furniture, mostly of mahogany, lined with green baize or leather, with a lot of little drawers in it.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000015_000000|Certainly not, said Mr Rokesmith.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000015_000001|But he had used the word in the sense of Steward.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000016_000000|'Why, as to Steward, you see,' returned Mr Boffin, with his hand still to his chin, 'the odds are that Mrs Boffin and me may never go upon the water.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000016_000001|Being both bad sailors, we should want a Steward if we did; but there's generally one provided.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000017_000000|Mr Rokesmith again explained; defining the duties he sought to undertake, as those of general superintendent, or manager, or overlooker, or man of business.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000018_000000|'Now, for instance-come!' said Mr Boffin, in his pouncing way.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000019_000000|'I would keep exact accounts of all the expenditure you sanctioned, Mr Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000019_000001|I would write your letters, under your direction.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000019_000002|I would transact your business with people in your pay or employment.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000024_000001|Now let us hear what they're all about; will you be so good?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000000|john Rokesmith read his abstracts aloud.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000001|They were all about the new house.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000002|Decorator's estimate, so much.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000003|Furniture estimate, so much. Estimate for furniture of offices, so much.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000004|Coach maker's estimate, so much.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000005|Horse dealer's estimate, so much.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000006|Harness maker's estimate, so much.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000009|Then came correspondence.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000010|Acceptance of Mr Boffin's offer of such a date, and to such an effect.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000011|Rejection of Mr Boffin's proposal of such a date and to such an effect.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000012|Concerning Mr Boffin's scheme of such another date to such another effect.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000013|All compact and methodical.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000026_000000|'Apple pie order!' said Mr Boffin, after checking off each inscription with his hand, like a man beating time.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000026_000002|Now, as to a letter.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000028_000001|Yourself.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000029_000000|Mr Rokesmith quickly wrote, and then read aloud:
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000000|'"Mr Boffin presents his compliments to Mr john Rokesmith, and begs to say that he has decided on giving Mr john Rokesmith a trial in the capacity he desires to fill.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000001|Mr Boffin takes Mr john Rokesmith at his word, in postponing to some indefinite period, the consideration of salary.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000002|It is quite understood that Mr Boffin is in no way committed on that point.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000004|Mr john Rokesmith will please enter on his duties immediately."'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000031_000000|'Well!
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000031_000001|Now, Noddy!' cried Mrs Boffin, clapping her hands, 'That IS a good one!'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000032_000000|Mr Boffin was no less delighted; indeed, in his own bosom, he regarded both the composition itself and the device that had given birth to it, as a very remarkable monument of human ingenuity.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000033_000000|'And I tell you, my deary,' said Mrs Boffin, 'that if you don't close with Mr Rokesmith now at once, and if you ever go a muddling yourself again with things never meant nor made for you, you'll have an apoplexy-besides iron moulding your linen-and you'll break my heart.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000034_000001|So did Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000035_000002|Well!
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000035_000003|Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000036_000000|'I rather inferred that, sir,' replied john Rokesmith, 'from the scale on which your new establishment is to be maintained.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000037_000000|'Yes,' said Mr Boffin, 'it's to be a Spanker.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000037_000001|The fact is, my literary man named to me that a house with which he is, as I may say, connected-in which he has an interest-'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000038_000000|'As property?' inquired john Rokesmith.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000040_000000|'Association?' the Secretary suggested.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000041_000002|My literary man was so friendly as to drop into a charming piece of poetry on that occasion, in which he complimented Mrs Boffin on coming into possession of-how did it go, my dear?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000042_000000|Mrs Boffin replied:
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000043_000000|'"The gay, the gay and festive scene, The halls, the halls of dazzling light."'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000044_000000|'That's it!
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000044_000002|Mrs Boffin has a wonderful memory.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000044_000003|Will you repeat it, my dear?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000047_000000|'Correct to the letter!' said Mr Boffin. 'And I consider that the poetry brings us both in, in a beautiful manner.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000049_000001|I shall therefore cast about for comfortable ways and means of not calling up Wegg's jealousy, but of keeping you in your department, and keeping him in his.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000050_000000|'Lor!' cried Mrs Boffin. 'What I say is, the world's wide enough for all of us!'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000051_000000|'So it is, my dear,' said Mr Boffin, 'when not literary.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000051_000002|And I am bound to bear in mind that I took Wegg on, at a time when I had no thought of being fashionable or of leaving the Bower.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000052_000000|'In this house?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000053_000000|'No, no I have got other plans for this house.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000054_000000|'That will be as you please, Mr Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000054_000001|I hold myself quite at your disposal.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000055_000001|You'll begin to take charge at once, of all that's going on in the new house, will you?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000056_000001|I will begin this very day.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000057_000000|Mr Boffin repeated it, and the Secretary wrote it down in his pocket book.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000057_000001|Mrs Boffin took the opportunity of his being so engaged, to get a better observation of his face than she had yet taken.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000057_000002|It impressed her in his favour, for she nodded aside to Mr Boffin, 'I like him.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000059_000001|Being here, would you care at all to look round the Bower?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000060_000000|'I should greatly like it.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000062_000001|Bare of paint, bare of paper on the walls, bare of furniture, bare of experience of human life.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000062_000002|Whatever is built by man for man's occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000062_000003|This old house had wasted-more from desuetude than it would have wasted from use, twenty years for one.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000063_000001|The scanty moveables partook of it; save for the cleanliness of the place, the dust-into which they were all resolving would have lain thick on the floors; and those, both in colour and in grain, were worn like old faces that had kept much alone.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000064_000001|There was the old grisly four post bedstead, without hangings, and with a jail like upper rim of iron and spikes; and there was the old patch work counterpane.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000064_000002|There was the tight clenched old bureau, receding atop like a bad and secret forehead; there was the cumbersome old table with twisted legs, at the bed side; and there was the box upon it, in which the will had lain.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000064_000003|A few old chairs with patch work covers, under which the more precious stuff to be preserved had slowly lost its quality of colour without imparting pleasure to any eye, stood against the wall.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000065_000000|'The room was kept like this, Rokesmith,' said Mr Boffin, 'against the son's return.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000065_000001|In short, everything in the house was kept exactly as it came to us, for him to see and approve.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000065_000003|When the son came home for the last time in his life, and for the last time in his life saw his father, it was most likely in this room that they met.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000066_000000|As the Secretary looked all round it, his eyes rested on a side door in a corner.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000001|We'll go down this way, as you may like to see the yard, and it's all in the road.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000003|He was very timid of his father.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000004|I've seen him sit on these stairs, in his shy way, poor child, many a time.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000005|Mr and Mrs Boffin have comforted him, sitting with his little book on these stairs, often.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000068_000000|'Ah!
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000068_000001|And his poor sister too,' said Mrs Boffin. 'And here's the sunny place on the white wall where they one day measured one another.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000069_000000|'We must take care of the names, old lady,' said Mr Boffin. 'We must take care of the names.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000069_000001|They shan't be rubbed out in our time, nor yet, if we can help it, in the time after us.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000071_000000|They had opened the door at the bottom of the staircase giving on the yard, and they stood in the sunlight, looking at the scrawl of the two unsteady childish hands two or three steps up the staircase.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000073_000000|'It would have been enough for us,' said Mr Boffin, 'in case it had pleased God to spare the last of those two young lives and sorrowful deaths.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000073_000001|We didn't want the rest.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000076_000000|'Not any, Rokesmith.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000076_000001|no'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000077_000000|'Might I ask, without seeming impertinent, whether you have any intention of selling it?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000078_000000|'Certainly not.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000078_000001|In remembrance of our old master, our old master's children, and our old service, me and Mrs Boffin mean to keep it up as it stands.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000079_000000|The Secretary's eyes glanced with so much meaning in them at the Mounds, that Mr Boffin said, as if in answer to a remark:
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000004|There's no hurry about it; that's all I say at present.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000005|I ain't a scholar in much, Rokesmith, but I'm a pretty fair scholar in dust.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000006|I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000007|You'll look in to morrow, will you be so kind?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000081_000000|'Every day.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000081_000001|And the sooner I can get you into your new house, complete, the better you will be pleased, sir?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000082_000000|'Well, it ain't that I'm in a mortal hurry,' said Mr Boffin; 'only when you DO pay people for looking alive, it's as well to know that they ARE looking alive.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000082_000001|Ain't that your opinion?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000085_000000|The man of low cunning had, of course, acquired a mastery over the man of high simplicity.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000085_000002|How long such conquests last, is another matter; that they are achieved, is every day experience, not even to be flourished away by Podsnappery itself.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000085_000004|It seemed to him (so skilful was Wegg) that he was plotting darkly, when he was contriving to do the very thing that Wegg was plotting to get him to do.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000086_000000|For these reasons Mr Boffin passed but anxious hours until evening came, and with it Mr Wegg, stumping leisurely to the Roman Empire.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000086_000001|At about this period Mr Boffin had become profoundly interested in the fortunes of a great military leader known to him as Bully Sawyers, but perhaps better known to fame and easier of identification by the classical student, under the less Britannic name of Belisarius.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000000|'Let me get on my considering cap, sir,' replied that gentleman, turning the open book face downward.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000002|Now let me think.' (as if there were the least necessity) 'Yes, to be sure I do, Mr Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000003|It was at my corner. To be sure it was!
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000004|You had first asked me whether I liked your name, and Candour had compelled a reply in the negative case.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000005|I little thought then, sir, how familiar that name would come to be!'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000090_000001|Much obliged to you, I'm sure.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000090_000002|Is it your pleasure, sir, that we decline and we fall?' with a feint of taking up the book.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000091_000001|In fact, I have got another offer to make you.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000092_000000|Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000093_000000|'And I hope you'll like it, Wegg.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000094_000000|'Thank you, sir,' returned that reticent individual.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000094_000001|'I hope it may prove so.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000094_000002|On all accounts, I am sure.' (This, as a philanthropic aspiration.)
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000095_000000|'What do you think,' said Mr Boffin, 'of not keeping a stall, Wegg?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000096_000000|'I think, sir,' replied Wegg, 'that I should like to be shown the gentleman prepared to make it worth my while!'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000098_000000|Mr Wegg was going to say, My Benefactor, and had said My Bene, when a grandiloquent change came over him.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000000|'No, Mr Boffin, not you sir.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000001|Anybody but you.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000002|Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000004|I have already thought of that, and taken my measures.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000005|No need to be bought out, sir. Would Stepney Fields be considered intrusive?
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000006|If not remote enough, I can go remoter.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000007|In the words of the poet's song, which I do not quite remember:
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000101_000000|--And equally,' said Mr Wegg, repairing the want of direct application in the last line, 'behold myself on a similar footing!'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000102_000000|'Now, Wegg, Wegg, Wegg,' remonstrated the excellent Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000103_000000|'I know I am, sir,' returned Wegg, with obstinate magnanimity.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000103_000001|'I am acquainted with my faults.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000103_000002|I always was, from a child, too sensitive.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000104_000000|'But listen,' pursued the Golden Dustman; 'hear me out, Wegg.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000104_000001|You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000105_000001|'I am acquainted with my faults.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000105_000002|Far be it from me to deny them.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000105_000003|I HAVE taken it into my head.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000108_000000|'Don't you, indeed, sir?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000109_000000|'No,' pursued Mr Boffin; 'because that would express, as I understand it, that you were not going to do anything to deserve your money.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000109_000001|But you are; you are.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000110_000001|Now, my independence as a man is again elevated.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000110_000002|Now, I no longer
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000111_000000|Weep for the hour, When to Boffinses bower, The Lord of the valley with offers came; Neither does the moon hide her light From the heavens to night, And weep behind her clouds o'er any individual in the present Company's shame.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000114_000001|Would that man, sir-we will say that man, for the purposes of argueyment;' Mr Wegg made a smiling demonstration of great perspicuity here; 'would that man, sir, be expected to throw any other capacity in, or would any other capacity be considered extra?
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000114_000002|Now let us (for the purposes of argueyment) suppose that man to be engaged as a reader: say (for the purposes of argueyment) in the evening.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000115_000000|'Well,' said Mr Boffin, 'I suppose it would be added.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000000|'I suppose it would, sir.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000002|Exactly my own views, Mr Boffin.' Here Wegg rose, and balancing himself on his wooden leg, fluttered over his prey with extended hand.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000003|'Mr Boffin, consider it done.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000005|My stall and I are for ever parted.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000006|The collection of ballads will in future be reserved for private study, with the object of making poetry tributary'--Wegg was so proud of having found this word, that he said it again, with a capital letter-'Tributary, to friendship.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000007|Mr Boffin, don't allow yourself to be made uncomfortable by the pang it gives me to part from my stock and stall.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000009|His Christian name was Thomas.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000010|His words at the time (I was then an infant, but so deep was their impression on me, that I committed them to memory) were:
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000118_000000|--My father got over it, Mr Boffin, and so shall i'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000119_000001|He now darted it at his patron, who took it, and felt his mind relieved of a great weight: observing that as they had arranged their joint affairs so satisfactorily, he would now be glad to look into those of Bully Sawyers.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000120_000000|Mr Wegg resumed his spectacles therefore.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000121_000000|Mr Boffin hurried out, and found her on the dark staircase, panting, with a lighted candle in her hand.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000125_000000|'What is it, my dear?
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000127_000000|'What is, my dear?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000130_000000|'I know it must sound foolish, and yet it is so.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000132_000000|'I don't know that I think I saw them anywhere.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000132_000001|I felt them.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000133_000000|'Touched them?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000135_000000|'What face?' asked her husband, looking about him.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000136_000000|'For a moment it was the old man's, and then it got younger.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000136_000001|For a moment it was both the children's, and then it got older.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000137_000000|'And then it was gone?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000138_000000|'Yes; and then it was gone.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000139_000000|'Where were you then, old lady?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000140_000000|'Here, at the chest.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000140_000001|Well; I got the better of it, and went on sorting, and went on singing to myself.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000140_000002|"Lor!" I says, "I'll think of something else-something comfortable-and put it out of my head." So I thought of the new house and Miss Bella Wilfer, and was thinking at a great rate with that sheet there in my hand, when all of a sudden, the faces seemed to be hidden in among the folds of it and I let it drop.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000143_000001|I thought I'd try another room, and shake it off.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000144_000000|'With the faces?'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000145_000000|'Yes, and I even felt that they were in the dark behind the side door, and on the little staircase, floating away into the yard.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000146_000000|Mr Boffin, lost in amazement, looked at Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000146_000001|Mrs Boffin, lost in her own fluttered inability to make this out, looked at Mr Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000147_000001|Whereas we know better.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000148_000000|'I never had the feeling in the house before,' said Mrs Boffin; 'and I have been about it alone at all hours of the night.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000149_000000|'And won't again, my dear,' said Mr Boffin. 'Depend upon it, it comes of thinking and dwelling on that dark spot.'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000150_000000|'Yes; but why didn't it come before?' asked Mrs Boffin.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000151_000000|This draft on Mr Boffin's philosophy could only be met by that gentleman with the remark that everything that is at all, must begin at some time. Then, tucking his wife's arm under his own, that she might not be left by herself to be troubled again, he descended to release Wegg.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000151_000001|Who, being something drowsy after his plentiful repast, and constitutionally of a shirking temperament, was well enough pleased to stump away, without doing what he had come to do, and was paid for doing.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000152_000000|Mr Boffin then put on his hat, and Mrs Boffin her shawl; and the pair, further provided with a bunch of keys and a lighted lantern, went all over the dismal house-dismal everywhere, but in their own two rooms-from cellar to cock loft.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000153_000001|'That was the treatment, you see.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000154_000000|'Yes, deary,' said Mrs Boffin, laying aside her shawl.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000154_000001|'I'm not nervous any more.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000154_000004|But-'
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000158_000001|The old man's face, and it gets younger.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000158_000002|The two children's faces, and they get older.
train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000158_000003|A face that I don't know.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000006_000001|It reached down a tiny pink paw and touched a leaf of the brave red rose which every day lies before the skull.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000006_000002|It plucked the leaf, which made a buckler for its small throbbing breast.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000006_000003|It spoke:
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000007_000003|The rose and the skull love one another. They understand.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000007_000004|We do not understand.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000000|"It is peace upon the land.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000002|He smiles, but he is sad.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000003|He crosses the wide sea, but cares not.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000008|He goes by saddle, and the mountains hem him in, but now he smiles the more.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000010|See, the trail is gone!
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000012|Do you see the red rose on his breast?
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000013|Always the rose is there.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000014|Do you see him look up at the mountains, about him at the trees?
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000015|Do you see him lay his head upon the earth?
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000016|Do you still see his smile, the smile which is weary and yet not afraid?
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000000|"Look!
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000001|It is the time of war.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000002|There is music.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000003|The blood stings. The heart leaps.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000005|The soul exults.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000006|Flickering of light on steel, the flash of servant forces used to slay, the reverberant growl of engines made for death, the passing of men in cloth and men in blankets, the tramp of hurrying hoofs, the falling of men who die-can you see this-can you catch the horror, the exultation, the joy of this, I say?
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000007|They come, they go; they run their race, and it is all.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000012_000000|"Here are those who ride against those who slay.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000012_000002|It is he who said in the mountains that riddle of the end and the beginning-who knew that to the heart of nature we must come, for either the end or the beginning of this, our life.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000012_000004|I think he rides to battle with the rose, knowing what fate will come.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000000|"You know of this biting whistle in the air-this small thing that smites unseen?
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000001|Do you know the mowing of the death scythes? Hark!
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000003|See! he of the rose is bitten.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000004|He has fallen.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000006|He was so brave and strong!
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000010|It is red.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000011|The rose upon his breast is red.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000012|His face is white, but still the smile is there; and now it is calmer and more sweet, though still he whispers, 'I know not if it be the end or the beginning!'
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000000|"He is alone with Nature again.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000001|The heavens weep for him.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000003|The earth pillows him.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000004|He sleeps.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000005|It is all.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000006|It is done.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000007|It is the way of life.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000008|It is the end and the beginning.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000000|"He loved the valley, the mountain, the grass, the rose.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000001|Now, since he cherished the rose so well, see, the rose will not leave him.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000002|Out of the dust it rises, it grows, it blooms. Against his lips it presses.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000003|It is the beginning!
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000004|He loved, he thought, he knew.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000005|He is not dead He is with Nature.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000006|It is but the beginning!
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000017_000000|"Let the rose press against his lips in an eternal, pure caress. There is no end.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000017_000001|They understand.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000017_000002|We do not yet understand."
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000018_000001|The pageant of the hills, the panorama of the battle, faded and were gone.
train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000018_000002|The table and the books came back.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000003_000000|THE BEAST TERRIBLE
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000002|And so each shadow found its partner in a ray of firelight, and there they danced.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000003|They danced about the tangled front of the big bison's head which hung upon the wall.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000004|They crossed the grinning skull of the gray wolf.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000006|They brought forth to view in alternate eclipse and definition the great, grim bear's head which hung above the mantel.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000007|Every trophy gathered in years of the chase, once perhaps prized, now perhaps forgotten, was brought into evidence, nor could one escape noting each one, and giving to each, for this one night more, the story which belonged to it.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000008|I sat and looked upon them all, and so there passed a panorama of the years.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000000|"There," thought I, "is the stag which once fell far in the pine woods of the North.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000001|This antelope takes me back to the hard, white Plains.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000002|These huge antlers could grow only amid the forests of the Rockies.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000003|That wolf-how many of the hounds he mangled, I remember; and the giant bear, it was a good fight he made, perhaps dangerous, had the old rifle there been less sure. Yes, yes, of course, I could recall each incident.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000004|Of course, they all were thrilling, exciting, delightful, glorious, all those things.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000005|Of course, the heart must have leaped in those days.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000006|The blood must have surged, in those moments.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000007|The pulse must have grown hard, the mouth must have been dry with the ardor of the chase, at those times.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000008|But now?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000009|But why?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000010|Does the heart leap to night, do the veins fill with the rush of the blood, tumultuous in the joy of stimulus or danger?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000011|Why does not the old eagerness come back?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000012|Which of these trophies is the one to bring this back again?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000006_000000|"I know," said the Singing Mouse, which unknown to me had come and placed itself upon the table.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000006_000001|"I know." And it climbed upon my arm which lay across the table.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000007_000001|"Maker of dreams, tell me what you know to night."
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000008_000001|I looked at it so closely that a dream came upon my eyes, so that the voice of the Singing Mouse sounded far away and faint, though it was still clear and resonant in its own peculiar way and very fine and sweet.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000009_000000|"I will tell you which trophy you most prize," it said.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000000|And so I gazed where the Singing Mouse pointed, quite beyond the dusty walls, and there I saw as it had said.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000001|I heard not the thunder of the hoofs of buffalo, nor the faint crack of the twig beneath the panther's foot.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000002|I saw not the lurching gallop of the long jawed wolf, nor the high, elastic bounding of the deer.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000003|The level swinging speed of the antelope, the slinking of the lynx, the crashing flight of the wapiti-no, it was none of these that came to mind; nor did the mountains nor the plains, nor the wilderness of the pines.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000004|But when the Singing Mouse whispered, "Do you see?" I murmured in reply, "I see it all again!"
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000000|I saw the small, low hills, well covered with short oaks and hazel bushes, which rolled on away from the village, far out, almost to the Delectable Mountains, which are well known to be upon the edge of the world.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000001|Through these low hills a winding road led on, a road whose end no man had ever reached, but which went to places where, no doubt, many wonders were-perhaps even to the Delectable Mountains; for so a wise man once had said, his words harkened to with awe.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000002|This was a pleasant road, lined with brave sumacs, with bushes of the wild blackberry, and with small hazel trees which soon would offer fruit for the regular harvest of the fall, this same to be spread for drying on the woodshed roof.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000003|It was perhaps wise curiosity as to the crop of nuts which had brought thus far from home these two figures-an enormous distance, perhaps at least a mile beyond what heretofore had been the utmost limit of their wanderings.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000004|It was not, perhaps, safe to venture so far.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000005|There were known to be strange creatures in these woods, one knew not what.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000006|It was therefore well that the younger boy should clasp tightly the hand of the older, him who bore with such confidence the bow and arrows, potent weapons of those days gone by!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000002|They scarce dared fare farther on, but yet would not turn back.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000004|The sudden clanging note of the jay near by caused them to stop, heart in mouth for the moment.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000005|Strange rustlings in the leaves made them cross the road, and step more quickly.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000006|Yet the cawing of a crow across the woods seemed friendly, and a small brown bird which hopped ahead along the road was intimate and kind, and thus touched the founts of bravery in the two venturous hearts.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000007|Certainly they would go on. It was no matter about the sun
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000008|This was the valley of Ajalon, perhaps, of which one had heard in the class at Sabbath school. And surely this was a good, droning, yellow bodied bee-where did the bees go to when they rose up straight into the air?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000009|And this little mouse, what became of it in winter?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000010|And-ah!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000011|What was that-that awful burst of sound?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000012|Clutch closer, little brother, though both be pale!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000013|How should either of you yet know the thunderous flight of the wild grouse, this great bird which whirled away through the brown leaves of the oaks?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000014|Father must be asked about this tremendous, startling bird.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000015|Meantime, the heart having begun to beat again, let the two adventurers press yet a little farther on.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000014_000000|And so, with fears and tremblings, with doubts and joys, through briers and flowers, through hindrances and recompenses, along this crooked, winding, unknown road which led on out into the Unknown, they wandered, as in life we all are wandering to day.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000000|But hush!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000001|Listen!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000002|What is it, this sound, approaching, coming directly toward the road?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000003|Surely, it must be the footfall of some large animal, this cadenced rustling on the leaves!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000004|It comes-it will cross near-there, it has turned, it is near the road!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000005|Look!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000006|There it is, a great animal, half the length of one's arm, with bushy, long red tail arched high for easier running, its grayish coat showing in the bars of sunlight, its eyes bright and black and keen.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000017_000000|Each heart now thumped hard with the surging blood it bore; but it was now the blood of hunters and not of boys.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000017_000005|Forward!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000017_000006|Victory!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000018_000000|But ho! the creature rallies-recovers!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000018_000001|It gathers its forces, it flies!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000018_000002|Pursuit then, but pursuit apparently useless, for the animal has found refuge deep in this hollow stump, beyond the reach of longest mortal arm!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000001|Roar, grouse, and clamor on, all ye jangling jays.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000003|The heart of the hunter has now been born for each. Fear and defeat are known no longer in the compass of their thoughts.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000004|Follow, follow, follow!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000005|So spake the good old savagery of the natural man.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000006|Better for this creature had it never disturbed these two with its footfalls approaching among the leaves.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000000|The sun forgot its part, and sank red, though reluctant, beyond the Delectable Mountains.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000002|Be kindly, for by moonlight one still may labor, and here is labor to be done.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000003|Every blade in the Barlow knives is broken.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000004|The hole in the stump yields not to slashings, nor to attempts to pry it open.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000005|The prey is still unreached.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000006|What is to be done?
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000021_000000|The elder hunter bethinks him of a solution for this problem. The broken blade will do to gnaw off this bough, and it will serve to make a split in the end of it.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000021_000001|And if one be fortunate, and if this split bestride the tail of the concealed animal, and if the stick be twisted-
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000022_000001|Cruel barbarians, thoughtless, relentless!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000024_000000|The moon was over Ajalon when these two hunters, after all the perils of the long, black road, marched up into the dooryard, bearing on a pole between them their quarry, well suspended by the gambrels.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000024_000001|"My boys, I feared that you were lost!" exclaims the tearful mother who stands waiting in the door. But the silent father, standing back of her in the glow of the lamplight, sees what the pole is bearing, and in his eye there is a smile.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000024_000002|After that, motherly reproach, fatherly inquiry, plenteous bread and milk, many eager explanations and much descriptive narrative simultaneously uttered by two mouths eager both to eat and to talk.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000001|"It all comes back again.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000002|No chase was ever or will ever be so great as this one-back there, near the Delectable Mountains, in those days gone by, those incomparable days of youth!
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000003|I thank you, Singing Mouse; but I beg you do not go for yet a time.
train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000004|The heads upon the wall grin much, and the dust lies thick upon them all."
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000000|For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000001|Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000003|But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000004|My immediate purpose is to place before the world plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000005|In their consequences these events have terrified-have tortured-have destroyed me.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000008|Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the commonplace-some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000005_000002|I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000005_000003|With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000005_000004|This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, and in my manhood I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000006_000001|Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000007_000001|In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000008_000000|Pluto-this was the cat's name-was my favourite pet and playmate.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000008_000002|It was even with difficulty that I could prevent him from following me through the streets.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000000|Our friendship lasted in this manner for several years, during which my general temperament and character-through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance-had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000001|I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000003|At length, I even offered her personal violence.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000004|My pets of course were made to feel the change in my disposition.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000005|I not only neglected but ill used them.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000006|For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my way.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000000|One night, returning home much intoxicated from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000001|I seized him, when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000002|The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000004|My original soul seemed at once to take its flight from my body, and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000005|I took from my waistcoat pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000006|I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000011_000000|When reason returned with the morning-when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch-I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty, but it was at best a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000001|The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000002|He went about the house as usual, but, as might be expected, fled in extreme terror at my approach.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000003|I had so much of my old heart left as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000004|But this feeling soon gave place to irritation.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000005|And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000006|Of this spirit philosophy takes no account.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000010|This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000001|The curtains of my bed were in flames. The whole house was blazing.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000002|It was with great difficulty that my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000003|The destruction was complete.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000004|My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned myself forward to despair.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000000|I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000001|But I am detailing a chain of facts, and wish not to leave even a possible link imperfect.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000004|This exception was found in a compartment wall, not very thick, which stood about the middle of the house, and against which had rested the head of my bed.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000005|The plastering had here in great measure resisted the action of the fire, a fact which I attributed to its having recently spread.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000007|The words "Strange!" "Singular!" and other similar expressions, excited my curiosity.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000010|There was a rope about the animal's neck.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000000|When I first beheld this apparition-for I could scarcely regard it as less-my wonder and my terror were extreme.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000001|But at length reflection came to my aid.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000002|The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000003|Upon the alarm of fire this garden had been immediately filled by the crowd, by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown through an open window into my chamber.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000004|This had probably been done with the view of arousing me from sleep.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000016_000000|Although I thus readily accounted to my reason, if not altogether to my conscience, for the startling fact just detailed, it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000000|One night, as I sat half stupefied in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object, reposing upon the head of one of the immense hogsheads of gin or of rum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000001|I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000002|I approached it, and touched it with my hand.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000003|It was a black cat-a very large one-fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect but one.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000004|Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000018_000000|Upon my touching him he immediately arose, purred loudly, rubbed against my hand, and appeared delighted with my notice.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000018_000001|This, then, was the very creature of which I was in search.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000018_000002|I at once offered to purchase it of the landlord; but this person made no claim to it-knew nothing of it-had never seen it before.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000019_000001|I permitted it to do so, occasionally stooping and patting it as I proceeded.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000019_000002|When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once, and became immediately a great favourite with my wife.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000000|For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000002|By slow degrees these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000003|I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000004|I did not, for some weeks, strike or otherwise violently ill use it, but gradually-very gradually-I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence as from the breath of a pestilence.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000021_000000|What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast was the discovery, on the morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000021_000001|This circumstance, however, only endeared it to my wife, who, as I have already said, possessed in a high degree that humanity of feeling which had once been my distinguishing trait, and the source of my simplest and purest pleasures.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000022_000000|With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000022_000001|It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000022_000002|Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome caresses.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000023_000000|This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil-and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000023_000001|I am almost ashamed to own-yes, even in this felon's cell, I am almost ashamed to own-that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me had been heightened by one of the merest chimeras it would be possible to conceive.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000023_000002|My wife had called my attention more than once to the character of the mark of white hair, of which I have spoken, and which constituted the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000025_000000|Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000025_000001|Evil thoughts became my sole intimates-the darkest and most evil of thoughts.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000000|One day she accompanied me upon some household errand into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000001|The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me to madness.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000002|Uplifting an ax, and forgetting in my wrath the childish dread which had hitherto stayed my hand, I aimed a blow at the animal, which of course would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000005|She fell dead upon the spot without a groan.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000000|This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith and with entire deliberation to the task of concealing the body.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000001|I knew that I could not remove it from the house, either by day or by night, without the risk of being observed by the neighbours.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000002|Many projects entered my mind.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000006|I determined to wall it up in the cellar-as the monks of the middle ages are recorded to have walled up their victims.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000028_000001|Its walls were loosely constructed and had lately been plastered throughout with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from hardening.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000028_000002|Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection caused by a false chimney or fireplace, that had been filled up and made to resemble the rest of the cellar.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000028_000003|I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000000|And in this calculation I was not deceived.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000001|By means of a crowbar I easily dislodged the bricks, and having carefully deposited the body against the inner wall, I propped it in that position, while with little trouble I relaid the whole structure as it originally stood.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000002|Having procured mortar, sand, and hair with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster which could not be distinguished from the old, and with this I very carefully went over the new brick work.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000003|When I had finished I felt satisfied that all was all right.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000004|The wall did not present the slightest appearance of having been disturbed.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000005|The rubbish on the floor was picked up with the minutest care.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000006|I looked around triumphantly, and said to myself-"Here at last, then, my labour has not been in vain."
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000030_000000|My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness, for I had at length firmly resolved to put it to death.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000030_000001|Had I been able to meet with it at the moment there could have been no doubt of its fate, but it appeared that the crafty animal had been alarmed at the violence of my previous anger, and forbore to present itself in my present mood.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000030_000002|It is impossible to describe or to imagine the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000001|The monster, in terror, had fled the premises forever!
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000002|I should behold it no more!
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000005|Even a search had been instituted-but of course nothing was to be discovered.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000006|I looked upon my future felicity as secured.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000001|Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000002|The officers bade me accompany them in their search.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000003|They left no nook or corner unexplored.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000004|At length, for the third or fourth time they descended into the cellar.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000005|I quivered not in a muscle.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000006|My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000007|I walked the cellar from end to end.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000009|The police were thoroughly satisfied, and prepared to depart.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000010|The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000011|I burned to say if but one word by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000033_000001|I wish you all health, and a little more courtesy.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000033_000003|These walls-are you going, gentlemen?--these walls are solidly put together;" and here, through the mere frenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily with a cane which I held in my hand upon that very portion of the brick work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000034_000000|But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the arch fiend!
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000000|Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000001|Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000002|For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000003|In the next a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000004|It fell bodily.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000005|The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators.
train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000006|Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000002_000000|Miriam's Lover
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000003_000000|I had been reading a ghost story to mrs Sefton, and I laid it down at the end with a little shrug of contempt.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000004_000000|"What utter nonsense!" I said.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000005_000000|mrs Sefton nodded abstractedly above her fancywork.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000006_000000|"That is.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000006_000001|It is a very commonplace story indeed.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000006_000003|If they ever appear, it must be for a better reason than that."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000008_000000|"We have no proof that they do not, my dear."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000009_000000|"Surely, Mary," I exclaimed, "you don't mean to say that you believe people ever do or can see spirits-ghosts, as the word goes?"
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000000|"I didn't say I believed it.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000001|I never saw anything of the sort.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000003|But you know queer things do happen at times-things you can't account for.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000004|At least, people who you know wouldn't lie say so.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000005|Of course, they may be mistaken.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000006|And I don't think that everybody can see spirits either, provided they are to be seen.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000007|It requires people of a certain organization-with a spiritual eye, as it were.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000009|I dare say you think I'm talking nonsense."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000011_000000|"Well, yes, I think you are.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000011_000003|Something must have come under your observation to develop such theories in your practical head.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000012_000000|"To what purpose?
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000012_000001|You would remain as sceptical as ever."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000013_000000|"Possibly not.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000013_000001|Try me; I may be convinced."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000000|"No," returned mrs Sefton calmly.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000002|When a person has once seen a spirit-or thinks he has-he thenceforth believes it.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000003|And when somebody else is intimately associated with that person and knows all the circumstances-well, he admits the possibility, at least.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000005|But by the time it gets to the third person-the outsider-it loses power.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000006|Besides, in this particular instance the story isn't very exciting.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000015_000000|"You have excited my curiosity.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000015_000001|You must tell me the story."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000016_000000|"Well, first tell me what you think of this.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000016_000001|Suppose two people, both sensitively organized individuals, loved each other with a love stronger than life.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000000|"You're getting into too deep waters for me, Mary," I said, shaking my head.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000001|"I'm not an authority on telepathy, or whatever you call it.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000002|But I've no belief in such theories.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000004|I'm sure you must think so too in your rational moments."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000000|"I dare say it is all nonsense," said mrs Sefton slowly, "but if you had lived a whole year in the same house with Miriam Gordon, you would have been tainted too.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000001|Not that she had 'theories'--at least, she never aired them if she had.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000002|But there was simply something about the girl herself that gave a person strange impressions.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000003|When I first met her I had the most uncanny feeling that she was all spirit-soul-what you will! no flesh, anyhow.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000004|That feeling wore off after a while, but she never seemed like other people to me.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000000|"She was mr Sefton's niece.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000001|Her father had died when she was a child. When Miriam was twenty her mother had married a second time and went to Europe with her husband.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000002|Miriam came to live with us while they were away.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000003|Upon their return she was herself to be married.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000020_000001|Her arrival was unexpected, and I was absent from home when she came.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000020_000003|Talk about spirits!
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000020_000004|For five seconds I thought I had seen one.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000000|"Miriam was a beauty.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000001|I had known that before, though I think I hardly expected to see such wonderful loveliness.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000002|She was tall and extremely graceful, dark-at least her hair was dark, but her skin was wonderfully fair and clear.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000003|Her hair was gathered away from her face, and she had a high, pure, white forehead, and the straightest, finest, blackest brows.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000004|Her face was oval, with very large and dark eyes.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000022_000000|"I soon realized that Miriam was in some mysterious fashion different from other people.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000022_000001|I think everyone who met her felt the same way.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000022_000002|Yet it was a feeling hard to define.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000023_000001|On the contrary, it was the very reverse.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000023_000002|Everybody liked her.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000023_000004|As for what Dick called her 'little queernesses'--well, we got used to them in time.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000024_000001|I knew she loved him very deeply.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000024_000002|When she showed me his photograph, I liked his appearance and said so.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000024_000003|Then I made some teasing remark about her love letters-just for a joke, you know. Miriam looked at me with an odd little smile and said quickly:
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000025_000000|"'Sidney and I never write to each other.'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000026_000001|'Do you mean to tell me you never hear from him at all?'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000027_000000|"'No, I did not say that.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000027_000001|I hear from him every day-every hour.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000027_000003|There are better means of communication between two souls that are in perfect accord with each other.'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000029_000000|"But Miriam only gave another queer smile and made no answer at all. Whatever her beliefs or theories were, she would never discuss them.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000030_000001|No matter where she was, this, whatever it was, would come over her.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000030_000002|She would sit there, perhaps in the centre of a gay crowd, and gaze right out into space, not hearing or seeing a single thing that went on around her.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000031_000001|I looked up and saw that Miriam's work had dropped on her knee and she was leaning forward, her lips apart, her eyes gazing upward with an unearthly expression.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000032_000000|"'Don't look like that, Miriam!' I said, with a little shiver.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000034_000000|"'How do you know but that I was?'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000035_000000|"She bent her head for a minute or two.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000035_000001|Then she lifted it again and looked at me with a sudden contraction of her level brows that betokened vexation.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000036_000000|"'I wish you hadn't spoken to me just then,' she said.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000036_000002|I shall not get it at all now.'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000037_000002|It makes people think there is something queer about you.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000038_000000|"'Sidney,' said Miriam simply.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000041_000000|"I recall another event was when some caller dropped in and we had drifted into a discussion about ghosts and the like-and I've no doubt we all talked some delicious nonsense.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000041_000001|Miriam said nothing at the time, but when we were alone I asked her what she thought of it.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000042_000000|"'I thought you were all merely talking against time,' she retorted evasively.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000043_000000|"'But, Miriam, do you really think it is possible for ghosts-'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000045_000000|"'Well, spirits then-to return after death, or to appear to anyone apart from the flesh?'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000046_000000|"'I will tell you what I know.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000047_000001|After Dick went out, I asked her if anything were wrong.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000048_000000|"'Something has happened to Sidney,' she replied, 'some painful accident-I don't know what.'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000049_000000|"'How do you know?' I cried.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000049_000001|Then, as she looked at me strangely, I added hastily, 'You haven't been receiving any more unearthly messages, have you?
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000000|"'I know,' she answered quickly.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000001|'Belief or disbelief has nothing to do with it.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000002|Yes, I have had a message.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000003|I know that some accident has happened to Sidney-painful and inconvenient but not particularly dangerous.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000005|Sidney will write me that.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000006|He writes when it is absolutely necessary.'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000051_000000|"'Aerial communication isn't perfected yet then?' I said mischievously.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000051_000002|You may be mistaken.'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000052_000000|"Well, two days afterwards she got a note from her lover-the first I had ever known her to receive-in which he said he had been thrown from his horse and had broken his left arm.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000053_000000|"Miriam had been with us about eight months when one day she came into my room hurriedly.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000053_000001|She was very pale.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000054_000000|"'Sidney is ill-dangerously ill.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000054_000001|What shall I do?'
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000055_000000|"I knew she must have had another of those abominable messages-or thought she had-and really, remembering the incident of the broken arm, I couldn't feel as sceptical as I pretended to.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000055_000001|I tried to cheer her, but did not succeed.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000055_000002|Two hours later she had a telegram from her lover's college chum, saying that mr Claxton was dangerously ill with typhoid fever.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000056_000000|"I was quite alarmed about Miriam in the days that followed.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000056_000001|She grieved and fretted continually.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000056_000003|Anyhow, she had to content herself with the means of communication used by ordinary mortals.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000057_000000|"Sidney's mother, who had gone to nurse him, wrote every day, and at last good news came.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000057_000001|The crisis was over and the doctor in attendance thought Sidney would recover.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000057_000002|Miriam seemed like a new creature then, and rapidly recovered her spirits.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000058_000000|"For a week reports continued favourable.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000058_000001|One night we went to the opera to hear a celebrated prima donna.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000059_000000|"Suddenly she sat straight up with a sort of convulsive shudder, and at the same time-you may laugh if you like-the most horrible feeling came over me.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000060_000000|"Miriam was gazing straight before her.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000060_000001|She rose to her feet and held out her hands.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000061_000000|"'Sidney!' she said.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000062_000000|"Then she fell to the floor in a dead faint.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000063_000000|"I screamed for Dick, rang the bell and rushed to her.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000064_000000|"In a few minutes the whole household was aroused, and Dick was off posthaste for the doctor, for we could not revive Miriam from her death like swoon.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000064_000001|She seemed as one dead.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000064_000003|She would come out of her faint for a moment, give us an unknowing stare and go shudderingly off again.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000065_000000|"The doctor talked of some fearful shock, but I kept my own counsel. At dawn Miriam came back to life at last.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000065_000001|When she and I were left alone, she turned to me.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000066_000000|"'Sidney is dead,' she said quietly.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000066_000002|I looked up, and he was standing between me and you.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000067_000001|Almost while we were talking a telegram came.
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000067_000002|He was dead-he had died at the very hour at which Miriam had seen him."
train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000069_000000|"What do you think of it?" she queried as we rose.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000003_000000|AT THE PLACE OF THE OAKS
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000004_000002|"Do you know what the oak says?" it repeated.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000004_000003|"Do you hear it?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000004_000004|Do you hear the talking of the leaves?...
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000005_000001|"When the wind is soft, the oak says: 'Peace!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000005_000002|Peace!' When the breeze is sharp it sighs and says: 'Pity!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000000|"Do you see the oaks?" asked the Singing Mouse.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000001|"Do you see the little lake?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000002|Do you know this place of the oaks?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000003|Behold it now!" It waved a tiny hand.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000007_000000|I gazed at the naked, cheerless wall, seamed and rent with cracks along its sallow width.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000007_000002|And as I gazed more intently the map took on color, and narrowed its semblance to that of a certain region.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000007_000003|And as I gazed yet more eagerly the map faded quite away, and there lay in its stead the smiling face of an enchanted land.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000008_000005|And there were the oaks. At the water's edge, near the lesser spring, the wild apple trees twisted, but upon the hills and over the great glades stood the reserved, mysterious oaks, tall and strong.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000000|One oak, a mighty one, now resolved itself more prominently forth.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000001|Did I not know it well?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000002|Could one forget the tortured but noble soul of this oak?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000004|One must suffer before one may comfort.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000005|The oak had suffered somewhere.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000001|Those who built this fire here, so many times, so many years, each time first craved pardon of the green grass of that happy glade, for they would not harm the grass.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000003|And each year the oak dropped down food enough for the little fire.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000004|The oak took pay in the vast shadows the fire made for it.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000005|That was the way the oak saw the spirits of the Past, and when it saw them it sighed; but still it welcomed the shadows of the Past.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000006|So the fire, and the grass, and the oak, and the shadows of the Past were friends, and each year they met here.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000007|It had been thus for many years.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000008|Each year, for many years, the same hand had laid the little fire, in the same place, and so given back to the oak its Past.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000009|Now, the Past is a very sad but tender thing.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000000|Near by the little fire I saw a small table formed of straight laid boughs, and at either side of this were seats made cunningly in the workshop of the woods.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000001|There were two forms at this small table.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000002|I saw them both.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000003|One was gray and bowed somewhat, stooped as the oaks are, silvered as the oaks are in the winter days.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000004|The other was younger and more erect.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000005|Once the younger looked to the older for counsel, but now it seemed to me the bowed figure turned to the one that had become more strong.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000014_000001|Even, it seemed to me, I could note a faint, clear odor of innocent potency.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000014_000002|I saw the table laid, not with gleam of snow and silver, but with plain vessels which, nevertheless, seemed now to have a radiance of their own. I knew all this.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000000|Now as I looked, the gray figure bowed its head, there, under the arm of the oak, and asked on the humble board the blessing of the God who made the oak, and gave the fire and spread the pleasant waters on the land.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000001|Every mealtime, every year, for many years, it had been thus.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000002|Ever, the oak knew, the gray figure would first bow and ask the blessing of God.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000003|And each time at the close the oak with rustling leaves pronounced distinct Amen!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000004|Let those jest who will.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000006|I think perhaps the oak knows or it would not thus for years have whispered reverently its distinct Amen!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000007|I will not scoff.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000008|It is perhaps we who are ignorant.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000009|We do not know all things.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000017_000000|I ask not what nor who were these two who had come each year to this place of the oaks, but surely they were friends.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000017_000001|In shadow, I could hear them talk.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000017_000002|In shadow, I could see them smile.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000018_000000|These friends sat by the little fire a time before they went to rest in the tiny house of white.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000018_000001|After they had gone, the fire did strange things.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000018_000002|All men know that, though you see the fire burned down, when you go into the tent you will some time in the night see the walls lit up by a sudden flash or so, now and then, from the fire which was thought to be dead.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000000|That is the business of the fire, and of the oaks and of the shadows.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000001|I know that the shadows dance strangely, and hover and come near at hand, in those late hours of the night; but what then occurs I do not know.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000003|They knew it was the secret of the night, and gave the oak its own request, in pay for its protection and consent.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000004|They gave the oak its union with the sacred Past.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000000|In the night I have heard the oak sob.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000001|Yet in the morning, when the sun was silvering the wake of all the leaping fishes, the oak was always gentle, and it said, "Wake, wake!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000002|God is wise. Waken, waken!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000003|God is good!"
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000021_000000|As pure shining beads upon a thread of gold I saw this small, dear picture, reiterant and unchanged, year after year, always with the same calm and pure surroundings.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000021_000001|Only as year added itself to year, slipping forward on the golden string, I saw the gray figure grow more gray, more bowed, more feeble.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000021_000003|Yet the years came, to the oaks and to the grasses and to the friends.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000022_000000|The grass dies every year, but it is born again.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000022_000001|The oak dies in centuries, but it is born again.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000022_000002|Man dies in three score years and ten; but he, too, is born again.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000002|Grayer, grayer, more bent, more feeble-is it not so, Singing Mouse?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000003|And now, this time, what was this gentle warning that the oak tried to whisper softly down?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000004|Perhaps the grayer friend heard it, as he sat musing by the fire.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000005|He rose and looked about him, as one who had dreamed and was content.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000006|He looked up at the solemn stars unafraid, and so murmured to himself.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000001|Here again is the little table, and here is the evening meal.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000002|The table is still spread for two.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000004|Yet why?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000006|At this table there is but one form now.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000007|The younger man is there, although now he has grown gray and stooped.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000001|Hush!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000002|The squirrels have grown still, and even the oak is silent.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000003|What is that opposite, across the table, at the seat long years held only by the elder of these two?
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000006|It is the shadow of a shadow, the apparition of a soul!
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000028_000000|The one at the table pauses, as was the wont before the beginning of a meal.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000028_000001|He looks across the table to the shadow, as if the shadow were his friend.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000028_000005|Doubt not those words are heard this day.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000029_000001|The glorious day sets on once more.
train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000029_000002|Doubt not, fear not, sorrow not, ye two.
train-clean-360/5029/80197/5029_80197_000008_000000|"I cannot exist without a cat!" she wept.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000003_000000|Chapter Ten
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000004_000000|Shaggy Man to the Rescue
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000005_000000|They had not gone very far before Bungle, who had run on ahead, came bounding back to say that the road of yellow bricks was just before them.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000005_000001|At once they hurried forward to see what this famous road looked like.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000006_000000|It was a broad road, but not straight, for it wandered over hill and dale and picked out the easiest places to go.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000006_000001|All its length and breadth was paved with smooth bricks of a bright yellow color, so it was smooth and level except in a few places where the bricks had crumbled or been removed, leaving holes that might cause the unwary to stumble.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000007_000000|"I wonder," said Ojo, looking up and down the road, "which way to go."
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000009_000000|"The Emerald City," he replied.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000011_000000|"Have you ever been to the Emerald City?" asked Scraps.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000013_000000|"Are you afraid of men?" inquired the Patchwork Girl.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000014_000000|"Me?
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000014_000001|With my heart rending growl-my horrible, shudderful growl?
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000014_000003|I am not afraid of anything," declared the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000015_000000|"I wish I could say the same," sighed Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000017_000000|"If anything should fade the colors of my lovely patches it would break my heart," said the Patchwork Girl.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000018_000000|"I'm not sure you have a heart," Ojo reminded her.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000019_000000|"Then it would break my cotton," persisted Scraps.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000019_000001|"Do you think they are all fast colors, Ojo?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000021_000000|They were certainly pretty to look upon and the travelers hurried forward to observe them more closely.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000023_000001|But the most curious thing about the swaying leaves was their color.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000024_000000|Suddenly a leaf bent lower than usual and touched the Patchwork Girl. Swiftly it enveloped her in its embrace, covering her completely in its thick folds, and then it swayed back upon its stem.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000025_000001|But, before he could think what he ought to do to save her, another leaf bent down and captured the Glass Cat, rolling around the little creature until she was completely hidden, and then straightening up again upon its stem.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000026_000000|"Look out," cried the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000027_000001|But the last leaf of the row of plants seized the beast even as he ran and instantly he disappeared from sight.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000028_000001|Half a dozen of the great leaves were bending toward him from different directions and as he stood hesitating one of them clutched him in its embrace.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000028_000002|In a flash he was in the dark. Then he felt himself gently lifted until he was swaying in the air, with the folds of the leaf hugging him on all sides.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000030_000000|Then Ojo quieted himself and tried to think.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000030_000001|Despair fell upon him when he remembered that all his little party had been captured, even as he was, and there was none to save them.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000031_000000|"I might have expected it," he sobbed, miserably.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000031_000001|"I'm Ojo the Unlucky, and something dreadful was sure to happen to me."
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000032_000000|He pushed against the leaf that held him and found it to be soft, but thick and firm.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000032_000001|It was like a great bandage all around him and he found it difficult to move his body or limbs in order to change their position.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000033_000000|The minutes passed and became hours.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000033_000001|Ojo wondered how long one could live in such a condition and if the leaf would gradually sap his strength and even his life, in order to feed itself.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000033_000003|His greatest fear at this time was that he would always remain imprisoned in the beautiful leaf and never see the light of day again.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000034_000003|The sounds were low and sweet and, although they reached Ojo's ears very faintly, they were clear and harmonious.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000035_000000|Could the leaf whistle, Ojo wondered?
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000036_000000|Suddenly the whole leaf toppled and fell, carrying the boy with it, and while he sprawled at full length the folds slowly relaxed and set him free.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000036_000001|He scrambled quickly to his feet and found that a strange man was standing before him-a man so curious in appearance that the boy stared with round eyes.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000037_000000|He was a big man, with shaggy whiskers, shaggy eyebrows, shaggy hair-but kindly blue eyes that were gentle as those of a cow.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000037_000002|Rich but shaggy laces were at his throat; a coat with shaggy edges was decorated with diamond buttons; the velvet breeches had jeweled buckles at the knees and shags all around the bottoms.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000037_000003|On his breast hung a medallion bearing a picture of Princess Dorothy of Oz, and in his hand, as he stood looking at Ojo, was a sharp knife shaped like a dagger.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000040_000000|"Yes; I can see that," said the boy, nodding.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000041_000000|"None other, you may be sure.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000041_000001|But take care, or I shall have to rescue you again."
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000001|"Singing or whistling-it doesn't matter which-makes 'em behave, and nothing else will.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000002|I always whistle as I go by 'em and so they always let me alone.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000003|To day as I went by, whistling, I saw a leaf curled and knew there must be something inside it.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000004|I cut down the leaf with my knife and-out you popped.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000005|Lucky I passed by, wasn't it?"
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000045_000000|"You were very kind," said Ojo, "and I thank you.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000045_000001|Will you please rescue my companions, also?"
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000046_000000|"What companions?" asked the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000047_000000|"The leaves grabbed them all," said the boy.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000047_000001|"There's a Patchwork Girl and-"
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000049_000001|She's alive and her name is Scraps.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000049_000002|And there's a Glass Cat-"
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000050_000000|"Glass?" asked the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000051_000000|"All glass."
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000054_000000|"What's a Woozy?" inquired the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000055_000000|"Why, I-I-can't describe it," answered the boy, greatly perplexed. "But it's a queer animal with three hairs on the tip of its tail that won't come out and-"
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000056_000000|"What won't come out?" asked the Shaggy Man; "the tail?"
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000057_000000|"The hairs won't come out.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000058_000000|"Of course," said the Shaggy Man, nodding his shaggy head.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000058_000001|And then he walked back among the plants, still whistling, and found the three leaves which were curled around Ojo's traveling companions.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000058_000002|The first leaf he cut down released Scraps, and on seeing her the Shaggy Man threw back his shaggy head, opened wide his mouth and laughed so shaggily and yet so merrily that Scraps liked him at once.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000059_000000|"My dear, you're a wonder.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000059_000001|I must introduce you to my friend the Scarecrow."
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000060_000000|When he cut down the second leaf he rescued the Glass Cat, and Bungle was so frightened that she scampered away like a streak and soon had joined Ojo, when she sat beside him panting and trembling.
train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000060_000001|The last plant of all the row had captured the Woozy, and a big bunch in the center of the curled leaf showed plainly where he was.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000002_000000|Soon the entire party was gathered on the road of yellow bricks, quite beyond the reach of the beautiful but treacherous plants.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000002_000001|The Shaggy Man, staring first at one and then at the other, seemed greatly pleased and interested.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000003_000001|Let us sit down a while, and have a talk and get acquainted."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000004_000000|"Haven't you always lived in the Land of Oz?" asked the Munchkin boy.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000005_000001|But I came here once with Dorothy, and Ozma let me stay."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000007_000000|"It's the finest country in all the world, even if it is a fairyland, and I'm happy every minute I live in it," said the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000007_000001|"But tell me something about yourselves."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000008_000001|Then he told how he had set out to find the five different things which the Magician needed to make a charm that would restore the marble figures to life, one requirement being three hairs from a Woozy's tail.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000009_000000|"We found the Woozy," explained the boy, "and he agreed to give us the three hairs; but we couldn't pull them out.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000010_000000|"I see," returned the Shaggy Man, who had listened with interest to the story.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000010_000001|"But perhaps I, who am big and strong, can pull those three hairs from the Woozy's tail."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000011_000000|"Try it, if you like," said the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000012_000000|So the Shaggy Man tried it, but pull as hard as he could he failed to get the hairs out of the Woozy's tail.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000012_000001|So he sat down again and wiped his shaggy face with a shaggy silk handkerchief and said:
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000013_000000|"It doesn't matter.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000013_000002|What are the other things you are to find?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000014_000000|"One," said Ojo, "is a six leaved clover."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000015_000001|"There is a Law against picking six leaved clovers, but I think I can get Ozma to let you have one."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000016_000000|"Thank you," replied Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000016_000001|"The next thing is the left wing of a yellow butterfly."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000017_000000|"For that you must go to the Winkie Country," the Shaggy Man declared. "I've never noticed any butterflies there, but that is the yellow country of Oz and it's ruled by a good friend of mine, the Tin Woodman."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000018_000000|"Oh, I've heard of him!" exclaimed Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000018_000001|"He must be a wonderful man."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000020_000000|"The next thing I must find," said the Munchkin boy, "is a gill of water from a dark well."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000021_000000|"Indeed!
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000021_000001|Well, that is more difficult," said the Shaggy Man, scratching his left ear in a puzzled way.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000021_000002|"I've never heard of a dark well; have you?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000023_000000|"Do you know where one may be found?" inquired the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000024_000000|"I can't imagine," said Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000026_000000|"The Scarecrow!
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000026_000001|But surely, sir, a scarecrow can't know anything."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000027_000000|"Most scarecrows don't, I admit," answered the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000027_000001|"But this Scarecrow of whom I speak is very intelligent.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000030_000001|"If anyone knows where a dark well is, it's my friend the Scarecrow."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000031_000000|"Where does he live?" inquired Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000032_000000|"He has a splendid castle in the Winkie Country, near to the palace of his friend the Tin Woodman, and he is often to be found in the Emerald City, where he visits Dorothy at the royal palace."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000033_000000|"Then we will ask him about the dark well," said Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000034_000000|"But what else does this Crooked Magician want?" asked the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000035_000000|"A drop of oil from a live man's body."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000036_000000|"Oh; but there isn't such a thing."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000037_000000|"That is what I thought," replied Ojo; "but the Crooked Magician said it wouldn't be called for by the recipe if it couldn't be found, and therefore I must search until I find it."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000038_000000|"I wish you good luck," said the Shaggy Man, shaking his head doubtfully; "but I imagine you'll have a hard job getting a drop of oil from a live man's body.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000038_000001|There's blood in a body, but no oil."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000039_000000|"There's cotton in mine," said Scraps, dancing a little jig.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000040_000001|"You're a regular comforter and as sweet as patchwork can be.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000040_000002|All you lack is dignity."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000041_000001|"Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000042_000000|"She's just crazy," explained the Glass Cat.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000043_000000|The Shaggy Man laughed.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000044_000000|"She's delightful, in her way," he said.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000044_000001|"I'm sure Dorothy will be pleased with her, and the Scarecrow will dote on her.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000044_000002|Did you say you were traveling toward the Emerald City?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000045_000000|"Yes," replied Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000046_000000|"I'll go with you," said the Shaggy Man, "and show you the way."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000047_000000|"Thank you," exclaimed Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000047_000001|"I hope it won't put you out any."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000048_000000|"No," said the other, "I wasn't going anywhere in particular.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000048_000001|I've been a rover all my life, and although Ozma has given me a suite of beautiful rooms in her palace I still get the wandering fever once in a while and start out to roam the country over.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000049_000000|"That will be very nice," said the boy, gratefully.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000051_000000|"Some are, and some are not," he answered; "but I never criticise my friends.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000051_000001|If they are really true friends, they may be anything they like, for all of me."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000052_000000|"There's some sense in that," said Scraps, nodding her queer head in approval.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000000|"It is quite a distance from here to the Emerald City," remarked the Shaggy Man, "so we shall not get there to day, nor to morrow.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000002|I'm an old traveler and have found that I never gain anything by being in a hurry.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000003|'Take it easy' is my motto.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000004|If you can't take it easy, take it as easy as you can."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000054_000000|After walking some distance over the road of yellow bricks Ojo said he was hungry and would stop to eat some bread and cheese.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000054_000001|He offered a portion of the food to the Shaggy Man, who thanked him but refused it.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000055_000001|Think I'll indulge in one now, as long as we're stopping anyway."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000056_000000|Saying this, he took a bottle from his pocket and shook from it a tablet about the size of one of Ojo's finger nails.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000057_000000|"That," announced the Shaggy Man, "is a square meal, in condensed form. Invention of the great Professor Woggle Bug, of the Royal College of Athletics.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000057_000001|It contains soup, fish, roast meat, salad, apple dumplings, ice cream and chocolate drops, all boiled down to this small size, so it can be conveniently carried and swallowed when you are hungry and need a square meal."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000058_000001|"Give me one, please."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000059_000000|So the Shaggy Man gave the Woozy a tablet from his bottle and the beast ate it in a twinkling.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000060_000000|"You have now had a six course dinner," declared the Shaggy Man.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000062_000000|"One should only eat to sustain life," replied the Shaggy Man, "and that tablet is equal to a peck of other food."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000063_000000|"I don't care for it.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000063_000001|I want something I can chew and taste," grumbled the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000065_000000|"Chewing isn't tiresome; it's fun," maintained the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000065_000002|Give me some bread and cheese, Ojo."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000067_000001|I may not be hungry, having eaten all those things you gave me, but I consider this eating business a matter of taste, and I like to realize what's going into me."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000072_000000|"Are you so broken up that you can't play?" asked Scraps.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000074_000000|"That is too bad," remarked Ojo.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000074_000001|"We've no objection to you as a machine, you know; but as a music maker we hate you."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000075_000000|"Then why was I ever invented?" demanded the machine, in a tone of indignant protest.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000076_000000|They looked at one another inquiringly, but no one could answer such a puzzling question.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000076_000001|Finally the Shaggy Man said:
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000077_000000|"I'd like to hear the phonograph play."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000079_000000|"I know.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000079_000001|But a little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000080_000000|"It's a popular song, sir.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000080_000001|In all civilized lands the common people have gone wild over it."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000081_000001|Then it's dangerous."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000082_000003|It made the author rich-for an author.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000083_000000|Then the phonograph began to play.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000083_000001|A strain of odd, jerky sounds was followed by these words, sung by a man through his nose with great vigor of expression:
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000085_000000|"Here-shut that off!" cried the Shaggy Man, springing to his feet. "What do you mean by such impertinence?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000087_000000|"A popular song?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000088_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000088_000001|One that the feeble minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000088_000002|That makes a popular song popular, and the time is coming when it will take the place of all other songs."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000089_000000|"That time won't come to us, just yet," said the Shaggy Man, sternly: "I'm something of a singer myself, and I don't intend to be throttled by any Lulus like your coal black one.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000090_000000|But before he could say more the phonograph turned and dashed up the road as fast as its four table legs could carry it, and soon it had entirely disappeared from their view.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000091_000002|When you are rested, friends, let us go on our way."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000092_000000|During the afternoon the travelers found themselves in a lonely and uninhabited part of the country.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000092_000001|Even the fields were no longer cultivated and the country began to resemble a wilderness.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000092_000003|Scrubby under brush grew on either side of the way, while huge rocks were scattered around in abundance.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000093_000000|But this did not deter Ojo and his friends from trudging on, and they beguiled the journey with jokes and cheerful conversation.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000093_000001|Toward evening they reached a crystal spring which gushed from a tall rock by the roadside and near this spring stood a deserted cabin.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000093_000002|Said the Shaggy Man, halting here:
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000094_000000|"We may as well pass the night here, where there is shelter for our heads and good water to drink.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000094_000001|Road beyond here is pretty bad; worst we shall have to travel; so let's wait until morning before we tackle it."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000095_000000|They agreed to this and Ojo found some brushwood in the cabin and made a fire on the hearth.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000095_000001|The fire delighted Scraps, who danced before it until Ojo warned her she might set fire to herself and burn up.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000096_000000|For supper the Shaggy Man ate one of his tablets, but Ojo stuck to his bread and cheese as the most satisfying food.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000096_000001|He also gave a portion to the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000097_000000|When darkness came on and they sat in a circle on the cabin floor, facing the firelight-there being no furniture of any sort in the place-Ojo said to the Shaggy Man:
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000098_000000|"Won't you tell us a story?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000099_000000|"I'm not good at stories," was the reply; "but I sing like a bird."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000100_000000|"Raven, or crow?" asked the Glass Cat.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000101_000002|I'll sing a song I composed myself. Don't tell anyone I'm a poet; they might want me to write a book.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000101_000003|Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd want me to make records for that awful phonograph.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000101_000004|Haven't time to be a public benefactor, so I'll just sing you this little song for your own amusement."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000106_000000|I'll not forget Nick Chopper, the Woodman made of Tin, Whose tender heart thinks killing time is quite a dreadful sin, Nor old Professor Woggle Bug, who's highly magnified And looks so big to everyone that he is filled with pride.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000109_000000|There's Tik Tok-he's a clockwork man and quite a funny sight- He talks and walks mechanically, when he's wound up tight; And we've a Hungry Tiger who would babies love to eat But never does because we feed him other kinds of meat.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000111_000000|Just search the whole world over-sail the seas from coast to coast- No other nation in creation queerer folk can boast; And now our rare museum will include a Cat of Glass, A Woozy, and-last but not least-a crazy Patchwork Lass."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000112_000000|Ojo was so pleased with this song that he applauded the singer by clapping his hands, and Scraps followed suit by clapping her padded fingers together, although they made no noise.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000112_000001|The cat pounded on the floor with her glass paws-gently, so as not to break them-and the Woozy, which had been asleep, woke up to ask what the row was about.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000113_000000|"I seldom sing in public, for fear they might want me to start an opera company," remarked the Shaggy Man, who was pleased to know his effort was appreciated.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000113_000001|"Voice, just now, is a little out of training; rusty, perhaps."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000115_000001|I even forgot one thing: Dorothy's Pink Kitten."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000116_000000|"For goodness sake!" exclaimed Bungle, sitting up and looking interested.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000116_000001|"A Pink Kitten?
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000116_000003|Is it glass?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000117_000000|"No; just ordinary kitten."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000118_000000|"Then it can't amount to much.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000119_000000|"Dorothy's kitten is all pink-brains and all-except blue eyes.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000119_000001|Name's Eureka.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000119_000002|Great favorite at the royal palace," said the Shaggy Man, yawning.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000120_000000|The Glass Cat seemed annoyed.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000122_000000|"Can't say.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000122_000001|Tastes differ, you know," replied the Shaggy Man, yawning again.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000123_000000|"I'm solid now; solid glass."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000124_000000|"You don't understand," rejoined the Shaggy Man, sleepily.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000124_000002|If the Pink Kitten despises you, look out for breakers."
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000125_000000|"Would anyone at the royal palace break a Glass Cat?"
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000126_000000|"Might.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000126_000001|You never can tell.
train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000126_000002|Advise you to purr soft and look humble-if you can.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000003_000000|Chapter Nine
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000004_000000|They Meet the Woozy
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000005_000000|"There seem to be very few houses around here, after all," remarked Ojo, after they had walked for a time in silence.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000006_000000|"Never mind," said Scraps; "we are not looking for houses, but rather the road of yellow bricks.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000006_000001|Won't it be funny to run across something yellow in this dismal blue country?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000008_000000|"Oh; do you mean the pink pebbles you call your brains, and your red heart and green eyes?" asked the Patchwork Girl.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000010_000001|"You'd give your whiskers for a lovely variegated complexion like mine."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000011_000000|"I wouldn't!" retorted the cat.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000013_000000|"Please don't quarrel," begged Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000013_000001|"This is an important journey, and quarreling makes me discouraged.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000013_000002|To be brave, one must be cheerful, so I hope you will be as good tempered as possible."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000014_000000|They had traveled some distance when suddenly they faced a high fence which barred any further progress straight ahead.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000014_000001|It ran directly across the road and enclosed a small forest of tall trees, set close together.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000014_000002|When the group of adventurers peered through the bars of the fence they thought this forest looked more gloomy and forbidding than any they had ever seen before.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000015_000000|They soon discovered that the path they had been following now made a bend and passed around the enclosure, but what made Ojo stop and look thoughtful was a sign painted on the fence which read:
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000016_000000|"BEWARE OF THE WOOZY!"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000017_000000|"That means," he said, "that there's a Woozy inside that fence, and the Woozy must be a dangerous animal or they wouldn't tell people to beware of it."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000018_000001|"That path is outside the fence, and mr Woozy may have all his little forest to himself, for all we care."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000019_000000|"But one of our errands is to find a Woozy," Ojo explained.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000019_000001|"The Magician wants me to get three hairs from the end of a Woozy's tail."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000020_000000|"Let's go on and find some other Woozy," suggested the cat.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000020_000001|"This one is ugly and dangerous, or they wouldn't cage him up.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000020_000002|Maybe we shall find another that is tame and gentle."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000021_000000|"Perhaps there isn't any other, at all," answered Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000021_000001|"The sign doesn't say: 'Beware a Woozy'; it says: 'Beware the Woozy,' which may mean there's only one in all the Land of Oz."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000022_000000|"Then," said Scraps, "suppose we go in and find him?
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000022_000001|Very likely if we ask him politely to let us pull three hairs out of the tip of his tail he won't hurt us."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000023_000000|"It would hurt him, I'm sure, and that would make him cross," said the cat.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000024_000000|"You needn't worry, Bungle," remarked the Patchwork Girl; "for if there is danger you can climb a tree.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000024_000001|Ojo and I are not afraid; are we, Ojo?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000025_000001|How shall we get over the fence?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000000|"Climb," answered Scraps, and at once she began climbing up the rows of bars.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000001|Ojo followed and found it more easy than he had expected.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000002|When they got to the top of the fence they began to get down on the other side and soon were in the forest.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000003|The Glass Cat, being small, crept between the lower bars and joined them.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000027_000000|Here there was no path of any sort, so they entered the woods, the boy leading the way, and wandered through the trees until they were nearly in the center of the forest.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000027_000001|They now came upon a clear space in which stood a rocky cave.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000028_000000|So far they had met no living creature, but when Ojo saw the cave he knew it must be the den of the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000029_000000|It is hard to face any savage beast without a sinking of the heart, but still more terrifying is it to face an unknown beast, which you have never seen even a picture of.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000029_000002|The opening was perfectly square, and about big enough to admit a goat.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000030_000000|"I guess the Woozy is asleep," said Scraps.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000030_000001|"Shall I throw in a stone, to waken him?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000031_000000|"No; please don't," answered Ojo, his voice trembling a little.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000032_000000|But he had not long to wait, for the Woozy heard the sound of voices and came trotting out of his cave.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000032_000001|As this is the only Woozy that has ever lived, either in the Land of Oz or out of it, I must describe it to you.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000001|Its head was an exact square, like one of the building blocks a child plays with; therefore it had no ears, but heard sounds through two openings in the upper corners.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000002|Its nose, being in the center of a square surface, was flat, while the mouth was formed by the opening of the lower edge of the block.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000003|The body of the Woozy was much larger than its head, but was likewise block shaped-being twice as long as it was wide and high.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000004|The tail was square and stubby and perfectly straight, and the four legs were made in the same way, each being four sided.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000005|The animal was covered with a thick, smooth skin and had no hair at all except at the extreme end of its tail, where there grew exactly three stiff, stubby hairs.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000006|The beast was dark blue in color and his face was not fierce nor ferocious in expression, but rather good humored and droll.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000034_000000|Seeing the strangers, the Woozy folded his hind legs as if they had been hinged and sat down to look his visitors over.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000000|"Well, well," he exclaimed; "what a queer lot you are!
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000002|It is plain to me that you are a remarkable group-as remarkable in your way as I am in mine-and so you are welcome to my domain.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000003|Nice place, isn't it?
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000004|But lonesome-dreadfully lonesome."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000036_000000|"Why did they shut you up here?" asked Scraps, who was regarding the queer, square creature with much curiosity.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000037_000000|"Because I eat up all the honey bees which the Munchkin farmers who live around here keep to make them honey."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000038_000000|"Are you fond of eating honey bees?" inquired the boy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000000|"Very.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000001|They are really delicious.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000002|But the farmers did not like to lose their bees and so they tried to destroy me.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000003|Of course they couldn't do that."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000040_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000041_000000|"My skin is so thick and tough that nothing can get through it to hurt me.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000041_000001|So, finding they could not destroy me, they drove me into this forest and built a fence around me.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000041_000002|Unkind, wasn't it?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000042_000000|"But what do you eat now?" asked Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000043_000000|"Nothing at all.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000043_000001|I've tried the leaves from the trees and the mosses and creeping vines, but they don't seem to suit my taste.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000043_000002|So, there being no honey bees here, I've eaten nothing for years.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000044_000000|"You must be awfully hungry," said the boy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000044_000001|"I've got some bread and cheese in my basket.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000044_000002|Would you like that kind of food?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000046_000000|So the boy opened his basket and broke a piece off the loaf of bread. He tossed it toward the Woozy, who cleverly caught it in his mouth and ate it in a twinkling.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000047_000000|"That's rather good," declared the animal.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000047_000001|"Any more?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000048_000000|"Try some cheese," said Ojo, and threw down a piece.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000049_000000|The Woozy ate that, too, and smacked its long, thin lips.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000050_000000|"That's mighty good!" it exclaimed.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000050_000001|"Any more?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000051_000000|"Plenty," replied Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000051_000001|So he sat down on a Stump and fed the Woozy bread and cheese for a long time; for, no matter how much the boy broke off, the loaf and the slice remained just as big.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000052_000000|"That'll do," said the Woozy, at last; "I'm quite full.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000052_000001|I hope the strange food won't give me indigestion."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000053_000000|"I hope not," said Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000053_000001|"It's what I eat."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000054_000000|"Well, I must say I'm much obliged, and I'm glad you came," announced the beast.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000054_000001|"Is there anything I can do in return for your kindness?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000055_000000|"Yes," said Ojo earnestly, "you have it in your power to do me a great favor, if you will."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000056_000001|"Name the favor and I will grant it."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000057_000000|"I-I want three hairs from the tip of your tail," said Ojo, with some hesitation.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000058_000001|Why, that's all I have-on my tail or anywhere else," exclaimed the beast.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000059_000000|"I know; but I want them very much."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000060_000000|"They are my sole ornaments, my prettiest feature," said the Woozy, uneasily.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000060_000001|"If I give up those three hairs I-I'm just a blockhead."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000061_000001|The beast listened with attention and when Ojo had finished the recital it said, with a sigh:
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000062_000000|"I always keep my word, for I pride myself on being square.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000062_000001|So you may have the three hairs, and welcome.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000062_000002|I think, under such circumstances, it would be selfish in me to refuse you."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000063_000000|"Thank you!
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000063_000001|Thank you very much," cried the boy, joyfully.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000063_000002|"May I pull out the hairs now?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000064_000000|"Any time you like," answered the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000065_000000|So Ojo went up to the queer creature and taking hold of one of the hairs began to pull.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000065_000002|He pulled with all his might; but the hair remained fast.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000066_000000|"What's the trouble?" asked the Woozy, which Ojo had dragged here and there all around the clearing in his endeavor to pull out the hair.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000068_000000|"I was afraid of that," declared the beast.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000068_000001|"You'll have to pull harder."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000069_000000|"I'll help you," exclaimed Scraps, coming to the boy's side.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000069_000001|"You pull the hair, and I'll pull you, and together we ought to get it out easily."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000070_000000|"Wait a jiffy," called the Woozy, and then it went to a tree and hugged it with its front paws, so that its body couldn't be dragged around by the pull.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000070_000001|"All ready, now.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000070_000002|Go ahead!"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000071_000000|Ojo grasped the hair with both hands and pulled with all his strength, while Scraps seized the boy around his waist and added her strength to his.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000071_000001|But the hair wouldn't budge.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000071_000002|Instead, it slipped out of Ojo's hands and he and Scraps both rolled upon the ground in a heap and never stopped until they bumped against the rocky cave.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000072_000000|"Give it up," advised the Glass Cat, as the boy arose and assisted the Patchwork Girl to her feet.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000072_000001|"A dozen strong men couldn't pull out those hairs.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000072_000002|I believe they're clinched on the under side of the Woozy's thick skin."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000073_000000|"Then what shall I do?" asked the boy, despairingly.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000074_000000|"They're goners, I guess," said the Patchwork Girl.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000076_000000|But Ojo did not feel that way.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000076_000001|He was so disheartened that he sat down upon a stump and began to cry.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000078_000001|"Then, when at last you get to the Magician's house, he can surely find some way to pull out those three hairs."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000079_000000|Ojo was overjoyed at this suggestion.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000080_000000|"That's it!" he cried, wiping away the tears and springing to his feet with a smile.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000080_000001|"If I take the three hairs to the Magician, it won't matter if they are still in your body."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000081_000000|"It can't matter in the least," agreed the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000082_000000|"Come on, then," said the boy, picking up his basket; "let us start at once.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000082_000001|I have several other things to find, you know."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000083_000000|But the Glass Cat gave a little laugh and inquired in her scornful way:
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000085_000000|That puzzled them all for a time.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000086_000000|"Let us go to the fence, and then we may find a way," suggested Scraps. So they walked through the forest to the fence, reaching it at a point exactly opposite that where they had entered the enclosure.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000087_000000|"How did you get in?" asked the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000088_000000|"We climbed over," answered Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000089_000000|"I can't do that," said the beast.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000089_000001|"I'm a very swift runner, for I can overtake a honey bee as it flies; and I can jump very high, which is the reason they made such a tall fence to keep me in.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000089_000002|But I can't climb at all, and I'm too big to squeeze between the bars of the fence."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000090_000000|Ojo tried to think what to do.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000091_000000|"Can you dig?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000092_000000|"No," answered the Woozy, "for I have no claws.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000092_000001|My feet are quite flat on the bottom of them.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000092_000002|Nor can I gnaw away the boards, as I have no teeth."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000093_000000|"You're not such a terrible creature, after all," remarked Scraps.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000094_000000|"You haven't heard me growl, or you wouldn't say that," declared the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000094_000001|"When I growl, the sound echoes like thunder all through the valleys and woodlands, and children tremble with fear, and women cover their heads with their aprons, and big men run and hide.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000095_000000|"Please don't growl, then," begged Ojo, earnestly.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000096_000000|"There is no danger of my growling, for I am not angry.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000096_000001|Only when angry do I utter my fearful, ear splitting, soul shuddering growl.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000096_000002|Also, when I am angry, my eyes flash fire, whether I growl or not."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000097_000000|"Real fire?" asked Ojo.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000098_000000|"Of course, real fire.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000099_000000|"In that case, I've solved the riddle," cried Scraps, dancing with glee.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000099_000001|"Those fence boards are made of wood, and if the Woozy stands close to the fence and lets his eyes flash fire, they might set fire to the fence and burn it up.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000099_000002|Then he could walk away with us easily, being free."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000100_000000|"Ah, I have never thought of that plan, or I would have been free long ago," said the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000100_000001|"But I cannot flash fire from my eyes unless I am very angry."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000102_000000|"I'll try.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000102_000001|You just say 'Krizzle Kroo' to me."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000103_000000|"Will that make you angry?" inquired the boy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000104_000000|"Terribly angry."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000105_000000|"What does it mean?" asked Scraps.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000106_000000|"I don't know; that's what makes me so angry," replied the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000000|He then stood close to the fence, with his head near one of the boards, and Scraps called out "Krizzle Kroo!"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000001|Then Ojo said "Krizzle Kroo!" and the Glass Cat said "Krizzle Kroo!"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000002|The Woozy began to tremble with anger and small sparks darted from his eyes.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000003|Seeing this, they all cried "Krizzle Kroo!" together, and that made the beast's eyes flash fire so fiercely that the fence board caught the sparks and began to smoke.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000004|Then it burst into flame, and the Woozy stepped back and said triumphantly:
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000108_000000|"Aha!
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000108_000001|That did the business, all right.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000108_000002|It was a happy thought for you to yell all together, for that made me as angry as I have ever been. Fine sparks, weren't they?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000109_000000|"Reg'lar fireworks," replied Scraps, admiringly.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000110_000000|In a few moments the board had burned to a distance of several feet, leaving an opening big enough for them all to pass through.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000110_000001|Ojo broke some branches from a tree and with them whipped the fire until it was extinguished.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000111_000000|"We don't want to burn the whole fence down," said he, "for the flames would attract the attention of the Munchkin farmers, who would then come and capture the Woozy again.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000111_000001|I guess they'll be rather surprised when they find he's escaped."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000112_000000|"So they will," declared the Woozy, chuckling gleefully.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000112_000001|"When they find I'm gone the farmers will be badly scared, for they'll expect me to eat up their honey bees, as I did before."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000115_000001|You would get us all into trouble, and we can't afford to have any more trouble than is necessary.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000115_000002|I'll feed you all the bread and cheese you want, and that must satisfy you."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000116_000000|"All right; I'll promise," said the Woozy, cheerfully.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000116_000001|"And when I promise anything you can depend on it, 'cause I'm square."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000117_000000|"I don't see what difference that makes," observed the Patchwork Girl, as they found the path and continued their journey.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000117_000001|"The shape doesn't make a thing honest, does it?"
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000118_000000|"Of course it does," returned the Woozy, very decidedly.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000118_000001|"No one could trust that Crooked Magician, for instance, just because he is crooked; but a square Woozy couldn't do anything crooked if he wanted to."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000119_000000|"I am neither square nor crooked," said Scraps, looking down at her plump body.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000120_000000|"No; you're round, so you're liable to do anything," asserted the Woozy.
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000120_000001|"Do not blame me, Miss Gorgeous, if I regard you with suspicion. Many a satin ribbon has a cotton back."
train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000121_000000|Scraps didn't understand this, but she had an uneasy misgiving that she had a cotton back herself.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000002_000000|Notwithstanding all the glory of the shops, and the tempting array of the jewellery and trinkets of every description therein displayed, after a few days of sailing on the exquisite lake, and some walks and drives, Polly, down deep in her heart, was quite ready to move on from Geneva.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000002_000001|And, although she didn't say anything, old mr King guessed as much, and broke out suddenly, "Well, are you ready to start, Polly?"
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000003_000001|"I have the presents for the girls.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000004_000000|"Why, Polly, you haven't anything for yourself," Mother Fisher exclaimed, as Polly ran into her room and told the news-how Grandpapa said they were to pack up and leave in the morning.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000005_000002|Mamsie, isn't this pin for Alexia just too lovely for anything?"
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000006_000000|She curled up on the end of the bed, and drew it out of its little box. "I think she'll like it," with anxious eyes on Mother Fisher's face.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000007_000000|"Like it?" repeated her mother.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000008_000000|"I think so too," said Polly, happily, replacing it on the bed of cotton, and putting on the cover to look over another gift.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000009_000001|"Well, now, Polly," she said, decidedly, "I shall go down and get that chain we were looking at.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000009_000002|For you do need that, and your father and I are going to give it to you."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000010_000000|"Oh, Mamsie," protested Polly, "I don't need it; really, I don't."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000011_000000|"Well, we shall give it to you," said Mother Fisher.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000013_000000|When they neared Paris, Adela drew herself up in her corner of the compartment.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000014_000000|"I've been staring all the time since we started on our journey, Adela, as hard as I could," said Polly, laughing.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000015_000000|"Well, you'll stare worse than ever now," said Adela, in an important way.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000015_000001|"There isn't anything in all this world that isn't in Paris," she brought up, not very elegantly.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000016_000000|"I don't like Paris." Tom let the words out before he thought.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000017_000000|"That's just because you are a boy," sniffed Adela.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000017_000004|You never saw such bonnets, Polly Pepper, in all your life!" She lifted her hands, unable to find words enough.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000018_000000|"And the parks and gardens, I suppose, are perfectly lovely," cried Polly, feeling as if she must get away from the bonnets and clothes.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000019_000000|"Yes, and the Bois de Boulogne to drive in, that's elegant.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000021_000000|"Oh, those don't go into the Bois de Boulogne," cried Adela, in a tone of horror.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000022_000000|This nettled Tom.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000022_000001|"Of something besides clothes and bonnets," he broke out.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000023_000000|"Well, there's the Louvre," said Polly, after an uncomfortable little pause.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000024_000000|"Yes," said Adela, "that's best of all, and it doesn't cost anything; so Mademoiselle takes us there very often."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000025_000000|"I should think it would be," cried Polly, beaming at her, and answering the first part of Adela's sentence.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000025_000001|"Oh, Adela, I do so long to see it."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000026_000000|"And you can't go there too often, Polly," said Jasper.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000028_000000|"We'll go there the first day, Polly," said Jasper, "the Louvre, I mean.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000028_000001|Well, here we are in Paris!" And then it was all confusion, for the guards were throwing open the doors to the compartments, and streams of people were meeting on the platform, in what seemed to be inextricable confusion amid a babel of sounds.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000028_000002|And it wasn't until Polly was driving up in the big cab with her part of mr King's "family," as he called it, through the broad avenues and boulevards, interspersed with occasional squares and gardens, and the beautiful bridges here and there across the Seine, gleaming in the sunshine, that she could realise that they were actually in Paris.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000029_000000|And the next day they did go to the Louvre.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000029_000001|And Adela, who was to stay a day or two at the hotel with them before going back into her school, was very important, indeed.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000030_000000|"I do want to see the Venus de Milo," said Polly, quite gone with impatience.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000031_000000|"Well, that old statue will wait, too," cried Adela, pulling her off into another gallery.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000031_000001|"Now, Polly, Mademoiselle says, in point of art, the pictures in here are quite important."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000032_000000|"Are they?" said poor Polly, listlessly.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000033_000000|"Yes, they are," said Adela, twitching her sleeve, "and Mademoiselle brings us in this room every single time we come to the Louvre."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000034_000000|"It's the early French school, you know," she brought up glibly.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000035_000001|"Come, I'm for the Venus de Milo.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000036_000001|"Why, she's smiling at us," as the afternoon sunshine streamed across the lovely face, to lose itself in the folds of the crimson curtain in the background.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000037_000000|The parson folded his arms and drew in long breaths of delight.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000040_000000|"Well, it's much better to see the pictures," said Adela.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000040_000001|"And then we can come here again to morrow."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000041_000001|"Well, all right," she said, and turned off, to come directly into the path of Grandpapa, with Phronsie clinging to his hand, and the rest of his part of the "family" standing in silent admiration.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000042_000000|"We thought we'd come here first," said old mr King.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000042_000001|"I don't mean to see anything else to day.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000042_000002|The Venus de Milo is quite enough for me. To morrow, now, we'll drop in again, and look at some of the pictures."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000043_000001|Just look at that child's face, Edward."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000046_000000|"I don't care about the features," said the lady, "it's the expression; the child hasn't a thought of herself, and that's wonderful to begin with."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000048_000000|"Let us walk slowly down the corridor again," said Evelyn, "and then come up; otherwise we shall attract attention to be standing here and gazing at them."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000049_000000|"And I'd like to see that little beauty again," remarked Edward, "I'll confess, Evelyn."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000052_000000|And when they tired of driving, old mr King gave orders for the drivers to rest their horses.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000052_000001|And then they all got out of the carriages, and walked about among the beautiful trees, and on the winding, sheltered paths.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000053_000000|"It's perfectly lovely off there," said Polly, "and almost like the country," with a longing glance off into the green, cool shade beyond. So they strolled off there, separating into little groups; Polly and Jasper in front, and wishing for nothing so much as a race.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000060_000000|Just then a child screamed.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000061_000000|"Oh, no, Polly," Jasper tried to reassure her, as he ran after her. They were having their race, after all, but in a different way from what they had planned.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000062_000002|As that was impossible, she gave a hasty glance around the shrubbery, and seeing no one to notice her, she broke out into a lively run.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000063_000000|"Yes, Phronsie," Grandpapa was saying, as the young people had left them, and the others had wandered off to enjoy the quiet, shady paths, "this place was the old Foret de Rouvray.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000063_000001|It wasn't a very pretty place to come to in those days, what with the robbers and other bad people who infested it.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000063_000002|And now let us go and find a seat, child, and I'll show you one or two little pictures I picked up in the shop this morning; and you can send them in your next letter, to joel and David, if you like."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000068_000002|Polly flew to Phronsie, who was clinging to Grandpapa's hand, and wailing bitterly.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000068_000003|"What is it?
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000069_000000|"My pocket book," said Grandpapa; "some fellow has seized it, and frightened this poor child almost to death." He seemed to care a great deal more about that than any loss of the money.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000071_000000|Tom saw the fellow slink with the manner of one who knew the ins and outs of the place well,--now gliding, and ducking low in the sparser growth, now making a bold run around some exposed curve, now dashing into a dense part of the wood.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000072_000000|"I'll have you yet!" said Tom, through set teeth; "I haven't trained at school for nothing!"
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000073_000000|A thud of fast flying feet in his rear didn't divert him an instant from his game, although it might be a rescue party for the thief, in the shape of a partner,--who could tell?
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000073_000001|And realising, if he caught the man at all, he must do one of his sprints, he covered the ground by a series of flying leaps,--dashed in where he saw his prey rush; one more leap with all his might, and-"I have you!" cried Tom.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000000|The man under him, thrown to the ground by the suddenness of Tom's leap on him, was wriggling and squirming with all the desperation of a trapped creature, when the individual with the flying footsteps hove in sight.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000002|And they had just persuaded the robber that it would be useless to struggle longer against his fate, when the parson, running as he hadn't run for years, appeared to their view.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000003|And after him, at such a gait that would have been his fortune, in a professional way, was the little doctor.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000004|His hat was gone, and his toes scarcely seemed to touch the ground.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000075_000000|When the thief saw him, he looked to see if any more were coming, and resigned himself at once and closed his eyes instinctively.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000076_000001|Unkempt and unwashed, his long, black hair hung around a face sallow in the extreme.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000079_000000|"Don't, Tom," said Jasper, "joke about it."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000080_000000|"Can't help it," said Tom.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000081_000000|"Turn him over?" repeated mr King.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000081_000001|"I should say so," he added drily, "and give him the best recommendation for a long term, too.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000082_000000|"Grandpapa," suddenly cried Phronsie, who hadn't taken her eyes from the man's face, "what are you going to do-where is he going?"
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000083_000001|"And as soon as possible, too."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000085_000000|"No, no, Phronsie," said mr King, hastily.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000085_000001|"Say no more, child; you don't understand.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000087_000000|"Oh, my goodness!" exclaimed old mr King, starting backward and putting up his hands to his face to shut out the sight.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000087_000001|"Cover it up, man-bless me-no need to ask him a question.
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000087_000002|Why, the fellow is starving."
train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000090_000000|"Hum-hum-very bad case; very bad case, indeed!" mr King was exploding at intervals, while the torrent was rushing on in execrable French as far as accent went.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000001_000001|THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000002_000000|I LOOKED at the house.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000002_000001|It was an inn, of no great size, but of respectable appearance.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000002_000002|If I was to be of any use to her that night, the time had come to speak of other subjects than the subject of dreams.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000003_000002|What are your plans?
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000004_000000|She thanked me warmly, and hesitated, looking up the street and down the street in evident embarrassment what to say next.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000005_000000|"Do you propose staying in Edinburgh?" I asked.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000001|I want to go much further away.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000002|I think I should do better in London; at some respectable milliner's, if I could be properly recommended.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000003|I am quick at my needle, and I understand cutting out.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000004|Or I could keep accounts, if-if anybody would trust me."
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000007_000000|She stopped, and looked at me doubtingly, as if she felt far from sure, poor soul, of winning my confidence to begin with.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000008_000000|"I can give you exactly the recommendation you want," I said, "whenever you like.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000008_000001|Now, if you would prefer it."
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000009_000000|Her charming features brightened with pleasure.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000009_000002|Her face clouded again-she saw my proposal in a new light.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000009_000003|"Have I any right," she asked, sadly, "to accept what you offer me?"
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000012_000000|She shrunk back in alarm.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000012_000001|What would the landlady think if she saw her lodger enter the house at night in company with a stranger, and that stranger a gentleman?
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000012_000003|She led the way into a sort of parlor behind the "bar," placed writing materials on the table, looked at my companion as only one woman can look at another under certain circumstances, and left us by ourselves.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000013_000001|She stood, leaning one hand on the table, confused and irresolute, her firm and supple figure falling into an attitude of unsought grace which it was literally a luxury to look at.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000013_000002|I said nothing; my eyes confessed my admiration; the writing materials lay untouched before me on the table.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000013_000004|She abruptly broke it.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000014_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000015_000000|"You know nothing of me.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000015_000003|I am a miserable wretch who has tried to commit a great sin-I have tried to destroy myself.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000015_000005|You ought to know it.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000016_000000|Her head sunk on her bosom; her delicate lips trembled a little; she said no more.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000016_000001|The way to reassure and console her lay plainly enough before me, if I chose to take it.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000016_000002|Without stopping to think, I took it.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000017_000001|"In the mean time," I added, "I have the most perfect confidence in you; and I beg as a favor that you will let me put it to the proof.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000017_000002|I can introduce you to a dressmaker in London who is at the head of a large establishment, and I will do it before I leave you to night."
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000002|The dressmaker to whom I had alluded had been my mother's maid in f ormer years, and had been established in business with money lent by my late step father, mr Germaine.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000003|I used both their names without scruple; and I wrote my recommendation in terms which the best of living women and the ablest of existing dressmakers could never have hoped to merit.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000004|Will anybody find excuses for me?
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000005|Those rare persons who have been in love, and who have not completely forgotten it yet, may perhaps find excuses for me.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000006|It matters little; I don't deserve them.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000019_000000|I handed her the open letter to read.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000020_000000|She blushed delightfully; she cast one tenderly grateful look at me, which I remembered but too well for many and many an after day.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000020_000001|The next moment, to my astonishment, this changeable creature changed again.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000020_000002|Some forgotten consideration seemed to have occurred to her.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000021_000000|"Would you mind adding a postscript, sir?"
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000022_000000|I suppressed all appearance of surprise as well as I could, and took up the pen again.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000023_000000|"Would you please say," she went on, "that I am only to be taken on trial, at first?
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000023_000001|I am not to be engaged for more"--her voice sunk lower and lower, so that I could barely hear the next words-"for more than three months, certain."
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000024_000000|It was not in human nature-perhaps I ought to say it was not in the nature of a man who was in my situation-to refrain from showing some curiosity, on being asked to supplement a letter of recommendation by such a postscript as this.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000025_000000|"Have you some other employment in prospect?" I asked.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000027_000000|An unworthy doubt of her-the mean offspring of jealousy-found its way into my mind.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000029_000000|She lifted her noble head.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000030_000001|"For God's sake, ask me no more questions to night!"
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000032_000000|We stood together by the table; we looked at each other in a momentary silence.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000000|"How can I thank you?" she murmured, softly.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000001|"Oh, sir, I will indeed be worthy of the confidence that you have shown in me!" Her eyes moistened; her variable color came and went; her dress heaved softly over the lovely outline of her bosom.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000002|I don't believe the man lives who could have resisted her at that moment.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000003|I lost all power of restraint; I caught her in my arms; I whispered, "I love you!" I kissed her passionately.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000004|For a moment she lay helpless and trembling on my breast; for a moment her fragrant lips softly returned the kiss.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000005|In an instant more it was over.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000034_000001|How dare you touch me!" she said. "Take your letter back, sir; I refuse to receive it; I will never speak to you again.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000034_000002|You don't know what you have done.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000034_000004|Oh!" she cried, throwing herself in despair on a sofa that stood near her, "shall I ever recover my self respect? shall I ever forgive myself for what I have done to night?"
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000035_000000|I implored her pardon; I assured her of my repentance and regret in words which did really come from my heart.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000035_000001|The violence of her agitation more than distressed me-I was really alarmed by it.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000036_000000|She composed herself after a while.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000036_000001|She rose to her feet with modest dignity, and silently held out her hand in token that my repentance was accepted.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000037_000000|"You will give me time for atonement?" I pleaded.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000037_000001|"You will not lose all confidence in me?
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000038_000000|"I will write to you," she said.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000039_000000|"To morrow?"
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000041_000000|I took up the letter of recommendation from the floor.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000042_000000|"Make your goodness to me complete," I said.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000042_000001|"Don't mortify me by refusing to take my letter."
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000000|"I will take your letter," she answered, quietly.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000001|"Thank you for writing it.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000002|Leave me now, please.
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000003|Good night."
train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000044_000000|I left her, pale and sad, with my letter in her hand.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000000_000001|mrs VAN BRANDT AT HOME.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000001_000000|As I lifted my hand to ring the house bell, the door was opened from within, and no less a person than mr Van Brandt himself stood before me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000001_000001|He had his hat on.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000001_000002|We had evidently met just as he was going out.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000000|"My dear sir, how good this is of you!
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000001|You present the best of all replies to my letter in presenting yourself.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000002|mrs Van Brandt is at home. mrs Van Brandt will be delighted.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000003|Pray walk in."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000003_000000|He threw open the door of a room on the ground floor.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000003_000002|"Be seated, mr Germaine, I beg of you." He turned to the open door, and called up the stairs, in a loud and confident voice:
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000004_000000|"Mary! come down directly."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000000|"Mary"!
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000001|I knew her Christian name at last, and knew it through Van Brandt.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000002|No words can tell how the name jarred on me, spoken by his lips. For the first time for years past my mind went back to Mary Dermody and Greenwater Broad.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000003|The next moment I heard the rustling of mrs Van Brandt's dress on the stairs.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000004|As the sound caught my ear, the old times and the old faces vanished again from my thoughts as completely as if they had never existed.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000006|What similarity was perceivable in the sooty London lodging house to remind me of the bailiff's flower scented cottage by the shores of the lake?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000007_000000|"I have a business appointment," he said, "which it is impossible to put off.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000007_000001|Pray excuse me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000007_000003|Good morning."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000008_000000|The house door opened and closed again.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000008_000002|She stood before me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000000|"mr Germaine!" she exclaimed, starting back, as if the bare sight of me repelled her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000001|"Is this honorable?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000002|Is this worthy of you?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000003|You allow me to be entrapped into receiving you, and you accept as your accomplice mr Van Brandt!
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000004|Oh, sir, I have accustomed myself to look up to you as a high minded man.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000010_000000|Her reproaches passed by me unheeded.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000010_000001|They only heightened her color; they only added a new rapture to the luxury of looking at her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000011_000000|"If you loved me as faithfully as I love you," I said, "you would understand why I am here.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000012_000000|She suddenly approached me, and fixed her eyes in eager scrutiny on my face.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000013_000000|"There must be some mistake," she said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000013_000001|"You cannot possibly have received my letter, or you have not read it?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000014_000000|"I have received it, and I have read it."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000015_000000|"And Van Brandt's letter-you have read that too?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000016_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000017_000000|She sat down by the table, and, leaning her arms on it, covered her face with her hands.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000017_000001|My answers seemed not only to have distressed, but to have perplexed her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000017_000002|"Are men all alike?" I heard her say.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000018_000000|I closed the door and seated myself by her side.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000018_000001|She removed her hands from her face when she felt me near her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000018_000002|She looked at me with a cold and steady surprise.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000019_000000|"What are you going to do?" she asked.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000020_000000|"I am going to try if I can recover my place in your estimation," I said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000020_000001|"I am going to ask your pity for a man whose whole heart is yours, whose whole life is bound up in you."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000021_000000|She started to her feet, and looked round her incredulously, as if doubting whether she had rightly heard and rightly interpreted my last words.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000021_000001|Before I could speak again, she suddenly faced me, and struck her open hand on the table with a passionate resolution which I now saw in her for the first time.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000000|"Stop!" she cried.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000001|"There must be an end to this.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000002|And an end there shall be.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000003|Do you know who that man is who has just left the house?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000005|I am speaking in earnest."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000023_000000|There was no choice but to answer her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000023_000001|She was indeed in earnest-vehemently in earnest.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000024_000000|"His letter tells me," I said, "that he is mr Van Brandt."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000025_000000|She sat down again, and turned her face away from me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000026_000001|"Do you know what made him invite you to this house?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000027_000001|I made no reply.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000000|"You force me to tell you the truth," she went on.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000001|"He asked me who you were, last night on our way home.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000003|I told him I knew nothing of your position in the world.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000004|He was too cunning to believe me; he went out to the public house and looked at a directory.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000005|He came back and said, 'mr
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000007|He is not a man for a poor devil like me to offend; I mean to make a friend of him, and I expect you to make a friend of him too.' He sat down and wrote to you.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000008|I am living under that man's protection, mr Germaine.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000009|His wife is not dead, as you may suppose; she is living, and I know her to be living.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000010|I wrote to you that I was beneath your notice, and you have obliged me to tell you why.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000000|I drew closer to her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000001|She tried to get up and leave me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000002|I knew my power over her, and used it (as any man in my place would have used it) without scruple.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000003|I took her hand.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000030_000000|"I don't believe you have voluntarily degraded yourself," I said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000030_000001|"You have been forced into your present position: there are circumstances which excuse you, and which you are purposely keeping back from me. Nothing will convince me that you are a base woman.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000030_000002|Should I love you as I love you, if you were really unworthy of me?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000031_000000|She struggled to free her hand; I still held it.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000031_000001|She tried to change the subject.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000031_000002|"There is one thing you haven't told me yet," she said, with a faint, forced smile.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000033_000000|"Never.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000033_000002|Can you tell why?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000034_000001|But the subject dropped.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000034_000002|Instead of answering her question, I drew her nearer to me-I returned to the forbidden subject of my love.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000035_000000|"Look at me," I pleaded, "and tell me the truth.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000035_000002|Do you really care nothing for me?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000035_000003|Have you never once thought of me in all the time that has passed since we last met?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000000|I spoke as I felt-fervently, passionately.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000001|She made a last effort to repel me, and yielded even as she made it.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000002|Her hand closed on mine, a low sigh fluttered on her lips.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000003|She answered with a sudden self abandonment; she recklessly cast herself loose from the restraints which had held her up to this time.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000037_000000|"I think of you perpetually," she said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000037_000001|"I was thinking of you at the opera last night.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000038_000000|"You love me!" I whispered.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000000|"Love you!" she repeated.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000001|"My whole heart goes out to you in spite of myself.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000002|Degraded as I am, unworthy as I am-knowing as I do that nothing can ever come of it-I love you!
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000003|I love you!"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000040_000000|She threw her arms round my neck, and held me to her with all her strength.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000040_000002|"Oh, don't tempt me!" she murmured.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000041_000000|I was beside myself.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000041_000001|I spoke as recklessly to her as she had spoken to me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000042_000002|Leave him at once and forever. Leave him, and come with me to a future that is worthy of you-your future as my wife."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000043_000000|"Never!" she answered, crouching low at my feet.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000044_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000044_000001|What obstacle is there?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000045_000000|"I can't tell you-I daren't tell you."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000046_000000|"Will you write it?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000047_000001|Go, I implore you, before Van Brandt comes back.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000047_000002|Go, if you love me and pity me."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000048_000000|She had roused my jealousy.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000048_000001|I positively refused to leave her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000049_000001|"Let him come back!
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000050_000000|She looked at me wildly, with a cry of terror.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000051_000000|"Don't frighten me," she said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000051_000001|"Let me think."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000052_000000|She reflected for a moment.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000053_000000|"Have you a mother living?" she asked.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000054_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000055_000000|"Do you think she would come and see me?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000056_000000|"I am sure she would if I asked her."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000057_000000|She considered with herself once more.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000057_000001|"I will tell your mother what the obstacle is," she said, thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000058_000000|"When?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000059_000000|"To morrow, at this time."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000000|She raised herself on her knees; the tears suddenly filled her eyes.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000001|She drew me to her gently.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000002|"Kiss me," she whispered.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000003|"You will never come here again.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000004|Kiss me for the last time."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000061_000000|My lips had barely touched hers, when she started to her feet and snatched up my hat from the chair on which I had placed it.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000062_000000|"Take your hat," she said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000062_000001|"He has come back."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000000|My duller sense of hearing had discovered nothing.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000001|I rose and took my hat to quiet her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000002|At the same moment the door of the room opened suddenly and softly.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000003|mr Van Brandt came in.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000004|I saw in his face that he had some vile motive of his own for trying to take us by surprise, and that the result of the experiment had disappointed him.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000064_000000|"You are not going yet?" he said, speaking to me with his eye on mrs Van Brandt.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000064_000002|Put down your hat, mr Germaine. No ceremony!"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000065_000000|"You are very good," I answered.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000065_000002|I must beg you and mrs Van Brandt to excuse me."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000000|I took leave of her as I spoke.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000001|She turned deadly pale when she shook hands with me at parting.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000002|Had she any open brutality to dread from Van Brandt as soon as my back was turned?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000003|The bare suspicion of it made my blood boil.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000005|In her interests, the wise thing and the merciful thing to do was to conciliate the fellow before I left the house.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000067_000000|"I am sorry not to be able to accept your invitation," I said, as we walked together to the door.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000067_000001|"Perhaps you will give me another chance?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000000|His eyes twinkled cunningly.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000001|"What do you say to a quiet little dinner here?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000002|"A slice of mutton, you know, and a bottle of good wine.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000003|Only our three selves, and one old friend of mine to make up four.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000005|Mary and you partners-eh?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000007|Shall we say the day after to morrow?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000000|She had followed us to the door, keeping behind Van Brandt while he was speaking to me.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000001|When he mentioned the "old friend" and the "rubber of whist," her face expressed the strongest emotions of shame and disgust. The next moment (when she had heard him fix the date of the dinner for "the day after to morrow") her features became composed again, as if a sudden sense of relief had come to her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000002|What did the change mean? "To morrow" was the day she had appointed for seeing my mother.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000003|Did she really believe, when I had heard what passed at the interview, that I should never enter the house again, and never attempt to see her more? And was this the secret of her composure when she heard the date of the dinner appointed for "the day after to morrow"?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000070_000000|Asking myself these questions, I accepted my invitation, and left the house with a heavy heart.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000070_000001|That farewell kiss, that sudden composure when the day of the dinner was fixed, weighed on my spirits.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000072_000000|"You have gone out earlier than usual to day," she said.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000072_000001|"Did the fine weather tempt you, my dear?" She paused, and looked at me more closely. "George!" she exclaimed, "what has happened to you?
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000072_000002|Where have you been?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000073_000000|I told her the truth as honestly as I have told it here.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000074_000000|The color deepened in my mother's face.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000074_000001|She looked at me, and spoke to me with a severity which was rare indeed in my experience of her.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000075_000000|"Must I remind you, for the first time in your life, of what is due to your mother?" she asked.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000075_000001|"Is it possible that you expect me to visit a woman, who, by her own confession-"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000076_000000|"I expect you to visit a woman who has only to say the word and to be your daughter in law," I interposed.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000076_000001|"Surely I am not asking what is unworthy of you, if I ask that?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000077_000000|My mother looked at me in blank dismay.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000078_000000|"Do you mean, George, that you have offered her marriage?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000079_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000080_000000|"And she has said No?"
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000081_000000|"She has said No, because there is some obstacle in her way.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000081_000001|I have tried vainly to make her explain herself.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000082_000000|The serious nature of the emergency had its effect.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000082_000002|"Write down the name and address," she said resignedly.
train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000084_000000|"Is it as serious as that, George?"
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000012_000000|Lord Percy to the quarry went, To view the tender deere; Quoth he, "Erle Douglas promised This day to meet me heere;
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000029_000000|[Yet bides Earl Douglas on the bent, As Chieftain stout and good, As valiant Captain, all unmov'd The shock he firmly stood.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000032_000000|And throwing strait their bows away, They grasp'd their swords so bright: And now sharp blows, a heavy shower, On shields and helmets light.]
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000048_000000|So thus did both these nobles dye, Whose courage none could staine; An English archer then perceiv'd The noble erle was slaine.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000051_000000|This fight did last from breake of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rung the evening bell, The battel scarce was done.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000053_000000|And with Sir George and stout Sir james, Both knights of good account, Good Sir Ralph Rabby there was slaine, Whose prowesse did surmount.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000057_000000|And the Lord Maxwell in like case Did with Erle Douglas dye; Of twenty hundred Scottish speres, Scarce fifty five did flye.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000061_000000|This newes was brought to Eddenborrow, Where Scotlands king did raigne, That brave Erle Douglas suddenlye Was with an arrow slaine.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000062_000000|"O heavy newes," King james did say; "Scottland can witnesse bee, I have not any captaine more Of such account as hee."
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000064_000000|"Now God be with him," said our king, "Sith it will noe better bee; I trust I have, within my realme, Five hundred as good as hee.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000066_000000|This vow full well the king perform'd After, at Humbledowne; In one day, fifty knights were slayne, With lordes of great renowne.
train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000068_000000|God save our king, and bless this land In plentye, joy, and peace; And grant henceforth, that foule debate 'Twixt noblemen may cease!
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000001_000000|Chapter five
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000003_000002|The main object of the missionaries was to ascertain the spiritual wants of the warlike Chilcat tribe, with a view to the establishment of a church and school in their principal village; the merchant and his party were bent on business and scenery; while my mind was on the mountains, glaciers, and forests.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000001|Every face glowed with natural love of wild beauty.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000003|But every eye was turned to the mountains. Forgotten now were the Chilcats and missions while the word of God was being read in these majestic hieroglyphics blazoned along the sky.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000004|The earnest, childish wonderment with which this glorious page of Nature's Bible was contemplated was delightful to see.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000005|All evinced eager desire to learn.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000007_000000|"Is that a glacier," they asked, "down in that canyon?
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000008_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000009_000000|"How deep is it?"
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000011_000000|"You say it flows.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000012_000000|"It flows like water, though invisibly slow."
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000014_000000|"From snow that is heaped up every winter on the mountains."
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000015_000000|"And how, then, is the snow changed into ice?"
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000018_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000019_000000|"Are those bluish draggled masses hanging down from beneath the snow fields what you call the snouts of the glaciers?"
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000020_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000022_000000|"The glaciers themselves, just as traveling animals make their own tracks."
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000023_000000|"How long have they been there?"
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000024_000000|"Numberless centuries," etc
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000025_000000|About the middle of the afternoon we were directly opposite a noble group of glaciers some ten in number, flowing from a chain of crater like snow fountains, guarded around their summits and well down their sides by jagged peaks and cols and curving mural ridges. From each of the larger clusters of fountains, a wide, sheer walled canyon opens down to the sea.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000025_000003|It was to this glacier that the ships of the Alaska Ice Company resorted for the ice they carried to San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and, I believe, also to China and Japan.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000025_000004|To load, they had only to sail up the fiord within a short distance of the front and drop anchor in the terminal moraine.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000027_000003|The captain repeatedly called for more steam, which the engineer refused to furnish, cautiously keeping the pressure low because the salt water foamed in the boilers and some of it passed over into the cylinders, causing heavy thumping at the end of each piston stroke, and threatening to knock out the cylinder heads.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000027_000005|In the discussions that followed much indignation and economy were brought to light.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000027_000007|But at the present rate of speed it was found that the cost of the trip for each passenger would be five or ten dollars above the first estimate.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000002|The tide was low, exposing a luxuriant growth of algae, which sent up a fine, fresh sea smell.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000003|The shingle was composed of slate, quartz, and granite, named in the order of abundance.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000004|The first land plant met was a tall grass, nine feet high, forming a meadow like margin in front of the forest. Pushing my way well back into the forest, I found it composed almost entirely of spruce and two hemlocks (Picea sitchensis, Tsuga heterophylla and t mertensiana) with a few specimens of yellow cypress.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000007|On the opener spots beneath the trees the ground is covered to a depth of two or three feet with mosses of indescribable freshness and beauty, a few dwarf conifers often planted on their rich furred bosses, together with pyrola, coptis, and Solomon's seal.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000009|As the twilight began to fall, I sat down on the mossy instep of a spruce.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000011|One bird, a thrush, embroidered the silence with cheery notes, making the solitude familiar and sweet, while the solemn monotone of the stream sifting through the woods seemed like the very voice of God, humanized, terrestrialized, and entering one's heart as to a home prepared for it.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000029_000000|The stream was bridged at short intervals with picturesque, moss embossed logs, and the trees on its banks, leaning over from side to side, made high embowering arches.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000035_000003|Our next attempt, made nearer the middle of the valley, was successful, and we soon found ourselves on firm gravelly ground, and made haste to the huge ice wall, which seemed to recede as we advanced.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000035_000010|mr Young and I traced the glorious crystal wall, admiring its wonderful architecture, the play of light in the rifts and caverns, and the structure of the ice as displayed in the less fractured sections, finding fresh beauty everywhere and facts for study.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000036_000000|Along the sides of the glacier we saw the mighty flood grinding against the granite walls with tremendous pressure, rounding outswelling bosses, and deepening the retreating hollows into the forms they are destined to have when, in the fullness of appointed time, the huge ice tool shall be withdrawn by the sun
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000036_000001|Every feature glowed with intention, reflecting the plans of God.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000040_000000|In the mean time another excursion was being invented, one of small size and price.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000042_000001|"We shall probably find stone axes and other curiosities.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000045_000006|For example, the first dwelling we visited was about forty feet square, with walls built of planks two feet wide and six inches thick.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000045_000009|The pillars that had supported the ridgepole were still standing in some of the ruins.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000045_000013|With the same tools not one in a thousand of our skilled mechanics could do as good work.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000000|The carved totem pole monuments are the most striking of the objects displayed here.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000001|The simplest of them consisted of a smooth, round post fifteen or twenty feet high and about eighteen inches in diameter, with the figure of some animal on top-a bear, porpoise, eagle, or raven, about life-size or larger.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000003|The largest were thirty or forty feet high, carved from top to bottom into human and animal totem figures, one above another, with their limbs grotesquely doubled and folded.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000005|But a telling display of family pride seemed to have been the prevailing motive. All the figures were more or less rude, and some were broadly grotesque, but there was never any feebleness or obscurity in the expression.
train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000049_000002|This sacrilege came near causing trouble and would have cost us dear had the totem not chanced to belong to the Kadachan family, the representative of which is a member of the newly organized Wrangell Presbyterian Church.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000001_000000|Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000000|Next day I planned an excursion to the so-called Dirt Glacier, the most interesting to Indians and steamer men of all the Stickeen glaciers from its mysterious floods.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000002|The captain kindly loaned me his canoe and two of his Indian deck hands, who seemed much puzzled to know what the rare service required of them might mean, and on leaving bade a merry adieu to their companions.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000004|Thirteen small glaciers were in sight and four waterfalls.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000006|I had my supper before leaving the steamer, so I had only to make a campfire, spread my blanket, and lie down.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000003_000000|The Dirt Glacier is noted among the river men as being subject to violent flood outbursts once or twice a year, usually in the late summer.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000000|Our camp was made on the south or lower side of the delta, below all the draining streams, so that I would not have to ford any of them on my way to the glacier.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000002|I had but little to say to my companions as they could speak no English, nor I much Thlinkit or Chinook.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000005|After wrapping myself in my blankets, I still gazed into the marvelous sky and made out to sleep only about two hours.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000006|Then, without waking the noisy sleepers, I arose, ate a piece of bread, and set out in my shirt sleeves, determined to make the most of the time at my disposal.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000007|The captain was to pick us up about noon at a woodpile about a mile from here; but if in the mean time the steamer should run aground and he should need his canoe, a three whistle signal would be given.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000005_000002|It was too swift and rough to ford, and no bridge tree could be found, for the great floods had cleared everything out of their way.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000006_000003|Seedling trees and bushes also were growing among the flowers.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000000|Altogether, I saw about fifteen or sixteen miles of the main trunk. The grade is almost regular, and the walls on either hand are about from two to three thousand feet high, sculptured like those of Yosemite Valley.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000003|The structure of the glacier was strikingly revealed on its melting surface.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000004|It is made up of thin vertical or inclined sheets or slabs set on edge and welded together.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000005|They represent, I think, the successive snowfalls from heavy storms on the tributaries.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000006|One of the tributaries on the right side, about three miles above the front, has been entirely melted off from the trunk and has receded two or three miles, forming an independent glacier.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000007|Across the mouth of this abandoned part of its channel the main glacier flows, forming a dam which gives rise to a lake.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000009_000000|In the angle formed by the main glacier and the lake that gives rise to the river floods, there is a massive granite dome sparsely feathered with trees, and just beyond this yosemitic rock is a mountain, perhaps ten thousand feet high, laden with ice and snow which seemed pure pearly white in the morning light.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000009_000001|Last evening as seen from camp it was adorned with a cloud streamer, and both the streamer and the peak were flushed in the alpenglow.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000009_000002|A mile or two above this mountain, on the opposite side of the glacier, there is a rock like the Yosemite Sentinel; and in general all the wall rocks as far as I saw them are more or less yosemitic in form and color and streaked with cascades.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000011_000000|The return trip to the camp past the shelving cliff and through the weary devil's club jungle was made in a few hours.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000011_000002|The captain had called for me, and, after waiting three hours, departed for Wrangell without leaving any food, to make sure, I suppose, of a quick return of his Indians and canoe.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000011_000003|This was no serious matter, however, for the swift current swept us down to Buck Station, some thirty five miles distant, by eight o'clock.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000012_000000|The weather that morning, august twenty seventh, was dark and rainy, and I tried to persuade myself that I ought to rest a day before setting out on new ice work.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000012_000002|So grand an invitation displayed in characters so telling was of course irresistible, and body care and weather care vanished.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000015_000000|"When shall I expect you back?" inquired Choquette, when I bade him good bye.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000016_000001|"I shall see as much as possible of the glacier, and I know not how long it will hold me."
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000017_000000|"Well, but when will I come to look for you, if anything happens? Where are you going to try to go?
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000018_000000|"Yes, I have," I said.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000018_000002|Do not look for me until I make my appearance on the river bank.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000018_000004|I am used to caring for myself." And so, shouldering my bundle, I trudged off through the moraine boulders and thickets.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000021_000000|On the older portions of this moraine I discovered several kettles in process of formation and was pleased to find that they conformed in the most striking way with the theory I had already been led to make from observations on the old kettles which form so curious a feature of the drift covering Wisconsin and Minnesota and some of the larger moraines of the residual glaciers in the California Sierra.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000021_000003|The moraine material of course was falling in as the ice melted, and the sides maintained an angle as steep as the material would lie.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000021_000004|All sorts of theories have been advanced for the formation of these kettles, so abundant in the drift over a great part of the United States, and I was glad to be able to set the question at rest, at least as far as I was concerned.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000000|The outlet of the lake is a large stream, almost a river in size, one of the main draining streams of the glacier.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000001|I attempted to ford it where it begins to break in rapids in passing over the moraine, but found it too deep and rough on the bottom.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000004|Here I found a spruce tree which I felled for a bridge; it reached across, about ten feet of the top holding in the bank brush.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000005|But the force of the torrent, acting on the submerged branches and the slender end of the trunk, bent it like a bow and made it very unsteady, and after testing it by going out about a third of the way over, it seemed likely to be carried away when bent deeper into the current by my weight.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000006|Fortunately, I discovered another larger tree well situated a little farther down, which I felled, and though a few feet in the middle was submerged, it seemed perfectly safe.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000026_000000|As it was now getting late, I started back to the lakeside where I had left my bundle, and in trying to hold a direct course found the interlaced jungle still more difficult than it was along the bank of the torrent.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000026_000002|But everything was deliciously fresh, and I found new and old plant friends, and lessons on Nature's Alaska moraine landscape gardening that made everything bright and light.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000000|It was now near dark, and I made haste to make up my flimsy little tent.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000001|The ground was desperately rocky.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000002|I made out, however, to level down a strip large enough to lie on, and by means of slim alder stems bent over it and tied together soon had a home.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000003|While thus busily engaged I was startled by a thundering roar across the lake.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000004|Running to the top of the moraine, I discovered that the tremendous noise was only the outcry of a newborn berg about fifty or sixty feet in diameter, rocking and wallowing in the waves it had raised as if enjoying its freedom after its long grinding work as part of the glacier.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000005|After this fine last lesson I managed to make a small fire out of wet twigs, got a cup of tea, stripped off my dripping clothing, wrapped myself in a blanket and lay brooding on the gains of the day and plans for the morrow, glad, rich, and almost comfortable.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000028_000002|The smell of the washed ground and vegetation made every breath a pleasure, and I found Calypso borealis, the first I had seen on this side of the continent, one of my darlings, worth any amount of hardship; and I saw one of my Douglas squirrels on the margin of a grassy pool.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000029_000000|In the gardens and forests of this wonderful moraine one might spend a whole joyful life.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000030_000004|Fortunately this night it did not rain, but it was very cold.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000031_000002|I then crossed to the south side, noting the forms of the huge blocks into which the glacier was broken in passing over the brow of the cataract, and how they were welded.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000032_000000|The weather was now clear, opening views according to my own heart far into the high snowy fountains.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000032_000002|The greatest discovery was in methods of denudation displayed beneath the glacier.
train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000033_000001|Promptly at sight of the signal I made, the kind Frenchman came across for me in his canoe.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000001_000001|How Absalom Murdered Amnon, Who Had Forced His Own Sister; And How He Was Banished And Afterwards Recalled By David.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000002|Now Amnon, David's eldest son, fell in love with her, and being not able to obtain his desires, on account of her virginity, and the custody she was under, was so much out of order, nay, his grief so eat up his body, that he grew lean, and his color was changed.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000004|When, therefore, he saw that every morning Amnon was not in body as he ought to be, he came to him, and desired him to tell him what was the cause of it: however, he said that he guessed that it arose from the passion of love.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000005|Amnon confessed his passion, that he was in love with a sister of his, who had the same father with himself.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000006|So Jenadab suggested to him by what method and contrivance he might obtain his desires; for he persuaded him to pretend sickness, and bade him, when his father should come to him, to beg of him that his sister might come and minister to him; for if that were done, he should be better, and should quickly recover from his distemper.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000008|When his father came, and inquired how he did, he begged of him to send his sister to him.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000010|So she kneaded the flour in the sight of her brother, and made him cakes, and baked them in a pan, and brought them to him; but at that time he would not taste them, but gave order to his servants to send all that were there out of his chamber, because he had a mind to repose himself, free from tumult and disturbance.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000011|As soon as what he had commanded was done, he desired his sister to bring his supper to him into the inner parlor; which, when the damsel had done, he took hold of her, and endeavored to persuade her to lie with him.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000012|Whereupon the damsel cried out, and said, "Nay, brother, do not force me, nor be so wicked as to transgress the laws, and bring upon thyself the utmost confusion.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000013|Curb this thy unrighteous and impure lust, from which our house will get nothing but reproach and disgrace." She also advised him to speak to his father about this affair; for he would permit him [to marry her].
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000014|This she said, as desirous to avoid her brother's violent passion at present.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000015|But he would not yield to her; but, inflamed with love and blinded with the vehemency of his passion, he forced his sister: but as soon as Amnon had satisfied his lust, he hated her immediately, and giving her reproachful words, bade her rise up and be gone.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000016|And when she said that this was a more injurious treatment than the former, if, now he had forced her, he would not let her stay with him till the evening, but bid her go away in the day-time, and while it was light, that she might meet with people that would be witnesses of her shame,--he commanded his servant to turn her out of his house.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000018|Now Absalom, her brother, happened to meet her, and asked her what sad thing had befallen her, that she was in that plight; and when she had told him what injury had been offered her, he comforted her, and desired her to be quiet, and take all patiently, and not to esteem her being corrupted by her brother as an injury.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000019|So she yielded to his advice, and left off her crying out, and discovering the force offered her to the multitude; and she continued as a widow with her brother Absalom a long time.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000003_000001|When David his father knew this, he was grieved at the actions of Amnon; but because he had an extraordinary affection for him, for he was his eldest son, he was compelled not to afflict him; but Absalom watched for a fit opportunity of revenging this crime upon him, for he thoroughly hated him.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000003_000003|Then Absalom charged his own servants, that when they should see Amnon disordered and drowsy with wine, and he should give them a signal, they should fear nobody, but kill him.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000004_000004|In the mean time, a great noise of horses, and a tumult of some people that were coming, turned their attention to them; they were the king's sons, who were fled away from the feast.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000004_000005|So their father met them as they were in their grief, and he himself grieved with them; but it was more than he expected to see those his sons again, whom he had a little before heard to have perished.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000004_000006|However, their were tears on both sides; they lamenting their brother who was killed, and the king lamenting his son, who was killed also; but Absalom fled to Geshur, to his grandfather by his mother's side, who was king of that country, and he remained with him three whole years.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000006_000001|However, the king sent a message to his son beforehand, as he was coming, and commanded him to retire to his own house, for he was not yet in such a disposition as to think fit at present to see him. Accordingly, upon the father's command, he avoided coming into his presence, and contented himself with the respects paid him by his own family only.
train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000006_000004|But Absalom sent to Joab, and desired him to pacify his father entirely towards him; and to beseech him to give him leave to come to him to see him, and speak with him.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000004_000000|The visit of Senator Abner Dilworthy was an event in Hawkeye.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000004_000001|When a Senator, whose place is in Washington moving among the Great and guiding the destinies of the nation, condescends to mingle among the people and accept the hospitalities of such a place as Hawkeye, the honor is not considered a light one.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000004_000002|All parties are flattered by it and politics are forgotten in the presence of one so distinguished among his fellows.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000005_000001|Sellers, who had been a confederate and had not thriven by it, should give him the cold shoulder?
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000006_000002|Sellers for the unreserved hospitalities of the town.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000006_000003|It was the large hearted Colonel who, in a manner, gave him the freedom of the city.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000007_000002|Boswell.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000007_000003|But you will mingle with our people, and you will see here developments that will surprise you."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000008_000001|He did, in fact, press him to dine upon the morning of the day the Senator was going away.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000009_000000|Senator Dilworthy was large and portly, though not tall-a pleasant spoken man, a popular man with the people.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000010_000000|He took a lively interest in the town and all the surrounding country, and made many inquiries as to the progress of agriculture, of education, and of religion, and especially as to the condition of the emancipated race.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000011_000000|"Providence," he said, "has placed them in our hands, and although you and I, General, might have chosen a different destiny for them, under the Constitution, yet Providence knows best."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000012_000002|"They are a speculating race, sir, disinclined to work for white folks without security, planning how to live by only working for themselves.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000012_000003|Idle, sir, there's my garden just a ruin of weeds.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000014_000001|If he won't stick to any industry except for himself now, what will he do then?"
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000015_000000|"But, Colonel, the negro when educated will be more able to make his speculations fruitful."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000016_000000|"Never, sir, never.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000016_000001|He would only have a wider scope to injure himself. A niggro has no grasp, sir.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000016_000002|Now, a white man can conceive great operations, and carry them out; a niggro can't."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000017_000000|"Still," replied the Senator, "granting that he might injure himself in a worldly point of view, his elevation through education would multiply his chances for the hereafter-which is the important thing after all, Colonel.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000018_000000|"I'd elevate his soul," promptly responded the Colonel; "that's just it; you can't make his soul too immortal, but I wouldn't touch him, himself. Yes, sir! make his soul immortal, but don't disturb the niggro as he is."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000019_000000|Of course one of the entertainments offered the Senator was a public reception, held in the court house, at which he made a speech to his fellow citizens.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000019_000004|Boswell.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000019_000005|The occasion was one to call out his finest powers of personal appearance, and one he long dwelt on with pleasure.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000020_000000|This not being an edition of the Congressional Globe it is impossible to give Senator Dilworthy's speech in full.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000020_000001|He began somewhat as follows:
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000021_000000|"Fellow citizens: It gives me great pleasure to thus meet and mingle with you, to lay aside for a moment the heavy duties of an official and burdensome station, and confer in familiar converse with my friends in your great state.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000021_000001|The good opinion of my fellow citizens of all sections is the sweetest solace in all my anxieties.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000021_000003|Cries of "put him out."]
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000000|"My friends, do not remove him.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000002|I see that he is a victim of that evil which is swallowing up public virtue and sapping the foundation of society.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000003|As I was saying, when I can lay down the cares of office and retire to the sweets of private life in some such sweet, peaceful, intelligent, wide awake and patriotic place as Hawkeye (applause).
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000004|I have traveled much, I have seen all parts of our glorious union, but I have never seen a lovelier village than yours, or one that has more signs of commercial and industrial and religious prosperity-(more applause)."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000023_000000|The Senator then launched into a sketch of our great country, and dwelt for an hour or more upon its prosperity and the dangers which threatened it.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000025_000001|He and mr Brierly took the Senator over to Napoleon and opened to him their plan.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000025_000002|It was a plan that the Senator could understand without a great deal of explanation, for he seemed to be familiar with the like improvements elsewhere.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000025_000003|When, however, they reached Stone's Landing the Senator looked about him and inquired,
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000026_000000|"Is this Napoleon?"
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000027_000000|"This is the nucleus, the nucleus," said the Colonel, unrolling his map. "Here is the deepo, the church, the City Hall and so on."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000028_000000|"Ah, I see.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000028_000001|How far from here is Columbus River?
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000028_000002|Does that stream empty----"
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000029_000000|"That, why, that's Goose Run.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000000|"Yes, sir," the Colonel hastened to explain, "in the old records Columbus River is called Goose Run.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000001|You see how it sweeps round the town-forty nine miles to the Missouri; sloop navigation all the way pretty much drains this whole country; when it's improved steamboats will run right up here.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000002|It's got to be enlarged, deepened.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000003|You see by the map.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000004|Columbus River.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000005|This country must have water communication!"
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000031_000001|Sellers.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000032_000000|"I should say a million; is that your figure mr Brierly."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000033_000000|"According to our surveys," said Harry, "a million would do it; a million spent on the river would make Napoleon worth two millions at least."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000034_000002|You can begin to sell town lots on that appropriation you know."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000035_000000|The Senator, himself, to do him justice, was not very much interested in the country or the stream, but he favored the appropriation, and he gave the Colonel and mr Brierly to understand that he would endeavor to get it through.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000035_000001|Harry, who thought he was shrewd and understood Washington, suggested an interest.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000036_000000|But he saw that the Senator was wounded by the suggestion.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000037_000000|"You will offend me by repeating such an observation," he said. "Whatever I do will be for the public interest.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000037_000001|It will require a portion of the appropriation for necessary expenses, and I am sorry to say that there are members who will have to be seen.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000037_000002|But you can reckon upon my humble services."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000038_000000|This aspect of the subject was not again alluded to.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000039_000000|It was on this visit also that the Senator made the acquaintance of mr Washington Hawkins, and was greatly taken with his innocence, his guileless manner and perhaps with his ready adaptability to enter upon any plan proposed.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000040_000001|And he did not doubt that this was an opportunity of that kind.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000041_000000|The result of several conferences with Washington was that the Senator proposed that he should go to Washington with him and become his private secretary and the secretary of his committee; a proposal which was eagerly accepted.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000042_000000|The Senator spent Sunday in Hawkeye and attended church.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000042_000001|He cheered the heart of the worthy and zealous minister by an expression of his sympathy in his labors, and by many inquiries in regard to the religious state of the region.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000042_000002|It was not a very promising state, and the good man felt how much lighter his task would be, if he had the aid of such a man as Senator Dilworthy.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000043_000000|"I am glad to see, my dear sir," said the Senator, "that you give them the doctrines.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000043_000001|It is owing to a neglect of the doctrines, that there is such a fearful falling away in the country.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000043_000002|I wish that we might have you in Washington-as chaplain, now, in the senate."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000044_000000|The good man could not but be a little flattered, and if sometimes, thereafter, in his discouraging work, he allowed the thought that he might perhaps be called to Washington as chaplain of the Senate, to cheer him, who can wonder.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000044_000001|The Senator's commendation at least did one service for him, it elevated him in the opinion of Hawkeye.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000000|Laura was at church alone that day, and mr Brierly walked home with her.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000001|A part of their way lay with that of General Boswell and Senator Dilworthy, and introductions were made.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000002|Laura had her own reasons for wishing to know the Senator, and the Senator was not a man who could be called indifferent to charms such as hers.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000003|That meek young lady so commended herself to him in the short walk, that he announced his intentions of paying his respects to her the next day, an intention which Harry received glumly; and when the Senator was out of hearing he called him "an old fool."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000046_000002|He said you were a young man of great promise."
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000047_000000|The Senator did call next day, and the result of his visit was that he was confirmed in his impression that there was something about him very attractive to ladies.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000047_000001|He saw Laura again and again during his stay, and felt more and more the subtle influence of her feminine beauty, which every man felt who came near her.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000001|Perhaps Laura enjoyed his torment, but she soothed him with blandishments that increased his ardor, and she smiled to herself to think that he had, with all his protestations of love, never spoken of marriage.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000002|Probably the vivacious fellow never had thought of it.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000003|At any rate when he at length went away from Hawkeye he was no nearer it.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000004|But there was no telling to what desperate lengths his passion might not carry him.
train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000049_000000|Laura bade him good bye with tender regret, which, however, did not disturb her peace or interfere with her plans.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000001_000001|How The Kings Of Asia Honored The Nation Of The Jews And Made Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They Built.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000003_000003|Now as to this determination of Agrippa, it is not so much to be admired, for at that time our nation had not made war against the romans.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000003_000004|But one may well be astonished at the generosity of Vespasian and titus, that after so great wars and contests which they had from us, they should use such moderation.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000003_000005|But I will now return to that part of my history whence I made the present digression.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000002|But at length, when Antiochus had beaten Ptolemy, he seized upon Judea; and when Philopater was dead, his son sent out a great army under Scopas, the general of his forces, against the inhabitants of Celesyria, who took many of their cities, and in particular our nation; which when he fell upon them, went over to him.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000003|Yet was it not long afterward when Antiochus overcame Scopas, in a battle fought at the fountains of Jordan, and destroyed a great part of his army.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000004|But afterward, when Antiochus subdued those cities of Celesyria which Scopas had gotten into his possession, and Samaria with them, the Jews, of their own accord, went over to him, and received him into the city [Jerusalem], and gave plentiful provision to all his army, and to his elephants, and readily assisted him when he besieged the garrison which was in the citadel of Jerusalem.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000005|Wherefore Antiochus thought it but just to requite the Jews' diligence and zeal in his service.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000006|So he wrote to the generals of his armies, and to his friends, and gave testimony to the good behavior of the Jews towards him, and informed them what rewards he had resolved to bestow on them for that their behavior.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000008|But we will return to the series of the history, when we have first produced the epistles of king Antiochus.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000005_000000|King Antiochus To Ptolemy, Sendeth Greeting.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000002|And these payments I would have fully paid them, as I have sent orders to you.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000003|I would also have the work about the temple finished, and the cloisters, and if there be any thing else that ought to be rebuilt.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000005|And that the city may the sooner recover its inhabitants, I grant a discharge from taxes for three years to its present inhabitants, and to such as shall come to it, until the month Hyperheretus.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000006|We also discharge them for the future from a third part of their taxes, that the losses they have sustained may be repaired.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000001|And these were the contents of this epistle.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000003|Nor let any flesh of horses, or of mules, or of asses, he brought into the city, whether they be wild or tame; nor that of leopards, or foxes, or hares; and, in general, that of any animal which is forbidden for the Jews to eat.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000004|Nor let their skins be brought into it; nor let any such animal be bred up in the city.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000005|Let them only be permitted to use the sacrifices derived from their forefathers, with which they have been obliged to make acceptable atonements to God.
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000007|The epistle was this:
train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000008_000000|King Antiochus To Zeuxis His Father, Sendeth Greeting.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000002_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000002_000001|What Other Acts Were Done By Agrippa Until His Death; And After What Manner He Died.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000001|When Agrippa had finished what I have above related at Berytus, he removed to Tiberias, a city of Galilee.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000002|Now he was in great esteem among other kings.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000003|Accordingly there came to him Antiochus, king of Commalena, Sampsigeratnus, king of Emesa, and Cotys, who was king of the Lesser Armenia, and Polemo, who was king of Pontus, as also Herod his brother, who was king of Chalcis.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000004|All these he treated with agreeable entertainments, and after an obliging manner, and so as to exhibit the greatness of his mind, and so as to appear worthy of those respects which the kings paid to him, by coming thus to see him.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000005|However, while these kings staid with him, Marcus, the president of Syria, came thither.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000006|So the king, in order to preserve the respect that was due to the romans, went out of the city to meet him, as far as seven furlongs. But this proved to be the beginning of a difference between him and Marcus; for he took with him in his chariot those other kings as his assessors.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000007|But Marcus had a suspicion what the meaning could be of so great a friendship of these kings one with another, and did not think so close an agreement of so many potentates to be for the interest of the romans.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000008|He therefore sent some of his domestics to every one of them, and enjoined them to go their ways home without further delay.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000009|This was very ill taken by Agrippa, who after that became his enemy.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000010|And now he took the high priesthood away from Matthias, and made Elioneus, the son of Cantheras, high priest in his stead.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000002|At which festival a great multitude was gotten together of the principal persons, and such as were of dignity through his province.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000005|A severe pain also arose in his belly, and began in a most violent manner.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000006|He therefore looked upon his friends, and said, "I, whom you call a god, am commanded presently to depart this life; while Providence thus reproves the lying words you just now said to me; and I, who was by you called immortal, am immediately to be hurried away by death.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000008|Accordingly he was carried into the palace, and the rumor went abroad every where, that he would certainly die in a little time.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000009|But the multitude presently sat in sackcloth, with their wives and children, after the law of their country, and besought God for the king's recovery.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000010|All places were also full of mourning and lamentation. Now the king rested in a high chamber, and as he saw them below lying prostrate on the ground, he could not himself forbear weeping.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000012|The revenues that he received out of them were very great, no less than twelve millions of drachme.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000005_000001|But before the multitude were made acquainted with Agrippa's being expired, Herod the king of Chalcis, and Helcias the master of his horse, and the king's friend, sent Aristo, one of the king's most faithful servants, and slew Silas, who had been their enemy, as if it had been done by the king's own command.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000006_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000006_000001|What Things Were Done After The Death Of Agrippa; And How Claudius, On Account Of The Youth And Unskilfulness Of Agrippa, Junior, Sent Cuspius Fadus To Be Procurator Of Judea, And Of The Entire Kingdom.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000008_000001|Now Agrippa, the son of the deceased, was at Rome, and brought up with Claudius Caesar.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000008_000002|And when Caesar was informed that Agrippa was dead, and that the inhabitants of Sebaste and Cesarea had abused him, he was sorry for the first news, and was displeased with the ingratitude of those cities.
train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000008_000003|He was therefore disposed to send Agrippa, junior, away presently to succeed his father in the kingdom, and was willing to confirm him in it by his oath.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000001_000000|Chapter nine
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000002_000000|The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was not in sight.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000002_000001|Then he started to walk on with the others.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000003_000001|The mob of men was bleeding.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000003_000002|Because of the tattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed. He was continually casting sidelong glances to see if the men were contemplating the letters of guilt he felt burned into his brow.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000004_000000|At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000004_000001|He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000004_000002|He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000000|The spectral soldier was at his side like a stalking reproach.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000002|His gray, appalling face had attracted attention in the crowd, and men, slowing to his dreary pace, were walking with him.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000003|They were discussing his plight, questioning him and giving him advice.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000004|In a dogged way he repelled them, signing to them to go on and leave him alone.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000005|The shadows of his face were deepening and his tight lips seemed holding in check the moan of great despair.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000006|There could be seen a certain stiffness in the movements of his body, as if he were taking infinite care not to arouse the passion of his wounds.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000006_000000|Something in the gesture of the man as he waved the bloody and pitying soldiers away made the youth start as if bitten.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000007_000001|Jim Conklin!"
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000008_000000|The tall soldier made a little commonplace smile.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000008_000001|"Hello, Henry," he said.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000009_000001|He stuttered and stammered.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000010_000000|The tall soldier held out his gory hand.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000011_000000|The youth still lamented.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000011_000001|"Oh, Jim-oh, Jim-oh, Jim-"
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000012_000003|Yes, b'jiminey, I got shot." He reiterated this fact in a bewildered way, as if he did not know how it came about.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000013_000000|The youth put forth anxious arms to assist him, but the tall soldier went firmly as if propelled.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000014_000001|His face turned to a semblance of gray paste. He clutched the youth's arm and looked all about him, as if dreading to be overheard.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000014_000002|Then he began to speak in a shaking whisper:
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000017_000000|"Sure-will yeh, Henry?" the tall soldier beseeched.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000018_000001|He could not speak accurately because of the gulpings in his throat.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000019_000000|But the tall soldier continued to beg in a lowly way.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000020_000000|He paused in piteous anxiety to await his friend's reply.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000021_000000|The youth had reached an anguish where the sobs scorched him.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000021_000001|He strove to express his loyalty, but he could only make fantastic gestures.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000022_000000|However, the tall soldier seemed suddenly to forget all those fears. He became again the grim, stalking specter of a soldier.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000022_000001|He went stonily forward.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000023_000000|His look was fixed again upon the unknown.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000024_000000|The youth had to follow.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000025_000000|Presently the latter heard a voice talking softly near his shoulder. Turning he saw that it belonged to the tattered soldier.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000026_000001|He was shaking his hands helplessly.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000027_000000|He ran forward presently and grasped the tall soldier by the arm. "Jim!
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000028_000000|The tall soldier weakly tried to wrench himself free.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000028_000002|He stared at the youth for a moment.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000028_000003|At last he spoke as if dimly comprehending.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000029_000000|He started blindly through the grass.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000030_000001|He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000032_000000|Turning his head swiftly, the youth saw his friend running in a staggering and stumbling way toward a little clump of bushes.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000032_000001|His heart seemed to wrench itself almost free from his body at this sight. He made a noise of pain.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000033_000000|When he overtook the tall soldier he began to plead with all the words he could find.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000033_000001|"Jim-Jim-what are you doing-what makes you do this way-you'll hurt yerself."
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000034_000000|The same purpose was in the tall soldier's face.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000035_000002|What you thinking about?
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000035_000003|Where you going?
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000035_000004|Tell me, won't you, Jim?"
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000036_000000|The tall soldier faced about as upon relentless pursuers.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000036_000001|In his eyes there was a great appeal.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000037_000000|The youth recoiled.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000038_000000|The tall soldier turned and, lurching dangerously, went on.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000038_000003|There was something rite like in these movements of the doomed soldier.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000038_000006|They hung back lest he have at command a dreadful weapon.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000000|At last, they saw him stop and stand motionless.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000003|He was waiting with patience for something that he had come to meet.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000004|He was at the rendezvous.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000005|They paused and stood, expectant.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000041_000000|Finally, the chest of the doomed soldier began to heave with a strained motion.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000044_000000|The tall soldier opened his lips and spoke.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000044_000001|He made a gesture.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000046_000000|Suddenly his form stiffened and straightened.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000046_000001|Then it was shaken by a prolonged ague.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000046_000002|He stared into space.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000000|His tall figure stretched itself to its full height.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000001|There was a slight rending sound.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000002|Then it began to swing forward, slow and straight, in the manner of a falling tree.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000003|A swift muscular contortion made the left shoulder strike the ground first.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000049_000001|"God!" said the tattered soldier.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000050_000000|The youth had watched, spellbound, this ceremony at the place of meeting.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000051_000000|He now sprang to his feet and, going closer, gazed upon the pastelike face.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000052_000000|As the flap of the blue jacket fell away from the body, he could see that the side looked as if it had been chewed by wolves.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000053_000001|He shook his fist.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000053_000002|He seemed about to deliver a philippic.
train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000054_000000|"Hell-"
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000001_000000|Chapter eleven
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000002_000000|He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder. Great blown clouds had floated to the still heights of air before him. The noise, too, was approaching.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000000|As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000001|From the heaving tangle issued exhortations, commands, imprecations.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000002|Fear was sweeping it all along. The cracking whips bit and horses plunged and tugged.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000003|The white topped wagons strained and stumbled in their exertions like fat sheep.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000000|The youth felt comforted in a measure by this sight.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000001|They were all retreating.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000002|Perhaps, then, he was not so bad after all.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000003|He seated himself and watched the terror stricken wagons.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000004|They fled like soft, ungainly animals.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000006|There was an amount of pleasure to him in watching the wild march of this vindication.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000001|It came swiftly on.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000002|Avoiding the obstructions gave it the sinuous movement of a serpent.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000003|The men at the head butted mules with their musket stocks.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000004|They prodded teamsters indifferent to all howls.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000005|The men forced their way through parts of the dense mass by strength.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000006|The blunt head of the column pushed.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000001|They were to confront the eager rush of the enemy.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000003|They tumbled teams about with a fine feeling that it was no matter so long as their column got to the front in time.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000004|This importance made their faces grave and stern.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000005|And the backs of the officers were very rigid.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000007_000002|The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000007_000003|He could never be like them.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000007_000004|He could have wept in his longings.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000008_000000|He searched about in his mind for an adequate malediction for the indefinite cause, the thing upon which men turn the words of final blame.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000008_000001|It-whatever it was-was responsible for him, he said.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000008_000002|There lay the fault.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000009_000000|The haste of the column to reach the battle seemed to the forlorn young man to be something much finer than stout fighting.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000009_000001|Heroes, he thought, could find excuses in that long seething lane.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000009_000002|They could retire with perfect self respect and make excuses to the stars.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000000|He wondered what those men had eaten that they could be in such haste to force their way to grim chances of death.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000001|As he watched his envy grew until he thought that he wished to change lives with one of them. He would have liked to have used a tremendous force, he said, throw off himself and become a better.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000002|Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him-a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high-a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000003|He thought of the magnificent pathos of his dead body.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000000|These thoughts uplifted him.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000001|He felt the quiver of war desire.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000002|In his ears, he heard the ring of victory.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000003|He knew the frenzy of a rapid successful charge.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000005|For a few moments he was sublime.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000012_000000|He thought that he was about to start for the front.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000012_000001|Indeed, he saw a picture of himself, dust stained, haggard, panting, flying to the front at the proper moment to seize and throttle the dark, leering witch of calamity.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000013_000001|He hesitated, balancing awkwardly on one foot.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000014_000000|He had no rifle; he could not fight with his hands, said he resentfully to his plan.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000014_000001|Well, rifles could be had for the picking.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000016_000000|He started forward slowly.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000016_000001|He stepped as if he expected to tread upon some explosive thing.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000016_000002|Doubts and he were struggling.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000017_000000|He would truly be a worm if any of his comrades should see him returning thus, the marks of his flight upon him.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000017_000001|There was a reply that the intent fighters did not care for what happened rearward saving that no hostile bayonets appeared there.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000017_000002|In the battle blur his face would, in a way, be hidden, like the face of a cowled man.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000018_000000|But then he said that his tireless fate would bring forth, when the strife lulled for a moment, a man to ask of him an explanation.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000018_000001|In imagination he felt the scrutiny of his companions as he painfully labored through some lies.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000020_000000|He was not cast down by this defeat of his plan, for, upon studying the affair carefully, he could not but admit that the objections were very formidable.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000021_000000|Furthermore, various ailments had begun to cry out.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000000|He discovered that he had a scorching thirst.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000001|His face was so dry and grimy that he thought he could feel his skin crackle.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000002|Each bone of his body had an ache in it, and seemingly threatened to break with each movement.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000003|His feet were like two sores.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000005|It was more powerful than a direct hunger.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000006|There was a dull, weight like feeling in his stomach, and, when he tried to walk, his head swayed and he tottered.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000007|He could not see with distinctness. Small patches of green mist floated before his vision.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000023_000002|As he was at last compelled to pay attention to them, his capacity for self hate was multiplied.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000023_000004|Those pictures of glory were piteous things.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000023_000005|He groaned from his heart and went staggering off.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000024_000000|A certain mothlike quality within him kept him in the vicinity of the battle.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000024_000001|He had a great desire to see, and to get news.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000024_000002|He wished to know who was winning.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000025_000002|Thus, many men of courage, he considered, would be obliged to desert the colors and scurry like chickens.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000025_000004|They would be sullen brothers in distress, and he could then easily believe he had not run any farther or faster than they.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000025_000005|And if he himself could believe in his virtuous perfection, he conceived that there would be small trouble in convincing all others.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000000|He said, as if in excuse for this hope, that previously the army had encountered great defeats and in a few months had shaken off all blood and tradition of them, emerging as bright and valiant as a new one; thrusting out of sight the memory of disaster, and appearing with the valor and confidence of unconquered legions.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000002|He of course felt no compunctions for proposing a general as a sacrifice.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000003|He could not tell who the chosen for the barbs might be, so he could center no direct sympathy upon him.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000005|It was quite probable they would hit the wrong man who, after he had recovered from his amazement would perhaps spend the rest of his days in writing replies to the songs of his alleged failure.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000006|It would be very unfortunate, no doubt, but in this case a general was of no consequence to the youth.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000027_000000|In a defeat there would be a roundabout vindication of himself.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000027_000002|A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000027_000003|This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000028_000002|With his heart continually assuring him that he was despicable, he could not exist without making it, through his actions, apparent to all men.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000029_000001|If the din meant that now his army's flags were tilted forward he was a condemned wretch.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000029_000002|He would be compelled to doom himself to isolation.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000029_000003|If the men were advancing, their indifferent feet were trampling upon his chances for a successful life.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000000|As these thoughts went rapidly through his mind, he turned upon them and tried to thrust them away.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000001|He denounced himself as a villain.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000002|He said that he was the most unutterably selfish man in existence.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000003|His mind pictured the soldiers who would place their defiant bodies before the spear of the yelling battle fiend, and as he saw their dripping corpses on an imagined field, he said that he was their murderer.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000001|He believed that he envied a corpse.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000002|Thinking of the slain, he achieved a great contempt for some of them, as if they were guilty for thus becoming lifeless. They might have been killed by lucky chances, he said, before they had had opportunities to flee or before they had been really tested.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000003|Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000004|He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000032_000000|A defeat of the army had suggested itself to him as a means of escape from the consequences of his fall.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000032_000003|He presently discarded all his speculations in the other direction.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000032_000004|He returned to the creed of soldiers.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000033_000000|When he perceived again that it was not possible for the army to be defeated, he tried to bethink him of a fine tale which he could take back to his regiment, and with it turn the expected shafts of derision.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000034_000000|But, as he mortally feared these shafts, it became impossible for him to invent a tale he felt he could trust.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000034_000001|He experimented with many schemes, but threw them aside one by one as flimsy.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000034_000002|He was quick to see vulnerable places in them all.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000000|He imagined the whole regiment saying: "Where's Henry Fleming?
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000002|Oh, my!" He recalled various persons who would be quite sure to leave him no peace about it.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000003|They would doubtless question him with sneers, and laugh at his stammering hesitation.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000004|In the next engagement they would try to keep watch of him to discover when he would run.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000037_000000|Wherever he went in camp, he would encounter insolent and lingeringly cruel stares.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000037_000001|As he imagined himself passing near a crowd of comrades, he could hear one say, "There he goes!"
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000038_000001|He seemed to hear some one make a humorous remark in a low tone.
train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000038_000002|At it the others all crowed and cackled.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000001_000000|There were once two brothers Karmu and Dharmu.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000002_000002|When the time for transplanting the rice came, Dharmu used to plough and dig the ditches and mend the gaps along with the day labourers.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000001|When the midday meal was brought the same thing happened, Dharmu and his wife got nothing; but they hoped that it would be made up to them when the wages were paid, and worked on fasting.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000003|In the night Dharmu's wife said "They promised to pay us for merely looking after the work and instead, we worked hard and have still got nothing.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000004|We will not work for them anymore; come, let us undo the work we did to day, you cut down the embankments you repaired, and I will uproot the seedlings which I planted." So they went out into the night to do this.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000007|On the way they came to a fig tree full of figs and they went to eat the fruit; but when they got near they found that all the figs were full of grubs, and they sang:--
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000004_000000|"Exhausted by hunger we came to a fig tree, And found it full of grubs, O Karam Gosain, how far off are you?"
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000005_000000|Then they came to a mango tree and the same thing happened.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000005_000001|And they went on and saw a cow with a calf; and they thought that they would milk the cow and drink the milk, but when they went to catch it it ran away from them and would not let itself be caught; and they sang:--
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000008_000000|"If you go to catch the buffalo, Dharmu, It will kill you. How shall we drink milk?
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000012_000001|But they said.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000012_000003|Karam Gosain promised them that on their way back they should take possession of all; and they did so and mounted on the elephant and returned to their home with great wealth.
train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000012_000004|On their way they met the four women and told them how they could be saved from their troubles.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000004_000000|In the autumn of eighteen eighty three, and for years afterward, occurred brilliant colored sunsets, such as had never been seen before within the memory of all observers.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000005_000001|Nevertheless they were as common as were green suns in eighteen eighty three.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000006_000000|Science had to account for these unconventionalities.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000007_000000|I suppose, in Alaska and in the South Sea Islands, all the medicine men were similarly upon trial.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000008_000000|Something had to be thought of.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000009_000000|Upon the twenty eighth of August, eighteen eighty three, the volcano of Krakatoa, of the Straits of Sunda, had blown up.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000010_000000|Terrific.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000011_000000|We're told that the sound was heard two thousand miles, and that thirty six thousand three hundred eighty persons were killed.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000011_000002|The volume of smoke that went up must have been visible to other planets-or, tormented with our crawlings and scurryings, the earth complained to Mars; swore a vast black oath at us.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000012_000000|In all text books that mention this occurrence-no exception so far so I have read-it is said that the extraordinary atmospheric effects of eighteen eighty three were first noticed in the last of August or the first of September.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000013_000000|That makes a difficulty for us.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000014_000000|It is said that these phenomena were caused by particles of volcanic dust that were cast high in the air by Krakatoa.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000016_000000|But for seven years the atmospheric phenomena continued-
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000017_000000|Except that, in the seven, there was a lapse of several years-and where was the volcanic dust all that time?
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000019_000000|Then you haven't studied hypnosis.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000019_000001|You have never tried to demonstrate to a hypnotic that a table is not a hippopotamus.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000019_000005|There's nothing to prove.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000020_000000|This is one of the profundities that we advertised in advance.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000021_000000|You can oppose an absurdity only with some other absurdity.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000021_000001|But Science is established preposterousness.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000022_000000|But Krakatoa: that's the explanation that the scientists gave.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000022_000001|I don't know what whopper the medicine men told.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000024_000000|This book is an assemblage of data of external relations of this earth. We take the position that our data have been damned, upon no consideration for individual merits or demerits, but in conformity with a general attempt to hold out for isolation of this earth.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000024_000001|This is attempted positiveness.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000025_000000|My own chief reason for indignation here:
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000026_000000|That this preposterous explanation interferes with some of my own enormities.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000027_000000|It would cost me too much explaining, if I should have to admit that this earth's atmosphere has such sustaining power.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000029_000000|The orthodox explanation:
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000030_000003|It was issued after an investigation that took five years.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000030_000004|You couldn't think of anything done more efficiently, artistically, authoritatively.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000030_000005|The mathematical parts are especially impressive: distribution of the dust of Krakatoa; velocity of translation and rates of subsidence; altitudes and persistences-
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000032_000000|That the atmospheric effects that have been attributed to Krakatoa were seen in Trinidad before the eruption occurred:
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000034_000000|That they were seen in Natal, South Africa, six months before the eruption.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000035_000000|Inertia and its inhospitality.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000036_000000|Or raw meat should not be fed to babies.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000037_000000|We shall have a few data initiatorily.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000038_000000|I fear me that the horse and the barn were a little extreme for our budding liberalities.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000039_000000|The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000000|Hailstones, for instance.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000001|One reads in the newspapers of hailstones the size of hens' eggs.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000005|See Chambers' Encyclopedia for three pounders.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000007|At Seringapatam, India, about the year eighteen hundred, fell a hailstone-
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000041_000000|I fear me, I fear me: this is one of the profoundly damned.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000041_000001|I blurt out something that should, perhaps, be withheld for several hundred pages-but that damned thing was the size of an elephant.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000042_000000|We laugh.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000000|Or snowflakes.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000001|Size of saucers.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000002|Said to have fallen at nashville tennessee, january twenty fourth eighteen ninety one.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000003|One smiles.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000045_000000|In the topography of intellection, I should say that what we call knowledge is ignorance surrounded by laughter.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000046_000000|Black rains-red rains-the fall of a thousand tons of butter.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000047_000000|Jet black snow-pink snow-blue hailstones-hailstones flavored like oranges.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000048_000000|Punk and silk and charcoal.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000051_000000|Therefore no stones can fall from the sky.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000052_000000|Or nothing more reasonable or scientific or logical than that could be said upon any subject.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000052_000001|The only trouble is the universal trouble: that the major premise is not real, or is intermediate somewhere between realness and unrealness.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000053_000000|In seventeen seventy two, a committee, of whom Lavoisier was a member, was appointed by the French Academy, to investigate a report that a stone had fallen from the sky at Luce, France.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000053_000002|Lavoisier analyzed the stone of Luce.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000053_000003|The exclusionists' explanation at that time was that stones do not fall from the sky: that luminous objects may seem to fall, and that hot stones may be picked up where a luminous object seemingly had landed-only lightning striking a stone, heating, even melting it.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000054_000000|The stone of Luce showed signs of fusion.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000056_000000|So, authoritatively, falling stones were damned.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000056_000001|The stock means of exclusion remained the explanation of lightning that was seen to strike something-that had been upon the ground in the first place.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000057_000000|But positiveness and the fate of every positive statement.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000057_000001|It is not customary to think of damned stones raising an outcry against a sentence of exclusion, but, subjectively, aerolites did-or data of them bombarded the walls raised against them-
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000060_000000|The writer abandons the first, or absolute, exclusion, and modifies it with the explanation that the day before a reported fall of stones in Tuscany, june sixteenth seventeen ninety four, there had been an eruption of Vesuvius-
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000062_000000|It's more than one hundred and twenty years later.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000062_000001|I know of no aerolite that has ever been acceptably traced to terrestrial origin.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000065_000000|We believe no more.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000066_000000|We accept.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000069_000000|It's virginal.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000071_000000|Butter and paper and wool and silk and resin.
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000072_000000|We see, to start with, that the virgins of science have fought and wept and screamed against external relations-upon two grounds:
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000073_000000|There in the first place;
train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000074_000000|Or up from one part of this earth's surface and down to another.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000000|That, upon the thirteenth of August, eighteen nineteen, something had fallen from the sky at Amherst, Mass.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000002|Graves, formerly lecturer at Dartmouth College.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000003|It was an object that had upon it a nap, similar to that of milled cloth.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000004|Upon removing this nap, a buff colored, pulpy substance was found.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000006|This thing was said to have fallen with a brilliant light.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000006_000002|Dewey's family.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000008_000000|A few minutes of exposure to the air changed the buff color to "a livid color resembling venous blood." It absorbed moisture quickly from the air and liquefied.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000012_000000|They were dead and dry.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000014_000000|Or they were not fish at all.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000001|Edward Hitchcock went to live in Amherst.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000004|Graves to examine it.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000005|Exactly like the first one.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000007|The chemic reactions were the same.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000019_000001|Hitchcock recognized it in a moment.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000020_000000|It was a gelatinous fungus.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000021_000000|He did not satisfy himself as to just the exact species it belonged to, but he predicted that similar fungi might spring up within twenty four hours-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000022_000000|But, before evening, two others sprang up.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000023_000000|Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists' conventions-or nostoc.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000023_000002|The rival convention is "spawn of frogs or of fishes." These two conventions have made a strong combination.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000000|Now, I can't say that nostoc is always greenish, any more than I can say that blackbirds are always black, having seen a white one: we shall quote a scientist who knew of flesh colored nostoc, when so to know was convenient.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000001|When we come to reported falls of gelatinous substances, I'd like it to be noticed how often they are described as whitish or grayish.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000002|In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000004|It would seem acceptable that, if many reports of white birds should occur, the birds are not blackbirds, even though there have been white blackbirds. Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000025_000000|"The Kentucky Phenomenon."
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000026_000000|So it was called, in its day, and now we have an occurrence that attracted a great deal of attention in its own time.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000026_000001|Usually these things of the accursed have been hushed up or disregarded-suppressed like the seven black rains of Slains-but, upon march third eighteen seventy six, something occurred, in Bath county kentucky, that brought many newspaper correspondents to the scene.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000027_000000|The substance that looked like beef that fell from the sky.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000028_000000|Upon march third eighteen seventy six, at Olympian Springs, Bath county kentucky, flakes of a substance that looked like beef fell from the sky-"from a clear sky." We'd like to emphasize that it was said that nothing but this falling substance was visible in the sky.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000028_000001|It fell in flakes of various sizes; some two inches square, one, three or four inches square.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000028_000002|The flake formation is interesting: later we shall think of it as signifying pressure-somewhere.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000029_000000|Then the exclusionists.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000030_000000|Something that looked like beef: one flake of it the size of a square envelope.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000031_000000|If we think of how hard the exclusionists have fought to reject the coming of ordinary looking dust from this earth's externality, we can sympathize with them in this sensational instance, perhaps.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000031_000001|Newspaper correspondents wrote broadcast and witnesses were quoted, and this time there is no mention of a hoax, and, except by one scientist, there is no denial that the fall did take place.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000032_000000|It seems to me that the exclusionists are still more emphatically conservators.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000037_000000|"It has been comparatively easy to identify the substance and to fix its status.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000037_000001|The Kentucky 'wonder' is no more or less than nostoc."
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000038_000000|Or that it had not fallen; that it had been upon the ground in the first place, and had swollen in rain, and, attracting attention by greatly increased volume, had been supposed by unscientific observers to have fallen in rain-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000039_000000|What rain, I don't know.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000040_000000|Also it is spoken of as "dried" several times.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000040_000001|That's one of the most important of the details.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000041_000001|To give completeness to "the proper explanation," it is said that mr Brandeis had identified the substance as "flesh colored" nostoc.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000042_000001|Lawrence Smith, of Kentucky, one of the most resolute of the exclusionists:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000045_000001|But he had also called upon dr Hamilton, who had a specimen, and dr Hamilton had declared it to be lung tissue.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000045_000003|"As to whence it came, I have no theory." Nevertheless he endorses the local explanation-and a bizarre thing it is:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000046_000000|A flock of gorged, heavy weighted buzzards, but far up and invisible in the clear sky-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000049_000000|Or this is why, against the seemingly insuperable odds against all things new, there can be what is called progress-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000050_000000|That nothing is positive, in the aspects of homogeneity and unity:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000051_000000|If the whole world should seem to combine against you, it is only unreal combination, or intermediateness to unity and disunity.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000051_000002|The simplest strategy seems to be-never bother to fight a thing: set its own parts fighting one another.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000053_000000|I shall have to accept, myself, that gelatinous substance has often fallen from the sky-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000054_000000|Or that, far up, or far away, the whole sky is gelatinous?
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000055_000000|That meteors tear through and detach fragments?
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000056_000000|That fragments are brought down by storms?
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000057_000000|That the twinkling of stars is penetration of light through something that quivers?
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000058_000000|I think, myself, that it would be absurd to say that the whole sky is gelatinous: it seems more acceptable that only certain areas are.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000060_000000|We shall be opposed by the standard resistances:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000061_000000|There in the first place;
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000062_000000|Up from one place, in a whirlwind, and down in another.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000063_000001|It will mean that something had been in a stationary position for several days over a small part of a small town in England: this is the revolutionary thing that we have alluded to before; whether the substance were nostoc, or spawn, or some kind of a larval nexus, doesn't matter so much.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000067_000000|That, in Wilna, Lithuania, april fourth eighteen forty six, in a rainstorm, fell nut sized masses of a substance that is described as both resinous and gelatinous.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000067_000001|It was odorless until burned: then it spread a very pronounced sweetish odor.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000067_000002|It is described as like gelatine, but much firmer: but, having been in water twenty four hours, it swelled out, and looked altogether gelatinous-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000068_000000|It was grayish.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000069_000000|We are told that, in eighteen forty one and eighteen forty six, a similar substance had fallen in Asia Minor.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000072_000000|That, june twenty fourth nineteen eleven, at Eton, Bucks, England, the ground was found covered with masses of jelly, the size of peas, after a heavy rainfall. We are not told of nostoc, this time: it is said that the object contained numerous eggs of "some species of Chironomus, from which larvae soon emerged."
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000073_000000|I incline, then, to think that the objects that fell at Bath were neither jellyfish nor masses of frog spawn, but something of a larval kind-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000074_000000|This is what had occurred at Bath, England, twenty three years before.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000001|L. Jenyns, of Bath.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000003|He tries to account for their segregation.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000004|The mystery of it is: What could have brought so many of them together?
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000006|A whirlwind seems anything but a segregative force.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000080_000000|That such marksmanship is not attributable to whirlwinds seems to me to be what we think we mean by common sense:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000081_000000|It may not look like common sense to say that these things had been stationary over the town of Bath, several days-
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000082_000000|The seven black rains of Slains;
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000083_000000|The four red rains of Siena.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000084_000000|An interesting sidelight on the mechanics of orthodoxy is that mr Jenyns dutifully records the second fall, but ignores it in his explanation.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000085_000002|He gives earlier dates, but I practice exclusions, myself.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000087_000000|Greg's comment in this instance is: "Curious if true." But he records without modification the fall of a meteorite at Gotha, Germany, september sixth eighteen thirty five, "leaving a jelly like mass on the ground." We are told that this substance fell only three feet away from an observer.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000087_000002|They returned next morning and found a gelatinous mass of grayish color.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000091_000001|Garland, of Nelson county virginia, had found a jelly like substance of about the circumference of a twenty five cent piece:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000092_000000|That, according to a communication from a c
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000092_000003|It looked like boiled starch:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000093_000000|That, according to a newspaper, of newark new jersey, a mass of gelatinous substance, like soft soap, had been found.
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000094_000001|Olmstead, who collected these lost souls, says:
train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000095_000000|"The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them."
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000003_000000|The sky was grey, but that made little difference in the Piazza del Duomo, which was covered with its holiday sky of blue drapery, and its constellations of yellow lilies and coats of arms.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000003_000001|The sheaves of banners were unfurled at the angles of the Baptistery, but there was no carpet yet on the steps of the Duomo, for the marble was being trodden by numerous feet that were not at all exceptional.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000005_000001|Some were in close and eager discussion; others were listening with keen interest to a single spokesman, and yet from time to time turned round with a scanning glance at any new passer by.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000005_000003|Standing in the grey light of the street, with bare brawny arms and soiled garments, they made all the more striking the transition from the brightness of the Piazza.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000007_000002|So I threw my cloth in at the first doorway, and took hold of my meat axe and ran after my fine cavaliers towards the Vigna Nuova.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000007_000008|And the lasses peppered a few stones down to frighten them.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000007_000009|However, Piero de' Medici wasn't come after all; and it was a pity; for we'd have left him neither legs nor wings to go away with again."
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000008_000002|But we'll swallow no Medici any more, whatever else the French king wants to make us swallow."
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000009_000000|"But I like not those French cannon they talk of," said Goro, none the less fat for two years' additional grievances.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000012_000001|"He pretends to look well satisfied-that deep Tornabuoni-but he's a Medicean in his heart: mind that."
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000001|He wore nothing but black, for he was in mourning; but the black was presently to be covered by a red mantle, for he too was to walk in procession as Latin Secretary to the Ten.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000002|Tito Melema had become conspicuously serviceable in the intercourse with the French guests, from his familiarity with Southern Italy, and his readiness in the French tongue, which he had spoken in his early youth; and he had paid more than one visit to the French camp at Signa.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000003|The lustre of good fortune was upon him; he was smiling, listening, and explaining, with his usual graceful unpretentious ease, and only a very keen eye bent on studying him could have marked a certain amount of change in him which was not to be accounted for by the lapse of eighteen months.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000004|It was that change which comes from the final departure of moral youthfulness-from the distinct self conscious adoption of a part in life.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000014_000002|But Lorenzo Tornabuoni possessed that power of dissembling annoyance which is demanded in a man who courts popularity, and Tito, besides his natural disposition to overcome ill will by good humour, had the unimpassioned feeling of the alien towards names and details that move the deepest passions of the native.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000015_000000|Arrived where they could get a good oblique view of the Duomo, the party paused.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000015_000005|It seemed as if the piazza had been decorated for a real Florentine holiday.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000018_000004|His beard, which had grown long in neglect, and the hair which fell thick and straight round his baldness, were nearly white.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000018_000006|And yet there was something fitful in the eyes which contradicted the occasional flash of energy: after looking round with quick fierceness at windows and faces, they fell again with a lost and wandering look.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000019_000000|This sight had been witnessed by the Florentines with growing exasperation.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000020_000000|"French dogs!"
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000021_000000|"Bullock feet!"
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000022_000000|"Snatch their pikes from them!"
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000023_000001|They'll run as fast as geese-don't you see they're web footed?" These were the cries which the soldiers vaguely understood to be jeers, and probably threats. But every one seemed disposed to give invitations of this spirited kind rather than to act upon them.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000024_000000|"Santiddio! here's a sight!" said the dyer, as soon as he had divined the meaning of the advancing tumult, "and the fools do nothing but hoot. Come along!" he added, snatching his axe from his belt, and running to join the crowd, followed by the butcher and all the rest of his companions, except Goro, who hastily retreated up a narrow passage.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000025_000004|And now, when the people began to hoot and jostle more vigorously, Lollo felt that his moment was come-he was close to the eldest prisoner: in an instant he had cut the cord.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000027_000003|The cause could not be precisely guessed, for the French dress was screened by the impeding crowd.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000028_000001|"The people are not content with having emptied the Bargello the other day.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000031_000000|The two men looked at each other, silent as death: Baldassarre, with dark fierceness and a tightening grip of the soiled worn hands on the velvet clad arm; Tito, with cheeks and lips all bloodless, fascinated by terror.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000031_000001|It seemed a long while to them-it was but a moment.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000033_000000|"Ha, ha!
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000034_000001|"Who is he, I wonder?"
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000036_000001|They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000037_000000|The two men had not taken their eyes off each other, and it seemed to Tito, when he had spoken, that some magical poison had darted from Baldassarre's eyes, and that he felt it rushing through his veins.
train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000037_000001|But the next instant the grasp on his arm had relaxed, and Baldassarre had disappeared within the church.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000002_000000|OUTSIDE THE DUOMO.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000003_000004|The painter spoke to him in a low tone-
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000005_000001|At last he said, "If you will."
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000007_000002|"Well," he thought, "if he does any mischief, he'll soon get tied up again.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000007_000003|The poor devil shall have a chance, at least."
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000010_000000|"No, I have nothing to tell."
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000011_000002|He has been sent off."
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000012_000000|Baldassarre nodded, and turned in silent acceptance of the offer, and he and Piero left the church together.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000013_000001|"I am a painter: I would give you money to get your portrait."
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000017_000000|"It is well," said Piero, with a shrug, and they turned away from each other.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000018_000000|"A mysterious old tiger!" thought the artist, "well worth painting. Ugly-with deep lines-looking as if the plough and the harrow had gone over his heart.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000020_000005|The men of ideas, like young Niccolo Macchiavelli, went to observe and write reports to friends away in country villas; the men of appetites, like Dolfo Spini, bent on hunting down the Frate, as a public nuisance who made game scarce, went to feed their hatred and lie in wait for grounds of accusation.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000021_000006|The effect was inevitable. No man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering vitiation; his standard must be their lower needs and not his own best insight.
train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000023_000000|It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000001_000000|THE GARMENT OF FEAR.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000002_000002|There was no sunshine to light up the splendour of banners, and spears, and plumes, and silken surcoats, but there was no thick cloud of dust to hide it, and as the picked troops advanced into close view, they could be seen all the more distinctly for the absence of dancing glitter.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000009_000004|But he had left himself no second path now: there could be no conflict any longer: the only thing he had to do was to take care of himself.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000010_000001|Tito gave a slight start and quickened his pace, for the sounds had suggested a welcome thought.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000011_000000|"What makes the giant at work so late?" thought Tito.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000012_000000|Preoccupied as he was, he could not help pausing a moment in admiration as he came in front of the workshop.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000013_000001|That was not until the smith had beaten the head of an axe to the due sharpness of edge and dismissed it from his anvil. But in the meantime Tito had satisfied himself by a glance round the shop that the object of which he was in search had not disappeared.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000016_000000|"Assuredly, Niccolo; else I should not have ventured to interrupt you when you are working out of hours, since I take that as a sign that your work is pressing."
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000001|Arms are good, and Florence is likely to want them.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000002|The Frate tells us we shall get Pisa again, and I hold with the Frate; but I should be glad to know how the promise is to be fulfilled, if we don't get plenty of good weapons forged?
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000003|The Frate sees a long way before him; that I believe.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000005|He sees sense, and not nonsense.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000020_000001|I want to buy it for a certain personage who needs a protection of that sort under his doublet."
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000021_000000|"Let him come and buy it himself, then," said Niccolo, bluntly.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000021_000001|"I'm rather nice about what I sell, and whom I sell to.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000021_000002|I like to know who's my customer."
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000023_000001|No, no; it's not my own work; but it's fine work of Maso of Brescia; I should be loth for it to cover the heart of a scoundrel.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000024_000000|"Well, then, to be plain with you, Niccolo mio, I want it myself," said Tito, knowing it was useless to try persuasion.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000024_000001|"The fact is, I am likely to have a journey to take-and you know what journeying is in these times.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000001|"But have you the money to pay for the coat?
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000002|For you've passed my shop often enough to know my sign: you've seen the burning account books.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000003|I trust nobody.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000005|You're not likely to have so much money with you.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000006|Let it be till to morrow."
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000026_000000|"I happen to have the money," said Tito, who had been winning at play the day before, and had not emptied his purse.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000027_000000|Niccolo reached down the finely wrought coat, which fell together into little more than two handfuls.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000028_000000|"There, then," he said, when the florins had been told down on his palm. "Take the coat.
train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000028_000002|But, for my part, I would never put such a thing on.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000000|GOPHER PRAIRIE was digging in for the winter.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000001|Through late November and all December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might drop to twenty below, or thirty.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000002|Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000003|Storm sheds were erected at every door. In every block the householders, Sam Clark, the wealthy mr Dawson, all save asthmatic ezra Stowbody who extravagantly hired a boy, were seen perilously staggering up ladders, carrying storm windows and screwing them to second story jambs.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000004|While Kennicott put up his windows Carol danced inside the bedrooms and begged him not to swallow the screws, which he held in his mouth like an extraordinary set of external false teeth.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000005_000002|The children's parents either laughed at him or hated him.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000005_000003|He was the one democrat in town.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000005_000004|He called both Lyman Cass the miller and the Finn homesteader from Lost Lake by their first names. He was known as "The Red Swede," and considered slightly insane.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000000|Bjornstam could do anything with his hands-solder a pan, weld an automobile spring, soothe a frightened filly, tinker a clock, carve a Gloucester schooner which magically went into a bottle.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000001|Now, for a week, he was commissioner general of Gopher Prairie.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000002|He was the only person besides the repairman at Sam Clark's who understood plumbing.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000004|He rushed from house to house till after bedtime-ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000005|Icicles from burst water pipes hung along the skirt of his brown dog skin overcoat; his plush cap, which he never took off in the house, was a pulp of ice and coal dust; his red hands were cracked to rawness; he chewed the stub of a cigar.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000007_000000|But he was courtly to Carol.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000007_000001|He stooped to examine the furnace flues; he straightened, glanced down at her, and hemmed, "Got to fix your furnace, no matter what else I do."
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000008_000001|Along the railroad the sections of snow fence, which had been stacked all summer in romantic wooden tents occupied by roving small boys, were set up to prevent drifts from covering the track.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000011_000000|Winter garments surpassed even personal gossip as the topic at parties. It was good form to ask, "Put on your heavies yet?" There were as many distinctions in wraps as in motor cars.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000011_000001|The lesser sort appeared in yellow and black dogskin coats, but Kennicott was lordly in a long raccoon ulster and a new seal cap.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000012_000000|Carol herself stirred Main Street by a loose coat of nutria.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000001|It was so rich looking to sit and drive-and so easy. Skiing and sliding were "stupid" and "old-fashioned." In fact, the village longed for the elegance of city recreations almost as much as the cities longed for village sports; and Gopher Prairie took as much pride in neglecting coasting as saint Paul--or New York-in going coasting.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000004|Harry Haydock did figure eights, and Carol was certain that she had found the perfect life.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000006|She had to nag them.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000007|They scooted down a long hill on a bob sled, they upset and got snow down their necks they shrieked that they would do it again immediately-and they did not do it again at all.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000015_000000|She badgered another group into going skiing.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000016_000000|Carol was discouraged.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000016_000004|He belonged there, masculine in reefer and sweater and high laced boots.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000016_000005|That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000017_000001|Snug in her furs she trotted up town.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000017_000004|The frames of their buck saws were cherry red, the blades blued steel, and the fresh cut ends of the sticks-poplar, maple, iron wood, birch-were marked with engraved rings of growth.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000017_000005|The boys wore shoe packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000018_000000|Carol cried "Fine day!" to the boys; she came in a glow to Howland and Gould's grocery, her collar white with frost from her breath; she bought a can of tomatoes as though it were Orient fruit; and returned home planning to surprise Kennicott with an omelet creole for dinner.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000019_000000|So brilliant was the snow glare that when she entered the house she saw the door knobs, the newspaper on the table, every white surface as dazzling mauve, and her head was dizzy in the pyrotechnic dimness.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000019_000001|When her eyes had recovered she felt expanded, drunk with health, mistress of life.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000020_000000|In the mid afternoon of this same day Kennicott was called into the country.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000021_000000|Thus she chanced to discover that she had nothing to do.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000023_000004|The cuts of beef were not cuts.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000023_000005|They were hacks.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000023_000006|Lamb chops were as exotic as sharks' fins.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000024_000001|She could not find a glass headed picture nail in town; she did not hunt for the sort of veiling she wanted-she took what she could get; and only at Howland and Gould's was there such a luxury as canned asparagus.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000024_000003|Only by such fussing as the Widow Bogart's could she make it fill her time.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000025_000000|She could not have outside employment.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000025_000001|To the village doctor's wife it was taboo.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000026_000000|She was a woman with a working brain and no work.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000027_000000|There were only three things which she could do: Have children; start her career of reforming; or become so definitely a part of the town that she would be fulfilled by the activities of church and study club and bridge parties.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000028_000000|Children, yes, she wanted them, but----She was not quite ready.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000028_000001|She had been embarrassed by Kennicott's frankness, but she agreed with him that in the insane condition of civilization, which made the rearing of citizens more costly and perilous than any other crime, it was inadvisable to have children till he had made more money.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000028_000002|She was sorry----Perhaps he had made all the mystery of love a mechanical cautiousness but----She fled from the thought with a dubious, "Some day."
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000029_000000|Her "reforms," her impulses toward beauty in raw Main Street, they had become indistinct.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000029_000001|But she would set them going now.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000000|Become an authentic part of the town?
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000001|She began to think with unpleasant lucidity.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000002|She reflected that she did not know whether the people liked her.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000004|The men smiled-but did they like her?
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000031_000000|She was poisoned with doubt, as she drooped up to bed.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000032_000000|Next day, through her shopping, her mind sat back and observed.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000032_000002|Was that merely his usual manner?
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000033_000000|"It's infuriating to have to pay attention to what people think.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000033_000002|But here I'm spied on.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000033_000003|They're watching me.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000034_000000|three
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000000|A thaw which stripped the snow from the sidewalks; a ringing iron night when the lakes could be heard booming; a clear roistering morning.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000001|In tam o'shanter and tweed skirt Carol felt herself a college junior going out to play hockey.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000002|She wanted to whoop, her legs ached to run.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000004|She galloped down a block and as she jumped from a curb across a welter of slush, she gave a student "Yippee!"
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000036_000002|Across the street, at another window, the curtain had secretively moved.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000036_000003|She stopped, walked on sedately, changed from the girl Carol into mrs dr Kennicott.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000040_000002|Then the town exploded.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000042_000000|Carol stepped into a sirocco of furnace heat.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000042_000001|They were already playing. Despite her flabby resolves she had not yet learned bridge.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000044_000002|She twittered, "You're perfectly right.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000044_000003|I'm a lazy thing.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000050_000001|Some one giggled.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000052_000005|The olives need not be stuffed.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000054_000000|She tried to get back into the current.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000055_000002|She talked.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000055_000004|Isn't the country lovely!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000056_000000|"Oh, do you THINK so?" protested mrs Jackson Elder.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000058_000000|Juanita Haydock rattled, "They're ungrateful, all that class of people. I do think the domestic problem is simply becoming awful.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000059_000000|They were off, riding hard.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000061_000000|mrs Dave Dyer snapped, "Honest?
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000061_000001|Do you call it honest to hold us up for every cent of pay they can get?
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000062_000000|"How much do the maids get here?" Carol ventured.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000063_000000|mrs b j Gougerling, wife of the banker, stated in a shocked manner, "Any place from three fifty to five fifty a week!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000063_000001|I know positively that mrs Clark, after swearing that she wouldn't weaken and encourage them in their outrageous demands, went and paid five fifty-think of it! practically a dollar a day for unskilled work and, of course, her food and room and a chance to do her own washing right in with the rest of the wash.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000063_000002|HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY, mrs KENNICOTT?"
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000064_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000064_000001|How much do you pay?" insisted half a dozen.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000066_000000|They gasped.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000067_000000|Carol was angry.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000067_000001|"I don't care!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000067_000002|A maid has one of the hardest jobs on earth.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000069_000000|Carol was retorting, "But a maid does it for strangers, and all she gets out of it is the pay----"
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000070_000000|Their eyes were hostile.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000001|What angry passions-and what an idiotic discussion!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000003|Stop it!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000004|Carol Kennicott, you're probably right, but you're too much ahead of the times.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000005|Juanita, quit looking so belligerent.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000006|What is this, a card party or a hen fight? Carol, you stop admiring yourself as the Joan of Arc of the hired girls, or I'll spank you.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000008|Boooooo!
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000009|If there's any more pecking, I'll take charge of the hen roost myself!"
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000072_000000|They all laughed artificially, and Carol obediently "talked libraries."
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000077_000001|We have two thousand more books than Wakamin."
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000078_000002|I've had some experience, in saint Paul."
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000079_000000|"So I have been informed.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000081_000000|"You feel so?
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000087_000000|She walked home.
train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000087_000004|Only----I can't!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty six
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000002_000000|Once, when Kennicott announced at noon dinner, "What do you know about this!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000012_000001|They didn't give him a chance!" His laugh was stagey.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000013_000002|Is it a new kind of logic?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000014_000001|They knew this fellow would try to stir up trouble.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000014_000002|Whenever it comes right down to a question of defending Americanism and our constitutional rights, it's justifiable to set aside ordinary procedure."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000000|"What editorial did he get that from?" she wondered, as she protested, "See here, my beloved, why can't you Tories declare war honestly?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000001|You don't oppose this organizer because you think he's seditious but because you're afraid that the farmers he is organizing will deprive you townsmen of the money you make out of mortgages and wheat and shops. Of course, since we're at war with Germany, anything that any one of us doesn't like is 'pro German,' whether it's business competition or bad music.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000002|If we were fighting England, you'd call the radicals 'pro English.' When this war is over, I suppose you'll be calling them 'red anarchists.' What an eternal art it is-such a glittery delightful art-finding hard names for our opponents!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000004|The churches have always done it, and the political orators-and I suppose I do it when I call mrs Bogart a 'Puritan' and mr Stowbody a 'capitalist.' But you business men are going to beat all the rest of us at it, with your simple hearted, energetic, pompous----"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000017_000005|You can camouflage all you want to, but you know darn well that these radicals, as you call 'em, are opposed to the war, and let me tell you right here and now, and you and all these long haired men and short haired women can beef all you want to, but we're going to take these fellows, and if they ain't patriotic, we're going to make them be patriotic.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000017_000006|And-Lord knows I never thought I'd have to say this to my own wife-but if you go defending these fellows, then the same thing applies to you!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000017_000007|Next thing, I suppose you'll be yapping about free speech.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000018_000000|"Will!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000018_000001|She was not timorous now.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000018_000002|"Am I pro German if I fail to throb to Honest Jim Blausser, too?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000019_000000|He was grumbling, "The whole thing's right in line with the criticism you've always been making.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000001|All I've done has been in line.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000002|I don't belong to Gopher Prairie.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000004|All right!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000005|I don't care!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000006|I don't belong here, and I'm going.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000021_000000|He grunted.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000022_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000024_000000|"No, I think we can save you that trouble.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000024_000002|I've got to find out what my work is----"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000000|"Work?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000001|Work?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000002|Sure!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000003|That's the whole trouble with you!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000004|You haven't got enough work to do.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000026_000001|That's what most men-and women-like you WOULD say.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000026_000005|As it happens, I've done that sort of thing.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000001|I was not.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000002|I was just bedraggled and unhappy.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000003|It's work-but not my work.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000004|I could run an office or a library, or nurse and teach children.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000006|We're going to chuck it.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000008|Oh, we're hopeless, we dissatisfied women! Then why do you want to have us about the place, to fret you?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000029_000000|"Of course a little thing like Hugh makes no difference!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000030_000000|"Yes, all the difference.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000030_000001|That's why I'm going to take him with me."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000032_000000|"You won't!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000034_000000|"Oh, conversation!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000034_000001|No, it's much more than that.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000034_000002|I think it's a greatness of life-a refusal to be content with even the healthiest mud."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000000|"Perhaps.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000005|I'm going away to be quiet and think.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000006|I'm-I'm going!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000007|I have a right to my own life."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000037_000000|"So have I to mine!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000038_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000000|"I have a right to my life-and you're it, you're my life!
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000001|You've made yourself so.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000002|I'm damned if I'll agree to all your freak notions, but I will say I've got to depend on you.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000003|Never thought of that complication, did you, in this 'off to Bohemia, and express yourself, and free love, and live your own life' stuff!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000040_000000|"You have a right to me if you can keep me.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000040_000001|Can you?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000043_000000|For a month they discussed it.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000043_000003|At most he agreed to a public theory that she was "going to take a short trip and see what the East was like in wartime."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000048_000000|three
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000050_000000|She had her freedom, and it was empty.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000050_000001|The moment was not the highest of her life, but the lowest and most desolate, which was altogether excellent, for instead of slipping downward she began to climb.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000000|Hugh complained, "Notice me, mummy!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000002|"I'm tired of playing train.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000003|Let's play something else.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000004|Let's go see Auntie Bogart."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000053_000001|Do you really like mrs Bogart?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000001|She gives me cookies and she tells me about the Dear Lord.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000004|Auntie Bogart says I'm going to be a preacher.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000005|Can I be a preacher?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000006|Can I preach about the Dear Lord?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000056_000000|"What's a generation?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000058_000000|"That's foolish." He was a serious and literal person, and rather humorless.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000058_000001|She kissed his frown, and marveled:
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000059_000002|But the story doesn't go right.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000061_000000|"What?" flatly.
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000063_000000|"And cookies?"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000064_000000|"Cookies?
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000064_000003|We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000065_000000|"That's foolish."
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000066_000000|"It is, O male Kennicott!"
train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000067_000000|"Huh!" said Kennicott two, and went to sleep on her shoulder.
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000008_000000|"Laura?
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000010_000002|I thought you were-"
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000011_000000|"You thought I was dead?
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000014_000001|Reproach me.
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000019_000000|"And you dare come with her, here, and tell me of it, here and mock me with it!
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000019_000003|You think I am as powerless as that day I fell dead at your feet?"
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000021_000001|think!
train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000028_000000|Laura thought this, believed it; because she desired to believe it.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000004_000000|PORTLAND BILL.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000000|An obstinate north wind blew without ceasing over the mainland of Europe, and yet more roughly over England, during all the month of December, sixteen eighty nine, and all the month of January, sixteen ninety.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000001|Hence the disastrous cold weather, which caused that winter to be noted as "memorable to the poor," on the margin of the old Bible in the Presbyterian chapel of the Nonjurors in London.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000003|The Thames was frozen over-a thing which does not happen once in a century, as the ice forms on it with difficulty owing to the action of the sea.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000005|An ox was roasted whole on the ice.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000006|This thick ice lasted two months.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000007_000002|It was already night at the bottom of the cliff; it was still day at top.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000007_000003|Any one approaching the vessel's moorings would have recognized a Biscayan hooker.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000008_000001|There was beginning to be felt that deep and sombrous melancholy which might be called anxiety for the absent sun
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000008_000002|With no wind from the sea, the water of the creek was calm.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000000|This was, especially in winter, a lucky exception.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000001|Almost all the Portland creeks have sand bars; and in heavy weather the sea becomes very rough, and, to pass in safety, much skill and practice are necessary.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000002|These little ports (ports more in appearance than fact) are of small advantage.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000003|They are hazardous to enter, fearful to leave.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000002|It figured in the Armada.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000004|But the merchant and contraband hookers were very feeble specimens.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000005|Sea folk held them at their true value, and esteemed the model a very sorry one, The rigging of the hooker was made of hemp, sometimes with wire inside, which was probably intended as a means, however unscientific, of obtaining indications, in the case of magnetic tension.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000008|Two wheels in two pulleys at the end of the rudder corrected this defect, and compensated, to some extent, for the loss of strength.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000009|The compass was well housed in a case perfectly square, and well balanced by its two copper frames placed horizontally, one in the other, on little bolts, as in Cardan's lamps.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000011|The hooker was primitive, just like the praam and the canoe; was kindred to the praam in stability, and to the canoe in swiftness; and, like all vessels born of the instinct of the pirate and fisherman, it had remarkable sea qualities: it was equally well suited to landlocked and to open waters.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000013|It could sail round a lake, and sail round the world-a strange craft with two objects, good for a pond and good for a storm.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000000|These Biscay hookers, even to the poorest, were gilt and painted. Tattooing is part of the genius of those charming people, savages to some degree.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000003|Their coaches, which you can hear grinding the wheels two leagues off, are illuminated, carved, and hung with ribbons.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000006|They do not mend their rags, but they embroider them.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000007|Vivacity profound and superb!
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000012|Biscay is Pyrenean grace as Savoy is Alpine grace.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000016|Two harvests a year; villages resonant and gay; a stately poverty; all Sunday the sound of guitars, dancing, castanets, love making; houses clean and bright; storks in the belfries.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000012_000000|Let us return to Portland-that rugged mountain in the sea.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000013_000000|The peninsula of Portland, looked at geometrically, presents the appearance of a bird's head, of which the bill is turned towards the ocean, the back of the head towards Weymouth; the isthmus is its neck.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000000|Portland, greatly to the sacrifice of its wildness, exists now but for trade.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000002|Since that period what is called Roman cement has been made of the Portland stone-a useful industry, enriching the district, and disfiguring the bay.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000004|The pick bites meanly, the wave grandly; hence a diminution of beauty.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000006|These measured strokes have worked away the creek where the Biscay hooker was moored.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000015_000000|The creek, walled in on all sides by precipices higher than its width, was minute by minute becoming more overshadowed by evening.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000015_000004|A plank thrown from on board on to a low and level projection of the cliff, the only point on which a landing could be made, placed the vessel in communication with the land.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000015_000005|Dark figures were crossing and recrossing each other on this tottering gangway, and in the shadow some people were embarking.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000016_000000|It was less cold in the creek than out at sea, thanks to the screen of rock rising over the north of the basin, which did not, however, prevent the people from shivering.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000016_000003|Certain indentations in their clothes were visible, and showed that they belonged to the class called in England the ragged.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000017_000000|The twisting of the pathway could be distinguished vaguely in the relief of the cliff.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000017_000002|The pathway of this creek, full of knots and angles, almost perpendicular, and better adapted for goats than men, terminated on the platform where the plank was placed.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000017_000003|The pathways of cliffs ordinarily imply a not very inviting declivity; they offer themselves less as a road than as a fall; they sink rather than incline.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000018_000000|Excepting the movement of embarkation which was being made in the creek, a movement visibly scared and uneasy, all around was solitude; no step, no noise, no breath was heard.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000018_000001|At the other side of the roads, at the entrance of Ringstead Bay, you could just perceive a flotilla of shark fishing boats, which were evidently out of their reckoning.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000018_000004|They had just taken refuge in the anchorage of Portland-a sign of bad weather expected and danger out at sea.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000001|They formed a busy and confused group, in rapid movement on the shore.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000002|To distinguish one from another was difficult; impossible to tell whether they were old or young.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000003|The indistinctness of evening intermixed and blurred them; the mask of shadow was over their faces.
train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000004|They were sketches in the night.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000002_000000|Chapter forty four
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000003_000000|'The "Banner" comes next,' says Starlight, tearing it open.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000003_000001|'We shall have something short and sweet after the "Star".
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000003_000002|How's this?
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000005_000000|This mercurial brigand, it would appear, has paid Turon another visit, but, with the exception of what may be considered the legalised robbery of the betting ring, has not levied contributions.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000005_000001|Rather the other way, indeed.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000005_000002|A hasty note for mr Dawson, whom he had tricked into temporary association by adopting one of the disguises he can so wonderfully assume, requested that gentleman to receive the Handicap Stakes, won by his horse, Darkie, alias Rainbow, and to hand them over to the treasurer of the Turon Hospital, which was accordingly done.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000006_000002|We have always regarded the present system-facetiously called police protection-as a farce.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000006_000004|We, unlike a contemporary, have no morbid sympathy with crime-embroidered or otherwise; our wishes, as loyal subjects, are confined to a short shrift and a high gallows for all who dare to obstruct the Queen's highway.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000000|'That's easy to understand, barrin' a word here and there,' says father, taking his pipe out of his mouth and laying it down; 'that's the way they used to talk to us in the old days.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000001|Dashed if I don't think it's the best way after all.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000002|You know where you are.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000003|The rest's flummery.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000004|All on us as takes to the cross does it with our eyes open, and deserves all we gets.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000009_000000|'Why?' says father, getting up and glaring with his eyes, 'because I was a blind, ignorant dog when I was young, as had never been taught nothing, and knowed nothing, not so much as him there' (pointing to Crib), 'for he knows what his business is, and I didn't.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000009_000002|Whose business was it to have learned me better?
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000009_000004|Was that justice?
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000010_000000|We none of us felt in the humour to say much after that.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000010_000001|Father had got into one of his tantrums, and when he did he was fit to be tied; only I'd not have took the contract for something.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000010_000002|Whatever it was that had happened to him in the old times when he was a Government man he didn't talk about.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000000|The next dust we got into was all along of a mr Knightley, who lived a good way down to the south, and it was one of the worst things we ever were mixed up in.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000001|After the Turon races and all that shine, somehow or other we found that things had been made hotter for us than ever since we first turned out.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000002|Go where we would, we found the police always quick on our trail, and we had two or three very close shaves of it.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000003|It looked as if our luck was dead out, and we began to think our chance of getting across the border to Queensland, and clear out of the colony that way, looked worse every day.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000013_000000|Sir Ferdinand was always on the move, but we knew he couldn't do it all himself unless he got the office from some one who knew the ropes better than he did.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000014_000000|Last of all we dropped on to it.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000015_000001|Well, this gentleman took it into his head to put on extra steam and try and run us down.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000015_000002|He'd lost some gold by us in the escort robbery, and not forgotten it; so it seems he'd been trying his best to fit us ever since.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000015_000004|We heard, too, that he should say he'd never rest till he had Starlight and the Marstons, and that if he could get picked police he'd bring us in within a month, dead or alive.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000000|Moran and Daly knew about this, and they were dead on for sticking up the place and getting hold of the gold.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000001|Besides that, we felt savage about his trying to run us in.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000005|We didn't like working with them. Starlight and I were dead against it.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000006|But we knew they'd tackle it by themselves if we backed out.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000007|So we agreed to make one thing of it. We were to meet at a place about ten miles off and ride over there together.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000019_000000|Of course he was on his guard then, and before long the bullets began to fly pretty thick among us, and we had to take cover to return fire and keep as dark as we could.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000020_000000|We blazed away too, and as there was no stable at the back we surrounded the house and tried hard to find an opening.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000020_000001|Devil a chance there seemed to be; none of us dared show.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000020_000003|We all had a close shave more than once for being too fast.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000000|The lot fell upon Patsey Daly.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000002|'I'm dashed if I don't think Knightley will bag me.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000003|I don't half like charging him, and that's God's truth.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000004|Anyhow I'll try for that barrel there; and if I get behind it I can fire from short range and make him come out.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000023_000000|He made a rush, half on his hands and knees, and managed to get behind this barrel, where he was safe from being hit as long as he kept well behind it.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000000|On the left of the verandah there was a door stood partly open, and after a bit a man in a light overcoat and a white hat, like mr Knightley always wore, showed himself for a second.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000001|Daly raps away at this, and the man staggers and falls.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000002|Patsey shows himself for a moment from behind the cask, thinking to make a rush forward; that minute mr Knightley, who was watching him from a window (the other was only an image), lets drive at him, cool and steady, and poor Patsey drops like a cock, and never raised his head again.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000003|He was shot through the body.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000004|He lingered a bit; but in less than an hour he was a dead man.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000025_000000|We began to think at last that we had got in for a hot thing, and that we should have to drop it like Moran's mob at Kadombla.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000025_000002|He crept away to the back of the building, where he could see to fire at a top window close by where the doctor and mr Knightley had been potting at us.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000026_000002|It always beat me how they contrived to defend so many points at once.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000026_000003|We tried back and front, doors and windows.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000026_000004|Twenty times we tried a rush, but they were always ready-so it seemed-and their fire was too hot for us to stand up to, unless we wanted to lose every second man.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000027_000000|The shooting was very close.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000027_000001|Nearly every one of us had a scratch-Starlight rather the worst, as he was more in the front and showed himself more.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000028_000000|At last we began to see that the return fire was slacking off, while ours was as brisk as ever.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000029_000002|Here goes for a battering ram, Dick!'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000030_000000|He pointed to a long, heavy sapling which had been fetched in for a sleeper or something of that sort.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000030_000001|We picked it up, and, taking a run back, brought it with all its weight against the front door.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000030_000003|It seemed very queer and strange, everything was so silent and quiet.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000031_000000|We half expected another volley.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000031_000001|But nothing came.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000031_000002|We could only stand and wait.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000000|'Get to a corner, Dick; they're always the safest places.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000001|We must mind it isn't an ambush.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000002|What the devil's the matter?
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000003|Are they going to suicide, like the people in the round tower of Jhansi?'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000033_000000|'There are no women here,' I said.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000034_000001|'I hate seeing women put out.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000034_000002|Besides, everybody bows down to mrs Knightley.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000034_000003|She's as good as she's handsome, I believe, and that's saying a great deal.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000035_000000|Just then Moran and Wall managed to find their way into the other side of the house, and they came tearing into the hall like a pair of colts. They looked rather queer when they saw us three and no one else.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000036_000001|Poor Patsey won't want one, anyhow.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000039_000001|Then he stepped back and waited.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000039_000002|I noticed he took off his hat and leaned against the wall.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000040_000000|It was an old-fashioned house for that part of the world, built a good many years ago by a rich settler, who was once the owner of all that side of the country.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000040_000001|The staircase was all stone, ornamented every way it could be.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000040_000002|Three or four people could walk abreast easy enough.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000043_000000|It was a strange sight.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000043_000001|There we were standing and leaning about the dark hall, staring and wondering, and these people walking down to meet us like ghosts, without speaking or anything else.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000000|mr Knightley was a tall, handsome man, with a grand black beard that came down to his chest.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000001|He walked like a lord, and had that kind of manner with him that comes to people that have always been used to be waited on and have everything found for them in this world.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000002|As for his wife, she was given in to be the handsomest woman in the whole countryside-tall and graceful, with a beautiful smile, and soft fair hair.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000003|Everybody liked and respected her, gentle and simple-everybody had a good word for her.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000004|You couldn't have got any one to say different for a hundred pounds.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000005|There are some people, here and there, like this among the gentlefolk, and, say what you like, it does more to make coves like us look a little closer at things and keep away from what's wrong and bad than all the parsons' talk twice over.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000006|mrs Knightley was the only woman that ever put me in mind of Miss Falkland, and I can't say more than that.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000045_000001|We had both seen them at the ball at the Turon, and everybody agreed they were the handsomest couple there.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000000|Now they were entering their own hall in a different way.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000001|But you couldn't have told much of what they felt by their faces.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000003|Now the tables were turned.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000004|He and his beautiful wife were in our power, and, to make matters worse, one of our band lay dead, beside the inner wall, killed by his hand.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000047_000000|What was to be his doom?
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000047_000001|And who could say how such a play might end?
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000000|I looked at our men.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000001|As they stepped on to the floor of the hall and looked round mrs Knightley smiled.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000002|She looked to me like an angel from heaven that had come by chance into the other place and hadn't found out her mistake.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000003|I saw Starlight start as he looked at her.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000005|Part of her hair had straggled down, and hung in a sort of ringlet by her face.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000006|It was pale, but clear and bright looking, and there was a thin streak of blood across her forehead that showed as she came underneath the lamp light from the landing above.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000049_000000|I looked over at Moran.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000049_000001|He and Wall sat in a corner, looking as grim and savage as possible, while his deadly black eyes had a kind of gloomy fire in them that made him look like a wild beast in a cage.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000050_000000|mr Knightley was a man that always had the first word in everything, and generally the best of an argument-putting down anybody who differed from him in a quiet, superior sort of way.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000000|He began now.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000002|But we have fired our last cartridge-the doctor thought we had a thousand left-in which case, I may as well tell you, you'd never have had this pleasure.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000003|Captain Starlight, I surrender my sword-or should do so if I had one.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000004|We trust to receive honourable treatment at your hands.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000053_000000|'I shall never forget the honour,' says Starlight, walking forward and bowing low.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000053_000001|'Permit me to offer you a chair, madam; you look faint.'
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000054_000000|As he did so she sank down in it, and really looked as if she would faint away.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000054_000001|It wouldn't have been much wonder if she had after what she'd gone through that night.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000000|Then mr Knightley began again.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000001|He wanted to know how he stood.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000002|He didn't like the look of Moran and Wall-they were a deal too quiet for him, and he could read men's faces like a book.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000003|The other two prisoners were the German dr Schiller-a plucky old chap, who'd been a rebel and a conspirator and I don't know what all in his own country.
train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000005|The old woman was a family servant, who had been with them for years and years.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000001_000000|Chapter eight
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000002_000000|Towards the end of May, when everything had been more or less satisfactorily arranged, she received her husband's answer to her complaints of the disorganized state of things in the country.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000002_000001|He wrote begging her forgiveness for not having thought of everything before, and promised to come down at the first chance.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000002_000002|This chance did not present itself, and till the beginning of June Darya Alexandrovna stayed alone in the country.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000001|Darya Alexandrovna in her intimate, philosophical talks with her sister, her mother, and her friends very often astonished them by the freedom of her views in regard to religion.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000002|She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had firm faith, troubling herself little about the dogmas of the Church.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000003|But in her family she was strict in carrying out all that was required by the Church-and not merely in order to set an example, but with all her heart in it.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000004|The fact that the children had not been at the sacrament for nearly a year worried her extremely, and with the full approval and sympathy of Marya Philimonovna she decided that this should take place now in the summer.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000002|One dress, Tanya's, which the English governess had undertaken, cost Darya Alexandrovna much loss of temper.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000004|It was so narrow on Tanya's shoulders that it was quite painful to look at her.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000005|But Marya Philimonovna had the happy thought of putting in gussets, and adding a little shoulder cape.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000006|The dress was set right, but there was nearly a quarrel with the English governess.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000007|On the morning, however, all was happily arranged, and towards ten o'clock-the time at which they had asked the priest to wait for them for the mass-the children in their new dresses, with beaming faces, stood on the step before the carriage waiting for their mother.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000000|Darya Alexandrovna had done her hair, and dressed with care and excitement.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000001|In the old days she had dressed for her own sake to look pretty and be admired.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000003|She saw that she was losing her good looks.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000004|But now she began to feel pleasure and interest in dress again.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000005|Now she did not dress for her own sake, not for the sake of her own beauty, but simply that as the mother of those exquisite creatures she might not spoil the general effect.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000006|And looking at herself for the last time in the looking glass she was satisfied with herself.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000007|She looked nice.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000000|In the church there was no one but the peasants, the servants and their women folk.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000001|But Darya Alexandrovna saw, or fancied she saw, the sensation produced by her children and her.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000002|The children were not only beautiful to look at in their smart little dresses, but they were charming in the way they behaved.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000003|Aliosha, it is true, did not stand quite correctly; he kept turning round, trying to look at his little jacket from behind; but all the same he was wonderfully sweet.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000004|Tanya behaved like a grownup person, and looked after the little ones.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000005|And the smallest, Lily, was bewitching in her naive astonishment at everything, and it was difficult not to smile when, after taking the sacrament, she said in English, "Please, some more."
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000008_000000|On the way home the children felt that something solemn had happened, and were very sedate.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000000|Everything went happily at home too; but at lunch Grisha began whistling, and, what was worse, was disobedient to the English governess, and was forbidden to have any tart.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000001|Darya Alexandrovna would not have let things go so far on such a day had she been present; but she had to support the English governess's authority, and she upheld her decision that Grisha should have no tart.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000002|This rather spoiled the general good humor.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000005|But on the way, as she passed the drawing room, she beheld a scene, filling her heart with such pleasure that the tears came into her eyes, and she forgave the delinquent herself.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000010_000000|The culprit was sitting at the window in the corner of the drawing room; beside him was standing Tanya with a plate.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000010_000001|On the pretext of wanting to give some dinner to her dolls, she had asked the governess's permission to take her share of tart to the nursery, and had taken it instead to her brother.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000011_000000|Tanya had at first been under the influence of her pity for Grisha, then of a sense of her noble action, and tears were standing in her eyes too; but she did not refuse, and ate her share.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000012_000000|On catching sight of their mother they were dismayed, but, looking into her face, they saw they were not doing wrong.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000013_000002|Tanya!
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000013_000003|Grisha!" said their mother, trying to save the frock, but with tears in her eyes, smiling a blissful, rapturous smile.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000014_000000|The new frocks were taken off, and orders were given for the little girls to have their blouses put on, and the boys their old jackets, and the wagonette to be harnessed; with Brownie, to the bailiff's annoyance, again in the shafts, to drive out for mushroom picking and bathing.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000015_000000|They gathered a whole basketful of mushrooms; even Lily found a birch mushroom.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000015_000001|It had always happened before that Miss Hoole found them and pointed them out to her; but this time she found a big one quite of herself, and there was a general scream of delight, "Lily has found a mushroom!"
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000016_000000|Then they reached the river, put the horses under the birch trees, and went to the bathing place.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000016_000001|The coachman, Terenty, fastened the horses, who kept whisking away the flies, to a tree, and, treading down the grass, lay down in the shade of a birch and smoked his shag, while the never ceasing shrieks of delight of the children floated across to him from the bathing place.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000017_000001|To go over all those fat little legs, pulling on their stockings, to take in her arms and dip those little naked bodies, and to hear their screams of delight and alarm, to see the breathless faces with wide open, scared, and happy eyes of all her splashing cherubs, was a great pleasure to her.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000020_000000|"Yes, she has been ill."
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000021_000000|"And so they've been bathing you too," said another to the baby.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000022_000000|"No; he's only three months old," answered Darya Alexandrovna with pride.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000023_000000|"You don't say so!"
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000025_000000|"I've had four; I've two living-a boy and a girl.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000025_000001|I weaned her last carnival."
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000027_000000|"Why, two years old."
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000000|And the conversation became most interesting to Darya Alexandrovna.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000001|What sort of time did she have?
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000003|Where was her husband?
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000004|Did it often happen?
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000031_000000|Darya Alexandrovna felt disinclined to leave the peasant women, so interesting to her was their conversation, so completely identical were all their interests.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000031_000001|What pleased her most of all was that she saw clearly what all the women admired more than anything was her having so many children, and such fine ones.
train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000031_000002|The peasant women even made Darya Alexandrovna laugh, and offended the English governess, because she was the cause of the laughter she did not understand.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000003_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000005_000000|Toby could scarcely restrain himself at the prospect of this golden future that had so suddenly opened before him.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000005_000001|He tried to express his gratitude, but could only do so by evincing his willingness to commence work at once.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000006_000000|"No, no, that won't do," said mr Lord, cautiously.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000006_000001|"If your uncle Daniel should see you working here, he might mistrust something, and then you couldn't get away."
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000007_000000|"I don't believe he'd try to stop me," said Toby, confidently; "for he's told me lots of times that it was a sorry day for him when he found me."
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000008_000000|"We won't take any chances, my son," was the reply, in a very benevolent tone, as he patted Toby on the head, and at the same time handed him a piece of pasteboard.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000008_000001|"There's a ticket for the circus, and you come around to see me about ten o'clock to night.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000009_000000|If Toby had followed his inclinations, the chances are that he would have fallen on his knees, and kissed mr Lord's hands in the excess of his gratitude.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000009_000001|But not knowing exactly how such a show of thankfulness might be received, he contented himself by repeatedly promising that he would be punctual to the time and place appointed.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000011_000000|As Toby walked around the circus grounds, whereon was so much to attract his attention, he could not prevent himself from assuming an air of proprietorship.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000011_000002|He was really to travel with a circus, to become a part, as it were, of the whole, and to be able to see its many wonderful and beautiful attractions every day.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000012_000000|Even the very tent ropes had acquired a new interest for him, and the faces of the men at work seemed suddenly to have become those of friends.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000012_000001|How hard it was for him to walk around unconcernedly: and how especially hard to prevent his feet from straying toward that tempting display of dainties which he was to sell to those who came to see and enjoy, and who would look at him with wonder and curiosity!
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000012_000002|It was very hard not to be allowed to tell his playmates of his wonderfully good fortune; but silence meant success, and he locked his secret in his bosom, not even daring to talk with any one he knew, lest he should betray himself by some incautious word.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000013_000000|He did not go home to dinner that day, and once or twice he felt impelled to walk past the candy stand, giving a mysterious shake of the head at the proprietor as he did so.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000013_000001|The afternoon performance passed off as usual to all of the spectators save Toby.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000013_000002|He imagined that each one of the performers knew that he was about to join them; and even as he passed the cage containing the monkeys he fancied that one particularly old one knew all about his intention of running away.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000014_000000|Of course it was necessary for him to go home at the close of the afternoon's performance, in order to get one or two valuable articles of his own-such as a boat, a kite, and a pair of skates-and in order that his actions might not seem suspicious.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000014_000001|Before he left the grounds, however, he stole slyly around to the candy stand, and informed mr Job Lord, in a very hoarse whisper, that he would be on hand at the time appointed.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000015_000000|mr Lord patted him on the head, gave him two large sticks of candy, and, what was more kind and surprising, considering the fact that he wore glasses, and was cross eyed, he winked at Toby.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000015_000001|A wink from mr Lord must have been intended to convey a great deal, because, owing to the defect in his eyes, it required no little exertion, and even then could not be considered as a really first-class wink.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000016_000000|That wink, distorted as it was, gladdened Toby's heart immensely, and took away nearly all the sting of the scolding with which Uncle Daniel greeted him when he reached home.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000017_000002|Just then one or two kind words would have prevented him from running away, bright as the prospect of circus life appeared.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000018_000000|It was almost impossible for him to eat anything, and this very surprising state of affairs attracted the attention of Uncle Daniel.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000019_000000|"Bless my heart! what ails the boy?" asked the old man, as he peered over his glasses at Toby's well filled plate, which was usually emptied so quickly.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000022_000000|Toby thought of the six pea nuts which he had bought with the penny Uncle Daniel had given him; and, amid all his homesickness, he could not help wondering if Uncle Daniel ever made himself sick with only six pea nuts when he was a boy.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000000|As no one paid any further attention to Toby, he pushed back his plate, arose from the table, and went with a heavy heart to attend to his regular evening chores.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000001|The cow, the hens, and even the pigs, came in for a share of his unusually kind attention; and as he fed them all the big tears rolled down his cheeks, as he thought that perhaps never again would he see any of them.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000002|These dumb animals had all been Toby's confidants; he had poured out his griefs in their ears, and fancied, when the world or Uncle Daniel had used him unusually hard, that they sympathized with him.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000003|Now he was leaving them forever, and as he locked the stable door he could hear the sounds of music coming from the direction of the circus grounds, and he was angry at it, because it represented that which was taking him away from his home, even though it was not as pleasant as it might have been.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000025_000000|mr Lord saw him as soon as he arrived on the grounds, and as he passed another ticket to Toby he took his bundle from him, saying, as he did so, "I'll pack up your bundle with my things, and then you'll be sure not to lose it.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000025_000001|Don't you want some candy?"
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000026_000000|Toby shook his head; he had just discovered that there was possibly some connection between his heart and his stomach, for his grief at leaving home had taken from him all desire for good things.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000026_000001|It is also more than possible that mr Lord had had experience enough with boys to know that they might be homesick on the eve of starting to travel with a circus; and in order to make sure that Toby would keep to his engagement he was unusually kind.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000027_000000|That evening was the longest Toby ever knew.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000027_000002|The performance failed to interest him, and the animals did not attract until he had visited the monkey cage for the third or fourth time.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000027_000003|Then he fancied that the same venerable monkey who had looked so knowing in the afternoon was gazing at him with a sadness which could only have come from a thorough knowledge of all the grief and doubt that was in his heart.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000028_000000|There was no one around the cages, and Toby got just as near to the iron bars as possible.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000028_000001|No sooner had he flattened his little pug nose against the iron than the aged monkey came down from the ring in which he had been swinging, and, seating himself directly in front of Toby's face, looked at him most compassionately.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000029_000000|It would not have surprised the boy just then if the animal had spoken; but as he did not, Toby did the next best thing, and spoke to him.
train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000038_000000|At this moment Toby saw mr Lord enter the tent, and he knew that the summons to start was about to be given.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000002_000000|"Ah-I have dropped my scorecard."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000003_000000|A man in front of her turned.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000004_000001|Will you accept it?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000005_000000|Her small, modishly gloved hand closed eagerly on it before she lifted her eyes to his face.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000005_000001|Both started convulsively.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000006_000000|"You?" she faltered.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000007_000000|His lips parted in the coldly grave smile she remembered and hated.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000008_000000|"You are not glad to see me," he said calmly, "but that, I suppose, was not to be expected.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000008_000001|I did not come here to annoy you.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000008_000003|I had no suspicion that for the last half hour I had been standing next to my-"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000009_000000|She interrupted him by an imperious gesture.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000009_000002|Again he smiled, this time with a tinge of scorn, and shifted his eyes to the track.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000010_000000|None of the people around them had noticed the little by play.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000010_000001|All eyes were on the track, which was being cleared for the first heat of another race.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000010_000003|The backers of "Mascot", the rival favourite, looked gloomy.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000000|The woman noticed nothing of all this.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000002|She studied the man's profile furtively.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000003|He looked older than when she had seen him last-there were some silver threads gleaming in his close clipped dark hair and short, pointed beard.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000004|Otherwise there was little change in the quiet features and somewhat stern grey eyes.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000000|They had not met for five years.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000001|She shut her eyes and looked in on her past.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000002|It all came back very vividly.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000003|She had been eighteen when they were married-a gay, high spirited girl and the season's beauty. He was much older and a quiet, serious student.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000000|The marriage had been an unhappy one.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000001|She was fond of society and gaiety, he wanted quiet and seclusion.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000002|She Was impulsive and impatient, he deliberate and grave.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000003|The strong wills clashed.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000004|After two years of an unbearable sort of life they had separated-quietly, and without scandal of any sort.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000005|She had wanted a divorce, but he would not agree to that, so she had taken her own independent fortune and gone back to her own way of life.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000006|In the following five years she had succeeded in burying all remembrance well out of sight.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000007|No one knew if she were satisfied or not; her world was charitable to her and she lived a gay and quite irreproachable life.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000008|She wished that she had not come to the races.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000009|It was such an irritating encounter.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000010|She opened her eyes wearily; the dusty track, the flying horses, the gay dresses of the women on the grandstand, the cloudless blue sky, the brilliant September sunshine, the purple distances all commingled in a glare that made her head ache.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000011|Before it all she saw the tall figure by her side, his face turned from her, watching the track intently.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000000|She wondered with a vague curiosity what induced him to come to the races.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000001|Such things were not greatly in his line.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000002|Evidently their chance meeting had not disturbed him.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000003|It was a sign that he did not care.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000004|She sighed a little wearily and closed her eyes.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000005|When the heat was over he turned to her.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000015_000001|You are looking extremely well.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000015_000002|Has Vanity Fair palled in any degree?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000016_000000|She was angry at herself and him.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000016_000002|She felt weak and hysterical. What if she should burst into tears before the whole crowd-before those coldly critical grey eyes?
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000016_000003|She almost hated him.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000017_000000|"No-why should it?
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000017_000001|I have found it very pleasant-and I have been well-very well.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000017_000002|And you?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000018_000000|He jotted down the score carefully before he replied.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000000|"I?
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000001|Oh, a book worm and recluse always leads a placid life.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000002|I never cared for excitement, you know.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000003|I came down here to attend a sale of some rare editions, and a well meaning friend dragged me out to see the races.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000004|I find it rather interesting, I must confess, much more so than I should have fancied.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000005|Sorry I can't stay until the end.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000006|I must go as soon as the free for all is over, if not before.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000007|I have backed 'Mascot'; you?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000020_000002|"She belongs to a friend of mine, so I am naturally interested."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000021_000001|One more for either will decide it.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000021_000002|This is a good day for the races.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000021_000003|Excuse me."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000022_000000|He leaned over and brushed a scrap of paper from her grey cloak.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000022_000001|She shivered slightly.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000023_000000|"You are cold!
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000023_000001|This stand is draughty."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000024_000000|"I am not at all cold, thank you.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000024_000001|What race is this?--oh! the three minute one."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000025_000000|She bent forward with assumed interest to watch the scoring.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000025_000001|She was breathing heavily.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000025_000002|There were tears in her eyes-she bit her lips savagely and glared at the track until they were gone.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000026_000000|Presently he spoke again, in the low, even tone demanded by circumstances.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000027_000000|"This is a curious meeting, is it not?--quite a flavor of romance! By the way, do you read as many novels as ever?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000028_000000|She fancied there was mockery in his tone.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000028_000002|Besides, she resented the personal tinge.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000028_000003|What right had he?
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000029_000000|"Almost as many," she answered carelessly.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000030_000000|"I was very intolerant, wasn't I?" he said after a pause.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000030_000001|"You thought so-you were right.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000030_000002|You have been happier since you-left me?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000031_000000|"Yes," she said defiantly, looking straight into his eyes.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000032_000000|"And you do not regret it?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000033_000000|He bent down a little.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000033_000001|His sleeve brushed against her shoulder. Something in his face arrested the answer she meant to make.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000034_000000|"I-I-did not say that," she murmured faintly.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000000|There was a burst of cheering.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000001|The free for all horses were being brought out for the sixth heat.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000002|She turned away to watch them.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000003|The scoring began, and seemed likely to have no end.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000004|She was tired of it all.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000006|Had Vanity Fair after all been a satisfying exchange for love?
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000008|She had never before said, even in her own heart: "I am sorry," but-suddenly, she felt his hand on her shoulder, and looked up.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000009|Their eyes met.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000010|He stooped and said almost in a whisper:
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000036_000000|"Will you come back to me?"
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000037_000000|"I don't know," she whispered breathlessly, as one half fascinated.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000000|"We were both to blame-but I the most.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000001|I was too hard on you-I ought to have made more allowance.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000002|We are wiser now both of us.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000003|Come back to me-my wife."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000039_000000|His tone was cold and his face expressionless.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000039_000001|It was on her lips to cry out "No," passionately.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000040_000000|But the slender, scholarly hand on her shoulder was trembling with the intensity of his repressed emotion.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000040_000002|A wild caprice flashed into her brain.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000040_000003|She sprang up.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000000|"See," she cried, "they're off now.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000001|This heat will probably decide the race.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000002|If 'Lu Lu' wins I will not go back to you, if 'Mascot' does I will.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000003|That is my decision."
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000042_000000|He turned paler, but bowed in assent.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000042_000001|He knew by bitter experience how unchangeable her whims were, how obstinately she clung to even the most absurd.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000000|She leaned forward breathlessly.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000001|The crowd hung silently on the track. "Lu Lu" and "Mascot" were neck and neck, getting in splendid work. half-way round the course "Lu Lu" forged half a neck ahead, and her backers went mad.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000002|But one woman dropped her head in her hands and dared look no more.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000003|One man with white face and set lips watched the track unswervingly.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000000|Again "Mascot" crawled up, inch by inch.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000001|They were on the home stretch, they were equal, the cheering broke out, then silence, then another terrific burst, shouts, yells and clappings-"Mascot" had won the free for all.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000002|In the front row a woman stood up, swayed and shaken as a leaf in the wind.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000003|She straightened her scarlet hat and readjusted her veil unsteadily.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000005|No one noticed her.
train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000006|A man beside her drew her hand through his arm in a quiet proprietary fashion.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000003_000006|He opened it, and within he found a lock of hair like spun gold, and from which came a faint, exquisite odour.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000009_000002|The father bowed his head three times to the ground, and replied:
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000012_000000|At first, the condition attaching to his wedding with the lovely Dorani troubled the prince very little, for he thought that he would at least see his bride all day.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000012_000002|Each evening she was carried in a palanquin to her father's house, and each morning she was brought back soon after daybreak; and yet never a sound passed her lips, nor did she show by any sign that she saw, or heard, or heeded her husband.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000015_000000|The old man stood thinking for a moment, and then he hobbled off to his own cottage.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000022_000000|In a short while they arrived at the house of the fairy who, as I told you before, was the favourite friend of Dorani.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000023_000001|What is the reason of that, I wonder?
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000024_000001|The fairy still looked doubtful, but made no answer, and took her seat beside Dorani, the prince again holding tightly one leg.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000025_000000|All through the night the women sang and danced before the rajah Indra, whilst a magic lute played of itself the most bewitching music; till the prince, who sat watching it all, was quite entranced.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000032_000000|'I was there,' answered the prince.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000035_000001|However, in the evening, just as she was stepping into her palanquin, she said to the prince:
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000038_000000|That evening the magic stool flew so unsteadily that they could hardly keep their seats, and at last the fairy exclaimed:
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000039_000001|You have been talking to your husband!'
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000040_000000|And Dorani replied: 'Yes, I have spoken; oh, yes, I have spoken!' But no more would she say.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000045_000000|Dorani bowed her head silently as she took the lute, and passed with the fairy out of the great gate, where the stool awaited them.
train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000048_000000|That day Dorani sat very quietly, but she answered the prince when he spoke to her; and when evening fell, and with it the time for her departure, she still sat on.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000003_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000003_000001|INTO TRAINING FOR MARY ELLEN
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000004_000000|Bertram told a friend afterwards that he never knew the meaning of the word "chaos" until he had seen the Strata during the weeks immediately following the laying away of his old servant.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000005_000000|"Every stratum was aquiver with apprehension," he declared; "and there was never any telling when the next grand upheaval would rock the whole structure to its foundations."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000006_000000|Nor was Bertram so far from being right.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000006_000001|It was, indeed, a chaos, as none knew better than did Bertram's wife.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000007_000000|Poor Billy!
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000007_000001|Sorry indeed were these days for Billy; and, as if to make her cup of woe full to overflowing, there were Sister Kate's epistolary "I told you so," and Aunt Hannah's ever recurring lament: "If only, Billy, you were a practical housekeeper yourself, they wouldn't impose on you so!"
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000008_000000|Aunt Hannah, to be sure, offered Rosa, and Kate, by letter, offered advice-plenty of it.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000008_000001|But Billy, stung beyond all endurance, and fairly radiating hurt pride and dogged determination, disdained all assistance, and, with head held high, declared she was getting along very well, very well indeed!
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000009_000000|And this was the way she "got along."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000000|First came Nora.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000001|Nora was a blue eyed, black haired Irish girl, the sixth that the despairing Billy had interviewed on that fateful morning when Bertram had summoned her to his aid.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000002|Nora stayed two days.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000003|During her reign the entire Strata echoed to banged doors, dropped china, and slammed furniture.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000000|Olga came next.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000001|Olga was a Treasure.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000002|She was low voiced, gentle eyed, and a good cook.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000003|She stayed a week.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000004|By that time the growing frequency of the disappearance of sundry small articles of value and convenience led to Billy's making a reluctant search of Olga's room-and to Olga's departure; for the room was, indeed, a treasure house, the Treasure having gathered unto itself other treasures.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000000|Following Olga came a period of what Bertram called "one night stands," so frequently were the dramatis personae below stairs changed. Gretchen drank.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000001|Christine knew only four words of English: salt, good by, no, and yes; and Billy found need occasionally of using other words.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000002|Mary was impertinent and lazy.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000003|Jennie could not even boil a potato properly, much less cook a dinner.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000004|Sarah (colored) was willing and pleasant, but insufferably untidy.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000005|Bridget was neatness itself, but she had no conception of the value of time.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000006|Her meals were always from thirty to sixty minutes late, and half cooked at that.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000007|Vera sang-when she wasn't whistling-and as she was generally off the key, and always off the tune, her almost frantic mistress dismissed her before twenty four hours had passed.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000008|Then came Mary Ellen.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000000|Mary Ellen began well.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000001|She was neat, capable, and obliging; but it did not take her long to discover just how much-and how little-her mistress really knew of practical housekeeping.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000002|Matters and things were very different then.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000003|Mary Ellen became argumentative, impertinent, and domineering.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000005|Billy, in weary despair, submitted to this bullying for almost a week; then, in a sudden accession of outraged dignity that left Mary Ellen gasping with surprise, she told the girl to go.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000001|The maids came and the maids went, and, to Billy, each one seemed a little worse than the one before.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000002|Nowhere was there comfort, rest, or peacefulness.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000004|Noise, confusion, meals poorly cooked and worse served, dust, disorder, and uncertainty.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000006|No wonder that Bertram telephoned more and more frequently that he had met a friend, and was dining in town.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000007|No wonder that William pushed back his plate almost every meal with his food scarcely touched, and then wandered about the house with that hungry, homesick, homeless look that nearly broke her heart.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000008|No wonder, indeed!
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000000|And so it had come.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000001|It was true.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000002|Aunt Hannah and Kate and the "Talk to Young Wives" were right.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000003|She had not been fit to marry Bertram.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000004|She had not been fit to marry anybody.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000005|Her honeymoon was not only waning, but going into a total eclipse.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000006|Had not Bertram already declared that if she would tend to her husband and her home a little more-
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000016_000000|Billy clenched her small hands and set her round chin squarely.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000017_000000|Very well, she would show them.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000017_000001|She would tend to her husband and her home.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000018_000000|Billy was well aware now that housekeeping was a matter of more than muffins and date puffs.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000018_000002|But she did not falter; and very systematically she set about making her plans.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000019_000000|With a good stout woman to come in twice a week for the heavier work, she believed she could manage by herself very well until Eliza could come back.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000019_000002|Meanwhile, all the time, she could be learning, and in due course she would reach that shining goal of Housekeeping Efficiency, short of which-according to Aunt Hannah and the "Talk to Young Wives"--no woman need hope for a waneless honeymoon.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000020_000000|So chaotic and erratic had been the household service, and so quietly did Billy slip into her new role, that it was not until the second meal after the maid's departure that the master of the house discovered what had happened.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000020_000001|Then, as his wife rose to get some forgotten article, he questioned, with uplifted eyebrows:
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000021_000000|"Too good to wait upon us, is my lady now, eh?"
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000022_000000|"My lady is waiting on you," smiled Billy.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000023_000001|Great Scott, Billy, how long are you going to stand this?"
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000024_000000|Billy tossed her head airily, though she shook in her shoes.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000024_000001|Billy had been dreading this moment.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000025_000000|"I'm not standing it.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000025_000001|She's gone," responded Billy, cheerfully, resuming her seat.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000025_000002|"Uncle William, sha'n't I give you some more pudding?"
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000026_000000|"Gone, so soon?" groaned Bertram, as William passed his plate, with a smiling nod.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000026_000001|"Oh, well," went on Bertram, resignedly, "she stayed longer than the last one.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000026_000002|When is the next one coming?"
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000027_000000|"She's already here."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000028_000000|Bertram frowned.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000029_000000|"Here?
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000029_000001|But-you served the dessert, and-" At something in Billy's face, a quick suspicion came into his own.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000030_000000|"Yes," she nodded brightly, "that's just what I mean.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000030_000001|I'm the next one."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000031_000000|"Nonsense!" exploded Bertram, wrathfully.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000031_000001|"Oh, come, Billy, we've been all over this before.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000031_000002|You know I can't have it."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000000|"Yes, you can.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000001|You've got to have it," retorted Billy, still with that disarming, airy cheerfulness.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000002|"Besides, 'twon't be half so bad as you think.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000003|Wasn't that a good pudding to night?
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000004|Didn't you both come back for more?
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000005|Well, I made it."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000033_000000|"Puddings!" ejaculated Bertram, with an impatient gesture.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000033_000001|"Billy, as I've said before, it takes something besides puddings to run this house."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000034_000000|"Yes, I know it does," dimpled Billy, "and I've got mrs Durgin for that part.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000034_000001|She's coming twice a week, and more, if I need her.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000034_000002|Why, dearie, you don't know anything about how comfortable you're going to be!
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000000|But Uncle William had gone.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000001|Silently he had slipped from his chair and disappeared.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000002|Uncle William, it might be mentioned in passing, had never quite forgotten Aunt Hannah's fateful call with its dire revelations concerning a certain unwanted, superfluous, third-party husband's brother.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000003|Remembering this, there were times when he thought absence was both safest and best.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000004|This was one of the times.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000036_000000|"But, Billy, dear," still argued Bertram, irritably, "how can you?
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000036_000001|You don't know how.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000036_000002|You've had no experience."
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000037_000000|Billy threw back her shoulders.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000037_000001|An ominous light came to her eyes.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000037_000002|She was no longer airily playful.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000038_000000|"That's exactly it, Bertram.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000038_000001|I don't know how-but I'm going to learn.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000038_000002|I haven't had experience-but I'm going to get it.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000039_000000|"But if you'd get a maid-a good maid," persisted Bertram, feebly.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000040_000001|She was a good maid-until she found out how little her mistress knew; then-well, you know what it was then.
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000040_000002|Do you think I'd let that thing happen to me again?
train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000040_000003|No, sir!
train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000003_000000|THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COLONIES.
train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000006_000001|Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas? Greek is the offspring of the Sanscrit.
train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000021_000002|They wrote on cotton cloth, on skins prepared like parchment, on a composition of silk and gum, and on a species of paper, soft and beautiful, made from the aloe.
train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000026_000002|Cotton napkins and ewers of water were placed before them as they took their seats at the board.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000004_000001|They claimed descent from "the twelve great gods," which must have meant the twelve gods of Atlantis, to wit, Poseidon and Cleito and their ten sons.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000006_000000|three.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000007_000001|The great similarity between the Egyptian civilization and that of the American nations.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000009_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000011_000003|They were not likely to send ships to Atlantis.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000012_000001|We find another proof of the descent of the Egyptians from Atlantis in their belief as to the "under world." This land of the dead was situated in the West-hence the tombs were all placed, whenever possible, on the west bank of the Nile.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000012_000002|The constant cry of the mourners as the funeral procession moved forward was, "To the west; to the west." This under world was beyond the water, hence the funeral procession always crossed a body of water.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000014_000002|In connection with all this we must not forget that Plato described Atlantis as "that sacred island lying beneath the sun" Everywhere in the ancient world we find the minds of men looking to the west for the land of the dead.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000014_000003|Poole says, "How then can we account for this strong conviction?
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000015_000001|There is no evidence that the civilization of Egypt was developed in Egypt itself; it must have been transported there from some other country.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000015_000002|To use the words of a recent writer in Blackwood,
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000018_000000|"As we have not yet discovered any trace of the rude, savage Egypt, but have seen her in her very earliest manifestations already skilful, erudite, and strong, it is impossible to determine the order of her inventions.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000018_000001|Light may yet be thrown upon her rise and progress, but our deepest researches have hitherto shown her to us as only the mother of a most accomplished race.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000019_000000|The explanation is simple: the waters of the Atlantic now flow over the country where all this magnificence and power were developed by slow stages from the rude beginnings of barbarism.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000020_000000|And how mighty must have been the parent nation of which this Egypt was a colony!
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000022_000003|Look at the magnificent mason work of this ancient people!
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000022_000005|Look at the Temple of Karnac, covering a square each side of which is eighteen hundred feet.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000027_000000|"When we consider the high ideal of the Egyptians, as proved by their portrayals of a just life, the principles they laid down as the basis of ethics, the elevation of women among them, their humanity in war, we must admit that their moral place ranks very high among the nations of antiquity.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000029_000000|Then look at the proficiency in art of this ancient people.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000000|They were the first mathematicians of the Old World.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000001|Those Greeks whom we regard as the fathers of mathematics were simply pupils of Egypt. They were the first land surveyors.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000002|They were the first astronomers, calculating eclipses, and watching the periods of planets and constellations.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000003|They knew the rotundity of the earth, which it was supposed Columbus had discovered!
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000031_000002|Professor Mitchell, to whom the fact was communicated, employed his assistants to ascertain the exact position of the heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system on the equinox of that year.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000002|They were the first agriculturists of the Old World, raising all the cereals, cattle, horses, sheep, etc
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000004|They worked in gold, silver, copper, bronze, and iron; they tempered iron to the hardness of steel.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000005|They were the first chemists.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000006|The word "chemistry" comes from chemi, and chemi means Egypt.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000008|Their dentists filled teeth with gold; their farmers hatched poultry by artificial heat.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000013|This papyrus is a medical treatise; there are in it no incantations or charms; but it deals in reasonable remedies, draughts, unguents and injections.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000014|The later medical papyri contain a great deal of magic and incantations.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000038_000000|"Among the ancient cultured nations of Egypt and Assyria handicrafts had already come to a stage which could only have been reached by thousands of years of progress.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000038_000001|In museums still may be examined the work of their joiners, stone cutters, goldsmiths, wonderful in skill and finish, and in putting to shame the modern artificer....
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000038_000002|To see gold jewellery of the highest order, the student should examine that of the ancients, such as the Egyptian, Greek, and Etruscan."
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000041_000000|Even the obelisks of Egypt have their counterpart in America.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000044_000002|In reality, the intercalation of the Mexicans being thirteen days on each cycle of fifty two years, comes to the same thing as that of the Julian calendar, which is one day in four years; and consequently supposes the duration of the year to be three hundred and sixty five days six hours.
train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000048_000000|In Egypt we have the oldest of the Old World children of Atlantis; in her magnificence we have a testimony to the development attained by the parent country; by that country whose kings were the gods of succeeding nations, and whose kingdom extended to the uttermost ends of the earth.
train-clean-360/5147/32137/5147_32137_000049_000002|Sea shells from the Gulf, pearls from the Atlantic, and obsidian from Mexico, have also been found side by side in their mounds.
train-clean-360/5147/32137/5147_32137_000063_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5147/32137/5147_32137_000066_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000000_000000|Perhaps you do not know it, but the monkeys think that all the bananas belong to them.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000001|It was very difficult for the old woman to gather the bananas herself, so she made a bargain with the largest monkey.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000002|She told him that if he would gather the bunches of bananas for her she would give him half of them. The monkey gathered the bananas.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000003|When he took his half he gave the little old woman the bananas which grow at the bottom of the bunch and are small and wrinkled.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000004|The nice big fat ones he kept for himself and carried them home to let them ripen in the dark.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000002_000000|The little old woman was very angry.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000003_000001|Then she placed a large flat basket on the top of the image's head and in the basket she placed the best ripe bananas she could find.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000004_000002|He had often pushed over boy banana peddlers, upset their baskets and then had run away with the bananas.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000005_000000|"O, peddler boy, peddler boy," he said to him, "please give me a banana." The image of wax answered never a word.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000007_000000|Then the monkey called out in his loudest voice, "O, peddler boy, peddler boy, if you don't give me a banana I'll give you such a push that it will upset all of your bananas." The image of wax was silent.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000008_000000|The monkey ran toward the image of wax and struck it hard with his hand.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000009_000000|"O, peddler boy, peddler boy, let go my hand," the monkey called out. "Let go my hand and give me a banana or else I'll give you a hard, hard blow with my other hand." The image of wax did not let go.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000010_000000|The monkey gave the image a hard, hard blow with his other hand.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000010_000001|The other hand remained firmly embedded in the wax.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000011_000000|Then the monkey called out, "O, peddler boy, peddler boy, let go my two hands.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000011_000001|Let go my two hands and give me a banana or else I will give you a kick with my foot." The image of wax did not let go.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000012_000000|The monkey gave the image a kick with his foot and his foot remained stuck fast in the wax.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000013_000001|Let go my two hands and my foot and give me a banana or else I'll give you a kick with my other foot." The image of wax did not let go.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000014_000000|Then the monkey who was now very angry, gave the image of wax a kick with his foot and his foot remained stuck fast in the wax.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000015_000000|The monkey shouted, "O, peddler boy, peddler boy, let go my foot.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000015_000001|Let go my two feet and my two hands and give me a banana or else I'll give you a push with my body." The image of wax did not let go.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000016_000000|The monkey gave the image of wax a push with his body.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000016_000001|His body remained caught fast in the wax.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000017_000000|"O, peddler boy, peddler boy," the monkey shouted, "let go my body! Let go my body and my two feet and my two hands or I'll call all the other monkeys to help me!"
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000017_000001|The image of wax did not let go.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000018_000000|Then the monkey made such an uproar with his cries and shouts that very soon monkeys came running from all directions.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000018_000002|A whole army of monkeys had come to the aid of the biggest monkey.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000019_000000|It was the very littlest monkey who thought of a plan to help the biggest monkey out of his plight.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000019_000001|The monkeys were to climb up into the biggest tree and pile themselves one on top of another until they made a pyramid of monkeys.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000020_000000|This is what all the big sized, little sized, middle sized monkeys did.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000020_000001|The monkey with the loudest voice on top of the pyramid made the sun hear.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000020_000002|The sun came at once.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000001|After a while the wax began to melt.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000002|The monkey was at last able to pull out one of his hands.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000003|The sun poured down more of his hottest rays and soon the monkey was able to pull out his two hands.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000004|Then he could pull out one foot, then another, and in a little while his body, too.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000022_000000|When the little old woman saw what had happened she was very much discouraged about raising bananas.
train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000022_000001|She decided to move to another part of the world where she raised cabbages instead of bananas.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000002_000000|How the Monkey Escaped
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000004_000002|People had to eat meat.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000004_000005|Some of the beasts were good to eat and others were not good at all.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000005_000000|The ox was found to be very good, and so was the sheep, and the armadillo.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000006_000000|The monkey was playing his guitar.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000006_000003|Just as he was about to stretch out his hand and seize the monkey, the monkey gave a sudden leap to the tree and hurried away to the tree top.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000007_000000|After that every time the man heard the monkey play the guitar he would come near and try to catch him.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000007_000005|He did not think that the man would hear him, but the man had very sharp ears.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000008_000000|After a while the man became thirsty and went to get a drink.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000002|When the little boy was rubbing his eyes to get the dirt out of them the monkey made a sudden dash out of the cave and escaped to the tree tops.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000003|When the man returned the little boy did not dare to tell him that the monkey had escaped.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000004|The man waited and waited and waited there by the hole in the ground.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000005|At last he became tired of waiting and went away.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000000|After that the man tried harder than ever to catch the monkey.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000001|If he had not had the good luck to catch the monkey napping one day there is no knowing when he would have got his hands upon him.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000002|One day, however, he caught the monkey napping.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000003|He shut him up in a box and carried him home to the children for supper.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000013_000002|The monkey and his guitar were shut up in the box, and there, inside the box, the monkey played on his guitar.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000016_000001|"Just let me out and I'll show you how well I can dance."
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000002|Then he said, "O, children!
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000003|O, children!
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000004|You have nothing at all cooking in that pot over the fire.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000005|Let us put something into the pot to cook."
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000019_000000|The children begged him to dance some more.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000020_000000|"If you will open the door a little bit so that I can have more air to breathe I'll show you a new dance," said the monkey.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000000|The children opened the door.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000001|The monkey danced over to the door and out of the door away to the tree top.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000002|That was the last they ever saw of him.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000003|He moved to another part of the country after that experience.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000000|When the man came home with fuel for the fire the children did not dare to tell him that the monkey had escaped.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000001|They let him think that the sticks and the cocoanut shell in the pot was the monkey.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000004|He fished a hard stick out of the pot and bit into it.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000006|Then he fished the empty cocoanut shell out of the pot.
train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000007|"That is not the monkey's head," he said as he tasted it, "That is just an empty cocoanut shell." He couldn't find a single trace of the monkey in that monkey stew.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000001_000001|Her name was Agnes.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000002_000000|Her father and mother were poor, and could not give her many things. Rosamond would have utterly despised the rude, simple playthings she had.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000004_000005|Impertinent and rude things done by THEIR child they thought SO clever! laughing at them as something quite marvellous; her commonplace speeches were said over again as if they had been the finest poetry; and the pretty ways which every moderately good child has were extolled as if the result of her excellent taste, and the choice of her judgment and will.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000004_000006|They would even say sometimes that she ought not to hear her own praises for fear it should make her vain, and then whisper them behind their hands, but so loud that she could not fail to hear every word.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000004_000007|The consequence was that she soon came to believe-so soon, that she could not recall the time when she did not believe, as the most absolute fact in the universe, that she was SOMEBODY; that is, she became most immoderately conceited.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000005_000000|Now as the least atom of conceit is a thing to be ashamed of, you may fancy what she was like with such a quantity of it inside her!
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000007_000001|Had she been, the wise woman would have only pitied and loved her, instead of feeling sick when she looked at her.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000008_000000|As time went on, this disease of self conceit went on too, gradually devouring the good that was in her.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000008_000002|By degrees, from thinking herself so clever, she came to fancy that whatever seemed to her, must of course be the correct judgment, and whatever she wished, the right thing; and grew so obstinate, that at length her parents feared to thwart her in any thing, knowing well that she would never give in.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000010_000000|She never went into rages like the princess, and would have thought Rosamond-oh, so ugly and vile! if she had seen her in one of her passions.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000010_000002|True, there is more hope of helping the angry child out of her form of selfishness than the conceited child out of hers; but on the other hand, the conceited child was not so terrible or dangerous as the wrathful one. The conceited one, however, was sometimes very angry, and then her anger was more spiteful than the other's; and, again, the wrathful one was often very conceited too.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000010_000003|So that, on the whole, of two very unpleasant creatures, I would say that the king's daughter would have been the worse, had not the shepherd's been quite as bad.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000011_000001|The shepherd's wife looked at her, liked her, and brought her a cup of milk.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000011_000002|The wise woman took it, for she made it a rule to accept every kindness that was offered her.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000012_000000|Agnes was not by nature a greedy girl, as I have said; but self conceit will go far to generate every other vice under the sun
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000013_000002|The wise woman saw it, for all her business was with Agnes though she little knew it, and, rising, went and offered the cup to the child, where she sat with her knitting in a corner.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000013_000003|Agnes looked at it, did not want it, was inclined to refuse it from a beggar, but thinking it would show her consequence to assert her rights, took it and drank it up.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000013_000004|For whoever is possessed by a devil, judges with the mind of that devil; and hence Agnes was guilty of such a meanness as many who are themselves capable of something just as bad will consider incredible.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000014_000000|The wise woman waited till she had finished it-then, looking into the empty cup, said:
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000017_000000|The wise woman looked at the mother.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000018_000001|Some foolish people think they take another's part when they take the part he takes.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000019_000001|Then she turned again to Agnes, who had never looked round but sat with her back to both, and suddenly lapped her in the folds of her cloak.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000020_000001|But she never turned her head; and the mother went back into her cottage.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000021_000000|The wise woman walked close past the shepherd and his dogs, and through the midst of his flock of sheep.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000021_000001|The shepherd wondered where she could be going-right up the hill.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000023_000001|They were accustomed to such an absence now and then, and were not at first frightened; but when it grew dark and she did not appear, the husband set out with his dogs in one direction, and the wife in another, to seek their child.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000023_000003|Then the whole country side arose to search for the missing Agnes; but day after day and night after night passed, and nothing was discovered of or concerning her, until at length all gave up the search in despair except the mother, although she was nearly convinced now that the poor woman had carried her off.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000025_000000|Her hair hung in tangles from her head; her clothes were tattered, and through the rents her skin showed in many places; her cheeks were white, and worn thin with hunger; the hollows were dark under her eyes, and they stood out scared and wild.
train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000028_000000|Perhaps her words were not just like these, but her thoughts were.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000001_000000|We have had a miserable cold day, but good sport.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000003_000000|I approve of all you do in my absence; but it would be nonsense, and appear affected, to carry your scruples too far.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000004_000000|My cold is better, notwithstanding the weather.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000012_000000|MY DEAR EMMA,
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000014_000000|I find, in my book of letters, twentieth of December, that I wrote, that day, a letter to mr Burgess, to deliver to Messieurs Biddulph and Co.--to Lord Abercorn-and to mr Durno, with the order inclosed.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000035_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000045_000001|I have killed five boars, and two great ones got off after falling; two bucks; six does; and a hare: fourteen in all.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000049_000000|This is a heavy air; nobody eats with appetite, and many are ill with colds.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000052_000000|Your's, ever, my dear wife,
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000054_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000056_000001|Suppose you had put it on nine parts out of ten of the ladies in company, would any one have appeared angelic?
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000059_000000|Yesterday, when we brought home all we killed, it filled the house, completely; and, to day, they are obliged to white wash the walls, to take away the blood.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000069_000000|MY DEAR EM.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000070_000000|By having grumbled a little, I got a better post to day; and have killed two boars and a sow, all enormous.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000071_000000|The news you sent me, of poor Lord Pembroke, gave me a little twist; but I have, for some time, perceived, that my friends, with whom I spent my younger days, have been dropping around me.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000073_000002|Admire the Creator, and all his works, to us incomprehensible: and do all the good you can upon earth; and take the chance of eternity, without dismay.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000078_000000|I dined, this morning, at nine o'clock; and, I think, it agreed better with me than tea.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000079_000002|Divert yourself-I shall soon be at you again.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000081_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000083_000000|Here we are, my Dear Emma, after a pleasant day's journey!
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000009_000000|MY DEAR SIR,
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000018_000000|With our love to Sam, I am, ever, dear Sir, your's, sincerely,
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000040_000000|Above all, take care of your health; that is the first of blessings. May God ever protect you!
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000045_000000|MY DEAR LORD,
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000049_000000|Ever, my dear Lord, your truly attached friend,
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000052_000000|Palermo, june twentieth seventeen ninety nine. Eight o'Clock at Night.
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000053_000000|MY DEAR LORD,
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000054_000000|Having wrote fully by the felucca to day, that went off at three o'clock-and have not yet General Acton's answer, with respect to what the Court would wish you to do when you hear how the French fleet is disposed of-I have nothing to write by the transport.
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000055_000000|God bless you!
train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000055_000001|And I hope, somehow or other, we shall meet again soon.
train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000004_000000|MY DEAR LORD,
train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000037_000000|Emma
train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000062_000000|MY DEAR LORD,
train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000074_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000001_000001|When I came, I found him unwilling to exert himself. I pressed him to write down his thoughts upon the subject.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000001_000002|He said, 'There's no occasion for my writing.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000001_000003|I'll talk to you.' He was, however, at last prevailed on to dictate to me, while I wrote as follows:--
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000000|'The charge is, that he has used immoderate and cruel correction. Correction, in itself, is not cruel; children, being not reasonable, can be governed only by fear.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000004|Yet, as good things become evil by excess, correction, by being immoderate, may become cruel.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000010|A stubborn scholar must be corrected till he is subdued.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000016|Correction must be proportioned to occasions.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000018|The degrees of scholastick, as of military punishment, no stated rules can ascertain. It must be enforced till it overpowers temptation; till stubbornness becomes flexible, and perverseness regular.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000024|No scholar has gone from him either blind or lame, or with any of his limbs or powers injured or impaired. They were irregular, and he punished them: they were obstinate, and he enforced his punishment.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000026|It has been said, that he used unprecedented and improper instruments of correction.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000027|Of this accusation the meaning is not very easy to be found. No instrument of correction is more proper than another, but as it is better adapted to produce present pain without lasting mischief. Whatever were his instruments, no lasting mischief has ensued; and therefore, however unusual, in hands so cautious they were proper.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000032|In a place like Campbelltown, it is easy for one of the principal inhabitants to make a party.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000012_000004|dr Johnson said, 'the cards used by such persons must be less polished than ours commonly are.'
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000013_000000|We talked of sounds.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000013_000003|JOHNSON.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000014_000001|BOSWELL.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000014_000004|Some think Swift's the best; others prefer a fuller and grander way of writing.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, you must first define what you mean by style, before you can judge who has a good taste in style, and who has a bad.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000018_000000|I expressed a liking for mr Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000018_000001|He answered, 'A conceited fellow.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000024_000001|If the authours who apply to me have money, I bid them boldly print without a name; if they have written in order to get money, I tell them to go to the booksellers, and make the best bargain they can.' BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, if a bookseller should bring you a manuscript to look at?' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, I would desire the bookseller to take it away.'
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000025_000001|JOHNSON.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000025_000002|'Sir, he is attached to some woman.' BOSWELL. 'I rather believe, Sir, it is the fine climate which keeps him there.' JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, how can you talk so?
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000025_000005|What proportion does climate bear to the complex system of human life?
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000027_000000|He said, 'Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people: Pitt was a minister given by the people to the King,--as an adjunct.'
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000031_000005|The law is the measure of civil right; but if the measure be changeable, the extent of the thing measured never can be settled.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000032_000000|'To permit a law to be modified at discretion, is to leave the community without law.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000034_000002|To permit Intromission, and to punish fraud, is to make law no better than a pitfall.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000040_000001|It is necessary that the law should be adequate to its end; that, if it be observed, it shall prevent the evil against which it is directed.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000001|Its end is the security of property; and property very often of great value.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000003|He that intromits, is criminal; he that intromits not, is innocent.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000006|If temptation were rare, a penal law might be deemed unnecessary.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000007|If the duty enjoined by the law were of difficult performance, omission, though it could not be justified, might be pitied.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000042_000000|'I therefore return to my original position, that a law, to have its effect, must be permanent and stable.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000048_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000050_000000|'I am glad if you got credit by your cause, and am yet of opinion, that our cause was good, and that the determination ought to have been in your favour.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000052_000002|For such an institution makes a very important part of the history of mankind.
train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000057_000001|JOHNSON.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000002_000000|SELECTING A PROPER SCHOOL
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000003_000000|This is, of course, mainly a parent's problem and is best solved by resorting to the following formula: Let A and B represent two young girls' finishing schools in the East.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000004_000000|Answer: A, because life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000005_000000|CORRECT EQUIPMENT FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000006_000000|Having selected an educational institution, the next requisite is a suitable equipment.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000006_000002|I would, therefore, recommend the following list, subject, of course, to variation in individual cases.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000009_000000|After the purchase of a complete outfit, it will be necessary to say goodbye to one's local friends.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000009_000001|Partings are always somewhat sad, but it will be found that much simple pleasure may be derived from the last nights with the various boys to whom one is engaged.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000010_000000|In this connection, however, it would be well to avoid making any rash statements regarding undying friendship and affection, because, when you next see Eddie or Walter, at Christmas time, you will have been three months in the East, while they have been at the State University, and really, after one starts dancing with Yale men-well, it's a funny world.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000011_000000|In case you do not happen to meet any friends on the train, the surest way to protect yourself from any unwelcome advances is to buy a copy of the Atlantic Monthly and carry it, in plain view.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000011_000001|Next to a hare lip, this is the safest protection for a travelling young girl that I know of; it has, however, the one objection that all the old ladies on the train are likely to tell you what they think of Katherine Fullerton Gerould, or their rheumatism.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000012_000000|If you are compelled to go to the dining car alone, you will probably sit beside an Elk with white socks, who will call the waiter "George." Along about the second course he will say to you, "It's warm for September, isn't it?" to which you should answer "no" That will dispose of the Elk.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000000|Across the table from you will be a Grand Army man and his wife, going to visit their boy Elmer's wife's folks in Schenectady.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000001|When the fish is served, the Grand Army man will choke on a bone.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000002|Let him choke, but do not be too hopeful, as the chances are that he will dislodge the bone. All will go well until the dessert, when his wife will begin telling how raspberry sherbet always disagrees with her.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000003|Offer her your raspberry sherbet.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000014_000000|After dinner you may wish to read for a while, but the porter will probably have made up all the berths for the night.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000014_000001|It will also be found that the light in your berth does not work, so you will be awake for a long time; finally, just as you are leaving Buffalo, you will at last get to sleep, and when you open your eyes again, you will be-in Buffalo.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000015_000001|The next morning, tired but unhappy, you will reach New York.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000016_000000|A JOURNEY AROUND NEW YORK
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000000|The Aquarium.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000001|Take Fifth Avenue Bus to Times Square.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000002|Transfer to forty second Street Crosstown.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000003|Get off at forty fourth Street, and walk one block south to the Biltmore.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000004|The most interesting fish will be found underneath the hanging clock, near the telephone booths.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000018_000000|Grant's Tomb.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000018_000001|Take Fifth Avenue bus, and a light lunch.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000018_000004|Then return the same way you came, followed by three fast sets of tennis, a light supper and early to bed. If you do not feel better in the morning, cut out milk, fresh fruit and uncooked foods for a while.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000019_000000|Metropolitan Museum of Art.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000019_000001|Take Subway to Brooklyn. (Flatbush.) Then ask the subway guard where to go; he will tell you.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000020_000000|The Bronx.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000020_000001|Take three oranges, a lemon, three of gin, to one of vermouth, with a dash of bitters.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000020_000002|Serve cold.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000021_000000|The Ritz.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000021_000001|Take taxicab and fifty dollars.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000022_000000|Brooklyn Bridge.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000022_000001|Terrible.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000022_000002|And their auction is worse.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000023_000000|When you have visited all these places, it will probably be time to take the train to your school.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000024_000000|THE FIRST DAYS IN THE NEW SCHOOL
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000025_000000|The first week of school life is apt to be quite discouraging, and we can not too emphatically warn the young girl not to do anything rash under the influence of homesickness.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000025_000002|We advise: Go slow at first.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000027_000000|In your first day at school you will be shown your room; in your room you will find a sad eyed fat girl.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000027_000002|You will find that you have drawn a blank, that she comes from Topeka, Kan., that her paw made his money in oil, and that she is religious.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000027_000003|You will be nice to her for the first week, because you aren't taking any chances at the start; you will tolerate her for the rest of the year, because she will do your lessons for you every night.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000028_000000|Across the hall from you there will be two older girls who are back for their second year.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000028_000001|One of them will remind you of the angel painted on the ceiling of the Victory Theatre back home, until she starts telling about her summer at Narragansett; from the other you will learn how to inhale.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000029_000000|A VISITOR FROM PRINCETON
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000030_000002|She sniffs at the "cousin" and tell's you that she must have a letter from Charley's father, one from Charley's minister, one from the governor of your state, and one from some disinterested party certifying that Charley has never been in the penitentiary, has never committed arson, and is a legitimate child.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000031_000000|Charley will come and will be ushered into the reception room.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000031_000001|While he is sitting there alone, the entire school will walk slowly, one by one, past the open door and look in at him.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000031_000002|This will cause Charley to perspire freely and to wish to God he had worn his dark suit.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000000|It is not at all likely that you will be allowed to go to New Haven during your first year, which is quite a pity, as this city, founded in sixteen thirty eight, is rich in historical interest.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000001|It was here, for example, in eighteen ninety three, that Yale defeated Harvard at football, and the historic Pigskin which was used that day is still preserved intact.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000002|Many other quaint relics are to be seen in and around the city of elms, mementos of the past which bring to the younger generation a knowledge and respect for things gone.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000003|In the month of June, for example, there is really nothing which quite conjures up for the college youth of today a sense of the mutability and impermanence of this mortal life so much as the sight of a member of the class of eighteen seventy five after three days' intensive drinking.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000033_000001|A lady who has left town may send a brief note or a "P.
train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000033_000002|p c" ("pour prendre conge," i e, "to take leave") card to a gentleman who remains at home, if the gentleman is her husband and if she has left town with his business partner.
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000004_000000|FROM PETROLEUM v NASBY
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000007_000001|My esteemed and life-long friend and co laborer, Rev.
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000008_000000|So, receevin transportashen and suffishent money from the secret service fund for expenses, I departed for Cleveland, and after a tejus trip thro' an Ablishn country, I arrived there.
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000008_000001|My thots were gloomy beyond expression.
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000008_000004|Why harrow up the public bosom, or lasserate the public mind?
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000016_000000|"Be quiet, yoo idiot!" remarked I, soothingly, to him.
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000019_000001|Are you quite shoor-quite shoor?
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000020_000001|"I stand by Andrew Johnson and his policy, and I don't want no office!"
train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000026_000004|General Ewing made another extemporaneous address, which he read from manuscript, and we adjourned for dinner.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000000|As the isolated oak that spreads his umbrageous top in the meadow surpasses his spindling congener of the forest, so does the country gentleman, alone in the midst of his broad estate, outgrow the man of crowds and conventionalities in our cities.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000001|The oak may have the advantage in the comparison, as his locality and consequent superiority are permanent.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000002|The Squire, out of his own district, we ignore.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000003|Whether intrinsically, or simply in default of comparison, at home he is invariably a great man.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000004|Such, at least, was Squire Hardy.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000005_000001|"It will be time enough for them to hive," quoth the Squire, "when the old box is full."
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000006_000000|Notwithstanding his contempt for fast men nowadays, he is rather pleased with any allusion to his own youthful reputation in that line, and not unfrequently tells a good story on himself.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000000|At Culpepper Court house, or some court house thereabout, Dick Hardy, then a good humored, gay young bachelor, and the prime favorite of both sexes, was called upon to carve the pig at the court dinner.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000001|The district judge was at the table, the lawyers, justices, and everybody else that felt disposed to dine.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000003|He had probably been engaged on some court martial, imposing fifty cent fines on absentees from the last general muster. Howbeit Dick, in thrusting his fork into the back of the pig, bespattered the officer's regimentals with some of the superfluous gravy.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000004|"Beg your pardon," said Dick, as he went on with his carving.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000005|Now these were times when the war spirit was high, and chivalry at a premium.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000006|"Beg your pardon" might serve as a napkin to wipe the stain from one's honor, but did not touch the question of the greased and spotted regimentals.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000008_000000|The colonel, swelling with wrath, seized a spoon, and deliberately dipping it into the gravy, dashed it over Dick's prominent shirt frill.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000000|All saw the act, and with open eyes and mouth sat in astonished silence, waiting to see what would be done next.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000001|The outraged citizen calmly laid down his knife and fork, and looked at his frill, the officer, and the pig, one after another.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000002|The colonel, unmindful of the pallid countenance and significant glances of the burning eye, leaned back in his chair, with arms akimbo, regarding the young farmer with cool disdain.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000003|A murmur of surprise and indignation arose from the congregated guests.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000005|He deliberately took the pig by the hind legs, and with a sudden whirl brought it down upon the head of the unlucky officer.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000006|Stunned by the squashing blow, astounded and blinded with streams of gravy and wads of stuffing, he attempted to rise, but blow after blow from the fat pig fell upon his bewildered head.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000007|He seized a carving knife and attempted to defend himself with blind but ineffectual fury, and at length, with a desperate effort, rose and took to his heels.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000008|Dick Hardy, whose wrath waxed hotter and hotter, followed, belaboring him unmercifully at every step, around the table, through the hall, and into the street, the crowd shouting and applauding.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000010_000001|There's no law in Christendom against basting a man with a roast pig!" Dick's weapon failed before his anger; and when at length the battered colonel escaped into the door of a friendly dwelling, the victor had nothing in his hands but the hind legs of the roaster.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000011_000000|The company reassembled, and finished their dinner as best they might. In reply to a toast, Hardy made a speech, wherein he apologized for sacrificing the principal dinner dish, and, as he expressed it, for putting public property to private uses.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000011_000001|In reply to this speech a treat was ordered.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000012_000000|After the squire got older, and a family grew up around him, he was not always victorious in his contests.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000012_000002|On their return from a visit to Richmond the ladies took it into their heads that the parlors looked bare and old-fashioned, and it was decided by them in secret conclave that a change was necessary.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000000|"What!" said he, in a towering passion, "isn't it enough that you spend your time and money in vinegar to sour sweet peaches, and your sugar to sweeten crab apples, that you must turn the house you were born in topsy turvy?
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000001|God help us!
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000002|we've a house with windows to let the light in, and you want curtains to keep it out; we've plastered the walls to make them white, and now you want to paste blue paper over them; we've waxed floors to walk on, and we must pay two dollars a yard for a carpet to save the oak plank!
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000003|Begone with your nonsense, ye demented jades!"
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000014_000000|The squire smote the oak floor with his heavy cane, and the rosy petitioners fled from his presence laughing.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000014_000001|In due time, however, the parlors were furnished with carpets, curtains, paper, and all the fixtures of modern luxury.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000014_000002|The ladies were, of course, greatly delighted; and while professing great aversion and contempt for the "tawdry lumber," it was plain to see that the worthy man enjoyed their pleasure as much as they did the new furniture.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000016_000000|The western horizon was blushing rosy red at the coming of the sun, whose descending chariot was hidden by the thick Indian summer haze that covered lowland and mountain as it were with a violet tinted veil.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000016_000002|Barring his modern costume, he might have suggested to the artist's mind a picture of one of the Patriarchs.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000001|The black ram halted, and the long procession of ewes and well grown lambs moved up in a dense semicircle, and also halted, expressing their pleasure at the expected treat by gentle bleatings.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000002|The squire stooped to spread the salt.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000003|The black ram, either from most uncivil impatience, or mistaking the movement of the proprietor's coat tail for a challenge, pitched into him incontinently.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000005|An attack from behind, so sudden and unexpected, threw the squire sprawling on his face into a stone pile.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000018_000000|Oh, never was the thunder's jar, The red tornado's wasting wing, Or all the elemental war,
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000019_000000|like the fury of Squire Hardy on that occasion.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000020_000001|The timid flock looked all aghast, while the audacious offender, so far from having shown any disposition to skulk, stood shaking his head and threatening, as if he had a mind to follow up the dastardly attack.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000020_000002|The squire let fly one stone, which grazed the villain's head and killed a lamb.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000020_000003|With the other he crippled a favorite ewe.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000021_000000|"Quick, quick! young man-your gun; let me shoot the cursed brute on the spot."
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000023_000000|"By your leave, Squire, and by your orders, I'll do the shooting myself. Which of them was it?"
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000025_000000|Crayon leveled his piece and fired.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000025_000001|The offender made a bound and fell dead, the black blood spouting from his forehead in a stream as thick as your thumb.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000026_000000|"There, now," exclaimed the squire, with infinite satisfaction, "you've got it, you ungrateful brute!
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000026_000001|You've found something harder than your own head at last, you cursed reptile!
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000026_000002|Friend Crayon, that's a capital gun of yours, and you shot well."
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000027_000000|The squire dropped the stones which he had in his hands, and looking back at the dead body of the belligerent sheep, observed, with a thoughtful air, "He was a fine animal, mr Crayon-a fine animal, and this will teach him a good lesson."
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000029_000000|Not long after this occurrence, Squire Hardy went to hear an itinerant phrenologist who lectured in the village.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000029_000001|In the progress of his discourse, the lecturer, for purposes of illustration, introduced the skulls of several animals, mapped off in the most correct and scientific manner.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000030_000000|"Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the head of the wolf: combativeness enormously developed, alimentiveness large, while conscientiousness is entirely wanting.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000030_000002|Here combativeness is a nullity-absolutely wanting-while the fullness of the sentimental organs indicate at once the mild and peaceful disposition of the sheep."
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000031_000000|The squire, who had listened with great attention up to this point, hastily rose to his feet.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000032_000000|"A sheep!" he exclaimed; "did you call a sheep a peaceful animal?
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000032_000002|Sir, I had a ram once-"
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000033_000000|"My dear sir," cried the astonished lecturer, "on the authority of our most distinguished writers, the sheep is an emblem of peace and innocence."
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000034_000000|"An emblem of the devil," interrupted the squire, boiling over.
train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000034_000001|"You are an ignorant impostor, and your science a humbug.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000013_000000|INTRODUCTORY
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000000|There come to the writer literally thousands of letters every year, asking him questions, some of them of the strangest.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000001|A man is dying of cancer, and do I think it can be cured by a fast?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000002|A man is unable to make his wife happy, and can I tell him what is the matter with women?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000003|A man has invested his savings in mining stock, and can I tell him what to do about it?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000004|A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000005|Many such questions every day make one aware of a vast mass of people, earnest, hungry for happiness, and groping as if in a fog.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000006|The things they most need to know they are not taught in the schools, nor in the newspapers they read, nor in the church they attend.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000007|Of these agencies, the first is not entirely competent, the second is not entirely honest, and the third is not entirely up to date.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000000|For the present book the following claims may be made.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000002|Third, it is an honest book; its writer will not pretend to know what he only guesses, and where it is necessary to guess, he will say so frankly.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000003|Finally, it is a kind book; it is not written for its author's glory, nor for his enrichment, but to tell you things that may be useful to you in the brief span of your life.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000005|A large order, as the boys phrase it!
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000017_000000|There are several ways for such a book to begin.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000017_000001|It might begin with the child, because we all begin that way; it might begin with love, because that precedes the child; it might begin with the care of the body, explaining that sound physical health is the basis of all right living, and even of right thinking; it might begin as most philosophies do, by defining life, discussing its origin and fundamental nature.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000018_000000|The trouble with this last plan is that there are a lot of people who have their ideas on life made up in tabloid form; they have creeds and catechisms which they know by heart, and if you suggest to them anything different, they give you a startled look and get out of your way.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000018_000001|And then there is another, and in our modern world a still larger class, who say, "Oh, shucks!
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000018_000002|I don't go in for religion and that kind of thing." You offer them something that looks like a sermon, and they turn to the baseball page.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000019_000001|There will be, among others, the great American tired business man.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000019_000002|He wrestles with problems and cares all day, and when he sits down to read in the evening, he says: "Make it short and snappy." There is the wife of the tired business man, the American perfect lady.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000000|Yet, I wonder; is there a single one among all these tired people, or even among the cynical people, who has not had some moment of awe when the thought came stabbing into his mind like a knife: "What a strange thing this life is!
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000001|What am I anyhow?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000002|Where do I come from, and what is going to become of me?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000004|It is not only in the class room and the schools that the minds of men are grappling with the fundamental problems; in fact, it was not from the schools that the new religions and the great moral impulses of humanity took their origin.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000005|It was from lonely shepherds sitting on the hillsides, and from fishermen casting their nets, and from carpenters and tailors and shoemakers at their benches.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000021_000000|Stop and think a bit, and you will realize it does make a difference what you believe about life, how it comes to be, where it is going, and what is your place in it.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000021_000001|Is there a heaven with a God, who watches you day and night, and knows every thought you think, and will some day take you to eternal bliss if you obey his laws?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000021_000002|If you really believe that, you will try to find out about his laws, and you will be comparatively little concerned about the success or failure of your business.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000022_000000|No matter how busy you may be, no matter how tired you may be, it will pay you to get such things straight: to know a little of what the wise men of the past have thought about them, and more especially what science with its new tools of knowledge may have discovered.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000002|Then, being dissatisfied, he went to the unrecognized teachers, the enthusiasts and the "cranks" of a hundred schools.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000003|Finally, he thought for himself; he was even willing to try experiments upon himself.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000004|As a result, he has not found what he claims is ultimate or final truth; but he has what he might describe as a rough working draft, a practical outline, good for everyday purposes.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000005|He is going to have confidence enough in you, the reader, to give you the hardest part first; that is, to begin with the great fundamental questions.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000006|What is life, and how does it come to be?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000007|What does it mean, and what have we to do with it? Are we its masters or its slaves?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000008|What does it owe us, and what do we owe to it?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000009|Why is it so hard, and do we have to stand its hardness?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000010|And can we really know about all these matters, or will we be only guessing? Can we trust ourselves to think about them, or shall we be safer if we believe what we are told?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000011|Shall we be punished if we think wrong, and how shall we be punished?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000012|Shall we be rewarded if we think right, and will the pay be worth the trouble?
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000024_000000|Such questions as these I am going to try to answer in the simplest language possible.
train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000024_000002|You do not refuse to engage in the automobile business because the carburetor and the differential are words of four syllables.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000001_000000|THE PROBLEM OF DIVORCE
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000002_000000|(Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution.)
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000003_000000|You will hear sermons and read newspaper editorials about the "divorce evil," and you will find that to the preacher or editor this "evil" consists of the fact that more and more people are refusing to stay unhappily married.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000003_000003|They know this because God has told them so, and in the name of God they seek to keep people tied in sex unions which have come to mean loathing instead of love.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000004_000000|Now, I will assert it as a mathematical certainty that a considerable percentage of marriages must fail.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000004_000003|Who does not know the man who masters life and becomes a vital force, while his wife remains dull and empty?
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000005_000003|She ought in common sense to have broken the engagement; but she was in love, and she married, as many another fool woman does, with the idea of "reforming" the man.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000005_000004|She failed, and was utterly and unspeakably wretched.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000006_000000|I know another man, a conservative capitalist of narrow and aggressive temper, whose wife turned into an ardent Bolshevik.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000006_000004|I know another whose wife turned into an ultra pious Catholic, and turned over the care of his domestic life to a priest.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000007_000002|Also we are coming to take what we believe with more seriousness; the intellectual life means more and more to us, and it becomes harder and harder for us to find sexual and domestic happiness with a partner who does not share our convictions, but, on the contrary, may be contributing to the campaign funds of the opposition party.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000008_000001|But it is a fact that intellectual convictions are the raw material out of which characters and lives are made, and it is inevitable that some characters and lives that fit quite well at twenty should fit very badly at thirty or forty.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000008_000002|When we refuse divorce under such circumstances we are not fostering marriage, as we fondly imagine; we are really fostering adultery.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000008_000004|Therefore it follows that "strict" divorce laws, such as the clerical propaganda urges upon us, are in reality laws for the promotion of fornication and prostitution.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000000|There is a short story by Edith Wharton, in which the "divorce evil" is exhibited to us in its naked horror; the story called "The Other Two," in the volume "The Descent of Man." A society woman has been divorced twice and married three times, and by an ingenious set of circumstances the woman and all three of the men are brought into the same drawing room at the same time.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000001|Just imagine, if you can, such an excruciating situation: a woman, her husband, and two men who used to be her husbands, all compelled to meet together and think of something to say!
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000002|I cite this story because it is a perfect illustration of the extent to which the "divorce problem" is a problem of our lack of sense. mrs Wharton will, I fear, consider me a very vulgar person if I assert that there is absolutely no reason whatever why any of those four people in her story should have had a moment's discomfort of mind, except that they thought there was.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000004|I would not say that they should choose to be intimate friends-though even that may be possible occasionally.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000000|I know, because I have seen it happen.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000002|I visited his home, and met his wife and two little children, and saw a man and woman living in domestic happiness.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000003|The man had also two grown sons, and after a few days he remarked that he would like me to meet the mother of these young men.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000005|This lady had been the writer's wife for ten years or so, and there had been a terrible uproar when they voluntarily parted.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000012_000000|THE RESTRICTION OF DIVORCE
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000013_000000|(Discusses the circumstances under which society has the right to forbid divorce, or to impose limitations upon it.)
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000014_000000|We have quoted the old maxim, "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," and we suggested that parents and guardians should have the right to ask the young to wait before marriage, and make certain of the state of their hearts.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000003|In the first place, there are or may be children, and society should try to preserve for every child a home with a father and a mother in it.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000004|Second, there are property rights, of which every marriage is a tangle, and the settlement of which the law should always oversee.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000005|Third, there is the question of venereal disease, which society has an unquestionable right to keep down, by every reasonable restriction upon sexual promiscuity.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000006|And finally, there is the respect which all men and women owe to love.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000007|It seems to me that society has the same right to protect love against extreme outrage, as it has to forbid indecent exposure of the person on the street.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000000|There is in successful operation in Switzerland a wise and sane divorce law, based upon common sense and not upon superstition.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000001|A couple wish to break their marriage, and they go before a judge, and in private session, as to a friendly adviser, they tell their troubles.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000002|He gives them advice about their disagreement, and sends them away for three months to think it over.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000007|In both cases, the parties directly interested have the right to decide their own fate, but the rest of the world requires them to think carefully about it, and to listen to counsel.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000008|Except for grave offenses, such as adultery, insanity, crime or venereal disease, I do not think that anyone should receive a divorce in less than six months, nor do I think that any personal right is contravened by the imposing of such a delay.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000001|In order to illustrate this problem, I will tell you about a certain man known to me.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000003|He lays claim to extraordinary spiritual gifts, and uses the language of the highest idealism known.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000005|To my knowledge he was three times married in six years, and each time he deserted the woman, and forced her to divorce him, and to take care of herself, and in one case of a child.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000006|In addition, he had begotten one child out of marriage, and left the mother and child to starve.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000007|For ten years or so I used to see him about once in six months, and invariably he had a new woman, a young girl of fine character, who had been ensnared by him, and was in the agonizing process of discovering his moral and mental derangement.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000008|Yet there was absolutely nothing in the law to place restraint upon this man; he could wander from state to state, or to the other side of the world, preying upon lovely young girls wherever he went.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000018_000000|This particular man happens to call himself a "radical"; but I could tell you of similar men in the highest social circles, or in the political world, the theatrical world, the "sporting" world; they are in every rank of life, and are just as definitely and certainly menaces to human welfare and progress as pirates on the high seas or highwaymen on the road.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000018_000002|But I think we might begin by refusing to let any man or woman have more than two divorces in one lifetime, in any state or part of the world.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000018_000003|If any man or woman tries three times to find happiness in love, and fails each time, we have a right to assume that the fault must lie with that person, and not with the three partners.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000019_000001|At present the great mass of the public has sympathy for the law breaker; just as, in old days, the peasants could not help admiring the outlaw who resisted unjust land laws and robbed the rich, or as today, under the capitalist regime, we can not withhold our sympathy from political prisoners, even though they have committed acts of violence which we deplore.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000000|We clear out foul smelling weeds from our garden, because we wish to raise beautiful flowers and useful herbs therein.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000001|There lives in California a student of plant life, who has shown us what we can do, not by magic or by superhuman efforts, but simply by loving plants, by watching them ceaselessly, understanding their ways, and guiding their sex life to our own purposes.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000002|We can perform what to our ignorant ancestors would have seemed to be miracles; we can actually make all sorts of new plants, which will continue to breed their own kind, and survive forever if we give them proper care.
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000003|In other words, Luther Burbank has shown us that we can "change plant nature."
train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000022_000001|We have shown elsewhere how genius multiplies to infinity the joy and power of life by means of the arts; and one of the greatest of the arts is the art of love.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000000_000000|NOTES FOR LECTURE eighteen
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000002_000000|Two spheres revolving round each other can only remain spherical if rigid; if at all plastic they become prolate.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000002_000001|If either rotate on its axis, in the same or nearly the same plane as it revolves, that one is necessarily subject to tides.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000003_000001|Hence the rotation takes place against a pull, and is therefore more or less checked and retarded.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000004_000001|The effect of this tangential force acting on the tide compelling body is gradually to increase its distance from the other body.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000005_000001|Also that the moon's rotation relative to the earth has been destroyed by past tidal action in it (the only residue of ancient lunar rotation now being a scarcely perceptible libration), so that it turns always the same face towards us.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000007_000000|Halving the distance would make them eight times as high; quartering it would increase them sixty four fold.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000007_000001|A most powerful geological denuding agent.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000008_000002|Hence it is possible that this is the history of the moon.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000008_000003|If so, it is probably an exceptional history.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000009_000002|It appears to be about twenty miles in diameter, and weighs therefore, if composed of rock, forty billion tons.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000011_000000|LECTURE eighteen
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000015_000003|The strata which were once horizontal are now so no longer-they have been tilted and upheaved, bent and distorted, in many places.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000015_000004|Some of them again have been metamorphosed by fire, so that their organic remains have been destroyed, and the traces of their aqueous origin almost obliterated.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000015_000005|But still, to the eye of the geologist, all are of aqueous or sedimentary origin: roughly speaking, one may say they were all deposited at the bottom of some ancient sea.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000016_000001|For the geological era is not over.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000000|Of all denuding agents, there can be no doubt that, to the land exposed to them, the waves of the sea are by far the most powerful.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000001|Think how they beat and tear, and drive and drag, until even the hardest rock, like basalt, becomes honeycombed into strange galleries and passages-Fingal's Cave, for instance-and the softer parts are crumbled away.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000003|They can undermine such cliffs indeed, and then grind the fragments to powder, but their direct action is limited.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000004|Not so limited, however, as they would be without the tides. Consider for a moment the denudation import of the tides: how does the existence of tidal rise and fall affect the geological problem?
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000018_000000|The scouring action of the tidal currents themselves is not to be despised.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000018_000004|The waves are a great planing machine attacking the land, and the tides raise and lower this planing machine, so that its denuding tooth is applied, now twenty feet vertically above mean level, now twenty feet below.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000020_000001|That is to say, not greatly more than this period of time has elapsed since it was in a molten condition.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000020_000004|The Laurentian and Huronian rocks of Canada constitute a stratum ten miles thick; and everywhere the rocks at the base of our stratified system are of the most stupendous volume and thickness.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000022_000001|To this discovery I now proceed to lead up.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000024_000002|Modern astronomers have calculated back when it should have occurred, and the observed time agrees very closely with the actual, but not exactly.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000024_000003|Why not exactly?
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000025_000002|It is of the nature of a perturbation, and is therefore a periodic not a progressive or continuous change, and in a sufficiently long time it will be reversed. Still, for the last few thousand years the moon's motion has been, on the whole, accelerated (though there seems to be a very slight retarding force in action too).
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000026_000000|Laplace thought that this fact accounted for the whole of the discrepancy; but recently, in eighteen fifty three, Professor Adams re examined the matter, and made a correction in the details of the theory which diminishes its effect by about one half, leaving the other half to be accounted for in some other way.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000026_000002|This residual discrepancy, when every known cause has been allowed for, amounts to about one hour.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000027_000000|The eclipse occurred later than calculation warrants.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000028_000002|The loss per revolution is exceedingly small, but it accumulates, and at any era the total loss is the sum of all the losses preceding it.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000028_000003|It may be worth while just to explain this point further.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000029_000001|On the next day it would come up two instants late by reason of the previous loss; but it also loses another instant during the course of the second day, and so the total lateness by the end of that day amounts to three instants.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000029_000006|This minute quantity represents the retardation of the earth per day.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000030_000000|What can have caused the slowing down?
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000030_000002|Contraction of the earth as it goes on cooling would act in the opposite direction, and probably more than counterbalance the dust effect.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000031_000001|These humps are pulled at by the moon, and the earth rotates on its axis against this pull.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000032_000001|The energy of the tides is, in fact, continually being dissipated by friction, and all the energy so dissipated is taken from the rotation of the earth.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000034_000001|The same cause must have been in operation, but with eighty fold greater intensity, on the moon.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000034_000005|It is believed to be almost certainly the cause.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000003|The earth may have spun round then quite quickly.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000004|But there is a limit.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000005|If it spun too fast it would fly to pieces.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000006|Attach shot by means of wax to the whirling earth model, Fig. one hundred ten, and at a certain speed the cohesion of the wax cannot hold them, so they fly off.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000008|We find it about one revolution in three hours. This is a critical speed.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000011|Remember this, as a natural result of a three hour day, which corresponds to an unstable state of things; remember also that in some past epoch a three hour day is a probability.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000038_000000|We have seen that the moon pulls the tidal hump nearest to it back; but action and reaction are always equal and opposite-it cannot do that without itself getting pulled forward.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000038_000002|And the way it increases will be for the radius vector to lengthen, so as to sweep out a bigger area.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000038_000006|This is because it obeys a different law from gravitation-the force is not inversely as the square, or any other single power, of the distance.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000039_000001|The time of revolution varies as the square of the cube root of the distance (Kepler's third law).
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000039_000002|Hence, the tidal reaction on the moon, having as its primary effect, as we have seen, the pulling the moon a little forward, has also the secondary or indirect effect of making it move slower and go further off.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000039_000003|It may seem strange that an accelerating pull, directed in front of the centre, and therefore always pulling the moon the way it is going, should retard it; and that a retarding force like friction, if such a force acted, should hasten it, and make it complete its orbit sooner; but so it precisely is.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000000|Gradually, but very slowly, the moon is receding from us, and the month is becoming longer.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000001|The tides of the earth are pushing it away.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000002|This is not a periodic disturbance, like the temporary acceleration of its motion discovered by Laplace, which in a few centuries, more or less, will be reversed; it is a disturbance which always acts one way, and which is therefore cumulative.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000003|It is superposed upon all periodic changes, and, though it seems smaller than they, it is more inexorable. In a thousand years it makes scarcely an appreciable change, but in a million years its persistence tells very distinctly; and so, in the long run, the month is getting longer and the moon further off.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000002|The pushing away action was then a good deal more violent, and so the process went on quicker.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000005|Now just contemplate the effect of a six hundred-foot tide.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000006|We are here only about one hundred fifty feet above the level of the sea; hence, the tide would sweep right over us and rush far away inland. At high tide we should have some two hundred feet of blue water over our heads. There would be nothing to stop such a tide as that in this neighbourhood till it reached the high lands of Derbyshire.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000007|Manchester would be a seaport then with a vengeance!
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000043_000001|Accordingly, in about five hours, all that mass of water would have swept back again, and great tracts of sand between here and Ireland would be left dry.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000043_000002|Another five hours, and the water would come tearing and driving over the country, applying its furious waves and currents to the work of denudation, which would proceed apace.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000043_000003|These high tides of enormously distant past ages constitute the denuding agent which the geologist required.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000046_000001|We found that it was just possible for the earth to rotate on its axis in three hours, and that when it did so, something was liable to separate from it.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000046_000003|Surely the two are connected.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000000|Once, long ages back, at date unknown, but believed to be certainly as much as fifty million years ago, and quite possibly one hundred million, there was no moon, only the earth as a molten globe, rapidly spinning on its axis-spinning in about three hours.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000001|Gradually, by reason of some disturbing causes, a protuberance, a sort of bud, forms at one side, and the great inchoate mass separates into two-one about eighty times as big as the other.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000002|The bigger one we now call earth, the smaller we now call moon.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000003|Round and round the two bodies went, pulling each other into tremendously elongated or prolate shapes, and so they might have gone on for a long time.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000004|But they are unstable, and cannot go on thus: they must either separate or collapse.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000005|Some disturbing cause acts again, and the smaller mass begins to revolve less rapidly.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000006|Tides at once begin-gigantic tides of molten lava hundreds of miles high; tides not in free ocean, for there was none then, but in the pasty mass of the entire earth.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000007|Immediately the series of changes I have described begins, the speed of rotation gets slackened, the moon's mass gets pushed further and further away, and its time of revolution grows rapidly longer.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000008|The changes went on rapidly at first, because the tides were so gigantic; but gradually, and by slow degrees, the bodies get more distant, and the rate of change more moderate.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000010|This is the era we call "to day."
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000049_000002|It will take too long to go into full detail: but I will shortly summarize the results.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000050_000000|The date of this period is one hundred and fifty millions of years hence, but unless some unforeseen catastrophe intervenes, it must assuredly come.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000050_000001|Yet neither will even this be the final stage; for the system is disturbed by the tide generating force of the sun
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000050_000002|It is a small effect, but it is cumulative; and gradually, by much slower degrees than anything we have yet contemplated, we are presented with a picture of the month getting gradually shorter than the day, the moon gradually approaching instead of receding, and so, incalculable myriads of ages hence, precipitating itself upon the surface of the earth whence it arose.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000051_000001|The planet rotates in twenty four hours as we do; but its tides are following its moon more quickly than it rotates after them; they are therefore tending to increase its rate of spin, and to retard the revolution of the moon.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000051_000002|Mars is therefore slowly but surely pulling its moon down on to itself, by a reverse action to that which separated our moon.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000052_000000|This moon of Mars is not a large body: it is only twenty or thirty miles in diameter, but it weighs some forty billion tons, and will ultimately crash along the surface with a velocity of eight thousand miles an hour.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000052_000001|Such a blow must produce the most astounding effects when it occurs, but I am unable to tell you its probable date.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000053_000000|So far we have dealt mainly with the earth and its moon; but is the existence of tides limited to these bodies?
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000054_000001|The principal tide generating bodies will be Venus and Jupiter; the greater nearness of one rather more than compensating for the greater mass of the other.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000055_000001|They are as follows, calling that of the earth one thousand:--
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000057_000000|Mercury one thousand one hundred twenty one Venus two thousand three hundred thirty nine Earth one thousand Mars three hundred four Jupiter two thousand one hundred thirty six Saturn one thousand thirty three Uranus twenty one Neptune nine
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000000|The solar tides are, however, much too small to appreciably push any planet away, hence we are not to suppose that the planets originated by budding from the sun, in contradiction of the nebular hypothesis.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000001|Nor is it necessary to assume that the satellites, as a class, originated in the way ours did; though they may have done so.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000002|They were more probably secondary rings.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000003|Our moon differs from other satellites in being exceptionally large compared with the size of its primary; it is as big as some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000004|The earth is the only one of the small planets that has an appreciable moon, and hence there is nothing forced or unnatural in supposing that it may have had an exceptional history.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000060_000000|Evidently, however, tidal phenomena must be taken into consideration in any treatment of the solar system through enormous length of time, and it will probably play a large part in determining its future.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000061_000000|When Laplace and Lagrange investigated the question of the stability or instability of the solar system, they did so on the hypothesis that the bodies composing it were rigid.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000061_000001|They reached a grand conclusion-that all the mutual perturbations of the solar system were periodic-that whatever changes were going on would reach a maximum and then begin to diminish; then increase again, then diminish, and so on.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000000|But this conclusion is not final.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000001|The hypothesis that the bodies are rigid is not strictly true: and directly tidal deformation is taken into consideration it is perceived to be a potent factor, able in the long run to upset all their calculations.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000003|Granted it is small, but it is terribly persistent; and it always acts in one direction.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000004|Never does it cease: never does it begin to act oppositely and undo what it has done.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000063_000000|We have been speaking of millions of years somewhat familiarly; but what, after all, is a million years that we should not speak familiarly of it?
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000063_000002|To the ephemeral insects whose lifetime is an hour, a year might seem an awful period, the mid day sun might seem an almost stationary body, the changes of the seasons would be unknown, everything but the most fleeting and rapid changes would appear permanent and at rest.
train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000063_000004|A continent would be sometimes dry, sometimes covered with ocean; the stars we now call fixed would be moving visibly before our eyes; the earth would be humming on its axis like a top, and the whole of human history might seem as fleeting as a cloud of breath on a mirror.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000002_000001|His escape from death had in it something of the marvellous.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000002_000002|He says:
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000003_000001|It was a little before eight o'clock on the morning of may eighth that the end came.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000003_000003|A terror came upon me, but I could not explain my fear.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000004_000001|It was quite dark, the sun being obscured by ashes and fine volcanic dust.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000004_000002|The air was dead about me, so dead that the floating dust seemingly was not disturbed.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000005_000000|"It was like a terrible hurricane, and where a fraction of a second before there had been a perfect calm, I felt myself drawn into a vortex and I had to brace myself firmly.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000005_000002|The mysterious force levelled a row of strong trees, tearing them up by the roots and leaving bare a space of ground fifteen yards wide and more than one hundred yards long. Transfixed I stood, not knowing in what direction to flee.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000005_000005|It moved with a rapidity that made it impossible for anything to escape it.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000001|It is impossible for me to tell how long I stood there inert.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000002|Probably it was only a few seconds, but so vivid were my impressions that it now seems as though I stood as a spectator for many minutes.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000003|When I recovered possession of my senses I ran to my house and collected the members of the family, all of whom were panic stricken.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000004|I hurried them to the seashore, where we boarded a small steamship, in which we made the trip in safety to Fort de France.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000008_000000|WHAT HAPPENED ON THE "HORACE"
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000009_000000|The British steamer Horace experienced the effect of the explosion when farther from land.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000009_000002|We quote engineer Anderson's story:
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000010_000001|The air seemed heavy and oppressive.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000010_000002|The weather conditions were not at all unlike those which precede the great West Indian hurricanes, but, knowing it was not the season of the year for them, we all remarked in the engine room that there must be a heavy storm approaching.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000013_000000|GREAT FLASHES OF LIGHT
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000016_000000|"There would suddenly come great flashes of light from the dark bank toward Martinique.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000016_000002|All night this continued, and it was not until day came that the flashes disappeared. The dark bank that covered the horizon toward Martinique, however, did not fade away with the breaking of day, and at eight in the morning of the ninth (Friday) the whole section of the sky in that direction seemed dark and troubled.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000017_000001|I noticed a sort of grit that got into my mouth from the end of the cigar I was smoking.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000018_000002|As we went forward we met one or two of the sailors from the forecastle, who wanted to know about the dust that was falling on the ship.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000018_000003|Then we found that the grayish looking ash was sifting all over the ship, both forward and aft.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000020_000001|A few moments later, the lookout called down that we were running into a fog bank dead ahead.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000021_000000|"Before we knew it, we went into the fog, which proved to be a big dense bank of this same sand, and it rained down on us from every side. Ventilators were quickly brought to their places, and later even the hatches were battened down.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000021_000002|What the stuff was we could not at first conjecture, or rather, we didn't have much time to speculate on it, for we had to get our ship in shape to withstand we hardly knew what.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000024_000000|THE ENGINE BECAME CHOKED
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000025_000000|"Then there was another anxious moment shortly after nine o'clock.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000026_000001|We made some experiments, and found the stuff was superior to emery dust.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000026_000002|It cut deeper and quicker, and only about half as much was required to do the work.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000030_000000|MATE SCOTT'S GRAPHIC STORY
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000032_000002|I wasn't looking at the mountain at all.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000033_000000|"Did you ever see the tide come into the Bay of Fundy.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000033_000004|He was facing the fire cloud with both hands gripped hard to the bridge rail, his legs apart and his knees braced back stiff.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000035_000000|"In another instant it was all over for him.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000035_000002|He reeled and fell on the bridge with his face toward me.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000036_000000|"That all happened a long way inside of half a minute; then something new happened.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000036_000001|When the wave of fire was going over us, a tidal wave of the sea came out from the shore and did the rest.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000036_000003|For an instant we could see nothing but the water and the flame.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000037_000000|"That tidal wave picked the ship up like a canoe and then smashed her. After one list to starboard the ship righted, but the masts, the bridge, the funnel and all the upper works had gone overboard.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000038_000002|Before I could get up three men tumbled in on top of me.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000000|"Captain Muggah went overboard, still clinging to the fragments of his wrecked bridge.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000001|Daniel Taylor, the ship's cooper, and a Kitts native jumped overboard to save him.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000002|Taylor managed to push the captain on to a hatch that had floated off from us and then they swam back to the ship for more assistance, but nothing could be done for the captain.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000003|Taylor wasn't sure he was alive.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000004|The last we saw of him or his dead body it was drifting shoreward on that hatch.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000001|There were just four of us left aboard who could do anything. The four were Thompson, Dan Taylor, Quashee, and myself.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000002|It was still raining fire and hot rocks and you could hardly see a ship's length for dust and ashes, but we could stand that.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000004|Not just burned, but burning, then, when we got to them.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000005|More than half the ship's company had been killed in that first rush of flame.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000007|The cook was burned to death in his galley.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000011|The donkey engineman was killed on deck sitting in front of his boiler.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000012|We found parts of some bodies-a hand, or an arm or a leg.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000013|Below decks there were some twenty alive.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000041_000000|"The ship was on fire, of course, what was left of it.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000041_000001|The stumps of both masts were blazing.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000041_000002|Aft she was like a furnace, but forward the flames had not got below deck, so we four carried those who were still alive on deck into the fo'c's'l.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000042_000001|His hair and all his clothing had been burned off, but he was alive.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000042_000002|We rolled him in a blanket and put him in a sailor's bunk.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000042_000003|A few minutes later we looked at him and he was dead.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000000|"My own son's gone, too.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000002|But he wasn't.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000003|Nobody could tell me where he was.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000005|He was a likely boy.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000044_000002|Our boats had gone overboard with the masts and funnel.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000045_000000|PREPARED TO TRUST TO LUCK
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000000|"We made that raft for something over thirty that were alive.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000001|We put provisions on for two days and rigged up a make shift mast and sail, for we intended to go to sea.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000004|But we did not have to risk the raft, for about three o'clock in the afternoon, when we were almost ready to put the raft overboard, the Suchet came along and took us all off.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000005|We thought for a minute just after we were wrecked that we were to get help from a ship that passed us.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000006|We burned blue lights, but she kept on.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000007|We learned afterward that she was the Roddam."
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000047_000001|While deep crevices had been formed on the land, a still greater effect had seemingly been produced beneath the water.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000047_000004|The French Cable Company, which was at work trying to repair the cables broken by the eruption, found the bottom of the Caribbean Sea so changed as to render the old charts useless.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000048_000001|The changes in sea levels were not confined to the immediate centre of volcanic activity, but extended as far north as Porto Rico, and it was believed that the seismic wave would be found to have altered the ocean bed round Jamaica.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000049_000001|Soundings showed seven fathoms where before the eruption there were thirty six fathoms of water.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000050_000001|The following is the story told by Captain Eric Lillien skjold:
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000051_000000|THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF THE "NORDBY"
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000052_000002|Nothing worth while talking about occurred until two days afterward-wednesday may seventh.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000001|About noon I took the bridge to make an observation.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000003|I shed my coat and vest and got into what little shade there was.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000004|As I worked it grew hotter and hotter.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000005|I didn't know what to make of it.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000006|Along about two o'clock in the afternoon it was so hot that all hands got to talking about it.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000007|We reckoned that something queer was coming off, but none of us could explain what it was.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000008|You could almost see the pitch softening in the seams.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000054_000000|"Then, as quick as you could toss a biscuit over its rail, the Nordby dropped-regularly dropped-three or four feet down into the sea.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000055_000005|We sort of ducked, expecting an awful crash of thunder, but it didn't come.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000055_000007|There wasn't a breath of wind.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000000|"Something else we could see, too.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000001|Sharks!
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000003|Some of them jumped clear out of it.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000004|And sea birds!
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000005|A flock of them, squawking and crying, made for our rigging and perched there.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000006|They seemed like they were scared to death.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000058_000003|Even the officers began to think that the world was coming to an end.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000058_000004|Mighty strange things happen on the sea, but this topped them all.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000000|"I kept to the bridge all night.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000002|We were all pretty much tired out by that time, but there was no such thing as trying to sleep.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000004|At two o'clock in the morning all the queer goings on stopped just the way they began-all of a sudden.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000005|We lay to until daylight; then we took our reckonings and started off again.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000006|We were about seven hundred miles off Cape Henlopen.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000061_000000|FIERY STREAM CONTAINED POISONOUS GASES
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000063_000000|It is believed that Mont Pelee threw off a great gasp of some exceedingly heavy and noxious gas, something akin to firedamp, which settled upon the city and rendered the inhabitants insensible.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000064_000001|Cattle lowed in the night.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000064_000002|Dogs howled and sought the company of their masters, and when driven forth they gave every evidence of fear.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000065_000001|Even the snakes, which at ordinary times are found in great numbers near the volcano, crawled away.
train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000066_000002|Morne Rouge, a beautiful summer resort, frequented by the people of the island during the hot season as a place of recreation, also escaped.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000003_000000|THE PERUVIAN COLONY.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000007_000004|Was not the Nubian "Island of Merou," with its pyramids built by "red men," a similar transplantation?
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000009_000001|Their descendants are to this day an olive skinned people, much lighter in color than the Indian tribes subjugated by them.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000010_000000|They were a great race.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000010_000002|The Incas were simply an offshoot, who, descending from the mountains, subdued the rude races of the sea coast, and imposed their ancient civilization upon them.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000012_000002|"In this place, also," says De Leon, "there are stones so large and so overgrown that our wonder is excited, it being incomprehensible how the power of man could have placed them where we see them.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000012_000003|They are variously wrought, and some of them, having the form of men, must have been idols. Near the walls are many caves and excavations under the earth; but in another place, farther west, are other and greater monuments, such as large gate ways with hinges, platforms, and porches, each made of a single stone.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000012_000004|It surprised me to see these enormous gate ways, made of great masses of stone, some of which were thirty feet long, fifteen high, and six thick."
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000013_000001|But its remains exist to day, the marvel of the Southern Continent, covering not less than twenty square miles.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000013_000002|Tombs, temples, and palaces arise on every hand, ruined but still traceable.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000013_000005|These vast structures have been ruined for centuries, but still the work of excavation is going on.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000014_000000|One of the centres of the ancient Quichua civilization was around Lake Titicaca.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000014_000001|The buildings here, as throughout Peru, were all constructed of hewn stone, and had doors and windows with posts, sills, and thresholds of stone.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000015_000000|At Cuelap, in Northern Peru, remarkable ruins were found.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000015_000003|In it were rooms and cells which were used as tombs.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000017_000001|Think of a stone aqueduct reaching from the city of New York to the State of North Carolina!
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000018_000000|The public roads of the Peruvians were most remarkable; they were built on masonry.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000018_000002|These roads were from twenty to twenty five feet wide, were macadamized with pulverized stone mixed with lime and bituminous cement, and were walled in by strong walls "more than a fathom in thickness." In many places these roads were cut for leagues through the rock; great ravines were filled up with solid masonry; rivers were crossed by suspension bridges, used here ages before their introduction into Europe.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000020_000001|They were the work of the white, auburn haired, bearded men from Atlantis, thousands of years before the time of the Incas.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000021_000002|Their works in cotton and wool exceeded in fineness anything known in Europe at that time.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000021_000003|They had carried irrigation, agriculture, and the cutting of gems to a point equal to that of the Old World.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000021_000004|Their accumulations of the precious metals exceeded anything previously known in the history of the world.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000022_000000|Can any one read these details and declare Plato's description of Atlantis to be fabulous, simply because he tells us of the enormous quantities of gold and silver possessed by the people?
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000022_000001|Atlantis was the older country, the parent country, the more civilized country; and, doubtless, like the Peruvians, its people regarded the precious metals as sacred to their gods; and they had been accumulating them from all parts of the world for countless ages.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000023_000000|I have already shown, in the chapter upon the similarities between the civilizations of the Old and New Worlds, some of the remarkable coincidences which existed between the Peruvians and the ancient European races; I will again briefly, refer to a few of them:
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000024_000000|one.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000024_000001|They worshipped the sun, moon, and planets.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000026_000001|They believed in the resurrection of the body, and accordingly embalmed their dead.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000027_000001|The priest examined the entrails of the animals offered in sacrifice, and, like the Roman augurs, divined the future from their appearance.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000028_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000029_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000029_000001|They divided the year into twelve months.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000030_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000031_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000031_000001|They possessed castes; and the trade of the father descended to the son, as in India.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000032_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000032_000001|They had bards and minstrels, who sung at the great festivals.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000033_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000033_000001|Their weapons were the same as those of the Old World, and made after the same pattern.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000034_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000034_000001|They drank toasts and invoked blessings.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000035_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000035_000001|They built triumphal arches for their returning heroes, and strewed the road before them with leaves and flowers.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000036_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000037_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000037_000001|They regarded agriculture as the principal interest of the nation, and held great agricultural fairs and festivals for the interchange of the productions of the farmers.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000038_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000038_000001|The king opened the agricultural season by a great celebration, and, like the kings of Egypt, he put his hand to the plough, and ploughed the first furrow.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000039_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000040_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000040_000001|There was a striking resemblance between the architecture of the Peruvians and that of some of the nations of the Old World.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000040_000002|It is enough for me to quote mr Ferguson's words, that the coincidence between the buildings of the Incas and the Cyclopean remains attributed to the Pelasgians in Italy and Greece "is the most remarkable in the history of architecture."
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000044_000000|Even the mode of decorating their palaces and temples finds a parallel in the Old World.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000044_000001|A recent writer says:
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000047_000001|"that a study of ancient Peruvian pottery has constantly reminded me of forms with which we are familiar in Egyptian archaeology."
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000049_000000|In Peru we find vases with very much the same style of face.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000050_000000|I might pursue those parallels much farther; but it seems to me that these extraordinary coincidences must have arisen either from identity of origin or long continued ancient intercourse.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000000|"Senor Lopez's view, that the Peruvians were Aryans who left the parent stock long before the Teutonic or Hellenic races entered Europe, is supported by arguments drawn from language, from the traces of institutions, from religious beliefs, from legendary records, and artistic remains.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000001|The evidence from language is treated scientifically, and not as a kind of ingenious guessing.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000002|Senor Lopez first combats the idea that the living dialect of Peru is barbarous and fluctuating.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000003|It is not one of the casual and shifting forms of speech produced by nomad races.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000004|To which of the stages of language does this belong-the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000054_000001|But many of these forms are due to a scanty alphabet, and really express familiar sounds; and many, again, result from the casual spelling of the Spaniards.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000056_000006|It is impossible to do more than refer to the supposed Aryan roots contained in the glossary, but it may be noticed that the future of the Quichuan verb is formed in s-I love, Munani; I shall love, Munasa-and that the affixes denoting cases in the noun are curiously like the Greek prepositions."
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000059_000000|[Since the above was written I have received a letter from dr Falb, dated Leipsic, april fifth eighteen eighty one.
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000059_000002|A work from such a source, upon so curious and important a subject, will be looked for with great interest.]
train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000060_000000|But it is impossible that the Quichuas and Aimaras could have passed across the wide Atlantic to Europe if there had been no stepping stone in the shape of Atlantis with its bridge like ridges connecting the two continents.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000003_000000|THE DEPUTATION
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000007_000001|It was a beautiful church, ancient and spacious; moreover, it had recently been restored at great cost.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000008_000003|The Rev.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000008_000006|Hence his disappointment.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000011_000001|He preached extemporarily, with the aid of notes; and it cannot be said that his discourse was remarkable for interest, at any rate in its beginning.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000017_000000|"What is the matter?" asked Owen.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000020_000000|"Yes, viewed from a distance.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000024_000000|"Who can say?" he answered.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000026_000004|He was named Hokosa, a tall, thin man, with a spiritual face and terrible calm eyes.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000027_000003|Therefore we will put you to the proof.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000027_000004|Ho! there, lead forth that evil one.'
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000029_000000|"'Kill him!' said Hokosa.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000031_000000|"'Now, followers of the new God,' said Hokosa, 'raise him from the dead as your Master did!'
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000033_000003|Choose which horn of the bull you will, you hang to one of them, and it shall pierce you.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000033_000004|This is the sentence of the king, I speak it who am the king's mouth: That you, White Man, who have spoken to us and cheated us these two weary days, be put to death, and that you, his companion who have been silent, be driven from the land.'
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000035_000000|"'Go back, White Man, to those who sent you, and tell them the words of the Sons of Fire: That they have listened to the message of peace, and though they are a people of warriors, yet they thank them for that message, for in itself it sounds good and beautiful in their ears, if it be true.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000035_000002|Tell them that they desire to hear more of this matter, and if one can be sent to them who has no false tongue; who in all things fulfills the promises of his lips, that they will hearken to him and treat him well, but that for such as you they keep a spear.'"
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000036_000000|"And who went after you got back?" asked Owen, who was listening with the deepest interest.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000039_000000|"Then perhaps you would like to undertake the mission, mr Owen," said the Deputation briskly; for the reflection stung him, unintentional as it was.
train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000040_000000|Owen started.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000007_000000|A herald stood forward and cried:--
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000008_000000|"Hearken, you Sons of Fire!
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000008_000001|Hearken, you Children of Umsuka, Shaker of the Earth!
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000010_000000|When all had done, the Prince Hafela came forward, lifted his spear, and cried:--
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000011_000000|"A boon, King!"
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000013_000001|"A while ago I named a certain woman, Noma, the ward of Hokosa the wizard, and she was sealed to me to fill the place of my first wife, the queen that is to be.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000013_000002|She passed into the House of the Royal Women, and, by your command, King, it was fixed that I should marry her according to our customs to morrow, after the feast of the first fruits is ended.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000013_000003|King, my heart is changed towards that woman; I no longer desire to take her to wife, and I pray that you will order that she shall now be handed back to Hokosa her guardian."
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000014_000001|What have you to say to this demand, Hokosa?"
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000015_000001|His dress, like that of his companions, was simple, but in its way striking.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000017_000000|"You do well, Hokosa," answered Umsuka, "to leave this to me.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000017_000003|Let the Lady Noma be summoned."
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000018_000006|And yet the face was haughty, a face that upon occasion might even become cruel.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000021_000001|"What of it, O King?"
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000022_000000|"This, girl: the prince who was pleased to honour you is now pleased to dishonour you.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000023_000000|Noma started, and her face grew hard.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000024_000000|"Is it so?" she said.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000024_000001|"Then it would seem that I have lost favour in the eyes of my lord the prince, or that some fairer woman has found it."
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000026_000001|Her breast heaved and her white teeth bit upon her lip.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000026_000003|Hokosa fixed his calm eyes upon her with a strange intensity of gaze, and while he gazed his form quivered with a suppressed excitement, much as a snake quivers that is about to strike its prey. To the careless eye there was nothing remarkable about his look and attitude; to the observer it was evident that both were full of extraordinary purpose.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000027_000003|Here, at some whispered word or sign, she seemed to recover herself, and again resuming the character of a proud offended beauty, she curtseyed to Umsuka, and spoke:--
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000035_000000|Although he had been unable to see him drop the poison into the cup, a glance at Hafela told Owen that it was there; for though he kept his face under control, he could not prevent his hands from twitching or the sweat from starting upon his brow and breast.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000037_000000|"In this cup, which I drink on behalf of the nation, I pledge you, my people."
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000039_000002|When the last of them had died away, the king brought the cup to the level of his lips.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000039_000005|To act now would be madness, his time had not yet come.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000040_000002|Then pouring the rest of the liquor on the ground, Umsuka set aside the cup, and in the midst of a silence that seemed deep after the crash of the great salute, he began to address the multitude:--
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000041_000000|"Hearken, Councillors and Captains, and you, my people, hearken.
train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000042_000000|At this point the king began to grow confused.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000004_000000|PEGGY PRESENTS HIS BILL.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000005_000000|Millville waited in agonized suspense for three days for tangible evidence that "the nabob was in their midst," as Nib Corkins poetically expressed it; but the city folks seemed glued to the farm and no one of them had yet appeared in the village.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000005_000001|As a matter of fact, Patsy and Uncle john were enthusiastically fishing in the Little Bill, far up in the pine woods, and having "the time of their lives" in spite of their scant success in capturing trout.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000005_000002|Old Hucks could go out before breakfast and bring in an ample supply of speckled beauties for Mary to fry; but Uncle John's splendid outfit seemed scorned by the finny folk, and after getting her dress torn in sundry places and a hook in the fleshy part of her arm Patsy learned to seek shelter behind a tree whenever her uncle cast his fly.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000006_000002|Here she practiced persistently, shooting at sixty yards with much skill.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000006_000003|But occasionally, when Louise tired of her novel and her cushions in the hammock, the two girls would play tennis or croquet together-Beth invariably winning.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000007_000000|Such delightful laziness could brook no interference for the first days of their arrival, and it was not until Peggy McNutt ventured over on Monday morning for a settlement with mr Merrick that any from the little world around them dared intrude upon the dwellers at the Wegg farm.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000000|Although the agent had been late in starting from Millville and Nick Thorne's sorrel mare had walked every step of the way, Peggy was obliged to wait in the yard a good half hour for the "nabob" to finish his breakfast.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000001|During that time he tried to decide which of the two statements of accounts that he had prepared he was most justified in presenting.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000002|He had learned from the liveryman at the Junction that mr Merrick had paid five dollars for a trip that was usually made for two, and also that the extravagant man had paid seventy five cents more to Lucky Todd, the hotel keeper, than his bill came to.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000004|Also he charged a round commission on the wages of Lon Taft and Ned Long, and doubled the liveryman's bill for hauling the goods over from the Junction.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000006|When the bill was made out and figured up it left him a magnificent surplus for his private account; but at the last his heart failed him, and he made out another bill more modest in its extortions. He had brought them both along, though, one in each pocket, vacillating between them as he thought first of the Merrick millions and then of the righteous anger he might incur.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000007|By the time Uncle john came out to him, smiling and cordial, he had not thoroughly made up his mind which account to present.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000010_000000|McNutt was reassured.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000011_000000|"I tried fer to do my best, sir," he said.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000012_000001|"I hope you kept your expenditures well within bounds?"
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000013_000001|Even millionaires do not allow themselves to be swindled, if they can help it.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000014_000000|"Most things is high in Millville," he faltered, "an' wages has gone up jest terr'ble.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000014_000001|The boys don't seem to wanter do nuthin' without big pay."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000015_000000|"That is the case everywhere," responded mr Merrick, thoughtfully; "and between us, McNutt, I'm glad wages are better in these prosperous times. The man who works by the day should be well paid, for he has to pay well for his living.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000015_000001|Adequately paid labor is the foundation of all prosperity."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000016_000000|Peggy smiled cheerfully.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000018_000000|"I suppose they overcharged you because a city man wanted the animals. But of course you would not allow me to be robbed."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000021_000002|As it was now too late to add it to the bill he replied, grudgingly:
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000024_000001|She carried a book, but did not open it.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000025_000000|"Ain't much to tell, sir, 'bout them folks," replied the agent.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000032_000000|"Nice boy?" asked Uncle john.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000034_000000|Uncle john seemed thoughtful, but asked no more questions, and McNutt appeared to be relieved that he refrained.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000036_000000|This was said so sternly that it sent McNutt into an ague of terror.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000037_000000|"It's-it's-a-'count of what I spent out," he stammered.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000039_000000|"What are Plymouth Rocks?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000041_000000|"Hens at a dollar apiece?"
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000042_000000|"Thoroughbreds, sir.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000042_000001|Extry fine stock.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000042_000002|I raised 'em myself."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000043_000001|You've charged them twice."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000045_000000|"Here's an item: 'Twelve Plymouth Rocks, twelve dollars;' and farther down: 'Twelve Plymouth Rocks, eighteen dollars.'"
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000047_000000|"Are they here?"
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000049_000000|"Very good.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000049_000001|I'm glad to have them.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000049_000002|The cow seems reasonably priced, for a Jersey."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000050_000000|"It is.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000051_000001|I am very much pleased.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000051_000002|There seems to be a hundred and forty dollars my due, remaining from the five hundred I sent you."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000052_000000|"Here it is, sir," responded McNutt, taking the money from his pocket book.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000053_000000|Uncle john took the money.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000054_000000|"You are an honest fellow, McNutt," said he.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000054_000001|"I hadn't expected a dollar back, for folks usually take advantage of a stranger if he gives them half a chance.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000054_000002|So I thank you for your honesty as well as for your services.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000055_000000|The agent was thoroughly ashamed of himself.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000055_000002|A hundred and forty dollars; When would he have a chance to get such a windfall again?
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000057_000000|"Didn't the man rob you, Uncle?" asked Louise, when the agent had disappeared.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000058_000000|"Yes, dear; but I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of knowing I realized it."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000059_000000|"That was what I thought.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000060_000000|"Mystery!" cried Uncle john.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000060_000002|You've been readin' too many novels.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000060_000003|Romances don't grow in parts like these."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000061_000000|"But I think this is where they are most likely to grow, Uncle," persisted the girl, "just consider.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000061_000001|A retired sea captain hides inland, with no companions but a grinning sailor and his blind housekeeper --except his pale wife, of course; and she is described as sad and unhappy.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000062_000000|"I don't think," said Uncle john, smiling and patting the fair check of his niece.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000063_000000|"I'm sure it does.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000063_000001|It is the key to the whole mystery.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000063_000003|Even the fine house the Captain built failed to interest her.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000064_000000|"And that finished the romance, Louise."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000065_000001|The boy grew up in this dismal place and brooded on his mother's wrongs.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000065_000002|His stern, sulky old father died suddenly.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000000|"Figglepiff, Louise!
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000001|You're getting theatric-and so early in the morning, too!
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000002|Want to saddle my new farm with a murder, do you?
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000004|Joe Wegg ran away from here to get busy in the world. Major Doyle helped him with my money, in exchange for this farm, which the boy was sensible to get rid of-although I'm glad it's now mine.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000005|The Major liked Joe Wegg, and says he's a clean cut, fine young feller.
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000006|He's an inventor, too, even if an unlucky one, and I've no doubt he'll make his way in the world and become a good citizen."
train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000067_000000|With these words Uncle john arose and sauntered around to the barn, to look at the litter of new pigs that just then served to interest and amuse him.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000005_000000|How melts my beating heart as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below! The Chase.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000006_000000|I approached my native north, for such I esteemed it, with that enthusiasm which romantic and wild scenery inspires in the lovers of nature.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000006_000001|No longer interrupted by the babble of my companion, I could now remark the difference which the country exhibited from that through which I had hitherto travelled.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000007_000000|The abode of my fathers, which I was now approaching, was situated in a glen, or narrow valley, which ran up among those hills.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000007_000002|This he employed (as I was given to understand by some inquiries which I made on the road) in maintaining the prodigal hospitality of a northern squire of the period, which he deemed essential to his family dignity.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000008_000002|I paused, therefore, on a rising ground, and, not unmoved by the sense of interest which that species of silvan sport is so much calculated to inspire (although my mind was not at the moment very accessible to impressions of this nature), I expected with some eagerness the appearance of the huntsmen.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000000|The fox, hard run, and nearly spent, first made his appearance from the copse which clothed the right-hand side of the valley.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000001|His drooping brush, his soiled appearance, and jaded trot, proclaimed his fate impending; and the carrion crow, which hovered over him, already considered poor Reynard as soon to be his prey.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000003|The dogs pursued the trace of Reynard with unerring instinct; and the hunters followed with reckless haste, regardless of the broken and difficult nature of the ground.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000005|A vision that passed me interrupted these reflections.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000000|It was a young lady, the loveliness of whose very striking features was enhanced by the animation of the chase and the glow of the exercise, mounted on a beautiful horse, jet black, unless where he was flecked by spots of the snow white foam which embossed his bridle.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000001|She wore, what was then somewhat unusual, a coat, vest, and hat, resembling those of a man, which fashion has since called a riding habit.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000002|The mode had been introduced while I was in France, and was perfectly new to me.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000003|Her long black hair streamed on the breeze, having in the hurry of the chase escaped from the ribbon which bound it.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000004|Some very broken ground, through which she guided her horse with the most admirable address and presence of mind, retarded her course, and brought her closer to me than any of the other riders had passed.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000005|I had, therefore, a full view of her uncommonly fine face and person, to which an inexpressible charm was added by the wild gaiety of the scene, and the romance of her singular dress and unexpected appearance.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000006|As she passed me, her horse made, in his impetuosity, an irregular movement, just while, coming once more upon open ground, she was again putting him to his speed.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000007|It served as an apology for me to ride close up to her, as if to her assistance.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000008|There was, however, no cause for alarm; it was not a stumble, nor a false step; and, if it had, the fair Amazon had too much self possession to have been deranged by it.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000009|She thanked my good intentions, however, by a smile, and I felt encouraged to put my horse to the same pace, and to keep in her immediate neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000010|The clamour of "Whoop!
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000011|dead!
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000012|dead!"--and the corresponding flourish of the French horn, soon announced to us that there was no more occasion for haste, since the chase was at a close.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000011_000000|"I see," she replied,--"I see; but make no noise about it: if Phoebe," she said, patting the neck of the beautiful animal on which she rode, "had not got among the cliffs, you would have had little cause for boasting."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000012_000000|They met as she spoke, and I observed them both look at me, and converse a moment in an under tone, the young lady apparently pressing the sportsman to do something which he declined shyly, and with a sort of sheepish sullenness.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000013_000000|I was too happy to acknowledge myself to be the party inquired after, and to express my thanks for the obliging inquiries of the young lady.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000000|There was a mixture of boldness, satire, and simplicity in the manner in which Miss Vernon pronounced these words.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000001|My knowledge of life was sufficient to enable me to take up a corresponding tone as I expressed my gratitude to her for her condescension, and my extreme pleasure at having met with them.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000002|To say the truth, the compliment was so expressed, that the lady might easily appropriate the greater share of it, for Thorncliff seemed an arrant country bumpkin, awkward, shy, and somewhat sulky withal.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000003|He shook hands with me, however, and then intimated his intention of leaving me that he might help the huntsman and his brothers to couple up the hounds,--a purpose which he rather communicated by way of information to Miss Vernon than as apology to me.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000016_000000|"There he goes," said the young lady, following him with eyes in which disdain was admirably painted-"the prince of grooms and cock fighters, and blackguard horse coursers.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000016_000001|But there is not one of them to mend another.--Have you read Markham?" said Miss Vernon.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000017_000000|"Read whom, ma'am?--I do not even remember the author's name."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000019_000000|"I am, indeed, Miss Vernon."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000020_000000|"And do you not blush to own it?" said Miss Vernon.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000020_000001|"Why, we must forswear your alliance.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000021_000000|"I confess I trust all these matters to an ostler, or to my groom."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000022_000000|"Incredible carelessness!--And you cannot shoe a horse, or cut his mane and tail; or worm a dog, or crop his ears, or cut his dew claws; or reclaim a hawk, or give him his casting stones, or direct his diet when he is sealed; or"--
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000025_000000|"Very little to the purpose, Miss Vernon; something, however, I can pretend to-When my groom has dressed my horse I can ride him, and when my hawk is in the field, I can fly him."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000026_000000|"Can you do this?" said the young lady, putting her horse to a canter.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000001|I was bound in point of honour to follow, and was in a moment again at her side.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000002|"There are hopes of you yet," she said.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000003|"I was afraid you had been a very degenerate Osbaldistone.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000004|But what on earth brings you to Cub Castle?--for so the neighbours have christened this hunting hall of ours.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000005|You might have stayed away, I suppose, if you would?"
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000028_000000|I felt I was by this time on a very intimate footing with my beautiful apparition, and therefore replied, in a confidential under tone-"Indeed, my dear Miss Vernon, I might have considered it as a sacrifice to be a temporary resident in Osbaldistone Hall, the inmates being such as you describe them; but I am convinced there is one exception that will make amends for all deficiencies."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000030_000000|"Indeed I do not; I was thinking-forgive me-of some person much nearer me."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000031_000000|"I suppose it would be proper not to understand your civility?--But that is not my way-I don't make a courtesy for it because I am sitting on horseback.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000031_000001|But, seriously, I deserve your exception, for I am the only conversable being about the Hall, except the old priest and Rashleigh."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000033_000000|"Rashleigh is one who would fain have every one like him for his own sake.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000033_000002|But nature has given him a mouthful of common sense, and the priest has added a bushelful of learning; he is what we call a very clever man in this country, where clever men are scarce.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000033_000003|Bred to the church, but in no hurry to take orders."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000035_000000|"The Catholic Church? what Church else?" said the young lady.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000035_000001|"But I forgot-they told me you are a heretic.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000035_000002|Is that true, mr Osbaldistone?"
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000036_000000|"I must not deny the charge."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000037_000000|"And yet you have been abroad, and in Catholic countries?"
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000038_000000|"For nearly four years."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000039_000000|"You have seen convents?"
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000040_000000|"Often; but I have not seen much in them which recommended the Catholic religion."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000042_000001|Those who have adopted a life of seclusion from sudden and overstrained enthusiasm, or in hasty resentment of some disappointment or mortification, are very miserable. The quickness of sensation soon returns, and like the wilder animals in a menagerie, they are restless under confinement, while others muse or fatten in cells of no larger dimensions than theirs."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000043_000000|"And what," continued Miss Vernon, "becomes of those victims who are condemned to a convent by the will of others?
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000043_000001|what do they resemble? especially, what do they resemble, if they are born to enjoy life, and feel its blessings?"
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000044_000000|"They are like imprisoned singing birds," replied I, "condemned to wear out their lives in confinement, which they try to beguile by the exercise of accomplishments which would have adorned society had they been left at large."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000001|But to return to Rashleigh," said she, in a more lively tone, "you will think him the pleasantest man you ever saw in your life, mr Osbaldistone,--that is, for a week at least.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000002|If he could find out a blind mistress, never man would be so secure of conquest; but the eye breaks the spell that enchants the ear.--But here we are in the court of the old hall, which looks as wild and old-fashioned as any of its inmates.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000004|If there was any coquetry in the action, it was well disguised by the careless indifference of her manner.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000005|I could not help saying, "that, judging of the family from what I saw, I should suppose the toilette a very unnecessary care."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000046_000000|"That's very politely said-though, perhaps, I ought not to understand in what sense it was meant," replied Miss Vernon; "but you will see a better apology for a little negligence when you meet the Orsons you are to live amongst, whose forms no toilette could improve.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000046_000002|So do you hold my palfrey, like a duteous knight, until I send some more humble squire to relieve you of the charge."
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000047_000001|I was left awkwardly enough stationed in the centre of the court of the old hall, mounted on one horse, and holding another in my hand.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000048_000000|The building afforded little to interest a stranger, had I been disposed to consider it attentively; the sides of the quadrangle were of various architecture, and with their stone shafted latticed windows, projecting turrets, and massive architraves, resembled the inside of a convent, or of one of the older and less splendid colleges of Oxford.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000048_000002|This service he performed with much such grace and good will, as a peasant who is compelled to act as guide to a hostile patrol; and in the same manner I was obliged to guard against his deserting me in the labyrinth of low vaulted passages which conducted to "Stun Hall," as he called it, where I was to be introduced to the gracious presence of my uncle.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000000|We did, however, at length reach a long vaulted room, floored with stone, where a range of oaken tables, of a weight and size too massive ever to be moved aside, were already covered for dinner.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000001|This venerable apartment, which had witnessed the feasts of several generations of the Osbaldistone family, bore also evidence of their success in field sports. Huge antlers of deer, which might have been trophies of the hunting of Chevy Chace, were ranged around the walls, interspersed with the stuffed skins of badgers, otters, martins, and other animals of the chase.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000002|Amidst some remnants of old armour, which had, perhaps, served against the Scotch, hung the more valued weapons of silvan war, cross bows, guns of various device and construction, nets, fishing rods, otter spears, hunting poles, with many other singular devices, and engines for taking or killing game.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000003|A few old pictures, dimmed with smoke, and stained with March beer, hung on the walls, representing knights and ladies, honoured, doubtless, and renowned in their day; those frowning fearfully from huge bushes of wig and of beard; and these looking delightfully with all their might at the roses which they brandished in their hands.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000050_000000|I had just time to give a glance at these matters, when about twelve blue coated servants burst into the hall with much tumult and talk, each rather employed in directing his comrades than in discharging his own duty.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000050_000003|All tramped, kicked, plunged, shouldered, and jostled, doing as little service with as much tumult as could well be imagined.
train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000052_000000|The hubbub among the servants rather increased than diminished as this crisis approached.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000001_000000|NOTES TO LECTURE thirteen
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000004_000000|numbers which very fairly represent the distances of the then known planets from the sun in the order specified.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000005_000000|Ceres was discovered on the first of January, eighteen o one, by Piazzi; Pallas in March, eighteen o two, by Olbers; Juno in eighteen o four, by Harding; and Vesta in eighteen o seven, by Olbers.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000005_000001|No more asteroids were discovered till eighteen forty five, but there are now several hundreds known.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000005_000002|Their diameters range from five hundred to twenty miles.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000006_000001|It was first knowingly seen by Galle, of Berlin, on the twenty third of September, eighteen forty six.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000007_000000|LECTURE thirteen
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000008_000000|THE DISCOVERY OF THE ASTEROIDS
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000009_000000|Up to the time of Herschel, astronomical interest centred on the solar system.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000009_000001|Since that time it has been divided, and a great part of our attention has been given to the more distant celestial bodies.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000010_000000|Those who have read the third lecture in Part one will remember the speculation in which Kepler indulged respecting the arrangements of the planets, the order in which they succeeded one another in space, and the law of their respective distances from the sun; and his fanciful guess about the five regular solids inscribed and circumscribed about their orbits.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000011_000000|The rude coincidences were, however, accidental, and he failed to discover any true law.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000011_000001|No thoroughly satisfactory law is known at the present day.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000011_000002|And yet, if the nebular hypothesis or anything like it be true, there must be some law to be discovered hereafter, though it may be a very complicated one.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000012_000000|An empirical relation is, however, known: it was suggested by Tatius, and published by Bode, of Berlin, in seventeen seventy two.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000014_000001|Neptune's distance, however, turns out to be more nearly thirty times the earth's distance than thirty eight point eight.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000016_000000|The gap between Mars and Jupiter, which had often been noticed, and which Kepler filled with a hypothetical planet too small to see, comes into great prominence by this law of Bode.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000016_000001|So much so, that towards the end of last century an enthusiastic German, von Zach, after some search himself for the expected planet, arranged a committee of observing astronomers, or, as he termed it, a body of astronomical detective police, to begin a systematic search for this missing subject of the sun
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000018_000000|In eighteen hundred the preliminaries were settled: the heavens near the zodiac were divided into twenty four regions, each of which was intrusted to one observer to be swept.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000018_000001|Meanwhile, however, quite independently of these arrangements in Germany, and entirely unknown to this committee, a quiet astronomer in Sicily, Piazzi, was engaged in making a catalogue of the stars.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000018_000002|His attention was directed to a certain region in Taurus by an error in a previous catalogue, which contained a star really non-existent.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000000|In the course of his scrutiny, on the first of January, eighteen o one, he noticed a small star which next evening appeared to have shifted.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000001|He watched it anxiously for successive evenings, and by the twenty fourth of January he was quite sure he had got hold of some moving body, not a star: probably, he thought, a comet.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000002|It was very small, only of the eighth magnitude; and he wrote to two astronomers (one of them Bode himself) saying what he had observed.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000003|He continued to observe till the eleventh of February, when he was attacked by illness and compelled to cease.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000020_000000|His letters did not reach their destination till the end of March. Directly Bode opened his letter he jumped to the conclusion that this must be the missing planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000020_000001|But unfortunately he was unable to verify the guess, for the object, whatever it was, had now got too near the sun to be seen.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000020_000002|It would not be likely to be out again before September, and by that time it would be hopelessly lost again, and have just as much to be rediscovered as if it had never been seen.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000021_000000|Mathematical astronomers tried to calculate a possible orbit for the body from the observations of Piazzi, but the observed places were so desperately few and close together.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000021_000001|It was like having to determine a curve from three points close together.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000021_000003|All the calculations gave different results, and none were of the slightest use.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000000|The difficulty as it turned out was most fortunate.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000001|It resulted in the discovery of one of the greatest mathematicians, perhaps the greatest, that Germany has ever produced-Gauss.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000002|He was then a young man of twenty five, eking out a living by tuition.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000003|He had invented but not published several powerful mathematical methods (one of them now known as "the method of least squares"), and he applied them to Piazzi's observations.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000004|He was thus able to calculate an orbit, and to predict a place where, by the end of the year, the planet should be visible.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000006|Piazzi called it Ceres, after the tutelary goddess of Sicily.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000023_000000|Its distance from the sun as determined by Gauss was two point seven six seven times the earth's distance.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000023_000002|It was undoubtedly the missing planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000000|Very soon, a more surprising discovery followed.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000001|Olbers, while searching for Ceres, had carefully mapped the part of the heavens where it was expected; and in March, eighteen o two, he saw in this place a star he had not previously noticed.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000002|In two hours he detected its motion, and in a month he sent his observations to Gauss, who returned as answer the calculated orbit.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000004|This was called Pallas.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000025_000000|Olbers at once surmised that these two planets were fragments of a larger one, and kept an eager look out for other fragments.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000026_000000|In two years another was seen, in the course of charting the region of the heavens traversed by Ceres and Pallas.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000026_000001|It was smaller than either, and was called Juno.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000027_000000|In eighteen o seven the persevering search of Olbers resulted in the discovery of another, with a very oblique orbit, which Gauss named Vesta.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000027_000001|Vesta is bigger than any of the others, being five hundred miles in diameter, and shines like a star of the sixth magnitude.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000027_000002|Gauss by this time had become so practised in the difficult computations that he worked out the complete orbit of Vesta within ten hours of receiving the observational data from Olbers.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000028_000000|For many weary years Olbers kept up a patient and unremitting search for more of these small bodies, or fragments of the large planet as he thought them; but his patience went unrewarded, and he died in eighteen forty without seeing or knowing of any more.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000028_000001|In eighteen forty five another was found, however, in Germany, and a few weeks later two others by mr Hind in England.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000028_000002|Since then there seems no end to them; numbers have been discovered in America, where Professors Peters and Watson have made a specialty of them, and have themselves found something like a hundred.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000029_000000|Vesta is the largest-its area being about the same as that of Central Europe, without Russia or Spain-and the smallest known is about twenty miles in diameter, or with a surface about the size of Kent.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000029_000001|The whole of them together do not nearly equal the earth in bulk.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000030_000000|The main interest of these bodies to us lies in the question, What is their history?
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000030_000001|Can they have been once a single planet broken up? or are they rather an abortive attempt at a planet never yet formed into one?
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000032_000000|Imagine a shell travelling in an elliptic orbit round the earth to suddenly explode: the centre of gravity of all its fragments would continue moving along precisely the same path as had been traversed by the centre of the shell before explosion, and would complete its orbit quite undisturbed.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000032_000002|If the zone of asteroids had a common point through which they all successively passed, they could be unhesitatingly asserted to be the remains of an exploded planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000032_000003|But they have nothing of the kind; their orbits are scattered within a certain broad zone-a zone everywhere as broad as the earth's distance from the sun, ninety two million miles--with no sort of law indicating an origin of this kind.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000033_000000|It must be admitted, however, that the fragments of our supposed shell might in the course of ages, if left to themselves, mutually perturb each other into a different arrangement of orbits from that with which they began.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000033_000002|It is probable that the asteroids were at one time not rigid, and hence it is difficult to say what may have happened to them; but there is not the least reason to believe that their present arrangement is derivable in any way from an explosion, and it is certain that an enormous time must have elapsed since such an event if it ever occurred.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000000|It is far more probable that they never constituted one body at all, but are the remains of a cloudy ring thrown off by the solar system in shrinking past that point: a small ring after the immense effort which produced Jupiter and his satellites: a ring which has aggregated into a multitude of little lumps instead of a few big ones.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000002|But it is easy to show from the theory of gravitation, that a solid ring could not possibly be stable, but would before long get precipitated excentrically upon the body of the planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000003|Devices have been invented, such as artfully distributed irregularities calculated to act as satellites and maintain stability; but none of these things really work. Nor will it do to imagine the rings fluid; they too would destroy each other.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000004|The mechanical behaviour of a system of rings, on different hypotheses as to their constitution, has been worked out with consummate skill by Clerk Maxwell; who finds that the only possible constitution for Saturn's assemblage of rings is a multitude of discrete particles each pursuing its independent orbit.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000005|Saturn's ring is, in fact, a very concentrated zone of minor asteroids, and there is every reason to conclude that the origin of the solar asteroids cannot be very unlike the origin of the Saturnian ones.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000006|The nebular hypothesis lends itself readily to both.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000035_000001|His paper constituted what is called "The Adams Prize Essay" for eighteen fifty six.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000035_000002|Sir George Airy, one of the adjudicators (recently Astronomer Royal), characterized it as "one of the most remarkable applications of mathematics to physics that I have ever seen."
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000036_000000|There are several distinct constituent rings in the entire Saturnian zone, and each perturbs the other, with the result that they ripple and pulse in concord.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000036_000001|The waves thus formed absorb the effect of the mutual perturbations, and prevent an accumulation which would be dangerous to the persistence of the whole.
train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000037_000000|The only effect of gravitational perturbation and of collisions is gradually to broaden out the whole ring, enlarging its outer and diminishing its inner diameter.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000000_000000|LECTURE fifteen
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000001_000000|THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000002_000000|We approach to night perhaps the greatest, certainly the most conspicuous, triumphs of the theory of gravitation.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000000|Prediction is no novelty in science; and in astronomy least of all is it a novelty.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000001|Thousands of years ago, Thales, and others whose very names we have forgotten, could predict eclipses with some certainty, though with only rough accuracy.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000002|And many other phenomena were capable of prediction by accumulated experience.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000003|We have seen, for instance (coming to later times), how a gap between Mars and Jupiter caused a missing planet to be suspected and looked for, and to be found in a hundred pieces.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000004|We have seen, also, how the abnormal proper motion of Sirius suggested to Bessel the existence of an unseen companion.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000007|Mainly, the difference lies, first, in the grounds on which the prediction is based; second, on the difficulty of the investigation whereby it is accomplished; third, in the completeness and the accuracy with which it can be verified.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000004_000000|In seventeen eighty one, Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000004_000004|If a wrong entry were discovered, it might of course have been due to some clerical error, though that is hardly probable considering the care taken over these things, or it might have been some tailless comet or other, or it might have been the newly found planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000001|If only he had reduced and compared his observations, he would have anticipated Herschel by twelve years.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000002|As it was, he missed it altogether.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000003|It was seen once by Bradley also.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000004|Altogether it had been seen twenty times.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000006_000000|These old observations of Flamsteed and those of Le Monnier, combined with those made after Herschel's discovery, were very useful in determining an exact orbit for the new planet, and its motion was considered thoroughly known.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000000|For a time Uranus seemed to travel regularly and as expected, in the orbit which had been calculated for it; but early in the present century it began to be slightly refractory, and by eighteen twenty its actual place showed quite a distinct discrepancy from its position as calculated with the aid of the old observations.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000001|It was at first thought that this discrepancy must be due to inaccuracies in the older observations, and they were accordingly rejected, and tables prepared for the planet based on the newer and more accurate observations only.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000002|But by eighteen thirty it became apparent that it would not accurately obey even these.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000005|This discrepancy is quite distinct, but still it is very small, and had two objects been in the heavens at once, the actual Uranus and the theoretical Uranus, no unaided eye could possibly have distinguished them or detected that they were other than a single star.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000011_000002|Some thought that the exact law of gravitation did not apply to so distant a body.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000011_000003|Others surmised the presence of some foreign and unknown body, some comet, or some still more distant planet perhaps, whose gravitative attraction for Uranus was the cause of the whole difficulty-some perturbations, in fact, which had not been taken into account because of our ignorance of the existence of the body which caused them.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000012_000000|But though such an idea was mentioned among astronomers, it was not regarded with any special favour, and was considered merely as one among a number of hypotheses which could be suggested as fairly probable.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000013_000000|It is perfectly right not to attach much importance to unelaborated guesses.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000013_000002|A later stage still occurs when the theory has been actually and completely verified by agreement with observation.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000015_000000|ANCIENT OBSERVATIONS (casually made, as of a star).
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000017_000000|MODERN OBSERVATIONS.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000020_000000|Something was evidently the matter with the planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000020_000002|Could it be an outer planet?
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000021_000000|The ordinary problem of perturbation is difficult enough: Given a disturbing planet in such and such a position, to find the perturbations it produces.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000022_000000|But the inverse problem: Given the perturbations, to find the planet which causes them-such a problem had never yet been attacked, and by only a few had its possibility been conceived.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000022_000001|Bessel made preparations for trying what he could do at it in eighteen forty, but he was prevented by fatal illness.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000023_000001|In January, eighteen forty three, he graduated as Senior Wrangler, and shortly afterwards he set to work.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000000|Was it likely that a young and unknown man should have successfully solved so extremely difficult a problem?
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000001|It was altogether unlikely. Still, he would test him: he would ask for further explanations concerning some of the perturbations which he himself had specially noticed, and see if mr Adams could explain these also by his hypothesis.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000002|If he could, there might be something in his theory.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000003|If he failed-well, there was an end of it.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000004|The questions were not difficult. They concerned the error of the radius vector.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000006|He did not answer Professor Airy's letter.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000027_000001|If observatories were conducted on these unsystematic and spasmodic principles, they would not be the calm, accurate, satisfactory places they are.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000028_000001|I do not suppose that mr Adams himself could feel all that confidence in his attempted prediction.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000028_000002|So there the matter dropped.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000028_000003|mr Adams's communication was pigeon holed, and remained in seclusion for eight or nine months.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000029_000000|Meanwhile, and quite independently, something of the same sort was going on in France.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000029_000001|A brilliant young mathematician, born in Normandy in eighteen eleven, had accepted the post of Astronomical Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, then recently founded by Napoleon.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000029_000002|His first published papers directed attention to his wonderful powers; and the official head of astronomy in France, the famous Arago, suggested to him the unexplained perturbations of Uranus as a worthy object for his fresh and well armed vigour.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000030_000000|At once he set to work in a thorough and systematic way.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000030_000001|He first considered whether the discrepancies could be due to errors in the tables or errors in the old observations.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000030_000003|This part of the work he published in November, eighteen forty five.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000031_000001|He introduced several fresh terms into these perturbations, but none of them of sufficient magnitude to do more than slightly lessen the unexplained perturbations.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000032_000000|He next examined the various hypotheses that had been suggested to account for them:--Was it a failure in the law of gravitation?
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000032_000001|Was it due to the presence of a resisting medium?
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000032_000003|Or was it due to a collision with some comet?
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000000|All these he examined and dismissed for various reasons one after the other.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000001|It was due to some steady continuous cause-for instance, some unknown planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000002|Could this planet be inside the orbit of Uranus?
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000003|No, for then it would perturb Saturn and Jupiter also, and they were not perturbed by it.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000004|It must, therefore, be some planet outside the orbit of Uranus, and in all probability, according to Bode's empirical law, at nearly double the distance from the sun that Uranus is.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000005|Lastly he proceeded to examine where this planet was, and what its orbit must be to produce the observed disturbances.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000036_000001|This was, after all, the real tug of war.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000036_000002|So many unknown quantities: its mass, its distance, its excentricity, the obliquity of its orbit, its position at any time-nothing known, in fact, about the planet except the microscopic disturbance it caused in Uranus, some thousand million miles away from it.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000037_000000|Without going into further detail, suffice it to say that in June, eighteen forty six, he published his last paper, and in it announced to the world his theoretical position for the planet.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000038_000001|So striking a coincidence seemed sufficient to justify a Herschelian "sweep" for a week or two.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000039_000000|But a sweep for so distant a planet would be no easy matter.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000039_000001|When seen in a large telescope it would still only look like a star, and it would require considerable labour and watching to sift it out from the other stars surrounding it.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000039_000002|We know that Uranus had been seen twenty times, and thought to be a star, before its true nature was by Herschel discovered; and Uranus is only about half as far away as Neptune is.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000042_000000|"The past year has given to us the new [minor] planet Astraea; it has done more-it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000042_000001|Its movements have been felt trembling along the far reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration."
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000043_000000|It was about time to begin to look for it.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000043_000001|So the Astronomer Royal thought on reading Leverrier's paper.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000044_000001|He thus, without giving an excessive time to the business, accumulated a host of observations, which he intended afterwards to reduce and sift at his leisure.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000000|The wretched man thus actually saw the planet twice-on august fourth and august twelfth eighteen forty six--without knowing it.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000001|If only he had had a map of the heavens containing telescopic stars down to the tenth magnitude, and if he had compared his observations with this map as they were made, the process would have been easy, and the discovery quick.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000002|But he had no such map.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000003|Nevertheless one was in existence: it had just been completed in that country of enlightened method and industry-Germany.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000004|dr Bremiker had not, indeed, completed his great work-a chart of the whole zodiac down to stars of the tenth magnitude-but portions of it were completed, and the special region where the new planet was expected happened to be among the portions already just done.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000005|But in England this was not known.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000046_000000|Meanwhile, mr Adams wrote to the Astronomer Royal several additional communications, making improvements in his theory, and giving what he considered nearer and nearer approximations for the place of the planet. He also now answered quite satisfactorily, but too late, the question about the radius vector sent to him months before.
train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000047_000001|This great man was likewise engaged in improving his theory and in considering how best the optical search could be conducted.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000004_000001|He was five years older than Levin, and had long been married.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000006_000000|Sviazhsky was one of those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly definite and firm in its direction, goes its way quite apart and almost always in direct contradiction to their convictions.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000006_000006|He believed neither in God nor the devil, but was much concerned about the question of the improvement of the clergy and the maintenance of their revenues, and took special trouble to keep up the church in his village.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000008_000000|If it had not been a characteristic of Levin's to put the most favorable interpretation on people, Sviazhsky's character would have presented no doubt or difficulty to him: he would have said to himself, "a fool or a knave," and everything would have seemed clear.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000008_000001|But he could not say "a fool," because Sviazhsky was unmistakably clever, and moreover, a highly cultivated man, who was exceptionally modest over his culture.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000012_000000|The shooting turned out to be worse than Levin had expected.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000012_000001|The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000014_000005|He imagined, probably mistakenly, that this low necked bodice had been made on his account, and felt that he had no right to look at it, and tried not to look at it; but he felt that he was to blame for the very fact of the low necked bodice having been made.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000014_000006|It seemed to Levin that he had deceived someone, that he ought to explain something, but that to explain it was impossible, and for that reason he was continually blushing, was ill at ease and awkward.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000015_000003|He has so much to do, and he has the faculty of interesting himself in everything.
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000016_000001|The little house covered with ivy, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000020_000003|His brilliant black eyes were looking straight at the excited country gentleman with gray whiskers, and apparently he derived amusement from his remarks.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000004_000000|Chapter eleven
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000005_000001|He was sitting in the middle of the hut, clinging with both hands to the bench from which he was being pulled by a soldier, the brother of the peasant's wife, who was helping him off with his miry boots.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000005_000002|Veslovsky was laughing his infectious, good humored laugh.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000000|"I've only just come.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000002|Just fancy, they gave me drink, fed me!
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000003|Such bread, it was exquisite!
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000005|And they would not take a penny for anything. And they kept saying: 'Excuse our homely ways.'"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000007_000000|"What should they take anything for?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000007_000001|They were entertaining you, to be sure.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000007_000002|Do you suppose they keep vodka for sale?" said the soldier, succeeding at last in pulling the soaked boot off the blackened stocking.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000008_000000|In spite of the dirtiness of the hut, which was all muddied by their boots and the filthy dogs licking themselves clean, and the smell of marsh mud and powder that filled the room, and the absence of knives and forks, the party drank their tea and ate their supper with a relish only known to sportsmen.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000008_000001|Washed and clean, they went into a hay barn swept ready for them, where the coachman had been making up beds for the gentlemen.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000009_000000|Though it was dusk, not one of them wanted to go to sleep.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000011_000000|Malthus was a well-known capitalist, who had made his money by speculation in railway shares.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000011_000001|Stepan Arkadyevitch described what grouse moors this Malthus had bought in the Tver province, and how they were preserved, and of the carriages and dogcarts in which the shooting party had been driven, and the luncheon pavilion that had been rigged up at the marsh.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000012_000000|"I don't understand you," said Levin, sitting up in the hay; "how is it such people don't disgust you?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000012_000002|They don't care for their contempt, and then they use their dishonest gains to buy off the contempt they have deserved."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000013_000001|"Perfectly!
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000014_000000|"Not a bit of it." Levin could hear that Oblonsky was smiling as he spoke.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000014_000001|"I simply don't consider him more dishonest than any other wealthy merchant or nobleman.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000014_000002|They've all made their money alike-by their work and their intelligence."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000015_000000|"Oh, by what work?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000015_000001|Do you call it work to get hold of concessions and speculate with them?"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000016_000000|"Of course it's work.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000016_000001|Work in this sense, that if it were not for him and others like him, there would have been no railways."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000017_000000|"But that's not work, like the work of a peasant or a learned profession."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000018_000000|"Granted, but it's work in the sense that his activity produces a result-the railways.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000018_000001|But of course you think the railways useless."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000019_000000|"No, that's another question; I am prepared to admit that they're useful.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000019_000001|But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000021_000000|"Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty. "Such as banking, for instance," he went on.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000021_000003|No sooner were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000000|"Yes, that may all be very true and clever....
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000002|He was obviously convinced of the correctness of his position, and so talked serenely and without haste.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000003|"But you have not drawn the line between honest and dishonest work.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000004|That I receive a bigger salary than my chief clerk, though he knows more about the work than I do-that's dishonest, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000023_000000|"I can't say."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000024_000000|"Well, but I can tell you: your receiving some five thousand, let's say, for your work on the land, while our host, the peasant here, however hard he works, can never get more than fifty roubles, is just as dishonest as my earning more than my chief clerk, and Malthus getting more than a station master.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000024_000001|No, quite the contrary; I see that society takes up a sort of antagonistic attitude to these people, which is utterly baseless, and I fancy there's envy at the bottom of it...."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000025_000000|"No, that's unfair," said Veslovsky; "how could envy come in?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000026_000000|"You say," Levin went on, "that it's unjust for me to receive five thousand, while the peasant has fifty; that's true.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000026_000001|It is unfair, and I feel it, but..."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000027_000001|Why is it we spend our time riding, drinking, shooting, doing nothing, while they are forever at work?" said Vassenka Veslovsky, obviously for the first time in his life reflecting on the question, and consequently considering it with perfect sincerity.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000029_000000|There had arisen of late something like a secret antagonism between the two brothers in law; as though, since they had married sisters, a kind of rivalry had sprung up between them as to which was ordering his life best, and now this hostility showed itself in the conversation, as it began to take a personal note.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000031_000000|"Give it to this peasant, he would not refuse it."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000032_000000|"Yes, but how am I to give it up?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000032_000001|Am I to go to him and make a deed of conveyance?"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000033_000000|"I don't know; but if you are convinced that you have no right..."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000034_000000|"I'm not at all convinced.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000035_000000|"No, excuse me, but if you consider this inequality is unjust, why is it you don't act accordingly?..."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000036_000000|"Well, I do act negatively on that idea, so far as not trying to increase the difference of position existing between him and me."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000037_000000|"No, excuse me, that's a paradox."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000038_000000|"Yes, there's something of a sophistry about that," Veslovsky agreed. "Ah! our host; so you're not asleep yet?" he said to the peasant who came into the barn, opening the creaking door.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000039_000001|I thought our gentlemen would be asleep, but I heard them chattering.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000039_000002|I want to get a hook from here.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000039_000003|She won't bite?" he added, stepping cautiously with his bare feet.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000041_000000|"We are going out for the night with the beasts."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000042_000000|"Ah, what a night!" said Veslovsky, looking out at the edge of the hut and the unharnessed wagonette that could be seen in the faint light of the evening glow in the great frame of the open doors.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000042_000001|"But listen, there are women's voices singing, and, on my word, not badly too.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000042_000002|Who's that singing, my friend?"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000043_000000|"That's the maids from hard by here."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000044_000000|"Let's go, let's have a walk!
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000044_000002|Oblonsky, come along!"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000045_000001|"It's capital lying here."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000046_000000|"Well, I shall go by myself," said Veslovsky, getting up eagerly, and putting on his shoes and stockings.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000046_000001|"Good bye, gentlemen.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000046_000003|You've treated me to some good sport, and I won't forget you."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000047_000000|"He really is a capital fellow, isn't he?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, when Veslovsky had gone out and the peasant had closed the door after him.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000048_000000|"Yes, capital," answered Levin, still thinking of the subject of their conversation just before.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000048_000002|This disconcerted him.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000049_000000|"It's just this, my dear boy.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000050_000001|The great thing for me is to feel that I'm not to blame."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000051_000000|"What do you say, why not go after all?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, evidently weary of the strain of thought.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000051_000001|"We shan't go to sleep, you know.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000051_000002|Come, let's go!"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000052_000000|Levin did not answer.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000052_000001|What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000052_000002|"Can it be that it's only possible to be just negatively?" he was asking himself.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000000|"How strong the smell of the fresh hay is, though," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, getting up.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000001|"There's not a chance of sleeping.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000002|Vassenka has been getting up some fun there.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000004|Hadn't we better go?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000054_000000|"No, I'm not coming," answered Levin.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000055_000000|"Surely that's not a matter of principle too," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling, as he felt about in the dark for his cap.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000056_000000|"It's not a matter of principle, but why should I go?"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000057_000000|"But do you know you are preparing trouble for yourself," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, finding his cap and getting up.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000058_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000000|"Do you suppose I don't see the line you've taken up with your wife?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000001|I heard how it's a question of the greatest consequence, whether or not you're to be away for a couple of days' shooting.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000002|That's all very well as an idyllic episode, but for your whole life that won't answer.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000004|A man has to be manly," said Oblonsky, opening the door.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000060_000000|"In what way?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000060_000001|To go running after servant girls?" said Levin.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000000|"Why not, if it amuses him?
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000002|It won't do my wife any harm, and it'll amuse me.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000003|The great thing is to respect the sanctity of the home.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000004|There should be nothing in the home.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000005|But don't tie your own hands."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000062_000000|"Perhaps so," said Levin dryly, and he turned on his side.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000064_000000|Levin pretended to be asleep, while Oblonsky, putting on his slippers, and lighting a cigar, walked out of the barn, and soon their voices were lost.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000065_000001|He heard the horses munching hay, then he heard the peasant and his elder boy getting ready for the night, and going off for the night watch with the beasts, then he heard the soldier arranging his bed on the other side of the barn, with his nephew, the younger son of their peasant host.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000065_000003|He could only hear the snort of the horses, and the guttural cry of a snipe.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000066_000000|"Is it really only negative?" he repeated to himself.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000066_000001|"Well, what of it? It's not my fault." And he began thinking about the next day.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000000|"Tomorrow I'll go out early, and I'll make a point of keeping cool. There are lots of snipe; and there are grouse too.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000001|When I come back there'll be the note from Kitty.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000002|Yes, Stiva may be right, I'm not manly with her, I'm tied to her apron strings....
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000003|Well, it can't be helped! Negative again...."
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000068_000000|Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000068_000001|For an instant he opened his eyes: the moon was up, and in the open doorway, brightly lighted up by the moonlight, they were standing talking.
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000068_000002|Stepan Arkadyevitch was saying something of the freshness of one girl, comparing her to a freshly peeled nut, and Veslovsky with his infectious laugh was repeating some words, probably said to him by a peasant: "Ah, you do your best to get round her!" Levin, half asleep, said:
train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000069_000000|"Gentlemen, tomorrow before daylight!" and fell asleep.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000001_000000|IN WHICH CASSANDRA VISITS DAVID THRYNG'S ANCESTORS
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000002_000001|Cassandra had placed her little son in the middle of a huge bed which nearly filled the small room she had been given in a hotel, recommended to her by Betty Towers as one where "nice ladies travelling alone" could stop.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000003_000000|The child was dressed in a fresh white coat, and Cassandra had much ado to keep him clean.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000000|She had tried to put them one side that she might look out when she awoke, but she could see only chimney pots and grimy, irregularly tiled roofs.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000001|A narrow opening at the top of the window let in a little air; still she felt smothered, and tried to raise the lower sash, but could not move it.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000003|Here only a small triangle of blue sky could be seen-not a tree, not a bit of earth-and in the small room all those heavy furnishings closed around her, dark red, stuffy, and greasy with London smoke.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000004|She could not touch them without blackening her hands, nor let her baby sit on the floor for the dirt he wiped up on his clothing as he rolled and kicked about.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000005_000000|The room seemed to sway and tip as the ship had done, and there was a continuous sound as of thunder, a strange undercurrent that seemed to her strained nerves like the moaning of the lost souls of all the ages, who had lived and toiled and smothered in this monstrous and terrible city.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000001|She must hurry-hurry and find David.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000002|He would be glad to see his little son.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000003|He would take him in his arms.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000004|He would hold them both to his heart.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000006|She must get used to all this, and not expect to find all the world like her own sunny mountains.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000007_000001|She was to go nowhere alone, without taking a cab, and never start out on foot, carrying her baby in her arms, as she might do at home.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000007_000002|She had given her written instructions how to conduct herself under all ordinary circumstances, at her hotel or on the street-how to ring for a servant, order her meals, or call a cab.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000008_000003|She leaned over the bed, half dressed as she was, and murmured pretty cooing phrases, kissing and cuddling him to contented laughter.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000009_000000|Betty Towers had procured clothing for her-a modest supply-using her own good taste, and not disguising Cassandra's natural grace and dignity by a too close adherence to the prevailing mode.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000009_000002|Cassandra stood a long moment before the two gowns.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000000|While waiting with her baby in her arms for the hotel boy to call her cab, she observed another lady, young and graceful, enter a cab, and a maid following her wearing a pretty cap, and carrying a child.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000001|Eager, for David's sake, to draw no adverse comment upon herself, she took note of everything.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000002|Ought she then to arrive attended by a maid, carrying her baby?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000003|But David would know she did not need one; bringing him his little son in her own arms, what would he care for anything more?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000004|So the address was given the cabman, and they were rattled away over the rough paving, a long, lonely ride through the wonderful city-so many miles of houses and splendid buildings, of gardens and monuments.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000011_000002|There were the nursemaids-the babies-the beggars-the ragged urchins and the venders of the street, with their raucous cries rending the air.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000011_000003|Her brain whirled, and a new feeling to which she had hitherto been blessedly a stranger crept over her, a feeling of fear.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000012_000000|As the great two story coaches and trams thundered by, she clasped her baby closer, until he looked up in her face with round eyed wonder and put up his lip in pitiful protest.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000012_000001|She soothed and comforted him until her panic passed, and when, at last, they stopped before a great house built in on either side by other houses, with wide steps of stone descending directly upon the street, she had regained a measure of composure.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000000|"Oh, yes.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000001|Wait," cried Cassandra.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000002|What if David were not there!
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000003|And of course, he might be out.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000004|Then they were swallowed up in the dark interior.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000006|For a moment, bewildered, she could hardly understand what he was saying to her.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000014_000000|Although dazed and baffled, Cassandra betrayed no sign of the tumult within, and the little old man stood before her hesitating, his curiosity piqued into a determination to discover her business and identity.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000014_000001|Her gravity and silence gave her a poise and dignity that allayed suspicion, but he and his old wife liked diversion, and a spice of gossip lightened the monotony of their lives, so he waited, then coughed behind his hand.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000016_000000|"No, it was not the house-it was-" Again she waited, not knowing how to introduce her husband's name.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000017_000000|A mystery!
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000017_000001|A visitor at this hour, and seemingly a lady, yet with a baby in her arms, and alone, and not to see the house.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000017_000002|Again he coughed behind his hand.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000000|"Yes, I'm a stranger." She caught at the word.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000001|Seized by an inward terror of the small eyes fixed curiously on her, she intuitively shrank from betraying her identity, and the old servant had told her what she needed to know.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000002|Of course her husband was "his lordship," over here.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000003|"I am from America, and I would like to see the gallery." She must do so to give a pretext for having come to visit an empty house.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000020_000001|She held her now sleeping baby close to her breast as she followed the old man about from picture to picture.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000021_000001|We'll let in a little more light.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000021_000002|A Vandyke-and worth it's weight in gold."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000022_000000|Cassandra watched him cross the floor, his short bow legs reflected grotesquely in its shining surface as he walked, then turned and gazed again at the life-size, half length portrait of a young man with sunny hair like David's and warm brown eyes.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000024_000002|She drew a deep breath and looked down the length of the long gallery.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000024_000003|Everything was being impressed upon her mind as upon sensitized paper.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000025_000000|She followed slowly in the old man's wake, never opening her lips until they had made the circuit and were again standing before the portrait of the fair haired youth.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000026_000000|The old servant was saying: "You 'aven't 'appened to meet a Samuel Cutter in America, 'ave you?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000026_000001|'E's our son.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000027_000000|"No, I never met any one by that name.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000028_000000|"About 'ow far do you think, ma'm?"
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000029_000000|Cassandra had no idea of the distance, but she knew how long David and Hoyle were journeying there, so she answered as best she could.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000029_000001|"It takes three or four days to get there from my home."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000000|The old man's eyes opened wide, and his jaw dropped.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000001|"It's a big country-America is.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000002|England may be a small place, but she 'as tremendous big possessions." He felt it all belonged to England, and spoke with swelling pride as his short legs carried him toward the door. There again he paused.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000003|He had learned nothing of this young woman to tell his old wife, except that she came from America, and had never met Samuel Cutter.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000004|The mystery was still unsolved.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000031_000000|"Yes, 'is young lordship do look amazing like that picture.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000031_000001|If you'd ever seen 'im, you'd think 'e'd dressed up in velvet and lace and stood for it.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000031_000002|'E's lived in America five years, but if you never were in Canada and never met our Sammy, it's more likely you never saw 'im either."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000032_000001|She had seated herself in the hall, for her heart throbbed chokingly, and the lump was heavy in her throat.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000033_000000|"'Is lordship is still in Hafrica, mam.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000033_000003|That's gossip, you know."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000000|Cassandra rose and stood suddenly poised for flight.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000001|She must get out of that house and hear no more.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000002|She had a silver shilling in her hand, for Betty Towers had told her all servants expected a tip, and this was intended for the cabman.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000003|Had she followed her impulse, she would have darted by with her fingers in her ears, but instead, she dropped the shilling in the old man's hand, and quietly turned toward the door.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000035_000000|"Thank you," his fingers closed over the shilling.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000035_000001|Her pallor struck him then, even as the red spot on her cheek deepened, and he held out his arms for the child.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000036_000000|"Let me carry 'im for you, ma'm.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000036_000001|Is it a boy?"
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000037_000000|But her arms closed tighter about her baby.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000037_000001|"He is my little son." It was almost a cry, as she said it, but again she forced herself to calmness, and, walking slowly out, added, with a quiet smile: "I always keep him myself.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000037_000002|We do in America."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000038_000000|In a moment she was gone.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000000|Darker, dingier, stuffier, seemed the box of a room, as she walked into it and laid her still sleeping babe on the bed.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000001|She felt herself moving in an unreal world.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000002|David-her David-she had not come to him after all; she had come to an empty place.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000004|She neither wept nor prayed; and the red spot burned against the creamy whiteness of her skin.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000005|She was not thinking, only looking, seeing into the past and down the long vista of her future.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000040_000001|In the radiance of the spring, she saw them, and in the glory of the autumn; she breathed the fragrance of the pines in winter and heard the soft patter of summer rains on widespreading leaves.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000040_000002|She saw David walking at her side, and heard his laugh, sun bright and glorious he seemed, her Phoebus Apollo-the father of her little son.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000041_000000|She saw the terrible sea which she had crossed to come to him-the white crested waves, with turquoise lights and indigo depths, shifting and sliding unceasingly where all the world seemed swallowed in space, and the huge steamship so small a thing in the vast and perilous deep; and now-now she was here.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000041_000001|What was she?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000042_000000|She had tried to find him, her David, and had been shown the dead, and the glory of the dead-all past and gone-her David's glory.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000042_000001|Shown that long, empty gallery resounding with those aged footsteps, and the pictures-pictures-pictures-of men and women who had once been babes like her little son and David's, now dead and gone-not one soul among them all to greet her.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000043_000000|And David-her David-was one of these!
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000043_000001|What they had felt-what they had thought and striven for-was it all intensified and concentrated in him?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000043_000002|Oh, if her soul could only reach to him, wherever he was, and penetrate this impalpable veil that stretched between them!
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000044_000001|He opened his large, clear eyes, and suddenly it seemed that her wish was granted,--that the veil was rent and she was looking into David's eyes and seeing his soul free, no longer chained by invisible links to those dead and gone beings, and their traditions.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000044_000002|This had been all a dream-a dream.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000000|She gathered the child in her arms and held him with his sweet, warm lips pressed to her breast and his soft little hand thrust in her bosom. David's little son-David's little son!
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000001|Surely all was good and well with the world!
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000002|Did not the old man say it was only gossip?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000003|Had not evil things been said of David even on her own mountain?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000004|It was the trail of the serpent of ill report.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000005|He had not confided his sacred secret to these people, and they had thought what they pleased.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000007|She would go to his mother and wait for his return, and there she would bring her precious gift-David's little son.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000000|Quickly she packed her few belongings and rang for a messenger, and as she stood an instant waiting for an answer to her ring, the white capped nurse she had noticed in the morning passed by with the baby in her arms.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000001|Yes, surely women of David's state did not travel about alone.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000003|And now she was in "Vanity Fair," and must be wise and not go to David's mother unattended.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000004|Then, too, if only she had some one with her to whom she could speak now and then, it would be better.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000005|Therefore, without further consideration, she walked swiftly down the corridor after the tidy nurse.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000000|"Will you tell me, please, have you a sister?" she said.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000001|The young woman stood still in astonishment.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000002|"Or-any friend like yourself?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000004|"And it is right hard to go about alone with my baby, so I thought I would ask you if you have a sister."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000049_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000050_000000|"I couldn't go with you myself, ma'm-but-"
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000000|"I saw you this morning, ma'm, as you went out.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000001|I'll see what I can do. What number is your room? and what name?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000002|I mustn't talk here.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000003|mrs Darling is very particular."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000053_000000|"Oh, never mind, then." Cassandra turned away in sudden shame lest she had not done the right thing.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000053_000001|The nurse watched her return to her room as swiftly as she had left it, and took note of the number.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000055_000000|Cassandra felt more abashed under the round eyed gaze of the maid than if she had encountered the queen.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000055_000001|Her ring for a messenger had not been answered, and she did not know how to find her husband's country seat. She felt faint and weary, but did not think of hunger, nor that it was long past the dinner hour, and that she had eaten nothing since her early breakfast.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000055_000002|She only thought that she must be brave and try-try to think how to reach David's people.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000057_000002|Then Cassandra knew that she was hungry and sat herself in one of the windows apart, before a table.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000057_000003|Presently a young man came and bent down to her as if listening.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000058_000000|"I would like tea, please."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000060_000000|"I will take what they have."
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000061_000000|"Yes, ma'm.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000062_000001|Cabs and carriages were rushing up and down the street below them.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000062_000002|She placed her little son on the seat beside her and held him with sheltering arm, while he watched the moving vehicles and looked from them to his mother's face.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000063_000000|"What a perfectly lovely child!" said a pleasant voice.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000064_000000|Cassandra looked up to see a rosy cheeked girl, a little too stout and florid, with a great mop of dark hair tied with a wide black ribbon.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000064_000001|A gray haired lady followed, and paused beside her.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000065_000000|"Yes," said Cassandra, faintly.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000066_000000|The girl reached over and patted his cheek.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000066_000001|"How perfectly dear.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000066_000003|Isn't he, though?"
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000067_000000|"Babies are always dear," said the mother, with a smile.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000067_000001|"Come, Laura, we can't wait, you know," and they passed on.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000067_000002|As Cassandra looked up in the mother's face, something stirred vaguely in her heart.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000000|Then her tea and crisp, hot muffins were brought.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000001|The young girl's pleasant words had warmed her heart, and the refreshment gave her more courage.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000002|She made her way to the office and inquired how she might find Lord Thryng's country home.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000003|The clerk wrote the address promptly on a card, but the keen look of interest with which he handed it to her caused her to shrink inwardly.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000004|Why, what was it to him what place she asked for?
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000005|She lifted her head proudly.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000069_000000|"I wish to go there.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000069_000001|Will you tell me how, please?"
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000070_000001|He explained to her courteously-almost deferentially.
train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000071_000000|"Will you go to Daneshead Castle itself, ma'm, or stop in Queensderry?" As she had no idea what the question involved, she replied at hazard.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000009_000000|Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000009_000001|Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile, and sea serpents engulf every passing ship, and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000010_000000|But the strange event which I shall here relate came alone, unsupported, without companions into a hostile world, and for that very reason claimed little of the general attention of mankind.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000010_000001|For the sudden changing of mrs Tebrick into a vixen is an established fact which we may attempt to account for as we will.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000010_000002|Certainly it is in the explanation of the fact, and the reconciling of it with our general notions that we shall find most difficulty, and not in accepting for true a story which is so fully proved, and that not by one witness but by a dozen, all respectable, and with no possibility of collusion between them.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000011_000000|But here I will confine myself to an exact narrative of the event and all that followed on it.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000011_000001|Yet I would not dissuade any of my readers from attempting an explanation of this seeming miracle because up till now none has been found which is entirely satisfactory.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000011_000002|What adds to the difficulty to my mind is that the metamorphosis occurred when mrs Tebrick was a full grown woman, and that it happened suddenly in so short a space of time.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000012_000000|But here we have something very different.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000012_000001|A grown lady is changed straightway into a fox.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000012_000002|There is no explaining that away by any natural philosophy.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000013_000000|The only things which go any way towards an explanation of it are but guesswork, and I give them more because I would not conceal anything, than because I think they are of any worth.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000014_000001|They were an ancient family, and have had their seat at Tangley Hall time out of mind.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000014_000003|It seems she took great fright or disgust at it, and vomited after it was done.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000000|She was married in the year eighteen seventy nine to mr Richard Tebrick, after a short courtship, and went to live after their honeymoon at Rylands, near Stokoe, Oxon.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000001|One point indeed I have not been able to ascertain and that is how they first became acquainted.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000002|Tangley Hall is over thirty miles from Stokoe, and is extremely remote.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000003|Indeed to this day there is no proper road to it, which is all the more remarkable as it is the principal, and indeed the only, manor house for several miles round.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000000|Whether it was from a chance meeting on the roads, or less romantic but more probable, by mr Tebrick becoming acquainted with her uncle, a minor canon at Oxford, and thence being invited by him to visit Tangley Hall, it is impossible to say.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000001|But however they became acquainted the marriage was a very happy one.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000002|The bride was in her twenty third year. She was small, with remarkably small hands and feet.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000003|It is perhaps worth noting that there was nothing at all foxy or vixenish in her appearance. On the contrary, she was a more than ordinarily beautiful and agreeable woman.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000004|Her eyes were of a clear hazel but exceptionally brilliant, her hair dark, with a shade of red in it, her skin brownish, with a few dark freckles and little moles.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000005|In manner she was reserved almost to shyness, but perfectly self possessed, and perfectly well bred.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000000|She had been strictly brought up by a woman of excellent principles and considerable attainments, who died a year or so before the marriage.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000001|And owing to the circumstance that her mother had been dead many years, and her father bedridden, and not altogether rational for a little while before his death, they had few visitors but her uncle.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000003|That she did not grow up a country hoyden is to be explained by the strictness of her governess and the influence of her uncle.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000004|But perhaps living in so wild a place gave her some disposition to wildness, even in spite of her religious upbringing.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000005|Her old nurse said: "Miss Silvia was always a little wild at heart," though if this was true it was never seen by anyone else except her husband.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000000|On one of the first days of the year eighteen eighty, in the early afternoon, husband and wife went for a walk in the copse on the little hill above Rylands.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000001|They were still at this time like lovers in their behaviour and were always together.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000002|While they were walking they heard the hounds and later the huntsman's horn in the distance.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000003|mr Tebrick had persuaded her to hunt on Boxing Day, but with great difficulty, and she had not enjoyed it (though of hacking she was fond enough).
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000019_000000|Hearing the hunt, mr Tebrick quickened his pace so as to reach the edge of the copse, where they might get a good view of the hounds if they came that way.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000019_000001|His wife hung back, and he, holding her hand, began almost to drag her.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000019_000002|Before they gained the edge of the copse she suddenly snatched her hand away from his very violently and cried out, so that he instantly turned his head.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000020_000001|You may well think if he were aghast: and so maybe was his lady at finding herself in that shape, so they did nothing for nearly half an hour but stare at each other, he bewildered, she asking him with her eyes as if indeed she spoke to him: "What am I now become? Have pity on me, husband, have pity on me for I am your wife."
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000021_000000|So that with his gazing on her and knowing her well, even in such a shape, yet asking himself at every moment: "Can it be she?
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000021_000001|Am I not dreaming?" and her beseeching and lastly fawning on him and seeming to tell him that it was she indeed, they came at last together and he took her in his arms.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000021_000002|She lay very close to him, nestling under his coat and fell to licking his face, but never taking her eyes from his.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000023_000000|So they passed a good while, till at last the tears welled up in the poor fox's eyes and she began weeping (but quite in silence), and she trembled too as if she were in a fever.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000023_000001|At this he could not contain his own tears, but sat down on the ground and sobbed for a great while, but between his sobs kissing her quite as if she had been a woman, and not caring in his grief that he was kissing a fox on the muzzle.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000024_000000|They sat thus till it was getting near dusk, when he recollected himself, and the next thing was that he must somehow hide her, and then bring her home.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000025_000000|He waited till it was quite dark that he might the better bring her into her own house without being seen, and buttoned her inside his topcoat, nay, even in his passion tearing open his waistcoat and his shirt that she might lie the closer to his heart.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000025_000001|For when we are overcome with the greatest sorrow we act not like men or women but like children whose comfort in all their troubles is to press themselves against their mother's breast, or if she be not there to hold each other tight in one another's arms.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000027_000000|Having got her into the house, the next thing he thought of was to hide her from the servants.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000027_000001|He carried her to the bedroom in his arms and then went downstairs again.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000028_000000|mr Tebrick had three servants living in the house, the cook, the parlour maid, and an old woman who had been his wife's nurse.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000028_000001|Besides these women there was a groom or a gardener (whichever you choose to call him), who was a single man and so lived out, lodging with a labouring family about half a mile away.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000029_000000|mr Tebrick going downstairs pitched upon the parlour maid.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000000|"Janet," says he, "mrs Tebrick and I have had some bad news, and mrs Tebrick was called away instantly to London and left this afternoon, and I am staying to night to put our affairs in order.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000001|We are shutting up the house, and I must give you and mrs Brant a month's wages and ask you to leave to morrow morning at seven o'clock.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000002|We shall probably go away to the Continent, and I do not know when we shall come back.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000003|Please tell the others, and now get me my tea and bring it into my study on a tray." Janet said nothing for she was a shy girl, particularly before gentlemen, but when she entered the kitchen mr Tebrick heard a sudden burst of conversation with many exclamations from the cook.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000031_000000|When she came back with his tea, mr Tebrick said: "I shall not require you upstairs.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000031_000002|I am busy now, but I will see you again before you go."
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000032_000000|When she had gone mr Tebrick took the tray upstairs.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000032_000001|For the first moment he thought the room was empty, and his vixen got away, for he could see no sign of her anywhere.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000032_000002|But after a moment he saw something stirring in a corner of the room, and then behold! she came forth dragging her dressing gown, into which she had somehow struggled.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000033_000000|This must surely have been a comical sight, but poor mr Tebrick was altogether too distressed then or at any time afterwards to divert himself at such ludicrous scenes.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000033_000001|He only called to her softly:
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000001|What do you do there?" And then in a moment saw for himself what she would be at, and began once more to blame himself heartily-because he had not guessed that his wife would not like to go naked, notwithstanding the shape she was in.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000002|Nothing would satisfy him then till he had clothed her suitably, bringing her dresses from the wardrobe for her to choose.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000003|But as might have been expected, they were too big for her now, but at last he picked out a little dressing jacket that she was fond of wearing sometimes in the mornings.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000004|It was made of a flowered silk, trimmed with lace, and the sleeves short enough to sit very well on her now.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000005|While he tied the ribands his poor lady thanked him with gentle looks and not without some modesty and confusion.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000006|He propped her up in an armchair with some cushions, and they took tea together, she very delicately drinking from a saucer and taking bread and butter from his hands.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000007|All this showed him, or so he thought, that his wife was still herself; there was so little wildness in her demeanour and so much delicacy and decency, especially in her not wishing to run naked, that he was very much comforted, and began to fancy they could be happy enough if they could escape the world and live always alone.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000035_000000|From this too sanguine dream he was aroused by hearing the gardener speaking to the dogs, trying to quiet them, for ever since he had come in with his vixen they had been whining, barking and growling, and all as he knew because there was a fox within doors and they would kill it.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000000|He started up now, calling to the gardener that he would come down to the dogs himself to quiet them, and bade the man go indoors again and leave it to him.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000001|All this he said in a dry, compelling kind of voice which made the fellow do as he was bid, though it was against his will, for he was curious.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000002|mr Tebrick went downstairs, and taking his gun from the rack loaded it and went out into the yard.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000003|Now there were two dogs, one a handsome Irish setter that was his wife's dog (she had brought it with her from Tangley Hall on her marriage); the other was an old fox terrier called Nelly that he had had ten years or more.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000037_000000|When he came out into the yard both dogs saluted him by barking and whining twice as much as they did before, the setter jumping up and down at the end of his chain in a frenzy, and Nelly shivering, wagging her tail, and looking first at her master and then at the house door, where she could smell the fox right enough.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000000|There was a bright moon, so that mr Tebrick could see the dogs as clearly as could be.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000001|First he shot his wife's setter dead, and then looked about him for Nelly to give her the other barrel, but he could see her nowhere.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000002|The bitch was clean gone, till, looking to see how she had broken her chain, he found her lying hid in the back of her kennel. But that trick did not save her, for mr Tebrick, after trying to pull her out by her chain and finding it useless-she would not come,--thrust the muzzle of his gun into the kennel, pressed it into her body and so shot her.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000004|Then, leaving the dogs as they were, chained up, mr Tebrick went indoors again and found the gardener, who had not yet gone home, gave him a month's wages in lieu of notice and told him he had a job for him yet-to bury the two dogs and that he should do it that same night.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000039_000000|But by all this going on with so much strangeness and authority on his part, as it seemed to them, the servants were much troubled.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000040_000000|Old Nanny, though she was not expecting to find her mistress there, having been told that she was gone that afternoon to London, knew her instantly, and cried out:
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000041_000000|"Oh, my poor precious!
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000041_000002|What dreadful change is this?"
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000041_000003|Then, seeing her mistress start and look at her, she cried out: "But never fear, my darling, it will all come right, your old Nanny knows you, it will all come right in the end."
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000042_000000|But though she said this she did not care to look again, and kept her eyes turned away so as not to meet the foxy slit ones of her mistress, for that was too much for her.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000042_000001|So she hurried out soon, fearing to be found there by mr Tebrick, and who knows, perhaps shot, like the dogs, for knowing the secret.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000043_000000|mr Tebrick had all this time gone about paying off his servants and shooting his dogs as if he were in a dream.
train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000043_000001|Now he fortified himself with two or three glasses of strong whisky and went to bed, taking his vixen into his arms, where he slept soundly.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000000_000000|Karl soon found himself before the house in which his friend Hoellenrachen resided.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000000_000001|Knowing his studious habits, he had hoped to see his light still burning, nor was he disappointed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000000_000002|He contrived to bring him to his window, and a moment after, the door was cautiously opened.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000002_000000|"From the grave, Heinrich, or next door to it."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000004_000000|"Perhaps you were not far wrong.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000004_000001|But get me a horn of ale, for even a vampire is thirsty, you know."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000005_000000|"A vampire!" exclaimed Heinrich, retreating a pace, and involuntarily putting himself upon his guard.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000006_000000|Karl laughed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000007_000000|"My hand was warm, was it not, old fellow?" he said.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000007_000001|"Vampires are cold, all but the blood."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000008_000000|"What a fool I am!" rejoined Heinrich.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000009_000000|Karl told him the whole story; and the mental process of regarding it for the sake of telling it, revealed to him pretty clearly some of the treatment of which he had been unconscious at the time.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000009_000001|Heinrich was quite sure that his suspicions were correct.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000009_000002|And now the question was, what was to be done next?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000011_000000|To this proposal Karl agreed with hearty thanks, and soon all was arranged.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000011_000001|The only conclusion they could yet arrive at was, that somehow or other the old demon painter must be tamed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000000|Meantime, how fared it with Lilith?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000001|She too had no doubt that she had seen the body ghost of poor Karl, and that the vampire had, according to rule, paid her the first visit because he loved her best.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000003|And then, though he had visited her, he had not, as far as she was aware, deprived her of a drop of blood.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000004|She could not be certain that he had not bitten her, for she had been in such a strange condition of mind that she might not have felt it, but she believed that he had restrained the impulses of his vampire nature, and had left her, lest he should yet yield to them.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000005|She fell fast asleep; and, when morning came, there was not, as far as she could judge, one of those triangular leech like perforations to be found upon her whole body.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000006|Will it be believed that the moment she was satisfied of this, she was seized by a terrible jealousy, lest Karl should have gone and bitten some one else?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000009|They were very different causes, and the effects must be very different.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000001|There lay the awful white block, seeming to his eyes just the same as he had left it.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000002|What was to be done with it?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000003|He dared not open it.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000004|Mould and model must go together.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000006|If inquiry should be made after Wolkenlicht, and this were discovered anywhere on his premises, would it not be enough to bring him at once to the gallows?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000007|Therefore it would be dangerous to bury it in the garden, or in the cellar.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000014_000000|"Besides," thought he, with a shudder, "that would be to fix the vampire as a guest for ever."--And the horrors of the past night rushed back upon his imagination with renewed intensity.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000014_000001|What would it be to have the dead Karl crawling about his house for ever, now inside, now out, now sitting on the stairs, now staring in at the windows?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000015_000000|He would have dragged it to the bottom of his garden, past which the Moldau flowed, and plunged it into the stream; but then, should the spectre continue to prove troublesome, it would be almost impossible to reach the body so as to destroy it by fire; besides which, he could not do it without assistance, and the probability of discovery.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000015_000001|If, however, the apparition should turn out to be no vampire, but only a respectable ghost, they might manage to endure its presence, till it should be weary of haunting them.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000016_000000|He resolved at last to convey the body for the meantime into a concealed cellar in the house, seeing something must be done before his daughter came down.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000016_000001|Proceeding to remove it, his consternation as greatly increased when he discovered how the body had grown in weight since he had thus disposed of it, leaving on his mind scarcely a hope that it could turn out not to be a vampire after all.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000016_000002|He could scarcely stir it, and there was but one whom he could call to his assistance-the old woman who acted as his housekeeper and servant.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000000|He went to her room, roused her, and told her the whole story.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000001|Devoted to her master for many years, and not quite so sensitive to fearful influences as when less experienced in horrors, she showed immediate readiness to render him assistance.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000002|Utterly unable, however, to lift the mass between them, they could only drag and push it along; and such a slow toil was it that there was no time to remove the traces of its track, before Lilith came down and saw a broad white line leading from the door of the studio down the cellarstairs.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000003|She knew in a moment what it meant; but not a word was uttered about the matter, and the name of Karl Wolkenlicht seemed to be entirely forgotten.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000018_000001|So it was not surprising that the painter abandoned his studio early, and that the three found themselves together in the gorgeous room formerly described, as soon as twilight began to fall.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000000|Already Teufelsbuerst had begun to experience a kind of shrinking from the horrid faces in his own pictures, and to feel disgusted at the abortions of his own mind.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000003|As much as possible, however, they avoided alarming Lilith, who, knowing all they knew, was as silent as they.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000004|But her mind was in a strange state of excitement, partly from the presence of a new sense of love, the pleasure of which all the atmosphere of grief into which it grew could not totally quench.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000005|It comforted her somehow, as a child may comfort when his father is away.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000000|Bedtime came, and no one made a move to go.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000001|Without a word spoken on the subject, the three remained together all night; the elders nodding and slumbering occasionally, and Lilith getting some share of repose on a couch.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000002|All night the shape of death might be somewhere about the house; but it did not disturb them.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000003|They heard no sound, saw no sight; and when the morning dawned, they separated, chilled and stupid, and for the time beyond fear, to seek repose in their private chambers.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000004|There they remained equally undisturbed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000000|But when the painter approached his easel a few hours after, looking more pale and haggard still than he was wont, from the fears of the night, a new bewilderment took possession of him.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000001|He had been busy with a fresh embodiment of his favourite subject, into which he had sketched the form of the student as the sufferer.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000003|At an open door he had painted Lilith passing, with her face buried in a bunch of sweet peas.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000004|But when he came to the picture, he found, to his astonishment and terror, that the face of one of the group was now turned towards that of the victim, regarding his revival with demoniac satisfaction, and taking pains to prevent the others from discovering it.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000005|The face of this prince of torturers was that of Teufelsbuerst himself.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000006|Lilith had altogether vanished, and in her place stood the dim vampire reiteration of the body that lay extended on the table, staring greedily at the assembled company.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000007|With trembling hands the painter removed the picture from the easel, and turned its face to the wall.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000000|Of course this was the work of Lottchen.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000001|When he left the house, he took with him the key of a small private door, which was so seldom used that, while it remained closed, the key would not be missed, perhaps for many months.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000002|Watching the windows, he had chosen a safe time to enter, and had been hard at work all night on these alterations.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000003|Teufelsbuerst attributed them to the vampire, and left the picture as he found it, not daring to put brush to it again.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000000|The next night was passed much after the same fashion.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000001|But the fear had begun to die away a little in the hearts of the women, who did not know what had taken place in the studio on the previous night.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000003|But this night likewise passed in peace; and before it was over, the old woman had taken to speculating in her own mind as to the best way of disposing of the body, seeing it was not at all likely to be troublesome.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000004|But when the painter entered his studio in trepidation the next morning, he found that the form of the lovely Lilith was painted out of every picture in the room.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000005|This could not be concealed; and Lilith and the servant became aware that the studio was the portion of the house in haunting which the vampire left the rest in peace.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000000|Karl recounted all the tricks he had played to his friend Heinrich, who begged to be allowed to bear him company the following night.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000002|So they took a couple of bottles of wine and some provisions with them, and before midnight found themselves snug in the studio.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000003|They sat very quiet for some time, for they knew that if they were seen, two vampires would not be so terrible as one, and might occasion discovery.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000004|But at length Heinrich could bear it no longer.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000000|"I think I know.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000001|Stop; let me peep out.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000002|All right!
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000003|Come along."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000027_000000|With a lamp in his hand, he led the way to the cellars, and after searching about a little they discovered it.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000029_000000|So he took a bottle from his pocket, and after they had had a glass apiece, he dropped a third in blots all over the plaster.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000029_000001|Being red wine, it had the effect Hoellenrachen desired.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000031_000000|In a corner close by the plaster, they found the clothes Karl had worn.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000033_000000|So he carried them with him to the studio.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000033_000001|There he got hold of the lay figure.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000034_000000|"What are you about, Heinrich?"
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000001|He next seated the creature at an easel with its back to the door, so that it should be the first thing the painter should see when he entered.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000002|Karl meant to remove this before he went, for it was too comical to fall in with the rest of his proceedings.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000003|But the two sat down to their supper, and by the time they had finished the wine, they thought they should like to go to bed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000004|So they got up and went home, and Karl forgot the lay figure, leaving it in busy motionlessness all night before the easel.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000005|When Teufelsbuerst saw it, he turned and fled with a cry that brought his daughter to his help.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000006|He rushed past her, able only to articulate:
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000036_000001|The vampire!
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000000|Far more courageous than he, because her conscience was more peaceful, Lilith passed on to the studio.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000001|She too recoiled a step or two when she saw the figure; but with the sight of the back of Karl, as she supposed it to be, came the longing to see the face that was on the other side. So she crept round and round by the wall, as far off as she could.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000003|It was a strange kind of shock that she experienced when she saw the face, disgusting from its inanity.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000004|The absurdity next struck her; and with the absurdity flashed into her mind the conviction that this was not the doing of a vampire; for of all creatures under the moon, he could not be expected to be a humorist.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000005|A wild hope sprang up in her mind that Karl was not dead.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000006|Of this she soon resolved to make herself sure.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000000|She closed the door of the studio; in the strength of her new hope undressed the figure, put it in its place, concealed the garments-all the work of a few minutes; and then, finding her father just recovering from the worst of his fear, told him there was nothing in the studio but what ought to be there, and persuaded him to go and see.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000001|He not only saw no one, but found that no further liberties had been taken with his pictures.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000002|Reassured, he soon persuaded himself that the spectre in this case had been the offspring of his own terror haunted brain.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000003|But he had no spirit for painting now.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000004|He wandered about the house, himself haunting it like a restless ghost.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000039_000000|When night came, Lilith retired to her own room.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000039_000001|The waters of fear had begun to subside in the house; but the painter and his old attendant did not yet follow her example.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000040_000000|As soon, however, as the house was quite still, Lilith glided noiselessly down the stairs, went into the studio, where as yet there assuredly was no vampire, and concealed herself in a corner.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000041_000000|As it would not do for an earnest student like Heinrich to be away from his work very often, he had not asked to accompany Lottchen this time. And indeed Karl himself, a little anxious about the result of the scarecrow, greatly preferred going alone.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000000|While she was waiting for what might happen, the conviction grew upon Lilith, as she reviewed all the past of the story, that these phenomena were the work of the real Karl, and of no vampire.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000001|In a few moments she was still more sure of this.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000002|Behind the screen where she had taken refuge, hung one of the pictures out of which her portrait had been painted the night before last.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000004|She had not looked at it long, before she wetted the tip of her forefinger, and began to rub away at the obliteration.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000005|Her suspicions were instantly confirmed: the substance employed was only a gummy wash over the paint.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000006|The delight she experienced at the discovery threw her into a mischievous humour.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000043_000000|"I will see," she said to herself, "whether I cannot match Karl Wolkenlicht at this game."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000000|In a closet in the room hung a number of costumes, which Lilith had at different times worn for her father.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000001|Among them was a large white drapery, which she easily disposed as a shroud.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000002|With the help of some chalk, she soon made herself ghastly enough, and then placing her lamp on the floor behind the screen, and setting a chair over it, so that it should throw no light in any direction, she waited once more for the vampire.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000003|Nor had she much longer to wait.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000004|She soon heard a door move, the sound of which she hardly knew, and then the studio door opened.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000005|Her heart beat dreadfully, not with fear lest it should be a vampire after all, but with hope that it was Karl.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000006|To see him once more was too great joy.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000007|Would she not make up to him for all her coldness!
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000008|But would he care for her now?
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000009|Perhaps he had been quite cured of his longing for a hard heart like hers.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000010|She peeped.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000011|It was he sure enough, looking as handsome as ever.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000012|He was holding his light to look at her last work, and the expression of his face, even in regarding her handiwork, was enough to let her know that he loved her still.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000013|If she had not seen this, she dared not have shown herself from her hiding place.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000015|She then made a slight noise to attract Karl's attention.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000016|He looked up, evidently rather startled, and saw the face of Lilith in the air: He gave a stifled cry threw himself on his knees with his arms stretched towards her, and moaned-
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000045_000000|"I have killed her!
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000045_000001|I have killed her!"
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000046_000000|Lilith descended, and approached him noiselessly.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000046_000001|He did not move.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000046_000002|She came close to him and said-
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000047_000000|"Are you Karl Wolkenlicht?"
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000048_000000|His lips moved, but no sound came.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000050_000000|Karl sprang to his feet.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000050_000001|Lilith's laugh changed into a burst of sobbing and weeping, and in another moment the ghost was in the arms of the vampire.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000051_000000|Lilith had no idea how far her father had wronged Karl, and though, from thinking over the past, he had no doubt that the painter had drugged him, he did not wish to pain her by imparting this conviction.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000051_000001|But Lilith was afraid of a reaction of rage and hatred in her father after the terror was removed; and Karl saw that he might thus be deprived of all further intercourse with Lilith, and all chance of softening the old man's heart towards him; while Lilith would not hear of forsaking him who had banished all the human race but herself.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000051_000002|They managed at length to agree upon a plan of operation.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000000|The first thing they did was to go to the cellar where the plaster mass lay, Karl carrying with him a great axe used for cleaving wood.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000001|Lilith shuddered when she saw it, stained as it was with the wine Heinrich had spilt over it, and almost believed herself the midnight companion of a vampire after all, visiting with him the terrible corpse in which he lived all day.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000002|But Karl soon reassured her; and a few good blows of the axe revealed a very different core to that which Teufelsbuerst supposed to be in it.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000003|Karl broke it into pieces, and with Lilith's help, who insisted on carrying her share, the whole was soon at the bottom of the Moldau and every trace of its ever having existed removed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000004|Before morning, too, the form of Lilith had dawned anew in every picture.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000000|When they had done, and Lilith, for all his entreaties, would remain with him no longer, Karl took his former clothes with him, and having spent the rest of the night in his old room, dressed in them in the morning.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000002|The painter started, stared, rubbed his eyes, thought it was another spectral illusion, and was on the point of yielding to his terror, when Karl rose, and approached him with a smile.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000003|The healthy, sunshiny countenance of Karl, let him be ghost or goblin, could not fail to produce somewhat of a tranquillising effect on Teufelsbuerst.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000004|He took his offered hand mechanically, his countenance utterly vacant with idiotic bewilderment. Karl said-
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000054_000000|"I was not well, and thought it better to pay a visit to a friend for a few days; but I shall soon make up for lost time, for I am all right now."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000003|In a few moments he came up again.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000004|Karl stole a glance at him.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000005|There he stood in the same spot, no doubt more full of bewilderment than ever, but it was not possible that his face should express more.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000006|At last he went to his easel, and sat down with a long drawn sigh as if of relief.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000007|But though he sat at his easel, he painted none that day; and as often as Karl ventured a glance, he saw him still staring at him.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000008|The discovery that his pictures were restored to their former condition aided, no doubt, in leading him to the same conclusion as the other facts, whatever that conclusion might be-probably that he had been the sport of some evil power, and had been for the greater part of a week utterly bewitched.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000010|But when all was restored again to the old routine, it became evident that the peculiar direction of his art in which he had hitherto indulged had ceased to interest him.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000011|The shock had acted chiefly upon that part of his mental being which had been so absorbed.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000013|Karl paid him every attention; and the old man, for he now looked much older than before, submitted to receive his services as well as those of Lilith.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000014|At length, one morning, he said in a slow thoughtful tone-
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000056_000000|"Karl Wolkenlicht, I should like to paint you."
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000057_000000|"Certainly, sir," answered Karl, jumping up, "where would you like me to sit?"
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000058_000001|And as soon as he had finished Karl, he began once more to paint Lilith; and when he had painted her, he composed a picture for the very purpose of introducing them together; and in this picture there was neither ugliness nor torture, but human feeling and human hope instead.
train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000058_000002|Then Karl knew that he might speak to him of Lilith; and he spoke, and was heard with a smile.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000000_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000001_000000|THE SCREAM IN THE NIGHT
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000002_000002|It was too late now to hesitate or turn back; we must press forward.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000004_000001|It was half past eleven.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000006_000000|I stood up with a gasp of thankfulness.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000008_000001|"I've got something to tell you."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000009_000001|"Well, what are they?"
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000014_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000016_000000|"I have it!" he said.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000019_000000|"Up the ladder.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000019_000003|If it doesn't ..."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000022_000001|Then Godfrey's voice spoke again.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000023_000000|"It's three minutes of twelve," he said.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000025_000000|"It must be long past midnight," I whispered.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000028_000000|"Well," I asked, at last, "what now?"
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000031_000000|"I don't know what I fear; but there's something wrong over there. This is the first night for a week that that light hasn't appeared."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000032_000000|"Still," I pointed out, "that may have nothing to do with Swain."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000035_000000|"If he's back," I said, "he'll have taken the ladders down from the wall."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000037_000000|"The other ladder is still there," he said, and took off his cap and rubbed his head perplexedly.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000040_000000|"Then we'll start from there and take a quiet look for him.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000043_000001|"And here's an electric torch. Do you feel the button?"
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000045_000000|"You'd better keep it in your hand," he added, "ready for action.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000045_000002|And now come ahead."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000047_000000|"Look here, Godfrey," I said, "do you realise that what we're about to do is pretty serious?
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000049_000000|"You remind me of Tartarin," he said; "the adventurer Tartarin urging you on, the lawyer Tartarin holding you back.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000049_000003|But if he's too strong for you, why, stay here," and he started up the ladder.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000053_000000|I felt Godfrey press me back, and descended cautiously.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000057_000000|"Stand back!" he cried, hoarsely.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000057_000001|"Who is it?
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000057_000002|What do you want?"
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000058_000000|"It's Lester," I said, and Godfrey flashed his torch into my face, then back to Swain's.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000060_000000|"No; this is mr Godfrey."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000061_000001|Godfrey?"
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000062_000000|"Whose house we're staying at," I explained.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000064_000001|Then we can talk.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000066_000000|"I want to wash," he said, thickly.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000067_000001|"You're right-that cut must be attended to," and he started toward the house.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000068_000000|"Wait!" Swain called after him, with unexpected vigour.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000068_000001|"We must take down the ladders.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000069_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000070_000000|"If they're found, they'll suspect-they'll know ..."
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000072_000000|"Very well," Godfrey agreed, at last.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000075_000001|The next instant, the figure poised itself on the coping of the wall and then plunged forward out of sight.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000078_000000|"Come on!" he said.
train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000078_000001|"We must save him if we can!" and he, too, disappeared.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000000_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000004_000000|"mr Smith," began Betty.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000006_000000|"Who, exactly?" asked Smith.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000007_000000|"De whole bunch of dem."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000008_000000|Smith inspected Pugsy through his eyeglass.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000008_000001|"Can you give me any particulars?" he asked patiently.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000010_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000010_000001|Asher," said Betty, "and mr Philpotts, and all the rest of them." She struggled for a moment, but, unable to resist the temptation, added, "I told you so."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000011_000000|A faint smile appeared upon Smith's face.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000002|'I'll go in and wait,' says he.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000005|In about t'ree minutes along comes another gazebo.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000011|I says, 'Well, gent,' I says, 'it's up to youse.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000014|I can't be boddered!'"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000013_000000|"And what more could you have said?" agreed Smith approvingly.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000013_000001|"Tell me, did these gentlemen appear to be gay and light-hearted, or did they seem to be looking for someone with a hatchet?"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000015_000000|"Dreadfully," attested Betty.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000016_000000|"As I suspected," said Smith, "but we must not repine.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000016_000001|These trifling contretemps are the penalties we pay for our high journalistic aims.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000018_000000|Master Maloney's statement that "about 'steen" visitors had arrived proved to be a little exaggerated.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000018_000001|There were five men in the room.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000019_000005|Not a word was spoken as he paced, wrapped in thought, to the editorial chair.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000020_000000|This accomplished, he looked up and started.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000021_000000|"Ha!
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000021_000001|I am observed!" he murmured.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000022_000000|The words broke the spell.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000022_000001|Instantly the five visitors burst simultaneously into speech.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000023_000000|"Are you the acting editor of this paper?"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000024_000000|"I wish to have a word with you, sir."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000025_000000|"mr Maloney, I presume?"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000026_000000|"Pardon me!"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000027_000000|"I should like a few moments' conversation."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000030_000000|"Are you mr Maloney, may I ask?" enquired the favored one.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000031_000000|The others paused for the reply.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000031_000001|Smith shook his head.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000031_000002|"My name is Smith."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000033_000000|Smith looked across at Betty, who had seated herself in her place by the typewriter.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000034_000001|Ah, well, never mind.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000034_000003|I am on the editorial staff of this paper."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000037_000001|"My wife," he went on, "has received this extraordinary communication from a man signing himself p Maloney.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000037_000002|We are both at a loss to make head or tail of it."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000039_000000|"It's an outrage.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000039_000003|And now, without the slightest warning, comes this peremptory dismissal from p Maloney. Who is p Maloney?
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000039_000004|Where is mr Renshaw?"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000000|The chorus burst forth.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000001|It seemed that that was what they all wanted to know.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000002|Who was p Maloney?
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000003|Where was mr Renshaw?
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000042_000000|Smith nodded.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000043_000000|"I know, yours has always seemed to me work which the world will not willingly let die."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000044_000000|The Reverend Edwin's frosty face thawed into a bleak smile.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000045_000000|"And yet," continued Smith, "I gather that p Maloney, on the other hand, actually wishes to hurry on its decease.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000045_000001|Strange!"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000047_000000|"Where's this fellow Maloney?
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000049_000003|See here-"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000051_000002|I write 'Moments of Mirth.'"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000052_000001|He stood up and shook mr Asher reverently by the hand.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000053_000000|"Gentlemen," he said, reseating himself, "this is a painful case.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000053_000001|The circumstances, as you will admit when you have heard all, are peculiar. You have asked me where mr Renshaw is.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000053_000002|I don't know."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000054_000000|"You don't know!" exclaimed mr Asher.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000002|Shortly after I joined this journal, he started out on a vacation, by his doctor's orders, and left no address.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000004|He was to enjoy complete rest.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000006|Possibly racing down some rugged slope in the Rockies with two grizzlies and a wildcat in earnest pursuit.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000008|Who can tell?"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000056_000000|Silent consternation prevailed among his audience.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000058_000000|Smith bowed.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000059_000006|A rapid fire impression of a glove fight, a spine shaking word picture of a railway smash, or something on those lines, would be welcomed.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000059_000007|But-"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000000|"In this life," said Smith, shaking his head, "we must be prepared for every emergency.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000003|You are unprepared.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000004|The thing comes on you as a surprise.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000005|The cry goes round New York, 'Comrades Asher, Waterman, Philpotts, and others have been taken unawares.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000006|They cannot cope with the situation.'"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000062_000000|"But what is to be done?" cried mr Asher.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000063_000000|"Nothing, I fear, except to wait.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000063_000001|It may be that when mr Renshaw, having dodged the bears and eluded the wildcat, returns to his post, he will decide not to continue the paper on the lines at present mapped out.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000063_000002|He should be back in about ten weeks."
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000064_000000|"Ten weeks!"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000065_000000|"Till then, the only thing to do is to wait.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000065_000001|You may rely on me to keep a watchful eye on your interests.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000065_000003|Smith is keeping a watchful eye on our interests.'"
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000066_000000|"All the same, I should like to see this p Maloney," said mr Asher.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000001|"I speak in your best interests.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000003|He cannot brook interference.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000005|He would be the first to regret any violent action, when once he had cooled off, but- Of course, if you wish it I could arrange a meeting. No?
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000007|And now, gentlemen, as I have a good deal of work to get through-
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000000|"All very disturbing to the man of culture and refinement," said Smith, as the door closed behind the last of the malcontents.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000002|I see no further obstacle in our path.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000003|I fear I have made Comrade Maloney perhaps a shade unpopular with our late contributors, but these things must be.
train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000004|We must clench our teeth and face them manfully.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000003_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000005_000000|It is claimed that in States, districts, and counties, in which the colored people are in the majority, the suppression of the colored vote is necessary to prevent "Negro Domination,"--to prevent the ascendency of the blacks over the whites in the administration of the State and local governments.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000006_000000|This claim is based upon the assumption that if the black vote were not suppressed in all such States, districts, and counties, black men would be supported and elected to office because they were black, and white men would be opposed and defeated because they were white.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000000|Taking Mississippi for purposes of illustration, it will be seen that there has never been the slightest ground for such an apprehension.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000001|No colored man in that State ever occupied a judicial position above that of Justice of the Peace and very few aspired to that position.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000003|Of the two United States Senators and the seven members of the lower house of Congress not more than one colored man occupied a seat in each house at the same time.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000004|Of the thirty five members of the State Senate, and of the one hundred and fifteen members of the House,--which composed the total membership of the State Legislature prior to eighteen seventy four,--there were never more than about seven colored men in the Senate and forty in the lower house.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000006|The composition of the lower house of the State Legislature that was elected in eighteen seventy one was as follows:
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000000|Total membership, one hundred and fifteen.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000001|Republicans, sixty six; Democrats, forty nine.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000002|Colored members, thirty eight.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000003|White members, seventy seven.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000004|White majority, thirty nine.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000000|Of the sixty six Republicans thirty eight were colored and twenty eight, white.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000001|There was a slight increase in the colored membership as a result of the election of eighteen seventy three, but the colored men never at any time had control of the State Government nor of any branch or department thereof, nor even that of any county or municipality.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000003|The State; district, county, and municipal governments were not only in control of white men, but white men who were to the manor born, or who were known as old citizens of the State-those who had lived in the State many years before the War of the Rebellion.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000004|There was, therefore, never a time when that class of white men known as Carpet baggers had absolute control of the State Government, or that of any district, county or municipality, or any branch or department thereof.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000005|There was never, therefore, any ground for the alleged apprehension of negro domination as a result of a free, fair, and honest election in any one of the Southern or Reconstructed States.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000000|And this brings us to a consideration of the question, What is meant by "Negro Domination?"
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000001|The answer that the average reader would give to that question would be that it means the actual, physical domination of the blacks over the whites.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000002|But, according to a high Democratic authority, that would be an incorrect answer.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000003|The definition given by that authority I have every reason to believe is the correct one, the generally accepted one.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000004|The authority referred to is the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi, h h
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000011_000001|If this is the correct definition of that term,--and it is, no doubt, the generally accepted one,--then the friends and advocates of manhood suffrage will not deny that we have had in the past "Negro Domination," nationally as well as locally, and that we may have it in the future.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000013_000001|For instance, in the Presidential election of eighteen sixty eight, General Grant, the Republican candidate, lost the important and pivotal State of New York, a loss which would have resulted in his defeat if the Southern States that took part in that election had all voted against him.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000013_000002|That they did not do so was due to the votes of the colored men in those States.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000013_000003|Therefore Grant's first administration represented "Negro Domination."
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000000|Again, in eighteen seventy six, Hayes was declared elected President by a majority of one vote in the electoral college.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000001|This was made possible by the result of the election in the States of Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, about which there was much doubt and considerable dispute, and over which there was a bitter controversy.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000002|But for the colored vote in those States there would have been no doubt, no dispute, no controversy.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000004|Therefore, the Hayes administration represented "Negro Domination."
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000015_000000|Again, in eighteen eighty, General Garfield, the Republican candidate for President, carried the State of New York by a plurality of about twenty thousand, without which he could not have been elected.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000015_000001|It will not be denied by those who are well informed that if the colored men that voted for him in that State at that time had voted against him, he would have lost the State and, with it, the Presidency.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000015_000002|Therefore, the Garfield Arthur administration represented "Negro Domination."
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000016_000000|Again, in eighteen eighty four, mr Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, carried the doubtful but very important State of New York by the narrow margin of one thousand one hundred forty seven plurality, which resulted in his election.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000016_000001|It cannot and will not be denied that even at that early date the number of colored men that voted for mr Cleveland was far in excess of the plurality by which he carried the State.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000016_000002|mr Cleveland's first administration, therefore, represented "Negro Domination." mr Cleveland did not hesitate to admit and appreciate the fact that colored men contributed largely to his success, hence he did not fail to give that element of his party appropriate and satisfactory official recognition.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000017_000000|Again, in eighteen eighty eight, General Harrison, the Republican Presidential candidate, carried the State of New York by a plurality of about twenty thousand, which resulted in his election, which he would have lost but for the votes of the colored men in that State.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000017_000001|Therefore, Harrison's administration represented "Negro Domination."
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000000|The same is true of important elections in a number of States, districts and counties in which the colored vote proved to be potential and decisive.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000003|Why was this? What was the excuse for it?
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000004|What was the motive, the incentive that caused it?
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000005|It was not in the interest of good, efficient, and capable government; for that we already had.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000006|It was not on account of dishonesty, maladministration, misappropriation of public funds; for every dollar of the public funds had been faithfully accounted for.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000007|It was not on account of high taxes; for it had been shown that, while the tax rate was quite high during the Alcorn administration, it had been reduced under the Ames administration to a point considerably less than it is now or than it has been for a number of years.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000008|It was not to prevent "Negro Domination" and to make sure the ascendency of the whites in the administration of the State and local governments; for that was then the recognized and established order of things, from which there was no apprehension of departure.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000009|Then, what was the cause of this sudden and unexpected uprising?
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000010|There must have been a strong, if not a justifiable, reason for it.
train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000011|What was it?
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000003_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000004_000000|THE DOG ON THE TRAP LINE.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000006_000000|Now, we will say first that there is as much or more difference in the man who handles the dog as there is in the different breeds of dogs.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000006_000001|We have heard men say that they wanted no dog on the trap line with them, and that they didn't believe that any one who did want a dog on the trap line knew but very little about trapping at the best.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000000|Now those are the views and ideas of some trappers, while my experience has led me to see it otherwise.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000001|One who is so constituted that they must give a dog the growl or perhaps a kick every time they come in reach, will undoubtedly find a dog of but little use on the trap line.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000002|We have known some dogs to refuse to eat, and would lay out where they could watch in the direction in which their master had gone and piteously howl for hours, waiting the return of the master and friend.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000003|I have seen other dogs that would take for the barn or any other place to get out of the way at the first sight or sound of their master.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000008_000000|I have seen men training dogs for bird hunting, who would treat the dog most cruelly and claim that a dog could not be trained to work a bird successfully under any other treatment.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000008_000001|Though I have seen others train the same breed of dogs to work a bird to perfection and that their most harsh treatment would be a tap or two with a little switch.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000008_000002|I will say that one who cannot understand the wag of a dog's tail, the wistful gaze of the eye, the quick lifting of the ears, the cautious raising of a foot, and above all, treat his dog as a friend, need expect his dog to be but little else than a nuisance on the trap line.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000000|Several years ago I had a partner who had a dog, part stag hound and the other part just dog, I think.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000001|One day he (my partner) asked if I would object to his bringing the dog to camp, saying that his wife was going on a visit and he had no place to leave the dog.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000002|I told him that if he had a good dog I would be glad to have him in camp.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000003|In a day or two pard went home and brought in the dog.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000005|I asked if the animal was any good and he replied that he did not know how good he was.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000006|I asked the name of the dog.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000007|He said, "Oh, I call him Pont." I spoke to the dog, calling him by name.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000008|He looked at me wistfully, wagging his tail.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000009|The look that dog gave me said to me as plainly as words that this was the first kind word he had ever heard.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000000|We went inside and the dog started to follow, when his master in a harsh voice said, "get out of here." I said, "where do you expect the dog to go?" I then took an old coat that was in the camp, placed it in the corner and called gently to Pont, patted the coat and told him to lay down on the coat, which he did.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000001|I patted him saying that is a good place for Pont, and I can see that wistful gaze the dog gave me, now.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000002|After we had our supper I asked my partner if he wasn't going to fix Pont some supper.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000003|"Oh, after a while I will see if I can't find something for him." I took a biscuit from the table, spread some butter on it, called the dog to me, broke the biscuit in pieces, and gave it to the dog from my hand; then I found an old basin that chanced to be about the camp and fixed the dog a good supper.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000011_000000|After the dog had finished his supper I went to the coat in the corner, spoke gently to Pont, patted the coat, and told him to lay down on the coat.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000011_000001|That was the end of that, Pont knew his place and took it without any further trouble.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000000|The next morning when we were about ready to start out on the trap line I asked Pard what he intended to do with Pont.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000001|He said that he would tie him to a tree that stood against the shanty close to the door.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000002|We were going to take different lines of traps.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000003|I said, "What is the harm of Pont's going with me?" "All right, if you want him, I don't want any dog with me." I said, Am, (that was Pard's given name, for short) I don't believe the dog wants to go with you any more than you want him to.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000004|Am's reply was that he guessed he would go all right if he wanted him.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000005|I said.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000006|Am, just for shucks, say nothing to the dog and see which one he will follow.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000007|So we stepped outside the shack and the dog stood close to me.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000013_000000|I said, "Go on Am, and we will see who the dog will follow." He started off and the dog only looked at him.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000013_000001|Am stopped and told the dog to come on.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000013_000002|The dog got around behind me.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000000|I started on my way, Pont following after I had gone a little ways.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000001|I spoke to Pont, patting him on the head and told him what a good dog he was.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000002|He jumped about and showed more ways than one how pleased he was, and from that day until we broke camp, Pont stayed with me.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000003|He showed plainly the disgust he had for his master.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000016_000002|Pont showed what pride he took in the hunt, so much so that he did not like to have Am go near the pelt.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000016_000003|I saw from the very first day out that all that Pont needed was kind treatment and proper training to make a good help on the trap line.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000000|I was careful to let him know what I was doing when setting a trap, and when he would go to smell at the bait after a trap had been set, I would speak to him in a firm voice and let him know that I did not approve of what he was doing.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000001|When making blind sets, I took the same pains to show and give him to understand what I was doing.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000002|I would sometimes, after giving him fair warning, let him put his foot into a trap.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000004|Then all the time I was resetting the trap I would talk trap to him, and by action and word teach him the nature of the trap.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000005|mr Trapper, please do not persuade yourself to believe that the intelligent dog cannot understand if you go about it right.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000001|The third day Pont was with me he found a 'coon that had escaped with a trap nearly two weeks before.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000002|My route called me up a little draw from the main stream.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000003|I had not gone far up this when Pont took the trail of some animal and began working it up the side of the hill.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000005|He soon raised his head and gave a long howl, as much as to say he is here and I want help.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000006|After running a stick in the hole I soon discovered that the log was hollow.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000008|Pont soon had the 'coon out, and when I saw it was the 'coon that had escaped with our trap, I gave Pont praise for what he had done, petting him and telling him of his good deed, and he seemed to understand it all.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000000|Not long after this Am came into camp at night and reported that a fox had broken the chain on a certain trap and gone off with the trap, saying that he would take Pont in the morning and see if he could find the fox.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000001|In the morning when we were ready to go Am tried to have Pont follow him, but it was no go, Pont would not go with him.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000002|Then Am put a rope on to him and tried to lead him, but Pont would sulk and would not be led.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000003|Then Am lost his temper and wanted to break Pont's neck again.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000004|I said that I did not like to have Pont abused and that I would go along with him.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000005|When we came to the place where the fox had escaped with the trap Am at once began to slap his hands and hiss Pont on.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000006|Pont only crouched behind me for protection. I persuaded Am to go on down the run and look at the traps down that way while I and Pont would look after the escaped fox.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000000|As soon as Am was gone I began to look about where the fox had been caught and search for his trail, and soon Pont began to wag his tail. I merely worked Pont's way and said, "Has he gone that way?" Pont gave me to understand that the fox had gone that way and that he knew what was wanted.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000002|A little way up this we found where the fox had been fast in some bushes but had freed himself and left and gone up the hillside.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000003|Pont soon began to get uneasy, and when I said hunt him out Pont, away he went and in a few minutes I heard Pont give a long howl and I knew that he had holed his game.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000004|When I came up to Pont he was working in a hole in some shell rocks.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000006|There was scarcely a week that Pont did not help us out on the trap line.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000021_000000|Not unfrequently did Pont show me a 'coon den.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000021_000001|I had some difficulty in teaching Pont to let the porcupines alone, but after a time he learned that they were not the kind of game that he wanted, and he paid no more attention to them.
train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000022_000000|I have had many different dogs on the trap line with me, and I can say to any one who can understand dog's language, has a liking for a dog and has a reasonable amount of patience and is willing to use it, will find a well trained dog of much benefit on the trap line, and often a more genial companion than some partners one may fall in with.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000001_000000|eighteen forty seven to eighteen eighty.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000002_000000|The story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the "bonnie Prince Charlie" of song, is too well known to need recapitulation here.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000002_000001|That he died in seventeen eighty eight, without leaving any legitimate offspring, is a fact equally well known; as also that his brother Henry Stuart, Cardinal York, who died in eighteen o seven, was the last of his ill fated race.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000002_000002|Notwithstanding the incontrovertible nature of these circumstances, attempts have been made within the last thirty or forty years to prove that Prince Charles did leave a legitimate son, the child of his wife the Princess Louisa; and that two brothers, who until quite recently were residing in London under the pseudonyms of "Counts d'Albanie," were the children of this unknown royal prince, and therefore grandchildren of "Charles the Third."
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000001|On glancing into the conveyance he was still more startled by beholding the not to be forgotten countenance of his beloved "Prince Charlie," seated by a lady's side.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000002|On the evening of the same day, whilst meditating on what he had seen, he was accosted by a man of military appearance, and asked whether he was dr Beaton, the Scotch physician.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000003|On replying in the affirmative, he was informed that his immediate attendance was required in a case of urgency, and all his questions as to the nature of the patient's malady were disposed of in a very unceremonious manner.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000004|His reluctance to be blindfolded before entering a carriage that was in waiting was overcome by the intimation that it was on behalf of him whom both recognised as their royal chief, that is to say, Prince Charles.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000000|After the usual style of such mystic tales, dr Beaton was taken to a secluded palace, and after being led through the usual corridors and apartments of such abodes, had his mask removed, and was permitted to inspect the magnificent chamber into which he had been inducted.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000002|He was taken into a gorgeous bedroom, where a lady who spoke English led him towards the bed, wherein he beheld the face of the lady he had seen in the carriage with Prince Charles, whilst by the bedside was a woman holding the newly born babe wrapped in a mantle.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000003|The patient was in a somewhat critical condition, so dr Beaton hastily turned to a writing table near at hand to write a prescription for her, and in so doing beheld among the trinkets on the table a miniature of Prince Charles, attired in the very uniform the doctor had seen him in at Culloden.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000004|The lady who had spoken English approached the table as if looking for something, and when Beaton looked again, the portrait had been turned on its face.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000005|Having performed his duties, the doctor was persuaded to take an oath on a crucifix, "never to speak of what he had seen, heard, or thought on that night, unless it should be in the service of his king-King Charles;" he was, also, desired to leave Tuscany that night, and then conducted from the dwelling in the same needlessly mysterious manner as he had been taken to it.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000000|The doctor obeyed his injunctions to the letter, and at once departed from the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000001|A few days later he arrived at a certain seaport, and one night, soon after his arrival, he was strolling along the beach when his attention was attracted by an English looking vessel anchored off the coast.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000004|His curiosity aroused by this singular coincidence, he stopped to watch what happened, and beheld a lady, bearing a babe in her arms, descend from the mysterious vehicle. This lady and her infantile charge were then conveyed on board the frigate, and no sooner had they got on board than the vessel hoisted sail and slowly disappeared.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000005|The babe, it is implied, was the legitimate son and heir of Prince Charles, thus mysteriously smuggled off in order to preserve it from the machinations of the English government.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000009_000000|Even had not direct testimony been forthcoming, the circumstantial evidence against the allegation that Prince Charles had left a legitimate child is so strong that no amount of "Romance of History" could upset it.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000009_000001|In his latter days, when separated from his wife, the Princess Louisa, Prince Charles sent for his illegitimate daughter by Miss Walkinshaw; created her Duchess of Albany, made her mistress of his household, and left her by will almost everything that he possessed, including such family jewels and plate as were still in his possession.
train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000009_000003|After the death of Prince Charles, who, from the time of his father's decease, had borne the title of King of England, his brother, clearly ignorant of the existence of a nearer claimant to the distinction, also assumed the royal title, and caused himself to be addressed as a sovereign, and styled "Henry the Ninth, King of Great Britain and Ireland."
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000001_000000|But, perhaps, the height of Shakespeare's conception of life is such that, tho he does not satisfy the esthetic demands, he discloses to us a view of life so new and important for men that, in consideration of its importance, all his failures as an artist become imperceptible.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000001_000001|So, indeed, say Shakespeare's admirers.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000002_000001|Gervinus devotes the concluding chapter of his second volume, about fifty pages, to an explanation of this.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000003_000000|The ethical authority of this supreme teacher of life consists in the following: The starting point of Shakespeare's conception of life, says Gervinus, is that man is gifted with powers of activity, and therefore, first of all, according to Gervinus, Shakespeare regarded it as good and necessary for man that he should act (as if it were possible for a man not to act):
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000005_000001|And happiness and success, according to Shakespeare, are attained by individuals possessing this active character, not at all owing to the superiority of their nature; on the contrary, notwithstanding their inferior gifts, the capacity of activity itself always gives them the advantage over inactivity, quite independent of any consideration whether the inactivity of some persons flows from excellent impulses and the activity of others from bad ones.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000005_000002|"Activity is good, inactivity is evil. Activity transforms evil into good," says Shakespeare, according to Gervinus.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000005_000004|In other words, he prefers death and murder due to ambition, to abstinence and wisdom.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000006_000005|He did not admit that the limits of duties should exceed the biddings of Nature.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000007_000000|That one may do too much good (exceed the reasonable limits of good) is convincingly proved by Shakespeare's words and examples.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000011_000000|"There are classes of men whose morality is best guarded by the positive precepts of religion and state law; to such persons Shakespeare's creations are inaccessible.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000011_000001|They are comprehensible and accessible only to the educated, from whom one can expect that they should acquire the healthy tact of life and self consciousness by means of which the innate guiding powers of conscience and reason, uniting with the will, lead us to the definite attainment of worthy aims in life.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000011_000002|But even for such educated people, Shakespeare's teaching is not always without danger. The condition on which his teaching is quite harmless is that it should be accepted in all its completeness, in all its parts, without any omission.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000000|In order thus to accept all, one should understand that, according to his teaching, it is stupid and harmful for the individual to revolt against, or endeavor to overthrow, the limits of established religious and state forms.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000004|Property, the family, the state, are sacred; but aspiration toward the recognition of the equality of men is insanity.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000007|How could a man who so eloquently attracts people toward honors, permit that the very aspiration toward that which was great be crushed together with rank and distinction for services, and, with the destruction of all degrees, "the motives for all high undertakings be stifled"?
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000008|Even if the attraction of honors and false power treacherously obtained were to cease, could the poet admit of the most dreadful of all violence, that of the ignorant crowd?
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000013_000000|Such is Shakespeare's view of life as demonstrated by his greatest exponent and admirer.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000015_000001|And indeed, Shakespeare always held that there are no unconditional prohibitions, nor unconditional duties.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000016_000002|And he who will attentively read Shakespeare's works can not fail to recognize that the description of this Shakespearian view of life by his admirers is quite correct.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000017_000000|The merit of every poetic work depends on three things:
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000020_000001|Without this condition there can be no work of art, as the essence of art consists in the contemplation of the work of art being infected with the author's feeling.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000020_000002|If the author does not actually feel what he expresses, then the recipient can not become infected with the feeling of the author, does not experience any feeling, and the production can no longer be classified as a work of art.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000022_000000|The second condition also, with the exception of the rendering of the scenes in which the movement of feelings is expressed, is quite absent in Shakespeare.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000022_000001|He does not grasp the natural character of the positions of his personages, nor the language of the persons represented, nor the feeling of measure without which no work can be artistic.
train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000023_000000|The third and most important condition, sincerity, is completely absent in all Shakespeare's works.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000001_000000|It was on such a day, and such an occasion, that my timorous acquaintance and I were about to grace the board of the ruddy faced host of the Black Bear, in the town of Darlington, and bishopric of Durham, when our landlord informed us, with a sort of apologetic tone, that there was a Scotch gentleman to dine with us.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000002_000000|"A gentleman!--what sort of a gentleman?" said my companion somewhat hastily-his mind, I suppose, running on gentlemen of the pad, as they were then termed.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000004_000001|"I respect the Scotch, sir; I love and honour the nation for their sense of morality.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000004_000002|Men talk of their filth and their poverty: but commend me to sterling honesty, though clad in rags, as the poet saith.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000008_000001|But thou kens I'm an outspoken Yorkshire tyke.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000011_000000|So saying, he eagerly whetted his knife, assumed his seat of empire at the head of the board, and loaded the plates of his sundry guests with his good cheer.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000000|This was the first time I had heard the Scottish accent, or, indeed, that I had familiarly met with an individual of the ancient nation by whom it was spoken.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000001|Yet, from an early period, they had occupied and interested my imagination.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000003|The quarrel betwixt him and his relatives was such, that he scarcely ever mentioned the race from which he sprung, and held as the most contemptible species of vanity, the weakness which is commonly termed family pride.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000004|His ambition was only to be distinguished as William Osbaldistone, the first, at least one of the first, merchants on Change; and to have proved him the lineal representative of William the Conqueror would have far less flattered his vanity than the hum and bustle which his approach was wont to produce among the bulls, bears, and brokers of Stock alley.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000006|But his designs, as will happen occasionally to the wisest, were, in some degree at least, counteracted by a being whom his pride would never have supposed of importance adequate to influence them in any way.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000007|His nurse, an old Northumbrian woman, attached to him from his infancy, was the only person connected with his native province for whom he retained any regard; and when fortune dawned upon him, one of the first uses which he made of her favours, was to give Mabel Rickets a place of residence within his household.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000009|Interdicted by her master from speaking to him on the subject of the heaths, glades, and dales of her beloved Northumberland, she poured herself forth to my infant ear in descriptions of the scenes of her youth, and long narratives of the events which tradition declared to have passed amongst them.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000011|D.--
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000013_000000|Oh, the oak, the ash, and the bonny ivy tree, They flourish best at home in the North Countrie!
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000000|Now, in the legends of Mabel, the Scottish nation was ever freshly remembered, with all the embittered declamation of which the narrator was capable.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000001|The inhabitants of the opposite frontier served in her narratives to fill up the parts which ogres and giants with seven leagued boots occupy in the ordinary nursery tales.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000002|And how could it be otherwise?
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000004|Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000005|And had we not many a trophy, but, according to old Mabel's version of history, far more honourably gained, to mark our revenge of these wrongs?
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000008|All our family renown was acquired-all our family misfortunes were occasioned-by the northern wars.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000000|Warmed by such tales, I looked upon the Scottish people during my childhood, as a race hostile by nature to the more southern inhabitants of this realm; and this view of the matter was not much corrected by the language which my father sometimes held with respect to them.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000001|He had engaged in some large speculations concerning oak woods, the property of Highland proprietors, and alleged, that he found them much more ready to make bargains, and extort earnest of the purchase money, than punctual in complying on their side with the terms of the engagements.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000002|The Scottish mercantile men, whom he was under the necessity of employing as a sort of middle men on these occasions, were also suspected by my father of having secured, by one means or other, more than their own share of the profit which ought to have accrued.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000004|In justification, or apology, for those who entertained such prejudices, I must remark, that the Scotch of that period were guilty of similar injustice to the English, whom they branded universally as a race of purse proud arrogant epicures.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000005|Such seeds of national dislike remained between the two countries, the natural consequences of their existence as separate and rival states.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000006|We have seen recently the breath of a demagogue blow these sparks into a temporary flame, which I sincerely hope is now extinguished in its own ashes.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000001|There was much about him that coincided with my previous conceptions.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000002|He had the hard features and athletic form said to be peculiar to his country, together with the national intonation and slow pedantic mode of expression, arising from a desire to avoid peculiarities of idiom or dialect.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000004|But I was not prepared for the air of easy self possession and superiority with which he seemed to predominate over the company into which he was thrown, as it were by accident.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000005|His dress was as coarse as it could be, being still decent; and, at a time when great expense was lavished upon the wardrobe, even of the lowest who pretended to the character of gentleman, this indicated mediocrity of circumstances, if not poverty.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000006|His conversation intimated that he was engaged in the cattle trade, no very dignified professional pursuit.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000007|And yet, under these disadvantages, he seemed, as a matter of course, to treat the rest of the company with the cool and condescending politeness which implies a real, or imagined, superiority over those towards whom it is used.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000008|When he gave his opinion on any point, it was with that easy tone of confidence used by those superior to their society in rank or information, as if what he said could not be doubted, and was not to be questioned.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000009|Mine host and his Sunday guests, after an effort or two to support their consequence by noise and bold averment, sunk gradually under the authority of mr Campbell, who thus fairly possessed himself of the lead in the conversation.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000011|In the latter respect he offered no competition, and it was easy to see that his natural powers had never been cultivated by education.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000000|On the subject of politics, Campbell observed a silence and moderation which might arise from caution.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000001|The divisions of Whig and Tory then shook England to her very centre, and a powerful party, engaged in the Jacobite interest, menaced the dynasty of Hanover, which had been just established on the throne.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000002|Every alehouse resounded with the brawls of contending politicians, and as mine host's politics were of that liberal description which quarrelled with no good customer, his hebdomadal visitants were often divided in their opinion as irreconcilably as if he had feasted the Common Council.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000003|The curate and the apothecary, with a little man, who made no boast of his vocation, but who, from the flourish and snap of his fingers, I believe to have been the barber, strongly espoused the cause of high church and the Stuart line.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000004|The excise man, as in duty bound, and the attorney, who looked to some petty office under the Crown, together with my fellow traveller, who seemed to enter keenly into the contest, staunchly supported the cause of King George and the Protestant succession.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000005|Dire was the screaming-deep the oaths!
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000006|Each party appealed to mr Campbell, anxious, it seemed, to elicit his approbation.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000024_000000|"And did you, sir, really," said my fellow traveller, edging his chair (I should have said his portmanteau) nearer to mr Campbell, "really and actually beat two highwaymen yourself alone?"
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000026_000000|"Upon my word, sir," replied my acquaintance, "I should be happy to have the pleasure of your company on my journey-I go northward, sir."
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000027_000000|This piece of gratuitous information concerning the route he proposed to himself, the first I had heard my companion bestow upon any one, failed to excite the corresponding confidence of the Scotchman.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000028_000000|"We can scarce travel together," he replied, drily.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000028_000001|"You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I for the present travel on foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward."
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000029_000000|So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000029_000001|My companion made up to him, and taking him by the button, drew him aside into one of the windows.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000029_000002|I could not help overhearing him pressing something-I supposed his company upon the journey, which mr Campbell seemed to decline.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000030_000000|"I will pay your charges, sir," said the traveller, in a tone as if he thought the argument should bear down all opposition.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000031_000000|"It is quite impossible," said Campbell, somewhat contemptuously; "I have business at Rothbury."
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000034_000000|"That gentleman," I replied, looking towards the traveller, "is no friend of mine, but an acquaintance whom I picked up on the road.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000036_000000|"The gentleman," replied I, "knows his own affairs best, and I should be sorry to constitute myself a judge of them in any respect."
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000037_000000|mr Campbell made no farther observation, but merely wished me a good journey, and the party dispersed for the evening.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000038_000000|Next day I parted company with my timid companion, as I left the great northern road to turn more westerly in the direction of Osbaldistone Manor, my uncle's seat.
train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000038_000001|I cannot tell whether he felt relieved or embarrassed by my departure, considering the dubious light in which he seemed to regard me.
train-clean-360/5333/5097/5333_5097_000001_000000|ROB ROY
train-clean-360/5333/5097/5333_5097_000002_000000|By Sir Walter Scott
train-clean-360/5333/5097/5333_5097_000006_000000|And hurry, hurry, off they rode, As fast as fast might be; Hurra, hurra, the dead can ride, Dost fear to ride with me? Burger.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000003_000000|But it is not enough that Shakespeare's characters are placed in tragic positions which are impossible, do not flow from the course of events, are inappropriate to time and space-these personages, besides this, act in a way which is out of keeping with their definite character, and is quite arbitrary.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000003_000001|It is generally asserted that in Shakespeare's dramas the characters are specially well expressed, that, notwithstanding their vividness, they are many sided, like those of living people; that, while exhibiting the characteristics of a given individual, they at the same time wear the features of man in general; it is usual to say that the delineation of character in Shakespeare is the height of perfection.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000004_000000|This is asserted with such confidence and repeated by all as indisputable truth; but however much I endeavored to find confirmation of this in Shakespeare's dramas, I always found the opposite.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000004_000002|This is absent from Shakespeare.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000002|They speak all alike.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000006|If there is a difference in the speech of Shakespeare's various characters, it lies merely in the different dialogs which are pronounced for these characters-again by Shakespeare and not by themselves.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000009|In the same way, also, it is Shakespeare alone who speaks for his villains: Richard, Edmund, Iago, Macbeth, expressing for them those vicious feelings which villains never express.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000011|So that in Shakespeare there is no language of living individuals-that language which in the drama is the chief means of setting forth character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000013|Moreover, if the characters speak at random and in a random way, and all in one and the same diction, as is the case in Shakespeare's work, then even the action of gesticulation is wasted.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000014|Therefore, whatever the blind panegyrists of Shakespeare may say, in Shakespeare there is no expression of character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000007_000001|But all these characters, as well as all the others, instead of belonging to Shakespeare, are taken by him from dramas, chronicles, and romances anterior to him.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000007_000002|All these characters not only are not rendered more powerful by him, but, in most cases, they are weakened and spoilt.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000007_000004|The characters of this drama, that of King Lear, and especially of Cordelia, not only were not created by Shakespeare, but have been strikingly weakened and deprived of force by him, as compared with their appearance in the older drama.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000001|All these motives for Lear's conduct are absent in Shakespeare's play.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000002|Then, when, according to the old drama, Leir asks his daughters about their love for him, Cordelia does not say, as Shakespeare has it, that she will not give her father all her love, but will love her husband, too, should she marry-which is quite unnatural-but simply says that she can not express her love in words, but hopes that her actions will prove it.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000008|She tells him the cause of her grief.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000010|Then the pilgrim, still disguised, offers her his hand and heart and Cordelia confesses she loves the pilgrim and consents to marry him, notwithstanding the poverty that awaits her.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000013|As in Shakespeare's drama, so also in the older drama, the courtiers, Perillus-Kent-who had interceded for Cordelia and was therefore banished-comes to Leir and assures him of his love, but under no disguise, but simply as a faithful old servant who does not abandon his king in a moment of need.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000014|Leir tells him what, according to Shakespeare, he tells Cordelia in the last scene, that, if the daughters whom he has benefited hate him, a retainer to whom he has done no good can not love him.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000015|But Perillus-Kent-assures the King of his love toward him, and Leir, pacified, goes on to Regan.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000017|Turned out by his elder daughters, Leir, according to the older drama, as a last resource, goes with Perillus to Cordelia.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000020|She accepts the counsel and takes Leir into her house without disclosing herself to him, and nurses him.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000010_000000|"If from the first," says Leir, "I should relate the cause, I would make a heart of adamant to weep. And thou, poor soul, kind hearted as thou art, Dost weep already, ere I do begin."
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000011_000000|Cordelia: "For God's love tell it, and when you have done I'll tell the reason why I weep so soon."
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000013_000000|Is there anything approaching this exquisite scene in Shakespeare's drama?
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000000|Thus it is in the drama we are examining, which Shakespeare has borrowed from the drama "King Leir." So it is also with Othello, taken from an Italian romance, the same also with the famous Hamlet.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000004|Shakespeare's Othello suffers from epilepsy, of which he has an attack on the stage; moreover, in Shakespeare's version, Desdemona's murder is preceded by the strange vow of the kneeling Othello.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000007|In that romance the reasons for Othello's jealousy are represented more naturally than in Shakespeare. In the romance, Cassio, knowing whose the handkerchief is, goes to Desdemona to return it, but, approaching the back door of Desdemona's house, sees Othello and flies from him.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000008|Othello perceives the escaping Cassio, and this, more than anything, confirms his suspicions. Shakespeare has not got this, and yet this casual incident explains Othello's jealousy more than anything else.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000009|With Shakespeare, this jealousy is founded entirely on Iago's persistent, successful machinations and treacherous words, which Othello blindly believes. Othello's monolog over the sleeping Desdemona, about his desiring her when killed to look as she is alive, about his going to love her even dead, and now wishing to smell her "balmy breath," etc, is utterly impossible.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000010|A man who is preparing for the murder of a beloved being, does not utter such phrases, still less after committing the murder would he speak about the necessity of an eclipse of sun and moon, and of the globe yawning; nor can he, negro tho he may be, address devils, inviting them to burn him in hot sulphur and so forth.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000011|Lastly, however effective may be the suicide, absent in the romance, it completely destroys the conception of his clearly defined character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000017_000000|So it is with the chief character, Othello, but notwithstanding its alteration and the disadvantageous features which it is made thereby to present in comparison with the character from which it was taken in the romance, this character still remains a character, but all the other personages are completely spoiled by Shakespeare.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000018_000000|Iago, according to Shakespeare, is an unmitigated villain, deceiver, and thief, a robber who robs Roderigo and always succeeds even in his most impossible designs, and therefore is a person quite apart from real life.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000018_000002|There are many motives, but they are all vague.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000018_000005|Emilia, who says anything it may occur to the author to put into her mouth, has not even the slightest semblance of a live character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000019_000000|"But Falstaff, the wonderful Falstaff," Shakespeare's eulogists will say, "of him, at all events, one can not say that he is not a living character, or that, having been taken from the comedy of an unknown author, it has been weakened."
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000020_000000|Falstaff, like all Shakespeare's characters, was taken from a drama or comedy by an unknown author, written on a really living person, Sir john Oldcastle, who had been the friend of some duke.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000020_000001|This Oldcastle had once been convicted of heresy, but had been saved by his friend the duke.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000020_000002|But afterward he was condemned and burned at the stake for his religious beliefs, which did not conform with Catholicism.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000000|Falstaff is, indeed, quite a natural and typical character; but then it is perhaps the only natural and typical character depicted by Shakespeare.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000001|And this character is natural and typical because, of all Shakespeare's characters, it alone speaks a language proper to itself. And it speaks thus because it speaks in that same Shakespearian language, full of mirthless jokes and unamusing puns which, being unnatural to all Shakespeare's other characters, is quite in harmony with the boastful, distorted, and depraved character of the drunken Falstaff.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000002|For this reason alone does this figure truly represent a definite character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000004|Thus it is with Falstaff.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000024_000002|And putting into the mouth of his hero these thoughts: about life (the grave digger), about death (To be or not to be)--the same which are expressed in his sixty sixth sonnet-about the theater, about women.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000025_000003|He persists, then sees his mother in private, kills a courtier who was eavesdropping, and convicts his mother of her sin.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000000|All this is comprehensible and flows from Hamlet's character and position.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000002|During the whole of the drama, Hamlet is doing, not what he would really wish to do, but what is necessary for the author's plan.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000003|One moment he is awe struck at his father's ghost, another moment he begins to chaff it, calling it "old mole"; one moment he loves Ophelia, another moment he teases her, and so forth.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000004|There is no possibility of finding any explanation whatever of Hamlet's actions or words, and therefore no possibility of attributing any character to him.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000027_000001|And lo! profound critics declare that in this drama, in the person of Hamlet, is expressed singularly powerful, perfectly novel, and deep personality, existing in this person having no character; and that precisely in this absence of character consists the genius of creating a deeply conceived character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000028_000000|So that neither do the characters of Lear nor Othello nor Falstaff nor yet Hamlet in any way confirm the existing opinion that Shakespeare's power consists in the delineation of character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000000|That a great talent for depicting character is attributed to Shakespeare arises from his actually possessing a peculiarity which, for superficial observers and in the play of good actors, may appear to be the capacity of depicting character.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000001|This peculiarity consists in the capacity of representative scenes expressing the play of emotion.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000003|Shakespeare, himself an actor, and an intelligent man, knew how to express by the means not only of speech, but of exclamation, gesture, and the repetition of words, states of mind and developments or changes of feeling taking place in the persons represented.
train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000005|Such clever methods of expressing the development of feeling, giving good actors the possibility of demonstrating their powers, were, and are, often mistaken by many critics for the expression of character.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000000_000001|They were in a wretched state, worn out and worn down.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000001_000000|They were all terribly footsore.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000001_000002|There was nothing the matter with them except that they were dead tired.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000001_000008|In less than five months they had travelled twenty five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days' rest. When they arrived at Skaguay they were apparently on their last legs. They could barely keep the traces taut, and on the down grades just managed to keep out of the way of the sled.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000002_000000|"Mush on, poor sore feets," the driver encouraged them as they tottered down the main street of Skaguay.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000003_000002|But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were official orders. Fresh batches of Hudson Bay dogs were to take the places of those worthless for the trail.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000003_000003|The worthless ones were to be got rid of, and, since dogs count for little against dollars, they were to be sold.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000004_000004|This belt was the most salient thing about him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000005_000002|"Mercedes" the men called her.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000006_000005|When they put a clothes sack on the front of the sled, she suggested it should go on the back; and when they had put it on the back, and covered it over with a couple of other bundles, she discovered overlooked articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very sack, and they unloaded again.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000010_000000|"It's springtime, and you won't get any more cold weather," the man replied.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000012_000000|"Think it'll ride?" one of the men asked.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000013_000000|"Why shouldn't it?" Charles demanded rather shortly.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000014_000000|"Oh, that's all right, that's all right," the man hastened meekly to say.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000018_000000|The dogs sprang against the breast bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000023_000002|They need a rest."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000025_000000|But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000025_000001|"Never mind that man," she said pointedly.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000026_000001|They threw themselves against the breast bands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000026_000003|After two efforts, they stood still, panting.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000027_000000|"You poor, poor dears," she cried sympathetically, "why don't you pull hard?--then you wouldn't be whipped." Buck did not like her, but he was feeling too miserable to resist her, taking it as part of the day's miserable work.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000029_000001|The runners are froze fast.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000029_000002|Throw your weight against the gee pole, right and left, and break it out."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000005|The dogs never stopped.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000006|The lightened sled bounded on its side behind them.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000008|Buck was raging.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000011|He tripped and was pulled off his feet.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000000|Kind hearted citizens caught the dogs and gathered up the scattered belongings.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000006|"Half as many is too much; get rid of them.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000007|Throw away that tent, and all those dishes,--who's going to wash them, anyway?
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000008|Good Lord, do you think you're travelling on a Pullman?"
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000032_000003|She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth broken heartedly.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000033_000000|This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a formidable bulk.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000033_000002|These, added to the six of the original team, and Teek and Koona, the huskies obtained at the Rink Rapids on the record trip, brought the team up to fourteen.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000033_000006|Buck and his comrades looked upon them with disgust, and though he speedily taught them their places and what not to do, he could not teach them what to do.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000001|The two men, however, were quite cheerful.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000002|And they were proud, too.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000005|In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled could not carry the food for fourteen dogs.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000007|They had worked the trip out with a pencil, so much to a dog, so many dogs, so many days, q e d
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000000|Late next morning Buck led the long team up the street.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000002|They were starting dead weary.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000003|Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000004|His heart was not in the work, nor was the heart of any dog.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000001|They did not know how to do anything, and as the days went by it became apparent that they could not learn.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000002|They were slack in all things, without order or discipline.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000003|It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000004|Some days they did not make ten miles.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000037_000002|The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites. And when, in addition to this, the worn out huskies pulled weakly, Hal decided that the orthodox ration was too small.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000037_000005|But it was not food that Buck and the huskies needed, but rest.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000038_000000|Then came the underfeeding.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000038_000002|So he cut down even the orthodox ration and tried to increase the day's travel.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000038_000003|His sister and brother in law seconded him; but they were frustrated by their heavy outfit and their own incompetence.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000041_000001|It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity. Sometimes Mercedes sided with her husband, sometimes with her brother. The result was a beautiful and unending family quarrel.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000041_000005|In the meantime the fire remained unbuilt, the camp half pitched, and the dogs unfed.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000042_000000|Mercedes nursed a special grievance-the grievance of sex.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000042_000005|Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000043_000002|She let her legs go limp like a spoiled child, and sat down on the trail.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000043_000003|They went on their way, but she did not move.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000044_000000|In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000044_000005|In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000045_000000|And through it all Buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a nightmare.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000045_000005|It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000046_000001|They were perambulating skeletons.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000046_000002|There were seven all together, including him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000046_000006|They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000047_000000|There came a day when Billee, the good-natured, fell and could not rise. Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of the harness and dragged it to one side.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000048_000000|It was beautiful spring weather, but neither dogs nor humans were aware of it.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000048_000007|The sap was rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000048_000008|Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000049_000004|Air holes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000001|When they halted, the dogs dropped down as though they had all been struck dead.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000003|Charles sat down on a log to rest.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000005|Hal did the talking.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000006|john Thornton was whittling the last touches on an axe handle he had made from a stick of birch.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000052_000000|"And they told you true," john Thornton answered.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000052_000001|"The bottom's likely to drop out at any moment.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000052_000003|I tell you straight, I wouldn't risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000053_000003|Hi! Get up there!
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000054_000001|It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000000|But the team did not get up at the command.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000003|john Thornton compressed his lips.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000005|Teek followed. Joe came next, yelping with pain.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000006|Pike made painful efforts.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000008|Buck made no effort.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000012|A moisture came into his eyes, and, as the whipping continued, he arose and walked irresolutely up and down.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000005|What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000006|He refused to stir.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000009|It was nearly out.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000011|As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000012|The last sensations of pain left him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000013|He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000060_000002|I'm going to Dawson."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000061_000003|He rapped his knuckles again as he tried to pick it up. Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck's traces.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000062_000004|They were limping and staggering.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000063_000000|As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000063_000003|Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000063_000007|The bottom had dropped out of the trail.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000064_000000|john Thornton and Buck looked at each other.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000065_000000|"You poor devil," said john Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000066_000000|Chapter six.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000000|A rest comes very good after one has travelled three thousand miles, and it must be confessed that Buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000001|For that matter, they were all loafing,--Buck, john Thornton, and Skeet and Nig,--waiting for the raft to come that was to carry them down to Dawson.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000002|Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000003|She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck's wounds.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000004|Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton's.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000005|Nig, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000069_000000|To Buck's surprise these dogs manifested no jealousy toward him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000069_000002|As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000069_000003|Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000000|This man had saved his life, which was something; but, further, he was the ideal master.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000001|Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they were his own children, because he could not help it.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000002|And he saw further.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000004|He had a way of taking Buck's head roughly between his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck's, of shaking him back and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love names.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000005|Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000006|And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, john Thornton would reverently exclaim, "God! you can all but speak!"
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000071_000000|Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000071_000001|He would often seize Thornton's hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000072_000000|For the most part, however, Buck's love was expressed in adoration. While he went wild with happiness when Thornton touched him or spoke to him, he did not seek these tokens.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000072_000004|And often, such was the communion in which they lived, the strength of Buck's gaze would draw john Thornton's head around, and he would return the gaze, without speech, his heart shining out of his eyes as Buck's heart shone out.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000073_000000|For a long time after his rescue, Buck did not like Thornton to get out of his sight.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000073_000001|From the moment he left the tent to when he entered it again, Buck would follow at his heels.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000074_000000|But in spite of this great love he bore john Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active. Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000074_000002|Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000001|Skeet and Nig were too good-natured for quarrelling,--besides, they belonged to john Thornton; but the strange dog, no matter what the breed or valor, swiftly acknowledged Buck's supremacy or found himself struggling for life with a terrible antagonist.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000002|And Buck was merciless.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000007|It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000008|Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000077_000002|But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for john Thornton drew him back to the fire again.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000079_000002|Nothing was too great for Buck to do, when Thornton commanded.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000079_000003|One day (they had grub staked themselves from the proceeds of the raft and left Dawson for the head waters of the Tanana) the men and dogs were sitting on the crest of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked bed rock three hundred feet below.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000079_000004|john Thornton was sitting near the edge, Buck at his shoulder.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000080_000000|"It's uncanny," Pete said, after it was over and they had caught their speech.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000081_000001|"No, it is splendid, and it is terrible, too. Do you know, it sometimes makes me afraid."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000083_000001|"Not mineself either."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000085_000004|A "miners' meeting," called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000086_000003|Buck, on the bank, worried and anxious, kept abreast of the boat, his eyes never off his master.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000087_000001|This it did, and was flying down stream in a current as swift as a mill race, when Hans checked it with the rope and checked too suddenly.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000001|When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000002|But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down stream amazingly rapid.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000004|The suck of the water as it took the beginning of the last steep pitch was frightful, and Thornton knew that the shore was impossible.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000006|He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing Buck, and above the roar of the churning water shouted: "Go, Buck!
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000091_000000|Hans promptly snubbed with the rope, as though Buck were a boat.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000091_000003|He staggered to his feet and fell down.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000091_000004|The faint sound of Thornton's voice came to them, and though they could not make out the words of it, they knew that he was in his extremity.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000092_000002|Hans paid out the rope, permitting no slack, while Pete kept it clear of coils.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000092_000004|Thornton saw him coming, and, as Buck struck him like a battering ram, with the whole force of the current behind him, he reached up and closed with both arms around the shaggy neck.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000093_000001|His first glance was for Buck, over whose limp and apparently lifeless body Nig was setting up a howl, while Skeet was licking the wet face and closed eyes.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000093_000002|Thornton was himself bruised and battered, and he went carefully over Buck's body, when he had been brought around, finding three broken ribs.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000095_000001|This exploit was particularly gratifying to the three men; for they stood in need of the outfit which it furnished, and were enabled to make a long desired trip into the virgin East, where miners had not yet appeared.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000095_000003|At the end of half an hour one man stated that his dog could start a sled with five hundred pounds and walk off with it; a second bragged six hundred for his dog; and a third, seven hundred.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000096_000000|"Pooh! pooh!" said john Thornton; "Buck can start a thousand pounds."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000097_000000|"And break it out?
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000000|Nobody spoke.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000001|Thornton's bluff, if bluff it was, had been called.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000002|He could feel a flush of warm blood creeping up his face.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000003|His tongue had tricked him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000005|The enormousness of it appalled him.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000006|He had great faith in Buck's strength and had often thought him capable of starting such a load; but never, as now, had he faced the possibility of it, the eyes of a dozen men fixed upon him, silent and waiting.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000101_000000|"I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fiftypound sacks of flour on it," Matthewson went on with brutal directness; "so don't let that hinder you."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000102_000000|Thornton did not reply.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000102_000001|He did not know what to say.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000104_000001|"Though it's little faith I'm having, john, that the beast can do the trick."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000105_000005|A quibble arose concerning the phrase "break out." O'Brien contended it was Thornton's privilege to knock the runners loose, leaving Buck to "break it out" from a dead standstill.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000105_000007|A majority of the men who had witnessed the making of the bet decided in his favor, whereat the odds went up to three to one against Buck.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000106_000001|Not a man believed him capable of the feat. Thornton had been hurried into the wager, heavy with doubt; and now that he looked at the sled itself, the concrete fact, with the regular team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it, the more impossible the task appeared.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000106_000002|Matthewson waxed jubilant.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000109_000000|The team of ten dogs was unhitched, and Buck, with his own harness, was put into the sled.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000110_000002|"I offer you eight hundred for him, sir, before the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000112_000000|"You must stand off from him," Matthewson protested.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000112_000001|"Free play and plenty of room."
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000000|Thornton knelt down by Buck's side.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000001|He took his head in his two hands and rested cheek on cheek.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000003|"As you love me, Buck.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000005|Buck whined with suppressed eagerness.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000000|The crowd was watching curiously.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000001|The affair was growing mysterious.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000004|It was the answer, in terms, not of speech, but of love.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000005|Thornton stepped well back.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000116_000000|"Now, Buck," he said.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000118_000000|"Gee!" Thornton's voice rang out, sharp in the tense silence.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000119_000001|The load quivered, and from under the runners arose a crisp crackling.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000121_000000|Buck duplicated the manoeuvre, this time to the left.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000121_000002|The sled was broken out.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000122_000000|"Now, MUSH!"
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000000|Thornton's command cracked out like a pistol shot.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000003|His great chest was low to the ground, his head forward and down, while his feet were flying like mad, the claws scarring the hard packed snow in parallel grooves.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000004|The sled swayed and trembled, half started forward. One of his feet slipped, and one man groaned aloud.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000005|Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again...half an inch...an inch... two inches...
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000125_000000|But Thornton fell on his knees beside Buck.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000127_000000|Thornton rose to his feet.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000127_000001|His eyes were wet.
train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000127_000003|"Sir," he said to the Skookum Bench king, "no, sir.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000001_000000|The Treasure hunt-Flint's Pointer
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000003_000002|In the same wasteful spirit, they had cooked, I suppose, three times more than we could eat; and one of them, with an empty laugh, threw what was left into the fire, which blazed and roared again over this unusual fuel.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000005_000000|"Aye, mates," said he, "it's lucky you have Barbecue to think for you with this here head.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000005_000003|Where they have it, I don't know yet; but once we hit the treasure, we'll have to jump about and find out.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000005_000004|And then, mates, us that has the boats, I reckon, has the upper hand."
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000007_000002|I'll take him in a line when we go treasure hunting, for we'll keep him like so much gold, in case of accidents, you mark, and in the meantime.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000007_000003|Once we got the ship and treasure both and off to sea like jolly companions, why then we'll talk mr Hawkins over, we will, and we'll give him his share, to be sure, for all his kindness."
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000008_000001|For my part, I was horribly cast down.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000008_000002|Should the scheme he had now sketched prove feasible, Silver, already doubly a traitor, would not hesitate to adopt it.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000008_000003|He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000009_000000|Nay, and even if things so fell out that he was forced to keep his faith with dr Livesey, even then what danger lay before us!
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000012_000001|All the stores, I observed, came from our stock, and I could see the truth of Silver's words the night before.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000013_000002|Both were to be carried along with us for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the anchorage.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000014_000000|As we pulled over, there was some discussion on the chart.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000015_000000|Tall tree, Spy glass shoulder, bearing a point to the n of n n e Skeleton Island e s e and by e Ten feet.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000016_000000|A tall tree was thus the principal mark.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000018_000000|We pulled easily, by Silver's directions, not to weary the hands prematurely, and after quite a long passage, landed at the mouth of the second river-that which runs down a woody cleft of the Spy glass. Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000019_000001|It was, indeed, a most pleasant portion of the island that we were now approaching.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000020_000001|About the centre, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed-I tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants, among the sliding gravel.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000025_000001|But what sort of a way is that for bones to lie? 'Tain't in natur'."
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000026_000000|Indeed, on a second glance, it seemed impossible to fancy that the body was in a natural position.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000027_000000|"I've taken a notion into my old numbskull," observed Silver.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000028_000001|The body pointed straight in the direction of the island, and the compass read duly e s e and by e
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000029_000002|But, by thunder! If it don't make me cold inside to think of Flint.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000031_000000|"Speaking of knives," said another, "why don't we find his'n lying round?
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000033_000000|"There ain't a thing left here," said Merry, still feeling round among the bones; "not a copper doit nor a baccy box.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000034_000001|Great guns!
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000034_000002|Messmates, but if Flint was living, this would be a hot spot for you and me.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000035_000001|"Billy took me in.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000035_000002|There he laid, with penny pieces on his eyes."
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000036_000001|Dear heart, but he died bad, did Flint!"
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000038_000000|"Come, come," said Silver; "stow this talk.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000038_000001|He's dead, and he don't walk, that I know; leastways, he won't walk by day, and you may lay to that.
train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000038_000002|Care killed a cat.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000000_000000|thirty two
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000001_000000|The Treasure hunt-The Voice Among the Trees
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000003_000000|The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000003_000003|There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000003_000004|Not a man, not a sail, upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000004_000000|Silver, as he sat, took certain bearings with his compass.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000005_000000|"There are three 'tall trees'" said he, "about in the right line from Skeleton Island. 'Spy glass shoulder,' I take it, means that lower p'int there.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000005_000001|It's child's play to find the stuff now.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000009_000001|"Blue!
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000009_000002|Well, I reckon he was blue.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000012_000001|The colour went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the ground.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000013_000000|"It's Flint, by ----!" cried Merry.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000014_000000|The song had stopped as suddenly as it began-broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a note, as though someone had laid his hand upon the singer's mouth.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000015_000000|"Come," said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out; "this won't do.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000015_000001|Stand by to go about.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000016_000000|His courage had come back as he spoke, and some of the colour to his face along with it.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000016_000001|Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this encouragement and were coming a little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again-not this time singing, but in a faint distant hail that echoed yet fainter among the clefts of the Spy glass.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000017_000000|"Darby M'Graw," it wailed-for that is the word that best describes the sound-"Darby M'Graw!
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000019_000000|"That fixes it!" gasped one.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000019_000001|"Let's go."
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000022_000000|Still Silver was unconquered.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000022_000001|I could hear his teeth rattle in his head, but he had not yet surrendered.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000025_000001|"Don't you cross a sperrit."
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000026_000000|And the rest were all too terrified to reply.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000026_000001|They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept them together, and kept them close by john, as if his daring helped them.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000026_000002|He, on his part, had pretty well fought his weakness down.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000027_000000|"Sperrit?
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000027_000002|"But there's one thing not clear to me. There was an echo.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000027_000004|That ain't in natur', surely?"
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000028_000001|But you can never tell what will affect the superstitious, and to my wonder, George Merry was greatly relieved.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000029_000000|"Well, that's so," he said.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000029_000002|'bout ship, mates!
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000031_000001|"Ben Gunn it were!"
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000032_000000|"It don't make much odds, do it, now?" asked Dick.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000032_000001|"Ben Gunn's not here in the body any more'n Flint."
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000035_000001|Soon they were chatting together, with intervals of listening; and not long after, hearing no further sound, they shouldered the tools and set forth again, Merry walking first with Silver's compass to keep them on the right line with Skeleton Island.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000035_000002|He had said the truth: dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000036_000000|Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sympathy, and Silver even joked him on his precautions.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000037_000002|Not that!" and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his crutch.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000038_000000|But Dick was not to be comforted; indeed, it was soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened by heat, exhaustion, and the shock of his alarm, the fever, predicted by dr Livesey, was evidently growing swiftly higher.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000040_000000|The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000040_000001|So with the second.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000040_000003|It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000042_000000|Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch; his nostrils stood out and quivered; he cursed like a madman when the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him and from time to time turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts, and certainly I read them like print.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000045_000000|"Huzza, mates, all together!" shouted Merry; and the foremost broke into a run.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000046_000000|And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld them stop.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000046_000001|A low cry arose.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000046_000002|Silver doubled his pace, digging away with the foot of his crutch like one possessed; and next moment he and I had come also to a dead halt.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000047_000000|Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000047_000001|In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing cases strewn around.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000047_000002|On one of these boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name WALRUS-the name of Flint's ship.
train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000048_000000|All was clear to probation.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000002_000000|"Here we see God dealing in slaves; giving them to his own favourite child [Abraham], a man of superlative worth, and as a reward for his eminent goodness."--Rev.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000002_000001|Theodore Clapp, of New Orleans.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000001|mr Peck was a kind of a patriarch in his own way.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000002|To begin with, he was a man of some talent.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000004|He too either had, or thought he had, poetical genius; and was often sending contributions to the Natchez Free Trader, and other periodicals.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000005|In the way of raising contributions for foreign missions, he took the lead of all others in his neighbourhood. Everything he did, he did for the "glory of God," as he said: he quoted Scripture for almost everything he did.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000007|He was a most loving father, and his daughter exercised considerable influence over him, and owing to her piety and judgment, that influence had a beneficial effect. Carlton, though a schoolfellow of the parson's, was nevertheless nearly ten years his junior; and though not an avowed infidel, was, however, a freethinker, and one who took no note of to morrow.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000009|The young Christian felt that she would not be living up to that faith that she professed and believed in, if she did not exert herself to the utmost to save the thoughtless man from his downward career; and in this she succeeded to her most sanguine expectations.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000010|She not only converted him, but in placing the Scriptures before him in their true light, she redeemed those sacred writings from the charge of supporting the system of slavery, which her father had cast upon them in the discussion some days before.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000005|The Christian religion is opposed to slaveholding in its spirit and its principles; it classes menstealers among murderers; and it is the duty of all who wish to meet God in peace, to discharge that duty in spreading these principles.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000007|Slaveholding is the highest possible violation of the eighth commandment.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000009|For my own part, I shall do all I can.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000011|What was the effect upon their minds?
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000013|Have we less precious promises in the Scriptures of truth?
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000016|Shall we not then do as the apostles did?
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000019|Shall not the manifold crimes and horrors of slavery excite more ardent outpourings at the throne of grace to grant repentance to our guilty country, and permit us to aid in preparing the way for the glorious second advent of the Messiah, by preaching deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison doors to those who are bound?"
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000000|Georgiana had succeeded in riveting the attention of Carlton during her conversation, and as she was finishing her last sentence, she observed the silent tear stealing down the cheek of the newly born child of God.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000001|At this juncture her father entered, and Carlton left the room.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000002|"Dear papa," said Georgiana, "will you grant me one favour; or, rather, make me a promise?"
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000003|"I can't tell, my dear, till I know what it is," replied mr Peck.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000005|"I hope, my dear," answered she, "that papa would not think me capable of making an unreasonable request." "Well, well," returned he; "tell me what it is."
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000006|"I hope," said she, "that in your future conversation with mr Carlton, on the subject of slavery, you will not speak of the Bible as sustaining it." "Why, Georgiana, my dear, you are mad, ain't you?" exclaimed he, in an excited tone.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000008|If the Bible sanctions slavery, then it misrepresents the character of God.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000009|Nothing would be more dangerous to the soul of a young convert than to satisfy him that the Scriptures favoured such a system of sin." "Don't you suppose that I understand the Scriptures better than you?
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000011|I once heard you say, that you were opposed to the institution, when you first came to the South." "Yes," answered he, "I did not know so much about it then." "With great deference to you, papa," replied Georgiana, "I don't think that the Bible sanctions slavery.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000013|I am afraid," continued the daughter, "that the acts of the professed friends of Christianity in the South do more to spread infidelity than the writings of all the atheists which have ever been published.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000014|The infidel watches the religious world.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000015|He surveys the church, and, lo! thousands and tens of thousands of her accredited members actually hold slaves.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000016|Members 'in good and regular standing,' fellowshipped throughout Christendom except by a few anti slavery churches generally despised as ultra and radical, reduce their fellow men to the condition of chattels, and by force keep them in that state of degradation.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000018|Moreover, those ministers and churches who do not themselves hold slaves, very generally defend the conduct of those who do, and accord to them a fair Christian character, and in the way of business frequently take mortgages and levy executions on the bodies of their fellow men, and in some cases of their fellow Christians.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000020|And must not this conclusion be strengthened, when they hear ministers of talent and learning declare that the Bible does sanction slaveholding, and that it ought not to be made a disciplinable offence in churches?
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000022|When nothing can be further from the truth.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000024|When he designed to do us good, he took upon himself the form of a servant.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000028|Let us not forget what followed.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000031|Then, should our labour fail to accomplish the end for which we pray, we shall stand acquitted at the bar of Jehovah, and although we may share in the national calamities which await unrepented sins, yet that blessed approval will be ours-'Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.'"
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000007_000000|"Believe me, dear papa," she replied, "I would not be understood as wishing to teach you, or to dictate to you in the least; but only grant my request, not to allude to the Bible as sanctioning slavery, when speaking with mr Carlton."
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000008_000000|"Well," returned he, "I will comply with your wish."
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000009_000000|The young Christian had indeed accomplished a noble work; and whether it was admitted by the father, or not, she was his superior and his teacher.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000009_000001|Georgiana had viewed the right to enjoy perfect liberty as one of those inherent and inalienable rights which pertain to the whole human race, and of which they can never be divested, except by an act of gross injustice.
train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000009_000003|Modest and self possessed, with a voice of great sweetness, and a most winning manner, she could, with the greatest ease to herself, engage their attention.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000003_000001|At length he came to a large house, at the door of which he knocked.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000004_000000|'What do you want?' asked the old man who opened it.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000005_000000|'That you shall have,' replied the man; 'but to morrow I shall give you some work to do, for you must know that I am the chief herdsman of the king.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000007_000000|The herdsman's two daughters and their mother were sitting at supper, and invited him to join them.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000007_000001|Nothing more was said about work, and when the meal was over they all went to bed.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000008_000000|In the morning, when the young man was dressed, the herdsman called to him and said:
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000009_000000|'Now listen, and I will tell you what you have to do.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000010_000000|'What is it?' asked the youth, sulkily.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000011_000000|'Nothing less than to look after two hundred pigs,' was the reply.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000012_000000|'Oh, I am used to that,' answered the youth.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000015_000000|'They belong to the king's chief herdsman,' answered his son.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000015_000001|'He gave them to me to look after, but I knew I could not do it, so I drove them straight to you.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000016_000000|'What are you talking about?' cried the father, pale with horror.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000016_000001|'We should certainly both be put to death if I did any such thing.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000017_000000|'No, no; do as I tell you, and I will get out of it somehow,' replied the young man.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000017_000002|The pigs were killed, and laid side by side in a row.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000019_000000|'Oh, don't speak of them!' answered the young man; 'I really can hardly tell you.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000019_000003|At last, however, I collected them all and was about to drive them back, when suddenly they rushed down the hill into the swamp, where they vanished completely, leaving only the points of their tails, which you can see for yourself.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000022_000002|Now let us return home, for it is time for supper.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000023_000000|Next morning the herdsman said to the young man: 'I have got some other work for you to do.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000023_000001|To day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that no harm befalls them.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000024_000000|'I will do my best,' replied the youth.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000024_000001|And he opened the gate of the fold, where the sheep had been all night, and drove them out into the meadow.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000026_000001|But when the tale was ended the father shook his head.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000028_000000|'No, no,' answered the youth; 'I am not so stupid as that!
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000028_000001|We will kill them and have them for dinner.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000029_000000|'You will lose your life if you do,' replied the father.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000030_000003|As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was tied moved gently, and the bells rang.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000030_000004|When all was done to his liking he hastened quickly back to his master.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000032_000000|'Oh! don't speak of them,' answered he.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000033_000000|'Tell me at once what has happened,' said the herdsman sternly.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000000|The youth began to sob, and stammered out: 'I-I hardly know how to tell you!
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000001|They-they-they were so-so troublesome-that I could not manage them at all.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000002|They-ran about in-in all directions, and I-I-ran after them and nearly died of fatigue.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000004|But-but-it was the sheep, which, be-before my very eyes, were carried straight up-up into the air.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000035_000000|'That is nothing but a lie from beginning to end,' said the herdsman.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000037_000000|'Then give me a proof of it,' cried his master.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000038_000000|'Well, come with me,' said the youth.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000038_000002|The young man brought the herdsman to the foot of the great rock, but it was so dark you could hardly see.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000039_000000|'Do you hear?' asked the youth.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000040_000000|'Yes, I hear; you have spoken the truth, and I cannot blame you for what has happened.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000040_000001|I must bear the loss as best as I can.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000042_000000|'I should not be surprised if the tasks I set you were too difficult, and that you were tired of them,' said the herdsman next morning; 'but to day I have something quite easy for you to do.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000042_000001|You must look after forty oxen, and be sure you are very careful, for one of them has gold tipped horns and hoofs, and the king reckons it among his greatest treasures.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000043_000000|The young man drove out the oxen into the meadow, and no sooner had they got there than, like the sheep and the pigs, they began to scamper in all directions, the precious bull being the wildest of all.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000043_000001|As the youth stood watching them, not knowing what to do next, it came into his head that his father's cow was put out to grass at no great distance; and he forthwith made such a noise that he quite frightened the oxen, who were easily persuaded to take the path he wished.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000045_000000|'Whose cattle are these, and why are they here?' he asked; and his son told him the story.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000048_000000|For a long while the old man refused to have anything to do with such a wicked scheme; but his son talked him over in the end, and they killed the oxen as they had killed the sheep and the pigs.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000049_000000|The son had a rope ready to cast round its horns, and throw it to the ground, but the ox was stronger than the rope, and soon tore it in pieces.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000049_000001|Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges and ditches they both went, till they reached the rocky pass which bordered the herdsman's land.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000049_000002|Here the ox, thinking itself safe, stopped to rest, and thus gave the young man a chance to come up with it.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000051_000001|At last he answered:
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000052_000000|'It is always the same story!
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000052_000001|The oxen are-gone-gone!'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000056_000001|Come and see for yourself.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000058_000000|'What do you call that?' asked the youth.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000058_000001|And the herdsman looked and saw the traces of a fire, which seemed to have sprung up from under the earth.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000059_000000|'Wonder upon wonder,' he exclaimed, 'so you really did speak the truth after all!
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000059_000002|But come, let us go home!
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000060_000001|Just make me ten scythes, one for every man, for I want the grass mown in one of my meadows to morrow.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000061_000000|At these words the youth's heart sank, for he had never been trained either as a smith or a joiner.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000062_000000|Slowly and sadly he went to bed, but he could not sleep, for wondering how the scythes were to be made.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000062_000003|When they had heard everything, they hid him where no one could find him.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000063_000000|Time passed away, and the young man stayed at home doing all his parents bade him, and showing himself very different from what he had been before he went out to see the world; but one day he said to his father that he should like to marry, and have a house of his own.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000064_000000|'When I served the king's chief herdsman,' added he, 'I saw his daughter, and I am resolved to try if I cannot win her for my wife.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000066_000000|'Well, I will do my best,' replied his son; 'but first give me the sword which hangs over your bed!'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000069_000000|'I want to speak to your master,' said he.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000070_000000|'So it is you?' cried the herdsman, when he had received the message. 'Well, you can sleep here to night if you wish.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000071_000000|'I have come for something else besides a bed,' replied the young man, drawing his sword, 'and if you do not promise to give me your youngest daughter as my wife I will stab you through the heart.'
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000073_000000|Then the young man went home to his parents, and bade them get ready to welcome his bride.
train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000073_000001|And when the wedding was over he told his father in law, the herdsman, what he had done with the sheep, and pigs, and cattle.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000006_000000|Janni and the Draken
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000007_000001|He had a wife and one little girl, and after a long time his wife had another child.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000008_000000|In the course of time Janni's parents died, and he and his sister were left alone in the world; soon affairs went badly with them, so they determined to wander away to seek their fortune.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000008_000001|In packing up, the sister found a knife which the monk had left for his godson, and this she gave to her brother.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000009_000001|After wandering for three days they met a man with three dogs who proposed that they should exchange animals, he taking the sheep, and they the dogs.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000009_000002|The brother and sister were quite pleased at this arrangement, and after the exchange was made they separated, and went their different ways.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000011_000000|So Janni found the castle deserted, and abode there with his sister, and every day went out to hunt with the weapons the Draken had left in the castle.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000012_000000|One day, when he was away hunting, one of the Draken came up to get provisions, not knowing that there was anyone in the castle.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000014_000003|But he plucked the cherries, and took them back to his sister.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000015_000001|And the sister ate the cherries and declared herself well again.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000017_000005|But he took the quinces and brought them back to his sister, who, when she had eaten them, declared herself better.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000019_000000|The sister did as she was told, and next day Janni, taking his three dogs with him, went to get the pears.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000022_000000|So Janni plucked the pears and took them to his sister, who, when she had eaten them, declared she felt better.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000027_000000|The travellers let a rope down and drew him up to daylight.
train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000030_000000|When she learnt what had befallen him she called together all the sorceresses in the country in order that they should tell her where the eyes were.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000001|Three years had passed since his marriage, and he lived very happily with his wife, but Heaven granted him no heir, which grieved the King greatly.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000003|As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitch tents in the open field, and there await the cool of the evening.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000004|Suddenly a frightful thirst seized the King, and as he saw no water near, he mounted his horse, and rode through the neighbourhood looking for a spring.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000005|Before long he came to a well filled to the brim with water clear as crystal, and on the bosom of which a golden jug was floating.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000006|King Kojata at once tried to seize the vessel, but though he endeavoured to grasp it with his right hand, and then with his left, the wretched thing always eluded his efforts and refused to let itself be caught.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000005_000001|But when he had satisfied his thirst, and wished to raise himself up, he couldn't lift his head, because someone held his beard fast in the water.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000005_000002|'Who's there?
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000007_000000|'Yes, I promise that you shall have it.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000008_000000|The voice replied, 'Very well; but it will go ill with you if you fail to keep your promise.' Then the claws relaxed their hold, and the face disappeared in the depths.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000008_000004|All the courtiers standing round were much amazed at the King's grief, but no one dared to ask him the cause of it.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000008_000005|He took the child in his arms and kissed it tenderly; then laying it in its cradle, he determined to control his emotion and began to reign again as before.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000000|The secret of the King remained a secret, though his grave, careworn expression escaped no one's notice.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000001|In the constant dread that his child would be taken from him, poor Kojata knew no rest night or day.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000002|However, time went on and nothing happened.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000003|Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beautiful youth, and at last the King himself forgot all about the incident that had happened so long ago.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000010_000000|One day the Prince went out hunting, and going in pursuit of a wild boar he soon lost the other huntsmen, and found himself quite alone in the middle of a dark wood.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000013_000002|Farewell for the present; we shall meet again.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000015_000001|The time has come when we must part,' and with a heavy heart he told the Prince what had happened at the time of his birth.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000016_000001|Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you'll soon see me back again.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000017_000000|The King gave him a beautiful charger, with golden stirrups, and a sword.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000017_000001|The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping and lamentation the Prince bade them all farewell and set forth on his journey.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000000|He rode straight on for two days, and on the third he came to a lake as smooth as glass and as clear as crystal.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000004|Then they finished dressing and disappeared.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000005|Only the thirtieth little duck couldn't come to the land; it swam about close to the shore, and, giving out a piercing cry, it stretched its neck up timidly, gazed wildly around, and then dived under again.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000006|Prince Milan's heart was so moved with pity for the poor little creature that he came out from behind the bulrushes, to see if he could be of any help.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000007|As soon as the duck perceived him, it cried in a human voice, 'Oh, dear Prince Milan, for the love of Heaven give me back my garment, and I will be so grateful to you.' The Prince lay the little garment on the bank beside her, and stepped back into the bushes.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000008|In a few seconds a beautiful girl in a white robe stood before him, so fair and sweet and young that no pen could describe her.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000000|'Many thanks, Prince Milan, for your courtesy.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000001|I am the daughter of a wicked magician, and my name is Hyacinthia.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000003|He has been expecting you for ages, but you need have no fear if you will only follow my advice.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000004|As soon as you come into the presence of my father, throw yourself at once on the ground and approach him on your knees.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000005|Don't mind if he stamps furiously with his feet and curses and swears.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000020_000000|With these words the beautiful Hyacinthia stamped on the ground with her little foot, and the earth opened and they both sank down into the lower world.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000000|The Magician sat on a throne, a sparkling crown on his head; his eyes blazed like a green fire, and instead of hands he had claws.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000001|As soon as Prince Milan entered he flung himself on his knees.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000002|The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of his green eyes, and cursed so loudly that the whole underworld shook.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000003|But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn't the least afraid, and approached the throne still on his knees.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000025_000001|When it grew dark, a little bee flew by, and knocking at the window, it said, 'Open, and let me in.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000026_000000|Milan opened the window quickly, and as soon as the bee had entered, it changed into the beautiful Hyacinthia.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000031_000000|'Now, don't be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits, for there is no need to despair.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000031_000001|Go to bed, and when you wake up to morrow morning the palace will be finished.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000031_000002|Then you must go all round it, giving a tap here and there on the walls to look as if you had just finished it.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000032_000000|And so it all turned out just as she had said.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000033_000002|To morrow I will place the whole thirty in a row.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000034_000002|Why, that is the easiest thing in the world.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000035_000000|'Not so easy as you think,' cried the little bee, who was flying past. 'If I weren't to help you, you'd never guess.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000035_000001|We are thirty sisters so exactly alike that our own father can hardly distinguish us apart.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000036_000000|'Then what am I to do?' asked Prince Milan.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000037_000001|'You will recognise me by a tiny fly I shall have on my left cheek, but be careful for you might easily make a mistake.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000040_000001|But they were all so precisely alike that they looked like one face reflected in thirty mirrors, and the fly was nowhere to be seen; the second time he passed them he still saw nothing; but the third time he perceived a little fly stealing down one cheek, causing it to blush a faint pink. Then the Prince seized the girl's hand and cried out, 'This is the Princess Hyacinthia!'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000041_000001|Before this candle, which I shall light, burns to the socket, you must have made me a pair of boots reaching to my knees.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000041_000002|If they aren't finished in that time, off comes your head.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000043_000001|Your father has set me this time an impossible task.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000043_000002|Before a candle which he has lit burns to the socket, I am to make a pair of boots.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000043_000003|But what does a prince know of shoemaking? If I can't do it, I lose my head.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000044_000000|'And what do you mean to do?' asked Hyacinthia.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000045_000000|'Well, what is there to be done?
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000046_000000|'Not so, dearest.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000047_000005|Then it sped onwards like an arrow from a bow.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000049_000001|But when the Prince still did not appear, after a time he sent his servants a second time to bring him.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000049_000002|The frozen breath always gave the same answer, but the Prince never came.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000049_000005|Out of his mind with rage, the Magician ordered the Prince to be pursued.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000050_000000|Then a wild chase began.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000050_000002|Milan sprang from the saddle, put his ear to the ground and listened.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000050_000003|'Yes,' he answered, 'they are pursuing us, and are quite close.' 'Then no time must be lost,' said Hyacinthia, and she immediately turned herself into a river, Prince Milan into an iron bridge, and the charger into a blackbird.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000051_000000|The Magician's servants hurried after the fresh tracks, but when they came to the bridge, they stood, not knowing which road to take, as the footprints stopped suddenly, and there were three paths for them to choose from.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000051_000003|Go back and bring them to me at once, or it will be the worse for you.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000052_000000|Then the pursuit began afresh.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000052_000002|The Prince dismounted and put his ear to the ground.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000052_000004|At last they found themselves back at the same spot they had started from, and in despair they returned once more with empty hands to the Magician.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000053_000001|'Bring a horse at once; they shan't escape me.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000055_000001|But at the first church we come to his power ceases; he may chase us no further.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000056_000000|Prince Milan loosened from his neck the little gold cross his mother had given him, and as soon as Hyacinthia grasped it, she had changed herself into a church, Milan into a monk, and the horse into a belfry.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000058_000000|'Prince Milan and Princess Hyacinthia have just gone on this minute; they stopped for a few minutes in the church to say their prayers, and bade me light this wax candle for you, and give you their love.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000000|'The town is easy to get into, but more difficult to get out of,' sighed Hyacinthia. 'But let it be as you wish.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000001|Go, and I will await you here, but I will first change myself into a white milestone; only I pray you be very careful.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000002|The King and Queen of the town will come out to meet you, leading a little child with them.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000004|I will wait for you here for three days.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000064_000000|The Prince hurried to the town, but Hyacinthia remained behind disguised as a white milestone on the road.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000064_000001|The first day passed, and then the second, and at last the third also, but Prince Milan did not return, for he had not taken Hyacinthia's advice.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000064_000003|The child at once caressed the Prince, who, carried away by its beauty, bent down and kissed it on the cheek.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000001|He pulled it up carefully by the roots and carried it home.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000002|Here he planted it in a pot, and watered and tended the little plant carefully.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000003|And now the most extraordinary thing happened, for from this moment everything in the old man's house was changed.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000004|When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put into such beautiful order that not a speck of dust was to be found anywhere.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000006|At first he was so surprised he didn't know what to think, but after a time he grew a little uncomfortable, and went to an old witch to ask for advice.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000067_000000|The witch said, 'Get up before the cock crows, and watch carefully till you see something move, and then throw this cloth quickly over it, and you'll see what will happen.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000068_000001|When the first ray of light entered the room, he noticed that the little blue flower began to tremble, and at last it rose out of the pot and flew about the room, put everything in order, swept away the dust, and lit the fire.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000068_000002|In great haste the old man sprang from his bed, and covered the flower with the cloth the old witch had given him, and in a moment the beautiful Princess Hyacinthia stood before him.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000069_000000|'What have you done?' she cried.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000069_000001|'Why have you called me back to life? For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prince Milan, has deserted me.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000071_000001|She went straight to the King's kitchen, where the white aproned cooks were running about in great confusion.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000071_000002|The Princess went up to the head cook, and said, 'Dear cook, please listen to my request, and let me make a wedding cake for Prince Milan.'
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000072_000000|The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out of the kitchen, but the words died on his lips when he turned and beheld the beautiful Hyacinthia, and he answered politely, 'You have just come in the nick of time, fair maiden.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000073_000001|The invited guests were already thronging round the table, when the head cook entered the room, bearing a beautiful wedding cake on a silver dish, and laid it before Prince Milan.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000073_000002|The guests were all lost in admiration, for the cake was quite a work of art.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000074_000001|Then he jumped up suddenly from the table and ran to the door, where he found the beautiful Hyacinthia waiting for him.
train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000074_000002|Outside stood his faithful charger, pawing the ground.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000001_000000|Not on the same night, as he had intended, but the next morning, the Count of Monte Cristo went out by the Barrier d'Enfer, taking the road to Orleans.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000001_000001|Leaving the village of Linas, without stopping at the telegraph, which flourished its great bony arms as he passed, the count reached the tower of Montlhery, situated, as every one knows, upon the highest point of the plain of that name.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000002_000000|Monte Cristo looked for the entrance to the enclosure, and was not long in finding a little wooden gate, working on willow hinges, and fastened with a nail and string.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000002_000002|The garden was crossed by a path of red gravel, edged by a border of thick box, of many years' growth, and of a tone and color that would have delighted the heart of Delacroix, our modern Rubens.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000002_000003|This path was formed in the shape of the figure of eight, thus, in its windings, making a walk of sixty feet in a garden of only twenty.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000003_000000|Never had Flora, the fresh and smiling goddess of gardeners, been honored with a purer or more scrupulous worship than that which was paid to her in this little enclosure.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000004_000001|He had twelve leaves and about as many strawberries, which, on rising suddenly, he let fall from his hand.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000004_000002|"You are gathering your crop, sir?" said Monte Cristo, smiling.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000005_000000|"Excuse me, sir," replied the man, raising his hand to his cap; "I am not up there, I know, but I have only just come down."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000007_000002|This is the reason that, instead of the sixteen I had last year, I have this year, you see, eleven, already plucked-twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000009_000000|"Of course," said the gardener, "but that does not make it the less unpleasant.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000009_000001|But, sir, once more I beg pardon; perhaps you are an officer that I am detaining here." And he glanced timidly at the count's blue coat.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000010_000000|"Calm yourself, my friend," said the count, with the smile which he made at will either terrible or benevolent, and which now expressed only the kindliest feeling; "I am not an inspector, but a traveller, brought here by a curiosity he half repents of, since he causes you to lose your time."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000012_000000|"Indeed, I should think not," replied Monte Cristo; "dormice are bad neighbors for us who do not eat them preserved, as the romans did."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000013_000000|"What?
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000013_000001|Did the romans eat them?" said the gardener-"ate dormice?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000015_000001|They can't be nice, though they do say 'as fat as a dormouse.' It is not a wonder they are fat, sleeping all day, and only waking to eat all night.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000015_000002|Listen.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000015_000003|Last year I had four apricots-they stole one, I had one nectarine, only one-well, sir, they ate half of it on the wall; a splendid nectarine-I never ate a better."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000016_000000|"You ate it?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000017_000000|"That is to say, the half that was left-you understand; it was exquisite, sir.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000017_000002|But this year," continued the horticulturist, "I'll take care it shall not happen, even if I should be forced to sit by the whole night to watch when the strawberries are ripe." Monte Cristo had seen enough.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000017_000005|"Did you come here, sir, to see the telegraph?" he said.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000018_000000|"Yes, if it isn't contrary to the rules."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000019_000000|"Oh, no," said the gardener; "not in the least, since there is no danger that anyone can possibly understand what we are saying."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000020_000000|"I have been told," said the count, "that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000021_000000|"That is true, sir, and that is what I like best," said the man, smiling.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000022_000000|"Why do you like that best?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000024_000000|"Is it possible," said Monte Cristo to himself, "that I can have met with a man that has no ambition?
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000024_000001|That would spoil my plans."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000025_000000|"Sir," said the gardener, glancing at the sun dial, "the ten minutes are almost up; I must return to my post.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000025_000001|Will you go up with me?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000026_000000|"I follow you." Monte Cristo entered the tower, which was divided into three stories.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000026_000001|The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000027_000000|"Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?" asked Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000028_000000|"The study does not take long; it was acting as a supernumerary that was so tedious."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000029_000000|"And what is the pay?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000030_000000|"A thousand francs, sir."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000031_000000|"It is nothing."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000032_000000|"No; but then we are lodged, as you perceive."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000000|Monte Cristo looked at the room.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000001|They passed to the third story; it was the telegraph room.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000002|Monte Cristo looked in turn at the two iron handles by which the machine was worked.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000003|"It is very interesting," he said, "but it must be very tedious for a lifetime."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000034_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000034_000001|At first my neck was cramped with looking at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000035_000000|"Holidays?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000036_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000038_000000|"When we have a fog."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000040_000000|"Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the insects all day long."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000041_000000|"How long have you been here?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000042_000000|"Ten years, and five as a supernumerary make fifteen."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000043_000000|"You are-"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000044_000000|"Fifty five years old."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000046_000000|"Oh, sir, twenty five years."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000047_000000|"And how much is the pension?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000048_000000|"A hundred crowns."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000050_000000|"What did you say, sir?" asked the man.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000052_000000|"What was?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000053_000000|"All you were showing me.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000054_000000|"None at all."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000056_000000|"Never.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000056_000001|Why should I?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000058_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000059_000000|"And do you understand them?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000060_000000|"They are always the same."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000062_000000|"Nothing new; You have an hour; or To morrow."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000063_000000|"This is simple enough," said the count; "but look, is not your correspondent putting itself in motion?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000065_000000|"And what is it saying-anything you understand?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000066_000000|"Yes; it asks if I am ready."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000067_000000|"And you reply?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000072_000000|"What is it, sir?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000075_000000|"And you would be pleased to have, instead of this terrace of twenty feet, an enclosure of two acres?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000076_000000|"Sir, I should make a terrestrial paradise of it."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000077_000000|"You live badly on your thousand francs?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000078_000000|"Badly enough; but yet I do live."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000079_000000|"Yes; but you have a wretchedly small garden."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000080_000000|"True, the garden is not large."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000082_000000|"Ah, they are my scourges."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000084_000000|"I should not see him."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000085_000000|"Then what would happen?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000086_000000|"I could not repeat the signals."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000087_000000|"And then?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000088_000000|"Not having repeated them, through negligence, I should be fined."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000089_000000|"How much?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000090_000000|"A hundred francs."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000091_000000|"The tenth of your income-that would be fine work."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000093_000000|"Has it ever happened to you?" said Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000094_000000|"Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose tree."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000095_000000|"Well, suppose you were to alter a signal, and substitute another?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000096_000000|"Ah, that is another case; I should be turned off, and lose my pension."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000097_000000|"Three hundred francs?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000101_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000102_000000|"Sir, you alarm me."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000105_000000|"Just so; fifteen thousand francs, do you understand?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000107_000000|"On the contrary, do not look at him, but at this."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000108_000000|"What is it?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000109_000000|"What?
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000110_000000|"Bank notes!"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000111_000000|"Exactly; there are fifteen of them."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000112_000000|"And whose are they?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000113_000000|"Yours, if you like."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000114_000000|"Mine?" exclaimed the man, half suffocated.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000115_000000|"Yes; yours-your own property."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000117_000000|"Let him signal."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000118_000000|"Sir, you have distracted me; I shall be fined."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000119_000000|"That will cost you a hundred francs; you see it is your interest to take my bank notes."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000120_000000|"Sir, my right-hand correspondent redoubles his signals; he is impatient."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000121_000000|"Never mind-take these;" and the count placed the packet in the man's hands.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000121_000001|"Now this is not all," he said; "you cannot live upon your fifteen thousand francs."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000122_000000|"I shall still have my place."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000123_000000|"No, you will lose it, for you are going to alter your correspondent's message."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000124_000000|"Oh, sir, what are you proposing?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000127_000000|"I think I can effectually force you;" and Monte Cristo drew another packet from his pocket.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000127_000001|"Here are ten thousand more francs," he said, "with the fifteen thousand already in your pocket, they will make twenty five thousand.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000128_000000|"A garden with two acres of land!"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000129_000000|"And a thousand francs a year."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000132_000000|"What am I to do?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000133_000000|"Nothing very difficult."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000134_000000|"But what is it?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000135_000000|"To repeat these signs." Monte Cristo took a paper from his pocket, upon which were drawn three signs, with numbers to indicate the order in which they were to be worked.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000136_000000|"There, you see it will not take long."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000137_000000|"Yes; but"--
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000138_000001|"Now you are rich," said Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000140_000000|"Listen, friend," said Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000142_000000|"I think so, indeed!
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000142_000001|He has six millions' worth."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000144_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000145_000000|"Because Don Carlos has fled from Bourges, and has returned to Spain."
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000146_000000|"How do you know?" Debray shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000146_000002|The baroness did not wait for a repetition; she ran to her husband, who immediately hastened to his agent, and ordered him to sell at any price.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000148_000000|All that evening nothing was spoken of but the foresight of Danglars, who had sold his shares, and of the luck of the stock jobber, who only lost five hundred thousand francs by such a blow.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000148_000001|Those who had kept their shares, or bought those of Danglars, looked upon themselves as ruined, and passed a very bad night.
train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000150_000001|This, reckoning his loss, and what he had missed gaining, made the difference of a million to Danglars.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000002_000000|Chapter sixty two.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000002_000001|Ghosts.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000003_000001|The splendor was within.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000003_000002|Indeed, almost before the door opened, the scene changed.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000000|The library was divided into two parts on either side of the wall, and contained upwards of two thousand volumes; one division was entirely devoted to novels, and even the volume which had been published but the day before was to be seen in its place in all the dignity of its red and gold binding.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000001|On the other side of the house, to match with the library, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed in china jars; and in the midst of the greenhouse, marvellous alike to sight and smell, was a billiard table which looked as if it had been abandoned during the past hour by players who had left the balls on the cloth.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000003|Before this room, to which you could ascend by the grand, and go out by the back staircase, the servants passed with curiosity, and Bertuccio with terror.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000006|Monte Cristo descended into the courtyard, walked all over the house, without giving any sign of approbation or pleasure, until he entered his bedroom, situated on the opposite side to the closed room; then he approached a little piece of furniture, made of rosewood, which he had noticed at a previous visit.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000007|"That can only be to hold gloves," he said.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000001|At precisely six o'clock the clatter of horses' hoofs was heard at the entrance door; it was our captain of Spahis, who had arrived on Medeah.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000003|Julie and Emmanuel have a thousand things to tell you.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000004|Ah, really this is magnificent!
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000005|But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000009_000000|"I mean, because he wants petting.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000012_000000|"I?
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000012_000001|Certainly not," replied the count.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000014_000000|"Then they follow you?" asked Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000000|"See, they are here." And at the same minute a carriage with smoking horses, accompanied by two mounted gentlemen, arrived at the gate, which opened before them.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000001|The carriage drove round, and stopped at the steps, followed by the horsemen.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000002|The instant Debray had touched the ground, he was at the carriage door.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000003|He offered his hand to the baroness, who, descending, took it with a peculiarity of manner imperceptible to every one but Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000005|After his wife the banker descended, as pale as though he had issued from his tomb instead of his carriage.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000016_000001|The count understood him.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000019_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000020_000000|"He laid a wager he would tame Medeah in the space of six months.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000020_000001|You understand now that if he were to get rid of the animal before the time named, he would not only lose his bet, but people would say he was afraid; and a brave captain of Spahis cannot risk this, even to gratify a pretty woman, which is, in my opinion, one of the most sacred obligations in the world."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000021_000000|"You see my position, madame," said Morrel, bestowing a grateful smile on Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000022_000002|The baroness was astonished. "Why," said she, "you could plant one of the chestnut trees in the Tuileries inside!
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000023_000001|It is the work of another age, constructed by the genii of earth and water."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000024_000000|"How so?--at what period can that have been?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000000|"I do not know; I have only heard that an emperor of China had an oven built expressly, and that in this oven twelve jars like this were successively baked.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000001|Two broke, from the heat of the fire; the other ten were sunk three hundred fathoms deep into the sea.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000004|Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thrown; but of ten three only remained, the rest having been broken by the waves.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000006|When he had finished with the orange tree, he began at the cactus; but this, not being so easily plucked as the orange tree, pricked him dreadfully.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000027_000000|"Stay," said Debray; "I recognize this Hobbema."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000029_000000|"Yes; it was proposed for the Museum."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000030_000000|"Which, I believe, does not contain one?" said Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000031_000000|"No; and yet they refused to buy it."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000036_000000|"I think not," replied Chateau Renaud.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000037_000001|A black satin stock, fresh from the maker's hands, gray moustaches, a bold eye, a major's uniform, ornamented with three medals and five crosses-in fact, the thorough bearing of an old soldier-such was the appearance of Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, that tender father with whom we are already acquainted.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000037_000003|The three young people were talking together.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000037_000005|"Cavalcanti!" said Debray.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000038_000000|"Yes," said Chateau Renaud, "these Italians are well named and badly dressed."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000039_000000|"You are fastidious, Chateau Renaud," replied Debray; "those clothes are well cut and quite new."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000040_000001|That gentleman appears to be well dressed for the first time in his life."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000041_000000|"Who are those gentlemen?" asked Danglars of Monte Cristo.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000042_000000|"You heard-Cavalcanti."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000043_000000|"That tells me their name, and nothing else."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000045_000000|"Have they any fortune?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000046_000000|"An enormous one."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000047_000000|"What do they do?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000048_000000|"Try to spend it all.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000048_000001|They have some business with you, I think, from what they told me the day before yesterday.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000048_000003|I will introduce you to them."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000049_000000|"But they appear to speak French with a very pure accent," said Danglars.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000050_000001|You will find him quite enthusiastic."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000051_000000|"Upon what subject?" asked Madame Danglars.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000053_000000|"A fine idea that of his," said Danglars, shrugging his shoulders. Madame Danglars looked at her husband with an expression which, at any other time, would have indicated a storm, but for the second time she controlled herself.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000053_000001|"The baron appears thoughtful to day," said Monte Cristo to her; "are they going to put him in the ministry?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000054_000000|"Not yet, I think.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000054_000001|More likely he has been speculating on the Bourse, and has lost money."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000055_000004|After a short time, the count saw Bertuccio, who, until then, had been occupied on the other side of the house, glide into an adjoining room.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000055_000005|He went to him.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000056_000000|"Your excellency has not stated the number of guests."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000057_000000|"Ah, true."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000058_000000|"How many covers?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000059_000000|"Count for yourself."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000061_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000062_000000|Bertuccio glanced through the door, which was ajar.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000062_000001|The count watched him.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000062_000002|"Good heavens!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000063_000000|"What is the matter?" said the count.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000064_000000|"That woman-that woman!"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000065_000000|"Which?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000070_000000|"The woman of the garden!--she that was enciente-she who was walking while she waited for"--Bertuccio stood at the open door, with his eyes starting and his hair on end.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000072_000001|Who?"
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000078_000000|"No; you see plainly he is not dead.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000079_000000|"Eight!" repeated Bertuccio.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000080_000000|"Stop!
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000080_000001|You are in a shocking hurry to be off-you forget one of my guests.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000080_000002|Lean a little to the left.
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000081_000001|Five minutes afterwards the doors of the drawing room were thrown open, and Bertuccio appearing said, with a violent effort, "The dinner waits."
train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000082_000000|The Count of Monte Cristo offered his arm to Madame de Villefort.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000001_000000|Chapter three
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000002_000002|And as I've told you before, I tell you again: it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000002_000003|If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000002_000004|We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, nor district nurses, nor midwives, nor drugstores-nothing."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000003_000001|"I can't! and so there's no help for it."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000004_000000|"But why can't you?
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000004_000001|I must own I can't make it out.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000004_000002|Indifference, incapacity-I won't admit; surely it's not simply laziness?"
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000006_000000|He had hardly grasped what his brother was saying.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000006_000001|Looking towards the plough land across the river, he made out something black, but he could not distinguish whether it was a horse or the bailiff on horseback.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000007_000000|"Why is it you can do nothing?
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000007_000001|You made an attempt and didn't succeed, as you think, and you give in.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000007_000002|How can you have so little self respect?"
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000008_000000|"Self respect!" said Levin, stung to the quick by his brother's words; "I don't understand.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000008_000001|If they'd told me at college that other people understood the integral calculus, and I didn't, then pride would have come in.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000008_000002|But in this case one wants first to be convinced that one has certain qualifications for this sort of business, and especially that all this business is of great importance."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000010_000000|"I don't think it important; it does not take hold of me, I can't help it," answered Levin, making out that what he saw was the bailiff, and that the bailiff seemed to be letting the peasants go off the ploughed land.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000010_000001|They were turning the plough over.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000010_000002|"Can they have finished ploughing?" he wondered.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000011_000000|"Come, really though," said the elder brother, with a frown on his handsome, clever face, "there's a limit to everything.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000011_000002|How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert..."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000012_000000|"I never did assert it," thought Konstantin Levin.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000013_000000|"... dies without help?
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000013_000001|The ignorant peasant women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000014_000000|And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000015_000000|Konstantin Levin felt that there was no course open to him but to submit, or to confess to a lack of zeal for the public good.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000015_000001|And this mortified him and hurt his feelings.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000016_000000|"It's both," he said resolutely: "I don't see that it was possible..."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000017_000000|"What! was it impossible, if the money were properly laid out, to provide medical aid?"
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000018_000000|"Impossible, as it seems to me....
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000018_000001|For the three thousand square miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the storms, and the work in the fields, I don't see how it is possible to provide medical aid all over.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000018_000002|And besides, I don't believe in medicine."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000019_000000|"Oh, well, that's unfair ...
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000019_000001|I can quote to you thousands of instances....
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000019_000002|But the schools, anyway."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000020_000000|"Why have schools?"
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000021_000000|"What do you mean?
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000021_000002|If it's a good thing for you, it's a good thing for everyone."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000022_000000|Konstantin Levin felt himself morally pinned against a wall, and so he got hot, and unconsciously blurted out the chief cause of his indifference to public business.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000024_000001|He was silent for a little, drew out a hook, threw it in again, and turned to his brother smiling.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000025_000000|"Come, now....
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000026_000000|"Oh, well, but I fancy her wrist will never be straight again."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000027_000000|"That remains to be proved....
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000028_000001|And mending the highroads is an impossibility; and as soon as they put up bridges they're stolen."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000029_000000|"Still, that's not the point," said Sergey Ivanovitch, frowning.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000029_000002|"Do you admit that education is a benefit for the people?"
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000030_000000|"Yes, I admit it," said Levin without thinking, and he was conscious immediately that he had said what he did not think.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000030_000001|He felt that if he admitted that, it would be proved that he had been talking meaningless rubbish.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000030_000002|How it would be proved he could not tell, but he knew that this would inevitably be logically proved to him, and he awaited the proofs.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000031_000000|The argument turned out to be far simpler than he had expected.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000032_000000|"If you admit that it is a benefit," said Sergey Ivanovitch, "then, as an honest man, you cannot help caring about it and sympathizing with the movement, and so wishing to work for it."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000033_000000|"But I still do not admit this movement to be just," said Konstantin Levin, reddening a little.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000034_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000034_000001|But you said just now..."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000035_000000|"That's to say, I don't admit it's being either good or possible."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000036_000000|"That you can't tell without making the trial."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000038_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000040_000000|"I can't see where philosophy comes in," said Sergey Ivanovitch, in a tone, Levin fancied, as though he did not admit his brother's right to talk about philosophy.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000040_000001|And that irritated Levin.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000000|"I'll tell you, then," he said with heat, "I imagine the mainspring of all our actions is, after all, self interest.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000002|Doctors and dispensaries are no use to me.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000003|An arbitrator of disputes is no use to me.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000004|I never appeal to him, and never shall appeal to him.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000005|The schools are no good to me, but positively harmful, as I told you.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000006|For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self interest offers me no inducement."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000042_000000|"Excuse me," Sergey Ivanovitch interposed with a smile, "self interest did not induce us to work for the emancipation of the serfs, but we did work for it."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000043_000000|"No!" Konstantin Levin broke in with still greater heat; "the emancipation of the serfs was a different matter.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000043_000001|There self interest did come in.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000043_000002|One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000044_000000|Konstantin Levin had warmed to his subject, and began mimicking the president and the half witted Alioshka: it seemed to him that it was all to the point.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000045_000000|But Sergey Ivanovitch shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000048_000000|Konstantin Levin spoke as though the floodgates of his speech had burst open.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000048_000001|Sergey Ivanovitch smiled.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000050_000000|"I'm not going to be tried.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000052_000000|"Excuse me, but you know one really can't argue in that way," he observed.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000053_000000|But Konstantin Levin wanted to justify himself for the failing, of which he was conscious, of lack of zeal for the public welfare, and he went on.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000055_000000|Sergey Ivanovitch smiled.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000055_000001|"He too has a philosophy of his own at the service of his natural tendencies," he thought.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000056_000000|"Come, you'd better let philosophy alone," he said.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000056_000001|"The chief problem of the philosophy of all ages consists just in finding the indispensable connection which exists between individual and social interests.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000056_000003|The birches are not simply stuck in, but some are sown and some are planted, and one must deal carefully with them. It's only those peoples that have an intuitive sense of what's of importance and significance in their institutions, and know how to value them, that have a future before them-it's only those peoples that one can truly call historical."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000058_000000|"As for your dislike of it, excuse my saying so, that's simply our Russian sloth and old serf owner's ways, and I'm convinced that in you it's a temporary error and will pass."
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000059_000000|Konstantin was silent.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000059_000001|He felt himself vanquished on all sides, but he felt at the same time that what he wanted to say was unintelligible to his brother.
train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000060_000000|Sergey Ivanovitch wound up the last line, untied the horse, and they drove off.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000001_000000|Chapter four
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000002_000001|Once in a previous year he had gone to look at the mowing, and being made very angry by the bailiff he had recourse to his favorite means for regaining his temper,--he took a scythe from a peasant and began mowing.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000004_000000|"I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined," he thought, and he determined he would go mowing, however awkward he might feel about it with his brother or the peasants.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000005_000000|Towards evening Konstantin Levin went to his counting house, gave directions as to the work to be done, and sent about the village to summon the mowers for the morrow, to cut the hay in Kalinov meadow, the largest and best of his grass lands.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000006_000001|I shall maybe do some mowing myself too," he said, trying not to be embarrassed.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000007_000000|The bailiff smiled and said: "Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000008_000000|At tea the same evening Levin said to his brother:
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000009_000001|Tomorrow I shall start mowing."
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000010_000000|"I'm so fond of that form of field labor," said Sergey Ivanovitch.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000011_000000|"I'm awfully fond of it.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000013_000001|Just like one of the peasants, all day long?"
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000014_000000|"Yes, it's very pleasant," said Levin.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000015_000000|"It's splendid as exercise, only you'll hardly be able to stand it," said Sergey Ivanovitch, without a shade of irony.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000016_000000|"I've tried it.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000016_000001|It's hard work at first, but you get into it.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000016_000002|I dare say I shall manage to keep it up..."
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000017_000000|"Really! what an idea!
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000017_000001|But tell me, how do the peasants look at it?
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000017_000002|I suppose they laugh in their sleeves at their master's being such a queer fish?"
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000018_000000|"No, I don't think so; but it's so delightful, and at the same time such hard work, that one has no time to think about it."
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000020_000000|"No, I'll simply come home at the time of their noonday rest."
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000022_000000|From the uplands he could get a view of the shaded cut part of the meadow below, with its grayish ridges of cut grass, and the black heaps of coats, taken off by the mowers at the place from which they had started cutting.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000023_000001|He counted forty two of them.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000025_000000|Levin got off his mare, and fastening her up by the roadside went to meet Tit, who took a second scythe out of a bush and gave it to him.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000026_000000|"It's ready, sir; it's like a razor, cuts of itself," said Tit, taking off his cap with a smile and giving him the scythe.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000031_000000|Tit made room, and Levin started behind him.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000031_000001|The grass was short close to the road, and Levin, who had not done any mowing for a long while, and was disconcerted by the eyes fastened upon him, cut badly for the first moments, though he swung his scythe vigorously.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000032_000000|"It's not set right; handle's too high; see how he has to stoop to it," said one.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000034_000000|"Never mind, he'll get on all right," the old man resumed.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000000|"He's made a start....
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000002|The master, sure, does his best for himself!
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000003|But see the grass missed out!
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000004|For such work us fellows would catch it!"
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000036_000000|The grass became softer, and Levin, listening without answering, followed Tit, trying to do the best he could.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000036_000001|They moved a hundred paces.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000036_000002|Tit kept moving on, without stopping, not showing the slightest weariness, but Levin was already beginning to be afraid he would not be able to keep it up: he was so tired.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000037_000002|Levin straightened himself, and drawing a deep breath looked round.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000037_000006|Tit moved on with sweep after sweep of his scythe, not stopping nor showing signs of weariness.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000039_000000|His pleasure was only disturbed by his row not being well cut.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000040_000000|The first row, as Levin noticed, Tit had mowed specially quickly, probably wishing to put his master to the test, and the row happened to be a long one.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000041_000000|He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000043_000000|Another row, and yet another row, followed-long rows and short rows, with good grass and with poor grass.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000043_000002|A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000044_000000|On finishing yet another row he would have gone back to the top of the meadow again to begin the next, but Tit stopped, and going up to the old man said something in a low voice to him.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000044_000001|They both looked at the sun "What are they talking about, and why doesn't he go back?" thought Levin, not guessing that the peasants had been mowing no less than four hours without stopping, and it was time for their lunch.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000045_000000|"Lunch, sir," said the old man.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000046_000000|"Is it really time?
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000046_000001|That's right; lunch, then."
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000047_000000|Levin gave his scythe to Tit, and together with the peasants, who were crossing the long stretch of mown grass, slightly sprinkled with rain, to get their bread from the heap of coats, he went towards his house. Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000048_000000|"The hay will be spoiled," he said.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000049_000000|"Not a bit of it, sir; mow in the rain, and you'll rake in fine weather!" said the old man.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000050_000000|Levin untied his horse and rode home to his coffee.
train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000050_000001|Sergey Ivanovitch was only just getting up.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000000_000000|POLLY'S BIG BUNDLE
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000001_000000|The room was very quiet; but presently Phronsie strayed in, and seeing Polly studying, climbed up in a chair by the window to watch the birds hop over the veranda and pick up worms in the grass beside the carriage drive.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000001_000001|And then came mrs Pepper with the big mending basket, and ensconced herself opposite by the table; and nothing was to be heard but the "tick, tick" of the clock, and an occasional dropping of a spool of thread, or scissors, from the busy hands flying in and out among the stockings.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000002_000001|And then he set up a loud and angry chirping, flying up and down, and opening his mouth as if he wanted to express his mind, but couldn't, and otherwise acting in a very strange and unaccountable manner.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000003_000000|"Dear me!" said mrs Pepper, "what's that?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000004_000000|"It's Cherry," said Polly, lifting up her head from "Fasquelle," "and-oh, dear me!" and flinging down the pile of books in her lap on a chair, she rushed across the room and flew up to the cage and began to wildly gesticulate and explain and shower down on him every endearing name she could think of.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000005_000000|"What is the matter?" asked her mother, turning around in her chair in perfect astonishment.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000005_000001|"What upon earth, Polly!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000006_000000|"How could I!" cried Polly, in accents of despair, not heeding her mother's question.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000006_000001|"Oh, mamsie, will he die, do you think?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000007_000000|"I guess not," said mrs Pepper, laying down her work and coming up to the cage, while Phronsie scrambled off from her chair and hurried to the scene.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000007_000001|"Why, he does act queer, don't he?
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000007_000002|P'raps he's been eating too much?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000008_000000|"Eating!" said Polly, "oh mamsie, he hasn't had anything." And she pointed with shame and remorse to the seed cup with only a few dried husks in the very bottom.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000009_000000|"Oh, Polly," began mrs Pepper; but seeing the look on her face, she changed her tone for one more cheerful.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000009_000002|There, there," she said, nodding persuasively at the cage, "you pretty creature you!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000009_000003|so you sha'n't be starved."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000010_000000|At the word "starved," Polly winced as though a pin had been pointed at her.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000011_000000|"There isn't any, mamsie, in the house," she stammered; "he had the last yesterday."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000012_000000|"And you forgot him to day?" asked mrs Pepper, with a look in her black eyes Polly didn't like.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000014_000000|"Well, he must have something right away," said mrs Pepper, decidedly. "That's certain."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000015_000000|"I'll run right down to Fletcher's and get it," cried Polly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000016_000000|"Twon't take me but a minute, mamsie; Jasper's gone, and Thomas, too, so I've got to go," she added, as she saw her mother hesitate.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000017_000001|"I'm most afraid it will rain, Polly."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000018_000000|"Oh, no, mamsie," cried Polly, feeling as if she could fly to the ends of the earth to atone, and longing beside for the brisk walk down town. Going up to the window she pointed triumphantly to the little bit of blue sky still visible.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000018_000001|"There, now, see, it can't rain yet awhile."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000019_000000|"Well," said mrs Pepper, while Phronsie, standing in a chair with her face pressed close to the cage, was telling Cherry through the bars "not to be hungry, please don't!" which he didn't seem to mind in the least, but went on screaming harder than ever!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000019_000001|"And besides, 'tisn't much use to wait for Ben.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000019_000003|But be sure, Polly, to hurry, for it's getting late, and I shall be worried about you.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000020_000000|"Oh, mamsie," said Polly, turning back just a minute, "I know the way to Fletcher's just as easy as anything.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000020_000001|I couldn't get lost."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000021_000000|"I know you do," said mrs Pepper, "but it'll be dark early on account of the shower.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000021_000001|Well," she said, pulling out her well worn purse from her pocket, "if it does sprinkle, you get into a car, Polly, remember."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000023_000000|"And there's ten cents for your bird seed in that pocket," said mrs Pepper, pointing to a coin racing away into a corner by itself.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000024_000000|"Yes'm," said Polly, wild to be off.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000025_000000|"And there's a five cent piece in that one for you to ride up with," said her mother, tying up the purse carefully.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000025_000001|"Remember, for you to ride up with.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000025_000002|Well, I guess you better ride up anyway, Polly, come to think, and then you'll get home all the quicker."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000026_000000|"Where you going?" asked Phronsie, who on seeing the purse knew there was some expedition on foot, and beginning to clamber down out of the chair.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000026_000001|"Oh, I want to go too, I do.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000026_000002|Take me, Polly!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000027_000000|"Oh, no Pet, I can't," cried Polly, "I've got to hurry like everything!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000028_000000|"I can hurry too," cried Phronsie, drawing her small figure to its utmost height, "oh, so fast, Polly!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000029_000000|"And it's ever so far," cried Polly, in despair, as she saw the small under lip of the child begin to quiver.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000030_000000|"Run right along," said mrs Pepper, briskly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000031_000000|At this Phronsie turned and wiped away two big tears, while she gazed up at the cage in extreme commiseration.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000032_000000|"I guess I'll give him a piece of bread," said mrs Pepper to herself. At this word "bread," Polly, who was half way down the hall, came running back.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000033_000000|"Oh, mamsie, don't," she said.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000033_000001|"It made him sick before, don't you know it did-so fat and stuffy."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000034_000000|"Well, hurry along then," said mrs Pepper, and Polly was off.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000036_000001|"Well, here I am," she said with a sigh of relief, as she at last reached mr Fletcher's big bird store.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000037_000000|Here she steadily resisted all temptations to stop and look at the new arrivals of birds, and to feed the carrier pigeons who seemed to be expecting her, and who turned their soft eyes up at her reproachfully when she failed to pay her respects to them.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000037_000001|Even the cunning blandishments of a very attractive monkey that always had entertained the children on their numerous visits, failed to interest her now. Mamsie would be worrying, she knew; and besides, the sight of so many birds eating their suppers out of generously full seed cups, only filled her heart with remorse as she thought of poor Cherry and his empty one.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000038_000000|So she put down her ten cents silently on the counter, and took up the little package of seed, and went out.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000039_000000|But what a change!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000039_000001|The cloud that had seemed but a cloud when she went in, was now fast descending in big ominous sprinkles that told of a heavy shower to follow.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000040_000000|"I don't care," said Polly to herself, holding fast her little package. "I'll run and get in the car-then I'll be all right."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000041_000000|So she went on with nimble footsteps, dodging the crowd, and soon came to the corner.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000041_000001|A car was just in sight-that was fine!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000041_000003|Her pocket was empty!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000042_000001|Well, I must hurry.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000042_000002|Nothing for it but to run now!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000045_000000|"I beg your pardon; it was extremely careless in me."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000046_000000|"It's no matter," said Polly, hopping up with a little laugh, and straightening her hat.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000046_000001|"Only-" and she began to look for her parcel that had been sent spinning.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000048_000001|"Oh, dear!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000000|No need to ask for it now!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000001|There lay the paper wet and torn, down at their feet.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000002|The seed lay all over the pavement, scattered far and wide even out to the puddles in the street.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000003|And not a cent of money to get any more with!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000004|The rain that was falling around them as they stood there sent with the sound of every drop such a flood of misery into Polly's heart!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000050_000000|"What was it, child?" asked the gentleman, peering sharply to find out what the little shiny things were.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000051_000000|"Bird seed," gasped Polly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000052_000000|"Is that all?" said the gentleman with a happy laugh.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000052_000001|"I'm very glad."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000053_000000|"All!" Polly's heart stood still as she thought of Cherry, stark and stiff in the bottom of his cage, if he didn't get it soon.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000053_000001|"Now," said the kind tones, briskly, "come, little girl, we'll make this all right speedily.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000053_000002|Let's see-here's a bird store.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000054_000000|"But, sir-" began Polly, holding back.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000055_000001|And then he added a cunning arrangement for birds to swing in, and two or three other things that didn't have anything to do with birds at all.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000055_000002|And then they came out on the wet, slippery street again.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000056_000000|"Now, then, little girl," said the gentleman, tucking the bundle under his arm, and opening the umbrella; then he took hold of Polly's hand, who by this time was glad of a protector.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000056_000001|"Where do you live?
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000056_000002|For I'm going to take you safely home this time where umbrellas can't run into you."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000057_000000|"Oh!" said Polly, with a little skip.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000057_000001|"Thank you sir!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000057_000002|It's up to mr King's; and-"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000058_000000|"What!" said the gentleman, stopping short in the midst of an immense puddle, and staring at her, "mr
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000058_000001|Jasper King's?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000060_000000|"Jappy!" said the stranger, still standing as if petrified.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000061_000000|"Oh, yes," said Polly, raising her clear, brown eyes up at him.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000061_000002|"There's Percy, and Van, and little Dick-oh, he's so cunning!" she cried, impulsively.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000062_000000|The gentleman's face looked very queer just then; but he merely said:
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000063_000000|"Why, you must be Polly?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000064_000000|"Yes, sir, I am," said Polly, pleased to think he knew her.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000064_000001|And then she told him how she'd forgotten Cherry's seed, and all about it.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000064_000002|"And oh, sir," she said, and her voice began to tremble, "Mamsie'll be so frightened if I don't get there soon!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000065_000000|"I'm going up there myself, so that it all happens very nicely," said the gentleman, commencing to start off briskly, and grasping her hand tighter.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000065_000001|"Now, then, Polly."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000069_000000|"Oh dear me, Phronsie!" cried Polly, huddling her up from the dark, wet ground.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000069_000001|"You'll catch your death!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000070_000000|The stranger, amazed at this new stage of the proceedings, was vainly trying to hold the umbrella over both, till the procession could move on again.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000071_000001|At that Polly gathered her up close and began to walk with rapid footsteps up the path.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000072_000000|"Do let me carry you, little girl," said Polly's kind friend persuasively, bending down to the little face on Polly's neck.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000073_000001|"Don't let him, Polly, don't!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000074_000000|"There sha'n't anything hurt you," said Polly, kissing her reassuringly, and stepping briskly off with her burden, just as the door burst open, and joel flew out on the veranda steps, followed by the rest of the troop in the greatest state of excitement.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000075_000000|"Oh, whickety!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000075_000001|she's come!" he shouted, springing up to her over the puddles, and crowding under the umbrella.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000075_000002|"Where'd you get Phronsie?" he asked, standing quite still at sight of the little feet tucked up to get out of the rain.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000076_000000|"Phronsie!" said mrs Pepper, springing to her feet, "why, I thought she was up stairs with Jane."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000077_000001|She's caught her death cold, no doubt, no doubt!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000080_000000|"Isn't anybody going to kiss me, I wonder!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000081_000000|The two little Whitneys, who were eagerly clutching Polly's arms, turned around; and Percy rubbed his eyes in a puzzled way, as joel said, stopping a minute to look up at the tall figure:
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000082_000000|"We don't ever kiss strangers-mamsie's told us not to."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000083_000000|"For shame, Joey!" cried Polly, feeling her face grow dreadfully red in the darkness, "the gentleman's been so kind to me!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000084_000001|And then-well, then Percy gave a violent bound, and upsetting joel as he did so, wriggled his way down the steps-at the same time that Van, on Polly's other side, rushed up to the gentleman:
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000085_000000|"Papa-oh, papa!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000087_000000|"Why, Polly Pepper!" exclaimed joel, not minding his own upset.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000088_000000|"Hush!" cried Polly, catching his arm, "he's come-oh, joel--he's come!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000089_000000|"Who?" cried joel, staring around blindly, "who, Polly?" Polly had just opened her lips to explain, when mr King's portly, handsome figure appeared in the doorway.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000089_000001|"Do come in, children-why-good gracious, Mason!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000091_000002|"Here, mrs Pepper, be so good as to call mrs Whitney."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000092_000000|"Pepper!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000092_000001|Pepper!" repeated mr Whitney, perplexedly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000093_000001|"Oh, let me tell her!" He struggled to get down from his father's arms as he said this.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000094_000000|"No, I shall-I heard her first!" cried Percy.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000094_000001|"Oh, dear me!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000094_000002|Grandpapa's going to!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000095_000000|mr King advanced to the foot of the staircase as his daughter, all unconscious, ran down with a light step, and a smile on her face.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000096_000000|"Has Polly come?" she asked, seeing only her father.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000096_000001|"Yes," replied the old gentleman, shortly, "and she's brought a big bundle, Marian!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000097_000000|"A big bundle?" she repeated wonderingly, and gazing at him.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000099_000000|So Polly and Phronsie crept in unnoticed after all.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000100_000000|"I wish Ben was here," said little Davie, capering around the Whitney group, "an' Jappy, I do!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000101_000000|"Where are they!" asked Polly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000102_000001|"See-aren't these prime!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000102_000002|He held up a shining black shoe, fairly bristling with newness, for Polly to admire.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000103_000000|"Splendid," she cried heartily; "but where are the boys?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000104_000000|"They went after you," said Davie, "after we came home with our shoes."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000105_000000|"No, they didn't," contradicted joel, flatly; and sitting down on the floor he began to tie and untie his new possessions.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000106_000000|"Oh, yes," said Davie, nodding his head, "so he did; that was when we all cried 'cause you weren't home, Polly."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000107_000000|"He drawed me a be yew tiful one," cried Phronsie, holding up her mangy bit; "see, Polly, see!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000108_000000|"That's the little brown house," said Davie, looking over her shoulder as Phronsie put it carefully into Polly's hand.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000109_000000|"It's all washed out," said Polly, smoothing it out, "when you staid out in the rain."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000110_000000|Phronsie's face grew very grave at that.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000111_000000|"Bad, naughty old rain," she said, and then she began to cry as hard as she could.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000115_000000|"Why, I thought I told you," said Polly, at her wit's end over Phronsie. "It's Percy and Van's father, Joey!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000116_000000|"Whockey!" cried joel, completely stunned, "really and truly, Polly Pepper?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000118_000000|"Then I'm going to peek," cried joel, squeaking across the floor to carry his threat into execution.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000119_000001|"Come right back, or I'll tell mamsie!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000121_000000|"And here are the little friends I've heard so much about!" cried mr Whitney coming in amongst them.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000121_000001|"Oh, you needn't introduce me to Polly-she brought me home!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000122_000000|"They're all Pepperses," said Percy, waving his hand, and doing the business up at one stroke.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000123_000000|"Only the best of 'em isn't here," observed Van, rather ungallantly, "he draws perfectly elegant, papa!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000124_000001|"Peppers!" again repeated mr Whitney in a puzzled way.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000125_000000|"And here is mrs Pepper," said old mr King, pompously drawing her forward, "the children's mother, and-"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000131_000000|"Well," said mr Whitney, sitting down and drawing his wife to his side, "it's a long story.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000131_000001|You see, when I was a little youngster, and-"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000132_000000|"You were john Whitney then," put in mrs Pepper, slyly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000133_000002|But to go back-when I was a little shaver, about as big as Percy here-"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000134_000000|"Oh, papa!" began Percy, deprecatingly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000134_000001|To be called "a little shaver" before all the others!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000135_000000|"He means, dearie," said his mamma, reassuringly, "when he was a boy like you.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000135_000001|Now hear what papa is going to say."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000136_000000|"Well, I was sent up into Vermont to stay at the old place.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000136_000001|There was a little girl there; a bright, black eyed little girl.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000137_000000|"Who's Mary Bartlett?" asked joel, interrupting.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000138_000000|"There she is, sir," said mr Whitney, pointing to mrs Pepper, who was laughing and crying together.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000139_000000|"Where?" said joel, utterly bewildered.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000139_000001|"I don't see any Mary Bartlett. What does he mean, Polly?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000140_000000|"I don't know," said Polly.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000140_000001|"Wait, Joey," she whispered, "he's going to tell us all about it."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000141_000000|"Well, this little cousin and I went to the district school, and had many good times together.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000141_000001|And then my parents sent for me, and I went to Germany to school; and when I came back I lost sight of her.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000141_000002|All I could find out was that she had married an Englishman by the name of Pepper."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000142_000000|"Oh!" cried all the children together.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000144_000000|"I heard," said mrs Pepper, "that you'd grown awfully rich, and I couldn't."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000145_000000|"You always were a proud little thing," he said laughing.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000145_000001|"Well, but," broke in mr King, unable to keep silence any longer, "I'd like to inquire, Mason, why you didn't find all this out before, in Marian's letters, when she mentioned mrs Pepper?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000146_000000|"She didn't ever mention her," said mr Whitney, turning around to face his questioner, "not as mrs Pepper-never once by name.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000146_000001|It was always either 'Polly's mother,' or 'Phronsie's mother.' Just like a woman," he added, with a mischievous glance at his wife, "not to be explicit."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000147_000000|"And just like a man," she retorted, with a happy little laugh, "not to ask for explanations."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000149_000000|The door was thrown suddenly open, and Jasper plunged in, his face flushed with excitement, and after him Ben, looking a little as he did when Phronsie was lost, while Prince squeezed panting in between the two boys.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000150_000000|"Has Polly got-" began Jasper.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000151_000000|"Oh, yes, I'm here," cried Polly, springing up to them; "oh, Ben!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000152_000000|"She has," cried joel, disentangling himself from the group, "don't you see, Jappy?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000153_000000|"She's all home," echoed Phronsie, flying up.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000153_000001|"Oh, Ben, do draw me another little house!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000154_000000|"And see-see!" cried the little Whitneys, pointing with jubilant fingers to their papa, "see what she brought!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000155_000000|Jasper turned around at that-and then rushed forward.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000156_000000|"Oh, brother Mason!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000159_000000|"He's a standin' on tip toe," said joel critically, who was hovering near.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000160_000000|"Not a bit of it, Joe!" cried Jasper, with a merry laugh, and setting both feet with a convincing thud on the floor.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000161_000000|"Well, anyway, I'll be just as big," cried joel, "when I'm thirteen, so!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000162_000000|Just then a loud and quick rap on the table made all the children skip, and stopped everybody's tongue.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000162_000001|It came from mr King.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000164_000000|"Now, then!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000166_000000|"I will," said Phronsie, shaking her small head wisely, "every single thing."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000167_000000|"Well, then, now begin-"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000168_000000|"Well, then, now begin," said Phronsie, looking down on the faces with an air as much like mr King's as was possible, and finishing up with two or three little nods.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000169_000000|"Oh, no, dear, that isn't it," cried the old gentleman, "I'll tell you. Say, Phronsie, 'you are all cousins-every one.'"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000171_000000|"Does she mean it, grandpapa?
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000171_000001|Does she mean it?" cried Percy, in the greatest excitement.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000172_000000|"As true as everything?" demanded joel, crowding in between them.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000173_000001|"So make the most of it."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000174_000001|And then Jasper and she took hold of hands and had a good spin!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000176_000000|"We're cousins!" he said.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000177_000000|"I know it," said Percy, "and so's Van!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000178_000000|"Yes," said Van, flying up, "and I'm cousin to Polly, too-that's best!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000180_000001|"You and I, my boy," he turned to his son, "are left out in the cold."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000181_000000|At this a scream, loud and terrible to hear, struck upon them all, as joel flung himself flat on the floor.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000182_000000|"Isn't Jappy-our-cousin?
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000182_000001|I-want-Jappy!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000183_000000|"Goodness!" exclaimed the old gentleman, in the greatest alarm, "what is the matter with the boy!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000183_000001|Do somebody stop him!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000184_000000|"joel," said Jasper, leaning over him, and trying to help Polly lift him up.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000184_000001|"I'll tell you how we'll fix it!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000185_000000|joel bolted up at that, and began to smile through the tears running down the rosy face.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000186_000000|"Will you, really?" he said, "just like Ben-and everything?"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000187_000000|"I can't be as good as Ben," said Jappy, laughing, "but I'll be a real brother like him."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000188_000000|"Phoo-phoo!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000189_000000|"Oh, dear!" they both cried in great distress.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000190_000000|"Now, papa, Jappy's going to be Joey's brother-and he isn't anything but our old uncle!
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000190_000001|Make him be ours more, papa, do!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000191_000000|And then Polly sprang up.
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000192_000001|"Cherry'll die-Cherry'll die!" she cried, "do somebody help me off with the string!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000194_000000|"Don't hurry so, Polly," said Jasper, as she jumped up to fly up stairs. "He's had some a perfect age-he's all right."
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000197_000000|"Is that all there is in that big bundle?" said joel in a disappointed tone, who had followed with extreme curiosity to see its contents. "Phoo!--that's no fun-old bird seed!"
train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000198_000000|"I know," said Polly with a gay little laugh, pointing with the handful of seed into the library, "but I shouldn't have met the other big bundle if it hadn't have been for this, Joe!"
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000002_000000|The moment that the last of the Macedonian dynasty was gone, the elements of discord seemed unchained, and the double scourge of civil war and foreign invasion began to afflict the empire.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000000|Domestic troubles were the first inevitable consequence of the extinction of the Macedonian dynasty.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000001|The aged Theodora had named as her successor on the throne Michael Stratioticus, a contemporary of her own who had been an able soldier twenty five years back.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000002|But Michael the sixth. was grown aged and incompetent, and the empire was full of ambitious generals, who would not tolerate a dotard on the throne.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000003|Before a year had passed a band of great Asiatic nobles entered into a conspiracy to overturn Michael, and replace him by Isaac Comnenus, the chief of one of the ancient Cappadocian houses, and the most popular general of the East.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000004_000000|Isaac Comnenus and his friends took arms, and dispossessed the aged Michael of his throne with little difficulty.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000004_000004|The safety of the realm was entirely in the hands of its well paid and well disciplined national army, and anything that impaired the efficiency of the army was fraught with the deadliest peril.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000005_000000|The Seljouk Turks were now drawing near.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000005_000002|In ten fifty, they had penetrated to Bagdad, and their great chief, Togrul Beg, had declared himself "defender of the faith and protector of the Caliph." Armenia had next been overrun, and those portions of it which had not been annexed to the empire, and still obeyed independent princes, had been conquered by ten sixty four.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000000|The reign of Constantine Ducas was troubled by countless Seljouk invasions of the Armeniac, Anatolic, and Cappadocian themes.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000001|Sometimes the invaders were driven back, sometimes they eluded the imperial troops and escaped with their booty.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000002|But whether successful or unsuccessful, they displayed a reckless cruelty, far surpassing anything that the Saracens had ever shown.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000003|Wherever they passed they not merely plundered to right and left, but slew off the whole population.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000000|Ducas died in ten sixty seven, leaving the throne to his son, Michael, a boy of fourteen years.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000001|The usual result followed.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000002|To secure her son's life and throne, the Empress dowager Eudocia took a new husband, and made him guardian of the young Michael.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000003|The new Emperor regent was Romanus Diogenes, an Asiatic noble, whose brilliant courage displayed in the Seljouk wars had dazzled the world, and caused it to forget that caution and ability are far more regal virtues than headlong valour.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000004|Romanus took in hand with the greatest vigour the task of repelling the Turks, which his predecessor had so grievously neglected.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000008_000002|Hence the Emperor was not unfrequently able to catch and slay off one of the minor divisions of the Turkish army.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000008_000003|But some of them always contrived to elude him; his heavy cavalry could not come up with the light Seljouk horse bowmen, who generally escaped and rode back home by a long detour, burning and murdering as they went.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000008_000004|Cappadocia was already desolated from end to end, and the Turkish raids had reached as far as Amorium, in Phrygia.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000009_000000|In ten seventy one came the final disaster.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000003|Either from treachery or cowardice Andronicus Ducas, the officer who commanded the reserve, led his men off without fighting.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000004|The Emperor's division was beset on all sides by the enemy, and broke up in the dusk.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000005|Romanus himself was wounded, thrown from his horse, and made prisoner.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000006|The greater part of his men were cut to pieces.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000000|Alp Arslan showed himself more forbearing to his prisoner than might have been expected.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000001|It is true that Romanus was led after his capture to the tent of the Sultan, and laid prostrate before him, that, after the Turkish custom, the conqueror might place his foot on the neck of his vanquished foe.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000002|But after this humiliating ceremony the Emperor was treated with kindness, and allowed after some months to ransom himself and return home. He would have fared better, however, if he had remained the prisoner of the Turk.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000003|During his captivity the conduct of affairs had fallen into the hands of john Ducas, uncle of the young emperor Michael.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000004|The unscrupulous regent was determined that Romanus should not supersede him and mount the throne again.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000005|When the released captive reappeared, john had him seized and blinded.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000006|The cruel work was so roughly done that the unfortunate Romanus died a few days later.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000000|After this fearful disaster Asia Minor was lost; there was no chief to take the place of Romanus, and the Seljouk hordes spread westward almost unopposed.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000001|The next ten years were a time of chaos and disaster.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000003|After the death of Romanus, every general in the empire seemed to think that the time had come for him to assume the purple buskins and proclaim himself emperor. History records the names of no less than six pretenders to the throne during the next nine years, besides several rebels who took up arms without assuming the imperial title.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000006|At last a man of ability worked himself up to the surface. This was Alexius Comnenus, nephew of the emperor Isaac Comnenus, whose short reign we related in the opening paragraph of this chapter.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000000|Alexius was a man of courage and ability, but he displayed one of the worst types of Byzantine character.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000002|He was the most accomplished liar of his age, and, while winning and defending the imperial throne, committed enough acts of mean treachery, and swore enough false oaths to startle even the courtiers of Constantinople.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000003|He could fight when necessary, but he preferred to win by treason and perjury.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000004|Yet as a ruler he had many virtues, and it will always be remembered to his credit that he dragged the empire out of the deepest slough of degradation and ruin that it had ever sunk into.
train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000005|Though false, he was not cruel, and seven ex emperors and usurpers, living unharmed in Constantinople under his sceptre, bore witness to the mildness of his rule.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000002_000000|METAMORPHISM AND MINERAL VEINS
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000003_000000|Under the action of internal agencies rocks of all kinds may be rendered harder, more firmly cemented, and more crystalline.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000003_000001|These processes are known as METAMORPHISM, and the rocks affected, whether originally sedimentary or igneous, are called METAMORPHIC ROCKS.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000000|CONTACT METAMORPHISM.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000002|The adjacent strata may be changed only in color, hardness, and texture.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000003|Thus, next to a dike, bituminous coal may be baked to coke or anthracite, and chalk and limestone to crystalline marble.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000004|Sandstone may be converted into quartzite, and shale into ARGILLITE, a compact, massive clay rock.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000006|In sedimentary rocks there may be produced crystals of mica and of GARNET (a mineral as hard as quartz, commonly occurring in red, twelve sided crystals).
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000005_000000|In contact metamorphism, thin sheets of molten rock produce less effect than thicker ones.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000005_000001|The strongest heat effects are naturally caused by bosses and regional intrusions, and the zone of change about them may be several miles in width.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000006_000000|Which will be more strongly altered, the rocks about a closed dike in which lava began to cool as soon as it filled the fissure, or the rocks about a dike which opened on the surface and through which the molten rock flowed for some time?
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000008_000000|REGIONAL METAMORPHISM.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000009_000000|In these regions the rocks have yielded to immense pressure.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000010_000000|Other factors, however, have played important parts.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000010_000001|Rock crushing develops heat, and allows a freer circulation of heated waters and vapors.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000010_000002|Thus chemical reactions are greatly quickened; minerals are dissolved and redeposited in new positions, or their chemical constituents may recombine in new minerals, entirely changing the nature of the rock, as when, for example, feldspar recrystallizes as quartz and mica.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000011_000000|Early stages of metamorphism are seen in SLATE.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000011_000001|Pressure has hardened the marine muds, the arkose, or the volcanic ash from which slates are derived, and has caused them to cleave by the rearrangement of their particles.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000012_000000|Under somewhat greater pressure, slate becomes PHYLLITE, a clay slate whose cleavage surfaces are lustrous with flat lying mica flakes.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000012_000001|The same pressure which has caused the rock to cleave has set free some of its mineral constituents along the cleavage planes to crystallize there as mica.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000013_000000|FOLIATION.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000013_000001|Under still stronger pressure the whole structure of the rock is altered.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000013_000003|Of this structure, called FOLIATION, we may distinguish two types,--a coarser feldspathic type, and a fine type in which other minerals than feldspar predominate.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000015_000000|THE CRYSTALLINE SCHISTS, representing the finer types of foliation, consist of thin, parallel, crystalline leaves, which are often remarkably crumpled.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000015_000001|These folia can be distinguished from the laminae of sedimentary rocks by their lenticular form and lack of continuity, and especially by the fact that they consist of platy, crystalline grains, and not of particles rounded by wear.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000016_000000|MICA SCHIST, the most common of schists, and in fact of all metamorphic rocks, is composed of mica and quartz in alternating wavy folia.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000016_000003|TALC SCHIST consists of quartz and TALC, a light colored magnesian mineral of greasy feel, and so soft that it can be scratched with the thumb nail.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000020_000000|These few examples must suffice of the great class of metamorphic rocks.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000020_000002|The fact of change is seen in their hardness arid cementation, their more or less complete recrystallization, and their foliation; but the change is often so complete that no trace of their original structure and mineral composition remains to tell whether the rocks from which they were derived were sedimentary or igneous, or to what variety of either of these classes they belonged.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000021_000002|Schists may contain rolled out pebbles, showing their derivation from a conglomerate.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000021_000004|The most thoroughly metamorphosed rocks may sometimes be traced out into unaltered sedimentary or igneous rocks, or among them may be found patches of little change where their history maybe read.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000023_000001|Why do metamorphic rocks appear on the surface to day?
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000024_000000|MINERAL VEINS
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000026_000000|The most common vein stones are QUARTZ and CALCITE.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000026_000001|FLUORITE (calcium fluoride), a mineral harder than calcite and crystallizing in cubes of various colors, and BARITE (barium sulphate), a heavy white mineral, are abundant in many veins.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000028_000002|How the gold came in the placers we may leave the pupil to suggest.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000030_000000|ORIGIN OF MINERAL VEINS.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000030_000003|Now fissures, wherever they occur, form the trunk channels of the underground circulation. Water descends from the surface along these rifts; it moves laterally from either side to the fissure plane, just as ground water seeps through the surrounding rocks from every direction to a well; and it ascends through these natural water ways as in an artesian well, whenever they intersect an aquifer in which water is under hydrostatic pressure.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000031_000000|The waters which deposit vein stones and ores are commonly hot, and in many cases they have derived their heat from intrusions of igneous rock still uncooled within the crust.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000033_000001|The steaming water rises through fissures in volcanic rocks and is now depositing in the rifts a vein stone of quartz, with metallic ores of iron, mercury, lead, and other metals.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000034_000003|The minerals of veins are therefore constantly being dissolved along their upper portions and carried down the fissures by ground water to lower levels, where they are redeposited.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000035_000000|Many of the richest ore deposits are thus due to successive concentrations: the ores were leached originally from the rocks to a large extent by laterally seeping waters; they were concentrated in the ore deposits of the vein chiefly by ascending currents; they have been reconcentrated by descending waters in the way just mentioned.
train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000037_000001|Thus in soluble rocks, such as limestones, joints enlarged by percolating water are sometimes filled with metalliferous deposits, as, for example, the lead and zinc deposits of the upper Mississippi valley.
train-clean-360/5401/39515/5401_39515_000007_000000|EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
train-clean-360/5401/39515/5401_39515_000018_000000|THE BRITISH ISLES.
train-clean-360/543/133211/543_133211_000015_000006|The consequences were terrible.
train-clean-360/543/133211/543_133211_000023_000003|Jealousy, discord, and fury, dwell in the convent.
train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000004_000002|The palace was beautifully built.
train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000010_000001|Music, to day, is only the art of executing difficult things, and that which is only difficult cannot please long.
train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000012_000000|They sat down to table, and after an excellent dinner they went into the library.
train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000030_000004|For the matter of that I say what I think, and I care very little whether others think as I do."
train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000033_000000|"There would not be much harm in that," said Martin.
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000005_000000|"It is a great question," said Candide.
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000006_000001|Candide did not quite agree to that, but he affirmed nothing.
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000007_000002|Paquette continued her trade wherever she went, but made nothing of it.
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000009_000000|"Ha!" said Pangloss to Paquette, "Providence has then brought you amongst us again, my poor child!
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000017_000000|"Hold your tongue," answered the Dervish.
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000031_000001|Their little plot of land produced plentiful crops.
train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000034_000000|"All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden."
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000002|The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted by the heartless past.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000004|Why should we fear that which will come to all that is?
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000005|We cannot tell.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000006|We do not know which is the greatest blessing, life or death.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000008|Every cradle asks us "Whence?" and every coffin "Whither?"
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000004_000001|The largest and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000000|My Friends: I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000002|He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point, but being weary for a moment he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000003|While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000010|He loved the beautiful and was with color, form and music touched to tears.
train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000009_000007|Speech can not contain our love.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000006_000000|He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000000|The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000001|The pure, healthful, living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000002|Everywhere around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has set in an unclouded azure sky.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000003|Twilight had descended; night was drawing on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of darkness that they may escape from an anguish.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000004|The sky presented itself in all directions like an enormous calm.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000005|The river flowed to his feet with the sound of a kiss.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000007|A few stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of the infinite.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000009_000000|It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to permit of recognition at close quarters.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000010_000000|For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000010_000001|Jean Valjean could not refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the majestic silence of the eternal heavens.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000010_000002|Then he bent down swiftly to Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few drops on the latter's face.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000011_000000|Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does not see.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000012_000000|We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is familiar.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000013_000000|He turned round.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000014_000000|Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while before.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000015_000000|A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean was crouching over Marius.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000016_000000|With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000016_000001|An ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000017_000002|The reader knows the rest.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000000|Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thenardier's part. Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth hound.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000001|An assassin, what a godsend!
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000002|Such an opportunity must never be allowed to slip.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000003|Thenardier, by putting Jean Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000019_000000|Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000020_000000|These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thenardier upon Javert, was a rude shock.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000021_000000|Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer looked like himself.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000021_000001|He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, calm voice:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000023_000000|"I."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000024_000000|"Who is 'I'?"
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000026_000000|Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, and recognized him.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000026_000001|Their faces almost touched.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000027_000000|Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000028_000001|Moreover, I have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000028_000002|I did not give you my address with any intention of escaping from you.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000028_000003|Take me. Only grant me one favor."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000000|Javert did not appear to hear him.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000001|He kept his eyes riveted on Jean Valjean.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000002|His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his nose, a sign of savage revery.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000003|At length he released Jean Valjean, straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered this question:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000031_000000|He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as thou.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000032_000000|Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse Javert:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000033_000000|"It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000033_000001|Dispose of me as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000034_000000|Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to think him capable of making a concession.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000034_000001|Nevertheless, he did not say "no"
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000035_000000|Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood stained brow.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000039_000000|"He is wounded," said Jean Valjean.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000041_000000|Jean Valjean replied:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000042_000000|"no
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000043_000000|"So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000044_000000|His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000045_000000|Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000045_000001|He resumed:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000046_000001|I do not recollect his name."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000048_000001|Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000049_000000|Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!"
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000050_000000|The reader will remember that the hackney coach was waiting in case of need.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000051_000000|Javert kept Marius' pocket book.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000052_000000|A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane of the watering place, was on the shore.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000052_000001|Marius was laid upon the back seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000053_000000|The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the quays in the direction of the Bastille.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000054_000000|They quitted the quays and entered the streets.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000054_000001|The coachman, a black form on his box, whipped up his thin horses.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000054_000002|A glacial silence reigned in the carriage.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000056_000000|At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' hair.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000058_000000|Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr confronting each other, he gave a violent peal.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000058_000001|The gate opened a little way and Javert gave it a push.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000058_000002|The porter half made his appearance yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000059_000000|Everyone in the house was asleep.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000059_000001|People go to bed betimes in the Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000059_000002|This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000060_000000|In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the coachman under the knees.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000061_000000|As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured himself that his heart was still beating.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000061_000001|It was even beating a little less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a certain fresh access of life.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000062_000000|Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious person.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000063_000000|"Some person whose name is Gillenormand?"
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000064_000000|"Here.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000068_000000|Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his head that this was not so.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000070_000000|Javert continued:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000072_000000|"To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000073_000000|"He has got himself killed.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000073_000001|Go waken his father."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000074_000000|The porter did not stir.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000076_000000|And he added:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000077_000000|"There will be a funeral here to morrow."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000079_000001|Basque woke Nicolette; Nicolette roused great aunt Gillenormand.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000080_000000|As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would hear about the matter early enough in any case.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000081_000001|He understood and descended the stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000082_000000|The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000083_000000|They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000084_000000|"Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000086_000000|"Let me go home for one instant.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000086_000001|Then you shall do whatever you like with me."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000089_000000|CHAPTER eleven-CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000090_000000|They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000091_000000|What did Jean Valjean want?
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000091_000001|To finish what he had begun; to warn Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000092_000000|Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Valjean.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000093_000000|At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Arme, the carriage halted, the way being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000093_000001|Javert and Jean Valjean alighted.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000000|The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000001|That is the way he understood it.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000002|He added that an indemnity was due him.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000003|At the same time, drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000095_000000|Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and said:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000097_000001|Eighty francs, mr Inspector."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000098_000000|Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000000|They entered the street.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000001|It was deserted as usual.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000002|Javert followed Jean Valjean.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000004|Jean Valjean knocked.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000005|The door opened.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000101_000000|"It is well," said Javert.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000101_000001|"Go up stairs."
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000102_000000|He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an effort in speaking in this manner:
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000104_000000|Jean Valjean looked at Javert.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000104_000002|However, he could not be greatly surprised that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender himself and to make an end of it.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000104_000003|He pushed open the door, entered the house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000000|On arriving at the first floor, he paused.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000001|All sorrowful roads have their stations.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000002|The window on the landing place, which was a sash window, was open.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000003|As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light from without and had a view on the street.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000004|The street lantern, situated directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some economy in illumination.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000106_000000|Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, thrust his head out of this window.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000106_000001|He leaned out over the street.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000106_000002|It is short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end.
train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000107_000000|Javert had taken his departure.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000000_000001|At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been prepared beside the sofa.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000000_000003|She set herself to telling her beads in her own chamber.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000000|The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000001|The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation of the broken collar bone, and the disorder there was serious.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000002|The arms had been slashed with sabre cuts.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000003|Not a single scar disfigured his face; but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of these wounds on the head?
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000004|Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or would they attack the brain?
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000005|As yet, this could not be decided.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000006|A grave symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always recover from such swoons.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000007|Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted by hemorrhage.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000008|From the waist down, the barricade had protected the lower part of the body from injury.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000001|As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000002|Beside the bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical instruments lay spread out.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000003|The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with cold water.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000004|A full pail was reddened in an instant.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000005|The porter, candle in hand, lighted them.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000003_000000|The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000003_000001|From time to time, he made a negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which he had inwardly addressed to himself.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000004_000000|A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor with himself.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000005_000000|At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end of the drawing room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000006_000000|This was the grandfather.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000007_000001|He had not been able to sleep on the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000007_000002|In the evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through sheer fatigue.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000008_000001|Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000009_000000|He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the half open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his body wrapped in a white dressing gown, which was straight and as destitute of folds as a winding sheet; and he had the air of a phantom who is gazing into a tomb.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000010_000000|He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless and brilliantly lighted up.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000013_000000|"Sir," said Basque, "Monsieur has just been brought back.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000015_000000|Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000016_000000|"Sir," said he, "you are the doctor.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000016_000001|Begin by telling me one thing.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000019_000007|You blood drinker!
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000019_000009|Misery of my life, he is dead!"
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000006|Killed!
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000008|A barricade!
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000010|Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe?
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000011|Oh!
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000013|I am going to tell you.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000022|His mother is dead.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000026|He could not manage to pronounce his d's.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000025_000000|He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands.
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000025_000001|The old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death agony:
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000028_000000|Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other side of an abyss:
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000029_000017|Just think of it!
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000029_000018|At twenty!
train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000029_000028|Come, he's dead, completely dead.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000005_000000|The next summer the truce for a year ended, after lasting until the Pythian games.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000005_000001|During the armistice the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, concluding that they must have been polluted by some old offence at the time of their consecration, and that this had been the omission in the previous purification of the island, which, as I have related, had been thought to have been duly accomplished by the removal of the graves of the dead.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000007_000002|These last were scattered in various directions; but the upper classes came to an agreement with the Syracusans, abandoned and laid waste their city, and went and lived at Syracuse, where they were made citizens.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000008_000000|During his voyage along the coast to and from Sicily, he treated with some cities in Italy on the subject of friendship with Athens, and also fell in with some Locrian settlers exiled from Messina, who had been sent thither when the Locrians were called in by one of the factions that divided Messina after the pacification of Sicily, and Messina came for a time into the hands of the Locrians.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000010_000004|He never dreamed of any one coming out to fight him, but said that he was rather going up to view the place; and if he waited for his reinforcements, it was not in order to make victory secure in case he should be compelled to engage, but to be enabled to surround and storm the city.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000010_000006|He thought to retire at pleasure without fighting, as there was no one to be seen upon the wall or coming out of the gates, all of which were shut.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000010_000007|Indeed, it seemed a mistake not to have brought down engines with him; he could then have taken the town, there being no one to defend it.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000011_000001|He did not venture to go out in regular order against the Athenians: he mistrusted his strength, and thought it inadequate to the attempt; not in numbers-these were not so unequal-but in quality, the flower of the Athenian army being in the field, with the best of the Lemnians and Imbrians.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000011_000004|He accordingly picked out a hundred and fifty heavy infantry and, putting the rest under Clearidas, determined to attack suddenly before the Athenians retired; thinking that he should not have again such a chance of catching them alone, if their reinforcements were once allowed to come up; and so calling all his soldiers together in order to encourage them and explain his intention, spoke as follows:
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000000|"Peloponnesians, the character of the country from which we have come, one which has always owed its freedom to valour, and the fact that you are Dorians and the enemy you are about to fight Ionians, whom you are accustomed to beat, are things that do not need further comment.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000001|But the plan of attack that I propose to pursue, this it is as well to explain, in order that the fact of our adventuring with a part instead of with the whole of our forces may not damp your courage by the apparent disadvantage at which it places you.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000002|I imagine it is the poor opinion that he has of us, and the fact that he has no idea of any one coming out to engage him, that has made the enemy march up to the place and carelessly look about him as he is doing, without noticing us.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000007|No cowardice then on your part, seeing the greatness of the issues at stake, and I will show that what I preach to others I can practise myself."
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000002|Upon hearing this he went up to look, and having done so, being unwilling to venture upon the decisive step of a battle before his reinforcements came up, and fancying that he would have time to retire, bid the retreat be sounded and sent orders to the men to effect it by moving on the left wing in the direction of Eion, which was indeed the only way practicable.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000008|The result was that the Athenians, suddenly and unexpectedly attacked on both sides, fell into confusion; and their left towards Eion, which had already got on some distance, at once broke and fled.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000012|The men who had taken up and rescued Brasidas, brought him into the town with the breath still in him: he lived to hear of the victory of his troops, and not long after expired.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000013|The rest of the army returning with Clearidas from the pursuit stripped the dead and set up a trophy.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000014_000002|They also gave the Athenians back their dead.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000015_000001|While they delayed there, this battle took place and so the summer ended.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000016_000000|With the beginning of the winter following, Ramphias and his companions penetrated as far as Pierium in Thessaly; but as the Thessalians opposed their further advance, and Brasidas whom they came to reinforce was dead, they turned back home, thinking that the moment had gone by, the Athenians being defeated and gone, and themselves not equal to the execution of Brasidas's designs.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000016_000001|The main cause however of their return was because they knew that when they set out Lacedaemonian opinion was really in favour of peace.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000017_000000|Indeed it so happened that directly after the battle of Amphipolis and the retreat of Ramphias from Thessaly, both sides ceased to prosecute the war and turned their attention to peace.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000017_000005|She also suspected some of the cities in Peloponnese of intending to go over to the enemy and that was indeed the case.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000019_000004|The smart of this accusation, and the reflection that in peace no disaster could occur, and that when Lacedaemon had recovered her men there would be nothing for his enemies to take hold of (whereas, while war lasted, the highest station must always bear the scandal of everything that went wrong), made him ardently desire a settlement.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000021_000000|one.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000022_000001|The temple and shrine of Apollo at Delphi and the Delphians shall be governed by their own laws, taxed by their own state, and judged by their own judges, the land and the people, according to the custom of their country.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000023_000000|three.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000024_000002|But should any difference arise between them they are to have recourse to law and oaths, according as may be agreed between the parties.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000025_000000|five.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000026_000000|six.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000028_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000029_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000029_000002|Every man shall swear by the most binding oath of his country, seventeen from each city.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000034_000002|Accordingly, after conference with the Athenian ambassadors, an alliance was agreed upon and oaths were exchanged, upon the terms following:
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000036_000002|But if the invader be gone after plundering the country, that city shall be the enemy of Lacedaemon and Athens, and shall be chastised by both, and one shall not make peace without the other.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000036_000003|This to be honestly, loyally, and without fraud.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000037_000000|three.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000037_000003|This to be honestly, loyally, and without fraud.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000039_000000|five.
train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000041_000001|This completes the history of the first war, which occupied the whole of the ten years previously.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000000_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000002_000002|Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals, encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm to their land, sent envoys to negotiate.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000002_000003|These the Melians did not bring before the people, but bade them state the object of their mission to the magistrates and the few; upon which the Athenian envoys spoke as follows:
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000003_000002|Make no set speech yourselves, but take us up at whatever you do not like, and settle that before going any farther.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000003_000003|And first tell us if this proposition of ours suits you.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000004_000000|The Melian commissioners answered:
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000006_000001|If you have met to reason about presentiments of the future, or for anything else than to consult for the safety of your state upon the facts that you see before you, we will give over; otherwise we will go on.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000007_000002|However, the question in this conference is, as you say, the safety of our country; and the discussion, if you please, can proceed in the way which you propose.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000009_000001|As we think, at any rate, it is expedient-we speak as we are obliged, since you enjoin us to let right alone and talk only of interest-that you should not destroy what is our common protection, the privilege of being allowed in danger to invoke what is fair and right, and even to profit by arguments not strictly valid if they can be got to pass current.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000010_000002|This, however, is a risk that we are content to take.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000011_000001|And how, pray, could it turn out as good for us to serve as for you to rule?
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000014_000001|No; for your hostility cannot so much hurt us as your friendship will be an argument to our subjects of our weakness, and your enmity of our power.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000017_000001|But do you consider that there is no security in the policy which we indicate?
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000017_000002|For here again if you debar us from talking about justice and invite us to obey your interest, we also must explain ours, and try to persuade you, if the two happen to coincide.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000023_000003|Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000028_000000|Athenians.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000029_000001|But they would have others to send.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000030_000004|This, if you are well advised, you will guard against; and you will not think it dishonourable to submit to the greatest city in Hellas, when it makes you the moderate offer of becoming its tributary ally, without ceasing to enjoy the country that belongs to you; nor when you have the choice given you between war and security, will you be so blinded as to choose the worse.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000030_000006|Think over the matter, therefore, after our withdrawal, and reflect once and again that it is for your country that you are consulting, that you have not more than one, and that upon this one deliberation depends its prosperity or ruin.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000031_000000|The Athenians now withdrew from the conference; and the Melians, left to themselves, came to a decision corresponding with what they had maintained in the discussion, and answered: "Our resolution, Athenians, is the same as it was at first.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000033_000001|Subsequently the Athenians returned with most of their army, leaving behind them a certain number of their own citizens and of the allies to keep guard by land and sea. The force thus left stayed on and besieged the place.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000034_000001|The Corinthians also commenced hostilities with the Athenians for private quarrels of their own; but the rest of the Peloponnesians stayed quiet.
train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000034_000002|Meanwhile the Melians attacked by night and took the part of the Athenian lines over against the market, and killed some of the men, and brought in corn and all else that they could find useful to them, and so returned and kept quiet, while the Athenians took measures to keep better guard in future.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000000|About this time a firm of merchants having dealings with the East put on the market little paper flowers which opened on touching water.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000001|As it was the custom also to use finger bowls at the end of dinner, the new discovery was found of excellent service.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000002|In these sheltered lakes the little coloured flowers swam and slid; surmounted smooth slippery waves, and sometimes foundered and lay like pebbles on the glass floor.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000003|Their fortunes were watched by eyes intent and lovely.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000004|It is surely a great discovery that leads to the union of hearts and foundation of homes.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000005|The paper flowers did no less.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000000|It must not be thought, though, that they ousted the flowers of nature. Roses, lilies, carnations in particular, looked over the rims of vases and surveyed the bright lives and swift dooms of their artificial relations.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000001|mr Stuart Ormond made this very observation; and charming it was thought; and Kitty Craster married him on the strength of it six months later.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000002|But real flowers can never be dispensed with.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000003|If they could, human life would be a different affair altogether.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000004|For flowers fade; chrysanthemums are the worst; perfect over night; yellow and jaded next morning-not fit to be seen.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000005|On the whole, though the price is sinful, carnations pay best;--it's a question, however, whether it's wise to have them wired.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000006|Some shops advise it.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000007|Certainly it's the only way to keep them at a dance; but whether it is necessary at dinner parties, unless the rooms are very hot, remains in dispute.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000008|Old mrs Temple used to recommend an ivy leaf-just one-dropped into the bowl. She said it kept the water pure for days and days.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000009|But there is some reason to think that old mrs Temple was mistaken.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000000|The little cards, however, with names engraved on them, are a more serious problem than the flowers.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000001|More horses' legs have been worn out, more coachmen's lives consumed, more hours of sound afternoon time vainly lavished than served to win us the battle of Waterloo, and pay for it into the bargain.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000002|The little demons are the source of as many reprieves, calamities, and anxieties as the battle itself.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000004|But, even if the cards should be superseded, which seems unlikely, there are unruly powers blowing life into storms, disordering sedulous mornings, and uprooting the stability of the afternoon-dressmakers, that is to say, and confectioners' shops.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000006|It has not arrived.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000000|The flamingo hours fluttered softly through the sky.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000001|But regularly they dipped their wings in pitch black; Notting Hill, for instance, or the purlieus of Clerkenwell.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000002|No wonder that Italian remained a hidden art, and the piano always played the same sonata.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000004|Mackie's dye works, suffering in winter with his chest, letters must be written, columns filled up in the same round, simple hand that wrote in mr Letts's diary how the weather was fine, the children demons, and Jacob Flanders unworldly.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000005|Clara Durrant procured the stockings, played the sonata, filled the vases, fetched the pudding, left the cards, and when the great invention of paper flowers to swim in finger bowls was discovered, was one of those who most marvelled at their brief lives.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000005_000000|Nor were there wanting poets to celebrate the theme.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000005_000001|Edwin Mallett, for example, wrote his verses ending:
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000006_000000|And read their doom in Chloe's eyes,
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000007_000000|which caused Clara to blush at the first reading, and to laugh at the second, saying that it was just like him to call her Chloe when her name was Clara.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000007_000001|Ridiculous young man!
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000007_000002|But when, between ten and eleven on a rainy morning, Edwin Mallett laid his life at her feet she ran out of the room and hid herself in her bedroom, and Timothy below could not get on with his work all that morning on account of her sobs.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000008_000000|"Which is the result of enjoying yourself," said mrs Durrant severely, surveying the dance programme all scored with the same initials, or rather they were different ones this time-r b instead of e m; Richard Bonamy it was now, the young man with the Wellington nose.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000010_000000|"Nonsense," said mrs Durrant.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000011_000000|"But I am too severe," she thought to herself.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000011_000001|For Clara, losing all vivacity, tore up her dance programme and threw it in the fender.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000012_000000|Such were the very serious consequences of the invention of paper flowers to swim in bowls.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000013_000000|"Please," said Julia Eliot, taking up her position by the curtain almost opposite the door, "don't introduce me.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000013_000001|I like to look on.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000013_000002|The amusing thing," she went on, addressing mr Salvin, who, owing to his lameness, was accommodated with a chair, "the amusing thing about a party is to watch the people-coming and going, coming and going."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000014_000000|"Last time we met," said mr Salvin, "was at the Farquhars.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000014_000001|Poor lady! She has much to put up with."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000015_000000|"Doesn't she look charming?" exclaimed Miss Eliot, as Clara Durrant passed them.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000016_000000|"And which of them ...?" asked mr Salvin, dropping his voice and speaking in quizzical tones.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000017_000000|"There are so many ..." Miss Eliot replied.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000017_000001|Three young men stood at the doorway looking about for their hostess.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000018_000000|"You don't remember Elizabeth as I do," said mr Salvin, "dancing Highland reels at Banchorie.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000018_000002|Clara is a little pale."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000019_000000|"What different people one sees here!" said Miss Eliot.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000021_000000|"I never read them," said Miss Eliot.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000021_000001|"I know nothing about politics," she added.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000022_000000|"The piano is in tune," said Clara, passing them, "but we may have to ask some one to move it for us."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000023_000000|"Are they going to dance?" asked mr Salvin.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000024_000000|"Nobody shall disturb you," said mrs Durrant peremptorily as she passed.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000000|"Julia Eliot.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000001|It IS Julia Eliot!" said old Lady Hibbert, holding out both her hands.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000002|"And mr Salvin.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000003|What is going to happen to us, mr Salvin?
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000004|With all my experience of English politics-My dear, I was thinking of your father last night-one of my oldest friends, mr Salvin.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000005|Never tell me that girls often are incapable of love!
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000006|I had all Shakespeare by heart before I was in my teens, mr Salvin!"
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000026_000000|"You don't say so," said mr Salvin.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000027_000000|"But I do," said Lady Hibbert.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000029_000000|"I will remove myself if you'll kindly lend me a hand," said mr Salvin.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000030_000000|"You shall sit by my mother," said Clara.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000030_000001|"Everybody seems to come in here. ...
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000030_000002|mr Calthorp, let me introduce you to Miss Edwards."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000031_000000|"Are you going away for Christmas?" said mr Calthorp.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000032_000000|"If my brother gets his leave," said Miss Edwards.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000033_000000|"What regiment is he in?" said mr Calthorp.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000035_000000|"Perhaps he knows my brother?" said mr Calthorp.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000036_000000|"I am afraid I did not catch your name," said Miss Edwards.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000037_000000|"Calthorp," said mr Calthorp.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000038_000000|"But what proof was there that the marriage service was actually performed?" said mr Crosby.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000039_000000|"There is no reason to doubt that Charles james Fox ..." mr Burley began; but here mrs Stretton told him that she knew his sister well; had stayed with her not six weeks ago; and thought the house charming, but bleak in winter.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000040_000000|"Going about as girls do nowadays-" said mrs Forster.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000041_000000|mr Bowley looked round him, and catching sight of Rose Shaw moved towards her, threw out his hands, and exclaimed: "Well!"
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000042_000000|"Nothing!" she replied.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000042_000001|"Nothing at all-though I left them alone the entire afternoon on purpose."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000043_000000|"Dear me, dear me," said mr Bowley.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000043_000001|"I will ask Jimmy to breakfast."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000044_000000|"But who could resist her?" cried Rose Shaw.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000044_000001|"Dearest Clara-I know we mustn't try to stop you..."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000045_000000|"You and mr Bowley are talking dreadful gossip, I know," said Clara.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000046_000000|"Life is wicked-life is detestable!" cried Rose Shaw.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000047_000000|"There's not much to be said for this sort of thing, is there?" said Timothy Durrant to Jacob.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000048_000000|"Women like it."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000049_000000|"Like what?" said Charlotte Wilding, coming up to them.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000050_000000|"Where have you come from?" said Timothy.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000051_000000|"I don't see why not," said Charlotte.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000052_000000|"People must go downstairs," said Clara, passing.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000052_000001|"Take Charlotte, Timothy.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000052_000002|How d'you do, mr Flanders."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000053_000000|"How d'you do, mr Flanders," said Julia Eliot, holding out her hand. "What's been happening to you?"
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000056_000000|Every one stood where they were, or sat down if a chair was empty.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000057_000000|"Ah," sighed Clara, who stood beside Jacob, half-way through.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000058_000000|"Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring,"
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000059_000000|sang Elsbeth Siddons.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000060_000000|"Ah!" Clara exclaimed out loud, and clapped her gloved hands; and Jacob clapped his bare ones; and then she moved forward and directed people to come in from the doorway.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000062_000000|"Yes," said Jacob.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000063_000000|"In rooms?"
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000064_000000|'Yes."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000000|"There is mr Clutterbuck.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000001|You always see mr Clutterbuck here.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000002|He is not very happy at home, I am afraid.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000003|They say that mrs Clutterbuck ..." she dropped her voice.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000005|Were you there when they acted mr Wortley's play?
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000008|No, mr Carter is playing by himself-This is BACH," she whispered, as mr Carter played the first bars.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000066_000000|"Are you fond of music?" said mr Durrant.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000067_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000067_000001|I like hearing it," said Jacob.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000067_000002|"I know nothing about it."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000000|"Very few people do that," said mrs Durrant.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000001|"I daresay you were never taught.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000002|Why is that, Sir Jasper?--Sir Jasper Bigham-mr
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000003|Flanders.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000004|Why is nobody taught anything that they ought to know, Sir Jasper?"
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000005|She left them standing against the wall.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000069_000000|Neither of the gentlemen said anything for three minutes, though Jacob shifted perhaps five inches to the left, and then as many to the right. Then Jacob grunted, and suddenly crossed the room.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000070_000000|"Will you come and have something to eat?" he said to Clara Durrant.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000071_000000|"Yes, an ice.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000071_000001|Quickly.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000071_000002|Now," she said.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000072_000000|Downstairs they went.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000073_000000|But half-way down they met mr and mrs Gresham, Herbert Turner, Sylvia Rashleigh, and a friend, whom they had dared to bring, from America, "knowing that mrs Durrant-wishing to show mr Pilcher.--mr
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000073_000001|Pilcher from New York-This is Miss Durrant."
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000074_000000|"Whom I have heard so much of," said mr Pilcher, bowing low.
train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000075_000000|So Clara left him.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000001_000000|LETTER three.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000002_000000|The population of Sweden has been estimated from two millions and a half to three millions; a small number for such an immense tract of country, of which only so much is cultivated-and that in the simplest manner-as is absolutely requisite to supply the necessaries of life; and near the seashore, whence herrings are easily procured, there scarcely appears a vestige of cultivation.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000003_000001|Hard enough, you may imagine, as it is baked only once a year.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000003_000002|The servants also, in most families, eat this kind of bread, and have a different kind of food from their masters, which, in spite of all the arguments I have heard to vindicate the custom, appears to me a remnant of barbarism.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000000|In fact, the situation of the servants in every respect, particularly that of the women, shows how far the Swedes are from having a just conception of rational equality.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000001|They are not termed slaves; yet a man may strike a man with impunity because he pays him wages, though these wages are so low that necessity must teach them to pilfer, whilst servility renders them false and boorish.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000002|Still the men stand up for the dignity of man by oppressing the women.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000003|The most menial, and even laborious offices, are therefore left to these poor drudges.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000004|Much of this I have seen.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000005|In the winter, I am told, they take the linen down to the river to wash it in the cold water, and though their hands, cut by the ice, are cracked and bleeding, the men, their fellow servants, will not disgrace their manhood by carrying a tub to lighten their burden.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000000|You will not be surprised to hear that they do not wear shoes or stockings, when I inform you that their wages are seldom more than twenty or thirty shillings per annum.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000001|It is the custom, I know, to give them a new year's gift and a present at some other period, but can it all amount to a just indemnity for their labour?
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000002|The treatment of servants in most countries, I grant, is very unjust, and in England, that boasted land of freedom, it is often extremely tyrannical.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000003|I have frequently, with indignation, heard gentlemen declare that they would never allow a servant to answer them; and ladies of the most exquisite sensibility, who were continually exclaiming against the cruelty of the vulgar to the brute creation, have in my presence forgot that their attendants had human feelings as well as forms.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000004|I do not know a more agreeable sight than to see servants part of a family.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000006|We must love our servants, or we shall never be sufficiently attentive to their happiness; and how can those masters be attentive to their happiness who, living above their fortunes, are more anxious to outshine their neighbours than to allow their household the innocent enjoyments they earn?
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000006_000000|It is, in fact, much more difficult for servants, who are tantalised by seeing and preparing the dainties of which they are not to partake, to remain honest, than the poor, whose thoughts are not led from their homely fare; so that, though the servants here are commonly thieves, you seldom hear of housebreaking, or robbery on the highway.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000006_000001|The country is, perhaps, too thinly inhabited to produce many of that description of thieves termed footpads, or highwaymen.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000006_000002|They are usually the spawn of great cities-the effect of the spurious desires generated by wealth, rather than the desperate struggles of poverty to escape from misery.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000008_000001|Since then the burden has continually been growing heavier, and the price of provisions has proportionately increased-nay, the advantage accruing from the exportation of corn to France and rye to Germany will probably produce a scarcity in both Sweden and Norway, should not a peace put a stop to it this autumn, for speculations of various kinds have already almost doubled the price.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000009_000000|Such are the effects of war, that it saps the vitals even of the neutral countries, who, obtaining a sudden influx of wealth, appear to be rendered flourishing by the destruction which ravages the hapless nations who are sacrificed to the ambition of their governors.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000010_000000|The prohibition of drinking coffee under a penalty, and the encouragement given to public distilleries, tend to impoverish the poor, who are not affected by the sumptuary laws; for the regent has lately laid very severe restraints on the articles of dress, which the middling class of people found grievous, because it obliged them to throw aside finery that might have lasted them for their lives.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000011_000000|These may be termed vexatious; still the death of the king, by saving them from the consequences his ambition would naturally have entailed on them, may be reckoned a blessing.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000012_000001|And, perhaps, the efforts which the aristocrats are making here, as well as in every other part of Europe, to secure their sway, will be the most effectual mode of undermining it, taking into the calculation that the King of Sweden, like most of the potentates of Europe, has continually been augmenting his power by encroaching on the privileges of the nobles.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000013_000000|The well bred Swedes of the capital are formed on the ancient French model, and they in general speak that language; for they have a knack at acquiring languages with tolerable fluency.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000013_000001|This may be reckoned an advantage in some respects; but it prevents the cultivation of their own, and any considerable advance in literary pursuits.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000014_000000|A sensible writer has lately observed (I have not his work by me, therefore cannot quote his exact words), "That the Americans very wisely let the Europeans make their books and fashions for them." But I cannot coincide with him in this opinion.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000014_000001|The reflection necessary to produce a certain number even of tolerable productions augments more than he is aware of the mass of knowledge in the community.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000014_000003|But we must have an object to refer our reflections to, or they will seldom go below the surface.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000015_000000|I am, my friend, more and more convinced that a metropolis, or an abode absolutely solitary, is the best calculated for the improvement of the heart, as well as the understanding; whether we desire to become acquainted with man, nature, or ourselves.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000015_000001|Mixing with mankind, we are obliged to examine our prejudices, and often imperceptibly lose, as we analyse them.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000015_000002|And in the country, growing intimate with nature, a thousand little circumstances, unseen by vulgar eyes, give birth to sentiments dear to the imagination, and inquiries which expand the soul, particularly when cultivation has not smoothed into insipidity all its originality of character.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000016_000000|I love the country, yet whenever I see a picturesque situation chosen on which to erect a dwelling I am always afraid of the improvements.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000016_000001|It requires uncommon taste to form a whole, and to introduce accommodations and ornaments analogous with the surrounding scene.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000017_000000|It visited, near Gothenburg, a house with improved land about it, with which I was particularly delighted.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000017_000001|It was close to a lake embosomed in pine clad rocks.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000017_000002|In one part of the meadows your eye was directed to the broad expanse, in another you were led into a shade, to see a part of it, in the form of a river, rush amongst the fragments of rocks and roots of trees; nothing seemed forced.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000018_000000|Here the hand of taste was conspicuous though not obtrusive, and formed a contrast with another abode in the same neighbourhood, on which much money had been lavished; where Italian colonnades were placed to excite the wonder of the rude crags, and a stone staircase, to threaten with destruction a wooden house.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000018_000001|Venuses and Apollos condemned to lie hid in snow three parts of the year seemed equally displaced, and called the attention off from the surrounding sublimity, without inspiring any voluptuous sensations.
train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000018_000003|Numberless workmen have been employed, and the superintending artist has improved the labourers, whose unskilfulness tormented him, by obliging them to submit to the discipline of rules.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000002_000003|Ask for a good fat Megatherium and have done with it.'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000006_000003|Good bye.'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000008_000000|'I'll tell you what,' said the Psammead suddenly, shooting out its long snail's eyes - 'I'm getting tired of you — all of you.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000010_000000|'He does grow,' said Anthea.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000013_000000|'Grow up some day!' said Cyril bitterly, plumping the Lamb down on the grass.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000013_000002|I wish to goodness he would -'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000014_000000|'OH, take care!' cried Anthea in an agony of apprehension.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000014_000001|But it was too late — like music to a song her words and Cyril's came out together — Anthea - 'Oh, take care!' Cyril - 'Grow up now!'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000016_000002|You boys might wish as well!' They all wished hard, for the sight was enough to dismay the most heartless.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000016_000005|Their own Lamb!
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000022_000004|I can see it.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000026_000001|What's the giddy hour?
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000026_000002|You'll be late for your grub!'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000029_000000|'What about your grub, though?' asked Jane.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000042_000001|You might let Bobs and me come with you — even if you don't want the girls.'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000049_000001|'Look here.'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000074_000000|'Oh, Lamb! how can you?' cried Jane - 'when you know perfectly well you're our own little baby brother that we're so fond of.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000074_000003|You see, he's sort of under a spell — enchanted — you know what I mean!'
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000082_000001|'You shall say whatever you like in the morning — if you can,' she added in a whisper. It was a gloomy party that went home through the soft evening.
train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000085_000000|'Come to his own Martha, then — a precious poppet!'
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000001_000004|The house, with kitchens and cellars below, had above the ground floor, two stories and attics.
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000003_000001|Penelon, Penelon!" An old man, who was digging busily at one of the beds, stuck his spade in the earth, and approached, cap in hand, striving to conceal a quid of tobacco he had just thrust into his cheek.
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000005_000000|"Look there," said Maximilian, laughing; "there is her husband changing his jacket for a coat.
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000008_000002|a doctor?"
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000009_000011|It was three o'clock; at a quarter past, a merchant presented himself to insure two ships; it was a clear profit of fifteen thousand. francs.
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000016_000001|"No, no," returned Monte Cristo, pale as death, pressing one hand on his heart to still its throbbings, while with the other he pointed to a crystal cover, beneath which a silken purse lay on a black velvet cushion.
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000049_000000|"Oh, it is useless to inquire," returned the count; "perhaps, after all, he was not the man you seek for.
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000051_000000|"Not a word."
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000053_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000056_000001|Recollect what our excellent father so often told us, 'It was no Englishman that thus saved us.'" Monte Cristo started.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000004_000000|In the morning when he woke up they had the place to themselves, for on his instructions the servants had all left first thing: Janet and the cook to Oxford, where they would try and find new places, and Nanny going back to the cottage near Tangley, where her son lived, who was the pigman there.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000005_000003|She was still fond of the same food that she had been used to before her transformation, a lightly boiled egg or slice of ham, a piece of buttered toast or two, with a little quince and apple jam.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000006_000002|His vixen relished them exceedingly and seemed never to tire of them, so that he increased his order first from one pound to three pounds and afterwards to five.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000002|Though you are a fox I would rather live with you than any woman.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000003|I swear I would, and that too if you were changed to anything." But then, catching her grave look, he would say: "Do you think I jest on these things, my dear?
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000004|I do not.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000005|I swear to you, my darling, that all my life I will be true to you, will be faithful, will respect and reverence you who are my wife.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000010_000000|Often he would swear to her that the devil might have power to work some miracles, but that he would find it beyond him to change his love for her.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000011_000001|She would come to him, put her paw in his hand and look at him with sparkling eyes shining with joy and gratitude, would pant with eagerness, jump at him and lick his face.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000014_000000|"Good God!
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000017_000000|"Day but just breaking...." etc
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000018_000003|Nor did he ever repeat the experiment of reading to her.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000019_000003|Moreover she won all three of them. After this they often played a quiet game of piquet together, and cribbage too.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000021_000003|For his mind was filled not only with the fear that she might escape from him and run away, which he knew was groundless, but with more rational visions, such as wandering curs, traps, gins, spring guns, besides a dread of being seen with her by the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000021_000006|After this he resolved to take her, though with full precautions.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000023_000001|First she ran this way, then that, though keeping always close to him, looking very sharply with ears cocked forward first at one thing, then another and then up to catch his eye.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000025_000000|But her appearance threw the ducks into the utmost degree of consternation.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000025_000003|So in this case, too, for realising that the silly ducks thought his wife a fox indeed and were alarmed on that account he found painful that spectacle which to others might have been amusing.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000031_000000|So she drove them before her back into the pond, the ducks running in terror from her with their wings spread, and she not pressing them, for he saw that had she been so minded she could have caught two or three of the nearest.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000032_000000|But when they got within doors he picked her up in his arms, kissed her and spoke to her.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000033_000000|"Silvia, what a light-hearted childish creature you are.
train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000035_000001|Then it seemed she would have him play to her on the pianoforte: she led him to it, nay, what is more, she would herself pick out the music he was to play.
train-clean-360/5513/39477/5513_39477_000007_000003|Farewell, poor bird!
train-clean-360/5513/39477/5513_39477_000007_000004|Farewell!
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000000_000001|Indeed at one time nothing but holding her by the scruff prevented her from getting away from him, but at last he achieved his object and she was washed, brushed, scented and dressed, although to be sure this left him better pleased than her, for she regarded her silk jacket with disfavour.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000001_000001|Then his difficulties with her began for she would go out, but as he had his housework to do, he could not allow it.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000002_000000|At first he tried coaxing her and wheedling, gave her cards to play patience and so on, but finding nothing would distract her from going out, his temper began to rise, and he told her plainly that she must wait his pleasure and that he had as much natural obstinacy as she had. But to all that he said she paid no heed whatever but only scratched the harder.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000002_000002|In the afternoon he took her out for her airing in the garden.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000003_000000|She made no pretence now of enjoying the first snowdrops or the view from the terrace.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000003_000001|No-there was only one thing for her now-the ducks, and she was off to them before he could stop her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000003_000002|Luckily they were all swimming when she got there (for a stream running into the pond on the far side it was not frozen there).
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000000|Presently she turned on herself and began tearing off her clothes, and at last by biting got off her little jacket and taking it in her mouth stuffed it into a hole in the ice where he could not get it.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000001|Then she ran hither and thither a stark naked vixen, and without giving a glance to her poor husband who stood silently now upon the bank, with despair and terror settled in his mind.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000002|She let him stay there most of the afternoon till he was chilled through and through and worn out with watching her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000003|At last he reflected how she had just stripped herself and how in the morning she struggled against being dressed, and he thought perhaps he was too strict with her and if he let her have her own way they could manage to be happy somehow together even if she did eat off the floor.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000004|So he called out to her then:
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000006_000000|"Silvia, come now, be good, you shan't wear any more clothes if you don't want to, and you needn't sit at table neither, I promise.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000006_000001|You shall do as you like in that, but you must give up one thing, and that is you must stay with me and not go out alone, for that is dangerous.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000006_000002|If any dog came on you he would kill you."
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000007_000000|Directly he had finished speaking she came to him joyously, began fawning on him and prancing round him so that in spite of his vexation with her, and being cold, he could not help stroking her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000008_000000|"Oh, Silvia, are you not wilful and cunning?
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000008_000001|I see you glory in being so, but I shall not reproach you but shall stick to my side of the bargain, and you must stick to yours."
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000000|He built a big fire when he came back to the house and took a glass or two of spirits also, to warm himself up, for he was chilled to the very bone.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000002|He got up to catch her then and finding himself unsteady on his legs, he went down on to all fours.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000003|The long and the short of it is that by drinking he drowned all his sorrow; and then would be a beast too like his wife, though she was one through no fault of her own, and could not help it.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000004|To what lengths he went then in that drunken humour I shall not offend my readers by relating, but shall only say that he was so drunk and sottish that he had a very imperfect recollection of what had passed when he woke the next morning.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000005|There is no exception to the rule that if a man drink heavily at night the next morning will show the other side to his nature.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000006|Thus with mr Tebrick, for as he had been beastly, merry and a very dare devil the night before, so on his awakening was he ashamed, melancholic and a true penitent before his Creator.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000008|Then he got up and dressed but continued very melancholy for the whole of the morning.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000009|Being in this mood you may imagine it hurt him to see his wife running about naked, but he reflected it would be a bad reformation that began with breaking faith.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000010|He had made a bargain and he would stick to it, and so he let her be, though sorely against his will.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000000|For the same reason, that is because he would stick to his side of the bargain, he did not require her to sit up at table, but gave her her breakfast on a dish in the corner, where to tell the truth she on her side ate it all up with great daintiness and propriety.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000002|After lunch he took her out, and she never so much as offered to go near the ducks, but running before him led him on to take her a longer walk.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000003|This he consented to do very much to her joy and delight.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000004|He took her through the fields by the most unfrequented ways, being much alarmed lest they should be seen by anyone.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000005|But by good luck they walked above four miles across country and saw nobody.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000006|All the way his wife kept running on ahead of him, and then back to him to lick his hand and so on, and appeared delighted at taking exercise.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000011_000000|Just when they got home and were going into the porch they came face to face with an old woman.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000011_000001|mr Tebrick stopped short in consternation and looked about for his vixen, but she had run forward without any shyness to greet her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000011_000002|Then he recognised the intruder, it was his wife's old nurse.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000012_000000|"What are you doing here, mrs Cork?" he asked her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000013_000000|mrs Cork answered him in these words:
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000000|"Poor thing.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000002|It is a shame to let her run about like a dog.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000003|It is a shame, and your own wife too.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000004|But whatever she looks like, you should trust her the same as ever.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000006|I saw her, sir, before I left, and I've had no peace of mind.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000007|I couldn't sleep thinking of her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000008|So I've come back to look after her, as I have done all her life, sir," and she stooped down and took mrs Tebrick by the paw.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000000|mr Tebrick unlocked the door and they went in.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000001|When mrs Cork saw the house she exclaimed again and again: "The place was a pigstye.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000002|They couldn't live like that, a gentleman must have somebody to look after him.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000003|She would do it.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000004|He could trust her with the secret."
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000016_000000|Had the old woman come the day before it is likely enough that mr Tebrick would have sent her packing.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000016_000002|Being in this mood the truth is he welcomed her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000000|But we may conclude that mrs Tebrick was as sorry to see her old Nanny as her husband was glad.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000001|If we consider that she had been brought up strictly by her when she was a child, and was now again in her power, and that her old nurse could never be satisfied with her now whatever she did, but would always think her wicked to be a fox at all, there seems good reason for her dislike.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000002|And it is possible, too, that there may have been another cause as well, and that is jealousy.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000003|We know her husband was always trying to bring her back to be a woman, or at any rate to get her to act like one, may she not have been hoping to get him to be like a beast himself or to act like one?
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000004|May she not have thought it easier to change him thus than ever to change herself back into being a woman?
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000005|If we think that she had had a success of this kind only the night before, when he got drunk, can we not conclude that this was indeed the case, and then we have another good reason why the poor lady should hate to see her old nurse?
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000018_000000|It is certain that whatever hopes mr Tebrick had of mrs Cork affecting his wife for the better were disappointed.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000018_000001|She grew steadily wilder and after a few days so intractable with her that mr Tebrick again took her under his complete control.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000019_000000|The first morning mrs Cork made her a new jacket, cutting down the sleeves of a blue silk one of mrs Tebrick's and trimming it with swan's down, and directly she had altered it, put it on her mistress, and fetching a mirror would have her admire the fit of it.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000019_000002|But though at first she submitted passively, mrs Tebrick only waited for her Nanny's back to be turned to tear up her pretty piece of handiwork into shreds, and then ran gaily about waving her brush with only a few ribands still hanging from her neck.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000020_000000|So it was time after time (for the old woman was used to having her own way) until mrs Cork would, I think, have tried punishing her if she had not been afraid of mrs Tebrick's rows of white teeth, which she often showed her, then laughing afterwards, as if to say it was only play.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000021_000000|Not content with tearing off the dresses that were fitted on her, one day Silvia slipped upstairs to her wardrobe and tore down all her old dresses and made havoc with them, not sparing her wedding dress either, but tearing and ripping them all up so that there was hardly a shred or rag left big enough to dress a doll in.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000021_000001|On this, mr Tebrick, who had let the old woman have most of her management to see what she could make of her, took her back under his own control.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000022_000002|For he saw that vanity had kept her mouth shut if she had won over her mistress to better ways, and her love for her would have grown by getting her own way with her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000022_000003|But now that she had failed she bore her mistress a grudge for not being won over, or at the best was become indifferent to the business, so that she might very readily blab.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000023_000000|For the moment all mr Tebrick could do was to keep her from going into Stokoe to the village, where she would meet all her old cronies and where there were certain to be any number of inquiries about what was going on at Rylands and so on.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000024_000000|Since he had sent away his servants and the gardener, giving out a story of having received bad news and his wife going away to London where he would join her, their probably going out of England and so on, he knew well enough that there would be a great deal of talk in the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000025_000000|And as he had now stayed on, contrary to what he had said, there would be further rumour.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000025_000003|He had long grown a nuisance to his friends as an exorbitant sponge upon them, and the world was well rid of him.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000000|Hearing this story of myself diverted me at the time, but I fully believe it has served me in good stead since.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000001|For it set me on my guard as perhaps nothing else would have done, against accepting for true all floating rumour and village gossip, so that now I am by second nature a true sceptic and scarcely believe anything unless the evidence for it is conclusive.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000002|Indeed I could never have got to the bottom of this history if I had believed one tenth part of what I was told, there was so much of it that was either manifestly false and absurd, or else contradictory to the ascertained facts.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000003|It is therefore only the bare bones of the story which you will find written here, for I have rejected all the flowery embroideries which would be entertaining reading enough, I daresay, for some, but if there be any doubt of the truth of a thing it is poor sort of entertainment to read about in my opinion.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000028_000001|It was thirty miles away from Stokoe, which in the country means as far as Timbuctoo does to us in London.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000028_000003|Nor did it mean imparting his secret to others, for there was only mrs Cork's son, a widower, who being out at work all day would be easily outwitted, the more so as he was stone deaf and of a slow and saturnine disposition.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000028_000004|To be sure there was little Polly, mrs Cork's granddaughter, but either mr Tebrick forgot her altogether, or else reckoned her as a mere baby and not to be thought of as a danger.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000029_000000|He talked the thing over with mrs Cork, and they decided upon it out of hand.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000031_000000|The next morning they locked up the house and they departed, having first secured mrs Tebrick in a large wicker hamper where she would be tolerably comfortable.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000031_000002|mr Tebrick drove with the hamper beside him on the front seat, and spoke to her gently very often.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000032_000001|He knew that any living creature in a hamper, even if it be only an old fowl, always draws attention; there would be several loafers most likely who would notice that he had a fox with him, and even if he left the hamper in the cart the dogs at the inn would be sure to sniff out her scent.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000032_000002|So not to take any chances he drew up at the side of the road and rested there, though it was freezing hard and a north-east wind howling.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000000|He took down his precious hamper, unharnessed his two horses, covered them with rugs and gave them their corn.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000001|Then he opened the basket and let his wife out.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000002|She was quite beside herself with joy, running hither and thither, bouncing up on him, looking about her and even rolling over on the ground.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000003|mr Tebrick took this to mean that she was glad at making this journey and rejoiced equally with her.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000004|As for mrs Cork, she sat motionless on the back seat of the dogcart well wrapped up, eating her sandwiches, but would not speak a word.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000034_000000|They drove on again and then the snow began to come down and that in earnest, so that he began to be afraid they would never cover the ground.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000034_000001|But just after nightfall they got in, and he was content to leave unharnessing the horses and baiting them to Simon, mrs Cork's son.
train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000034_000002|His vixen was tired by then, as well as he, and they slept together, he in the bed and she under it, very contentedly.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000000_000000|One day he tried taking with him the stereoscope and a pack of cards.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000000|But though his Silvia was affectionate and amiable enough to let him put the stereoscope over her muzzle, yet she would not look through it, but kept turning her head to lick his hand, and it was plain to him that now she had quite forgotten the use of the instrument.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000001|It was the same too with the cards.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000002|For with them she was pleased enough, but only delighting to bite at them, and flip them about with her paws, and never considering for a moment whether they were diamonds or clubs, or hearts, or spades or whether the card was an ace or not.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000003|So it was evident that she had forgotten the nature of cards too.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000002_000000|Thereafter he only brought them things which she could better enjoy, that is sugar, grapes, raisins, and butcher's meat.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000004_000000|Sorel was a clumsy little beast of a cheery and indeed puppyish disposition; Kasper was fierce, the largest of the five, even in his play he would always bite, and gave his godfather many a sharp nip as time went on.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000004_000001|esther was of a dark complexion, a true brunette and very sturdy; Angelica the brightest red and the most exactly like her mother; while Selwyn was the smallest cub, of a very prying, inquisitive and cunning temper, but delicate and undersized.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000005_000000|Thus mr Tebrick had a whole family now to occupy him, and, indeed, came to love them with very much of a father's love and partiality.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000006_000001|After her in his affections came Selwyn, whom he soon saw was the most intelligent of the whole litter.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000007_000001|He was not, however, above playing tricks on the others, and one day when mr Tebrick was by, he made believe that there was a mouse in a hole some little way off.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000008_000001|On the next visit it was the same thing.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000008_000003|But clever as he was, little Selwyn could never understand it, and if his mother remembered anything about watches it was a subject which she never attempted to explain to her children.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000009_000000|One day mr Tebrick left the earth as usual and ran down the slope to the road, when he was surprised to find a carriage waiting before his house and a coachman walking about near his gate.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000009_000001|mr Tebrick went in and found that his visitor was waiting for him.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000012_000000|After some conversation on indifferent topics Canon Fox said to him:
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000013_000000|"I have called really to ask about my niece."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000014_000000|mr Tebrick was silent for some time and then said:
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000016_000001|I have heard she is not living with you any longer."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000017_000000|"no
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000017_000003|I see her every day now."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000018_000000|"Indeed.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000018_000001|Where does she live?"
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000019_000001|I ought to tell you that she has changed her shape.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000019_000002|She is a fox."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000020_000000|The Rev.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000022_000000|"No-I never see anyone if I can avoid it.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000022_000001|You are the first person I have spoken to for months."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000023_000000|"Quite right, too, my dear fellow.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000023_000001|I quite understand-in the circumstances." Then the cleric shook him by the hand, got into his carriage and drove away.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000000|"At any rate," he said to himself, "there will be no scandal." He was relieved also because mr Tebrick had said nothing about going abroad to disseminate the Gospel.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000001|Canon Fox had been alarmed by the letter, had not answered it, and thought that it was always better to let things be, and never to refer to anything unpleasant.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000003|His eccentricities would never be noticed at Stokoe.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000004|Besides that, mr Tebrick had said he was happy.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000026_000000|"Not an affectionate disposition," then to his coachman: "No, that's all right.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000028_000000|"True happiness," he said to himself, "is to be found in bestowing love; there is no such happiness as that of the mother for her babe, unless I have attained it in mine for my vixen and her children."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000000|At last he must have dropped asleep, for he woke suddenly with all his senses alert, and opening his eyes found a full grown fox within six feet of him sitting on its haunches like a dog and watching his face with curiosity.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000001|mr Tebrick saw instantly that it was not Silvia.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000003|It was the same dark beast with a large white tag to his brush.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000004|Now the secret was out and mr Tebrick could see his rival before him.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000005|Here was the real father of his godchildren, who could be certain of their taking after him, and leading over again his wild and rakish life.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000033_000000|"By Gad! we two have been strangely brought together!"
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000035_000000|"We would both of us give our lives for theirs," he said to himself as he reasoned upon it, "we both of us are happy chiefly in their company. What pride this fellow must feel to have such a wife, and such children taking after him.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000035_000001|And has he not reason for his pride?
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000035_000003|For half the year he is hunted, everywhere dogs pursue him, men lay traps for him or menace him. He owes nothing to another."
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000036_000002|He could see that Silvia had been hunting with her cubs, and also that she had forgotten that he would come that morning, for she started when she saw him, and though she carelessly licked his hand, he could see that her thoughts were not with him.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000037_000000|Very soon she led her cubs into the earth, the dog fox had vanished and mr Tebrick was again alone.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000037_000001|He did not wait longer but went home.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000038_000001|A hundred times this poor gentleman bit his lip, drew down his torvous brows, and stamped his foot, and cursed himself bitterly, or called his lady bitch.
train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000039_000000|All that night he was in this mood, and in agony, as if he had broken in the crown of a tooth and bitten on the nerve.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000004_000000|The Main Building had originally been a handsome old dwelling house, whose spacious rooms were now used as parlors, library, offices and teachers' rooms.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000004_000001|There were wide, beautiful porches in front and back, and massive stone steps, ending in great stone urns overflowing with bright flowers at the foot of each flight.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000004_000002|These steps led down into wide shady gardens, where the girls walked up and down with arms intertwined, or sat and studied and talked on rustic seats under the trees on the shady lawns.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000005_000000|The other buildings, Briarley Hall, Elmtree Hall and Hillview, were devoted to class rooms and dormitories, each hall being presided over by a teacher.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000006_000000|In these pleasant courts of learning Alison Fair arrived on a golden September afternoon, and was warmly welcomed by Miss Harland, the Principal.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000007_000000|"We are so glad to have you back, dear," Miss Harland said, kissing the girl affectionately.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000007_000001|"I was rather afraid from what you wrote some time ago, that you might not return to us this year."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000008_000001|I was dreadfully afraid of it.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000008_000002|I was so disappointed, I hardly realize yet that it is all right, and I am really here.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000002|We have a very large school this year, and the dormitories are overflowing.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000003|I really had no other place for her.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000004|You may be able to change later, if you don't find her congenial.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000005|You won't mind?"
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000010_000000|Alison did mind; but after the first pang of disappointment, she spoke cheerfully.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000010_000001|"It's all right, Miss Harland.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000010_000002|I'm so thankful to be here at all, I shan't grumble at anything.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000000|"Oh, yes, I expect her this evening.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000001|Her father is driving her through the country.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000002|Run up, then, and get acquainted with your new roommate. Marcia West, is her name.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000003|She looked homesick."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000012_000000|Homesick at Briarwood!
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000012_000002|She was so happy to find herself here again; but then she was not a new girl, and she knew there were many freshmen lying on their beds at this moment and crying their eyes out for homesickness.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000000|She reached her door and tapped lightly.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000002|She was about Alison's own age, rather tall and slight, with dark, sombre eyes and dark heavy hair worn low on her forehead.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000003|The heavy hair and the unsmiling eyes gave her face a lowering look that was not attractive at first sight.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000004|She merely stood there without speaking, until Alison said pleasantly,
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000014_000000|"Good evening.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000014_000002|Miss Harland told me you were here.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000015_000000|"Pretty, though it's not very large for two," said the girl nonchalantly.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000015_000001|"I came in this morning.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000015_000002|I've been unpacking."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000016_000000|It was evident, as Alison entered and looked about her.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000016_000001|Marcia had unpacked her trunk, which stood open in the hall beside their door, and had strewed her belongings about as freely as though she had expected to occupy the room alone.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000017_000000|It was a fairly good sized room, containing two single beds, and a dresser, chair and small table for each girl.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000017_000002|A glance showed Alison that Marcia had placed her dresser and table close to the window and strewn them with photographs and toilet articles in lavish profusion.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000017_000003|Also, that she had taken the best chair.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000018_000000|"I changed things a little.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000018_000001|You don't mind, do you?" she asked, watching Alison.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000000|"Oh, no, it's your room as well as mine," Alison answered good humoredly, and proceeded to open her own trunk, which had been brought up and placed in the hall, according to custom, and to arrange her part of the room.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000001|Marcia had encroached on her side of the closet, she noticed, but she said nothing, only hanging up a few dresses and leaving the rest in her trunk.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000002|She placed a few favorite books between a pair of bronze bookends, her father's parting gift; laid her Bible beside them, and her pretty new portfolio her mother had given her; and finally set her cherished lamp on the dresser.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000003|She had scarcely finished, and stood surveying the effect, when there was a rush of little feet in the corridor, the door was flung open, and a small, rosy faced curly haired girl rushed in to fling herself into Alison's arms.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000020_000000|"Oh, Alison, you darling thing!
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000021_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000022_000000|SOME OF THE GIRLS
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000023_000000|"Lovely to be back," said Alison, warmly kissing the pretty childish face," but you are too late for us to be roommates, Jo.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000023_000001|I have another roommate, a new girl, Marcia West.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000023_000002|Marcia, this is Joan Wentworth, who roomed with me last year."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000024_000000|Joan shook back her light fluffy hair, looking rather taken aback for an instant, as Marcia emerged from the closet, where she had been invisible, arranging a rack of shoes.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000024_000001|"How do you do?" Marcia said briefly.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000025_000002|I'll look her up."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000026_000000|She was gone, leaving Alison and Marcia to shake down together as best they could.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000026_000002|Alison tried to talk about her school work.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000026_000004|She had come to school because she was made to, and she looked forward to nothing but getting through.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000027_000000|Finally she said she was tired and lay down on her bed; and seeing presently that she had fallen asleep, Alison slipped out of the room across the hall to the room opposite, which was Katherine Bertram's. Katherine was better off financially than most of the girls.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000027_000002|It was prettily furnished, and her pictures and rugs were better and more luxurious than most schoolgirls' rooms could boast.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000027_000003|Nevertheless, she was known as "a good fellow," and was popular with the girls.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000028_000000|Alison's tap at the door was answered by a cordial "Come in," and she entered, to find Katherine and Joan curled up on the bed, talking vigorously, but both sprang up to greet her joyously.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000000|"I'm just too disappointed and cross for anything," she lamented.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000001|"Here I came flying back to our old quarters like-like a homing pigeon, only to find my place taken by that cross looking thing.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000002|I don't believe you are going to like her a bit, Alison.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000003|She doesn't look as if she would fit in."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000030_000001|"I didn't know there was a chance of your losing your place, or I would have spoken to Miss Harland and tried to get one of the old girls to change with her."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000032_000000|"And in the mean time, Joan is welcome with me as long as she likes. I'll ask for a cot for her.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000032_000001|There's plenty of room," said Katherine hospitably.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000032_000002|"We shall be close by and can get together whenever we like. So cheer up, Jo, it won't be so bad."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000033_000000|They fell into an animated discussion of school matters, which was presently interrupted by a tumultuous rush outside, the door was opened without ceremony, and in flocked the rest of the "Kindred Spirit,"--Evelyn and Polly, boon companions, unlike as they were; studious Rachel; Rosalind, the school beauty, whose golden head and apple blossom face scarcely suggested books or scholarship.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000033_000001|These with Alison, Katherine and Joan, made up the seven "Kindred Spirits," an informal little club of loyal friends.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000033_000002|Their favorite gathering place last year had been the room occupied by Alison and Joan, and consternation reigned when the news spread that the newcomer had usurped Joan's place.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000034_000000|"It won't be the same thing at all," complained Polly, flinging herself back on the bed in a paroxysm of disappointment.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000035_000000|Katherine poured oil on the troubled waters.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000035_000001|"You can meet here just as well.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000035_000002|And maybe, as Alison says, we shall like her when we know her. Don't let us judge her too hardly beforehand."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000036_000000|"So charitable, Kathy always is," murmured Evelyn.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000037_000000|Rachel changed the subject.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000038_000000|"Well-did you know we have a new English teacher?"
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000040_000000|"Miss Burnett-Cecil Burnett.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000040_000001|She's lovely.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000040_000002|And she's to be at our table."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000041_000000|"Are Helen Yorke and Brenda Thornton back?"
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000001|I saw them this morning.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000002|As musical as ever.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000003|Oh, is that the supper bell?
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000004|It can't be six o'clock already."
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000043_000000|"It seems it can-for it is," said Alison, consulting her wrist watch and finding it correspond with the bell.
train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000043_000002|Please be nice to her, girls.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000001|We embarked on board a good ship, and, after recommending ourselves to God, set sail.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000002|We traded from island to island, and exchanged commodities with great profit.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000003|One day we landed on an island covered with several sorts of fruit trees, but we could see neither man nor animal.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000004|We walked in the meadows, along the streams that watered them.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000006|I made a good meal, and afterward fell asleep.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000007|I cannot tell how long I slept, but when I awoke the ship was gone.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000000|In this sad condition, I was ready to die with grief.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000001|I cried out in agony, beat my head and breast, and threw myself upon the ground, where I lay some time in despair.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000003|But all this was in vain, and my repentance came too late.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000004|At last I resigned myself to the will of God.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000005|Not knowing what to do, I climbed up to the top of a lofty tree, from whence I looked about on all sides, to see if I could discover anything that could give me hopes.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000004_000000|As I approached, I thought it to be a white dome, of a prodigious height and extent; and when I came up to it, I touched it, and found it to be very smooth.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000004_000001|I went round to see if it was open on any side, but saw it was not, and that there was no climbing up to the top, as it was so smooth.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000004_000002|It was at least fifty paces round.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000000|By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000001|I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000003|In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000004|As I perceived her coming, I crept close to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000005|I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth; she afterward descended with so much rapidity that I lost my senses.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000006_000001|This was a new perplexity; so that when I compared this place with the desert island from which the roc had brought me, I found that I had gained nothing by the change.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000007_000000|As I walked through this valley, I perceived it was strewed with diamonds, some of which were of surprising bigness.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000007_000001|I took pleasure in looking upon them; but shortly saw at a distance such objects as greatly diminished my satisfaction, and which I could not view without terror, namely, a great number of serpents, so monstrous that the least of them was capable of swallowing an elephant.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000008_000002|I secured the entrance, which was low and narrow, with a great stone, to preserve me from the serpents; but not so far as to exclude the light.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000008_000006|At last I sat down, and notwithstanding my apprehensions, not having closed my eyes during the night, fell asleep, after having eaten a little more of my provisions.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000008_000008|This was a large piece of raw meat; and at the same time I saw several others fall down from the rocks in different places.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000009_000000|I had always regarded as fabulous what I had heard sailors and others relate of the valley of diamonds, and of the stratagems employed by merchants to obtain jewels from thence; but now I found that they had stated nothing but the truth.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000010_000000|I perceived in this device the means of my deliverance.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000012_000002|He was much alarmed when he saw me; but recovering himself, instead of inquiring how I came thither, began to quarrel with me, and asked why I stole his goods?
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000012_000003|"You will treat me," replied I, "with more civility, when you know me better.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000013_000000|They conducted me to their encampment; and there having opened my bag, they were surprised at the largeness of my diamonds, and confessed that they had never seen any of such size and perfection.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000013_000001|I prayed the merchant who owned the nest to which I had been carried (for every merchant had his own) to take as many for his share as he pleased.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000000|The merchants had thrown their pieces of meat into the valley for several days; and each of them being satisfied with the diamonds that had fallen to his lot, we left the place the next morning, and travelled near high mountains, where there were serpents of a prodigious length, which we had the good fortune to escape.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000001|We took shipping at the first port we reached, and touched at the isle of Roha, where the trees grow that yield camphire.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000002|This tree is so large, and its branches so thick, that one hundred men may easily sit under its shade.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000004|After the juice is thus drawn out, the tree withers and dies.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000016_000000|In this island is also found the rhinoceros, an animal less than the elephant, but larger than the buffalo.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000016_000001|It has a horn upon its nose, about a cubit in length; this horn is solid, and cleft through the middle.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000017_000000|I pass over many other things peculiar to this island, lest I should weary you.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000017_000001|Here I exchanged some of my diamonds for merchandise.
train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000017_000003|There I immediately gave large presents to the poor, and lived honourably upon the vast riches I had brought, and gained with so much fatigue.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000002_000000|"From the Depths of his Love"
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000003_000000|At seven o'clock, precisely, Anthony Dexter's old housekeeper rang the rising bell.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000003_000002|In fact, the breakfast bell had rung before he was fully awake.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000004_000000|He dressed leisurely, and was haunted by a vague feeling that something unpleasant had happened.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000004_000001|At length he remembered that just before dusk, in the garden of Evelina Grey's old house, he had seen a ghost-a ghost who confronted him mutely with a thing he had long since forgotten.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000005_000000|"It was subjective, purely," mused Anthony Dexter.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000000|He was strong and straight of body, finely muscular, and did not look over forty, though it was more than eight years ago that he had reached the fortieth milestone.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000001|His hair was thinning a little at the temples and the rest of it was touched generously with grey.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000002|His features were regular and his skin clear.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000003|A full beard, closely cropped, hid the weakness of his chin, but did not entirely conceal those fine lines about the mouth which mean cruelty.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000000|Someway, in looking at him, one got the impression of a machine, well nigh perfect of its kind.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000001|His dark eyes were sharp and penetrating.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000002|Once they had been sympathetic, but he had outgrown that. His hands were large, white, and well kept, his fingers knotted, and blunt at the tips.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000003|He had, pre eminently, the hand of the surgeon, capable of swiftness and strength, and yet of delicacy.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000004|It was not a hand that would tremble easily; it was powerful and, in a way, brutal.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000008_000000|He was thoroughly self satisfied, as well he might be, for the entire countryside admitted his skill, and even in the operating rooms of the hospitals in the city not far distant.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000008_000001|Doctor Dexter's name was well known.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000008_000002|He had thought seriously, at times, of seeking a wider field, but he liked the country and the open air, and his practice would give Ralph the opportunity he needed.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000009_000000|At the thought of Ralph, the man's face softened a trifle and his keen eyes became a little less keen.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000009_000002|Ralph was twenty three now and would finish in a few weeks at a famous medical school-Doctor Dexter's own alma mater.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000009_000003|He had not been at home since he entered the school, having undertaken to do in three years the work which usually required four.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000010_000000|He wrote frequently, however, and Doctor Dexter invariably went to the post office himself on the days Ralph's letters were expected.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000010_000002|The last one was in his pocket now.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000011_000000|"To think, Father," Ralph had written, "in three weeks more or less, I shall be at home with my sheepskin and a fine new shingle with 'dr Ralph Dexter' painted on it, all ready to hang up on the front of the house beside yours.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000011_000001|I'll be glad to get out of the grind for a while, I can tell you that.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000011_000002|I've worked as His Satanic Majesty undoubtedly does when he receives word that a fresh batch of Mormons has hit the trail for the good intentions pavement.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000012_000000|"At first, I suppose, there won't be much for me to do.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000012_000002|Finally, they'll let me vaccinate the kids and the rest will be pitifully easy.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000000|Remembering the boyishness of it, Anthony Dexter smiled a little and took another satisfying look at the pictured face before him.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000001|Ralph's eyes were as his father's had been-frank and friendly and clear, with no hint of suspicion.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000002|His chin was firm and his mouth determined, but the corners of it turned up decidedly, and the upper lip was short. The unprejudiced observer would have seen merely an honest, intelligent, manly young fellow, who looked as if he might be good company.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000003|Anthony Dexter saw all this-and a great deal more.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000000|It was his pride that he was unemotional.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000001|By rigid self discipline, he had wholly mastered himself.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000002|His detachment from his kind was at first spasmodic, then exceptionally complete.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000003|Excepting Ralph, his relation to the world was that of an unimpassioned critic.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000004|He was so sure of his own ground that he thought he considered Ralph impersonally, also.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000000|Over a nature which, at the beginning, was warmly human, Doctor Dexter had laid this glacial mask.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000001|He did what he had to do with neatness and dispatch.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000002|If an operation was necessary, he said so at once, not troubling himself to approach the subject gradually.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000003|If there was doubt as to the outcome, he would cheerfully advise the patient to make a will first, but there was seldom doubt, for those white, blunt fingers were very sure.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000004|He believed in the clean cut, sudden stroke, and conducted his life upon that basis.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000016_000000|Without so much as the quiver of an eyelash, Anthony Dexter could tell a man that within an hour his wife would be dead.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000016_000001|He could predict the death of a child, almost to the minute, without a change in his mask like expression, and feel a faint throb of professional pride when his prediction was precisely fulfilled.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000016_000002|The people feared him, respected him, and admired his skill, but no one loved him except his son.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000017_000000|Among all his acquaintances, there was none who called him friend except Austin Thorpe, the old minister who had but lately come to town. This, in itself, was no distinction, for Thorpe was the friend of every man, woman, child, and animal in the village.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000017_000001|No two men could have been more unlike, but friendship, like love, is often a matter of chemical affinity, wherein opposites rush together in obedience to a hidden law.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000018_000000|The broadly human creed of the minister included every living thing, and the man himself interested Doctor Dexter in much the same way that a new slide for his microscope might interest him.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000018_000001|They exchanged visits frequently when the duties of both permitted, and the Doctor reflected that, when Ralph came, Thorpe would be lonely.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000019_000000|The Dexter house was an old one but it had been kept in good repair. From time to time, wings had been added to the original structure, until now it sprawled lazily in every direction.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000019_000001|One wing, at the right of the house, contained the Doctor's medical library, office, reception room, and laboratory.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000019_000003|The laboratory, at the back of the wing, was well fitted with modern appliances for original research, and had, too, its own outside door.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000020_000000|When Ralph came home, the other wing, at the left of the house, was to be arranged in like manner for him if he so desired.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000020_000001|Doctor Dexter had some rough drawings under consideration, but wanted Ralph to order the plans in accordance with his own ideas.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000021_000000|The breakfast bell rang again, and Doctor Dexter went downstairs.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000021_000001|The servant met him in the hall.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000021_000002|"Breakfast is waiting, sir," she said.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000022_000000|"All right," returned the Doctor, absently.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000023_000000|He opened the door for a breath of fresh air, and immediately perceived the small, purple velvet box at his feet.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000023_000001|He picked it up, wonderingly, and opened it.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000000|Being unemotional, he experienced nothing at first, save natural surprise.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000001|He stood there, staring into vacancy, idly fingering the pearls.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000002|By some evil magic of the moment, the hour seemed set back a full quarter of a century.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000003|As though it were yesterday, he saw Evelina before him.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000026_000000|She had been a girl of extraordinary beauty and charm.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000026_000001|He had travelled far and seen many, but there had been none like Evelina.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000026_000002|How he had loved her, in those dead yesterdays, and how she had loved him! The poignant sweetness of it came back, changed by some fatal alchemy into bitterness.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000027_000000|Anthony Dexter had seen enough of the world to recognise cowardice when he saw it, even in himself.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000028_000000|Hard work and new love and daily wearying of the body to the point of exhaustion had banished those phantoms of earlier years, save in his dreams.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000028_000001|At night, the soul claims its own-its right to suffer for its secret sins, its shirking, its betrayals.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000029_000000|It is not pleasant for a man to be branded, in his own consciousness, a coward.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000029_000001|Refusal to admit it by day does not change the hour of the night when life is at its lowest ebb, and, sleepless, man faces himself as he is.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000030_000000|The necklace slipped snakily over his hand-one of those white, firm hands which could guide the knife so well-and Anthony Dexter shuddered.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000030_000001|He flung the box far from him into the shrubbery, went back into the house, and slammed the door.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000031_000000|He sat down at the table, but could not eat.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000031_000001|The Past had come from its grave, veiled, like the ghost in the garden that he had seen yesterday.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000032_000000|It was not an hallucination, then.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000033_000000|"Why?" he questioned uneasily of himself.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000033_000001|"Why?" He had repeatedly told himself that any other man, in his position, would do as he had done, yet it was as though some one had slipped a stiletto under his armour and found a vulnerable spot.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000034_000000|Before his mental vision hovered two women.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000034_000001|One was a girl of twenty, laughing, exquisitely lovely.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000034_000002|The other was a bent and broken woman in black, whose veil concealed the dreadful hideousness of her face.
train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000036_000000|He determined to vanquish the spectre that had reared itself before him, not perceiving that Remorse incarnate, in the shape of Evelina, had come back to haunt him until his dying day.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000002_000000|The Sabbath, pale with September sunshine, and monotonous with chiming bells, had passed languidly away.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000002_000001|Dr Simon had come and gone, optimistic and urbane, yet with a faint inward dissatisfaction over a patient behind whose taciturnity a hint of mockery and subterfuge seemed to lurk.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000002_000002|Even Mrs Lawford had appeared to share her husband's reticence. But Dr Simon had happened on other cases in his experience where tact was required rather than skill, and time than medicine.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000000|The voices and footsteps, even the frou frou of worshippers going to church, the voices and footsteps of worshippers returning from church, had floated up to the patient's open window.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000001|Sunlight had drawn across his room in one pale beam, and vanished.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000002|A few callers had called. Hothouse flowers, waxen and pale, had been left with messages of sympathy.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000003|Even Dr Critchett had respectfully and discreetly made inquiries on his way home from chapel.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000000|Lawford had spent most of his time in pacing to and fro in his soft slippers.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000001|The very monotony had eased his mind.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000002|Now and again he had lain motionless, with his face to the ceiling.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000003|He had dozed and had awakened, cold and torpid with dream.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000004|He had hardly been aware of the process, but every hour had done something, it seemed, towards clarifying his point of view.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000005|A consciousness had begun to stir in him that was neither that of the old, easy Lawford, whom he had never been fully aware of before, nor of this strange ghostly intelligence that haunted the hawklike, restless face, and plucked so insistently at his distracted nerves.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000006|He had begun in a vague fashion to be aware of them both, could in a fashion discriminate between them, almost as if there really were two spirits in stubborn conflict within him.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000007|It would, of course, wear him down in time.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000008|There could be only one end to such a struggle-THE end.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000005_000000|All day he had longed for freedom, on and on, with craving for the open sky, for solitude, for green silence, beyond these maddening walls.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000005_000002|And above all, betwixt dread and an almost physical greed, he hungered for night.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000005_000003|He sat down with elbows on knees and head on his hands, thinking of night, its secrecy, its immeasurable solitude.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000000|His eyelids twitched; the fire before him had for an instant gone black out.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000001|He seemed to see slow gesturing branches, grass stooping beneath a grey and wind swept sky.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000002|He started up; and the remembrance of the morning returned to him-the glassy light, the changing rays, the beaming gilt upon the useless books.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000003|Now, at last, at the windows; afternoon had begun to wane.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000004|And when Sheila brought up his tea, as if Chance had heard his cry, she entered in hat and stole.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000005|She put down the tray, and paused at the glass, looking across it out of the window.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000000|'Alice says you are to eat every one of those delicious sandwiches, and especially the tiny omelette.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000001|You have scarcely touched anything to day, Arthur.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000002|I am a poor one to preach, I am afraid; but you know what that will mean-a worse breakdown still.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000003|You really must try to think of-of us all.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000008_000000|'Are you going to church?' he asked in a low voice.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000001|But Dr Simon advised me most particularly to go out at least once a day.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000002|We must remember, this is not the beginning of your illness.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000004|Anyhow, he said that I looked worried and run down.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000006|Let us both try for each other's sakes, or even if only for Alice's, to-to do all we can.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000007|I must not harass you; but is there any-do you see the slightest change of any kind?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000010_000000|'You always look pretty, Sheila; to night you look prettier: THAT is the only change, I think.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000011_000000|Mrs Lawford's attitude intensified in its stillness.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000011_000001|'Now, speaking quite frankly, what is it in you suggests these remarks at such a time? That's what baffles me.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000011_000002|It seems so childish, so needlessly blind.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000012_000000|'I am very sorry, Sheila, to be so childish.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000012_000001|But I'm not, say what you like, blind.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000012_000002|You ARE pretty: I'd repeat it if I was burning at the stake.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000000|Sheila lowered her eyes softly on to the rich toned picture in the glass.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000001|'Supposing,' she said, watching her lips move, 'supposing-of course, I know you are getting better and all that-but supposing you don't change back as Mr Bethany thinks, what will you do?
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000002|Honestly, Arthur, when I think over it calmly, the whole tragedy comes back on me with such a force it sweeps me off my feet; I am for the moment scarcely my own mistress.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000003|What would you do?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000014_000000|'I think, Sheila,' replied a low, infinitely weary voice, 'I think I should marry again.' It was the same wavering, faintly ironical voice that had slightly discomposed Dr Simon that same morning.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000016_000000|'YOU, dear!'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000017_000000|Sheila turned softly round, conscious in a most humiliating manner that she had ever so little flushed.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000000|Her husband was pouring out his tea, unaware, apparently, of her change of position.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000001|She watched him curiously.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000002|In spite of all her reason, of her absolute certainty, she wondered even again for a moment if this really could be Arthur.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000003|And for the first time she realised the power and mastery of that eager and far too hungry face.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000004|Her mind seemed to pause, fluttering in air, like a bird in the wind.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000019_000000|'Will you want anything more, do you think, for an hour?' she asked.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000020_000000|Her husband looked up over his little table.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000020_000001|'Is Alice going with you?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000021_000000|'Oh yes; poor child, she looks so pale and miserable.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000021_000001|We are going to Mrs Sherwin's, and then on to Church.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000021_000002|You will lock your door?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000022_000000|'Yes, I will lock my door.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000023_000000|'And I do hope Arthur-nothing rash!'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000024_000000|A change, that seemed almost the effect of actual shadow, came over his face.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000024_000001|'I wish you could stay with me,' he said slowly.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000024_000002|'I don't think you have any idea what-what I go through.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000025_000000|It was as if a child had asked on the verge of terror for a candle in the dark.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000025_000001|But an hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity. Sheila sighed.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000026_000000|'I think,' she said, 'I too might say that.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000026_000001|But there; giving way will do nothing for either of us.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000027_000000|'But why Mrs Sherwin?
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000027_000001|She'd worm a secret out of one's grave.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000028_000000|'It's useless to discuss that, Arthur; you have always consistently disliked my friends.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000029_000000|'Oh, well-' he began.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000029_000001|But the door was already closed.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000030_000000|'Sheila!' he called in a burst of anger.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000031_000000|'Well, Arthur?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000032_000000|'You have taken my latchkey.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000033_000000|Sheila came hastily in again.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000033_000001|'Your latchkey?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000034_000000|'I am going out.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000035_000000|'"Going out!"--you will not be so mad, so criminal; and after your promise!'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000000|He stood up.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000001|'It is useless to argue.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000002|If I do not go out, I shall certainly go mad.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000003|As for criminal-why, that's a woman's word.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000004|Who on earth is to know me?'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000000|Lawford eyed her coldly and stubbornly-thinking of the empty room he would leave awaiting his return, its lamp burning, its fire flames shining.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000001|It was almost a physical discomfort, this longing unspeakable for the twilight, the green secrecy and the silence of the graves.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000002|'Keep them out of the way,' he said in a low voice; 'it will be dark when I come in.' His hardened face lit up.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000003|'It's useless to attempt to dissuade me.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000039_000001|why do you seem to delight in trying to estrange me?' Husband and wife faced each other across the clear lit room.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000039_000002|He did not answer.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000040_000000|'For the last time,' she said in a quiet, hard voice, 'I ask you not to go.'
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000041_000000|He shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000041_000001|'Ask me not to come back,' he said; 'that's nearer your hope.' He turned his face to the fire.
train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000041_000002|Without moving he heard her go out, return, pause, and go out again.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000000|The last light of sunset lay in the west; and a sullen wrack of cloud was mounting into the windless sky when Lawford entered the country graveyard again by its dark weather worn lych gate.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000001|The old stone church with its square tower stood amid trees, its eastern window faintly aglow with crimson and purple.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000002|He could hear a steady, rather nasal voice through its open lattices.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000003|But the stooping stones and the cypresses were out of sight of its porch.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000004|He would not be seen down there.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000005|He paused a moment, however; his hat was drawn down over his eyes; he was shivering.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000006|Far over the harvest fields showed a growing pallor in the solitary seat beneath the cypresses.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000007|He stood hesitating, gazing steadily and yet half vacantly at the motionless figure, and in a while a face was lifted in his direction, and undisconcerted eyes calmly surveyed him.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000002_000000|'I am afraid,' called Lawford rather nervously-'I hope I am not intruding?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000003_000001|'I have no privileges here; at least as yet.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000004_000000|Lawford again hesitated, then slowly advanced.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000004_000001|'It's astonishingly quiet and beautiful,' he said.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000005_000000|The stranger turned his head to glance over the fields.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000005_000001|'Yes, it is, very,' he replied.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000005_000002|There was the faintest accent, a little drawl of unfriendliness in the remark.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000006_000000|'You often sit here?' Lawford persisted.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000000|The stranger raised his eyebrows.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000001|'Oh yes, often.' He smiled.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000002|'It is my own modest fashion of attending divine service.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000003|The congregation is rapt.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000008_000000|'My visits,' said Lawford, 'have been very few-in fact, so far as I know, I have only once been here before.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000000|'I envy you the novelty.' There was again the same faint unmistakable antagonism in voice and attitude; and yet so deep was the relief in talking to a fellow creature who hadn't the least suspicion of anything unusual in his appearance that Lawford was extremely disinclined to turn back.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000001|He made another effort-for conversation with strangers had always been a difficulty to him-and advanced towards the seat.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000002|'You mustn't please let me intrude upon you,' he said, 'but really I am very interested in this queer old place.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000003|Perhaps you would tell me something of its history?' He sat down.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000004|His companion moved slowly to the other side of the broken gravestone.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000000|'To tell you the truth,' he replied, picking his way as it were from word to word, 'it's "history," as people call it, does not interest me in the least.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000001|After all, it's not when a thing is, but what it is, that much matters.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000002|What this is'--he glanced, with head bent, across the shadowy stones, 'is pretty evident.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000003|Of course, age has its charms.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000011_000000|'And is this very old?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000000|'Oh yes, it's old right enough, as things go; but even age, perhaps, is mainly an affair of the imagination.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000001|There's a tombstone near that little old hawthorn, and there are two others side by side under the wall, still even legibly late seventeenth century.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000003|'Of course, the church itself is centuries older, drenched with age.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000004|But she's still sleep walking while these old tombstones dream.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000005|Glow worms and crickets are not such bad bedfellows.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000015_000000|Lawford found himself staring with unusual concentration into the rather long and pale face.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000015_000001|'Not, I suppose,' he resumed faintly-'not, I suppose, beyond what's there.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000016_000000|His companion leant his hand on the old stooping tombstone.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000016_000002|Even if you don't.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000017_000000|'A suicide,' said Lawford, under his breath.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000018_000000|'Yes, a suicide; that's why our Christian countrymen have buried him outside of the fold.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000018_000001|Dead or alive, they try to keep the wolf out.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000019_000000|'Is this, then, unconsecrated ground?' said Lawford.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000020_000000|'Haven't you noticed,' drawled the other, 'how green the grass grows down here, and how very sharp are poor old Sabathier's thorns?
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000021_000000|'But, surely,' said Lawford, 'was it so entirely a matter of choice-the laws of the Church?
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000021_000001|If he did kill himself, he did.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000000|The stranger turned with a little shrug.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000001|'I don't suppose it's a matter of much consequence to HIM.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000002|I fancied I was his only friend.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000003|May I venture to ask why you are interested in the poor old thing?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000023_000000|Lawford's mind was as calm and shallow as a millpond.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000023_000002|'You say you often come?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000024_000000|'Often,' said the stranger rather curtly.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000025_000000|'Has anything-ever-occurred?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000026_000000|'"Occurred?"' He raised his eyebrows.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000026_000002|I come here simply, as I have said, because it's quiet; because I prefer the company of those who never answer me back, and who do not so much as condescend to pay me the least attention.' He smiled and turned his face towards the quiet fields.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000027_000000|Lawford, after a long pause, lifted his eyes.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000027_000001|'Do you think,' he said softly, 'it is possible one ever could?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000028_000000|'"One ever could?"'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000029_000000|'Answer back?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000030_000000|There was a low rotting wall of stone encompassing Sabathier's grave; on this the stranger sat down.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000030_000001|He glanced up rather curiously at his companion.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000031_000000|'Of course, of course,' said Lawford eagerly.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000031_000001|'But it is an absolutely new one to me.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000031_000002|I don't mean that I have never had such an idea, just in one's own superficial way; but'--he paused and glanced swiftly into the fast thickening twilight-'I wonder: are they, do you think, really, all quite dead?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000032_000000|'Call and see!' taunted the stranger softly.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000033_000001|'But I believe in the resurrection of the body; that is what we say; and supposing, when a man dies-supposing it was most frightfully against one's will; that one hated the awful inaction that death brings, shutting a poor devil up like a child kicking against the door in a dark cupboard; one might surely one might-just quietly, you know, try to get out?
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000033_000002|wouldn't you?' he added.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000036_000000|And a sheer enormous abyss of silence seemed to follow the unanswerable question.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000037_000000|'He was a stranger; it says so.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000037_000001|Good God!' said Lawford, 'how he must have wanted to get home!
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000037_000002|He killed himself, poor wretch, think of the fret and fever he must have been in-just before.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000038_000000|'But it might, you know,' suggested the other with a smile-'might have been sheer indifference.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000040_000000|It was almost too dark now to distinguish the stranger's features but there seemed a faint suggestion of irony in his voice.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000040_000001|'And how do you suppose your angry naughty child would set about it?
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000040_000002|It's narrow quarters; how would he begin?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000041_000000|Lawford sat quite still.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000041_000001|'You say-I hope I am not detaining you-you say you have come here, sat here often, on this very seat; have you ever had-have you ever fallen asleep here?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000043_000001|He was cold and shivering.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000043_000002|He felt instinctively it was madness to sit on here in the thin gliding mist that had gathered in swathes above the grass, milk pale in the rising moon.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000043_000003|The stranger turned away from him.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000044_000000|'"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come must give us pause,"' he said slowly, with a little satirical catch on the last word.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000044_000001|'What did you dream?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000000|Lawford glanced helplessly about him.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000001|The moon cast lean grey beams of light between the cypresses.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000002|But to his wide and wandering eyes it seemed that a radiance other than hers haunted these mounds and leaning stones.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000003|'Have you ever noticed it?' he said, putting out his hand towards his unknown companion; 'this stone is cracked from head to foot?...
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000004|But there'--he rose stiff and chilled-'I am afraid I have bored you with my company.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000005|You came here for solitude, and I have been trying to convince you that we are surrounded with witnesses.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000006|You will forgive my intrusion?' There was a kind of old-fashioned courtesy in his manner that he himself was dimly aware of.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000007|He held out his hand.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000001|It's the old story of Bluebeard.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000002|And I confess I too should very much like a peep into his cupboard.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000004|But there, it's merely a matter of time, I suppose.' He paused, and together they slowly ascended the path already glimmering with a heavy dew.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000005|At the porch they paused once more.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000047_000000|'Perhaps,' he said, 'you will give me the pleasure of some day continuing our talk.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000047_000002|I live only at the foot of the hill, not half a mile distant.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000047_000003|Perhaps you could spare the time now?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000048_000000|Lawford took out his watch, 'You are really very kind,' he said.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000048_000001|'But, perhaps-well, whatever that history may be, I think you would agree that mine is even-but, there, I've talked too much about myself already.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000048_000002|Perhaps to morrow?'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000000|'Why, to morrow, then,' said his companion.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000001|'It's a flat wooden house, on the left hand side.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000002|Come at any time of the evening'; he paused again and smiled-'the third house after the Rectory, which is marked up on the gate.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000003|My name is Herbert-Herbert Herbert to be precise.'
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000000|Lawford took out his pocket book and a card.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000001|'Mine,' he said, handing it gravely to his companion.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000002|'is Lawford-at least...' It was really the first time that either had seen the other's face at close quarters and clear lit; and on Lawford's a moon almost at the full shone dazzlingly.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000003|He saw an expression-dismay, incredulity, overwhelming astonishment-start suddenly into the dark, rather indifferent eyes.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000051_000000|'What is it?' he cried, hastily stooping close.
train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000052_000000|'Why,' said the other, laughing and turning away, 'I think the moon must have bewitched me too.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000001|He heard voices in the dining room.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000002|A light shone faintly between the blinds of his bedroom.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000003|He very gently let himself in, and unheard, unseen, mounted the stairs.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000004|He sat down in front of the fire, tired out and bitterly cold in spite of his long walk home.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000005|But his mind was wearier even than his body.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000006|He tried in vain to catch up the thread of his thoughts.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000007|He only knew for certain that so far as his first hope and motives had gone his errand had proved entirely futile.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000008|'How could I possibly fall asleep with that fellow talking there?' he had said to himself angrily; yet knew in his heart that their talk had driven every other idea out of his mind.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000009|He had not yet even glanced into the glass.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000010|His every thought was vainly wandering round and round the one curious hint that had drifted in, but which he had not yet been able to put into words.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000000|Supposing, though, that he had really fallen into a deep sleep, with none to watch or spy-what then?
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000001|However ridiculous that idea, it was not more ridiculous, more incredible than the actual fact.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000002|If he had remained there, he might, it was just possible that he would by now, have actually awakened just his own familiar every day self again.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000003|And the thought of that-though he hardly realised its full import-actually did send him on tip toe for a glance that more or less effectually set the question at rest.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000004|And there looked out at him, it seemed, the same dark sallow face that had so much appalled him only two nights ago-expressionless, cadaverous, with shadowy hollows beneath the glittering eyes.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000005|And even as he watched it, its lips, of their own volition, drew together and questioned him-'Whose?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000005_000000|He was not to be given much leisure, however, for fantastic reveries like this.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000005_000001|As he leaned his head on his hands, gladly conscious that he could not possibly bear this incessant strain for long, Sheila opened the door.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000005_000002|He started up.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000006_000001|I refuse to be watched and guarded and peeped on like this.' He knew that his hands were trembling, that he could not keep his eyes fixed, that his voice was nearly inarticulate.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000000|Sheila drew in her lips.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000001|'I have merely come to tell you, Arthur, that Mr Bethany has brought Mr Danton in to supper.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000002|He agrees with me it really would be advisable to take such a very old and prudent and practical friend into our confidence.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000003|You do nothing I ask of you.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000004|I simply cannot bear the burden of this incessant anxiety.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000005|Look, now, what your night walk has done for you!
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000006|You look positively at death's door.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000000|'What-what an instinct you have for the right word,' said Lawford softly.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000001|'And Danton, of all people in the world!
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000002|It was surely rather a curious, a thoughtless choice.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000003|Has he had supper?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000009_000000|'Why do you ask?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000010_000000|'He won't believe: too-bloated.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000011_000001|Besides, Arthur, as for believing-without in the least desiring to hurt your feelings-I must candidly warn you, some people won't.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000012_000000|'Come along,' said Lawford, with a faint gust of laughter; 'let's see.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000013_000000|They went quickly downstairs, Sheila with less dignity, perhaps, than she had been surprised into since she had left a slimmer girlhood behind.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000014_000000|Mr Danton composed his chin in his collar, and deliberately turned himself towards his companion.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000014_000001|His small eyes wandered, and instantaneously met and rested on those of Mrs Lawford.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000015_000000|'Arthur thought he would prefer to come down and see you himself.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000016_000000|'You take such formidable risks, Lawford,' said Mr Bethany in a dry, difficult voice.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000017_000000|'Am I really to believe,' Danton began huskily.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000017_000001|'I am sure, Bethany, you will-My dear Mrs Lawford!' said he, stirring vaguely, glancing restlessly.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000000|'It was not my wish, Vicar, to come at all,' said a voice from the doorway.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000001|'To tell you the truth, I am too tired to care a jot either way.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000002|And'--he lifted a long arm-'I must positively refuse to produce the least, the remotest proof that I am not, so far as I am personally aware, even the Man in the Moon.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000003|Danton at heart was always an incorrigible sceptic.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000004|Aren't you, t d?
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000005|You pride your dear old brawn on it in secret?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000000|'Oh, but you know you are,' drawled on the slightly hesitating long drawn syllables; 'it's your parochial metier.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000002|You were born fat; you became fat; and fat, my dear Danton, has been deliberately thrust on you-in layers!
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000003|Lampreys!
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000004|You'll perish of surfeit some day, of sheer Dantonism.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000005|And fat, postmortem, Danton.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000006|Oh, what a basting's there!'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000021_000000|Mr Bethany, with a convulsive effort, woke.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000021_000001|He turned swiftly on Mrs Lawford. 'Why, why, could you not have seen?' he cried.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000022_000000|'It's no good, Vicar.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000022_000002|Blow hot, blow cold. North, south, east, west-to have a weathercock for a wife is to marry the wind.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000022_000003|There's nothing to be got from poor Sheila but....
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000023_000000|'Lawford!' the little man's voice was as sharp as the crack of a whip; 'I forbid it.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000023_000001|Do you hear me?
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000023_000002|I forbid it.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000024_000000|Lawford peered as if out of a gathering dusk, that thickened and flickered with shadows before his eyes.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000024_000001|'What's he mean, then,' he muttered huskily, 'coming here with his black, still carcase-peeping, peeping-what's he mean, I say?' There was a moment's silence.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000024_000002|Then with lifted brows and wide eyes that to every one of his three witnesses left an indelible memory of clear and wolfish light within their glassy pupils, he turned heavily, and climbed back to his solitude.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000025_000000|'I suppose,' began Danton, with an obvious effort to disentangle himself from the humiliation of the moment, 'I suppose he was-wandering?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000026_000000|'Bless me, yes,' said Mr Bethany cordially-'fever.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000026_000001|We all know what that MEANS.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000027_000000|'Yes,' said Danton, taking refuge in Mrs Lawford's white and intent gaze.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000029_000000|Danton inserted a plump, white finger between collar and chin.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000029_000001|'Oh yes. But-eh?--needlessly abusive?
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000029_000002|I never SAID I disbelieved him.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000031_000000|He poised himself, as if it were, on the monolithic stability of his legs.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000000|Mr Bethany sat down at the table.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000001|'I rather feared some such temporary breakdown as this, Danton.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000002|I think I foresaw it.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000003|And now, just while we are all three alone here together in friendly conclave, wouldn't it be as well, don't you think, to confront ourselves with the difficulties? I know-we all know, that that poor half demented creature IS Arthur Lawford.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000004|This morning he was as sane, as lucid as I hope I am now.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000005|An awful calamity has suddenly fallen upon him-this change.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000006|I own frankly at the first sheer shock it staggered me as I think for the moment it has staggered you.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000007|But when I had seen the poor fellow face to face, heard him talk, and watched him there upstairs in the silence stir and awake and come up again to his trouble out of his sleep.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000008|I had no more doubt in my own mind and heart that he was he than I have in my mind that I-am i We do in some mysterious way, you'll own at once, grow so accustomed, so inured, if you like, to each other's faces (masks though they be) that we hardly realise we see them when we are speaking together.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000009|And yet the slightest, the most infinitesimal change is instantly apparent.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000033_000000|'Oh yes, Vicar; but you see-'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000000|Mr Bethany raised a small lean hand: 'One moment, please.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000001|I have heard Lawford's own account.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000003|What more likely, more inevitable than that such a thing should leave its scar, its cloud, its masking shadow?--call it what you will.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000004|A smile can turn a face we dread into a face we'd die for.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000005|Some experience, which would be nothing but a hideous cruelty and outrage to ask too closely about-one, perhaps, which he could, even if he would, poor fellow, give no account of-has put him temporarily at the world's mercy.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000007|And that, my dear Danton, is just where we come in. We know the man himself; and it is to be our privilege to act as a buffer state, to be intermediaries between him and the rest of this deadly, craving, sheepish world-for the time being; oh yes, just for the time being.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000008|Other and keener and more knowledgeable minds than mine or yours will some day bring him back to us again.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000009|We don't attempt to explain; we can't.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000010|We simply believe.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000035_000000|But Danton merely continued to stare, as if into the quiet of an aquarium.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000036_000000|'My dear good Danton,' persisted Mr Bethany with cherubic patience, 'how old are you?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000037_000000|'I don't see quite...' smiled Danton with recovered ease, and rapidly mobilising forces.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000037_000001|'Excuse the confidence, Mrs Lawford, I'm forty three.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000000|'Good,' said Mr Bethany; 'and I'm seventy one, and this child here'--he pointed an accusing finger at Sheila-is youth perpetual.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000001|So,' he briskly brightened, 'say, between us we're six score all told.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000002|Are we-can we, deliberately, with this mere pinch of years at our command out of the wheeling millions that have gone-can we say, "This is impossible," to any single phenomenon?
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000003|CAN we?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000039_000001|'Not finally.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000039_000002|That's all very well, but'--he paused, and nodded, nodding his round head upward as if towards the inaudible overhead, 'I suppose he can't HEAR?'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000000|Mr Bethany rose cheerfully.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000001|'All right, Danton; I am afraid you are exactly what the poor fellow in his delirium solemnly asseverated. And, jesting apart, it is in delirium that we tell our sheer, plain, unadulterated truth: you're a nicely covered sceptic.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000002|Personally, I refuse to discuss the matter.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000003|Mere dull, stubborn prejudice; bigotry, if you like.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000004|I will only remark just this-that Mrs Lawford and I, in our inmost hearts, know.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000005|You, my dear Danton, forgive the freedom, merely incredulously grope.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000006|Faith versus Reason-that prehistoric Armageddon. Some day, and a day not far distant either, Lawford will come back to us.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000007|This-this shutter will be taken down as abruptly as by some inconceivably drowsy heedlessness of common Nature it has been put up.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000008|He'll win through; and of his own sheer will and courage.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000009|But now, because I ask it, and this poor child here entreats it, you will say nothing to a living soul about the matter, say, till Friday?
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000010|What step by step creatures we are, to be sure!
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000011|I say Friday because it will be exactly a week then.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000012|And what's a week?--to Nature scarcely the unfolding of a rose.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000013|But still, Friday be it.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000014|Then, if nothing has occurred, we will, we shall HAVE to call a friendly gathering, we shall be compelled to have a friendly consultation.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000041_000002|But then, I am a sceptic; I own it.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000041_000003|And 'pon my word, Mrs Lawford, there's plenty of room for sceptics in a world like this.'
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000042_000000|'Very well,' said Mr Bethany crisply, 'that's settled, then.
train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000042_000001|With your permission, my dear,' he added, turning untarnishably clear childlike eyes on Sheila, 'I will take all risks-even to the foot of the gibbet: accessory, Danton, AFTER the fact.' And so direct and cloudless was his gaze that Sheila tried in vain to evade it and to catch a glimpse of Danton's small agate like eyes, now completely under mastery, and awaiting confidently the meeting with her own.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000000_000000|"Oh, I'm going out into the world to try and get a place," said the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000001_000000|"Will you come and serve me?" said the man.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000002_000000|"Oh, yes; just as soon you as any one else," said the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000003_000000|"Well, you'll have a good place with me," said the man; "for you'll only have to keep me company, and do nothing at all else beside."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000004_000000|So the lad stopped with him, and lived on the fat of the land, both in meat and drink, and had little or nothing to do; but he never saw a living soul in that man's house.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000005_000000|So one day the man said:
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000006_000000|"Now, I'm going off for eight days, and that time you'll have to spend here all alone; but you must not go into any one of these four rooms here.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000006_000001|If you do, I'll take your life when I come back."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000007_000001|But when the man had been gone three or four days, the lad couldn't bear it any longer, but went into the first room, and when he got inside he looked round, but he saw nothing but a shelf over the door where a bramble bush rod lay.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000008_000000|Well, indeed! thought the lad; a pretty thing to forbid my seeing this.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000009_000000|So when the eight days were out, the man came home, and the first thing he said was:
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000014_000001|And when it was over, they were as good friends as ever.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000015_000000|Some time after the man set off again, and said he should be away fourteen days; but before he went he forbade the lad to go into any of the rooms he had not been in before; as for that he had been in, he might go into that, and welcome.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000015_000002|In this room, too, he saw nothing but a shelf over the door, and a big stone, and a pitcher of water on it.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000015_000003|Well, after all, there's not much to be afraid of my seeing here, thought the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000016_000000|But when the man came back, he asked if he had been into any of the rooms.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000016_000001|No, the lad hadn't done anything of the kind.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000019_000000|But the lad begged and prayed for himself again, and so this time too he got off with stripes; though he got as many as his skin would carry.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000019_000001|But when he got sound and well again, he led just as easy a life as ever, and he and the man were just as good friends.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000020_000000|So a while after the man was to take another journey, and now he said he should be away three weeks, and he forbade the lad anew to go into the third room, for if he went in there he might just make up his mind at once to lose his life.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000020_000001|Then after fourteen days the lad couldn't bear it, but crept into the room, but he saw nothing at all in there but a trap door on the floor; and when he lifted it up and looked down, there stood a great copper cauldron which bubbled up and boiled away down there; but he saw no fire under it.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000000|"Well, I should just like to know if it's hot," thought the lad, and struck his finger down into the broth, and when he pulled it out again, lo! it was gilded all over.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000001|So the lad scraped and scrubbed it, but the gilding wouldn't go off, so he bound a piece of rag round it; and when the man came back, and asked what was the matter with his finger, the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000002|But the man tore off the rag, and then he soon saw what was the matter with the finger. First he wanted to kill the lad outright, but when he wept, and begged, he only gave him such a thrashing that he had to keep his bed three days.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000003|After that the man took down a pot from the wall, and rubbed him over with some stuff out of it, and so the lad was as sound and fresh as ever.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000023_000000|Well, the lad stood out for two or three weeks, but then he couldn't hold out any longer; he must and would go into that room, and so in he stole.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000023_000001|There stood a great black horse tied up in a stall by himself, with a manger of red hot coals at his head and a truss of hay at his tail.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000023_000002|Then the lad thought this all wrong, so he changed them about, and put the hay at his head.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000024_000000|"Since you are so good at heart as to let me have some food, I'll set you free, that I will.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000025_000000|So the lad did all that; but it was a heavy load for him to carry them all down at once.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000026_000001|"If I do," thought the lad, "I shall look an awful fright;" but for all that, he did as he was told.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000026_000002|So when he had taken his bath, he became so handsome and sleek, and as red and white as milk and blood, and much stronger than he had been before.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000028_000000|"Yes," said the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000030_000000|Oh yes! he could do that, and as for the sword, he brandished it like a feather.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000033_000000|"Yes; there are ever so many coming after us, at least a score," said the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000037_000000|So the lad did that, and all at once a close, thick bramblewood grew up behind them.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000039_000000|"Yes, ever so many," said the lad, "as many as would fill a large church."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000044_000000|So the lad did that; but in spite of all the pains he took, he still spilt one drop on the horse's flank.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000044_000001|So it became a great deep lake; and because of that one drop, the horse found himself far out in it, but still he swam safe to land.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000047_000001|Then make yourself a wig of fir moss, and go up to the king's palace, which lies close here, and ask for a place. Whenever you need me, only come here and shake the bridle, and I'll come to you."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000048_000001|Then he went up to the king's palace and begged first for leave to be in the kitchen, and bring in wood and water for the cook, but then the kitchen maid asked him:
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000049_000000|"Why do you wear that ugly wig?
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000049_000001|Off with it.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000049_000002|I won't have such a fright in here."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000050_000000|"No, I can't do that," said the lad; "for I'm not quite right in my head."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000051_000000|"Do you think then I'll have you in here about the food," cried the cook.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000051_000001|"Away with you to the coachman; you're best fit to go and clean the stable."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000053_000000|"You'd best go down to the gardener," said he; "you're best fit to go about and dig in the garden."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000054_000000|So he got leave to be with the gardener, but none of the other servants would sleep with him, and so he had to sleep by himself under the steps of the summer house.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000054_000001|It stood upon beams, and had a high staircase.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000054_000002|Under that he got some turf for his bed, and there he lay as well as he could.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000055_000000|So, when he had been some time at the palace, it happened one morning, just as the sun rose, that the lad had taken off his wig, and stood and washed himself, and then he was so handsome, it was a joy to look at him.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000056_000001|Then she asked the gardener why he lay out there under the steps.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000057_000000|"Oh," said the gardener, "none of his fellow servants will sleep with him; that's why."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000059_000000|So the gardener told that to the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000060_000000|"Do you think I'll do any such thing?" said the lad.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000061_000000|"Yes," said the gardener, "you've good reason to fear any such thing, you who are so handsome."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000062_000000|"Well, well," said the lad, "since it's her will, I suppose I must go."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000064_000000|"Go gently, and just pull his wig off;" and she went up to him.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000065_000000|But just as she was going to whisk it off, he caught hold of it with both hands, and said she should never have it.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000065_000001|After that he lay down again, and began to snore.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000068_000001|He didn't do that, however, but he threw him into the prison tower; and as for his daughter, he shut her up in her own room, whence she never got leave to stir day or night. All that she begged, and all that she prayed, for the lad and herself, was no good.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000069_000003|So he got that, and an old broken down hack besides, which went upon three legs, and dragged the fourth after it.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000071_000000|Then they went out to meet the foe; but they hadn't got far from the palace before the lad got stuck fast in a bog with his hack.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000071_000001|There he sat and dug his spurs in, and cried, "Gee up! gee up!" to his hack. And all the rest had their fun out of this, and laughed, and made game of the lad as they rode past him.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000072_000002|When they went back, there sat the lad still in the bog, and dug his spurs into his three legged hack, and they all laughed again.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000073_000000|"No! only just look," they said; "there the fool sits still."
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000074_000000|The next day when they went out to battle, they saw the lad sitting there still, so they laughed again, and made game of him; but as soon as ever they had ridden by, the lad ran again to the lime tree, and all happened as on the first day.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000075_000000|So when they went home at night, and saw the lad still sitting there on his hack, they burst out laughing at him again, and one of them shot an arrow at him and hit him in the leg.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000077_000000|"Gee up! gee up!" he said to his hack.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000079_000000|And then they rode on, and laughed at him till they were fit to fall from their horses.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000079_000001|When they were gone, he ran again to the lime, and came up to the battle just in the very nick of time.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000079_000002|This day he slew the enemy's king, and then the war was over at once.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000081_000000|"Here comes my own true love," she said.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000082_000000|Then he took the pot of ointment and rubbed himself on the leg, and after that he rubbed all the wounded, and so they all got well again in a moment.
train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000084_000001|So just take the sword, and cut my head off."
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000000_000000|LETTER the fourteenth LAURA in continuation
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000001_000003|The morning after our arrival at the Cottage, Sophia complained of a violent pain in her delicate limbs, accompanied with a disagreable Head ake She attributed it to a cold caught by her continued faintings in the open air as the Dew was falling the Evening before.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000001_000005|I was most seriously alarmed by her illness which trifling as it may appear to you, a certain instinctive sensibility whispered me, would in the End be fatal to her.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000000|Alas! my fears were but too fully justified; she grew gradually worse-and I daily became more alarmed for her.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000002|Her disorder turned to a galloping Consumption and in a few days carried her off.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000004|I had wept over her every Day-had bathed her sweet face with my tears and had pressed her fair Hands continually in mine-.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000006|Beware of fainting fits...
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000008|My fate will teach you this..
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000010|One fatal swoon has cost me my Life..
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000011|Beware of swoons Dear Laura....
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000012|A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Health in its consequences-Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint-"
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000004_000000|After having attended my lamented freind to her Early Grave, I immediately (tho' late at night) left the detested Village in which she died, and near which had expired my Husband and Augustus.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000005_000000|It was so dark when I entered the Coach that I could not distinguish the Number of my Fellow travellers; I could only perceive that they were many.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000006_000001|He must I am certain be capable of every bad action!
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000006_000002|There is no crime too black for such a Character!" Thus reasoned I within myself, and doubtless such were the reflections of my fellow travellers.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000000|At length, returning Day enabled me to behold the unprincipled Scoundrel who had so violently disturbed my feelings.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000001|It was Sir Edward the father of my Deceased Husband.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000002|By his side sate Augusta, and on the same seat with me were your Mother and Lady Dorothea.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000004|Great as was my astonishment, it was yet increased, when on looking out of Windows, I beheld the Husband of Philippa, with Philippa by his side, on the Coachbox and when on looking behind I beheld, Philander and Gustavus in the Basket.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000005|"Oh!
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000006|Heavens, (exclaimed I) is it possible that I should so unexpectedly be surrounded by my nearest Relations and Connections?" These words roused the rest of the Party, and every eye was directed to the corner in which I sat
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000007|"Oh! my Isabel (continued I throwing myself across Lady Dorothea into her arms) receive once more to your Bosom the unfortunate Laura.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000008_000001|Tell us I intreat you what is become of him?" "Yes, cold and insensible Nymph, (replied I) that luckless swain your Brother, is no more, and you may now glory in being the Heiress of Sir Edward's fortune."
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000012_000000|LETTER the fifteenth LAURA in continuation.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000002|This is however of little consequence for as our Mothers were certainly never married to either of them it reflects no Dishonour on our Blood, which is of a most ancient and unpolluted kind.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000007|Having thus arranged our Expences for two months (for we expected to make the nine Hundred Pounds last as long) we hastened to London and had the good luck to spend it in seven weeks and a Day which was six Days sooner than we had intended.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000011|The Manager always played BANQUO himself, his Wife my LADY MACBETH.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000012|I did the THREE WITCHES and Philander acted ALL THE REST.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000016|You know how well it succeeded-.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000017_000001|I graciously promised that I would, but could not help observing that the unsimpathetic Baronet offered it more on account of my being the Widow of Edward than in being the refined and amiable Laura.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000018_000000|I took up my Residence in a Romantic Village in the Highlands of Scotland where I have ever since continued, and where I can uninterrupted by unmeaning Visits, indulge in a melancholy solitude, my unceasing lamentations for the Death of my Father, my Mother, my Husband and my Freind.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000022_000000|Philippa has long paid the Debt of Nature, Her Husband however still continues to drive the Stage Coach from Edinburgh to Sterling:--Adeiu my Dearest Marianne.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000022_000001|Laura.
train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000023_000000|Finis
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000004_000000|Herr Lazarus and the Draken
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000005_000000|Once upon a time there was a cobbler called Lazarus, who was very fond of honey.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000005_000001|One day, as he ate some while he sat at work, the flies collected in such numbers that with one blow he killed forty.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000005_000002|Then he went and ordered a sword to be made for him, on which he had written these words: 'With one blow I have slain forty.' When the sword was ready he took it and went out into the world, and when he was two days' journey from home he came to a spring, by which he laid himself down and slept.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000006_000000|Now in that country there dwelt Draken, one of whom came to the spring to draw water; there he found Lazarus sleeping, and read what was written on his sword.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000006_000001|Then he went back to his people and told them what he had seen, and they all advised him to make fellowship with this powerful stranger.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000000|Lazarus answered that he was willing, and after a priest had blessed the fellowship, they returned together to the other Draken, and Lazarus dwelt among them.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000001|After some days they told him that it was their custom to take it in turns to bring wood and water, and as he was now of their company, he must take his turn.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000002|They went first for water and wood, but at last it came to be Lazarus's turn to go for water.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000004|This Lazarus could only, with great difficulty, drag empty to the spring, and because he could not carry it back full, he did not fill it at all, but, instead, he dug up the ground all round the spring.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000008_000000|As Lazarus remained so long away, the Draken sent one of their number to see what had become of him, and when this one came to the spring, Lazarus said to him: 'We will no more plague ourselves by carrying water every day.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000008_000001|I will bring the entire spring home at once, and so we shall be freed from this burden.'
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000010_000000|Next it comes to be Lazarus's turn to bring the wood.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000010_000001|Now the Draken, when they fetched the wood, always took an entire tree on their shoulder, and so carried it home.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000010_000002|Because Lazarus could not imitate them in this, he went to the forest, tied all the trees together with a thick rope, and remained in the forest till evening.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000012_000000|When they had lived together some time, the Draken became weary of Lazarus, and agreed among themselves to kill him; each Draken, in the night while Lazarus slept, should strike him a blow with a hatchet.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000012_000001|But Lazarus heard of this scheme, and when the evening came, he took a log of wood, covered it with his cloak, laid it in the place where he usually slept, and then hid himself.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000012_000002|In the night the Draken came, and each one hit the log a blow with his hatchet, till it flew in pieces.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000013_000000|Then they believed their object was gained, and they lay down again.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000014_000000|Thereupon Lazarus took the log, threw it away, and laid himself down in its stead.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000014_000003|He agreed willingly to this, but asked further that one of the Draken should go with him to carry the bag of gold.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000014_000004|They consented, and one was sent with him.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000015_000000|When they had come to within a short; distance of Lazarus's house, he said to the Draken: 'Stop here, in the meantime, for I must go on in front and tie up my children, lest they eat you.'
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000016_000000|So he went and tied his children with strong ropes, and said to them: 'As soon as the Draken comes in sight, call out as loud as you can, "Drakenflesh!
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000016_000001|Drakenflesh!"'
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000017_000000|So, when the Draken appeared, the children cried out: 'Drakenflesh! Drakenflesh!' and this so terrified the Draken that he let the bag fall and fled.
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000018_000001|But the fox laughed, and said: 'What! you were afraid of the children of Herr Lazarus?
train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000019_000000|The Draken then tied himself on to the fox's tail, and went back thus with it to Lazarus's house, in order to see what it would arrange.
train-clean-360/5588/39648/5588_39648_000068_000000|"One single thing.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000004_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000009_000000|Poor Cornelius, thus left alone with his bitter grief, muttered to himself,--
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000011_000000|And certainly the unfortunate prisoner would have fallen ill but for the counterpoise which Providence had granted to his grief, and which was called Rosa.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000012_000000|In the evening she came back.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000013_000000|"And how do you know that?" the prisoner asked, with a doleful look.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000028_000000|"'You have done that,' he cried, 'you have crushed the bulb?'
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000029_000000|"'Indeed I have.'
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000032_000000|"'Are you mad, too?' he asked his friend."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000050_000001|I only know-as unfortunately it is our lot to live with prisoners-that for them any pastime is of value.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000050_000002|This poor Mynheer van Baerle amused himself with this bulb.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000058_000000|"'How so?'
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000060_000001|"Did you say that I have three?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000061_000000|"The word certainly struck me just as much as it does you.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000064_000000|"Halloa, halloa!" said Cornelius.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000067_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000069_000000|"So he did."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000071_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000072_000000|"That not one of your movements escaped him?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000073_000000|"Not one, indeed."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000075_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000077_000000|"Who else, then?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000079_000000|"But with whom else?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000084_000000|"Oh, it would be very easy!"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000085_000000|"Tell me."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000087_000000|"Well, and what then?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000089_000000|"Oh!" said Rosa, with a sigh, "you are very fond of your bulbs."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000094_000000|"Which proposition?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000097_000000|"Accept two or three, and, along with them, you may grow the third sucker."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000099_000000|"Well, that is true; but only think! you are depriving yourself, as I can easily see, of a very great pleasure."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000102_000001|If I thus give up the only and last resource which we possess to the uncertain chances of the bad passions of anger and envy, I should never deserve to be forgiven.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000103_000000|"Be easy, Mynheer Cornelius," said Rosa, with a sweet mixture of melancholy and gravity, "be easy; your wishes are commands to me."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000105_000000|Rosa felt her heart sink within her, and her eyes were filling with tears.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000106_000000|"Alas!" she said.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000107_000000|"What is it?" asked Cornelius.
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000108_000000|"I see one thing."
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000109_000000|"What do you see?"
train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000111_000000|Saying this, she fled.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000006_000001|Night came, and with it Rosa, joyous and cheerful as a bird.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000007_000000|"Well?" asked Cornelius.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000011_000000|"Without a speck of any other colour."
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000012_000000|"Without one speck."
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000014_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000015_000000|"Well, and I will tell you now what I have decided on.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000021_000000|"By Jove!"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000028_000000|"Oh!"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000033_000000|"And if on your return you find it open?"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000034_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000039_000000|"Rosa, Rosa, I don't know to what wonder under the sun I shall compare you."
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000043_000000|"Say, 'My very dear friend.'"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000049_000000|"Your cheek,--your fresh cheek, your soft, rosy cheek.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000049_000001|Oh, Rosa, give it me of your own free will, and not by chance.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000051_000000|Rosa made her escape.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000058_000001|Touch it gently, Rosa.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000069_000000|Cornelius uttered a cry, and was nearly fainting.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000072_000000|"Rosa," said Cornelius, almost gasping, "Rosa, there is not one moment to lose in writing the letter."
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000074_000000|"Is it, indeed?"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000077_000001|As soon as it is open, I shall send a messenger to you, with the request that you will come and fetch it in person from the fortress at Loewestein.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000077_000003|I cannot, therefore, bring to you this wonderful flower.
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000082_000006|The messenger! the messenger!"
train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000083_000000|"What's the name of the President?"
train-clean-360/559/126296/559_126296_000010_000004|'We will set to work on that,' said Hansel, 'and have a good meal.
train-clean-360/559/126296/559_126296_000015_000004|Then she went to Gretel, shook her till she awoke, and cried: 'Get up, lazy thing, fetch some water, and cook something good for your brother, he is in the stable outside, and is to be made fat.
train-clean-360/559/126296/559_126296_000016_000003|'Now, then, Gretel,' she cried to the girl, 'stir yourself, and bring some water. Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.' Ah, how the poor little sister did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow down her cheeks!
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000007_000006|Whoop!
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000011_000003|I'm quite a baby.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000032_000004|Whoop! How are you!
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000032_000005|Merry Christmas!"
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000040_000000|"mr Scrooge?"
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000043_000001|"Not a farthing less.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000051_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000053_000001|I'll show you up stairs, if you please."
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000056_000000|"Fred!" said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000058_000000|"Why bless my soul!" cried Fred, "who's that?"
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000059_000000|"It's i Your uncle Scrooge.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000059_000001|I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?"
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000062_000003|A quarter past.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000062_000005|He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000063_000000|His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter too.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000066_000002|I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please."
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000068_000000|"Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000068_000001|And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again; "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!"
train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000070_000003|Make up the fires, and buy another coal scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"
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train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000005_000000|Translated by Constance Garnett
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000006_000000|PART ONE
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000007_000000|Chapter one
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000008_000000|Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000009_000003|The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000010_000000|Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky-Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather covered sofa in his study.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000000|"Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000002|To be sure!
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000003|Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000004|Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000012_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000012_000002|And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing gown always hung in his bedroom.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000012_000003|And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000013_000002|And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000014_000000|"Yes, she won't forgive me, and she can't forgive me.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000014_000001|And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault-all my fault, though I'm not to blame.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000017_000000|"What's this?
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000017_000001|this?" she asked, pointing to the letter.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000018_000000|And at this recollection, Stepan Arkadyevitch, as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000019_000000|There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000020_000000|This idiotic smile he could not forgive himself.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000020_000001|Catching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though at physical pain, broke out with her characteristic heat into a flood of cruel words, and rushed out of the room.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000020_000002|Since then she had refused to see her husband.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000021_000000|"It's that idiotic smile that's to blame for it all," thought Stepan Arkadyevitch.
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000022_000000|"But what's to be done?
train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000022_000001|What's to be done?" he said to himself in despair, and found no answer.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000001|He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000002|He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000005|Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000006|He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000008|It had turned out quite the other way.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000004_000001|awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000004_000004|That's bad!
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000004_000006|Roland and her smile.) "But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000005_000000|There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000006_000001|He pulled up the blind and rang the bell loudly.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000006_000003|Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000007_000000|"Are there any papers from the office?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, taking the telegram and seating himself at the looking glass.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000008_000000|"On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly smile, "They've sent from the carriage jobbers."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000009_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch made no reply, he merely glanced at Matvey in the looking glass.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000009_000001|In the glance, in which their eyes met in the looking glass, it was clear that they understood one another.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000009_000002|Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes asked: "Why do you tell me that?
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000010_000000|Matvey put his hands in his jacket pockets, thrust out one leg, and gazed silently, good humoredly, with a faint smile, at his master.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000011_000001|He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000012_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted to make a joke and attract attention to himself.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000012_000001|Tearing open the telegram, he read it through, guessing at the words, misspelt as they always are in telegrams, and his face brightened.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000015_000000|"Alone, or with her husband?" inquired Matvey.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000016_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000016_000001|Matvey nodded at the looking glass.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000017_000000|"Alone.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000017_000001|Is the room to be got ready upstairs?"
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000018_000000|"Inform Darya Alexandrovna: where she orders."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000019_000000|"Darya Alexandrovna?" Matvey repeated, as though in doubt.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000020_000000|"Yes, inform her.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000020_000001|Here, take the telegram; give it to her, and then do what she tells you."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000021_000000|"You want to try it on," Matvey understood, but he only said, "Yes sir."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000022_000001|The barber had gone.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000025_000000|"It's all right, sir; she will come round," said Matvey.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000026_000000|"Come round?"
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000027_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000028_000000|"Do you think so?
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000031_000000|Although Stepan Arkadyevitch was completely in the wrong as regards his wife, and was conscious of this himself, almost every one in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna's chief ally) was on his side.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000032_000000|"Well, what now?" he asked disconsolately.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000001|Maybe God will aid you.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000003|You must have pity, sir, on the children.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000004|Beg her forgiveness, sir.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000006|One must take the consequences..."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000034_000000|"But she won't see me."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000035_000000|"You do your part.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000035_000001|God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God."
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000036_000000|"Come, that'll do, you can go," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, blushing suddenly.
train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000037_000000|Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse's collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well groomed body of his master.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000000|He read the letters.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000001|One was very unpleasant, from a merchant who was buying a forest on his wife's property.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000002|To sell this forest was absolutely essential; but at present, until he was reconciled with his wife, the subject could not be discussed.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000004|And the idea that he might be led on by his interests, that he might seek a reconciliation with his wife on account of the sale of the forest-that idea hurt him.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000004_000000|When he had finished his letters, Stepan Arkadyevitch moved the office papers close to him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, turned to his coffee.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000004_000001|As he sipped his coffee, he opened a still damp morning paper, and began reading it.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000005_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000005_000001|And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them-or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000003|The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000004|The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000006|And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family-the monkey.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000009|He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000010|With his characteristic quickwittedness he caught the drift of each innuendo, divined whence it came, at whom and on what ground it was aimed, and that afforded him, as it always did, a certain satisfaction.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000011|But today that satisfaction was embittered by Matrona Philimonovna's advice and the unsatisfactory state of the household.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000012|He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000013|Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs of the roll off his waistcoat; and, squaring his broad chest, he smiled joyously: not because there was anything particularly agreeable in his mind-the joyous smile was evoked by a good digestion.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000007_000000|But this joyous smile at once recalled everything to him, and he grew thoughtful.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000008_000000|Two childish voices (Stepan Arkadyevitch recognized the voices of Grisha, his youngest boy, and Tanya, his eldest girl) were heard outside the door.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000008_000001|They were carrying something, and dropped it.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000009_000000|"I told you not to sit passengers on the roof," said the little girl in English; "there, pick them up!"
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000010_000000|"Everything's in confusion," thought Stepan Arkadyevitch; "there are the children running about by themselves." And going to the door, he called them.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000010_000001|They threw down the box, that represented a train, and came in to their father.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000011_000000|The little girl, her father's favorite, ran up boldly, embraced him, and hung laughingly on his neck, enjoying as she always did the smell of scent that came from his whiskers.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000011_000001|At last the little girl kissed his face, which was flushed from his stooping posture and beaming with tenderness, loosed her hands, and was about to run away again; but her father held her back.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000012_000001|"Good morning," he said, smiling to the boy, who had come up to greet him.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000012_000002|He was conscious that he loved the boy less, and always tried to be fair; but the boy felt it, and did not respond with a smile to his father's chilly smile.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000013_000000|"Mamma?
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000014_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000015_000000|"Well, is she cheerful?"
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000016_000000|The little girl knew that there was a quarrel between her father and mother, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and that her father must be aware of this, and that he was pretending when he asked about it so lightly.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000016_000001|And she blushed for her father.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000017_000000|"I don't know," she said.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000017_000001|"She did not say we must do our lessons, but she said we were to go for a walk with Miss Hoole to grandmamma's."
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000018_000000|"Well, go, Tanya, my darling.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000019_000000|He took off the mantelpiece, where he had put it yesterday, a little box of sweets, and gave her two, picking out her favorites, a chocolate and a fondant.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000020_000000|"For Grisha?" said the little girl, pointing to the chocolate.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000021_000000|"Yes, yes." And still stroking her little shoulder, he kissed her on the roots of her hair and neck, and let her go.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000023_000000|"Been here long?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000024_000000|"Half an hour."
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000025_000000|"How many times have I told you to tell me at once?"
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000026_000000|"One must let you drink your coffee in peace, at least," said Matvey, in the affectionately gruff tone with which it was impossible to be angry.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000027_000000|"Well, show the person up at once," said Oblonsky, frowning with vexation.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000028_000001|Having got rid of the staff captain's widow, Stepan Arkadyevitch took his hat and stopped to recollect whether he had forgotten anything.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000028_000002|It appeared that he had forgotten nothing except what he wanted to forget-his wife.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000029_000002|Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000030_000000|"It must be some time, though: it can't go on like this," he said, trying to give himself courage.
train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000030_000001|He squared his chest, took out a cigarette, took two whiffs at it, flung it into a mother of pearl ashtray, and with rapid steps walked through the drawing room, and opened the other door into his wife's bedroom.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000000|Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000001|Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000004|She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000005|Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000002_000000|Seeing her husband, she dropped her hands into the drawer of the bureau as though looking for something, and only looked round at him when he had come quite up to her.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000001|He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and health.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000002|In a rapid glance she scanned his figure that beamed with health and freshness.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000003|"Yes, he is happy and content!" she thought; "while i...
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000004|And that disgusting good nature, which every one likes him for and praises-I hate that good nature of his," she thought.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000005|Her mouth stiffened, the muscles of the cheek contracted on the right side of her pale, nervous face.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000004_000000|"What do you want?" she said in a rapid, deep, unnatural voice.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000005_000000|"Dolly!" he repeated, with a quiver in his voice.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000005_000001|"Anna is coming today."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000006_000000|"Well, what is that to me?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000006_000001|I can't see her!" she cried.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000007_000000|"But you must, really, Dolly..."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000010_000000|"My God! what have I done?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000010_000001|Dolly!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000010_000003|You know...." He could not go on; there was a sob in his throat.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000011_000000|She shut the bureau with a slam, and glanced at him.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000012_000000|"Dolly, what can I say?....
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000012_000001|One thing: forgive...
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000012_000002|Remember, cannot nine years of my life atone for an instant...."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000013_000000|She dropped her eyes and listened, expecting what he would say, as it were beseeching him in some way or other to make her believe differently.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000014_000000|"--instant of passion?" he said, and would have gone on, but at that word, as at a pang of physical pain, her lips stiffened again, and again the muscles of her right cheek worked.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000015_000000|"Go away, go out of the room!" she shrieked still more shrilly, "and don't talk to me of your passion and your loathsomeness."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000016_000000|She tried to go out, but tottered, and clung to the back of a chair to support herself.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000016_000001|His face relaxed, his lips swelled, his eyes were swimming with tears.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000000|"Dolly!" he said, sobbing now; "for mercy's sake, think of the children; they are not to blame!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000001|I am to blame, and punish me, make me expiate my fault.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000002|Anything I can do, I am ready to do anything!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000003|I am to blame, no words can express how much I am to blame!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000004|But, Dolly, forgive me!"
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000018_000000|She sat down.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000018_000001|He listened to her hard, heavy breathing, and he was unutterably sorry for her.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000018_000002|She tried several times to begin to speak, but could not.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000020_000000|She had called him "Stiva," and he glanced at her with gratitude, and moved to take her hand, but she drew back from him with aversion.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000000|"I think of the children, and for that reason I would do anything in the world to save them, but I don't myself know how to save them.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000001|By taking them away from their father, or by leaving them with a vicious father-yes, a vicious father....
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000002|Tell me, after what ... has happened, can we live together?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000003|Is that possible?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000022_000000|"But what could I do?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000023_000000|"You are loathsome to me, repulsive!" she shrieked, getting more and more heated.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000023_000001|"Your tears mean nothing!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000023_000002|You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000024_000000|He looked at her, and the fury expressed in her face alarmed and amazed him.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000024_000001|He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000024_000003|"No, she hates me.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000025_000000|"It is awful!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000025_000001|awful!" he said.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000026_000000|At that moment in the next room a child began to cry; probably it had fallen down.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000026_000001|Darya Alexandrovna listened, and her face suddenly softened.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000027_000000|She seemed to be pulling herself together for a few seconds, as though she did not know where she was, and what she was doing, and getting up rapidly, she moved towards the door.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000028_000000|"Well, she loves my child," he thought, noticing the change of her face at the child's cry, "my child: how can she hate me?"
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000029_000000|"Dolly, one word more," he said, following her.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000030_000000|"If you come near me, I will call in the servants, the children!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000030_000001|They may all know you are a scoundrel!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000030_000002|I am going away at once, and you may live here with your mistress!"
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed, wiped his face, and with a subdued tread walked out of the room.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000001|"Matvey says she will come round; but how?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000002|I don't see the least chance of it.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000004|And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to himself, remembering her shriek and the words-"scoundrel" and "mistress." "And very likely the maids were listening!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000005|Horribly vulgar!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000006|horrible!" Stepan Arkadyevitch stood a few seconds alone, wiped his face, squared his chest, and walked out of the room.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000000|It was Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000001|Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000002|Stepan Arkadyevitch was fond of a joke: "And maybe she will come round!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000004|"I must repeat that."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000034_000000|"Matvey!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000035_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000036_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch put on his fur coat and went out onto the steps.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000037_000000|"You won't dine at home?" said Matvey, seeing him off.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000038_000000|"That's as it happens.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000038_000001|But here's for the housekeeping," he said, taking ten roubles from his pocketbook.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000038_000002|"That'll be enough."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000039_000000|"Enough or not enough, we must make it do," said Matvey, slamming the carriage door and stepping back onto the steps.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000040_000000|Darya Alexandrovna meanwhile having pacified the child, and knowing from the sound of the carriage that he had gone off, went back again to her bedroom.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000040_000002|Even now, in the short time she had been in the nursery, the English governess and Matrona Philimonovna had succeeded in putting several questions to her, which did not admit of delay, and which only she could answer: "What were the children to put on for their walk?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000040_000003|Should they have any milk?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000001|"He has gone!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000002|But has he broken it off with her?" she thought.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000003|"Can it be he sees her?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000004|Why didn't I ask him!
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000006|Even if we remain in the same house, we are strangers-strangers forever!" She repeated again with special significance the word so dreadful to her.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000007|"And how I loved him! my God, how I loved him!....
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000009|And now don't I love him?
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000042_000000|"Let us send for my brother," she said; "he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday."
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000043_000000|"Very well, I will come directly and see about it.
train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000044_000000|And Darya Alexandrovna plunged into the duties of the day, and drowned her grief in them for a time.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000002_000000|FRUIT IS SEED.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000004_000001|Even you are getting tired, with all your patience, my Tito; confess it.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000005_000001|The attitude had been a frequent one, and Tito was accustomed, when he felt her hand there, to raise his head, throw himself a little backward, and look up at her. But he felt now as unable to raise his head as if her hand had been a leaden cowl.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000005_000002|He spoke instead, in a light tone, as his pen still ran along.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000006_000000|"The French are as ready to go from Florence as the wasps to leave a ripe pear when they have just fastened on it."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000007_000000|Romola, keenly sensitive to the absence of the usual response, took away her hand and said, "I am going, Tito."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000008_000000|"Farewell, my sweet one.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000008_000002|Take Maso with you."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000009_000000|Still Tito did not look up, and Romola went out without saying any more. Very slight things make Epochs in married life, and this morning for the first time she admitted to herself not only that Tito had changed, but that he had changed towards her.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000009_000001|Did the reason lie in herself? She might perhaps have thought so, if there had not been the facts of the armour and the picture to suggest some external event which was an entire mystery to her.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000003|He was about to take a step which he knew would arouse her deep indignation; he would have to encounter much that was unpleasant before he could win her forgiveness.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000004|And Tito could never find it easy to face displeasure and anger; his nature was one of those most remote from defiance or impudence, and all his inclinations leaned towards preserving Romola's tenderness.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000005|He was not tormented by sentimental scruples which, as he had demonstrated to himself by a very rapid course of argument, had no relation to solid utility; but his freedom from scruples did not release him from the dread of what was disagreeable.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000006|Unscrupulousness gets rid of much, but not of toothache, or wounded vanity, or the sense of loneliness, against which, as the world at present stands, there is no security but a thoroughly healthy jaw, and a just, loving soul.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000007|And Tito was feeling intensely at this moment that no devices could save him from pain in the impending collision with Romola; no persuasive blandness could cushion him against the shock towards which he was being driven like a timid animal urged to a desperate leap by the terror of the tooth and the claw that are close behind it.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000006|It was not possible for him to make himself independent even of those Florentines who only greeted him with regard; still less was it possible for him to make himself independent of Romola.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000008|This was the leaden weight which had been too strong for his will, and kept him from raising his head to meet her eyes.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000009|Their pure light brought too near him the prospect of a coming struggle.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000011|He would have been equal to any sacrifice that was not unpleasant.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000012_000000|The rustling magnates came and went, the bargains had been concluded, and Romola returned home; but nothing grave was said that night.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000012_000001|Tito was only gay and chatty, pouring forth to her, as he had not done before, stories and descriptions of what he had witnessed during the French visit.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000013_000000|The next day Tito remained away from home until late at night.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000013_000001|It was a marked day to Romola, for Piero di Cosimo, stimulated to greater industry on her behalf by the fear that he might have been the cause of pain to her in the past week, had sent home her father's portrait.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000013_000002|She had propped it against the back of his old chair, and had been looking at it for some time, when the door opened behind her, and Bernardo del Nero came in.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000014_000000|"It is you, godfather!
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000014_000001|How I wish you had come sooner! it is getting a little dusk," said Romola, going towards him.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000015_000001|"The French king moves off to morrow: not before it is high time.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000016_000002|Tito seemed to think yesterday that there was little prospect of the king's going soon."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000017_000001|The Cristianissimo was frightened at that thunder, and has given the order to move.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000019_000000|"Don't you want your spectacles, godfather?" said Romola, in anxiety that he should see just what she saw.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000020_000000|"No, child, no," said Bernardo, uncovering his grey head, as he seated himself with firm erectness.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000020_000002|Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000000|"I don't know," said Bernardo.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000001|"I almost think I see Bardo as he was when he was young, better than that picture shows him to me as he was when he was old.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000002|Your father had a great deal of fire in his eyes when he was young.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000003|It was what I could never understand, that he, with his fiery spirit, which seemed much more impatient than mine, could hang over the books and live with shadows all his life.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000004|However, he had put his heart into that."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000024_000000|"And he was disappointed to the last," she said, involuntarily.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000025_000002|Then, turning to her, and patting her cheek, said, "And you need not be afraid of my dying; my ghost will claim nothing.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000025_000003|I've taken care of that in my will."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000027_000001|I see him everywhere but here," said Bernardo, willing to change the subject.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000028_000000|She felt the flush spread over her neck and face as she said, "He has been very much wanted; you know he speaks so well.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000028_000001|I am glad to know that his value is understood."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000030_000000|"Assuredly."
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000031_000000|Poor Romola!
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000031_000001|There was one thing that would have made the pang of disappointment in her husband harder to bear; it was, that any one should know he gave her cause for disappointment.
train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000031_000002|This might be a woman's weakness, but it is closely allied to a woman's nobleness.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000005_000000|WHY TITO WAS SAFE.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000006_000006|On the other hand, the Piagnoni of the popular party, who had the directness that belongs to energetic conviction, were the more inclined to credit Tito with sincerity in his political adhesion to them, because he affected no religious sympathies.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000007_000000|By virtue of these conditions, the last three months had been a time of flattering success to Tito.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000007_000002|At present, the scale dipped in favour of Milan; and if within the year he could render certain services to Duke Ludovico Sforza, he had the prospect of a place at the Milanese court which outweighed the advantages of Rome.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000008_000003|But his quick mind had soon traced out the course that would secure his own safety with the fewest unpleasant concomitants.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000008_000004|It is agreeable to keep a whole skin; but the skin still remains an organ sensitive to the atmosphere.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000009_000000|His reckoning had not deceived him.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000010_000001|Francesco Valori, as we have seen, was the head of the Piagnoni, a man with certain fine qualities that were not incompatible with violent partisanship, with an arrogant temper that alienated his friends, nor with bitter personal animosities-one of the bitterest being directed against Bernardo del Nero.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000011_000000|These propositions did not sound in the ear of Francesco Valori precisely as they sound to us.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000011_000002|There were sure to be immense efforts to save them; and it was to be wished (on public grounds) that the evidence against them should be of the strongest, so as to alarm all well affected men at the dangers of clemency.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000011_000003|The character of legal proceedings at that time implied that evidence was one of those desirable things which could only be come at by foul means.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000011_000009|Documentary evidence on this subject would do more than anything else to make the right course clear.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000001|He had that degree of self contemplation which necessarily accompanies the habit of acting on well considered reasons, of whatever quality; and if he could have chosen, he would have declined to see himself disapproved by men of the world.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000002|He had never meant to be disapproved; he had meant always to conduct himself so ably that if he acted in opposition to the standard of other men they should not be aware of it; and the barrier between himself and Romola had been raised by the impossibility of such concealment with her.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000003|He shrank from condemnatory judgments as from a climate to which he could not adapt himself But things were not so plastic in the hands of cleverness as could be wished, and events had turned out inconveniently.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000006|His proffer of a little additional proof against them would probably have no influence on their fate; in fact, he felt convinced they would escape any extreme consequences; but if he had not given it, his own fortunes, which made a promising fabric, would have been utterly ruined.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000007|And what motive could any man really have, except his own interest?
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000009|Did not Pontanus, poet and philosopher of unrivalled Latinity, make the finest possible oration at Naples to welcome the French king, who had come to dethrone the learned orator's royal friend and patron? and still Pontanus held up his head and prospered.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000010|Men did not really care about these things, except when their personal spleen was touched.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000011|It was weakness only that was despised; power of any sort carried its immunity; and no man, unless by very rare good fortune, could mount high in the world without incurring a few unpleasant necessities which laid him open to enmity, and perhaps to a little hissing, when enmity wanted a pretext.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000016_000000|It was a faint prognostic of that hissing, gathered by Tito from certain indications when he was before the council, which gave his present conduct the character of an epoch to him, and made him dwell on it with argumentative vindication.
train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000017_000001|His brilliant success at Florence had had some ugly flaws in it: he had fallen in love with the wrong woman, and Baldassarre had come back under incalculable circumstances. But as Tito galloped with a loose rein towards Siena, he saw a future before him in which he would no longer be haunted by those mistakes.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000002_000000|THE BENEDICTION.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000003_000000|About ten o'clock on the morning of the twenty seventh of February the currents of passengers along the Florentine streets set decidedly towards San Marco.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000003_000001|It was the last morning of the Carnival, and every one knew there was a second Bonfire of Vanities being prepared in front of the Old Palace; but at this hour it was evident that the centre of popular interest lay elsewhere.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000004_000000|The Piazza di San Marco was filled by a multitude who showed no other movement than that which proceeded from the pressure of new comers trying to force their way forward from all the openings: but the front ranks were already close serried and resisted the pressure.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000005_000000|But the temporary wooden pulpit erected over the church door was still empty.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000005_000002|This man had said, "A wicked, unbelieving Pope who has gained the pontifical chair by bribery is not Christ's Vicar.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000005_000003|His curses are broken swords: he grasps a hilt without a blade.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000007_000000|That expectation rather than any spell from the accustomed wail of psalmody was what made silence and expectation seem to spread like a paling solemn light over the multitude of upturned faces, all now directed towards the empty pulpit.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000008_000000|The next instant the pulpit was no longer empty.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000008_000001|A figure covered from head to foot in black cowl and mantle had entered it, and was kneeling with bent head and with face turned away.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000008_000002|It seemed a weary time to the eager people while the black figure knelt and the monks chanted.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000009_000000|At last there was a vibration among the multitude, each seeming to give his neighbour a momentary aspen like touch, as when men who have been watching for something in the heavens see the expected presence silently disclosing itself.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000012_000001|Those great jets of emotion were a necessary part of his life; he himself had said to the people long ago, "Without preaching I cannot live." But it was a life that shattered him.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000013_000001|He had taken into his hands a crystal vessel, containing the consecrated Host, and was about to address the people.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000014_000000|"You remember, my children, three days ago I besought you, when I should hold this Sacrament in my hand in the face of you all, to pray fervently to the Most High that if this work of mine does not come from Him, He will send a fire and consume me, that I may vanish into the eternal darkness away from His light which I have hidden with my falsity.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000015_000000|It was a breathless moment: perhaps no man really prayed, if some in a spirit of devout obedience made the effort to pray.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000015_000001|Every consciousness was chiefly possessed by the sense that Savonarola was praying, in a voice not loud, but distinctly audible in the wide stillness.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000017_000001|Every one else was motionless and silent too, while the sunlight, which for the last quarter of an hour had here and there been piercing the greyness, made fitful streaks across the convent wall, causing some awe stricken spectators to start timidly.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000018_000000|An instantaneous shout rang through the Piazza, "Behold the answer!"
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000019_000000|The warm radiance thrilled through Savonarola's frame, and so did the shout.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000019_000002|It was but a moment that expanded itself in that prevision.
train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000021_000001|"Nevertheless it was a striking moment, eh, Messer Pietro?
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000000_000002|Never was a richly furnished room more thoroughly comfortless than this-the eye ached at looking round it.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000000_000003|There was no repose anywhere.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000000_000006|All surrounding objects seemed startlingly near to the eye; much nearer than they really were.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000002_000001|He wore a white cravat, and an absurdly high shirt collar.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000002_000005|His lips were thin and colourless, the lines about them being numerous and strongly marked.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000002_000007|But he was Margaret's father; and I was determined to be pleased with him.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000003_000001|This done, he coughed, and begged to know what he could do for me.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000007_000000|"Indeed!"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000016_000000|"My daughter!
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000024_000000|"Pray hear me out, mr Sherwin: you will not condemn my conduct, I think, if you hear all I have to say."
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000036_000002|She would do nothing without my authority, of course?"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000037_000000|"No doubt that was one reason why she received me as she did; but she had another, which she communicated to me in the plainest terms-the difference in our rank of life."
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000038_000000|"Ah! she said that, did she?
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000040_000000|"Very proper-a very proper way of putting it.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000042_000000|"Quite so-most natural; most becoming, indeed, on the part of your respected father.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000042_000003|My dear Sir, I emphatically repeat it, your father's convictions do him honour; I respect them as much as I respect him; I do, indeed."
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000044_000000|"He disapproves of it, of course-strongly, perhaps.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000045_000000|"He has expressed no disapproval, mr Sherwin."
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000047_000000|"I have not given him an opportunity.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000050_000001|Good gracious, I don't at all see my way-"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000051_000000|"Yes, secret-a profound secret among ourselves, until I can divulge my marriage to my father, with the best chance of-"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000052_000000|"But I tell you, Sir, I can't see my way through it at all.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000052_000001|Chance! what chance would there be, after what you have told me?"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000053_000000|"There might be many chances.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000057_000001|There's something in that, certainly."
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000058_000001|I speak in all our interests, when I say that a private marriage gives us a chance for the future, as opportunities arise of gradually disclosing it.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000059_000000|"Certainly! most decidedly so!
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000060_000000|"I am sure, mr Sherwin-"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000061_000002|No duchess has had a better education than my Margaret!--"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000062_000000|"Permit me to assure you, mr Sherwin-"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000064_000000|"May I ask who mr Mannion is?"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000071_000000|"Without fail, depend upon it.
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000072_000000|"Certainly."
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000073_000000|"And between that time and this, you will engage not to hold any communication with my daughter?"
train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000074_000000|"I promise not, mr Sherwin-because I believe that your answer will be favourable."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000001_000001|When I entered the house, this reluctance increased to something almost like dread.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000001_000003|It was a relief to me to hear that my father was not at home.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000002_000002|I instantly drew back, and half closed my own door again.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000002_000003|Clara had got the book she wanted, and was taking it up to her own sitting room.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000002_000006|As I thought on what I had done, I felt a sense of humiliation which was almost punishment enough for the meanness of which I had been guilty.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000003_000002|I simply felt resolved to pass my two days' ordeal of suspense away from home-far enough away to keep me faithful to my promise not to see Margaret.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000003_000004|The animal took the direction which he had been oftenest used to take during my residence in London-the northern road.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000004_000002|To follow the favourite road which I had so often followed with Clara; to stop perhaps at some place where I had often stopped with her, was more than I had the courage or the insensibility to do at that moment.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000005_000002|During the night, many thoughts that I had banished for the last week had returned-those thoughts of evil omen under which the mind seems to ache, just as the body aches under a dull, heavy pain, to which we can assign no particular place or cause. Absent from Margaret, I had no resource against the oppression that now overcame me.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000005_000003|I could only endeavour to alleviate it by keeping incessantly in action; by walking or riding, hour after hour, in the vain attempt to quiet the mind by wearying out the body.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000005_000005|Besides, what I had observed of Margaret's father, especially during the latter part of my interview with him, showed me plainly enough that he was trying to conceal, under exaggerated surprise and assumed hesitation, his secret desire to profit at once by my offer; which, whatever conditions might clog it, was infinitely more advantageous in a social point of view, than any he could have hoped for.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000005_000006|It was not his delay in accepting my proposals, but the burden of deceit, the fetters of concealment forced on me by the proposals themselves, which now hung heavy on my heart.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000006_000000|That evening I left Ewell, and rode towards home again, as far as Richmond, where I remained for the night and the forepart of the next day.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000006_000001|I reached London in the afternoon; and got to North Villa-without going home first-about five o'clock.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000007_000000|The oppression was still on my spirits.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000008_000001|On the table was the sherry which had been so perseveringly pressed on me at the last interview, and by it a new pound cake.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000008_000002|mrs Sherwin was cutting the cake as I came in, while her husband watched the process with critical eyes.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000008_000003|The poor woman's weak white fingers trembled as they moved the knife under conjugal inspection.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000010_000000|His wife rose in a hurry, and curtseyed, leaving the knife sticking in the cake; upon which mr Sherwin, with a stern look at her, ostentatiously pulled it out, and set it down rather violently on the dish.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000011_000003|A happy woman imperceptibly diffuses her happiness around her; she has an influence that is something akin to the influence of a sunshiny day. So, again, the melancholy of a melancholy woman is invariably, though silently, infectious; and mrs Sherwin was one of this latter order.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000012_000001|"Very beautiful weather to be sure," continued the poor woman, as timidly as if she had become a little child again, and had been ordered to say her first lesson in a stranger's presence.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000013_000000|"Delightful weather, mrs Sherwin.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000014_000000|There was a pause.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000016_000000|"Oh dear me!
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000017_000001|His wife (to whom he offered nothing) looked at him all the time with the most reverential attention.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000020_000000|mrs Sherwin coughed-a very weak, small cough, half stifled in its birth.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000023_000000|"Well, Sir, the evening after you left me, I had what you may call an explanation with my dear girl.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000024_000001|Her husband's quick glance turned on her, however, immediately, with anything but an expression of sympathy.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000025_000000|"Good God, mrs s! what's the use of going on in that way?" he said, indignantly.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000025_000001|"What is there to cry about?
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000026_000001|I sincerely felt for her; but could say nothing.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000026_000002|In the impulse of the moment, I rose to open the door for her; and immediately repented having done so.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000026_000003|The action added so much to her embarrassment that she kicked her foot against a chair, and uttered a suppressed exclamation of pain as she went out.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000029_000000|By this time (in spite of all my efforts to preserve some respect for him, as Margaret's father) he had sunk to his proper place in my estimation.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000030_000005|I think that's fair enough-Eh?"
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000031_000000|"Quite fair, mr Sherwin."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000032_000000|"Just so.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000032_000001|Now, in the first place, my daughter is too young to be married yet.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000034_000002|However, that's not the point.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000034_000004|Well: the upshot of this is, that I could not give my consent to Margaret's marrying, until another year is out-say a year from this time.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000000|A year to wait!
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000001|At first, this seemed a long trial to endure, a trial that ought not to be imposed on me.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000002|But the next moment, the delay appeared in a different light.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000003|Would it not be the dearest of privileges to be able to see Margaret, perhaps every day, perhaps for hours at a time?
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000036_000000|"It will be some trial," I said, "to my patience, though none to my constancy, none to the strength of my affection-I will wait the year."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000039_000000|"Pray explain yourself, mr Sherwin.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000040_000001|Now, you must promise me not to be huffed-offended, I should say-at what I am going to propose."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000041_000000|"Certainly not."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000043_000000|"I must confess I do not."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000044_000000|He coughed rather uneasily; turned to the table, and poured out another glass of sherry-his hand trembling a little as he did so.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000047_000005|That's the point-that's the point precisely."
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000048_000000|"But the case could not happen-I am astonished you can imagine it possible.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000051_000002|Now, pray compose yourself!" (I was looking at him in speechless astonishment.) "Take it easy; pray take it easy!
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000051_000006|There! what do you say to that-eh?"
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000053_000006|Well, what do you say?
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000053_000008|He stopped, out of breath from the extraordinary volubility of his long harangue.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000054_000004|When mr Sherwin had ceased speaking, I replied at once:
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000056_000000|He was hardly prepared for so complete and so sudden an acquiescence in his proposal, and looked absolutely startled by it, at first.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000056_000001|But soon resuming his self possession-his wily, "business like" self possession-he started up, and shook me vehemently by the hand.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000057_000000|"Delighted-most delighted, my dear Sir, to find how soon we understand each other, and that we pull together so well.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000062_000000|This apartment was furnished with less luxury, but with more bad taste (if possible) than the room we had just left.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000062_000005|Once more, all my doubts, all my self upbraidings vanished, and gave place to the exquisite sense of happiness, the glow of joy and hope and love which seemed to rush over my heart, the moment I looked at her.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000063_000000|After staying in the room about five minutes, mr Sherwin whispered to his wife, and left us.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000063_000001|mrs Sherwin still kept her place; but she said nothing, and hardly turned to look round at us more than once or twice. Perhaps she was occupied by her own thoughts; perhaps, from a motive of delicacy, she abstained even from an appearance of watching her daughter or watching me.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000063_000002|Whatever feelings influenced her, I cared not to speculate on them.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000064_000002|She spoke but little; yet even that little it was a new delight to hear.
train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000065_000001|I saw that I had stayed long enough, and that we were not to be left together again, that night.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000001_000001|And the snow fell and spread a beautiful white covering over the grave; but by the time the spring came, and the sun had melted it away again, her father had married another wife.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000001_000002|This new wife had two daughters of her own, that she brought home with her; they were fair in face but foul at heart, and it was now a sorry time for the poor little girl.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000001_000003|'What does the good for nothing want in the parlour?' said they; 'they who would eat bread should first earn it; away with the kitchen maid!' Then they took away her fine clothes, and gave her an old grey frock to put on, and laughed at her, and turned her into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000002_000000|There she was forced to do hard work; to rise early before daylight, to bring the water, to make the fire, to cook and to wash.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000002_000001|Besides that, the sisters plagued her in all sorts of ways, and laughed at her.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000000|It happened once that the father was going to the fair, and asked his wife's daughters what he should bring them.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000001|'Fine clothes,' said the first; 'Pearls and diamonds,' cried the second.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000002|'Now, child,' said he to his own daughter, 'what will you have?' 'The first twig, dear father, that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards,' said she.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000004|Then she took it, and went to her mother's grave and planted it there; and cried so much that it was watered with her tears; and there it grew and became a fine tree.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000005|Three times every day she went to it and cried; and soon a little bird came and built its nest upon the tree, and talked with her, and watched over her, and brought her whatever she wished for.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000004_000002|'You, Ashputtel!' said she; 'you who have nothing to wear, no clothes at all, and who cannot even dance-you want to go to the ball?
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000005_000000|Then she threw the peas down among the ashes, but the little maiden ran out at the back door into the garden, and cried out:
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000006_000000|'Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, Hither, hither, haste away! One and all come help me, quick! Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000007_000001|Long before the end of the hour the work was quite done, and all flew out again at the windows.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000008_000000|Then Ashputtel brought the dish to her mother, overjoyed at the thought that now she should go to the ball.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000008_000002|So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000010_000000|'Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, Hither, hither, haste away! One and all come help me, quick! Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000000|Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000001|And they flew down into the ashes; and the little doves put their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began pick, pick, pick; and they put all the good grain into the dishes, and left all the ashes.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000002|Before half an hour's time all was done, and out they flew again.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000003|And then Ashputtel took the dishes to her mother, rejoicing to think that she should now go to the ball. But her mother said, 'It is all of no use, you cannot go; you have no clothes, and cannot dance, and you would only put us to shame': and off she went with her two daughters to the ball.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000012_000000|Now when all were gone, and nobody left at home, Ashputtel went sorrowfully and sat down under the hazel tree, and cried out:
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000013_000000|'Shake, shake, hazel tree, Gold and silver over me!'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000014_000000|Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000015_000000|The king's son soon came up to her, and took her by the hand and danced with her, and no one else: and he never left her hand; but when anyone else came to ask her to dance, he said, 'This lady is dancing with me.'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000016_000000|Thus they danced till a late hour of the night; and then she wanted to go home: and the king's son said, 'I shall go and take care of you to your home'; for he wanted to see where the beautiful maiden lived.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000016_000001|But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon house and shut the door.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000016_000003|But when they had broken open the door they found no one within; and as they came back into the house, Ashputtel was lying, as she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes, and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000017_000000|The next day when the feast was again held, and her father, mother, and sisters were gone, Ashputtel went to the hazel tree, and said:
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000019_000001|And when she came in it to the ball, everyone wondered at her beauty: but the king's son, who was waiting for her, took her by the hand, and danced with her; and when anyone asked her to dance, he said as before, 'This lady is dancing with me.'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000022_000000|'Shake, shake, hazel tree, Gold and silver over me!'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000024_000000|When night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would go with her, and said to himself, 'I will not lose her this time'; but, however, she again slipped away from him, though in such a hurry that she dropped her left golden slipper upon the stairs.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000025_000000|The prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king his father, and said, 'I will take for my wife the lady that this golden slipper fits.' Then both the sisters were overjoyed to hear it; for they had beautiful feet, and had no doubt that they could wear the golden slipper.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000025_000003|Then the mother gave her a knife, and said, 'Never mind, cut it off; when you are queen you will not care about toes; you will not want to walk.' So the silly girl cut off her great toe, and thus squeezed on the shoe, and went to the king's son.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000025_000004|Then he took her for his bride, and set her beside him on his horse, and rode away with her homewards.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000026_000000|But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing:
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000027_000000|'Back again! back again!
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000028_000000|Then the prince got down and looked at her foot; and he saw, by the blood that streamed from it, what a trick she had played him.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000028_000001|So he turned his horse round, and brought the false bride back to her home, and said, 'This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper.' Then she went into the room and got her foot into the shoe, all but the heel, which was too large.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000030_000000|'Back again! back again!
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000030_000001|look to the shoe! The shoe is too small, and not made for you! Prince! prince! look again for thy bride, For she's not the true one that sits by thy side.'
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000002|'This is not the true bride,' said he to the father; 'have you no other daughters?' 'No,' said he; 'there is only a little dirty Ashputtel here, the child of my first wife; I am sure she cannot be the bride.' The prince told him to send her.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000003|But the mother said, 'No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.' However, the prince would have her come; and she first washed her face and hands, and then went in and curtsied to him, and he reached her the golden slipper.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000004|Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000005|And when he drew near and looked at her face he knew her, and said, 'This is the right bride.' But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her.
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000006|And when they came to the hazel tree, the white dove sang:
train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000032_000001|look at the shoe! Princess! the shoe was made for you! Prince! prince! take home thy bride, For she is the true one that sits by thy side!'
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000003_000000|THE WHITE SNAKE
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000000|A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000001|Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him through the air.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000002|But he had a strange custom; every day after dinner, when the table was cleared, and no one else was present, a trusty servant had to bring him one more dish.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000003|It was covered, however, and even the servant did not know what was in it, neither did anyone know, for the king never took off the cover to eat of it until he was quite alone.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000005_000000|This had gone on for a long time, when one day the servant, who took away the dish, was overcome with such curiosity that he could not help carrying the dish into his room.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000005_000001|When he had carefully locked the door, he lifted up the cover, and saw a white snake lying on the dish.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000006_000000|Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000006_000001|The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could before the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000006_000002|In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000007_000000|In his trouble and fear he went down into the courtyard and took thought how to help himself out of his trouble.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000008_000000|The servant could now easily prove his innocence; and the king, to make amends for the wrong, allowed him to ask a favour, and promised him the best place in the court that he could wish for.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000008_000002|When his request was granted he set out on his way, and one day came to a pond, where he saw three fishes caught in the reeds and gasping for water.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000008_000003|Now, though it is said that fishes are dumb, he heard them lamenting that they must perish so miserably, and, as he had a kind heart, he got off his horse and put the three prisoners back into the water.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000009_000000|He rode on, and after a while it seemed to him that he heard a voice in the sand at his feet.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000009_000001|He listened, and heard an ant king complain: 'Why cannot folks, with their clumsy beasts, keep off our bodies?
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000009_000002|That stupid horse, with his heavy hoofs, has been treading down my people without mercy!' So he turned on to a side path and the ant king cried out to him: 'We will remember you-one good turn deserves another!'
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000010_000001|'Out with you, you idle, good for nothing creatures!' cried they; 'we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.' But the poor young ravens lay upon the ground, flapping their wings, and crying: 'Oh, what helpless chicks we are!
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000010_000002|We must shift for ourselves, and yet we cannot fly!
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000010_000003|What can we do, but lie here and starve?' So the good young fellow alighted and killed his horse with his sword, and gave it to them for food.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000010_000004|Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried: 'We will remember you-one good turn deserves another!'
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000011_000000|And now he had to use his own legs, and when he had walked a long way, he came to a large city.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000014_000000|But when the proud princess perceived that he was not her equal in birth, she scorned him, and required him first to perform another task.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000015_000001|The ant king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet seed and gathered them into the sacks.
train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000016_000002|But he heard a rustling in the branches, and a golden apple fell into his hand.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000002_000000|The mother of Hans said: 'Whither away, Hans?' Hans answered: 'To Gretel.' 'Behave well, Hans.' 'Oh, I'll behave well.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000002_000001|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000002_000002|What do you bring that is good?' 'I bring nothing, I want to have something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a needle, Hans says: 'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000003_000000|Hans takes the needle, sticks it into a hay cart, and follows the cart home.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000003_000002|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'Took nothing; had something given me.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a needle.' 'Where is the needle, Hans?' 'Stuck in the hay cart.' 'That was ill done, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000003_000003|You should have stuck the needle in your sleeve.' 'Never mind, I'll do better next time.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000000|'Whither away, Hans?' 'To Gretel, mother.' 'Behave well, Hans.' 'Oh, I'll behave well.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000001|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000002|What do you bring that is good?' 'I bring nothing.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000003|I want to have something given to me.' Gretel presents Hans with a knife.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000004|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans takes the knife, sticks it in his sleeve, and goes home.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000005|'Good evening, mother.' 'Good evening, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000006|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' What did you take her?' 'Took her nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a knife.' 'Where is the knife, Hans?' 'Stuck in my sleeve.' 'That's ill done, Hans, you should have put the knife in your pocket.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000001|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000002|What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, I want something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a young goat.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000003|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans takes the goat, ties its legs, and puts it in his pocket.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000004|When he gets home it is suffocated.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000006|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'Took nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'She gave me a goat.' 'Where is the goat, Hans?' 'Put it in my pocket.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have put a rope round the goat's neck.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000006_000001|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000006_000002|What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, I want something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a piece of bacon.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000006_000003|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000007_000000|Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him. The dogs come and devour the bacon.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000007_000001|When he gets home, he has the rope in his hand, and there is no longer anything hanging on to it.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000007_000003|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took her nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a bit of bacon.' 'Where is the bacon, Hans?' 'I tied it to a rope, brought it home, dogs took it.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have carried the bacon on your head.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000008_000001|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans, What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, but would have something given.' Gretel presents Hans with a calf.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000008_000002|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000009_000000|Hans takes the calf, puts it on his head, and the calf kicks his face. 'Good evening, mother.' 'Good evening, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000009_000001|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took nothing, but had something given me.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'A calf.' 'Where have you the calf, Hans?' 'I set it on my head and it kicked my face.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have led the calf, and put it in the stall.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000010_000000|'Whither away, Hans?' 'To Gretel, mother.' 'Behave well, Hans.' 'I'll behave well.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000011_000000|Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000011_000001|What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, but would have something given.' Gretel says to Hans: 'I will go with you.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000012_000001|Then Hans goes to his mother.
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000012_000003|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took her nothing.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'She gave me nothing, she came with me.' 'Where have you left Gretel?' 'I led her by the rope, tied her to the rack, and scattered some grass for her.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have cast friendly eyes on her.' 'Never mind, will do better.'
train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000013_000000|Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves' and sheep's eyes, and threw them in Gretel's face.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000001|No doubt the butchers of the next half century will have learned much better, and the Guestwick beast, could it be embalmed and then produced, would excite only ridicule at the agricultural ignorance of the present age; but Lord De Guest took the praise that was offered to him, and found himself in a seventh heaven of delight.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000002|He was never so happy as when surrounded by butchers, graziers, and salesmen who were able to appreciate the work of his life, and who regarded him as a model nobleman.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000003|"Look at that fellow," he said to Eames, pointing to the prize bullock.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000004|Eames had joined his patron at the show after his office hours, looking on upon the living beef by gaslight.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000006|He was got by Lambkin, you know."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000003_000000|"Lambkin," said Johnny, who had not as yet been able to learn much about the Guestwick stock.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000004_000000|"Yes, Lambkin.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000004_000001|The bull that we had the trouble with.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000004_000003|Don't you see?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000005_000000|"I daresay," said Johnny, who looked very hard, but could not see.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000006_000000|"It's very odd," exclaimed the earl, "but do you know, that bull has been as quiet since that day,--as quiet as-as anything.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000006_000001|I think it must have been my pocket handkerchief."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000007_000000|"I daresay it was," said Johnny;--"or perhaps the flies."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000008_000000|"Flies!" said the earl, angrily.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000008_000002|Come away.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000009_000002|At home, in his own life, his daily companions were Cradell and Amelia Roper, mrs Lupex and mrs Roper.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000009_000003|The difference was very great, and yet he found it quite as easy to talk to the earl as to mrs Lupex.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000011_000000|"Oh, yes, I know them."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000012_000000|"But, perhaps, you never met the colonel."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000013_000000|"I don't think I ever did."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000014_000000|"He's a queer sort of fellow;--very well in his way, but he never does anything.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000014_000002|As for me, I'm a year older than he is, but I wouldn't mind going up and down from Guestwick every day."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000015_000000|"It's looking after the bull that does it," said Eames.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000016_000000|"By George! you're right, Master Johnny.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000016_000001|My sister and Crofts may tell me what they like, but when a man's out in the open air for eight or nine hours every day, it doesn't much matter where he goes to sleep after that.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000000|Colonel Dale was much like his brother in face, but was taller, even thinner, and apparently older.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000001|When Eames went into the sitting room, the colonel was there alone, and had to take upon himself the trouble of introducing himself.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000003|"mr Eames, I believe?
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000004|I knew your father at Guestwick, a great many years ago;" then he turned his face back towards the fire and sighed.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000018_000000|"It's got very cold this afternoon," said Johnny, trying to make conversation.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000019_000000|"It's always cold in London," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000021_000002|After that nothing more was said till the earl came down.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000022_000002|Pawkins then took his lordship's orders about the wine and retired.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000023_000001|"It isn't like what it was thirty years ago, but then everything of that sort has got worse and worse."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000025_000000|"I remember when old Pawkins had as good a glass of port as I've got at home,--or nearly.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000025_000001|They can't get it now, you know."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000026_000000|"I never drink port," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000026_000001|"I seldom take anything after dinner, except a little negus."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000000|His brother in law said nothing, but made a most eloquent grimace as he turned his face towards his soup plate.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000001|Eames saw it, and could hardly refrain from laughing.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000002|When, at half past nine o'clock, the colonel retired from the room, the earl, as the door was closed, threw up his hands, and uttered the one word "negus!"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000003|Then Eames took heart of grace and had his laughter out.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000028_000003|Once or twice he tried a word with the colonel, for the colonel sat with his eyes open looking at the fire.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000028_000004|But he was answered with monosyllables, and it was evident to him that the colonel did not wish to talk.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000028_000005|To sit still, with his hands closed over each other on his lap, was work enough for Colonel Dale during his after dinner hours.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000000|But the earl knew what was going on.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000001|During that terrible conflict between him and his slumber, in which the drowsy god fairly vanquished him for some twenty minutes, his conscience was always accusing him of treating his guests badly.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000003|But his brother in law would not help him in his efforts; and even Eames was not bright in rendering him assistance.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000004|Then for twenty minutes he slept soundly, and at the end of that he woke himself with one of his own snorts. "By George!" he said, jumping up and standing on the rug, "we'll have some coffee;" and after that he did not sleep any more.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000033_000000|"Come, Johnny, fill your glass." He had already got into the way of calling his young friend Johnny, having found that mrs Eames generally spoke of her son by that name.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000034_000000|"I have been filling my glass all the time," said Eames, taking the decanter again in his hand as he spoke.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000035_000000|"I'm glad you've found something to amuse you, for it has seemed to me that you and Dale haven't had much to say to each other.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000035_000001|I've been listening all the time."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000036_000000|"You've been asleep," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000037_000000|"Then there's been some excuse for my holding my tongue," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000037_000001|"By the by, Dale, what do you think of that fellow Crosbie?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000039_000000|"Think of him?" said the colonel.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000040_000000|"He ought to have every bone in his skin broken," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000000|"So he ought," said Eames, getting up from his chair in his eagerness, and speaking in a tone somewhat louder than was perhaps becoming in the presence of his seniors.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000001|"So he ought, my lord.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000002|He is the most abominable rascal that ever I met in my life.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000003|I wish I was Lily Dale's brother." Then he sat down again, remembering that he was speaking in the presence of Lily's uncle, and of the father of Bernard Dale, who might be supposed to occupy the place of Lily's brother.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000042_000000|The colonel turned his head round, and looked at the young man with surprise.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000043_000001|"Nevertheless it is, perhaps, as well not to make too free with a young lady's name.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000044_000000|"I should think not," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000044_000002|And then the earl winked back at Eames.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000045_000000|"De Guest," said the colonel, "I think I'll go upstairs; I always have a little arrowroot in my own room."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000046_000000|"I'll ring the bell for a candle," said the host.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000048_000000|"I don't suppose there's any harm in it."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000049_000000|"Oh dear, no; I wonder what Pawkins says about him.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000050_000000|"The waiter didn't seem to think much of it when he brought it."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000051_000002|By the by, you touched him up about that poor girl."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000052_000001|I didn't mean it."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000053_000000|"You see he's Bernard Dale's father, and the question is, whether Bernard shouldn't punish the fellow for what he has done.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000053_000001|Somebody ought to do it.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000056_000000|"No, I suppose not," said Eames, sadly.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000057_000002|And if we are to be Christians, I suppose we ought to be Christians."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000058_000000|"What sort of a Christian has he been?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000059_000000|"That's true enough; and if I was Bernard, I should be very apt to forget my Bible lessons about meekness."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000060_000000|"Do you know, my lord, I should think it the most Christian thing in the world to pitch into him; I should, indeed.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000060_000001|There are some things for which a man ought to be beaten black and blue."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000061_000000|"So that he shouldn't do them again?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000062_000000|"Exactly.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000062_000001|You might say it isn't Christian to hang a man."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000063_000001|It wasn't right to hang men for stealing sheep."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000065_000000|"Well, I believe so.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000065_000001|If any fellow wanted now to curry favour with the young lady, what an opportunity he'd have."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000066_000000|Johnny remained silent for a moment or two before he answered.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000066_000001|"I'm not so sure of that," he said, mournfully, as though grieving at the thought that there was no chance of currying favour with Lily by thrashing her late lover.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000067_000000|"I don't pretend to know much about girls," said Lord De Guest; "but I should think it would be so.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000068_000000|"If I thought so," said Eames, "I'd find him out to morrow."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000069_000001|what difference does it make to you?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000069_000002|Then there was another pause, during which Johnny looked very sheepish.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000069_000003|"You don't mean to say that you're in love with Miss Lily Dale?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000000|"I don't know much about being in love with her," said Johnny, turning very red as he spoke.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000001|And then he made up his mind, in a wild sort of way, to tell all the truth to his friend.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000002|Pawkins's port wine may, perhaps, have had something to do with the resolution.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000003|"But I'd go through fire and water for her, my lord.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000004|I knew her years before he had ever seen her, and have loved her a great deal better than he will ever love any one.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000005|When I heard that she had accepted him, I had half a mind to cut my own throat,--or else his."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000071_000000|"Highty tighty," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000072_000000|"It's very ridiculous, I know," said Johnny, "and of course she would never have accepted me."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000075_000000|"Girls don't care much for that."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000076_000000|"And then a clerk in the Income tax Office!
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000076_000001|It's such a poor thing."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000077_000000|"The other fellow was only a clerk in another office."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000080_000000|"By George, I don't see it," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000000|"I don't wonder a bit at her accepting a fellow like that.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000001|I hated him the first moment I saw him; but that's no reason she should hate him.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000003|He was a swell, and girls like that kind of thing.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000004|I never felt angry with her, but I could have eaten him." As he spoke he looked as though he would have made some such attempt had Crosbie been present.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000082_000000|"Did you ever ask her to have you?" said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000084_000000|"And you never told her-that you were in love with her, I mean, and all that kind of thing."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000085_000000|"She knows it now," said Johnny; "I went to say good by to her the other day,--when I thought she was going to be married.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000085_000001|I could not help telling her then."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000086_000000|"But it seems to me, my dear fellow, that you ought to be very much obliged to Crosbie;--that is to say, if you've a mind to-"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000000|"I know what you mean, my lord.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000001|I am not a bit obliged to him.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000002|It's my belief that all this will about kill her.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000003|As to myself, if I thought she'd ever have me-"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000089_000001|You come down and spend your Christmas with me at Guestwick."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000091_000000|"Never mind my lording me, but do as I tell you.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000091_000001|Lady Julia sent you a message, though I forgot all about it till now.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000091_000002|She wants to thank you herself for what you did in the field."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000092_000000|"That's all nonsense, my lord."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000093_000001|You may take my word for this, too,--my sister hates Crosbie quite as much as you do.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000093_000002|I think she'd 'pitch into him,' as you call it, herself, if she knew how.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000093_000003|You come down to Guestwick for the Christmas, and then go over to Allington and tell them all plainly what you mean."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000094_000000|"I couldn't say a word to her now."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000000|"Say it to the squire, then.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000001|Go to him, and tell him what you mean,--holding your head up like a man.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000002|Don't talk to me about swells.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000003|The man who means honestly is the best swell I know.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000006|Tell him that if he'll put a little stick under the pot to make it boil, I'll put a bigger one.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000097_000003|Lord bless you, I knew your father as well as I ever knew any man; and to tell the truth, I believe I helped to ruin him. He held land of me, you know, and there can't be any doubt that he did ruin himself.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000097_000004|He knew no more about a beast when he'd done, than-than-than that waiter.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000097_000005|If he'd gone on to this day he wouldn't have been any wiser."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000000|"You come down with me," continued the earl, "and you'll find we'll make it all straight.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000002|But tell everything to the uncle, and then to the mother.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000003|And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000005|My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000006|If you are made of dirt, like that fellow Crosbie, you'll be found out at last, no doubt.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000007|But then I don't think you are made of dirt."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000100_000000|"I hope not."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000101_000000|"And so do i You can come down, I suppose, with me the day after to morrow?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000102_000000|"I'm afraid not.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000103_000000|"Shall I write to old Buffle, and ask it as a favour?"
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000104_000001|But I'll see to morrow, and then I'll let you know.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000105_000000|"That won't be comfortable.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000105_000001|See and come with me if you can.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000105_000003|I think I may boast that I never yet went back from my word."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000106_000001|As he went through the little scene, john Eames felt that he was every inch an earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000108_000000|"Say nothing,--not a word more to me.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000108_000002|Good night, my dear boy, good night.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000108_000003|I dine out to morrow, but you can call and let me know at about six."
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000000|Eames then left the room without another word, and walked out into the cold air of Jermyn Street.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000001|The moon was clear and bright, and the pavement in the shining light seemed to be as clean as a lady's hand.
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000004|Could it be true that he, even now, was in a position to go boldly to the Squire of Allington, and tell him what were his views with reference to Lily?
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000005|And how far would he be justified in taking the earl at his word?
train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000110_000000|"Oh, john, how late you are!" said Amelia, slipping out from the back parlour as he let himself in with his latch key.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty three.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000003_000000|"THE TIME WILL COME."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000000|"At Guestwick Manor!" said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000001|"Dear me!
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000002|Do you hear that, Bell?
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000003|There's promotion for Master Johnny!"
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000007_000000|"Don't you remember, mamma," said Bell, "that he helped his lordship in his trouble with the bull?"
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000008_000002|She valued him more highly after that scene than she did before.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000008_000003|But now, she would feel herself injured and hurt if he ever made his way into her presence under circumstances as they existed.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000009_000000|"I should not have thought that Lord De Guest was the man to show so much gratitude for so slight a favour," said the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000009_000001|"However, I'm going to dine there to morrow."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000011_000000|"Yes,--especially to meet young Eames.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000012_000000|"And is Bernard going?"
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000013_000000|"Indeed I'm not," said Bernard.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000014_000006|Lily bore her cross bravely and well; but not the less did it weigh heavily upon her at every turn because she had the strength to walk as though she did not bear it.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000014_000007|Nothing happened to her, or in her presence, that did not in some way connect itself with her misery.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000014_000009|Of course the men there would talk about her, and all such talking was an injury to her.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000000|The afternoon of that day did not pass away brightly.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000001|As long as the servants were in the room the dinner went on much as other dinners. At such times a certain amount of hypocrisy must always be practised in closely domestic circles.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000003|People so mixed do not talk together their inward home thoughts.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000004|But when close friends are together, a little conscious reticence is practised till the door is tiled.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000006|When the door was tiled, and when the servants were gone, how could they be merry together?
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000007|By what mirth should the beards be made to wag on that Christmas Day?
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000016_000001|"He was with Lord De Guest at Pawkins's."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000018_000002|I shall go down to Torquay in February.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000018_000003|I must be up in London, you know, in a fortnight, for good." Then they were all silent again for a few minutes.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000018_000004|If Bernard could have owned the truth, he would have acknowledged that he had not gone up to London, because he did not yet know how to treat Crosbie when he should meet him.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000019_000000|"I want him to give up his profession altogether," said the squire, speaking firmly and slowly.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000019_000001|"It would be better, I think, for both of us that he should do so."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000021_000000|"I think it would be wise.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000023_000000|"That would be your own fault.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000023_000001|But if you did as I would have you, your life would not be idle." In this he was alluding to Bernard's proposed marriage, but as to that nothing further could be said in Bell's presence.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000023_000002|Bell understood it all, and sat quite silent, with demure countenance;--perhaps even with something of sternness in her face.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000025_000000|"Why not?" said the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000025_000001|"I have even offered to settle the property on him if he will leave the service."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000027_000000|"If you mean that I cannot constrain him, I know that well enough. As regards money, I have offered to do for him quite as much as any father would feel called upon to do for an only son."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000028_000000|"I hope you don't think me ungrateful," said Bernard.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000029_000000|"No, I do not; but I think you unmindful.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000029_000001|I have nothing more to say about it, however;--not about that.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000029_000002|If you should marry-" And then he stopped himself, feeling that he could not go on in Bell's presence.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000031_000000|"Wouldn't she have this house?" said the squire, angrily.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000031_000001|"Isn't it big enough?
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000032_000000|"That's nonsense," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000034_000000|"You'll be squire of Allington for the next twenty years," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000034_000002|I don't approve of monarchs abdicating in favour of young people."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000035_000000|"I don't think uncle Christopher would look at all well like Charles the Fifth," said Lily.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000036_000000|"I would always keep a cell for you, my darling, if I did," said the squire, regarding her with that painful, special tenderness.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000036_000001|Lily, who was sitting next to mrs Dale, put her hand out secretly and got hold of her mother's, thereby indicating that she did not intend to occupy the cell offered to her by her uncle; or to look to him as the companion of her monastic seclusion.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000037_000000|"mrs Hearn is dining at the vicarage, I suppose?" asked the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000038_000000|"Yes; she went in after church," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000038_000001|"I saw her go with mrs Boyce."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000039_000001|"The last time she was there, the boy let the lamp blow out as she was going home, and she lost her way.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000039_000002|The truth was, she was angry because mr Boyce didn't go with her."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000040_000001|"She hardly speaks to me now. When she paid her rent the other day to Jolliffe, she said she hoped it would do me much good; as though she thought me a brute for taking it."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000044_000001|I should be very wrong to do so.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000045_000000|"And she wouldn't take it," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000046_000000|"I don't think she would.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000046_000001|But if she did, I'm sure she would grumble because it wasn't double the amount.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000046_000002|And if mr Boyce had gone home with her, she would have grumbled because he walked too fast."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000048_000000|"But, nevertheless, she ought to know better than to speak disparagingly of me to my servants.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000000|It was very long and very dull that Christmas evening, making Bernard feel strongly that he would be very foolish to give up his profession, and tie himself down to a life at Allington.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000002|"Of course you know much better than I do," he would say.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000004|"I don't pretend to know anything about it.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000005|But-" So the evening wore itself away; and when the squire was left alone at half past nine, he did not feel that the day had passed badly with him.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000006|That was his style of life, and he expected no more from it than he got.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000007|He did not look to find things very pleasant, and, if not happy, he was, at any rate, contented.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000050_000000|"Only think of Johnny Eames being at Guestwick Manor!" said Bell, as they were going home.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000052_000001|"There must be some reason for it." Then Lily felt the soreness come upon her again, and spoke no further upon the subject.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000053_000002|He must be at his office by twelve on Wednesday, and could manage to do that by an early train from Guestwick.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000001|"Then I'll tell you what; I've been thinking of it.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000002|I'll ask Dale to come over to dinner on Tuesday; and if he'll come, I'll explain the whole matter to him myself.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000003|He's a man of business, and he'll understand. If he won't come, why then you must go over to Allington, and find him, if you can, on the Tuesday morning; or I'll go to him myself, which will be better.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000004|You mustn't keep me now, as I am ever so much too late."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000000|Eames did not attempt to keep him, but went away feeling that the whole matter was being arranged for him in a very wonderful way.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000002|Then he declared to himself that there was no longer any possibility of retractation for him.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000003|Of course he did not wish to retract.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000005|But he felt afraid of the squire,--that the squire would despise him and snub him, and that the earl would perceive that he had made a mistake when he saw how his client was scorned and snubbed.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000056_000000|He got on very well with Lady Julia, who gave herself no airs, and made herself very civil.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000056_000001|Her brother had told her the whole story, and she felt as anxious as he did to provide Lily with another husband in place of that horrible man Crosbie.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000060_000000|In answer to this Lady Julia merely shook her head.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000002|But Johnny had already begun to feel at the Manor that, after all, people are not so very different in their ways of life as they are supposed to be.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000003|Lady Julia's manners were certainly not quite those of mrs Roper; but she made the tea very much in the way in which it was made at Burton Crescent, and Eames found that he could eat his egg, at any rate on the second morning, without any tremor in his hand, in spite of the coronet on the silver egg cup.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000004|He did feel himself to be rather out of his place in the Manor pew on the Sunday, conceiving that all the congregation was looking at him; but he got over this on Christmas Day, and sat quite comfortably in his soft corner during the sermon, almost going to sleep.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000005|And when he walked with the earl after church to the gate over which the noble peer had climbed in his agony, and inspected the hedge through which he had thrown himself, he was quite at home with his little jokes, bantering his august companion as to the mode of his somersault.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000008|But it was not in Johnny's nature to do so, and therefore it was that the earl liked him.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000062_000000|At last came the hour of dinner on Tuesday, or at least the hour at which the squire had been asked to show himself at the Manor House. Eames, as by agreement with his patron, did not come down so as to show himself till after the interview.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000062_000001|Lady Julia, who had been present at their discussions, had agreed to receive the squire; and then a servant was to ask him to step into the earl's own room.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000062_000002|It was pretty to see the way in which the three conspired together, planning and plotting with an eagerness that was beautifully green and fresh.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000066_000000|"I'll give him some port wine that ought to soften his heart," said the earl, "and then we'll see how he is in the evening."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000067_000003|The earl, as he entered, was standing in the middle of the room, and his round rosy face was a picture of good humour.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000068_000001|"I've something I want to say to you."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000070_000002|I've taken a great fancy to him myself."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000071_000001|He sat down, and in some general terms expressed his good will towards all the Eames family.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000072_000000|"As you know, Dale, I'm a very bad hand at talking, and therefore I won't beat about the bush in what I've got to say at present.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000073_000001|But the less we say about that the better.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000000|"But, my dear Dale, I must mention it at the present moment.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000001|Dear young child, I would do anything to comfort her!
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000002|And I hope that something may be done to comfort her.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000003|Do you know that that young man was in love with her long before Crosbie ever saw her?"
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000075_000000|"What;--john Eames!"
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000078_000001|He was my nephew's friend, and I am not going to say that my nephew was in fault.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000078_000002|But I wish,--I only say that I wish,--she had first known what are this young man's feelings towards her."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000080_000000|"He is an uncommonly good looking young fellow; straight made, broad in the chest, with a good, honest eye, and a young man's proper courage.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000081_000000|"But it's too late now, De Guest."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000082_000001|It mustn't be too late!
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000082_000002|That child is not to lose her whole life because a villain has played her false. Of course she'll suffer.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000082_000004|But, Dale, the time will come; the time will come;--the time always does come."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000083_000001|The story of their lives had been so far the same; each had loved, and each had been disappointed, and then each had remained single through life.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000084_000002|But for her,--you and her mother will look forward to see her married some day."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000085_000000|"I have not thought about it."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000086_000000|"But I want you to think about it.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000086_000001|I want to interest you in this fellow's favour; and in doing so, I mean to be very open with you. I suppose you'll give her something?"
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000000|"Well, then, whether you do or not, I'll give him something," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000001|"I shouldn't have ventured to meddle in the matter had I not intended to put myself in such a position with reference to him as would justify me in asking the question." And the peer as he spoke drew himself up to his full height.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000002|"If such a match can be made, it shall not be a bad marriage for your niece in a pecuniary point of view.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000003|I shall have pleasure in giving to him; but I shall have more pleasure if she can share what I give."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000089_000000|"She ought to be very much obliged to you," said the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000090_000002|I hope that you and I may see them happy together, and that you too may thank me for having assisted in making them so.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000091_000000|"Half a moment," said the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000091_000001|"There are matters as to which I never find myself able to speak quickly, and this certainly seems to be one of them.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000092_000000|"Certainly, certainly."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000000|Lord De Guest still felt that he had not succeeded.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000002|He had said of himself that he was never able to speak quickly in matters of moment; but he would more correctly have described his own character had he declared that he could not think of them quickly.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000003|As it was, the earl was disappointed; but had he been able to read the squire's mind, his disappointment would have been less strong.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000004|mr Dale knew well enough that he was being treated well, and that the effort being made was intended with kindness to those belonging to him; but it was not in his nature to be demonstrative and quick at expressions of gratitude.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000095_000000|"How do you do, sir?" said Johnny, walking up to him in a wild sort of manner,--going through a premeditated lesson, but doing it without any presence of mind.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000097_000000|"Dale, I know you drink port," said the earl when Lady Julia left them.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000098_000000|"Ah! that's the 'twenty," said the squire, tasting it.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000099_000000|"I should rather think it is," said the earl.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000099_000001|"I was lucky enough to get it early, and it hasn't been moved for thirty years.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000099_000002|I like to give it to a man who knows it, as you do, at the first glance.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000101_000001|So is champagne, or ginger beer, or lollipops,--for those who like them.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000102_000000|"It'll come to him soon enough," said the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000107_000000|"Not ten minutes.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000107_000002|That's exactly nine minutes to each; and as for lunch, we only have a biscuit dipped in ink."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000108_000000|"Dipped in ink!" said the squire.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000109_000000|"It comes to that, for you have to be writing while you munch it."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000111_000000|"I don't suppose he ever heard my name as yet," said Johnny.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000112_000000|"Haven't seen him these thirty years; but I did know him."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000114_000000|"Huffle Scuffle!
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000114_000002|He always was Huffle Scuffle; a noisy, pretentious, empty headed fellow.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000114_000004|Come, we'll go into the drawing room."
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000115_000000|"And what did he say?" asked Lady Julia, as soon as the squire was gone.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000116_000000|There was no attempt at concealment, and the question was asked in Johnny's presence.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000000|"Well, he did not say much.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000001|And coming from him, that ought to be taken as a good sign.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000002|He is to think of it, and let me see him again. You hold your head up, Johnny, and remember that you shan't want a friend on your side.
train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000003|Faint heart never won fair lady."
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000006_000000|What that interview was like we decline to say.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000006_000001|There are things which one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000000|Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000002|She stammered all pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and dared not.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000003|Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000005|Lovers have no need of any people whatever.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000014_000000|He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000016_000001|He had under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an octavo volume enveloped in paper.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000016_000002|The enveloping paper was of a greenish hue, and appeared to be mouldy.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000018_000001|What then?
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000018_000002|Is that his fault?
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000018_000003|Monsieur Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart like that."
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000024_000000|"That's settled," said the grandfather.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000025_000000|And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, he cried:
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000026_000000|"Permission to adore each other!"
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000000|They did not require him to repeat it twice.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000001|So much the worse!
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000003|They talked low.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000011|Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle!
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000016|I have not taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar?
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000017|Do speak! You let me do all the talking.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000019|They told me that you could put your fist in it.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000020|And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with the scissors.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000021|That is frightful.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000022|I have cried till I have no eyes left. It is queer that a person can suffer like that.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000026|So our unhappiness is over! I am quite foolish.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000031|I made lint all the time; stay, sir, look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers."
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000032_000000|"Talk loud, the rest of you.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000038_000000|"Look at the happiness of others."
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000039_000000|Then he turned to Cosette.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000001|She's a Greuze.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000005|It's perfectly simple.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000006|It is your right.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000010|The church is better.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000011|It was built by the Jesuits.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000012|It is more coquettish.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000020|The Bible says: Multiply.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000021|In order to save the people, Jeanne d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother Goose.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000022|So, marry, my beauties.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000043_000000|"By the way!"
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000044_000000|"What is it, father?"
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000045_000000|"Have not you an intimate friend?"
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000046_000000|"Yes, Courfeyrac."
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000047_000000|"What has become of him?"
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000049_000000|"That is good."
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000000|"She is exquisite, this darling.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000006|Be foolish about it.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000008|Adore each other.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000010|It has just occurred to me!
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000057_000000|"I am she," replied Cosette.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000061_000000|Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank notes. They were turned over and counted.
train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000067_000000|CHAPTER five-DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000002_000000|Chapter thirty two
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000003_000001|But the cold, severe glance with which he had looked at her when he came to tell her he was going had wounded her, and before he had started her peace of mind was destroyed.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000000|In solitude afterwards, thinking over that glance which had expressed his right to freedom, she came, as she always did, to the same point-the sense of her own humiliation.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000002|Not simply to go away, but to leave me.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000003|He has every right, and I have none.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000005|What has he done, though?...
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000006|He looked at me with a cold, severe expression.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000007|Of course that is something indefinable, impalpable, but it has never been so before, and that glance means a great deal," she thought.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000008|"That glance shows the beginning of indifference."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000000|And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000001|Just as before, only by love and by charm could she keep him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000004|That means was divorce and marriage.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000005|And she began to long for that, and made up her mind to agree to it the first time he or Stiva approached her on the subject.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000006_000000|Absorbed in such thoughts, she passed five days without him, the five days that he was to be at the elections.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000003|However hard she tried, she could not love this little child, and to feign love was beyond her powers.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000004|Towards the evening of that day, still alone, Anna was in such a panic about him that she decided to start for the town, but on second thoughts wrote him the contradictory letter that Vronsky received, and without reading it through, sent it off by a special messenger.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000006|She dreaded a repetition of the severe look he had flung at her at parting, especially when he knew that the baby was not dangerously ill. But still she was glad she had written to him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000008|Let him weary of her, but he would be here with her, so that she would see him, would know of every action he took.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000000|She was sitting in the drawing room near a lamp, with a new volume of Taine, and as she read, listening to the sound of the wind outside, and every minute expecting the carriage to arrive.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000002|At last she heard not the sound of wheels, but the coachman's shout and the dull rumble in the covered entry.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000003|Even Princess Varvara, playing patience, confirmed this, and Anna, flushing hotly, got up; but instead of going down, as she had done twice before, she stood still.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000004|She suddenly felt ashamed of her duplicity, but even more she dreaded how he might meet her.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000005|All feeling of wounded pride had passed now; she was only afraid of the expression of his displeasure.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000008|Then she thought of him, that he was here, all of him, with his hands, his eyes.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000009|She heard his voice.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000010|And forgetting everything, she ran joyfully to meet him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000009_000000|"Well, how is Annie?" he said timidly from below, looking up to Anna as she ran down to him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000010_000000|He was sitting on a chair, and a footman was pulling off his warm over boot.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000011_000000|"Oh, she is better."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000013_000000|She took his hand in both of hers, and drew it to her waist, never taking her eyes off him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000014_000000|"Well, I'm glad," he said, coldly scanning her, her hair, her dress, which he knew she had put on for him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000015_000000|"Well, I'm glad.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000015_000001|And are you well?" he said, wiping his damp beard with his handkerchief and kissing her hand.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000016_000000|"Never mind," she thought, "only let him be here, and so long as he's here he cannot, he dare not, cease to love me."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000018_000000|"What am I to do?
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000018_000001|I couldn't sleep....
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000018_000003|When he's here I never take it-hardly ever."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000019_000000|He told her about the election, and Anna knew how by adroit questions to bring him to what gave him most pleasure-his own success.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000019_000001|She told him of everything that interested him at home; and all that she told him was of the most cheerful description.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000020_000001|She said:
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000021_000000|"Tell me frankly, you were vexed at getting my letter, and you didn't believe me?"
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000022_000000|As soon as she had said it, she felt that however warm his feelings were to her, he had not forgiven her for that.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000023_000000|"Yes," he said, "the letter was so strange.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000024_000000|"It was all the truth."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000026_000000|"Yes, you do doubt it.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000028_000000|"The duty of going to a concert..."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000030_000000|"Why not talk about it?" she said.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000031_000002|Oh, Anna, why are you so irritable?
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000033_000000|"Anna, that's cruel.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000035_000002|Either we must separate or else live together."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000036_000001|But for that..."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000037_000001|I will write to him.
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000037_000003|But I will come with you to Moscow."
train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000041_000001|It was a moment's impression, but she never forgot it.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000004_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000005_000000|FLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000011_000000|At first blush it would seem that fluency consists in a ready, easy use of words.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000011_000001|Not so-the flowing quality of speech is much more, for it is a composite effect, with each of its prior conditions deserving of careful notice.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000016_000005|He was banished by the Spartans.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000017_000000|But preparation goes beyond the getting of the facts in the case you are to present: it includes also the ability to think and arrange your thoughts, a full and precise vocabulary, an easy manner of speech and breathing, absence of self consciousness, and the several other characteristics of efficient delivery that have deserved special attention in other parts of this book rather than in this chapter.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000018_000000|Preparation may be either general or specific; usually it should be both.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000018_000011|But that method must not be applied on the platform!
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000019_000000|After all this enrichment of life by storage, must come the special preparation for the particular speech.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000019_000001|This is of so definite a sort that it warrants separate chapter treatment later.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000000|Do not feel surprised or discouraged if practise on the principles of delivery herein laid down seems to retard your fluency.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000003|This warning, however, is strictly for the closet, for your practise at home.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000004|Do not carry any thoughts of inflection with you to the platform.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000006|There is an absolute telepathy between the audience and the speaker.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000007|If your thought goes to your gesture, their thought will too.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000023_000000|You have doubtless been adjured to "forget everything but your subject." This advice says either too much or too little.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000024_000000|A nice balance between these two kinds of attention is important.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000026_000000|Return to the opening chapter, on self confidence, and again lay its precepts to heart.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000026_000001|Learn by rules to speak without thinking of rules.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000026_000005|As an inexperienced speaker you will find a great deal of difficulty at first in putting principles into practise, for you will be scared, like the young swimmer, and make some crude strokes, but if you persevere you will "win out."
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000028_000000|But this means work.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000028_000001|What good habit does not?
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000028_000003|If it were, it would be thrown away, because it would kill our greatest joy-the delight of acquisition.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000029_000000|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000030_000000|one.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000031_000001|What influences, within and without the man himself, work against fluency?
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000032_000000|three.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000034_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000035_000000|Machinery has created a new economic world.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000036_000000|The Socialist Party is a strenuous worker for peace.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000040_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000040_000002|Honestly criticise your own effort.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000041_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000042_000000|There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000048_000000|His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000050_000000|Beware of desperate steps!
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000064_000001|I learn to be content.
train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000066_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000002_000000|THE VOICE
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000005_000001|Leaving the message aside, the same may justly be said of public speaking.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000005_000002|A rich, correctly used voice is the greatest physical factor of persuasiveness and power, often over topping the effects of reason.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000009_000002|Try this for yourself.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000010_000000|In practising voice exercises, and in speaking, never force your tones. Ease must be your watchword.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000010_000003|Don't work.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000010_000004|Let the yoke of speech be easy and its burden light.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000012_000000|Nervousness and mental strain are common sources of mouth and throat constriction, so make the battle for poise and self confidence for which we pleaded in the opening chapter.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000001|you ask.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000003|Hold your arm out straight from your shoulder.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000004|Now-withdraw all power and let it fall.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000005|Practise relaxation of the muscles of the throat by letting your neck and head fall forward.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000006|Roll the upper part of your body around, with the waist line acting as a pivot.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000007|Let your head fall and roll around as you shift the torso to different positions.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000000|Again, let your head fall forward on your breast; raise your head, letting your jaw hang.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000001|Relax until your jaw feels heavy, as though it were a weight hung to your face.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000002|Remember, you must relax the jaw to obtain command of it.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000003|It must be free and flexible for the moulding of tone, and to let the tone pass out unobstructed.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000015_000000|The lips also must be made flexible, to aid in the moulding of clear and beautiful tones.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000017_000000|Mo-E-O-E-OO-Ah.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000021_000000|All the activity of breathing must be centered, not in the throat, but in the middle of the body-you must breathe from the diaphragm.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000021_000001|Note the way you breathe when lying flat on the back, undressed in bed.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000021_000003|This is the natural and correct method of breathing.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000024_000002|Open your mouth wide, relax all the organs of speech, and let the tone flow out easily.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000025_000002|If so, a skilled physician should be consulted.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000026_000000|The nose is an important tone passage and should be kept open and free for perfect tones.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000026_000003|This is quite important, aside from voice, for the general health will be much lowered if the lungs are continually starved for air.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000029_000006|The sensation is so slight that you will probably not be able to detect it at once, but persevere in your practise, always thinking the tone forward, and you will be rewarded by feeling your voice strike the roof of your mouth.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000029_000007|A correct forward placing of the tone will do away with the dark, throaty tones that are so unpleasant, inefficient, and harmful to the throat.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000030_000001|Think the tone forward.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000030_000002|Do you feel it strike the lips?
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000031_000001|Can you feel the forward tones strike against your hand?
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000031_000002|Practise until you can.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000033_000000|It is not necessary to speak loudly in order to be heard at a distance. It is necessary only to speak correctly.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000033_000003|If you will only use your voice correctly, you will not have much difficulty in being heard.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000035_000000|Do not gaze at the floor as you talk.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000035_000001|This habit not only gives the speaker an amateurish appearance but if the head is hung forward the voice will be directed towards the ground instead of floating out over the audience.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000036_000000|Voice is a series of air vibrations.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000036_000001|To strengthen it two things are necessary: more air or breath, and more vibration.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000037_000000|Breath is the very basis of voice.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000037_000001|As a bullet with little powder behind it will not have force and carrying power, so the voice that has little breath behind it will be weak.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000038_000003|Practise this until it becomes second nature.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000039_000000|Do not try to speak too long without renewing your breath.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000040_000000|A certain very successful speaker developed voice carrying power by running across country, practising his speeches as he went.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000040_000001|The vigorous exercise forced him to take deep breaths, and developed lung power.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000040_000003|When these methods are not convenient, we recommend the following:
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000043_000000|Take a deep breath.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000043_000002|As the breath is taken your hands will be forced out.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000045_000000|Many methods for deep breathing have been given by various authorities. Get the air into your lungs-that is the important thing.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000046_000001|You can increase its vibrations by practise.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000047_000001|Do you feel the lips vibrate? After a little practise they will vibrate, giving a tickling sensation.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000048_000002|Can you feel the nose vibrate?
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000049_000002|Can you feel the vibration there?
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000050_000003|The mere act of thinking about any portion of your body will tend to make it vibrate.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000000|This quality is sometimes destroyed by wasting the breath.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000002|Utilize all that you give out.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000003|Failure to do this results in a breathy tone.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000004|Take in breath like a prodigal; in speaking, give it out like a miser.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000057_000000|Do not drink cold water when speaking.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000057_000001|The sudden shock to the heated organs of speech will injure the voice.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000000|Avoid pitching your voice too high-it will make it raspy.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000001|This is a common fault.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000003|Do not wait until you get to the platform to try this.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000005|Repeat the alphabet, beginning A on the lowest scale possible and going up a note on each succeeding letter, for the development of range.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000006|A wide range will give you facility in making numerous changes of pitch.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000060_000000|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000061_000000|one.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000063_000000|three.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000063_000001|Give some exercises for development of these conditions.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000065_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000065_000001|Tell how range of voice may be cultivated.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000066_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000067_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000067_000001|How can resonance and carrying power be developed?
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000068_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000068_000001|What are your voice faults?
train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000069_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000002_000000|CONCENTRATION IN DELIVERY
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000003_000000|Attention is the microscope of the mental eye.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000003_000001|Its power may be high or low; its field of view narrow or broad.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000003_000002|When high power is used attention is confined within very circumscribed limits, but its action is exceedingly intense and absorbing.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000005_000000|Try to rub the top of your head forward and backward at the same time that you are patting your chest.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000005_000001|Unless your powers of cooerdination are well developed you will find it confusing, if not impossible.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000005_000002|The brain needs special training before it can do two or more things efficiently at the same instant.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000006_000000|Whatever is the psychological truth of this contention it is undeniable that the mind measurably loses grip on one idea the moment the attention is projected decidedly ahead to a second or a third idea.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000001|In a well prepared written speech the emphatic word usually comes at one end of the sentence.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000002|But an emphatic word needs emphatic expression, and this is precisely what it does not get when concentration flags by leaping too soon to that which is next to be uttered.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000003|Concentrate all your mental energies on the present sentence.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000004|Remember that the mind of your audience follows yours very closely, and if you withdraw your attention from what you are saying to what you are going to say, your audience will also withdraw theirs.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000005|They may not do so consciously and deliberately, but they will surely cease to give importance to the things that you yourself slight.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000006|It is fatal to either the actor or the speaker to cross his bridges too soon.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000008_000001|Let it come from its proper source-within yourself.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000008_000002|You cannot deliver a broadside without concentrated force-that is what produces the explosion.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000008_000004|Divide your attention and you divide your power.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000000|"What do you read, my lord?" Hamlet replied, "Words.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000001|Words.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000002|Words." That is a world old trouble.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000004|Did you ever notice how hollow a memorized speech usually sounds?
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000005|You have listened to the ranting, mechanical cadence of inefficient actors, lawyers and preachers.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000006|Their trouble is a mental one-they are not concentratedly thinking thoughts that cause words to issue with sincerity and conviction, but are merely enunciating word sounds mechanically.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000007|Painful experience alike to audience and to speaker!
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000008|A parrot is equally eloquent.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000010|He laments thus pointedly:
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000011_000000|My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000000|The truth is, that as a speaker your words must be born again every time they are spoken, then they will not suffer in their utterance, even though perforce committed to memory and repeated, like dr Russell Conwell's lecture, "Acres of Diamonds," five thousand times.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000001|Such speeches lose nothing by repetition for the perfectly patent reason that they arise from concentrated thought and feeling and not a mere necessity for saying something-which usually means anything, and that, in turn, is tantamount to nothing.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000003|Words are only a result.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000004|Do not try to get the result without stimulating the cause.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000013_000002|Think of how a lens gathers and concenters the rays of light within a given circle.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000013_000003|It centers them by a process of withdrawal.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000013_000004|It may seem like a harsh saying, but the man who cannot concentrate is either weak of will, a nervous wreck, or has never learned what will power is good for.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000000|You must concentrate by resolutely withdrawing your attention from everything else.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000001|If you concentrate your thought on a pain which may be afflicting you, that pain will grow more intense.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000002|"Count your blessings" and they will multiply.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000003|Center your thought on your strokes and your tennis play will gradually improve.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000004|To concentrate is simply to attend to one thing, and attend to nothing else.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000005|If you find that you cannot do that, there is something wrong-attend to that first.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000006|Remove the cause and the symptom will disappear.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000007|Read the chapter on "Will Power." Cultivate your will by willing and then doing, at all costs. Concentrate-and you will win.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000015_000000|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000016_000000|one.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000016_000001|Select from any source several sentences suitable for speaking aloud; deliver them first in the manner condemned in this chapter, and second with due regard for emphasis toward the close of each sentence.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000017_000001|Put into about one hundred words your impression of the effect produced.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000018_000000|three.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000018_000001|Tell of any peculiar methods you may have observed or heard of by which speakers have sought to aid their powers of concentration, such as looking fixedly at a blank spot in the ceiling, or twisting a watch charm.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000019_000001|What effect do such habits have on the audience?
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000020_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000020_000001|What relation does pause bear to concentration?
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000021_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000021_000001|Tell why concentration naturally helps a speaker to change pitch, tempo, and emphasis.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000022_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000022_000001|Read the following selection through to get its meaning and spirit clearly in your mind.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000022_000002|Then read it aloud, concentrating solely on the thought that you are expressing-do not trouble about the sentence or thought that is coming.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000024_000001|The cave man's club made law and procured food.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000024_000002|Might decreed right.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000024_000003|Warriors were saviours.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000025_000000|In Nazareth a carpenter laid down the saw and preached the brotherhood of man.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000025_000001|Twelve centuries afterwards his followers marched to the Holy Land to destroy all who differed with them in the worship of the God of Love.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000025_000002|Triumphantly they wrote "In Solomon's Porch and in his temple our men rode in the blood of the Saracens up to the knees of their horses."
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000000|History is an appalling tale of war.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000001|In the seventeenth century Germany, France, Sweden, and Spain warred for thirty years.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000002|At Magdeburg thirty thousand out of thirty six thousand were killed regardless of sex or age.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000003|In Germany schools were closed for a third of a century, homes burned, women outraged, towns demolished, and the untilled land became a wilderness.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000027_000000|Two thirds of Germany's property was destroyed and eighteen million of her citizens were killed, because men quarrelled about the way to glorify "The Prince of Peace." Marching through rain and snow, sleeping on the ground, eating stale food or starving, contracting diseases and facing guns that fire six hundred times a minute, for fifty cents a day-this is the soldier's life.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000028_000000|At the window sits the widowed mother crying.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000028_000001|Little children with tearful faces pressed against the pane watch and wait. Their means of livelihood, their home, their happiness is gone. Fatherless children, broken hearted women, sick, disabled and dead men-this is the wage of war.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000000|We spend more money preparing men to kill each other than we do in teaching them to live.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000001|We spend more money building one battleship than in the annual maintenance of all our state universities.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000002|The financial loss resulting from destroying one another's homes in the civil war would have built fifteen million houses, each costing two thousand dollars.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000003|We pray for love but prepare for hate.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000000|War only defers a question.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000002|Like rival "gun gangs" in a back alley, the nations of the world, through the bloody ages, have fought over their differences.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000003|Denver cannot fight Chicago and Iowa cannot fight Ohio.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000004|Why should Germany be permitted to fight France, or Bulgaria fight Turkey?
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000032_000000|When mankind rises above creeds, colors and countries, when we are citizens, not of a nation, but of the world, the armies and navies of the earth will constitute an international police force to preserve the peace and the dove will take the eagle's place.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000033_000000|Our differences will be settled by an international court with the power to enforce its mandates.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000033_000001|In times of peace prepare for peace.
train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000033_000002|The wages of war are the wages of sin, and the "wages of sin is death."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000002_000003|But such was not the case with Popopo, the knook we are speaking of.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000002_000004|He had lived thousands of years, and had enjoyed all the wonders he could think of.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000003_000000|Finally, by chance, Popopo thought of the earth people who dwell in cities, and so he resolved to visit them and see how they lived. This would surely be fine amusement, and serve to pass away many wearisome hours.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000004_000000|Therefore one morning, after a breakfast so dainty that you could scarcely imagine it, Popopo set out for the earth and at once was in the midst of a big city.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000005_000001|His nerves were so shocked that before he had looked around three minutes he decided to give up the adventure, and instantly returned home.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000006_000002|He would visit them at night.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000007_000000|So at the proper time Popopo transported himself in a jiffy to a great city, where he began wandering about the streets.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000007_000001|Everyone was in bed.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000007_000003|Even the policemen slumbered slyly and there happened to be no prowling thieves abroad.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000008_000000|His nerves being soothed by the stillness, Popopo began to enjoy himself.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000008_000002|Locks and bolts made no difference to a knook, and he saw as well in darkness as in daylight.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000010_000000|During his wanderings he entered a millinery shop, and was surprised to see within a large glass case a great number of women's hats, each bearing in one position or another a stuffed bird.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000010_000001|Indeed, some of the most elaborate hats had two or three birds upon them.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000011_000001|To see so many of his little friends shut up in a glass case annoyed and grieved Popopo, who had no idea they had purposely been placed upon the hats by the milliner.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000011_000002|So he slid back one of the doors of the case, gave the little chirruping whistle of the knooks that all birds know well, and called:
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000012_000000|"Come, friends; the door is open-fly out!"
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000013_000000|Popopo did not know the birds were stuffed; but, stuffed or not, every bird is bound to obey a knook's whistle and a knook's call.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000013_000001|So they left the hats, flew out of the case and began fluttering about the room.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000014_000000|"Poor dears!" said the kind hearted knook, "you long to be in the fields and forests again."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000015_000000|Then he opened the outer door for them and cried: "Off with you!
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000016_000000|The astonished birds at once obeyed, and when they had soared away into the night air the knook closed the door and continued his wandering through the streets.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000017_000000|By dawn he saw many interesting sights, but day broke before he had finished the city, and he resolved to come the next evening a few hours earlier.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000018_000000|As soon as it was dark the following day he came again to the city and on passing the millinery shop noticed a light within.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000018_000001|Entering he found two women, one of whom leaned her head upon the table and sobbed bitterly, while the other strove to comfort her.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000019_000000|Of course Popopo was invisible to mortal eyes, so he stood by and listened to their conversation.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000020_000000|"Cheer up, sister," said one.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000020_000001|"Even though your pretty birds have all been stolen the hats themselves remain."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000021_000000|"Alas!" cried the other, who was the milliner, "no one will buy my hats partly trimmed, for the fashion is to wear birds upon them.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000023_000000|This thought brought him back to the millinery shop later in the night, when the two women had gone home.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000023_000001|He wanted, in some way, to replace the birds upon the hats, that the poor woman might be happy again.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000024_000000|"Here are just the creatures," thought Popopo, "to place upon the woman's hats.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000024_000002|Moreover, they now pass their lives in stealing, and were they obliged to remain always upon women's hats their morals would be much improved."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000025_000000|So he exercised a charm that drew all the mice from the cellar and placed them upon the hats in the glass case, where they occupied the places the birds had vacated and looked very becoming-at least, in the eyes of the unworldly knook.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000025_000001|To prevent their running about and leaving the hats Popopo rendered them motionless, and then he was so pleased with his work that he decided to remain in the shop and witness the delight of the milliner when she saw how daintily her hats were now trimmed.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000026_000000|She came in the early morning, accompanied by her sister, and her face wore a sad and resigned expression.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000027_000000|But when she saw a tiny gray mouse nestling among the ribbons and laces she gave a loud shriek, and, dropping the hat, sprang with one bound to the top of the table.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000028_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000028_000001|Oh! what is it?"
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000029_000000|"A mouse!" gasped the milliner, trembling with terror.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000030_000000|Popopo, seeing this commotion, now realized that mice are especially disagreeable to human beings, and that he had made a grave mistake in placing them upon the hats; so he gave a low whistle of command that was heard only by the mice.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000031_000000|Instantly they all jumped from the hats, dashed out the open door of the glass case and scampered away to their cellar.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000032_000000|Popopo was a kind hearted knook, but on witnessing all this misery, caused by his own ignorance of the ways of humans, he straightway wished himself at home, and so left the poor women to recover as best they could.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000033_000001|He loved the birds, and disliked to condemn them to slavery again; but that seemed the only way to end the trouble.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000034_000000|So he set off to find the birds.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000035_000000|When they saw the knook the birds cried:
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000036_000000|"Thank you, Popopo.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000036_000001|Thank you for setting us free."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000037_000000|"Do not thank me," returned the knook, "for I have come to send you back to the millinery shop."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000038_000000|"Why?" demanded a blue jay, angrily, while the others stopped their songs.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000039_000000|"Because I find the woman considers you her property, and your loss has caused her much unhappiness," answered Popopo.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000040_000000|"But remember how unhappy we were in her glass case," said a robin redbreast, gravely.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000040_000001|"And as for being her property, you are a knook, and the natural guardian of all birds; so you know that Nature created us free.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000040_000002|To be sure, wicked men shot and stuffed us, and sold us to the milliner; but the idea of our being her property is nonsense!"
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000041_000000|Popopo was puzzled.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000043_000000|"Pooh!" exclaimed the blue jay, "we cannot be shot now, for we are stuffed.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000043_000001|Indeed, two men fired several shots at us this morning, but the bullets only ruffled our feathers and buried themselves in our stuffing.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000043_000002|We do not fear men now."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000044_000000|"Listen!" said Popopo, sternly, for he felt the birds were getting the best of the argument; "the poor milliner's business will be ruined if I do not return you to her shop.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000044_000003|So the poor milliner's wares, although beautified by lace and ribbons, are worthless unless you are perched upon them."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000045_000001|What law is there, among birds or knooks, that requires us to be the slaves of fashion?"
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000046_000000|"What have we to do with fashions, anyway?" screamed a linnet.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000046_000001|"If it were the fashion to wear knooks perched upon women's hats would you be contented to stay there?
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000046_000002|Answer me, Popopo!"
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000047_000000|But Popopo was in despair.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000047_000001|He could not wrong the birds by sending them back to the milliner, nor did he wish the milliner to suffer by their loss.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000047_000002|So he went home to think what could be done.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000048_000000|After much meditation he decided to consult the king of the knooks, and going at once to his majesty he told him the whole story.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000049_000000|The king frowned.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000050_000001|"But since you have caused all this trouble, it is your duty to remedy it.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000050_000002|Our birds cannot be enslaved, that is certain; therefore you must have the fashions changed, so it will no longer be stylish for women to wear birds upon their hats."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000051_000000|"How shall I do that?" asked Popopo.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000000|"Easily enough.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000001|Fashions often change among the earth people, who tire quickly of any one thing.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000002|When they read in their newspapers and magazines that the style is so and so, they never question the matter, but at once obey the mandate of fashion.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000003|So you must visit the newspapers and magazines and enchant the types."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000053_000000|"Enchant the types!" echoed Popopo, in wonder.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000054_000000|"Just so.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000054_000002|That will afford relief to your poor milliner and at the same time set free thousands of our darling birds who have been so cruelly used."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000055_000000|Popopo thanked the wise king and followed his advice.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000057_000000|The following morning when the poor milliner looked over her newspaper she was overjoyed to read that "no woman could now wear a bird upon her hat and be in style, for the newest fashion required only ribbons and laces."
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000058_000000|Popopo after this found much enjoyment in visiting every millinery shop he could find and giving new life to the stuffed birds which were carelessly tossed aside as useless.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000058_000001|And they flew to the fields and forests with songs of thanks to the good knook who had rescued them.
train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000059_000000|Sometimes a hunter fires his gun at a bird and then wonders why he did not hit it.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000001_000000|SELECTING THE FACULTY
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000002_000000|BY BAYNARD RUST HALL
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000004_000002|For his chair there was one with a hickory bottom; and doubtless he would have filled it, and even lapped over its edges, with equal dignity in the recitation room of Big College.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000007_000000|But of all our unsuccessful candidates, we shall introduce by name only two-mr
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000007_000001|james Jimmy, a s s, and mr Solomon Rapid, a to z
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000008_000000|mr Jimmy, who aspired to the mathematical chair, was master of a small school of all sexes, near Woodville.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000008_000001|At the first, he was kindly, yet honestly told, his knowledge was too limited and inaccurate; yet, notwithstanding this, and some almost rude repulses afterward, he persisted in his application and his hopes.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000008_000002|To give evidence of competency, he once told me he was arranging a new spelling book, the publication of which would make him known as a literary man, and be an unspeakable advantage to "the rising generation." And this naturally brought on the following colloquy about the work:
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000009_000000|"Ah! indeed!
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000009_000001|mr Jimmy?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000011_000000|"On what new principle do you go, sir?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000012_000001|I allow school books for schools are all too powerful obstruse and hard like to be understood without exemplifying illustrations."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000013_000000|"Yes, but mr Jimmy, how is a child's spelling book to be made any plainer?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000014_000000|"Why, sir, by clear explifications of the words in one column, by exemplifying illustrations in the other."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000015_000000|"I do not understand you, mr Jimmy, give me a specimen-"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000016_000000|"Sir?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000017_000000|"An example-"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000020_000000|"Well, mr Carlton, this algebra is a most powerful thing-ain't it?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000021_000000|"Indeed it is, mr Jimmy-have you been looking into it?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000022_000000|"Looking into it!
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000023_000000|"Indeed!"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000000|"Yes, sir! but it is such a pretty thing!
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000001|Only to think of cyphering by letters!
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000002|Why, sir, the sums come out, and bring the answers exactly like figures.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000004|Why, sir, I done a whole slate full of letters and signs; and afterward, when I tried by figures, they every one of them came out right and brung the answer!
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000005|I mean to cypher by letters altogether."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000025_000000|"mr Jimmy, my company is nearly out of sight-if you can get along this way through simple and quadratic equations by our meeting, your chance will not be so bad-good morning, sir."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000026_000000|But our man of "letters" quit cyphering the new way, and returned to plain figures long before reaching equations; and so he could not become our professor.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000027_000000|The most extraordinary candidate, however, was mr Solomon Rapid.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000027_000001|He was now somewhat advanced into the shaving age, and was ready to assume offices the most opposite in character; although justice compels us to say mr Rapid was as fit for one thing as another.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000027_000002|Deeming it waste of time to prepare for any station till he was certain of obtaining it, he wisely demanded the place first, and then set to work to become qualified for its duties, being, I suspect, the very man, or some relation of his, who is recorded as not knowing whether he could read Greek, as he had never tried.
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000029_000000|"I heerd, sir, you wanted somebody to teach the State school, and I'm come to let you know I'm willing to take the place."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000030_000000|"Yes, sir, we are going to elect a professor of languages who is to be the principal and a professor-"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000032_000000|"Are you a linguist?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000033_000000|"Sir?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000034_000000|"You, of course, understand the dead languages?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000036_000000|"Oh! my dear sir, it is not possible-we-can't-"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000038_000000|"mr Rapid, I do not mean to question your abilities; but if you are now wholly unacquainted with the dead languages, it is impossible for you or any other talented man to learn them under four or five years."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000039_000002|Try me, sir,--let's have the furst one furst-how many are there?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000040_000000|"mr Rapid, it is utterly impossible; but if you insist, I will loan you a Latin book-"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000041_000000|"That's your sort, let's have it, that's all I want, fair play."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000043_000000|In a few weeks, to my no small surprise, mr Solomon Rapid again presented himself; and drawing forth the book began with a triumphant expression of countenance:
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000044_000000|"Well, sir, I have done the Latin."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000045_000000|"Done the Latin!"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000048_000000|"Yes, as fast as English-and I didn't find it hard at all."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000049_000000|"May I try you on a page?"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000050_000000|"Try away, try away; that's what I've come for."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000053_000000|"That will do, mr Rapid-"
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000054_000001|I told you so."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000055_000000|"Yes, yes-but translate."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000056_000000|"Translate!" (eyebrows elevating.)
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000057_000000|"Yes, translate, render it."
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000058_000000|"Render it!! how's that?" (forehead more wrinkled.)
train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000059_000000|"Why, yes, render it into English-give me the meaning of it."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000003_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000004_000000|THE VALENTINE PARTY.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000005_000000|"Now we can tell Ginger about the bear," was Keith's first remark, when he awoke early next morning.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000007_000000|"Then let's go down before breakfast," exclaimed Keith, springing out of bed and beginning to dress himself.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000007_000001|A little while later, the old coloured coachman saw them run past the window, where he was warming himself by the kitchen stove.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000009_000000|Daphne, who had just been coaxed into filling a basket with a generous supply of cold victuals, pretended not to hear until he repeated his question.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000009_000002|Lak enough dee's settin' a rabbit trap.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000010_000000|Daphne had seen them setting rabbit traps there, but she knew well enough that was not what they had gone for now, and that the food they carried was not for the game of Robinson Crusoe, which they had played in the deserted cabin the summer before.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000012_000001|It's nicer than any pets we ever had, except the ponies.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000013_000000|"Haven't we had a lot of things, when you come to think of it?" exclaimed Malcolm.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000014_000000|"Yes, and the gold fish, and the little baby alligator that froze to death in its tank," added Keith.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000014_000001|"But a bear like this would be nicer than any of them.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000014_000002|As soon as papa comes home I am going to ask him to buy us one."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000015_000000|"Jonesy's nearly done for," said the tramp, pointing to the boy who lay curled up in the hay, coughing at nearly every breath.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000016_000000|"Oh, goody!" cried Keith.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000017_000001|Give us one more day to rest up and get in a little better trim.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000017_000002|The poor beast's foot is still too lame for him to do his best, and you're too kind hearted, I am sure, to want anything to suffer in order to give you pleasure."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000018_000000|"Of course," answered both the boys, agreeing so quickly to all the man's smooth speeches that, before they left the cabin, they had renewed their promise to keep silent one more day.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000018_000001|The man was a shrewd one, and knew well how to make these unsuspecting little souls serve his purpose, like puppets tied to a string.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000019_000000|Miss Allison was so busy with preparations for the party that she had no time all that day to notice what the boys were doing.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000019_000001|When they came back from reciting their lessons to the minister, she sent them on several errands, but the rest of the time they divided between the cabin and the post office.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000020_000000|Every mail brought a few valentines to each of them, but it was not until the five o'clock train came that they found the long looked for letters from their father and mother.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000000|"I knew they'd each send us a valentine," cried Keith, tearing both of his open.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000001|"I'll bet that papa's is a comic one.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000004|Isn't it a stunner?
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000005|a base ball player.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000022_000002|They couldn't find anything down on the coast that they thought we would like."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000023_000000|"I don't know what to get with mine," said Keith, folding his two bills together.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000023_000001|"Seems to me I have everything I want except a camera, and I couldn't buy the kind I want for two dollars."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000024_000000|They were half-way home when a happy thought came to Malcolm.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000025_000000|"Let's do it!" exclaimed Keith, turning a handspring in the snow to show his delight.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000025_000001|"Come on, we'll ask the man now."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000026_000000|But the man shook his head, when they dashed into the cabin and told their errand.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000026_000001|"No, sonny, that ain't a tenth of what it's worth to me," he said.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000026_000003|I've taught it, and fed it, and looked to it for company when I hadn't nobody in the world to care for me.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000027_000001|He turned away, too disappointed to trust himself to answer any other way.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000027_000002|The tears sprang to Keith's eyes.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000027_000003|He had set his heart on having that bear.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000028_000001|"Papa will get us one when he comes home and finds how much we want one."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000029_000002|You've been so kind to me that I ought to be willing to make any sacrifice for you.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000029_000005|You can leave the bear here till we go."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000030_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000030_000005|It wouldn't seem like he is really ours if we couldn't take him with us."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000031_000000|After some grumbling the man consented, and pocketed the four dollars, first asking very particularly the exact spot in the barn where they expected to hide their huge pet.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000032_000002|There was no answer, and, after peering intently through the dusk for a moment, the old darkey concluded that he must have been mistaken, and passed on.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000032_000003|As soon as he was gone, the boys came out from behind the cedars, and crept up the snowy hillside.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000032_000004|They were leading the bear between them.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000033_000000|"We'll put him away back in the hay mow where he'll be warm and comfortable to night," whispered Malcolm.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000033_000001|"Then in the morning we can tell everybody."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000034_000000|While they were busily scooping out a big hollow in the hay, they were startled by a rustling behind them.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000034_000001|They looked into each other's frightened faces, and then glanced around the dark barn in alarm.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000034_000002|An old cap pushed up through the hay.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000035_000002|He started to the store for some tobacco as soon as you left.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000035_000005|He never saw the bear till two months ago, and he sold it to you cheap because he's a goin' to steal it back again to night, and make off up the road with it.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000035_000007|I'll never forget the little kid's givin' me the coat off his own back, if I live to be a hundred.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000037_000001|There was a hurried consultation in the hay mow.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000037_000003|They scarcely dared breathe until it was safe in their own room.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000038_000000|All the time that they were dressing for the party, they were trying to decide where to put it for the night, so that neither the tramp nor the family could discover it.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000038_000002|They were amazed that any one could be so mean, and longed to tell their Aunt Allison all about it; still, one of the conditions on which they had bought the bear was that they were to "keep mum," and they stuck strictly to that promise.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000039_000000|By the time they were dressed, they had decided to put it in the blue room, a guest chamber in the north wing, seldom used in winter, because it was so hard to heat.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000040_000001|"We'll tell her that we have a valentine six feet long, and keep her guessing."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000041_000000|There was no time for teasing, however, as the first guest arrived while they were still in the blue room.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000042_000001|"I guess he'll not mind, though.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000043_000001|"See what an enormous valentine pie Aunt Allison has made!"
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000044_000000|Looking over the banisters, the boys saw that a table had been drawn into the middle of the wide reception hall, and on it sat the largest pie that they had ever seen.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000044_000001|It was in a bright new tin pan, and its daintily browned crust would have made them hungry even if their appetites had not been sharpened by the cold and exercise of the afternoon.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000000|"What a queer place to serve pie," said Malcolm, in a disapproving undertone to his brother.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000001|"Why don't they have it in the dining room?
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000002|It looks mighty good, but somehow it doesn't seem proper to have it stuck out here in the hall.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000003|Mamma would never do such a thing."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000046_000001|She fooled us, sure, Malcolm," called back Keith, who had run on ahead to look.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000046_000003|But isn't it a splendid imitation?"
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000047_000000|Virginia, pleased to have caught them so cleverly, showed them the ends of twenty four pieces of narrow ribbon, peeping from under the delicately brown top crust.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000000|The guests came promptly.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000001|They had been invited for half past six, and dinner was to be served soon after that time.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000002|The last to arrive was the Little Colonel.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000003|She came in charge of an old coloured woman, Mom Beck, who had been her mother's nurse as well as her own.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000004|The child was so hidden in her wraps when Mom Beck led her up stairs, that no one could tell how she looked.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000006|A few minutes later, when she appeared in the parlours, there was a buzz of admiration.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000007|Maybe it was not so much for the soft light hair, the star like beauty of her big dark eyes, or the delicate colour in her cheeks that made them as pink as a wild rose, as it was for the valentine costume she wore.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000049_000000|"The Queen of Hearts," announced Aunt Allison, leading her forward.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000050_000000|The big music box in the hall began playing one of its liveliest waltzes, the children gathered around the great pie, and twenty four little hands reached out to grasp the floating ends of ribbon.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000051_000000|"Pull!" cried the little Queen of Hearts.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000051_000001|The paper crust flew off, and twenty four yards of ribbon, each with a valentine attached, fluttered brightly through the air for an instant.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000052_000000|"Now match your verses," cried her Majesty again, opening her own to read what was in it.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000000|In the midst of it Virginia beckoned to the Little Colonel.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000001|"Come up stairs with me for a minute, Lloyd," she whispered, "and help me look for something.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000002|Aunt Allison has forgotten where she put the box of arrows that we are to use in the archery contest after dinner.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000003|There is the prettiest prize for the one who hits the red heart in the centre of the target."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000055_000001|"I used to practise so much with my Indian bow and arrow out at the fort, that I could hit centre nearly every time.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000055_000002|I am not going to shoot to night.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000055_000003|Aunt Allison thinks it wouldn't be fair."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000056_000000|When they reached the top of the stairs, Virginia went into her room to light a wax taper in one of the tall silver candlesticks on her dressing table.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000056_000001|"I think that Aunt Allison must have left those arrows in the blue room," she said, leading the way down the cross hall which went to the north wing.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000056_000003|Nobody comes over in this part of the house much in winter, unless there happens to be a great deal of company."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000058_000000|It was a pretty picture that the little "Queen of Hearts" made, as she stood in the doorway, with the tall silver candlestick held high in both hands.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000058_000001|Her hair shone like gold in the candlelight, and her glittering crown flashed as if a circle of fairy fireflies had been caught in its soft meshes.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000058_000002|Her dark eyes peered anxiously around the big shadowy room, lighted only by her flickering taper.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000059_000000|Down stairs, Malcolm and Keith were almost quarrelling about her.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000059_000001|It began by Malcolm taking his brother aside and offering to trade valentines with him.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000061_000000|"'cause yours matches the Little Colonel's, and I want to take her out to dinner," admitted Malcolm.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000061_000001|"She is the prettiest girl here."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000062_000001|"I want to take her myself."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000063_000000|"I'll give you the pick of any six stamps in my album if you will."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000064_000000|"Don't want your old stamps," declared Keith, stoutly.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000064_000001|"I'd rather have the Little Colonel for my partner."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000065_000002|I'll give you that Chinese puzzle you've been wanting so long if you will." Keith shook his head.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000000|Just then a terrific scream sounded in the upper hall, followed by another that made every one down stairs turn pale with fright.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000001|Two voices were uttering piercing shrieks, one after another, so loud and frantic that even the servants in the back part of the house came running.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000002|Miss Allison, thinking of the candle she had told Virginia to light, and remembering the thin, white dress the child wore, instantly thought she must have set herself afire.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000004|Before she could reach the staircase, Virginia came flying down the steps, white as a little ghost, and her eyes wide with terror.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000005|Throwing herself into her aunt's outstretched arms, she began to sob out her story between great, trembling gasps.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000067_000001|It rose up and came after us out of the corner, and if I hadn't slammed the door just in time, it would have eaten us up.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000067_000004|It was so awful!" she wailed.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000000|Malcolm and Keith, with guilty faces, went dashing up the stairs, and the whole party followed them at a respectful distance.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000001|When they opened the door the room looked very big and shadowy, and the bear, roused from its nap, was standing on its hind legs beside the high posted bed.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000002|The huge figure was certainly enough to frighten any one coming upon it unexpectedly in the dark, and when Miss Allison saw it she drew Virginia's trembling hand into hers with a sympathetic clasp.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000003|Before she could ask any questions, the boys began an excited explanation.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000004|It was some time before they could make their story understood.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000071_000000|Their grandmother was horrified, and insisted on sending the animal away at once.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000072_000001|Let me bring him into the light, and show you what a kind old pet he is."
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000073_000001|Keith whistled and kept time with his feet in a funny little shuffling jig he had learned from Jonesy, and the bear obligingly went through all his tricks.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000073_000002|He was used to being pulled out to perform whenever a crowd could be collected.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000074_000000|Virginia forgot her fear of him when he stood up and presented arms like a real soldier, and even went up and patted him when the show was over, joining with the boys in begging that he might be allowed to stay in the house until morning.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000074_000002|She had a horror of tramps.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000074_000003|But the boys begged her to wait until daylight for Jonesy's sake.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000075_000000|"The man will beat him if he finds out that Jonesy warned us," pleaded Keith.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000077_000000|There seemed no other way to settle it just then, so Bruin was allowed to go back to his rug in the blue room, and the door was securely locked.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000078_000000|Keith took Lloyd down to dinner, and his grandmother heard him apologising all the way down for having frightened her.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000078_000001|The little Queen of Hearts listened smilingly, but her colour did not come back all evening, until after the archery contest.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000079_000000|"Will you keep it to remember me by?" he asked, bashfully.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000082_000001|"But there's one comfort," she added, gathering all her gay valentines together, "there needn't be any end to the remembering of it.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000083_000002|One by one the lights went out in every home in the valley, and only the stars were left shining, in the cold wintry sky.
train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000083_000003|No, there was one lamp that still burned.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000001_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000002_000000|A FIRE AND A PLAN.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000003_000000|Some people said that old Johann Heinrich never slept, for no matter what hour of the night one passed his lonely little house, a lamp was always burning.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000003_000002|He had been a professor in a large university until he grew too old to keep his position.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000003_000003|Why he should have chosen Lloydsborough Valley as the place to settle for the remainder of his life, no one could tell.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000004_000001|They did not know that he had written two big books about the birds and insects he loved so well, or that he could tell them facts more wonderful than fairy tales about these little wild creatures of the woodland.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000005_000000|To night he had read later than usual, and his fire was nearly out.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000005_000001|He was too poor to keep a servant, so when he found that the coal hod was empty he had to go out to the kitchen to fill it himself.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000005_000002|That is why he saw something that happened soon after midnight, while everybody else in the valley was sound asleep.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000000|Over in the cabin by the spring house where the boys had left the tramp and Jonesy, a puff of smoke went curling around the roof.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000001|Then a tongue of flame shot up through the cedars, and another and another until the sky was red with an angry glare.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000002|It lighted up the eastern window panes of the servants' cottage, but the inmates, tired from the unusual serving of the evening before, slept on.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000003|It shone full across the window of Virginia's room, but she was dreaming of being chased by bears, and only turned uneasily in her sleep.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000007_000000|The old professor, on his way to the kitchen, noticed that it seemed strangely light outside.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000007_000001|He shuffled to the door and looked out.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000008_000001|"Somebody vill shust in his bed be burnt, if old Johann does not haste make!"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000009_000000|Not waiting to close the door behind him, or even to catch up something to protect his old bald head from the intense cold of the winter night, he ran out across the garden.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000009_000001|His shuffling feet, in their flapping old carpet slippers, forgot their rheumatism, and his shoulders dropped the weight of their seventy years.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000009_000002|He ran like a boy across the meadow, through the gap in the fence, and down the hill to the cabin by the spring.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000001|The fire was curling around the front door and bursting through the windows with fierce cracklings.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000002|Dashing frantically around to the back door, he threw himself against it, shouting to know if any one was within.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000003|A blinding rush of smoke was his only answer as he backed away from the overpowering heat, but something fell across the door sill in a limp little heap.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000004|It was Jonesy.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000011_000000|Dragging the child to a safe distance from the burning building, he ran back, fearing that some one else might be in danger, but this time the flames met him at the door, and it was impossible to go in.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000012_000000|While the professor was bending over Jonesy, trying to bring him back to consciousness, Miss Allison came running down the path.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000012_000001|She had an eiderdown quilt wrapped around her over her dressing gown.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000013_000001|"Is the child badly burned?
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000013_000002|Is any one else hurt?
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000013_000003|Is the tramp in the cabin?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000014_000001|The old professor shook his head, but did not look up.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000014_000002|He was bending over Jonesy, trying to restore him to consciousness.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000015_000000|It was not much, only a horrible recollection of being awakened by a feeling that he was choking in the thick smoke that filled the room; of hearing the boss swear at him to be quick and follow him or he would be burned to death.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000015_000001|Then there had been an awful moment of groping through the blinding, choking smoke, trying to find a way out.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000015_000002|The man sprang to a window and made his escape, but as the outside air rushed in through the opening he left, it seemed to fan the smoke instantly into flame.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000016_000000|Jonesy had struck out at the wall of fire with his helpless little hands, and then, half crazed by the scorching pain, dropped to the floor and crawled in the opposite direction, just as the professor burst open the door.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000017_000000|The sight of the poor little blistered face brought the tears to Miss Allison's eyes, and she called two of the coloured men, directing them to carry Jonesy to the house, and then go at once for a doctor.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000017_000002|He said that he knew how to prepare the cooling bandages that were needed, and that he would sit up all night to apply them.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000017_000003|He could not sleep anyhow, he said, after such great excitement.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000018_000000|"But I feel responsible for him," urged Miss Allison.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000018_000001|"Since it happened on our place, and my little nephews brought him here, it seems to me that we ought to have the care of him."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000021_000000|There was no opposing the old man's masterful way.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000022_000003|He found some tracks presently, and followed them over the meadow in the starlight, across the road, and down the railroad track several rods.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000022_000004|There they suddenly disappeared.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000022_000005|The tramp had evidently walked on the rail some distance.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000023_000001|"We nearly froze to death that night," he said, when questioned about it afterward, "and the boss piled on an awful big lot of wood just before he went to bed."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000024_000000|"Then what made him take to his heels so fast if he didn't?" some one asked.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000025_000000|"I don't know," answered Jonesy.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000025_000001|"He said that luck was always against him, and maybe he thought nobody would believe him if he did say that he didn't do it."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000026_000001|He was a noted criminal who had escaped from a Northern penitentiary some two months before, and had been arrested by the Louisville police.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000026_000002|There was no mistaking him.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000026_000003|That big, ugly scar branded him on cheek and forehead like another Cain.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000000|"And to think that that terrible man was harboured on my place!" exclaimed mrs MacIntyre when she heard of it.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000002|Sat beside him and talked with him!
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000008|It is probably the only thing that can save him from growing up to be a criminal like the man who brought him here.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000009|I shall see what can be done about it, as soon as possible."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000028_000000|"A child of the slums!" Malcolm and Keith repeated the expression afterward, with only a vague idea of its meaning.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000028_000001|It seemed to set poor Jonesy apart from themselves as something unclean,--something that their happy, well filled lives must not be allowed to touch.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000000|Maybe if Jonesy had been an attractive child, with a sensitive mouth, and big, appealing eyes, he might have found his way more easily into people's hearts.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000001|But he was a lean, snub nosed little fellow, with a freckled face and neglected hair.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000002|No one would ever find his cheek a tempting one to kiss, and no one would be moved, by any feeling save pity, to stoop and put affectionate arms around Jonesy.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000003|He was only a common little street gamin, as unlovely as he was unloved.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000030_000000|"What a blessing that there are such places as orphan asylums for children of that class," said mrs Maclntyre, after one of her visits to him.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000030_000001|"I must make arrangements for him to be put into one as soon as he is able to be moved."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000000|"I think he will be very loath to leave the old professor," answered Miss Allison.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000001|"He has been so good to the child, amusing him by the hour with his microscopes and collections of insects, telling him those delightful old German folk lore tales, and putting him to sleep every night to the music of his violin.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000002|What a child lover he is, and what a delightful old man in every way!
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000003|I am glad we have discovered him."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000032_000000|"Yes," said mrs Maclntyre; "and when this little tramp is sent away, I want the children to go there often.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000032_000001|I asked him if he could not teach them this spring, at least make a beginning with them in natural history, and he appeared much pleased.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000032_000002|He is as poor as a church mouse, and would be very glad of the money."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000000|mrs MacIntyre hesitated.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000001|"I do not believe their mother would like it," she answered.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000005|I questioned him very closely this morning.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000006|He comes from the worst of the Chicago slums.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000007|He slept in the cellar of one of its poorest tenement houses, and lived in the gutters.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000008|He has a brother only a little older, who is a bootblack.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000009|On days when shines were plentiful they had something to eat, otherwise they starved or begged."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000035_000000|"Poor little lamb," murmured Miss Allison.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000036_000003|They walked all the way from Chicago to Lloydsborough, Jones told me, excepting three days' journey they made in a wagon.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000036_000004|They have been two months on the road, and showed the bear in the country places they passed through. They avoided the large towns."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000038_000001|I doubt if he ever heard the word.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000038_000002|His speech is something shocking; nothing but the slang of the streets, and so ungrammatical that I could scarcely understand him at times.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000039_000000|"But he is so little, mother, and so sick and pitiful looking," pleaded Miss Allison.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000039_000001|"Surely he cannot know so very much badness or hurt the boys if they go down to cheer him up for a little while."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000040_000000|Notwithstanding mrs Maclntyre's fears, she consented to the boys visiting Jonesy that afternoon.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000041_000000|They took the bear with them, which Jonesy welcomed like a lost friend. They spent an interesting hour among the professor's collections, listening to his explanations in his funny broken English.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000041_000001|Then they explored his cottage, much amused by his queer housekeeping, cracked nuts on the hearth, and roasted apples on a string in front of the fire.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000042_000001|Presently the old man left the room and Keith sat down on the side of the bed.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000043_000000|"What makes you so still, Jonesy?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000043_000001|"You haven't said a word for the last half hour."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000044_000000|"I was thinking about Barney," he answered, keeping his face turned away.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000044_000001|"Barney is my brother, you know."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000045_000000|"Yes, so grandmother said," answered Keith.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000045_000001|"How big is he?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000048_000001|I could ride back on the cars and take a whole trunk full of nice things to Barney,--clothes, and candy, and a swell watch and chain, and a bustin' beauty of a bike.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000048_000002|Now the bear's sold and the boss has run away, and I don't know how I can get back to Barney.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000049_000000|The little fellow's lip quivered, and he put up one bandaged hand to wipe away the hot tears that would keep coming, in spite of his efforts not to make a baby of himself.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000049_000001|There was something so pitiful in the gesture that Keith looked across at Malcolm and then patted the bedclothes with an affectionate little hand.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000052_000000|He was crying violently now.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000053_000000|"Who is going to put you in an asylum?" asked Malcolm, lifting an end of the pillow under which Jonesy's head had burrowed, to hide the grief that his eight year old manhood made him too proud to show.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000054_000002|But I've got somebody!" he cried.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000054_000003|"I've got Barney!
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000056_000001|"I don't want nothing but him."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000057_000000|"Well, we'll see what we can do," said Malcolm, as he heard the professor coming back.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000057_000001|"If we could only keep you here until spring, I am sure that papa would send you back all right.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000057_000002|He's always helping people that get into trouble."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000058_000000|Jonesy took his little snub nose out of the pillow as the professor came in, and looked around defiantly as if ready to fight the first one who dared to hint that he had been crying.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000058_000001|The boys took their leave soon after, leading the bear back to his new quarters in the carriage house, where they had made him a comfortable den.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000058_000002|Then they walked slowly up to the house, their arms thrown across each other's shoulders.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000059_000001|"S'pose that you and I were left of all the family, and didn't have any friends in the world, and I was to get separated from you and couldn't get back?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000061_000000|"Don't you s'pose Jonesy feels as badly about it as we would?" asked Keith.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000062_000000|"Shouldn't be surprised," said Malcolm, beginning to whistle.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000062_000001|Keith joined in, and keeping step to the tune, like two soldiers, they marched on into the house.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000063_000000|Virginia found them in the library, a little while later, sitting on the hearth rug, tailor fashion.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000063_000001|They were still talking about Jonesy.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000063_000002|They could think of nothing else but the loneliness of the little waif, and his pitiful appeal: "Oh, don't let them shut me up where I can't never get back to Barney."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000064_000000|"Why don't you write to your father?" asked Virginia, when they had told her the story of their visit.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000065_000001|But if he could see Jonesy,--how pitiful looking he is, and hear him crying to go back to his brother, I know he'd feel the way we do about it."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000066_000000|"I called the professor out in the hall, and told him so," said Keith, "and asked him if he couldn't adopt Jonesy, or something, until papa comes home.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000066_000001|But he said that he is too poor.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000066_000002|He has only a few dollars a month to live on.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000067_000000|"Then he would keep him till Uncle Sydney comes, if somebody would pay his board?" asked Virginia.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000068_000000|"Yes," said Malcolm, "but that doesn't help matters much, for we children are the only ones who want him to stay, and our monthly allowances, all put together, wouldn't be enough."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000070_000000|"How?" demanded Malcolm.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000070_000002|You can't pick fruit in the dead of winter, can you? or pull weeds, or rake leaves? What other way is there?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000000|"Now you've made me think of it," cried Virginia, excitedly.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000001|"I've thought of a good way.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000002|We'll give Jonesy a benefit, like great singers have.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000004|I love to arrange tableaux.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000005|We were always having them out at the fort."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000073_000000|"I bid to show off the bear," cried Malcolm, entering into Virginia's plan at once.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000073_000001|"May be I'll learn something to recite, too."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000074_000000|"I'll help print the tickets," said Keith, "and go around selling them, and be in anything you want me to be.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000074_000001|How many tableaux are you going to have, Ginger?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000075_000000|"I can't tell yet," she answered, but a moment after she cried out, her eyes shining with pleasure, "Oh, I've thought of a lovely one.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000075_000001|We can have the Little Colonel and the bear for 'Beauty and the Beast.'"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000076_000000|Malcolm promptly turned a somersault on the rug, to express his approval, but came up with a grave face, saying, "I'll bet that grandmother will say we can't have it."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000077_000000|"Let's get Aunt Allison on our side," suggested Virginia.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000078_000001|This was the first time that she had touched her brushes since the children's coming, and she had hoped that this one afternoon would be free from interruption, when she heard them planning their afternoon's occupations at the lunch table.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000078_000002|They had come back before the little water colour sketch she was making was quite finished.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000079_000000|There was no disappointment, however, in the bright face she turned toward them, and Virginia lost no time in beginning her story.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000079_000001|She had been elected to tell it, but before it was done all three had had a part in the telling, and all three were waiting with wistful eyes for her answer.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000080_000000|"Well, what is it you want me to do?" she asked, finally.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000082_000000|Aunt Allison answered Malcolm's last remark a little sternly.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000082_000002|"There is nobody in the valley so generous and kind to the poor as your grandmother." "Yes'm," said Virginia, meekly, "but you'll ask her, won't you please, auntie?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000000|Miss Allison smiled at her persistence.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000001|"Wait until I finish this," she said.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000002|"Then I'll go down stairs and put the matter before her, and report to you at dinner time.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000003|Now are you satisfied?"
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000084_000000|"Yes," they cried in chorus, "you're on our side.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000084_000001|It's all right now!" With a series of hearty hugs that left her almost breathless, they hurried away.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000085_000000|When Miss Allison kept her promise she did not go to her mother with the children's story of Jonesy, to move her to pity.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000086_000000|"'Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare.'
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000087_000000|"This would be a real sharing of themselves, all their time and best energies, for they will have to work hard to get up such an entertainment as this.
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000087_000001|It isn't for Jonesy's sake I ask it, but for the children's own good."
train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000088_000001|I do want to keep them unspotted from a knowledge of the world's evils, but I do not want to make them selfish. If this little beggar at the gate can teach them where to find the Holy Grail, through unselfish service to him, I do not want to stand in the way.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000002_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000003_000000|THE SIN OF MONOTONY
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000004_000000|One day Ennui was born from Uniformity.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000006_000000|Our English has changed with the years so that many words now connote more than they did originally.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000007_000000|The monotonous speaker not only drones along in the same volume and pitch of tone but uses always the same emphasis, the same speed, the same thoughts-or dispenses with thought altogether.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000008_000000|Monotony, the cardinal and most common sin of the public speaker, is not a transgression-it is rather a sin of omission, for it consists in living up to the confession of the Prayer Book: "We have left undone those things we ought to have done."
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000010_000000|To tell you that your speech is monotonous may mean very little to you, so let us look at the nature-and the curse-of monotony in other spheres of life, then we shall appreciate more fully how it will blight an otherwise good speech.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000011_000000|If the Victrola in the adjoining apartment grinds out just three selections over and over again, it is pretty safe to assume that your neighbor has no other records.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000011_000001|If a speaker uses only a few of his powers, it points very plainly to the fact that the rest of his powers are not developed.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000011_000002|Monotony reveals our limitations.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000012_000000|In its effect on its victim, monotony is actually deadly-it will drive the bloom from the cheek and the lustre from the eye as quickly as sin, and often leads to viciousness.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000012_000001|The worst punishment that human ingenuity has ever been able to invent is extreme monotony-solitary confinement.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000012_000002|Lay a marble on the table and do nothing eighteen hours of the day but change that marble from one point to another and back again, and you will go insane if you continue long enough.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000000|So this thing that shortens life, and is used as the most cruel of punishments in our prisons, is the thing that will destroy all the life and force of a speech.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000001|Avoid it as you would shun a deadly dull bore. The "idle rich" can have half a dozen homes, command all the varieties of foods gathered from the four corners of the earth, and sail for Africa or Alaska at their pleasure; but the poverty stricken man must walk or take a street car-he does not have the choice of yacht, auto, or special train.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000002|He must spend the most of his life in labor and be content with the staples of the food market.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000003|Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000004|Strive to increase the variety of your speech as the business man labors to augment his wealth.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000014_000001|Nature in her wealth gives us endless variety; man with his limitations is often monotonous.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000014_000002|Get back to nature in your methods of speech making.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000000|The power of variety lies in its pleasure giving quality.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000002|If you wish to teach or influence men, you must please them, first or last.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000003|Strike the same note on the piano over and over again.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000004|This will give you some idea of the displeasing, jarring effect monotony has on the ear.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000005|The dictionary defines "monotonous" as being synonymous with "wearisome." That is putting it mildly.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000006|It is maddening.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000017_000000|We obviate monotony in dress by replenishing our wardrobes.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000017_000001|We avoid monotony in speech by multiplying our powers of speech.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000017_000002|We multiply our powers of speech by increasing our tools.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000000|The carpenter has special implements with which to construct the several parts of a building.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000001|The organist has certain keys and stops which he manipulates to produce his harmonies and effects.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000002|In like manner the speaker has certain instruments and tools at his command by which he builds his argument, plays on the feelings, and guides the beliefs of his audience.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000003|To give you a conception of these instruments, and practical help in learning to use them, are the purposes of the immediately following chapters.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000000|Why did not the Children of Israel whirl through the desert in limousines, and why did not Noah have moving picture entertainments and talking machines on the Ark?
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000001|The laws that enable us to operate an automobile, produce moving pictures, or music on the Victrola, would have worked just as well then as they do today.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000002|It was ignorance of law that for ages deprived humanity of our modern conveniences.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000003|Many speakers still use ox cart methods in their speech instead of employing automobile or overland express methods.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000004|They are ignorant of laws that make for efficiency in speaking.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000006|We cannot impress too thoroughly upon you the necessity for a real working mastery of these principles.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000007|They are the very foundations of successful speaking.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000008|"Get your principles right," said Napoleon, "and the rest is a matter of detail."
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000020_000000|It is useless to shoe a dead horse, and all the sound principles in Christendom will never make a live speech out of a dead one.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000020_000001|So let it be understood that public speaking is not a matter of mastering a few dead rules; the most important law of public speech is the necessity for truth, force, feeling, and life.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000020_000002|Forget all else, but not this.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000021_000000|When you have mastered the mechanics of speech outlined in the next few chapters you will no longer be troubled with monotony.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000021_000001|The complete knowledge of these principles and the ability to apply them will give you great variety in your powers of expression.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000022_000000|The technical principles that we lay down in the following chapters are not arbitrary creations of our own.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000022_000001|They are all founded on the practices that good speakers and actors adopt-either naturally and unconsciously or under instruction-in getting their effects.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000000|It is useless to warn the student that he must be natural.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000001|To be natural may be to be monotonous.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000002|The little strawberry up in the arctics with a few tiny seeds and an acid tang is a natural berry, but it is not to be compared with the improved variety that we enjoy here.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000003|The dwarfed oak on the rocky hillside is natural, but a poor thing compared with the beautiful tree found in the rich, moist bottom lands.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000004|Be natural-but improve your natural gifts until you have approached the ideal, for we must strive after idealized nature, in fruit, tree, and speech.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000024_000000|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000025_000000|one.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000025_000001|What are the causes of monotony?
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000026_000001|Cite some instances in nature.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000027_000000|three.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000027_000001|Cite instances in man's daily life.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000028_000001|Describe some of the effects of monotony in both cases.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000029_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000029_000001|Read aloud some speech without paying particular attention to its meaning or force.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000030_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000030_000001|Now repeat it after you have thoroughly assimilated its matter and spirit.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000030_000002|What difference do you notice in its rendition?
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000031_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000031_000001|Why is monotony one of the worst as well as one of the most common faults of speakers?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000008_000000|CHAPTER three
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000011_000000|--c s
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000000|The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000001|The same principle applies to speech.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000002|The speaker that fires his force and emphasis at random into a sentence will not get results.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000003|Not every word is of special importance-therefore only certain words demand emphasis.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000013_000002|To some extent you do, in ordinary speech; but do you in public discourse?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000013_000003|It is there that monotony caused by lack of emphasis is so painfully apparent.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000015_000000|"Destiny is not a matter of chance.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000017_000000|Speak it aloud and see.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000018_000001|Obviously, the author has contrasted these ideas purposely, so that they might be more emphatic, and here we see that contrast is one of the very first devices to gain emphasis.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000019_000000|As a public speaker you can assist this emphasis of contrast with your voice.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000019_000002|White, naturally, for that is the opposite of black.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000020_000001|It is the one word that positively defines the quality of the subject being discussed, and the author of those lines desired to bring it out emphatically, as he has shown by contrasting it with another idea.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000020_000002|These lines, then, would read like this:
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000022_000001|When you pick up the evening paper you can tell at a glance which are the important news articles.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000022_000003|Size of type is his device to show emphasis in bold relief. He brings out sometimes even in red headlines the striking news of the day.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000023_000000|It would be a boon to speech making if speakers would conserve the attention of their audiences in the same way and emphasize only the words representing the important ideas.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000023_000001|The average speaker will deliver the foregoing line on destiny with about the same amount of emphasis on each word.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000024_000002|"But," said mr Dana, "if you see a man bite a dog, hurry back to the office and write the story." Of course that is news; that is unusual.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000025_000001|The ideal speaker makes his big words stand out like mountain peaks; his unimportant words are submerged like stream beds.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000025_000002|His big thoughts stand like huge oaks; his ideas of no especial value are merely like the grass around the tree.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000027_000001|Note the following, printed in the same type as given here.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000031_000000|He looked at her in angry astonishment.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000033_000000|"Did you expect me to give you a chance to destroy me and poison Jacqueline's mind?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000033_000002|Otherwise, it is justified."
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000000|A Fifth Avenue bus would attract attention up at Minisink Ford, New York, while one of the ox teams that frequently pass there would attract attention on Fifth Avenue.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000001|To make a word emphatic, deliver it differently from the manner in which the words surrounding it are delivered.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000003|If you have been going fast, go very slow on the emphatic word.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000004|If you have been talking on a low pitch, jump to a high one on the emphatic word.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000005|If you have been talking on a high pitch, take a low one on your emphatic ideas. Read the chapters on "Inflection," "Feeling," "Pause," "Change of Pitch," "Change of Tempo." Each of these will explain in detail how to get emphasis through the use of a certain principle.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000035_000000|In this chapter, however, we are considering only one form of emphasis: that of applying force to the important word and subordinating the unimportant words.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000035_000001|Do not forget: this is one of the main methods that you must continually employ in getting your effects.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000000|Let us not confound loudness with emphasis.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000001|To yell is not a sign of earnestness, intelligence, or feeling.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000002|The kind of force that we want applied to the emphatic word is not entirely physical.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000004|It must come from within, outward.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000037_000000|Last night a speaker said: "The curse of this country is not a lack of education.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000037_000002|The other words were hurried over and thus given no comparative importance at all.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000037_000004|His emphasis was both correct and powerful.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000000|What would you think of a guide who agreed to show New York to a stranger and then took up his time by visiting Chinese laundries and boot blacking "parlors" on the side streets?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000002|If he wearies their attention with trifles they will have neither vivacity nor desire left when he reaches words of Wall Street and skyscraper importance.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000003|You do not dwell on these small words in your everyday conversation, because you are not a conversational bore.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000004|Apply the correct method of everyday speech to the platform.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000005|As we have noted elsewhere, public speaking is very much like conversation enlarged.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000040_000000|I ab so lute ly refuse to grant your demand.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000000|Now and then this principle should be applied to an emphatic sentence by stressing each word.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000001|It is a good device for exciting special attention, and it furnishes a pleasing variety.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000002|Patrick Henry's notable climax could be delivered in that manner very effectively: "Give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death." The italicized part of the following might also be delivered with this every word emphasis.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000003|Of course, there are many ways of delivering it; this is only one of several good interpretations that might be chosen.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000042_000000|Knowing the price we must pay, the sacrifice we must make, the burdens we must carry, the assaults we must endure-knowing full well the cost-yet we enlist, and we enlist for the war.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000044_000000|Strongly emphasizing a single word has a tendency to suggest its antithesis.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000044_000001|Notice how the meaning changes by merely putting the emphasis on different words in the following sentence.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000044_000002|The parenthetical expressions would really not be needed to supplement the emphatic words.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000000|When a great battle is reported in the papers, they do not keep emphasizing the same facts over and over again.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000001|They try to get new information, or a "new slant." The news that takes an important place in the morning edition will be relegated to a small space in the late afternoon edition.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000002|We are interested in new ideas and new facts.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000003|This principle has a very important bearing in determining your emphasis.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000004|Do not emphasize the same idea over and over again unless you desire to lay extra stress on it; Senator Thurston desired to put the maximum amount of emphasis on "force" in his speech on page fifty.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000005|Note how force is emphasized repeatedly.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000052_000000|In the following selection, "larger" is emphatic, for it is the new idea.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000001|"New stars and suns" are hardly as emphatic as the word "larger." Why?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000002|Because we expect an astronomer to discover heavenly bodies rather than cooking recipes.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000003|The words, "Republic needs" in the next sentence, are emphatic; they introduce a new and important idea.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000005|"New" is emphatic because it introduces a new idea.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000006|In like manner, "soil," "grain," "tools," are also emphatic.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000054_000001|Are there any others you would emphasize?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000054_000002|Why?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000001|One speaker will put one interpretation on a speech, another speaker will use different emphasis to bring out a different interpretation.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000002|No one can say that one interpretation is right and the other wrong.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000003|This principle must be borne in mind in all our marked exercises.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000004|Here your own intelligence must guide-and greatly to your profit.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000058_000000|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000059_000000|one.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000059_000001|What is emphasis?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000060_000001|Describe one method of destroying monotony of thought presentation.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000061_000000|three.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000061_000001|What relation does this have to the use of the voice?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000062_000001|Which words should be emphasized, which subordinated, in a sentence?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000000|five.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000001|Read the selections on pages fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three and fifty four, devoting special attention to emphasizing the important words or phrases and subordinating the unimportant ones.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000002|Read again, changing emphasis slightly.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000003|What is the effect?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000064_000000|six.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000064_000001|Read some sentence repeatedly, emphasizing a different word each time, and show how the meaning is changed, as is done on page twenty two.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000065_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000065_000001|What is the effect of a lack of emphasis?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000066_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000066_000001|Read the selections on pages thirty and forty eight, emphasizing every word.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000066_000002|What is the effect on the emphasis?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000067_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000067_000001|When is it permissible to emphasize every single word in a sentence?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000001|Note the emphasis and subordination in some conversation or speech you have heard.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000002|Were they well made?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000003|Why?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000004|Can you suggest any improvement?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000069_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000069_000002|Mark the passage for emphasis and bring it with you to class.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000001|In the following passage, would you make any changes in the author's markings for emphasis?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000002|Where?
train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000003|Why?
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000002_000001|To be lost at five years of age in a great city, to be snatched from wealth, happiness, and a loving mother's arms, only to be thrust instantly into poverty, misery, and loneliness; and then to be, after four long years, suddenly returned-no wonder Houghtonsville held its breath and questioned if it all indeed were true.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000003_000000|Bit by bit the little girl's history was related in every house in town; and many a woman-and some men-wept over the tale of how the little fingers had sewed on buttons in the attic sweat shop, and pasted bags in the ill smelling cellar.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000001|"But, there!
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000002|ain't that what she's always doin' for folks-somethin' ter make 'em happy?
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000005|But there!
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000006|what's past is past, and there ain't no use frettin' over it.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000006_000000|Nor was this all.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000006_000002|She was not ungrateful, certainly, but she was overwhelmed.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000007_000000|Not only the cakes and the tidies, however, gave mrs Kendall food for thought during those first few days after Margaret's return.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000007_000001|From the very nature of the case it was, of necessity, a period of adjustment; and to mrs Kendall's consternation there was every indication of friction, if not disaster.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000008_000000|For four years now her young daughter had been away from her tender care and influence; and for only one of those four years-the last-had she come under the influence of any sort of refinement or culture, and then under only such as a city missionary and an overworked schoolteacher could afford, supplemented by the two trips to Mont Lawn.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000008_000002|It was not easy for "Mag of the Alley" to become at once Margaret Kendall, the dainty little daughter of a well bred, fastidious mother.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000009_000001|Kendall went for advice.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000010_000000|"What shall I do?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000012_000000|"The child is so good and loving," she went on a little hurriedly, "that it makes it all the harder-but I must do something.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000012_000002|Doctor, what shall I do?"
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000000|"I know, I know," nodded the man.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000001|"I have seen it myself.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000004|It's in her-the gentleness and the refinement.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000006|But she'll come out straight.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000007|Her heart is all right."
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000014_000000|mrs Kendall laughed softly.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000000|"Her heart, doctor!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000001|"Just there lies the greatest problem of all.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000003|Why, Harry,"--mrs
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000005|So far her horror is tempered by the fact that she is sure I didn't know before that there were any people who did not have all these things.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000006|Now that she has told me of them, she confidently looks to me to do my obvious duty at once."
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000016_000000|The doctor laughed.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000000|"As if you weren't always doing things for people," he said fondly.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000001|Then he grew suddenly grave.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000004|You'll see.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000005|At heart she's so gentle and-why, what"--he broke off with an unspoken question, his eyes widely opened at the change that had come to her face.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000018_000000|"Oh, nothing," returned mrs Kendall, almost despairingly, "only if you'd seen Joe Bagley yesterday morning I'm afraid you'd have changed your opinion of her gentleness.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000019_000001|"Why, he's almost twice her size."
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000020_000000|"Yes, I know, but that didn't seem to occur to Margaret," returned mrs Kendall.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000020_000002|When I arrived on the scene they were the center of an admiring crowd of children,"--mrs
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000020_000003|Kendall shivered visibly-"and Margaret was just delivering herself of a final blow that sent the great bully off blubbering."
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000021_000000|"Good for her!"--it was an involuntary tribute, straight from the heart.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000022_000000|"Harry!" gasped mrs Kendall.
train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000022_000001|"'Good'--a delicate girl!"
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000005_000000|The household at Hilcrest did not break up as early as usual that year. A few days were consumed in horrified remonstrances and tearful pleadings on the part of mrs Merideth and Ned when Margaret's plans became known.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000006_000000|"It is not so dreadful at all," Margaret had assured them.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000006_000001|"I have taken a large house not far from the mills, and I am having it papered and painted and put into very comfortable shape.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000006_000002|Patty and her family will live with me, and we are going to open classes in simple little things that will help toward better living."
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000007_000000|"But that is regular settlement work," sighed mrs Merideth.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000008_000001|"Well, perhaps it is. Anyway, I hope that just the presence of one clean, beautiful home among them will do some good.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000008_000002|I mean to try it, at all events."
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000009_000000|"But are you going to do nothing but that all the time-just teach those dreadful creatures, and-and live there?"
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000010_000000|"Certainly not," declared Margaret, with a bright smile.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000010_000001|"I've planned a trip to New York."
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000000|"To New York?" mrs Merideth sat up suddenly, her face alight.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000001|"Oh, that will be fine-lovely!
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000002|Why didn't you tell us?
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000003|Poor dear, you'll need a rest all right, I'm thinking, and we'll keep you just as long as we can, too." With lightning rapidity mrs Merideth had changed their plans-in her mind.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000004|They would go to New York, not Egypt.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000005|Egypt had seemed desirable, but if Margaret was going to New York, that altered the case.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000012_000000|"Oh, but I thought you weren't going to New York," laughed Margaret. "Besides-I'm going with Patty."
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000013_000000|"With Patty!"
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000015_000000|"What absurd names!" mrs Merideth spoke sharply.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000016_000000|"Patty doesn't think them absurd," laughed Margaret.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000016_000002|You should hear Patty say it really to appreciate it.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000017_000000|"Ugh!" shuddered mrs Merideth.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000017_000001|"Margaret, how can you-laugh!"
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000018_000000|"Why, it's funny, I think," laughed Margaret again, as she turned away.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000019_000000|Even the most urgent entreaties on the part of Margaret failed to start the Spencers on their trip, and not until she finally threatened to make the first move herself and go down to the town, did they consent to go.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000021_000001|"I would rather wait until you go, as you seem so worried about the 'break,' as you insist upon calling it; but if you won't, why I must, that is all.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000023_000000|Margaret smiled, but she made no comment-it was enough to fight present battles without trying to win future ones.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000024_000002|She told herself, however, that all this was well and good; and she ate the supper and laid herself down upon the hard bed with an exaltation that rendered her oblivious to taste and feeling.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000025_000000|In due time the Mill House, as Margaret called her new home, was ready for occupancy, and the family moved in.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000025_000001|Naming the place had given Margaret no little food for thought.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000026_000003|It is just one of the mill houses."
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000028_000001|I will," cried Margaret.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000028_000002|And the "Mill House" it was from that day.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000029_000000|Margaret's task was not an easy one.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000029_000001|Both she and her house were looked upon with suspicion, and she had some trouble in finding the two or three teachers of just the right sort to help her.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000030_000000|"Never mind," said Margaret, "we shall grow.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000030_000001|You'll see!"
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000031_000000|The mill people, however, were not the only ones that learned something during the next few months.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000031_000001|Margaret herself learned much.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000032_000001|"But thar ain't a boss but what said if I'd got kids I might send them along.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000033_000001|"That would spoil everything.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000033_000003|They must go to school-get an education."
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000035_000000|"They got ter eat-first," he said.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000036_000000|"Yes, yes, I know," interposed Margaret, eagerly.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000036_000001|"I understand all that, and I'll help about that part.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000037_000000|A sudden flash came into the man's eyes.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000037_000001|His shoulders straightened.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000038_000001|We be n't charity folks." And he turned away.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000039_000000|A week later Margaret learned that Rosy and Katy were out of school. When she looked them up she found them at work in the mills.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000000|This matter of the school question was a great puzzle to Margaret.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000001|Very early in her efforts she had sought out the public school teachers, and asked their help and advice.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000002|She was appalled at the number of children who appeared scarcely to understand that there was such a thing as school.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000003|This state of affairs she could not seem to remedy, however, in spite of her earnest efforts.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000004|The parents, in many cases, were indifferent, and the children more so.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000005|Some of the children in the mills, indeed, were there solely-according to the parents' version-because they could not "get on" in school.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000006|Conscious that there must be a school law, Margaret went vigorously to work to find and enforce it.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000007|Then, and not until then, did she realize the seriousness of even this one phase of the problem she had undertaken to solve.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000041_000000|There were other phases, too.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000041_000002|Sometimes it was ambition.
train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000041_000004|To this end and aim were sacrificed all the life and strength of whatever was theirs.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000000|To Margaret, however, the whole thing seemed hopelessly small: there was so much to do, so little done!
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000001|She was still the little girl with the teaspoon and the bowl of sand; and the chasm yawned as wide as ever.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000002|To tell the truth, Margaret was tired, discouraged, and homesick.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000003|For months her strength, time, nerves, and sympathies had been taxed to the utmost; and now that there had come a breathing space, when the intricate machinery of her scheme could run for a moment without her hand at the throttle, she was left weak and nerveless.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000004|She was, in fact, perilously near a breakdown.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000000|Added to all this, she was lonely.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000002|Here she was the head, the strong tower of defense, the one to whom everybody came with troubles, perplexities, and griefs.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000003|There was no human being to whom she could turn for comfort.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000004|They all looked to her.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000005|Even Bobby McGinnis, when she saw him at all-which was seldom-treated her with a frigid deference that was inexpressibly annoying to her.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000000|From the Spencers she heard irregularly.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000003|Then had come the good news that Frank was out of danger, though still far too weak to undertake the long journey home.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000004|Their letters showed unmistakably their impatience at the delay, and questioned her as to her health and welfare, but could set no date for their return.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000005|Frank, in particular, was disturbed, they said.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000007|As for Frank himself-he had not written her since his illness.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000007_000000|Margaret raised an imperious hand.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000008_000001|I will see him now." And Patty, wondering vaguely what had come to her gentle eyed, gentle voiced mistress-as she insisted upon calling Margaret-fled precipitately.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000009_000000|Two minutes later Bobby McGinnis himself stood tall and straight just inside the door.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000010_000000|"You sent for me?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000011_000000|Margaret sprang to her feet.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000011_000001|All the pent loneliness of the past weeks and months burst forth in a stinging whip of retort.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000012_000000|"Yes, I sent for you." She paused, but the man did not speak, and in a moment she went on hurriedly, feverishly.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000012_000001|"I always send for you-if I see you at all, and yet you know how hard I'm trying to help these people, and that you are the only one here that can help me."
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000013_000000|She paused again, and again the man was silent.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000014_000000|"Don't you know what I'm trying to do?" she asked.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000015_000000|"Yes." The lips closed firmly over the single word.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000016_000000|"Didn't I ask you to help me?
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000016_000001|Didn't I appoint us a committee of two to do the work?" Her voice shook, and her chin trembled like that of a grieved child.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000017_000000|"Yes." Again that strained, almost harsh monosyllable.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000018_000000|Margaret made an impatient gesture.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000019_000000|"Bobby McGinnis, why don't you help me?" she demanded, tearfully.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000019_000002|Why don't you come to me frankly and freely, and tell me the best way to deal with these people?"
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000020_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000020_000001|The man had half turned his face so that only his profile showed clean cut and square chinned against the close shut door.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000021_000000|"Don't you know that I am alone here-that I have no friends but you and Patty?" she went on tremulously.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000021_000002|Sometimes it seems almost as if you were afraid----"
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000022_000000|"I am afraid," cut in a voice shaken with emotion.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000023_000000|"Bobby!" breathed Margaret in surprised dismay, falling back before the fire in the eyes that suddenly turned and flashed straight into hers. "Why, Bobby!"
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000024_000000|If the man heard, he did not heed.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000024_000002|He had stepped forward as she fell back, and his eyes still blazed into hers.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000025_000001|"I don't dare to trust myself within sight of your dear eyes, or within touch of your dear hands-though all the while I'm hungry for both.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000025_000002|Perhaps I do let you send for me, instead of coming of my own free will; but I'm never without the thought of you, and the hope of catching somewhere a glimpse of even your dress.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000026_000000|Over by the table Margaret stood silent, motionless, her eyes on the bowed figure of the man before her.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000026_000001|Gradually her confused senses were coming into something like order.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000026_000002|Slowly her dazed thoughts were taking shape.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000000|It was her own fault.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000001|She had brought this thing upon herself.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000002|She should have seen-have understood.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000004|But, after all, why should he not love her?
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000005|And why should she not-love him?
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000006|He was good and true and noble, and for years he had loved her-she remembered now their childish compact, and she bitterly reproached herself for not thinking of it before-it might have saved her this....
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000007|Still, did she want to save herself this?
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000008|Was it not, after all, the very best thing that could have happened?
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000009|Where, and how could she do more good in the world than right here with this strong, loving heart to help her?...
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000012|Of course she loved him!
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000028_000000|Very softly Margaret crossed the room and touched the man's shoulder.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000029_000000|"Bobby, I did not understand-I did not know," she said gently.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000030_000000|"Won't have to-stay-away!"
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000031_000000|"no
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000031_000001|We-we will do it together-this work."
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000032_000000|"But you don't mean-you can't mean----" McGinnis paused, his breath suspended.
train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000034_000000|"Margaret!" choked the man, as he fell on his knees and caught the girl's two hands to his lips.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000005_000000|Frank Spencer had already left the Mill House and gone to Hilcrest when McGinnis was well enough to go back to his place in the mills.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000006_000000|For some time after McGinnis went away, Margaret remained at the Mill House; but she was restless and unhappy in the position in which she found herself.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000006_000001|McGinnis taught an evening class at the Mill House, and she knew that it could not be easy for him to see her so frequently now that the engagement was broken.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000006_000004|Those long hours of misery when the mills burned had opened Margaret's eyes; and now that her eyes were opened, she was frightened and ashamed.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000007_000001|As for Hilcrest-she certainly would not stay at Hilcrest anyway-now.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000007_000002|Later, when she had come to her senses, perhaps-but not now.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000000|It did not take much persuasion on the part of Margaret to convince mrs Merideth that a winter abroad would be delightful-just they two together.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000001|The news of Margaret's broken engagement had been received at Hilcrest with a joyous relief that was nevertheless carefully subdued in the presence of Margaret herself; but mrs Merideth could not conceal her joy that she was to take Margaret away from the "whole unfortunate affair," as she expressed it to her brothers.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000002|Frank Spencer, however, was not so pleased at the proposed absence.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000003|He could see no reason for Margaret's going, and one evening when they were alone together in the library he spoke of it.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000009_000000|"But, Margaret, I don't see why you must go," he protested.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000010_000000|For a moment the girl was silent; then she turned swiftly and faced him.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000000|"Frank, Bobby McGinnis was my good friend.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000001|From the time when I was a tiny little girl he has been that.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000002|He is good and true and noble, but I have brought him nothing but sorrow.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000003|He will be happier now if I am quite out of his sight at present.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000004|I am going away."
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000012_000000|Frank Spencer stirred uneasily.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000013_000000|"But you will be away-from him-if you are here," he suggested.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000015_000000|Spencer grew sober instantly.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000016_000000|"You poor child, of course you do, and no wonder!
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000017_000000|She raised a protesting hand.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000018_000000|"No, no, you do not understand.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000018_000001|I-I have made a failure of it."
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000019_000000|"A failure of it!"
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000020_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000021_000001|It's no failure at all.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000021_000002|You've done wonders down there at the Mill House."
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000022_000000|Margaret shook her head slowly.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000023_000000|"It's so little-so very little compared to what ought to be done," she sighed.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000023_000001|"The Mill House is good and does good, I acknowledge; but it's so puny after all.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000023_000002|It's like a tiny little oasis in a huge desert of poverty and distress."
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000024_000000|"But what-what more could you do?" ventured the man.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000025_000000|Margaret rose, and moved restlessly around the room.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000001|"That's what I mean to find out." She stopped suddenly, facing him.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000002|"Don't you see?
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000003|I touch only the surface. The great cause behind things I never reach.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000004|Sometimes it seems as if it were like that old picture-where was it?
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000005|in Pilgrim's Progress?--of the fire.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000006|On one side is the man trying to put it out; on the other, is the evil one pouring on oil.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000007|My two hands are the two men.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000008|With one I feed a hungry child, or nurse a sick woman; with the other I make more children hungry and more women sick."
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000027_000000|"Margaret, are you mad?
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000027_000001|What can you mean?"
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000028_000000|"Merely this.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000028_000001|It is very simple, after all.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000028_000002|With one hand I relieve the children's suffering; with the other I take dividends from the very mills that make the children suffer.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000000|The man frowned.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000001|He, too, got to his feet and walked nervously up and down the room.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000002|When he came back the girl had sat down again.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000003|Her elbows were on the table, and her linked fingers were shielding her eyes. Involuntarily the man reached his hand toward the bowed head.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000030_000000|"I do see, Margaret," he began gently, "and you are right.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000031_000001|She gave a nervous little laugh and picked up a bit of paper from the floor.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000032_000000|"Of course it is useless," she retorted in what she hoped was a merry voice.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000032_000001|"And he doesn't even love me now, besides."
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000000|"Of course not!
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000001|He never did, for that matter.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000002|'twas only the fancy of a moment.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000003|Why, Frank, Ned never cared for me-that way!"
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000035_000001|The tone and the one word were enough.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000035_000002|For one moment Margaret gazed into the man's face with startled eyes; then she turned and covered her own telltale face with her hands-and because it was a telltale face, Spencer took a long stride toward her.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000036_000000|"Margaret!
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000036_000001|And did you think it was Ned I was pleading for, when all the while it was I who was hungering for you with a love that sent me across the seas to rid myself of it?
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000036_000002|Did you, Margaret?"
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000037_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000039_000000|Still no answer.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000040_000000|"Margaret, it did not go-that love.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000040_000001|It stayed with me day after day, and month after month, and it only grew stronger and deeper until there was nothing left me in all this world but you-just you.
train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000040_000002|And now-Margaret, my Margaret," he said softly and very tenderly.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000000_000000|When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty sixth Night,
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000000|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman thus continued:--When I smote the serpent on the head with my golden staff she cast the man forth of her mouth.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000003|Then I gave the wand of gold to him whom I had delivered from the serpent and bade him farewell, and my friend took me on his back and flew with me as before, till he brought me to the city and set me down in my own house.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000005|Then we embarked, I and my wife, with all our moveables, leaving our houses and domains and so forth, and set sail, and ceased not sailing from island to island and from sea to sea, with a fair wind and a favouring, till we arrived at Bassorah safe and sound.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000006|I made no stay there, but freighted another vessel and, transferring my goods to her, set out forthright for Baghdad city, where I arrived in safety, and entering my quarter and repairing to my house, foregathered with my family and friends and familiars who laid up my goods in my warehouses.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000008|Then I forswore travel and vowed to Allah the Most High I would venture no more by land or sea, for that this seventh and last voyage had surfeited me of travel and adventure; and I thanked the Lord (be He praised and glorified!), and blessed Him for having restored me to my kith and kin and country and home.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000002_000000|A Translation of The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000003_000000|according to the version of the Calcutta Edition
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000004_000000|which differs in essential form from the preceding tale
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000000|Know, O my brothers and friends and companions all, that when I left voyaging and commercing, I said in myself, "Sufficeth me that hath befallen me;" and I spent my time in solace and pleasure.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000002|I trembled at these words and rejoined, "By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words 'Voyage' or 'Travel,' my limbs tremble for what hath befallen me of hardships and horrors.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000004|Then I dropped down from Baghdad to the Gulf, and with other merchants embarked, and our ship sailed before a fair wind many days and nights till, by Allah's aid, we reached the island of Sarandib.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000005|As soon as we had made fast we landed and I took the present and the letter; and, going in with them to the King, kissed ground before him.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000007|By Allah Omnipotent we were longing to see thee, and glory be to God who hath again shown us thy face!" Then taking me by the hand he made me sit by his side, rejoicing, and he welcomed me with familiar kindness again and entreated me as a friend.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000012|But after.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000014|Some days after I craved his leave to depart, but could not obtain it except by great pressing, whereupon I farewelled him and fared forth from his city, with merchants and other companions, homewards bound without any desire for travel or companions, homewards bound without any desire for travel or trade.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000015|We continued voyaging and coasting along many islands; but, when we were half-way, we were surrounded by a number of canoes, wherein were men like devils armed with bows and arrows, swords and daggers; habited in mail coats and other armoury.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000016|They fell upon us and wounded and slew all who opposed them; then, having captured the ship and her contents, carried us to an island, where they sold us at the meanest price.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000017|Now I was bought by a wealthy man who, taking me to his house, gave me meat and drink and clothing and treated me in the friendliest manner; so I was heartened and I rested a little.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000021|In the evening I reported my success to my master who was delighted in me and entreated me with high honour; and next morning he removed the slain elephant.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000024|I fell down fainting amongst the beasts when the monster elephant wound his trunk about me and, setting me on his back, went off with me, the others accompanying us.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000025|He carried me still unconscious till he reached the place for which he was making, when he rolled me off his back and presently went his ways followed by the others.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000030|After this, he entreated me with increased favour and said, "O my son, thou hast shown us the way to great gain, wherefore Allah requite thee!
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000037|I likewise bought for myself a beast and we fared forth and crossed the deserts from country to country till I reached Baghdad.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000038|Here I went in to the Caliph and, after saluting him and kissing hands, informed him of all that had befallen me; whereupon he rejoiced in my safety and thanked Almighty Allah; and he bade my story be written in letters of gold.
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000006_000000|Now when Shahrazad had ended her story of the two Sindbads, Dinarzad exclaimed, "O my sister, how pleasant is thy tale and how tasteful!
train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000006_000001|How sweet and how grateful!"
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000001_000000|THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SALOON
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000001|It refers as well to every other type of moving picture that gets into the slum.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000005|But now, to speak in an Irish way, the crowd takes the platform, and looking down, sees itself swaying.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000007|Below the cliff caves were bar rooms in endless lines.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000008|There are almost as many bar rooms to day, yet this new thing breaks the lines as nothing else ever did.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000001|For no pious reason, surely.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000002|Now they have fire pouring into their eyes instead of into their bellies.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000003|Blood is drawn from the guts to the brain.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000005|After a day's work a street sweeper enters the place, heavy as King Log.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000004_000000|The photoplays have done something to reunite the lower class families. No longer is the fire escape the only summer resort for big and little folks.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000004_000001|Here is more fancy and whim than ever before blessed a hot night. Here, under the wind of an electric fan, they witness everything, from a burial in Westminster to the birthday parade of the ruler of the land of Swat.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000005_000008|As Padraic Colum says in his poem on the herdsman:--
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000006_000000|"With thoughts on white ships And the King of Spain's Daughter."
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000008_000001|I beg to be allowed to relate a personal matter.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000008_000004|The talk with this man was worth it all to me.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000009_000005|Through their office they are committed to prohibition.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000001|When a county goes dry, it is generally in spite of the county seat.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000003|The larger the county seat, the larger the non church going population and the more stubborn the fight.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000009|But they are outstanding groups.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000010|Their leadership seldom dries up a factory town or a mining region, with all the help the Anti Saloon League can give.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000012_000002|The men who do this, drink freely at their own clubs or parties.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000013_000002|The women's vote, a little more puritanical than the men's vote, will make the result sure.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000014_000003|And a whole evening costs but a dime apiece.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000015_000000|Since I have announced myself a farmer and a puritan, let me here list the saloon evils not yet recorded in this chapter.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000015_000002|The shame of the American drinking place is the bar tender who dominates its thinking.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000017_000002|But it is not too late for the dry forces to repent.
train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000017_000005|And wet territory voted dry will bring about a greatly accelerated patronage of the photoplay houses. There is every strategic reason why these two forces should patch up a truce.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000002_000000|ON COMING FORTH BY DAY
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000003_000009|Humanity takes on its sacred aspect.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000004_000001|We retire to the shaded porch.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000004_000002|It takes two more steps toward quietness of light to read the human face and figure.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000005_000003|In the imaginative pictures the principle begins to be applied more largely, till throughout the fairy story the figures float in and out from the unknown, as fancies should.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000000|Now we have a darkness on which we can paint, an unspoiled twilight.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000001|We need not call it the Arabian's cave.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000004|The Nile flows through his heart.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000007|We built the mysteriousness of the Universe into the Pyramids, carved it into every line of the Sphinx.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000010_000001|He is carried past a dreadful place on the back of the cow Hathor.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000010_000003|They sit in majestic rows.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000011_000002|At last he is declared justified.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000011_000006|She makes sacrifice with him there.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000013_000003|It was the force behind every mummification.
train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000015_000000|The Greeks, the wisest people in our limited system of classics, bowed down before the Egyptian hierarchy.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000003_000001|In many cases where the sexes are separate, both are permanently attached to some support, and the one cannot search or struggle for the other.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000003_000002|Moreover it is almost certain that these animals have too imperfect senses and much too low mental powers to appreciate each other's beauty or other attractions, or to feel rivalry.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000005_000001|It should be borne in mind that in no case have we sufficient evidence that colours have been thus acquired, except where one sex is much more brilliantly or conspicuously coloured than the other, and where there is no difference in habits between the sexes sufficient to account for their different colours.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000006_000005|Conspicuous colours are likewise beneficial to many animals as a warning to their would be devourers that they are distasteful, or that they possess some special means of defence; but this subject will be discussed more conveniently hereafter.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000007_000004|Bearing in mind how many substances closely analogous to natural organic compounds have been recently formed by chemists, and which exhibit the most splendid colours, it would have been a strange fact if substances similarly coloured had not often originated, independently of any useful end thus gained, in the complex laboratory of living organisms.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000008_000000|THE SUB KINGDOM OF THE MOLLUSCA.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000000|Throughout this great division of the animal kingdom, as far as I can discover, secondary sexual characters, such as we are here considering, never occur.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000002|In the Lamellibranchiata, or bivalve shells, hermaphroditism is not rare.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000003|In the next higher class of the Gasteropoda, or univalve shells, the sexes are either united or separate.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000004|But in the latter case the males never possess special organs for finding, securing, or charming the females, or for fighting with other males.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000005|As I am informed by mr Gwyn Jeffreys, the sole external difference between the sexes consists in the shell sometimes differing a little in form; for instance, the shell of the male periwinkle (Littorina littorea) is narrower and has a more elongated spire than that of the female.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000006|But differences of this nature, it may be presumed, are directly connected with the act of reproduction, or with the development of the ova.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000000|The Gasteropoda, though capable of locomotion and furnished with imperfect eyes, do not appear to be endowed with sufficient mental powers for the members of the same sex to struggle together in rivalry, and thus to acquire secondary sexual characters.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000001|Nevertheless with the pulmoniferous gasteropods, or land snails, the pairing is preceded by courtship; for these animals, though hermaphrodites, are compelled by their structure to pair together.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000004|After a short time the strong and healthy individual disappeared, and was traced by its track of slime over a wall into an adjoining well stocked garden.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000005|mr Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence of twenty four hours it returned, and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration, for both then started along the same track and disappeared over the wall.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000011_000000|Even in the highest class of the Mollusca, the Cephalopoda or cuttle fishes, in which the sexes are separate, secondary sexual characters of the present kind do not, as far as I can discover, occur.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000012_000001|The colours do not appear in most cases to be of any use as a protection; they are probably the direct result, as in the lowest classes, of the nature of the tissues; the patterns and the sculpture of the shell depending on its manner of growth.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000012_000009|But many brightly coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000012_000010|So that with these nudibranch molluscs, colour apparently does not stand in any close relation to the nature of the places which they inhabit.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000013_000000|These naked sea slugs are hermaphrodites, yet they pair together, as do land snails, many of which have extremely pretty shells.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000013_000001|It is conceivable that two hermaphrodites, attracted by each other's greater beauty, might unite and leave offspring which would inherit their parents' greater beauty.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000013_000004|We have not here the case of a number of males becoming mature before the females, with the more beautiful males selected by the more vigorous females.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000015_000001|These animals are often beautifully coloured, but as the sexes do not differ in this respect, we are but little concerned with them.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000000|In this great class we first meet with undoubted secondary sexual characters, often developed in a remarkable manner.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000001|Unfortunately the habits of crustaceans are very imperfectly known, and we cannot explain the uses of many structures peculiar to one sex.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000003|But these extraordinary differences between the two sexes are no doubt related to their widely different habits of life, and consequently do not concern us.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000004|In various crustaceans, belonging to distinct families, the anterior antennae are furnished with peculiar thread like bodies, which are believed to act as smelling organs, and these are much more numerous in the males than in the females.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000026_000005|mr Bate put a large male Carcinus maenas into a pan of water, inhabited by a female which was paired with a smaller male; but the latter was soon dispossessed.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000026_000008|After a time the male was put again into the same vessel; and he then, after swimming about for a time, dashed into the crowd, and without any fighting at once took away his wife.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000026_000009|This fact shews that in the Amphipoda, an order low in the scale, the males and females recognise each other, and are mutually attached.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000000|The mental powers of the Crustacea are probably higher than at first sight appears probable.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000001|Any one who tries to catch one of the shore crabs, so common on tropical coasts, will perceive how wary and alert they are. There is a large crab (Birgus latro), found on coral islands, which makes a thick bed of the picked fibres of the cocoa nut, at the bottom of a deep burrow.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000002|It feeds on the fallen fruit of this tree by tearing off the husk, fibre by fibre; and it always begins at that end where the three eye like depressions are situated.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000003|It then breaks through one of these eyes by hammering with its heavy front pincers, and turning round, extracts the albuminous core with its narrow posterior pincers.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000004|But these actions are probably instinctive, so that they would be performed as well by a young animal as by an old one.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000008|In about five minutes the crab brought out the shell which had fallen in, and carried it away to a distance of a foot; it then saw the three other shells lying near, and evidently thinking that they might likewise roll in, carried them to the spot where it had laid the first.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000028_000015|In some species of the genus, probably in all, the sexes pair and inhabit the same burrow.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000028_000016|They are also, as we have seen, highly intelligent animals.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000028_000017|From these various considerations it seems probable that the male in this species has become gaily ornamented in order to attract or excite the female.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000029_000000|It has just been stated that the male Gelasimus does not acquire his conspicuous colours until mature and nearly ready to breed.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000029_000001|This seems a general rule in the whole class in respect to the many remarkable structural differences between the sexes.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000029_000002|We shall hereafter find the same law prevailing throughout the great sub kingdom of the Vertebrata; and in all cases it is eminently distinctive of characters which have been acquired through sexual selection.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000008|I am informed by mr Blackwall that the sexes whilst young usually resemble each other; and both often undergo great changes in colour during their successive moults, before arriving at maturity.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000009|In other cases the male alone appears to change colour.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000011|Spiders are possessed of acute senses, and exhibit much intelligence; as is well known, the females often shew the strongest affection for their eggs, which they carry about enveloped in a silken web.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000012|The males search eagerly for the females, and have been seen by Canestrini and others to fight for possession of them. This same author says that the union of the two sexes has been observed in about twenty species; and he asserts positively that the female rejects some of the males who court her, threatens them with open mandibles, and at last after long hesitation accepts the chosen one.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000013|From these several considerations, we may admit with some confidence that the well marked differences in colour between the sexes of certain species are the results of sexual selection; though we have not here the best kind of evidence,-- the display by the male of his ornaments.
train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000032_000004|In this species, as I may add, the male is testaceous and the female black with legs banded with red.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000001_000002|I have not alluded to the well-known noise made by the Death's Head Sphinx, for it is generally heard soon after the moth has emerged from its cocoon.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000003_000001|Or have successive variations been accumulated and determined as a protection, or for some unknown purpose, or that one sex may be attractive to the other? And, again, what is the meaning of the colours being widely different in the males and females of certain species, and alike in the two sexes of other species of the same genus?
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000003_000002|Before attempting to answer these questions a body of facts must be given.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000000|With our beautiful English butterflies, the admiral, peacock, and painted lady (Vanessae), as well as many others, the sexes are alike.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000001|This is also the case with the magnificent Heliconidae, and most of the Danaidae in the tropics.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000002|But in certain other tropical groups, and in some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange tip, etc (Apatura Iris and Anthocharis cardamines), the sexes differ either greatly or slightly in colour.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000003|No language suffices to describe the splendour of the males of some tropical species.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000004|Even within the same genus we often find species presenting extraordinary differences between the sexes, whilst others have their sexes closely alike.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000011|Hence we may infer that these nine species, and probably all the others of the genus, are descended from an ancestral form which was coloured in nearly the same manner.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000012|In the tenth species the female still retains the same general colouring, but the male resembles her, so that he is coloured in a much less gaudy and contrasted manner than the males of the previous species.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000014|Hence in these two latter species the bright colours of the males seem to have been transferred to the females; whilst in the tenth species the male has either retained or recovered the plain colours of the female, as well as of the parent form of the genus.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000006_000000|Another striking case was pointed out to me in the British Museum by mr a Butler, namely, one of the tropical American Theclae, in which both sexes are nearly alike and wonderfully splendid; in another species the male is coloured in a similarly gorgeous manner, whilst the whole upper surface of the female is of a dull uniform brown.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000000|I have given the foregoing details in order to shew, in the first place, that when the sexes of butterflies differ, the male as a general rule is the more beautiful, and departs more from the usual type of colouring of the group to which the species belongs.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000001|Hence in most groups the females of the several species resemble each other much more closely than do the males.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000002|In some cases, however, to which I shall hereafter allude, the females are coloured more splendidly than the males.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000004|In the third place, we have seen that when the sexes nearly resemble each other, this appears due either to the male having transferred his colours to the female, or to the male having retained, or perhaps recovered, the primordial colours of the group.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000005|It also deserves notice that in those groups in which the sexes differ, the females usually somewhat resemble the males, so that when the males are beautiful to an extraordinary degree, the females almost invariably exhibit some degree of beauty.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000000|With animals of all kinds, whenever colour has been modified for some special purpose, this has been, as far as we can judge, either for direct or indirect protection, or as an attraction between the sexes.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000001|With many species of butterflies the upper surfaces of the wings are obscure; and this in all probability leads to their escaping observation and danger. But butterflies would be particularly liable to be attacked by their enemies when at rest; and most kinds whilst resting raise their wings vertically over their backs, so that the lower surface alone is exposed to view.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000002|Hence it is this side which is often coloured so as to imitate the objects on which these insects commonly rest.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000004|Many analogous and striking facts could be given.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000008|In some other cases the lower surfaces of the wings are brilliantly coloured, and yet are protective; thus in Thecla rubi the wings when closed are of an emerald green, and resemble the young leaves of the bramble, on which in spring this butterfly may often be seen seated.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000010_000002|Both the males and females in these cases are conspicuous, and it is not credible that their difference in colour should stand in any relation to ordinary protection.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000010_000005|Nevertheless, it is probable that conspicuous colours are indirectly beneficial to many species, as a warning that they are unpalatable.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000012_000000|Most Moths rest motionless during the whole or greater part of the day with their wings depressed; and the whole upper surface is often shaded and coloured in an admirable manner, as mr Wallace has remarked, for escaping detection.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000012_000005|The common Yellow Under wings (Triphaena) often fly about during the day or early evening, and are then conspicuous from the colour of their hind wings.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000012_000006|It would naturally be thought that this would be a source of danger; but mr j Jenner Weir believes that it actually serves them as a means of escape, for birds strike at these brightly coloured and fragile surfaces, instead of at the body.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000013_000000|DISPLAY.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000014_000000|The bright colours of many butterflies and of some moths are specially arranged for display, so that they may be readily seen.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000014_000001|During the night colours are not visible, and there can be no doubt that the nocturnal moths, taken as a body, are much less gaily decorated than butterflies, all of which are diurnal in their habits.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000015_000004|Nevertheless, as a general rule, the upper surface, which is probably more fully exposed, is coloured more brightly and diversely than the lower.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000015_000005|Hence the lower surface generally affords to entomologists the more useful character for detecting the affinities of the various species.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000015_000007|Other such cases could be added.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000016_000003|For instance, in the Australian Gastrophora the upper surface of the fore wing is pale greyish ochreous, while the lower surface is magnificently ornamented by an ocellus of cobalt blue, placed in the midst of a black mark, surrounded by orange yellow, and this by bluish white. But the habits of these three moths are unknown; so that no explanation can be given of their unusual style of colouring.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000016_000009|Hence the lower surface of the wings being brighter than the upper surface in certain moths is not so anomalous as it at first appears.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000016_000010|The Saturniidae include some of the most beautiful of all moths, their wings being decorated, as in our British Emperor moth, with fine ocelli; and mr t w
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000017_000000|It is a singular fact that no British moths which are brilliantly coloured, and, as far as I can discover, hardly any foreign species, differ much in colour according to sex; though this is the case with many brilliant butterflies.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000017_000005|In this latter species the difference in colour between the two sexes is strongly marked; and mr Wallace informs me that we here have, as he believes, an instance of protective mimicry confined to one sex, as will hereafter be more fully explained.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000000|From the several foregoing facts it is impossible to admit that the brilliant colours of butterflies, and of some few moths, have commonly been acquired for the sake of protection.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000002|Hence I am led to believe that the females prefer or are most excited by the more brilliant males; for on any other supposition the males would, as far as we can see, be ornamented to no purpose.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000003|We know that ants and certain Lamellicorn beetles are capable of feeling an attachment for each other, and that ants recognise their fellows after an interval of several months. Hence there is no abstract improbability in the Lepidoptera, which probably stand nearly or quite as high in the scale as these insects, having sufficient mental capacity to admire bright colours.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000004|They certainly discover flowers by colour.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000007|As I hear from mr Doubleday, the common white butterfly often flies down to a bit of paper on the ground, no doubt mistaking it for one of its own species.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000019_000000|The courtship of butterflies is, as before remarked, a prolonged affair. The males sometimes fight together in rivalry; and many may be seen pursuing or crowding round the same female.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000019_000003|The process of sexual selection will have been much facilitated, if the conclusion can be trusted, arrived at from various kinds of evidence in the supplement to the ninth chapter; namely, that the males of many Lepidoptera, at least in the imago state, greatly exceed the females in number.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000020_000000|Some facts, however, are opposed to the belief that female butterflies prefer the more beautiful males; thus, as I have been assured by several collectors, fresh females may frequently be seen paired with battered, faded, or dingy males; but this is a circumstance which could hardly fail often to follow from the males emerging from their cocoons earlier than the females.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000020_000002|The females, as several entomologists have remarked to me, lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners.
train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000020_000004|dr Wallace, who has had great experience in breeding Bombyx cynthia, is convinced that the females evince no choice or preference.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty four.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000001_000000|VALENTINE'S DAY AT ALLINGTON.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000002_000001|Lily was to be told the day on which Crosbie was to be married. It had come to the knowledge of them all that the marriage was to take place in February.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000002_000002|But this was not sufficient for Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000002_000003|She must know the day.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000000|And as the time drew nearer,--Lily becoming stronger the while, and less subject to medical authority,--the marriage of Crosbie and Alexandrina was spoken of much more frequently at the Small House. It was not a subject which mrs Dale or Bell would have chosen for conversation; but Lily would refer to it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000001|She would begin by doing so almost in a drolling strain, alluding to herself as a forlorn damsel in a play book; and then she would go on to speak of his interests as a matter which was still of great moment to her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000002|But in the course of such talking she would too often break down, showing by some sad word or melancholy tone how great was the burden on her heart.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000003|mrs Dale and Bell would willingly have avoided the subject, but Lily would not have it avoided.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000004|For them it was a very difficult matter on which to speak in her hearing.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000002|The day was named soon enough, and the tidings came down to Allington.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000003|On the fourteenth of February, Crosbie was to be made a happy man.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000004|This was not known to the Dales till the twelfth, and they would willingly have spared the knowledge then, had it been possible to spare it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000005|But it was not so, and on that evening Lily was told.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000000|During these days, Bell used to see her uncle daily.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000001|Her visits were made with the pretence of taking to him information as to Lily's health; but there was perhaps at the bottom of them a feeling that, as the family intended to leave the Small House at the end of March, it would be well to let the squire know that there was no enmity in their hearts against him.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000002|Nothing more had been said about their moving,--nothing, that is, from them to him.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000003|But the matter was going on, and he knew it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000004|dr Crofts was already in treaty on their behalf for a small furnished house at Guestwick.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000005|The squire was very sad about it,--very sad indeed.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000006|When Hopkins spoke to him on the subject, he sharply desired that faithful gardener to hold his tongue, giving it to be understood that such things were not to be made matter of talk by the Allington dependants till they had been officially announced.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000007|With Bell during these visits he never alluded to the matter.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000008|She was the chief sinner, in that she had refused to marry her cousin, and had declined even to listen to rational counsel upon the matter.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000009|But the squire felt that he could not discuss the subject with her, seeing that he had been specially informed by mrs Dale that his interference would not be permitted; and then he was perhaps aware that if he did discuss the subject with Bell, he would not gain much by such discussion.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000010|Their conversation, therefore, generally fell upon Crosbie, and the tone in which he was mentioned in the Great House was very different from that assumed in Lily's presence.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000007_000000|"I don't want him to be wretched," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000007_000001|"But I can hardly think that he can act as he has done without being punished."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000000|"He will be a wretched man.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000001|He gets no fortune with her, and she will expect everything that fortune can give.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000002|I believe, too, that she is older than he is.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000003|I cannot understand it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000005|Give my love to Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000006|I'll see her to morrow or the next day.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000007|She's well rid of him; I'm sure of that;--though I suppose it would not do to tell her so."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000009_000000|The morning of the fourteenth came upon them at the Small House, as comes the morning of those special days which have been long considered, and which are to be long remembered.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000009_000001|It brought with it a hard, bitter frost,--a black, biting frost,--such a frost as breaks the water pipes, and binds the ground to the hardness of granite. Lily, queen as she was, had not yet been allowed to go back to her own chamber, but occupied the larger bed in her mother's room, her mother sleeping on a smaller one.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000010_000000|"Mamma," she said, "how cold they'll be!" Her mother had announced to her the fact of the black frost, and these were the first words she spoke.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000000|"I fear their hearts will be cold also," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000001|She ought not to have said so.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000002|She was transgressing the acknowledged rule of the house in saying any word that could be construed as being inimical to Crosbie or his bride.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000003|But her feeling on the matter was too strong, and she could not restrain herself.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000012_000000|"Why should their hearts be cold?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000012_000001|Oh, mamma, that is a terrible thing to say.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000012_000002|Why should their hearts be cold?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000000|"Of course you do; of course we all hope it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000001|He was not cold hearted, at any rate.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000002|A man is not cold hearted, because he does not know himself.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000003|Mamma, I want you to wish for their happiness."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000015_000000|mrs Dale was silent for a minute or two before she answered this, but then she did answer it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000015_000001|"I think I do," said she.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000015_000002|"I think I do wish for it."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000018_000000|"You must be very careful in wrapping yourself as you go downstairs," said Bell, who stood by the tray on which she had brought up the toast and tea.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000018_000001|"The cold is what you would call awful."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000019_000000|"I should call it jolly," said Lily, "if I could get up and go out. Do you remember lecturing me about talking slang the day that he first came?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000020_000000|"Did I, my pet?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000022_000000|Bell for a moment turned her face away, and beat with her foot against the ground.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000022_000001|Her anger was more difficult of restraint than was even her mother's,--and now, not restraining it, but wishing to hide it, she gave it vent in this way.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000000|"I understand, Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000001|I know what your foot means when it goes in that way; and you shan't do it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000002|Come here, Bell, and let me teach you Christianity.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000003|I'm a fine sort of teacher, am I not?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000004|And I did not quite mean that."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000024_000000|"I wish I could learn it from some one," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000024_000001|"There are circumstances in which what we call Christianity seems to me to be hardly possible."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000025_000000|"When your foot goes in that way it is a very unchristian foot, and you ought to keep it still.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000025_000001|It means anger against him, because he discovered before it was too late that he would not be happy,--that is, that he and I would not be happy together if we were married."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000026_000000|"Don't scrutinize my foot too closely, Lily."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000000|"But your foot must bear scrutiny, and your eyes, and your voice.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000001|He was very foolish to fall in love with me.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000002|And so was I very foolish to let him love me, at a moment's notice,--without a thought as it were.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000003|I was so proud of having him, that I gave myself up to him all at once, without giving him a chance of thinking of it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000004|In a week or two it was done.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000005|Who could expect that such an engagement should be lasting?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000028_000000|"And why not?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000028_000002|But we will not talk about it."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000029_000001|It was as I have said, and if so, you shouldn't hate him because he did the only thing which he honestly could do when he found out his mistake."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000030_000000|"What; become engaged again within a week!"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000031_000000|"There had been a very old friendship, Bell; you must remember that. But I was speaking of his conduct to me, and not of his conduct to-" And then she remembered that that other lady might at this very moment possess the name which she had once been so proud to think that she would bear herself.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000031_000001|"Bell," she said, stopping her other speech suddenly, "at what o'clock do people get married in London?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000032_000000|"Oh, at all manner of hours,--any time before twelve.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000032_000001|They will be fashionable, and will be married late."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000033_000000|"You don't think she's mrs Crosbie yet, then?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000034_000000|"Lady Alexandrina Crosbie," said Bell, shuddering.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000000|"Yes, of course; I forgot.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000001|I should so like to see her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000002|I feel such an interest about her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000003|I wonder what coloured hair she has.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000004|I suppose she is a sort of Juno of a woman,--very tall and handsome.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000005|I'm sure she has not got a pug nose like me.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000006|Do you know what I should really like, only of course it's not possible;--to be godmother to his first child."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000000|"I should.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000001|Don't you hear me say that I know it's not possible?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000002|I'm not going up to London to ask her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000003|She'll have all manner of grandees for her godfathers and godmothers.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000004|I wonder what those grand people are really like."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000038_000000|"I don't think there's any difference.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000038_000001|Look at Lady Julia."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000000|"Oh, she's not a grand person.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000001|It isn't merely having a title.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000002|Don't you remember that he told us that mr Palliser is about the grandest grandee of them all.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000003|I suppose people do learn to like them.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000004|He always used to say that he had been so long among people of that sort, that it would be very difficult for him to divide himself off from them.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000005|I should never have done for that kind of thing; should I?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000000|"Do you?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000001|I don't.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000002|After all, think how much work they do.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000003|He used to tell me of that.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000004|They have all the governing in their hands, and get very little money for doing it."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000042_000000|"Worse luck for the country."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000043_000000|"The country seems to do pretty well.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000043_000001|But you're a radical, Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000043_000002|My belief is, you wouldn't be a lady if you could help it."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000044_000000|"I'd sooner be an honest woman."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000045_000000|"And so you are,--my own dear, dearest, honest Bell,--and the fairest lady that I know.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000045_000001|If I were a man, Bell, you are just the girl that I should worship."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000047_000000|"But you mustn't let your foot go astray in that way; you mustn't, indeed.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000047_000001|Somebody said, that whatever is, is right, and I declare I believe it."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000048_000000|"I'm sometimes inclined to think, that whatever is, is wrong."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000049_000001|I think I'll get up now, Bell; only it's so frightfully cold that I'm afraid."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000050_000000|"There's a beautiful fire," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000051_000000|"Yes; I see.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000051_000002|It's only half past ten yet."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000052_000000|"I shouldn't be at all surprised if it's over."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000053_000000|"Over!
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000053_000001|What a word that is!
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000053_000002|A thing like that is over, and then all the world cannot put it back again.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000054_000000|"He must take his chance," said Bell, thinking within her own mind that that chance would be a very bad one.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000055_000000|"Of course he must take his chance.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000055_000001|Well,--I'll get up now." And then she took her first step out into the cold world beyond her bed.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000055_000002|"We must all take our chance.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000056_000000|When half past eleven came, she was seated in a large easy chair over the drawing room fire, with a little table by her side, on which a novel was lying.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000056_000001|She had not opened her book that morning, and had been sitting for some time perfectly silent, with her eyes closed, and her watch in her hand.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000057_000000|"Mamma," she said at last, "it is over now, I'm sure."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000059_000000|"What is over, my dear?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000060_000001|I hope God will bless them, and I pray that they may be happy." As she spoke these words, there was an unwonted solemnity in her tone which startled mrs Dale and Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000061_000000|"I also will hope so," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000061_000001|"And now, Lily, will it not be well that you should turn your mind away from the subject, and endeavour to think of other things?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000062_000000|"But I can't, mamma.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000062_000001|It is so easy to say that; but people can't choose their own thoughts."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000063_000000|"They can usually direct them as they will, if they make the effort."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000000|"But I can't make the effort.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000002|It seems natural to me to think about him, and I don't suppose it can be very wrong.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000003|When you have had so deep an interest in a person, you can't drop him all of a sudden." Then there was again silence, and after a while Lily took up her novel.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000004|She made that effort of which her mother had spoken, but she made it altogether in vain.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000005|"I declare, Bell," she said, "it's the greatest rubbish I ever attempted to read."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000006|This was specially ungrateful, because Bell had recommended the book.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000007|"All the books have got to be so stupid!
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000008|I think I'll read Pilgrim's Progress again."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000066_000001|"But I believe I'll have Pilgrim's Progress.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000066_000002|I never can understand it, but I rather think that makes it nicer."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000067_000000|"I hate books I can't understand," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000067_000001|"I like a book to be clear as running water, so that the whole meaning may be seen at once."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000000|"But then so many readers are fools," said Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000001|"And yet they get something out of their reading.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000002|mrs Crump is always poring over the Revelations, and nearly knows them by heart.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000003|I don't think she could interpret a single image, but she has a hazy, misty idea of the truth.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000004|That's why she likes it,--because it's too beautiful to be understood; and that's why I like Pilgrim's Progress." After which Bell offered to get the book in question.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000000|"No, not now," said Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000001|"I'll go on with this, as you say it's so grand.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000002|The personages are always in their tantrums, and go on as though they were mad.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000003|Mamma, do you know where they're going for the honeymoon?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000072_000000|"No, my dear."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000073_000000|"He used to talk to me about going to the lakes." And then there was another pause, during which Bell observed that her mother's face became clouded with anxiety.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000073_000001|"But I won't think of it any more," continued Lily; "I will fix my mind to something." And then she got up from her chair.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000073_000002|"I don't think it would have been so difficult if I had not been ill."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000074_000000|"Of course it would not, my darling."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000000|"And I'm going to be well again now, immediately.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000001|Let me see: I was told to read Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, and I think I'll begin now."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000002|It was Crosbie who had told her to read the book, as both Bell and mrs Dale were well aware.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000003|"But I must put it off till I can get it down from the other house."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000076_000000|"Jane shall fetch it, if you really want it," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000077_000000|"Bell shall get it, when she goes up in the afternoon; will you, Bell?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000077_000001|And I'll try to get on with this stuff in the meantime." Then again she sat with her eyes fixed upon the pages of the book.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000077_000002|"I'll tell you what, mamma,--you may have some comfort in this: that when to day's gone by, I shan't make a fuss about any other day."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000000|"Yes, but I am.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000001|Isn't it odd, Bell, that it should take place on Valentine's day?
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000002|I wonder whether it was so settled on purpose, because of the day.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000004|Well; he's got another-valen-tine-now." So much she said with articulate voice, and then she broke down, bursting out into convulsive sobs, and crying in her mother's arms as though she would break her heart.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000005|And yet her heart was not broken, and she was still strong in that resolve which she had made, that her grief should not overpower her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000080_000000|"Lily, my darling; my poor, ill used darling."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000000|"No, mamma, I won't be that." And she struggled grievously to get the better of the hysterical attack which had overpowered her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000001|"I won't be regarded as ill used; not as specially ill used.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000002|But I am your darling, your own darling.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000003|Only I wish you'd beat me and thump me when I'm such a fool, instead of pitying me.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000004|It's a great mistake being soft to people when they make fools of themselves.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000005|There, Bell; there's your stupid book, and I won't have any more of it.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000006|I believe it was that that did it." And she pushed the book away from her.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000082_000000|After this little scene she said no further word about Crosbie and his bride on that day, but turned the conversation towards the prospect of their new house at Guestwick.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000083_000000|"It will be a great comfort to be nearer dr Crofts; won't it, Bell?"
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000084_000000|"I don't know," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000085_000000|"Because if we are ill, he won't have such a terrible distance to come."
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000087_000000|In the evening the first volume of the French Revolution had been procured, and Lily stuck to her reading with laudable perseverance; till at eight her mother insisted on her going to bed, queen as she was.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000088_000000|"I don't believe a bit, you know, that the king was such a bad man as that," she said.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000089_000000|"I do," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000090_000000|"Ah, that's because you're a radical.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000090_000001|I never will believe that kings are so much worse than other people.
train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000090_000002|As for Charles the First, he was about the best man in history."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000003_000000|mrs DALE IS THANKFUL FOR A GOOD THING.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000000|On that day they dined early at the Small House, as they had been in the habit of doing since the packing had commenced.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000001|And after dinner mrs Dale went through the gardens, up to the other house, with a written note in her hand.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000002|In that note she had told Lady Julia, with many protestations of gratitude, that Lily was unable to go out so soon after her illness, and that she herself was obliged to stay with Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000003|She explained also, that the business of moving was in hand, and that, therefore, she could not herself accept the invitation.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000004|But her other daughter, she said, would be very happy to accompany her uncle to Guestwick Manor.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000005|Then, without closing her letter, she took it up to the squire in order that it might be decided whether it would or would not suit his views.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000005_000000|"Leave it with me," he said; "that is, if you do not object."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000006_000000|"Oh dear, no!"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000000|"I'll tell you the plain truth at once, Mary.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000001|I shall go over myself with it, and see the earl.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000002|Then I will decline it or not, according to what passes between me and him.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000003|I wish Lily would have gone."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000009_000000|"I wish she could.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000009_000001|I wish she could.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000009_000002|I wish she could." As he repeated the words over and over again, there was an eagerness in his voice that filled mrs Dale's heart with tenderness towards him.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000010_000000|"The truth is," said mrs Dale, "she could not go there to meet john Eames."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000011_000000|"Oh, I know," said the squire: "I understand it.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000011_000001|But that is just what we want her to do.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000011_000002|Why should she not spend a week in the same house with an honest young man whom we all like."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000012_000000|"There are reasons why she would not wish it."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000013_000001|Perhaps I had better tell you all.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000013_000002|Lord De Guest has taken him by the hand, and wishes him to marry.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000013_000003|He has promised to settle on him an income which will make him comfortable for life."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000014_000000|"That is very generous; and I am delighted to hear it,--for John's sake."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000015_000000|"And they have promoted him at his office."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000016_000000|"Ah! then he will do well."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000001|He is private secretary now to their head man. And, Mary, so that she, Lily, should not be empty handed if this marriage can be arranged, I have undertaken to settle a hundred a year on her,--on her and her children, if she will accept him.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000002|Now you know it all.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000003|I did not mean to tell you; but it is as well that you should have the means of judging.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000004|That other man was a villain. This man is honest.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000005|Would it not be well that she should learn to like him?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000006|She always did like him, I thought, before that other fellow came down here among us."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000018_000000|"She has always liked him-as a friend."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000019_000000|"She will never get a better lover."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000000|mrs Dale sat silent, thinking over it all.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000001|Every word that the squire said was true.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000002|It would be a healing of wounds most desirable and salutary; an arrangement advantageous to them all; a destiny for Lily most devoutly to be desired,--if only it were possible.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000003|mrs Dale firmly believed that if her daughter could be made to accept john Eames as her second lover in a year or two all would be well. Crosbie would then be forgotten or thought of without regret, and Lily would become the mistress of a happy home.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000004|But there are positions which cannot be reached, though there be no physical or material objection in the way.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000005|It is the view which the mind takes of a thing which creates the sorrow that arises from it.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000006|If the heart were always malleable and the feelings could be controlled, who would permit himself to be tormented by any of the reverses which affection meets?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000007|Death would create no sorrow; ingratitude would lose its sting; and the betrayal of love would do no injury beyond that which it might entail upon worldly circumstances.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000008|But the heart is not malleable; nor will the feelings admit of such control.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000021_000000|"It is not possible for her," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000021_000001|"I fear it is not possible.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000021_000002|It is too soon."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000022_000000|"Six months," pleaded the squire.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000023_000000|"It will take years,--not months," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000024_000000|"And she will lose all her youth."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000025_000001|But it is done, and we cannot now go back.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000025_000002|She loves him yet as dearly as she ever loved him."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000000|Then the squire muttered certain words below his breath,--ejaculations against Crosbie, which were hardly voluntary; but even as involuntary ejaculations were very improper.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000001|mrs Dale heard them, and was not offended either by their impropriety or their warmth.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000002|"But you can understand," she said, "that she cannot bring herself to go there." The squire struck the table with his fist, and repeated his ejaculations.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000004|If, also, he could have perceived and understood the light in which an alliance with the De Courcy family was now regarded by Crosbie, I think that he would have received some consolation from that consideration.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000005|Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000006|It is arranged, apparently, that the injurer shall be punished, but that the person injured shall not gratify his desire for vengeance.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000027_000000|"And will you go to Guestwick yourself?" asked mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000000|"I will take the note," said the squire, "and will let you know to morrow.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000001|The earl has behaved so kindly that every possible consideration is due to him.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000002|I had better tell him the whole truth, and go or stay, as he may wish.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000003|I don't see the good of going.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000004|What am I to do at Guestwick Manor?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000005|I did think that if we had all been there it might have cured some difficulties."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000029_000000|mrs Dale got up to leave him, but she could not go without saying some word of gratitude for all that he had attempted to do for them.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000029_000001|She well knew what he meant by the curing of difficulties. He had intended to signify that had they lived together for a week at Guestwick the idea of flitting from Allington might possibly have been abandoned.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000029_000003|She felt half ashamed of what she was doing, almost acknowledging to herself that she should have borne with his sternness in return for the benefits he had done to her daughters. Had she not feared their reproaches she would, even now, have given way.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000030_000000|"I do not know what I ought to say to you for your kindness."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000031_000001|In truth the squire, as he spoke, was half ashamed of the warmth of what he said.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000032_000000|"At any rate I will not think evil," mrs Dale answered, giving him her hand.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000032_000001|After that she left him, and returned home.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000000|In these days of the cold early spring, the way from the lawn into the house, through the drawing room window, was not as yet open, and it was necessary to go round by the kitchen garden on to the road, and thence in by the front door; or else to pass through the back door, and into the house by the kitchen.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000001|This latter mode of entrance mrs Dale now adopted; and as she made her way into the hall Lily came upon her, with very silent steps, out from the parlour, and arrested her progress.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000002|There was a smile upon Lily's face as she lifted up her finger as if in caution, and no one looking at her would have supposed that she was herself in trouble.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000003|"Mamma," she said, pointing to the drawing room door, and speaking almost in a whisper, "you must not go in there; come into the parlour."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000034_000000|"Who's there?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000034_000001|Where's Bell?" and mrs Dale went into the parlour as she was bidden.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000034_000002|"But who is there?" she repeated.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000035_000000|"He's there!"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000036_000000|"Who is he?"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000000|"Oh, mamma, don't be a goose!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000001|dr Crofts is there, of course.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000002|He's been nearly an hour.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000003|I wonder how he is managing, for there is nothing on earth to sit upon but the old lump of a carpet.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000004|The room is strewed about with crockery, and Bell is such a figure!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000005|She has got on your old checked apron, and when he came in she was rolling up the fire irons in brown paper.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000006|I don't suppose she was ever in such a mess before.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000007|There's one thing certain,--he can't kiss her hand."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000038_000000|"It's you are the goose, Lily."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000039_000000|"But he's in there certainly, unless he has gone out through the window, or up the chimney."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000040_000000|"What made you leave them?"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000041_000000|"He met me here, in the passage, and spoke to me ever so seriously. 'Come in,' I said, 'and see Bell packing the pokers and tongs.' 'I will go in,' he said, 'but don't come with me.' He was ever so serious, and I'm sure he had been thinking of it all the way along."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000042_000000|"And why should he not be serious?"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000000|"Oh, no, of course he ought to be serious; but are you not glad, mamma?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000001|I am so glad.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000002|We shall live alone together, you and I; but she will be so close to us!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000004|I have been so tired of waiting and looking out for you.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000005|Perhaps he's helping her to pack the things. Don't you think we might go in; or would it be ill natured?"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000044_000000|"Lily, don't be in too great a hurry to say anything.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000044_000001|You may be mistaken, you know; and there's many a slip between the cup and the lip."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000045_000000|"Yes, mamma, there is," said Lily, putting her hand inside her mother's arm, "that's true enough."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000046_000000|"Oh, my darling, forgive me," said the mother, suddenly remembering that the use of the old proverb at the present moment had been almost cruel.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000047_000001|But, with God's help, there shall be no slip here, and she shall be happy.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000047_000003|But they'll remain there for ever if we don't go in.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000000|Then mrs Dale did open the door, giving some little premonitory notice with the handle, so that the couple inside might be warned of approaching footsteps.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000002|Bell still wore the checked apron as described by her sister.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000003|What might have been the state of her hands I will not pretend to say; but I do not believe that her lover had found anything amiss with them.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000004|"How do you do, doctor?" said mrs Dale, striving to use her accustomed voice, and to look as though there were nothing of special importance in his visit.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000005|"I have just come down from the Great House."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000049_000000|"Mamma," said Bell, jumping up, "you must not call him doctor any more."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000050_000000|"Must I not?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000050_000001|Has any one undoctored him?"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000051_000000|"Oh, mamma, you understand," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000052_000000|"I understand," said Lily, going up to the doctor, and giving him her cheek to kiss, "he is to be my brother, and I mean to claim him as such from this moment.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000052_000001|I expect him to do everything for us, and not to call a moment of his time his own."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000053_000000|"mrs Dale," said the doctor, "Bell has consented that it shall be so, if you will consent."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000054_000000|"There is but little doubt of that," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000055_000000|"We shall not be rich-" began the doctor.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000056_000000|"I hate to be rich," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000056_000001|"I hate even to talk about it.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000056_000002|I don't think it quite manly even to think about it; and I'm sure it isn't womanly."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000057_000000|"Bell was always a fanatic in praise of poverty," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000058_000001|I'm very fond of money earned.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000059_000000|"Let her go out and visit the lady patients," said Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000059_000001|"They do in America."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000001|The proceeding, considering the nature of it,--that a young lady, acknowledged to be of great beauty and known to be of good birth, had on the occasion been asked and given in marriage,--was carried on after a somewhat humdrum fashion, and in a manner that must be called commonplace.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000004|With what a pretty speech had Crosbie been greeted!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000005|How it had been felt by all concerned that the fortunes of the Small House were in the ascendant,--felt, indeed, with some trepidation, but still with much inward triumph.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000006|How great had been the occasion, forcing Lily almost to lose herself in wonderment at what had occurred!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000007|There was no great occasion now, and no wonderment.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000008|No one, unless it was Crofts, felt very triumphant.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000009|But they were all very happy, and were sure that there was safety in their happiness.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000010|It was but the other day that one of them had been thrown rudely to the ground through the treachery of a lover, but yet none of them feared treachery from this lover.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000011|Bell was as sure of her lot in life as though she were already being taken home to her modest house in Guestwick.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000000|But Bell was not seated next to her lover.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000002|She had been in no wise ashamed of her love, and had shown it constantly by some little caressing motion of her hand, leaning on his arm, looking into his face, as though she were continually desirous of some palpable assurance of his presence.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000003|It was not so at all with Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000005|I do not think it would have made her unhappy if some sudden need had required that Crofts should go to India and back before they were married.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000008|As her mother was about to go into a new residence, it might be as well that that residence should be fitted to the wants of two persons instead of three.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000009|So they talked about chairs and tables, carpets and kitchens, in a most unromantic, homely, useful manner! A considerable portion of the furniture in the house they were now about to leave belonged to the squire,--or to the house rather, as they were in the habit of saying.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000010|The older and more solid things,--articles of household stuff that stand the wear of half a century,--had been in the Small House when they came to it.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000012|In the first month or two they were to live in lodgings, and their goods were to be stored in some friendly warehouse.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000013|Under such circumstances would it not be well that Bell's marriage should be so arranged that the lodging question might not be in any degree complicated by her necessities?
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000014|This was the last suggestion made by dr Crofts, induced no doubt by the great encouragement he had received.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000062_000000|"That would be hardly possible," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000062_000001|"It only wants three weeks;--and with the house in such a condition!"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000063_000000|"james is joking," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000064_000000|"I was not joking at all," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000065_000001|"It's just the sort of thing for primitive people to do, like you and Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000065_000002|All the same, Bell, I do wish you could have been married from this house."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000066_000000|"I don't think it will make much difference," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000067_000001|It sounds so ugly, being married from lodgings; doesn't it, mamma?"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000069_000000|"I shall always call you Dame Commonplace when you're married," said Lily.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000070_000000|Then they had tea, and after tea dr Crofts got on his horse and rode back to Guestwick.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000071_000000|"Now may I talk about him?" said Lily, as soon as the door was closed behind his back.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000072_000000|"No; you may not."
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000073_000000|"As if I hadn't known it all along!
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000073_000001|And wasn't it hard to bear that you should have scolded me with such pertinacious austerity, and that I wasn't to say a word in answer!"
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000074_000000|"I don't remember the austerity," said mrs Dale.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000075_000000|"Nor yet Lily's silence," said Bell.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000076_000000|"But it's all settled now," said Lily, "and I'm downright happy.
train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000076_000001|I never felt more satisfaction,--never, Bell!"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000002_000001|Good.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000002_000002|As a matter of form, Lord Nikkolon, will you take a vote? His Imperial Majesty would be most gratified if it were unanimous."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000003_000000|Somebody insisted that the question would have to be debated, which meant that everybody would have to make a speech, all two thousand of them.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000003_000001|He informed them that there was nothing to debate; they were confronted with an accomplished fact which they must accept.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000003_000002|So Nikkolon made a speech, telling them at what a great moment in Adityan history they stood, and concluded by saying:
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000004_000000|"I take it that it is the unanimous will of this Convocation that the sovereignty of the Galactic Emperor be acknowledged, and that we, the 'Mastership of Aditya' do here proclaim our loyal allegiance to his Imperial Majesty, Rodrik the Third.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000004_000001|Any dissent?
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000004_000002|Then it is ordered so recorded."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000005_000000|Then he had to make another speech, to inform the representatives of his new sovereign of the fact.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000005_000002|Erskyll's charge d'affaires, Sharll Ernanday, produced the scroll of the Imperial Constitution, and Erskyll began to read.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000006_000000|Section One: The universality of the Empire.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000006_000001|The absolute powers of the Emperor.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000006_000003|The Emperor also to be Planetary King of Odin.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000000|Section Two: Every planetary government to be sovereign in its own internal affairs....
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000001|Only one sovereign government upon any planet, or within normal space travel distance....
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000002|All hyperspace ships, and all nuclear weapons....
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000004|Every sapient being shall be equally protected....
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000008_000000|Then he came to Article Six.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000008_000001|He cleared his throat, raised his voice, and read:
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000000|The Convocation Chamber was silent, like a bomb with a defective fuse, for all of thirty seconds.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000001|Then it blew up with a roar.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000002|Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the doors slide apart and an airjeep, bristling with machine guns, float in and rise to the ceiling.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000003|The first inarticulate roar was followed by a babel of voices, like a tropical cloudburst on a prefab hut.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000004|Olvir Nikkolon's mouth was working as he shouted unheard.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000011_000001|Out of the screen speaker a voice, as loud, by actual sound meter test, as an anti vehicle gun, thundered:
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000014_000002|What is this, a planetary parliament or a spaceport saloon?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000015_000000|"You tricked us!" Nikkolon accused.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000015_000001|"You didn't tell us about that article when we voted.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000015_000002|Why, our whole society is based on slavery!"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000016_000000|Other voices joined in:
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000017_000000|"That's all right for you people, you have robots...."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000019_000000|"Look, you can't free slaves!
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000019_000001|That's ridiculous.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000001|It meant, the basic, fundamental, question.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000002|Rovard Javasan, he suspected, had just asked the sixtifor.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000003|Of course, Obray, Count Erskyll, Planetary Proconsul of Aditya, didn't realize that.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000004|He didn't even know what Javasan meant.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000005|Just free them. Commodore Vann Shatrak couldn't see much of a problem, either.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000006|He would have answered, Just free them, and then shoot down the first two or three thousand who took it seriously.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000007|Jurgen, Prince Trevannion, had no intention whatever of attempting to answer the sixtifor.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000023_000000|"My dear Lord Javasan, that is the problem of the Adityan Mastership. They are your slaves; we have neither the intention nor the right to free them.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000023_000001|But let me remind you that slavery is specifically prohibited by the Imperial Constitution; if you do not abolish it immediately, the Empire will be forced to intervene.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000023_000002|I believe, toward the last of those audio visuals, you saw some examples of Imperial intervention."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000024_000000|They had.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000000|"Well, the first thing will have to be an Act of Convocation, outlawing the ownership of one being by another.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000002|Then, I would suggest that you set up some agency to handle all the details. And, as soon as you have enacted the abolition of slavery, which should be this afternoon, appoint a committee, say a dozen of you, to confer with Count Erskyll and myself.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000005|And let me point out, I hope for the last time, that we discuss matters directly, without intermediaries.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000006|We don't want any more slaves, pardon, freedmen, coming aboard to talk for you, as happened yesterday."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000027_000000|Obray, Count Erskyll, was unhappy about it.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000027_000001|He did not think that the Lords Master were to be trusted to abolish slavery; he said so, on the launch, returning to the ship.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000027_000002|Jurgen, Prince Trevannion was inclined to agree.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000000|Line Commodore Vann Shatrak was also worried.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000001|He was wondering how long it would take for Pyairr Ravney to make useful troops out of the newly surrendered slave soldiers, and where he was going to find contragravity to shift them expeditiously from trouble spot to trouble spot.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000002|Erskyll thought he was anticipating resistance on the part of the Masters, and for once he approved the use of force.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000003|Ordinarily, force was a Bad Thing, but this was a Good Cause, which justified any means.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000029_000000|They entertained the committee from the Convocation for dinner, that evening.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000029_000001|They came aboard stiffly hostile-most understandably so, under the circumstances-and Prince Trevannion exerted all his copious charm to thaw them out, beginning with the pre dinner cocktails and continuing through the meal.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000029_000002|By the time they retired for coffee and brandy to the parlor where the conference was to be held, the Lords ex Masters were almost friendly.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000030_000000|"We've enacted the Emancipation Act," Olvir Nikkolon, who was ex officio chairman of the committee, reported.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000031_000000|"And when will that be?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000032_000000|Aditya, he knew, had a three hundred and fifty eight day year; even if the Midyear Feasts were just past, they were giving themselves very little time.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000032_000001|In about a hundred and fifty days, Nikkolon said.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000033_000000|"Good heavens!" Erskyll began, indignantly.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000034_000000|"I should say so, myself," he put in, cutting off anything else the new Proconsul might have said.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000034_000002|A hundred and fifty days will pass quite rapidly, and you have twenty million slaves to deal with.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000034_000003|If you start at this moment and work continuously, you'll have a little under a second apiece for each slave."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000035_000000|The Lords Master looked dismayed.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000035_000001|So, he was happy to observe, did Count Erskyll.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000037_000000|That was safe.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000037_000001|They had a bureaucracy, and bureaucracies tend to have registrations of practically everything.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000038_000000|"Oh, yes, of course," Rovard Javasan assured him.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000038_000001|"That's your Management, isn't it, Sesar; Servile Affairs?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000039_000000|"Yes, we have complete data on every slave on the planet," Sesar Martwynn, the Chief of Servile Management, said.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000042_000000|"Have you gentlemen informed your chief slaves that they are free, yet?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000043_000000|Nikkolon and Javasan looked at each other.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000044_000000|"They know," Javasan said.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000044_000001|"I must say they are much disturbed."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000046_000000|"You mean, we can keep our chief slaves?" somebody cried.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000047_000000|"Yes, of course-chief freedmen, you'll have to call them, now.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000048_000000|"You mean, give them money?" Ranal Valdry, the Lord Provost Marshal demanded, incredulously.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000048_000001|"Pay our own slaves?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000049_000000|"You idiot," somebody told him, "they aren't our slaves any more.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000049_000001|That's the whole point of this discussion."
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000050_000000|"But ... but how can we pay slaves?" one of the committeemen at large asked.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000050_000001|"Freedmen, I mean?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000051_000000|"With money.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000051_000001|You do have money, haven't you?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000052_000000|"Of course we have.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000053_000000|"What kind of money?"
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000000|Why, money; what did he think?
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000001|The unit was the star piece, the stelly. When he asked to see some of it, they were indignant.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000002|Nobody carried money; wasn't Masterly.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000003|A Master never even touched the stuff; that was what slaves were for.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000004|He wanted to know how it was secured, and they didn't know what he meant, and when he tried to explain their incomprehension deepened.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000005|It seemed that the Mastership issued money to finance itself, and individual Masters issued money on their personal credit, and it was handled through the Mastership Banks.
train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000055_000001|"I can't explain it, myself."
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000003_000001|AFTER THE STORM
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000004_000000|The young husband's apologies were profuse and abject.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000000|At first Billy did not speak, or even vouchsafe a glance in his direction.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000002|But that her ears were only seemingly, and not really deaf, was shown very clearly a little later, when, at a particularly abject wail on the part of the babbling shadow at her heels, Billy choked into a little gasp, half laughter, half sob.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000003|It was all over then.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000004|Bertram had her in his arms in a twinkling, while to the floor clattered and rolled a knife and a half peeled baked potato.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000006_000000|Naturally, after that, there could be no more dignified silences on the part of the injured wife.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000007_000000|Torn between his craving for food and his desire not to interfere with any possible peace making, William was obviously hesitating what to do, when Billy glanced up and saw him.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000007_000001|She saw, too, at the same time, the empty, blazing gas stove burner, and the pile of half prepared potatoes, to warm which the burner had long since been lighted.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000007_000002|With a little cry she broke away from her husband's arms.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000009_000000|They all got dinner then, together, with many a sigh and quick coming tear as everywhere they met some sad reminder of the gentle old hands that would never again minister to their comfort.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000010_000000|It was a silent meal, and little, after all, was eaten, though brave attempts at cheerfulness and naturalness were made by all three. Bertram, especially, talked, and tried to make sure that the shadow on Billy's face was at least not the one his own conduct had brought there.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000011_000000|"For you do-you surely do forgive me, don't you?" he begged, as he followed her into the kitchen after the sorry meal was over.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000012_000000|"Why, yes, dear, yes," sighed Billy, trying to smile.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000013_000000|"And you'll forget?"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000014_000000|There was no answer.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000015_000000|"Billy!
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000015_000001|And you'll forget?" Bertram's voice was insistent, reproachful.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000016_000000|Billy changed color and bit her lip.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000016_000001|She looked plainly distressed.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000017_000000|"Billy!" cried the man, still more reproachfully.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000018_000000|"But, Bertram, I can't forget-quite yet," faltered Billy.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000019_000000|Bertram frowned.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000020_000001|So, there!" he finished, with a smilingly determined "now everything is just as it was before" air.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000000|Billy made no response.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000001|She turned hurriedly and began to busy herself with the dishes at the sink.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000002|In her heart she was wondering: could she ever forget what Bertram had said?
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000004|It seemed now that always, for evermore, they would ring in her ears; always, for evermore, they would burn deeper and deeper into her soul.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000005|And not once, in all Bertram's apologies, had he referred to them-those words he had uttered.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000006|He had not said he did not mean them.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000007|He had not said he was sorry he spoke them.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000008|He had ignored them; and he expected that now she, too, would ignore them.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000024_000000|Later, however, after Bertram was asleep, Billy crept out of bed and got the book.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000024_000001|Under the carefully shaded lamp in the adjoining room she turned the pages softly till she came to the sentence: "Perhaps it would be hard to find a more utterly unreasonable, irritable, irresponsible creature than a hungry man." With a long sigh she began to read; and not until some minutes later did she close the book, turn off the light, and steal back to bed.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000000|During the next three days, until after the funeral at the shabby little South Boston house, Eliza spent only about half of each day at the Strata.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000001|This, much to her distress, left many of the household tasks for her young mistress to perform.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000002|Billy, however, attacked each new duty with a feverish eagerness that seemed to make the performance of it very like some glad penance done for past misdeeds.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000003|And when-on the day after they had laid the old servant in his last resting place-a despairing message came from Eliza to the effect that now her mother was very ill, and would need her care, Billy promptly told Eliza to stay as long as was necessary; that they could get along all right without her.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000026_000001|"We must have somebody!"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000028_000001|As if you could!" scoffed Bertram.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000030_000000|"Couldn't I, indeed," she retorted.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000030_000002|How about those muffins you had this morning for breakfast, and that cake last night?
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000030_000003|And didn't you yourself say that you never ate a better pudding than that date puff yesterday noon?"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000031_000000|Bertram laughed and shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000032_000002|There's the Carletons coming to dinner Monday, and my studio Tea to morrow, to say nothing of the Symphony and the opera, and the concerts you'd lose because you were too dead tired to go to them.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000033_000000|"I didn't-want-to go," choked Billy, under her breath.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000034_000001|You haven't done a thing with that for days, yet only last week you told me the publishers were hurrying you for that last song to complete the group."
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000036_000000|"Of course you haven't," triumphed Bertram.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000036_000001|"You've been too dead tired. And that's just what I say.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000037_000000|"But I want to.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000037_000001|I want to-to tend to things," faltered Billy, with a half fearful glance into her husband's face.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000038_000001|Indeed, he seemed never to have heard it-much less to have spoken it.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000039_000000|"'Tend to things,'" he laughed lightly.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000039_000002|Anyhow, we're going to have one.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000039_000003|I'll just step into one of those-what do you call 'em?--intelligence offices on my way down and send one up," he finished, as he gave his wife a good by kiss.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000040_000000|An hour later Billy, struggling with the broom and the drawing room carpet, was called to the telephone.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000041_000000|"Billy, for heaven's sake, take pity on me.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000042_000000|"Why, Bertram, what's the matter?"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000000|"Matter?
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000001|Holy smoke!
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000002|Well, I've been to three of those intelligence offices-though why they call them that I can't imagine.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000003|If ever there was a place utterly devoid of intelligence but never mind!
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000005|Billy, will you come?
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000007|I'm sure you can!"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000044_000000|"Why, of course I'll come," chirped Billy.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000044_000001|"Where shall I meet you?"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000045_000000|Bertram gave the street and number.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000046_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000046_000001|I'll be there," promised Billy, as she hung up the receiver.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000047_000000|Quite forgetting the broom in the middle of the drawing room floor, Billy tripped up stairs to change her dress.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000047_000001|On her lips was a gay little song.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000047_000002|In her heart was joy.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000049_000000|Just as Billy was about to leave the house the telephone bell jangled again.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000050_000000|It was Alice Greggory.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000051_000000|"Billy, dear," she called, "can't you come out?
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000051_000002|We want you. Will you come?"
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000052_000000|"I can't, dear.
train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000052_000001|Bertram wants me.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000000_000001|Johnny Dooit Does It
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000000|"It's getting awful rough walking," said Dorothy, as they trudged along.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000002|Indeed, all were hungry, and thirsty, too; for they had eaten nothing but the apples since breakfast; so their steps lagged and they grew silent and weary.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000003|At last they slowly passed over the crest of a barren hill and saw before them a line of green trees with a strip of grass at their feet.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000004|An agreeable fragrance was wafted toward them.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000000|Our travelers, hot and tired, ran forward on beholding this refreshing sight and were not long in coming to the trees.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000001|Here they found a spring of pure bubbling water, around which the grass was full of wild strawberry plants, their pretty red berries ripe and ready to eat. Some of the trees bore yellow oranges and some russet pears, so the hungry adventurers suddenly found themselves provided with plenty to eat and to drink.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000002|They lost no time in picking the biggest strawberries and ripest oranges and soon had feasted to their hearts' content.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000003|Walking beyond the line of trees they saw before them a fearful, dismal desert, everywhere gray sand.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000004|At the edge of this awful waste was a large, white sign with black letters neatly painted upon it and the letters made these words:
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000003_000000|ALL PERSONS ARE WARNED NOT TO VENTURE UPON THIS DESERT
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000004_000000|For the Deadly Sands will Turn Any Living Flesh to Dust in an instant.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000005_000000|LAND OF OZ
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000006_000000|But no one can Reach that Beautiful Country because of these Destroying Sands
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000009_000000|"Don't know," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000010_000000|"I'm sure I don't know, either," added Dorothy, despondently.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000011_000000|"I wish father would come for me," sighed the pretty Rainbow's Daughter, "I would take you all to live upon the rainbow, where you could dance along its rays from morning till night, without a care or worry of any sort.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000012_000000|"Don't want to dance," said Button Bright, sitting down wearily upon the soft grass.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000013_000000|"It's very good of you, Polly," said Dorothy; "but there are other things that would suit me better than dancing on rainbows.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000014_000000|This didn't help to solve the problem, and they all fell silent and looked at one another questioningly.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000015_000000|"Really, I don't know what to do," muttered the shaggy man, gazing hard at Toto; and the little dog wagged his tail and said "Bow wow!" just as if he could not tell, either, what to do.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000015_000001|Button Bright got a stick and began to dig in the earth, and the others watched him for a while in deep thought.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000016_000000|"It's nearly evening, now; so we may as well sleep in this pretty place and get rested; perhaps by morning we can decide what is best to be done."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000019_000000|In the bright morning sunshine, as they ate of the strawberries and sweet juicy pears, Dorothy said:
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000020_000000|"Polly, can you do any magic?"
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000021_000000|"No dear," answered Polychrome, shaking her dainty head.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000022_000000|"You ought to know SOME magic, being the Rainbow's Daughter," continued Dorothy, earnestly.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000000|"What I'd like," said Dorothy, "is to find some way to cross the desert to the Land of Oz and its Emerald City.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000001|I've crossed it already, you know, more than once.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000003|Then Ozma took me over on her Magic Carpet, and the Nome King's Magic Belt took me home that time.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000004|You see it was magic that did it every time 'cept the first, and we can't 'spect a cyclone to happen along and take us to the Emerald City now."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000025_000000|"No indeed," returned Polly, with a shudder, "I hate cyclones, anyway."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000026_000000|"That's why I wanted to find out if you could do any magic," said the little Kansas girl.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000026_000001|"I'm sure I can't; and I'm sure Button Bright can't; and the only magic the shaggy man has is the Love Magnet, which won't help us much."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000027_000000|"Don't be too sure of that, my dear," spoke the shaggy man, a smile on his donkey face.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000027_000001|"I may not be able to do magic myself, but I can call to us a powerful friend who loves me because I own the Love Magnet, and this friend surely will be able to help us."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000028_000000|"Who is your friend?" asked Dorothy.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000030_000000|"What can Johnny do?"
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000031_000000|"Anything," answered the shaggy man, with confidence.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000032_000000|"Ask him to come," she exclaimed, eagerly.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000033_000000|The shaggy man took the Love Magnet from his pocket and unwrapped the paper that surrounded it.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000034_000000|"Dear Johnny Dooit, come to me. I need you bad as bad can be."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000035_000000|"Well, here I am," said a cheery little voice; "but you shouldn't say you need me bad, 'cause I'm always, ALWAYS, good."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000000|At this they quickly whirled around to find a funny little man sitting on a big copper chest, puffing smoke from a long pipe.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000001|His hair was grey, his whiskers were grey; and these whiskers were so long that he had wound the ends of them around his waist and tied them in a hard knot underneath the leather apron that reached from his chin nearly to his feet, and which was soiled and scratched as if it had been used a long time.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000002|His nose was broad, and stuck up a little; but his eyes were twinkling and merry.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000003|The little man's hands and arms were as hard and tough as the leather in his apron, and Dorothy thought Johnny Dooit looked as if he had done a lot of hard work in his lifetime.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000037_000000|"Good morning, Johnny," said the shaggy man.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000000|"I never waste time," said the newcomer, promptly.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000001|"But what's happened to you?
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000002|Where did you get that donkey head?
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000003|Really, I wouldn't have known you at all, Shaggy Man, if I hadn't looked at your feet."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000039_000000|The shaggy man introduced Johnny Dooit to Dorothy and Toto and Button Bright and the Rainbow's Daughter, and told him the story of their adventures, adding that they were anxious now to reach the Emerald City in the Land of Oz, where Dorothy had friends who would take care of them and send them safe home again.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000040_000000|"But," said he, "we find that we can't cross this desert, which turns all living flesh that touches it into dust; so I have asked you to come and help us."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000041_000000|Johnny Dooit puffed his pipe and looked carefully at the dreadful desert in front of them-stretching so far away they could not see its end.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000042_000000|"You must ride," he said, briskly.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000043_000000|"What in?" asked the shaggy man.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000044_000000|"In a sand boat, which has runners like a sled and sails like a ship. The wind will blow you swiftly across the desert and the sand cannot touch your flesh to turn it into dust."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000045_000000|"Good!" cried Dorothy, clapping her hands delightedly.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000045_000001|"That was the way the Magic Carpet took us across.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000045_000002|We didn't have to touch the horrid sand at all."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000046_000000|"But where is the sand boat?" asked the shaggy man, looking all around him.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000047_000000|"I'll make you one," said Johnny Dooit.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000048_000000|As he spoke, he knocked the ashes from his pipe and put it in his pocket.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000049_000000|Johnny Dooit moved quickly now-so quickly that they were astonished at the work he was able to accomplish.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000049_000001|He had in his chest a tool for everything he wanted to do, and these must have been magic tools because they did their work so fast and so well.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000050_000001|She thought the words were something like these:
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000052_000000|Whatever Johnny Dooit was singing he was certainly doing things, and they all stood by and watched him in amazement.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000000|He seized an axe and in a couple of chops felled a tree.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000001|Next he took a saw and in a few minutes sawed the tree trunk into broad, long boards.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000002|He then nailed the boards together into the shape of a boat, about twelve feet long and four feet wide.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000003|He cut from another tree a long, slender pole which, when trimmed of its branches and fastened upright in the center of the boat, served as a mast.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000054_000000|Dorothy fairly gasped with wonder to see the thing grow so speedily before her eyes, and both Button Bright and Polly looked on with the same absorbed interest.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000055_000000|"It ought to be painted," said Johnny Dooit, tossing his tools back into the chest, "for that would make it look prettier.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000055_000001|But 'though I can paint it for you in three seconds it would take an hour to dry, and that's a waste of time."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000056_000000|"We don't care how it looks," said the shaggy man, "if only it will take us across the desert."
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000057_000000|"It will do that," declared Johnny Dooit.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000057_000002|Did you ever sail a ship?"
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000059_000000|"Good.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000060_000000|With this he slammed down the lid of the chest, and the noise made them all wink.
train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000060_000001|While they were winking the workman disappeared, tools and all.
train-clean-360/5723/43296/5723_43296_000012_000000|"That they are pig headed?
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000004_000000|three
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000007_000000|Well, he was here at last, dishevelled, hatless and exhausted, looking up at the dark windows.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000012_000000|She babbled out a question at him.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000019_000000|"Oh! thank God!
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000019_000002|You are a priest, father?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000022_000001|Yes; this was genuine enough.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000027_000001|When will you bring me Holy Communion?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000028_000000|He hesitated.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000031_000000|"Tell me, are you very ill?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000032_000000|"I don't know, father.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000034_000001|Father, ought I to tell him?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000041_000000|"Father, I must not keep you; but tell me this-Who is this man?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000042_000000|"Felsenburgh?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000043_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000045_000001|Her face seemed to fall away in a kind of emotion, half cunning, half fear.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000047_000003|I am a Catholic-?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000052_000001|What do you know of Felsenburgh? You have been dreaming."
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000054_000001|"You have been dreaming.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000056_000000|"The door is shut, father?
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000058_000002|Well, at least, this is what I dreamt.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000059_000006|Father---"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000066_000000|"Very well, listen, father....
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000066_000002|Nearer, father."
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000070_000000|"Hush!" he said.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000070_000001|"Who is that?"
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000077_000000|"Why, her light is burning.
train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000077_000001|Come in, Oliver, but softly."
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000001_000000|seven
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000002_000000|THE LAY OF THE TWO LOVERS
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000003_000000|Once upon a time there lived in Normandy two lovers, who were passing fond, and were brought by Love to Death.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000003_000001|The story of their love was bruited so abroad, that the Bretons made a song in their own tongue, and named this song the Lay of the Two Lovers.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000004_000001|The town yet endures, with its towers and houses, to bear witness to the truth; moreover the country thereabouts is known to us all as the Valley of Pistres.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000000|This King had one fair daughter, a damsel sweet of face and gracious of manner, very near to her father's heart, since he had lost his Queen.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000003|So then, that none should carry off his child, he caused it to be proclaimed, both far and near, by script and trumpet, that he alone should wed the maid, who would bear her in his arms, to the pinnacle of the great and perilous mountain, and that without rest or stay.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000004|When this news was noised about the country, many came upon the quest.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000005|But strive as they would they might not enforce themselves more than they were able.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000006|However mighty they were of body, at the last they failed upon the mountain, and fell with their burthen to the ground.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000007|Thus, for a while, was none so bold as to seek the high Princess.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000000|Now in this country lived a squire, son to a certain count of that realm, seemly of semblance and courteous, and right desirous to win that prize, which was so coveted of all.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000001|He was a welcome guest at the Court, and the King talked with him very willingly.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000002|This squire had set his heart upon the daughter of the King, and many a time spoke in her ear, praying her to give him again the love he had bestowed upon her.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000003|So seeing him brave and courteous, she esteemed him for the gifts which gained him the favour of the King, and they loved together in their youth.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000005|This thing was very grievous to them, but the damoiseau thought within himself that it were good to bear the pains he knew, rather than to seek out others that might prove sharper still.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000006|Yet in the end, altogether distraught by love, this prudent varlet sought his friend, and showed her his case, saying that he urgently required of her that she would flee with him, for no longer could he endure the weariness of his days.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000002|Hearken well.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000003|I have kindred in Salerno, of rich estate.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000004|For more than thirty years my aunt has studied there the art of medicine, and knows the secret gift of every root and herb. If you hasten to her, bearing letters from me, and show her your adventure, certainly she will find counsel and cure.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000005|Doubt not that she will discover some cunning simple, that will strengthen your body, as well as comfort your heart.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000006|Then return to this realm with your potion, and ask me at my father's hand.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000007|He will deem you but a stripling, and set forth the terms of his bargain, that to him alone shall I be given who knows how to climb the perilous mountain, without pause or rest, bearing his lady between his arms."
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000002|So with a little company of men, mounted on swift palfreys, and most privy to his mind, he arrived at Salerno.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000003|Now the squire made no long stay at his lodging, but as soon as he might, went to the damsel's kindred to open out his mind.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000005|When the dame had read these letters with him, line by line, she charged him to lodge with her awhile, till she might do according to his wish.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000006|So by her sorceries, and for the love of her maid, she brewed such a potion that no man, however wearied and outworn, but by drinking this philtre, would not be refreshed in heart and blood and bones.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000007|Such virtue had this medicine, directly it were drunken.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000001|He repaired straightway to the Court, and, seeking out the King, required of him his fair daughter in marriage, promising, for his part, that were she given him, he would bear her in his arms to the summit of the mount.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000002|The King was no wise wrath at his presumption.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000003|He smiled rather at his folly, for how should one so young and slender succeed in a business wherein so many mighty men had failed.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000004|Therefore he appointed a certain day for this judgment.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000005|Moreover he caused letters to be written to his vassals and his friends-passing none by-bidding them to see the end of this adventure.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000007|And from every region round about men came to learn the issue of this thing.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000008|But for her part the fair maiden did all that she was able to bring her love to a good end.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000009|Ever was it fast day and fleshless day with her, so that by any means she might lighten the burthen that her friend must carry in his arms.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000000|Now on the appointed day this young dansellon came very early to the appointed place, bringing the flacket with him.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000001|When the great company were fully met together, the King led forth his daughter before them; and all might see that she was arrayed in nothing but her smock.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000002|The varlet took the maiden in his arms, but first he gave her the flask with the precious brewage to carry, since for pride he might not endure to drink therefrom, save at utmost peril.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000003|The squire set forth at a great pace, and climbed briskly till he was halfway up the mount. Because of the joy he had in clasping his burthen, he gave no thought to the potion.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000014_000000|But when two thirds of the course was won, the grasshopper would have tripped him off his feet.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000000|But he would neither hear, nor give credence to her words.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000001|A mighty anguish filled his bosom.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000002|He climbed upon the summit of the mountain, and pained himself grievously to bring his journey to an end.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000003|This he might not do.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000004|He reeled and fell, nor could he rise again, for the heart had burst within his breast.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000000|When the maiden saw her lover's piteous plight, she deemed that he had swooned by reason of his pain.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000001|She kneeled hastily at his side, and put the enchanted brewage to his lips, but he could neither drink nor speak, for he was dead, as I have told you.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000002|She bewailed his evil lot, with many shrill cries, and flung the useless flacket far away.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000004|For many saving herbs have been found there since that day by the simple folk of that country, which from the magic philtre derived all their virtue.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000018_000001|She kissed his eyes and mouth, and falling upon his body, took him in her arms, and pressed him closely to her breast.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000019_000002|After his speech had returned to him, he was passing heavy, and lamented their doleful case, and thus did all his people with him.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000020_000000|Three days they kept the bodies of these two fair children from earth, with uncovered face.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000020_000001|On the third day they sealed them fast in a goodly coffin of marble, and by the counsel of all men, laid them softly to rest on that mountain where they died.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000020_000002|Then they departed from them, and left them together, alone.
train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000021_000000|Since this adventure of the Two Children this hill is known as the Mountain of the Two Lovers, and their story being bruited abroad, the Breton folk have made a Lay thereof, even as I have rehearsed before you.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000004_000000|"What a comfort! the day light is lengthening.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000004_000002|Has it not, my little daughter? Who brought her these violets?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000006_000000|"To morrow."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000007_000000|"So we have said for a great many to morrows, but it is always put off. What do you think, mother-is the little maid strong enough?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000008_000000|mrs Halifax hesitated; said something about "east winds."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000010_000000|The child shrank back with an involuntary "Oh, no"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000011_000000|"That is because she is a little girl, necessarily less strong than the lads are.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000011_000001|Is it not so, Uncle Phineas?" continued her father, hastily, for I was watching them.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000012_000000|"Muriel will be quite strong when the warm weather comes.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000012_000001|We have had such a severe winter.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000012_000002|Every one of the children has suffered," said the mother, in a cheerful tone, as she poured out a cup of cream for her daughter, to whom was now given, by common consent, all the richest and rarest of the house.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000000|"I think every one has," said john, looking round on his apple cheeked boys; it must have been a sharp eye that detected any decrease of health, or increase of suffering, there.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000001|"But my plan will set all to rights.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000002|I spoke to mrs Tod yesterday.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000003|She will be ready to take us all in.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000004|Boys, shall you like going to Enderley?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000005|You shall go as soon as ever the larch wood is green."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000014_000000|For, at Longfield, already we began to make a natural almanack and chronological table.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000014_000001|"When the may was out"--"When Guy found the first robin's nest"--"When the field was all cowslips"--and so on.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000015_000000|"Is it absolutely necessary we should go?" said the mother, who had a strong home clinging, and already began to hold tiny Longfield as the apple of her eye.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000016_000000|"I think so, unless you will consent to let me go alone to Enderley."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000017_000000|She shook her head.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000018_000000|"What, with those troubles at the mills?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000018_000001|How can you speak so lightly?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000019_000001|The troubles must be borne; why not bear them with as good heart as possible?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000019_000002|They cannot last-let Lord Luxmore do what he will.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000019_000004|If my landlord will not do it, I will; and add a steam engine, too."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000020_000001|At first, mrs Halifax had looked grave-most women would, especially wives and mothers, in those days when every innovation was regarded with horror, and improvement and ruin were held synonymous.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000020_000002|She might have thought so too, had she not believed in her husband.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000020_000003|But now, at mention of the steam engine, she looked up and smiled.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000021_000000|"Lady Oldtower asked me about it to day.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000021_000001|She said, 'she hoped you would not ruin yourself, like mr Miller of Glasgow!' I said I was not afraid."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000022_000001|"It is easier to make the world trust one, when one is trusted by one's own household."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000023_000000|"Ah! never fear; you will make your fortune yet, in spite of Lord Luxmore."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000000|For, all winter, john had found out how many cares come with an attained wish.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000001|Chiefly, because, as the earl had said, his lordship possessed an "excellent memory." The Kingswell election had worked its results in a hundred small ways, wherein the heavy hand of the landlord could be laid upon the tenant.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000002|He bore up bravely against it; but hard was the struggle between might and right, oppression and staunch resistance.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000003|It would have gone harder, but for one whom john now began to call his "friend;" at least, one who invariably called mr Halifax so-our neighbour, Sir Ralph Oldtower.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000025_000000|"How often has Lady Oldtower been here, Ursula?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000026_000000|"She called first, you remember, after our trouble with the children; she has been twice since, I think.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000026_000002|I shall not go-I told her so."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000027_000000|"But gently, I hope?--you are so very outspoken, love.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000028_000000|I think-though john rarely betrayed it-he had strongly this presentiment of future power, which may often be noticed in men who have carved out their own fortunes.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000028_000001|They have in them the instinct to rise; and as surely as water regains its own level, so do they, from however low a source, ascend to theirs.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000029_000000|Not many weeks after, we removed in a body to Enderley.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000029_000004|He used to turn away, almost in pain, from her smile, as she would listen to all he said, then steal off to the harpsichord, and begin that soft, dreamy music, which the children called "talking to angels."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000030_000001|Little we thought he should ever own it, or that john would be pointing it out to his own boys, lecturing them on "undershot," and "overshot," as he used to lecture me.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000000|It was sweet, though half melancholy, to see Enderley again; to climb the steep meadows and narrow mule paths, up which he used to help me so kindly.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000001|He could not now; he had his little daughter in his arms.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000003|We paused half-way up on a low wall, where I had many a time rested, watching the sunset over Nunneley Hill-watching for john to come home.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000004|Every night-at least after Miss March went away-he usually found me sitting there.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000032_000000|He turned to me and smiled.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000032_000001|"Dost remember, lad?" at which appellation Guy widely stared.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000033_000000|"Enderley is just the same, Phineas. Twelve years have made no change-except in us." And he looked fondly at his wife, who stood a little way off, holding firmly on the wall, in a hazardous group, her three boys.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000034_000001|Better as it was; better a thousand times.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000035_000000|I went to mrs Halifax, and helped her to describe the prospect to the inquisitive boys; finally coaxing the refractory Guy up the winding road, where, just as if it had been yesterday, stood my old friends, my four Lombardy poplars, three together and one apart.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000036_000001|In her delight, she so absolutely forgot herself as to address the mother as Miss March; at which long unspoken name Ursula started, her colour went and came, and her eyes turned restlessly towards the church hard by.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000037_000000|"It is all right-Miss-Ma'am, I mean.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000038_000000|"Yes, I know."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000039_000000|And when she had put all her little ones to bed-we, wondering where the mother was, went out towards the little churchyard, and found her quietly sitting there.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000000|We were very happy at Enderley.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000001|Muriel brightened up before she had been there many days.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000003|It was the season she enjoyed most-the time of the singing of birds, and the springing of delicate scented flowers. I myself never loved the beech wood better than did our Muriel.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000004|She used continually to tell us this was the happiest spring she had ever had in her life.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000041_000000|john was much occupied now.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000041_000002|Very often Muriel and I followed him, and spent whole mornings in the mill meadows.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000043_000000|"What is the matter with the stream?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000043_000001|Do you notice, Phineas?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000044_000000|"I have seen it gradually lowering-these two hours.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000045_000000|"Nothing of the kind-I must look after it.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000045_000001|Good bye, my little daughter.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000045_000002|Don't cling so fast; father will be back soon-and isn't this a sweet sunny place for a little maid to be lazy in?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000046_000001|He walked rapidly down the meadows, and went into his mill.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000047_000000|Then he came towards us, narrowly watching the stream.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000047_000001|It had sunk more and more-the muddy bottom was showing plainly.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000048_000000|"Yes-that's it-it can be nothing else!
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000049_000000|"Do what, john?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000049_000001|Who?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000050_000000|"Lord Luxmore." He spoke in the smothered tones of violent passion. "Lord Luxmore has turned out of its course the stream that works my mill."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000051_000000|I tried to urge that such an act was improbable; in fact, against the law.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000052_000000|"Not against the law of the great against the little.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000052_000002|But I see what it is-I have seen it coming a whole year.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000052_000003|He is determined to ruin me!"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000053_000000|john said this in much excitement.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000053_000001|He hardly felt Muriel's tiny creeping hands.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000054_000000|"What does 'ruin' mean?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000054_000001|Is anybody making father angry?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000055_000000|"No, my sweet-not angry-only very, very miserable!"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000056_000000|He snatched her up, and buried his head in her soft, childish bosom. She kissed him and patted his hair.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000057_000000|"Never mind, dear father.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000057_000001|You say nothing signifies, if we are only good.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000057_000002|And father is always good."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000058_000000|"I wish I were."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000060_000000|"No, Lord Luxmore shall not ruin me!
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000060_000001|I have thought of a scheme.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000060_000002|But first I must speak to my people-I shall have to shorten wages for a time."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000062_000001|If it must be done-better done at once, before winter sets in.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000063_000000|He almost ground his teeth as he saw the sun shining on the far white wing of Luxmore Hall.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000064_000001|If it is an unlawful act, why not go to law?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000065_000000|"Phineas, you forget my principle-only mine, however; I do not force it upon any one else-my firm principle, that I will never go to law. Never!
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000065_000001|I would not like to have it said, in contradistinction to the old saying, 'See how these Christians FIGHT!'"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000000|"Now, Uncle Phineas, go you home with Muriel.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000001|Tell my wife what has occurred-say, I will come to tea as soon as I can.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000002|But I may have some little trouble with my people here.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000003|She must not alarm herself."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000068_000000|No, the mother never did.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000068_000002|What was to be borne-she bore: what was to be done-she did; but she rarely made any "fuss" about either her doings or her sufferings.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000070_000000|"Then you think john is right?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000071_000000|"Of course I do."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000000|I had not meant it as a question, or even a doubt.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000001|But it was pleasant to hear her thus answer.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000002|For, as I have said, Ursula was not a woman to be led blindfold, even by her husband.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000003|Sometimes they differed on minor points, and talked their differences lovingly out; but on any great question she had always this safe trust in him-that if one were right and the other wrong, the erring one was much more likely to be herself than john.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000073_000000|She said no more; but put the children to bed; then came downstairs with her bonnet on.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000074_000001|Or are you too tired?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000074_000002|I am going down to the mill."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000076_000001|He was rather odd looking, being invariably muffled up in a large cloak and a foreign sort of hat.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000077_000000|"Who is that, watching our mills?" said mrs Halifax, hastily.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000078_000000|I told her all I had seen of the person.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000079_000001|They used to find shelter at Luxmore."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000081_000000|In his empty mill, standing beside one of its silenced looms, we found the master.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000081_000001|He was very much dejected-Ursula touched his arm before he even saw her.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000082_000000|"Well, love-you know what has happened?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000083_000000|"Yes, john.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000083_000001|But never mind."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000084_000000|"I would not-except for my poor people."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000085_000000|"What do you intend doing?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000086_000000|"Our wishes come as a cross to us sometimes," he said, rather bitterly. "It is the only thing I can do.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000086_000001|The water power being so greatly lessened, I must either stop the mills, or work them by steam."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000087_000000|"Do that, then.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000087_000001|Set up your steam engine."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000088_000000|"And have all the country down upon me for destroying hand labour?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000088_000001|Have a new set of Luddites coming to burn my mill, and break my machinery? That is what Lord Luxmore wants.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000088_000003|If you had heard those poor people whom I sent away tonight!
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000089_000000|He spoke-as we rarely heard john speak: as worldly cares and worldly injustice cause even the best of men to speak sometimes.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000090_000000|"Poor people!" he added, "how can I blame them?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000091_000000|Here I heard-or fancied I heard-out of the black shadow behind the loom, a heavy sigh.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000091_000001|john and Ursula were too anxious to notice it.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000092_000002|Will it cost much?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000093_000000|"More than I like to think of.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000093_000001|But it must be;--nothing venture-nothing have.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000093_000003|But oh, my poor people at Enderley!"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000094_000000|Again Ursula asked if nothing could be done.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000095_000000|"Yes-I did think of one plan-but-"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000097_000002|At last john said:
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000099_000000|"How can you talk so!
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000099_000001|We could do it easily, by living in a plainer way; by giving up one or two trifles.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000099_000002|Only outside things, you know. Why need we care for outside things?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000100_000000|"Why, indeed?" he said, in a low, fond tone.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000101_000001|Three months of little renunciations-three months of the old narrow way of living, as at Norton Bury-and the poor people at Enderley might have full wages, whether or no there was full work.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000101_000002|Then in our quiet valley there would be no want, no murmurings, and, above all, no blaming of the master.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000104_000000|"Husband, don't let us speak of Lord Luxmore."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000105_000000|Again that sigh-quite ghostly in the darkness.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000106_000000|"Who's there?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000107_000000|"Only I, mr Halifax-don't be angry with me."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000108_000000|It was the softest, mildest voice-the voice of one long used to oppression; and the young man whom Ursula had supposed to be a Catholic appeared from behind the loom.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000109_000000|"I do not know you, sir.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000109_000001|How came you to enter my mill?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000110_000000|"I followed mrs Halifax.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000110_000001|I have often watched her and your children. But you don't remember me."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000112_000000|"I am surprised to see you here, Lord Ravenel."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000113_000002|I would have renounced it long ago.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000114_000000|"He-do you mean your father?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000115_000000|The boy-no, he was a young man now, but scarcely looked more than a boy-assented silently, as if afraid to utter the name.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000116_000000|"Would not your coming here displease him?" said john, always tenacious of trenching a hair's breadth upon any lawful authority.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000117_000000|"It matters not-he is away.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000117_000001|He has left me these six months alone at Luxmore."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000118_000000|"Have you offended him?" asked Ursula, who had cast kindly looks on the thin face, which perhaps reminded her of another-now for ever banished from our sight, and his also.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000000|The youth crossed himself, then started and looked round, in terror of observers.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000001|"You will not betray me?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000002|You are a good man, mr Halifax, and you spoke warmly for us.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000003|Tell me-I will keep your secret-are you a Catholic too?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000121_000000|"No, indeed."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000122_000001|I hoped you were.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000122_000002|But you are sure you will not betray me?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000123_000000|mr Halifax smiled at such a possibility.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000123_000001|Yet, in truth, there was some reason for the young man's fears; since, even in those days, Catholics were hunted down both by law and by public opinion, as virulently as Protestant nonconformists.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000123_000002|All who kept out of the pale of the national church were denounced as schismatics, deists, atheists-it was all one.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000125_000000|"I am sick of it.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000125_000001|There never was but one in it I cared for, or who cared for me-and now-Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000126_000000|His lips moved in a paroxysm of prayer-helpless, parrot learnt, Latin prayer; yet, being in earnest, it seemed to do him good.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000127_000000|He looked exceedingly surprised.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000127_000001|"I-you cannot mean it?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000127_000002|After Lord Luxmore has done you all this evil?"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000128_000000|"Is that any reason why I should not do good to his son-that is, if I could?
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000129_000000|The lad lifted up those soft grey eyes, and then I remembered what his sister had said of Lord Ravenel's enthusiastic admiration of mr Halifax.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000129_000001|"Oh, you could-you could."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000130_000000|"But I and mine are heretics, you know!"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000131_000000|"I will pray for you.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000131_000001|Only let me come and see you-you and your children."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000132_000000|"Come, and welcome."
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000133_000000|"Heartily welcome, Lord-"
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000134_000000|"No-not that name, mrs Halifax.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000136_000000|So henceforward "Brother Anselmo" was almost domesticated at Rose Cottage.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000138_000000|He said, "She made him good"--our child of peace.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000138_000002|And the little maid in her quiet way was very fond of him; delighting in his company when her father was not by.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000138_000003|But no one ever was to her like her father.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000139_000000|The chief bond between her and Lord Ravenel-or "Anselmo," as he would have us call him-was music.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000139_000001|He taught her to play on the organ, in the empty church close by.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000140_000000|Just at this time, her father saw somewhat less of her than usual.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000140_000001|He was oppressed with business cares; daily, hourly vexations.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000140_000003|It ceased to be a pleasure to walk in the green hollow, between the two grassy hills, which heretofore Muriel and I had liked even better than the Flat.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000141_000000|He was setting up that wonderful novelty-a steam engine.
train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000141_000004|So the ignorant, simple mill people, when they came for their easy Saturday's wages, only stood and gaped at the mass of iron, and the curiously shaped brickwork, and wondered what on earth "the master" was about?
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000009_000000|....The merest outline of the subject is terrifying!
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000010_000000|three
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000011_000001|This is very cheap.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000012_000001|When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he made use of incense.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000023_000000|We shall suppose the game to be arranged for a party of six,-- though there is no rule limiting the number of players.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000023_000006|But with the "guest incense" no experiment is made.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000024_000002|But the faces of the tablets bear numbers or marks; and each set comprises three tablets numbered "one," three numbered "two," three numbered "three," and one marked with the character signifying "guest." After these tablet sets have been distributed, a box called the "tablet box" is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000025_000004|He takes the six tablets out of the box, and wraps them up in the paper which contained the incense guessed about.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000027_000001|But it is quite a feat to make ten correct judgments in succession.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000027_000002|The olfactory nerves are apt to become somewhat numbed long before the game is concluded; and, therefore it is customary during the Ko kwai to rinse the mouth at intervals with pure vinegar, by which operation the sensitivity is partially restored.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000028_000000|RECORD OF A KO KWAI.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000038_000005|It is the custom In some families to enter all such records in a book especially made for the purpose, and furnished with an index which enables the Ko kwai player to refer immediately to any interesting fact belonging to the history of any past game.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000042_000000|To twenty one pastilles
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000043_000000|Recipe for Baikwa.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000047_000005|Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is expected to take not less than three inhalations, or more than five.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000048_000000|In this economical era, the Ko kwai takes of necessity a much humbler form than it assumed in the time of the great daimyo, of the princely abbots, and of the military aristocracy.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000048_000001|A full set of the utensils required for the game can now be had for about fifty dollars; but the materials are of the poorest kind.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000055_000001|When the Emperor had lost his beautiful favorite, the Lady Li, he sorrowed so much that fears were entertained for his reason.
train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000057_000000|Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been claimed for one sort of incense only, the burning of any kind of incense is supposed to summon viewless spirits in multitude.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000004_000000|"Is it possible," he exclaimed, "that you never saw a silkworm moth?
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000004_000001|The silkworm moth has very beautiful eyebrows."
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000005_000001|"Well, call them what you like," returned Niimi;--"the poets call them eyebrows....
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000006_000000|He left the guest room, and presently returned with a white paper fan, on which a silkworm moth was sleepily reposing.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000007_000001|It cannot fly, of course: none of them can fly....
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000007_000002|Now look at the eyebrows."
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000009_000000|Then Niimi took me to see his worms.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000010_000003|As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attention.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000010_000008|They have mouths, but do not eat.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000010_000009|They only pair, lay eggs, and die.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000016_000000|Those silkworms have all that they wish for,--even considerably more.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000017_000006|Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust.
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000019_000001|In a silkworm paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desire, the seraph freed from the necessity of toil, and able to satisfy his every want at will, would lose his wings at last, and sink back to the condition of a grub....
train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000021_000000|three
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000002_000000|"BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000003_000001|He was not detained by business, nor did he get left behind nor snowed up, as frequently happens in stories, and in real life too, I am afraid.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000003_000002|The snow storm came also; and the turkey nearly died a natural and premature death from over eating.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000003_000003|Donald came, too; Donald, with a line of down upon his upper lip, and Greek and Latin on his tongue, and stores of knowledge in his handsome head, and stories-bless me, you couldn't turn over a chip without reminding Donald of something that happened "at College."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000001|Carol's hand (all too thin and white these latter days) lay close clasped in Uncle Jack's, and they talked together quietly of many, many things.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000004|Mama says she supposes that ever so many other children have been born on that day.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000005|I often wonder where they are, Uncle Jack, and whether it is a dear thought to them, too, or whether I am so much in bed, and so often alone, that it means more to me.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000006|Oh, I do hope that none of them are poor, or cold, or hungry; and I wish, I wish they were all as happy as I, because they are my little brothers and sisters.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000005_000000|"That large and interesting brood of children in the little house at the end of the back garden?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000006_000000|"Yes; isn't it nice to see so many together?
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000006_000001|We ought to call them the Ruggles children, of course; but Donald began talking of them as the 'Ruggleses in the rear,' and Papa and Mama took it up, and now we cannot seem to help it.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000006_000002|The house was built for mr Carter's coachman, but mr Carter lives in Europe, and the gentleman who rents his place doesn't care what happens to it, and so this poor Irish family came to live there.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000008_000000|"Yes, we all thought it very funny, and I smiled at them from the window when I was well enough to be up again.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000008_000002|Then, one day, 'Cary,' my pet canary, flew out of her cage, and peter Ruggles caught her and brought her back, and I had him up here in my room to thank him."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000009_000000|"Is peter the oldest?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000010_000000|"No; Sarah Maud is the oldest-she helps do the washing; and peter is the next.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000010_000001|He is a dressmaker's boy."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000011_000000|"And which is the pretty little red haired girl?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000012_000000|"That's Kitty."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000013_000000|"And the fat youngster?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000014_000000|"Baby Larry."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000015_000000|"And that freckled one?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000016_000000|"Now, don't laugh-that's Peoria!"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000017_000000|"Carol, you are joking."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000018_000000|"No, really, Uncle dear.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000018_000001|She was born in Peoria; that's all."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000019_000000|"And is the next boy Oshkosh?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000020_000000|"No," laughed Carol, "the others are Susan, and Clement, and Eily, and Cornelius."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000021_000000|"How did you ever learn all their names?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000022_000000|"Well, I have what I call a 'window school.' It is too cold now; but in warm weather I am wheeled out on my little balcony, and the Ruggleses climb up and walk along our garden fence, and sit down on the roof of our carriage house.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000022_000001|That brings them quite near, and I read to them and tell them stories; On Thanksgiving Day they came up for a few minutes, it was quite warm at eleven o'clock, and we told each other what we had to be thankful for; but they gave such queer answers that Papa had to run away for fear of laughing; and I couldn't understand them very well.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000022_000002|Susan was thankful for 'TRUNKS,' of all things in the world; Cornelius, for 'horse cars;' Kitty, for 'pork steak;' while Clem, who is very quiet, brightened up when I came to him, and said he was thankful for 'HIS LAME PUPPY.' Wasn't that pretty?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000023_000000|"It might teach some of us a lesson, mightn't it, little girl?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000024_000000|"That's what Mama said.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000024_000001|Now I'm going to give this whole Christmas to the Ruggleses; and, Uncle Jack, I earned part of the money myself."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000000|"Well, you see, it could not be my own, own Christmas if Papa gave me all the money, and I thought to really keep Christ's birthday I ought to do something of my very own; and so I talked with Mama.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000001|Of course she thought of something lovely; she always does; Mama's head is just brimming over with lovely thoughts, and all I have to do is ask, and out pops the very one I want.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000002|This thought was, to let her write down, just as I told her, a description of how a little girl lived in her own room three years, and what she did to amuse herself; and we sent it to a magazine and got twenty five dollars for it.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000003|Just think!"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000027_000000|"Well, well," cried Uncle Jack, "my little girl a real author!
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000027_000001|And what are you going to do with this wonderful 'own' money of yours?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000028_000000|"I shall give the nine Ruggleses a grand Christmas dinner here in this very room-that will be Papa's contribution, and afterwards a beautiful Christmas tree, fairly blooming with presents-that will be my part; for I have another way of adding to my twenty five dollars, so that I can buy everything I like.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000028_000002|I have written a letter to the organist, and asked him if I might have the two songs I like best.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000028_000003|Will you see if it is all right?"
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000030_000000|DEAR mr
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000030_000001|WILKIE,--
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000031_000000|I am the little sick girl who lives next door to the church, and, as I seldom go out, the music on practice days and Sundays is one of my greatest pleasures.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000032_000000|I want to know if you can let the boys sing 'Carol, brothers, carol,' on Christmas night, and if the one who sings 'My ain countree' so beautifully may please sing that too.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000032_000001|I think it is the loveliest song in the world, but it always makes me cry; doesn't it you?
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000033_000000|If it isn't too much trouble, I hope they can sing them both quite early, as after ten o'clock I may be asleep.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000034_000000|--Yours respectfully,
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000035_000000|CAROL BIRD.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000036_000000|p s--The reason I like 'Carol, brothers, carol,' is because the choir boys sang it eleven years ago, the morning I was born, and put it into Mama's head to call me Carol.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000036_000001|She didn't remember then that my other name would be Bird, because she was half asleep, and couldn't think of but one thing at a time.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000037_000000|--Yours truly,
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000038_000000|CAROL BIRD."
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000000|Uncle Jack thought the letter quite right, and did not even smile at her telling the organist so many family items.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000001|The days flew by, as they always fly in holiday time, and it was Christmas eve before anybody knew it.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000003|Carol and Elfrida, her pretty German nurse, had ransacked books, and introduced so many plans, and plays, and customs and merry makings from Germany, and Holland, and England and a dozen other places, that you would scarcely have known how or where you were keeping Christmas.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000004|The dog and the cat had enjoyed their celebration under Carol's direction. Each had a tiny table with a lighted candle in the center, and a bit of Bologna sausage placed very near it, and everybody laughed till the tears stood in their eyes to see Villikins and Dinah struggle to nibble the sausages, and at the same time evade the candle flame.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000005|Villikins barked, and sniffed, and howled in impatience, and after many vain attempts succeeded in dragging off the prize, though he singed his nose in doing it.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000006|Dinah, meanwhile, watched him placidly, her delicate nostrils quivering with expectation, and, after all excitement had subsided, walked with dignity to the table, her beautiful gray satin tail sweeping behind her, and, calmly putting up one velvet paw, drew the sausage gently down, and walked out of the room without "turning a hair," so to speak.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000007|Elfrida had scattered handfuls of seeds over the snow in the garden, that the wild birds might have a comfortable breakfast next morning, and had stuffed bundles of dried grasses in the fireplaces, so that the reindeer of Santa Claus could refresh themselves after their long gallops across country.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000008|This was really only done for fun, but it pleased Carol.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000040_000001|That was to keep the dear ones from quarreling all through the year.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000040_000002|There were Papa's stout top boots; Mama's pretty buttoned shoes next; then Uncle Jack's, Donald's, Paul's and Hugh's; and at the end of the line her own little white worsted slippers.
train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000040_000003|Last, and sweetest of all, like the little children in Austria, she put a lighted candle in her window to guide the dear Christ child, lest he should stumble in the dark night as he passed up the deserted street.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000001_000000|SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000002_000000|Before the earliest Ruggles could wake and toot his five cent tin horn, mrs Ruggles was up and stirring about the house, for it was a gala day in the family.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000002_000001|Gala day!
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000002_000002|I should think so!
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000004_000001|RUGGLES,--
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000005_000001|I want them every one, please, from Sarah Maud to Baby Larry.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000005_000002|Mama says dinner will be at half past five, and the Christmas tree at seven; so you may expect them home at nine o'clock.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000005_000003|Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I am, yours truly,
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000006_000000|CAROL BIRD."
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000007_000000|Breakfast was on the table promptly at seven o'clock, and there was very little of it, too; for it was an excellent day for short rations, though mrs Ruggles heaved a sigh as she reflected that even the boys, with their India rubber stomachs, would be just as hungry the day after the dinner party as if they had never had any at all.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000008_000002|You other boys clear out from under foot!
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000008_000003|Clem, you and Con hop into bed with Larry while I wash yer underflannins; 'twont take long to dry 'em.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000008_000008|Won't yer, Peory?"
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000010_000000|"That's a lady;" cried her mother.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000013_000001|I say, "complete;" but I do not know whether they would be called so in the best society.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000013_000002|The law of compensation had been well applied; he that had necktie had no cuffs; she that had sash had no handkerchief, and vice versa; but they all had boots and a certain amount of clothing, such as it was, the outside layer being in every case quite above criticism.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000014_000000|"Now, Sarah Maud," said mrs Ruggles, her face shining with excitement, "everything is red up an' we can begin.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000015_000003|A row of seats was formed directly through the middle of the kitchen.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000015_000004|There were not quite chairs enough for ten, since the family had rarely all wanted to sit down at once, somebody always being out, or in bed, but the wood box and the coal hod finished out the line nicely.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000015_000005|The children took their places according to age, Sarah Maud at the head and Larry on the coal hod, and mrs Ruggles seated herself in front, surveying them proudly as she wiped the sweat of honest toil from her brow.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000017_000000|mrs Ruggles looked severe.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000018_000000|The matter began to assume a graver aspect; the little Ruggleses stopped giggling and backed into the bed room, issuing presently with lock step, Indian file, a scared and hunted expression in every countenance.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000019_000001|The third time brought deserved success, and the pupils took their seats in the row.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000019_000003|Now, look me in the eye.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000019_000005|Now, can you remember?"
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000020_000000|All the little Ruggleses shouted, "Yes, marm," in chorus.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000021_000002|The little Ruggleses hung their diminished heads.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000021_000004|Speak up, Sarah Maud."
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000023_000000|"Quick!"
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000025_000000|This was too much for the boys.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000028_000000|"Dunno!" said Cornelius, turning pale.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000029_000001|Ask Mis' Bird how she's feelin' this evenin', or if mr Bird's havin' a busy season, or somethin' like that.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000031_000000|"Clement Ruggles, do you mean to tell me that you'd say that to a dinner party?
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000031_000002|mr Clement, will you take some of the cramb'ry?"
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000033_000000|"Very good, indeed!
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000033_000001|mr peter, do you speak for white or dark meat?"
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000035_000000|"First rate!
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000035_000001|nobody could speak more genteel than that.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000037_000000|"You just stop your gruntin', peter Ruggles; that was all right.
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000037_000003|Now, is there anything more ye'd like to practice?"
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000041_000000|"ABOUT ONCE IN SO OFTEN!" Could any words in the language be fraught with more terrible and wearing uncertainty?
train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000043_000000|"Oh, don't fret," said her mother, good naturedly, "I guess you'll git along.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000001_000000|"WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED, THE BIRDS BEGAN TO SING!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000003_000000|peter rang the door bell, and presently a servant admitted them, and, whispering something in Sarah's ear, drew her downstairs into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000003_000001|The other Ruggleses stood in horror stricken groups as the door closed behind their commanding officer; but there was no time for reflection, for a voice from above was heard, saying, "Come right up stairs, please!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000004_000000|"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do or die."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000005_000000|Accordingly, they walked upstairs, and Elfrida, the nurse, ushered them into a room more splendid than anything they had ever seen.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000006_000000|However, mrs Bird said, pleasantly, "Of course you wouldn't wear hats such a short distance-I forgot when I asked.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000006_000001|Now, will you come right in to Miss Carol's room, she is so anxious to see you?"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000007_000000|Just then Sarah Maud came up the back stairs, so radiant with joy from her secret interview with the cook, that peter could have pinched her with a clear conscience, and Carol gave them a joyful welcome.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000007_000001|"But where is Baby Larry?" she cried, looking over the group with searching eye.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000007_000002|"Didn't he come?"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000000|"Larry!
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000001|Larry!" Good Gracious, where was Larry?
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000002|They were all sure that he had come in with them, for Susan remembered scolding him for tripping over the door mat.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000003|Uncle Jack went into convulsions of laughter.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000004|"Are you sure there were nine of you?" he asked, merrily.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000009_000000|"I think so, sir," said Peoria, timidly; "but, anyhow, there was Larry;" and she showed signs of weeping.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000010_000000|"Oh, well, cheer up!" cried Uncle Jack.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000010_000001|"I guess he's not lost-only mislaid.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000010_000002|I'll go and find him before you can say Jack Robinson!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000012_000000|The other Ruggleses stood rooted to the floor.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000013_000000|Sarah Maud went out through the hall, calling, "Larry!
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000013_000003|He was afraid to yell!
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000013_000005|Uncle Jack dried his tears, carried him upstairs, and soon had him in breathless fits of laughter, while Carol so made the other Ruggleses forget themselves that they were soon talking like accomplished diners out.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000000|Carol's bed had been moved into the farthest corner of the room, and she was lying on the outside, dressed in a wonderful soft white wrapper.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000001|Her golden hair fell in soft fluffy curls over her white forehead and neck, her cheeks flushed delicately, her eyes beamed with joy, and the children told their mother, afterwards, that she looked as beautiful as the pictures of the Blessed Virgin.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000002|There was great bustle behind a huge screen in another part of the room, and at half past five this was taken away, and the Christmas dinner table stood revealed.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000003|What a wonderful sight it was to the poor little Ruggles children, who ate their sometimes scanty meals on the kitchen table!
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000004|It blazed with tall colored candles, it gleamed with glass and silver, it blushed with flowers, it groaned with good things to eat; so it was not strange that the Ruggleses, forgetting that their mother was a McGrill, shrieked in admiration of the fairy spectacle.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000015_000001|There was turkey and chicken, with delicious gravy and stuffing, and there were half a dozen vegetables, with cranberry jelly, and celery, and pickles; and as for the way these delicacies were served, the Ruggleses never forgot it as long as they lived.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000019_000000|"I declare to goodness," murmured Susan, on the other side, "there's so much to look at I can't scarcely eat nothin!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000020_000001|Then, when Carol and Uncle Jack perceived that more turkey was a physical impossibility, the meats were taken off and the dessert was brought in-a dessert that would have frightened a strong man after such a dinner as had preceded it.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000020_000003|Kitty chose ice cream, explaining that she knew it "by sight," but hadn't never tasted none; but all the rest took the entire variety, without any regard to consequences.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000021_000000|"My dear child," whispered Uncle Jack, as he took Carol an orange, "there is no doubt about the necessity of this feast, but I do advise you after this to have them twice a year, or quarterly, perhaps, for the way they eat is positively dangerous; I assure you I tremble for that terrible Peoria.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000021_000001|I'm going to run races with her after dinner."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000000|The feast being over, the Ruggleses lay back in their chairs languidly, and the table was cleared in a trice; then a door was opened into the next room, and there, in a corner facing Carol's bed, which had been wheeled as close as possible, stood the brilliantly lighted Christmas tree, glittering with gilded walnuts and tiny silver balloons, and wreathed with snowy chains of pop corn.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000002|Each girl had a blue knitted hood, and each boy a red crocheted comforter, all made by Mama, Carol and Elfrida ("because if you buy everything, it doesn't show so much love," said Carol).
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000003|Then every girl had a pretty plaid dress of a different color, and every boy a warm coat of the right size.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000004|Here the useful presents stopped, and they were quite enough; but Carol had pleaded to give them something "for fun."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000005|"I know they need the clothes," she had said, when they were talking over the matter just after Thanksgiving, "but they don't care much for them, after all.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000024_000000|"You can have both," said mr Bird, promptly; "is there any need of my little girl's going without her Christmas, I should like to know? Spend all the money you like."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000000|"But that isn't the thing," objected Carol, nestling close to her father; "it wouldn't be mine.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000001|What is the use?
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000002|Haven't I almost everything already, and am I not the happiest girl in the world this year, with Uncle Jack and Donald at home?
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000004|You never look half as happy when you are getting your presents as when you are giving us ours.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000005|Now, Papa, submit, or I shall have to be very firm and disagreeable with you!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000026_000000|"Very well, your Highness, I surrender."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000027_000000|"That's a dear Papa!
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000027_000001|Now, what were you going to give me?
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000027_000002|Confess!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000028_000000|"A bronze figure of Santa Claus; and in the little round belly, that shakes, when he laughs, like a bowl full of jelly, is a wonderful clock.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000028_000001|Oh, you would never give it up if you could see it."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000029_000000|"Nonsense," laughed Carol; "as I never have to get up to breakfast, nor go to bed, nor catch trains, I think my old clock will do very well! Now, Mama, what were you going to give me?"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000030_000000|"Oh, I hadn't decided.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000030_000001|A few more books, and a gold thimble, and a smelling bottle, and a music box."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000031_000000|"Poor Carol," laughed the child, merrily, "she can afford to give up these lovely things, for there will still be left Uncle Jack, and Donald, and Paul, and Hugh, and Uncle Rob, and Aunt Elsie, and a dozen other people."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000032_000001|The candles flickered and went out, the tree was left alone with its gilded ornaments, and mrs Bird sent the children down stairs at half past eight, thinking that Carol looked tired.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000033_000000|"Now, my darling, you have done quite enough for one day," said mrs Bird, getting Carol into her little night dress; "I am afraid you will feel worse to morrow, and that would be a sad ending to such a good time."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000034_000000|"Oh, wasn't it a lovely, lovely time," sighed Carol.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000034_000001|"From first to last, everything was just right.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000035_000000|"But we mustn't talk any longer about it to night," said mrs Bird, anxiously; "you are too tired, dear."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000036_000000|"I am not so very tired, Mama.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000036_000001|I have felt well all day; not a bit of pain anywhere.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000036_000002|Perhaps this has done me good."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000000|"Perhaps; I hope so.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000001|There was no noise or confusion; it was just a merry time.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000002|Now, may I close the door and leave you alone?
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000003|I will steal in softly the first thing in the morning, and see if you are all right; but I think you need to be quiet."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000038_000000|"Oh, I'm willing to stay alone; but I am not sleepy yet, and I am going to hear the music by and by, you know."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000039_000000|"Yes, I have opened the window a little, and put the screen in front of it, so that you will not feel the air."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000000|"Can I have the shutters open; and won't you turn my bed a little, please?
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000002|I never saw it before, and I thought of the Star in the East, that guided the wise men to the place where Jesus was.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000003|Good night, Mama.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000004|Such a happy, happy day!"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000041_000000|"Good night, my precious little Christmas Carol-mother's blessed Christmas child."
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000042_000000|"Bend your head a minute, mother dear," whispered Carol, calling her mother back.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000042_000001|"Mama, dear, I do think that we have kept Christ's birthday this time just as He would like it.
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000042_000002|Don't you?"
train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000043_000000|"I am sure of it," said mrs Bird, softly.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000001_000000|The Josephs' Christmas
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000002_000000|The month before Christmas was always the most exciting and mysterious time in the Joseph household.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000004_000001|No questions were asked no matter what queer things were done.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000004_000003|The air was simply charged with secrets.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000000|Sister Mollie was the grand repository of these; all the little Josephs came to her for advice and assistance.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000001|It was Mollie who for troubled small brothers and sisters did such sums in division as this: How can I get a ten cent present for Emmy and a fifteen cent one for Jimmy out of eighteen cents?
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000002|Or, how can seven sticks of candy be divided among eight people so that each shall have one?
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000004|It was Mollie who put the finishing touches to most of the little gifts.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000005|In short, all through December Mollie was weighed down under an avalanche of responsibility.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000006|It speaks volumes for her sagacity and skill that she never got things mixed up or made any such terrible mistake as letting one little Joseph find out what another was going to give him.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000007|"Dead" secrecy was the keystone of all plans and confidences.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000006_000000|During this particular December the planning and contriving had been more difficult and the results less satisfactory than usual.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000006_000001|The Josephs were poor at any time, but this winter they were poorer than ever.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000008_000000|"I'm glad I'm not driving over the prairie tonight," said mr Joseph. "It's quite a storm.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000008_000001|I hope it will be fine tomorrow, for the children's sake.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000009_000000|mrs Joseph sighed over Jimmy's worn jacket which she was mending. Then she smiled.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000000|"Never mind, john.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000001|Things will be better next Christmas, we'll hope. The children will not mind, bless their hearts.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000002|Look at all the little knick knacks they've made for each other.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000004|I did feel that I'd ask nothing better than to go in and buy all the lovely things I wanted, just for once, and give them to the children tomorrow morning.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000005|They've never had anything really nice for Christmas.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000006|But there!
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000011_000000|mr Joseph nodded.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000012_000000|"That's so.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000013_000001|It's all the 'Christmassy' I could give them.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000015_000000|Two snowed up figures were standing on the porch.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000016_000000|"Late hour for callers, isn't it?" said mr Ralston.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000016_000001|"The fact is, our horse has about given out, and the storm is so bad that we can't proceed.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000016_000003|Can you take us in for the night, mr Joseph?"
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000017_000000|"Certainly, and welcome!" exclaimed mr Joseph heartily, "if you don't mind a shakedown by the kitchen fire for the night.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000017_000001|My, mrs Ralston," as his wife helped her off with her things, "but you are snowed up! I'll see to putting your horse away, mr Ralston.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000017_000002|This way, if you please."
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000018_000001|mr Ralston put the big basket he was carrying down on a bench in the corner.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000019_000000|"Thought I'd better bring our Christmas flummery in," he said.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000019_000002|mrs Ralston packed this basket, and goodness knows what she put in it, but she half cleaned out my store. The eyes of the Lindsay youngsters will dance tomorrow-that is, if we ever get there."
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000020_000001|How meagre and small they did look, to be sure, beside that bulgy basket with its cover suggestively tied down.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000024_000000|"Our Santa Claus is somewhat out of pocket this year," said mr Joseph frankly.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000024_000002|They've been a month at it, and I'm always kind of relieved when Christmas is over and there are no more mysterious doings.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000024_000003|We're in such cramped quarters here that you can't move without stepping on somebody's secret."
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000025_000000|A shakedown was spread in the kitchen for the unexpected guests, and presently the Ralstons found themselves alone.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000025_000001|mrs Ralston went over to the Christmas table and looked at the little gifts half tenderly and half pityingly.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000027_000000|"Just what I was thinking," returned her husband, "and I was thinking of something else, too.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000028_000001|"Let's just leave them here, Edward.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000030_000000|mrs Ralston untied the cover of the big basket.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000030_000001|Then the two of them, moving as stealthily as if engaged in a burglary, transferred the contents to the table.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000032_000000|It fell out as mrs Ralston had planned.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000032_000001|The dawn broke fine and clear over a vast white world.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000000|"I expect the trail will be heavy," he said, "but I guess we'd get to Lindsay in time for dinner, anyway.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000001|Much obliged for your kindness, mr Joseph.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000002|When you and mrs Joseph come to town we shall hope to have a chance to return it.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000003|Good bye and a merry Christmas to you all."
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000034_000000|When mrs Joseph went back to the kitchen her eyes fell on the heaped up table in the corner.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000036_000000|One look she gave, and then this funny little mother began to cry; but they were happy tears.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000036_000001|mr Joseph came too, and looked and whistled.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000037_000000|There really seemed to be everything on that table that the hearts of children could desire-three pairs of skates, a fur cap and collar, a dainty workbasket, half a dozen gleaming new books, a writing desk, a roll of stuff that looked like a new dress, a pair of fur topped kid gloves just Mollie's size, and a china cup and saucer.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000039_000000|"The children will go wild with delight," said his wife happily.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000040_000001|Such a Christmas had never been known in the Joseph household before.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000040_000003|And as for the big box of good things, why, everybody appreciated that.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000040_000004|That Christmas was one to date from in that family.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000041_000000|I'm glad to be able to say, too, that even in the heyday of their delight and surprise over their wonderful presents, the little Josephs did not forget to appreciate the gifts they had prepared for each other.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000042_000000|mrs Joseph's taffy was eaten too.
train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000042_000001|Not a scrap of it was left.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000003_000000|Jimmy Scarecrow led a sad life in the winter.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000003_000001|Jimmy's greatest grief was his lack of occupation.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000003_000002|He liked to be useful, and in winter he was absolutely of no use at all.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000004_000000|He wondered how many such miserable winters he would have to endure.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000004_000001|He was a young Scarecrow, and this was his first one.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000004_000003|Every morning, when the wintry sun peered like a hard yellow eye across the dry corn stubble, Jimmy felt sad, but at Christmas time his heart nearly broke.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000005_000000|On Christmas Eve Santa Claus came in his sledge heaped high with presents, urging his team of reindeer across the field.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000005_000001|He was on his way to the farmhouse where Betsey lived with her Aunt Hannah.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000006_000001|Santa Claus had a large wax doll baby for her on his arm, tucked up against the fur collar of his coat.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000006_000002|He was afraid to trust it in the pack, lest it get broken.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000007_000001|Here I am!" he cried out, but Santa Claus did not hear him.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000008_000000|"Santa Claus, please give me a little present.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000009_000000|Then Jimmy Scarecrow stood in the corn stubble and shook with sobs until his joints creaked.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000009_000002|But he was mistaken.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000011_000000|"Aunt Hannah?" said she.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000011_000001|Aunt Hannah was making a crazy patchwork quilt, and she frowned hard at a triangular piece of red silk and circular piece of pink, wondering how to fit them together.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000011_000002|"Well?" said she.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000013_000000|"No, of course he didn't."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000015_000000|"Because he's a Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000015_000001|Don't ask silly questions."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000017_000002|Sometimes he almost vanished in the thick white storm.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000017_000004|Then she got up and spread it out over the sofa with an air of pride.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000018_000001|I've got one for every bed in the house, and I've given four away.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000019_000002|She carried her new doll baby smuggled up under her shawl.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000020_000000|"Wish you Merry Christmas!" she said to Jimmy Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000021_000000|"Wish you the same," said Jimmy, but his voice was choked with sobs, and was also muffled, for his old hat had slipped down to his chin.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000021_000001|Betsey looked pitifully at the old hat fringed with icicles, like frozen tears, and the old snow laden coat.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000022_000000|"Thank you," said Jimmy Scarecrow faintly.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000023_000000|"You're welcome," said she.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000023_000001|"Keep her under your overcoat, so the snow won't wet her, and she won't catch cold, she's delicate."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000024_000000|"Yes, I will," said Jimmy Scarecrow, and he tried hard to bring one of his stiff, outstretched arms around to clasp the doll baby.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000025_000000|"Don't you feel cold in that old summer coat?" asked Betsey.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000027_000000|"You wait a minute," said Betsey, and was off across the field.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000028_000000|Jimmy Scarecrow stood in the corn stubble, with the doll baby under his coat and waited, and soon Betsey was back again with Aunt Hannah's crazy quilt trailing in the snow behind her.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000029_000000|"Here," said she, "here is something to keep you warm," and she folded the crazy quilt around the Scarecrow and pinned it.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000030_000000|"Aunt Hannah wants to give it away if anybody wants it," she explained. "She's got so many crazy quilts in the house now she doesn't know what to do with them.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000031_000000|The bright flash of colours under Jimmy's hat brim dazzled his eyes, and he felt a little alarmed.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000031_000001|"I hope this quilt is harmless if it IS crazy," he said.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000031_000002|But the quilt was warm, and he dismissed his fears. Soon the doll baby whimpered, but he creaked his joints a little, and that amused it, and he heard it cooing inside his coat.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000032_000001|But after that the snow began to turn to rain, and the crazy quilt was soaked through and through: and not only that, but his coat and the poor doll baby.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000033_000002|It was after midnight, Christmas was over, and Santa was hastening home to the North Pole.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000034_000000|"Santa Claus! dear Santa Claus!" cried Jimmy Scarecrow with a great sob, and that time Santa Claus heard him and drew rein.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000037_000000|"Who's me?" shouted Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000038_000000|"Jimmy Scarecrow!"
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000039_000001|"Have you been standing here ever since corn was ripe?" he asked pityingly, and Jimmy replied that he had.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000040_000000|"What's that over your shoulders?" Santa Claus continued, holding up his lantern.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000000|"Nonsense!" cried Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000001|"Let me see it!" And with that he pulled the doll baby out from under the Scarecrow's coat, and patted its back, and shook it a little, and it began to cry, and then to crow.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000002|"It's all right," said Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000003|"This is the doll baby I gave Betsey, and it is not at all delicate.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000004|It went through the measles, and the chicken pox, and the mumps, and the whooping cough, before it left the North Pole.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000045_000000|"Get in, Jimmy Scarecrow, and come with me to the North Pole!" he cried.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000046_000000|"Please, how long shall I stay?" asked Jimmy Scarecrow.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000047_000000|"Why, you are going to live with me," replied Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000047_000001|"I've been looking for a person like you for a long time."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000048_000000|"Are there any crows to scare away at the North Pole?
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000000|"No," answered Santa Claus, "but I don't want you to scare away crows. I want you to scare away Arctic Explorers.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000001|I can keep you in work for a thousand years, and scaring away Arctic Explorers from the North Pole is much more important than scaring away crows from corn.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000002|Why, if they found the Pole, there wouldn't be a piece an inch long left in a week's time, and the earth would cave in like an apple without a core!
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000003|They would whittle it all to pieces, and carry it away in their pockets for souvenirs.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000004|Come along; I am in a hurry."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000050_000000|"I will go on two conditions," said Jimmy.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000050_000001|"First, I want to make a present to Aunt Hannah and Betsey, next Christmas."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000051_000000|"You shall make them any present you choose.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000051_000001|What else?"
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000053_000001|"Just wait a minute."
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000054_000000|Santa took his stylographic pen out of his pocket, went with his lantern close to one of the fence posts, and wrote these words upon it:
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000055_000000|NOTICE TO CROWS
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000056_000000|Whichever crow shall hereafter hop, fly, or flop into this field during the absence of Jimmy Scarecrow, and therefrom purloin, steal, or abstract corn, shall be instantly, in a twinkling and a trice, turned snow white, and be ever after a disgrace, a byword and a reproach to his whole race.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000057_000000|Per order of Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000058_000000|"The corn will be safe now," said Santa Claus, "get in." Jimmy got into the sledge and they flew away over the fields, out of sight, with merry halloos and a great clamour of bells.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000059_000001|Betsey had told Aunt Hannah she had given away the crazy quilt and the doll baby, but had been scolded very little.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000061_000000|That was all Aunt Hannah had said.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000062_000001|john, the servant man, searched everywhere, but not a trace of them could he find.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000064_000000|But the next summer there was no need of a scarecrow, for not a crow came past the fence post on which Santa Claus had written his notice to crows.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000066_000001|Then she and Betsey had each a strange present.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000067_000000|"Why, it's my old crazy quilt, but it isn't crazy now!" cried Aunt Hannah, and her very spectacles seemed to glisten with amazement.
train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000068_000002|"It's my doll baby!" she cried, and snatched her up and kissed her.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000005_000000|ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000006_000000|"On Christmas day in Seventy six, Our gallant troops with bayonets fixed, To Trenton marched away."
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000000|Children, have any of you ever thought of what little people like you were doing in this country more than a hundred years ago, when the cruel tide of war swept over its bosom?
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000001|From many homes the fathers were absent, fighting bravely for the liberty which we now enjoy, while the mothers no less valiantly struggled against hardships and discomforts in order to keep a home for their children, whom you only know as your great grandfathers and great grandmothers, dignified gentlemen and beautiful ladies, whose painted portraits hang upon the walls in some of your homes.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000002|Merry, romping children they were in those far off times, yet their bright faces must have looked grave sometimes, when they heard the grown people talk of the great things that were happening around them.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000003|Some of these little people never forgot the wonderful events of which they heard, and afterward related them to their children and grandchildren, which accounts for some of the interesting stories which you may still hear, if you are good children.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000008_000002|Thus you see that the British, in force, were between Washington's army and Bordentown, besides which there were some British and Hessian troops in the very town.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000008_000005|Kitty, who loved to play quite as much as any frolicsome Kitty of to day, had spent all her spare time in knitting a pair of thick woollen stockings, which seems a wonderful feat for a little girl only eight years old to perform!
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000008_000006|Can you not see her sitting by the great chimney place, filled with its roaring, crackling logs, in her quaint, short waisted dress, knitting away steadily, and puckering up her rosy, dimpled face over the strange twists and turns of that old stocking?
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000010_000000|"Oh, he'll come!
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000010_000001|Papa never stays away on Christmas," says Kitty, looking up into her mother's face for an echo to her words.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000010_000002|Instead she sees something very like tears in her mother's eyes.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000011_000000|"Oh, mamma, don't you think he'll come?"
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000014_000000|"We'll let him come just the same, and if he brings anything for papa we can put it away for him."
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000015_000001|The days of that cold winter of seventeen seventy six wore on; so cold it was that the sufferings of the soldiers were great, their bleeding feet often leaving marks on the pure white snow over which they marched.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000016_000000|mrs Tracy looked anxiously each day for news of the husband and father only a few miles away, yet so separated by the river and the enemy's troops that they seemed like a hundred.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000016_000001|Christmas Eve came, but brought with it few rejoicings.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000018_000000|"Yes," said her mother, "Santa Claus won't forget you, I am sure, although he has been kept pretty busy looking after the soldiers this winter."
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000019_000000|"Which side is he on?" asked Harry.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000020_000000|"The right side, of course," said mrs Tracy, which was the most sensible answer she could possibly have given.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000021_000000|"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that saint Nicholas soon would be there."
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000022_000000|Two little rosy faces lay fast asleep upon the pillow when the good old soul came dashing over the roof about one o'clock, and after filling each stocking with red apples, and leaving a cornucopia of sugar plums for each child, he turned for a moment to look at the sleeping faces, for saint Nicholas has a tender spot in his great big heart for a soldier's children.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000022_000001|Then, remembering many other small folks waiting for him all over the land, he sprang up the chimney and was away in a trice.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000023_000000|Santa Claus, in the form of mrs Tracy's farmer brother, brought her a splendid turkey; but because the Hessians were uncommonly fond of turkey, it came hidden under a load of wood.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000000|The day passed and night came, cold with a steady fall of rain and sleet.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000001|Kitty prayed that her "dear papa might not be out in the storm, and that he might come home and wear his beautiful blue stockings"; "And eat his turkey," said Harry's sleepy voice; after which they were soon in the land of dreams.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000002|Toward morning the good people in Bordentown were suddenly aroused by firing in the distance, which became more and more distinct as the day wore on.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000003|There was great excitement in the town; men and women gathered together in little groups in the streets to wonder what it was all about, and neighbours came dropping into mrs Tracy's parlour, all day long, one after the other, to say what they thought of the firing.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000004|In the evening there came a body of Hessians flying into the town, to say that General Washington had surprised the British at Trenton, early that morning, and completely routed them, which so frightened the Hessians in Bordentown that they left without the slightest ceremony.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000025_000000|It was a joyful hour to the good town people when the red jackets turned their backs on them, thinking every moment that the patriot army would be after them.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000025_000001|Indeed, it seemed as if wonders would never cease that day, for while rejoicings were still loud, over the departure of the enemy, there came a knock at mrs Tracy's door, and while she was wondering whether she dared open it, it was pushed ajar, and a tall soldier entered.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000026_000000|Cold and tired Captain Tracy was, after a night's march in the streets and a day's fighting; but he was not too weary to smile at the dear faces around him, or to pat Kitty's head when she brought his warm stockings and would put them on the tired feet, herself.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000027_000000|Suddenly there was a sharp, quick bark outside the door.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000027_000001|"What's that?" cried Harry.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000028_000000|"Oh, I forgot.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000028_000001|Open the door.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000028_000002|Here, Fido, Fido!"
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000029_000000|Into the room there sprang a beautiful little King Charles spaniel, white, with tan spots, and ears of the longest, softest, and silkiest.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000031_000000|"From the battle of Trenton," said her father.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000031_000001|"His poor master was shot.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000031_000004|The gentleman-for he was a real gentleman-gasped out, 'Take care of my poor Fido; good night,' and was gone.
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000032_000000|"Pretty little Fido," said Kitty, taking the soft, curly creature in her arms; "I think it's the best present in the world, and to morrow is to be real Christmas, because you are home, papa."
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000033_000001|What a good time we'll have!
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000034_000000|"What would become of our country if we should all do that, my little man?
train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000034_000001|It was a good day's work that we did this Christmas, getting the army all across the river so quickly and quietly that we surprised the enemy, and gained a victory, with the loss of few men."
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000001_000000|CHAPTER five.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000005|This last news affected him deeply; not out of any affection for Pheroras, but because he was dead without having murdered his father, which he had promised him to do.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000007|Now some of his friends advised him that he should tarry a while some where, in expectation of further information.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000008|But others advised him to sail home without delay; for that if he were once come thither, he would soon put an end to all accusations, and that nothing afforded any weight to his accusers at present but his absence.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000010|And now was Antipater evidently in a miserable condition, while nobody came to him nor saluted him, as they did at his going away, with good wishes of joyful acclamations; nor was there now any thing to hinder them from entertaining him, on the contrary, with bitter curses, while they supposed he was come to receive his punishment for the murder of his brethren.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000003_000002|The porters indeed received him in, but excluded his friends.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000004_000003|So Herod ordered him to be brought into the midst, and then lamented himself about his children, from whom he had suffered such great misfortunes; and because Antipater fell upon him in his old age.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000005_000006|He also offered himself to the torture.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000007_000008|But Antipater fell down on his face, and appealed to God and to all men for testimonials of his innocency, desiring that God would declare, by some evident signals, that he had not laid any plot against his father.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000002|Then Varus got up, and departed out of the court, and went away the day following to Antioch, where his usual residence was, because that was the palace of the Syrians; upon which Herod laid his son in bonds.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000003|But what were Varus's discourses to Herod was not known to the generality, and upon what words it was that he went away; though it was also generally supposed that whatsoever Herod did afterward about his son was done with his approbation.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000006|But while the king was in doubt about it, one of Herod's friends seeing a seam upon the inner coat of the slave, and a doubling of the cloth, [for he had two coats on,] he guessed that the letter might be within that doubling; which accordingly proved to be true.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000010|The letter was this: 'Acme to king Herod.
train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000009_000004|Hereupon Herod was in such great grief, that he was ready to send his son to Rome to Caesar, there to give an account of these his wicked contrivances.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000001_000001|Concerning The Disease That Herod Fell Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The Punishment Of The Seditious.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000002_000001|Now Herod's ambassadors made haste to Rome; but sent, as instructed beforehand, what answers they were to make to the questions put to them. They also carried the epistles with them.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000002_000002|But Herod now fell into a distemper, and made his will, and bequeathed his kingdom to [Antipas], his youngest son; and this out of that hatred to Archclaus and Philip, which the calumnies of Antipater had raised against them.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000002_000004|He also distributed among his sons and their sons his money, his revenues, and his lands.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000004_000003|Accordingly we will undergo death, and all sorts of punishments which thou canst inflict upon us, with pleasure, since we are conscious to ourselves that we shall die, not for any unrighteous actions, but for our love to religion." And thus they all said, and their courage was still equal to their profession, and equal to that with which they readily set about this undertaking.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000004_000005|He then cried out, that these men had not abstained from affronting him, even in his lifetime, but that in the very day time, and in the sight of the multitude, they had abused him to that degree, as to fall upon what he had dedicated, and in that way of abuse had pulled it down to the ground.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000004_000006|They pretended, indeed, that they did it to affront him; but if any one consider the thing truly, they will find that they were guilty of sacrilege against God therein.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000005_000002|But as for Herod, he dealt more mildly with others [of the assembly] but he deprived Matthias of the high priesthood, as in part an occasion of this action, and made Joazar, who was Matthias's wife's brother, high priest in his stead.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000005_000003|Now it happened, that during the time of the high priesthood of this Matthias, there was another person made high priest for a single day, that very day which the Jews observed as a fast.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000005_000006|And that very night there was an eclipse of the moon.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000006_000003|Nay, further, his privy member was putrefied, and produced worms; and when he sat upright, he had a difficulty of breathing, which was very loathsome, on account of the stench of his breath, and the quickness of its returns; he had also convulsions in all parts of his body, which increased his strength to an insufferable degree.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000006_000005|He also sent for physicians, and did not refuse to follow what they prescribed for his assistance, and went beyond the river Jordan, and bathed himself in the warm baths that were at Callirrhoe, which, besides their other general virtues, were also fit to drink; which water runs into the lake called Asphaltiris.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000006_000008|Accordingly, they were a great number that came, because the whole nation was called, and all men heard of this call, and death was the penalty of such as should despise the epistles that were sent to call them.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000008_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000009_000003|When he had got the knife, he looked about, and had a mind to stab himself with it; and he had done it, had not his first cousin, Achiabus, prevented him, and held his hand, and cried out loudly.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000010_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000010_000001|Concerning Herod's Death, And Testament, And Burial.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000011_000001|And now Herod altered his testament upon the alteration of his mind; for he appointed Antipas, to whom he had before left the kingdom, to be tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and granted the kingdom to Archclaus.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000011_000006|But then, as to the affairs of his family and children, in which indeed, according to his own opinion, he was also very fortunate, because he was able to conquer his enemies, yet, in my opinion, he was herein very unfortunate.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000012_000001|But then Salome and Alexas, before the king's death was made known, dismissed those that were shut up in the hippodrome, and told them that the king ordered them to go away to their own lands, and take care of their own affairs, which was esteemed by the nation a great benefit.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000013_000003|The body was carried upon a golden bier, embroidered with very precious stones of great variety, and it was covered over with purple, as well as the body itself; he had a diadem upon his head, and above it a crown of gold: he also had a scepter in his right hand.
train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000014_000002|And when he had given a treat to the multitude, and left off his motoring, he went up into the temple; he had also acclamations and praises given him, which way soever he went, every one striving with the rest who should appear to use the loudest acclamations.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000005_000000|sixteen
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000007_000001|The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000010_000000|The letter was on the bookshelf.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000010_000002|She examined every detail of the outside before opening it.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000010_000005|Edna experienced a pang of jealousy because he had written to his mother rather than to her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000011_000000|Every one seemed to take for granted that she missed him.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000002|Where had they met?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000003|On Carondelet Street, in the morning.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000005|What had they talked about? Chiefly about his prospects in Mexico, which mr Pontellier thought were promising.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000006|How did he look?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000014_000001|She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000015_000003|They had never taken the form of struggles.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000016_000000|"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000016_000001|I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000017_000001|I'm sure I couldn't do more than that."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000018_000000|"Oh, yes you could!" laughed Edna.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000020_000000|"Oh, good morning, Mademoiselle; is it you?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000023_000000|"She must feel very lonely without her son," said Edna, desiring to change the subject.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000023_000001|"Her favorite son, too.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000023_000002|It must have been quite hard to let him go."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000000|"Her favorite son!
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000001|Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000007|Favorite son, indeed!
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000008|I miss the poor fellow myself, my dear.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000012|That Victor! hanging would be too good for him.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000027_000002|It's about time he was getting another."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000028_000000|"Was her name Mariequita?" asked Edna.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000030_000002|She had not intended to go into the water; but she donned her bathing suit, and left Mademoiselle alone, seated under the shade of the children's tent.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000030_000003|The water was growing cooler as the season advanced.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000031_000000|But Mademoiselle waited.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000031_000002|She talked about music.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000031_000003|She hoped that Edna would go to see her in the city, and wrote her address with the stub of a pencil on a piece of card which she found in her pocket.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000032_000000|"When do you leave?" asked Edna.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000033_000000|"Next Monday; and you?"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000036_000000|seventeen
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000001|It was a large, double cottage, with a broad front veranda, whose round, fluted columns supported the sloping roof.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000002|The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000003|In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000004|Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000005|The softest carpets and rugs covered the floors; rich and tasteful draperies hung at doors and windows.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000006|There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000039_000002|A maid, in white fluted cap, offered the callers liqueur, coffee, or chocolate, as they might desire.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000043_000000|"Tired out, Edna?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000043_000001|Whom did you have?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000043_000002|Many callers?" he asked.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000044_000001|"I found their cards when I got home; I was out."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000045_000001|"Why, what could have taken you out on Tuesday?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000045_000002|What did you have to do?"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000046_000000|"Nothing.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000046_000001|I simply felt like going out, and I went out."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000048_000000|"No, I left no excuse.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000048_000001|I told Joe to say I was out, that was all."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000050_000002|Was mrs Belthrop here?"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000051_000001|I don't remember who was here."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000052_000001|He handed it to mrs Pontellier.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000054_000000|Joe offered the tray to mr Pontellier, and removed the soup.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000056_000001|'mrs Belthrop.' I tell you what it is, Edna; you can't afford to snub mrs Belthrop.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000056_000003|His business is worth a good, round sum to me.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000056_000005|'mrs
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000057_000001|"Why are you taking the thing so seriously and making such a fuss over it?"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000058_000000|"I'm not making any fuss over it.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000058_000001|But it's just such seeming trifles that we've got to take seriously; such things count."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000059_000000|The fish was scorched.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000064_000000|"I'm going to get my dinner at the club.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000064_000001|Good night." He went into the hall, took his hat and stick from the stand, and left the house.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000065_000001|They had often made her very unhappy.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000066_000001|Her face was flushed and her eyes flamed with some inward fire that lighted them.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000005|She carried in her hands a thin handkerchief, which she tore into ribbons, rolled into a ball, and flung from her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000006|Once she stopped, and taking off her wedding ring, flung it upon the carpet.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000007|When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000008|But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000068_000001|She wanted to destroy something.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000068_000002|The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000073_000000|eighteen
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000076_000003|She was unusually pale and very quiet.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000077_000002|The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000078_000001|She felt no interest in anything about her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000079_000000|She went back into the house.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000082_000006|In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card playing.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000082_000007|There was a friend who played upon the 'cello.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000003|I feel as if I wanted to be doing something.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000004|What do you think of them?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000005|Do you think it worth while to take it up again and study some more?
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000006|I might study for a while with Laidpore."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000088_000000|She knew that Madame Ratignolle's opinion in such a matter would be next to valueless, that she herself had not alone decided, but determined; but she sought the words of praise and encouragement that would help her to put heart into her venture.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000089_000000|"Your talent is immense, dear!"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000090_000000|"Nonsense!" protested Edna, well pleased.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000091_000003|One might almost be tempted to reach out a hand and take one."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000093_000001|His cheerfulness was unbounded, and it was matched by his goodness of heart, his broad charity, and common sense.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000095_000003|His wife was keenly interested in everything he said, laying down her fork the better to listen, chiming in, taking the words out of his mouth.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000096_000002|It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000098_000003|She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000099_000002|It shocked him.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000099_000003|Then her absolute disregard for her duties as a wife angered him.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000099_000005|She had resolved never to take another step backward.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000102_000001|And she's more of a musician than you are a painter."
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000104_000000|"On account of what, then?"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000105_000001|I don't know.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000106_000001|He could see plainly that she was not herself.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000106_000002|That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000107_000004|The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage, while the house maid took charge of the children, and the drawing room went undusted.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000107_000006|While Edna worked she sometimes sang low the little air, "Ah! si tu savais!"
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000108_000000|It moved her with recollections.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000109_000001|She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000109_000003|She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000116_000003|A gate or door opening upon the street was locked.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000117_000000|It was Victor who opened the gate for her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000117_000001|A black woman, wiping her hands upon her apron, was close at his heels.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000117_000002|Before she saw them Edna could hear them in altercation, the woman-plainly an anomaly-claiming the right to be allowed to perform her duties, one of which was to answer the bell.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000118_000000|Victor was surprised and delighted to see mrs Pontellier, and he made no attempt to conceal either his astonishment or his delight.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000118_000005|Whatever it was, the rebuke was convincing, for the woman dropped her hoe and went mumbling into the house.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000119_000001|It was very pleasant there on the side porch, where there were chairs, a wicker lounge, and a small table.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000119_000002|She seated herself, for she was tired from her long tramp; and she began to rock gently and smooth out the folds of her silk parasol.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000119_000003|Victor drew up his chair beside her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000001|He wouldn't want his mother to know, and he began to talk in a whisper.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000002|He was scintillant with recollections.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000003|Of course, he couldn't think of telling mrs Pontellier all about it, she being a woman and not comprehending such things.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000005|Oh! but she was a beauty!
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000006|Certainly he smiled back, and went up and talked to her.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000007|mrs Pontellier did not know him if she supposed he was one to let an opportunity like that escape him.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000009|She must have betrayed in her look some degree of interest or entertainment.
train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000121_000001|Her eyes beamed an effusive welcome.
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000000_000000|When it was the Two Hundred and Fifty fifth Night,
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000001_000004|Now is thy time!" And behold, a scorpion stung the Badawi in the palm and he cried out, saying, "Help, O Arabs!
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000005_000001|Now one was an old man of comely face and the other a youth; and he heard the younger say to the elder, "O my uncle,, I conjure thee by Allah, give me back my cousin!"
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000005_000002|The old man replied, "Did I not forbid thee, many a time, when the oath of divorce was always in thy mouth, as it were Holy Writ?"
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000007_000000|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Ala al Din continued, "So he packed me fifty loads of goods and gave me ten thousand dinars, wherewith I set out for Baghdad; but when I reached the Lion's Copse, the wild Arabs came out against me and took all my goods and monies.
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000007_000002|Now he loveth her, but she loatheth him; and when he chanced to take an oath of triple divorcement and broke it, forthright she left him.
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000009_000000|And when he heard her chant these lines he ended his recitation of the chapter, and began also to sing and repeated the following couplet,
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000013_000000|Thereupon she came forward, swinging her haunches and gracefully swaying a shape the handiwork of Him whose boons are hidden; and each of them stole one glance of the eyes that cost them a thousand sighs.
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000015_000000|And when she drew near him, and there remained but two paces between them, he recited these two couplets,
train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000018_000000|When it was the Two Hundred and Fifty seventh Night,
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000001_000000|A CAPE HORN GALE.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000002_000000|We stood on to the southward and westward during the remainder of that day, the wind continuing still to freshen, and the sea getting up with most fearful rapidity.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000005_000000|Bob stood by my side watching the wild scene I have so feebly described, and as the sun disappeared, he turned to me and remarked:
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000006_000000|"My eyes, Harry! what d'ye think of that, lad?
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000009_000000|This floating anchor I will describe for the benefit of those who may not have seen such a thing, for it is a most useful affair, and no small craft should undertake a long cruise without one.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000011_000000|As soon as the bars were spread open, and the swifter passed and set up, a square sheet of the stoutest canvas, painted, was spread over them, the edges laced to the swifter with a stout lacing, and the crowfoot toggled through the intermediate holes in the bars and corresponding holes in the canvas.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000013_000000|I may as well state here, that for the economisation of space the buoy for floating out anchor was an india rubber ball, made of the same materials as an ordinary air cushion, and distended in the same way. This was enclosed in a strong net of three strand sinnet, which net was attached to the buoy rope.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000025_000006|Now, what lubber comes here with his eyes sealed up instead of looking before him?
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000025_000007|Jump up, Harry; quick, boy! we are in a mess here, and no mistake.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000027_000000|She was not a large vessel; about two hundred tons or thereabouts, apparently; painted all black down to her copper, excepting a narrow red ribbon which marked the line of her sheer.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000028_000000|She was hove to on the port tack under a storm staysail, and her topgallant masts were down on deck.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000033_000001|"Honest going merchant ships ain't so plaguy careful of their spars as that chap-leastways, not such small fry as he is.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000037_000000|"Never fear," returned Bob confidently.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000037_000001|"Our bit of a windlass and the mast breaks the force of it before it reaches the skylight.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000045_000000|But he was quite of my opinion.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000051_000000|"Well," said I, "I trust we shall not fall in with him again.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000060_000000|It looked half inclined to break away two or three times during the morning; but as mid day approached it became as bad as ever, and I had the vexation of seeing noon pass by without so much as a momentary glimpse of the sun
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000061_000001|There was nothing in sight, and with this I was obliged to rest satisfied.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000063_000000|We had found the day dreadfully tedious, cooped up as we were in our low cabin, and a meal was a most welcome break in the monotony.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000064_000000|We sat long over this one, therefore, prolonging it to its utmost extent; and when it was over, we both turned to and cleared up the wreck.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000067_000000|"Look here, Harry; what d'ye think of this?"
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000077_000000|She was fearfully close, but appeared to be at the moment sheering away from us.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000083_000001|She rolled completely bottom upwards, and then disappeared.
train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000094_000000|About four p.m.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000000|Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000001|This belief was not without its grounds.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000002|The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000003|Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world-I had almost said of mankind.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000002|The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters; such as the district now called Thessaly, Boeotia, most of the Peloponnese, Arcadia excepted, and the most fertile parts of the rest of Hellas.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000003|The goodness of the land favoured the aggrandizement of particular individuals, and thus created faction which proved a fertile source of ruin.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000005|Accordingly Attica, from the poverty of its soil enjoying from a very remote period freedom from faction, never changed its inhabitants.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000006|And here is no inconsiderable exemplification of my assertion that the migrations were the cause of there being no correspondent growth in other parts.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000007|The most powerful victims of war or faction from the rest of Hellas took refuge with the Athenians as a safe retreat; and at an early period, becoming naturalized, swelled the already large population of the city to such a height that Attica became at last too small to hold them, and they had to send out colonies to Ionia.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000007_000000|There is also another circumstance that contributes not a little to my conviction of the weakness of ancient times.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000007_000003|The best proof of this is furnished by Homer.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000008_000000|Indeed, they could not unite for this expedition till they had gained increased familiarity with the sea.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000008_000002|He made himself master of what is now called the Hellenic sea, and ruled over the Cyclades, into most of which he sent the first colonies, expelling the Carians and appointing his own sons governors; and thus did his best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000009_000001|They would fall upon a town unprotected by walls, and consisting of a mere collection of villages, and would plunder it; indeed, this came to be the main source of their livelihood, no disgrace being yet attached to such an achievement, but even some glory.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000009_000002|An illustration of this is furnished by the honour with which some of the inhabitants of the continent still regard a successful marauder, and by the question we find the old poets everywhere representing the people as asking of voyagers-"Are they pirates?"--as if those who are asked the question would have no idea of disclaiming the imputation, or their interrogators of reproaching them for it.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000001|And the fact that the people in these parts of Hellas are still living in the old way points to a time when the same mode of life was once equally common to all.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000004|Formerly, even in the Olympic contests, the athletes who contended wore belts across their middles; and it is but a few years since that the practice ceased.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000005|To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes for boxing and wrestling are offered, belts are worn by the combatants.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000006|And there are many other points in which a likeness might be shown between the life of the Hellenic world of old and the barbarian of to day.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000011_000000|With respect to their towns, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled towns, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce and defence against a neighbour.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000011_000001|But the old towns, on account of the great prevalence of piracy, were built away from the sea, whether on the islands or the continent, and still remain in their old sites.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000011_000002|For the pirates used to plunder one another, and indeed all coast populations, whether seafaring or not.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000000|The islanders, too, were great pirates.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000001|These islanders were Carians and Phoenicians, by whom most of the islands were colonized, as was proved by the following fact.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000004|The coast population now began to apply themselves more closely to the acquisition of wealth, and their life became more settled; some even began to build themselves walls on the strength of their newly acquired riches.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000005|For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000006|And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000000|What enabled Agamemnon to raise the armament was more, in my opinion, his superiority in strength, than the oaths of Tyndareus, which bound the suitors to follow him.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000005|And so the power of the descendants of Pelops came to be greater than that of the descendants of Perseus.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000006|To all this Agamemnon succeeded.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000009|Besides, in his account of the transmission of the sceptre, he calls him
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000014_000000|Of many an isle, and of all Argos king.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000015_000000|Now Agamemnon's was a continental power; and he could not have been master of any except the adjacent islands (and these would not be many), but through the possession of a fleet.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000000|And from this expedition we may infer the character of earlier enterprises.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000008|By this, I conceive, he meant to convey the maximum and the minimum complement: at any rate, he does not specify the amount of any others in his catalogue of the ships.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000009|That they were all rowers as well as warriors we see from his account of the ships of Philoctetes, in which all the men at the oar are bowmen.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000012|Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000013|Even after the victory they obtained on their arrival-and a victory there must have been, or the fortifications of the naval camp could never have been built-there is no indication of their whole force having been employed; on the contrary, they seem to have turned to cultivation of the Chersonese and to piracy from want of supplies.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000014|This was what really enabled the Trojans to keep the field for ten years against them; the dispersion of the enemy making them always a match for the detachment left behind.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000015|If they had brought plenty of supplies with them, and had persevered in the war without scattering for piracy and agriculture, they would have easily defeated the Trojans in the field, since they could hold their own against them with the division on service.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000016|In short, if they had stuck to the siege, the capture of Troy would have cost them less time and less trouble.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000017_000001|The late return of the Hellenes from Ilium caused many revolutions, and factions ensued almost everywhere; and it was the citizens thus driven into exile who founded the cities.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000017_000002|Sixty years after the capture of Ilium, the modern Boeotians were driven out of Arne by the Thessalians, and settled in the present Boeotia, the former Cadmeis; though there was a division of them there before, some of whom joined the expedition to Ilium.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000017_000004|All these places were founded subsequently to the war with Troy.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000000|But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an object, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were by their means established almost everywhere-the old form of government being hereditary monarchy with definite prerogatives-and Hellas began to fit out fleets and apply herself more closely to the sea.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000006|About this time also the Phocaeans, while they were founding Marseilles, defeated the Carthaginians in a sea fight.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000007|These were the most powerful navies.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000010|For after these there were no navies of any account in Hellas till the expedition of Xerxes; Aegina, Athens, and others may have possessed a few vessels, but they were principally fifty oars.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000019_000000|The navies, then, of the Hellenes during the period we have traversed were what I have described.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000019_000001|All their insignificance did not prevent their being an element of the greatest power to those who cultivated them, alike in revenue and in dominion.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000020_000000|Various, too, were the obstacles which the national growth encountered in various localities.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000021_000001|All this is only true of the mother country, for in Sicily they attained to very great power.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000002|In the face of this great danger, the command of the confederate Hellenes was assumed by the Lacedaemonians in virtue of their superior power; and the Athenians, having made up their minds to abandon their city, broke up their homes, threw themselves into their ships, and became a naval people.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000003|This coalition, after repulsing the barbarian, soon afterwards split into two sections, which included the Hellenes who had revolted from the King, as well as those who had aided him in the war.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000005|For a short time the league held together, till the Lacedaemonians and Athenians quarrelled and made war upon each other with their allies, a duel into which all the Hellenes sooner or later were drawn, though some might at first remain neutral.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000006|So that the whole period from the Median war to this, with some peaceful intervals, was spent by each power in war, either with its rival, or with its own revolted allies, and consequently afforded them constant practice in military matters, and that experience which is learnt in the school of danger.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000023_000000|The policy of Lacedaemon was not to exact tribute from her allies, but merely to secure their subservience to her interests by establishing oligarchies among them; Athens, on the contrary, had by degrees deprived hers of their ships, and imposed instead contributions in money on all except Chios and Lesbos.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000023_000001|Both found their resources for this war separately to exceed the sum of their strength when the alliance flourished intact.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000024_000000|Having now given the result of my inquiries into early times, I grant that there will be a difficulty in believing every particular detail. The way that most men deal with traditions, even traditions of their own country, is to receive them all alike as they are delivered, without applying any critical test whatever.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000025_000000|There are many other unfounded ideas current among the rest of the Hellenes, even on matters of contemporary history, which have not been obscured by time.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000025_000002|So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000025_000004|Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000001|And with reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000002|My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000003|The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000004|In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000027_000002|Old stories of occurrences handed down by tradition, but scantily confirmed by experience, suddenly ceased to be incredible; there were earthquakes of unparalleled extent and violence; eclipses of the sun occurred with a frequency unrecorded in previous history; there were great droughts in sundry places and consequent famines, and that most calamitous and awfully fatal visitation, the plague.
train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000027_000005|The real cause I consider to be the one which was formally most kept out of sight.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000003_000000|But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000005_000003|We are at last assembled.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000005_000011|The Mede, we ourselves know, had time to come from the ends of the earth to Peloponnese, without any force of yours worthy of the name advancing to meet him.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000005_000012|But this was a distant enemy.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000006_000001|The Athenians are addicted to innovation, and their designs are characterized by swiftness alike in conception and execution; you have a genius for keeping what you have got, accompanied by a total want of invention, and when forced to act you never go far enough.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000006_000007|The deficiency created by the miscarriage of an undertaking is soon filled up by fresh hopes; for they alone are enabled to call a thing hoped for a thing got, by the speed with which they act upon their resolutions.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000010_000004|We need not refer to remote antiquity: there we could appeal to the voice of tradition, but not to the experience of our audience.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000011_000005|We assert, therefore, that we conferred on you quite as much as we received.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000014_000007|This at least is certain.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000018_000004|This you ought to spare as long as possible, and not make them desperate, and so increase the difficulty of dealing with them.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000018_000005|For if while still unprepared, hurried away by the complaints of our allies, we are induced to lay it waste, have a care that we do not bring deep disgrace and deep perplexity upon Peloponnese.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000020_000000|"And the slowness and procrastination, the parts of our character that are most assailed by their criticism, need not make you blush.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000022_000002|And yet if they behaved well against the Mede then, but ill towards us now, they deserve double punishment for having ceased to be good and for having become bad.
train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000023_000006|This decision of the assembly, judging that the treaty had been broken, was made in the fourteenth year of the thirty years' truce, which was entered into after the affair of Euboea.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000000_000000|THE GENIAL IDIOT DISCUSSES THE MUSIC CURE
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000001_000000|BY john KENDRICK BANGS
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000002_000004|There's nothing but one quinine pill and a soda mint drop in it, and if there's anything in the music cure I don't think I'll have it filled again.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000003_000001|"You ought to submit your tongue to some scientific student of dynamics.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000004_000000|"I will consider your suggestion," replied the Idiot.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000005_000001|"And as for the music cure I don't know anything about it.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000005_000003|What do you mean by the music cure?"
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000007_000000|"You'll have to go to somebody else for the information," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000008_000000|"I have seen a reference to it somewhere," put in mr Whitechoker, coming to the Idiot's rescue.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000010_000000|"For example?" said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000003|Suddenly somebody presented me with a couple of tickets for a performance of Parsifal and I went.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000010|I rubbed my eyes and looked about me.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000011|It was true, the great auditorium was empty, and was gradually darkening.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000012|I put on my hat and walked out refreshed, having slept from five twenty until twelve, or six hours and forty minutes, straight.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000013|That was one instance.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000017|I didn't wake up this time until nine o'clock the next day, the rest of the party having gone off without awakening me, as a sort of joke.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000012_000001|"The Wagner habit is a terrible thing to acquire, mr Idiot."
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000013_000000|"That may be," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000013_000003|He had spent the day down at Asbury Park and had eaten not wisely but too copiously.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000013_000008|A counter pain set in immediately.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000003|Scientific experiment will demonstrate before long what composition will cure specific ills.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000004|If a baby has whooping cough, an anxious mother, instead of ringing up the Doctor, will go to the piano and give the child a dose of Hiawatha.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000008|People suffering from sleeplessness can dose themselves back to normal conditions again with Wagner the way I did.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000010|Nothing in it?
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000017_000000|"No," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000017_000003|This alone will serve to popularize sickness and instead of being driven out of business their trade will pick up."
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000018_000000|"And the Doctor?
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000018_000001|And the Doctor's gig and all the appurtenances of his profession-what becomes of them?" demanded the Doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000020_000000|"And why, pray?" asked the Doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000020_000001|"Because there are no more drugs must the physician walk?"
train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000021_000000|"Not at all," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000004_000000|Section three
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000005_000000|In the evening after dinner dr Martineau sought, rather unsuccessfully, to go on with the analysis of Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000000|But Sir Richmond was evidently a creature of moods.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000001|Either he regretted the extent of his confidences or the slight irrational irritation that he felt at waiting for his car affected his attitude towards his companion, or dr Martineau's tentatives were ill chosen.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000003|He was inclined to think that she and Sir Richmond were unduly obsessed by the idea that they had to stick together because of the child, because of the look of the thing and so forth, and that really each might be struggling against a very strong impulse indeed to break off the affair. It seemed evident to the doctor that they jarred upon and annoyed each other extremely.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000005|Accordingly he framed his enquiries so as to make the revelation of a latent antipathy as easy as possible.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000007_000000|He made several not very well devised beginnings.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000007_000001|At the fifth Sir Richmond was suddenly conclusive.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000007_000002|"It's no use," he said, "I can't fiddle about any more with my motives to day."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000000|An awkward silence followed.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000001|On reflection Sir Richmond seemed to realize that this sentence needed some apology.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000002|"I admit," he said, "that this expedition has already been a wonderfully good thing for me. These confessions have made me look into all sorts of things-squarely. But-I'm not used to talking about myself or even thinking directly about myself.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000003|What I say, I afterwards find disconcerting to recall. I want to alter it.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000004|I can feel myself wallowing into a mess of modifications and qualifications."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000009_000000|"Yes, but-"
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000010_000000|"I want a rest anyhow...."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000011_000000|There was nothing for dr Martineau to say to that.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000000|The two gentlemen smoked for some time in a slightly uncomfortable silence.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000001|dr Martineau cleared his throat twice and lit a second cigar. They then agreed to admire the bridge and think well of Maidenhead.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000002|Sir Richmond communicated hopeful news about his car, which was to arrive the next morning before ten-he'd just ring the fellow up presently to make sure-and dr Martineau retired early and went rather thoughtfully to bed.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000003|The spate of Sir Richmond's confidences, it was evident, was over.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000013_000000|Section four
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000014_000002|They lunched in Marlborough and went on in the afternoon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000014_000003|They left the car by the roadside and clambered to the top and were very learned and inconclusive about the exact purpose of this vast heap of chalk and earth, this heap that men had made before the temples at Karnak were built or Babylon had a name.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000015_000003|There are drawings of Avebury before these things arose there, when it was a lonely wonder on the plain, but for the most part the destruction was already done before the MAYFLOWER sailed.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000015_000005|Around this lonely place rise the Downs, now bare sheep pastures, in broad undulations, with a wart like barrow here and there, and from it radiate, creeping up to gain and hold the crests of the hills, the abandoned trackways of that forgotten world.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000015_000006|These trackways, these green roads of England, these roads already disused when the romans made their highway past Silbury Hill to Bath, can still be traced for scores of miles through the land, running to Salisbury and the English Channel, eastward to the crossing at the Straits and westward to Wales, to ferries over the Severn, and southwestward into Devon and Cornwall.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000000|The doctor and Sir Richmond walked round the walls, surveyed the shadow cast by Silbury upon the river flats, strolled up the down to the northward to get a general view of the village, had tea and smoked round the walls again in the warm April sunset.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000002|Both were inclined to find fault with the archaeological work that had been done on the place.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000003|"Clumsy treasure hunting," Sir Richmond said.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000006|These walls of earth ought to tell what these people ate, what clothes they wore, what woods they used.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000007|Was this a sheep land then as it is now, or a cattle land?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000008|Were these hills covered by forests?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000009|I don't know.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000010|These archaeologists don't know.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000011|Or if they do they haven't told me, which is just as bad.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000012|I don't believe they know.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000017_000002|But suppose one day someone were to find a potsherd here from early Knossos, or a fragment of glass from Pepi's Egypt."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000018_000000|The place had stirred up his imagination.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000000|The doctor had not realized before the boldness and liveliness of his companion's mind.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000002|These people must have done an enormous lot with wood.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000003|This use of stones here was a freak.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000004|It was the very strangeness of stones here that had made them into sacred things.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000005|One thought too much of the stones of the Stone Age.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000006|Who would carve these lumps of quartzite when one could carve good oak?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000007|Or beech-a most carvable wood. Especially when one's sharpest chisel was a flint.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000008|"It's wood we ought to look for," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000010|"A peat bog here, even a few feet of clay, might have pickled some precious memoranda....
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000011|No such luck.... Now in Glastonbury marshes one found the life of the early iron age-half way to our own times-quite beautifully pickled."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000020_000000|Though they wrestled mightily with the problem, neither Sir Richmond nor the doctor could throw a gleam of light upon the riddle why the ditch was inside and not outside the great wall.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000021_000000|"And what was our Mind like in those days?" said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000021_000001|"That, I suppose, is what interests you.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000022_000000|The doctor pursed his lips.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000022_000001|"None," he delivered judicially.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000022_000002|"If one were able to recall one's childhood-at the age of about twelve or thirteen-when the artistic impulse so often goes into abeyance and one begins to think in a troubled, monstrous way about God and Hell, one might get something like the mind of this place."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000023_000000|"Thirteen.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000023_000001|You put them at that already?...
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000023_000002|These people, you think, were religious?"
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000024_000000|"Intensely.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000024_000001|In that personal way that gives death a nightmare terror. And as for the fading of the artistic impulse, they've left not a trace of the paintings and drawings and scratchings of the Old Stone people who came before them."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000000|"Adults with the minds of thirteen year old children.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000001|Thirteen year old children with the strength of adults-and no one to slap them or tell them not to....
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000002|After all, they probably only thought of death now and then.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000003|And they never thought of fuel.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000004|They supposed there was no end to that.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000005|So they used up their woods and kept goats to nibble and kill the new undergrowth.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000006|DID these people have goats?"
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000026_000000|"I don't know," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000026_000001|"So little is known."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000027_000000|"Very like children they must have been.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000027_000001|The same unending days.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000027_000005|When I was a child I believed that my father's garden had been there for ever....
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000028_000000|"This is very like trying to remember some game one played when one was a child.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000029_000000|"The life we lived here," said the doctor, "has left its traces in traditions, in mental predispositions, in still unanalyzed fundamental ideas."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000000|"Archaeology is very like remembering," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000004|We sowed our corn in blood here.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000005|We had strange fancies about the stars.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000006|Those we brought with us out of the south where the stars are brighter.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000007|And what like were those wooden gods of ours?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000008|I don't remember....
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000009|But I could easily persuade myself that I had been here before."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000032_000001|And then I suppose that this ditch won't be the riddle it is now."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000000|"Life didn't seem so complicated then," Sir Richmond mused.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000001|"Our muddles were unconscious.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000002|We drifted from mood to mood and forgot.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000003|There was more sunshine then, more laughter perhaps, and blacker despair.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000004|Despair like the despair of children that can weep itself to sleep....
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000005|It's over....
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000006|Was it battle and massacre that ended that long afternoon here? Or did the woods catch fire some exceptionally dry summer, leaving black hills and famine?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000007|Or did strange men bring a sickness-measles, perhaps, or the black death?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000008|Or was it cattle pest?
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000010|I can't remember...."
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000034_000000|Sir Richmond turned about.
train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000034_000001|"I would like to dig up the bottom of this ditch here foot by foot-and dry the stuff and sift it-very carefully....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000001_000000|"Let it rest then," said the doctor generously.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000003_000000|"The healing touch of history."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000004_000000|"And for the first time my damned Committee has mattered scarcely a rap."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000005_000000|Sir Richmond stretched himself in his chair and blinked cheerfully at his cigar smoke.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000006_000003|That I needn't bother about further....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000006_000004|So far as that goes, I think we have done all that there is to be done."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000007_000000|"I shouldn't say that-quite-yet," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000008_000001|I'm not an overlaid sort of person.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000008_000003|What you get is a quite open and recognized discord of two sets of motives."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000009_000000|The doctor considered.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000009_000003|Generally you are doing what you want to do-overdoing, in fact, what you want to do and getting simply tired."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000011_000000|"Yes," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000011_000004|Practically open.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000011_000005|Your problems are problems of conscious conduct."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000012_000000|"As I said."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000014_000000|Sir Richmond did not answer that....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000000|"This pilgrimage of ours," he said, presently, "has made for magnanimity.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000001|This day particularly has been a good day.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000003|I stood with my feet upon the Stone Age and saw myself four thousand years away, and all my distresses as very little incidents in that perspective.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000005|There is no past any longer, there is no future, there is only the rankling dispute.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000008|At last one is reduced to a little, raw, bleeding, desperately fighting, pin point of SELF....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000009|One goes back to one's home unable to recover. Fighting it over again.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000010|All night sometimes....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000011|I get up and walk about the room and curse....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000012|Martineau, how is one to get the Avebury frame of mind to Westminster?"
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000017_000000|"But the dust chokes me," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000018_000001|But he did not open it.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000018_000003|"I do not think that I shall stir up my motives any more for a time.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000019_000000|"I can prescribe nothing better," said dr Martineau.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000020_000000|"I don't want to think of them," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000020_000001|"Let me get right away from everything.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000020_000002|Until my skin has grown again."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000021_000000|CHAPTER THE SIXTH
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000022_000000|THE ENCOUNTER AT STONEHENGE
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000023_000000|Section one
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000025_000001|Sir Richmond was frankly disappointed.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000025_000003|"It looks," Sir Richmond said, "as though some old giantess had left a discarded set of teeth on the hillside." Far more impressive than Stonehenge itself were the barrows that capped the neighbouring crests.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000026_000001|At the side of the road stood a travel stained middle class automobile, with a miscellany of dusty luggage, rugs and luncheon things therein-a family automobile with father no doubt at the wheel.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000026_000002|Sir Richmond left his own trim coupe at its tail.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000028_000000|"She keeps on looking at it," said the small boy.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000029_000000|"You won't SEE Stonehenge every day, young man," said the custodian, a little piqued.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000030_000000|"It's only an old beach," said the small boy, with extreme conviction. "It's rocks like the seaside.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000001|The two gentlemen lingered at the turnstile for a moment or so to watch his proceedings.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000002|"Modern child," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000003|"Old stones are just old stones to him.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000004|But motor cars are gods."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000034_000000|"You can hardly expect him to understand-at his age," said the custodian, jealous for the honor of Stonehenge....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000035_000000|"Reminds me of Martin's little girl," said Sir Richmond, as he and dr Martineau went on towards the circle.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000036_000003|She was a black haired, sun burnt individual and she stood with her arms akimbo, quite frankly amused at the disappearance of Master Anthony, and offering no sort of help for his recovery.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000038_000000|"If you are looking for a small, resolute boy of six," said Sir Richmond, addressing himself to the lady on the rock rather than to the angry parent below, "he's perfectly safe and happy.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000038_000003|'Stonehenge,' he says, 'is no good.' So he's gone back to clean the lamps of your car."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000039_000001|So THAT'S it!" said Papa.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000039_000002|"Winnie, go and tell Price he's gone back to the car....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000040_000000|The excitement about Master Anthony collapsed.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000041_000000|"We were discussing the age of this old place," she said, smiling in the frankest and friendliest way.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000041_000001|"How old do YOU think it is?"
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000042_000000|The father of Anthony intervened, also with a shadow of controversy in his manner.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000042_000002|Before chronology existed....
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000042_000003|But she insists on dates."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000045_000000|Sir Richmond sought a recognizable datum.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000046_000000|"Ah!" said the young lady, as who should say, 'This man at least talks sense.'
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000048_000000|"I don't SEE the place," said the young lady on the stone.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000048_000001|"I can't imagine how they did it up-not one bit."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000050_000000|"It's just the bones of a place.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000050_000001|They hung things round it.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000050_000002|They draped it."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000051_000000|"But what things?" asked Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000000|"Oh! they had things all right.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000001|Skins perhaps.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000002|Mats of rushes.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000003|Bast cloth.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000004|Fibre of all sorts.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000005|Wadded stuff."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000053_000001|It's really a delightful idea;" said the father of the family, enjoying it.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000054_000000|"It's quite a possible one," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000055_000000|"Or they may have used wicker," the young lady went on, undismayed.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000055_000001|She seemed to concede a point.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000055_000002|"Wicker IS likelier."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000057_000001|"In which case it wouldn't have stood out.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000057_000002|It doesn't stand out so very much even now."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000058_000000|"You came to it through a grove," said the young lady, eagerly picking up the idea.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000059_000000|"Probably beech," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000060_000000|"Which may have pointed to the midsummer sunrise," said dr Martineau, unheeded.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000000|"Well," said the young lady, "I guess there was some sort of show here anyhow.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000002|I guess this was covered in all right.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000003|A dark hunched old place in a wood.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000004|Beech stems, smooth, like pillars.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000008|The torches were put out and the priests did their mysteries.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000009|Until dawn broke.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000010|That is how they worked it."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000063_000000|"But even you can't tell what the show was, v v" said the lady in grey, who was standing now at dr Martineau's elbow.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000064_000000|"Something horrid," said Anthony's younger sister to her elder in a stage whisper.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000065_000001|"SQUEALS!...."
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000066_000004|Sir Richmond was evidently prepared to confirm it.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000067_000000|With a queer little twinge of infringed proprietorship, the doctor saw Sir Richmond step up on the prostrate megalith and stand beside her, the better to appreciate her point of view.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000067_000001|He smiled down at her.
train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000067_000002|"Now why do you think they came in THERE?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000001_000000|ON THE TOW PATH
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000004_000001|Half an hour later, when Mother De Smet went back to get some potatoes for the soup, she found Jan proudly steering the boat by himself.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000005_000000|"Oh, my soul!" she cried in astonishment.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000005_000001|"What a clever boy you must be to learn so quickly to handle the tiller.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000006_000000|"Here!" boomed a loud voice behind her, and Father De Smet's head appeared above a barrel on the other side of the deck.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000006_000002|If the Germans see these potatoes, they'll never let us get them to Antwerp," he shouted.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000007_000001|You mustn't talk so loud," whispered Mother De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000007_000002|"You roar like a foghorn on a dark night.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000010_000002|Netteke, the mule, came to a sudden stop, and Mother De Smet sat down equally suddenly on a coil of rope.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000010_000003|Her potatoes spilled over the deck, while a wail from the front of the boat announced that one of the babies had bumped, too.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000010_000006|His father threw him a pole which was kept for such emergencies, and they both pushed.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000011_000000|"Never mind, son," said Mother De Smet kindly, when she came back for her potatoes and saw his downcast face.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000012_000000|The boat gave a little lurch toward the middle of the stream.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000013_000000|"Look alive there, Mate!" sang out Father De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000013_000001|"Hard aport with the tiller!
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000013_000002|Head her out into the stream!"
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000016_000000|For the most part, however, the countryside seemed so quiet and peaceful that it was hard to believe that such dreadful things were going on all about them.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000017_000001|He hailed his father.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000020_000000|"Would you like to drive the mule awhile?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000022_000000|"Have you ever driven a mule before?" Father De Smet asked again.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000023_000000|"Not a mule, exactly," Jail replied, "but I drove old Pier up from the field with a load of wheat all by myself.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000025_000000|"May I go, too?" asked Marie timidly of Father De Smet as he was about to draw in the plank.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000025_000001|"The babies are both asleep and I have nothing to do."
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000026_000001|It was level, open country all about them, dotted here and there with farmhouses, and in the distance the spire of a village church rose above the clustering houses and pointed to the sky.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000027_000001|Go ahead," said Father De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000027_000002|"Only don't get too near Netteke's hind legs.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000030_000002|I've been measuring by that farmhouse across the river for a long time, and she hasn't crawled up to it yet!
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000031_000000|"She'll wake up fast enough when it's time to eat, and so will you," said Marie, with profound wisdom.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000033_000000|Marie seized Jan's arm.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000034_000000|"You'll do nothing of the kind!" she cried.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000034_000001|"Father De Smet told me especially to keep away from Netteke's hind legs."
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000001|In vain!
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000002|Netteke would not move.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000004|But Netteke was really offended.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000005|She made no effort to get it.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000038_000000|"What is the matter?" he shouted.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000040_000000|"Netteke has stopped.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000040_000002|I think she's run down!" Marie called back.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000041_000002|Hold it in front of her nose."
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000042_000000|"I have," answered Marie, "but she won't even look at it."
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000043_000000|"Then it's no use," said Father De Smet mournfully.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000043_000001|"She's balked and that is all there is to it.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000043_000003|When she has made up her mind she is as difficult to persuade as a setting hen."
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000045_000000|"Oh, dear!" said she; "I hoped we should get to the other side of the line before dark, but if Netteke's set, she's set, and we must just make the best of it.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000045_000001|It's lucky it's dinner time.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000045_000002|We'll eat, and maybe by the time we are through she'll be willing to start." Father De Smet tossed a bucket on to the grass.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000047_000001|She kept her ears back and would not touch the water.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000048_000000|"All right, then, Crosspatch," said Jan. Leaving the pail in front of her, he went back to the boat.
train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000048_000001|The gangplank was put out, and he and Marie went on board.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000003_000000|"Now, why couldn't you have done that long ago, you addlepated old fool," he said mildly to Netteke.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000003_000001|"You have made no end of trouble for us, and gained nothing for yourself!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000003_000003|We may even have to spend the night in dangerous territory, and all because you're just as mulish as, as a mule," he finished helplessly.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000005_000000|"There isn't a thing," answered his father.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000006_000000|"Well," answered Joseph, "there are a whole lot of other things beside balky mules in this world that I wish had never been made.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000006_000001|There are spiders, and rats, and Germans.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000006_000002|They are all pests.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000007_000000|Father De Smet became serious at once.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000008_000000|"Son," he said sternly, "don't ever let me hear you say such a thing again.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000008_000001|There are spiders, and rats, and balky mules, and Germans, and it doesn't do a bit of good to waste words fussing because they are here.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000008_000002|The thing to do is to deal with them!"
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000009_000000|Father De Smet was so much in earnest that he boomed these words out in quite a loud voice.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000009_000001|Joseph seized his hand.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000011_000000|Father De Smet looked up.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000011_000001|There, standing right in front of them in the tow path, was a German soldier!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000013_000000|But Netteke was now just as much bent upon going as she had been before upon standing still.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000015_000000|But Netteke had had no military training, and she simply kept on.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000015_000001|In one more step she would have come down upon the soldier's toes, if he had not moved aside just in time.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000015_000002|He was very angry.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000016_000000|"Why didn't you stop your miserable old mule when I told you to?" he said to Father De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000017_000000|"It's a balky mule," replied Father De Smet mildly, "and very obstinate."
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000018_000000|"Indeed!" sneered the soldier; "then, I suppose you have named him Albert after your pig headed King!"
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000019_000000|"No," answered Father De Smet, "I think too much of my King to name my mule after him."
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000022_000000|"No," Father De Smet called back, "I didn't name her after the Kaiser. I think too much of my mule!"
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000023_000001|"I'll make you pay well for your impudence!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000024_000000|"Very likely," muttered Father De Smet under his breath.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000024_000001|He was now more than ever anxious to get beyond the German lines before dark, but as the afternoon passed it became certain that they would not be able to do it.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000025_000000|"I think we shall have to stop soon and feed the mule or she will be too tired to get us across the line at all.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000025_000001|I believe we should save time by stopping for supper.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000025_000002|Besides, I want to send over there," she pointed to a farmhouse not a great distance from the river, "and get some milk and eggs."
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000026_000000|"Very well," said her husband; "we'll stop under that bunch of willows."
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000030_000003|When Father De Smet returned, supper was nearly ready.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000033_000000|Father De Smet was so startled that he dropped the eggs.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000000|"Ha!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000001|I told you we should meet again!" shouted the soldier to Father De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000002|"And it was certainly thoughtful of you to provide for our entertainment.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000003|Comrades, fall to!"
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000035_000001|The instant she heard the gruff voice she had dropped her spoon, and, seizing a baby under each arm, had fled up the gangplank on to the boat.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000036_000000|"What do you want here?" he said.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000000|"Some supper first," said the soldier gayly, helping himself to some onions and passing the pan to his friends.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000001|"Then, perhaps, a few supplies for our brave army.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000002|There is no hurry.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000003|After supper will do; but first we'll drink a health to the Kaiser, and since you are host here, you shall propose it!"
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000038_000000|He pointed to the pail of milk which Father De Smet still held.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000040_000000|Father De Smet looked them in the face and said not a word.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000041_000001|The river had now quite a current, which helped them, and while the soldiers were still having their joke with Father De Smet the boat moved quietly out of sight.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000041_000003|She was beside herself with anxiety.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000000|Meanwhile his captors were busy with Father De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000001|"Come!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000002|Drink to the Kaiser!" shouted the first soldier, "or we'll feed you to the fishes!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000003|We want our supper, and you delay us." Still Father De Smet said nothing.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000000|But he did not finish the sentence.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000001|From an unexpected quarter a shot rang out.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000004|One of his companions gave a howl and fell to the ground.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000005|Still no one appeared at whom the Germans could direct their fire.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000000|Father De Smet fled, too.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000003|"Boys!" shouted Father De Smet.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000004|"Get aboard!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000007|On went the boat at Netteke's best speed, which seemed no better than a snail's pace to the fleeing family.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000009|It was after ten o'clock at night when the "Old Woman" at last approached the twinkling lights of Antwerp, and they knew that, for the time being at least, they were safe.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000046_000001|Here, in a suburb of the city, Father De Smet decided to dock for the night.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000046_000002|A distant clock struck eleven as the hungry but thankful family gathered upon the deck of the "Old Woman" to eat a meager supper of bread and cheese with only the moon to light their repast.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000000|"They overreached themselves," he said.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000002|"You were brave boys!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000003|If you had not started the boat when you did, it is quite likely they might have got me, after all, and the potatoes too.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000004|I am proud of you."
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000049_000000|"Neither did I," answered his father; "and neither did the Germans for that matter.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000050_000000|"Oh," cried Mother De Smet, "it was as if the good God himself intervened to save you!"
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000002|But the smell of the onions was too much for him!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000003|If he hadn't been greedy, he might have carried out his plan, but he wanted our potatoes and our supper too; and so he got neither!" he chuckled.
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000004|"And neither did the Kaiser get a toast from me!
train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000005|Instead, he got a salute from the Belgians." He crossed himself reverently. "Thank God for our soldiers," he said, and Mother De Smet, weeping softly, murmured a devout "Amen."
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000002_000000|HOW DEW IS FORMED.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000003_000000|Reader, did you ever live in the country?
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000003_000004|If not, you have missed a picture that otherwise would have been hung on the walls of your memory, that no one could rob you of.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000004_000000|Everyone has noticed that at certain times in the year the grass becomes wet in the evening and grows more so till the sun rises the next day and dispels the moisture, and this when no cloud is seen.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000004_000002|It was as familiar to the ancients as it is to us, and yet it is only about three quarters of a century since the cause of it has been understood.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000004_000004|In former times some scientists supposed that it was a fine rain that fell from the higher regions of the atmosphere. Others supposed it to be an emanation from the earth, while still others supposed it was an exudation from the stars.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000005_000001|twenty).
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000002|It always forms when the conditions are right, summer and winter.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000003|In cold weather we call it frost.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000004|It has been stated in a former chapter on evaporation that the capacity of the air for holding moisture in a transparent form depends upon its temperature.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000006|If it is sixty degrees Fahrenheit the air will retain six grains of transparent moisture to the square foot of air, while at eighty degrees it will contain nearly eleven grains.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000007|When the air is charged with this vapor to the point of saturation (which point varies with the temperature) a slight depression of the temperature is sufficient to condense this vapor into cloud or drops of water.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000008|Between eighteen twelve and eighteen fourteen dr Wells made a series of experiments with flocks of cotton wool.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000009|He weighed out pieces of equal weight and attached a number of them to the upper side of a board and as many more to the lower side, and exposed it to the night air under varying conditions.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000010|One experiment was made with a board four feet from the earth, so that half of the bunches of cotton faced the ground and the other half the sky.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000011|He found upon weighing these after a night's exposure under a clear sky that the cotton wool on top of the board had gained fourteen grains in weight from the moisture, or dew, that had formed upon it, while the same amount of cotton on the under side of the board had only increased four grains.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000012|He tried further experiments by making little paper houses, or boxes, to cover a certain portion of grass or vegetation.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000015|It has been determined that substances like grass and green leaves of all kinds, hay and straw, while they are poor conductors of heat, are excellent radiators.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000016|In another chapter we have referred to this quality of straw, that is taken advantage of by the inhabitants of hot countries in the manufacture of ice and in our own land for storing it.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000009_000003|The covering acts as a screen, which prevents the heat from radiating to the dew point.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000009_000004|From what has gone before it will be seen that if the atmosphere is not charged with moisture up to the point of saturation it will require a greater amount of depression of temperature to cause condensation, and this is why we usually have heavier dews in June when the air is more highly charged with moisture than we do in August when it is dry.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000010_000001|If, however, it is cloudy or the wind is blowing there is rarely any formation of dew.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000000|It is a curious fact that often there will be a heavier dew under the blaze of a full moon on a clear night than at any other time.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000001|The moon has no screens about it of any kind to obstruct the free radiation of heat.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000003|For half the month, say, the sun is shining continuously upon all or a part of it.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000005|The moon does not revolve upon its own axis like the earth, therefore the same side or a portion of it is exposed to the sun for fourteen days.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000008|There are but few days in summer when there is not a haze in the atmosphere, although we call the sky clear, which intensifies the light and gives everything a warmer tone. The heat coming from a full moon on a clear night is absorbed in causing the aqueous vapors that are partly condensed in the higher regions of the atmosphere, to be reabsorbed into transparent vapor.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000009|This clears away the heat screen in the atmosphere and allows radiation to go on more rapidly at the earth's surface, and thus cools it to a greater extent when the moon is shining brightly than when it is dark and in the shadow of the earth.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000001|Sometimes the difference is very marked, amounting to as much as twenty or thirty degrees.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000002|If under these conditions a cloud floats overhead, forming a heat screen, its presence will be readily noticed by a rise in the thermometer.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000003|Radiation into the upper regions of the atmosphere is checked, which causes a sudden rise in the temperature near the surface of the earth.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000005|Frost-which of course is but frozen dew-at this season of the year will form on a still autumn night, although the atmosphere at some distance above the ground is some degrees above the freezing point.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000013_000001|It will thus be seen that dew performs an important part in supporting vegetation.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000014_000002|When it is condensed at the surface of the earth we have the phenomenon of frost, but when condensed in the upper regions of the atmosphere we have that of snow.
train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000015_000002|In some cases the blooming flowers were in actual contact with the snow.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000003_000000|Summer was now over.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000003_000001|The winter following, the plague a second time attacked the Athenians; for although it had never entirely left them, still there had been a notable abatement in its ravages.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000003_000003|At the same time took place the numerous earthquakes in Athens, Euboea, and Boeotia, particularly at Orchomenus in the last named country.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000004_000000|The same winter the Athenians in Sicily and the Rhegians, with thirty ships, made an expedition against the islands of Aeolus; it being impossible to invade them in summer, owing to the want of water.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000005_000002|A similar inundation also occurred at Atalanta, the island off the Opuntian Locrian coast, carrying away part of the Athenian fort and wrecking one of two ships which were drawn up on the beach.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000005_000005|Without an earthquake I do not see how such an accident could happen.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000006_000003|This town afterwards also submitted upon the approach of the Athenians and their allies, and gave hostages and all other securities required.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000008_000007|The settlement effected, they fortified anew the city, now called Heraclea, distant about four miles and a half from Thermopylae and two miles and a quarter from the sea, and commenced building docks, closing the side towards Thermopylae just by the pass itself, in order that they might be easily defended.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000011_000002|The plan which they recommended was to attack first the Apodotians, next the Ophionians, and after these the Eurytanians, who are the largest tribe in Aetolia, and speak, as is said, a language exceedingly difficult to understand, and eat their flesh raw.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000011_000003|These once subdued, the rest would easily come in.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000015_000004|These were by far the best men in the city of Athens that fell during this war.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000017_000000|The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited the Athenian invasion.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000019_000000|His preparations completed, Eurylochus lodged the hostages in Kytinium, in Doris, and advanced upon Naupactus through the country of the Locrians, taking upon his way Oeneon and Eupalium, two of their towns that refused to join him.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000020_000001|The winter ensuing, the Athenians in Sicily with their Hellenic allies, and such of the Sicel subjects or allies of Syracuse as had revolted from her and joined their army, marched against the Sicel town Inessa, the acropolis of which was held by the Syracusans, and after attacking it without being able to take it, retired.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000021_000000|The same winter the Athenians purified Delos, in compliance, it appears, with a certain oracle.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000021_000001|It had been purified before by Pisistratus the tyrant; not indeed the whole island, but as much of it as could be seen from the temple.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000022_000002|Nothing can be clearer on this point than the following verses of Homer, taken from a hymn to Apollo:
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000024_000000|That there was also a poetical contest in which the Ionians went to contend, again is shown by the following, taken from the same hymn. After celebrating the Delian dance of the women, he ends his song of praise with these verses, in which he also alludes to himself:
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000027_000002|On their part, the Ambraciots at Olpae sent a messenger to their own city, to beg them to come with their whole levy to their assistance, fearing that the army of Eurylochus might not be able to pass through the Acarnanians, and that they might themselves be obliged to fight single handed, or be unable to retreat, if they wished it, without danger.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000029_000000|Uniting here at daybreak, they sat down at the place called Metropolis, and encamped.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000029_000002|While the fleet off Olpae blockaded the hill from the sea, the Acarnanians and a few of the Amphilochians, most of whom were kept back by force by the Ambraciots, had already arrived at Argos, and were preparing to give battle to the enemy, having chosen Demosthenes to command the whole of the allied army in concert with their own generals.
train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000029_000003|Demosthenes led them near to Olpae and encamped, a great ravine separating the two armies. During five days they remained inactive; on the sixth both sides formed in order of battle.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000003_000004|These last, however, gave them the slip by coming in the dark; and being informed by signals of the fact the Corinthians left half their number at Cenchreae, in case the Athenians should go against Crommyon, and marched in all haste to the rescue.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000004_000000|Battus, one of the two generals present at the action, went with a company to defend the village of Solygia, which was unfortified; Lycophron remaining to give battle with the rest.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000004_000002|The battle was an obstinate one, and fought throughout hand to hand.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000005_000000|After holding on for a long while without either giving way, the Athenians aided by their horse, of which the enemy had none, at length routed the Corinthians, who retired to the hill and, halting, remained quiet there, without coming down again.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000006_000002|After walling off this spot, the fleet sailed off home.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000020_000003|But if both should happen to have chosen the wrong moment for acting in this way, advice to make peace would not be unserviceable; and this, if we did but see it, is just what we stand most in need of at the present juncture.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000023_000000|"So far as regards the Athenians, such are the great advantages proved inherent in a wise policy.
train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000034_000005|And so it turned out.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000002_000000|The Strong Prince
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000003_000001|All day long he drank till he was too stupid to attend to his business, and everything in the kingdom went to rack and ruin.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000003_000002|But one day an accident happened to him, and he was struck on the head by a falling bough, so that he fell from his horse and lay dead upon the ground.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000004_000000|His wife and son mourned his loss bitterly, for, in spite of his faults, he had always been kind to them.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000005_000001|When they had finished the queen said: 'My son, I am thirsty; fetch me some water.'
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000006_000000|The prince got up at once and went to a brook which he heard gurgling near at hand.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000006_000003|The young man drew back with a start; but in a moment he climbed the tree, cutting the rope which held the sword, and carried the weapon to his mother.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000008_000000|This discovery put new life into the queen and her son, and they continued their walk through the forest.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000008_000001|But night was drawing on, and the darkness grew so thick that it seemed as if it could be cut with a knife.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000008_000003|At last with a great heave he moved it out of the road, and as it fell he knew it was a huge rock.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000000|Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and bidding his mother come in and keep very still, the prince began to pace up and down, listening for the return of the robbers.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000003|'This must be the place,' said a voice, which the prince took to be that of the captain.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000004|'Yes, I feel the ditch before the entrance.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000005|Someone forgot to pile up the fire before we left and it has burnt itself out!
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000006|But it is all right.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000007|Let every man jump across, and as he does so cry out "Hop!
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000008|I am here." I will go last.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000010_000000|The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered, for with one swift, silent stroke of the prince's sword, his head rolled into a corner.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000010_000001|Then the young man cried instead, 'Hop!
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000010_000002|I am here.'
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000012_000001|Being very cunning, however, he made no resistance, and rolled over as if he were as dead as the other men.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000012_000002|Still, the prince was no fool, and wondered if indeed he was as dead as he seemed to be; but the captain lay so stiff and stark, that at last he was taken in.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000014_000001|The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000015_000001|So the moment that her son had turned his back, she opened the doors of all the rooms, and peeped in, till she came to the one where the robbers lay.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000015_000002|But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000015_000003|She quickly turned the key in the lock, and ran back to the chamber she had slept in.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000000|Soon after her son came in, bringing with him a large bear, which he had killed for supper.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000001|As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did not hunt the next morning, but, instead, began to explore the castle.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000002|He found that a secret way led from it into the forest; and following the path, he reached another castle larger and more splendid than the one belonging to the robbers.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000003|He knocked at the door with his fist, and said that he wanted to enter; but the giant, to whom the castle belonged, only answered: 'I know who you are.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000017_000000|'I am no robber,' answered the prince.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000017_000001|'I am the son of a king, and I have killed all the band.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000018_000000|He waited a little, but the door remained shut as tightly as before. Then he just put his shoulder to it, and immediately the wood began to crack.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000018_000001|When the giant found that it was no use keeping it shut, he opened it, saying: 'I see you are a brave youth.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000018_000002|Let there be peace between us.'
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000020_000000|Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle, and to amuse herself she paid visits to the robber captain, who flattered her till at last she agreed to marry him.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000021_000003|The robber, indeed, granted him his life, but took out both his eyes, which he thrust into the prince's hand, saying brutally:
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000022_000000|'Here, you had better keep them!
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000023_000000|Weeping, the blind youth felt his way to the giant's house, and told him all the story.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000024_000001|The prince drew them out of his pocket, and silently handed them to the giant, who washed them well, and then put them back in the prince's head.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000027_000000|'Tell the fox and the squirrel that they are to go with you, and fetch me back the prince's sword,' ordered he.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000001|Directly they came to the window of the robber captain's room, the monkey sprang from the backs of the fox and the squirrel, and climbed in.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000002|The room was empty, and the sword hanging from a nail.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000003|He took it down, and buckling it round his waist, as he had seen the prince do, swung himself down again, and mounting on the backs of his two companions, hastened to his master.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000004|The giant bade him give the sword to the prince, who girded himself with it, and returned with all speed to the castle.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000029_000000|'Come out, you rascal! come out, you villain!' cried he, 'and answer to me for the wrong you have done.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000000|The noise he made brought the robber into the room.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000002|In his turn he fell on his knees to beg for mercy, but it was too late.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000003|As he had done to the prince, so the prince did to him, and, blinded, he was thrust forth, and fell down a deep hole, where he is to this day.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000004|His mother the prince sent back to her father, and never would see her again.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000005|After this he returned to the giant, and said to him:
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000031_000000|'My friend, add one more kindness to those you have already heaped on me.
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000031_000001|Give me your daughter as my wife.'
train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000032_000000|So they were married, and the wedding feast was so splendid that there was not a kingdom in the world that did not hear of it.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000000_000000|Shepherd Paul
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000001_000000|Once upon a time a shepherd was taking his flock out to pasture, when he found a little baby lying in a meadow, left there by some wicked person, who thought it was too much trouble to look after it.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000001_000001|The shepherd was fond of children, so he took the baby home with him and gave it plenty of milk, and by the time the boy was fourteen he could tear up oaks as if they were weeds.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000001_000002|Then Paul, as the shepherd had called him, grew tired of living at home, and went out into the world to try his luck.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000003_000000|'Good morning, friend,' said Paul; 'upon my word, you must be a strong man!'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000004_000000|The man stopped his work and laughed.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000004_000001|'I am Tree Comber,' he answered proudly; 'and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000005_000001|However, in a moment he was up again, and catching hold of Paul, threw him so that he sank up to his waist; but then it was Paul's turn again, and this time the man was buried up to his neck.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000006_000000|'Very good,' answered Paul, and they continued their journey together.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000007_000000|By and by they reached a man who was grinding stones to powder in his hands, as if they had been nuts.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000008_000000|'Good morning,' said Paul politely; 'upon my word, you must be a strong fellow!'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000009_000000|'I am Stone Crusher,' answered the man, and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000010_000001|After a short time the man declared himself beaten, and begged leave to go with them; so they all three travelled together.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000012_000000|'I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,' answered he.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000014_000001|'We three will go and look for game,' he said, 'and you, Tree Comber, will stay behind and prepare a good supper for us.' So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was nearly ready, a little dwarf with a pointed beard strolled up to the place.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000015_000001|The dwarf took no notice, but waited patiently till the dinner was cooked, then suddenly throwing Tree Comber on the ground, he ate up the contents of the saucepan and vanished.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000016_000001|The fourth day Paul said to them: 'My friends, there must be some reason why your cooking has always been so bad, now you shall go and hunt and I will stay behind.' So they went off, amusing themselves by thinking what was in store for Paul.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000017_000000|He set to work at once, and had just got all his vegetables simmering in the pot when the dwarf appeared as before, and asked to have some of the stew.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000017_000003|The hunters came back early, longing to see how Paul had got on, and, to their surprise, dinner was quite ready for them.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000018_000001|When we have finished supper I will show you what I have done with him!' But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neither he nor the tree was to be seen, for the little fellow had pulled it up by the roots and run away, dragging it after him.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000018_000004|See! there is a basket that will do for me to sit in, and a cord to lower me with.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000018_000005|But when I pull the cord again, lose no time in drawing the basket up.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000019_000000|And he stepped into the basket, which was lowered by his friends.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000020_000000|At last it touched the ground and he jumped out and looked about him.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000020_000002|As the door was open he walked in, but a lovely maiden met him and implored him to go back, for the owner of the castle was a dragon with six heads, who had stolen her from her home and brought her down to this underground spot.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000020_000003|But Paul refused to listen to all her entreaties, and declared that he was not afraid of the dragon, and did not care how many heads he had; and he sat down calmly to wait for him.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000022_000000|'I am Shepherd Paul,' said the young man, 'and I have come to fight you, and as I am in a hurry we had better begin at once.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000023_000001|'I am sure of my supper, but let us have a mouthful of something first, just to give us an appetite.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000024_000000|Whereupon he began to eat some huge boulders as if they had been cakes, and when he had quite finished, he offered Paul one.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000024_000001|Paul was not fond of boulders, but he took a wooden knife and cut one in two, then he snatched up both halves in his hands and threw them with all his strength at the dragon, so that two out of the six heads were smashed in.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000024_000003|Then, seizing the monster by the neck, he dashed the remaining heads against the rock.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000026_000001|He did so, and it instantly changed into a golden apple, which he put in his pocket.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000026_000002|After that, they started on their search.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000027_000001|She was overjoyed at the sight of her sister and of Paul, and brought him a shirt belonging to the dragon, which made every one who wore it twice as strong as they were before.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000028_000000|Then Paul changed the castle into an apple, which he put into his pocket, and set out with the two girls in search of the third castle.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000029_000001|Her husband had eighteen heads, but when he quitted the lower regions for the surface of the earth, he left them all at home except one, which he changed for the head of a little dwarf, with a pointed beard.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000030_000001|But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and the third sister brought him a silk shirt which would make him ten times stronger than he was before.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000031_000000|He had scarcely put it on, when the whole castle began to shake violently, and the dragon flew up the steps into the hall.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000032_000000|'Well, my friend, so we meet once more!
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000032_000001|Have you forgotten me?
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000032_000002|I am Shepherd Paul, and I have come to wrestle with you, and to free your wife from your clutches.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000034_000000|At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recollected his eighteen heads, and was bold again.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000035_000000|'Come on,' he cried, rearing himself up and preparing to dart all his heads at once at Paul.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000035_000001|But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of the heads went rolling down.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000035_000003|Then Paul changed the castle into an apple, and put it in his pocket.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000037_000000|At length, one day, he happened to pass the nest of a huge griffin, who had left her young ones all alone.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000038_000000|'By carrying me up to the earth,' answered Paul; and the griffin agreed, but first went to get some food to eat on the way, as it was a long journey.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000039_000000|'Now get on my back,' he said to Paul, 'and when I turn my head to the right, cut a slice off the bullock that hangs on that side, and put it in my mouth, and when I turn my head to the left, draw a cupful of wine from the cask that hangs on that side, and pour it down my throat.'
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000040_000000|For three days and three nights Paul and the griffin flew upwards, and on the fourth morning it touched the ground just outside the city where Paul's friends had gone to live.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000042_000000|'You know what to expect,' Paul said to them quietly.
train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000042_000002|Off with you!' He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all in the prettiest places he could find; after which he tapped them with his golden rod, and they became castles again. He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other for himself and the youngest, whom he married, and there they are living still.
train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000021_000002|Come in, Bates.
train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000032_000000|"no
train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000059_000007|Can't be.
train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000060_000003|But it isn't.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000001_000002|My father's pride had nothing of this about it.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000001_000003|It was that quiet, negative, courteous, inbred pride, which only the closest observation could detect; which no ordinary observers ever detected at all.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000002_000000|Who that observed him in communication with any of the farmers on any of his estates-who that saw the manner in which he lifted his hat, when he accidentally met any of those farmers' wives-who that noticed his hearty welcome to the man of the people, when that man happened to be a man of genius-would have thought him proud?
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000002_000001|On such occasions as these, if he had any pride, it was impossible to detect it.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000002_000003|Here lay his fretful point.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000003_000000|Among a host of instances of this peculiar pride of his which I could cite, I remember one, characteristic enough to be taken as a sample of all the rest.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000004_000000|A merchant of enormous wealth, who had recently been raised to the peerage, was staying at one of our country houses.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000004_000001|His daughter, my uncle, and an Italian Abbe were the only guests besides.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000004_000002|The merchant was a portly, purple faced man, who bore his new honours with a curious mixture of assumed pomposity and natural good humour.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000004_000004|He was a political refugee, dependent for the bread he ate, on the money he received for teaching languages.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000005_000000|On the first day, the party assembled for dinner comprised the merchant's daughter, my mother, an old lady who had once been her governess, and had always lived with her since her marriage, the new Lord, the Abbe, my father, and my uncle.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000005_000002|My father's pale face flushed crimson in a moment. He touched the magnificent merchant lord on the arm, and pointed significantly, with a low bow, towards the decrepit old lady who had once been my mother's governess.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000006_000000|It was by such accidental circumstances as these that you discovered how far he was proud.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000006_000001|He never boasted of his ancestors; he never even spoke of them, except when he was questioned on the subject; but he never forgot them.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000006_000002|They were the very breath of his life; the deities of his social worship: the family treasures to be held precious beyond all lands and all wealth, all ambitions and all glories, by his children and his children's children to the end of their race.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000007_000002|Every fair liberty was given to us; every fair indulgence was granted to us.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000007_000005|We were formed, under his superintendence, in principles of religion, honour, and industry; and the rest was left to our own moral sense, to our own comprehension of the duties and privileges of our station.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000000|It may seem incomprehensible, even ridiculous, to some persons, but it is nevertheless true, that we were none of us ever on intimate terms with him.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000001|I mean by this, that he was a father to us, but never a companion.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000002|There was something in his manner, his quiet and unchanging manner, which kept us almost unconsciously restrained.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000004|I never confided to him my schemes for amusement as a boy, or mentioned more than generally my ambitious hopes, as a young man.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000006|Thus, all holiday councils were held with old servants; thus, my first pages of manuscript, when I first tried authorship, were read by my sister, and never penetrated into my father's study.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000009_000000|Again, his mode of testifying displeasure towards my brother or myself, had something terrible in its calmness, something that we never forgot, and always dreaded as the worst calamity that could befall us.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000000|Whenever, as boys, we committed some boyish fault, he never displayed outwardly any irritation-he simply altered his manner towards us altogether.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000002|On these occasions, we were not addressed by our Christian names; if we accidentally met him out of doors, he was sure to turn aside and avoid us; if we asked a question, it was answered in the briefest possible manner, as if we had been strangers.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000003|His whole course of conduct said, as though in so many words-You have rendered yourselves unfit to associate with your father; and he is now making you feel that unfitness as deeply as he does.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000004|We were left in this domestic purgatory for days, sometimes for weeks together.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000005|To our boyish feelings (to mine especially) there was no ignominy like it, while it lasted.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000000|I know not on what terms my father lived with my mother.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000001|Towards my sister, his demeanour always exhibited something of the old-fashioned, affectionate gallantry of a former age.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000002|He paid her the same attention that he would have paid to the highest lady in the land.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000003|He led her into the dining room, when we were alone, exactly as he would have led a duchess into a banqueting hall.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000004|He would allow us, as boys, to quit the breakfast table before he had risen himself; but never before she had left it.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000006|His daughter was in his eyes the representative of her mother: the mistress of his house, as well as his child.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000007|It was curious to see the mixture of high bred courtesy and fatherly love in his manner, as he just gently touched her forehead with his lips, when he first saw her in the morning.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000012_000004|It required, indeed, all the masculine energy of look about the upper part of his face, to redeem the lower part from an appearance of effeminacy, so delicately was it moulded in its fine Norman outline.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000012_000007|If he ever laughed, as a young man, his laugh must have been very clear and musical; but since I can recollect him, I never heard it.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000012_000008|In his happiest moments, in the gayest society, I have only seen him smile.
train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000013_000000|There were other characteristics of my father's disposition and manner, which I might mention; but they will appear to greater advantage, perhaps, hereafter, connected with circumstances which especially called them forth.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000008_000000|DEDICATION
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000012_000000|Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boys' books was one which taught me that; and therefore I am more grateful to it than if it had been as full of wonderful pictures as all the natural history books you ever saw.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000013_000000|"Well, Robert, where have you been walking this afternoon?" said mr Andrews to one of his pupils at the close of a holiday.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000014_000001|But it was very dull.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000014_000002|He hardly saw a single person.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000016_000001|But he did not mind it, because he fell in with an old man cutting turf, who told him all about turf cutting, and gave him a dead adder.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000017_000000|Whereon mr Andrews, who seems to have been a very sensible old gentleman, tells him all about his curiosities: and then it comes out-if you will believe it-that Master William has been over the very same ground as Master Robert, who saw nothing at all.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000019_000000|"So it is.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000019_000003|On the other hand, Franklin could not cross the Channel without making observations useful to mankind.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000019_000006|And you, Robert, learn that eyes were given to you to use."
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000000|I say "good boys;" not merely clever boys, or prudent boys: because using your eyes, or not using them, is a question of doing Right or doing Wrong.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000001|God has given you eyes; it is your duty to God to use them.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000002|If your parents tried to teach you your lessons in the most agreeable way, by beautiful picture books, would it not be ungracious, ungrateful, and altogether naughty and wrong, to shut your eyes to those pictures, and refuse to learn?
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000004|It is your duty to learn His lessons: and it is your interest.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000005|God's Book, which is the Universe, and the reading of God's Book, which is Science, can do you nothing but good, and teach you nothing but truth and wisdom.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000006|God did not put this wondrous world about your young souls to tempt or to mislead them.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000007|If you ask Him for a fish, he will not give you a serpent.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000003|But you must begin at the beginning in order to end at the end, and sow the seed if you wish to gather the fruit.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000004|God has ordained that you, and every child which comes into the world, should begin by learning something of the world about him by his senses and his brain; and the better you learn what they can teach you, the more fit you will be to learn what they cannot teach you.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000007|And so you will be delivered (if you will) out of the tyranny of darkness, and distrust, and fear, into God's free kingdom of light, and faith, and love; and will be safe from the venom of that tree which is more deadly than the fabled upas of the East.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000008|Who planted that tree I know not, it was planted so long ago: but surely it is none of God's planting, neither of the Son of God: yet it grows in all lands and in all climes, and sends its hidden suckers far and wide, even (unless we be watchful) into your hearts and mine.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000009|And its name is the Tree of Unreason, whose roots are conceit and ignorance, and its juices folly and death.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000010|It drops its venom into the finest brains; and makes them call sense, nonsense; and nonsense, sense; fact, fiction; and fiction, fact. It drops its venom into the tenderest hearts, alas! and makes them call wrong, right; and right, wrong; love, cruelty; and cruelty, love.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000011|Some say that the axe is laid to the root of it just now, and that it is already tottering to its fall: while others say that it is growing stronger than ever, and ready to spread its upas shade over the whole earth.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000012|For my part, I know not, save that all shall be as God wills.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000013|The tree has been cut down already again and again; and yet has always thrown out fresh shoots and dropped fresh poison from its boughs.
train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000014|But this at least I know: that any little child, who will use the faculties God has given him, may find an antidote to all its poison in the meanest herb beneath his feet.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000005_000000|I will not be positive about "the Spanish Main," but it was hurrah for something o I considered them very jolly fellows, and so indeed they were.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000006_000001|But what completely won my good will was a picture of enviable loveliness painted on his left arm.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000006_000005|I determined to know that man.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000007_000000|While I stood admiring this work of art, a fat wheezy steamtug, with the word AJAX in staring black letters on the paddlebox, came puffing up alongside the Typhoon.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000007_000001|It was ridiculously small and conceited, compared with our stately ship.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000013_000000|What do I remember next?
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000017_000001|Just at the most exciting point of the game, the ship would careen, and down would go the white checkers pell mell among the black.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000023_000001|That's what the pilot said.
train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000031_000002|He said the colors were pricked into the skin with needles, and that the operation was somewhat painful.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000000_000000|We must next consider the work of adornment, first as to each day by itself, secondly as to all seven days in general.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000001_000000|In the first place, then, we consider the work of the fourth day, secondly, that of the fifth day, thirdly, that of the sixth day, and fourthly, such matters as belong to the seventh day.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000002_000000|Under the first head there are three points of inquiry:
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000003_000000|(one) As to the production of the lights;
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000007_000000|Whether the Lights Ought to Have Been Produced on the Fourth Day?
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the lights ought not to have been produced on the fourth day.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000001|For the heavenly luminaries are by nature incorruptible bodies: wherefore their matter cannot exist without their form.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000002|But as their matter was produced in the work of creation, before there was any day, so therefore were their forms.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000003|It follows, then, that the lights were not produced on the fourth day.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000010_000001|For, the Scripture says: "He set them in the firmament." But plants are described as produced when the earth, to which they are attached, received its form.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000011_000001|Now, cause precedes effect in the order of nature. The lights, therefore, ought not to have been produced on the fourth day, but on the third day.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000012_000001|Therefore the sun and the moon alone are not correctly described as the "two great lights."
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000014_000004|For the perfection of the heaven and the earth regards, seemingly, those things that belong to them intrinsically, but the adornment, those that are extrinsic, just as the perfection of a man lies in his proper parts and forms, and his adornment, in clothing or such like.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000014_000005|Now just as distinction of certain things is made most evident by their local movement, as separating one from another; so the work of adornment is set forth by the production of things having movement in the heavens, and upon the earth.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000014_000010|Wherefore Scripture does not say: "Let the firmament produce lights," though it says: "Let the earth bring forth the green herb."
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000015_000001|For those, however, who hold the heavenly bodies to be of another nature from the elements, and naturally incorruptible, the answer must be that the lights were substantially created at the beginning, but that their substance, at first formless, is formed on this day, by receiving not its substantial form, but a determination of power.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000016_000002|Thus we observe that the rays of the sun have one effect, those of the moon another, and so forth.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000023_000001|But the lights are the cause of what takes place upon the earth.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000023_000002|Therefore they are not signs.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000025_000001|But the lights are nobler than the earth.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000025_000002|Therefore they were not made "to enlighten it."
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000026_000001|The moon, therefore, was not made "to rule the night."
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000028_000003|First, the lights are of service to man, in regard to sight, which directs him in his works, and is most useful for perceiving objects.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000028_000006|And in this respect he says: "Let them be for signs."
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000030_000001|Hence nothing prevents a sensible cause from being a sign.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000030_000002|But he says "signs," rather than "causes," to guard against idolatry.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000032_000001|Nor is it untrue to say that a higher creature may be made for the sake of a lower, considered not in itself, but as ordained to the good of the universe.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000033_000001|For although the perfect is developed from the imperfect by natural processes, yet the perfect must exist simply before the imperfect.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000035_000000|Whether the Lights of Heaven Are Living Beings?
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000036_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the lights of heaven are living beings.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000036_000002|Therefore the lights of heaven, as pertaining to its adornment, should be living beings also.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000037_000001|Now the noblest of all forms is the soul, as being the first principle of life.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000038_000002|Much more, therefore, have the heavenly bodies a living soul.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000040_000002|thirty four, because, what is such of itself precedes that which is by another.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000040_000004|Therefore the heavenly bodies are living beings.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000042_000002|Nor was there less diversity of opinion among the Doctors of the Church.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000000|In examining the truth of this question, where such diversity of opinion exists, we shall do well to bear in mind that the union of soul and body exists for the sake of the soul and not of the body; for the form does not exist for the matter, but the matter for the form.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000001|Now the nature and power of the soul are apprehended through its operation, which is to a certain extent its end.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000002|Yet for some of these operations, as sensation and nutrition, our body is a necessary instrument.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000003|Hence it is clear that the sensitive and nutritive souls must be united to a body in order to exercise their functions.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000004|There are, however, operations of the soul, which are not exercised through the medium of the body, though the body ministers, as it were, to their production.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000006|It is not, however, possible that the functions of nutrition, growth, and generation, through which the nutritive soul operates, can be exercised by the heavenly bodies, for such operations are incompatible with a body naturally incorruptible.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000008|It follows, then, that of the operations of the soul the only ones left to be attributed to the heavenly bodies are those of understanding and moving; for appetite follows both sensitive and intellectual perception, and is in proportion thereto.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000010|Accordingly, the union of a soul to a heavenly body cannot be for the purpose of the operations of the intellect.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000015|The Platonists explain the union of soul and body in the same way, as a contact of a moving power with the object moved, and since Plato holds the heavenly bodies to be living beings, this means nothing else but that substances of spiritual nature are united to them, and act as their moving power.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000016|A proof that the heavenly bodies are moved by the direct influence and contact of some spiritual substance, and not, like bodies of specific gravity, by nature, lies in the fact that whereas nature moves to one fixed end which having attained, it rests; this does not appear in the movement of heavenly bodies.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000017|Hence it follows that they are moved by some intellectual substances.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000044_000000|From what has been said, then, it is clear that the heavenly bodies are not living beings in the same sense as plants and animals, and that if they are called so, it can only be equivocally.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000044_000001|It will also be seen that the difference of opinion between those who affirm, and those who deny, that these bodies have life, is not a difference of things but of words.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000046_000001|While, then, it is not conceded that the souls of heavenly bodies are nobler than the souls of animals absolutely it must be conceded that they are superior to them with regard to their respective forms, since their form perfects their matter entirely, which is not in potentiality to other forms; whereas a soul does not do this.
train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000046_000002|Also as regards movement the power that moves the heavenly bodies is of a nobler kind.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000005_000000|Presently up spoke the silver haired Father Martin.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000000|'Comrades,' said he, 'you have had wonderful adventures; but I will tell you something still more astonishing that happened to myself.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000001|When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and I wandered from village to village all over the country with my knapsack on my back; but as soon as I was old enough I took service with a shepherd in the mountains, and helped him for three years.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000002|One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were missing, and the master bade me go and seek them in the forest.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000003|I took my dog with me, but he could find no trace of them, though we searched among the bushes till night fell; and then, as I did not know the country and could not find my way home in the dark, I decided to sleep under a tree.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000006|I shook like an aspen leaf at the sight, and my spirit quaked for fear.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000009|If you will come with me you shall dig up much gold."
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000007_000000|'Though I was still deadly cold with terror I plucked up my courage and said: "Get away from me, evil spirit; I do not desire your treasures."
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000008_000000|'At this the spectre grinned in my face and cried mockingly:
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000009_000000|'"Simpleton!
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000009_000001|Do you scorn your good fortune?
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000009_000002|Well, then, remain a ragamuffin all your days."
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000010_000001|I will fill your knapsack-I will fill your pouch."
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000012_000001|A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep under the earth.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000012_000002|At twilight and at high noon it is hidden, but at midnight it may be dug up.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000012_000004|So I thought to give it into your hand, having a kindness for you because you feed your flock upon my mountain."
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000013_000000|'Thereupon the spectre told me exactly where the treasure lay, and how to find it.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000013_000001|It might be only yesterday so well do I remember every word he spoke.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000001|Do not cross the bridge, but keep to your right along the bank till a high rock stands before you.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000003|When you find this hollow dig it out; but it will be hard work, for the earth has been pressed down into it with care.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000005|Into this opening you must crawl, holding a lamp in your mouth.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000009|Do not go through the door to the right lest you disturb the bones of the lords of the treasure.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000010|Neither must you go through the door to the left, it leads to the snake's chamber, where adders and serpents lodge; but open the fast closed door by means of the well-known spring root, which you must on no account forget to take with you, or all your trouble will be for naught, for no crowbar or mortal tools will help you.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000011|If you want to procure the root ask a wood seller; it is a common thing for hunters to need, and it is not hard to find.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000012|If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000013|Now trim your lamp that it may not fail you, for you will be nearly blinded by the flash and glitter of the gold and precious stones on the walls and pillars of the vault; but beware how you stretch out a hand towards the jewels!
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000014|In the midst of the cavern stands a copper chest, in that you will find gold and silver, enough and to spare, and you may help yourself to your heart's content.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000015|If you take as much as you can carry you will have sufficient to last your lifetime, and you may return three times; but woe betide you if you venture to come a fourth time.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000016|You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000017|Do not neglect each time to heap back the loose earth which concealed the entrance of the king's treasure chamber."
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000015_000000|'As the apparition left off speaking my dog pricked up his ears and began to bark.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000015_000001|I heard the crack of a carter's whip and the noise of wheels in the distance, and when I looked again the spectre had disappeared.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000017_000000|'Tell us now, Father Martin, did you go to the mountain and find what the spirit promised you; or is it a fable?'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000018_000000|'Nay, nay,' answered the graybeard.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000018_000001|'I cannot tell if the spectre lied, for never a step did I go towards finding the hollow, for two reasons:--one was that my neck was too precious for me to risk it in such a snare as that; the other, that no one could ever tell me where the spring root was to be found.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000019_000000|Then Blaize, another aged shepherd, lifted up his voice.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000001|Even though you will never climb the mountain now, I will tell you, for a joke, how it is to be found.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000002|The easiest way to get it is by the help of a black woodpecker.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000004|When she perceives that she cannot get into her nest she will fly round the tree uttering cries of distress, and then dart off towards the sun setting.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000005|When you see her do this, take a scarlet cloak, or if that be lacking to you, buy a few yards of scarlet cloth, and hurry back to the tree before the woodpecker returns with the spring root in her beak.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000007|Then spread the red cloth quickly under the tree, so that the woodpecker may think it is a fire, and in her terror drop the root.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000023_000001|He could make fish jelly, and quince fritters, and even wafer cakes; and he gilded the ears of all his boars' heads.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000023_000002|peter had looked about him for a wife early in life, but unluckily his choice fell upon a woman whose evil tongue was well known in the town.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000023_000004|Therefore, when Master peter came along, and let himself be taken in by her boasted skill as a housewife, she jumped at his offer, and they were married the next day.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000024_000000|Though Master peter had no great wealth to leave behind him, still it was sad to him to be childless; and he would bemoan himself to his friends, when he laid one baby after another in the grave, saying: 'The lightning has been among the cherry blossoms again, so there will be no fruit to grow ripe.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000025_000000|But, by and by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother's temper nor her father's spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000025_000001|Meanwhile the fortunes of the family had changed.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000025_000002|From his youth up, Master peter had hated trouble; when he had money he spent it freely, and fed all the hungry folk who asked him for bread.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000026_000000|This grieved the tender heart of his pretty daughter, who loved him dearly, and was the comfort of his life.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000027_000003|Soon he heard his wife's harsh voice singing its morning song as she went about her household affairs, scolding her daughter the while.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000027_000004|She burst open his door while he was still dressing: 'Well, Toper!' was her greeting, 'have you been drinking all night, wasting money that you steal from my housekeeping?
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000027_000005|For shame, drunkard!'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000029_000000|'Do not be annoyed, dear wife.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000029_000001|I have a good piece of business in hand which may turn out well for us.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000030_000000|'You with a good business?' cried she, 'you are good for nothing but talk!'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000031_000000|'I am making my will,' said he, 'that when my hour comes my house may be in order.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000032_000000|These unexpected words cut his daughter to the heart; she remembered that all night long she had dreamed of a newly dug grave, and at this thought she broke out into loud lamentations.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000032_000001|But her mother only cried: 'Wretch! have you not wasted goods and possessions, and now do you talk of making a will?'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000000|And she seized him like a fury, and tried to scratch out his eyes.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000001|But by and by the quarrel was patched up, and everything went on as before. From that day peter saved up every penny that his daughter Lucia gave him on the sly, and bribed the boys of his acquaintance to spy out a black woodpecker's nest for him.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000002|He sent them into the woods and fields, but instead of looking for a nest they only played pranks on him.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000003|They led him miles over hill and vale, stock and stone, to find a raven's brood, or a nest of squirrels in a hollow tree, and when he was angry with them they laughed in his face and ran away.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000004|This went on for some time, but at last one of the boys spied out a woodpecker in the meadow lands among the wood pigeons, and when he had found her nest in a half dead alder tree, came running to peter with the news of his discovery.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000005|peter could hardly believe his good fortune, and went quickly to see for himself if it was really true; and when he reached the tree there certainly was a bird flying in and out as if she had a nest in it.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000006|peter was overjoyed at this fortunate discovery, and instantly set himself to obtain a red cloak.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000007|Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonged to a man of whom nobody ever willingly asked a favour-Master Hammerling the hangman.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000000|peter now had all that was necessary to secure the magic root; he stopped up the entrance to the nest, and everything fell out exactly as Blaize had foretold.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000002|All Peter's plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand the magic root-that master key which would unlock all doors, and bring its possessor unheard of luck.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000003|His thoughts now turned to the mountain, and he secretly made preparations for his journey.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000004|He took with him only a staff, a strong sack, and a little box which his daughter Lucia had given him.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000035_000004|He stood still in sheer amazement, not knowing which to rejoice over most-this unexpected find, or the proof of the magic root's real power; but at last he remembered that it was quite time to be starting on his journey.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000035_000006|When Dame Ilse and her daughter returned they wondered to find the house door shut, and Master peter nowhere to be seen.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000036_000000|'Who knows?' cried Dame Ilse at last, 'the wretch may have been idling in some tavern since early morning.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000037_000000|Then a sudden thought startled her, and she felt for her keys.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000037_000003|Mid day came, then evening, then midnight, and still no Master peter appeared, and the matter became really serious.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000037_000004|Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband, and remorse caused her the gloomiest forebodings.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000039_000001|After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond, but they found nothing, and then Dame Ilse gave up the idea of ever seeing her husband again and very soon consoled herself, only wondering how the sacks of corn were to be carried to the mill in future.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000039_000002|She decided to buy a strong ass to do the work, and having chosen one, and after some bargaining with the owner as to its price, she went to the cupboard in the wall to fetch the money.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000039_000003|But what were her feelings when she perceived that every shelf lay empty and bare before her!
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000041_000003|He looked at her fondly, and took her hand, which she tried to draw away, crying:
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000042_000001|I thought you were a hundred miles away.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000000|'No, dearest girl,' answered he; 'I am come to complete your happiness and my own.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000001|Since we last met my fortune has utterly changed; I am no longer the poor vagabond that I was then.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000002|My rich uncle has died, leaving me money and goods in plenty, so that I dare to present myself to your mother as a suitor for your hand.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000003|That I love you I know well; if you can love me I am indeed a happy man.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000046_000000|Now a great hurry burly began in the house, and preparations for the wedding went on apace.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000046_000002|The day for the wedding was chosen, and all their friends and neighbours were bidden to the feast.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000046_000004|If only he could come back again!
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000047_000000|'I should not be sorry myself to see him come back-there is always something lacking in a house when the good man is away.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000048_000000|But the fact was that she was growing quite tired of having no one to scold.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000049_000000|On the very eve of the wedding a man pushing a wheelbarrow arrived at the city gate, and paid toll upon a barrel of nails which it contained, and then made the best of his way to the bride's dwelling and knocked at the door.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000050_000003|When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was curious to hear his adventures, and questioned him eagerly as to why he had gone away.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000051_000000|'God bless my native place,' said he.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000051_000002|This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride's house furnishing.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000052_000003|Father peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody believed, upon the generosity of his rich son in law.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000052_000004|No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real 'Horn of Plenty,' from which all this prosperity overflowed.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000053_000000|peter had made the journey to the treasure mountain successfully, without being found out by anybody.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000053_000001|He had enjoyed himself by the way, and taken his own time, until he actually reached the little brook in the valley which it had cost him some trouble to find.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000053_000002|Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in the wood; down he went, burrowing like a mole into the earth; the magic root did its work, and at last the treasure lay before his eyes.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000000|However, all went well-he neither saw nor heard anything alarming; the only thing that happened was that the great iron barred door shut with a crash as soon as he was fairly outside it, and then he remembered that he had left the magic root behind him, so he could not go back for another load of treasure.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000001|But even that did not trouble peter much; he was quite satisfied with what he had already.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000002|After he had faithfully done everything according to Father Martin's instructions, and pressed the earth well back into the hollow, he sat down to consider how he could bring his treasure back to his native place, and enjoy it there, without being forced to share it with his scolding wife, who would give him no peace if she once found out about it.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000003|At last, after much thinking, he hit upon a plan.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000004|He carried his sack to the nearest village, and there bought a wheelbarrow, a strong barrel, and a quantity of nails.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000006|At one place upon the road he met a handsome young man who seemed by his downcast air to be in some great trouble.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000007|Father peter, who wished everybody to be as happy as he was himself, greeted him cheerfully, and asked where he was going, to which he answered sadly:
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000055_000000|'Into the wide world, good father, or out of it, where ever my feet may chance to carry me.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000056_000001|'What has the world been doing to you?'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000057_000001|'Nevertheless there is not anything left in it for me.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000058_000001|But when good food was set before him he seemed to forget to eat.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000058_000002|So peter perceived that what ailed his guest was sorrow of heart, and asked him kindly to tell him his story.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000059_000000|'Where is the good, father?' said he.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000059_000001|'You can give me neither help nor comfort.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000060_000000|'Who knows?' answered Master peter.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000060_000001|'I might be able to do something for you.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000060_000002|Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quarter.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000003|I soon reached the little town where the maiden dwelt; but there fresh difficulties awaited me.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000005|But at last I dressed myself as an old woman, and knocked boldly at her door.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000008|She was startled at first; but I persuaded her to listen to me, and I soon saw that I was not displeasing to her, though she scolded me gently for my disobedience to my master, and my deceit in disguising myself.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000009|But when I begged her to marry me, she told me sadly that her mother would scorn a penniless wooer, and implored me to go away at once, lest trouble should fall upon her.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000064_000000|Master peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ears at the sound of his daughter's name, and very soon found out that it was indeed with her that this young man was so deeply in love.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000065_000000|'Your story is strange indeed,' said he.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000065_000001|'But where is the father of this maiden-why do you not ask him for her hand?
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000066_000000|'Alas!' said the young man, 'her father is a wandering good for naught, who has forsaken wife and child, and gone off-who knows where?
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000066_000001|The wife complains of him bitterly enough, and scolds my dear maiden when she takes her father's part.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000067_000000|Father peter was somewhat amused by this speech; but he liked the young man well, and saw that he was the very person he needed to enable him to enjoy his wealth in peace, without being separated from his dear daughter.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000068_000000|'If you will take my advice,' said he, 'I promise you that you shall marry this maiden whom you love so much, and that before you are many days older.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000070_000000|'Stay, hothead!' he cried; 'it is no jest, and I am prepared to make good my words.'
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000073_000000|Master peter long enjoyed the profits of his journey to the mountain, and no rumour of it ever got abroad.
train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000073_000001|In his old age his prosperity was so great that he himself did not know how rich he was; but it was always supposed that the money was Friedlin's.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000001_000001|LONGSTREET
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000002_000001|They are still common throughout the Southern States, though they are not as common as they were twenty five or thirty years ago. Chance led me to one about a year ago.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000004_000000|"How goes it, stranger?" said he, with a tone of independence and self confidence that awakened my curiosity to know a little of his character.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000005_000000|"Going driving?" inquired i
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000009_000001|It seems to me I ought to know you."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000015_000000|"Pretty digging!" said he.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000015_000001|"I find you're not the fool I took you to be; so here's to a better acquaintance with you."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000016_000000|"With all my heart," returned I; "but you must be as clever as I've been, and give me your name."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000017_000000|"To be sure I will, my old coon; take it, take it, and welcome.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000017_000001|Anything else about me you'd like to have?"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000019_000000|"Oh, yes there is, stranger!
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000021_000000|"Well," said I, "if the shooting match is not too far out of my way, I'll go to it with pleasure."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000022_000000|"Unless your way lies through the woods from here," said Billy, "it'll not be much out of your way; for it's only a mile ahead of us, and there is no other road for you to take till you get there; and as that thing you're riding in ain't well suited to fast traveling among brushy knobs, I reckon you won't lose much by going by.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000022_000001|I reckon you hardly ever was at a shooting match, stranger, from the cut of your coat?"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000023_000000|"Oh, yes," returned I, "many a time.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000024_000002|He was born a shooting, and killed squirrels before he was weaned."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000028_000000|"Why, stop, stranger, let me look at you good!
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000030_000001|I was too young to recollect you myself; but I've heard daddy talk about you many a time.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000030_000003|Come along, Lyman, and I'll go my death upon you at the shooting match, with the old Soap stick at your shoulder."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000032_000000|"Now I know you're the very chap, for I heard daddy tell that very thing about the half bullet.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000034_000000|We soon reached the place appointed for the shooting match.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000034_000002|Archibald had been a justice of the peace in his day (and where is the man of his age in Georgia who has not?); consequently, he was called 'Squire Sims.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000034_000003|It is the custom in this state, when a man has once acquired a title, civil or military, to force it upon him as long as he lives; hence the countless number of titled personages who are introduced in these sketches.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000035_000000|We stopped at the 'squire's door.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000035_000004|Don't say nothing about it."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000036_000000|"Well, mr Swinge cat," said the 'squire, "here's to a better acquaintance with you," offering me his hand.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000037_000000|"How goes it, Uncle Archy?" said I, taking his hand warmly (for I am always free and easy with those who are so with me; and in this course I rarely fail to please).
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000041_000000|"Well, that's not my fault."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000045_000000|The beef was not present, nor is it ever upon such occasions; but several of the company had seen it, who all concurred in the opinion that it was a good beef, and well worth the price that was set upon it-eleven dollars.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000045_000001|A general inquiry ran around, in order to form some opinion as to the number of shots that would be taken; for, of course, the price of a shot is cheapened in proportion to the increase of that number.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000045_000002|It was soon ascertained that not more than twenty persons would take chances; but these twenty agreed to take the number of shots, at twenty five cents each.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000048_000000|"How many shots left?" inquired Billy.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000049_000000|"Five," was the reply.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000050_000001|Put down four shots to me, and one to Lyman Hall, paid for by William Curlew."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000051_000000|I was thunder struck, not at his proposition to pay for my shot, because I knew that Billy meant it as a token of friendship, and he would have been hurt if I had refused to let him do me this favor; but at the unexpected announcement of my name as a competitor for beef, at least one hundred miles from the place of my residence.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000052_000000|I therefore protested against his putting in for me, and urged every reason to dissuade him from it that I could, without wounding his feelings.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000053_000000|"Put it down!" said Billy, with the authority of an emperor, and with a look that spoke volumes intelligible to every by stander.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000053_000001|"Reckon I don't know what I'm about?" Then wheeling off, and muttering in an under, self confident tone, "Dang old Roper," continued he, "if he don't knock that cross to the north corner of creation and back again before a cat can lick her foot."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000054_000006|These were, that they should be fired off hand, while the shot guns were allowed a rest, the distance being equal; or that the distance should be one hundred yards for a rifle, to sixty for the shot gun, the mode of firing being equal.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000060_000001|Mealy stepped out, rifle in hand, and toed the mark.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000061_000000|"Kiss my foot!" said Mealy.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000061_000001|"The way I'll creep into that bull's eye's a fact."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000063_000000|"A pretty good shot, Mealy!" said one.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000066_000000|I was rejoiced when one of the company inquired, "Where is it?" for I could hardly believe they were founding these remarks upon the evidence of their senses.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000068_000000|I looked with all the power of my eyes, but was unable to discover the least change in the surface of the paper.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000068_000001|Their report, however, was true; so much keener is the vision of a practiced than an unpracticed eye.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000072_000001|Here goes!"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000074_000000|"I've eat paper," said he, at the crack of the gun, without looking, or seeming to look, toward the target.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000074_000001|"Buck killer made a clear racket. Where am I, gentlemen?"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000076_000000|"I said I'd eat paper, and I've done it; haven't I, gentlemen?"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000080_000000|Simon Stow was now called on.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000081_000000|"Oh, Lord!" exclaimed two or three: "now we have it.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000083_000000|"Where are you going, Bob?"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000089_000000|The next was Moses Firmby.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000090_000000|Moses kept us not long in suspense.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000091_000000|"No great harm done yet," said Spivey, manifestly relieved from anxiety by an event which seemed to me better calculated to produce despair. Firmby's ball had cut out the lower angle of the diamond, directly on a right line with the cross.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000092_000000|Three or four followed him without bettering his shot; all of whom, however, with one exception, "eat the paper."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000093_000000|It now came to Spivey's turn.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000093_000001|There was nothing remarkable in his person or manner.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000093_000002|He took his place, lowered his rifle slowly from a perpendicular until it came on a line with the mark, held it there like a vice for a moment and fired.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000096_000001|Had I judged Billy's chance of success from the looks of his gun, I should have said it was hopeless.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000096_000003|An auger hole in the breech served for a grease box; a cotton string assisted a single screw in holding on the lock; and the thimbles were made, one of brass, one of iron, and one of tin.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000097_000000|"Where's Lark Spivey's bullet?" called out Billy to the judges, as he finished rolling up his sleeves.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000098_000000|"About three quarters of an inch from the cross," was the reply.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000099_000000|"Well, clear the way! the Soap stick's coming, and she'll be along in there among 'em presently."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000101_000000|"Where am I?" said Billy, as the smoke rose from before his eye.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000103_000001|Take her, and show the boys how you used to do when you was a baby."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000104_000001|This round was a manifest improvement upon the first.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000105_000000|The third and fourth rounds were shot.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000105_000001|Billy discharged his last shot, which left the rights of parties thus: Billy Curlew first and fourth choice, Spivey second, Firmby third and Whitecotton fifth.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000105_000003|The distinction is perfectly natural and equitable.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000106_000001|Billy wiped out his rifle carefully, loaded her to the top of his skill, and handed her to me.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000106_000002|"Now," said he, "Lyman, draw a fine bead, but not too fine; for Soap stick bears up her ball well.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000106_000003|Take care and don't touch the trigger until you've got your bead; for she's spring trigger'd and goes mighty easy: but you hold her to the place you want her, and if she don't go there, dang old Roper."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000107_000000|I took hold of Soap stick, and lapsed immediately into the most hopeless despair.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000107_000002|"Why, Billy," said I, "you little mortal, you! what do you use such a gun as this for?"
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000110_000000|"Go 'long, you old coon!" said Billy; "I see what you're at;" intimating that all this was merely to make the coming shot the more remarkable. "Daddy's little boy don't shoot anything but the old Soap stick here to day, I know."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000116_000000|"It may be fun," said the other, "but it looks mightily like yearnest to a man up a tree."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000117_000002|I had just strength enough to master Soap stick's obstinate proclivity, and, consequently, my nerves began to exhibit palpable signs of distress with her first imperceptible movement upward.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000118_000000|"I swear poin' blank," said one, "that man can't shoot."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000119_000000|"He used to shoot well," said another; "but can't now, nor never could."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000121_000000|"The stranger's got the peedoddles," said a fourth, with humorous gravity.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000123_000000|As soon as I found that Soap stick was high enough (for I made no farther use of the sights than to ascertain this fact), I pulled trigger, and off she went.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000123_000003|Bet 'em two to one that I've knocked out the cross."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000127_000003|Another sort for getting bets upon, to the drop sight, with a single wabble!
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000127_000004|And the Soap stick's the very yarn for it."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000129_000000|"Well," returned I, "you've seen it now, and I'm the boy that can do it."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000130_000002|Consequently, they were all transfixed with astonishment when the judges presented the target to them, and gravely observed, "It's only second best, after all the fuss."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000133_000000|"Second best!" reiterated I, with an air of despondency, as the company turned from the target to me.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000133_000001|"Second best, only?
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000133_000002|Here, Billy, my son, take the old Soap stick; she's a good piece, but I'm getting too old and dim sighted to shoot a rifle, especially with the drop sight and double wabbles."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000135_000001|"What's that!
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000136_000000|Several received this palaver with a contemptuous but very appropriate curl of the nose; and Mealy Whitecotton offered to bet a half pint "that I couldn't do the like again with no sort o' wabbles, he didn't care what." But I had already fortified myself on this quarter of my morality.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000136_000003|But I could not accept his hospitality without retracing five or six miles of the road which I had already passed, and therefore I declined it.
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000138_000000|"Tell her," said I, "that I send her a quarter of beef which I won, as I did the handkerchief, by nothing in the world but mere good luck."
train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000141_000000|"Yes," said Billy, "dang old Roper if we don't go our death for you, no matter who offers.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000001_000000|THE MURDERED MAN
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000003_000002|Was this the man mr Gilverthwaite meant me to meet?
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000003_000005|Then I wondered if I had disturbed the murderers-it was fixed in me from the beginning that there must have been more than one in at this dreadful game-and if they were still lurking about and watching me from the brushwood; and I made an effort, and bent down and touched one of the nerveless hands.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000006_000000|"Not a sound!" I answered.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000008_000000|"Nothing and nobody!" I said.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000009_000001|You'll have to get help," he went on, turning to the constable.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000012_000001|And I'm wondering if whoever killed this fellow, whoever he may be, wouldn't have killed mr Gilverthwaite, too, if he'd come?
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000013_000000|"Well, well, I never knew its like!" he remarked, staring from me to the body, and from it to me.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000013_000001|"You saw nobody about close by-nor in the neighbourhood-no strangers on the road?"
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000014_000001|Ever since finding the body, I had been wondering what I should say when authority, either in the shape of a coroner or a policeman, asked me about my own adventures that night.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000016_000001|"Anyway, he's not known to me, and I've been in these parts twenty years.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000019_000000|"What?" I asked.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000020_000000|"Papers!" said he.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000022_000000|"That's just where I'm coming with you," he answered.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000022_000001|"I've my bicycle close by, and we'll ride into the town together at once.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000023_000004|Was he the man I ought to have met?
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000023_000005|Or had that man been there, witnessed the murder, and gone away, frightened to stop where the murder had been done?
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000023_000006|Or-yet again-was this some man who had come upon mr Gilverthwaite's correspondent, and, for some reason, been murdered by him?
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000024_000001|"But you must get back with me quickly.
train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000024_000002|Yon lodger of yours is dead, and your mother in a fine way, wondering where you are!"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000002_000000|THE COUNTESS DE SANTIAGO
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000000|The repetition irritated the girl, whose nerves were strained to snapping point.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000001|She could not parry the man's questions.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000002|She could not bear his grieved or offended reproaches.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000003|If he persisted, through these moments of suspense, she would scream or burst out crying.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000004|Trembling, with tears in her voice, she heard herself answer.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000005|And yet it did not seem to be herself, but something within, stronger than she, that suddenly took control of her.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000005_000000|"Why should I not wish to tell you?" the Something was saying.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000005_000001|"The name is the same as your own-Smith.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000005_000002|Nelson Smith." And before the words had left her lips a taxi drew up at the door.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000006_000000|There was one instant of agony during which the previous suspense seemed nothing-an instant when the girl forgot what she had said, her soul pressing to the windows of her eyes.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000006_000001|Was it he who had come, or----
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000007_000000|It was he.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000007_000001|Before she had time to finish the thought, he walked in, confident and smiling as when she had left him a few minutes-or a few years-ago; and in the wave of relief which overwhelmed her, Annesley forgot Ruthven Smith's question and her answer.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000007_000002|She remembered again, only with the shock of hearing him address the newcomer by the name she had given.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000009_000000|"I-he asked me ...
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000009_000001|I told him," Annesley stammered, her eyes appealing, seeking to explain, and begging pardon.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000009_000002|"But if----"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000010_000000|"Quite right.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000011_000002|Not only did he shake hands, but actually came out to the taxi with them, asking Annesley if he should tell his cousins of her engagement, or if she preferred to give the news herself?
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000012_000001|She dared not make such a suggestion without consulting the other person most concerned, so she answered that she would write mrs Smith or see her.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000013_000001|"Well, you can trust me with mrs Ellsworth.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000013_000004|I'll remind her of it if you like-tell her you asked me.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000014_000000|"Thank you, but my wife won't need to remind mrs Ellsworth of her debt," the answer came before Annesley could speak.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000014_000002|Good night!
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000014_000003|Glad to have met you, even if it was an unpromising introduction."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000015_000000|Then they were off, they two alone together; and Annesley guessed that the chauffeur must have had his instructions where to drive, as she heard none given.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000015_000002|It occurred to the girl that precautions might still have to be taken.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000015_000003|But in another moment she was undeceived.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000017_000000|"The Savoy!" exclaimed Annesley.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000017_000001|"Oh, but we mustn't go there, of all places!
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000017_000002|Those men----"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000018_000002|But there's something about you makes me feel as if I'd like to tell you the truth whenever I can: and the truth is, that for reasons you may understand some day-though I hope to Heaven you'll never have to!--my association with those men is one of the things I long to turn the key upon.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000018_000004|To me, it doesn't seem bad at all.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000018_000006|Will you believe this-and trust me for the rest?"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000019_000000|"I've told you I would!" the girl reminded him.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000020_000000|"I know.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000020_000003|I didn't suppose that Fate would give you to me so soon.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000020_000005|I----"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000022_000002|I wanted to arrange my-business matters so as to be fair to you.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000022_000003|But you'll make the best of things."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000023_000000|"You are being noble to me," said the girl, "and I've been very foolish. I've complicated everything.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000000|"You weren't foolish!" he contradicted.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000003|Destiny!
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000005|You were an angel to sacrifice yourself to save me, and your doing it the way you did has made me a happy man at one stroke.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000006|As for the name-what's in a name?
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000007|We might as well be in reality what we played at being to night-'mr and mrs Nelson Smith.' There are even reasons why I'm pleased that you've made me a present of the name.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000008|I thank you for it-and for all the rest."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000000|"By Jove!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000001|"I hadn't thought of that.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000002|It's a difficulty. But we'll obviate it-somehow.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000003|Don't worry!
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000004|Only I'm afraid we can't ask your friend the Archdeacon to marry us, as I meant to suggest, because I was sure you'd like it."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000027_000000|"I should.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000027_000002|"Besides, I feel that to morrow I shall find I've dreamed-all this."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000028_000000|"Then I've dreamed you, at the same time, and I'm not going to let you slip out of my dream, now I've got you in it.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000029_000000|Afterward there came a time when Annesley called back those words and wondered if they had held a deeper meaning than she guessed.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000000|"About the Savoy," he went on.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000003|She knows all about me-or enough-and if she'd been in the restaurant at dinner this evening she could have done for me what you did.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000005|But she was missing.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000006|Are you sorry?"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000031_000000|"If she'd been there, you would have gone to her table and sat down, and we-should never have met!" Annesley thought aloud.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000031_000001|"How strange!
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000032_000001|But you haven't answered my question."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000033_000000|"I'll answer it now!" cried the girl.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000034_000000|"saint George!" he echoed, a ring of bitterness under his laugh.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000034_000001|"That's the first time I've been called a saint, and I'm afraid it will be the last.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000034_000003|I'd give anything to show you how I-but no I was good before, when I was tempted to kiss you.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000035_000001|Meantime, I'll try to grow a bit more like what your lover ought to be; and later I shall kiss you enough to make up for lost time."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000036_000001|Yet so it was.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000036_000002|She was sorry that he was so scrupulous. She longed to have him hold her against his heart.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000038_000000|Her silence, after the warmth of his words, seemed cold.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000038_000001|Perhaps he felt it so, for he went on after an instant's pause, as if he had waited for something in vain, and his tone was changed.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000038_000002|Annesley thought it, by contrast, almost businesslike.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000039_000004|Indeed, I'm partly English, born in Canada, though I've spent most of my life in the United States.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000039_000005|Nobody at the Savoy but the Countess de Santiago knows who I am, and she'll understand that it may be convenient for me to change my name.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000039_000006|Nelson Smith is a respectable one, and she'll respect it!
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000040_000000|"Now, my plan is to ask for her (she'll be in by this time), have a few words of explanation on the quiet, not to embarrass you; and the Countess will do the rest.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000040_000001|She'll engage a room for you next to her own suite, or as near as possible; then you'll be provided with a chaperon."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000041_000000|"I'm not anxious about myself, but about you," Annesley said.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000041_000002|I suppose you did know?
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000041_000003|Or-did you chance it?"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000000|"I was as sure as I needed to be," Nelson Smith answered.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000001|"A moment after I switched on the electricity in the room up there I heard a taxi drive away.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000002|I turned off the light so I could look out.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000003|By flattening my nose against the glass I could see that the place where those chaps had waited was empty; but in case the taxi was only turning, and meant to pass the house again, I lit the room once more, for realism.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000044_000003|It seemed beastly hard luck to leave you fast in that old woman's clutches!"
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000045_000001|He took it, raising it to his lips, and both were startled when the taxi stopped.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000046_000002|Nobody paid the slightest attention to the newcomers, and Annesley settled down unobtrusively in a corner, while her companion went to scribble a line to the Countess de Santiago.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000051_000001|She had not the air of one who would be complimented by such a request.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000052_000002|Even the thumb was abnormally long, which fact prevented the hand from being as beautiful as it was, somehow, unforgettable.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000053_000002|She spoke English perfectly, with a slight foreign accent and a roll of the letter "r."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000054_000002|I think this is the best thing that can happen.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000054_000004|He, too, will be lucky.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000054_000005|I see that!" with another smile.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000056_000000|"Now you must engage her room," Nelson Smith said, abruptly.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000056_000001|"It's late. You can make friends afterward."
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000001|"And you-will you come to the desk? Yet, no-it is better not.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000002|Miss Grayle and I will go together-two women alone and independent.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000003|Lucky it's not the season, or we might find nothing free at short notice.
train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000005|I hope he always will!"
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000003_000000|BOY AND PONIES STRANGELY MISSING
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000004_000000|After all, the supper proved a very jolly meal, now that they were sure Tad was all right.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000004_000001|Then, again, the beans and bacon were pronounced excellent by each of them, and Stacy had made fully as good time with his crude chopsticks as had the others with the tablespoons.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000005_000000|Supper finished, all hands turned in to help wash the dishes, and in a few moments the camp was again in perfect order.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000007_000000|"Are you warm enough down there?" called Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000008_000000|"Sure thing.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000008_000001|I have most of the blankets."
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000009_000000|"That means we freeze, I guess," interjected Stacy.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000010_000000|"You can go cut yourself a few chopsticks and sleep under them," retorted Ned Rector.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000011_000000|"Haven't any matches."
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000012_000000|"Never mind, Tad, the moon soon will be up and you can get warm by that," shouted the fat boy.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000013_000000|"Chunky has suddenly developed into a wit, Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000013_000001|I don't know what's happened to the boy.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000015_000000|"What's that you say?" demanded Ned, turning on him.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000016_000000|"I-I was just thinking to myself," explained Chunky, edging away.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000017_000000|Ned was glaring at him ferociously, at the same time struggling to keep back the laughter that rose to his lips because of Stacy's sharp retort.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000018_000000|"I'll make a suggestion, young gentlemen," said the Professor.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000019_000000|"Yes, sir, what is it?" asked the boys in chorus.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000020_000001|Pile it right up on the edge of the cliff and light it.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000021_000000|"That will be fine," cried Walter.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000022_000000|Quickly carrying the dried wood to the place indicated, they piled it so that it would make a long fire, then lighted it from three sides at the same time.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000023_000000|The result was a bright blaze that flared high, lighting the rocks far down into the canyon, but not sufficiently far to reach Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000024_000000|"Trying to burn up the mountain?" shouted Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000025_000000|"No; we're trying to burn it down, so we can pick you up," called Ned Rector.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000029_000000|"Wait till Tad comes up.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000030_000000|"You mustn't mind our talk, Professor," explained Walter.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000030_000001|"We say things to each other, but it's all in fun.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000031_000000|"Of course not.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000031_000001|Chunky is the only one who-"
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000032_000000|"Never mind Chunky.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000033_000000|"Isn't it about time that lazy Indian were back, Professor?" asked Walter.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000034_000000|"Yes, that's so.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000035_000000|"Suppose he had to stop to smoke a pipe of peace with his friend," suggested Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000035_000001|"Then there would be a certain amount of grunting to do before Eagle eye could state his business, and after that much talk, talk.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000036_000001|Were you ever an Indian?" asked Stacy innocently.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000037_000000|"Even if I were, I couldn't be called a savage," retorted Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000040_000000|"Hello, up there!" he shouted, pulling himself to a sitting position.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000041_000000|"Hello!" answered Walter.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000042_000000|"I'm going to bed.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000043_000000|"No such luck," answered Ned, who had come up beside Walter and replied to Tad's question.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000044_000000|"And he won't be back till morning," sang the boy down there in the shadows.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000045_000000|"Right you are," laughed Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000045_000001|"If he gets back then we are in great luck.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000000|"No; wait till morning.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000001|I wouldn't care to try to climb up in the dark.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000002|I'd be likely to get hurt if I did.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000003|You had better all turn in now.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000004|There will be no need for you to sit up."
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000047_000000|"All right," answered Ned and Walter at once.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000048_000000|"I think perhaps Master Tad is right.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000048_000002|I would suggest, however, that one of you roll up in his blankets outside here, so that he can hear if Master Tad calls," suggested Professor Zepplin.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000049_000000|"That's a good idea.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000049_000001|I'll do that, with your permission, Professor," offered Ned Rector promptly.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000050_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000050_000001|Then Walter and Stacy had better go to their tents.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000050_000002|If anything occurs during the night, remember you are to let me know at once.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000051_000000|"Very well, sir," answered Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000052_000000|After replenishing the fire, determined to remain awake until daylight, the lad rolled up in his blankets.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000054_000000|Ned awoke with a start.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000055_000000|He sat up, rubbing his eyes and blinking in the strong morning light.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000056_000001|I'm stiff in every joint," he mumbled.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000057_000000|Ned pulled himself to his feet, yawning broadly.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000061_000000|"Wake up," he commanded, pinching one of the fat boy's big toes.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000062_000000|"Get out," mumbled Stacy sleepily, at the same time kicking viciously with the disturbed foot.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000063_000000|Thus encouraged, Ned pulled the other big toe.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000066_000000|But he was left in peace only a moment.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000066_000001|Ned recovered himself and returned to the charge.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000066_000002|Over went the cot, with Stacy beneath it. From the confusion of blankets emerged the red face of the fat boy.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000067_000000|Ned Rector thought it time to leave.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000067_000001|He did so, with Stacy a close second and the rubber pillow brushing Ned's cheek in transit.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000068_000001|Ned and Stacy's foot race continued until both were out of breath and thoroughly awake.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000068_000002|Then they sat down, laughing, the color flaming in their cheeks and eyes sparkling with pleasurable excitement.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000069_000000|"I'll wake up Tad, I guess," announced Ned after recovering his breath.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000070_000001|But there was no answer to his summons.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000070_000002|Then both boys added their voices to the effort, joined a few minutes later by the Professor and Walter Perkins.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000071_000000|They were unable to get any reply at all; nor was there the slightest movement or sign of life where Tad had last been seen.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000073_000000|"It means," said Ned, "that Tad isn't there.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000073_000001|Beyond that, I would not venture an opinion."
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000074_000000|"Maybe he's fallen into the stream during the night and drowned," suggested Chunky.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000076_000000|"If the Indian ever gets here with a rope, I'll go down there and see if I can find out anything," said Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000077_000000|"Not until all other means have been exhausted," declared the Professor.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000078_000000|"I wouldn't worry," comforted Walter Perkins.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000080_000000|"That's right," agreed Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000081_000000|"What is there to eat?" asked the Professor.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000083_000000|The other two boys began preparing for the camp fire.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000084_000001|Boys!" he cried.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000085_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000086_000000|"The ponies!
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000086_000001|The ponies!"
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000087_000000|"What about them?" asked Walter, pausing as he was about to strike a match to the wood.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000088_000001|Has anything happened to them?" asked the Professor, striding toward the excited Ned Rector.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000089_000000|"Happened?
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000090_000000|"Well, what is it?
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000090_000001|Don't keep us waiting in suspense all-"
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000091_000000|"They're gone!"
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000093_000000|"It can't be possible."
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000094_000001|They have broken away, I think.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000096_000000|"Chunky's and Tad's."
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000097_000000|"Is it possible?" sputtered the Professor, striding to the place where their stock had been tethered.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000098_000001|"Look around, boys.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000098_000002|They cannot be far away.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000100_000000|"They went this way," shouted Ned.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000101_000000|All hands hurried to him.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000102_000000|"Yes, there's their tracks," agreed the Professor.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000103_000000|Instead, a few moments afterward, they lost the trail.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000103_000002|No amount of searching brought it to view again, and after more than an hour of persistent effort, the Professor called the hunt off, and the crestfallen party returned to camp.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000104_000000|"What are we going to do?" asked Stacy dolefully.
train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000106_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000004_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000005_000000|FUN IN THE FOOTHILLS
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000006_000000|The Professor found difficulty even in driving the lads to their beds that night.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000006_000001|When they did finally tumble in and pull the blankets over them they were unable to sleep, between the howling of the coyotes and their laughter over Stacy Brown's new found talent.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000007_000000|"They'll go away when the moon comes up," called the guide when the boys protested that the beasts kept them awake.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000009_000001|"We don't want to chase them off the range.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000010_000000|"Go to sleep!" commanded the Professor.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000011_000002|They grew bolder.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000011_000003|They approached the camp until a circle of them surrounded it.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000012_000000|Out of Stacy Brown's tent crept a figure in its night clothes.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000012_000001|It was none other than Stacy himself.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000012_000002|In one hand he held a can of condensed milk that he had smuggled from the commissary department that afternoon.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000013_000001|He could see them plainly now and Stacy's eyes looked like two balls.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000014_000000|The animals would elevate their noses in the air, and, as if at a prearranged signal, all would strike the first note of their mournful wail at identically the same instant.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000015_000000|Suddenly the figure of the Pony Rider Boy rose up before them, right in the middle of one of the unearthly wails.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000016_000000|"Boo!" said Stacy explosively, at the same time hurling the can of condensed milk full in the face of the coyote nearest to him.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000017_000000|His aim was true.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000017_000001|The can landed right between the eyes of the animal. The coyote uttered a grunt of surprise, hesitated an instant, then, with tail between his legs, bounded away with a howl of fear.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000018_000000|"Yeow! Scat!" shrieked the fat boy.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000019_000000|The whole pack turned tail and ran with Stacy after them in full flight, headed for the desert.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000020_000000|Tom Parry, aroused by this new note in the midnight medley, tumbled out just in time to see Stacy disappearing over the ridge.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000020_000001|The guide was followed quickly by the other three boys of the party and Professor Zepplin.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000021_000000|"Hey, come back here!" shouted Parry.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000022_000000|The fat boy paid no attention to him.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000023_000000|"Get after him, boys!
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000023_000001|If he falls they're liable to pile on him and chew him up before we can get to him!" commanded the guide.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000024_000001|The coyotes, frightened beyond their power of reasoning, if such a faculty was possessed by them, were now no more than so many black streaks lengthening out across the desert.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000025_000000|The lads set up a whoop as they started on the chase after their companion.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000026_000000|"Rope him, somebody!" shouted Parry.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000027_000000|"Haven't any rope," answered Tad, with a muttered "Ouch!" as his big toe came in contact with the can of condensed milk.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000028_000000|Laughing and shouting, they soon came up with Stacy, however, because he could not run as fast as the other boys.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000028_000001|Tad caught up with him first, and the two lads went down together.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000028_000002|In another minute the rest of the party had piled on the heap.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000029_000000|"Get up!" shouted Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000029_000001|"Somebody's standing on my neck."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000032_000000|Reaching his tent, they threw the fat boy into his bed.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000033_000000|The tall, gaunt figure of the Professor appeared suddenly at the tent entrance.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000033_000001|Some of the boys darted by him, the others crawling out under the sides of the tent, all making a lively sprint for their own quarters.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000034_000000|"Young men, the very next one who raises a disturbance in this camp to night is going to get a real old-fashioned trouncing.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000034_000001|Not having any slipper, I'll use my shoe.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000034_000002|Do you hear?"
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000035_000002|Yet they were destined not to pass the night without a further disturbance, though the Professor did not use his shoe to chastise the noisy ones.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000036_000000|It lacked only a few hours to daylight when the second interruption occurred.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000036_000001|And when it arrived it was even more startling than had been the fat boy's chase of the cowardly coyotes.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000037_000000|There was a sudden sound of hoof beats.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000039_000000|A volley of shots was fired as an accompaniment to the startling yells. A moment later and a body of horsemen dashed into camp, which they had easily located by the smouldering camp fire.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000040_000000|The Pony Rider Boys were out of their tents in a twinkling.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000041_000000|"Wow!" piped Stacy.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000042_000001|Bang!
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000043_000000|Two bullets flicked the dirt up into his face.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000044_000001|Better look out where you're shooting to!" warned Stacy.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000046_000000|"The Professor'll take you over his knee and chastise you with his shoe, if you don't watch sharp," said Stacy.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000047_000000|"Come out of that.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000047_000001|Where's the kiddie?
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000047_000002|I want to see my kiddie!" laughed Bud Stevens.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000000|By this time, with his companions, he had dismounted, turning the ponies loose to roam where they would.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000001|The whole camp, aroused by the shouting and shooting, had turned out after pulling on their trousers and shoes.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000002|Tom Parry, piling fresh fuel on the embers of the camp fire, soon had the scene brightly lighted.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000003|There was no more sleep in camp that night.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000004|Professor Zepplin accepted the new disturbance with good grace.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000049_000000|"We're going to eat breakfast with you," Bud Stevens informed them.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000050_000000|"That's right.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000050_000001|What we have is free," answered the Professor hospitably.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000051_000000|"That's what I was telling the bunch," nodded Bud.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000051_000001|"Our chuck wagon'll be along when it gets here.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000052_000000|"A schooner, did you say?" questioned Stacy, edging closer to the cowboy.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000053_000000|"Yep; schooner."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000054_000000|"Where's the water?"
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000055_000000|"Say, moon face, didn't you ever hear tell of a prairie schooner!"
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000057_000000|"Well, you've got something coming to you, then," replied Bud, turning to the others again.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000058_000001|I presume that's the purpose of your visit here?" asked the Professor.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000059_000000|"Yep.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000059_000001|Soon as the wagon gets here with the trappings.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000059_000002|After breakfast we'll look around a bit.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000060_000000|"Yes, how did you know that!" questioned Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000062_000000|"We saw one of them and the tracks of the rest----"
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000065_000000|"I don't know whether you'd call it an angel or not.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000065_000001|It struck me that it was quite the opposite," laughed Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000000|"The white stallion, fellows," nodded Bud.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000001|"I told you so.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000002|Come along, kiddie, and show me that trail.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000003|I'll tell you in a minute if he's the one."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000067_000000|Tad took the horse hunter to the trail that he had followed up the mountain side.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000067_000002|Finally he paused over one particular spot, and with a frown peered down upon it.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000068_000000|"That's him.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000068_000001|That's the Angel," he emphasized.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000069_000000|"Why do you call him that?"
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000070_000002|Then, if you'll look at his hoof mark, you'll see the frog is shaped like a heart.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000070_000003|More angel.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000070_000004|Then again-that's three times, ain't it?--he's got a temper like angels ain't supposed to have."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000072_000001|We'll get the old gentleman this time or break every cinch strap in the outfit."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000074_000002|He's proud as a peacock with a new spread of tail feathers."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000077_000001|So-but Tom Parry told you, of course."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000078_000000|"Tom Parry didn't," objected the guide.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000078_000001|"Master Tad read the trail himself."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000079_000000|"Shake," glowed Bud, extending his hand to Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000079_000001|"You're the right sort for this outfit.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000079_000002|We'll let you help point the bunch into the corral when we get them going.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000080_000000|"It won't be the first time, mr Stevens.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000081_000000|Just after breakfast, to which the camp had sat down at break of day, the horse hunters began their preliminary work.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000081_000001|Bud directed two of his men to work south, two more to ride north, while he would take the center of the range.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000082_000000|"What I want," he explained to the boys, "is to find where the wild horses are waterin' these days.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000084_000000|"No; they were out for a play.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000084_000001|That shows they had had plenty to eat and drink.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000085_000000|Professor Zepplin glanced at the guide inquiringly.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000087_000000|"Yes, you may go, Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000087_000001|But be careful.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000087_000002|Don't let him get into any difficulties, mr Stevens.
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000088_000001|"Come along; take a hunch on your cinch straps, a chunk of grub in your pocket; then we're ready to find where the Angel washes his face every morning and night."
train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000089_000000|Tad lost no time in getting ready for the trip to trail the wild horses to their lair, and in a few moments the horse hunters rode from the camp, followed by the envious glances of the Pony Rider Boys.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000003_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000005_000001|The boys realized that they had taken a rather active part in what might prove for them a serious affair.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000005_000002|If, by any chance, the bandits learned who had interfered with them, it might be necessary for Professor Zepplin and his charges to make lively tracks for the border and seek other fields of adventure.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000006_000000|The same thought was in the minds of all except Chunky, who held his head erect, his chest swelled out.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000006_000001|He was full of their great achievements and was telling what he would do if any of the bandits came to visit their camp.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000008_000000|"On guard?"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000009_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000010_000001|Let him take the watch," approved Rector.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000000|"You forget that I'm a wounded man.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000002|Huh!
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000003|Some of you children take the trick.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000004|I've got to take care of my health."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000012_000000|"I guess if we expect to get any sleep we had better let some one else do it," agreed Tad.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000013_000000|They were agreed upon this, and by common consent Butler was given the watch for the night.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000013_000001|The boys slept with their rifles beside them that night.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000000|The night passed without incident, Tad Butler keeping a vigilant watch all during the dark hours of the night.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000001|He had plenty of time to think matters over.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000002|He realized that Dunk Tucker, the prisoner, had overheard all that had been said during their talk with Withem out on the plain.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000003|Tad knew that if Dunk ever got into communication with his fellows it would go hard with the Pony Rider Boys.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000015_000000|Soon after daybreak, Tad awakened his fellows.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000015_000001|He already had a brisk fire going, but before lighting it, the lad had walked down to the edge of the canyon for a survey of the plain.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000015_000002|He saw a solitary horseman far out over the rolling plain.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000017_000000|About noon they made camp for dinner and a rest, not taking up their journey until about four o'clock in the afternoon.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000017_000001|Darkness overtook them, finding them still without sight or sound of the Spring where Withem said they would find the Rangers' camp.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000019_000001|Hands up!
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000019_000002|Every man of you is covered!"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000020_000001|"They've got us again."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000022_000000|"Who are you?" returned Tad boldly.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000023_000000|"I reckon my question gits the first answer, seeing as I've got the drop on you."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000024_000000|Tad all at once realized that the sound of falling water was in the air.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000024_000001|With it came the thought that these must be the Rangers.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000028_000000|"Wait a minute.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000029_000000|"I---I wish we did have a little daylight," stammered Chunky, which elicited a short laugh from his companions.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000029_000001|"Yeow!" bowled the fat boy as a figure appeared beside him and a pair of iron arms grasped his hands pulling him down, nearly unseating him.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000029_000003|Let go!"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000031_000000|At the lieutenant's reassuring words the Rangers---for the boys had stumbled upon the camp of the men of Captain McKay's command---crowded forward, talking and laughing, three of them taking the horses as the party dismounted, then leading the way into the bushes and in among the rocks where the lads came upon a campfire, around which were seated five or six other Rangers.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000000|"Just in time to have chuck with us.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000001|You see we have our chuck wagon here.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000002|Of course we don't carry it wherever we go.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000003|We usually have some central point where we make headquarters.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000034_000000|All hands sat down to the evening meal after the men had washed up, in most instances without removing their hats.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000034_000001|This attracted the attention of the fat boy.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000035_000000|"Say, do you fellows sleep in your hats as well as wash and eat in them?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000036_000000|"Do you sleep in your skin?" retorted Dippy.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000038_000000|"Chop it!" commanded a Ranger.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000039_000000|"Can't I say what I've got to say?" demanded the fat boy indignantly.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000040_000000|"Are you going to brag about yourself?" demanded Polly.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000041_000000|"I'm telling you, and---"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000042_000000|"Well, don't tell us.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000043_000000|"Don't you like it?" asked Ned, flushing.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000044_000000|"Like it?
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000044_000001|Why, it's the hottest thing that ever crossed the Staked Plains since the Apaches came down in---"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000045_000000|"Why don't you look the other way then?" interjected Stacy.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000046_000002|What you got to say about it, young man?" demanded Dippy, glancing at Tad Butler, who was smiling.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000047_000000|"I haven't said anything yet."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000048_000000|"But you're going to?"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000050_000000|"Can we stand for any more remarks, boys?" asked Dippy.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000053_000000|"That's the idea!"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000054_000000|"Will you go peaceably or must we drag you?"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000055_000000|"I reckon you'd better drag me.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000055_000001|If you're going to have fun with me you'll have to earn it.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000055_000002|I don't propose to help you out."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000056_000000|"Do you hear?" demanded Dippy in a deep, hoarse voice.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000057_000000|"We hear."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000059_000001|They expected the boy to resist, which would have given them still further excuse to handle him roughly.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000060_000000|The Rangers fell in behind the two who were carrying Butler, in solemn procession.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000060_000001|To look at their faces one would have thought they were performing a solemn duty.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000060_000003|Tad was taken out where the gentle murmur of the Spring falling over the rocks could be heard when the Pony Rider Boys were not making too much noise.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000061_000000|"Do you withdraw the flippant words you used to a member of this august body?" demanded a deep voice.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000062_000002|I'll die first!"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000063_000000|"Then take your punishment!"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000000|With that they gave the boy a swing, one holding to the feet the other the shoulders of the lad.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000001|When they let go, Tad sailed several feet through the air.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000002|Quick as a cat in his movements Tad turned over before he landed, going down on all fours.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000003|He thought he was going to strike on the hard ground.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000004|Instead he landed at the bottom of a deep pool of water cold as ice it seemed to him.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000005|He went in all over.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000006|Not expecting anything of this sort the boy was not holding his breath. The result was that he got a mouthful of water.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000007|He came up choking, then pretended to go down again.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000008|Instead he crawled up to the bank, under which he hid.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000065_000001|Dippy stepped to the edge of the pool and leaning over peered down somewhat anxiously.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000000|Quick as a flash a pair of arms encircled his neck.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000001|Dippy plunged in head first.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000002|He did not even have time to cry out.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000005|Within sixty seconds from that time half of the crowd were threshing about in the cold waters of the pool, while Tad, who had crawled out, sat on the bank dripping, watching their struggles.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000067_000001|All at once he was picked up in a pair of strong arms and tossed in bodily. Stacy howled lustily.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000067_000002|Clambering out he squared off for fight, but the only fight he got was another ducking in the pool.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000068_000001|Don't you know I've been shot?"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000069_000000|"Shot?"
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000070_000000|"Yes, shot."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000072_000000|"Any of the rest of you kiddies been wounded in the fracas?" demanded Folly.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000073_000000|"No, but you've overlooked two of us," announced Ned stepping out.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000073_000001|"We haven't had our baths yet and I reckon we need them."
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000074_000002|They had a rough and tumble scrimmage in the cold water, coming out choking, dripping and laughing.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000075_000000|All this made a favorable impression on the Rangers.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000075_000001|Boys who could take rough handling such as this, without losing their tempers or even offering any objection, surely must be worth while.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000076_000000|"I reckon you kin go back and dry off now," drawled Dippy.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000077_000000|"Yes, you might fetch me a piece of soap," answered Butler laughingly.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000079_000001|But their troubles for the night were not wholly over yet.
train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000079_000002|Their initiation was not yet complete.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000000_000000|GUN FITTINGS AND AMMUNITION.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000001_000000|Powder flask.--The flask that is carried in the pocket may be small, if roomy; a large one, in reserve, being kept in a bag, at the front of the saddle.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000002_000000|To reduce bulges in a metal powder flask, fill it up with Indian corn, or dry peas, of any other sort of hard grain; then pour water into it, and screw down the lid tightly.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000002_000001|The grain will swell, at first slowly and then very rapidly, and the flask will resume its former dimensions, or burst if it is not watched.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000002_000002|Peas do not begin to swell for a couple of hours or more.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000003_000000|Powder horn, to make.--Saw off the required length from an ox's horn, flatten it somewhat by heat (see "Horn"), fit a wooden bottom into it, caulk it well, and sew raw hide round the edge to keep all tight.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000003_000001|The mouth must be secured by a plug, which may be hollowed to make a charger. Pieces of cane of large diameter, and old gunpowder canisters, sewn up in hide, make useful powder flasks.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000004_000000|Percussion Caps.--Caps may be carried very conveniently by means of a ring, with two dozen nipple shaped beads, made of some metal, strung upon it; each bead being intended to be covered by a percussion cap.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000004_000002|It is very Difficult, without this contrivance, to keep caps free from sand, crumbs, and dirt, yet always at hand when required.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000004_000004|Spring cap holders are, I am sure, too delicate for rough travel.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000005_000000|To protect Caps from the Rain.--Before stalking, or watching at night in rainy weather, wax or grease the edge of the cap as it rests on the nipple: it will thus become proof against water and damp air.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000005_000001|Some persons carry a piece of grease with them, when shooting in wet weather, and with it they smear the top of the nipple after each loading, before putting on the fresh cap.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000005_000004|A broad leaf wrapped loosely round the lock of a gun, will protect it during a heavy shower.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000006_000000|Substitute for Caps.--When the revolution in Spain in eighteen fifty four began, "there was a great want of percussion caps; this the insurgents supplied by cutting off the heads of lucifer matches and sticking them into the nipples.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000006_000001|The plan was found to answer perfectly." (Times, july thirty first.)
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000007_000000|Gun pricker.--I am indebted for the following plan, both for clearing the touchhole, and also for the rather awkward operation of pricking down fresh gunpowder into it, to an old sportsman in the Orkney Island of Sanday.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000007_000002|Next, he cuts a wooden plug to fit the quill; into the plug, the pricker is fixed.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000000|The whole affair goes safely in the pocket; the quill acting as a sheath to the sharp pricker.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000001|Now, when powder has to be pricked down the nipple, the "broad ring" is slipped off the quill and put on the nipple, which it fits; powder is poured into it, and the required operation is easily completed.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000002|This little contrivance, which is so simple and Light, lasts for months, and is perfectly effective.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000003|I have tried metal holders, but I much prefer the simple quill, on account of its elasticity and lightness. A little binding with waxed thread, may be put on, as shown in the sketch, to prevent the quill from splitting.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000010_000000|Wadding.--The bush affords few materials from which wadding can be made; some birds' nests are excellent for the purpose.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000011_000001|Gun flints are made with a hammer, and a chisel of steel that is not hardened.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000011_000002|The stone is chipped by the hammer alone into pieces of the required thickness, which are fashioned by being laid upon the fixed chisel, and hammered against it.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000011_000003|It takes nearly a minute for a practised workman to make one gun flint.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000012_000000|Gunpowder.--To carry Gunpowder.--Wrap it up in flannel or leather, not in paper, cotton, or linen; because these will catch fire, or smoulder like tinder, whilst the former will do neither the one nor the other. Gunpowder carried in a goat skin bag, travels very safely.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000013_000000|To make Gunpowder.--It is difficult to make good gunpowder, but there is no skill required in making powder that will shoot and kill.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000013_000001|Many of the negroes of Africa, make it for themselves-burning the charcoal, gathering saltpetre from salt pans, and buying the sulphur from trading caravans: they grind the materials on a stone.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000001|These proportions should be followed as accurately as possible.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000002|Each of the three materials must be pounded into powder separately, and then all mixed together most thoroughly.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000005|Next, the cake is squeezed and worked against a sieve made of parchment, in which the holes have been burnt with a red hot wire, and through which the cake is squeezed in grains.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000006|These grains are now put into a box, which is well shaken about, and in this way the grains run each other smooth.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000007|The fine dust that is then found mixed with the grains, must be winnowed away; lastly the grains are dried.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000001|Pound the ingredients separately.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000003|Mix them.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000004|three. Add a little water, and knead the mass.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000006|Press it.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000007|five.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000008|Rub the mass through a sieve.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000009|six.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000010|Shake up the grains in a box. seven.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000011|Get rid of the dust. eight.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000012|Dry the grains.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000016_000000|The ingredients should be used as pure as they can be obtained.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000016_000001|For making a few charges of coarse powder, the sieve may be dispensed with: in this case, roll the dough into long pieces of the thickness of a pin; lay several of these side by side, and mince the whole into small grains; dust with powder, to prevent their sticking together: and then proceed as already described.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000017_000001|It should be made with the greatest care, and used as soon as possible afterwards: it is the most important ingredient in gunpowder.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000018_000001|When this has taken place, the bottom part must be broken off and put aside as unfit for making gunpowder, and the top part alone used.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000018_000002|Flower of sulphur is quite pure.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000000|Saltpetre.--Dissolve the saltpetre that you wish to purify, in an equal measure of boiling water; a cupful of one to a cupful of the other. Strain this solution, and, letting it cool gradually, somewhat less than three fourths of the nitre will separate in regular crystals.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000001|Saltpetre exists in the ashes of many plants, of which tobacco is one; it is also found copiously on the ground in many places, in saltpans, or simply as an effloresence.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000002|Rubbish, such as old mud huts, and mortar, generally abounds with it.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000003|(It is made by the action of the air on the potash contained in the earths.) The taste, which is that of gunpowder, is the best test of its presence.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000004|To extract it, pour hot water on the mass, then evaporate and purify, as mentioned above.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000020_000000|Rocket Composition consists of gunpowder sixteen parts, by Weight; charcoal, three parts.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000020_000001|Or, in other words, of nitre, sixteen parts; charcoal seven parts; sulphur, four parts.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000020_000002|It must not be forgotten that when rockets are charged with the composition, a hollow tube must be left down their middle.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000001|A mixture of very little tin, or pewter (which is lead and tin), with lead, hardens it: we read of sportsmen melting up their spoons and dishes for this purpose.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000002|A little quicksilver has the same effect.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000004|He says, "This is superior to all [other] mixtures for that purpose, as it combines hardness with extra weight; the lead must be melted in a pot by itself to a red heat, and the proportion of quicksilver must be added a ladleful at a time, and stirred quickly with a piece of iron just in sufficient quantity to make three or four bullets.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000005|If the quicksilver is subjected to red heat in the large leadpot, it will evaporate." Proper alloy, or spelter, had best be ordered at a gun maker's shop, and taken from England instead of lead: different alloys of spelter vary considerably in their degree of hardness, and therefore more than one specimen should be tried.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000000|Shape of Bullets.--Round iron bullets are worthless, except at very close quarters, on account of the lightness of the metal: for the resistance of the air checks their force extremely.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000001|Whether elongated iron bullets would succeed, remains to be Tried.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000002|Some savages-as, for instance, those of Timor-when in want of bullets, use stones two or three inches long.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000003|Some good sportsmen insist on the advantage, for shooting at very close quarters, of cleaving a conical bullet nearly down to its base, into four parts; these partly separate, and make a fearful wound.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000026_000000|Bullets, to carry.--Bullets should be carried sewn up in their patches, for the convenience of loading, and they should not fit too tight: a few may be carried bare, for the sake of rapid loading.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000027_000000|Recovering Bullets.--When ammunition is scarce, make a practice of recovering the bullets that may have been shot into a beast; if they are of spelter, they will be found to have been very little knocked out of shape, and may often be used again without recasting.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000028_000003|If birds are to be killed for stuffing, dust shot will also be wanted; otherwise, it is undoubtedly better to take only one size of shot.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000029_000002|If the shot turns out to be lens shaped, there has been too much arsenic; if hollow, flattened, or tailed, there has been too little. Pewter or tin is bad, as it makes tailed shot.
train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000030_000000|Slugs are wanted both for night shooting and also in case of a hostile attack.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000000_000000|HINTS ON SHOOTING.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000001_000001|It is easy to load in this way with cartridges.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000002_000000|On Horseback.--Loading.--Empty the charge of powder from the flask into the left hand, and pour it down the gun; then take a bullet, wet out of your mouth, and drop it into the barrel, using no ramrod; the wet will cake the bullet pretty firmly in its right place.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000004_000000|On Water.--Boat shooting.--A landing net should be taken in the boat, as Colonel Hawker well advises, to pick up the dead birds as they float on the water, while the boat passes quickly by them.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000005_000000|Shooting over Water.--When shooting from a river bank without boat or dog, take a long light string with a stick tied to one end of it, the other being held in the hand: by throwing The stick beyond the floating bird, it can gradually be drawn in.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000005_000001|The stick should be one and a half or two feet long, two inches in diameter, and notched at either end, and attached to the hand line by a couple of strings, each six feet long, tied round either notch.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000000|Night shooting.--Tie a band of white paper round the muzzle of the gun, behind the sight.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000001|mr Andersson, who has had very great experience, ties the paper, not round the smooth barrel, but over the sight and all; and, if the sight does not happen to be a large one, he ties a piece of thick string round the barrel, or uses other similar contrivance, to tilt up the fore end of the paper.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000002|By this means, the paper is not entirely lost sight of at the moment when the aim is being taken.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000003|mr Andersson also pinches the paper into a ridge along the middle of the gun, to ensure a more defined foresight.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000000|Nocturnal Animals.--There are a large number of night feeding animals, upon whose flesh a traveller might easily support himself, but of whose existence he would have few indications by daylight observation only.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000001|The following remarks of Professor Owen, in respect to Australia are very suggestive:--"All the marsupial animals-and it is one of their curious peculiarities-are nocturnal.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000003|With regard to most of the other Australian forms of marsupial animals, they are most strictly nocturnal; so that, if a traveller were not aware of that peculiarity, he might fancy himself traversing a country destitute of the mammalian grade of animal life.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000004|If, however, after a weary day's journey, he could be awakened, and were to look out about the moonlight glade or scrub, or if he were to set traps by night, he would probably be surprised to find how great a number of interesting forms of mammalian animals were to Be met with, in places where there was not the slightest appearance of them in the daytime."
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000009_000000|Scarecrows.--A string with feathers tied to it at intervals, like the tail of a boy's kite, will scare most animals of the deer tribe, by their fluttering; and, in want of a sufficient force of men, passes may be closed by this contrivance.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000010_000000|mr Lloyd tells us of a peasant who, when walking without a gun, saw a glutton up in a tree.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000011_000000|Stalking horses.--Artificial.--A stalking horse, or cow, is made by cutting out a piece of strong canvas into the shape of the animal, and painting it properly.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000011_000001|Loops are sewn in different places, through which sticks are passed, to stretch the curves into shape: a stake, planted in the ground serves as a buttress to support the apparatus: at a proper height, there is a loophole to fire through.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000011_000002|It packs up into a roll of canvas and a bundle of five or six sticks.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000013_000001|Colonel Hawker made a contrivance upon wheels which he pushed before him.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000013_000002|The Esquimaux shoot seals by pushing a white screen before them over the ice, on a sledge.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000000|Pan hunting (used at salt licks).--"Pan hunting is a method of hunting deer at night.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000001|An iron pan attached to a long stick, serving as a handle, is carried in the left hand over the left shoulder; near where the hand grasps the handle, in a small projecting stick, forming a fork on which to rest the rifle, when firing.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000002|The pan is filled with burning pine knots, which, being saturated with turpentine, shed a brilliant and constant light all around; shining into the eyes of any deer that may come in that direction, and making them look like two balls of fire.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000003|The effect is most curious to those unaccumstomed to it.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000000|The rush of an enraged Animal is far more easily avoided than is usually supposed.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000001|The way the Spanish bull fighters play with the bull, is well known: any man can avoid a mere headlong charge.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000004|Few animals turn, if the rush be unsuccessful.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000005|The buffalo is an exception; he regularly hunts a man, and is therefore peculiarly dangerous. Unthinking persons talk of the fearful rapidity of a lion or tiger's spring.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000006|It is not rapid at all: it is a slow movement, as must be evident from The following consideration.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000007|No wild animal can leap ten yards, and they all make a high trajectory in their leaps.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000009|The catcher can play with it as he likes; he has even time to turn after it, if thrown wide.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000010|But the speed of a springing animal is undeniably the same as that of a ball, thrown so as to make a flight of equal length and height in the air.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000011|The corollary to all this is, that, if charged, you must keep cool and watchful, and your chance of escape is far greater than non sportsmen would imagine.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000012|The blow of the free paw is far swifter than the bound.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000017_000000|Dogs kept at bay.--A correspondent assures me that "a dog flying at a man may be successfully repelled by means of a stout stick held horizontally, a hand at each end, and used to thrust the dog backwards over, by meeting him across the throat or breast.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000017_000001|If followed by a blow on the nose, as the brute is falling, the result will be sooner attained."
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000018_000001|The dog then contents himself with barking and keeping guard until his master arrives.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000019_000000|Hiding Game.--In hiding game from birds of prey, brush it over, and they will seldom find it out; birds cannot smell well, but they have keen eyes.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000019_000002|Leaving a handkerchief or a short to flutter from a tree, will scare animals of prey for a short time.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000020_000000|Tying up your Horse.--You may tie your horse, on a bare plain, to the horns of an animal that you have shot, while you are skinning him, but it is better to hobble the horse with a stirrup leather. (See "Shooting horse.")
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000021_000000|Division of Game.--Some rules are necessary in these matters, to avoid disputes, especially between whites and natives; and therefore the custom of the country must be attended to.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000000|Duck shooting.--Wooden ducks, ballasted with lead, and painted, may be used at night as decoy ducks; or the skins of birds already shot, may be stuffed and employed for the same purpose.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000001|They should be anchored in the water, or made fast to a frame attached to the shooting punt, and dressed with sedge.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000002|It is convenient to sink a large barrel into the flat marsh or mud, as a dry place to stand or sit in, when waiting for the birds to come.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000003|A lady suggests to me, that if the sportsman took a bottle of hot water to put under his feet, it would be a great comfort to him, and in this I quite agree; I would take a keg of hot water, when about it.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000004|If real ducks be used as decoy birds, the males should be tied in one place and the females in another, to induce them to quack.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000005|An artificial island may be made to attract ducks, when there is no real one.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000000|Crocodile shooting.--mr
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000001|Gilby says, speaking of Egypt, "I killed several crocodiles by digging pits on the sand islands and sleeping a part of the night in them; a dry shred of palm branch, the colour of the sand, round the hole, formed a screen to put the gun through.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000002|Their flesh was most excellent eating-half-way between meat and fish: I had it several times.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000003|The difficulty of shooting them was, that the falcons and spurwing plovers would hover round the pit, when the crocodiles invariably took to the water.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000004|Their sight and hearing were good, but their scent indifferent.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000005|I generally got a shot or two at daybreak after sleeping in the pit."
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000024_000000|Tracks.--When the neighbourhood of a drinking place is trodden down with tracks, "describe a circle a little distance From it, to ascertain if it be much frequented.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000024_000001|This is the manner in which spoor should at all times be sought for." (Cumming's 'Life in South Africa.') To know if a burrow be tenanted, go to work on the same principle; but, if the ground be hard, sprinkle sand over it, in order to show the tracks more clearly.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000000|Carrying Game.--To carry small Game, as Fallow Deer.--Make a long slit with your knife between the back sinew and the bone of both of the hind legs.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000001|Cut a thick pole of wood and a stout wooden skewer eight inches long.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000002|Now thrust the right fore leg through the slit in the left hind one, and then the left fore leg through the slit in the right hind one, and holding these firmly in their places, push the skewer right through the left fore leg, so as to peg it from drawing back.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000003|Lastly run the pole between the animal's legs and its body, and let two men carry it on their shoulders, one at each end of the pole; or, if a beast of burden be at hand, the carcase is in a very convenient shape for being packed.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000004|In animals whose back sinew is not very prominent, it is best to cross the legs as above, and to lash them together.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000005|Always take the bowels out of game, before carrying it; it is so much weight saved.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000026_000000|To float carcases of Game across a river.--Sir s Baker recommends stripping off the skin of the animal, as though it were intended to make a water skin of it: putting a stone up the neck end of the skin; thus forming a water tight sack, open at one end only.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000026_000001|All the flesh is now to be cut off the bones, and packed into the sack; which is then to be inflated, and secured by tying up the open end.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000026_000002|The skin of a large antelope thus inflated, will not only float the whole of the flesh, but will also support several swimmers.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000027_000000|"To carry Ivory on pack animals, the North African traders use nets, slinging two large teeth on each side of an ass.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000027_000001|Small teeth are wrapped up in skins and secured with rope." (Mungo Park.)
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000028_000000|Setting a gun as a spring gun.--General Remarks.--The string that goes across the pathway should be dark coloured, and so fine that, if the beast struggles against it, it should break rather than cause injury to the gun.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000001|The stock is firmly lashed to a tree, and the muzzle to a stake planted in the ground.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000002|A "lever stick," eight inches long, is bound across the grip of the gun so as to stand upright; but it is not bound so tightly as to prevent a slight degree of movement.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000003|The bottom of the "lever stick" is tied to the trigger, and the top of it to a long, fine, dark coloured string, which is passed through the empty ramrod tubes, and is fixed to a tree on the other side of the pathway.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000004|It is evident that when a beast breasts this string, the trigger of the gun will be pulled.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000031_000001|The fault of the previous plan, is the trouble of tying the string to the trigger; since the curvature is usually such as to make it a matter of some painstaking to fix it securely.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000031_000002|A, B, C, is the "lever stick." Notch it deeply at A, where it is to receive the trigger; notch it also at B, half an inch from A; and at C, five inches or so from b In lashing B to the grip of the stock at D, the firmer you make the lashing, the better.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000031_000003|If D admit of any yielding movement, on C being pulled, the gun will not go off, either readily or surely; as will easily be seen, on making experiment.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000033_000000|third Method.--I am indebted to Captain j Meaden for the following account of the plan used in Ceylon for setting a spring gun for leopards:--
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000000|"Remove the sear, or tie up the trigger.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000001|Load the gun, and secure it at the proper height from the ground.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000002|Opposite the muzzle of the gun, or at such distance to the right, or left, as may be required, fasted the end of a black string, or line made of horsehair or fibre, and pass it across the path to the gun.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000003|Fasten the other end to a stake, long enough to stand higher than the hammer.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000004|Stick the end of the stake slightly in the ground, and let it rest upright against the lock projection, the black line being fastened nearly at that height.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000005|Pass round the small of the stock a loop of single or double string.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000006|Take a piece of stick six or eight inches long, pass through the loop, and twist tourniquet fashion until the loop is reduced to the required length.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000007|Raise the hammer carefully, and pass the short end of the lever stick, from the inner to the outer side, over the comb, and let the long end of the lever rest against the stake: the pressure of the hammer will keep the lever steady against the stake.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000008|To prevent the lower end of the stake flying out, from the pressure of the lever on the upper part, place a log or stone against the foot.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000035_000000|"An animal pushing against the black string, draws the upper end of the stake towards the muzzle, until the lever is disengaged and releases the hammer.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000037_000001|The stakes to be connected above and below the gun, by cross sticks.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000038_000000|"The carcase or live bait must be hedged round, and means adopted to guide the leopard across the string, by running out a short hedge on one side.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000038_000002|The breast than catches the string, and the push releases the hammer when the muzzle is in line with the chest.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000040_000000|Bow and Arrow set for Beasts.--The Chinese have some equivalent contrivance with bows and arrows.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000040_000002|These machines are planted in caves of sepulture, to guard them from pillage.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000040_000003|They use spring guns, and used to have spring bows in Sweden, and in many other countries.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000041_000000|Knives.--Hunting knife.--A great hunting knife is a useless encumbrance: no old sportsman or traveller cares to encumber himself with one; but a butcher's knife, carried in a sheath, is excellent, both from its efficient shape, the soft quality of The steel, its lightness, and the strong way in which the blade is set in the haft.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000000|Pocket knife.--If a traveller wants a pocket knife full of all kinds of tools, he had best order a very light one of two and three quarters inches long, in a tortoise shell handle, without the usual turnscrew at the end.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000001|It should have a light "picker" to shut over its back; this will act as a strike light, and a file also, if its under surface be properly roughened.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000002|Underneath the picker, there should be a small triangular borer, for making holes in leather, and a gimlet.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000003|The front of the knife should contain a long, narrow pen blade of soft steel; a cobbler's awl, slightly bent; and a packing needle with a large eye, to push thongs and twine through holes in leather.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000004|Between the tortoise shell part of the handle and the metal frame of the knife, should be a space to contain three flat thin pieces of steel, turning on the same pivot.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000005|The ends of these are to be ground to form turnscrews of brass instruments: when this excellent contrivance is used, it must be opened out like the letter T, the foot of which represents the turnscrew in use and the horizontal part represents the other two turnscrews, which serve as the handle.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000006|It may be thought advisable to add a button hook, a corkscrew, and a large blade; but that is not my recommendation, because it increases the size of the knife and makes it heavy; now a heavy knife is apt to be laid by, and not to be at hand when wanted, while a light knife is a constant pocket companion.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000043_000000|Sheath Knives, to carry.--They are easily carried by half naked, pocketless savages, by attaching the sheaths to a leather loop, through which the left forearm and elbow are to be passed.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000043_000001|A swimmer can easily carry a knife in this way; otherwise he holds it between his teeth.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000044_000000|Substitutes for Knives.--Steel is no doubt vastly better than iron, but it is not essential for the ordinary purposes of life; indeed, most ancient civilized nations had nothing better than iron.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000044_000002|A fragment of flint or obsidian may be made fast to a handle, to be used as a carpenter cuts paper With a chisel; namely, by holding it dagger fashion, and drawing it over the skin or flesh which he wishes to cut.
train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000045_000000|Night glass.--Opera glasses are invaluable as night glasses, for, by their aid, the sight of man is raised nearly to a par with that of night roving animals; therefore, a sportsman would find them of great service when watching for game at night.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000000_000000|CHAPTER TEN.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000001_000000|CHASED BY PIRATES.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000002_000000|The weather now rapidly became finer, and the ocean, no longer lashed into fury by the breath of the tempest, subsided once more into long regular undulations.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000002_000001|The wind hauled gradually more round from the northward too, and blew warm and balmy; a most welcome change after the raw and chilly weather we had lately experienced.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000004_000000|Nothing of importance occurred for more than a week.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000005_000001|We were fairly in the Pacific, the region of fine weather; and our little barkie had behaved so well in the gale that our confidence in her seaworthiness was thoroughly established; so that all fear of future danger from bad weather was completely taken off our minds.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000006_000000|One morning, the wind having fallen considerably lighter during the preceding night, as soon as breakfast was over I roused up our square headed topsail, with the intention of setting it in the room of the small one.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000007_000000|But when I proceeded to take the latter in, I found that the halliards were somehow jammed aloft, and I shinned up to clear them.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000010_000000|"Broad on our lee bow," I answered, still clinging to the thin wire topmast shrouds.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000011_000000|"What d'ye make her out to be, Harry, my lad?" was the next question.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000012_000000|"Either a barque or a brig," answered I; "the latter I am inclined to believe, though he is still too far away for his mizzen mast to show, if he has one."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000013_000000|"Why d'ye think it's a brig, Harry?" queried Bob.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000016_000000|I was inclined to take the same view of the matter that Bob did.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000017_000001|Had she been bound to the eastward, the weather was not so bad at that time as to have prevented her scudding before it, which she undoubtedly would have done under such circumstances, making a fair wind of it.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000018_000000|At the same time there was of course a possibility of our being mistaken as to the craft in sight being the pirate brig, it being by no means an unusual thing for vessels as small as she was, or even smaller, to venture round the Cape.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000019_000001|What, under such circumstances, is your advice?"
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000020_000000|"Which of us has the weather gauge, d'ye think?" queried Bob.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000021_000002|If we are both going at about the same speed, I should say we shall pass extremely close to her."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000022_000000|"How is she heading, Harry?" was the next question.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000023_000000|"To the northward, rather edging down towards us, if anything, I thought."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000025_000001|Having reached the cross trees, he stood upon them, with one hand grasping the peak halliards to steady himself, whilst with the other he shaded his eyes.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000026_000001|Having satisfied himself, he descended deliberately to the deck, evidently ruminating deeply.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000029_000000|The wind, however, was dropping fast; and by the time that the sun was on the meridian we were not going more than five knots.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000030_000000|Bob, on the other hand, was delighted beyond measure, stoutly avowing that the falling breeze was little, if anything, short of a divine manifestation in our favour.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000032_000000|We were very busy with the viands, keeping one eye always on the brig however, when we noticed something fluttering over her taffrail; and the next moment a flag of some sort floated up to her peak.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000033_000000|I was at the tiller; so Bob took the glass, and levelling it at the brig, gave her a more thorough scrutiny than we had bestowed upon her at all hitherto.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000034_000000|"The stars and stripes, and a pennant!" exclaimed he, with his eye still at the tube.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000034_000001|"Lord bless us for the two pretty innocents he takes us for, Harry; but there, of course he don't know as we've got his character and all about him at our fingers' ends.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000034_000002|Well, anyhow, we won't be behindhand with him in the matter of politeness;" and therewith Master Bob dived below, returning in a moment with our ensign and club burgee in his hand, which he bent to their respective halliards and ran them up-the one to our gaff end, and the other to our mast head.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000035_000000|As we had by this time finished our meal, Bob cleared the things away, muttering something about having "plenty to do afore long besides eating and drinking."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000037_000000|Bob at once assumed the duties of signal officer, by once more taking a peep through the glass.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000038_000000|"Commercial code pennant," said he; and then he read out the flags beneath it.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000039_000000|"Run down and fetch up the signal book," said i
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000041_000000|"Thank 'ee!" ejaculated Bob, "not if we can help it, Mister Johnson.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000041_000001|I reckon 'twould be about the most onprofitable conwersation as ever the crew of this here cutter took a part in.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000042_000000|"You are right, Bob," I replied, glancing at the compass; "he is more than a point farther aft than he was a quarter of an hour ago; but is it not possible that we are giving ourselves needless uneasiness?
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000044_000000|It was but too evident that Bob was right.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000047_000000|It was by this time perfectly manifest that whatever he might be able to do in a breeze, he had no chance with us in a light air like the present; and I entertained strong hopes of being able to slip past him unscathed, when I felt sanguine of our ability to get fairly away from him in a chase dead to windward.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000048_000001|He had aimed apparently so as to throw the shot across our fore foot; but it fell short by about fifty feet.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000049_000000|"Do that again, you lubber!" exclaimed Bob, contemptuously apostrophising the brig.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000049_000001|"Three more such fool's tricks as that, and we'll say good bye t'ye without ever having been within range.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000051_000000|"Here it comes straight for us this time, and no mistake," exclaimed Bob, as the water jets again marked the course of the shot.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000051_000001|"Scaldings! out of the road all of us that's got thin skulls," continued he, as the shot came skipping across the water in such long bounds as showed we were within range.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000051_000002|"Well missed!" added he, as the shot struck the water close to us, and bounded fairly over the boat, passing close beneath the main boom and the foot of the mainsail, without injuring so much as a ropeyarn.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000052_000000|"That's his long gun, Bob," said I; "his broadside guns would never reach so far as this, and though we're just now in rather warm quarters, we shall be out of range again very soon; and then, I think, we need give ourselves no further trouble concerning him.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000052_000001|Any way, you've got something very like the fulfilment of the wish you expressed the other day."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000055_000000|The shot shaved us pretty close to windward nevertheless, striking the water for the last time just short of our taffrail, and scurrying along and ploughing up the surface close enough to give us a pretty copious shower bath of spray ere it finally sank just ahead of us.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000057_000000|After this he fired no more.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000058_000001|"We can now take things quietly; and as it's your watch below, I'd recommend you to turn in and get a bit of a snooze.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000058_000002|It's your eight hours out to night, my lad, and if the breeze should happen to freshen about sundown, and that chap comes after us-and, by the piper, he means that same, for I'm blest if he isn't in stays-you'll need to keep both eyes open all your watch."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000060_000000|I had not been below above two minutes when I heard his voice shouting to me to come on deck again.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000060_000001|Wondering what was now in the wind, I sprang up the short companion ladder, and my eye at once falling upon the brig (which was now dead astern of us, heading in the same direction as ourselves, though not lying so close to the wind), I saw in a moment that our troubles were not yet by any means over.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000061_000000|The wind had by this time fallen so light that we were not making above three knots' way through the water, whilst the pirate appeared barely to have steerage way-in fact, his canvas was flapping to the mast with every sluggish roll which the vessel took over the long, scarcely perceptible swell.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000062_000000|Friend Johnson was evidently greatly nettled at our having slipped so handsomely through his fingers as we had, and seemed determined to have a word or two with us yet, whether we would or no; for he had lowered one of his boats, and she was just leaving the vessel in chase.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000063_000000|I took the glass, and counted six men at the oars, besides one or two (I could not be sure which) in the stern sheets.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000064_000000|This was serious indeed; for a light boat, propelled by six good oarsmen, would go about two feet to our one at our then rate of sailing, and must necessarily soon overhaul us.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000065_000000|Our case appeared pretty nearly desperate; but a seaman never gives up "whilst there is a shot in the locker," or a fresh expedient to be tried.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000065_000001|So I directed Bob to keep the cutter away about three points, and then lash the tiller, and lend me a hand to get our balloon canvas set.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000067_000000|This additional spread of canvas, coupled with the fact that we were running far enough off the wind to permit of its drawing well, made a perceptible difference in our speed-quite a knot, I considered, and Bob agreed with me.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000069_000004|By the time that we have it ready, they will be within range; and I think we may persuade them to turn back yet."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000070_000000|"So be it," replied Bob gleefully.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000071_000000|This gun was, as I think I have mentioned before, a four pound rifled piece, which was specially made to my order by an eminent firm.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000071_000001|It was a most beautiful little weapon, exquisitely finished; was a breech loader, and threw a solid shot about a mile, and a shell nearly half as far again.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000071_000002|It was mounted on a swivel or pivot, which we had the means of firmly fixing to the deck.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000072_000000|We got it out and upon deck, and soon had it mounted and ready for service.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000072_000001|Bob took the tiller, desiring me to work the gun, as I was not only a more practised artillerist than he, but knew also how to handle a breech loader, and I had the knack somehow of shooting straight.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000073_000000|I had it loaded, and was in the act of levelling it, when Bob said, "Suppose we was to let them chaps get a bit nearer, Hal, afore we opens fire.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000075_000000|At length, however, they were within half a mile of us, and I thought we might now fairly commence operations.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000075_000001|I carefully levelled the piece accordingly, and desiring Bob to sit well out of the line of fire and steer as steadily as possible, I watched the heave of the cutter, and pulled the trigger line.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000076_000000|The shot sped straight for the boat, but, striking the water just before it reached her, bounded clear over her and into the sea beyond.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000080_000000|I was too busy with the gun to reply just then, and in another moment I fired once more.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000081_000001|This looked like a fixed determination to come alongside at any price, so I this time inserted a shell instead of a solid shot, which I had before been firing.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000082_000001|We saw four fall from the thwarts, at all events, and all hands ceased pulling, whilst three of the oars slipped unnoticed overboard.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000084_000000|"Now," shouted I, "luff you may, Bob, and let's heave the craft to, and finish the job for them."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000085_000000|As I said this, Bob put his helm down, whilst I hauled the jib sheet to windward, and then I sprang aft again to the gun.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000086_000000|By this time they had taken to their oars again, but there were only two of them pulling: a sure indication of the extent to which our last shot had told.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000086_000001|They were turning the boat round to pull back to the ship, and seeing this I felt some compunction about firing on them again, and said so.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000087_000000|"Don't be such a soft hearted donkey, Harry, lad," retorted Bob. "Settle the whole lot if you can, boy; it'll only be so many skulking cut throats the less in the world.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000088_000000|I accordingly loaded again, and fired; but, probably from excitement, fired too high, and the missile flew harmlessly over the boat.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000089_000000|The next time I was more careful, aiming with the utmost deliberation. At length I pulled the trigger line, and immediately leapt to my feet to watch for the result.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000090_000000|The shell struck the boat's stern fairly amidships, and close to the water line; there was an explosion, but both the oarsmen appeared to be unhurt.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000090_000001|Almost immediately, however, one of them sprang aft and crouched down, doing something that we could not make out.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000091_000000|I took the glass, and then saw that a large gap had been made by the explosion of the shell, through which the water was doubtless pouring rapidly.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000093_000000|"It is time we were off once more, Bob," I remarked, as soon as I saw this; "so another shot at our friends here, and then we'll fill away."
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000094_000000|The boat was very much disabled, and appeared to be sinking gradually, notwithstanding their efforts to keep her afloat, for they were now baling rapidly;--but I thought it best to make sure of her, so once more loaded and fired.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000095_000000|The shell passed through her stern this time also, and exploded; there was a shrill scream from more than one agonised throat, and the baling and pulling ceased altogether; every man in her was wounded, if not killed outright.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000096_000000|Satisfied with our work of destruction, and not particularly caring to expose ourselves to the fire of the gun in the other boat, which was no doubt much heavier than our own toy of a weapon, we filled away; and I once more swayed up the spinnaker forward, desiring Bob to keep just sufficiently away to permit of our balloon canvas fully drawing, but no more.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000097_000000|As soon as I had got the spinnaker set, I took the glass and had a good look at the boat we had beaten off.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000097_000001|She was nearly full of water, her gunwale being but an inch or two above the surface.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000098_000000|I saw three or four figures rouse themselves on board her, and recommence baling feebly; but their efforts were useless; she sank lower and lower, and at length rolled heavily bottom upwards, throwing her wounded crew into the water.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000099_000000|Almost immediately there was a furious splashing, and by the aid of the glass I distinctly saw the dorsal fins of several sharks darting here and there among them, whilst over the glassy surface of the water a shriek or two came faintly towards us.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000100_000000|In less than a minute all was over with the miserable wretches; the voracious sharks made short work of it with them, tearing living and dead alike to pieces in their eagerness to obtain a share of the prey.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000102_000000|They paused for a moment on their oars as though paralysed with horror; and then with a vengeful shout gave way more energetically than before.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000104_000000|The pirates tugged at their oars with might and main, passing within oar's length of the wreck of the first boat, when they again raised a furious yell, straining away at their stout ash blades until they made them bend like willow wands.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000105_000001|Judging that more powder would have to be burned after all, I once more loaded our little piece, charging with shell as before; and whilst I was doing this our pursuers opened fire upon us.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000106_000000|They miscalculated their distance, however, or the powers of their gun; for the shot fell considerably short of us, much to Bob's delight, to which he gave expression by the utterance of a few remarks of such biting sarcasm and raillery that they would infallibly have still further incensed the individuals to whom they were addressed could they but have heard them.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000109_000000|I accordingly levelled the breech loader, and then waited for a favourable opportunity to fire.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000109_000001|At length it came.
train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000109_000002|The shell entered the starboard bow of the pursuing boat, about midway between her gunwale and her water line; and immediately, to our great surprise, there was a violent explosion on board her.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000004_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000008_000000|one.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000011_000003|I am like an infant which has not yet smiled.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000013_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000016_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000016_000002|The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000019_000005|To Heaven and Earth.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000021_000000|three.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000022_000001|He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self conceited has no superiority allowed to him.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000023_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000025_000001|Great, it passes on (in constant flow).
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000025_000002|Passing on, it becomes remote.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000025_000004|Therefore the Tao is great; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the (sage) king is also great.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000026_000001|Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000027_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000029_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000002_000000|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000007_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000007_000002|If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000007_000003|The kingdom is a spirit like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000011_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000017_000000|three.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000017_000002|The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right;--his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000018_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000020_000000|three.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000022_000000|five.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000025_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000025_000002|All pervading is the Great Tao!
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000027_000000|three.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000028_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000038_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000012_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000012_000002|He who knows (the Tao) does not (care to) speak (about it); he who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000015_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000017_000001|Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000019_000000|one.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000021_000000|Misery!--happiness is to be found by its side!
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000021_000001|Happiness!--misery lurks beneath it!
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000024_000001|one.
train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000040_000001|one.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000003_000000|Victoria Station, still named after the great nineteenth century Queen, was neither more nor less busy than usual as he came into it half an hour later.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000003_000001|The vast platform, sunk now nearly two hundred feet below the ground level, showed the double crowd of passengers entering and leaving town.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000003_000002|Those on the extreme left, towards whom Percy began to descend in the open glazed lift, were by far the most numerous, and the stream at the lift entrance made it necessary for him to move slowly.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000004_000000|He arrived at last, walking in the soft light on the noiseless ribbed rubber, and stood by the door of the long car that ran straight through to the Junction.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000004_000001|It was the last of a series of a dozen or more, each of which slid off minute by minute.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000005_000000|He felt quiet now that he had actually started.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000005_000001|He had made his confession, just in order to make certain of his own soul, though scarcely expecting any definite danger, and sat now, his grey suit and straw hat in no way distinguishing him as a priest (for a general leave was given by the authorities to dress so for any adequate reason).
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000005_000003|He had only the violet thread in his pocket, such as was customary for sick calls.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000006_000000|He was sliding along peaceably enough, fixing his eyes on the empty seat opposite, and trying to preserve complete collectedness when the car abruptly stopped.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000006_000001|He looked out, astonished, and saw by the white enamelled walks twenty feet from the window that they were already in the tunnel.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000006_000002|The stoppage might arise from many causes, and he was not greatly excited, nor did it seem that others in the carriage took it very seriously; he could hear, after a moment's silence, the talking recommence beyond the partition.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000000|Then there came, echoed by the walls, the sound of shouting from far away, mingled with hoots and chords; it grew louder.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000001|The talking in the carriage stopped.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000002|He heard a window thrown up, and the next instant a car tore past, going back to the station although on the down line.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000003|This must be looked into, thought Percy: something certainly was happening; so he got up and went across the empty compartment to the further window.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000004|Again came the crying of voices, again the signals, and once more a car whirled past, followed almost immediately by another.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000005|There was a jerk-a smooth movement.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000006|Percy staggered and fell into a seat, as the carriage in which he was seated itself began to move backwards.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000008_000000|There was a clamour now in the next compartment, and Percy made his way there through the door, only to find half a dozen men with their heads thrust from the windows, who paid absolutely no attention to his inquiries.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000008_000001|So he stood there, aware that they knew no more than himself, waiting for an explanation from some one.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000008_000002|It was disgraceful, he told himself, that any misadventure should so disorganise the line.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000009_000000|Twice the car stopped; each time it moved on again after a hoot or two, and at last drew up at the platform whence it had started, although a hundred yards further out.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000010_000000|Ah! there was no doubt that something had happened!
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000010_000001|The instant he opened the door a great roar met his ears, and as he sprang on to the platform and looked up at the end of the station, he began to understand.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000000|From right to left of the huge interior, across the platforms, swelling every instant, surged an enormous swaying, roaring crowd.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000001|The flight of steps, twenty yards broad, used only in cases of emergency, resembled a gigantic black cataract nearly two hundred feet in height.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000002|Each car as it drew up discharged more and more men and women, who ran like ants towards the assembly of their fellows.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000003|The noise was indescribable, the shouting of men, the screaming of women, the clang and hoot of the huge machines, and three or four times the brazen cry of a trumpet, as an emergency door was flung open overhead, and a small swirl of crowd poured through it towards the streets beyond.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000004|But after one look Percy looked no more at the people; for there, high up beneath the clock, on the Government signal board, flared out monstrous letters of fire, telling in Esperanto and English, the message for which England had grown sick.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000005|He read it a dozen times before he moved, staring, as at a supernatural sight which might denote the triumph of either heaven or hell.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000012_000000|"EASTERN CONVENTION DISPERSED.
train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000013_000000|PEACE, NOT WAR.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000002_000000|It was not until mid day breakfast on the following morning that husband and wife met again.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000002_000001|Oliver had slept in town and telephoned about eleven o'clock that he would be home immediately, bringing a guest with him: and shortly before noon she heard their voices in the hall.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000003_000000|mr Francis, who was presently introduced to her, seemed a harmless kind of man, she thought, not interesting, though he seemed in earnest about this Bill.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000003_000001|It was not until breakfast was nearly over that she understood who he was.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000004_000000|"Don't go, Mabel," said her husband, as she made a movement to rise. "You will like to hear about this, I expect.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000004_000001|My wife knows all that I know," he added.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000005_000000|mr Francis smiled and bowed.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000007_000000|"Why, certainly."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000008_000000|Then she heard that he had been a Catholic priest a few months before, and that mr Snowford was in consultation with him as to the ceremonies in the Abbey.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000008_000001|She was conscious of a sudden interest as she heard this.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000009_000001|"I want to hear everything."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000010_000000|It seemed that mr Francis had seen the new Minister of Public Worship that morning, and had received a definite commission from him to take charge of the ceremonies on the first of October.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000011_000000|Of course things would be somewhat sloppy at first, said mr Francis; but by the New Year it was hoped that all would be in order, at least in the cathedrals and principal towns.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000012_000000|"It is important," he said, "that this should be done as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000012_000001|It is very necessary to make a good impression.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000012_000002|There are thousands who have the instinct of worship, without knowing how to satisfy it."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000013_000000|"That is perfectly true," said Oliver.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000013_000001|"I have felt that for a long time.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000013_000002|I suppose it is the deepest instinct in man."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000014_000000|"As to the ceremonies---" went on the other, with a slightly important air.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000014_000001|His eyes roved round a moment; then he dived into his breast pocket, and drew out a thin red covered book.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000015_000000|"Here is the Order of Worship for the Feast of Paternity," he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000015_000001|"I have had it interleaved, and have made a few notes."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000016_000000|He began to turn the pages, and Mabel, with considerable excitement, drew her chair a little closer to listen.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000017_000000|"That is right, sir," said the other.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000017_000001|"Now give us a little lecture."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000018_000000|mr Francis closed the book on his finger, pushed his plate aside, and began to discourse.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000000|"First," he said, "we must remember that this ritual is based almost entirely upon that of the Masons.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000001|Three quarters at least of the entire function will be occupied by that.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000003|The proper officials will conduct the rest....
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000005|The difficulties begin with the last quarter."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000020_000000|He paused, and with a glance of apology began arranging forks and glasses before him on the cloth.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000021_000001|In the place of the reredos and Communion table there will be erected the large altar of which the ritual speaks, with the steps leading up to it from the floor.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000021_000002|Behind the altar-extending almost to the old shrine of the Confessor-will stand the pedestal with the emblematic figure upon it; and-so far as I understand from the absence of directions-each such figure will remain in place until the eve of the next quarterly feast."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000022_000000|"What kind of figure?" put in the girl.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000023_000000|Francis glanced at her husband.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000000|"I understand that mr Markenheim has been consulted," he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000001|"He will design and execute them.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000002|Each is to represent its own feast.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000003|This for Paternity---"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000025_000000|He paused again.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000026_000000|"Yes, mr Francis?"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000027_000000|"This one, I understand, is to be the naked figure of a man."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000029_000000|Yes-that seemed all right, thought Mabel.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000029_000001|mr Francis's voice moved on hastily.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000030_000000|"A new procession enters at this point, after the discourse," he said. "It is this that will need special marshalling.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000030_000001|I suppose no rehearsal will be possible?"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000031_000000|"Scarcely," said Oliver, smiling.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000032_000000|The Master of Ceremonies sighed.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000033_000000|"I feared not.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000033_000002|That is what seems to me the best."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000034_000000|He indicated the chapel.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000037_000000|mr Francis permitted a slight grimace to appear on his face; he flushed a little.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000000|"The President of Europe---"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000001|He broke off.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000002|"Ah! that is the point.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000003|Will the President take part?
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000004|That is not made clear in the ritual."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000039_000000|"We think so," said Oliver.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000039_000001|"He is to be approached."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000000|"Well, if not, I suppose the Minister of Public Worship will officiate. He with his supporters pass straight up to the foot of the altar. Remember that the figure is still veiled, and that the candles have been lighted during the approach of the procession.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000001|There follow the Aspirations printed in the ritual with the responds.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000002|These are sung by the choir, and will be most impressive, I think.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000003|Then the officiant ascends the altar alone, and, standing, declaims the Address, as it is called.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000004|At the close of it-at the point, that is to say, marked here with a star, the thurifers will leave the chapel, four in number.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000005|One ascends the altar, leaving the others swinging their thurifers at its foot-hands his to the officiant and retires.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000006|Upon the sounding of a bell the curtains are drawn back, the officiant tenses the image in silence with four double swings, and, as he ceases the choir sings the appointed antiphon."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000042_000000|"The rest is easy," he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000042_000001|"We need not discuss that."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000043_000000|To Mabel's mind even the previous ceremonies seemed easy enough.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000043_000001|But she was undeceived.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000044_000001|The stupidity of people is prodigious.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000044_000002|I foresee a great deal of hard work for us all....
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000044_000003|Who is to deliver the discourse, mr Brand?"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000045_000000|Oliver shook his head.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000046_000001|"I suppose mr Snowford will select."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000047_000000|mr Francis looked at him doubtfully.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000048_000000|"What is your opinion of the whole affair, sir?" he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000049_000000|Oliver paused a moment.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000000|"I think it is necessary," he began.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000001|"There would not be such a cry for worship if it was not a real need.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000003|I do not see how it could be bettered...."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000051_000000|"Yes, Oliver?" put in his wife, questioningly.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000052_000000|"No-there is nothing-except ... except I hope the people will understand it."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000053_000000|mr Francis broke in.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000000|"My dear sir, worship involves a touch of mystery.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000001|You must remember that.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000002|It was the lack of that that made Empire Day fail in the last century.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000003|For myself, I think it is admirable.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000004|Of course much must depend on the manner in which it is presented.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000005|I see many details at present undecided-the colour of the curtains, and so forth.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000006|But the main plan is magnificent.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000007|It is simple, impressive, and, above all, it is unmistakable in its main lesson---"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000000|"I take it that it is homage offered to Life," said the other slowly. "Life under four aspects-Maternity corresponds to Christmas and the Christian fable; it is the feast of home, love, faithfulness.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000001|Life itself is approached in spring, teeming, young, passionate.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000002|Sustenance in midsummer, abundance, comfort, plenty, and the rest, corresponding somewhat to the Catholic Corpus Christi; and Paternity, the protective, generative, masterful idea, as winter draws on....
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000003|I understand it was a German thought."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000057_000000|Oliver nodded.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000058_000000|"Yes," he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000058_000001|"And I suppose it will be the business of the speaker to explain all this."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000059_000000|"I take it so.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000059_000001|It appears to me far more suggestive than the alternative plan-Citizenship, Labour, and so forth.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000059_000002|These, after all, are subordinate to Life."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000060_000000|mr Francis spoke with an extraordinary suppressed enthusiasm, and the priestly look was more evident than ever.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000060_000001|It was plain that his heart at least demanded worship.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000061_000000|Mabel clasped her hands suddenly.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000062_000000|"I think it is beautiful," she said softly, "and-and it is so real."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000063_000000|mr Francis turned on her with a glow in his brown eyes.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000064_000000|"Ah! yes, madam.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000064_000002|There is no Faith, as we used to call it: it is the vision of Facts that no one can doubt; and the incense declares the sole divinity of Life as well as its mystery."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000065_000000|"What of the figures?" put in Oliver.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000066_000000|"A stone image is impossible, of course.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000066_000001|It must be clay for the present.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000066_000003|If the figures are approved they can then be executed in marble."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000067_000000|Again Mabel spoke with a soft gravity.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000068_000000|"It seems to me," she said, "that this is the last thing that we needed. It is so hard to keep our principles clear-we must have a body for them-some kind of expression---"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000069_000000|She paused.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000070_000000|"Yes, Mabel?"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000000|"I do not mean," she went on, "that some cannot live without it, but many cannot.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000001|The unimaginative need concrete images.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000002|There must be some channel for their aspirations to flow through--- Ah!
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000003|I cannot express myself!"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000072_000000|Oliver nodded slowly.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000072_000001|He, too, seemed to be in a meditative mood.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000073_000000|"Yes," he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000074_000000|mr Francis turned on him abruptly.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000075_000000|"What do you think of the Pope's new Religious Order, sir?"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000077_000000|"I think it is the worst step he ever took-for himself, I mean.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000077_000002|Why do you ask?"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000079_000000|"I should be sorry for the brawler."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000080_000000|A bell rang sharply from the row of telephone labels.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000080_000001|Oliver rose and went to it.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000080_000002|Mabel watched him as he touched a button-mentioned his name, and put his ear to the opening.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000081_000000|"It is Snowford's secretary," he said abruptly to the two expectant faces.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000081_000001|"Snowford wants to-ah!"
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000082_000001|They heard a sentence or two from him that seemed significant.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000000|"Ah! that is certain, is it?
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000002|Yes....
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000003|Oh! but that is better than nothing....
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000004|Yes; he is here....
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000005|Indeed.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000084_000000|He looked on the tube, touched the button again, and came back to them.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000085_000000|"I am sorry," he said.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000085_000002|mr Snowford wants to see us both at once, mr Francis.
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000085_000003|Markenheim is with him."
train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000086_000000|But though Mabel was herself disappointed, she thought he looked graver than the disappointment warranted.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000002_000000|SHIPS.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000001|The object aimed at by the owners of cargo boats will be to secure the greatest possible economy of working, combined with a moderately good rate of speed, such as may ensure shippers against having to stand out of their capital locked up in the cargo for too long a period.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000002|Hence cheap power will become increasingly a desideratum, and the possible applications of natural sources of energy will be keenly scrutinised with a view to turning any feasible plan to advantage.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000003|The sailing ship, and the economic and constructive lines upon which it is built and worked, will be carefully overhauled with a view to finding how its deficiencies may be supplemented and its good points turned to account.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000004|One result of this renewed attention will be to confirm, for some little time, the movement which showed itself during the past decade of the nineteenth century for an increase of sailing tonnage. Sooner or later, however, it will be recognised that sail power must be largely supplemented, even on the "sailer," if it is to hold its own against steam.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000000|For mails and passengers, on the other hand, steam must more and more decidedly assert its supremacy.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000001|Yet the mail packet of the twentieth century will be very different from packets which have "made the running" towards the close of the nineteenth.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000002|She will carry little or no cargo excepting specie, and goods of exceptionally high value in proportion to their weight and bulk.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000003|Nearly all her below deck capacity, indeed, will be filled with machinery and fuel.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000004|She will be in other respects more like a floating hotel than the old ideal of a ship, her cellars, so to speak, being crammed with coal and her upper stories fitted luxuriously for sitting and bed rooms and brilliant with the electric light.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000006|Indeed the probability is that, on the average, the twentieth century mail packets will be smaller, being built for speed rather than for magnificence or carrying capacity.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000000|The turbine engine will be the main factor in working the approaching revolution in mail steamer construction.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000001|The special reason for this will consist in the fact that only by its adoption can the conditions mentioned above be fulfilled.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000002|With the ordinary reciprocating type of marine steam machinery it would be impossible to place, in a steamer of moderate tonnage, engines of a size suitable to enable it to attain a very high rate of speed, because the strain and vibration of the gigantic steel arms, pulling and pushing the huge cranks to turn the shafting, would knock the hull to pieces in a very short time.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000003|For this very reason, in fact, the marine architect and engineer have hitherto urged, with considerable force of argument, that high speed and large tonnage must go concomitantly.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000004|Practically, only a big steamer, with the old type of marine engine, could be a very fast one, and, for ocean traffic at any rate, a smaller vessel must be regarded as out of the running.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000005|Very large tonnage being thus made a prime necessity, it followed that the space provided must be utilised, and this need has tended to perpetuate the combination of mail and passenger traffic with cargo carrying.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000000|The first step towards the revolution was taken many years ago when the screw propeller was substituted for the paddle wheel.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000001|The latter means of propulsion caused shock and vibration not only owing to the thrusts of the piston rod from the steam engine itself, but also from the impact of the paddles upon the water one after the other.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000002|A great increase in the smoothness of running was attained when the screw was invented-a propeller which was entirely sunk in the water and therefore exercised its force, not in shocks, but in gentle constant pressure upon the fluid around it.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000003|Such as the windmill is for wind and the turbine water wheel for water was the screw propeller, although adapted, not as a generator, but as an application of power. Having made the work and stress continuous, the next thing to be accomplished was to effect a similar reform in the engines supplying the power.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000004|This is accomplished in the turbine steam engine by causing the steam to play in strong jets continuously and steadily upon vanes which form virtually a number of small windmills.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000005|Thus, while the screw outside of the hull is applying the force continuously, the steam in the inside is driving the shafting with equal evenness and regularity.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000007_000000|The steam turbine does not appear to have by any means reached finality in its form, such questions as the angle of impact which the jet should make with the surface of the vane, and the size of the orifice through which the steam should be ejected, being still debatable points.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000008_000000|Hitherto the steam supply pipe emitting the jet has been placed outside of the circle of the wheel; but the future form seems likely to be one in which the axis of the wheel is itself the pipe which contains the steam, but which permits it to escape outwards to the circumference of the wheel.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000008_000001|The latter is, in this form of turbine, made in the shape of a paddle wheel of very small circumference but considerable length, the paddles being set at such an inclination as to obtain the greatest possible rotative impulse from the outward rushing steam.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000008_000002|The pipe must be turned true at intervals to enable it to carry a number of diminutive wheels upon which these long vanes are mounted, and a very strong connection must be made between these wheels and the shaft of the screw.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000000|The twin screw, with which the best and safest of modern steam ships are all fitted, will soon develop into what may be called "the twin stern".
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000001|Each screw requires a separate set of engines and the main object of the duplication is to lessen the risk of the vessel being left helpless in case of accident to one or other.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000002|The advisability of placing each engine and shafting in a separate water tight compartment has therefore been seen.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000003|At this point there presents itself for consideration the advisability of separating the two screws by as wide a distance as may be convenient and placing the rudder between the two.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000004|Practically, therefore, it will be found best to build out a steel framework from each side of the stern for holding the bearings of each screw in connection with the twin water tight compartments holding the shafting; and thus will be evolved what will practically represent a twin, or double, stern.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000000|In the case of the turbine steamer several of the forms of screw which were first proposed when that type of propeller was invented will again come up for examination, notably the Archimedean screw, wound round a fairly long piece of shafting.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000003|Hence will arise a demand for accommodation for each screw in a tube forming part of the lower hull itself and open at the side for the taking in of water, while the stern part is equally free.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000004|In this way there is evolved a kind of compromise between the two principles of marine propulsion, by a screw and by a jet of water thrown to sternward.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000005|The water jet is already very successfully employed for the propulsion of steam lifeboats in which, owing to the danger of fouling the life saving and other tackle, an open screw is objectionable.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000000|The final extermination of the sailing ship is popularly expected as one of the first developments of the twentieth century in maritime traffic.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000001|Steam, which for oversea trade made its entrance cautiously in the shape of a mere auxiliary to sail power, had taken up a much more self assertive position long before the close of the nineteenth century, and has driven its former ally almost out of the field in large departments of the shipping industry.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000002|Yet a curious and interesting counter movement is now taking place on the Pacific Coast of America, as well as among the South Sea Islands and in several other places where coal is exceptionally dear.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000003|Trading schooners and barques used in these localities are often fitted with petroleum oil engines, which enable them to continue their voyages during calm or adverse weather.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000004|For the owners of the smaller grade of craft it was a material point in recommendation of this movement that, having no boiler or other parts liable to explode and wreck the vessel, an oil engine may be worked without the attendance of a certificated engineer.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000005|As soon as this legal question was settled a considerable impetus was given to the extension of the auxiliary principle for sailing ships.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000006|The shorter duration of the average voyage made by the sail and oil power vessels had the effect of enabling shippers to realise upon the goods carried more speedily than would have been possible under the old system of sail power alone.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000012_000001|For ocean greyhounds carrying mails and passengers the prime necessity of high speed has to a large extent obliterated any such separating line between waste and economy.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000012_000002|It is, however, a mistake to imagine that the cargo steamer of the future will be in any sense a replica of the mail boat of to day.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000012_000003|The opposition presented by the water to the passage of a vessel increases by leaps and bounds as soon as the rate now adopted by the cargo steamer is passed, and thus presents a natural barrier beyond which it will not be economically feasible to advance much further.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000013_000000|If then we recognise clearly that steam cargo transport across the ocean can only be done remuneratively at about one half the speed now attained by the very fastest mail boats, we shall soon perceive also that the chances of the auxiliary principle, if wisely introduced, placing the "sailer" on a level with the cargo ship worked by steam alone, are by no means hopeless.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000013_000001|A type of vessel which can be trusted to make some ten or twelve knots regularly, and which can also take advantage of the power of the wind whenever it is in its favour, must inevitably possess a material advantage over the steam cargo slave in economy of working, while making almost the same average passages as its rival.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000014_000000|Then, also, the sailless cargo slave, in the keen competition that must arise, will be fitted with such appliances as human ingenuity can in future devise, or has already tentatively suggested, for invoking the aid of natural powers in order to supplement the steam engine and effect a saving in fuel.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000014_000001|One of these will no doubt be the adoption of the heavy pendulum with universal joint movement in a special hold of the vessel so connected with an air compression plant that its movements may continually work to fill a reservoir of air at a high pressure.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000014_000002|The marine engines of the ordinary type will then be adapted to work with compressed air, and the true steam engine itself will be used for operating an air compressor on the system adopted in mines.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000015_000000|The pendulum apparatus, of course, is really a device for enabling a vessel to derive, from the power of the waves which raise her and roll her, an impetus in the desired direction of her course.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000015_000002|These undoubtedly are dangers which have to be provided against, and probably the occasional lack of care has been the cause of many an unreported loss, as well as of recorded mishaps from broken tail shafts and screws, or from explosions far out at sea.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000016_000001|The swinging framework would then be steadied by the friction brake gripping it gradually.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000017_000000|Auxiliary machinery of this class can only be made use of, as already indicated, to a certain strictly limited extent, owing to the tendency of any swinging weight in a vessel to aggravate the rolling during heavy weather.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000017_000003|No kind of floating appendage, moving independently of the vessel, could exercise any actual force by the uprising of a wave in lifting it without being to some extent sunk in the water; and, accordingly, when the waves were running high there would be imminent risk that heavy volumes of water would get upon the apparatus and prevent the ship from righting itself.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000017_000004|Many of the schemes that have been put forward, by patent and otherwise, for the automatic propulsion of ships have entirely failed to commend themselves by reason of their taking little or no account of the behaviour of a ship, fitted with the proposed inventions, during very rough and trying weather.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000000|The swinging pendulum, with connected apparatus for compressing air or, perhaps, for generating the electric current, seems to be the most controllable and therefore the safest of the various types of apparatus which are applicable to the utilisation of wave power for propulsion.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000001|In the construction of connecting machinery by which the movements of a pendulum hanging up from a universal joint may be transmitted to wheels or pistons operating compressors or dynamos, it is necessary to transform all motions passing in any direction through the spherical or bowl shaped figure traced out by the end of the pendulum in the course of its swinging.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000002|This may be effected, for instance, in the case of a pendulum working air compressors, by mounting the latter on bearings like those of the gun carriage in a field piece, and having two of them operating one at right angles to the other.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000004|Air tight joints in the pipes which lead to the compressed air reservoir are placed in the bearings of this mounting.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000005|We thus have the same kind of provision for taking advantage of a universal movement in space as is made in solid geometry by three co ordinates at right angles to one another for measuring such movements.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000019_000001|As the pendulum moves it throws one or more of these piston rod ends into contact with the inner surface of the ring, driving it into the compressing pump.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000019_000002|At the top of the pendulum there is a double or universal pipe joint through which the air under pressure is driven to the reservoir, and by which the apparatus is also hung.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000019_000003|This is the simplest, and in some respects the best, form.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000000|A very simple type of the wave power motor as applied to marine propulsion is based upon an idea taken from the mode of progression adopted by certain crustaceans, namely the possession of the means for drawing in and rapidly ejecting the water.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000002|A very much simplified form of the pendulous or rocking weight is applicable in this case.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000003|A considerable amount of cargo is stowed away in an inner hull, taking the shape of what is practically a gigantic cradle rocking upon semicircular lines of railway iron laid down in the form of ribs of the ship.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000004|To the sides of these large rocking receptacles are connected the rods carrying, at their other ends, the pistons of large force pumps which draw the water in at one stroke and force it out to sternwards, below the water line, at the other.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000000|In this arrangement it is obvious that only the "roll" and not the "pitch" of the vessel can be utilised as the medium through which to obtain propulsive force.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000001|But it is probable that fully eighty per cent. of the movements of a vessel during a long voyage-as indicated, say, by the direction and sweep of its mast heads-consists of the roll.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000002|Each ton of goods moved through a vertical distance of one foot in relation to the hull of the vessel, has in it the potentiality of developing, when fourteen or fifteen movements occur per minute, about one horse power.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000003|A cradle containing two hundred tons, as may therefore be imagined, can be made to afford very material assistance in helping forward a sailing ship during a calm.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000022_000000|For sailing ships especially, the rocking form of wave motor as an aid to propulsion will be recommended on account of the fact that when the weather is "on the beam" both of its sources of power can be kept in full use.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000022_000003|The advantage of the wave power, however, would be seen mainly during the calm and desultory weather which has virtually been the means of forcing sail power to resign its supremacy to steam.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000023_000000|For checking the rocker in time of heavy weather special appliances are necessary, which, of course, must be easily operated from the deck.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000023_000001|Wedge shaped pieces with rails attached may be driven down by screws upon the sides of the vessel, thus having the effect of gradually narrowing the amplitude of the rocking motion until a condition of stability with reference to the hull has been attained.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000000|In the building of steel ships, as well as in the construction of bridges and other erections demanding much metal work, great economies will be introduced by the reduction of the extent to which riveting will be required when the full advantages of hydraulic pressure are realised.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000001|The plates used in the building of a ship will be "knocked up" at one side and split at the other, with the object of making joints without the need for using rivets to anything like the extent at present required.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000002|In putting the plates thus treated together to form the hull of a vessel the swollen side of one plate is inserted between the split portions of another and the latter parts are then clamped down by heavy hydraulic pressure.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000004|Through this reform, and the further use of steel ribs for imparting strength and thus admitting of the employment of thinner steel plates for the actual shell, the cost of shipbuilding will be very greatly reduced.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000001|The grain elevator system is only the beginning of a revolution in this department which will not end until the loading and unloading of ships have become almost entirely the work of machinery.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000002|The principle of the miner's tool known as the "sand auger" may prove itself very useful in this connection.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000003|From a heap of tailings the miner can select a sample, by boring into it with a thin tube, inside of which revolves a shaft carrying at its end a flat steel rotary scoop.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000004|The auger, after working its way to the bottom of the heap, is raised, and, of course, it contains a fair sample of the sand at all depths from the top downwards.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000005|On a somewhat similar principle the unloading of ships laden with grain, ore, coal, and all other articles which can be handled in bulk and divided, will be carried out by machines which, by rotary action, will work their way down to the bottom of the hull and will then be elevated by powerful lifting cranes.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000006|For other classes of goods permanent packages and tramways will be provided in each ship, and trucks will be supplied at the wharf.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000000|For coastal passages across shallow but rough water like the English Channel, the services of moving bridges will be called into requisition.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000001|One of these has been at work at saint Malo on the French coast opposite Jersey, and another was more recently constructed on the English coast near Brighton.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000002|For the longer and much more important service across the Channel submarine rails may be laid down as in the cases mentioned, but in addition it will be necessary to provide for static stability by fixing a flounder shaped pontoon just below the greatest depth of wave disturbance, and just sufficient in buoyancy to take the great bulk of the weight of the structure off the rails.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000003|In this way passengers may be conveyed across straits like the Channel without the discomforts of sea sickness.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000027_000000|The stoking difficulties on large ocean going steamers have become so acute that they now suggest the conclusion that, notwithstanding repeated failures, a really effective mechanical stoker will be so imperatively called for as to enforce the adoption of any reasonably good device.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000027_000003|As soon as the mechanical fuel shifter has been adopted, and the boilers have been properly insulated in order to prevent the overheating of the stoke hole, the stoker will be raised to the rank of a secondary engineer, and his work will cease to be looked upon as in any sense degrading.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000028_000001|Already some owners and masters have begun to mitigate, to a certain extent, the embargo which the choice of a sea faring life has in times past been understood to place upon married men.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000028_000002|Positions are found for women as stewardesses and in other capacities, and it is coming to be increasingly recognised that there is a large amount of women's work to be done on board a ship.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000029_000001|There will be the "Ship's Shop" and the "Ship's School," the "Ship's Church" and various other institutions and societies.
train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000030_000000|Thus in the twentieth century the sea will no longer be regarded, to the same extent as in the past, as the refuge for the ne'er do well of the land living populace; and this, more than perhaps anything else, will help to render travelling by the great ocean highways safe and comfortable.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000004_000000|THE COMING OF THE SEA
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000005_000000|Once there was no sea, and the gods went walking over the green plains of earth.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000006_000002|But to the gods as They sat upon Their hilltops a new cry came crying over the green spaces that lay below the hills, and the gods said:
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000007_000000|"This is neither the cry of life nor yet the whisper of death.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000007_000001|What is this new cry that the gods have never commanded, yet which comes to the ears of the gods?"
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000008_000000|And the gods together shouting made the cry of the south, calling the south wind to them.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000009_000001|Then for a space Slid and the four winds struggled with one another till the strength of the winds was gone, and they limped back to the gods, their masters, and said:
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000010_000000|"We have met this new thing that has come upon the earth and have striven against its armies, but could not drive them forth; and the new thing is beautiful but very angry, and is creeping towards the gods."
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000001|Then from Their hills the gods sent down a great array of cliffs against hard, red rocks, and bade them march against Slid.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000003|Then Slid sent some of his smaller waves to search out what stood against him, and the cliffs shattered them.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000005|And again Slid called up out of his deep a mighty array of waves and sent them roaring against the guardians of the gods, and the red rocks frowned and smote them.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000007|Then into every cleft that stood in the rocks Slid sent his hugest wave and others followed behind it, and Slid himself seized hold of huge rocks with his claws and tore them down and stamped them under his feet.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000008|And when the tumult was over the sea had won, and over the broken remnants of those red cliffs the armies of Slid marched on and up the long green valley.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000014_000002|And passing across the world they came at last to where the white cliffs stood, and, coming behind them, split them here and there and went through their broken ranks to Slid at last.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000014_000003|And the gods were angry with Their traitorous streams.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000017_000001|And now, Tintaggon, thine ancient lords, the gods, are facing a new thing which overthrows the old.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000017_000002|Go therefore, thou, Tintaggon, and stand up against Slid, that the gods be still the gods and the earth still green."
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000019_000005|And I will deck thee with all the robes of the sea, and all the plunder that I have taken in rare cities shall be piled before thy feet.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000019_000006|Tintaggon, I have conquered all the stars, my song swells through all the space besides, I come victorious from Mahn and Khanagat on the furthest edge of the worlds, and thou and I are to be equal lords when the old gods are gone and the green earth knoweth Slid.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000022_000000|And all the while that Slid sang his songs and played with the nautilus that sailed up and down he gathered his oceans together.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000022_000005|Very calm the sea lies now about Tintaggon's feet, where he stands all black amid crumbled cliffs of white, with red rocks piled about his feet.
train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000022_000006|And often the sea retreats far out along the shore, and often wave by wave comes marching in with the sound of the tramping of armies, that all may still remember the great fight that surged about Tintaggon once, when he guarded the gods and the green earth against Slid.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000001_000000|A LEGEND OF THE DAWN
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000003_000001|Then running down the stairway of the gods with tripping feet, chalcedony, onyx, chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her golden ball across the sky.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000004_000003|All in the dark among the crags in a mighty cavern, guarded by two twin peaks, at last they found the golden ball for which the Dawnchild wept.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000005_000004|And again the gods were sorry, and the South Wind came to tell her tales of most enchanted islands, to whom she listened not, nor yet to the tales of temples in lone lands that the East Wind told her, who had stood beside her when she flung her golden ball.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000005_000005|But from far away the West Wind came with news of three grey travellers wrapt round with battered cloaks that carried away between them a golden ball.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000006_000001|And in the darkness underneath the world he met the three grey travellers and rushed upon them and drove them far before him, smiting them with his sword till their grey cloaks streamed with blood.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000008_000003|And the child cried and threw it upon the stairway and chipped and broke its edges and asked for the golden ball.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000008_000007|A heron had seen it lying in a pond, but a wild duck in some reeds had seen it last as she came home across the hills, and then it was rolling very far away.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000009_000000|At last the cock cried out that he had seen it lying beneath the world. There Limpang Tung sought it and the cock called to him through the darkness as he went, until at last he found the golden ball.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000009_000003|We found the golden ball."
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000014_000001|When Inzana saw the Eclipse bearing her plaything away she cried aloud to the thunder, who burst from Pegana and fell howling upon the throat of the Eclipse, who dropped the golden ball and let it fall towards earth.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000014_000004|And then she cried because there was none to find it, for the thunder was far away chasing the Eclipse, and all the gods lamented when They saw her sorrow.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000015_000000|And into the world he went till he came to the nether cliffs that stand by the inner mountains in the soul and heart of the earth where the Earthquake dwelleth alone, asleep but astir as he sleeps, breathing and moving his legs, and grunting aloud in the dark.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000016_000001|And as the golden ball went through the sky to gleam on lands and cities, there came the Fog towards it, stooping as he walked with his dark brown cloak about him, and behind him slunk the Night.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000017_000000|At the entreaty of Their Dawnchild all the gods made Themselves stars for torches, and far away through all the sky followed the tracks of Night as far as he prowled abroad.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000018_000002|And the child played all day long with the golden ball down in the little fields where the humans lived, and went to bed at evening and put it beneath his pillow, and went to sleep, and no one worked in all the world because the child was playing.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000018_000003|And the light of the golden ball streamed up from under the pillow and out through the half shut door and shone in the western sky, and Yoharneth Lahai in the night time tip toed into the room, and took the ball gently (for he was a god) away from under the pillow and brought it back to the Dawnchild to gleam on an onyx step.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000019_000001|And the hound, the thunder, shall chase the Eclipse and all the gods go seeking with Their stars, but never find the ball.
train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000020_000000|These things be hidden even from the gods.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000000_000001|A Plea
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000001_000000|When the newly married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000003_000000|"mr Darnay," said Carton, "I wish we might be friends."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000004_000000|"We are already friends, I hope."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000005_000000|"You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000005_000001|Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000008_000000|"I remember a certain famous occasion when you forced me to confess that you had been drinking."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000009_000002|I hope it may be taken into account one day, when all days are at an end for me!
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000009_000003|Don't be alarmed; I am not going to preach."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000010_000000|"I am not at all alarmed.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000011_000002|I wish you would forget it."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000012_000000|"I forgot it long ago."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000013_000000|"Fashion of speech again!
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000013_000001|But, mr Darnay, oblivion is not so easy to me, as you represent it to be to you.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000014_000002|I declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long dismissed it from my mind.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000014_000003|Good Heaven, what was there to dismiss!
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000017_000000|"Genuine truth, mr Darnay, trust me!
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000017_000001|I have gone aside from my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000017_000003|If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he'll tell you so."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000018_000000|"I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000019_000000|"Well!
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000019_000001|At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000021_000000|"But I do, and you must take my word for it.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000021_000001|Well!
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000022_000000|"Will you try?"
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000023_000000|"That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I have indicated.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000023_000001|I thank you, Darnay.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000023_000002|I may use that freedom with your name?"
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000024_000000|"I think so, Carton, by this time."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000025_000000|They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000029_000000|"Yes, dearest Charles," with her hands on his breast, and the inquiring and attentive expression fixed upon him; "we are rather thoughtful to night, for we have something on our mind to night."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000031_000000|"Will you promise not to press one question on me, if I beg you not to ask it?"
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000032_000000|"Will I promise?
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000034_000000|"I think, Charles, poor mr Carton deserves more consideration and respect than you expressed for him to night."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000035_000000|"Indeed, my own?
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000035_000001|Why so?"
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000036_000000|"That is what you are not to ask me.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000038_000001|I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000038_000002|My dear, I have seen it bleeding."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000039_000000|"It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000039_000001|I never thought this of him."
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000040_000000|"My husband, it is so.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000040_000001|I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000042_000000|"And, O my dearest Love!" she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, "remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!"
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000043_000000|The supplication touched him home.
train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000044_000001|If one forlorn wanderer then pacing the dark streets, could have heard her innocent disclosure, and could have seen the drops of pity kissed away by her husband from the soft blue eyes so loving of that husband, he might have cried to the night-and the words would not have parted from his lips for the first time-
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000014_000001|If you will go along with me I will make your fortune also."
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000017_000000|"Not I," said Babo; "I will carry no stone with me.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000023_000000|The stone?
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000023_000003|"Give me a piece of your bread, master," said he.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000025_000000|The next morning off they started again bright and early, and before long they came to just such another field of stones as they left behind them the day before.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000026_000001|We may need something more to eat before the day is over."
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000028_000003|At last they came to a great wide plain, where neither stock nor stone was to be seen, but only a gallows tree, upon which one poor wight hung dancing upon nothing at all, and there night caught them again.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000030_000000|But listen to what happened.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000043_000003|Then the smith let him go, and off he marched in a huff.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000049_000000|"Help!" bawled Babo.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000049_000001|"Help!
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000049_000002|Murder!"
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000051_000000|"Stop, friend," said he to the smith, "let the simpleton go; this is not past mending yet."
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000062_000000|"Bless you!
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000062_000001|Bless you!" said the rich man.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000064_000003|You must have been dreaming!
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000064_000004|See, here are two hundred silver pennies, and that is enough and more than enough for six drops of medicine."
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000069_000000|Down the stairs stumped the doctor with Babo at his heels.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000069_000001|There stood the cook waiting for them.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000073_000000|"Very well," said the cook, and he counted out the two hundred pennies, and Babo slipped them into his pocket.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000080_000001|And then, besides, how about the fortune you promised me?"
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000099_000000|"I got it for a piece of advice," said Babo.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000100_000000|For a piece of advice!
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000102_000001|"I got it for a piece of advice," said he.
train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000112_000001|When Babo came the next morning the king gave him ten chests full of money, and that made the simpleton richer than anybody in all that land.
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000010_000000|One of his neighbours, a lady of quality, had two daughters who were perfect beauties.
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000011_000001|There was nothing then to be seen but parties of pleasure, hunting, fishing, dancing, mirth and feasting. Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon each other.
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000021_000000|"What," said he, "is not the key of my closet among the rest?"
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000023_000000|"Fail not," said Blue Beard, "to bring it me presently."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000025_000000|"How comes this blood upon the key?"
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000029_000000|"You must die, Madam," said he, "and that presently."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000033_000000|"Sister Anne" (for that was her name), "go up I beg you, upon the top of the tower, and look if my brothers are not coming; they promised me that they would come to day, and if you see them, give them a sign to make haste."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000043_000000|"Come down quickly," cried Blue Beard, "or I will come up to you."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000046_000000|"I see," replied sister Anne, "a great dust that comes this way."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000047_000000|"Are they my brothers?"
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000048_000000|"Alas! no, my dear sister, I see a flock of sheep."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000049_000000|"Will you not come down?" cried Blue Beard.
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000052_000000|"I see," said she, "two horsemen coming, but they are yet a great way off."
train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000053_000000|"God be praised," she cried presently, "they are my brothers; I am beckoning to them, as well as I can, for them to make haste."
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000002_000000|The First View: The Bridal Veil
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000007_000000|General Features Of The Valley
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000014_000000|The Upper Canyons
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000016_000000|In the south branch, a mile or two from the main Valley, is the Illilouette Fall, six hundred feet high, one of the most beautiful of all the Yosemite choir, but to most people inaccessible as yet on account of its rough, steep, boulder choked canyon.
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000020_000001|For all these the beautiful meadows near the Soda Springs form a delightful center.
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000021_000000|Natural Features Near The Valley
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000024_000001|In the basin of the Illilouette there are sixteen, in the Tenaya basin and its branches thirteen, in the Yosemite Creek basin fourteen, and in the Pohono or Bridal Veil one, making a grand total of one hundred and eleven lakes whose waters come to sing at Yosemite.
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000026_000000|Down The Yosemite Creek
train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000028_000004|The total descent made by the stream from its highest sources to its confluence with the Merced in the Valley is about six thousand feet, while the distance is only about ten miles, an average fall of six hundred feet per mile.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000002_000002|Their only pet was a dog named Shiro, and on him they lavished all the affection of their old age.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000002_000003|Indeed, they loved him so much that whenever they had anything nice to eat they denied themselves to give it to Shiro.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000002_000004|Now Shiro means "white," and he was so called because of his color.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000003_000001|Sure enough, Shiro was waiting for his master and the evening tit bit.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000005_000001|He ran back to the house, fetched his spade and began to dig the ground at that spot.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000009_000001|He then took his spade and hastened to his own field, forcing the unwilling Shiro to follow him.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000010_000001|You must find them for me!
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000010_000002|Where are they? Where?
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000010_000003|Where?"
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000013_000004|He seized his spade, and with all his strength struck Shiro and killed him on the spot.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000013_000006|Then he returned to the house, telling no one, not even his wife, what he had done.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000015_000001|Out of the trunk he made a mortar.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000017_000001|They tasted the cakes and found them nicer than any other food.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000023_000003|Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog."
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000028_000001|This Knight told him that he was a retainer of a great Daimio (Earl); that one of the favorite cherry trees in this nobleman's garden had withered, and that though every one in his service had tried all manner of means to revive it, none took effect. The Knight was sore perplexed when he saw what great displeasure the loss of his favorite cherry tree caused the Daimio.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000029_000000|"And," added the Knight, "I shall be very much obliged if you will come at once."
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000036_000001|I shall look on."
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000040_000005|The Daimio ordered that henceforth the old man should call himself by the name of Hana Saka Jijii, or "The Old Man who makes the Trees to Blossom," and that henceforth all were to recognize him by this name, and he sent him home with great honor.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000050_000000|"Yes, my Lord!"
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000051_000000|"That is strange!" said the Daimio.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000052_000000|"I am the true Hana Saka Jijii.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000055_000000|But not only did the tree not burst into flower, but not even a bud came forth.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000055_000002|But all to no effect.
train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000055_000005|From this imprisonment the wicked old man was never freed. Thus did he meet with punishment at last for all his evil doings.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000002_000001|Her countenance, too, carried a peculiar something that the artist's eye was quick to detect, and that the artist's fingers tingled to put on canvas.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000003_000000|"Jove!
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000004_000001|Billy wished, sometimes, that she did not so often seem to Bertram-a picture.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000005_000000|She turned to Cyril with outstretched hand.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000008_000003|He's expected always to remove her quietly but effectually, whenever he sees that she is likely to interrupt a tete a tete.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000009_000001|She dropped into a chair and raised both her hands, palms outward.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000010_000001|I've had all I can stand, already."
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000011_000000|"All you can stand?"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000012_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000013_000001|This last was from Bertram, spoken softly, and with a hurried glance toward the hall.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000014_000000|Billy dropped her hands and lifted her head.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000014_000001|By heroic effort she pulled her face into sobriety-all but her eyes-and announced:
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000019_000000|Three masculine forms sat suddenly erect.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000024_000000|Billy began to laugh again, yet she was plainly trying to control herself.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000000|"I'll tell you.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000001|I must tell you.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000003|"But it was so funny, when I expected a girl, you know, to see him with his brown beard, and he was so tall and big!
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000005|Oh, it was so funny!"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000028_000000|"Did the creature sign himself 'Mary Jane'?" exploded Bertram.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000030_000000|"Didn't he write again?" asked William.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000031_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000034_000001|He thought it was too good a joke."
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000035_000000|"Joke!" scoffed Cyril.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000036_000000|"But, see here, Billy, he isn't going to live here-now?" Bertram's voice was almost savage.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000037_000000|"Oh, no, he isn't going to live here-now," interposed smooth tones from the doorway.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000038_000000|"mr--Arkwright!" breathed Billy, confusedly.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000039_000000|Three crimson faced men sprang to their feet.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000039_000001|The situation, for a moment, threatened embarrassed misery for all concerned; but Arkwright, with a cheery smile, advanced straight toward Bertram, and held out a friendly hand.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000041_000000|Naturally, after this, there could be nothing stiff or embarrassing. Billy laughed in relief, and motioned mr Arkwright to a seat near her. William said "Of course, of course!" and shook hands again.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000041_000001|Bertram and Cyril laughed shamefacedly and sat down.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000041_000002|Somebody said: "But what does the 'M.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000043_000000|After dinner somebody suggested music.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000044_000000|Cyril frowned, and got up abruptly.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000045_000000|Bertram twinkled and glanced at Billy.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000048_000000|"You see," explained Bertram, jauntily, to Arkwright, whose eyes were slightly puzzled, "Cyril never plays unless the piano and the pedals and the weather and your ears and my watch and his fingers are just right!"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000049_000000|"Nonsense!" scorned Cyril, dropping his book and walking back to his chair.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000049_000001|"I don't feel like playing to night; that's all."
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000050_000000|"You see," nodded Bertram again.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000051_000000|"I see," bowed Arkwright with quiet amusement.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000052_000000|"I believe-mr
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000054_000000|Everybody laughed.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000055_000001|"Can you-without your notes?
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000055_000002|I have lots of songs if you want them."
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000056_000000|For a moment-but only a moment-Arkwright hesitated; then he rose and went to the piano.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000000|Cyril's chin had lifted at the first tone.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000001|He was listening now with very obvious pleasure.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000002|Bertram, too, was showing by his attitude the keenest appreciation.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000006|She seemed scarcely to move or to breathe till the song's completion; then there came a low "Oh, how beautiful!" through her parted lips.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000059_000000|Bertram, looking at her, was conscious of a vague irritation.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000060_000001|"I wish I could sing like that!"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000062_000002|There, here it is.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000062_000003|Just let me play it for you." And she slipped into the place the singer had just left.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000000|It was the beginning of the end.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000002|Then came Nevin again, Billy still playing the accompaniment.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000003|Next followed a duet.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000004|Billy did not consider herself much of a singer, but her voice was sweet and true, and not without training. It blended very prettily with the clear, pure tenor.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000065_000000|Bertram, still sitting stiffly erect in his chair, was not conscious of a vague irritation now.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000065_000004|He wondered how long it took to teach a man to sing, anyhow; and he wondered if a man could sing-who never had sung.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000066_000000|At this point the duet came to an end, and Billy and her guest left the piano.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000066_000001|Almost at once, after this, Arkwright made his very graceful adieus, and went off with his suit case to the hotel where, as he had informed Aunt Hannah, his room was already engaged.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000067_000000|William went home then, and Aunt Hannah went up stairs.
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000068_000000|"Billy, how long does it take-to learn to sing?"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000070_000000|Bertram wished then he had not asked the question; but all he said was:
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000071_000000|"'mr
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000071_000002|What an absurd name!"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000072_000000|"But doesn't he sing beautifully?"
train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000073_000001|Oh, yes, he sings all right," said Bertram's tongue.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000002_000000|THE DANCE
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000003_000000|"Are you all set?
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000003_000001|Then dance!
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000004_000002|On went the dance; and through the atmosphere-thick with tobacco smoke-the native women were guided, their bronzed faces speaking excitement.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000006_000001|Squaws, who had not yet learned the dance, sat on boxes.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000006_000002|The three friends crowded into the room and stood with their backs against the wall.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000008_000000|"A la main left." All stood to attention.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000008_000001|"First gent swing the left hand lady, with the left hand round."
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000009_000001|The ladies turned to the right.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000010_000001|This movement brought them opposite, and so they were in a circle, at which they balanced, the men facing outwards, the women inwards.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000011_000000|"On to the next!"
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000013_000000|"On the next!"--again brought the men facing outwards, the ladies inwards-and so on.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000014_000000|"Promenade all Around the hall, And seat your ladies at the ball."
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000015_000001|The music was weird and discordant.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000016_000000|"Say! why don't you fellows get in and dance?"
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000019_000001|I saw a squaw looking at you and saying 'heap dam dood,' so if you want to keep your station in society you've got to dance." Haskins was again worrying them.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000020_000000|"All right.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000020_000001|Who will I ask to dance?" George was ready.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000021_000001|She it was who had said "Heap dam dood."
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000022_000000|George went and invited her to be his partner.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000026_000000|The squaw in the corner was keeping her eye on George with evident dislike.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000026_000001|As john noticed this he recommended their departure; so George and he went back to bed.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000027_000001|Well-you'll get the worst of it.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000034_000000|"Too much police-too much law and order; you can never have a real live mining camp in Canada."
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000037_000000|Frank chuckled; and then, as the prospect of an international argument did not seem good, went on another tack.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000040_000002|No-the question was too serious.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000040_000004|He felt called upon to answer,
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000041_000000|"Yes, I do."
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000043_000000|"Well, partner, I don't.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000044_000002|Now, say!
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000045_000001|He had, it is true, discussed doctrine at college with his class mates.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000045_000006|He did not know what to say; he said nothing.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000046_000000|Frank Corte was working at his bread again, his face twitching with a smile.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000048_000000|Frank Corte returned to the kneading, while john Berwick thoughtfully watched the sun flooded landscape.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000050_000000|"The Bible tells a story of the origin of man, which we may or may not believe.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000050_000001|The Bible says there is a God; and God sees best not to explain His schemes and why He makes man and animals suffer.
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000051_000000|john paused, and would have added something; but Frank, his face half flushed in confusion, his voice less rasping than usual, broke in,
train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000052_000000|"Say! stranger, when I first saw you I sized you up along with the Siwashes as a 'heap dam dood,' though I didn't like to say it serious like; but that's a pretty good talk of yours, and, sure, sounds natural.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000001_000001|Marston's manner was changed towards her; he seemed shy, cowed, and uneasy in her presence, and thenceforth she saw less than ever of him.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000001_000002|Meanwhile the time approached which was to witness the long expected, and, by Rhoda, the intensely prayed for arrival of her brother.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000005_000000|We must now follow mr Marston in his solitary expedition to Chester. When he took his place in the stagecoach he had the whole interior of the vehicle to himself, and thus continued to be its solitary occupant for several miles.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000005_000001|The coach, however, was eventually hailed, brought to, and the door being opened, dr Danvers got in, and took his place opposite to the passenger already established there.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000005_000004|Embarrassing as each felt the situation to be, there was, however, no avoiding it, and, after a recognition and a few forced attempts at conversation, they became, by mutual consent, silent and uncommunicative.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000006_000000|The journey, though in point of space a mere trifle, was, in those slowcoach days, a matter of fully five hours' duration; and before it was completed the sun had set, and darkness began to close.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000006_000001|Whether it was that the descending twilight dispelled the painful constraint under which Marston had seemed to labor, or that some more purely spiritual and genial influence had gradually dissipated the repulsion and distrust with which, at first, he had shrunk from a renewal of intercourse with dr Danvers, he suddenly accosted him thus.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000007_000000|"dr Danvers, I have been fifty times on the point of speaking to you-confidentially of course-while sitting here opposite to you, what I believe I could scarcely bring myself to hint to any other man living; yet I must tell it, and soon, too, or I fear it will have told itself."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000009_000000|"Pray, Doctor Danvers, have you heard any stories of an odd kind; any surmises-I don't mean of a moral sort, for those I hold very cheap-to my prejudice?
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000010_000000|He put the question with obvious difficulty, and at last seemed to overcome his own reluctance with a sort of angry and excited self contempt and impatience.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000011_000001|I did not define it, nor do I think you suspect its nature.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000011_000002|It is a fear of nothing mortal, but of the immortal tenant of this body.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000011_000003|My mind; sir, is beginning to play me tricks; my guide mocks and terrifies me."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000012_000000|There was a perceptible tinge of horror in the look of astonishment with which dr Danvers listened.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000000|"You are a gentleman, sir, and a Christian clergyman; what I have said and shall say is confided to your honor; to be held sacred as the confession of misery, and hidden from the coarse gaze of the world.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000002|It comes at intervals.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000003|I do not think any mortal suspects it, except, maybe, my daughter Rhoda.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000004|It comes and disappears, and comes again.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000005|I kept my pleasant secret for a long time, but at last I let it slip, and committed myself fortunately, to but one person, and that my daughter; and, even so, I hardly think she understood me.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000006|I recollected myself before I had disclosed the grotesque and infernal chimera that haunts me."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000014_000000|Marston paused.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000014_000001|He was stooped forward, and looking upon the floor of the vehicle, so that his companion could not see his countenance.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000014_000002|A silence ensued, which was interrupted by Marston, who once more resumed.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000015_000001|It is, I suppose, the restless nature of the devil that is in me; but, be it what it may, I will speak to you, but to you only, for the present, at least, to you alone."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000017_000000|"The human mind, I take it, must have either comfort in the past or hope in the future," he continued, "otherwise it is in danger.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000019_000000|"No, sir, there is no comfort from that quarter either," said Marston, bitterly; "you but cast your seeds, as the parable terms your teaching, upon the barren sea, in wasting them on me.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000020_000002|Sir, this is a monstrous and hideous extravagance, a delusion, but, after all, no more than a trick of the imagination; the reason, the judgment, is untouched.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000020_000003|I cannot choose but see all the damned phantasmagoria, but I do not believe it real, and this is the difference between my case and-and-madness!"
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000021_000000|They were now entering the suburbs of Chester, and Doctor Danvers, pained and shocked beyond measure by this unlooked for disclosure, and not knowing what remark or comfort to offer, relieved his temporary embarrassment by looking from the window, as though attracted by the flash of the lamps, among which the vehicle was now moving.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000021_000001|Marston, however, laid his hand upon his arm, and thus recalled him, for a moment, to a forced attention.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000022_000000|"It must seem strange to you, Doctor, that I should trust this cursed secret to your keeping," he said; "and, truth to say, it seems so to myself.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000022_000003|The sense of solitude under this aggressive and tremendous delusion was agony, hourly death to my soul.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000022_000004|That is the secret of my talkativeness; my sole excuse for plaguing you with the dreams of a wretched hypochondriac."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000023_000001|A few minutes more, and the coach having reached its destination, they bid one another farewell, and parted.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000024_000000|At that time there resided in a decent mansion about a mile from the town of Chester, a dapper little gentleman, whom we shall call Doctor Parkes. This gentleman was the proprietor and sole professional manager of a private asylum for the insane and enjoyed a high reputation, and a proportionate amount of business, in his melancholy calling.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000024_000001|It was about the second day after the conversation we have just sketched, that this little gentleman, having visited, according to his custom, all his domestic patients, was about to take his accustomed walk in his somewhat restricted pleasure grounds, when his servant announced a visitor.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000025_000000|"A gentleman," he repeated; "you have seen him before-eh?"
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000026_000000|"No, sir," replied the man; "he is in the study, sir."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000027_000000|"Ha! a professional call.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000027_000001|Well, we shall see."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000031_000000|"My name, sir, is Marston; I have come to give you a patient."
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000032_000000|The doctor bowed with a still deeper inclination, and paused for a continuance of the communication thus auspiciously commenced.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000034_000000|"Your most obedient, humble servant, sir," replied he, with the polite formality of the day, and another grave bow.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000035_000000|"Doctor," demanded Marston, fixing his eye upon him sternly, and significantly tapping his own forehead, "can you stay execution?"
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000036_000000|The physician looked puzzled, hesitated, and at last requested his visitor to be more explicit.
train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000037_000000|"Can you," said Marston, with the same slow and stern articulation, and after a considerable pause-"can you prevent the malady you profess to cure?--can you meet and defeat the enemy halfway?--can you scare away the spirit of madness before it takes actual possession, and while it is still only hovering about its threatened victim?"
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000006_000000|The Forest Trees in General
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000001|The different species are arranged in zones and sections, which brings the forest as a whole within the comprehension of every observer.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000004|After advancing fifteen or twenty miles towards Yosemite and making an ascent of from two to three thousand feet you reach the lower margin of the main pine belt, composed of great sugar pine, yellow pine, incense cedar and sequoia.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000008|The cedar of Lebanon, said Sir Joseph Hooker, occurs upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000009|All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines, but moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000011|It appears, therefore, that the Sierra forests indicate the extent and positions of ancient moraines as well as they do belts of climate.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000000|One will have no difficulty in knowing the Nut Pine (Pinus Sabiniana), for it is the first conifer met in ascending the Range from the west, springing up here and there among Douglas oaks and thickets of ceanothus and manzanita; its extreme upper limit being about four thousand feet above the sea, its lower about from five hundred to eight hundred feet.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000001|It is remarkable for its loose, airy, wide branching habit and thin gray foliage.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000002|Full grown specimens are from forty to fifty feet in height and from two to three feet in diameter.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000003|The trunk usually divides into three or four main branches about fifteen or twenty feet from the ground that, after bearing away from one another, shoot straight up and form separate summits.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000004|Their slender, grayish needles are from eight to twelve inches long, and inclined to droop, contrasting with the rigid, dark colored trunk and branches.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000006|The cones are from five to eight inches long and about as large in thickness; rich chocolate brown in color and protected by strong, down curving nooks which terminate the scales.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000007|Nevertheless the little Douglas Squirrel can open them.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000009|The curious little Pinus attenuata is found at an elevation of from fifteen hundred to three thousand feet, growing in close groves and belts.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000010|It is exceedingly slender and graceful, although trees that chance to stand alone send out very long, curved branches, making a striking contrast to the ordinary grove form.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000011|The foliage is of the same peculiar gray green color as that of the nut pine, and is worn about as loosely, so that the body of the tree is scarcely obscured by it.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000013|Branches also soon become fruitful.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000014|The average size of the tree is about thirty or forty feet in height and twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000015|The cones are about four inches long and covered with a sort of varnish and gum, rendering them impervious to moisture.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000009_000000|No observer can fail to notice the admirable adaptation of this curious pine to the fire swept regions where alone it is found.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000010_000000|The Sugar Pine, King Of Pine Trees
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000000|Of all the world's eighty or ninety species of pine trees, the Sugar Pine (Pinus Lambertiana) is king, surpassing all others, not merely in size but in lordly beauty and majesty.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000004|Toward the head of this magnificent column long branches sweep gracefully outward and downward, sometimes forming a palm like crown, but far more impressive than any palm crown I ever beheld.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000007|The cones are about fifteen to eighteen inches long, and three in diameter; green, shaded with dark purple on their sunward sides.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000010|The wood is deliciously fragrant, fine in grain and texture and creamy yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000011|The sugar from which the common name is derived is, I think, the best of sweets.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000012|It exudes from the heart wood where wounds have been made by forest fires or the ax, and forms irregular, crisp, candy like kernels of considerable size, something like clusters of resin beads. When fresh it is white, but because most of the wounds on which it is found have been made by fire the sap is stained and the hardened sugar becomes brown.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000013|Indians are fond of it, but on account of its laxative properties only small quantities may be eaten.
train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000018|They are the priests of pines and seem ever to be addressing the surrounding forest.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000004_000000|MEMORY RHYMES.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000005_000000|The Months.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000007_000000|Birthdays.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000008_000000|Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000009_000000|The lines refer to the days of the week as birthdays.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000009_000001|They are, in idea, the same as the more familiar lines:
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000010_000000|Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is merry and glad, Thursday's child is sorry and sad; Friday's child is loving and giving; Saturday's child must work for its living; While the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is blithe and bonny and good and gay.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000011_000000|Short Grammar.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000013_000000|To Tell the Age of Horses.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000014_000000|To tell the age of any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000015_000000|Two middle "nippers" you behold Before the colt is two weeks old, Before eight weeks will two more come; Eight months the "corners" cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year. In two years, from the second pair; In three, the corners, too, are bare.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000018_000000|A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000019_000000|The Cuckoo.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000020_000000|May-sings all the day; June-changes his tune; July-prepares to fly; August-go he must.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000021_000000|Rules for Riding.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000022_000000|Keep up your head and your heart, Your hands and your heels keep down, Press your knees close to your horse's side, And your elbows close to your own.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000023_000000|HAPPINESS DEFINED.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000026_000000|A "will o'-the wisp" which eludes us even when we grasp it.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000027_000001|The ever retreating summit on the hill of our ambition.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000028_000000|The prize at the top of a greasy pole which is continually slipping from one's grasp.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000029_000000|The only thing a man continues to search for after he has found it.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000030_000000|The bull's eye on the target at which all the human race are shooting.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000031_000000|The goal erected for the human race, which few reach, being too heavily handicapped.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000032_000000|A wayside flower growing only by the path of duty.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000033_000000|A bright and beautiful butterfly, which many chase but few can take.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000034_000000|The interest we receive from capital invested in good works.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000035_000000|The birthright of contentment.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000036_000000|A treasure which we search for far and wide, though oft times it is lying at our feet.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000038_000000|APPALLING DEPTHS OF SPACE. Distances that Stun the Mind and Baffle Comprehension.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000000|"The stars," though appearing small to us because of their immense distance, are in reality great and shining suns.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000001|If we were to escape from the earth into space, the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and eventually the sun would become invisible.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000002|Mizar, the middle star in the tail of the Great Bear, is forty times as heavy as the sun
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000003|To the naked eye there are five or six thousand of these heavenly bodies visible.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000000|Cygni is the nearest star to us in this part of the sky.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000003|At the speed of an electric current, one hundred eighty thousand miles per second, a message to be sent from a point on the earth's surface would go seven times around the earth in one second.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000004|Let it be supposed that messages were sent off to the different heavenly bodies.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000005|To reach the moon at this rate it would take about one second.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000006|In eight minutes a message would get to the sun, and allowing for a couple of minutes' delay, one could send a message to the sun and get an answer all within twenty minutes.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000008|If, when Wellington won the battle of Waterloo, in eighteen fifteen, the news had been telegraphed off immediately, there are some stars so remote that it would not yet have reached them.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000009|To go a step further, if in ten sixty six the result of the Norman Conquest had been wired to some of these stars, the message would still be on its way.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000041_000000|SENATOR VEST'S EULOGY ON THE DOG.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000000|"Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000002|Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000003|The money that a man has he may lose.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000004|It flies away from him when he may need it most.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000006|The people who are prone to fall on their knees and do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our head.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000007|The one absolutely unselfish friend a man may have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is the dog.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000043_000000|"Gentlemen of the jury, A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and in sickness.
train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000043_000003|He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000001_000000|CHAPTER two-A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000000|These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called twenty years.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000001|They were four Oscars; for, at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000002|Burn for him the perfumes of Araby! exclaimed romance.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000003|Oscar advances.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000004|Oscar, I shall behold him! People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of Waterloo.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000005_000000|Favourite, Dahlia, Zephine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, perfumed and radiant, still a little like working women, and not yet entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall in woman.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000005_000002|Not to conceal anything, the three first were more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000001|Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000002|These badly guarded souls listen.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000003|Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the stones which are thrown at them.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000004|They are overwhelmed with splendor of all that is immaculate and inaccessible.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000002|Her father was an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, who went out to give lessons in spite of his age.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000003|This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000004|The result had been Favourite.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000005|She met her father from time to time, and he bowed to her.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000006|One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, Mamemoiselle?" "no"
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000007|"I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, and installed herself.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000008|This cross and pious old mother never spoke to Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, where she spoke ill of her daughter.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000008_000001|How could she make such nails work?
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000008_000002|She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. As for Zephine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing little way of saying "Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000009_000000|The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000009_000001|Such loves are always accompanied by such friendships.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000010_000000|Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular households, Favourite, Zephine, and Dahlia were philosophical young women, while Fantine was a good girl.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000011_000001|Solomon would reply that love forms a part of wisdom.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000011_000002|We will confine ourselves to saying that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000012_000000|She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of them.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000001|Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000003|Who can say?
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000004|She had never known father or mother.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000006|Why Fantine?
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000007|She had never borne any other name.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000008|At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000009|She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal name; the Church no longer existed.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000012|She was called little Fantine.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000013|No one knew more than that.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000014|This human creature had entered life in just this way.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000015|At the age of ten, Fantine quitted the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000016|At fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, and remained pure as long as she could.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000018|She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000014_000000|She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000016_000000|An amour for him; passion for her.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000016_000001|The streets of the Latin quarter, filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of their dream.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000016_000004|In short, the eclogue took place.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000017_000001|It was he who possessed the wit.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000000|Tholomyes was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on Mount Sainte Genevieve.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000001|Tholomyes was a fast man of thirty, and badly preserved.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000003|His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked by a watering in one eye.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000004|But in proportion as his youth disappeared, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. He was dilapidated but still in flower.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000005|His youth, which was packing up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000006|He had had a piece rejected at the Vaudeville.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000009|Being thus ironical and bald, he was the leader.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000010|Iron is an English word.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000011|Is it possible that irony is derived from it?
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000020_000001|We have promised them solemnly that we would.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000021_000000|Thereupon, Tholomyes lowered his voice and articulated something so mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea."
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000022_000000|A smoky tap room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow.
train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000023_000000|The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four young girls.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000000_000000|It was done as the king said, and by and by Aben Hassen the Fool lay in the prison, smarting and sore with the whipping he had had.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000003_000002|In the meantime bear thy punishment; perhaps it will cure thee of thy folly.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000003_000003|Only do not call upon Zadok, the King of the Demons, in this thy trouble."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000004_000000|The young man smote his hand upon his head.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000004_000001|"What a fool I am," said he, "not to have thought to call upon Zadok before this!" Then he called aloud, "Zadok, Zadok!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000005_000001|The floor swayed and rocked beneath the young man's feet.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000006_000000|"I have come," said Zadok, "and first let me cure thy smarts, O master."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000007_000000|He removed the cloths from the young man's back, and rubbed the places that smarted with a cooling unguent.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000007_000001|Instantly the pain and smarting ceased, and the merchant's son had perfect ease.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000008_000000|"Now," said Zadok, "what is thy bidding?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000010_000000|"I bring the treasure," said Zadok, "from the treasure house of the ancient kings of Egypt.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000011_000000|"And where is this treasure house, O Zadok?" said the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000012_000001|It was I that brought him thence to this place with one vessel of gold money and one vessel of silver money."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000013_000001|Then, tell me, can you take me from here to the city of the queen of the Black Isles, whence you brought him?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000014_000000|"Yes," said Zadok, "with ease."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000015_000000|"Then," said the young man, "I command you to take me thither instantly, and to show me the treasure."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000016_000000|"I obey," said Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000000|He stamped his foot upon the ground.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000001|In an instant the walls of the prison split asunder, and the sky was above them.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000002|The Demon leaped from the earth, carrying the young man by the girdle, and flew through the air so swiftly that the stars appeared to slide away behind them.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000003|In a moment he set the young man again upon the ground, and Aben Hassen the Fool found himself at the end of what appeared to be a vast and splendid garden.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000018_000000|"We are now," said Zadok, "above the treasure house of which I spoke.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000018_000001|It was here that I saw thy father seal it so that no one but the master of Zadok may enter.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000000|"Thou shalt enter," said Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000002|Instantly the earth opened, and there appeared a flight of marble steps leading downward into the earth.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000003|Zadok led the way down the steps and the young man followed.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000004|At the bottom of the steps there was a door of adamant.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000021_000000|"Oh, fool!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000021_000001|Fool!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000021_000003|Within here shalt thou find death!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000022_000000|There was a key of brass in the door.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000022_000002|The young man entered after him.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000024_000000|The young man could not believe what he saw with his own eyes.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000025_000000|Zadok laughed.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000025_000001|"This," said he, "is nothing; come with me."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000000|He led him from this room to another-like it vaulted, and like it lit by a carbuncle set in the dome of the roof above.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000002|When the young man saw this vast and amazing wealth he stood speechless and breathless with wonder.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000003|The Demon Zadok laughed.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000004|"This," said he, "is great, but it is little.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000027_000000|He took the young man by the hand and led him into a third room-vaulted as the other two had been, lit as they had been by a carbuncle in the roof above.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000027_000002|He had to lean against the wall behind him, for the sight made him dizzy.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000028_000001|Around the wall, and facing the basin from all sides, stood six golden statues.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000029_000001|The door was tightly shut, and there was neither lock nor key to it.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000030_000001|Beyond this door is that alone which shall satisfy all thy desires."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000031_000000|"Tell me, Zadok," said the young man, after he had filled his soul with all the other wonders that surrounded him-"tell me what is there that lies beyond that door?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000033_000000|"Then open the door for me," said the young man; "for I cannot open it for myself, as there is neither lock nor key to it."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000034_000000|"That also I am forbidden to do," said Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000035_000000|"I wish that I knew what was there," said the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000036_000000|The Demon laughed.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000037_000000|He led the way and the young man followed; they passed through the vaulted rooms and out through the door of adamant, and Zadok locked it behind them and gave the key to the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000038_000001|I have shown thee how to enter, and thou mayst go in whenever it pleases thee to do so."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000039_000000|They ascended the steps, and so reached the garden above.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000040_000000|Thereupon he vanished like a flash, leaving the young man standing like one in a dream.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000000|He saw before him a garden of such splendor and magnificence as he had never dreamed of even in his wildest fancy.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000001|There were seven fountains as clear as crystal that shot high into the air and fell back into basins of alabaster.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000004|Each held a flaming torch of sandal wood.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000005|Behind the slaves stood a double row of armed men, and behind them a great crowd of other slaves and attendants, dressed each as magnificently as a prince, blazing and flaming with innumerable jewels and ornaments of gold.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000042_000000|But of all these things the young man thought nothing and saw nothing; for at the end of the marble avenue there arose a palace, the like of which was not in the four quarters of the earth-a palace of marble and gold and carmine and ultramarine-rising into the purple starry sky, and shining in the moonlight like a vision of Paradise.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000042_000001|The palace was illuminated from top to bottom and from end to end; the windows shone like crystal, and from it came sounds of music and rejoicing.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000043_000000|When the crowd that stood waiting saw the young man appear, they shouted: "Welcome!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000043_000001|Welcome!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000043_000002|To the master who has come again!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000044_000001|He was dizzy with joy.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000044_000002|"All-all this," he exulted, "belongs to me.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000044_000003|And to think that if I had listened to the Talisman of Solomon I would have had none of it."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000045_000000|That was the way he came back to the treasure of the ancient kings of Egypt, and to the palace of enchantment that his father had quitted.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000046_000001|Nor had he any fear of an end coming to it, for he knew that his treasure was inexhaustible.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000046_000002|He made friends with the princes and nobles of the land.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000046_000004|When men would praise any one they would say, "He is as rich," or as "magnificent," or as "generous, as Aben Hassen the Fool."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000047_000000|So for seven months he lived a life of joy and delight; then one morning he awakened and found everything changed to grief and mourning.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000047_000001|Where the day before had been laughter, to day was crying.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000047_000003|All the city was shrouded in gloom, and everywhere was weeping and crying.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000048_000001|"What means all this sorrow?" said he to one of the slaves.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000049_000000|Instantly all the slaves began howling and beating their heads, and he to whom the young man had spoken fell down with his face in the dust, and lay there twisting and writhing like a worm.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000050_000000|"He has asked the question!" howled the slaves-"he has asked the question!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000051_000000|"Are you mad?" cried the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000051_000001|"What is the matter with you?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000052_000001|"Tell me," said the young man, "what means all this sorrow and lamentation?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000053_000000|Instantly the beautiful slave dropped the golden basin upon the stone floor, and began shrieking and tearing her clothes.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000053_000001|"He has asked the question!" she screamed-"he has asked the question!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000054_000000|The young man began to grow frightened; he arose from his couch, and with uneven steps went out into the anteroom.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000055_000000|Instantly they who stood waiting began crying and tearing their clothes and beating their hands.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000055_000002|"What," he cried, "art thou not contented with all thou hast and with all that we do for thee without asking the forbidden question?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000056_000000|Thereupon he tore his cap from his head and flung it upon the ground, and began beating himself violently upon the head with great outcrying.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000057_000001|"I think everybody in this place has gone mad," said he.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000057_000002|"Nevertheless, if I do not find out what it all means, I shall go mad myself."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000058_000000|Then he bethought himself, for the first time since he came to that land, of the Talisman of Solomon.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000059_000000|"Tell me, O Talisman," said he, "why all these people weep and wail so continuously?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000060_000001|Be thou also further advised: do not question the Demon Zadok."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000061_000001|Then he called aloud, Zadok!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000061_000002|Zadok! Zadok!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000063_000000|"Tell me," said the young man; "I command thee to tell me, O Zadok!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000063_000001|Why are the people all gone mad this morning, and why do they weep and wail, and why do they go crazy when I do but ask them why they are so afflicted?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000064_000000|"I will tell thee," said Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000064_000003|No one since that time has been permitted to enter the palace-it is forbidden for any one even to ask a question concerning it; but every year, on the day on which the queen was turned to stone, the whole land mourns with weeping and wailing.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000064_000004|And now thou knowest all!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000065_000000|"What you tell me," said the young man, "passes wonder.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000066_000000|"Nothing is easier," said Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000068_000000|"I hear and obey," said the Demon.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000069_000000|He seized the young man by the girdle, and in an instant flew away with him to a hanging garden that lay before the queen's palace.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000070_000000|"Thou art the first man," said Zadok, "who has seen what thou art about to see for seven and thirty years.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000071_000000|He led the way, and the young man followed, filled with wonder and astonishment.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000071_000001|Not a sound was to be heard, not a thing moved, but silence hung like a veil between the earth and the sky.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000000|Following the Demon, the young man ascended a flight of steps, and so entered the vestibule of the palace.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000001|There stood guards in armor of brass and silver and gold.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000002|But they were without life-they were all of stone as white as alabaster.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000006|But each sat silent and motionless-each was a stone as white as alabaster.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000073_000000|Upon the couch in the centre of the apartment reclined a queen with a crown of gold upon her head.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000073_000002|She was cold and dead-of stone as white as marble.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000073_000003|The young man approached and looked into her face, and when he looked his breath became faint and his heart grew soft within him like wax in a flame of fire.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000000|He sighed; he melted; the tears burst from his eyes and ran down his cheeks.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000001|"Zadok!" he cried-"Zadok!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000002|Zadok!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000006|O Zadok!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000007|That she were flesh and blood, instead of cold stone!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000075_000000|"She was really alive as thou art alive, and he did truly transform her to this stone," said Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000076_000000|"And tell me," said the young man, "can she never become alive again?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000077_000001|"Listen, O master.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000077_000002|Thy father possessed a wand, half of silver and half of gold.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000078_000000|"Tell me, Zadok," cried the young man; "I command you to tell me, where is that wand of silver and gold?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000080_000000|"Then give it to me; I command you to give it to me."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000081_000001|He drew from his girdle a wand, half of gold and half of silver, as he spoke, and gave it to the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000082_000000|"Thou mayst go now, Zadok," said the young man, trembling with eagerness.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000000|Zadok laughed and vanished.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000001|The young man stood for a while looking down at the beautiful figure of alabaster.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000003|In an instant there came a marvellous change. He saw the stone melt, and begin to grow flexible and soft.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000004|He saw it become warm, and the cheeks and lips grow red with life.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000006|It grew louder and louder-it became a shout.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000084_000000|"Who are you?" it said.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000085_000000|Aben Hassen the Fool fell upon his knees.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000085_000002|"My father turned you to cold stone, and I-I have brought you back to warm life again."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000086_000000|The queen smiled-her teeth sparkled like pearls.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000087_000000|He grew suddenly dizzy; the world swam before his eyes.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000088_000001|The young man lived in a golden cloud of delight.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000088_000002|"And to think," said he, "if I had listened to that accursed Talisman of Solomon, called The Wise,' all this happiness, this ecstasy that is now mine, would have been lost to me."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000091_000000|"And do you really love me as you say?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000093_000000|"Then, as you love me, I beg one boon on you.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000094_000000|The young man was drunk with happiness.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000094_000001|"Thou shalt see it all," said he.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000095_000000|Then, for the first time, the Talisman spoke without being questioned. "Fool!" it cried; "wilt thou not be advised?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000000|"Be silent," said the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000001|"Six times, vile thing, you would have betrayed me.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000002|Six times you would have deprived me of joys that should have been mine, and each was greater than that which went before.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000004|Now," said he to the queen, "I will show you our treasure." He called aloud, "Zadok, Zadok, Zadok!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000098_000000|"I command you," said the young man, "to carry the queen and myself to the garden where my treasure lies hidden."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000099_000000|Zadok laughed aloud.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000101_000000|"Thou art where thou commandest to be," said the Demon.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000102_000001|He struck his heel upon the circle.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000102_000003|The young man descended the steps with the queen behind him, and behind them both came the Demon Zadok.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000103_000000|The young man opened the door of adamant and entered the first of the vaulted rooms.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000104_000000|When the queen saw the huge basin full of silver treasure, her cheeks and her forehead flushed as red as fire.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000105_000000|They went into the next room, and when the queen saw the basin of gold her face turned as white as ashes.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000107_000000|"Are you content?" asked the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000108_000000|The queen looked about her.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000110_000000|"No!" cried she.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000111_000000|"I do not know," said the young man.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000112_000000|"Then open the door, and let me see what lies within."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000113_000000|"I cannot open the door," said he.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000113_000001|"How can I open the door, seeing that there is no lock nor key to it?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000115_000000|They had both forgotten that the Demon Zadok was there.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000115_000001|Then the young man bethought himself of the Talisman of Solomon.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000115_000002|"Tell me, O Talisman," said he, "how shall I open yonder door?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000116_000000|"Oh, wretched one!" cried the Talisman, "oh, wretched one!
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000116_000002|Do not push the door open, for it is not locked!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000117_000000|The young man struck his head with his clinched fist.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000117_000001|"What a fool am I!" he cried.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000117_000003|Here have I been coming to this place seven months, and have never yet thought to try whether yonder door was locked or not!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000118_000000|"Open the door!" cried the queen.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000119_000000|They went forward together.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000119_000001|The young man pushed the door with his hand. It opened swiftly and silently, and they entered.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000120_000001|A flaming lamp hung from the ceiling above.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000120_000002|The young man stood as though turned to stone, for there stood a gigantic Black Demon with a napkin wrapped around his loins and a scimitar in his right hand, the blade of which gleamed like lightning in the flame of the lamp.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000121_000003|Strike, O slave!"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000122_000000|The young man heard the Demon Zadok give a yell of laughter.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000124_000003|Is there not some one here to tell us a fair story about a saint?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000126_000001|"Well, let us have it.
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000126_000003|Wilt thou not let me pay for having it filled?"
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000127_000000|"That," said the Lad who fiddled when the Jew was in the bramble bush, "may be as you please, Sir Knight; and, to tell the truth, I will be mightily glad for a drop to moisten my throat withal."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000128_000000|"But," said Fortunatus, "you have not told us what the story is to be about."
train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000130_000000|Ill Luck and the Fiddler
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000002_000000|Chapter twelve
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000003_000000|How Best to Spend One's Yosemite Time
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000004_000000|One Day Excursions
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000006_000004|From Glacier Point you look down three thousand feet over the edge of its sheer face to the meadows and groves and innumerable yellow pine spires, with the meandering river sparkling and spangling through the midst of them.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000008_000001|Thence returning to the trail, follow it to the head of the Nevada Fall.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000010_000000|One Day Excursions
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000012_000000|Another grand one day excursion is to the Upper Yosemite Fall, the top of the highest of the Three Brothers, called Eagle Peak on the Geological Survey maps; the brow of El Capitan; the head of the Ribbon Fall; across the beautiful Ribbon Creek Basin; and back to the Valley by the Big Oak Flat wagon road.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000013_000001|From the foot of the Fall the trail zigzags up a narrow canyon between the fall and a plain mural cliff that is burnished here and there by glacial action.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000014_000000|You should stop a while on a flat iron fenced rock a little below the head of the fall beside the enthusiastic throng of starry comet like waters to learn something of their strength, their marvelous variety of forms, and above all, their glorious music, gathered and composed from the snow storms, hail, rain and wind storms that have fallen on their glacier sculptured, domey, ridgy basin.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000014_000001|Refreshed and exhilarated, you follow your trail way through silver fir and pine woods to Eagle Peak, where the most comprehensive of all the views to be had on the north wall heights are displayed.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000015_000000|Dragging yourself away, go to the head of the Ribbon Fall, thence across the beautiful Ribbon Creek Basin to the Big Oak Flat stage road, and down its fine grades to the Valley, enjoying glorious Yosemite scenery all the way to the foot of El Capitan and your camp.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000016_000000|Two Day Excursions
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000000|For a two day trip I would go straight to Mount Hoffman, spend the night on the summit, next morning go down by May Lake to Tenaya Lake and return to the Valley by Cloud's Rest and the Nevada and Vernal Falls.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000001|As on the foregoing excursion, you leave the Valley by the Yosemite Falls trail and follow it to the Tioga wagon road, a short distance east of Porcupine Flat.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000002|From that point push straight up to the summit.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000003|Mount Hoffman is a mass of gray granite that rises almost in the center of the Yosemite Park, about eight or ten miles in a straight line from the Valley.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000004|Its southern slopes are low and easily climbed, and adorned here and there with castle like crumbling piles and long jagged crests that look like artificial masonry; but on the north side it is abruptly precipitous and banked with lasting snow.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000005|Most of the broad summit is comparatively level and thick sown with crystals, quartz, mica, hornblende, feldspar, granite, zircon, tourmaline, etc, weathered out and strewn closely and loosely as if they had been sown broadcast.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000007|At first sight only these radiant crystals are likely to be noticed, but looking closely you discover a multitude of very small gilias, phloxes, mimulus, etc, many of them with more petals than leaves.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000011|Northward lies Yosemite's wide basin with its domes and small lakes, shining like larger crystals; eastward the rocky, meadowy Tuolumne region, bounded by its snowy peaks in glorious array; southward Yosemite and westward the vast forest.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000013|You will find it a magnificent sky camp.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000019_000000|The most telling of all the wide Hoffman views is the basin of the Tuolumne with its meadows, forests and hundreds of smooth rock waves that appear to be coming rolling on towards you like high heaving waves ready to break, and beyond these the great mountains.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000020_000000|With your heart aglow, spangling Lake Tenaya and Lake May will beckon you away for walks on their ice burnished shores.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000021_000000|Two Day Excursions
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000023_000002|Early next morning visit the small glacier on the north side of Merced Peak, the first of the sixty five that I discovered in the Sierra.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000001|The path of the vanished glacier shone in many places as if washed with silver, and pushing up the canyon on this bright road I passed lake after lake in solid basins of granite and many a meadow along the canyon stream that links them together.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000002|The main lateral moraines that bound the view below the canyon are from a hundred to nearly two hundred feet high and wonderfully regular, like artificial embankments covered with a magnificent growth of silver fir and pine. But this garden and forest luxuriance is speedily left behind, and patches of bryanthus, cassiope and arctic willows begin to appear.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000004|Yet, strange to say, amid all this arctic repression the mountain pine on ledges and buttresses of Red Mountain seems to find the climate best suited to it.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000008|Early next morning I set out to trace the ancient glacier to its head.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000014|Climbing to the top of it, I discovered a very small but well characterized glacier swooping down from the shadowy cliffs of the mountain to its terminal moraine.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000026_000000|A Three Day Excursion
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000027_000000|The best three day excursion, as far as I can see, is the same as the first of the two day trips until you reach Lake Tenaya.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000027_000001|There instead of returning to the Valley, follow the Tioga road around the northwest side of the lake, over to the Tuolumne Meadows and up to the west base of Mount Dana.
train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000028_000003|The walking is good and almost level and from the west end of Clouds' Rest take the Clouds' Rest Trail which will lead direct to the Valley by the Nevada and Vernal Falls.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000001_000000|We come now to the grandest of all the Yosemite excursions, one that requires at least two or three weeks.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000001_000001|The best time to make it is from about the middle of July.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000002_000001|Next morning climb Mount Hoffman; thence push on past Tenaya Lake into the Tuolumne Meadows and establish a central camp near the Soda Springs, from which glorious excursions can be made at your leisure.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000002_000004|It is in the heart of the High Sierra east of Yosemite, eight thousand five hundred to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000002_000005|The gray, picturesque Cathedral Range bounds it on the south; a similar range or spur, the highest peak of which is Mount Conness, on the north; the noble Mounts Dana, Gibbs, Mammoth, Lyell, McClure and others on the axis of the Range on the east; a heaving, billowing crowd of glacier polished rocks and Mount Hoffman on the west.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000001|Tracing the river, we find that it forks a mile above the Soda Springs, the main fork turning southward to Mount Lyell, the other eastward to Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000002|Along both forks strips of meadow extend almost to their heads.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000003|The most beautiful portions of the meadows are spread over lake basins, which have been filled up by deposits from the river.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000006|The principal grass of these meadows is a delicate calamagrostis with very slender filiform leaves, and when it is in flower the ground seems to be covered with a faint purple mist, the stems of the panicles being so fine that they are almost invisible, and offer no appreciable resistance in walking through them.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000007|Along the edges of the meadows beneath the pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon leaved grasses grow in abundance, chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000005_000000|In October the nights are frosty, and then the meadows at sunrise, when every leaf is laden with crystals, are a fine sight.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000008_000000|The excursion to the top of Mount Dana is a very easy one; for though the mountain is thirteen thousand feet high, the ascent from the west side is so gentle and smooth that one may ride a mule to the very summit.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000008_000005|To the eastward you gaze far out over the desert plains and mountains of the "Great Basin," range beyond range extending with soft outlines, blue and purple in the distance.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000008_000007|To the southward there is a well defined range of pale gray extinct volcanoes, and though the highest of them rises nearly two thousand feet above the lake, you can look down from here into their circular, cup like craters, from which a comparatively short time ago ashes and cinders were showered over the surrounding sage plains and glacier laden mountains.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000009_000000|To the westward the landscape is made up of exceedingly strong, gray, glaciated domes and ridge waves, most of them comparatively low, but the largest high enough to be called mountains; separated by canyons and darkened with lines and fields of forest, Cathedral Peak and Mount Hoffman in the distance; small lakes and innumerable meadows in the foreground.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000009_000001|Northward and southward the great snowy mountains, marshaled along the axis of the Range, are seen in all their glory, crowded together in some places like trees in groves, making landscapes of wild, extravagant, bewildering magnificence, yet calm and silent as the sky.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000010_000000|Some eight glaciers are in sight.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000011_000002|It is about eight miles long and from two thousand to three thousand feet deep.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000012_000002|At one place near the summit careful climbing is necessary, but it is not so dangerous or difficult as to deter any one of ordinary skill, while the views are glorious.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000012_000004|These spurs like distinct ranges meet at your feet; therefore you look at them mostly in the direction of their extension, and their peaks seem to be massed and crowded against one another, while immense amphitheaters, canyons and subordinate ridges with their wealth of lakes, glaciers, and snow fields, maze and cluster between them.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000012_000008|A more interesting problem than a walk over a glacier thus sculptured and adorned is seldom presented to the mountaineer.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000013_000001|And it is all the more interesting since it is the highest and most enduring remnant of the great Tuolumne Glacier, whose traces are still distinct fifty miles away, and whose influence on the landscape was so profound.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000013_000002|The McClure Glacier, once a tributary of the Lyell, is smaller.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000000|The canyon begins near the lower end of the meadows and extends to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a distance of about eighteen miles, though it will seem much longer to any one who scrambles through it.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000001|It is from twelve hundred to about five thousand feet deep, and is comparatively narrow, but there are several roomy, park like openings in it, and throughout its whole extent Yosemite natures are displayed on a grand scale-domes, El Capitan rocks, gables, Sentinels, Royal Arches, Glacier Points, Cathedral Spires, etc
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000003|Its falls and cascades are innumerable.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000004|The sheer falls, except when the snow is melting in early spring, are quite small in volume as compared with those of Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy; though in any other country many of them would be regarded as wonders.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000006|The most showy and interesting of them are mostly in the upper part of the canyon, above the point of entrance of Cathedral Creek and Hoffman Creek.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000007|For miles the river is one wild, exulting, on rushing mass of snowy purple bloom, spreading over glacial waves of granite without any definite channel, gliding in magnificent silver plumes, dashing and foaming through huge boulder dams, leaping high into the air in wheel like whirls, displaying glorious enthusiasm, tossing from side to side, doubling, glinting, singing in exuberance of mountain energy.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000017_000001|There is not a dull step all the way.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000019_000001|My own Sierra trip was ten years long.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000020_000000|Other Trips From The Valley
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000025_000000|Another fine trip was up, bright and early, by Avalanche Canyon to Glacier Point, along the rugged south wall, tracing all its far outs and ins to the head of the Bridal Veil Fall, thence back home, bright and late, by a brushy, bouldery slope between Cathedral rocks and Cathedral spires and along the level Valley floor.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000026_000002|The Tuolumne grove was passed on the Big Oak Flat road, the Merced grove by the Coulterville road and the Mariposa grove by the Raymond and Wawona road.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000026_000007|All the High Sierra excursions that I have sketched cost from a dollar a week to anything you like.
train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000026_000008|None of mine when I was exploring the Sierra cost over a dollar a week, most of them less.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000004_000000|MYSTERY DEVELOPED.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000005_000001|The afternoon on which Montraville had visited her she had found herself languid and fatigued, and after making a very slight dinner had lain down to endeavour to recruit her exhausted spirits, and, contrary to her expectations, had fallen asleep.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000005_000002|She had not long been lain down, when Belcour arrived, for he took every opportunity of visiting her, and striving to awaken her resentment against Montraville.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000007_000000|She then left him with precipitation, and retiring to her own apartment, threw herself on the bed, and gave vent to an agony of grief which it is impossible to describe.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000008_000001|He then left a polite, tender note for Charlotte, and returned to New York.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000008_000002|His first business was to seek Montraville, and endeavour to convince him that what had happened would ultimately tend to his happiness: he found him in his apartment, solitary, pensive, and wrapped in disagreeable reflexions.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000009_000000|"Why how now, whining, pining lover?" said he, clapping him on the shoulder.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000009_000001|Montraville started; a momentary flush of resentment crossed his cheek, but instantly gave place to a death like paleness, occasioned by painful remembrance remembrance awakened by that monitor, whom, though we may in vain endeavour, we can never entirely silence.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000010_000000|"Belcour," said he, "you have injured me in a tender point." "Prithee, Jack," replied Belcour, "do not make a serious matter of it: how could I refuse the girl's advances? and thank heaven she is not your wife."
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000011_000000|"True," said Montraville; "but she was innocent when I first knew her. It was I seduced her, Belcour.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000011_000001|Had it not been for me, she had still been virtuous and happy in the affection and protection of her family."
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000013_000000|"I wish I had never seen her," cried he passionately, and starting from his seat.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000013_000002|He paused.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000000|"With Julia Franklin," said Belcour.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000001|The name, like a sudden spark of electric fire, seemed for a moment to suspend his faculties-for a moment he was transfixed; but recovering, he caught Belcour's hand, and cried-"Stop! stop!
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000003|I am a seducer, a mean, ungenerous seducer of unsuspecting innocence.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000004|I dare not hope that purity like her's would stoop to unite itself with black, premeditated guilt: yet by heavens I swear, Belcour, I thought I loved the lost, abandoned Charlotte till I saw Julia-I thought I never could forsake her; but the heart is deceitful, and I now can plainly discriminate between the impulse of a youthful passion, and the pure flame of disinterested affection."
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000000|At that instant Julia Franklin passed the window, leaning on her uncle's arm.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000001|She curtseyed as she passed, and, with the bewitching smile of modest cheerfulness, cried-"Do you bury yourselves in the house this fine evening, gents?" There was something in the voice! the manner!
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000002|the look! that was altogether irresistible.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000004|Belcour drew mr Franklin on one side and entered into a political discourse: they walked faster than the young people, and Belcour by some means contrived entirely to lose sight of them.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000006|Julia was leaning on his arm: he took her hand in his, and pressing it tenderly, sighed deeply, but continued silent.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000007|Julia was embarrassed; she wished to break a silence so unaccountable, but was unable; she loved Montraville, she saw he was unhappy, and wished to know the cause of his uneasiness, but that innate modesty, which nature has implanted in the female breast, prevented her enquiring.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000016_000000|"I am sorry," she replied, "that you have any cause of inquietude.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000016_000001|I am sure if you were as happy as you deserve, and as all your friends wish you-" She hesitated.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000017_000000|"Certainly," said she, "the service you have rendered me, the knowledge of your worth, all combine to make me esteem you."
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000018_000000|"Esteem, my lovely Julia," said he passionately, "is but a poor cold word.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000018_000001|I would if I dared, if I thought I merited your attention-but no, I must not-honour forbids.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000018_000002|I am beneath your notice, Julia, I am miserable and cannot hope to be otherwise." "Alas!" said Julia, "I pity you."
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000019_000001|Indeed if you knew all, you would pity; but at the same time I fear you would despise me."
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000020_000000|Just then they were again joined by mr Franklin and Belcour.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000020_000001|It had interrupted an interesting discourse.
train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000020_000002|They found it impossible to converse on indifferent subjects, and proceeded home in silence.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000005_000001|Often had she wrote to her perfidious seducer, and with the most persuasive eloquence endeavoured to convince him of her innocence; but these letters were never suffered to reach the hands of Montraville, or they must, though on the very eve of marriage, have prevented his deserting the wretched girl.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000005_000002|Real anguish of heart had in a great measure faded her charms, her cheeks were pale from want of rest, and her eyes, by frequent, indeed almost continued weeping, were sunk and heavy.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000006_000000|"If she were here," she would cry, "she would certainly comfort me, and sooth the distraction of my soul."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000007_000000|She was sitting one afternoon, wrapped in these melancholy reflexions, when she was interrupted by the entrance of Belcour.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000008_000001|"And how does my lovely Charlotte?" said he, taking her hand: "I fear you are not so well as I could wish."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000009_000000|"I am not well, mr Belcour," said she, "very far from it; but the pains and infirmities of the body I could easily bear, nay, submit to them with patience, were they not aggravated by the most insupportable anguish of my mind."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000010_000000|"You are not happy, Charlotte," said he, with a look of well dissembled sorrow.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000012_000001|You are lonely here, my dear girl; give me leave to conduct you to New York, where the agreeable society of some ladies, to whom I will introduce you, will dispel these sad thoughts, and I shall again see returning cheerfulness animate those lovely features."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000013_000000|"Oh never!
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000013_000001|never!" cried Charlotte, emphatically: "the virtuous part of my sex will scorn me, and I will never associate with infamy.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000014_000000|Something like humanity was awakened in Belcour's breast by this pathetic speech: he arose and walked towards the window; but the selfish passion which had taken possession of his heart, soon stifled these finer emotions; and he thought if Charlotte was once convinced she had no longer any dependance on Montraville, she would more readily throw herself on his protection.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000014_000001|Determined, therefore, to inform her of all that had happened, he again resumed his seat; and finding she began to be more composed, enquired if she had ever heard from Montraville since the unfortunate recontre in her bed chamber.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000015_000000|"Ah no," said she.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000016_000000|"I am greatly of your opinion," said Belcour, "for he has been for some time past greatly attached-"
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000017_000000|At the word "attached" a death like paleness overspread the countenance of Charlotte, but she applied to some hartshorn which stood beside her, and Belcour proceeded.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000018_000000|"He has been for some time past greatly attached to one Miss Franklin, a pleasing lively girl, with a large fortune."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000019_000000|"She may be richer, may be handsomer," cried Charlotte, "but cannot love him so well.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000019_000001|Oh may she beware of his art, and not trust him too far as I have done."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000020_000000|"He addresses her publicly," said he, "and it was rumoured they were to be married before he sailed for Eustatia, whither his company is ordered."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000022_000000|"I fear," said Belcour, "he can be that villain."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000023_000000|"Perhaps," cried she, eagerly interrupting him, "perhaps he is married already: come, let me know the worst," continued she with an affected look of composure: "you need not be afraid, I shall not send the fortunate lady a bowl of poison."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000024_000000|"Well then, my dear girl," said he, deceived by her appearance, "they were married on Thursday, and yesterday morning they sailed for Eustatia."
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000025_000000|"Married-gone-say you?" cried she in a distracted accent, "what without a last farewell, without one thought on my unhappy situation! Oh Montraville, may God forgive your perfidy." She shrieked, and Belcour sprang forward just in time to prevent her falling to the floor.
train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000026_000000|Alarming faintings now succeeded each other, and she was conveyed to her bed, from whence she earnestly prayed she might never more arise. Belcour staid with her that night, and in the morning found her in a high fever.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000002_000000|NOT PATS BUT SCRATCHES
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000003_000000|mrs Colebrook went home the next day.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000003_000001|She wore the air of an injured martyr at breakfast.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000003_000002|She told her brother that, of course, if he preferred to have an ignorant servant girl take care of his poor afflicted son, she had nothing to say; but that certainly he could not expect HER to stay, too, especially after being insulted as she had been.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000005_000000|Susan, in the kitchen, went doggedly about her work, singing, meanwhile, what Keith called her "mad" song.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000006_000001|Hurrah!
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000009_000000|Upstairs, Keith, wearily indifferent as to everything that was taking place about him, lay motionless as usual, his face turned toward the wall.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000010_000000|And at ten o'clock mrs Colebrook went.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000010_000001|Five minutes later Daniel Burton entered the kitchen-a proceeding so extraordinary that Susan broke off her song in the middle of a "Hurrah" and grew actually pale.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000011_000000|"What is it?--KEITH?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000011_000001|Is anything the matter with Keith?" she faltered.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000012_000000|Ignoring her question the man strode into the room.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000013_000000|"Well, Susan, this time you've done it," he ejaculated tersely.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000014_000000|"Done it-to Keith-ME?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000014_000001|Why, mr Burton, what do you mean?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000014_000002|Is Keith-worse?" chattered Susan, with dry lips.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000000|"No, no, I don't mean the hash," interrupted the man irritably.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000001|"Keith is all right-that is, he is just as he has been.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000002|It's my sister, mrs Colebrook.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000003|She's gone."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000016_000000|"Gone-for good?"
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000017_000000|"Yes, she's gone home."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000018_000000|"Glory be!"
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000018_000001|The color came back to Susan's face in a flood, and frank delight chased the terror from her eyes.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000018_000002|"Now we can do somethin' worthwhile."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000019_000000|"I reckon you'll find you have to do something, Susan.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000020_000000|"I don't want one."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000021_000000|"But there's all the other work, too."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000022_000000|"Work!
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000024_000000|Susan's face fell.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000026_000000|"I'm glad your courage is still good, Susan; but I'm afraid the dear public is going to appreciate your poems about the way it does-my pictures," shrugged the man bitterly, as he turned and left the room.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000027_000000|Not waiting to finish setting her kitchen in order, Susan ran up the back stairs to Keith's room.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000029_000001|"How about gettin' up?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000029_000003|Such a lazy boy!
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000030_000000|But it was not to be so easy this time.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000030_000001|Keith was not to be cajoled into getting up and dressing himself even to beat Susan's record. Steadfastly he resisted all efforts to stir him into interest or action; and a dismayed, disappointed Susan had to go downstairs in acknowledged defeat.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000031_000000|"But, land's sake, what could you expect?" she muttered to herself, after a sorrowful meditation before the kitchen fire.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000031_000001|"You can't put a backbone into a jellyfish by jest showin' him the bone-an' that's what his aunt has made him-a flappy, transparallel jellyfish.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000031_000002|Drat her!
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000032_000000|Susan did not attempt again that day to get Keith up and dressed; and she gave him his favorite "pop overs" for supper with a running fire of merry talk and jingles that contained never a reference to the unpleasant habit of putting on clothes, But the next morning, after she had given Keith his breakfast (not of toast and oatmeal) she suggested blithely that he get up and be dressed.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000032_000001|When he refused she tried coaxing, mildly, then more strenuously.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000032_000002|When this failed she tried to sting his pride by telling him she did not believe he could get up now, anyhow, and dress himself.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000033_000000|"All right, Susan, let it go that I can't.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000033_000001|I don't want to, anyhow," sighed the boy with impatient weariness.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000033_000002|"Say, can't you let a fellow alone?"
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000034_000000|Susan drew a long breath and held it suspended for a moment.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000034_000001|She had the air of one about to make a dreaded plunge.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000035_000000|"No, I can't let you alone, Keith," she replied, voice and manner now coldly firm.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000036_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000038_000000|"Why, SUSAN!" There was incredulous, hurt amazement in the boy's voice; but Susan was visibly steeling herself against it.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000040_000000|"If you'll get my clothes, Susan, I'll get up," said Keith very quietly from the bed.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000044_000000|"I'm downstairs, Susan." The boy's voice challenged hers for coldness now.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000044_000001|"I'll take my meals down here, after this."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000045_000000|"Why, Keith, however in the world did you-" Then Susan pulled herself up.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000045_000001|"Good boy, Keith!
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000045_000002|That WILL make it lots easier," she said cheerfully, impersonally, turning away and making a great clatter of pans in the sink.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000046_000000|But later, at least once every half hour through that long forenoon, Susan crept softly through the side hall to the half open living room door, where she could watch Keith.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000046_000002|She watched him pause and move hesitating fingers down the backs of the chairs that he encountered.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000046_000003|But when she saw him stop and finger the books on the little table by the window, she crept back to her kitchen-and rattled still more loudly the pots and pans in the sink.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000047_000000|Just before the noon meal Keith appeared once more at the kitchen door.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000048_000000|"Susan, would it bother you very much if I ate out here-with you?" he asked.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000049_000000|"With me?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000049_000001|Nonsense!
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000050_000001|It's dad.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000050_000002|He'd like it, I'm sure," insisted the boy feverishly.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000050_000003|"You know sometimes I-I don't get any food on my fork, when I eat, an' I have to-to feel for things, an' it-it must be disagreeable to see me.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000051_000000|"Now, Keith Burton, you stop right where you are," interrupted Susan harshly.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000052_000000|Keith had not disappeared down the hall, however, before Susan was halfway up the back stairs.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000052_000001|A moment later she was in the studio.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000054_000000|"Company?"
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000055_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000055_000001|Your son." "KEITH?"
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000055_000002|The man drew back perceptibly.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000057_000000|"But, Susan, it breaks my heart," moaned the man, turning quite away.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000058_000000|"What if it does?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000058_000001|Ain't his broke, too?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000058_000002|Can't you think of him a little?
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000059_000000|The man wheeled sharply.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000060_000000|"Did Keith-do that?"
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000062_000000|"All right, Susan.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000062_000001|I-I don't think you'll have to say-any more."
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000063_000000|And Susan, after a sharp glance into the man's half averted face, said no more.
train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000063_000001|A moment later she had left the room.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000001_000000|AN INJUDICIOUS PAYMENT
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000002_000000|When Judge Straight's visitors had departed, he took up the papers which had been laid loosely on the table as they were taken out of Tryon's breast pocket, and commenced their perusal.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000002_000001|There was a note for five hundred dollars, many years overdue, but not yet outlawed by lapse of time; a contract covering the transaction out of which the note had grown; and several letters and copies of letters modifying the terms of the contract.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000003_000000|MY DEAREST GEORGE,--I am going away for about a week, to visit the bedside of an old friend, who is very ill, and may not live.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000003_000001|Do not be alarmed about me, for I shall very likely be back by the time you are.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000005_000000|The judge was unable to connect this letter with the transaction which formed the subject of his examination.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000005_000001|Age had dimmed his perceptions somewhat, and it was not until he had finished the letter, and read it over again, and noted the signature at the bottom a second time, that he perceived that the writing was in a woman's hand, that the ink was comparatively fresh, and that the letter was dated only a couple of days before.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000005_000002|While he still held the sheet in his hand, it dawned upon him slowly that he held also one of the links in a chain of possible tragedy which he himself, he became uncomfortably aware, had had a hand in forging.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000006_000002|She has come to visit her sick mother.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000006_000003|My young client, Green's relation, is her lover-is engaged to marry her-is in town, and is likely to meet her!"
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000008_000000|Such people were, for the most part, merely on the ragged edge of the white world, seldom rising above the level of overseers, or slave catchers, or sheriff's officers, who could usually be relied upon to resent the drop of black blood that tainted them, and with the zeal of the proselyte to visit their hatred of it upon the unfortunate blacks that fell into their hands.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000008_000001|One curse of negro slavery was, and one part of its baleful heritage is, that it poisoned the fountains of human sympathy.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000008_000002|Under a system where men might sell their own children without social reprobation or loss of prestige, it was not surprising that some of them should hate their distant cousins.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000009_000002|Ten years later, the ghost of my good deed returns to haunt me, and makes me doubt whether I have wrought more evil than good.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000009_000003|I wonder," he mused, "if he will find her out?"
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000011_000000|"If he found her out, would he by any possibility marry her?"
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000012_000000|"It is not likely," he answered himself.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000012_000001|"If he made the discovery here, the facts would probably leak out in the town.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000012_000002|It is something that a man might do in secret, but only a hero or a fool would do openly."
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000000|The judge sighed as he contemplated another possibility.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000003|Conditions were changed, but human nature was the same.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000006|Yes, conditions were changed, so far as the girl was concerned; there was a possible future for her under the new order of things; but white people had not changed their opinion of the negroes, except for the worse.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000007|The general belief was that they were just as inferior as before, and had, moreover, been spoiled by a disgusting assumption of equality, driven into their thick skulls by Yankee malignity bent upon humiliating a proud though vanquished foe.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000014_000001|But the old man's attitude toward society was chiefly that of an observer, and the narrow stream of sentiment left in his heart chose to flow toward the weaker party in this unequal conflict,--a young woman fighting for love and opportunity against the ranked forces of society, against immemorial tradition, against pride of family and of race.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000015_000000|"It may be the unwisest thing I ever did," he said to himself, turning to his desk and taking up a quill pen, "and may result in more harm than good; but I was always from childhood in sympathy with the under dog.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000015_000001|There is certainly as much reason in my helping the girl as the boy, for being a woman, she is less able to help herself."
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000016_000000|He dipped his pen into the ink and wrote the following lines:--
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000017_000000|MADAM,--If you value your daughter's happiness, keep her at home for the next day or two.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000018_000000|This note he dried by sprinkling it with sand from a box near at hand, signed with his own name, and, with a fine courtesy, addressed to "mrs Molly Walden." Having first carefully sealed it in an envelope, he stepped to the open door, and spied, playing marbles on the street near by, a group of negro boys, one of whom the judge called by name.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000019_000001|Do you know where she lives-down on Front Street, in the house behind the cedars?"
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000021_000001|When you come back and tell me what she says, I'll give you ten cents.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000021_000002|On second thoughts, I shall be gone to lunch, so here's your money," he added, handing the lad the bit of soiled paper by which the United States government acknowledged its indebtedness to the bearer in the sum of ten cents.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000001|Very few mortals can spare the spring of hope, the motive force of expectation.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000002|The boy kept the note in his hand, winked at his companions, who had gathered as near as their awe of the judge would permit, and started down the street.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000003|As soon as the judge had disappeared, Billy beckoned to his friends, who speedily overtook him.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000004|When the party turned the corner of Front Street and were safely out of sight of Judge Straight's office, the capitalist entered the grocery store and invested his unearned increment in gingerbread.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000006|He had nearly reached his objective point when he met upon the street a young white lady, whom he did not know, and for whom, the path being narrow at that point, he stepped out into the gutter.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000007|He reached the house behind the cedars, went round to the back door, and handed the envelope to Mis' Molly, who was seated on the rear piazza, propped up by pillows in a comfortable rocking chair.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000025_000000|"Who's it fur?" she asked.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000029_000001|I'll have Aunt Zilphy fetch you a piece of 'tater pone, if you'll hol' on a minute."
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000030_000000|She called to Aunt Zilphy, who soon came hobbling out of the kitchen with a large square of the delicacy,--a flat cake made of mashed sweet potatoes, mixed with beaten eggs, sweetened and flavored to suit the taste, and baked in a Dutch oven upon the open hearth.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000000|The boy took the gratuity, thanked her, and turned to go.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000001|Mis' Molly was still scanning the superscription of the letter.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000002|"I wonder," she murmured, "what old Judge Straight can be writin' to me about.
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000003|Oh, boy!"
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000035_000001|Never mind."
train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000036_000000|She laid the letter carefully on the chimney piece of the kitchen.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000001|On the one hand, Jeff Wain's infatuation had rapidly increased, in view of her speedy departure.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000002|From mrs Tryon's remark about Wain's wife Amanda, and from things Rena had since learned, she had every reason to believe that this wife was living, and that Wain must be aware of the fact.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000003|In the light of this knowledge, Wain's former conduct took on a blacker significance than, upon reflection, she had charitably clothed it with after the first flush of indignation.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000005|In a week her school would be over, and then she would get Elder Johnson, or some one else than Wain, to take her back to Patesville.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000006|True, she might abandon her school and go at once; but her work would be incomplete, she would have violated her contract, she would lose her salary for the month, explanations would be necessary, and would not be forthcoming.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000007|She might feign sickness,--indeed, it would scarcely be feigning, for she felt far from well; she had never, since her illness, quite recovered her former vigor-but the inconvenience to others would be the same, and her self sacrifice would have had, at its very first trial, a lame and impotent conclusion.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000008|She had as yet no fear of personal violence from Wain; but, under the circumstances, his attentions were an insult.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000009|He was evidently bent upon conquest, and vain enough to think he might achieve it by virtue of his personal attractions.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000010|If he could have understood how she loathed the sight of his narrow eyes, with their puffy lids, his thick, tobacco stained lips, his doubtful teeth, and his unwieldy person, Wain, a monument of conceit that he was, might have shrunk, even in his own estimation, to something like his real proportions.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000011|Rena believed that, to defend herself from persecution at his hands, it was only necessary that she never let him find her alone. This, however, required constant watchfulness.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000012|Relying upon his own powers, and upon a woman's weakness and aversion to scandal, from which not even the purest may always escape unscathed, and convinced by her former silence that he had nothing serious to fear, Wain made it a point to be present at every public place where she might be.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000013|He assumed, in conversation with her which she could not avoid, and stated to others, that she had left his house because of a previous promise to divide the time of her stay between Elder Johnson's house and his own. He volunteered to teach a class in the Sunday school which Rena conducted at the colored Methodist church, and when she remained to service, occupied a seat conspicuously near her own.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000000|The knowledge of Tryon's presence in the vicinity had been almost as much as Rena could bear.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000001|To it must be added the consciousness that he, too, was pursuing her, to what end she could not tell.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000004|If he had loved her truly, he would never have forgotten her in three short months,--three long months they had heretofore seemed to her, for in them she had lived a lifetime of experience.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000007|She must not meet him-at any cost she must avoid him.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000007_000000|"You may go with me to morrow, Plato," answered the teacher.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000011_000001|I wanted you to go to town to morrow to take an important message for me.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000012_000001|Plato scratched his head disconsolately, but suddenly a bright thought struck him.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000015_000001|The honor might be postponed or, if necessary, foregone; the opportunity to earn a dollar was the chance of a lifetime and must not be allowed to slip.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000001|Rena's letter had re inflamed his smouldering passion; only opposition was needed to fan it to a white heat.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000002|Wherein lay the great superiority of his position, if he was denied the right to speak to the one person in the world whom he most cared to address?
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000003|He felt some dim realization of the tyranny of caste, when he found it not merely pressing upon an inferior people who had no right to expect anything better, but barring his own way to something that he desired.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000004|He meant her no harm-but he must see her.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000006|He was conscious of a certain relief at the thought that he had not asked Blanche Leary to be his wife.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000008|He could not marry the other girl, of course, but they must meet again.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000009|The rest he would leave to Fate, which seemed reluctant to disentangle threads which it had woven so closely.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000017_000001|Your teacher, I imagine, merely wants some one to see her safely home. Don't you think, if you should go part of the way, that I might take your place for the rest, while you did my errand?"
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000019_000008|Fortunate teacher!
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000019_000009|Happy Plato!
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000020_000000|"Very well, Plato.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000020_000001|I think we can arrange it so that you can kill the two rabbits at one shot.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000021_000002|Plato led the way by the road through the woods to a point where, amid somewhat thick underbrush, another path intersected the road they were following.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000000|"Now, Plato," said Tryon, pausing here, "this would be a good spot for you to leave the teacher and for me to take your place.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000001|This path leads to the main road, and will take you to town very quickly.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000002|I shouldn't say anything to the teacher about it at all; but when you and she get here, drop behind and run along this path until you meet me,--I'll be waiting a few yards down the road,--and then run to town as fast as your legs will carry you.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000003|As soon as you are gone, I'll come out and tell the teacher that I've sent you away on an errand, and will myself take your place.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000004|You shall have a dollar, and I'll ask her to let you go home with her the next day.
train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000005|But you mustn't say a word about it, Plato, or you won't get the dollar, and I'll not ask the teacher to let you go home with her again."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000003_000000|mrs Phillips stepped to the front door to meet the half dozen young people who were cheerily coming up the walk.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000003_000001|Cope, looking at the fallen cushions with an unseeing eye, remained within the drawing room door to compose a further paragraph for the behoof of his correspondent in Wisconsin:
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000001|They came on as thick as spatter. One played a few things on the violin.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000002|Another set up her easel and painted a picture for us.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000003|A third wrote a poem and read it to us.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000004|And a few sophomores hung about in the background.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000001|The others-either engaged elsewhere or consciously unworthy-went away after a moment or two on the front steps.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000002|Perhaps they did not feel "encouraged." And in fact mrs Phillips looked back toward Cope with the effect of communicating the idea that she had enough men for to day.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000003|She even conveyed to him the notion that he had made the others superfluous.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000004|But-
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000007_000000|He met Hortense and Carolyn-with due stress laid on their respective patronymics-and he made an early acquaintance with Amy's violin.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000008_000000|And further on mrs Phillips said:
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000009_000000|"Now, Amy, before you really stop, do play that last little thing.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000009_000001|The dear child," she said to Cope in a lower tone, "composed it herself and dedicated it to me."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000010_000000|The last little thing was a kind of "meditation," written very simply and performed quite seriously and unaffectedly.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000010_000001|And it gave, of course, a good chance for the arms.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000011_000002|And it inspired Carolyn too.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000011_000003|She wrote a poem after hearing it."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000012_000000|"A copy of verses," corrected Carolyn, with a modest catch in her breath.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000012_000001|She was a quiet, sedate girl, with brown eyes and hair.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000012_000002|Her eyes were shy, and her hair was plainly dressed.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000013_000000|"Oh, you're so sweet, so old-fashioned!" protested mrs Phillips, slightly rolling her eyes.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000013_000001|"It's a poem,--of course it's a poem.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000013_000002|I leave it to mr Cope, if it isn't!"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000015_000000|"Well, listen, anyway," said Medora.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000016_000001|Its title was read, formally, by the writer; and, quite as formally, the dedication which intervened between title and first stanza,--a dedication to "Medora Townsend Phillips."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000017_000000|"Of course," said Cope to himself.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000017_000002|He knew what he expected to find.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000018_000001|The poem was over, the patroness duly celebrated.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000018_000002|Cope spatted a little too, but kept his eye on one of the walls.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000019_000000|"You're looking at my portrait!" declared mrs Phillips, as the poetess sank deeper into the big chair.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000019_000001|"Hortense did it."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000020_000000|"Of course she did," said Cope under his breath.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000020_000001|He transferred an obligatory glance from the canvas to the expectant artist.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000020_000002|But-
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000021_000000|"It's getting almost too dark to see it," said his hostess, and suddenly pressed a button.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000021_000001|This brought into play a row of electric bulbs near the top edge of the frame and into full prominence the dark plumpness of the subject.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000021_000002|He looked back again from the painter (who also had black hair and eyes) to her work.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000023_000000|"Isn't he the dear, comical chap!" exclaimed mrs Phillips, with unction, glancing upward and backward at the girls.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000023_000002|Yet one of them-Hortense-formed her black brows into a frown, and might have spoken resentfully, save for a look from their general patroness.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000024_000000|"Meanwhile, how about a drop of tea?" asked mrs Phillips suddenly. "Roddy"--to the sophomore-"if you will help clear that table...."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000025_000000|The youth hastened to get into action.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000025_000001|Cope went on with his letter to "Arthur":
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000026_000000|"It was an afternoon in Lesbos-with Sappho and her band of appreciative maidens.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000026_000001|Phaon, a poor lad of nineteen, swept some pamphlets and paper cutters off the center table, and we all plunged into the ocean of Oolong-the best thing we do on this island...."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000027_000000|He was lingering in a smiling abstractedness on his fancy, when-
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000028_000000|"Bertram Cope!" a voice suddenly said, "do you do nothing-nothing?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000029_000000|He suddenly came to.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000029_000001|Perhaps he had really deserved his hostess' rebuke.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000030_000000|"I mean," proceeded mrs Phillips, "can you do nothing whatever to entertain?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000031_000000|Cope gained another stage on the way to self consciousness and self control. Entertainment was doubtless the basic curse of this household.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000032_000000|"I sing," he said, with naif suddenness and simplicity.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000033_000000|"Then, sing-do.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000033_000001|There's the open piano.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000033_000002|Can you play your own accompaniments?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000034_000000|"Some of the simpler ones."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000035_000000|"Some of the simpler ones!
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000035_000002|He is quite prepared to wipe us all out.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000035_000003|Shall we let him?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000036_000000|"That's unfair," Cope protested.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000037_000000|"Will you sing before your tea, or after it?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000038_000000|"I'm ready to sing this instant,--during it, or before it."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000039_000000|"Very well."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000040_000000|The room was now in dusk, save for the bulbs which made the portrait shine forth like a wayside shrine.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000040_000001|Roddy, the possible sophomore, helped a maid find places for the cups and saucers; and the three girls, still formed in a careful group about the sofa, silently waited.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000042_000000|"Meaning....?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000044_000000|"Meaning, then, that I am not to raise the roof nor jar the china.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000044_000001|I'll try not to."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000045_000003|Possibly Cope gave too great heed to his hostess' caution; but it seemed as if a voice essentially promising had slipped through some teacher's none too competent hands, or-what was quite as serious-as if some temperamental brake were operating to prevent the complete expression of the singer's nature.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000045_000004|Lassen, Grieg, Rubinstein-all these were carried through rather cautiously, perhaps a little mechanically; and there was a silence.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000045_000005|Hortense broke it.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000046_000000|"Parnassus, yes.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000046_000001|And finally comes Apollo." She reached over and murmured to mrs Phillips: "None too skillful on the lyre, and none too strong in the lungs...."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000047_000000|Medora spoke up loudly and promptly.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000048_000000|"Do you know, I think I've heard you sing before."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000049_000000|"Possibly," Cope said, turning his back on the keyboard.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000050_000001|'Come, Holy Spirit,' and all that?"
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000000|"Of course," she said.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000002|But I never saw you before without your mortar board.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000003|That changes the forehead.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000004|Yes, you're yourself," she went on, adding to her previous pleasure the further pleasure of recognition.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000005|"You've earned your tea," she added. "Hortense," she said over her shoulder to the dark girl behind the sofa, "will you-?
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000006|No; I'll pour, myself."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000053_000000|She slid into her place at table and got things to going.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000053_000001|There was an interval which Cope might have employed in praising the artistic aptitudes of this variously gifted household, but he found no appropriate word to say,--or at least uttered none.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000053_000002|And none of the three girls made any further comment on his own performance.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000054_000000|mrs Phillips accompanied him, on his way out, as far as the hall.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000054_000001|She looked up at him questioningly.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000055_000000|"You don't like my poor girls," she said.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000055_000001|"You don't find them clever; you don't find them interesting."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000056_000000|"On the contrary," he rejoined, "I have spent a delightful hour." Must he go on and confess that he had developed no particular dexterity in dealing with the younger members of the opposite sex?
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000057_000000|"No, you don't care for them one bit," she insisted.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000057_000001|She tried to look rebuking, reproachful; yet some shade of expression conveyed to him a hint that her protest was by no means sincere: if he really didn't, it was no loss-it was even a possible gain.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000058_000000|"It's you who don't care for me," he returned.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000059_000000|"Nonsense," she rejoined.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000059_000001|"If you have a slight past, that only makes you the more atmospheric.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000059_000002|Be sure you come again soon, and put in a little more work on the foreground."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000060_000000|Cope, on his way eastward, in the early evening, passed near the trolley tracks, the Greek lunch counter, without a thought; he was continuing his letter to "Dear Arthur":
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000000|"I think," he wrote, with his mind's finger, "that you might as well come down.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000001|I miss you-even more than I thought I should.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000002|The term is young, and you can enter for Spanish, or Psychology, or something. There's nothing for you up there.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000003|The bishop can spare you.
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000005|We can easily arrange some suitable quarters..."
train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000062_000000|And we await a reply from "Dear Arthur"--the fifth and last of our little group.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000000|The final battle of the Soudanese campaign, Khartoum, put the finishing touches to the rebellion, and gave to Kitchener the title "K. of k"--Kitchener of Khartoum.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000001|This battle was noteworthy in employing the cavalry in an open charge across the plains against the dervish infantry.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000002|It was just such a charge as a skilled horseman such as Haig would keenly enjoy, despite the danger.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000003|Winston Churchill, the British Minister, thus describes it:
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000002|It was hardly possible to miss such a target at such a range.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000004|The only course was plain and welcome to all.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000005|The Colonel, nearer than his regiment, already saw what lay behind the skirmishers.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000006|He ordered 'Right wheel into line' to be sounded.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000008|On the instant the troops swung round and locked up into a long, galloping line.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000003_000000|"Two hundred and fifty yards away, the dark blue men were firing madly in a thin film of light blue smoke.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000003_000002|The pace was fast and the distance short.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000003_000006|The Lancers acknowledged the apparition only by an increase of pace."
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000004_000000|In such a melee as then followed, that trooper was lucky indeed who escaped without a scratch.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000005_000001|He returned to England wearing the Khedive's medal and the honorary title of Major.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000000|It is probable, however, that little more would have been heard of him, had not the South African War broken out, soon after.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000001|It is the lot of military men to vegetate in days of peace.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000002|They live upon action. Haig was no exception to this rule.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000003|He welcomed new fields.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000004|He went to South Africa as aide and right-hand man to Sir john French-the general whom he was to succeed in later years on the battlefields of France.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000000|In this war, Haig is not credited with many personal exploits.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000001|His was essentially a thinking part.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000003|As usual Haig pinned his faith upon the cavalry.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000005|He was a warm admirer of the American officer, j e b Stuart, the Confederate General whose dashing tactics turned the scale in so many encounters.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000008_000000|Now he tried the same strategy in the operations around Colesburg-and paved the way for later victory.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000000|Haig somewhat resembled another Southern leader, Stonewall Jackson, in his piety.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000001|It was not ostentatious, but simply part and parcel of the man, due to his Presbyterian training.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000002|Haig did not swear or gamble or dance all night.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000003|He was more apt to be found in his tent, when off duty, either reading or writing.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000011_000000|"Yes," replied Haig solemnly, "my Bible!"
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000012_000000|Not once did his countenance relax its gravity, as he met the grinning faces across the table.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000013_000001|Almost daily he risked his life in these cavalry operations-until the "Haig luck" became a watchword.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000014_000001|This was in nineteen o one.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000000|About this time he paid a visit to Germany, then at peace and professing a warm affection for England.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000001|One result of this visit was a letter which showed him possessed with wonderful powers of analysis and foresight.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000002|He practically predicted the war that was to come.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000004|It gave the German plan with a mastery of detail, shrewd prophecy, and earnest warning.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000005|The future commander in chief of the British armies in France was convinced of the certainty of the conflict and besought the authorities to make better preparation-but his warnings fell upon deaf ears.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000016_000000|It required thirteen years to demonstrate the truth of Haig's predictions, and then the blow fell.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000017_000000|During the intervening years since the South African campaign he had risen by fairly rapid stages to Inspector General of the Cavalry in India-a situation which he handled with great skill for three years-then Major General, and Lieutenant General.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000018_000000|At the outbreak of the World War, he was hurriedly sent to France, under the command of Sir john French, his old leader in Africa.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000018_000001|French was generosity itself in his praise of Haig in these early days of disaster.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000020_000000|In the first battle of Ypres, the chief honors of victory were again awarded to him:
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000021_000000|"Throughout this trying period, Sir Douglas Haig, aided by his divisional commanders and his brigade commanders, held the line with marvelous tenacity and undaunted courage."
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000022_000000|Again and again, the generous French pays tribute to his friend, which while deserved reflects no less honor upon the speaker.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000022_000001|He was big enough to share honor.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000000|It is not strange, therefore, when French was superseded, for strategic reasons, that Haig should have been given the chief command.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000001|The appointment, however, left most of the world frankly amazed.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000002|Haig had come forward so quietly that few save those in official circles knew anything about him.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000003|It was nevertheless but a matter of weeks, possibly days, before a quiet confidence born of the man himself was manifest everywhere.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000024_000000|One war correspondent who visited headquarters in the midst of the War's turmoil, thus describes his visit:
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000000|"The environment of the Commander in chief is strongly suggestive of his conduct of the war.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000001|Before war became a thing of precise science, the headquarters of an army head seethed with all the picturesque details so common to pictures of martial life.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000002|Couriers mounted on foam flecked horses dashed to and fro.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000004|h q'--as headquarters are familiarly known-are totally different.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000005|Although army units have risen from thousands to millions of men, and fields of operations stretch from sea to sea, and more ammunition is expended in a single engagement than was employed in entire wars of other days, absolute serenity prevails.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000006|It is only when your imagination conjures up the picture of flame and fury that lies beyond the horizon line that you get a thrill.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000026_000001|Neither time nor words are wasted when myriad lives hang in the balance and an empire is at stake.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000026_000002|Inside and out there is an atmosphere of quiet confidence, born of unobtrusive efficiency."
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000000|The same writer on meeting Haig says: "I found myself in a presence that, even without the slightest clue to its profession, would have unconsciously impressed itself as military.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000001|Dignity, distinction, and a gracious reserve mingle in his bearing.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000002|I have rarely seen a masculine face so handsome and yet so strong.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000003|His hair and mustache are fair, and his clear, almost steely blue eyes search you, but not unkindly.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000004|His chest is broad and deep, yet scarcely broad enough for the rows of service and order ribbons that plant a mass of color against the background of khaki. . . .
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000028_000000|"Into every detail of daily life at General Headquarters the Commander's character is impressed.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000028_000001|After lunch, for example, he spends an hour alone, and in this period of meditation the whole fateful panorama of the war passes before him.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000028_000002|When it is over the wires splutter and the fierce life of the coming night-the Army does not begin to fight until most people go to sleep-is ordained.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000000|"This finished, the brief period of respite begins.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000001|Rain or shine, his favorite horse is brought up to the door, and he goes for a ride, usually accompanied by one or two young staff officers.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000003|He rides like those latter day centaurs-the Australian ranger and the American cowboy.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000004|He seems part of his horse."
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000030_000001|And that is one reason why the Little Contemptibles grew and grew until they became a mighty barrier stretching across the pathway of the invader from sea to sea, and saying with their Allies:
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000031_000000|"You shall not pass!"
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000032_000000|IMPORTANT DATES IN HAIG'S LIFE
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000000|eighteen sixty one.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000001|june nineteenth.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000002|Douglas Haig born. eighteen eighty.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000003|Entered Brasenose College, Oxford. eighteen eighty five.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000004|Joined seventh Hussars, British army. eighteen ninety eight.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000006|Served in South Africa.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000007|d a a g for cavalry; then staff officer to General French. nineteen o one.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000008|Lieutenant colonel commanding seventeenth Lancers. nineteen o three.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000009|Inspector general, cavalry, India. nineteen o four.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000010|Major general. nineteen ten.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000011|Lieutenant general. nineteen fourteen.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000012|General, commanding First Army in France. nineteen fifteen.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000013|Commander in chief of British forces. nineteen seventeen.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000015|Created an earl. nineteen twenty eight.
train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000016|january thirtieth.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000004_000000|Among the beautiful varieties of the domestic cat brought into notice by the cat shows, none deserve more attention than "The Royal Cat of Siam." In form, colour, texture, and length, or rather shortness of its coat, it is widely different from other short haired varieties; yet there is but little difference in its mode of life or habit.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000004_000001|I have not had the pleasure of owning one of this breed, though when on a visit to Lady Dorothy Nevill, at Dangstein, near Petersfield, I had several opportunities for observation.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000004_000004|Lady Dorothy Nevill thought them exceedingly docile and domestic, but delicate in their constitution; although her ladyship kept one for two years, another over a year, but eventually all died of the same complaint, that of worms, which permeated every part of their body.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000000|mr Young, of Harrogate, possesses a chocolate variety of this Royal Siamese cat; it was sent from Singapore to mr Brennand, from whom he purchased it, and is described as "most loving and affectionate," which I believe is usually the case.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000001|Although this peculiar colour is very beautiful and scarce, I am of opinion that the light gray or fawn colour with black and well marked muzzle, ears, and legs is the typical variety, the markings being the same as the Himalayan rabbits.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000003|I therefore take that to be the correct form and colour, and the darker colour to be an accidental deviation.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000005|But I give mr Young's own views:
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000000|"The dun Siamese we have has won whenever shown; the body is of a dun colour, nose, part of the face, ears, feet, and tail of a very dark chocolate brown, nearly black, eyes of a beautiful blue by day, and of a red colour at night!
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000001|My other prize cat is of a very rich chocolate or seal, with darker face, ears, and tail; the legs are a shade darker, which intensifies towards the feet.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000003|The dun, unless under special judges, invariably beats the chocolate at the shows.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000004|The tail is shorter and finer than our English cats.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000007_000000|"I may add that we lately have had four kittens from the chocolate cat by a pure dun Siamese he cat.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000007_000001|All the young are dun coloured, and when born were very light, nearly white, but are gradually getting the dark points of the parents; in fact, I expect that one will turn chocolate. The cats are very affectionate, and make charming ladies' pets, but are rather more delicate than our cats, but after they have once wintered in England they seem to get acclimatised.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000008_000000|"mr Brennand, who brought the chocolate one and another, a male, from Singapore last year, informs me that there are two varieties, a large and small.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000008_000001|Ours are the small; he also tells me the chocolate is the most rare.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000009_000000|"I have heard a little more regarding the Siamese cats from Miss Walker, the daughter of General Walker, who brought over one male and three females.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000010_000000|"Their food is fish and rice boiled together until quite soft, and Miss Walker finds the kittens bred have thriven on it.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000011_000000|"It is my intention to try and breed from a white English female with blue eyes, and a Siamese male.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000012_000000|"The Siamese cats are very prolific breeders, having generally five at each litter, and three litters a year.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000013_000001|Hitherto we have never had any half bred Siamese; but there used to be a male Siamese at Hurworth on Tees, and there were many young bred from English cats.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000015_000001|Poodle) had three kittens by an English cat; but none showed any trace of the Siamese, being all tabby.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000018_000000|"The original pair were sent from Bangkok, and it is believed that they came from the King's Palace, where alone the breed are said to be kept pure.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000018_000002|We were in China when they reached us, and the following year, eighteen eighty six, we brought the father, mother, and a pair of kittens to England.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000019_000000|"Their habits are in general the same as the common cat, though it has been observed by strangers, 'there is a pleasant wild animal odour,' which is not apparent to us.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000021_000000|This tallies with the description given by mr Darwin of the Malayan and also the Siamese cats.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000021_000001|See my notes on the Manx cat.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000021_000002|mr Young had also noted this peculiarity in "the Royal cat of Siam."
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000022_000000|mrs Vyvyan further remarks:
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000023_000000|"They are very affectionate and personally attached to their human friends, not liking to be left alone, and following us from room to room more after the manner of dogs than cats.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000024_000000|"They are devoted parents, the old father taking the greatest interest in the young ones.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000025_000000|"They are friendly with the dogs of the house, occupying the same baskets; but the males are very strong, and fight with great persistency with strange dogs, and conquer all other tom cats in their neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000026_000001|They also like chicken and game.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000026_000002|We have proved the fish diet is not essential, as two of our cats (in Cornwall) never get it.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000027_000000|"Rather a free life seems necessary to their perfect acclimatisation, where they can go out and provide themselves with raw animal food, 'feather and fur.'
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000028_000000|"We find these cats require a great deal of care, unless they live in the country, and become hardy through being constantly out of doors.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000028_000001|The kittens are difficult to rear unless they are born late in the spring, thus having the warm weather before them.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000028_000002|Most deaths occur before they are six months old.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000029_000001|We also give cod liver oil, if the appetite fails and weight diminishes.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000030_000001|After maturity they are apt to darken considerably, though not in all specimens.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000031_000000|"They are most interesting and delightful pets.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000032_000001|'Loquat' also provided this for a young family for whom she had no milk.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000033_000001|We have at present two males, four adult females, and five kittens." One of our kittens sent to Scotland last August, has done well.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000034_000000|mrs Lee, of Penshurst, also has some fine specimens of the breed, and of the same colours as described.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000034_000001|I take it, therefore, that the true breed, by consensus of opinion, is that of the dun, fawn, or ash coloured ground, with black points.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000034_000002|Other colours should be shown in the variety classes.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000035_000000|The head should be long from the ears to the eyes, and not over broad, and then rather sharply taper off towards the muzzle, the forehead flat, and receding, the eyes somewhat aslant downwards towards the nose, and the eyes of a pearly, yet bright blue colour, the ears usual size and black, with little or no hair on the inside, with black muzzle, and round the eyes black.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000035_000001|The form should be slight, graceful, and delicately made, body long, tail rather short and thin, and the legs somewhat short, slender, and the feet oval, not so round as the ordinary English cat.
train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000035_000002|The body should be one bright, uniform, even colour, not clouded, either rich fawn, dun, or ash.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000002_000000|DISEASES OF CATS.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000003_000001|Through the kindness of friends I am enabled to give recipes for medicines considered as useful, or, at any rate, tending to abate the severity of the attack in the one, and utterly eradicate the other.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000003_000002|Care should always be taken on the first symptoms of illness to remove the animal at once from contact with others.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000004_000000|CATARRHAL FEVERS.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000005_000001|From a d fourteen fourteen up to eighteen thirty two no fewer than nineteen widespread outbreaks of this kind have been recorded.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000005_000002|The most notable of these was in seventeen ninety six, when the cats in England and Holland were generally attacked by the disease, and in the following year when it had spread over Europe and extended to America; in eighteen o three, it again appeared in this country and over a large part of the European continent.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000006_000000|"The symptoms are intense fever, prostration, vomiting, diarrhoea, sneezing, cough, and profuse discharge from the nose and eyes.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000006_000001|Sometimes the parotid glands are swollen, as in human mumps.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000000|"The treatment consists in careful nursing and cleanliness, keeping the animal moderately warm and comfortable.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000001|The disease rapidly produces intense debility, and therefore the strength should be maintained from the very commencement by frequent small doses of strong beef tea, into which one grain of quinine has been introduced twice a day, a small quantity of port wine (from half to one teaspoonful) according to the size of the cat, and the state of debility.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000002|If there is no diarrhoea, but constipation, a small dose of castor oil or syrup of buckthorn should be given.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000003|Solid food should not be allowed until convalescence has set in.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000004|Isolation, with regard to other cats, and disinfection, should be attended to.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000008_000000|"Simple Catarrh demands similar treatment.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000008_000001|Warmth, cleanliness, broth, and beef tea, are the chief items of treatment, with a dose of castor oil if constipation is present.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000009_000002|Probably inoculation with cultivated or modified virus would be found a good and safe preventative."
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000010_000000|I was anxious to know about this, as inoculation used to be the practice with packs of hounds.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000000|It will be observed that dr Fleming treats the distemper as a kind of influenza, and considers one of the most important things is to keep up the strength of the suffering animal.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000001|Other members of the r c v s, whom I have consulted, have all given the same kind of advice, not only prescribing for the sick animal wine, but brandy, as a last resource, to arouse sinking vitality.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000002|mr George Cheverton, of High Street, Tunbridge Wells, who is very successful with animals and their diseases, thinks it best to treat them homoeopathically.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000003|The following is what he prescribes as efficacious for some of the most dire complaints with which cats are apt to be afflicted.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000012_000000|WORMS.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000013_000000|For a full grown cat give three grains of santonine every night for a week or ten days; it might be administered in milk, or given in a small piece of beef or meat of any kind.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000013_000001|After the course give an aperient powder.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000014_000000|MANGE.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000016_000000|A most useful lotion is acid sulphurous, one ounce. to five ounces. of water, adding about a teaspoonful of glycerine, and sponging the affected parts twice or thrice daily.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000017_000000|COLDS.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000018_000000|The symptoms are twofold, usually there is constant sneezing and discharge from the nose.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000019_000000|COUGHS.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000022_000000|DISTEMPER.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000023_000000|Early symptoms should be noted and receive prompt attention; this will often cut short the duration of the malady.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000023_000001|The first indications usually are a disinclination to rest in the usual place, seeking a dark corner beneath a sofa, etc
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000023_000002|The eyes flow freely, the nose after becoming hard and dry becomes stopped with fluid, the tongue parched, and total aversion to food follows.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000024_000001|When the nose becomes dry, and the eye restless and glaring, give belladonna.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000025_000000|CANKER OF EAR.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000026_000000|When internal, drop into the affected ear, night and morning, three or five drops of the following mixture:
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000029_000000|APERIENT.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000030_000000|Get a chemist to rub down a medium size croton bean with about forty grains of sugar of milk, and divide into four powders.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000030_000002|Large cats often require two powders. The dose might be repeated if necessary.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000032_000000|REMEDIES AND STRENGTHENING MEDICINES.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000033_000005|Santonine.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000034_000000|mr Frank Upjohn, of Castelnau, Barnes, has also kindly forwarded me his treatment of some few of the cat ailments.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000034_000001|Mindful of the old proverb that "In a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom," I place all before my friends, and those of the cat, that they may select which remedy they deem best:
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000035_000000|DISTEMPER.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000036_000001|Mix for ointment.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000036_000002|Then give sulphide of mercury, three grains, two or three times on alternate nights.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000037_000000|PURGATIVE.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000038_000000|Nothing like castor oil for purgation; half the quantity of syrup of buckthorn, if necessary, may be added.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000039_000000|WORMS.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000040_000000|Two or three grains of santonine in a teaspoonful of castor oil, for two or three days.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000041_000000|CATARRH.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000042_000001|Mix. Give one teaspoonful every two or three hours.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000043_000000|FLEAS, AND IRRITATION OF SKIN.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000045_000000|EYE OINTMENT.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000046_000000|Red oxide of mercury, twelve grains; spermaceti ointment, one ounce.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000046_000001|Mix.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000047_000000|The above prescription was given to me many years ago by the late dr Walsh (Stonehenge), and I have found it of great service, both for my own eyes, also those of animals and birds.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000047_000001|Wash the eyes carefully with warm water, dry off with a soft silk handkerchief, and apply a little of the ointment.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000047_000002|dr Walsh informed me that he deemed it excellent for canker in the ear, but of that I have had no experience.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000048_000000|FOR MANGE.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000050_000000|Another remedy: give a teaspoonful of castor oil; next day give raw meat, dusted over with flowers of sulphur.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000051_000001|Of all the ailments, both of dogs and cats, distemper is the worst to combat, and is so virulent and contagious that I have thought it well to offer remedies that are at least worthy of a trial, though when the complaint has firm hold, and the attack very severe, the case is generally almost hopeless, especially with high bred animals.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000052_000000|POISON.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000053_000000|It is not generally known that the much admired laburnum contains a strong poison, and is therefore an exceedingly dangerous plant.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000054_000000|A small dose of juice infused under the skin is quite sufficient to kill a cat or a dog.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000054_000001|Children have died from eating the seeds, of which ten or twelve were sufficient to cause death.
train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000054_000003|How many cases have happened before the danger was discovered is of course only a matter of conjecture, as few would suspect the cause to come from the lovely plant that so delights the eye.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000000_000000|An undulating landscape, with a homely farmstead here and there, and plenty of old English timber scattered grandly over it, extended mistily to my right; on the left the road is overtopped by masses of noble forest.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000000_000001|The old park of Brandon lies there, more than four miles from end to end.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000000_000002|These masses of solemn and discoloured verdure, the faint but splendid lights, and long filmy shadows, the slopes and hollows-my eyes wandered over them all with that strange sense of unreality, and that mingling of sweet and bitter fancy, with which we revisit a scene familiar in very remote and early childhood, and which has haunted a long interval of maturity and absence, like a romantic reverie.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000001_000000|As I looked through the chaise windows, every moment presented some group, or outline, or homely object, for years forgotten; and now, with a strange surprise how vividly remembered and how affectionately greeted! We drove by the small old house at the left, with its double gable and pretty grass garden, and trim yews and modern lilacs and laburnums, backed by the grand timber of the park.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000001_000003|This general liking for children and instinct of smiling on them is one source of the delightful illusions which make the remembrance of early days so like a dream of Paradise, and give us, at starting, such false notions of our value.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000002_000000|There was a little fair haired child playing on the ground before the steps as I whirled by.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000002_000001|The old rector had long passed away; the shorts, gaiters, and smile-a phantom; and nature, who had gathered in the past, was providing for the future.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000000|The pretty mill road, running up through Redman's Dell, dank and dark with tall romantic trees, was left behind in another moment; and we were now traversing the homely and antique street of the little town, with its queer shops and solid steep roofed residences.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000001|Up Church street I contrived a peep at the old gray tower where the chimes hung; and as we turned the corner a glance at the 'Brandon Arms.' How very small and low that palatial hostelry of my earlier recollections had grown!
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000002|There were new faces at the door.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000003|It was only two and twenty years ago, and I was then but eleven years old.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000004|A retrospect of a score of years or so, at three and thirty, is a much vaster affair than a much longer one at fifty.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000004_000000|The whole thing seemed like yesterday; and as I write, I open my eyes and start and cry, 'can it be twenty, five and twenty, aye, by Jove! five and thirty, years since then?' How my days have flown!
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000004_000001|And I think when another such yesterday shall have arrived, where shall I be?
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000005_000000|The first ten years of my life were longer than all the rest put together, and I think would continue to be so were my future extended to an ante Noachian span.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000005_000001|It is the first ten that emerge from nothing, and commencing in a point, it is during them that consciousness, memory-all the faculties grow, and the experience of sense is so novel, crowded, and astounding.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000005_000003|But, I beg your pardon.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000006_000000|My journey was from London.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000006_000002|I could not in the least tell why.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000000|It had not a good countenance, somehow.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000001|The original lines were not prepossessing.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000003|I examined it carefully, and laid it down unopened.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000004|I went through half a dozen others, and recurred to it, and puzzled over its exterior again, and again postponed what I fancied would prove a disagreeable discovery; and this happened every now and again, until I had quite exhausted my budget, and then I did open it, and looked straight to the signature.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000008_000001|Mark Wylder,' I exclaimed, a good deal relieved.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000009_000000|Mark Wylder!
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000009_000002|There was nothing about him to excite the least uneasiness; on the contrary, I believe he liked me as well as he was capable of liking anybody, and it was now seven years since we had met.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000001|There was a complicated cousinship among these Brandons, Wylders, and Lakes-inextricable intermarriages, which, five years ago, before I renounced the bar, I had at my fingers' ends, but which had now relapsed into haze.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000002|There must have been some damnable taint in the blood of the common ancestor-a spice of the insane and the diabolical.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000003|They were an ill conditioned race-that is to say, every now and then there emerged a miscreant, with a pretty evident vein of madness.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000004|There was Sir Jonathan Brandon, for instance, who ran his own nephew through the lungs in a duel fought in a paroxysm of Cencian jealousy; and afterwards shot his coachman dead upon the box through his coach window, and finally died in Vienna, whither he had absconded, of a pike thrust received from a sentry in a brawl.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000000|The Wylders had not much to boast of, even in contrast with that wicked line.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000001|They had produced their madmen and villains, too; and there had been frequent intermarriages-not very often happy.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000002|There had been many lawsuits, frequent disinheritings, and even worse doings.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000004|So there were Wylders of Brandon, and Brandons of Brandon.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000005|In one generation, a Wylder ill using his wife and hating his children, would cut them all off, and send the estate bounding back again to the Brandons.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000006|The next generation or two would amuse themselves with a lawsuit, until the old Brandon type reappeared in some bachelor brother or uncle, with a Jezebel on his left hand, and an attorney on his right, and, presto!
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000007|the estates were back again with the Wylders.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000013_000000|A 'statement of title' is usually a dry affair.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000014_000000|Here is Mark Wylder's letter:--
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000000|'DEAR CHARLES-Of course you have heard of my good luck, and how kind poor Dickie-from whom I never expected anything-proved at last.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000005|Do you know anything of him?
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000007|He seems a clever fellow-a bit too clever, perhaps-and was too much master here, I suspect, in poor Dickie's reign.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000008|Tell me all you can make out about him. It is a long time since I saw you, Charles; I'm grown brown, and great whiskers.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000009|I met poor Dominick-what an ass that chap is-but he did not know me till I introduced myself, so I must be a good deal changed.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000010|Our ship was at Malta when I got the letter.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000011|I was sick of the service, and no wonder: a lieutenant-and there likely to stick all my days.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000013|I do not think he is a year older than I, but takes airs because he's a trustee.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000014|But I only laugh at trifles that would have riled me once.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000017|Well, you know he left Brandon with some charges to my Cousin Dorcas.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000019|Our ship was at Naples when she was there two years ago; and I saw a good deal of her.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000020|Of course it was not to be thought of then; but matters are quite different, you know, now, and the viscount, who is a very sensible fellow in the main, saw it at once.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000021|You see, the old brute meant to leave her a life estate; but it does not amount to that, though it won't benefit me, for he settled that when I die it shall go to his right heirs-that will be to my son, if I ever have one.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000022|So Miss Dorcas must pack, and turn out whenever I die, that is, if I slip my cable first.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000024|She is a wide awake young lady, and nothing the worse for that: I'm a bit that way myself.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000025|And so very little courtship has sufficed.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000026|She is a splendid beauty, and when you see her you'll say any fellow might be proud of such a bride; and so I am.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000027|And now, dear Charlie, you have it all.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000028|It will take place somewhere about the twenty fourth of next month; and you must come down by the first, if you can.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000029|Don't disappoint.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000030|I want you for best man, maybe; and besides, I would like to talk to you about some things they want me to do in the settlements, and you were always a long headed fellow: so pray don't refuse.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000016_000000|'Dear Charlie, ever most sincerely,
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000017_000000|'Your old Friend,
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000018_000000|'MARK WYLDER.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000019_000000|'p s--I stay at the Brandon Arms in the town, until after the marriage; and then you can have a room at the Hall, and capital shooting when we return, which will be in a fortnight after.'
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000020_000001|But he was certainly one of the oldest and most intimate acquaintances I had.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000020_000002|We had been for nearly three years at school together; and when his ship came to England, met frequently; and twice, when he was on leave, we had been for months together under the same roof; and had for some years kept up a regular correspondence, which first grew desultory, and finally, as manhood supervened, died out.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000000|Then there was that beautiful apathetic Dorcas Brandon.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000001|Where is the laggard so dull as to experience no pleasing flutter at his heart in anticipation of meeting a perfect beauty in a country house.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000002|I was romantic, like every other youngish fellow who is not a premature curmudgeon; and there was something indefinitely pleasant in the consciousness that, although a betrothed bride, the young lady still was fancy free: not a bit in love.
train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000003|It was but a marriage of convenience, with mitigations.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000006_000000|Lord Chelford raised his hat, smiling: 'I am so very glad I met you, I was beginning to feel so solitary!' he placed himself beside Miss Lake. 'I've had such a long walk across the park.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000008_000000|I think Lord Chelford perceived there was something amiss between the young people, for his eye rested on Rachel with a momentary look of enquiry, unconscious, no doubt, and quickly averted, and he went on chatting pleasantly; but he looked, once or twice, a little hard at Stanley Lake.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000008_000003|But though he never hinted at an unfavourable estimate of the captain, his intimacies with him were a little reserved; and I think I have seen him, even when he smiled, look the least little bit in the world uncomfortable, as if he did not quite enter into the captain's pleasantries.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000009_000000|They had not walked together very far, when Stanley recollected that he must take his leave, and walk back to Gylingden; and so the young lady and Lord Chelford were left to pursue their way towards Redman's Farm together.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000011_000000|The shock of her brief interview with her brother over, reflection assured her, knowing all she did, that Stanley's wooing would prosper, and so this cause of quarrel had really nothing in it; no, nothing but a display of his temper and morals-not very astonishing, after all-and, like an ugly picture or a dreadful dream, in no way to affect her after life, except as an odious remembrance.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000013_000000|It was rather a marked thing-as lean mrs Loyd, of Gylingden, who had two thin spinsters with pink noses under her wing, remarked-this long walk of Lord Chelford and Miss Lake in the park; and she enjoined upon her girls the propriety of being specially reserved in their intercourse with persons of Lord Chelford's rank; not that they were much troubled with dangers from any such quarter.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000014_000002|That perverse and utterly selfish brother, Stanley Lake, had chosen to take his leave.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000015_000000|Lord Chelford was a lively and agreeable companion; but there was something unusually gentle, almost resembling tenderness, in his manner. She was so different from her gay, fiery self in this walk-so gentle; so subdued-and he was more interested by her, perhaps, than he had ever been before.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000016_000000|The sun just touched the verge of the wooded uplands, as the young people began to descend the slope of Redman's Dell.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000017_000000|'How very short!' Lord Chelford paused, with a smile, at these words.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000000|There was not much in this little speech, but it was spoken in a low, sweet voice; and Rachel looked down on the ferns before her feet, as they walked on side by side, not with a smile, but with a blush, and that beautiful look of gratification so becoming and indescribable.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000002|But the fitful evening breeze came up through Redman's Dell, with a gentle sweep over the autumnal foliage.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000003|Sudden as a sigh, and cold; in her ear it sounded like a whisper or a shudder, and she lifted up her eyes and saw the darkening dell before her; and with a pang, the dreadful sense of reality returned.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000004|She stopped, with something almost wild in her look.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000005|But with an effort she smiled, and said, with a little shiver, 'The air has grown quite chill, and the sun nearly set; we loitered, Stanley and I, a great deal too long in the park, but I am now at home, and I fear I have brought you much too far out of your way already; good bye.' And she extended her hand.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000020_000002|He had a few pleasant, lingering words to say.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000020_000004|She seemed to like those lingering sentences-and hung upon them-and even smiled but in her eyes there was a vague and melancholy pleading-a wandering and unfathomable look that pained him.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000022_000000|She turned into the little drawing room at the left, and, herself unseen, did take that last look, and saw him go up the road again towards Brandon.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000023_000003|The Dulhamptons have arrived: the old Marchioness never appears till three o'clock, and only out in the carriage twice since they came.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000023_000005|She has fine eyes-and I think no other good point-much too dark for my taste-but they say clever;' and not another word was there on this subject.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000027_000000|But no Nothing could be more perfectly distinct than 'Chelford,' traced in her fair correspondent's very legible hand.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000028_000000|'He treats the young lady very coolly,' thought Rachel, forgetting, perhaps, that his special relations to Dorcas Brandon had compelled his stay in that part of the world.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000029_000001|But then she had been very guarded; not stiff or prudish, indeed, but frank and cold enough with him, and that was comforting.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000031_000002|Rachel, Rachel, girl! what a fool you were near becoming!'
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000036_000000|So they sat down together in her chamber.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000038_000000|So the old nurse mounted her spectacles, glad of the invitation, and began to read.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000039_000000|'Stop,' said Rachel suddenly, as she reached about the middle of the chapter.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000040_000000|The old woman looked up, with her watery eyes wide open, and there was a short pause.
train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000043_000002|The dead themselves declare their dreadful secrets, open mouthed, to the winds.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000002_000000|LARCOM, THE BUTLER, VISITS THE ATTORNEY.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000003_000002|It commenced thus:--
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000005_000000|'DEAR LARKIN,--I hope you did the three commissions all right.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000006_000000|There was a great deal more, but these were the passages which perplexed Larkin.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000006_000001|He unlocked the iron safe, and took out the sheaf of Wylder's letters, and conned the last one over very carefully.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000007_000002|Is it Martin of the China Kilns, or Martin of the bank?
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000007_000003|That, too, plainly refers to a former letter-not a word of the sort.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000009_000000|'There has plainly been a letter lost, manifestly.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000009_000003|I don't think the captain would venture anything so awfully hazardous.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000011_000000|'It is not a thing to be passed over,' murmured the attorney, who had come to a decision as to the first step to be taken, and he thought with a qualm of the effect of one of Wylder's confidential notes getting into Captain Lake's hands.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000012_000000|While he was buttoning his walking boots, with his foot on the chair before the fire, a tap at his study door surprised him.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000017_000000|'Oh, yes; and how do you do, mr Larcom?
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000019_000000|'But do sit down, mr Larcom-pray do,' said the attorney, who was very gracious to Larcom. 'You'll get the scrip, you know, on executing, but the shares are allotted.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000023_000000|Larcom received it with grave gratitude, and sipped it, and spoke respectfully of it.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000024_000001|I-you know-I'm interested for all parties.'
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000035_000000|The butler nodded gloomily.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000035_000001|Larkin continued to stare on him in silence, with his round eyes, for some seconds after.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000036_000002|incredible!
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000042_000000|'Well, mr Larcom, I think you have been led into an erroneous conclusion.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000043_000000|Larcom did understand perfectly, and so this little visit ended.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000045_000000|No, it was a mistake; it could not be.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000045_000001|It was Mark Wylder's penmanship-he could swear to it.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000045_000005|No, no; with Mark Wylder it was quite out of the question-altogether visionary and impracticable.
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000047_000000|Quite impossible!
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000048_000002|He had called to mention the circumstance, lest mr Driver should be taken by surprise by official investigation. Was it possible that the letter had been sent by mistake to Brandon-to Captain Lake?
train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000048_000004|At all events, it would be well to make your clerks recollect themselves. (mr Larkin knew that Driver's 'clerks' were his daughters.) It is not easy to meet with a young fellow that is quite honest.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000003_000001|It is one of the marks of an advancing state of intelligence and culture, when an assemblage of gentlemen and ladies can pass delightful hours in the mere interchange of thought in conversation.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000003_000002|And while games and other amusements may serve for a temporary variety (always excepting games known as "kissing games," which should be promptly tabooed and denounced, and ever will be in truly refined society), yet animated and intelligent conversation must always hold the first place in the list of the pleasures of any refined society circle.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000004_000000|How shall a young girl fit herself to enjoy and to afford enjoyment in general society?
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000004_000001|Certainly the first requisites are intelligence, a good knowledge of standard literature, a general knowledge of the more important events that are taking place in the world, and such a knowledge of the best current literature as may be obtained from the regular reading of one or two of the standard monthly magazines.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000000|And here it may help you if I particularize a little in regard to a knowledge of important events of the day and also of general and current literature.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000001|Of course the main source of knowledge of the more important events that are going on in the world is the daily or weekly newspaper; and yet there is scarcely any reading so utterly demoralizing to good mental habits as the ordinary daily paper.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000002|More than three fourths of the matter printed in the "great city dailies" is not only of no use to anyone, but it is a positive damage to habits of mental application to read it.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000003|It is a waste of time even to undertake to sift the important from the unimportant.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000004|The most that any earnest person should attempt to do with a daily paper is to glance over the headlines which give the gist of the news, and then to read such editorial comments as enable the reader to understand the more important events and affairs that are transpiring in the world so that reference to them in conversation would be intelligent and intelligible.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000005|But if one should never see a daily paper, yet should every week carefully read a digest of news prepared for a good weekly paper, one would be thoroughly furnished with all necessary knowledge of contemporaneous events, and the time thus saved from daily papers could be profitably employed in other reading.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000006_000000|The field of literature is now so vast that no one can hope to be well acquainted with more than a small portion of it.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000006_000001|Yet every well informed young person should know the general character of the principal writers since the time of Shakespere, even though one should never read their works.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000006_000003|She was telling a young gentleman where the book shelves were to be in the splendid new house being built by her father, and suggesting that the shelves would look nice if the books had nice bindings.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000008_000000|"'If you want to read him,' said Corey, with a laugh of sympathy for an imaginable joke.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000009_000000|"'We had a good deal about him in school.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000009_000001|I believe we had one of his books.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000009_000002|Mine's lost, but Pen will remember.'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000010_000000|"The young man looked at her, and then said seriously, 'You'll want Green, of course, and Motley, and Parkman.'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000011_000001|What kind of writers are they?'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000012_000000|"'They're historians, too.'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000013_000001|That's what Gibbon was.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000015_000001|'I used to get them mixed up with each other, and I couldn't tell them from the poets. Should you want to have poetry?'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000017_000000|"'We don't any of us like poetry.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000017_000001|Do you like it?'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000018_000000|"'I'm afraid I don't, very much,' Corey owned.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000018_000001|'But of course there was a time when Tennyson was a great deal more to me than he is now.'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000019_000002|I think we ought to have all the American poets.'
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000020_000000|"'Well, not all.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000021_000000|"'And Shakespere,' she added.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000021_000002|We had ever so much about Shakespere.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000021_000003|Weren't you perfectly astonished when you found out how many other plays there were of his?
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000000|So you see how ridiculous this young girl, by the betrayal of such ignorance, made herself in conversation with a cultured young gentleman whose good opinion she was most anxious to win.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000001|And yet, to talk too much about books is not well; it often marks the pedantic and egotistic character.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000002|It is safe to say that unless one happens to meet a very congenial mind among conversers in general society, to introduce the subject of books is liable to be misconstrued.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000003|It is not very long since another popular modern novelist held up to scorn and ridicule the young woman whose particular ambition seemed to be to let society know what an immense number of books she had been reading.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000004|Nevertheless, one must have a good groundwork of knowledge of books in order to avoid mistakes such as poor Irene made in talking with young Corey.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000023_000000|Directions and suggestions for aiding young people to become agreeable and pleasant conversers must necessarily be mainly negative.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000000|one.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000002|Especially should she avoid seeking to make an impression by frequent mention of advantageous friends or circumstances.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000003|The greatest observer and commentator upon manners that ever wrote was mr Emerson.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000004|In one of his essays he says: "You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances, nor tell me by their titles what books you have read.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000005|I am to infer that you keep good company by your good manners and better information; and to infer your reading from the wealth, and accuracy of your conversation."
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000002|To laugh aloud is a dangerous thing, unless all noise and harshness have been cultivated out of the voice, as ought to be done in every good school.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000003|The culture of the voice is one of the most important elements in making a pleasant converser.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000004|American girls and women are accused by cultivated foreigners of having loud, harsh, strident voices; and there is too much truth in the accusation.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000005|Nor is there any excuse for unpleasant, harsh, rough, nasal tones of voice in these days when in every good school instruction is given in the management of the voice for reading and conversation.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000006|The cause of harshness and loudness is often mere carelessness on the part of young people.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000007|But talking in too loud a tone is scarcely less unpleasant to the listeners than the use of too low a tone, which is generally an affectation.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000000|three.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000001|She must avoid frequent attempts at wit; avoid punning, which is the cheapest possible form of wit; and avoid sarcasm.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000002|The talent for being sarcastic is a most dangerous one.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000003|'No one ever knew a sarcastic woman who could keep friends.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000004|The temptation to be bright and interesting and to attract attention by the use of sarcasm is very strong, for nearly all will be interested in it and enjoy it for a little.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000005|But were I obliged to choose between sarcasm and dullness in a young girl, I should prefer dullness.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000006|Happily, this is not a necessary alternative.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000027_000001|She must avoid a kind of joking and badinage that should never be heard among well bred young people in society-that about courtship and marriage.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000027_000002|Much harm, much blunting of fine sensibilities, much destruction of that delicate modesty which is the priceless dower of young girlhood, comes of such jesting and joking where it is permitted without restraint or reproof.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000027_000003|A young girl may not be called upon to reprove it, but she certainly can shun the company of those who are given to such vulgarity (for no other term will rightly describe it), and she can certainly refrain from joining in any conversation of this description.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000001|Be especially careful to avoid interrupting one who is speaking.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000003|One reason why the art of conversation has so degenerated in these days is that so few have a real interest in hearing the fine thoughts of good thinker and talkers.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000004|So many people want to talk about themselves, or their affairs, that it is in many circles almost an impossibility to maintain a high and elevating conversation.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000005|Until years and experience, as well as wide reading and information, have given you the right to express freely your opinions in society, it will be well to listen a great deal more than you speak, especially when in the company of your elders.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000006|Avoid all sentimentality, or the discussion of subjects that would expose the private and sacred feelings of the heart.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000007|Do not quote poetry; do not ask people's opinions on delicate and individual questions.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000008|I have heard a young boarding school graduate embarrass a whole room full of excellent and educated people by asking a young gentleman if he did not think Longfellow very inferior to Lowell in his love poems.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000010|In this way you will avoid that bane of social conversation-gossip.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000011|In all social relations strive to throw your influence for that which is faithful, sincere, kind, generous, and just.
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000012|Have a special thought and regard for those who may labor under disadvantages?
train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000013|be especially kind to the shrinking and timid, to the poor and unfortunate.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000001_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000002|My birthplace was Dinwiddie Court House, in Virginia.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000003|My recollections of childhood are distinct, perhaps for the reason that many stirring incidents are associated with that period.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000005|The visions are so terribly distinct that I almost imagine them to be real.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000007|Every day seems like a romance within itself, and the years grow into ponderous volumes.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000008|As I cannot condense, I must omit many strange passages in my history.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000009|From such a wilderness of events it is difficult to make a selection, but as I am not writing altogether the history of myself, I will confine my story to the most important incidents which I believe influenced the moulding of my character.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000010|As I glance over the crowded sea of the past, these incidents stand forth prominently, the guide posts of memory.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000011|I presume that I must have been four years old when I first began to remember; at least, I cannot now recall anything occurring previous to this period.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000013|A. Burwell, was somewhat unsettled in his business affairs, and while I was yet an infant he made several removals.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000014|While living at Hampton Sidney College, Prince Edward county virginia, mrs Burwell gave birth to a daughter, a sweet, black eyed baby, my earliest and fondest pet.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000015|To take care of this baby was my first duty.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000019|The baby was named Elizabeth, and it was pleasant to me to be assigned a duty in connection with it, for the discharge of that duty transferred me from the rude cabin to the household of my master. My simple attire was a short dress and a little white apron.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000020|My old mistress encouraged me in rocking the cradle, by telling me that if I would watch over the baby well, keep the flies out of its face, and not let it cry, I should be its little maid.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000021|This was a golden promise, and I required no better inducement for the faithful performance of my task. I began to rock the cradle most industriously, when lo! out pitched little pet on the floor.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000024|This was the first time I was punished in this cruel way, but not the last.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000025|The black eyed baby that I called my pet grew into a self willed girl, and in after years was the cause of much trouble to me.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000027|When I was eight, mr Burwell's family consisted of six sons and four daughters, with a large family of servants.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000029|I was my mother's only child, which made her love for me all the stronger.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000031|At last mr Burwell determined to reward my mother, by making an arrangement with the owner of my father, by which the separation of my parents could be brought to an end.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000034|But the golden days did not last long.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000007|The shadow eclipsed the sunshine, and love brought despair.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000008|The parting was eternal.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000010|We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000014|My old mistress said to her: "Stop your nonsense; there is no necessity for you putting on airs.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000015|Your husband is not the only slave that has been sold from his family, and you are not the only one that has had to part.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000017|She turned away in stoical silence, with a curl of that loathing scorn upon her lips which swelled in her heart.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000005_000001|They kept up a regular correspondence for years, and the most precious mementoes of my existence are the faded old letters that he wrote, full of love, and always hoping that the future would bring brighter days.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000006_000000|I note a few extracts from one of my father's letters to my mother, following copy literally:
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000007_000001|six, eighteen thirty three.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000008_000000|"mrs
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000008_000001|AGNES HOBBS
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000001|We were living at Prince Edward, in Virginia, and master had just purchased his hogs for the winter, for which he was unable to pay in full.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000002|To escape from his embarrassment it was necessary to sell one of the slaves.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000003|Little Joe, the son of the cook, was selected as the victim.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000004|His mother was ordered to dress him up in his Sunday clothes, and send him to the house.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000005|He came in with a bright face, was placed in the scales, and was sold, like the hogs, at so much per pound. His mother was kept in ignorance of the transaction, but her suspicions were aroused.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000008|One day she was whipped for grieving for her lost boy.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000011|Colonel Burwell at one time owned about seventy slaves, all of which were sold, and in a majority of instances wives were separated from husbands and children from their parents.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000013|Time seemed to soften the hearts of master and mistress, and to insure kinder and more humane treatment to bondsmen and bondswomen.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000014|When I was quite a child, an incident occurred which my mother afterward impressed more strongly on my mind.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000015|One of my uncles, a slave of Colonel Burwell, lost a pair of ploughlines, and when the loss was made known the master gave him a new pair, and told him that if he did not take care of them he would punish him severely.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000017|My mother went to the spring in the morning for a pail of water, and on looking up into the willow tree which shaded the bubbling crystal stream, she discovered the lifeless form of her brother suspended beneath one of the strong branches.
train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000018|Rather than be punished the way Colonel Burwell punished his servants, he took his own life.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000002_000000|fifteen
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000005_000001|In the midst of these appalling horrors, time, it seems, has hastened still more in its bewildered flight, and already we have reached the anniversary of that foul deed, the blackest that has ever defiled the history of the human race.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000005_000002|This crime was committed after long, hypocritical premeditation, and no pang of remorse, no vestige of shame, caused those myriads of accomplices to stay their hands.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000005_000005|There were certain dastardly deeds, certain acts of profanation, certain lies, at which those hordes that came to us from Asia hesitated; an instinctive reverence still restrained them; and, moreover, in those times they did not destroy with such impudent cynicism, invoking the God of Christians in a burlesque pathos of prayer!
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000009_000000|King Albert of Belgium, dispossessed to day of his all and banished to a hamlet-what tribute of admiration and homage can we offer him worthy of his acceptance and sufficiently enduring?
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000009_000001|Upon tablets of flawless marble let us carve his name in deep letters so that it may be well insured against the fugitiveness of our French memories, which, alas! have sometimes proved a little untrustworthy, at least in face of the age long infamies of Germany.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000000|As for Queen Elizabeth, let each one of us dedicate to her a shrine in his soul.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000001|One of the most dreaded duties that falls almost invariably to the lot of queens is having to reign over adopted countries while exiled from their own.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000002|In the special case of this young martyred queen, this doom of exile which has befallen her, and many other queens, must be a far more exquisite torture, added to all the other evils endured, for a crushing fatality has come and separated her for ever from all who were once her own people, even from that noble woman, all devotion and charity, who was her mother.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000005|And she is by the side of the poor who have lost their all by pillage or fire; by the side of the wounded who are suffering or dying; to them, too, she is a companion, comforting the lowliest with her adorable simplicity, shedding on all the increasing bounty of her exquisite compassion.
train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000006|Oh, may she be blest, reverenced, and glorified!
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000003_000000|ALL SOULS' DAY WITH THE ARMIES AT THE FRONT
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000005_000002|Each grave is decked with at least four fine tricolours, their flagstaffs planted in the ground, two at the head, two at the foot, and an infinite number of flowers and wreaths tied with ribbons.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000006_000001|There are fifteen of these graves, each with its four flags, making sixty flags in all.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000006_000002|And in the bitter autumn wind they flutter almost gaily, unceasingly, all these strips of bunting, they wanton in the air, intermingle, and their bright colours shine out more conspicuously.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000007_000001|During these days of festival, the rest of the cemetery is also very full of flowers, but it looks dull and colourless compared with that corner sacred to our soldiers.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000009_000003|It was very gloomy in that cemetery, under an overcast sky, whence fell a semi darkness already wintry in aspect.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000001|All the little churches-those at least that the barbarians have not destroyed-had been decorated that day with all that the villages could muster in the way of flags, banners, tapers and wreaths.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000002|And they were too small, these churches, to hold the crowds that flocked to them.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000003|There were officers, soldiers, civil population, women mostly in mourning, whose eyes under their veils were reddened with secret tears.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000005|Indeed what could better prepare them for the supreme sacrifice and for a death nobly met than these prayers, this music and even these flowers?
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000011_000000|They sang this morning, these improvised choristers, with a solemn transport.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000011_000002|And again, as on the day of the funerals, all the little graves were blessed.
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000012_000001|Oh let them take comfort!
train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000012_000002|In spite of the simplicity of these little wooden crosses, almost all alike, nowhere are they cared for and honoured so well as at the front; in no other place could they receive such touching homage, such tribute of flowers, of prayers, of tears.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000002_000000|The condition of women in Rome, especially from one fifty b c to one fifty a d, was quite different from what it was in Athens, even during her palmiest days.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000003_000000|In the first place the Roman matron had much more freedom than was accorded the Greek wife during the age of Pericles.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000003_000001|Far from being kept in oriental seclusion, like her Athenian sister, she was at liberty to receive and dine with the friends of her husband, and to appear in public whenever she desired.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000003_000002|She went to the theater and the Forum; she took part in all reputable entertainment, whether public or private. Besides this, she had more and greater legal rights than Greek women had ever known, and was treated rather as the peer and companion of man than as his toy or his slave.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000004_000000|Besides this, foreign women were never so conspicuous in Rome as in Athens.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000004_000002|And, although many Greek women, some of them of rare beauty and culture, found their way to Rome, especially under the empire, they were always kept in the background and never succeeded in achieving anything approaching the ascendancy which distinguished them during the time of Aspasia.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000005_000004|She was never supposed to have reached the age of reason or experience." And her noblest epitaph, it was averred, was couched in the following words:
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000008_000000|"Mere woman's work Expressing the comparative respect Which means the absolute scorn."
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000009_000000|As early as four fifty b c, when the laws of the Twelve Tables were promulgated, the girls of Rome received instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000009_000002|Then, most probably, her education in the scholastic sense came to an end.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000010_000000|With the extension of the empire and the consequent enormous increase in wealth and the rapid progress in social and intellectual freedom, there was a notable change in the character of the education given to women, at least to those of the wealthier and patrician families.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000010_000001|This was, in great measure, due to the wave of Hellenism which, shortly after the conquest of Greece, broke upon the Roman capital with such irresistible force.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000010_000003|To become thoroughly versed in Greek poetry and proficient in the teachings of Greek philosophy was the ambition of scores of Roman women, who soon became noted for the extent and variety of their attainments, as well as for their rare culture and charming personality.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000011_000000|Among the pioneers of the intellectual movement in Rome, and one of the most beautiful types of the learned women of her time, was the celebrated daughter of the elder Scipio Africanus-Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000012_000000|Scarcely less distinguished and accomplished was another Cornelia, the wife of Pompey, the Great.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000013_000000|Then there was the cultured and devoted Aurelia, the mother of Julius Caesar.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000013_000002|Highly educated and of commanding personalities, both these women, like many others of their time, contributed much to the making of Roman history by the success they achieved in molding the characters of some of the greatest men of their own or of any age.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000001|But there were others who chose a wider field for their activities, and who, by reason of their unerring judgment, well poised and highly cultivated minds, had so won the confidence of the nation's greatest leaders that they were frequently consulted on important affairs of state.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000002|Thus, Cicero tells us of an interview which he had at Antium with Brutus and Cassius. Besides the men, there were present on this occasion three women, who took an active part in the discussion.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000003|These were Servilia, the mother of Brutus, Porcia, the wife of Brutus and the daughter of Cato, and Tertulla, the wife of Cassius and sister of Brutus.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000006|As we learn from Tacitus, their counsels and assistance were considered of peculiar value by the Commonwealth.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000007|For, when some of the sterner old moralists wished to exclude women from all participation in public affairs, the Senate, after a heated debate, decided by a large majority that the cooperation of women in questions of administration, far from being a menace, as some contended, was so beneficial to the state that it should be continued.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000016_000000|Among other noteworthy makers of Roman history, besides those just mentioned, is Livia, the wife of Augustus and the mother of Tiberius.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000016_000001|So great was her influence and so persistent was her activity in government affairs, that it is sometimes asserted that she was the prime mover of most of the public acts of both these rulers.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000017_000000|Then there was the gracious, the virtuous, the self sacrificing Octavia, sister of the Emperor Augustus, who was so successful in composing grave differences between her brother and her husband, and who so exerted her influence for peace during the troublous times in which she lived that she lives in history as a peacemaker.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000017_000002|In many respects she was the most commanding personality of her age, and exhibited in an eminent degree those sterling qualities which we are wont to associate with the strong, dignified, courageous women of ancient Rome, who gave to the world so many and so great men in every sphere of human endeavor.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000021_000002|They not only went to, but presided over, public games and religious ceremonies.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000022_000000|Yet more.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000025_000000|That some of the women had literary ability of a high order is indicated by a letter of Pliny to one of his correspondents, in which occurs the following passage:
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000026_000001|I believed that Plautus or Terence was being read in prose.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000027_000000|Scarcely less distinguished for her taste in literature, and for her talent as a letter writer, was Pliny's wife, Calphurnia, who, at his request, wrote to him in his absence every day and sometimes even twice a day.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000027_000001|According to Cicero, his daughter Tulia was "the best and most learned of women"; but her literary work, it is probable, did not extend much beyond her letters to her illustrious father.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000028_000000|Considering the number of educated women that lived in the latter days of the Republic and during the earlier part of the Empire, and their well known culture and love of letters, it is reasonable to suppose that they may have written much in both prose and verse of which we have no record.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000030_000002|And as for men of the old conservative type, a learned woman was as much an object of horror as is a militant suffragette in conservative England to day.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000031_000001|He gives his opinion of them in the following characteristic fashion:
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000033_000002|Like Plato, he contended that women should have the same training as men and that the faculties of both should be equally developed.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000033_000003|The gist of his teaching is contained in the statement that:
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000038_000001|So great was Jerome's confidence in their scholarship and so high was his appreciation of their ability and judgment that he did not hesitate to submit his translations to them for their criticism and approval.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000038_000002|After he had completed his version of the first Book of Kings, he turned it over to them, saying: "Read my Book of Kings-read also the Latin and Greek translations and compare them with my version." And they did read and compare and criticise.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000038_000003|And more than this, they frequently suggested modifications and corrections which the great man accepted with touching humility and incorporated in a revised copy.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000041_000003|It is not only a defence of his course, but also a splendid tribute to his two illustrious friends, and a tribute also to the great and good women of all time.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000000|"There are people, O Paula and Eustochium," exclaims the Christian Cicero, vibrant with emotion and in a burst of eloquence that recalls one of the burning philippics of Marcus Tullius, "who take offence at seeing your names at the beginning of my works.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000001|These people do not know that Olda prophesied when the men were mute; that while Barach was atremble, Deborah saved Israel; that Judith and esther delivered from supreme peril the children of God.
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000006|Did not Themista philosophize with the sages of Greece?
train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000007|And the mother of the Gracchi, your Cornelia, and the daughter of Cato, wife of Brutus, before whom pale the austere virtue of the father and the courage of the husband-are they not the pride of the whole of Rome?
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000001|By some it is considered as synonymous with the Dark Ages, because of the decline of learning and civilization during this long interval of time.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000003|During the "wandering of the nations" in the fourth and fifth centuries, and the long and fierce struggles between the barbarian hordes from the north with the decadent peoples of the once great Roman empire, there was, no doubt, a partial eclipse of the sun of civilization; but the consequent darkness was not so dense nor so general and long continued as is sometimes imagined.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000004|The progress of intellectual culture was, indeed, greatly retarded, but there was no time when the light of learning was entirely extinguished.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000005|For even during the most troublous times there were centers of culture in one part of Europe or another.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000006|At one time the center was in Italy, at another in Gaul, and, at still another, it was in Britain or Ireland or Germany.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000003_000000|But whether it was in the south, or the west or the north of Europe that letters flourished, it was always the convent or the monastery that was the home of learning and culture.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000003_000001|Within these holy precincts the literary treasures of antiquity were preserved and multiplied.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000004_000000|Of the monastic institutions for men there is no occasion to speak, except in so far as they contributed to the intellectual advancement of woman.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000000|Practically the only schools for girls during the Middle Ages were the convents.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000001|Here were educated rich and poor, gentle and simple.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000002|And in these homes of piety and learning the inmates enjoyed a peace and a security that it was impossible to find elsewhere.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000003|They were free from the dangers and annoyances that so often menaced them in their own homes and were able to pursue their studies under the most favorable auspices.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000006_000000|Among the first convent schools to achieve distinction were those of Arles and Poitiers in Gaul, in the latter part of the sixth century.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000007_000002|Her convent and adjoining monastery for monks soon became the most noted center of learning and culture in Britain.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000007_000003|And so great was her reputation for knowledge and wisdom that not only priests and bishops, but also princes and kings sought her counsel in important matters of church and state.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000008_000000|As to the monks subject to her authority, she inspired them with so great a love of knowledge, and urged them to so thorough a study of the Scriptures, that her monastery became, as Venerable Bede informs us, a school not only for missionaries but for bishops as well.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000009_000000|Celebrated, however, as Hilda was for her great educational work at Whitby, she is probably better known to the world as the one who first recognized and fostered the rare gifts of the poet Caedmon.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000011_000000|As his poetical faculty became more developed, his profoundly original genius became more marked, and his inspiration more earnest and impassioned.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000013_000001|I cannot, however, refrain from referring to that group of learned English nuns who are chiefly known by their Latin correspondence with saint Boniface, the Apostle of Germany, and by the assistance which they gave him in his arduous labors.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000015_000000|From what has been said of the accomplishments and achievements of the Anglo Saxon nuns just mentioned, it is evident that they were, of a truth, women of exceptional worth and of sterling character.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000015_000002|A woman's education, at this time, was not complete unless she could write Latin and speak it fluently.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000015_000004|In certain convents Latin was almost the sole medium of communication,--to such an extent, indeed, that a special rule was made prohibiting "the use of the Latin tongue except under special circumstances."
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000000|But this is not all.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000001|The strangest and saddest result, consequent on the suppression of the convents, was that men were made to profit by the loss which women had sustained.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000003|When they were appropriated by Henry the eighth, it never occurred to him or his ministers to make any provision for the education of women in lieu of that which had so ruthlessly been wrested from them.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000005|Similarly, the properties of other nunneries, large and small, were appropriated for the foundation of collegiate institutions at Oxford, all of which were for the benefit of men.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000019_000001|But no
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000019_000003|They made provision only for the boys.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000020_000000|The truth is, when anything was achieved for the intellectual advancement of women it was due either to private instruction or to the result of a protracted struggle on the part of women themselves for what they deemed their indefeasible rights.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000021_000003|The Anglo Saxon convents developed few writers, whereas those of Germany produced several who not only shed luster on their sex but who also showed what woman is capable of accomplishing when accorded some measure of encouragement and full liberty of action.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000023_000001|As a writer of history and legends she ranks with the best authors of her time, while as a writer of dramas she stands absolutely alone.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000000|Her dramas, which, of all her works, have attracted the most attention, are seven in number.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000003|They are, likewise, distinguished by originality of treatment, complete mastery of the material used, as well as by genuine beauty of rhyme and rhythm.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000004|In form, all the plays preserve the simple directness of their model, Terence, while, in conception, they embody the noblest ideals of Christian teaching.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000005|In marked contrast to her model, who invariably exhibits the frailties and lapses of woman, Hroswitha's plays turn on the resistance of her sex to temptation, and on their steadfast adherence to duty and to vows voluntarily assumed.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000025_000002|Everything in her plays that is not formal but essential, everything that is original and individual, belongs wholly to the Christianized Germany of the tenth century. Everywhere we can trace the influence of the atmosphere in which she lived; every thought and every motive is colored by the spiritual conditions of her time.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000029_000001|So great was her reputation for sanctity and for the extent and variety of her attainments that she was called "the marvel of Germany." She is without doubt one of the most beautiful and imposing as well as one of the greatest figures of the Middle Ages-great beside such eminent contemporaries as Abelard, Martin of Tours and Bernard of Clairvaux.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000029_000002|People from all parts of the Christian world sought her counsel; and her convent at Bingen became a Mecca for all classes and conditions of men and women.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000030_000000|Among her correspondents were people of the humble walks of life as well as the highest representatives of Church and State.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000030_000001|There were simple monks and noble abbots; dukes, kings and queens; archbishops and cardinals and no fewer than four Popes.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000030_000003|And, if we accept the criterion that influence is measured by the number and nature of one's relations, it would be difficult to find in any age relations that were more select or more cosmopolitan.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000000|But her astonishing collection of letters is the slightest product of her intellectual activity.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000001|She is without doubt the most voluminous woman writer of the Middle Ages.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000002|Her works on theology, Scripture and science make no less than six or eight large octavo volumes.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000003|The Bollandists, than whom there is no more competent authority, express their amazement at the amount and quality of Hildegard's work.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000033_000000|Herrad, the gifted abbess of Hohenburg in Alsace, was a contemporary of Hildegard, and, like her, was noted for her culture and wide range of knowledge.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000034_000001|Nor is there any other work that gives us a better knowledge of the manners, customs and ideals of the twelfth century, or one that, in its particular sphere, is of more value to the student of art, philology and archaeology.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000034_000002|It exhibits Herrad's intense interest in the intellectual advancement of her nuns and pupils as well as her superior talent and acquirements.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000034_000003|Unfortunately the manuscript copy of this work was destroyed at the time of the bombardment of Strasburg by the Germans in eighteen seventy, and our knowledge of it is limited to portions of it which had previously been transcribed or to accounts left of it by those who had examined it before its destruction.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000035_000001|Of the abbess Gertrude we read that her enthusiasm for knowledge was so great that she not only inspired others with the same enthusiasm, but that she was an incessant collector of books, which she had her nuns transcribe.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000035_000002|Among her most distinguished subjects were two religious by the name of Matilda, one of whom was her sister, and a third, who, to distinguish her from the abbess, is known as "Gertrude the Great."
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000036_000001|For this reason they still have a special claim on the attention of students of art and literature, as well as those of theology and mysticism.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000038_000000|A recent writer sums up in a few words the status and the accomplishments of the lady of the abbey in the following paragraph:
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000001|The modern college for women only feebly reproduces it, since the college for women has arisen at a time when colleges in general are under a cloud.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000002|The lady abbess, on the other hand, was part of the two great social forces of her time, feudalism and the Church.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000003|Great spiritual rewards and great worldly prizes were alike within her grasp.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000004|She was treated as an equal by the men of her class, as is witnessed by letters we still have from popes and emperors to abbesses.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000000|Nor is this all.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000001|Never was woman more highly honored, never was her power and influence greater than during the period of conventual life extending from Hilda of Whitby to Gertrude and the Matildas of Helfta, and especially during that golden period of monasticism and chivalry when cloister and court were the radiant centers of learning and culture.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000003|In England, they ranked with lords temporal and spiritual, and had the right to attend the king's council or to send proxies to represent them, while in Germany, where they held property directly from the king or emperor, they enjoyed the rights and privileges of barons and, as such, took part in the proceedings of the imperial diet either in person or through their accredited representatives.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000004|In Saxony, the abbesses had the right to strike coins bearing their own portraits, notably the abbesses of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000005|In England they were invested with extraordinary powers, and in certain cases owed obedience to none save the Pope.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000006|In Kent abbesses, as representatives of religion, came immediately after bishops.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000041_000000|Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000041_000002|At a later period during the prolonged absence in Italy of Otto the third, the control of affairs was entrusted to the abbess alone; and so successful was her administration, and so vigorous were the measures which she adopted against the invading Wends, that she commanded the admiration of all.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000042_000000|"The educational influence of convents during centuries," continues the same writer, "cannot be rated too highly.
train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000043_000001|Both of these noted women were worthy prototypes of that long list of learned Italian women who, during the Renaissance, won such honor for themselves and such undying glory for their country.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000002_000000|JULIA PERFORMS A SACRED DUTY
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000003_000000|"What have we ever done that we should be so neglected?" said David Nesbit, swinging himself from his motorcycle and landing squarely in front of Grace Harlowe and Anne Pierson while they were out walking one afternoon.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000004_000000|"Why, David Nesbit, how can you make such statements?" replied Grace, looking at the young man in mock disapproval.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000004_000001|"You know perfectly well that you've been shut up in your old laboratory all fall.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000004_000002|We have scarcely seen you since the walking party.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000001|"That's what comes of having a sister who belongs to a sorority.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000002|However, you folks are equally guilty, you've all gone mad over your sorority, and left Hippy and Reddy and me to wander about Oakdale like lost souls.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000003|I hear you've adopted a girl, too.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000004|Reddy is horribly jealous of her.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000005|He says Jessica won't look at him any more."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000006_000000|"Reddy is laboring under a false impression," said Anne.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000006_000001|"He is head over heels in football practice and has forgotten he ever knew Jessica. As for Hippy, Nora says that he is studying night and day, and that he is actually wearing himself away by burning midnight oil."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000007_000000|"Yes, Hippy is studying some this year," replied David.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000007_000002|You know Hippy never bothered himself much about study, just managed to scrape through.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000007_000003|But now he'll have to hustle if he gets through with High School this year, and he's wide awake to that fact."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000008_000001|"You'll have to have better excuses than football and experiments."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000009_000000|"I'll tell you what we'll do to square ourselves," said David, smiling. "We'll take you girls to the football game next Thursday.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000009_000002|Reddy's on the team, but Hippy and I will do the honors."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000000|"Fine," replied Grace.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000001|"But are you willing to burden yourselves with some extra girls?
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000002|You see it's this way.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000003|One of the things that our sorority has pledged itself to do this year is to look up the stray girls in High School, and see that they are not lonely and homesick during holiday seasons.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000011_000002|"mrs Gray had planned a party for us, but when we told her what we were about to do, she gave up her party and agreed to go to mine instead, on condition that Anne's family, plus Anne's two guests, should have dinner with her."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000000|"Bless her dear heart," said David, "she is always thinking of the pleasure of others.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000001|Now about the football game.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000002|Bring your girls along and I'll do my best to give them a good time, although I'm generally anything but a success with new girls.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000003|However, Hippy makes up for what I lack.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000004|He can entertain a regiment of them, and not even exert himself. Now I must leave you, for I have a very important engagement at home."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000013_000000|"In the laboratory, I suppose," said Anne teasingly.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000014_000000|"Just so," replied David.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000014_000001|"Good bye, girls.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000014_000002|Let me know how many tickets you want for the game." He raised his cap, mounted his machine and was off down the street.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000016_000000|"We do seem to be getting awfully serious and settled of late," replied Anne.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000016_000002|We've had so many special meetings."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000018_000001|Last season seems like a dream to me now."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000019_000001|"I have forgiven, long ago, but I have not forgotten the way some of those girls performed last year.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000019_000002|It was remarkable that things ever straightened themselves.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000020_000000|Anne pressed Grace's hand by way of answer.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000020_000001|The sophomore year had been crowded with many trials, some of them positive school tragedies, in which Anne and Grace had been the principal actors.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000021_000000|"What are you two mooning over?" asked a gay voice, and the two girls turned with a start to find Julia Crosby grinning cheerfully at them.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000022_000000|"O Julia, how glad I am to see you at close range!" exclaimed Grace. "Admiring you from a distance isn't a bit satisfactory."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000023_000001|"That's the only thing that keeps me from your side.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000023_000002|The duties of the class president are many and irksome.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000023_000003|At the present moment I've a duty on hand that I don't in the least relish, and I want your august assistance.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000024_000000|"Why, of course," answered Grace and Anne in the same breath.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000024_000001|"What is it you want us to do?"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000025_000000|"Well, it seems that some of your juniors are still in need of discipline.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000025_000001|You remember the hatchet that we buried last year with such pomp and ceremony?"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000026_000000|"Yes, yes," was the answer.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000000|"This morning I overheard certain girls planning to go out to the Omnibus House after school to morrow and dig up the poor hatchet and flaunt it in the seniors' faces the day of the opening basketball game, simply to rattle us.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000001|Just as though it wouldn't upset your team as much as ours.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000002|It's an idiotic trick, at any rate, and anything but funny.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000003|Now I propose to take four of our class, and you must select four of yours. We'll hustle out there the minute school is over to morrow, and be ready to receive the marauders when they arrive.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000004|Select your girls, but don't tell them what you want or they may tell some one about it beforehand."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000028_000001|"Who are the girls, Julia?
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000028_000002|Are you sure they're juniors?"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000029_000000|"The two I heard talking are juniors.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000030_000000|"Tell us who they are, Julia," said Grace.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000030_000001|"We don't want to go into this blindfolded."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000031_000000|"Wait and see," replied Julia tantalizingly.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000031_000001|"Then you'll feel more indignant and can help my cause along all the better.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000031_000002|I give you my word that the girls I overheard talking are not particular friends of yours. You aren't going to back out, are you, and leave me without proper support?"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000032_000000|"Of course not," laughed Grace.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000032_000001|"Don't worry.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000032_000002|We'll support you, only you must agree to do all the talking."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000033_000000|"I shall endeavor to overcome their insane freshness with a few well chosen words," Julia promised.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000033_000001|"Be sure and be on hand early."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000034_000000|Grace chose Anne, Nora, Jessica and Marian Barber, the latter three being considerably mystified at her request, but nevertheless agreeing to be on hand when school closed.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000034_000001|They were met at the gate by Julia and four other seniors, and the whole party set out for the Omnibus House without delay.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000035_000000|Grace walked with Julia, and the two girls found plenty to say to each other during the walk.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000035_000001|Julia was studying hard, she told Grace.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000035_000002|She wanted to enter Smith next year.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000000|"I don't know where I shall go after I finish High School," said Grace. "Ethel Post wants me to go to Wellesley.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000001|She'll be a junior when I'm a freshman.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000003|But I don't know whether I should like Wellesley.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000004|I shall not try to decide where I want to go for a while yet."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000037_000000|"Wherever we are we'll write and always be friends," said Julia, and Grace warmly acquiesced.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000038_000000|As they neared the old Omnibus House they could see no one about.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000000|"We're early!" exclaimed Julia.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000001|"The enemy has not arrived.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000002|Thank goodness, it's not cold to day or we might have a chilly vigil.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000003|Now listen, all ye faithful, while I set forth the object of this walk." She thereupon related what Grace and Anne already knew.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000040_000001|"It isn't the hatchet we care for, it's the principle of the thing.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000040_000002|Give them what they deserve, Julia."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000000|"Never fear," replied Julia.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000001|"I'll effectually attend to their case.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000002|Now we'd better dodge around the corner and keep out of sight until they get here.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000003|Then we'll swoop down upon them unawares."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000043_000000|They had not waited long before they heard voices.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000044_000000|"They're coming," whispered Julia.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000044_000001|"There are eight of them.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000044_000002|Form in line and when they get nicely started, we'll circle about them and hem them in.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000000|The girls waited in silence.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000001|"They have trowels," Julia informed them from time to time.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000002|"They have a spade.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000003|They've begun to dig, and they are having their own troubles, for the ground is hard.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000004|All ready! March!"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000046_000000|Softly the procession approached the spot where the marauders were energetically digging.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000047_000000|The girl using the spade was Eleanor.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000048_000000|"Now I'm in for it," groaned Grace.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000048_000001|"She's down on me now, and she'll be sure to think I organized the whole thing." For an instant Grace regretted making the promise to Julia, before learning the situation; then, holding her head a trifle more erect, she decided to make the best of her unfortunate predicament.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000049_000000|"It isn't Julia's fault," she thought.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000049_000001|"She probably knows nothing about our acquaintance with Eleanor; besides, Eleanor has no business to play such tricks.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000049_000002|Edna Wright must have told her all about last year."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000050_000000|Her reflections were cut short, for one of the girls glanced up from her digging with a sudden exclamation which drew all eyes toward Julia and her party.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000051_000000|"Well, little folks," said Julia in mock surprise, "what sort of a party is this?
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000052_000000|At Julia's first words Eleanor dropped the small spade she held and straightened up, the picture of defiance.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000052_000002|The other diggers looked sheepishly at Julia, who stood eyeing them in a way that made them feel "too foolish for anything," as one of them afterwards expressed it.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000053_000000|"Why don't you answer me, little girls?" asked Julia.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000054_000000|This was too much for Eleanor.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000055_000000|"How dare you speak to us in that manner and treat us as though we were children?" she burst forth.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000055_000001|"What business is it of yours why we are here?
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000056_000001|"Do you?"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000057_000000|"No," replied Eleanor a trifle less rudely, "but we have as much right here as you have."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000058_000000|"Granted," replied Julia calmly.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000058_000001|"However, there is this difference. You are here to make mischief and we are here to prevent it, and, furthermore, are going to do so."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000060_000000|"Just this," replied Julia.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000060_000001|"Last year the girls belonging to the present senior and junior classes met on this very spot and amicably disposed of a two year old class grudge.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000060_000002|Emblematic of this they buried a hatchet, once occupying a humble though honorable position in the Crosby family, but cheerfully sacrificed for the good of the cause.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000061_000000|"Yesterday," continued Julia, "I overheard two juniors plotting to get possession of this same hatchet for the purpose of flaunting it in the faces of the seniors at the opening basketball game.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000061_000001|Therefore I decided to take a hand in things, and here I am, backed by girls from both classes, who are of the self same mind."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000062_000000|"Really, Miss Crosby," said Edna Wright, "you are very amusing."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000063_000000|"My friends all think so," returned Julia sweetly, "but never mind now about my amusing qualities, Edna.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000063_000001|Let's talk about the present situation."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000064_000000|She looked at Edna with the old time aggravating smile that was always warranted to further incense her opponent.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000064_000001|It had its desired effect, for Edna fairly bristled with indignation and was about to make a furious reply when she was pushed aside by Eleanor, who said loftily, "Allow me to talk to this person, Edna."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000065_000000|"No," said Julia resolutely, every vestige of a smile leaving her face at Eleanor's words.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000065_000002|But you have with you seven girls who do know all about the enmity that was buried here last spring, and who ought to have enough good sense to know that this afternoon's performance is liable to bring it to life again.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000066_000000|"If you girls carry this hatchet to school and exhibit it to the seniors on the day of the game you are apt to start bad feeling all over again," she said, turning to the others.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000067_000000|"That's the reason I asked Grace to appoint a committee of juniors and come out here with me.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000067_000001|I feel sure that under the circumstances the absent members of both classes would agree with us if they were present. Digging up a rusty old hatchet is nothing, but digging up a rusty old grudge is quite another matter.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000067_000002|We didn't come here to quarrel, but I appeal to you, as members of the junior class, to think before you do something that is bound to cause us all annoyance and perhaps unhappiness."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000068_000000|There was complete silence after Julia finished speaking.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000068_000002|Eleanor alone looked belligerent.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000069_000000|"Perhaps we'd better let the old hatchet alone," Daisy Culver said sullenly.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000069_000001|"The fun is all spoiled now, and everyone will know about it before school begins to morrow."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000070_000000|"Daisy, how can you say so?" exclaimed Grace, who, fearing a scene with Eleanor, had hitherto remained silent.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000070_000001|"You know perfectly well that none of us will say anything about it.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000000|This was Eleanor's opportunity.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000001|Turning furiously on Grace, her eyes flashing, she exclaimed: "Yes, there is one girl who would tell anything, and that girl is you!
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000002|You pretend to be honorable and high principled, but you are nothing but a hypocrite and a sneak. I would not trust you as far as I could see you.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000004|You seem determined to meddle with matters that do not concern you, and I warn you that if you do not change your tactics you may regret it.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000072_000000|"You seem to think yourself the idol of your class, but there are some of the girls who are too clever to be deceived.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000072_000001|They do not belong among the number who trail tamely after you, either.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000072_000002|And now I wish to say that I despise you and all your friends, and wish never to speak to any of you again.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000072_000004|Let them keep their trumpery hatchet."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000073_000000|With these words she turned and stalked across the field to the road, where her runabout stood.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000073_000001|After an instant's hesitation, she was followed by Edna, Daisy Culver and those who had come with her. Henceforth there would again be two distinct factions in the junior class.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000074_000000|"Good gracious," exclaimed Julia Crosby.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000074_000002|What on earth did you ever do to her, Grace?"
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000075_000000|But Grace could not answer.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000075_000001|She was winking hard to keep back the tears. Twice she attempted to speak and failed.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000076_000000|"I can't help feeling badly," said Grace, with a sob.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000076_000001|"She said such dreadful things."
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000077_000000|"No one who knows you would believe them," replied Julia.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000077_000001|"By the way, who is she?
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000078_000000|"I'll tell you about her as we walk along," replied Grace, wiping her eyes and smiling a little.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000079_000001|"The battle is over.
train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000079_000002|No one has been killed and only one wounded.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000002_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000000|Now that Thanksgiving was past, basketball became the topic of the hour. The juniors had accepted the challenge of the senior class, and had agreed to play them on saturday december twelfth, at two o'clock, in the gymnasium.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000001|Only two weeks remained in which to practise.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000002|Their sorority enthusiasm had so completely run away with them that they had even neglected basketball until now.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000003|Therefore Grace Harlowe lost no time in getting Miss Thompson's permission to use the gymnasium, and promptly notified her team and the subs. to meet there, in gymnasium suits, prepared to play, that afternoon.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000005_000000|The instant the last bell sounded on lessons, ten girls made for their lockers, and fifteen minutes later the first team and the subs. were moving toward the gymnasium deep in the discussion of the coming game and their chances for success over their opponents.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000006_000000|A brief meeting was held, and the girls were assigned to their positions.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000006_000001|Grace had fully intended that Miriam should play center, but when she proposed it, Miriam flatly refused to do so, and asked for her old position of right forward.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000007_000000|"You are our captain," she declared to Grace, "and the best center I ever saw on a girls' team.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000007_000002|Don't you agree with me, girls?"
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000008_000000|Nora was detailed as left forward, while Marian Barber and Eva Allen played right and left guards.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000008_000001|The substitutes were also assigned their positions and practice began.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000010_000000|"I never saw you girls work better!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000010_000001|"It will be a sorry day for the seniors when we line up on the twelfth."
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000011_000000|"There'll be a great gnashing of senior teeth after the game," remarked Nora confidently.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000012_000000|"Do you know, girls," said Grace, as they left the gymnasium that afternoon, "I am sorry that Eleanor won't be peaceable.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000012_000002|I suppose she will stay away from the game merely because we are on the team.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000013_000000|"Grace Harlowe, are you ever going to stop mourning over Eleanor?" cried Miriam impatiently.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000013_000001|"She doesn't deserve your regret and is too selfish to appreciate it.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000013_000002|I know what I am talking about because I used to be just as ridiculous as she is, and knowing what you suffered through me, I can't bear to see you unhappy again over some one who is too trivial to be taken seriously."
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000014_000000|"You're a dear, Miriam!" exclaimed Nora impulsively.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000017_000002|It is their ambition to become loud and loyal fans."
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000021_000001|Grace nodded to her, but her salutation met with a chilly stare.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000022_000001|"I suppose she thinks that hurts me.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000022_000002|Of course it isn't exactly pleasant, but I'm going to keep on speaking to her, just the same.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000022_000003|I am not angry, even if she is; although I have far greater cause to be."
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000023_000000|But before the close of the week Grace was destined to cross swords with Eleanor in earnest, and the toleration she had felt was swallowed up in righteous indignation.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000024_000000|During the winter, theatrical companies sometimes visited Oakdale for a week at a time, presenting, at popular prices, old worn out plays and cheap melodramas.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000025_000000|All this Eleanor had heard, among other things, from Edna Wright, but had paid little attention to it when Edna had told her.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000025_000001|Directly after cutting Grace Harlowe, she had turned her runabout into Main Street, where a billboard had caught her eye, displaying in glaring red and blue lettering the fact that the "Peerless Dramatic Company" would open a week's engagement in Oakdale with daily matinees.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000000|Eleanor's eyes sparkled.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000001|She halted her machine, scanning curiously the list of plays on the billboard.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000002|"The Nihilist's Daughter" was scheduled for Thursday afternoon, and Eleanor decided to go.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000003|She wasn't afraid of Miss Thompson.
train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000004|Then, possessed with a sudden idea, she laughed gleefully.
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000003_000000|What!
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000006_000000|"How is everything down on the earth?"
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000013_000000|Well, he sat by his ice cool fire and thought about his journey to the earth, and finally he decided the only way he could get there was to slide down a moonbeam.
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000018_000001|But he plucked up courage and said to the farmer,
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000019_000000|"Can you tell me the way to Norwich, sir?"
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000023_000000|A good looking woman answered his knock at the door, and he asked politely,
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000024_000000|"Is this the town of Norwich, madam?"
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000028_000000|So he thanked her and entered the house, and she asked,
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000034_000000|"Matter!" screamed the Man; "why, your porridge is so hot it has burned me."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000040_000000|"Come, come, no nonsense!" said the magistrate, "you must have some name.
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000040_000001|Who are you?"
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000046_000000|"Very good," replied the judge; "now, then, where did you come from?"
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000047_000000|"The moon."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000049_000000|"I slid down a moonbeam."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000050_000000|"Indeed!
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000050_000001|Well, what were you running for?"
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000051_000000|"A woman gave me some cold pease porridge, and it burned my mouth."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000053_000000|"This person is evidently crazy; so take him to the lunatic asylum and keep him there."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000054_000001|Therefore he begged the magistrate to wait a few minutes while he looked through his telescope to see if the Man in the Moon was there.
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000057_000001|The nights are too hot."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000059_000001|We can inflate this balloon and send the Man out of the Moon home in it."
train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000060_000001|So the balloon was brought and inflated, and the Man got into the basket and gave the word to let go, and then the balloon mounted up into the sky in the direction of the moon.
train-clean-360/606/127691/606_127691_000004_000001|This was in the winter of eighteen seventy three, when the snow laden peaks were swept by a powerful norther.
train-clean-360/606/127691/606_127691_000004_000002|I was awakened early in the morning by a wild storm wind and of course I had to make haste to the middle of the Valley to enjoy it.
train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000000_000003|His mother's name was Thorun.
train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000000_000009|They had in the ship forty men.
train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000001_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000001_000021|They cruised along the land, leaving it on the starboard side.
train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000004_000020|It was cooked by the cook boys, and they ate thereof; though bad effects came upon all from it afterwards. Then began Thorhall, and said, "Has it not been that the Redbeard has proved a better friend than your Christ?
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000000|Finally, for the sake of those to whom nothing can be stated so well but that they misunderstand and distort it, we must add a word, in case they can understand even that.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000001|There are very many persons who, when they hear of this liberty of faith, straightway turn it into an occasion of licence.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000003|On the other hand, they are most pertinaciously resisted by those who strive after salvation solely by their observance of and reverence for ceremonies, as if they would be saved merely because they fast on stated days, or abstain from flesh, or make formal prayers; talking loudly of the precepts of the Church and of the Fathers, and not caring a straw about those things which belong to our genuine faith.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000004|Both these parties are plainly culpable, in that, while they neglect matters which are of weight and necessary for salvation, they contend noisily about such as are without weight and not necessary.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000001|three)!
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000002|You see here how the Apostle blames those who, not from religious feeling, but in mere contempt, neglect and rail at ceremonial observances, and teaches them not to despise, since this "knowledge puffeth up." Again, he teaches the pertinacious upholders of these things not to judge their opponents.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000004|In this matter we must listen to Scripture, which teaches us to turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but to follow those right precepts of the Lord which rejoice the heart.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000005|For just as a man is not righteous merely because he serves and is devoted to works and ceremonial rites, so neither will he be accounted righteous merely because he neglects and despises them.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000000|It is not from works that we are set free by the faith of Christ, but from the belief in works, that is from foolishly presuming to seek justification through works.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000001|Faith redeems our consciences, makes them upright, and preserves them, since by it we recognise the truth that justification does not depend on our works, although good works neither can nor ought to be absent, just as we cannot exist without food and drink and all the functions of this mortal body.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000002|Still it is not on them that our justification is based, but on faith; and yet they ought not on that account to be despised or neglected.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000006|twenty).
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000000|The Christian must therefore walk in the middle path, and set these two classes of men before his eyes.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000001|He may meet with hardened and obstinate ceremonialists, who, like deaf adders, refuse to listen to the truth of liberty, and cry up, enjoin, and urge on us their ceremonies, as if they could justify us without faith.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000002|Such were the Jews of old, who would not understand, that they might act well.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000006|In this way Paul also would not have titus circumcised, though these men urged it; and Christ defended the Apostles, who had plucked ears of corn on the Sabbath day; and many like instances.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000000|Or else we may meet with simple minded and ignorant persons, weak in the faith, as the Apostle calls them, who are as yet unable to apprehend that liberty of faith, even if willing to do so.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000001|These we must spare, lest they should be offended.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000002|We must bear with their infirmity, till they shall be more fully instructed.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000003|For since these men do not act thus from hardened malice, but only from weakness of faith, therefore, in order to avoid giving them offence, we must keep fasts and do other things which they consider necessary.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000004|This is required of us by charity, which injures no one, but serves all men.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000000|Thus, though we ought boldly to resist those teachers of tradition, and though the laws of the pontiffs, by which they make aggressions on the people of God, deserve sharp reproof, yet we must spare the timid crowd, who are held captive by the laws of those impious tyrants, till they are set free.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000001|Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000003|If you wish to use your liberty, do it secretly, as Paul says, "Hast thou faith?
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000005|twenty two).
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000006|But take care not to use it in the presence of the weak.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000007|On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000008_000001|This is a thing which easily happens, and defiles very many, unless faith be constantly inculcated along with works.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000008_000002|It is impossible to avoid this evil, when faith is passed over in silence, and only the ordinances of men are taught, as has been done hitherto by the pestilent, impious, and soul destroying traditions of our pontiffs and opinions of our theologians.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000008_000003|An infinite number of souls have been drawn down to hell by these snares, so that you may recognise the work of antichrist.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000009_000003|And yet it would be death to them to persevere in believing that they can be justified by these things.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000009_000004|They must rather be taught that they have been thus imprisoned, not with the purpose of their being justified or gaining merit in this way, but in order that they might avoid wrong doing, and be more easily instructed in that righteousness which is by faith, a thing which the headlong character of youth would not bear unless it were put under restraint.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000010_000000|Hence in the Christian life ceremonies are to be no otherwise looked upon than as builders and workmen look upon those preparations for building or working which are not made with any view of being permanent or anything in themselves, but only because without them there could be no building and no work.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000010_000001|When the structure is completed, they are laid aside.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000011_000000|Thus, too, we do not contemn works and ceremonies-nay, we set the highest value on them; but we contemn the belief in works, which no one should consider to constitute true righteousness, as do those hypocrites who employ and throw away their whole life in the pursuit of works, and yet never attain to that for the sake of which the works are done.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000011_000002|seven).
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000011_000003|They appear to wish to build, they make preparations, and yet they never do build; and thus they continue in a show of godliness, but never attain to its power.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000012_000000|Meanwhile they please themselves with this zealous pursuit, and even dare to judge all others, whom they do not see adorned with such a glittering display of works; while, if they had been imbued with faith, they might have done great things for their own and others' salvation, at the same cost which they now waste in abuse of the gifts of God.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000013_000000|We have therefore need to pray that God will lead us and make us taught of God, that is, ready to learn from God; and will Himself, as He has promised, write His law in our hearts; otherwise there is no hope for us.
train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000013_000001|For unless He himself teach us inwardly this wisdom hidden in a mystery, nature cannot but condemn it and judge it to be heretical.
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train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000007_000000|Translated by f Bente and w h t Dau
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000011_000000|I have accordingly compiled these articles and presented them to our side.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000013_000000|For what shall I say?
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000013_000001|How shall I complain?
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000013_000003|[Good God!] Alas! what first will happen when I am dead?
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000000|Indeed, I ought to reply to everything while I am still living.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000001|But, again, how can I alone stop all the mouths of the devil?
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000004|I often think of the good Gerson who doubts whether anything good should be [written and] published.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000007|For while they have lied so shamefully against us and by means of lies wished to retain the people, God has constantly advanced His work, and been making their following ever smaller and ours greater, and by their lies has caused and still causes them to be brought to shame.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000000|I must tell a story.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000003|God convert to repentance those who can be converted!
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000004|Regarding the rest it will be said, Woe, and, alas!
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000005|eternally.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000016_000002|Not that we need It, for our churches are now, through God's grace, so enlightened and equipped with the pure Word and right use of the Sacraments, with knowledge of the various callings and of right works, that we on our part ask for no Council, and on such points have nothing better to hope or expect from a Council.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000016_000003|But we see in the bishoprics everywhere so many parishes vacant and desolate that one's heart would break, and yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000016_000004|This causes me to shudder and fear that at some time He may send a council of angels upon Germany utterly destroying us, like Sodom and Gomorrah, because we so wantonly mock Him with the Council.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000017_000002|If such chief matters of the spiritual and worldly estates as are contrary to God would be considered in the Council, they would have all hands so full that the child's play and absurdity of long gowns [official insignia], large tonsures, broad cinctures [or sashes], bishops' or cardinals' hats or maces, and like jugglery would in the mean time be forgotten.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000017_000003|If we first had performed God's command and order in the spiritual and secular estate we would find time enough to reform food, clothing, tonsures, and surplices.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000017_000004|But if we want to swallow such camels, and, instead, strain at gnats, let the beams stand and judge the motes, we also might indeed be satisfied with the Council.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000000|Therefore I have presented few articles; for we have without this so many commands of God to observe in the Church, the state and the family that we can never fulfil them.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000001|What, then, is the use, or what does it profit that many decrees and statutes thereon are made in the Council, especially when these chief matters commanded of God are neither regarded nor observed?
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000002|Just as though He were bound to honor our jugglery as a reward of our treading His solemn commandments under foot.
train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000003|But our sins weigh upon us and cause God not to be gracious to us; for we do not repent, and, besides, wish to defend every abomination.
train-clean-360/6075/57154/6075_57154_000021_000000|"No, mr Gotobed; we couldn't catch him.
train-clean-360/6075/57154/6075_57154_000024_000000|"Oh;--that's part of the fun.
train-clean-360/6075/57154/6075_57154_000024_000003|What's become of the rest of the men?"
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000004_000000|"He should have put something in it to make it at any rate decent before we came in."
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000014_000000|"That's just it."
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000031_000002|"I will, mamma.
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000033_000000|"And Bragton is here.
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000034_000000|"My dear, my opinion is that we've made a mistake.
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000036_000000|"You are determined then?"
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000037_000000|"I think I am.
train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000057_000000|"Nonsense, mamma!
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000001_000000|NEWS, TRUTH, AND A CONCLUSION
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000002_000001|If we assume with mr Sinclair, and most of his opponents, that news and truth are two words for the same thing, we shall, I believe, arrive nowhere.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000002_000002|We shall prove that on this point the newspaper lied.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000003_000003|In this sector, and only in this sector, the tests of the news are sufficiently exact to make the charges of perversion or suppression more than a partisan judgment.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000003_000006|But when it comes to dealing, for example, with stories of what the Russian people want, no such test exists.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000000|The absence of these exact tests accounts, I think, for the character of the profession, as no other explanation does.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000002|The rest is in the journalist's own discretion. Once he departs from the region where it is definitely recorded at the County Clerk's office that john Smith has gone into bankruptcy, all fixed standards disappear.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000004|There are no canons to direct his own mind, and no canons that coerce the reader's judgment or the publisher's.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000006|How can he demonstrate the truth as he sees it?
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000005_000001|He may have all kinds of moral courage, and sometimes has, but he lacks that sustaining conviction of a certain technic which finally freed the physical sciences from theological control.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000005_000003|His proofs were so clear, his evidence so sharply superior to tradition, that he broke away finally from all control.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000005_000004|But the journalist has no such support in his own conscience or in fact.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000000|The task of deflating these controversies, and reducing them to a point where they can be reported as news, is not a task which the reporter can perform.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000002|The press, in other words, can fight for the extension of reportable truth.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000005|The theory that the press can itself record those forces is false.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000006|It can normally record only what has been recorded for it by the working of institutions.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000007|Everything else is argument and opinion, and fluctuates with the vicissitudes, the self consciousness, and the courage of the human mind.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000007_000000|If the press is not so universally wicked, nor so deeply conspiring, as mr Sinclair would have us believe, it is very much more frail than the democratic theory has as yet admitted.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000007_000001|It is too frail to carry the whole burden of popular sovereignty, to supply spontaneously the truth which democrats hoped was inborn.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000007_000002|And when we expect it to supply such a body of truth we employ a misleading standard of judgment.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000000|If the newspapers, then, are to be charged with the duty of translating the whole public life of mankind, so that every adult can arrive at an opinion on every moot topic, they fail, they are bound to fail, in any future one can conceive they will continue to fail.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000002|Unconsciously the theory sets up the single reader as theoretically omnicompetent, and puts upon the press the burden of accomplishing whatever representative government, industrial organization, and diplomacy have failed to accomplish.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000003|Acting upon everybody for thirty minutes in twenty four hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000006|Institutions, having failed to furnish themselves with instruments of knowledge, have become a bundle of "problems," which the population as a whole, reading the press as a whole, is supposed to solve.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000001|The Court of Public Opinion, open day and night, is to lay down the law for everything all the time.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000002|It is not workable.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000003|And when you consider the nature of news, it is not even thinkable.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000004|For the news, as we have seen, is precise in proportion to the precision with which the event is recorded.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000000|The press is no substitute for institutions.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000003|They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000005|The trouble lies deeper than the press, and so does the remedy.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000008|Then, too, the news is uncovered for the press by a system of intelligence that is also a check upon the press.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000012_000000|That is the radical way.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000012_000002|It is because they are compelled to act without a reliable picture of the world, that governments, schools, newspapers and churches make such small headway against the more obvious failings of democracy, against violent prejudice, apathy, preference for the curious trivial as against the dull important, and the hunger for sideshows and three legged calves.
train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000012_000003|This is the primary defect of popular government, a defect inherent in its traditions, and all its other defects can, I believe, be traced to this one.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000002_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000003_000000|GRADUATION DAY
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000004_000000|In the year nineteen twenty, the student and the statesman saw many indications that the social, financial and industrial troubles that had vexed the United States of America for so long a time were about to culminate in civil war.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000005_000000|Wealth had grown so strong, that the few were about to strangle the many, and among the great masses of the people, there was sullen and rebellious discontent.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000006_000000|The laborer in the cities, the producer on the farm, the merchant, the professional man and all save organized capital and its satellites, saw a gloomy and hopeless future.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000007_000000|With these conditions prevailing, the graduation exercises of the class of nineteen twenty of the National Military Academy at West Point, held for many a foreboding promise of momentous changes, but the twelfth of June found the usual gay scene at the great institution overlooking the Hudson.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000007_000002|The scene had all the usual charm of West Point graduations, and the usual intoxicating atmosphere of military display.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000008_000000|There was among the young graduating soldiers one who seemed depressed and out of touch with the triumphant blare of militarism, for he alone of his fellow classmen had there no kith nor kin to bid him God speed in his new career.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000009_000001|He saw the gleaming brook that wound its way through the tangle of orchard and garden, and parted the distant blue grass meadow.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000010_000000|He saw his aged mother sitting under the honeysuckle trellis, book in hand, but thinking, he knew, of him.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000000|But this was not all the young man saw, for Philip Dru, in spite of his military training, was a close student of the affairs of his country, and he saw that which raised grave doubts in his mind as to the outcome of his career.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000001|He saw many of the civil institutions of his country debased by the power of wealth under the thin guise of the constitutional protection of property.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000002|He saw the Army which he had sworn to serve faithfully becoming prostituted by this same power, and used at times for purposes of intimidation and petty conquests where the interests of wealth were at stake.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000003|He saw the great city where luxury, dominant and defiant, existed largely by grace of exploitation- exploitation of men, women and children.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000012_000000|The young man's eyes had become bright and hard, when his day dream was interrupted, and he was looking into the gray blue eyes of Gloria Strawn-the one whose lot he had been comparing to that of her sisters in the city, in the mills, the sweatshops, the big stores, and the streets.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000012_000001|He had met her for the first time a few hours before, when his friend and classmate, Jack Strawn, had presented him to his sister.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000012_000002|No comrade knew Dru better than Strawn, and no one admired him so much. Therefore, Gloria, ever seeking a closer contact with life, had come to West Point eager to meet the lithe young Kentuckian, and to measure him by the other men of her acquaintance.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000013_000000|She was disappointed in his appearance, for she had fancied him almost god like in both size and beauty, and she saw a man of medium height, slender but toughly knit, and with a strong, but homely face.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000013_000001|When he smiled and spoke she forgot her disappointment, and her interest revived, for her sharp city sense caught the trail of a new experience.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000014_000000|To Philip Dru, whose thought of and experience with women was almost nothing, so engrossed had he been in his studies, military and economic, Gloria seemed little more than a child.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000014_000001|And yet her frank glance of appraisal when he had been introduced to her, and her easy though somewhat languid conversation on the affairs of the commencement, perplexed and slightly annoyed him.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000014_000002|He even felt some embarrassment in her presence.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000015_000000|Child though he knew her to be, he hesitated whether he should call her by her given name, and was taken aback when she smilingly thanked him for doing so, with the assurance that she was often bored with the eternal conventionality of people in her social circle.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000016_000000|Suddenly turning from the commonplaces of the day, Gloria looked directly at Philip, and with easy self possession turned the conversation to himself.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000017_000001|"An American soldier has to fight so seldom that I have heard that the insurance companies regard them as the best of risks, so what attraction, mr Dru, can a military career have for you?"
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000000|"As far back as I can remember," he said, "I have wanted to be a soldier.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000001|I have no desire to destroy and kill, and yet there is within me the lust for action and battle.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000002|It is the primitive man in me, I suppose, but sobered and enlightened by civilization.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000003|I would do everything in my power to avert war and the suffering it entails.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000004|Fate, inclination, or what not has brought me here, and I hope my life may not be wasted, but that in God's own way, I may be a humble instrument for good.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000005|Oftentimes our inclinations lead us in certain directions, and it is only afterwards that it seems as if fate may from the first have so determined it."
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000020_000000|The mischievous twinkle left the girl's eyes, and the languid tone of her voice changed to one a little more like sincerity.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000021_000000|"But suppose there is no war," she demanded, "suppose you go on living at barracks here and there, and with no broader outlook than such a life entails, will you be satisfied?
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000021_000001|Is that all you have in mind to do in the world?"
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000022_000000|He looked at her more perplexed than ever.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000022_000001|Such an observation of life, his life, seemed beyond her years, for he knew but little of the women of his own generation.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000022_000002|He wondered, too, if she would understand if he told her all that was in his mind.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000000|"Gloria, we are entering a new era.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000001|The past is no longer to be a guide to the future.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000002|A century and a half ago there arose in France a giant that had slumbered for untold centuries.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000003|He knew he had suffered grievous wrongs, but he did not know how to right them.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000004|He therefore struck out blindly and cruelly, and the innocent went down with the guilty.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000005|He was almost wholly ignorant for in the scheme of society as then constructed, the ruling few felt that he must be kept ignorant, otherwise they could not continue to hold him in bondage.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000006|For him the door of opportunity was closed, and he struggled from the cradle to the grave for the minimum of food and clothing necessary to keep breath within the body.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000007|His labor and his very life itself was subject to the greed, the passion and the caprice of his over lord.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000024_000000|"So when he awoke he could only destroy.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000000|"But out of that revelry of blood there dawned upon mankind the hope of a more splendid day.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000001|The divinity of kings, the God given right to rule, was shattered for all time.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000002|The giant at last knew his strength, and with head erect, and the light of freedom in his eyes, he dared to assert the liberty, equality and fraternity of man.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000004|Not satisfied with reasonable gain, they sought to multiply it beyond all bounds of need.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000005|They who had sprung from the people a short life span ago were now throttling individual effort and shackling the great movement for equal rights and equal opportunity."
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000026_000000|Dru's voice became tense and vibrant, and he talked in quick sharp jerks.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000027_000000|"Nowhere in the world is wealth more defiant, and monopoly more insistent than in this mighty republic," he said, "and it is here that the next great battle for human emancipation will be fought and won.
train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000027_000001|And from the blood and travail of an enlightened people, there will be born a spirit of love and brotherhood which will transform the world; and the Star of Bethlehem, seen but darkly for two thousand years, will shine again with a steady and effulgent glow."
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000002_000000|THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000003_000000|Selwyn now devoted himself to the making of enough conservative senators to control comfortably that body.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000003_000001|The task was not difficult to a man of his sagacity with all the money he could spend.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000004_000000|Newspapers were subsidized in ways they scarcely recognized themselves. Honest officials who were in the way were removed by offering them places vastly more remunerative, and in this manner he built up a strong, intelligent and well constructed machine.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000004_000001|It was done so sanely and so quietly that no one suspected the master mind behind it all. Selwyn was responsible to no one, took no one into his confidence, and was therefore in no danger of betrayal.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000000|It was a fascinating game to Selwyn.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000001|It appealed to his intellectual side far more than it did to his avarice.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000003|He arranged to have his name appear less frequently in the press and he never submitted to interviews, laughingly ridding himself of reporters by asserting that he knew nothing of importance.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000004|He had a supreme contempt for the blatant self advertised politician, and he removed himself as far as possible from that type.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000006_000001|It was done so adroitly that Rockland would have been fooled himself, had not Selwyn informed him in advance of each move as it was made.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000000|After the nomination, Selwyn had trusted men put in charge of the campaign, which he organized himself, though largely under cover.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000002|He put out the cry of lack of funds, and indeed it seemed to be true, for he was too wise to make a display of his resources.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000003|To ward heelers, to the daily press, and to professional stump speakers, he gave scant comfort.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000004|It was not to such sources that he looked for success.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000008_000000|He began by eliminating all states he knew the opposition party would certainly carry, but he told the party leaders there to claim that a revolution was brewing, and that a landslide would follow at the election.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000008_000001|This would keep his antagonists busy and make them less effective elsewhere.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000000|He also ignored the states where his side was sure to win.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000002|He divided each of these states into units containing five thousand voters, and, at the national headquarters, he placed one man in charge of each unit.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000003|Of the five thousand, he roughly calculated there would be two thousand voters that no kind of persuasion could turn from his party and two thousand that could not be changed from the opposition.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000004|This would leave one thousand doubtful ones to win over.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000006|It was easy then to know how to reach each individual by literature, by persuasion or perhaps by some more subtle argument.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000007|No mistake was made by sending the wrong letter or the wrong man to any of the desired one thousand.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000000|In the states so divided, there was, at the local headquarters, one man for each unit just as at the national headquarters.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000001|So these two had only each other to consider, and their duty was to bring to Rockland a majority of the one thousand votes within their charge.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000002|The local men gave the conditions, the national men gave the proper literature and advice, and the local man then applied it.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000003|The money that it cost to maintain such an organization was more than saved from the waste that would have occurred under the old method.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000011_000000|The opposition management was sending out tons of printed matter, but they sent it to state headquarters that, in turn, distributed it to the county organizations, where it was dumped into a corner and given to visitors when asked for.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000013_000000|The opposition was spending large sums upon the daily press.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000013_000001|Selwyn used the weekly press so that he could reach the fireside of every farmer and the dweller in the small country towns.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000013_000002|These were the ones that would read every line in their local papers and ponder over it.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000014_000000|The opposition had its candidates going by special train to every part of the Union, making many speeches every day, and mostly to voters that could not be driven from him either by force or persuasion.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000014_000002|They wanted the candidate to remember the enthusiasm of these places, and to leave greatly pleased and under the belief that he was making untold converts.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000014_000003|As a matter of fact his voice would seldom reach any but a staunch partisan.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000000|Selwyn kept Rockland at home, and arranged to have him meet by special appointment the important citizens of the twelve uncertain states.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000002|He would know it was his influence that was wanted but, even so, there was a subtle flattery in that.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000003|An appointment would be arranged.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000004|Just before he came into Rockland's presence, his name and a short epitome of his career would be handed to Rockland to read.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000005|When he reached Rockland's home he would at first be denied admittance.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000006|His sponsor would say,--"this is mr Munting of Muntingville." "Oh, pardon me, mr Munting, Governor Rockland expects you."
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000016_000000|And in this way he is ushered into the presence of the great.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000016_000001|His fame, up to a moment ago, was unknown to Rockland, but he now grasps his hand cordially and says,--"I am delighted to know you, mr Munting.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000016_000002|I recall the address you made a few years ago when you gave a library to Muntingville.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000017_000000|When Munting leaves he is stepping on air.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000017_000001|He sees visions of visits to Washington to consult the President upon matters of state, and perhaps he sees an ambassadorship in the misty future.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000017_000002|He becomes Rockland's ardent supporter, and his purse is open and his influence is used to the fullest extent.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000018_000000|And this was Selwyn's way.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000018_000001|It was all so simple.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000019_000001|The pay roll of the opposition was filled with incompetent political hacks, that had been fastened upon the management by men of influence.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000019_000002|Selwyn's force, from end to end, was composed of able men who did a full day's work under the eye of their watchful taskmaster.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000021_000000|There followed in orderly succession the inauguration, the selection of cabinet officers and the new administration was launched.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000022_000000|Drunk with power and the adulation of sycophants, once or twice Rockland asserted himself, and acted upon important matters without having first conferred with Selwyn.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000022_000001|But, after he had been bitterly assailed by Selwyn's papers and by his senators, he made no further attempts at independence.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000022_000002|He felt that he was utterly helpless in that strong man's hands, and so, indeed, he was.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000023_000000|One of the Supreme Court justices died, two retired because of age, and all were replaced by men suggested by Selwyn.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000024_000000|He now had the Senate, the Executive and a majority of the Court of last resort.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000024_000001|The government was in his hands.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000024_000002|He had reached the summit of his ambition, and the joy of it made all his work seem worth while.
train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000025_000001|He did not know, could not know, what force was working to his ruin and to the ruin of his system.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000002|She had a more definite aim than they, with the prospect of college examinations not so very far away. Brenda had not yet made up her mind to give her approval to her cousin's studying Greek, and she did not take the trouble to contradict Belle and Frances Pounder when they said that it must be a very disagreeable thing to have a cousin who intended to be a teacher.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000004|Other persons did not find Julia peculiar.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000005|To older people she seemed an especially well mannered girl, with a delightful vein of thoughtfulness that was not too often met in young girls.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000009|For Edith had an uncomfortable habit of forgetting just what was to be kept secret, and though Philip had no very dark secrets, there were still little things that he preferred not to have told.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000009_000002|For even after these many weeks of work there was hardly a single finished article.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000013_000000|"Ah," said Belle, tossing her head, "you won't find me working myself to death over a Bazaar.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000014_000000|"Oh, Belle!" cried Edith, looking shocked.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000015_000001|Why, Edith, as for that you yourself never go down to the North End to see them."
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000018_000000|Edith looked so uncomfortable at this suggestion, that Nora, on whom usually fell the duty of taking up the cudgels, exclaimed,
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000020_000001|So trimming her sails she said, "Why, how silly you are, Nora, you know that I was only in fun.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000021_000000|"You busy, Belle," cried Nora.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000022_000000|"Indeed I am not," was the answer.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000024_000002|For she had twisted the front to the back, had added a deep blue bow to the trimming, and she believed that altogether she had accomplished wonders.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000026_000001|I wish that I could trim hats."
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000028_000000|While Nora was talking Belle had been folding up her work, and in a moment more she was putting on her hat and coat.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000029_000001|"Oh, don't go; you're not mad at Nora, are you?"
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000030_000001|"Oh, no, but I think that I ought to be going.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000032_000001|As a matter of fact Belle was deeply offended, and she knew that if she had stayed much longer with her friends she would have been driven to express herself strongly.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000037_000000|"Better to her face than behind her back."
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000039_000000|"Oh, Edith," responded Nora, "you are altogether too fair.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000041_000000|"No, it's her grandmother," interrupted Edith.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000042_000000|"No," added Brenda, "it is not."
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000043_000001|You make Belle awfully mad sometimes by what you say.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000044_000001|"Don't let us bicker.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000046_000000|"Why, Nora, I never heard of such a thing.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000046_000002|Besides I thought that you always wanted to make every one comfortable in her feelings.
train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000047_000002|But I say that we have had enough of this exchange of compliments for to day.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000000|On the very afternoon when Nora and Belle had their falling out, Julia, after finishing her practising, had gone for a walk.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000001|It was a bright, clear day, and she wished that she had some other girl to walk with her. For when by herself she never ventured beyond the entrance to the park, although if her cousin or one of her school friends could go with her, her aunt had no objection to her walking in the park itself.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000002|One of the disadvantages of her friendship with ruth Roberts lay in the fact that they could seldom be together in the afternoons.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000003|Their homes were too far apart.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000005|It was hard to tell which was the pleasanter thing to do.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000006|At Roxbury, there were Ruth's ponies to drive, and in snowy weather a chance to coast down a quiet side street.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000007|Out of town there are many more chances for fun for girls past sixteen than can possibly be found in town or the city.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000011|She was not fond of music, and she did not pretend to be.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000012|The only matinee that she cared for was the theatre, and as her parent were decidedly opposed to her going often to the play, she could not indulge herself half as much as she wished.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000002|"To look up and not down, to look out and not in," had been one of the lessons which her father had been most careful to teach her.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000003|It was therefore not very often that she let her thoughts dwell too long on her own affairs.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000005|Without realizing it she had walked some distance into the park, and pausing to admire a bit of distant view that she was able to get from a slightly elevated point, she lingered a moment or two longer to decide whether it was an animal or a child that she heard crying behind a small clump of bushes near by.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000006|When she found that there was no other way of satisfying herself, she walked up to the bushes, and there, standing forlornly on three legs, was a tiny Italian greyhound.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000002_000000|"Why, you poor little thing!" she cried, "what is the matter?" and as she spoke she took the little creature in her arms.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000003_000001|The greyhound showed great joy at the sound of a friendly voice, and looked up in Julia's face with an expression of confidence and gratitude.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000004_000000|"Come, I am going to put you down on the ground for a minute to see whether you are hurt, or only pretending." So, suiting the action to the word, she stood the little dog on its feet.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000000|"Now let me see if your collar tells who your owner is," added Julia, and she bent down towards the dog.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000001|There to her surprise, she read in clear letters, "Fidessa, Madame du Launy." Now immediately Julia decided that the owner of the dog must be the mistress of the large house near the school, about which her friends were so curious.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000002|In an instant, too, she remembered that she had seen this little animal, or one very like it, taking its exercise in front of the great, mysterious house.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000005|"O, if only it had no owner, what joy!" she thought, as she gazed into its dark eyes, "to keep it for myself!"
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000007_000001|Nevertheless, she rang the bell bravely, and was welcomed almost with open arms by the serious faced servant who opened the door.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000009_000004|Her figure, though somewhat bent, gave the impression of stateliness.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000000|"That is an old trick of Fidessa," said her mistress smiling, "when she is at all unhappy she limps about on three legs as if really lame.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000001|She does not know her way about the city, and she is never supposed to go anywhere without her leash.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000004|Fidessa probably jumped out of the carriage to take a walk herself.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000009|For I don't believe that the little thing was actually hiding, and you all three have come back with the report that it was impossible to find her."
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000018_000009|The footman placed in her hand a little box "with Madame du Launy's compliments," he said.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000018_000010|This when she opened proved to contain a delicately chased little envelope opener, shaped like a tiny scimitar.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000019_000004|How did it strike you, Julia?"
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000020_000000|"Not that way, uncle, at all, not at all, though she seemed very sad."
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000021_000000|"Perhaps she's repenting for the way she has neglected her grandchildren," interposed Brenda.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000024_000000|Brenda.
train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000026_000001|I forget what I have heard about it myself, but I could make enquiries."
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000000_000000|PERSHING
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000001_000000|THE LEADER OF AMERICA'S BIGGEST ARMY
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000000|It was a historic moment, on that June day, in the third year of the World War.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000001|On the landing stage at the French harbor of Boulogne was drawn up a company of French soldiers, who looked eagerly at the approaching steamer.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000002|They were not dress parade soldiers nor smart cadets-only battle scarred veterans home from the trenches, with the tired look of war in their eyes.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000003|For three years they had been hoping and praying that the Americans would come-and here they were at last!
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000003_000000|As the steamer slowly approached the dock, a small group of officers might be discerned, looking as eagerly landward as the men on shore had sought them out.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000003_000002|There was, however, little to distinguish his dress from that of his staff, except the marks of rank on his collar, and the service ribbons across his breast. To those who could read the insignia, they spelled many days of arduous duty in places far removed.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000003_000003|America was sending a seasoned soldier, one tried out as by fire.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000001|But his dark eyes glowed with the untamable fire of youth.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000002|He was full six feet in height, straight, broad shouldered, and muscular.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000003|The well formed legs betrayed the old time calvalryman.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000004|The alert poise of the man showed a nature constantly on guard against surprise-the typical soldier in action.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000005_000001|America was at last repaying to France her debt of gratitude, for aid received nearly a century and a half earlier.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000006_000000|"Lafayette, we come!"
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000007_000001|The eyes of the whole world were upon him, when he reached France.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000007_000002|His was a task of tremendous difficulties, and a single slip on his part would have brought shame upon his country, no less than upon himself.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000009_000000|The original family name was Pfirsching, but was soon shortened to its present form.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000009_000002|As the clan multiplied the sons and grandsons began to scatter.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000009_000003|They had the pioneer spirit of their ancestors.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000000|At length, john f Pershing, a grandson of Daniel, the first immigrant, went to the Middle West, to work on building railroads.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000001|These were the days, just before the Civil War, when railroads were being thrown forward everywhere.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000002|Young Pershing had early caught the fever, and had worked with construction gangs in Kentucky and Tennessee.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000003|Now as the railroads pushed still further West, he went with them as section foreman-after first persuading an attractive Nashville girl, Ann Thompson, to go with him as his wife.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000012_000001|His mother had come of a race quite as good as that of his father.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000013_000000|After the line of railroad was completed upon which the father had worked, he came to Laclede and invested his savings in a small general store.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000013_000003|A neighbor pays him this tribute:
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000014_000000|"john f Pershing was a man of commanding presence.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000015_000000|"The Pershing family were zealous church people.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000015_000001|john f Pershing was the Sunday School superintendent of the Methodist Church all the years he lived here.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000016_000001|He had one or two close calls from the "bushwhackers," as roving rangers were called, but his family escaped harm.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000017_000000|At times during the War, he was entrusted with funds by various other families, and acted as a sort of local bank.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000017_000001|After the War he was postmaster.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000018_000000|The close of the War found the younger john a stocky boy of five.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000018_000002|There was always plenty to do, whether of work or play.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000018_000003|One of his boyhood chums writes:
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000000|"john Pershing was a clean, straight, well behaved young fellow.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000003|He attended strictly to his own business.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000005|He was not a big talker.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000006|He said a lot in a few words, and didn't try to cut any swell. He was a hard student.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000007|He was not brilliant, but firm, solid, and would hang on to the very last.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000009|About nine thirty or ten o'clock, I'd say:
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000020_000000|"'john, how are you coming?'
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000021_000000|"'Pretty stubborn.'
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000022_000000|"'Better go to bed, hadn't we?'
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000023_000000|"'No, Charley, I'm going to work this out.'"
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000024_000000|Another schoolmate gives us a more human picture:
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000025_000001|He knew, too, where the coolest and deepest swimming pools in the Locust, Muddy, or Turkey creeks were. Many a time we went swimming together in Pratt's Pond."
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000026_000000|About this time Pershing's father added to his other ventures the purchase of a farm near Laclede, and the family moved out there.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000026_000002|The chores often began before sun up, and lasted till after dark; and the children were lucky to find time for schooling during the late Fall and Winter months.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000026_000003|john, however, kept doggedly at it, and managed to get a fair, common school education.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000027_000002|john was sober and studious, and besides was so well grown for his age that they banked on his ability to "lick" any negro boy that got obstreperous.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000028_000000|He succeeded sufficiently in this venture, to cause him to take up teaching regularly, in white schools, with a view to paying for his education.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000028_000001|He wanted to study law, and his parents encouraged the idea.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000028_000003|A former pupil of his writes:
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000029_000000|"Though he never sought a quarrel, young Pershing was known as 'a game fighter,' who never acknowledged defeat.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000029_000001|One day, at Prairie Mound, at the noon hour a big farmer with red sideburns rode up to the schoolhouse with a revolver in his hand.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000029_000002|Pershing had whipped one of the farmer's children, and the enraged parent intended to give the young schoolmaster a flogging.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000030_000001|We peeked over the edge, though, and heard Pershing tell the farmer to put up his gun, get down off his horse, and fight like a man.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000031_000000|"The farmer got down and john stripped off his coat.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000031_000002|And I have hated red sideburns ever since."
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000032_000001|One of his sisters went with him.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000032_000002|He remained there for two terms, doing his usual good steady work, but was still dissatisfied.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000032_000003|He wanted to get a better education.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000033_000001|The soldiering side did not appeal to him, but the school side did.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000034_000002|If there isn't, I'll study law, but I want an education, and now I see how I can get it."
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000035_000001|If she could have looked ahead to his future career, and final part in the greatest war the world has ever known-one wonders what her emotions would have been!
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000037_000001|He found the soldier life awakening in him, along with his desire for a good education.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000037_000002|Four happy years were spent there-and while he didn't shine, being number thirty in a class of seventy seven, his all around qualities made him many friends among both faculty and students.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000039_000000|"This brings up a period of West Point life whose vivid impressions will be the last to fade.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000000|"No one can ever forget his first guard tour with all its preparation and perspiration.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000001|I got along all right during the day, but at night on the color line my troubles began.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000002|Of course, I was scared beyond the point of properly applying any of my orders.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000003|A few minutes after taps, ghosts of all sorts began to appear from all directions.
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000005|When I promptly said: 'Halt, who sits there?' . . .
train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000041_000001|From the very day we entered, the class as a unit has always stood for the very best traditions of West Point."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000001_000000|While Pershing was still in West Point, the Indian chief Geronimo was making trouble in the Southwest.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000001_000001|For several years he led a band of outlaw braves, who terrorized the Southern border.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000001_000002|General Crook was sent in pursuit of him, and afterwards General Miles took up the chase. Finally in August, eighteen eighty six, the chief and his followers were rounded up.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000002_000000|Pershing graduated in the spring of this year, with the usual rank given to graduates, second lieutenant, and was immediately assigned to duty under Miles.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000002_000001|He had an inconspicuous part in the capture.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000002_000002|But the next year in the special maneuvers he was personally complimented by the General for "marching his troops with a pack train of one hundred forty mules in forty six hours and bringing in every animal in good condition." Doubtless his early experience with the Missouri brand of mule aided him.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000000|Thereafter, for the next five years, Pershing's life was that of a plainsman.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000001|He was successively at Fort Bayard, Fort Stanton, and Fort Wingate, all in New Mexico, in the center of troubled country.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000002|In eighteen ninety he was shifted north to take the field against the Sioux Indians, in South Dakota, and in the Battle of Wounded Knee he had a considerable taste of burnt powder, where the tribe that had massacred General Custer and his band was practically wiped out.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000003|The next year he was stationed at Fort Niobrara, in Nebraska, in command of the Sioux Indian Scouts.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000004_000001|But it was an exceedingly valuable period of training to the young officer.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000004_000002|He was finding himself, and learning something of the inner art of military science that he was later to put to such good use.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000000|"In those days, when a youngster joined a regiment, he was not expected to express himself on military matters until he had some little experience.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000001|But there was a certain something in Pershing's appearance and manner which made him an exception to the rule.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000002|Within a very short time after he came to the post, a senior officer would turn to him, and say: 'Pershing, what do you think of this?' and his opinion was such that we always listened to it.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000003|He was quiet, unobtrusive in his opinions, but when asked he always went to the meat of a question in a few words.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000004|From the first he had responsible duties thrown on him.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000005|We all learned to respect and like him.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000006|He was genial and full of fun.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000007|No matter what the work or what the play, he always took a willing and leading part.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000008|He worked hard and he played hard; but whenever he had work to do, he never let play interfere with it."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000008_000000|Word was sent of their predicament to the nearest fort, and Lieutenant Pershing was sent with a small detachment to their rescue.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000009_000000|A single false move on his part would probably have ended him, but he did not waver.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000011_000000|The outlaws laughed noisily and swore by way of reply.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000012_000000|"You might as well come along," he went on, without raising his voice. "My men are posted all around this cabin."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000013_000001|They wouldn't budge otherwise.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000015_000000|And they did.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000016_000000|The next duty which fell to Lieutenant Pershing was quite different. From chasing Indians and outlaws on the plains, he was assigned to the task of putting some "half baked" cadets through their paces.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000018_000000|It was the general belief that the students in these Western colleges, many of them farmers' sons, could never be taught the West Point idea. "But the Lieutenant who had just arrived from Lincoln received an impression startlingly in contrast to the general one.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000018_000001|He looked over the big crowd of powerful young men, and, himself a storehouse and radiating center of energy and forcefulness, recognized the same qualities when he saw them.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000000|"'By George!
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000001|I've got the finest material in the world,'" he told the Chancellor, his steel like eyes alight with enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000002|'You could do anything with those boys.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000003|They've got the stuff in them!
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000004|Watch me get it out!'
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000020_000000|"And he proceeded to do so.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000001|Moreover, the boys had made a nickname for their leader, and nicknames mean a great deal in student life.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000002|He was universally called 'the Lieut.' (pronounced 'Loot,' of course, in the real American accent), as though there were but one lieutenant in the world.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000003|This he was called behind his back, of course.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000004|To his face they called him 'sir,' a title of respect which they had never thought to give to any man alive.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000022_000000|"By the end of that first academic year every man under him would have followed 'the Lieut.' straight into a prairie fire, and would have kept step while doing it."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000023_000000|As he gradually got his group of officers licked into shape, he found less to do personally.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000023_000001|So he promptly complained to the Chancellor, to this effect, and asked, like Oliver Twist, for more.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000024_000000|"After a moment's stupefaction (the Lieut. was then doing five times the work that any officer before him had ever done) the Chancellor burst into a great laugh and suggested that the Lieut. should take the law course in the law school of the University.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000024_000001|He added that if two men's work was not enough for him, he might do three men's, and teach some of the classes in the Department of Mathematics.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000025_000000|"During the next two years he ate up the law course with a fiery haste which raised the degree of class work to fever heat.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000026_000000|Of course he graduated, and was thus entitled to write another title after his name-that of Bachelor of Arts.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000026_000001|About this time, also, he was promoted to a first lieutenancy, the first official recognition for his many long months of work.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000027_000000|Next came a welcome command to take the position of Assistant Instructor of Tactics, at West Point.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000027_000001|It was almost like getting back home, to see these loved hills, the mighty river, and the familiar barracks again.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000028_000001|Eager to get into the action, he resigned his position at the Military Academy, and was transferred to his former regiment, the Tenth Cavalry.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000028_000002|This regiment was sent immediately to Santiago, and took part in the short but spirited fighting at El Caney and San Juan hill-where a certain Colonel of the Rough Riders was in evidence.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000029_000000|We would like to fancy these two intrepid soldiers as recognizing each other here in the din of battle.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000031_000000|"Captain Pershing," said the President, when the party was seated at the table, "did I ever meet you in the Santiago campaign?"
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000032_000000|"Yes, mr President, just once."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000033_000000|"When was that?
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000033_000001|What did I say?"
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000034_000000|"Since there are ladies here, I can't repeat just what you said, mr President."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000035_000000|There was a general laugh in which Roosevelt joined.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000036_000000|"Tell me the circumstances, then."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000000|"Why, I had gone back with a mule team to Siboney, to get supplies for the men.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000001|The night was pitch black and it was raining torrents.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000006|I suggested that the best thing to do, was to take my mules and pull your wagon out, and then get your mules out.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000007|This was done, and we saluted and parted."
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000040_000001|He had now been transferred at his own request to the Philippines.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000040_000002|Whether or not he won promotion through the slow moving machinery of the war office, his energetic spirit demanded action.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000042_000000|His first term of service in the Philippines was from eighteen ninety nine to nineteen o three.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000042_000001|In the interval between his first and second assignments, the latter being as Governor of the Moros, he returned to America to serve on the General Staff, and also to act as special military observer in the Russo Japanese War.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000043_000002|And Pershing was "making good." He had turned forty, before he was Captain.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000043_000003|Out in the Philippines he worked up to a Major.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000043_000004|Now advancement was to follow with a startling jump.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000044_000000|It all hinged upon that luncheon with Roosevelt, about which we have already told, and the fact that Roosevelt had a characteristic way of doing things.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000044_000001|The step he now took was not a piece of favoritism toward Pershing-it arose from a desire to have the most efficient men at the head of the army.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000045_000002|The President, by his action, had "jumped" the new General eight hundred and sixty two orders.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000046_000000|On his return to the Philippines, as Governor of the Moro Province, he performed an invaluable service in bringing peace to this troubled district.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000046_000002|The little brown men found in this big Americano a man with whom they could not trifle, and also one on whose word they could rely.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000047_000000|It was not until nineteen fourteen that he was recalled from the Philippines, and then very shortly was sent across the Mexican border in the pursuit of Villa.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000048_000000|The Fates had indeed been shaping Pershing from boyhood for a supreme task.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000000|The punitive expedition into Mexico was a case in point.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000001|It was a thankless job at best, and full of hardship and danger.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000002|A day's march of thirty miles across an alkali desert, under a blazing sun, is hardly a pleasure jaunt.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000003|And there were many such during those troubled months of nineteen sixteen.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000000|Then, one day, came a quiet message from Washington, asking General Pershing to report to the President.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000001|The results of that interview were momentous.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000002|The Great War in Europe was demanding the intervention of America.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000003|Our troops were to be sent across the seas to Europe for the first time in history.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000004|The Government needed a man upon whom it could absolutely rely to be Commander in chief of the Expeditionary Forces.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000000|The veteran of thirty years of constant campaigning stiffened to attention.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000001|The eager look of battle-battle for the right-shone in his eye.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000002|Every line of his upstanding figure denoted confidence-a confidence that was to inspire all America, and then the world itself, in this choice of leader.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000003|He saluted.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000052_000000|"I will do my duty, sir," he said.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000053_000000|IMPORTANT DATES IN PERSHING'S LIFE
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000000|eighteen sixty.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000001|september thirteenth.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000003|Entered Highland Military Academy, New York. eighteen eighty two.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000004|Entered u s Military Academy, West Point. eighteen eighty six.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000005|Graduated from West Point, senior cadet captain. Sent to southwest as second lieutenant, sixth cavalry. eighteen ninety one.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000006|Professor, military tactics, University of Nebraska. eighteen ninety eight.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000007|Took part in Spanish American War. nineteen o one.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000008|Captain, first Cavalry, Philippines. nineteen o five.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000009|Married Frances Warren. nineteen o six.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000011|Recalled from Philippines. nineteen fifteen.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000012|Lost his wife and three children in a fire. nineteen fifteen.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000014|Sent to France as commander in chief of American Expeditionary Force. nineteen nineteen.
train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000015|Appointment of general made permanent. nineteen twenty four.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000002_000000|HOME AT LAST!
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000003_000000|Fellows who knock about the world sailoring and so on, cannot help coming to the conclusion that its compass is narrower than stay at home folk might be inclined to believe, for you can hardly stir a step without knocking across some one whom you previously imagined to have been miles and miles away, separated, perhaps, by an ocean from yourself.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000006_000000|I was as pleased to see him, as may readily be believed, as the genial Irishman was to see me, I was sure, even without his telling me so.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000011_000000|"What! my sister Janet?"
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000013_000001|"This is indeed a surprise!"
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000014_000001|But, good looking as she was, he did not think her to be compared to my sister Janet, with whom he had evidently fallen in love at first sight and very deeply so, too!
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000015_000000|On his subsequently declaring his passion, impetuous as usual, after a very short acquaintance, my mother insisted as a first step to entertaining his suit that he should leave the sea, as he had another profession by which he was quite capable of supporting a wife as well as himself, if he so pleased.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000018_000000|After I had answered a lot of Garry O'Neil's questions concerning myself and the time I had passed in South America, speaking, too, of poor Colonel Vereker, whose death he had learnt from my mother, I began again, asking in my turn all about my old shipmates, and, of course, his own also.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000019_000001|Do you ricollict ould Stokes?"
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000020_000000|"Of course I do," I said.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000020_000001|"Is he still chief?"
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000022_000000|"What's become of Mr Fosset?"
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000023_000000|"Och, be jabbers!
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000023_000001|he's a big man now.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000024_000001|I should think I did."
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000025_000000|"That same, alannah.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000026_000000|"No, indeed," said I, amused at his query and the funny wink that accompanied it.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000026_000001|"What has become of that spiteful little beggar?"
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000030_000000|I asked after some of the other men belonging to my old ship, including Accra Prout, whom the colonel wished to accompany us to Venezuela, the mulatto refusing on the plea that, though he should always love his "old massa," he could not go with him for one insurmountable reason.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000034_000000|With suchlike conversation my old mess mate and I beguiled our long railway journey to Liverpool, which we reached the same evening, but before we had quite exhausted our respective questions and answers respecting everybody we had ever met or known during the time he and I had been to sea together.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000035_000000|My meeting with my dear mother and sister after so long an absence abroad can be well imagined, and so too my first interview with Elsie, whom I should hardly have known again, for how can I describe her beauty and grace, and though I had been prepared in some measure from accounts my mother had sent me, still they exceeded my expectations.
train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000037_000000|So to make a long story short and to avoid all further explanation, it need only be added that one fine day last summer, when the trees were all green and leafy, and the flowers abloom, and happy birds filling the air with song, Elsie and I were married.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000003_000000|A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000004_000001|He still hoped that his little girl might be found.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000004_000002|A party of soldiers, headed by Captain Carleton, had started to search for her on Sullivan's Island, but this had not been determined upon until late in the evening, at about the time when Estralla and Sylvia were embarking upon their adventurous voyage to Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000005_000000|No one had given a thought to the little darky girl.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000005_000001|She was supposed to be somewhere about the fort.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000006_000000|Grace, warmly wrapped in a thick shawl, sat beside mr Fulton as the Butterfly made its swift way across the dark harbor.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000006_000001|They could see the dark line of the guard boat, but they were not molested and came into the wharf safely.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000006_000003|Neither of them spoke until they reached the walk leading to the door of Grace's home, then Grace said:
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000008_000000|"Estralla!
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000008_000001|Why, I had entirely forgotten her," responded mr Fulton.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000009_000000|"She ran off as soon as Sylvia was missed," Grace continued earnestly, "and she will find her.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000010_000001|Estralla is a clever little darky, and if she started in search of Sylvia perhaps she has been able to find her.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000010_000002|I had not thought of it," and mr Fulton's voice had a new note of hope.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000011_000000|"Thank you, Grace.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000011_000001|I will start back to the fort as soon as I have talked with Sylvia's mother."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000012_000000|But on mr Fulton's return to the wharf he found a sentry on guard who refused him permission to go to the fort.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000012_000001|It was in vain that mr Fulton explained that his little daughter was lost, that he must be permitted to return to the fort.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000013_000000|The sentry wasted no words.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000013_000001|"Orders, sir.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000013_000002|Sorry," was the only response he could get, and at midnight mr Fulton was in his own house looking out over the harbor.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000014_000000|He realized that in that case it would not be possible for his family to remain in Charleston.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000016_000000|They landed at the wharf where the Butterfly was fastened, and before Captain Gerald had stepped on shore Sylvia called out: "Father!
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000016_000002|And Mother, too!" and in another moment her mother's arms were about her, and she was telling as rapidly as possible the story of her adventures, and of Estralla coming to her rescue.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000017_000000|Grace came running to meet Sylvia as they came near their home.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000018_000000|"Oh, Sylvia, I wish I had been with you," she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000018_000001|"That is twice you have been to Fort Sumter without meaning to go, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000019_000000|"We will hope that her next visit will not be as dangerous as this one," said mr Fulton soberly.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000020_000000|For several days Sylvia could think and talk only of her wanderings among the sand hills, and of her first sight of the guard boat.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000020_000001|She began teaching Estralla on the very day of her return, and the little darky made rapid progress.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000021_000000|"Father, when may we go to Fort Moultrie again?" she asked one morning a few days later, for she wanted very much to see mrs Carleton, and was quite sure that her father would be ready to sail down the harbor on any pleasant day, and his reply made her look up in surprise.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000022_000000|"I do not know that we shall ever go to the forts again," her father had replied.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000022_000003|No one is allowed to go to the forts.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000022_000004|And unless Major Anderson takes possession of Fort Sumter the Confederates will."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000023_000000|"And we are to start for Boston next week, dear child," Sylvia's mother added.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000024_000001|But Sylvia was not glad.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000024_000002|What would become of Estralla?
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000025_000001|But if they went to Boston and left Estralla behind Sylvia was sure that there would be nothing but trouble for the faithful little darky.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000026_000000|"Why, Sylvia!
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000027_000000|"I can't go to Boston and leave Estralla!" she sobbed.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000027_000001|"She has done lots of brave things for me.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000027_000002|She wouldn't leave me to be a slave."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000028_000000|mr and mrs Fulton looked at each other with puzzled eyes.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000029_000000|"But Estralla would not want to leave her mammy," suggested mr Fulton.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000030_000000|"Oh, Father!
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000030_000002|"Couldn't I buy Estralla and then make her free?
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000030_000003|I've got that gold money Grandma gave me."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000031_000001|"Don't suggest such a thing to Aunt Connie, Sylvia."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000032_000000|"When shall we go to Boston?" Sylvia asked.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000033_000000|"Right away after Christmas, unless Fort Sumter is attacked before that time.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000033_000001|Washington ought to send troops and provisions for the forts at once!" replied mr Fulton.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000034_000000|After her father had left the house Sylvia and her mother went up to mrs Fulton's pleasant sitting room.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000035_000000|"We must begin to pack at once," declared Sylvia's mother, "and do not go outside the gate alone, Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000035_000001|I wish we could leave Charleston immediately."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000036_000000|"Won't I see mrs Carleton again?" Sylvia asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000037_000000|"I do not know, dear child, but run away and give Estralla her lesson, as usual.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000037_000001|It will not be a very gay Christmas for any of us this year," responded mrs Fulton, and Sylvia went slowly to her own room where Estralla was waiting for her.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000038_000000|The little colored girl had put the room in order; there was a bright fire in the grate, the morning sunshine filled the room, and Miss Molly and Polly, smiling as usual, were in the tiny chairs behind the little round table.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000039_000002|Won't de Yankees come and set us free, Missy?"
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000040_000001|"I don't know, Estralla!
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000040_000002|Let's not talk about it," she replied.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000043_000000|"Oh!" she whispered, as she stood in the open door.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000043_000002|They were all talking so earnestly that they did not notice the surprised little girl standing in the doorway, and Sylvia heard mr Waite say:
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000044_000001|And you had better leave Charleston immediately.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000044_000002|The city is no longer a safe place for northern people. The conflict may begin at any moment."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000045_000000|"'Conflict,'" Sylvia repeated the word to herself.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000045_000001|Probably it meant something dreadful, she thought, recalling the "question period" at Miss Rosalie's school.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000046_000000|Just then mr Waite glanced toward the door and saw Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000047_000000|"Miss Sylvia, I am glad to see you again," and he stepped forward to meet her.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000048_000000|Sylvia, feeling quite grown up, made her pretty curtsey, and smiled with delight at mr Waite's greeting, as he led her toward her mother and, with another polite bow, gave her the seat on the sofa.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000000|"I was hoping to see Miss Sylvia," he said.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000001|"I had meant to make her a little Christmas gift, with your permission," and he bowed again to mrs Fulton.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000002|"She was kind enough to interest herself in behalf of one of my people, the little darky, Estralla.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000003|And so I thought this would please you," and he smiled at Sylvia, who began to be sure that mr Waite and Santa Claus must be exactly alike.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000004|As he spoke he handed Sylvia a long envelope.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000050_000000|"Do not open it until to morrow, if you please," he added.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000000|Sylvia promised and thanked him.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000001|She wondered if the envelope might not contain a picture of this kind friend.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000002|She knew that she must not ask a question; questions were never polite, she remembered, especially about a gift.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000003|But whatever it was she was very happy to think mr Robert Waite had remembered her.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000052_000000|They all went to the door with their friendly visitor, and stood there until he had reached the gate.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000053_000000|"I think mr Robert Waite is just like the Knights in that book, 'The Age of Chivalry.' They always did exactly what was right, and so does he; and they were polite and so is he."
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000054_000000|"Then, my dear, perhaps you will always remember that to do brave and gentle deeds with kindness is what 'chivalry' means," responded mrs Fulton.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000055_000002|Palmetto flags floated everywhere; the streets were filled with marching men.
train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000055_000003|Major Anderson in Fort Moultrie watched Fort Sumter with anxious eyes, hoping for a word from Washington which would give him authority to occupy it before the Charleston men could turn its guns against him.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000002_000000|In the springtime a Japanese house is a fairy like thing, with only top and bottom of straw and a few upholding posts to give it a look of substance.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000003_000000|Yuki Chan's house was typical.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000003_000001|The paper screens were carefully put away during the day, that the breezes might play unobstructed through the house.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000003_000002|At night the heavy wooden doors were fitted into grooves and served not only to keep out the night air, but also the evil spirits that come abroad when the great sun ceases watching.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000004_000000|Binding the whole was a narrow porch, showing a floor polished like a mirror from the slipping and sliding of generations of feet.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000005_000000|On the side of the porch toward the plum tree the child found her father and mother waiting.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000005_000001|The two old people sat on gay cushions with hands folded and feet crossed.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000005_000002|Their festal attire bore the marks of a once careless luxury, but now shabbiness tried to hide itself under the bravery of tinsel, where once had been pure gold.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000006_000000|Each year the struggle of obsolete methods of business and the intricacies of progress plowed the furrows a little deeper in the man's face, and when his eyes, that in youth had blazed with ambition, grew wistful and troubled, he dropped them that his wife might not see.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000007_000001|When she came to him as a shy bride on trial, she knew no such word as love. Duty was her entire vocabulary, and she asked nothing and gave all.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000008_000000|Many little souls had come to her, with hands all crimped and pink, like new blown cherry leaves, only to close their eyes and pass out to the good god Jizo, who is always waiting to help little children across the river of death.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000009_000000|In years gone by, night after night sleep had flown before the terror that another woman would be brought into the house that the family name might not die out.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000009_000001|Silently she would slip out to the little shrine and pour out passionate words of prayer that just one little soul might be permitted to live.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000010_000000|No matter how long the night, nor how bitter the struggle, morning always found her bright and cheerful, bending every effort to invent new diversions for her husband.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000010_000001|She labored to anticipate every wish, and even though she did without, she provided him the best of comfort. Working far into the night, secretly disposing of her small personal treasures, acquiescing in his most trivial statements, she planned that no slightest gap in the domestic arrangement should suggest itself to him.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000000|The woman worked and prayed and waited.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000001|Then she triumphed.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000002|In the wake of a great snow storm came the longed for child, and they called her Yuki, after the snow that had brought them their wish.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000004|From that time to this love had prevailed, and as Yuki Chan climbed on the porch, besmirching its shining surface with her muddy little feet, that had been guiltless of sandals all day, the faces of the two old people lighted up with sudden joy.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000012_000000|Yuki Chan looked ruefully at the muddy prints she had made and realized that she had been a most impolite little girl.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000012_000002|She drew close, and reaching down took her mother's hand, hard and cracked by labor, and laying her cheek against it said, with a voice sure of forgiveness and sweet desire for atonement:
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000013_000000|"Go men nasai."
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000014_000000|The mother, with a courtly but playful air, granted her pardon with a low salutation.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000014_000001|Then with a rush of affection that no convention could stem, she folded the child to her heart and lived another moment of supreme joy.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000015_000000|The father sat by, making no comment, his eyes bright and twinkling. Then he suggested that their Majesties, the dolls, had been waiting long on the shelf.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000015_000001|Was it not time they were receiving a visit?
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000016_000000|The years of toil were telling on both father and mother, but they daily refreshed themselves at the overbrimming fountain of Yuki Chan's youth, and now, as they each took one of her hands to go in to see the dolls, they were so gay that the child suggested that instead of walking they should do the new one two three hop she had learned at the kindergarten.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000018_000000|There was nothing in the room to impede their progress.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000019_000000|Half skipping, half hopping, and wholly undone with laughter and exertion, the three at last reached the place where, for six years, offerings had been made for the gift of the child who stood to these two for love.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000000|Arranged in the best room in the house, on five long red covered shelves, were dolls.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000001|Big dolls and little dolls, thin ones and fat ones, each one to represent some royal man or woman of the long ago, and dressed in a fashion of a time almost forgotten.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000003|His hair was done in a curious fashion and his dress was of a wonderful brocade, while his hands clasped two fierce looking swords.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000004|There was Jingo, too, who had won fame and lasting honor by her wonderful fighting, and was so great she had to sit by the emperors and look down on the other empresses.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000005|Such a lot of them!
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000006|Some worthy to be remembered every day in the year, others the more quickly forgotten the better.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000021_000001|She could not be rude to an emperor, even though he had been dead hundreds of years. She was really not very afraid of the greatness of the old doll men and women who sat on the shelf, still it was well to be careful about handling them.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000021_000002|She might be turned into a lizard or a snake, just as the old lodge keeper had said.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000022_000000|But her delight was in the miniature toilet articles of solid silver, costly gold lacquer, and porcelain, so tiny, so beautifully carved they must have meant the eyesight of some workman, only too glad to shut out the sunlight forever if he might produce just one perfect thing.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000024_000000|She pretended to feed the dolls with real food and wine, and actually played with the five court musicians, because they were partly servants and it did not matter.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000001|Her father and mother hovered around her, repeating the history of all those wonderful people.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000002|Yuki Chan listened very little, so concerned was she with her own comments, until she happened to see an anxious look creep into her mother's eyes.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000003|It was something every little girl must know, and if Yuki Chan's honorable ears refused to open, how would she learn?
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000004|Then Yuki Chan nestled close, and gave little pats of love and tried to listen.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000005|THE shadows of the bamboo grew long and slim as the sun kissed them good night.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000006|The sails skimmed homeward on a silver sea as the west covered its rosy pink in a veil of deepest blue.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000007|The young birds in the old plum tree did not stir at the loving touch of the mother who, with a soft bill, searched and sought for the lost one.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000008|The plum blossoms lingered yet for a night as the air had grown chill.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000026_000001|Her mother took from a small inclosure beneath a shelf many soft comforts with which she arranged the child's bed.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000026_000003|It was all getting unmanageable and very hazy, when her mother gathered her into her arms, and quickly casting aside her two garments laid her gently in a bath of caressing warmth.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000026_000004|A moment more and the little maiden lay like a rose leaf in her bed.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000027_000000|The night lamp made shadowy ghosts of all it touched, and one gleam of light, escaping the paper shade, hung like an aureole above the head of Yuki Chan's mother as she knelt with clasped hands before the Buddha on the shelf.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000028_000000|Her moving lips had only one refrain: "The child, the child, the child."
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000029_000000|Yuki Chan watched the play of the light in the half dark room.
train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000029_000001|What funny things those shadows made, and, strangely enough, one more wonderful than all the rest grew into the shape of the boy, and his lips were saying, "Be good."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000001_000000|by
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000001|"This is the fourth and last cautionary announcement.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000002|Any who are not seated will seat themselves at once.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000003|Prepare for take-off acceleration of one and one half gravities; that is, everyone will weigh one half again as much as his normal Earth weight for about fifteen minutes.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000004|We lift in twenty seconds; I will count down the final five seconds....
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000005|Five ...
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000008|One ...
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000009|Lift!"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000009_000001|Then a girl stood up.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000001|Her hair was an artificial yellow.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000002|Her eyes were a deep, cool blue.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000003|Her skin, what could be seen of it-she was wearing breeches and a long sleeved shirt-was lightly tanned.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000004|She was only about five feet three, and her build was not spectacular.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000005|However, every ounce of her one hundred fifteen pounds was exactly where it should have been.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000012_000002|Very few people, and almost no stewardesses, either actually bustle in or really enjoy one point five gees.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000012_000004|I must insist....
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000012_000005|Oh, you're Miss Warner...."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000013_000000|She paused.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000014_000000|"That's right, Barbara Warner.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000014_000001|Cabin two eight one."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000015_000000|"But really, Miss Warner, it's regulations, and if you should fall...."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000016_000001|I won't fall.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000016_000002|I've been wondering, every time out, if I could do a thing, and now I'm going to find out."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000017_000000|Jackknifing double, she put both forearms flat on the carpet and lifted both legs into the vertical.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000017_000001|Then, silver slippers pointing motionlessly ceilingward, she got up onto her hands and walked twice around a vacant chair.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000017_000002|She then performed a series of flips that would have done credit to a professional acrobat; the finale of which left her sitting calmly in the previously empty seat.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000018_000000|"See?" she informed the flabbergasted stewardess.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000019_000001|"More!" "Keep it up, gal!" "Do it again!"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000020_000000|"Oh, I didn't do that to show off!" Barbara Warner flushed hotly as she met the eyes of the nearby spectators.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000021_000002|Just a little guy, as spacemen go. Although narrow waisted and, for his heft, broad shouldered, he was built for speed and maneuverability, not to haul freight.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000022_000000|Watching a hundred lights and half that many instruments, listening to two phone circuits, one with each ear, and hands moving from switches to rheostats to buttons and levers, he was completely informed as to the instant by instant status of everything in his department.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000023_000000|Although attentive, he was not tense, even during the countdown.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000023_000001|The only change was that at the word "Two" his right forefinger came to rest upon a red button and his eyes doubled their rate of scan.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000024_000000|And again, well out beyond the orbit of the moon, just before the starship's mighty Chaytor engines hurled her out of space as we know it into that unknowable something that is hyperspace, he poised a finger. But Immergence, too, was normal; all the green lights except one went out, needles dropped to zero, both phones went dead, all signals stopped.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000024_000001|He plugged a jack into a socket below the one remaining green light and spoke:
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000000|"Procyon One to Control Six.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000001|Flight Eight Four Nine.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000002|Subspace Radio Test One.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000003|How do you read me, Control Six?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000026_000000|"Control Six to Procyon One.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000026_000001|I read you ten and zero.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000026_000002|How do you read me, Procyon One?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000027_000000|"Ten and zero.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000027_000001|Out." Deston flipped a toggle and the solitary green light went out.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000000|Perfect signal and zero noise.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000001|That was that.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000002|From now until Emergence-unless something happened-he might as well be a passenger. Everything was automatic, unless and until some robot or computer yelled for help.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000003|Deston leaned back in his bucket seat and lighted a cigarette. He didn't need to scan the board constantly now; any trouble signal would jump right out at him.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000030_000000|"All black, Babe?" the newcomer asked.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000031_000000|"As the pit, Eddie.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000031_000001|Take over." Eddie did so.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000031_000002|"You've picked out your girl friend for the trip, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000000|"Not yet.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000001|I got sidetracked watching Bobby Warner.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000002|She was doing handstands and handwalks and forward and back flips in the lounge-under one point five gees yet.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000005|"Talk about poetry in motion!
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000006|Just walking across a stage, she'd bring down the house and stop the show cold in its tracks."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000000|"O.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000001|K., o k, don't blow a fuse," Deston said, resignedly.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000002|"I know. You'll love her undyingly; all this trip, maybe.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000003|So bring her up, next watch, and I'll give her a gold badge.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000004|As usual."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000035_000000|"You'd play footsie with the Archangel Michael's sister if she'd let you; and she probably would.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000035_000001|So who's Barbara Warner?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000036_000000|Eddie Thompson gazed at his superior pityingly.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000036_000002|Did you ever hear of Warner Oil?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000037_000000|"I think so." Deston thought for a moment.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000037_000001|"Found a big new field, didn't they?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000037_000002|In South America somewhere?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000000|"Just the biggest on Earth, is all.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000002|He operates in all the systems for a hundred parsecs around, and he never sinks a dry hole.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000003|Every well he drills is a gusher that blows the rig clear up into the stratosphere.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000004|Everybody wonders how he does it.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000005|My guess is that his wife's an oil witch, which is why he lugs his whole family along wherever he goes.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000006|Why else would he?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000039_000000|"Maybe he loves her.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000039_000001|It happens, you know."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000040_000000|"Huh?" Eddie snorted.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000040_000001|"After twenty years of her?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000040_000002|Comet gas!
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000041_000000|"I don't make passes."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000042_000000|"That's right, you don't.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000042_000001|Only at books and tapes, even on ground leaves; more fool you.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000043_000000|"Certainly, if I loved...." Deston paused, thought a moment, then went on: "Maybe I wouldn't, either.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000043_000001|She'd make me dress for dinner.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000043_000003|So I guess I wouldn't, at that."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000044_000000|"You nor me neither, brother.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000045_000000|"You'll be raving about another one tomorrow," Deston said, unfeelingly, as he turned away.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000047_000000|And Deston, outside the door, grinned sardonically to himself.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000047_000001|Before his next watch, Eddie would bring up one of the prettiest girls aboard for a gold badge; the token that would let her-under approved escort, of course-go through the Top.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000048_000000|He himself never went down to the Middle, which was passenger territory. There was nothing there he wanted.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000048_000001|He was too busy, had too many worthwhile things to do, to waste time that way ... but the hunch was getting stronger and stronger all the time.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000048_000002|For the first time in all his three years of deep space service he felt an overpowering urge to go down into the very middle of the Middle; to the starship's main lounge.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000000|He knew that his hunches were infallible.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000001|At cards, dice, or wheels he had always had hunches and he had always won.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000002|That was why he had stopped gambling, years before, before anybody found out.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000003|He was that kind of a man.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000050_000001|He had been resisting it for hours, because he had never visited the lounge and did not want to visit it now.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000050_000004|He didn't even think of it; the point four one automatic at his hip was as much a part of his uniform as his pants.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000051_000000|Entering the lounge, he did not have to look around.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000051_000001|She was playing bridge, and as eyes met eyes and she rose to her feet a shock wave swept through him that made him feel as though his every hair was standing straight on end.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000052_000000|"Excuse me, please," she said to the other three at her table.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000052_000001|"I must go now." She tossed her cards down onto the table and walked straight toward him; eyes still holding eyes.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000053_000000|He backed hastily out into the corridor, and as the door closed behind her they went naturally and wordlessly into each other's arms.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000053_000001|Lips met lips in a kiss that lasted for a long, long time.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000053_000002|It was not a passionate embrace-passion would come later-it was as though each of them, after endless years of bootless, fruitless longing, had come finally home.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000054_000000|"Come with me, dear, where we can talk," she said, finally; eying with disfavor the half dozen highly interested spectators.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000055_000001|You came aboard at exactly zero seven forty three."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000000|"Uh uh." She shook her yellow head.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000001|"A few minutes before that.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000002|That was when I read your name in the list of officers on the board.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000003|First Officer, Carlyle Deston.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000004|I got a tingle that went from the tips of my toes up and out through the very ends of my hair.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000005|Nothing like when we actually saw each other, of course.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000006|We both knew the truth, then.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000007|It's wonderful that you're so strongly psychic, too."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000000|"I don't know about that," he said, thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000003|On the other, the signal doesn't carry much information.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000004|More like hearing a siren when you're driving along a street.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000005|You know you have to pull over and stop, but that's all you know.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000000|"Not necessarily.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000001|You've been fighting it.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000004|"You're either psychic or the biggest wolf in the known universe, and I know you aren't a wolf.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000005|If you hadn't been as psychic as I am, you'd've jumped clear out into subspace when a perfectly strange girl attacked you."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000059_000000|"How do you know so much about me?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000060_000000|"I made it a point to.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000061_000000|"That was Eddie Thompson."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000062_000000|"Uh huh." She nodded brightly.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000063_000000|"Well, is that bad?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000064_000000|"Anything else but.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000064_000001|That is, he thought it was terrible-outrageous-a betrayal of the whole officer caste-but to me it makes everything just absolutely perfect."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000065_000001|How soon can we get married?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000000|"I'd say right now, except...." She caught her lower lip between her teeth and thought.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000001|"No, no 'except'.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000002|Right now, or as soon as you can. You can't, without resigning, can you?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000003|They'd fire you?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000000|"Don't worry about that," he grinned.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000001|"My record is good enough, I think, to get a good ground job.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000002|Even if they fire me for not waiting until we ground, there's lots of jobs.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000003|I can support you, sweetheart."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000068_000000|"Oh, I know you can.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000000|"What difference does that make?" he asked, in honest surprise.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000001|"A man grows up.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000002|I couldn't have you with me in space, and I'd like that a lot less.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000003|No, I'm done with space, as of now.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000070_000000|"I thought at first I'd tell my parents first-they're both aboard-but I decided not to.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000000|He looked at her questioningly; she shrugged and went on: "We aren't what you'd call a happy family.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000001|She's been trying to make me marry an old goat of a prince and I finally told her to go roll her hoop-to get a divorce and marry the foul old beast herself.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000002|And to consolidate two empires, he's been wanting me to marry a multi billionaire-who is also a louse and a crumb and a heel.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000004|I told him if I got married a thousand times I'd pick every one of my husbands myself, without the least bit of help from either him or her.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000072_000001|The way she walked; poetry in motion ... the oil witch ... two empires ... more millions than he had dimes....
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000072_000002|"Oh, you're Barbara Warner, then."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000073_000000|"Why, of course; but my friends call me 'Bobby'.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000073_000001|Didn't you-but of course you didn't-you never read passenger lists.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000073_000002|If you did, you'd've got a tingle, too."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000074_000000|"I got plenty of tingle without reading, believe me.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000074_000001|However, I never expected to----"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000075_000001|"I know how you feel.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000075_000003|So I'll tell you this." Her eyes looked steadily into his.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000075_000004|"If it bothers you the least bit, later on, I'll give every dollar I own to some foundation or other, I swear it."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000077_000001|"I can tell."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000078_000000|"I know you can, sweetheart." Then he had another thought, and with strong, deft fingers he explored the muscles of her arms and back.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000079_000000|"I majored in Physical Education and I love it.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000079_000001|And I'm a Newmartian, you know, so I teach a few courses----"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000080_000000|"Newmartian?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000080_000001|I've heard-but you aren't a colonial; you're as Terran as I am."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000081_000000|"By blood, yes; but I was born on Newmars.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000081_000001|Our actual and legal residence has always been there.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000081_000002|The tax situation, you know."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000000|"I don't know, no Taxes don't bother me much.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000001|But go ahead.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000002|You teach a few courses.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000003|In?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000083_000000|"Oh, bars, trapeze, ground and lofty tumbling, acrobatics, aerialistics, high wire, muscle control, judo-all that kind of thing."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000084_000000|"Ouch!
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000084_000001|So if you ever happen to accidentally get mad at me you'll tie me right up into a pretzel?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000085_000000|"I doubt it; very seriously.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000085_000002|"Definitely I couldn't.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000085_000003|A good big man can always take a good little one, you know."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000086_000000|"But I'm not big; I'm just a little squirt.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000086_000001|You've probably heard what they call me?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000087_000000|"Yes, and I'm going to call you 'Babe', too, and mean it the same way they do.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000087_000001|Besides, who wants a man a foot taller than she is and twice as big?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000088_000000|"That's spreading the good old oil, Bobby, but I'll never tangle with you if I can help it.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000088_000001|Buzz saws are small, too, and sticks of dynamite. Shall we go hunt up the parson-or should it be a priest?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000088_000002|Or a rabbi?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000090_000000|"Of course not.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000090_000001|How could it?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000092_000000|"Some details, of course, but nothing of any importance and we'll have plenty of time to learn them."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000093_000000|"And we'll love every second of it.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000093_000001|You'll live down here in the Middle with me, won't you, all the time you aren't actually on duty?"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000094_000000|"I can't imagine doing anything else," and the two set out, arms around each other, to find a minister.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000094_000001|And as they strolled along:
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000096_000000|"Dowsing?
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000096_000001|Oh, that witch stuff.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000096_000002|Of course not."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000097_000000|"Listen, darling.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000097_000001|All the time I've been touching you I've been learning about you.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000097_000002|And you've been learning about me."
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000098_000000|"Yes, but----"
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000099_000000|"No buts, buster.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000099_000003|All I can do at dowsing is find water, oil, coal, and gas.
train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000099_000004|I'm no good at all on metals-I couldn't feel gold if I were perched right on the roof of Fort Knox; I couldn't feel radium if it were frying me to a crisp.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000001_000001|The starship, now a mere spaceship, was on course at one gravity.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000001_000002|The lifecraft were in their slots, but the five and the four still lived in them rather than in the vast and oppressive emptiness that the ship itself now was.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000001_000003|And socially, outside of working hours, the two groups did not mix.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000000|clean-up was going nicely, at the union rate of six hours on and eighteen hours off.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000001|Deston could have set any hours he pleased, but he didn't.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000002|There was plenty of time.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000003|Eleven months in deep space is a fearfully, a tremendously long time.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000003_000000|"Morning," "afternoon," "evening," and "night" were, of course, purely conventional terms.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000003_000001|The twenty four hour "day" measured off by the brute force machine that was their masterclock carried no guarantee, expressed or implied, as to either accuracy or uniformity.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000000|One evening, then, four hard faced men sat at two small tables in the main room of Lifecraft Three.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000001|Two of them, Ferdy Blaine and Moose Mordan, were playing cards for small stakes.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000002|Ferdy was of medium size; compact rather than slender; built of rawhide and spring steel.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000003|Lithe and poised, he was the epitome of leashed and controlled action.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000005_000000|The two at the other table had been planning for days.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000005_000001|They had had many vitriolic arguments, but neither had made any motion toward his weapon.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000006_000000|"Play it my way and we've got it made, I tell you!" Newman pounded the table with his fist.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000006_000003|I'm as good an astrogator as Jones is, and a damn sight better engineer.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000006_000004|In electronics I maybe ain't got the theory Pretty Boy has, but at building and repairing the stuff I've forgot more than he ever will know.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000007_000000|"Oh, yeah?" Lopresto sneered.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000007_000001|"How come you aren't ticketed for subspace, then?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000008_000000|"For hell's sake, act your age!" Newman snorted in disgust.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000008_000003|Or that them subspace Boy Scouts can be fixed?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000008_000004|Or I don't know where the heavy grease is at?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000009_000000|"I see." Lopresto forced his anger down.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000010_000001|I got to get back myself, don't I?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000011_000000|"You can have her.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000011_000001|Too big.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000011_000002|I like the little yellowhead a lot better."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000012_000002|Chew on that a while, and you'll know who's boss."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000013_000000|After just the right amount of holding back and objecting, Lopresto agreed.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000013_000001|"You win, Newman, the way the cards lay.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000013_000002|Have you ever planned this kind of an operation or do you want me to?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000014_000000|"You do it, Vince," Newman said, grandly.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000014_000001|He had at least one of the qualities of a leader.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000015_000001|Ferdy will take Deston----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000016_000000|"No he won't!
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000017_000001|What are you using for a brain?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000017_000002|Can't you see the guy's chain lightning on ball bearings?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000018_000000|"But we're going to surprise 'em, ain't we?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000020_000000|"O.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000020_000001|K., we'll let Ferdy have him.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000020_000002|Me and you will match draws to see who----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000000|"I can draw twice to your once, but I suppose I'll have to prove it to you.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000001|I'll take Jones; you will gun the professor; Moose will grab the dames, one under each arm, and keep 'em out of the way until the shooting's over.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000002|The only thing is, when?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000003|The sooner the better. Tomorrow?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000000|"Not quite, Vince.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000001|Let 'em finish figuring course, time, distance, all that stuff.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000002|They can do it a lot faster and some better than I can.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000003|I'll tell you when."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000023_000000|"O.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000023_000001|K., and I'll give the signal.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000024_000000|Newman went to his cabin and the muscle called Moose spoke thoughtfully. That is, as nearly thoughtfully as his mental equipment would allow.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000025_000000|"I don't like that ape, boss.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000025_000001|Before you gun him, let me work him over just a little bit, huh?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000000|"It'll be quite a while yet, but that's a promise, Moose.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000001|As soon as his job's done he'll wish he'd never been born.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000002|Until then, we'll let him think he's Top Dog.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000003|Let him rave.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000004|But Ferdy, any time he's behind me or out of sight, watch him like a hawk.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000005|Shoot him through the right elbow if he makes one sour move."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000027_000000|"I get you, boss."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000028_000000|A couple of evenings later, in Lifecraft Two, Barbara said: "You're worried, Babe, and everything's going so smoothly.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000028_000001|Why?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000029_000000|"Too smoothly altogether.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000029_000001|That's why.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000029_000003|There's going to be shooting for sure."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000031_000000|Jones' dark face did not lighten.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000031_000001|"They could, and I'm very much afraid they intend to.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000032_000000|"Could be," Deston said, doubtfully.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000032_000001|"In with a mob of normal space pirate smugglers.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000032_000002|I'll buy that, but there wouldn't be enough plunder to----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000000|"Just a sec.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000001|So he's a pretty good rule of thumb astrogator, too, and we're computing every element of the flight.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000002|As for motive-salvage. With either of us alive, none.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000003|With both of us dead, can you guess within ten million bucks of how much they'll collect?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000034_000002|That nails it down solid."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000035_000000|"With the added attraction," Jones went on, coldly and steadily, "of having two extremely desirable female women for eleven months before killing them, too."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000000|Both girls shrank visibly, and Deston said: "Check.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000001|I thought that was the main feature, but it didn't add up.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000002|This does.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000003|Now, how will they figure the battle?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000004|Both of us at once, of----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000037_000000|"Why?" Barbara asked.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000038_000000|"Uh uh.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000038_000001|The survivor would lock the ship in null G and it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000038_000003|Ferdy will probably draw on me----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000039_000000|"And he'll kill you," Jones said, flatly.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000039_000001|"So I think I'll blow his brains out tomorrow morning on sight."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000040_000000|"And get killed yourself?
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000040_000001|No ... much better to use their own trap----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000041_000002|He's a professional-probably one of the fastest guns in space."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000042_000000|"Yes, but ...
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000042_000001|I've got a ...
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000042_000002|I mean I think I can----"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000000|Bernice, grinning openly now, stopped Deston's floundering.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000001|"It's high time you fellows told each other the truth.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000002|Bobby and I let our back hair down long ago-we were both tremendously surprised to know that both you boys are just as strongly psychic as we are.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000003|Perhaps even more so."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000044_000001|"So you'll have plenty of warning?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000045_000000|"All my life.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000045_000001|The old alarm clock has never failed me yet.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000045_000002|But the girls can't start packing pistols now."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000046_000000|"I wouldn't know how to shoot one if I did," Bernice laughed.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000046_000001|"I'll throw things I'm very good at that."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000047_000000|"Huh?" Jones asked.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000047_000001|He didn't know his new wife very well, either.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000000|"Anything I can reach," she replied, confidently.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000001|"Baseballs, medicine balls, cannon balls, rocks, bricks, darts, discus, hammer, javelin-what have you.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000002|In a for real battle I'd prefer ... chairs, I think.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000003|Flying chairs are really hard to cope with.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000006|So who will I knock out with the first chair?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000049_000000|"I'll answer that," Barbara said, quietly.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000049_000001|"If it's Blaine against Babe, it'll be Lopresto against Herc.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000049_000002|So you'll throw your chairs or whatever at that unspeakable oaf Newman."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000051_000000|"I always do." Barbara held out her hands.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000051_000001|"Since they don't want to shoot us two-yet-these are all the weapons I'll need."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000052_000002|Really?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000053_000001|I'm that good.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000053_000002|Really," and both Joneses began to realize what Deston already knew-just how deadly those harmless seeming weapons could be.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000000|Barbara went on: "We should have a signal, in case one of us gets warning first.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000001|Something that wouldn't mean anything to them ... musical, say ...
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000002|Brahms.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000003|That's it.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000005|o k?"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000055_000000|It was o k, and the four-Adams was still hard at work in the lounge-went to bed.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000056_000000|And three days later, within an hour after the last flight datum had been "put in the tank," the four intended victims allowed themselves to be inveigled into the lounge.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000056_000001|Everything was peaceful; everyone was full of friendship and brotherly love.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000056_000002|But suddenly "BRAHMS!" rang out, with four voices in absolute unison; followed a moment later by Lopresto's stentorian "NOW!"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000000|It was a very good thing that Deston had had ample warning, for he was indeed competing out of his class.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000001|As it was, his bullet crashed through Blaine's head, while the gunman's went harmlessly into the carpet.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000002|The other pistol duel wasn't even close!
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000003|Lopresto's hand barely touched his gun.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000058_000000|Bernice, even while shrieking the battle cry, leaped to her feet, hurled her chair, and reached for another; but one chair was enough.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000058_000001|That fiercely but accurately sped missile knocked the half drawn pistol from Newman's hand and sent his body crashing to the floor, where Deston's second bullet made it certain that he would not recover consciousness.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000059_000000|Barbara's hand to hand engagement took about one second longer.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000059_000001|Moose Mordan was big and strong; and, for such a big man, was fairly fast physically.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000059_000002|If he had had time to get his muscles ready, he might have had a chance.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000061_000000|That ended it.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000061_000001|The big man could very well have been dying on his feet. To make sure, however-or to keep the girl from knowing that she had killed a man?--Deston and Jones each put a bullet through the falling head before it struck the rug.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000062_000000|Both girls flung themselves, sobbing, into their husband's arms.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000063_000000|The whole battle had lasted only a few seconds.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000066_000000|"You didn't kill him, Barbara," Adams said.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000067_000000|"Huh?" She raised her head from Deston's shoulder; the contrast between her streaming eyes and the relief dawning over her whole face was almost funny.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000067_000001|"Why, I did the foulest things possible, and as hard as I possibly could.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000000|"By no means, my dear.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000001|Judo techniques, however skillfully and powerfully applied, do not and can not kill instantly.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000002|Bullets through the brain do.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000003|I will photograph the cadavers, of course, and perform the customary post mortem examinations for the record; but I know already what the findings will be.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000004|These four men died instantly of gunshot wounds."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000000|With the four gangsters gone, life aboardship settled down quickly into a routine.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000001|That routine, however, was in no sense dull.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000002|The officers had plenty to do; operating the whole ship and rebuilding the mechanisms that were operating on jury rigging or on straight "bread board" hookups.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000004|For Bernice and Jones, like Barbara and Deston, had for each other an infinite number of endless vistas of personality; the exploration of which was sheerest delight.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000070_000000|The girls-each of whom became joyously pregnant as soon as she could-kept house and helped their husbands whenever need or opportunity arose.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000070_000001|Their biggest chore, however, was to see to it that Adams got sleep, food, and exercise.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000070_000002|For, if left to his own devices, he would never have exercised at all, would have grabbed a bite now and then, and would have slept only when he could no longer stay awake.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000071_000001|"For a man that's actually as smart as you are, I swear you've got the least sense of anybody I know!"
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000072_000000|"But it's necessary, my dear child," Adams explained, unmoved.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000072_000001|"This material is new.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000072_000002|There are many extremely difficult problems involved, and I have less than a year to work on them.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000073_000001|"Considering the enormous amounts of supplies carried; the scope, quantity, and quality of the safety devices employed; it is improbable that we are the first survivors of a subspace catastrophe to set course for a planet."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000074_000000|After some argument, the officers agreed.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000076_000002|From the facts: One, that in the absence of that field the subspace radio will function normally; and Two, that no subspace radio messages have ever been received from survivors; the conclusion seems inescapable that the discharge of this unknown field is in fact of extreme violence."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000077_000000|"Good God!" Deston exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000078_000000|"Precisely."
train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000080_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000003_000000|CHAPTER ten THE ESCAPE
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000004_000003|The faint grey of the dawn was the only light that penetrated the gloom of that pit.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000005_000000|"The Fates are kind, Kenneth," he whispered.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000006_000000|But Kenneth laid his hand upon Galliard's sleeve.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000007_000000|"Someone will die," muttered Crispin back.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000007_000001|"But pray God that it may not.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000009_000000|"Why, yes," returned Galliard sardonically, "we can linger here until we are taken.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000009_000001|But, oddslife, I'm not so minded.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000010_000000|And as he spoke he drew the lad along.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000011_000000|His foot was upon the topmost stair of the flight, when of a sudden the stillness of the house was broken by a loud knock upon the street door. Instantly-as though they had been awaiting it there was a stir of feet below and the bang of an overturned chair; then a shaft of yellow light fell athwart the darkness of the hall as the guardroom door was opened.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000012_000000|"Back!" growled Galliard.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000012_000001|"Back, man!"
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000013_000002|A bolt was drawn and a chain rattled, then followed the creak of hinges, and on the stone flags rang the footsteps and the jingling of spurs of those that entered.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000014_000000|"Is all well?" came a voice, which Crispin recognized as Colonel Pride's, followed by an affirmative reply from one of the soldiers.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000017_000000|In the hall Crispin could now make out the figures of Colonel Pride and of three men who came with him.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000018_000000|"Come, sirs," he heard him say, "light me to their garret.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000018_000001|I would see them-leastways, one of them, before he dies.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000018_000004|But, there lead on, fellow."
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000019_000000|"Oh, God!" gasped Kenneth, as the soldier set foot upon the stairs. Under his breath Crispin swore a terrific oath.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000021_000001|Partly his eyes and partly his instinct told him that not six paces behind him there must be a door, and if Heaven pleased it should be unlocked, behind it they must look for shelter. It even crossed his mind in that second of crowding, galloping thought, that perchance the room might be occupied.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000001|He ran his hand along until he caught the latch.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000002|Softly he tried it; it gave, and the door opened.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000003|Kenneth was by then beside him.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000004|He paused to look back.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000025_000003|An instant later and the light had vanished, eclipsed by those who followed in the fellow's wake.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000027_000001|"The drop is a long one, and we should but light in the streets, and be little better than we are here.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000027_000002|Wait."
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000028_000000|He listened.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000028_000001|The footsteps had turned the corner leading to the floor above.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000028_000002|He opened the door, partly at first, then wide.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000002|The guardroom door stood ajar, and he caught the murmurs of subdued conversation.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000003|But he did not pause.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000004|Had the door stood wide he would not have paused then.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000006|Cautiously, and leaning well upon the stout baluster, he began the descent.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000007|Kenneth followed him mechanically, with white face and a feeling of suffocation in his throat.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000030_000001|Not more than a dozen steps were there; but at the bottom stood the guardroom door, and through the chink of its opening a shaft of light fell upon the nethermost step.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000032_000001|Another step Galliard descended; then from the guardroom came a loud yawn, to send the boy cowering against the wall. It was followed by the sound of someone rising; a chair grated upon the floor, and there was a movement of feet within the chamber.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000004|Then slowly-painfully slowly-to avoid their steps from ringing upon the stone floor, they crept across towards the door that meant safety to Sir Crispin.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000005|Slowly, step by step, they moved, and with every stride Crispin looked behind him, prepared to rush the moment he had sign they were discovered.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000006|But it was not needed.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000009|Quietly he opened it, then with calm gallantry he motioned to his companion to go first, holding it for him as he passed in, and keeping watch with eye and ear the while.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000038_000000|Kenneth tugged at the skirts of his doublet.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000038_000001|"What now?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000041_000000|"Get in, Kenneth," Crispin commanded.
train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000041_000006|Hey! Have a care, boy.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000002_000000|GLACIAL AND PREGLACIAL LAKES AND RIVERS.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000003_000001|Even the imagination, that wonderful architect, with all its tendencies to exaggeration, palls in its attempt to give expression in measured quantities to the mighty power exerted by the great glacier or combination of glaciers that existed in comparatively recent times.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000002|Before the glacial period the Wisconsin River made a detour some miles west of its present channel through the high hills in the region of Baraboo.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000004|The river at that point passed between two of these hills.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000005|When the ice flowed down it surrounded these hills, yet did not sweep over their tops, but left great piles of glacial drift, both at the points where the river channel entered the hills and where it emerges from them.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000007|Therefore a deep basin was left, which is kept filled by the watershed furnished by the surrounding hills.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000000|There are hundreds and perhaps thousands of lakes that have been formed in one way or another through the power of glacial action.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000001|These smaller inland lakes, so many of which are seen in northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and Minnesota, are due almost entirely to the great deposits of glacial drift that have been transported with the ice.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000002|Wherever these "kettle holes" are found large bodies of ice have become anchored, while the ice behind it has carried the drift until it is covered over and piled up at the sides.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000003|When these ice mountains melted away depressions were left which in some cases have resulted in lakes, and in others simply dry kettle holes.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000004|This process has been hinted at in a former chapter, but we give it here as one of the kinds of lakes formed during the glacial period.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000005|They are found everywhere that glacial action has prevailed.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000007|These lakes, however, are comparatively insignificant as compared with the great inland seas like Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, that undoubtedly owe their origin largely to the ice age.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000007_000000|Glacial lakes may be divided into three classes.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000007_000001|Those found in the "kettle holes" of the terminal or medial moraines, and those that are formed by the deposition of the glacial drift, as, for instance, Devil's Lake, and those that are caused by ice forming dams across the valley of a river that lasted only during the ice age.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000008_000000|In order, however, that we may understand more fully the formation of these greater lakes it will be necessary for us to go back and examine the conditions that seem to have existed before the glacial period.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000000|It is a fact well known that continents have periods of elevation and depression.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000007|The question naturally arises, Where did all the dirt come from to fill up these great river beds and change the whole topography of the northern half of the continent?
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000008|dr Wright estimates that there is not less than one million square miles of territory in North America covered with glacial debris to an average depth of fifty feet.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000010|Of the carrying power of these great glaciers we will speak more fully in a future chapter.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000011|In preglacial times the watershed of the Mississippi and of the great rivers east of the Alleghany Mountains, the Susquehanna and Hudson, extended probably farther north than it does to day.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000010_000001|All of the lake bottoms of this great chain, with the exception of Lake Erie, are now below sea-level.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000000|There may have existed something of a lake in preglacial times, through which the river ran, but it undoubtedly owes its present width to the grinding action of the irresistible icebergs and the piling up of debris on the shores.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000002|Another glacier plowed down through Lake Michigan, widening it out to its present dimensions, while the glacial drift was deposited at what is now the head of the lake, filling up the old outlet and thus making a great dam.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000004|In a similar way Lake Erie was formed.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000005|It is supposed, however, that this lake is entirely the product of glacial action, as there is no evidence of an old river bed in its bottom; besides, it is much shallower than the other lakes.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000006|The same action that formed Lake Erie filled up the old river bed running through the province of Ontario, so that when the ice receded Lake Erie became the new channel for the old river.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000007|The same process filled up the Valley of the Mohawk to more than one hundred feet in depth and also raised the Valley of the Hudson.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000011|At the same time it built great dams across the outlets which raised the surface of the water to a much higher level and caused them to form new outlets, thus changing the whole face of the country over which the ice drifted.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000017_000003|Of course such a lake could not be permanent, because, when the ice melted away, it again opened the channel and allowed the water to flow off.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000018_000004|Terraces were formed running up the Ohio and its tributaries corresponding to the level that the water must have risen to if the valley were filled up with ice.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000018_000006|The fact that in some places successive terraces are found does not disprove the theory, because it is more than likely that when the ice receded it did so in successive stages, remaining at different positions for a considerable length of time.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000018_000007|There is abundant proof of this in the successive moraines and also in the formation of successive terraces. Some of these terraces could have been formed from other causes.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000019_000001|The ice did not stand with an even thickness over the surface of the glaciated area, but at some points it moved down in great lobes, which marked the lines of greatest pressure as well as the greatest accumulation.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000020_000000|All of the region about Winnipeg, in the Red River country, covering great areas of hundreds of miles in extent, is a level plain only lacking the coloring to give to one passing through it the effect of a great unruffled sea.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000021_000000|We can imagine that during this period the water that flowed off through the great Mississippi must have been of enormous volume as compared to the present time.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000021_000002|dr Wright-as we have before stated-has estimated that there are a million square miles of country that has been covered to an average depth of fifty feet with glacial drift.
train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000023_000002|When this great body of water was released it was to the northward.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000001|The valley of the Ohio River will probably average a mile in width at its upper level and, deep as it is to day, it was much deeper in preglacial times.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000002|There is evidence that the whole bed of the river was from one hundred to one hundred fifty feet deeper than it is at present.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000003|This has been determined by borings at different points to ascertain the depth of the drift that was lodged during the glacial period in the trough of the Ohio River.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000005|These lands are exceedingly productive, owing to the great depth and richness of the soil.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000000|For many years the writer lived upon one of the rivers tributary to the Ohio and often made trips by steamboat up and down the Ohio River. Traveling along this river a close observer will be struck by the exactness of the stratifications in the rock and in the coal beds to be seen on each side of the river.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000001|They match as perfectly as the grain of a block of wood when sawn asunder-showing that these coal beds were formed at an age long before the water cut this sinuous groove.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000002|What the water was doing while these coal beds were forming will be brought out in some future chapter.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000003|All the rivers that are tributary to the Ohio, such as the Monongahela, the Alleghany, the Muskingum, the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Kentucky, the Wabash, the Miami, the Licking, the Scioto, the Big Sandy, the Kanawha, the Hocking, and the Great Beaver, besides numerous smaller streams, have their own valleys that have been worn away by the same process, and to a greater depth than they now appear to be.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000006|The great lakes, that were enlarged during the glacial period and in some cases wholly created-by the scooping out and damming up of the waterways and by piling glacial drift around their shores-have had some of their outlets raised to a higher level, and others have been created anew.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000006_000002|Great bodies of salt are found at that low level, constantly dissolved by the water percolating through the sand and gravel of the glacial drift.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000007_000000|There is abundant evidence that the earth sinks in some places and rises in others.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000008_000001|This fact need not occasion any uneasiness on the part of those who are living to day or for millions of years to come.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000000|The problem of building a world and then tearing it to pieces is a very complicated one.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000002|The world has never been exactly alike any two successive days from the time its foundations were laid to the present moment.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000003|It seems to be a fundamental law of all life and growth, as well as of all decay, that there shall be a constant change.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000004|There is no such thing as rest in nature.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000006|In the animal and vegetable world there is a period of life and growth, and a period of decay and death; and this seems to be the destiny of planets themselves as well as the things that live and grow upon them.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000007|Still, science teaches us that with all this turmoil and change nothing either of matter or energy is lost, but that it is simply undergoing one eternal round of change.
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000008|Does this law apply to mind and soul?
train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000009|Do we die?
train-clean-360/6119/48032/6119_48032_000036_000000|"What's that for?
train-clean-360/6119/48032/6119_48032_000041_000005|He said:
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty three
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000002_000000|Knight Errantry
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000003_000001|Indeed, I had great liberty with regard to her, and took her out for a trot and a gallop as often as I pleased.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000003_000003|I believe he was never quite without a hope that somehow or other he should find her again in the next world.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000003_000004|At all events I am certain that it was hard for him to believe that so much wise affection should have been created to be again uncreated.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000002|It was a lovely night. A kind of grey peace filled earth and air and sky.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000003|It was not dark, although rather cloudy; only a dim dusk, like a vapour of darkness, floated around everything.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000004|I was fond of being out at night, but I had never before contemplated going so far alone.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000005|I should not, however, feel alone with Missy under me, for she and I were on the best of terms, although sometimes she would take a fit of obstinacy, and refuse to go in any other than the direction she pleased.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000001|Everything seemed thinking about me, but nothing would tell me what it thought.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000002|Not feeling, however, that I was doing wrong, I was only awed not frightened by the stillness.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000003|I made Missy slacken her speed, and rode on more gently, in better harmony with the night.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000005|I did not like the noise she made, and got upon the grass, for here there was no fence.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000008|She tore away over the field in quite another direction from that in which I had been taking her, and the gallop quickened until she was going at her utmost speed.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000009|The rapidity of the motion and the darkness together-for it seemed darkness now-I confess made me frightened.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000011|In a minute I had lost my reckoning, and could not tell where I was in the field, which was a pretty large one; but soon finding that we were galloping down a hill so steep that I had trouble in retaining my seat, I began, not at all to my comfort, to surmise in what direction the mare was carrying me.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000016|She avoided it, and galloped past, but bore me to a far more frightful goal, suddenly dropping into a canter, and then standing stock still.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000000|It was a cottage half in ruins, occupied by an old woman whom I dimly recollected having once gone with my father to see-a good many years ago, as it appeared to me now.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000001|She was still alive, however, very old, and bedridden.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000005|Now there is nothing particularly frightful about a pair of bellows, however large it may be, and yet the recollection of that huge structure of leather and wood, with the great iron nose projecting from the contracting cheeks of it, at the head of the old woman's bed, so capable yet so useless, did return upon me with terror in the dusk of that lonely night.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000007|If there was any truth in the story, it is easily accounted for by the fact that the poor old woman had been a little out of her mind for many years,--and no wonder, for she was nearly a hundred, they said.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000008|Neither is it any wonder that when Missy stopped almost suddenly, with her fore feet and her neck stretched forward, and her nose pointed straight for the door of the cottage at a few yards' distance, I should have felt very queer indeed.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000014|There she had to stop, for I had shut it when I brought her out.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000015|It was mortifying to find myself there instead of under john Adam's hayloft, the rescuer of Jamie Duff.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000016|But I did not think of that for a while.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000017|Shaken with terror, and afraid to dismount and be next the ground, I called upon Andrew as well as my fear would permit; but my voice was nearly unmanageable, and I could do little more than howl with it.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000008_000000|In a few minutes, to me a time of awful duration-for who could tell what might be following me up from the hollow?--Andrew appeared half dressed, and not in the best of tempers, remarking it was an odd thing to go out riding when honest people were in their beds, except, he added, I meant to take to the highway.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000008_000001|Thereupon, rendered more communicative by the trial I had gone through, I told him the whole story, what I had intended and how I had been frustrated.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000011_000002|It's all waste to be frightened before you know whether the thing is worth it."
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000012_000001|I was still seated on Missy.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000012_000002|To go home having done nothing for Jamie, and therefore nothing for Elsie, after all my grand ideas of rescue and restoration, was too mortifying.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000012_000006|When he reappeared, I asked him:
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000013_000000|"What do you think it could be, Andrew?"
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000014_000000|"How should I tell?" returned Andrew.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000014_000001|"The old woman has a very queer cock, I know, that always roosts on the top of her bed, and crows like no cock I ever heard crow.
train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000016_000002|Thus armed, and mounted with my feet in the stirrups, and therefore a good pull on Missy's mouth, I found my courage once more equal to the task before me.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000001_000000|A Double Exposure
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000002_000001|When she had set our porridge on the table, she stood up, and, with her fists in her sides, addressed my father:
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000004_000001|I whispered to Allister-
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000005_000001|Tell him to come directly."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000006_000002|The Kelpie looked suspicious as he left the room, but she had no pretext for interference.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000007_000000|"Let her go, father," I said.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000007_000001|"None of us like her."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000008_000000|"I like her," whimpered little Davie.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000009_000000|"Silence, sir!" said my father, very sternly.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000009_000001|"Are these things true?"
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000010_000000|"Yes, father," I answered.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000011_000000|"You have confessed to the truth of what she alleges," said my father.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000014_000000|I was not too much abashed to take notice that the Kelpie bridled at this.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000015_000000|"I can't say I'm sorry for what I've done to her," I said.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000016_000000|"Really, Ranald, you are impertinent.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000016_000001|I would send you out of the room at once, but you must beg mrs Mitchell's pardon first, and after that there will be something more to say, I fear."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000017_000000|"But, father, you have not heard my story yet."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000018_000000|"Well-go on.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000018_000002|But nothing can justify such conduct."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000019_000000|I began with trembling voice.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000019_000003|Both were out of breath with running.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000000|My father stopped me, and ordered Turkey away until I should have finished.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000001|I ventured to look up at the Kelpie once or twice.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000002|She had grown white, and grew whiter.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000003|When Turkey left the room, she would have gone too.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000005|Several times she broke out, accusing me of telling a pack of wicked lies, but my father told her she should have an opportunity of defending herself, and she must not interrupt me.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000006|When I had done, he called Turkey, and made him tell the story.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000007|I need hardly say that, although he questioned us closely, he found no discrepancy between our accounts.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000008|He turned at last to mrs Mitchell, who, but for her rage, would have been in an abject condition.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000021_000000|"Now, mrs Mitchell!" he said.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000022_000000|She had nothing to reply beyond asserting that Turkey and I had always hated and persecuted her, and had now told a pack of lies which we had agreed upon, to ruin her, a poor lone woman, with no friends to take her part.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000024_000002|I will leave the house this very day."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000026_000000|"They all hate me," said the Kelpie.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000027_000000|"And why?" asked my father.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000028_000000|She made no answer.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000029_000000|"I must get at the truth of it," said my father.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000030_000000|She left the room without another word, and my father turned to Turkey.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000033_000000|"I have no doubt of it, but equally unjustifiable.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000034_000000|"I confess I yielded to temptation then, for I knew it could do no good.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000035_000003|I will try to show you the wrong you have done.--Had you told me without doing anything yourselves, then I might have succeeded in bringing mrs Mitchell to repentance.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000035_000004|I could have reasoned with her on the matter, and shown her that she was not merely a thief, but a thief of the worst kind, a Judas who robbed the poor, and so robbed God.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000036_000000|"Please, sir," interrupted Turkey, "I don't think after all she did it for herself.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000036_000001|I do believe," he went on, and my father listened, "that Wandering Willie is some relation of hers.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000037_000000|"You may be right, Turkey-I dare say you are right.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000039_000002|It is to her, not to me, you have done the wrong.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000039_000004|But it is a very dreadful thing to throw difficulties in the way of repentance and turning from evil works."
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000040_000000|"What can I do to make up for it?" I sobbed.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000042_000000|Thereupon Turkey and I walked away, I to school, he to his cattle.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000043_000001|But the Kelpie frustrated whatever he may have resolved upon with regard to her: before he returned she had disappeared.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000043_000003|I think she must have hid it in some outhouse, and fetched it the next night.
train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000045_000001|It was more his own affection than her kindness that had attached him to her.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000000|"Guardy Lud" was the first visitor, just for a night and a day.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000001|He had come East for a flying business trip, and could not pass by his beloved wards without at least a glimpse.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000002|He dropped down into their midst quite unexpectedly the night before college closed, and found them with a bevy of young people at the supper table, who opened their ranks right heartily, and took him in.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000003|He sat on the terrace in the moonlight with them afterwards, joking, telling them stories, and eating chocolates with the rest.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000003_000000|After the young people were gone he lingered, wiping his eyes, and saying, "Bless my soul!" thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000003_000001|He told Julia Cloud over and over again how more than pleased he was with what she had done for his children, and insisted that her salary should be twice as large.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000003_000004|He would see that a sum was set aside in the bank for their use in any such plans as they might have for their Christian Endeavor work.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000004_000000|They talked far into the night, for he had to hear all the stories of all their doings, and every minute or two one or the other of the children would break in to tell something about the other or to praise their dear Cloudy Jewel for her part in everything.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000005_000000|The next day they took him everywhere and showed him everything about the college and the place, introduced him to their favorite professors, at least those who were not already gone on their vacations, and took him for a long drive past their favorite haunts. Then he had to meet Jane Bristol and Howard Letchworth.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000006_000000|"They are both poor and earning their own living," said Julia Cloud, feeling that in view of the future and what it might contain she wanted to be entirely honest, that the weight of responsibility should not rest too heavily upon her.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000000|"All the better for that, no doubt," said Guardy Lud thoughtfully, watching Jane Bristol's sweet smile as she talked over some committee plans with Allison.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000001|"I should say they were about as wholesome a couple of young people as could be found to match your two.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000003|I'm entirely satisfied with the work you're doing, Miss Cloud.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000004|I couldn't have found a better mother for 'em if I'd searched heaven, I'm sure."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000008_000000|And so Julia Cloud was well content to go on with her beloved work as home maker.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000010_000000|Allison arose and went down the terrace to do the honors, showing his uncle where to drive in and put his car in the little garage, helping his aunt and the little cousins to alight.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000001|"I should think 'twould take all your time to keep clean.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000002|What's the idea in making a sidewalk of your front porch?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000003|Looks as if some crazy person had built it.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000004|Couldn't you find anything better than this in the town?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000005|I saw some real pretty frame houses with gardens as we came through."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000012_000000|"We like this very well," said Julia Cloud with her old patient smile and the hurt flush that always accompanied her answers to her sister's contempt.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000012_000002|She likes to keep them bright.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000013_000001|No paper on the wall!
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000013_000002|That's queer, isn't it?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000013_000003|And the chimney right in the room!
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000014_000000|Leslie took the children up stairs to wash their faces and freshen up, and Julia Cloud led her sister to the lovely guest room that was always in perfect order.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000000|"Well, you certainly have things well fixed," said Ellen grudgingly. "What easy little stairs!
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000001|It's like child's play going up.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000002|I suppose that's one consolation for having such a little playhouse affair to live in; you don't have to climb up far.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000003|Well, we've come to stay two days if you want us.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000004|Herbert said he could spare that much time off, and we're going to stop in Thayerville on the way back and see his folks a couple of days; and that'll be a week.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000005|Now, if you don't want us, say so, and we'll go on to night.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000006|It isn't as if we couldn't go when we like, you know."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000016_000000|But Julia Cloud was genuinely glad to see her sister, and said so heartily enough to satisfy even so jealous a nature as Ellen's; and so presently they were walking about the pretty rooms together, and Ellen was taking in all the beauties of the home.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000000|"And this is your bedroom!" she paused in the middle of the rose and gray room, and looked about her, taking in every little detail with an eye that would put it away for remembrance long afterwards.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000001|"Well, they certainly have feathered your nest well!" she declared as her eyes rested on the luxury everywhere.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000002|"Though I don't like that painted furniture much myself," she said as she glanced at the French gray enamel of the bed; "but I suppose it's all right if that's the kind of thing you like.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000003|Was it some of their old furniture from California?"
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000000|"Oh, no," said Julia Cloud quickly, the pretty flush coming in her cheeks.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000001|"Everything was bought new except a few little bits of mahogany down stairs.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000002|We had such fun choosing it, too.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000003|Don't you like my furniture?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000006|It's real French enamel, you know, and happens to be a craze of fashion at present.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000007|I thought it was ridiculous to buy it, but Leslie insisted that it was the only thing for my room; and those crazy, extravagant children went and bought it when I had my head turned."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000000|"You don't say!" said Ellen Robinson, putting a hard, investigating finger on the foot board.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000001|"Well, it does seem sort of smooth.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000002|But I never thought my cane seat chairs were much.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000004|What's that out there, a porch?"
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000020_000000|Julia Cloud led her out to the upper porch with its rush rugs, willow chairs, and table, and its stone wall crowned with blooming plants and trailing vines.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000020_000001|She showed her the bird's nest in the tree overhead.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000021_000000|"Well," said Ellen half sourly, "I suppose there's no chance of your getting sick of it all and coming back, and I must say I don't blame you.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000021_000001|It certainly is a contrast from the way you've lived up to now. But these children will grow up and get married, and then where will you be?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000021_000002|I suppose you have chances here of getting married, haven't you?"
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000023_000000|"I'm not looking for such chances, Ellen," she said decidedly.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000023_000002|I'm happier as I am."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000024_000000|"Yes, but after these children are married what'll you do?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000024_000001|Who'll support you?"
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000025_000000|"Don't let that worry you, Ellen, There are other children, and I love to mother them.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000025_000001|But as far as support is concerned I'm putting away money in the bank constantly, more than I ever expected to have all together in life; and I shall not trouble anybody for support. However, I hope to be able to work for a good many years yet, and what I'm doing now I love.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000025_000002|Shall we go down stairs?"
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000026_000001|"I suppose they have by this time."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000027_000000|"They have a great many young friends, and we have beautiful times together.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000027_000001|But you won't see many of them now.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000027_000002|College closed last week."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000000|"Cloudy, dear, what makes such a difference in people?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000001|Why are some so much harder to make have a good time than others?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000002|Why, I feel as if I'd lived years since day before yesterday, and I don't feel as if they'd half enjoyed anything.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000003|I really wanted to make them happy, for I felt as if we'd taken so much from them when we took you; but I just seemed to fail, everything I did."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000030_000000|Julia Cloud smiled.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000000|"I don't know what it is, dear, unless it is that some people have different ideals and standards from other people, and they can't find their pleasure the same way.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000001|Your Aunt Ellen always wanted to have a lot of people around, and liked to go to tea parties and dress a great deal; and she never cared for reading or study or music.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000002|But I think you're mistaken about their not having had a good time.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000003|They appreciated your trying to do things for them, I know, for Aunt Ellen said to me that you were a very thoughtful girl.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000004|And the children enjoyed the victrola, especially the funny records.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000005|Herbert liked it that Allison let him drive his car when they went out.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000032_000000|"Did she truly say that, Cloudy?" twinkled Leslie.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000032_000001|"Isn't she funny?" They both broke down and laughed.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000033_000000|"But I'm glad they came, Cloudy.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000033_000002|It was nice to play with the children, and nice to have a home to show our relatives, and nicest of all to have them see you-how beautiful you are at the head of the house."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000034_000000|"Dear, flattering child!" said Julia Cloud lovingly.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000034_000001|"It is so good to know you feel that way!
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000034_000002|But now here comes Allison, and we must finish up our plans for the trip and get ready to close the house for the summer."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000036_000001|"I don't see any place as nice as our town, do you, Cloudy?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000036_000002|And I don't feel quite right anywhere but home on Sunday, do you?
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000036_000003|For, really, all the Christian Endeavor societies I've been to this summer acted as if their members were all away on vacations and they didn't care whether school kept or not."
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000037_000000|And so they went home to begin another happy winter.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000037_000001|But the very first day there came a rift in their happiness in the shape of the new professor of chemistry, a man about Julia Cloud's age, whom Ellen Robinson had met on her visit to Thayerville, and told about her sister.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000037_000002|Ellen had suggested that maybe he could get her sister to take him to board!
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000038_000000|To this day Julia Cloud has never decided whether Ellen really thought Julia would take a professor from the college to board, or whether she just sent him there as a joke.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000038_000001|There was a third solution, which Julia Cloud kept in the back of her mind and only took out occasionally with an angry, troubled look when she was very much annoyed.
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000038_000002|It was that Ellen was still anxious to have her sister get married, and she had taken this way to get her acquainted with a man whom she thought a "good match".
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000039_000002|No, indeed!
train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000040_000000|But Professor Armitage, like everybody else who came once to Cloudy Villa, liked it, and begged a thousand pardons for presuming, but came again and again, until even the children began to like him in a way, and did not in the least mind having him around.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000000_000000|twenty four
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000001_000000|AN EVENING'S FUN
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000000|mrs Blair had said that all the preparations for the Bazaar must be completed on Tuesday, the day before it was to open.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000001|She knew the ways of girls too well to think that it would be safe to have anything left for Wednesday morning.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000002|The flower table, of course had to be arranged on that day, and some things for the refreshment table.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000003|But so definite had she been in expressing her wishes, that the girls felt that it was due her for lending her house to pay all deference to what she said.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000004|On the Monday therefore after Easter they went to work with a will to gather in the promised contributions.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000006|Tuesday was rainy, and at dusk gave little promise of a bright sky for the following day.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000007|Brenda was in a tremor of excitement.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000003_000001|I know that a lot of people will come even if it rains, and perhaps they'll be good and buy three times as much as they would in fine weather."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000004_000000|Just then Julia came in with the evening paper in her hand.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000004_000001|"See, or rather hear the news.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000004_000003|There was a large patch of blue in the west when the sun went down----"
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000005_000000|"The sun!" exclaimed the others derisively.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000006_000000|"In the place where the sun should have gone down," she responded with a smile.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000006_000001|"Why, how well the rooms look!
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000006_000002|there won't be a thing for the boys to do this evening."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000009_000000|"Boys are not so fond of spending money at fairs, I can tell you that," said Nora, rather decidedly, "and besides most of them are so much in debt that they haven't anything to spend."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000010_000001|"I know several who have more money than they know what to do with.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000010_000002|Some juniors that I know-New York fellows, are coming to morrow and they will spend a lot of money."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000011_000000|"Gracious!" exclaimed Brenda, "I hope that we have things that will suit them.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000011_000001|It seems to me that most of these things are for girls to use."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000012_000000|"Oh, they can buy things for their sisters and cousins; besides, boys like pincushions and picture frames and sofa pillows.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000012_000001|Oh, I am sure that we shall have no trouble getting them to buy all that they can afford," replied Belle positively.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000013_000000|As a matter of fact when the boys after dinner were ushered into the pretty little ballroom, where the tables laden with fancy goods stood, they expressed great interest in all that they saw, and began to make bids for the things which seemed to them best worth having.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000014_000000|"Look out," cried Nora, "or we may take you at your word, Will Hardon, and make you pay one hundred dollars for that crimson pillow that you admire so."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000015_000000|"Well, why not?" he enquired, "as long as it is to be in a good cause."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000016_000000|"Oh, no," interrupted the practical Edith, "that would not really be fair.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000017_000000|"Oh, how silly you are, Edith," broke in Brenda; "as if all the people who come to the Bazaar could be here at the same minute.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000017_000001|If any one wants to bid on anything to night I say that it is perfectly fair." After much discussion, it was at last decided that any one who had a great preference for any special thing might write his name on a piece of paper and have it pinned to the object with the limit of price that he was willing to pay.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000018_000000|"Then you must be willing," said Brenda, "to let us sell the things you have chosen, if some fussy old person comes along and wishes any of these reserved things, and refuses to be contented with anything else."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000020_000000|"Oh, there will be plenty of things that will suit you just as well, if you only make up your minds to it."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000021_000000|"Perhaps you'll want me to buy a blue sofa pillow or some other Yale thing," sighed Will Hardon.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000023_000000|All the girls laughed except Edith, who seldom saw the funny side of things as quickly as the others.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000024_000000|"Well, you can see yourselves, boys," she said, in a determined tone, "that you ought to be glad to buy whatever is left over,--for you probably won't get in until toward evening.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000024_000001|You can always find some one to give the things to that you buy."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000025_000000|"This doll?" asked Philip, holding it rather clumsily on his arm.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000026_000000|"Why, of course," said Edith, "we know several children who would be delighted with it at Christmas."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000027_000000|"No, thank you, sister Edith," responded Philip, "I'm not going to spend my hard earned allowance in presents for children; if you make me buy this doll, out it goes to a certain room in one of the college buildings to become a cherished decoration, and," waving the doll dramatically in the air, "I shall defy any proctor or college authority to tear it away from me."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000028_000001|But you know I'm in earnest about that pillow," he added, for he knew, and ruth knew that he knew that the down pillow with its rich crimson cover embroidered with a large "H." was the work of her skilful fingers.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000030_000000|"You wouldn't pay a hundred dollars for it?" queried ruth.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000032_000000|This was not entirely an idle boast, this readiness to spend a large sum of money for a small thing-on the part of Will, as Philip and some of his classmates might have testified.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000032_000001|Although very quiet in his way of living, and in his general conversation, he had a larger income than many in his set.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000032_000003|No one knew of his liberality except those whom he helped, for he had not the least wish to pose as a benefactor.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000033_000000|Now ruth, while pleased at his wish for the cushion had no idea that he would, if necessary, pay a hundred dollars for it.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000034_000000|"If you really wish to have it, I'll try to secure it for you," she said.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000034_000001|"I am sure there won't be any trouble, although I suppose that it can't be laid aside to night, as long as Edith feels as she does."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000036_000000|"Come," cried Brenda, rushing up to them, "you are not doing a thing, you two."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000000|"Well, the rest of you seemed so busy that we thought we should only be in the way," said Will with the glibness that is almost second nature with youths of his age, "but we're ready to work now," and they went across the room to the surprise table where half a dozen of their friends were busy.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000001|The "surprise table" had been an idea of Belle's, and was a rather agreeable change from the usual grab bag.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000002|All kinds of little things-toys, novelties, like those used as German favors, small books and photographs, were neatly done up in bright tissue paper wrappings, and tied with silk ribbons.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000003|They were heaped on a large table, and purchasers were permitted to buy each little package at their own price, provided at least, according to a sign placed above the table, that no bid should be for less than fifteen cents.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000004|Nora was to have charge of this table, and she expected to have a great deal of fun out of the misfits between the purchasers and the parcels.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000038_000000|Altogether the preparations for the Bazaar had moved along much more smoothly than any one had expected.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000038_000001|It is true that the various mothers of the girls comprising "The Four" had said that they would be glad enough when it was all over, because for a fortnight it had been impossible to get the girls to think of anything else.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000038_000003|mrs Barlow was especially pleased with the good spirit that her niece Julia had shown, for it would have been so easy and natural for her at the last to display a little pettishness in the way of a refusal to have anything to do with the Bazaar in view of the fact that she had not been invited to join "The Four" at their weekly meetings for work.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000039_000000|But Julia was not one to show this kind of resentment, and since she had become interested in Manuel she was only too glad to help the Bazaar that was to benefit him.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000039_000001|At her aunt's suggestion she had made it her special duty to collect flowers and plants for the flower table, and armed with notes of introduction from mrs Barlow she had gone to many a supposedly close person to ask for some small contribution to the flower table.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000039_000002|Her success had been altogether remarkable, and in addition to the cut flowers that were to arrive on Wednesday, a great many beautiful potted plants and vines had been sent in from various conservatories for general decorations.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000040_000001|The work did not, of course, proceed very rapidly, for every one in the group of fifteen or more had to give an opinion on everything, and a unanimous opinion as to what looked best in any particular case was naturally impossible.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000041_000000|The large room was so handsome as to require comparatively little decoration.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000041_000001|The long mirrors with which every side was paneled formed a complete decoration in themselves, and added to the general effectiveness, as Brenda said by making the tables "look double."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000042_000000|Now if the boys did not find a great deal of work to do they were very outspoken in their admiration for all that had been accomplished by the girls.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000043_000000|"Well, if other people will only be as much impressed as you are, and will open their purses accordingly, we shall have nothing to complain of," said Nora, "and I hope that you will all come back and buy everything that is left over by to morrow evening."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000044_000000|"Can't we have first choice of anything?" queried Tom Hurst, a mischief loving friend of Philip's whom some of the girls distrusted a little.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000045_000000|"No," answered Nora, sternly, "you must not be so selfish.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000045_000001|There may be old ladies who will want----"
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000046_000000|"Do you suppose that any old lady will want that tobacco pouch?" asked Tom, with a most innocent expression on his face.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000047_000000|"She might," answered Nora, with a very dignified manner.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000047_000001|"She might if she had a son who was fond of smoking, at any rate she ought to have first choice."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000048_000000|"Well, then," replied Tom, "I don't believe that I shall return, for I am not sure that I ought to patronize an institution that encourages old ladies to buy tobacco pouches."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000050_000000|"You shouldn't use tobacco at all," cried Edith in a plaintive tone, "at your age, Philip, you know how mamma feels about it."
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000051_000001|Anyway it's time we started for Cambridge, we're not used to late hours." At this the rest of the boys laughed rather more loudly than the occasion seemed to warrant, but with a return of good manners they bade the girls good bye, and promised mrs Blair, who had returned to the room that they would certainly drop in some time on Wednesday.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000053_000000|"It certainly does look as if it might clear up," said Belle to Nora, as they walked along.
train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000054_000000|"Yes, indeed," answered Nora, "there are as many as twenty stars to be seen, and that is almost a sure sign.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000013_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000014_000000|THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000015_000000|Down the long avenue that led from the house to the great entrance gate came the Little Colonel on her pony.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000015_000001|It was a sweet, white way that morning, filled with the breath of the locusts; white overhead where the giant trees locked branches to make an arch of bloom nearly a quarter of a mile in length, and white underneath where the fallen blossoms lay like scattered snowflakes along the path.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000016_000000|Everybody, in Lloydsboro Valley knew Locust.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000016_000001|"It is one of the prettiest places in all Kentucky," they were fond of saying, and every visitor to the Valley was taken past the great entrance gate to admire the long rows of stately old trees, and the great stone house at the end, whose pillars gleamed white through the Virginia creeper that nearly covered it.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000017_000002|Some people called attention to him because he was an old Confederate soldier who had given his good right arm to the cause he loved, some because they thought he resembled Napoleon, and others because they had some amusing tale to tell of the eccentric things he had said or done.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000001|He was proud of the fact that she had inherited his lordly manner, his hot temper, and imperious ways.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000002|It pleased him that people had given her his title of Colonel on account of the resemblance to himself.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000003|She had outgrown it somewhat since she had first been nicknamed the Little Colonel.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000004|Then she was only a spoiled baby of five; but now his pride in her was even greater, since she had grown into a womanly little maid of eleven.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000005|He was proud of her delicate, flower like beauty, of her dainty ways, and all her little schoolgirl accomplishments.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000019_000002|She's like Amanthis,--sweet souled and starry eyed; we were here when you brought her home, a bride.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000019_000003|She's like Amanthis!
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000019_000004|Like Amanthis!"
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000020_000000|Under the blossoms rode the Little Colonel, all in white herself this May morning, except the little Napoleon hat of black velvet, set jauntily over her short light hair.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000020_000002|"Tarbaby" she called him, partly because he was so black, and partly because that was the name of her favourite Uncle Remus story.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000022_000000|As she spoke, she passed through the gate at the end of the avenue and turned into the public road, a wide pike with a railroad track on one side of it and a bridle path on the other.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000022_000002|Judge Moore was Rob's grandfather, and she and Rob had played together every summer since she could remember.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000023_000000|The wide white gate was standing open now, and she drew rein, peering anxiously in.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000023_000001|She hoped for the sight of a familiar freckled face or the sound of a welcoming whoop.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000023_000003|It balanced itself on the limb, leaning over and cocking its bright bead like eyes at her, as if admiring the sight.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000024_000000|What it saw was a slender girl of eleven, taller than most children of that age, and more graceful.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000024_000001|There was a colour in her cheek like the delicate pink of a wild rose, and the big hazel eyes had a roguish twinkle in them, as they looked out fearlessly on the world from under the little Napoleon hat with its nodding cockade of locust blossoms.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000026_000000|She was turning slowly away when down the pike behind her came the quick beat of a horse's hoofs and a shrill whistle.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000026_000001|A twelve year old boy was riding toward her as fast as his big gray horse could carry him.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000026_000003|He snatched it off with a flourish as he came within speaking distance of the Little Colonel, his freckled face all ashine with pleasure.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000027_000000|"Hello!
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000027_000001|Lloyd," he called, "I was just going to your house."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000028_000000|"And I was looking for you, Bobby," she answered, as informally as if it were only yesterday they had parted, instead of eight months before.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000029_000000|"Come and go down to the post office with me.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000030_000001|"You don't know how good it feels to get back to the country again, Lloyd.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000032_000000|As they jogged along, side by side, the Little Colonel chatting gaily of all that had happened since their last meeting, Rob kept casting curious glances at her.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000032_000003|Then her hand flew up to her head.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000033_000000|"Don't you see?
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000033_000001|I've had my hair cut.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000033_000003|It had to be brushed and plaited a dozen times a day."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000034_000000|"I don't like it that way.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000034_000001|It isn't a bit becoming," said Rob, with the frankness of old comradeship.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000034_000002|"You look like a boy.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000035_000000|"I don't care," answered Lloyd, her eyes flashing dangerously.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000035_000001|"It's comfortable this way, and grandfathah likes it.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000036_000000|"When you were a little thing!" laughed Rob, teasingly.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000037_000001|"I was eleven last week.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000037_000007|We'll expect you at all the pahties and picnics and candy pullin's that we have.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000037_000008|I want you to help me give the girls a good time, Bobby."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000038_000001|Jolly for you!" before he answered more politely, "Thank you, Lloyd, you can count on me for my part.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000038_000002|I'll be on hand every time you turn around, if you want me. Who all's coming?"
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000041_000000|"Well, who is she?" he asked, reading it aloud.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000042_000000|"Eugenia is a sort of cousin of mine," explained Lloyd.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000042_000004|She was dreadfully spoiled.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000043_000000|"Then what did you do?" asked Rob, with a grin.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000043_000001|He had experimented with Lloyd's temper himself in the past.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000044_000007|He is always so busy there's no one to pay any attention to her but her maid.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000044_000009|I imagine she's stuck up, too.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000044_000010|She used to be, and she's always had her own way about everything."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000045_000000|"Number one doesn't sound very inviting," said Rob, with a sour grimace. "Who is your number two?" Lloyd held out the second envelope.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000047_000007|Oh, it was just like a fairy tale, all the things that Joyce did when she was in Touraine."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000048_000000|"How old is she?" interrupted Rob.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000049_000000|"Just Eugenia's age, I believe, and she must be an interestin' sort of girl, for she draws beautifully.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000050_000000|"Number two is all right," said Rob, with an approving nod.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000050_000001|"Next!"
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000050_000002|The Little Colonel held out the third envelope.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000051_000000|"One flew east and one flew west, so I s'pose this will fly into the cuckoo's nest," said Rob, as he read the address:
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000053_000005|Mother is her godmothah.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000053_000006|That's why she is named Elizabeth Lloyd.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000053_000008|That's why she invited them."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000054_000000|"And you don't know anything about this one?" questioned Rob.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000055_000000|"Not a thing.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000055_000001|I shouldn't be su'prised if she's mighty countrified, for the farm is several miles from a railroad, and the people she lives with don't think of anything but work, yeah in and yeah out."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000056_000000|They had reached the post office by this time, and Rob held out his hand for the letters.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000056_000001|"I'll put them in for you," he said.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000056_000002|Then, dropping them into the box, one by one, he repeated the rhyme:
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000057_000000|"One flew east and one flew west. And one flew into the cuckoo's nest."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000058_000000|Lloyd added, quickly:
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000060_000000|"Joyce," said Rob, promptly.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000061_000000|"I think so, too," agreed the Little Colonel, stooping to fasten the locust blossoms more securely behind the pony's ears.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000062_000000|"Well, the invitations are off now.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000062_000001|Come on, Tarbaby, and see if you can't beat Bobby Moore's old gray hawse so bad it will be ashamed to evah race again."
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000064_000000|The dust flew, dogs barked, and chickens ran squawking across the road out of the way.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000064_000001|Heads were thrust out of the windows as the two vanished up the dusty pike, and an old graybeard loafing in front of the corner grocery gave an amused chuckle.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000064_000002|"Beats all how them two do get over the ground," he said.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000065_000000|A little while later the three white envelopes were jogging sociably along, side by side in a mail bag, on their way to Louisville.
train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000065_000001|But their course did not lie together long.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000002_000000|"ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST."
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000000|The letter for Jaynes's Post office reached the end of its journey first.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000001|It wasn't much of a post office; only an old case of pigeon holes set up in one corner of a cross roads store.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000002|A man riding over from the nearest town twice a week brought the mail bag on horseback.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000003|So few letters found their way into this, particular bag that Squire Jaynes, who kept the store and post office, felt a personal interest in every envelope that passed through his hands.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000004_000000|"Miss Elizabeth Lloyd Lewis," he spelled aloud, examining the address through his square bowed spectacles with a critical squint.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000005_000000|There was no one in the store to answer the question but an overgrown boy who had stopped to get his father's weekly paper.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000005_000001|He sat on the counter dangling his big bare feet against a nail keg, and catching flies in his sunburned hands, while he waited for the mail to be opened.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000007_000001|"That's Betty.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000007_000002|The Appletons' Betty.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000007_000003|Don't you know?
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000008_000003|Any how, they're all she's got, and her father made some arrangement with them before he died.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000009_000000|"That's the truth," said Jake; "she does.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000009_000001|Talk about bringin' up.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000009_000004|It's Betty that 'pears to be bringin' up the little Appletons."
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000010_000002|Lloydsboro Valley it's postmarked.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000010_000003|Wish she'd happen down here.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000010_000004|I'd ask her who it's from."
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000011_000000|Jake got up, dragged his bare feet across the floor, and leaned lazily on the counter as he reached for his paper.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000012_000002|I'll take it up to her, squire, if you say so.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000013_000000|"Reckon you might as well," answered the old man, giving a final close scrutiny before handing it to the boy.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000013_000001|"It might lie here all week in case none of them happened to come to the store, and it looks as if it might be important."
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000014_000002|Jake mounted and rode off slowly, his bare feet dangling far below the stirrups.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000014_000003|It was two miles to the Appleton farm, down a hot, dusty road, and he took his time in going. Well for little Betty that she did not know what wonderful surprise was on its way to her, or she would have been in a fever of impatience for the letter to arrive.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000015_000000|It had been a tiresome day for the child.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000015_000003|But it was cool and pleasant down in the spring house with the water trickling out in a ceaseless drip drip on the cold stones.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000015_000005|Surely it must have learned a great many on its underground way among the roots of things, and all else that lies hidden in the earth.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000016_000000|But she could not loiter long.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000016_000001|There was the dinner table to set for the hungry farm hands, and after the dinner was over more dishes to wash. Then there were some towels to iron.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000016_000002|It was two o'clock before her work was all done, and she had time to go up to her little room in the west gable.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000017_000001|It was such a tiny mirror that she could see only a part of her face at a time.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000017_000002|When her big brown eyes, wistful and questioning as a fawn's, were reflected in it, there was no room for the sensitive little mouth.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000017_000003|Or if she stood on tiptoe so that she could see her plump round chin, dimpled cheeks, and white teeth, the eyes were left out, and she could see no more of her inquisitive little nose than lay below the big freckle in the middle of it.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000018_000001|She was free now to do as she pleased until supper time.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000018_000002|Once out of the house, she walked slowly along through the shady orchard, swinging her sunbonnet by the strings.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000018_000003|After the orchard came the long leafy lane, with its double rows of cherry trees, and then the gate at the end, leading into the public highway.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000019_000000|As she slipped her hand around the post to unfasten the chain that held the gate, little bare feet came pattering behind her, and a shrill voice called: "Wait, Betty, wait a minute!"
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000019_000001|It was Davy Appleton.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000019_000002|Betty's little lamb, they called him, and Betty's shadow, and Betty's sticking plaster, because everywhere she went there was Davy just at her heels.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000020_000000|All the Appleton children were boys,--three younger and two older than Davy, whose last birthday cake should have had eight candles if there had been any celebration of the event.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000020_000001|But there never had been a birthday cake with candles on it on the Appleton table.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000020_000002|It would have been considered a foolish waste of time and money, and birthdays came and went sometimes, without the children knowing that they had passed.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000000|Davy was a queer little fellow.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000001|He tagged along after Betty, switching at the grass with a whip he carried, never saying a word after that first eager call for her to wait.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000002|The two never tired of each other.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000003|He was content to follow and ask no questions, for he had learned long ago to look twice before he spoke once.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000004|As he caught up with her at the gate, he did not even ask where she was going, knowing that he would find out in due time if he only followed far enough.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000000|He did not have to follow far to day.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000001|Betty led the way across the road to a plain little wooden church, set back in a grove of cedar trees. Behind the church was a graveyard, where they often strolled on summer afternoons, through the tangle of grass and weeds and myrtle vines, to read the names on the tombstones and smell the pinks and lilies that struggled up year after year above the neglected mounds.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000002|But that was not their errand to day.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000003|A little red bookcase inside the church was the attraction.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000000|It held all that was left of a scattered Sunday school library, that had been in use two generations before.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000001|Queer little books they were, time yellowed and musty smelling, but to story loving little Betty, hungry for something new, they seemed a veritable gold mine.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000002|She had found that no key barred her way into this little red treasure house of a bookcase, and a board propped against the wall under the window outside gave her an easy entrance into the church.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000003|Here she came day after day, when her work was done, to pore over the musty old volumes of tales forgotten long ago.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000024_000000|In Betty's little room under the roof at home was a pile of handsomely bound books, lying on a chest beside her mother's Bible.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000024_000001|They were twelve in all, and had come in several different Christmas boxes, and each one had Betty's name on the fly leaf, with the date of the Christmas on which it happened to be sent.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000024_000002|Underneath was always written: "From your loving godmother, Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman."
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000000|Excepting a few school books and some out of date census reports, they were the only books in the Appleton house.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000001|Betty guarded them like a little dragon.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000002|They were the only things she owned that the children were not allowed to touch.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000003|Even Davy, when he was permitted to look at the wonderful pictures in her "Arabian Nights," or "Pilgrim's Progress," or "Mother Goose," had to sit with his hands behind his back while she carefully turned the leaves.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000005|Eugene Field's poems had come in the last box, with Riley's "Songs of Childhood" and Kipling's jungle tales. Twelve beautiful books, all of mrs Sherman's giving, and they were like twelve great windows to Betty, opening into a new strange world, far away from the experiences of her every day life.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000027_000000|The little dog eared books in the meeting house proved poor reading sometimes after such entertainment.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000027_000002|At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000028_000000|Betty laughed at them sometimes, but she touched the little books with reverent fingers, when she remembered how old they were, and how long ago their first childish readers laid them aside.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000029_000000|Many an afternoon she had spent, perched in the high window, with her feet drawn up under her on the sill, reading aloud to Davy, who lay outside on the grass, staring up at the sky.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000029_000001|Davy's short fat legs could not climb from the board to the window sill, and since this little Mahomet could not come to the mountain, Betty had to carry the mountain to him.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000030_000000|The reading was slow work sometimes.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000030_000001|Davy's mind, like his legs, could not climb as far as Betty's, and she usually had to stop at the bottom of every page to explain something.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000030_000002|Often he fell asleep in the middle of the most interesting part, and then Betty read on to herself, with nothing to break the stillness around her but the buzzing of the wasps, as they darted angrily in and out of the open window above her head.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000031_000001|Betty stopped reading to listen, and Davy sat up to look.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000033_000001|They might think it wasn't respectful."
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000034_000000|"He's looking this way," said Davy, who had stood up for a better view, but squatted down again at Betty's command.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000037_000000|At that, Betty leaned so far out of the window that she nearly lost her balance and toppled over.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000038_000000|"Here you are," he said, riding alongside the window and dropping the letter into her eager hands.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000040_000000|If Jake expected her to tear it open instantly and share the news with him before she had examined every inch of the big square envelope, he was disappointed.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000040_000002|Then she spread the letter out on her knees, drawing a long breath of pleasure as the faintest odour of violets floated up from the paper with its dainty monogram at the top.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000041_000000|Davy waited in silence, watching a flush spread over Betty's face as she read.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000041_000001|Her breath came short and her heart beat fast.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000042_000000|"Oh, Davy," she exclaimed, in a low, wondering tone.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000042_000001|"What do you think? It is an invitation to a house party at Locust; Lloyd Sherman's house party.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000042_000005|I shall be there a whole month, and she knew my mamma and was her dearest friend.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000043_000001|Then he set aside his usual custom and asked a question.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000043_000002|"Why are you crying?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000044_000000|"Is there?" asked Betty, brushing it away with the back of her hand.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000044_000001|"I didn't know it.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000045_000001|Then she walked slowly down the narrow aisle of the little meeting house, between its double rows of narrow straight backed pews.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000045_000002|As she reached the bench like altar, extending in front of the pulpit, she slipped to her knees a moment.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000046_000000|"Thank you, God," came in a happy whisper from the depths of a glad little heart.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000000|Then Betty stood up and put on her sunbonnet.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000001|The next moment she had scrambled over the sill, pulled the window down after her, and walked down the slanting board to the ground.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000002|Catching Davy by the hand, and swinging it back and forth as they ran, she went skipping across the road regardless of the dust.
train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000003|Down the lane they went, between the rows of cherry trees; across the orchard and up the path.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000012_000000|Then the eunuchs went forth that they might perfume the Hammam for the brides; so they scented it with rosewater and willow flower water and pods of musk, and fumigated it with Kakili eaglewood and ambergris.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000012_000005|Their cheeks were rosy red, and their necks and shapes gracefully swayed, and their eyes wantoned like the gazelle's; and the slave girls came to meet them with instruments of music.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000015_000000|Then they attired Dunyazad in a dress of blue brocade, and she became as she were the full moon when it shineth forth.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000017_000000|Then they returned to Shahrazad and displayed her in the second dress, a suit of surpassing goodliness, and veiled her face with her hair like a chin veil.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000017_000001|Moreover, they let down her side locks, and she was even as saith of her one of her describers in these couplets:--
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000018_000000|O hail to him whose locks his cheeks o'ershade, Who slew my life by cruel hard despight: Said I, "Hast veiled the Morn in Night?" He said, "Nay, I but veil the Moon in hue of Night."
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000019_000000|Then they displayed Dunyazad in a second and a third and a fourth dress, and she paced forward like the rising sun, and swayed to and fro in the insolence of her beauty; and she was even as saith the poet of her in these couplets:--
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000021_000000|Then they displayed Shahrazad in the third dress and the fourth and the fifth, and she became as she were a Ban branch snell of a thirsting gazelle, lovely of face and perfect in attributes of grace, even as saith of her one in these couplets:--
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000000|Thus also they did with her sister Dunyazad; and when they had made an end of the display, the King bestowed robes of honor on all who were present, and sent the brides to their own apartments.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000006|The Minister kissed ground and prayed that they might be vouchsafed length of life: then he went in to his daughters, whilst the Eunuchs and Ushers walked before him, and saluted them and farewelled them.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000008|So he entered the city, and they decorated the houses and it was a notable day.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000010|So he bestowed on them robes of honor and entreated them with distinction, and they made him Sultan over them.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000016|Then there reigned after them a wise ruler, who was just, keen witted, and accomplished, and loved tales and legends, especially those which chronicle the doings of Sovrans and Sultans, and he found in the treasury these marvelous stories and wondrous histories, contained in the thirty volumes aforesaid.
train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000017|So he read in them a first book and a second and a third and so on to the last of them, and each book astounded and delighted him more than that which preceded it, till he came to the end of them.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000001|Sometimes she used to feel as if it must be another life altogether, the life of some other child.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000002|She was a little drudge and outcast; she was given her lessons at odd times and expected to learn without being taught; she was sent on errands by Miss Minchin, Miss Amelia and the cook.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000003|Nobody took any notice of her except when they ordered her about.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000005|She had never been intimate with the other pupils, and soon she became so shabby that, taking her queer clothes together with her queer little ways, they began to look upon her as a being of another world than their own.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000006|The fact was that, as a rule, Miss Minchin's pupils were rather dull, matter of fact young people, accustomed to being rich and comfortable; and Sara, with her elfish cleverness, her desolate life, and her odd habit of fixing her eyes upon them and staring them out of countenance, was too much for them.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000001|"I am," said Sara promptly, when she heard of it.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000002|"That's what I look at them for.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000003|I like to know about people.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000004|I think them over afterward."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000002_000002|Sara thought Emily understood her feelings, though she was only wax and had a habit of staring herself.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000002_000003|Sara used to talk to her at night.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000000|"You are the only friend I have in the world," she would say to her. "Why don't you say something?
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000001|Why don't you speak?
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000003|It ought to make you try, to know you are the only thing I have.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000004|If I were you, I should try.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000005|Why don't you try?"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000001|It arose from her being so desolate.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000002|She did not like to own to herself that her only friend, her only companion, could feel and hear nothing.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000004|There were rat holes in the garret, and Sara detested rats, and was always glad Emily was with her when she heard their hateful squeak and rush and scratching.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000005|One of her "pretends" was that Emily was a kind of good witch and could protect her.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000006|Poor little Sara! everything was "pretend" with her.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000007|She had a strong imagination; there was almost more imagination than there was Sara, and her whole forlorn, uncared for child life was made up of imaginings.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000008|She imagined and pretended things until she almost believed them, and she would scarcely have been surprised at any remarkable thing that could have happened.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000000|"As to answering," she used to say, "I don't answer very often.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000001|I never answer when I can help it.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000002|When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word-just to look at them and think.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000003|Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000004|Miss Amelia looks frightened, so do the girls.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000005|They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000006|There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in-that's stronger.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000007|It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000008|I scarcely ever do.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000009|Perhaps Emily is more like me than I am like myself.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000010|Perhaps she would rather not answer her friends, even.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000011|She keeps it all in her heart."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000006_000000|But though she tried to satisfy herself with these arguments, Sara did not find it easy.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000008_000000|"I shall die presently!" she said at first.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000009_000000|Emily stared.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000000|"I can't bear this!" said the poor child, trembling.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000001|"I know I shall die.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000002|I'm cold, I'm wet, I'm starving to death.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000003|I've walked a thousand miles to day, and they have done nothing but scold me from morning until night.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000005|Some men laughed at me because my old shoes made me slip down in the mud.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000007|And they laughed!
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000008|Do you hear!"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000011_000000|She looked at the staring glass eyes and complacent wax face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000000|"Nothing but a doll doll doll!
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000001|You care for nothing.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000003|You never had a heart.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000004|Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000014_000000|Emily lay upon the floor, with her legs ignominiously doubled up over her head, and a new flat place on the end of her nose; but she was still calm, even dignified.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000000|Sara hid her face on her arms and sobbed.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000001|Some rats in the wall began to fight and bite each other, and squeak and scramble.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000002|But, as I have already intimated, Sara was not in the habit of crying.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000003|After a while she stopped, and when she stopped she looked at Emily, who seemed to be gazing at her around the side of one ankle, and actually with a kind of glassy eyed sympathy.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000004|Sara bent and picked her up.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000005|Remorse overtook her.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000016_000000|"You can't help being a doll," she said, with a resigned sigh, "any more than those girls downstairs can help not having any sense.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000016_000001|We are not all alike.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000016_000002|Perhaps you do your sawdust best."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000000|None of Miss Minchin's young ladies were very remarkable for being brilliant; they were select, but some of them were very dull, and some of them were fond of applying themselves to their lessons.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000003|If she had always had something to read, she would not have been so lonely.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000004|She liked romances and history and poetry; she would read anything.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000006|There was also a fat, dull pupil, whose name was Ermengarde saint John, who was one of her resources.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000008|Sara had once actually found her crying over a big package of them.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000018_000000|"What is the matter with you?" she asked her, perhaps rather disdainfully.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000020_000000|"What is the matter with you?" she asked.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000021_000000|"My papa has sent me some more books," answered Ermengarde woefully, "and he expects me to read them."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000022_000000|"Don't you like reading?" said Sara.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000023_000000|"I hate it!" replied Miss Ermengarde saint John.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000023_000001|"And he will ask me questions when he sees me: he will want to know how much I remember; how would you like to have to read all those?"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000024_000000|"I'd like it better than anything else in the world," said Sara.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000025_000000|Ermengarde wiped her eyes to look at such a prodigy.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000026_000000|"Oh, gracious!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000027_000000|Sara returned the look with interest.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000027_000001|A sudden plan formed itself in her sharp mind.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000000|"Look here!" she said.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000001|"If you'll lend me those books, I'll read them and tell you everything that's in them afterward, and I'll tell it to you so that you will remember it.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000002|I know I can.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000003|The A B C children always remember what I tell them."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000029_000000|"Oh, goodness!" said Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000029_000001|"Do you think you could?"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000030_000001|"I like to read, and I always remember. I'll take care of the books, too; they will look just as new as they do now, when I give them back to you."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000031_000000|Ermengarde put her handkerchief in her pocket.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000032_000000|"If you'll do that," she said, "and if you'll make me remember, I'll give you-I'll give you some money."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000033_000000|"I don't want your money," said Sara.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000034_000000|"Take them, then," said Ermengarde; "I wish I wanted them, but I am not clever, and my father is, and he thinks I ought to be."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000035_000000|Sara picked up the books and marched off with them.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000035_000001|But when she was at the door, she stopped and turned around.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000036_000000|"What are you going to tell your father?" she asked.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000038_000000|Sara looked down at the books; her heart really began to beat fast.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000039_000000|"I won't do it," she said rather slowly, "if you are going to tell him lies about it-I don't like lies.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000039_000001|Why can't you tell him I read them and then told you about them?"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000040_000000|"But he wants me to read them," said Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000042_000000|"He would like it better if I read them myself," replied Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000043_000000|"He will like it, I dare say, if you learn anything in any way," said Sara.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000043_000001|"I should, if I were your father."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000044_000000|And though this was not a flattering way of stating the case, Ermengarde was obliged to admit it was true, and, after a little more argument, gave in.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000044_000001|And so she used afterward always to hand over her books to Sara, and Sara would carry them to her garret and devour them; and after she had read each volume, she would return it and tell Ermengarde about it in a way of her own.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000044_000002|She had a gift for making things interesting. Her imagination helped her to make everything rather like a story, and she managed this matter so well that Miss saint John gained more information from her books than she would have gained if she had read them three times over by her poor stupid little self.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000045_000000|"It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000045_000001|"I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000000|"It is a story," Sara would answer.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000001|"They are all stories.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000002|Everything is a story-everything in this world.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000004|You can make a story out of anything."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000047_000000|"I can't," said Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000048_000000|Sara stared at her a minute reflectively.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000049_000001|"I suppose you couldn't.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000050_000000|"Who is Emily?"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000000|Sara recollected herself.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000001|She knew she was sometimes rather impolite in the candor of her remarks, and she did not want to be impolite to a girl who was not unkind-only stupid.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000003|In the hours she spent alone, she used to argue out a great many curious questions with herself.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000004|One thing she had decided upon was, that a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to any one.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000006|So she would be as polite as she could to people who in the least deserved politeness.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000052_000000|"Emily is-a person-I know," she replied.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000053_000000|"Do you like her?" asked Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000054_000000|"Yes, I do," said Sara.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000000|Ermengarde examined her queer little face and figure again.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000001|She did look odd.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000003|And yet Ermengarde was beginning slowly to admire her.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000006|One could not help staring at her and feeling interested, particularly one to whom the simplest lesson was a trouble and a woe.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000056_000000|"Do you like me?" said Ermengarde, finally, at the end of her scrutiny.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000058_000000|"I like you because you are not ill natured-I like you for letting me read your books-I like you because you don't make spiteful fun of me for what I can't help.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000058_000001|It's not your fault that-"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000059_000000|She pulled herself up quickly.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000059_000001|She had been going to say, "that you are stupid."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000060_000000|"That what?" asked Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000061_000000|"That you can't learn things quickly.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000061_000001|If you can't, you can't.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000061_000002|If I can, why, I can-that's all." She paused a minute, looking at the plump face before her, and then, rather slowly, one of her wise, old-fashioned thoughts came to her.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000000|"Perhaps," she said, "to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000001|To be kind is worth a good deal to other people.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000003|Lots of clever people have done harm and been wicked.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000004|Look at Robespierre-"
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000063_000000|She stopped again and examined her companion's countenance.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000064_000000|"Do you remember about him?" she demanded.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000064_000001|"I believe you've forgotten."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000065_000000|"Well, I don't remember all of it," admitted Ermengarde.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000066_000000|"Well," said Sara, with courage and determination, "I'll tell it to you over again."
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000067_000000|And she plunged once more into the gory records of the French Revolution, and told such stories of it, and made such vivid pictures of its horrors, that Miss saint John was afraid to go to bed afterward, and hid her head under the blankets when she did go, and shivered until she fell asleep.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000067_000001|But afterward she preserved lively recollections of the character of Robespierre, and did not even forget Marie Antoinette and the Princess de Lamballe.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000069_000000|Yes, it was true; to this imaginative child everything was a story; and the more books she read, the more imaginative she became.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000069_000001|One of her chief entertainments was to sit in her garret, or walk about it, and "suppose" things.
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000069_000002|On a cold night, when she had not had enough to eat, she would draw the red footstool up before the empty grate, and say in the most intense voice:
train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000070_000000|"Suppose there was a grate, wide steel grate here, and a great glowing fire-a glowing fire-with beds of red hot coal and lots of little dancing, flickering flames.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000002_000000|THE LION AND THE MOUSE
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000003_000000|A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000003_000001|A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000003_000002|Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000004_000001|"Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000005_000000|The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000005_000001|But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000006_000000|Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000006_000001|Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000011_000001|Soon he found life in the pasture very dull.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000011_000002|All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000012_000000|One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000013_000000|His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000013_000001|So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf!
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000013_000002|Wolf!"
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000014_000000|As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000014_000001|But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000015_000000|A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf!
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000015_000001|Wolf!" Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000016_000000|Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000017_000000|In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf!
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000017_000002|"He cannot fool us again," they said.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000018_000000|The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000021_000001|But before he left he begged the Bull's pardon for having used his horn for a resting place.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000022_000000|"You must be very glad to have me go now," he said.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000023_000000|"It's all the same to me," replied the Bull.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000023_000001|"I did not even know you were there."
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000028_000000|THE PLANE TREE
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000029_000000|Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000029_000001|As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000030_000000|"How useless is the Plane!" said one of them.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000030_000001|"It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000031_000000|"Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree.
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000031_000001|"You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless!
train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000031_000002|Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000001_000000|THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000002_000001|And as far as I can see that it does this, I think the show right and helpful; and whenever it does not, I think it harmful and misleading.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000003_000000|The love of gardening has so greatly grown and spread within the last few years, that the need of really good and beautiful garden flowers is already far in advance of the demand for the so-called "florists" flowers, by which I mean those that find favour in the exclusive shows of Societies for the growing and exhibition of such flowers as Tulips, Carnations, Dahlias, and Chrysanthemums.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000003_000002|Looking at the catalogue of a leading Dahlia nursery, I find that the decorative kinds fill ten pages, while the show kinds, including Pompones, fill only three.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000005_000002|Already in the case of Carnations a better influence is being felt, and at the London shows there are now classes for border Carnations set up in long stalked bunches just as they grow.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000005_000003|It is only like this that their value as outdoor plants can be tested; for many of the show sorts have miserably weak stalks, and a very poor, lanky habit of growth.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000000|Then the poor Pansies have single blooms laid flat on white papers, and are only approved if they will lie quite flat and show an outline of a perfect circle.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000001|All that is most beautiful in a Pansy, the wing like curves, the waved or slightly fluted radiations, the scarcely perceptible undulation of surface that displays to perfection the admirable delicacy of velvety texture; all the little tender tricks and ways that make the Pansy one of the best loved of garden flowers; all this is overlooked, and not only passively overlooked, but overtly contemned.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000002|The show pansy judge appears to have no eye, or brain, or heart, but to have in their place a pair of compasses with which to describe a circle!
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000003|All idea of garden delight seems to be excluded, as this kind of judging appeals to no recognition of beauty for beauty's sake, but to hard systems of measurement and rigid arrangement and computation that one would think more applicable to astronomy or geometry than to any matter relating to horticulture.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000007_000000|I do most strongly urge that beauty of the highest class should be the aim, and not anything of the nature of fashion or "fancy," and that every effort should be made towards the raising rather than the lowering of the standard of taste.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000009_000001|They spring up sheaf wise, straight upright for a time, and only bending a little outwards above, to give room for the branching heads of bloom.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000009_000002|The stems are rather stiff, because they are half woody at the base.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000001|I have never seen anything so ugly in the way of potted plants as a certain kind of Chrysanthemum that has incurved flowers of a heavy sort of dull leaden looking red purple colour trained in this manner.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000002|Such a sight gives me a feeling of shame, not unmixed with wrathful indignation.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000003|I ask myself, What is it for? and I get no answer.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000005|I look again at the unhappy plant, and see its poor leaves fat with an unwholesome obesity, and seeming to say, We were really a good bit mildewed, but have been doctored up for the show by being crammed and stuffed with artificial aliment!
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000000|But the show decrees that all this is wrong, and that the tiny, brittle branches must be trained stiffly round till the shape of the plant shows as a sort of cylinder.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000001|Again I ask myself, What is this for?
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000002|What does it teach?
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000003|Can it be really to teach with deliberate intention that instead of displaying its natural and graceful tree form it should aim at a more desirable kind of beauty, such as that of the chimney pot or drain pipe, and that this is so important that it is right and laudable to devote to it much time and delicate workmanship?
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000013_000000|I cannot but think, as well as hope, that the strong influences for good that are now being brought to bear on all departments of gardening may reach this class of show, for there are already more hopeful signs in the admission of classes for groups arranged for decoration.
train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000014_000001|It is, therefore, thrown out, not because they have any fault to find with it, but because it does not concern them; and the ordinary gardener, to whose practice it might be of the highest value, accepting the verdict of the show judge as an infallible guide, also treats it with contempt and neglect.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000002_000000|NOVELTY AND VARIETY
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000003_000000|When I look back over thirty years of gardening, I see what an extraordinary progress there has been, not only in the introduction of good plants new to general cultivation, but also in the home production of improved kinds of old favourites.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000003_000001|In annual plants alone there has been a remarkable advance.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000003_000002|And here again, though many really beautiful things are being brought forward, there seems always to be an undue value assigned to a fresh development, on the score of its novelty.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000004_000000|Now it seems to me, that among the thousands of beautiful things already at hand for garden use, there is no merit whatever in novelty or variety unless the thing new or different is distinctly more beautiful, or in some such way better than an older thing of the same class.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000000|And there seems to be a general wish among seed growers just now to dwarf all annual plants.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000001|Now, when a plant is naturally of a diffuse habit, the fixing of a dwarfer variety may be a distinct gain to horticulture-it may just make a good garden plant out of one that was formerly of indifferent quality; but there seems to me to be a kind of stupidity in inferring from this that all annuals are the better for dwarfing.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000002|I take it that the bedding system has had a good deal to do with it.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000003|It no doubt enables ignorant gardeners to use a larger variety of plants as senseless colour masses, but it is obvious that many, if not most, of the plants are individually made much uglier by the process.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000004|Take, for example, one of the dwarfest Ageratums: what a silly little dumpy, formless, pincushion of a thing it is!
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000005|And then the dwarfest of the China Asters.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000006|Here is a plant (whose chief weakness already lies in a certain over stiffness) made stiffer and more shapeless still by dwarfing and by cramming with too many petals.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000007|The Comet Asters of later years are a much improved type of flower, with a looser shape and a certain degree of approach to grace and beauty.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000008|When this kind came out it was a noteworthy novelty, not because it was a novelty, but because it was a better and more beautiful thing.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000000|It is quite true that here and there the dwarf kind is a distinctly useful thing, as in the dwarf Nasturtiums.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000001|In this grand plant one is glad to have dwarf ones as well as the old trailing kinds.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000003|I also look at them as a little floral joke that is harmless and not displeasing, but they cannot for a moment compare in beauty with the free growing Snapdragon of the older type.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000004|This I always think one of the best and most interesting and admirable of garden plants.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000005|Its beauty is lost if it is crowded up among other things in a border; it should be grown in a dry wall or steep rocky bank, where its handsome bushy growth and finely poised spikes of bloom can be well seen.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000009_000002|I was fortunate enough to get some seed, and have never grown any other, nor have I ever seen elsewhere any that I think can compare with it.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000010_000000|The Zinnia is another fine annual that has been much spoilt by its would be improvers.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000010_000001|When a Zinnia has a hard, stiff, tall flower, with a great many rows of petals piled up one on top of another, and when its habit is dwarfed to a mean degree of squatness, it looks to me both ugly and absurd, whereas a reasonably double one, well branched, and two feet high, is a handsome plant.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000011_000000|I also think that Stocks and Wallflowers are much handsomer when rather tall and branching.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000011_000001|Dwarf Stocks, moreover, are invariably spattered with soil in heavy autumn rain.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000012_000001|The improver has sought to increase the width of the red ring.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000012_000002|Up to a certain point it makes a livelier and brighter looking flower; but he has gone too far, and extended the red till it has become a red flower with a narrow yellow edge.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000012_000003|The red also is of a rather dull and heavy nature, so that instead of a handsome yellow flower with a broad central ring, here is an ugly red one with a yellow border.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000013_000000|No annual plant has of late years been so much improved as the Sweet Pea, and one reason why its charming beauty and scent are so enjoyable is, that they grow tall, and can be seen on a level with the eye.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000014_000000|And all this parade of distortion and deformity comes about from the grower losing sight of beauty as the first consideration, or from his not having the knowledge that would enable him to determine what are the points of character in various plants most deserving of development, and in not knowing when or where to stop.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000014_000001|Abnormal size, whether greatly above or much below the average, appeals to the vulgar and uneducated eye, and will always command its attention and wonderment.
train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000014_000002|But then the production of the immense size that provokes astonishment, and the misapplied ingenuity that produces unusual dwarfing, are neither of them very high aims.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000001_000000|Chapter eighteen
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000001|He had professed to himself that his reason for not going there was the non performance of the commission which Lady Ongar had given him with reference to Count Pateroff.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000002|He had not yet succeeded in catching the Count, though he had twice asked for him in Mount Street and twice at the club in Pall Mall. It appeared that the Count never went to Mount Street, and was very rarely seen at the club.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000003|There was some other club which he frequented, and Harry did not know what club.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000004|On both the occasions of Harry's calling in Mount Street, the servant had asked him to go up and see madame; but he had declined to do so, pleading that he was hurried.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000005|He was, however, driven to resolve that he must go direct to Sophie, as otherwise he could find no means of doing as he had promised.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000006|She probably might put him on the scent of her brother.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000000|But there had been another reason why Harry had not gone to Bolton Street, though he had not acknowledged it to himself.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000002|He feared that he would be led on to betray himself and to betray Florence-to throw himself at Julia's feet and sacrifice his honesty, in spite of all his resolutions to the contrary.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000003|He felt when there as the accustomed but repentant dram drinker might feel, when, having resolved to abstain, he is called upon to sit with the full glass offered before his lips.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000005|He was wretched at this time-ill satisfied with himself and others-and was no fitting companion for Cecilia Burton.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000006|The world, he thought, had used him ill.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000008|It was not for her money that he had regarded her.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000009|Had he been now a free man-free from those chains with which he had fettered himself at Stratton-he would again have asked this woman for her love, in spite of her past treachery; but it would have been for her love, and not for her money, that he would have sought her.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000010|Was it his fault that he had loved her, that she had been false to him, and that she had now come back and thrown herself before him?
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000013|The world had been very cruel to him, and he could not go to Onslow Crescent, and behave there prettily, hearing the praises of Florence with all the ardor of a discreet lover.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000001|Let him but once communicate to Lady Ongar the fact of his engagement, and the danger would be over, though much, perhaps, of the misery might remain.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000002|Let him write to her, and mention the fact, bringing it up as some little immaterial accident, and she would understand what he meant.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000003|But this he abstained from doing.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000004|Though he swore to himself that he would not touch the dram, he would not dash down the full glass that was held to his lips.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000005|He went about the town very wretchedly, looking for the Count, and regarding himself as a man specially marked out for sorrow by the cruel hand of misfortune.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000006|Lady Ongar, in the meantime, was expecting him, and was waxing angry and becoming bitter toward him because he came not.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000001|Sir Hugh was a man who strained an income, that was handsome and sufficient for a country gentleman, to the very utmost, wanting to get out of it more than it could be made to give.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000002|He was not a man to be in debt, or indulge himself with present pleasures to be paid for out of the funds of future years.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000003|He was possessed of a worldly wisdom which kept him from that folly, and taught him to appreciate fully the value of independence.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000005|He had a great eye to discount, and looked closely into his bills.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000006|He searched for cheap shops; and some men began to say of him that he had found a cheap establishment for such wines as he did not drink himself!
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000007|In playing cards and in betting, he was very careful, never playing high, never risking much, but hoping to turn something by the end of the year, and angry with himself if he had not done so.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000008|An unamiable man he was, but one whose heir would probably not quarrel with him-if only he would die soon enough.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000009|He had always had a house in town-a moderate house in Berkeley Square, which belonged to him, and had belonged to his father before him.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000010|Lady Clavering had usually lived there during the season; or, as had latterly been the case, during only a part of the season.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000012|The arrangement would make the difference of considerably more than a thousand a year to him.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000013|For himself, he would take lodgings.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000015|But why keep up a house in Berkeley Square, as Lady Clavering did not use it?
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000000|He was partly driven to this by a desire to shake off the burden of his brother.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000001|When Archie chose to go to Clavering, the house was open to him.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000002|That was the necessity of Sir Hugh's position, and he could not avoid it unless he made it worth his while to quarrel with his brother. Archie was obedient, ringing the bell when he was told, looking after the horses, spying about, and perhaps saving as much money as he cost. But the matter was very different in Berkeley Square.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000004|And yet, from his boyhood upward, Archie had made good his footing in Berkeley Square.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000005|In the matter of the breakfast, Sir Hugh had indeed, of late, got the better of him.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000007|But there was Archie's room, and Sir Hugh felt this to be a hardship.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000000|The present was not the moment for actually driving forth the intruder, for Archie was now up in London, especially under his brother's auspices.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000001|And if the business on which Captain Clavering was now intent could be brought to a successful issue, the standing in the world of that young man would be very much altered.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000002|Then he would be a brother of whom Sir Hugh might be proud-a brother who would pay his way, and settle his points at whist if he lost them, even to a brother.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000003|If Archie could induce Lady Ongar to marry him, he would not be called upon any longer to ring the bells and look after the stable.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000004|He would have bells of his own, and stables, too, and perhaps some captain of his own to ring them and look after them.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000005|The expulsion, therefore, was not to take place till Archie should have made his attempt upon Lady Ongar.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000000|But Sir Hugh would admit of no delay, whereas Archie himself seemed to think that the iron was not yet quite hot enough for striking.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000001|It would be better, he had suggested, to postpone the work till Julia could be coaxed down to Clavering in the Autumn.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000002|He could do the work better, he thought; down at Clavering than in London.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000003|But Sir Hugh was altogether of a different opinion.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000004|Though he had already asked his sister in law to Clavering, when the idea had first come up, he was glad that she had declined the visit.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000005|Her coming might be very well, if she accepted Archie; but he did not want to be troubled with any renewal of his responsibility respecting her, if, as was more probable, she should reject him.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000006|The world still looked askance at Lady Ongar, and Hugh did not wish to take up the armor of a paladin in her favor.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000007|If Archie married her, Archie would be the paladin; though, indeed, in that case, no paladin would be needed.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000010_000000|"She has only been a widow, you know, four months," said Archie, pleading for delay.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000010_000001|"It won't be delicate, will it?"
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000011_000000|"Delicate!" said Sir Hugh.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000011_000001|"I don't know whether there is much of delicacy in it at all."
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000012_000001|If you were to die, you'd think it very odd if any fellow came up to Hermy before the season was over.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000013_000000|"Archie, you are a fool," said Sir Hugh; and Archie could see, by his brother's brow, that Hugh was angry.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000013_000001|"You say things that, for folly and absurdity, are beyond belief.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000014_000000|"She is peculiar, of course-having so much money, and that place near Guilford, all her own for her life.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000014_000001|Of course it's peculiar.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000000|"If it had been four days it need have made no difference.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000001|A home, with some one to support her, is everything to her.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000002|If you wait till lots of fellows are buzzing around her you won't have a chance.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000003|You'll find that by this time next year she'll be the top of the fashion; and if not engaged to you, she will be to some one else.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000017_000002|You have this great advantage over every one, except him, that you can go to her at once without doing anything out of the way.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000017_000003|That girl that Harry has in tow may perhaps keep him away for some time."
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000018_000000|"I tell you what, Hugh, you might as well call with me the first time."
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000019_000000|"So that I may quarrel with her, which I certainly should do-or, rather, she with me.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000019_000001|No, Archie; if you're afraid to go alone, you'd better give it up."
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000020_000001|I'm not afraid!"
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000021_000000|"She can't eat you.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000021_000002|She knows what she is about, and will understand what she has to get as well as what she is expected to give.
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000021_000004|It couldn't be done, I suppose, till after a year; and in that case she shall be married at Clavering."
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000022_000000|Here was a prospect for Julia Brabazon-to be led to the same altar, at which she had married Lord Ongar, by Archie Clavering, twelve month's after her first husband's death, and little more than two years after her first wedding!
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000025_000000|"Because I shouldn't like-"
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000026_000001|Judge not, that you be not judged."
train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000027_000000|"Yes, that's true, to be sure," said Archie; and on that point he went forth satisfied.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000003_000000|Two days afterwards, Elinor came to summon her to the drawing room.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000005_000000|Elinor, when she had formed a wish, never listened to an objection. 'What an old fashioned style you prose in!' she cried; 'who could believe you came so lately from France?
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000005_000001|But example has no more force without sympathy, than precept had without opinion!
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000005_000002|However, I'll get you a licence from Aunt Maple in a minute.'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000000|She went down stairs, and, returning almost immediately, cried, 'Aunt Maple is quite contented.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000002|I have ample business upon my hands, between my companions of the buskin, and this pragmatical old aunt; for Harleigh himself refused to act against her approbation, till I threatened to make over Lord Townly to Sir Lyell Sycamore, a smart beau at Brighthelmstone, that all the mammas and aunts are afraid of.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000003|And then poor aunty was fain, herself, to request Harleigh to take the part.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000004|I could manage matters no other way.'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000007_000000|Personal remonstrances were vain, and the stranger was forced down stairs to the theatrical group.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000008_000001|She requested to have the book of the play; but Elinor, engaged in arranging the entrances and exits, did not heed her.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000008_000002|Harleigh, however, comprehending the relief which any occupation for the eyes and hands might afford her, presented it to her himself.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000000|It preserved her not, nevertheless, from a volley of questions, with which she was instantly assailed from various quarters.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000001|'I find Ma'am, you are lately come from abroad,' said Mr Scope, a gentleman self dubbed a deep politician, and who, in the most sententious manner, uttered the most trivial observations: 'I have no very high notion, I own, of the morals of those foreigners at this period.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000002|A man's wife and daughters belong to any man who has a taste to them, as I am informed.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000003|Nothing is very strict.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000010_000000|'But I should like to know,' cried Gooch, the young farmer, 'whether it be true, of a reality, that they've got such numbers and numbers, and millions and millions of red coats there, all made into generals, in the twinkling, as one may say, of an eye?'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000012_000001|Pray who were your masters?'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000013_000000|While the Incognita hesitated, Miss Bydel, a collateral and uneducated successor to a large and unexpected fortune, said, 'Pray, first of all, young woman, what took you over to foreign parts?
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000013_000001|I should like to know that.'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000014_000000|Elinor, now, being ready, cut short all further investigation by beginning the rehearsal.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000015_000000|During the first scenes, the voice of the Incognita was hardly audible. The constraint of her forced attendance, and the insurmountable awkwardness of her situation, made all exertion difficult, and her tones were so languid, and her pronunciation was so inarticulate, that Elinor began seriously to believe that she must still have recourse to Mr Creek.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000016_000000|Every one else, absorbed in his part and himself, in the hope of being best, or the shame of being worst; in the fear of being out, or the confusion of not understanding what next was to be done, was regardless of all else but his own fancied reputation of the hour.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000017_000000|Harleigh, however, as the play proceeded, and the inaccuracy of the performers demanded greater aid, found the patience of his judgment recompensed, and its appreciation of her talents just.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000017_000001|Her voice, from seeming feeble and monotonous, became clear and penetrating: it was varied, with the nicest discrimination, for the expression of every character, changing its modulation from tones of softest sensibility, to those of archest humour; and from reasoning severity, to those of uncultured rusticity.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000019_000000|The stranger stood still.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000020_000000|'In the first place, tell me, if you please, what's your name?'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000021_000000|The Incognita coloured at this abrupt demand, but remained silent.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000022_000000|'Nay,' said Miss Bydel, 'your name, at least, can be no such great secret, for you must be called something or other.'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000023_000000|Ireton, who had hitherto appeared decided not to take any notice of her, now exclaimed, with a laugh, 'I will tell you what her name is, Miss Bydel; 'tis l s'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000024_000000|The stranger dropt her eyes, but Miss Bydel, not comprehending that Ireton meant two initial letters, said.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000025_000000|Selina, tittering, would have cleared up the mistake; but Ireton, laughing yet more heartily, made her a sign to let it pass.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000027_000000|'Don't let that young person go,' cried Miss Arbe, who had now finished the labours of her theatrical presidency, 'till I have heard her play and sing.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000027_000001|If she is so clever, as you describe her, she shall perform between the acts.'
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000028_000000|The stranger declared her utter inability to comply with such a request.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000032_000000|She opened it, and found ten bank notes, of ten pounds each.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000035_000000|She was surprised, soon afterwards, by the sight of Selina. 'I would not let Mr Ireton hinder me from coming to you this once,' she cried, 'do what he could; for we are all in such a fidget, that there's only you, I really believe, can help us.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000036_000000|The stranger answered that she should gladly be useful in any way that could be proposed.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000036_000001|The book, therefore, was brought to her, with writing implements, and she dedicated herself so diligently to copying, that the following morning, when Miss Arbe was expected, the part was prepared.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000037_000000|Miss Arbe, however, came not; a note arrived in her stead, stating that she had been so exceedingly fatigued the preceding day, in giving so many directions, that she begged they would let somebody read her part, and rehearse without her; and she hoped that she should find them more advanced when she joined them on Monday.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000038_000000|The stranger was now summoned not only as prompter, but to read the part of Lady Townly.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000038_000001|She could not refuse, but her compliance was without any sort of exertion, from a desire to avoid, not promote similar calls for exhibition.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000039_000000|Elinor remarked to Harleigh, how inadequate were her talents to such a character.
train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000040_000000|Elinor herself, now, would only call the stranger Miss Ellis, a name which, she said, she verily believed that Miss Bydel, with all her stupidity, had hit upon, and which therefore, henceforth, should be adopted.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000001_000000|"So I understand you wish me to go down at once?" said Louis Craven. "This is Friday-say Monday?"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000000|Wharton nodded.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000002|Their hostess and Edith Craven had escaped through the door in the back kitchen communicating with the Hurds' tenement, so that the two men might be left alone a while.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000004|Wharton, whose tendency in matters of business was always to go rather further than he had meant to go, for the sake generally of making an impression on the man with whom he was dealing, had spoken of a two years' engagement, and had offered two hundred a year.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000005|So far as that went, Craven was abundantly satisfied.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000004_000000|He fixed his penetrating greenish eyes on his companion.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000004_000001|Louis Craven was now a tall man with narrow shoulders, a fine oval head and face, delicate features, and a nervous look of short sight, producing in appearance and manner a general impression of thin grace and of a courtesy which was apt to pass unaccountably into sarcasm.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000004_000002|Wharton had never felt himself personally at ease with him, either now, or in the old days of Venturist debates.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000000|"Certainly, we shall fight it through," Wharton replied, with emphasis-"I have gone through the secretary's statement, which I now hand over to you, and I never saw a clearer case.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000001|The poor wretches have been skinned too long; it is high time the public backed them up.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000002|There are two of the masters in the House.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000003|Denny, I should say, belonged quite to the worst type of employer going."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000006_000000|He spoke with light venom, buttoning his coat as he spoke with the air of the busy public man who must not linger over an appointment.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000007_000000|"Oh! Denny!" said Craven, musing; "yes, Denny is a hard man, but a just one according to his lights.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000007_000001|There are plenty worse than he."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000008_000000|Wharton was disagreeably reminded of the Venturist habit of never accepting anything that was said quite as it stood-of not, even in small things, "swearing to the words" of anybody.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000008_000001|He was conscious of the quick passing feeling that his judgment, with regard to Denny, ought to have been enough for Craven.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000009_000000|"One thing more," said Craven suddenly, as Wharton looked for his stick-"you see there is talk of arbitration."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000010_000000|"Oh yes, I know!" said Wharton impatiently; "a mere blind.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000010_000001|The men have been done by it twice before.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000010_000002|They get some big wig from the neighbourhood-not in the trade, indeed, but next door to it-and, of course, the award goes against the men."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000011_000000|"Then the paper will not back arbitration?"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000012_000000|Craven took out a note book.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000000|"No!--The quarrel itself is as plain as a pikestaff.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000001|The men are asking for a mere pittance, and must get it if they are to live.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000002|It's like all these home industries, abominably ground down.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000003|We must go for them!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000004|I mean to go for them hot and strong.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000005|Poor devils!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000006|did you read the evidence in that Bluebook last year?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000007|Arbitration?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000008|no, indeed! let them live first!"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000014_000000|Craven looked up absently.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000015_000000|"And I think," he said, "you gave me mr Thorpe's address?" mr Thorpe was the secretary.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000016_000000|Again Wharton gulped down his annoyance.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000016_000001|If he chose to be expansive, it was not for Craven to take no notice.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000017_000000|Craven, however, except in print, where he could be as vehement as anybody else, never spoke but in the driest way of those workman's grievances, which in reality burnt at the man's heart.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000018_000000|Wharton repeated the address, following it up by some rather curt directions as to the length and date of articles, to which Craven gave the minutest attention.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000019_000000|"May we come in?" said Marcella's voice.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000020_000001|"Business is up and I am off!"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000021_000000|He took up his hat as he spoke.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000022_000001|Tea is just coming, without which no guest departs," said Marcella, taking as she spoke a little tray from the red haired Daisy who followed her, and motioning to the child to bring the tea table.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000000|Wharton looked at her irresolute.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000002|But now that she was on the scene again, he did not find it so easy to go away.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000003|How astonishingly beautiful she was, even in this disguise!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000004|She wore her nurse's dress; for her second daily round began at half past four, and her cloak, bonnet, and bag were lying ready on a chair beside her.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000005|The dress was plain brown holland, with collar and armlets of white linen; but, to Wharton's eye, the dark Italian head, and the long slenderness of form had never shown more finely.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000006|He hesitated and stayed.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000025_000000|He nodded and smiled, and she went back to the tea table with an eye all gaiety, pleased with herself and everybody else.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000026_000000|The quarter of an hour that followed went agreeably enough.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000026_000001|Wharton sat among the little group, far too clever to patronise a cat, let alone a Venturist, but none the less master and conscious master of the occasion, because it suited him to take the airs of equality.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000026_000002|Craven said little, but as he lounged in Marcella's long cane chair with his arms behind his head, his serene and hazy air showed him contented; and Marcella talked and laughed with the animation that belongs to one whose plots for improving the universe have at least temporarily succeeded. Or did it betray, perhaps, a woman's secret consciousness of some presence beside her, more troubling and magnetic to her than others?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000000|"Well then, Friday," said Wharton at last, when his time was more than spent.--"You must be there early, for there will be a crush.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000001|Miss Craven comes too?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000002|Excellent!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000003|I will tell the doorkeeper to look out for you. Good bye!--good bye!"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000028_000000|And with a hasty shake of the hand to the Cravens, and one more keen glance, first at Marcella and then round the little workman's room in which they had been sitting, he went.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000029_000000|He had hardly departed before Anthony Craven, the lame elder brother, who must have passed him on the stairs, appeared.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000030_000000|"Well-any news?" he said, as Marcella found him a chair.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000000|"All right!" said Louis, whose manner had entirely changed since Wharton had left the room.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000001|"I am to go down on Monday to report the Damesley strike that is to be.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000002|A month's trial, and then a salary-two hundred a year.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000003|Oh! it'll do."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000032_000000|He fidgeted and looked away from his brother, as though trying to hide his pleasure.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000032_000001|But in spite of him it transformed every line of the pinched and worn face.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000033_000000|"And you and Anna will walk to the Registry Office next week?" said Anthony, sourly, as he took his tea.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000034_000000|"It can't be next week," said Edith Craven's quiet voice, interposing. "Anna's got to work out her shirt making time.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000034_000002|And she was to have a month at each."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000035_000000|Marcella's lifted eyebrows asked for explanations.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000036_000000|Louis explained that Anna was exploring various sweated trades for the benefit of an East End newspaper.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000036_000001|She had earned fourteen shillings her last week at tailoring, but the feat had exhausted her so much that he had been obliged to insist on two or three days respite before moving on to shirts.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000036_000002|Shirts were now brisk, and the hours appallingly long in this heat.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000000|"It was on shirts they made acquaintance," said Edith pensively.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000001|"Louis was lodging on the second floor, she in the third floor back, and they used to pass on the stairs.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000002|One day she heard him imploring the little slavey to put some buttons on his shirts.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000004|When he'd gone out, Anna came downstairs, calmly demanded his shirts, and, having the slavey under her thumb, got them, walked off with them, and mended them all.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000005|When Louis came home he discovered a neat heap reposing on his table.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000006|Of course he wept-whatever he may say.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000007|But next morning Miss Anna found her shoes outside her door, blacked as they had never been blacked before, with a note inside one of them.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000008|Affecting! wasn't it?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000009|Thenceforward, as long as they remained in those lodgings, Anna mended and Louis blacked. Naturally, Anthony and I drew our conclusions."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000038_000000|Marcella laughed.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000039_000000|"You must bring her to see me," she said to Louis.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000040_000000|"I will," said Louis, with some perplexity; "if I can get hold of her. But when she isn't stitching she's writing, or trying to set up Unions. She does the work of six.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000040_000002|Oh! we shall swim!"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000041_000000|Anthony surveyed his radiant aspect-so unlike the gentle or satirical detachment which made his ordinary manner-with a darkening eye, as though annoyed by his effusion.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000042_000000|"Two hundred a year?" he said slowly; "about what mr Harry Wharton spends on his clothes, I should think.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000042_000001|The Labour men tell me he is superb in that line.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000043_000000|"Never mind," said Louis recklessly.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000044_000000|"No; by Heaven, you shan't be!" said Anthony, with a fierce change of tone.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000044_000002|I don't know how I'm to put up with it.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000044_000003|You know very well what I think of him, and of your becoming dependent on him."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000045_000000|Marcella gave an angry start.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000045_000001|Louis protested.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000046_000000|"Nonsense!" said Anthony doggedly; "you'll have to bear it from me, I tell you-unless you muzzle me too with an Anna."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000047_000001|"I think you know that I owe mr Wharton a debt.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000047_000002|Please remember it!"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000048_000000|Anthony looked at her an instant in silence.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000048_000001|A question crossed his mind concerning her.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000049_000000|"I am dumb," he said.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000049_000001|"My manners, you perceive, are what they always were."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000000|"What do you mean by such a remark," cried Marcella, fuming.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000001|"How can a man who has reached the position he has in so short a time-in so many different worlds-be disposed of by calling him an ugly name?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000002|It is more than unjust-it is absurd!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000003|Besides, what can you know of him?"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000051_000000|"You forget," said Anthony, as he calmly helped himself to more bread and butter, "that it is some three years since Master Harry Wharton joined the Venturists and began to be heard of at all.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000051_000001|I watched his beginnings, and if I didn't know him well, my friends and Louis's did. And most of them-as he knows!--have pretty strong opinions by now about the man."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000000|"Come, come, Anthony!" said Louis, "nobody expects a man of that type to be the pure eyed patriot.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000002|Am I asked to take him to my bosom?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000003|Not at all! He proposes a job to me, and offers to pay me.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000004|I like the job, and mean to use him and his paper, both to earn some money that I want, and do a bit of decent work."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000053_000001|She saw nothing in his attack on Wharton, except personal prejudice and ill will.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000054_000000|"Suppose we leave mr Wharton alone?" she said with emphasis, and Anthony, making her a little proud gesture of submission, threw himself back in his chair, and was silent.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000000|It had soon become evident to Marcella, upon the renewal of her friendship with the Cravens, that Anthony's temper towards all men, especially towards social reformers and politicians, had developed into a mere impotent bitterness.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000001|While Louis had renounced his art, and devoted himself to journalism, unpaid public work and starvation, that he might so throw himself the more directly into the Socialist battle, Anthony had remained an artist, mainly employed as before in decorative design.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000003|Only what with Louis was an intoxication of hope, was on the whole with Anthony a counsel of despair.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000004|He loathed wealth more passionately than ever; but he believed less in the working man, less in his kind.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000005|Rich men must cease to exist; but the world on any terms would probably remain a sorry spot.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000001|Anthony Craven thought out the story for himself, finding it a fit food for a caustic temper.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000002|Poor devil-the lover!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000003|To fall a victim to enthusiasms so raw, so unprofitable from any point of view, was hard. And as to this move to London, he thought he foresaw the certain end of it.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000004|At any rate he believed in her no more than before.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000005|But her beauty was more marked than ever, and would, of course, be the dominant factor in her fate.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000006|He was thankful, at any rate, that Louis in this two years' interval had finally transferred his heart elsewhere.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000059_000000|"I told you.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000059_000001|I am to investigate, report, and back up the Damesley strike, or rather the strike that begins at Damesley next week."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000060_000000|"No chance!" said Anthony shortly, "the masters are too strong.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000061_000001|He had lately joined the Venturists.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000061_000002|Anthony had taken a fancy to him.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000061_000003|Louis as yet knew little or nothing of him.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000062_000000|"Ah, well!" he said, in reply to his brother, "I don't know.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000064_000000|"Bunkum!" interrupted Anthony drily; "pure bunkum!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000000|At this both Marcella and Louis laughed out.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000001|Extravagance after a certain point becomes amusing.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000002|They dropped their vexation, and Anthony for the next ten minutes had to submit to the part of the fractious person whom one humours but does not argue with.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000003|He accepted the part, saying little, his eager, feverish eyes, full of hostility, glancing from one to the other.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000066_000000|However, at the end, Marcella bade him a perfectly friendly farewell.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000066_000001|It was always in her mind that Anthony Craven was lame and solitary, and her pity no less than her respect for him had long since yielded him the right to be rude.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000068_000001|There is a parish doctor who calls me 'my good woman,' and a sanitary inspector who tells me to go to him whenever I want advice. Those are my chief grievances, I think."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000069_000000|"And you are as much in love with the poor as ever?"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000070_000000|She stiffened at the note of sarcasm, and a retaliatory impulse made her say:--
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000071_000000|"I see a great deal more happiness than I expected."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000072_000000|He laughed.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000000|"How like a woman!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000001|A few ill housed villagers made you a democrat.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000002|A few well paid London artisans will carry you safely back to your class.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000003|Your people were wise to let you take this work."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000075_000000|She stood resting both hands on a little table behind her, in an attitude touched with the wild freedom which best became her, a gleam of storm in her great eyes.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000076_000000|"Why are you still a Venturist?" he asked her abruptly.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000077_000000|"Because I have every right to be!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000077_000001|I joined a society, pledged to work 'for a better future.' According to my lights, I do what poor work I can in that spirit."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000079_000000|She hesitated, looking at him steadily.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000000|"No!--so far as Socialism means a political system-the trampling out of private enterprise and competition, and all the rest of it-I find myself slipping away from it more and more.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000001|No!--as I go about among these wage earners, the emphasis-do what I will-comes to lie less and less on possession-more and more on character.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000002|I go to two tenements in the same building.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000003|One is Hell-the other Heaven.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000004|Why?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000005|Both belong to well paid artisans with equal opportunities.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000006|Both, so far as I can see, might have a decent and pleasant life of it.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000007|But one is a man-the other, with all his belongings, will soon be a vagabond.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000008|That is not all, I know-oh! don't trouble to tell me so!--but it is more than I thought.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000009|No!--my sympathies in this district where I work are not so much with the Socialists that I know here-saving your presence! but-with the people, for instance, that slave at Charity Organisation! and get all the abuse from all sides."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000081_000000|Anthony laughed scornfully.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000082_000000|"It is always the way with a woman," he said; "she invariably prefers the tinkers to the reformers."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000083_000000|"And as to your Socialism," she went on, unheeding, the thought of many days finding defiant expression-"it seems to me like all other interesting and important things-destined to help something else! Christianity begins with the poor and division of goods-it becomes the great bulwark of property and the feudal state.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000083_000001|The Crusades-they set out to recover the tomb of the Lord!--what they did was to increase trade and knowledge.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000083_000002|And so with Socialism.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000084_000000|Anthony clapped her ironically.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000085_000000|"Excellent!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000085_000001|When the Liberty and Property Defence people have got hold of you-ask me to come and hear!"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000086_000000|Meanwhile, Louis stood behind, with his hands on his sides, a smile in his blinking eyes.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000086_000001|He really had a contempt for what a handsome half taught girl of twenty three might think.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000086_000002|Anthony only pretended or desired to have it.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000000|Nevertheless, Louis said good bye to his hostess with real, and, for him, rare effusion.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000001|Two years before, for the space of some months, he had been in love with her.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000002|That she had never responded with anything warmer than liking and comradeship he knew; and his Anna now possessed him wholly.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000004|And now, so kindly, so eagerly!--she had given him his Anna.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000000|When they were all gone Marcella threw herself into her chair a moment to think.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000002|But Louis's thanks had filled her with delicious pleasure.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000003|Her cheek, her eye had a child's brightness.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000004|The old passion for ruling and influencing was all alive and happy.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000089_000001|"I will look after them."
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000091_000000|How changed he was, yet how much the same!
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000091_000001|He had not sat beside her for ten minutes before each was once more vividly, specially conscious of the other.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000091_000002|She felt in him the old life and daring, the old imperious claim to confidence, to intimacy-on the other hand a new atmosphere, a new gravity, which suggested growing responsibilities, the difficulties of power, a great position-everything fitted to touch such an imagination as Marcella's, which, whatever its faults, was noble, both in quality and range.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000000|Altogether, to have met him again was pleasure; to think of him was pleasure; to look forward to hearing him speak in Parliament was pleasure; so too was his new connection with her old friends.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000001|And a pleasure which took nothing from self respect; which was open, honourable, eager.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000003|Otherwise friends they would and should be; and the personal interest in his public career should lift her out of the cramping influences that flow from the perpetual commerce of poverty and suffering.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000004|Why not?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000005|Such equal friendships between men and women grow more possible every day.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000006|While, as for Hallin's distrust, and Anthony Craven's jealous hostility, why should a third person be bound by either of them?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000007|Could any one suppose that such a temperament as Wharton's would be congenial to Hallin or to Craven-or-to yet another person, of whom she did not want to think?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000008|Besides, who wished to make a hero of him?
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000009|It was the very complexity and puzzle of the character that made its force.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000093_000000|So with a reddened cheek, she lost herself a few minutes in this pleasant sense of a new wealth in life; and was only roused from the dreamy running to and fro of thought by the appearance of Minta, who came to clear away the tea.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000094_000000|"Why, it is close on the half hour!" cried Marcella, springing up. "Where are my things?"
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000095_000000|She looked down the notes of her cases, satisfied herself that her bag contained all she wanted, and then hastily tied on her bonnet and cloak.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000096_000000|Suddenly-the room was empty, for Minta had just gone away with the tea-by a kind of subtle reaction, the face in that photograph on Hallin's table flashed into her mind-its look-the grizzled hair.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000096_000001|With an uncontrollable pang of pain she dropped her hands from the fastenings of her cloak, and wrung them together in front of her-a dumb gesture of contrition and of grief.
train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000097_000001|Something belittling and withering swept over all her estimate of herself, all her pleasant self conceit.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000001_000000|THE ENCHANTED STAG
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000001|One day the boy took his sister's hand, and said to her, "Dear little sister, since our mother died we have not had one happy hour.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000002|Our stepmother gives us dry hard crusts for dinner and supper; she often knocks us about, and threatens to kick us out of the house.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000003|Even the little dogs under the table fare better than we do, for she often throws them nice pieces to eat.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000004|Heaven pity us!
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000006|Come, let us go out into the wide world!"
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000003_000000|So they went out, and wandered over fields and meadows the whole day till evening.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000003_000001|At last they found themselves in a large forest; it began to rain, and the little sister said, "See, brother, heaven and our hearts weep together." At last, tired out with hunger and sorrow, and the long journey, they crept into a hollow tree, laid themselves down, and slept till morning.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000004_000000|When they awoke the sun was high in the heavens, and shone brightly into the hollow tree, so they left their place of shelter and wandered away in search of water.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000005_000000|"Oh, I am so thirsty!" said the boy.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000005_000001|"If we could only find a brook or a stream." He stopped to listen, and said, "Stay, I think I hear a running stream." So he took his sister by the hand, and they ran together to find it.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000006_000001|She had seen the children go away, and, following them cautiously like a snake, had bewitched all the springs and streams in the forest.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000006_000002|The pleasant trickling of a brook over the pebbles was heard by the children as they reached it, and the boy was just stooping to drink, when the sister heard in the babbling of the brook:
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000007_000000|"Whoever drinks of me, a tiger soon will be."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000008_000000|Then she cried quickly, "Stay, brother, stay! do not drink, or you will become a wild beast, and tear me to pieces."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000009_000000|Thirsty as he was, the brother conquered his desire to drink at her words, and said, "Dear sister, I will wait till we come to a spring." So they wandered farther, but as they approached, she heard in the bubbling spring the words-
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000010_000000|"Who drinks of me, a wolf will be."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000011_000000|"Brother, I pray you, do not drink of this brook; you will be changed into a wolf, and devour me."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000012_000000|Again the brother denied himself and promised to wait; but he said, "At the next stream I must drink, say what you will, my thirst is so great."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000013_000000|Not far off ran a pretty streamlet, looking clear and bright; but here also in its murmuring waters, the sister heard the words-
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000014_000000|"Who dares to drink of me, Turned to a stag will be."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000015_000000|"Dear brother, do not drink," she began; but she was too late, for her brother had already knelt by the stream to drink, and as the first drop of water touched his lips he became a fawn.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000015_000001|How the little sister wept over the enchanted brother, and the fawn wept also.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000018_000000|Every morning she went out to gather dried roots, nuts, and berries, for her own food, and sweet fresh grass for the fawn, which he ate out of her hand, and the poor little animal went out with her, and played about as happy as the day was long.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000019_000000|When evening came, and the poor sister felt tired, she would kneel down and say her prayers, and then lay her delicate head on the fawn's back, which was a soft warm pillow, on which she could sleep peacefully.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000019_000002|After they had been alone in the forest for some time, and the little sister had grown a lovely maiden, and the fawn a large stag, a numerous hunting party came to the forest, and amongst them the king of the country.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000021_000000|"Oh dear," he said, "do let me go and see the hunt; I cannot restrain myself." And he begged so hard that at last she reluctantly consented.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000022_000000|"But remember," she said, "I must lock the cottage door against those huntsmen, so when you come back in the evening, and knock, I shall not admit you, unless you say, 'Dear little sister let me in.'"
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000024_000000|He had not run far when the king's chief hunter caught sight of the beautiful animal, and started off in chase of him; but it was no easy matter to overtake such rapid footsteps.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000024_000001|Once, when he thought he had him safe, the fawn sprang over the bushes and disappeared.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000025_000000|As it was now nearly dark, he ran up to the little cottage, knocked at the door, and cried, "Dear little sister, let me in." The door was instantly opened, and oh, how glad his sister was to see him safely resting on his soft pleasant bed!
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000027_000000|She opened the door, and said, "I will let you go this time; but pray do not forget to say what I told you, when you return this evening."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000029_000000|They chased him with all their skill till the evening; but he was too light and nimble for them to catch, till a shot wounded him slightly in the foot, so that he was obliged to hide himself in the bushes, and, after the huntsmen were gone, limp slowly home.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000030_000000|One of them, however, determined to follow him at a distance, and discover where he went.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000030_000001|What was his surprise at seeing him go up to a door and knock, and to hear him say, "Dear little sister, let me in." The door was only opened a little way, and quickly shut; but the huntsman had seen enough to make him full of wonder, when he returned and described to the king what he had seen.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000031_000000|"We will have one more chase to morrow," said the king, "and discover this mystery."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000032_000000|In the meantime the loving sister was terribly alarmed at finding the stag's foot wounded and bleeding.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000033_000001|"Oh, dear sister, I must go once more; it will be easy for me to avoid the hunters now, and my foot feels quite well; they will not hunt me unless they see me running, and I don't mean to do that."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000034_000000|But his sister wept, and begged him not to go: "If they kill you, dear fawn, I shall be here alone in the forest, forsaken by the whole world."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000036_000000|So at length his sister, with a heavy heart, set him free, and he bounded away joyfully into the forest.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000037_000000|As soon as the king caught sight of him, he said to the huntsmen, "Follow that stag about, but don't hurt him." So they hunted him all day, but at the approach of sunset the king said to the hunter who had followed the fawn the day before, "Come and show me the little cottage."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000038_000000|So they went together, and when the king saw it he sent his companion home, and went on alone so quickly that he arrived there before the fawn; and, going up to the little door, knocked and said softly, "Dear little sister, let me in."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000039_000000|As the door opened, the king stepped in, and in great astonishment saw a maiden more beautiful than he had ever seen in his life standing before him.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000039_000001|But how frightened she felt to see instead of her dear little fawn a noble gentleman walk in with a gold crown on his head.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000040_000000|However, he appeared very friendly, and after a little talk he held out his hand to her, and said, "Wilt thou go with me to my castle and be my dear wife?"
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000041_000000|"Ah yes," replied the maiden, "I would willingly; but I cannot leave my dear fawn: he must go with me wherever I am."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000042_000000|"He shall remain with you as long as you live," replied the king, "and I will never ask you to forsake him."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000043_000000|While they were talking, the fawn came bounding in, looking quite well and happy.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000043_000001|Then his sister fastened the string of rushes to his collar, took it in her hand, and led him away from the cottage in the wood to where the king's beautiful horse waited for him.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000044_000000|The king placed the maiden before him on his horse and rode away to his castle, the fawn following by their side.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000044_000001|Soon after, their marriage was celebrated with great splendour, and the fawn was taken the greatest care of, and played where he pleased, or roamed about the castle grounds in happiness and safety.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000045_000000|In the meantime the wicked stepmother, who had caused these two young people such misery, supposed that the sister had been devoured by wild beasts, and that the fawn had been hunted to death.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000045_000001|Therefore when she heard of their happiness, such envy and malice arose in her heart that she could find no rest till she had tried to destroy it.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000046_000000|She and her ugly daughter came to the castle when the queen had a little baby, and one of them pretended to be a nurse, and at last got the mother and child into their power.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000047_000000|They shut the queen up in the bath, and tried to suffocate her, and the old woman put her own ugly daughter in the queen's bed that the king might not know she was away.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000048_000000|She would not, however, let him speak to her, but pretended that she must be kept quite quiet.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000049_000000|The queen escaped from the bath room, where the wicked old woman had locked her up, but she did not go far, as she wanted to watch over her child and the little fawn.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000000|For two nights the baby's nurse saw a figure of the queen come into the room and take up her baby and nurse it.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000001|Then she told the king, and he determined to watch himself.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000002|The old stepmother, who acted as nurse to her ugly daughter, whom she tried to make the king believe was his wife, had said that the queen was too weak to see him, and never left her room.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000003|"There cannot be two queens," said the king to himself, "so to night I will watch in the nursery." As soon as the figure came in and took up her baby, he saw it was his real wife, and caught her in his arms, saying, "You are my own beloved wife, as beautiful as ever."
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000051_000000|The wicked witch had thrown her into a trance, hoping she would die, and that the king would then marry her daughter; but on the king speaking to her, the spell was broken.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000051_000001|The queen told the king how cruelly she had been treated by her stepmother, and on hearing this he became very angry, and had the witch and her daughter brought to justice.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000051_000002|They were both sentenced to die-the daughter to be devoured by wild beasts, and the mother to be burnt alive.
train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000053_000000|After this, the brother and sister lived happily and peacefully for the rest of their lives.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000001_000001|The very pictures on the walls rested him, they reminded him so much of the rooms in his boyhood home.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000001_000003|He would have loved to take them to his heart and his home; but his wife was not so minded, and that ended it.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000002_000000|They had a rollicking time at breakfast, for Guardy Lud was delighted with the crisp brown sausages, fried potatoes, and buckwheats with real maple syrup; and he laughed, and ate, and told stories with the children, and kept the old dining room walls ringing with joy as they had not resounded within the memory of Julia Cloud.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000000|Dismay filled Julia Cloud's heart for an instant, and brought a pallor to her cheek.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000001|How had she forgotten Ellen?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000005|However, it could not be helped now; and a glance at the kind, strong face of the white haired man gave her courage.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000007|He felt that the arrangement was good, and with him to back her she felt she could stand out against any arguments her sister might bring forth.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000005_000001|"I'm just going up to look over some of my mother's things." And she turned to the back stairway, and went up, closing the door behind her.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000006_000000|mr Luddington gazed after her a second; and then, taking his glasses off and wiping them energetically, he remarked:
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000001|It must be getting late!
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000003|Those certainly were good buckwheats, Miss Cloud.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000004|I shan't forget them very soon.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000006|Could we just go into the other room there, and close the door for a few minutes, not to be interrupted?" and he cast an anxious glance toward the stair door again.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000008_000000|Julia Cloud smiled understandingly, and ushered them into the little parlor ablaze with fall sunshine, its windows wreathed about with crimsoning woodbine; and, as she caught the glow and glint from the window, she remembered the gray evening when she had looked out across into her future as she supposed it would be.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000008_000002|As she sat down to enter into the contract that was to bind her to a new and wonderful life with great responsibilities and large possibilities, her heart, accustomed to look upward, sent a whisper of thanksgiving heavenward.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000011_000000|Julia Cloud was quite overwhelmed.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000012_000001|"I would rather do it for love, you know."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000013_000000|"Love's all right!" said the old man, smiling; "but this thing has got to be on a business basis, or the terms of the will will not allow me to agree to it.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000013_000001|You see what you are going to undertake means work, and it means sticking to it; and you deserve pay for it, and we're not going to accept several of the best years out of your life for nothing.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000013_000002|Besides, you've got to feel free to give up the job if it proves too burdensome for you."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000014_000000|"And you to dismiss me if I do not prove capable for the position," suggested Julia Cloud, lifting meek and honest eyes to meet his gaze.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000001|"But, however that is, this is the contract I've made out.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000002|And I'm quite satisfied.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000003|So are the children.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000004|Are you willing to sign it?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000006|Only give me a chance to look after these youngsters properly."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000016_000000|Julia Cloud took the pen eagerly, tremblingly, a sense of wonder in her pounding heart, and signed her name just as Ellen's heavy footsteps could be heard pounding down the back stairs.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000018_000001|Because, if he isn't, I don't think it's respectable for you to go and live near him!" declared Ellen in a penetrating voice to the intense distress of Julia Cloud, who was happily hurrying the dishes from the breakfast table.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000019_000000|But Leslie came to the rescue.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000001|Altogether too much married for comfort.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000003|But he doesn't intend to live anywhere near us. His home is off in California, and he's going back next week.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000005|We'll take good care of her. But isn't he a dear?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000006|He was my Grandfather Leslie's best friend."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000022_000001|The two young people had rushed down to the car, and were pulling their guardian joyously inside. They seemed to do everything joyously, like two young creatures let out of prison into the sunshine.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000022_000002|Julia Cloud smiled at the thought of them, but her soul was not watching them just then.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000022_000003|She was looking off to the hills that had been her strength all the years through so many trials, and gathering strength now to go in and meet her sister in final combat.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000022_000004|She knew that there would be a scene; that was inevitable.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000023_000000|Across the road behind her parlor curtains mrs Perkins was keeping lookout, and remarking to a neighbor who had run in:
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000024_000002|Now, doesn't that beat all?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000024_000004|Seems to me I did hear there was somebody died or something before we came here to live, but she must have been awful young."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000025_000001|She acknowledged it with a bow and a smile which mrs Perkins pounced on and analyzed audibly.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000000|"Well, there's no fool like an old fool, as the saying is!
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000001|Just watch her smirk!
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000004|There goes Julia in.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000005|She watched him out o' sight!
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000006|Well, I wonder what her mother would think."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000027_000000|Julia Cloud went slowly back to the dining room, where Ellen was seated on the couch, waiting like a visitor.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000028_000000|"Well!" she said as Julia began to gather up more dishes from the breakfast table.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000028_000001|"I suppose you think you've done something smart now, don't you, getting that old snob here and fixing things all up without consulting any of your relatives?"
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000029_000001|"But it did not seem likely that you would object, for you suggested yourself that I rent the house, and you said you did not want me to stay here alone.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000029_000002|This seemed quite providential."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000030_000002|You call that providential, do you?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000030_000005|I can't see you put the halter around your neck to hang yourself without doing everything I can to stop it.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000030_000006|My own sister!"
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000000|"Why, Ellen, dear!" said Julia Cloud eagerly, sitting down beside her sister.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000001|"You don't understand.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000003|I'm sorry I had to spring it on you so suddenly and give you such a wrong impression.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000004|You know I couldn't think of coming to live on you and Herbert.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000005|It was kind of you to suggest it, and I am grateful and all that; but I know how it would be to have some one else, even a sister, come into the home, and I couldn't think of it.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000032_000000|Ellen sat up bristling.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000000|"O Ellen!" said Julia pleadingly.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000003|I'm just going to be a sort of mother to them.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000004|And you oughtn't to call them snobs.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000005|They are your own brother's children."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000035_000000|"Own brother's children, nothing!" sneered Ellen.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000035_000003|Mother! fiddlesticks! You'll slave all right.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000036_000001|Affection between them even when Ellen was a child had been quite one sided; for Ellen had always been a selfish, spoiled little thing, and Julia had looked in vain for any signs of tenderness.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000037_000001|I'm not to be a worker, nor even a housekeeper.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000037_000004|But mr Luddington quite insisted there should be servants, and that no work of any sort should fall upon me.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000000|"That's ridiculous!" put in Ellen.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000002|I think it's all nonsense for 'em to go.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000003|What do they do it for?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000004|They've got money, and don't have to teach or anything.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000005|What do they need of learning?
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000007|That girl thinks she's too smart to live.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000008|I call her impudent, for my part!"
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000040_000000|There was a quiet finality in her tone that impressed her sister.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000040_000001|She looked at her angrily.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000000|"Well, if you will, you will, I suppose.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000001|Nobody can stop you.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000003|You'll fool away a little while there, and find out how mistaken you were; and then you'll come back to Herbert to be taken care of.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000005|They won't want you then."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000042_000000|Julia arose and went to the window to get calmed.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000042_000002|The thought of Herbert's having to take care of her ever was intolerable.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000043_000000|Ellen was watching her silently.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000043_000001|Almost she thought she had made an impression.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000043_000002|Perhaps this was the time to repeat Herbert's threat.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000044_000000|"Herbert feels," she began, "that if you refuse his offer now he can't promise to keep it open.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000044_000001|He can't be responsible for you if you take this step.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000044_000002|He said he wanted you to understand thoroughly."
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000045_000000|Julia Cloud turned and walked with swift step to the little parlor where lay the paper she and mr Luddington had just signed, and a copy of which he had taken with him.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000045_000001|She returned to her astonished sister with the paper in her hand.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000046_000000|"Perhaps it would be just as well for you to read this," she said with dignity, and put the paper into Ellen's hands, going back to her clearing of the table.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000047_000001|She had finished her part of the argument.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000047_000002|She was resolutely putting out of her mind the things her sister had just said, and refusing altogether to think of Herbert.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000047_000003|She knew in her heart just how Herbert had looked when he had said those things, even to the snarl at the corner of his nose. She knew, too, that Ellen had probably not reported the message even so disagreeably as the original, and she knew that it would be better to forget.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000000|"Well," said Ellen, rising after a long perusal, laying the paper on the table, "that sounds all very well in writing.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000001|The thing is to see how it comes out.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000003|If he does, he's a fool; that's all I've got to say.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000004|But I suppose nothing short of getting caught in a trap will make you see it; so I better save my breath.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000049_000000|"Well, Ellen," said Julia Cloud, looking at her speculatively, "I'm sure I never dreamed you cared about having me away from here.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000049_000002|But I'm sorry if you feel it that way, and I'm sure I'll write to you and try to do little things for the children often, now that I shall have something to do with." But her kindly feeling was cut short by Ellen interrupting her.
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000050_000000|"Oh, you needn't trouble yourself!
train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000050_000001|We can look after the children ourselves.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000002_000002|Still, there were cookies and wonderful apples from the big tree in the back yard for dessert.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000000|"We ought to have left the kitchen till last," she added with a troubled look.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000001|"You crazy children!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000002|Didn't you know we had to eat?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000006|I don't see how we can get along."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000001|"See!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000003|I woke up early, and thought it all out. Let's see," consulting her wee wrist watch, "it's nine o'clock.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000004|That isn't bad.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000005|Now we'll work till twelve; that's long enough for to day, because you got too tired yesterday; and, besides, we've got some other things to attend to.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000006|Then we'll hustle into the car, and get to town, and do some shopping ready for our trip.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000007|That will rest you. We'll get lunch at a tea room, and shop all the afternoon.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000008|We'll go to a hotel for dinner, and stay all night.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000010|Now isn't that perfectly spick and span for a plan?"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000007_000001|But, dear, that would cost a lot!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000007_000002|And, besides, it isn't in the least necessary."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000000|"Cost has nothing to do with it.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000001|Look!" and Leslie flourished a handful of bills.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000002|"See what Guardy Lud gave me!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000003|And Allison has another just like it.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000006|Oh, we're going to run you to beat the band!" laughed Leslie, and jumped down from her perch to hug and squeeze the breath out of Julia Cloud.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000009_000000|"But child!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000009_000001|Dear!" said that good woman when she could get her breath to speak.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000010_000000|But they put their hands over her lips, and laughed away her protests until she had to give up for laughing with them.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000000|"Visiting, nothing!" declared Allison; "we're having the time of our lives.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000002|This is real work, and I like it.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000003|Come now, don't let's waste any time.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000004|What can I do first?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000014_000001|What are you going to do with the books?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000015_000000|"No, I won't take any of those books.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000015_000001|They'll need to be dusted and put in boxes.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000016_000000|Allison went whistling up stairs, and began taking down the pictures; but anybody could see by the set of his shoulders that he meant to get the books out of the way too before noon.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000000|"No, dear.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000001|That has your grandmother's things in it, and is in perfect order.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000002|She had me fix up the things several months ago.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000003|Everything is tied up and labelled.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000004|I don't think we need to disturb it.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000006|But we need to get the rest of the bed clothes out on the line for an airing before I pack them away in the chest up stairs.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000007|You might do that."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000019_000001|She came with a cup in her hand to ask for some baking powder, and Julia Cloud gave her the whole box.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000020_000001|"I shall not need it. I've rented the house, and am going away for a while." mrs Perkins was so astonished that she actually went home without finding out where Julia Cloud was going, and had to come back to see whether there was anything she could do to help, in order to get a chance to ask.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000021_000002|The rooms had assumed that cleared up, ready look that rests the tired worker just to look around and see what has been accomplished.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000024_000000|"What is it, dear?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000026_000001|But I'm afraid to say it.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000026_000002|Maybe it will make you feel bad."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000027_000000|"Not a bit, deary; what is it?"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000028_000000|"Well, then, Cloudy, do you think Grandmother would care very much if you didn't wear black?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000028_000003|Are you very mad at me for saying it?"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000000|"Why, no, dear!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000001|I'm not mad, and I don't care for black myself.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000004|But I put on these things to please Ellen.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000007|I like bright, happy things.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000031_000001|"That makes the day just perfect."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000033_000001|"That's all right, Cloudy.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000035_000002|There were not many people eating, for it was past one o'clock.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000035_000003|There were little round tables with high backed chairs that seemed to shut them off in a corner by themselves.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000037_000000|"Creamed chicken on toast, fruit salad, toasted muffins, and ice cream with hot chocolate sauce," ordered Allison after studying the menu card for a moment.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000038_000002|A sandwich is all I need.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000038_000003|Just a tongue sandwich.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000039_000001|This goes under the head of expenses.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000039_000002|If you can't find enough you like among what I order, why, I'll get you a tongue sandwich, too; but you've been feeding us out of the cooky jar, and I guess I'll get the finest I can find to pay you back. I told you this was my time.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000039_000003|When we get settled, you can order things; but now I'm going to see that you get enough to eat while you're working so hard."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000040_000000|Leslie's eyes danced with her dimples as Julia Cloud appealed to her to stop this extravagance.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000041_000000|"That's all right, Cloudy.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000043_000000|"Now," said Leslie as the meal drew to a close, "we must get to work. It's half past two, and the stores close at half past five.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000043_000002|How about you, Cloudy?"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000044_000000|"I must buy a trunk," said Julia Cloud thoughtfully, "and a hand bag and some gloves.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000046_000000|Allison landed them at a big department store, and guided his aunt to the trunk department with instructions to stay there until he and Leslie came back.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000046_000001|Then they went off with great glee and many whisperings.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000047_000001|Allison and Leslie were back within the time they had set, looking very meek and satisfied.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000047_000002|Leslie carried a small package, which she laid in Julia Cloud's lap.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000048_000002|If you don't like it, we can give it to Aunt Ellen or some one."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000049_000001|It seemed fit for a queen, yet was plain and quiet enough on the outside for a dove to carry.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000050_000000|"O you dear children!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000050_000001|How you are going to spoil me!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000051_000001|Then Allison thoughtfully suggested a handsome leather wallet for Uncle Herbert, and Julia Cloud lingered by the handkerchief counter, and selected half a dozen new fine handkerchiefs.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000051_000002|It all seemed just like a play to her, it was so very long since she had been shopping herself.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000053_000002|I saw it as we came by.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000053_000003|Or don't you like movies?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000053_000005|I suppose you are maybe worn out.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000055_000002|"Why, how did it happen? Don't they have moving pictures in your town?"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000056_000001|But you know I've never been able to get away, even if they had been all about me. Besides, I suppose I should have been considered crazy if I had gone, me, an oldish woman!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000061_000000|Then after a good dinner they went up to their rooms, and there was Julia Cloud's shining new trunk that had to be looked over; and there on the floor beside it stood two packages, big boxes, both of them.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000063_000000|Allison picked up the top package, a big, square box.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000064_000002|Open it!"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000066_000000|"Open it, Cloudy.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000066_000001|I want to see what's in it."
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000070_000000|The cover fell off at last, and the tissue paper blew up in a great fluff; and out of it rolled a beautiful long, soft, thick gray cloak of finest texture and silken lining, with a great puffy collar and cuffs of deep, soft silver gray fox.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000074_000000|"You don't mind, do you, Cloudy, dear?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000075_000000|"Like them!"
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000076_000001|Like them!
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000078_000003|It wasn't sensible for her to talk that way.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000078_000004|That was being too humble.
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000078_000005|And, besides, weren't these things quite sensible and practical?
train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000079_000000|And so at last they said "Good night," and went to their beds; but long after the children were asleep Julia Cloud lay awake and thought it out.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000001_000000|mrs PRIME READS HER RECANTATION.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000002_000000|Above an hour had passed after the interruption mentioned at the end of the last chapter before mrs Ray and Rachel crossed back from the farm house to the cottage, and when they went they went alone.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000002_000002|The farmer had come in and had joked his joke, and mrs Sturt had clacked over them as though they were a brood of chickens of her own hatching; and mrs Ray had smiled and cried, and sobbed and laughed till she had become almost hysterical. Then she had jumped up from her seat, saying, "Oh, dear, what will Dorothea think has become of us?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000002_000003|After that Rachel insisted upon going, and the mother and daughter returned across the green, leaving luke at the farm house, ready to take his departure as soon as mrs Ray and Rachel should have safely reached their home.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000004_000000|In answer to this luke protested that he had not thought of Rachel when he was making that speech, and tried to explain that all that was "soft sawder" as he called it, for the election.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000004_000001|But the words were too apposite to the event, and the sentiment too much in accordance with mrs Sturt's chivalric views to allow of her admitting the truth of any such assurance as this.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000005_000000|"I know," she said; "I know.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000000|Rachel, as she followed her mother out from the farmyard gate, had not a word to say.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000004|The whole affair had now been managed so suddenly, and the action had been so quick, that she had hardly found a moment for thought.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000005|Could it be that things were so fixed that there was no room for further disappointment?
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000006|She had been scalded so cruelly that she still feared the hot water.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000008|She longed for hours of absolute quiet, in which she might make herself sure that her malady had also passed away, and that the soreness which remained came only from the memory of former pain.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000008_000000|"Will you tell her or shall I?" said mrs Ray, pausing for a moment at the cottage gate.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000009_000000|"You had better tell her, mamma."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000010_000000|"I suppose she won't set herself against it; will she?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000011_000000|"I hope not, mamma.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000011_000001|I shall think her very ill natured if she does. But it can't make any real difference now, you know."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000012_000000|"No; it can't make any difference.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000012_000001|Only it will be so uncomfortable."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000013_000000|Then with half frightened, muffled steps they entered their own house, and joined mrs Prime in the sitting room.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000000|mrs Prime was still reading the serious book; but I am bound to say that her mind had not been wholly intent upon it during the long absence of her mother and sister.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000002|If it were not wicked, why should not she have been allowed to share it?
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000003|She did not imagine it to be wicked according to the world's ordinary wickedness;--but she feared that it was wicked according to that tone of morals to which she was desirous of tying her mother down as a bond slave.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000004|They were away talking about love and pleasure, and those heart throbbings in which her sister had so unfortunately been allowed to indulge.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000005|She felt all but sure that some tidings of luke Rowan had been brought in mrs Sturt's budget of news, and she had never been able to think well of luke Rowan since the evening on which she had seen him standing with Rachel in the churchyard.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000006|She knew nothing against him; but she had then made up her mind that he was pernicious, and she could not bring herself to own that she had been wrong in that opinion.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000007|She had been loud and defiant in her denunciation when she had first suspected Rachel of having a lover. Since that she had undergone some troubles of her own by which the tone of her remonstrances had been necessarily moderated; but even now she could not forgive her sister such a lover as luke Rowan.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000008|She would have been quite willing to see her sister married, but the lover should have been dingy, black coated, lugubrious, having about him some true essence of the tears of the valley of tribulation. Alas, her sister's taste was quite of another kind!
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000016_000000|"No, mother, I didn't think that.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000016_000001|But I thought you were staying late with mrs Sturt."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000017_000000|"So we were,--and really I didn't think we had been so long.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000017_000001|But, Dorothea, there was some one else over there besides mrs Sturt, and he kept us."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000018_000000|"He!
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000018_000001|What he?" said mrs Prime.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000018_000002|She had not even suspected that the lover had been over there in person.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000019_000000|"mr Rowan, my dear.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000020_000000|"What! the young man that was dismissed from mr Tappitt's?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000000|It was ill said of her,--very ill said, and so she was herself aware as soon as the words were out of her mouth.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000001|But she could not help it.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000002|She had taken a side against luke Rowan, and could not restrain herself from ill natured words.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000003|Rachel was still standing in the middle of the room when she heard her lover thus described; but she would not condescend to plead in answer to such a charge.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000004|The colour came to her cheeks, and she threw up her head with a gesture of angry pride, but at the moment she said nothing.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000005|mrs Ray spoke.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000022_000000|"It seems to me, Dorothea," she said, "that you are mistaken there.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000022_000001|I think he has dismissed mr Tappitt."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000023_000000|"I don't know much about it," said mrs Prime; "I only know that they've quarrelled."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000024_000000|"But it would be well that you should learn, because I'm sure you will be glad to think as well of your brother in law as possible."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000025_000000|"Do you mean that he is engaged to marry Rachel?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000000|"Yes, Dorothea.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000001|I think we may say that it is all settled now;--mayn't we, Rachel?
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000002|And a very excellent young man he is,--and as for being well off, a great deal better than what a child of mine could have expected.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000003|And a fine comely fellow he is, as a woman's eye would wish to rest on."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000027_000000|"Beauty is but skin deep," said mrs Prime, with no little indignation in her tone, that a thing so vile as personal comeliness should have been mentioned by her mother on such an occasion.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000029_000000|"Mother, there can have been nothing of the kind.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000030_000000|"At any rate I liked him very much; didn't I, Rachel?--from the first moment I set eyes on him.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000030_000001|Only I don't think he'll ever do away with cider in Devonshire, because of the apple trees.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000030_000002|But if people are to drink beer it stands to reason that good beer will be better than bad."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000031_000000|All this time Rachel had not spoken a word, nor had her sister uttered anything expressive of congratulation or good wishes.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000032_000000|"If this matter is settled, Rachel-"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000033_000000|"It is settled,--I think," said Rachel.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000034_000000|"If it is settled I hope that it may be for your lasting happiness and eternal welfare."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000035_000000|"I hope it will," said Rachel.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000037_000000|"That's quite true, my dear," said mrs Ray.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000038_000000|"A most important step, and one that requires the most exact circumspection,--especially on the part of the young woman.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000038_000001|I hope you may have known mr Rowan long enough to justify your confidence in him."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000000|It was still the voice of a raven!
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000002|But it was not possible.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000003|Though she would permit no such foreshadowings as those at which her mother had hinted, she had committed herself to forebodings against this young man, to such extent that she could not wheel her thoughts round and suddenly think well of him.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000004|She could not do so as yet, but she would make the struggle.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000042_000000|"You mustn't mind Dorothea," the widow said.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000044_000000|"I mean that you mustn't mind her seeming to be so hard.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000044_000001|She means well through it all, and is as affectionate as any other woman."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000046_000001|can't you understand?
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000046_000002|When she first heard of mr Rowan-"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000047_000000|"Call him luke, mamma."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000049_000001|Who taught her?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000050_000000|"Miss Pucker, and mr Prong, and that set."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000051_000000|"Yes; and they are the people who talk most of Christian charity!"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000000|"But, my dear, they don't mean to be uncharitable.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000001|They try to do good.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000003|And you can't expect her to turn round all in a minute.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000004|Think how she has been troubled herself about this affair of mr Prong's."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000053_000001|What makes me so angry is that she should think everybody is a fool except herself.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000053_000002|Why should anybody be more dangerous to me than to anybody else?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000054_000002|I don't know how to be thankful enough when I think how things have turned out;--but when I first heard of him I thought he was dangerous too."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000055_000000|"But you don't think he is dangerous now, mamma?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000056_000000|"No, my dear; of course I don't.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000056_000001|And I never did after he drank tea here that night; only mr Comfort told me it wouldn't be safe not to see how things went a little before you,--you understand, dearest?"
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000057_000001|I ain't a bit obliged to mr Comfort, though I mean to forgive him because of mrs Cornbury.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000057_000002|She has behaved best through it all,--next to you, mamma."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000003|But why need she sleep now that every thought was a new pleasure?
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000004|There was no moment that she had ever passed with him that had not to be recalled.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000005|There was no word of his that had not to be re weighed.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000008|She could almost believe that he had been specially made and destined for her behoof.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000059_000004|Now he was there on purpose to take her with him, and she went forth with him, leaning lovingly on his arm, while yet close under her sister's eyes.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000059_000005|I think there must have been a gleam of triumph in her face as she put her hand with such confidence well round her lover's arm.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000060_000000|Girls do triumph in their lovers,--in their acknowledged and permitted lovers, as young men triumph in their loves which are not acknowledged or perhaps permitted.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000060_000001|A man's triumph is for the most part over when he is once allowed to take his place at the family table, as a right, next to his betrothed.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000060_000003|But the girl feels herself to be exalted for those few weeks as a conqueror, and to be carried along in an ovation of which that bucolic victim, tied round with blue ribbons on to his horns, is the chief grace and ornament.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000062_000001|In Rachel's presence she could not have first made this recantation.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000062_000002|Though Rachel spoke no triumph, there was a triumph in her eye, which prevented almost the possibility of such yielding on the part of Dorothea.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000062_000003|But when the thing should have been once done, when she should once have owned that Rachel was not wrong, then gradually she could bring herself round to the utterance of some kindly expression.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000063_000000|"Pretty," she said; "yes, it is pretty.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000063_000001|I do not know that anybody ever doubted its prettiness."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000064_000000|"And isn't it nice too?
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000064_000001|Dear girl!
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000066_000000|"Yes, just so; of course we know that.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000067_000000|"No; I don't say that.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000068_000002|Everybody seems to speak well of him now."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000069_000000|"Well, mother, I have nothing to say against him,--not a word.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000069_000001|And if it will give Rachel any pleasure,--though I don't suppose it will, the least in the world; but if it would, she may know that I think she has done wisely to accept him."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000070_000000|"Indeed it will; the greatest pleasure."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000071_000000|"And I hope they will be happy together for very many years.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000071_000001|I love Rachel dearly, though I fear she does not think so, and anything I have said, I have said in love, not in anger."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000074_000000|"Amen!" said mrs Ray, solemnly.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000074_000001|It was thus that mrs Prime read her recantation, which was repeated on that evening to Rachel with some little softening touches.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000074_000002|"You won't be living together in the same house after a bit," said mrs Ray, thinking, with some sadness, that those little evening festivities of buttered toast and thick cream were over for her now,--"but I do hope you will be friends."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000075_000000|"Of course we will, mamma.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000075_000001|She has only to put out her hand the least little bit in the world, and I will go the rest of the way.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000075_000002|As for her living, I don't know what will be best about that, because luke says that of course you'll come and live with us."
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000076_000002|But to this both Martha and Cherry objected.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000077_000000|"We have heard of your engagement," said Martha, "and we congratulate you.
train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000078_000001|Mamma has already looked at a villa near Torquay, which will suit us delightfully."
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000001_000000|three.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000002_000000|THE HYMN BOOK.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000003_000000|ALMOST the first decided taste in my life was the love of hymns. Committing them to memory was as natural to me as breathing.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000003_000001|I followed my mother about with the hymn book ("Watts' and Select"), reading or repeating them to her, while she was busy with her baking or ironing, and she was always a willing listener.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000004_000003|Finding it so easy, I thought I would begin at the beginning, and learn the whole.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000004_000006|I did not, I think, change my resolution because there were so many, but because, little as I was, I discovered that there were hymns and hymns.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000005_000004|I had no idea of its meaning, but made up a little story out of it, with myself as the heroine.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000005_000005|It began with the words-
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000009_000000|I did not know that this last line was bad grammar, but thought that the sin in question was something pretty, that looked "like a mountain rose." Mountains I had never seen; they were a glorious dream to me. And a rose that grew on a mountain must surely be prettier than any of our red wild roses on the hill, sweet as they were.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000009_000003|But it did read-
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000011_000001|The last verse began with the lines,--
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000014_000001|When I repeated,--
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000036_000002|The New Testament, then, did really mean what it said!
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000036_000003|Jesus said He would come back again, and would always be with those who loved Him.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000037_000000|"He is alive!
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000037_000001|He loves me!
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000037_000005|He wanted me to be good, and I could be, I would be, for his sake.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000039_000000|I tried long afterward, thinking that it was my duty, to build up a wall of difficult doctrines over my spring blossoms, as if they needed protection.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000044_000002|I earned the book when I was about four years old.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000050_000000|"Awake, our souls!
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000050_000001|away, our fears!"
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000057_000000|"Love divine, all love excelling; Joy of heaven, to earth come down."
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000058_000000|"Joy to the world! the Lord is come!"
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000066_000001|I thought that they really knew better.
train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000077_000000|There is something at the heart of a true song or hymn which keeps the heart young that listens.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000002_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000003_000000|Vanikoro
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000004_000000|THIS DREADFUL SIGHT was the first of a whole series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus would encounter on its run. When it plied more heavily traveled seas, we often saw wrecked hulls rotting in midwater, and farther down, cannons, shells, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron objects rusting away.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000005_000002|Thanks to the work of polyps, a slow but steady upheaval will someday connect these islands to each other. Later on, this new island will be fused to its neighboring island groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia as far as the Marquesas Islands.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000006_000000|The day I expounded this theory to Captain Nemo, he answered me coldly:
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000007_000000|"The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!"
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000009_000001|The tiny microscopic animals that secrete this polypary live by the billions in the depths of their cells. Their limestone deposits build up into rocks, reefs, islets, islands. In some places, they form atolls, a circular ring surrounding a lagoon or small inner lake that gaps place in contact with the sea.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000010_000002|These polyps grow exclusively in the agitated strata at the surface of the sea, and so it's in the upper reaches that they begin these substructures, which sink little by little together with the secreted rubble binding them.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000011_000000|I could observe these strange walls quite closely: our sounding lines indicated that they dropped perpendicularly for more than three hundred meters, and our electric beams made the bright limestone positively sparkle.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000013_000000|"Therefore," he said to me, "to build these walls, it took . . . ?"
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000014_000001|What's more, the formation of coal- in other words, the petrification of forests swallowed by floods- and the cooling of basaltic rocks likewise call for a much longer period of time.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000015_000002|Its tree grew tall, catching steam off the water. A brook was born.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000015_000003|Little by little, vegetation spread. Tiny animals-worms, insects-rode ashore on tree trunks snatched from islands to windward.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000015_000005|In this way animal life developed, and drawn by the greenery and fertile soil, man appeared. And that's how these islands were formed, the immense achievement of microscopic animals.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000016_000001|After touching the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude one hundred thirty five degrees, it headed west northwest, going back up the whole intertropical zone.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000016_000002|Although the summer sun lavished its rays on us, we never suffered from the heat, because thirty or forty meters underwater, the temperature didn't go over ten degrees to twelve degrees centigrade.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000018_000000|The Nautilus had cleared eight thousand one hundred miles.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000020_000000|It was the Dutch navigator Tasman who discovered this group in sixteen forty three, the same year the Italian physicist Torricelli invented the barometer and King Louis the fourteenth ascended the French throne.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000021_000000|This bay, repeatedly dredged, furnished a huge supply of excellent oysters.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000021_000001|As the Roman playwright Seneca recommended, we opened them right at our table, then stuffed ourselves. These mollusks belonged to the species known by name as Ostrea lamellosa, whose members are quite common off Corsica.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000024_000000|That day it was yuletide, and it struck me that Ned Land badly missed celebrating "Christmas," that genuine family holiday where Protestants are such zealots.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000025_000000|I hadn't seen Captain Nemo for over a week, when, on the morning of the twenty seventh, he entered the main lounge, as usual acting as if he'd been gone for just five minutes.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000025_000002|The captain approached, placed a finger over a position on the chart, and pronounced just one word:
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000027_000001|It was the name of those islets where vessels under the Count de La Pérouse had miscarried. I straightened suddenly.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000028_000000|"The Nautilus is bringing us to Vanikoro?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000029_000000|"Yes, professor," the captain replied.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000031_000000|"If you like, professor."
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000033_000000|"We already have, professor."
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000034_000000|Followed by Captain Nemo, I climbed onto the platform, and from there my eyes eagerly scanned the horizon.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000035_000001|Its shores seemed covered with greenery from its beaches to its summits inland, crowned by mount Kapogo, which is four hundred seventy six fathoms high.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000037_000000|Just then Captain Nemo asked me what I knew about the shipwreck of the Count de La Pérouse.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000038_000000|"What everybody knows, captain," I answered him.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000039_000000|"And could you kindly tell me what everybody knows?" he asked me in a gently ironic tone.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000040_000000|"Very easily."
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000041_000000|I related to him what the final deeds of Captain Dumont d'Urville had brought to light, deeds described here in this heavily condensed summary of the whole matter.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000042_000001|They boarded two sloops of war, the Compass and the Astrolabe, which were never seen again.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000043_000000|In seventeen ninety one, justly concerned about the fate of these two sloops of war, the French government fitted out two large cargo boats, the Search and the Hope, which left Brest on september twenty eighth under orders from Rear Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000045_000000|It was an old hand at the Pacific, the English adventurer Captain peter Dillon, who was the first to pick up the trail left by castaways from the wrecked vessels.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000047_000000|Dillon returned to Calcutta.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000049_000000|There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around seventeen eighty five. There could no longer be any doubt.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000051_000000|But just then the renowned French explorer Captain Dumont d'Urville, unaware of Dillon's activities, had already set sail to search elsewhere for the site of the shipwreck.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000053_000000|Pretty perplexed, Dumont d'Urville didn't know if he should give credence to these reports, which had been carried in some of the less reliable newspapers; nevertheless, he decided to start on Dillon's trail.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000058_000001|Where?
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000058_000002|Nobody knew.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000062_000000|This is the substance of the account I gave Captain Nemo.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000063_000000|"So," he said to me, "the castaways built a third ship on Vanikoro Island, and to this day, nobody knows where it went and perished?"
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000064_000000|"Nobody knows."
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000065_000001|The Nautilus sank a few meters beneath the waves, and the panels opened.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000067_000000|And as I stared at this desolate wreckage, Captain Nemo told me in a solemn voice:
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000069_000000|"And how do you know all this?" I exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000070_000000|"Here's what I found at the very site of that final shipwreck!"
train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000071_000001|He opened it and I saw a bundle of papers, yellowed but still legible.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000003_000000|The "field hands" labouring near had collected around the "quarter;" and in groups, squatted upon the grass, or seated upon stray logs, were discussing their diet-by no means spare-of "hog and hominy" corn bread and "corn coffee," with a jocosity that proclaimed a keen relish of these, their ordinary comestibles.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000005_000000|Henry was the absent one.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000006_000001|Only the conjecture: that he would shortly make his appearance.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000007_000000|As several minutes passed without his coming in, the planter quietly observed that it was rather strange of Henry to be behind time, and wonder where he could be.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000009_000000|This habit is exacted by a sort of necessity, arising out of the nature of some of the viands peculiar to the country; many of which, as "Virginia biscuit," "buckwheat cakes," and "waffles," are only relished coming fresh from, the fire: so that the hour when breakfast is being eaten in the dining room, is that in which the cook is broiling her skin in the kitchen.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000010_000000|As the laggard, or late riser, may have to put up with cold biscuit, and no waffles or buckwheat cakes, there are few such on a Southern plantation.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000012_000000|"Where can the boy be?" asked his father, for the fourth time, in that tone of mild conjecture that scarce calls for reply.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000013_000001|Louise only gave expression to a similar conjecture.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000014_000000|It could scarce be caused by the absence of her brother from the breakfast table?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000015_000000|What was it?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000015_000001|No one put the inquiry.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000015_000002|Her father did not notice anything odd in her look.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000016_000000|Ever since entering the room he had maintained a studied silence; keeping his eyes averted, instead of, according to his usual custom, constantly straying towards his cousin.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000017_000000|He sate nervously in his chair; and once or twice might have been seen to start, as a servant entered the room.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000018_000000|Beyond doubt he was under the influence of some extraordinary agitation.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000019_000000|"Very strange Henry not being here to his breakfast!" remarked the planter, for about the tenth time.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000019_000002|No-no-he never lies so late.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000019_000006|Pluto!"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000020_000000|"Ho-ho!
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000021_000000|"Go to Henry's sleeping room.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000022_000000|"He no dar, Mass' Woodley."
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000027_000001|Go instantly, and see!"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000000|"There's something strange in all this," pursued the planter, as Pluto shuffled out of the sala.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000001|"Henry from home; and at night too.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000002|Where can he have gone?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000006|Not at the tavern, I hope?"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000030_000000|"Oh, no!
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000030_000001|He wouldn't go there," interposed Calhoun, who appeared as much mystified by the absence of Henry as was Poindexter himself.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000001|"If not, it may still remain a secret between brother and myself.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000002|I think I can manage Henry.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000003|But why is he still absent?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000004|I've sate up all night waiting for him.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000008|Who could blame him if he has?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000009|There can be little harm in it: since he has gone astray in good company?"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000033_000000|It was interrupted by the reappearance of Pluto; whose important air, as he re-entered the room, proclaimed him the bearer of eventful tidings.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000034_000000|"Well!" cried his master, without waiting for him to speak, "is he there?"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000035_000000|"No, Mass' Woodley," replied the black, in a voice that betrayed a large measure of emotion, "he are not dar-Massa Henry am not.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000038_000000|"His horse at the gate?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000038_000001|And why, pray, do you grieve about that?"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000040_000001|What because?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000040_000003|Or is it his tail that is missing?"
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000001|Henry thrown from his horse?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000002|Nonsense, Pluto!
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000003|My son is too good a rider for that.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000045_000000|A sight was there awaiting them, calculated to inspire all three with the most terrible apprehensions.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000046_000001|The animal wet with the dews of the night, and having been evidently uncared for in any stable, was snorting and stamping the ground, as if but lately escaped from some scene of excitement, in which he had been compelled to take part.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000048_000000|Whence came that horse?
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000049_000000|From the prairies.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000049_000001|The negro had caught him, on the outside plain, as, with the bridle trailing among his feet, he was instinctively straying towards the hacienda.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000051_000000|The question was not asked.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000051_000001|All present knew him to be the horse of Henry Poindexter.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000052_000000|Nor did any one ask whose blood bedaubed the saddle flaps.
train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000053_000000|The dark red spots on which they were distractedly gazing had spurted from the veins of Henry Poindexter.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000004_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000005_000000|THE AVENGERS.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000006_000000|Hastily-perhaps too truly-construing the sinister evidence, the half frantic father leaped into the bloody saddle, and galloped direct for the Fort.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000007_000000|Calhoun, upon his own horse, followed close after.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000009_000000|The Indians were out, and near at hand, reaping their harvest of scalps! That of young Poindexter was the firstfruits of their sanguinary gleaning!
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000010_000000|Henry Poindexter-the noble generous youth who had not an enemy in all Texas!
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000010_000001|Who but Indians could have spilled such innocent blood?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000010_000002|Only the Comanches could have been so cruel?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000011_000000|Among the horsemen, who came quickly together on the parade ground of Port Inge, no one doubted that the Comanches had done the deed.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000011_000001|It was simply a question of how, when, and where.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000000|The blood drops pretty clearly, proclaimed the first.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000001|He who had shed them must have been shot, or speared, while sitting in his saddle.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000002|They were mostly on the off side; where they presented an appearance, as if something had been slaked over them.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000004|Of course it was the body of the rider as it slipped lifeless to the earth.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000014_000000|According to them the blood was scarce "ten hours old:" in other words, must have been shed about ten hours before.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000017_000001|Where was the body to be found?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000018_000000|After that, where should the assassins be sought for?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000019_000000|These were the questions discussed by the mixed council of settlers and soldiers, hastily assembled at Port Inge, and presided over by the commandant of the Fort-the afflicted father standing speechless by his side.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000020_000000|The last was of special importance.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000024_000001|It was directly negatived by the major himself.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000025_000001|The party must be kept together, or run the risk of being attacked, and perhaps cut off, in detail!
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000026_000000|The argument was deemed conclusive.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000027_000000|It was decided that the searchers should proceed in a body.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000028_000000|In what direction?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000028_000001|This still remained the subject of discussion.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000029_000001|Who last saw Henry Poindexter?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000030_000000|His father and cousin were first appealed to.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000032_000000|The answer of Calhoun was less direct, and, perhaps, less satisfactory. He had conversed with his cousin at a later hour, and had bidden him good night, under the impression that he was retiring to his room.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000035_000000|Whatever was the reason, the truth was shunned; and an answer given, the sincerity of which was suspected by more than one who listened to it.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000037_000000|While the inquiry was going on, light came in from a quartet hitherto unthought of.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000037_000001|The landlord of the Rough and Ready, who had come uncalled to the council, after forcing his way through the crowd, proclaimed himself willing to communicate some facts worth their hearing-in short, the very facts they were endeavouring to find out: when Henry Poindexter had been last seen, and what the direction he had taken.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000038_000000|Oberdoffer's testimony, delivered in a semi Teutonic tongue, was to the effect: that Maurice the mustanger-who had been staying at his hotel ever since his fight with Captain Calhoun-had that night ridden out at a late hour, as he had done for several nights before.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000040_000000|Where he had procured the money "Gott" only knew, or why he left the hotel in such a hurry.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000041_000000|On one of these the village Boniface supposed him to have gone.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000042_000000|What had all this to do with the question before the council?
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000043_000000|This was all Mr Oberdoffer knew of the matter; and all he could be expected to tell.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000044_000001|It furnished a sort of clue to the direction they ought to take.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000044_000002|If the missing man had gone off with Maurice the mustanger, or after him, he should be looked for on the road the latter himself would be likely to have taken.
train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000045_000000|Did any one know where the horse hunter had his home?
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000003_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY NINE.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000004_000000|THE POOL OF BLOOD.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000006_000000|There was reason.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000006_000002|Scouts were sent out in advance; and professed "trackers" employed to pick up, and interpret the "sign."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000007_000000|On the prairie, extending nearly ten miles to the westward of the Leona, no trail was discovered.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000007_000001|The turf, hard and dry, only showed the tracks of a horse when going in a gallop.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000007_000002|None such were seen along the route.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000009_000000|Through this jungle, directly opposite the Fort, there is an opening, through which passes a path-the shortest that leads to the head waters of the Nueces.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000009_000002|It may be artificial: some old "war trail" of the Comanches, erst trodden by their expeditionary parties on the maraud to Tamaulipas, Coahuila, or New Leon.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000010_000000|The trackers knew that it conducted to the Alamo; and, therefore, guided the expedition into it.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000011_000000|Shortly after entering among the trees, one of the latter, who had gone afoot in the advance, was seen standing by the edge of the thicket, as if waiting to announce some recently discovered fact.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000012_000000|"What is it?" demanded the major, spurring ahead of the others, and riding up to the tracker.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000012_000001|"Sign?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000013_000001|Look there!
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000014_000000|"The tracks of a horse."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000016_000000|"True.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000016_000001|There are two."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000017_000001|They have gone up this openin' a bit, and come back again."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000018_000000|"Well, Spangler, my good fellow; what do you make of it?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000020_000000|"What proof have you of what you say?
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000020_000001|Is there a dead body?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000021_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000022_000000|"What then?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000023_000000|"Blood, a regular pool of it-enough to have cleared out the carcass of a hull buffalo.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000023_000002|But," continued the scout in a muttered undertone, "if you wish me to follow up the sign as it ought to be done, you'll order the others to stay back-'specially them as are now nearest you."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000024_000000|This observation appeared to be more particularly pointed at the planter and his nephew; as the tracker, on making it, glanced furtively towards both.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000025_000000|"By all means," replied the major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000025_000001|"Yes, Spangler, you shall have every facility for your work.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000025_000004|He can only take me along with him."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000026_000001|It was obeyed, however, just as if they had been; and one and all kept their places, while the officer, following his scout, rode away from the ground.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000027_000000|About fifty yards further on, Spangler came to a stand.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000028_000000|"You see that, major?" said he, pointing to the ground.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000029_000000|"I should be blind if I didn't," replied the officer.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000030_000000|"Dead!" pronounced the tracker.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000030_000001|"Dead before that blood had turned purple-as it is now."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000031_000000|"Whose do you think it is, Spangler?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000032_000001|That's why I didn't wish him to come forward."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000034_000001|That's what is puzzling me."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000035_000000|"How! by the Indians, of course?
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000036_000000|"Not a bit of it," rejoined the scout, with an air of confidence.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000002|As you see, both are shod; and they're the same that have come back again.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000006|The other is the hoof of an American horse.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000007|Goin' west the mustang was foremost; you can tell that by the overlap.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000010|It can't be a great ways off."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000041_000000|"Let us proceed thither, then," said the major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000041_000001|"I shall command the people to stay where they are."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000042_000000|Having issued the command, in a voice loud enough to be heard by his following, the major rode away from the bloodstained spot, preceded by the tracker.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000044_000000|At this point the trail ended-both horses, as was already known, having returned on their own tracks.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000045_000000|Before taking the back track, however, they had halted, and stayed some time in the same place-under the branches of a spreading cottonwood. The turf, much trampled around the trunk of the tree, was evidence of this.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000046_000000|The tracker got off his horse to examine it; and, stooping to the earth, carefully scrutinised the sign.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000047_000002|They must have quarrelled afterwards."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000048_000000|"If you are speaking the truth, Spangler, you must be a witch.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000048_000001|How on earth can you know all that?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000049_000001|It's simple enough.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000049_000003|As for the time, they've taken long enough to smoke a cigar apiece-close to the teeth too.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000050_000000|The tracker, stooping as he spoke, picked up a brace of cigar stumps, and handed them to the major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000051_000000|"By the same token," he continued, "I conclude that the two horsemen, whoever they were, while under this tree could not have had any very hostile feelins, the one to the tother.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000051_000003|That it did come there can be no doubt.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000052_000000|"'tis very mysterious," remarked the major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000055_000000|"That's what purplexes me most of all.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000056_000000|"Most strange!" exclaimed the major, pronouncing the words with emphasis-"most mysterious!"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000057_000002|We may make something out of that.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000057_000004|We may as well go back, major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000058_000000|"Mr Poindexter, you mean?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000059_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000060_000000|"Oh, no; not so much as that comes to.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000060_000001|Only convinced that the horse the old gentleman is now riding is one of the two that's been over this ground last night-the States horse I feel sure.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000061_000000|"Spangler! have you any suspicion as to who the other may be?"
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000000|"Not a spark, major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000001|If't hadn't been for the tale of Old Duffer I'd never have thought of Maurice the mustanger.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000003|Surely it can't be?
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000004|The young Irishman aint the man to stand nonsense from nobody; but as little air he the one to do a deed like this-that is, if it's been cold blooded killin'."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000063_000000|"I think as you about that."
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000064_000000|"And you may think so, major.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000064_000002|That's how I shed reckon it up.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000064_000004|We must follow the trail, howsoever; and maybe it'll fetch us to some sensible concloosion.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000000|"Perhaps better not.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000001|He knows enough already.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000002|It will at least fall lighter upon him if he find things out by piecemeal.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000003|Say nothing of what we've seen.
train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000066_000001|Give me ten minutes upon it, and then come on to my signal."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000007_000000|A Pearl Worth Ten Million
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000008_000000|NIGHT FELL.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000008_000001|I went to bed.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000008_000002|I slept pretty poorly.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000009_000000|The next day at four o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by the steward whom Captain Nemo had placed expressly at my service. I got up quickly, dressed, and went into the lounge.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000010_000000|Captain Nemo was waiting for me.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000011_000000|"Professor Aronnax," he said to me, "are you ready to start?"
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000013_000000|"Kindly follow me."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000014_000000|"What about my companions, captain?"
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000015_000000|"They've been alerted and are waiting for us."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000016_000000|"Aren't we going to put on our diving suits?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000017_000000|"Not yet.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000018_000000|Captain Nemo took me to the central companionway whose steps led to the platform.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000018_000002|Oars in position, five of the Nautilus's sailors were waiting for us aboard the skiff, which was moored alongside.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000019_000000|Captain Nemo, Conseil, Ned Land, and I found seats in the stern of the skiff.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000020_000000|The skiff headed southward.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000020_000001|The oarsmen took their time. I watched their strokes vigorously catch the water, and they always waited ten seconds before rowing again, following the practice used in most navies.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000021_000000|We were silent.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000021_000001|What was Captain Nemo thinking?
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000022_000001|Between us and the shore, the sea was deserted. Not a boat, not a diver.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000022_000002|Profound solitude reigned over this gathering place of pearl fishermen.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000023_000000|At six o'clock the day broke suddenly, with that speed unique to tropical regions, which experience no real dawn or dusk. The sun's rays pierced the cloud curtain gathered on the easterly horizon, and the radiant orb rose swiftly.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000025_000000|The skiff advanced toward Mannar Island, which curved to the south. Captain Nemo stood up from his thwart and studied the sea.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000027_000001|A month from now in this very place, the numerous fishing boats of the harvesters will gather, and these are the waters their divers will ransack so daringly. This bay is felicitously laid out for their type of fishing. It's sheltered from the strongest winds, and the sea is never very turbulent here, highly favorable conditions for diving work. Now let's put on our underwater suits, and we'll begin our stroll."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000030_000000|"Our lighting equipment would be useless to us," the captain answered me. "We won't be going very deep, and the sun's rays will be sufficient to light our way.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000030_000001|Besides, it's unwise to carry electric lanterns under these waves.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000030_000002|Their brightness might unexpectedly attract certain dangerous occupants of these waterways."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000031_000000|As Captain Nemo pronounced these words, I turned to Conseil and Ned Land.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000031_000001|But my two friends had already encased their craniums in their metal headgear, and they could neither hear nor reply.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000033_000000|"What about our weapons?" I asked him.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000033_000001|"Our rifles?"
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000034_000000|"Rifles!
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000034_000001|What for?
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000034_000003|Here's a sturdy blade. Slip it under your belt and let's be off."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000035_000000|I stared at my companions.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000036_000000|Then, following the captain's example, I let myself be crowned with my heavy copper sphere, and our air tanks immediately went into action.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000037_000001|We followed him down a gentle slope and disappeared under the waves.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000038_000000|There the obsessive fears in my brain left me.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000038_000001|I became surprisingly calm again.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000038_000002|The ease with which I could move increased my confidence, and the many strange sights captivated my imagination.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000039_000000|The sun was already sending sufficient light under these waves. The tiniest objects remained visible.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000039_000001|After ten minutes of walking, we were in five meters of water, and the terrain had become almost flat.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000043_000000|Near seven o'clock we finally surveyed the bank of shellfish, where pearl oysters reproduce by the millions.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000044_000002|The others had rugged black surfaces, measured up to fifteen centimeters in width, and were ten or more years old.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000046_000000|But we couldn't stop.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000047_000000|Just then a huge cave opened up in our path, hollowed from a picturesque pile of rocks whose smooth heights were completely hung with underwater flora.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000047_000001|At first this cave looked pitch black to me.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000048_000001|We followed him.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000048_000003|I distinguished the unpredictably contoured springings of a vault, supported by natural pillars firmly based on a granite foundation, like the weighty columns of Tuscan architecture. Why had our incomprehensible guide taken us into the depths of this underwater crypt?
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000048_000004|I would soon find out.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000049_000000|After going down a fairly steep slope, our feet trod the floor of a sort of circular pit.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000051_000000|I approached this phenomenal mollusk.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000051_000001|Its mass of filaments attached it to a table of granite, and there it grew by itself in the midst of the cave's calm waters.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000051_000002|I estimated the weight of this giant clam at three hundred kilograms.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000052_000001|I was mistaken.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000052_000002|Captain Nemo had an explicit personal interest in checking on the current condition of this giant clam.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000053_000000|The mollusk's two valves were partly open.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000055_000000|I then understood Captain Nemo's intent.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000055_000003|Perhaps, following the examples of oyster farmers in China and India, he had even predetermined the creation of this pearl by sticking under the mollusk's folds some piece of glass or metal that was gradually covered with mother of pearl. In any case, comparing this pearl to others I already knew about, and to those shimmering in the captain's collection, I estimated that it was worth at least ten million francs.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000056_000000|Our visit to this opulent giant clam came to an end. Captain Nemo left the cave, and we climbed back up the bank of shellfish in the midst of these clear waters not yet disturbed by divers at work.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000000|We walked by ourselves, genuine loiterers stopping or straying as our fancies dictated.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000001|For my part, I was no longer worried about those dangers my imagination had so ridiculously exaggerated. The shallows drew noticeably closer to the surface of the sea, and soon, walking in only a meter of water, my head passed well above the level of the ocean.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000002|Conseil rejoined me, and gluing his huge copper capsule to mine, his eyes gave me a friendly greeting. But this lofty plateau measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000003|I think I've now earned the right to dub it that.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000058_000000|Ten minutes later, Captain Nemo stopped suddenly.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000058_000002|no
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000059_000000|Five meters away a shadow appeared and dropped to the seafloor. The alarming idea of sharks crossed my mind.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000060_000000|It was a man, a living man, a black Indian fisherman, a poor devil who no doubt had come to gather what he could before harvest time. I saw the bottom of his dinghy, moored a few feet above his head. He would dive and go back up in quick succession.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000061_000000|This diver didn't see us.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000061_000001|A shadow cast by our crag hid us from his view.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000062_000000|So he went up and down several times.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000062_000001|He gathered only about ten shellfish per dive, because he had to tear them from the banks where each clung with its tough mass of filaments. And how many of these oysters for which he risked his life would have no pearl in them!
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000063_000000|I observed him with great care.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000064_000000|I understood his fear.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000064_000001|A gigantic shadow appeared above the poor diver. It was a shark of huge size, moving in diagonally, eyes ablaze, jaws wide open!
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000065_000000|I was speechless with horror, unable to make a single movement.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000067_000000|This scene lasted barely a few seconds.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000069_000000|I can see Captain Nemo's bearing to this day.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000070_000000|The shark bellowed, so to speak.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000070_000001|Blood was pouring into the waves from its wounds.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000072_000000|I wanted to run to the captain's rescue.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000072_000001|But I was transfixed with horror, unable to move.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000073_000000|I stared, wild eyed.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000073_000002|Then the shark's jaws opened astoundingly wide, like a pair of industrial shears, and that would have been the finish of Captain Nemo had not Ned Land, quick as thought, rushed forward with his harpoon and driven its dreadful point into the shark's underside.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000074_000000|The waves were saturated with masses of blood.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000074_000002|Ned Land hadn't missed his target. This was the monster's death rattle.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000074_000003|Pierced to the heart, it was struggling with dreadful spasms whose aftershocks knocked Conseil off his feet.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000075_000000|Meanwhile Ned Land pulled the captain clear.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000076_000000|The three of us followed him, and a few moments later, miraculously safe, we reached the fisherman's longboat.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000077_000000|Captain Nemo's first concern was to revive this unfortunate man. I wasn't sure he would succeed.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000077_000001|I hoped so, since the poor devil hadn't been under very long.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000077_000002|But that stroke from the shark's tail could have been his deathblow.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000078_000001|How startled he must have felt, how frightened even, at seeing four huge, copper craniums leaning over him!
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000079_000002|His bewildered eyes indicated that he didn't know to what superhuman creatures he owed both his life and his fortune.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000081_000000|Back on board, the sailors helped divest us of our heavy copper carapaces.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000082_000000|Captain Nemo's first words were spoken to the Canadian.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000083_000000|"Thank you, mr Land," he told him.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000084_000000|"Tit for tat, captain," Ned Land replied.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000084_000001|"I owed it to you."
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000085_000000|The ghost of a smile glided across the captain's lips, and that was all.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000086_000000|"To the Nautilus," he said.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000087_000000|The longboat flew over the waves.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000087_000001|A few minutes later we encountered the shark's corpse again, floating.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000088_000001|It was more than twenty five feet long; its enormous mouth occupied a third of its body. It was an adult, as could be seen from the six rows of teeth forming an isosceles triangle in its upper jaw.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000092_000000|There I fell to thinking about the incidents that marked our excursion over the Mannar oysterbank.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000092_000002|In spite of everything, this strange man hadn't yet succeeded in completely stifling his heart.
train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000093_000000|When I shared these impressions with him, he answered me in a tone touched with emotion:
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000002_000000|twelve
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000003_000000|THE LAY OF MILON
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000004_000002|I purpose in this place to show you the story of Milon, and-since few words are best-I will set out the adventure as briefly as I may.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000001|So great was his prowess that from the day he was dubbed knight there was no champion who could stand before him in the lists.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000002|He was a passing fair knight, open and brave, courteous to his friends, and stern to his foes.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000004|Since he was praised by the frank, he was therefore envied of the mean.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000005|Nevertheless, by reason of his skill with the spear, he was counted a very worshipful knight, and was honourably entreated by many a prince in divers lands.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000006_000001|With this baron dwelt his daughter, a passing fair and gracious damsel.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000008_000001|He placed the ring in her hand, saying that he had done her will, as he was bidden to do.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000000|"When the child is born," replied the lady, "you must carry him forthwith to my sister.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000001|She is a rich dame, pitiful and good, and is wedded to a lord of Northumberland.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000002|You will send messages with the babe-both in writing and by speech-that the little innocent is her sister's child.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000003|Whether it be a boy or girl his mother will have suffered much because of him, and for her sister's sake you will pray her to cherish the babe.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000006|If this be done, perchance the orphan will not be fatherless all his days."
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000001|The old nurse who tended her mistress was privy to the damsel's inmost mind.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000005|The child was then placed in his cradle, swathed close in white linen.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000009|The servitors set forth, bearing the infant with them.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000011|They served their lord so faithfully, keeping such watch upon the way, that at the last they won to the lady to whom they were bidden.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000014|These having bestowed the boy in accordance with their lord's commandment, returned to their own land.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000015_000001|Though this baron was a worthy knight, justly esteemed of all his fellows, the damsel was grieved beyond measure when she knew her father's will.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000017_000000|So on the appointed day the lady was wedded to the baron, and her husband took her to dwell with him in his fief.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000020_000001|He made him ready quickly, and went forth, bearing the swan with him.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000020_000002|He went by the nearest road, and passing through the streets of the city, came before the portal of the castle.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000021_000000|"Friend," said he, "hearken to me.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000021_000001|I am of Caerleon, and a fowler by craft.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000022_000000|"Friend," replied the porter, "fowlers are not always welcomed of ladies.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000000|The porter entered in the hall, where he found none but two lords seated at a great table, playing chess for their delight.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000002|They went therefore to the chamber of the lady.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000004|When the swan was proffered to the lady it pleased her to receive the gift.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000005|She summoned a varlet of her household and gave the bird to his charge, commanding him to keep it safely, and to see that it ate enough and to spare.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000024_000002|The swan is fit to serve at a royal table, for the bird is plump as he is fair."
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000000|The varlet put the swan in his lady's hands.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000001|She took the bird kindly, and smoothing his head and neck, felt the letter that was hidden beneath its feathers.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000004|When they had parted the lady called a maiden to her aid. She broke the seal, and unfastening the letter, came upon the name of Milon at the head.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000005|She kissed the name a hundred times through her tears.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000007|In you-he wrote-is all my pleasure, and in your white hands it lies to heal me or to slay.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000008|Strive to find a plan by which we may speak as friend to friend, if you would have me live.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000009|The knight prayed her in his letter to send him an answer by means of the swan.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000026_000001|She held him for a month within her chamber, but this was less from choice, than for the craft that was necessary to obtain the ink and parchment requisite for her writing.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000026_000002|At the end she wrote a letter according to her heart, and sealed it with her ring.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000026_000003|The lady caused the swan to fast for three full days; then having concealed the message about his neck, let him take his flight.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000027_000001|Milon rejoiced greatly when he marked his own.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000027_000004|He glanced from head to head of the letter, seeking the means that he hoped to find, and the salutation he so tenderly wished.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000028_000001|There was no speech between them, save that carried by the bird.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000028_000003|He to whom the letter came, saw to it that the messenger was fed to heart's desire.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000006|He rejoiced greatly to hear of his father's prowess, and was proud beyond measure of his renown.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000007|He considered within himself, saying to his own heart, that much should be required of his father's son, and that he would not be worthy of his blood if he did not endeavour to merit his name.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000011|He rode to Southampton, that he might find a ship equipped for sea, and so came to Barfleur.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000014|What he took from the rich he bestowed on such knights as were poor and luckless.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000015|These loved him greatly, since he gained largely and spent freely, granting of his wealth to all.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000018|Folk told how a certain knight from beyond the Humber, who had passed the sea in quest of wealth and honour, had so done, that by reason of his prowess, his liberality, and his modesty, men called him the Knight Peerless, since they did not know his name.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000002|He marvelled greatly that the stout spears of the past had not put on their harness and broken a lance for their ancient honour.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000003|One thing he determined, that he would cross the sea without delay, so that he might joust with the dansellon, and abate his pride.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000006|Milon caused his friend to know of his wishes.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000007|He opened out to her all his thought, and craved her permission to depart.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000001|She approved his desire to quit the realm for the sake of his honour, and far from putting let and hindrance in his path, trusted that in the end he would bring again her son.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000006|At that time a tournament was proclaimed to be held at Mont st Michel.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000011|Now in this tournament a knight could joust with that lord who was set over against him, or he could seek to break a lance with his chosen foe.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000014|But the Knight Peerless carried the cry from all his fellows, for none might stand before him, nor rival him in skill and address.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000015|Milon observed him curiously.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000016|The lad struck so heavily, he thrust home so shrewdly, that Milon's hatred changed to envy as he watched.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000017|Very comely showed the varlet, and much to Milon's mind.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000019|Milon struck his adversary so fiercely, that the lance splintered in his gauntlet; but the young knight kept his seat without even losing a stirrup.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000032_000000|"Sir," said he, "I pray you to get upon your horse.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000033_000000|Milon sprang upon his steed.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000034_000000|"Friend," said he, "hearken to me.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000034_000002|I have seen much, and gone to and fro about the world.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000034_000004|This day I am overthrown by a boy, and yet I cannot help but love thee."
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000035_000006|In hope and wish I purpose to cross the sea, and return to my own realm.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000036_000001|He got him swiftly from his horse, and taking the lad by the fringe of his hauberk, he cried, "Praise be to God, for now am I healed.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000036_000002|Fair friend, by my faith thou art my very son, for whom I came forth from my own land, and have sought through all this realm."
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000037_000000|The varlet climbed from the saddle, and stood upon his feet.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000037_000001|Father and son kissed each other tenderly, with many comfortable words.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000037_000002|Their love was fair to see, and those who looked upon their meeting, wept for joy and pity.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000038_000001|They rode to their hostel, and with the knights of their fellowship, passed the hours in mirth and revelry.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000040_000000|"In faith, fair father, let us return to our own land.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000001|They embarked in a propitious hour, for a fair wind carried the ship right swiftly to its haven.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000003|His task was done long before sundown in chancing on the knight.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000004|He gave over the sealed writing with which he was charged, praying the knight to hasten to his friend without any tarrying, since her husband was in his grave.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000005|Milon rejoiced greatly when he knew this thing.
train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000042_000000|Of their love and content the minstrel wrought this Lay.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000000_000000|Chapter Thirteen-The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000001_000000|The memory of man, even that of the Oldest Inhabitant, runneth not back to the time when there did not exist a feud between the North End and the South End boys of Rivermouth.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000004_000000|Slatter's Hill, or No man's land, as it was generally called, was a rise of ground covering, perhaps, an acre and a quarter, situated on an imaginary line, marking the boundary between the two districts.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000004_000001|An immense stratum of granite, which here and there thrust out a wrinkled boulder, prevented the site from being used for building purposes.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000004_000002|The street ran on either side of the hill, from one part of which a quantity of rock had been removed to form the underpinning of the new jail. This excavation made the approach from that point all but impossible, especially when the ragged ledges were a glitter with ice.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000007_000000|The rear of the entrenchment, being protected by the quarry, was left open.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000007_000001|The walls were four feet high, and twenty two inches thick, strengthened at the angles by stakes driven firmly into the ground.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000008_000000|Fancy the rage of the South Enders the next day, when they spied our snowy citadel, with Jack Harris's red silk pocket handkerchief floating defiantly from the flag staff.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000009_000000|In less than an hour it was known all over town, in military circles at least, that the "Puddle dockers" and the "River rats" (these were the derisive sub titles bestowed on our South End foes) intended to attack the fort that Saturday afternoon.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000010_000000|At two o'clock all the fighting boys of the Temple Grammar School, and as many recruits as we could muster, lay behind the walls of Fort Slatter, with three hundred compact snowballs piled up in pyramids, awaiting the approach of the enemy.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000010_000001|The enemy was not slow in making his approach-fifty strong, headed by one Mat Ames.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000010_000002|Our forces were under the command of General j Harris.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000011_000001|As it was impossible for the North Enders to occupy the fort permanently, it was stipulated that the South Enders should assault it only on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons between the hours of two and six.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000011_000002|For them to take possession of the place at any other time was not to constitute a capture, but on the contrary was to be considered a dishonorable and cowardly act.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000012_000002|A snow ball soaked in water and left out to cool was a projectile which in previous years had been resorted to with disastrous results.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000013_000000|These preliminaries settled, the commanders retired to their respective corps.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000013_000001|The interview had taken place on the hillside between the opposing lines.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000015_000000|The repellers were called light infantry; but when they carried on operations beyond the fort they became cavalry.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000015_000001|It was also their duty, when not otherwise engaged, to manufacture snow balls.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000016_000000|General Mat Ames, a veteran commander, was no less wide awake in the disposition of his army.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000016_000001|Five companies, each numbering but six men, in order not to present too big a target to our sharpshooters, were to charge the fort from different points, their advance being covered by a heavy fire from the gunners posted in the rear.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000016_000002|Each scaler was provided with only two rounds of ammunition, which were not to be used until he had mounted the breastwork and could deliver his shots on our heads.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000017_000001|Nothing on earth could represent the state of things after the first volley.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000019_000000|The thrilling moment had now arrived.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000019_000001|If I had been going into a real engagement I could not have been more deeply impressed by the importance of the occasion.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000020_000000|The fort opened fire first-a single ball from the dexterous band of General Harris taking General Ames in the very pit of his stomach.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000020_000003|The shouts of the leaders, and the snowballs bursting like shells about our ears, made it very lively.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000021_000001|The rest retired confused and blinded by our well directed fire.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000022_000000|When General Harris (with his right eye bunged up) said, "Soldiers, I am proud of you!" my heart swelled in my bosom.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000000|The victory, however, had not been without its price.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000001|Six North Enders, having rushed out to harass the discomfited enemy, were gallantly cut off by General Ames and captured.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000003|Whitcomb was one of the most notable shots on our side, though he was not much to boast of in a rough and tumble fight, owing to the weakness before mentioned.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000004|General Ames put him among the gunners, and we were quickly made aware of the loss we had sustained, by receiving a frequent artful ball which seemed to light with unerring instinct on any nose that was the least bit exposed.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000024_000000|But we had no time for vain regrets.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000024_000001|The battle raged.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000024_000002|Already there were two bad cases of black eye, and one of nosebleed, in the hospital.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000025_000000|It was glorious excitement, those pell mell onslaughts and hand to hand struggles.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000025_000001|Twice we were within an ace of being driven from our stronghold, when General Harris and his staff leaped recklessly upon the ramparts and hurled the besiegers heels over head down hill.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000026_000000|At sunset, the garrison of Fort Slatter was still unconquered, and the South Enders, in a solid phalanx, marched off whistling "Yankee Doodle," while we cheered and jeered them until they were out of hearing.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000027_000000|General Ames remained behind to effect an exchange of prisoners.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000027_000001|We held thirteen of his men, and he eleven of ours.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000028_000001|I forget whether it was on that afternoon or the next that we lost Fort Slatter; but lose it we did, with much valuable ammunition and several men.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000000|General Ames handled his men with great skill; his deadliest foe could not deny that.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000001|Once he outgeneralled our commander in the following manner: He massed his gunners on our left and opened a brisk fire, under cover of which a single company (six men) advanced on that angle of the fort.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000003|Meanwhile, four companies of the enemy's scalers made a detour round the foot of the hill, and dashed into Fort Slatter without opposition.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000005|Of course we had to vacate the fort.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000006|A cloud rested on General Harris's military reputation until his superior tactics enabled him to dispossess the enemy.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000001|At length the provision against using heavy substances in the snow balls was disregarded.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000002|A ball stuck full of sand bird shot came tearing into Fort Slatter.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000005|snow balls containing marbles.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000006|After this, both sides never failed to freeze their ammunition.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000031_000000|It was no longer child's play to march up to the walls of Fort Slatter, nor was the position of the besieged less perilous.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000031_000001|At every assault three or four boys on each side were disabled.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000031_000002|It was not an infrequent occurrence for the combatants to hold up a flag of truce while they removed some insensible comrade.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000032_000000|Matters grew worse and worse.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000032_000001|Seven North Enders had been seriously wounded, and a dozen South Enders were reported on the sick list. The selectmen of the town awoke to the fact of what was going on, and detailed a posse of police to prevent further disturbance.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000033_000000|The watch were determined fellows, and charged the boys valiantly, driving them all into the fort, where we made common cause, fighting side by side like the best of friends.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000033_000001|In vain the four guardians of the peace rushed up the hill, flourishing their clubs and calling upon us to surrender.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000033_000002|They could not get within ten yards of the fort, our fire was so destructive.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000000|Perceiving that it was impossible with their small number to dislodge us, the watch sent for reinforcements.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000001|Their call was responded to, not only by the whole constabulary force (eight men), but by a numerous body of citizens, who had become alarmed at the prospect of a riot.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000002|This formidable array brought us to our senses: we began to think that maybe discretion was the better part of valor.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000004|So, after one grand farewell volley, we fled, sliding, jumping, rolling, tumbling down the quarry at the rear of the fort, and escaped without losing a man.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000035_000000|But we lost Fort Slatter forever.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000035_000001|Those battle scarred ramparts were razed to the ground, and humiliating ashes sprinkled over the historic spot, near which a solitary lynx eyed policeman was seen prowling from time to time during the rest of the winter.
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000036_000000|The event passed into a legend, and afterwards, when later instances of pluck and endurance were spoken of, the boys would say, "By golly!
train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000036_000001|You ought to have been at the fights on Slatter's Hill!"
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000001_000000|Chapter Twenty One-In Which I Leave Rivermouth
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000002_000000|A letter with a great black seal!
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000003_000001|But which was it, father or mother?
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000003_000002|I do not like to look back to the agony and suspense of that moment.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000004_000000|My father had died at New Orleans during one of his weekly visits to the city.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000004_000001|The letter bearing these tidings had reached Rivermouth the evening of my flight-had passed me on the road by the down train.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000005_000000|I must turn back for a moment to that eventful evening.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000005_000001|When I failed to make my appearance at supper, the Captain began to suspect that I had really started on my wild tour southward-a conjecture which Sailor Ben's absence helped to confirm.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000005_000002|I had evidently got off by the train and Sailor Ben had followed me.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000006_000000|There was no telegraphic communication between Boston and Rivermouth in those days; so my grandfather could do nothing but await the result. Even if there had been another mail to Boston, he could not have availed himself of it, not knowing how to address a message to the fugitives. The post office was naturally the last place either I or the Admiral would think of visiting.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000007_000000|My grandfather, however, was too full of trouble to allow this to add to his distress.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000007_000001|He knew that the faithful old sailor would not let me come to any harm, and even if I had managed for the time being to elude him, was sure to bring me back sooner or later.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000008_000000|Our return, therefore, by the first train on the following day did not surprise him.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000011_000000|"I can't read it, Tom," said the old gentleman, breaking down.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000011_000001|"I thought I could."
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000012_000000|He handed it to me.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000014_000000|As the days went by my first grief subsided, and in its place grew up a want which I have experienced at every step in life from boyhood to manhood.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000014_000001|Often, even now, after all these years, when I see a lad of twelve or fourteen walking by his father's side, and glancing merrily up at his face, I turn and look after them, and am conscious that I have missed companionship most sweet and sacred.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000015_000000|I shall not dwell on this portion of my story.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000015_000001|There were many tranquil, pleasant hours in store for me at that period, and I prefer to turn to them.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000016_000001|My mother had arrived at New York, and would be with us the next day.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000016_000003|I was to go to Boston with the Captain to meet her and bring her home.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000016_000005|With my mother's hand in mine once more, all the long years we had been parted appeared like a dream.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000017_000000|Everything was changed with us now.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000017_000001|There were consultations with lawyers, and signing of papers, and correspondence; for my father's affairs had been left in great confusion.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000018_000001|Little Black Sam, by the by, had been taken by his master from my father's service ten months previously, and put on a sugar plantation near Baton Rouge.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000019_000000|How all these simple details interested me will be readily understood by any boy who has been long absent from home.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000020_000000|I was sorry when it became necessary to discuss questions more nearly affecting myself.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000020_000001|I had been removed from school temporarily, but it was decided, after much consideration, that I should not return, the decision being left, in a manner, in my own hands.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000021_000000|The Captain wished to carry out his son's intention and send me to college, for which I was nearly fitted; but our means did not admit of this.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000022_000000|In the midst of our discussions a letter came from my Uncle Snow, a merchant in New York, generously offering me a place in his counting house.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000022_000002|If I accepted my uncle's offer, I might hope to work my way to independence without loss of time.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000022_000003|It was hard to give up the long cherished dream of being a Harvard boy; but I gave it up.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000000|The decision once made, it was Uncle Snow's wish that I should enter his counting house immediately.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000001|The cause of my good uncle's haste was this-he was afraid that I would turn out to be a poet before he could make a merchant of me.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000002|His fears were based upon the fact that I had published in the Rivermouth Barnacle some verses addressed in a familiar manner "To the Moon." Now, the idea of a boy, with his living to get, placing himself in communication with the Moon, struck the mercantile mind as monstrous.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000003|It was not only a bad investment, it was lunacy.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000024_000000|'We adopted Uncle Snow's views so far as to accede to his proposition forthwith.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000024_000001|My mother, I neglected to say, was also to reside in New York.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000026_000000|In the excitement of preparing for the journey I didn't feel any very deep regret myself.
train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000027_000000|As the carriage swept round the corner, I leaned out of the window to take a last look at Sailor Ben's cottage, and there was the Admiral's flag flying at half mast.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000002_000000|With the close of my school days at Rivermouth this modest chronicle ends.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000003_000000|The new life upon which I entered, the new friends and foes I encountered on the road, and what I did and what I did not, are matters that do not come within the scope of these pages.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000004_000000|I am sure that the reader who has followed me thus far will be willing to hear what became of her, and Sailor Ben and Miss Abigail and the Captain.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000000|First about Gypsy.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000001|A month after my departure from Rivermouth the Captain informed me by letter that he had parted with the little mare, according to agreement.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000002|She had been sold to the ring master of a travelling circus (I had stipulated on this disposal of her), and was about to set out on her travels.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000003|She did not disappoint my glowing anticipations, but became quite a celebrity in her way-by dancing the polka to slow music on a pine board ball room constructed for the purpose.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000006_000001|I hope all the praises she received and all the spangled trappings she wore did not spoil her; but I am afraid they did, for she was always over much given to the vanities of this world!
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000008_000000|The old house became very lonely when the family got reduced to Captain Nutter and Kitty; and when Kitty passed away, my grandfather divided his time between Rivermouth and New York.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000010_000000|He also expressed a wish to have his body stitched up in a shotted hammock and dropped into the harbor; but as he did not strenuously insist on this, and as it was not in accordance with my grandfather's preconceived notions of Christian burial, the Admiral was laid to rest beside Kitty, in the Old South Burying Ground, with an anchor that would have delighted him neatly carved on his headstone.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000012_000000|For several months after leaving Rivermouth I carried on a voluminous correspondence with Pepper Whitcomb; but it gradually dwindled down to a single letter a month, and then to none at all.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000014_000001|Great events no longer considered it worth their while to honor so quiet a place.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000017_000000|Young Conway went into the grocery business with his ancient chum, Rodgers-RODGERS and CONWAY!
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000018_000000|I have reserved my pleasantest word for the last.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000018_000001|It is touching the Captain.
train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000019_000000|So ends the Story of a Bad Boy-but not such a very bad boy, as I told you to begin with.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000003_000002|Was the child determined to share her vigil?
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000004_000000|Their rooms were over the parlour and thus as far removed as possible from the judge's den.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000004_000001|In her own, which was front, she felt at perfect ease, and it was without any fear of disturbing either him or Reuther that she finally raised her window and allowed the cool wind to soothe her heated cheeks.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000005_000000|How calm the aspect of the lawn and its clustering shrubs.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000000|Perched, as she was, in a window overlooking the lane, she had but to lift her eyes from the double fence (that symbol of sad seclusion) to light on the trees rising above that unspeakable ravine, black with memories she felt strangely like forgetting to night.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000002|But the moon loved it; caressed it; dallied with it, lighting up its toppling chimney and empty, staring gable.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000004|There, hidden but always seen by those who remembered the traditions of the place, mouldered away the walls of that old closet where the timorous, God stricken suicide had breathed out his soul.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000005|She had stood in it only the other day, penned from outsiders' view by the judge's outstretched arms.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000006|Then, she had no mind for bygone horrors, her own tragedy weighed too heavily upon her; but to night, as she gazed, fascinated, anxious to forget herself, anxious to indulge in any thought which would relieve her from dwelling on the question she must settle before she slept, she allowed her wonder and her revulsion to have free course.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000007|Instead of ignoring, she would recall the story of the place as it had been told her when she first came to settle in its neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000007_000000|Spencer's Folly!
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000007_000001|Well, it had been that, and Spencer's den of dissipation too!
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000000|This was long before she herself had come to Shelby; but she had been told the story so often that it was quite as vivid to her as if she had been one of the innumerable men and women who had crowded the glistening, swimming streets to view this spectacle of destruction.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000001|The family had been gone for months, and so no pity mingled with the excitement.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000002|Not till the following day did the awful nature of the event break in its full horror upon the town.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000003|Among the ruins, in a closet which the flames had spared, they found hunched up in one corner, the body of a man, in whose seared throat a wound appeared which had not been made by lightning or fire.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000004|Spencer!
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000005|Spencer himself, returned they knew not how, to die of this self inflicted wound, in the dark corner of his grand but neglected dwelling.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000009_000000|And this was what made the horror of the place till the tragedy of the opposite hollow added crime to crime, and the spot became outlawed to all sensitive citizens.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000001|Innocence was asleep at last.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000002|Not a movement disturbed the closed lids on the wax like cheek.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000003|Even the breath came so softly that it hardly lifted the youthful breast.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000004|Repose the most perfect and in the form of all others the sweetest to a tender mother, lay before her and touched her already yearning heart to tears.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000006|Yes, she was right.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000007|Sorrow was slowly sapping the fountain of her darling's youth.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000008|If Reuther was to be saved, hope must come soon.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000009|With a sob and a prayer, the mother left the room, and locking herself into her own, sat down at last to face the new perplexity, the monstrous enigma which had come into her life.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000013_000000|"I am really sorry to trouble you, mrs Scoville; but if you have time this morning, will you clean up my study before I leave?
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000013_000001|The carriage is ordered for half past nine."
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000015_000001|You will be choked, Judge."
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000016_000000|"No more than I have been for the last two days.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000017_000000|"He will lock it when he goes out," she commented to herself.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000017_000001|"I had better hasten."
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000000|Giving Reuther the rest of the work to do, she presently appeared before him with pail and broom and a pile of fresh linen.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000001|Nothing more commonplace could be imagined, but to her, if not to him, there underlay this especial act of ordinary housewifery a possible enlightenment on a subject which had held the whole community in a state of curiosity for years.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000002|She was going to enter the room which had been barred from public sight by poor Bela's dying body.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000004|The doubt gave a tremulous eagerness to her step and caused her eye to wander immediately to that forbidden corner soon as she had stepped over the threshold.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000000|But she could not, quite.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000001|Two facts of which she immediately became cognisant, prevented this.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000002|First, the great room before her presented a bare floor, whereas on her first visit it had been very decently, if not cheerfully, covered by a huge carpet rug.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000004|Manifestly she was not to be allowed to pursue her duties unwatched.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000005|Certainly she had to take more than one look at the every day implements she carried to retain that balance of judgment which should prevent her from becoming the dupe of her own expectations.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000000|"I do not expect you to clean up here as thoroughly as you have your own rooms up stairs," he remarked, as she passed him.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000001|"You haven't the time, or I the patience for too many strokes of the broom.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000002|And mrs Scoville," he called out as she slipped through the doorway, "leave the door open and keep away as much as possible from the side of the room where I have nailed up the curtain.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000003|I had rather not have that touched."
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000022_000001|She felt that she had been set to work with a string tied round her feet.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000022_000002|Not touch the curtain!
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000022_000003|Why, that was the one thing in the room she wanted to touch; for in it she not only saw the carpet which had been taken up from the floor of the study, but a possible screen behind which anything might lurk-even his redoubtable secret.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000023_000003|It would be like him to shut out light and air.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000023_000004|She would ask.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000025_000000|"No," was his short reply.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000001|One thing was settled.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000002|It was Bela's cot she saw before her-a cot without any sheets.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000003|These had been left behind in the dead negro's room, and the judge had been sleeping just as she had feared, wrapped in a rug and with uncovered pillow.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000004|This pillow was his own; it had not been brought down with the bed.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000005|She hastily slipped a cover on it, and without calling any further attention to her act, began to make up the bed.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000028_000001|He coughed and shook his head, but did not budge an inch.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000028_000002|Before she had begun to put things in order, the clock struck the half hour.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000029_000000|"Oh!" she protested, with a pleading glance his way, "I'm not half done."
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000030_000000|"There's another day to follow," he dryly remarked, rising and taking a key from his pocket.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000031_000000|The act expressed his wishes; and she was proceeding to carry out her things when a quick sliding noise from the wall she was passing, drew her attention and caused her to spring forward in an involuntary effort to catch a picture which had slipped its cord and was falling to the floor.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000032_000001|She had grasped and lifted the picture and seen-
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000000|But first, let me explain.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000001|This picture was not like the others hanging about.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000002|It was a veiled one.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000003|From some motive of precaution or characteristic desire for concealment on the part of the judge, it had been closely wrapped about in heavy brown paper before being hung, and in the encounter which ensued between the falling picture and the spear of an image standing on a table underneath, this paper had received a slit through which Deborah had been given a glimpse of the canvas beneath.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000034_000000|The shock of what she saw would have unnerved a less courageous woman.
train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000035_000000|IT WAS A HIGHLY FINISHED PORTRAIT OF OLIVER IN HIS YOUTH, WITH A BROAD BAND OF BLACK PAINTED DIRECTLY ACROSS THE EYES.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000000|An aristocratic society might accordingly be a perfect heaven if the variety and superposition of functions in it expressed a corresponding diversity in its members' faculties and ideals.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000001|And, indeed, what aristocratic philosophers have always maintained is that men really differ so much in capacity that one is happier for being a slave, another for being a shopkeeper, and a third for being a king.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000002|All professions, they say, even the lowest, are or may be vocations.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000003|Some men, Aristotle tells us, are slaves by nature; only physical functions are spontaneous in them.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000004|So long as they are humanely treated, it is, we may infer, a benefit for them to be commanded; and the contribution their labour makes toward rational life in their betters is the highest dignity they can attain, and should be prized by them as a sufficient privilege.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000002_000000|Such assertions, coming from lordly lips, have a suspicious optimism about them; yet the faithful slave, such as the nurse we find in the tragedies, may sometimes have corresponded to that description.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000002_000002|It would seldom benefit a musician to be appointed admiral or a housemaid to become a prima donna.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000002_000004|One tribe would run errands as persistently as the ants; another would sing like the lark; a third would show a devil's innate fondness for stoking a fiery furnace.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000000|Aristocracy logically involves castes.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000001|But such castes as exist in India, and the social classes we find in the western world, are not now based on any profound difference in race, capacity, or inclination.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000002|They are based probably on the chances of some early war, reinforced by custom and perpetuated by inheritance.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000003|A certain circulation, corresponding in part to proved ability or disability, takes place in the body politic, and, since the French Revolution, has taken place increasingly.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000004|Some, by energy and perseverance, rise from the bottom; some, by ill fortune or vice, fall from the top.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000005|But these readjustments are insignificant in comparison with the social inertia that perpetuates all the classes, and even such shifts as occur at once re-establish artificial conditions for the next generation.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000006|As a rule, men's station determines their occupation without their gifts determining their station.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000007|Thus stifled ability in the lower orders, and apathy or pampered incapacity in the higher, unite to deprive society of its natural leaders.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000006_000002|It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000006_000003|Most men have no vocation; and society, in imposing on them some chance language, some chance religion, and some chance career, first plants an ideal in their bosoms and insinuates into them a sort of racial or professional soul.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000006_000004|Their only character is composed of the habits they have been led to acquire.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000000|Variety in human dreams, like personality among savages, may indeed be inwardly very great, but it is not efficacious.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000001|To be socially important and expressible in some common medium, initial differences in temper must be organised into custom and become cumulative by being imitated and enforced.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000002|The only artists who can show great originality are those trained in distinct and established schools; for originality and genius must be largely fed and raised on the shoulders of some old tradition.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000003|A rich organisation and heritage, while they predetermine the core of all possible variations, increase their number, since every advance opens up new vistas; and growth, in extending the periphery of the substance organised, multiplies the number of points at which new growths may begin.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000005|So, too, in political society, statesmanship is made possible by traditional policies, generalship by military institutions, great financiers by established commerce.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000008_000001|Savages are born free and equal, but wherever a complex and highly specialised environment limits the loose freedom of those born into it, it also stimulates their capacity. Under forced culture remarkable growths will appear, bringing to light possibilities in men which might, perhaps, not even have been possibilities had they been left to themselves; for mulberry leaves do not of themselves develop into brocade.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000008_000002|A certain personal idiosyncrasy must be assumed at bottom, else cotton damask would be as good as silk and all men having like opportunities would be equally great.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000008_000003|This idiosyncrasy is brought out by social pressure, while in a state of nature it might have betrayed itself only in trivial and futile ways, as it does among barbarians.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000010_000000|Distinction is thus in one sense artificial, since it cannot become important or practical unless a certain environment gives play to individual talent and preserves its originality; but distinction nevertheless is perfectly real, and not merely imputed.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000010_000004|If Shakespeare had been born in Italy he might, if you will, have been a great poet, but Shakespeare he could never have been.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000010_000005|Nor can it be called an injustice to all of us who are not Englishmen of Queen Elizabeth's time that Shakespeare had that advantage and was thereby enabled to exist.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000000|The sense of injustice at unequal opportunities arises only when the two environments compared are really somewhat analogous, so that the illusion of a change of roles without a change of characters may retain some colour.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000001|It was a just insight, for instance, in the Christian fable to make the first rebel against God the chief among the angels, the spirit occupying the position nearest to that which he tried to usurp. Lucifer's fallacy consisted in thinking natural inequality artificial. His perversity lay in rebelling against himself and rejecting the happiness proper to his nature.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000003|No one, except in wilful fancy, would envy the peculiar advantages of a whale or an ant, of an Inca or a Grand Lama.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000004|An exchange of places with such remote beings would too evidently leave each creature the very same that it was before; for after a nominal exchange of places each office would remain filled and no trace of a change would be perceptible.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000005|But the penny that one man finds and another misses would not, had fortune been reversed, have transmuted each man into the other.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000007|Yet the incipient fallacy lurking even in such suppositions becomes obvious when we inquire whether so blind an accident, for instance, as sex is also adventitious and ideally transferable and whether Jack and Jill, remaining themselves, could have exchanged genders.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000012_000001|The first personal pronoun "I" is a concept so thoroughly universal that it can accompany any experience whatever, yet it is used to designate an individual who is really definable not by the formal selfhood which he shares with every other thinker, but by the special events that make up his life.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000013_000000|If a new birth could still be called by a man's own name, the reason would be that the concrete faculties now present in him are the basis for the ideal he throws out, and if these particular faculties came to fruition in a new being, he would call that being himself, inasmuch as it realised his ideal.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000013_000004|Even his most perversely metaphysical envy can begrudge to others only what he instinctively craves for himself.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000000|It is not mere inequality, therefore, that can be a reproach to the aristocratic or theistic ideal.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000001|Could each person fulfil his own nature the most striking differences in endowment and fortune would trouble nobody's dreams.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000002|The true reproach to which aristocracy and theism are open is the thwarting of those unequal natures and the consequent suffering imposed on them all.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000003|Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000004|A bruised child wailing in the street, his small world for the moment utterly black and cruel before him, does not fetch his unhappiness from sophisticated comparisons or irrational envy; nor can any compensations and celestial harmonies supervening later ever expunge or justify that moment's bitterness.
train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000005|The pain may be whistled away and forgotten; the mind may be rendered by it only a little harder, a little coarser, a little more secretive and sullen and familiar with unrightable wrong.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000001_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000002_000000|DANIEL BURTON TAKES THE PLUNGE
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000004_000002|He then went on to explain.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000005_000004|Meanwhile, the boy was as comfortable where he was as he could be anywhere, and, moreover, there were certain treatments which should still be continued.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000006_000000|It was a bitter blow.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000007_000000|Then came Keith's letter.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000011_000001|She went at once to the studio.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000014_000001|His face had grown a little white.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000015_000001|But will he PAY anything for them things?"
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000016_000001|And-Susan."
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000020_000001|"I shall want breakfast at seven o'clock, Susan." He turned away plainly indicating that for him the matter was closed.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000021_000000|But for Susan the matter was not closed.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000023_000001|You may go."
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000024_000000|And Susan went.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000025_000000|But not yet for Susan was the matter closed.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000031_000000|mrs McGuire, her eyes dreamily fixed out the window, nodded her head slowly.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000001|It was always like that with my john.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000003|I'll never forget.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000004|One day he went to a fire.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000006|He was twelve years old.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000012|It was just the way he told it.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000014|He could make others see-everything. But now-that's all over now.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000041_000002|I tell you it made me sick, mr Jenkins, sick!"
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000000|"Well, it did.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000002|I couldn't help it.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000004|You know that's all the rage now.
train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000005|Like this," she finished, producing from somewhere about her person a half sheet of note paper.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000005_000003|But inwardly-
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000007_000003|She brought them all, and read them to him.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000016_000004|"Susan, how-how IS he?" she finished unsteadily.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000022_000000|"I know.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000023_000002|WOULD he see me, do you think?"
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000024_000000|"He ought to.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000026_000001|"I mean, about your being 'Miss Stewart'?"
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000027_000000|"A little, but not much.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000027_000002|Some way, I-" She stopped short, with a quick indrawing of her breath.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000027_000003|In the doorway down the hall stood Keith.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000028_000000|"Susan, I thought I heard-WAS Miss Stewart here?" he demanded excitedly.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000030_000000|"Indeed I'm here," she cried gayly, giving a warm clasp to his eagerly outstretched hand "How do you do?
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000033_000000|"When did you come?"
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000034_000000|"Yesterday."
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000036_000000|"Oh, but I didn't," she laughed a little embarrassedly.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000036_000001|"You're at home now, and you have all your old friends, and-"
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000039_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000042_000000|"No, no, it isn't that," protested the girl quickly.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000042_000001|"It's only-There are so many-"
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000043_000001|There isn't any one here that UNDERSTANDS-like you.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000001|"Miss Stewart, I don't say this sort of thing very often.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000002|I never said it before-to anybody.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000004|And it was the WAY you did it, with never a word or a hint that I was different.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000007|And how I blessed you for not TELLING me those lines were there!
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000047_000002|You will come?"
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000049_000000|"You've helped more-than you'll ever know.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000049_000001|But, come-look!
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000054_000000|"I mean just that."
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000056_000004|But the words just wouldn't come.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000061_000002|He'd never forgive it-I know he wouldn't-to think I'd taken advantage of his not being able to see."
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000063_000000|"He wouldn't.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000067_000004|He spoke-beautifully about that to day.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000069_000000|When thinkin' won't mend it, Then thinkin' won't end it.
train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000070_000000|So what's the use?
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000003_000000|FOR THE SAKE OF john
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000005_000000|The town, aware now of the stupendous change that had come to the fortunes of the Burton family, stared, gossiped, shook wise heads of prophecy, then passed on to the next sensation-which happened to be the return of four soldiers from across the seas; three crippled, one blinded.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000010_000001|What IS the matter?" demanded Susan concernedly.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000012_000001|Now, tell me, what is it?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000013_000003|"Susan, I can't! I can't-stand it," he moaned.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000014_000001|But, what is it-now?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000000|"john McGuire.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000002|Why, Susan, I could see it-SEE it, I tell you, and, oh, I did so want to be there to help.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000005|I could hear it.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000008|Even one man counted there-counted for, oh, so much!--for at the last there was just one man left----john McGuire.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000009|And to hear him tell it-it was wonderful, wonderful!"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000016_000004|His mother told me.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000017_000005|He never talked like this, until to day.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000017_000006|Oh, he's told me a little, from time to time.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000017_000008|And there it was, wasted, WASTED, worse than wasted on-me!"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000019_000001|"Listen!
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000019_000002|You want others to hear it-what you heard-don't you?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000022_000000|"How?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000024_000000|"Oh, Susan, if we only could!" A dawning hope had come into Keith Burton's face, but almost at once it faded into gray disappointment. "We couldn't do it, though, Susan.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000024_000001|He couldn't do it.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000024_000003|He's only begun to practice a little bit.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000025_000003|He couldn't do it.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000025_000004|I can see that now.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000025_000005|But, Keith, couldn't YOU do it?--take it down, I mean, as he talked, like a stylographer?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000026_000000|Keith shook his head.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000027_000000|"I wish I could.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000027_000001|But I couldn't, I know I couldn't.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000028_000003|His step was slow, his head was bowed.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000028_000004|He looked like anything but the happy possessor of new wealth.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000030_000000|"Do what?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000031_000001|Couldn't he do it?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000032_000002|But Susan, john McGuire wouldn't TELL it to HIM.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000032_000005|Tell me that?"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000033_000001|No, no, don't look like that," she protested hurriedly, as Keith began to frown.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000034_000000|"Yes, you're quite right-john wouldn't know a thing about it," broke in Keith, with a passion so sudden and bitter that Susan fell back in dismay.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000036_000000|"I wonder if you think I'd do it!" he demanded.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000041_000000|"But, Keith, I'm sure that Dorothy liked-"
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000044_000000|"It would-help some." Keith drew in his breath and held it a moment suspended.
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000045_000003|He's nervous as a witch since he quit his job."
train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000046_000002|However, we'll see.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000000_000000|These things, if they were merely the grievances of the study, might very well rest there.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000000_000002|And not only that, but it might be the prevalent and everyday language of Scandinavia and Denmark and Holland, of all Africa, all North America, of the Pacific coasts of Asia and of India, the universal international language, and in a fair way to be the universal language of mankind.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000000_000005|But here it is clear that upon the probability of such a renascence depends the extension of the language, and not only that, but the preservation of that military and naval efficiency upon which, in this world of resolute aggression, the existence of the English speaking communities finally depends.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000004|The French reading public is something different and very much larger than the existing French political system.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000005|The number of books published in French is greater than that published in English; there is a critical reception for a work published in French that is one of the few things worth a writer's having, and the French translators are the most alert and efficient in the world.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000007|The serried ranks of lemon coloured volumes in the former have the whole range of human thought and interest; there are no taboos and no limits, you have everything up and down the scale, from frank indecency to stark wisdom.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000008|It is a shop for men.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000013|While the French bookshop reeks of contemporary intellectual life!
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000000|These things count for French as against English now, and they will count for infinitely more in the coming years.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000001|And over German also French has many advantages.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000004|And German compared with French is an unattractive language; unmelodious, unwieldy, and cursed with a hideous and blinding lettering that the German is too patriotic to sacrifice.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000006|In particular it has stood in the way of the international use of scientific terms.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000007|The Englishman, the Frenchman, and the Italian have a certain community of technical, scientific, and philosophical phraseology, and it is frequently easier for an Englishman with some special knowledge of his subject to read and appreciate a subtle and technical work in French, than it is for him to fully enter into the popular matter of the same tongue.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000008|Moreover, the technicalities of these peoples, being not so immediately and constantly brought into contrast and contact with their Latin or Greek roots as they would be if they were derived (as are so many "patriotic" German technicalities) from native roots, are free to qualify and develop a final meaning distinct from their original intention.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000009|In the growing and changing body of science this counts for much.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000011|And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis....
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000012|Moreover, against the German tongue there are hostile frontiers, there are hostile people who fear German preponderance, and who have set their hearts against its use.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000000|These two tongues must inevitably come into keen conflict; they will perhaps fight their battle for the linguistic conquest of Europe, and perhaps of the world, in a great urban region that will arise about the Rhine.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000001|Politically this region lies now in six independent States, but economically it must become one in the next fifty years.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000003|It will stretch from Lille to Kiel, it will drive extensions along the Rhine valley into Switzerland, and fling an arm along the Moldau to Prague, it will be the industrial capital of the old world.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000007|Its westward port may be Bordeaux or Milford Haven, or even some port in the south-west of Ireland-unless, which is very unlikely, the velocity of secure sea travel can be increased beyond that of land locomotion.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000008|I do not see how this great region is to unify itself without some linguistic compromise-the Germanization of the french-speaking peoples by force is too ridiculous a suggestion to entertain.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000009|Almost inevitably with travel, with transport communications, with every condition of human convenience insisting upon it, formally or informally a bi lingual compromise will come into operation, and to my mind at least the chances seem even that French will emerge on the upper hand.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000010|Unless, indeed, that great renascence of the English speaking peoples should, after all, so overwhelmingly occur as to force this European city to be tri lingual, and prepare the way by which the whole world may at last speak together in one tongue.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000000|These are the aggregating tongues.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000001|I do not think that any other tongues than these are quite likely to hold their own in the coming time. Italian may flourish in the city of the Po valley, but only with French beside it.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000003|They are, I believe, already judged.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000004|By a d two thousand all these languages will be tending more and more to be the second tongues of bi lingual communities, with French, or English, or less probably German winning the upper hand.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000000|But when one turns to China there are the strangest possibilities.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000002|Throughout Eastern Asia there is still, no doubt, a vast wilderness of languages, but over them all rides the Chinese writing.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000003|And very strong-strong enough to be very gravely considered-is the possibility of that writing taking up an orthodox association of sounds, and becoming a world speech.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000004|The Japanese written language, the language of Japanese literature, tends to assimilate itself to Chinese, and fresh Chinese words and expressions are continually taking root in Japan.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000008|Suppose, after all, I am not the victim of atmospheric refraction, and they are, indeed, as gallant and bold and intelligent as my baseless conception of them would have them be!
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000009|They would almost certainly find co-operative elements among the educated Chinese....
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000010|But this is no doubt the lesser probability.
train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000012|It has the start of all other languages-the mechanical advantage-the position.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000000_000000|Conall Yellowclaw
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000000|Conall Yellowclaw was a sturdy tenant in Erin: he had three sons. There was at that time a king over every fifth of Erin.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000002|The children of Conall got the upper hand, and they killed the king's big son.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000004|But I see that though I follow you revengefully, I shall not be much better for it, and I will now set a thing before you, and if you will do it, I will not follow you with revenge.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000005|If you and your sons will get me the brown horse of the king of Lochlann, you shall get the souls of your sons."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000002_000001|Hard is the matter you require of me, but I will lose my own life, and the life of my sons, or else I will do the pleasure of the king."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000003_000000|After these words Conall left the king, and he went home: when he got home he was under much trouble and perplexity.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000003_000002|His wife took much sorrow that he was obliged to part from herself, while she knew not if she should see him more.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000005_000000|When he rose on the morrow, he set himself and his three sons in order, and they took their journey towards Lochlann, and they made no stop but tore through ocean till they reached it.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000006_000000|When they went to the house of the king's miller, the man asked them to stop there for the night.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000006_000001|Conall told the miller that his own children and the children of his king had fallen out, and that his children had killed the king's son, and there was nothing that would please the king but that he should get the brown horse of the king of Lochlann.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000007_000000|"If you will do me a kindness, and will put me in a way to get him, for certain I will pay ye for it."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000008_000000|"The thing is silly that you are come to seek," said the miller; "for the king has laid his mind on him so greatly that you will not get him in any way unless you steal him; but if you can make out a way, I will keep it secret."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000009_000000|"This is what I am thinking," said Conall, "since you are working every day for the king, you and your gillies could put myself and my sons into four sacks of bran."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000010_000000|"The plan that has come into your head is not bad," said the miller.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000011_000001|The king's gillies came to seek the bran, and they took the four sacks with them, and they emptied them before the horses.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000011_000002|The servants locked the door, and they went away.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000012_000000|When they rose to lay hand on the brown horse, said Conall, "You shall not do that.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000012_000004|"It must be my brown horse," said he to his gillies; "find out what is wrong with him."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000000|The servants went out, and when Conall and his sons saw them coming they went into the hiding holes.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000001|The servants looked amongst the horses, and they did not find anything wrong; and they returned and they told this to the king, and the king said to them that if nothing was wrong they should go to their places of rest.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000002|When the gillies had time to be gone, Conall and his sons laid their hands again on the horse.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000003|If the noise was great that he made before, the noise that he made now was seven times greater.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000004|The king sent a message for his gillies again, and said for certain there was something troubling the brown horse.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000006|The servants rummaged well, and did not find a thing.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000015_000000|When Conall and his sons perceived that the gillies were gone, they laid hands again on the horse, and one of them caught him; and if the noise that the horse made on the two former times was great, he made more this time.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000016_000000|"Be this from me," said the king; "it must be that some one is troubling my brown horse." He sounded the bell hastily, and when his waiting man came to him, he said to him to let the stable gillies know that something was wrong with the horse.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000016_000001|The gillies came, and the king went with them.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000016_000002|When Conall and his sons perceived the company coming they went to the hiding holes.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000018_000000|"Be wary," said the king, "there are men within the stable, let us get at them somehow."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000019_000000|The king followed the tracks of the men, and he found them.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000020_000001|I am under thy pardon, and under thine honour, and under thy grace." He told how it happened to him, and that he had to get the brown horse for the king of Erin, or that his sons were to be put to death.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000021_000000|"Yes, Conall, it is well enough, but come in," said the king.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000021_000002|And a double watch was set that night on the sons of Conall.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000022_000000|"Now, O Conall," said the king, "were you ever in a harder place than to be seeing your lot of sons hanged to morrow?
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000022_000001|But you set it to my goodness and to my grace, and say that it was necessity brought it on you, so I must not hang you.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000022_000002|Tell me any case in which you were as hard as this, and if you tell that, you shall get the soul of your youngest son."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000000|"I will tell a case as hard in which I was," said Conall.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000001|"I was once a young lad, and my father had much land, and he had parks of year old cows, and one of them had just calved, and my father told me to bring her home.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000002|I found the cow, and took her with us.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000003|There fell a shower of snow.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000005|Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one eyed fox coloured cat as head bard over them.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000008|'Play up with you, why should you be silent?
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000009|Make a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw,' said the head bard.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000011|'Pay them now their reward,' said the great fox coloured cat.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000012|'I am tired myself of yourselves and your rewards,' said i 'I have no reward for you unless you take that cow down there.' They betook themselves to the cow, and indeed she did not last them long.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000001|Go up and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw,' said the head bard.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000002|And surely, O king, I had no care for them or for their cronan, for I began to see that they were not good comrades.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000004|'Pay now their reward,' said the head bard; and for sure, O king, I had no reward for them; and I said to them, 'I have no reward for you.' And surely, O king, there was a catterwauling between them.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000008|The cats began to search for me through the wood, and they could not find me; and when they were tired, each one said to the other that they would turn back.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000012|'Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity-let us move.' They set themselves in order for moving.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000014|Then I gave the third shout.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000016|And then I came home.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000026_000001|Conall," said the king, "you are full of words.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000026_000002|You have freed the soul of your son with your tale; and if you tell me a harder case than that you will get your second youngest son, and then you will have two sons."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000027_000000|"Well then," said Conall, "on condition that thou dost that, I will tell thee how I was once in a harder case than to be in thy power in prison to night."
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000028_000000|"Let's hear," said the king.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000006|I heard a great clattering, coming, and what was there but a great giant and two dozen of goats with him, and a buck at their head.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000009|I am a good leech, and I will give you the sight of the other eye.' The giant went and he drew the great caldron on the site of the fire.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000010|I myself was telling him how he should heat the water, so that I should give its sight to the other eye.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000011|I got heather and I made a rubber of it, and I set him upright in the caldron.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000012|I began at the eye that was well, pretending to him that I would give its sight to the other one, till I left them as bad as each other; and surely it was easier to spoil the one that was well than to give sight to the other.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000032_000000|"When he felt the birds calling in the morning, and knew that the day was, he said-'Art thou sleeping?
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000032_000001|Awake and let out my lot of goats.' I killed the buck.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000033_000001|Then I went and I put my legs in place of his legs, and my hands in place of his forelegs, and my head in place of his head, and the horns on top of my head, so that the brute might think that it was the buck.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000033_000002|I went out.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000034_000000|"'Aha!' said he, 'hast thou done this to me?
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000035_000002|I drew a dirk.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000035_000004|He shouted, 'Where art thou, ring?' And the ring said, 'I am here,' though it was on the bed of the ocean.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000035_000005|He gave a spring after the ring, and out he went in the sea.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000036_000000|"When the giant was drowned I went in, and I took with me all he had of gold and silver, and I went home, and surely great joy was on my people when I arrived.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000037_000000|"Yes, indeed, Conall, you are wordy and wise," said the king.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000037_000001|"I see the finger is off you.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000001|I went to hunt.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000003|I looked myself on the boat to see how I might get part of them.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000005|I did not know now what I should do.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000006|The place was without meat or clothing, without the appearance of a house on it.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000009|She tried to put the knife to the throat of the babe, and the babe began to laugh in her face, and she began to cry, and she threw the knife behind her.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000010|I thought to myself that I was near my foe and far from my friends, and I called to the woman, 'What are you doing here?' And she said to me 'What brought you here?' I told her myself word upon word how I came.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000011|'Well, then,' said she, 'it was so I came also.' She showed me to the place where I should come in where she was.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000012|I went in, and I said to her, 'What was the matter that you were putting the knife on the neck of the child?' 'It is that he must be cooked for the giant who is here, or else no more of my world will be before me.' Just then we could be hearing the footsteps of the giant, 'What shall I do?
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000013|what shall I do?' cried the woman.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000014|I went to the caldron, and by luck it was not hot, so in it I got just as the brute came in.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000001|As fortune favoured me, the brute slept beside the caldron.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000002|There I was scalded by the bottom of the caldron.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000003|When she perceived that he was asleep, she set her mouth quietly to the hole that was in the lid, and she said to me 'was I alive?' I said I was.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000005|When I got out of the caldron I knew not what to do; and she said to me that there was no weapon that would kill him but his own weapon.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000007|But with every ill that befell me I got the spear loosed from him.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000009|And it was fearful to look on the brute, who had but one eye in the midst of his face; and it was not agreeable for the like of me to attack him.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000012|And he fell cold dead where he was; and you may be sure, O king, that joy was on me.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000040_000000|The king of Lochlann's mother was putting on a fire at this time, and listening to Conall telling the tale about the child.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000041_000000|"Is it you," said she, "that were there?"
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000044_000000|The king said, "O Conall, you came through great hardships.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000000|They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it was earlier than that that the queen was on foot making ready.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000001|He got the brown horse and his sack full of gold and silver and stones of great price, and then Conall and his three sons went away, and they returned home to the Erin realm of gladness.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000002|He left the gold and silver in his house, and he went with the horse to the king.
train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000003|They were good friends evermore.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000007_000000|Chapter forty six.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000007_000001|The Donation.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000008_000000|Colbert reappeared beneath the curtains.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000010_000000|"Alas! yes, my lord."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000011_000000|"Can he be right?
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000011_000001|Can all this money be badly acquired?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000012_000002|People generally find they have been so,--when they die."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000013_000000|"In the first place, they commit the wrong of dying, Colbert."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000014_000000|"That is true, my lord.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000014_000002|Against the king?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000016_000000|"That admits of no contradiction, my lord."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000017_000000|"Does it?
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000018_000000|"That is beyond doubt."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000019_000000|"And I might fairly keep for my own family, which is so needy, a good fortune,--the whole, even, of which I have earned?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000020_000000|"I see no impediment to that, monseigneur."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000021_000000|"I felt assured that in consulting you, Colbert, I should have good advice," replied Mazarin, greatly delighted.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000023_000000|"Oh! no; a snare?
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000023_000001|What for?
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000024_000001|Did I not hear him say-'Distinguish that which the king has given you from that which you have given yourself.' Recollect, my lord, if he did not say something a little like that to you?--that is quite a theatrical speech."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000025_000000|"That is possible."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000027_000000|"To make restitution!" cried Mazarin, with great warmth.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000029_000000|"What, of all!
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000029_000002|You speak just as the confessor did."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000030_000000|"To make restitution of a part,--that is to say, his majesty's part; and that, monseigneur, may have its dangers.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000030_000001|Your eminence is too skillful a politician not to know that, at this moment, the king does not possess a hundred and fifty thousand livres clear in his coffers."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000034_000000|"The legacy of a part would dishonor you and offend the king.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000034_000001|Leaving a part to his majesty, is to avow that that part has inspired you with doubts as to the lawfulness of the means of acquisition."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000035_000000|"Monsieur Colbert!"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000036_000000|"I thought your eminence did me the honor to ask my advice?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000037_000000|"Yes, but you are ignorant of the principal details of the question."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000039_000001|"Surely the king would reproach me with nothing, but he would laugh at me, while squandering my millions, and with good reason."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000040_000000|"Your eminence has misunderstood me.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000041_000000|"You said so, clearly, it seems to me, when you advised me to give it to him."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000042_000000|"Ah," replied Colbert, "that is because your eminence, absorbed as you are by your disease, entirely loses sight of the character of Louis the fourteenth."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000043_000000|"How so?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000045_000000|"Go on-that is?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000046_000000|"Pride!
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000046_000001|Pardon me, my lord, haughtiness, nobleness; kings have no pride, that is a human passion."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000047_000000|"Pride,--yes, you are right.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000047_000001|Next?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000048_000000|"Well, my lord, if I have divined rightly, your eminence has but to give all your money to the king, and that immediately."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000049_000000|"But for what?" said Mazarin, quite bewildered.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000050_000000|"Because the king will not accept of the whole."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000052_000000|"Just so."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000054_000000|"My lord!"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000055_000000|"To inherit, yes, Colbert, yes; he is anxious for my death, in order to inherit.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000055_000001|Triple fool that I am!
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000055_000002|I would prevent him!"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000056_000000|"Exactly: if the donation were made in a certain form he would refuse it."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000057_000000|"Well; but how?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000058_000000|"That is plain enough.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000058_000003|All that does not proceed from himself, I predict, he will disdain."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000059_000000|"And you will guarantee, that if I give my forty millions to the king-"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000060_000000|"Saying certain things to him at the same time, I guarantee he will refuse them."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000061_000000|"But those things-what are they?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000062_000000|"I will write them, if my lord will have the goodness to dictate them."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000063_000000|"Well, but, after all, what advantage will that be to me?"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000067_000000|"But, if he should accept it; if he should even think of accepting it!"
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000068_000000|"Then there would remain thirteen millions for your family, and that is a good round sum."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000070_000001|You appear to be much afraid that the king will accept; you have a deal more reason to fear that he will not accept."
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000071_000001|But my pains are returning, I shall faint.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000000|Colbert started.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000001|The cardinal was indeed very ill; large drops of sweat flowed down upon his bed of agony, and the frightful pallor of a face streaming with water was a spectacle which the most hardened practitioner could not have beheld without much compassion.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000002|Colbert was, without doubt, very much affected, for he quitted the chamber, calling Bernouin to attend to the dying man, and went into the corridor.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000004|Whilst burning hot napkins, physic, revulsives, and Guenaud, who was recalled, were performing their functions with increased activity, Colbert, holding his great head in both his hands, to compress within it the fever of the projects engendered by the brain, was meditating the tenor of the donation he would make Mazarin write, at the first hour of respite his disease should afford him.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000006|Colbert resumed his place at Mazarin's pillow at the first interval of pain, and persuaded him to dictate a donation thus conceived.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000073_000000|"About to appear before God, the Master of mankind, I beg the king, who was my master on earth, to resume the wealth which his bounty has bestowed upon me, and which my family would be happy to see pass into such illustrious hands.
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000073_000001|The particulars of my property will be found-they are drawn up-at the first requisition of his majesty, or at the last sigh of his most devoted servant,
train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000075_000000|The cardinal sighed heavily as he signed this; Colbert sealed the packet, and carried it immediately to the Louvre, whither the king had returned.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000002_000000|Chapter forty seven.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000004_000000|But the minister had had, as we have said, an alarming attack of gout, and the tide of flattery was mounting towards the throne.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000004_000001|Courtiers have a marvelous instinct in scenting the turn of events; courtiers possess a supreme kind of science; they are diplomatists in throwing light upon the unraveling of complicated intrigues, captains in divining the issue of battles, and physicians in curing the sick.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000004_000002|Louis the fourteenth., to whom his mother had taught this axiom, together with many others, understood at once that the cardinal must be very ill.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000005_000001|The young king then was, as we have seen, a prey to a double excitement; and he said to himself as he looked in a glass, "O king!--king by name, and not in fact;--phantom, vain phantom art thou!--inert statue, which has no other power than that of provoking salutations from courtiers, when wilt thou be able to raise thy velvet arm, or clench thy silken hand?
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000005_000002|when wilt thou be able to open, for any purpose but to sigh, or smile, lips condemned to the motionless stupidity of the marbles in thy gallery?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000000|Then, passing his hand over his brow, and feeling the want of air, he approached a window, and looking down, saw below some horsemen talking together, and groups of timid observers.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000001|These horsemen were a fraction of the watch: the groups were busy portions of the people, to whom a king is always a curious thing, the same as a rhinoceros, a crocodile, or a serpent.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000002|He struck his brow with his open hand, crying,--"King of France! what a title!
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000003|People of France! what a heap of creatures!
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000004|I have just returned to my Louvre; my horses, just unharnessed, are still smoking, and I have created interest enough to induce scarcely twenty persons to look at me as I passed.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000005|Twenty! what do I say?
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000006|no; there were not twenty anxious to see the king of France.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000008|Why, my good God! have not I, the king, the right to ask of you all that?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000007_000000|"Because," said a voice, replying to his, and which sounded from the other side of the door of the cabinet, "because at the Palais Royal lies all the gold,--that is to say, all the power of him who desires to reign."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000008_000001|The voice which had pronounced these words was that of Anne of Austria.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000008_000002|The king started, and advanced towards her. "I hope," said he, "your majesty has paid no attention to the vain declamations which the solitude and disgust familiar to kings suggest to the happiest dispositions?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000009_000000|"I only paid attention to one thing, my son, and that was, that you were complaining."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000010_000000|"Who!
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000010_000001|I?
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000010_000002|Not at all," said Louis the fourteenth.; "no, in truth, you err, madame."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000011_000000|"What were you doing, then?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000012_000000|"I thought I was under the ferule of my professor, and developing a subject of amplification."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000013_000000|"My son," replied Anne of Austria, shaking her head, "you are wrong not to trust my word; you are wrong not to grant me your confidence.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000013_000001|A day will come, and perhaps quickly, wherein you will have occasion to remember that axiom:--'Gold is universal power; and they alone are kings who are all powerful.'"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000014_000000|"Your intention," continued the king, "was not, however, to cast blame upon the rich men of this age, was it?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000015_000001|That is what I mean to say by the words for which you reproach me."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000017_000000|"Besides," continued Anne of Austria, "the Lord never gives the goods of this world but for a season; the Lord-as correctives to honor and riches-the Lord has placed sufferings, sickness, and death; and no one," added she, with a melancholy smile, which proved she made the application of the funeral precept to herself, "no man can take his wealth or greatness with him to the grave.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000017_000001|It results, therefore, that the young gather the abundant harvest prepared for them by the old."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000018_000000|Louis listened with increased attention to the words which Anne of Austria, no doubt, pronounced with a view to console him.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000018_000001|"Madame," said he, looking earnestly at his mother, "one would almost say in truth that you had something else to announce to me."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000019_000000|"I have absolutely nothing, my son; only you cannot have failed to remark that his eminence the cardinal is very ill."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000020_000000|Louis looked at his mother, expecting some emotion in her voice, some sorrow in her countenance.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000020_000001|The face of Anne of Austria appeared a little changed, but that was from sufferings of quite a personal character. Perhaps the alteration was caused by the cancer which had begun to consume her breast.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000021_000001|Is not that your opinion as well as mine, my son?" said the queen.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000022_000000|"Yes, madame; yes, certainly, it would be a great loss for the kingdom," said Louis, coloring; "but the peril does not seem to me to be so great; besides, the cardinal is still young." The king had scarcely ceased speaking when an usher lifted the tapestry, and stood with a paper in his hand, waiting for the king to speak to him.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000023_000000|"What have you there?" asked the king.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000025_000000|"Give it to me," said the king; and he took the paper.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000025_000001|But at the moment he was about to open it, there was a great noise in the gallery, the ante chamber, and the court.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000026_000001|"How could I say there was but one king in France!
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000026_000002|I was mistaken, there are two."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000027_000000|As he spoke or thought thus, the door opened, and the superintendent of finances, Fouquet, appeared before his nominal master.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000027_000002|In addition to all this, a loud murmur was heard along his passage, which did not die away till some time after he had passed. It was this murmur which Louis the fourteenth. regretted so deeply not hearing as he passed, and dying away behind him.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000028_000000|"He is not precisely a king, as you fancy," said Anne of Austria to her son; "he is only a man who is much too rich-that is all."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000029_000001|He nodded, therefore, familiarly to Fouquet, whilst he continued to unfold the paper given to him by the usher.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000029_000003|Louis had opened the paper, and yet he did not read it.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000031_000001|I was at my country house of Vaux when the news reached me; and the affair seemed so pressing that I left at once."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000032_000000|"You left Vaux this evening, monsieur?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000033_000000|"An hour and a half ago, yes, your majesty," said Fouquet, consulting a watch, richly ornamented with diamonds.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000034_000000|"An hour and a half!" said the king, still able to restrain his anger, but not to conceal his astonishment.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000001|Your majesty doubts my word, and you have reason to do so; but I have really come in that time, though it is wonderful!
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000002|I received from England three pairs of very fast horses, as I had been assured.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000003|They were placed at distances of four leagues apart, and I tried them this evening.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000004|They really brought me from Vaux to the Louvre in an hour and a half, so your majesty sees I have not been cheated." The queen mother smiled with something like secret envy.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000005|But Fouquet caught her thought.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000006|"Thus, madame," he promptly said, "such horses are made for kings, not for subjects; for kings ought never to yield to any one in anything."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000036_000000|The king looked up.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000038_000000|"Truly not, madame; therefore the horses only await the orders of his majesty to enter the royal stables; and if I allowed myself to try them, it was only for fear of offering to the king anything that was not positively wonderful."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000039_000000|The king became quite red.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000040_000000|"You know, Monsieur Fouquet," said the queen, "that at the court of France it is not the custom for a subject to offer anything to his king."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000041_000000|Louis started.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000042_000001|It was not so much a present that I permitted myself to offer, as the tribute I paid."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000043_000000|"Thank you, Monsieur Fouquet," said the king politely, "and I am gratified by your intention, for I love good horses; but you know I am not very rich; you, who are my superintendent of finances, know it better than any one else.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000043_000001|I am not able, then, however willing I may be, to purchase such a valuable set of horses."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000044_000000|Fouquet darted a haughty glance at the queen mother, who appeared to triumph at the false position in which the minister had placed himself, and replied:--
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000045_000002|Under the mild heat of this luxury of kings springs the luxury of individuals, a source of riches for the people.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000045_000004|But the king is silent, and consequently I am condemned."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000046_000000|During this speech, Louis was, unconsciously, folding and unfolding Mazarin's paper, upon which he had not cast his eyes.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000046_000001|At length he glanced upon it, and uttered a faint cry at reading the first line.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000047_000000|"What is the matter, my son?" asked the queen, anxiously, and going towards the king.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000048_000000|"From the cardinal," replied the king, continuing to read; "yes, yes, it is really from him."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000049_000000|"Is he worse, then?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000052_000000|"Oh! a regularly drawn up deed of gift," said she.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000053_000000|"A gift?" repeated Fouquet.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000054_000000|"Yes," said the king, replying pointedly to the superintendent of finances, "yes, at the point of death, monsieur le cardinal makes me a donation of all his wealth."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000000|"Forty millions," cried the queen.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000002|this is very noble on the part of his eminence, and will silence all malicious rumors; forty millions scraped together slowly, coming back all in one heap to the treasury!
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000003|It is the act of a faithful subject and a good Christian." And having once more cast her eyes over the act, she restored it to Louis the fourteenth., whom the announcement of the sum greatly agitated.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000005|The king looked at him, and held the paper out to him, in turn.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000056_000000|"You must reply to it, my son," said Anne of Austria; "you must reply to it, and immediately."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000057_000000|"But how, madame?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000058_000000|"By a visit to the cardinal."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000059_000000|"Why, it is but an hour since I left his eminence," said the king.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000060_000000|"Write, then, sire."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000061_000000|"Write!" said the young king, with evident repugnance.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000063_000000|"That the present is worth the trouble?
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000064_000000|"Accept, then, and thank him," insisted Anne of Austria.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000066_000000|"Does your majesty wish to know my opinion?"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000067_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000068_000000|"Thank him, sire-"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000069_000000|"Ah!" said the queen.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000070_000000|"But do not accept," continued Fouquet.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000071_000000|"And why not?" asked the queen.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000073_000000|The king remained silent between these two contrary opinions.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000074_000000|"But forty millions!" said Anne of Austria, in the same tone as that in which, at a later period, poor Marie Antoinette replied, "You will tell me as much!"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000077_000000|"It is precisely, madame, because these forty millions would be a fortune that I will say to the king, 'Sire, if it be not decent for a king to accept from a subject six horses, worth twenty thousand livres, it would be disgraceful for him to owe a fortune to another subject, more or less scrupulous in the choice of the materials which contributed to the building up of that fortune.'"
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000078_000000|"It ill becomes you, monsieur, to give your king a lesson," said Anne of Austria; "better procure for him forty millions to replace those you make him lose."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000079_000000|"The king shall have them whenever he wishes," said the superintendent of finances, bowing.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000080_000000|"Yes, by oppressing the people," said the queen.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000081_000000|"And were they not oppressed, madame," replied Fouquet, "when they were made to sweat the forty millions given by this deed?
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000081_000001|Furthermore, his majesty has asked my opinion, I have given it; if his majesty ask my concurrence, it will be the same."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000082_000000|"Nonsense! accept, my son, accept," said Anne of Austria.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000082_000001|"You are above reports and interpretations."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000083_000000|"Refuse, sire," said Fouquet.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000083_000001|"As long as a king lives, he has no other measure but his conscience,--no other judge than his own desires; but when dead, he has posterity, which applauds or accuses."
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000084_000000|"Thank you, mother," replied Louis, bowing respectfully to the queen. "Thank you Monsieur, Fouquet," said he, dismissing the superintendent civilly.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000085_000000|"Do you accept?" asked Anne of Austria, once more.
train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000086_000000|"I shall consider of it," replied he, looking at Fouquet.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000002_000000|A WORLD FAMOUS CITY-JERUSALEM
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000000|The history of the world is largely the story of the rise and fall of great cities.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000002|Some of the great cities of today are famous for their size, such as New York and London; some for their beauty, like Paris and Rio Janeiro; some for their culture and learning, as Boston and Oxford; some for their manufacturing and commercial supremacy, as Detroit and Liverpool.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000003|But there is one city on the globe not nearly as large as Des Moines, not at all beautiful, its people neither cultured nor learned, has no factories and one narrow gauge railway takes care of most of its commerce, and yet it is by far the most famous city of all time.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000004|It is the city of Jerusalem.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000004_000000|The site of the city was once owned by a farmer whose name was Oman.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000004_000001|He had a threshing floor on the top of Mount Moriah.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000004_000002|The city as it is today is on top of two mountains, but the valley between has been filled up so that it is almost like one continuous mountain top.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000005_000000|To get an idea of the city as it was when the war broke out you must imagine a city of about sixty thousand people, without street cars, electric lights, telephones, waterworks, sewer system or any modern improvements whatever.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000005_000001|However, General Allenby's entrance into the city in December, nineteen seventeen, was the beginning of a new era.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000005_000002|In three months the English did more for the city than the Turk did in a thousand years.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000006_000000|There is an old Arab legend which says: "Not until the River Nile flows into Palestine will the Turk be driven from Palestine." Of course this was their way of saying that such a thing would never come to pass for the Turk actually believed that he had such a hold on that country that there was no power on earth that could make him give it up.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000006_000001|But when the English started from Egypt they not only built a railroad as they went toward Jerusalem, but not far from the Nile they prepared a great filtering process to cleanse the water, and then laid a twelve inch pipe and brought the pure water along with them for both man and beast.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000000|Jerusalem is to this day a walled city.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000001|The walls average some thirty feet high and are about fifteen feet thick at the top.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000002|It is a little less than two and one half miles around the city wall, but the city itself has outgrown these limitations, quite a portion of it being on the outside of the wall.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000003|The hotel at which the writer stopped while visiting the city some years ago, was located outside the wall, as are many of the best buildings.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000004|The streets are narrow, the houses have flat tops and many of them are but one or two stories high.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000000|There was a time, however, when this city boasted of having the finest building ever erected by the hands of man, viz: Solomon's Temple.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000001|This was built on Mount Moriah which was a great flat mountain top of uneven rock.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000002|Great arches were built around the sides and then the top leveled off until the large temple area was formed.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000003|Below the sides of this area are still seen the massive rooms that are called Solomon's stables.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000004|The writer rambled for hours through these great underground vaults and saw the holes in the stone pillars where the horses were tied.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000005|Here multiplied thousands took refuge during some of the memorable sieges that the city went through.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000010_000000|Not far away are the great vaults known as Solomon's Quarries.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000010_000001|Here is where the massive stones were "made ready" and the master builder's plans were so perfect that, "there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the temple while it was in building." The marks of the mason's tools and the niches where their lamps were placed can be seen to this day.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000010_000002|It is a remarkable fact that in sinking shafts alongside the temple wall, great stones have been discovered but no stone chips are found by them.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000000|Jerusalem has several large churches the most noted of which is the one built over the traditional tomb of Christ.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000001|It is called the "Church of the Holy Sepulchre." For sixteen hundred years there was no question but what this tomb was the identical one in which the body of Christ was laid.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000002|This church as it stands today is a magnificent building with two great entrances.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000003|The sad thing about it is the fact that it is divided up into various chapels, each held by sects of so-called Christians, and a large armed guard has to be kept in the church to keep these fanatical people from killing each other.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000004|Before soldiers were placed there, scenes of conflict and bloodshed were very common indeed-a sad spectacle for Jews and Moslems and other enemies of the Christ to gaze upon.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000012_000000|In the Church of Pater Noster I counted the Lord's Prayer in thirty two different languages inscribed on marble slabs so that almost any person from any country can read this prayer in his own language.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000012_000001|In this connection it is interesting to note that at the gate entrance to the Pool of Bethesda the scripture story of the healing of the impotent man is written, or rather inscribed, beneath the arch, in fifty one different languages.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000000|One of the large churches in the city was dedicated by the ex kaiser when he visited the city in eighteen ninety eight.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000001|It was later found out that this German church was built for military purposes.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000003|This self appointed world ruler is represented on the ceiling of the chapel of a building on Mount Olivet in a companion panel with the Deity.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000004|In this same building the ex kaiser is represented as a crusader by a figure and the Psalmist is painted with the moustache of a German general.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000005|When the ex kaiser entered the city of Jerusalem, a breach was made in the wall near the Jaffa Gate, so instead of entering through the gate like an ordinary mortal, he went in through a hole in the wall. He would no doubt be glad now to go through another "hole in the wall" to have his liberty.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000000|To the writer, however, perhaps the most interesting place in or about the entire city is the Garden Tomb and Mount Calvary.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000001|This is almost north of the Damascus gate and on the great highway from Jerusalem from the north.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000002|Mount Calvary is only a small hill.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000004|It is said that no Jew cares to pass this place after night and if he passes it in daylight he will mutter a curse upon the memory of him who presumed to be the King of the Jews.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000015_000000|Near this Skull Place is an old tomb that just fits the Bible narrative, viz: "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre wherein never man was yet laid."
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000015_000001|This tomb was discovered many years ago by General Gordon and is often spoken of as Gordon's Tomb, also called the Garden Tomb.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000015_000002|When excavating about it a wall was found which proved to be a garden wall the end of which butts up against Mount Calvary.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000000|One of the first things noted as the writer went into this tomb was the fact that it is a Jewish tomb.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000001|They made their tombs different from those of any other people.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000002|That it was a "rich man's tomb" is also very certain, as is the fact that it dates back to the Herodian period in which Jesus lived.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000003|There is also some frescoed work upon it showing that it was held sacred by the early Christians.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000004|Then the "rolling stone" and the groove in which it was placed is very interesting.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000005|This was something like a gigantic grindstone which rolled in the groove and was large enough to cover the opening when the tomb was closed.
train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000017_000000|While in and about Jerusalem the writer visited the famous "Upper Room," the "Jew's Wailing Place," the "Mosque of Omar," which stands upon the very spot where Solomon's Temple used to stand, the "Way of Sorrows," the "Ecco Homo Arch," the "Castle of Antonio," "Tower of David," the "Pool of Siloam," and a great many other interesting places.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000001_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000002_000000|A WORLD FAMOUS RIVER-THE JORDAN
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000005_000000|It is the River Jordan, and a glimpse of it brings forth some of the most wonderful characteristics possessed by any river, as well as many historical events that make their memories dear to the hearts of men and women wherever civilization has found its way.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000005_000001|Unlike all other rivers which rise in some elevated place and flow toward the sea level, nearly every mile of this river is below the surface of the ocean.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000001|That spring is but a few hundred feet above sea level.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000002|The water from this spring is joined by that of several other springs and small rivulets caused by the melting snows on the mountain, flows to the south a distance of a few miles, and forms a small lake which is about three miles wide and four miles long.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000003|This lake is just on a level with the Mediterranean Sea which is only about thirty miles to the west.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000004|This is spoken of in the Bible as "the waters of Merom." From the southern end of this lake the Jordan begins.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000000|The first ten and one half miles the water falls six hundred and eighty feet to where it enters the Sea of Galilee.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000001|This pear shaped body of water is a little more than a dozen miles long and half that wide and is surrounded by mountains.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000002|The river enters through a small canyon at the northwest and passes out through another canyon at the south end. Sometimes the wind will rush down the canyon at the northwest and in a few moments the waters of the lake are like a great whirlpool.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000003|These sudden storms often imperil any small boats which may be out on the sea as was the case in Bible times when the Master was sleeping and his disciples awakened him, saying: "Lord, save us; we perish."
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000008_000000|From this body of water to the point where the Jordan empties into the Dead Sea is only sixty five miles by airline, but the way the river winds like a gigantic serpent, one would travel twice that distance were he to go in a boat.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000008_000001|This Jordan valley is from four to fourteen miles wide and the mountains on each side rise to the height of from fifteen hundred to three thousand feet.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000009_000000|Within this Jordan valley is what might be called an inner valley which is from a quarter of a mile to a mile wide, and from fifty to something like seventy five feet deep.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000009_000001|This might be called the river bottom and the river winds like a snake in this smaller valley.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000010_000001|During this sixty five miles (airline) to the Dead Sea, it falls more than six hundred feet more, so that the Dead Sea itself is about thirteen hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea which is only forty miles west.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000011_000000|While the Jordan as well as other smaller streams flow continually into the Dead Sea, it is said that it never raises an inch.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000011_000001|This, with the fact that this body of water has no outlet whatever, makes a problem to which geologists and scientific men have failed to give a satisfactory solution.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000011_000002|Of course, the water evaporates very rapidly, but in the spring when the Jordan overflows and pours a much greater volume of water into it, how does it come that it evaporates so much faster than at any other time in the year?
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000001|I have never learned to swim; in deep water simply cannot keep my feet up, but in the Dead Sea they could not be kept down, and of course I could swim like a duck.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000002|Nothing grows near this body of water.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000003|Everything about it is dead.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000004|Like some people, it is always receiving but never giving.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000005|At the mouth of the Jordan one can see dead fish floating on the water.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000006|When carried by the swift current into this salty water they soon die.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000013_000000|The River Jordan runs very swiftly.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000013_000001|It is about the size of the Des Moines river in northern Iowa, not nearly so large as this river in the southern part of the state.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000013_000002|At the fords of the Jordan I waded out into the stream but the current was so swift that I did not attempt to go entirely across.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000014_000000|Here at this ford occurred some of the greatest events of Bible history. On the plain just east of the river the Children of Israel were encamped when Moses went up on Mount Nebo, looked over the Promised Land, folded his arms and peacefully passed into the great beyond.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000014_000001|It must have been an exciting day for the entire camp when they last saw their great leader become a mere speck on the mountain side and finally disappear altogether.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000014_000002|They not only never saw him again but they never were able to find a trace of his body.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000015_000000|There must have been much speculation among these people as to what became of Moses until in some miraculous way joshua was informed that the great leader was dead and that he must now take charge and lead the people across the Jordan into the Promised Land.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000015_000001|After thirty days mourning for Moses, the great company marched down to the river; it was opened for them and they crossed on dry ground.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000015_000002|The record also states that this crossing was at the time when the river was out of its banks and this whole bottom, nearly a mile wide, was a rushing torrent. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that the enemies who had taken possession of the Promised Land were totally unprepared for their coming, feeling secure while the river was so high and dangerous.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000016_000002|Failing to find the body, together with the fact that they had witnessed the parting of the waters when the two men went over and the same when Elisha came back alone, was sufficient evidence to them that the young prophet had told the truth.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000000|Evidently this event created a great impression all over the country and young men came to the school for the prophets which was located near, that the buildings had to be enlarged.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000001|Every student borrowed an ax and went to work felling trees along the river bank.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000002|In one case the ax flew off the handle and went into the water.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000003|The young man was greatly troubled about this for it was a borrowed one.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000000|But perhaps the greatest of all events that occurred at this place was the baptism of Christ.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000001|john the Baptist must have been the Billy Sunday of his day for the crowds that came to hear him were immense.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000002|One day among others who came was a fine looking young man who asked for baptism.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000003|But the preacher knew him and refused, saying that he was unworthy to do this, but the young man, who was no other than the Master himself, explained the situation and the preacher hesitated no longer.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000019_000000|In connection with the River Jordan and the bodies of water at each end, it is interesting to note that the first man to take the level and give to the world the remarkable facts about the physical characteristics of this wonderful and world famous river, was an American.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000019_000001|His name was Lynch and he was a lieutenant in the American Navy.
train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000019_000002|At the close of the Mexican War, our Government permitted Lieutenant Lynch to take ten seamen and two small boats and make this exploration.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000001_000000|THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN WAR
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000001|On june twenty eighth, the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne was assassinated at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, an Austrian province occupied mainly by Serbs.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000003|Germany at once proposed that the issue should be regarded as "an affair which should be settled solely between Austria Hungary and Serbia"; meaning that the small nation should be left to the tender mercies of a great power.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000004|Russia refused to take this view.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000005|Great Britain proposed a settlement by mediation.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000006|Germany backed up Austria to the limit.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000007|To use the language of the German authorities: "We were perfectly aware that a possible warlike attitude of Austria Hungary against Serbia might bring Russia upon the field and that it might therefore involve us in a war, in accordance with our duties as allies.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000008|We could not, however, in these vital interests of Austria Hungary which were at stake, advise our ally to take a yielding attitude not compatible with his dignity nor deny him our assistance." That made the war inevitable.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000000|Every day of the fateful August, nineteen fourteen, was crowded with momentous events.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000003|On the same day, Great Britain, anxiously besought by the French government, promised the aid of the British navy if German warships made hostile demonstrations in the Channel.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000005|The following day, Great Britain demanded of Germany respect for Belgian neutrality and, failing to receive the guarantee, broke off diplomatic relations.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000006|On the fifth, the British prime minister announced that war had opened between England and Germany.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000007|The storm now broke in all its pitiless fury.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000004_000002|Moreover, they regarded the German imperial government as an autocratic power wielded in the interest of an ambitious military party.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000004_000004|On the other hand, many Americans of German descent, in memory of their ties with the Fatherland, openly sympathized with the Central Powers; and many Americans of Irish descent, recalling their long and bitter struggle for home rule in Ireland, would have regarded British defeat as a merited redress of ancient grievances.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000005_000000|Extremely sensitive to American opinion, but ill informed about it, the German government soon began systematic efforts to present its cause to the people of the United States in the most favorable light possible. dr Bernhard Dernburg, the former colonial secretary of the German empire, was sent to America as a special agent.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000005_000001|For months he filled the newspapers, magazines, and periodicals with interviews, articles, and notes on the justice of the Teutonic cause.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000005_000002|From a press bureau in New York flowed a stream of pamphlets, leaflets, and cartoons.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000007_000001|On this point there existed on august first nineteen fourteen, a fairly definite body of principles by which nations were bound.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000007_000004|In the second place, it was agreed that "contraband of war" found on an enemy or neutral ship was a lawful prize; any ship suspected of carrying it was liable to search and if caught with forbidden goods was subject to seizure.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000007_000005|In the third place, international law prescribed that a peaceful merchant ship, whether belonging to an enemy or to a neutral country, should not be destroyed or sunk without provision for the safety of crew and passengers.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000008_000001|As to contraband of war Great Britain put such a broad interpretation upon the term as to include nearly every important article of commerce.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000000|A new question arose in connection with American trade with the neutral countries surrounding Germany.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000001|Great Britain early began to intercept ships carrying oil, gasoline, and copper-all war materials of prime importance-on the ground that they either were destined ultimately to Germany or would release goods for sale to Germans.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000002|On november second nineteen fourteen, the English government announced that the Germans wore sowing mines in open waters and that therefore the whole of the North Sea was a military zone.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000003|Ships bound for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were ordered to come by the English Channel for inspection and sailing directions.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000004|In effect, Americans were now licensed by Great Britain to trade in certain commodities and in certain amounts with neutral countries.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000001|The German decree added that, as the British admiralty had ordered the use of neutral flags by English ships in time of distress, neutral vessels would be in danger of destruction if found in the forbidden area.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000002|It was clear that Germany intended to employ submarines to destroy shipping.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000003|A new factor was thus introduced into naval warfare, one not provided for in the accepted laws of war.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000004|A warship overhauling a merchant vessel could easily take its crew and passengers on board for safe keeping as prescribed by international law; but a submarine ordinarily could do nothing of the sort.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000005|Of necessity the lives and the ships of neutrals, as well as of belligerents, were put in mortal peril.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000012_000000|The response of the United States to the ominous German order was swift and direct.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000012_000001|On february tenth nineteen fifteen, it warned Germany that if her commanders destroyed American lives and ships in obedience to that decree, the action would "be very hard indeed to reconcile with the friendly relations happily subsisting between the two governments." The American note added that the German imperial government would be held to "strict accountability" and all necessary steps would be taken to safeguard American lives and American rights.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000012_000002|This was firm and clear language, but the only response which it evoked from Germany was a suggestion that, if Great Britain would allow food supplies to pass through the blockade, the submarine campaign would be dropped.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000013_000002|On the morning of may first nineteen fifteen, Americans were astounded to see in the newspapers an advertisement, signed by the German Imperial Embassy, warning travelers of the dangers in the war zone and notifying them that any who ventured on British ships into that area did so at their own risk.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000013_000004|A cry of horror ran through the country.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000013_000005|The German papers in America and a few American people argued that American citizens had been duly warned of the danger and had deliberately taken their lives into their own hands; but the terrible deed was almost universally condemned by public opinion.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000014_000001|It solemnly informed the German government that "no warning that an unlawful and inhumane act will be committed can possibly be accepted as an excuse or palliation for that act or as an abatement of the responsibility for its commission."
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000015_000000|In a second note, made public on june eleventh, the position of the United States was again affirmed.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000015_000002|The German reply was still evasive and German naval commanders continued their course of sinking merchant ships.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000015_000003|In a third and final note of july twenty first nineteen fifteen, President Wilson made it clear to Germany that he meant what he said when he wrote that he would maintain the rights of American citizens.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000001|On the Republican side everything seemed to depend upon the action of the Progressives.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000002|If the breach created in nineteen twelve could be closed, victory was possible; if not, defeat was certain. A promise of unity lay in the fact that the conventions of the Republicans and Progressives were held simultaneously in Chicago.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000003|The friends of Roosevelt hoped that both parties would select him as their candidate; but this hope was not realized.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000004|The Republicans chose, and the Progressives accepted, Charles e Hughes, an associate justice of the federal Supreme Court who, as governor of New York, had won a national reputation by waging war on "machine politicians."
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000017_000002|The Democrats, on their side, renominated President Wilson by acclamation, reviewed with pride the legislative achievements of the party, and commended "the splendid diplomatic victories of our great President who has preserved the vital interests of our government and its citizens and kept us out of war."
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000018_000000|In the election which ensued President Wilson's popular vote exceeded that cast for mr Hughes by more than half a million, while his electoral vote stood two hundred seventy seven to two hundred fifty four.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000018_000002|He had received the largest vote yet cast for a presidential candidate.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000018_000003|The Progressive party practically disappeared, and the Socialists suffered a severe set back, falling far behind the vote of nineteen twelve.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000019_000001|On december sixteenth, the German Emperor proposed to the Allied Powers that they enter into peace negotiations, a suggestion that was treated as a mere political maneuver by the opposing governments.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000019_000003|On january twenty second nineteen seventeen, President Wilson in an address before the Senate, declared it to be a duty of the United States to take part in the establishment of a stable peace on the basis of certain principles.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000019_000004|These were, in short: "peace without victory"; the right of nationalities to freedom and self government; the independence of Poland; freedom of the seas; the reduction of armaments; and the abolition of entangling alliances.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000020_000000|THE UNITED STATES AT WAR
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000001|At the same time he explained to Congress that he desired no conflict with Germany and would await an "overt act" before taking further steps to preserve American rights.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000002|"God grant," he concluded, "that we may not be challenged to defend them by acts of willful injustice on the part of the government of Germany." Yet the challenge came.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000003|Between february twenty sixth and april second, six American merchant vessels were torpedoed, in most cases without any warning and without regard to the loss of American lives. President Wilson therefore called upon Congress to answer the German menace.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000004|The reply of Congress on april sixth was a resolution, passed with only a few dissenting votes, declaring the existence of a state of war with Germany.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000005|Austria Hungary at once severed diplomatic relations with the United States; but it was not until december seventh that Congress, acting on the President's advice, declared war also on that "vassal of the German government."
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000022_000001|He first made it clear that it was a war of self defense.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000022_000002|"The military masters of Germany," he exclaimed, "denied us the right to be neutral." Proof of that lay on every hand. Agents of the German imperial government had destroyed American lives and American property on the high seas.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000022_000003|They had filled our communities with spies.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000000|Though assailed in many ways and compelled to resort to war, the United States sought no material rewards.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000001|"The world must be made safe for democracy.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000002|Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000003|We have no selfish ends to serve.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000004|We desire no conquest, no dominion.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000024_000000|In a very remarkable message read to Congress on january eighth nineteen eighteen, President Wilson laid down his famous "fourteen points" summarizing the ideals for which we were fighting.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000024_000003|Democracy, the right of nations to determine their own fate, a covenant of enduring peace-these were the ideals for which the American people were to pour out their blood and treasure.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000001|The powers against which we were arrayed had every able bodied man in service and all their resources, human and material, thrown into the scale.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000002|For this reason, President Wilson summoned the whole people of the United States to make every sacrifice necessary for victory. Congress by law decreed that the national army should be chosen from all male citizens and males not enemy aliens who had declared their intention of becoming citizens.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000003|By the first act of may eighteenth nineteen seventeen, it fixed the age limits at twenty one to thirty one inclusive.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000004|Later, in August, nineteen eighteen, it extended them to eighteen and forty five.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000006|"The whole nation," said the President, "must be a team in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted."
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000001|Some urged the "conscription of wealth as well as men," meaning the support of the war out of taxes upon great fortunes; but more conservative counsels prevailed.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000002|Four great Liberty Loans were floated, all the agencies of modern publicity being employed to enlist popular interest.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000003|The first loan had four and a half million subscribers; the fourth more than twenty million.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000004|Combined with loans were heavy taxes.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000005|A progressive tax was laid upon incomes beginning with four per cent on incomes in the lower ranges and rising to sixty three per cent of that part of any income above two million dollars.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000006|A progressive tax was levied upon inheritances. An excess profits tax was laid upon all corporations and partnerships, rising in amount to sixty per cent of the net income in excess of thirty three per cent on the invested capital.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000007|"This," said a distinguished economist, "is the high water mark in the history of taxation.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000008|Never before in the annals of civilization has an attempt been made to take as much as two thirds of a man's income by taxation."
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000001|Between the declaration of war and the armistice, Congress enacted law after law relative to food supplies, raw materials, railways, mines, ships, forests, and industrial enterprises.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000002|No power over the lives and property of citizens, deemed necessary to the prosecution of the armed conflict, was withheld from the government.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000003|The farmer's wheat, the housewife's sugar, coal at the mines, labor in the factories, ships at the wharves, trade with friendly countries, the railways, banks, stores, private fortunes-all were mobilized and laid under whatever obligations the government deemed imperative.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000004|Never was a nation more completely devoted to a single cause.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000000|A law of august tenth nineteen seventeen, gave the President power to fix the prices of wheat and coal and to take almost any steps necessary to prevent monopoly and excessive prices.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000001|By a series of measures, enlarging the principles of the shipping act of nineteen sixteen, ships and shipyards were brought under public control and the government was empowered to embark upon a great ship building program.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000002|In December, nineteen seventeen, the government assumed for the period of the war the operation of the railways under a presidential proclamation which was elaborated in March, nineteen eighteen, by act of Congress.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000003|In the summer of nineteen eighteen the express, telephone, and telegraph business of the entire country passed under government control.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000004|By war risk insurance acts allowances were made for the families of enlisted men, compensation for injuries was provided, death benefits were instituted, and a system of national insurance was established in the interest of the men in service.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000005|Never before in the history of the country had the government taken such a wise and humane view of its obligations to those who served on the field of battle or on the seas.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000032_000004|The Socialist party denounced the war as a capitalist quarrel; but all the protests combined were too slight to have much effect.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000032_000006|Labor was given representation on the important boards and commissions dealing with industrial questions. Trade union standards were accepted by the government and generally applied in industry.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000033_000001|Special effort was made to stimulate the production of "submarine chasers" and "scout cruisers" to be sent to the danger zone. Convoys were provided to accompany the transports conveying soldiers to France.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000033_000002|Before the end of the war more than three hundred American vessels and seventy five thousand officers and men were operating in European waters. Though the German fleet failed to come out and challenge the sea power of the Allies, the battleships of the United States were always ready to do their full duty in such an event.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000035_000000|Although American troops did not take part on a large scale until the last phase of the war in nineteen eighteen, several battalions of infantry were in the trenches by October, nineteen seventeen, and had their first severe encounter with the Germans early in November.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000038_000001|At Belleau Wood, at Chateau Thierry, and other points along the deep salient made by the Germans into the French lines, American soldiers distinguished themselves by heroic action.
train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000038_000002|They also played an important role in the counter attack that "smashed" the salient and drove the Germans back.
train-clean-360/6330/62850/6330_62850_000006_000005|We are willing to accept modifications, but the scheme would work.
train-clean-360/6330/62850/6330_62850_000009_000000|Arguments must be fostered and preserved.
train-clean-360/6330/62850/6330_62850_000011_000006|Diplomacy is an evil game, chiefly because it has been so exclusive.
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000000_000000|thirty two
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000001_000000|ART FOR ARGUMENT'S SAKE
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000005_000001|Reviewers look for motives.
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000010_000003|How could symbolism be more perfect?
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000012_000002|Always see the scab hit the striker.'"
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000013_000000|"You see," he went on, "there are seven or eight other newspapers in town who will see it just the other way and I've got to keep the balance straight."
train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000014_000003|That is, not among umpires.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000002_000000|Holding a Baby
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000003_000000|When Adam delved and Eve span, the fiction that man is incapable of housework was first established.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000003_000001|It would be interesting to figure out just how many foot pounds of energy men have saved themselves, since the creation of the world, by keeping up the pretense that a special knack is required for washing dishes and for dusting, and that the knack is wholly feminine.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000003_000002|The pretense of incapacity is impudent in its audacity, and yet it works.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000006_000002|To this declaration men gave immediate and eager assent and they have kept it up.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000006_000004|It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000000|At this point, interruption is inevitable.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000003|At least all will do.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000006|But to return to our quotation: "If Richard tried to take up the bundle, his fingers fell away like the legs of the brittle crab and the bundle collapsed, incalculable and helpless.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000007|'How do you do it?' he would say. And he would right Annabel and try to still her protests.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000011_000004|"He doesn't seem to have the proper touch," she explained.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000012_000001|Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000012_000002|As I ventured to suggest before, almost any firm grip will do.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000012_000004|Nature herself is cavalier.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000001|It is pretty generally held that all a woman needs to do to know all about children is to have some. This wisdom is attributed to instinct.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000003|Nature is the great teacher."
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000004|This simply isn't true.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000007|Instinct is not what it used to be.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000014_000002|It has been convenient.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000014_000003|Perhaps it has been too convenient.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000014_000005|Like children in a toy shop, we have chosen to live with the most amusing of talking and walking dolls, without ever attempting to tear down the sign which says, "Do not touch." In fact we have helped to set it in place. That is a pity.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000015_000007|A dish is an unresponsive thing.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000015_000008|It gives back nothing.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000016_000004|It is a brand new world for the child.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000016_000007|Probably he will think that they are part of your own handiwork turned out for his pleasure.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000017_000006|No, there is nothing dull in feeding a child.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000018_000001|This seems to us laborious and rather tiresome, both for father and child.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000018_000005|He brought his technic into the home.
train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000018_000009|Even before her head had bumped, he would be hard at work. With him the thrill lay in the inspiration of the competitive spirit.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000001_000000|Her Own People
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000003_000003|Miss Channing was the oldest teacher on the staff, and taught the fifth grade.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000003_000004|She was short and stout and jolly; nothing, not even the iciest reserve, ever daunted Miss Channing.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000004_000003|Isn't it good?"
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000007_000001|"Rank heresy!
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000008_000000|"I haven't any," said Constance wearily.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000009_000000|"It's worse than heresy," said Miss Channing briskly.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000012_000000|"No-no, I haven't anybody in the world.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000014_000002|You seem so reserved and-and, as if you didn't want to be asked about yourself."
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000000|"I know it.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000003|It's the truth, and it hurts me, but I can't help it.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000006|I'm nobody.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000014|Father never would talk of her.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000017_000004|I struggled against it at first, but it has been too much for me.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000017_000006|There is nobody to care anything about me, whether I live or die."
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000018_000000|"Oh, yes, there is One," said Miss Channing gently.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000018_000001|"God cares, Constance."
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000019_000000|Constance gave a disagreeable little laugh.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000020_000003|There, I've shocked you in good earnest now.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000023_000001|She must help Constance, but Constance was not easily helped.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000024_000001|"Have you any particular place in view?
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000024_000006|If you like, I'll give you the address of the family I boarded with."
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000026_000000|"Yes, but listen to me, dear.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000030_000000|"Heartsease Farm," said mrs Hewitt promptly.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000031_000000|"Haven't they any children?" asked Constance indifferently.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000031_000001|Her interest was in the place, not in the people.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000001|They had a niece once, though.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000002|They brought her up and they just worshipped her.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000003|She ran away with a worthless fellow-I forget his name, if I ever knew it.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000004|He was handsome and smooth tongued, but he was a scamp.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000005|She died soon after and it just broke their hearts.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000040_000004|I keep it just as she left it, not a thing is changed.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000040_000005|Good night dearie, and I hope you'll have pleasant dreams."
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000044_000000|"Oh," cried Constance excitedly.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000044_000001|"I must know, I must ask you.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000049_000003|But I have now, and it has led me to Him.
train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000050_000000|"I am not going back to Taunton.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000006_000000|Their Girl Josie
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000007_000001|They had been too proud of Paul ... their only son and such a clever fellow ... and this was their punishment!
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000007_000002|He had married an actress!
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000008_000000|They could not be brought to see it in any other light.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000009_000000|At the end of that time Elinor Morgan, the mother of an hour, died; three months later Paul Morgan was killed in a railroad collision. After the funeral Cyrus Morgan brought home to his wife their son's little daughter, Joscelyn Morgan.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000012_000000|But the love came ... it had to.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000012_000005|Every smile was a caress, every gurgle of attempted speech a song.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000013_000001|Cyrus and Deborah were nothing if not thorough.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000014_000000|The girl was never allowed to visit her Aunt Annice, although frequently invited.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000017_000000|Yet they loved her and were proud of her.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000020_000000|"What company has Josie got?" she wondered, as she opened the hall door and paused for a moment on the threshold to listen.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000021_000000|"Cyrus, Josie is play acting in the room ... laughing and reciting and going on.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000021_000001|I heard her.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000022_000000|The old couple crept through the kitchen and across the hall to the open parlour door as if they were stalking a thief.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000024_000002|She spoke, moved, posed, gesticulated, with an inborn genius shining through every motion and tone like an illuminating lamp.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000025_000000|"Josie, what are you doing?"
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000026_000000|It was Cyrus who spoke, advancing into the room like a stern, hard impersonation of judgment.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000026_000002|A moment before she had been a woman, splendid, unafraid; now she was again the schoolgirl, too confused and shamed to speak.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000028_000001|She lifted her head proudly.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000029_000001|"I have not been doing anything wrong, Grandfather."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000030_000000|"Wrong!
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000030_000001|It's your mother's blood coming out in you, girl, in spite of all our care!
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000030_000002|Where did you get that play?"
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000031_000000|"Aunt Annice sent it to me," answered Joscelyn, casting a quick glance at the book on the table.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000031_000002|Don't take it away."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000033_000002|Please give me my book."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000034_000000|"No," was the stern reply.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000034_000001|"Go to your room, girl, and take off that rig.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000000|"You are cruel and unjust, Grandfather.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000001|I have done no wrong ... it is not doing wrong to develop the one gift I have.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000002|It's the only thing I can do ... and I am going to do it.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000003|My mother was an actress and a good woman.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000005|So I mean to be."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000037_000000|"Oh, Josie, Josie," said her grandmother in a scared voice.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000038_000000|Joscelyn went but she left consternation behind her.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000038_000002|They talked the matter over bitterly at the kitchen hearth that night.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000039_000000|"We haven't been strict enough with the girl, Mother," said Cyrus angrily.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000039_000002|Did you hear how she defied me?
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000039_000004|Mother, we'll have trouble with that girl yet."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000041_000000|"I ain't going to be harsh.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000042_000001|From that day Josie was watched and distrusted.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000042_000007|Joscelyn rebelled, but she did nothing secretly ... that was not her nature.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000043_000000|"Grandfather, this letter is from my aunt.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000043_000002|I told her I wished to do so. I am going."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000045_000000|"I know you despise the profession of an actress," the girl went on with heightened colour.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000045_000002|I must go ...
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000045_000003|I must."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000046_000000|"Yes, you must," said Cyrus cruelly.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000046_000001|"It's in your blood ... your bad blood, girl."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000000|"My blood isn't bad," cried Joscelyn proudly.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000001|"My mother was a sweet, true, good woman.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000002|You are unjust, Grandfather.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000003|But I don't want you to be angry with me.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000005|I wish that you could understand what...."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000048_000001|"This is all I have to say.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000048_000002|Go to your play acting aunt if you want to.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000048_000006|You can choose your own way and walk in it."
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000049_000001|She clung to Deborah and wept at parting, but Cyrus did not even say goodbye to her.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000050_000004|She had all her mother's gifts, deepened by her inheritance of Morgan intensity and sincerity ... much, too, of the Morgan firmness of will. When Joscelyn Morgan was twenty two she was famous over two continents.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000051_000001|Deborah obeyed.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000051_000002|She thought her husband was right, albeit she might in her own heart deplore the necessity of such a decree.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000051_000003|Joscelyn had disgraced them; could that be forgiven?
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000052_000003|Pauline was a quiet, docile maiden, industrious and commonplace-just such a girl as they had vainly striven to make of Joscelyn, to whom Pauline had always been held up as a model.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000055_000003|He got the scissors and cut it out carefully.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000059_000002|But I guess she can hold her own.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000061_000002|Let's go and dissipate for a week-what say?"
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000062_000002|He bought a ticket apologetically and sneaked in to his seat.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000064_000000|The curtain went up and Cyrus rubbed his eyes.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000064_000004|Play acting hadn't spoiled her-couldn't spoil her.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000064_000005|Wasn't she Paul's daughter! And all this applause was for her-for Josie.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000067_000005|Wasn't our girl Josie splendid?"
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000068_000001|Cyrus Morgan cleared his throat and said, "It was great, Mother, great.
train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000068_000002|She took the shine off the other play actors all right.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000002_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000003_000000|It is a busy, talking world.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000004_000000|--ROWE.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000005_000000|"I think I shall enjoy the fortnight we are to spend here, papa; it seems such a very pleasant place," Elsie remarked, in a tone of great satisfaction.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000006_000000|"I am glad you are pleased with it, daughter," returned mr Dinsmore, opening the morning paper, which john had just brought up.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000007_000000|They-mr
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000007_000001|Dinsmore and Elsie, Rose and Edward Allison-were occupying very comfortable quarters in a large hotel at one of our fashionable watering places.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000007_000002|A bedroom for each, and a private parlor for the joint use of the party, had been secured in advance, and late the night before they had arrived and taken possession.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000008_000000|It was now early in the morning, Elsie and her papa were in his room, which was in the second story and opened upon a veranda, shaded by tall trees, and overlooking a large grassy yard at the side of the building.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000008_000001|Beyond were green fields, woods, and hills.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000009_000000|"Papa," said Elsie, gazing longingly upon them, as she stood by the open window, "can't we take a walk?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000010_000000|"When Miss Rose is ready to go with us."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000011_000000|"May I run to her door and ask if she is?--and if she isn't, may I wait for her out here on the veranda?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000012_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000013_000000|She skipped away, but was back again almost immediately.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000013_000001|"Papa, what do you think?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000013_000002|It's just too bad!"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000014_000000|"What is too bad, daughter?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000014_000001|I think I never before saw so cross a look on my little girl's face," he said, peering at her over the top of his newspaper.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000014_000002|"Come here, and tell me what it is all about."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000015_000000|She obeyed, hanging her head and blushing.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000015_000001|"I think I have some reason to be cross, papa," she said; "I thought we were going to have such a delightful time here, and now it is all spoiled.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000015_000002|You could never guess who has the rooms just opposite ours; on the other side of the hall."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000016_000000|"Miss Stevens?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000017_000000|"Why, papa; did you know she was here?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000018_000000|"I knew she was in the house, because I saw her name in the hotel book last night when I went to register ours."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000019_000000|"And it just spoils all our pleasure."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000020_000000|"I hope not, daughter.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000020_000001|I think she will hardly annoy you when you are close at my side; and that is pretty much all the time, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000022_000000|"Ah, now I have my own little girl again," he said, drawing her to his knee and returning her caresses with interest: "But there, I hear Miss Rose's step in the hall.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000022_000001|Run to mammy and have your hat put on."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000023_000000|Miss Stevens' presence proved scarcely less annoying to Elsie than the child had anticipated.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000023_000001|She tried to keep out of the lady's way, but it was quite impossible.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000024_000000|Then she would press all sorts of dainties upon the little girl in such a way that it was next to impossible to decline them, and occasionally even went so far as to suggest improvements, or rather alterations, in her dress, which she said was entirely too plain.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000000|"You ought to have more flounces on your skirts, my dear," she remarked one day.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000001|"Skirt flounced to the waist are so very pretty and dressy, and you would look sweetly in them, but I notice you don't wear them at all.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000002|Do ask your papa to let you get a new dress and have it made so; I am sure he would consent, for any one can see that he is very fond of you.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000003|He doesn't think of it; we can't expect gentlemen to notice such little matters; you ought to have a mamma to attend to such things for you.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000004|Ah! if you were my child, I would dress you sweetly, you dear little thing!"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000026_000000|"Thank you, ma'am, I daresay you mean to be very kind," replied Elsie, trying not to look annoyed, "but I don't want a mamma, since my own dear mother has gone to heaven; papa is enough for me, and I like the way he dresses me.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000026_000001|He always buys my dresses himself and says how they are to be made.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000026_000002|The dressmaker wanted to put more flounces on, but papa didn't want them and neither did i He says he doesn't like to see little girls loaded with finery, and that my clothes shall be of the best material and nicely made, but neat and simple."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000000|"Oh, yes; I know your dress is not cheap; I didn't mean that at all: it is quite expensive enough, and some of your white dresses are beautifully worked; but I would like a little more ornament.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000001|You wear so little jewelry, and your father could afford to cover you with it if he chose.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000002|A pair of gold bracelets, like mine for instance, would be very pretty, and look charming on your lovely white arms: those pearl ones you wear sometimes are very handsome-any one could tell that they are the real thing-but you ought to have gold ones too, with clasps set with diamonds.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000003|Couldn't you persuade your papa to buy some for you?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000028_000000|"Indeed, Miss Stevens, I don't want them!
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000028_000001|I don't want anything but what papa chooses to buy for me of his own accord.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000029_000000|Elsie went in to get her hat, and Miss Stevens came towards Rose, saying, "I think I heard you say you were going to walk; and I believe, if you don't forbid me, I shall do myself the pleasure of accompanying you.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000029_000001|I have just been waiting for pleasant company.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000029_000002|I will be ready in one moment." And before Rose could recover from her astonishment sufficiently to reply she had disappeared through the hall door.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000030_000000|Elsie was out again in a moment, just as the gentlemen had joined Rose, who excited their surprise and disgust by a repetition of Miss Stevens' speech to her.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000031_000000|mr Dinsmore looked excessively annoyed, and Edward "pshawed, and wished her at the bottom of the sea."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000032_000000|"No, brother," said Rose, smiling, "you don't wish any such thing; on the contrary, you would be the very first to fly to the rescue if you saw her in danger of drowning."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000033_000000|But before there was time for anything more to be said Miss Stevens had returned, and walking straight up to mr Dinsmore, she put her arm through his, saying with a little laugh, and what was meant for a very arch expression, "You see I don't stand upon ceremony with old friends, mr Dinsmore.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000033_000001|It isn't my way."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000034_000000|"No, Miss Stevens, I think it never was," he replied, offering the other arm to Rose.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000035_000000|She was going to decline it on the plea that the path was too narrow for three, but something in his look made her change her mind and accept; and they moved on, while Elsie, almost ready to cry with vexation, fell behind with Edward Allison for an escort.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000036_000000|Edward tried to entertain his young companion, but was too much provoked at the turn things had taken to make himself very agreeable to any one; and altogether it was quite an uncomfortable walk: no one seeming to enjoy it but Miss Stevens, who laughed and talked incessantly; addressing nearly all her conversation to mr Dinsmore, he answering her with studied politeness, but nothing more.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000037_000000|Miss Stevens had, from the first, conceived a great antipathy to Rose, whom she considered a dangerous rival, and generally avoided, excepting when mr Dinsmore was with her; but she always interrupted a tete a tete between them when it was in her power to do so without being guilty of very great rudeness.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000037_000001|This, and the covert sneers with which she often addressed Miss Allison had not escaped mr Dinsmore's notice, and it frequently cost him quite an effort to treat Miss Stevens with the respectful politeness which he considered due to her sex and to the daughter of his father's old friend.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000038_000000|"Was it not too provoking, papa?" exclaimed Elsie, as she followed him into his room on their return from their walk.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000039_000000|"What, my dear?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000041_000000|"She? who, daughter?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000042_000000|"Why, papa, surely you know I mean Miss Stevens!"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000043_000000|"Then why did you not mention her name, instead of speaking of her as she?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000043_000001|That does not sound respectful in a child of your age, and I wish my little girl always to be respectful to those older than herself. I thought I heard you the other day mention some gentleman's name without the prefix of mr, and I intended to reprove you for it at the time.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000043_000002|Don't do it again."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000044_000000|"No, sir, I won't," Elsie answered with a blush.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000044_000001|"But, papa," she added the next moment, "Miss Stevens does that constantly."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000045_000000|"That makes no difference, my daughter," he said gravely.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000045_000001|"Miss Stevens is the very last person I would have you take for your model; the less you resemble her in dress, manners, or anything else, the better.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000045_000002|If you wish to copy any one let it be Miss Allison, for she is a perfect lady in every respect."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000046_000000|Elsie looked very much pleased.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000046_000001|"Yes, indeed, papa," she said, "I should be glad if I could be just like Miss Rose, she is always kind and gentle to everybody; even the servants, whom Miss Stevens orders about so crossly."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000047_000000|"Elsie!"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000048_000000|"What, papa?" she asked, blushing again, for his tone was reproving.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000049_000000|"Come here and sit on my knee; I want to talk to you.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000049_000001|I am afraid my little daughter is growing censorious," he said, with a very grave look as he drew her to his side.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000049_000002|"You forget that we ought not to speak of other people's faults."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000050_000000|"I will try not to do it any more, papa," she replied, the tears springing to her eyes; "but you don't know how very annoying Miss Stevens is.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000050_000001|I have been near telling her several times that I did wish she would let me alone."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000000|"No, daughter, don't do that.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000001|You must behave in a lady like manner whether she does or not.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000002|We must expect annoyances in this world, my child; and must try to bear them with patience, remembering that God sends the little trials as well as the great, and that He has commanded us to 'let patience have her perfect work.' I fear it is a lack of the spirit of forgiveness that makes it so difficult for us to bear these trifling vexations with equanimity.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000003|And you must remember too, dear, that the Bible bids us be courteous, and teaches us to treat others as we ourselves would wish to be treated."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000052_000000|"I think you always remember the command to be courteous, papa," she said, looking affectionately into his face.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000052_000001|"I was wondering all the time how you could be so very polite to Miss Stevens; for I was quite sure you would rather not have had her along.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000052_000002|And then, what right had she to take your arm without being asked?" and Elsie's face flushed with indignation.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000000|Her father laughed a little.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000001|"And thus deprive my little girl of her rights," he said, softly kissing the glowing cheek.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000002|"Ah!
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000003|I doubt if you would have been angry had it been Miss Rose," he added, a little mischievously.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000054_000000|"Oh, papa, you know Miss Rose would never have done such a thing!" exclaimed the little girl warmly.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000055_000000|"Ah! well, dear," he said in a soothing tone; "we won't talk any more about it.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000055_000001|I acknowledge that I do not find Miss Stevens the most agreeable company in the world, but I must treat her politely, and show her a little attention sometimes; both because she is a lady and because her father once saved my father's life; for which I owe a debt of gratitude to him and his children."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000056_000000|"Did he, papa?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000056_000001|I am sure it was very good of him, and I will try to like Miss Stevens for that.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000056_000002|But won't you tell me about it?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000057_000000|"It was when they were both quite young men," said mr Dinsmore, "before either of them was married: they were skating together and your grandfather broke through the ice, and would have been drowned, but for the courage and presence of mind of mr Stevens, who saved him only by very great exertion, and at the risk of his own life."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000058_000000|A few days after this, Elsie was playing on the veranda, with several other little girls.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000058_000001|"Do you think you shall like your new mamma, Elsie?" asked one of them in a careless tone, as she tied on an apron she had just been making for her doll, and turned it around to see how it fitted.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000059_000000|"My new mamma!" exclaimed Elsie, with unfeigned astonishment, dropping the scissors with which she had been cutting paper dolls for some of the little ones.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000059_000001|"What can you mean, Annie?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000059_000002|I am not going to have any new mamma."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000060_000000|"Yes, indeed, but you are though," asserted Annie positively; "for I heard my mother say so only yesterday; and it must be so, for she Miss Stevens told it herself."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000061_000000|"Miss Stevens! and what does she know about it?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000061_000001|what has she to do with my papa's affairs?" asked Elsie indignantly, the color rushing over face, neck, and arms.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000063_000000|"She isn't! it's false!
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000063_000001|my"--but Elsie checked herself and shut her teeth hard to keep down the emotion that was swelling in her breast.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000065_000000|Elsie made no reply, but dropping scissors, paper, and everything, sprang up and ran swiftly along the veranda, through the hall, upstairs, and without pausing to take breath, rushed into her father's room, where he sat quietly reading.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000066_000000|"Why, Elsie, daughter, what is the matter?" he asked in a tone of surprise and concern, as he caught sight of her flushed and agitated face.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000067_000000|"Oh, papa, it's that hateful Miss Stevens; I can't bear her!" she cried, throwing herself upon his breast, and bursting into a fit of passionate weeping.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000068_000000|mr Dinsmore said nothing for a moment; but thinking tears would prove the best relief to her overwrought feelings, contented himself with simply stroking her hair in a soothing way, and once or twice pressing his lips gently to her forehead.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000069_000000|"You feel better now, dearest, do you not?" he asked presently, as she raised her head to wipe away her tears.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000070_000000|"Yes, papa."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000071_000000|"Now tell me what it was all about."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000072_000000|"Miss Stevens does say such hateful things, papa!"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000073_000000|He laid his finger upon her lips.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000073_000001|"Don't use that word again.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000073_000002|It does not sound at all like my usually gentle sweet tempered little girl."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000074_000000|"I won't, papa," she murmured, blushing and hanging her head.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000074_000001|Then hiding her face on his breast, she lay there for several minutes perfectly silent and still.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000075_000000|"What is my little girl thinking of?" he asked at length.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000076_000000|"How everybody talks about you, papa; last evening I was out on the veranda, and I heard john and Miss Stevens' maid, Phillis, talking together.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000077_000000|"Who?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000077_000001|Phillis?" asked mr Dinsmore, looking excessively amused.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000000|"Well, dear, and what of it all?" he asked, soothingly.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000001|"I don't think the silly nonsense of the servants need trouble you.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000002|john is a sad fellow, I know; he courts all the pretty colored girls wherever he goes.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000003|I shall have to read him a serious lecture on the subject.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000004|But it is very kind of you to be so concerned for Phillis."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000080_000000|"Oh, papa, don't!" she said, turning away her face.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000080_000001|"Please don't tease me so.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000080_000002|You know I don't care for Phillis or john; but that isn't all." And then she repeated what had passed between Annie and herself.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000081_000000|He looked a good deal provoked as she went on with her story; then very grave indeed.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000081_000001|He was quite silent for a moment after she had done.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000081_000002|Then drawing her closer to him, he said tenderly, "My poor little girl, I am sorry you should be so annoyed; but you know it is not true, daughter, and why need you care what other people think and say?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000082_000000|"I don't like them to talk so, papa!
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000082_000001|I can't bear to have them say such things about you!" she exclaimed indignantly.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000083_000000|He was silent again for a little; then said kindly, "I think I had better take you away from these troublesome talkers.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000083_000001|What do you say to going home?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000084_000000|"Oh, yes, papa, do take me home," she answered eagerly.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000084_000001|"I wish we were there now.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000084_000003|Let us start to morrow, papa; can't we?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000085_000000|"But you know you will have to leave Miss Rose."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000087_000000|"No, my dear, it wouldn't do," he replied with a grave shake of the head.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000088_000000|"Why, papa?" she asked with a look of keen disappointment.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000089_000000|"You are too young to understand why," he said in the same grave tone, and then relapsed into silence; sitting there for some time stroking her hair in an absent way, with his eyes on the carpet.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000090_000000|At last he said, "Elsie!" in a soft, low tone that quite made the little girl start and look up into his face; for she, too, had been in a deep reverie.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000091_000000|"What, papa?" she asked, and she wondered to see how the color had spread over his face, and how bright his eyes looked.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000092_000000|"I have been thinking," he said, in a half hesitating way, "that though it would not do to invite Miss Rose to spend the winter with us, it might do very nicely to ask her to come and live at the Oaks."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000093_000000|Elsie looked at him for a moment with a bewildered expression; then suddenly comprehending, her face lighted up.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000094_000000|"Would you like it, dearest?" he asked; "or would you prefer to go on living just as we have been, you and I together?
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000094_000001|I would consult your happiness before my own, for it lies very near my heart, my precious one.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000094_000002|I can never forgive myself for all I have made you suffer, and when you were restored to me almost from the grave, I made a vow to do all in my power to make your future life bright and happy."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000095_000000|His tones were full of deep feeling, and as he spoke he drew her closer and closer to him and kissed her tenderly again and again.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000097_000000|At last she spoke, and he bent down to catch the words.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000097_000001|"Dear papa," she whispered, "would it make you happy? and do you think mamma knows, and that she would like it?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000098_000000|"Your mamma loves us both too well not to be pleased with anything that would add to our happiness," he replied gently.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000099_000000|"Dear papa, you won't be angry if I ask another question?'"'
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000100_000000|"No, darling; ask as many as you wish."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000101_000000|"Then, papa, will I have to call her mamma? and do you think my own mamma would like it?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000102_000000|"If Miss Allison consents to take a mother's place to you, I am sure your own mamma, if she could speak to you, would tell you she deserved to have the title; and it would hurt us both very much if you refused to give it.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000102_000001|Indeed, my daughter, I cannot ask her to come to us unless you will promise to do so, and to love and obey, her just as you do me.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000105_000000|"Do you think she will come, papa?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000106_000000|"I don't know, daughter; I have not asked her yet.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000106_000001|But shall I tell her that it will add to your happiness if she will be your mamma?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000107_000000|"Yes, sir; and that I will call her mamma, and obey her and love her dearly.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000107_000001|Oh, papa, ask her very soon, won't you?"
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000108_000000|"Perhaps; but don't set your heart too much on it, for she may not be quite so willing to take such a troublesome charge as Miss Stevens seems to be," he said, returning to his playful tone.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000109_000000|Elsie looked troubled and anxious.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000110_000000|"I hope she will, papa," she said; "I think she might be very glad to come and live with you; and in such a beautiful home, too."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000111_000000|"Ah! but everyone does not appreciate my society as highly as you do," he replied, laughing and pinching her cheek; "and besides, you forget about the troublesome little girl.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000111_000001|I have heard ladies say they would not marry a man who had a child."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000112_000000|"But Miss Rose loves me, papa; I am sure she does," she said, flushing, and the tears starting to her eyes.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000113_000000|"Yes, darling, I know she does," he answered soothingly.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000113_000001|"I am only afraid she loves you better than she does me."
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000114_000000|A large party of equestrians were setting out from the hotel that evening soon after tea, and Elsie, in company with several other little girls, went out upon the veranda to watch them mount and ride away.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000114_000001|She was absent but a few moments from the parlor, where she had left her father, but when she returned to it he was not there.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000114_000002|Miss Rose, too, was gone, she found upon further search, and though she had not much difficulty in conjecturing why she had thus, for the first time, been left behind, she could not help feeling rather lonely and desolate.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000115_000000|She felt no disposition to renew the afternoon's conversation with Annie Hart, so she went quietly upstairs to their private parlor and sat down to amuse herself with a book until Chloe came in from eating her supper.
train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000115_000001|Then the little girl brought a stool, and seating herself in the old posture with her head in her nurse's lap, she drew her mother's miniature from her bosom, and fixing her eyes lovingly upon it, said, as she had done hundreds of times before: "Now, mammy, please tell me about my dear, dear mamma."
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000001_000005|If the whole Spanish monarchy should pass to the House of Bourbon, it was highly probable that in a few years England would cease to be great and free, and that Holland would be a mere province of France.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000002_000000|It has been said to have been unjust that three states should have combined to divide a fourth state without its own consent; and, in recent times, the partition of the Spanish monarchy which was meditated in sixteen ninety eight has been compared to the greatest political crime which stains the history of modern Europe, the partition of Poland.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000002_000003|It was an assemblage of distinct bodies, none of which had any strong sympathy with the rest, and some of which had a positive antipathy for each other.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000002_000004|The partition planned at Loo was therefore the very opposite of the partition of Poland.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000003_000000|One wound the partition would undoubtedly have inflicted, a wound on the Castilian pride.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000004_000001|Whether those terms were or were not too favourable to France is quite another question.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000004_000002|It has often been maintained that she would have gained more by permanently annexing to herself Guipuscoa, Naples and Sicily than by sending the Duke of Anjou or the Duke of Berry to reign at the Escurial. On this point, however, if on any point, respect is due to the opinion of William.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000004_000005|The truth is that they were so, and were well known to be so both by William and by Lewis.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000001|But a glance at the map ought to have been sufficient to undeceive those who imagined that the great antagonist of the House of Bourbon could be so weak as to lay the liberties of Europe at the feet of that house.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000006|A French army sent to them by land would have to force its way through the passes of the Alps, through Piedmont, through Tuscany, and through the Pontifical States, in opposition probably to great German armies.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000012|Guipuscoa, though a small, was doubtless a valuable province, and was in a military point of view highly important.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000017|Was it not certain that the contest would be long and terrible?
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000018|And would not the English and Dutch think themselves most fortunate if, after many bloody and costly campaigns, the French King could be compelled to sign a treaty, the same, word for word, with that which he was ready uncompelled to sign now?
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000006_000005|If that opinion should be favourable, not a day must be lost.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000001|He roused himself, however, and promptly communicated by writing with Shrewsbury and Orford. Montague and Vernon came down to Tunbridge Wells, and conferred fully with him.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000007|It was, the Chancellor wrote, their duty to tell His Majesty that the recent elections had indicated the public feeling in a manner which had not been expected, but which could not be mistaken.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000012|They had their fears that Lewis might be playing false.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000014|But they had been reassured by the thought that their Sovereign thoroughly understood this department of politics, that he had fully considered all these things, that he had neglected no precaution, and that the concessions which he had made to France were the smallest which could have averted the calamities impending over Christendom.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000008_000002|But Somers gently hinted that it would be proper to fill those blanks with the names of persons who were English by naturalisation, if not by birth, and who would therefore be responsible to Parliament.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000009_000001|The peculiarity of the Batavian polity threw some difficulties in his way; but every difficulty gelded to his authority and to the dexterous management of Heinsius.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000009_000004|As to the blanks in the English powers, William had attended to his Chancellor's suggestion, and had inserted the names of Sir Joseph Williamson, minister at the Hague, a born Englishman, and of Portland, a naturalised Englishman.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000010_000002|The Emperor might have complained and threatened; but he must have submitted; for what could he do?
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000010_000003|He had no fleet; and it was therefore impossible for him even to attempt to possess himself of Castile, of Arragon, of Sicily, of the Indies, in opposition to the united navies of the three greatest maritime powers in the world.
train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000010_000007|But they would have perceived that by resisting they were much more likely to lose the Indies than to preserve Guipuscoa.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000009_000002|The obedience of the Danes lasted no longer than the present terror. Provoked at the devastations of Edred, and even reduced by necessity to subsist on plunder, they broke into a new rebellion, and were again subdued; but the king, now instructed by experience, took greater precautions against their future revolt.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000009_000003|He fixed English garrisons in their most considerable towns, and placed over them an English governor, who might watch all their motions, and suppress any insurrection on its first appearance.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000011_000000|From the introduction of Christianity among the Saxons, there had been monasteries in England; and these establishments had extremely multiplied by the donations of the princes and nobles, whose superstition, derived from their ignorance and precarious life, and increased by remorses for the crimes into which they were so frequently betrayed, knew no other expedient for appeasing the Deity, than a profuse liberality towards the ecclesiastics.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000011_000001|But the monks had hitherto been a species of secular priests, who lived after the manner of the present canons or prebendaries, and were both intermingled, in some degree, with the world, and endeavored to render themselves useful to it.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000015_000000|Dunstan was born of noble parents in the west of England; and being educated under his uncle Aldhelm, then archbishop of Canterbury, had betaken himself to the ecclesiastical life, and had acquired some character in the court of Edmund.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000019_000000|Supported by the character obtained in his retreat, Dunstan appeared again in the world; and gained such an ascendent over Edred who had succeeded to the crown, as made him not only the director of that prince's conscience, but his counsellor in the most momentous affairs of government.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000020_000000|The minds of men were already well prepared for this innovation.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000023_000000|The monks knew how to avail themselves of all these popular topics, and to set off their own character to the best advantage.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000023_000002|The people were thrown into agitation; and few instances occur of more violent dissensions, excited by the most material differences in religion; or rather by the most frivolous; since it is a just remark, that the more affinity there is between theological parties, the greater commonly is their animosity.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000024_000000|The progress of the monks, which was become considerable, was somewhat retarded by the death of Edred, their partisan, who expired after a reign of nine years.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000024_000001|He left children; but as they were infants, his nephew Edwy, son of Edmund, was placed on the throne.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000025_000000|EDWY
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000030_000000|As the austerity affected by the monks made them particularly violent on this occasion, Edwy entertained a strong prepossession against them; and seemed, on that account, determined not to second their project of expelling the seculars from all the convents, and of possessing themselves of those rich establishments.
train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000030_000005|That amiable princess being cured of her wounds, and having even obliterated the scars with which Odo had hoped to deface her beauty, returned into England, and was flying to the embraces of the king, whom she still regarded as her husband; when she fell into the hands of a party whom the primate had sent to intercept her.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000000|Aladdin returned home in the order he had come, amidst the acclamations of the people, who wished him all happiness and prosperity.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000001|As soon as he dismounted, he retired to his own chamber, took the lamp, and summoned the genie as usual, who professed his allegiance.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000004|Let its walls be massive gold and silver bricks laid alternately.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000006|Let there be also kitchens and storehouses, stables full of the finest horses, with their equerries and grooms, and hunting equipage, officers, attendants, and slaves, both men and women, to form a retinue for the princess and myself.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000007|Go and execute my wishes."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000001_000000|When Aladdin gave these commands to the genie, the sun was set.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000001_000002|The genie led him through all the apartments, where he found officers and slaves, habited according to their rank and the services to which they were appointed.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000001_000003|The genie then showed him the treasury, which was opened by a treasurer, where Aladdin saw large vases of different sizes, piled up to the top with money, ranged all round the chamber.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000002_000000|When Aladdin had examined every portion of the palace, and particularly the hall with the four and twenty windows, and found it far to exceed his fondest expectations, he said, "Genie, there is one thing wanting, a fine carpet for the princess to walk upon from the sultan's palace to mine.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000002_000001|Lay one down immediately." The genie disappeared, and Aladdin saw what he desired executed in an instant.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000002_000002|The genie then returned, and carried him to his own home.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000003_000000|When the sultan's porters came to open the gates, they were amazed to find what had been an unoccupied garden filled up with a magnificent palace, and a splendid carpet extending to it all the way from the sultan's palace.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000003_000001|They told the strange tidings to the grand vizier, who informed the sultan, who exclaimed, "It must be Aladdin's palace, which I gave him leave to build for my daughter.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000003_000002|He has wished to surprise us, and let us see what wonders can be done in only one night."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000004_000006|Bands of music led the procession, followed by a hundred state ushers, and the like number of black mutes, in two files, with their officers at their head.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000004_000011|The vases, basins, and goblets were gold also, and of exquisite workmanship, and all the other ornaments and embellishments of the hall were answerable to this display.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000004_000012|The princess, dazzled to see so much riches collected in one place, said to Aladdin, "I thought, prince, that nothing in the world was so beautiful as the sultan my father's palace, but the sight of this hall alone is sufficient to show I was deceived."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000006_000000|The next morning the attendants of Aladdin presented themselves to dress him, and brought him another habit, as rich and magnificent as that worn the day before.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000006_000002|The sultan consented with pleasure, rose up immediately, and, preceded by the principal officers of his palace, and followed by all the great lords of his court, accompanied Aladdin.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000007_000001|But what most surprises me is, that a hall of this magnificence should be left with one of its windows incomplete and unfinished." "Sire," answered Aladdin, "the omission was by design, since I wished that you should have the glory of finishing this hall." "I take your intention kindly," said the sultan, "and will give orders about it immediately."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000008_000000|After the sultan had finished this magnificent entertainment, provided for him and for his court by Aladdin, he was informed that the jewellers and goldsmiths attended; upon which he returned to the hall, and showed them the window which was unfinished.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000008_000001|"I sent for you," said he, "to fit up this window in as great perfection as the rest.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000010_000000|When the sultan returned to his palace, he ordered his jewels to be brought out, and the jewellers took a great quantity, particularly those Aladdin had made him a present of, which they soon used, without making any great advance in their work.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000010_000001|They came again several times for more, and in a month's time had not finished half their work.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000010_000002|In short, they used all the jewels the sultan had, and borrowed of the vizier, but yet the work was not half done.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000011_000000|Aladdin, who knew that all the sultan's endeavours to make this window like the rest were in vain, sent for the jewellers and goldsmiths, and not only commanded them to desist from their work, but ordered them to undo what they had begun, and to carry all their jewels back to the sultan and to the vizier.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000011_000002|He took the lamp, which he carried about him, rubbed it, and presently the genie appeared.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000011_000004|Aladdin went out of the hall, and returning soon after, found the window, as he wished it to be, like the others.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000012_000003|He fancied at first that he was mistaken, and examined the two windows on each side, and afterward all the four and twenty; but when he was convinced that the window which several workmen had been so long about was finished in so short a time, he embraced Aladdin and kissed him between his eyes.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000013_000000|The sultan returned to the palace, and after this went frequently to the window to contemplate and admire the wonderful palace of his son in law.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000014_000003|Thus Aladdin, while he paid all respect to the sultan, won by his affable behaviour and liberality the affections of the people.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000015_000000|Aladdin had conducted himself in this manner several years, when the African magician, who had for some years dismissed him from his recollection, determined to inform himself with certainty whether he perished, as he supposed, in the subterranean cave or not.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000016_000000|On the very next day, the magician set out and travelled with the utmost haste to the capital of China, where, on his arrival, he took up his lodgings in a khan.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000017_000000|He then quickly learnt about the wealth, charities, happiness, and splendid palace of Prince Aladdin.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000018_000000|On his return he had recourse to an operation of geomancy to find out where the lamp was-whether Aladdin carried it about with him, or where he left it.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000018_000001|The result of his consultation informed him, to his great joy, that the lamp was in the palace.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000018_000002|"Well," said he, rubbing his hands in glee, "I shall have the lamp, and I shall make Aladdin return to his original mean condition."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000019_000000|The next day the magician learnt, from the chief superintendent of the khan where he lodged, that Aladdin had gone on a hunting expedition, which was to last for eight days, of which only three had expired.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000019_000002|He went to a coppersmith, and asked for a dozen copper lamps: the master of the shop told him he had not so many by him, but if he would have patience till the next day, he would have them ready.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000020_000000|The next day the magician called for the twelve lamps, paid the man his full price, put them into a basket hanging on his arm, and went directly to Aladdin's palace.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000020_000001|As he approached, he began crying, "Who will exchange old lamps for new ones?" As he went along, a crowd of children collected, who hooted, and thought him, as did all who chanced to be passing by, a madman or a fool, to offer to change new lamps for old ones.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000021_000001|He repeated this so often, walking backward and forward in front of the palace, that the princess, who was then in the hall with the four and twenty windows, hearing a man cry something, and seeing a great mob crowding about him, sent one of her women slaves to know what he cried.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000022_000000|The slave returned, laughing so heartily that the princess rebuked her. "Madam," answered the slave, laughing still, "who can forbear laughing, to see an old man with a basket on his arm, full of fine new lamps, asking to change them for old ones?
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000022_000001|the children and mob crowding about him, so that he can hardly stir, make all the noise they can in derision of him."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000023_000001|If the princess chooses, she may have the pleasure of trying if this old man is so silly as to give a new lamp for an old one, without taking anything for the exchange."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000024_000000|The princess, who knew not the value of this lamp, and the interest that Aladdin had to keep it safe, entered into the pleasantry, and commanded a slave to take it and make the exchange.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000024_000001|The slave obeyed, went out of the hall, and no sooner got to the palace gates than he saw the African magician, called to him, and showing him the old lamp, said, "Give me a new lamp for this."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000025_000002|The slave picked out one and carried it to the princess; but the change was no sooner made than the place rung with the shouts of the children, deriding the magician's folly.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000026_000000|The African magician stayed no longer near the palace, nor cried any more, "New lamps for old ones," but made the best of his way to his khan.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000027_000003|"I command thee," replied the magician, "to transport me immediately, and the palace which thou and the other slaves of the lamp have built in this city, with all the people in it, to Africa." The genie made no reply, but with the assistance of the other genies, the slaves of the lamp, immediately transported him and the palace, entire, to the spot whither he had been desired to convey it.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000028_000000|Early the next morning, when the sultan, according to custom, went to contemplate and admire Aladdin's place, his amazement was unbounded to find that it could nowhere be seen.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000028_000002|In his perplexity he ordered the grand vizier to be sent for with expedition.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000029_000002|On his son in law being brought before him, he would not hear a word from him, but ordered him to be put to death.
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000029_000007|I beg you to give me forty days, and if in that time I cannot restore it, I will offer my head to be disposed of at your pleasure." "I give you the time you ask, but at the end of the forty days, forget not to present yourself before me."
train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000030_000001|The lords who had courted him in the days of his splendour, now declined to have any communication with him.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000003_000000|To Bake a Rock Fish.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000009_000000|To Bake a Fresh Shad.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000010_000000|Make a stuffing of bread, butter, salt, pepper and parsley; fill a large shad with this, and bake it in a stove or oven.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000015_000000|To Stew Clams.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000024_000000|To Boil Salt Salmon.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000027_000001|A fat shad is very nice boiled, although rock and bass are preferred generally; when done, take it up on a fish dish, and cover it with egg sauce or drawn butter and parsley.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000028_000000|To Stew Terrapins.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000032_000000|Another Way.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000034_000000|Scolloped Oysters.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000044_000000|A Rich Oyster Pie.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000051_000000|Plain Oyster Pie.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000058_000000|Wash and drain the oysters, and put them in salt and water, that will bear an egg; let them scald till plump, and put them in a glass jar, with some cloves and whole peppers, and when cold cover them with vinegar.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000061_000000|A Dish of Poached Eggs.
train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000067_000000|Omelet.
train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000019_000000|"Saying your prayers!
train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000021_000000|"You weren't.
train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000025_000000|"Worth no more than that," repeated mr Cruncher.
train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000030_000003|Keep still!"
train-clean-360/636/128331/636_128331_000016_000000|"Not dead!
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000002_000000|ALL the inhabitants of the valley treated me with great kindness; but as to the household of Marheyo, with whom I was now permanently domiciled, nothing could surpass their efforts to minister to my comfort.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000002_000001|To the gratification of my palate they paid the most unwearied attention. They continually invited me to partake of food, and when after eating heartily I declined the viands they continued to offer me, they seemed to think that my appetite stood in need of some piquant stimulant to excite its activity.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000003_000001|After a whole day spent in this employment, he would return about nightfall with several cocoanut shells filled with different descriptions of kelp.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000003_000002|In preparing these for use he manifested all the ostentation of a professed cook, although the chief mystery of the affair appeared to consist in pouring water in judicious quantities upon the slimy contents of his cocoanut shells.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000004_000000|The first time he submitted one of these saline salads to my critical attention I naturally thought that anything collected at such pains must possess peculiar merits; but one mouthful was a complete dose; and great was the consternation of the old warrior at the rapidity with which I ejected his Epicurean treat.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000005_000000|How true it is, that the rarity of any particular article enhances its value amazingly.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000005_000001|In some part of the valley-I know not where, but probably in the neighbourhood of the sea-the girls were sometimes in the habit of procuring small quantities of salt, a thimble full or so being the result of the united labours of a party of five or six employed for the greater part of the day.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000005_000002|This precious commodity they brought to the house, enveloped in multitudinous folds of leaves; and as a special mark of the esteem in which they held me, would spread an immense leaf on the ground, and dropping one by one a few minute particles of the salt upon it, invite me to taste them.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000006_000000|From the extravagant value placed upon the article, I verily believe, that with a bushel of common Liverpool salt all the real estate in Typee might have been purchased.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000007_000000|The celebrity of the bread fruit tree, and the conspicuous place it occupies in a Typee bill of fare, induces me to give at some length a general description of the tree, and the various modes in which the fruit is prepared.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000008_000000|The bread fruit tree, in its glorious prime, is a grand and towering object, forming the same feature in a Marquesan landscape that the patriarchal elm does in New England scenery.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000008_000001|The latter tree it not a little resembles in height, in the wide spread of its stalwart branches, and in its venerable and imposing aspect.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000009_000000|The leaves of the bread fruit are of great size, and their edges are cut and scolloped as fantastically as those of a lady's lace collar.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000009_000002|The autumnal tints of our American forests, glorious as they are, sink into nothing in comparison with this tree.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000010_000000|The leaf, in one particular stage, when nearly all the prismatic colours are blended on its surface, is often converted by the natives into a superb and striking head dress.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000011_000000|The fruit somewhat resembles in magnitude and general appearance one of our citron melons of ordinary size; but, unlike the citron, it has no sectional lines drawn along the outside.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000011_000001|Its surface is dotted all over with little conical prominences, looking not unlike the knobs, on an antiquated church door.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000011_000002|The rind is perhaps an eighth of an inch in thickness; and denuded of this at the time when it is in the greatest perfection, the fruit presents a beautiful globe of white pulp, the whole of which may be eaten, with the exception of a slender core, which is easily removed.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000012_000000|The bread fruit, however, is never used, and is indeed altogether unfit to be eaten, until submitted in one form or other to the action of fire.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000013_000001|After the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, the green rind embrowns and cracks, showing through the fissures in its sides the milk white interior.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000013_000002|As soon as it cools the rind drops off, and you then have the soft round pulp in its purest and most delicious state.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000013_000003|Thus eaten, it has a mild and pleasing flavour.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000014_000000|Sometimes after having been roasted in the fire, the natives snatch it briskly from the embers, and permitting it to slip out of the yielding rind into a vessel of cold water, stir up the mixture, which they call 'bo a sho'.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000014_000001|I never could endure this compound, and indeed the preparation is not greatly in vogue among the more polite Typees.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000000|There is one form, however, in which the fruit is occasionally served, that renders it a dish fit for a king.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000001|As soon as it is taken from the fire the exterior is removed, the core extracted, and the remaining part is placed in a sort of shallow stone mortar, and briskly worked with a pestle of the same substance.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000003|This is done by means of a piece of mother of pearl shell, lashed firmly to the extreme end of a heavy stick, with its straight side accurately notched like a saw.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000004|The stick is sometimes a grotesquely formed limb of a tree, with three or four branches twisting from its body like so many shapeless legs, and sustaining it two or three feet from the ground.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000016_000001|Having obtained a quantity sufficient for his purpose, he places it in a bag made of the net like fibrous substance attached to all cocoanut trees, and compressing it over the bread fruit, which being now sufficiently pounded, is put into a wooden bowl-extracts a thick creamy milk.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000016_000002|The delicious liquid soon bubbles round the fruit, and leaves it at last just peeping above its surface.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000017_000001|The hobby horse and the pestle and mortar were in great requisition during the time I remained in the house of Marheyo, and Kory Kory had frequent occasion to show his skill in their use.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000000|The trees are stripped of their nodding burdens, which, easily freed from the rind and core, are gathered together in capacious wooden vessels, where the pulpy fruit is soon worked by a stone pestle, vigorously applied, into a blended mass of a doughy consistency, called by the natives 'Tutao'.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000001|This is then divided into separate parcels, which, after being made up into stout packages, enveloped in successive folds of leaves, and bound round with thongs of bark, are stored away in large receptacles hollowed in the earth, from whence they are drawn as occasion may require.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000002|In this condition the Tutao sometimes remains for years, and even is thought to improve by age.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000003|Before it is fit to be eaten, however, it has to undergo an additional process.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000004|A primitive oven is scooped in the ground, and its bottom being loosely covered with stones, a large fire is kindled within it.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000005|As soon as the requisite degree of heat is attained, the embers are removed, and the surface of the stones being covered with thick layers of leaves, one of the large packages of Tutao is deposited upon them and overspread with another layer of leaves.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000006|The whole is then quickly heaped up with earth, and forms a sloping mound.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000022_000001|The Amar is placed in a vessel, and mixed with water until it gains a proper pudding like consistency, when, without further preparation, it is in readiness for use.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000022_000002|This is the form in which the 'Tutao' is generally consumed.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000023_000000|Were it not that the bread fruit is thus capable of being preserved for a length of time, the natives might be reduced to a state of starvation; for owing to some unknown cause the trees sometimes fail to bear fruit; and on such occasions the islanders chiefly depend upon the supplies they have been enabled to store away.
train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000024_000000|This stately tree, which is rarely met with upon the Sandwich Islands, and then only of a very inferior quality, and at Tahiti does not abound to a degree that renders its fruit the principal article of food, attains its greatest excellence in the genial climate of the Marquesan group, where it grows to an enormous magnitude, and flourishes in the utmost abundance.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000001_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000003_000000|SADLY discursive as I have already been, I must still further entreat the reader's patience, as I am about to string together, without any attempt at order, a few odds and ends of things not hitherto mentioned, but which are either curious in themselves or peculiar to the Typees.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000004_000000|There was one singular custom observed in old Marheyo's domestic establishment, which often excited my surprise.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000006_000000|What was the meaning or purpose of this custom, whether it was practiced merely as a diversion, or whether it was a religious exercise, a sort of family prayers, I never could discover.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000007_000000|The sounds produced by the natives on these occasions were of a most singular description; and had I not actually been present, I never would have believed that such curious noises could have been produced by human beings.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000008_000000|To savages generally is imputed a guttural articulation.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000008_000002|The labial melody with which the Typee girls carry on an ordinary conversation, giving a musical prolongation to the final syllable of every sentence, and chirping out some of the words with a liquid, bird like accent, was singularly pleasing.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000009_000000|The men however, are not quite so harmonious in their utterance, and when excited upon any subject, would work themselves up into a sort of wordy paroxysm, during which all descriptions of rough sided sounds were projected from their mouths, with a force and rapidity which was absolutely astonishing.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000001|It was a stanza from the 'Bavarian broom seller'.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000002|His Typeean majesty, with all his court, gazed upon me in amazement, as if I had displayed some preternatural faculty which Heaven had denied to them.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000003|The King was delighted with the verse; but the chorus fairly transported him.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000004|At his solicitation I sang it again and again, and nothing could be more ludicrous than his vain attempts to catch the air and the words.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000005|The royal savage seemed to think that by screwing all the features of his face into the end of his nose he might possibly succeed in the undertaking, but it failed to answer the purpose; and in the end he gave it up, and consoled himself by listening to my repetition of the sounds fifty times over.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000000|Besides the sticks and the drums, there are no other musical instruments among the Typees, except one which might appropriately be denominated a nasal flute.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000002|The other nostril being closed by a peculiar movement of the muscles about the nose, the breath is forced into the tube, and produces a soft dulcet sound which is varied by the fingers running at random over the stops.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000003|This is a favourite recreation with the females and one in which Fayaway greatly excelled.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000004|Awkward as such an instrument may appear, it was, in Fayaway's delicate little hands, one of the most graceful I have ever seen.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000005|A young lady, in the act of tormenting a guitar strung about her neck by a couple of yards of blue ribbon, is not half so engaging.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000017_000003|Sometimes when this sorely battered shadow retreated precipitately towards a group of the savages, and, following him up, I rushed among them dealing my blows right and left, they would disperse in all directions much to the enjoyment of Mehevi, the chiefs, and themselves.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000000|One day, in company with Kory Kory, I had repaired to the stream for the purpose of bathing, when I observed a woman sitting upon a rock in the midst of the current, and watching with the liveliest interest the gambols of something, which at first I took to be an uncommonly large species of frog that was sporting in the water near her.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000001|Attracted by the novelty of the sight, I waded towards the spot where she sat, and could hardly credit the evidence of my senses when I beheld a little infant, the period of whose birth could not have extended back many days, paddling about as if it had just risen to the surface, after being hatched into existence at the bottom.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000004|At such times however, the mother snatched it up and by a process scarcely to be mentioned obliged it to eject the fluid.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000005|For several weeks afterwards I observed this woman bringing her child down to the stream regularly every day, in the cool of the morning and evening and treating it to a bath.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000006|No wonder that the South Sea Islanders are so amphibious a race, when they are thus launched into the water as soon as they see the light.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000007|I am convinced that it is as natural for a human being to swim as it is for a duck.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000008|And yet in civilized communities how many able bodied individuals die, like so many drowning kittens, from the occurrence of the most trivial accidents!
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000022_000000|The long luxuriant and glossy tresses of the Typee damsels often attracted my admiration.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000022_000001|A fine head of hair is the pride and joy of every woman's heart.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000023_000000|The Typee girls devote much of their time to the dressing of their fair and redundant locks.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000023_000001|After bathing, as they sometimes do five or six times every day, the hair is carefully dried, and if they have been in the sea, invariably washed in fresh water, and anointed with a highly scented oil extracted from the meat of the cocoanut.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000000|A large vessel of wood, with holes perforated in the bottom, is filled with the pounded meat, and exposed to the rays of the sun
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000001|As the oleaginous matter exudes, it falls in drops through the apertures into a wide mouthed calabash placed underneath.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000003|These nuts are then hermetically sealed with a resinous gum, and the vegetable fragrance of their green rind soon imparts to the oil a delightful odour.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000004|After the lapse of a few weeks the exterior shell of the nuts becomes quite dry and hard, and assumes a beautiful carnation tint; and when opened they are found to be about two thirds full of an ointment of a light yellow colour and diffusing the sweetest perfume.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000005|This elegant little odorous globe would not be out of place even upon the toilette of a queen.
train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000006|Its merits as a preparation for the hair are undeniable-it imparts to it a superb gloss and a silky fineness.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000001_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000004_000000|As he drew near, I remembered with many misgivings the inauspicious termination of our former interview, and when he entered the house, I watched with intense anxiety the reception he met with from its inmates. To my joy, his appearance was hailed with the liveliest pleasure; and accosting me kindly, he seated himself by my side, and entered into conversation with the natives around him.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000004_000001|It soon appeared however, that on this occasion he had not any intelligence of importance to communicate.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000004_000003|He replied from Pueearka, his native valley, and that he intended to return to it the same day.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000000|At once it struck me that, could I but reach that valley under his protection, I might easily from thence reach Nukuheva by water; and animated by the prospect which this plan held, out I disclosed it in a few brief words to the stranger, and asked him how it could be best accomplished.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000001|My heart sunk within me, when in his broken English he answered me that it could never be effected.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000002|'Kanaka no let you go nowhere,' he said; 'you taboo.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000005|Suppose you no like this bay, why you come?
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000007|All white men afraid Typee, so no white men come.'
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000007_000000|It would have been idle for me to have attempted resuming the interview so peremptorily terminated by Marnoo, who was evidently little disposed to compromise his own safety by any rash endeavour to ensure mine. But the plan he had suggested struck me as one which might possibly be accomplished, and I resolved to act upon it as speedily as possible.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000009_000000|A mode of escape was now presented to me, but how was I to avail myself of it?
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000009_000001|I was continually surrounded by the savages; I could not stir from one house to another without being attended by some of them; and even during the hours devoted to slumber, the slightest movement which I made seemed to attract the notice of those who shared the mats with me. In spite of these obstacles, however, I determined forthwith to make the attempt.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000009_000003|It was also by night alone that I could hope to accomplish my object, and then only by adopting the utmost precaution.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000010_000000|The entrance to Marheyo's habitation was through a low narrow opening in its wicker work front.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000010_000001|This passage, for no conceivable reason that I could devise, was always closed after the household had retired to rest, by drawing a heavy slide across it, composed of a dozen or more bits of wood, ingeniously fastened together by seizings of sinnate.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000010_000002|When any of the inmates chose to go outside, the noise occasioned by the removing of this rude door awakened every body else; and on more than one occasion I had remarked that the islanders were nearly as irritable as more civilized beings under similar circumstances.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000011_000000|The difficulty thus placed in my way I, determined to obviate in the following manner.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000011_000002|On re entering I would purposely omit closing the passage after me, and trusting that the indolence of the savages would prevent them from repairing my neglect, would return to my mat, and waiting patiently until all were again asleep, I would then steal forth, and at once take the route to Pueearka.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000012_000000|The very night which followed Marnoo's departure, I proceeded to put this project into execution.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000012_000001|About midnight, as I imagined, I arose and drew the slide.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000012_000003|On hearing my reply they sank back again, and in a minute or two I returned to my mat, anxiously awaiting the result of the experiment.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000013_000001|This was a sad blow to me; but as it might have aroused the suspicions of the islanders to have made another attempt that night, I was reluctantly obliged to defer it until the next.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000013_000002|Several times after I repeated the same manoeuvre, but with as little success as before. As my pretence for withdrawing from the house was to allay my thirst, Kory Kory either suspecting some design on my part, or else prompted by a desire to please me, regularly every evening placed a calabash of water by my side.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000014_000001|For the present, therefore, I was obliged to abandon the attempt; but I endeavoured to console myself with the idea that by this mode I might yet effect my escape.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000015_000000|Shortly after Marnoo's visit I was reduced to such a state that it was with extreme difficulty I could walk, even with the assistance of a spear, and Kory Kory, as formerly, was obliged to carry me daily to the stream.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000017_000001|At my request my mats were always spread directly facing the door, opposite which, and at a little distance, was the hut of boughs that Marheyo was building.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000018_000000|Whenever my gentle Fayaway and Kory Kory, laying themselves down beside me, would leave me awhile to uninterrupted repose, I took a strange interest in the slightest movements of the eccentric old warrior.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000018_000001|All alone during the stillness of the tropical mid day, he would pursue his quiet work, sitting in the shade and weaving together the leaflets of his cocoanut branches, or rolling upon his knee the twisted fibres of bark to form the cords with which he tied together the thatching of his tiny house.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000019_000002|It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction.
train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000019_000003|Even now, amidst all the bustle and stir of the proud and busy city in which I am dwelling, the image of those three trees seems to come as vividly before my eyes as if they were actually present, and I still feel the soothing quiet pleasure which I then had in watching hour after hour their topmost boughs waving gracefully in the breeze.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000002_000000|KING'S DAGGER
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000004_000000|mrs Darcy, who was sixty five years of age, had carried on the jewelry business of her husband, Mortimer Darcy, after his death, which preceded her more tragic one by about seven years.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000004_000001|Mortimer Darcy had been a diamond salesman for a large New York house in his younger days, and had come to be an expert in precious stones.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000004_000002|Many good wishes, and not a little trade, had gone to him from his former employers, and some of their customers bought of him when he went into business for himself in the thriving city of Colchester.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000005_000001|This man-Harrison Van Doren by name-had what was termed the best jewelry trade in Colchester.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000005_000002|The "old" families-not that any of them could trace their ancestry back very far-liked to say that "we get all our stuff at Van Doren's."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000006_000000|This name, on little white plush lined boxes, containing pins or sparkling rings, came to mean almost as much as some of the more expensive names in New York.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000006_000001|Young ladies counted it a point in the favor of their lovers if the engagement circlet came from Van Doren's. And Mortimer Darcy, knowing the value of that class of trade, had, when he purchased mr Van Doren's business fostered that spirit.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000007_000000|That is to say, those, aside from a casual trade with people who dropped in as they might have done to a grocery, to get what they really needed in the way of jewelry, came in gasolene or electric cars where their ancestors had come with horses and carriage.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000008_000000|So Darcy's jewelry store was known, and though a bit old-fashioned in a way, was favorably known, not only to the older members of the rich families of the place, but to the younger set as well.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000008_000001|The pretty girls and their well groomed companions of the "Assembly Ball" set liked to stop in there for their rings, brooches, scarf pins or cuff links, and very frequent were the rather languid orders:
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000009_000000|"You may send it, charge."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000010_000000|It was to that class of trade that mrs Darcy catered.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000010_000001|She understood it, and it understood her.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000010_000002|That was enough.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000011_000001|This was the easier for her, since she owned the building in which her display was kept, and lived in a quiet and tastefully furnished apartment over the store.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000012_000000|On the death of her husband, she had sent for his second cousin, who at that time was in the employ of a well-known New York jewelry house, and he agreed to come to her.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000013_000000|Rather more than a repair man and clerk was james Darcy.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000013_000001|He was an expert jewelry designer and a setter of precious stones; and often, when some fastidious customer did not seem to care for what was shown from the glittering trays in the showcases, mrs Darcy or one of her clerks would say:
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000014_000000|"We will have mr Darcy design something different for you."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000015_000000|"That's what I want," the customer would say-"something different-something you don't see everywhere."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000016_000000|And so the Darcy trade had grown and prospered.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000017_000000|"Well, let's hear what you have to say," said Carroll, after james Darcy had given what the detectives considered was, for the time, a sufficient history of himself and his relative, and had hastily gone over such of the stock as was kept outside the safe.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000017_000001|The latter had not been forced open-it did not take long to ascertain that.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000017_000002|"Is anything gone?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000000|"I can't say for sure," answered the young man-he was this side of thirty.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000001|His long, artistic fingers were trembling, and he felt weak and faint.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000002|"But if there has been a robbery they didn't get much.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000003|The safe hasn't been opened, and the best of the goods-all the diamonds and other stones-are in that.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000004|Nothing seems to be gone from the cases, though I'd have to make a better search, and go over the inventory, to make certain."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000000|"Well, let that go for the time.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000001|How'd you find things when you came downstairs?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000002|What happened during the night?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000003|Any of the doors or windows forced?" and the detective fairly shot these questions at Darcy,
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000000|"I think not.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000001|The front door was locked, just as it is now.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000002|I went out the side one.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000003|That was locked with the spring catch from the inside."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000021_000000|"Wasn't it bolted?" came sharply from Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000022_000001|You see, I was all excited like-"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000023_000000|"Yes," assented Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000024_000000|"There's a bolt on the door!" Carroll snapped.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000000|"Yes, but mrs Darcy may have slipped it back herself.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000001|She was down first, though why, I can't say.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000002|She seldom came down ahead of me, especially of late years.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000003|I generally opened the store.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000026_000000|More knockings had sounded on the front door, and the faces of two young men peered in through the misty glass, the crowd having made a lane for them on learning that they worked in the place of death.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000028_000000|Darcy did so, Mulligan helping him keep back the crowd of curious ones.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000029_000001|"What's the matter?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000000|"Dead!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000001|Killed, I'm afraid!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000002|The store won't open to day, but the police want to see every one.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000003|Oh, Miss Brill, come in!" and he held out his hand to the one young woman clerk, who drew back in horrified fright as she saw the silent figure on the floor.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000032_000000|But when Miss Brill had been carried to a rear room and quieted, and when the shades had been drawn to keep the curious ones from peering in, the questioning of Darcy was resumed.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000033_000000|"Did you come directly down to the store from your room?" asked Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000034_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000034_000001|As soon as I awakened."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000035_000000|"Where is your room?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000000|"In the rear, on the second floor-the one next above.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000001|mrs Darcy has her rooms in front.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000002|Then come those of her maid, Jane Metson.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000003|Sallie Page sleeps on the top floor where the janitor's family lives, and he, of course, sleeps up there also."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000037_000000|"I see," murmured Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000037_000001|"Then you came downstairs and found mrs Darcy lying here-dead?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000039_000001|"No question about that.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000039_000002|Did you hear anything?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000040_000000|"Only the watch ticking in her hand.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000040_000001|First I thought it was her heart beating."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000041_000002|But of course she might have heard a noise if you didn't, and she might have come down to find out what it was about.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000041_000004|But if it was a burglar it's funny you didn't hear any noise-like a fall, or something.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000041_000005|How about that, mr Darcy?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000042_000001|I went to bed about half past ten, after working at my table down here awhile."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000044_000000|"I couldn't say.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000044_000001|She had gone to her apartment, but I don't have to pass near that to get to my room.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000044_000002|I came straight up and went to bed."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000045_000000|"At ten o'clock, you say?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000046_000000|"A little after.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000046_000001|It may have been a quarter to eleven."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000047_000000|"And you didn't hear anything all night?" Carroll shot this question at Darcy suddenly.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000049_000000|"What kind of talk is that?" demanded Thong roughly.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000049_000002|Now which was it?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000050_000000|"Well, if you call a clock striking a noise, then it was one."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000051_000000|"Oh, a clock struck!" and Thong settled back in his chair more at his ease.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000051_000001|His manner seemed to indicate that he was on the track of something.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000000|"Yes, a clock struck.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000001|It was either three or four, I can't be sure which," Darcy replied.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000002|"You know when you awaken in the night, and hear the strokes, you can't be sure you haven't missed some of the first ones.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000003|I heard three, anyhow, I'm sure of that."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000053_000000|"Well, put it down as three," suggested Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000053_000001|"Was it the striking of the clock that awakened you?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000054_000000|"No, not exactly.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000055_000001|They were questioning Darcy in the living room of mrs Darcy's suite, the clerks being detained downstairs by Mulligan.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000055_000002|The county physician, who was also the coroner, had not yet arrived.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000056_000000|"Yes, at first I thought some one had been in my room, and then, after I thought about it, I wasn't quite sure.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000056_000001|All I know is I slept quite soundly-sounder than usual in fact, and, all at once, I heard a clock strike."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000057_000000|"Three or four," murmured Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000058_000000|"Yes; three anyhow-maybe four.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000058_000001|Something awakened me suddenly; but what, I can't say.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000058_000002|I remember, at the time, it felt as though something had passed over my face."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000059_000000|"Like a hand?" suggested Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000060_000000|"Well, I couldn't be sure.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000060_000001|It may have been I dreamed it."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000062_000000|"Well, like a cloth brushing my face more than like a hand-or it may have been a hand with a glove on it.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000062_000002|Then I tried to arouse myself, but I heard the wind blowing and a sprinkle of rain, and, as my window was open, I thought the curtain might have blown across my face.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000062_000003|That would account for it I reasoned, so-"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000063_000001|"But what did you do?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000064_000000|"Nothing.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000064_000001|I lay still a little while, and then I went to sleep again. I was only awake maybe two or three minutes."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000065_000000|"You didn't call mrs Darcy?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000066_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000067_000000|"Nor the servant-what's her name?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000067_000001|Sallie?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000068_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000068_000001|There wasn't any use in that.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000068_000002|She's deaf."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000069_000000|"And you didn't call the janitor?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000070_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000070_000001|I wasn't very wide awake, and I didn't really attach any importance to it until after I saw her-dead."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000071_000000|"Um!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000071_000001|Yes," murmured Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000071_000002|"Well, then you went to sleep again. What did you do next?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000000|"I awakened with a sudden start just before six o'clock.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000001|I had not set an alarm, though I wanted to get up early to do a little repair job I had promised for early this morning.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000004|I was anxious to finish the repair job for a man who was to leave on an early train this morning.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000005|He may be in any time now, and I haven't it ready for him."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000073_000000|"What sort of a repair job?" asked Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000074_000000|"On a watch."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000075_000000|"Where's the watch now?" and the detective flicked the ashes from a cigar the reporter had given him.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000076_000000|"The watch," murmured Darcy.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000076_000001|"It-it's in her hand," and he nodded in the direction of the silent figure downstairs.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000077_000000|"The watch that is still ticking?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000000|"Yes, but the funny part of it is that the watch wasn't going last night, when I planned to start work on it.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000001|I forget just why I didn't do it," and Darcy seemed a bit confused, a point not lost sight of by Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000003|Anyhow I didn't do anything to the Indian's watch more than look at it, and I made up my mind to rise early and hurry it through.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000004|So I didn't even wind it.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000005|I can't understand what makes it go, unless some one got in and wound it-and they wouldn't do that."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000079_000000|"Whose watch is it?" asked Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000081_000000|"Singa Phut!" ejaculated Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000081_000001|"Crimps, what a name!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000081_000002|Who belongs to it?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000001|"He has a curio store down on Water Street.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000002|We have bought some odd things from him for our customers, queer bead necklaces and the like.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000003|He left the watch with my cousin, who told me to repair it.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000004|It needed a new case spring and some of the screws were loose."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000084_000000|"That I couldn't say."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000086_000001|"He has not lived here very long, but I knew him in New York.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000086_000002|He has done business with me for some years."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000087_000000|"Is he all right-safe-not one of them gars-you know, the fellows that use a silk cord to strangle you with?" asked Thong, who had some imagination regarding garroters.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000089_000000|"Oh," said Carroll and Thong in unison.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000090_000000|There came another knock on the side door downstairs.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000090_000001|There was less of a crowd about now, and Mulligan did not have to keep back a rush as he opened the portal.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000091_000000|"dr Warren," reported the policeman, calling upstairs to Carroll and Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000000|"The county physician," explained Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000001|"Better come down and meet him, mr Darcy.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000002|He'll want to ask you some questions.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000003|Then we'll have another go at you.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000004|Got to ask a lot of questions in a case like this," he half apologized.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000093_000000|"Oh, sure," assented the jewelry worker.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000094_000000|"Doc Warren, eh," mused Thong to his partner, as Darcy preceded them downstairs.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000096_000001|Come on!"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000097_000002|"Second time this week you've got me out of bed before my time.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000097_000003|What's the matter, if they've got to have a murder, with doing it in the afternoon?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000097_000004|I like my sleep!"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000098_000000|He was smiling and cheerful, was dr Warren.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000098_000001|Murders and autopsies were all in the day's work with him.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000001|quite an old lady," he mused as he took off his coat, which Carroll held for him.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000002|The doctor rolled up his shirt sleeves and stooped down.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000003|"Head's badly cut-let's see what we have here.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000004|Let's have a light, it's too dark to see."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000100_000000|One of the clerks switched on more electric lights, and they glinted and sparkled on the silver and cut glass.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000100_000001|They flashed on the white, still face, and the gleams seemed to be swallowed up in that red blotch in the snowy hair.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000000|"Um, yes!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000001|Depressed fracture.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000002|Bad place, too.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000004|Might have been from a black jack?" and he glanced questioningly at the detectives.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000103_000000|"That'll crack a skull, but it won't draw blood-not if it's used right," and he brought from his hip pocket one of the weapons in question-a short, stout flexible reed, covered with leather, the end forming a pocket in which was a chunk of lead.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000105_000000|"Maybe not," assented the doctor.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000105_000001|"Let's look a bit further."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000107_000000|It was that of a hunter, standing as though he had just delivered a shot, and was peering to see the effect.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000107_000001|The butt of his gun projected behind him, and as dr Warren moved the statue into the light of the jewelry store chandeliers, they all saw, clinging to the stock of the gun, some straggling, white hairs.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000108_000000|"That's what did it!" exclaimed the county physician.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000108_000002|The burglar-or whoever it was-swung this statue as a club. It would make a deadly one, using the foot end for a handle," and dr Warren waved the ornament in the air over the dead woman's head to illustrate what he meant.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000109_000000|"Don't!" muttered Darcy in a strained voice.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000110_000000|"Don't what?" asked the physician sharply.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000111_000000|"Use the statue that way."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000112_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000113_000001|But now- Oh, I never want to see it in the house!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000113_000002|I couldn't bear to look at it-nor could she!"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000000|"She?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000001|We?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000002|What do you mean?" asked Carroll quickly.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000003|"Say, do you know something about this killing that you're keeping back from us?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000115_000000|He took a step nearer Darcy-a threatening step it would seem, from the fact that the jewelry worker drew back as if in alarm.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000000|"The house I hope to live in with my wife-Miss Amy Mason," answered Darcy, and he spoke in calm contrast to his former excitement, "We are going to be married in the fall," he went on.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000001|"I had asked mrs Darcy to set that statue aside for me.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000002|Miss Mason admired it, and I planned to buy it.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000003|We had the place all picked out where it would stand. But-now-"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000120_000001|"But are you sure it did, Doc?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000000|"Pretty sure, yes.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000001|I never make a statement, though, until after the autopsy.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000002|No telling what that may develop.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000003|I'll get at it right away. I guess you remember that Murray case," he went on, to no one in particular.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000122_000000|"That wasn't your case, Doc," observed Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000000|"No, it was before my time.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000001|But I remember it.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000002|That's why I'm saying nothing until I've made an examination.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000003|Better 'phone the morgue keeper," he went on, "and have them come for the body."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000124_000000|"Have you-have you got to take her away?" faltered Darcy.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000125_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000125_000001|I'm sorry, but it wouldn't do-here," and the doctor motioned to the glittering array of cut glass and plate.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000125_000002|"You won't keep the store open?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000126_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000126_000001|I'll put a notice in the door now," and Darcy wrote out one which a clerk affixed to the front door for him.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000127_000000|"Well, that's all I can do now," dr Warren said, after his very perfunctory examination.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000127_000001|"The rest will have to be at the morgue.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000127_000002|Got a place where I can wash my hands?" he asked.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000128_000000|Darcy indicated a little closet near his work bench.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000128_000001|dr Warren soon resumed his coat, accepted a cigarette from Daley, slipped into his still damp rain garment and was soon throbbing down the street in his automobile, having announced that he was going to breakfast and would perform the autopsy immediately afterward.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000130_000000|More reporters came, and Daley fraternized with them, the newspaper men aside from the police and Jim Holiday, a detective from Prosecutor Bardon's office, being the only people admitted to the shop, when the clerks had been sent home.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000000|"What's up?" asked Thong quickly.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000001|He had been strolling about the shop, and had come to a stop near Darcy's work table-a sort of bench against the wall, and behind one of the showcases.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000002|The bench was fitted with a lathe, and on it were parts of watches, like the dead specimens preserved in alcohol in a doctor's office.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000003|"What's up, Bill?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000133_000000|"Look!" exclaimed Carroll, pointing.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000134_000000|The men from the morgue had the body raised in the air.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000134_000001|And then, in the gleam from the electric lights there was revealed underneath and in the left side of the dead woman a clean slit through her light dress-a slit the edges of which were stained with blood.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000135_000000|"Another wound!" exclaimed Daley, his newspaper instincts quickly aroused by this addition of evidence of mystery.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000135_000001|"This is getting interesting!"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000136_000000|"It's a cut-a deep one, too," murmured Carroll, as he drew nearer to look.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000136_000001|"Wonder what did it?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000137_000000|"Shouldn't wonder but it was done with this!" and Thong held out, on the palm of his large hand, a slender dagger, on the otherwise bright blade of which were some dark stains.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000138_000000|"Where'd you get it?" demanded Carroll.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000139_000000|"Over on the watch repair table."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000140_000000|Darcy gasped.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000141_000000|"Is that your dagger?" snapped Carroll at the jewelry worker.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000142_000000|"It isn't a dagger-it's a paper cutter-a magazine knife."
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000143_000000|"Well, whatever it is, who owns it?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000143_000001|The words were as crisp as the steel of the stained blade.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000144_000000|Darcy stared at the keen knife, and then at the dead woman.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000146_000000|"I don't!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000146_000001|It was left here by-"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000148_000001|Place on fire?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000148_000003|Let me in.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000148_000006|I got something here.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000148_000007|'Svaluable, too!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000000|"'Lo, Darcy!" went on a young man, who walked unsteadily into the jewelry store.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000001|"Wheresh tha' paper cutter I left for you t' 'grave Pearl's name on?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000002|Got take it home now.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000005|Take wifely home li'l preshent-you know how 'tish.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000007|Wheresh my gold mounted paper cutter, Darcy?"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000150_000000|"Harry King, and stewed to the gills again!" murmured Pete Daley. "Wow! he has some bun on!"
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000151_000000|"Wheresh my paper cutter, Darcy?" went on King, smiling in a fashion meant to be merry, but which was fixed and glassy as to his eyes. "Wheresh my li'l preshent for wifely?
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000152_000001|The detective held it out, and the red spots on it seemed to show brighter in the gleam of the electric lights.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000153_000000|"Is that your knife, Harry King?" demanded Thong.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000154_000000|"Sure thash mine!
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000154_000002|Didn't have no name on it-brought it here for my ole fren', Darcy, t' engrave.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000000|"My wife-she likes them things.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000003|But gotta square wife somehow.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000004|Take her home nice preshent.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000005|Thatsh me-sure thash mine!" and carefully trying to balance himself, he reached forward as though to take the stained dagger from the hand of the detective.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000156_000000|"You got Pearl's name 'graved on it, Darcy, ole man?" asked King, thickly, licking his hot and feverish lips.
train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000157_000000|"No," answered the jewelry worker, hollowly.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000003_000001|Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected-so entirely novel-so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions-as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000004_000001|The day was warm-unusually so for the season-there was hardly a breath of air stirring; and the multitude were in no bad humor at being now and then besprinkled with friendly showers of momentary duration, that fell from large white masses of cloud which chequered in a fitful manner the blue vault of the firmament.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000004_000002|Nevertheless, about noon, a slight but remarkable agitation became apparent in the assembly: the clattering of ten thousand tongues succeeded; and, in an instant afterward, ten thousand faces were upturned toward the heavens, ten thousand pipes descended simultaneously from the corners of ten thousand mouths, and a shout, which could be compared to nothing but the roaring of Niagara, resounded long, loudly, and furiously, through all the environs of Rotterdam.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000005_000001|From behind the huge bulk of one of those sharply defined masses of cloud already mentioned, was seen slowly to emerge into an open area of blue space, a queer, heterogeneous, but apparently solid substance, so oddly shaped, so whimsically put together, as not to be in any manner comprehended, and never to be sufficiently admired, by the host of sturdy burghers who stood open mouthed below.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000005_000002|What could it be?
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000000|In the meantime, however, lower and still lower toward the goodly city, came the object of so much curiosity, and the cause of so much smoke.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000001|In a very few minutes it arrived near enough to be accurately discerned.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000002|It appeared to be-yes! it was undoubtedly a species of balloon; but surely no such balloon had ever been seen in Rotterdam before.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000003|For who, let me ask, ever heard of a balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspapers? No man in Holland certainly; yet here, under the very noses of the people, or rather at some distance above their noses was the identical thing in question, and composed, I have it on the best authority, of the precise material which no one had ever before known to be used for a similar purpose.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000007|And this similitude was regarded as by no means lessened when, upon nearer inspection, there was perceived a large tassel depending from its apex, and, around the upper rim or base of the cone, a circle of little instruments, resembling sheep bells, which kept up a continual tinkling to the tune of Betty Martin.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000008|But still worse. Suspended by blue ribbons to the end of this fantastic machine, there hung, by way of car, an enormous drab beaver hat, with a brim superlatively broad, and a hemispherical crown with a black band and a silver buckle.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000012|But to return.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000000|The balloon (for such no doubt it was) had now descended to within a hundred feet of the earth, allowing the crowd below a sufficiently distinct view of the person of its occupant.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000002|He could not have been more than two feet in height; but this altitude, little as it was, would have been sufficient to destroy his equilibrium, and tilt him over the edge of his tiny car, but for the intervention of a circular rim reaching as high as the breast, and rigged on to the cords of the balloon.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000005|His hands were enormously large.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000008|This odd little gentleman was dressed in a loose surtout of sky blue satin, with tight breeches to match, fastened with silver buckles at the knees.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000009|His vest was of some bright yellow material; a white taffety cap was set jauntily on one side of his head; and, to complete his equipment, a blood red silk handkerchief enveloped his throat, and fell down, in a dainty manner, upon his bosom, in a fantastic bow knot of super eminent dimensions.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000000|Having descended, as I said before, to about one hundred feet from the surface of the earth, the little old gentleman was suddenly seized with a fit of trepidation, and appeared disinclined to make any nearer approach to terra firma.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000001|Throwing out, therefore, a quantity of sand from a canvas bag, which, he lifted with great difficulty, he became stationary in an instant.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000002|He then proceeded, in a hurried and agitated manner, to extract from a side pocket in his surtout a large morocco pocket book.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000004|His Excellency stooped to take it up.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000009_000000|In the meantime the balloon arose like a lark, and, soaring far away above the city, at length drifted quietly behind a cloud similar to that from which it had so oddly emerged, and was thus lost forever to the wondering eyes of the good citizens of Rotterdam.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000009_000003|It was accordingly opened by those dignitaries upon the spot, and found to contain the following extraordinary, and indeed very serious, communications.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000010_000000|To their Excellencies Von Underduk and Rub a dub, President and Vice President of the States' College of Astronomers, in the city of Rotterdam.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000004|Credit was good, employment was never wanting, and on all hands there was no lack of either money or good will.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000006|People who were formerly, the very best customers in the world, had now not a moment of time to think of us at all.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000007|They had, so they said, as much as they could do to read about the revolutions, and keep up with the march of intellect and the spirit of the age.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000009|This was a state of things not to be endured.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000010|I soon grew as poor as a rat, and, having a wife and children to provide for, my burdens at length became intolerable, and I spent hour after hour in reflecting upon the most convenient method of putting an end to my life.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000015|I thought it best, however, to dissemble my wrath, and to treat them with promises and fair words, until, by some good turn of fate, an opportunity of vengeance should be afforded me.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000002|It proved to be a small pamphlet treatise on Speculative Astronomy, written either by Professor Encke of Berlin or by a Frenchman of somewhat similar name.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000004|By this time it began to grow dark, and I directed my steps toward home.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000007|In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000008|Nature herself seemed to afford me corroboration of these ideas.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000009|In the contemplation of the heavenly bodies it struck me forcibly that I could not distinguish a star with nearly as much precision, when I gazed on it with earnest, direct and undeviating attention, as when I suffered my eye only to glance in its vicinity alone.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000010|I was not, of course, at that time aware that this apparent paradox was occasioned by the center of the visual area being less susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the exterior portions of the retina.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000011|This knowledge, and some of another kind, came afterwards in the course of an eventful five years, during which I have dropped the prejudices of my former humble situation in life, and forgotten the bellows mender in far different occupations.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000012|But at the epoch of which I speak, the analogy which a casual observation of a star offered to the conclusions I had already drawn, struck me with the force of positive conformation, and I then finally made up my mind to the course which I afterwards pursued.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000013_000000|"It was late when I reached home, and I went immediately to bed.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000013_000004|In this I finally succeeded-partly by selling enough of my household furniture to satisfy a moiety of their claim, and partly by a promise of paying the balance upon completion of a little project which I told them I had in view, and for assistance in which I solicited their services.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000014_000001|With the means thus accruing I proceeded to procure at intervals, cambric muslin, very fine, in pieces of twelve yards each; twine; a lot of the varnish of caoutchouc; a large and deep basket of wicker work, made to order; and several other articles necessary in the construction and equipment of a balloon of extraordinary dimensions.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000014_000002|This I directed my wife to make up as soon as possible, and gave her all requisite information as to the particular method of proceeding.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000014_000003|In the meantime I worked up the twine into a net work of sufficient dimensions; rigged it with a hoop and the necessary cords; bought a quadrant, a compass, a spy glass, a common barometer with some important modifications, and two astronomical instruments not so generally known.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000015_000000|"On the spot which I intended each of the smaller casks to occupy respectively during the inflation of the balloon, I privately dug a hole two feet deep; the holes forming in this manner a circle twenty five feet in diameter.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000015_000001|In the centre of this circle, being the station designed for the large cask, I also dug a hole three feet in depth.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000015_000003|These-the keg and canisters-I connected in a proper manner with covered trains; and having let into one of the canisters the end of about four feet of slow match, I covered up the hole, and placed the cask over it, leaving the other end of the match protruding about an inch, and barely visible beyond the cask.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000016_000005|It had received three coats of varnish, and I found the cambric muslin to answer all the purposes of silk itself, quite as strong and a good deal less expensive.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000017_000001|Indeed I had no fear on her account.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000017_000002|She was what people call a notable woman, and could manage matters in the world without my assistance.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000018_000000|"It was the first of April.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000018_000001|The night, as I said before, was dark; there was not a star to be seen; and a drizzling rain, falling at intervals, rendered us very uncomfortable.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000018_000003|I therefore kept my three duns working with great diligence, pounding down ice around the central cask, and stirring the acid in the others.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000019_000002|I also secured in the car a pair of pigeons and a cat.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000019_000003|It was now nearly daybreak, and I thought it high time to take my departure.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000019_000004|Dropping a lighted cigar on the ground, as if by accident, I took the opportunity, in stooping to pick it up, of igniting privately the piece of slow match, whose end, as I said before, protruded a very little beyond the lower rim of one of the smaller casks.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000000|"Scarcely, however, had I attained the height of fifty yards, when, roaring and rumbling up after me in the most horrible and tumultuous manner, came so dense a hurricane of fire, and smoke, and sulphur, and legs and arms, and gravel, and burning wood, and blazing metal, that my very heart sunk within me, and I fell down in the bottom of the car, trembling with unmitigated terror.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000001|Indeed, I now perceived that I had entirely overdone the business, and that the main consequences of the shock were yet to be experienced.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000003|When I afterward had time for reflection, I did not fail to attribute the extreme violence of the explosion, as regarded myself, to its proper cause-my situation directly above it, and in the line of its greatest power.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000006|It is impossible-utterly impossible-to form any adequate idea of the horror of my situation.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000007|I gasped convulsively for breath-a shudder resembling a fit of the ague agitated every nerve and muscle of my frame-I felt my eyes starting from their sockets-a horrible nausea overwhelmed me-and at length I fainted away.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000004|I drew up to my eyes each of my hands, one after the other, and wondered what occurrence could have given rise to the swelling of the veins, and the horrible blackness of the fingernails.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000006|Then, in a knowing manner, I felt in both my breeches pockets, and, missing therefrom a set of tablets and a toothpick case, endeavored to account for their disappearance, and not being able to do so, felt inexpressibly chagrined.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000008|But, strange to say!
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000010|If I felt any emotion at all, it was a kind of chuckling satisfaction at the cleverness I was about to display in extricating myself from this dilemma; and I never, for a moment, looked upon my ultimate safety as a question susceptible of doubt.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000011|For a few minutes I remained wrapped in the profoundest meditation.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000014|This buckle had three teeth, which, being somewhat rusty, turned with great difficulty on their axis.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000016|Holding the instrument thus obtained within my teeth, I now proceeded to untie the knot of my cravat.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000017|I had to rest several times before I could accomplish this manoeuvre, but it was at length accomplished.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000019|Drawing now my body upwards, with a prodigious exertion of muscular force, I succeeded, at the very first trial, in throwing the buckle over the car, and entangling it, as I had anticipated, in the circular rim of the wicker work.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000000|"My body was now inclined towards the side of the car, at an angle of about forty five degrees; but it must not be understood that I was therefore only forty five degrees below the perpendicular.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000001|So far from it, I still lay nearly level with the plane of the horizon; for the change of situation which I had acquired, had forced the bottom of the car considerably outwards from my position, which was accordingly one of the most imminent and deadly peril.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000004|In fact, the blood so long accumulating in the vessels of my head and throat, and which had hitherto buoyed up my spirits with madness and delirium, had now begun to retire within their proper channels, and the distinctness which was thus added to my perception of the danger, merely served to deprive me of the self possession and courage to encounter it.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000006|In good time came to my rescue the spirit of despair, and, with frantic cries and struggles, I jerked my way bodily upwards, till at length, clutching with a vise like grip the long desired rim, I writhed my person over it, and fell headlong and shuddering within the car.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000001|I then, however, examined it with attention, and found it, to my great relief, uninjured.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000002|My implements were all safe, and, fortunately, I had lost neither ballast nor provisions.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000003|Indeed, I had so well secured them in their places, that such an accident was entirely out of the question. Looking at my watch, I found it six o'clock.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000005|Immediately beneath me in the ocean, lay a small black object, slightly oblong in shape, seemingly about the size, and in every way bearing a great resemblance to one of those childish toys called a domino.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000024_000003|In this state of mind, wishing to live, yet wearied with life, the treatise at the stall of the bookseller opened a resource to my imagination.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000024_000004|I then finally made up my mind.
train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000024_000005|I determined to depart, yet live-to leave the world, yet continue to exist-in short, to drop enigmas, I resolved, let what would ensue, to force a passage, if I could, to the moon.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000003_000000|The former would simply be followed by the reflection: "A drove of mustangs." The latter conducts to a different train of thought, in which there is an ambiguity.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000004_000000|The practised eye of the prairie man would soon decide which.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000005_000000|If the horse browsed with a bit in his mouth, and a saddle on his shoulders, there would be no ambiguity-only the conjecture, as to how he had escaped from his rider.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000008_000000|Such a horse; and just such a rider, were seen upon the prairies of south-western Texas in the year of our Lord eighteen fifty something.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000008_000001|I am not certain as to the exact year-the unit of it-though I can with unquestionable certainty record the decade.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000009_000000|I can speak more precisely as to the place; though in this I must be allowed latitude.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000011_000000|But there were others who saw it elsewhere and on different occasions- hunters, herdsmen, and travellers-all alike awed, alike perplexed, by the apparition.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000000|It had become the talk not only of the Leona settlement, but of others more distant.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000002|No one doubted that such a thing had been seen.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000003|To have done so would have been to ignore the evidence of two hundred pairs of eyes, all belonging to men willing to make affidavit of the fact-for it could not be pronounced a fancy.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000004|No one denied that it had been seen.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000005|The only question was, how to account for a spectacle so peculiar, as to give the lie to all the known laws of creation.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000013_000000|At least half a score of theories were started-more or less feasible- more or less absurd.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000015_000000|There were still further speculations, that related less to the apparition itself than to its connection with the other grand topic of the time-the murder of young Poindexter.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000016_000000|Most people believed there was some connection between the two mysteries; though no one could explain it.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000016_000001|He, whom everybody believed, could have thrown some light upon the subject, was still ridden by the night mare of delirium.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000018_000000|Rejecting many tales told of the Headless Horseman-most of them too grotesque to be recorded-one truthful episode must needs be given- since it forms an essential chapter of this strange history.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000020_000000|In the midst of the open, prairie there is a "motte"--a coppice, or clump of trees-of perhaps three or four acres in superficial extent.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000020_000001|A prairie man would call it an "island," and with your eyes upon the vast verdant sea that surrounds it, you could not help being struck with the resemblance.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000021_000000|The aboriginal of America might not perceive it.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000022_000000|By the timber island in question-about two hundred yards from its edge-a horse is quietly pasturing.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000022_000001|He is the same that carries the headless rider; and this weird equestrian is still bestriding him, with but little appearance of change, either in apparel or attitude, since first seen by the searchers.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000024_000000|Those who asserted that they saw a head, only told the truth.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000024_000001|There is a head; and, as also stated, with a hat upon it-a black sombrero, with bullion band as described.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000026_000000|At times too can a glimpse be obtained of the face.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000026_000001|Its features are well formed, but wearing a sad expression; the lips of livid colour, slightly parted, showing a double row of white teeth, set in a grim ghastly smile.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000027_000001|Hitherto he has been seen going alone.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000028_000000|It cannot be called agreeable;--consisting as it does of wolves-half a score of them squatting closely upon the plain, and at intervals loping around him.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000029_000000|By the horse they are certainly not liked; as is proved by the snorting and stamping of his hoof, when one of them ventures upon a too close proximity to his heels.
train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000031_000000|Three times one of the birds has alighted thus-first upon the right shoulder, then upon the left, and then midway between-upon the spot where the head should be!
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000000_000000|Still continuing his fleet career, the Headless Horseman galloped on over the prairie-Zeb Stump following only with his eyes; and not until he had passed out of sight, behind some straggling groves of mezquite, did the backwoodsman abandon his kneeling position.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000001_000000|Then only for a second or two did he stand erect-taking council with himself as to what course he should pursue.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000002_000000|The episode-strange as unexpected-had caused some disarrangement in his ideas, and seemed to call for a change in his plans.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000002_000001|Should he continue along the trail he was already deciphering; or forsake it for that of the steed that had just swept by?
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000003_000000|By keeping to the former, he might find out much; but by changing to the latter he might learn more?
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000005_000000|While thus absorbed, in considering what course he had best take, he had forgotten the puff of smoke, and the report heard far off over the prairie.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000006_000001|They were things to be remembered; and he soon remembered them.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000007_000001|The old mare, relishing the recumbent attitude, had still kept to it; and there was no necessity for re disposing of her.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000009_000001|He showed no signs of having done so.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000010_000000|On the contrary, he was sitting stooped in the saddle, his breast bent down to the pommel, and his eyes actively engaged in reading the ground, over which he was guiding his horse.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000011_000000|There could be no difficulty in ascertaining his occupation.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000011_000001|Zeb Stump guessed it at a glance.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000011_000002|He was tracking the headless rider.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000013_000000|Zeb had not long to wait for the gratification of his wish.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000013_000001|As the trail was fresh, the strange horseman could take it up at a trot-in which pace he was approaching.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000014_000000|He was soon within identifying distance.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000016_000000|The last speech was an apostrophe to the "maar"--after which Zeb waxed silent, with his head among the spray of the acacias, and his eyes peering through the branches in acute scrutiny of him who was coming along.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000017_000000|This was a man, who, once seen, was not likely to be soon forgotten. Scarce thirty years old, he showed a countenance, scathed, less with care than the play of evil passions.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000018_000000|But there was care upon it now-a care that seemed to speak of apprehension-keen, prolonged, yet looking forward with a hope of being relieved from it.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000019_000000|Withal it was a handsome face: such as a gentleman need not have been ashamed of, but for that sinister expression that told of its belonging to a blackguard.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000020_000001|The blue cloth frock of semi military cut-the forage cap-the belt sustaining a bowie knife, with a brace of revolving pistols-all have been mentioned before as enveloping and equipping the person of Captain Cassius Calhoun.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000021_000000|It was he.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000022_000003|He remained in shadow, to have a better view of what was passing under the sunlight.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000023_000000|Still closely scrutinising the trail of the Headless Horseman, Calhoun trotted past.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000025_000000|The backwoodsman's brain having become the recipient of new thoughts, required a fresh exercise of its ingenuity.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000026_000000|If there was reason before for taking the trail of the Headless Horseman, it was redoubled now.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000027_000000|With but short time spent in consideration, so Zeb concluded; and commenced making preparations for a stalk after Cassius Calhoun.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000028_000000|These consisted in taking hold of the bridle, and giving the old mare a kick; that caused her to start instantaneously to her feet.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000030_000000|He had no thoughts of keeping the latter in view.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000030_000001|He needed no such guidance.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000030_000002|The two fresh trails would be sufficient for him; and he felt as sure of finding the direction in which both would lead, as if he had ridden alongside the horseman without a head, or him without a heart.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000031_000000|With this confidence he cleared out from among the acacias, and took the path just trodden by Calhoun.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000033_000000|For once in his life, Zeb Stump had made a mistake.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000033_000001|On rounding the mezquite grove, behind which both had made disappearance, he discovered he had done so.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000034_000000|Beyond, extended a tract of chalk prairie; over which one of the horsemen appeared to have passed-him without the head.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000035_000000|Zeb guessed so, by seeing the other, at some distance before him, riding to and fro, in transverse stretches, like a pointer quartering the stubble in search of a partridge.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000036_000000|He too had lost the trail, and was endeavouring to recover it.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000038_000000|The attempt terminated in a failure.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000038_000001|The chalk surface defied interpretation-at least by skill such as that of Cassius Calhoun.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000040_000001|But despite his superior attainments in the tracking craft, he was compelled to relinquish it.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000042_000000|Dazed almost to blindness, the backwoodsman determined upon turning late back; and once more devoting his attention to the trail from which he had been for a time seduced.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000043_000000|He had learnt enough to know that this last promised a rich reward for its exploration.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000045_000000|Nor did he lose any in following it up.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000046_000000|Once only did he make pause; at a point where the tracks of two horses converged with that he was following.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000047_000000|From this point the three coincided-at times parting and running parallel, for a score of yards or so, but again coming together and overlapping one another.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000050_000000|He did not stay to inquire which had gone first over the ground.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000050_000001|That was as clear to him, as if he had been a spectator at their passing. The stallion had been in the lead,--how far Zeb could not exactly tell; but certainly some distance beyond that of companionship.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000050_000002|The States horse had followed; and behind him, the roadster with the broken shoe- also an American.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000051_000000|All three had gone over the same ground, at separate times, and each by himself.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000051_000001|This Zeb Stump could tell with as much ease and certainty, as one might read the index of a dial, or thermometer.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000052_000000|Whatever may have been in his thoughts, he said nothing, beyond giving utterance to the simple exclamation "Good!" and, with satisfaction stamped upon his features, he moved on, the old mare appearing to mock him by an imitative stride!
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000054_000000|"Wonder now what thet's for?" he continued, after standing awhile to consider.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000056_000000|With this apostrophe to his "critter," ending in a laugh at the conceit of her "tallow," the hunter turned off on the track of the third horse.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000057_000000|It led him along the edge of an extended tract of chapparal; which, following all three, he had approached at a point well known to him, as to the reader,--where it was parted by the open space already described.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000058_000000|The new trail skirted the timber only for a short distance.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000058_000001|Two hundred yards from the embouchure of the avenue, it ran into it; and fifty paces further on Zeb came to a spot where the horse had stood tied to a tree.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000059_000000|Zeb saw that the animal had proceeded no further: for there was another set of tracks showing where it had returned to the prairie-though not by the same path.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000061_000000|Leaving his critter to occupy the "stall" where broken shoe had for some time fretted himself, the old hunter glided off upon the footmarks of the dismounted rider.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000062_000000|He soon discovered two sets of them-one going-another coming back.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000063_000000|He followed the former.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000064_000000|He was not surprised at their bringing him out into the avenue-close to the pool of blood-by the coyotes long since licked dry.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000065_000000|He might have traced them right up to it, but for the hundreds of horse tracks that had trodden the ground like a sheep pen.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000066_000000|But before going so far, he was stayed by the discovery of some fresh "sign"--too interesting to be carelessly examined.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000066_000001|In a place where the underwood grew thick, he came upon a spot where a man had remained for some time.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000066_000002|There was no turf, and the loose mould was baked hard and smooth, evidently by the sole of a boot or shoe.
train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000067_000001|But upon the branches of a tree between, Zeb Stump saw something that had escaped the eyes not only of the searchers, but of their guide Spangler-a scrap of paper, blackened and half burnt-evidently the wadding of a discharged gun!
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000001_000000|ANOTHER LINK.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000003_000000|"That ere's the backin' o' a letter," muttered he.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000003_000001|"Tells a goodish grist o' story; more'n war wrote inside, I reck'n.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000004_000000|"The writin' air in a sheemale hand," he continued, looking anew at the piece of paper.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000004_000003|It air somethin' to be tuk care o'."
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000005_000000|So saying, he drew out a small skin wallet, which contained his tinder of "punk," along with his flint and steel; and, after carefully stowing away the scrap of paper, he returned the sack to his pocket.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000006_000003|Now thur ain't the ghost o' a chance.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000008_000000|With this grotesque apostrophe to himself, he commenced retracing the footmarks that had guided him to the edge of the opening.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000008_000001|Only in one or two places were the footprints at all distinct.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000008_000002|But Zeb scarce cared for their guidance.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000009_000000|Having already noted that the man who made them had returned to the place where the horse had been left, he knew the back track would lead him there.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000010_000000|There was one place, however, where the two trails did not go over the same ground.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000010_000001|There was a forking in the open list, through which the supposed murderer had made his way.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000010_000002|It was caused by an obstruction,--a patch of impenetrable thicket.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000012_000000|After a short examination, he observed a trail altogether distinct, and of a different character.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000012_000001|It was a well marked path entering the opening on one side, and going out on the other: in short, a cattle track.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000013_000000|Zeb saw that several shod horses had passed along it, some days before: and it was this that caused him to come back and examine it.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000015_000000|He had heard the whole story of that collateral investigation-how Spangler and his comrades had traced Henry Poindexter's horse to the place where the negro had caught it-on the outskirts of the plantation.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000017_000000|Zeb Stump did not seem to think so.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000017_000001|As he stood looking along it, his attitude showed indecision.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000019_000000|He had turned to go out of the glade, when a thought once more stayed him.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000021_000002|The ole maar kin wait till I kum back."
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000000|To the hoof marks of these he paid but slight attention; at times, none whatever.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000001|His eye only sought those of Henry Poindexter's horse. Though the others were of an after time, and often destroyed the traces he was most anxious to examine, he had no difficulty in identifying the latter.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000002|As he would have himself said, any greenhorn could do that. The young planter's horse had gone over the ground at a gallop.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000003|The trackers had ridden slowly.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000025_000000|It was about three quarters of a mile from the edge of the venue.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000026_000000|It was not a halt the galloping horse had made, but only a slight departure from his direct course; as if something he had seen-wolf, jaguar, cougar, or other beast of prey-had caused him to shy.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000027_000000|Beyond he had continued his career; rapid and reckless as ever.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000028_000000|Beyond the party along with Spangler had proceeded-without staying to inquire why the horse had shied from his track.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000029_000000|Zeb Stump was more inquisitive, and paused upon this spot.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000000|It was a sterile tract, without herbage, and covered with shingle and sand.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000001|A huge tree overshadowed it, with limbs extending horizontally. One of these ran transversely to the path over which the horses had passed-so low that a horseman, to shun contact with it, would have to lower his head.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000002|At this branch Zeb Stump stood gazing.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000003|He observed an abrasion upon the bark; that, though very slight, must have been caused by contact with some substance, as hard, if not sounder, than itself.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000032_000001|"I thort so.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000033_000000|With an elastic step-his countenance radiant of triumph-the old hunter strode away from the tree, no longer upon the cattle path, but that taken by the man who had been so violently dismounted.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000034_000000|To one unaccustomed to the chapparal, he might have appeared going without a guide, and upon a path never before pressed by human foot.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000000|A portion of it perhaps had not.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000001|But Zeb was conducted by signs which, although obscure to the ordinary eye, were to him intelligible as the painted lettering upon a finger post.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000002|The branch contorted to afford passage for a human form-the displaced tendrils of a creeping plant- the scratched surface of the earth-all told that a man had passed that way.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000003|The sign signified more-that the man was disabled-had been crawling-a cripple!
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000036_000000|Zeb Stump continued on, till he had traced this cripple to the banks of a running stream.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000037_000000|It was not necessary for him to go further.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000037_000001|He had made one more splice of the broken thread.
train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000037_000002|Another, and his clue would be complete!
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000002_000000|Oh, what a feeble fort's a woman's heart, Betrayed by nature, and besieged by art.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000003_000000|--FANE'S "LOVE IN THE DARK."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000004_000001|"Horace, will you bring her to see me again?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000005_000000|"Yes, aunt, if she wants to come.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000005_000001|But don't ask me to leave her again."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000006_000001|I'd be happy, sir, at any time when you can make it convenient for me to see you here, with Horace and the child, or without them."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000007_000000|"Thank you, Miss Stanhope; and mother and I would be delighted to see you at Ion."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000008_000002|Daughter, put down your veil."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000000|Egerton was at the depot, but could get neither a word with Elsie, nor so much as a sight of her face.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000001|Her veil was not once lifted, and her father never left her side for a moment.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000002|mr Travilla bought the tickets, and Simon attended to the checking of the baggage.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000003|Then the train came thundering up, and the fair girl was hurried into it, mr Travilla, on one side, and her father on the other, effectually preventing any near approach to her person on the part of the baffled and disappointed fortune hunter.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000010_000000|He walked back to his boarding house, cursing his ill luck and Messrs. Dinsmore and Travilla, and gave notice to his landlady that his room would become vacant the next morning.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000000|As the train sped onward, again Elsie laid her head down upon her father's shoulder and wept silently behind her veil.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000001|Her feelings had been wrought up to a high pitch of excitement in the struggle to be perfectly submissive and obedient, and now the overstrained nerves claimed this relief.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000002|And love's young dream, the first, and sweetest, was over and gone.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000003|She could never hope to see again the man she still fondly imagined to be good and noble, and with a heart full of deep, passionate love for her.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000012_000000|Her father understood and sympathized with it all.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000012_000001|He passed his arm about her waist, drew her closer to him, and taking her hand in his, held it in a warm, loving clasp.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000013_000000|How it soothed and comforted her.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000013_000001|She could never be very wretched while thus tenderly loved, and cherished.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000015_000000|"You shall never go away again," said the little fellow, hugging her tight.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000016_000000|"No, son," answered mr Dinsmore, patting his rosy cheek, and softly stroking Elsie's hair, "and it is just the same with a man who has but one daughter."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000017_000000|"You don't look bright and merry, as you did when you went away," said the child, bending a gaze of keen, loving scrutiny upon the sweet face, paler, sadder, and more heavy eyed than he had ever seen it before.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000018_000000|"Sister is tired with her journey," said mamma tenderly; "we won't tease her to night."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000020_000000|"Yes, papa, and then she'll be all right to morrow, won't she?
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000020_000001|But, mamma, I wasn't teasing her, not a bit; was I, Elsie?
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000020_000002|And if anybody's been making her sorry, I'll kill him.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000020_000003|'cause she's my sister, and I've got to take care of her."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000021_000000|"But suppose papa was the one who had made her sorry; what then?" asked mr Dinsmore.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000022_000000|"But you wouldn't, papa," said the boy, shaking his head with an incredulous smile.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000022_000001|"You love her too much a great deal; you'd never make her sorry unless she'd be naughty; and she's never one bit naughty,--always minds you and mamma the minute you speak."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000023_000000|"That's true, my son; I do love her far too well ever to grieve her if it can be helped.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000023_000001|She shall never know a pang a father's love and care can save her from." And again his hand rested caressingly on Elsie's head.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000024_000000|She caught it in both of hers and laying her cheek lovingly against it, looked up at him with tears trembling in her eyes.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000024_000001|"I know it, papa," she murmured.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000024_000002|"I know you love your foolish little daughter very dearly; almost as dearly as she loves you."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000025_000000|"Almost, darling?
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000025_000001|If there were any gauge by which to measure love, I know not whose would be found the greatest."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000027_000000|After tea the Allisons flocked in to bid her welcome.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000027_000001|All seemed glad of her coming, Richard, Harold, and Sophy especially so.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000027_000002|They were full of plans for giving her pleasure, and crowding the greatest possible amount of enjoyment into the four or five weeks of their expected sojourn on the island.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000028_000000|"It will be moonlight next week," said Sophy; "and we'll have some delightful drives and walks along the beach.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000030_000001|It will be altogether better for her health."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000032_000001|"Your system should become used to that before you take more."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000033_000000|"Yes, that is what some of the doctors here, and the oldest inhabitants, tell us," remarked mr Allison, "and I believe it is the better plan."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000034_000000|"And in the meantime we can take some rides and drives,--down to Diamond Beach, over to the light house, and elsewhere," said Edward Allison, his brother Richard adding, "and do a little fishing and boating."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000035_000000|mr Dinsmore was watching his daughter.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000035_000001|She was making an effort to be interested in the conversation, but looking worn, weary, and sad.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000036_000000|"You are greatly fatigued, my child," he said.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000036_000001|"We will excuse you and let you retire at once."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000037_000000|She was very glad to avail herself of the permission.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000038_000000|Rose followed her to her room, a pleasant, breezy apartment, opening on a veranda, and looking out upon the sea, whose dark waves, here and there tipped with foam, could be dimly seen rolling and tossing beneath the light of the stars and of a young moon that hung like a golden crescent just above the horizon.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000039_000000|Elsie walked to the window and looked out.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000039_000001|"How I love the sea," she said, sighing, "but, mamma, to night it makes me think of a text-'All Thy waves and Thy billows have gone over me.'"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000040_000000|"It is not so bad as that, I hope, dear," said Rose, folding her tenderly in her arms; "think how we all love you, especially your father.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000040_000001|I don't know how we could any of us do without you, darling.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000041_000000|"Mamma, I do feel it to be very, very sweet to be so loved and cared for.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000041_000001|I could not tell you how dear you and my little brother are to me, and as for papa-sometimes I am more than half afraid I make an idol of him; and yet-oh, mamma," she murmured, hiding her face in Rose's bosom, "why is it that I can no longer be in love with the loves that so fully satisfied me?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000001|Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000002|You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000003|Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000004|You know He tells us it is through much tribulation we enter the kingdom of God; and that whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000043_000001|And this seems to be really my only one, while my cup of blessings is full to overflowing.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000043_000002|I fear I am very wicked to feel so sad."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000044_000000|"Let us sit down on this couch while we talk; you are too tired to stand," said Rose, drawing her away from the window to a softly cushioned lounge.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000044_000001|"I do not think you can help grieving, darling, though I agree with you that it is your duty to try to be cheerful, as well as patient and submissive; and I trust you will find it easier as the days and weeks move on.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000044_000002|You are very young, and have plenty of time to wait; indeed, if all had gone right, you know your papa would not have allowed you to marry for several years yet."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000046_000000|"Yes, dear; papa told me; for you know you are my darling daughter too, and I have a very deep interest in all that concerns you."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000047_000000|A tender caress accompanied the words, and was returned with equal ardor.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000048_000000|"Thank you, best and kindest of mothers; I should never want anything kept from you."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000050_000001|From the first he seemed to be a perfect gentleman, educated, polished, and refined; and afterward he became-at least so I thought from the conversations we had together-truly converted, and a very earnest, devoted Christian.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000050_000002|He told me he had been, at one time, a little wild, but surely he ought not to be condemned for that, after he had repented and reformed."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000051_000000|"No, dear; and your father would agree with you in that.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000051_000001|But he believes you have been deceived in the man's character; and don't you think, daughter, that he is wiser than yourself, and more capable of finding out the truth about the matter?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000052_000000|"I know papa is far wiser than I, but, oh, my heart will not believe what they say of-of him!" she cried with sudden, almost passionate vehemence.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000053_000000|"Well, dear, that is perfectly natural, but try to be entirely submissive to your father, and wait patiently; and hopefully too," she added with a smile; "for if mr Egerton is really good, no doubt it will be proved in time, and then your father will at once remove his interdict.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000053_000001|And if you are mistaken, you will one day discover it, and feel thankful, indeed, to your papa for taking just the course he has."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000056_000000|"I thought it was only permission, papa, not command," she answered, lifting her eyes to his face, and moving to make room for him by her side.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000000|"Has she, darling?
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000001|Bless her for it!
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000002|I know you need comfort, my poor little pet," he said, taking the offered seat, and passing his arm round her waist.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000003|"But you need rest too, and ought not to stay up any longer."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000058_000000|"But surely papa knows I cannot go to bed without my good night kiss when he is in the same house with me," she said, winding her arms about his neck.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000059_000000|"And didn't like to take it before folks?
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000059_000001|Well, that was right, but take it now.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000059_000002|There, good night.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000060_000000|"The dear child; my heart aches for her," he remarked to his wife, as they went out together, "and I find it almost impossible yet to forgive either that scoundrel Jackson or my brother Arthur."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000061_000000|"You have no lingering doubts as to the identity and utter unworthiness of the man?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000062_000000|"Not one; and if I could only convince Elsie of his true character she would detest him as thoroughly as I do.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000062_000001|If he had his deserts, he would be in the State's Prison; and to think of his daring to approach my child, and even aspire to her hand!"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000063_000000|Elsie lay all night in a profound slumber, and awoke at an early hour the next morning, feeling greatly refreshed and invigorated.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000063_000001|The gentle murmur of old ocean came pleasantly to her ear, and sweetly in her mind arose the thought of Him whom even the winds and the sea obey; of His never failing love to her, and of the many great and precious promises of His word.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000064_000000|Throwing on a dressing gown over her night dress, she sat down before the open window with her Bible in her hand.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000064_000001|She still loved, as of old, to spend the first hour of the day in the study of its pages, and in communion with Him whose word it is.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000065_000000|Chloe was just putting the finishing touches to her young lady's toilet when little Horace came running down the hall, and rapping on Elsie's door, called out, "Sister, papa says put on a short dress, and your walking shoes, and come take a stroll on the beach with us before breakfast."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000066_000000|"Yes, tell papa I will.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000066_000001|I'll be down in five minutes."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000067_000000|She came down looking sweet and fresh as the morning; a smile on the full red lips, and a faint tinge of rose color on the cheeks that had been so pale the night before.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000069_000000|"Thank you, mamma, I am very glad to be here; and I had such a good restful sleep.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000069_000001|How well you look."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000070_000000|"And feel too, I am thankful to be able to say.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000070_000001|But there, your father is calling to you from the sitting room."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000072_000000|"Come here, daughter," he said, "and tell me if you obeyed orders last night."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000073_000000|"Yes, papa, I did."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000074_000000|"I am writing a few lines to Aunt Wealthy, to tell her of our safe arrival.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000074_000001|Have you any message to send?" and laying down his pen he drew her to his knee.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000075_000000|"Only my love, papa, and-and that she must not be anxious about me, as she said that she should.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000075_000001|That I am very safe and happy in the hands of my heavenly Father-and those of the kind earthly one He has given me," she added in a whisper, putting her arms about his neck, and looking in his face with eyes brimful of filial tenderness and love.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000076_000000|"That is right, my darling," he said, "and you shall never want for love while your father lives.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000076_000001|How it rejoices my heart to see you looking so bright and well this morning."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000078_000000|"I have no fault to find with you on that score, my dear child," he said tenderly, "but if you can be cheerful, it will be for your own happiness, as well as ours."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000079_000000|She kept her promise faithfully, and had her reward in much real enjoyment of the many pleasures provided for her.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000080_000000|mr and mrs Dinsmore were still youthful in their feelings, and joined with great zest in the sports of the young people, going with them in all their excursions, taking an active part in all their pastimes, and contriving so many fresh entertainments, that during those few weeks life seemed like one long gala day.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000081_000000|mr Travilla was with them most of the time.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000081_000001|He had tarried behind in Philadelphia, as mr Dinsmore and his daughter passed through, but followed them to Cape Island a few days later.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000082_000000|The whole party left the shore about the last of September, the Allisons returning to their city residence, mr Travilla to his Southern home, and the Dinsmores travelling through Pennsylvania and New York, from one romantic and picturesque spot to another; finishing up with two or three weeks in Philadelphia, during which Rose and Elsie were much occupied with their fall and winter shopping.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000083_000000|mr Dinsmore took this opportunity to pay another flying visit to his two young brothers.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000083_000001|He found Arthur nearly recovered, and at once asked a full explanation of the affair of Tom Jackson, alias Bromly Egerton; his designs upon Elsie, and Arthur's participation in them.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000084_000000|"I know nothing about it," was the sullen rejoinder.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000085_000000|"You certainly were acquainted with Tom Jackson, and how, but through you, could he have gained any knowledge of Elsie and her whereabouts?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000086_000000|"I don't deny that I've had some dealings with Jackson, but your Egerton I know nothing of whatever."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000087_000000|"You may as well speak the truth, sir; it will be much better for you in the end," said mr Dinsmore, sternly, his eyes flashing with indignant anger.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000088_000000|"And you may as well remember that it isn't Elsie you are dealing with.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000088_000001|I'm not afraid of you."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000089_000000|"Perhaps not, but you may well fear Him who has said, 'a lying tongue is but for a moment.' How do you reconcile such an assertion as you have just made with the fact of your having that letter in your possession?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000090_000000|"I say it's a cowardly piece of business for you to give the lie to a fellow that hasn't the strength to knock you down for it."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000091_000000|"You would hardly attempt that if you were in perfect health, Arthur."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000092_000000|"I would."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000093_000000|"You have not answered my question about the letter.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000094_000000|"I wrote it myself."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000095_000000|"A likely story; it is in a very different hand from yours."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000096_000000|"I can adopt that hand on occasion, as I'll prove to your satisfaction."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000097_000000|He opened his desk, wrote a sentence on a scrap of paper, and handed it to mr Dinsmore.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000097_000001|The chirography was precisely that of the letter. While slowly convalescing, Arthur had prepared for this expected interview with Horace, by spending many a solitary hour in laboriously teaching himself to imitate Jackson's ordinary hand, in which most of the letters he had received from him were written.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000098_000000|"I don't believe a word of it," said mr Dinsmore, looking sternly at him.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000098_000001|"Arthur, you had better be frank and open with me.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000098_000003|I have no doubt that you sent that villain to Lansdale to try his arts upon Elsie; and for that you are richly deserving of my anger, and of any punishment it might be in my power to deal out to you.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000099_000000|"It has been no easy matter for me to forgive the suffering you have caused my child, Arthur; but I came here to day with kind feelings and intentions.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000099_000001|I hoped to find you penitent and ready to forsake your evil courses; and in that case, intended to help you to pay off your debts and begin anew, without paining father with the knowledge that his confidence in you has been again so shamefully abused.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000099_000002|But I must say that your persistent denial of your complicity with that scoundrel Jackson does not look much like contrition, or intended amendment."
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000100_000000|Arthur listened in sullen silence, though his rapidly changing color showed that he felt the cutting rebuke keenly.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000100_000001|At one time he had resolved to confess everything, throw himself upon the mercy of his father and brother, and begin to lead an honest, upright life; but a threatening letter received that morning from Jackson had led him to change his purpose, and determine to close his lips for a time.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000000|Walter looked at Arthur in surprise.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000001|"Come, Art, speak, why don't you?" he said.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000002|"Horace, don't look so stern and angry, I know he means to turn over a new leaf; for he told me so.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000003|And you will help him, won't you?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000103_000000|"I ask no favors from a man who throws the lie in my teeth," muttered Arthur angrily.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000001|"But, Arthur, I give you one more chance, and for our father's sake I hope you will avail yourself of it.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000002|If you go on as you have for the last three or four years, you will bring down his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000003|I presume you have put yourself in Jackson's power; but if you will now make a full and free confession to me, and promise amendment, I will help you to get rid of the rascal's claims upon you, and start afresh.
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000004|Will you do it?"
train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000105_000000|"No, you've called me a liar, and what's the use of my telling you anything?
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000004_000001|She saw a light under an office door.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000004_000002|She knocked.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000004_000003|To the person who opened she murmured, "Do you happen to know where the Perrys are?" She realized that it was Guy Pollock.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000005_000001|Won't you come in and wait for them?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000007_000000|"I didn't know your office was up here."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000008_000003|They are a cot and a wash stand and my other suit and the blue crepe tie you said you liked."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000010_000000|"Of course.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000010_000002|Please try this chair."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000011_000000|She glanced about the rusty office-gaunt stove, shelves of tan law books, desk chair filled with newspapers so long sat upon that they were in holes and smudged to grayness.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000011_000001|There were only two things which suggested Guy Pollock.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000012_000001|He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent; a grayhound with glasses tilted forward on his thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000012_000002|He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000012_000003|She noted that he did not apologize for it, as Kennicott would have done.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000015_000001|Evangelize it to what?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000016_000000|"To anything that's definite.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000016_000001|Seriousness or frivolousness or both.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000016_000004|Tell me, mr Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000018_000000|"(Yes, thanks.) No, I think it's the town."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000023_000004|Most places that have lost the smell of earth but not yet acquired the smell of patchouli-or of factory smoke-are just as suspicious and righteous.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000024_000000|She asked impulsively, "You, why do you stay here?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000027_000000|"It is.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000027_000004|I'm a perfect example.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000001|From college I went to New York, to the Columbia Law School.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000006|I went to symphonies twice a week.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000008|I walked in Gramercy Park.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000009|And I read, oh, everything.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000032_000001|I came here.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000032_000002|Julius got well.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000033_000001|I thought I was 'keeping up.' But I guess the Village Virus had me already.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000037_000006|At least, I am making you talk!
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000039_000000|"Would you have a fireplace for me?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000040_000003|How old are you, Carol?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000041_000000|"Twenty six, Guy."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000008|There's one thing that's the matter with Gopher Prairie, at least with the ruling class (there is a ruling class, despite all our professions of democracy). And the penalty we tribal rulers pay is that our subjects watch us every minute.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000013|The widows themselves demand it!
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000016|Suppose I did dare to make love to-some exquisite married woman. I wouldn't admit it to myself.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000018|I'm broken.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000043_000000|"Guy!
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000043_000002|Really?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000047_000000|"Oh, maybe once or twice, when Will has positively known of a case where Doctor-where one of the others has continued to call on patients longer than necessary, he has laughed about it, but----"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000049_000000|"No, REALLY!
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000049_000003|But her mother, mrs Westlake-nobody could be sweeter."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000050_000000|"Yes, I'm sure she's very bland.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000051_000000|"I won't be cajoled!
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000001|His elbow brushed her shoulder.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000002|He flitted over to the desk chair, his thin back stooped.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000003|He picked up the cloisonne vase. Across it he peered at her with such loneliness that she was startled. But his eyes faded into impersonality as he talked of the jealousies of Gopher Prairie.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000004|He stopped himself with a sharp, "Good Lord, Carol, you're not a jury.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000007|Tell me your side.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000008|What is Gopher Prairie to you?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000056_000000|"A bore!"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000058_000000|"How could you?"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000059_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000063_000002|It's like blood on the wing of a humming bird."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000064_000000|"I'm not a humming bird.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000065_000000|"Please stay and have some coffee with me."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000066_000000|"I'd like to.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000066_000002|I'm afraid of what people might say."
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000067_000002|"Carol!
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000070_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000070_000002|He's a dentist, just come to town.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000070_000004|They don't know much of anybody----"
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000071_000001|And I've never thought to call.
train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000072_000003|He slipped out, came back with dr and mrs Dillon.
train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000001_000000|A LONELY RIDE
train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000005_000000|Perhaps I was out of spirits.
train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000010_000000|Was there any driver?
train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000017_000000|"Must have been asleep, sir.
train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000017_000002|Bully place for a nice quiet snooze-empty stage, sir!"
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000002_000000|THE FALSE DAUPHINS IN FRANCE.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000003_000000|seventeen ninety three to eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000004_000000|Had not these pages already proved to what an extent human credulity could go, it would be almost useless to offer the following most extraordinary details as matters of fact.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000005_000000|On the twenty seventh of march seventeen eighty five, Louis Charles, the second son of Louis the Sixteenth of France, was born at the Chateau de Versailles.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000005_000003|But his happy childish life was of short duration: the starving and infuriated populace of Paris, driven from one misery to another, deemed if they could only bring the king to the metropolis means would be discovered for overcoming their distress.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000005_000004|Under the influence of this infatuation, an enormous crowd, chiefly composed of women, marched from Paris, invaded the regal precincts of Versailles, and deputed a few of their number to see the king.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000006_000003|From that time until the thirteenth of August, seventeen ninety two, when the royal family were imprisoned in the Temple, the whole of its members had been under close surveillance, and had no fresh opportunity of escaping from the capital.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000006_000004|From the date of their incarceration in the Temple their doom was sealed, and nothing but death released any one save the Princess Marie Theresa from captivity.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000007_000002|Brutal and debasing as was Simon's regimen, it was not rapid enough in its process to satisfy "the Committee of Public Safety;" they, therefore, dismissed him from his post, and made different arrangements.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000007_000007|On the eighth of June he told one of his keepers, "I have something to tell you!" but the man waited in vain for the revelation, for whilst he listened the poor child's life had passed away.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000000|When the dauphin died he was ten years and two months old.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000001|The members of the Committee of Public Safety having concluded their day's sitting when the news was brought, it was deemed advisable to conceal the event until the morrow.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000002|Supper was prepared for the child as usual, and Gomin, his attendant, took it up to the room.
train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000004|"His eyes, which while suffering had half closed," he relates, "were now open, and shone as pure as the blue heaven, and his beautiful fair hair, which had not been cut for two months, fell like a frame round his face."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000000_000000|Chapter four.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000000_000001|Conspiracy.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000001_000000|Danglars followed Edmond and Mercedes with his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen, pale and trembling, into his chair, while Caderousse stammered out the words of a drinking song.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000002_000000|"Well, my dear sir," said Danglars to Fernand, "here is a marriage which does not appear to make everybody happy."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000003_000000|"It drives me to despair," said Fernand.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000004_000000|"Do you, then, love Mercedes?"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000005_000000|"I adore her!"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000006_000000|"For long?"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000007_000000|"As long as I have known her-always."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000008_000000|"And you sit there, tearing your hair, instead of seeking to remedy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000010_000000|"How do I know?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000010_000001|Is it my affair?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000010_000002|I am not in love with Mademoiselle Mercedes; but for you-in the words of the gospel, seek, and you shall find."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000011_000000|"I have found already."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000012_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000013_000000|"I would stab the man, but the woman told me that if any misfortune happened to her betrothed, she would kill herself."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000014_000001|Women say those things, but never do them."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000015_000000|"You do not know Mercedes; what she threatens she will do."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000017_000000|"Before Mercedes should die," replied Fernand, with the accents of unshaken resolution, "I would die myself!"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000018_000000|"That's what I call love!" said Caderousse with a voice more tipsy than ever.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000018_000001|"That's love, or I don't know what love is."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000019_000000|"Come," said Danglars, "you appear to me a good sort of fellow, and hang me, I should like to help you, but"--
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000020_000000|"Yes," said Caderousse, "but how?"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000021_000001|Drink then, and do not meddle with what we are discussing, for that requires all one's wit and cool judgment."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000022_000001|I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000022_000002|Pere Pamphile, more wine!" and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000023_000000|"You were saying, sir"--said Fernand, awaiting with great anxiety the end of this interrupted remark.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000024_000000|"What was I saying?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000024_000001|I forget.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000024_000002|This drunken Caderousse has made me lose the thread of my sentence."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000029_000000|"Yes; but I added, to help you it would be sufficient that Dantes did not marry her you love; and the marriage may easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantes need not die."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000030_000000|"Death alone can separate them," remarked Fernand.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000000|"You talk like a noodle, my friend," said Caderousse; "and here is Danglars, who is a wide awake, clever, deep fellow, who will prove to you that you are wrong.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000002|I have answered for you.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000003|Say there is no need why Dantes should die; it would, indeed, be a pity he should.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000004|Dantes is a good fellow; I like Dantes.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000005|Dantes, your health."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000032_000000|Fernand rose impatiently.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000032_000001|"Let him run on," said Danglars, restraining the young man; "drunk as he is, he is not much out in what he says. Absence severs as well as death, and if the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercedes they would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a tombstone."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000033_000000|"Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge"--
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000035_000000|"And why, I should like to know," persisted Caderousse, "should they put Dantes in prison?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000035_000001|he has not robbed or killed or murdered."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000037_000000|"I won't hold my tongue!" replied Caderousse; "I say I want to know why they should put Dantes in prison; I like Dantes; Dantes, your health!" and he swallowed another glass of wine.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000038_000000|Danglars saw in the muddled look of the tailor the progress of his intoxication, and turning towards Fernand, said, "Well, you understand there is no need to kill him."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000039_000000|"Certainly not, if, as you said just now, you have the means of having Dantes arrested.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000039_000001|Have you that means?"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000040_000000|"It is to be found for the searching.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000040_000002|it is no affair of mine."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000042_000001|None, on my word!
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000042_000002|I saw you were unhappy, and your unhappiness interested me; that's all; but since you believe I act for my own account, adieu, my dear friend, get out of the affair as best you may;" and Danglars rose as if he meant to depart.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000043_000000|"No, no," said Fernand, restraining him, "stay!
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000043_000002|I hate him!
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000043_000003|I confess it openly.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000044_000001|I won't have him killed-I won't!
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000044_000002|He's my friend, and this morning offered to share his money with me, as I shared mine with him.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000044_000003|I won't have Dantes killed-I won't!"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000047_000000|"But the means-the means?" said Fernand.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000049_000000|"No!--you undertook to do so."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000051_000000|"Do you invent, then," said Fernand impatiently.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000053_000000|"Pen, ink, and paper," muttered Fernand.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000054_000000|"Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000055_000000|"Pen, ink, and paper, then," called Fernand loudly.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000056_000000|"There's what you want on that table," said the waiter.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000057_000000|"Bring them here." The waiter did as he was desired.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000058_000000|"When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him!
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000059_000001|"Give him some more wine, Fernand." Fernand filled Caderousse's glass, who, like the confirmed toper he was, lifted his hand from the paper and seized the glass.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000060_000000|The Catalan watched him until Caderousse, almost overcome by this fresh assault on his senses, rested, or rather dropped, his glass upon the table.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000061_000000|"Well!" resumed the Catalan, as he saw the final glimmer of Caderousse's reason vanishing before the last glass of wine.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000062_000000|"Well, then, I should say, for instance," resumed Danglars, "that if after a voyage such as Dantes has just made, in which he touched at the Island of Elba, some one were to denounce him to the king's procureur as a Bonapartist agent"--
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000063_000000|"I will denounce him!" exclaimed the young man hastily.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000065_000000|"Oh, I should wish nothing better than that he would come and seek a quarrel with me."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000066_000001|Mercedes, who will detest you if you have only the misfortune to scratch the skin of her dearly beloved Edmond!"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000069_000001|Proof of this crime will be found on arresting him, for the letter will be found upon him, or at his father's, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000071_000001|"Yes, and that's all settled; only it will be an infamous shame;" and he stretched out his hand to reach the letter.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000073_000000|"All right!" said Caderousse.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000073_000001|"Dantes is my friend, and I won't have him ill used."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000075_000000|"In this case," replied Caderousse, "let's have some more wine.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000076_000000|"You have had too much already, drunkard," said Danglars; "and if you continue, you will be compelled to sleep here, because unable to stand on your legs."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000077_000000|"I?" said Caderousse, rising with all the offended dignity of a drunken man, "I can't keep on my legs?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000078_000000|"Done!" said Danglars, "I'll take your bet; but to morrow-to day it is time to return.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000078_000001|Give me your arm, and let us go."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000079_000000|"Very well, let us go," said Caderousse; "but I don't want your arm at all.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000079_000001|Come, Fernand, won't you return to Marseilles with us?"
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000080_000000|"No," said Fernand; "I shall return to the Catalans."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000081_000000|"You're wrong.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000081_000001|Come with us to Marseilles-come along."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000082_000000|"I will not."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000000|"What do you mean?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000001|you will not?
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000002|Well, just as you like, my prince; there's liberty for all the world.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000003|Come along, Danglars, and let the young gentleman return to the Catalans if he chooses."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000084_000000|Danglars took advantage of Caderousse's temper at the moment, to take him off towards Marseilles by the Porte Saint Victor, staggering as he went.
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000086_000000|"Well," said Caderousse, "why, what a lie he told!
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000087_000000|"Oh, you don't see straight," said Danglars; "he's gone right enough."
train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000088_000000|"Well," said Caderousse, "I should have said not-how treacherous wine is!"
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000004_000000|DEAR SIR,
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000006_000000|Though, in his own judgment, his disease was mortal and incurable, yet he allowed himself to be prevailed upon, by the entreaty of his friends, to try what might be the effects of a long journey.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000006_000001|A few days before he set out, he wrote that account of his own life, which, together with his other papers, he has left to your care.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000006_000002|My account, therefore, shall begin where his ends.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000001|mr Home returned with him, and attended him during the whole of his stay in England, with that care and attention which might be expected from a temper so perfectly friendly and affectionate.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000002|As I had written to my mother that she might expect me in Scotland, I was under the necessity of continuing my journey.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000003|His disease seemed to yield to exercise and change of air; and when he arrived in London, he was apparently in much better health than when he left Edinburgh.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000004|He was advised to go to Bath to drink the waters, which appeared for some time to have so good an effect upon him, that even he himself began to entertain, what he was not apt to do, a better opinion of his own health.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000005|His symptoms, however, soon returned with their usual violence; and from that moment he gave up all thoughts of recovery, but submitted with the utmost cheerfulness, and the most perfect complacency and resignation.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000006|Upon his return to Edinburgh, though he found himself much weaker, yet his cheerfulness never abated, and he continued to divert himself, as usual, with correcting his own works for a new edition, with reading books of amusement, with the conversation of his friends; and, sometimes in the evening, with a party at his favorite game of whist.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000007|His cheerfulness was so great, and his conversation and amusements ran so much in their usual strain, that, notwithstanding all bad symptoms, many people could not believe he was dying.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000009|mr Hume's magnanimity and firmness were such, that his most affectionate friends knew that they hazarded nothing in talking or writing to him as to a dying man, and that so far from being hurt by this frankness, he was rather pleased and flattered by it.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000012|He answered, "Your hopes are groundless. An habitual diarrhoea of more than a year's standing, would be a very bad disease at any age; at my age it is a mortal one.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000014|"I could not well imagine," said he, "what excuse I could make to Charon in order to obtain a little delay.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000017|If I live a few years longer, I may have the satisfaction of seeing the downfall of some of the prevailing systems of superstition.' But Charon would then lose all temper and decency.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000019|Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term?
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000020|Get into the boat this instant, you lazy, loitering rogue.'"
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000008_000000|But, though mr Hume always talked of his approaching dissolution with great cheerfulness, he never affected to make any parade of his magnanimity.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000008_000002|The conversation which I mentioned above, and which passed on Thursday the eighth of August, was the last, except one, that I ever had with him.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000009_000000|On the twenty second of August, the doctor wrote me the following letter;--
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000010_000000|"Since my last, mr Hume has passed his time pretty easily, but is much weaker.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000010_000001|He sits up, goes down stairs once a day, and amuses himself with reading, but seldom sees any body.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000010_000002|He finds that even the conversation of his most intimate friends fatigues and oppresses him; and it is happy that he does not need it, for he is quite free from anxiety, impatience, or low spirits, and passes his time very well with the assistance of amusing books."
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000011_000000|I received, the day after, a letter from mr Hume himself, of which the following is an extract:--
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000013_000000|"MY DEAREST FRIEND,
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000014_000000|"I am obliged to make use of my nephew's hand in writing to you, as I do not rise to day.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000015_000000|"I go very fast to decline, and last night had a small fever, which I hoped might put a quicker period to this tedious illness; but unluckily it has, in a great measure, gone off.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000015_000001|I cannot submit to your coming over here on my account, as it is possible for me to see you so small a part of the day; but dr Black can better inform you concerning the degree of strength which may from time to time remain with me.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000015_000002|Adieu, etc"
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000016_000000|Three days after, I received the following letter from dr Black:--
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000018_000000|"DEAR SIR,
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000019_000000|"Yesterday, about four o'clock, afternoon, mr Hume expired. The near approach of his death became evident in the night between Thursday and Friday, when his disease became excessive, and soon weakened him so much, that he could no longer rise out of his bed He continued to the last perfectly sensible, and free from much pain or feelings of distress.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000019_000001|He never dropped the smallest expression of impatience; but when he had occasion to speak to the people about him, always did it with affection and tenderness.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000019_000003|When he became very weak, it cost him an effort to speak; and he died in such a happy composure of mind, that nothing could exceed it."
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000002|Even in the lowest state of his fortune, his great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000003|It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000004|The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind or the steadiness of his resolutions.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000005|His constant pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good nature and good humor, tempered with delicacy and modesty, and without even the slightest tincture of malignity, so frequently the disagreeable source of what is called wit in other men. It never was the meaning of his raillery to mortify; and therefore, far from offending, it seldom failed to please and delight, even those who were the objects of it.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000006|To his friends who were frequently the objects of it, there was not perhaps any one of all his great and amiable qualities which contributed more to endear his conversation.
train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000007|And that gayety of temper, so agreeable in society, but which is so often accompanied with frivolous and superficial qualities, was in him certainly attended with the most severe application, the most extensive learning, the greatest depth of thought, and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000005_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000007_000000|IT WAS about three weeks after Ferdinand Armine had quitted Ducie that mr Temple entered the breakfast room one morning, with an open note in his hand, and told Henrietta to prepare for visitors, as her old friend, Lady Bellair, had written to apprise him of her intention to rest the night at Ducie, on her way to the North.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000008_000000|'She brings with her also the most charming woman in the world,' added mr Temple, with a smile.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000009_000000|'I have little doubt Lady Bellair deems her companion so at present,' said Miss Temple, 'whoever she may be; but, at any rate, I shall be glad to see her ladyship, who is certainly one of the most amusing women in the world.'
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000011_000001|We shall all be well cross examined as to the state of the establishment; and so I advise you to be prepared.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000011_000002|Her ladyship is a rum one, and that's the truth.'
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000012_000000|In due course of time, a handsome travelling chariot, emblazoned with a viscount's coronet, and carrying on the seat behind a portly man servant and a lady's maid, arrived at Ducie.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000013_000000|The green parrot, in its sparkling cage, followed next, and then came forth the prettiest, liveliest, smallest, best dressed, and, stranger than all, oldest little lady in the world.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000013_000001|Lady Bellair was of childlike stature, and quite erect, though ninety years of age; the tasteful simplicity of her costume, her little plain white silk bonnet, her grey silk dress, her apron, her grey mittens, and her Cinderella shoes, all admirably contrasted with the vast and flaunting splendour of her companion, not less than her ladyship's small yet exquisitely proportioned form, her highly finished extremities, and her keen sarcastic grey eye.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000013_000003|An arrival was an important moment that required all her practised circumspection; there was so much to arrange, so much to remember, and so much to observe.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000014_000000|The portly serving man had advanced, and, taking his little mistress in his arms, as he would a child, had planted her on the steps.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000000|'Here! where's the butler?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000001|I don't want you, stupid [addressing her own servant], but the butler of the house, Mister's butler; what is his name, mr Twoshoes' butler?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000003|Oh! you are there, are you?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000005|How is your master?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000008|I don't want it.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000009|Where's the lady?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000010|Why don't you answer?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000011|Why do you stare so?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000012|Miss Temple!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000013|no! not Miss Temple!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000016|But she has got two names.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000018|My dear,' continued Lady Bellair, addressing her travelling companion, 'I don't know your name.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000019|Tell all these good people your name; your two names!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000020|I like people with two names.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000021|Tell them, my dear, tell them; tell them your name, mrs Thingabob, or whatever it is, mrs Thingabob Twoshoes.'
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000016_000000|mrs Montgomery Floyd, though rather annoyed by this appeal, still contrived to comply with the request in the most dignified manner; and all the servants bowed to mrs Montgomery Floyd.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000000|'Man, there's something wanting.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000001|I had three things to take charge of. The parrot and my charming friend; that is only two.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000002|There is a third. What is it?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000003|You don't know!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000004|Here, you man, who are you?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000006|I knew your master when he was not as high as that cage.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000007|What do you think of that?' continued her ladyship, with a triumphant smile. 'What do you laugh at, sir?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000009|That I would wager you have not.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000010|What do I want?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000011|I want something.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000013|Now, I knew a gentleman who made his fortune by once remembering what a very great man wanted.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000015|I dare say if I were a minister of state, instead of an old woman ninety years of age, you would contrive somehow or other to find out what I wanted. Never mind, never mind.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000016|Come, my charming friend, let me take your arm.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000017|Now I will introduce you to the prettiest, the dearest, the most innocent and charming lady in the world.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000018|She is my greatest favourite. She is always my favourite.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000020|I always have two favourites: one for the moment, and one that I never change, and that is my sweet Henrietta Temple.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000025|Gregory! run, Gregory!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000026|It is the page!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000027|There was no room for him behind, and I told him to lie under the seat.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000028|Poor dear boy!
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000029|He must be smothered.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000031|Has Miss Temple got a page?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000032|Does her page wear a feather?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000033|My page has not got a feather, but he shall have one, because he was not smothered.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000034|Here! woman, who are you?
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000035|The housemaid.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000036|I thought so.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000038|You shall take care of my page.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000039|Take him at once, and give him some milk and water; and, page, be very good, and never leave this good young woman, unless I send for you.
train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000040|And, woman, good young woman, perhaps you may find an old feather of Miss Temple's page.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000002_000000|GRIT WINS THE BATTLE
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000003_000000|The lad appeared to strike the ground head on.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000004_000000|"Are you hurt?" asked Big foot, running to the boy and reaching out to assist him.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000005_000000|"I guess not," answered Tad, rubbing the sand from his eyes and blinking vigorously.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000006_000000|The skin had been scraped from his face in spots where the coarse sand had ground its way through.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000006_000001|His hair was filled with the dirt of the plain, and his clothes were torn.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000008_000001|You can't ride that critter!"
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000009_000000|"I'll ride him-if he kills me!" answered the boy, his jaws setting stubbornly.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000010_000000|Tad hitched his belt tighter before making any move to approach the pony, which Stallings was now holding by main force.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000010_000001|While doing so, the lad watched the animal's buckings observantly.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000012_000000|"Foot slipped out of the stirrup."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000013_000000|"Think you can make it?"
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000014_000000|"I'll try it, if you have the time to spare."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000015_000000|"It takes time to break a bronch.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000015_000001|Don't you worry about that.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000015_000002|I don't want you to be breaking your neck, however."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000016_000000|"My advice is that you keep off that animal," declared Professor Zepplin.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000016_000001|"You cannot manage him; that is plain."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000017_000000|"Please do not say that, Professor.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000017_000001|I must ride him now.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000017_000002|You wouldn't have me be a coward, would you?"
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000018_000000|Stallings, realizing the boy's position, nodded slightly to the Professor.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000019_000000|"Very well, if mr Stallings thinks it is safe," agreed Professor Zepplin reluctantly.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000020_000000|Tad's face lighted up with a satisfied smile.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000021_000000|"Whoa, boy," he soothed, patting the animal gently on the neck.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000022_000001|Once more Tad petted him.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000023_000002|Don't know enough to know when he's well off.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000023_000003|Got your spurs on?"
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000024_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000026_000000|Tad shook his head.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000028_000000|"Will you please coil up the stake rope and fasten it to the horn, mr Stallings?" asked Tad.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000028_000001|"I don't want to get tangled up with that thing."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000029_000000|"Yes, if you are sure you can stick on him."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000030_000000|"Leave that to me.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000030_000001|I know his tricks now."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000031_000000|Cautiously the rope was coiled and made fast to the saddle horn.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000032_000000|"I'm coming," said Tad in a quiet, tense voice.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000034_000000|The lad darted forward, running on his toes, his eyes fixed on the saddle.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000035_000000|Tad gave no heed to the pony.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000035_000001|It was that heavy bobbing saddle that he must safely make before the pony itself would enter into his considerations.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000036_000000|Lightly touching the saddle, he bounded into it, at the same time shoving both feet forward.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000039_000001|His sides, however, were being gripped by a muscular pair of legs, and his head was suddenly jerked up by a sharp tug at the rein.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000041_000000|"Yip!" answered Tad, though more to the pony than in answer to them.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000042_000000|Down went the pony's head between his forward legs, his hind hoofs beating a tattoo in the air.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000043_000000|The feet came down as suddenly as they had gone up.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000043_000001|Instantly the little animal began a series of stiff legged leaps into the air, his curving back making it a very uncomfortable place to sit on.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000044_000000|Tad's head was jerked back and forth until it seemed as though his neck would be broken.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000045_000000|"Look out for the side jump!" warned the foreman.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000046_000000|It came almost instantly, and with a quickness that nearly unhorsed the plucky lad.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000047_000001|Fortunately, the lad gripped the pommel with his right hand as he felt himself going, and little by little he pulled himself once more to an upright posture.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000049_000000|Tad's head swam.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000049_000003|As yet he had not seen fit to use the rowels.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000050_000000|There came a pause which was almost as disconcerting as had been the previous rapid movements.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000051_000000|"He's going to throw himself!
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000051_000001|Don't get caught under him!" bellowed Big foot.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000052_000000|Tad was thankful for the suggestion, for he was not looking for that move at the moment.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000053_000000|The pony struck the ground on its left side with a bump that made the animal grunt.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000053_000001|Tad, however, forewarned, had freed his left foot from the stirrup and was standing easily over his fallen mount, eyes fixed on the beast's ears, ready to resume his position at the first sign of a quiver of those ears.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000054_000000|Like a flash the animal was on its feet again, but with Tad riding in the saddle, a satisfied smile on his face.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000054_000001|Once more the awful, nerve racking bucking began.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000054_000002|It did not seem as if a human being could survive that series of violent antics, and least of all a mere boy.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000056_000000|Tad knew instinctively what it meant.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000056_000002|Over went the broncho on its back, rolling to its side quickly.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000057_000000|Tad was on the ground beside it, standing in a half crouching position, with one foot on the saddle horn.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000058_000000|He had jerked the broncho's head clear of the ground with a strong tug on the reins, making the animal helpless to rise until the lad was ready for him to do so.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000059_000000|The cowboys uttered a yell of triumph.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000060_000000|"Great!
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000060_000001|Great!" approved Bob Stallings.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000061_000000|"Tenderfoot, eh?" jeered Big foot Sanders.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000061_000001|"Hooray for the Pinto!"
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000062_000000|Tad's companions gave a shrill cheer.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000063_000000|"Wait.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000063_000001|He ain't out of the woods yet," growled Lumpy Bates.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000064_000000|"Think you could do it better, hey?" snapped Curley Adams.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000064_000001|"Why, that cayuse would shake the blooming neck off you if you were in that saddle. I never did see such a whirlwind."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000065_000000|"Got springs in his feet, I reckon," grinned Big foot.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000066_000000|"Don't let his head down till you're ready for the get away," cautioned the foreman.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000067_000000|Tad suddenly allowed the head to touch the ground, after the pony had lain pinned at his feet, breathing hard for a full minute.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000068_000000|Boy and mount were in the air in a twinkling.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000069_000000|With a quick pause, as if in surprise, the beast shot its head back to fasten its teeth in the leg of the rider.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000069_000001|Tad had jerked his leg away as he saw the movement, with the result that only part of his leggin came away between the teeth of the savage animal.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000070_000000|Crack!
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000071_000000|Down came the quirt again.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000072_000000|The broncho's head straightened out before him with amazing quickness. He was beginning to fear as well as hate the human being who so persistently sat his back and tortured him.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000073_000000|The pony sprang into the air.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000074_000000|"They're off!" shouted the cowboys.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000075_000000|With amazing quickness the animal lunged ahead, paused suddenly, then shot across the plain in a series of leaps and twists.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000076_000000|Tad shook out the rein, at the same time giving a gentle pressure to the rowels of his spurs.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000077_000000|Maddened almost beyond endurance, the pony started at a furious pace, not pausing until more than a mile had been covered.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000077_000001|When he did bring up it was with disconcerting suddenness.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000078_000001|Again the wide open mouth reached for the lad's left leg.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000078_000002|But this time Tad pressed in the spurs on the right side.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000078_000003|The pony tried to bite that way, whereat its rider spurred it on the left side.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000079_000000|This was continued until, at least, in sheer desperation, the animal started again to run.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000079_000002|However, when he sought to unseat his rider by brushing against the trunk of a large tree, he again felt the sting of the quirt on his flank.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000080_000000|Gradually Tad now began to work the animal around.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000081_000000|Tad's face was flushed with pride.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000081_000002|The lad's whole attention was centered on the pony under him.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000081_000003|He was determined to make a grand finish that, while exhibiting his horsemanship, would at the same time give the pony a lesson not soon to be forgotten.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000082_000000|"You've got him!" cried Ned Rector as Tad approached, now at a gallop, the animal's ears lying back angrily.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000083_000000|"Don't be too sure," answered Big foot.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000083_000002|That means more trouble."
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000084_000000|It came almost before the words were out of the cowpuncher's mouth.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000085_000000|The broncho stiffened, its hoofs ploughing little trails in the soft dirt of the plain as it skidded to a stop.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000086_000000|Suddenly settling back on its haunches, the broncho rolled over on its side.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000086_000001|Tad, with a grin, stepped off a few paces, taking with him, however, the coil of rope, one end of which was still fastened around the beast's neck.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000088_000000|Tad moved swiftly to the right, so as not to get a tug on the rope over the back of the pony.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000089_000000|The coil was running out over his hands like a thing of life.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000089_000001|Grasping the end firmly, the lad shook out the rest of the rope, leaning back until it was almost taut.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000091_000000|Tad gave the rope a quick rolling motion just as it was being drawn taut.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000091_000001|The result was as surprising as it was sudden.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000091_000002|The animal's four feet were snipped from under it neatly, sending the broncho to earth with a disheartening bump.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000093_000000|Without giving it a chance to rise, Tad sprang upon it, and, when the pony rose, Tad Butler was sitting proudly in the saddle.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000094_000000|The little beast's head went down.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000095_000000|A great shout of approval went up from cowpunchers and Pony Riders.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000095_000001|They had never seen a breaking done more skillfully.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000096_000000|Tad's gloved hand patted the neck of the subdued animal affectionately.
train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000097_000000|"I'm sorry I had to be rough with you, old boy, but you shall have a lump of sugar.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000001_000000|DINNER AT THE OX BOW
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000002_000000|"Welcome to the Ox Bow, young gentlemen," greeted Colonel McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000003_000000|The rancher and his wife were waiting at the lower end of the lawn as the Pony Rider Boys, accompanied by Professor Zepplin, rode up on the following afternoon.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000004_000000|The lads wore their regulation plainsman's clothes, but for this occasion coats had been put on and hair combed, each desiring to look his best, as they were to meet the young ladies of the ranch.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000005_000000|"We owe you an apology, sir, for appearing in this condition," announced the Professor.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000006_000000|"Master Butler and myself have already settled that question," answered the rancher.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000006_000001|"As Henry Ward Beecher once said, 'Clothes don't make the man, but when he is made he looks very well dressed up.' I must say, however, that these young men are about as likely a lot of lads as I have ever seen."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000007_000000|Clear eyed, their faces tanned almost to a copper color, figures erect and shoulders well back, the Pony Rider Boys were indeed wholesome to look upon.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000007_000001|Perhaps Sadie and Margaret McClure were not blind to this, for they blushed very prettily, the boys thought, upon being presented to their guests.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000007_000002|ruth Brayton was in a sunny mood, laughing gayly as she chatted with the boys.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000000|Tad glanced at her inquiringly.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000001|She was not the same girl that he had met the day before.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000002|There was a difference in the eyes, too.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000003|Tad could not understand the change.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000004|It perplexed him.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000010_000000|"I had so often wanted to take a trip through the Rockies on horseback," announced Miss Margaret.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000013_000000|"Yes; but you were driving cattle," objected mrs McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000013_000001|"There probably is no harder work in the world.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000013_000002|We, down here, know something about that."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000014_000000|"I-I killed a bobcat up in the mountains," Stacy Brown informed them, with enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000016_000000|"He did.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000016_000001|And I fell off a mountain," laughed Walter Perkins.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000016_000002|"You see we have had quite a series of experiences."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000017_000000|"Indeed you have.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000017_000001|How long do you expect to remain with the herd?
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000017_000002|Are you going through with them?"
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000018_000000|"I believe not," answered Tad Butler.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000018_000001|"I think we shall be leaving very soon now.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000018_000002|We have a lot of traveling to do yet, as it has been planned that we shall see a good deal of the country before it is time to return to school this fall."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000020_000000|"Yes; I believe so."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000021_000000|"I should love it."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000022_000000|"We are getting to love it ourselves.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000022_000001|It will be hard to have to sleep indoors again."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000023_000000|Shortly afterwards all were summoned in to supper.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000023_000001|Stacy Brown's eyes sparkled with anticipation as he surveyed the table resplendent with silver and cut glass-loaded, too, with good things to eat.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000024_000000|Ned Rector observed the look in his companion's eyes.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000025_000000|"Now, don't forget that we are not eating off the tail board of the chuck wagon, Chunky," he whispered in passing.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000025_000001|"Be as near human as you can and satisfy your appetite."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000027_000000|"Take your advice to yourself," he muttered.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000028_000000|Colonel McClure proved an entertaining host, and the boys were led on to talk about themselves during most of the meal.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000030_000001|"Built by the Mexicans more than a hundred years ago."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000031_000000|"Yes, so I understand."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000033_000003|Almost the instant he caught it it was gone.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000034_000000|"I'm afraid you have been misinformed, Master Stacy," answered Colonel McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000035_000000|"How about the trouble that the cattle men experience when near the place?" spoke up Ned Rector.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000036_000000|"Nothing at all-nothing at all.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000036_000001|Just a mere coincidence.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000036_000002|We live here and we have no more than the usual run of ill luck with our stock."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000037_000000|"Stampedes?" asked Tad.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000038_000000|"Seldom anything of that sort.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000038_000001|You see our stock is held by wire fences. If they want to stampede we let them-let them run until they are tired of it."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000039_000000|"I should like to explore the old church," said Tad, again referring to the subject uppermost in his mind.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000040_000000|"Nothing to hinder.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000040_000001|ruth, why can't you and the girls take the young men over there to morrow if the day is fine?
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000040_000002|You know the place and its history.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000041_000000|"We should be delighted," answered Ned Rector promptly.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000042_000000|"We might make it a picnic," suggested Margaret McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000043_000000|"And have things to eat?" asked Stacy, evincing a keen interest in the proposal.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000044_000000|"Of course," smiled mrs McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000044_000002|I will send some of the servants over to serve the picnic lunch."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000045_000000|"Thank you," smiled Tad gratefully.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000045_000001|"It will be a happy afternoon for all of us if Miss Brayton can find the time to take us."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000046_000000|"Of course ruth will go," nodded mrs McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000047_000000|"Yes," answered the young woman.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000047_000001|"What time shall we arrange to start, auntie?"
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000049_000000|"Perfectly," answered Tad.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000050_000000|"You might first take a gallop to the Springs.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000050_000001|That will give you all an appetite."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000052_000000|"About seven miles to the eastward of the ranch.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000052_000001|A most picturesque place," answered Colonel McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000052_000003|We can ride about the ranch if it would please you."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000053_000000|"I should be delighted."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000054_000000|"I was going to suggest, too, that it might be a pleasant relief for all of you to accept the hospitality of the Ox Bow ranch and remain here while you are in the vicinity.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000054_000001|We have room to spare and would be glad to have you."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000000|"Not at all-not at all.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000001|I understand you perfectly.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000002|I shall not press the point.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000003|But spend all the time you can with us.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000004|The place is yours. Make yourselves at home."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000057_000000|"No; mr Stallings would not like it if we were to remain away over night.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000057_000001|You see, he expects us to do our share of night guard duty," explained Tad.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000057_000002|"We are earning our keep as it were."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000059_000000|"That is, some of us are," corrected Ned, with a sly glance at Stacy, who was eating industriously.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000059_000001|"Others are eating for their keep."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000060_000000|The Pony Rider Boys caught the hidden meaning in his words, but they tried not to let their hosts observe that it was a joke at the expense of one of them.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000061_000000|"Stallings," murmured Miss Brayton, her eyes staring vacantly at Tad Butler.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000063_000000|Miss Brayton excused herself rather abruptly and left the room.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000063_000001|They did not see her again that evening.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000064_000000|"My niece has been ailing of late," explained mrs McClure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000066_000000|"Oh, yes, I wish her to.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000066_000001|It will do her good-it will take her mind from herself."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000067_000000|Tad Butler noted the last half of the sentence particularly.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000067_000001|For him it held a deeper meaning than it did for his companions.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000002|No, I won't.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000003|It's none of my business.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000004|Still, it will do no harm to ask him, or to mention the name to him.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000005|That surely would not be wrong."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000069_000001|After supper games were brought out and a happy evening followed.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000070_000000|Ten o'clock came, and Professor Zepplin, glancing at his watch, was about to propose a return to camp, when one of Colonel McClure's cowboys appeared in the doorway, hat in hand.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000071_000000|"Beg pardon; may I speak with you a moment?" asked the man.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000073_000000|After a little their host returned, but rather hurriedly, it seemed, and Tad's keen eyes noticed that he seemed disturbed.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000074_000000|mr McClure caught the lad's inquiring gaze fixed upon him.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000074_000001|He nodded.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000075_000000|"Is anything wrong?" asked the rancher's wife.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000076_000000|"Yes; I am afraid there is," he answered quietly.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000077_000000|"What is it?"
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000078_000000|"I am not sure.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000078_000001|Perhaps I should not alarm you young gentlemen, but I think you should know."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000079_000000|"At the camp, you mean?" asked Tad.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000080_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000081_000000|"What's that?" demanded Professor Zepplin sharply.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000081_000001|"Something wrong at the camp?"
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000082_000000|"My men think so.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000082_000001|They say they hear shooting off in that direction, and want to know if they shall ride out."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000084_000000|"A stampede?
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000084_000001|Yes; I should not be surprised."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000085_000000|"We must go," announced the lad, rising promptly.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000086_000000|"Why go?" asked Margaret.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000087_000000|"We may be needed."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000088_000000|"But my men have started already," replied the rancher.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000088_000001|"They surely will be help enough."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000089_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000089_000001|Stallings will expect us.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000089_000002|We may be able to be of some assistance."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000000|"Well, if you must.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000001|Yes; you are right.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000002|Business is business, even when one is out on a pleasure trip.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000003|It's a good sign in a young man.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000004|Tell your foreman that he may call upon us to any extent."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000091_000000|"Thank you, I will," replied Tad.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000092_000000|Bidding their hosts a hasty good night, and promising to be on hand at the appointed hour on the following day if the condition of the herd permitted, the Pony Rider Boys ran for their ponies.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000092_000002|They, too, were now able to hear the short, spiteful bark of the six shooters.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000093_000000|It was a significant sound.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000093_000001|They had heard it too many times before not to understand it.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000093_000002|In their minds they could see the hardy cowboys riding in front of the unreasoning animals, shooting into the ground in front of them, seeking to check the rush.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000094_000000|"What do you think about this business?" asked Tad Butler, drawing up beside Ned Rector.
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000095_000000|"I think there is more in this spook story than Colonel McClure knows of, or, at least, will admit."
train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000096_000000|"So do I," answered Tad.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000008_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000010_000000|Rain, rain, rain!
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000010_000001|How mercilessly it fell on the Fair field that Sunday afternoon!
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000010_000003|How dismal the fair looked then!
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000011_000000|But there were no lights now; there was nothing to cast a halo round the dirty, weather stained tents and the dingy caravans.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000014_000000|A little old man, with a rosy, good tempered face, was making his way across the sea of mud which divided the shows from each other.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000014_000001|He was evidently no idler in the fair; he had come into it that Sunday afternoon for a definite purpose, and he did not intend to leave it until it was accomplished.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000014_000002|After crossing an almost impassable place, he climbed the steps leading to one of the caravans and knocked at the door.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000015_000000|It was a curious door; the upper part of it, being used as a window, was filled with glass, behind which you could see two small muslin curtains, tied up with pink ribbon.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000016_000000|'Rap again, sir, rap again; there's a little lass in there; she went in a bit since.'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000017_000000|'Don't you wish you was her?' said one of the little boys to the other.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000019_000000|The old man laughed a hearty laugh at the children's talk, and rapped again at the caravan door.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000020_000000|This time a face appeared between the muslin curtains and peered cautiously out.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000020_000001|It was a very pretty little face, so pretty that the old man sighed to himself when he saw it.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000021_000000|Then the small head turned round, and seemed to be telling what it had seen to some one within, and asking leave to admit the visitor; for a minute afterwards the door was opened, and the owner of the pretty face stood before the old man.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000022_000000|She was a little girl about twelve years of age, very slender and delicate in appearance.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000022_000001|Her hair, which was of a rich auburn colour, was hanging down to her waist, and her eyes were the most beautiful the old man thought he had ever seen.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000023_000000|She was very poorly dressed, and she shivered as the damp, cold air rushed in through the open door.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000024_000000|'Good afternoon, my little dear,' said the old man.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000027_000000|The old man did not wait for a second invitation; he stepped inside the caravan, and the child closed the door.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000000|It was a very small place; there was hardly room for him to stand.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000001|At the end of the caravan was a narrow bed something like a berth on board ship, and on it a woman was lying who was evidently very ill.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000002|She was the child's mother, the old man felt sure.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000003|She had the same beautiful eyes and sunny hair, though her face was thin and wasted.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000029_000000|There was not room for much furniture in the small caravan; a tiny stove, the chimney of which went through the wooden roof, a few pans, a shelf containing cups and saucers, and two boxes which served as seats, completely filled it.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000029_000001|There was only just room for the old man to stand, and the fire was so near him that he was in danger of being scorched.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000030_000000|Rosalie had seated herself on one of the boxes close to her mother's bed.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000031_000000|'You must excuse my intruding, ma'am,' said the old man, with a polite bow; 'but I'm so fond of little folks, and I've brought this little girl of yours a picture, if she will accept it from me.'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000032_000000|A flush of pleasure came into the child's face as he brought out of his pocket his promised gift.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000033_000000|It was the picture of a shepherd, with a very kind and compassionate face, who was bearing home in his bosom a lost lamb.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000033_000001|The lamb's fleece was torn in several places, and there were marks of blood on its back, as if it had been roughly used by some cruel beast in a recent struggle.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000034_000000|But the shepherd seemed to have suffered more than the lamb, for he was wounded in many places, and his blood was falling in large drops on the ground.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000034_000001|Yet he did not seem to mind it; his face was full of love and full of joy as he looked at the lamb.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000034_000002|He had forgotten his sorrow in his joy that the lamb was saved.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000035_000000|In the distance were some of the shepherd's friends, who were coming to meet him, and underneath the picture were these words, printed in large letters-
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000036_000000|'Rejoice with Me, for I have found My sheep which was lost.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000036_000001|There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000037_000000|The little girl read the words aloud in a clear, distinct voice; and her mother gazed at the picture with tears in her eyes.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000038_000000|'Those are sweet words, ain't they?' said the old man.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000041_000000|The woman did not speak; a fit of coughing came on, and the old man stood looking at her with a very pitying expression.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000043_000000|'Yes, very ill,' gasped the woman bitterly; 'every one can see that but Augustus!'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000044_000000|'That's my father,' said the little girl.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000045_000000|'No; he doesn't see it,' repeated the woman; 'he thinks I ought to get up and act in the play, just as usual.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000046_000000|'You must be tired of moving about, ma'am,' said the old man compassionately.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000047_000002|'It's a weary time I have of it-a weary time.'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000048_000000|'Are you always on the move, ma'am?' asked the old man.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000049_000000|'All the summer time,' said the woman.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000049_000001|'We get into lodgings for a little time in the winter; and then we let ourselves out to some of the small town theatres; but all the rest of the year we're going from feast to feast and from fair to fair-no rest nor comfort, not a bit!'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000050_000001|poor thing!' said the old man; and then a choking sensation appeared to have seized him, for he cleared his throat vigorously many times, but seemed unable to say more.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000051_000000|The child had climbed on one of the boxes, and brought down a square red pincushion from the shelf which ran round the top of the caravan.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000051_000001|From this she took two pins, and fastened the picture on the wooden wall, so that her mother could see it as she was lying in bed.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000052_000000|'It does look pretty there,' said the little girl; 'mammie, you can look at it nicely now.'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000053_000001|He wants to find you, and take you up in His arms, and carry you home; and He won't mind the wounds it has cost Him, if you'll only let Him do it.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000054_000000|'Good day, ma'am,' said the old man; 'I shall, maybe, never see you again; but I would like the Good Shepherd to say those words of you.'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000055_000000|He went carefully down the steps of the caravan, and Rosalie stood at the window, watching him picking his way to the other shows, to which he was carrying the same message of peace.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000055_000001|She looked out from between the muslin curtains until he had quite disappeared to a distant part of the field, and then she turned to her mother and said eagerly-
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000056_000000|'It's a very pretty picture, isn't it, mammie dear?'
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000057_000000|But no answer came from the bed.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000057_000001|Rosalie thought her mother was asleep, and crept on tiptoe to her side, fearful of waking her.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000057_000002|But she found her mother's face buried in the pillow, on which large tears were falling.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000058_000000|And when the little girl sat down by her side, and tried to comfort her by stroking her hand very gently, and saying, 'Mammie dear, mammie dear, don't cry!
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000058_000001|What's the matter, mammie dear?' her mother only wept the more.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000059_000001|By degrees her mother grew calmer, the sobs became less frequent, and, to the little girl's joy, she fell asleep.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000059_000002|Rosalie sat beside her without moving, lest she should awake her, and kept gazing at her picture till she knew every line of it.
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000059_000003|And the first thing her mother heard when she awoke from sleep was Rosalie's voice saying softly-
train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000060_000000|'"Rejoice with Me, for I have found My sheep which was lost.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000003_000000|The months sped on, and now the anniversary of her father's birthday arrived.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000003_000001|Until then it had always been to Mary a day of great joy, but this time, when the day dawned, she was bathed in tears.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000003_000002|Previously she had had the pleasure and excitement of preparing something which she knew would please her father, but now, alas, this delightful occupation was rendered useless!
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000004_000000|The country people round about their home used to beg flowers from her for the purpose of decorating the graves of their friends.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000004_000001|It had always been a pleasure to Mary to give her flowers for this purpose, and she now determined to decorate her father's tomb in the same manner.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000004_000002|Taking from a cupboard the beautiful basket which had been the first cause of all her unhappiness, she filled it with choice flowers of all colours, artistically interspersed with fresh green leaves, and carried it to Erlenbrunn before the hour of divine service, and laid it on her father's tomb, watering it at the same time with tears that could not be repressed.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000005_000001|Let me at least ornament your grave with them."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000006_000000|Mary left the basket on the grave, and went back to the misery of Pine Farm.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000006_000001|She had no fear that any one would dare to steal either the basket or the flowers.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000006_000002|Many of the country people who saw her offering were moved to tears, and, blessing the old gardener's pious daughter, they prayed for her prosperity.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000007_000000|The next day the labourers at the farm were busy taking in the hay from a large meadow just beyond the forest.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000007_000001|The farmer's wife had a large piece of fine linen spread out on the grass a few steps from the house, and in the evening this was found to have disappeared.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000008_000000|When Mary was returning from her work in the evening with a rake on her shoulder and a pitcher in her hand, along with the other servants, this passionate woman came out of the kitchen and met her with a torrent of abuse, and ordered her to give up the linen immediately.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000008_000002|This conjecture turned out to be the true one, but the farmer's wife was not to be turned from her conviction.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000009_000000|"Thief," she cried coarsely, "do you think I am ignorant of the theft of the ring, and what difficulty you had to escape the executioner's sword?
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000009_000001|Begone as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000009_000002|There is no room in my house for creatures like you."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000010_000000|"It is too late," said her husband, "to send Mary away now.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000010_000001|Let her sup with us, as she has worked all day in the great heat.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000010_000002|Let her but remain this one night."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000011_000000|"Not even one hour," cried his wife passionately; and her husband, seeing that advice would only irritate her more, remained silent.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000012_000000|Mary made no further attempt to defend herself against the unjust accusation.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000012_000002|When she had put the little bundle under her arm, thanked the servants of Pine Farm for their kindness to her and protested once more her innocence, she asked permission to take leave of her friends, the old farmer and his wife.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000013_000001|It is evident death does not mean to rid me of them for some time."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000014_000001|However, they consoled her as well as they could, and gave her a little money to assist her on her journey.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000014_000002|"Go, good girl," said they to her, "and may God take care of you."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000000|It was towards the close of the day when Mary set out with her little bundle under her arm, and began to climb up the mountain, following the narrow road to the woods.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000001|She wished before leaving the neighbourhood to visit her father's grave once more.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000002|When she came out of the forest the village clock struck seven, and before she arrived at the graveyard it was nearly dark; but she was not afraid, and went up to her father's grave, where she sat down and gave way to a burst of grief.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000003|The full moon was shining through the trees, illumining with a silver light the roses on the grave and the basket of flowers.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000004|The soft evening breeze murmured among the branches, making the rose trees planted on her father's grave tremble.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000000|"Oh, my father," cried Mary, "would that you were still here, that I might pour my trouble into your ears!
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000002|You are now happy, and beyond the reach of grief.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000005|When the moon shone into the prison which confined me you were then alive; when I was driven from the home which I loved so much you were left me.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000006|I had in you a good father and protector and faithful friend.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000007|Now I have no one.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000008|Poor, forsaken, suspected of crime, I am alone in the world, a stranger, not knowing where to lay my head. The only little corner that remained to me on the earth I am driven from, and now I shall no longer have the consolation of coming here to weep by your grave!" At these words the tears rushed forth afresh.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000017_000000|"Alas," said she, "I dare not at this hour beg a lodging for the night. Indeed, if I tell why I was turned out of doors, no one perhaps will consent to receive me."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000000|She looked around.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000001|Against the wall, near her father's tomb, was a gravestone, very old and covered with moss.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000002|As the inscription had been effaced by time, it was left there to be used as a seat.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000004|It is perhaps the last time I shall ever be here.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000019_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000020_000000|A STRANGE MEETING.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000021_000000|Mary sat down on the stone near the wall shaded by the thick foliage of a tree which covered her with its dark branches.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000021_000001|Here she poured out her soul in fervent prayer to God.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000021_000002|Suddenly she heard a sweet voice calling her familiarly by her name, "Mary, Mary!"
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000022_000000|The late hour of night and the solitude of the graveyard and her loneliness made Mary start with fear.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000022_000001|Looking up she saw the beautiful face and figure of a woman, dressed in a long flowing robe.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000022_000002|Frightened and trembling, Mary was about to fly.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000024_000001|God has heard your fervent prayers, and I have come to help you.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000024_000002|Look at me; is it possible you do not know me?"
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000025_000000|The moon was shining brightly upon her face, and with an exclamation of surprise, Mary cried out, "Is it you, the Countess Amelia?
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000025_000001|Oh, how did you get here-here in so lonely a place at this hour of the night, so far from your home?"
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000026_000000|The Countess raised Mary gently from the ground, pressed her to her heart, and kissed her tenderly.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000000|"Dear Mary," said she, "we have done you great injustice.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000001|You have been ill rewarded for the pleasure which you gave me with the basket of flowers, but at last your innocence has been made known.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000002|Can you ever forgive my parents and me?
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000003|We are ready to make amends as far as it lies in our power.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000004|Forgive us, dear Mary."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000000|Mary was distressed at these words, and begged the Countess not to talk of forgiveness.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000001|"Considering the circumstances," she said, "you showed great indulgence towards me, and it never entered my mind to nourish the least resentment towards you.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000002|I had grateful thoughts of all your kindness, and my only sorrow was that you and your dear parents should regard me as ungrateful enough to be guilty of stealing your ring.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000003|My great desire was that you might one day be convinced of my innocence, and God has granted this desire.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000004|May His name be praised!"
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000029_000001|Oh, if we had only taken more precaution, if we had placed more confidence in an old servant who had always shown unimpeachable honesty and faithfulness, perhaps thou hadst still been living with us!"
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000030_000000|"Believe me, good Countess," said Mary, "my father was far from feeling the least resentment towards you.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000030_000001|He prayed for you daily, as he was accustomed to do when he lived at Eichbourg, and at the hour of his death he blessed you all.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000031_000001|When that day comes, assure the Countess and Count and Amelia that my heart was full of respect and love and gratitude towards them till my last breath.' These, my dear Countess, were his last words."
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000032_000000|The tears of the good Amelia flowed copiously.
train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000032_000001|"Come, Mary," said she, "and sit down here with me on the stone.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000002_000000|THE SAPPHIRE.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000003_000000|One morning, as Mary sat at her piano, Mewks was shown into the room. He brought the request from his master that she would go to him; he wanted particularly to see her.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000003_000001|She did not much like it, neither did she hesitate.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000004_000000|She was shown into the room mr Redmain called his study, which communicated by a dressing room with his bedroom.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000004_000001|He was seated, evidently waiting for her.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000006_000000|"You are very kind, sir," Mary answered.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000008_000000|"I am so glad!" she said, and took it in her hand.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000000|"There's the point!" he returned.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000001|"That is just why I sent for you!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000002|Can you suggest any explanation of the fact that it was found, after all, in a corner of my wife's jewel box?
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000003|Who searched the box last?"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000010_000000|"I do not know, sir."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000011_000000|"Did you search it?"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000012_000000|"No, sir.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000012_000001|I offered to help mrs Redmain to look for the ring, but she said it was no use.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000012_000002|Who found it, sir?"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000013_000000|"I will tell you who found it, if you will tell me who put it there."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000014_000000|"I don't know what you mean, sir.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000014_000001|It must have been there all the time."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000000|"That's the point again!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000001|mrs Redmain swears it was not, and could not have been, there when she looked for it.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000002|It is not like a small thing, you see.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000003|There is something mysterious about it."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000016_000000|He looked hard at Mary.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000000|Now, Mary had very much admired the ring, as any one must who had an eye for stones; and had often looked at it-into the heart of it-almost loving it; and while they were talking now, she kept gazing at it.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000001|When mr Redmain ended, she stood silent.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000003|She stood long, looking closely at it, moving it about a little, and changing the direction of the light; and, while her gaze was on the ring, mr Redmain's gaze was on her, watching her with equal attention.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000004|At last, with a sigh, as if she waked from a reverie, she laid the ring on the table.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000005|But mr Redmain still stared in her face.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000018_000000|"Now what is it you've got in your head?" he said at last.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000018_000001|"I have been watching you think for three minutes and a half, I do believe.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000018_000002|Come, out with it!"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000019_000001|"I was only plaguing myself between my recollection of the stone and the actual look of it.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000019_000002|It is so annoying to find what seemed a clear recollection prove a deceitful one!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000019_000003|It may appear a presumptuous thing to say, but my recollection seems of a finer color."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000021_000001|"You haven't the face to hint that the stone has been changed?"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000022_000000|Mary laughed.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000023_000000|"Such a thing never came into my head, sir; but now that you have put it there, I could almost believe it."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000024_000000|"Go along with you!" he cried, casting at her a strange look which she could not understand, and the same moment pulling the bell hard.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000025_000000|That done, he began to examine the ring intently, as Mary had been doing, and did not speak a word.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000025_000001|Mewks came.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000026_000000|"Show Miss Marston out," said his master; "and tell my coachman to bring the hansom round directly."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000027_000000|"For Miss Marston?" inquired Mewks, who had learned not a little cunning in the service.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000028_000000|"No!" roared mr Redmain; and Mewks darted from the room, followed more leisurely by Mary.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000030_000000|But Mary took no notice, and left the house.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000031_000000|For about a week she heard nothing.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000032_000000|In the meantime mr Redmain had been prosecuting certain inquiries he had some time ago begun, and another quite new one besides.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000032_000001|He was acquainted with many people of many different sorts, and had been to jewelers and pawnbrokers, gamblers and lodging house keepers, and had learned some things to his purpose.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000033_000001|She was less disinclined to go this time, however, for she felt not a little curious about the ring.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000034_000000|"I want you to come back to the house," he said, abruptly, the moment she entered his room.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000035_000000|For such a request Mary was not prepared.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000035_000001|Even since the ring was found, so long a time had passed that she never expected to hear from the house again.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000035_000002|But Tom was now so much better, and Letty so much like her former self, that, if mrs Redmain had asked her, she might perhaps have consented.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000036_000000|"mr Redmain," she answered, "you must see that I can not do so at your desire."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000000|"Oh, rubbish!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000001|humbug!" he returned, with annoyance.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000003|But I have reasons for wanting to have you within call.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000004|Go to mrs Perkin.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000005|I won't take a refusal."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000038_000000|"I can not do it, mr Redmain," said Mary; "the thing is impossible." And she turned to leave the room.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000039_000000|"Stop, stop!" cried mr Redmain, and jumped from his chair to prevent her.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000040_000000|He would not have succeeded had not Mewks met her in the doorway full in the face.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000040_000001|She had to draw back to avoid him, and the man, perceiving at once how things were, closed the door the moment he entered, and stood with his back against it.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000042_000000|A scarcely perceptible sign of question was made by the master, and answered in kind by the man.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000043_000000|"Show him here directly," said mr Redmain.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000043_000001|Then turning to Mary, "Go out that way, Miss Marston, if you will go," he said, and pointed to the dressing room.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000044_000001|She turned, and knocked.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000045_000001|You must hear what passes: I want you for a witness."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000046_000000|Bewildered and annoyed, Mary stood motionless in the middle of the room, and presently heard a man, whose voice seemed not quite strange to her, greet mr Redmain like an old friend.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000046_000001|The latter made a slight apology for having sent for him to his study-claiming the privilege, he said, of an invalid, who could not for a time have the pleasure of meeting him either at the club or at his wife's parties.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000046_000002|The visitor answered agreeably, with a touch of merriment that seemed to indicate a soul at ease with itself and with the world.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000047_000000|But here Mary all at once came to herself, and was aware that she was in quite a false position.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000047_000001|She withdrew therefore to the farthest corner, sat down, closed her ears with the palms of her hands, and waited.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000048_000001|She raised her head, and saw the white, skin drawn face of mr Redmain grinning at her from the open door.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000048_000002|When he spoke again, his words sounded like thunder, for she had removed her hands from her ears.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000049_000000|"I fancy you've had a dose of it!" he said.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000050_000000|As he spoke, she rose to her feet, her countenance illumined both with righteous anger and the tender shine of prayer.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000050_000001|Her look went to what he had of a heart, and the slightest possible color rose to his face.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000051_000000|"Gone a step too far, damn it!" he murmured to himself.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000052_000000|"I see!" he said; "it's been a trifle too much for you, and I don't wonder!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000052_000001|You needn't believe a word I said about myself.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000052_000002|It was all hum to make the villain show his game."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000053_000000|"I have not heard a word, mr Redmain," she said with indignation.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000054_000000|"Oh, you needn't trouble yourself!" he returned.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000054_000003|A fine thing if your pretended squeamishness ruin my plot!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000054_000004|What do you think of yourself, hey?--But I don't believe it."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000055_000000|He looked at her keenly, expecting a response, but Mary made him none. For some moments he regarded her curiously, then turned away into the study, saying:
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000056_000003|I did think I was past being taken in, but it seems possible for once again.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000056_000004|Of course, you will return to mrs Redmain now that all is cleared up."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000057_000000|"It is impossible," Mary answered.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000057_000001|"I can not live in a house where the lady mistrusts and the gentleman insults me."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000058_000000|She left the room, and mr Redmain did not try to prevent her.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000058_000001|As she left the house she burst into tears; and the fact Mewks carried to his master.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000059_000001|Till Sepia came, he had been conventionally faithful-faithful with the faith of a lackey, that is-but she had found no difficulty in making of him, in respect of her, a spy upon his master.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000060_000000|I will now relate what passed while Mary sat deaf in the corner.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000061_000000|mr Redmain asked his visitor what he would have, as if, although it was quite early, he must, as a matter of course, stand in need of refreshment.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000061_000002|A good deal of conversation followed about a disputed point in a late game of cards at one of the clubs.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000062_000000|The talk then veered in another direction-that of personal adventure, so guided by mr Redmain.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000062_000002|And whatever he told, his guest capped, narrating trick upon trick to which on different occasions he had had recourse.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000062_000003|At all of them mr Redmain laughed heartily, and applauded their cleverness extravagantly, though some of them were downright swindling.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000001|I do not believe there was a word of truth in it.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000002|But it was capped by the other with a narrative that seemed specially pleasing to the listener. In the midst of a burst of laughter, he rose and rang the bell.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000003|Count Galofta thought it was to order something more in the way of "refreshment," and was not a little surprised when he heard his host desire the man to request the favor of Miss Yolland's presence.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000004|But the Count had not studied non expression in vain, and had brought it to a degree of perfection not easily disturbed.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000005|Casting a glance at him as he gave the message, mr Redmain could read nothing; but this was in itself suspicious to him-and justly, for the man ought to have been surprised at such a close to the conversation they had been having.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000000|Sepia had been told that Galofta was in the study, and therefore received the summons thither-a thing that had never happened before-with the greater alarm.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000001|She made, consequently, what preparation she could against surprise.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000002|Thoroughly capable of managing her features, her anxiety was sufficient nevertheless to deprive her of power over her complexion, and she entered the room with the pallor peculiar to the dark skinned.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000003|Having greeted the Count with the greatest composure, she turned to mr Redmain with question in her eyes.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000065_000000|"Count Galofta," said mr Redmain in reply, "has just been telling me a curious story of how a certain rascal got possession of a valuable jewel from a lady with whom he pretended to be in love, and I thought the opportunity a good one for showing you a strange discovery I have made with regard to the sapphire mrs Redmain missed for so long.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000066_000000|So saying, he took the ring from one drawer, and from another a bottle, from which he poured something into a crystal cup.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000066_000001|Then he took a file, and, looking at Galofta, in whose well drilled features he believed he read something that was not mere curiosity, said, "I am going to show you something very curious," and began to file asunder that part of the ring which immediately clasped the sapphire, the setting of which was open.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000067_000000|"What a pity!" cried Sepia; "you are destroying the ring!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000067_000001|What will Cousin Hesper say?"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000068_000000|mr Redmain filed away, heedless; then with the help of a pair of pincers freed the stone, and held it up in his hand.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000069_000000|"You see this?" he said.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000070_000000|"A splendid sapphire!" answered Count Galofta, taking it in his fingers, but, as mr Redmain saw, not looking at it closely.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000071_000000|"I have always heard it called a splendid stone," said Sepia, whose complexion, though not her features, passed through several changes while all this was going on: she was anxious.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000072_000000|Nor did her inquisitor fail to surprise the uneasy glances she threw, furtively though involuntarily, in the face of the Count-who never once looked in hers: tolerably sure of himself, he was not sure of her.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000073_000000|"That ring, when I bought it-the stone of it," said mr Redmain, "was a star sapphire, and worth seven hundred pounds; now, the whole affair is worth about ten."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000077_000000|"Of course," said the Count, "you will prosecute the jeweler."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000078_000000|"I will not prosecute the jeweler," answered mr Redmain; "but I have taken some trouble to find out who changed the stones."
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000080_000000|When he turned, the Count was gone, as he had expected, and Sepia stood with eyes full of anger and fear.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000080_000001|Her face was set and colorless, and strange to look upon.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000081_000000|"Very odd-ain't it?" said mr Redmain, and, opening the door of his dressing room, called out:
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000082_000000|"Miss Marston!"
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000083_000000|When he turned, Sepia too was gone.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000084_000000|I would not have my reader take Sepia for an accomplice in the robbery. Even mr Redmain did not believe that: she was much too prudent!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000084_000002|If he was right in this theory of the affair, then the Count had certainly a hold upon her, and she dared not or would not expose him!
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000085_000000|When he went out of the door of mr Redmain's study, he vanished from the house and from London.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000085_000001|Turning the first corner he came to, and the next and the next, he stepped into a mews, the court of which seemed empty, and slipped behind the gate.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000085_000003|Presently a man came out of the mews in a Scotch cap and a full beard.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000000|What had become of him mr Redmain did not care.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000002|It was enough he had found him out, proved his suspicion correct, and obtained evidence against Sepia.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000003|He did not at once make up his mind how he would act on this last; while he lived, it did not matter so much; and he had besides a certain pleasure in watching his victim.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000004|But Hesper, free, rich, and beautiful, and far from wise, with Sepia for counselor, was not an idea to be contemplated with equanimity.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000005|Still he shrank from the outcry and scandal of sending her away; for certainly his wife, if it were but to oppose him, would refuse to believe a word against her cousin.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000087_000001|mr Redmain, who had pleasure in behaving handsomely so far as money was concerned, bought his wife the best sapphire he could find, and, for once, really pleased her.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000088_000000|But Sepia knew that mr Redmain had now to himself justified his dislike of her; and, as he said nothing, she was the more certain he meant something.
train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000088_000001|She lived, therefore, in constant dread of his sudden vengeance, against which she could take no precaution, for she had not even a conjecture as to what form it might assume.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000003_000001|Badly as he had himself behaved to Mary, he was now furious with his wife for having treated her so heartlessly that she could not return to her service; for he began to think she might be one to depend upon, and to desire her alliance in the matter of ousting Sepia from the confidence of his wife.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000004_000000|However indifferent a woman may be to the opinion of her husband, he can nevertheless in general manage to make her uncomfortable enough if he chooses; and mr Redmain did choose now, in the event of her opposition to his wishes: when he set himself to do a thing, he hated defeat even more than he loved success.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000005_000000|The moment Mary was out of the study, he walked into his wife's boudoir, and shut the door behind him.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000005_000001|His presence there was enough to make her angry, but she took no notice of it.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000006_000000|"I understand, mrs Redmain," he began, "that you wish to bring the fate of Sodom upon the house."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000007_000000|"I do not know what you mean," she answered, scarcely raising her eyes from her novel-and spoke the truth, for she knew next to nothing of the Bible, while the Old Testament was all the literature mr Redmain was "up in."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000008_000000|"You have turned out of it the only just person in it, and we shall all be in hell soon!"
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000010_000000|"You'll hear worse before long, if you keep on at this rate.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000011_000000|"You have taught me to believe you capable of anything."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000012_000000|"You shall at least find me capable of a good deal.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000012_000001|Do you imagine, madam, I have found you a hair worse than I expected?"
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000013_000000|"I never took the trouble to imagine anything about you."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000015_000000|"You need not.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000015_000001|You can best answer that question yourself."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000016_000000|"Then we understand each other."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000017_000000|"We do not, mr Redmain; and, if this occurs again, I shall go to Durnmelling."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000018_000002|He burst into a loud and almost merry laugh.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000019_000001|Why, you goose, if I send a telegram before you, they won't so much as open the door to you!
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000019_000002|They know better which side their bread is buttered."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000020_000000|Hesper started up in a rage.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000021_000000|"mr Redmain, if you do not leave the room, I will."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000000|"Oh, don't!" he cried, in a tone of pretended alarm.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000001|His pleasure was great, for he had succeeded in stinging the impenetrable.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000002|"You really ought to consider before you utter such an awful threat!
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000003|I will go myself a thousand times rather!--But will you not feel the want of pocket money when you come to pay a rough cabman?
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000004|The check I gave you yesterday will not last you long."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000023_000000|"The money is my own, mr Redmain."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000024_000000|"But you have not yet opened a banking account in your own name."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000026_000000|"Then you had better get into the habit; for I swear to you, madam, if you don't fetch that girl home within the week, I will, next Monday, discharge your coachman, and send every horse in the stable to Tattersall's!
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000026_000001|Good morning."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000027_000000|She had no doubt he would do as he said; she knew mr Redmain would just enjoy selling her horses.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000027_000001|But she could not at once give in.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000027_000003|She had a week to think about it, and she would see!
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000028_000000|During the interval, he took care not once to refer to his threat, for that would but weaken the impression of it, he knew.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000029_000000|On the Sunday, after service, she knocked at his door, and, being admitted, bade him good morning, but with no very gracious air-as, indeed, he would have been the last to expect.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000030_000000|"We have had a sermon on the forgiveness of injuries, mr Redmain," she said.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000031_000000|"By Jove!" interrupted her husband, "it would have been more to the purpose if I, or poor Mary Marston, had had it; for I swear you put our souls in peril!"
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000033_000000|"And what, pray, was your foolish ring compared to the girl's character?"
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000001|But, as to her character, that of persons in her position is in constant peril.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000002|They have to lay their account with that, and must get used to it.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000003|How was I to know?
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000004|We can not read each other's hearts."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000035_000000|"Not where there is no heart in the reader."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000036_000002|She said nothing, and her husband resumed:
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000037_000000|"So you came to forgive me?" he said.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000038_000000|"And Marston," she answered.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000039_000000|"Well, I will accept the condescension-that is, if the terms of it are to my mind."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000040_000000|"I will make no terms.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000040_000001|Marston may return when she pleases."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000041_000000|"You must write and ask her."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000042_000000|"Of course, mr Redmain.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000043_000000|"You must write so as to make it possible to accept your offer."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000045_000000|"You are not.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000045_000001|A man must be fair, even to his wife."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000046_000000|"I will show you the letter I write."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000047_000000|"If you please."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000048_000000|She had to show him half a score ere he was satisfied, declaring he would do it himself, if she could not make a better job of it.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000049_000000|At length one was dispatched, received, and answered: Mary would not return.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000049_000002|mrs Redmain carried the letter, with ill concealed triumph, to her husband; nor did he conceal his annoyance.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000000|"You must have behaved to her very cruelly," he said.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000001|"But you have done your best now-short of a Christian apology, which it would be folly to demand of you.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000002|I fear we have seen the last of her."--"And there was I," he said to himself, "for the first time in my life, actually beginning to fancy I had perhaps thrown salt upon the tail of that rare bird, an honest woman!
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000004|Perhaps that will be taken into the account one day."
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000051_000000|But Mary lay awake at night, and thought of many things she might have said and done better when she was with Hesper, and would gladly have given herself another chance; but she could no longer flatter herself she would ever be of any real good to her.
train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000051_000001|She believed there was more hope of mr Redmain even.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000001_000000|ANOTHER CHANGE.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000002_000000|For some time Tom made progress toward health, and was able to read a good part of the day.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000002_000002|When he had done with Joseph, or when he did not want him, Mary was always ready to give the latter a lesson; and, had he been a less gifted man than he was, he could not have failed to make progress with such a teacher.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000003_000000|The large hearted, delicate souled woman felt nothing strange in the presence of the workingman, but, on the contrary, was comfortably aware of a being like her own, less privileged but more gifted, whose nearness was strength.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000003_000001|And no teacher, not to say no woman, could have failed to be pleased at the thorough painstaking with which he followed the slightest of her hints, and the delight his flushed face would reveal when she praised the success he had achieved.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000004_000002|Mary's delight was great when first he brought her one of his compositions very fairly written out-after which others followed with a rapidity that astonished her.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000004_000003|They enabled her also to understand the man better and better; for to have a thing to brood over which we are capable of understanding must be more to us than even the master's playing of it.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000005_000000|To the first he brought her she contrived to put a poor little faulty accompaniment; and when she played his air to him so accompanied, his delight was touching, and not a little amusing.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000005_000001|Plainly he thought the accompaniment a triumph of human faculty, and beyond anything he could ever develop.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000005_000002|Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000000|What the gift of such an instructor was to Joseph, my reader may be requested to imagine.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000002|Under such an influence all that was gentlest and sweetest in his nature might well develop with rapidity, and every accidental roughness-and in him there was no other-by swift degrees vanish from both speech and manners.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000003|The angels do not want tailors to make their clothes: their habits come out of themselves.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000005|Of such a nobility, good Lord, deliver us from all envy!
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000007_000001|She belonged to another world from his, a world which his world worshiped, waiting. He might miss her even to death; her absence might, for him, darken the universe as if the sun had withdrawn his brightness; but who thinks of falling in love with the sun, or dreams of climbing nearer to his radiance?
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000008_000001|Nay, are there none such even now?
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000008_000002|The day will come when a man, rather than build a great house for the overflow of a mighty hospitality, will give himself, in the personal labor of outgoing love, to build spiritual houses like saint Paul--a higher art than any of man's invention.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000008_000003|O my brother, what were it not for thee to have a hand in making thy brother beautiful!
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000009_000001|It is left to a certain school of weak enthusiasts, who believe that such growth, such embellishment, such creation, is all God cares about; these enthusiasts can not indeed see, so blind have they become with their fixed idea, how God could care for anything else.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000010_000000|There soon came a change, however, and the lessons ceased altogether.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000011_000000|Tom had come down to his old quarters, and, in the arrogance of convalescence, had presumed on his imagined strength, and so caught cold.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000011_000001|An alarming relapse was the consequence, and there was no more playing; for now his condition began to draw to a change, of which, for some time, none of them had even thought, the patient had seemed so certainly recovering.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000011_000002|The cold settled on his lungs, and he sank rapidly.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000012_000000|Joseph, whose violin was useless now, was not the less in attendance. Every evening, when his work was over, he came knocking gently at the door of the parlor, and never left until Tom was settled for the night. The most silently helpful, undemonstrative being he was, that doctor could desire to wait upon patient.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000012_000001|When it was his turn to watch, he never closed an eye, but at daybreak-for it was now spring-would rouse Mary, and go off straight to his work, nor taste food until the hour for the mid day meal arrived.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000000|Tom speedily became aware that his days were numbered-phrase of unbelief, for are they not numbered from the beginning?
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000001|Are our hairs numbered, and our days forgotten-till death gives a hint to the doctor?
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000002|He was sorry for his past life, and thoroughly ashamed of much of it, saying in all honesty he would rather die than fall for one solitary week into the old ways-not that he wished to die, for, with the confidence of youth, he did not believe he could fall into the old ways again.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000004|After all, he had not been one of the worst of babies.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000015_000002|Indeed, all about its office had loved him, each after his faculty.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000015_000005|But the print of him was deep in the heart of Letty, and not shallow in the affection of Mary; nor were such as these, insignificant records for any one to leave behind him, as records go.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000015_000007|For what is the loudest praise of posterity to the quietest love of one's own generation?
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000016_000000|But what was Mary to do now with Letty?
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000016_000001|She was little more than a baby yet, not silly from youth, but young from silliness.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000016_000002|Children must learn to walk, but not by being turned out alone in Cheapside.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000018_000000|But mrs Wardour's letter was kind perhaps a little repentant; it is hard to say, for ten persons will repent of a sin for one who will confess it-I do not mean to the priest-that may be an easy matter, but to the only one who has a claim to the confession, namely, the person wronged.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000019_000000|The letter contained a poverty stricken expression of sympathy, and an invitation to spend the summer months with them at her old home.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000019_000001|It might, the letter said, prove but a dull place to her after the gayety to which she had of late been accustomed, but it might not the less suit her present sad situation, and possibly uncertain prospects.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000020_000000|Letty's heart felt one little throb of gladness at the thought of being again at Thornwick, and in peace.
train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000020_000001|With all the probable unpleasant accompaniments of the visit, nowhere else, she thought, could she feel the same sense of shelter as where her childhood had passed.
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000004_000001|He had come to them mysteriously, alone in a ship, when an infant.]
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000006_000001|Uncanny the place is: Thence upward ascendeth the surging of waters, Wan to the welkin, when the wind is stirring The weather unpleasing, till the air groweth gloomy, Then the heavens lower.
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000007_000001|He is seized by the monster and carried to her cavern, where the combat ensues.]
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000008_000001|The stranger perceived then The sword would not bite, her life would not injure, But the falchion failed the folk prince when straitened: Erst had it often onsets encountered, Oft cloven the helmet, the fated one's armor; 'twas the first time that ever the excellent jewel Had failed of its fame.
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000008_000002|Firm mooded after, Not heedless of valor, but mindful of glory Was Higelac's kinsman; the hero chief angry Cast then his carved sword covered with jewels That it lay on the earth, hard and steel pointed; He hoped in his strength, his hand grapple sturdy. So any must act whenever he thinketh To gain him in battle glory unending, And is reckless of living.
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000008_000004|With furious grapple She gave him requital early thereafter, And stretched out to grab him; the strongest of warriors Faint mooded stumbled, till he fell in his traces, Foot going champion.
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000009_000000|[Fifty years have elapsed.
train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000009_000002|His body is burned, and a barrow erected.]
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000001_000000|From 'The Frogs': Frere's Translation
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000003_000000|Iacchus!
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000003_000001|Iacchus!
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000004_000000|Iacchus!
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000004_000001|Iacchus!
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000008_000000|Mighty Bacchus!
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000012_000000|SEMI CHORUS
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000013_000000|March! march! lead forth, Lead forth manfully, March in order all; Bustling, hustling, justling, As it may befall; Flocking, shouting, laughing, Mocking, flouting, quaffing, One and all; All have had a belly full Of breakfast brave and plentiful; Therefore Evermore With your voices and your bodies Serve the goddess, And raise Songs of praise; She shall save the country still, And save it against the traitor's will; So she says.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000014_000000|SEMI CHORUS
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000017_000000|Ceres, holy patroness, Condescend to mark and bless, With benevolent regard, Both the Chorus and the Bard; Grant them for the present day Many things to sing and say, Follies intermixed with sense; Folly, but without offense. Grant them with the present play To bear the prize of verse away.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000018_000000|SEMI CHORUS
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000019_000000|Now call again, and with a different measure, The power of mirth and pleasure; The florid, active Bacchus, bright and gay, To journey forth and join us on the way.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000020_000000|SEMI CHORUS
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000022_000000|A PARODY OF EURIPIDES'S LYRIC VERSE
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000023_000000|From 'The Frogs'
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000026_000000|From 'The Frogs'
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000027_000000|[The point of the following selection lies in the monotony of both narrative style and metre in Euripides's prologues, and especially his regular caesura after the fifth syllable of a line.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000027_000001|The burlesque tag used by Aristophanes to demonstrate this effect could not be applied in the same way to any of the fourteen extant plays of Sophocles and AEschylus.]
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000030_000002|I'll show you.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000036_000001|Recite another prologue to him and let me see.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000046_000001|I'll fix him next time.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000053_000001|I've lots of prologues where he can't work 'em in.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000054_000000|Pelops the Tantalid to Pisa coming With speedy coursers
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000063_000001|Who filched them?
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000065_000000|Zeus, as the word of sooth declared of old-
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000066_000001|For those smelling salts fit your prologues like a kid glove.
train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000066_000002|But go on and turn your attention to his lyrics.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000000|While Athens was still only a small city there lived within its walls a man named Daedalus who was the most skillful worker in wood and stone and metal that had ever been known.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000001|It was he who taught the people how to build better houses and how to hang their doors on hinges and how to support the roofs with pillars and posts.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000002|He was the first to fasten things together with glue; he invented the plumb line and the auger; and he showed seamen how to put up masts in their ships and how to rig the sails to them with ropes.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000003|He built a stone palace for AEgeus, the young king of Athens, and beautified the Temple of Athena which stood on the great rocky hill in the middle of the city.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000000|Daedalus had a nephew named Perdix whom he had taken when a boy to teach the trade of builder.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000001|But Perdix was a very apt learner, and soon surpassed his master in the knowledge of many things.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000003|Walking one day by the sea, he picked up the backbone of a great fish, and from it he invented the saw.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000004|Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees, he learned how to make and use the chisel.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000005|Then he invented the wheel which potters use in molding clay; and he made of a forked stick the first pair of compasses for drawing circles; and he studied out many other curious and useful things.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000007_000000|Daedalus was not pleased when he saw that the lad was so apt and wise, so ready to learn, and so eager to do.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000009_000000|Day after day, while at his work, Daedalus pondered over this matter, and soon his heart was filled with hatred towards young Perdix.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000009_000001|One morning when the two were putting up an ornament on the outer wall of Athena's temple, Daedalus bade his nephew go out on a narrow scaffold which hung high over the edge of the rocky cliff whereon the temple stood.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000009_000002|Then, when the lad obeyed, it was easy enough, with a blow of a hammer, to knock the scaffold from its fastenings.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000010_000000|Poor Perdix fell headlong through the air, and he would have been dashed in pieces upon the stones at the foot of the cliff had not kind Athena seen him and taken pity upon him.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000010_000001|While he was yet whirling through mid-air she changed him into a partridge, and he flitted away to the hills to live forever in the woods and fields which he loved so well.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000012_000000|As for Daedalus, when the people of Athens heard of his dastardly deed, they were filled with grief and rage-grief for young Perdix, whom all had learned to love; rage towards the wicked uncle, who loved only himself.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000012_000001|At first they were for punishing Daedalus with the death which he so richly deserved, but when they remembered what he had done to make their homes pleasanter and their lives easier, they allowed him to live; and yet they drove him out of Athens and bade him never return.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000013_000000|There was a ship in the harbor just ready to start on a voyage across the sea, and in it Daedalus embarked with all his precious tools and his young son Icarus.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000013_000001|Day after day the little vessel sailed slowly southward, keeping the shore of the mainland always upon the right.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000013_000002|It passed Troezen and the rocky coast of Argos, and then struck boldly out across the sea.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000014_000000|At last the famous Island of Crete was reached, and there Daedalus landed and made himself known; and the King of Crete, who had already heard of his wondrous skill, welcomed him to his kingdom, and gave him a home in his palace, and promised that he should be rewarded with great riches and honor if he would but stay and practice his craft there as he had done in Athens.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000000|Now the name of the King of Crete was Minos.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000001|His grandfather, whose name was also Minos, was the son of Europa, a young princess whom a white bull, it was said, had brought on his back across the sea from distant Asia.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000002|This elder Minos had been accounted the wisest of men-so wise, indeed, that Jupiter chose him to be one of the judges of the Lower World.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000005|So it was not hard for him to persuade Daedalus to make his home with him and be the chief of his artisans.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000016_000000|And Daedalus built for King Minos a most wonderful palace with floors of marble and pillars of granite; and in the palace he set up golden statues which had tongues and could talk; and for splendor and beauty there was no other building in all the wide earth that could be compared with it.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000017_000000|There lived in those days among the hills of Crete a terrible monster called the Minotaur, the like of which has never been seen from that time until now.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000017_000002|The people of Crete would not have killed him if they could; for they thought that the Mighty Folk who lived with Jupiter on the mountain top had sent him among them, and that these beings would be angry if any one should take his life.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000017_000003|He was the pest and terror of all the land. Where he was least expected, there he was sure to be; and almost every day some man, woman, or child was caught and devoured by him.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000019_000000|"Shall I kill him?" asked Daedalus.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000020_000001|"That would only bring greater misfortunes upon us."
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000021_000000|"I will build a house for him then," said Daedalus, "and you can keep him in it as a prisoner."
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000023_000000|"He shall have plenty of room to roam about," said Daedalus; "and if you will only now and then feed one of your enemies to him, I promise you that he shall live and thrive."
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000024_000000|So the wonderful artisan brought together his workmen, and they built a marvelous house with so many rooms in it and so many winding ways that no one who went far into it could ever find his way out again; and Daedalus called it the Labyrinth, and cunningly persuaded the Minotaur to go inside of it.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000025_000001|ICARUS.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000026_000000|Not long after this it happened that Daedalus was guilty of a deed which angered the king very greatly; and had not Minos wished him to build other buildings for him, he would have put him to death and no doubt have served him right.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000027_000000|"Hitherto," said the king, "I have honored you for your skill and rewarded you for your labor.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000028_000000|Then he gave orders to the guards at the city gates that they should not let Daedalus pass out at any time, and he set soldiers to watch the ships that were in port so that he could not escape by sea.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000028_000001|But although the wonderful artisan was thus held as a prisoner, he did not build any more buildings for King Minos; he spent his time in planning how he might regain his freedom.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000029_000000|"All my inventions," he said to his son Icarus, "have hitherto been made to please other people; now I will invent something to please myself."
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000030_000000|So, all through the day he pretended to be planning some great work for the king, but every night he locked himself up in his chamber and wrought secretly by candle light.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000030_000001|By and by he had made for himself a pair of strong wings, and for Icarus another pair of smaller ones; and then, one midnight, when everybody was asleep, the two went out to see if they could fly.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000030_000003|They could not fly very far at first, but they did so well that they felt sure of doing much better in time.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000031_000000|The next night Daedalus made some changes in the wings.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000031_000003|They flew up to the top of the king's palace, and then they sailed away over the walls of the city and alighted on the top of a hill.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000031_000004|But they were not ready to undertake a long journey yet; and so, just before daybreak, they flew back home. Every fair night after that they practiced with their wings, and at the end of a month they felt as safe in the air as on the ground, and could skim over the hilltops like birds.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000034_000000|All went well for a time, and the two bold flyers sped swiftly over the sea, skimming along only a little above the waves, and helped on their way by the brisk east wind.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000034_000001|Towards noon the sun shone very warm, and Daedalus called out to the boy who was a little behind and told him to keep his wings cool and not fly too high.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000036_000000|So he flew up higher and higher, but his father who was in front did not see him.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000036_000001|Pretty soon, however, the heat of the sun began to melt the wax with which the boy's wings were fastened.
train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000036_000003|He screamed to his father, but it was too late.
train-clean-360/6446/78193/6446_78193_000002_000000|BY j t TROWBRIDGE
train-clean-360/6446/78193/6446_78193_000014_000001|Burke, keep still! He's a climbin' out now-Of all the things! What's he got on?
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000001_000000|The excellent mr Morris was an Englishman, and he lived in the days of Queen Victoria the Good.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000001_000002|He was one of those people who do everything that is right and proper and sensible with inevitable regularity.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000002_000000|Everything that it was right and proper for a man in his position to possess, he possessed; and everything that it was not right and proper for a man in his position to possess, he did not possess.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000003_000002|His boys went to good solid schools, and were put to respectable professions; his girls, in spite of a fantastic protest or so, were all married to suitable, steady, oldish young men with good prospects.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000003_000003|And when it was a fit and proper thing for him to do so, mr Morris died.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000003_000004|His tomb was of marble, and, without any art nonsense or laudatory inscription, quietly imposing-such being the fashion of his time.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000004_000000|He underwent various changes according to the accepted custom in these cases, and long before this story begins his bones even had become dust, and were scattered to the four quarters of heaven.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000004_000005|He had grave doubts, indeed, if there was any future for mankind after he was dead.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000005_000000|It seemed quite impossible and quite uninteresting to imagine anything happening after he was dead.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000006_000000|And, strange to tell, and much as mr Morris would have been angered if any one had foreshadowed it to him, all over the world there were scattered a multitude of people, filled with the breath of life, in whose veins the blood of mr Morris flowed.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000001|It is doubtful which would have been the more shocked and pained to find himself in the clothing of the other.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000004|His legs he encased in pleasant pink and amber garments of an air tight material, which with the help of an ingenious little pump he distended so as to suggest enormous muscles.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000006|Over this he flung a scarlet cloak with its edge fantastically curved.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000007|On his head, which had been skilfully deprived of every scrap of hair, he adjusted a pleasant little cap of bright scarlet, held on by suction and inflated with hydrogen, and curiously like the comb of a cock.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000008|So his toilet was complete; and, conscious of being soberly and becomingly attired, he was ready to face his fellow beings with a tranquil eye.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000009_000001|He lived in a vast hotel near that part of London called Seventh Way, and had very large and comfortable apartments on the seventeenth floor.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000009_000003|When his toilet was completed he went towards one of the two doors of his apartment-there were doors at opposite ends, each marked with a huge arrow pointing one one way and one the other-touched a stud to open it, and emerged on a wide passage, the centre of which bore chairs and was moving at a steady pace to the left.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000009_000005|He nodded to an acquaintance-it was not in those days etiquette to talk before breakfast-and seated himself on one of these chairs, and in a few seconds he had been carried to the doors of a lift, by which he descended to the great and splendid hall in which his breakfast would be automatically served.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000010_000000|It was a very different meal from a Victorian breakfast.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000010_000002|Instead were pastes and cakes of agreeable and variegated design, without any suggestion in colour or form of the unfortunate animals from which their substance and juices were derived. They appeared on little dishes sliding out upon a rail from a little box at one side of the table.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000010_000003|The surface of the table, to judge by touch and eye, would have appeared to a nineteenth century person to be covered with fine white damask, but this was really an oxidised metallic surface, and could be cleaned instantly after a meal.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000011_000002|As this person, walking amidst the tables with measured steps, drew near, the pallid earnestness of his face and the unusual intensity of his eyes became apparent.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000012_000000|"I feared you would never come," he said.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000013_000001|"A prominent politician-ahem!--suffering from overwork." He glanced at the breakfast and seated himself.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000013_000002|"I have been awake for forty hours."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000014_000001|You hypnotists have your work to do."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000015_000000|The hypnotist helped himself to some attractive amber coloured jelly.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000015_000001|"I happen to be a good deal in request," he said modestly.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000001|"The world did very well without us for some thousands of years.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000002|Two hundred years ago even-not one!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000003|In practice, that is.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000004|Physicians by the thousand, of course-frightfully clumsy brutes for the most part, and following one another like sheep-but doctors of the mind, except a few empirical flounderers there were none."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000000|The hypnotist shook his head.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000002|Life was so easy going then.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000003|No competition worth speaking of-no pressure.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000005|Then, you know, they clapped 'em away in what they called a lunatic asylum."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000021_000002|I don't know if you attend to that rubbish."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000000|"I must confess I do," said the hypnotist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000002|I like a good swaggering story before all things.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000003|Curious times they were, with their smutty railways and puffing old iron trains, their rum little houses and their horse vehicles.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000004|I suppose you don't read books?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000023_000001|Phonographs are good enough for me."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000024_000000|"Of course," said the hypnotist, "of course"; and surveyed the table for his next choice.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000024_000001|"You know," he said, helping himself to a dark blue confection that promised well, "in those days our business was scarcely thought of.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000024_000002|I daresay if any one had told them that in two hundred years' time a class of men would be entirely occupied in impressing things upon the memory, effacing unpleasant ideas, controlling and overcoming instinctive but undesirable impulses, and so forth, by means of hypnotism, they would have refused to believe the thing possible.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000026_000001|They used it-for painless dentistry and things like that!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000030_000000|The hypnotist turned an attentive eye upon him, and continued eating.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000031_000001|Well, you know I have given her-ah-every educational advantage.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000032_000000|"Yes," said the hypnotist, "go on.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000032_000001|How old is she?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000035_000001|Excessively.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000035_000002|Even to the neglect of her philosophy.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000035_000003|Filled her mind with unutterable nonsense about soldiers who fight-what is it?--Etruscans?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000037_000000|"Egyptians-very probably.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000037_000001|Hack about with swords and revolvers and things-bloodshed galore-horrible!--and about young men on torpedo catchers who blow up-Spaniards, I fancy-and all sorts of irregular adventurers.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000037_000002|And she has got it into her head that she must marry for Love, and that poor little Bindon-"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000038_000000|"I've met similar cases," said the hypnotist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000038_000001|"Who is the other young man?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000039_000002|"He is"--and his voice sank with shame-"a mere attendant upon the stage on which the flying machines from Paris alight.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000039_000003|He has-as they say in the romances-good looks.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000039_000006|And instead of communicating by telephone, like sensible people, they write and deliver-what is it?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000040_000000|"Notes?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000041_000000|"No-not notes....
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000041_000001|Ah-poems."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000042_000000|The hypnotist raised his eyebrows.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000043_000000|"Tripped coming down from the flying machine from Paris-and fell into his arms.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000043_000001|The mischief was done in a moment!"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000044_000000|"Yes?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000000|"Well-that's all.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000001|Things must be stopped.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000002|That is what I want to consult you about.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000005|Of course I'm not a hypnotist; my knowledge is limited.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000006|But you-?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000046_000000|"Hypnotism is not magic," said the man in green, putting both arms on the table.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000047_000000|"Oh, precisely!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000048_000000|"People cannot be hypnotised without their consent.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000048_000002|But if once she can be hypnotised-even by somebody else-the thing is done."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000049_000000|"You can-?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000050_000000|"Oh, certainly!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000051_000000|"Precisely."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000052_000000|"But the problem is to get her hypnotised.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000052_000001|Of course no sort of proposal or suggestion must come from you-because no doubt she already distrusts you in the matter."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000055_000001|And, by the bye, is there any money in the affair?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000057_000000|"There's a sum-in fact, a considerable sum-invested in the Patent Road Company.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000057_000001|From her mother.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000057_000002|That's what makes the thing so exasperating."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000058_000000|"Exactly," said the hypnotist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000059_000000|It was a lengthy interview.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000063_000000|She loved the dream, but she feared the leap; and she put him off with "Some day, dearest one, some day," to all his pleading that it might be soon; and at last came a shrilling of whistles, and it was time for him to go back to his duties on the stage.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000063_000004|But the sunlight of the flying stage was in her heart, and the wisdom of all the best lecturers in the world seemed folly in that light.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000001|The chaperone had a visitor that day, a man in green and yellow, with a white face and vivid eyes, who talked amazingly.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000002|Among other things, he fell to praising a new historical romance that one of the great popular story tellers of the day had just put forth.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000004|"These pithy sentences," he said, "are admirable.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000005|They show at a glance those headlong, tumultuous times, when men and animals jostled in the filthy streets, and death might wait for one at every corner.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000006|Life was life then!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000010|Nowadays we have almost abolished wonder, we lead lives so trim and orderly that courage, endurance, faith, all the noble virtues seem fading from mankind."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000066_000000|At first Elizabeth did not join in the conversation, but after a time the subject became so interesting that she made a few shy interpolations.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000066_000002|He went on to describe a new method of entertaining people.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000067_000001|"It is practically an artificial dream.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000067_000004|Think!"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000070_000000|The chaperone was the first to be hypnotised, and the dream, she said, was wonderful, when she came to again.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000071_000000|The other two girls, encouraged by her enthusiasm, also placed themselves in the hands of the hypnotist and had plunges into the romantic past.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000072_000000|And so the mischief was done.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000000|One day, when Denton went down to that quiet seat beneath the flying stage, Elizabeth was not in her wonted place.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000001|He was disappointed, and a little angry.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000002|The next day she did not come, and the next also.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000003|He was afraid.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000004|To hide his fear from himself, he set to work to write sonnets for her when she should come again....
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000074_000002|There followed a week of misery.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000074_000003|And then he knew she was the only thing on earth worth having, and that he must seek her, however hopeless the search, until she was found once more.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000000|He had some small private means of his own, and so he threw over his appointment on the flying stage, and set himself to find this girl who had become at last all the world to him.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000003|Even in Victorian days London was a maze, that little London with its poor four millions of people; but the London he explored, the London of the twenty second century, was a London of thirty million souls.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000004|At first he was energetic and headlong, taking time neither to eat nor sleep.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000005|He sought for weeks and months, he went through every imaginable phase of fatigue and despair, over excitement and anger.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000077_000001|He was hungry; he had paid the inclusive fee and had gone into one of the gigantic dining places of the city; he was pushing his way among the tables and scrutinising by mere force of habit every group he passed.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000078_000000|He stood still, robbed of all power of motion, his eyes wide, his lips apart.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000078_000001|Elizabeth sat scarcely twenty yards away from him, looking straight at him.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000079_000000|She looked at him for a moment, and then her gaze passed beyond him.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000081_000000|For a moment Denton stood white and wild eyed; then came a terrible faintness, and he sat before one of the little tables.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000081_000001|He sat down with his back to her, and for a time he did not dare to look at her again. When at last he did, she and Bindon and two other people were standing up to go.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000081_000002|The others were her father and her chaperone.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000082_000000|He sat as if incapable of action until the four figures were remote and small, and then he rose up possessed with the one idea of pursuit.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000082_000001|For a space he feared he had lost them, and then he came upon Elizabeth and her chaperone again in one of the streets of moving platforms that intersected the city.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000083_000000|He could not control himself to patience.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000083_000001|He felt he must speak to her forthwith, or die.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000083_000003|His white face was convulsed with half hysterical excitement.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000084_000000|He laid his hand on her wrist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000084_000001|"Elizabeth?" he said.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000085_000000|She turned in unfeigned astonishment.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000085_000001|Nothing but the fear of a strange man showed in her face.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000087_000001|She drew herself away from him.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000089_000000|"Do you know him, dear?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000090_000001|"No, I do not know him.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000000|"But-but ...
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000001|Not know me!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000002|It is I-Denton.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000003|Denton!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000006|The little seat in the open air?
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000007|The verses-"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000092_000000|"No," cried Elizabeth,--"no
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000092_000003|There is something....
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000092_000005|All I know is that I do not know him." Her face was a face of infinite distress.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000093_000001|"You see?" she said, with the faint shadow of a smile.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000094_000001|"Of that I am sure."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000095_000000|"But, dear-the songs-the little verses-"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000000|"She does not know you," said the chaperone.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000001|"You must not....
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000002|You have made a mistake.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000003|You must not go on talking to us after that.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000004|You must not annoy us on the public ways."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000097_000000|"But-" said Denton, and for a moment his miserably haggard face appealed against fate.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000098_000000|"You must not persist, young man," protested the chaperone.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000100_000000|Her face was the face of one who is tormented.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000100_000001|"I do not know you," she cried, hand to brow.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000100_000002|"Oh, I do not know you!"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000101_000000|For an instant Denton sat stunned.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000101_000001|Then he stood up and groaned aloud.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000102_000000|He made a strange gesture of appeal towards the remote glass roof of the public way, then turned and went plunging recklessly from one moving platform to another, and vanished amidst the swarms of people going to and fro thereon.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000102_000001|The chaperone's eyes followed him, and then she looked at the curious faces about her.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000103_000000|"Dear," asked Elizabeth, clasping her hand, and too deeply moved to heed observation, "who was that man?
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000104_000000|The chaperone raised her eyebrows.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000104_000001|She spoke in a clear, audible voice. "Some half witted creature.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000106_000000|"Never, dear.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000106_000001|Do not trouble your mind about a thing like this."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000107_000000|And soon after this the celebrated hypnotist who dressed in green and yellow had another client.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000107_000001|The young man paced his consulting room, pale and disordered.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000107_000002|"I want to forget," he cried.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000108_000000|The hypnotist watched him with quiet eyes, studied his face and clothes and bearing.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000108_000002|However, you know your own concern.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000108_000003|My fee is high."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000109_000000|"If only I can forget-"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000000|"That's easy enough with you.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000001|You wish it.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000002|I've done much harder things. Quite recently.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000003|I hardly expected to do it: the thing was done against the will of the hypnotised person.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000004|A love affair too-like yours.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000005|A girl.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000006|So rest assured."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000000|The young man came and sat beside the hypnotist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000001|His manner was a forced calm.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000002|He looked into the hypnotist's eyes.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000003|"I will tell you.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000005|There was a girl.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000007|Well ..."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000000|He stopped.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000002|In that instant he knew.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000003|He stood up.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000004|He seemed to dominate the seated figure by his side.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000005|He gripped the shoulder of green and gold.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000006|For a time he could not find words.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000113_000001|"Give her me back!"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000114_000000|"What do you mean?" gasped the hypnotist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000115_000000|"Give her me back."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000116_000000|"Give whom?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000118_000000|The hypnotist tried to free himself; he rose to his feet.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000118_000001|Denton's grip tightened.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000119_000000|"Let go!" cried the hypnotist, thrusting an arm against Denton's chest.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000120_000000|In a moment the two men were locked in a clumsy wrestle.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000120_000003|They fell together....
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000121_000001|For a space Denton stood over him irresolute, trembling.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000001|He turned towards the door.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000002|"No," he said aloud, and came back to the middle of the room.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000003|Overcoming the instinctive repugnance of one who had seen no act of violence in all his life before, he knelt down beside his antagonist and felt his heart.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000004|Then he peered at the wound.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000005|He rose quietly and looked about him.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000006|He began to see more of the situation.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000123_000000|When presently the hypnotist recovered his senses, his head ached severely, his back was against Denton's knees and Denton was sponging his face.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000124_000000|The hypnotist did not speak.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000124_000002|"Let me get up," he said.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000125_000000|"Not yet," said Denton.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000126_000000|"You have assaulted me, you scoundrel!"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000127_000000|"We are alone," said Denton, "and the door is secure."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000128_000000|There was an interval of thought.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000130_000000|"You can go on sponging," said the hypnotist sulkily.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000131_000000|There was another pause.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000132_000000|"We might be in the Stone Age," said the hypnotist.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000132_000001|"Violence! Struggle!"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000133_000000|"In the Stone Age no man dared to come between man and woman," said Denton.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000134_000000|The hypnotist thought again.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000136_000001|I telephoned.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000136_000003|Then-"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000137_000000|"She will bring her chaperone."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000138_000000|"That is all right."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000139_000000|"But what-?
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000139_000001|I don't see.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000000|"I looked about for a weapon also.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000001|It is an astonishing thing how few weapons there are nowadays.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000003|I hit at last upon this lamp.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000004|I have wrenched off the wires and things, and I hold it so." He extended it over the hypnotist's shoulders.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000005|"With that I can quite easily smash your skull.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000143_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000144_000000|"You will tell that chaperone you are going to order the girl to marry that knobby little brute with the red hair and ferrety eyes.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000144_000001|I believe that's how things stand?"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000145_000000|"Yes-that's how things stand."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000146_000000|"And, pretending to do that, you will restore her memory of me."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000147_000000|"It's unprofessional."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000000|"Look here!
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000001|If I cannot have that girl I would rather die than not.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000002|I don't propose to respect your little fancies.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000003|If anything goes wrong you shall not live five minutes.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000004|This is a rude makeshift of a weapon, and it may quite conceivably be painful to kill you.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000005|But I will.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000006|It is unusual, I know, nowadays to do things like this-mainly because there is so little in life that is worth being violent about."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000149_000000|"The chaperone will see you directly she comes-"
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000150_000001|Behind you."
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000151_000000|The hypnotist thought.
train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000151_000001|"You are a determined young man," he said, "and only half civilised.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000000_000001|He may set forth in search of a fair lady who has been taken captive, or to obtain a magic herb or stone to relieve a sufferer, to cure diseases, and to prolong life.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000000_000004|The spirits are usually wild beasts or birds-the "fates" of immemorial folk belief-and they may either carry the hero on their backs, instruct him from time to time, or come to his aid when called upon.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000001_000004|Certain folk tales, and the folk beliefs on which they were based, seem to have been of hoary antiquity before the close of the Late Stone Age.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000003|The floating legends with which they were associated were utilized and developed by the priests, when engaged in the process of systematizing and symbolizing religious beliefs, with purpose to unfold the secrets of creation and the Otherworld.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000005|As Vishnu, the Indian god, rides on the back of Garuda, so does Etana ride on the back of the Babylonian Eagle.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000006|In one fragmentary legend which was preserved in the tablet library of Ashur banipal, the Assyrian monarch, Etana obtained the assistance of the Eagle to go in quest of the Plant of Birth.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000007|His wife was about to become a mother, and was accordingly in need of magical aid.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000003_000000|On this or another occasion Etana desired to ascend to highest heaven. He asked the Eagle to assist him, and the bird assented, saying: "Be glad, my friend.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000004_000000|Here the text becomes fragmentary.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000004_000003|Then some disaster happens, for further onwards the broken tablet narrates that the Eagle is falling.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000005_000004|My wings were burnt, but those of my brother were not....
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000006_000001|Nimrod then built a tower so as to ascend to heaven "to see Abraham's god", and make war against Him, but the tower was overthrown.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000006_000002|He, however, persisted in his design.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000007_000001|Among the myths attached to his memory in the Ethiopic "history" is one which explains how "he knew and comprehended the length and breadth of the earth", and how he obtained knowledge regarding the seas and mountains he would have to cross.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000007_000003|"In the Country of Darkness" Alexander fed and tamed great birds which were larger than eagles.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000008_000002|The hero died, but, curiously enough, remained conscious of what was happening.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000008_000005|The hero proceeds: "Sleep came upon herself (the eagle) and she slept.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000008_000006|The sun was enlivening me pretty well though I was dead." Afterwards the eagle bathed in a healing well, and as it splashed in the water, drops fell on the hero and he came to life.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000009_000002|Nin Girsu, the god of Lagash, who was identified with Tammuz, was depicted as a lion headed eagle.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000010_000001|In Indian mythology Garuda, the eagle giant, which destroyed serpents like the Babylonian Etana eagle, issued from its egg like a flame of fire; its eyes flashed the lightning and its voice was the thunder.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000010_000003|It is also called "the steed necked incarnation of Vishnu", the "Preserver" of the Hindu trinity who rode on its back.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000010_000004|The hymn referred to lauds Garuda as "the bird of life, the presiding spirit of the animate and inanimate universe ... destroyer of all, creator of all".
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000011_000000|Birds were not only fates, from whose movements in flight omens were drawn, but also spirits of fertility.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000012_000004|The burning of straw figures, representing gods of fertility, on May Day bonfires may have been a fertility rite, and perhaps explains the use of straw birth girdles.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000015_000000|They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim, They heaved in john Barleycorn- There let him sink or swim.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000016_000000|They wasted o'er a scorching flame The marrow of his bones, But the miller used him worst of all, For he crushed him between two stones.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000018_000004|Mimic Adonis gardens were cultivated by women.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000019_000001|He was apparently of great antiquity, so that it is impossible to identify him with any forerunner of Sargon of Akkad, or Alexander the Great.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000019_000005|He travelled to distant places, and was informed regarding the flood and the primitive race which the gods destroyed; he also obtained the plant of life, which his enemy, the earth lion, in the form of a serpent or well demon, afterwards carried away.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000020_000003|Ultimately the people prayed to the goddess Aruru to create a liberator.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000021_000002|He was named Ea bani, which signifies "Ea is my creator".
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000023_000002|Then the temptress pleaded with him to go with her to Erech, where Anu and Ishtar had their temples, and the mighty Gilgamesh lived in his palace.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000026_000001|Erech was thus freed from the oppression of its fierce enemy.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000027_000001|But in the hour of triumph a shadow falls.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000032_000000|I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide; And I awoke and found me here On the cold hill's side.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000033_000000|The goddess Ishtar appeared as "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" before Gilgamesh and addressed him tenderly, saying: "Come, O Gilgamesh, and be my consort.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000033_000001|Gift thy strength unto me.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000035_000000|Ishtar's heart was filled with wrath when she heard the words which Gilgamesh had spoken, and she prevailed upon her father Anu to create a fierce bull which she sent against the lord of Erech.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000036_000001|Ishtar cursed Gilgamesh.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000036_000002|Ea bani then defied her and threatened to deal with her as he had dealt with the bull, with the result that he was cursed by the goddess also.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000037_000000|Gilgamesh dedicated the horns of the bull to Shamash and returned with his friend to Erech, where they were received with great rejoicings.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000039_000001|Then he cried upon the moon god, who took pity upon him, and under divine protection the hero pressed onward.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000039_000004|When Gilgamesh beheld them he swooned with terror.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000040_000000|When Gilgamesh revived, he realized that the monsters regarded him with eyes of sympathy.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000040_000003|Gilgamesh, however, resolved to encounter any peril, for he was no longer afraid, and he was allowed to go forward.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000040_000009|Passing many other wonderful trees, he came to a shoreland, and he knew that he was drawing nigh to the Sea of Death.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000043_000000|This is the philosophy of the Egyptian "Lay of the Harper".
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000043_000001|The following quotations are from two separate versions:--
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000046_000000|Jastrow contrasts the Babylonian poem with the following quotation from ecclesiastes:--
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000047_000000|Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart....
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000049_000001|He asked her how he could reach p i r napishtim, his ancestor, saying he was prepared to cross the Sea of Death: if he could not cross it he would die of grief.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000050_000002|The way is full of peril.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000052_000002|When it was fixed on, the boat was launched and the voyage began.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000053_000000|p i r napishtim had perceived the vessel crossing the Sea of Death and marvelled greatly.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000055_000002|Nor could any man tell when his hour would come.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000055_000003|The god of destiny measured out the span of life: he fixed the day of death, but never revealed his secrets.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000056_000000|Gilgamesh then asked p i r napishtim how it chanced that he was still alive.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000058_000001|When the narrative was ended, p i r napishtim spoke sympathetically and said: "Who among the gods will restore thee to health, O Gilgamesh?
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000059_000000|Gilgamesh sat in the ship, and sleep enveloped him like to a black storm cloud.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000060_000001|Sleep envelops him like to a black storm cloud."
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000061_000001|Give him power to pass through the mighty door by which he entered."
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000062_000000|Then p i r napishtim addressed his wife, saying: "His sufferings make me sad.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000062_000001|Prepare thou for him the magic food, and place it near his head."
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000064_000000|Gilgamesh spake unto p i r napishtim and said: "I was suddenly overcome by sleep....
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000064_000003|What hast thou done unto thy servant?"
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000065_000002|The blemished skin fell from him, and he was made whole.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000066_000000|Thereafter Gilgamesh prepared to return to his own land.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000068_000000|So Gilgamesh and Arad Ea went on their way together, nor paused until they came to a well of pure water.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000068_000002|Stricken with terror, Gilgamesh uttered a curse.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000069_000000|The two travellers then resumed their journey, performing religious acts from time to time; chanting dirges and holding feasts for the dead, and at length Gilgamesh returned to Erech.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000070_000000|During the days which followed Gilgamesh sorrowed for his lost friend Ea bani, whose spirit was in the Underworld, the captive of the spirits of death.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000074_000000|Said Gilgamesh: "Let me sit down and weep, but tell me regarding the land of spirits."
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000075_000003|His head is supported by his parents: beside him sits his wife.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000076_000000|So ends the story of Gilgamesh in the form which survives to us.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000002|In another part of the narrative Alexander and his army arrive at a place of darkness "where the blackness is not like the darkness of night, but is like unto the mists and clouds which descend at the break of day".
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000006|Apparently he assumed the colour of supernatural beings.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000008|This fortunate man kept his secret.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000014|On the seashore Moses fell asleep, and the fish, which had been roasted, leapt out of the basket into the sea.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000079_000000|The Well of Life is found in Fingalian legends.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000080_000000|Give me a draught from thy palms, O Finn, Son of my king for my succour, For my life and my dwelling.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000082_000000|The quest of the plant, flower, or fruit of life is referred to in many folk tales.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000082_000003|When Bhima reaches the lotus lake he fights with demons.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000085_000001|Other heroes kill treasure protecting dragons of various kinds.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000086_000002|At length we beheld a great cavern.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000086_000008|And she gave us food and drink of various kinds.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000086_000012|We despaired of returning with our lives....
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000087_000001|This great bird, which resembles the Etana eagle, expressed the opinion that Sita was in Lanka (Ceylon), whither she must have been carried by Ravana.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000088_000002|The sound of the pipes is heard for a time; then the music ceases suddenly, and shortly afterwards the dog returns without a hair upon its body.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000089_000000|The tunnel may run from a castle to the seashore, from a cave on one side of a hill to a cave on the other, or from a seashore cave to a distant island.
train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000091_000000|In Babylonia, as elsewhere, the priests utilized the floating material from which all mythologies were framed, and impressed upon it the stamp of their doctrines.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000002_000000|SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE GREAT PEACE CONFERENCE
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000001|It is either universal peace or universal doom.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000002|Either some plan to stop war or preparation for the final judgment.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000003|Quit fighting or quit living.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000004|Peace or death.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000005_000000|The late war revealed the possibilities of human genius.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000005_000001|Man's power to destroy has been discovered and across the sky can be seen in letters of blood the warning, "Abolish war or perish." Some say the war ended six months too soon, but had it continued that much longer, the probable results are too awful to contemplate.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000005_000002|The Angel of Destruction had the sword lifted over Germany, but it was as though divine providence stayed his hand.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000006_000000|American genius was just coming into play.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000006_000001|For instance, we are told that a gas had been discovered that is so deadly that a few bombs filled with it and dropped upon a city would all but wipe it out of existence. When the armistice was signed hundreds of tons of that gas were ready for use and on the way to the battle front.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000006_000002|Other inventions and discoveries have since been brought out that are too deadly to even talk about.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000007_000000|No one can describe the Peace Conference without giving great credit to our president, for without him it seemed that the leaders were unable to get anywhere.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000007_000002|A committee was at once appointed to work out a constitution for such an organization and President Wilson was made the chairman.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000009_000000|To abolish war would rejoice the heart of every mother who has gone into the jaws of death to give birth to a son.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000009_000001|It would bring gratitude from the heart of every wife and sweetheart whose face has been bathed with tears as the last good bys were on their lips.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000009_000003|It would thrill the heart of every lover of justice and mercy and would answer the heart longings of millions who have prayed without ceasing for the reign of peace on earth among men of good will.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000010_000001|No one knows how many are alive and well today who would have been sleeping in unknown and unmarked graves had the armistice been detained a single week.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000002|The nineteen men who made up the committee belonged to fourteen nations. President Wilson, as chairman, called them together in this room.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000003|The first meeting of this committee was held February third and was very brief.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000004|In all, ten meetings were held and all were held in this room. President Wilson presided at all but one of them.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000005|Each man brought his suggestions in writing so there would be no chance for misunderstanding. Full discussion of all points was always encouraged.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000006|When the entire constitution was worked out it was agreed to unanimously and it was then ready to be presented to the Peace Conference.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000012_000000|Until the Peace Treaty was ready to sign all meetings of the great conference were held in the Foreign Ministry building in Paris.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000012_000004|The old Palace is there but the great Hall of Mirrors where the treaty was finally signed could not be comfortably heated in the winter time.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000012_000005|So for that as well as other reasons the meetings were held in Paris.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000000|Through mr Ray Stannard Baker I received a pass to the Peace Conference.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000001|These passes were only given to newspaper men and I represented People's Popular Monthly.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000002|The great day was February fourteenth, nineteen nineteen.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000003|On this date eighty four statesmen representing twenty seven nations, the combined population of which is more than twelve hundred million people, were seated around one table.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000004|Clemenceau was the chairman of the conference and sat at the head of the table.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000014_000000|When he was introduced our president read the constitution, or covenant as it was called, and then made some remarks concerning it.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000015_000002|When he reached his homeland he no doubt told his people how the great American president championed a plan to abolish war and told the statesmen of the Peace Conference that the world is learning that all men on this earth are brothers, and the very hills of that black land echoed with praises for America.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000016_000001|In the villages of far away India, in the homes of the Sea Islanders and in fact wherever human beings have congregated they have talked of a world peace.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000016_000002|But it was the peoples of the downtrodden, war stricken nations especially who looked to our president as the great champion of liberty and freedom. They believed that he was the "Big Brother" and that the country that he represented would see that they were treated fairly.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000018_000000|Then the modest, dignified, unselfish bearing of our president among them turned gratitude into love and devotion.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000018_000002|Without a single effort on his part to put himself forward, he became the natural leader of all.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000019_000000|A single instance of his thoughtfulness will be given.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000019_000002|After hours of searching and miles of walking and inquiries galore, the place was found, but the door to the enclosure had to be unlocked with a silver key.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000019_000005|In memory of the great Lafayette from a fellow servant of liberty."
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000020_000000|Then came the months of haggling, the work of selfish politicians both at home and abroad, and finally the rejection by our own people of the greatest piece of work since the beginning of the Christian era, all of which makes one who knows the real situation hang his head in shame.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000020_000001|Why any living mortal in America could oppose a plan that has for its object the abolition of war is simply amazing to the people of Europe.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000021_000001|People who looked upon America as the one great nation of the earth almost sneered when they mentioned our attitude toward the League of Nations.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000021_000002|They have almost lost confidence in us and it will be hard to regain it.
train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000021_000003|France is especially bitter. Perhaps the result of the Disarmament Conference, which is practically the same thing under another name, will help them to forget some things, but the French will be slow to take up with it.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000002_000001|A ballot was prepared containing fifty six subjects of scientific and mechanical achievement and blank spaces in which other subjects might be written.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000002_000002|Each man was asked to designate the seven he felt were entitled to a place on the list.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000002_000003|He, of course, was not confined to the printed list and could write in others that were better entitled to a place than those on the printed list.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000003_000000|About seventy per cent of these ballots were returned properly marked and the result was most interesting indeed.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000004_000000|It is not surprising, therefore, that wireless telegraphy should have the highest place on the list.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000004_000001|Guglielmo Marconi is far more worthy to be remembered than the king who built the great Pyramid in Egypt.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000004_000002|This brilliant Italian, when but fifteen years of age was reveling in the dreamland wonders of electricity and when but twenty had the theory practically worked out and his patience and enthusiasm were simply amazing.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000005_000001|Through it the seven seas have became great whispering galleries.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000005_000003|For three days and nights two great ocean liners raced across the deep and never came in sight of each other at all.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000005_000004|Yet every few hours we all knew just which ship was gaining and it was really a most exciting race.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000000|The telephone was given second place in the list of modern wonders.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000001|It is hard to realize that the telephone only dates back to eighteen seventy five.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000003|mr Watson was in the basement with an instrument trying without success to talk with mr Bell in the room above.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000004|Finally the latter made a little change in the instrument and spoke and mr Watson came rushing upstairs greatly excited, saying: "Why, mr Bell, I heard your voice distinctly and could almost understand what you were saying."
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000000|The next year the imperfect telephone was exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia, but for a time it was the laughing stock of most people and hardly anyone ever dreamed that it would ever be more than a mere plaything.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000001|One day Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, who knew mr Bell personally, came in.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000002|With him was Sir William Thompson, the great English scientist.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000003|The emperor was given the receiver and placed it to his ear and was suddenly startled, saying: "My God, it speaks." This amused all, but greatly interested the man of science and thus the telephone was brought into prominence.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000005|Sitting within the sound of the waves of the Pacific, I was connected up with Atlantic City and heard the waves of the Atlantic.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000008_000001|The fourth place was given to Radium, the fifth to Antiseptics and Antitoxines, the sixth to Spectrum Analysis, and the seventh to the marvelous X Ray.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000009_000002|The one of real service was the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria, Egypt. This was a gigantic structure more than four hundred feet high on the top of which a great fire was kept burning at night, thus serving as a lighthouse.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000010_000001|There are seventy seven of these pyramids altogether. Three of them are located less than a dozen miles from Cairo, the others being up the river Nile a half day's journey.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000010_000002|The largest is known as the Pyramid of Cheops and is nearest Cairo.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000010_000003|It covers thirteen acres of ground and is four hundred and fifty feet high.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000011_000001|It was scientifically and mathematically constructed ages before modern science or mathematics were born.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000011_000003|It is said that in all the thousands of years since it was built not a single fact in astronomy or mathematics has been discovered to contradict the wisdom of those who constructed it.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000000|On the north side of the pyramid, about fifty feet up, there is a narrow tunnel that runs down at an angle of twenty six degrees to the center of the field that forms its base.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000001|The tunnel is so true that from the bottom one can see the star, that is near the North Star, which is supposed to have been directly in the north when the structure was built.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000002|After you have descended eighty five feet in this tunnel there is another tunnel that runs up to the center of the structure where there are some large rooms or chambers.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000004|In these rooms there are large mummy cases, but they are empty at the present time.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000013_000002|It was four hundred feet high and terraced on all sides and according to historians beautiful beyond description.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000013_000003|Not only were beautiful flowers and shrubbery kept growing, but large forest trees as well.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000013_000004|On approaching it this great mountain seemed to be suspended or hanging in the air-hence the name.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000014_000002|To please her the king accomplished this mighty work. Today the whole thing, in fact, the entire city of Babylon, is nothing but a pile of ruins.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000002|The foundation was made earthquake proof.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000003|The temple proper was supported by one hundred and twenty seven columns which were sixty feet high.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000004|Each of these columns was a gift from a king.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000005|They tell us that the great stairway was carved from a single grapevine and that the cypress wood doors were kept in glue a lifetime before they were hung on their hinges.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000016_000003|The treasures of nations and the spoil of kingdoms were brought here for safe keeping and criminals from all nations fled to this temple, for when they reached it no law could touch them.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000016_000005|Today this temple with the city itself is nothing but ruins.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000017_000002|It only took twelve years to build it and after standing fifty six years it was overthrown by an earthquake and after nearly a thousand years the metal was used for other purposes.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000017_000004|Both of these have long since passed out of existence.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000018_000000|Brute force is no longer the measure of power or influence.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000018_000002|The standard of measurement these days is the ability to serve.
train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000018_000003|We are learning that the Galilean carpenter told the truth when he said: "He who would be great among you let him be servant of all." Service is one of the greatest words in human language.
train-clean-360/6494/60774/6494_60774_000027_000003|I ran to her, to drive her away, when behold, there appeared, at a breach of the wall, an old man and grey, whose eyes sparkled with angry ray, holding in his right a stone to throw and swaying to and fro, with a swing like a lion ready for a spring.
train-clean-360/6494/60774/6494_60774_000027_000004|He cast the stone at my stallion, and it killed him for it struck a vital part.
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000001_000004|So Gabriel descended and, saluting Bulukiya, opened the gate to him, saying, 'Enter this door, for Allah commandeth me to open to thee.' So he entered and Gabriel locked the gate behind him and flew back to heaven.
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000001_000005|When Bulukiya found himself within the gate, he looked and beheld a vast ocean, half salt and half fresh, bounded on every side by mountain ranges of red ruby whereon he saw angels singing the praises of the Lord and hallowing Him.
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000002_000000|When it was the Four Hundred and Ninety eighth Night,
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000003_000002|How few things thou hast seen in thy life compared with mine.
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000003_000003|Know, O Bulukiya, that unlike thyself I have looked upon our lord Solomon, in his life, and have seen things past count or reckoning.
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000005_000000|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Queen continued: "When Bulukiya ended his recount, the youth said, 'How few things of marvel hast thou seen in thy life, O unhappy!
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000005_000001|Now I have looked upon our lord Solomon while he was yet living and I have witnessed wonders beyond compt and conception.' And he began to relate
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000007_000005|Know that we have taken counsel with the astrologers and sages and mathematicians, and they tell us that we shall have boon of a boy child, and that by none other than thy daughter.
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000008_000000|When it was the Five Hundredth Night,
train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000009_000008|They all ran at her to take her as their quarry, but she escaped from them and, throwing herself into the waves,"--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000002_000000|When it was the Five Hundred and First Night,
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000002|Then they again embarked and taking with them the gazelle, set out to return homeward, but the murk of evening overtook them and they missed their way on the main.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000003|Moreover a strong wind arose and crave the boat into mid ocean, so that when they awoke in the morning, they found themselves lost at sea.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000007|Then he rose forthright and wrote letters and despatched them to all the islands of the sea.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000011|But a stiff gale caught the Prince's craft which went spooning till they made a second island, where they landed and walked about.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000012|Presently they came upon a spring of running water in the midst of the island and saw from afar a man sitting hard by it.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000015|When the voyagers saw this, they turned and fled seawards; but the cannibals pursued them and caught and ate three of the slaves, leaving only three slaves who with Janshah reached the boat in safety; then launching her made for the water and sailed nights and days without knowing whither their ship went.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000016|They killed the gazelle, and lived on her flesh, till the winds drove them to a third island which was full of trees and waters and flower gardens and orchards laden with all fashion of fruits: and streams strayed under the tree shade: brief, the place was a Garden of Eden.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000017|The island pleased the Prince and he said to his companions, 'Which of you will land and explore?' Then said one of the slaves, 'That will I do'; but he replied, 'This thing may not be; you must all land and explore the place while I abide in the boat.' So he set them ashore,"-- And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000002|When he heard their report, he cried, 'Needs must I solace myself with a sight of it;' so he landed and accompanied them to the palace, which he entered marvelling at the goodliness of the place.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000005|And as they were thus sorrowing behold, they heard a mighty clamour, that came from seaward and looking in the direction of the clamour saw a multitude of apes, as they were swarming locusts.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000008|The Prince and his followers came down from their seats and ate, and the apes ate with them, till they were satisfied, when the apes took away the meat and set on fruits of which they partook and praised Allah the most Highest.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000009|Then Janshah asked the apes by signs what they were and to whom the palace belonged, and they answered him by signals, 'Know ye that this island belonged of yore to our lord Solomon, son of David (on both of whom be peace!), and he used to come hither once every year for his solace,'"--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000001|The Prince slept that night on the throne and his men on the stools about him, and on the morrow, at daybreak, the four Wazirs or Captains of the apes presented themselves before him, attended by their troops, who ranged themselves about him, rank after rank, until the place was crowded.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000002|Then the Wazirs approached and exhorted him by signs to do justice amongst them and rule them righteously; after which the apes cried out to one another and went away, all save a small party which remained in presence to serve him.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000004|So they mounted, marvelling at the greatness of the dogs, and rode forth, attended by the four Wazirs and a host of apes like swarming locusts, some riding on dogs and others afoot till they came to the sea shore.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000006|So he turned to the apes and asked them, 'What are these Ghuls?' and they answered, 'Know, O King, that these Ghuls are our mortal foes and we come hither to do battle with them.' Janshah marvelled to see them riding horses, and was startled at the vastness of their bulk and the strangeness of their semblance; for some of them had heads like bulls and others like camels.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000009|And while exploring the said mountain Janshah found a tablet of alabaster, whereon was written, 'O thou who enterest this land, know that thou wilt become Sultan over these apes and that from them there is no escape for thee, except by the passes that run east and west through the mountains.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000008_000000|When it was the Five Hundred and Fourth Night,
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000002|Better therefore lord it over the apes, for so long as thou shalt tarry amongst them they will be victorious over the Ghuls.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000003|And know also that he who wrote this tablet was the lord Solomon, son of David (on both be peace!).' When Janshah read these words, he wept sore and repeated them to his men.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000004|Then they mounted again and, surrounded by the army of the apes who were rejoicing in their victory, returned to the castle.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000005|Here Janshah abode, Sultaning over them, for a year and a half.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000008|When the apes awoke and missed Janshah and his men, they knew that they had fled.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000009|So they mounted and pursued them, some taking the eastern pass and others that which led to the Wady of Emmets, nor was it long before the apes came in sight of the fugitives, as they were about to enter the valley, and hastened after them.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000011|They devoured many of their foes, and these also slew many of the ants; but help came to the emmets: now an ant would go up to an ape and smite him and cut him in twain, whilst ten apes could hardly master one ant and bear him away and tear him in sunder.
train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000012|The sore battle lasted till the evening but the emmets were victorious.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000001_000001|In the pauses of her painting she wondered if he thought of her, if he missed her.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000002_000002|He was a good looking, blond man, somewhat inclined to the poetical and melancholy type; his hair bristled, and he wore a close cut red beard; the moustache was long and silky; there was a gentle, pathetic look in his pale blue eyes; and a slight hesitation of speech, an inability to express himself in words, created a passing impression of a rather foolish, tiresome person.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000002_000003|But beneath this exterior there lay a deep, true nature, which found expression in twilit landscapes, the tenderness of cottage lights in the gloaming, vague silhouettes, and vague skies and fields.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000002_000004|Ralph Hoskin was very poor: his pathetic pictures did not find many purchasers, and he lived principally by teaching.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000003_000000|But he had not given Mildred her fourth lesson in landscape painting when he received an advantageous offer to copy two pictures by Turner in the National Gallery.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000004_000000|She was anxious to get away from Sutton, and the prospect of long days spent in London pleased her, and on the following Thursday Harold took her up to London by the ten minutes past nine.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000004_000001|For the first time she found something romantic in that train.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000005_000000|'I'm so frightened,' she said; 'I'm afraid I don't paint well enough.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000006_000002|This way.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000006_000003|I've got your easel, and your place is taken.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000007_000000|They went up to the galleries.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000008_000001|She glanced at the work, seeking eagerly for copies, worse than any she was likely to perpetrate.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000008_000005|He told her where she would find him, in the Turner room, and that she must not hesitate to come and fetch him whenever she was in difficulties.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000009_000000|'I should like you to see the drawing,' she said, 'before I begin to paint.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000010_000001|It will take you at least a couple of days to get it right....
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000010_000002|Don't be afraid,' he said, glancing round; 'lots of them can't do as well as you.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000010_000003|I shall be back about lunch time.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000002|She studied the delicate bloom of their cheeks, and wondered what mysterious proportions of white, ochre, and carmine she would have to use to obtain it.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000005|Already she despaired.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000006|But before she began to paint she would have to draw those heavenly faces in every feature.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000007|It was more difficult than sketching from nature.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000008|She could not follow the drawing, it seemed to escape her.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000009|It did not exist in lines which she could measure, which she could follow.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000012|The girl in front of her was making, it seemed to Mildred, a perfect copy.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000012_000001|This was a disappointment.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000012_000003|She grew absorbed in her work; she did not see the girl in front of her, nor the young man copying opposite; she did not notice their visits to each other's easels; she forgot everything in the passion of drawing.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000012_000004|Time went by without her perceiving it; she was startled by the sound of her master's voice and looked in glad surprise.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000015_000000|'No, not so badly.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000015_000001|Will you let me sit down?
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000015_000002|Will you give me your charcoal?'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000016_000001|If you get them exactly right the rest will come easily.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000016_000003|Let me introduce you to Miss Laurence,' he said.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000016_000005|'You're doing an excellent copy, Miss Laurence.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000018_000000|'I would give anything to paint like that,' said Mildred.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000019_000000|'You've only just begun painting,' said Miss Laurence.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000020_000000|'Only a few months,' said Mildred.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000022_000001|'You must tell me which you use.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000023_000000|'mr Hoskin can tell you better than i You can't have a better master.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000025_000000|'I paint portraits when I can get them to do; when I can't, I come here and copy....
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000026_000001|It quickly disappeared, and he said, 'Will you take Miss Lawson to the refreshment room, Miss Laurence?
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000026_000002|You're going there I suppose.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000028_000003|The contrast between its twilight and the brightness of the courtyard is quite in his manner.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000030_000000|The men turned to the left top to go to their room, the women turned to the right to go to theirs.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000031_000000|'This way,' said Miss Laurence, and she opened a glass door, and Mildred found herself in what looked like an eating house of the poorer sort.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000032_000001|But you don't know what it is to want money,' and in a rapid glance Miss Laurence roughly calculated the price of Mildred's clothes.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000033_000000|A tall, rather handsome girl, with dark coarse hair and a face lit up by round grey eyes, entered.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000034_000000|'So you are here, Elsie,' and she stared at Mildred.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000035_000000|'Let me introduce you to Miss Lawson.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000035_000001|Miss Lawson, Miss Cissy Clive.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000037_000001|Is this your first day?'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000038_000000|'Yes, this is my first day.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000039_000003|But Cissy had insisted, and he had put her and the picture into a little room off the main gallery, where she could pursue her nefarious work unperceived.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000040_000000|The girls laughed heartily.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000040_000001|Elsie asked for whom Cissy was making the copy.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000000|'For a friend of Freddy's-a very rich fellow.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000002|Freddy has just come back from Monte Carlo.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000003|He has lost all his money....
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000004|He says he's "stony" and doesn't know how he'll pull through.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000042_000000|'Was he here this morning?'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000043_000000|'He ran in for a moment to see me....
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000043_000001|I'm dining with him to night.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000045_000000|'No, I forgot to tell you, I'm staying with you, so be careful not to give me away if you should meet mother.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000046_000000|'I promised to go out with Walter to night.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000047_000000|'You can put him off.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000048_000000|'Then he'd want to come round to the studio.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000048_000001|I don't like to put him off.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000049_000000|'As you like....
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000049_000002|Johnny and Herbert are coming.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000049_000004|He'll do anything I ask him.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000050_000000|When lunch was over Cissy and Elsie took each other's arms and went upstairs together.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000050_000001|Mildred heard Cissy ask who she was.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000051_000000|Elsie whispered, 'A pupil of Ralph's.
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000051_000001|You shouldn't have talked so openly before her.'
train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000052_000000|'So his name is Ralph,' Mildred said to herself, and thought that she liked the name.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000000|mr Hare stood looking at his dead daughter; john Norton sat by the window.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000002|He saw things moving, moving, but they were all far away.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000004|He knew that Kitty had thrown herself out of the window and was dead.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000006|She had walked with him on the hills, she had accompanied him as far as the burgh; she had waved her hand to him before they walked quite out of each other's sight.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000007|Now she was dead.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000004_000000|Had he loved her?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000004_000002|He envied the hard sobbing father's grief, the father who held his dead daughter's hand, and showed a face on which was printed so deeply the terror of the soul's emotion, that john felt a supernatural awe creep upon him; felt that his presence was a sort of sacrilege.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000004_000003|He crept downstairs.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000001|Only three days ago she had been sitting in that basket chair.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000003|Shadow like is human life! one moment it is here, the next it is gone.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000005|He would never read it now; or perhaps he should read it in memory of her, of her whom yesterday he had parted with on the hills-her little Puritan look, her external girlishness, her golden brown hair, and the sudden laugh so characteristic of her....
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000006|She had lent him this book-she who was now but clay.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000000|He took up his hat and set forth to walk home across the downs, all the while thinking, thinking over what had happened.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000002|She had consented, and, alarmed at the prospect of the new duties he had contracted, he had returned home.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000004|He had exchanged it for the life of the hearth, of the family; that private life-private, and yet so entirely impersonal which he had hitherto loathed.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000005|He had often said he had no pity for those who accepted burdens and then complained that they had not sufficient strength to carry them.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000006|Such had been his theory; he must now make his theory and practice coincide.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000007_000000|He had walked up and down his study, his mind aflame; he had sat in his arm chair, facing the moonlight, considering a question, to him so important, so far reaching, that his mind at moments seemed as if like to snap, to break, but which was accepted by nine tenths of humanity without a second thought, as lightly as the most superficial detail of daily life.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000007_000001|But how others acted was not his concern; he must consider his own competence to bear the burden-the perilous burden he had asked, and which had been promised to him.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000008_000000|He must not adventure into a life he was not fitted for; he must not wreck another's life; in considering himself he was considering her; their interests were mutual, they were identical; there was no question of egotism.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000008_000005|A desire had come he knew not whence; and he asked himself if it were a passing weakness of the flesh, or if this passion abided in him, if it had come at last to claim satisfaction?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000008_000006|On this point he was uncertain, this was nature's secret.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000010_000001|And the work of the good and wise man is to use appearances according to Nature.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000012_000002|The contrary habit.'
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000000|A temptation of the flesh had come upon him; he had yielded to it instead of opposing it with the contrary habit of chastity.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000001|For chastity had never afflicted him; it had ever been to him a source of strength and courage.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000003|The last six months had been the unhappiest of his life.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000006|A passing emotion of which I am ashamed, of which I would speak to no one.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000008|But each time he thought, 'I shall be able to control it better than the last, and it will grow weaker and weaker until at last it will pass and to return no more.'
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000015_000000|He had gone to bed hoping to find counsel in the night, and in the morning he had waked firm in his resolve, and had gone to Shoreham in the intention of breaking his engagement.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000015_000002|Perhaps it were better so; the reasons that prompted suicide were better unrevealed....
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000000|And now, as he returned home after the tragedy, about midway in his walk across the downs, the thought came upon him that the breaking off of his engagement might have been sufficient reason in an affected mind for suicide.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000001|But this was not so.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000002|He knew it was not so.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000003|He had been spared that!
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000017_000000|'She was here with me yesterday,' he said.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000018_000000|He sat down by the blown hawthorn bush that stands by the burgh.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000002|But how had she become mad?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000004|What had happened?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000005|By what strange alienation of the brain, by what sudden snapping of the sense had madness come?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000006|Something must have happened. Did madness fall like that?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000007|like a bolt from the blue.
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000010|Had she guessed that when it came to the point that he would not, that he might not have been able to marry her?
train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000011|If so, he was in a measure responsible.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000005_000000|'I'm not disturbing you, father?'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000006_000000|'No, dear: you never disturb me,' he said, getting up from the type writer and giving her his chair.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000007_000000|'Nothing, at least nothing in particular.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000007_000001|I got tired of the drawing room, and thought I'd like to come and sit with you.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000007_000002|But I've taken your chair.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000008_000000|'It doesn't matter.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000008_000001|I can stand, I've been sitting so long.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000000|'But no, father, I can't take your chair.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000001|I don't want to stop you from working.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000002|I thought I'd like to sit and watch you.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000003|Here, take your chair.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000000|'I can get another.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000001|I can get one out of the butler's room.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000002|He won't mind just for once.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000003|He's a very particular man.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000004|But I'll tell him I took it for you.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000011_000000|The Major returned a moment after with a chair.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000011_000001|He gave it to Agnes and resumed his place at the machine.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000012_000000|'I shan't be many minutes before I finish this lot,' he said; 'then we shall be able to talk.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000012_000001|I promised to get them finished this evening.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000000|'I think I picked it up pretty quickly.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000001|I can do seventy words a minute.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000002|Some typists can do eighty, but my fingers are too old for that.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000003|Still, seventy is a good average, and I have hardly any corrections to make.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000004|They are very pleased with my work....
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000005|I'll teach you-you'd soon pick it up.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000016_000000|'Will you, father?
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000016_000002|We could sit together, you in that corner, I in this.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000016_000004|I could pay her back out of the money I earned, just like you.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000017_000000|'Your mother would say you were wasting your time.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000018_000000|'I'm afraid she would.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000018_000003|Last night at Lord Chiselhurst's----'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000019_000000|'Yes; tell me about it.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000019_000001|You must have enjoyed yourself there.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000020_000000|Agnes did not answer for a long while, at last she said,--
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000000|'There's something, father, dear, that I must speak to you about.... Mother thinks I ought to marry Lord Chiselhurst, that I ought to make up to him and catch him if I can.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000002|But, father, I cannot marry him.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000003|He is-no, I cannot marry him.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000004|I do not like him, I'm only sixteen, and he's forty or fifty.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000006|I don't want to marry any one, and mother doesn't seem to understand that.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000007|She said if that were so, she really didn't see why I left the convent.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000022_000000|She was too intent on what she was saying to notice the light which flashed in the Major's eyes.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000023_000001|I don't want to say anything against mother; she loves me, I'm sure: but we're so different, I shall never understand mother, I shall never get on in society.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000023_000002|I cannot, father, dear, I cannot, I feel so far away; I do not know what to say to the people I meet.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000025_000000|'But, father, you're not listening.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000025_000001|Listen to me, I've only you.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000026_000000|'I'm thinking.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000027_000000|'Of what?'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000029_000000|'Poor father, you have a great deal to think of, and I come interrupting your work.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000029_000001|How selfish I am.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000030_000000|'No, dear, you're not selfish....
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000030_000002|So you think you'll never get on in society.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000031_000000|'I don't think I'm suited for society.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000000|'A great deal of it is my fault, dear.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000001|When I lost my money I got disheartened, and little by little I lost control.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000003|Your mother said, in reply to some question about me, that I was "merely an expense." I believe the phrase was considered very clever, it went the round of society, and eventually was put into a play.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000004|And that is why I told you that money is everything, that it is difficult to be truthful, honourable, or respectable if you have no money, a little will do, but you must have a little, if you haven't you aren't respectable, you're nothing, you become like me, a mere expense.... I've borne it for your sake, dearest.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000036_000000|'Never mind, best not to ask....
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000038_000001|It took me a long while, but I have found the way-there it is,' he said, pointing to the type writing machine.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000038_000003|I'll tell you, Agnes, but you must not breathe a word of it to any one, if you did, they would take the machine from me: for they'd like me to remain a mere expense.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000038_000004|As long as I'm that, they can do what they like, but as soon as I gain an independence, as soon as I am able to pay for my meals,' he whispered, 'I mean to put my house in order But you mustn't breathe a word.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000040_000000|'I shall be able to sweep out all those you don't like.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000041_000000|'Tell me, father, do you like Lord Chadwick?' The Major's face changed expression.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000042_000000|'No, dear.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000042_000001|You asked me if I liked Lord Chadwick.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000042_000002|I was thinking. Somehow it seems to me that I rather like him, though I have no reason to do so.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000042_000003|He thinks me crazy, but so do others; I know that my conversation bores him, he always tries to get away from me, yet somehow it seems to me that I do like him.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000043_000000|'Is he a fast man, father, is he like Lord Chiselhurst?'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000044_000001|I don't think he's a bad man-no worse than other men.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000044_000002|Is he kind to you, dear; tell me that; do you like him?'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000045_000000|'Yes, father; he and mr saint Clare are the men I like best here.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000045_000001|But why is he here so much, father, he's no relation.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000046_000000|'He has dined and lunched here every day for the last ten years.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000046_000001|He's been an expense too.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000047_000000|'Mother said he is so poor that she has often to lend him money.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000048_000001|When I've got together a little independence, when I can pay for my meals and my clothes, you shall see; none that you dislike shall ever come here, dearest.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000048_000002|I'll put my house in order.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000049_000000|'But that will take a long time, father; in the meantime----'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000050_000000|'What, dear?'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000051_000000|'Mother will want me to marry.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000052_000000|'They shall not force you to marry, they shall not ask you to do anything you do not like.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000052_000001|Lord Chiselhurst ought to be ashamed, a man of his age to want to marry a young girl like you.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000052_000002|I will go and tell him so.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000053_000000|The Major stood up, he was pale, and Agnes noticed that his lips trembled.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000055_000000|'You shall not be persecuted by his attentions.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000056_000001|Whatever his faults may be, I feel sure when he sees that I do not want him, that he will cease to think of me...
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000056_000002|Lord Chiselhurst is not the worst.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000057_000000|'Who, then, is the worst?
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000057_000001|Who is it that you wish me to rid you of?'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000058_000000|'I don't wish you to be violent, father, but you might hint to mr Moulton that I do not wish----'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000059_000000|'That man-he, too, is merely an expense.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000060_000000|'I am sure, father, that it is not right of him to put his arms round me-he tried to kiss me.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000060_000002|And he speaks in a way that I do not like-I don't know....
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000061_000000|'Frightens you!
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000061_000001|That fellow-that fellow!'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000062_000000|'Yes; he asks me questions.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000064_000000|'Yes; but, father, you cannot speak to him now, there are people in the drawing room.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000067_000000|'They think me a sheep, I have been a sheep too long, but they shall see that even the sheep will turn to save its lamb from the butcher. I'll go to them, yes, and in these clothes-Agnes, let me go.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000068_000000|'I want you to speak to mr Moulton....
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000068_000001|But not now, this is not the time.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000070_000002|He only muttered that the time had come to put his house in order.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000070_000003|Agnes answered, 'Father, for my sake ... not now.' But he must obey the idea which pierced his brain, and before she could prevent him he slipped past her and opened the door.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000071_000000|'Oh, father, don't, for my sake, please.'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000072_000000|His lips moved but he did not speak.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000073_000000|'I will not make a scene,' he said at last.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000074_000000|'Father!'
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000000|'I will not make a scene, but I must do something....
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000001|I promise you that I will not make a scene, but I must go down to the drawing room in these clothes.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000002|In these clothes,' he repeated.
train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000005|She noticed that his step was heavy and irresolute and hoped he would refrain.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000000_000001|On The Relative Morality Of Catholic And Protestant Countries.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000001_000000|It has been gravely asserted that the confession of sin and the doctrine of absolution tend to the spread of crime and immorality.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000002_000001|As all our catechisms teach, and as every Catholic knows, there is no pardon of sin without sorrow of heart and purpose of amendment.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000002_000002|It is a great mistake to suppose that the most ignorant Catholic believes he can procure the pardon of his sins by simply confessing them without being truly sorry for them.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000002_000003|The estimate which so many Protestants set on the virtue of even the lower classes of Roman Catholics is clearly enough evinced in the preference which they constantly manifest in their employment of Catholics-practical Catholics-Catholics who go to confession.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000002_000004|I maintain, therefore, that confession, far from being an incentive to sin, as our adversaries have the hardihood to affirm, is a most powerful check on the depravity of men and a most effectual preventive of their criminal excesses.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000000|But is it true that crimes, especially murder and illegitimacy, are more prevalent in Catholic than in Protestant countries?
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000001|I utterly deny the assertion, and also appeal to statistics in support of the denial.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000002|Whence do our opponents derive their information?
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000004|M. Hobart Seymour's "Nights Among Romanists" and similar absolutely unreliable compilations, the false statements of which have been again and again refuted.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000004_000000|reverend Mr. Seymour gives the following list of the number of murders in England, France and Ireland:
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000005_000000|Ireland: nineteen homicides to the million of inhabitants France: thirty one England: four
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000000|These figures, which are from authenticated sources, do not bear out our accusers in their assertion that murders are more prevalent in Catholic than in Protestant countries.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000001|The statistics of this crime are limited, or they are not in very general circulation.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000003|Here again we shall meet statistics with counter statistics to refute unjust declarations.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000004|We do not wish to be understood as advocating the immaculateness of Catholic communities.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000005|We frankly admit and heartily deplore the disorders which Catholics commit, but we deny that they are worse than their Protestant neighbors; and still more emphatically do we deny that the Church is responsible for their disorders.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000009_000002|The moral atmosphere of these countries, compared with England, must be as a healthful breeze to a pestilential marsh.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000011_000000|Percentage Of Illegitimacy In Protestant And Catholic Countries Of Europe.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000012_000000|Protestant.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000014_000001|And the same remark is applicable to Ireland.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000000|"The proportion of illegitimate births to the total number of births is in Ireland three point eight per cent.; in England the proportion is six point four; in Scotland nine point nine; in other words, England is nearly twice, and Scotland nearly thrice worse, than Ireland.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000001|Something worse has to be added, from which no consolation can be derived.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000003|Taking Ireland according to the registration divisions, the proportion of illegitimate births varies from six point two to one point three.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000004|The division showing this lowest figure is the western, being substantially the Province of Connaught, where about nineteen twentieths of the population are Celtic and Roman Catholic.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000005|The division showing the highest proportion of illegitimacy is the north-eastern, which comprises, or almost consists of, the Province of Ulster, where the population is almost equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and where the great majority of Protestants are of Scotch blood and of the Presbyterian church.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000006|The sum of the whole matter is, that semi Presbyterian and semi Scotch Ulster is fully three times more immoral than wholly Popish and wholly Irish Connaught-which corresponds with wonderful accuracy to the more general fact that Scotland, as a whole, is three times more immoral than Ireland as a whole."
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000017_000000|It is worthy, too, of notice, that in the tabular statement above presented the percentage of illegitimacy in Holland and Switzerland, where there are large Catholic minorities, is lower than in any other Protestant country.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000019_000000|But we are not disposed to parade these monstrous vices, no matter by whom committed.
train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000019_000002|We certainly do not wish to excuse or palliate the evil deeds of Catholics, who, with all the blessed aids which their religion affords, ought to be much better than they are.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000001_000000|FOURTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000003_000000|THEY who are animated by charity support patiently and in silence, in sentiments of humility and sweetness, as if they had neither eyes nor ears, the difficult, odd, and most inconstant humours of others, although they may find it very difficult at times to do so.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000004_000001|To be borne with, we must bear with others; to be loved, we must love; to be helped, we must help; to be joyful ourselves, we must make others so.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000004_000002|Surrounded as we are by so many different minds, characters, and interests, how can we live in peace for a single day if we are not condescending, accommodating, yielding, self denying, ready to renounce even a good project, and to take no notice of those faults and shortcomings which are beyond our power or duty to correct?
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000001|It never asks for exceptions or privileges for fear of exciting jealousy.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000003|It fights antipathy and natural aversions so that they may never appear, and seeks even the company of those who might be the object of them.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000004|It does not assume the office of reprehending or warning through a motive of bitter zeal.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000005|It seeks to find in oneself the faults it notices in others, and perhaps greater ones, and tries to correct them.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000007|We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we mend not our own defects.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000008|We would have others strictly corrected, but are not fond of being corrected ourselves.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000009|The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we do not wish to be denied anything we ask for.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000007_000000|FIFTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000000|CHARITY is generous; it does everything it can.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000001|When even it can do little, it wishes to be able to do more.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000002|It never lets slip an opportunity of comforting, helping, and taking the most painful part, after the example of its Divine Model, Who came to serve, not to be served.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000003|One religious, seemingly in pain, seeks comfort; another desires some book, instrument, etc; a third bends under a burden; while a fourth is afflicted.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000004|In all these cases charity comes to the aid by consoling the one, procuring little gratifications for the other, and helping another.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000006|"Does the hunter," says saint John Chrysostom, "who finds splendid game blame those who beat the brushwood before him?
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000007|Or does the traveller who finds a purse of gold on the road neglect to pick it up because others who preceded him took no notice of it?"
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000008|It would be a strange thing to find religious uselessly giving themselves to ardent desires of works of charity abroad, such as nursing in a hospital or carrying the Gospel into uncivilized lands, and at the same time in their own house and among their own brethren showing coldness, indifference, and want of condescension.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000010_000000|There is an art of giving as well as of refusing.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000010_000001|Several offend in giving because they do so with a bad grace; others in refusing do not offend because they know how to temper their refusal by sweetness of manner.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000010_000002|Charity possesses this art in a high degree, and, besides, raises a mere worldly art into a virtue and fruit of the Holy Ghost.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000012_000000|SIXTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000014_000002|Would to God that this touching and edifying charity replaced the low and rampant vice of jealousy!
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train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000017_000000|SEVENTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000019_000000|WE must pardon and do good for evil, as God has pardoned us and rendered good for evil in Jesus Christ.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000019_000001|It is vain to trample the violet, as it never resists, and he who crushes it only becomes aware of the fact by the sweetness of its perfume.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000019_000002|This is the image of charity.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000000|Cassian makes mention of a religious who, having received a box on the ear from his abbot in presence of more than two hundred brethren, made no complaint, nor even changed colour.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000001|saint Gregory praises another religious, who, having been struck several times with a stool by his abbot, attributed it not to the passion of the abbot, but to his own fault.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000002|He adds that the humility and patience of the disciple was a lesson for the master.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000003|This charity will have no small weight in the balance of Him Who weighs merit so exactly.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000021_000000|Charity gives no occasion to others to suffer, but suffers all patiently, not once, but all through life, every day and almost every hour.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000021_000001|It is most necessary for religious, as, not being able to seek comfort abroad, they are obliged to live in the same house, often in the same employment with characters less sympathetic than their own.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000021_000002|These little acts of charity count for little here below, and they are rather exacted than admired.
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train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000023_000000|EIGHTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000000|TELL TALES, nasty names, cold answers, lies, mockery, harsh words, etc, are all contrary to charity.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000001|saint John Chrysostom says: "When anyone loads you with injuries, close your mouth, because if you open it you will only cause a tempest.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000002|When in a room between two open doors through which a violent wind rushes and throws things in disorder, if you close one door the violence of the wind is checked and order is restored.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000003|So it is when you are attacked by anyone with a bad tongue.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000004|Your mouth and his are open doors.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000005|Close yours, and the storm ceases.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000006|If, unfortunately, you open yours, the storm will become furious, and no one can tell what the damage may be." If we have been guilty in this respect, let us humble ourselves before God.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000027_000000|In order to keep ourselves and others in a state of moderation, we must remember that all persons have some fad, mania, or fixed ideas which they permit no one to gainsay.
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train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000029_000000|NINTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000031_000000|CHARITY lavishes care on the sick and infirm, on the old, on guests and new comers.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000033_000000|Charity pays honour to the aged in every respect, coincides with their sentiments, consults them, forestalls their desires, and attempts not to reform in them what cannot be reformed.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000033_000001|Charity receives fraternally all guests and new comers, and makes us treat them as we would wish to be treated under similar circumstances. It also causes us to lavish testimonies of affection on those who are setting out, and warns us to be very careful of saying or doing anything that may in the least degree offend even the most susceptible.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000034_000000|Religious must ever feel that they can bless, love, and thank religion as a good mother.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000034_000001|But religion is not an abstract matter; it is made up of individuals reciprocally bound together in and for each other.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000035_000000|Alas! how many times are the sick and the old made to consider themselves as an inconvenient burden, or like a useless piece of furniture!
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000035_000001|In reality what are they doing?
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000036_000000|Did our Divine Lord work less efficaciously for the Church when He hung on the Cross than when He preached?
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train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000038_000000|TENTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000040_000000|"WE do not remember often enough our dear dead, our departed brethren," says saint Francis de Sales, "and the proof of it is that we speak so little of them.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000040_000001|We try to change the discourse as if it were hurtful.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000041_000000|In communities distinguished for fraternal charity and the family spirit the conversation frequently turns on the dead.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000041_000001|One talks of their virtues, another of their services, a third quotes some of their sayings, while a fourth adds some other edifying fact; and who is the religious that will not on such occasions breathe a silent prayer to God and apply some indulgence or other satisfactory work for the happy repose of their souls?
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000042_000000|Charity also prays for those who want help most, and who are often known to God alone-those whose constancy is wavering, those who are led by violent temptations to the edge of the precipice.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000042_000001|It expands pent up souls by consolations or advice; it dissipates prejudices which tend to weaken the spirit of obedience; it is, in fine, a sort of instinct which embraces all those things suggested by zeal and devotion.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000042_000002|Can there be anything more agreeable to God, more useful to the Church, or more meritorious, than to foster thus amongst the well beloved children of God peace, joy, love of vocation, together with union amongst themselves and with their superiors?
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train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000044_000000|ELEVENTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000046_000000|RELIGIOUS who have the family spirit wish to know everything which concerns the well-being of the different houses.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000046_000001|They willingly take their pens to contribute to the edification and satisfy the lawful curiosity of their brethren.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000046_000002|They bless God when they hear good news, and grieve at bad news, losses by death, and, above all, scandalous losses of vocation.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000048_000000|Charity, by uniting its good wishes and interest to the deeds of others, becomes associated at the same time in the merit.
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train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000050_000000|TWELFTH CHARACTERISTIC
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000052_000000|BE edified at the sight of your brethren's virtues, and edify them by your own.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000052_000001|In other words, be alternately disciple and master.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000054_000000|By charity we store up in ourselves the gifts of grace enjoyed by every member of the community, in order to dispense them to all by a happy commerce and admirable exchange.
train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000056_000000|This spontaneity of virtues exercises on all the members a constant and sublime ministry of mutual edification and reciprocal sanctification.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000000_000000|ADDITIONS. FINAL ADVICE IN REGARD TO HOLY COMMUNION.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000001|The faculty of willing is the only one we possess as our own, the only one we can use freely and at all times.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000002|Hence it follows that it is by the will alone that we can in reality acquire merit or commit sin.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000003|The natural virtues are gratuitous gifts of God.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000005|God has placed them at the disposal of our will as means to an end, and we can make a good or bad use of them just as we can of all God's other gifts.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000006|We may be deprived of these natural virtues and live by the will alone, spiritually dry and devoid of sentiment, and yet in a state of intimate union with God.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000000|This explanation is intended to reassure such persons as are disposed to feel anxious when they find nothing in their hearts to correspond with the effusions of sensible love with which books of devotion abound in the preparation for Holy Communion.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000001|These usually make the mistake of taking for granted the invariable existence of sentiment, and of addressing it exclusively.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000002|How many souls do we not see who in consequence grow alarmed about their condition, believing they are devoid of grace notwithstanding their firm will to shun sin and to please God!
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000003|They should, however, not give way to anxiety, nor exhaust themselves by vain efforts to excite in their hearts a sensibility that God has not given them.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000005|Thus we find Saint Francis de Sales, who possessed in such a high degree sensible love of God and all the natural virtues, making this positive declaration: "The greatest proof we can have in this life that we are in the grace of God, is not sensible love of Him, but the firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small."
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000003_000000|Pious persons can make use of the following prayers with profit when they are habitually or accidentally in the condition described above.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000003_000001|They will then see how the will alone, without the aid of feeling, can produce acts of all the christian virtues.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000004_000000|Act of Confidence.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000006_000001|Misery and infirmity are claims for admission to Thy Feast, but nothing can dispense from the nuptial garment.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000006_000006|I accept, O my God!--be it a well merited punishment or a salutary trial,--this privation of light and sensible devotion, this coldness and distraction, which accompany me even into Thy presence when all the faculties of my soul should be absorbed and confounded in sentiments of adoration and of love.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000006_000007|Faith, hope and charity seem to be extinct in my heart, but I know that Thou never withdrawest these virtues when we do not voluntarily renounce them.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000007_000000|Act of Faith.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000009_000000|Act of Hope.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000011_000000|Act of Love.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000013_000000|Act of Desire.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000014_000000|No, I am not indifferent, Thou knowest, O my God! that I am not indifferent to this Most Holy Sacrament which I approach unmoved by any sensible feeling: for Thou seest that although I find in Holy Communion neither relish nor consolation, I would yet make any sacrifice in order to receive it.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000015_000000|Act of Contrition.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000020_000000|If you have an ardent desire for the sensible love of God, a desire that cannot but be pleasing to Him provided you are at the same time resigned to be deprived of it, remember that according to Saint john Chrysostom it can be obtained only by fidelity to prayer.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000020_000002|Yes, this love is so great a good that God wishes to be the sole dispenser of it: He bestows it only in proportion as we ask it of Him, and ordinarily makes us wait for some time before He grants it.
train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000021_000000|There are few prayers better calculated to dispose the soul to receive this great grace than the sixteen. and seventeen. chapters of the fourth.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000002_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000003_000000|mrs KEBBY'S DISCOVERY
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000005_000002|Also, he made him look out of the window into the yard itself, with its tall black fence dividing it from the other properties.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000006_000000|This exploration finished, and Lucian being convinced that himself and his host were the only two living beings in the house, Berwin conducted his half frozen guest back to the warm sitting room and poured out a glass of wine.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000007_000000|"Here, mr Denzil," said he in good-natured tones, "drink this and draw near the fire; you must be chilled to the bone after our Arctic expedition."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000008_000001|When Lucian stood up to take his departure, he addressed him directly:
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000012_000001|I cannot explain what I saw to night, but as surely as you were out of this house, some people were in it.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000012_000003|Keep your own secrets, and go your own way.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000012_000004|I wish you good night, sir," and Lucian moved towards the door.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000013_000000|Berwin, who was holding a full tumbler of rich, strong port, drank the whole of it in one gulp.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000015_000001|I will have nothing to do with your business.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000015_000003|Besides," added Lucian, with a shrug, "they do not interest me."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000016_000000|"Yet they may interest the three kingdoms one day," said Berwin softly.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000017_000000|"Oh, if they deal with danger to society," said Denzil, thinking his strange neighbour spoke of anarchistic schemes, "I would----"
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000018_000000|"They deal with danger to myself," interrupted Berwin.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000020_000000|"People with whom you have no concern," replied the man sullenly.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000021_000000|"That is true enough, mr Berwin, so I'll say good night!"
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000001|Berwin!
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000003|A very good name, Berwin, but not for me.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000004|Oh, was there ever so unhappy a creature as I? False name, false friend, in disgrace, in hiding!
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000005|Curse everybody!
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000006|Go! go!
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000007|mr Denzil, and leave me to die here like a rat in its hole!"
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000023_000000|"You are ill!" said Lucian, amazed by the man's fury.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000025_000000|"Good night, then," said Denzil, seeing that nothing could be done.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000025_000001|"I hope you will be better in the morning."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000026_000000|Berwin shook his head, and with a silent tongue, which contrasted strangely with his late outcry, ushered Denzil out of the house.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000027_000001|He could make nothing of Berwin-as he chose to call himself-he could see no meaning in his wild words and mad behaviour; but as he walked briskly back to his lodgings he came to the conclusion that the man was nothing worse than a tragic drunkard, haunted by terrors engendered by over indulgence in stimulants.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000028_000004|Henceforth I'll neither see nor think of this drunken lunatic," and with such resolve he dismissed all thoughts of his strange acquaintance from his mind, which, under the circumstances, was perhaps the wisest thing he could do.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000029_000000|But later on certain events took place which forced him to alter his determination.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000029_000001|Fate, with her own ends to bring about is not to be denied by her puppets; and of these Lucian was one, designed for an important part in the drama which was to be played.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000030_000000|mrs Margery Kebby, who attended to the domestic economy of Berwin's house, was a deaf old crone with a constant thirst, only to be assuaged by strong drink; and a filching hand which was usually in every pocket save her own.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000030_000001|She had neither kith nor kin, nor friends, nor even acquaintances; but, being something of a miser, scraped and screwed to amass money she had no need for, and dwelt in a wretched little apartment in a back slum, whence she daily issued to work little and pilfer much.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000031_000000|Usually at nine o'clock she brought in her employer's breakfast from the Nelson Hotel, which was outside the Square, and while he was enjoying it in bed, after his fashion, she cleaned out and made tidy the sitting room.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000031_000001|Berwin then dressed and went out for a walk, despite Miss Greeb's contention that he took the air only at night, like an owl, and during his absence mrs Kebby attended to the bedroom.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000031_000002|She then went about her own business, which was connected with the cleaning of various other apartments, and only returned at midday and at night to lay the table for Berwin's luncheon and dinner, or rather dinner and supper, which were also sent in from the hotel.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000032_000000|For these services Berwin paid her well, and only enjoined her to keep a quiet tongue about his private affairs, which mrs Kebby usually did until excited by too copious drams of gin, when she talked freely and unwisely to all the servants in the Square.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000033_000001|Also, she could tell fortunes by reading tea leaves and shuffling cards, and was not above aiding the maid servants in their small love affairs.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000034_000000|In short, mrs Kebby was a dangerous old witch, who, a century back, would have been burnt at the stake; and the worst possible person for Berwin to have in his house.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000034_000002|She had a firm idea that Berwin had, in her own emphatic phrase, "done something" for which he was wanted by the police, and was always on the look out to learn the secret of his isolated life, in order to betray him, or blackmail him, or get him in some way under her thumb.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000034_000003|As yet she had been unsuccessful.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000035_000000|Deeming her a weak, quiet old creature, Berwin, in spite of his suspicious nature, entrusted mrs Kebby with the key of the front door, so that she could enter for her morning's work without disturbing him. The sitting room door itself was not always locked, but Berwin usually bolted the portal of his bedroom, and had invariably to rise and admit mrs Kebby with his breakfast.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000036_000000|The same routine was observed each morning, and everything went smoothly.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000036_000003|The man was as great a mystery to mrs Kebby as he was to the square, in spite of her superior opportunities of learning the truth.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000037_000001|She laid the table, made up the fire, and before taking her leave asked mr Berwin if he wanted anything else.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000038_000000|"No, I think not," replied the man, who looked wretchedly ill.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000038_000001|"You can bring my breakfast to morrow."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000039_000000|"At nine, sir?"
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000040_000000|"At the usual time," answered Berwin impatiently.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000041_000001|As she left the house eight o'clock chimed from the steeple of a near church, and mrs Kebby, clinking her newly received wages in her pocket, hurried out of the square to do her Christmas marketing.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000041_000002|As she went down the street which led to it, Blinders, a burly, ruddy faced policeman, who knew her well, stopped to make an observation.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000042_000000|"Is that good gentleman of yours home, mrs Kebby?" he asked, in the loud tones used to deaf people.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000044_000000|"I saw him an hour ago," explained Blinders, "and I thought he looked ill."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000000|"So he do, like a corpse.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000001|What of that?
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000002|We've all got to come to it some day.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000004|Well, I don't care.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000005|He's paid me up till to night.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000046_000000|"Don't you get drunk, mrs Kebby, or I'll lock you up."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000047_000000|"Garn!" grunted the old beldame.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000048_000000|"I'm taking the place of a sick comrade, and I'll be on duty all night. That's my Christmas."
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000049_000000|"Well! well!
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000050_000000|Here she began to celebrate the season, and afterwards went shopping; then she celebrated the season again, and later carried home her purchases to the miserable garret she occupied.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000051_000000|Next morning she woke in anything but an amiable mood, and had to fortify herself with an early drink before she was fit to go about her business.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000052_000000|It was almost nine when she reached the Nelson Hotel, and found the covered tray with mr Berwin's breakfast waiting for her; so she hurried with it to Geneva Square as speedily as possible, fearful of a scolding. Having admitted herself into the house, mrs Kebby took up the tray with both hands, and pushed open the sitting room door with her foot.
train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000052_000001|Here, at the sight which met her eyes, she dropped the tray with a crash, and let off a shrill yell.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000002_000000|THE TALK OF THE TOWN
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000004_000000|To add to the wonderment of the public, it came out in the evidence of Lucian Denzil at the inquest that Berwin was not the real name of the victim; so here the authorities were confronted with a three fold problem.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000005_000002|Berwin-so called-was dead, his assassin had melted into thin air, and the Silent House had added a second legend to its already uncanny reputation.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000005_000003|Formerly it had been simply haunted, now it was also blood stained, and its last condition was worse than its first.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000006_000002|When she returned, shortly after nine, on Christmas morning, the man was dead and cold.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000007_000000|Search was immediately made for the murderer, but no trace could be found of him, nor could it be ascertained how he had entered the house. The doors were all locked, the windows were all barred, and neither at the back nor in the front was there any outlet left open whereby the man-if it was a man who had done the deed-could have escaped.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000008_000001|The policeman knew every one, even to the errand boys of the neighbourhood, who brought parcels of Christmas goods, and in many cases had exchanged greetings with the passers by; but he was prepared to swear, and, in fact, did swear at the inquest, that no stranger either came into or went out of Geneva Square.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000011_000002|He gave neither cheque nor notes, but paid always in gold; and beyond the fact that he called himself Mark Berwin, the landlord knew nothing about him.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000012_000000|The firm who had furnished the rooms made almost the same report, quite as meagre and unsatisfactory.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000014_000000|Berwin-so called-was dead; he was buried under his assumed name, and there, so far as the obtainable evidence went, was an end to the strange tenant of the Silent House.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000014_000001|Gordon Link, the detective charged with the conduct of the case, confessed as much to Denzil.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000015_000000|"I do not see the slightest chance of tracing Berwin's past," said he to the barrister.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000016_000000|"Are you sure there is no clue, mr Link?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000017_000000|"Absolutely none; even the weapon with which the crime was committed cannot be found."
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000018_000000|"You have searched the house?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000019_000000|"Every inch of it, and with the result that I have found nothing.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000023_000000|"Which you did?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000024_000000|"Yes, but found nothing; yet," said Lucian, with an air of conviction, "however the man and woman entered, they were in the house."
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000027_000000|"No; I asked him," replied the detective, "but he stated that houses nowadays were not built with secret passages.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000031_000000|"Vengeance!" repeated Link, raising his eyebrows.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000031_000001|"Is not that word a trifle melodramatic?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000032_000001|However, mr Link," added Lucian, "I have come to certain conclusions.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000033_000000|"Your third conclusion brings us round to the point whence we started," retorted Link.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000033_000001|"How am I to discover the man's past?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000035_000001|And how is the business to be accomplished?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000036_000000|"By advertisement."
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000037_000000|"Advertisement!"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000038_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000041_000000|"In the newspapers, also?" asked Lucian, nettled by the detective's tone.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000042_000000|"No; it is not necessary."
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000043_000000|"I don't agree with you.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000044_000000|"I'll think of it," said Link, too jealous of his dignity to give way at once.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000045_000001|"You know your own business best.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000045_000002|But if you succeed in identifying Berwin, will you let me know?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000046_000000|Link looked keenly at the young man.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000047_000000|"Why do you wish to know about the matter?" he asked.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000048_000000|"Out of simple curiosity.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000049_000000|"Well," said Link, rather gratified by this tribute to his power, "I shall indulge your fancy."
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000051_000000|Within the week he received a visit from the detective.
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000053_000001|"Who is the lady?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000054_000000|"A mrs Vrain, who writes from Bath."
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000055_000000|"Can she identify the dead man?"
train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000056_000000|"She thinks she can, but, of course, she cannot be certain until she sees the body.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000003_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000005_000002|It seemed likely that mrs Vrain, who asserted herself to be the wife of the deceased, would be able to answer these questions in full; therefore, he was punctual in keeping the appointment at the office of Link.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000000|He was rather astonished to find that mrs Vrain had arrived, and was deep in conversation with the detective, while a third person, who had evidently accompanied her, sat near at hand, silent, but attentive to what was being discussed.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000001|As the dead man had been close on sixty years of age, and mrs Vrain claimed to be his wife, Denzil had quite expected to meet with an elderly woman.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000003|In spite of her grief her demeanour was lively and engaging, and her smile particularly attractive, lighting up her whole face in the most fascinating manner.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000004|Her hands and feet were small, her stature was that of a fairy, and her figure was perfect in every way.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000009_000002|But then, on occasions, he was disposed to be hyper critical.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000010_000000|"Say, now," said mrs Vrain, casting an approving glance on Lucian's face, "I'm right down glad to see you.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000011_000000|"I knew him as mr Berwin-Mark Berwin," replied Denzil, taking a seat.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000017_000001|"Let us continue.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000018_000002|And isn't his first name Mark?" pursued the pretty widow.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000018_000003|"Well, my husband was called Mark, too, so there you are-Mark Berwin."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000019_000000|"Is this all your proof?" asked Link calmly.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000020_000002|Then he lost part of his little finger-left hand finger-in an accident out West. What other proof do you want, mr Link?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000021_000000|"The proofs you have given seem sufficient, mrs Vrain, but may I ask when your husband left his home?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000025_000000|"Vrain!" struck in Lydia, the widow, "Mark Vrain."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000026_000000|"I beg your pardon!
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000026_000001|Well, Mark Vrain took the house in Geneva Square six months back.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000026_000002|Where was he during the other four?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000032_000000|"You did not get on well together?" said Link sharply.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000033_000003|If he hadn't left me, I'd have left him-that's an almighty truth."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000044_000000|"Was mr Berwin-I beg pardon, Vrain-was he married twice?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000045_000001|"He was a widower with a grown up daughter when I took him to church.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000045_000002|Well, can I get this assurance money?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000046_000000|"I suppose so," said Link, "provided you can prove your husband's death."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000047_000001|"Wasn't he murdered?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000048_000000|"The man called Berwin was murdered."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000050_000001|"All your evidence goes to prove it, yet the assurance company may not be satisfied with the proof. I expect the grave will have to be opened, and the remains identified."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000052_000001|But you know your heart is better than your tongue."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000053_000000|"It was, to put up so long with mr Vrain," said Lydia resentfully; "but I'm honest, if I'm nothing else.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000053_000001|I guess I'm sorry that Vrain got stuck like a pig; but it wasn't my fault, and I've done my best to show respect by wearing black.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000053_000002|But it is no good going on in this way, poppa, for I've no call to excuse myself to strangers.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000055_000000|"I know nothing about it," retorted the widow.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000056_000000|"Have you any idea who killed him?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000057_000000|"I guess not!
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000057_000001|How should I?"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000059_000000|"He," said mrs Vrain, with supreme contempt, "why, he hadn't backbone enough for folks to get riz at him!
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000059_000001|He was half baked!"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000060_000000|"Crazy, that is," remarked Clyne; "always thought the world was against him, and folks wanted to get quit of him."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000064_000000|"That's a frozen fact, sir," cried Clyne, "and both Lyddy and I want to lynch the reptile as did it; but we neither of us know who laid him out."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000066_000000|"If you want to know how he died," explained Link, "I can tell you.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000066_000001|He was stabbed."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000067_000000|"So the journals said; with a bowie!"
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000068_000000|"No, not with a bowie," corrected Lucian, "but with some long, sharp instrument."
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000069_000000|"A dagger?" suggested Clyne.
train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000070_000001|"I should say a stiletto-an Italian stiletto."
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000003_000000|mr MacLeod, the member of Parliament from Scotland, and Lord Lansdowne happened to be calling when I arrived, and Tom and the Scotch lady were there.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000003_000001|The chef waiter was taking the coats of the gentlemen callers. I received the guests, acknowledged the introductions, and then, as I removed my own coat, I handed him the little package.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000004_000001|"In England," she said, "ladies never converse with their servants, particularly in the presence of guests."
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000005_000001|"Ladies never make gifts to their servants," she added.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000000|I was homesick for Wisconsin, homesick for real and simple people. I wanted to go home!
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000001|That night Tom and I had our first real quarrel, and it was over my dismissal of the Scotch lady of aristocratic birth. Life became intolerable for a while.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000005|Life was a stage.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000009|I was dumb with loneliness and sick with the fear of lost faith.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000009_000001|When we were together I felt tongue tied.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000009_000002|He had tried to be gentle with me; but I was strange in this world of his, and lonely and sensitive.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000011_000000|I confessed to a little homesickness.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000011_000001|Tom became very attentive. He took me sightseeing.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000012_000004|And I was thinking-Tom would n't fit into my world, and I could not belong to his.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000012_000007|"The fault is with you," he said.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000001|He never did.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000002|In all the years together, which he made so rich and happy, Tom never understood how hard and bitter a school was that first year of my married life.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000003|But Tom did try to give me a good time in London.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000004|He took me to interesting places and we were entertained by a number of people, mostly ponderous and stupid.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000005|Tom did not suggest that we entertain in our turn.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000006|I think he felt I was not ready for it, although even in after years, when we talked frankly about many things, he would never admit this.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000014_000001|I was not well, and Tom, manlike, felt sure the change, a trip down to Essex and new people, would do me good.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000014_000002|The thought of the country and a visit with some good simple country folk appealed to me too, so I packed the bags and met Tom at Victoria Station at eleven o'clock.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000014_000006|Liveried coachmen collected our baggage.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000015_000000|We were led to a handsome cart drawn by a fine tandem team, and Tom and I were alone for a minute.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000019_000006|After more of the same kind of talk, he began to cook up some yarn to tell the valet.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000023_000000|Tom went back to London on the next train, and reached the "farm" with our baggage before it was time to dress for the eight o'clock dinner.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000003|I batted my eyes to keep them open.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000005|I tried to say a few words now and then to wake myself.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000006|I felt myself slipping. Once my head dropped and came up with a jerk.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000007|I watched the great French clock.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000009|I looked at Tom.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000029_000000|"What do you do if you can't keep awake?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000029_000001|"You slip out quietly, go to your room ask a maid to call you after you have had forty winks, then you go back and pretend you are having a good time," said Tom.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000007|We loved each other.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000009|She made me talk French with her. My first formal dinner in France was a pleasant surprise.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000010|It was like a great family party-not dull and quiet like the English dinner, and ever so much more fun.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000011|Everybody participated.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000001|Nothing surprises you.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000002|You are at ease anywhere in the world.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000005|No one was critical.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000008|Happiness came back to me.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000033_000000|There had been hours in England when only the knowledge that a woman's rarest gift was coming to me, and that Tom was proud and happy about it, kept me from running away-back to the simple life of my own United States.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000034_000003|I began to understand my mother and the glory in the character which never faltered, although she was alone and life had been hard.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000035_000000|I loved the French.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000035_000002|He never accepted intimacy.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000035_000004|The free winds of the prairie had swept it from mine.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000036_000000|My new friends in Paris discovered my happy secret.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000036_000002|Motherhood is the great and natural event in the life of a woman in France, and no one makes a secret of it.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000037_000004|Up to eleven o'clock certain attire was proper.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000037_000005|If your watch stopped you were sure to break a social law.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000038_000001|Then I laughed about it.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000039_000000|Finally I rebelled.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000039_000003|But I never loved the city.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000039_000004|I enjoyed its art, its fascinating shops, its picturesque streets and people, and its beautiful women.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000040_000000|So I was glad to return to England.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000040_000004|I saw mr Balfour, so handsome and gracious that I refused to believe there had ever been cause to call him "Bloody Balfour." There was something kingly about him-yet he was simply mr Balfour.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000041_000003|Irving was interesting and striking, though certainly not handsome; but he took the compliment to himself, smiled, bowed his thanks, and said:
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000043_000000|mr Gladstone, too, could indulge in small talk.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000000|"Oh," I explained happily, "it is n't that-I 'm not tired.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000003|It was the last bad break I made.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000010|In France one guest speaks to any or all of the others; all one's friends extend congratulations if a baby is coming; one shares all his joys with friends.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000011|But in England nobody must know, and everybody must be surprised.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000012|No one ever speaks of himself in England.
train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000045_000001|I learned the ways of Europe, of the Orient, and of South America.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000000_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000003_000005|The Yuzgat maiden of "sweet sixteen" is a coy, babyish creature, possessed of a certain doll like prettiness, but at twenty three is a rapidly fading flower, and at thirty is already beginning to get wrinkled and old.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000003_000007|Watching over this peaceful and gambolling flock of Armenian lambkins is a lone Circassian watchdog; he is of a stalwart, warlike appearance; and although wearing no arms — except a cavalry sword, a shorter broad sword, a dragoon revolver, a two foot horse pistol, and a double barrelled shot gun slung at his back — the Armenians seem to feel perfectly safe under his protection.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000004_000000|These people invite me to remain with them until to morrow; but of course I excuse myself from this, and, after spending a very agreeable hour in their company, take my departure.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000004_000001|The country develops into an undulating plateau, which is under general cultivation, as cultivation goes in Asiatic Turkey.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000007_000011|Eggs there are none; they are devoured, I fancy, almost before they are laid.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000007_000041|When properly played, it produces soft, melodious music that, to say nothing else, must exert a gentle soothing influence on the wild, turbulent souls of a herd of goats.
train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000007_000043|East of Yennikhan, the road develops into an excellent macadamized highway, on which I find plenty of genuine amusement by electrifying the natives whom I chance to meet or overtake. Creeping noiselessly up behind an unsuspecting donkey driver, until quite close, I suddenly reveal my presence.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000000_000000|Chapter nine
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000001_000001|This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000004_000000|As to the reporter, he simply replied,--
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000006_000000|"But, I repeat, that we haven't any fire!"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000010_000000|"But I say, mr Spilett-"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000011_000000|"Isn't Cyrus here?" replied the reporter.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000013_000000|"With what?"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000014_000000|"With nothing."
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000016_000000|"Cyrus is here!"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000017_000001|The supper must necessarily be very meager.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000017_000003|Besides, the couroucous which had been reserved had disappeared.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000018_000000|First of all, Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000019_000000|Night had closed in, and the temperature, which had modified when the wind shifted to the northwest, again became extremely cold.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000019_000002|The engineer's condition would, therefore, have been bad enough, if his companions had not carefully covered him with their coats and waistcoats.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000021_000002|The experiment, therefore, did not succeed.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000023_000000|After working an hour, Pencroft, who was in a complete state of perspiration, threw down the pieces of wood in disgust.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000024_000001|"I could sooner light my arms by rubbing them against each other!"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000029_000004|Herbert, Neb, and Pencroft did the same, while Top slept at his master's feet.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000031_000001|This was his uppermost thought.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000033_000000|"You don't know yet?"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000036_000000|"That's capital!" cried the sailor.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000037_000000|"I feel dreadfully weak," replied Harding.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000039_000000|"Alas! we have no fire," said Pencroft, "or rather, captain, we have it no longer!"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000042_000000|"Well?" asked the sailor.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000043_000000|"Well, we will make matches.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000045_000000|"Chemicals!"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000047_000001|All went out.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000054_000000|"No, captain," replied the boy.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000056_000000|"Yes," replied Pencroft.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000057_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000059_000000|"We will make it, Pencroft," replied Harding.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000061_000000|"Yes," replied Spilett, "a mountain which must be rather high-"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000063_000000|"Yes, fire!" said the obstinate sailor again.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000064_000000|"But he will make us a fire!" replied Gideon Spilett, "only have a little patience, Pencroft!"
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000065_000000|The seaman looked at Spilett in a way which seemed to say, "If it depended upon you to do it, we wouldn't taste roast meat very soon"; but he was silent.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000066_000002|For a few minutes he remained absorbed in thought; then again speaking,--
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000070_000002|If the direction has been maintained from the northeast to the southwest, we have traversed the States of North Carolina, of South Carolina, of Georgia, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, itself, in its narrow part, then a part of the Pacific Ocean.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000070_000004|If the last hypothesis is correct, it will be easy enough to get home again.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000071_000000|"Never?" cried the reporter.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000072_000000|"Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise."
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000081_000000|"If, on my return, I find a fire at the house, I shall believe that the thunder itself came to light it." All three climbed the bank; and arrived at the angle made by the river, the sailor, stopping, said to his two companions,--
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000086_000000|This time, the hunters, instead of following the course of the river, plunged straight into the heart of the forest.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000086_000001|There were still the same trees, belonging, for the most part, to the pine family.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000094_000000|"It will blaze, since my master has said so."
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000096_000001|The exploration, therefore, continued, and was usefully marked by a discovery which Herbert made of a tree whose fruit was edible.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000098_000000|"We mustn't complain," said Herbert.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000099_000000|"I am not complaining, my boy," replied Pencroft, "only I repeat, that meat is a little too much economized in this sort of meal."
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000100_000000|"Top has found something!" cried Neb, who ran towards a thicket, in the midst of which the dog had disappeared, barking.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000100_000001|With Top's barking were mingled curious gruntings.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000101_000001|If there was game there this was not the time to discuss how it was to be cooked, but rather, how they were to get hold of it.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000102_000000|The hunters had scarcely entered the bushes when they saw Top engaged in a struggle with an animal which he was holding by the ear.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000103_000001|It stupidly rolled its eyes, deeply buried in a thick bed of fat.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000103_000002|Perhaps it saw men for the first time.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000104_000000|However, Neb having tightened his grasp on his stick, was just going to fell the pig, when the latter, tearing itself from Top's teeth, by which it was only held by the tip of its ear, uttered a vigorous grunt, rushed upon Herbert, almost overthrew him, and disappeared in the wood.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000106_000000|All three directly darted after Top, but at the moment when they joined him the animal had disappeared under the waters of a large pond shaded by venerable pines.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000107_000000|Neb, Herbert, and Pencroft stopped, motionless.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000107_000001|Top plunged into the water, but the capybara, hidden at the bottom of the pond, did not appear.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000108_000000|"Let us wait," said the boy, "for he will soon come to the surface to breathe."
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000112_000003|An instant later the capybara, dragged to the bank, was killed by a blow from Neb's stick.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000117_000000|Pencroft soon made a raft of wood, as he had done before, though if there was no fire it would be a useless task, and the raft following the current, they returned towards the Chimneys.
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000118_000000|But the sailor had not gone fifty paces when he stopped, and again uttering a tremendous hurrah, pointed towards the angle of the cliff,--
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000119_000000|"Herbert!
train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000120_000000|Smoke was escaping and curling up among the rocks.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000001_000000|Chapter nine
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000002_000002|However well built and supplied the corral house was, it could not be so comfortable as the healthy granite dwelling.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000002_000003|Besides, it did not offer the same security, and its tenants, notwithstanding their watchfulness, were here always in fear of some shot from the convicts.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000002_000004|There, on the contrary, in the middle of that impregnable and inaccessible cliff, they would have nothing to fear, and any attack on their persons would certainly fail.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000004_000000|They waited, therefore, although they were anxious to be reunited at Granite House.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000004_000002|Since Ayrton's disappearance they were only four against five, for Herbert could not yet be counted, and this was not the least care of the brave boy, who well understood the trouble of which he was the cause.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000005_000000|The question of knowing how, in their condition, they were to act against the pirates, was thoroughly discussed on the twenty ninth of November by Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, and Pencroft, at a moment when Herbert was asleep and could not hear them.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000006_000000|"My friends," said the reporter, after they had talked of Neb and of the impossibility of communicating with him, "I think,--like you, that to venture on the road to the corral would be to risk receiving a gunshot without being able to return it.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000007_000000|"That is just what I was thinking," answered Pencroft.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000007_000001|"I believe we're not fellows to be afraid of a bullet, and as for me, if Captain Harding approves, I'm ready to dash into the forest!
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000008_000000|"But is he equal to five?" asked the engineer.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000009_000000|"I will join Pencroft," said the reporter, "and both of us, well armed and accompanied by Top-"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000010_000000|"My dear Spilett, and you, Pencroft," answered Harding, "let us reason coolly.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000010_000001|If the convicts were hid in one spot of the island, if we knew that spot, and had only to dislodge them, I would undertake a direct attack; but is there not occasion to fear, on the contrary, that they are sure to fire the first shot?"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000011_000000|"Well, captain," cried Pencroft, "a bullet does not always reach its mark."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000012_000000|"That which struck Herbert did not miss, Pencroft," replied the engineer.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000012_000002|Do you imagine that the convicts will not see you leave it, that they will not allow you to enter the forest, and that they will not attack it during your absence, knowing that there is no one here but a wounded boy and a man?"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000013_000000|"You are right, captain," replied Pencroft, his chest swelling with sullen anger.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000013_000001|"You are right; they will do all they can to retake the corral, which they know to be well stored; and alone you could not hold it against them."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000014_000000|"Oh, if we were only at Granite House!"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000015_000002|But we are at the corral, and it is best to stay here until we can leave it together."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000017_000000|"If only Ayrton was still one of us!" said Gideon Spilett.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000017_000001|"Poor fellow! his return to social life will have been but of short duration."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000018_000000|"If he is dead," added Pencroft, in a peculiar tone.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000020_000000|"Yes, if they had any interest in doing so."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000024_000000|"And I also," added the reporter quickly.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000027_000000|"That is difficult to say, Cyrus," answered the reporter, "for any imprudence might involve terrible consequences.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000027_000001|But his convalescence is progressing, and if he continues to gain strength, in eight days from now-well, we shall see."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000000|Eight days!
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000002|At this time two months of spring had already passed.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000003|The weather was fine, and the heat began to be great.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000004|The forests of the island were in full leaf, and the time was approaching when the usual crops ought to be gathered.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000030_000000|But if they were compelled to bow before necessity, they did not do so without impatience.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000032_000000|He met with no misadventure and found no suspicious traces.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000033_000000|However, on his second sortie, on the twenty seventh of November, Gideon Spilett, who had ventured a quarter of a mile into the woods, towards the south of the mountain, remarked that Top scented something.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000034_000000|Gideon Spilett followed Top, encouraged him, excited him by his voice, while keeping a sharp look out, his gun ready to fire, and sheltering himself behind the trees.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000034_000001|It was not probable that Top scented the presence of man, for in that case, he would have announced it by half uttered, sullen, angry barks.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000035_000000|Nearly five minutes passed thus, Top rummaging, the reporter following him prudently when, all at once, the dog rushed towards a thick bush, and drew out a rag.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000036_000001|There it was examined by the colonists, who found that it was a fragment of Ayrton's waistcoat, a piece of that felt, manufactured solely by the Granite House factory.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000038_000000|"No, captain," answered the sailor, "and I repented of my suspicion a long time ago!
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000038_000001|But it seems to me that something may be learned from the incident."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000039_000000|"What is that?" asked the reporter.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000040_000002|Therefore, perhaps, he is still living!"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000041_000000|"Perhaps, indeed," replied the engineer, who remained thoughtful.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000000|This was a hope, to which Ayrton's companions could still hold.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000001|Indeed, they had before believed that, surprised in the corral, Ayrton had fallen by a bullet, as Herbert had fallen.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000002|But if the convicts had not killed him at first, if they had brought him living to another part of the island, might it not be admitted that he was still their prisoner? Perhaps, even, one of them had found in Ayrton his old Australian companion Ben Joyce, the chief of the escaped convicts.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000004|He would have been very useful to them, if they had been able to make him turn traitor!
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000043_000000|This incident was, therefore, favorably interpreted at the corral, and it no longer appeared impossible that they should find Ayrton again. On his side, if he was only a prisoner, Ayrton would no doubt do all he could to escape from the hands of the villains, and this would be a powerful aid to the settlers!
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000046_000000|Pencroft had become a thorough farmer, heartily attached to his crops. But it must be said that Herbert was more anxious than any to return to Granite House, for he knew how much the presence of the settlers was needed there.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000047_000000|Several times he pressed Gideon Spilett, but the latter, fearing, with good reason, that Herbert's wounds, half healed, might reopen on the way, did not give the order to start.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000050_000001|Top, at the foot of the palisade, was jumping, barking, but it was with pleasure, not anger.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000052_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000054_000000|"Neb, perhaps?"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000055_000000|"Or Ayrton?"
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000062_000000|Cyrus Harding was not mistaken.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000062_000001|At Jup's neck hung a small bag, and in this bag was found a little note traced by Neb's hand.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000066_000000|"Neb."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000067_000001|What were they to do?
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000067_000002|The convicts on Prospect Heights! that was disaster, devastation, ruin.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000069_000001|I must go."
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000070_000000|Gideon Spilett approached Herbert; then, having looked at him,--
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000071_000000|"Let us go, then!" said he.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000072_000002|Would they not, on the contrary, by employing the cart leave every arm free? Was it impossible to place the mattress on which Herbert was lying in it, and to advance with so much care that any jolt should be avoided?
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000073_000000|The cart was brought.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000073_000001|Pencroft harnessed the onager.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000073_000003|The weather was fine.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000075_000001|The engineer and Pencroft, each armed with a double barreled gun, and Gideon Spilett carrying his rifle, had nothing to do but start.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000079_000000|The engineer felt his heart sink painfully.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000081_000000|The gate of the corral was opened.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000082_000000|Certainly, it would have been safer to have taken a different road than that which led straight from the corral to Granite House, but the cart would have met with great difficulties in moving under the trees.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000083_000001|However, it was not probable that the convicts would have yet left the plateau of Prospect Heights.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000084_000002|They would, therefore, be safe at that time, and if there was any occasion for firing, it would probably not be until they were in the neighborhood of Granite House. However, the colonists kept a strict watch.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000085_000001|It had left the corral at half past seven.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000086_000000|They approached the plateau.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000086_000002|Cyrus Harding expected to find it in its place; supposing that the convicts would have crossed it, and that, after having passed one of the streams which enclosed the plateau, they would have taken the precaution to lower it again, so as to keep open a retreat.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000088_000000|At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,--
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000092_000001|He heard, and ran to meet them.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000093_000000|The convicts had left the plateau nearly half an hour before, having devastated it!
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000094_000000|"And mr Herbert?" asked Neb.
train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000095_000000|Gideon Spilett returned to the cart.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000002_000000|MAY.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000004_000000|WHAT though my words glance sideways from the thing Which I would utter in thine ear, my sire! Truth in the inward parts thou dost desire- Wise hunger, not a fitness fine of speech: The little child that clamouring fails to reach With upstretched hand the fringe of her attire, Yet meets the mother's hand down hurrying.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000015_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000017_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000019_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000021_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000023_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000025_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000027_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000029_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000031_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000032_000000|Afresh I seek thee.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000033_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000035_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000037_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000039_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000041_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000049_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000055_000000|twenty seven.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000057_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000064_000000|'tis heart on heart thou rulest.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000002_000000|JUNE.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000010_000000|But, like a virtuous medicine, self diffused Through all men's hearts thy love shall sink and float; Till every feeling false, and thought unwise, Selfish, and seeking, shall, sternly disused, Wither, and die, and shrivel up to nought; And Christ, whom they did hang 'twixt earth and skies, Up in the inner world of men arise.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000017_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000018_000000|No likeness?
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000018_000001|Lo, the Christ!
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000021_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000025_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000026_000000|They will not, therefore cannot, do not know him. Nothing they could know, could be God.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000027_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000029_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000031_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000033_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000037_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000039_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000041_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000049_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000053_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000054_000000|Make my forgiveness downright-such as I Should perish if I did not have from thee; I let the wrong go, withered up and dry, Cursed with divine forgetfulness in me. 'tis but self pity, pleasant, mean, and sly, Low whispering bids the paltry memory live:-- What am I brother for, but to forgive!
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000055_000000|twenty seven.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000057_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000059_000000|twenty nine.
train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000061_000000|thirty.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000008_000000|If we might sit until the darkness go, Possess our souls in patience perhaps we might; But there is always something to be done, And no heart left to do it.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000008_000001|To and fro The dull thought surges, as the driven waves fight In gulfy channels.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000010_000000|"Wake, thou that sleepest; rise up from the dead, And Christ will give thee light." I do not know What sleep is, what is death, or what is light; But I am waked enough to feel a woe, To rise and leave death.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000010_000001|Stumbling through the night, To my dim lattice, O calling Christ!
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000011_000000|six.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000014_000000|Wilt thou not one day, Lord?
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000014_000001|In all my wrong, Self love and weakness, laziness and fear, This one thing I can say: I am content To be and have what in thy heart I am meant To be and have.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000014_000002|In my best times I long After thy will, and think it glorious dear; Even in my worst, perforce my will to thine is bent.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000019_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000021_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000022_000000|My Lord, I have no clothes to come to thee; My shoes are pierced and broken with the road; I am torn and weathered, wounded with the goad, And soiled with tugging at my weary load: The more I need thee!
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000023_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000025_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000027_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000031_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000033_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000035_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000037_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000051_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000055_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000056_000000|She leaves, but not forsakes.
train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000057_000000|twenty nine.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000002_000000|SHADOWS ON THE BLIND
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000004_000000|At present, Miss Julia Greeb was an unwedded damsel of forty summers, who, with the aid of art, was making desperate but ineffectual efforts to detain the youth which was slipping from her.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000004_000001|She pinched her waist, dyed her hair, powdered her face, and affected juvenile dress of the white frock and blue sash kind.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000004_000002|In the distance she looked a girlish twenty; close at hand various artifices aided her to pass for thirty; and it was only in the solitude of her own room that her real age was apparent.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000005_000000|But this was the worst and most frivolous side of her character, for she was really a good hearted, cheery little woman, with a brisk manner, and a flow of talk unequalled in Geneva Square.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000005_000003|Nevertheless, she continued to keep boarders, and to make attempts to captivate the hearts of such bachelors as she judged weak in character.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000006_000001|He was her god, her ideal of manhood, and to him she offered worship, and burnt incense after the manner of her kind.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000007_000001|Miss Greeb attended to his needs herself, and brought up his breakfast with her own fair hands, happy for the day if her admired lodger conversed with her for a few moments before reading the morning paper.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000007_000004|Poor brainless, silly, pitiful Miss Greeb; she would have made a good wife and a fond mother, but by some irony of fate she was destined to be neither; and the comedy of her husband hunting youth was now changing into the lonely tragedy of disappointed spinsterhood.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000007_000005|She was one of the world's unknown martyrs, and her fate merits tears rather than laughter.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000008_000000|On the morning after his meeting with Berwin, the young barrister sat at breakfast, with Miss Greeb in anxious attendance.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000008_000003|His first word made Miss Greeb flutter back to the table like a dove to its nest.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000010_000001|"Of course I do, mr Denzil.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000010_000002|There ain't a thing I don't know about that house.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000010_000003|Ghosts and vampires and crawling spectres live in it-that they do."
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000012_000000|"No; nor nothing half so respectable.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000013_000000|"In what way is he a mystery?" demanded Denzil, approaching the matter with more particularity.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000014_000001|He's full of secrets and underhand goings on.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000018_000000|This question also puzzled the landlady, as she had no reasonable grounds for her wild statements.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000019_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000020_000000|"He has no right to behave so, in a respectable square," replied Miss Greeb, shaking her head.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000020_000001|"There's only two rooms of that large house furnished, and all the rest is given up to dust and ghosts.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000020_000003|Then he has his meals sent in from the Nelson Hotel round the corner, and eats them all alone.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000022_000000|Miss Greeb still shook her head.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000024_000000|"Perhaps not, mr Denzil; but where do those he sees come from?"
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000027_000000|"Well! well!
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000027_000001|What of that?" said Denzil impatiently.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000028_000000|"This much, mr Denzil, that Blinders has gone round the square, after seeing mr Berwin, and has seen shadows-two or three of them-on the sitting room blind.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000029_000000|"Perhaps by the back," conjectured Lucian.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000030_000000|Again Miss Greeb shook her head.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000030_000001|"I know the back of no thirteen as well as I know my own face," she declared.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000030_000002|"There's a yard and a fence, but no entrance.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000032_000001|"I thought of that myself, and as my duty to the square I have inquired-that I have.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000032_000002|On two occasions I've asked the day policeman, and he says no one passed."
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000036_000000|"Just because I don't," replied the landlady, with feminine logic.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000037_000000|"Such as-"
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000038_000000|"Oh, I don't know," cried Miss Greeb, tossing her head and gliding towards the door.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000038_000001|"It ain't for me to say what I think.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000038_000002|I am the last person in the world to meddle with what don't concern me-that I am." And thus ending the conversation, Miss Greeb vanished, with significant look and pursed up lips.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000041_000000|Nevertheless, he held that he had no right to pry into the secrets of the stranger, and honourably strove to dismiss the tenant of no thirteen and his tantalising environments from his mind.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000041_000001|But such dismissal of unworthy curiosity was more difficult to effect than he expected.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000042_000000|For the next week Lucian resolutely banished the subject from his thoughts, and declined to discuss the matter further with Miss Greeb. That little woman, all on fire with curiosity, made various inquiries of her gossips regarding the doings of mr Berwin, and in default of reporting the same to her lodger, occupied herself in discussing them with her neighbours.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000043_000001|But on both occasions he was unsuccessful.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000044_000000|On the third evening he was more fortunate, for having worked at his law books until late at night, he went out for a brisk walk before retiring to rest.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000045_000000|On coming to the house of Berwin, the barrister saw that the sitting room was lighted up and the curtains undrawn, so that the window presented a square of illuminated blind.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000045_000001|Even as he looked, two shadows darkened the white surface-the shadows of a man and a woman.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000045_000003|Curious to see the end of this shadow pantomime, Lucian stood still and looked intently at the window.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000046_000000|The two figures seemed to be arguing, for their heads nodded violently and their arms waved constantly.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000046_000001|They retreated out of the sphere of light, and again came into it, still continuing their furious gestures. Unexpectedly the male shadow seized the female by the throat and swung her like a feather to and fro.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000046_000002|The struggling figures reeled out of the radiance and Lucian heard a faint cry.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000047_000000|Thinking that something was wrong, he rushed up the steps and rang the bell violently.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000047_000001|Almost before the sound died away the light in the room was extinguished, and he could see nothing more.
train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000047_000002|Again and again he rang, but without attracting attention; so Lucian finally left the house and went in search of Blinders, the policeman, to narrate his experience.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000004_000000|"AND WHERE WAS I WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENED?"
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000005_000001|With one accord, and without stopping to pick their way, they made for the open doorway, knocking the smaller pieces of furniture about and creating havoc generally.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000008_000000|"She stood there! the woman stood there and I saw her!
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000008_000001|Where is she now?"
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000009_000004|We did not like the looks of her, and so followed her in to prevent mischief."
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000011_000001|He seemed to be trying to adjust himself to some mental experience he could neither share with others nor explain to himself.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000012_000000|"She was here, then?--a woman with a little child?
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000012_000002|Stopping short, he gazed down from his great height upon the trembling little body of whose identity he had but a vague idea, and thundered out in great indignation:
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000013_000000|"How dared you!
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000013_000002|They are never open.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000013_000003|Bela sees to that."
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000014_000000|Bela!
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000016_000000|Dead!
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000019_000000|Was that a sob?
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000019_000003|No single arm could have knocked down Bela.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000020_000002|"You were not-quite-quite yourself," she softly explained, wondering at her own composure.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000020_000003|Then quickly, as she saw his thoughts revert to the dead friend at his feet, "Bela was not hurt here. He was down town when it happened; but he managed to struggle home and gain this place, which he tried to hold against the men who followed him.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000020_000004|He thought you were dead, you sat there so rigid and so white, and, before he quite gave up, he asked us all to promise not to let any one enter this room till your son Oliver came."
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000023_000000|"I must have had an attack of some kind," he calmly remarked.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000024_000000|Then she saw that his faculties were now fully restored, and came a step forward.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000024_000001|But before she could begin her story, he added this searching question:
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000025_000001|Was it he who unlocked my gates?"
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000026_000000|Miss Weeks sighed and betrayed fluster.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000026_000003|A pebble had done it all,--a pebble placed in the gateway by Bela's hands.
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000027_000002|Evidently this intrusive little body did not know Bela or his story, or-
train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000028_000000|Why should interruption come then?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000003_000000|The library again! but how changed!
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000003_000001|Evening light now instead of blazing sunshine; and evening light so shaded that the corners seemed far and the many articles of furniture, cumbering the spaces between, larger for the shadows in which they stood hidden.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000003_000002|Perhaps the man who sat there in company with the judge regretted this.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000005_000000|These were slow in coming, and they were unexpected when they came.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000006_000000|"Sergeant, I have lost a faithful servant under circumstances which have called an unfortunate attention to my house.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000006_000001|I should like to have this place guarded-carefully guarded, you understand-from any and all intrusion till I can look about me and secure protection of my own.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000007_000000|"Two men are already detailed for the job, your honour.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000007_000001|I heard the order given just as I left Headquarters."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000008_000000|The judge showed small satisfaction.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000008_000002|This surprised Sergeant Doolittle and led him to attempt to read its cause in his host's countenance.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000008_000003|But the shade of the lamp intervened too completely, and he had to be content to wait till the judge chose to speak, which he presently did, though not in the exact tones the Sergeant expected.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000009_000001|Couldn't I have three?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000010_000000|The sergeant hesitated; he felt an emotion of wonder-a sense of something more nearly approaching the uncanny than was usual to his matter of fact mind.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000011_000000|"If two men are not enough to ensure you a quiet sleep, you shall have three or four or even more, Judge Ostrander.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000011_000001|Do you want one of them to stay inside?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000011_000002|That might do the business better than a dozen out."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000012_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000012_000002|When he is buried, I may call upon you for a special to watch my room door.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000012_000004|Only, who is to protect me against your men?"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000013_000000|"What do you mean by that, your honour?"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000014_000000|"They are human, are they not?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000014_000001|They have instincts of curiosity like the rest of us.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000016_000000|"It would be a breach of trust which would greatly disturb me.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000016_000002|Has not my long life of solitude within these walls sufficiently proved this?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000016_000003|I want to feel that these men of yours would no more climb my fence than they would burst into my house without a warrant."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000017_000000|"Judge, I will be one of the men.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000017_000001|You can trust me."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000018_000000|"Thank you, sergeant; I appreciate the favour.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000018_000003|But I shall always suffer from regret that I was not in a condition to receive his last sigh.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000018_000004|He was a man in a thousand.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000019_000000|"He was a very powerfully built man.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000019_000001|It took a sixty horse power racing machine, going at a high rate of speed, to kill him."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000020_000000|A spasm of grief or unavailing regret crossed the judge's face as his head sank back again against the high back of his chair.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000021_000000|"Enough," said he; "tread softly when you go by the sofa on which he lies.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000021_000001|Will you fill your glass again, sergeant?"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000022_000000|The sergeant declined.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000023_000000|"Not if my watch is to be effective to night," he smiled, and rose to depart.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000024_000000|The judge, grown suddenly thoughtful, rapped with his finger tips on the table edge.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000024_000001|He had not yet risen to show his visitor out.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000001|"You were not at the inquiry this afternoon, and may not know that just as Bela and the crowd about him turned this corner, they ran into a woman leading a small child, who stopped the whole throng in order to address him.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000002|No one heard what she said; and no one could give any information as to who she was or in what direction she vanished.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000004|She was in this house.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000005|She was in this room.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000006|She came as far as that open space just inside the doorway.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000007|I can describe her, and will, if you will consent to look for her.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000008|It is to be a money transaction, sergeant, and if she is found and no stir made and no talk started among the Force, I will pay all that you think it right to demand."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000026_000000|"Let me hear her description, your honour." The judge, who had withdrawn into the shadow, considered for a moment, then said:
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000000|"I cannot describe her features, for she was heavily veiled; neither can I describe her figure except to say that she is tall and slender.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000001|But her dress I remember to the last detail, though I am not usually so observant.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000002|She wore purple; not an old woman's purple, but a soft shade which did not take from her youth.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000003|There was something floating round her shoulders of the same colour, and on her arms were long gloves such as you see our young ladies wear.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000004|The child did not seem to belong to her, though she held her tightly by the hand.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000007|In age it appeared to be about six-or that was the impression I received before-"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000029_000000|No, or if he had been witness to something of the kind, it was for a moment only; for the eyes which had gone blank had turned his way again, and only a disconnected expression which fell from the judge's lips, showed that his mind had been wandering.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000030_000000|"It's not the same but another one; that's all."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000031_000000|Inconsequent words, but the sergeant meant to remember them, for with their utterance, a change passed over the judge; and his manner, which had been constrained and hurried during his attempted description, became at once more natural, and therefore more courteous.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000032_000000|"Do you think you can find her with such insufficient data?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000032_000001|A woman dressed in purple, leading a little child without any hat?"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000033_000001|Do you remember the old tavern on the Rushville road?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000034_000000|The judge sat quiet, but the sergeant who dared not peer too closely, noticed a sudden constriction in the fingers of the hand with which his host fingered a paper cutter lying on the table between them.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000035_000000|"The one where-"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000036_000000|"I respect your hesitation, judge.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000037_000000|A gesture had stopped him.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000037_000001|He waited respectfully for the judge's next words.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000038_000000|They came quickly and with stern and solemn emphasis.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000039_000000|"For a hideous and wholly unprovoked crime.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000000|"Because of something I have lately heard in its connection.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000002|The proprietor's name is Yardley.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000003|We have nothing against him; the place is highly respectable.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000004|But it harbours a boarder, a permanent one, I believe, who has occasioned no little comment.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000005|No one has ever seen her face; unless it is the landlord's wife.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000007|Perhaps she's your visitor of to day. Hadn't I better find out?"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000041_000000|"Has she a child?
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000041_000001|Is she a mother?"
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000043_000000|The judge's hand withdrew from the table and for an instant the room was so quiet that you could hear some far off clock ticking out the minutes. Then Judge Ostrander rose and in a peremptory tone said:
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000000|"To morrow.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000001|After you hear from me again.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000002|Make no move to night.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000003|Let me feel that all your energies are devoted to securing my privacy."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000045_000000|The sergeant, who had sprung to his feet at the same instant as the judge, cast a last look about him, curiosity burning in his heart and a sort of desperate desire to get all he could out of his present opportunity.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000045_000001|For he felt absolutely sure that he would never be allowed to enter this room again.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000046_000000|But the arrangement of light was such as to hold in shadow all but the central portion of the room; and this central portion held nothing out of the common-nothing to explain the mysteries of the dwelling or the apprehensions of its suspicious owner.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000047_000002|Unexpectedly to himself, the judge's intentions were in the direction of his own wishes.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000047_000003|He was led front; and, entering an old-fashioned hall dimly lighted, passed a staircase and two closed doors, both of which gave him the impression of having been shut upon a past it had pleasured no one to revive in many years.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000049_000000|Many years had passed since Judge Ostrander had played the host; but he had not lost a sense of its obligations.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000049_000001|It was for him to shoot the bolts and lift the bars; but he went about it so clumsily and with such evident aversion to the task, that the sergeant instinctively sprang to help him.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000050_000000|"I shall miss Bela at every turn," remarked the judge, turning with a sad smile as he finally pulled the door open.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000050_000001|"This is an unaccustomed effort for me.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000050_000002|Excuse my awkwardness."
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000052_000000|The sergeant was so occupied by the mystery of the man and the mystery of the house that they had passed the first gate (which the judge had unlocked without much difficulty) before he realised that there still remained something of interest for him to see and to talk about later. The two dark openings on either side, raised questions which the most unimaginative mind would feel glad to hear explained.
train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000052_000001|Ere the second gate swung open and he found himself again in the street, he had built up more than one theory in explanation of this freak of parallel fences with the strip of gloom between.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000000_000000|He rode on briskly for a full hour, anxiously watching both sides of the road for a cabin or cabin smoke.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000000_000001|By that time night had come fully, though fortunately it was clear but very cold.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000001_000000|The smoke came from a strong double cabin, standing about four hundred yards from the road, and the sight of the heavy log walls made Dick all the more anxious to get inside them.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000002_000000|As he approached two yellow curs rushed forth and began to bark furiously, snapping at the horse's heels, the usual mountain welcome. But when a kick from the horse grazed the ear of one of them they kept at a respectful distance.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000003_000000|"Hello!
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000003_000001|Hello!" called Dick loudly.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000004_000001|A man, elderly, but dark and strong, with the high cheek bones of an Indian stood in the door, the light of a fire blazing in the fireplace on the opposite side of the wall throwing him in relief.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000004_000002|His hair was coal black, long and coarse, increasing his resemblance to an Indian.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000005_000000|Dick rode close to the door, and, without hesitation, asked for a night's shelter and food.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000006_000000|The man sharply bade the dogs be silent and they retreated behind the house, their tails drooping.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000007_000000|"'Light, stranger, an' we'll put up your horse.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000007_000001|Mandy will have supper ready by the time we finish the job."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000008_000000|Dick sprang down gladly, but staggered a little at first from the stiffness of his legs.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000009_000000|"You've rid far, stranger," said the man, who Dick knew at once had a keen eye and a keen brain, "an' you're young, too."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000010_000000|"But not younger than many who have gone to the war," replied Dick.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000011_000000|He had spoken hastily and incautiously and he realized it at once.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000011_000001|The man's keen gaze was turned upon him again.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000012_000000|"You've seen the armies, then?" he said.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000012_000001|"Mebbe you're a sojer yourself?"
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000018_000001|It was fought near a little place called Mill Spring, and resulted in a complete victory for the Northern forces under General Thomas."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000019_000000|"That was what I heard.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000019_000001|It will be good news to some, an' bad news to others.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000020_000000|"I never heard of one that did."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000021_000004|All we ask of people is to let us be.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000021_000005|Lots of us in the mountain feel that way.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000022_000000|The stable was a good one, better than usual in that country.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000022_000001|Dick saw stalls for four horses, but no horses.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000023_000001|"It'll make the fire an' supper all the better.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000023_000002|We're just plain mountain people, but you're welcome to the best we have.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000024_000000|Leffingwell's wife, a powerful woman, as large as her husband, and with a pleasant face, gave Dick a large hand and a friendly grasp.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000025_000000|"It's a good night to be indoors," she said.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000025_000001|"Supper's ready, Seth.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000026_000000|She had placed the pine table in the middle of the room, and Dick noticed that it was large enough for five or six persons.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000000|He had seldom beheld a more cheerful scene.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000001|In a great fireplace ten feet wide big logs roared and crackled.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000002|Corn cakes, vegetables, and two kinds of meat were cooking over the coals and a great pot of coffee boiled and bubbled.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000003|No candles had been lighted, but they were not needed.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000004|The flames gave sufficient illumination.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000029_000000|Dick sat down gladly, and they fell to.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000029_000002|For a time the two masculine human beings ate and drank with so much vigor that there was no time for talk. Leffingwell was the first to break silence.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000032_000003|You've got a right to be hungry, an' you mustn't forget Ma's cookin' either.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000033_000000|"Shut up, Seth," said mrs Leffingwell, genially, "you'll make the young stranger think you're plum' foolish, which won't be wide of the mark either."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000034_000000|"I'm grateful," said Dick falling into the spirit of it, "but what pains me, mrs Leffingwell, is the fact that mr Leffingwell will only nibble at your food.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000034_000001|I don't understand it, as he looks like a healthy man."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000036_000001|The room in which they sat was large, apparently used for all purposes, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, and bedroom.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000036_000002|An old-fashioned squirrel rifle lay on hooks projecting from the wall, but there was no other sign of a weapon.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000036_000004|Dick surmised that this bed would be assigned to him.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000039_000000|Dick, although he had been unwilling to say so, was in fact very sleepy. The heavy supper and the heat of the room pulled so hard on his eyelids that he could scarcely keep them up.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000039_000001|He murmured his excuses and said he believed he would like to retire.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000040_000000|"Don't you be bashful about sayin' so," exclaimed Leffingwell heartily, "'cause I don't think I could keep up more'n a half hour longer."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000041_000001|Dick, used to primitive customs, said good night and retired within his alcove, taking his saddle bags.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000041_000003|The mountaineers liked hot rooms all the time, but he did not.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000041_000004|This window contained no glass, but was closed with a broad shutter.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000000|The boy undressed and got into bed, placing his saddle bags on the foot of it, and the pistol that he carried in his belt under his head.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000002|Nevertheless he awoke before midnight, and it was a very slight thing that caused him to come out of sleep.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000003|Despite the languor produced by food and heat a certain nervous apprehension had been at work in the boy's mind, and it followed him into the unknown regions of sleep.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000004|His body was dead for a time and his mind too, but this nervous power worked on, almost independently of him.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000005|It had noted the sound of voices nearby, and awakened him, as if he had been shaken by a rough hand.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000043_000000|He sat up in his bed and became conscious of a hot and aching head.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000045_000000|He heard the hum of voices and sat up again.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000045_000004|A third signal of alarm was promptly registered on his brain.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000046_000001|The fire had died down except a few coals which cast but a faint light.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000046_000003|They were sitting fully clothed before the fireplace, and three other persons were with them.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000000|As Dick stared his eyes grew more used to the half dusk and he saw clearly.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000002|Now he understood about those empty stalls.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000003|The third man, who had been sitting with his shoulder toward Dick, turned his face presently, and the boy with difficulty repressed an exclamation.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000005|A fourth and conclusive signal of alarm was registered upon his brain.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000048_000002|The woman was pleading with them to let him go.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000048_000003|He was only a harmless lad, and while these were dark days, a crime committed now might yet be punished.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000050_000000|"I'd like to have that hoss of his," said the elder Leffingwell.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000050_000003|I noticed him at once, when Mason come ridin' up.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000051_000000|"A hoss like that would be knowed," protested the woman.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000052_000001|"I know places where sojers wouldn't find that hoss in a thousand years.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000052_000002|What do you say to that, Kerins?"
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000001|The Yanks whipped the Johnnies in a big battle at Mill Spring.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000002|Me an' my pardners have been hangin' 'roun' in the woods, seein' what would happen.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000006|He's got messages, dispatches of some kind that are worth a heap to somebody.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000007|With all the armies gatherin' in the south an' west of the state it stands to reason that them dispatches mean a lot.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000058_000002|Stealin' hosses is bad enough, but if that boy has got the big dispatches you say he has, an' he's missin', don't you think that sojers will come after him?
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000058_000004|Besides, he's a nice boy an' he spoke nice all the time to pap an' me."
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000059_000000|But her words did not seem to make any impression upon the others, except her husband, who protested again that it would be enough to take the horse.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000059_000001|As for the dispatches it wasn't wise for them to fool with such things.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000000|Meanwhile Dick had dressed with more rapidity than ever before in his life, fully alive to the great dangers that threatened.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000001|But his fear was greatest lest he might lose the precious dispatches that he bore.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000002|For a few moments he did not know what to do.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000003|He might take his pistols and fight, but he could not fight them all with success.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000004|Then that pleasant flood of cold air gave him the key.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000061_000000|While they were still talking he put his saddle bags over his arm, opened the shutter its full width, and dropped quietly to the ground outside, remembering to take the precaution of closing the shutter behind him, lest the sudden inrush of cold startle the Leffingwells and their friends.
train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000062_000000|It was an icy night, but Dick did not stop to notice it.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000003_000002|Those blinding flashes of flame no longer came from the forest before him, the shot and shell quit their horrible screaming, and the air was free from the unpleasant hiss of countless bullets.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000004_000000|He stretched himself a little and stood up.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000004_000002|The boy felt stiff and sore in every bone and muscle, and, although the cannon and rifles were silent, there was still a hollow roaring in his ears.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000000|But the deep woods were silent and empty.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000001|Coils and streamers of smoke floated about among the trees, and suddenly a gray squirrel hopped out on a bough and began to chatter wildly.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000002|Dick, despite himself, laughed, but the laugh was hysterical.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000003|He could appreciate the feelings of the squirrel, which probably had been imprisoned in a hollow of the tree all day long, listening to this tremendous battle, and squirrels were not used to such battles.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000004|It was a trifle that made him laugh, but everything was out of proportion now.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000006|The ordinary occupations were gone, and people spent most of their time trying to kill one another.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000006_000000|He rubbed his hands across his eyes and cleared them of the smoke.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000006_000003|The last rosy glow of the sun faded, and thick darkness enveloped the vast forest, in which twenty thousand men had fallen, and in which most of them yet lay, the wounded with the dead.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000008_000000|Dick saw Colonel Winchester going among his men, and pulling himself together he saluted his chief.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000010_000002|But they fought magnificently, Dick!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000010_000003|They had to, or be crushed!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000010_000004|It is only here that we have withstood the rush of the Southern army, and it is probable that we, too, would have gone had not night come to our help."
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000012_000000|"Yes, Dick, we have been beaten, and beaten badly.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000012_000001|It was the surprise that did it.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000003|Dick!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000004|Dick, my boy, we'll have forty thousand new troops on the field at the next dawn, and before God we'll wipe out the disgrace of today!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000005|Listen to the big guns from the boats as they speak at intervals! Why, I can understand the very words they speak!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000006|They are saying to the Southern army: 'Look out!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000007|Look out!
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000016_000000|Colonel Winchester walked away to a council that had been called, and Dick turned to Pennington and Warner, who were not hurt, save for slight wounds.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000017_000000|"Dick," he said, "we're some distance from where we started this morning.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000017_000001|There's nothing like being shoved along when you don't want to go.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000018_000000|"How large do you suppose the Southern army was?" asked Pennington.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000020_000000|The last words were high pitched and excited.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000020_000002|But in a few seconds he recovered himself and looked rather ashamed.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000021_000000|"Boys," he said, "I apologize."
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000022_000001|"There have been times today when I felt brave as a lion, and lots of other times I was scared most to death. It would have helped me a lot then, if I could have opened my mouth and yelled at the top of my voice."
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000024_000002|I've been scared for myself, an' I've been scared for the regiment, an' I've been scared for the whole army, an' I've been scared on general principles, but here we are, alive an' kickin', an' we ought to feel powerful thankful for that."
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000026_000000|"What is it, Dick?" asked Warner.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000027_000001|The Confederates broke up our breakfast.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000027_000002|We never had time to think of dinner, and now its nothing to eat."
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000028_000000|"Me, too," said Pennington.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000028_000001|"If you were to hit me in the stomach I'd give back a hollow sound like a drum.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000028_000002|Why don't somebody ring the supper bell?"
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000029_000002|They also talked much of the battle.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000030_000001|Regiment after regiment and brigade after brigade crossed.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000031_000002|Many thousands had fallen, and no new troops were coming to take their place.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000031_000003|Continual reinforcements came to the North throughout the night, not a soldier came to the South.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000031_000004|Beauregard, at dawn, would have to face twice his numbers, at least half of whom were fresh troops.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000032_000001|The others, however, summoned their courage anew, and passed the whole night arranging their forces, cheering the men, and preparing for the morn. Their scouts and skirmishers kept watch on the Northern camp, and the Southerners believed that while they had whipped only one army the day before, they could whip two on the morrow.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000033_000001|The nerves, drawn so tightly by the day's work, were not yet relaxed wholly.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000033_000005|The deep river, although it was on their flank, seemed to flow as a barrier against the foe, and it was, in fact, a barrier more and more, as without its command the second Union army could never have come to the relief of the first.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000034_000000|Dick, after a while, saw Colonel Winchester, and other officers near him.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000034_000001|They were talking of their losses.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000036_000002|Their pulses became stronger, and the blood flowed in a quickened torrent through their veins.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000038_000001|Grant, his face an expressionless mask, presided, and said but little.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000038_000003|The three men upon whom most rested were very taciturn that night, but it is likely that extraordinary thoughts were passing in the minds of every one of the three.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000039_000000|Grant, after a day in which any one of a dozen chances would have wrecked him, must have concluded that in very deed and truth he was the favorite child of Fortune.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000041_000000|Dick, not having slept any the night before, and having passed through a day of fierce battle, was overcome after midnight, and sank into a sleep that was mere lethargy.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000041_000001|He awoke once before dawn and remembered, but vaguely, all that had happened.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000041_000002|Yet he was conscious that there was much movement in the forest.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000042_000000|He was awakened by the call of a trumpet, and, as he rose, he saw the whole regiment or rather, what was left of it, rising with him.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000043_000000|Colonel Winchester beckoned to him.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000044_000000|"All right this morning, Dick?" he said.
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000046_000000|"And you, too, Warner and Pennington?"
train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000048_000000|"Then keep close beside me.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000000_000002|Yet Beauregard and his generals were still sanguine of completing the victory.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000000_000003|Their scouts and skirmishers had failed to discover that the entire army of Buell also was now in front of them.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000001_000002|But as they moved forward to attack the Union troops came out to meet them. Nelson had occupied the high ground between Lick and Owl Creeks, and his and the Southern troops met in a fierce clash shortly after dawn.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000000|Beauregard, drawn by the firing at that point, and noticing the courage and tenacity with which the Northern troops held their ground, sending in volley after volley, divined at once that these were not the beaten troops of the day before, but new men.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000001|This swarthy general, volatile and dramatic, nevertheless had great penetration.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000002|He understood on the instant a fact that his soldiers did not comprehend until later.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000003|He knew that the whole army of Buell was now before him.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000003_000003|A long and furious combat ensued.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000004_000000|Buell led splendid troops that he had trained long and rigidly, and they had not been in the conflict the day before.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000005_000001|He and Grant had reckoned that the decimated brigades of the South could not stand at all before him, but just as on the first day they came on with the fierce rebel yell, hurling themselves upon superior numbers, taking the cannon of their enemy, losing them, and retaking them and losing them again, but never yielding.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000006_000000|The great conflict increased in violence.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000006_000001|Buell, a man of iron courage, saw that his soldiers must fight to the uttermost, not for victory only, but even to ward off defeat.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000007_000000|Nine o'clock came.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000007_000006|Another battery dashed up to the relief of the men in blue.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000007_000007|It was charged at once by the men in gray so fiercely that the gunners were glad to escape with their guns, and once more the wild rebel yell of triumph swelled through the southern forest.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000008_000000|Dick, standing with his comrades on one of the ridges that they had defended so well, listened to the roar of conflict on the wing, ever increasing in volume, and watched the vast clouds of smoke gathering over the forest.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000008_000001|He could see from where he stood the flash of rifle fire and the blaze of cannon, and both eye and ear told him that the battle was not moving back upon the South.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000010_000000|"Not that I can perceive," replied the colonel, "and yet with the rush of forty thousand fresh troops of ours upon the field I deemed victory quick and easy.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000010_000001|How the battle grows!
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000010_000002|How the South fights!"
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000001|He walked up and down in front of his lines, saying little but seeing everything.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000003|He, too, must have felt a singular thrill at that moment.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000004|He must have known that his star was rising.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000006|He had not been able to avert defeat, but he had prevented utter ruin.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000007|His division alone had held together in the face of the Southern attack until night came.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000012_000000|Sherman must have recalled, too, how his statement that the North would need two hundred thousand troops in the west alone had been sneered at, and he had been called mad.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000012_000001|But he neither boasted nor predicted, continuing to watch intently the swelling battle.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000014_000000|"We'll win yet," said Dick hopefully, "but I don't think we can achieve any big victory.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000014_000001|Look, there's General Grant himself."
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000015_000000|Grant was passing along his whole line.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000016_000004|He knew the remains of Grant's army were about to march upon the enemy, helping the Army of the Ohio to achieve the task that had proved so great.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000017_000000|Sherman, McClernand and other generals now passed among their troops, cheering them, telling them that the time had come to win back what they had lost the day before, and that victory was sure.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000018_000000|Sherman's whole division now raised itself up and rushed at the enemy, Dick and his comrades in the front of their own regiment.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000019_000001|Their decimated ranks could not withstand the charge of two armies.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000020_000001|The promises of their generals were coming true, and there is nothing sweeter than victory after defeat. Fortune, after frowning upon her so long, was now smiling upon the North.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000020_000002|The exultant cheer swept through the ranks again, and back came the defiant rebel yell.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000021_000001|Dick now knew that the North would recover the field, and that the South, cut down fearfully, though having performed prodigies of valor, must fight to save herself.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000022_000001|There was only one road by which Beauregard could retreat to Corinth.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000002|The shock was terrific.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000004|McClernand, too, reeled back, others were driven in also.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000005|Whole brigades and regiments were cut to pieces or thrown in confusion.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000006|The Southerners cut a wide gap in the Northern army, through which they rushed in triumph, holding the Corinth road against every attack and making their rear secure.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000024_000000|Sherman's division, after its momentary repulse, gathered itself anew, and, although knowing now that the Southern army could not be entrapped, drove again with all its might upon the positions around the church. They passed over the dead of the day before, and gathered increasing vigor, as they saw that the enemy was slowly drawing back.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000025_000000|Grant reformed his line, which had been shattered by the last fiery and successful attack of the South.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000001|Despite the prodigies of valor performed by their men, the Southern generals saw that they could not longer hold the field.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000002|The junction of Grant and Buell, after all, had proved too much for them.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000003|The bugles sounded the retreat, and reluctantly they gave up the ground which they had won with so much courage and daring.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000004|They retreated rather as victors than defeated men, presenting a bristling front to the enemy until their regiments were lost in the forest, and beating off every attempt of skirmishers or cavalry to molest them.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000027_000000|It was the middle of the afternoon when the last shot was fired, and the Southern army at its leisure resumed its march toward Corinth, protected on the flanks by its cavalry, and carrying with it the assurance that although not victorious over two armies it had been victorious over one, and had struck the most stunning blow yet known in American history.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000028_000000|When the last of the Southern regiments disappeared in the deep woods, Dick and many of those around him sank exhausted upon the ground.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000028_000001|Even had they been ordered to follow they would have been incapable of it. Complete nervous collapse followed such days and nights as those through which they had passed.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000000|Nor did Grant and Buell wish to pursue.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000001|Their armies had been too terribly shaken to make another attack.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000003|The South had lost almost as many.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000004|Nearly a third of her army had been killed or wounded in the battle, and yet they retired in good order, showing the desperate valor of these sons of hers.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000030_000000|The double army which had saved itself, but which had yet been unable to destroy its enemy, slept that night in the recovered camp.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000030_000001|The generals discussed in subdued tones their narrow escape, and the soldiers, who now understood very well what had happened, talked of it in the same way.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000031_000000|"We knew that it was going to be a big war," said Dick, "but it's going to be far bigger than we thought."
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000032_000000|"And we won't make that easy parade down to the Gulf," said Warner.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000032_000001|"I'm thinking that a lot of lions are in the path."
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000033_000000|"But we'll win!" said Dick.
train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000034_000000|Then after dreaming a little with his eyes open he fell asleep, gathering new strength for mighty campaigns yet to come.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000001_000000|However closely one may study the fair sex, there is no understanding them in the least.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000002_000000|Diana had never liked Lydia; when the American girl became her stepmother she hated her, and not only said as much but showed in her every action that she believed what she said.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000002_000002|The punishment would be no more than she deserved.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000003_000000|Yet when these things came to pass; when, by the discovery that Vrain yet lived, Lydia lost her liberty; and when, as connected with the conspiracy, she was arrested on a criminal warrant and put into prison, Diana was the only friend she had.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000003_000001|Miss Vrain declared that her stepmother was innocent, visited her in prison, and engaged a lawyer to defend her.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000003_000002|Lucian could not forbear pointing out the discrepancy between Diana's past sentiments and her present actions; but Miss Vrain was quite ready with an excuse.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000004_000000|"I am only doing my duty," she said.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000004_000001|"In herself I like Lydia as little as ever I did, but I think we have suspected her wrongly in being connected with this conspiracy, so I wish to help her if possible.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000004_000002|And after all," added Diana, "she is my father's wife," as if that fact extenuated all.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000005_000000|"He has reason to know it," replied Lucian bitterly.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000005_000001|"If it had not been for Lydia, your father would not have left his home for a lunatic asylum, nor would Clear have been murdered."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000007_000000|"Egad! that is true!" said Lucian, kissing her.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000007_000001|"It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000008_000000|So Diana played the part of a Good Samaritan towards her stepmother, and helped her to bear the evil of being thrust into prison.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000008_000001|Lydia wrote to her father in Paris, but received no reply, and therefore was without a friend in the world save Diana.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000008_000002|Later on she was admitted to bail, and Diana took her to the hotel in Kensington, there to wait for the arrival of mr Clyne.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000009_000000|"I hope nothing is wrong with poppa," wept Lydia.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000010_000000|While she was thus waiting for her father, and Link in every way was seeking evidence against her, mrs Clear received an answer to her message.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000011_000001|Affairs were about to be brought to a crisis, and as Link was the moving spirit in the matter, his vanity was sufficiently gratified as to make him quite amiable.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000012_000000|"We've got him this time, mr Denzil," he said, with enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000012_000001|"You and I and a couple of policemen will go down to that house in Geneva Square-by the front, sir, by the front."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000013_000000|"mrs Clear, also?" questioned Lucian, wishing to be enlightened on all points.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000014_000000|"no
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000014_000001|She'll come in by the back, down the cellarway, as Wrent expects her to come.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000015_000000|"But won't the two be seen climbing over that fence in the daytime?" asked the barrister doubtfully.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000000|"Who said anything about the daytime, mr Denzil?
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000001|I did not, and Wrent knows too much to risk himself at a time that he can be seen from the windows of the adjacent houses.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000002|No! no!
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000005|We'll give him rope enough to hang himself, sir, and then pounce out and nab him."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000017_000000|"Well, he won't show much fight if he is mr Vrain."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000018_000000|"I don't believe he is mr Vrain," retorted the detective bluntly.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000019_000000|"I am doubtful of that, also," admitted Lucian, "but you know Vrain is now out of the asylum, and, for the time being, has been left to his own devices.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000019_000002|Supposing, after all, this mysterious Wrent proves to be this unhappy man?"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000020_000000|"In that case, he'll have to pay for his whistle, sir."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000021_000000|"You mean in connection with the conspiracy?"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000022_000000|"Yes, and perhaps with the murder of Clear; but we don't know if the so-called Wrent committed the crime.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000022_000001|For such reason, mr Denzil, I wish to overhear what he says to mrs Clear.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000022_000002|It is as well to give him enough rope to hang himself with."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000023_000000|"Can you trust mrs Clear?"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000024_000000|"Absolutely.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000024_000001|She knows on which side her bread is buttered.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000026_000000|"Well, sir," said Link, putting his head on one side, and looking at Lucian with an odd expression, "you had better wait till the man's caught before I answer that question.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000026_000001|Then, maybe, you won't require an answer."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000027_000000|"It is very probable I won't," replied Lucian drily.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000028_000000|"I'll call for you at nine o'clock sharp, and we'll go across to the house at once.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000028_000001|I have the key in my pocket now.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000028_000002|Peacock gave it to me this morning.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000029_000000|"I hope it won't prove to be Vrain," said Lucian restlessly, for he thought how grieved Diana would be.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000000|"I hope not," answered Link curtly, "but there's no knowing.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000001|However, if the old man does get into trouble he can plead insanity.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000002|His having been in the asylum of Jorce is a strong card for him to play.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000003|Good day, mr Denzil.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000031_000000|"Good day," replied Lucian, and the pair parted for the time being.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000032_000001|In the first place, he did not wish to see Lydia, for whom he had no great love; and in the second, he was afraid to speak to Diana as to the possibility of her father being Wrent.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000033_000000|Diana, as a good daughter should, held firmly to the idea that her father could not behave in such a way; and as a sensible woman, she did not think that a man with so few of his senses about him could have acted the dual part with which he was credited without, in some measure, betraying himself.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000034_000000|Lucian was somewhat of this opinion himself, yet he had an uneasy feeling that Vrain might prove to be the culprit.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000034_000001|The fact of Vrain's being often away from mrs Clear's house in Bayswater, and Wrent absent in the same way from mrs Bensusan's house in Jersey Street, appeared strange, and argued a connection between the two.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000034_000002|Again, the resemblance between them was most extraordinary and unaccountable.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000035_000001|But only Link knew where the woman was to be found, and kept that information to himself-especially from Denzil.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000036_000000|Punctual to the minute, Link, in a state of subdued excitement, came to Lucian's rooms.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000036_000001|Already he had sent his two policemen over to the house, into which he had instructed them to enter in the quietest and most unostentatious manner, and now came to escort the barrister across.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000037_000000|Lucian put on his hat at once, and the two walked out into the dark night, for dark it was, with no moon, few stars, and a great many clouds.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000037_000001|A most satisfactory night for their purpose.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000038_000000|"All the better," said Link, casting a look round the deserted square; "all the better for our little game.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000038_000001|I wish to secure this fellow as quietly as possible.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000038_000002|Here's the door open-in with you, mr Denzil!"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000039_000000|According to instructions, a policeman had waited behind the closed door, and at the one sharp knock of his superior opened it at once so that the two slipped in as speedily as possible.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000039_000001|Link had a dark lantern, which he used carefully, so that no light could be seen from the window looking on to the square; and with his three companions he went into the back room which had formerly been used by Clear as a sleeping apartment.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000039_000002|Here the two policemen stationed themselves in one corner; and Link, with Lucian, waited near the door leading into the sitting room, so as to be ready for mrs Clear.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000040_000001|In a whisper he conversed with Link.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000041_000000|"Have you heard anything of that girl Rhoda?" he asked.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000042_000000|"We have traced her to Berkshire," whispered Link.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000042_000001|"She went back to her gypsy kinsfolk, you know.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000044_000000|"So do I, and I hope to make him confess as much to night.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000044_000001|Hush!"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000045_000000|Suddenly Link had laid his clasp on Lucian's wrist to command silence, and the next moment they heard the swish swish of a woman's dress coming along the passage.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000045_000001|She entered the sitting room cautiously, moving slowly in the darkness, and stole up to the door behind which Lucian and the detective were hiding.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000045_000002|The position of this she knew well, because it was opposite the window.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000046_000000|"Are you there?" whispered mrs Clear nervously.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000047_000000|"Yes," replied Link in the same tone.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000047_000001|"Myself, mr Denzil, and two policemen.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000048_000001|"He will, if he knows I've betrayed him."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000049_000000|"That will be all right," said Link in a low, impatient voice.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000050_000001|He'll see you!"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000000|"He won't, mrs Clear.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000001|We'll keep back in the darkness.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000002|If he shows a light, we'll rush him before he can use a weapon or clear out.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000003|Get back to the window!"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000052_000000|"I hope I'll get through with this all right," said mrs Clear nervously.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000052_000001|"It's an awful situation," and she moved stealthily across the floor to the window.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000053_000000|There was a faint gaslight outside, and the watchers could see her figure and profile black against the slight illumination.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000053_000001|All was still and silent as the grave when they began their dreary watch.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000054_000000|The minutes passed slowly in the darkness, and there was an unbroken silence save for the breathing of the watchers and the restless movements of mrs Clear near the window.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000054_000001|They saw her pass and repass the square of glass, when, unexpectedly, she paused, rigid and silent.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000056_000001|They paused at the door, and then moved towards the window where mrs Clear was standing.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000058_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000058_000002|"I am glad you have come."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000059_000000|"I am glad, also," said the voice harshly, "as I wish to know why you propose to betray me."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000060_000000|"Because you won't pay me the money," said mrs Clear boldly.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000060_000001|"And if you don't give it to me this very night I'll go straight and tell the police all about my husband."
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000061_000000|"I'll kill you first!" cried the man with a snarl, and made a dash at the woman.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000061_000002|The next moment the four watchers were in the room wrestling with Wrent.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000061_000004|However, he could do little against his four adversaries, and, worn out with the struggle, collapsed suddenly on to the dusty floor with a motion of despair.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000062_000000|"Lost! lost!" he muttered.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000062_000001|"All lost!"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000063_000001|Out of the darkness started a pale face with white hair and long white beard.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000063_000002|Lucian uttered a cry.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000064_000000|"mr Vrain!" he said, shrinking back, "mr
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000064_000001|Vrain!"
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000065_000000|"Look again," said Link, passing his hand rapidly over the face and head of the prostrate man.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000065_000001|Denzil did look, and uttered a second cry more startling than the first.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000065_000002|Wig and beard and venerable looks were all gone, and he recognised at once who Wrent was.
train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000066_000000|"Jabez Clyne!--Jabez Clyne!" he exclaimed in astonishment.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000002_000000|"TWO LITTLE DARKY GIRLS"
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000003_000000|"When will mr Lincoln be President?" Sylvia asked a few mornings after her father's announcement of his intention to return to Boston.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000004_000000|"He was inaugurated yesterday," replied her mother.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000005_000000|"Then can't Captain Carleton go north with us?" asked Sylvia, who had convinced herself that when mr Lincoln was in charge of the Government that all the troubles over Charleston's forts would end.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000006_000000|But mrs Fulton shook her head.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000007_000000|"Captain Carleton must stay and perhaps fight to defend the flag," she replied.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000007_000001|"I wish we could leave at once, but we must stay as long as we can."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000008_000000|Sylvia listened soberly.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000008_000001|She wondered what her mother would say if she knew of her promise to mrs Carleton to take a message to Fort Sumter if mrs Carleton should ask her to do so.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000009_000000|The warm days of early March made the southern city full of fragrance and beauty.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000009_000001|Many flowers were in bloom, the hedges were green, and the air soft and warm.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000009_000002|Sylvia and Grace often spoke of Flora, and wished that they could again visit the plantation.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000000|Philip had brought Sylvia a letter from Flora, thanking her for the locket, and hoping that they would see each other again.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000001|Philip had not come into the house.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000003|He said that Ralph was in the Confederate army.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000004|"I'd be a soldier if I was only a little older," he declared; and Sylvia did not even ask him about Dinkie, or the ponies. She wished that she could tell him that very soon she was going to Boston, but she knew that she must not; so she said good bye, and Philip walked down the path, and waved his cap to her as he reached the gate.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000011_000000|It had been many weeks since the Butterfly had sailed about Charleston harbor.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000011_000001|But the little boat was in the charge of an old negro who took good care of it.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000011_000003|Now and then he appeared at Aunt Connie's kitchen, and one warm day toward the last of March, when Sylvia was wandering about the garden, she saw Uncle peter going up the walk to the rear of the house.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000012_000001|Wait!" she called and ran to ask him about the boat.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000013_000001|He said that unless Major Anderson and his soldiers left Fort Sumter at once that all the forts, and the new batteries built by the Confederates, would open fire upon Sumter and destroy it.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000014_000000|"I hears a good deal, Missy, 'deed I does," he declared, "but I doan' let on as I hears.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000015_000000|"I wish I could have a sail in the Butterfly again," said Sylvia, a little wistfully.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000016_000000|"Do you, Missy?
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000016_000001|Well, I reckons you can.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000017_000000|Sylvia knew that mrs Carleton was worried and unhappy.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000017_000001|It was known in Charleston that Fort Sumter was near the end of its food supplies, and that unless the Government at Washington sent reinforcements and provisions very soon by ships that the little garrison would be at the mercy of the Confederates, who were daily growing in strength.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000019_000000|"Perhaps she won't ask me.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000019_000001|But if I could go and see Captain Carleton, and tell him that she was going to Boston with us, and then bring her back a message, I know she'd be happier," thought the little girl.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000019_000002|And she thought, too, of the pleasure it would be to once more sail the Butterfly to Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000020_000000|She sat down on the porch steps, and a moment later Estralla appeared bringing a plate of freshly baked sugar cookies from Aunt Connie.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000022_000000|"I'll go and thank her myself," said Sylvia, taking the plate, and offering one of the cookies to Estralla.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000025_000000|Sylvia sprang to her feet so quickly that she nearly upset the plate of cookies.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000026_000000|"Could we?
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000000|"But, Estralla, listen.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000001|I could be black.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000002|You could rub soot from the chimney all over my face and hands.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000003|And I could pin my hair close on top of my head and twist one of your mammy's handkerchiefs tight over it.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000004|Then nobody would know me." Sylvia had quite forgotten the fine cookies.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000005|She was holding Estralla by the arm, and talking very rapidly. Estralla was almost frightened at Sylvia's eagerness.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000031_000001|If the men are hungry we could carry them something to eat.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000031_000002|But most of all I want to see Captain Carleton, and get some message for his wife.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000031_000003|She is so unhappy to go away without a word."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000032_000000|"Come 'long down in de garden," said Estralla, now as interested as Sylvia herself, "an' tells me more whar' nobody'll be hearin'," and the two little girls hurried off to a far corner of the pleasant garden.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000000|"I'll come to your cabin and dress up there, and I will ask your mammy to give me some food for a poor man.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000001|Some cookies and a cake," she said.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000002|"We will start early to morrow morning.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000003|And, Estralla, we will have to tell Uncle peter, or he won't let us have the boat."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000036_000001|But I reckon Uncle Pete won' let us.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000036_000003|But she was finally convinced that Missy Sylvia could carry out the plan, and agreed to have a large quantity of soot ready at her mother's cabin the next morning.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000037_000000|Sylvia was glad that she had eaten only one of the cookies.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000037_000001|She carried the remainder to her room and then went to the kitchen.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000040_000000|"It's a secret, Aunt Connie!
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000040_000001|I want to give it away, and I don't want to tell even my mother until-well," and Sylvia hesitated a moment, and then continued, "until next week.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000040_000002|Then I will tell her, and you too."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000041_000000|"Dat's right, Missy.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000043_000002|It would give them all courage," said mrs Carleton.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000044_000000|Sylvia was for a moment tempted to tell her friend that she would carry the message, but she kept silent, thinking to herself that here was another reason for her to carry out her plan.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000045_000000|"If you could send a message to Captain Carleton what would you say?" questioned Sylvia, and mrs Carleton smiled at Sylvia's serious voice.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000046_000000|"Why, if I could only let him know that I was safe and well and going to Boston with you, in case Sumter really is attacked; I know that is what he wants to hear."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000047_000001|Sylvia realized that this kind friend was troubled, and wished with all her heart that she could say: "To morrow I will tell you all about Captain Carleton." But she knew that she must keep silent until she had carried out her plan.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000048_000000|Sylvia was the first one at the breakfast table the next morning, and was delighted when her mother said that she and mrs Carleton were invited to luncheon at the house of a friend.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000049_000001|But she made no reply, and soon hurried to the cabin where Estralla was waiting for her.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000050_000000|It was still early in the forenoon when two little negro girls, one carrying a large package wrapped in a newspaper, appeared at the wharf where the Butterfly was moored.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000050_000001|Uncle peter was not to be seen.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000050_000003|In a moment Sylvia had unfastened the rope, pushed the boat clear of the landing, and rudder in hand was steering the boat out toward the channel.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000051_000000|Two or three men in uniform watched the little "darkies," as they supposed both the girls to be, with amusement.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000051_000001|Negro children were always playing about, and no attention was paid to them.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000053_000000|But it happened that Uncle peter had been sent on an errand to a distant part of the town, and before he returned the Butterfly was well down the harbor.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000054_000000|Once or twice a guard boat passed them closely enough to make sure that there were only two colored children in the boat, and they came up under the walls of Fort Sumter without a hindrance.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000054_000001|The sentries at the fort had watched the little craft with anxious eyes, wondering if it could be bringing any message.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000054_000003|She is white."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000055_000001|And he was eager to hear all that she could tell him.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000055_000002|Estralla held the cake and cookies, which she had carefully wrapped in a newspaper, and the Captain seemed as much pleased with the paper as with the cake.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000056_000000|"You can write a letter to mrs Carleton and we will take it," suggested Sylvia, and then she told him Uncle Peter's news: that the President was sending ships to the aid of the fort.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000057_000000|"That is great news," said the Captain; "if it is only true we may keep the fort for the Union."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000058_000000|Within the hour of their arrival Sylvia and Estralla were on their way home.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000058_000001|The Captain had praised and thanked Sylvia for the loyal friendship that had prompted her visit.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000059_000000|"mrs Carleton and I will always remember your courage," he said, as he handed her the letter.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000060_000000|"I am so glad I thought about it; but it was really Estralla.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000060_000001|She said if I was black we could come," Sylvia had replied.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000061_000000|Then the boat swung clear and headed toward Charleston.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000062_000000|"I am not going to land at the big wharves," said Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000062_000002|And then we'll tell Uncle peter where the Butterfly is."
train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000065_000000|"Missy wants a big pitcher of hot water," replied Estralla, dancing about just beyond Aunt Connie's reach.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000008_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000009_000000|A GLASS OF POISON
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000010_000000|Margaret could do nothing but stare at the man before her.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000011_000000|"mr Styles-" she began, but he put his hand over her mouth.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000012_000000|"You are sick-out of your head," he interrupted.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000012_000001|"I know what is best, and you must do as I say.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000012_000002|Come on." And he pulled her forward by the hand.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000013_000000|"Where to?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000014_000000|"Not very far."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000015_000000|"I-I do not wish to go to your home."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000016_000000|"I'll not take you there, don't fear."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000017_000000|"You are going to hand me over to the-the authorities."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000018_000000|"Never!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000018_000001|Come.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000018_000002|I won't hurt you."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000019_000000|He led the way through the woods, across a small stream and past a spot where some wild berries grew.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000019_000001|Then they struck a trail leading up a hillside.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000019_000002|The place was new to her.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000020_000000|"I want to know where you are taking me," she said presently, and came to a halt.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000021_000000|"To a place where you will be safe."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000022_000000|"That isn't answering the question."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000001|Cannot you trust me, girl?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000002|I'm not going to hurt you.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000003|I love you, and I'll do all I can to help you.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000004|Come!" And again he made her move on.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000024_000000|At last they came in sight of a tumbled down cottage on the edge of what had once been a clearing, but which was now overgrown with weeds and brushwood.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000024_000001|As they came up, Margaret's strength gave out, and suddenly she sank down on her knees.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000025_000000|"All in, are you?" he said, not unkindly, and, stooping, he picked her up bodily.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000025_000001|She tried to resist, but could not, and he took her into the cottage and placed her on a couch.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000026_000000|"I'll get you a nurse," he said, noting her extreme paleness.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000026_000001|"You need one."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000028_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000029_000000|"Thank you," she murmured, and then closed her eyes, for she was too far gone to say more, or to make a move.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000030_000001|She had administered some sort of drug-what, the girl did not know-and it had put her into a sound sleep.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000000|When Margaret looked around again, she was surprised to see that it was morning.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000001|She tried to think, but her mind was almost a blank.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000002|Outside of the broken window a wild bird was singing gayly.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000003|She looked around. The old woman was not in sight.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000032_000000|She had been put to bed, and sat there, trying to think for several minutes.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000032_000001|Then she gave a low call, and the old woman appeared in the doorway.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000034_000000|"Where am I?" asked Margaret feebly.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000035_000000|"You're safe enough, never fear."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000036_000000|Margaret said no more and the woman went about some little work. Presently the girl arose and dressed herself.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000036_000001|She felt much stronger than when at the home of Martha Sampson, in spite of what she had experienced in running away.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000036_000002|She sank down in a rocking chair, to think matters over.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000037_000000|How far was she from Sidham?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000037_000001|She knew she must have come a long distance, but could not tell if it was five miles or fifty.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000037_000002|She looked out of the window, but the scenery was strange to her.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000038_000000|As she sat there she reviewed what had passed, her mind becoming clearer as she thought.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000038_000001|She remembered the scene at the inquest, and remembered how she had fainted, and how Raymond had supported her and taken her to the nurse's house.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000039_000000|"Poor, dear father," she murmured.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000039_000001|"Who could have been so wicked as to take your life?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000040_000000|An hour went by, and she prepared to leave the cottage, when a shadow fell across the window, and Matlock Styles appeared.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000040_000001|He spoke a few low words to the old woman, and the latter walked away.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000041_000000|As the man entered the room, Margaret arose and faced him.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000041_000001|The Englishman was well dressed, and newly shaven, and wore a rosebud in his buttonhole.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000042_000000|"I'm glad to see you up and looking so well," he said pleasantly.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000042_000001|"I was afraid your running away would hurt you."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000043_000000|"I-I must thank you for what you have done for me, mr Styles," she answered.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000044_000000|"Oh, that's all right, Miss Margaret.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000045_000000|"Well, I suppose it cannot be helped.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000045_000001|But I must be getting back soon. You will show me the road?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000000|"Don't be in a hurry to go.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000001|You're not strong enough to go. Besides-" the Englishman paused impressively.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000002|"What's the use of going back?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000003|Don't you know things look beastly black for you?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000047_000000|"Perhaps, but I am not afraid-now.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000047_000001|I am not guilty, mr Styles."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000000|"Of course not!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000001|Of course not!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000002|I knew that from the start.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000003|But things do look black, no use of talking.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000004|I want to help you." He came closer, at which she retreated a step.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000000|"Thank you, but I do not see what you can do.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000001|I must go back and give myself up.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000002|I-I was not myself when I ran away.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000003|It was a very foolish thing to do."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000050_000000|"If you go back, do you know what they will do?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000050_000001|They will surely hang you?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000051_000000|"Oh, merciful Heaven?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000051_000001|Do not say that!"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000052_000000|"I wouldn't if it wasn't so.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000052_000001|But I've been talking to the coroner and the chief of police, and they have all of the evidence as straight as a string."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000000|"I feel that you are, and that is why I side with you.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000001|Besides, you know my feeling for you.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000002|I've loved you for a long time-I told you so before." He took hold of her arm.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000003|"If you'll do what I wish, I'll see to it that you escape-that you are never bothered any more."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000055_000000|"How can you do that?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000000|"Never mind how it can be done.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000001|Promise to give up Case, and be my wife, and I will attend to all of the rest.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000002|And I'll promise you more than that.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000003|Listen, do you know that I am immensely wealthy?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000004|It is so, and I can easily prove it.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000005|Look here." He drew a big roll of bank bills from his pocket, each bill of a large denomination.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000006|"I have ten thousand dollars here.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000007|It shall be yours for the taking-if you will marry me.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000008|I can easily raise five times this amount in forty eight hours.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000009|We can go to Europe, or Australia, or anywhere we wish.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000010|Isn't that far better than to stay here, to be hung by a lot of country bumpkins, who don't understand the matter at all?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000057_000000|She put up her hands, and waved him away.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000057_000001|Then she burst into tears.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000058_000000|"Don't speak so, please don't!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000058_000001|I-I cannot bear it, I have gone through so much already!"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000059_000001|"I am giving you everything I have, my wealth, my honor, everything!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000059_000002|Can a man do more than that?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000059_000003|I love you-love you more than Raymond Case ever did, or will."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000060_000000|She wrung her hands and his dark eyes seemed to pierce her very soul. She felt faint and sank on a bench.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000061_000000|"Come, will you accept, Margaret?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000063_000000|"But think of what is before you."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000064_000000|"If I tried to escape, they would soon be on my track-"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000065_000000|"No, I can prevent that."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000066_000000|"How?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000067_000000|"Because the world will know that you are innocent."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000068_000000|She gave a start and looked at him wildly, pleadingly.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000069_000000|"Then you know the real murderer?" she panted.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000070_000000|"If I answer that question, will you become my wife?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000071_000000|Again she shrank back.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000072_000000|"You know the murderer," she repeated.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000072_000001|"Perhaps you committed the foul deeds yourself."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000073_000000|He took a step back as if struck a blow.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000073_000001|Then he recovered quickly and smiled a bitter smile.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000074_000000|"No, I was not near the place, I can prove it.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000074_000001|Besides, your folks and myself were on good terms.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000074_000002|There is somebody else, who was around the house when the affair happened-somebody you know well, a person who would know all about the drug with which your father and mrs Langmore were killed."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000075_000000|"Who was it?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000076_000000|"Will you consent to marry me?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000077_000000|"Tell me first."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000078_000000|"No, afterwards."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000079_000000|"You are fooling me."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000080_000000|"I swear I am not, Margaret.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000080_000001|Marry me, and I will clear you as surely as the sun is shining."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000081_000000|"And if I refuse?"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000082_000000|He came and caught her by the arm, his face blazing with sudden passion.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000000|"Do not dare to do that!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000001|Don't you understand the matter?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000002|You are in my power-in my power absolutely.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000003|I can hand you over to the police whenever I will."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000084_000000|"That will not be such a hardship.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000084_000001|I said I was going back."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000085_000000|"Bah!
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000085_000001|If I tell them that I caught you, that you begged me to let you get away-that you even said you would marry me, if I would aid you, what then?
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000085_000002|Everybody will think you guilty, and Raymond Case will never come near you again."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000086_000000|"You-you monster!"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000087_000000|"Perhaps I am a monster when aroused.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000088_000000|"I do not want to think it over.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000088_000001|My mind is made up.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000088_000003|I loathe and despise you!"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000089_000000|There was a moment of silence, and his dark face turned a sickly white and then red.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000089_000001|He breathed heavily through his set teeth.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000091_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000092_000000|He glared at her steadily.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000092_000001|Then, in a burst of rage, he caught her by the throat and threw her backward to the floor.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000092_000002|She offered no resistance, and pausing in his madness he realized that she had swooned away.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000093_000000|"Fainted!" he hissed between his set teeth.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000093_000001|"I wish she was dead! Curse her and her beauty!"
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000094_000000|He waited, and as she did not return to consciousness, he picked her up, and placed her on the bed.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000094_000001|Then he hurried outside:
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000000|"Go back to the house," he said to the old woman.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000001|"You'll not be needed here any more.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000002|And see that you keep your jaw closed over this," he added harshly.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000003|And the woman slunk away as if struck, like a dog.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000096_000000|Once inside of the cottage, he took up a glass of water standing on the table, and to this added a powder taken from his pocket, stirring it up well.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000096_000001|Then he looked around to see that there was no other water around the building.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000097_000000|"When she rouses up she will be dry, and she will drink this," he muttered to himself.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000097_000001|"Half a glass will do the work and she will never bother me or anybody else any more."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000098_000000|He paused again and took from his pocket several sheets of paper, closely and carelessly written upon in pencil.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000098_000001|The first sheet was headed:
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000000|"A fine forgery, if I do say so myself," he mused.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000001|"Mat, you always were a plum with the pen.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000002|I'll add a line telling where she can be found and then send it to the coroner.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000003|That will be better than leaving it around here.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000004|She might find it before she drank that dose." He paused again.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000006|I'll give her some of it now, and make sure."
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000101_000000|He raised up the almost lifeless girl, and forced open her lips.
train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000101_000001|Then he took the glass, and poured half the contents down her throat.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000005_000001|BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000007_000003|There was an air of mystery about this that piqued my languid curiosity, and I determined to attempt the passage of that strait, and to explore the unknown regions beyond.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000007_000004|The door yielded to my hand, with all that facility with which the portals of enchanted castles yield to the adventurous knight errant.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000008_000000|Now and then one of these personages would write something on a small slip of paper, and ring a bell, whereupon a familiar would appear, take the paper in profound silence, glide out of the room, and return shortly loaded with ponderous tomes, upon which the other would fall, tooth and nail, with famished voracity.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000009_000002|I found that these mysterious personages, whom I had mistaken for magi, were principally authors, and were in the very act of manufacturing books.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000000|Being now in possession of the secret, I sat down in a corner, and watched the process of this book manufactory.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000001|I noticed one lean, bilious looking wight, who sought none but the most worm eaten volumes, printed in black letter.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000002|He was evidently constructing some work of profound erudition, that would be purchased by every man who wished to be thought learned, placed upon a conspicuous shelf of his library, or laid open upon his table-but never read.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000003|I observed him, now and then, draw a large fragment of biscuit out of his pocket, and gnaw; whether it was his dinner, or whether he was endeavoring to keep off that exhaustion of the stomach, produced by much pondering over dry works, I leave to harder students than myself to determine.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000011_000000|There was one dapper little gentleman in bright colored clothes, with a chirping gossiping expression of countenance, who had all the appearance of an author on good terms with his bookseller.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000011_000001|After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000011_000003|He made more stir and show of business than any of the others; dipping into various books, fluttering over the leaves of manuscripts, taking a morsel out of one, a morsel out of another, "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little." The contents of his book seemed to be as heterogeneous as those of the witches' cauldron in Macbeth.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000012_000002|In like manner, the beauties and fine thoughts of ancient and obsolete authors are caught up by these flights of predatory writers, and cast forth, again to flourish and bear fruit in a remote and distant tract of time.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000012_000004|What was formerly a ponderous history, revives in the shape of a romance-an old legend changes into a modern play-and a sober philosophical treatise furnishes the body for a whole series of bouncing and sparkling essays.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000012_000005|Thus it is in the clearing of our American woodlands; where we burn down a forest of stately pines, a progeny of dwarf oaks start up in their place; and we never see the prostrate trunk of a tree mouldering into soil, but it gives birth to a whole tribe of fungi.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000013_000000|Let us not then, lament over the decay and oblivion into which ancient writers descend; they do but submit to the great law of Nature, which declares that all sublunary shapes of matter shall be limited in their duration, but which decrees, also, that their element shall never perish.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000013_000001|Generation after generation, both in animal and vegetable life, passes away, but the vital principle is transmitted to posterity, and the species continue to flourish.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000013_000002|Thus, also, do authors beget authors, and having produced a numerous progeny, in a good old age they sleep with their fathers, that is to say, with the authors who preceded them-and from whom they had stolen.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000003|I dreamt that the chamber was still decorated with the portraits of ancient authors, but that the number was increased.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000004|The long tables had disappeared, and, in place of the sage magi, I beheld a ragged, threadbare throng, such as may be seen plying about the great repository of cast off clothes, Monmouth Street.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000005|Whenever they seized upon a book, by one of those incongruities common to dreams, methought it turned into a garment of foreign or antique fashion, with which they proceeded to equip themselves.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000006|I noticed, however, that no one pretended to clothe himself from any particular suit, but took a sleeve from one, a cape from another, a skirt from a third, thus decking himself out piecemeal, while some of his original rags would peep out from among his borrowed finery.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000015_000000|There was a portly, rosy, well fed parson, whom I observed ogling several mouldy polemical writers through an eyeglass.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000016_000001|Some, too, seemed to contemplate the costumes of the old writers, merely to imbibe their principles of taste, and to catch their air and spirit; but I grieve to say, that too many were apt to array themselves, from top to toe, in the patchwork manner I have mentioned.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000016_000003|He had decked himself in wreaths and ribbons from all the old pastoral poets, and, hanging his head on one side, went about with a fantastical, lackadaisical air, "babbling about green field." But the personage that most struck my attention was a pragmatical old gentleman in clerical robes, with a remarkably large and square but bald head.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000016_000004|He entered the room wheezing and puffing, elbowed his way through the throng with a look of sturdy self confidence, and, having laid hands upon a thick Greek quarto, clapped it upon his head, and swept majestically away in a formidable frizzled wig.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000000|In the height of this literary masquerade, a cry suddenly resounded from every side, of "Thieves! thieves!" I looked, and lo! the portraits about the walls became animated!
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000001|The old authors thrust out, first a head, then a shoulder, from the canvas, looked down curiously for an instant upon the motley throng, and then descended, with fury in their eyes, to claim their rifled property.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000002|The scene of scampering and hubbub that ensued baffles all description.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000003|The unhappy culprits endeavored in vain to escape with their plunder.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000004|On one side might be seen half a dozen old monks, stripping a modern professor; on another, there was sad devastation carried into the ranks of modern dramatic writers.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000005|Beaumont and Fletcher, side by side, raged round the field like Castor and Pollux, and sturdy Ben Jonson enacted more wonders than when a volunteer with the army in Flanders.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000006|As to the dapper little compiler of farragos mentioned some time since, he had arrayed himself in as many patches and colors as harlequin, and there was as fierce a contention of claimants about him, as about the dead body of Patroclus.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000008|They were close upon his haunches; in a twinkling off went his wig; at every turn some strip of raiment was peeled away, until in a few moments, from his domineering pomp, he shrunk into a little, pursy, "chopp'd bald shot," and made his exit with only a few tags and rags fluttering at his back.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000000|There was something so ludicrous in the catastrophe of this learned Theban that I burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, which broke the whole illusion.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000001|The tumult and the scuffle were at an end.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000003|The old authors shrunk back into their picture frames, and hung in shadowy solemnity along the walls.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000004|In short, I found myself wide awake in my corner, with the whole assemblage of hookworms gazing at me with astonishment.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000005|Nothing of the dream had been real but my burst of laughter, a sound never before heard in that grave sanctuary, and so abhorrent to the ears of wisdom, as to electrify the fraternity.
train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000019_000001|At first I did not comprehend him, but I soon found that the library was a kind of literary "preserve," subject to game laws, and that no one must presume to hunt there without special license and permission.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000003_000002|It was early in the year, but as soon as the weather was auspicious, and that the spring began to melt into the verge of summer, we took rod in hand and sallied into the country, as stark mad as was ever Don Quixote from reading books of chivalry.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000004_000000|One of our party had equalled the Don in the fulness of his equipments, being attired cap a pie for the enterprise.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000004_000001|He wore a broad skirted fustian coat, perplexed with half a hundred pockets; a pair of stout shoes and leathern gaiters; a basket slung on one side for fish; a patent rod, a landing net, and a score of other inconveniences only to be found in the true angler's armory.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000004_000002|Thus harnessed for the field, he was as great a matter of stare and wonderment among the country folk, who had never seen a regular angler, as was the steel clad hero of La Mancha among the goatherds of the Sierra Morena.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000005_000000|Our first essay was along a mountain brook among the Highlands of the Hudson-a most unfortunate place for the execution of those piscatory tactics which had been invented along the velvet margins of quiet English rivulets.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000005_000001|It was one of those wild streams that lavish, among our romantic solitudes, unheeded beauties enough to fill the sketch book of a hunter of the picturesque.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000005_000002|Sometimes it would leap down rocky shelves, making small cascades, over which the trees threw their broad balancing sprays and long nameless weeds hung in fringes from the impending banks, dripping with diamond drops.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000006_000000|How smoothly would this vagrant brook glide at such times through some bosom of green meadowland among the mountains, where the quiet was only interrupted by the occasional tinkling of a bell from the lazy cattle among the clover or the sound of a woodcutter's axe from the neighboring forest!
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000007_000000|For my part, I was always a bungler at all kinds of sport that required either patience or adroitness, and had not angled above half an hour before I had completely "satisfied the sentiment," and convinced myself of the truth of Izaak Walton's opinion, that angling is something like poetry-a man must be born to it.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000007_000001|I hooked myself instead of the fish, tangled my line in every tree, lost my bait, broke my rod, until I gave up the attempt in despair, and passed the day under the trees reading old Izaak, satisfied that it was his fascinating vein of honest simplicity and rural feeling that had bewitched me, and not the passion for angling.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000008_000000|I recollect also that, after toiling and watching and creeping about for the greater part of a day, with scarcely any success in spite of all our admirable apparatus, a lubberly country urchin came down from the hills with a rod made from a branch of a tree, a few yards of twine, and, as Heaven shall help me!
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000008_000001|I believe a crooked pin for a hook, baited with a vile earthworm, and in half an hour caught more fish than we had nibbles throughout the day!
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000009_000001|All this may appear like mere egotism, yet I cannot refrain from uttering these recollections, which are passing like a strain of music over my mind and have been called up by an agreeable scene which I witnessed not long since.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000000|In the morning's stroll along the banks of the Alun, a beautiful little stream which flows down from the Welsh hills and throws itself into the Dee, my attention was attracted to a group seated on the margin. On approaching I found it to consist of a veteran angler and two rustic disciples.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000001|The former was an old fellow with a wooden leg, with clothes very much but very carefully patched, betokening poverty honestly come by and decently maintained.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000004|The other was a tall, awkward country lad, with a lounging gait, and apparently somewhat of a rustic beau.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000005|The old man was busy in examining the maw of a trout which he had just killed, to discover by its contents what insects were seasonable for bait, and was lecturing on the subject to his companions, who appeared to listen with infinite deference.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000006|I have a kind feeling towards all "brothers of the angle" ever since I read Izaak Walton.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000002|In the meanwhile he was giving instructions to his two disciples, showing them the manner in which they should handle their rods, fix their flies, and play them along the surface of the stream.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000004|The country around was of that pastoral kind which Walton is fond of describing.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000005|It was a part of the great plain of Cheshire, close by the beautiful vale of Gessford, and just where the inferior Welsh hills begin to swell up from among fresh smelling meadows.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000006|The day too, like that recorded in his work, was mild and sunshiny, with now and then a soft dropping shower that sowed the whole earth with diamonds.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000013_000000|I soon fell into conversation with the old angler, and was so much entertained that, under pretext of receiving instructions in his art, I kept company with him almost the whole day, wandering along the banks of the stream and listening to his talk.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000014_000001|He had afterwards experienced many ups and downs in life until he got into the navy, where his leg was carried away by a cannon ball at the battle of Camperdown.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000014_000002|This was the only stroke of real good fortune he had ever experienced, for it got him a pension, which, together with some small paternal property, brought him in a revenue of nearly forty pounds. On this he retired to his native village, where he lived quietly and independently, and devoted the remainder of his life to the "noble art of angling."
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000015_000003|The lad that was receiving his instructions, I learnt, was the son and heir apparent of a fat old widow who kept the village inn, and of course a youth of some expectation, and much courted by the idle gentleman like personages of the place.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000015_000004|In taking him under his care, therefore, the old man had probably an eye to a privileged corner in the tap room and an occasional cup of cheerful ale free of expense.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000000|There is certainly something in angling-if we could forget, which anglers are apt to do, the cruelties and tortures inflicted on worms and insects-that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure serenity of mind.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000001|As the English are methodical even in their recreations, and are the most scientific of sportsmen, it has been reduced among them to perfect rule and system.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000002|Indeed, it is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and highly cultivated scenery of England, where every roughness has been softened away from the landscape.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000004|"When I would beget content," says Izaak Walton, "and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in Him."
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000000|On parting with the old angler I inquired after his place of abode, and, happening to be in the neighborhood of the village a few evenings afterwards, I had the curiosity to seek him out.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000001|I found him living in a small cottage containing only one room, but a perfect curiosity in its method and arrangement.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000002|It was on the skirts of the village, on a green bank a little back from the road, with a small garden in front stocked with kitchen herbs and adorned with a few flowers.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000004|On the top was a ship for a weathercock.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000005|The interior was fitted up in a truly nautical style, his ideas of comfort and convenience having been acquired on the berth deck of a man of war.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000006|A hammock was slung from the ceiling which in the daytime was lashed up so as to take but little room.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000007|From the centre of the chamber hung a model of a ship, of his own workmanship.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000008|Two or three chairs, a table, and a large sea chest formed the principal movables. About the wall were stuck up naval ballads, such as "Admiral Hosier's Ghost,"
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000009|"All in the Downs," and "Tom Bowling," intermingled with pictures of sea fights, among which the battle of Camperdown held a distinguished place.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000010|The mantelpiece was decorated with sea shells, over which hung a quadrant, flanked by two wood cuts of most bitter looking naval commanders.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000011|His implements for angling were carefully disposed on nails and hooks about the room.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000012|On a shelf was arranged his library, containing a work on angling, much worn, a Bible covered with canvas, an odd volume or two of voyages, a nautical almanac, and a book of songs.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000022_000001|The establishment reminded me of that of the renowned Robinson Crusoe; it was kept in neat order, everything being "stowed away" with the regularity of a ship of war; and he informed me that he "scoured the deck every morning and swept it between meals."
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000023_000000|I found him seated on a bench before the door, smoking his pipe in the soft evening sunshine.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000023_000001|His cat was purring soberly on the threshold, and his parrot describing some strange evolutions in an iron ring that swung in the centre of his cage.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000024_000000|How comforting it is to see a cheerful and contented old age, and to behold a poor fellow like this, after being tempest tost through life, safely moored in a snug and quiet harbor in the evening of his days!
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000024_000001|His happiness, however, sprung from within himself and was independent of external circumstances, for he had that inexhaustible good nature which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000025_000000|On inquiring further about him, I learnt that he was a universal favorite in the village and the oracle of the tap room, where he delighted the rustics with his songs, and, like Sindbad, astonished them with his stories of strange lands and shipwrecks and sea fights.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000025_000002|The whole tenor of his life was quiet and inoffensive, being principally passed about the neighboring streams when the weather and season were favorable; and at other times he employed himself at home, preparing his fishing tackle for the next campaign or manufacturing rods, nets, and flies for his patrons and pupils among the gentry.
train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000026_000000|He was a regular attendant at church on Sundays, though he generally fell asleep during the sermon.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000000|I have formerly censured the French for their extreme attachment to theatrical exhibitions, because I thought that they tended to render them vain and unnatural characters; but I must acknowledge, especially as women of the town never appear in the Parisian as at our theatres, that the little saving of the week is more usefully expended there every Sunday than in porter or brandy, to intoxicate or stupify the mind.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000001|The common people of France have a great superiority over that class in every other country on this very score.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000002|It is merely the sobriety of the Parisians which renders their fetes more interesting, their gaiety never becoming disgusting or dangerous, as is always the case when liquor circulates.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000003|Intoxication is the pleasure of savages, and of all those whose employments rather exhaust their animal spirits than exercise their faculties.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000004|Is not this, in fact, the vice, both in England and the northern states of Europe, which appears to be the greatest impediment to general improvement?
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000005|Drinking is here the principal relaxation of the men, including smoking, but the women are very abstemious, though they have no public amusements as a substitute.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000000|The play was founded on the story of the "Mock Doctor;" and, from the gestures of the servants, who were the best actors, I should imagine contained some humour.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000001|The farce, termed ballet, was a kind of pantomime, the childish incidents of which were sufficient to show the state of the dramatic art in Denmark, and the gross taste of the audience.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000004|The tinker, with the frying pan for a shield, renders them immovable, and blacks their cheeks.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000005|Each laughs at the other, unconscious of his own appearance; meanwhile the women enter to enjoy the sport, "the rare fun," with other incidents of the same species.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000005_000000|I have likewise visited the public library and museum, as well as the palace of Rosembourg.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000005_000002|Every object carried me back to past times, and impressed the manners of the age forcibly on my mind.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000000|The vacuum left by departed greatness was everywhere observable, whilst the battles and processions portrayed on the walls told you who had here excited revelry after retiring from slaughter, or dismissed pageantry in search of pleasure.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000003|Could the thoughts, of which there remained so many vestiges, have vanished quite away?
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000005|It cannot be!--as easily could I believe that the large silver lions at the top of the banqueting room thought and reasoned.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000006|But avaunt! ye waking dreams!
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000007|yet I cannot describe the curiosities to you.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000007_000000|There were cabinets full of baubles and gems, and swords which must have been wielded by giant's hand.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000000|I have not visited any other palace, excepting Hirsholm, the gardens of which are laid out with taste, and command the finest views the country affords.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000001|As they are in the modern and English style, I thought I was following the footsteps of Matilda, who wished to multiply around her the images of her beloved country.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000002|I was also gratified by the sight of a Norwegian landscape in miniature, which with great propriety makes a part of the Danish King's garden.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000003|The cottage is well imitated, and the whole has a pleasing effect, particularly so to me who love Norway-its peaceful farms and spacious wilds.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000009_000000|The public library consists of a collection much larger than I expected to see; and it is well arranged.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000009_000003|It might with propriety, perhaps, be termed the malady of genius; the cause of that characteristic melancholy which "grows with its growth, and strengthens with its strength."
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000010_000000|There are some good pictures in the royal museum.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000010_000002|The good pictures were mixed indiscriminately with the bad ones, in order to assort the frames.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000010_000003|The same fault is conspicuous in the new splendid gallery forming at Paris; though it seems an obvious thought that a school for artists ought to be arranged in such a manner, as to show the progressive discoveries and improvements in the art.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000012_000000|There are some respectable men of science here, but few literary characters, and fewer artists.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000013_000000|Besides, the Prince Royal, determined to be economical, almost descends to parsimony; and perhaps depresses his subjects, by labouring not to oppress them; for his intentions always seem to be good-yet nothing can give a more forcible idea of the dulness which eats away all activity of mind, than the insipid routine of a court, without magnificence or elegance.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000014_000000|The Prince, from what I can now collect, has very moderate abilities; yet is so well disposed, that Count Bernstorff finds him as tractable as he could wish; for I consider the Count as the real sovereign, scarcely behind the curtain; the Prince having none of that obstinate self sufficiency of youth, so often the forerunner of decision of character.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000016_000000|The burning of the palace was, in fact, a fortunate circumstance, as it afforded a pretext for reducing the establishment of the household, which was far too great for the revenue of the Crown.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000016_000001|The Prince Royal, at present, runs into the opposite extreme; and the formality, if not the parsimony, of the court, seems to extend to all the other branches of society, which I had an opportunity of observing; though hospitality still characterises their intercourse with strangers.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000017_000000|But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view everything with the jaundiced eye of melancholy-for I am sad-and have cause.
train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000018_000000|God bless you!
train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000004_000002|At that time, Moreover, the first storm was overblown, And the strong hand of outward violence Locked up in quiet.
train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000005_000003|'twas in truth an hour Of universal ferment; mildest men Were agitated; and commotions, strife Of passion and opinion, filled the walls Of peaceful houses with unquiet sounds.
train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000006_000000|Such was the state of things.
train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000010_000001|A meeker man Than this lived never, nor a more benign, Meek though enthusiastic.
train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000014_000006|But, these things set apart, Was not this single confidence enough To animate the mind that ever turned A thought to human welfare?
train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000015_000000|Oh, happy time of youthful lovers, (thus The story might begin).
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000001_000000|The Story of Deirdre
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000003_000001|The man was a right good man, and he had a goodly share of this world's goods. He had a wife, but no family.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000003_000003|Whether it was that he was invited or that he came of himself, the soothsayer came to the house of Malcolm.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000005_000000|"Yes, I am doing a little.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000006_000000|"Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000009_000000|"Well, I am going out, and when I return I will tell you."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000011_000001|And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose their heads on her account."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000012_000001|He did not allow a living being to come to his house, only himself and the nurse.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000012_000002|He asked this woman, "Will you yourself bring up the child to keep her in hiding far away where eye will not see a sight of her nor ear hear a word about her?"
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000013_000001|He caused there a hillock, round and green, to be dug out of the middle, and the hole thus made to be covered carefully over, so that a little company could dwell there together.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000013_000002|This was done.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000014_000000|Deirdre and her foster mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age. Deirdre grew like the white sapling, straight and trim as the rash on the moss.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000000|The woman that had charge of her gave Deirdre every information and skill of which she herself had knowledge and skill.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000001|There was not a blade of grass growing from root, nor a bird singing in the wood, nor a star shining from heaven but Deirdre had a name for it.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000002|But one thing, she did not wish her to have either part or parley with any single living man of the rest of the world.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000003|But on a gloomy winter night, with black, scowling clouds, a hunter of game was wearily travelling the hills, and what happened but that he missed the trail of the hunt, and lost his course and companions.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000009|There is no shelter or house for them here." "O foster mother, the bird asked to get inside for the sake of the God of the Elements, and you yourself tell me that anything that is asked in His name we ought to do.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000010|If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and done to death with hunger, to be let in, I do not think much of your language or your faith.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000012|She placed a seat in the place for sitting, food in the place for eating, and drink in the place for drinking for the man who came to the house.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000016_000000|"What men are these you refer to?" said Deirdre.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000026_000000|"Well, I did see her," said the hunter.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000026_000001|"But, if I did, no man else can see her unless he get directions from me as to where she is dwelling."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000027_000000|"And will you direct me to where she dwells? and the reward of your directing me will be as good as the reward of your message," said the king.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000028_000000|"Well, I will direct you, O king, although it is likely that this will not be what they want," said the hunter.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000029_000000|Connachar, king of Ulster, sent for his nearest kinsmen, and he told them of his intent.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000030_000000|Connachar with his band of kinsfolk went down to the green knoll where Deirdre dwelt and he knocked at the door of the bothy.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000030_000001|The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to night.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000030_000002|And I should be obliged to you, were you to tell who it is that wants me to open my bothy door." "It is I, Connachar, king of Ulster." When the poor woman heard who was at the door, she rose with haste and let in the king and all that could get in of his retinue.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000031_000000|When the king saw the woman that was before him that he had been in quest of, he thought he never saw in the course of the day nor in the dream of night a creature so fair as Deirdre and he gave his full heart's weight of love to her.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000031_000001|Deirdre was raised on the topmost of the heroes' shoulders and she and her foster mother were brought to the Court of King Connachar of Ulster.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000000|With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre right off there and then, will she nill she marry him.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000003|Deirdre was clever in maidenly duties and wifely understanding, and Connachar thought he never saw with bodily eye a creature that pleased him more.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000006|Deirdre was looking at the men that were coming, and wondering at them.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000010|She girded up her raiment and went after the men that went past the base of the knoll, leaving her women attendants there.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000012|They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten their step as they had a long distance to travel, and the dusk of night was coming on. They did so.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000014|"It isn't anything else but the wail of the wave swans of Connachar," said his brothers.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000017|With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaze of fire, and her colour came and went as rapidly as the movement of the aspen by the stream side.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000033_000001|He reached the side of Loch Ness and made his habitation there.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000034_000000|By this time the end of the period came at which Deirdre had to marry Connachar, king of Ulster.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000034_000003|He sent word far and wide through Erin to all his kinspeople to come to the feast.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000041_000000|There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey bee.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000043_000000|I saw three grey hawks out of the South Come flying over the sea, And the red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000045_000000|It is nought but the fear of woman's heart, And a dream of the night, Deirdre.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000046_000000|"The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000050_000001|Deirdre wept tears in showers and she sang:
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000054_000002|But there is a house down yonder where I keep strangers, and let them go down to it to day, and my house will be ready before them to morrow."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000055_000000|But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not getting word as to how matters were going on for those down in the house of the strangers.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000055_000001|"Go you, Gelban Grednach, son of Lochlin's King, go you down and bring me information as to whether her former hue and complexion are on Deirdre.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000056_000002|Now she that he gazed upon used to go into a crimson blaze of blushes when any one looked at her.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000060_000000|Connachar ordered three hundred active heroes to go down to the abode of the strangers, and to take Deirdre up with them and kill the rest. "The pursuit is coming," said Deirdre.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000066_000000|"Well, Connachar, we will not accept that offer from you, nor thank you for it.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000066_000001|Greater by far do we prefer to go home to our father and tell the deeds of heroism we have done, than accept anything on these terms from you.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000067_000001|Word came to the king that the company he was in pursuit of were gone.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000069_000000|"What is the good of that?
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000069_000001|that will not do yet," said Connachar. "They are off without bending of their feet or stopping of their step, without heed or respect to me, and I am without power to keep up to them, or opportunity to turn them back this night."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000070_000000|"I will try another plan on them," said the druid; and he placed before them a grey sea instead of a green plain.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000072_000000|"Though that be good, O Duanan, it will not make the heroes return," said Connachar; "they are gone without regard for me, and without honor to me, and without power on my part to pursue them, or to force them to return this night."
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000074_000000|"We shall try another method on them, since yon one did not stop them," said the druid.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000074_000002|Then Arden cried that he was getting tired, and nearly giving over.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000074_000005|Allen then cried out that he was getting faint and well nigh giving up.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000075_000000|"They are gone," said Duanan Gacha Druid to the king, "and I have done what you desired me.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000076_000000|"Blessings for that upon you and may the good results accrue to me, Duanan.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000076_000001|I count it no loss what I spent in the schooling and teaching of you.
train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000076_000002|Now dry up the flood and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said Connachar.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000000_000000|On the other hand, the question how the imperative of morality is possible, is undoubtedly one, the only one, demanding a solution, as this is not at all hypothetical, and the objective necessity which it presents cannot rest on any hypothesis, as is the case with the hypothetical imperatives.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000000_000001|Only here we must never leave out of consideration that we cannot make out by any example, in other words empirically, whether there is such an imperative at all, but it is rather to be feared that all those which seem to be categorical may yet be at bottom hypothetical.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000000_000003|For it is always possible that fear of disgrace, perhaps also obscure dread of other dangers, may have a secret influence on the will.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000002_000000|Secondly, in the case of this categorical imperative or law of morality, the difficulty (of discerning its possibility) is a very profound one.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000005_000000|When I conceive a hypothetical imperative, in general I do not know beforehand what it will contain until I am given the condition. But when I conceive a categorical imperative, I know at once what it contains.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000007_000000|There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000008_000000|Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then, although it should remain undecided what is called duty is not merely a vain notion, yet at least we shall be able to show what we understand by it and what this notion means.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000009_000000|Since the universality of the law according to which effects are produced constitutes what is properly called nature in the most general sense (as to form), that is the existence of things so far as it is determined by general laws, the imperative of duty may be expressed thus: Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000010_000000|We will now enumerate a few duties, adopting the usual division of them into duties to ourselves and ourselves and to others, and into perfect and imperfect duties.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000011_000001|For the rest, I understand by a perfect duty one that admits no exception in favour of inclination and then I have not merely external but also internal perfect duties.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000013_000004|Then I see at once that it could never hold as a universal law of nature, but would necessarily contradict itself.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000000|three.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000001|A third finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000002|But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000003|He asks, however, whether his maxim of neglect of his natural gifts, besides agreeing with his inclination to indulgence, agrees also with what is called duty.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000015_000001|A fourth, who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: "What concern is it of mine?
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000000|These are a few of the many actual duties, or at least what we regard as such, which obviously fall into two classes on the one principle that we have laid down.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000002|This is the canon of the moral appreciation of the action generally.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000003|Some actions are of such a character that their maxim cannot without contradiction be even conceived as a universal law of nature, far from it being possible that we should will that it should be so.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000004|In others this intrinsic impossibility is not found, but still it is impossible to will that their maxim should be raised to the universality of a law of nature, since such a will would contradict itself It is easily seen that the former violate strict or rigorous (inflexible) duty; the latter only laxer (meritorious) duty.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000005|Thus it has been completely shown how all duties depend as regards the nature of the obligation (not the object of the action) on the same principle.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000017_000001|Consequently if we considered all cases from one and the same point of view, namely, that of reason, we should find a contradiction in our own will, namely, that a certain principle should be objectively necessary as a universal law, and yet subjectively should not be universal, but admit of exceptions.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000017_000003|Now, although this cannot be justified in our own impartial judgement, yet it proves that we do really recognise the validity of the categorical imperative and (with all respect for it) only allow ourselves a few exceptions, which we think unimportant and forced from us.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000018_000000|We have thus established at least this much, that if duty is a conception which is to have any import and real legislative authority for our actions, it can only be expressed in categorical and not at all in hypothetical imperatives.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000019_000000|With the view of attaining to this, it is of extreme importance to remember that we must not allow ourselves to think of deducing the reality of this principle from the particular attributes of human nature.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000020_000000|Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing to support it in heaven or earth.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000020_000001|Here it must show its purity as absolute director of its own laws, not the herald of those which are whispered to it by an implanted sense or who knows what tutelary nature.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000000|The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000002|Now that which serves the will as the objective ground of its self determination is the end, and, if this is assigned by reason alone, it must hold for all rational beings.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000003|On the other hand, that which merely contains the ground of possibility of the action of which the effect is the end, this is called the means.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000006|Hence all these relative ends can give rise only to hypothetical imperatives.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000025_000000|Supposing, however, that there were something whose existence has in itself an absolute worth, something which, being an end in itself, could be a source of definite laws; then in this and this alone would lie the source of a possible categorical imperative, i e, a practical law.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000026_000000|Now I say: man and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be arbitrarily used by this or that will, but in all his actions, whether they concern himself or other rational beings, must be always regarded at the same time as an end.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000026_000002|But the inclinations, themselves being sources of want, are so far from having an absolute worth for which they should be desired that on the contrary it must be the universal wish of every rational being to be wholly free from them.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000027_000000|If then there is a supreme practical principle or, in respect of the human will, a categorical imperative, it must be one which, being drawn from the conception of that which is necessarily an end for everyone because it is an end in itself, constitutes an objective principle of will, and can therefore serve as a universal practical law.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000027_000001|The foundation of this principle is: rational nature exists as an end in itself.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000027_000004|Accordingly the practical imperative will be as follows: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000029_000000|To abide by the previous examples:
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000000|Firstly, under the head of necessary duty to oneself: He who contemplates suicide should ask himself whether his action can be consistent with the idea of humanity as an end in itself.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000001|If he destroys himself in order to escape from painful circumstances, he uses a person merely as a mean to maintain a tolerable condition up to the end of life.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000002|But a man is not a thing, that is to say, something which can be used merely as means, but must in all his actions be always considered as an end in himself.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000003|I cannot, therefore, dispose in any way of a man in my own person so as to mutilate him, to damage or kill him. (It belongs to ethics proper to define this principle more precisely, so as to avoid all misunderstanding, e. g., as to the amputation of the limbs in order to preserve myself, as to exposing my life to danger with a view to preserve it, etc
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000004|This question is therefore omitted here.)
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000031_000001|For he whom I propose by such a promise to use for my own purposes cannot possibly assent to my mode of acting towards him and, therefore, cannot himself contain the end of this action. This violation of the principle of humanity in other men is more obvious if we take in examples of attacks on the freedom and property of others.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000031_000002|For then it is clear that he who transgresses the rights of men intends to use the person of others merely as a means, without considering that as rational beings they ought always to be esteemed also as ends, that is, as beings who must be capable of containing in themselves the end of the very same action.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000033_000000|Thirdly, as regards contingent (meritorious) duties to oneself: It is not enough that the action does not violate humanity in our own person as an end in itself, it must also harmonize with it.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000033_000001|Now there are in humanity capacities of greater perfection, which belong to the end that nature has in view in regard to humanity in ourselves as the subject: to neglect these might perhaps be consistent with the maintenance of humanity as an end in itself, but not with the advancement of this end.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000034_000000|Fourthly, as regards meritorious duties towards others: The natural end which all men have is their own happiness.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000034_000001|Now humanity might indeed subsist, although no one should contribute anything to the happiness of others, provided he did not intentionally withdraw anything from it; but after all this would only harmonize negatively not positively with humanity as an end in itself, if every one does not also endeavour, as far as in him lies, to forward the ends of others.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000034_000002|For the ends of any subject which is an end in himself ought as far as possible to be my ends also, if that conception is to have its full effect with me.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000035_000001|In fact the objective principle of all practical legislation lies (according to the first principle) in the rule and its form of universality which makes it capable of being a law (say, e.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000036_000000|On this principle all maxims are rejected which are inconsistent with the will being itself universal legislator.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000037_000001|But we could not prove independently that there are practical propositions which command categorically, nor can it be proved in this section; one thing, however, could be done, namely, to indicate in the imperative itself, by some determinate expression, that in the case of volition from duty all interest is renounced, which is the specific criterion of categorical as distinguished from hypothetical imperatives.
train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000037_000002|This is done in the present (third) formula of the principle, namely, in the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislating will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000003|Now by this necessary consequence all the labour spent in finding a supreme principle of duty was irrevocably lost.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000004|For men never elicited duty, but only a necessity of acting from a certain interest.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000005|Whether this interest was private or otherwise, in any case the imperative must be conditional and could not by any means be capable of being a moral command.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000006|I will therefore call this the principle of autonomy of the will, in contrast with every other which I accordingly reckon as heteronomy.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000004_000000|The conception of the will of every rational being as one which must consider itself as giving in all the maxims of its will universal laws, so as to judge itself and its actions from this point of view this conception leads to another which depends on it and is very fruitful, namely that of a kingdom of ends.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000005_000000|By a kingdom I understand the union of different rational beings in a system by common laws.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000006_000000|For all rational beings come under the law that each of them must treat itself and all others never merely as means, but in every case at the same time as ends in themselves.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000006_000001|Hence results a systematic union of rational being by common objective laws, i e, a kingdom which may be called a kingdom of ends, since what these laws have in view is just the relation of these beings to one another as ends and means.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000008_000001|He cannot, however, maintain the latter position merely by the maxims of his will, but only in case he is a completely independent being without wants and with unrestricted power adequate to his will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000009_000002|Duty does not apply to the sovereign in the kingdom of ends, but it does to every member of it and to all in the same degree.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000010_000000|The practical necessity of acting on this principle, i e, duty, does not rest at all on feelings, impulses, or inclinations, but solely on the relation of rational beings to one another, a relation in which the will of a rational being must always be regarded as legislative, since otherwise it could not be conceived as an end in itself.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000013_000001|Thus morality, and humanity as capable of it, is that which alone has dignity.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000013_000003|Neither nature nor art contains anything which in default of these it could put in their place, for their worth consists not in the effects which spring from them, not in the use and advantage which they secure, but in the disposition of mind, that is, the maxims of the will which are ready to manifest themselves in such actions, even though they should not have the desired effect.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000013_000005|This estimation therefore shows that the worth of such a disposition is dignity, and places it infinitely above all value, with which it cannot for a moment be brought into comparison or competition without as it were violating its sanctity.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000000|What then is it which justifies virtue or the morally good disposition, in making such lofty claims?
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000002|For nothing has any worth except what the law assigns it.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000003|Now the legislation itself which assigns the worth of everything must for that very reason possess dignity, that is an unconditional incomparable worth; and the word respect alone supplies a becoming expression for the esteem which a rational being must have for it.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000004|Autonomy then is the basis of the dignity of human and of every rational nature.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000015_000001|There is, however, a difference in them, but it is rather subjectively than objectively practical, intended namely to bring an idea of the reason nearer to intuition (by means of a certain analogy) and thereby nearer to feeling.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000016_000000|one.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000018_000000|three.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000018_000001|A complete characterization of all maxims by means of that formula, namely, that all maxims ought by their own legislation to harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends as with a kingdom of nature.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000018_000003|In forming our moral judgement of actions, it is better to proceed always on the strict method and start from the general formula of the categorical imperative: Act according to a maxim which can at the same time make itself a universal law.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000019_000001|In the first case, the kingdom of ends is a theoretical idea, adopted to explain what actually is.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000000|We can now end where we started at the beginning, namely, with the conception of a will unconditionally good.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000001|That will is absolutely good which cannot be evil in other words, whose maxim, if made a universal law, could never contradict itself.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000002|This principle, then, is its supreme law: "Act always on such a maxim as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law"; this is the sole condition under which a will can never contradict itself; and such an imperative is categorical.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000003|Since the validity of the will as a universal law for possible actions is analogous to the universal connexion of the existence of things by general laws, which is the formal notion of nature in general, the categorical imperative can also be expressed thus: Act on maxims which can at the same time have for their object themselves as universal laws of nature.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000004|Such then is the formula of an absolutely good will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000021_000000|Rational nature is distinguished from the rest of nature by this, that it sets before itself an end.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000021_000001|This end would be the matter of every good will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000021_000004|Now this end can be nothing but the subject of all possible ends, since this is also the subject of a possible absolutely good will; for such a will cannot without contradiction be postponed to any other object.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000001|In this way a world of rational beings (mundus intelligibilis) is possible as a kingdom of ends, and this by virtue of the legislation proper to all persons as members.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000003|The formal principle of these maxims is: "So act as if thy maxim were to serve likewise as the universal law (of all rational beings)." A kingdom of ends is thus only possible on the analogy of a kingdom of nature, the former however only by maxims, that is self imposed rules, the latter only by the laws of efficient causes acting under necessitation from without.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000004|Nevertheless, although the system of nature is looked upon as a machine, yet so far as it has reference to rational beings as its ends, it is given on this account the name of a kingdom of nature.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000005|Now such a kingdom of ends would be actually realized by means of maxims conforming to the canon which the categorical imperative prescribes to all rational beings, if they were universally followed.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000009|For this sole absolute lawgiver must, notwithstanding this, be always conceived as estimating the worth of rational beings only by their disinterested behaviour, as prescribed to themselves from that idea [the dignity of man] alone.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000011|Morality, then, is the relation of actions to the relation of actions will, that is, to the autonomy of potential universal legislation by its maxims.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000012|An action that is consistent with the autonomy of the will is permitted; one that does not agree therewith is forbidden.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000013|A will whose maxims necessarily coincide with the laws of autonomy is a holy will, good absolutely. The dependence of a will not absolutely good on the principle of autonomy (moral necessitation) is obligation.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000014|This, then, cannot be applied to a holy being.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000015|The objective necessity of actions from obligation is called duty.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000023_000000|From what has just been said, it is easy to see how it happens that, although the conception of duty implies subjection to the law, we yet ascribe a certain dignity and sublimity to the person who fulfils all his duties.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000023_000002|We have also shown above that neither fear nor inclination, but simply respect for the law, is the spring which can give actions a moral worth.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000024_000000|The Autonomy of the Will as the Supreme Principle of Morality
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000025_000000|Autonomy of the will is that property of it by which it is a law to itself (independently of any property of the objects of volition).
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000025_000002|This matter, however, does not belong to the present section.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000027_000000|of Morality
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000028_000000|If the will seeks the law which is to determine it anywhere else than in the fitness of its maxims to be universal laws of its own dictation, consequently if it goes out of itself and seeks this law in the character of any of its objects, there always results heteronomy.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000028_000001|The will in that case does not give itself the law, but it is given by the object through its relation to the will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000028_000003|Thus, e g, I ought to endeavour to promote the happiness of others, not as if its realization involved any concern of mine (whether by immediate inclination or by any satisfaction indirectly gained through reason), but simply because a maxim which excludes it cannot be comprehended as a universal law in one and the same volition.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000029_000000|Classification of all Principles of Morality which can be
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000032_000000|All principles which can be taken from this point of view are either empirical or rational.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000032_000001|The former, drawn from the principle of happiness, are built on physical or moral feelings; the latter, drawn from the principle of perfection, are built either on the rational conception of perfection as a possible effect, or on that of an independent perfection (the will of God) as the determining cause of our will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000035_000000|Amongst the rational principles of morality, the ontological conception of perfection, notwithstanding its defects, is better than the theological conception which derives morality from a Divine absolutely perfect will.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000038_000002|For the influence which the conception of an object within the reach of our faculties can exercise on the will of the subject, in consequence of its natural properties, depends on the nature of the subject, either the sensibility (inclination and taste), or the understanding and reason, the employment of which is by the peculiar constitution of their nature attended with satisfaction.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000038_000003|It follows that the law would be, properly speaking, given by nature, and, as such, it must be known and proved by experience and would consequently be contingent and therefore incapable of being an apodeictic practical rule, such as the moral rule must be.
train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000039_000002|Whoever then holds morality to be anything real, and not a chimerical idea without any truth, must likewise admit the principle of it that is here assigned.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000001_000000|May no wolfe howle; no screech owle stir A wing about thy sepulchre! No boysterous winds or stormes come hither, To starve or wither Thy soft sweet earth!
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000001_000001|but, like a spring, Love kept it ever flourishing. HERRICK.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000002_000000|IN the course of an excursion through one of the remote counties of England, I had struck into one of those cross roads that lead through the more secluded parts of the country, and stopped one afternoon at a village the situation of which was beautifully rural and retired.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000002_000001|There was an air of primitive simplicity about its inhabitants not to be found in the villages which lie on the great coach roads.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000002_000002|I determined to pass the night there, and, having taken an early dinner, strolled out to enjoy the neighboring scenery.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000003_000001|Indeed, it was an object of some curiosity, its old tower being completely overrun with ivy so that only here and there a jutting buttress, an angle of gray wall, or a fantastically carved ornament peered through the verdant covering.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000003_000003|The early part of the day had been dark and showery, but in the afternoon it had cleared up, and, though sullen clouds still hung overhead, yet there was a broad tract of golden sky in the west, from which the setting sun gleamed through the dripping leaves and lit up all Nature into a melancholy smile.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000004_000000|I had seated myself on a half sunken tombstone, and was musing, as one is apt to do at this sober thoughted hour, on past scenes and early friends-on those who were distant and those who were dead-and indulging in that kind of melancholy fancying which has in it something sweeter even than pleasure.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000004_000001|Every now and then the stroke of a bell from the neighboring tower fell on my ear; its tones were in unison with the scene, and, instead of jarring, chimed in with my feelings; and it was some time before I recollected that it must be tolling the knell of some new tenant of the tomb.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000005_000002|The corpse was followed by the parents.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000005_000004|The father seemed to repress his feelings, but his fixed eye, contracted brow, and deeply furrowed face showed the struggle that was passing within.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000005_000005|His wife hung on his arm, and wept aloud with the convulsive bursts of a mother's sorrow.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000006_000000|I followed the funeral into the church.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000006_000001|The bier was placed in the centre aisle, and the chaplet of white flowers, with a pair of white gloves, was hung over the seat which the deceased had occupied.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000000|Every one knows the soul subduing pathos of the funeral service, for who is so fortunate as never to have followed some one he has loved to the tomb?
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000001|But when performed over the remains of innocence and beauty, thus laid low in the bloom of existence, what can be more affecting?
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000002|At that simple but most solemn consignment of the body to the grave "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust!"--the tears of the youthful companions of the deceased flowed unrestrained.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000003|The father still seemed to struggle with his feelings, and to comfort himself with the assurance that the dead are blessed which die in the Lord; but the mother only thought of her child as a flower of the field cut down and withered in the midst of its sweetness; she was like Rachel, "mourning over her children, and would not be comforted."
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000000|On returning to the inn I learnt the whole story of the deceased.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000001|It was a simple one, and such as has often been told.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000003|Her father had once been an opulent farmer, but was reduced in circumstances.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000005|She had been the pupil of the village pastor, the favorite lamb of his little flock.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000007|She appeared like some tender plant of the garden blooming accidentally amid the hardier natives of the fields.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000009_000000|The superiority of her charms was felt and acknowledged by her companions, but without envy, for it was surpassed by the unassuming gentleness and winning kindness of her manners.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000009_000001|It might be truly said of her:
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000010_000000|"This is the prettiest low born lass, that ever Ran on the green sward: nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself; Too noble for this place."
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000000|The village was one of those sequestered spots which still retain some vestiges of old English customs.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000001|It had its rural festivals and holiday pastimes, and still kept up some faint observance of the once popular rites of May.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000002|These, indeed, had been promoted by its present pastor, who was a lover of old customs and one of those simple Christians that think their mission fulfilled by promoting joy on earth and good will among mankind.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000003|Under his auspices the May pole stood from year to year in the centre of the village green; on Mayday it was decorated with garlands and streamers, and a queen or lady of the May was appointed, as in former times, to preside at the sports and distribute the prizes and rewards.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000005|He was charmed with the native taste that pervaded this village pageant, but, above all, with the dawning loveliness of the queen of May.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000007|The artlessness of rural habits enabled him readily to make her acquaintance; he gradually won his way into her intimacy, and paid his court to her in that unthinking way in which young officers are too apt to trifle with rustic simplicity.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000000|There was nothing in his advances to startle or alarm.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000001|He never even talked of love, but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly to the heart. The beam of the eye, the tone of voice, the thousand tendernesses which emanate from every word and look and action,--these form the true eloquence of love, and can always be felt and understood, but never described.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000002|Can we wonder that they should readily win a heart young, guileless, and susceptible?
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000003|As to her, she loved almost unconsciously; she scarcely inquired what was the growing passion that was absorbing every thought and feeling, or what were to be its consequences.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000004|She, indeed, looked not to the future.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000005|When present, his looks and words occupied her whole attention; when absent, she thought but of what had passed at their recent interview.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000007|He taught her to see new beauties in Nature; he talked in the language of polite and cultivated life, and breathed into her ear the witcheries of romance and poetry.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000001|The gallant figure of her youthful admirer and the splendor of his military attire might at first have charmed her eye, but it was not these that had captivated her heart.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000002|Her attachment had something in it of idolatry.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000003|She looked up to him as to a being of a superior order.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000004|She felt in his society the enthusiasm of a mind naturally delicate and poetical, and now first awakened to a keen perception of the beautiful and grand.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000005|Of the sordid distinctions of rank and fortune she thought nothing; it was the difference of intellect, of demeanor, of manners, from those of the rustic society to which she had been accustomed, that elevated him in her opinion.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000006|She would listen to him with charmed ear and downcast look of mute delight, and her cheek would mantle with enthusiasm; or if ever she ventured a shy glance of timid admiration, it was as quickly withdrawn, and she would sigh and blush at the idea of her comparative unworthiness.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000014_000000|Her lover was equally impassioned, but his passion was mingled with feelings of a coarser nature.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000014_000001|He had begun the connection in levity, for he had often heard his brother officers boast of their village conquests, and thought some triumph of the kind necessary to his reputation as a man of spirit.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000015_000000|What was he to do?
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000015_000003|In vain did he try to fortify himself by a thousand heartless examples of men of fashion, and to chill the glow of generous sentiment with that cold derisive levity with which he had heard them talk of female virtue: whenever he came into her presence she was still surrounded by that mysterious but impassive charm of virgin purity in whose hallowed sphere no guilty thought can live.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000016_000001|He remained for a short time in a state of the most painful irresolution; he hesitated to communicate the tidings until the day for marching was at hand, when he gave her the intelligence in the course of an evening ramble.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000017_000001|It broke in at once upon her dream of felicity; she looked upon it as a sudden and insurmountable evil, and wept with the guileless simplicity of a child. He drew her to his bosom and kissed the tears from her soft cheek; nor did he meet with a repulse, for there are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness which hallow the caresses of affection.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000017_000002|He was naturally impetuous, and the sight of beauty apparently yielding in his arms, the confidence of his power over her, and the dread of losing her forever all conspired to overwhelm his better feelings: he ventured to propose that she should leave her home and be the companion of his fortunes.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000018_000000|He was quite a novice in seduction, and blushed and faltered at his own baseness; but so innocent of mind was his intended victim that she was at first at a loss to comprehend his meaning, and why she should leave her native village and the humble roof of her parents.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000018_000001|When at last the nature of his proposal flashed upon her pure mind, the effect was withering.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000018_000002|She did not weep; she did not break forth into reproach; she said not a word, but she shrunk back aghast as from a viper, gave him a look of anguish that pierced to his very soul, and, clasping her hands in agony, fled, as if for refuge, to her father's cottage.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000019_000000|The officer retired confounded, humiliated, and repentant.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000020_000001|Faintings and hysterics had at first shaken her tender frame, and were succeeded by a settled and pining melancholy.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000020_000002|She had beheld from her window the march of the departing troops.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000020_000004|She strained a last aching gaze after him as the morning sun glittered about his figure and his plume waved in the breeze; he passed away like a bright vision from her sight, and left her all in darkness.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000000|It would be trite to dwell on the particulars of her after story.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000001|It was, like other tales of love, melancholy.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000002|She avoided society and wandered out alone in the walks she had most frequented with her lover. She sought, like the stricken deer, to weep in silence and loneliness and brood over the barbed sorrow that rankled in her soul.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000003|Sometimes she would be seen late of an evening sitting in the porch of the village church, and the milk maids, returning from the fields, would now and then overhear her singing some plaintive ditty in the hawthorn walk.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000004|She became fervent in her devotions at church, and as the old people saw her approach, so wasted away, yet with a hectic gloom and that hallowed air which melancholy diffuses round the form, they would make way for her as for something spiritual, and looking after her, would shake their heads in gloomy foreboding.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000000|She felt a conviction that she was hastening to the tomb, but looked forward to it as a place of rest.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000001|The silver cord that had bound her to existence was loosed, and there seemed to be no more pleasure under the sun
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000002|If ever her gentle bosom had entertained resentment against her lover, it was extinguished.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000003|She was incapable of angry passions, and in a moment of saddened tenderness she penned him a farewell letter.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000005|She even depicted the sufferings which she had experienced, but concluded with saying that she could not die in peace until she had sent him her forgiveness and her blessing.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000001|She could only totter to the window, where, propped up in her chair, it was her enjoyment to sit all day and look out upon the landscape.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000002|Still she uttered no complaint nor imparted to any one the malady that was preying on her heart.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000003|She never even mentioned her lover's name, but would lay her head on her mother's bosom and weep in silence.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000004|Her poor parents hung in mute anxiety over this fading blossom of their hopes, still flattering themselves that it might again revive to freshness and that the bright unearthly bloom which sometimes flushed her cheek might be the promise of returning health.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000024_000000|In this way she was seated between them one Sunday afternoon; her hands were clasped in theirs, the lattice was thrown open, and the soft air that stole in brought with it the fragrance of the clustering honeysuckle which her own hands had trained round the window.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000000|Her father had just been reading a chapter in the Bible: it spoke of the vanity of worldly things and of the joys of heaven: it seemed to have diffused comfort and serenity through her bosom.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000001|Her eye was fixed on the distant village church: the bell had tolled for the evening service; the last villager was lagging into the porch, and everything had sunk into that hallowed stillness peculiar to the day of rest.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000002|Her parents were gazing on her with yearning hearts.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000003|Sickness and sorrow, which pass so roughly over some faces, had given to hers the expression of a seraph's.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000004|A tear trembled in her soft blue eye.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000005|Was she thinking of her faithless lover? or were her thoughts wandering to that distant churchyard, into whose bosom she might soon be gathered?
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000026_000002|She was too faint to rise-she attempted to extend her trembling hand-her lips moved as if she spoke, but no word was articulated; she looked down upon him with a smile of unutterable tenderness, and closed her eyes forever.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000000|Such are the particulars which I gathered of this village story.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000001|They are but scanty, and I am conscious have little novelty to recommend them.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000002|In the present rage also for strange incident and high seasoned narrative they may appear trite and insignificant, but they interested me strongly at the time; and, taken in connection with the affecting ceremony which I had just witnessed, left a deeper impression on my mind than many circumstances of a more striking nature.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000003|I have passed through the place since, and visited the church again from a better motive than mere curiosity.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000004|It was a wintry evening: the trees were stripped of their foliage, the churchyard looked naked and mournful, and the wind rustled coldly through the dry grass.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000005|Evergreens, however, had been planted about the grave of the village favorite, and osiers were bent over it to keep the turf uninjured.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000028_000000|The church door was open and I stepped in.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000028_000001|There hung the chaplet of flowers and the gloves, as on the day of the funeral: the flowers were withered, it is true, but care seemed to have been taken that no dust should soil their whiteness.
train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000028_000002|I have seen many monuments where art has exhausted its powers to awaken the sympathy of the spectator, but I have met with none that spoke more touchingly to my heart than this simple but delicate memento of departed innocence.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000000_000001|No men stopped us, for there were none about [-from ] the Palace of Corrective Detention, and the others knew nothing.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000001_000000|We saw nothing as we entered, save the sky in the great windows, blue and glowing.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000002_000000|All the heads of the Council turned to us as we entered.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000002_000001|These great and wise of the earth did not know what to think of us, and they looked upon us with wonder and curiosity, as if we were a miracle.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000002_000002|It is true that our tunic was torn and stained with brown stains which had been blood.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000005_000000|"Who are you, our brother?
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000008_000000|"A Street Sweeper!
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000008_000002|It is not to be believed!
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000010_000000|"Our brothers!" we said.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000001|We spoke of it, and of our long quest, and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000004|And we stood still, our eyes upon the wire.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000005|And slowly, slowly as a flush of blood, a red flame trembled in the wire.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000006|Then the wire glowed.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000013_000000|But terror struck the men of the Council.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000014_000000|We looked upon them and we laughed and said:
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000015_000000|"Fear nothing, our brothers.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000015_000003|We give it to you."
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000016_000000|Still they would not move.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000000|"We give you the power of the sky!" we cried.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000001|"We give you the key to the earth!
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000002|Take it, and let us be one of you, the humblest among you.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000003|Let us [-all ] work together, and harness this power, and make it ease the toil of men.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000004|Let us throw away our candles and our torches.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000006|Let us bring a new light to men!"
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000018_000000|But they looked upon us, and suddenly we were afraid.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000018_000001|For their eyes were still, and small, and evil.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000020_000001|They moved to the table and the others followed.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000027_000001|No such crime has ever been committed, and it is not for us to judge.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000027_000002|Nor for any small Council.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000028_000000|We looked upon them and we pleaded:
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000000|"Our brothers!
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000001|You are right.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000003|We do not care.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000005|What will you do with the light?"
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000032_000000|"No," we answered.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000040_000002|Therefore it cannot be destroyed by the whim of one."
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000044_000000|"This thing," they said, "must be destroyed."
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000045_000000|And all the others cried as one:
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000046_000000|"It must be destroyed!"
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000048_000001|We turned and we looked at them for the last time, and a rage, such as [-it ] is not fit for humans to know, choked our voice in our throat.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000049_000001|"You fools!
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000049_000002|You thrice damned fools!"
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000000|We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000003|And the road seemed not to be flat before us, but as if it were leaping up to meet us, and we waited for the earth to rise and strike us in the face.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000004|But we ran.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000005|We knew not where we were going.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000052_000000|Then we knew suddenly that we were lying on a soft earth and that we had stopped.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000052_000004|We had not thought of coming here, but our legs had carried our wisdom, and our legs had brought us to the Uncharted Forest against our will.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000053_000000|Our glass box lay beside us.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000053_000001|We crawled to it, we fell upon it, our face in our arms, and we lay still.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000000|It mattered not where we went.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000003|The forest disposes of its own victims.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000004|This gave us no fear either.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000006|So we walked on, our box in our arms, our heart empty.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000056_000001|Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000056_000002|And we have heard of the corruption to be found in solitude.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000057_000000|We know these things, but we do not care.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000057_000002|We are tired.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000058_000000|Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000058_000003|We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000058_000004|Why wonder about this?
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000003_000000|"The name of the old man was De Lacey.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000004_000002|He was tried and condemned to death.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000004_000003|The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000000|"Felix had accidentally been present at the trial; his horror and indignation were uncontrollable when he heard the decision of the court.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000001|He made, at that moment, a solemn vow to deliver him and then looked around for the means.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000003|Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000004|The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000008_000001|Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the substance of them to you.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000000|"Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000001|The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000002|She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000003|This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000004|The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000010_000000|"The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000010_000001|Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000010_000002|He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000013_000002|He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000013_000003|His plans were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000014_000001|The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000014_000002|The news reached Felix and roused him from his dream of pleasure.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000014_000004|This idea was torture to him.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000015_000000|"He did not succeed.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000015_000001|They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000016_000001|Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000017_000000|"Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000017_000001|He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000018_000001|The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000020_000003|She hesitated some time, but at length she formed her determination.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000021_000000|"She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill.
train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000021_000001|Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000002_000000|The being finished speaking and fixed his looks upon me in the expectation of a reply.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000002_000001|But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000002_000002|He continued,
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000005_000000|"I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000005_000002|Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000005_000004|I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent."
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000000|"You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000002|Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000005|Shall I respect man when he condemns me?
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000006|Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000009|I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000007_000000|A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded-
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000000|"I intended to reason.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000003|But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000007|Oh!
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000008|My creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit!
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000009|Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!"
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000009_000000|I was moved.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000009_000001|I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument. His tale and the feelings he now expressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000009_000002|He saw my change of feeling and continued,
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000010_000000|"If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South America.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000010_000003|The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000011_000001|How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000011_000002|You will return and again seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; your evil passions will be renewed, and you will then have a companion to aid you in the task of destruction.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000011_000003|This may not be; cease to argue the point, for I cannot consent."
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000012_000000|"How inconstant are your feelings!
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000012_000003|My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy!
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000013_000000|His words had a strange effect upon me.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000013_000001|I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000013_000002|I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000014_000000|"You swear," I said, "to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000014_000001|May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?"
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000015_000000|"How is this?
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000015_000002|If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000016_000003|After a long pause of reflection I concluded that the justice due both to him and my fellow creatures demanded of me that I should comply with his request.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000016_000004|Turning to him, therefore, I said,
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000017_000000|"I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000018_000000|"I swear," he cried, "by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000019_000000|Saying this, he suddenly quitted me, fearful, perhaps, of any change in my sentiments.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000019_000001|I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000020_000003|Night was far advanced when I came to the halfway resting place and seated myself beside the fountain.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000020_000004|The stars shone at intervals as the clouds passed from over them; the dark pines rose before me, and every here and there a broken tree lay on the ground; it was a scene of wonderful solemnity and stirred strange thoughts within me.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000020_000005|I wept bitterly, and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, "Oh!
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000001|Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations-they weighed on me with a mountain's weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Thus I returned home, and entering the house, presented myself to the family.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000002|My haggard and wild appearance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no question, scarcely did I speak.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000003|I felt as if I were placed under a ban-as if I had no right to claim their sympathies-as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them.
train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000004|Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000001_000000|HE STEPPED into the smoking compartment of the Pullman, where I was sitting alone.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000002_000000|He had on a long fur lined coat, and he carried a fifty dollar suit case that he put down on the seat.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000003_000000|Then he saw me.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000004_000000|"Well! well!" he said, and recognition broke out all over his face like morning sunlight.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000006_000000|"By Jove!" he said, shaking hands vigorously, "who would have thought of seeing you?"
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000007_000000|"Who, indeed," I thought to myself.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000008_000000|He looked at me more closely.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000009_000000|"You haven't changed a bit," he said.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000012_000000|"Yes," I said, "a little; but you're stouter yourself."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000013_000000|This of course would help to explain away any undue stoutness on my part.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000014_000000|"No," I continued boldly and firmly, "you look just about the same as ever."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000000|And all the time I was wondering who he was.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000001|I didn't know him from Adam; I couldn't recall him a bit.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000002|I don't mean that my memory is weak. On the contrary, it is singularly tenacious.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000005|But when it does happen that a name or face escapes me I never lose my presence of mind.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000006|I know just how to deal with the situation.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000007|It only needs coolness and intellect, and it all comes right.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000016_000000|My friend sat down.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000017_000000|"It's a long time since we met," he said.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000018_000000|"A long time," I repeated with something of a note of sadness.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000018_000001|I wanted him to feel that I, too, had suffered from it.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000019_000000|"But it has gone very quickly."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000020_000000|"Like a flash," I assented cheerfully.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000021_000000|"Strange," he said, "how life goes on and we lose track of people, and things alter.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000021_000001|I often think about it.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000021_000002|I sometimes wonder," he continued, "where all the old gang are gone to."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000023_000000|"Do you ever go back to the old place?" he asked.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000024_000000|"Never," I said, firmly and flatly.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000024_000001|This had to be absolute.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000024_000002|I felt that once and for all the "old place" must be ruled out of the discussion till I could discover where it was.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000025_000000|"No," he went on, "I suppose you'd hardly care to."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000026_000000|"Not now," I said very gently.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000027_000000|"I understand.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000027_000001|I beg your pardon," he said, and there was silence for a few moments.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000028_000000|So far I had scored the first point.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000028_000001|There was evidently an old place somewhere to which I would hardly care to go.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000028_000002|That was something to build on.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000029_000000|Presently he began again.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000031_000000|"Poor things," I thought, but I didn't say it.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000032_000000|I knew it was time now to make a bold stroke; so I used the method that I always employ.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000032_000001|I struck in with great animation.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000033_000000|"Say!" I said, "where's Billy?
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000033_000001|Do you ever hear anything of Billy now?"
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000035_000000|"Yes," said my friend, "sure-Billy is ranching out in Montana.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000035_000001|I saw him in Chicago last spring,--weighed about two hundred pounds,--you wouldn't know him."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000036_000000|"No, I certainly wouldn't," I murmured to myself.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000037_000000|"And where's Pete?" I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000037_000001|This was safe ground.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000037_000002|There is always a Pete.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000038_000000|"You mean Billy's brother," he said.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000039_000000|"Yes, yes, Billy's brother Pete.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000039_000001|I often think of him."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000000|I started to laugh, too.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000001|Under these circumstances it is always supposed to be very funny if a man has got married.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000002|The notion of old peter (whoever he is) being married is presumed to be simply killing.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000003|I kept on chuckling away quietly at the mere idea of it.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000004|I was hoping that I might manage to keep on laughing till the train stopped.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000005|I had only fifty miles more to go.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000006|It's not hard to laugh for fifty miles if you know how.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000042_000000|But my friend wouldn't be content with it.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000043_000000|"I often meant to write to you," he said, his voice falling to a confidential tone, "especially when I heard of your loss."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000000|I remained quiet.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000001|What had I lost?
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000002|Was it money?
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000003|And if so, how much? And why had I lost it?
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000004|I wondered if it had ruined me or only partly ruined me.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000045_000000|"One can never get over a loss like that," he continued solemnly.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000046_000000|Evidently I was plumb ruined.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000046_000001|But I said nothing and remained under cover, waiting to draw his fire.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000047_000000|"Yes," the man went on, "death is always sad."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000000|Death!
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000002|I almost hiccoughed with joy.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000003|That was easy.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000005|One has only to sit quiet and wait to find out who is dead.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000049_000000|"Yes," I murmured, "very sad.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000049_000001|But it has its other side, too."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000050_000000|"Very true, especially, of course, at that age."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000051_000000|"As you say at that age, and after such a life."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000054_000000|"What," he said, perplexed, "did your grandmother----"
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000055_000001|That was it, was it?
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000057_000000|As I said this I could hear the rattle and clatter of the train running past the semaphores and switch points and slacking to a stop.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000058_000000|My friend looked quickly out of the window.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000059_000000|His face was agitated.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000060_000000|"Great heavens!" he said, "that's the junction.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000060_000001|I've missed my stop.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000060_000002|I should have got out at the last station.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000061_000001|"She's late now, she's makin' up tahm!"
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000063_000001|"Confound this lock-my money's in the suit case."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000064_000000|My one fear now was that he would fail to get off.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000065_000000|"Here," I said, pulling some money out of my pocket, "don't bother with the lock.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000065_000001|Here's money."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000066_000000|"Thanks," he said grabbing the roll of money out of my hand,--in his excitement he took all that I had.--"I'll just have time."
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000067_000000|He sprang from the train.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000068_000000|I waited.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000069_000000|The porters were calling, "All abawd!
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000070_000000|"Idiot," I thought, "he's missed it;" and there was his fifty dollar suit case lying on the seat.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000072_000000|Then presently I heard the porter's voice again.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000075_000000|Then his face, too, beamed all at once with recognition.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000075_000001|But it was not for me.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000075_000002|It was for the fifty dollar valise.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000076_000000|"Ah, there it is," he cried, seizing it and carrying it off.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000000|I sank back in dismay.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000001|The "old gang!" Pete's marriage!
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000003|Great heavens!
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000004|And my money!
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000005|I saw it all; the other man was "making talk," too, and making it with a purpose.
train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000079_000000|And next time that I fall into talk with a casual stranger in a car, I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000001_000000|I DREAMT one night not long ago that I was the editor of a great illustrated magazine.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000001_000001|I offer no apology for this: I have often dreamt even worse of myself than that.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000002_000001|But this was an accident.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000002_000004|The presidential election was drawing nearer every day and the market for reminiscences of Lincoln was extremely brisk, but, of course, might collapse any moment.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000003_000000|But it's a wearing occupation, full of disappointments, and needing the very keenest business instinct to watch every turn of the market.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000004_000000|I am afraid that this is a digression.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000005_000000|I knew at once in my dream where and what I was.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000006_000000|"I am an editor, and this is my editorial sanctum." Not that I have ever seen an editor or a sanctum.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000008_000000|A beautiful creature entered.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000008_000002|She has that indescribable beauty of effectiveness such as is given to hospital nurses.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000009_000000|This, I thought to myself, must be my private secretary.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000010_000000|"I hope I don't interrupt you, sir," said the girl.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000011_000001|Sit down.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000011_000002|You must be fatigued after your labours of the morning.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000011_000003|Let me ring for a club sandwich."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000012_000000|"I came to say, sir," the secretary went on, "that there's a person downstairs waiting to see you."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000013_000000|My manner changed at once.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000014_000000|"Is he a gentleman or a contributor?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000015_000000|"He doesn't look exactly like a gentleman."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000000|"Very good," I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000001|"He's a contributor for sure.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000002|Tell him to wait.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000003|Ask the caretaker to lock him in the coal cellar, and kindly slip out and see if there's a policeman on the beat in case I need him."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000017_000000|"Very good, sir," said the secretary.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000018_000000|I waited for about an hour, wrote a few editorials advocating the rights of the people, smoked some Turkish cigarettes, drank a glass of sherry, and ate part of an anchovy sandwich.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000019_000000|Then I rang the bell.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000019_000001|"Bring that man here," I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000020_000000|Presently they brought him in.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000020_000001|He was a timid looking man with an embarrassed manner and all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000020_000002|I could see a bundle of papers in his hand, and I knew that the scoundrel was carrying a manuscript.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000021_000000|"Now, sir," I said, "speak quickly.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000021_000001|What's your business?"
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000022_000000|"I've got here a manuscript," he began.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000000|"What!" I shouted at him.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000001|"A manuscript!
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000003|Bringing manuscripts in here!
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000004|What sort of a place do you think this is?"
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000024_000000|"It's the manuscript of a story," he faltered.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000000|"A story!" I shrieked.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000001|"What on earth do you think we'd want stories for!
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000002|Do you think we've nothing better to do than to print your idiotic ravings?
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000003|Have you any idea, you idiot, of the expense we're put to in setting up our fifty pages of illustrated advertising?
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000006|Can you form any idea of the time and thought that we have to spend on these things, and yet you dare to come in here with your miserable stories.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000007|By heaven," I said, rising in my seat, "I've a notion to come over there and choke you: I'm entitled to do it by the law, and I think I will."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000000|"Don't, don't," he pleaded.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000001|"I'll go away.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000002|I meant no harm.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000003|I'll take it with me."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000027_000000|"No you don't," I interrupted; "none of your sharp tricks with this magazine.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000027_000002|If I don't like it, I shall prosecute you, and, I trust, obtain full reparation from the courts."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000029_000000|To tell the truth, it had occurred to me that perhaps I might need after all to buy the miserable stuff.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000029_000002|The present low state of public taste demands a certain amount of this kind of matter distributed among the advertising.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000030_000000|I rang the bell again.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000031_000000|"Please take this man away and shut him up again.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000031_000001|Have them keep a good eye on him.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000031_000002|He's an author."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000032_000000|"Very good, sir," said the secretary.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000033_000000|I called her back for one moment.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000034_000000|"Don't feed him anything," I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000035_000000|"No," said the girl.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000036_000000|The manuscript lay before me on the table.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000036_000001|It looked bulky.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000037_000000|I rang the bell again.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000038_000000|"Kindly ask the janitor to step this way."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000039_000000|He came in.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000040_000000|"Jones," I said, "can you read?"
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000041_000000|"Yes, sir," he said, "some."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000042_000000|"Very good.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000042_000001|I want you to take this manuscript and read it.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000042_000002|Read it all through and then bring it back here."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000043_000000|The janitor took the manuscript and disappeared.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000043_000002|It had occurred to me that by arranging the picture matter in a neat device with verses from "Home Sweet Home" running through it in double leaded old English type, I could set up a page that would be the delight of all business readers and make this number of the magazine a conspicuous success.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000045_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000046_000000|"And you find it all right-punctuation good, spelling all correct?"
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000047_000000|"Very good indeed, sir."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000048_000001|I want you to answer me quite frankly, Jones,--there is nothing in it that would raise a smile, or even a laugh, is there?"
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000050_000000|"And now tell me-for remember that the reputation of our magazine is at stake-does this story make a decided impression on you?
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000051_000000|"I think it has," he said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000052_000000|"Very well," I answered; "now bring the author to me."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000053_000000|In the interval of waiting, I hastily ran my eye through the pages of the manuscript.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000054_000000|Presently they brought the author back again.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000054_000001|He had assumed a look of depression.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000055_000000|"I have decided," I said, "to take your manuscript."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000056_000000|Joy broke upon his face.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000056_000001|He came nearer to me as if to lick my hand.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000057_000000|"Stop a minute," I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000057_000001|"I am willing to take your story, but there are certain things, certain small details which I want to change."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000058_000000|"Yes?" he said timidly.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000059_000000|"In the first place, I don't like your title.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000060_000000|"But surely," began the contributor, beginning to wring his hands----
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000000|"Don't interrupt me," I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000001|"In the next place, the story is much too long." Here I reached for a large pair of tailor's scissors that lay on the table.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000002|"This story contains nine thousand words.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000003|We never care to use more than six thousand.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000004|I must therefore cut some of it off." I measured the story carefully with a pocket tape that lay in front of me, cut off three thousand words and handed them back to the author.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000005|"These words," I said, "you may keep.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000007|You are at liberty to make any use of them that you like."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000062_000000|"But please," he said, "you have cut off all the end of the story: the whole conclusion is gone.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000062_000001|The readers can't possibly tell,----"
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000063_000000|I smiled at him with something approaching kindness.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000001|The end is of no consequence whatever.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000002|The beginning, I admit, may be, but the end!
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000004|Come!
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000005|And in any case in our magazine we print the end of each story separately, distributed among the advertisements to break the type.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000006|But just at present we have plenty of these on hand.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000007|You see," I continued, for there was something in the man's manner that almost touched me, "all that is needed is that the last words printed must have a look of finality.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000008|That's all.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000009|Now, let me see," and I turned to the place where the story was cut, "what are the last words: here: 'Dorothea sank into a chair.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000010|There we must leave her!' Excellent!
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000011|What better end could you want?
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000012|She sank into a chair and you leave her.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000013|Nothing more natural."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000065_000000|The contributor seemed about to protest.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000065_000001|But I stopped him.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000000|"There is one other small thing," I said.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000003|"I see," I said, "that your story as written is laid largely in Spain in the summer.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000004|I shall ask you to alter this to Switzerland and make it winter time to allow for the breaking of steam pipes.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000005|Such things as these, however, are mere details; we can easily arrange them."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000067_000000|I reached out my hand.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000068_000000|"And now," I said, "I must wish you a good afternoon."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000069_000000|The contributor seemed to pluck up courage.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000000|I waived the question gravely aside.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000001|"You will, of course, be duly paid at our usual rate.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000002|You receive a cheque two years after publication.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000004|Good bye."
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000073_000000|Then I sat down, while my mind was on it, and wrote the advance notice of the story.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000073_000001|It ran like this:
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000076_000001|His style has a brio, a poise, a savoir faire, a je ne sais quoi, which stamps all his work with the cachet of literary superiority.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000076_000003|Spiggott and Fawcett's Home Plumbing Device Exposition which adorns the same number of the great review.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000077_000000|I wrote this out, rang the bell, and was just beginning to say to the secretary-
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000078_000000|"My dear child,--pray pardon my forgetfulness.
train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000078_000001|You must be famished for lunch.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000000_000001|OF SOME VERBAL DISPUTES.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000000|First, I do not find that in the English, or any other modern tongue, the boundaries are exactly fixed between virtues and talents, vices and defects, or that a precise definition can be given of the one as contradistinguished from the other.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000002|Should we affirm that the qualities alone, which prompt us to act our part in society, are entitled to that honourable distinction; it must immediately occur that these are indeed the most valuable qualities, and are commonly denominated the SOCIAL virtues; but that this very epithet supposes that there are also virtues of another species.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000005|It is fortunate, amidst all this seeming perplexity, that the question, being merely verbal, cannot possibly be of any importance.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000006|A moral, philosophical discourse needs not enter into all these caprices of language, which are so variable in different dialects, and in different ages of the same dialect.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000005_000002|No time can efface the cruel ideas of a man's own foolish conduct, or of affronts, which cowardice or impudence has brought upon him.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000005_000003|They still haunt his solitary hours, damp his most aspiring thoughts, and show him, even to himself, in the most contemptible and most odious colours imaginable.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000006_000002|These we display with care, if not with ostentation; and we commonly show more ambition of excelling in them, than even in the social virtues themselves, which are, in reality, of such superior excellence.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000007_000000|It is hard to tell, whether you hurt a man's character most by calling him a knave or a coward, and whether a beastly glutton or drunkard be not as odious and contemptible, as a selfish, ungenerous miser.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000007_000002|The figure which a man makes in life, the reception which he meets with in company, the esteem paid him by his acquaintance; all these advantages depend as much upon his good sense and judgement, as upon any other part of his character.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000008_000000|What is it then we can here dispute about?
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000008_000004|The one produces love, the other esteem: the one is amiable, the other awful: we should wish to meet the one character in a friend; the other we should be ambitious of in ourselves.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000009_000001|The qualities, which produce both, are such as communicate pleasures.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000009_000002|But where this pleasure is severe and serious; or where its object is great, and makes a strong impression, or where it produces any degree of humility and awe; in all these cases, the passion, which arises from the pleasure, is more properly denominated esteem than love.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000009_000003|Benevolence attends both; but is connected with love in a more eminent degree.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000010_000000|Most people, I believe, will naturally, without premeditation, assent to the definition of the elegant and judicious poet:
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000011_000000|Virtue (for mere good nature is a fool) Is sense and spirit with humanity.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000013_000000|What pretensions has a man to our generous assistance or good offices, who has dissipated his wealth in profuse expenses, idle vanities, chimerical projects, dissolute pleasures or extravagant gaming?
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000013_000001|These vices (for we scruple not to call them such) bring misery unpitied, and contempt on every one addicted to them.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000014_000000|Achaeus, a wise and prudent prince, fell into a fatal snare, which cost him his crown and life, after having used every reasonable precaution to guard himself against it.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000015_000001|In the same manner, says he, as want of cleanliness, decency, or discretion in a mistress are found to alienate our affections.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000019_000000|We need only peruse the titles of chapters in Aristotle's Ethics to be convinced that he ranks courage, temperance, magnificence, magnanimity, modesty, prudence, and a manly openness, among the virtues, as well as justice and friendship.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000021_000000|Epictetus has scarcely ever mentioned the sentiment of humanity and compassion, but in order to put his disciples on their guard against it. The virtue of the Stoics seems to consist chiefly in a firm temper and a sound understanding.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000022_000002|Where he compares the great men of Greece and Rome, he fairly sets in opposition all their blemishes and accomplishments of whatever kind, and omits nothing considerable, which can either depress or exalt their characters.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000003|To none would Hasdrubal entrust more willingly the conduct of any dangerous enterprize; under none did the soldiers discover more courage and confidence.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000004|Great boldness in facing danger; great prudence in the midst of it.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000005|No labour could fatigue his body or subdue his mind.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000006|Cold and heat were indifferent to him: meat and drink he sought as supplies to the necessities of nature, not as gratifications of his voluptuous appetites.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000007|Waking or rest he used indiscriminately, by night or by day.--These great Virtues were balanced by great Vices; inhuman cruelty; perfidy more than punic; no truth, no faith, no regard to oaths, promises, or religion.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000024_000001|In this pope, says he, there was a singular capacity and judgement: admirable prudence; a wonderful talent of persuasion; and in all momentous enterprizes a diligence and dexterity incredible.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000024_000002|But these VIRTUES were infinitely overbalanced by his VICES; no faith, no religion, insatiable avarice, exorbitant ambition, and a more than barbarous cruelty.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000026_000007|They justly considered that cowardice, meanness, levity, anxiety, impatience, folly, and many other qualities of the mind, might appear ridiculous and deformed, contemptible and odious, though independent of the will.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000026_000008|Nor could it be supposed, at all times, in every man's power to attain every kind of mental more than of exterior beauty.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000027_000002|Every one may employ TERMS in what sense he pleases: but this, in the mean time, must be allowed, that SENTIMENTS are every day experienced of blame and praise, which have objects beyond the dominion of the will or choice, and of which it behoves us, if not as moralists, as speculative philosophers at least, to give some satisfactory theory and explication.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000028_000001|The explication of one will easily lead us into a just conception of the others; and it is of greater consequence to attend to things than to verbal appellations.
train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000028_000002|That we owe a duty to ourselves is confessed even in the most vulgar system of morals; and it must be of consequence to examine that duty, in order to see whether it bears any affinity to that which we owe to society.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000007_000000|Now the eight ships with their demon crews sailed away over the lake toward Maracaibo.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000007_000004|The money was paid, the cattle were put on board the ships, and to the unspeakable relief of the citizens, the pirate fleet sailed away from the harbor.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000009_000000|They did not go directly to Tortuga, but stopped at a little island near Hispaniola, which was inhabited by French buccaneers, and this delay was made entirely for the purpose of dividing the booty.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000010_000000|Before the regular allotment of shares was made, the claims of the wounded were fully satisfied according to their established code.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000013_000004|They robbed Indians, they robbed villages; they devastated little towns, taking everything that they cared for, and burning what they did not want, and treating the people they captured with viler cruelties than any in which the buccaneers had yet indulged.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000015_000002|If they could find nothing else, they might at least catch fish.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000016_000000|After a time the buccaneers got back to their fleet and remained on the coast about three months, waiting for some expected Spanish ships, which they hoped to capture.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000017_000000|Now L'Olonnois proposed to his men that they should sail for Guatemala, but he met with an unexpected obstacle; the buccaneers who had enlisted under him had expected to make great fortunes in this expedition, but their high hopes had not been realized.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000018_000001|This was a serious undertaking, but it was all they could do.
train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000018_000002|They could not swim away, and their ship was of no use to them as she was.
train-clean-360/663/128991/663_128991_000001_000000|Chapter sixteen
train-clean-360/663/128991/663_128991_000018_000002|Thus prepared, this able commander knew just what to do.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000002_000001|Montresor put up his glasses and bestowed on him a few moments of scrutiny, during which the Minister's heavily marked face took on the wary, fighting aspect which his department and the House of Commons knew.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000002_000002|The statesman slipped in for an instant between the trifler coming and the trifler gone.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000003_000000|As for Wilfrid Bury, he was dazzled by the young man's good looks. "'Young Harry with his beaver up!'" he thought, admiring against his will, as the tall, slim soldier paid his respects to Lady Henry, and, with a smiling word or two to the rest of those present, took his place beside her in the circle.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000006_000000|"Then I fear you won't get it," said Lady Henry, throwing herself back in her chair.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000006_000001|"mr Montresor can do nothing but quarrel and contradict."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000007_000000|Montresor lifted his hands in wonder.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000008_000000|"Had I been AEsop," he said, slyly, "I would have added another touch to a certain tale.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000008_000001|Observe, please!--even after the Lamb has been devoured he is still the object of calumny on the part of the Wolf!
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000008_000003|Tell me what new follies the Duchess has on foot."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000001|But it was not easy.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000003|Throughout, Sir Wilfrid perceived in her a strained attention directed towards the conversation on the other side of the room.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000004|She could neither see it nor hear it, but she was jealously conscious of it.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000006|Lady Henry had been thorny over much during the afternoon; even for her oldest friend she had passed bounds; he desired perhaps to bring it home to her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000010_000000|Meanwhile, Julie Le Breton, after a first moment of reserve and depression, had been beguiled, carried away.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000011_000000|At last Lady Henry could bear it no longer.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000012_000000|"Mademoiselle, be so good as to return his father's letters to Captain Warkworth," she said, abruptly, in her coldest voice, just as Montresor, dropping his-head thrown back and knees crossed-was about to pour into the ears of his companion the whole confidential history of his appointment to office three years before.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000013_000000|Julie Le Breton rose at once.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000013_000002|Montresor, perhaps repenting himself a little, returned to Lady Henry; and though she received him with great coolness, the circle round her, now augmented by dr Meredith, and another politician or two, was reconstituted; and presently, with a conscious effort, visible at least to Bury, she exerted herself to hold it, and succeeded.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000015_000000|His smile stiffened on his lips.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000015_000001|Like an icy wave, a swift and tragic impression swept through him.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000015_000002|He turned away, ashamed of having seen, and hid himself, as it were, with relief, in the clamor of amusement awakened by his own remarks.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000001|Merely, or mainly, a woman's face.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000002|Young Warkworth stood beside the sofa, on which sat Lady Henry's companion, his hands in his pockets, his handsome head bent towards her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000003|They had been talking earnestly, wholly forgetting and apparently forgotten by the rest of the room.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000005|He seemed to be choosing his words with difficulty, his eyes on the floor.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000006|Julie Le Breton, on the contrary, was looking at him-looking with all her soul, her ardent, unhappy soul-unconscious of aught else in the wide world.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000017_000000|"Good God! she is in love with him!" was the thought that rushed through Sir Wilfrid's mind.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000017_000001|"Poor thing!
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000017_000002|Poor thing!"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000018_000000|Sir Wilfrid outstayed his fellow guests.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000018_000001|By seven o'clock all were gone. Mademoiselle Le Breton had retired.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000018_000002|He and Lady Henry were left alone.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000019_000001|"I must have some private talk with you.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000019_000002|Well, I understand you walked home from the Crowboroughs' the other night with-that woman."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000020_000000|She turned sharply upon him.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000020_000001|The accent was indescribable.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000022_000000|"I am sorry to hear you speak so," he said, gravely, after a pause. "Yes, I talked with her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000022_000003|I did my best as a peacemaker.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000023_000000|Lady Henry threw out her hand in disdain.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000024_000001|I told her, of course, that I would put up with nothing of the kind."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000026_000000|"I dare say," said Lady Henry.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000026_000001|"You see, I guessed that it was not spontaneous; that you had wrung it out of her."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000027_000000|"What else did you expect me to do?" cried Sir Wilfrid.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000000|"Oh no
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000001|You were very kind.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000002|And I dare say you might have done some good.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000003|I was beginning to-to have some returns on myself, when the Duchess appeared on the scene."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000030_000000|"She came, of course, to beg and protest.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000030_000001|She offered me her valuable services for all sorts of superfluous things that I didn't want-if only I would spare her Julie for this ridiculous bazaar.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000030_000003|That alone would be sufficient to justify me in dismissing her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000031_000000|"Oh yes," murmured Sir Wilfrid, "if you want to dismiss her."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000032_000000|"We shall come to that presently," said Lady Henry, shortly.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000032_000003|Who can say what absurdities may happen if it once gets out that she is Lady Rose's child?
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000032_000004|I could name half a dozen people, who come here habitually, who would consider themselves insulted if they knew-what you and I know."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000033_000000|"Insulted?
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000033_000001|Because her mother-"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000000|"Because her mother broke the seventh commandment?
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000001|Oh, dear, no! That, in my opinion, doesn't touch people much nowadays.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000002|Insulted because they had been kept in the dark-that's all.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000003|Vanity, not morals."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000035_000000|"As far as I can ascertain," said Sir Wilfrid, meditatively, "only the Duchess, Delafield, Montresor, and myself are in the secret."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000036_000000|"Montresor!" cried Lady Henry, beside herself.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000037_000000|"Wait a little.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000037_000001|Have you had any talk with Jacob?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000038_000000|"I should think not!
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000038_000001|Evelyn, of course, brings him in perpetually-Jacob this and Jacob that.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000038_000003|Where Julie has found the time I can't imagine; I thought I had kept her pretty well occupied."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000040_000000|"So you don't know what Jacob thinks?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000041_000000|"Why should I want to know?" said Lady Henry, disdainfully.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000041_000001|"A lad whom I sent to Eton and Oxford, when his father couldn't pay his bills-what does it matter to me what he thinks?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000042_000000|"Women are strange folk," thought Sir Wilfrid.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000043_000000|Then, aloud:
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000044_000000|"I thought you were afraid lest he should want to marry her?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000045_000001|"What does it matter to me?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000046_000000|"By the way, as to that"--he spoke as though feeling his way-"have you never had suspicions in quite another direction?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000047_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000048_000000|"Well, I hear a good deal in various quarters of the trouble Mademoiselle Le Breton is taking-on behalf of that young soldier who was here just now-Harry Warkworth."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000049_000000|Lady Henry laughed impatiently.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000050_000000|"I dare say.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000050_000001|She is always wanting to patronize or influence somebody. It's in her nature.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000050_000005|What can an old, blind creature like me do to stop it?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000051_000000|"And as Jacob's wife-the wife perhaps of the head of the family-you still mean to quarrel with her?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000053_000000|"No, no!
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000053_000001|You are really unjust," said Sir Wilfrid, laying a kind hand upon her arm.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000053_000002|"That was not her fault."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000054_000001|No, no, Wilfrid, your first instinct was the true one.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000054_000002|I shall have to bring myself to it, whatever it costs.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000054_000003|She must take her departure, or I shall go to pieces, morally and physically.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000055_000000|"And you can't subdue the temper?" he asked, with a queer smile.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000056_000000|"No, I can't!
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000056_000001|That's flat.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000056_000002|She gets on my nerves, and I'm not responsible.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000057_000000|"Well," he said, slowly, "I hope you understand what it means?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000059_000001|At least," he entreated, "don't quarrel with everybody who may sympathize with her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000059_000002|Let them take what view they please.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000060_000000|"On the contrary!" She was now white to the lips.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000060_000001|"Whoever goes with her gives me up.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000061_000000|"My dear friend, listen to reason."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000062_000000|And, drawing his chair close to her, he argued with her for half an hour.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000063_000001|Her look of exhaustion distressed him, and, for all her unreason, he felt himself astonishingly in sympathy with her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000063_000002|The age in him held out secret hands to the age in her-as against encroaching and rebellious youth.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000064_000000|Perhaps it was the consciousness of this mood in him which at last partly appeased her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000065_000000|"Well, I'll try again.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000066_000000|"That's a great pity," was his naive reply.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000066_000001|"Nothing would put you in a better position than to give her leave."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000067_000000|"I shall do nothing of the kind," she vowed.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000068_000000|Lady Henry sat alone in her brightly lighted drawing room for some time. She could neither read nor write nor sew, owing to her blindness, and in the reaction from her passion of the afternoon she felt herself very old and weary.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000069_000000|But at last the door opened and Julie Le Breton's light step approached.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000070_000000|"May I read to you?" she said, gently.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000072_000000|She had no sooner, however, begun to knit than her very acute sense of touch noticed something wrong with the wool she was using.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000073_000000|"This is not the wool I ordered," she said, fingering it carefully.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000073_000001|"You remember, I gave you a message about it on Thursday?
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000074_000000|Julie laid down the newspaper and looked in perplexity at the ball of wool.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000075_000000|"I remember you gave me a message," she faltered.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000076_000000|"Well, what did they say?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000077_000000|"I suppose that was all they had."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000078_000000|Something in the tone struck Lady Henry's quick ears.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000079_000000|"Did you ever go to Winton's at all?" she said, quickly.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000081_000000|"I am so sorry.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000081_000001|The Duchess's maid was going there," said Julie, hurriedly, "and she went for me.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000082_000000|"Hm," said Lady Henry, slowly.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000082_000001|"So you didn't go to Winton's.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000083_000000|Julie hesitated.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000083_000001|She had grown very white.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000083_000002|Suddenly her face settled and steadied.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000084_000000|"No," she said, calmly.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000084_000001|"I meant to have done all your commissions.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000085_000000|Lady Henry flushed deeply.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000086_000001|May I ask what you were doing there?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000087_000000|"I was trying to help the Duchess in her plans for the bazaar."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000088_000000|"Indeed?
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000088_000001|Was any one else there?
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000088_000002|Answer me, mademoiselle."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000089_000000|Julie hesitated again, and again spoke with a kind of passionate composure.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000090_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000090_000001|mr Delafield was there."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000091_000001|Allow me to assure you, mademoiselle"--Lady Henry rose from her seat, leaning on her stick; surely no old face was ever more formidable, more withering-"that whatever ambitions you may cherish, Jacob Delafield is not altogether the simpleton you imagine.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000091_000003|He will take some time before he really makes up his mind to marry a woman of your disposition-and your history."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000092_000000|Julie Le Breton also rose.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000093_000001|"I shall not marry mr Delafield.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000093_000002|But it is because-I have refused him twice."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000094_000000|Lady Henry gasped.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000094_000001|She fell back into her chair, staring at her companion.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000095_000000|"You have-refused him?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000096_000000|"A month ago, and last year.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000096_000002|But you forced me."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000097_000001|Feeling and excitement had blanched her no less than Lady Henry, but her fine head and delicate form breathed a will so proud, a dignity so passionate, that Lady Henry shrank before her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000098_000000|"Why did you refuse him?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000099_000000|Julie shrugged her shoulders.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000100_000000|"That, I think, is my affair.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000100_000001|But if-I had loved him-I should not have consulted your scruples, Lady Henry."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000101_000000|"That's frank," said Lady Henry.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000101_000001|"I like that better than anything you've said yet.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000102_000000|"I have several times heard you say so," said the other, coldly.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000103_000001|Various things that Wilfrid Bury had said recurred to her.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000103_000002|She thought of Captain Warkworth. She wondered.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000001|I suppose I've been insulting you.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000002|But-you have been playing tricks with me.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000003|In a good many ways, we're quits.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000004|Still, I confess, I admire you a good deal.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000005|Anyway, I offer you my hand.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000006|I apologize for my recent remarks.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000007|Shall we bury the hatchet, and try and go on as before?"
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000106_000000|Julie Le Breton turned slowly and took the hand-without unction.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000107_000000|"I make you angry," she said, and her voice trembled, "without knowing how or why."
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000108_000000|Lady Henry gulped.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000109_000000|"Oh, it mayn't answer," she said, as their hands dropped.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000109_000001|"But we may as well have one more trial.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000110_000000|Julie shook her head.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000111_000000|"I don't think I have any heart for it," she said, sadly; and then, as Lady Henry sat silent, she approached.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000112_000000|"You look very tired.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000113_000001|But she shook off the spell.
train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000114_000000|"At once, please.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000008_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000009_000000|IS THIS MADNESS?
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000011_000002|She must have air," and he moved towards a window.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000012_000001|Raymond waited anxiously, and then applied his ear to her heart.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000014_000000|Doctor Bardon came forward, followed by Doctor Bird, and both looked at the unconscious one closely and critically.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000014_000001|There was no shamming here-the shock had been heavy-the bolt had struck home.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000017_000001|"She will-will come around all right?"
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000020_000000|"What's that?" he questioned.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000021_000000|She did not answer, but continued to stare, turning from him to the nurse and then to the old doctor.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000022_000002|What struck me?
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000022_000004|What have I done? Where am I? Have I been sick?"
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000023_000000|"Margaret!" Raymond came closer and took her hand.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000024_000004|And the bottle-the handkerchief-"
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000025_000000|"Margaret, Margaret!
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000025_000003|It will all come out right.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000026_000003|The paroxysm lasted for several minutes and then she fainted once more.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000032_000000|"Besides," the old doctor paused.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000034_000001|"Oh, yes, I suppose that is right. But you can't take her to jail.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000043_000003|He saw the eyelids of the one he loved quiver slightly.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000048_000000|"With you, Raymond?
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000048_000001|Where?"
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000051_000000|"We thought it best to bring you here.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000051_000002|The doctor said you must be kept very quiet." He smoothed down her hair.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000052_000001|I don't remember it.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000056_000008|They found blood on it, blood!" And she shivered again.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000059_000002|But don't think of it, dear." He tried to brush back her hair, but she stopped him.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000060_000005|"Do not touch me!
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000060_000006|Do not come near me!"
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000062_000000|"No! no!
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000062_000001|It is too late, too late!" Her voice sank to a hoarse whisper.
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000063_000000|"But Margaret, dear-"
train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000064_000000|"No, I cannot listen!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000002_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000003_000000|The Green Silk Purse
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000004_000001|She was all respectful gratitude to mrs Sedley; delighted beyond measure at the Bazaars; and in a whirl of wonder at the theatre, whither the good-natured lady took her.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000004_000002|One day, Amelia had a headache, and could not go upon some party of pleasure to which the two young people were invited: nothing could induce her friend to go without her.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000004_000004|Never!" and the green eyes looked up to Heaven and filled with tears; and mrs Sedley could not but own that her daughter's friend had a charming kind heart of her own.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000005_000000|As for mr Sedley's jokes, Rebecca laughed at them with a cordiality and perseverance which not a little pleased and softened that good-natured gentleman.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000008_000000|"My love!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000009_000000|"The poor child is all heart," said mrs Sedley.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000010_000000|"I wish she could stay with us another week," said Amelia.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000011_000000|"She's devilish like Miss Cutler that I used to meet at Dumdum, only fairer.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000011_000002|Do you know, Ma'am, that once Quintin, of the fourteenth, bet me-"
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000012_000000|"O Joseph, we know that story," said Amelia, laughing.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000012_000001|"Never mind about telling that; but persuade Mamma to write to Sir Something Crawley for leave of absence for poor dear Rebecca: here she comes, her eyes red with weeping."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000013_000001|"How kind you all are to me!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000015_000000|"Yes; how could you be so cruel as to make me eat that horrid pepper dish at dinner, the first day I ever saw you?
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000015_000001|You are not so good to me as dear Amelia."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000016_000000|"He doesn't know you so well," cried Amelia.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000019_000000|"And the chilis?"
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000020_000000|"By Jove, how they made you cry out!" said Joe, caught by the ridicule of the circumstance, and exploding in a fit of laughter which ended quite suddenly, as usual.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000021_000000|"I shall take care how I let YOU choose for me another time," said Rebecca, as they went down again to dinner.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000021_000001|"I didn't think men were fond of putting poor harmless girls to pain."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000000|It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and gentility will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do for herself.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000003|We can't resist them, if they do.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000005|A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000006|They would overcome us entirely if they did.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000025_000000|"Egad!" thought Joseph, entering the dining room, "I exactly begin to feel as I did at Dumdum with Miss Cutler." Many sweet little appeals, half tender, half jocular, did Miss Sharp make to him about the dishes at dinner; for by this time she was on a footing of considerable familiarity with the family, and as for the girls, they loved each other like sisters.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000026_000000|As if bent upon advancing Rebecca's plans in every way-what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays-"When I was a girl at school," said she, laughing-a promise that he, Joseph, would take her to Vauxhall.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000027_000000|"O, delightful!" said Rebecca, going to clap her hands; but she recollected herself, and paused, like a modest creature, as she was.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000028_000000|"To night is not the night," said Joe.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000029_000000|"Well, to morrow."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000032_000000|"The children must have someone with them," cried mrs Sedley.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000033_000000|"Let Joe go," said his father, laughing.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000033_000001|"He's big enough." At which speech even mr Sambo at the sideboard burst out laughing, and poor fat Joe felt inclined to become a parricide almost.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000034_000002|Poor victim! carry him up; he's as light as a feather!"
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000036_000000|"Order mr Jos's elephant, Sambo!" cried the father.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000037_000000|A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph's equanimity, and before the bottle was emptied, of which as an invalid he took two thirds, he had agreed to take the young ladies to Vauxhall.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000038_000000|"The girls must have a gentleman apiece," said the old gentleman.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000039_000000|At this, I don't know in the least for what reason, mrs Sedley looked at her husband and laughed.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000039_000002|"Amelia had better write a note," said her father; "and let George Osborne see what a beautiful handwriting we have brought back from Miss Pinkerton's.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000042_000000|"It was quite wicked of you, mr Sedley," said she, "to torment the poor boy so."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000043_000007|But, mark my words, the first woman who fishes for him, hooks him."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000044_000000|"She shall go off to morrow, the little artful creature," said mrs Sedley, with great energy.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000045_000001|The girl's a white face at any rate.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000045_000002|I don't care who marries him.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000045_000003|Let Joe please himself."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000046_000000|And presently the voices of the two speakers were hushed, or were replaced by the gentle but unromantic music of the nose; and save when the church bells tolled the hour and the watchman called it, all was silent at the house of john Sedley, Esquire, of Russell Square, and the Stock Exchange.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000049_000002|In a word, George was as familiar with the family as such daily acts of kindness and intercourse could make him.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000051_000000|Jos remembered this remarkable circumstance perfectly well, but vowed that he had totally forgotten it.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000054_000000|"Yes, and after I had cut the tassels of his boots too.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000054_000001|Boys never forget those tips at school, nor the givers."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000057_000000|"I shan't have time to do it here," said Rebecca.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000058_000000|"O that you could stay longer, dear Rebecca," said Amelia.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000059_000000|"Why?" answered the other, still more sadly.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000059_000002|George Osborne looked at the two young women with a touched curiosity; and Joseph Sedley heaved something very like a sigh out of his big chest, as he cast his eyes down towards his favourite Hessian boots.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000060_000002|But this arrangement left mr Joseph Sedley tete a tete with Rebecca, at the drawing room table, where the latter was occupied in knitting a green silk purse.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000061_000000|"There is no need to ask family secrets," said Miss Sharp.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000061_000001|"Those two have told theirs."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000062_000000|"As soon as he gets his company," said Joseph, "I believe the affair is settled.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000062_000001|George Osborne is a capital fellow."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000064_000000|When two unmarried persons get together, and talk upon such delicate subjects as the present, a great deal of confidence and intimacy is presently established between them.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000064_000002|As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of course, in a low and becoming tone, though, for the matter of that, the couple in the next apartment would not have been disturbed had the talking been ever so loud, so occupied were they with their own pursuits.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000065_000000|Almost for the first time in his life, mr Sedley found himself talking, without the least timidity or hesitation, to a person of the other sex.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000065_000001|Miss Rebecca asked him a great number of questions about India, which gave him an opportunity of narrating many interesting anecdotes about that country and himself.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000065_000003|How delighted Miss Rebecca was at the Government balls, and how she laughed at the stories of the Scotch aides de camp, and called mr Sedley a sad wicked satirical creature; and how frightened she was at the story of the elephant!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000066_000000|"Pooh, pooh, Miss Sharp," said he, pulling up his shirt collars; "the danger makes the sport only the pleasanter." He had never been but once at a tiger hunt, when the accident in question occurred, and when he was half killed-not by the tiger, but by the fright.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000066_000001|And as he talked on, he grew quite bold, and actually had the audacity to ask Miss Rebecca for whom she was knitting the green silk purse?
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000066_000002|He was quite surprised and delighted at his own graceful familiar manner.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000067_000000|"For any one who wants a purse," replied Miss Rebecca, looking at him in the most gentle winning way.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000068_000001|"Why, your friend has worked miracles."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000069_000000|"The more the better," said Miss Amelia; who, like almost all women who are worth a pin, was a match maker in her heart, and would have been delighted that Joseph should carry back a wife to India.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000069_000002|For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's bean stalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000070_000001|"You would not have listened to me," she said to mr Osborne (though she knew she was telling a fib), "had you heard Rebecca first."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000071_000000|"I give Miss Sharp warning, though," said Osborne, "that, right or wrong, I consider Miss Amelia Sedley the first singer in the world."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000072_000000|"You shall hear," said Amelia; and Joseph Sedley was actually polite enough to carry the candles to the piano.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000072_000001|Osborne hinted that he should like quite as well to sit in the dark; but Miss Sedley, laughing, declined to bear him company any farther, and the two accordingly followed mr Joseph.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000073_000000|Conversation of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, and even mrs Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, condescended to listen on the landing place.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000076_000000|They mark'd him as he onward prest, With fainting heart and weary limb; Kind voices bade him turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000076_000001|The dawn is up-the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wanderers lone!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000076_000002|Hark to the wind upon the hill!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000077_000000|It was the sentiment of the before mentioned words, "When I'm gone," over again.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000077_000001|As she came to the last words, Miss Sharp's "deep toned voice faltered." Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000078_000000|"Bravo, Jos!" said mr Sedley; on hearing the bantering of which well-known voice, Jos instantly relapsed into an alarmed silence, and quickly took his departure.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000078_000004|I might go farther, and fare worse, egad!" And in these meditations he fell asleep.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000001|need not be told here.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000005|Amelia, who was writing to her twelve dearest friends at Chiswick Mall), and Rebecca was employed upon her yesterday's work.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000006|As Joe's buggy drove up, and while, after his usual thundering knock and pompous bustle at the door, the ex Collector of Boggley Wollah laboured up stairs to the drawing room, knowing glances were telegraphed between Osborne and Miss Sedley, and the pair, smiling archly, looked at Rebecca, who actually blushed as she bent her fair ringlets over her knitting.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000007|How her heart beat as Joseph appeared-Joseph, puffing from the staircase in shining creaking boots-Joseph, in a new waistcoat, red with heat and nervousness, and blushing behind his wadded neckcloth.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000008|It was a nervous moment for all; and as for Amelia, I think she was more frightened than even the people most concerned.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000082_000000|"Thank you, dear Joseph," said Amelia, quite ready to kiss her brother, if he were so minded. (And I think for a kiss from such a dear creature as Amelia, I would purchase all mr Lee's conservatories out of hand.)
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000083_000001|Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet doux hidden among the flowers; but there was no letter.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000084_000000|"Do they talk the language of flowers at Boggley Wollah, Sedley?" asked Osborne, laughing.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000085_000002|Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000086_000001|I don't know on what pretext Osborne left the room, or why, presently, Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine apple; but Jos was left alone with Rebecca, who had resumed her work, and the green silk and the shining needles were quivering rapidly under her white slender fingers.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000087_000001|"It made me cry almost; 'pon my honour it did."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000088_000000|"Because you have a kind heart, mr Joseph; all the Sedleys have, I think."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000089_000001|Gollop, my doctor, came in at eleven (for I'm a sad invalid, you know, and see Gollop every day), and, 'gad! there I was, singing away like-a robin."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000090_000000|"O you droll creature!
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000090_000001|Do let me hear you sing it."
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000091_000000|"Me?
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000091_000002|"My spirits are not equal to it; besides, I must finish the purse.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000091_000003|Will you help me, mr Sedley?" And before he had time to ask how, mr Joseph Sedley, of the East India Company's service, was actually seated tete a tete with a young lady, looking at her with a most killing expression; his arms stretched out before her in an imploring attitude, and his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding.
train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000092_000001|The skein of silk was just wound round the card; but mr Jos had never spoken.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000001_000000|A TWILIGHT TEA PARTY
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000002_000000|It was late when Grace and Sylvia awoke the following morning, but they were down stairs before the boys appeared.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000002_000001|mrs Hayes greeted them smilingly, but she said that Flora was not well and that Mammy would take her breakfast to her up stairs.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000003_000000|"After breakfast you must go up and stay with her a little while," said mrs Hayes.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000004_000000|"Why, Flora was never ill in her life," declared Ralph; "what's the matter?"
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000005_000001|"Mammy doesn't seem to know just how it happened," she concluded.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000007_000000|"The moon was shining right where she stood.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000007_000001|I saw her just as plainly as I could see you when you sat up in bed," Sylvia declared.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000010_000000|Flora was bolstered up in bed, and had on a dainty dressing gown of pink muslin tied with white ribbons.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000011_000000|"Oh, girls!
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000011_000001|It's too bad that I can't help you to have a good time to day," she said, "and all because I was so clumsy."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000012_000000|Both the girls assured her that it was a good time just to be at the Hayes plantation.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000013_000000|"Flora!
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000013_000004|Just about midnight," said Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000015_000002|For it wore a big hat, like the one in the picture, and its dress trailed all about it," replied Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000017_000000|"I didn't see it," said Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000017_000001|"And, truly, I believe Sylvia just dreamed it."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000018_000000|Flora sat up in bed suddenly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000019_000000|"Sylvia did not dream it.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000020_000001|But I didn't," and Grace laughed good naturedly; but Flora turned her face from them and began to cry.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000021_000000|"After my being hurt, and-" she sobbed, but stopped quickly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000022_000000|Sylvia and Grace looked at each other in amazement.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000023_000000|"It's because she is ill.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000023_000001|And she's disappointed because you didn't see Lady Caroline," Sylvia whispered.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000023_000002|In a moment Flora looked up with a little smile.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000024_000001|"You must forgive me.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000025_000000|"I begin to think she did," Grace owned laughingly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000025_000001|She had happened to look toward the open closet and had seen certain things which made her quite ready to own that Flora might be right.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000026_000000|Of course Sylvia promised, but she was puzzled by Flora's request.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000027_000000|It was decided that Ralph and Philip should ride back to Charleston that afternoon when Uncle Chris drove the little visitors home, and that Flora should stay at the plantation with her mother for a day or two.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000028_000002|Nevertheless she was glad when the carriage stopped in front of her own home, and she saw Estralla, smiling and happy in the pink gingham dress, waiting to welcome her.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000029_000000|"Sylvia, I'm coming over to night.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000031_000001|I'll tell you after supper," Grace responded and ran on to her own home.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000032_000001|She told them about poor Dinkie, and what Philip had said: that Dinkie should not be sold away from her children, or whipped.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000033_000000|mr Fulton seemed greatly pleased with Sylvia's account of her visit. He said Philip was a fine boy, and that there were many like him in South Carolina.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000035_000000|"What is it, Grace?" Sylvia asked eagerly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000035_000001|"I can't think what you want to tell me that makes you look so sober."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000036_000000|Grace looked all about the room and then closed the door, not seeing a little figure crouching in a shadowy corner.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000000|"I wouldn't want anybody else to hear.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000002|"I know all about it.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000003|It was Flora herself!
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000004|Yes, it was!" she continued quickly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000006|They weren't there yesterday, for the door was open, just as it was to day."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000038_000000|"Well, what of that?" asked Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000002|"Flora dressed up in her mother's things, and then came up the stairs to our room.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000003|She was determined to make us think she had a truly ghost in her house. Then when you called out, she got frightened and stumbled on the stairs.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000005|Of course it was Flora.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000006|Nobody seems to know how she got hurt.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000007|The minute I saw that plumed hat I knew just the trick she had played.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000041_000000|"I don't think it was fair," she said slowly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000042_000000|"Of course it wasn't fair.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000042_000001|I wouldn't have believed that a Charleston girl would do such a mean trick," declared Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000043_000001|She thought it would make us laugh."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000044_000000|"Well, then why didn't she?" asked Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000046_000003|Flora will tell us just as soon as we see her again."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000047_000000|There was a little note of entreaty in Sylvia's voice, as if she were pleading with Grace not to blame Flora.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000048_000000|"I know one thing, Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000049_000001|As Grace spoke they both turned quickly, for there was a sudden noise of an overturned chair in the further corner of the room, and they could see a dark figure sprawling on the floor.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000050_000000|Before Sylvia could speak she heard the little wailing cry which Estralla always gave when in trouble, and then: "Don't be skeered, Missy!
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000052_000001|Grace lit the candles on Sylvia's bureau, while Sylvia picked up her treasured dolls, "Molly" and "Polly," which her Grandmother Fulton had sent her on her last birthday.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000053_000004|I 'spec' now I'll get whipped."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000054_000000|"Keep still, Estralla.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000055_000000|"You ought to tell her mother to whip her.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000055_000001|She's no business up here," said Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000056_000000|"Don't, Grace!" Sylvia exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000056_000001|"We don't get whipped every time we make a mistake.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000056_000003|Just think, your Uncle Robert can sell her away from her own mother.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000057_000000|Estralla had scrambled to her feet and now stood looking at the little white girls with a half frightened look in her big eyes.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000058_000000|"Oh, Missy!
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000059_000003|We will have a tea party for Molly and Polly, and you shall wait on them.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000059_000004|Run down and ask your mother to give us some little cakes."
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000060_000000|Estralla was off in an instant, and while she was away Sylvia and Grace spread the little table, brought cushions from the window seats and advised Molly and Polly to forgive the disturbance.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000061_000000|When mrs Fulton came up stairs a little later to tell Grace that her black Mammy had come to take her home she found three very happy little girls.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000061_000001|Sylvia and Grace were being entertained at tea by Misses Molly and Polly, while Estralla with shining eyes and a wide smile carried tiny cups and little cakes to the guests, and chuckled delightedly over the clever things which Sylvia and Grace declared Molly and Polly had said.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000064_000001|Not a bit," replied Sylvia laughingly.
train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000065_000000|Estralla, who was carefully putting the little table in order, heard Sylvia's defense of her, and for a moment she stood very straight, holding one of the tiny cups in each hand.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000002_000000|mr
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000002_000001|ROBERT WAITE
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000004_000000|"What's the matter, Estralla?" Sylvia called; for usually Estralla was all smiles, and had a good deal to say.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000005_000000|Estralla shook her head.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000005_000001|"Nuffin', Missy.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000005_000003|My mammy says how nobody can."
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000006_000000|"Wait, Estralla!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000008_000001|What can I do?" and Sylvia was out of bed in a second, standing close beside the little colored girl.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000009_000001|I 'spec' dar ain't nuffin' you kin do.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000009_000002|But you has been mighty good to me," Estralla replied.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000010_000000|"Estralla, if you were earning wages for mr Robert Waite would he let you stay here?" Sylvia asked eagerly.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000000|"You can't do that.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000001|But don't be frightened, Estralla.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000004|Yes, I will; and pay wages for you to mr Waite.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000005|I'll go tell him so this very day," declared Sylvia, her face brightening, as she remembered the twenty dollars in gold which her Grandmother Fulton had given her when she had left Boston.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000006|"You can do whatever you please with it," was what Grandmother Fulton had said.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000000|Sylvia had thought that she would ask her mother to buy her a watch with the money, but she did not remember that now.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000002|Twenty dollars was a good deal of money, she reflected.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000003|If the northern soldiers would only come quickly and set the slaves free!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000004|But even if they did not come for a long time the money would surely pay mr Waite wages for Estralla, so that he would not insist on selling her.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000014_000000|Estralla's face had brightened instantly at Sylvia's promise.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000014_000001|And when Sylvia explained that she had money of her very own, and even opened her writing desk and showed Estralla the shining gold pieces, the little darky's fears vanished.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000016_000000|"Yes," Sylvia responded.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000016_000003|And I please to pay it to mr Waite."
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000020_000001|"If you want to go to the forts you must be on hand early."
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000021_000000|"I'll ask them right away after breakfast, before they start for school," Sylvia promised eagerly.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000022_000000|It had seemed to mrs Fulton that her little daughter was tired, and not as well as usual, and she was glad that the sailing expedition would take her out for a long afternoon on the water.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000023_000000|Sylvia ate her breakfast hurriedly, and ran upstairs for her cape and hat, to find Estralla waiting just inside the door of her room.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000028_000000|"I think I will take the money," Sylvia said, not answering Estralla's question; "then mr Waite will be sure that I can pay him."
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000029_000000|mrs Fulton saw Sylvia, closely followed by Estralla, running across the garden toward the house where Grace Waite lived.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000030_000000|"Poor little darky!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000030_000001|What will she do when Sylvia goes north?" she thought.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000030_000003|That meant of course that the Fultons would have to return to Boston, if that were possible, but all communication with northern states might be prevented.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000032_000000|"The Christmas holidays will soon be here, so a half day out of school will not matter," mrs Waite said smilingly, and gave Grace a note for Miss Patten.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000033_000000|"I'll walk to Flora's with you," said Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000033_000001|"Now, Sylvia, own up that you think Charleston is nicer than Boston.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000033_000002|Why, it is all ice and snow and cold weather up there, and here it is warm and pleasant.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000034_000000|"No, but I could go sleighing," responded Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000035_000000|As they came in sight of Flora's home they both exclaimed in surprise:
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000036_000000|"Why, they are all going away!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000037_000001|Philip, evidently giving some directions to the negroes who were loading trunks and boxes into a cart, rode down the driveway just as Grace and Sylvia reached the entrance.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000038_000000|He greeted them smilingly, and stopped his horse to speak with them.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000039_000001|"Father thought it was best for the family to be out of the city.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000040_000000|Sylvia was sorry that Flora was going away, but that Philip should want the palmetto flag to take the place of the Stars and Stripes over Fort Sumter seemed a much greater misfortune.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000040_000001|"When he knows it stands for slavery," she thought, wondering if he had entirely forgotten about Dinkie.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000041_000000|"I'll have to run, or I'll be late for school," declared Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000043_000000|Sylvia went up the flight of stone steps which led to mr Waite's door a little fearfully.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000044_000000|"A little white missy to see you, Massa Robert," he said, and in a moment Sylvia found herself standing before a smiling gentleman, whose red face and white whiskers made her think of the pictures of Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000045_000000|"Won't you be seated, young lady?" he said, very politely, waving his hand toward a low cushioned chair, and bowing "as if I were really grown up," thought Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000046_000000|"I am Sylvia Fulton," she said, wondering why her voice sounded so faint.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000048_000000|"Yes, sir," said Sylvia meekly, wondering whether she would ever dare tell him her errand.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000048_000001|There was a little silence, and then mr Waite took a seat near his little visitor and said:
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000049_000001|'Then to Sylvia let us sing,'" he hummed, beating time with his right hand.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000050_000000|"Oh, yes, I was named for that song.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000050_000001|And, if you please, mr Waite, would you let me pay you wages for Estralla?"
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000051_000000|"For Estralla?
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000051_000001|Now, of course, I ought to know all about Estralla.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000052_000000|"If you please, sir, she is Aunt Connie's little girl, and she lives with us, and I like her, and I thought-" began Sylvia, but mr Waite raised his hand, and she stopped suddenly.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000000|"I see!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000008|I must see that whatever you wish is carried out.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000010|Yes, indeed!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000011|Yes, indeed!" and mr Waite smiled and bowed, and seemed exactly like Santa Claus.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000054_000001|"I like Estralla."
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000055_000002|Well!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000055_000003|And I hope you will come again, Miss Sylvia.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000055_000004|I am greatly pleased to have made your acquaintance," and the polite gentleman escorted her to the door, where he bade her good bye with such an elegant bow that Sylvia nearly fell backward in her effort to make as low a curtsey as seemed necessary.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000056_000000|Estralla had hidden herself behind some shrubbery, and joined Sylvia at the gate.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000057_000000|"Would he hire me out, Missy?" she asked eagerly.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000058_000001|I knowed it."
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000059_000000|"Keep still, Estralla!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000059_000001|mr Waite says I may have you without paying him.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000059_000003|Oh, Estralla!
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000061_000000|Sylvia hurried home, eager to tell her mother of her wonderful new friend, and of Flora's departure to the plantation.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000062_000000|mrs Fulton listened in surprise.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000062_000001|But when Sylvia finished her story of mr Waite's kindness, declaring that he was just like Santa Claus, she did not reprove her for going on such an errand without permission, but agreed with her little daughter that mr Robert Waite was a very kind and generous gentleman.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000063_000000|Aunt Connie was as delighted as it was possible for a mother to be who knows that her youngest child is safe under the same roof with herself. She tried to thank Sylvia for protecting Estralla, but Sylvia was too happy over her success to listen to her.
train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000066_000000|"Oh, that's just like Uncle Robert," she declared.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000004_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000008_000000|Negroes were at work on the wharf loading bales of cotton on a big ship.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000008_000001|They were singing as they worked, and Sylvia resolved to remember the words of the song:
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000011_000000|mr Fulton came to meet them and helped them on board the boat.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000011_000001|As the Butterfly made its way out into the channel the little girls looked back at the long water front, where lay many vessels from far off ports.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000011_000002|In the distance they could see the spire of saint Philip's, one of the historic churches of Charleston, and everywhere fluttered the palmetto flag.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000012_000000|Sylvia sat in the stern beside her father, and very soon the tiller was in her hand and she was shaping the boat's course toward the forts. Grace watched her admiringly.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000013_000000|"I believe you could steer in the dark," she declared.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000014_000000|"Of course she could if she had a compass and was familiar with the stars," said mr Fulton; and he called Grace's attention to the compass fastened securely near Sylvia's seat, and explained the rules of navigation.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000015_000000|"Is that the way the big ships know how to find their harbors?" asked Grace, when mr Fulton told her of the stars, and how the pilots set their course.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000016_000000|"Yes, and if Sylvia understood how to steer by the compass she could steer the Butterfly as well at night as she can now."
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000018_000000|There had been many changes at Fort Moultrie since Sylvia's last visit. A deep ditch had been dug between the fort and the sand bars, and many workmen were busy in strengthening the defences, and Sylvia and Grace wondered why so many soldiers were stationed along the parapet.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000019_000000|Captain Carleton seemed very glad to welcome them, and sent a soldier to escort the girls to the officers' quarters, while mr Fulton went in search of Major Anderson.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000019_000001|Sylvia wondered if she would have a chance to tell mrs Carleton that she had safely delivered the message.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000020_000000|mrs Carleton was in her pleasant sitting room and declared that she had been wishing for company, and held up some strips of red and white bunting.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000020_000001|"I am making a new flag for Fort Sumter," she said.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000022_000000|"Yes, indeed!
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000022_000001|One of the first stars on the flag was for South Carolina," replied mrs Carleton, "and this very fort was named for a defender of America's rights."
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000023_000000|While Grace and Sylvia were so pleasantly occupied Estralla had wandered out, crossed the bridge which connected the officers' quarters with the fort, and now found herself near the landing place, so that when mrs Carleton made the girls a cup of hot chocolate and looked about to give Estralla her share, the little colored girl was not to be seen.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000024_000000|"I'll call her," said Sylvia, and ran out on the veranda.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000000|No response came to her calls, so she went down the steps and along the walk which led to the sand bars, past the houses and barracks on Sullivan's island.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000001|No one was in sight whom she could ask if Estralla had passed that way.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000002|She climbed a small sand hill covered with stunted little trees and looked about, but could see no trace of the little darky.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000003|It had not occurred to Sylvia that Estralla would go back to the fort.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000026_000000|"Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000026_000001|I wonder where she can be," thought Sylvia, calling "Estralla!
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000028_000000|"Probably Estralla is there before this, and they will be looking for me," she thought, and climbed another sandy slope, expecting to see the houses and barracks directly in front of her.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000028_000001|But she found herself facing the open sea, and look which way she would there was only shore, sand heaps and blue water.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000032_000000|It was rather difficult walking.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000034_000000|"Of course I can't be lost, because I know exactly where I am.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000035_000002|She thought of the little compass on board the Butterfly, and wondered if a compass would help anyone find her way on land as well as on the sea.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000035_000003|At last she began to call aloud: "Estralla!
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000036_000000|It was nearly dark before she gave up trying to find her way to the fort, and, shivering and half afraid, crawled under the scraggly branches of some stunted trees on a sheltered slope.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000036_000001|"My father will come and find me, I know he will," she said aloud, almost ready to cry. "I'll wait here, and keep calling 'Estralla,' so he will hear me."
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000037_000001|"Tell Sylvia I won't be gone long," she had said to Grace.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000000|Grace did not mind being alone until Sylvia returned.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000001|She helped herself to the rich creamy chocolate and the little frosted cakes, and then curled up on a broad couch near the window with a book full of wonderful pictures.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000002|The pictures were of a tall man on horseback, and a short, fat man on a donkey.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000003|"The Adventures of Don Quixote," was the title of the book, and after Grace began to read she entirely forgot Sylvia, Estralla, and mrs Carleton.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000039_000000|"All ready to start!" said mr Fulton, "and it will be dusk before we reach home.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000040_000000|"Oh!" exclaimed Grace, looking up in surprise.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000040_000002|mrs Carleton has just gone to the next house."
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000041_000000|"Well, put on your things and run after them, that's a good girl," said mr Fulton.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000041_000001|"Why, here is Estralla now," he added, as the little colored girl appeared at the door.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000043_000000|"Where is Sylvia?" echoed mrs Carleton, who came in at that moment. "Has she gone to the boat?"
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000044_000000|"Why, I don't know.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000044_000001|Perhaps she has.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000044_000002|mr Fulton said for us to come right to the landing," said Grace, her thoughts still full of the faithful Sancho Panza of whom she had been reading.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000045_000000|"I will go to the wharf with you.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000045_000001|It was too bad to leave you.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000045_000003|Perhaps I may not be permitted to have visitors much longer," said mrs Carleton, and she and Grace left the pleasant room and, followed closely by Estralla, made their way over the bridge to the landing place.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000046_000000|"Where is Sylvia?" asked mr Fulton, looking at his watch.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000046_000001|"We really ought to have started an hour ago." For a moment the little group looked at each other in silence.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000046_000002|Then with a sudden cry Estralla darted off.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000048_000000|"She must be somewhere about the fort," declared Captain Carleton.
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000049_000000|"Oh, yes," agreed mr Fulton, "but we had best lose no time in finding her."
train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000050_000000|While Captain Carleton questioned the soldiers, mr Fulton and mrs Carleton and Grace hastened back to the officers' quarters, and a thorough search for the little girl was begun at once.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000001_000000|THE BAZAAR
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000000|The Wesleyan Bazaar, the greatest undertaking of its kind ever known in Bursley, gradually became a cloud which filled the entire social horizon.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000001|mrs Sutton, organiser of the Sunday school stall, pressed all her friends into the service, and a fortnight after the death of Sarah Vodrey, Anna and even Agnes gave much of their spare time to the work, which was carried on under pressure increasing daily as the final moments approached.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000002|This was well for Anna, in that it diverted her thoughts by keeping her energies fully engaged.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000003|One morning, however, it occurred to mrs Sutton to reflect that Anna, at such a period of life, should be otherwise employed.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000004|Anna had called at the Suttons' to deliver some finished garments.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000003_000000|'My dear,' she said, 'I am very much obliged to you for all this industry.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000003_000001|But I've been thinking that as you are to be married in February you ought to be preparing your things.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000004_000000|'My things!' Anna repeated idly; and then she remembered Mynors' phrase, on the hill, 'Can you be ready by that time?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000005_000000|'Yes,' said mrs Sutton; 'but possibly you've been getting forward with them on the quiet.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000006_000000|'Tell me,' said Anna, with an air of interest; 'I've meant to ask you before: Is it the bride's place to provide all the house linen, and that sort of thing?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000000|'It was in my day; but those things alter so.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000001|The bride took all the house linen to her husband, and as many clothes for herself as would last a year; that was the rule.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000002|We used to stitch everything at home in those days-everything; and we had what we called a "bottom drawer" to store them in.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000003|As soon as a girl passed her fifteenth birthday, she began to sew for the "bottom drawer." But all those things change so, I dare say it's different now.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000008_000000|'How much will it cost to buy everything, do you think?' Anna asked.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000009_000000|Just then Beatrice entered the room.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000010_000001|What do you say?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000011_000000|'Oh!' Beatrice replied, without any hesitation, 'a couple of hundred at least.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000012_000000|mrs Sutton, reading Anna's face, smiled reassuringly.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000012_000001|'Nonsense, Bee! I dare say you could do it on a hundred with care, Anna.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000014_000001|She had not spoken to him, save under necessity, since the evening spent at the Suttons'.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000015_000000|'What's afoot now?' he questioned savagely.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000017_000002|What clothes dost want?
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000017_000003|A few pounds will cover them.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000020_000000|'Yes, father, it is.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000023_000000|'What business an' ye for go blabbing thy affairs all over Bosley?
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000023_000002|Go and get dinner.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000024_000000|That evening, when Agnes had gone to bed, she resumed the struggle.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000025_000000|'Father, I must have that hundred pounds.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000025_000002|I mean it.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000026_000001|What?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000027_000000|'I mean I must have a hundred pounds.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000029_000000|'But you needn't give it me all at once,' she pursued.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000030_000000|He gazed at her, glowering.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000032_000000|'Father, it isn't.' Her voice broke, but only for an instant.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000032_000001|'I'm asking you for my own money.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000000|Her calm insistence maddened him.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000001|Jumping up from his chair, he stamped out of the room, and she heard him strike a match in his office.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000002|Presently he returned, and threw angrily on to the table in front of her a cheque book and pass book.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000003|The deposit book she had always kept herself for convenience of paying into the bank.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000000|The next evening Henry came up.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000001|She observed that his face had a grave look, but intent on her own difficulties she did not remark on it, and proceeded at once to do what she resolved to do.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000002|It was a cold night in November, yet the miser, wrathfully sullen, chose to sit in his office without a fire.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000003|Agnes was working sums in the kitchen.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000039_000000|'Not about the wedding, I hope,' he said.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000040_000000|'It was about money.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000041_000000|'Why not?' he inquired.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000042_000000|'I've my own things to get,' she said, 'and I've all the house linen to buy.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000043_000001|You buy the house linen, do you?' She saw that he was relieved by that information.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000044_000000|'Of course.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000045_000000|Henry's face broke into a laugh, and Anna was obliged to smile. 'Capital!' he said.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000045_000001|'Couldn't be better.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000047_000000|He examined the three books.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000047_000001|'A very tidy bit,' he said; 'something over two hundred and fifty pounds.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000047_000002|So you can draw cheques at your ease.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000048_000000|'Draw me a cheque for twenty pounds,' she said; and then, while he wrote: 'Henry, after we're married, I shall want you to take charge of all this.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000049_000000|'Yes, of course; I will do that, dear.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000049_000002|Still, if your father says nothing, it is not for me to say anything.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000051_000001|His countenance shone with delight.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000052_000000|'Surely not!' he protested formally.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000055_000000|Later in the evening he disclosed, perfunctorily, the matter which had been a serious weight on his mind when he entered the house, but which this revelation of vast wealth had diminished to a trifle.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000055_000001|titus Price had been the treasurer of the building fund which the bazaar was designed to assist.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000056_000000|'It's a dreadful thing for Willie, if it gets about,' he said; 'a tale of that sort would follow him to Australia.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000057_000002|You must enter it in the books and say nothing.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000001|'I can't alter the accounts.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000002|At least I can't alter the bank book and the vouchers.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000003|The auditor would detect it in a minute.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000005|He, at any rate, must know, and perhaps the stewards.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000059_000000|'But you can urge them to say nothing.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000059_000001|Tell them that you will make it good.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000059_000002|I will write a cheque at once.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000060_000000|'I had meant to find the fifty myself,' he said.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000060_000001|It was a peddling sum to him now.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000061_000000|'Let me pay half, then,' she asked.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000062_000000|'If you like,' he urged, smiling faintly at her eagerness.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000062_000001|'The thing is bound to be kept quiet-it would create such a frightful scandal. Poor old chap!' he added, carelessly, 'I suppose he was hard run, and meant to put it back-as they all do mean.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000064_000001|She prayed wildly that he might never learn the full depth of his father's fall.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000064_000002|The miserable robbery of Sarah's wages was buried for evermore, and this new delinquency, which all would regard as flagrant sacrilege, must be buried also.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000000|It was characteristic of Mynors' cautious prudence that, the first intoxication having passed, he made no further reference of any kind to Anna's fortune.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000001|The arrangements for their married life were planned on a scale which ignored the fifty thousand pounds.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000002|For both their sakes he wished to avoid all friction with the miser, at any rate until his status as Anna's husband would enable him to enforce her rights, if that should be necessary, with dignity and effectiveness.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000003|He did not precisely anticipate trouble, but the fact had not escaped him that Ephraim still held the whole of Anna's securities.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000005|He knew that there were twenty four hours in every day, three hundred and sixty five days in every year, and thirty good years in life still left to him; and therefore that there would be ample time, after the wedding, for the execution of his purposes in regard to that fifty thousand pounds.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000007|His method was to buy a piece at a time, always second-hand, but always good.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000009|It was decided between them that every article should be bought ready made and seamed, and that the first week of the New Year, if indeed mrs Sutton survived the bazaar, should be entirely and absolutely devoted to Anna's business.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000001|But she never slept without thinking of Willie Price, and hoping that no further disaster might overtake him.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000002|The incident of the embezzled fifty pounds had been closed, and she had given a cheque for twenty five pounds to Mynors.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000003|He had acquainted the minister with the facts, and mr Banks had decided that the two circuit stewards must be informed.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000004|Beyond these the scandalous secret was not to go.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000005|But Anna wondered whether a secret shared by five persons could long remain a secret.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000000|The bazaar was a triumphant and unparalleled success, and, of the seven stalls, the Sunday school stall stood first each night in the nightly returns.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000001|The scene in the town hall, on the fourth and final night, a Saturday, was as delirious and gay as a carnival.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000002|Four hundred and twenty pounds had been raised up to tea time, and it was the impassioned desire of everyone to achieve five hundred.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000003|The price of admission had been reduced to threepence, in order that the artisan might enter and spend his wages in an excellent cause.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000005|Bouquets were sold at a shilling each, and at the refreshment stall a glass of milk cost sixpence.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000006|The noise rivalled that of a fair; there was no quiet anywhere, save in the farthest recess of each stall, where the lady in supreme charge of it, like a spider in the middle of its web, watched customers and cash box with equal cupidity.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000068_000001|But shortly afterwards she hurried back breathless to her place.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000069_000000|'See that, Anna?
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000069_000001|It will be reckoned in our returns,' she said, exhibiting a piece of paper.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000070_000000|'She has the secret of persuading him,' thought Anna.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000070_000001|'Why have I never found it?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000071_000000|Then Agnes, in a new white frock, came up with three shillings, proceeds of bouquets.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000072_000000|'But you must take that to the flower stall, my pet,' said mrs Sutton.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000073_000000|'Can't I give it to you?' the child pleaded.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000073_000001|'I want your stall to be the best.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000074_000000|Mynors arrived next, with something concealed in tissue paper.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000076_000000|'I'll try to,' said mrs Sutton doubtfully-not in the secret.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000076_000001|'What's it meant for?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000078_000000|'Well,' she laughed, 'what will you give?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000079_000000|'A couple of sovereigns.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000080_000000|'Make it guineas.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000081_000000|He paid the money, and requested Anna to keep the plate for him.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000000|At nine o'clock it was announced that, though raffling was forbidden, the bazaar would be enlivened by an auction.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000001|A licensed auctioneer was brought, and the sale commenced.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000003|During this episode Anna, who had been left alone in the stall, first noticed Willie Price in the room.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000004|His ship sailed on the Monday, but steerage passengers had to be aboard on Sunday, and he was saying good bye to a few acquaintances.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000005|He seemed quite cheerful, as he walked about with his hands in his pockets, chatting with this one and that; it was the false and hysterical gaiety that precedes a final separation.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000006|As soon as he saw Anna he came towards her.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000083_000000|'Well, good bye, Miss Tellwright,' he said jauntily.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000083_000002|Wish me luck.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000084_000000|Nothing more; no word, no accent, to recall the terrible but sublime past.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000000|'I do,' she answered.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000001|They shook hands.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000002|Others approaching, he drifted away.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000003|Her glance followed him like a beneficent influence.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000000|For three days she had carried in her pocket an envelope containing a bank note for a hundred pounds, intending by some device to force it on him as a parting gift.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000001|Now the last chance was lost, and she had not even attempted this difficult feat of charity.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000002|Such futility, she reflected, self scorning, was of a piece with her life.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000004|He hasn't really gone,' she kept repeating, and yet knew well that he had gone.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000087_000000|'Do you know what they are saying, Anna?' said Beatrice, when, after eleven o'clock, the bazaar was closed to the public, and the stall holders and their assistants were preparing to depart, their movements hastened by the stern aspect of the town hall keeper.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000088_000000|'no What?' said Anna; and in the same moment guessed.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000089_000000|'They say old titus Price embezzled fifty pounds from the building fund, and Henry made it up, privately, so that there shouldn't be a scandal.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000089_000001|Just fancy!
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000089_000002|Do you believe it?'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000090_000000|The secret was abroad.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000090_000001|She looked round the room, and saw it in every face.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000091_000000|'Who says?' Anna demanded fiercely.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000092_000001|Miss Dickinson told me.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000094_000000|There was clapping of hands, which died out suddenly.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000095_000000|'Now Agnes,' Anna called, 'come along, quick; you're as white as a sheet.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000095_000001|Good night, mrs Sutton; good night, Bee.'
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000096_000000|Mynors was still occupied on the platform.
train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000097_000000|The town hall keeper extinguished some of the lights.
train-clean-360/666/11244/666_11244_000029_000001|'You are not your father.'
train-clean-360/666/11244/666_11244_000036_000003|Nothing else was possible.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000000_000001|THE FINGER ON THE WALL.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000000_000003|And it was characteristic of the forceful men, as well as the extreme nature of the conflict, that both were quiet in manner and speech-perhaps the mayor the more so, as he began the struggle by saying:
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000002_000000|Without a droop of his eye, or a tremor in his voice, the answer came short, sharp and emphatic:
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000006_000000|"True! yes, it is true.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000006_000001|But what does that truth involve for me?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000006_000002|Not two weeks, but seven years of torture, five of them devoted to grief for her, loss, and two to rage and bitter revulsion against her whole sex when I found her alive, and myself the despised victim of her deception."
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000010_000000|"My political principles!" Oh, the irony of his voice, the triumph in his laugh!
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000010_000004|I am an adept at the glorification of the party, of the man that it suits my present exigencies to promote, but it is a faculty which should have made you pause before you trusted me with the furtherance and final success of a campaign which may outlast those exigencies.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000010_000005|I have not always been of your party; I am not so now at heart."
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000012_000000|"Do you mean to say, you, that your work is a traitor's work?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000012_000001|That the glorification you speak of is false?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000012_000002|That you may talk in my favor, but that when you come to the issue, you will vote according to your heart; that is, for Stanton?"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000014_000000|The mayor flushed; indignation gave him vehemence.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000015_000000|"Then," he cried, "I take back the word by which I qualified you a moment ago.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000015_000001|You are not a villain, you are a dastard."
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000018_000000|Then slowly and with a short look at her: "The woman who has queened it so long in C---- society can not wish to undergo the charge of bigamy?"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000019_000000|"You will bring such a charge?"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000021_000000|At this alternative, uttered with icy deliberation, mrs Packard recoiled with a sharp cry; but the mayor thrust a sudden sarcastic query at his opponent:
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000022_000000|"Which name?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000022_000001|Steele or Brainard?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000023_000000|"My real name is Brainard; therefore, it is also hers.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000023_000001|But I shall be content if she will take my present one of Steele.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000024_000000|"Never!"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000028_000000|"I?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000028_000001|Seven years ago I was twenty five.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000028_000002|I am thirty two now."
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000000|"So I have heard you say.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000001|A man of twenty five is old enough to have made a record, mr Steele-" The mayor's tone hardened, so did his manner; and I saw why he had been such a power in the courts before he took up politics and an office.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000002|"mr Steele, I do not mean you to disturb my house or to rob me of my wife.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000003|What was your life before you met Olympia Brewster?"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000030_000001|"You have known for two years that this woman whom you called yours was within your reach, if not under your very eye, and you forbore to claim her. Has this delay had anything to do with the record of those years to which I have just alluded?"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000031_000000|Had the random shot told?
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000031_000001|The secretary's eye did not falter, nor his figure lose an inch of its height, yet the impression made by his look and attitude were not the same; the fire had gone out of them; a blight had struck his soul-the flush of his triumph was gone.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000032_000000|Mayor Packard was merciless.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000036_000000|No answer from the sternly set lips.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000038_000000|"Insults!" broke from those set lips and nothing more.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000039_000000|"mr Steele, I practised law in that state for a period of three years. All the records of the office and of the prison register are open to me. Over which of them should I waste my time?"
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000041_000000|"I shall never answer; the devil has whispered his own suggestions in your ear; the devil and nothing else."
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000043_000000|"No, not the devil, but yourself.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000043_000004|mr Steele, you are both a villain and a bastard, and have no right in law to this woman.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000043_000005|Contradict me if you dare."
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000044_000001|"I shall not give you even that satisfaction.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000044_000002|This woman who has gone through the ceremony of marriage with both of us shall never know to which of us she is the legal wife.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000044_000003|Perhaps it is as good a revenge as the other.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000047_000000|I looked to see the mayor spring and grasp him by the throat, but that was left for another hand.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000048_000000|It was but child's play for so strong a man as mr Steele to shake off so futile a grasp, and he did so with a rasping laugh.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000048_000001|But the next moment he was tottering, blanched and helpless, and while struggling to right himself and escape, yielded more and more to a sudden weakness sapping his life vigor, till he fell prone and apparently lifeless on the lounge toward which, with a final effort, he had thrown himself.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000001|Good!" rang thrilling through the room, as the old man reeled back from the wall against which he had been cast.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000002|"God has finished what these old arms had only strength enough to begin.
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000003|He is dead this time, and it's a mercy!
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000004|Thank God, Miss Olympia! thank God as I do now on my knees!" But here catching the mayor's eye, he faltered to his feet again, saying humbly as he crept away:
train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000050_000000|"I couldn't help it, your Honor.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000004_000000|"The regiment!" they cried joyfully.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000006_000002|They knew everything.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000006_000005|Having talked to their hearts' content, they sent for the Military Commandant and the committee of the club, and instructed them at all costs to make arrangements for a dance.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000007_000000|Their wishes were carried out.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000008_000000|Among the husbands was Shalikov, the tax collector-a narrow, spiteful soul, given to drink, with a big, closely cropped head, and thick, protruding lips.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000010_000000|The tax collector watched, scowling with spite....
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000011_000001|He was ill humoured-first, because the room was taken up with dancing and there was nowhere he could play a game of cards; secondly, because he could not endure the sound of wind instruments; and, thirdly, because he fancied the officers treated the civilians somewhat too casually and disdainfully.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000012_000000|"It makes me sick to look at her!" he muttered.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000014_000000|"Of course not!
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000014_000001|Where do we poor country bumpkins come in!" sneered the tax collector.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000015_000000|"We are at a discount now....
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000015_000001|We're clumsy seals, unpolished provincial bears, and she's the queen of the ball!
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000016_000000|During the mazurka the tax collector's face twitched with spite.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000016_000004|The tax collector could endure it no longer; he felt a desire to jeer at that beatitude, to make Anna Pavlovna feel that she had forgotten herself, that life was by no means so delightful as she fancied now in her excitement....
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000017_000000|"You wait; I'll teach you to smile so blissfully," he muttered.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000017_000002|An old fright ought to realise she is a fright!"
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000018_000001|Waiting for the end of the mazurka, he went into the hall and walked up to his wife.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000019_000000|"Anyuta, let us go home," croaked the tax collector.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000020_000000|Seeing her husband standing before her, Anna Pavlovna started as though recalling the fact that she had a husband; then she flushed all over: she felt ashamed that she had such a sickly looking, ill humoured, ordinary husband.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000022_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000023_000000|"I beg you to come home!" said the tax collector deliberately, with a spiteful expression.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000024_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000025_000001|I wish it; that's enough, and without further talk, please."
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000028_000000|"I wish it, and that's enough.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000028_000001|Come along, and that's all about it."
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000030_000000|"All right; then I shall make a scene."
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000032_000000|"Why do you want me at once?" asked his wife.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000033_000000|"I don't want you, but I wish you to be at home.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000033_000001|I wish it, that's all."
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000034_000001|She began assuring him she would not stay long, only another ten minutes, only five minutes; but the tax collector stuck obstinately to his point.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000035_000000|"Stay if you like," he said, "but I'll make a scene if you do."
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000036_000000|And as she talked to her husband Anna Pavlovna looked thinner, older, plainer.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000037_000000|"You are not going?" asked the ladies in surprise.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000038_000000|"Her head aches," said the tax collector for his wife.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000039_000001|The tax collector walked behind his wife, and watching her downcast, sorrowful, humiliated little figure, he recalled the look of beatitude which had so irritated him at the club, and the consciousness that the beatitude was gone filled his soul with triumph.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000039_000003|Oh, how awful it is!
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000040_000000|And Anna Pavlovna could scarcely walk....
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000040_000001|She was still under the influence of the dancing, the music, the talk, the lights, and the noise; she asked herself as she walked along why God had thus afflicted her.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000040_000002|She felt miserable, insulted, and choking with hate as she listened to her husband's heavy footsteps.
train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000041_000000|And meanwhile the band was playing and the darkness was full of the most rousing, intoxicating dance tunes.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000001_000000|CHAPTER seventy five
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000000|Lady Eustace did not leave the house during the Saturday and Sunday, and engaged herself exclusively with preparing for her journey.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000002|They resulted in nothing. Lizzie was desirous of getting back the spoons and forks, and, if possible, some of her money.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000003|The spoons and forks were out of mrs Carbuncle's power,--in Albemarle Street; and the money had of course been spent.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000004|Lizzie might have saved herself the trouble, had it not been that it was a pleasure to her to insult her late friend, even though in doing so new insults were heaped upon her own head. As for the trumpery spoons, they,--so said mrs Carbuncle,--were the property of Miss Roanoke, having been made over to her unconditionally long before the wedding, as a part of a separate pecuniary transaction.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000005|mrs Carbuncle had no power of disposing of Miss Roanoke's property.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000007|But even were there anything due to Lady Eustace, mrs Carbuncle would decline to pay it, as she was informed that all moneys possessed by Lady Eustace were now confiscated to the Crown by reason of the PERJURIES,--the word was doubly scored in mrs Carbuncle's note,--which Lady Eustace had committed.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000008|This, of course, was unpleasant; but mrs Carbuncle did not have the honours of the battle all to herself.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000009|Lizzie also said some unpleasant things,--which, perhaps, were the more unpleasant because they were true.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000004_000001|"Goes to morrow, does she?" said Lord George to the servant.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000001|The man, she thought, had behaved very badly to her,--had accepted very much from her hands, and had refused to give her anything in return; had become the first depository of her great secret, and had placed no mutual confidence in her.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000002|He had been harsh to her, and unjust; and then, too, he had declined to be in love with her!
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000003|She was full of spite against Lord George, and would have been glad to injure him.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000004|But, nevertheless, there would be some excitement in a farewell in which some mock affection might be displayed, and she would have an opportunity of abusing mrs Carbuncle.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000006_000002|She could have forgiven the want of deferential manner, had there been any devotion;--but Lord George was both impudent and indifferent.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000007_000002|What an experience I have had since I have been here!"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000009_000000|"No woman ever intended to show a more disinterested friendship than I have done; and what has been my return?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000010_000000|"You mean to me?--disinterested friendship to me?" And Lord George tapped his breast lightly with his fingers.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000011_000000|"I was alluding particularly to mrs Carbuncle."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000012_000000|"Lady Eustace, I cannot take charge of mrs Carbuncle's friendships. I have enough to do to look after my own.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000012_000001|If you have any complaint to make against me,--I will at least listen to it."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000013_000000|"God knows I do not want to make complaints," said Lizzie, covering her face with her hands.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000014_000000|"They don't do much good;--do they?
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000014_000002|They're a queer lot;--ain't they,--the sort of people one meets about in the world?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000015_000000|"I don't know what you mean by that, Lord George."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000016_000000|"Just what you were saying, when you talked of your experiences. These experiences do surprise one.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000016_000001|I have knocked about the world a great deal, and would have almost said that nothing would surprise me.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000016_000002|You are no more than a child to me, but you have surprised me."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000017_000000|"I hope I have not injured you, Lord George."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000018_000001|That surprised me."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000019_000000|"Oh, Lord George, that was the happiest day of my life.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000019_000001|How little happiness there is for people!"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000020_000000|"And when Tewett got that girl to say she'd marry him, the coolness with which you bore all the abomination of it in your house,--for people who were nothing to you;--that surprised me!"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000021_000000|"I meant to be so kind to you all."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000022_000000|"And when I found that you always travelled with ten thousand pounds' worth of diamonds in a box, that surprised me very much.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000022_000001|I thought that you were a very dangerous companion."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000023_000000|"Pray don't talk about the horrid necklace."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000001|Of course, we understand that now." On hearing this, Lizzie smiled, but did not say a word.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000002|"Then I perceived that I-I was supposed to be the thief.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000003|You-you yourself couldn't have suspected me of taking the diamonds, because-because you'd got them, you know, all safe in your pocket.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000004|But you might as well own the truth now.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000005|Didn't you think that it was I who stole the box?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000026_000000|"All that surprised me.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000026_000002|Well; you-you were laughing at me in your sleeve all the time."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000027_000000|"Not laughing, Lord George."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000000|"Yes, you were.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000001|You had got the kernel yourself, and thought that I had taken all the trouble to crack the nut and had found myself with nothing but the shell.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000002|Then, when you found you couldn't eat the kernel, that you couldn't get rid of the swag without assistance, you came to me to help you.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000004|By Jove, I did!
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000029_000000|"Oh, no," said Lizzie
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000030_000000|"Unfortunately you didn't; but I thought you did.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000030_000001|And you thought that I had done it!
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000030_000002|mr Benjamin was too clever for us both, and now he is going to have penal servitude for the rest of his life.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000031_000001|I hate the diamonds.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000031_000002|Of course I would not give them up, because they were my own."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000032_000001|What was the good of being so clever?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000033_000000|"You need not come here to tease me, Lord George."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000034_000001|There's my poor friend, mrs Carbuncle, declares that all her credit is destroyed, and her niece unable to marry, and her house taken away from her,--all because of her connexion with you."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000035_000000|"mrs Carbuncle is-is-is- Oh, Lord George, don't you know what she is?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000038_000003|I shouldn't have begrudged even Benjamin the pull, if he'd got it."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000000|He stood there, still looking down upon her, speaking with a sarcastic subrisive tone, and, as she felt, intending to be severe to her.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000001|She had sent for him, and now she didn't know what to say to him.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000003|But with his jeering words, and sneering face, he was as hard to her as a rock.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000004|He was now silent, but still looking down upon her as he stood motionless upon the rug,--so that she was compelled to speak again.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000041_000000|"I am going to Portray on Monday."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000042_000000|"And never coming back any more?
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000042_000001|You'll be up here before the season is over, with fifty more wonderful schemes in your little head.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000042_000002|So Lord Fawn is done with, is he?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000044_000000|"And cousin Frank?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000045_000000|"My cousin attends me down to Scotland."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000046_000001|That makes it altogether another thing.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000046_000002|He attends you down to Scotland;--does he?
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000046_000003|Does mr Emilius go too?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000047_000000|"I believe you are trying to insult me, sir."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000049_000000|"Much you thought about it, Lord George."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000050_000000|"Well;--I did.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000050_000002|And I liked the idea of it very much." Lizzie pricked up her ears.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000050_000004|You are pretty, you know,--uncommonly pretty."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000051_000000|"Don't, Lord George."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000052_000001|I suppose that's real at any rate?"
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000053_000000|"Well;--I hope so.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000053_000002|And so is the prettiness, Lord George;--if there is any."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000054_000000|"I never doubted that, Lady Eustace.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000055_000000|"Who wanted it to do?" said Lizzie.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000055_000003|I hope I may never see you again.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000055_000004|I believe you care more for that odious vulgar woman down stairs than you do for anybody else in the world."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000056_000000|"Ah, dear!
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000058_000000|"Yes, I will.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000058_000002|If I may give you one bit of advice at parting, it is to caution you against being clever when there is nothing to get by it."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000059_000000|"I ain't clever at all," said Lizzie, beginning to whimper.
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000060_000000|"Good bye, my dear."
train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000061_000000|"Good bye," said Lizzie.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000000_000000|AUNT JOANNA
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000003_000001|It was thatched with heather, and possessed but a single chimney that rose but little above the apex of the roof, and had two slates set on the top to protect the rising smoke from being blown down the chimney into the cottage when the wind was from the west or from the east.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000005_000000|The woman who lived in the cottage was called by the people of the neighbourhood Aunt Joanna.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000005_000008|But dancing, though denounced, still drew the more independent spirits together.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000010_000002|It would be handy to have a little maid by you."
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000017_000006|It's my opinion us ought to go and see."
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000022_000000|"I reckon it's the old lady be down," replied her husband, and, throwing open the bedroom door, he said: "Sure enough, and no mistake-there her be, dead as a dried pilchard."
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000049_000000|Rose sighed, and went away.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000001|She had never been allowed to look at the treasures in the oak chest.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000002|As far as she had been aware, Aunt Joanna had been extremely poor.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000003|But she remembered that the old woman had at one time befriended her, and she was ready to forgive the harsh treatment to which she had finally been subjected.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000004|In fact, she had repeatedly made overtures to her great aunt to be reconciled, but these overtures had been always rejected.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000051_000003|That was good enough to moulder in the grave.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000051_000006|Aunt Joanna was given an elm, and not a mean deal board coffin, such as is provided for paupers; and a handsome escutcheon of white metal was put on the lid.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000063_000000|During the night, at what time she did not know, mrs Hockin awoke with a start, and found that her husband was sitting up in bed listening. There was a moon that night, and no clouds in the sky.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000071_000000|"I reckon us had best go down together."
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000073_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000074_000001|She and her husband crept from bed, and, treading on tiptoe across the room, descended the stair.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000075_000000|There was no door at the bottom, but the staircase was boarded up at the side; it opened into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000076_000001|The moonlight poured in through the broad, low window.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000077_000001|There could be no mistaking it-it was that of Aunt Joanna, clothed in the tattered sheet that Elizabeth Hockin had allowed for her grave clothes.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000079_000000|Then they saw Aunt Joanna go to the cupboard, open it, and return with the silver spoons; she placed all six on the sheet, and with a lean finger counted them.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000082_000001|The Hockins saw the glint of the metal, and the shadow cast by each piece of money as it rolled.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000082_000002|The first coin lodged at the further left hand corner and the second rested near it; and so on, the pieces were rolled, and ranged themselves in order, ten in a row.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000086_000000|There was no sleep for them that night.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000094_000001|The moon was obscured by thick clouds, and neither of the two had the courage to descend to the kitchen.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000094_000003|Again sleep was impossible.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000099_000002|We've spent some pounds over her buryin'."
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000100_000000|"What have it come to?"
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000104_000001|The night was dark and stormy, with scudding clouds, so dense as to make deep night, when they did not part and allow the moon to peer forth.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000105_000000|They walked timorously, and side by side, looking about them as they proceeded, and on reaching the churchyard gate they halted to pluck up courage before opening and venturing within.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000106_000000|Together they heaped the articles that had belonged to Aunt Joanna upon the fresh grave, but as they did so the wind caught the linen and unfurled and flapped it, and they were forced to place stones upon it to hold it down.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000107_000000|Then, quaking with fear, they retreated to the church porch, and Jabez, uncorking the bottle, first took a long pull himself, and then presented it to his wife.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000109_000000|Elizabeth caught her husband by the arm and pointed.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000110_000001|They saw it drag the sheet by one corner, and then it went down underground, and the sheet followed, as though sucked down in a vortex; fold on fold it descended, till the entire sheet had disappeared.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000114_000000|Again the lean hand with long fingers appeared above the soil, and this was seen groping about the grass till it laid hold of the teapot.
train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000114_000001|Then it groped again, and gathered up the spoons, that flashed in the moonbeams.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000001_000000|SIR HENRY COLE.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000002_000000|He was an "Old Public Functionary" in the service of the British people.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000003_000000|When President Buchanan spoke of himself as an Old Public Functionary he was a good deal laughed at by some of the newspapers, and the phrase has since been frequently used in an opprobrious or satirical sense.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000003_000001|This is to be regretted, for there is no character more respectable, and there are few so useful, as an intelligent and patriotic man of long standing in the public service.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000004_000000|The son of an officer in the British army, he was educated at that famous Blue Coat School which is interesting to Americans because Lamb and Coleridge attended it.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000004_000001|At the age of fifteen he received an appointment as clerk in the office of Public Records.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000004_000002|In due time, having proved his capacity and peculiar fitness, he was promoted to the post of Assistant Keeper, which gave him a respectable position and some leisure.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000005_000000|He proved to be in an eminent sense the right man in the right place. Besides publishing, from time to time, curious and interesting documents which he discovered in his office, he called attention, by a series of vigorous pamphlets, to the chaotic condition in which the public records of Great Britain were kept.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000005_000002|The records were rearranged, catalogued, rendered safe, and made accessible to students.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000005_000003|This has already led to important corrections in history, and to a great increase in the sum of historical knowledge.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000006_000000|When the subject of cheap postage came up in eighteen forty, the government offered four prizes of a hundred pounds each for suggestions in aid of Sir Rowland Hill's plan.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000006_000001|One of these prizes was assigned to Henry Cole. He was one of the persons who first became converts to the idea of penny postage, and he lent the aid of his pen and influence to its adoption.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000000|At length, about the year eighteen forty five, he entered upon the course of proceedings which rendered him one of the most influential and useful persons of his time.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000001|He had long lamented the backward condition of arts of design in England, and the consequent ugliness of the various objects in the sight and use of which human beings pass their lives.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000002|English furniture, wall papers, carpets, curtains, cutlery, garments, upholstery, ranged from the tolerable to the hideous, and were inferior to the manufactures of France and Germany.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000003|He organized a series of exhibitions on a small scale, somewhat similar to those of the American Institute in New York, which has held a competitive exhibition of natural and manufactured objects every autumn for the last fifty years.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000008_000000|His exhibitions attracted attention, and they led at length to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of eighteen fifty one.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000008_000001|The merit of that scheme must be shared between Henry Cole and Prince Albert.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000008_000003|Yes, said Prince Albert, and let us also invite competition from foreign countries on equal terms with native products.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000000|The Exhibition of eighteen fifty one was admirably managed, and had every kind of success.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000001|It benefited England more than all other nations put together, because it revealed to her people their inferiority in many branches both of workmanship and design.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000002|We all know how conceited people are apt to become who have no opportunity to compare themselves with superiors. john Bull, never over modest, surveyed the Exhibition of eighteen fifty one, and discovered, to his great surprise, that he was not the unapproachable Bull of the universe which he had fondly supposed.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000003|He saw himself beaten in some things by the French, in some by the Germans, in others by the Italians, and in a few (O wonder!) by the Yankees.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000010_000000|Happily he had the candor to admit this humiliating fact to himself, and he put forth earnest and steadfast exertions to bring himself up to the level of modern times.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000011_000000|Henry Cole was the life and soul of the movement.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000011_000001|It was he who called attention to the obstacles placed in the way of improvement by the patent laws, and some of those obstacles, through him, were speedily removed.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000012_000000|During this series of services to his country, he remained in the office of Public Records.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000012_000002|They asked him to undertake the reconstruction of the schools of design, and they gave him an office which placed him practically at the head of the various institutions designed to promote the application of art to manufacture.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000012_000003|The chief of these now is the Museum of South Kensington, which is to many Americans the most interesting object in London.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000000|It came to pass in this way: After the close of the Crystal Palace in eighteen fifty one, Parliament gave five thousand pounds for the purchase of the objects exhibited which were thought best calculated to raise the standard of taste in the nation.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000001|These objects, chiefly selected by Cole, were arranged by him for exhibition in temporary buildings of such extreme and repulsive inconvenience as to bring opprobrium and ridicule upon the undertaking.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000002|It was one of the most difficult things in the world to excite public interest in the exhibition.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000003|But by that energy which comes of strong conviction and patriotic feeling, and of the opportunity given him by his public employment, Henry Cole wrung from a reluctant Parliament the annual grants necessary to make South Kensington Museum what it now is.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000000|Magnificent buildings, filled with a vast collection of precious and interesting objects, greet the visitor.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000001|There are collections of armor, relics, porcelain, enamel, fabrics, paintings, statues, carvings in wood and ivory, machines, models, and every conceivable object of use or beauty.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000002|Some of the most celebrated pictures in the world are there, and there is an art library of thirty thousand volumes.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000003|There are schools for instruction in every branch of art and science which can be supposed to enter into the products of industry.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000004|The prizes which are offered for excellence in design and invention have attracted, in some years, as many as two hundred thousand objects.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000005|During three days of every week admission to this superb assemblage of exhibitions is free, and on the other three days sixpence is charged.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000015_000000|The influence of this institution upon British manufactures has been in many branches revolutionary.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000015_000001|As the London "Times" said some time ago:--
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000017_000000|The formation of this Museum, the chief work of Sir Henry Cole's useful life, was far from exhausting his energies.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000017_000001|He has borne a leading part in all the industrial exhibitions held in London during the last quarter of a century, and served as English commissioner at the Paris exhibitions of eighteen fifty five and eighteen sixty seven.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000018_000000|This man was enabled to render all this service to his country, to Europe, and to us, because he was not obliged to waste any of his energies in efforts to keep his place.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000018_000001|Administrations might change, and Parliaments might dissolve; but he was a fixture as long as he did his duty.
train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000018_000003|Henceforth he was called Sir Henry Cole, k c b
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000001_000000|WILLIAM b ASTOR.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000002_000000|HOUSE OWNER.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000003_000000|In estimating the character and merits of such a man as the late mr Astor, we are apt to leave out of view the enormous harm he might have done if he had chosen to do it.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000000|The rich fool who tosses a dollar to a waiter for some trifling service, debases the waiter, injures himself, and wrongs the public.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000001|By acting in that manner in all the transactions of life, a rich man diffuses around him an atmosphere of corruption, and raises the scale of expense to a point which is oppressive to many, ruinous to some, and inconvenient to all.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000002|The late mr Astor, with an income from invested property of nearly two millions a year, could have made life more difficult than it was to the whole body of people in New York who are able to live in a liberal manner.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000003|He refrained from doing so.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000004|He paid for everything which he consumed the market price-no more, no less-and he made his purchases with prudence and forethought.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000005|As he lived for many years next door to the Astor Library, the frequenters of that noble institution had an opportunity of observing that he laid in his year's supply of coal in the month of June, when coal is cheapest.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000000|There was nothing which he so much abhorred as waste.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000001|It was both an instinct and a principle with him to avoid waste.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000002|He did not have the gas turned down low in a temporarily vacated room because he would save two cents by doing so, but because he justly regarded waste as wicked. His example in this particular, in a city so given to careless and ostentatious profusion as New York, was most useful.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000003|We needed such an example.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000004|Nor did he appear to carry this principle to an extreme.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000005|He was very far from being miserly, though keenly intent upon accumulation.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000000|In the life of the Old World there is nothing so shocking to a republicanized mind as the awful contrast between the abodes of the poor and the establishments of the rich.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000001|A magnificent park of a thousand acres of the richest land set apart and walled in for the exclusive use of one family, while all about it are the squalid hovels of the peasants to whom the use of a single acre to a family would be ease and comfort, is the most painful and shameful spectacle upon which the sun looks down this day.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000002|Nothing can make it right.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000003|It is monstrous.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000005|The mere fact that the lord can look upon such a scene and not stir to mend it, is proof positive of a profound vulgarity.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000001|I read some time ago of a wedding in Paris.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000002|A thriving banker there, who is styled the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, having a daughter of seventeen to marry, appears to have set seriously to work to find out how much money a wedding could be made to cost.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000003|In pursuing this inquiry, he caused the wedding festivals of Louis the fourteenth's court, once so famous, to seem poverty stricken and threadbare.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000004|He began by a burst of ostentatious charity.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000005|He subscribed money for the relief of the victims of recent inundations, and dowered a number of portionless girls; expending in these ways a quarter of a million francs.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000006|He gave his daughter a portion of five millions of francs.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000007|One of her painted fans cost five thousand francs.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000008|He provided such enormous quantities of clothing for her little body, that his house, if it had not been exceedingly large, would not have conveniently held them.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000009|For the conveyance of the wedding party from the house to the synagogue, he caused twenty five magnificent carriages to be made, such as monarchs use when they are going to be crowned, and these vehicles were drawn by horses imported from England for the purpose.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000010|The bridal veil was composed of ineffable lace, made from an original design expressly for this bride.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000008_000000|And then what doings in the synagogue!
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000008_000001|A choir of one hundred and ten trained voices, led by the best conductor in Europe-the first tenor of this generation engaged, who sang the prayer from "Moses in Egypt"--a crowd of rabbis, and assistant rabbis, with the grand rabbi of Paris at their head.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000008_000002|To complete the histrionic performance, eight young girls, each bearing a beautiful gold embroidered bag, and attended by a young gentleman, "took up a collection" for the poor, which yielded seven thousand francs.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000000|mr Astor could, if he had chosen, have thrown his millions about in this style.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000001|He was one of a score or two of men in North America who could have maintained establishments in town and country on the dastardly scale so common among rich people in Europe.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000002|He, too, could have had his park, his half a dozen mansions, his thirty carriages, his hundred horses and his yacht as big as a man of war.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000003|That he was above such atrocious vulgarity as this, was much to his credit and more to our advantage.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000004|What he could have done safely, other men would have attempted to whom the attempt would have been destruction.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000005|Some discredit also would have been cast upon those who live in moderate and modest ways.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000000|Every quarter day mr Astor had nearly half a million dollars to invest in the industries of the country.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000001|To invest his surplus income in the best and safest manner was the study of his life.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000003|"William will never make money," his father used to say; "but he will take good care of what he has." And so it proved.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000004|The consequence was, that all his life he invested money in the way that was at once best for himself and best for the country.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000005|No useless or premature scheme had had any encouragement from him.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000007|Here, again, we were lucky.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000008|When we wanted houses more than we wanted coal, he built houses for us; and when we wanted coal more than we wanted houses, he set his money to digging coal; charging nothing for his trouble but the mere cost of his subsistence.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000000|One fault he had as a public servant-for we may fairly regard in that light a man who wields so large a portion of our common estate.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000001|He was one of the most timid of men.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000002|He was even timorous.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000003|His timidity was constitutional and physical.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000004|He would take a great deal of trouble to avoid crossing a temporary bridge or scaffolding, though assured by an engineer that it was strong enough to bear ten elephants.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000005|Nor can it be said that he was morally brave.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000006|Year after year he saw a gang of thieves in the City Hall stealing his revenues under the name of taxes and assessments, but he never led an assault upon them nor gave the aid he ought to those who did.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000007|Unless he is grossly belied, he preferred to compromise than fight, and did not always disdain to court the ruffians who plundered him.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000000|This was a grave fault.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000001|He who had the most immediate and the most obvious interest in exposing and resisting the scoundrels, ought to have taken the lead in putting them down.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000002|This he could not do.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000003|Nature had denied him the qualities required for such a contest.
train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000004|He had his enormous estate, and he had mind enough to take care of it in ordinary ways; but he had nothing more.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000000|"How greedily They snuff the fishy steam, that to each blade Rank scenting clings!
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000001|See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind. Now on firm land they range, then in the flood They plunge tumultuous; or through reedy pools Rustling they work their way; no holt escapes Their curious search.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000002|With quick sensation now The fuming vapour stings; flutter their hearts, And joy redoubled bursts from every mouth In louder symphonies.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000003|Yon hollow trunk, That with its hoary head incurv'd salutes The passing wave, must be the tyrant's fort And dread abode.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000004|How these impatient climb, While others at the root incessant bay!-- They put him down."--SOMERVILLE.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000000|The above is an animated and beautiful description of an otter hunt, an old English sport fast falling into disuse, and the breed of the real otter hound is either extinct or very nearly so.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000001|In stating this, I am aware that there are still many dogs which are called otter hounds; but it may be doubted whether they possess that peculiar formation which belongs exclusively to the true breed.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000002|Few things in nature are more curious and interesting than this formation, and it shows forcibly how beautifully everything has been arranged for the instincts and several habits of animals.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000004|The Earl of Cadogan has, what his Lordship considers, the last of the breed of the true otter hound.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000005|It was a present from Sir Walter Scott.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000006|Lord Cadogan offered one hundred pounds for another dog of the same breed, but of a different sex; but I believe without being able to procure one with those true marks which are confined to the authentic breed.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000007|A gipsy was, indeed, said to have possessed one, but he refused to part with it.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000004_000000|Those who saw the exhibition of pictures in the Royal Academy in eighteen forty four will recollect a large, interesting, and beautiful picture by Sir Edwin Landseer of a pack of otter hounds.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000004_000001|The picture describes the hunt at the time of the termination of the chase and the capture of the otter.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000004_000002|The animal is impaled on the huntsman's spear, while the rough, shaggy, and picturesque looking pack are represented with eyes intently fixed on the amphibious beast, and howling in uncouth chorus round their agonized and dying prey.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000000|An otter hunt is a cheerful and inspiriting sport, and it is still carried on in some of the lakes of Cumberland.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000001|Indeed, as lately as the year eighteen forty four, a pack of otter hounds was advertised in the newspapers to be sold by private contract.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000002|The alleged cause of the owner's parting with them was in consequence of their having cleared the rivers of three counties (Staffordshire being one) of all the otters, and the number captured and killed in the last few years was mentioned.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000004|The best time to find it is early in the morning.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000005|It may frequently be traced by the dead fish and fish bones strewed along the banks of the river.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000007|The otter preys during the night, and conceals himself in the daytime under the banks of lakes and rivers, where he generally forms a kind of subterraneous gallery, running for several yards parallel to the water's edge, so that if he should be assailed from one end, he flies to the other.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000008|When he takes to the water, it is necessary that those who have otter spears should watch the bubbles, for he generally vents near them.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000009|When the otter is seized, or upon the point of being caught by the hounds, he turns upon his pursuers with the utmost ferocity.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000010|Instances are recorded of dogs having been drowned by otters, which they had seized under water, for they can sustain the want of respiration for a much longer time than the dog.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000006_000001|The sportsmen went on each side of the river, beating the banks and sedges with the dogs.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000006_000003|If one was found, the sportsmen viewed his track in the mud, to find which way he had taken.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000007_000000|"On the soft sand, See there his seal impress'd!
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000007_000001|And on that bank Behold the glitt'ring spoils, half eaten fish, Scales, fins, and bones, the leavings of his feast."
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000008_000000|The spears were used in aid of the dogs.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000008_000001|When an otter is wounded, he makes directly to land, where he maintains an obstinate defence:--
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000009_000000|"Lo! to yon sedgy bank He creeps disconsolate; his numerous foes Surround him, hounds and men.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000000|The male otter never makes any complaint when seized by the dogs, or even when transfixed with a spear, but the females emit a very shrill squeal.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000001|In the year seventeen ninety six, near Bridgenorth, on the river Wherfe, four otters were killed.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000002|One stood three, another four hours before the dogs, and was scarcely a minute out of sight.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000004|It measured from the nose to the end of the tail, four feet ten inches, and weighed thirty four and a half pounds.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000005|This animal was supposed to be eight years old, and to have destroyed for the last five years a ton of fish annually.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000006|The destruction of fish by this animal is, indeed, very great, for he will eat none unless it be perfectly fresh, and what he takes himself.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000007|By his mode of eating them he causes a still greater consumption, for so soon as an otter catches a fish he drags it on shore, devours it to the vent, and, unless pressed by extreme hunger, always leaves the remainder, and takes to the water in search of more.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000008|In rivers it is always observed to swim against the stream, in order to meet its prey.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000011_000000|Otters bite very severely, and they will seize upon a dog with the utmost ferocity, and will shake it as a terrier does a rat.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000011_000001|The jaws of the otter are so constructed, that even when dead it is difficult to separate them, as they adhere with the utmost tenacity.
train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000011_000002|Otters are frequently found on the banks of the Thames, and a large one was caught in an eel basket, near Windsor, but the hunting of them is discontinued.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000002_000001|We are all born poets, mathematicians, philosophers, artists, artisans, or farmers, but we are not born equally endowed; and between one man and another in society, or between one faculty and another in the same individual, there is an infinite difference.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000002_000002|This difference of degree in the same faculties, this predominance of talent in certain directions, is, we have said, the very foundation of our society.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000003_000000|It is not so with societies of animals.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000003_000003|No animal, when free and healthy, expects or requires the aid of his neighbor; who, in his turn, is equally independent.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000000|Associated animals live side by side without any intellectual intercourse or intimate communication,--all doing the same things, having nothing to learn or to remember; they see, feel, and come in contact with each other, but never penetrate each other.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000001|Man continually exchanges with man ideas and feelings, products and services.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000002|Every discovery and act in society is necessary to him.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000003|But of this immense quantity of products and ideas, that which each one has to produce and acquire for himself is but an atom in the sun
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000005_000000|Society, among the animals, is SIMPLE; with man it is COMPLEX.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000005_000001|Man is associated with man by the same instinct which associates animal with animal; but man is associated differently from the animal, and it is this difference in association which constitutes the difference in morality.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000006_000002|The fields of benevolence and love extend far beyond; and when economy has adjusted its balance, the mind begins to benefit by its own justice, and the heart expands in the boundlessness of its affection.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000007_000000|The social sentiment then takes on a new character, which varies with different persons.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000007_000001|In the strong, it becomes the pleasure of generosity; among equals, frank and cordial friendship; in the weak, the pleasure of admiration and gratitude.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000008_000003|Hercules destroying the monsters and punishing brigands for the safety of Greece, Orpheus teaching the rough and wild Pelasgians,--neither of them putting a price upon their services,--there we see the noblest creations of poetry, the loftiest expression of justice and virtue.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000009_000000|The joys of self sacrifice are ineffable.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000010_000002|Guided by them, they owe them nothing; they honor them, however, and lavish upon them praise and approbation.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000011_000000|Gratitude fills people with adoration and enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000012_000000|But equality delights my heart.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000012_000001|Benevolence degenerates into tyranny, and admiration into servility.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000012_000002|Friendship is the daughter of equality. O my friends! may I live in your midst without emulation, and without glory; let equality bring us together, and fate assign us our places. May I die without knowing to whom among you I owe the most esteem!
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000013_000000|Friendship is precious to the hearts of the children of men.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000015_000000|It is the just distribution of social sympathy and universal love.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000016_000000|Now, this feeling is unknown among the beasts, who love and cling to each other, and show their preferences, but who cannot conceive of esteem, and who are incapable of generosity, admiration, or politeness.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000017_000000|This feeling does not spring from intelligence, which calculates, computes, and balances, but does not love; which sees, but does not feel.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000018_000000|This product-the third and last degree of human sociability-is determined by our complex mode of association; in which inequality, or rather the divergence of faculties, and the speciality of functions-tending of themselves to isolate laborers-demand a more active sociability.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000019_000000|That is why the force which oppresses while protecting is execrable; why the silly ignorance which views with the same eye the marvels of art, and the products of the rudest industry, excites unutterable contempt; why proud mediocrity, which glories in saying, "I have paid you-I owe you nothing," is especially odious.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000021_000000|These three degrees of sociability support and imply each other.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000022_000001|If, in order to reward talent, I take from one to give to another, in unjustly stripping the first, I do not esteem his talent as I ought; if, in society, I award more to myself than to my associate, we are not really associated.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000022_000002|Justice is sociability as manifested in the division of material things, susceptible of weight and measure; equite is justice accompanied by admiration and esteem,--things which cannot be measured.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000023_000000|From this several inferences may be drawn.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000024_000000|one.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000025_000000|By the same principle, inequality of wages cannot be admitted by law on the ground of inequality of talents; because the just distribution of wealth is the function of economy,--not of enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000026_000000|Finally, as regards donations, wills, and inheritance, society, careful both of the personal affections and its own rights, must never permit love and partiality to destroy justice.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000027_000001|If the two persons were equal, their respective shares would be arithmetically equal: Achilles would have six, Ajax six.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000027_000003|To avoid this injustice, the worth of the persons should be estimated, and the spoils divided accordingly. Suppose that the worth of Achilles is double that of Ajax: the former's share is eight, the latter four.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000027_000004|There is no arithmetical equality, but a proportional equality.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000001|Settle that, and you settle the whole question.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000002|If Achilles and Ajax, instead of being associated, are themselves in the service of Agamemnon who pays them, there is no objection to Aristotle's method.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000003|The slave owner, who controls his slaves, may give a double allowance of brandy to him who does double work.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000004|That is the law of despotism; the right of slavery.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000001|What matters it that Achilles has a strength of four, while that of Ajax is only two? The latter may always answer that he is free; that if Achilles has a strength of four, five could kill him; finally, that in doing personal service he incurs as great a risk as Achilles.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000003|If he is unable to fight, let him be cook, purveyor, or butler.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000004|If he is good for nothing, put him in the hospital.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000005|In no case wrong him, or impose upon him laws.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000030_000000|Man must live in one of two states: either in society, or out of it. In society, conditions are necessarily equal, except in the degree of esteem and consideration which each one may receive.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000004|God can be regarded as just, equitable, and good, only to another God.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000006|No: and if he saw fit to shear as much wool from a lamb six months old, as from a ram of two years; or, if he required as much work from a young dog as from an old one,--they would say, not that he was unjust, but that he was foolish.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000007|Between man and beast there is no society, though there may be affection.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000008|Man loves the animals as THINGS,--as SENTIENT THINGS, if you will,--but not as PERSONS.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000033_000000|If God should come down to earth, and dwell among us, we could not love him unless he became like us; nor give him any thing unless he produced something; nor listen to him unless he proved us mistaken; nor worship him unless he manifested his power.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000035_000000|Now, if kings are images of God, and executors of his will, they cannot receive love, wealth, obedience, and glory from us, unless they consent to labor and associate with us-produce as much as they consume, reason with their subjects, and do wonderful things.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000035_000001|Still more; if, as some pretend, kings are public functionaries, the love which is due them is measured by their personal amiability; our obligation to obey them, by the wisdom of their commands; and their civil list, by the total social production divided by the number of citizens.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000036_000000|Thus, jurisprudence, political economy, and psychology agree in admitting the law of equality.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000036_000001|Right and duty-the due reward of talent and labor-the outbursts of love and enthusiasm,--all are regulated in advance by an invariable standard; all depend upon number and balance. Equality of conditions is the law of society, and universal solidarity is the ratification of this law.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000001|To that fact history bears perpetual testimony, and the course of events reveals it to us.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000002|Society advances from equation to equation.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000003|To the eyes of the economist, the revolutions of empires seem now like the reduction of algebraical quantities, which are inter deducible; now like the discovery of unknown quantities, induced by the inevitable influence of time.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000004|Figures are the providence of history.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000005|Undoubtedly there are other elements in human progress; but in the multitude of hidden causes which agitate nations, there is none more powerful or constant, none less obscure, than the periodical explosions of the proletariat against property.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000006|Property, acting by exclusion and encroachment, while population was increasing, has been the life principle and definitive cause of all revolutions.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000007|Religious wars, and wars of conquest, when they have stopped short of the extermination of races, have been only accidental disturbances, soon repaired by the mathematical progression of the life of nations.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000008|The downfall and death of societies are due to the power of accumulation possessed by property.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000000|Here my task should end.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000001|I have proved the right of the poor; I have shown the usurpation of the rich.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000002|I demand justice; it is not my business to execute the sentence.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000003|If it should be argued-in order to prolong for a few years an illegitimate privilege-that it is not enough to demonstrate equality, that it is necessary also to organize it, and above all to establish it peacefully, I might reply: The welfare of the oppressed is of more importance than official composure.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000004|Equality of conditions is a natural law upon which public economy and jurisprudence are based.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000005|The right to labor, and the principle of equal distribution of wealth, cannot give way to the anxieties of power.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000007|On the contrary, it is the duty of the civil and administrative power to reconstruct itself on the basis of political equality.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000008|An evil, when known, should be condemned and destroyed.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000009|The legislator cannot plead ignorance as an excuse for upholding a glaring iniquity.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000010|Restitution should not be delayed. Justice, justice! recognition of right! reinstatement of the proletaire!--when these results are accomplished, then, judges and consuls, you may attend to your police, and provide a government for the Republic!
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000000|For the rest, I do not think that a single one of my readers accuses me of knowing how to destroy, but of not knowing how to construct.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000001|In demonstrating the principle of equality, I have laid the foundation of the social structure I have done more.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000002|I have given an example of the true method of solving political and legislative problems.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000003|Of the science itself, I confess that I know nothing more than its principle; and I know of no one at present who can boast of having penetrated deeper.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000004|Many people cry, "Come to me, and I will teach you the truth!" These people mistake for the truth their cherished opinion and ardent conviction, which is usually any thing but the truth.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000005|The science of society-like all human sciences-will be for ever incomplete.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000006|The depth and variety of the questions which it embraces are infinite.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000008|A certain philological society decided linguistic questions by a plurality of votes.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000010|The task of the true publicist, in the age in which we live, is to close the mouths of quacks and charlatans, and to teach the public to demand demonstrations, instead of being contented with symbols and programmes.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000011|Before talking of the science itself, it is necessary to ascertain its object, and discover its method and principle.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000012|The ground must be cleared of the prejudices which encumber it.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000013|Such is the mission of the nineteenth century.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000000|For my part, I have sworn fidelity to my work of demolition, and I will not cease to pursue the truth through the ruins and rubbish.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000001|I hate to see a thing half done; and it will be believed without any assurance of mine, that, having dared to raise my hand against the Holy Ark, I shall not rest contented with the removal of the cover.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000002|The mysteries of the sanctuary of iniquity must be unveiled, the tables of the old alliance broken, and all the objects of the ancient faith thrown in a heap to the swine.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000004|A code has been written,--the pride of a conqueror, and the summary of ancient wisdom.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000005|Well! of this charter and this code not one article shall be left standing upon another! The time has come for the wise to choose their course, and prepare for reconstruction.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000042_000000|But, since a destroyed error necessarily implies a counter truth, I will not finish this treatise without solving the first problem of political science,--that which receives the attention of all minds.
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000043_000000|WHEN PROPERTY IS ABOLISHED, WHAT WILL BE THE FORM OF SOCIETY!
train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000043_000001|WILL IT BE COMMUNISM?
train-clean-360/6690/73073/6690_73073_000002_000000|one.
train-clean-360/6690/73073/6690_73073_000012_000002|Rutinius explains that it was not written down for a long time, but transmitted orally, kept secret, and used as a sort of password among the elect.
train-clean-360/6690/73075/6690_73075_000006_000002|At times they display a divine simplicity.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000001_000000|Chapter four
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000002_000000|The Fall of the Provisional Government
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000003_000000|wednesday november seventh, I rose very late.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000003_000001|The noon cannon boomed from Peter Paul as I went down the Nevsky.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000003_000002|It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000004_000000|"What side do you belong to?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000004_000001|"The Government?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000006_000000|The street cars were running on the Nevsky, men, women and small boys hanging on every projection.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000006_000001|Shops were open, and there seemed even less uneasiness among the street crowds than there had been the day before.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000006_000002|A whole crop of new appeals against insurrection had blossomed out on the walls during the night-to the peasants, to the soldiers at the front, to the workmen of Petrograd.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000007_000000|FROM THE PETROGRAD MUNICIPAL DUMA:
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000009_000000|Members of the Committee of Public Safety will be on duty in the building of the Municipal Duma.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000010_000000|november seventh nineteen seventeen.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000011_000000|Though I didn't realize it then, this was the Duma's declaration of war against the Bolsheviki.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000001|PEACE!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000002|BREAD!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000003|LAND!" The leading article was signed "Zinoviev,"--Lenin's companion in hiding.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000004|It began:
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000013_000000|Every soldier, every worker, every real Socialist, every honest democrat realises that there are only two alternatives to the present situation.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000015_000000|Or-the power will be transferred to the hands of the revolutionary workers, soldiers and peasants; and in that case it will mean a complete abolition of landlord tyranny, immediate check of the capitalists, immediate proposal of a just peace.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000015_000001|Then the land is assured to the peasants, then control of industry is assured to the workers, then bread is assured to the hungry, then the end of this nonsensical war!...
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000017_000003|They haven't the men to run a government.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000017_000004|Perhaps it's a good thing to let them try-that will furnish them...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000018_000000|The Military Hotel at the corner of saint Isaac's Square was picketed by armed sailors.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000018_000001|In the lobby were many of the smart young officers, walking up and down or muttering together; the sailors wouldn't let them leave....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000000|Suddenly came the sharp crack of a rifle outside, followed by a scattered burst of firing.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000001|I ran out.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000002|Something unusual was going on around the Marinsky Palace, where the Council of the Russian Republic met.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000003|Diagonally across the wide square was drawn a line of soldiers, rifles ready, staring at the hotel roof.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000021_000001|A barricade had been heaped up across the mouth of Novaya Ulitza-boxes, barrels, an old bed spring, a wagon.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000022_000000|"Is there going to be any fighting?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000023_000000|"Soon, soon," answered a soldier, nervously.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000023_000001|"Go away, comrade, you'll get hurt.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000023_000002|They will come from that direction," pointing toward the Admiralty.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000024_000000|"Who will?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000025_000000|"That I couldn't tell you, brother," he answered, and spat.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000000|Before the door of the Palace was a crowd of soldiers and sailors.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000001|A sailor was telling of the end of the Council of the Russian Republic.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000002|"We walked in there," he said, "and filled all the doors with comrades.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000003|I went up to the counter revolutionist Kornilovitz who sat in the president's chair.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000004|'No more Council,' I says.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000027_000000|There was laughter.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000027_000001|By waving assorted papers I managed to get around to the door of the press gallery.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000028_000000|Around in front stood a little, grey moustached man in the uniform of a general, the centre of a knot of soldiers.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000028_000001|He was very red in the face.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000029_000001|"As your superior officer and as a member of the Council of the Republic I demand to be allowed to pass!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000029_000002|The guard scratched his head, looking uneasily out of the corner of his eye; he beckoned to an approaching officer, who grew very agitated when he saw who it was and saluted before he realised what he was doing.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000031_000000|An automobile came by, and I saw Gotz sitting inside, laughing apparently with great amusement.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000031_000001|A few minutes later another, with armed soldiers on the front seat, full of arrested members of the Provisional Government.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000031_000002|Peters, Lettish member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, came hurrying across the Square.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000032_000000|"I thought you bagged all those gentlemen last night," said I, pointing to them.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000033_000000|"Oh," he answered, with the expression of a disappointed small boy. "The damn fools let most of them go again before we made up our minds...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000035_000000|We went toward the Winter Palace by way of the Admiralteisky.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000035_000001|All the entrances to the Palace Square were closed by sentries, and a cordon of troops stretched clear across the western end, besieged by an uneasy throng of citizens.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000035_000002|Except for far away soldiers who seemed to be carrying wood out of the Palace courtyard and piling it in front of the main gateway, everything was quiet.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000000|We couldn't make out whether the sentries were pro Government or pro Soviet.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000001|Our papers from Smolny had no effect, however, so we approached another part of the line with an important air and showed our American passports, saying "Official business!" and shouldered through.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000003|In the dark, gloomy corridor, stripped of its tapestries, a few old attendants were lounging about, and in front of Kerensky's door a young officer paced up and down, gnawing his moustache.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000004|We asked if we could interview the Minister president.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000005|He bowed and clicked his heels.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000037_000000|"No, I am sorry," he replied in French.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000037_000002|"In fact, he is not here...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000038_000000|"Where is he?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000039_000000|"He has gone to the Front. (See App.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000039_000002|We had to send to the English Hospital and borrow some."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000041_000000|"They are meeting in some room-I don't know where.'
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000042_000000|"Are the Bolsheviki coming?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000000|"Of course.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000001|Certainly, they are coming.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000002|I expect a telephone call every minute to say that they are coming.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000003|But we are ready.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000044_000000|"Can we go in there?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000000|"no Certainly not.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000001|It is not permitted." Abruptly he shook hands all around and walked away.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000002|We turned to the forbidden door, set in a temporary partition dividing the hall and locked on the outside. On the other side were voices, and somebody laughing.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000003|Except for that the vast spaces of the old Palace were silent as the grave.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000046_000000|"Why is the door locked?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000047_000000|"To keep the soldiers in," he answered.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000047_000001|After a few minutes he said something about having a glass of tea and went back up the hall.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000047_000002|We unlocked the door.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000000|Just inside a couple of soldiers stood on guard, but they said nothing.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000002|On both sides of the parquetted floor lay rows of dirty mattresses and blankets, upon which occasional soldiers were stretched out; everywhere was a litter of cigarette butts, bits of bread, cloth, and empty bottles with expensive French labels.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000004|One had a bottle of white Burgundy, evidently filched from the cellars of the Palace. They looked at us with astonishment as we marched past, through room after room, until at last we came out into a series of great state salons, fronting their long and dirty windows on the Square. The walls were covered with huge canvases in massive gilt frames-historical battle scenes....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000006|One had a gash across the upper right hand corner.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000049_000000|The place was all a huge barrack, and evidently had been for weeks, from the look of the floor and walls.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000049_000001|Machine guns were mounted on window sills, rifles stacked between the mattresses.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000001|Enchanted.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000002|I am Stabs-Capitan Vladimir Artzibashev, absolutely at your service."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000003|It did not seem to occur to him that there was anything unusual in four strangers, one a woman, wandering through the defences of an army awaiting attack.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000004|He began to complain of the state of Russia.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000052_000000|"Not only these Bolsheviki," he said, "but the fine traditions of the Russian army are broken down.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000052_000001|Look around you.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000052_000004|Naturally there are many, many who are contaminated by the Revolution...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000000|Without consequence he changed the subject.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000001|"I am very anxious to go away from Russia.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000002|I have made up my mind to join the American army. Will you please go to your Consul and make arrangements?
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000003|I will give you my address." In spite of our protestations he wrote it on a piece of paper, and seemed to feel better at once.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000054_000000|"We had a review this morning early," he went on, as he guided us through the rooms and explained everything.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000054_000001|"The Women's Battalion decided to remain loyal to the Government."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000055_000000|"Are the women soldiers in the Palace?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000056_000000|"Yes, they are in the back rooms, where they won't be hurt if any trouble comes." He sighed.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000056_000001|"It is a great responsibility," said he.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000057_000001|After a few minutes two of the companies shouldered arms with a clash, barked three sharp shouts, and went swinging off across the Square, disappearing through the Red Arch into the quiet city.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000058_000000|"They are going to capture the Telephone Exchange," said some one. Three cadets stood by us, and we fell into conversation.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000058_000002|They didn't seem to know what to do, as a matter of fact, and it was plain that they were not happy.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000000|But soon they began to boast.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000001|"If the Bolsheviki come we shall show them how to fight.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000002|They do not dare to fight, they are cowards.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000003|But if we should be overpowered, well, every man keeps one bullet for himself...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000000|At this point there was a burst of rifle fire not far off.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000002|Inside all was uproar, soldiers running here and there, grabbing up guns, rifle belts and shouting, "Here they come!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000003|Here they come!" ...
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000004|But in a few minutes it quieted down again.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000000|It was getting late when we left the Palace.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000001|The sentries in the Square had all disappeared.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000002|The great semi circle of Government buildings seemed deserted.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000003|We went into the Hotel France for dinner, and right in the middle of soup the waiter, very pale in the face, came up and insisted that we move to the main dining room at the back of the house, because they were going to put out the lights in the cafe.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000004|"There will be much shooting," he said.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000000|When we came out on the Morskaya again it was quite dark, except for one flickering street light on the corner of the Nevsky.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000001|Under this stood a big armored automobile, with racing engine and oil smoke pouring out of it.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000002|A small boy had climbed up the side of the thing and was looking down the barrel of a machine gun.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000003|Soldiers and sailors stood around, evidently waiting for something.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000004|We walked back up to the Red Arch, where a knot of soldiers was gathered staring at the brightly lighted Winter Palace and talking in loud tones.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000063_000000|"No, comrades," one was saying.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000063_000001|"How can we shoot at them?
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000063_000002|The Women's Battalion is in there-they will say we have fired on Russian women."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000064_000000|As we reached the Nevsky again another armoured car came around the corner, and a man poked his head out of the turret top.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000065_000000|"Come on!" he yelled.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000065_000001|"Let's go on through and attack!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000066_000000|The driver of the other car came over, and shouted so as to be heard above the roaring engine.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000066_000001|"The Committee says to wait.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000066_000002|They have got artillery behind the wood piles in there...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000067_000000|Here the street cars had stopped running, few people passed, and there were no lights; but a few blocks away we could see the trams, the crowds, the lighted shop windows and the electric signs of the moving picture shows-life going on as usual.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000067_000001|We had tickets to the Ballet at the Marinsky Theatre-all theatres were open-but it was too exciting out of doors....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000068_000001|Men in various uniforms were coming and going in an aimless way, and doing a great deal of talking....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000069_000000|Up the Nevsky the whole city seemed to be out promenading.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000069_000003|At the Mikhailovsky a man appeared with an armful of newspapers, and was immediately stormed by frantic people, offering a rouble, five roubles, ten roubles, tearing at each other like animals.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000071_000000|On the corner of the Sadovaya about two thousand citizens had gathered, staring up at the roof of a tall building, where a tiny red spark glowed and waned.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000072_000000|"See!" said a tall peasant, pointing to it.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000000|The massive facade of Smolny blazed with lights as we drove up, and from every street converged upon it streams of hurrying shapes dim in the gloom.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000001|Automobiles and motorcycles came and went; an enormous elephant coloured armoured automobile, with two red flags flying from the turret, lumbered out with screaming siren.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000002|It was cold, and at the outer gate the Red Guards had built themselves a bon fire.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000003|At the inner gate, too, there was a blaze, by the light of which the sentries slowly spelled out our passes and looked us up and down. The canvas covers had been taken off the four rapid fire guns on each side of the doorway, and the ammunition belts hung snakelike from their breeches.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000004|A dun herd of armoured cars stood under the trees in the court yard, engines going.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000005|The long, bare, dimly illuminated halls roared with the thunder of feet, calling, shouting....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000006|There was an atmosphere of recklessness.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000008|The extraordinary meeting of the Petrograd Soviet was over.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000074_000000|The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, saluting the victorious Revolution of the Petrograd proletariat and garrison, particularly emphasises the unity, organisation, discipline, and complete cooperation shown by the masses in this rising; rarely has less blood been spilled, and rarely has an insurrection succeeded so well.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000075_000000|The Soviet expresses its firm conviction that the Workers' and Peasants' Government which, as the government of the Soviets, will be created by the Revolution, and which will assure the industrial proletariat of the support of the entire mass of poor peasants, will march firmly toward Socialism, the only means by which the country can be spared the miseries and unheard of horrors of war.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000076_000000|The new Workers' and Peasants' Government will propose immediately a just and democratic peace to all the belligerent countries.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000077_000000|It will suppress immediately the great landed property, and transfer the land to the peasants.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000077_000001|It will establish workmen's control over production and distribution of manufactured products, and will set up a general control over the banks, which it will transform into a state monopoly.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000078_000000|The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies calls upon the workers and the peasants of Russia to support with all their energy and all their devotion the Proletarian Revolution.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000078_000001|The Soviet expresses its conviction that the city workers, allies of the poor peasants, will assure complete revolutionary order, indispensable to the victory of Socialism.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000078_000002|The Soviet is convinced that the proletariat of the countries of Western Europe will aid us in conducting the cause of Socialism to a real and lasting victory.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000079_000000|"You consider it won then?"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000000|He lifted his shoulders.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000001|"There is much to do.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000002|Horribly much.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000003|It is just beginning...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000081_000001|"It's insane!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000081_000002|Insane!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000081_000003|"The European working class won't move!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000082_000000|It had been a momentous session.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000082_000001|In the name of the Military Revolutionary Committee Trotzky had declared that the Provisional Government no longer existed.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000083_000000|"The characteristic of bourgeois governments," he said, "is to deceive the people.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000083_000001|We, the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, are going to try an experiment unique in history; we are going to found a power which will have no other aim but to satisfy the needs of the soldiers, workers, and peasants."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000084_000001|And Zinoviev, crying, "This day we have paid our debt to the international proletariat, and struck a terrible blow at the war, a terrible body blow at all the imperialists and particularly at Wilhelm the Executioner...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000085_000000|Then Trotzky, that telegrams had been sent to the front announcing the victorious insurrection, but no reply had come.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000085_000001|Troops were said to be marching against Petrograd-a delegation must be sent to tell them the truth.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000086_000000|Cries, "You are anticipating the will of the All Russian Congress of Soviets!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000000|So we came into the great meeting hall, pushing through the clamorous mob at the door.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000001|In the rows of seats, under the white chandeliers, packed immovably in the aisles and on the sides, perched on every window sill, and even the edge of the platform, the representatives of the workers and soldiers of all Russia waited in anxious silence or wild exultation the ringing of the chairman's bell.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000002|There was no heat in the hall but the stifling heat of unwashed human bodies.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000003|A foul blue cloud of cigarette smoke rose from the mass and hung in the thick air.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000004|Occasionally some one in authority mounted the tribune and asked the comrades not to smoke; then everybody, smokers and all, took up the cry "Don't smoke, comrades!" and went on smoking.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000005|Petrovsky, Anarchist delegate from the Obukhov factory, made a seat for me beside him.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000006|Unshaven and filthy, he was reeling from three nights' sleepless work on the Military Revolutionary Committee.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000089_000001|It was the end of the first period of the Russian revolution, which these men had attempted to guide in careful ways....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000089_000003|Gotz sat there, Dan, Lieber, Bogdanov, Broido, Fillipovsky,--white faced, hollow eyed and indignant.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000089_000005|It was ten forty p m
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000090_000000|Dan, a mild faced, baldish figure in a shapeless military surgeon's uniform, was ringing the bell.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000090_000001|Silence fell sharply, intense, broken by the scuffling and disputing of the people at the door....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000091_000000|"We have the power in our hands," he began sadly, stopped for a moment, and then went on in a low voice.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000091_000001|"Comrades!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000092_000000|"I declare the first session of the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies open!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000000|The election of the presidium took place amid stir and moving about. Avanessov announced that by agreement of the Bolsheviki, Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviki Internationalists, it was decided to base the presidium upon proportionality.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000001|Several Mensheviki leaped to their feet protesting.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000003|Hendelmann, for the right and centre Socialist Revolutionaries, said that they refused to take part in the presidium; the same from Kintchuk, for the Mensheviki; and from the Mensheviki Internationalists, that until the verification of certain circumstances, they too could not enter the presidium. Scattering applause and hoots.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000004|One voice, "Renegades, you call yourselves Socialists!" A representative of the Ukrainean delegates demanded, and received, a place.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000006|The hall rose, thundering.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000007|How far they had soared, these Bolsheviki, from a despised and hunted sect less than four months ago, to this supreme place, the helm of great Russia in full tide of insurrection!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000001|Martov, demanding the floor, croaked hoarsely, "The civil war is beginning, comrades!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000002|The first question must be a peaceful settlement of the crisis.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000003|On principle and from a political standpoint we must urgently discuss a means of averting civil war. Our brothers are being shot down in the streets!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000004|At this moment, when before the opening of the Congress of Soviets the question of Power is being settled by means of a military plot organised by one of the revolutionary parties-" for a moment he could not make himself heard above the noise, "All of the revolutionary parties must face the fact!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000006|We must create a power which will be recognised by the whole democracy.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000007|If the Congress wishes to be the voice of the revolutionary democracy it must not sit with folded hands before the developing civil war, the result of which may be a dangerous outburst of counter revolution.... The possibility of a peaceful outcome lies in the formation of a united democratic authority....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000008|We must elect a delegation to negotiate with the other Socialist parties and organisation...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000096_000000|Always the methodical muffled boom of cannon through the windows, and the delegates, screaming at each other....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000000|The Left Socialist Revolutionaries and the United Social Democrats supported Martov's proposition.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000001|It was accepted.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000003|"Some delegates are present," he said.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000004|"I move that they be given votes." Accepted.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000001|"The political hypocrites who control this Congress," he shouted, "told us we were to settle the question of Power-and it is being settled behind our backs, before the Congress opens!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000003|Followed him Gharra: "While we are here discussing propositions of peace, there is a battle on in the streets....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000005|You lie!"...
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000009|The Army is imperfectly represented in this Congress, and furthermore, the Army does not consider the Congress of Soviets necessary at this time, only three weeks before the opening of the Constituent-" shouts and stamping, always growing more violent.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000010|"The Army does not consider that the Congress of Soviets has the necessary authority-" Soldiers began to stand up all over the hall.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000099_000000|"Who are you speaking for?
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000099_000001|What do you represent?" they cried.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000101_000001|You represent the officers, not the soldiers!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000101_000002|What do the soldiers say about it?" Jeers and hoots.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000102_000000|"We, the Front group, disclaim all responsibility for what has happened and is happening, and we consider it necessary to mobilise all self conscious revolutionary forces for the salvation of the Revolution!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000102_000001|The Front group will leave the Congress....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000102_000002|The place to fight is out on the streets!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000103_000000|Immense bawling outcry.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000103_000001|"You speak for the Staff-not for the Army!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000104_000000|"I appeal to all reasonable soldiers to leave this Congress!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000105_000002|Provocator!" were hurled at him.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000106_000000|On behalf of the Mensheviki, Khintchuk then announced that the only possibility of a peaceful solution was to begin negotiations with the Provisional Government for the formation of a new Cabinet, which would find support in all strata of society.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000106_000001|He could not proceed for several minutes.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000106_000002|Raising his voice to a shout he read the Menshevik declaration:
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000107_000000|"Because the Bolsheviki have made a military conspiracy with the aid of the Petrograd Soviet, without consulting the other factions and parties, we find it impossible to remain in the Congress, and therefore withdraw, inviting the other groups to follow us and to meet for discussion of the situation!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000108_000000|"Deserter!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000108_000001|At intervals in the almost continuous disturbance Hendelman, for the Socialist Revolutionaries, could be heard protesting against the bombardment of the Winter Palace....
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000108_000002|"We are opposed to this kind of anarchy...."
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000109_000000|Scarcely had he stepped down than a young, lean faced soldier, with flashing eyes, leaped to the platform, and dramatically lifted his hand:
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000000|"Comrades!" he cried and there was a hush.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000005|I tell you now, the Lettish soldiers have many times said, 'No more resolutions!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000006|No more talk!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000007|We want deeds-the Power must be in our hands!' Let these impostor delegates leave the Congress!
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000008|The Army is not with them!"
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000000|The hall rocked with cheering.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000001|In the first moments of the session, stunned by the rapidity of events, startled by the sound of cannon, the delegates had hesitated.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000002|For an hour hammer blow after hammer blow had fallen from that tribune, welding them together but beating them down.
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000003|Did they stand then alone?
train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000004|Was Russia rising against them?
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000002_000000|LUCY'S GHOST
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000003_000000|Kenneth had sent word to Tom Gates, asking the young man to come to Elmhurst, but it was not until two days after the lawn party that Tom appeared and asked permission to see mr Forbes.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000004_000000|Beth and Louise were with Kenneth at the time, and were eager to remain during the interview, so the young man was shown into the library.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000006_000000|Kenneth scrutinized him closely.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000007_000000|"What have you been up to, Tom?" he asked.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000008_000002|Where do you think she can be, sir?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000010_000001|"Where have you searched?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000011_000000|"Everywhere, sir, that she might be likely to go.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000012_000000|"It's strange," remarked Kenneth, thoughtfully, while the girls regarded the youth with silent sympathy.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000013_000001|"She was such a gentle, shrinking girl, as shy and retiring as a child.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000013_000003|But she was out of her head, sir, and didn't know what she was about.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000013_000005|And from the moment she left her home all trace of her was lost."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000014_000001|Did she take any clothing with her?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000016_000000|"What was her dress like?" asked Beth, quickly.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000018_000000|"Does Lucy resemble her mother?" inquired Beth.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000019_000000|"Very much, miss.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000020_000000|"You might have known that," declared Kenneth.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000022_000000|"That is a poor excuse.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000022_000001|If you had waited Lucy would have proved her innocence."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000023_000001|It would have killed her."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000024_000000|"They wouldn't dare arrest her on suspicion."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000027_000002|I wouldn't mind my own punishment, but it drove my Lucy mad."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000028_000001|If Lucy is found do you want her to see you in this condition?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000029_000000|"Can she be found, sir, do you think?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000030_000001|"You have failed, it seems, and Will Rogers had failed.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000031_000000|"Oh, Kenneth!" exclaimed Beth.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000033_000002|But you may rest assured that what any man can do, Burke will do."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000036_000000|"I'll try, sir, now that there's something to hope for."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000037_000000|"There's a good deal to hope for.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000037_000001|Despair won't help you.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000037_000002|You must go to work."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000039_000000|"I need someone to assist me in my correspondence," said Kenneth.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000041_000000|"Yes, Tom.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000041_000001|I'll pay you twenty dollars a week to start with, and more if you serve me faithfully.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000041_000002|And you'll board here, of course."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000042_000000|Then Tom Gates broke down and began to cry like a child, although he tried hard to control himself.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000044_000000|"Then you must go to sleep now, and get a good rest." He turned to Beth. "Will you see Martha," he asked, "and have her give Tom Gates a room?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000045_000000|She went on her errand at once, and gradually the young man recovered his composure.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000047_000001|"Just now you must have some sleep and get your strength back.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000047_000002|And don't worry about Lucy.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000049_000001|The Honorable Erastus still insisted upon making the anti sign fight the prominent issue of the campaign, and they must reply forcibly to the misleading statements made in his last hand bill.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000050_000002|He remembered that he was mr Forbes's secretary now, and that mr Forbes might want him.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000051_000000|So, greatly refreshed, and in a quieter mood than he had been for days, the young man dressed and entered the hall to find his way downstairs.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000052_000000|It happened that Beth, whose room was near this rear corridor, had just gone there to dress for dinner, and as she was closing her door she heard a wild, impassioned cry:
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000053_000000|"Lucy!"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000054_000000|Quickly she sprang out into the hall and turned the corner in time to see a strange tableau.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000055_000000|Young Gates was standing with his arms outstretched toward Eliza Parsons, who, a few paces away, had her back to the door of her own chamber, from which she had evidently just stepped.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000056_000000|"Lucy! don't you know me?" he asked, his voice trembling with emotion.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000057_000001|And as we've not been properly introduced I really don't see why I should know you," she added, with a light laugh.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000058_000000|Tom Gates shrank away from her as if he had been struck.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000000|"You can't be Lucy!" he murmured.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000002|You must know me!
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000003|Look at me, dear-I'm Tom.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000004|I'm your own Tom, Lucy!"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000063_000001|"Tell me, Tom, is she really like Lucy?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000064_000000|He looked at her with a dazed expression, as if he scarcely comprehended her words.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000065_000000|"Could you have been mistaken?" persisted the questioner.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000068_000000|"Eliza Parsons is no ghost," declared Beth.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000070_000000|"No; only a few days."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000074_000000|"She may be acting," suggested Beth.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000075_000000|But he shook his head gloomily.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000076_000000|"No; Lucy couldn't act that way.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000076_000001|She's quick and impulsive, but she-she couldn't act.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000076_000005|I-I'm sure I was mistaken."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000077_000000|Beth sighed.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000077_000001|She was disappointed.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000079_000000|"Eliza Parsons."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000080_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000080_000001|Can you tell me where I'll find mr Forbes?"
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000081_000000|"He's getting ready for dinner, now, and won't need you at present."
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000082_000000|"Then I'll go back to my room.
train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000082_000001|It-it was a great shock to me, that likeness, Miss DeGraf."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000001_000000|A WELL MATCHED SISTER AND BROTHER
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000003_000000|"My dearest Catherine, have you settled what to wear on your head to night?
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000003_000001|I am determined, at all events, to be dressed exactly like you.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000004_000000|"But it does not signify if they do," said Catherine, very innocently.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000005_000000|"Signify! oh, heavens!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000005_000001|I make it a rule never to mind what they say. They are very often amazingly impertinent, if you do not treat them with spirit, and make them keep their distance."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000006_000000|"Are they?
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000006_000002|They always behave very well to me."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000007_000000|"Oh! they give themselves such airs.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000007_000002|By the by, though I have thought of it a hundred times, I have always forgot to ask you what is your favorite complexion in a man.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000007_000003|Do you like them best dark or fair?"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000008_000000|"I hardly know.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000008_000001|I never much thought about it.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000008_000002|Something between both, I think-brown: not fair, and not very dark."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000009_000000|"Very well, Catherine.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000009_000002|I have not forgot your description of mr Tilney: 'a brown skin, with dark eyes, and rather dark hair.' Well, my taste is different.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000009_000003|I prefer light eyes; and as to complexion, do you know, I like a sallow better than any other.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000010_000000|"Betray you!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000010_000001|What do you mean?"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000011_000000|"Nay, do not distress me.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000011_000001|I believe I have said too much.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000011_000002|Let us drop the subject."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000012_000002|They really put me quite out of countenance.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000012_000003|Let us go and look at the arrivals. They will hardly follow us there."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000013_000000|Away they walked to the book; and while Isabella examined the names, it was Catherine's employment to watch the proceedings of these alarming young men.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000014_000001|I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000014_000003|I am determined I will not look up."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000018_000000|"Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000018_000001|And now what say you to going to Edgar's Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat?
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000018_000002|You said you should like to see it."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000019_000000|Catherine readily agreed.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000020_000000|"Oh! never mind that.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000022_000000|"I shall not pay them any such compliment, I assure you.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000023_000000|Catherine had nothing to oppose against such reasoning; and therefore, to show the independence of Miss Thorpe, and her resolution of humbling the sex, they set off immediately, as fast as they could walk, in pursuit of the two young men.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000024_000000|Half a minute conducted them through the Pump yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000025_000000|"Oh, these odious gigs!" said Isabella, looking up, "how I detest them!" But this detestation, though so just, was of short duration, for she looked again, and exclaimed, "Delightful!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000025_000001|mr Morland and my brother!"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000026_000001|'tis james!" was uttered at the same moment by Catherine; and on catching the young men's eyes, the horse was immediately checked with a violence which almost threw him on his haunches; and the servant having now scampered up, the gentlemen jumped out, and the equipage was delivered to his care.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000028_000000|john Thorpe, who in the mean time had been giving orders about the horse, soon joined them, and from him she directly received the amends which were her due; for while he slightly and carelessly touched the hand of Isabella, on her he bestowed a whole scrape and half a short bow.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000028_000001|He was a stout young man, of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000030_000001|"I know it must be five and twenty," said he, "by the time we have been doing it." "It is now half after one; we drove out of the inn yard at Tetbury as the town clock struck eleven; and I defy any man in England to make my horse go less than ten miles an hour in harness; that makes it exactly twenty five."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000031_000000|"You have lost an hour," said Morland: "it was only ten o'clock when we came from Tetbury."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000000|"Ten o'clock! it was eleven, upon my soul!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000001|I counted every stroke.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000003|Do but look at my horse: did you ever see an animal so made for speed in your life?" (The servant had just mounted the carriage and was driving off.) "Such true blood!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000005|Look at that creature, and suppose it possible, if you can!"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000034_000001|What do you think of my gig, Miss Morland?
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000036_000000|"Curricle hung, you see; seat, trunk, sword case, splashing board, lamps, silver molding, all, you see, complete; the ironwork as good as new, or better.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000036_000001|He asked fifty guineas: I closed with him directly, threw down the money, and the carriage was mine."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000039_000000|"That was very good-natured of you," said Catherine, quite pleased.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000044_000002|I would not sell my horse for a hundred.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000044_000003|Are you fond of an open carriage, Miss Morland?"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000045_000000|"Yes, very: I have hardly ever an opportunity of being in one; but I am particularly fond of it."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000046_000000|"I am glad of it: I will drive you out in mine every day."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000047_000000|"Thank you," said Catherine, in some distress, from a doubt of the propriety of accepting such an offer.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000048_000000|"I will drive you up Lansdown Hill to morrow."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000049_000000|"Thank you; but will not your horse want rest?"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000051_000000|"Shall you, indeed!" said Catherine, very seriously: "that will be forty miles a day."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000053_000000|"How delightful that will be!" cried Isabella, turning round; "my dearest Catherine, I quite envy you; but I am afraid, brother, you will not have room for a third."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000054_000000|"A third, indeed!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000054_000001|no, no; I did not come to Bath to drive my sisters about: that would be a good joke, faith!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000054_000002|Morland must take care of you."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000055_000000|This brought on a dialogue of civilities between the other two; but Catherine heard neither the particulars nor the result.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000055_000002|It was, "Have you ever read 'Udolpho,' mr Thorpe?"
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000059_000000|"Not I, faith!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000060_000000|"'Udolpho' was written by mrs Radcliffe," said Catherine, with some hesitation, from the fear of mortifying him.
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000061_000000|"No, sure; was it?
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000063_000000|"Yes, that's the book: such unnatural stuff!
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000063_000001|An old man playing at see saw: I took up the first volume once, and looked it over, but I soon found it would not do; indeed, I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it; as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant, I was sure I should never be able to get through it."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000064_000000|"I have never read it."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000065_000000|"You have no loss, I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine: there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see saw and learning Latin; upon my soul, there is not."
train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000066_000000|This critique, the justness of which was unfortunately lost on poor Catherine, brought them to the door of mrs Thorpe's lodgings, and the feelings of the discerning and unprejudiced reader of 'Camilla' gave way to the feelings of the dutiful and affectionate son, as they met mrs Thorpe, who had descried them from above, in the passage.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000000_000000|FAMILY DOCTORS
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000002_000000|While they were thus comfortably occupied, mr Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and tearful affection with his daughter.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000000|"My poor, dear Isabella," said he, fondly taking her hand, and interrupting for a few moments her busy labors for some one of her five children, "how long it is, how terribly long since you were here!
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000002|You must go to bed early, my dear,--and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000003|You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000004|My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000004_000000|Emma could not suppose any such thing, knowing as she did that both the mr Knightleys were as unpersuadable on that article as herself, and two basins only were ordered.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000004_000001|After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by everybody, he proceeded to say, with an air of grave reflection:--
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000005_000000|"It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000005_000001|I never had much opinion of the sea air."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000006_000000|"mr Wingfield most strenuously recommended it, sir, or we should not have gone.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000006_000001|He recommended it for all the children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella's throat,--both sea air and bathing."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000008_000000|"Come, come," cried Emma, feeling this to be an unsafe subject, "I must beg you not to talk of the sea.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000008_000002|South End is prohibited, if you please.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000008_000003|My dear Isabella, I have not heard you make one inquiry after mr Perry yet; and he never forgets you."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000010_000001|Poor Perry is bilious, and he has not time to take care of himself; he tells me he has not time to take care of himself-which is very sad-but he is always wanted all round the country.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000010_000003|But then, there is not so clever a man anywhere."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000011_000001|Do the children grow?
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000011_000002|I have a great regard for mr Perry.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000011_000004|He will be so pleased to see my little ones."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000012_000001|And, my dear, whenever he comes, you had better let him look at little Bella's throat."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000013_000001|Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of mr Wingfield's, which we have been applying at times ever since August."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000001|I hope they are quite well.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000002|Good old mrs Bates.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000004|They are always so pleased to see my children.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000005|And that excellent Miss Bates!--such thorough worthy people!
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000006|How are they, sir?"
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000017_000000|"Why, pretty well, my dear, upon the whole.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000017_000001|But poor mrs Bates had a bad cold about a month ago."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000018_000000|"How sorry I am! but colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000019_000000|"That has been a good deal the case, my dear, but not to the degree you mention.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000019_000001|Perry says that colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000019_000002|Perry does not call it altogether a sickly season."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000021_000002|It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there;--so far off!--and the air so bad!"
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000001|Our part of London is so very superior to most others.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000003|The neighborhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000004|We are so very airy!
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000006|mr Wingfield thinks the vicinity of Brunswick Square decidedly the most favorable as to air."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000023_000002|Now, I cannot say that I think you are any of you looking well at present."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000024_000000|"I am sorry to hear you say so, sir; but I assure you, excepting those little nervous headaches and palpitations which I am never entirely free from anywhere, I am quite well myself; and if the children were rather pale before they went to bed, it was only because they were a little more tired than usual from their journey and the happiness of coming.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000024_000001|I hope you will think better of their looks to morrow; for I assure you mr Wingfield told me that he did not believe he had ever sent us off, altogether, in such good case.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000024_000002|I trust at least that you do not think mr Knightley looking ill," turning her eyes with affectionate anxiety toward her husband.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000025_000000|"Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000025_000001|I think mr john Knightley very far from looking well."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000026_000001|Did you speak to me?" cried mr john Knightley, hearing his own name.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000027_000000|"I am sorry to find, my love, that my father does not think you looking well; but I hope it is only from being a little fatigued.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000028_000000|"My dear Isabella," exclaimed he hastily, "pray do not concern yourself about my looks.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000028_000001|Be satisfied with doctoring and coddling yourself and the children, and let me look as I choose."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000029_000000|"I did not thoroughly understand what you were telling your brother," cried Emma, "about your friend mr Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland to look after his new estate.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000029_000001|But will it answer?
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000029_000002|Will not the old prejudice be too strong?"
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000030_000000|And she talked in this way so long and successfully that, when forced to give her attention again to her father and sister, she had nothing worse to hear than Isabella's kind inquiry after Jane Fairfax; and Jane Fairfax, though no great favorite with her in general, she was at that moment very happy to assist in praising.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000031_000000|"That sweet, amiable Jane Fairfax!" said mrs john Knightley.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000031_000003|I always regret excessively, on dear Emma's account, that she cannot be more at Highbury; but now their daughter is married I suppose Colonel and mrs Campbell will not be able to part with her at all.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000031_000004|She would be such a delightful companion for Emma."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000032_000000|mr Woodhouse agreed to it all, but added:--
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000033_000000|"Our little friend Harriet Smith, however, is just such another pretty kind of young person.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000033_000001|You will like Harriet.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000035_000000|This topic was discussed very happily, and others succeeded of similar moment, and passed away with similar harmony; but the evening did not close without a little return of agitation.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000035_000002|Often as she had wished for and ordered it, she had never been able to get anything tolerable.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000036_000002|It does not bear talking of." And for a little while she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000036_000003|After an interval of some minutes, however, he began with-
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000037_000000|"I shall always be very sorry that you went to the sea this autumn, instead of coming here."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000038_000000|"But why should you be sorry, sir?
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000038_000001|I assure you it did the children a great deal of good."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000039_000000|"And moreover, if you must go to the sea, it had better not have been to South End.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000039_000002|Perry was surprised to hear you had fixed upon South End."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000040_000000|"I know there is such an idea with many people, but indeed it is quite a mistake, sir.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000040_000001|We all had our health perfectly well there, never found the least inconvenience from the mud, and mr Wingfield says it is entirely a mistake to suppose the place unhealthy; and I am sure he may be depended on, for he thoroughly understands the nature of the air, and his own brother and family have been there repeatedly."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000000|"You should have gone to Cromer, my dear, if you went anywhere.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000001|Perry was a week at Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of all the sea bathing places.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000003|And by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea-a quarter of a mile off-very comfortable.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000004|You should have consulted Perry."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000042_000000|"But my dear sir, the difference of the journey: only consider how great it would have been.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000042_000001|A hundred miles, perhaps, instead of forty."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000043_000001|Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000043_000002|This is just what Perry said.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000044_000000|Emma's attempts to stop her father had been vain; and when he had reached such a point as this, she could not wonder at her brother-in-law's breaking out.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000045_000000|"mr Perry," said he, in a voice of very strong displeasure, "would do as well to keep his opinion till it is asked for.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000045_000002|I may be allowed, I hope, the use of my judgment as well as mr Perry.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000045_000003|I want his directions no more than his drugs." He paused, and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, "If mr Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of a hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or inconvenience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself."
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000046_000000|"True, true," cried mr Knightley, with most ready interposition, "very true.
train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000046_000001|That's a consideration, indeed.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000002_000000|AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000003_000000|There was a moment of silence.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000004_000000|"Briefly put, doctor, the case is this," said Adam Adams.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000005_000000|"A powder strong enough to kill a person?" The brow of the old physician contracted.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000006_000000|"No, not at all.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000006_000001|I mean a powder that could be held to a person's nose and mouth in the open, when it would make that person sick and give him cramps perhaps."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000007_000000|"And kill him?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000008_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000000|The old doctor rubbed his hands in thought.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000001|"That is a subject for speculation.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000002|Certain cyanide compounds might be powerful enough to do so under certain conditions.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000003|Any real dry powder would choke a person if he got a big dose of it.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000004|I heard of a boy who came near dying as the result of breathing in a quantity of extra dry licorice powder. But he was smothered and did not have cramps."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000010_000000|"Nothing in the shape of any foreign compound?
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000011_000001|But I know of nothing- But hold!"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000011_000002|The doctor clapped his hands together.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000011_000004|That would do it, that and that only."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000012_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000013_000000|"I had a sample of it given to me some six months ago.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000014_000000|"And that powder, what did it look like?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000015_000000|"It was blue at first but on contact with the air quickly changed to brownish white and lost itself, it was so fine."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000016_000000|"Evaporated?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000017_000000|"You can call it that if you wish.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000017_000001|It was intense.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000017_000002|I held it at arms' length, yet it made me sick and I had cramps for over an hour afterwards."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000018_000000|"It would have killed you if you had placed it to your mouth or nose?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000019_000000|"Not the slightest doubt of it."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000020_000000|"May I ask where you got the stuff?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000021_000000|"It was imported into this country by a drug firm merely as a curiosity.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000021_000001|They put it up in tiny vials which I suppose were sent around to different persons like myself.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000021_000002|It was a dangerous piece of business and I gave them no credit for doing it."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000000|"I would not tell everybody, but I know I can trust you to keep a secret.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000001|The firm was Alexander and Company, of Rochester, who stand very high in the trade.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000003|Both died in less than two minutes, and each with cramps.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000004|But after death neither animal showed the least trace of the poison."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000025_000001|He said he was a bit used to it.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000025_000002|I told him I didn't want to get used to it.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000025_000003|Have another glass of wine?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000026_000000|"No, I prefer to smoke, thanks just the same.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000026_000002|Where can I get the stuff?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000027_000001|I rather think they got afraid of it. Wait, I'll get the vial it was in.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000027_000002|Perhaps there is a whiff left in it."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000028_000000|"Thanks, but do you think I want to die?" queried the detective, and gave a laugh.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000029_000000|When the empty vial was produced he opened it and took a short sniff. Then he drew his breath in sharply.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000029_000001|A faint odor was perceptible, the same odor he had detected in the carpet on the upper hallway of the Langmore mansion.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000030_000000|"Do you smell it?" questioned the physician.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000031_000001|I don't think it will affect me much."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000032_000000|"I trust not, my dear Adams.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000032_000001|We cannot afford to lose you.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000032_000002|Now, what is it all about?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000033_000000|"Another case, that's all.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000033_000001|I don't feel like talking about it just yet.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000033_000002|I'll give you the particulars some other time."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000034_000000|"And have I helped you?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000036_000000|"Of course there are other powders-and there is chloroform-"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000037_000000|"I think we have struck a clue in this.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000037_000001|But I must be going."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000038_000000|"What, so soon!" Rudolph Calkey looked hurt.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000038_000001|"I was thinking you'd stay the day out.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000038_000002|We could chat over old times-I'll order an extra supper-"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000039_000000|"No, not to day.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000039_000001|When this case is settled, I'll come over and we'll make an evening of it." And then the detective had to fairly tear himself from the doctor and the house.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000039_000002|They were old friends and had worked on many a case together.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000040_000000|Once back in his office Adam Adams smiled grimly to himself.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000041_000001|"You were seen around the place at the time of the murder by Cephas Carboy, you left the bit of paper in the library, you quarrelled at one time with mr Langmore and also quarrelled with your mother. The murder was committed by means of that deadly Chinese powder, and you are one of the few persons in this country who knew of the heathenish compound.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000043_000001|"And it may be that I'll not be back to morrow."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000044_000000|"All right, Uncle Adam.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000044_000001|What shall I tell mr Capes?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000045_000000|"Tell him that that bond matter must wait.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000045_000001|He'll have to get those numbers if he possibly can.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000045_000002|The other record was destroyed."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000046_000000|As Adam Adams spoke he drew closer to the desk at which his assistant was sitting.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000046_000001|He glanced down at an envelope lying there, and started slightly.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000047_000000|"Where did this come from, Letty?" he questioned.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000049_000000|The girl glanced at the envelope and then at her employer and blushed deeply.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000050_000000|"Oh, why that-that is a note from a friend of mine."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000052_000000|"Yes, Uncle Adam.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000052_000001|I met him last winter, at mrs Dally's reception. He is a traveling salesman for this house," she pointed to the notice on the envelope.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000052_000002|"He wants me to go to the theatre with him, and I expect to go.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000053_000000|"I know some parties connected with that firm.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000053_000001|What's the young man's name, Letty?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000054_000000|"mr Tom Ostrello."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000055_000000|"Indeed!
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000055_000001|And he has invited you to go to the theatre with him?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000001|Then you know him, Uncle Adam?
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000002|I didn't dream of that.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000003|Don't you think he is-is rather nice?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000057_000000|"Evidently you think so." For some reason the detective could scarcely steady his voice.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000057_000001|He was a bachelor, with only some distant relatives, and he thought a good deal of his protegee and her welfare.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000058_000000|"I-I do, Uncle Adam.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000058_000001|He treats me so nicely.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000058_000002|I-I-don't you approve of him?" she went on hastily, searching his face for the smile that usually rested there when he spoke to her.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000059_000000|"Why, I-er-I don't know him so well as all that, Letty." For the first time in his life he was visibly confused.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000059_000001|"You say he has called on you a number of times?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000060_000000|"Yes, and he has taken me out, let me see, I guess it must be a dozen times all told.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000060_000001|I-I wanted to speak of this before, but I-well, I couldn't bring it around.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000060_000002|I hope you'll approve, Uncle Adam."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000061_000000|"Approve?
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000061_000001|Of your going out with him?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000062_000000|"Yes, and-and-"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000062_000001|The girl hesitated again.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000062_000003|"Oh! don't you understand, Uncle Adam?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000064_000000|"He is very nice-I know you'll like him when you get to really know him.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000064_000001|Of course he hasn't much money, but I don't care for that.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000065_000001|He felt himself growing hot and cold by turns.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000065_000002|He caught the girl closer. Never had he loved his friend's daughter so much as now.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000000|"I hoped you would approve," she went on, shyly.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000001|"I-of course I didn't want to leave you-you've been so very good to me since papa and mamma died.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000002|But-but Tom doesn't seem to want to wait.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000003|He has asked me twice now and-and-I don't know how I am going to put him off.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000004|He seems so miserable when I say wait."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000067_000000|"Asked you to marry him?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000068_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000069_000000|"And he wants you to go to the theatre with him-now?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000070_000000|"The invitation is for to night-he sent it last week.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000070_000001|He has been traveling out of town, but he said he would be back some time to day. I want you to meet him." She paused.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000070_000002|"Isn't it all right, Uncle Adam?"
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000071_000000|He did not answer, and she gazed at him curiously.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000071_000001|Then the look in his face made her draw back, slowly and uncertainly.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000071_000002|At that moment he felt that the occupation of a detective was the most detestable in the world.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000072_000000|"You-you know something?" she gasped.
train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000072_000001|"Oh, Uncle Adam, what is it?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000002_000000|AT THE CORONER'S INQUEST
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000003_000000|Sidham was in a state of keen excitement.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000003_000001|No such mystery as the double tragedy had occurred in that neighborhood before, and all of the inhabitants were anxious to hear the latest news and learn what the coroner and the police were going to do.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000003_000002|A hundred theories were afloat, all centering on the one object-to find the murderer.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000004_000000|"Find him or her, and swing him or her to the nearest tree," was the verdict of many.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000004_000001|"The law is all well enough, but this dastardly crime demands an object lesson."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000005_000000|Coroner Jack Busby, who was a dealer in horses, had never had a murder case before, and was uncertain as to the method of procedure.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000005_000002|He felt that his own little office was altogether too small for the occasion and so arranged to bring off the affair in the general courtroom.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000006_000000|The place was soon crowded with people, and another crowd gathered outside.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000006_000001|The hour for opening the inquest was at hand and the majority of the witnesses were present.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000006_000002|The coroner, short, fat and bald headed, looked around anxiously and then turned to the chief of police, who was near at hand.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000007_000000|"I don't see Miss Langmore."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000008_000000|"Neither do I," answered the guardian of the law, with a shrug of his shoulders, as if it was none of his especial business,
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000009_000000|"Yes, but-ahem! you are-ahem! responsible-"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000010_000000|"She'll be here, coroner, don't worry."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000011_000000|"You have had her properly guarded?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000012_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000012_000001|I reckon she's coming now," and the chief of police nodded towards a side door of the courtroom.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000013_000000|There was a slight commotion, and Margaret entered, escorted by Raymond Case, and followed by one of the women and the policeman who had been on guard at the Langmore mansion.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000013_000001|The crowd arose to gaze at the girl and to pass various comments.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000014_000000|"Mighty pale, ain't she?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000016_000003|Don't tell me!"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000019_000000|"He must know, if he's as slick at tryin' folks as he is in a hoss dicker," returned an old farmer who had made a trade of steeds which had proved unprofitable for him.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000021_000000|"Courage, Margaret," he whispered.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000021_000001|"It is bound to come out right in the end."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000022_000000|"I can scarcely see a friendly face," she faltered, taking a shy look around.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000022_000001|"They all think I am-" She could not finish, but had to bite her lip to keep the tears from flowing.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000023_000000|The coroner mounted the platform and rapped on a desk with his knuckles.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000025_000000|There was a final buzz and then the place became quiet, broken only by the ticking of a big round clock on the wall.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000026_000000|"We are gathered here-ahem! to inquire into the mysterious deaths of mr and mrs Barry Langmore," went on the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000027_000000|"That's so-an' we want plain facts," put in an old farmer, sitting well up front.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000028_000000|"Silence!" cried the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000028_000001|"We must have silence!"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000029_000000|"All right, Jack," replied the farmer.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000029_000001|"I won't say another word."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000030_000000|"Silence.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000030_000001|We cannot go on if there is not silence.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000031_000000|Margaret arose and bowed slightly.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000031_000001|Then the coroner swore her in as a witness and told her to relate her story.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000031_000002|She could scarcely stand and Raymond brought her chair forward.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000033_000000|"Everything," was Coroner Busby's answer.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000034_000000|Pausing for a moment to collect her thoughts, she plunged into the recital, her tale being merely a repetition of that given to Adam Adams.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000034_000001|When she came to tell how her father had been found her voice broke and it was fully a minute before she could go on.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000034_000002|When she had finished the courtroom was as still as a tomb, save for the ticking of the clock, now sounding louder than ever.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000035_000000|"Is that all?" asked the coroner, after a painful pause.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000036_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000037_000000|"They say, Miss Langmore, that you were not on good terms with your stepmother."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000038_000000|"Who says so?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000040_000000|"It is true, sir," answered Margaret, after another pause, during which the eyes of all in the courtroom were fixed upon the girl.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000041_000000|"It is said that you had violent quarrels," pursued the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000042_000000|"No very violent quarrels.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000042_000001|Sometimes we did not speak to each other for days."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000043_000000|"Then you admit that you did quarrel?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000044_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000045_000000|"And you also quarreled with your father?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000047_000000|"What, not at all?" queried Coroner Busby, elevating his eyes in surprise, either real or affected.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000048_000000|"We held different opinions upon certain questions, but we did not quarrel."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000050_000000|"That is all for the present," he added, and Margaret moved back to where she had been first sitting.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000051_000002|Get you some water?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000052_000000|"No, nothing," she answered, and dropped a veil over her face.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000053_000000|The next witness called was Mary Billings, the domestic employed at the Langmore mansion, and who had been about the place at the time of the tragedy.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000053_000002|As soon as she was sworn in she burst into tears.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000055_000000|"Nobody said you did," answered the coroner dryly, while a general smile went around the courtroom.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000056_000000|"Then why did yez bring me here, I dunno?
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000056_000002|It was with difficulty that she was quieted and made to tell what she knew.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000057_000000|"Where were you from ten o'clock to twelve of the morning of the tragedy?" was the first question put to her.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000059_000000|"Were you in the kitchen first."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000063_000001|You mean you were doing the housework, eh?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000067_000000|"Did you see or hear anything unusual going on while you were in the kitchen?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000068_000000|The Irish girl scratched her head and shrugged her shoulders.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000070_000000|"What were they?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000071_000000|"Oi heard mrs Langmore walkin' around upstairs, an' Oi heard Miss Margaret walkin' around, too.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000071_000001|Then Oi heard mrs Langmore call to Miss Margaret."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000072_000000|"Did Miss Margaret answer?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000074_000000|"What else?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000076_000000|"Did you see anybody come in or go out?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000080_000000|"Did you hear anything after the slamming of the front door?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000083_000000|"Till Miss Margaret came scr'amin' from the house.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000083_000002|Me father!
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000084_000001|Now-er-you remained in the barn until you heard her cry out. Did you hear or see anything from the barn while you were down there?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000086_000000|"Never mind the Leghorns.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000086_000001|If you saw or heard anything, what was it?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000088_000000|"You didn't see anybody?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000089_000000|"No, sur.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000089_000001|As Oi said before, thim Leghorns that Pat Callahan gave me-"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000090_000001|After you heard the strange noise how long was it before you heard Miss Langmore scream?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000091_000001|Oi didn't look to the clock."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000094_000000|"What did you do then?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000095_000000|"Sure, phat could Oi do?
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000096_000000|"What happened next?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000097_000000|"We all wint in the house, an' there we found poor mr Langmore dead in the library, in his chair.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000098_000000|There was a general laugh throughout the courtroom, at which the coroner rapped loudly on the desk.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000099_000000|"Silence.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000099_000001|Such-ahem! conduct at an inquest is not to be allowed.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000099_000002|If this happens again I shall clear the courtroom."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000101_000000|"What was done with the body of mrs Langmore?" continued the coroner to the servant girl.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000102_000000|"The docther said to lave it till you came."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000103_000000|"mrs Langmore was quite dead?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000104_000001|Hivin rest her sowl!"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000105_000000|"And mr Langmore?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000107_000000|"Now, tell me, how do you think the two were killed?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000109_000000|"There were no marks of violence?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000111_000000|"The victims had not been struck down?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000113_000001|"How long have you lived with the Langmore family?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000115_000000|"How many of the family lived at home?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000116_000000|"The first year there was the mister and missus an' Miss Jennie an' Miss Margaret.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000116_000001|But Miss Jennie married an' moved away-she's travelin' now, they tell me."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000117_000000|"Then Miss Margaret was the only child home?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000121_000000|"Was Miss Margaret on good terms with mrs Langmore?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000122_000000|"She was not.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000123_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000123_000001|Then you quarreled also?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000124_000001|If it hadn't been fer Miss Margaret Oi'd a lift me job long ago.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000125_000000|"Wait! wait!
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000125_000002|When did they quarrel last?"
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000126_000000|At this question the domestic pursed up her lips and looked at Margaret.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000127_000000|"Oi have nothin' to say about that," she answered coldly.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000128_000000|This reply was a surprise to all, including Raymond.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000128_000001|The coroner gazed at the witness sternly.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000129_000000|"You must answer," he said.
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000129_000001|"It is my duty to get at the bottom of this awful affair."
train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000130_000000|"Oi'll not answer," was the stubborn return.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000002_000000|THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000003_000000|The next witness called was mrs Morse, who told briefly how she had been placed in charge of the upper part of the Langmore mansion shortly after the tragedy, and how she had been watching Margaret.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000003_000001|She said the girl had had only a few visitors, mentioning Raymond Case and a stranger from New York.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000004_000000|"Who was the stranger?" asked Coroner Busby.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000005_000000|"A mr Adams.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000005_000001|He's either a lawyer or a detective."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000006_000000|"Oh!"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000007_000000|"I brought mr Adams to see Miss Langmore," put in Raymond.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000007_000001|"Wasn't that all right?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000008_000000|"Certainly-certainly," answered the coroner hastily.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000009_000000|"I have kept the best watch on Miss Langmore that I could," went on the woman.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000009_000001|"You told me to do it."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000010_000000|"Has Miss Langmore had anything to say about her father?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000011_000000|"She seems to be very sorry that he is dead."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000012_000000|"What did she say about mrs Langmore?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000013_000000|"She does not seem to care much about her stepmother."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000014_000000|"Have you discovered anything unusual, mrs Morse, that had to do with this tragedy?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000015_000000|"Well, I don't know.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000015_000001|I have looked around a bit, and among other things I found this.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000015_000002|It was in Miss Langmore's dressing case."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000016_000000|As she spoke the woman held up a small bottle.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000016_000001|It was marked chloroform and was empty.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000017_000000|"Anything else?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000018_000000|"With the empty bottle I found the half of a big silk handkerchief.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000018_000001|It was wrapped around the bottle and had Miss Langmore's monogram in the corner.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000018_000002|I went on hunting around the house and I found the other half of the handkerchief in a dark corner of the upper hallway, not far from where mrs Langmore's body was found."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000019_000000|At this announcement there was a buzz of excitement.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000019_000002|The girl had thrown aside her veil once more, and was standing up, with a face as pale as death itself.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000021_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000022_000000|"I bought that chloroform a month ago and used it to put a sick canary and a sick parrot out of their misery.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000022_000001|Mary Billings saw me chloroform the parrot."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000023_000000|"When did you do the chloroforming?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000024_000000|"About a week ago, on the parrot.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000024_000001|The canary I chloroformed when I obtained the drug."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000025_000000|"Sure, and that's roight, sur," broke in the servant girl.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000026_000000|"Then you know all about using chloroform?" remarked the coroner dryly.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000027_000000|"The druggist told me."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000028_000000|"Did it take all you had for the birds?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000030_000000|"What did you do with what remained?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000031_000000|"I threw it away, for I had no further use for it."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000032_000001|"Did you see her throw the chloroform away?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000033_000001|"But if she says she did, she did," she added stoutly.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000034_000000|"Now, mrs Morse, did you find anything else of value?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000035_000000|"I did not, but mrs Gaspard, who was in charge downstairs, did."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000036_000000|"Very well, you may step down.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000036_000001|mrs Gaspard!" And the other woman came forward to face the coroner and his jury, and was sworn.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000037_000000|"mrs Morse says you found something of importance.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000037_000001|What was it?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000038_000000|"It was this, mr Busby," and the woman held out a sheet of note paper. "I came across it on the stairs leading to Miss Langmore's room.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000038_000001|Shall I read it?" And as the coroner nodded, the woman read as follows:
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000039_000000|"Since you refuse to open your room door to me, let me give you fair warning.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000039_000001|You must either obey your mother that now is, and me, or leave this house.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000039_000002|I have had enough of your willfulness and I shall not put up with it any longer."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000040_000000|As the woman finished reading she handed the paper to the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000041_000000|"Ahem!
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000041_000001|mrs Gaspard, do you know who wrote this note?" asked the latter.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000042_000000|"The handwriting is exactly like mr Langmore's.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000043_000000|Again all eyes were bent upon Margaret.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000043_000001|She had again arisen and was swaying from side to side.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000044_000000|"My father-never-never sent me-never wrote such a note-" she gasped, and then sank back and would have fallen had not Raymond supported her.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000045_000000|"A glass of water, quick!" cried the young man, and it was handed to him, and also a bottle of smelling salts.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000045_000001|In a moment more Margaret revived.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000047_000000|"I am sorry, but that cannot be allowed," replied the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000048_000000|"It's an outrage!" exclaimed Raymond, his eyes flashing.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000049_000000|"Silence, young man, or I'll have you removed by an officer.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000049_000001|You have interrupted the proceedings several times.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000049_000002|I do not know what interest you have-"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000001|I am engaged to this young lady.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000002|I know she is innocent.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000003|It is preposterous to imagine that she would kill her own father.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000004|They loved each other too much."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000051_000000|"Yes, but this note-" piped in mrs Gaspard.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000051_000001|She was a strong believer in Margaret's guilt.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000052_000000|"I know nothing about that.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000052_000001|It may be a forgery.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000052_000002|I know Miss Langmore is innocent."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000000|"To merely say a thing does not prove it," came from the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000002|"I'm here to do my duty, regardless of you or anybody else.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000003|I ain't going to shield anybody, rich or poor, high or low, known or unknown!
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000004|Now, you sit down, and let the inquest proceed." And Raymond sat down, but with a great and growing bitterness filling his heart.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000005|He looked at Margaret and saw that she was trembling from head to foot.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000054_000000|There was an awkward pause.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000056_000000|"He said the two handwritings were exactly alike.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000056_000001|Here is a letter written and signed by mr Langmore.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000056_000002|You can compare the two, if you wish."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000057_000000|The letter was passed over and not only the coroner, but also his jury, looked at both documents carefully.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000058_000000|"Pretty much the same thing," whispered one man.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000059_000000|"Exactly the same," added another, and the rest nodded.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000060_000000|The coroner looked around the courtroom and then at the jury.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000061_000001|"If not we'll take a brief recess until Doctor Bardon returns."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000062_000000|One after another the jurors shook their heads.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000062_000001|Whatever the coroner did was sufficient for them.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000063_000000|The recess had lasted but a few minutes, when Doctor Bardon reappeared. His face wore a knowing look that was almost triumphant.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000064_000000|"You will please take the stand again, doctor," was the request.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000064_000001|"I wish to ask you if a person could be smothered by chloroform."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000065_000000|"Certainly, under certain conditions."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000066_000000|"Do you think it possible that mr and mrs Langmore could have been smothered in that way?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000067_000000|"Possibly, yes, although I did not see any traces."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000068_000000|"Would there have been traces?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000069_000000|"Yes and no-it would depend on circumstances."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000070_000001|Now about the diamond ring belonging to Miss Langmore, which I gave you a short while ago to examine?
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000071_000000|"I have, and so has Doctor Soper.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000071_000001|We used a magnifying glass and made several tests."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000072_000000|"Did you find anything unusual?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000073_000000|"We did.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000073_000001|In the first place two of the prongs which hold the diamond in place are bent out and up in such a fashion that each forms a sharp point.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000073_000002|We next looked under the stone and found there a substance which both of us are convinced is a bit of dried up blood."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000074_000000|"You are sure it is blood?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000075_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000075_000001|I can illustrate it scientifically, if you desire."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000076_000000|"It will not be necessary just now.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000076_000001|When you say blood do you mean human blood?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000077_000000|At this the young physician shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000078_000000|"I am not prepared to go as far as that.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000078_000001|We should have to make another test.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000078_000002|The amount was so very small."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000079_000000|"Might be blood from a mosquito," muttered Raymond.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000079_000001|"There are enough around here."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000080_000000|"You may think as you please," said the young doctor.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000080_000001|"I am only stating the facts."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000081_000000|"Have you anything else to say, doctor?" came from the coroner.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000082_000000|"Nothing more.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000082_000001|Here is the ring.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000082_000002|We have kept what we found under the stone."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000083_000000|"Very well.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000083_000001|Miss Langmore, you may have the ring back." It was passed out and Raymond took it and slipped it back on Margaret's hand, which was cold and nerveless.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000083_000002|The girl was sitting as motionless as a marble statue.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000084_000000|There was another pause and then, one after another, several minor witnesses were brought up and examined.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000084_000001|At four o'clock the coroner began to sum up the evidence, to which the jury listened with close attention.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000084_000002|Then the jurors filed out into a side room, the door to which was tightly closed.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000085_000000|"Is-is it over?" faltered Margaret.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000086_000000|"We must wait for the finding of the jury, Margaret."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000087_000000|"How long will that take?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000088_000000|"I don't know."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000089_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000089_000001|Adams did not show himself.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000089_000002|I thought he would help us in some way."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000090_000000|"He must have a good reason for staying away."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000091_000000|"What do you think the jury will do?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000092_000000|At this direct question, the young man gave an inward groan.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000092_000001|"I don't know," he answered in an unnatural voice.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000092_000002|"We must hope for the best."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000093_000000|In less than an hour it was announced that the jury had arrived at a verdict.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000093_000002|The excitement was subdued, but plainly at a white heat. The coroner took his place at the desk.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000094_000000|"Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" was the question put.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000095_000000|"We have," was the unanimous answer.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000096_000000|"Who will speak for you?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000097_000000|"mr Blackwell, our foreman."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000098_000000|"Very well.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000098_000002|mr Blackwell, what is the verdict?"
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000099_000001|The courtroom became intensely silent.
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000100_000000|"We find that mr and mrs Barry Langmore came to their deaths either by being smothered, chloroformed, poisoned, or in some similar fashion, the direct means not yet being brought to light, and we find that the evidence points to Margaret Langmore as the one who committed the murders."
train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000101_000000|Hardly was the verdict rendered than a wild cry rang out through the courtroom.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000002_000000|QUESTION sixty seven
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000003_000000|ON THE WORK OF DISTINCTION IN ITSELF (In Four Articles)
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000004_000000|We must consider next the work of distinction in itself.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000004_000001|First, the work of the first day; secondly, the work of the second day; thirdly the work of the third day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000005_000000|Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000007_000000|(two) Whether light, in corporeal things, is itself corporeal?
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000008_000000|(three) Whether light is a quality?
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000011_000000|Whether the Word "Light" Is Used in Its Proper Sense in Speaking of Spiritual Things?
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000012_000000|Objection one: It would seem that "light" is used in its proper sense in spiritual things.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000013_000002|But such names are used in their proper sense in spiritual things.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000013_000003|Therefore light is used in its proper sense in spiritual matters.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000014_000001|Therefore also does light.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000016_000003|And thus it is with the word light.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000016_000004|In its primary meaning it signifies that which makes manifest to the sense of sight; afterwards it was extended to that which makes manifest to cognition of any kind.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000016_000006|But if taken in its common and extended use, as applied to manifestation of every kind, it may properly be applied to spiritual things.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000019_000000|Whether Light Is a Body?
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000020_000000|Objection one: It would seem that light is a body.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000022_000003|Therefore light is a body.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000023_000001|But this is the case with light and air.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000023_000002|Therefore light is not a body.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000024_000001|For the place of any one body is different from that of any other, nor is it possible, naturally speaking, for any two bodies of whatever nature, to exist simultaneously in the same place; since contiguity requires distinction of place.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000000|The second reason is from movement.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000001|For if light were a body, its diffusion would be the local movement of a body.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000002|Now no local movement of a body can be instantaneous, as everything that moves from one place to another must pass through the intervening space before reaching the end: whereas the diffusion of light is instantaneous.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000004|Yet as soon as the sun is at the horizon, the whole hemisphere is illuminated from end to end.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000005|It must also be borne in mind on the part of movement that whereas all bodies have their natural determinate movement, that of light is indifferent as regards direction, working equally in a circle as in a straight line.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000006|Hence it appears that the diffusion of light is not the local movement of a body.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000000|The third reason is from generation and corruption.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000001|For if light were a body, it would follow that whenever the air is darkened by the absence of the luminary, the body of light would be corrupted, and its matter would receive a new form.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000002|But unless we are to say that darkness is a body, this does not appear to be the case.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000003|Neither does it appear from what matter a body can be daily generated large enough to fill the intervening hemisphere.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000004|Also it would be absurd to say that a body of so great a bulk is corrupted by the mere absence of the luminary.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000027_000000|Since, therefore, these things are repugnant, not only to reason, but to common sense, we must conclude that light cannot be a body.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000030_000002|fifty five, we use terms belonging to local movement in speaking of alteration and movement of all kinds.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000032_000000|Whether Light Is a Quality?
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000033_000000|Objection one: It would seem that light is not a quality.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000033_000002|Therefore light is not a quality.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000034_000001|But this is not the case with light since darkness is merely a privation of light.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000034_000002|Light therefore is not a sensible quality.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000035_000001|But the light of the heavenly bodies is a cause of substantial forms of earthly bodies, and also gives to colors their immaterial being, by making them actually visible.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000035_000002|Light, then, is not a sensible quality, but rather a substantial or spiritual form.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000001|But this cannot be the case for two reasons.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000002|First, because light gives a name to the air, since by it the air becomes actually luminous.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000003|But color does not do this, for we do not speak of the air as colored.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000004|Secondly, because light produces natural effects, for by the rays of the sun bodies are warmed, and natural changes cannot be brought about by mere intentions.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000005|Others have said that light is the sun's substantial form, but this also seems impossible for two reasons.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000007|In the second place, because it is impossible that what is the substantial form of one thing should be the accidental form of another; since substantial forms of their very nature constitute species: wherefore the substantial form always and everywhere accompanies the species.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000008|But light is not the substantial form of air, for if it were, the air would be destroyed when light is withdrawn.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000009|Hence it cannot be the substantial form of the sun
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000038_000001|A proof of this is that the rays of different stars produce different effects according to the diverse natures of bodies.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000001|For when matter receives its form perfectly, the qualities consequent upon the form are firm and enduring; as when, for instance, water is converted into fire.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000002|When, however, substantial form is received imperfectly, so as to be, as it were, in process of being received, rather than fully impressed, the consequent quality lasts for a time but is not permanent; as may be seen when water which has been heated returns in time to its natural state.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000003|But light is not produced by the transmutation of matter, as though matter were in receipt of a substantial form, and light were a certain inception of substantial form.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000004|For this reason light disappears on the disappearance of its active cause.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000043_000000|Whether the Production of Light Is Fittingly Assigned to the First Day?
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000044_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the production of light is not fittingly assigned to the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000044_000002|But qualities are accidents, and as such should have, not the first, but a subordinate place.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000044_000003|The production of light, then, ought not to be assigned to the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000045_000001|Therefore the production of light could not have been on the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000046_000001|But movement of this kind is an attribute of the firmament, and we read that the firmament was made on the second day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000046_000002|Therefore the production of light, dividing night from day, ought not to be assigned to the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000047_000002|Therefore the production of light ought not to be assigned to the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000048_000001|But there can be no day without light.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000048_000002|Therefore light must have been made on the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000049_000002|The forming, therefore, of this spiritual nature is signified by the production of light, that is to say, of spiritual light.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000049_000003|For a spiritual nature receives its form by the enlightenment whereby it is led to adhere to the Word of God.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000050_000000|Other writers think that the production of spiritual creatures was purposely omitted by Moses, and give various reasons.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000000|But mention is made of several kinds of formlessness, in regard to the corporeal creature.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000003|The second reason is because light is a common quality.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000004|For light is common to terrestrial and celestial bodies.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000008|It was fitting, then, as an evidence of the Divine wisdom, that among the works of distinction the production of light should take first place, since light is a form of the primary body, and because it is more common quality.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000053_000001|And there is yet a fourth, already touched upon in the objections; that day cannot be unless light exists, which was made therefore on the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000055_000001|But this cannot well be maintained, as in the beginning of genesis Holy Scripture records the institution of that order of nature which henceforth is to endure.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000055_000002|We cannot, then, say that what was made at that time afterwards ceased to exist.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000000|Others, therefore, held that this luminous nebula continues in existence, but so closely attached to the sun as to be indistinguishable.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000002|On this account it is held by some that the sun's body was made out of this nebula.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000003|This, too, is impossible to those at least who believe that the sun is different in its nature from the four elements, and naturally incorruptible.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000004|For in that case its matter cannot take on another form.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000057_000002|Thus, then, in the production of this light a triple distinction was made between light and darkness. First, as to the cause, forasmuch as in the substance of the sun we have the cause of light, and in the opaque nature of the earth the cause of darkness.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000003|Nor does the nature of a luminous body seem to admit of the withdrawal of light, so long as the body is actually present; though this might be effected by a miracle.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000006|We hold, then, that the movement of the heavens is twofold.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000007|Of these movements, one is common to the entire heaven, and is the cause of day and night.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000008|This, as it seems, had its beginning on the first day.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000009|The other varies in proportion as it affects various bodies, and by its variations is the cause of the succession of days, months, and years.
train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000010|Thus it is, that in the account of the first day the distinction between day and night alone is mentioned; this distinction being brought about by the common movement of the heavens.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000000|The reading went on, not of course "for ever," like that harvest melody he spoke of, but for a considerable time.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000001|The words, I concluded, were for the initiated, and not for me, and after a while I gave up trying to make out what it was all about.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000002|Those last expressions I have quoted about the "august Mother of the house" were unintelligible, and appeared to me meaningless.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000003|I had already come to the conclusion that however many of the ladies of the establishment might have experienced the pleasures and pains of maternity, there was really no mother of the house in the sense that there was a father of the house: that is to say, one possessing authority over the others and calling them all her children indiscriminately.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000004|Yet this mysterious non-existent mother of the house was continually being spoken of, as I found now and afterwards when I listened to the talk around me.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000005|After thinking the matter over, I came to the conclusion that "mother of the house" was merely a convenient fiction, and simply stood for the general sense of the women folk, or something of the sort.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000006|It was perhaps stupid of me, but the story of Mistrelde, who died young, leaving only eight children, I had regarded as a mere legend or fable of antiquity.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000002_000001|Just as I had been absorbed before in that beautiful book without being able to read it, so now I listened to that melodious and majestic voice, experiencing a singular pleasure without properly understanding the sense.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000002_000003|In their rare physical beauty, the color of their eyes and hair, and in their fascinating dress, they had struck me as being utterly unlike any people ever seen by me.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000002_000004|But it was perhaps in their clear, sweet, penetrative voice, which sometimes reminded me of a tender toned wind instrument, that they most differed from others.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000003_000000|The reading, I have said, had struck me as almost of the nature of a religious service; nevertheless, everything went on as before-reading, working, and occasional conversation; but the subdued talking and moving about did not interfere with one's pleasure in the old man's musical speech any more than the soft murmur and flying about of honey bees would prevent one from enjoying the singing of a skylark.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000003_000001|Emboldened by what I saw the others doing, I left my seat and made my way across the floor to Yoletta's side, stealing through the gloom with great caution to avoid making a clatter with those abominable boots.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000004_000000|"May I sit down near you?" said I with some hesitation; but she encouraged me with a smile and placed a cushion for me.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000000|I settled myself down in the most graceful position I could assume, which was not at all graceful, doubling my objectionable legs out of her sight; and then began my trouble, for I was greatly perplexed to know what to say to her.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000002|Ellen Terry's acting, the Royal Academy Exhibition, private theatricals, and twenty things besides, but they all seemed unsuitable subjects to start conversation with in this case.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000003|There was, I began to fear, no common ground on which we could meet and exchange thoughts, or, at any rate, words.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000004|Then I remembered that ground, common and broad enough, of our human feelings, especially the sweet and important feeling of love.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000005|But how was I to lead up to it?
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000006|The work she was engaged with at length suggested an opening, and the opportunity to make a pretty little speech.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000007_000000|"Oh, the light is good enough," she answered, taking no notice of the compliment.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000007_000001|"Besides, this is such easy work I could do it in the dark."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000008_000000|"It is very pretty work-may I look at it?"
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000011_000000|"That would prevent me from working," she answered, with the utmost gravity.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000012_000000|"Oh, thank you," I exclaimed, delighted with the privilege; and then, to make the most of my precious "little while," I pressed it warmly, whereupon she cried out aloud: "Oh, Smith, you are squeezing too hard-you hurt my hand!"
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000013_000001|"Oh, for goodness sake," I stammered, "please, do not make such an outcry!
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000013_000002|You don't know what a hobble you'll get me into."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000014_000000|Fortunately, no notice was taken of the exclamation, though it was hard to believe that her words had not been overheard; and presently, recovering from my fright, I apologized for hurting her, and hoped she would forgive me.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000015_000000|"There is nothing to forgive," she returned gently.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000015_000001|"You did not really squeeze hard, only my hand hurts, because to day when I pressed it on the ground beside the grave I ran a small thorn into it." Then the remembrance of that scene at the burial brought a sudden mist of tears into her lovely eyes.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000016_000000|"I am so sorry I hurt you, Yoletta-may I call you Yoletta?" said I, all at once remembering that she had called me Smith, without the customary prefix.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000017_000000|"Why, that is my name-what else should you call me?" she returned, evidently with surprise.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000018_000000|"It is a pretty name, and so sweet on the lips that I should like to be repeating it continually," I answered.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000018_000001|"But it is only right that you should have a pretty name, because-well, if I may tell you, because you are so very beautiful."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000019_000000|"Yes; but is that strange-are not all people beautiful?"
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000022_000001|"There are different kinds of beauty, I allow, and some people seem more beautiful to us than others, but that is only because we love them more.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000022_000002|The best loved are always the most beautiful."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000023_000000|This seemed to reverse the usual idea, that the more beautiful the person is the more he or she gets loved.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000023_000001|However, I was not going to disagree with her any more, and only said: "How sweetly you talk, Yoletta; you are as wise as you are beautiful.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000023_000002|I could wish for no greater pleasure than to sit here listening to you the whole evening."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000024_000000|"Ah, then, I am sorry I must leave you now," she answered, with a bright smile which made me think that perhaps my little speech had pleased her.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000025_000000|"Do you wonder why I smile?" she added, as if able to read my thoughts. "It is because I have often heard words like yours from one who is waiting for me now."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000026_000000|This speech caused me a jealous pang.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000026_000002|I did not ask her to tell me, nor did I ask myself, the reason of that change; and afterwards how often I noticed that same change in her, and in the others too-that sudden silence and clouding of the face, such as may be seen in one who freely expresses himself to a person who cannot hear, and then, all at once but too late, remembers the other's infirmity.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000027_000000|"Must you go?" I only said.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000028_000000|"Oh, you shall not be alone," she replied, and going away returned presently with another lady.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000028_000001|"This is Edra," she said simply.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000028_000002|"She will take my place by your side and talk with you."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000029_000000|I could not tell her that she had taken my words too literally, that being alone simply meant being separated from her; but there was no help for it, and some one, alas! some one I greatly hated was waiting for her.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000029_000001|I could only thank her and her friend for their kind intentions. But what in the name of goodness was I to say to this beautiful woman who was sitting by me?
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000029_000002|She was certainly very beautiful, with a far more mature and perhaps a nobler beauty than Yoletta's, her age being about twenty seven or twenty eight; but the divine charm in the young girl's face could, for me, exist in no other.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000030_000000|Presently she opened the conversation by asking me if I disliked being alone.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000031_000000|"Well, no, perhaps not exactly that," I said; "but I think it much jollier-much more pleasant, I mean-to have some very nice person to talk to."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000032_000000|She assented, and, pleased at her ready intelligence, I added: "And it is particularly pleasant when you are understood.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000032_000001|But I have no fear that you, at any rate, will fail to understand anything I may say."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000033_000000|"You have had some trouble to day," she returned, with a charming smile. "I sometimes think that women can understand even more readily than men."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000000|"There's not a doubt of it!" I returned warmly, glad to find that with Edra it was all plain sailing.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000001|"It must be patent to every one that women have far quicker, finer intellects than men, although their brains are smaller; but then quality is more important than mere quantity.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000002|And yet," I continued, "some people hold that women ought not to have the franchise, or suffrage, or whatever it is!
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000003|Not that I care two straws about the question myself, and I only hope they'll never get it; but then I think it is so illogical-don't you?"
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000035_000000|"I am afraid I do not understand you, Smith," she returned, looking much distressed.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000036_000000|"Well, no, I suppose not, but what I said was of no consequence," I replied; then, wishing to make a fresh start, I added: "But I am so glad to hear you call me Smith.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000036_000001|It makes it so much more pleasant and homelike to be treated without formality.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000036_000002|It is very kind of you, I'm sure."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000037_000000|"But surely your name is Smith?" said she, looking very much surprised.
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000038_000000|"Oh yes, my name is Smith: only of course-well, the tact is, I was just wondering what to call you."
train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000039_000000|"My name is Edra," she replied, looking more bewildered than ever; and from that moment the conversation, which had begun so favorably, was nothing but a series of entanglements, from which I could only escape in each case by breaking the threads of the subject under discussion, and introducing a new one.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000001_000000|Chapter seven
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000000|The moment of retiring, to which I had been looking forward with considerable interest as one likely to bring fresh surprises, arrived at last: it brought only extreme discomfort.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000001|I was conducted (without a flat candlestick) along an obscure passage; then, at right angles with the first, a second broader, lighter passage, leading past a great many doors placed near together.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000002|These, I ascertained later, were the dormitories, or sleeping cells, and were placed side by side in a row opening on the terrace at the back of the house.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000003|Having reached the door of my box, my conductor pushed back the sliding panel, and when I had groped my way to the dark interior, closed it again behind me.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000004|There was no light for me except the light of the stars; for directly opposite the door by which I had entered stood another, open wide to the night, which was apparently not intended ever to be closed.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000005|The prospect was the one I had already seen-the wilderness sloping to the river, and the glassy surface of the broad water, reflecting the stars, and the black masses of large trees.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000006|There was no sound save the hooting of an owl in the distance, and the wailing note of some mournful minded water fowl.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000007|The night air blew in cold and moist, which made my bones ache, though they were not broken; and feeling very sleepy and miserable, I groped about until I Was rewarded by discovering a narrow bed, or cot of trellis work, on which was a hard straw pallet and a small straw pillow; also, folded small, a kind of woolen sleeping garment.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000008|Too tired to keep out of even such an uninviting bed, I flung off my clothes, and with my moldy tweeds for only covering I laid me down, but not to sleep.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000009|The misery of it! for although my body was warm-too warm, in fact-the wind blew on my face and bare feet and legs, and made it impossible to sleep.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000000|About midnight, I was just falling into a doze when a sound as of a person coming with a series of jumps into the room disturbed me; and starting up I was horrified to see, sitting on the floor, a great beast much too big for a dog, with large, erect ears.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000001|He was intently watching me, his round eyes shining like a pair of green phosphorescent globes. Having no weapon, I was at the brute's mercy, and was about to utter a loud shout to summon assistance, but as he sat so still I refrained, and began even to hope that he would go quietly away.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000002|Then he stood up, went back to the door and sniffed audibly at it; and thinking that he was about to relieve me of his unwelcome presence, I dropped my head on the pillow and lay perfectly still.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000003|Then he turned and glared at me again, and finally, advancing deliberately to my side, sniffed at my face.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000004|It was all over with me now, I thought, and closing my eyes, and feeling my forehead growing remarkably moist in spite of the cold, I murmured a little prayer.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000005|When I looked again the brute had vanished, to my inexpressible relief.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000000|It seemed very astonishing that an animal like a wolf should come into the house; but I soon remembered that I had seen no dogs about, so that all kinds of savage, prowling beasts could come in with impunity.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000001|It was getting beyond a joke: but then all this seemed only a fit ending to the perfectly absurd arrangement into which I had been induced to enter. "Goodness gracious!" I exclaimed, sitting bolt upright on my straw bed, "am I a rational being or an inebriated donkey, or what, to have consented to such a proposal?
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000004|I don't know much about plowing and that sort of thing, but I suppose any able bodied man can earn a pound a week, and that would be fifty two pounds for a suit of clothes.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000005|Who ever heard of such a thing!
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000008|No, no, my venerable friend, that was all excellent acting about my extraordinary delusions, and the rest of it, but I am not going to be carried so far by them as to adhere to such an outrageously one sided bargain."
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000001|Those strange garments had looked so refreshingly picturesque, and I had conceived such an intense longing to wear them!
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000002|Was it a very contemptible ambition on my part?
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000003|Is it sinful to wish for any adornments other than wisdom and sobriety, a meek and loving spirit, good works, and other things of the kind?
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000004|Straight into my brain flashed the words of a sentence I had recently read-that is to say, just before my accident-in a biological work, and it comforted me as much as if an angel with shining face and rainbow colored wings had paid me a visit in my dusky cell: "Unto Adam also, and his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothed them.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000005|This has become, as every one knows, a custom among the race of men, and shows at present no sign of becoming obsolete.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000010|For the sake of respectability, perhaps, whatever that may mean.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000011|Oh, then, a million curses take it-respectability, I mean; may it sink into the bottomless pit, and the smoke of its torment ascend for ever and ever!
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000012|And having thus, by taking thought, brought my mind into this temper, I once more finally determined to have the clothes, and religiously to observe the compact.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000000|It made me quite happy to end it in this way.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000001|The hard bed, the cold night wind blowing on me, my wolfish visitor, were all forgotten.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000002|Once more I gave loose to my imagination, and saw myself (clothed and in my right mind) sitting at Yoletta's feet, learning the mystery of that sweet, tranquil life from her precious lips.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000004|But her hand-ah, that was another matter.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000005|What had I to give in return for such a boon as that? Only that strength concerning which my venerable host had spoken somewhat encouragingly.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000006|He had also been so good as to mention my skill; but I could scarcely trade on that.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000007|And if a whole year's labor was only sufficient to pay for a suit of clothing, how many years of toil would be required to win Yoletta's hand?
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000000|Naturally, at this juncture, I began to draw a parallel between my case and that of an ancient historical personage, whose name is familiar to most.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000001|History repeats itself-with variations.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000003|He taketh acquaintance of Rachel, here called Yoletta.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000004|And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000005|That is a touch of nature I can thoroughly appreciate-the kissing, I mean; but why he wept I cannot tell, unless it be because he was not an Englishman.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000006|And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000008|Leah was considerably older than Rachel, and, like Edra, tender eyed.
train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000009|I do not aspire or desire to marry both, especially if I should, like Jacob, have to begin with the wrong one, however tender eyed: but for divine Yoletta I could serve seven years; yea, and fourteen, if it comes to it.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000000_000000|Ancient Babylonia was for over four thousand years the garden of Western Asia.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000000_000002|Herodotus found it still flourishing and extremely fertile.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000000_000003|"This territory", he wrote, "is of all that we know the best by far for producing grain; it is so good that it returns as much as two hundredfold for the average, and, when it bears at its best, it produces three hundredfold.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000001_000000|This historic country is bounded on the east by Persia and on the west by the Arabian desert.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000001_000004|A day's journey separated the river mouths when Alexander the Great broke the power of the Persian Empire.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000000|In the days of Babylonia's prosperity the Euphrates was hailed as "the soul of the land" and the Tigris as "the bestower of blessings". Skilful engineers had solved the problem of water distribution by irrigating sun parched areas and preventing the excessive flooding of those districts which are now rendered impassable swamps when the rivers overflow.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000001|A network of canals was constructed throughout the country, which restricted the destructive tendencies of the Tigris and Euphrates and developed to a high degree their potentialities as fertilizing agencies.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000002|The greatest of these canals appear to have been anciently river beds.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000004|It is believed to mark the course followed in the early Sumerian period by the Euphrates river, which has moved steadily westward many miles beyond the sites of ancient cities that were erected on its banks.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000005|Another important canal, the Shatt el Hai, crossed the plain from the Tigris to its sister river, which lies lower at this point, and does not run so fast.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000004|Meanwhile the rivers are increasing in volume, being fed by the melting snows at their mountain sources far to the north.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000005|The swift Tigris, which is one thousand one hundred forty six miles long, begins to rise early in March and reaches its highest level in May; before the end of June it again subsides.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000006|More sluggish in movement, the Euphrates, which is one thousand seven hundred eighty miles long, shows signs of rising a fortnight later than the Tigris, and is in flood for a more extended period; it does not shrink to its lowest level until early in September.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000007|By controlling the flow of these mighty rivers, preventing disastrous floods, and storing and distributing surplus water, the ancient Babylonians developed to the full the natural resources of their country, and made it-what it may once again become-one of the fairest and most habitable areas in the world.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000008|Nature conferred upon them bountiful rewards for their labour; trade and industries flourished, and the cities increased in splendour and strength.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000000|Babylonia is a treeless country, and timber had to be imported from the earliest times.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000001|The date palm was probably introduced by man, as were certainly the vine and the fig tree, which were widely cultivated, especially in the north.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000002|Stone, suitable for building, was very scarce, and limestone, alabaster, marble, and basalt had to be taken from northern Mesopotamia, where the mountains also yield copper and lead and iron.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000003|Except Eridu, where ancient workers quarried sandstone from its sea shaped ridge, all the cities were built of brick, an excellent clay being found in abundance.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000004|When brick walls were cemented with bitumen they were given great stability.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000005|This resinous substance is found in the north and south.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000006|It bubbles up through crevices of rocks on river banks and forms small ponds.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000007|Two famous springs at modern Hit, on the Euphrates, have been drawn upon from time immemorial.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000008|"From one", writes a traveller, "flows hot water black with bitumen, while the other discharges intermittently bitumen, or, after a rainstorm, bitumen and cold water....
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000001|It must, therefore, have had a brisk and flourishing foreign trade at an exceedingly remote period.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000003|It does not follow, however, that the peasant class was greatly affected by periodic revolutions of this kind, which brought little more to them than a change of rulers.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000004|The needs of the country necessitated the continuance of agricultural methods and the rigid observance of existing land laws; indeed, these constituted the basis of Sumerian prosperity.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000005|Conquerors have ever sought reward not merely in spoil, but also the services of the conquered.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000006|In northern Babylonia the invaders apparently found it necessary to conciliate and secure the continued allegiance of the tillers of the soil.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000007|Law and religion being closely associated, they had to adapt their gods to suit the requirements of existing social and political organizations. A deity of pastoral nomads had to receive attributes which would give him an agricultural significance; one of rural character had to be changed to respond to the various calls of city life.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000008|Besides, local gods could not be ignored on account of their popularity.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000006_000000|The petty kingdoms of Sumeria appear to have been tribal in origin. Each city was presided over by a deity who was the nominal owner of the surrounding arable land, farms were rented or purchased from the priesthood, and pasture was held in common.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000006_000002|The chief deity of a state was the central figure in a pantheon, which had its political aspect and influenced the growth of local theology.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000002|This description recalls the familiar figures of Egyptian gods and priests attired in the skins of the sacred animals from whom their powers were derived, and the fairy lore about swan maids and men, and the seals and other animals who could divest themselves of their "skin coverings" and appear in human shape.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000004|The Indian creative gods Brahma and Vishnu had fish forms.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000008|It relates that when the fish was small and in danger of being swallowed by other fish in a stream it appealed to Manu for protection.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000009|The sage at once lifted up the fish and placed it in a jar of water.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000010|It gradually increased in bulk, and he transferred it next to a tank and then to the river Ganges.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000011|In time the fish complained to Manu that the river was too small for it, so he carried it to the sea.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000008_000001|The growth of the fish suggests the growth of the river rising in flood.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000008_000002|In Celtic folk tales high tides and valley floods are accounted for by the presence of a "great beast" in sea, loch, or river.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000008_000005|The idea is that "where a god dies, that is, ceases to exist in human form, his life passes into the waters where he is buried; and this again is merely a theory to bring the divine water or the divine fish into harmony with anthropomorphic ideas.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000009_000002|Another Egyptian fish deity was the god Rem, whose name signifies "to weep"; he wept fertilizing tears, and corn was sown and reaped amidst lamentations.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000009_000004|The connection between a fish god and a corn god is not necessarily remote when we consider that in Babylonia and Egypt the harvest was the gift of the rivers.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000010_000000|The Euphrates, indeed, was hailed as a creator of all that grew on its banks.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000012_000005|He taught the people how to form and use alphabetic signs and instructed them in mathematics: he gave them their code of laws.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000012_000007|Ptah moulded the first man on his potter's wheel: he also moulded the sun and moon; he shaped the universe and hammered out the copper sky.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000013_000001|His word became the creative force; he named those things he desired to be, and they came into existence.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000015_000001|As rain fell from "the waters above the firmament", the god of waters was also a sky and earth god.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000016_000000|The Indian Varuna was similarly a sky as well as an ocean god before the theorizing and systematizing Brahmanic teachers relegated him to a permanent abode at the bottom of the sea.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000017_000001|His worship was certainly of great antiquity.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000002|Our knowledge regarding him is derived mainly from the Bible.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000003|He was a national rather than a city god.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000009|Near the name is an ear of corn, and other symbols, such as the winged solar disc, a gazelle, and several stars, but there is no fish.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000010|It may be, of course, that Baal dagon represents a fusion of deities.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000013|The Philistines came from Crete, and if their Dagon was imported from that island, he may have had some connection with Poseidon, whose worship extended throughout Greece.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000014|This god of the sea, who is somewhat like the Roman Neptune, carried a lightning trident and caused earthquakes.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000015|He was a brother of Zeus, the sky and atmosphere deity, and had bull and horse forms.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000017|In his train were the Tritons, half men, half fishes, and the water fairies, the Nereids.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000019_000004|Osiris and Isis of Egypt were associated with the Nile.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000019_000005|The connection between agriculture and the water supply was too obvious to escape the early symbolists, and many other proofs of this than those referred to could be given.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000023_000000|A suggestion of the Vedic Vritra and his horde of monsters.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000024_000002|It is possible that he was developed as an atmospheric god with solar and lunar attributes.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000024_000003|The seven demons, who were his messengers, recall the stormy Maruts, the followers of Indra.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000024_000004|They are referred to as
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000026_000002|"Evil spirits", according to a Babylonian chant, were "the bitter venom of the gods".
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000026_000003|Those attached to a deity as "attendants" appear to represent the original animistic group from which he evolved.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000029_000000|Associated with Bel Enlil was Beltis, later known as "Beltu-the lady".
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000030_000000|In the later systematized theology of the Babylonians we seem to trace the fragments of a primitive mythology which was vague in outline, for the deities were not sharply defined, and existed in groups.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000030_000001|Enneads were formed in Egypt by placing a local god at the head of a group of eight elder deities.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000032_000000|We cannot say definitely what these various deities represent.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000032_000002|The others were phases of light and darkness and the forces of nature in activity and repose.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000034_000001|The attributes of this beneficent god reflect the progress, and the social and moral ideals of a people well advanced in civilization.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000034_000002|He rewarded mankind for the services they rendered to him; he was their leader and instructor; he achieved for them the victories over the destructive forces of nature.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000036_000001|We shall find these elder demons figuring in the Babylonian Creation myth, which receives treatment in a later chapter.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000002|In its temple tower, built of brick, was a marble stairway, and evidences have been forthcoming that in the later Sumerian period the structure was lavishly adorned.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000004|At the sacred city the first man was created: there the souls of the dead passed towards the great Deep.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000007|The Egyptians obtained from that sacred land incense bearing trees which had magical potency.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000008|In a fragmentary Babylonian charm there is a reference to a sacred tree or bush at Eridu.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000009|Professor Sayce has suggested that it is the Biblical "Tree of Life" in the Garden of Eden.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000038_000000|If Eridu was not the "cradle" of the Sumerian race, it was possibly the cradle of Sumerian civilization.
train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000038_000001|Here, amidst the shifting rivers in early times, the agriculturists may have learned to control and distribute the water supply by utilizing dried up beds of streams to irrigate the land.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000006_000000|THE MUSSEL AND OYSTER.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000007_000002|It is a tug of war, your skill and strength against the muscles of the animal inside the tight shells.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000008_000001|You can imagine the Periwinkle's mantle as a tube enclosing the animal's body.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000008_000002|The mantle of the Mussel or the Oyster is in two pieces; and each half forms its own shell.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000009_000000|The Snail, and other one shelled molluscs, poke their heads out of the shell when feeding or moving.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000009_000001|Oysters and their two shelled cousins cannot do this, for the simple reason that they have no heads!
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000010_000001|In dense black masses they cling to the rocks; and, though heavy waves bang them like so many hammers, they stick tight.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000010_000003|On the piers and groynes, and the woodwork of the harbour, you can see other clusters of Mussels; they are placed where the high tide covers them.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000011_000000|Have you noticed how the Mussel anchors himself?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000011_000001|He uses a bunch of threads, like so many cables or tiny ropes.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000011_000002|It is interesting to know how these threads are made.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000012_000001|He has a long, slender foot which can be pushed out of the shells.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000012_000002|Now the threads are fixed by the foot, just where the Mussel wishes to anchor himself.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000012_000003|They are made from a liquid which forms in the body of the creature.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000013_000000|Our ordinary Mussels do not make very long threads, but those of some kinds are so long that they can be woven into silky purses or stockings. The Mussel which makes such long anchor threads might be called "the silkworm of the sea."
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000014_000000|If the Mussel is such a stay at home, how does he find his food?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000014_000001|The answer is, that the food comes to him, brought by the ever moving water. There are countless specks floating in the sea, mostly specks of vegetable stuff.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000014_000002|These settle on the floor of the sea, just as dust settles on our house floors; and the waves wash this "sea dust" hither and thither.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000015_000001|Our British Oysters were famous even in the time of the romans; they were carefully packed and sent to Rome, and, at the Roman feasts, surprising quantities of them were eaten.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000000|Many sea animals have wonderfully large families, but the Oyster, with its millions and millions of eggs, beats most of them.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000001|Strangely enough, its eggs are not sent into the sea at once, but are kept between the Oyster's shells until they hatch.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000002|Needless to say, these babies are very small indeed, else their nursery could not contain them all Though so small that thousands of them together look more like a pinch of dust than anything else, yet each one has two thin shells; so that, if you eat the parent Oyster, they grate on your teeth like sand.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000003|Oysters, at this time, are "out of season"--that is, unfit for food.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000017_000000|At the right moment, the Oyster gets rid of its numerous family.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000017_000001|It opens its shells, then shuts them rapidly; and, each time this happens, a cloud of young Oysters is puffed out like smoke.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000018_000000|They have no defence, and countless numbers of them are gobbled up by crabs, anemones, and others.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000000|For a time, the baby Oysters-which are known as "spat"--are able to swim here and there.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000001|In rough weather they are driven far into the deeps of the ocean, and lost.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000002|The rest of them, before they have been free for two days, settle on the bed of the sea-sometimes on their own parents; and there they remain for life.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000003|Only a very few out of each million become "grown ups"--the rest are eaten by enemies, or smothered in mud or sand.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000005|In five years they are fine, fat grown up Oysters-that is to say, if they have not been dredged up from their bed and sent to market.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000020_000000|Their shells open and shut like a trap.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000020_000001|You may have seen a picture of an inquisitive mouse trapped by an Oyster.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000021_000000|Between the hinge of the two shells there is a pad, which acts like an elastic spring, and forces the shells open.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000021_000001|The Oyster can close them by means of a strong muscle.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000021_000002|They are its only defence, so it closes them at the least hint of danger.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000000|Even these thick walls are sometimes of no avail, as we saw in our talk on "Five fingered Jack." We saw how the starfish forces the shells open with the help of its strong tube feet.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000003|Sometimes the Oysters are stifled in their "beds" by other Oysters settling and growing over them.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000004|Thick masses of Mussels may cling to them and suffocate them.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000005|And grains of sand sometimes get in the hinges of their shells, so that they cannot close up the house when they wish.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000023_000000|Like the other animals which are useful as food, Oysters have been carefully studied and cultivated by man for many, many years.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000024_000000|Oysters feed in rather a strange way.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000024_000002|Trace the "beard" as far as the hinge of the shells, and you see the mouth with its white lips.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000024_000003|If you could watch the creature having its dinner, you would see a constant stream of water flowing over the gills and towards the mouth.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000000|What makes the water move in that way?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000002|There are so many of them that, as they keep moving, they force the water along, over the gills and towards the mouth.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000003|In this way the Oyster breathes the air which is in the water; but not only that.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000005|This is driven to the Oyster's mouth and swallowed.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000006|The Oyster, fixed in its "bed," unable to hunt for food, thus makes its dinner come to it.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000007|What a strange use for a "beard"!
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000008|It not only serves as lungs, but also helps the animal to catch its "daily bread"!
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000026_000002|Where Cockles have buried themselves you will see spurts of water and sand, showing where they are busy down below in the wet sand.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000027_000000|Besides being so skilful at digging, the Cockle is a first rate jumper. If left on the beach, it jumps over the sand, towards the sea, in the funniest way.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000027_000001|It is strange to see a quiet looking shell suddenly take to hopping and jumping like an acrobat.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000028_000000|To perform this astonishing feat the Cockle makes use of its foot, which is worked by very strong muscles.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000028_000001|It is large and pointed, and bent: if the Cockle wishes to move quickly, it stretches out its foot from between the shells, as far as it will go.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000028_000002|Then, by using all its power, it leaps backwards or forwards in a surprising manner.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000000|There are many other interesting molluscs, besides those we have looked at.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000002|But this foot is a most wonderful boring tool, fitted with a hard file.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000005|You will often see stones and rocks riddled by the Piddock as if they were as soft as cheese.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000006|Chalk, sandstone, or oak, it is all the same to the Piddock, which rasps them away with its file.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000007|When the points of this strange instrument are worn out with all this hard wear, a new set takes their place.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000031_000000|one.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000031_000001|How does the Mussel anchor itself?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000032_000001|Describe how the shells of the Oyster are opened and closed.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000033_000000|three.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000033_000001|What is the food of the Mussel?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000034_000001|Of what use is the "beard" of the Oyster?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000035_000000|five.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000035_000001|Why is the Oyster called a bi valve?
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000036_000000|six.
train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000036_000001|Why is the Oyster sometimes unfit for use as food?
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000004_000001|We see it with pleasure, because, in its way, it is genuine.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000005_000000|That class is a large one in our country villages, and these books reflect its thoughts and manners as half penny ballads do the life of the streets of London.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000005_000001|The ballads are not more true to the facts; but they give us, in a coarser form, far more of the spirit than we get from the same facts reflected in the intellect of a Dickens, for instance, or of any writer far enough above the scene to be properly its artist.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000007_000000|It is a current superstition that country people are more pure and healthy in mind and body than those who live in cities.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000007_000001|It may be so in countries of old established habits, where a genuine peasantry have inherited some of the practical wisdom and loyalty of the past, with most of its errors.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000007_000002|We have our doubts, though, from the stamp upon literature, always the nearest evidence of truth we can get, whether, even there, the difference between town and country life is as much in favor of the latter as is generally supposed.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000008_000000|There are exceptions, and not a few; but, in a very great proportion of country villages, the habits of the people, as to food, air, and even exercise, are ignorant and unhealthy to the last degree.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000008_000001|Their want of all pure faith, and appetite for coarse excitement, is shown by continued intrigues, calumnies, and crimes.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000009_000000|We have lived in a beautiful village, where, more favorably placed than any other person in it, both as to withdrawal from bad associations and nearness to good, we heard inevitably, from domestics, work people, and school children, more ill of human nature than we could possibly sift were we to elect such a task from all the newspapers of this city, in the same space of time.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000010_000000|We believe the amount of ill circulated by means of anonymous letters, as described in this book, to be as great as can be imported in all the French novels (and that is a bold word).
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000010_000001|We know ourselves of two or three cases of morbid wickedness, displayed by means of anonymous letters, that may vie with what puzzled the best wits of France in a famous law suit not long since.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000011_000000|But what does this prove?
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000011_000001|Only the need of a dissemination of all that is best, intellectually and morally, through the whole people.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000011_000003|Our people require a thoroughly diffused intellectual life, a religious aim, such as no people at large ever possessed before; else they must sink till they become dregs, rather than rise to become the cream of creation, which they are too apt to flatter themselves with the fancy of being already.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000012_000000|The most interesting fiction we have ever read in this coarse, homely, but genuine class, is one called "Metallek." It may be in circulation in this city; but we bought it in a country nook, and from a pedlar; and it seemed to belong to the country.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000012_000001|Had we met with it in any other way, it would probably have been to throw it aside again directly, for the author does not know how to write English, and the first chapters give no idea of his power of apprehending the poetry of life.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000012_000003|That such things are, private observation has made us sure; but the writers of books rarely seem to have seen them; rarely to have walked alone in an untrodden path long enough to hold commune with the spirit of the scene.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000013_000000|In this book you find the very life; the most vulgar prose, and the most exquisite poetry.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000014_000000|But when we come to the girl who is the presiding deity, or rather the tutelary angel of the scene, how are all discords harmonized; how all its latent music poured forth!
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000014_000001|It is a portrait from the life-it has the mystic charm of fulfilled reality, how far beyond the fairest ideals ever born of thought!
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000014_000003|She plays round the most vulgar and rude beings, gentle and caressing, yet unsullied; in her wildness there is nothing cold or savage; her elevation is soft and warm.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000015_000000|The lonely life of the girl after the death of her parents,--her fearlessness, her gay and sweet enjoyment of nature, her intercourse with the old people of the neighborhood, her sisterly conduct towards her "suitors,"--all seem painted from the life; but the death bed scene seems borrowed from some sermon, and is not in harmony with the rest.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000016_000001|At the time of that notice we had only looked into it here and there, and did no justice to a work full of genius, profound in its meaning, and of admirable fidelity to nature in its details.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000018_000000|A young girl could not sufficiently express her delight at the simple nature with which scenes of childhood are given, and especially at Margaret's first going to meeting.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000019_000001|Christi.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000021_000002|The ease with which she assimilates the city life when in it, making it a part of her imaginative tapestry, is a sign of the power to which she has grown.
train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000022_000000|We have much more to think and to say of the book, as a whole, and in parts; and should the mood and summer leisure ever permit a familiar and intimate acquaintance with it, we trust they will be both thought and said.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000002_000000|FOURTH BOOK.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000002_000001|THE WORLD AS WILL.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000003_000000|Second Aspect.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000003_000001|The Assertion And Denial Of The Will To Live, When Self Consciousness Has Been Attained.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000000|section fifty three.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000004|But, in my opinion, all philosophy is theoretical, because it is essential to it that it should retain a purely contemplative attitude, and should investigate, not prescribe.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000005|To become, on the contrary, practical, to guide conduct, to transform character, are old claims, which with fuller insight it ought finally to give up.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000006|For here, where the worth or worthlessness of an existence, where salvation or damnation are in question, the dead conceptions of philosophy do not decide the matter, but the inmost nature of man himself, the Daemon that guides him and that has not chosen him, but been chosen by him, as Plato would say; his intelligible character, as Kant expresses himself.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000007|Virtue cannot be taught any more than genius; indeed, for it the concept is just as unfruitful as it is in art, and in both cases can only be used as an instrument.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000008|It would, therefore, be just as absurd to expect that our moral systems and ethics will produce virtuous, noble, and holy men, as that our aesthetics will produce poets, painters, and musicians.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000000|Philosophy can never do more than interpret and explain what is given.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000001|It can only bring to distinct abstract knowledge of the reason the nature of the world which in the concrete, that is, as feeling, expresses itself comprehensibly to every one.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000002|This, however, it does in every possible reference and from every point of view.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000004|In considering it I shall faithfully adhere to the method I have hitherto followed, and shall support myself by presupposing all that has already been advanced.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000005|There is, indeed, just one thought which forms the content of this whole work.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000007|I shall then have done all that is in my power to communicate it as fully as possible.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000000|The given point of view, and the method of treatment announced, are themselves sufficient to indicate that in this ethical book no precepts, no doctrine of duty must be looked for; still less will a general moral principle be given, an universal receipt, as it were, for the production of all the virtues.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000002|In general, we shall not speak at all of "ought," for this is how one speaks to children and to nations still in their childhood, but not to those who have appropriated all the culture of a full grown age.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000004|"Ought to will!"--wooden iron!
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000005|But it follows from the point of view of our system that the will is not only free, but almighty.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000006|From it proceeds not only its action, but also its world; and as the will is, so does its action and its world become.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000007|Both are the self knowledge of the will and nothing more.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000009|Only thus is the will truly autonomous, and from every other point of view it is heteronomous.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000011|This we shall do in connection with the preceding portion of our work, and in precisely the same way as we have hitherto explained the other phenomena of the world, and have sought to bring their inmost nature to distinct abstract knowledge.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000013|Notwithstanding Kant's great doctrine, it will not attempt to use the forms of the phenomenon, the universal expression of which is the principle of sufficient reason, as a leaping pole to jump over the phenomenon itself, which alone gives meaning to these forms, and land in the boundless sphere of empty fictions.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000014|But this actual world of experience, in which we are, and which is in us, remains both the material and the limits of our consideration: a world which is so rich in content that even the most searching investigation of which the human mind is capable could not exhaust it.
train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000022|It is just the knowledge which belongs to the principle of sufficient reason, with which no one can penetrate to the inner nature of things, but endlessly pursues phenomena, moving without end or aim, like a squirrel in its wheel, till, tired out at last, he stops at some point or other arbitrarily chosen, and now desires to extort respect for it from others also.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000000|There was once a very rich merchant, who had six children, three boys and three girls.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000001|As he was himself a man of great sense, he spared no expense for their education, but provided them with all sorts of masters for their improvement.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000002|The three daughters were all handsome, but particularly the youngest: indeed she was so very beautiful that in her childhood every one called her the Little Beauty, and being still the same when she was grown up, nobody called her by any other name, which made her sisters very jealous of her.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000003|This youngest daughter was not only more handsome than her sisters, but was also better tempered.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000004|The two eldest were vain of being rich, and spoke with pride to those they thought below them.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000006|They went every day to balls, plays, and public walks, and always made game of their youngest sister for spending her time in reading, or other useful employments.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000008|Beauty had quite as many offers as her sisters, but she always answered with the greatest civility, that she was much obliged to her lovers, but would rather live some years longer with her father, as she thought herself too young to marry.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000003_000002|At first Beauty could not help sometimes crying in secret for the hardships she was now obliged to suffer; but in a very short time she said to herself, "All the crying in the world will do me no good, so I will try to be happy without a fortune."
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000004_000000|When they had removed to their cottage, the merchant and his three sons employed themselves in ploughing and sowing the fields, and working in the garden.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000004_000001|Beauty also did her part, for she got up by four o'clock every morning, lighted the fires, cleaned the house, and got the breakfast for the whole family.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000004_000004|But her two sisters were at a loss what to do to pass the time away: they had their breakfast in bed, and did not rise till ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000000|After they had lived in this manner about a year, the merchant received a letter, which informed him that one of the richest ships, which he thought was lost, had just come into port.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000001|This news made the two eldest sisters almost mad with joy; for they thought they should now leave the cottage, and have all their finery again.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000002|When they found that their father must take a journey to the ship, the two eldest begged he would not fail to bring them back some new gowns, caps, rings, and all sorts of trinkets.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000008|All at once, he now cast his eyes towards a long row of trees, and saw a light at the end of them, but it seemed a great way off.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000009|He made the best of his way towards it, and found that it came from a fine palace, lighted all over.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000010|He walked faster, and soon reached the gates, which he opened, and was very much surprised that he did not see a single person or creature in any of the yards.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000011|His horse had followed him, and finding a stable with the door open, went into it at once; and here the poor beast, being nearly starved, helped himself to a good meal of oats and hay.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000012|His master then tied him up, and walked towards the house, which he entered, but still without seeing a living creature.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000013|He went on to a large hall, where he found a good fire, and a table covered with some very nice dishes, and only one plate with a knife and fork.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000014|As the snow and rain had wetted him to the skin, he went up to the fire to dry himself.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000016|He sat till the clock struck twelve, but did not see a single creature.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000001|"To be sure," said he to himself, "this place belongs to some good fairy, who has taken pity on my ill luck." He looked out of the window, and, instead of snow, he saw the most charming arbours covered with all kinds of flowers.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000002|He returned to the hall, where he had supped, and found a breakfast table, with some chocolate got ready for him.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000004|At the same moment he heard a most shocking noise, and saw such a frightful beast coming towards him, that he was ready to drop with fear.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000005|"Ungrateful man!" said the beast, in a terrible voice, "I have saved your life by letting you into my palace, and in return you steal my roses, which I value more than any thing else that belongs to me.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000006|But you shall make amends for your fault with your life.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000007|You shall die in a quarter of an hour." The merchant fell on his knees to the beast, and clasping his hands, said, "My lord, I humbly beg your pardon.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000008|I did not think it would offend you to gather a rose for one of my daughters, who wished to have one." "I am not a lord, but a beast," replied the monster; "I do not like false compliments, but that people should say what they think: so do not fancy that you can coax me by any such ways.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000009|You tell me that you have daughters; now I will pardon you, if one of them will agree to come and die instead of you.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000010|Go; and if your daughters should refuse, promise me that you yourself will return in three months."
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000002|"But," said the beast, "I do not wish you to go back empty handed.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000004|When the beast had said this, he went away; and the good merchant said to himself, "If I must die, yet I shall now have the comfort of leaving my children some riches," He returned to the room he had slept in, and found a great many pieces of gold.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000006|The horse took a path across the forest of his own accord, and in a few hours they reached the merchant's house.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000007|His children came running round him as he got off his horse; but the merchant, instead of kissing them with joy, could not help crying as he looked at them.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000008|He held in his hand the bunch of roses, which he gave to Beauty, saying: "Take these roses, Beauty; but little do you think how dear they have cost your poor father;" and then he gave them an account of all that he had seen or heard in the palace of the beast.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000009|The two eldest sisters now began to shed tears, and to lay the blame upon Beauty, who they said would be the cause of her father's death "See," said they, "what happens from the pride of the little wretch.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000012|I am charmed with the kindness of Beauty, but I will not suffer her life to be lost.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000013|I myself am old, and cannot expect to live much longer; so I shall but give up a few years of my life, and shall only grieve for the sake of my children." "Never, father," cried Beauty, "shall you go to the palace without me; for you cannot hinder my going after you.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000000|The merchant was so grieved at the thoughts of losing his child, that he never once thought of the chest filled with gold; but at night, to his great surprise, he found it standing by his bedside.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000001|He said nothing about his riches to his eldest daughters, for he knew very well it would at once make them want to return to town; but he told Beauty his secret, and she then said, that while he was away, two gentlemen had been on a visit to their cottage, who had fallen in love with her two sisters.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000003|When the three months were past, the merchant and Beauty got ready to set out for the palace of the beast.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000005|There was only Beauty who did not, for she thought that this would only make the matter worse.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000006|They reached the palace in a very few hours, and the horse, without bidding, went into the same stable as before.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000007|The merchant and Beauty walked towards the large hall, where they found a table covered with every dainty, and two plates laid ready.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000010|When Beauty first saw his frightful form, she could not help being afraid; but she tried to hide her fear as much as she could.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000001|She opened it in haste, and her eyes were all at once dazzled at the grandeur of the inside of the room.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000002|What made her wonder more than all the rest was a large library filled with books, a harpsichord, and many other pieces of music.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000003|"The beast takes care I shall not be at a loss how to amuse myself," said she.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000004|She then thought that it was not likely such things would have been got ready for her, if she had but one day to live; and began to hope all would not turn out so bad as she and her father had feared.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000005|She opened the library, and saw these verses written in letters of gold on the back of one of the books:
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000011_000000|"Beauteous lady, dry your tears, Here's no cause for sighs or fears; Command as freely as you may, Enjoyment still shall mark your sway."
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000000|"Alas!" said she, sighing, "there is nothing I so much desire as to see my poor father and to know what he is doing at this moment," She said this to herself; but just then by chance, she cast her eyes on a looking glass that stood near her, and in the glass she saw her home, and her father riding up to the cottage in the deepest sorrow.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000001|Her sisters came out to meet him, but for all they tried to look sorry, it was easy to see that in their hearts they were very glad.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000004|But at supper, when she was going to seat herself at table, she heard the noise of the beast, and could not help trembling with fear.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000005|"Beauty," said he, "will you give me leave to see you sup?" "That is as you please," answered she, very much afraid.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000006|"Not in the least," said the beast; "you alone command in this place.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000007|If you should not like my company, you need only to say so, and I will leave you that moment.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000008|But tell me, Beauty, do you not think me very ugly?" "Why, yes," said she, "for I cannot tell a story; but then I think you are very good." "You are right," replied the beast; "and, besides being ugly, I am also very stupid: I know very well enough that I am but a beast."
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000013_000001|At length she said, "No, beast." The beast made no reply, but sighed deeply, and went away.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000013_000002|When Beauty found herself alone, she began to feel pity for the poor beast.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000013_000003|"Dear!" said she, "what a sad thing it is that he should be so very frightful, since he is so good tempered!"
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000000|Beauty lived three months in this palace, very well pleased.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000002|I shall always be your friend; so try to let that make you easy."
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000004|"I would promise you, with all my heart," said she, "never to leave you quite; but I long so much to see my father, that if you do not give me leave to visit him I shall die with grief."
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000005|"I would rather die myself, Beauty," answered the beast, "than make you fret; I will send you to your father's cottage, you shall stay there, and your poor beast shall die of sorrow." "No," said Beauty, crying, "I love you too well to be the cause of your death; I promise to return in a week.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000009|Good bye, Beauty!"
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000011|When she awoke in the morning, she found herself in her father's cottage.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000001|She then told the servant to put the rest away with a great deal of care, for she intended to give them to her sisters; but as soon as she had spoken these words the chest was gone out of sight in a moment.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000002|Her father then said, perhaps the beast chose for her to keep them all for herself; and as soon as he had said this, they saw the chest standing again in the same place.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000003|While Beauty was dressing herself, a servant brought word to her that her sisters were come with their husbands to pay her a visit.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000005|The husband of the eldest was very handsome; but was so very proud of this, that he thought of nothing else from morning till night, and did not attend to the beauty of his wife.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000006|The second had married a man of great learning; but he made no use of it, only to torment and affront all his friends, and his wife more than any of them.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000007|The two sisters were ready to burst with spite when they saw Beauty dressed like a princess, and look so very charming.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000008|All the kindness that she showed them was of no use; for they were vexed more than ever, when she told them how happy she lived at the palace of the beast.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000009|The spiteful creatures went by themselves into the garden, where they cried to think of her good fortune.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000016_000000|When the week was ended, the two sisters began to pretend so much grief at the thoughts of her leaving them, that she agreed to stay a week more; but all that time Beauty could not help fretting for the sorrow that she knew her staying would give her poor beast; for she tenderly loved him, and much wished for his company again.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000001|In the morning she with joy found herself in the palace of the beast.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000002|She dressed herself very finely, that she might please him the better, and thought she had never known a day pass away so slow.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000003|At last the clock struck nine, but the beast did not come.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000004|Beauty then thought to be sure she had been the cause of his death in earnest.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000005|She ran from room to room all over the palace, calling out his name, but still she saw nothing of him.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000007|She threw herself upon his body, thinking nothing at all of his ugliness; and finding his heart still beat, she ran and fetched some water from a pond in the garden, and threw it on his face.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000008|The beast then opened his eyes, and said: "You have forgot your promise, Beauty.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000009|My grief for the loss of you has made me resolve to starve myself to death; but I shall die content, since I have had the pleasure of seeing you once more." "No, dear beast," replied Beauty, "you shall not die; you shall live to be my husband: from this moment I offer to marry you, and will be only yours. Oh!
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000000|The moment Beauty had spoken these words, the palace was suddenly lighted up, and music, fireworks, and all kinds of rejoicings, appeared round about them.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000001|Yet Beauty took no notice of all this, but watched over her dear beast with the greatest tenderness.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000003|Though this young prince deserved all her notice, she could not help asking him what was become of the beast.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000005|A wicked fairy had condemned me to keep the form of a beast till a beautiful young lady should agree to marry me, and ordered me, on pain of death, not to show that I had any sense.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000019_000001|You shall become two statues; but under that form you shall still keep your reason, and shall be fixed at the gates of your sister's palace; and I will not pass any worse sentence on you than to see her happy.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000020_000000|At the same moment, the fairy, with a stroke of her wand, removed all who were present to the young prince's country, where he was received with the greatest joy by his subjects.
train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000020_000001|He married Beauty, and passed a long and happy life with her, because they still kept in the same course of goodness from which they had never departed.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000002_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000004_000001|Her feet were stretched out toward a small fire that smouldered in an open hearth.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000004_000002|She wore a simple calico gown, neat and well fitting, and her face bore traces of much beauty that time and care had been unable wholly to efface.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000005_000000|Suddenly she paused in her work, her head turned slightly to one side to listen.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000006_000000|"Come in, sir," she called in a soft but distinct voice; "come in, miss."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000007_000000|So Kenneth and Beth entered at the half open porch door and advanced into the room.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000008_000000|"Is this mrs Rogers?" asked Beth, looking at the woman curiously.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000010_000001|I am Elizabeth DeGraf."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000011_000000|"And your companion-is it mr Forbes?" the woman asked.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000013_000001|Will you please find seats?
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000014_000001|"We have come to ask if you have heard anything of your daughter."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000016_000000|Her voice broke.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000018_000002|Will told you, didn't he?"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000019_000001|But it wasn't so bad, mrs Rogers; it wasn't a desperate condition, by any means."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000020_000000|"With poor Tom in prison for years-and just for trying to help her."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000021_000000|"Tom isn't in prison, you know, any more," said Beth quietly.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000021_000001|"He has been released."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000023_000000|"Last evening.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000023_000001|His fault has been forgiven, and he is now free."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000024_000000|The woman sat silent for a time.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000025_000000|"You have done this, mr Forbes?"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000026_000000|"Why, Miss DeGraf and I assisted, perhaps.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000027_000001|"He's honest and true, mr Forbes-he is, indeed!"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000029_000001|He had a bright future before him, sir, and that's why my child went mad when he ruined his life for her sake."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000030_000000|"Was she mad, do you think?" asked Beth, softly.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000031_000001|"Lucy was a sensible girl, and until this thing happened she was as bright and cheerful as the day is long.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000031_000002|But she is very sensitive-she inherited that from me, I think-and Tom's action drove her distracted.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000032_000000|"Let us hope for the best, mrs Rogers," said Beth.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000033_000000|"Have you?" asked the woman, earnestly.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000036_000000|"I shall be glad to know whatever you care to tell me," said Beth, simply.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000000|"I am the wife of a poor farmer," began the woman, speaking softly and with some hesitation, but gaining strength as she proceeded.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000002|We lived in Baltimore.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000003|Then I fell in love with a young man who, after obtaining my promise to marry him, found some one he loved better and carelessly discarded me.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000007|My mother had passed on long before, and there was nothing to keep me at home.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000008|I came west and secured a position to teach school in this county, and for a time I was quite contented and succeeded in living down my disappointment.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000009|I heard but once from my father.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000010|He had married again and disinherited me. He forbade me to ever communicate with him again.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000001|He was desperately in love with me, and at this period, when I seemed completely cut off from my old life and the future contained no promise, I thought it best to wear out the remainder of my existence in the seclusion of a farm house.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000002|I put all the past behind me, and told Will Rogers I would marry him and be a faithful wife; but that my heart was dead.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000003|He accepted me on that condition, and it was not until after we were married some time that my husband realized how impossible it would ever be to arouse my affection.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000004|Then he lost courage, and became careless and reckless.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000005|When our child came-our Lucy-Will was devoted to her, and the baby wakened in me all the old passionate capacity to love.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000006|Lucy drew Will and me a little closer together, but he never recovered his youthful ambition.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000007|He was a disappointed man, and went from bad to worse.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000009|But he lost all hope of being loved as he loved me, and the disappointment broke him down.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000010|He became an old man early in life, and his lack of energy kept us very poor.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000011|I used to take in sewing before the accident to my eyes, and that helped a good deal to pay expenses.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000012|But now I am helpless, and my husband devotes all his time to me, although I beg him to work the farm and try to earn some money.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000039_000001|I have had to bear so much in my life that I could even bear my child's death.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000040_000000|Kenneth and Beth remained silent for a time after mrs Rogers had finished her tragic story, for their hearts were full of sympathy for the poor woman.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000040_000001|It was hard to realize that a refined, beautiful and educated girl had made so sad a mistake of her life and suffered so many afflictions as a consequence.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000040_000003|The fault was not his.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000042_000000|"Was Lucy like you, or did she resemble her father?" asked Beth.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000044_000000|"I've been looking at the picture," said Kenneth.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000000|"And you mustn't think of her as dead, mrs Rogers," said Beth, pleadingly.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000001|"I'm sure she is alive, and that we shall find her.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000002|We're going right to work, and everything possible shall be done to trace your daughter.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000003|Don't worry, please.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000004|Be as cheerful as you can, and leave the search to us."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000047_000001|"He can't sleep or rest till he finds her, for my husband loves her as well as I do.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000047_000003|I know what she suffers, for I suffered, myself; and life isn't worth living when despair and disappointment fills it."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000048_000000|"I cannot see why Lucy shouldn't yet be happy," protested Beth.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000048_000001|"Tom Gates is now free, and can begin life anew."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000049_000001|"Who will employ a bookkeeper, or even a clerk who has been guilty of forgery?"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000050_000000|"I think I shall give him employment," replied Kenneth.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000052_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000052_000001|I'm not afraid of a boy who became a criminal to save the girl he loved."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000054_000000|"The world forgets these things sooner than you suppose," he answered. "I need a secretary, and in that position Tom Gates will quickly be able to live down this unfortunate affair.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000054_000001|And if he turns out as well as I expect, he will soon be able to marry Lucy and give her a comfortable home.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000054_000002|So now nothing remains but to find your girl, and we'll try to do that, I assure you."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000055_000000|mrs Rogers was crying softly by this time, but it was from joy and relief.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000055_000001|When they left her she promised to be as cheerful as possible and to look on the bright side of life.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000056_000000|"I can't thank you," she said, "so I won't try.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000056_000001|You must know how grateful we are to you."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000057_000000|As Beth and Kenneth drove back to Elmhurst they were both rather silent, for they had been strongly affected by the scene at the farm house.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000058_000001|"And I'm sure he'll be true and grateful."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000059_000000|"I really need him, Beth," said the boy.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000059_000001|"There is getting to be too much correspondence for mr Watson to attend to, and I ought to relieve him of many other details.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000059_000002|It's a good arrangement, and I'm glad I thought of it."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000060_000000|They had almost reached Elmhurst when they met the Honorable Erastus Hopkins driving along the road.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000060_000001|On the seat beside him was a young girl, and as the vehicles passed each other Beth gave a start and clung to the boy's arm.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000061_000001|Did you see that?"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000062_000000|"Yes; it's my respected adversary."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000063_000000|"But the girl!
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000063_000001|It's Lucy-I'm sure it's Lucy!
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000063_000003|Stop-stop-and let's go back!"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000064_000001|"It can't be."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000065_000001|I'm sure it is!"
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000066_000001|"She was laughing gaily and talking with the Honorable Erastus.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000068_000000|"And she wasn't unhappy a bit.
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000068_000002|And there's another thing."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000070_000000|"Any companion of mr Hopkins can be easily traced."
train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000071_000000|"That's true," answered the girl, thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000012_000000|On a question being put to him by Lin Fang, a disciple, as to what was the radical idea upon which the Rules of Propriety were based, the Master exclaimed, "Ah! that is a large question.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000012_000001|As to some rules, where there is likelihood of extravagance, they would rather demand economy; in those which relate to mourning, and where there is likelihood of being easily satisfied, what is wanted is real sorrow."
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000015_000000|Of "the superior man," the Master observed, "In him there is no contentiousness.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000015_000001|Say even that he does certainly contend with others, as in archery competitions; yet mark, in that case, how courteously he will bow and go up for the forfeit cup, and come down again and give it to his competitor.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000017_000000|"Dimples playing in witching smile, Beautiful eyes, so dark, so bright! Oh, and her face may be thought the while Colored by art, red rose on white!"
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000018_000000|"Coloring," replied the Master, "requires a pure and clear background." "Then," said the other, "rules of ceremony require to have a background!" "Ah!" exclaimed the Master, "you are the man to catch the drift of my thought.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000019_000002|And why cannot they do so?
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000019_000003|Because they have not documents enough, nor men learned enough.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000021_000000|Some one asked what was the purport of this great sacrifice, and the Master replied, "I cannot tell.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000021_000001|The position in the empire of him who could tell you is as evident as when you look at this"--pointing to the palm of his hand.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000022_000001|In offering to other spirits it was the same.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000023_000000|He would say, "If I do not myself take part in my offerings, it is all the same as if I did not offer them."
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000025_000001|I follow Chow!"
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000026_000002|On entering the grand temple he inquired about everything."
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000026_000003|This remark coming to the Master's ears, he said, "What I did is part of the ceremonial!"
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000027_000000|"In archery," he said, "the great point to be observed is not simply the perforation of the leather; for men have not all the same strength.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000029_000000|"To serve one's ruler nowadays," he remarked, "fully complying with the Rules of Propriety, is regarded by others as toadyism!"
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000031_000000|Referring to the First of the Odes, he remarked that it was mirthful without being lewd, and sad also without being painful.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000033_000002|He has gone away without a word of censure."
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000035_000000|"Was he miserly?" some one asked.
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000037_000000|"He knew the Rules of Propriety, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000038_000000|"Judge:--Seeing that the feudal lords planted a screen at their gates, he too would have one at his!
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000038_000002|If he knew the Rules of Propriety, who is there that does not know them?"
train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000039_000000|In a discourse to the Chief Preceptor of Music at the court of Lu, the Master said, "Music is an intelligible thing.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000004_000000|Characteristics of Confucius-An Incident
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000005_000000|Said the Master:--
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000010_000000|Once he exclaimed, "Alas!
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000011_000000|"Concentrate the mind," said he, "upon the Good Way.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000012_000000|"Maintain firm hold upon Virtue.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000013_000000|"Rely upon Philanthropy.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000018_000000|On one day on which he had wept, on that day he would not sing.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000019_000000|Addressing his favorite disciple, he said, "To you only and myself it has been given to do this-to go when called to serve, and to go back into quiet retirement when released from office."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000021_000000|The Master answered:--
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000024_000000|As to wealth, he remarked, "If wealth were an object that I could go in quest of, I should do so even if I had to take a whip and do grooms' work.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000024_000001|But seeing that it is not, I go after those objects for which I have a liking."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000028_000001|"Had they any feelings of resentment?" was the next question.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000028_000002|"Their aim and object," he answered, "was that of doing the duty which every man owes to his fellows, and they succeeded in doing it;--what room further for feelings of resentment?"
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000028_000003|The questioner on coming out said, "The Master does not take his part."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000029_000000|"With a meal of coarse rice," said the Master, "and with water to drink, and my bent arm for my pillow-even thus I can find happiness.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000031_000000|The Master's regular subjects of discourse were the "Books of the Odes" and "History," and the up keeping of the Rules of Propriety.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000034_000000|"As I came not into life with any knowledge of it," he said, "and as my likings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000035_000000|Strange occurrences, exploits of strength, deeds of lawlessness, references to spiritual beings-such like matters the Master avoided in conversation.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000036_000000|"Let there," he said, "be three men walking together: from that number I should be sure to find my instructors; for what is good in them I should choose out and follow, and what is not good I should modify."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000037_000000|On one occasion he exclaimed, "Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?"
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000038_000000|To his disciples he once said, "Do you look upon me, my sons, as keeping anything secret from you?
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000038_000003|That is so with me."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000039_000000|Four things there were which he kept in view in his teaching-scholarliness, conduct of life, honesty, faithfulness.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000040_000000|"It is not given to me," he said, "to meet with a sage; let me but behold a man of superior mind, and that will suffice.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000040_000001|Neither is it given to me to meet with a good man; let me but see a man of constancy, and it will suffice.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000041_000000|When the Master fished with hook and line, he did not also use a net. When out with his bow, he would never shoot at game in cover.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000042_000001|I am not of these.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000043_000002|"Why so much ado," said the Master, "at my merely permitting his approach, and not rather at my allowing him to draw back? If a man have cleansed himself in order to come and see me, I receive him as such; but I do not undertake for what he will do when he goes away."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000046_000001|He said, "I have heard that superior men show no partiality; are they, too, then, partial?
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000049_000000|"Although in letters," he said, "I may have none to compare with me, yet in my personification of the 'superior man' I have not as yet been successful."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000050_000000|"'A Sage and a Philanthropist?' How should I have the ambition?" said he.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000051_000001|"Are such available?" asked the Master.
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000053_000001|Better, however, the hard than the disorderly."
train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000054_000000|Again, "The man of superior mind is placidly composed; the small minded man is in a constant state of perturbation."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000001_000000|Answers on the Art of Governing-Consistency
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000002_000001|"Lead the way in it," said the Master, "and work hard at it."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000003_000000|Requested to say more, he added, "And do not tire of it."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000004_000000|Chung kung, on being made first minister to the Chief of the Ki family, consulted the Master about government, and to him he said, "Let the heads of offices be heads.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000004_000001|Excuse small faults.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000005_000000|"But," he asked, "how am I to know the sagacious and talented, before promoting them?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000006_000000|"Promote those whom you do know," said the Master.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000007_000000|"As to those of whom you are uncertain, will others omit to notice them?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000009_000000|"One thing of necessity," he answered-"the rectification of terms."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000010_000002|Why such rectification?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000011_000002|If terms be incorrect, language will be incongruous; and if language be incongruous, deeds will be imperfect.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000011_000004|Hence, a man of superior mind, certain first of his terms, is fitted to speak; and being certain of what he says can proceed upon it.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000011_000005|In the language of such a person there is nothing heedlessly irregular-and that is the sum of the matter."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000012_000000|Fan Ch'i requested that he might learn something of husbandry.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000012_000002|he asked.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000012_000003|"I am not equal to an old gardener." was the reply.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000013_000000|"A man of little mind, that!" said the Master, when Fan Ch'i had gone out.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000015_000000|"Let a leader," said he, "show rectitude in his own personal character, and even without directions from him things will go well.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000015_000001|If he be not personally upright, his directions will not be complied with."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000016_000000|Once he made the remark, "The governments of Lu and of Wei are in brotherhood."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000017_000000|Of King, a son of the Duke of Wei, he observed that "he managed his household matters well.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000017_000001|On his coming into possession, he thought, 'What a strange conglomeration!'--Coming to possess a little more, it was, 'Strange, such a result!' And when he became wealthy, 'Strange, such elegance!'"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000018_000000|The Master was on a journey to Wei, and Yen Yu was driving him.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000018_000001|"What multitudes of people!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000019_000000|"Enrich them," replied the Master.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000020_000000|"And after enriching them, what more would you do for them?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000021_000000|"Instruct them."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000024_000000|Again, "Suppose the ruler to possess true kingly qualities, then surely after one generation there would be good will among men."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000025_000001|If he be unable to rectify himself, how is he to rectify others?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000026_000000|Once when Yen Yu was leaving the Court, the Master accosted him.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000026_000001|"Why so late?" he asked.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000026_000003|"The details of it," suggested the Master; "had it been legislation, I should have been there to hear it, even though I am not in office."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000027_000000|Duke Ting asked if there were one sentence which, if acted upon, might have the effect of making a country prosperous.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000028_000000|Confucius answered, "A sentence could hardly be supposed to do so much as that.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000028_000001|But there is a proverb people use which says, 'To play the prince is hard, to play the minister not easy.' Assuming that it is understood that 'to play the prince is hard,' would it not be probable that with that one sentence the country should be made to prosper?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000030_000000|Confucius again replied, "A sentence could hardly be supposed to do so much as that.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000032_000001|Do not look at trivial advantages.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000032_000002|If you wish for speedy results, they will not be far reaching; and if you regard trivial advantages you will not successfully deal with important affairs."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000033_000000|The Duke of Sheh in a conversation with Confucius said, "There are some straightforward persons in my neighborhood.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000038_000000|"Him who is spoken of by his kinsmen as a dutiful son, and whom the folks of his neighborhood call' good brother.'"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000040_000000|"Such as are sure to be true to their word, and effective in their work-who are given to hammering, as it were, upon one note-of inferior calibre indeed, but fit enough, I think, to be ranked next."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000044_000000|"The Southerners," said he, "have the proverb, 'The man who sticks not to rule will never make a charm worker or a medical man,' Good!--'Whoever is intermittent in his practise of virtue will live to be ashamed of it.' Without prognostication," he added, "that will indeed be so."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000045_000000|"The nobler minded man," he remarked, "will be agreeable even when he disagrees; the small minded man will agree and be disagreeable."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000047_000000|"That will scarcely do," he answered.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000048_000000|"What, then, if they all disliked him?"
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000049_000000|"That, too," said he, "is scarcely enough.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000049_000001|Better if he were liked by the good folk in the village, and disliked by the bad."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000000|"The superior man," he once observed, "is easy to serve, but difficult to please.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000001|Try to please him by the adoption of wrong principles, and you will fail.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000002|Also, when such a one employs others, he uses them according to their capacity.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000003|The inferior man is, on the other hand, difficult to serve, but easy to please.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000004|Try to please him by the adoption of wrong principles, and you will succeed.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000005|And when he employs others he requires them to be fully prepared for everything."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000051_000000|Again, "The superior man can be high without being haughty.
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000052_000000|"The firm, the unflinching, the plain and simple, the slow to speak," said he once, "are approximating towards their duty to their fellow men."
train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000053_000001|The master replied, "He who can properly be so-called will have in him a seriousness of purpose, a habit of controlling himself, and an agreeableness of manner: among his friends and associates the seriousness and the self control, and among his brethren the agreeableness of manner."
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000001_000000|Section three
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000002_000001|After failing to find any young couple that corresponded to young Verrall and Nettie, I presently discovered an unsatisfactory quartette of couples.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000000|Any of these four couples might have been the one I sought; with regard to none of them was there conviction.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000001|They had all arrived either on Wednesday or Thursday.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000002|Two couples were still in occupation of their rooms, but neither of these were at home.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000003|Late in the afternoon I reduced my list by eliminating a young man in drab, with side whiskers and long cuffs, accompanied by a lady, of thirty or more, of consciously ladylike type.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000006|I stood outside in the meteor's livid light, hating them and cursing them for having delayed me so long.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000007|I stood until it was evident they remarked me, a black shape of envy, silhouetted against the glare.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000004_000000|That finished Shaphambury.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000004_000001|The question I now had to debate was which of the remaining couples I had to pursue.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000005_000000|I walked back to the parade trying to reason my next step out, and muttering to myself, because there was something in that luminous wonderfulness that touched one's brain, and made one feel a little light headed.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000006_000000|One couple had gone to London; the other had gone to the Bungalow village at Bone Cliff.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000006_000001|Where, I wondered, was Bone Cliff?
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000007_000000|I came upon my wooden legged man at the top of his steps.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000008_000000|"Hullo," said i
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000009_000000|He pointed seaward with his pipe, his silver ring shone in the sky light.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000011_000000|"What is?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000000|"Search lights!
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000001|Smoke!
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000002|Ships going north!
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000003|If it wasn't for this blasted Milky Way gone green up there, we might see."
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000013_000000|He was too intent to heed my questions for a time.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000013_000001|Then he vouchsafed over his shoulder-
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000014_000000|"Know Bungalow village?--rather.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000014_000002|Nice goings on! Mixed bathing-something scandalous.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000014_000003|Yes."
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000015_000000|"But where is it?" I said, suddenly exasperated.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000016_000000|"There!" he said.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000016_000001|"What's that flicker?
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000016_000002|A gunflash-or I'm a lost soul!"
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000017_000000|"You'd hear," I said, "long before it was near enough to see a flash."
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000000|He didn't answer.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000001|Only by making it clear I would distract him until he told me what I wanted to know could I get him to turn from his absorbed contemplation of that phantom dance between the sea rim and the shine.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000002|Indeed I gripped his arm and shook him.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000003|Then he turned upon me cursing.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000020_000000|I answered with some foul insult by way of thanks, and so we parted, and I set off towards the bungalow village.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000021_000000|I found a policeman, standing star gazing, a little way beyond the end of the parade, and verified the wooden legged man's directions.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000022_000000|"It's a lonely road, you know," he called after me. . . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000023_000000|I had an odd intuition that now at last I was on the right track. I left the dark masses of Shaphambury behind me, and pushed out into the dim pallor of that night, with the quiet assurance of a traveler who nears his end.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000000|The incidents of that long tramp I do not recall in any orderly succession, the one progressive thing is my memory of a growing fatigue.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000001|The sea was for the most part smooth and shining like a mirror, a great expanse of reflecting silver, barred by slow broad undulations, but at one time a little breeze breathed like a faint sigh and ruffled their long bodies into faint scaly ripples that never completely died out again.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000003|At one place came grass, and ghostly great sheep looming up among the gray.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000005|Then isolated pine witches would appear, and make their rigid gestures at me as I passed.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000006|Grotesquely incongruous amidst these forms, I presently came on estate boards, appealing, "Houses can be built to suit purchaser," to the silence, to the shadows, and the glare.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000025_000000|Once I remember the persistent barking of a dog from somewhere inland of me, and several times I took out and examined my revolver very carefully.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000025_000001|I must, of course, have been full of my intention when I did that, I must have been thinking of Nettie and revenge, but I cannot now recall those emotions at all.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000025_000002|Only I see again very distinctly the greenish gleams that ran over lock and barrel as I turned the weapon in my hand.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000026_000000|Then there was the sky, the wonderful, luminous, starless, moonless sky, and the empty blue deeps of the edge of it, between the meteor and the sea.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000026_000001|And once-strange phantoms!--I saw far out upon the shine, and very small and distant, three long black warships, without masts, or sails, or smoke, or any lights, dark, deadly, furtive things, traveling very swiftly and keeping an equal distance. And when I looked again they were very small, and then the shine had swallowed them up.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000027_000000|Then once a flash and what I thought was a gun, until I looked up and saw a fading trail of greenish light still hanging in the sky.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000028_000000|Somewhere upon my way the road forked, but I do not remember whether that was near Shaphambury or near the end of my walk.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000028_000001|The hesitation between two rutted unmade roads alone remains clear in my mind.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000029_000000|At last I grew weary.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000029_000001|I came to piled heaps of decaying seaweed and cart tracks running this way and that, and then I had missed the road and was stumbling among sand hummocks quite close to the sea.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000029_000002|I came out on the edge of the dimly glittering sandy beach, and something phosphorescent drew me to the water's edge.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000030_000001|The meteor had now trailed its shining nets across the whole space of the sky and was beginning to set; in the east the blue was coming to its own again; the sea was an intense edge of blackness, and now, escaped from that great shine, and faint and still tremulously valiant, one weak elusive star could just be seen, hovering on the verge of the invisible.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000031_000000|How beautiful it was! how still and beautiful!
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000031_000001|Peace! peace!--the peace that passeth understanding, robed in light descending! . . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000032_000000|My heart swelled, and suddenly I was weeping.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000033_000000|There was something new and strange in my blood.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000033_000001|It came to me that indeed I did not want to kill.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000000|I did not want to kill.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000001|I did not want to be the servant of my passions any more.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000002|A great desire had come to me to escape from life, from the daylight which is heat and conflict and desire, into that cool night of eternity-and rest.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000003|I had played-I had done.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000035_000000|I stood upon the edge of the great ocean, and I was filled with an inarticulate spirit of prayer, and I desired greatly-peace from myself.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000036_000000|And presently, there in the east, would come again the red discoloring curtain over these mysteries, the finite world again, the gray and growing harsh certainties of dawn.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000036_000001|My resolve I knew would take up with me again.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000036_000002|This was a rest for me, an interlude, but to morrow I should be William Leadford once more, ill nourished, ill dressed, ill equipped and clumsy, a thief and shamed, a wound upon the face of life, a source of trouble and sorrow even to the mother I loved; no hope in life left for me now but revenge before my death.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000037_000000|Why this paltry thing, revenge?
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000037_000001|It entered into my thoughts that I might end the matter now and let these others go.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000038_000000|To wade out into the sea, into this warm lapping that mingled the natures of water and light, to stand there breast high, to thrust my revolver barrel into my mouth------?
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000039_000000|Why not?
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000040_000000|I swung about with an effort.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000040_000001|I walked slowly up the beach thinking. . . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000041_000000|I turned and looked back at the sea.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000041_000001|No!
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000041_000002|Something within me said, "No!"
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000042_000000|I must think.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000000|It was troublesome to go further because the hummocks and the tangled bushes began.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000002|I drew my revolver from my pocket and looked at it, and held it in my hand.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000003|Life?
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000004|Or Death? . . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000044_000000|I seemed to be probing the very deeps of being, but indeed imperceptibly I fell asleep, and sat dreaming.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000045_000000|Section four
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000046_000000|Two people were bathing in the sea.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000000|I had awakened.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000001|It was still that white and wonderful night, and the blue band of clear sky was no wider than before.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000002|These people must have come into sight as I fell asleep, and awakened me almost at once.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000003|They waded breast deep in the water, emerging, coming shoreward, a woman, with her hair coiled about her head, and in pursuit of her a man, graceful figures of black and silver, with a bright green surge flowing off from them, a pattering of flashing wavelets about them.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000004|He smote the water and splashed it toward her, she retaliated, and then they were knee deep, and then for an instant their feet broke the long silver margin of the sea.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000048_000000|Each wore a tightly fitting bathing dress that hid nothing of the shining, dripping beauty of their youthful forms.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000049_000000|She glanced over her shoulder and found him nearer than she thought, started, gesticulated, gave a little cry that pierced me to the heart, and fled up the beach obliquely toward me, running like the wind, and passed me, vanished amidst the black distorted bushes, and was gone-she and her pursuer, in a moment, over the ridge of sand.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000050_000000|I heard him shout between exhaustion and laughter. . . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000053_000000|And, it blazed upon me, I might have died there by the sheer ebbing of my will-unavenged!
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000054_000000|In another moment I was running and stumbling, revolver in hand, in quiet unsuspected pursuit of them, through the soft and noiseless sand.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000056_000000|I came up over the little ridge and discovered the bungalow village I had been seeking, nestling in a crescent lap of dunes.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000056_000001|A door slammed, the two runners had vanished, and I halted staring.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000057_000000|There was a group of three bungalows nearer to me than the others. Into one of these three they had gone, and I was too late to see which.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000057_000001|All had doors and windows carelessly open, and none showed a light.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000000|This place, upon which I had at last happened, was a fruit of the reaction of artistic minded and carelessly living people against the costly and uncomfortable social stiffness of the more formal seaside resorts of that time.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000001|It was, you must understand, the custom of the steam railway companies to sell their carriages after they had been obsolete for a sufficient length of years, and some genius had hit upon the possibility of turning these into little habitable cabins for the summer holiday.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000002|The thing had become a fashion with a certain Bohemian spirited class; they added cabin to cabin, and these little improvised homes, gaily painted and with broad verandas and supplementary leantos added to their accommodation, made the brightest contrast conceivable to the dull rigidities of the decorous resorts.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000003|Of course there were many discomforts in such camping that had to be faced cheerfully, and so this broad sandy beach was sacred to high spirits and the young.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000004|Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lanterns and frying, are leading "notes," I find, in the impression of those who once knew such places well.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000005|But so far as I was concerned this odd settlement of pleasure squatters was a mystery as well as a surprise, enhanced rather than mitigated by an imaginative suggestion or so I had received from the wooden legged man at Shaphambury.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000006|I saw the thing as no gathering of light hearts and gay idleness, but grimly-after the manner of poor men poisoned by the suppression of all their cravings after joy.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000007|To the poor man, to the grimy workers, beauty and cleanness were absolutely denied; out of a life of greasy dirt, of muddied desires, they watched their happier fellows with a bitter envy and foul, tormenting suspicions.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000008|Fancy a world in which the common people held love to be a sort of beastliness, own sister to being drunk! . . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000059_000000|There was in the old time always something cruel at the bottom of this business of sexual love.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000059_000001|At least that is the impression I have brought with me across the gulf of the great Change.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000000|I felt no sense of singularity that this thread of savagery should run through these emotions of mine and become now the whole strand of these emotions.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000001|I believed, and I think I was right in believing, that the love of all true lovers was a sort of defiance then, that they closed a system in each other's arms and mocked the world without.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000002|You loved against the world, and these two loved AT me. They had their business with one another, under the threat of a watchful fierceness.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000003|A sword, a sharp sword, the keenest edge in life, lay among their roses.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000061_000000|Whatever may be true of this for others, for me and my imagination, at any rate, it was altogether true.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000061_000001|I was never for dalliance, I was never a jesting lover.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000061_000002|I wanted fiercely; I made love impatiently. Perhaps I had written irrelevant love letters for that very reason; because with this stark theme I could not play. . .
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000062_000000|The thought of Nettie's shining form, of her shrinking bold abandon to her easy conqueror, gave me now a body of rage that was nearly too strong for my heart and nerves and the tense powers of my merely physical being.
train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000062_000001|I came down among the pale sand heaps slowly toward that queer village of careless sensuality, and now within my puny body I was coldly sharpset for pain and death, a darkly gleaming hate, a sword of evil, drawn.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000003_000001|Pray give me an alms.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000004_000000|The Huntsman pitied the poor Old Woman, put his hand in his pocket, and made her a present according to his means.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000000|Then he wanted to go on.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000001|But the Old Woman held him back, and said: 'Hark ye, dear Huntsman, I will make you a present because of your good heart.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000002|Go on your way, and you will come to a tree, on which nine birds are sitting.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000003|They will have a cloak in their claws, over which they are fighting.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000004|Take aim with your gun, and shoot into the middle of them.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000005|They will drop the cloak, and one of the birds will fall down dead.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000006|Take the cloak with you, it is a wishing cloak.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000008|Take the heart out of the dead bird and swallow it whole, then you will find a gold coin under your pillow every single morning when you wake.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000006_000000|The Huntsman thanked the Wise Woman, and thought: 'She promises fine things, if only they turn out as well.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000007_000000|When he had gone about a hundred paces, he heard above him, in the branches of a tree, such a chattering and screaming that he looked up.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000008_000000|There he saw a flock of birds tearing a garment with their beaks and claws; snatching and tearing at it as if each one wanted to have it for himself.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000009_000000|'Well,' said the Huntsman, 'this is extraordinary, it is exactly what the Old Woman said.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000010_000000|He put his gun to his shoulder, took aim and fired right into the middle of them, making the feathers fly about.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000011_000000|The birds took flight with a great noise, all except one, which fell down dead, and the cloak dropped at his feet.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000012_000000|He did as the Old Woman had told him, cut the heart out of the bird and swallowed it whole.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000012_000001|Then he took the cloak home with him.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000013_000000|When he woke in the morning, he remembered the Old Woman's promise, and looked under his pillow to see if it was true.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000014_000000|There, sure enough, lay the golden coin shining before him, and the next morning he found another, and the same every morning when he got up.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000015_000000|He collected quite a heap of gold, and at last he thought: 'What is the good of all my gold if I stay at home here?
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000015_000001|I will go and look about me in the world.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000016_000000|So he took leave of his parents, shouldered his gun, and started off into the world.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000018_000000|It so happened that one day he came to a thick forest, and when he got through it, he saw a fine castle lying in the plain beyond.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000019_000000|He saw an Old Woman standing in one of the windows looking out, with a beautiful Maiden beside her.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000021_000000|She told the girl how he had got it, and at last said: 'If you don't get it from him, it will be the worse for you.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000022_000001|I have plenty of money.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000023_000000|But the real reason was that he had caught sight of the pretty picture at the window.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000023_000001|He went in, and he was kindly received and hospitably treated.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000025_000000|The Old Woman said to the Maiden: 'Now we must get the bird's heart, he will never miss it.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000026_000000|They concocted a potion, and when it was ready they put it into a goblet.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000027_000000|And the Maiden took it to him, and said: 'Now, my beloved, you must drink to me.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000029_000000|The Maiden took it away secretly and swallowed it herself, for the Old Woman wanted to have it.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000030_000000|From this time the Huntsman found no more gold under his pillow; but the coin was always under the Maiden's instead, and the Old Woman used to fetch it away every morning.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000031_000000|But he was so much in love, that he thought of nothing but enjoying himself in the Maiden's company.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000033_000000|The Maiden said: 'Let us leave him that; we have taken away his wealth.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000034_000000|The Old Woman was very angry, and said: 'A cloak like that is a very wonderful thing, and not often to be got.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000034_000001|Have it I must, and will!'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000035_000000|So she obeyed the Witch's orders, placed herself at the window, and looked sadly out at the distant hills.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000000|'Alas! my love,' was her answer, 'over there are the garnet mountains, where the precious stones are found.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000001|I long for them so much that I grow sad whenever I think of them.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000002|But who could ever get them?
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000003|The birds which fly, perhaps; no mortal could ever reach them.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000038_000000|'If that is all your trouble,' said the Huntsman, 'I can soon lift that load from your heart.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000039_000000|Then he drew her under his cloak, and in a moment they were both sitting on the mountain.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000039_000001|The precious stones were glittering around them; their hearts rejoiced at the sight of them, and they soon gathered together some of the finest and largest.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000042_000000|So they sat down, and he laid his head on her lap and was soon fast asleep.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000043_000000|As soon as he was asleep, the Maiden slipped the cloak from his shoulders and put it on her own, loaded herself with the precious garnets, and wished herself at home.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000047_000000|He quickly lay down again and pretended to be fast asleep.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000048_000000|The first one, as he came along, stumbled against him, and said: 'What kind of earthworm is this?'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000049_000000|The second said: 'Tread on him and kill him.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000050_000000|But the third said: 'It isn't worth the trouble.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000051_000000|Then they passed on, and as soon as they were gone, the Huntsman, who had heard all they said, got up and climbed up to the top of the mountain.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000052_000000|After he had sat there for a time, a cloud floated over him, and carried him away.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000053_000000|At first he was swept through the air, but then he was gently lowered and deposited within a large walled garden, upon a soft bed of lettuces and other herbs.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000054_000000|He looked around him and said: 'If only I had something to eat; I am so hungry.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000054_000001|And it will be difficult to get away from here.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000054_000002|I see neither apples nor pears, nor any other fruit, nothing but salad and herbs.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000056_000000|He picked out a fine head of lettuce, and began eating it.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000056_000001|But he had hardly swallowed a little piece, when he began to feel very odd, and quite changed.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000056_000002|He felt four legs growing, a big head, and two long ears, and he saw to his horror that he was changed into an ass.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000057_000000|As he at the same time felt as hungry as ever, and the juicy salad was now very much to his taste, he went on eating greedily.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000059_000000|After this he lay down and slept off his fatigue.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000061_000000|He put the salad into his wallet, climbed over the wall, and went off to find the castle of his beloved.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000062_000000|After wandering about for a few days, he was fortunate enough to find it.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000063_000000|'I am so tired,' he said; 'I cannot go any further.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000064_000000|The Witch said: 'Who are you, countryman, and what do you want?'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000065_000002|I have been lucky enough to find it, and I carry it with me.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000065_000003|But the sun is so burning, that I am afraid the tender plant will be withered, and I don't know if I shall be able to take it any further.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000066_000000|When the Old Witch heard about the rare salad, she felt a great desire to have some, and said: 'Good countryman, let me try the wonderful salad!'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000067_000001|'I have two heads with me, and you shall have one.' So saying, he opened his sack, and handed her the bad one.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000068_000000|The Witch had no suspicions, and her mouth so watered for the new dish, that she went to the kitchen herself to prepare it.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000069_000000|When it was ready, she could not wait till it was put upon the table, but put a few leaves into her mouth at once.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000070_000000|Hardly had she swallowed them, when she lost her human shape, and ran out into the courtyard, as an old she ass.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000071_000000|Then the Maid came into the kitchen, saw the salad standing ready, and was about to put it on the table.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000071_000001|But on the way the fancy seized her to taste it, according to her usual habit, and she ate a few leaves.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000072_000000|The power of the salad at once became apparent, because she also turned into an ass, and ran out into the yard to join the Old Witch, while the dish of salad fell to the ground.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000073_000000|In the meantime the messenger was sitting with the beautiful Maiden, and as no one appeared with the salad, she also was seized with a desire to taste it, and said: 'I don't know what has become of the salad.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000074_000000|But the Huntsman thought: 'The plant must have done its work,' and said: 'I will go into the kitchen and see.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000076_000000|'This is all right!' he said; 'two of them are done for.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000077_000000|Then he picked up the leaves, put them on a dish, and took them to the Maiden.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000078_000000|'I am bringing the precious food to you myself,' said he, 'so that you may not have to wait any longer.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000079_000000|She ate some, and, like the others, was immediately changed into an ass, and ran out to them in the yard.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000081_000000|When the Huntsman had washed his face so that the transformed creatures might know him, he went into the courtyard, and said: 'Now, you shall be paid for your treachery.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000082_000000|He tied them all together with a rope, and drove them along till he came to a mill.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000082_000001|He tapped at the window, and the Miller put his head out and asked what he wanted.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000083_000000|'I have three bad animals here,' he said, 'that I want to get rid of. If you will take them and feed them, and treat them as I wish, I will pay you what you like to ask.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000084_000000|'Why not?' said the Miller.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000084_000001|'How do you want them treated?'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000085_000000|The Huntsman said he wanted the old she ass (the Witch) to be well beaten three times a day and fed once.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000085_000001|The younger one, which was the Maid, beaten once and fed three times.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000085_000002|The youngest of all, who was the beautiful Maiden, was to be fed three times, and not beaten at all; he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000086_000000|Then he went back to the castle and found everything he wanted in it.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000087_000000|A few days later the Miller came and told him that the old ass which was to be beaten three times and fed once, was dead.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000087_000001|'The other two,' he said, 'which are to be fed three times, are not dead, but they are pining away, and won't last long.'
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000089_000000|When they came he gave them some of the other salad to eat, so that they took their human shapes again.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000090_000001|My mother forced me to do it.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000090_000002|It was against my own will, for I love you dearly.
train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000091_000000|But he said: 'Keep it; it will be all the same, as I will take you to be my own true wife.'
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty four
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000002_000000|THE ODDS AND ENDS
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000003_000000|Of Doctor Walker's sensational escape that night to South America, of the recovery of over a million dollars in cash and securities in the safe from the chimney room-the papers have kept the public well informed.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000003_000001|Of my share in discovering the secret chamber they have been singularly silent.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000003_000002|The inner history has never been told.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000004_000000|When Halsey learned the truth, he insisted on going the next morning, weak as he was, to Louise, and by night she was at Sunnyside, under Gertrude's particular care, while her mother had gone to Barbara Fitzhugh's.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000005_000000|What Halsey said to mrs Armstrong I never knew, but that he was considerate and chivalrous I feel confident.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000006_000000|He and Louise had no conversation together until that night.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000006_000001|Gertrude and Alex-I mean Jack-had gone for a walk, although it was nine o'clock, and anybody but a pair of young geese would have known that dew was falling, and that it is next to impossible to get rid of a summer cold.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000000|At half after nine, growing weary of my own company, I went downstairs to find the young people.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000001|At the door of the living room I paused. Gertrude and Jack had returned and were there, sitting together on a divan, with only one lamp lighted.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000002|They did not see or hear me, and I beat a hasty retreat to the library.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000003|But here again I was driven back. Louise was sitting in a deep chair, looking the happiest I had ever seen her, with Halsey on the arm of the chair, holding her close.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000008_000000|It was no place for an elderly spinster.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000008_000001|I retired to my upstairs sitting room and got out Eliza Klinefelter's lavender slippers.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000008_000002|Ah, well, the foster motherhood would soon have to be put away in camphor again.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000009_000000|The next day, by degrees, I got the whole story.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000000|Paul Armstrong had a besetting evil-the love of money.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000001|Common enough, but he loved money, not for what it would buy, but for its own sake. An examination of the books showed no irregularities in the past year since john had been cashier, but before that, in the time of Anderson, the old cashier, who had died, much strange juggling had been done with the records.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000002|The railroad in New Mexico had apparently drained the banker's private fortune, and he determined to retrieve it by one stroke.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000003|This was nothing less than the looting of the bank's securities, turning them into money, and making his escape.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000000|But the law has long arms.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000001|Paul Armstrong evidently studied the situation carefully.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000002|Just as the only good Indian is a dead Indian, so the only safe defaulter is a dead defaulter.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000003|He decided to die, to all appearances, and when the hue and cry subsided, he would be able to enjoy his money almost anywhere he wished.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000000|The first necessity was an accomplice.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000001|The connivance of Doctor Walker was suggested by his love for Louise.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000002|The man was unscrupulous, and with the girl as a bait, Paul Armstrong soon had him fast.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000003|The plan was apparently the acme of simplicity: a small town in the west, an attack of heart disease, a body from a medical college dissecting room shipped in a trunk to Doctor Walker by a colleague in San Francisco, and palmed off for the supposed dead banker.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000004|What was simpler?
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000000|The woman, Nina Carrington, was the cog that slipped.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000001|What she only suspected, what she really knew, we never learned.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000002|She was a chambermaid in the hotel at C-, and it was evidently her intention to blackmail Doctor Walker.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000004|He denied the whole thing, and she went to Halsey.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000000|It was this that had taken Halsey to the doctor the night he disappeared.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000001|He accused the doctor of the deception, and, crossing the lawn, had said something cruel to Louise.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000002|Then, furious at her apparent connivance, he had started for the station.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000003|Doctor Walker and Paul Armstrong-the latter still lame where I had shot him-hurried across to the embankment, certain only of one thing.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000004|Halsey must not tell the detective what he suspected until the money had been removed from the chimney room.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000005|They stepped into the road in front of the car to stop it, and fate played into their hands.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000006|The car struck the train, and they had only to dispose of the unconscious figure in the road.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000007|This they did as I have told.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000008|For three days Halsey lay in the box car, tied hand and foot, suffering tortures of thirst, delirious at times, and discovered by a tramp at Johnsville only in time to save his life.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000000|To go back to Paul Armstrong.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000001|At the last moment his plans had been frustrated.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000002|Sunnyside, with its hoard in the chimney room, had been rented without his knowledge!
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000003|Attempts to dislodge me having failed, he was driven to breaking into his own house.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000004|The ladder in the chute, the burning of the stable and the entrance through the card room window-all were in the course of a desperate attempt to get into the chimney room.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000000|Louise and her mother had, from the first, been the great stumbling blocks.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000001|The plan had been to send Louise away until it was too late for her to interfere, but she came back to the hotel at C- just at the wrong time.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000002|There was a terrible scene.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000003|The girl was told that something of the kind was necessary, that the bank was about to close and her stepfather would either avoid arrest and disgrace in this way, or kill himself.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000005|She had no love for her stepfather, but her devotion to her mother was entire, self sacrificing.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000006|Forced into acquiescence by her mother's appeals, overwhelmed by the situation, the girl consented and fled.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000017_000000|From somewhere in Colorado she sent an anonymous telegram to Jack Bailey at the Traders' Bank.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000017_000001|Trapped as she was, she did not want to see an innocent man arrested.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000017_000002|The telegram, received on Thursday, had sent the cashier to the bank that night in a frenzy.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000000|Louise arrived at Sunnyside and found the house rented.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000001|Not knowing what to do, she sent for Arnold at the Greenwood Club, and told him a little, not all.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000002|She told him that there was something wrong, and that the bank was about to close.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000003|That his father was responsible.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000004|Of the conspiracy she said nothing.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000005|To her surprise, Arnold already knew, through Bailey that night, that things were not right.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000006|Moreover, he suspected what Louise did not, that the money was hidden at Sunnyside. He had a scrap of paper that indicated a concealed room somewhere.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000019_000000|His inherited cupidity was aroused.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000000|Bailey was almost desperate.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000001|He decided to go west and find Paul Armstrong, and to force him to disgorge.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000002|But the catastrophe at the bank occurred sooner than he had expected.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000003|On the moment of starting west, at Andrews Station, where mr Jamieson had located the car, he read that the bank had closed, and, going back, surrendered himself.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000000|john Bailey had known Paul Armstrong intimately.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000001|He did not believe that the money was gone; in fact, it was hardly possible in the interval since the securities had been taken.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000002|Where was it?
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000003|And from some chance remark let fall some months earlier by Arnold Armstrong at a dinner, Bailey felt sure there was a hidden room at Sunnyside.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000006|His smooth upper lip had been sufficient disguise, with his change of clothes, and a hair cut by a country barber.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000000|So it was Alex, Jack Bailey, who had been our ghost.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000001|Not only had he alarmed-Louise and himself, he admitted-on the circular staircase, but he had dug the hole in the trunk room wall, and later sent Eliza into hysteria.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000002|The note Liddy had found in Gertrude's scrap basket was from him, and it was he who had startled me into unconsciousness by the clothes chute, and, with Gertrude's help, had carried me to Louise's room.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000003|Gertrude, I learned, had watched all night beside me, in an extremity of anxiety about me.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000000|That old Thomas had seen his master, and thought he had seen the Sunnyside ghost, there could be no doubt.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000001|Of that story of Thomas', about seeing Jack Bailey in the footpath between the club and Sunnyside, the night Liddy and I heard the noise on the circular staircase-that, too, was right.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000002|On the night before Arnold Armstrong was murdered, Jack Bailey had made his first attempt to search for the secret room.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000003|He secured Arnold's keys from his room at the club and got into the house, armed with a golf stick for sounding the walls.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000004|He ran against the hamper at the head of the stairs, caught his cuff link in it, and dropped the golf stick with a crash.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000005|He was glad enough to get away without an alarm being raised, and he took the "owl" train to town.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000024_000000|The oddest thing to me was that mr Jamieson had known for some time that Alex was Jack Bailey.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000024_000001|But the face of the pseudo gardener was very queer indeed, when that night, in the card room, the detective turned to him and said:
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000025_000000|"How long are you and I going to play our little comedy, mr
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000025_000001|BAILEY?"
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000000|Well, it is all over now.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000001|Paul Armstrong rests in Casanova churchyard, and this time there is no mistake.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000002|I went to the funeral, because I wanted to be sure he was really buried, and I looked at the step of the shaft where I had sat that night, and wondered if it was all real. Sunnyside is for sale-no, I shall not buy it.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000003|Little Lucien Armstrong is living with his step grandmother, and she is recovering gradually from troubles that had extended over the entire period of her second marriage.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000005|Thomas, the fourth victim of the conspiracy, is buried on the hill.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000006|With Nina Carrington, five lives were sacrificed in the course of this grim conspiracy.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000000|There will be two weddings before long, and Liddy has asked for my heliotrope poplin to wear to the church.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000001|I knew she would.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000002|She has wanted it for three years, and she was quite ugly the time I spilled coffee on it.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000003|We are very quiet, just the two of us.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000004|Liddy still clings to her ghost theory, and points to my wet and muddy boots in the trunk room as proof.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000005|I am gray, I admit, but I haven't felt as well in a dozen years.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000006|Sometimes, when I am bored, I ring for Liddy, and we talk things over.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000007|When Warner married Rosie, Liddy sniffed and said what I took for faithfulness in Rosie had been nothing but mawkishness. I have not yet outlived Liddy's contempt because I gave them silver knives and forks as a wedding gift.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000000|So we sit and talk, and sometimes Liddy threatens to leave, and often I discharge her, but we stay together somehow.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000001|I am talking of renting a house next year, and Liddy says to be sure there is no ghost.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000002|To be perfectly frank, I never really lived until that summer.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000003|Time has passed since I began this story.
train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000004|My neighbors are packing up for another summer.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000001_000001|These preparations are not volatile, so that there is not much fear of lung trouble.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000001_000002|In chronic cases death occurs from stricture of the oesophagus causing starvation.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000002_000001|Inflammation may have extended to larynx.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000004_000001|The salts give a yellow precipitate with platinum chloride, and a white precipitate with tartaric acid.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000004_000002|They are not dissipated by heat, and give a violet colour to the deoxidizing flame of the blowpipe.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000004_000003|Stains on dark clothing are red or brown.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000005_000001|Do not use the stomach tube.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000005_000002|The glottis may be inflamed, and if there is danger of asphyxia, tracheotomy may have to be performed.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000006_000001|It is also found as 'washing soda.'
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000010_000001|The urgent symptoms are those of suffocation.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000011_000000|Inhalation of the fumes of strong ammonia may lead to death from capillary bronchitis or broncho pneumonia.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000011_000001|Death may result from inflammation of the larynx and lungs.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000011_000002|When swallowed in solution, the symptoms are similar to those of soda and potash.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000015_000001|Other treatment according to symptoms.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000018_000000|sixteen.--INORGANIC IRRITANTS
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000020_000000|seventeen.--CHLORATE OF POTASSIUM, etc
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000027_000001|Lungs congested.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000033_000001|Burnt on platinum foil, it gives a green colour to the flame.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000034_000001|The salts of barium are also cardiac poisons.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000035_000001|Stomach may be perforated.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000037_000000|nineteen.--IODINE-IODIDE OF POTASSIUM
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000038_000001|It strikes blue with solution of starch, and stains the skin and intestines yellowish brown.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000038_000002|Liquid preparations, as the liniment or tincture, may be taken accidentally or suicidally.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000039_000001|Chronic poisoning (iodism) is characterized by coryza, salivation, and lachrymation, frontal headache, loss of appetite, marked mental depression, acne of the face and chest, and a petechial eruption on the limbs.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000042_000001|The iodine may be obtained on evaporation as a sublimate.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000042_000002|It will be recognized by the blue colour which it gives with starch.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000001|It may also occur as the amorphous non poisonous variety, a red opaque infusible substance, insoluble in carbon disulphide.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000002|Ordinary phosphorus is soluble in oil, alcohol, ether, chloroform, and carbon disulphide; insoluble in water. It is much used in rat poisons, made into a paste with flour, sugar, fat, and Prussian blue.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000003|Yellow phosphorus is not allowed to be used in the manufacture of lucifer matches, and the importation of such is prohibited.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000004|In 'safety' matches the amorphous phosphorus is on the box.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000001|The earliest signs are a garlicky taste in the mouth and pain in the throat and stomach.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000002|Vomited matter luminous in the dark, bile stained or bloody, with garlic like odour.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000003|Great prostration, diarrhoea, with bloody stools.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000004|Harsh, dry, yellow skin, purpuric spots with ecchymoses under the skin and mucous membranes, retention or suppression of urine, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000007|The inhalation of the fumes of phosphorus, as in making vermin killers, etc, gives rise to 'phossy jaw.'
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000050_000001|Oil should not be given.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000050_000002|Sulphate and carbonate of magnesium, mucilaginous drinks.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000050_000003|Sulphate of copper is a valuable antidote, both as an emetic and as forming an insoluble compound with phosphorus.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000053_000001|Introduce the suspected material into a retort.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000053_000002|Acidulate with sulphuric acid to fix any ammonia present.
train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000053_000003|Distil in the dark, through a glass tube kept cool by a stream of water.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000001_000000|MY BLUE GUM GROVE.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000003_000000|The grove served a more utilitarian purpose, however.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000003_000001|The eucalyptus is an Australian tree, with narrow straight hanging leaves, and its rapid growth makes it useful for firewood.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000003_000004|In the photograph of a eucalyptus avenue near Los Angeles, the row of trees on the right have been cut near the ground and the branching trunks are the consequence.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000005_000000|My eucalyptus or blue gum grove was down near the big sycamore, and opposite the bare knoll where Romulus and the burrowing owls had their nightly battles.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000005_000001|On one side of it was a rustling cornfield always pleasant to look at.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000005_000002|After the bare yellow stubble and all the reds and browns of a California summer landscape, its rich dark green color and its stanch, strong stalks made it seem a very plain honest sort of field, and its greenness was most grateful to eyes unused to the bright colors and strong lights of California.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000006_000000|Opposite the little grove, in a small house perched on a hill, an old sea captain lived alone.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000006_000002|When I stopped to ask if he had seen anything noteworthy happen at the grove, he complained that it shut off his view and kept away the breeze from the ocean!
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000006_000003|I was too much taken by surprise to apologize for my trees, but felt reproached; unwittingly I had destroyed the old captain's choicest pleasure.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000000|It was always a relief to leave the hot beating sun and the glare of the yellow fields and enter the cool shade of the quiet grove.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000001|I could let down the fence and put it up behind me; thus having my small forest all to myself; and used to enjoy riding up and down the fragrant blue avenues.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000002|The eucalyptus trees, although thirty or forty feet high, were lithe and slender; some of them could be spanned by the hands.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000003|The rows were planted ten feet apart, but the long branches interlaced, so one had to be on the alert, in riding down the lines, to bend low on the saddle or push aside the branches that obstructed the way.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000004|The limbs were so slender and flexible that a touch was enough to bend back a green gate fifteen to twenty feet long, and Billy often pushed a branch aside with his nose.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000005|In places, fallen trees barred our path, but Billy used to step carefully over them.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000000|The eucalyptus trees change very curiously as they grow old.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000001|When young they are covered with branches low to the ground, and their aromatic tender leaves are light bluish green; afterwards they lose their lower branches, while their leaves become stiff and sickle shaped, dull green and almost odorless.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000002|The same changes are seen in the bark: first the trunks are smooth and green; then they are hung with shaggy shreds of bark; this in turn drops off so that the old trees are smooth again. Some of the young shoots have almost white stems, and their leaves have a pinkish tinge.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000003|Indeed, a young blue gum is as pretty a sight as one often sees; it is a tree of exquisite delicacy of coloring.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000000|Mountain Billy and I both liked to wander among the blue gums.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000001|Billy liked it, perhaps, for association's sake, for we had ridden through the eucalyptus at his home in northern California.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000002|I too had pleasant memories of the northern gums, but my first interest was in finding out who lived in my little woods.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000003|A dog had once been seen driving a coyote wolf out of it, but that was merely in passing.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000004|I did not expect to meet wolves there.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000006|Though in the grove a great deal, I never ran into but one cobweb, and was conscious of the pleasant freedom from falling caterpillars.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000007|Moreover, I never saw a lizard in the blue gums, though dozens of them were to be seen about the oaks and in the brush.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000011_000000|It was a surprise to find so many feathered folks living in the eucalyptus, and I took a personal interest in each one of the inhabitants.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000011_000001|The first time we started to go up and down the avenues we scared up a pair of turtle doves, beautiful, delicately tinted gentle creatures, fit tenants of the lovely grove.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000011_000002|They did not know my friendly interest in them, and flew to the ground trailing and trying to decoy me away in such a marked manner that when we passed a young dove a few yards farther on, it was easy to put two and two together.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000012_000001|There was one nest with a roof of shaggy bark, and I wondered if the birds thought it would be pleasant to live under a roof, or whether the bark had fallen down on them after they built.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000012_000002|I could get no trace of the owners of the nest, and it troubled me, not liking to have any little homes in my wood that I did not know all about.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000012_000003|As we went down one aisle, a big bird went blundering out ahead of us, probably an owl, for afterwards we stumbled on a skeleton and feathers of one of the family.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000000|In one of the trees we came to an enormous nest made of the unusual materials that are sometimes chosen by that strange bird, the road runner.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000002|To make sure about the nest, I spoke to my neighbor ranchman, and he told me that when he had been milking during the spring he had often seen the birds come out of the blue gums, and had also seen them perching there on the trees.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000003|How exasperating!
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000004|If I had only come earlier!
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000005|Now they had gone, and my chance of a nest study was lost.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000000|But my doll was not stuffed with sawdust, for all of that.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000001|There was still much to enjoy, for a mourning dove flew from her nest of twigs almost over Billy's head, and it made me quite happy to know that the gentle bird was brooding her eggs in my woods.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000002|Then it was delightful to see a lazuli bunting on her nest down another aisle.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000003|It seemed odd, for there was her little cousin nesting out in the weeds in the bright sun, while she was raising her brood in the shady forest.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000004|The two nests were as unlike as the sites.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000005|The bird outside had used dull green weeds, while this one used beautiful shining oak stems.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000006|I thought the pretty bird would surely be safe here, but one day when I called, expecting to see a growing family, I was shocked to find a pathetic little skeleton in the nest.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000000|One afternoon in riding down the rows, I came face to face with two mites of hummingbirds seated on a branch.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000001|Their grayish green suits toned in with the color of the blue gums.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000002|It was a surprise when one of them turned to the other and fed it-the mother hummer was small enough to be taken for a nestling!
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000003|She sat beside her son and fed him in the conventional way, by plunging her bill down his open mouth.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000004|When she had flown off, he stretched his wings, whirred them as if for practice, and then moved his bill as if still tasting the dainty he had had for supper.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000005|He sat very unconcernedly on a low branch right out in the middle of the road, but Billy did not run over him.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000016_000001|One builder was the one the photographer was fortunate enough to catch brooding; her nest, the one so charmingly placed on a light blue branch between two straight spreading leaves, like the knot between two bows of stiff ribbon.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000000|The second nest was on a drooping branch, and, to make it stand level, was deepened on the down side of the limb, making it the highest hummingbird's nest I had ever seen.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000002|How one little home does make a place habitable!
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000003|From a bare silent woods it becomes a dwelling place. Everything seemed to centre around this little nest, then the only one in the grove; the tiny pinch of down became the most important thing in the woods.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000004|It was the castle which the trees surrounded.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000001|The hummer did not return my interest.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000003|I would dismount and sit on the ground, leaning against a blue gum, while Billy stood by, in a bower of green leaves, with ears pricked forward thoughtfully, and a dreamy look of satisfaction in his eyes. Hummingbirds are such dainty things.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000004|Once when this one alighted on the rim of her nest she whirred herself right down inside.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000005|Soon she began to act so strangely for a brooding bird that, when she flew, I went to feel in the nest.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000006|The tips of my fingers touched what felt like round balls, but, not satisfied, I pulled down the bough and found one round ball and one mite of a gray back with microscopic yellow hairs on each side of the spine.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000007|The whole tiny body seemed to throb with its heart beats.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000000|Often, while watching the nest, my thoughts wandered away to the grove itself.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000001|The brown earth between the rows was barred by alternate lines of sunlight and shadow, and the vista of each avenue ended in blue sky. Sometimes cool ocean breezes would penetrate the forest.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000003|Mourning doves cooed, and the sweet notes of yellow birds filled the sunny grove with suggestions of happiness.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000004|A yellow butterfly wandered down the blue aisles.
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000005|Such a secure retreat!
train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000006|I returned to it again and again, coming in out of the hot yellow world and closing behind me the doors of my 'rest house,' for the little wood had come to seem like a cool wayside chapel, a place of peace.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000001_000000|At midnight the cafe was crowded.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000004_000004|He spoke disrespectfully of the equator, he skipped from continent to continent, he derided the zones, he mopped up the high seas with his napkin.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000004_000008|Zip!
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000004_000010|Presto!
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000018_000001|"I know an Esquimau in Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati for his neckties, and I saw a goat herder in Uruguay who won a prize in a Battle Creek breakfast food puzzle competition.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000019_000001|"But it also seems that you would decry patriotism."
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000020_000000|"A relic of the stone age," declared Coglan, warmly.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000022_000009|Those ideas don't suit me.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000024_000001|He was my discovery and I believed in him.
train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000025_000001|With the whole world for his-
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000003_000004|Flowers and summer resort agents were blowing; the air and answers to Lawson were growing milder; hand organs, fountains and pinochle were playing everywhere.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000006_000000|At nine mr McCaskey came.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000012_000000|"Pig's face, is it?" said mrs McCaskey, and hurled a stewpan full of bacon and turnips at her lord.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000013_000001|He knew what should follow the entree.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000013_000002|On the table was a roast sirloin of pork, garnished with shamrocks.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000001|Let cheap Bohemians consider coffee the end, if they would.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000003|Finger bowls were not beyond the compass of his experience.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000004|They were not to be had in the Pension Murphy; but their equivalent was at hand.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000006|mrs McCaskey dodged in time.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000008|But a loud, wailing scream downstairs caused both her and mr McCaskey to pause in a sort of involuntary armistice.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000002|I will not.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000003|Married folks they are; and few pleasures they have.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000004|'Twill not last long.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000005|Sure, they'll have to borrow more dishes to keep it up with."
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000017_000001|"'tis probably the cat," said Policeman Cleary, and walked hastily in the other direction.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000018_000004|Bathos, truly; but mr Toomey sat down at the side of Miss Purdy, millinery, and their hands came together in sympathy.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000018_000005|The two old maids, Misses Walsh, who complained every day about the noise in the halls, inquired immediately if anybody had looked behind the clock.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000019_000000|Major Grigg, who sat by his fat wife on the top step, arose and buttoned his coat.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000019_000002|"I will scour the city." His wife never allowed him out after dark.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000019_000006|I may need carfares."
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000022_000001|But it's lost he is, me little boy Mike.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000022_000004|But I've looked the house over from top to cellar, and it's gone he is.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000023_000001|They call it hard as iron; they say that no pulse of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000023_000002|But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000028_000000|"Perhaps," said Miss Purdy, "you should.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000037_000001|"'tis Pat he would be named, after me old father in Cantrim."
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000043_000001|But he laid it around the nearing shoulder of his wife.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000044_000003|Forget it."
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000046_000000|Long they sat thus.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000046_000002|Couriers came and went.
train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000054_000000|"By the deported snakes!" he exclaimed, "Jawn McCaskey and his lady have been fightin' for an hour and a quarter by the watch.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000000_000000|Her book of books is the Old Testament.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000001_000000|Three nights since when it was pretty late, and the moon very splendid, I saw her passing homewards close to the lake, and shouted down to her, meaning to say 'Good night'; but she thought that I had called her, and came: and sitting out on the top step we talked for hours, she without the yashmak.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000002_000000|We fell to talking about the Bible.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000003_000000|'He knocked him over,' I replied, liking sometimes to use such idioms, with the double object of teaching and perplexing her.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000004_000000|'Over what?' says she.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000006_000000|'I do not complehend!'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000007_000000|'He killed him, then.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000008_000001|But how did Abel feel when he was killed?
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000009_000000|'Well,' said I, 'you have seen bones all around you, and the bones of your mother, and you can feel the bones in your fingers.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000010_000000|'And the men and the butterfly feel the same after they are dead?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000013_000000|'Ah!... so much the better: for it is possible that you may have to die a great deal sooner than you think.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000015_000000|'Because they were all such shocking cowards.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000016_000000|'Oh, not all!
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000016_000001|not all!'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000017_000001|With every chance she is at it.)
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000018_000000|'Nearly all,' said I: 'tell me one who was not afraid-'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000019_000000|'There was Isaac,' says she: 'when Ablaham laid him on the wood to kill him, he did not jump up and lun to hide.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000021_000000|This, for several minutes, she did not answer, sitting with her back half toward me, cracking almonds, continually striking one step with the ball of her outstretched foot.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000021_000001|In the clarid gold of the platform I saw her fez and corals reflected as an elongated blotch of florid red.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000021_000002|She turned and drank some wine from the great gold Jarvan goblet which I had brought from the temple of Boro Budor, her head quite covered in by it. Then, the little hairs at her lip corners still wet, says she:
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000022_000001|Always the same.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000023_000000|'Robberies of a hundred sorts, murders of ten hundred-'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000025_000000|'Their evil nature-their base souls.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000027_000000|Her astounding shrewdness!
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000027_000001|Right into the inmost heart of a matter does her simple wit seem to pierce!
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000031_000000|'Ah, but then,' says she, 'it was not to their bad souls that the vices and climes were due, but only to this question of land.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000032_000000|The clear limelight of her intelligence!
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000032_000001|She wriggled on her seat in her effort of argument.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000033_000000|'I am not going to argue the matter,' I said.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000033_000002|And there always must be on an earth where millions of men, with varying degrees of cunning, reside.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000036_000002|I see it clearly, can't you?
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000036_000003|But now, if some more men would spling, they would be taught-'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000038_000000|'There is no telling.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000038_000001|I sometimes feel as if they must, and shall.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000040_000000|'Clodagh,' I said after some minutes-'do you know why I called you Clodagh?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000041_000001|Tell me?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000042_000000|'Because once, long ago before the poison cloud, I had a lover called Clodagh: and she was a....'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000044_000000|'Well, by their faces....'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000045_000000|'But there must have been many faces-all alike-'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000046_000000|'Not all alike.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000047_000000|'Still, it must have been vely clever to tell.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000049_000000|'What was a goose like?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000050_000000|'It was a thing like a butterfly, only larger, and it kept its toes always spread out, with a skin stretched between.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000051_000000|'Leally?
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000051_000001|How caplicious!
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000051_000002|And am I like that?--but what were you saying that your lover, Clodagh, was?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000056_000000|'What, girl?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000058_000000|'Come, come, don't be a little maniac!' I went.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000059_000000|'Why did she poison?
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000059_000001|Had she not enough dates and wine?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000060_000000|'She had, yes: but she wanted more, more, more, the silly idiot.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000062_000000|'By the others chiefly.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000064_000000|'How was it?'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000065_000001|The vices and climes must have begun with those who lacked things, and then the others, always seeing vices and climes alound them, began to do them, too-as when one rotten olive is in a bottle, the whole mass soon becomes collupted: but originally they were not rotten, but only became so.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000065_000002|And all though a little carelessness at the first.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000066_000001|You understand, Clodagh, that originally the earth produced men by a long process, beginning with a very low type of creature, and continually developing it, until at last a man stood up.
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000066_000003|Instead, go inside-stop, I will tell you a secret: to day in the wood I picked some musk roses and wound them into a wreath, meaning to give them you for your head when you came to morrow: and it is inside on the pearl tripod in the second room to the left: go, therefore, and put it on, and bring the harp, and play to me, my dear.'
train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000067_000000|She ran quick with a little cry, and coming again, sat crowned, incarnadine in the blushing depths of the gold.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty six.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000003_000000|CHECKMATED.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000004_000000|Constance Channing proceeded to her duties as usual at Lady Augusta Yorke's.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000004_000001|She drew her veil over her face, only to traverse the very short way that conveyed her thither, for the sense of shame was strong upon her; not shame for Arthur, but for Hamish.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000004_000002|It had half broken Constance's heart.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000000|There are times in our every day lives when all things seem to wear a depressing aspect, turn which way we will.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000001|They were wearing it that day to Constance.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000002|Apart from home troubles, she felt particularly discouraged in the educational task she had undertaken.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000003|You heard the promise made to her by Caroline Yorke, to be up and ready for her every morning at seven.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000004|Caroline kept it for two mornings and then failed. This morning and the previous morning Constance had been there at seven, and returned home without seeing either of the children.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000005|Both were ready for her when she entered now.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000006_000000|"How am I to deal with you?" she said to Caroline, in a sad but affectionate tone.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000006_000001|"I do not wish to force you to obey me; I would prefer that you should do it cheerfully."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000007_000000|"It is tiresome to get up early," responded Caroline.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000007_000001|"I can't wake when Martha comes."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000008_000000|"Whether Martha goes to you at seven, or at eight, or at nine, she has the same trouble to get you up."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000009_000000|"I don't see any good in getting up early," cried Caroline.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000010_000000|"Do you see any good in acquiring good habits, instead of bad ones?" asked Constance.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000011_000001|We are ladies. It's only the poor who need get up at unreasonable hours-those who have their living to earn."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000012_000000|"Is it only the poor who are accountable to God for waste of time, Caroline?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000013_000000|Caroline paused.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000013_000001|She did not like to give up her argument.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000013_000003|I don't think real ladies ever do it."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000014_000000|"You think 'real ladies' wait until the sun has been up a few hours and warmed the earth for them?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000015_000001|But it was not spoken very readily, for she had a suspicion that Miss Channing was laughing at her.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000017_000000|Caroline pouted.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000017_000001|"Don't you call Colonel Jolliffe's daughters ladies, Miss Channing?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000018_000000|"Yes-in position."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000019_000000|"That's where we went yesterday, you know.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000019_000001|Mary Jolliffe says she never gets up until half past eight, and that it is not lady like to get up earlier.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000019_000002|Real ladies don't, Miss Channing."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000020_000000|"My dear, shall I relate to you an anecdote that I have heard?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000021_000000|"Oh, yes!" replied Caroline, her listless mood changing to animation; anecdotes, or anything of that desultory kind, being far more acceptable to the young lady than lessons.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000022_000000|"Before I begin, will you tell me whether you condescend to admit that our good Queen is a 'real lady'?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000023_000000|"Oh, Miss Channing, now you are laughing at me!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000023_000001|As if any one, in all England, could be so great a lady as the Queen."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000000|"Very good.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000001|When she was a little girl, a child of her own age, the daughter of one of the nobility, was brought to Kensington Palace to spend the day with her.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000002|In talking together, the Princess Victoria mentioned something she had seen when out of doors that morning at seven o'clock.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000003|'At seven o'clock!' exclaimed the young visitor; 'how early that is to be abroad!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000004|I never get out of bed until eight.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000006|We may be thankful to her admirable mother for making her in that, as in many other things, a pattern to us."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000025_000000|"Is it a true anecdote, Miss Channing?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000000|"It was related to my mother, many years ago, by a lady who was, at that time, very much at Kensington Palace.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000001|I think there is little doubt of its truth.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000002|One fact we all know, Caroline: the Queen retains her early habits, and implants them in her children.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000003|What do you suppose would be her Majesty's surprise, were one of her daughters-say, the Princess Helena, or the Princess Louise-to decline to rise early for their morning studies with their governess, Miss Hildyard, on the plea that it was not 'lady like'?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000027_000000|Caroline's objection appeared to be melting away under her.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000027_000001|"But it is a dreadful plague," she grumbled, "to be obliged to get up from one's nice warm bed, for the sake of some horrid old lessons!"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000028_000001|"Put that notion away from you at once and for ever, Caroline; there cannot be a more false one.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000028_000002|The higher we go in the scale of life, the more onerous become our duties in this world, and the greater is our responsibility to God.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000028_000003|He to whom five talents were intrusted, did not make them other five by wasting his days in idleness.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000029_000001|"I wish mamma had trained me to it when I was a child, as the Duchess of Kent trained the princess!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000029_000002|I might have learned to like it by this time."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000000|"Long before this," said Constance.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000001|"Do you remember the good old saying, 'Do what you ought, that you may do what you like'?
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000002|Habit is second nature.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000003|Were I told that I might lie in bed every morning until nine or ten o'clock, as a great favour, I should consider it a great punishment."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000031_000000|"But I have not been trained to get up, Miss Channing; and it is nothing short of punishment to me to do so."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000032_000000|"The punishment of self denial we all have to bear, Caroline.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000032_000001|But I can tell you what will take away half its sting."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000033_000000|"What?" asked Caroline, eagerly.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000034_000000|Constance bent towards her.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000034_000001|"Jesus Christ said, 'If any will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.' When once we learn HOW to take it up cheerfully, bravely, for His sake, looking to Him to be helped, the sting is gone.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000034_000002|'No cross, no crown,' you know, my children."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000035_000000|"No cross, no crown!" Constance had sufficient cross to carry just then.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000035_000001|In the course of the morning Lady Augusta came into the room boisterously, her manner indicative of great surprise.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000036_000001|Some visitors have just called in upon me, and they say the town is ringing with the news."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000037_000000|It was one of the first of Constance Channing's bitter pills; they were to be her portion for many a day.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000037_000001|Her heart fluttered, her cheek varied, and her answer to Lady Augusta Yorke was low and timid.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000038_000000|"It is true that he was arrested yesterday on suspicion."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000039_000000|"What a shocking thing!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000039_000001|Is he in prison?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000040_000000|"Oh no"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000041_000000|"Did he take the note?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000042_000000|The question pained Constance worse than all.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000042_000001|"He did not take it," she replied, in a clear, soft tone.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000042_000002|"To those who know Arthur well, it would be impossible to think so."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000043_000000|"But he was before the magistrates yesterday, I hear, and is going up again to day."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000044_000000|"Yes, that is so."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000000|"And Roland could not open his lips to tell me of this when I came home last night!" grumbled my lady.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000001|"We were late, and he was the only one up; Gerald and Tod were in bed.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000002|I shall ask him why he did not.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000003|But, Miss Channing, this must be a dreadful blow for you all?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000046_000000|"It would be far worse, Lady Augusta, if we believed him guilty," she replied from her aching heart.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000047_000000|"Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000047_000002|"It would be quite a dangerous thing, you know, for my Roland to be in the same office."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000048_000000|"Be at ease, Lady Augusta," returned Constance, with a tinge of irony she could not wholly suppress.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000048_000001|"Your son will incur no harm from the companionship of Arthur."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000049_000000|"What does Hamish say?--handsome Hamish!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000049_000001|He does not deserve that such a blow should come to him."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000050_000000|Constance felt her colour deepen.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000050_000001|She bent her face over the exercise she was correcting.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000051_000000|"Is he likely to be cleared of the charge?" perseveringly resumed Lady Augusta.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000052_000000|"Not by actual proof, I fear," answered Constance, pressing her hand upon her brow as she remembered that he could only be proved innocent by another's being proved guilty.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000052_000001|"The note seems to have been lost in so very mysterious a manner, that positive proof of his innocence will be difficult."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000053_000000|"Well, it is a dreadful thing!" concluded Lady Augusta.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000054_000000|Meanwhile, at the very moment her ladyship was speaking, the magistrates were in the town hall in full conclave-the case before them.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000054_000001|The news had spread-had excited interest far and wide; the bench was crowded, and the court was one dense sea of heads.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000055_000000|Arthur appeared, escorted by his brother Hamish and by Roland Yorke. Roland was in high feather, throwing his haughty glances everywhere, for he had an inkling of what was to be the termination of the affair, and did not conceal his triumph.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000055_000001|mr Galloway also was of their party.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000056_000000|mr Galloway was the first witness put forth by mr Butterby.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000056_000001|The latter gentleman was in high feather also, believing he saw his way clear to a triumphant conviction.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000056_000002|mr Galloway was questioned; and for some minutes it all went on swimmingly.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000057_000000|"On the afternoon of the loss, before you closed your letter, who were in your office?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000058_000000|"My clerks-Roland Yorke and Arthur Channing."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000059_000000|"They saw the letter, I believe?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000060_000000|"They did."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000061_000000|"And the bank note?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000062_000000|"Most probably."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000063_000000|"It was the prisoner, Arthur Channing, who fetched the bank note from your private room to the other?
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000063_000001|Did he see you put it into the letter?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000064_000000|"I cannot say."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000065_000000|A halt.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000065_000001|"But he was in full possession of his eyes just then?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000066_000000|"No doubt he was."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000067_000000|"Then what should hinder his seeing you put the note into the letter?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000068_000000|"I will not swear that I put the note into the letter."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000069_000000|The magistrates pricked up their ears.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000069_000001|mr Butterby pricked up his, and looked at the witness.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000070_000000|"What do you say?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000071_000000|"I will not swear that I put the bank note inside the letter," deliberately repeated mr Galloway.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000072_000000|"Not swear that you put the bank note into the letter?
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000072_000001|What is it that you mean?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000073_000000|"The meaning is plain enough," replied mr Galloway, calmly.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000073_000001|"Must I repeat it for the third time?
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000073_000002|I will not swear that I put the note into the letter."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000075_000000|"I will not swear it," reiterated the witness.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000078_000000|"I have been checkmated," ejaculated the angry Butterby.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000080_000000|"Who said our office was going to be put down for a thief's!" uttered Roland.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000080_000001|"Old Galloway's a trump!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000080_000002|Here's your place, Arthur."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000081_000000|Arthur did not take it.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000081_000001|He had seen from the window the approach of mr Galloway, and delicacy prevented his assuming his old post until bade to do so.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000081_000002|mr Galloway came in, and motioned him into his own room.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000082_000000|"Arthur Channing," he said, "I have acted leniently in this unpleasant matter, for your father's sake; but, from my very heart, I believe you to be guilty."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000083_000000|"I thank you, sir," Arthur said, "for that and all other kindness.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000083_000001|I am not as guilty as you think me.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000083_000002|Do you wish me to leave?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000084_000000|"If you can give me no better assurance of your innocence-if you can give me no explanation of the peculiar and most unsatisfactory manner in which you have met the charge-yes.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000085_000000|To give this explanation was impossible; neither dared Arthur assert more emphatically his innocence.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000085_000001|Once convince mr Galloway that he was not the guilty party, and that gentleman would forthwith issue fresh instructions to Butterby for the further investigation of the affair: of this Arthur felt convinced.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000085_000002|He could only be silent and remain under the stigma.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000086_000000|"Then-I had better-you would wish me, perhaps-to go at once?" hesitated Arthur.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000087_000000|"Yes," shortly replied mr Galloway.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000088_000000|He spoke a word of farewell, which mr Galloway replied to by a nod, and went into the front office.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000088_000001|There he began to collect together certain trifles that belonged to him.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000089_000000|"What's that for?" asked Roland Yorke.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000091_000000|"Going!" roared Roland, jumping to his feet, and dashing down his pen full of ink, with little regard to the deed he was copying.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000091_000001|"Galloway has never turned you off!"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000092_000000|"Yes, he has."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000093_000000|"Then I'll go too!" thundered Roland, who, truth to say, had flown into an uncontrollable passion, startling Jenkins and arousing mr Galloway. "I'll not stop in a place where that sort of injustice goes on!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000093_000001|He'll be turning me out next!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000093_000002|Catch me stopping for it!"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000094_000000|"Are you taken crazy, mr Roland Yorke?"
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000095_000000|The question proceeded from his master, who came forth to make it. Roland turned to him, his temper unsubdued, and his colour rising.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000096_000000|"Channing never took the money, sir!
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000096_000001|It is not just to turn him away."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000097_000000|"Did you help him to take it, pray, that you identify yourself with the affair so persistently and violently?" demanded mr Galloway, in a cynical tone.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000097_000001|And Roland answered with a hot and haughty word.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000098_000000|"If you cannot attend to your business a little better, you will get your dismissal from me; you won't require to dismiss yourself," said mr Galloway.
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000098_000001|"Sit down, sir, and go on with your work."
train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000099_000000|"And that's all the thanks a fellow gets for taking up a cause of oppression!" muttered mr Roland Yorke, as he sullenly resumed his place at the desk.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000001_000000|mr
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000001_000001|KETCH'S EVENING VISIT.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000000|It were surely a breach of politeness on our part not to attend mr Ketch in his impromptu evening visit!
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000001|He shuffled along at the very top of his speed, his mouth watering, while the delicious odour of tripe and onions appeared to be borne on the air to his olfactory nerves: so strong is the force of fancy.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000002|Arrived at his destination, he found the shop closed.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000004|mr Ketch seized the knocker on the shop door-there was no other entrance to the house-and brought it down with a force that shook the first floor sitting room, and startled mr Harper, the lay clerk, almost out of his armchair, as he sat before the fire.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000003_000000|"Be I in time?" demanded Ketch, his voice shaking.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000004_000000|"In time for what?" responded the girl.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000005_000000|"Why, for supper," said Ketch, penetrating into the shop, which was lighted by a candle that stood on the counter, the one the girl had brought in her hand.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000006_000000|"Old Jenkins ain't here," said she.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000006_000001|"You had better go into the parlour, if you're come to supper."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000007_000000|Ketch went down the shop, sniffing curiously.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000007_000001|Sharp as fancy is, he could not say that he was regaled with the scent of onions, but he supposed the saucepan lid might be on.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000000|Ketch entered the parlour, and sat down.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000001|There was a fire in the grate, but no light, and there were not, so far as Ketch could see, any preparations yet for the entertainment.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000002|"They're going to have it downstairs in the kitchen," soliloquized he.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000003|"And that's a sight more comfortabler.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000004|She's gone out to fetch it, I shouldn't wonder!" he continued, alluding to mrs Jenkins, and sniffing again strongly, but without result.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000005|"That's right! she won't let 'em serve her with short onions, she won't; she has a tongue of her own.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000001|Such a thing as a run on the delicacy had occurred more than once, to Ketch's certain knowledge, and tardy customers had been sent away disappointed, to wait in longing anticipations for the next tripe night.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000002|He went into a cold perspiration at the bare idea.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000003|And where was old Jenkins, all this time, that he had not come in?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000004|And where was Joe?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000005|A pretty thing to invite a gentleman out to an impromptu supper, and serve him in this way!
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000006|What could they mean by it?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000010_000000|He groped his way round the corner of the shop to where lay the kitchen stairs, whose position he pretty well knew, and called.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000010_000001|"Here, Sally, Betty-whatever your name is-ain't there nobody at home?"
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000011_000000|The girl heard, and came forth, the same candle in hand.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000011_000001|"Who be you calling to, I'd like to know?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000011_000002|My name's Lidyar, if you please."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000013_000000|"Gone out for what tripe?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000013_000001|"What be you talking of?"
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000014_000000|"The tripe for supper," said Ketch.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000015_000000|"There ain't no tripe for supper," replied she.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000016_000000|"There is tripe for supper," persisted Ketch.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000016_000001|"And me and old Jenkins are going to have some of it.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000016_000002|There's tripe and onions."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000017_000000|The girl shook her head.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000017_000001|"I dun know nothing about it.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000017_000002|Missis is upstairs, fixing the mustard."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000000|Oh come! this gave a promise of something.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000001|Old Ketch thought mustard the greatest condiment that tripe could be accompanied by, in conjunction with onions.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000002|But she must have been a long time "fixing" the mustard; whatever that might mean.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000003|His spirits dropped again, and he grew rather exasperated.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000004|"Go up and ask your missis how long I be to wait?" he growled.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000019_000000|The girl, possibly feeling a little curiosity herself, came up with her candle.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000019_000002|"He's gone to bed, and missis is putting him a plaster on his chest."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000020_000000|The words fell as ice on old Ketch.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000020_000001|"A mustard plaster?" shrieked he.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000021_000000|"What else but a mustard plaster!" she retorted.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000021_000001|"Did you think it was a pitch?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000021_000002|There's a fire lighted in his room, and she's making it there."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000000|Nothing more certain.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000001|Poor Jenkins, who had coughed more than usual the last two days, perhaps from the wet weather, and whose chest in consequence was very painful, had been ordered to bed this night by his wife when tea was over.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000002|She had gone up herself, as soon as her shop was shut, to administer a mustard plaster.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000003|Ketch was quite stunned with uncertainty.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000004|A man in bed, with a plaster on his chest, was not likely to invite company to supper.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000023_000000|Before he had seen his way out of the shock, or the girl had done staring at him, mrs Jenkins descended the stairs and joined them, having been attracted by the conversation.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000024_000000|"He says he's come to supper: tripe and onions," said the girl, unceremoniously introducing mr Ketch and the subject to her wondering mistress.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000025_000000|mrs Jenkins, not much more famous for meekness in expressing her opinions than was Ketch, turned her gaze upon that gentleman.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000026_000000|"Why, I have come for supper, that's what I have come for," shrieked Ketch, trembling.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000026_000001|"Jenkins invited me to supper; tripe and onions; and I'd like to know what it all means, and where the supper is."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000027_000000|"You are going into your dotage," said mrs Jenkins, with an amount of scorn so great that it exasperated Ketch as much as the words themselves.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000027_000001|"You'll be wanting a lunatic asylum next.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000027_000002|Tripe and onions! If Jenkins was to hint at such a thing as a plate of tripe coming inside my house, I'd tripe him.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000028_000000|"Is this the way to treat a man?" foamed Ketch, disappointment and hunger driving him almost into the state hinted at by mrs Jenkins.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000028_000001|"Joe Jenkins sends me down a note an hour ago, to come here to supper with his old father, and it was to be tripe and onions!
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000000|"Here, Lydia, open the door and let him out," cried mrs Jenkins, waving her hand imperatively towards it.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000001|"And what have you been at with your face again?" continued she, as the candle held by that damsel reflected its light.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000002|"One can't see it for colly.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000003|If I do put you into that mask I have threatened, you won't like it, girl.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000004|Hold your tongue, old Ketch, or I'll call mr Harper down to you.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000005|Write a note!
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000006|What else?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000007|He has wrote no note; he has been too suffering the last few hours to think of notes, or of you either.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000030_000000|"I shall be drove one," sobbed Ketch.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000030_000001|"I was promised a treat of-"
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000031_000001|There!
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000031_000002|Take yourself off.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000031_000003|My goodness, me! disturbing my house with such a crazy errand!" And, taking old Ketch by the shoulders, who was rather feeble and tottering, from lumbago and age, mrs Jenkins politely marshalled him outside, and closed the door upon him.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000032_000000|"Insolent old fellow!" she exclaimed to her husband, to whom she went at once and related the occurrence.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000032_000001|"I wonder what he'll pretend he has next from you?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000032_000002|A note of invitation, indeed!"
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000033_000000|"My dear," said Jenkins, revolving the news, and speaking as well as his chest would allow him, "it must have been a trick played him by the young college gentlemen.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000033_000001|We should not be too hard upon the poor old man.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000033_000002|He's not very agreeable or good tempered, I'm afraid it must be allowed; but-I'd not have sent him away without a bit of supper, my dear."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000034_000000|"I dare say you'd not," retorted mrs Jenkins.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000034_000001|"All the world knows you are soft enough for anything.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000034_000002|I have sent him away with a flea in his ear; that's what I have done."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000035_000000|mr Ketch had at length come to the same conclusion: the invitation must be the work of the college gentlemen.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000035_000002|Deceived, betrayed, fainting for supper, done out of the delicious tripe and onions, he leaned against the shutters, and gave vent to a prolonged and piteous howl.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000035_000003|It might have drawn tears from a stone.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000036_000000|In a frame of mind that was not enviable, he turned his steps homeward, clasping his hands upon his empty stomach, and vowing the most intense vengeance upon the college boys.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000036_000001|The occurrence naturally caused him to cast back his thoughts to that other trick the locking him into the cloisters, in which Jenkins had been a fellow victim-and he doubled his fists in impotent anger.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000036_000002|"This comes of their not having been flogged for that!" he groaned.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000037_000000|Engaged in these reflections of gall and bitterness, old Ketch gained his lodge, unlocked it, and entered.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000037_000001|No wonder that he turned his eyes upon the cloister keys, the reminiscence being so strong within him.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000000|But, to say he turned his eyes upon the cloister keys, is a mere figure of speech.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000001|No keys were there.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000002|Ketch stood a statue transfixed, and stared as hard as the flickering blaze from his dying fire would allow him.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000003|Seizing a match box, he struck a light and held it to the hook.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000000|Ketch was no conjuror, and it never occurred to him to suspect that the keys had been removed before his own departure.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000001|"How had them wicked ones got in?" he foamed.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000002|"Had they forced his winder?--had they took a skeleton key to his door?--had they come down the chimbley?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000004|He didn't think they'd mind a little fire.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000005|It was that insolent Bywater!--or that young villain, Tod Yorke!--or that undaunted Tom Channing!--or perhaps all three leagued together!
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000040_000000|He examined the window; he examined the door; he cast a glance up the chimney.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000040_000001|Nothing, however, appeared to have been touched or disturbed, and there was no soot on the floor.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000040_000002|Cutting himself a piece of bread and cheese, lamenting at its dryness, and eating it as he went along, he proceeded out again, locking up his lodge as before.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000042_000000|"There ain't a boy in the school but what'll come to be hung!" danced old Ketch in his rage.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000043_000000|He would have preferred not to find the keys; but to go to the head master with a story of their theft.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000043_000001|It was possible, it was just possible that, going, keys in hand, the master might refuse to believe his tale.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000000|Away he hobbled, and arrived at the house of the head master.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000003|The other masters lived at a distance, and Ketch's old legs were aching. What was he to do?
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000004|Make his complaint to some one, he was determined upon.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000005|The new senior, Huntley, lived too far off for his lumbago; so he turned his steps to the next senior's, Tom Channing, and demanded to see him.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000045_000000|Tom heard the story, which was given him in detail.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000045_000001|He told Ketch-and with truth-that he knew nothing about it, but would make inquiries in the morning.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000045_000002|Ketch was fain to depart, and Tom returned to the sitting room, and threw himself into a chair in a burst of laughter.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000046_000000|"What is the matter?" they asked.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000047_000000|"The primest lark," returned Tom.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000047_000001|"Some of the fellows have been sending Ketch an invitation to sup at Jenkins's off tripe and onions, and when he arrived there he found it was a hoax, and mrs Jenkins turned him out again.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000047_000002|That's what Master Charley must have gone after."
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000048_000000|Hamish turned round.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000049_000000|"Gone after it, there's no doubt," replied Tom.
train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000049_000001|"Here's his exercise, not finished yet, and his pen left inside the book.
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000003_000002|Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; a hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, a hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000006_000000|Fifty thousand Englishmen lost their lives willingly near Battle Abbey, in defence of their country.
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000006_000008|Take this away, and take all pleasure, joy, comfort, happiness, and true content out of the world; 'tis the greatest tie, the surest indenture, strongest band, and, as our modern Maro decides it, is much to be preferred before the rest.
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000009_000007|nineteen. perform those duties and exercises, even all the operations of a good Christian.
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000012_000000|"Angelical souls, how blessed, how happy should we be, so loving, how might we triumph over the devil, and have another heaven upon earth!"
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000014_000001|Poor Lazarus lies howling at his gates for a few crumbs, he only seeks chippings, offals; let him roar and howl, famish, and eat his own flesh, he respects him not.
train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000020_000007|If we had any sense or feeling of these things, surely we should not go on as we do, in such irregular courses, practise all manner of impieties; our whole carriage would not be so averse from God.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000003_000000|In dealing with the city cults of Sumer and Akkad, consideration must be given to the problems involved by the rival mythological systems. Pantheons not only varied in detail, but were presided over by different supreme gods.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000003_000001|One city's chief deity might be regarded as a secondary deity at another centre.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000000|As has been indicated, a mythological system must have been strongly influenced by city politics.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000003|Reference has been made to the introduction of strange deities by conquerors.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000004|But these were not always imposed upon a community by violent means.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000006|When they came as military allies to assist a city folk against a fierce enemy, they were naturally much admired and praised, honoured by the women and the bards, and rewarded by the rulers.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000007_000000|Ea bani was attracted to Erech by the gift of a fair woman for wife. The poet who lauded him no doubt mirrored public opinion.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000009_000000|Like the giant Alban, the eponymous ancestor of a people who invaded prehistoric Britain, Ea bani appears to have represented in Babylonian folk legends a certain type of foreign settlers in the land.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000010_000001|The teachings and example of Buddha, for instance, revolutionized Brahmanic religion in India.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000011_000001|The priests systematized existing folk beliefs and established an official religion.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000000|The religious attitude of a particular community, therefore, must have been largely dependent on its needs and experiences.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000001|The food supply was a first consideration.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000002|At Eridu, as we have seen, it was assured by devotion to Ea and obedience to his commands as an instructor. Elsewhere it might happen, however, that Ea's gifts were restricted or withheld by an obstructing force-the raging storm god, or the parching, pestilence bringing deity of the sun
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000003|It was necessary, therefore, for the people to win the favour of the god or goddess who seemed most powerful, and was accordingly considered to be the greatest in a particular district.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000004|A rain god presided over the destinies of one community, and a god of disease and death over another; a third exalted the war god, no doubt because raids were frequent and the city owed its strength and prosperity to its battles and conquests.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000013_000000|In accounting for the rise of distinctive and rival city deities, we should also consider the influence of divergent conceptions regarding the origin of life in mingled communities.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000013_000001|Each foreign element in a community had its own intellectual life and immemorial tribal traditions, which reflected ancient habits of life and perpetuated the doctrines of eponymous ancestors.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000013_000004|It is not surprising, therefore, to find that in Babylonia, as in Egypt, there were differences of opinion regarding the origin of life and the particular natural element which represented the vital principle.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000014_000000|One section of the people, who were represented by the worshippers of Ea, appear to have believed that the essence of life was contained in water.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000014_000001|The god of Eridu was the source of the "water of life".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000014_000002|He fertilized parched and sunburnt wastes through rivers and irrigating canals, and conferred upon man the sustaining "food of life".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000016_000001|Even the gods required water and food; they were immortal because they had drunk ambrosia and eaten from the plant of life.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000000|The worship of rivers and wells which prevailed in many countries was connected with the belief that the principle of life was in moisture. In India, water was vitalized by the intoxicating juice of the Soma plant, which inspired priests to utter prophecies and filled their hearts with religious fervour.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000001|Drinking customs had originally a religious significance.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000003|The Teutonic gods also drank this mead, and poets were inspired by it.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000005|Moon and water worship were therefore closely associated; the blood of animals and the sap of plants were vitalized by the water of life and under control of the moon.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000021_000000|Other Egyptian deities, including Osiris and Isis, wept creative tears.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000021_000003|The weeping ceremonies in connection with agricultural rites were no doubt believed to be of magical potency; they encouraged the god to weep creative tears.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000025_000000|Saliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000025_000001|Spitting ceremonies are referred to in the religious literature of Ancient Egypt.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000025_000002|When the Eye of Ra was blinded by Set, Thoth spat in it to restore vision.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000026_000000|Several African tribes spit to make compacts, declare friendship, and to curse.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000003|Theocritus, Sophocles, and Plutarch testify to the ancient Grecian customs of spitting to cure and to curse, and also to bless when children were named.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000004|Pliny has expressed belief in the efficacy of the fasting spittle for curing disease, and referred to the custom of spitting to avert witchcraft. In England, Scotland, and Ireland spitting customs are not yet obsolete.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000006|When the Newcastle colliers held their earliest strikes they made compacts by spitting on a stone.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000007|There are still "spitting stones" in the north of Scotland.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000009|The first money taken each day by fishwives and other dealers is spat upon to ensure increased drawings.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000011|We still call a hasty person a "spitfire", and a calumniator a "spit poison".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000028_000000|The life principle in trees, and c., as we have seen, was believed to have been derived from the tears of deities.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000028_000002|"Among the ancients", wrote Professor Robertson Smith, "blood is generally conceived as the principle or vehicle of life, and so the account often given of sacred waters is that the blood of the deity flows in them.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000032_000001|No doubt this theory was based on the fact that the human liver contains about a sixth of the blood in the body, the largest proportion required by any single organ.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000033_000000|Inspiration was derived by drinking blood as well as by drinking intoxicating liquors-the mead of the gods.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000034_000000|Similar customs were prevalent in Ancient Greece.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000035_000000|But while most Babylonians appear to have believed that the life principle was in blood, some were apparently of opinion that it was in breath-the air of life.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000035_000001|A man died when he ceased to breathe; his spirit, therefore, it was argued, was identical with the atmosphere-the moving wind-and was accordingly derived from the atmospheric or wind god.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000035_000002|When, in the Gilgamesh epic, the hero invokes the dead Ea bani, the ghost rises up like a "breath of wind".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000037_000002|It is possible that this conception was popularized by the Semites. Inspiration was perhaps derived from these deities by burning incense, which, if we follow evidence obtained elsewhere, induced a prophetic trance.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000037_000003|The gods were also invoked by incense.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000001|Their origin is obscure. It is doubtful if their worshippers, like those of the Indian Agni, believed that fire, the "vital spark", was the principle of life which was manifested by bodily heat.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000003|This practice, however, did not obtain among the fire worshippers of Persia, nor, as was once believed, in Sumer or Akkad either.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000005|It destroyed demons, and put to flight the spirits of disease.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000008|Human sacrifices might also have been offered up as burnt offerings.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000009|Abraham, who came from the Sumerian city of Ur, was prepared to sacrifice Isaac, Sarah's first born.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000010|The fire gods of Babylonia never achieved the ascendancy of the Indian Agni; they appear to have resembled him mainly in so far as he was connected with the sun
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000011|Nusku, like Agni, was also the "messenger of the gods".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000012|When Merodach or Babylon was exalted as chief god of the pantheon his messages were carried to Ea by Nusku.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000013|He may have therefore symbolized the sun rays, for Merodach had solar attributes.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000014|It is possible that the belief obtained among even the water worshippers of Eridu that the sun and moon, which rose from the primordial deep, had their origin in the everlasting fire in Ea's domain at the bottom of the sea.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000015|In the Indian god Varuna's ocean home an "Asura fire" (demon fire) burned constantly; it was "bound and confined", but could not be extinguished.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000039_000000|It is possible, of course, that fire was regarded as the vital principle by some city cults, which were influenced by imported ideas. If so, the belief never became prevalent.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000000|Moon worship appears to have been as ancient as water worship, with which, as we have seen, it was closely associated.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000001|It was widely prevalent throughout Babylonia.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000002|The chief seat of the lunar deity, Nannar or Sin, was the ancient city of Ur, from which Abraham migrated to Harran, where the "Baal" (the lord) was also a moon god.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000004|No doubt, like that city, it had its origin at an exceedingly remote period.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000005|At any rate, the excavations conducted there have afforded proof that it flourished in the prehistoric period.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000041_000000|As in Arabia, Egypt, and throughout ancient Europe and elsewhere, the moon god of Sumeria was regarded as the "friend of man".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000041_000001|He controlled nature as a fertilizing agency; he caused grass, trees, and crops to grow; he increased flocks and herds, and gave human offspring.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000042_000001|The mountains of Sinai and the desert of Sin are called after this deity.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000043_000000|As Nannar, which Jastrow considers to be a variation of "Narnar", the "light producer", the moon god scattered darkness and reduced the terrors of night.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000043_000001|His spirit inhabited the lunar stone, so that moon and stone worship were closely associated; it also entered trees and crops, so that moon worship linked with earth worship, as both linked with water worship.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000044_000001|She links with Ishtar as Nin, as Isis of Egypt linked with other mother deities.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000044_000002|The twin children of the moon were Mashu and Mashtu, a brother and sister, like the lunar girl and boy of Teutonic mythology immortalized in nursery rhymes as Jack and Jill.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000045_000000|Sun worship was of great antiquity in Babylonia, but appears to have been seasonal in its earliest phases.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000045_000002|The spring sun was personified as Tammuz, the youthful shepherd, who was loved by the earth goddess Ishtar and her rival Eresh ki gal, goddess of death, the Babylonian Persephone.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000045_000006|He had much in common with Nin Girsu, a god of Lagash, who was in turn regarded as a form of Tammuz.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000046_000001|He was the king of death, husband of Eresh ki gal, queen of Hades.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000046_000003|He was the chief deity of the city of Cuthah, which, Jastrow suggests, was situated beside a burial place of great repute, like the Egyptian Abydos.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000047_000002|He was a god of Destiny, the lord of the living and the dead, and was exalted as the great Judge, the lawgiver, who upheld justice; he was the enemy of wrong, he loved righteousness and hated sin, he inspired his worshippers with rectitude and punished evildoers.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000047_000003|The sun god also illumined the world, and his rays penetrated every quarter: he saw all things, and read the thoughts of men; nothing could be concealed from Shamash.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000047_000005|These twin deities, Mitra and Varuna, measured out the span of human life.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000001|This god was also worshipped by the military aristocracy of Mitanni, which held sway for a period over Assyria.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000002|In Roman times the worship of Mithra spread into Europe from Persia.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000005|Rain would therefore be gifted by him as a fertilizing deity.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000007|The solar deity thus appears as a form of Anu, god of the sky and upper atmosphere, who controls the seasons and the various forces of nature.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000008|Other rival chiefs of city pantheons, whether lunar, atmospheric, earth, or water deities, were similarly regarded as the supreme deities who ruled the Universe, and decreed when man should receive benefits or suffer from their acts of vengeance.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000054_000000|O Varuna, whatever the offence may be That we as men commit against the heavenly folk, When through our want of thought we violate thy laws, Chastise us not, O god, for that iniquity.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000058_000001|The grave was the "house of clay", as in Babylonia.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000059_000000|As Ma banda anna, "the boat of the sky", Shamash links with the Egyptian sun god Ra, whose barque sailed over the heavens by day and through the underworld of darkness and death during the night.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000059_000001|The consort of Shamash was Aa, and his attendants were Kittu and Mesharu, "Truth" and "Righteousness".
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000060_000001|At Erech she had a shrine in the temple of the sky god Anu.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000000|We can trace in Babylonia, as in Egypt, the early belief that life in the Universe had a female origin.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000001|Nin sun links with Ishtar, whose Sumerian name is Nana.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000002|Ishtar appears to be identical with the Egyptian Hathor, who, as Sekhet, slaughtered the enemies of the sun god Ra.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000003|She was similarly the goddess of maternity, and is depicted in this character, like Isis and other goddesses of similar character, suckling a babe.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000062_000002|As a hammer god, he was imported by the Semites from the hills.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000062_000003|He was a wind and thunder deity, a rain bringer, a corn god, and a god of battle like Thor, Jupiter, Tarku, Indra, and others, who were all sons of the sky.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000063_000001|The prominence accorded to an individual deity depended on local conditions, experiences, and influences.
train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000065_000000|The Sumerians, like the Ancient Egyptians, developed their deities, who reflected the growth of culture, from vague spirit groups, which, like ghosts, were hostile to mankind.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000002_000001|When their women have brought forth children, they suckle and rear them in temples set apart for all.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000002_000005|After their sixth year they are taught natural science, and then the mechanical sciences.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000002_000008|Names are given to them by Metaphysicus, and that not by chance, but designedly, and according to each one's peculiarity, as was the custom among the ancient romans.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000001|Certainly not.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000006|And thus they distribute male and female breeders of the best natures according to philosophical rules.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000010|Therefore, if any woman dyes her face, so that it may become beautiful, or uses high heeled boots so that she may appear tall, or garments with trains to cover her wooden shoes, she is condemned to capital punishment.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000011|But if the women should even desire them they have no facility for doing these things.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000014|By these means they lose their color and have pale complexions, and become feeble and small. For this reason they are without proper complexions, use high sandals, and become beautiful not from strength, but from slothful tenderness. And thus they ruin their own tempers and natures, and consequently those of their offspring.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000015|Furthermore, if at any time a man is taken captive with ardent love for a certain woman, the two are allowed to converse and joke together and to give one another garlands of flowers or leaves, and to make verses.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000017|Moreover, the love born of eager desire is not known among them; only that born of friendship.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000005_000002|They hate black as they do dung, and therefore they dislike the Japanese, who are fond of black.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000005_000003|Pride they consider the most execrable vice, and one who acts proudly is chastised with the most ruthless correction.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000006_000001|It is not the custom to keep slaves.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000006_000005|The rest become a prey to idleness, avarice, ill health, lasciviousness, usury, and other vices, and contaminate and corrupt very many families by holding them in servitude for their own use, by keeping them in poverty and slavishness, and by imparting to them their own vices.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000006_000006|Therefore public slavery ruins them; useful works, in the field, in military service, and in arts, except those which are debasing, are not cultivated, the few who do practise them doing so with much aversion.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000003|And they defend themselves by the opinion of Socrates, of Cato, of Plato, and of saint Clement; but, as you say, they misunderstand the opinions of these thinkers.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000005|Nevertheless, they send abroad to discover the customs of nations, and the best of these they always adopt.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000007|Thus they agree with Plato, in whom I have read these same things.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000009|The lame serve as guards, watching with the eyes which they possess.
train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000010|The blind card wool with their hands, separating the down from the hairs, with which latter they stuff the couches and sofas; those who are without the use of eyes and hands give the use of their ears or their voice for the convenience of the State, and if one has only one sense he uses it in the farms.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000002_000000|WHAT ABOUT THE BABY'S SPEECH?
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000003_000000|The hearing baby babbles because he gets some pleasure from the sounds, and also because he desires to imitate the sounds of speech he hears around him.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000004_000000|But during the first two or three years of the child's life the principal stress should be placed upon his learning to understand what is said to him, without bothering much about his speaking himself.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000004_000001|In the case of the hearing child, the understanding of language comes before he can himself utter it.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000006_000000|DEVELOPING THE MENTAL FACULTIES
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000003|As a matter of fact, we see and hear and taste and smell and feel with our brains.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000004|The eye of a two year old child is practically as perfect an optical instrument as the eye of a boy of ten, and yet how much more the older boy seems to see.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000006|Of course, where the instrument is found to be imperfect we can assist it by means of additional lenses, or perhaps by some one of the skillful operations now performed by oculists, and, as the sight is of such increased importance to a deaf child, the greatest care and watchfulness should be given to his eyes.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000007|Do not let him sleep, or lie, facing the sun, or any other powerful light, but throughout his life be careful that all his use of eyesight be under conditions of ample and well directed light.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000008|Supposing that the simple tests referred to heretofore have shown that the eyes, as optical instruments, are sufficiently perfect, our efforts need to be to train the brain to take cognizance of, and to interpret the impressions transmitted to it by the eyes.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000009|We shall not be able to improve the working of the eye by our efforts, but we can educate the brain.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000008_000001|The duplicate set of worsted balls of the seven primal colors can be increased to include easily distinguishable shades.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000009_000001|When he can do this by sight without difficulty, have him shut his eyes, place an object in his little hands, teach him to feel it over carefully, take it from him, and, while his eyes are still closed, place it once more in the pile.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000009_000002|Let him then open his eyes and see if he can indicate the object he had previously held.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000009_000004|A set of wooden forms, such as spheres, cubes, pyramids, cones, cylinders, and similar, but truncated, forms, can be obtained at any school supply store.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000000|The Montessori weighted forms are excellent for training his muscular recognition of difference of weight, and an excellent way is to put various quantities of birdshot into half a dozen exactly similar little rubber balls that can be purchased at any toy store for two cents apiece.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000001|Then hand the boy one of the weighted balls, and after he has felt its weight put it back with the other similar appearing balls and see if he can again discover it.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000004|If there is a guitar, or mandolin, or zither, or a piano, available, perhaps, by and by, the mother can teach the child to recognize the difference in the vibratory sensation perceived by his fingers touching the body of the instrument when a low note and a high note are struck alternately.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000006|The next step, if she can take it, is to place his little hands upon her chest to feel the lowest notes of her voice, and upon both the chest and the top of her head to feel the highest, and endeavoring to get him to recognize the similarity in vibratory sensation between what he now feels and what he previously felt on the musical instruments.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000007|The last step in this series of exercises to awaken a recognition of vibratory sensations is to lead him to feel in his own chest and head the vibrations set up by his own voice in shouting and laughing, crying or babbling.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000011_000002|Remember that the attention of a little child is like a constantly flitting butterfly that rests for only a moment or two on anything before dancing away to something else.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000012_000000|There are many little games with kindergarten materials that can be used to develop the powers of attention, observation, imitation, and obedience.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000015_000000|DEVELOPING THE LUNGS
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000016_000000|The tendency of the deaf child is to grow up with less development of lungs and of the imagination than hearing children.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000017_000001|An especially good exercise for the gentle and long continued control of breath results from the toy blow pipes with conical wire bowls by means of which light, celluloid balls of bright colors are kept suspended in the air, dancing on the column of breath blown softly through the tube.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000018_000000|Blowing soap bubbles, especially trying to blow big ones, is very useful as well as interesting.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000019_000000|For physical development in which the lungs come in for their share and the sense of mechanical rhythm is fostered, an excellent exercise is marching in step to the stroke of the drum, proud in Boy Scout uniform. Dancing is a very desirable accomplishment for the deaf child.
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train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000022_000000|THE CULTIVATION OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000023_000001|A sand pile, or a large, shallow sand box, perhaps five feet square, with sides six inches high, and completely lined with enamel cloth to make it watertight, is a wonderful implement for constructive play on the part of the child. Whole villages of farms, fields, and forests, ponds and brooks, roads and railroads, can be made here in miniature.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000024_000000|Building blocks of wood or stone; the metal construction toy called "Mechano"; dolls, doll houses, furniture, and equipment, are valuable, but they should be simple, inexpensive and not fragile.
train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000025_000000|Cut up picture puzzles, painting books, tracing slates with large and simple designs cultivate observation and ingenuity.
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train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000003_000003|Then pat him twice, and make him hold up two fingers, then three times and have him put up three fingers.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000003_000004|Now return to one pat and one finger, repeat two pats and the holding up of two of his fingers, and three pats and three fingers.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000000|Having established this system of response on his part to sensations perceived, it is not difficult to shift from the number of pats to the number of times he hears a noise.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000001|This once accomplished, tests can be made with sounds of different kinds, different pitch, and different volume, varying the distance, the instruments, and the vowel when the articulate sounds are reached.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000002|He can be shown a whistle, then, when it is blown behind his back, he will hold up as many fingers as the times it was blown, if he perceives the sound.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000003|He can be asked to distinguish between a whistle, a little bell, and the clapping of the hands.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000008|Using these sounds at different pitches, and with different intensities and distances, a sufficiently accurate estimate can be formed of the degree of his hearing power so far as his present needs are concerned.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000006_000000|THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDUAL HEARING
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000007_000000|If any ability to perceive sounds is found, every effort should be made to lead the child to use it, and as the most essential use of hearing is in the comprehension of spoken language, the principal effort should be made along that line.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000001|A little toy street car, a cap, and a toy sheep, would do nicely to begin with, as the three words, "car," "cap," and "sheep," are not easily confused.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000002|Place two of the objects before him, the car and the sheep, and speak the name of one of them, "car," we will say, loudly and distinctly close to his ear, but in such a way that he cannot see your mouth.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000003|Then show him the car.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000004|Repeat it with "sheep" and show him the sheep.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000005|Repeat "car," and take his little hand, put it on the car.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000006|Then "sheep," and make him put his hand on the sheep.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000007|Continue this process until he will indicate to you the object you name.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000008|When he makes only occasional mistakes with two objects, add the cap.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000009|When he can get the right one about ninety per cent. of the time, then take three new words, returning occasionally to the first three. Very soon his own name and those of others, with photographs to enable him to indicate which, will prove of interest to him.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000010|When he has successfully learned to distinguish a few single words, a beginning can be made on short sentences.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000000|The suggestions already made should be studiously followed throughout his whole childhood.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000001|If his hearing is not too seriously impaired, he will begin to attempt to imitate spoken sounds by the time he is twenty four to thirty months old.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000002|But his ability to imitate sounds is not an accurate measure of his ability to hear.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000003|He may perceive the sounds much better than he is able to reproduce them.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000004|Distinct utterance comes slowly to the child with normal hearing, and still more slowly and imperfectly to the child whose hearing is not good.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000010_000000|The question will naturally arise as to whether the child's hearing of speech can be aided by an electric or mechanical device.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000010_000002|But I have found that sometimes, in cases where the sound perception was not at first sufficient to enable the child to distinguish even the most dissimilar vowel sounds, although uttered loudly close to the ear, I could awaken the attention of the child to sound, and stimulate the dormant power by the use of an Acousticon.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000010_000005|By the use of the Acousticon, it then becomes possible to communicate by means of the ear without speaking at such short range.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000012_000000|DEVELOPING THE POWER OF LIP READING
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000013_000000|In this effort to develop the hearing, however, the necessity must not be forgotten of also training the brain to associate ideas with what the eye sees on the lips when words are spoken.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000014_000003|She does not think of it as a teaching exercise, but it is a very important one.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000014_000006|If it is spoken when the baby is not looking, it does not help.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000001|When he is sitting on the floor she picks him up, saying "up." When she puts him from her lap to the floor she says "down." If he is naughty she says "naughty," and perhaps spats his little hands, and so on through the day.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000003|She must all this time remember, also, that the shades of feeling, pleasure, disappointment, approval, disapproval, doubt, certainty, love, anger, joy, which are largely conveyed to the hearing child by intonation of voice, must be conveyed to the deaf baby by facial expression and manner.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000004|They become very keen at interpreting moods by the look.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000006|The first indication of impatience, of being bored and weary, will destroy much of one's influence with the deaf child.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000016_000001|Do not be caught unawares.
train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000016_000002|Interest, cheerfulness, and patience are tremendous forces to help the little deaf child.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000002_000000|Story of Wali Dad the Simple Hearted
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000003_000000|Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dad Gunjay, or Wali Dad the Bald.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000003_000001|He had no relations, but lived all by himself in a little mud hut some distance from any town, and made his living by cutting grass in the jungle, and selling it as fodder for horses.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000003_000002|He only earned by this five halfpence a day; but he was a simple old man, and needed so little out of it, that he saved up one halfpenny daily, and spent the rest upon such food and clothing as he required.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000000|In this way he lived for many years until, one night, he thought that he would count the money he had hidden away in the great earthen pot under the floor of his hut.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000001|So he set to work, and with much trouble he pulled the bag out on to the floor, and sat gazing in astonishment at the heap of coins which tumbled out of it.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000002|What should he do with them all?
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000003|he wondered.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000005_000000|At last he threw all the money into an old sack, which he pushed under his bead, and then, rolled in his ragged old blanket, he went off to sleep.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000006_000001|With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to the house of a rich friend, who was a travelling merchant, and used to wander about with his camels and merchandise through many countries.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000006_000002|Wali Dad was lucky enough to find him at home, so he sat down, and after a little talk he asked the merchant who was the most virtuous and beautiful lady he had ever met with.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000006_000003|The merchant replied that the princess of Khaistan was renowned everywhere as well for the beauty of her person as for the kindness and generosity of her disposition.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000007_000000|'Then,' said Wali Dad, 'next time you go that way, give her this little bracelet, with the respectful compliments of one who admires virtue far more than he desires wealth.'
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000008_000000|With that he pulled the bracelet from his waistband, and handed it to his friend.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000009_000001|As soon as he had opportunity he presented himself at the palace, and sent in the bracelet, neatly packed in a little perfumed box provided by himself, giving at the same time the message entrusted to him by Wali Dad.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000010_000000|The princess could not think who could have bestowed this present on her, but she bade her servant to tell the merchant that if he would return, after he had finished his business in the city, she would give him her reply.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000010_000001|In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel load or rich silks, besides a present of money for himself.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000010_000002|With these he set out on his journey.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000011_000000|Some months later he got home again from his journeyings, and proceeded to take Wali Dad the princess's present.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000011_000001|Great was the perplexity of the good man to find a camel load of silks tumbled at his door!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000011_000002|What was he to do with these costly things?
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000012_000000|'Of course,' cried the merchant, greatly amused; 'from Delhi to Baghdad, and from Constantinople to Lucknow, I know them all; and there lives none worthier than the gallant and wealthy young prince of Nekabad.'
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000013_000000|'Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old man,' said Wali Dad, much relieved to be rid of them.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000014_000001|When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift of silks that Wali Dad had sent, and begged the young man to accept them as a humble tribute to his worth and greatness.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000015_000000|As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he set out for Wali Dad's house with the twelve horses.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000015_000001|When the old man saw them coming in the distance he said to himself: 'Here's luck! a troop of horses coming!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000015_000003|When he got back, with as much grass as he could possibly carry, he was greatly discomfited to find that the horses were all for himself.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000000|The merchant departed, laughing.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000001|But, true to his old friend's request, he took the horses with him on his next journey, and eventually presented them safely to the princess.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000002|This time the princess sent for the merchant, and questioned him about the giver.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000003|Now, the merchant was usually a most honest man, but he did not quite like to describe Wali Dad in his true light as an old man whose income was five halfpence a day, and who had hardly clothes to cover him.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000004|So he told her that his friend had heard stories of her beauty and goodness, and had longed to lay the best he had at her feet.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000005|The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged him to advise her what courtesy she might return to one who persisted in making her such presents.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000019_000000|'Well, now,' cried Wali Dad, as he viewed all the wealth laid at his door, 'I can well repay that kind prince for his magnificent present of horses; but to be sure you have been put to great expenses!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000020_000000|The merchant felt handsomely repaid for his trouble, and wondered greatly how the matter would turn out.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000021_000000|This time the prince, too, was embarrassed, and questioned the merchant closely.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000021_000001|The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly determining that he would not carry the joke any further, could not help describing Wali Dad in such glowing terms that the old man would never have known himself had he heard them.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000021_000004|To take care of these animals the merchant hired a little army of men; and the troop made a great show as they travelled along.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000022_000000|When Wali Dad from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the caravan made, and the glitter of its appointments, he said to himself: 'By Allah! here's a grand crowd coming!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000022_000001|Elephants, too!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000022_000002|Grass will be selling well to day!' And with that he hurried off to the jungle and cut grass as fast as he could.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000023_000000|'Riches!' cried Wali Dad, 'what has an old man like me with one foot in the grave to do with riches?
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000023_000001|That beautiful young princess, now!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000023_000003|Do you take for yourself two horses, two camels, and two elephants, with all their trappings, and present the rest to her.'
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000024_000000|The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to Wali Dad that he was beginning to feel these embassies a little awkward.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000024_000002|At length, however he consented to go once more, but he promised himself never to embark on another such enterprise.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000026_000002|There is nothing for it but that we go and pay him a visit in person.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000027_000001|The merchant, the king declared, was to guide the party.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000028_000001|Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much hospitality as Wali Dad's representative, that he hardly got an instant's real peace, and never any opportunity of slipping away.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000028_000002|In fact, after a few days, despair possessed him to such a degree that he made up his mind that all that happened was fate, and that escape was impossible; but he hoped devoutly some turn of fortune would reveal to him a way out of the difficulties which he had, with the best intentions, drawn upon himself.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000029_000000|On the seventh day they all started, amidst thunderous salutes from the ramparts of the city, and much dust, and cheering, and blaring of trumpets.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000030_000000|Day after day they moved on, and every day the poor merchant felt more ill and miserable.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000031_000000|At last they were only one day's march from Wali Dad's little mud home. Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to tell Wali Dad that the King and Princess of Khaistan had arrived and were seeking an interview.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000031_000001|When the merchant arrived he found the poor old man eating his evening meal of onions and dry bread, and when he told him of all that had happened he had not the heart to proceed to load him with the reproaches which rose to his tongue.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000031_000003|With tears he begged the merchant to detain them for one day by any kind of excuse he could think of, and to come in the morning to discuss what they should do.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000032_000000|As soon as the merchant was gone Wali Dad made up his mind that there was only one honourable way out of the shame and distress that he had created by his foolishness, and that was-to kill himself.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000032_000003|He COULD not do it!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000033_000001|An owl laughed 'Hoo! hoo!' almost in his face, as he peered over the edge of the gulf, and the old man threw himself back in a perspiration of horror.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000033_000002|He was afraid!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000033_000003|He drew back shuddering, and covering his face in his hands he wept aloud.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000036_000000|'I weep for shame,' replied he.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000037_000000|'What do you here?' questioned the other.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000038_000000|'I came here to die,' said Wali Dad.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000038_000001|And as they questioned him, he confessed all his story.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000000|Then the first stepped forward and laid a hand upon his shoulder, and Wali Dad began to feel that something strange-what, he did not know-was happening to him.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000001|His old cotton rags of clothes were changed to beautiful linen and embroidered cloth; on his hard, bare feet were warm, soft shoes, and on his head a great jewelled turban.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000004|before him a noble gateway stood open.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000005|And up an avenue of giant place trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000007|Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants, and guards paced to and fro and saluted him respectfully as he drew near, along mossy walks and through sweeping grassy lawns where fountains were playing and flowers scented the air. Wali Dad stood stunned and helpless.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000040_000000|'Fear not,' said one of the peris; 'go to your house, and learn that God rewards the simple hearted.'
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000041_000000|With these words they both disappeared and left him.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000041_000001|He walked on, thinking still that he must be dreaming.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000041_000002|Very soon he retired to rest in a splendid room, far grander than anything he had ever dreamed of.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000042_000000|When morning dawned he woke, and found that the palace, and himself, and his servants were all real, and that he was not dreaming after all!
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000043_000000|If he was dumbfounded, the merchant, who was ushered into his presence soon after sunrise, was much more so.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000044_000000|Then Wali Dad told the merchant all that had happened.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000045_000000|For three nights and days a great feast was held in honour of the royal guests.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000045_000001|Every evening the king and his nobles were served on golden plates and from golden cups; and the smaller people on silver plates and from silver cups; and each evening each guest was requested to keep the places and cups that they had used as a remembrance of the occasion. Never had anything so splendid been seen.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000045_000002|Besides the great dinners, there were sports and hunting, and dances, and amusements of all sorts.
train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000046_000000|On the fourth day the king of Khaistan took his host aside, and asked him whether it was true, as he had suspected, that he wished to marry his daughter.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000001_000000|The Knights of the Fish
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000002_000000|Once upon a time there lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night, and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000002_000001|But, industrious as he was, he could hardly buy bread and cheese for himself and his wife, and they grew thinner and thinner daily.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000003_000000|For a long while whey pretended to each other that they had no appetite, and that a few blackberries from the hedges were a great deal nicer than a good strong bowl of soup.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000003_000001|But at length there came a day when the cobbler could bear it no longer, and he threw away his last, and borrowing a rod from a neighbour he went out to fish.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000004_000000|Now the cobbler was as patient about fishing as he had been about cobbling.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000004_000001|From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, without hooking anything better than an eel, or a few old shoes, that even he, clever though he was, felt were not worth mending.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000005_000000|He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life. But he nearly fell into the water from surprise, when the fish began to speak to him, in a small, squeaky voice:
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000006_000000|'Take me back to your hut and cook me; then cut me up, and sprinkle me over with pepper and salt.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000006_000001|Give two of the pieces to your wife, and bury two more in the garden.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000007_000000|The cobbler did not know what to make of these strange words; but he was wiser than many people, and when he did not understand, he thought it was well to obey.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000007_000001|His children wanted to eat all the fish themselves, and begged their father to tell them what to do with the pieces he had put aside; but the cobbler only laughed, and told them it was no business of theirs.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000007_000002|And when they were safe in bed he stole out and buried the two pieces in the garden.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000008_000000|By and by two babies, exactly alike, lay in a cradle, and in the garden were two tall plants, with two brilliant shields on the top.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000009_000000|Years passed away, and the babies were almost men.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000009_000001|They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each other by everybody they saw, and determined to set off in different directions, to seek adventures.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000010_000000|So, one fine morning, the two brothers left the hut, and walked together to the place where the great road divided.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000010_000001|There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000011_000000|The youth who took the path that ran eastwards arrived presently at a large city, where he found everybody standing at the doors, wringing their hands and weeping bitterly.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000012_000000|'What is the matter?' asked he, pausing and looking round.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000012_000001|And a man replied, in a faltering voice, that each year a beautiful girl was chosen by lot to be offered up to a dreadful fiery dragon, who had a mother even worse than himself, and this year the lot had fallen on their peerless princess.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000014_000000|This time the Knight of the Fish did not stop to hear more, but ran off as fast as he could, and found the princess bathed in tears, and trembling from head to foot.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000015_000000|She turned as she heard the sound of his sword, and removed her handkerchief from his eyes.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000016_000000|'Fly,' she cried; 'fly while you have yet time, before that monster sees you.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000017_000000|She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000017_000001|But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came back, galloping furiously on a horse he had borrowed, and carrying a huge mirror across its neck.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000018_000000|'I am in time, then,' he cried, dismounting very carefully, and placing the mirror against the trunk of a tree.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000019_000000|'Give me your veil,' he said hastily to the princess.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000019_000001|And when she had unwound it from her head he covered the mirror with it.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000020_000000|'The moment the dragon comes near you, you must tear off the veil,' cried he; 'and be sure you hide behind the mirror.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000020_000001|Have no fear; I shall be at hand.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000021_000000|He and his horse had scarcely found shelter amongst some rocks, when the flap of the dragon's wings could be plainly heard.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000021_000001|He tossed his head with delight at the sight of her, and approached slowly to the place where she stood, a little in front of the mirror.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000000|The princess had not known, when she obeyed the orders of the Knight of the Fish, what she expected to happen.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000002|Neither of these things occurred, but, instead, the dragon stopped short with surprise and rage when he saw a monster before him as big and strong as himself.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000003|He shook his mane with rage and fury; the enemy in front did exactly the same.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000004|He lashed his tail, and rolled his red eyes, and the dragon opposite was no whit behind him.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000005|Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the other dragon only roared back.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000006|This was too much, and with another roar which made the princess shake in her shoes, he flung himself upon his foe.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000007|In an instant the mirror lay at his feet broken into a thousand pieces, but as every piece reflected part of himself, the dragon thought that he too had been smashed into atoms.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000024_000000|Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth came riding back with the princess sitting behind him, and dragging the horrible monster by a cord.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000024_000001|Everybody cried out that the king must give the victor the hand of the princess; and so he did, and no one had ever seen such balls and feasts and sports before.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000024_000002|And when they were all over the young couple went to the palace prepared for them, which was so large that it was three miles round.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000025_000000|The first wet day after their marriage the bridegroom begged the bride to show him all the rooms in the palace, and it was so big and took so long that the sun was shining brightly again before they stepped on to the roof to see the view.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000026_000000|'What castle is that out there,' asked the knight; 'it seems to be made of black marble?'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000027_000000|'It is called the castle of Albatroz,' answered the princess.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000027_000001|'It is enchanted, and no one that has tried to enter it has ever come back.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000029_000001|But the Knight of the Fish knew no fear, and had never turned his back on an enemy; so he drew out his horn, and blew a blast.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000030_000000|The sound awoke all the sleeping echoes in the castle, and was repeated now loudly, now softly; now near, and now far.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000030_000001|But nobody stirred for all that.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000031_000000|'Is there anyone inside?' cried the young man in his loudest voice; 'anyone who will give a knight hospitality?
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000031_000001|Neither governor, nor squire, not even a page?'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000032_000000|'Not even a page!' answered the echoes.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000032_000001|But the young man did not heed them, and only struck a furious blow at the gate.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000033_000000|Then a small grating opened, and there appeared the tip of a huge nose, which belonged to the ugliest old woman that ever was seen.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000034_000000|'What do you want?' said she.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000035_000000|'To enter,' he answered shortly.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000035_000001|'Can I rest here this night?
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000035_000002|Yes or No?'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000036_000000|'No, No, No!' repeated the echoes.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000037_000000|Between the fierce sun and his anger at being kept waiting, the Knight of the Fish had grown so hot that he lifted his visor, and when the old woman saw how handsome he was, she began fumbling with the lock of the gate.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000038_000000|'Come in, come in,' said she, 'so fine a gentleman will do us no harm.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000039_000000|'Harm!' repeated the echoes, but again the young man paid no heed.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000041_000000|'You must call me the Lady Berberisca,' she answered, sharply; 'and this is my castle, to which I bid you welcome.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000041_000001|You shall live here with me and be my husband.' But at these words the knight let his spear fall, so surprised was he.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000042_000001|'You are mad!
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000042_000002|All I desire is to inspect the castle and then go.' As he spoke he heard the voices give a mocking laugh; but the old woman took no notice, and only bade the knight follow her.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000043_000000|Old though she was, it seemed impossible to tire her.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000044_000000|At length they came to a stone staircase, which was so dark that you could not see your hand if you held it up before your face.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000045_000000|'I have kept my most precious treasure till the last,' said the old woman; 'but let me go first, for the stairs are steep, and you might easily break your leg.' So on she went, now and then calling back to the young man in the darkness.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000046_000000|'So you would not marry me!' chuckled the old witch.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000046_000001|'Ha! ha!
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000046_000002|Ha! ha!'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000047_000000|Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wandered back to the same great city where the other young knight had met with so many adventures.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000047_000002|At last it occurred to him that once more he had been taken for his brother.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000047_000003|'I had better say nothing,' thought he; 'perhaps I shall be able to help him after all.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000048_000000|So he suffered himself to be borne in triumph to the palace, where the princess threw herself into his arms.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000049_000000|'And so you did go to the castle?' she asked.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000050_000000|'Yes, of course I did,' answered he.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000051_000000|'And what did you see there?'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000052_000000|'I am forbidden to tell you anything about it, until I have returned there once more,' replied he.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000053_000000|'Must you really go back to that dreadful place?' she asked wistfully. 'You are the only man who has ever come back from it.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000054_000000|'I must,' was all he answered.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000054_000001|And the princess, who was a wise woman, only said: 'Well, go to bed now, for I am sure you must be very tired.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000055_000000|But the knight shook his head.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000056_000000|Early next day the young man started for the castle, feeling sure that some terrible thing must have happened to his brother.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000058_000000|'Lady of all the ages,' cried the new comer, 'did you not give hospitality to a young knight but a short time ago?'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000059_000000|'A short time ago!' wailed the voices.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000060_000000|'And how have you ill treated him?' he went on.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000061_000000|'Ill treated him!' answered the voices.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000061_000001|The woman did not stop to hear more; she turned to fly; but the knight's sword entered her body.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000062_000000|'Where is my brother, cruel hag?' asked he sternly.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000063_000000|'I will tell you,' said she; 'but as I feel that I am going to die I shall keep that piece of news to myself, till you have brought me to life again.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000064_000000|The young man laughed scornfully.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000064_000001|'How do you propose that I should work that miracle?'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000065_000000|'Oh, it is quite easy.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000065_000001|Go into the garden and gather the flowers of the everlasting plant and some of dragon's blood.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000065_000002|Crush them together and boil them in a large tub of water, and then put me into it.'
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000066_000000|The knight did as the old witch bade him, and, sure enough, she came out quite whole, but uglier than ever.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000066_000001|She then told the young man what had become of his brother, and he went down into the dungeon, and brought up his body and the bodies of the other victims who lay there, and when they were all washed in the magic water their strength was restored to them.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000067_000000|And, besides these, he found in another cavern the bodies of the girls who had been sacrificed to the dragon, and brought them back to life also.
train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000068_000000|As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey escape her; and at the moment she drew her last breath the castle of Albatroz fell into ruins with a great noise.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000003_000000|Our hopes when elevated to that standard of ambition which demands unison may fall asunder like an ancient ruin.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000003_000001|They are no longer fit for construction unless on an approved principle.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000003_000002|They smoulder away like the ashes of burnt embers, and are cast outwardly from their confined abode, never more to be found where once they existed only as smouldering serpents of scorned pride.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000004_000000|The little chat that Irene apparently enjoyed in the conservatory would gladly have become an act of forgetfulness on her part had not Sir john reminded her of its existence a few days afterwards.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000005_000000|It happened about three weeks preceding the day set apart for their holy union, on Sir john arriving at the castle, he was informed of Irene's recent exit, and gently turning away, he resolved to have a stroll in the tastefully laid out gardens with the sole object of meeting her.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000006_000000|Walking leisurely along, and stooping to pick up some fallen fruit, he suddenly heard a faint sound issue amongst the trees.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000006_000002|Boldly moving towards the spot whence the sound of music issued, how delightfully surprised was he to find a magnificently constructed little summer house, a charming pyramidal Gothic structure, robed internally with mossy mantles of nature, and brightened beyond conception with the instrument of humanity which gave origin to such pathetic and sweetened strains.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000008_000000|Irene held in her snowy palms a roll of Italian music, which she earnestly endeavoured to conceal from his penetrating stare, probably on account of the words contained therein, which for ever would be unknown to his varied sphere of knowledge, and which would undoubtedly have betrayed her feelings, never dreaming that they should strike other ears than those for whom they practically were intended.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000009_000001|Sir john chatted gaily until he gained good ground for delivering to her the message that instinct had so prompted him to utter.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000000|"I must acquaint you, though it pains me deeply to do so, that lately you have not treated me with such respect or attention as you certainly lavished upon me before the announcement of our engagement, and for what reason or reasons I now wish to be apprised.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000002|I promised to be at the castle last night, but unfortunately I felt indisposed, and only that I wished to have a thorough understanding relative to your recent conduct, and which has pained me acutely, I should not have ventured out of doors this evening either.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000003|I was, in consequence, obliged to write you last night, asking a written reply, which you failed to give!
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000004|And this evening, instead of being doubly rejoiced at my presence, you, on the contrary, seem doubly annoyed!
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000013_000001|She pondered whether or not honesty should take the place of deceit-too often practised in women-and concluded to adopt the latter weapon of defence.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000013_000002|Raising her hazel eyes to his, and clearing the weft of truth that had been mixing with the warp of falsehood to form an answer of plausible texture, fringed with different shades of love, she thus began:
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000000|"My dearest and much beloved, I assure you your remarks have astounded me not a little!
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000001|Your words sting like a wasp, though, I am quite convinced, unintentionally.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000003|You are about to place me in a position which cannot fail to wring from jealousy and covetousness their flaming torch of abuse.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000004|Yes, Sir john, on me you have not ceased to lavish every available treasure and token of your unbounded love.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000005|You have been to me not only a loyal admirer, but a thoroughly upright and estimable example of life's purest treasures.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000006|You have resolved to place me by your side as your equal, whilst wealth in boundless store is thirsting for your touch.
train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000015_000000|"I assure you your allusion to my verbal answer last night is very pronounced, and may be overlooked on the ground of pure disappointment. Our time of singleness is now short, and begging your forgiveness for my seeming neglect or indifference, I hope the tide, which until now has flown so gently, may not be stayed on the eve of entering the harbour of harmony, peace, and love."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000004_000000|There was once a king, who had lost his wife.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000004_000001|They had a family of thirteen-twelve gallant sons, and one daughter, who was exquisitely beautiful.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000005_000000|For twelve years after his wife's death the king grieved very much; he used to go daily to her tomb, and there weep, and pray, and give away alms to the poor.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000005_000001|He thought never to marry again; for he had promised his dying wife never to give her children a stepmother.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000006_000001|But before long he found out that he had made a great mistake.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000007_000000|One day, when the king was far away, at war against his enemies, the queen went into her stepchildren's apartments, and pronounced some magical words-on which every one of the twelve princes flew away in the shape of an eagle, and the princess was changed into a dove.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000008_000000|The queen looked out of the window, to see in what direction they would fly, when she saw right under the window an old man, with a beard as white as snow.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000009_000000|"What are you here for, old man?" she asked.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000010_000000|"To be witness of your deed," he answered.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000011_000000|"Then you saw it?"
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000012_000000|"I saw it."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000014_000000|She whispered some magical words.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000014_000001|The old man disappeared in a blaze of sunshine; and the queen, as she stood there, dumb with terror, was changed into a basilisk.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000015_000000|The basilisk ran off in fright; trying to hide herself underground.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000015_000001|But her glance was so deadly, that it killed every one she looked at; so that all the people in the palace were soon dead, including her own son, whom she slew by merely looking at him.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000015_000002|And this once populous and happy royal residence quickly became an uninhabited ruin, which no one dared approach, for fear of the basilisk lurking in its underground vaults.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000017_000000|Meanwhile the princess, who had been changed into a dove, flew after her brothers the eagles, but not being able to overtake them, she rested under a wayside cross, and began cooing mournfully.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000018_000000|"What are you grieving for, pretty dove?" asked an old man, with a snow white beard, who just then came by.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000019_000001|I am grieving also for myself.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000021_000000|So saying he stroked the little dove, and she at once regained her natural shape.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000022_000000|"How can I ever thank you enough!
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000023_000000|The old man gave her an ever growing loaf, and said:
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000024_000001|Go towards the sunset, and weep your tears into this little bottle.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000024_000002|And when it is full...."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000025_000000|And the old man told her what else to do, blessed her, and disappeared.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000027_000000|"Stop, princess!" he said; "You can proceed no further, for you are not yet parted by death from your own world."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000028_000000|"But what am I to do?" she asked.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000028_000001|"Must I go back without my poor brothers?"
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000029_000000|"Your brothers," said Death, "fly here every day in the guise of eagles. They want to reach the other side of this door, which leads into the other world; for they hate the one they live in; nevertheless they, and you also, must remain there, until your time be come.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000029_000001|Therefore every day I must compel them to go back, which they can do, because they are eagles.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000029_000002|But how are you going to get back yourself?--look there!"
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000030_000000|The princess looked around her, and wept bitterly.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000031_000000|But remembering what the mysterious old man had said she took courage, and began to pray and weep, till she had filled the little bottle with her tears.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000031_000001|Soon she heard the sound of wings over her head, and saw twelve eagles flying.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000032_000000|The eagles dashed themselves against the iron portal, beating their wings upon it, and imploring Death to open it to them.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000032_000001|But Death only threatened them with his scythe, saying:
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000033_000000|"Hence! ye enchanted princes!
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000033_000001|you must fulfil your penance on earth, till I come for you myself."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000034_000000|The eagles were about to turn and fly, when all at once they perceived their sister.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000034_000001|They came round her, and caressed her hands lovingly with their beaks.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000035_000000|She at once began to sprinkle them with her tears from the lachrymatory; and in one moment the twelve eagles were changed back into the twelve princes, and joyfully embraced their sister.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000037_000000|But the princess knelt down and prayed:
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000038_000000|"Bird of heavenly pity here, By each labour, prayer and tear, Come in thine unvanquished power, Come and aid us in this hour!"
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000039_000000|And all at once there shot down from heaven to the depth of the abyss a ray of sunshine, on which descended a gigantic bird, with rainbow wings, a bright sparkling crest, and peacock's eyes all over his body, a golden tail, and silvery breast.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000040_000000|"What are your commands, princess?" asked the bird.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000041_000000|"Carry us from this threshold of eternity to our own world."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000042_000000|"I will, but you must know, princess, that before I can reach the top of this precipice with you on my back, three days and nights must pass; and I must have food on the way, or my strength will fail me, and I shall fall down with you to the bottom, and we shall all perish."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000043_000000|"I have an ever growing loaf, which will suffice both for you and ourselves," replied the princess.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000044_000000|"Then climb upon my back, and whenever I look round, give me some bread to eat."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000045_000000|The bird was so large that all the princes, and the princess in the midst of them, could easily find place on his back, and he began to fly upwards.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000046_000000|He flew higher and higher, and whenever he looked round at her, she gave him bits of the loaf, and he flew on, and upwards.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000047_000000|So they went on steadily for two nights and days; but upon the third day, when they were hoping in a short time to view the summit of the precipice, and to land upon the borders of this world, the bird looked round as usual for a piece of the loaf.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000048_000000|The princess was just going to break off some to give him, when a sudden violent gust of wind from the bottom of the abyss snatched the loaf from her hand, and sent it whistling downwards.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000049_000000|Not having received his usual meal the bird became sensibly weaker, and looked round once more.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000050_000000|The princess trembled with fear; she had nothing more to give him, and she felt that he was becoming exhausted.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000050_000001|In utter desperation she cut off a piece of her flesh, and gave it to him.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000051_000000|Having eaten this the bird recovered strength, and flew upwards faster than before; but after an hour or two he looked round once more.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000052_000000|So she cut off another piece of her flesh; the bird seized it greedily, and flew on so fast that in a few minutes he reached the ground at the top of the precipice.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000053_000000|"Princess, what were those two delicious morsels you gave me last?
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000053_000001|I never ate anything so good before."
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000055_000000|The bird breathed upon her wounds; and the flesh at once healed over, and grew again as before.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000056_000000|The princess and her brothers resumed their journey, this time towards the sunrise, and at last arrived in their own country, where they met their father, returning from the wars.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000057_000000|The king was coming back victorious over his enemies, and on his way home had first heard of the sudden disappearance of his children and of the queen, and how his palace was tenanted only by a basilisk with a death dealing glance.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000059_000001|The basilisk saw herself reflected in this mirror, and her own glance slew her immediately.
train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000060_000000|They gathered up the remains of the basilisk, and burnt them in a great fire in the courtyard, afterwards scattering the ashes to the four winds.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000000_000000|"Now, Constance, that we have a moment alone, what is this about you?" began mr Yorke, as they stood together in the garden.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000001_000000|"Annabel said the truth-that I do think of going out as daily governess," she replied, bending over a carnation to hide the blush which rose to her cheeks, a very rival to the blushing flower.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000001_000003|I must assume my share of the burden."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000002_000000|mr Yorke was silent.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000002_000001|Constance took it for granted that he was displeased.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000002_000002|He was of an excellent family, and she supposed he disliked the step she was about to take-deemed it would be derogatory to his future wife.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000003_000000|"Have you fully made up your mind?" he at length asked.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000004_000002|William, how could I reconcile it to my conscience not to help?" she continued.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000004_000003|"Think of papa! think of his strait!
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000004_000004|It appears to be a plain duty thrown in my path."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000005_000000|"By yourself, Constance?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000006_000000|"Not by myself," she whispered, lifting for a moment her large blue eyes.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000006_000001|"Oh, William, William, do not be displeased with me! do not forbid it!
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000006_000003|Strive to see it in the right light."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000007_000000|"Let that carnation alone, Constance; give your attention to me.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000007_000001|What if I do forbid it?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000008_000001|mr Yorke followed and stood before her.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000009_000000|"William, I must do my duty.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000010_000000|"A daily governess, I think you said?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000011_000000|"Papa could not spare me to go out altogether; Annabel could not spare me either; and-"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000012_000000|"I would not spare you," he struck in, filling up her pause.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000012_000001|"Was that what you were about to say, Constance?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000013_000000|The rosy hue stole over her face again, and a sweet smile to her lips: "Oh, William, if you will only sanction it!
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000013_000001|I shall go about it then with the lightest heart!"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000000|He looked at her with an expression she did not understand, and shook his head.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000001|Constance thought it a negative shake, and her hopes fell again.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000002|"You did not answer my question," said mr Yorke.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000003|"What if I forbid it?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000015_000000|"But it seems to be my duty," she urged from between her pale and parted lips.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000016_000000|"Constance, that is no answer."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000017_000000|"Oh, do not, do not!
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000018_000000|"The temptation, as you call it, must be for a later consideration.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000018_000001|Why will you not answer me?
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000018_000002|What would be your course if I forbade it?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000019_000001|But, Oh, William, if you gave me up-"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000020_000000|She could not continue.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000020_000001|She turned away to hide her face from mr Yorke. He followed and obtained forcible view of it.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000020_000002|It was wet with tears.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000021_000000|"Nay, but I did not mean to carry it so far as to cause you real grief, my dearest," he said, in a changed tone.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000021_000001|"Though you brought it on yourself," he added, laughing, as he bent his face down.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000022_000000|"How did I bring it on myself?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000023_000001|I saw you doubted me at the first, when Annabel spoke of it in the study.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000024_000000|"You will sanction the measure then?" she rejoined, her countenance lighting up.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000025_000000|"How could you doubt me?
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000025_000003|I shall not love my wife the less, because she has had the courage to turn her talents to account.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000025_000004|What could you be thinking of, child?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000026_000000|"Forgive me, William," she softly pleaded.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000026_000001|"But you looked so grave and were so silent."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000027_000000|mr Yorke smiled.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000027_000002|Lady Augusta is looking out for a daily governess."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000028_000000|"Is she?" exclaimed Constance.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000029_000000|Constance spoke hesitatingly.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000029_000002|Probably the same doubt had made one of the "disadvantages" hinted at by mr Yorke.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000030_000000|"I called there yesterday, and interrupted a 'scene' between Lady Augusta and Miss Caroline," he said.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000030_000001|"Unseemly anger on my lady's part, and rebellion on Carry's, forming, as usual, its chief features."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000031_000000|"But Lady Augusta is so indulgent to her children!" interrupted Constance.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000032_000000|"Perniciously indulgent, generally; and when the effects break out in insolence and disobedience, then there ensues a scene.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000032_000001|If you go there you will witness them occasionally, and I assure you they are not edifying.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000032_000002|You must endeavour to train the girls to something better than they have been trained to yet, Constance."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000033_000000|"If I do go."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000036_000002|Shall I ascertain particulars for you, Constance; touching salary and other matters?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000037_000000|"If you please.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000038_000000|"Constance!" interrupted a voice at this juncture.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000038_000001|"Is mr Yorke there?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000039_000000|"He is here, mamma," replied Constance, walking forward to mrs Channing, mr Yorke attending her.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000040_000002|The children have told you the tidings.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000040_000003|It is a great blow to their prospects."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000041_000000|"But they seem determined to bear it bravely," he answered, in a hearty tone.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000041_000001|"You may be proud to have such children, mrs Channing."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000042_000000|"Not proud," she softly said.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000042_000001|"Thankful!"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000043_000000|"True.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000045_000000|"Gone entirely, Judith.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000045_000001|Gone for good."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000046_000000|"For good!" groaned Judith; "I should say for ill.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000046_000001|Why does the Queen let there be a Lord Chancellor?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000047_000000|"It is not the Lord Chancellor's fault, Judith.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000047_000001|He only administers the law."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000050_000000|Judith, with a pettish movement, returned to her kitchen; and at that moment Hamish came downstairs.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000050_000001|He had changed his dress, and had a pair of new white gloves in his hand.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000051_000000|"Are you going out to night, Hamish?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000052_000000|There was a stress on the word "to night," and Hamish marked it.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000052_000001|"I promised, you know, Constance.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000052_000003|Fare you well, my pretty sister.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000055_000000|Before seven o'clock, the whole school, choristers and king's scholars, assembled in the cloisters.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000056_000000|"College boys!" cried his lordship, winking and blinking, as other less majestic mortals do when awakened suddenly out of their morning sleep.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000057_000002|It's the holiday they are asking for."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000058_000000|"Oh, ah, I recollect," cried his lordship-for it was not the first time he had been to Helstonleigh.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000058_000002|My compliments to the head master, and I beg he will grant the boys a holiday."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000059_000000|Roberts did as he was bid-he also had been to Helstonleigh before with his master-and delivered the card and message to Gaunt.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000059_000001|The consequence of which was, the school tore through the streets in triumph, shouting "Holiday!" in tones to be heard a mile off, and bringing people in white garments, from their beds to the windows.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000059_000002|The least they feared was, that the town had taken fire.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000060_000003|The servant met them at the door, and grinned dreadfully at the crowd.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000061_000000|"Won't you catch it, gentlemen!
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000061_000001|The head master's gone into school, and is waiting for you; marking you all late, of course."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000062_000000|"Gone into school!" repeated Gaunt, haughtily, resenting the familiarity, as well as the information.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000062_000001|"What do you mean?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000063_000000|"Why, I just mean that, sir," was the reply, upon which Gaunt felt uncommonly inclined to knock him down.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000000|At this unexpected reply, the boys slunk away to the college schoolroom, their buoyant spirits sunk down to dust and ashes-figuratively speaking.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000001|They could not understand it; they had not the most distant idea what their offence could have been.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000002|Gaunt entered, and the rest trooped in after him.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000005|"You are three quarters of an hour behind your time."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000065_000000|"We have been up to the judges, as usual, for holiday, sir," replied Gaunt, in a tone of deprecation.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000000|"Holiday!" interrupted the master.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000001|"Holiday!" he repeated, with emphasis, as if disbelieving his own ears.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000002|"Do you consider that the school deserves it?
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000003|A pretty senior you must be, if you do."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000067_000000|"What has the school done, sir?" respectfully asked Gaunt.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000068_000000|"Your memory must be conveniently short," chafed the master.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000068_000001|"Have you forgotten the inked surplice?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000069_000000|Gaunt paused.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000069_000001|"But that was not the act of the whole school, sir.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000069_000002|It was probably the act of only one."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000070_000000|"But, so long as that one does not confess, the whole school must bear it," returned the master, looking round on the assembly.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000070_000001|"Boys, understand me.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000070_000003|Will you confess now?--he who did it?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000072_000000|"You may think-I speak now to the guilty boy, and let him take these words to himself-that you were quite alone when you did it; that no eye was watching.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000072_000002|There will be no holiday to day.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000072_000003|Prayers."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000074_000000|"Isn't it a stunning shame?" cried hot Tom Channing.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000075_000000|"The fault lies in the boy, not in the master," interrupted Gaunt.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000075_000001|"A sneak! a coward!
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000075_000002|If he has a spark of manly honour in him, he'll speak up now."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000076_000001|"He saw it done!"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000077_000000|"Who says he did?" quickly asked Tom Channing.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000078_000000|"Some one said so; and that he was afraid to tell."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000079_000000|Gaunt lifted his finger, and made a sign to Charles to approach.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000079_000002|The master has called the seniors to his aid, and I order you to speak.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000079_000003|Did you see this mischief done?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000080_000000|"No, I did not!" fearlessly replied little Channing.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000081_000000|"If he doesn't know, he suspects," persisted Hurst.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000081_000001|"Come, Miss Channing."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000082_000000|"We don't declare things upon suspicion, do we, mr Gaunt?" appealed Charles.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000082_000001|"I may suspect one; Hurst may suspect another; Bywater said he suspected two; the whole school may be suspicious, one of another. Where's the use of that?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000083_000001|"You say you did not see the surplice damaged?"
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000084_000000|"I did not; upon my word of honour."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000085_000000|"That's enough," said Gaunt.
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000085_000002|When he gets found out, he had better not come within reach of the seniors; I warn him of that: they might not leave him a head on his shoulders, or a tooth in his mouth."
train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000086_000000|"Suppose it should turn out to have been a senior, mr Gaunt?" spoke Bywater.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000000_000000|"Baths and aqueducts," Miss Grammont compared.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000000_000001|"Rome of the Empire comes nearest to it...."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000001_000000|As soon as tea was over, dr Martineau realized, they meant to walk round and about Salisbury.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000001_000001|He foresaw that walk with the utmost clearness.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000001_000002|In front and keeping just a little beyond the range of his intervention, Sir Richmond would go with Miss Grammont; he himself and Miss Seyffert would bring up the rear.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000002_000000|"You said-?" asked Miss Seyffert.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000003_000000|"That I have some writing to do-before the post goes," said the doctor brightly.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000004_000001|He was, if one may put it in such a fashion, not looking at Miss Seyffert in the directest fashion when he said this.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000005_000001|"Impossible."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000006_000000|(With the unspoken addition of, "You try her for a bit.")
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000007_000000|Miss Grammont stood up.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000007_000004|We can all go together as far as that.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000008_000000|It became clear to dr Martineau that Sir Richmond was to be let off Belinda.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000009_000001|He could think over his notes....
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000014_000000|"It's a perfect little lady of a cathedral," said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000016_000002|"My friend, the philosopher," he had said, "will not have it that we are really the individuals we think we are.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000016_000003|You must talk to him-he is a very curious and subtle thinker.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000016_000005|We are-what does he call it?--Man on his Planet, taking control of life."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000017_000000|"Man and woman," she had amended.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000019_000001|"But the impulse was losing its force."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000020_000000|She looked up at the spire and then at him with a faintly quizzical expression.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000022_000001|We were already very clever engineers.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000022_000005|We squirted it up in all these spires and pinnacles.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000022_000006|The priest and his altar were just an excuse.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000025_000000|"Sky scrapers?" she conceded.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000027_000001|"And my sky scrapers?"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000029_000000|"And what do you think we are building now?
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000029_000001|And what do you think you are building over here?"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000030_000001|I believe we have almost grown up.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000030_000003|For good...."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000031_000000|"But are we building anything at all?"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000035_000000|"I wish I could believe they were foundations."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000036_000000|"But can you doubt we are scrapping the old?..."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000039_000002|They were quietly but definitely dressed, pretty alterations had happened to their coiffure, a silver band and deep red stones lit the dusk of Miss Grammont's hair and a necklace of the same colourings kept the peace between her jolly sun burnt cheek and her soft untanned neck.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000039_000005|dr Martineau thought her evening throat much too confidential.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000040_000000|The conversation drifted from topic to topic.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000040_000003|She broke every thread that appeared.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000040_000006|"To think it was exactly where it is before there was a Cabot in America!"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000041_000000|Miss Grammont let her companion pull the talk about as she chose.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000045_000002|Who ought to be getting wages-sufficient...."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000046_000000|"Begging-from foreigners-is just a sport in Italy," said Sir Richmond. "It doesn't imply want.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000049_000000|"I've no doubt of it," said Miss Seyffert, and added amazingly: "I'm out for Birth Control all the time."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000050_000000|A brief but active pause ensued.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000051_000001|"Which amount to nothing.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000051_000003|And which help to use up the resources, the fuel and surplus energy of the world."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000053_000000|"Does that matter?
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000056_000000|"And in your world?"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000057_000002|It would be quite enough for this little planet, for a time, at any rate.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000057_000003|Don't you think so, doctor?"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000058_000002|At least, not from this angle."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000059_000001|"My native instinctive democracy-"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000060_000003|The rest never get a chance."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000064_000001|But is the movement of events?"
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000067_000000|Miss Grammont smiled an enquiry at Miss Seyffert.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000067_000001|"If YOU are," said Belinda.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000068_000004|I can't imagine it.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000069_000001|Just for a moment they stood hand in hand, appreciatively....
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000071_000002|But dr Martineau grunted.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000074_000000|The doctor thought for a moment or so.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000076_000001|"Birth Control!
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000078_000000|"I think," said the doctor and paused.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000081_000000|"As you please," said Sir Richmond insincerely.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000085_000000|"Evidently."
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000004|An absurd, mischievous, irrelevant flirtation.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000005|You may not like the word.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000007|That is not the word.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000009|You people eye one another.... Flirtation.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000010|I give the affair its proper name.
train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000013|Good night....
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000002_000005|It would take her five minutes to reach the lodge gate.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000002_000007|She had, therefore, eight minutes to spare.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000002_000009|Graciously she accepted the invitation.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000003_000001|Her appointments were kept to the minute, and her appointment (self made on this occasion) was the welcoming of her uncle, the Archdeacon, on the threshold of Drane's Court.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000004_000001|She loved Drane's Court.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000004_000002|Save for the three years of her brother's short married life, it had been part of herself.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000004_000004|As for the name, he had used that of his wife, Viscountess Drane in her own right,--a notorious beauty of whom, so History recounts, he was senilely enamoured and on whose naughty account he was eventually run through the body by a young Mohawk of a paramour.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000005_000000|Ursula and her brother were proud of the romantic episode, and would relate it to guests and point out the scene of the duel.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000006_000000|This aspect of family history seldom presented itself to Ursula Winwood.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000006_000003|Ursula Winwood closed her eyes.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000006_000012|Miss Ursula Winwood fell asleep.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000001|He was dark and handsome, and, by a trick of coincidence, was dressed in loose knickerbocker suit, just as he was when he had walked up that very avenue to say his last good bye.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000002|She remained for a moment tense, passively awaiting co-ordination of her faculties.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000003|Then clear awake, and sending scudding the dear ghosts of the past, she sat up, and catching the indignant spaniel by the collar, looked with a queer, sudden interest at the newcomer.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000004|He was young, extraordinarily beautiful; but he staggered and reeled like a drunken man.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000005|The spaniel barked his respectable disapproval.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000008|But the trespasser did not hear.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000009|He kept on advancing. Miss Winwood rose, disgusted, and drew herself up.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000010|The young man threw out his hands towards her, tripped over the three inch high border of grass, and fell in a sprawling heap at her feet.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000000|He lay very still.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000001|Ursula Winwood looked down upon him.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000002|The shiny brown spaniel took up a strategic position three yards away and growled, his chin between his paws.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000006|For a moment or so she had a qualm of fear lest he might be dead.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000010|So there he lay, a new Endymion, while the most modern of Dianas hung over him, stricken with great wonderment at his perfection.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000012_000000|She narrated what had occurred, and together they bent over the unconscious youth.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000012_000001|"I would suggest," said she, "that we put him into the carriage, drive him up to the house, and send for dr Fuller."
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000013_000000|"I can only support your suggestion," said the Archdeacon.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000015_000001|The Archdeacon, his hands behind his back, paced the noiseless Turkey carpet.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000018_000000|"Poor fellow!" said the Archdeacon.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000020_000000|"Perhaps this may tell us," said the Archdeacon.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000021_000001|The Archdeacon took it up.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000022_000001|On the flyleaf, 'Paul Savelli.' An undergraduate, I should say, on a walking tour."
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000023_000000|Miss Winwood took the book from his hands-a little cheap reprint.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000023_000001|"I'm glad," she said.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000024_000000|"Why, my dear Ursula?"
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000025_000000|"I'm very fond of Sir Thomas Browne, myself," she replied.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000026_000001|He shook a grave head.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000026_000002|"Pneumonia.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000026_000004|Perhaps a touch of the sun as well." The housekeeper smiled discreetly.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000000|Miss Winwood, a practical woman, was aware that the doctor gave wise counsel.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000001|But she looked at Paul and hesitated.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000002|Paul's destiny, though none knew it, hung in the balance.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000003|"I disapprove altogether of the cottage hospital," she said.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000001|"If I turned him out of my house, doctor, and anything happened to him, I should have to reckon with his people.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000002|He stays here.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000004|The red room, Wilkins,--no, the green-the one with the small oak bed.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000005|You can't nurse people properly in four posters.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000006|It has a south-east aspect"--she turned to the doctor-"and so gets the sun most of the day.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000007|That's quite right, isn't it?"
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000032_000000|"I like trouble," said Miss Winwood.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000033_000000|"You're certainly looking for it," replied the doctor glancing at Paul and stuffing his stethoscope into his pocket.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000034_000001|dr Fuller, rosy, fat and fifty, obeyed, like everyone else; but during the process of law making he had often, before now, played the part of an urbane and gently satirical leader of the opposition.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000035_000001|"Is he as bad as that?" she asked quickly.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000036_000000|"As bad as that," said the doctor, with grave significance.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000039_000000|"I was sure of it," said Miss Winwood.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000040_000000|"Of what?"
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000042_000000|"Why are you sure?"
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000043_000000|Ursula was very fond of her uncle.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000043_000004|"Just look at him.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000043_000005|It speaks for itself."
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000044_000002|"I'm sorry to carry on a conversation so Socratically," said he.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000044_000003|"But what is 'it'?"
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000045_000001|If he's not an aristocrat to the finger tips, I'll give up all my work, turn Catholic, and go into a nunnery-which will distress you exceedingly.
train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000048_000000|"Proves what?"
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000000|Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000001|He said horrid things about other people in such a charming way that one forgave him for the equally horrid things he said about oneself behind one's back.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000002|Hating anything in the way of ill natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000003|And Laploshka did it really well.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000008_000000|Naturally Laploshka had a large circle of acquaintances, and as he exercised some care in their selection it followed that an appreciable proportion were men whose bank balances enabled them to acquiesce indulgently in his rather one sided views on hospitality.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000008_000001|Thus, although possessed of only moderate means, he was able to live comfortably within his income, and still more comfortably within those of various tolerantly disposed associates.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000009_000000|But towards the poor or to those of the same limited resources as himself his attitude was one of watchful anxiety; he seemed to be haunted by a besetting fear lest some fraction of a shilling or franc, or whatever the prevailing coinage might be, should be diverted from his pocket or service into that of a hard up companion.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000010_000000|The knowledge of this amiable weakness offered a perpetual temptation to play upon Laploshka's fears of involuntary generosity.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000010_000001|To offer him a lift in a cab and pretend not to have enough money to pay the fair, to fluster him with a request for a sixpence when his hand was full of silver just received in change, these were a few of the petty torments that ingenuity prompted as occasion afforded.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000010_000003|He had the air of a man who had not slept.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000011_000000|"You owe me two francs from last night," was his breathless greeting.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000012_000000|I spoke evasively of the situation in Portugal, where more trouble seemed brewing.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000012_000001|But Laploshka listened with the abstraction of the deaf adder, and quickly returned to the subject of the two francs.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000013_000000|"I'm afraid I must owe it to you," I said lightly and brutally.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000014_000000|Laploshka said nothing, but his eyes bulged a little and his cheeks took on the mottled hues of an ethnographical map of the Balkan Peninsula. That same day, at sundown, he died.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000000|There arose the problem of what to do with his two francs.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000001|To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I am not capable.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000002|The ordinary solution, of giving it to the poor, would by no means fit the present situation, for nothing would have distressed the dead man more than such a misuse of his property.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000003|On the other hand, the bestowal of two francs on the rich was an operation which called for some tact.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000004|An easy way out of the difficulty seemed, however, to present itself the following Sunday, as I was wedged into the cosmopolitan crowd which filled the side aisle of one of the most popular Paris churches.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000005|A collecting bag, for "the poor of Monsieur le Cure," was buffeting its tortuous way across the seemingly impenetrable human sea, and a German in front of me, who evidently did not wish his appreciation of the magnificent music to be marred by a suggestion of payment, made audible criticisms to his companion on the claims of the said charity.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000016_000000|"They do not want money," he said; "they have too much money.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000016_000001|They have no poor.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000016_000002|They are all pampered."
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000017_000000|If that were really the case my way seemed clear.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000000|Some three weeks later chance had taken me to Vienna, and I sat one evening regaling myself in a humble but excellent little Gasthaus up in the Wahringer quarter.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000001|The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on. Good cheer brought good custom, and with the exception of one small table near the door every place was occupied.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000003|Poring over the bill of fare with the absorbed scrutiny of one who seeks the cheapest among the cheap was Laploshka. Once he looked across at me, with a comprehensive glance at my repast, as though to say, "It is my two francs you are eating," and then looked swiftly away.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000004|Evidently the poor of Monsieur le Cure had been genuine poor.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000007|I lunched next day at an expensive restaurant which I felt sure that the living Laploshka would never have entered on his own account, and I hoped that the dead Laploshka would observe the same barriers.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000008|I was not mistaken, but as I came out I found him miserably studying the bill of fare stuck up on the portals.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000009|Then he slowly made his way over to a milk hall.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000010|For the first time in my experience I missed the charm and gaiety of Vienna life.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000000|After that, in Paris or London or wherever I happened to be, I continued to see a good deal of Laploshka.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000002|As I turned into my club on a rainy afternoon I would see him taking inadequate shelter in a doorway opposite.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000003|Even if I indulged in the modest luxury of a penny chair in the Park he generally confronted me from one of the free benches, never staring at me, but always elaborately conscious of my presence.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000004|My friends began to comment on my changed looks, and advised me to leave off heaps of things.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000005|I should have liked to have left off Laploshka.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000020_000000|On a certain Sunday-it was probably Easter, for the crush was worse than ever-I was again wedged into the crowd listening to the music in the fashionable Paris church, and again the collection bag was buffeting its way across the human sea.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000020_000001|An English lady behind me was making ineffectual efforts to convey a coin into the still distant bag, so I took the money at her request and helped it forward to its destination. It was a two franc piece.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000000|The delicate mission of bestowing the retrieved sum on the deserving rich still confronted me.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000001|Again I trusted to the inspiration of accident, and again fortune favoured me.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000003|It was now or never. Putting a strong American inflection into the French which I usually talked with an unmistakable British accent, I catechised the Baron as to the date of the church's building, its dimensions, and other details which an American tourist would be certain to want to know.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000004|Having acquired such information as the Baron was able to impart on short notice, I solemnly placed the two franc piece in his hand, with the hearty assurance that it was "pour vous," and turned to go.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000005|The Baron was slightly taken aback, but accepted the situation with a good grace. Walking over to a small box fixed in the wall, he dropped Laploshka's two francs into the slot.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000022_000000|That evening, at the crowded corner by the Cafe de la Paix, I caught a fleeting glimpse of Laploshka.
train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000022_000001|He smiled, slightly raised his hat, and vanished.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000001_000000|THE BAG
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000002_000000|"The Major is coming in to tea," said mrs Hoopington to her niece. "He's just gone round to the stables with his horse.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000002_000001|Be as bright and lively as you can; the poor man's got a fit of the glooms."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000003_000000|Major Pallaby was a victim of circumstances, over which he had no control, and of his temper, over which he had very little.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000003_000002|The Major could plead reasonable excuse for his fit of the glooms.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000004_000000|In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby mrs Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000004_000001|Against his notorious bad temper she set his three thousand a year, and his prospective succession to a baronetcy gave a casting vote in his favour.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000004_000002|The Major's plans on the subject of matrimony were not at present in such an advanced stage as mrs Hoopington's, but he was beginning to find his way over to Hoopington Hall with a frequency that was already being commented on.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000005_000001|"Why you didn't bring one or two hunting men down with you, instead of that stupid Russian boy, I can't think."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000006_000000|"Vladimir isn't stupid," protested her niece; "he's one of the most amusing boys I ever met.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000006_000001|Just compare him for a moment with some of your heavy hunting men-"
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000007_000000|"Anyhow, my dear Norah, he can't ride."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000008_000000|"Russians never can; but he shoots."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000009_000000|"Yes; and what does he shoot?
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000009_000001|Yesterday he brought home a woodpecker in his game bag."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000011_000000|"That's no excuse for including a woodpecker in his game bag."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000012_000001|A Grand Duke pots a vulture just as seriously as we should stalk a bustard.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000012_000002|Anyhow, I've explained to Vladimir that certain birds are beneath his dignity as a sportsman.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000013_000000|mrs Hoopington sniffed.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000013_000001|Most people with whom Vladimir came in contact found his high spirits infectious, but his present hostess was guaranteed immune against infection of that sort.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000014_000001|"I shall go and get ready for tea.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000014_000002|We're going to have it here in the hall.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000014_000003|Entertain the Major if he comes in before I'm down, and, above all, be bright."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000015_000001|That young gentleman, however, was supremely unconscious of any shortcomings, and burst into the hall, tired, and less sprucely groomed than usual, but distinctly radiant.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000015_000002|His game bag looked comfortably full.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000016_000000|"Guess what I have shot," he demanded.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000017_000000|"Pheasants, woodpigeons, rabbits," hazarded Norah.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000018_000000|"No; a large beast; I don't know what you call it in English.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000018_000001|Brown, with a darkish tail." Norah changed colour.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000019_000000|"Does it live in a tree and eat nuts?" she asked, hoping that the use of the adjective "large" might be an exaggeration.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000024_000000|Norah sat down suddenly, and hid her face in her hands.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000025_000000|"Merciful Heaven!" she wailed; "he's shot a fox!"
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000026_000001|In a torrent of agitated words she tried to explain the horror of the situation.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000026_000002|The boy understood nothing, but was thoroughly alarmed.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000027_000000|"Hide it, hide it!" said Norah frantically, pointing to the still unopened bag.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000027_000001|"My aunt and the Major will be here in a moment.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000027_000002|Throw it on the top of that chest; they won't see it there."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000028_000000|Vladimir swung the bag with fair aim; but the strap caught in its flight on the outstanding point of an antler fixed in the wall, and the bag, with its terrible burden, remained suspended just above the alcove where tea would presently be laid.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000028_000001|At that moment mrs Hoopington and the Major entered the hall.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000029_000000|"The Major is going to draw our covers to morrow," announced the lady, with a certain heavy satisfaction.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000030_000000|"I'm sure I hope so; I hope so," said the Major moodily.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000030_000002|One hears so often that a fox has settled down as a tenant for life in certain covers, and then when you go to turn him out there isn't a trace of him.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000030_000003|I'm certain a fox was shot or trapped in Lady Widden's woods the very day before we drew them."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000031_000000|"Major, if any one tried that game on in my woods they'd get short shrift," said mrs Hoopington.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000032_000001|On one side of her loomed the morose countenance of the Major, on the other she was conscious of the scared, miserable eyes of Vladimir.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000032_000003|She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000032_000004|Her aunt's manner signalled to her the repeated message to "be bright"; for the present she was fully occupied in keeping her teeth from chattering.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000033_000000|"What did you shoot to day?" asked mrs Hoopington suddenly of the unusually silent Vladimir.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000034_000000|"Nothing-nothing worth speaking of," said the boy.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000035_000000|Norah's heart, which had stood still for a space, made up for lost time with a most disturbing bound.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000036_000000|"I wish you'd find something that was worth speaking about," said the hostess; "every one seems to have lost their tongues."
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000038_000000|"Yesterday morning; a fine dog fox, with a dark brush," confided mrs Hoopington.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000039_000000|"Aha, we'll have a good gallop after that brush to morrow," said the Major, with a transient gleam of good humour.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000040_000000|"What is exciting him?" asked his mistress, as the dog suddenly broke into short angry barks, with a running accompaniment of tremulous whines.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000041_000000|"Why," she continued, "it's your game bag, Vladimir!
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000042_000000|"By Gad," said the Major, who was now standing up; "there's a pretty warm scent!"
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000043_000000|And then a simultaneous idea flashed on himself and mrs Hoopington. Their faces flushed to distinct but harmonious tones of purple, and with one accusing voice they screamed, "You've shot the fox!"
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000000|Norah tried hastily to palliate Vladimir's misdeed in their eyes, but it is doubtful whether they heard her.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000001|The Major's fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day's shopping tries on a succession of garments.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000002|He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignent for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000003|In fact, he conveyed the impression that if a destroying angel had been lent to him for a week it would have had very little time for private study. In the lulls of his outcry could be heard the querulous monotone of mrs Hoopington and the sharp staccato barking of the fox terrier.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000005|His mind strayed back to the youth in the old Russian folk tale who shot an enchanted bird with dramatic results.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000006|Meanwhile, the Major, roaming round the hall like an imprisoned cyclone, had caught sight of and joyfully pounced on the telephone apparatus, and lost no time in ringing up the hunt secretary and announcing his resignation of the Mastership.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000007|A servant had by this time brought his horse round to the door, and in a few seconds mrs Hoopington's shrill monotone had the field to itself.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000008|But after the Major's display her best efforts at vocal violence missed their full effect; it was as though one had come straight out from a Wagner opera into a rather tame thunderstorm.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000046_000000|"Bury it," said Norah.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000047_000000|"Just plain burial?" said Vladimir, rather relieved.
train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000047_000001|He had almost expected that some of the local clergy would have insisted on being present, or that a salute might have to be fired over the grave.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000005_000000|My Dear Helen:
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000006_000000|I will begin where I left off in my last letter.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000000|As you may imagine, I did not get any sleep that night, not even so much as a cat's nap, as people say, though how cat's naps differ from men's and women's naps, I don't know.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000001|I shivered all night, and it hurt me terribly whenever I moved.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000003|Don't you remember when you had that big double tooth pulled out, and he gave you five dollars, how he swore then?
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000004|Well, he took me up in his arms, and carried me into the dining room; it was quite cool; there was a nice wood fire on the hearth, and Mary was setting the table for breakfast.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000005|He said to her in a very gruff voice, "Here you, Mary, you go up into the garret and bring down the cradle."
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000008_000000|Sick as I was, I could not help laughing at the sight of her face.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000008_000001|It was enough to make any cat laugh.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000000|"You do as I tell you," said he, in that most awful tone of his, which always makes you so afraid.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000001|I felt afraid myself, though all the time he was stroking my head, and saying, "Poor pussy, there, poor pussy, lie still." In a few minutes Mary came down with the cradle, and set it down by the fire with such a bang that I wondered it did not break.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000002|You know she always bangs things when she is cross, but I never could see what good it does.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000003|Then your grandfather made up a nice bed in the cradle, out of Charlie's winter blanket and an old pillow, and laid me down in it, all rolled up as I was in your petticoat.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000004|When your mother came into the room she laughed almost as hard as she did when she saw me in the soft soap barrel, and said, "Why, father, you are rather old to play cat's cradle!"
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000005|The old gentleman laughed at this, till the tears ran down his red cheeks.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000007|After breakfast I tried to walk, but my right paw was entirely useless.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000008|At first they thought it was broken, but finally decided that it was only sprained, and must be bandaged.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000009|The bandages were wet with something which smelled so badly it made me feel very sick, for the first day or two.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000011|For three days I had to lie all the time in the cradle: if your grandfather caught me out of it, he would swear at me, and put me back again.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000012|Every morning he put the soft white stuff on my eyes, and changed the bandages on my leg.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000013|And, oh, my dear Helen, such good things as I had to eat!
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000014|I had almost the same things for my dinner that the rest of them did: it must be a splendid thing to be a man or a woman!
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000015|I do not think I shall ever again be contented to eat in the shed, and have only the old pieces which nobody wants.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000002|I suppose she thought it was only some common strolling cat who was hungry.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000003|I have always noticed that people do not observe any difference between one cat's voice and another's; now they really are just as different as human voices.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000004|Caesar has one of the finest, deepest toned voices I ever heard.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000005|One day, after I got well enough to be in the kitchen, he slipped in, between the legs of the butcher's boy who was bringing in some meat; but before I had time to say one word to him, Mary flew at him with the broom, and drove him out.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000006|However, he saw that I was alive, and that was something.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000007|I am afraid it will be some days yet before I can see him again, for they do not let me go out at all, and the bandages are not taken off my leg.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000008|The cradle is carried upstairs, and I sleep on Charlie's blanket behind the stove.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000009|I heard your mother say to day that she really believed the cat had the rheumatism.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000010|I do not know what that is, but I think I have got it: it hurts me all over when I walk, and I feel as if I looked like Bill Jacobs's old cat, who, they say, is older than the oldest man in town; but of course that must be a slander.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000012_000000|The thing I am most concerned about is my fur; it is coming off in spots: there is a bare spot on the back of my neck, on the place by which they lifted me up out of the soap barrel, half as large as your hand; and whenever I wash myself, I get my mouth full of hairs, which is very disagreeable.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000012_000003|I hope you will come home soon.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000013_000000|Your affectionate Pussy.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000016_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000017_000000|My Dear Helen:
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000000|I am so glad to know that you are coming home next week, that I cannot think of any thing else.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000001|There is only one drawback to my pleasure, and that is, I am so ashamed to have you see me in such a plight.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000002|I told you, in my last letter, that my fur was beginning to come off.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000003|Your grandfather has tried several things of his, which are said to be good for hair; but they have not had the least effect.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000005|However, he has been so good to me, that I let him do any thing he likes, and every day he rubs in some new kind of stuff, which smells a little worse than the last one.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000007|I might as well fire off a gun to let them know I am coming, as to go about scented up so that they can smell me a great deal farther off than they can see me.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000008|If it were not for this dreadful state of my fur, I should be perfectly happy, for I feel much better than I ever did before in my whole life, and am twice as fat as when you went away.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000009|I try to be resigned to whatever may be in store for me, but it is very hard to look forward to being a fright all the rest of one's days.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000010|I don't suppose such a thing was ever seen in the world as a cat without any fur.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000011|This morning your grandfather sat looking at me for a long time and stroking his chin: at last he said, "Do you suppose it would do any good to shave the cat all over?" At this I could not resist the impulse to scream, and your mother said, "I do believe the creature knows whenever we speak about her." Of course I do!
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000012|Why in the world shouldn't I! People never seem to observe that cats have ears.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000013|I often think how much more careful they would be if they did.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000015|There are some houses in which I lived, before I came to live with you, about which I could tell strange stories if I chose.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000001|You see I spend so much more time in the society of men and women than of cats, that I find myself constantly using expressions which sound queerly in a cat's mouth.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000002|But you know me well enough to be sure that every thing I say is perfectly natural.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000003|And now, my dear Helen, I hope I have prepared you to see me looking perfectly hideous.
train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000004|I only trust that your love for me will not be entirely killed by my unfortunate appearance.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000002_000000|A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000003_000000|"Small and select," Anne assured Marilla.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000003_000001|"Just the girls in our class."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000004_000000|They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000005_000001|It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly things that were done in Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were "dared" to do them would fill a book by themselves.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000006_000000|First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000007_000002|But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000007_000003|Josie walked the Barry fence with an airy unconcern which seemed to imply that a little thing like that wasn't worth a "dare." Reluctant admiration greeted her exploit, for most of the other girls could appreciate it, having suffered many things themselves in their efforts to walk fences.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000007_000004|Josie descended from her perch, flushed with victory, and darted a defiant glance at Anne.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000009_000000|"I don't think it's such a very wonderful thing to walk a little, low, board fence," she said.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000010_000000|"I don't believe it," said Josie flatly.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000010_000001|"I don't believe anybody could walk a ridgepole.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000010_000002|YOU couldn't, anyhow."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000011_000000|"Couldn't I?" cried Anne rashly.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000012_000000|"Then I dare you to do it," said Josie defiantly.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000012_000001|"I dare you to climb up there and walk the ridgepole of mr Barry's kitchen roof."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000013_000002|All the fifth class girls said, "Oh!" partly in excitement, partly in dismay.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000014_000001|"You'll fall off and be killed.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000014_000002|Never mind Josie Pye.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000015_000002|"I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000015_000003|If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000016_000001|Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps before the catastrophe came.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000016_000002|Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath-all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000017_000001|Fortunately she fell on the other side, where the roof extended down over the porch so nearly to the ground that a fall therefrom was a much less serious thing.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000018_000001|"Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000021_000000|"Where?" sobbed Carrie Sloane.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000021_000001|"Oh, where, Anne?" Before Anne could answer mrs Barry appeared on the scene.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000022_000000|"What's the matter?
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000023_000000|"My ankle," gasped Anne.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000023_000001|"Oh, Diana, please find your father and ask him to take me home.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000023_000002|I know I can never walk there.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000024_000000|Marilla was out in the orchard picking a panful of summer apples when she saw mr Barry coming over the log bridge and up the slope, with mrs Barry beside him and a whole procession of little girls trailing after him.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000025_000000|At that moment Marilla had a revelation.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000025_000001|In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne-nay, that she was very fond of Anne.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000026_000000|"mr Barry, what has happened to her?" she gasped, more white and shaken than the self-contained, sensible Marilla had been for many years.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000000|"Don't be very frightened, Marilla.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000001|I was walking the ridgepole and I fell off.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000002|I expect I have sprained my ankle.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000004|Let us look on the bright side of things."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000029_000001|Mercy me, the child has gone and fainted!"
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000030_000000|It was quite true.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000031_000000|matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000032_000000|That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000034_000000|"It was your own fault," said Marilla, twitching down the blind and lighting a lamp.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000035_000000|"And that is just why you should be sorry for me," said Anne, "because the thought that it is all my own fault is what makes it so hard.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000035_000001|If I could blame it on anybody I would feel so much better.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000035_000002|But what would you have done, Marilla, if you had been dared to walk a ridgepole?"
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000036_000000|"I'd have stayed on good firm ground and let them dare away.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000036_000001|Such absurdity!" said Marilla.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000001|I haven't.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000002|I just felt that I couldn't bear Josie Pye's scorn.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000005|It's not a bit nice to faint, after all. And the doctor hurt me dreadfully when he was setting my ankle.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000006|I won't be able to go around for six or seven weeks and I'll miss the new lady teacher.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000007|She won't be new any more by the time I'm able to go to school. And Gil-everybody will get ahead of me in class.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000008|Oh, I am an afflicted mortal.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000009|But I'll try to bear it all bravely if only you won't be cross with me, Marilla."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000039_000000|"There, there, I'm not cross," said Marilla.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000039_000001|"You're an unlucky child, there's no doubt about that; but as you say, you'll have the suffering of it.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000039_000002|Here now, try and eat some supper."
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000040_000000|"Isn't it fortunate I've got such an imagination?" said Anne.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000040_000001|"It will help me through splendidly, I expect.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000040_000002|What do people who haven't any imagination do when they break their bones, do you suppose, Marilla?"
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000041_000001|But she was not solely dependent on it.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000041_000002|She had many visitors and not a day passed without one or more of the schoolgirls dropping in to bring her flowers and books and tell her all the happenings in the juvenile world of Avonlea.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000003|Why, even Superintendent Bell came to see me, and he's really a very fine man.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000004|Not a kindred spirit, of course; but still I like him and I'm awfully sorry I ever criticized his prayers.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000006|He could get over that if he'd take a little trouble.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000007|I gave him a good broad hint.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000009|He told me all about the time he broke his ankle when he was a boy.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000012|When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000015|Isn't that something to be proud of, Marilla?
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000016|When a minister's wife has so many claims on her time!
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000018|She never tells you it's your own fault and she hopes you'll be a better girl on account of it.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000020|Even Josie Pye came to see me.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000021|I received her as politely as I could, because I think she was sorry she dared me to walk a ridgepole.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000023|Diana has been a faithful friend.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000024|She's been over every day to cheer my lonely pillow.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000026|The girls all think she is perfectly sweet.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000030|Oh, it's just glorious to think of it.
train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000033|And the Friday afternoons they don't have recitations Miss Stacy takes them all to the woods for a 'field' day and they study ferns and flowers and birds.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000001_000000|Chapter eight
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000003_000002|From the top of a little hill outside the town could be seen the golden spires and many coloured cupolas, the sprawling grey immensity of the capital spread along the dreary plain, and beyond, the steely Gulf of Finland.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000000|There was no battle.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000001|But Kerensky made a fatal blunder.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000003|The soldiers replied that they would remain neutral, but would not disarm.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000006|A few minutes later Cossack artillery opened fire on the barracks, killing eight men.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000005_000004|Occasionally an automobile passed in and out, flying the Red Cross flag.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000006_000000|Albert Rhys Williams was in the Telephone Exchange.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000007_000003|Some sailors ambushed behind wood piles began shooting.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000007_000005|In the archway where Miss Bryant stood seven people were shot dead, among them two little boys.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000008_000001|The French Embassy promptly denied this, but one of the City Councillors told me that he himself had procured the officer's release from prison....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000010_000002|Even the moving picture shows, all outside lights dark, played to crowded houses.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000013_000000|Frenzied by defeat and their heaps of dead, the Soviet troops opened a tornado of steel and flame against the battered building.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000013_000002|A Commissar from Smolny named Kirilov tried to halt it; he was threatened with lynching.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000013_000003|The Red Guards' blood was up.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000014_000003|The rest, about two hundred, were taken to Peter Paul under escort, in small groups so as to avoid notice.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000015_000002|Several did not come back....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000016_000002|They will massacre us!" they cried, for many of them had given their word at the Winter Palace not to take up arms against the People.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000016_000003|Williams offered to mediate if Antonov were released.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000000|Tired, bloody, triumphant, the sailors and workers swarmed into the switchboard room, and finding so many pretty girls, fell back in an embarrassed way and fumbled with awkward feet.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000001|Not a girl was injured, not one insulted.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000002|Frightened, they huddled in the corners, and then, finding themselves safe, gave vent to their spite.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000003|"Ugh! The dirty, ignorant people!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000005|The sailors and Red Guards were embarrassed.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000006|"Brutes!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000007|Pigs!" shrilled the girls, indignantly putting on their coats and hats.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000009|These were just common workmen, peasants, "Dark People."...
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000000|The Commissar of the Military Revolutionary Committee, little Vishniak, tried to persuade the girls to remain.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000001|He was effusively polite.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000002|"You have been badly treated," he said.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000004|You are paid sixty rubles a month, and have to work ten hours and more....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000005|From now on all that will be changed.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000006|The Government intends to put the telephones under control of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. Your wages will be immediately raised to one hundred and fifty rubles, and your working hours reduced.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000007|As members of the working class you should be happy-"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000000|The employees of the building, the line men and labourers-they stayed.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000001|But the switch boards must be operated-the telephone was vital....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000003|The six girls scurried backward and forward, instructing, helping, scolding....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000006|Late in the afternoon word of it spread through the city, and hundreds of bourgeois called up to scream, "Fools! Devils!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000008|Wait till the Cossacks come!"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000021_000001|On the almost deserted Nevsky, swept by a bitter wind, a crowd had gathered before the Kazan Cathedral, continuing the endless debate; a few workmen, some soldiers and the rest shop keepers, clerks and the like.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000023_000003|To hell with Kerensky!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000024_000001|One read:
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000026_000000|At this dangerous hour, when the Municipal Duma ought to use every means to calm the population, to assure it bread and other necessities, the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets, forgetting their duty, have turned the Duma into a counter revolutionary meeting, trying to raise part of the population against the rest, so as to facilitate the victory of Kornilov Kerensky.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000026_000001|Instead of doing their duty, the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets have transformed the Duma into an arena of political attack upon the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, against the revolutionary Government of peace, bread and liberty.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000027_000000|Citizens of Petrograd, we, the Bolshevik Municipal Councillors elected by you-we want you to know that the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets are engaged in counter revolutionary action, have forgotten their duty, and are leading the population to famine, to civil war.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000028_000000|Far away still sounded occasional shots, but the city lay quiet, cold, as if exhausted by the violent spasms which had torn it.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000029_000000|In the Nicolai Hall the Duma session was coming to an end.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000029_000002|One after another the Commissars reported-capture of the Telephone Exchange, street fighting, the taking of the Vladimir school....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000029_000003|"The Duma," said Trupp, "is on the side of the democracy in its struggle against arbitrary violence; but in any case, whichever side wins, the Duma will always be against lynchings and torture...."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000000|Here there was doubt and depression.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000001|The counter revolution was being put down.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000003|A courier reported that the Committee of Welcome sent to meet Kerensky at the railway station had been arrested.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000005|Still Kerensky did not come...
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000032_000001|The Socialist Revolutionary paper demanded a Cabinet without either Cadets or Bolsheviki.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000032_000002|Gorky was hopeful; Smolny had made concessions.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000033_000000|We ridicule these coalitions with political parties whose most prominent members are petty journalists of doubtful reputation; our "coalition" is that of the proletariat and the revolutionary Army with the poor peasants...
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000035_000000|The conquerors of these riots, the saviours of the wreck of our country, these will be neither the Bolsheviki, nor the Committee for Salvation, nor the troops of Kerensky-but we, the Union of Railwaymen...
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000036_000000|Red Guards are incapable of handling a complicated business like the railways; as for the Provisional Government, it has shown itself incapable of holding the power...
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000037_000000|We refuse to lend our services to any party which does not act by authority of ... a Government based on the confidence of all the democracy....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000038_000000|Smolny thrilled with the boundless vitality of inexhaustible humanity in action.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000040_000001|They tried to send a mission to the Stavka, but we arrested them at Minsk....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000040_000002|Our branch has demanded an All Russian Convention, and they refuse to call it...."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000041_000001|One after another the various democratic organisations, all over Russia, were cracking and changing.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000042_000000|On the top floor the Military Revolutionary Committee was in full blast, striking and slacking not.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000042_000001|Men went in, fresh and vigorous; night and day and night and day they threw themselves into the terrible machine; and came out limp, blind with fatigue, hoarse and filthy, to fall on the floor and sleep....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000043_000003|Colonel Polkovnikov was in command of their forces, and the orders were signed by Gotz, former member of the Provisional Government, allowed at liberty on his word of honour....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000045_000001|The Soviet forces complied, and as they were leaving the Kremlin, were set upon and shot down.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000045_000004|Street fighting was slowly gathering way; all attempts at compromise had failed....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000046_000002|Smolny was almost deserted, except for the guards, who were busy at the hall windows, setting up machine guns to command the flanks of the building.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000047_000001|We have sent a committee to Kerensky to say that if he continues to march on Petrograd we will break his lines of communication...."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000049_000000|Kameniev answered discreetly.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000049_000002|The centre of gravity, however, lay not in composition of such a Government, but in its acceptance of the programme of the Congress of Soviets.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000001|But now that blood has been spilled there is only one way-pitiless struggle.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000003|The moment is decisive.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000004|Everybody must cooperate with the Military Revolutionary Committee, report where there are stores of barbed wire, benzine, guns....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000005|We've won the power; now we must keep it!"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000053_000000|The Menshevik Yoffe tried to read his party's declaration, but Trotzky refused to allow "a debate about principle."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000054_000000|"Our debates are now in the streets," he cried.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000054_000001|"The decisive step has been taken.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000056_000000|Then Trotzky again, fiery, indefatigable, giving orders, answering questions.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000000|"The petty bourgeoisie, in order to defeat the workers, soldiers and peasants, would combine with the devil himself!" he said once.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000001|Many cases of drunkenness had been remarked the last two days.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000002|"No drinking, comrades!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000003|No one must be on the streets after eight in the evening, except the regular guards.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000059_000000|"For each revolutionist killed," said Trotzky, "we shall kill five counter revolutionists!"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000060_000001|The Duma brilliantly illuminated and great crowds pouring in.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000060_000004|The gold and red epaulettes of officers were conspicuous, the familiar faces of the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary intellectuals, the hard eyes and bulky magnificence of bankers and diplomats, officials of the old regime, and well dressed women....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000061_000000|The telephone girls were testifying.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000061_000001|Girl after girl came to the tribune-over dressed, fashion aping little girls, with pinched faces and leaky shoes.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000062_000001|The Mayor said hopefully that the Petrograd regiments were ashamed of their actions; propaganda was making headway.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000064_000000|Revolutionary law and order.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000064_000001|A proclamation of the Finland Regiment, in December, nineteen seventeen, announcing desperate remedies for "wine pogroms." For translation see Appendix five.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000066_000000|"The Bolsheviki," said Trupp, "will be conquered by moral force, and not by bayonets....."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000067_000000|Meanwhile all was not well on the revolutionary front.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000067_000005|A Committee of five soldiers was elected to serve as General Staff, and in the small hours of the morning the regiments left their barracks in full battle array.... Going home I saw them pass, swinging along with the regular tread of veterans, bayonets in perfect alignment, through the deserted streets of the conquered city....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000068_000001|Abramovitch, for the centre Mensheviki, said that there should be neither conquerors nor conquered-that bygones should be bygones. ...In this were agreed all the left wing parties.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000069_000000|All that night the commission wrangled, and all the next day, and the next night.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000070_000002|In Moscow a truce had been declared; both sides parleyed, awaiting the result in the capital.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000070_000005|The result waited on the word from Petrograd....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000071_000000|Smolny was almost empty, but the Duma was thronged and noisy.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000072_000001|The peaceful population recognises this fact; the foreign Embassies recognise only such documents as are signed by the Mayor of the town.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000073_000000|"We are perfectly neutral.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000074_000000|At this there was ironic laughter from the Bolshevik benches, and imprecations from the right.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000077_000000|"The Mayor," he continued, "tells us that we must not make political meetings out of the Duma.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000077_000002|But this shall not be, for we respect the Duma.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000078_000000|Followed him Shingariov, Cadet, who said that there could be no common language with those who were liable to be brought before the Attorney General for indictment, and who must be tried on the charge of treason....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000078_000001|He proposed again that all Bolshevik members should be expelled from the Duma.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000078_000002|This was tabled, however, for there were no personal charges against the members, and they were active in the Municipal administration.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000079_000000|Then two Mensheviki Internationalists, declaring that the Appeal of the Bolshevik Councillors was a direct incitement to massacre.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000079_000001|"If everything that is against the Bolsheviki is counter revolutionary," said Pinkevitch, "then I do not know the difference between revolution and anarchy....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000079_000002|The Bolsheviki are depending upon the passions of the unbridled masses; we have nothing but moral force. We will protest against massacres and violence from both sides, as our task is to find a peaceful issue."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000080_000000|"The notice posted in the streets under the heading 'To the Pillory,' which calls upon the people to destroy the Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries," said Nazariev, "is a crime which you, Bolsheviki, will not be able to wash away.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000080_000002|I have always tried to reconcile you with the other parties, but at present I feel for you nothing but contempt!"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000000|"See!" they said.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000002|They don't dare arrest the Duma!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000006|It's only a few hours more, now. Even if Kerensky wouldn't come they haven't the men to run a Government.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000007|Absurd!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000084_000000|A Socialist Revolutionary friend of mine drew me aside.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000084_000002|"Do you want to go and talk with them?"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000085_000000|By this time it was dusk.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000085_000001|The city had again settled down to normal-shop shutters up, lights shining, and on the streets great crowds of people slowly moving up and down and arguing....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000086_000002|There was a sound of scuffling; an inside door slammed; then the front door opened a crack and a woman's face appeared.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000086_000004|They were delighted to meet an American reporter.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000086_000006|They would not give me their names, but both were Socialist Revolutionaries....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000087_000000|"Why," I asked, "do you publish such lies in your newspapers?"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000088_000000|Without taking offence the officer replied, "Yes, I know; but what can we do?" He shrugged.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000000|The other man interrupted.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000001|"This is merely an adventure on the part of the Bolsheviki.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000002|They have no intellectuals....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000003|The Ministries won't work....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000004|Russia is not a city, but a whole country....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000005|Realising that they can only last a few days, we have decided to come to the aid of the strongest force opposed to them-Kerensky-and help to restore order."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000090_000000|"That is all very well," I said.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000090_000001|"But why do you combine with the Cadets?"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000091_000000|The pseudo workman smiled frankly.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000091_000002|We have no following-now.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000091_000005|The Cadets think they are using us; but it is really we who are using the Cadets.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000093_000000|He scratched his head.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000093_000001|"That's a problem," he admitted.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000094_000000|"And then, too," said the officer, "that brings up the question of admitting the Cadets into the new Government-and for the same reasons.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000094_000001|You know the Cadets do not really want the Constituent Assembly-not if the Bolsheviki can be destroyed now." He shook his head.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000094_000003|You Americans are born politicians; you have had politics all your lives.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000095_000000|"What do you think of Kerensky?" I asked.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000096_000000|"Oh, Kerensky is guilty of the sins of the Provisional Government," answered the other man.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000097_000000|"But didn't it amount to that anyway?"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000098_000000|"Yes, but how were we to know?
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000100_000000|"In a week the Bolshevik Government will go to pieces; if the Socialist Revolutionaries could only stand aside and wait, the Government would fall into their hands.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000101_000000|"How about the Cossacks?"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000000|The officer sighed.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000001|"They did not move.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000003|They said moreover that they had their men with Kerensky, and that they were doing their part....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000006|There is no danger to us.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000007|We remain neutral.'"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000103_000000|During this talk people were constantly entering and leaving-most of them officers, their shoulder straps torn off.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000103_000003|I recognised Colonel Polkovnikov, former commandant of Petrograd, for whose arrest the Military Revolutionary Committee would have paid a fortune.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000000|"Our programme?" said the officer.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000001|"This is it.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000002|Land to be turned over to the Land Committees.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000005|The Bolsheviki cannot keep their promises to the masses, even in the country itself.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000006|We won't let them....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000008|That is dishonest.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000009|If they had waited for the Constituent Assembly-"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000105_000002|Kerensky made the great mistake.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000107_000000|The two men looked at one another.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000107_000001|"You will see in a few days.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000107_000003|If not, perhaps we shall be forced to...."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000109_000000|Meshkovsky, a neat, frail little man, was coming down the hall, looking worried.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000109_000002|For instance, the Council of People's Commissars had promised to publish the Secret Treaties; but Neratov, the functionary in charge, had disappeared, taking the documents with him.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000110_000000|Worst of all, however, was the strike in the banks.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000110_000001|"Without money," said Menzhinsky, "we are helpless.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000111_000000|"But Lenin has issued an order to dynamite the State Bank vaults, and there is a Decree just out, ordering the private banks to open to morrow, or we will open them ourselves!"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000113_000002|All available forces must be hurried there....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000114_000000|"From Moscow, bad news.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000114_000002|The result depends upon Petrograd.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000115_000001|Kerensky is flooding the trenches with tales of Petrograd burning and bloody, of women and children massacred by the Bolsheviki.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000118_000000|"I'm going now!" answered Trotzky, and left the platform.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000119_000000|Kameniev now spoke, describing the proceedings of the reconciliation conference.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000119_000001|The armistice conditions proposed by the Mensheviki, he said, had been contemptuously rejected.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000000|"Now that we've won the power and are sweeping all Russia," he declared, "all they ask of us are three little things: one.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000001|To surrender the power.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000003|To make the soldiers continue the war.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000004|three.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000005|To make the peasants forget about the land...."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000122_000002|It is good enough for us...."
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000123_000000|So the meeting roared on, leader after leader explaining, exhorting, arguing, soldier after soldier, workman after workman, standing up to speak his mind and his heart....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000123_000001|The audience flowed, changing and renewed continually.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000123_000002|From time to time men came in, yelling for the members of such and such a detachment, to go to the front; others, relieved, wounded, or coming to Smolny for arms and equipment, poured in....
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000000|"It's all right!" he shouted, grabbing my hands.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000001|"Telegram from the front.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000002|Kerensky is smashed!
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000003|Look at this!"
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000127_000000|Pulkovo.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000001|The attempt of Kerensky to move counter revolutionary troops against the capital of the Revolution has been decisively repulsed.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000002|Kerensky is retreating, we are advancing.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000004|The bourgeoisie tried to isolate the revolutionary army.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000005|Kerensky attempted to break it by the force of the Cossacks.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000006|Both plans met a pitiful defeat.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000129_000004|The Pulkovo detachment by its valorous blow has strengthened the cause of the Workers' and Peasants's Revolution.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000129_000005|There is no return to the past.
train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000129_000006|Before us are struggles, obstacles and sacrifices.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000008_000000|Chapter two
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000009_000000|Of Course mrs Arbuthnot was not miserable-how could she be, she asked herself, when God was taking care of her?--but she let that pass for the moment unrepudiated, because of her conviction that here was another fellow creature in urgent need of her help; and not just boots and blankets and better sanitary arrangements this time, but the more delicate help of comprehension, of finding the exact right words.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000010_000003|And what disturbed mrs Arbuthnot about this suggestion was that she did not make it solely to comfort mrs Wilkins; she made it because of her own strange longing for the mediaeval castle.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000011_000001|There she was, accustomed to direct, to lead, to advise, to support-except Frederick; she long since had learned to leave Frederick to God-being led herself, being influenced and thrown off her feet, by just an advertisement, by just an incoherent stranger.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000014_000000|They got up simultaneously-mrs
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000015_000001|She appeared to have, apart from her need of help, an upsetting kind of character.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000015_000002|She had a curious infectiousness.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000015_000003|She led one on.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000022_000002|We have attained it, and we are unhappy.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000023_000002|Anybody may do that.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000023_000003|I think it quite likely we shall find the conditions impossible, and even if they were not, probably by to morrow we shall not want to go."
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000025_000006|Certainly her customary clear expression of candor was not there, and its place was taken by a kind of suppressed and frightened pleasedness, which would have led a more worldly minded audience to the instant conviction of recent and probably impassioned lovemaking.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000026_000003|Though she couldn't approve of the way mrs Wilkins was introducing the idea of predestination into her immediate future, just as if she had no choice, just as if to struggle, or even to reflect, were useless, it yet influenced her.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000026_000005|Some people were like that, mrs Arbuthnot knew; and if mrs Wilkins had actually seen her at the mediaeval castle it did seem probable that struggling would be a waste of time.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000031_000000|"In February?" he called after her sarcastically.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000034_000001|She felt she ought really to ask, straight out and roundly, that the mediaeval castle should already have been taken by some one else and the whole thing thus be settled, but her courage failed her.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000034_000002|Suppose her prayer were to be answered?
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000034_000004|And after all-she almost pointed this out to God-if she spent her present nest egg on a holiday she could quite soon accumulate another.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000003|The poor were the filter through which the money was passed, to come out, mrs Arbuthnot hoped, purified.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000004|She could do no more.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000008|Their very boots were stout with sins.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000009|But how difficult it had been.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000010|mrs Arbuthnot, groping for guidance, prayed about it to exhaustion.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000012|But then what about the parish's boots?
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000038_000000|And at least her little house was not haunted by the loose lived ladies, for Frederick did his work away from home.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000038_000004|Then he would suddenly appear at breakfast, having let himself in with his latchkey the night before, very jovial and good-natured and free handed and glad if she would allow him to give her something-a well fed man, contented with the world; a jolly, full blooded, satisfied man.
train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000039_000001|Life, she often thought, however much one tabulated was yet a mystery.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000006_000001|In this way everything would be got nicely ready for the two who seemed, in spite of the equality of the sharing, yet to have something about them of guests.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000000|There were disagreeable incidents towards the end of March, when mrs Wilkins, her heart in her mouth and her face a mixture of guilt, terror and determination, told her husband that she had been invited to Italy, and he declined to believe it.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000001|Of course he declined to believe it.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000003|There was no precedent.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000004|He required proofs.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000008_000000|Indeed, the whole of March was filled with unpleasant, anxious moments.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000008_000002|mrs Arbuthnot's conscience, made super sensitive by years of pampering, could not reconcile what she was doing with its own high standard of what was right.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000008_000007|Would you not, frankly, be disappointed if that prayer were granted?"
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000009_000001|One woman.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000010_000001|He did not know, nobody knew, what she was going to do, and from the very beginning she was unable to look anybody in the face.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000010_000003|How could she stand up and ask people for money when she herself was spending so much on her own selfish pleasure?
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000010_000008|She gave it all immediately to the organization she worked with, and found herself more tangled in doubts than ever.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000012_000000|"Think how much nicer we shall be when we come back," she said to mrs Arbuthnot, encouraging that pale lady.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000013_000000|No, mrs Wilkins had no doubts, but she had fears; and March was for her too an anxious month, with the unconscious mr Wilkins coming back daily to his dinner and eating his fish in the silence of imagined security.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000015_000000|None came.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000015_000001|The silence in the room, except for the hail hitting the windows and the gay roar of the fire, was complete.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000015_000002|mrs Wilkins could not speak.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000016_000000|mr Wilkins, who had not been abroad since before the war, and was noticing with increasing disgust, as week followed week of wind and rain, the peculiar persistent vileness of the weather, and slowly conceived a desire to get away from England for Easter.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000016_000002|He could afford a trip.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000016_000004|There was a familiar sound about Easter in Italy. To Italy he would go; and as it would cause comment if he did not take his wife, take her he must-besides, she would be useful; a second person was always useful in a country whose language one did not speak for holding things, for waiting with the luggage.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000017_000000|He had expected an explosion of gratitude and excitement.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000017_000001|The absence of it was incredible.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000018_000000|He turned his head-their chairs were in front of the fire-and looked at her.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000019_000000|"I am thinking," he repeated, raising his clear, cultivated voice and speaking with acerbity, for inattention at such a moment was deplorable, "of taking you to Italy for Easter.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000019_000001|Did you not hear me?"
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000021_000000|In fact mrs Wilkins, driven by terror, guilt and surprise, had been more incoherent if possible than usual.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000000|It was a dreadful afternoon.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000001|Mellersh, profoundly indignant, besides having his intended treat coming back on him like a blessing to roost, cross examined her with the utmost severity.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000003|He demanded that, since she had so outrageously accepted it without consulting him, she should write and cancel her acceptance.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000004|Finding himself up against an unsuspected, shocking rock of obstinacy in her, he then declined to believe she had been invited to Italy at all.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000006|He could not but believe mrs Arbuthnot.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000009|But that made no difference to her conscience, which knew and would not let her forget that she had given him an incomplete impression.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000011|God sees none."
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000023_000001|Both mrs Arbuthnot and mrs Wilkins were shattered; try as they would not to, both felt extraordinarily guilty; and when on the morning of the thirtieth they did finally get off there was no exhilaration about the departure, no holiday feeling at all.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000024_000000|"We've been too good-much too good," mrs Wilkins kept on murmuring as they walked up and down the platform at Victoria, having arrived there an hour before they need have, "and that's why we feel as though we're doing wrong.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000024_000001|We're brow beaten-we're not any longer real human beings.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000025_000001|mrs Wilkins meant their husbands, persisting in her assumption that Frederick was as indignant as Mellersh over the departure of his wife, whereas Frederick did not even know his wife had gone.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000026_000001|Frederick went too deep into her heart for her to talk about him.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000026_000002|He was having an extra bout of work finishing another of those dreadful books, and had been away practically continually the last few weeks, and was away when she left.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000027_000001|But after having been very sick, just to arrive at Calais and not be sick was happiness, and it was there that the real splendour of what they were doing first began to warm their benumbed spirits.
train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000027_000003|None of the French porters knew him; not a single official at Calais cared a fig for Mellersh.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000000|Scrap wanted to know so much about her mother that Arundel had presently to invent.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000001|He would talk about anything she wished if only he might be with her for a while and see her and hear her, but he knew very little of the Droitwiches and their friends really-beyond meeting them at those bigger functions where literature is also represented, and amusing them at luncheons and dinners, he knew very little of them really.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000002|To them he had always remained mr Arundel; no one called him Ferdinand; and he only knew the gossip also available to the evening papers and the frequenters of clubs.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000004|It was quite easy to fasten some of the entertaining things he was constantly thinking on to other people and pretend they were theirs.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000005|Scrap, who had that affection for her parents which warms in absence, was athirst for news, and became more and more interested by the news he gradually imparted.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000003_000000|At first it was ordinary news.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000003_000002|She looked very well; she said so and so.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000003_000003|But presently the things Lady Droitwich had said took on an unusual quality: they became amusing.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000004_000000|"Mother said that?" Scrap interrupted, surprised.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000006_000000|"Mother did that?" Scrap inquired, wide eyed.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000007_000001|He fathered some of the most entertaining ideas he had lately had on to Lady Droitwich, and also any charming funny things that had been done-or might have been done, for he could imagine almost anything.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000001|Why, but how funny---fancy mother.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000003|Did she really do that?
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000004|How perfectly adorable of her.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000005|And did she really say-but how wonderful of her to think of it.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000006|What sort of a face did Lloyd George make?
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000009_000000|She laughed and laughed, and had a great longing to hug her mother, and the time flew, and it grew quite dusk, and it grew nearly dark, and mr Arundel still went on amusing her, and it was a quarter to eight before she suddenly remembered dinner.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000011_000001|It's late," said Arundel.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000014_000001|He did not wish to arrive too hot, so had to go slowly.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000014_000002|Fortunately he was near the top, and Francesca came down the pergola to pilot him indoors, and having shown him where he could wash she put him in the empty drawing room to cool himself by the crackling wood fire.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000015_000000|He got as far away from the fire as he could, and stood in one of the deep window recesses looking out at the distant lights of Mezzago. The drawing room door was open, and the house was quiet with the hush that precedes dinner, when the inhabitants are all shut up in their rooms dressing.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000016_000000|Rose was quite aware of what had happened to mr Briggs.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000017_000000|"Your husband," said Lotty, swinging her feet, "might be here quite soon, perhaps to morrow evening if he starts at once, and there'll be a glorious final few days before we all go home refreshed for life.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000017_000002|It's in the air.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000017_000003|You have to get fond of people here."
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000018_000002|If only it would come true as well about Frederick! For Rose, who between lunch and tea had left off thinking about Frederick, was now, between tea and dinner, thinking of him harder than ever.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000001|She could see as well as any one the unusually, the unique loveliness of Lady Caroline.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000003|They seemed to quicken unsuspected faculties into life.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000005|For a brief space, she thought, she had been like a torpid fly brought back to gay buzzing by the lighting of a fire in a wintry room.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000006|She still buzzed, she still tingled, just at the remembrance.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000007|What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000001|She dressed with care, though she knew mr Briggs would no longer see her, but it gave her pleasure to see how pretty, while she was about it, she could make herself look; and very nearly she stuck a crimson camellia in her hair down by her ear.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000002|She did hold it there for a minute, and it looked almost sinfully attractive and was exactly the colour of her mouth, but she took it out again with a smile and a sigh and put it in the proper place for flowers, which is water.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000003|She mustn't be silly, she thought.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000004|Think of the poor.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000005|Soon she would be back with them again, and what would a camellia behind her ear seem like then?
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000006|Simply fantastic.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000000|But on one thing she was determined: the first thing she would do when she got home would be to have it out with Frederick.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000002|But now let him wound her as much as he chose, as much as he possibly could, she would still have it out with him.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000004|For a person who wrote books, thought Rose, Frederick didn't seem to have much imagination.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000005|Anyhow, she said to herself, getting up from the dressing table, things couldn't go on like this.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000006|She would have it out with him.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000007|This separate life, this freezing loneliness, she had had enough of it.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000008|Why shouldn't she too be happy?
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000009|Why on earth-the energetic expression matched her mood of rebelliousness-shouldn't she too be loved and allowed to love?
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000022_000000|She looked at her little clock.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000022_000001|Still ten minutes before dinner. Tired of staying in her bedroom she thought she would go on to mrs Fisher's battlements, which would be empty at this hour, and watch the moon rise out of the sea.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000023_000000|She went into the deserted upper hall with this intention, but was attracted on her way along it by the firelight shining through the open door of the drawing room.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000024_000000|How gay it looked.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000024_000001|The fire transformed the room.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000024_000002|A dark, ugly room in the daytime, it was transformed just as she had been transformed by the warmth of-no, she wouldn't be silly; she would think of the poor; the thought of them always brought her down to sobriety at once.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000000|She peeped in.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000001|Firelight and flowers; and outside the deep slits of windows hung the blue curtain of the night.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000002|How pretty.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000004|And that gorgeous lilac on the table- she must go and put her face in it . . .
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000026_000000|But she never got to the lilac.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000026_000001|She went one step towards it, and then stood still, for she had seen the figure looking out of the window in the farthest corner, and it was Frederick.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000000|She stood quite still.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000002|He did not turn round.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000003|She stood looking at him.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000004|The miracle had happened, and he had come.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000029_000000|She stood holding her breath.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000029_000001|So he needed her, for he had come instantly.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000030_000000|Her heart, which had seemed to stop beating, was suffocating her now, the way it raced along.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000030_000001|Frederick did love her then-he must love her, or why had he come?
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000000|Her thoughts wouldn't go on.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000001|Her mind stammered.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000002|She couldn't think.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000003|She could only see and feel.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000004|She didn't know how it had happened.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000005|It was a miracle.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000006|God could do miracles.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000007|God had done this one.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000008|God could-God could-could-
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000032_000000|Her mind stammered again, and broke off.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000033_000000|"Frederick-" she tried to say; but no sound came, or if it did the crackling of the fire covered it up.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000034_000000|She must go nearer.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000034_000001|She began to creep towards him-softly, softly.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000035_000000|He did not move.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000035_000001|He had not heard.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000037_000000|She stopped a moment, unable to breathe.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000037_000001|She was afraid. Suppose he-suppose he-oh, but he had come, he had come.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000038_000000|She went on again, close up to him, and her heart beat so loud that she thought he must hear it.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000038_000001|And couldn't he feel-didn't he know-
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000039_000000|"Frederick," she whispered, hardly able even to whisper, choked by the beating of her heart.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000040_000000|He spun round on his heels.
train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000041_000000|"Rose!" he exclaimed, staring blankly.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000005_000000|THE IDEA OF GOD.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000007_000000|If we accept the definition that mythology is the idea of God expressed in symbol, figure, and narrative, and always struggling toward a clearer utterance, it is well not only to trace this idea in its very earliest embodiment in language, but also, for the sake of comparison, to ask what is its latest and most approved expression.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000007_000002|He has shown that our reason, dwelling on the facts of experience, constantly seeks the principles which connect them together, and only rests satisfied in the conviction that there is a highest and first principle which reconciles all their discrepancies and binds them into one.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000007_000004|It must be true, for it is evolved from the laws of reason, our only test of truth. Furthermore, the sense of personality and the voice of conscience, analyzed to their sources, can only be explained by the assumption of an infinite personality and an absolute standard of right.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000001|In every heart was an altar to the Unknown God.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000004|We are speaking of a people little capable of abstraction.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000005|The exhibitions of force in nature seemed to them the manifestations of that mysterious power felt by their self consciousness; to combine these various manifestations and recognize them as the operations of one personality, was a step not easily taken.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000006|Yet He is not far from every one of us.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000009_000001|Therefore a word is usually found in their languages analogous to none in any European tongue, a word comprehending all manifestations of the unseen world, yet conveying no sense of personal unity.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000010_000001|The heavens, the upper regions, are in every religion the supposed abode of the divine.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000010_000004|There the sun and bright stars sojourn, emblems of glory and stability.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000001|Numerous languages bear trace of this.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000002|The Latin Deus, the Greek Zeus, the Sanscrit Dyaus, the Chinese Tien, all originally meant the sky above, and our own word heaven is often employed synonymously with God.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000003|There is at first no personification in these expressions.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000004|They embrace all unseen agencies, they are void of personality, and yet to the illogical primitive man there is nothing contradictory in making them the object of his prayers.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000000|This last expression leads to another train of thought.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000001|As the philosopher, pondering on the workings of self consciousness, recognizes that various pathways lead up to God, so the primitive man, in forming his language, sometimes trod one, sometimes another.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000003|This firm belief has left its impress on language in the names devised to express the supernal, the spiritual world.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000008|Etymologically, in fact, ghosts and gusts, breaths and breezes, the Great Spirit and the Great Wind, are one and the same.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000009|It is easy to guess the reason of this.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000010|The soul is the life, the life is the breath.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000011|Invisible, imponderable, quickening with vigorous motion, slackening in rest and sleep, passing quite away in death, it is the most obvious sign of life.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000013|But the breath is nothing but wind. How easy, therefore, to look upon the wind that moves up and down and to and fro upon the earth, that carries the clouds, itself unseen, that calls forth the terrible tempests and the various seasons, as the breath, the spirit of God, as God himself?
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000014_000000|Armed with these analogies, we turn to the primitive tongues of America, and find them there as distinct as in the Old World.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000015_000000|The descent is, indeed, almost imperceptible which leads to the personification of the wind as God, which merges this manifestation of life and power in one with its unseen, unknown cause.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000016_000003|As if man ever did or ever could draw the idea of God from nature!
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000016_000004|In the identity of wind with breath, of breath with life, of life with soul, of soul with God, lies the far deeper and far truer reason, whose insensible development I have here traced, in outline indeed, but confirmed by the evidence of language itself.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000000|Let none of these expressions, however, be construed to prove the distinct recognition of One Supreme Being.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000001|Of monotheism either as displayed in the one personal definite God of the Semitic races, or in the dim pantheistic sense of the Brahmins, there was not a single instance on the American continent.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000003|How could they expect it?
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000006|In most instances they are entirely of modern origin, coined at the suggestion of missionaries, applied to the white man's God.
train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000007|Very rarely do they bring any conception of personality to the native mind, very rarely do they signify any object of worship, perhaps never did in the olden times.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000000_000001|Does he wish to express still more forcibly this sentiment, he doubles the word, or prefixes an adjective, or adds an affix, as the genius of his language may dictate.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000000_000002|But it still remains to him but an unapplied abstraction, a mere category of thought, a frame for the All.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000000_000003|It is never the object of veneration or sacrifice, no myth brings it down to his comprehension, it is not installed in his temples.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000001_000001|It is related that about the year fourteen forty, at a grand religious council held at the consecration of the newly built temple of the Sun at Cuzco, the Inca Yupanqui rose before the assembled multitude and spoke somewhat as follows:--
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000000|"Many say that the Sun is the Maker of all things.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000002|Now many things happen when the Sun is absent; therefore he cannot be the universal creator.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000003|And that he is alive at all is doubtful, for his trips do not tire him.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000005|He is like a tethered beast who makes a daily round under the eye of a master; he is like an arrow, which must go whither it is sent, not whither it wishes.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000004_000000|No better success attended the attempt of Nezahuatl, lord of Tezcuco, which took place about the same time.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000004_000002|At length, in indignation and despair, the prince exclaimed, "Verily, these gods that I am adoring, what are they but idols of stone without speech or feeling?
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000004_000003|They could not have made the beauty of the heaven, the sun, the moon, and the stars which adorn it, and which light the earth, with its countless streams, its fountains and waters, its trees and plants, and its various inhabitants.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000005_000000|In neither case, be it observed, was any attempt made to substitute another and purer religion for the popular one.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000005_000004|They prove something in regard to a consciousness of divinity hedging us about, but nothing at all in favor of a recognition of one God; they exemplify how profound is the conviction of a highest and first principle, but they do not offer the least reason to surmise that this was a living reality in doctrine or practice.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000006_000000|The confusion of these distinct ideas has led to much misconception of the native creeds.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000006_000002|This notion, which has its historical origin among the Parsees of ancient Iran, is unknown to savage nations.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000007_000000|This view, which has obtained without question in every work on the native religions of America, has arisen partly from habits of thought difficult to break, partly from mistranslations of native words, partly from the foolish axiom of the early missionaries, "The gods of the gentiles are devils." Yet their own writings furnish conclusive proof that no such distinction existed out of their own fancies.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000008_000000|A passage often quoted in support of this mistaken view is one in Winslow's "Good News from New England," written in sixteen twenty two.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000009_000000|So in many instances it turns out that what has been reported to be the evil divinity of a nation, to whom they pray to the neglect of a better one, is in reality the highest power they recognize.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000011_000001|Writers anxious to discover Jewish or Christian analogies, forcibly construed myths to suit their pet theories, and for indolent observers it was convenient to catalogue their gods in antithetical classes.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000012_000000|Perhaps no myth has been so often quoted in its confirmation as that of the ancient Iroquois, which narrates the conflict between the first two brothers of our race.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000012_000001|It is of undoubted native origin and venerable antiquity.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000012_000003|At length the Good Mind turned upon his brother in anger, and crushed him into the earth.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000013_000001|After a prolonged struggle, which brought on the general deluge and the destruction of the world, he won the victory.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000014_000001|They narrate the struggles between the rulers of the upper and the nether world, the descent of the former into Xibalba, the Realm of Phantoms, and their victory over its lords, One Death and Seven Deaths.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000014_000002|The writer adds of the latter, who clearly represent to his mind the Evil One and his adjutants, "in the old times they did not have much power; they were but annoyers and opposers of men, and in truth they were not regarded as gods.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000014_000003|But when they appeared it was terrible.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000000|A little reflection will convince the most incredulous that any such dualism as has been fancied to exist in the native religions, could not have been of indigenous growth.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000001|The gods of the primitive man are beings of thoroughly human physiognomy, painted with colors furnished by intercourse with his fellows.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000002|These are his enemies or his friends, as he conciliates or insults them.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000004|Personal, family, or national feuds render some more inimical than others, but always from a desire to guard their own interests, never out of a delight in evil for its own sake.
train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000006|Moral dualism can only arise in minds where the ideas of good and evil are not synonymous with those of pleasure and pain, for the conception of a wholly good or a wholly evil nature requires the use of these terms in their higher, ethical sense.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000000_000000|Chapter one hundred seven.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000000_000001|The Lions' Den.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000000|One division of La Force, in which the most dangerous and desperate prisoners are confined, is called the court of Saint Bernard.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000001|The prisoners, in their expressive language, have named it the "Lions' Den," probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars, and sometimes the keepers also.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000002|It is a prison within a prison; the walls are double the thickness of the rest.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000003|The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000005|On this paved yard are to be seen,--pacing to and fro from morning till night, pale, careworn, and haggard, like so many shadows,--the men whom justice holds beneath the steel she is sharpening.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000006|There, crouched against the side of the wall which attracts and retains the most heat, they may be seen sometimes talking to one another, but more frequently alone, watching the door, which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage, or to throw in another outcast from society.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000002_000001|And yet, frightful though this spot may be, it is looked upon as a kind of paradise by the men whose days are numbered; it is so rare for them to leave the Lions' Den for any other place than the barrier Saint Jacques or the galleys!
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000000|In the court which we have attempted to describe, and from which a damp vapor was rising, a young man with his hands in his pockets, who had excited much curiosity among the inhabitants of the "Den," might be seen walking.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000001|The cut of his clothes would have made him pass for an elegant man, if those clothes had not been torn to shreds; still they did not show signs of wear, and the fine cloth, beneath the careful hands of the prisoner, soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000002|He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000003|Some of the inmates of the "Lions' Den" were watching the operations of the prisoner's toilet with considerable interest.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000004|"See, the prince is pluming himself," said one of the thieves.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000005|"He's a fine looking fellow," said another; "if he had only a comb and hair grease, he'd take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000005_000001|And, then, to be here so young!
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000005_000007|The keeper turned his back, and shrugged his shoulders; he did not even laugh at what would have caused any one else to do so; he had heard so many utter the same things,--indeed, he heard nothing else.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000006_000001|The prisoners then approached and formed a circle.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000007_000000|"Of course-of course," said the prisoners;--"any one can see he's a gentleman!"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000008_000000|"Well, then, lend him the twenty francs," said the keeper, leaning on the other shoulder; "surely you will not refuse a comrade!"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000012_000003|Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right; that he intended to be civil, in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience,--and the mob retired.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000012_000007|"Benedetto!" exclaimed an inspector.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000012_000008|The keeper relaxed his hold.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000013_000008|He has two means of extricating me from this dilemma,--the one by a mysterious escape, managed through bribery; the other by buying off my judges with gold.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000014_000002|He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all sorts; still, by degrees nature, or rather custom, had prevailed, and he suffered from being naked, dirty, and hungry.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000014_000004|Andrea felt his heart leap with joy.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000014_000005|It was too soon for a visit from the examining magistrate, and too late for one from the director of the prison, or the doctor; it must, then, be the visitor he hoped for.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000017_000000|"You-you?" said the young man, looking fearfully around him.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000019_000000|"Silence,--be silent!" said Andrea, who knew the delicate sense of hearing possessed by the walls; "for heaven's sake, do not speak so loud!"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000021_000000|"Oh, yes."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000023_000000|"Read?" he said.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000024_000000|"What is that?" asked Andrea.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000026_000000|"Oh," cried Andrea, leaping with joy.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000030_000000|"You speak first."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000031_000000|"Oh, no
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000032_000000|"Well, be it so.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000032_000001|You have continued your course of villany; you have robbed-you have assassinated."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000033_000002|I know all these things.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000033_000004|Let us talk of those, if you please.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000033_000005|Who sent you?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000035_000002|Who sends you?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000037_000000|"How did you know I was in prison?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000040_000000|"Who, then, am I?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000041_000000|"You, sir?--you are my adopted father.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000041_000002|Come, speak, my worthy Corsican, speak!"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000042_000000|"What do you wish me to say?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000044_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000048_000000|"The Count of Monte Cristo?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000050_000000|"Do not let us jest," gravely replied Bertuccio, "and dare not to utter that name again as you have pronounced it."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000054_000000|"Oh, these are fine words."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000057_000001|"Do you think you have to do with galley slaves, or novices in the world?
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000057_000002|Benedetto, you are fallen into terrible hands; they are ready to open for you-make use of them.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000057_000003|Do not play with the thunderbolt they have laid aside for a moment, but which they can take up again instantly, if you attempt to intercept their movements."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000000|"My father-I will know who my father is," said the obstinate youth; "I will perish if I must, but I will know it.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000001|What does scandal signify to me?
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000003|You great people always lose something by scandal, notwithstanding your millions.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000004|Come, who is my father?"
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000060_000000|"Ah," cried Benedetto, his eyes sparkling with joy.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000060_000001|Just then the door opened, and the jailer, addressing himself to Bertuccio, said,--"Excuse me, sir, but the examining magistrate is waiting for the prisoner."
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000062_000000|"I will return to morrow," said Bertuccio.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000063_000000|"Good!
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000063_000001|Gendarmes, I am at your service.
train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000064_000003|"Can I be deceived?" he murmured, as he stepped into the oblong and grated vehicle which they call "the salad basket." "Never mind, we shall see!
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000003_000001|Every one looked with astonishment on that grave and severe face, whose calm expression personal griefs had been unable to disturb, and the aspect of a man who was a stranger to all human emotions excited something very like terror.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000004_000000|"Gendarmes," said the president, "lead in the accused."
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000002|His features bore no sign of that deep emotion which stops the beating of the heart and blanches the cheek.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000003|His hands, gracefully placed, one upon his hat, the other in the opening of his white waistcoat, were not at all tremulous; his eye was calm and even brilliant.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000004|Scarcely had he entered the hall when he glanced at the whole body of magistrates and assistants; his eye rested longer on the president, and still more so on the king's attorney.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000005|By the side of Andrea was stationed the lawyer who was to conduct his defence, and who had been appointed by the court, for Andrea disdained to pay any attention to those details, to which he appeared to attach no importance.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000006|The lawyer was a young man with light hair whose face expressed a hundred times more emotion than that which characterized the prisoner.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000006_000004|Benedetto was thus forever condemned in public opinion before the sentence of the law could be pronounced.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000000|"Accused," said the president, "your name and surname?" Andrea arose. "Excuse me, mr President," he said, in a clear voice, "but I see you are going to adopt a course of questions through which I cannot follow you.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000001|I have an idea, which I will explain by and by, of making an exception to the usual form of accusation.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000003|The whole assembly manifested great surprise, but Andrea appeared quite unmoved.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000004|"Your age?" said the president; "will you answer that question?"
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000011_000001|As for Benedetto, he gracefully wiped his lips with a fine cambric pocket handkerchief.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000011_000002|"Your profession?"
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000012_000001|The judges themselves appeared to be stupefied, and the jury manifested tokens of disgust for cynicism so unexpected in a man of fashion.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000013_000002|"And now, prisoner, will you consent to tell your name?" said the president.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000013_000004|You appear to consider this a point of honor, and it may be for this reason, that you have delayed acknowledging your name.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000014_000001|The public astonishment had reached its height.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000014_000003|The audience felt that a startling revelation was to follow this ominous prelude.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000015_000000|"Well," said the president; "your name?"
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000016_000000|"I cannot tell you my name, since I do not know it; but I know my father's, and can tell it to you."
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000017_000000|A painful giddiness overwhelmed Villefort; great drops of acrid sweat fell from his face upon the papers which he held in his convulsed hand.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000018_000000|"Repeat your father's name," said the president.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000018_000001|Not a whisper, not a breath, was heard in that vast assembly; every one waited anxiously.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000019_000000|"My father is king's attorney," replied Andrea calmly.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000021_000002|In the midst of this tumult the voice of the president was heard to exclaim,--"Are you playing with justice, accused, and do you dare set your fellow citizens an example of disorder which even in these times has never been equalled?"
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000001|Order was re-established in the hall, except that a few people still moved about and whispered to one another.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000003|During the scene of tumult, Andrea had turned his smiling face towards the assembly; then, leaning with one hand on the oaken rail of the dock, in the most graceful attitude possible, he said: "Gentlemen, I assure you I had no idea of insulting the court, or of making a useless disturbance in the presence of this honorable assembly.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000004|They ask my age; I tell it.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000006|They ask my name, I cannot give it, since my parents abandoned me.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000007|But though I cannot give my own name, not possessing one, I can tell them my father's.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000023_000002|"Gentlemen," said Andrea, commanding silence by his voice and manner; "I owe you the proofs and explanations of what I have said."
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000024_000000|"But," said the irritated president, "you called yourself Benedetto, declared yourself an orphan, and claimed Corsica as your country."
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000025_000000|"I said anything I pleased, in order that the solemn declaration I have just made should not be withheld, which otherwise would certainly have been the case.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000027_000000|"I will tell you, mr President.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000030_000000|"But your mother?" asked the president.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000031_000000|"My mother thought me dead; she is not guilty.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000032_000000|"The proofs?" said Benedetto, laughing; "do you want proofs?"
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000033_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000035_000002|"Father," said Benedetto, "I am asked for proofs, do you wish me to give them?"
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000038_000002|We need no proofs; everything relating to this young man is true." A dull, gloomy silence, like that which precedes some awful phenomenon of nature, pervaded the assembly, who shuddered in dismay.
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000038_000005|Come, recover."
train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000044_000000|"And moreover, it kills," said Beauchamp.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000001_000000|I had been seated in the next chair to hers for at least two minutes. I felt that it was time to introduce myself.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000002_000000|"It's a fine evening."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000003_000000|She turned, she looked me up and down, then she looked straight in front of her again.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000005_000000|But I was not to be crushed; there was something about the shape of her that which suggested sociability.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000006_000000|"That is my misfortune, rather than my fault."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000007_000000|"I don't know nothing at all about that.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000007_000001|I do not speak to strangers as a rule.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000007_000002|Sometimes there's never no knowing who they are."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000008_000000|I felt that I was getting on-so I went on.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000009_000000|"What do you think of the band?"
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000010_000000|"It's not loud enough for me.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000010_000001|I like a band as I can hear."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000011_000002|It struck me that the tale, as she told it, contained elements of tragedy.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000000|"Bakers," she observed, "is what I like.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000001|I have a sister who likes butchers.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000002|To me there's always the smell of the meat about a butcher. But it's as you're made.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000003|The worst of bakers is, they're such a thirsty lot."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000013_000000|"Possibly," I suggested, "that is in a measure owing to the nature of their occupation."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000014_000000|"That may be, but still there is a limit, and when a man is always drinking, I think it's time for him to stop."
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000015_000000|I thought so too, but she went on:
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000016_000000|"My young man, his name is Willyum Evans, is a baker, and him and me have been walking out together four years come next month.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000016_000001|So I said to him, 'Willyum, it's my day out, Tuesday.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000016_000003|So when he did come, I was a bit huffy.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000000|"So there we sat, neither of us saying nothing, till I began to feel a little damp, because I had my thin things on, and it was beginning to come down heavy.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000001|So I said, 'Well, Willyum, have you forgotten it's my day out?
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000002|I thought you was going to take me somewhere.' He said, 'So I am.' So I said, 'Where are you going to take me to?
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000003|It's getting on, and I'm likewise getting wet'--which I was.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000004|So he said, 'What do you say to Battersea Park?' So I said, 'I say nothing.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000019_000000|"You must know that Willyum is that near about money that I never saw nothing like him; not that it's a bad thing in a man, though it may be carried too far and I must say I do think Willyum do carry it too far. He has never given me nothing which he didn't want me to pay for, not even half a pint of beer.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000019_000003|'We are both of us having a day out,' he said, 'and don't let no bad tempers spoil our pleasure.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000019_000004|I may have some money somewhere, unbeknown to myself, so I will look and see; though I must say I do think it hard that all the expenses should be borne by me!'
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000002|He held it out to me.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000003|'No,' I said.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000004|'I thank you.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000005|I am particular about my vittles, and I never eat no scraps, and, still less, things what have been sat down upon.' 'Well,' he said, 'it's a pity it should be wasted, I'll eat it myself.' Which he did, and me standing in the rain there looking on.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000006|That did put my back up.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000007|'mr Evans,' I said, short and sharp, 'I wish you a good day.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000008|I am going.' So I goes.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000010|So I pulls up.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000021_000000|"That made me fairly wild it really did.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000022_000000|"I never said a word to him, but I walks right out of the park.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000022_000002|He being a married man, and with a comfortable home, he will be glad to see us.'
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000000|"Well, I didn't know what to do, not liking to have no quarrel with him in the street, so off we starts for his brother's.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000002|Just now you was saying as how your brother would be glad to see us.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000004|Do not let us spoil our day's pleasure by no disagreeable observations.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000006|Now, Matilda, don't you let him start hitting me.' And he jumps behind me, so as to get into the shadow, as it were.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000007|So I says, 'Willyum, whatever is the matter now? Your conduct do seem to me to be of the most extraordinary character.'
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000001|I've been looking for you for some time.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000003|Oh, dear me, you never saw nothing like the mess that I was in!
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000004|And he grabs hold of Willyum by the collar, and he says, 'Hang me if I don't wipe down the street with you!' And he shouts out, ''Enrietta, here's Brother Willyum.
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000006|Oh dear!
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000007|oh dear!
train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000025_000000|No, I said, I should not.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000001_000000|A SUBSTITUTE.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000002_000000|THE STORY OF MY LAST CRICKET MATCH.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000004_000000|I a m APPOINTED CAPTAIN.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000000|I have some idea of cricket-not much, perhaps, but I certainly have some.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000001|I was not in the 'Varsity team, nor near it; but I played in the Freshman's match, and provided myself with spectacles.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000002|I was nearly in the school team once.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000003|That was when I carried my bat for forty five.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000004|I must own that my performance was a surprise to everyone-and to myself among the rest.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000005|But as I never repeated it-or anything like it-they left me, very wisely, out of the eleven.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000006_000003|Latchmere.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000000|When they first asked me to play I thought they were mad. Storwell on Sea is a village on the south coast-I beg pardon; I believe it is called by the inhabitants a town.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000001|It is a pretty place, and not unknown-in the locality.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000003|And one day a deputation of the inhabitants called on me at my lodgings to ask if I would lead the local cricket club to, say, victory.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000004|As I have said, my first impression was that they were mad; either that, or else that they were "playing it off" on the unprotected stranger.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000000|I hinted so much to the deputation.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000001|The deputation smiled.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000002|The chief spokesman was the local barber; his name was Sapsworth.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000005|I decided to crush the deputation before the thing went farther.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000010_000000|But the admission did not crush them: quite the other way.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000010_000001|It opened the floodgates of their eloquence.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000011_000000|"That's nothing," mr Sapsworth cried.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000012_000000|I glanced at mr Hedges, thus frankly referred to.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000012_000002|He would certainly have turned the scale at sixteen stone.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000012_000003|I felt that, to cricketers who intended to play mr Hedges, any objections which I might urge would appear quite trivial.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000013_000000|"When is the match to be?" I asked.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000014_000000|"To morrow," was the startling reply.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000015_000000|I was speechless.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000015_000002|It was altogether too preposterous.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000016_000000|The end of it was that I agreed to play.
train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000016_000001|No man knows to what a depth of folly he can sink until he tries.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000002_000000|AND BATS.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000003_000001|We sat there, moping in a crowd, I among the rest, when mr Benyon, bustling up, reminded me of my duties as a captain.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000000|"Now then, turn out.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000001|Send your men into the field.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000002|We can't stop here all day.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000003|I'm first man in; soon I'll have to go, and I haven't had a smack at a cricket ball these twenty years!"
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000000|We looked at each other.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000001|One part of his address gave us a certain gratification-that part in which he stated that he soon would have to go.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000002|We turned out.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000003|I suppose a more unpromising set of fieldsmen never yet took their places in the field.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000004|The Latchmere men went slouching towards the tent; some of them, I noticed, instead of going in stole towards the rear.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000006_000000|"mr Trentham, I-I can't bowl," whispered mr Sapsworth to me as we moved across the turf.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000007_000000|He and I had agreed that we should start the bowling.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000007_000001|I confess that I felt no more inclined to act up to the letter of our agreement than he did.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000007_000002|But mr Benyon intervened.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000008_000000|"Now, Bob Sapsworth, you take the bowling one end, and let your captain take the other.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000008_000001|Captain, you take first over."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000000|I obeyed without a murmur.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000002|I do not think that our field was arranged on scientific principles; I may certainly claim that I had nothing to do with its arrangement.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000003|There is a suspicion floating through my mind that at one or two points-two, or more-men were placed unusually close together. For instance, at deep mid off-very deep mid off-mr
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000004|Hawthorn and mr Hedges were not only doing their best to trample on each other's toes, but each was seeking for a place of security behind the other's back.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000010_000000|mr Barker shared with mr Benyon the honour of being first man in. The Latchmere captain, as a captain, had become quite as much a figurehead as I had.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000010_000001|His bearing was indicative of extreme depression. I think he had learned that to take, off hand, the first substitute who offered, was, now and then, unwise.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000000|To enable him to bat with more advantage, mr Benyon had removed his waistcoat, which matched his trousers and his coat.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000001|What he had done with it I cannot say; possibly it had vanished, with his other garments, into air.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000002|Now he had on a bright red flannel shirt-his tastes in costume seemed a trifle lurid-the sleeves of which were turned up above the elbows.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000003|His pose was almost as peculiar as his costume.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000004|He stood bolt upright, his legs together, his feet drawn heel to heel; not at all in the fashion of a modern cricketer, who seeks to guard his wickets with his legs.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000005|His bat he held straight down in front of him, the blade swinging gently in the air.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000013_000000|"Hurry up, sir!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000013_000001|Don't I tell you that soon I'll have to go?"
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000014_000000|I hurried up.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000014_000001|I gave him an overhand full pitch which would have made a decent catch for point, if point had been close in, which he wasn't. However, in any case mr Benyon would have saved him the trouble.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000014_000003|He drove it over the hedge, and over the trees, and up to the skies, and out of sight.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000000|"I don't think that's a bad little smack to start with," he observed. "I like your kind of bowling, mister.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000001|I suppose that's a boundary." He called to the scorer-if there was one, which I doubt-"Put down Tom Benyon six!"
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000002|He turned again to me.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000003|"It's no good wasting time looking for that ball.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000004|I've another in my pocket you can have."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000000|He put his hand into his trousers' pocket.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000001|Those remarkable garments fitted him like eel skins.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000002|I had certainly never supposed that he could by any possibility have such a thing as a cricket ball in one of the pockets.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000004|He drew one out and threw it up to me.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000017_000000|My second ball was a colourable imitation of my first, only this time it was wide to leg.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000017_000001|To long leg mr Benyon sent it flying.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000018_000000|"Put down Tom Benyon another six!" he cried.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000018_000002|I've got another ball which you can have."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000000|He produced a second ball from the same pocket from which the first had come.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000001|I could scarcely believe my eyes.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000002|But I was discovering, with Horatio, that there were more things in heaven and earth than had been contained in my philosophy.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000003|Since mr Benyon professed such affection for the style of bowling which I favoured, I sent him down another sample.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000005|He treated it as he had done the first-he drove it, with terrific force, right above my head.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000020_000000|"Never mind about the ball," he said.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000020_000001|"I've got another in my pocket."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000021_000000|He had-the third.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000021_000001|And in the same pocket from which the other two had come.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000022_000000|My fourth ball he treated to a swipe to square leg.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000022_000001|He seemed to have a partiality for swiping.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000022_000002|Quite unnecessarily he allowed that this was so.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000023_000000|"I do like a ball which I can get a smack at," he remarked as he produced a fourth ball from the same pocket of his tightly fitting trousers which had contained the other three.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000023_000001|"A swipe does warm me so.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000024_000000|It was kind of him to say so; though, to my thinking, his remark did not convey a compliment.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000024_000001|When he sent my fifth ball out of sight I wished that his love for swiping had been less, or my bowling of another kind.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000024_000002|The sixth, however, which he also produced from the same wondrous store contained in his breeches pocket, he contented himself with what he called "snicking."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000025_000000|"That's what I call a pretty snick," he said.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000026_000000|The "snick" in question was a tremendous drive to deep mid off.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000026_000001|It was stopped, quite involuntarily, by mr Hawthorn and mr Hedges.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000026_000003|Neither of them made the slightest attempt to return the ball.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000000|"Run it out!" cried mr Benyon.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000001|He and mr Barker began to run.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000002|They ran four, and then they ran two more, and still the ball was not thrown in.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000003|mr Benyon urged the fielders on.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000004|"Hurry up, Bill Hedges!"
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000028_000000|mr Hedges did not hurry up; he never could have hurried up, even if his manner of "fielding" the ball had not wholly deprived him of his wind.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000028_000001|But the ball was at last thrown in-when the pair had run eleven.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000028_000002|Forty one runs off his first over was a result calculated to take the conceit out of the average bowler.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000000|He had.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000001|I felt for mr Sapsworth.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000002|But since I had suffered it was only fair that he should suffer too.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000003|Crack-smack-whack went the balls out of sight in all directions.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000004|And for each ball that disappeared mr Benyon produced another from his breeches pocket.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000005|I felt that these things must be happening to me in a dream.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000006|I was rapidly approaching the condition in which Alice must have been in Wonderland-prepared for anything.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000000|Time went on.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000001|mr Sapsworth and I bowled over after over.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000002|mr Benyon was making a record in tall scoring.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000003|No performance of "W.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000004|g's" ever came within many miles of it.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000005|And the balls he lost!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000006|And the balls which he produced!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000007|And the diabolical ingenuity with which he managed, at the close of every over, to change his end!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000008|If mr Barker did no hitting, he did some running.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000009|He never had a chance to make a stroke, but his partner took care to make him run an incredibly large odd number as a wind up to every over.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000010|mr Benyon did not seem to be distressed by the exertion in the least; mr Barker emphatically did.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000002|I suppose, at the outside, our innings had lasted half an hour.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000004|I know that I bowled until I felt that I should either have to stop or drop.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000005|By degrees one fact began to be impressed upon me.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000006|It was this-that the number of spectators was growing smaller by degrees and beautifully less.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000007|Originally there had been quite a crowd assembled.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000008|In course of time this had dwindled to half a dozen stragglers.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000010|And not only spectators but cricketers had disappeared.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000011|If my eyes did not deceive me, there was not a member of the Latchmere team left on the ground.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000000|What was more, some of our own team took courage, and leg bail.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000001|I caught one of them-the lad Fenning-in the act of scrambling through the hedge.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000002|But I had not the heart to stop him.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000003|I only wished that I had been so fortunate as to have led the van.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000034_000001|So far as I could see, mr Hawthorn, mr Hedges, mr Sapsworth, and I were the only members of the Storwell team left on the ground.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000034_000002|And the reflection involuntarily crossed my mind-what fools we were to stay!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000034_000005|The perspiration was running off from us in streams-I had never had such a "sweater" before!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000035_000000|"I do like your kind of bowling, mister," mr Benyon would constantly remark.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000036_000000|If I had had an equal admiration for his kind of batting we should have been quits, but I had not; at least not then.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000000|A little later, looking round the field, I found that mr Hawthorn had disappeared, and that mr Hedges, stuck in a hedge, was struggling gallantly to reach safety on the other side.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000002|mr Benyon ran thirteen for a hit to leg.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000003|He made mr Barker run them too-it was the proverbial last straw.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000004|As mr Barker was running the thirteenth run, instead of going to his wicket he dropped his bat-the bat which he had never had a chance to utilise-and bolted off the field as though Satan was behind him.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000005|mr Benyon called out to him, but mr Barker neither stopped nor stayed. It seemed that the match was going to resolve itself into a game of single wicket.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000038_000005|That over!
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000039_000000|"I do like your kind of bowling, mister," he observed when, as usual, he sent my first ball out of sight.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000039_000001|"Never mind about the ball.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000039_000002|I've got one in my pocket you can have."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000040_000000|He had.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000040_000001|He produced it-always from the same pocket.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000040_000002|It was about the second thousand.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000041_000000|"It does warm me so to swipe."
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000041_000002|Then a ball or two later on, "I call that a tidy smack." The "smack" in question had driven the ball, for anything I know to the contrary, a distance of some five miles or so.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000000|The next ball I fielded.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000002|It laid me on the ground.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000005|I was alone in the field.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000006|The opposite wicket was deserted.
train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000007|The bat lay on the ground. And mr Benyon had gone!
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000001_000000|HOW WOLF BECAME THE COMPANION OF MEN
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000002_000000|Twice that night Rod was awakened by Mukoki opening the cabin door.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000002_000001|The second time he raised himself upon his elbows and quietly watched the old warrior.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000002_000002|It was a brilliantly clear night and a flood of moonlight was pouring into the camp.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000003_000000|Mukoki was peering up into space.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000003_000002|The moon was directly above the cabin.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000003_000003|The sky was clear of clouds and so bright was the light that objects on the farther side of the lake were plainly visible.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000004_000000|Besides, it was bitter cold-so cold that his face began to tingle as he stood there.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000004_000001|These things he noticed, but he could see nothing to hold Mukoki's vision in the sky above unless it was the glorious beauty of the night.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000005_000000|"What is it, Mukoki?" he asked.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000006_000000|The old Indian looked silently at him for a moment, some mysterious, all absorbing joy revealed in every lineament of his face.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000007_000000|"Wolf night!" he whispered.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000009_000000|"Wolf night!" he repeated, and slipped like a shadow to the side of the unconscious young hunter.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000009_000002|Wolf night!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000010_000001|The young Indian had joined Rod at the open door and together they watched Mukoki's gaunt figure as it sped swiftly across the lake, up the hill and over into the wilderness desolation beyond.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000011_000002|When he was done his face still bore traces of suppressed excitement.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000012_000000|He ran back to the door and whistled loudly.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000012_000002|Again he whistled, a dozen times, twenty, but there came no reply.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000016_000000|"Did Minnetaki ever tell you-anything-queer-about Mukoki, Rod?"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000018_000000|"Well, once in a great while Mukoki has-not exactly a fit, but a little mad spell!
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000018_000003|But the Indians at the Post believe that at certain times he goes crazy over wolves."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000019_000000|"Wolves!" exclaimed Rod.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000000|"Yes, wolves.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000001|And he has good reason.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000005|He was the happiest Indian at the Post, and one of the poorest.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000006|One day Mukoki came to the Post with a little bundle of fur, and most of the things he got in exchange for it, mother says, were for the kid.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000007|He reached the store at night and expected to leave for home the next noon, which would bring him to his camp before dark.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000010|Well-"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000022_000001|And then, the people at the Post say, the mother must have slipped and hurt herself.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000022_000007|He calls this a 'wolf night.' No one can stop him from going out; no one can get him to talk; he will allow no one to accompany him when in such a mood.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000022_000009|But he will come back.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000024_000000|"What does Mukoki mean by 'wolf night'?" he asked.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000025_000003|He can catch them in every trap he sets, which no other trapper in the world can do; he can tell you a hundred different things about a certain wolf simply by its track, and because of his wonderful knowledge he can tell, by some instinct that is almost supernatural, when a 'wolf night' comes.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000025_000004|Something in the air to night, something in the sky-in the moon-in the very way the wilderness looks, tells him that stray wolves in the plains and hills are 'packing' or banding together to night, and that in the morning the sun will be shining, and they will be on the sunny sides of the mountains.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000025_000006|To morrow night, if Mukoki comes back by then, we shall have some exciting sport with the wolves, and then you will see how Wolf out there does his work!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000000|There followed several minutes of silence.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000002|Rod took out his watch.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000003|It lacked only ten minutes of midnight.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000004|Yet neither seemed possessed with a desire to return to their interrupted sleep.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000003|Wolf, as well as Mukoki, has good cause for what he does.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000004|You might call it animal vengeance.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000007|We caught Wolf in a lynx trap, Mukoki and i He wasn't much more than a whelp then-about six months old, Mukoki said. And while he was in the trap, helpless and unable to defend himself, three or four of his lovely tribe jumped upon him and tried to kill him for breakfast.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000008|We hove in sight just in time to drive the cannibals off. We kept Wolf, sewed up his side and throat, tamed him-and to morrow night you will see how Mukoki has taught him to get even with his people."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000028_000000|It was two hours later when Rod and Wabigoon extinguished the candles and returned to their blankets.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000028_000001|And for another hour after that the former found it impossible to sleep.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000029_000000|When he finally fell asleep it was to dream of the Indian mother and her child; only after a little there was no child, and the woman changed into Minnetaki, and the ravenous wolves into men.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000029_000002|Rod looked, and caught his breath.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000030_000000|There was Mukoki-peeling potatoes!
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000031_000000|"Hello, Muky!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000032_000000|The old Indian looked up with a grin.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000032_000001|His face bore no signs of his mad night on the trail.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000032_000002|He nodded cheerfully and proceeded with the preparation of breakfast as though he had just risen from his blankets after a long night's rest.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000033_000000|"Better get up," he advised.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000033_000001|"Big day's hunt.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000033_000002|Much fine sunshine to day. Find wolves on mountain-plenty wolves!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000034_000000|The boys tumbled from their blankets and began dressing.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000038_000000|"What were you doing last night?" he questioned.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000039_000000|"Big moon-might get shot," grunted Mukoki.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000039_000002|See wolf tracks on red deer trail.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000039_000003|No shot."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000041_000000|"See if I'm not right.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000041_000001|He will choose the mountain trail." When their companion returned, he said: "We had better split up this morning, hadn't we, Muky?
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000041_000003|What do you think of it?"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000042_000001|"You two go north-I take ridges."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000043_000001|"I'm going with you, Mukoki!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000045_000000|Rod noticed that the captive wolf received no breakfast that morning, and he easily guessed the reason.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000047_000000|The sun was just beginning to show itself above the wilderness when the hunters left camp.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000048_000000|At the foot of this hill Mukoki and his companion struck the creek.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000048_000002|The snow on this log was beaten by tiny footprints.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000048_000003|Mukoki gazed a moment, cast an observant eye along the trail, and at once threw off his pack.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000049_000000|"Mink!" he explained.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000049_000004|Build trap house right here!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000001|"Build house to keep snow off traps.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000002|No do that, be digging out traps all winter.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000007|Smart fellow-lynx.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000008|Wolf and fox, too."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000053_000000|"Is a mink worth much?"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000054_000001|Seven-eight dollar for good one."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000055_000000|During the next mile six other mink traps were set.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000055_000004|He spoke in whispers, and Rod followed his example.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000055_000005|Frequently the two would stop and scan the openings for signs of life.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000058_000000|"T'ree wolf!" continued the Indian jubilantly.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000058_000001|"Travel early this morning.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000000|They followed now in the wolf trail.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000002|Here Mukoki set another trap.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000003|A little farther still they came across a fisher trail and another trap was laid.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000004|Caribou and deer tracks crossed and recrossed the creek, but the Indian paid little attention to them.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000005|A fourth wolf joined the pack, and a fifth, and half an hour later the trail of three other wolves cut at right angles across the one they were following and disappeared in the direction of the thickly timbered plains.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000006|Mukoki's face was crinkled with joy.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000060_000000|"Many wolf near," he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000060_000002|Good place for night hunt."
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000000|Soon the creek swung out from the ridge and cut a circuitous channel through a small swamp.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000002|In places the snow was literally packed with deer tracks.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000003|Trails ran in every direction, the bark had been rubbed from scores of saplings, and every step gave fresh evidence of the near presence of game.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000004|The stealth with which Mukoki now advanced was almost painful.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000005|Every twig was pressed behind him noiselessly, and once when Rod struck his snow shoe against the butt of a small tree the old Indian held up his hands in mock horror.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000006|Ten minutes, fifteen-twenty of them passed in this cautious, breathless trailing of the swamp.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000062_000000|Suddenly Mukoki stopped, and a hand was held out behind him warningly. He turned his face back, and Rod knew that he saw game.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000062_000001|Inch by inch he crouched upon his snow shoes, and beckoned for Rod to approach, slowly, quietly.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000062_000002|When the boy had come near enough he passed back his rifle, and his lips formed the almost noiseless word, "Shoot!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000003|With a powerful effort Rod steadied himself.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000004|The buck was standing broadside, his head and neck stretched up, offering a beautiful shot at the vital spot behind his fore leg.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000005|At this the young hunter aimed and fired.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000006|With one spasmodic bound the animal dropped dead.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000064_000000|Hardly had Rod seen the effect of his shot before Mukoki was traveling swiftly toward the fallen game, unstrapping his pack as he ran.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000064_000003|When he had finished his task he held it up with an air of unbounded satisfaction.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000065_000001|Heem like blood.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000065_000002|Smell um-come make big shoot to night.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000066_000000|Mukoki no longer maintained his usual quiet, and it was evident to Rod that the Indian considered his mission for that day practically accomplished.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000066_000001|After taking the heart, liver and one of the hind quarters of the buck Mukoki drew a long rope of babeesh from his pack, tied one end of it around the animal's neck, flung the other end over a near limb, and with his companion's assistance hoisted the carcass until it was clear of the ground.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000067_000000|"If somethin' happen we no come back to night heem safe from wolf," he explained.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000068_000000|The two now continued through the swamp.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000068_000001|At its farther edge the ground rose gently from the creek toward the hills, and this sloping plain was covered with huge boulders and a thin growth of large spruce and birch. Just beyond the creek was a gigantic rock which immediately caught Mukoki's attention.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000068_000003|They could see, however, that the top of the, rock was flat, and Mukoki called attention to this fact with an exultant chuckle.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000069_000002|We call heem here.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000069_000003|Shoot from there!" He pointed to a clump of spruce a dozen rods away.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000070_000000|By Rod's watch it was now nearly noon and the two sat down to eat the sandwiches they had brought with them.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000070_000005|Several times Mukoki stopped and leaned perilously close to the dizzy edge of the mountain, peering down with critical eyes, and once when he pulled himself back cautiously by means of a small sapling he explained his interest by saying:
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000071_000000|"Plenty bear there in spring!"
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000072_000000|But Rod was not thinking of bears.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000072_000002|Perhaps that very chasm held the priceless secret that had died with its owners half a century ago.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000072_000003|The dark and gloomy silence that hung between those two walls of rock, the death like desolation, the stealthy windings of the creek-everything in that dim and mysterious world between the two mountains, unshattered by sound and impenetrable to the winter sun, seemed in his mind to link itself with the tragedy of long ago.
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000073_000000|Did that chasm hold the secret of the dead men?
train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000075_000000|"Mukoki-the gold was found between those mountains!"
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000002_000000|Afloat on the Napo.--Down the Rapids.--Santa Rosa and its mulish Alcalde.--Pratt on Discipline.--Forest Music.--Coca.--Our Craft and Crew.--Storm on the Napo.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000000|We embarked november twentieth on our voyage down the river.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000001|It is no easy matter to hire or cajole the Indians for any service.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000002|Out of feast time they are out of town, and during the festival they are loth to leave, or are so full of chicha they do not know what they want.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000005|They furnished three canoes, two for baggage and one covered with a palm leaf awning for ourselves.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000006|The canoes were of red cedar, and flat bottomed; the paddles had oval blades, to which short, quick strokes were given perpendicularly to the water entering and leaving.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000007|But there was little need of paddling on this trip.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000004_000000|The Napo starts off in furious haste, for the fall between Napo village and Santa Rosa, a distance of eighty miles, is three hundred and fifty feet.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000004_000001|We were about seven hours in the voyage down, and it takes seven days to pole back.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000000|In four hours we were abreast the little village of Aguano; on the opposite bank we could see the tambos of the gold washers.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000001|At five p m we reached the deserted site of Old Santa Rosa, the village having been removed a few years ago on account of its unhealthy location.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000002|It is now overgrown with sour orange and calabash trees, the latter bearing large fruit shells so useful to the Indians in making pilches or cups.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000003|In pitch darkness and in a drizzling rain we arrived at New Santa Rosa, and swung our hammocks in the Government House.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000000|Santa Rosa, once the prosperous capital of the Provincia del Oriente, now contains about two hundred men, women, and children.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000001|The town is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the river, about fifteen feet above the water level.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000002|A little bamboo church, open only when the missionary from Archidona makes his annual visit, stood near our quarters.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000003|The Indians were keeping one of their seven feasts in a hut near by, and their drumming was the last thing we heard as we turned into our hammocks, and the first in the morning.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000006|It is embowered in a magnificent grove of plantains and papayas.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000008|In one corner stands a table (the only one we remember seeing on the Napo); on the opposite side are heaped up jars, pots, kettles, hunting and fishing implements, paddles, bows and arrows.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000009|Between the posts swing two chambiri hammocks.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000011|When a stranger enters, he is invited to sit in a hammock; and at Santa Rosa we were always presented with a cup of guayusa; in Brazil with a cup of coffee.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000012|Sandoval wore nothing but shirt and pantaloons; the dignity of the barefooted functionary was confined to his Spanish blood.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000000|At Santa Rosa we procured Indians and canoes for the Maranon.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000001|This was not easily done.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000002|The Indians seemed reluctant to quit their feasts and go on such a long voyage, and the alcalde was unwilling they should go, and manufactured a host of lies and excuses.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000003|He declared there was but one large canoe in town, and that we must send to Suno for another, and for men to man it.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000005|After some time lost in word fighting, we tried the virtues of authority.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000001|After this bombardment Sandoval was another man, and the two canoes and four Indians we wanted were forthcoming.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000002|We had to wait, however, two days for the Indians to prepare their chicha for the journey and to cover the canoes with palm awnings.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000004|Unfortunately we had only fifty varas left; but, through the influence of the now good-natured alcalde, we induced the Indians to take the balance in coin.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000005|After many delays, we put our baggage into one canoe, and ourselves into the other, and pushed off into the rapid current of the Napo.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000006|We had three styles of valediction on leaving.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000007|Our Indian quartet, after several last drinks of chicha, bade their friends farewell by clasping hands, one kissing the joined hands, and then the other.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000000|The Napo at Santa Rosa runs at least five miles an hour, and we were soon picking our way-now drifting, now paddling-through a labyrinth of islands and snags.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000001|The Indians, so accustomed to brutal violence from the hands of the whites, had begged of us, before our departure, that we would not beat them.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000002|But shortly after we left, one of them, who was literally filled with chicha, dropped his paddle and tumbled into a heap at the bottom of the canoe, dead drunk.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000004|At once the liquor left the muddled brain of the astonished culprit, and, taking his paddle, he became from that hour the best of the crew.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000007|None of them could speak Spanish, so we had provided ourselves with a vocabulary of Quichua.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000009|Indeed, when we mixed up our Quichua with a little Anglo Saxon, they evidently thought the latter was a terrible anathema, for they sprang to their places without delay.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000001|They gave us possession of their largest hut, in which they had been roasting a sea cow, and the stench was intolerable.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000002|Nevertheless, one of our number bravely threw down his blanket within, and went to sleep; two swung their hammocks between the trees, and the rest slept in the canoe.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000005|So far as our experience goes, we can say, with Bates, that the vampire, so common on the Amazon, is the most harmless of all bats.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000006|It has, however, a most hideous physiognomy.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000007|A full grown specimen will measure twenty eight inches in expanse of wing.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000008|Bates found two species on the Amazon-one black, the other of a ruddy line, and both fruit eaters.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000000|The nocturnal music of these forests is made by crickets and tree toads. The voice of the latter sounds like the cracking of wood.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000001|Occasionally frogs, owls, and goat suckers croak, hoot, and wail.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000002|Between midnight and three a m almost perfect silence reigns.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000005|As the sun rises higher, one musician after another seeks the forest shade, and the morning concert ends at noon.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000006|In the heat of the day there is an all pervading rustling sound, caused by the fluttering of myriad insects and the gliding of lizards and snakes.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000007|At sunset parrots and monkeys resume their chatter for a season, and then give way to the noiseless flight of innumerable bats chasing the hawk moth and beetle.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000008|There is scarcely a sound in a tropical forest which is joyous and cheering.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000009|The birds are usually silent; those that have voices utter a plaintive song, or hoarse, shrill cry.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000011|The most common birds on the Napo are macaws, parrots, toucans, and ciganas.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000012|The parrots, like the majority in South America, are of the green type.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000013|The toucan, peculiar to the New World, and distinguished by its enormous bill, is a quarrelsome, imperious bird.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000014|It is clumsy in flight, but nimble in leaping from limb to limb.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000017|The cigana or "gypsy" (in Peru called "chansu") resembles a pheasant.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000018|The flesh has a musky odor, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that they exist in such numbers throughout the country.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000019|The Indians never eat them.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000021|The splendid metallic blue, and the yellow and transparent winged, are very abundant on the Napo; some rise high in the air; others, living in societies, look like fluttering clouds.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000024|It is singular these Indians have no term for bees, but call them honey, and distinguish them by their color.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000025|The black species is said to make the most honey, and the yellow the best. The quadrupeds of the Oriente are few and far between in the dry season. Not a sloth nor armadillo did we see.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000026|But when the rains descend the wilderness is a menagerie of tigers and tapirs, pumas and bears, while a host of reptiles, led by the gigantic boa, creep forth from their hiding places.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000027|The most ferocious carnivores are found in the mountains, and the most venomous serpents haunt the lowlands.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000028|Darwin says that we ought not to expect any closer similarity between the organic beings on the opposite sides of the Andes than on the opposite shores of the ocean.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000001|This little village, the last we shall see till we come within sight of the Amazon, is beautifully located on the right bank, twenty five feet above the river, and opposite the confluence of the Rio Coca.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000003|This spot is memorable in history.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000004|Pizarro having reached it from Quito by way of Baeza and the Coca, halted and built a raft or canoe (Prescott says a brig), in which Orellana was sent down the river to reconnoitre, but who never returned.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000006|We remained here two days to construct a more comfortable craft for our voyage to the Amazon, a distance of at least five hundred miles.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000007|The canoe is the only means of navigation known to the Indians. But the idea of spending fifteen days cooped, cribbed, and cramped in a narrow canoe, exposed to a tropical sun and furious rains, was intolerable.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000000|Our Santa Rosa canoes were about thirty feet long.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000001|These were placed about five feet apart and parallel, and then firmly secured by bamboo joists.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000002|Over these we spread a flooring of split bamboo, and planted four stout chonta sticks to support a palm thatched roof.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000003|A rudder (a novel idea to our red skinned companions), and a box of sand in the stern of one of the boats for a fire place, completed our rig.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000004|The alcalde, with a hiccough, declared we would be forever going down the river in such a huge craft, and the Indians smiled ominously.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000006|A little canoe, which we bought of the alcalde, floated alongside for a tender, and was very serviceable in hunting, gathering fuel, etc
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000009|On approaching any human habitation, the Indians blew horns to indicate that they came as friends.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000000|At different points down the river they deposited pots of chicha for use on their return.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000001|The mass breeds worms so rapidly, however, as Edwards informed us, that after the lapse of a month or two it is a jumble of yuca scraps and writhing articulates.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000002|But the owner of the heap coolly separates the animal from the vegetable, adds a little water, and drinks his chicha without ceremony.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000004|Not a note did they whistle or sing.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000005|Yet they were always in good humor, and during the whole voyage we did not see the slightest approach to a quarrel.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000006|At no time did we have the least fear of treachery or violence.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000000|The Napos are not savages.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000001|Their goodness, however, as Bates says of the Cucama tribe, consists more in the absence of active bad qualities than in the possession of good ones.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000003|They strictly maintained a decent arrangement of such apparel as they possessed.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000006|The girl was a graceful paddler, and had some well founded pretensions to beauty.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000007|Her coarse, black hair was simply combed back, not braided into plaits as commonly done by the Andean women.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000000|Pratt managed the helm (the governor could not work the Yankee notion) and the kitchen.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000002|So we fared sumptuously every day.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000003|We left Coca on Thanksgiving Day, november twenty eighth, and to imitate our distant friends, we sacrificed an extra meal-fricasseed chicken, jerked beef, boiled yucas, bananas, oranges, lemonade, and guayusa.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000004|Favored by a powerful current and the rhythmic paddling of our Santa Rosans, we made this day sixty miles; but our average daily run was fifty miles.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000005|The winds (doubtless the trades) were almost unchangeably from the east; but an occasional puff would come from the northwest, when we relieved our paddlers by hoisting a blanket for a sail.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000006|Six o'clock was our usual hour of departure, and ten or twelve hours our traveling time, always tying up at a plaia or island, of which there are hosts in the Napo, but never to the main land, for fear of unfriendly Indians and the still more unwelcome tiger. Our crew encamped at a respectful though hailing distance.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000000|On the second day from Coca we were caught in a squall, and to save our roof we ran ashore.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000001|Nearly every afternoon we were treated to a shower, accompanied by a strong wind, but seldom by thunder and lightning, though at Coca we had a brilliant thunder storm at night.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000002|They always came after a uniform fashion and at a regular hour, so that we learned when to expect them.
train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000003|About noon the eastern horizon would become suddenly black, and when this had spread to the zenith we heard the rush of a mighty wind sweeping through the forest, and the crash of falling trees, and then down fell the deluge.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000004_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000006_000000|Perhaps now also can be better appreciated what the influence of such a study might and should be on practical action.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000006_000001|At times economic students have gained the ear of statesmen and rulers, and have exercised much influence upon practical politics.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000006_000002|It is sometimes bemoaned that economists have to day so small a direct part in the government of our republic.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000002|This test, however, is one that only astronomy can meet in any remarkable degree.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000006|There are countless unmeasured factors in human action.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000007|Such generalizations as are possible must be based on actions that appear and reappear with practical constancy.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000008|Though a number of facts unite to suggest some conclusions as to the immediate future, the experience of the last century bids one beware of sweeping predictions.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000010|The optimists, with faith in the perfectability of human nature and of society, believed that all social ills were due to bad government; if despotism were but overthrown, man's nature would develop, untrammeled, to perfection.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000012|The pessimists-the communists, and socialists of that day-seeing the same evils, had other explanations to offer.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000013|While the economists of that day believed the conditions of poverty and misery to be inevitable, the pessimists pronounced them unendurable, and advocated a radical social change as the only hope of saving the masses from starvation.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000014|In such a variety of mutually contradictory views there must have been much error, but likewise much truth if it could be disentangled.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000010_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000010_000005|It was not fully appreciated that a great change in social standards, controlling the growth of population, was in progress.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000010_000006|This was the panorama of the progress of society as seen by both the conservative economists and the socialists of less than a century ago: continued invention, an increasing population, low wages, scanty food, growing wealth for the few, and growing poverty and misery for the masses.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000002|Supply in the economic sense means the amount available at the given time in the market; but despite the great areas since brought into the world markets, the false idea of a century ago still persists in the text books, and shapes economic reasoning.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000003|It is vain to say that the circumstances have been unique and that the general principle is still valid.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000004|Much of the so-called orthodox economic analysis was essentially erroneous as applied to the conditions of the past century; it is erroneous to day and will be so for years to come, if it ever fits the facts.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000005|New continents are about to be opened.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000007|Population in Christendom has increased more rapidly than ever before in the history of the world, but it has not overtaken the progress in resources.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000008|The rate of increase of population is slackening.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000010|Despite the problems and the abuses that every new change brings, the civilized world undoubtedly is more prosperous to day than ever before.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000011|The greatest misery and discontent is in the more backward communities.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000012|This is past and present; what of the economic future?
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000013|Is the present condition a normal one-is this prosperity likely to grow or to decline?
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000014|Thus far, surely, the economic student may question the oracles; for though the distant future is veiled from man's view, the role of economic theory is to show causal relations, to convert mystery into reason, and thus to give a lamp to the feet of the present.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000002|Living, he scratched the earth's surface, and dying, left his bones to fertilize the soil.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000003|But to day, man exhausts the stores in the interior of the earth, burns the treasures of the carboniferous age, casts the fertilizing elements into the ocean, and leaves the world an empty shell.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000004|Forests are being so rapidly cut off that the price of fuel wood and lumber in many parts of the United States has, within twenty years, been multiplied by three.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000005|The world's store of iron ore is not yet fully known, but much of it has been measured, and of the deposits known to be within the United States over one half are said to be owned by one corporation, and they are enough to continue its present output no more than sixty years.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000006|Many other natural products are in like manner gathered by civilized man from a stock created long ago.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000007|While the supply of vegetable food promises to be ample, the supply of meat will be maintained with difficulty as population becomes denser.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000002|The coal mines can be emptied, but so long as the sun shines and the rains fall, Niagara will remain as a source of light, heat, and power.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000003|The tides flow on forever.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000004|In every thunder storm enough force is dissipated to run thousands of factories.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000006|The force in Mount Pelee, if chained and utilized, would run a million factories a million years.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000008|Such a cheapening and diffusion of power would put a new face on many of the problems of industry.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000010|It is reasonable to hope that before iron ore has become extremely scarce, a cheap and practicable method of extracting aluminium from clay will have been perfected.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000011|Secure of these permanent sources, civilization will stand on a firmer foundation.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000020_000001|When the coal districts are heaps of slag and cinders, industry will be found near the water power.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000020_000002|Because of distance from raw materials, New England even now finds herself hard pushed in her rivalry with the Southern states in the manufacture of textiles.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000020_000003|The industrial map of our country will be greatly altered a hundred years hence.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000022_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000022_000002|In order that a motive for saving may be present, there must be stable conditions.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000022_000009|The difficult problems of the concentrated control of industry and of the control of wealth must be solved in the interests of all.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000000|Few thoughtful persons now hold the view that the race can be rapidly improved biologically by the process of educating the individual. Education is cumulative in so far as it builds up a better environment into which other children will be born, but the betterment is not due to the inheritance by the child of the acquired knowledge and skill of the parent.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000002|Practically, selection is the only means of improving the innate capacity of any species in any large measure.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000004|The weak, the ignorant, the incapable in primitive societies were ruthlessly killed off.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000005|The strong, the sagacious, and the enterprising left the largest numbers of descendants.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000002|Large families were the rule among the capable pioneers of America; now they are rare except in the lower industrial ranks. Democracy and opportunity are favoring this process of increasing the mediocre and reducing the excellent strains of stock.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000004|In a democracy, those of marked ability can more easily move into the better paid callings and professions.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000008|That group of men, therefore, has left only three fourths enough descendants to maintain its numbers, and as the population has doubled within the same generation, that class represents only three eighths as large a proportion of the American stock as formerly.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000030_000001|If society were composed in equal parts of two distinct strains of stock, not intermarrying; if the total population kept intact from one generation to another (say each period of thirty years), but the superior strain contributed only three fourths of its own number, at the end of five generations it would have sunk from one half to a little more than one eighth of the population.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000030_000005|Progress is threatened unless social institutions can be so adjusted as to reverse the present process of multiplying the poorest, and of extinguishing the most capable families.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000000|six.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000003|In taking economic wants as the starting point of our study, it was not implied that men were entirely selfish.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000004|Sympathy widens; economic wants include family, friends, and, in a growing measure, humanity.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000005|The happiness of a truly socialized man consists in part in the happiness of his fellows. As social sympathy broadens, the sense of duty becomes a stronger economic force.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000008|Individual wants and interests must, so far as can now be seen, continue to be among the stronger forces that move society.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000009|Progress is made because to exceptional ability in general is now presented the hope of large rewards.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000000|These dynamic forces making for progress are at present, however, threatened from two sides.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000002|The avoidance of certain kinds of work which, by social convention, come to be regarded as degrading, takes much ability out of business.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000003|The freedom of America to so great a degree from this disdain of honest labor has been a large factor in her progress, but it is endangered when men become timidly conservative of social position. Progress is threatened, secondly, by democracy, with its tendency to carry the notion of literal equality over into industry.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000004|When democracy becomes envious, it denies to exceptional ability an exceptional reward. The line of growth must be the resultant of the positive forces in these two principles.
train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000006|If this can be done, the economic outlook is for a great development of wealth and popular welfare.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000003_000004|One fine day the goat leaped down, and away to the cliff; he went straight up, and came where he never had been before.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000005_000000|Oeyvind did not see him when he came out after dinner, and thought immediately of the fox.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000007_000000|But beside the goat there kneeled a little girl.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000013_000000|"I have taken such a fancy to the goat.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000016_000001|He looked up at the girl.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000017_000001|"Here it is," she said, and threw it down.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000018_000001|He gathered up every bit with the utmost care; he could not help tasting the very smallest, and that was so good he had to taste another, and, before he knew it himself, he had eaten up the whole cake.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000020_000000|The boy stopped with the last bit in his mouth, the girl lay and laughed, and the goat stood by her side, with white breast and dark brown hair, looking sideways down.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000022_000001|Oeyvind looked up. She got up, and began pulling at the goat.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000028_000000|His mother came up humming from the beach, with wooden pans which she had scoured; she saw the boy sitting with his legs crossed under him on the grass, crying, and she went up to him.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000029_000000|"What are you crying about?"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000030_000000|"Oh, the goat, the goat!"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000033_000001|How could that happen?"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000034_000000|He would not confess immediately.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000037_000001|"What has become of the goat?"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000043_000000|"What! have you got back?"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000045_000000|"Is it you who have come with it?"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000047_000000|"They would not let me keep it; grandfather is sitting up there, waiting."
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000053_000000|"Come, make haste!" said grandpapa, up on the hill; and Marit rose, and walked with reluctant feet upwards.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000054_000000|"You are not forgetting your garter?" Oeyvind cried after her.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000057_000000|"Thank you!"
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000058_000000|"Oh, nothing to thank for!" she answered, but drew a long sigh, and walked on.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000065_000000|But then came the cock, with all the hens.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000067_000000|says the cock."
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000071_000000|And she told him what they all said, down to the ant who crawled in the moss, and the worm who worked in the bark.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000074_000002|They all looked up as Oeyvind and his mother entered, and as he was going to find a seat they all wanted to make room for him.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000074_000004|She had covered her face with both hands, and sat peeping at him through her fingers.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000076_000000|"Is it always like this here?" he whispered to Marit.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000077_000000|"Yes, just like this; I have a goat now," she said.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000080_000000|"Why don't you come oftener up on the cliff?" said he.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000085_000000|"Grandpapa does too, you can believe."
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000087_000000|"Grandpapa knows one about a dance.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000088_000000|"Yes, very much."
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000091_000001|All the children stood with folded hands and sang.
train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000091_000002|Oeyvind and Marit also folded their hands, but they could not sing.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000003_000000|ABBIE FARWELL BROWN
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000009_000002|At first he thought it was a rabbit; but it was too big for a rabbit, and besides, it did not hop.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000010_000002|So he screamed and struggled to get away from the big hunter, and he called to the wolves in their own language to come and help him.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000010_000006|So after following them for miles, the five wolves gradually dropped farther and farther behind.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000011_000000|But the hunter carried little Ailbe home with him on the horse's back. And he found a new mother there to receive him.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000011_000002|His second mother was the kind wolf.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000014_000001|But the Bishop himself was not with them.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000015_000005|It was Ailbe's wolf mother.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000016_000004|And the good Bishop was true to her.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000018_000000|Then the hunters came tearing up on their foaming horses.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000018_000003|He forbade them to touch the wolf.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000021_000000|And so it was.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000021_000003|And there, with her five children about her in a happy circle, the kind wolf mother sat and ate the good things which the Bishop's friends had sent him.
train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000021_000004|But the child she loved best was none of those in furry coats and fine whiskers that looked like her; it was the blue eyed Saint at the top of the table in his robes of purple and white.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000002_000000|A Basket of Fish
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000003_000001|At the back of the clearing, beneath a solitary white birch tree just bursting into green, stood a squatter's log cabin, long deserted, its door and window gone, its roof of poles and bark half fallen in.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000005_000003|At length he stepped forth mincingly into full view, trotted up, and sniffed inquisitively.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000001|It seemed easy enough to get them.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000002|He shifted his fore paws to the back of the wagon, and studied the situation.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000003|Why should he not climb up and help himself?
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000005|But what did he care for the disapproval of the sorrel horse?
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000008|And, anyhow, he saw that the horse was tethered to the tree.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000009|He settled himself back upon his haunches to spring into the wagon.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000007_000004|He had once been nipped.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000007_000005|He was not to be caught again, not he.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000008_000000|But it was just here that the red prowler's cunning overreached itself. The basket in the wagon was full of trout, and there was no trap to be feared.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000008_000001|He might have feasted to his heart's content, and incurred no penalty more serious than the disapproval of the tethered horse, had he not been quite so amazingly clever.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000009_000000|The trout were there in the basket simply because the fishing had been so good.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000010_000003|Half a dozen of the finest fish he took out and strung upon a forked twig.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000010_000004|This he did not regard as stealing, but merely as the exaction of a small and reasonable tribute from a Society which had of late neglected to feed him any too well.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000011_000003|In any case, the attraction seldom fails.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000012_000004|Seeing nothing to take alarm at, it made a wide circuit, ran behind the cabin, and reappeared, as the fox had done, at the corner nearest the wagon.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000013_000000|Satisfied at length that there was no danger within range, the mink glided up to the wagon.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000013_000001|The horse it paid no heed to.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000013_000003|Thereupon-for the mink lacks the fox's hair splitting astuteness, and does not take long to make up its mind-it clambered nimbly up through one of the wheels and fell straightway upon the fish basket.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000014_000001|The mink was puzzled.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000014_000002|The hole in the top of the basket, though he might have squeezed his head through it, was not large enough to let him reach the fish.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000015_000001|Selecting a fish to his taste, he ate it at great leisure, leaving the head and the tail upon the grass.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000016_000001|He did not take time to look up and see what it was.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000016_000002|It was as if the touch of that shadow had loosed a powerful spring.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000016_000003|He simply shot from his place, at such speed that the eye could not distinguish how he did it, and in the minutest fraction of a second was curled within the empty fishing basket, which still lay on its side, half open.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000017_000001|As her talons clawed at the wickerwork, feeling for a hold, the head of the mink, on its long, snaky neck, darted forth, reached up, and struck its fine white fangs into her thigh.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000018_000000|But the great owl's armor of feathers, though it looked so soft and fluffy, was in fact amazingly resistant.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000020_000000|It was just at this point in the mink's adventure that the fox returned to the clearing.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000020_000002|Something of an expert in dealing with traps, he made up his mind that he would try to circumvent this one.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000001|He halted to take it in thoroughly.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000002|He saw the basket lying on the ground, and the angry owl clawing at it.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000004|He concluded that they were still in the basket, and that the owl was trying to get at them.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000005|This particular kind of owl, as he knew, was a most formidable antagonist; but with his substantial weight and his long, punishing jaws, he felt himself much more than a match for her.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000022_000001|They can catch the squeak of a mouse at a distance which, for ordinary ears, would make the sharp clucking of a chipmunk inaudible.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000022_000002|To the bird on the basket the coming of those velvet footsteps were like the scamper of a frightened sheep.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000000|The fox was surprised to find the trout lying scattered about the grass, some of them bitten and mangled.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000001|What, then, was in the basket?
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000002|What was the great owl trying to get at, when the precious fish were all spread out before her?
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000005|He drew back hastily and sat down on his tail, ears cocked and head tilted to one side, to consider.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000024_000001|But the fox did not want him to come out.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000024_000003|By all means, let the mink stay in there.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000025_000001|But never for an instant did he take his eyes off that slightly moving lid. He lay with his feet gathered under him, every muscle ready for action, expecting each moment to find himself involved in a desperate battle for the prize he was enjoying.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000025_000002|He could not imagine a fiery tempered personage like the mink tamely submitting to the rape of his banquet.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000026_000004|There is no peace counsellor like a contented belly.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000000|The fox, having swallowed as much as he could hold, stood up, stretched himself, and licked his chaps.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000001|The look which he kept upon the basket was no less vigilant than before, but there was now a tinge of scorn in it.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000002|There were still some trout left, but he wanted to get away.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000003|He snatched up the two biggest fish in his jaws and trotted off with them to the woods, glancing back over his shoulder as he went.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000028_000002|But the fox had no thought of returning.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000029_000000|The mink stuffed himself till he could not get another mouthful down. There were still a couple of trout untouched.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000029_000004|At a deliberate pace, quite unlike his usual eager and darting movements, he made off down the clearing toward the water.
train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000029_000005|Beneath the bank was an old musquash hole which he was well acquainted with.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000008_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000009_000000|HELEN LINGARD.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000012_000000|The hours between luncheon and tea are confessedly dull, but dulness is not inimical to a certain kind of comfort, and Helen liked to be that way comfortable.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000014_000002|For the author even knew it, only such was his reading of life, and such his theory of artistic duty, that what it was a disappointment to Helen to peruse, it seemed to have been a comfort to him to write.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000015_000002|True, Helen supposed she could think-like other people, because the thoughts of other people had passed through her in tolerable plenty, leaving many a phantom conclusion behind; but this was THEIR thinking, not hers.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000003|So was the curate, but he did not count for much.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000004|Neither was she weary of herself.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000005|That, indeed, might be only a question of time, for the most complete egotist, Julius Caesar, or Napoleon Bonaparte, must at length get weary of his paltry self; but Helen, from the slow rate of her expansion, was not old enough yet.
train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000006|Nor was she in any special sense wrapt up in herself: it was only that she had never yet broken the shell which continues to shut in so many human chickens, long after they imagine themselves citizens of the real world.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000001_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000003_000001|He ate his dinner, quietly responding to Bascombe's sallies-which had usually more of vivacity than keenness, more of good spirits than wit-with a curious flickering smile, or a single word of agreement.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000003_000002|It might have seemed that he was humouring a younger man, but the truth was, the curate had not yet seen cause for opposing him.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000007_000000|"Ah, that is all you know of me, Miss Lingard!" returned Bascombe. "--And then," he resumed, turning again to Wingfold, "what is it they complain of?
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000008_000000|"Or it may be only that it is their humour to be sad," said Wingfold. "But don't you think," he continued, "it is hardly worth while to be indignant with them?
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000010_000001|"But," she added, with a smile, "would your silence be voluntary, or enforced?"
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000011_000000|"What!" returned Bascombe, "you think I could not plain my woes to the moon?
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000011_000002|I could roar you as 'twere any nightingale."
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000013_000001|I am not in love with decay.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000013_000002|I remember a fellow at Trinity, the merriest of all our set at a wine party, who, alone with his ink pot, was for ever enacting the part of the unheeded poet, complaining of the hard hearts and tuneless ears of his generation.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000015_000000|He took a pull at the stout, laid his head on the table, and sobbed like a locomotive."
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000017_000000|"No, not bad at all-for absolute nonsense," said Bascombe.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000020_000000|"Do you think poetry and common sense necessarily opposed to each other?" asked Wingfold.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000000|"Unfortunately for me, you have mentioned the one poet for whom I have any respect.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000001|But what I like in him is just his common sense.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000002|He never cries over spilt milk, even if the jug be broken to the bargain.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000003|But common sense would be just as good in prose as in verse."
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000024_000000|"Possibly; but what we have of it in Horace would never have reached us but for the forms into which he has cast it.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000024_000001|How much more enticing acorns in the cup are!
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000024_000002|I was watching two children picking them up to day."
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000026_000002|You do not object to music in church, for instance?"
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000033_000001|They were his own, a fact he would probably have allowed to creep out, had they met with more sympathy.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000033_000002|His voice was a full bass one, full of tone.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000042_000000|"Don't you think so?"
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000043_000000|"no
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000000|Helen sat down to the piano.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000001|Her time was perfect, and she never blundered a note.
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000003|The music she chose was good of its kind, but had more to do with the instrument than the feelings, and was more dependent upon execution than expression. Bascombe yawned behind his handkerchief, and Wingfold gazed at the profile of the player, wondering how, with such fine features and complexion, with such a fine shaped and well set head?
train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000004|her face should be so far short of interesting.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000001_000000|A STAGGERING QUESTION.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000002_000000|It was time the curate should take his leave.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000002_000005|But aloft over its ridge the moon floated in the softest, loveliest blue, with just a cloud here and there to show how blue it was, and a sparkle where its blueness took fire in a star.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000002_000008|There was something in it all that made the curate feel there ought to be more-as if the night knew something he did not; and he yielded himself to its invasion.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000005_000000|"You have it," said his companion-rudely, indeed, but not quite offensively, and put his cigar in his mouth again.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000008_000001|"It must be some satisfaction, perhaps consolation to you."
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000011_000001|"I like you," he went on, "for you seem reasonable; and besides, a man ought to speak out what he thinks.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000012_000000|And he in his turn pointed in the direction of the great tower.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000017_000000|"True; but of what sort?
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000018_000000|"If they had found out the right way, why change it?"
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000019_000003|You hardly know what your belief is.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000021_000002|Religion itself is the same way: as much as you like about the church, but don't mention Christ!
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000021_000006|And that is why such things are not to be mentioned, because in their hearts they have no hope, and in their minds no courage to face the facts of existence.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000021_000007|We haven't the pluck of the old fellows, who, that they might look death himself in the face without dismay, accustomed themselves, even at their banquets, to the sight of his most loathsome handiwork, his most significant symbol-and enjoyed their wine the better for it!--your friend Horace, for instance."
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000022_000001|Nor do I allow that it is fair."
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000023_000000|"My dear sir, if there is one thing I pride myself upon, it is fair play, and I grant you at once she would not.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000024_000000|It did not occur to Wingfold that people generally speak from the surfaces, not the depths of their minds, even when those depths are moved; nor yet that possibly mrs Ramshorn was not the best type of a Christian, even in his soft walking congregation!
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000024_000001|In fact, nothing came into his mind with which to meet what Bascombe said-the real force whereof he could not help feeling-and he answered nothing.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000025_000001|I am confident you have more good sense by a great deal."
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000027_000003|But-come now-I do love open dealing-I am myself open as the day-did you not take to the church as a profession, in which you might eat a piece of bread-as somebody says in your own blessed Bible-dry enough bread it may be, for the old lady is not over generous to her younger children-still a gentlemanly sort of livelihood?"
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000028_000000|Wingfold held his peace.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000029_000000|"Your silence is honesty, mr Wingfold, and I honour you for it," said Bascombe.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000029_000001|"It is an easy thing for a man in another profession to speak his mind, but silence such as yours, casting a shadow backward over your past, require courage: I honour you, sir."
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000031_000003|He glanced at the church tower.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000031_000005|It still made its own strong, clear mark on the eternal blue!
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000032_000000|"I must not allow you to mistake my silence, mr Bascombe," he answered the same moment.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000032_000002|But whatever my answer might be had I time to consider it, my silence must at least not be interpreted to mean that I do NOT believe as my profession indicates.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000032_000003|That, at all events, would be untrue."
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000034_000000|"I decline to place myself between the horns of any such dilemma," returned Wingfold, who was now more than a little annoyed at his persistency in forcing his way within the precincts of another's personality.
train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000035_000001|Good night, mr Wingfold."
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000003_000000|THE ATTIC.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000008_000002|But you must first hear my explanation, such as it is.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000009_000000|"It is a noble weakness, and far enough from common, I am sorry to think," returned Polwarth.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000011_000000|"But," he concluded, "since you set me about it, my judgment has capsized itself, and it now seems to me worse to use my uncle's sermons than to have used the bishop's, which anyone might discover to be what they are."
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000012_000000|"I see no harm in either," said Polwarth, "provided only it be above board.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000012_000001|I believe some clergymen think the only evil lies in detection. I doubt if they ever escape it, and believe the amount of successful deception in that kind to be very small indeed.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000000|Wingfold was silent, thoughtful, saying to himself-"How straight an honest bow can shoot!--But this involves something awful.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000001|To stand up in that pulpit and speak about myself!
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000003|It's my office, is it-not me?
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000005|He can read the prayers well enough!"
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000019_000000|"No," answered Wingfold; "I have nothing, never had anything worth giving to another; and it would seem to me very unreasonable to subject a helpless congregation to the blundering attempts of such a fellow to put into the forms of reasonable speech things he really knows nothing about."
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000020_000001|"I cannot imagine that a man who looks things in the face as you do, the moment they confront you, has not lived at all, has never met with anything in his history which has taught him something other people need to be taught.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000021_000000|"I do not now see well how you are leading me," said Wingfold, considerably astonished at both the aptness and fluency with which a man in his host's position was able to express himself.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000022_000002|In other words, if he has nothing new in his own treasure, let him bring something old out of another man's.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000024_000000|"Yes, if he cannot do better.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000024_000001|But then I would have him read-not with his sermon in his eye, but with his people in his heart.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000025_000000|At this moment, Rachel entered with a small tea tray: she could carry only little things, and a few at a time.
train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000025_000002|But the little man smiled-such a sweet smile of re assurance, that her face returned at once to its prevailing expression of content.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000000|Vavasor, as he sat alone in his room, after Fitzgerald had left him, began to think of the days in which he had before wished to assist his friend in his views with reference to Lady Glencora;--or rather he began to think of Alice's behaviour then, and of Alice's words. Alice had steadfastly refused to give any aid.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000001|No less likely assistant for such a purpose could have been selected.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000003|"He is a desperate spendthrift," Kate Vavasor had said to her.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000004|"Then let her teach him to be otherwise," Alice had answered.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000005|"That might have been a good reason for refusing his offer when he first made it; but it can be no excuse for untruth, now that she has told him that she loves him!"
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000001|There had grown upon him lately certain Bohemian propensities,--a love of absolute independence in his thoughts as well as actions,--which were antagonistic to marriage.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000003|If he thoroughly respected any woman he respected her.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000004|But that idea of tying himself down to a household was in itself distasteful to him.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000006|The beasts of the field do not treat each other so badly.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000004_000000|And if he did it at all, he must do it now.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000000|And now, at this moment, what was his outlook into life generally?
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000002|He was still a poor man, having been once nearly a rich man; but still so much of the result of his nearly acquired riches remained to him, that on the strength of them he might probably find his way into Parliament.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000003|He had paid the cost of the last attempt, and might, in a great degree, carry on this present attempt on credit.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000005|But how was he to bear the cost of this for the next year, or the next two years?
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000008|She should learn,--nay, she had already learned from his own lips,--how perilous was his enterprise.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000006_000002|"I needn't send it when it's written," he said to himself, "and the chances are that I won't." Then he took his paper, and wrote as follows:--
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000007_000000|DEAR ALICE,
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000000|The time was when the privilege was mine of beginning my letters to you with a warmer show of love than the above word contains,--when I might and did call you dearest; but I lost that privilege through my own folly, and since that it has been accorded to another.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000001|But you have found,--with a thorough honesty of purpose than which I know nothing greater,--that it has behoved you to withdraw that privilege also.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000002|I need hardly say that I should not have written as I now write, had you not found it expedient to do as you have done.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000003|I now once again ask you to be my wife.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000005|Indeed I do not think that you ever doubted my love.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000009_000002|Then came the episode of mr Grey; and bitter as have been my feelings whilst that engagement lasted, I never made any attempt to come between you and the life you had chosen.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000009_000005|Whether you remember those few words I cannot tell; but certainly you would not have remembered them,--would not even have noticed them,--had your heart been at Nethercoats.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000000|But all this is nothing.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000003|Then personal love for each other was most in our thoughts.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000005|For myself I know that there is much in my character and disposition to make me unfit to marry a woman of the common stamp.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000007|I run great risk of failing.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000010|If you were my wife to morrow I should expect to use your money, if it were needed, in struggling to obtain a seat in Parliament and a hearing there.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000011|I will hardly stoop to tell you that I do not ask you to be my wife for the sake of this aid;--but if you were to become my wife I should expect all your cooperation;--with your money, possibly, but certainly with your warmest spirit.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000011_000000|And now, once again, Alice,--dearest Alice, will you be my wife?
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000011_000002|You cannot accuse my love.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000012_000001|I am so anxious that you should think of it that I will not expect your reply till this day week.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000012_000002|It can hardly be your desire to go through life unmarried.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000012_000006|It is because I believe that in this respect we are fitted for each other, as man and woman seldom are fitted, that I once again ask you to be my wife.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000013_000001|I have told her nothing of my purpose in writing this letter.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000013_000003|He has misunderstood me and has ill used me. But I am ready to forgive that, if he will allow me to do so.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000014_000002|But, oh, Alice! do not let it be adverse.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000014_000003|I think you love me.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000014_000004|Your woman's pride towards me has been great and good and womanly; but it has had its way; and, if you love me, might now be taught to succumb.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000015_000000|Dear Alice, will you be my wife?
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000016_000000|Yours, in any event, most affectionately,
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000018_000003|But chance did not so decide, and the letter was put back upon the table at his elbow.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000018_000006|"Women are such out and out fools." Then he took his candle, and carrying his letter with him, went into his bedroom.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000000|The next morning was the morning of Christmas Eve.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000002|"Jem," he said to the boy, "there's half a crown lying there on the looking glass." Jem looked and acknowledged the presence of the half crown.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000004|Jem scrutinized the coin, and declared that the uppermost surface showed a tail.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000005|"Then take that letter and post it," said George Vavasor.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000006|Whereupon Jem, asking no question and thinking but little of the circumstances under which the command was given, did take the letter and did post it.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000002|"This will be brought to you by Stickling," the note said; but who Stickling was Vavasor did not know.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000003|"I send the bill.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000005|You're a trump; and will do the best you can.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000006|Don't let that rogue off for less than a hundred and twenty.--Yours, b f" Vavasor, therefore, having nothing better to do, spent his Christmas morning in calling on mr Magruin.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000022_000000|"Time and tide wait for no man, mr Magruin, and my friend wants his money to morrow."
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000024_000000|"Yes, to morrow.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000024_000001|If time and tide won't wait, neither will love. Come, mr Magruin, out with your cheque book, and don't let's have any nonsense."
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000025_000000|"But is the lady sure, mr Vavasor?" asked mr Magruin, anxiously.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000026_000002|Are you going to give him the money?"
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000027_000000|"Christmas day, mr Vavasor!
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000028_000001|"Do tell him to be punctual," said mr Magruin, when Vavasor took his leave.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000029_000000|"I think he is," said George Vavasor, as he went away.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000030_000002|He at any rate did not so dare;--and after dinner he wandered about through the streets, wondering within his mind how he would endure the restraints of married life.
train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000030_000003|And the same dull monotony of his days was continued for a week, during which he waited, not impatiently, for an answer to his letter.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000000_000000|WHAT THE FROST GIANTS DID TO NANNIE'S RUN
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000001_000000|THE FROST GIANTS
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000002_000000|Do you believe in giants?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000002_000001|No, do you say?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000002_000002|Well, listen to my story, which is a really true one, and then answer my question.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000004_000001|Perhaps you will some day read about it all, but at present we have only to do with the Frost Giants; for I want to tell you, that, although no one now thinks of believing about the serpent or the flat earth or the rainbow bridge, yet the Frost Giants still live, and their home is really among the mountains.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000000|Have you sometimes seen great boulder stones, as big as a small house, that stand alone by themselves in some field, or on some seashore, where no other rocks are near?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000002|Sometimes they are sent to make a bridge over Niagara Falls, or to build a dam across a mountain torrent in an hour's time.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000003|Now and then they have to rake off a steep mountain side as you might a garden bed; and sometimes to bury a whole village so quickly that the poor inhabitants do not know what strange hand brought such sudden destruction upon them.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000004|Their deeds often seem to be cruel, and we cannot understand their meaning; but we shall some time know that the loving Father who sent them orders nothing for our hurt, but has always a loving purpose, though it may be hidden.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000008_000000|Now that you are introduced, you will perhaps like to join a Frost party that started out to work, one day in the early spring of eighteen sixty one, from their homes among the Olympic Mountains.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000009_000000|NANNIE'S RUN
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000010_000000|Can you imagine a beautiful oval shaped bay, almost encircled by a long arm of sand stretching out from the mainland?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000010_000001|In its deep water the largest vessels might ride at anchor, but at the time of my story a lonelier place could scarcely be found.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000010_000003|It is indeed a very little settlement,--a few houses clustered together upon the sandy beach close to the blue water; behind the houses rises a cliff crowned with great fir trees, standing tall and dark in thick ranks, making a dense forest; and beyond this forest, cold, snow covered mountains lift their peaks against the sky,--a fitting home for the Frost Giants.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000011_000000|Three streams, straying from the far away mountains, and fed by their melted snows and hidden springs, find their way through the forest, leap and tumble over the cliff, and, passing through the little settlement, reach the sea.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000011_000001|The people who live here call these little streams RUNS, and one of them is Nannie's Run.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000012_000000|And, now, who is Nannie?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000012_000001|Why, Nannie is Nannie Dwight,--a little girl not yet five years old, who lives in the small square house standing under the cliff.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000012_000003|Her father and mother came here to live when she was but a baby, and before there was a single house built in the place; and it is out of compliment to her that one of the streams has been named Nannie's Run.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000014_000000|They have been working all winter, but not quite so busily as now; for since yesterday they have cracked that big rock in two, and dug the great cave under the hill, and now they are gathered in council on the mountain side that overlooks a dashing little stream.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000014_000003|We have not long to wait before we shall see, and hear too; for a great creaking and cracking begins, and, while we gaze astonished, the mountain side begins to slide, and presently, with a rush and a roar, dashes into the stream, and chokes it with a huge dam of earth and rocks and trees.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000015_000000|What will the stream do now?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000015_000001|For a moment the water leaps into the air, all foam and sparkle, as if it would jump over the barrier, and find its way to the sea at any rate.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000015_000002|But this proves entirely unsuccessful; and at last, after whirling and tumbling, trying to creep under; trying to leap over, it settles itself quietly in its prison, as if to think about the matter.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000016_000000|Now, if you will stay and watch it day after day, you will see what good result will come from this waiting; for every hour more and more water is running to its aid, and, as its forces increase, we begin to feel sure, that, although it can neither pass over nor under, it will some day be strong enough to break through the Frost Giants' dam.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000016_000001|And the day comes at last, when, summoning all its waters to the attack, it makes a breach in the great earth wall, and in a strong, grand column, as high as this room, marches away towards the sea.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000018_000000|Peep in at the window, and see how Nannie stands at the kitchen table, cutting out little cakes from a bit of dough that her mother has given her; she is all absorbed in her play, and her mother has gone to look into the oven at the nicely browning loaves.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000019_000000|Oh, don't we wish the house had been built up on the cliff among the fir trees, safe above the reach of the water!
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000019_000001|But, alas! here it stands, just in the path that the torrent will take, and we have no power to tell of the danger that is approaching.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000021_000000|Five minutes afterwards, sitting breathless on the roots of an old tree, with her children safe beside her, she sees the whole shore covered with surging water, and the houses swept into the bay, tossing and drifting there like boats in a stormy sea.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000021_000001|And this is what the Frost Giants did to Nannie's Run.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000022_000000|THE INDIANS
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000023_000000|What will Nannie do now?
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000023_000001|Here in our New England towns it would seem hard enough to have one's house swept away before one's eyes; but then you know you could take the next train of cars, and go to your aunt in Boston, or your uncle in New York, to stay until a new house could be prepared for you.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000023_000002|But here is Nannie hundreds and thousands of miles away from any such help; for there are not only no railroads to travel upon, but not even common roads nor horses nor wagons; nevertheless, there are neighbors who will bring help.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000024_000000|You remember reading in your history, how, when our great great grandfathers came to this country to live, they found it occupied by Indians.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000025_000000|The Flatheads are Nannie's only neighbors, and perhaps you would consider them rather undesirable friends; but when I tell you how they came at once with blankets and food, and all sorts of friendly offers of shelter and help, you will think that some white people might well take a lesson from them.
train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000028_000000|Before many weeks have passed, some of the tall fir trees are cut down, and a new house is built, this time safely perched on top of the cliff; and, so far as I know, the Frost Giants have never succeeded in touching it.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000001_000000|M
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000002_000001|A staff of office signifying authority.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000012_000002|Popularly, a woman found out.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000012_000005|In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000013_000002|There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000014_000001|Something acted upon by magnetism.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000015_000001|Something acting upon a magnet.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000019_000001|A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000022_000000|Opoline Jones
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000023_000001|The state and title of a king.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000024_000003|The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000035_000002|They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000036_000002|When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000040_000002|Important.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000045_000002|The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000045_000003|Each is all three.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000061_000001|Addicted to rhetoric.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000063_000001|An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000070_000001|Less objectionable.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000080_000006|The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000084_000001|In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000102_000001|A child of two races, ashamed of both.
train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000103_000005|Whence comes it?
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000004_000000|FOREWARNED
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000003|Her ideas on life in general had been acquired through the medium of popular respectable novel writers, and modified or emphasised by such knowledge as her aunt, the vicar, and her aunt's housekeeper had put at her disposal.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000004|And now, in her twenty ninth year, her aunt's death had left her, well provided for as regards income, but somewhat isolated in the matter of kith and kin and human companionship.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000006|She could hardly remember ever having met them, but once or twice in the course of the last three or four years they had expressed a polite wish that she should pay them a visit; they had probably not been unduly depressed by the fact that her aunt's failing health had prevented her from accepting their invitation.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000009|mrs Bludward was something of an invalid, and Robert was a young man who had been at Oxford and was going into Parliament.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000010|Further than that Alethia's information did not go; her imagination, founded on her extensive knowledge of the people one met in novels, had to supply the gaps.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000013|Robert was more of a problem.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000015|It was probable, Alethia considered, that Robert came into the last category, in which case she was certain to enjoy the companionship of one or two excellent women, and might possibly catch glimpses of undesirable adventuresses or come face to face with reckless admiration seeking married women.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000006_000000|The train which carried Alethia towards her destination was a local one, with the wayside station habit strongly developed.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000008_000000|There was a certain scornful ring in his question.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000000|"Robert Bludward?
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000001|An out an'-out rotter, that's what he is.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000002|Ought to be ashamed to look any decent man in the face.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000003|Send him to Parliament to represent us-not much!
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000010_000001|Tells a pack of lies to get our votes, that's all that he's after, damn him.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000010_000003|Properly exposed him, hip and thigh, I tell you."
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000012_000000|"He was hissed down at Shoalford yesterday," said one of the speakers.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000001|Had it come to that?
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000002|There was something dramatically biblical in the idea of Robert Bludward's neighbours and acquaintances hissing him for very scorn.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000005|In placid Saxon blooded England people did not demonstrate their feelings lightly and without some strong compelling cause.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000006|What manner of evildoer was Robert Bludward?
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000000|The train stopped at another small station, and the two men got out.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000002|Alethia pounced on it, in the expectation of finding a cultured literary endorsement of the censure which these rough farming men had expressed in their homely, honest way.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000003|She had not far to look; "mr
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000004|Robert Bludward, Swanker," was the title of one of the principal articles in the paper.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000006|And this monster was going to meet her at Derrelton Station in a few short minutes.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000007|She would know him at once; he would have the dark beetling brows, the quick, furtive glance, the sneering, unsavoury smile that always characterised the Sir Jaspers of this world.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000008|It was too late to escape; she must force herself to meet him with outward calm.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000015_000000|It was a considerable shock to her to find that Robert was fair, with a snub nose, merry eye, and rather a schoolboy manner.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000015_000001|"A serpent in duckling's plumage," was her private comment; merciful chance had revealed him to her in his true colours.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000016_000000|As they drove away from the station a dissipated looking man of the labouring class waved his hat in friendly salute.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000016_000001|"Good luck to you, mr Bludward," he shouted; "you'll come out on top!
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000016_000002|We'll break old Chobham's neck for him."
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000017_000000|"Who was that man?" asked Alethia quickly.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000018_000000|"Oh, one of my supporters," laughed Robert; "a bit of a poacher and a bit of a pub loafer, but he's on the right side."
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000019_000000|So these were the sort of associates that Robert Bludward consorted with, thought Alethia.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000020_000000|"Who is the person he referred to as old Chobham?" she asked.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000000|So there was an upright man, possibly a very Hugo in character, who was thwarting and defying the evildoer in his nefarious career, and there was a dastardly plot afoot to break his neck!
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000001|Possibly the attempt would be made within the next few hours.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000002|He must certainly be warned.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000005|The chances were that she would be watched.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000006|Robert would come spurring after her and seize her bridle just as she was turning in at Sir John's gates.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000023_000001|He had the frank open countenance, neatly brushed hair and tidy clothes that betoken a clear conscience and a good mother.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000023_000002|He stared straight at the occupants of the car, and, after he had passed them, sang in his clear, boyish voice:
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000025_000000|Robert merely laughed.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000025_000002|He had goaded them to desperation with his shameless depravity till they spoke openly of putting him to a violent death, and he laughed.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000026_000001|From her no help was to be expected.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000026_000002|Alethia locked her door that night, and placed such ramparts of furniture against it that the maid had great difficulty in breaking in with the early tea in the morning.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000000|After breakfast Alethia, on the pretext of going to look at an outlying rose garden, slipped away to the village through which they had passed on the previous evening.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000004|Suddenly she started, and began to read with breathless attention a prominently printed article, headed "A Little Limelight on Sir john Chobham." The colour ebbed away from her face, a look of frightened despair crept into her eyes.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000006|Sir john, the Hugo of her imagination, was, if anything, rather more depraved and despicable than Robert Bludward.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000007|He was mean, evasive, callously indifferent to his country's interests, a cheat, a man who habitually broke his word, and who was responsible, with his associates, for most of the poverty, misery, crime, and national degradation with which the country was afflicted.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000008|He was also a candidate for Parliament, it seemed, and as there was only one seat in this particular locality, it was obvious that the success of either Robert or Sir john would mean a check to the ambitions of the other, hence, no doubt, the rivalry and enmity between these otherwise kindred souls.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000009|One was seeking to have his enemy done to death, the other was apparently trying to stir up his supporters to an act of "Lynch law".
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000028_000000|"I must go back to Webblehinton at once," Alethia informed her astonished hostess at lunch time; "I have had a telegram.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000028_000001|A friend is very seriously ill and I have been sent for."
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000029_000000|It was dreadful to have to concoct lies, but it would be more dreadful to have to spend another night under that roof.
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000030_000002|She had come unscathed through it, but what might have happened if she had gone unsuspectingly to visit Sir john Chobham and warn him of his danger?
train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000030_000003|What indeed!
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000000_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Ninth Night,
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000004|Then Judar sat watching and after awhile, his feet appeared above the water and the fisher said, "He is dead and damned!
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000009|"Whither went they?" enquired the Moor, and Judar replied, "I pinioned their hands behind them and cast them into the lake, where they were drowned, and the same fate is in store for thee." The Moor laughed and rejoined, saying, "O unhappy!
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000011|Then he waited awhile; presently the Moor thrust both hands forth of the water and called out to him, saying, "Ho, good fellow, cast out thy net!" So Judar threw the net over him and drew him ashore, and lo! in each hand he held a fish as red as coral.
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000012|Quoth the Moor, "Bring me the two caskets that are in the saddle bags." So Judar brought them and opened them to him, and he laid in each casket a fish and shut them up.
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000013|Then he pressed Judar to his bosom and kissed him on the right cheek and the left, saying, "Allah save thee from all stress!
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000002_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Tenth Night,
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000003_000004|Our father was wont to make use of this book, of which we had some small matter by heart, and each of us desired to possess it, that he might acquaint himself with what was therein.
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000003_000008|As for the brand, if its bearer draw it and brandish it against an army, the army will be put to the rout; and if he say the while, 'Slay yonder host,' there will come forth of that sword lightning and fire, that will kill the whole many.
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000004_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Eleventh Night,
train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000005_000003|"Nay," answered the Maghribi, "they are Ifrits in the guise of fish.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000000_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Seventeenth Night,
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000004|If ye allow me aught to clothe me, 'twill be of your bounty, and each of you shall traffic with the folk for himself.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000005|Ye are my sons and I am your mother; wherefore let us abide as we are, lest your brother come back and we be disgraced." But they accepted not her words and passed the night, wrangling with each other.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000007|So he looked out and listening, heard all the angry words that passed between them and saw the division of the spoil.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000011|After awhile, his master the merchant set out on a pilgrimage to Meccah, taking Judar with him, and when they reached the city, the Cairene repaired to the Haram temple, to circumambulate the Ka'abah.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000002_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighteenth Night,
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000010|They swooned away for excess of fear, and when they recovered, they found themselves in their mother's house and saw Judar seated by her side.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000011|Quoth he, "I salute you, O my brothers! you have cheered me by your presence." And they bowed their heads and burst into tears.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000012|Then said he, "Weep not, for it was Satan and covetise that led you to do thus.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000013|How could you sell me?
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000014|But I comfort myself with the thought of Joseph, whose brothers did with him even more than ye did with me, because they cast him into the pit."--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000004_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Nineteenth Night,
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000000|She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Judar said to his brothers, "How could you do with me thus?
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000001|But repent unto Allah and crave pardon of Him, and He will forgive you both, for He is the Most Forgiving, the Merciful.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000002|As for me, I pardon you and welcome you: no harm shall befall you."
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000007|Then Judar brought forth food and they ate and took their ease and lay down to sleep.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000008|Meanwhile, Al Ra'ad summoned his attendant Jinn and bade them build the palace.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000010|Judar was delighted with it while he was passing along the highway and withal it had cost him nothing.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000013|Moreover, he sent other four score, who fetched comely black girls, and forty others brought male chattels and carried them all to Judar's house, which they filled.
train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000007_000000|So he gave a great cry and fell down in a fit.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000003_000000|thirty eight
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000025_000000|And with kind looks and laughter And nought to say beside We two went on together, I and my happy guide.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000031_000000|And like the cloudy shadows Across the country blown We two face on for ever, But not we two alone.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000035_000000|With lips that brim with laughter But never once respond, And feet that fly on feathers, And serpent circled wand.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000037_000000|THE IMMORTAL PART
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000039_000000|"When shall this slough of sense be cast, This dust of thoughts be laid at last, The man of flesh and soul be slain And the man of bone remain?"
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000042_000000|" 'tis long till eve and morn are gone: Slow the endless night comes on, And late to fulness grows the birth That shall last as long as earth."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000043_000000|"Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000048_000000|Before this fire of sense decay, This smoke of thought blow clean away, And leave with ancient night alone The stedfast and enduring bone.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000056_000000|Turn safe to rest, no dreams, no waking; And here, man, here's the wreath I've made: 'tis not a gift that's worth the taking, But wear it and it will not fade.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000064_000000|THE CARPENTER'S SON
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000065_000000|"Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000066_000000|"Oh, at home had I but stayed 'Prenticed to my father's trade, Had I stuck to plane and adze, I had not been lost, my lads."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000068_000000|"Now, you see, they hang me high, And the people passing by Stop to shake their fists and curse; So 'tis come from ill to worse."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000070_000000|"Comrades all, that stand and gaze, Walk henceforth in other ways; See my neck and save your own: Comrades all, leave ill alone."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000071_000000|"Make some day a decent end, Shrewder fellows than your friend. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die."
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000097_000000|THE TRUE LOVER
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000116_000000|THE DAY OF BATTLE
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000122_000000|You smile upon your friend to day, To day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000125_000000|When I came last to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale, Two friends kept step beside me, Two honest lads and hale.
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000128_000000|THE ISLE OF PORTLAND
train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000129_000000|The star filled seas are smooth to night From France to England strown; Black towers above the Portland light The felon quarried stone.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000002_000000|THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000008_000000|LLEWELYN POWYS.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000009_000001|The theologians point to this as a proof of the existence of a supreme being.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000010_000001|Most of these are born, not with an active tuberculosis, but some as yet imperfectly understood tendency, a defect in their protoplasmic make-up that renders them an easy prey to the tubercle bacillus if they are exposed to it.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000010_000002|Similarly, generations of men have been born with a weakened mental vitality towards superstition; a weakened mental capacity that renders their minds an easy prey to that fear which manifests itself in superstition, creed, religion-the God idea.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000010_000003|It was Karl Marx who remarked that, "The tradition of all the generations of the past weighs down like an Alp upon the brain of the living."
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000011_000002|The force of repetition is great; it is, in fact, taken by a vast majority of men as the equivalent of proof.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000012_000000|Most men have to accept their religions ready made.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000012_000002|The toil for bread is incessant, there is not sufficient leisure to verify the sources of their religious beliefs.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000012_000003|Moreover, the ecclesiastic's answers to the riddles of life are easier, by far, to grasp than the answers of science.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000013_000002|It is much easier and much more pleasant to give oneself passively to that delusion of grandeur, that delusion that pleasantly drugs the mind with the assumption that there is a supreme being who is personally interested in our well-being; a providence who, like a school master, at his pleasure dispenses rewards and punishments; as immortality, Heaven and Hell.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000015_000004|This will be shown in the subsequent chapters.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000016_000000|"We are told by the Church apologists that during the Middle Ages the priests and monks kept up the torch of learning, that, being the only literate people, they brought back the study of the classics. Historically speaking, this is about the most impudent statement that one could imagine.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000016_000003|Having gotten enormous tracts of the best land into their hands, so that the people were starving, they were willing to throw a bone occasionally to the latter.
train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000016_000005|They built enormous monasteries with well filled cellars, and lived on the fat of the land, while the people lived in wretched hovels, working their lives away for a crust of bread. The beasts, the domestic animals lived a more comfortable life than did the men, women, and children of the people.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000002_000000|RELIGION AND SCIENCE
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000004_000000|MAYNARD SHIPLEY, "The War on Modern Science."
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000006_000000|HORACE m KALLEN, "Why Religion?"
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000000|Some sixty years ago in the "Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith," the Church stated, "But never can reason be rendered capable of thoroughly understanding mysteries as it does those truths which form its proper subject.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000001|We, therefore, pronounce false every assertion which is contrary to the enlightened truth of faith....
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000002|Hence, all the Christian faithful are not only forbidden to defend as legitimate conclusions of science those opinions which are known to be contrary to the doctrine of faith, especially when condemned by the Church, but are rather absolutely bound to hold them for errors wearing the deceitful appearance of truth.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000003|Let him be anathema....
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000009_000001|And only sixty years ago!
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000009_000002|It is but the restatement of what the Church has uttered so many times and for so long-that all knowledge, material as well as spiritual, is to be found in the Bible as interpreted by the Church.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000009_000003|It was this myth which had stultified the mind of man for one thousand five hundred years (during the period in which the Church was dominant); it was this that had killed the urge to search and seek for the truth, which is the goal of all science, the means by which humanity is set on the road to progress.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000002|Science, on the other hand, does not hesitate to tear down old conceptions, and has only one motive, the ultimate truth.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000004|The true scientist is the man with the open mind, one who will discard the worthless and accept only the proven good.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000005|The religionist closes his mind to all facts which he is unwilling to believe, everything which will endanger his creed.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000006|Religion teaches the individual to place all hope, all desire, in a problematical hereafter. The stay on earth is so short compared to the everlasting life to come, that of what interest is this life; all things are vain.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000011_000000|Truth to the scientific mind is something provisional, a hypothesis that for the present moment best conforms to the recognized tests.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000011_000003|If the theory is adopted it must account for the facts known.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000012_000001|To the religionist, knowledge is something that is contained in an infallible and supernatural statement or insight. Religion exalts the transcendental; science manipulates only the material.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000013_000005|Science is the embodiment of the sense of control, religion yields the control to that power which moves in the shadow of the woods by night, and the glory of the morning hills....
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000014_000000|"Science does not justify by faith, but by works.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000014_000002|It renounces authority, cuts athwart custom, violates the sacred, rejects the myths.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000016_000000|The two rival divisions of the Christian Church, Protestant and Catholic, have always been in accord on one point, that is, to tolerate no science except such as they considered to be agreeable to the Scriptures.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000018_000001|Thus declared the Church.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000018_000002|We understand why it was that Copernicus did not permit his book to be published until he was dying.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000018_000005|Bruno was burnt at the stake.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000019_000001|The attitude of the Church on geography was hostile to the truth, as witness the persecutions of those who dared to venture that the earth was round. Botany, mathematics, and geometry, as well as the natural sciences, slumbered.
train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000019_000002|Geology, which proved that the earth was more than six thousand years old, was anathematized; archeologists had the greatest difficulty to expound the truth concerning the antiquity of the human race.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000002_000000|RELIGION AND GEOLOGY, PHILOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000004_000000|LLEWELYN POWYS.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000006_000001|Tertullian asserted that fossils resulted from the flood of Noah.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000006_000003|The theological faculty of Paris protested against the scientific doctrine as unscriptural, destroyed their treatises, and banished their authors from Paris.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000007_000000|In the middle of the eighteenth century Buffon, in France, produced a thesis attempting to state simple geological truths.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000007_000001|The theological faculty of the Sorbonne dismissed him from his high position and forced him to print a recantation stating, "I declare that I had no intention to contradict the text of the Scripture; that I believe most firmly all therein related about the creation, both as to order of time and matter of fact.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000010_000000|When the Egyptologists, Assyriologists, archeologists, and anthropologists showed that man had reached a far advanced stage of civilization long before the six thousand years given as the age of the earth, their efforts were ridiculed by the clergy, and these scientists were forced to bring their findings before the world in the face of the well known methods of ecclesiastical opposition.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000011_000001|Language was considered God given and complete.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000011_000002|The diversity of language was firmly held to be explained by the story of the Tower of Babel; and since the writers of the Bible were merely pens in the hand of God the conclusion was reached that not only the sense, but the words, letters, and even the punctuation proceeded from the Holy Spirit.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000013_000001|Babel thus takes its place quietly among the other myths of the Bible.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000014_000000|In a purely civil matter, the infallible Church from its inception had displayed a marked hostility to loans at interest.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000014_000001|From the earliest period the whole weight of the Church was brought to bear against the taking of interest for money.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000014_000002|Pope Leo the Great solemnly adjudged it a sin worthy of severe punishment.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000016_000000|Darwinism, which at first was declared by the clergy to be brutal, degrading, atheistic, and anti Christian, is now included as part of the Bible teaching.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000017_000000|In a similar manner, the Copernican theory, the theory of gravitation, the nebular hypothesis, the theory of uniformity in geology, and every scientific advance has been opposed on the same grounds; that is, that these are against the teachings of the Christian Church.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000018_000000|In eighteen seventy seven, an eminent French Catholic physician, dr Constantin james, published an elaborate answer to Darwin's book.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000019_000003|dr Duffield, both leading authorities at Princeton University.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000000|dr Max Carl Otto, considering the implications of evolution, calls attention to the following: "Take the evolution of living forms.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000002|There have been futile experiments without number; highly successful achievements have been thrown aside; one type of life after another has arisen and has pushed up a blind alley to extinction.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000004|In this maelstrom, the human species, as Thomas Huxley said-'plashed and floundered amid the general stream of evolution, keeping its head above water as best it might, and thinking neither of whence nor whither.' Many volumes have been written to give a purposive interpretation of the rise and evolutionary ramifications of living forms.
train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000005|The course of evolution itself is their refutation."
train-clean-360/711/187464/711_187464_000035_000002|This was tapped, and served regularly to all hands, which was much preferable to spirits, as it gave them strength without intoxication.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000003_000000|The exclusive trade of sandlewood was valuable and convenient to the Dutch; but, from the vast extent of territory lately acquired in India, we have plenty of that commodity without going to the Dutch market.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000003_000001|Close to the Dutch town is a Chinese town and temple.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000003_000002|They have a governor of their own nation, but pay large tribute to the Dutch.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000004_000001|One of the petty princes, in settling his account with a merchant of this place, was some dollars short of cash.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000004_000004|He went passenger in the ship with us to Batavia.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000006_000002|I could dwell with pleasure for an age in praise of this honest Dutchman; it is the tribute of a grateful heart, and his due.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000006_000003|This is the third time he has had an opportunity of extending his hospitality to shipwrecked Englishmen.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000007_000002|They drew bills on the British government, and were supplied with every necessary they stood in need of.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000005|They had been supplied with a quadrant, a compass, a chart, and some small arms and ammunition, from a Dutch ship that lay there; and the expedition was conducted by the Governor's fisherman, whose time of transportation was expired.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000007|They dragged along the coast of New South Wales; and as often as the hostile nature of the savage natives would permit, hauled their boat up at night, and slept on shore.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000009|In many places of the coast of South Wales, they found very good coal; a circumstance that was not before known.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000010|Our men were now beginning to regain their strength; and Captain Dadleberg of the Rembang Indiaman was making every possible dispatch with his ship to carry us to Batavia.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000009_000001|The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and all the Europeans were invited.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000009_000002|Six months had been spent in preparations for this fete, at which an emperor and twenty five kings assisted and attended in person with all their body guards, standards, and standard bearers, were present.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000010_000001|The first toast after dinner was the dead king's health.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000011_000002|As he was preceded by music, and colours flying, every one turned out to see him. Amongst the rest was a captive king in chains, who was employed blowing the bellows to our armourer, whilst he was forging bolts and fetters for our prisoners and convicts.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000012_000001|That domestic strife serves likewise amply to supply the slave trade from the prisoners of both parties.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000013_000006|At stated periods it makes a noise exactly like a cuckoo clock.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000014_000000|The Governor, Mynheer Vanion, relates a circumstance that happened to him while hunting.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000014_000001|In crossing a shallow part of the river, his black boy was snapped up by an alligator; but the Governor immediately dismounted, rescued the boy out of his mouth, and slew him.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000016_000000|On the sixth of October, we embarked on board the Rembang Dutch Indiaman, taking with us the prisoners and convicts.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000016_000006|The Dutch seamen were struck with horror, and went below; and the ship was preserved from destruction by the manly exertion of our English tars, whose souls seemed to catch redoubled ardour from the tempest's rage.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000019_000000|On the twenty sixth, saw the island of Java; and on the thirtieth, anchored at Samarang.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000020_000000|Immediately on our coming to anchor, we were agreeably surprised to find our tender here which we had so long given up for lost.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000021_000001|Our seven barrelled pieces made great havoc amongst them.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000024_000001|The alternative was dreadful, as famine presented them on the one hand, and shipwreck on the other.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000028_000000|The town is regular and beautiful, and the houses are built in a style of architecture, which has given loose to the most sportive fancy.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000030_000001|Some dead bodies floating down the canal struck our boat, which had a very disagreeable effect on the minds of our brave fellows, whose nerves were reduced to a very weak state from sickness.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000033_000003|The compass of my work will not allow me to be particular; but I must instance one among many others.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000034_000000|In our passage from this to the Cape, before we left Java, one of the convicts had jumped over board in the night, and swam to the Dutch arsenal at Honroost.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000034_000002|We met nothing particular in passing the island of Sumatra, but experienced great death and sickness in going through the Straits of Sunda; and after a tedious passage, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000037_000002|But should the piquet be negligent in their duty, and suffer the main body to be surprised, the delinquents are severely punished.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000038_000001|They have even contrived to carry canals to the top of a mountain.
train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000038_000002|The boors, or country farmers, are a species of the human race, so gigantic and superior to the rest of mankind, in point of size and constitution, that they may be called nondescripts.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000001_000000|Chapter six.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000005_000000|The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Moscow and Leipsic, while the women commented on the divorce of Josephine.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000005_000001|It was not over the downfall of the man, but over the defeat of the Napoleonic idea, that they rejoiced, and in this they foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000006_000002|This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air a l'Anglais, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000006_000003|In a word, an almost poetical fervor prevailed.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000008_000000|"I beg your pardon, madame.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000008_000001|I really must pray you to excuse me, but-in truth-I was not attending to the conversation."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000009_000000|"Marquise, marquise!" interposed the old nobleman who had proposed the toast, "let the young people alone; let me tell you, on one's wedding day there are more agreeable subjects of conversation than dry politics."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000012_000000|"Never mind, Renee," replied the marquise, with a look of tenderness that seemed out of keeping with her harsh dry features; but, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the desert of her heart, and that is the shrine of maternal love.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000012_000001|"I forgive you.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000013_000000|"They had, however, what supplied the place of those fine qualities," replied the young man, "and that was fanaticism.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000013_000001|Napoleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitions followers, not only as a leader and lawgiver, but also as the personification of equality."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000014_000000|"He!" cried the marquise: "Napoleon the type of equality!
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000014_000002|Come, come, do not strip the latter of his just rights to bestow them on the Corsican, who, to my mind, has usurped quite enough."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000015_000001|The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000017_000000|"'tis true, madame," answered he, "that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king's death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000019_000000|"Dear mother," interposed Renee, "you know very well it was agreed that all these disagreeable reminiscences should forever be laid aside."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000020_000001|What avails recrimination over matters wholly past recall?
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000021_000001|Come, now, I have hopes of obtaining what I have been for years endeavoring to persuade the marquise to promise; namely, a perfect amnesty and forgetfulness of the past."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000022_000000|"With all my heart," replied the marquise; "let the past be forever forgotten.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000022_000001|I promise you it affords me as little pleasure to revive it as it does you.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000023_000001|I have already successfully conducted several public prosecutions, and brought the offenders to merited punishment.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000023_000002|But we have not done with the thing yet."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000024_000000|"Do you, indeed, think so?" inquired the marquise.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000025_000001|Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans. Marseilles is filled with half pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000028_000000|"To Saint Helena."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000029_000000|"For heaven's sake, where is that?" asked the marquise.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000030_000000|"An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues from here," replied the count.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000031_000000|"So much the better.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000036_000000|"Then all he has got to do is to endeavor to repair it."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000037_000000|"Nay, madame, the law is frequently powerless to effect this; all it can do is to avenge the wrong done."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000000|"Amusing, certainly," replied the young man, "inasmuch as, instead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law court a case of real and genuine distress-a drama of life.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000001|The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of-as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy-going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,--is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000002|I leave you to judge how far your nerves are calculated to bear you through such a scene.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000003|Of this, however, be assured, that should any favorable opportunity present itself, I will not fail to offer you the choice of being present."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000041_000000|"What would you have?
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000041_000001|'tis like a duel.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000041_000002|I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?"
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000043_000002|Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one's self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000043_000003|No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence." Renee uttered a smothered exclamation.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000044_000000|"Bravo!" cried one of the guests; "that is what I call talking to some purpose."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000045_000000|"Just the person we require at a time like the present," said a second.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000046_000001|Upon my word, you killed him ere the executioner had laid his hand upon him."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000048_000000|"Why, that is the very worst offence they could possibly commit; for, don't you see, Renee, the king is the father of his people, and he who shall plot or contrive aught against the life and safety of the parent of thirty two millions of souls, is a parricide upon a fearfully great scale?"
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000054_000001|Do you know I always felt a shudder at the idea of even a destroying angel?"
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000057_000000|"And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000059_000002|I should myself have recommended the match, had not the noble marquis anticipated my wishes by requesting my consent to it.'"
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000062_000000|"That is true," answered the marquis.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000063_000000|"How much do I owe this gracious prince!
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000063_000001|What is there I would not do to evince my earnest gratitude!"
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000064_000000|"That is right," cried the marquise.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000064_000001|"I love to see you thus.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000064_000002|Now, then, were a conspirator to fall into your hands, he would be most welcome."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000066_000001|If you wish to see me the king's attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000067_000002|Renee regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000068_000001|Well, I at least resemble the disciples of Esculapius in one thing-that of not being able to call a day my own, not even that of my betrothal."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000070_000000|"For a very serious matter, which bids fair to make work for the executioner."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000071_000000|"How dreadful!" exclaimed Renee, turning pale.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000072_000000|"Is it possible?" burst simultaneously from all who were near enough to the magistrate to hear his words.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000073_000000|"Why, if my information prove correct, a sort of Bonaparte conspiracy has just been discovered."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000074_000000|"Can I believe my ears?" cried the marquise.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000076_000001|Ample corroboration of this statement may be obtained by arresting the above mentioned Edmond Dantes, who either carries the letter for Paris about with him, or has it at his father's abode.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000077_000000|"But," said Renee, "this letter, which, after all, is but an anonymous scrawl, is not even addressed to you, but to the king's attorney."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000078_000000|"True; but that gentleman being absent, his secretary, by his orders, opened his letters; thinking this one of importance, he sent for me, but not finding me, took upon himself to give the necessary orders for arresting the accused party."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000079_000000|"Then the guilty person is absolutely in custody?" said the marquise.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000080_000001|You know we cannot yet pronounce him guilty."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000082_000000|"And where is the unfortunate being?" asked Renee.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000084_000000|"Come, come, my friend," interrupted the marquise, "do not neglect your duty to linger with us.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000084_000001|You are the king's servant, and must go wherever that service calls you."
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000086_000000|The young man passed round to the side of the table where the fair pleader sat, and leaning over her chair said tenderly,--
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000087_000000|"To give you pleasure, my sweet Renee, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off." Renee shuddered.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000089_000000|"These are mournful auspices to accompany a betrothal," sighed poor Renee.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000090_000000|"Upon my word, child!" exclaimed the angry marquise, "your folly exceeds all bounds.
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000090_000001|I should be glad to know what connection there can possibly be between your sickly sentimentality and the affairs of the state!"
train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000091_000000|"O mother!" murmured Renee.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000002_000000|Chapter twenty eight.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000002_000001|The Prison Register.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000000|The day after that in which the scene we have just described had taken place on the road between Bellegarde and Beaucaire, a man of about thirty or two and thirty, dressed in a bright blue frock coat, nankeen trousers, and a white waistcoat, having the appearance and accent of an Englishman, presented himself before the mayor of Marseilles.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000001|"Sir," said he, "I am chief clerk of the house of Thomson and French, of Rome.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000003|We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000004|I have come, therefore, express from Rome, to ask you for information."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000004_000000|"Sir," replied the mayor.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000004_000002|He has lost four or five vessels, and suffered by three or four bankruptcies; but it is not for me, although I am a creditor myself to the amount of ten thousand francs, to give any information as to the state of his finances.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000006_000000|"But," said the Englishman, "this looks very much like a suspension of payment."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000008_000000|The Englishman appeared to reflect a moment, and then said,--"From which it would appear, sir, that this credit inspires you with considerable apprehension?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000009_000000|"To tell you the truth, I consider it lost."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000010_000000|"Well, then, I will buy it of you!"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000011_000000|"You?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000012_000000|"Yes, I!"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000013_000000|"But at a tremendous discount, of course?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000014_000000|"No, for two hundred thousand francs.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000014_000001|Our house," added the Englishman with a laugh, "does not do things in that way."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000015_000000|"And you will pay"--
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000017_000000|"That's no affair of mine," replied the Englishman, "that is the affair of the house of Thomson and French, in whose name I act.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000017_000001|They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm. But all I know, sir, is, that I am ready to hand you over this sum in exchange for your assignment of the debt.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000017_000002|I only ask a brokerage."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000018_000002|Whatever you say."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000019_000000|"Sir," replied the Englishman, laughing, "I am like my house, and do not do such things-no, the commission I ask is quite different."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000020_000000|"Name it, sir, I beg."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000021_000000|"You are the inspector of prisons?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000022_000000|"I have been so these fourteen years."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000023_000000|"You keep the registers of entries and departures?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000024_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000026_000000|"There are special reports on every prisoner."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000027_000000|"Well, sir, I was educated at home by a poor devil of an abbe, who disappeared suddenly.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000028_000000|"What was his name?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000029_000000|"The Abbe Faria."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000032_000000|"Oh, he was, decidedly."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000033_000000|"Very possibly; but what sort of madness was it?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000034_000000|"He pretended to know of an immense treasure, and offered vast sums to the government if they would liberate him."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000035_000000|"Poor devil!--and he is dead?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000036_000000|"Yes, sir, five or six months ago-last February."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000037_000000|"You have a good memory, sir, to recollect dates so well."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000038_000000|"I recollect this, because the poor devil's death was accompanied by a singular incident."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000041_000000|"Indeed!" said the Englishman.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000042_000001|That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000042_000002|The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000043_000000|"And you say, sir," he interposed, "that the two dungeons"--
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000045_000000|"This dangerous man's name was"--
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000046_000000|"Edmond Dantes.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000046_000001|It appears, sir, that this Edmond Dantes had procured tools, or made them, for they found a tunnel through which the prisoners held communication with one another."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000047_000000|"This tunnel was dug, no doubt, with an intention of escape?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000048_000000|"No doubt; but unfortunately for the prisoners, the Abbe Faria had an attack of catalepsy, and died."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000049_000000|"That must have cut short the projects of escape."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000052_000000|"As I have already told you, sir, he was a very dangerous man; and, fortunately, by his own act disembarrassed the government of the fears it had on his account."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000053_000000|"How was that?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000054_000000|"How?
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000054_000001|Do you not comprehend?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000055_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000056_000000|"The Chateau d'If has no cemetery, and they simply throw the dead into the sea, after fastening a thirty six pound cannon ball to their feet."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000057_000000|"Well," observed the Englishman as if he were slow of comprehension.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000058_000000|"Well, they fastened a thirty six pound ball to his feet, and threw him into the sea."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000059_000000|"Really!" exclaimed the Englishman.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000060_000000|"Yes, sir," continued the inspector of prisons.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000060_000002|I should like to have seen his face at that moment."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000061_000000|"That would have been difficult."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000063_000000|"So can I," said the Englishman, and he laughed too; but he laughed as the English do, "at the end of his teeth."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000064_000000|"And so," continued the Englishman who first gained his composure, "he was drowned?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000065_000000|"Unquestionably."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000066_000000|"So that the governor got rid of the dangerous and the crazy prisoner at the same time?"
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000067_000000|"Precisely."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000068_000000|"But some official document was drawn up as to this affair, I suppose?" inquired the Englishman.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000069_000000|"Yes, yes, the mortuary deposition.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000069_000001|You understand, Dantes' relations, if he had any, might have some interest in knowing if he were dead or alive."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000071_000000|"Oh, yes; and they may have the fact attested whenever they please."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000072_000001|"But to return to these registers."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000073_000000|"True, this story has diverted our attention from them.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000073_000001|Excuse me."
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000074_000000|"Excuse you for what?
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000074_000001|For the story?
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000077_000006|Then he saw through the whole thing.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000077_000008|He was no longer astonished when he searched on to find in the register this note, placed in a bracket against his name:--
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000078_000000|Edmond Dantes.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000079_000000|An inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000080_000000|To be kept in strict solitary confinement, and to be closely watched and guarded.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000081_000000|Beneath these lines was written in another hand: "See note above-nothing can be done." He compared the writing in the bracket with the writing of the certificate placed beneath Morrel's petition, and discovered that the note in the bracket was the same writing as the certificate-that is to say, was in Villefort's handwriting.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000082_000000|As we have said, the inspector, from discretion, and that he might not disturb the Abbe Faria's pupil in his researches, had seated himself in a corner, and was reading Le Drapeau Blanc.
train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000083_000000|"Thanks," said the latter, closing the register with a slam, "I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000000|PROFESSORS h AND t OFFER THEIR SERVICES-CAPTAINS b ALSO ARE ENLISTED-SLAVE TRADER GRASPING TIGHTLY HIS PREY, BUT SHE IS RESCUED-LONG CONFLICT, BUT GREAT TRIUMPH-ARRIVAL ON THANKSGIVING DAY, november twenty fifth eighteen fifty five.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000001|It was the business of the Vigilance Committee, as it was clearly understood by the friends of the Slave, to assist all needy fugitives, who might in any way manage to reach Philadelphia, but, for various reasons, not to send agents South to incite slaves to run away, or to assist them in so doing.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000002|Sometimes, however, this rule could not altogether be conformed to.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000003|Cases, in some instances, would appeal so loudly and forcibly to humanity, civilization, and Christianity, that it would really seem as if the very stones would cry out, unless something was done.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000004|As an illustration of this point, the story of the young girl, which is now to be related, will afford the most striking proof.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000005|At the same time it may be seen how much anxiety, care, hazard, delay and material aid, were required in order to effect the deliverance of some who were in close places, and difficult of access.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000006|It will be necessary to present a considerable amount of correspondence in this case, to bring to light the hidden mysteries of this narrative.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000007|The first letter, in explanation, is the following:
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000002_000000|WASHINGTON, d c, june twenty seventh eighteen fifty four.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000003_000000|mr
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000005_000000|This child sleeps in the same apartment with its master and mistress, which adds to the difficulty of removal.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000005_000002|All this, I think, is now provided for with entire safety.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000009_000000|All the rest I leave to the experience and sagacity of the gentleman who maps out the enterprise.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000013_000000|Yours very respectfully,
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000014_000000|J. BIGELOW.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000000|While this letter clearly brought to light the situation of things, its author, however, had scarcely begun to conceive of the numberless difficulties which stood in the way of success before the work could be accomplished.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000001|The information which mr Bigelow's letter contained of the painful situation of this young girl was submitted to different parties who could be trusted, with a view of finding a person who might possess sufficient courage to undertake to bring her away.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000002|Amongst those consulted were two or three captains who had on former occasions done good service in the cause.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000004|The impression made on mr Bigelow's mind may be seen from the following letter; it may also be seen that he was fully alive to the necessity of precautionary measures.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000017_000000|SECOND LETTER FROM LAWYER BIGELOW.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000018_000000|WASHINGTON, d c, september ninth eighteen fifty five.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000000|mr
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000002|STILL, DEAR SIR:--I strongly hope the little matter of business so long pending and about which I have written you so many times, will take a move now.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000003|I have the promise that the merchandize shall be delivered in this city to night.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000004|Like so many other promises, this also may prove a failure, though I have reason to believe that it will not.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000005|I shall, however, know before I mail this note.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000008|You have never given me his name, nor am I anxious to know it.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000011|Well, let him come.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000020_000000|I had an interesting call a week ago from two gentlemen, masters of vessels, and brothers, one of whom, I understand, you know as the "powder boy." I had a little light freight for them; but not finding enough other freight to ballast their craft, they went down the river looking for wheat, and promising to return soon. I hope to see them often.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000026_000001|The attempt was made on Sunday to forward the merchandize, but failed through no fault of any of the parties that I now know of.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000026_000002|It will be repeated soon, and you shall know the result.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000027_000000|"Whorra for Judge Kane." I feel so indignant at the man, that it is not easy to write the foregoing sentence, and yet who is helping our cause like Kane and Douglas, not forgetting Stringfellow.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000027_000001|I hope soon to know that this reaches you in safety.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000029_000000|[I wish here to caution you against the supposition that I would do any act, or say a word towards helping servants to escape. Although I hate slavery so much, I keep my hands clear of any such wicked or illegal act.]
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000030_000000|Yours, very truly,
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000031_000000|j b
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000032_000001|You will find an example at the close of my letter.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000000|Up to this time the chances seemed favorable of procuring the ready services of either of the above mentioned captains who visited Lawyer Bigelow for the removal of the merchandize to Philadelphia, providing the shipping master could have it in readiness to suit their convenience.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000003|In this hopeful, although painfully indefinite position the matter remained for more than a year; but the correspondence and anxiety increased, and with them disappointments and difficulties multiplied.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000004|The hope of Freedom, however, buoyed up the heart of the young slave girl during the long months of anxious waiting and daily expectation for the hour of deliverance to come.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000005|Equally true and faithful also did mr Bigelow prove to the last; but at times he had some painfully dark seasons to encounter, as may be seen from the subjoined letter:
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000034_000000|WASHINGTON, d c, october sixth eighteen fifty five.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000035_000000|mr
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000035_000001|STILL, DEAR SIR:--I regret exceedingly to learn by your favor of fourth instant, that all things are not ready.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000036_000001|Such outrages are always common here, and no kind of property exposed to colored protection only, can be considered safe.
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000038_000000|The property is not yet advertised, but will be, [and if we delay too long, may be sold and lost.]
train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000039_000000|It was a great misunderstanding, though not your fault, that so much delay would be necessary.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000004_000000|Section two
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000000|It was with some surprise that dr Martineau received a fresh appeal for aid from Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000001|It was late in October and Sir Richmond was already seriously ill.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000002|But he was still going about his business as though he was perfectly well.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000003|He had not mistaken his man.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000004|dr Martineau received him as though there had never been a shadow of offence between them.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000000|He came straight to the point.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000001|"Martineau," he said, "I must have those drugs I asked you for when first I came to you now.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000002|I must be bolstered up.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000003|I can't last out unless I am.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000004|I'm at the end of my energy.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000006|The Commission can't go on now for more than another three weeks.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000007|Whatever happens afterwards I must keep going until then."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000000|The doctor did understand.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000001|He made no vain objections.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000002|He did what he could to patch up his friend for his last struggles with the opposition in the Committee.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000003|"Pro forma," he said, stethoscope in hand, "I must order you to bed.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000004|You won't go.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000005|But I order you.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000006|You must know that what you are doing is risking your life.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000007|Your lungs are congested, the bronchial tubes already.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000008|That may spread at any time.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000009|If this open weather lasts you may go about and still pull through.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000010|But at any time this may pass into pneumonia.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000011|And there's not much in you just now to stand up against pneumonia...."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000008_000000|"I'll take all reasonable care."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000009_000000|"Is your wife at home!"
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000010_000000|"She is in Wales with her people.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000010_000001|But the household is well trained.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000010_000002|I can manage."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000011_000000|"Go in a closed car from door to door.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000011_000001|Wrap up like a mummy.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000011_000002|I wish the Committee room wasn't down those abominable House of Commons corridors...."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000012_000000|They parted with an affectionate handshake.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000013_000000|Section three
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000000|Death approved of Sir Richmond's determination to see the Committee through.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000001|Our universal creditor gave this particular debtor grace to the very last meeting.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000002|Then he brushed a gust of chilly rain across the face of Sir Richmond as he stood waiting for his car outside the strangers' entrance to the House.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000003|For a couple of days Sir Richmond felt almost intolerably tired, but scarcely noted the changed timbre of the wheezy notes in his throat.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000004|He rose later each day and with ebbing vigour, jotted down notes and corrections upon the proofs of the Minority Report.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000005|He found it increasingly difficult to make decisions; he would correct and alter back and then repeat the correction, perhaps half a dozen times.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000006|On the evening of the second day his lungs became painful and his breathing difficult.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000008|His skin was suddenly a detestable garment to wear.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000009|He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000010|He telephoned hastily for dr Martineau and without waiting for his arrival took a hot bath and got into bed.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000011|He was already thoroughly ill when the doctor arrived.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000000|"Forgive my sending for you," he said.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000001|"Not your line.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000002|I know....
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000003|My wife's g p--an exasperating sort of ass.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000005|No one else."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000016_000000|He was lying on a narrow little bed with a hard pillow that the doctor replaced by one from Lady Hardy's room.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000016_000001|He had twisted the bed clothes into a hopeless muddle, the sheet was on the floor.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000000|Sir Richmond's bedroom was a large apartment in which sleep seemed to have been an admitted necessity rather than a principal purpose.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000002|It bore witness to the nocturnal habits of a man who had long lived a life of irregular impulses to activity and dislocated hours and habits.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000003|There was a desk and reading lamp for night work near the fireplace, an electric kettle for making tea at night, a silver biscuit tin; all the apparatus for the lonely intent industry of the small hours.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000004|There was a bookcase of bluebooks, books of reference and suchlike material, and some files.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000005|Over the mantelpiece was an enlarged photograph of Lady Hardy and a plain office calendar.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000006|The desk was littered with the galley proofs of the Minority Report upon which Sir Richmond had been working up to the moment of his hasty retreat to bed. And lying among the proofs, as though it had been taken out and looked at quite recently was the photograph of a girl.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000007|For a moment dr Martineau's mind hung in doubt and then he knew it for the young American of Stonehenge.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000008|How that affair had ended he did not know.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000009|And now it was not his business to know.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000018_000000|These various observations printed themselves on dr Martineau's mind after his first cursory examination of his patient and while he cast about for anything that would give this large industrious apartment a little more of the restfulness and comfort of a sick room.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000018_000001|"I must get in a night nurse at once," he said.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000018_000002|"We must find a small table somewhere to put near the bed.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000019_000000|"I am afraid you are very ill," he said, returning to the bedside.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000019_000001|"This is not, as you say, my sort of work.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000019_000002|Will you let me call in another man, a man we can trust thoroughly, to consult?"
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000020_000000|"I'm in your hands, said Sir Richmond.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000020_000001|I want to pull through."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000021_000000|"He will know better where to get the right sort of nurse for the case-and everything."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000022_000000|The second doctor presently came, with the right sort of nurse hard on his heels.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000024_000002|He began to think what a decent chap dr Martineau was, how helpful and fine and forgiving his professional training had made him, how completely he had ignored the smothered incivilities of their parting at Salisbury.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000024_000003|All men ought to have some such training, Not a bad idea to put every boy and girl through a year or so of hospital service....
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000024_000004|Sir Richmond must have dozed, for his next perception was of dr Martineau standing over him and saying "I am afraid, my dear Hardy, that you are very ill indeed. Much more so than I thought you were at first."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000025_000000|Sir Richmond's raised eyebrows conveyed that he accepted this fact.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000026_000000|"I think Lady Hardy ought to be sent for."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000027_000000|Sir Richmond shook his head with unexpected vigour.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000028_000000|"Don't want her about," he said, and after a pause, "Don't want anybody about."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000029_000000|"But if anything happens ?"
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000030_000000|"Send then."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000031_000000|An expression of obstinate calm overspread Sir Richmond's face.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000031_000001|He seemed to regard the matter as settled.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000032_000001|He went to the window and turned to look again at the impassive figure on the bed.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000032_000002|Did Sir Richmond fully understand?
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000032_000003|He made a step towards his patient and hesitated.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000033_000000|Sir Richmond opened his eyes and regarded him with a slight frown.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000034_000000|"A case of pneumonia," said the doctor, "after great exertion and fatigue, may take very rapid and unexpected turns."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000035_000000|Sir Richmond, cheek on pillow, seemed to assent.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000036_000001|If you don't want to take risks about that-...
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000036_000002|One never knows in these cases.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000036_000003|Probably there is a night train."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000000|Sir Richmond manifested no surprise at the warning.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000001|But he stuck to his point.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000002|His voice was faint but firm.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000003|"Couldn't make up anything to say to her.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000004|Anything she'd like."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000038_000000|dr Martineau rested on that for a little while.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000038_000001|Then he said: "If there is anyone else?"
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000039_000000|"Not possible," said Sir Richmond, with his eyes on the ceiling.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000000|Sir Richmond turned his head to dr Martineau.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000001|His face puckered like a peevish child's.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000002|"They'd want things said to them...Things to remember...I CAN'T.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000003|I'm tired out."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000042_000000|"Don't trouble," whispered dr Martineau, suddenly remorseful.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000043_000000|But Sir Richmond was also remorseful.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000043_000001|"Give them my love," he said. "Best love...Old Martin.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000043_000002|Love."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000000|dr Martineau was turning away when Sir Richmond spoke again in a whisper.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000002|Then he made a great effort.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000003|"I can't see them, Martineau, until I've something to say.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000004|It's like that.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000005|Perhaps I shall think of some kind things to say-after a sleep.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000007|Hurt someone.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000009|People exaggerate...People exaggerate-importance these occasions."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000045_000000|"Yes, yes," whispered dr Martineau.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000045_000001|"I quite understand."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000046_000000|Section four
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000001|Then he stirred and muttered.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000002|"Second rate...
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000003|Poor at the best...
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000004|Love...
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000005|Work.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000048_000000|"It had been splendid work," said dr Martineau, and was not sure that Sir Richmond heard.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000049_000001|Always lose my damned grip.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000050_000001|Put their backs up....Silly....
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000051_000000|"Never....
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000051_000001|Never done anything-WELL....
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000052_000000|"It's done.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000052_000001|Done.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000052_000002|Well or ill....
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000053_000000|"Done."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000054_000000|His voice sank to the faintest whisper.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000054_000001|"Done for ever and ever... and ever... and ever."
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000000|dr Martineau stood up softly.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000001|Something beyond reason told him that this was certainly a dying man.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000002|He was reluctant to go and he had an absurd desire that someone, someone for whom Sir Richmond cared, should come and say good bye to him, and for Sir Richmond to say good bye to someone.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000003|He hated this lonely launching from the shores of life of one who had sought intimacy so persistently and vainly.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000004|It was extraordinary-he saw it now for the first time-he loved this man.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000005|If it had been in his power, he would at that moment have anointed him with kindness.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000000|The doctor found himself standing in front of the untidy writing desk, littered like a recent battlefield.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000001|The photograph of the American girl drew his eyes.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000002|What had happened?
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000004|He turned about as if to enquire of the dying man and found Sir Richmond's eyes open and regarding him.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000005|In them he saw an expression he had seen there once or twice before, a faint but excessively irritating gleam of amusement.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000058_000000|"Oh!--WELL!" said dr Martineau and turned away.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000058_000001|He went to the window and stared out as his habit was.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000059_000000|Sir Richmond continued to smile dimly at the doctor's back until his eyes closed again.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000060_000000|It was their last exchange.
train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000060_000001|Sir Richmond died that night in the small hours, so quietly that for some time the night nurse did not observe what had happened.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000010_000003|We call him charming as Pater called Athens charming.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000010_000004|He is one of those authors whose books we love because they reveal a personality sensitive, affectionate, pitiful.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000000|That is out of the question.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000002|My friend, return to literary activity!
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000005|I can neither walk, nor eat, nor sleep.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000006|It is wearisome even to repeat it all!
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000007|My friend-great writer of our Russian land, listen to my request!...
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000014_000002|He was a man whom it was possible to disgust.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000014_000006|One can guess exactly the frame of mind he was in when, in the course of an argument with Dostoevsky, he said: "You see, I consider myself a German."
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000015_000002|He had that sense of truth which always upsets the orthodox.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000016_000000|almost caresses, from people of the opposite camp, from enemies. This confused me, wounded me; but my conscience did not reproach me.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000000|This is bound to be the fate of every artist who takes his political party or his church, or any other propagandist group to which he belongs, as his subject.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000006|In an access of self reproach he once declared that his character was comprised in one word-'poltroon!'" He showed neither timidity nor cowardice, however, in his devotion to truth.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000011|He "simply did not know how to work otherwise," as he said.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000013|He had always to draw from the life.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000014|"I ought to confess," he once wrote, "that I never attempted to create a type without having, not an idea, but a living person, in whom the various elements were harmonized together, to work from.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000018_000003|It would be foolish, I know, to pretend to sum up Dostoevsky as a contortionist; but he has that element in him.
train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000018_000014|He was one of the first great novelists to endow his women with independence of soul. With the majority of novelists, women are sexual or sentimental accidents.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000003_000001|He is so obviously not a god.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000003_000003|He is a man and a medical doctor.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000004_000004|At the same time he is a theme that they were bound to treat.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000005_000003|There is bound to be a break in the meanest life.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000001|He does not run sympathy as a "stunt" like so many popular novelists.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000003|He has the most unbiassed attitude, I think, of any author in the world.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000006|He portrays his characters instead of labelling them; but the portrait itself is the judgment.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000008|His attitude to a large part of life might be described as one of good-natured disgust.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000008_000000|She would sleep every day till two or three o'clock; she had her coffee and lunch in bed.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000010_000000|She waked up every morning with the one thought of "pleasing." It was the aim and object of her life.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000010_000002|She wanted every day to enchant, to captivate, to drive men crazy.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000011_000000|A few strokes of cruelty are added to the portrait:
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000015_000001|A crow ...
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000015_000003|Who's there?" she called suddenly, hearing my steps.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000016_000000|"It's i"
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000019_000001|And in the winter they will probably go abroad," she added after a pause.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000019_000002|"'God sent ... the crow ... a piece ... of cheese....' Have you written it?"
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000023_000002|But, though he often makes his people beautiful in their sorrow, he more often than not sets their sad figures against a common and ugly background.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000028_000003|'You're such a pretty dear!'"
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000029_000005|He is a writer who desires above all things to see what men and women are really like-to extenuate nothing and to set down naught in malice.
train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000029_000006|As a result, he is a pessimist, but a pessimist who is black without being bitter.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000004_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000006_000000|"Here, I'm being trailed."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000011_000000|mr Blair merely shook his head.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000013_000000|"He's-he's rather busy," began mr Blair.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000014_000002|"Someone's following me around again," he announced, "and I want to know whether it's you or them."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000015_000000|"Me or who?" queried Sir Lyster.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000016_000000|"Whether it's some of your boys, or the other lot."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000018_000000|"Well, you might suggest that it doesn't please me mightily.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000018_000001|I don't like being trailed in this fashion, so if it's any of your boys just you whistle 'em off."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000019_000000|"I doubt if you would be aware of the fact if we were having you shadowed, mr Dene," said Sir Lyster quietly, "and in any case it would be for your own safety."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000022_000001|"Your man had better be ready on Friday.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000022_000002|One of my boys'll pick him up, Jim Grant's his name."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000023_000000|"Sir Goliath Maggie has appointed Commander Ryles," said Sir Lyster.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000024_000003|Don't forget to call off your boys;" and with that john Dene was gone.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000025_000000|Ten minutes later Sir Bridgman North found the First Lord sitting at his table, apparently deep in thought.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000027_000000|Sir Lyster smiled feebly.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000029_000002|They'll probably appreciate him there.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000030_000001|It----" Sir Lyster paused; then, seeing that he was expected to finish his sentence, he added, "It will really be something of a relief.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000031_000001|"What happened?"
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000032_000000|"Apparently he objected to being called a dancing lizard, and told to quit his funny work." Sir Lyster smiled as if finding consolation in the fact that another had suffered at the hands of john Dene.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000033_000000|"It's nothing to what he did to poor old Rayner," laughed Sir Bridgman. "A dear old chap, you know, but rather of the old blue water school."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000034_000002|With Sir Lyster he was always as technical in his language as a midshipman back from his first cruise.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000036_000001|"Frankly, I don't like john Dene."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000037_000000|"Don't like him!
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000037_000001|Why?"
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000041_000000|During his absence, Dorothy was to be at the office each day until lunch time to attend to any matters that might crop up.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000042_000000|The quality about john Dene that had most impressed Dorothy was his power of concentration.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000042_000002|A question addressed to him that was unrelated to what was in hand he would ignore, appearing not to have heard it; on the other hand a remark germane to the trend of his thoughts would produce an instant reply.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000043_000000|His quickness of decision and amazing vitality Dorothy found bewildering, accustomed as she was to the more methodical procedure of a Government department.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000043_000002|"I sleep on a bed, not on an idea," was another of his remarks that she remembered, and once when commenting upon the cautiousness of Sir Lyster Grayne he had said, "The man who takes risks makes dollars."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000046_000001|How blind British statesmen were to the fact that the eyes of many Canadians were turned anxiously towards the great republic upon their borders; how in the rapid growth of the u s a they saw a convincing argument in favour of a tightening of the bonds that bound the Dominion to the Old Country.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000047_000000|When on the subject he would stride restlessly up and down the room, snapping out short, sharp sentences of protest and criticism.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000047_000002|To him a Canada lost to the British Empire meant a British Empire lost to itself.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000047_000003|His great idea was to see the Old Country control the world by virtue of its power, its brain and its justice.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000049_000000|There were times when she felt, as she expressed it to her mother, as if she had been dining off beef essence and oxygen.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000049_000002|He was a small eater, seeming to regard meals as a waste of time, and he seldom drank anything but water.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000050_000000|At the end of the day Dorothy would feel more tired than she had ever felt before; but she had caught something of john Dene's enthusiasm, which seemed to carry her along and defy the fatigues of the body.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000051_000002|He had just been expressing his unmeasured contempt for mr Blair.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000052_000000|"You mustn't judge the whole British Navy by mr Blair," she said, looking up from her note book with a smile.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000054_000000|"So that if I prove a fool," continued Dorothy quietly, "it convicts you of being a fool also."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000055_000000|"But that's another transaction," he objected.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000057_000000|For some time john Dene had continued to dictate.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000057_000001|Presently he stopped in the middle of a letter.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000059_000000|His manner frequently puzzled Dorothy.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000059_000001|At times he seemed unaware of her existence; at others she would, on looking up from her work, find him regarding her intently.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000060_000000|For week after week they worked incessantly.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000060_000002|Indents for stores and equipment had to be prepared for the Admiralty, reports from Blake read and replied to, requisitions for materials required had to be confirmed, samples obtained, examined, and finally passed, and instructions sent to Blake.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000063_000000|"You see, what john Dene wants is managing," continued Dorothy sagely, "and no one understands how to do it except Sir Bridgman and me.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000064_000000|"Stand without what, dear," asked mrs West.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000065_000000|"Without hitching," laughed Dorothy.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000065_000001|"That's one of his phrases.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000067_000000|"Now, mother, no poaching," cried Dorothy.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000067_000001|"john Dene is mine for keeps, and if I let you come out with us and play gooseberry, you mustn't try and cut me out, because," looking critically at her mother, "you could if you liked.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000068_000001|The picnic had proved a great success, and Dorothy had been surprised at the change in john Dene's manner.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000068_000005|She was touched by the way in which he always looked after her mother, his gentleness and solicitude.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000069_000001|He'll dance soon; but, my dear, his boots," and the comical grimace that had accompanied the remark had caused Dorothy to laugh in spite of herself.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000070_000000|"If ever I marry a man," continued Marjorie, "it will be because of his boots.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000071_000000|"Marjorie, you're a little idiot," cried Dorothy.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000073_000000|"Did you?"
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000074_000000|"Yes, and I stopped him."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000075_000000|"You didn't, Marjorie." There was incredulity in Dorothy's voice.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000077_000001|The downrightness of Marjorie Rogers was both notorious and embarrassing.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000078_000000|"Well," nonchalantly, "I just said that at the Admiralty men always kept their secretaries well supplied with flowers and chocolates."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000079_000001|"I should like to slap you."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000081_000002|Instead of appearing elated at the near approach of the fruition of his schemes, he sat at his table for fully half an hour looking straight in front of him.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000081_000003|When at last he spoke, it was to enquire of Dorothy if she liked men in uniform.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000082_000000|That afternoon he worked with unflagging industry.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000086_000000|As Dorothy left the office a few minutes after six he called her back.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000087_000000|"If I've forgotten anything you'd best remind me."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000089_000000|"Is he, dear?" said mrs West non committally.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000091_000000|"How do you mean, dear?" queried mrs West.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000092_000000|"Well, he'll sit sometimes for an hour looking at nothing.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000092_000001|It's not complimentary when I'm there," she added.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000094_000004|No; john Dene is a very remarkable man; but he'd be very trying as a husband."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000095_000000|Dorothy spoke lightly; but during the last few days she had been asking herself what she would do when john Dene was gone.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000095_000003|He was just her employer, and in a few months he would go back to Canada, and she would never see him again.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000097_000001|She was a little puzzled.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000099_000000|She made no remark, however, merely seating herself in her customary place and waited for letters.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000101_000001|Several times she glanced at him, and noted that he appeared to be reading from the manuscript rather than dictating; but she decided that he had probably written out rough drafts in order to assure accuracy.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000101_000002|His voice was very strange.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000103_000000|"Sleep well," he repeated, looking up at her, "I always sleep well."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000104_000000|Dorothy was startled.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000104_000001|There was something in the glance and the brusque tone that puzzled her.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000104_000002|Both were so unlike john Dene.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000105_000000|Apparently he sensed what was passing through her mind, for he turned to her again and said:
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000106_000000|"I'm not feeling very well this morning, Miss West, I----"
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000108_000000|"No, I'm afraid that's what it was," he acknowledged Dorothy's eyes opened just a little in surprise.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000108_000003|Had he been drugged?
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000108_000004|The thought caused her to pause in her work and glance up at him.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000109_000001|To her surprise he picked up his hat and announced that he would not be back until five o'clock to sign the letters.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000109_000003|Dorothy was now convinced that something was wrong.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000110_000000|Once or twice she caught him looking at her furtively; but immediately she raised her eyes, he hastily shifted his, as if caught in some doubtful act.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000111_000000|At twelve o'clock lunch arrived, and Dorothy had to confess to herself that it was a lonely and unsatisfactory meal.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000113_000000|"When are you going away, mr Dene?" asked Dorothy.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000114_000000|"I don't know," he responded gruffly.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000115_000000|"I merely asked because two people on the telephone enquired when you were going away."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000117_000000|"Oh, I just said what you told me.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000119_000000|Dorothy had expected him to make some remark about these enquiries. She knew that john Dene had no friends in London, and the questions as to when he was going away had struck her as strange.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000120_000001|A few letters were dictated, a sheaf of documents handed to her to copy, and john Dene disappeared.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000120_000002|Again lunch was brought for her, which she ate alone, and at five o'clock he came in and signed the letters.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000121_000002|When he had signed the last letter she bluntly enquired if he felt better.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000122_000000|"Better?" he interrogated.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000122_000001|"I haven't been ill."
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000124_000002|Still she had to confess to herself that the old pleasure in her work had departed.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000126_000001|If he trusted anyone, he did it implicitly; if he distrusted anyone, he did it uncompromisingly.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000126_000002|Where he liked, he liked to excess; where he disliked, he disliked to the elimination of all good qualities.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000128_000000|It was all very strange and very puzzling, she told herself.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000128_000003|His whole bearing seemed to have changed, as if he had decided to regard her merely as a piece of mechanism, just as he did the typewriter, or his office chair.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000129_000000|It was at this period of her reasoning that Dorothy discovered her dignity.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000129_000001|From that time her attitude was that of the injured woman, yet perfect secretary.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000129_000002|Her sense of humour had deserted her, and she arrived at the office and left it very much upon her dignity.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000131_000003|That evening, Dorothy was always paid on the Friday evening, she held her head very high when she left the office.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000132_000001|She seemed suddenly to have become imbued with all the qualities of the perfect secretary.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000132_000003|She worked harder than ever and, when she had finished the tasks john Dene set her, she manufactured others so that her time should be fully occupied.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000134_000002|She felt at the point of tears when he bade her good night and left the office, just as Big Ben was booming out the hour.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000002|For a moment she thrilled.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000004|No, he was looking in the opposite direction, apparently deep in thought.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000005|She saw a taxi draw up beside him.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000006|The driver, a little man with a grey moustache, Dorothy remembered to have seen him several times "crawling" about on the look out for fares.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000008|Dorothy stood and watched.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000136_000000|For a moment john Dene seemed to hesitate, then with a word to the driver he opened the door and got in.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000136_000002|Impulsively she started forward, just as the taxi started and a moment later whizzed swiftly past her.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000136_000003|john Dene was evidently in a hurry.
train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000137_000000|Slowly Dorothy turned and pursued her way up Regent Street.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000001_000000|Blake was a man upon whom silence had descended as a blight; heavy of build, slow of thought, ponderous of movement, he absorbed all and apparently gave out nothing.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000001_000001|His most acute emotion he expressed by fingering the right-hand side of his ragged beard, whilst his eyes seemed to smoulder as his thoughts slowly took shape.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000002_000003|Nothing else mattered, because nothing else was.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000002_000006|It was to be her setting, just as a stage is the setting for a play.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000000|As he puffed clouds of smoke for the breeze to pick up and scurry off with to the west, he thought lovingly of the work of the last two years, of the last month in particular.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000002|It was "the Boss" for whom they worked.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000003|They were his men, and this was their boat.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000004|Every time john Dene wrote to Blake, there was always a message for "the boys." "I know the boys will show these Britishers what Canada can do," he would write, or, "see that the boys get all they want and plenty to smoke." Remembering was john Dene's long suit; and his men would do anything for "the Boss."
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000000|Blake had not spared himself.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000001|When not engaged in the work of overseeing, he had thrown off his coat and worked with the most vigorous.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000002|He seemed never to sleep or rest.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000005|He had them merely for reference.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000006_000000|And now all was ready.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000003|amidships, tapering to a point fore and aft.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000005|guns; but these were in the nature of an auxiliary armament.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000007|These fired small arrow headed missiles, rather like miniature torpedoes fitted with lance heads for cutting through nets.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000008|They had sufficient power to penetrate the plates of a submarine, and were furnished with an automatic detonator, which caused the bursting charge to explode three seconds after impact.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000008_000000|These projectiles were rendered additionally deadly by the fact that their heads became automatically magnetic as they sped through the water.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000008_000001|Thus the target against which they were launched achieved its own destination.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000008_000002|They were fitted with small gyroscopes to keep them straight until the magnetic heads began to exert a dominating influence.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000009_000000|Amidships was the conning tower, with its four searchlights, so arranged as to be capable of being used singly or together.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000009_000001|Thus it was possible to illuminate the waters for half a mile in every direction.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000010_000000|Abaft the conning tower were the engines, a switchboard, and finally the berths of the engine room staff.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000010_000003|She possessed an endurance of fifteen hundred miles, and as for the most part she held a watching brief, this would mean that she could remain at sea for a month or more.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000011_000000|Her speed submerged was fourteen knots, which gave her a superiority over the fastest German craft, and she could remain submerged for two days.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000011_000001|She could then recharge her compressed air chambers without coming to the surface by means of a tube, through which fresh air could be sucked from the surface, and the foul discharged.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000011_000002|These were weighted and floated in various parts in such a manner that they could be thrown out in a diagonal direction.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000013_000002|Under water there were only two dangers capable of threatening her-mines and depth charges.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000016_000001|If he were forced to speech, he built up his phrases upon the foundation of a single word, "ruddy"; but apparently with entire unconsciousness that it had its uses as an oath.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000016_000003|He no more meant reproach to the Hun than to john Dene.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000016_000004|He tacitly accepted them both, the one as a power for evil, the other as a power for good.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000019_000000|Blake gazed upon the unprepossessing features of his subordinate, and tugging a cigar from his pocket, handed it to him.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000001|He then proceeded to light the cigar.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000002|The two men turned and made their way to the cabin allotted to them as a sort of office of works.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000005|He would represent the Admiralty.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000007|This was largely due to Sir Bridgman North's wise counsels.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000021_000000|"When," he remarked, "I have to choose between giving john Dene his head and being gingered up, I prefer the first.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000021_000001|It's infinitely less painful."
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000022_000000|Sir Lyster had been inclined to expostulate with his colleague upon the manner in which he gave way to john Dene's demands.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000023_000001|I think the effect would be salutary."
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000000|"For us, undoubtedly," Sir Bridgman had said drily.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000001|"Personally I object to being gingered up.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000002|Look at poor Blair.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000003|There you see the results of the process.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000004|He ceased to be an Imperialist within twenty four hours of john Dene's coming upon the scene.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000005|Now he goes about with a hunted look in his eyes, and a prayer in his heart that he may get through the day without being gingered up by the unspeakable john Dene."
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000026_000001|"Blair and john Dene represent two epochs: Blair is the British Empire that was, john Dene is the British Empire that is to be.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000026_000002|It's like one of Nelson's old three deckers against a super dreadnought, and Blair ain't the dreadnought."
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000027_000000|"He is certainly a remarkable man," Sir Lyster had admitted conventionally, referring to john Dene.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000028_000002|Ginger or no ginger, john Dene's a man worth meeting, Grayne, on my soul he is."
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000029_000001|Presently Blake took from his pocket a large silver watch, gazed at it with deliberation, then raising his eyes nodded to his companion.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000030_000000|Without a word the man with the boat hook pushed off, the motor was started and the boat throbbed her way to the entrance to the little harbour.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000030_000003|From time to time Quinton gazed ahead through a pair of binoculars.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000000|A few minutes later a cloud of white spray indicated the approach of a small craft travelling at a high rate of speed.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000001|Quinton continued to watch the approaching boat until the humped shoulders of a submarine chaser were distinguishable through the spume.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000002|As the boats neared each other he gave a quick command to the engineer, and the speed of the motor boat decreased.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000003|At the same moment the curtain of spray that screened the on coming chaser died down, her fine and sinister lines becoming discernible.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000034_000000|Grant and Quinton continued to talk in undertones, Grant asking questions, Quinton answering with great economy of words and prodigious salivation.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000034_000001|The chaser, steering a south westerly course, was soon out of sight.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000036_000000|"Ready for the trial trip?" he enquired of Quinton.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000037_000000|"Sure," was the reply as he spat over the side.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000038_000000|"Jim there?"
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000039_000001|As they reached her the two men nimbly climbed up the side and, Quinton leading, dived below to the office of works.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000039_000002|As they entered Blake was sitting exactly as Quinton had left him an hour and a half previously.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000039_000003|At the sight of Grant his eyes seemed to flash; but he made no movement except to hold out his hand, which Grant gripped.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000040_000000|"Through with everything?" he enquired, as he seated himself, and Quinton threw himself on a locker.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000041_000000|"Sure," replied Blake.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000042_000000|"I----" began Grant, then breaking off cast a swift look over his shoulder.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000043_000000|Blake nodded his head comprehendingly, whilst Quinton spat in the direction of the door as if to defy eavesdroppers.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000044_000000|From his pocket Grant drew a map, which he proceeded to unfold upon the table.
train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000044_000001|Quinton walked across and the three bent over, studying it with absorbed interest.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000002|He anticipates rewards and punishments, and learns to solicit the former and deprecate the latter.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000003|He bounds exultingly forth to accompany his master in his walks, rides, and sports of the field.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000004|He acts as the faithful guardian of his property.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000005|He is his fire side companion, evidently discerns days of household mirth or grief, and deports himself accordingly.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000006|Hence, his energies and his sensibilities are all expanded, and what he feels he seeks to tell in various accents, and in different ways.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000007|For instance, our little dog comes and pulls his mistress's gown and makes significant whines, if any one is in or about the premises whom he thinks has no right to be there.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000011|They become instantly sensible that no punishment is intended to be inflicted, and I have seen them lick the hand of the operator, as if grateful for what he was doing.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000014|Both the wild and domestic dog, however, appear to be possessed of and to exercise forethought.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000015|They will bury or hide food, which they are unable to consume at once, and return for it.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000016|But the domestic dog, perhaps, gives stronger proofs of forethought; and I will give an instance of it.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000019|I had a dog, who, having once scalded his tongue, always afterwards, when I gave him his milk and water at breakfast, put his paw very cautiously into the saucer, to see if the liquid was too hot, before he would touch it with his tongue.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000001_000000|Dogs have frequently been known to hunt in couples; that is, to assist each other in securing their prey: thus associating together and admitting of no partnership.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000000|At Palermo, in Sicily, there is an extraordinary quantity of dogs wandering about without owners.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000001|Amongst the number, two more particularly distinguished themselves for their animosity to cats.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000002|One day they were in pursuit of a cat, which, seeing no other place of refuge near, made her escape into a long earthen water pipe which was lying on the ground.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000004|After they had stood a short time they divided, taking post at each end of the pipe, and began to back alternately, thus giving the cat reason to suppose that they were both at one end, in order to induce her to come out. This manoeuvre had a successful result, and the cheated cat left her hiding place.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000003_000000|The memory of dogs is quite extraordinary, and only equalled by that of the elephant.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000003_000001|mr Swainson, in his work on the instincts of animals, gives the following proof of this.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000000|In my younger days I had a favourite dog, which always accompanied me to church.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000001|My mother, seeing that he attracted too much of my attention, ordered the servant to shut him every Sunday morning.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000002|This was done once, but never afterwards; for he concealed himself early every Sunday morning, and I was sure to find him either under my seat at church, or else at the church door.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000003|That dogs clearly distinguish the return of Sunday cannot be doubted.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000006_000001|A still more extraordinary circumstance is upon record, of the late Colonel Hardy, who, having been sent for express to Bath, was accompanied by a favourite spaniel bitch in his chaise, which he never quitted till his arrival there.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000007_000001|One day a game cock attacked a small bantam, and they fought furiously, the bantam having, of course, the worst of it.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000007_000002|Some persons were standing about looking at the fight, when my informant's house dog suddenly darted out, snatched up the bantam in his mouth, and carried it into the house.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000007_000004|How few human beings would have acted as this dog had done!
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000000|Here is another curious anecdote from mr Davy's work.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000001|He says that the cook in the house of a friend of his, a lady on whose accuracy he could rely, and from whom he had the anecdote, missed a marrow bone. Suspicion fell on a well behaved dog-a great favourite, and up to that time distinguished for his honesty.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000003|In this mood he continued, till, to the amusement of the cook, he brought back the bone and laid it at her feet.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000004|Then, with the restoration of her stolen property, he resumed his cheerful manner.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000009_000001|By acting in this manner, he never loses sight of his master.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000000|A dog has been known to convey food to another of his species who was tied up and pining for want of it.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000003|Repeated provocation will, however, excite and revenge.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000004|For instance, a Newfoundland dog was quietly eating his mess of broth and broken scraps.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000005|While so employed, a turkey endeavoured to share the meal with him.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000006|The dog growled, and displayed his teeth.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000007|The intruder retired for a moment, but quickly returned to the charge, and was again "warned off," with a like result.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000008|After three or four attempts of the same kind, the dog became provoked, gave a sudden ferocious growl, bit off the delinquent's head, and then quietly finished his meal, without bestowing any further attention on his victim.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000001|A little boy, the peasant's son, imagined that he perceived in the dog's voice an indistinct resemblance to certain words, and was, therefore, determined to teach him to speak distinctly.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000002|For this purpose he spared neither time nor pains with his pupil, who was about three years old when his learned education commenced; and at length he made such progress in language, as to be able to articulate no less than thirty words.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000003|It appears, however, that he was somewhat of a truant, and did not very willingly exert his talents, being rather pressed into the service of literature, and it was necessary that the words should be first pronounced to him each time before he spoke.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000004|The French Academicians who mention this anecdote, add, that unless they had received the testimony of so great a man as Leibnitz, they should scarcely have dared to relate the circumstance.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000013_000000|An invalid gentleman, who resided for some years on Ham Common, in Surrey, had a dog which distinctly pronounced john, William, and two or three other words.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000013_000001|A medical friend of mine, who attended this gentleman, has frequently heard the animal utter these words; and a female relative of his, who was often on a visit at his house, assures me of the fact.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000013_000002|Indeed it need not be doubted.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000000|These are the only two instances I have met with of talking dogs, but my brother had a beautiful little spaniel, named Doll, who was an indefatigable hunter after woodcocks and snipes.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000001|Doll would come home in the evening after a hard day's sport, wet, tired and dirty, and then deposit herself on the rug before the fire.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000004|Poor Doll!
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000006|If she was affronted she would come to me, at a distance of four miles, remain some time, and then return to her master.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000015_000000|A small cur, blind of one eye, lame, ugly, old, and somewhat selfish, yet possessed of great shrewdness, was usually fed with three large dogs.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000015_000001|Watching his opportunity, he generally contrived to seize the best bit of offal or bone, with which he retreated into a recess, the opening to which was so small that he knew the other dogs could not follow him into it, and where he enjoyed his repast without the fear of molestation.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000016_000000|Early habits predominate strongly in dogs, and indeed in other animals.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000016_000002|The fourth,--a sort of fox hound,--which, as a puppy, had belonged to a poor man, always seemed to recognise beggars and ill dressed passengers as old familiar friends, growling at well attired strangers, barking vehemently at gigs, and becoming almost frantic with rage at a four wheeled carriage.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000018_000000|We quote the following from the "Percy Anecdotes:"--
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000002|When the two had proceeded some distance from the spot, m Dumont called to his dog that he had lost something, and ordered him to seek it.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000005|Caniche had just reached the spot in search of the lost piece when the stranger picked it up.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000006|He followed the chaise, went into the inn, and stuck close to the traveller.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000008|The traveller, supposing him to be some dog that had been lost or left behind by his master, regarded his different movements as marks of fondness; and as the animal was handsome, he determined to keep him.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000009|He gave him a good supper, and on retiring to bed took him with him to his chamber.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000011|The animal began to bark at the door, which the traveller opened, under the idea that the dog wanted to go out.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000012|Caniche snatched up the breeches, and away he flew.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000014|Anxiety for the fate of a purse full of gold Napoleons, of forty francs each, which was in one of the pockets, gave redoubled velocity to his steps.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000015|Caniche ran full speed to his master's house, where the stranger arrived a moment afterwards, breathless and enraged.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000016|He accused the dog of robbing him.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000018|This is the cause of the robbery which he has committed upon you.' The stranger's rage now yielded to astonishment; he delivered the six livre piece to the owner, and could not forbear caressing the dog which had given him so much uneasiness, and such an unpleasant chase."
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000020_000000|A gentleman in Cornwall possessed a dog, which seemed to set a value on white and shining pebble stones, of which he had made a large collection in a hole under an old tree.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000020_000002|This, I believe, is a fact by no means uncommon.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000021_000000|My retriever will carry an egg in his mouth to a great distance, and during a considerable length of time, without ever breaking or even cracking the shell.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000023_000000|One of the carriers of a New York paper called the "Advocate," having become indisposed, his son took his place; but not knowing the subscribers he was to supply, he took for his guide a dog which had usually attended his father.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000023_000001|The animal trotted on a head of the boy, and stopped at every door where the paper was in use to be left, without making a single omission or mistake.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000024_000000|The following is from a newspaper of this year:--
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000000|"A most extraordinary circumstance has just occurred at the Hawick toll bar, which is kept by two old women.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000002|Their fears prevailed to such an extent, that, when a carrier whom they knew was passing by, they urgently requested him to remain with them all night, which, however, his duties would not permit him to do; but, in consideration of the alarm of the women, he consented to leave with them a large mastiff dog.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000003|In the night the women were disturbed by the uneasiness of the dog, and heard a noise apparently like an attempt to force an entrance into the premises, upon which they escaped by the back door, and ran to a neighbouring house, which happened to be a blacksmith's shop.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000004|They knocked at the door, and were answered from within by the smith's wife.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000005|She said her husband was absent, but that she was willing to accompany the terrified women to their home.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000007|On entering they saw the body of a man hanging half in and half out of their little window, whom the dog had seized by the throat, and was still worrying.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000008|On examination, the man proved to be their neighbour the blacksmith, dreadfully torn about the throat, and quite dead."
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000026_000002|The dog impatiently waited for his arrival, and he at last returned, weary and hungry.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000026_000003|After showing his pleasure at the arrival of his master, greeting him with his usual attention, the animal remained tolerably quiet until he conceived a reasonable time had elapsed for the preparation of the Doctor's dinner.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000026_000004|As it did not, however, make its appearance, the dog went into the kitchen, seized with his mouth a half broiled beefsteak, with which he hastened back to his master, placing it on the table cloth before him.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000003|When the fire was got under, and I had leisure to look about me, I again observed the dog, which, with the firemen, appeared to be resting from the fatigues of duty, and was led to make some inquiries respecting him.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000004|'Is this your dog, my friend?' said I to a fireman.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000006|We call him the firemen's dog.' 'The firemen's dog!' I replied.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000007|'Why so?
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000008|Has he no master?' 'No, sir,' rejoined the fireman; 'he calls none of us master, though we are all of us willing enough to give him a night's lodging and a pennyworth of meat.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000009|But he won't stay long with any of us.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000010|His delight is to be at all the fires in London; and, far or near, we generally find him on the road as we are going along, and sometimes, if it is out of town, we give him a lift.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000011|I don't think there has been a fire for these two or three years past which he has not been at.'
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000028_000001|None of them, however, were able to give any account of the early habits of the dog, or to offer any explanation of the circumstances which led to this singular propensity.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000029_000001|Still, he called no man master, disdained to receive bed or board from the same hand more than a night or two at a time, nor could the firemen trace out his resting place."
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000001|The magistrate said the dog must have an extraordinary predilection for fires.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000002|He then asked what length of time he had been known to possess that propensity.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000003|The fireman replied that he knew Tyke for the last nine years; and although he was getting old, yet the moment the engines were about, Tyke was to be seen as active as ever, running off in the direction of the fire.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000004|The magistrate inquired whether the dog lived with any particular fireman.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000005|The fireman replied that Tyke liked one fireman as well as another; he had no particular favourites, but passed his time amongst them, sometimes going to the house of one, and then to another, and off to a third when he was tired.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000006|Day or night, it was all the same to him; if a fire broke out, there he was in the midst of the bustle, running from one engine to another, anxiously looking after the firemen; and, although pressed upon by crowds, yet, from his dexterity, he always escaped accidents, only now and then getting a ducking from the engines, which he rather liked than otherwise.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000007|The magistrate said that Tyke was a most extraordinary animal; and having expressed a wish to see him, he was shortly after exhibited at the office, and some other peculiarities respecting him were related.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000010|It was found necessary to use stratagem for the purpose.
train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000011|A fireman commenced running.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000002_000000|ON THE FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF DOGS.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000004_000000|A few words may not be out of place here on the feeding and management of dogs.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000000|The natural food of the dog is flesh, and it is found that those in a wild state prefer it to every other kind of nutriment, but as raw meat engenders ferocity, it should not be given too freely, especially to house dogs and such as are not actively exercised.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000001|The dog can subsist on many kinds of food, and it is a curious fact, that when fed entirely on flesh he will sometimes get lean; because, as has been well observed, it is not on what animals eat that they thrive, but on what they digest.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000002|The diet of sporting dogs in full work should, it is said by some, consist of at least two thirds of flesh, with a judicious mixture of farinaceous vegetables; but there is great diversity of opinion on this subject, and in France they are fed almost exclusively on soaked bread.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000004|A piece of rock brimstone kept in the pan will be found useful.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000006_000000|Although the dog is naturally a voracious animal, he can endure hunger for a very great length of time, and be brought by habit to subsist on a very scanty meal.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000006_000001|In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences it is stated, that a bitch which was forgotten in a country house, where she had access to no other nourishment, lived forty days on the wool of an old mattress which she had torn to pieces and digested.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000000|An extraordinary instance of a similar kind occurred with a terrier bitch, named Gipsy.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000001|One day, when following her master through a grass park near Gilmerton, it happened that she started a hare.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000002|During the pursuit her master suddenly lost sight of her, and in a few days she was considered either killed or lost.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000003|Six weeks afterwards a person happening to look down an old coal pit, was surprised to hear a dog howling.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000004|He lost no time in returning to the village, and having procured a hand basket, let it down by a rope into the shaft; the dog immediately leapt into it, and on being brought to the surface, proved to be Gipsy, worn to perfect skin and bone.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000000|Stag hounds, fox hounds, harriers, and beagles, are generally fed on oatmeal,--some add well boiled flesh to it once in two days,--and the older the meal is the better.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000001|Store sufficient for twelve or eighteen months' consumption ought, therefore, always to be kept by those who have a pack; and before used should be well dried, and broken into grits, but not too fine.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000002|It is best kept in bins in a granary, well trodden down.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000004|Others are of opinion that oatmeal and barleymeal in equal proportions form a preferable food.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000005|In either case the meal should be made into porridge, with the addition of a little milk, and occasionally the kitchen offal, such as remnants of butchers' meat, broth, and soups, the raspings and refuse of bakers' shops, or hard, coarse, sea biscuit (sold as dog biscuit), well soaked and boiled with bullocks' liver or horseflesh.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000009_000000|Well boiled greens-or mangel wurzel boiled to a jelly-are an excellent addition to the food of all dogs, and may be given twice a week; but they ought to be discontinued during the shooting season with pointers, setters, cockers, and greyhounds; and also during the hunting season with foxhounds, harriers, and beagles, as they are apt to render the bowels too open for hard work.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000010_000000|Flesh for dogs should be first thoroughly boiled and then taken out before the oatmeal is added to the broth, and left to cool.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000010_000001|Indeed, some feeders think that the food of a dog should always be perfectly cold.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000011_000001|Nothing is better than paunch, tripe, or good wholesome horse or cow flesh, boiled, and the liquor mixed well with oatmeal porridge; the quantity of each about equal.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000011_000002|If horse or cow flesh is not to be had, graves, in moderate quantity and well scalded, are a tolerable, though not very desirable, substitute.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000012_000001|Potatoes are also good, and although not so nutritious, or easy of digestion, as oatmeal, are less heating.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000013_000001|This meal should, however, never be given in the hunting season, as it is too heating, and occasions the dogs to be perpetually drinking.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000013_000002|Their food ought, as a general rule, to be given to them pretty thick, as thin porridge does not stay the stomach so well.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000014_000000|During the hunting season hounds should have sulphur mixed up with their mess once a week, in the proportion of three drachms to each.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000015_000001|The butchers' meat should be of the best quality, and not over fat, as greasy substances of all kinds are apt to render the body gross and the skin diseased.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000000|The kennels of greyhounds should be kept comfortably warm and dry, be frequently replenished with dry and clean straw, and properly ventilated.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000001|Indeed, nothing is more essential to the health and efficiency of all dogs than pure air and cleanliness.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000002|Their beds should, if possible, be placed on a wooden bench, or at least on some dry position.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000003|On attention to cleanliness depends, in some degree, the dog's exquisite sense of smelling; for, if accustomed to strong or disagreeable effluvia, he will be but ill adapted to trace the fall of a deer, or scent of a fox.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000004|Indeed, even animal food too freely given is said to have a prejudicial effect upon the nose of a sporting dog.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000017_000000|A dog employed in watching premises should not be needlessly exposed to the damp or cutting night winds; but placed in as dry and sheltered a situation as possible.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000017_000001|If kept in the dwelling house he should have a place appropriated to his night's rest; this may be an open box, or a basket, with a piece of carpet or blanket, or clean straw at the bottom: if either of the former it should be often beaten, to free it from fleas or nits, which soon infest it, and frequently washed and dried.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000018_000000|Damp is exceedingly injurious to dogs, and is very likely to produce diseased lungs, rheumatism, and lameness in the shoulder and limbs.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000019_000001|Thomas Brown, Youatt, and Blaine, and to the practical information obtained from mr Herring of the New Road, and mr William George, an extensive dog fancier at Kensall New Town, may be appropriately subjoined a lively chapter from the recent work of mr Francis Butler, a leading American authority on the subject.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000000|"I shall first throw out a few hints on the Management of Pets.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000001|Whilst many are sacrificed for lack of necessary attendance, there are thousands who perish prematurely from overdoses of kindness.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000002|Delicate breeds of dogs certainly require great care and attention in rearing; but overstrained tenderness is often more dangerous than culpable neglect.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000004|The tenderly nursed pet is affected by every change of atmosphere, and subjected to a variety of diseases unknown to the dog that has been hardened from his birth.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000005|I ask you, then, neither to stuff nor starve; neither to chill nor burn.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000000|"A house pet should always have a sleeping place allotted to him, warm and comfortable, not near the fire, nor in the damp.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000001|Anything round is best for an animal to lay in; such as a tastefully ornamented box.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000003|He should never be fed to the full; neither excited to eat when he appears disinclined.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000004|Lack of appetite, so common to pampered favourites, is generally the result of an overloaded stomach and disordered digestion.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000005|This is easily cured by medicine, but more safely and simply without it.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000006|Fast him for twenty four hours; after which, keep him on half his ordinary allowance.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000007|If this agrees with him, and he keeps in fair condition, continue the regimen.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000000|"Nursing in the lap is injurious; not in itself, but the animal is thereby subjected to constant chills, in emerging from a snoozy warmth to a cold carpet or chilly bed.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000001|A dog accustomed to the lap is always shivering after it, and renders himself quite troublesome by his importunate addresses.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000002|A moderate share of nursing is well enough, but should be indulged in only as an occasional treat.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000003|Great care should be taken in the washing of delicate dogs.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000005|Injudicious washing and bad drying are productive of running sore eyes, more especially visible in white poodles, where the hair is long and woolly, retaining the moisture.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000000|"Once a fortnight is often enough to wash any dog but a white one. Washing has very little effect in the destruction of vermin.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000001|Fleas can live some time under water; which I have often thought only makes them bite the harder and stick the closer, when reanimated from their temporary torpidity.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000002|If 'Butler's Mange Liniment and Flea Exterminator' cannot be obtained, the animal may be well sodden with soft soap and washed about ten minutes after.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000003|This cannot be done with safety, except in warm weather.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000006|No flea will remain alive; the skin will be thoroughly cleansed, and the coat beautified.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000009|I have seen animals literally worried to death by fleas, perfectly exhausted from incessant irritation, at last worn to a skeleton, and gradually extinguished by a creeping consumption.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000010|Besides, who (for his own personal comfort), would not rid his immediate vicinity of a worthless mob of blood suckers awaiting the first favourable opportunity of regaling themselves on human blood?
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000011|If your dog lie on straw, burn it once a week, as fleas harbour and propagate in the tubes of the straw.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000012|If the bed be carpet, or anything similar, let it be often cleansed or changed.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000013|Vermin revel in filth, and their extirpation depends mainly on cleanliness.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000025_000000|"By attending to the general health of a dog, much disease may be avoided; indeed, this is far more essential than prescriptions for a cure.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000025_000001|It is very easy to carry off a slight indisposition by gentle purgatives and a reformed diet: whilst confirmed disease is often difficult to combat, as few of the canine race can have the advantages which are ofttimes essential to their restoration.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000026_000000|"If you are in the habit of keeping your dog on the chain, let him at least run a few minutes every day.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000026_000001|If he be kept indoors, he should also be allowed a little daily exercise outside.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000027_000000|"In summer, particularly, be careful to provide a supply of fresh water and a cool shelter from the sun
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000027_000001|Never take your dog out during the intense heat of the day; this is very apt to produce fits, often resulting in sudden death.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000027_000002|Early in the morning is preferable for summer exercise.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000000|"The kennel should be located in a shady spot during the summer; in winter it should be sheltered from the wind, and so placed as to enable the dog to enjoy the sunshine at will.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000001|Above all things, never chain a dog where he cannot screen himself from the sun's rays.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000002|He must have the option of sunshine or shade.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000003|He should not be allowed to drink water that has been standing in the sun, or is otherwise damaged.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000006|In summer an excavation, two or three feet in depth, should be made under it, and left open at both ends, that the animal may have a cool retreat during the heat.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000007|Those who do not object to a trifling expense, may have the house posted on a large paving stone, with an excavation under it, as before recommended.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000008|All burrowing animals seek the earth in hot weather.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000009|Everything on the surface is heated; their own instinct dictates the most reasonable method of sheltering themselves from the heat, at the same time absorbing the cool exhalations from the ground.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000010|In southern climates, especially, this method is all important.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000011|In this manner I have kept dogs from the polar regions, in comparative comfort, whilst many native born and neglected have been scalded into fits, paralysis, rabies, or hydrophobia.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000000|"In the hot season, with young dogs, raw meat should be avoided, except it be quite fresh, and then they should not be over fed, especially if debarred of abundant exercise, and excluded from their own natural medicine, grass.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000002|The better plan is to ascertain his average consumption, and then allow him a little less.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000003|Keep his digestion in good order, and disease will rarely trouble him.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000004|His coat and ribs will generally indicate whether he be sufficiently cared for, whether he be sick or sound in his digestive organs; feed him always in the same place, and at the same hour: once a day is sufficient, if he be over six months old.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000030_000000|"Should you require your dog to be watchful at night, feed him in the morning; if you would have him quiet at night, feed him late, and don't leave him bones to gnaw.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000030_000002|They should only be lightly fed before training lessons, or on sporting days; on the latter occasions a little refreshment may be administered as occasion may require.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000030_000003|Those kept in doors should be allowed to run a little after meals, when they generally require an evacuation.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000000|"If a dog be regularly exercised he will seldom even soil around his kennel, and a healthy house pet is rarely troublesome, except after eating.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000001|If a dog be uncleanly in the house, he should decidedly be broken of it, although it would be useless to correct him unless he has a fair opportunity of avoiding it.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000002|He should be invariably taken to the spot, be sufficiently twigged there, and unceremoniously scolded into the yard.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000003|The punishment will be far more justly administered if the animal be let out at regular intervals; this being done he will not attempt to infringe the law, except in cases of dire necessity.
train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000032_000000|"I am satisfied as a general rule, that a well amalgamated mixture of animal and vegetable is the most healthful diet for dogs of all ages, breeds, and conditions.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000002_000000|[Sidenote: Primacy of nature over spirit.]
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000001|Natural society begins at home and radiates over the world, as more and more things become tributary to our personal being.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000002|In marriage and the family, in industry, government, and war, attention is riveted on temporal existences, on the fortunes of particular bodies, natural or corporate.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000004|Things could not be near or far, worse or better, unless a definite life were taken as a standard, a life lodged somewhere in space and time.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000005|Reason is a principle of order appearing in a subject matter which in its subsistence and quantity must be an irrational datum.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000006|Reason expresses purpose, purpose expresses impulse, and impulse expresses a natural body with self equilibrating powers.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000000|At the same time, natural growths may be called achievements only because, when formed, they support a joyful and liberal experience. Nature's works first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke; mechanical processes have interesting climaxes only from the point of view of the life that expresses them, in which their ebb and flow grows impassioned and vehement.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000001|Nature's values are imputed to her retroactively by spirit, which in its material dependence has a logical and moral primacy of its own.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000002|In themselves events are perfectly mechanical, steady, and fluid, not stopping where we see a goal nor avoiding what we call failures.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000003|And so they would always have remained in crude experience, if no cumulative reflection, no art, and no science had come to dominate and foreshorten that equable flow of substance, arresting it ideally in behalf of some rational interest.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000000|Thus it comes to pass that rational interests have a certain ascendancy in the world, as well as an absolute authority over it; for they arise where an organic equilibrium has naturally established itself.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000001|Such an equilibrium maintains itself by virtue of the same necessity that produced it; without arresting the flux or introducing any miracle, it sustains in being an ideal form.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000002|This form is what consciousness corresponds to and raises to actual existence; so that significant thoughts are something which nature necessarily lingers upon and seems to serve.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000004|The mind spreads and soars in proportion as the body feeds on the surrounding world.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000005|Noble ideas, although rare and difficult to attain, are not naturally fugitive.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000006_000000|[Sidenote: All experience at bottom liberal.]
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000000|Consciousness is not ideal merely in its highest phases; it is ideal through and through.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000002|It sees even nature from the point of view of ideal interests, and measures the flux of things by ideal standards.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000003|It registers its own movement, like that of its objects, entirely in ideal terms, looking to fixed goals of its own imagining, and using nothing in the operation but concretions in discourse.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000004|Primary mathematical notions, for instance, are evidences of a successful reactive method attained in the organism and translated in consciousness into a stable grammar which has wide applicability and great persistence, so that it has come to be elaborated ideally into prodigious abstract systems of thought.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000005|Every experience of victory, eloquence, or beauty is a momentary success of the same kind, and if repeated and sustained becomes a spiritual possession.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000009_000001|At first it establishes affections between beings naturally conjoined in the world; later it grows sensitive to free and spiritual affinities, to oneness of mind and sympathetic purposes.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000009_000002|These ideal affinities, although grounded like the others on material relations (for sympathy presupposes communication), do not have those relations for their theme but rest on them merely as on a pedestal from which they look away to their own realm, as music, while sustained by vibrating instruments, looks away from them to its own universe of sound.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000010_000000|[Sidenote: The self an ideal.]
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000000|Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000001|Its personages are all mythical, beginning with that brave protagonist who calls himself I and speaks all the soliloquies.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000002|When most nearly material these personages are human souls-the ideal life of particular bodies-or floating mortal reputations-echoes of those ideal lives in one another.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000003|From this relative substantiality they fade into notions of country, posterity, humanity, and the gods.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000004|These figures all represent some circle of events or forces in the real world; but such representation, besides being mythical, is usually most inadequate.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000005|The boundaries of that province which each spirit presides over are vaguely drawn, the spirit itself being correspondingly indefinite.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000006|This ambiguity is most conspicuous, perhaps, in the most absorbing of the personages which a man constructs in this imaginative fashion-his idea of himself.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000007|"There is society where none intrudes;" and for most men sympathy with their imaginary selves is a powerful and dominant emotion. True memory offers but a meagre and interrupted vista of past experience, yet even that picture is far too rich a term for mental discourse to bandy about; a name with a few physical and social connotations is what must represent the man to his own thinkings.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000008|Or rather it is no memory, however eviscerated, that fulfils that office.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000012_000000|[Sidenote: Romantic egotism.]
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000000|The more reflective and self conscious a man is the more completely will his experience be subsumed and absorbed in his perennial "I." If philosophy has come to reinforce this reflective egotism, he may even regard all nature as nothing but his half voluntary dream and encourage himself thereby to give even to the physical world a dramatic and sentimental colour.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000001|But the more successful he is in stuffing everything into his self consciousness, the more desolate will the void become which surrounds him.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000002|For self is, after all, but one term in a primitive dichotomy and would lose its specific and intimate character were it no longer contrasted with anything else.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000004|Sometimes, if his imagination is sensuous, his alter egos are incarnate in the landscape, and he creates a poetic mythology; sometimes, when the inner life predominates, they are projected into his own forgotten past or infinite future.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000005|He will then say that all experience is really his own and that some inexplicable illusion has momentarily raised opaque partitions in his omniscient mind.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000014_000000|[Sidenote: Vanity.]
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000000|Philosophers less pretentious and more worldly than these have sometimes felt, in their way, the absorbing force of self consciousness.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000003|Interest in one's own social figure is to some extent a material interest, for other men's love or aversion is a principle read into their acts; and a social animal like man is dependent on other men's acts for his happiness.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000004|An individual's concern for the attitude society takes toward him is therefore in the first instance concern for his own practical welfare.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000005|But imagination here refines upon worldly interest. What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000016_000001|The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000016_000002|We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere; for however persistent and passionate such prejudices may be, we know too well that they are woven of thin air.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000016_000003|A hostile word, by starting a contrary imaginative current, buffets them rudely and threatens to dissolve their being.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000001|It is a passion easy to deride but hard to understand, and in men who live at all by imagination almost impossible to eradicate.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000002|The good opinion of posterity can have no possible effect on our fortunes, and the practical value which reputation may temporarily have is quite absent in posthumous fame.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000003|The direct object of this passion-that a name should survive in men's mouths to which no adequate idea of its original can be attached-seems a thin and fantastic satisfaction, especially when we consider how little we should probably sympathise with the creatures that are to remember us.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000004|What comfort would it be to Virgil that boys still read him at school, or to Pindar that he is sometimes mentioned in a world from which everything he loved has departed?
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000005|Yet, beneath this desire for nominal longevity, apparently so inane, there may lurk an ideal ambition of which the ancients cannot have been unconscious when they set so high a value on fame.
train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000006|They often identified fame with immortality, a subject on which they had far more rational sentiments than have since prevailed.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000001_000000|[Sidenote: The refracting human medium for ideas.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000002_000000|Friendship may indeed come to exist without sensuous liking or comradeship to pave the way; but unless intellectual sympathy and moral appreciation are powerful enough to react on natural instinct and to produce in the end the personal affection which at first was wanting, friendship does not arise.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000002_000001|Recognition given to a man's talent or virtue is not properly friendship.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000002_000002|Friends must desire to live as much as possible together and to share their work, thoughts, and pleasures. Good fellowship and sensuous affinity are indispensable to give spiritual communion a personal accent; otherwise men would be indifferent vehicles for such thoughts and powers as emanated from them, and attention would not be in any way arrested or refracted by the human medium through which it beheld the good.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000003_000000|[Sidenote: Affection based on the refraction.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000004_000000|No natural vehicle, however, is indifferent; no natural organ is or should be transparent.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000004_000001|Transparency is a virtue only in artificial instruments, organs in which no blood flows and whose intrinsic operation is not itself a portion of human life.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000004_000002|In looking through a field glass I do not wish to perceive the lenses nor to see rainbows about their rim; yet I should not wish the eye itself to lose its pigments and add no dyes to the bulks it discerns.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000000|A man is sometimes a coloured and sometimes a clear medium for the energies he exerts.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000001|When a thought conveyed or a work done enters alone into the observer's experience, no friendship is possible.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000002|This is always the case when the master is dead; for if his reconstructed personality retains any charm, it is only as an explanation or conceived nexus for the work he performed.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000004|That portion of a man's soul which he has not alienated and objectified is open only to those who know him otherwise than by his works and do not estimate him by his public attributions.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000005|Such persons are his friends.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000007|Estimation has been partly arrested at its medium and personal relations have added their homely accent to universal discourse.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000008|Friendship might thus be called ideal sympathy refracted by a human medium, or comradeship and sensuous affinity colouring a spiritual light.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000006_000000|[Sidenote: The medium must also be transparent.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000007_000000|If we approach friendship from above and compare it with more ideal loyalties, its characteristic is its animal warmth and its basis in chance conjunctions; if we approach it from below and contrast it with mere comradeship or liking, its essence seems to be the presence of common ideal interests.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000007_000001|That is a silly and effeminate friendship in which the parties are always thinking of the friendship itself and of how each stands in the other's eyes; a sentimental fancy of that sort, in which nothing tangible or ulterior brings people together, is rather a feeble form of love than properly a friendship.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000007_000003|All these sentimental feelings are at any rate mere preludes, but preludes in fortunate cases to more discriminating and solid interests, which such a tremulous overture may possibly pitch on a higher key.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000008_000000|[Sidenote: Common interests indispensable.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000009_000000|The necessity of backing personal attachment with ideal interests is what makes true friendship so rare.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000009_000003|For friendship to flourish personal life would have to become more public and social life more simple and humane.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000010_000000|[Sidenote: Friendship between man and wife.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000011_000000|The tie that in contemporary society most nearly resembles the ancient ideal of friendship is a well assorted marriage.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000011_000001|In spite of intellectual disparity and of divergence in occupation, man and wife are bound together by a common dwelling, common friends, common affection for children, and, what is of great importance, common financial interests.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000011_000002|These bonds often suffice for substantial and lasting unanimity, even when no ideal passion preceded; so that what is called a marriage of reason, if it is truly reasonable, may give a fair promise of happiness, since a normal married life can produce the sympathies it requires.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000012_000000|[Sidenote: Between master and disciple.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000000|When the common ideal interests needed to give friendship a noble strain become altogether predominant, so that comradeship and personal liking may be dispensed with, friendship passes into more and more political fellowships.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000002|Without claiming any share in the master's private life, perhaps without having ever seen him, we may enjoy communion with his mind and feel his support and guidance in following the ideal which links us together.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000003|Hero worship is an imaginative passion in which latent ideals assume picturesque shapes and take actual persons for their symbols.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000004|Such companionship, perhaps wholly imaginary, is a very clear and simple example of ideal society. The unconscious hero, to be sure, happens to exist, but his existence is irrelevant to his function, provided only he be present to the idealising mind.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000006|Certain capacities and tendencies in the worshipper are brought to a focus by the hero's image, who is thereby first discovered and deputed to be a hero.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000007|He is an unmoved mover, like Aristotle's God and like every ideal to which thought or action is directed.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000014_000001|The devotion which was, in its origin, an ideal tendency grown conscious and expressed in fancy may thus become a mechanical force vitiating that ideal.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000016_000000|Discipleship and hero worship are not stable relations.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000016_000001|Since the meaning they embody is ideal and radiates from within outward, and since the image to which that meaning is attributed is controlled by a real external object, meaning and image, as time goes on, will necessarily fall apart.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000017_000000|[Sidenote: Automatic idealisation of heroes.]
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000000|A disembodied ideal, however, is unmanageable and vague; it cannot exercise the natural and material suasion proper to a model we are expected to imitate.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000001|The more fruitful procedure is accordingly to idealise some historical figure or natural force, to ignore or minimise in it what does not seem acceptable, and to retain at the same time all the unobjectionable personal colour and all the graphic traits that can help to give that model a persuasive vitality.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000002|This poetic process is all the more successful for being automatic.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000003|It is in this way that heroes and gods have been created.
train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000004|A legend or fable lying in the mind and continually repeated gained insensibly at each recurrence some new eloquence, some fresh congruity with the emotion it had already awakened, and was destined to awake again.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000002_000000|Young Robin's father, the Sheriff, suffered very sadly from the loss of his son and his goods, and Robin's aunt came to Nottingham and wept bitterly over the loss of the little boy she loved dearly. For David, the old servant in whose charge Robin had been placed when he was going home, had done what too many weak people do, tried to hide one fault by committing another.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000003_000000|Robin was given into his charge to protect and take safely home to his father, and when the attack was made by the outlaw's men, instead of doing anything to protect the little fellow and save him from being injured by Robin Hood's people, he thought only of himself.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000003_000001|He threw his charge into the first bushes he came to, and galloped away, hardly stopping till he reached Nottingham town.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000005_000000|And then months passed and a year had gone by, and people looked solemn and said that it seemed as if the Sheriff would never hold up his head again.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000005_000001|But they thought that he should have gathered together a number of fighting men and gone and punished Robin Hood and his outlaws for carrying off that valuable set of loads of cloth.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000006_000000|But Robin's father cared nothing for the cloth or the mules; he could only think of the bright happy little fellow whom he loved so well, and whom he wept for in secret at night when there was no one near to see.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000007_000000|Robin's aunt when she came and tried to comfort him used to shake her head and wipe her eyes.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000009_000000|For one day a man came to the Sheriff's house and wanted him.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000009_000001|But the Sheriff would not see him, for he took no interest in anything now, and told his servant that the man must send word what his business was.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000010_000000|The servant went out, and came back directly.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000011_000000|"He says, sir, that he was taken prisoner by Robin Hood's men a week ago, and that he has just come from the camp under the greenwood tree, and has brought you news, master."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000013_000000|It was no beaten and wounded ruffian, but a hale and hearty fellow, who looked bright and happy, and before he could speak and tell his news the Sheriff began to question him.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000014_000000|"You have come from the outlaws' camp?" he said with his voice trembling.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000015_000000|"Yes, Master Sheriff."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000017_000000|"Oh! no, Master Sheriff; they took me before Robin Hood, and he asked me what I was doing there, and whether I was not afraid to cross his forest, and I up and told him plainly that I wasn't. Then he said how was that when I must have heard what a terrible robber he was."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000018_000000|"Yes, yes," cried the Sheriff, "and what did you say."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000019_000001|Then he laughed, and all his people laughed too, and he said I was a merry fellow.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000019_000002|'Give him plenty to eat and drink,' he said, 'for two or three days, and then send him on his way.' Yes, Master Sheriff, that he did, and a fine jolly time I had.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000019_000003|Why, I almost felt as if I should like to stay altogether."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000022_000000|"Speak out," he said; "you did not come to tell me only that.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000022_000001|What is it you are keeping back?
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000022_000002|Why don't you speak?"
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000023_000000|"Because, master," said the man softly, "I was afraid you couldn't bear it, for I was a father once and my son died, and though you never knew me, I knew you, and was sorry when the news came that your little boy was killed.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000023_000001|Can you bear to hear good news as well as bad?"
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000024_000000|The Sheriff was silent for a few minutes, during which he closed his eyes and his lips moved, and he looked so strange that Robin's aunt crossed the room to where he sat, and took hold of his hand, as she whispered loving words.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000026_000000|"But you will not be angry with me if I am wrong, Master Sheriff?"
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000029_000000|"That made me think all the more, and one day I managed to follow him but among the trees to where I found him feeding one of the wild deer, which followed him about like a dog."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000000|"I waited a bit, and then stepped out to him, and what do you think he did?
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000001|He strung his bow, fitted an arrow to it before I knew where I was, and drew it to the head as if he was going to shoot me.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000003|'Yes,' he said, 'of course.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000005|'Then you go to my father,' he cried, 'and tell him to tell aunt that I'm quite well, and that some day I'm coming home."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000031_000000|The man stopped, for just then the Sheriff closed his eyes again and said something very softly, which Robin's aunt heard, and she sank upon her knees and covered her face with her hands.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000032_000000|Then the Sheriff sprang to his feet, looking quite a different man.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000033_000001|"Could you find your way back to the outlaws' camp in the forest?"
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000034_000000|"Oh! yes, Master Sheriff, that I could, though they did bind a cloth over my face when they brought me away."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000036_000000|"I could, Master Sheriff," said the man, beginning slowly to lay the gold pieces back one by one upon the table; "but I can't do evil for good."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000037_000000|"What?" cried the Sheriff angrily.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000038_000000|"May be, Master Sheriff," said the man drily; "but I'm not going to fly at the throat of one who did nothing but good to me.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000038_000001|They tell me that Robin Hood's a noble earl who offended the King, and had to fly for his life.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000038_000002|What I say is, he's a noble kind hearted gentleman, and if it was my boy he had there, looking as happy as the day is long, I'd go to him without any fighting men."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000040_000000|"Just like a father should, master, and ask him for my boy like a man."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000041_000000|"That will do," said the Sheriff.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000041_000001|"You can go."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000042_000000|The man turned to leave the room, when the Sheriff said sharply:
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000043_000000|"Stop!
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000044_000000|"Yes, I can't take pay to lead anyone to fight against Robin Hood and his men."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000045_000000|"Those pieces were for the news you brought me," said the Sheriff. "Yes, take them, for you have behaved like an honest man."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000047_000000|So he gathered a strong body of crossbow men, and others with spears and swords, besides asking for the help of two gallant knights who came with their esquires mounted and in armour with their men.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000049_000000|In another month the Sheriff advanced again with a stronger force, but they were driven back more easily than the first, and the Sheriff was in despair.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000050_000000|But a couple of days later he had the man to whom he had given the gold pieces found, and sent him to the outlaws' camp with a letter written upon parchment, in which he ordered Robin Hood, in the King's name, to give up the little prisoner he held there contrary to the law and against his own will.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000051_000000|It was many weary anxious days before the messenger came back, but without the little prisoner.
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000053_000000|"He said, master, that if you wanted the boy you must go and fetch him."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000056_000000|"Where I ought to have gone at first," he said humbly; "into the forest to fetch my boy."
train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000057_000000|"But you could never find your way," she said, sobbing.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTIETH.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000004_000000|It was not easy to learn to live without the dear mother; they missed her constantly.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000005_000001|Nor did they suffer gloom to gather in their hearts or cloud their faces.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000008_000000|"Yes," he said, in moved tones.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000012_000000|"What do you intend to call your son?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000013_000000|"What do you?" she asked, smiling up at him.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000014_000000|"Horace, for your father, if you like."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000015_000000|"And I had thought of Edward, for his father and yours.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000015_000001|Horace Edward. Will that do?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000016_000001|But Edward would do for the next."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000017_000000|"But he may never come to claim it," she said, laughing.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000017_000001|"Is papa in the house?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000019_000000|"Oh, bring him here and let me see the first meeting between them."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000020_000000|"Can you bear the excitement?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000022_000000|mr Dinsmore came softly in, kissed very tenderly the pale face on the pillow, then took a long look at the tiny pink one nestling to her side.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000024_000001|But now I must leave you to rest and sleep. Try, my darling, for all our sakes, to be very prudent, very calm and quiet."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000025_000000|"I will, papa; and don't trouble about me.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000025_000001|You know I am in good hands. Ah, stay a moment! here is Edward bringing wee bit Elsie to take her first peep at her little brother."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000028_000000|"But she shall kiss her mamma, dear, precious little pet," Elsie said. "Please hold her close for a minute, papa, and let her kiss her mother."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000029_000000|He complied under protest, in which mr Dinsmore joined, that he feared it would be too much for her; and the soft baby hands patted the wan cheeks, the tiny rosebud mouth was pressed again and again to the pale lips with rapturous cooings, "Mamma, mamma!"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000030_000000|"There, pet, that will do," said her father.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000031_000000|"Look, mother's darling," Elsie said with a glad smile, exposing to view the tiny face by her side.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000032_000000|"Baby!" cried the little girl, with a joyous shout, clapping her chubby hands, "pretty baby Elsie take"; and the small arms were held out entreatingly.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000034_000000|The child availed herself of the permission, then gently patting the newcomer, repeated her glad cry, "Baby, pretty baby."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000035_000000|"Elsie's little brother," said her mamma, tenderly.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000037_000001|One more kiss, papa, before you go, and then I'll try to sleep."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000038_000000|Elsie did not recover so speedily and entirely as before, after the birth of her first babe; and those to whom she was so dear grew anxious and troubled about her.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000040_000000|"I think I do, papa," she answered, brightening.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000040_000001|"Edward took me for a short drive yesterday, and I felt better for it."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000041_000000|"Then, dearest, come home to your father's house and stay there as long as you can; bring babies and nurses and come.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000042_000001|"I shall go, if Edward doesn't object.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000042_000002|I'd like to start this minute.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000043_000002|Where is Travilla?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000046_000000|"Thank you, mother's darling," Elsie said, accepting the gift and tenderly caressing the giver; "you and papa, too.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000046_000001|But see who is here?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000049_000000|"Mamma?
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000050_000000|"Oh, yes; yes indeed, mamma and papa too."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000051_000000|"Baby?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000053_000000|"May Elsie, mamma?"
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000056_000000|"Thank you; I think it would.
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000057_000000|"Papa proposes taking me at once."
train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000065_000000|They formed but one family here as at the Oaks; each couple having their own private suite of apartments, while all other rooms were used in common and their meals taken together; an arrangement preferred by all; mr Dinsmore and his daughter especially rejoicing in it, as giving them almost as much of each other's society as before her marriage.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000003_000000|"Liberty!
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000003_000001|Freedom! tyranny is dead! --Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets." --SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CAESAR.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000011_000000|"Our sufficiency is of God!"
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000000|"And He has promised wisdom to those who ask it.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000001|What a comfort.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000002|I should like to show this pretty one to Walter.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000003|Where is he now, I wonder, poor fellow?"
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000013_000000|Ah, though she knew it not, he was then lying cold in death upon the bloody field of Shiloh.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000014_000001|Richard Allison had recovered from his wound, and was again in the field.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000014_000002|Edward was with the army also; Harold, too, and Philip Ross.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000015_000000|Lucy was, like many others who had strong ties in both sections and their armies, well nigh distracted with grief and fear.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000016_000000|From their relatives in the South the last news received had been that of the death of Dick Percival, nor did any further news reach there until the next November.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000016_000001|Then they heard that Enna had been married again to another Confederate officer, about a year after her first husband's death; that Walter had fallen at Shiloh, that Arthur was killed in the battle of Luka, and that his mother, hearing of it just as she was convalescing from an attack of fever, had a relapse and died a few days after.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000018_000000|"Oh," cried Elsie, as she wept over Walter's loss, "what would I not give to know that he was ready for death!
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000018_000001|But surely we may rejoice in the hope that he was; since we have offered so much united prayer for him."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000019_000000|"Yes," returned her father, "for 'If two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven'; and God's promises are all 'yea and amen in Christ Jesus.'"
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000020_000000|"Papa," said Horace, "how can it be that good Christian men are fighting and killing each other?"
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000021_000000|"It is a very strange thing, my son; yet undoubtedly true that there are many true Christians on both sides.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000021_000001|They do not see alike, and each is defending what he believes a righteous cause."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000023_000000|"Richard is ill in the hospital at Washington, and May has gone on to nurse him.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000023_000002|She will be company for our May.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000023_000003|Don't worry about Ritchie; May writes that he is getting better fast."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000025_000000|"What is it, mamma?" asked Elsie.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000000|"Why, Sister Elsie, how could Uncle Ritchie lose his heart?
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000001|did they shoot a hole so it might drop out?" queried Rosebud in wide eyed wonder.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000002|"I hope the doctors will sew up the place quick 'fore it does fall out," she added, with a look of deep concern.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000003|"Poor, dear Uncle Wal is killed," she sobbed; "and Uncle Art too, and I don't want all my uncles to die or to be killed."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000029_000000|"We will ask God to take care of them, dear daughter," said Rose, caressing the little weeper, "and we know that He is able to do it."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000030_000001|They returned with faces full of excitement.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000031_000000|"What news?" queried both ladies in a breath.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000033_000000|There was a momentary pause: then Rose said, "If it puts an end to this dreadful war, I shall not be sorry."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000034_000000|"Nor I," said Elsie.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000035_000000|"Perhaps you don't reflect that it takes a good deal out of our pockets," remarked her father.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000000|"Yes, papa, I know; but we will not be very poor.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000002|If I were only sure it would add to the happiness of my poor people, I should rejoice over it.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000003|But I am sorely troubled to know what has, or will become of them.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000004|It is more than two years now, since we have heard a word from Viamede."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000041_000000|"Are we poor now, papa?" asked Horace anxiously.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000042_000000|"No, son; your sister is still very wealthy, and we all have comfortable incomes."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000045_000000|"Yes, and it threw him into a transport of joy.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000045_000002|Bress de Lord!
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000046_000000|"'And what will you do with your liberty, Uncle Joe?' I asked; then he looked half frightened.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000047_000000|"Well, dear, I hope you assured him that he had nothing to fear on that score."
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000048_000000|"Certainly; I told him they were free to go or stay as they liked, and as long as they were with, or near us, we would see that they were made comfortable.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000052_000000|Chloe slid to her knees, and taking the soft white hand in both of hers, covered it with kisses and tears, while her whole frame shook with her bitter weeping.
train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000053_000000|"Mammy, dear mammy, what is it?" Elsie asked in real alarm, quite forgetting for the moment the news of the morning, which indeed she could never have expected to cause such distress.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY SEVENTH.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000002_000000|"In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green; Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love." --SCOTT.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000003_000000|"Escaped prisoners from Andersonville, eh?" queried the guard gathering about them.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000004_000000|"Yes; and more than half starved; especially my friend here, Captain Allison of the----"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000005_000000|But the sentence was left unfinished; for at that instant Harold reeled, and would have fallen but for the strong arm of another officer quickly outstretched to save him.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000006_000000|They made a litter and carried him into camp, where restoratives were immediately applied.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000007_000000|He soon recovered from his faintness, but was found to be totally unfit for duty, and sent to the hospital at Washington, where he was placed in a bed adjoining that of his brother Richard, and allowed to share with him in the attentions of dr King, Miss Lottie, and his own sister May.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000008_000000|How they all wept over him-reduced almost to a skeleton, so wan, so weak, so aged, in those few short months.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000009_000000|He recognized his brother and sister with a faint smile, a murmured word or two, then sank into a state of semi stupor, from which he roused only when spoken to, relapsing into it again immediately.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000010_000000|Slowly, very slowly, medical skill and tender, careful nursing told upon his exhausted frame till at length he seemed to awake to new life, began to notice what was going on about him, was able to take part in a cheerful chat now and then, and became eager for news from home and of the progress of the war.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000011_000000|Months had passed away.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000011_000001|In the meantime Richard had returned to camp, and Harry Duncan, wounded in a late battle, now occupied his deserted bed in the hospital.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000012_000000|Harry was suffering, but in excellent spirits.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000013_000002|"Miss Lottie, I'm almost tempted to say it pays to be ill or wounded, that one may be tended by fair ladies' hands."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000015_000000|"None the less beautiful, Miss King," returned Duncan gallantly.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000015_000001|"Many a whiter hand is not half so shapely or so useful.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000015_000002|Now reward me for that pretty compliment by coaxing your father to get me well as fast as possible, that I may have a share in the taking of Richmond."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000017_000001|I presume it would not be necessary for me even to be at the trouble of dictating them?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000018_000000|"Oh, no, certainly not!"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000019_000000|"Joking aside, I shall be greatly obliged if you will write to Aunt Wealthy to day for me."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000020_000000|"With pleasure; especially as I can tell her your wound is not a dangerous one, and you will not lose a limb.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000020_000001|But do tell me.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000020_000002|What did you poor fellows get to eat at Andersonville?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000022_000000|"Hunger?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000023_000000|"Yes; we'd plenty of that always.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000023_000001|In addition to the corn meal and meat, we had a half pint of peas full of bugs."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000024_000000|"Oh! you poor creatures!
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000024_000001|I hope it was a little better the alternate week."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000025_000000|"Just the same, except, in lieu of the corn meal, we had three square inches of corn bread."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000026_000000|"Is it jest; or earnest?" asked Lottie, appealing to Harold.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000027_000000|"Dead earnest, Miss King; and for medicine we had sumac and white oak bark."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000028_000000|"No matter what ailed you?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000029_000000|"Oh, yes; that made no difference."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000030_000000|To Harry's impatience the winter wore slowly away while he was confined within the hospital walls; yet the daily, almost hourly sight of May Allison's sweet face, and the sound of her musical voice, went far to reconcile him to this life of inactivity and "inglorious ease," as he termed it in his moments of restless longing to be again in the field.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000031_000000|By the last of March this ardent desire was granted, and he hurried away in fine spirits, leaving May pale and tearful, but with a ring on her finger that had not been there before.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000033_000000|"It is good of you," whispered May, laying her wet cheek on her friend's shoulder; "and I'm ever so glad you're to be my sister."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000034_000000|"And won't Aunt Wealthy rejoice over you as over a mine of gold!"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000036_000000|A familiar step drew near, and dr King laid his hand on the young man's shoulder.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000039_000000|"But you are not going to die just yet," returned the doctor, with assumed gayety; "and home and mother will do wonders for you."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000040_000000|"dr King," and the blue eyes looked up calmly and steadily into the physician's face, "please tell me exactly what you think of my case.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000040_000001|Is there any hope of recovery?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000041_000000|"You may improve very much: I think you will when you get home; and, though there is little hope of the entire recovery of your former health and strength, you may live for years."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000042_000000|"But it is likely I shall not live another year?
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000042_000001|do not be afraid to say so: I should rather welcome the news.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000043_000000|"Yes; I-I think you are nearing home, my dear boy; the land where 'the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.'"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000045_000000|A moment's silence, and Harold said, "Thank you.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000046_000000|"But don't forget that there is still a possibility of recuperation; while there's life there's hope."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000048_000000|The doctor passed on to another patient, and Harold was again left to the companionship of his own thoughts.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000048_000001|But not for long; they were presently broken in upon by the appearance of May with a very bright face.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000049_000000|"See!" she cried joyously, holding up a package; "letters from home, and Naples too.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000049_000001|Rose writes to mamma, and she has enclosed the letter for our benefit."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000050_000000|"Then let us enjoy it together.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000050_000002|My eyes are rather weak, you know, and I see the ink is pale."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000051_000000|"But mamma's note to you?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000052_000000|"Can wait its turn.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000052_000001|I always like to keep the best till the last."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000053_000000|Harold hardly acknowledged to himself that he was very eager to hear news from Elsie; even more than to read the loving words from his mother's pen.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000055_000000|After speaking of some other matters, Rose went on: "But I have kept my greatest piece till now.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000055_000001|Our family is growing; we have another grandson who arrived about two weeks ago; Harold Allison Travilla by name.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000056_000001|My husband and I are growing quite patriarchal.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000057_000000|"Elsie is the loveliest and the best of mothers, perfectly devoted to her children; so patient and so tender, so loving and gentle, and yet so firm. mr Travilla and she are of one mind in regard to their training, requiring as prompt and cheerful obedience as Horace always has; yet exceedingly indulgent wherever indulgence can do no harm.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000058_000000|"Tell our Harold-my poor dear brother-that we hope his name child will be an honor to him."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000059_000000|"Are you not pleased?" asked May, pausing to look up at him.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000062_000000|May had left the room, and Harold lay languid and weak upon his cot.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000062_000001|A Confederate officer, occupying the next, addressed him, rousing him out of the reverie into which he had fallen.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000063_000000|"Excuse me, sir, but I could not help hearing some parts of the letter read aloud by the lady-your sister, I believe----"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000064_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000064_000002|"So no need for apologies."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000065_000000|"But there is something else.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000066_000000|"Yes; knew and loved him!" exclaimed Harold, raising himself on his elbow, and turning a keenly interested, questioning gaze upon the stranger.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000067_000000|"Then it is, it must be the same family," said the latter, half to himself, half to Harold.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000068_000000|"Same as what, sir?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000069_000002|Will you, sir, take charge of it, and see that it reaches the lady's hands?"
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000070_000000|"With pleasure.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000072_000000|"Yes; the uncle a trifle younger than the niece."
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000073_000000|"Dinsmore and I were together almost constantly during the last six months of his life, and became very intimate.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000073_000001|My haversack, Smith, if you please," addressing a nurse.
train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000074_000000|It was brought, opened, and a small package taken from it and given to Harold.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000000|After we had all returned to Greenwich the princess and Brandon were together frequently.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000001|Upon several occasions he was invited, with others, to her parlor for card playing.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000002|But we spent two evenings, with only four of us present, prior to the disastrous events which changed everything, and of which I am soon to tell you.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000003|During these two evenings the "Sailor Lass" was in constant demand.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000003_000000|This pair, who should have remained apart, met constantly in and about the palace, and every glance added fuel to the flame.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000003_000002|Notwithstanding these haughty moods, anyone with half an eye could see that the princess was gradually succumbing to the budding woman; that Brandon's stronger nature had dominated her with that half fear which every woman feels who loves a strong man-stronger than herself.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000000|One day the rumor spread through the court that the old French king, Louis the twelfth, whose wife, Anne of Brittany, had just died, had asked Mary's hand in marriage.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000005|Ships, too, are good, with masts to tie one's self to, and sails and rudder, and a gust of wind to waft one quickly past the island.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000006|In fact, one cannot take too many precautions when in those enchanted waters.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000000|Matters began to look dark to me.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000002|In truth, it might, I hoped, die in the dawning, for my lady was as capricious as a May day; but it was love-love as plain as the sun at rising.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000003|She sought Brandon upon all occasions, and made opportunities to meet him; not openly-at any rate, not with Brandon's knowledge, nor with any connivance on his part, but apparently caring little what he or any one else might see.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000004|Love lying in her heart had made her a little more shy than formerly in seeking him, but her straightforward way of taking whatever she wanted made her transparent little attempts at concealment very pathetic.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000006_000001|But with Brandon's stronger nature the sun would go till noon and there would burn for life.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000006_000002|The sun, however, had not reached its noon with Brandon, either; since he had set his brain against his heart, and had done what he could to stay the all consuming orb at its dawning.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000006_000003|He knew the hopeless misery such a passion would bring him, and helped the good Lord, in so far as he could, to answer his prayer, and lead him not into temptation.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000000|As I said, we had spent several evenings with Mary after we came home from Windsor, at all of which her preference was shown in every movement.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000001|Some women are so expressive under strong emotion that every gesture, a turn of the head, a glance of the eyes, the lifting of a hand or the poise of the body, speaks with a tongue of eloquence, and such was Mary.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000002|Her eyes would glow with a soft fire when they rested upon him, and her whole person told all too plainly what, in truth, it seemed she did not care to hide.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000003|When others were present she would restrain herself somewhat, but with only Jane and myself, she could hardly maintain a seemly reserve.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000004|During all this time Brandon remained cool and really seemed unconscious of his wonderful attraction for her.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000005|It is hard to understand why he did not see it, but I really believe he did not.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000006|Although he was quite at ease in her presence, too much so, Mary sometimes thought, and strangely enough sometimes told him in a fit of short-lived, quickly repented anger that always set him laughing, yet there was never a word or gesture that could hint of undue familiarity.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000007|It would probably have met a rebuff from the princess part of her; for what a perversity, both royal and feminine, she wanted all the freedom for herself.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000008_000001|Brandon had contrived to have his duties, ostensibly at least, occupy his evenings, and did honestly what his judgment told him was the one thing to do; that is, remain away from a fire that could give no genial warmth, but was sure to burn him to the quick.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000008_000002|I saw this only too plainly, but never a word of it was spoken between us.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000000|The more I saw of this man, the more I respected him, and this curbing of his affections added to my already high esteem.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000001|The effort was doubly wise in Brandon's case.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000003|His trouble, however, did not make a mope of him, and he retained a great deal of his brightness and sparkle undimmed by what must have been an ache in his heart.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000004|Though he tried, without making it too marked, to see as little of Mary as possible, their meeting once in a while could not be avoided, especially when one of them was always seeking to bring it about.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000006|Her manner, however, had no effect upon Brandon, who did not, or at least appeared not to notice it.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000007|This the girl could not endure, and lacking strength to resist her heart, soon returned to the attack.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000010_000001|Brandon was sauntering along reading when they overtook him. Jane told me afterwards that Mary's conduct upon coming up to him was pretty and curious beyond the naming.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000010_000002|At first she was inclined to be distant, and say cutting things, but when Brandon began to grow restive under them and showed signs of turning back, she changed front in the twinkling of an eye and was all sweetness.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000010_000003|She laughed and smiled and dimpled, as only she could, and was full of bright glances and gracious words.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000011_000000|She tried a hundred little schemes to get him to herself for a moment-the hunting of a wild flower or a four leaved clover, or the exploration of some little nook in the forest toward which she would lead him-but Jane did not at first take the hint and kept close at her heels.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000012_000000|Jane did know, I am sorry for Mary's sake to say, how often the fair hand was given to such spasms; so with this emphasized hint she walked on ahead, half sulky at the indignity put upon her, and half amused at her whimsical mistress.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000014_000001|I thought at first I would simply let you go your way, and then I thought I-would not. Don't deny it.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000014_000003|With all your faults, you don't tell even little lies; not even to a woman-I believe.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000014_000006|Tell me now?" And she looked up at him, half in banter, half in doubt.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000015_000000|"My duties-," began Brandon.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000016_000000|"Oh! bother your duties.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000016_000001|Tell me the truth."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000017_000000|"I will, if you let me," returned Brandon, who had no intention whatever of doing anything of the sort.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000018_000000|"That will not do," interrupted Mary, who knew enough of a guardsman's duty to be sure it was not onerous.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000018_000001|"You might as well come to it and tell the truth; that you do not like our society." And she gave him a vicious little glance without a shadow of a smile.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000019_000000|"In God's name, Lady Mary, that is not it," answered Brandon, who was on the rack.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000019_000001|"Please do not think it.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000000|"I cannot; I cannot.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000001|I beg of you not to ask.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000002|Leave me! or let me leave you.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000003|I refuse to answer further."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000004|The latter half of this sentence was uttered doggedly and sounded sullen and ill humored, although, of course, it was not so intended.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000005|He had been so perilously near speaking words which would probably have lighted, to their destruction-to his, certainly-the smoldering flames within their breast that it frightened him, and the manner in which he spoke was but a tone giving utterance to the pain in his heart.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000022_000000|Mary took it as it sounded, and, in unfeigned surprise, exclaimed angrily: "Leave you?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000023_000000|"Your highness-" began Brandon; but she was gone before he could speak.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000024_000000|He did not follow her to explain, knowing how dangerous such an explanation would be, but felt that it was best for them both that she should remain offended, painful as the thought was to him.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000025_000000|Of course, Mary's womanly self esteem, to say nothing of her royal pride, was wounded to the quick, and no wonder.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000026_000000|Poor Brandon sat down upon a stone, and, as he longingly watched her retiring form, wished in his heart he were dead.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000026_000001|This was the first time he really knew how much he loved the girl, and he saw that, with him at least, it was a matter of bad to worse; and at that rate would soon be-worst.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000000|Now that he had unintentionally offended her, and had permitted her to go without an explanation, she was dearer to him than ever, and, as he sat there with his face in his hands, he knew that if matters went on as they were going, the time would soon come when he would throw caution to the dogs and would try the impossible-to win her for his own.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000001|Caution and judgment still sat enthroned, and they told him now what he knew full well they would not tell him after a short time-that failure was certain to follow the attempt, and disaster sure to follow failure.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000002|First, the king would, in all probability, cut off his head upon an intimation of Mary's possible fondness for him; and, second, if he should be so fortunate as to keep his head, Mary could not, and certainly would not, marry him, even if she loved him with all her heart.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000003|The distance between them was too great, and she knew too well what she owed to her position.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000000|So Mary was angry this time; angry in earnest, and Jane felt the irritable palm more than once.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000003|There was no living with her in peace.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000004|Even the king fought shy of her, and the queen was almost afraid to speak.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000006|She did not tell Jane the cause of her vexation, but only said she "verily hated Brandon," and that, of course, was the key to the whole situation.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000031_000000|Brandon, tired of this everlasting watchfulness to keep himself out of temptation, and, dreading at any moment that lapse from strength which is apt to come to the strongest of us, had resolved to quit his place at court and go to New Spain at once.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000031_000001|He had learned, upon inquiry, that a ship would sail from Bristol in about twenty days, and another six weeks later.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000032_000001|I am not much of a Joseph, and am very little given to running away from a beautiful woman, but in this case I am fleeing from death itself. And to think what a heaven it would be.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000032_000003|I am unable to tell how I feel toward her.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000032_000004|It sometimes seems that I can not live another hour without seeing her; yet, thank God, I have reason enough left to know that every sight of her only adds to an already incurable malady. What will it be when she is the wife of the king of France?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000036_000000|She had not before fully known that she loved him.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000036_000002|It needed but the thought that she was about to lose him to make her know her malady, and meet it face to face.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000037_000001|No one interrupted her until Jane went in to robe her for the night, and to retire.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000037_000003|Jane quietly prepared to retire, and lay down in her own bed.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000038_000000|After a short silence Jane heard a sob from the other bed, then another, and another.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000039_000000|"Mary, are you weeping?" she asked.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000040_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000041_000000|"What is the matter, dear?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000043_000000|"Do you wish me to come to your bed?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000047_000000|"Do you believe he will?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000048_000000|"I know it;" and with this consolation Mary softly wept herself to sleep.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000049_000000|After this, for a few days, Mary was quiet enough.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000049_000001|Her irritable mood had vanished, but Jane could see that she was on the lookout for some one all the time, although she made the most pathetic little efforts to conceal her watchfulness.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000051_000000|Late one day Brandon had gone over to this quiet retreat, and having selected a volume, took his place in a secluded little alcove half hidden in arras draperies.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000052_000000|He had not been there long when in came Mary.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000053_000000|Brandon was on his feet in an instant, and with a low bow was backing himself out most deferentially, to leave her in sole possession if she wished to rest.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000054_000000|"Master Brandon, you need not go.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000054_000003|I would not disturb you." She spoke with a tremulous voice and a quick, uneasy glance, and started to move backward out of the alcove.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000055_000001|You know-you must know-oh!
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000055_000002|I beg you-" But she interrupted him by taking his arm and drawing him to a seat beside her on the cushion.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000000|"That's it; I don't know, but I want to know; and I want you to sit here beside me and tell me.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000001|I am going to be reconciled with you, despite the way you treated me when last we met.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000002|I am going to be friends with you whether you will or not.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000004|Poor Brandon, usually so ready, had nothing "to say to that," but sat in helpless silence.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000057_000001|Was this the answer to all his prayers, "Lead me not into temptation"?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000057_000002|He had done his part, for he had done all he could.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000057_000003|Heaven had not helped him, since here was temptation thrust upon him when least expected, and when the way was so narrow he could not escape, but must meet it face to face.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000058_000000|Mary soon recovered her self possession-women are better skilled in this art than men-and continued:
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000000|"I am not intending to say one word about your treatment of me that day over in the forest, although it was very bad, and you have acted abominably ever since.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000002|She was beginning to know her power over him, and it was never greater than at this moment.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000003|Her beauty had its sweetest quality, for the princess was sunk and the woman was dominant, with flushed face and flashing eyes that caught a double luster from the glowing love that made her heart beat so fast.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000004|Her gown, too, was the best she could have worn to show her charms.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000006|She wore her favorite long flowing outer sleeve, without the close fitting inner one.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000007|It was slit to the shoulder, and gave entrancing glimpses of her arms with every movement, leaving them almost bare when she lifted her hands, which was often, for she was as full of gestures as a Frenchwoman.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000008|Her bodice was cut low, both back and front, showing her large perfectly molded throat and neck, like an alabaster pillar of beauty and strength, and disclosing her bosom just to its shadowy incurving, white and billowy as drifted snow.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000009|Her hair was thrown back in an attempt at a coil, though, like her own rebellious nature, it could not brook restraint, and persistently escaped in a hundred little curls that fringed her face and lay upon the soft white nape of her neck like fluffy shreds of sun lit floss on new cut ivory.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000060_000001|He felt that his only hope lay in silence, so he sat beside her and said nothing.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000060_000004|He thought of the window, and that possibly he might break away through it, and then he thought of feigning illness, and a hundred other absurd schemes, but they all came to nothing, and he sat there to let events take their own course as they seemed determined to do in spite of him.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000061_000000|After a short silence, Mary continued, half banteringly: "Answer me, sir!
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000063_000000|"Yes, I know all that; but I am not.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000063_000001|It can't be helped, and you shall answer me."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000064_000000|"There is no answer, dear lady-I beg you-oh, do you not see-"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000065_000000|"Yes, yes; but answer my question; am I not kind-more than you deserve?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000066_000000|"Indeed, yes; a thousand times.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000066_000001|You have always been so kind, so gracious and so condescending to me that I can only thank you, thank you, thank you," answered Brandon, almost shyly; not daring to lift his eyes to hers.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000067_000000|Mary saw the manner quickly enough-what woman ever missed it, much less so keen eyed a girl as she-and it gave her confidence, and brought back the easy banter of her old time manner.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000000|"How modest we have become!
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000002|Kind?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000003|Have I always been so?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000004|How about the first time I met you?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000005|Was I kind then?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000006|And as to condescension, don't-don't use that word between us."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000000|"No," returned Brandon, who, in his turn, was recovering himself, "no, I can't say that you were very kind at first.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000001|How you did fly out at me and surprise me.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000002|It was so unexpected it almost took me off my feet," and they both laughed in remembering the scene of their first meeting.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000003|"No, I can't say your kindness showed itself very strongly in that first interview, but it was there nevertheless, and when Lady Jane led me back, your real nature asserted itself, as it always does, and you were kind to me; kind as only you can be."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000071_000000|"You are easily satisfied if you call that good," laughingly returned Mary.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000071_000001|"I can be ever so much better than that if I try."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000072_000000|"Let me see you try," said Brandon.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000073_000000|"Why, I'm trying now," answered Mary with a distracting little pout. "Don't you know genuine out and out goodness when you see it?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000073_000001|I'm doing my very best now.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000073_000002|Can't you tell?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000074_000000|"Yes, I think I recognize it; but-but-be bad again."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000075_000001|I will not be bad even to please you; I have determined not to be bad and I will not-not even to be good.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000075_000002|This," placing her hand over her heart, "is just full of 'good' to day," and her lips parted as she laughed at her own pleasantry.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000076_000000|"I am afraid you had better be bad-I give you fair warning," said Brandon huskily.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000076_000001|He felt her eyes upon him all the time, and his strength and good resolves were oozing out like wine from an ill coppered cask.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000076_000002|After a short silence Mary continued, regardless of the warning:
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000077_000000|"But the position is reversed with us; at first I was unkind to you, and you were kind to me, but now I am kind to you and you are unkind to me."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000078_000001|"You don't know when I am kind to you.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000078_000002|I should be kinder to myself, at least, were I to leave you and take myself to the other side of the world."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000079_000001|Jane tells me you are going to New Spain?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000000|She was anxious to know, but asked the question partly to turn the conversation which was fast becoming perilous.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000003|It was not to be thought of between people so far apart as they.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000004|The brink was a delightful place, full of all the sweet ecstasies and thrilling joys of a seventh heaven, but over the brink-well! there should be no "over," for who was she?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000005|And who was he?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000006|Those two dreadfully stubborn facts could not be forgotten, and the gulf between them could not be spanned; she knew that only too well.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000007|No one better.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000081_000000|Brandon answered her question: "I do not know about going; I think I shall.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000082_000001|It gave her a pang to hear that he was actually going, and her love pulsed higher; but she also felt a sense of relief, somewhat as a conscientious house breaker might feel upon finding the door securely locked against him.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000082_000002|It would take away a temptation which she could not resist, and yet dared not yield to much longer.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000083_000000|"I think there is no doubt that I mean it," replied Brandon.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000083_000002|I could have paid it with what I lost to Judson before I discovered him cheating." This was the first time he had ever alluded to the duel, and the thought of it, in Mary's mind, added a faint touch of fear to her feeling toward him.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000000|She looked up with a light in her eyes and asked: "What is the debt? How much?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000003|Please tell me how much it is and I will hand it to you.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000005|Now tell me that I may.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000006|Quickly." And she was alive with enthusiastic interest.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000085_000001|Be sure, I thank you, though I say it only once," and he looked into her eyes with a gaze she could not stand even for an instant.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000086_000001|Is that it?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000086_000002|Perhaps you are not so kind after all."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000087_000002|How much is it and to whom is it owing?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000089_000000|"Please do.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000089_000001|I beg-if I cannot command.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000090_000000|"Master Brandon!" she exclaimed sharply, and drew away her hand. Brandon dropped the hand and moved over on the seat.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000090_000003|Mary saw the eloquent movement away from her and his speaking attitude, with averted face; then the princess went into eclipse, and the imperial woman was ascendant once more.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000090_000004|She looked at him for a brief space with softening eyes, and, lifting her hand, put it back in his, saying:
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000092_000002|The hand would not satisfy now; it must be all, all!
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000093_000001|Not this time.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000093_000004|Mary mother, forgive me." Then her woman spirit fell before the whirlwind of his passion, and she was on his breast with her white arms around his neck, paying the same tribute to the little blind god that he would have exacted from the lowliest maiden of the land.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000093_000005|Just as though it were not the blood of fifty kings and queens that made so red and sweet, aye, sweet as nectar thrice distilled, those lips which now so freely paid their dues in coined bliss.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000095_000000|"Heaven help me!" he cried.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000097_000000|"Heaven help us both; for I love you!"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000098_000001|"Don't! don't!
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000099_000000|Mary followed him nearly to the door of the room, but when he turned he saw that she had stopped, and was standing with her hands over her face, as if in tears.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000001|It is all my fault.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000003|I could not help it; I tried.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000004|Oh!
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000005|I tried."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000101_000000|Mary's eyes were bent upon the floor, and tears were falling over her flushed cheeks, unheeded and unchecked.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000102_000000|"There is no fault in any one; neither could I help it," she murmured.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000103_000002|I shall never recover."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000105_000003|Her eyes were cast down in silence, and she was evidently thinking as she toyed with the lace of his doublet.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000105_000004|Brandon knew her varying expressions so well that he saw there was something wanting, so he asked:
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000109_000000|She nodded her head slowly: "Yes."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000110_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000110_000001|Tell me and I will say it."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000112_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000112_000001|I cannot guess."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000113_000000|"Did you not like to hear me say that-that I-loved you?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000114_000000|"Ah, yes; you know it.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000114_000001|But-oh!--do you wish to hear me say it?"
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000117_000000|She nestled closer to him and hid her face on his breast.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000118_000000|"Now that I have said it, what is my reward?" he asked-and the fair face came up, red and rosy, with "rewards," any one of which was worth a king's ransom.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000119_000000|"But this is worse than insanity," cried Brandon, as he almost pushed her from him.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000119_000001|"We can never belong to each other; never."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000120_000000|"No," said Mary, with a despairing shake of the head, as the tears began to flow again; "no! never." And falling upon his knees, he caught both her hands in his, sprang to his feet and ran from the room.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000121_000000|Her words showed him the chasm anew.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000121_000002|Evidently it seemed farther looking down than looking up.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000121_000003|There was nothing left now but flight.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000122_000001|Why did I ever come to this court?
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000125_000000|It was better, he thought, and wisely too, that there be no leave taking, but that he should go without meeting her.
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000126_000000|"If I see her again," he said, "I shall have to kill some one, even if it is only myself."
train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000128_000000|But providence, or fate, or some one, ordered it differently, and there was plenty of trouble ahead.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000004_000000|IN the early morning (it was the second morning after my recovery, and I believe the fourth after I was picked up), I awoke through an avenue of tumultuous dreams,--dreams of guns and howling mobs,--and became sensible of a hoarse shouting above me.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000004_000002|I jumped into my clothes and went on deck.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000006_000000|The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000008_000000|He stood in my way, so that I had perforce to tap his shoulder to come on deck.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000008_000001|He came round with a start, and staggered back a few paces to stare at me.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000008_000002|It needed no expert eye to tell that the man was still drunk.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000010_000000|"Prendick," said i
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000011_000000|"Prendick be damned!" said he.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000011_000001|"Shut up,--that's your name. Mister Shut up."
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000012_000000|It was no good answering the brute; but I certainly did not expect his next move.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000012_000001|He held out his hand to the gangway by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey haired man in dirty blue flannels, who had apparently just come aboard.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000013_000000|"That way, Mister Blasted Shut up! that way!" roared the captain.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000014_000000|Montgomery and his companion turned as he spoke.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000015_000000|"What do you mean?" I said.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000016_000000|"That way, Mister Blasted Shut up,--that's what I mean! Overboard, Mister Shut up,--and sharp!
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000017_000000|I stared at him dumfounded.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000017_000001|Then it occurred to me that it was exactly the thing I wanted.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000017_000002|The lost prospect of a journey as sole passenger with this quarrelsome sot was not one to mourn over. I turned towards Montgomery.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000018_000000|"Can't have you," said Montgomery's companion, concisely.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000019_000001|He had the squarest and most resolute face I ever set eyes upon.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000020_000000|"Look here," I began, turning to the captain.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000021_000001|"This ship aint for beasts and cannibals and worse than beasts, any more.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000021_000003|If they can't have you, you goes overboard. But, anyhow, you go-with your friends.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000021_000005|I've had enough of it."
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000022_000000|"But, Montgomery," I appealed.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000023_000000|He distorted his lower lip, and nodded his head hopelessly at the grey haired man beside him, to indicate his powerlessness to help me.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000025_000000|Then began a curious three cornered altercation. Alternately I appealed to one and another of the three men,--first to the grey haired man to let me land, and then to the drunken captain to keep me aboard.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000025_000002|I'm king here." At last I must confess my voice suddenly broke in the middle of a vigorous threat. I felt a gust of hysterical petulance, and went aft and stared dismally at nothing.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000026_000002|Neither Montgomery nor his companion took the slightest notice of me, but busied themselves in assisting and directing the four or five sailors who were unloading the goods. The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000027_000000|Presently that work was finished, and then came a struggle. I was hauled, resisting weakly enough, to the gangway. Even then I noticed the oddness of the brown faces of the men who were with Montgomery in the launch; but the launch was now fully laden, and was shoved off hastily.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000027_000001|A broadening gap of green water appeared under me, and I pushed back with all my strength to avoid falling headlong.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000027_000002|The hands in the launch shouted derisively, and I heard Montgomery curse at them; and then the captain, the mate, and one of the seamen helping him, ran me aft towards the stern.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000028_000000|The dingey of the "Lady Vain" had been towing behind; it was half full of water, had no oars, and was quite unvictualled. I refused to go aboard her, and flung myself full length on the deck. In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no stern ladder), and then they cut me adrift.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000028_000001|I drifted slowly from the schooner.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000000|I did not turn my head to follow her.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000001|At first I could scarcely believe what had happened.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000002|I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000003|Then I realised that I was in that little hell of mine again, now half swamped; and looking back over the gunwale, I saw the schooner standing away from me, with the red haired captain mocking at me over the taffrail, and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approached the beach.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000030_000001|The tears ran down my face.
train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000030_000002|In a passion of despair I struck with my fists at the water in the bottom of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000001_000000|BUT the islanders, seeing that I was really adrift, took pity on me. I drifted very slowly to the eastward, approaching the island slantingly; and presently I saw, with hysterical relief, the launch come round and return towards me.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000001_000002|There were three other men besides,--three strange brutish looking fellows, at whom the staghounds were snarling savagely. Montgomery, who was steering, brought the boat by me, and rising, caught and fastened my painter to the tiller to tow me, for there was no room aboard.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000002_000000|I had recovered from my hysterical phase by this time and answered his hail, as he approached, bravely enough. I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin. I was jerked back as the rope tightened between the boats. For some time I was busy baling.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000003_000000|It was not until I had got the water under (for the water in the dingey had been shipped; the boat was perfectly sound) that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000004_000000|The white haired man I found was still regarding me steadfastly, but with an expression, as I now fancied, of some perplexity. When my eyes met his, he looked down at the staghound that sat between his knees.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000004_000001|He was a powerfully built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution. He talked to Montgomery in a tone too low for me to hear.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000005_000003|As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first one and then another turned away from my direct stare, and looked at me in an odd, furtive manner.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000005_000004|It occurred to me that I was perhaps annoying them, and I turned my attention to the island we were approaching.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000000|It was low, and covered with thick vegetation,--chiefly a kind of palm, that was new to me.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000001|From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather. We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000003|I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000005|He had a large, almost lipless, mouth, extraordinary lank arms, long thin feet, and bow legs, and stood with his heavy face thrust forward staring at us. He was dressed like Montgomery and his white haired companion, in jacket and trousers of blue serge.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000006|As we came still nearer, this individual began to run to and fro on the beach, making the most grotesque movements.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000000|At a word of command from Montgomery, the four men in the launch sprang up, and with singularly awkward gestures struck the lugs. Montgomery steered us round and into a narrow little dock excavated in the beach.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000002|I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen,--not stiff they were, but distorted in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000003|The dogs were still snarling, and strained at their chains after these men, as the white haired man landed with them.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000005|Montgomery, having unshipped the rudder, landed likewise, and all set to work at unloading.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000008_000000|Presently the white haired man seemed to recollect my presence, and came up to me.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000009_000001|Now you are our guest, we must make you comfortable,--though you are uninvited, you know." He looked keenly into my face.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000009_000002|"Montgomery says you are an educated man, mr Prendick; says you know something of science.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000009_000003|May I ask what that signifies?"
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000010_000000|I told him I had spent some years at the Royal College of Science, and had done some researches in biology under Huxley.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000010_000001|He raised his eyebrows slightly at that.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000001|"As it happens, we are biologists here.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000002|This is a biological station-of a sort." His eye rested on the men in white who were busily hauling the puma, on rollers, towards the walled yard.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000003|"I and Montgomery, at least," he added.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000004|Then, "When you will be able to get away, I can't say. We're off the track to anywhere.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000012_000000|He left me abruptly, and went up the beach past this group, and I think entered the enclosure.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000013_000001|That captain was a silly ass. He'd have made things lively for you."
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000014_000000|"It was you," said I, "that saved me again."
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000015_000000|"That depends.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000015_000001|You'll find this island an infernally rum place, I promise you.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000015_000003|"I wish you'd help me with these rabbits," he said.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000016_000000|His procedure with the rabbits was singular.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000017_000000|"Increase and multiply, my friends," said Montgomery. "Replenish the island.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000017_000001|Hitherto we've had a certain lack of meat here."
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000018_000000|As I watched them disappearing, the white haired man returned with a brandy flask and some biscuits.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000018_000001|"Something to go on with, Prendick," said he, in a far more familiar tone than before.
train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000018_000002|I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits. Three big hutches, however, went up to the house with the puma. The brandy I did not touch, for I have been an abstainer from my birth.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000000_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000000_000001|THE LOCKED DOOR.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000001_000001|I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken by Montgomery, who asked me not to enter the stone enclosure. I noticed then that the puma in its cage and the pile of packages had been placed outside the entrance to this quadrangle.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000002_000000|I turned and saw that the launch had now been unloaded, run out again, and was being beached, and the white haired man was walking towards us. He addressed Montgomery.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000003_000000|"And now comes the problem of this uninvited guest.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000003_000001|What are we to do with him?"
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000004_000000|"He knows something of science," said Montgomery.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000005_000000|"I'm itching to get to work again-with this new stuff," said the white haired man, nodding towards the enclosure. His eyes grew brighter.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000006_000000|"I daresay you are," said Montgomery, in anything but a cordial tone.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000007_000000|"We can't send him over there, and we can't spare the time to build him a new shanty; and we certainly can't take him into our confidence just yet."
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000008_000000|"I'm in your hands," said i I had no idea of what he meant by "over there."
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000009_000000|"I've been thinking of the same things," Montgomery answered. "There's my room with the outer door-"
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000010_000000|"That's it," said the elder man, promptly, looking at Montgomery; and all three of us went towards the enclosure.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000010_000001|"I'm sorry to make a mystery, mr Prendick; but you'll remember you're uninvited. Our little establishment here contains a secret or so, is a kind of Blue Beard's chamber, in fact.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000010_000002|Nothing very dreadful, really, to a sane man; but just now, as we don't know you-"
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000011_000000|"Decidedly," said I, "I should be a fool to take offence at any want of confidence."
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000012_000000|He twisted his heavy mouth into a faint smile-he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down,--and bowed his acknowledgment of my complaisance.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000012_000002|I followed him, and found myself in a small apartment, plainly but not uncomfortably furnished and with its inner door, which was slightly ajar, opening into a paved courtyard.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000012_000003|This inner door Montgomery at once closed. A hammock was slung across the darker corner of the room, and a small unglazed window defended by an iron bar looked out towards the sea.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000014_000000|"We usually have our meals in here," said Montgomery, and then, as if in doubt, went out after the other.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000014_000001|"Moreau!" I heard him call, and for the moment I do not think I noticed. Then as I handled the books on the shelf it came up in consciousness: Where had I heard the name of Moreau before?
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000014_000002|I sat down before the window, took out the biscuits that still remained to me, and ate them with an excellent appetite.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000015_000000|Through the window I saw one of those unaccountable men in white, lugging a packing case along the beach.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000016_000001|From that my thoughts went to the indefinable queerness of the deformed man on the beach. I never saw such a gait, such odd motions as he pulled at the box. I recalled that none of these men had spoken to me, though most of them I had found looking at me at one time or another in a peculiarly furtive manner, quite unlike the frank stare of your unsophisticated savage.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000016_000002|Indeed, they had all seemed remarkably taciturn, and when they did speak, endowed with very uncanny voices. What was wrong with them?
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000016_000003|Then I recalled the eyes of Montgomery's ungainly attendant.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000017_000000|Just as I was thinking of him he came in.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000017_000002|Then astonishment paralysed me.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000017_000003|Under his stringy black locks I saw his ear; it jumped upon me suddenly close to my face.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000018_000000|"Your breakfast, sair," he said.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000000|I stared at his face without attempting to answer him.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000001|He turned and went towards the door, regarding me oddly over his shoulder. I followed him out with my eyes; and as I did so, by some odd trick of unconscious cerebration, there came surging into my head the phrase, "The Moreau Hollows"--was it?
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000003|It sent my memory back ten years.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000004|"The Moreau Horrors!"
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000005|The phrase drifted loose in my mind for a moment, and then I saw it in red lettering on a little buff coloured pamphlet, to read which made one shiver and creep. Then I remembered distinctly all about it.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000006|That long forgotten pamphlet came back with startling vividness to my mind. I had been a mere lad then, and Moreau was, I suppose, about fifty,--a prominent and masterful physiologist, well-known in scientific circles for his extraordinary imagination and his brutal directness in discussion.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000000|Was this the same Moreau?
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000002|He had to leave England. A journalist obtained access to his laboratory in the capacity of laboratory assistant, with the deliberate intention of making sensational exposures; and by the help of a shocking accident (if it was an accident), his gruesome pamphlet became notorious. On the day of its publication a wretched dog, flayed and otherwise mutilated, escaped from Moreau's house.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000004|The doctor was simply howled out of the country. It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000005|Yet some of his experiments, by the journalist's account, were wantonly cruel. He might perhaps have purchased his social peace by abandoning his investigations; but he apparently preferred the latter, as most men would who have once fallen under the overmastering spell of research. He was unmarried, and had indeed nothing but his own interest to consider.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000000|I felt convinced that this must be the same man.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000001|Everything pointed to it.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000002|It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals-which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house-were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000003|It was the antiseptic odour of the dissecting room.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000004|I heard the puma growling through the wall, and one of the dogs yelped as though it had been struck.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000022_000000|Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000022_000001|I stared before me out at the green sea, frothing under a freshening breeze, and let these and other strange memories of the last few days chase one another through my mind.
train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000023_000000|What could it all mean?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000004_000000|three
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000005_000000|A POINT OF INTERROGATION
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000006_000000|The man from Scotland Yard had just surrendered hat, coat, and umbrella to the vestiaire and was turning through swinging doors to the dining room.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000006_000001|Again, embracing Lanyard, his glance seemed devoid of any sort of intelligible expression; and if its object needed all his self possession in that moment, it was to dissemble relief rather than dismay.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000006_000002|An accent of the fortuitous distinguished this second encounter too persuasively to excuse further misgivings.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000007_000000|Furthermore, before quitting the lobby, Roddy paused long enough to instruct the vestiaire to have a fire laid in his room.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000010_000000|This last disposed of; Lanyard surrendered himself to new impressions-of which the first proved a bit disheartening.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000000|However impulsively, he hadn't resought Troyon's without definite intent, to wit, to gain some clue, however slender, to the mystery of that wretched child, Marcel.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000001|But now it appeared he had procrastinated fatally: Time and Change had left little other than the shell of the Troyon's he remembered.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000002|Papa Troyon was gone; Madame no longer occupied the desk of the caisse; enquiries, so discreetly worded as to be uncompromising, elicited from the maitre d'hotel the information that the house had been under new management these eighteen months; the old proprietor was dead, and his widow had sold out lock, stock and barrel, and retired to the country-it was not known exactly where.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000003|And with the new administration had come fresh decorations and furnishings as well as a complete change of personnel: not even one of the old waiters remained.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000012_000000|"'All, all are gone, the old familiar faces,'" Lanyard quoted in vindictive melancholy-"damn 'em!"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000014_000000|Other impressions, less ultimate, proved puzzling, disconcerting, and paradoxically reassuring.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000015_000000|Lanyard commanded a fair view of Roddy across the waist of the room. The detective had ordered a meal that matched his aspect well-both of true British simplicity.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000016_000000|Now one doesn't read the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail with tense excitement.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000016_000001|Humanly speaking, it can't be done.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000017_000000|Where, then, was the object of this so sedulously dissembled interest?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000019_000000|Despite the lateness of the hour, which had by now turned ten o'clock, the restaurant had a dozen tables or so in the service of guests pleasantly engaged in lengthening out an agreeable evening with dessert, coffee, liqueurs and cigarettes.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000019_000001|The majority of these were in couples, but at a table one removed from Roddy's sat a party of three; and Lanyard noticed, or fancied, that the man from Scotland Yard turned his newspaper only during lulls in the conversation in this quarter.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000021_000000|For the instant they seemed to explore Lanyard's very soul with a look of remote and impersonal curiosity; then they fell away; and when next the adventurer looked, the man had turned to attend to some observation of one of his companions.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000022_000000|On his right sat a girl who might be his daughter; for not only was she, too, hall marked American, but she was far too young to be the other's wife.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000022_000001|A demure, old-fashioned type; well poised but unassuming; fetchingly gowned and with sufficient individuality of taste but not conspicuously; a girl with soft brown hair and soft brown eyes; pretty, not extravagantly so when her face was in repose, but with a slow smile that rendered her little less than beautiful: in all (Lanyard thought) the kind of woman that is predestined to comfort mankind, whose strongest instinct is the maternal.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000025_000001|If so, it would be a chase worth following-a diversion rendered the more exquisite to Lanyard by the spice of novelty, since for once he would figure as a dispassionate bystander.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000026_000000|The name of Comte Remy de Morbihan, although unrecorded in the Almanach de Gotha, was one to conjure with in the Paris of his day and generation.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000026_000001|He claimed the distinction of being at once the homeliest, one of the wealthiest, and the most liked man in France.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000027_000000|As to his looks, good or bad, they were said to prove infallibly fatal with women, while not a few men, perhaps for that reason, did their possessor the honour to imitate them.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000029_000001|Lanyard, for one, wouldn't have thought him the properest company or the best Parisian cicerone for an ailing American gentleman blessed with independent means and an attractive daughter.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000031_000000|But perhaps Lanyard was prejudiced by his partiality for Americans, a sentiment the outgrowth of the years spent in New York with Bourke.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000031_000001|He even fancied that between his spirit and theirs existed some subtle bond of sympathy.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000031_000002|For all he knew he might himself be American...
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000032_000000|For some time Lanyard strained to catch something of the conversation that seemed to hold so much of interest for Roddy, but without success because of the hum of voices that filled the room.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000032_000001|In time, however, the gathering began to thin out, until at length there remained only this party of three, Lanyard enjoying a most delectable salad, and Roddy puffing a cigar (with such a show of enjoyment that Lanyard suspected him of the sin of smuggling) and slowly gulping down a second bottle of Bass.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000033_000000|Under these conditions the talk between De Morbihan and the Americans became public property.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000034_000000|The first remark overheard by Lanyard came from the elderly American, following a pause and a consultation of his watch.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000035_000000|"Quarter to eleven," he announced.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000036_000000|"Plenty of time," said De Morbihan cheerfully.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000036_000001|"That is," he amended, "if mademoiselle isn't bored ..."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000037_000000|The girl's reply, accompanied by a pretty inclination of her head toward the Frenchman, was lost in the accents of the first speaker-a strong and sonorous voice, in strange contrast with his ravaged appearance and distressing cough.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000038_000000|"Don't let that worry you," he advised cheerfully.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000038_000001|"Lucia's accustomed to keeping late hours with me; and who ever heard of a young and pretty woman being bored on the third day of her first visit to Paris?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000040_000000|"To be sure," laughed the Frenchman; "one suspects it will be long before mademoiselle loses interest in the rue de la Paix."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000041_000000|"You may well, when such beautiful things come from it," said the girl. "See what we found there to day."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000043_000000|There followed silence for an instant, then an exclamation from the Frenchman:
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000044_000000|"But it is superb!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000044_000001|Accept, mademoiselle, my compliments.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000044_000002|It is worthy even of you."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000045_000000|She flushed prettily as she nodded smiling acknowledgement.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000046_000001|"You fill us with envy: you have the souls of poets and the wealth of princes!"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000047_000000|"But we must come to Paris to find beautiful things for our women folk!"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000048_000000|"Take care, though, lest you go too far, Monsieur Bannon."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000049_000000|"How so-too far?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000050_000000|"You might attract the attention of the Lone Wolf.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000050_000001|They say he's on the prowl once more."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000051_000000|The American laughed a trace contemptuously.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000051_000001|Lanyard's fingers tightened on his knife and fork; otherwise he made no sign.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000052_000000|The girl bent forward with a look of eager interest.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000053_000000|"The Lone Wolf?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000053_000001|Who is that?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000054_000000|"You don't know him in America, mademoiselle?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000055_000000|"no..."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000056_000001|Nobody knows anything definite about him, apparently, but he operates in a most individual way and keeps the police busy trying to guess where he'll strike next."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000057_000000|The girl breathed an incredulous exclamation.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000058_000001|"The rogue has had a wonderfully successful career, thanks to his dispensing with confederates and confining his depredations to jewels and similar valuables, portable and easy to convert into cash.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000058_000002|Yet," he added, nodding sagely, "one isn't afraid to predict his race is almost run." "You don't tell me!" the older man exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000058_000003|"Have they picked up the scent-at last?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000063_000000|"Known!" the American exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000064_000000|"I didn't say that," De Morbihan laughed; "but the mystery is no more-in certain quarters."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000065_000000|"Who is he, then?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000066_000001|Indeed, I may be indiscreet in saying as much as I do.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000066_000002|Yet, among friends..."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000068_000000|"But," the American persisted, "perhaps you can tell us how they got on his track?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000069_000000|"It wasn't difficult," said De Morbihan: "indeed, quite simple.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000069_000002|He had been annoyed and distressed, had even spoken of handing in his resignation because of his inability to cope with this gentleman, the Lone Wolf.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000069_000003|And since he is my friend, I too was distressed on his behalf, and badgered my poor wits until they chanced upon an idea which led us to the light."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000071_000000|"Perhaps I shouldn't.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000071_000001|And yet-why not?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000071_000003|One made up one's mind the Lone Wolf must be a certain sort of man; the rest was simply sifting France for the man to fit the theory, and then watching him until he gave himself away."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000072_000000|"You don't imagine we're going to let you stop there?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000000|"No?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000001|I must continue?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000002|Very well: I confess to some little pride.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000003|It was a feat.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000004|He is cunning, that one!"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000074_000000|De Morbihan paused and shifted sideways in his chair, grinning like a mischievous child.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000076_000000|"Do go on-please!" the girl begged prettily.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000000|"I can deny you nothing, mademoiselle....
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000001|Well, then!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000002|From what little was known of this mysterious creature, one readily inferred he must be a bachelor, with no close friends.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000003|That is clear, I trust?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000078_000000|"Too deep for me, my friend," the elderly man confessed.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000000|"Impenetrable reticence," the Count expounded, sententious-and enjoying himself hugely-"isn't possible in the human relations.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000002|And a secret between two is-a prolific breeder of platitudes!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000003|Granted this line of reasoning, the Lone Wolf is of necessity not only unmarried but practically friendless.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000005|So far, good!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000007|Him they sedulously watched, shadowing him across Europe and back again.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000009|You have heard of Madame Omber, eh?" Now by Roddy's expression it was plain that, if Madame Omber's name wasn't strange in his hearing, at least he found this news about her most surprising.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000010|He was frankly staring, with a slackened jaw and with stupefaction in his blank blue eyes.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000080_000000|Lanyard gently pinched the small end of a cigar, dipped it into his coffee, and lighted it with not so much as a suspicion of tremor.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000080_000002|For by now the news of the Omber affair must have thrilled many a Continental telegraph wire....
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000081_000000|"Madame Omber-of course!" the American agreed thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000081_000001|"Everyone has heard of her wonderful jewels.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000084_000000|"Not precisely: but he left a clue-and London, to boot-with such haste as would seem to indicate he knew his cunning hand had, for once, slipped."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000086_000002|But now we must adjourn.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000086_000003|One is sorry.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000086_000004|It has been so very pleasant...."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000000|A waiter conjured the bill from some recess of his waistcoat and served it on a clean plate to the American.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000001|Another ran bawling for the vestiaire.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000002|Roddy glued his gaze afresh to the Daily Mail.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000003|The party rose.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000002|"It is Monsieur Lanyard, who knows all about paintings!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000003|But this is delightful, my friend-one grand pleasure!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000004|You must know my friends....
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000005|But come!"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000091_000000|"And you are American, too.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000092_000000|The hand of the American, when Lanyard clasped it, was cold, as cold as ice; and as their eyes met that abominable cough laid hold of the man, as it were by the nape of his neck, and shook him viciously.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000092_000001|Before it had finished with him, his sensitively coloured face was purple, and he was gasping, breathless-and infuriated.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000093_000000|"Monsieur Bannon," De Morbihan explained disconnectedly-"it is most distressing-I tell him he should not stop in Paris at this season-"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000094_000000|"It is nothing!" the American interposed brusquely between paroxysms.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000095_000000|"But our winter climate, monsieur-it is not fit for those in the prime of health-"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000000|Lanyard murmured some conventional expression of sympathy.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000001|Through it all he was conscious of the regard of the girl.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000002|Her soft brown eyes met his candidly, with a look cool in its composure, straightforward in its enquiry, neither bold nor mock demure.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000003|And if they were the first to fall, it was with an effect of curiosity sated, without hint of discomfiture....
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000004|And somehow the adventurer felt himself measured, classified, filed away.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000098_000000|Between amusement and pique he continued to stare while the elderly American recovered his breath and De Morbihan jabbered on with unfailing vivacity; and he thought that this closer scrutiny discovered in her face contours suggesting maturity of thought beyond her apparent years-which were somewhat less than the sum of Lanyard's-and with this the suggestion of an elusive, provoking quality of wistful languor, a hint of patient melancholy....
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000099_000001|Well, it will be amusing to show him what changes have taken place in all that time.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000099_000002|One regrets mademoiselle is too fatigued to accompany us.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000099_000003|But you, my friend-now if you would consent to make our third, it would be most amiable of you."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000100_000000|"I'm sorry," Lanyard excused himself; "but as you see, I am only just in from the railroad, a long and tiresome journey.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000100_000001|You are very good, but I-"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000101_000000|"Good!" De Morbihan exclaimed with violence.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000101_000001|"I?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000101_000003|You lead such a busy life, my friend, romping about Europe, here one day, God knows where the next, that one must make one's best of your spare moments.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000101_000004|You will join us, surely?"
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000102_000000|"Really I cannot to night.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000102_000001|Another time perhaps, if you'll excuse me."
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000103_000001|"'Another time, perhaps'--his invariable excuse!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000103_000004|"But should you change your mind-well, you'll have no trouble finding us.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000104_000000|"It will be an honour," Lanyard returned formally....
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000105_000000|In his heart he was pondering several most excruciating methods of murdering the man.
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000105_000001|What did he mean?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000105_000002|How much did he know?
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000106_000000|Decidedly something must be done to silence this animal, should it turn out he really did know anything!
train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000108_000000|It would never do to fix the doubts of the detective by going elsewhere that night.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000004_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000004_000001|THE FINDING OF MOREAU.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000005_000001|He was already more than half fuddled. I told him that some serious thing must have happened to Moreau by this time, or he would have returned before this, and that it behoved us to ascertain what that catastrophe was. Montgomery raised some feeble objections, and at last agreed. We had some food, and then all three of us started.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000000|It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropical afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000003|My left arm was in a sling (it was lucky it was my left), and I carried my revolver in my right. Soon we traced a narrow path through the wild luxuriance of the island, going northwestward; and presently M'ling stopped, and became rigid with watchfulness.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000004|Montgomery almost staggered into him, and then stopped too.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000005|Then, listening intently, we heard coming through the trees the sound of voices and footsteps approaching us.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000010_000000|"Hullo!" suddenly shouted Montgomery, "Hullo, there!"
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000011_000000|"Confound you!" said I, and gripped my pistol.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000013_000000|For a space no one spoke.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000013_000001|Then Montgomery hiccoughed, "Who-said he was dead?"
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000014_000001|"He is dead," said this monster.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000014_000002|"They saw."
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000015_000000|There was nothing threatening about this detachment, at any rate. They seemed awestricken and puzzled.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000016_000000|"Where is he?" said Montgomery.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000018_000000|"Is there a Law now?" asked the Monkey man.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000018_000001|"Is it still to be this and that?
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000019_000001|"Is there a Law, thou Other with the Whip?"
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000020_000001|And they all stood watching us.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000021_000000|"Prendick," said Montgomery, turning his dull eyes to me. "He's dead, evidently."
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000022_000000|I had been standing behind him during this colloquy. I began to see how things lay with them.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000022_000002|He is-there," I pointed upward, "where he can watch you.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000022_000003|You cannot see him, but he can see you. Fear the Law!"
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000023_000000|I looked at them squarely.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000023_000001|They flinched.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000024_000000|"He is great, he is good," said the Ape man, peering fearfully upward among the dense trees.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000025_000000|"And the other Thing?" I demanded.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000028_000000|"The Other with the Whip-" began the grey Thing.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000029_000000|"Well?" said i
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000032_000000|"Some," said I, "have broken the Law: they will die.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000032_000001|Some have died. Show us now where his old body lies,--the body he cast away because he had no more need of it."
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000033_000000|"It is this way, Man who walked in the Sea," said the grey Thing.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000000|And with these six creatures guiding us, we went through the tumult of ferns and creepers and tree stems towards the northwest. Then came a yelling, a crashing among the branches, and a little pink homunculus rushed by us shrieking.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000002|The grey Thing leapt aside. M'ling, with a snarl, flew at it, and was struck aside.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000003|Montgomery fired and missed, bowed his head, threw up his arm, and turned to run. I fired, and the Thing still came on; fired again, point blank, into its ugly face.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000005|Yet it passed me, gripped Montgomery, and holding him, fell headlong beside him and pulled him sprawling upon itself in its death agony.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000036_000000|"See," said I, pointing to the dead brute, "is the Law not alive? This came of breaking the Law."
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000037_000000|He peered at the body.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000038_000003|Montgomery turned him over. Resting at intervals, and with the help of the seven Beast People (for he was a heavy man), we carried Moreau back to the enclosure. The night was darkling.
train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000038_000004|Twice we heard unseen creatures howling and shrieking past our little band, and once the little pink sloth creature appeared and stared at us, and vanished again. But we were not attacked again.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000001_000001|ALONE WITH THE BEAST FOLK.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000002|Among the chips scattered about the beach lay the two axes that had been used to chop up the boats. The tide was creeping in behind me.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000003|There was nothing for it but courage.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000005|I took half a dozen steps, picked up the blood stained whip that lay beneath the body of the Wolf man, and cracked it.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000006|They stopped and stared at me.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000003_000000|"Salute!" said i "Bow down!"
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000000|They hesitated.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000001|One bent his knees.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000002|I repeated my command, with my heart in my mouth, and advanced upon them.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000003|One knelt, then the other two.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000005_000000|I turned and walked towards the dead bodies, keeping my face towards the three kneeling Beast Men, very much as an actor passing up the stage faces the audience.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000006_000000|"They broke the Law," said I, putting my foot on the Sayer of the Law. "They have been slain,--even the Sayer of the Law; even the Other with the Whip.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000006_000001|Great is the Law!
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000006_000002|Come and see."
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000007_000000|"None escape," said one of them, advancing and peering.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000008_000000|"None escape," said i "Therefore hear and do as I command." They stood up, looking questioningly at one another.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000009_000000|"Stand there," said i
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000011_000000|"Take him," said I, standing up again and pointing with the whip; "take him, and carry him out and cast him into the sea."
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000012_000000|They came forward, evidently still afraid of Montgomery, but still more afraid of my cracking red whip lash; and after some fumbling and hesitation, some whip cracking and shouting, they lifted him gingerly, carried him down to the beach, and went splashing into the dazzling welter of the sea.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000013_000001|Carry him far."
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000014_000000|They went in up to their armpits and stood regarding me.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000016_000000|"Good!" said I, with a break in my voice; and they came back, hurrying and fearful, to the margin of the water, leaving long wakes of black in the silver.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000016_000001|At the water's edge they stopped, turning and glaring into the sea as though they presently expected Montgomery to arise therefrom and exact vengeance.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000017_000000|"Now these," said I, pointing to the other bodies.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000019_000000|As I watched them disposing of the mangled remains of M'ling, I heard a light footfall behind me, and turning quickly saw the big Hyena swine perhaps a dozen yards away.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000019_000002|He stopped in this crouching attitude when I turned, his eyes a little averted.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000020_000000|For a moment we stood eye to eye.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000020_000001|I dropped the whip and snatched at the pistol in my pocket; for I meant to kill this brute, the most formidable of any left now upon the island, at the first excuse. It may seem treacherous, but so I was resolved.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000020_000002|I was far more afraid of him than of any other two of the Beast Folk. His continued life was I knew a threat against mine.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000021_000000|I was perhaps a dozen seconds collecting myself.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000021_000001|Then cried I, "Salute! Bow down!"
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000022_000000|His teeth flashed upon me in a snarl.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000000|Perhaps a little too spasmodically I drew my revolver, aimed quickly and fired.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000001|I heard him yelp, saw him run sideways and turn, knew I had missed, and clicked back the cock with my thumb for the next shot. But he was already running headlong, jumping from side to side, and I dared not risk another miss.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000002|Every now and then he looked back at me over his shoulder.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000004|For some time I stood staring after him.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000005|I turned to my three obedient Beast Folk again and signalled them to drop the body they still carried. Then I went back to the place by the fire where the bodies had fallen and kicked the sand until all the brown blood stains were absorbed and hidden.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000024_000000|I dismissed my three serfs with a wave of the hand, and went up the beach into the thickets.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000024_000001|I carried my pistol in my hand, my whip thrust with the hatchets in the sling of my arm. I was anxious to be alone, to think out the position in which I was now placed.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000024_000003|I went back to the beach, and turning eastward past the burning enclosure, made for a point where a shallow spit of coral sand ran out towards the reef.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000025_000001|"The stubborn beast flesh grows day by day back again." Then I came round to the Hyena swine.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000025_000002|I felt sure that if I did not kill that brute, he would kill me. The Sayer of the Law was dead: worse luck.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000025_000004|What was the Hyena swine telling them? My imagination was running away with me into a morass of unsubstantial fears.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000026_000001|I knew what that object was, but I had not the heart to go back and drive them off. I began walking along the beach in the opposite direction, designing to come round the eastward corner of the island and so approach the ravine of the huts, without traversing the possible ambuscades of the thickets.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000027_000001|I was now so nervous with my own imaginings that I immediately drew my revolver. Even the propitiatory gestures of the creature failed to disarm me. He hesitated as he approached.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000028_000000|"Go away!" cried i
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000031_000000|"May I not come near you?" it said.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000032_000000|"No; go away," I insisted, and snapped my whip.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000032_000001|Then putting my whip in my teeth, I stooped for a stone, and with that threat drove the creature away.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000034_000000|Towards noon certain of them came and squatted basking in the hot sand. The imperious voices of hunger and thirst prevailed over my dread. I came out of the bushes, and, revolver in hand, walked down towards these seated figures.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000034_000001|One, a Wolf woman, turned her head and stared at me, and then the others.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000034_000002|None attempted to rise or salute me. I felt too faint and weary to insist, and I let the moment pass.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000035_000000|"I want food," said I, almost apologetically, and drawing near.
train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000036_000000|"There is food in the huts," said an Ox boar man, drowsily, and looking away from me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000000_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000001_000001|When I awoke, it was dark about me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000001_000002|My arm ached in its bandages.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000000|I heard something breathing, saw something crouched together close beside me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000002|Then something soft and warm and moist passed across my hand.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000003|All my muscles contracted.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000004|I snatched my hand away.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000004_000000|"I-Master."
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000007_000000|"Are you the one I met on the beach?" I asked.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000008_000000|"The same, Master."
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000009_000001|"It is well," I said, extending my hand for another licking kiss.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000009_000002|I began to realise what its presence meant, and the tide of my courage flowed.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000009_000003|"Where are the others?" I asked.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000000|"They are mad; they are fools," said the Dog man.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000001|"Even now they talk together beyond there.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000002|They say, 'The Master is dead. The Other with the Whip is dead.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000003|That Other who walked in the Sea is as we are.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000004|We have no Master, no Whips, no House of Pain, any more. There is an end.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000005|We love the Law, and will keep it; but there is no Pain, no Master, no Whips for ever again.' So they say. But I know, Master, I know."
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000011_000001|"It is well," I said again.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000012_000000|"Presently you will slay them all," said the Dog man.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000013_000000|"Presently," I answered, "I will slay them all,--after certain days and certain things have come to pass.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000014_000000|"What the Master wishes to kill, the Master kills," said the Dog man with a certain satisfaction in his voice.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000015_000000|"And that their sins may grow," I said, "let them live in their folly until their time is ripe.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000015_000001|Let them not know that I am the Master."
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000016_000000|"The Master's will is sweet," said the Dog man, with the ready tact of his canine blood.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000018_000000|For a moment the opening of the hut was blackened by the exit of the Dog man.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000018_000002|The moon was just riding up on the edge of the ravine, and like a bar across its face drove the spire of vapour that was for ever streaming from the fumaroles of the island.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000020_000000|None about the fire attempted to salute me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000020_000002|I looked round for the Hyena swine, but he was not there.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000020_000003|Altogether, perhaps twenty of the Beast Folk squatted, staring into the fire or talking to one another.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000022_000000|"He is not dead," said I, in a loud voice.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000022_000001|"Even now he watches us!"
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000025_000000|"True, true!" said the Dog man.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000026_000000|They were staggered at my assurance.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000026_000001|An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000027_000000|"The Man with the Bandaged Arm speaks a strange thing," said one of the Beast Folk.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000028_000002|Woe be to him who breaks the Law!"
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000029_000000|They looked curiously at one another.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000029_000001|With an affectation of indifference I began to chop idly at the ground in front of me with my hatchet. They looked, I noticed, at the deep cuts I made in the turf.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000030_000001|I answered him.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000030_000002|Then one of the dappled things objected, and an animated discussion sprang up round the fire. Every moment I began to feel more convinced of my present security. I talked now without the catching in my breath, due to the intensity of my excitement, that had troubled me at first.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000030_000003|In the course of about an hour I had really convinced several of the Beast Folk of the truth of my assertions, and talked most of the others into a dubious state. I kept a sharp eye for my enemy the Hyena swine, but he never appeared. Every now and then a suspicious movement would startle me, but my confidence grew rapidly.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000031_000001|But from that night until the end came, there was but one thing happened to tell save a series of innumerable small unpleasant details and the fretting of an incessant uneasiness. So that I prefer to make no chronicle for that gap of time, to tell only one cardinal incident of the ten months I spent as an intimate of these half humanised brutes.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000032_000001|Indeed, I may say-without vanity, I hope-that I held something like pre eminence among them. One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented itself chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000033_000003|The Dog man scarcely dared to leave my side.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000034_000000|In the first month or so the Beast Folk, compared with their latter condition, were human enough, and for one or two besides my canine friend I even conceived a friendly tolerance. The little pink sloth creature displayed an odd affection for me, and took to following me about.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000034_000001|The Monkey man bored me, however; he assumed, on the strength of his five digits, that he was my equal, and was for ever jabbering at me,--jabbering the most arrant nonsense. One thing about him entertained me a little: he had a fantastic trick of coining new words.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000035_000000|This, I say, was in the earlier weeks of my solitude among these brutes. During that time they respected the usage established by the Law, and behaved with general decorum.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000035_000001|Once I found another rabbit torn to pieces,--by the Hyena swine, I am assured,--but that was all. It was about May when I first distinctly perceived a growing difference in their speech and carriage, a growing coarseness of articulation, a growing disinclination to talk.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000035_000004|They held things more clumsily; drinking by suction, feeding by gnawing, grew commoner every day. I realised more keenly than ever what Moreau had told me about the "stubborn beast flesh." They were reverting, and reverting very rapidly.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000036_000003|I cannot pursue this disagreeable subject.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000037_000000|My Dog man imperceptibly slipped back to the dog again; day by day he became dumb, quadrupedal, hairy.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000038_000000|As the carelessness and disorganisation increased from day to day, the lane of dwelling places, at no time very sweet, became so loathsome that I left it, and going across the island made myself a hovel of boughs amid the black ruins of Moreau's enclosure. Some memory of pain, I found, still made that place the safest from the Beast Folk.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000040_000001|For them and for me it came without any definite shock.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000042_000001|My clothes hung about me as yellow rags, through whose rents showed the tanned skin. My hair grew long, and became matted together.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000042_000002|I am told that even now my eyes have a strange brightness, a swift alertness of movement.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000043_000001|Five times I saw sails, and thrice smoke; but nothing ever touched the island.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000043_000002|I always had a bonfire ready, but no doubt the volcanic reputation of the island was taken to account for that.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000044_000000|It was only about September or October that I began to think of making a raft.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000044_000001|By that time my arm had healed, and both my hands were at my service again.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000044_000004|There came a season of thunder storms and heavy rain, which greatly retarded my work; but at last the raft was completed.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000045_000000|I was delighted with it.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000045_000001|But with a certain lack of practical sense which has always been my bane, I had made it a mile or more from the sea; and before I had dragged it down to the beach the thing had fallen to pieces.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000045_000002|Perhaps it is as well that I was saved from launching it; but at the time my misery at my failure was so acute that for some days I simply moped on the beach, and stared at the water and thought of death.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000046_000000|I did not, however, mean to die, and an incident occurred that warned me unmistakably of the folly of letting the days pass so,--for each fresh day was fraught with increasing danger from the Beast People.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000048_000000|At first I did not understand, but presently it occurred to me that he wished me to follow him; and this I did at last,--slowly, for the day was hot.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000048_000002|It was not afraid and not ashamed; the last vestige of the human taint had vanished.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000048_000004|At last I had him face to face.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000049_000000|The brute made no sign of retreat; but its ears went back, its hair bristled, and its body crouched together. I aimed between the eyes and fired.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000049_000001|As I did so, the Thing rose straight at me in a leap, and I was knocked over like a ninepin. It clutched at me with its crippled hand, and struck me in the face. Its spring carried it over me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000049_000003|That danger at least was over; but this, I knew was only the first of the series of relapses that must come.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000000|I burnt both of the bodies on a pyre of brushwood; but after that I saw that unless I left the island my death was only a question of time. The Beast People by that time had, with one or two exceptions, left the ravine and made themselves lairs according to their taste among the thickets of the island.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000001|Few prowled by day, most of them slept, and the island might have seemed deserted to a new comer; but at night the air was hideous with their calls and howling. I had half a mind to make a massacre of them; to build traps, or fight them with my knife.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000002|Had I possessed sufficient cartridges, I should not have hesitated to begin the killing.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000004|After the death of this poor dog of mine, my last friend, I too adopted to some extent the practice of slumbering in the daytime in order to be on my guard at night. I rebuilt my den in the walls of the enclosure, with such a narrow opening that anything attempting to enter must necessarily make a considerable noise.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000005|The creatures had lost the art of fire too, and recovered their fear of it.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000006|I turned once more, almost passionately now, to hammering together stakes and branches to form a raft for my escape.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000051_000000|I found a thousand difficulties.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000051_000003|But I could think of nothing.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000052_000003|But it sailed strangely.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000052_000005|The head was not kept to the wind; it yawed and fell away.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000053_000000|As the day grew brighter, I began waving the last rag of my jacket to them; but they did not notice me, and sat still, facing each other.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000053_000002|Suddenly a great white bird flew up out of the boat, and neither of the men stirred nor noticed it; it circled round, and then came sweeping overhead with its strong wings outspread.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000054_000000|Then I stopped shouting, and sat down on the headland and rested my chin on my hands and stared.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000054_000002|I would have swum out to it, but something-a cold, vague fear-kept me back.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000055_000001|One of my spasms of disgust came upon me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000055_000004|I turned my back upon them, struck the lug and began paddling out to sea.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000055_000005|I could not bring myself to look behind me.
train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000056_000001|Then, with such patience as I could command, I collected a quantity of fruit, and waylaid and killed two rabbits with my last three cartridges.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000003_000000|"Whoa, Pink eye!" muttered the lad, stirring restlessly.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000004_000001|The darkness about him was deep and impenetrable and he was conscious of a heavy weight on his chest.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000005_000000|All at once he recollected.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000006_000000|"It was the bear," he murmured.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000007_000000|No, he could feel the ground under him, and a rock that his right hand rested on, felt cold and chilling.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000007_000001|But what of the pressure on his chest?
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000008_000001|His fingers lightly touched it.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000009_000000|Tad could scarce repress a yell.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000011_000000|The boy was satisfied, however, that by exerting all his strength he would be able to pull himself away before the beast could awaken, even, providing it were still alive.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000012_000000|First he sought cautiously for his weapon, his fingers groping about over the ground at his right hand.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000012_000001|He could not find it.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000012_000002|Undoubtedly it had fallen underneath the bear.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000015_000001|There he stood listening intently for several minutes.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000016_000001|The leaves of the trees hung limp and lifeless, for no breeze was stirring.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000017_000000|"I wonder if he's dead," whispered the lad, almost afraid to trust his voice out loud.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000017_000001|"Maybe that shot finished him.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000018_000000|Tad searched his clothes for matches, finally finding his match safe.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000018_000001|Next he sought to gather some sticks with which to make a torch, but the only wood he was able to find was of oak and so green that it would not burn.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000020_000000|Lighting one he picked his way carefully toward the place where he had been lying, peering into the shadows ahead of him suspiciously as he went.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000022_000000|He could faintly make out the figure of the bear lying half on its side as it had been before, the only difference being that the animal's head was stretched out on the ground instead of on the lad's chest.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000024_000000|Mustering his courage, Tad continued his cautious approach, lighting match after match, shading the flame with his hands so that the light would not get into his eyes and prevent him from seeing anything ahead of him.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000025_000000|It required no little courage for a boy alone in the mountains to walk up to a bear, not knowing whether the animal were dead or alive.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000025_000001|Yet when Tad Butler made up his mind to do a certain thing, he persisted until he had accomplished it.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000026_000000|He reached the side of the animal, that is, close enough so that he could get a good view of it.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000027_000000|The bear never moved and Tad drew closer, walking on his toes that he might make no sound.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000027_000001|There seemed no other way to make certain except to stir the animal.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000029_000000|Cautiously lighting another match he drew back his left foot and administered a sound kick to the beast's side.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000030_000000|Thinking that the bear had moved under the blow, Tad whirled and ran tittering a loud "Oh!"
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000031_000000|He waited, but could hear no sound.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000032_000002|I'm going back this time and make sure."
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000033_000000|He did.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000033_000002|There was no movement other than a slight tremor caused by the impact of the kick.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000036_000000|"I know," he cried.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000036_000002|But where is that pony?"
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000037_000000|All at once the realization came to him that the pony had thrown him off.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000038_000000|Tad whistled and called, listening after each attempt without the slightest result.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000039_000000|"He's gone.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000040_000000|The compass, however, was nowhere to be found.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000040_000001|The lad went through his pockets twice in search of it.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000042_000000|Tad picked up the weapon joyfully.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000043_000000|"I've got something to defend myself with, at least," he told himself.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000045_000000|The lad struck out confidently.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000045_000001|He had been lost in the wilderness before, and though he felt a slight uneasiness he had no doubt of his ability to find the camp eventually.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000046_000000|He walked vigorously for half an hour.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000046_000001|Then he halted.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000046_000002|The same impressive silence surrounded him.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000047_000001|He changed his course and plodded on methodically again.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000052_000000|The panic of the lost seized him and Tad ran this way and that, plunging ahead for some distance, then swerving to the right or to the left in a desperate attempt to free himself from the endless thicket, bruising his body from contact with the trunks of the trees and cutting his hands as they struck the rocks violently when he fell.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000053_000000|"Tad Butler, you stop this!" he commanded sternly, bringing himself up sharply.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000053_000001|"I didn't think you were such a silly kid as to be afraid of the dark." But in his innermost heart the lad knew that it was not the shadows that had so upset him.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000053_000002|It was the feeling of being lost in an unknown forest.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000054_000000|Instead of being in the foothills as he had supposed, he was penetrating the fastnesses of the Rosebud Mountains themselves.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000055_000001|"I'll sit down and wait for daylight.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000055_000002|That's all I can do.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000055_000003|I surely can find my way back to camp when the light comes again."
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000056_000001|Tad remembered with a start that there were bears in the range.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000058_000001|Up this he clambered.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000058_000002|It would give him a good view in the morning anyway, besides protecting him from any prowling animals that might chance in that part of the forest.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000059_000000|Tad ensconced himself in a slight depression, and with a flat rock for a resting place, leaned back determined to make the best of his position.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000060_000000|A gentle breeze now stirred the foliage above his head and all about him until the sound became a restless murmur, as if Nature were holding council over the lad's predicament.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000061_000000|The lost boy did not so interpret the sounds, however.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000061_000001|He made a more practical application of them.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000000|"It's going to rain," he decided wisely, casting a glance above him at the sky, which was becoming rapidly overcast.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000001|"And I haven't any umbrella," he added, grinning at his own feeble joke.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000002|"Well, I've been wet before.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000003|I cannot well be any more so than I was last night.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000004|I'll bet the rainwater will be warmer than the waters in the East Fork.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000063_000000|Fortunately he had worn his coat when he left the camp, else he would now have suffered from the cold.
train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000063_000001|As it was, he shivered, but more from nervousness than from the chill night air.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000003_000000|WINNING THROUGH PLUCK
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000004_000000|Tad Butler had left the camp at daybreak.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000004_000001|He started off at a slow trot which he kept up over the rough, uneven ground until some time after sunrise, all the time keeping the mountain gorge in sight so that he might not lose his way.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000005_000000|He had eaten no breakfast, having simply taken a cup of sulphur water, believing that he could make better time on an empty stomach. However, he now sat down and munched on one of the three hard boiled eggs he had taken with him.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000006_000001|This he did, by stretching flat on his back, after having finished his scanty breakfast.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000007_000000|Sharp on the half hour by his watch, Tad sprang up, greatly refreshed. Leaning well forward he dropped into a long, easy lope, which carried him over the ground rapidly.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000007_000001|Hard as nails and spurred on by the need of his companions, the lad pushed on and on, blazing his trail as he went, not feeling any fatigue to speak of.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000007_000002|Now and then he would pause for a few moments to make sure that he was not straying from the river gorge, which occasional rocks and foliage hid from his view.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000008_000000|At noon Tad sat down and ate another egg.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000009_000000|"I must be getting near the place," he mused.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000010_000000|Still there was no trace of human habitation.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000010_000001|There remained nothing for him to do save to push on, which he did stubbornly.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000000|When the sun went down he seemed no nearer to the object of his search than when he had set out at daybreak.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000001|The lad, after looking about, came upon a tree which he climbed in order to get an unobstructed view of the country.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000002|He argued that camp fires would be lighted for the evening meal.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000003|Not a sign of smoke could he discover anywhere.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000012_000000|Tad's heart sank.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000013_000000|"I've got to stay out all night," he muttered.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000014_000000|There remaining about two hours before dark, he decided to push on as long as he could see.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000015_000001|Water there was none, so he had to do without it while he ate his last egg.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000016_000000|Then he lay down to sleep, refusing to allow himself to think very long at a time of his lonely position.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000017_000000|Late that night, the boy awakened, finding the moon shining brightly.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000018_000000|He got up and looked about him.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000018_000001|The camp fire had died out.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000018_000002|The light of the moon was so strong that he could make out the surroundings almost as well as in daylight.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000019_000001|"Perhaps I'll get somewhere in time for breakfast.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000020_000000|So he trudged on.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000020_000001|He did not run this time, for a little more care than he had been exercising was now necessary to avoid pitfalls in the shadows cast by rock and tree.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000000|Daylight came, but still the weary boy kept on his way.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000001|Hungry?
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000002|Yes, Tad was actually faint for want of food.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000003|He tried the experiment of chewing some leaves that he knew were harmless.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000004|At first this gave him some relief.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000005|After a little it made him sick, so he did not try the experiment again.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000006|He feared he was going to give out.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000023_000000|Halfway down the slope was a shack and off beyond it stood a man with his back turned toward him.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000024_000001|The man down there, startled by the cry, wheeled suddenly and descrying the figure of Tad Butler racing toward him, ran to his cabin, appearing a moment later with a rifle in his hands.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000025_000000|A moment more a second man dashed out, he too carrying a gun.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000025_000001|Both men stood facing the lad, until, when he got near enough, they discovered that it was a boy; then they laughed and lowered their weapons.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000026_000000|Tad fairly staggered up to them.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000027_000001|What's the excitement about?" demanded the first of the two men.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000028_000000|Tad explained as best he could between breaths, at which the men laughed more heartily than ever.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000029_000000|"I want something to eat first of all.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000029_000001|I'm half starved," he told them.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000030_000000|"Sorry, younker, but we ain't got more'n enough for ourselves.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000030_000001|It's a long ways to where we kin git more."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000031_000001|I must have food right now," protested Tad.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000032_000000|"So must we."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000033_000000|"Who are you?" demanded Tad indignantly.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000034_000000|"We're prospecting.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000034_000001|I reckon we know our business best.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000037_000000|"Why, that's the direction I came from," exclaimed the lad.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000039_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000039_000001|Where is it?" asked Tad Butler.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000040_000001|It's a peak that looks red when the sun shines on it."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000041_000000|"No, I didn't pass the place.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000041_000001|Tell me how I can get to the mining camp, even if you won't let me have anything to eat," begged the boy. "My companions will starve before I can get back unless I get help to them soon."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000042_000000|"Got a compass?"
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000043_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000044_000001|"Know anybody there?"
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000045_000000|"mr Munson, Richard Munson."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000046_000000|"Dick Munson, eh?" returned the man, with increasing interest.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000047_000001|Much obliged for directing me, at least," said Tad, turning away and starting with compass in hand.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000048_000000|The men said something to each other in a low tone, but Tad paid no attention to them, hurrying away as fast as his weary limbs would carry him.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000049_000000|"Hey, young feller, come back here."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000050_000000|Tad did so reluctantly.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000051_000000|"Sorry we can't give ye anything to eat.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000052_000000|"The goat?"
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000053_000000|"Yep.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000053_000001|The goat's our milk wagon-she gives milk for the outfit."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000054_000000|At first he thought they were joking, but Tad suddenly realized that the men were in earnest.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000058_000001|Browsing hereabouts, I reckon.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000059_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000059_000001|I'll try."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000061_000000|Tad sought the draw and after some search came upon the goat rather unexpectedly.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000062_000001|While she was nibbling at his offering, Tad patted her and after a time managed to quiet her sufficiently to enable him to get around to one side.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000063_000000|He had milked cows, but this was his first experience at milking a goat.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000064_000000|"Gracious, that tastes good!" gasped the boy.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000064_000001|"I never knew goat's milk was anything like that.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000065_000000|He helped himself to another and still another cupful, until he felt that he could hold no more.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000066_000001|Help yourself if you wish any more."
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000068_000000|Tad pulled down branch after branch which he piled up in front of the goat, and which she attacked with vigorous nibbles and tugs.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000069_000000|Very much refreshed, the boy ran back to the miners' shack.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000072_000000|"Well, here is twenty five cents.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000072_000001|I thank you very much," replied the lad, laying the money down in front of the door of the shack, because the miner refused to reach out his hand for it.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000073_000000|"You're welcome, kid.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000074_000001|I do not feel hungry now," he smiled. "How far is it to the Red Star the way you have directed me?"
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000075_000000|"As the eagle flies, 'bout twelve miles.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000076_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000076_000002|Hope I have a chance to return the favor some time," smiled Tad, swinging his hand in parting salute, as he started with renewed courage.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000077_000000|The fifteen miles of rough traveling did not discourage him in the least.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000077_000001|He reasoned that he ought to reach the mining camp by four or five o'clock that afternoon.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000077_000002|That would be in time for him to start back with food for the other boys, whom he had left in camp.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000078_000000|"My, but I'll bet Chunky is a walking skeleton by this time," smiled Tad, as the thought of his companion's appetite came humorously into his mind.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000000|Talking to himself to keep up his courage, consulting his compass frequently, that he might not stray from the course in the least, the lad hurried on.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000001|Reaching the draw that the miners had described, he recognized it at once, worked his way around it and came back.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000003|Tad realized this.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000004|He told himself that he could not afford to try any experiment, however.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000080_000000|His judgment was verified, when, shortly after four o'clock he was gratified by sighting several pillars of black smoke.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000081_000000|"That's the place.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000082_000000|With clothes in a sad state of disorder, eyes red and sunken, Tad Butler burst into the Red Star mining camp.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000082_000001|His sudden entrance caused the few people about to pause and gaze at him in astonishment.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000083_000000|"Where's mr Munson-mr
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000085_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000085_000001|Not here?"
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000086_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000087_000001|I must find him," expostulated the lad.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000088_000000|"Reckon you'll have a long run, then.
train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000088_000002|That's a good twenty miles from here, I reckon."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000002_000000|CHAPTER eight. -- Prescriptions.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000003_000000|It was Sunday, the second day after the dance.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000003_000002|Down in the blacksmith shop Chip was putting new rowels into his spurs and whistling softly to himself while he worked.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000004_000001|And they had laughed together over the juvenile seven and the subsequent indignation of the mothers who, with the exception of "Mary," had bundled up their offspring and gone home mad.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000005_000001|That was why he whistled.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000006_000001|As the voices drew nearer, the soft, smooth, hated tones of Dunk Whitaker untangled from the Little Doctor's laugh, and Chip stopped whistling.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000006_000002|Dunk was making a good, long stay of it this time; usually he came one day and went the next, and no one grieved at his departure.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000000|And the Little Doctor answered him frankly and distinctly: "Oh, very well, considering all things.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000001|They furnish me with some amusement, and I give them something quite new to talk about, so we are quits.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000002|They are a good hearted lot, you know-but SO ignorant!
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000003|I don't suppose-"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000009_000000|The words trailed into an indistinct murmur, punctuated by Dunk's jarring cackle.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000010_000001|As a matter of fact, it was the Densons, and the Pilgreens, and the Beckmans that were under discussion, and not the Flying U cowboys, as Chip believed.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000010_000002|He no longer smiled sympathetically.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000011_000001|That's good!
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000011_000004|He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off. This meant ten or twelve dollars for a new pair-though the cost of it troubled him little, just then.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000011_000005|It was something tangible upon which to pour profanity, however, and the atmosphere grew sulphurous in the vicinity of the blacksmith shop and remained so for several minutes, after which a tall, irate cow puncher with his hat pulled low over angry eyes left the shop and strode up the path to the deserted bunk house.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000013_000000|Della was looking from the window when Chip rode up the hill upon the "coulee trail," which passed close by the house.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000013_000001|She was tired of the platitudes of Dunk, who, trying to be both original and polished, fell far short of being either and only succeeded in being extremely tiresome.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000016_000000|"Oh, I wish I could go-I wonder if he'd care." The Little Doctor spoke impulsively as was her habit.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000017_000002|Hold on a minute!"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000017_000003|The Old Man stood waving his pipe in the doorway.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000018_000000|Chip jerked his horse to a stand still and half turned in the saddle.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000019_000000|"What?"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000022_000001|He felt that, if he met her eyes-with the laugh in them-he should do one of two undesirable things: he should either smile back at her, weakly overlooking the hypocrisy of her friendliness, or sneer in answer to her smile, which would be very rude and ungentlemanly.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000023_000000|"If you had mentioned wanting a ride I should have been glad to accompany you," remarked Dunk, reproachfully, when Chip had ridden, somewhat sullenly, back to the stable.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000024_000001|She was standing on the porch drawing on her gauntlets when Chip returned, leading Concho by the bridle.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000025_000000|"Let me help you," begged Dunk, at her elbow, hoping till the last that she would invite him to go with them.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000027_000000|"I expect she thinks I'll amuse her some more!" he thought, savagely, as they galloped away through the quivering sunlight.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000028_000000|For the first two miles the road was level, and Chip set the pace-which was, as he intended it should be, too swift for much speech.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000028_000002|Then it was that Chip's native chivalry and self mastery were put to test.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000030_000000|She was talking reminiscently of the dance.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000032_000000|Chip looked straight ahead.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000034_000000|The Little Doctor gave him a quick, surprised look and went on.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000035_000000|"I liked their playing so much.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000037_000000|"Yes, of course.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000037_000001|You know yourself, he plays beautifully."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000038_000000|"Cow punchers aren't expected to know all these things." Chip hated himself for replying so, but the temptation mastered him.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000039_000000|"Aren't they?
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000040_000000|Chip closed his lips tightly to keep in something impolite.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000041_000000|The Little Doctor, puzzled as well as piqued, went straight to the point.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000044_000000|"Well, you-not exactly, but you implied that you did not."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000046_000000|The Little Doctor gave the reins an impatient twitch.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000047_000000|"Yes, yes-YES!"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000048_000000|No answer from Chip.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000048_000001|He could think of nothing to say that was not more or less profane.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000049_000001|"I like amiable young men."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000050_000000|Silence.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000051_000000|"He's going to come down here hunting next fall.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000052_000001|What does he expect to find?"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000053_000000|"Why, whatever there is to hunt.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000055_000001|At the next hill the Little Doctor looked her companion over critically.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000056_000000|"mr Bennett, you look positively bilious.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000056_000001|Shall I prescribe for you?"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000058_000000|"I'm not trying to add to my amusement."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000059_000000|"No?"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000060_000002|I like-"
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000061_000001|Such as Dick Brown."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000062_000000|"I think you need a change of air, mr Bennett."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000063_000000|"Yes?
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000064_000000|Miss Whitmore grew red as to cheeks and bright as to eyes.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000065_000000|"I think a few small doses of Eastern manners would improve you very much," she said, pointedly.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000066_000001|They'd have to be small, because the supply is very limited."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000067_000000|The Little Doctor grew white around the mouth.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000067_000001|She held Concho's rein so tight he almost stopped.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000068_000000|"If you didn't want me to come, why in the world didn't you have the courage to say so at the start?
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000068_000002|I'm sorry I forced my presence upon you, and I promise you it won't occur again." She hesitated, and then fired a parting shot which certainly was spiteful in the extreme. "There's one good thing about it," she smiled, tartly, "I shall have something interesting to write to dr Cecil."
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000070_000000|As Chip raced away over the prairie, he discovered a new and puzzling kink in his temper.
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000070_000001|He had been angry with the Little Doctor for coming, but it was nothing to the rage he felt when she turned back!
train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000070_000002|He did not own to himself that he wanted her beside him to taunt and to hurt with his rudeness, but it was a fact, for all that.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000001_000000|Chapter seventeen.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000001_000001|SPRING IN THE BIG WOODS
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000002_000000|That visit to the lumber camp was memorable for Nan Sherwood in more ways than one.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000002_000001|Her adventure with the lynx she kept secret from her relatives, because of the reason given in the previous chapter.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000002_000002|But there was another incident that marked the occasion to the girl's mind, and that was the threat of Gedney Raffer, reported to her Uncle Henry.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000003_000000|Nan thought that such a bad man as Raffer appeared to be would undoubtedly carry out his threat.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000003_000001|He had offered money to have mr Sherwood beaten up, and the ruffians he had bribed would doubtless be only too eager to earn the reward.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000004_000000|To tell the truth, for weeks thereafter, Nan never saw a rough looking man approach the house on the outskirts of Pine Camp, without fearing that here was coming a ruffian bent on her uncle's injury.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000005_000000|That Uncle Henry seemed quite to have forgotten the threat only made Nan more keenly alive to his danger.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000005_000001|She dared not discuss the matter with Aunt Kate, for Nan feared to worry that good woman unnecessarily. Besides, having been used to hiding from her own mother all unpleasant things, the girl naturally displayed the same thoughtfulness for Aunt Kate.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000006_000000|For, despite mrs Henry Sherwood's bruskness and masculine appearance, Nan learned that there were certain matters over which her aunt showed extreme nervousness.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000007_000000|For instance, she was very careful of the lamps used in the house-she insisted upon cleaning and caring for them herself; she would not allow a candle to be used, because it might be overturned; and she saw to it herself that every fire, even the one in Nan's bedroom, was properly banked before the family retired at night.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000008_000000|Nan had always in mind what Uncle Henry said about mentioning fire to Aunt Kate; so the curious young girl kept her lips closed upon the subject.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000008_000001|But she certainly was desirous of knowing about that fire, so long ago, at Pale Lick, how it came about; if Aunt Kate had really got her great scar there; and if it was really true that two members of her uncle's family had met their death in the conflagration.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000009_000000|She tried not to think at all of Injun Pete.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000009_000001|That was too terrible!
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000010_000000|With all her heart, Nan wished she might do something that would really help Uncle Henry solve his problem regarding the timber rights on the Perkins Tract.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000010_000001|The very judge who had granted the injunction forbidding mr Sherwood to cut timber on the tract was related to the present owners of the piece of timberland; and the tract had been the basis of a feud in the Perkins family for two generations.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000011_000000|Many people were more or less interested in the case and they came to the Sherwood home and talked excitedly about it in the big kitchen.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000011_000001|Some advised an utter disregard of the law.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000011_000002|Others were evidently minded to increase the trouble between Raffer and Uncle Henry by malicious tale bearing.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000000|Toby was still a vigorous man save when that bane of the woodsman, rheumatism, laid him by the heels.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000001|He had a bit of a farm in the tamarack swamp.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000002|Once, being laid up by his arch enemy, with his joints stiffened and muscles throbbing with pain, Toby had seen the gaunt wolf of starvation, more terrible than any timber wolf, waiting at his doorstone.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000003|His old wife and a crippled grandson were dependent on Toby, too.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000014_000001|It was a pitifully small sum Raffer would advance upon the little farm; but it was sufficient to put Toby in the usurer's power.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000014_000002|This was the story Nan learned regarding Toby.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000014_000003|And Uncle Henry believed that Toby, with his old time knowledge of land boundaries, could tell, if he would, which was right in the present contention between mr Sherwood and Gedney Raffer.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000000|These, and many other subjects of thought, kept the mind of Nan Sherwood occupied during the first few weeks of her sojourn at Pine Camp.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000001|She had, too, to keep up her diary that she had begun for Bess Harley's particular benefit.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000002|Every week she sent off to Tillbury a bulky section of this report of her life in the Big woods.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000003|It was quite wonderful how much there proved to be to write about.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000004|Bess wrote back, enviously, that never did anything interesting, by any possibility, happen, now that Nan was away from Tillbury.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000005|The town was "as dull as ditch water." She, Bess, lived only in hopes of meeting her chum at Lakeview Hall the next September.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000016_000000|This hope Nan shared.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000016_000001|But it all lay with the result of Momsey's and Papa Sherwood's visit to Scotland and Emberon Castle.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000016_000002|And, Nan thought, it seemed as though her parents never would even reach that far distant goal.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000017_000000|They had taken a slow ship for Momsey's benefit and the expected re telegraphed cablegram was looked for at the Forks for a week before it possibly could come.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000018_000000|It was a gala day marked on Nan's calendar when Uncle Henry, coming home from the railroad station behind the roan ponies, called to her to come out and get the message.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000018_000001|Momsey and Papa Sherwood had sent it from Glasgow, and were on their way to Edinburgh before Nan received the word.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000018_000002|Momsey had been very ill a part of the way across the ocean, but went ashore in improved health.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000019_000000|Nan was indeed happy at this juncture.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000019_000001|Her parents were safely over their voyage on the wintry ocean, so a part of her worry of mind was lifted.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000020_000000|Meanwhile spring was stealing upon Pine Camp without Nan's being really aware of the fact.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000020_000001|Uncle Henry had said, back in Chicago, that "the back of winter was broken"; but the extreme cold weather and the deep snow she had found in the Big Woods made Nan forget that March was passing and timid April was treading on his heels.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000021_000000|A rain lasting two days and a night washed the roads of snow and turned the fast disappearing drifts to a dirty yellow hue.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000021_000001|In sheltered fence corners and nooks in the wood, the grass lifted new, green blades, and queer little Margaret Llewellen showed Nan where the first anemones and violets hid under last year's drifted leaves.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000022_000000|The river ice went out with a rush after it had rained a few hours; after that the "drives" of logs were soon started.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000022_000001|Nan went down to the long, high bridge which spanned the river and watched the flood carry the logs through.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000023_000000|At first they came scatteringly, riding the foaming waves end on, and sometimes colliding with the stone piers of the bridge with sufficient force to split the unhewn timbers from end to end, some being laid open as neatly as though done with axe and wedge.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000024_000000|When the main body of the drive arrived, however, the logs were like herded cattle, milling in the eddies, stampeded by a cross current, bunching under the bridge arches like frightened steers in a chute.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000024_000001|And the drivers herded the logs with all the skill of cowboys on the range.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000025_000000|Each drive was attended by its own crew, who guarded the logs on either bank, launching those that shoaled on the numerous sandbars or in the shallows, keeping them from piling up in coves and in the mouths of estuaries, or creeks, some going ahead at the bends to fend off and break up any formation of the drifting timbers that promised to become a jam.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000026_000000|Behind the drive floated the square bowed and square sterned chuck boat, which carried cook and provisions for the men.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000026_000001|A "boom", logs chained together, end to end, was thrown out from one shore of the wide stream at night, and anchored at its outer end.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000026_000002|Behind this the logs were gathered in an orderly, compact mass and the men could generally get their sleep, save for the watchman; unless there came a sudden rise of water in the night.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000000|It was a sight long to be remembered, Nan thought, when the boom was broken in the morning.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000001|Sometimes an increasing current piled the logs up a good bit.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000002|It was a fear compelling view the girl had of the river on one day when she went with Uncle Henry to see the first drive from Blackton's camp.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000003|Tom was coming home with his team and was not engaged in the drive.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000004|But reckless Rafe was considered, for his age, a very smart hand on a log drive.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000000|The river had risen two feet at the Pine Camp bridge overnight.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000001|It was a boiling brown flood, covered with drifting foam and debris.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000002|The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000003|So she was not surprised to see the river in such a turmoil when, after a hasty breakfast, she and Uncle Henry walked beside the flood.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000029_000000|"They started their drive last night," Uncle Henry said, "and boomed her just below the campsite.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000029_000001|We'll go up to Dead Man's Bend and watch her come down.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000029_000002|There is no other drive betwixt us and Blackton's."
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000030_000000|"Why is it called by such a horrid name, Uncle?" asked Nan.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000031_000000|"What, honey?" he responded.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000032_000000|"That bend in the river."
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000033_000001|She's just called that.
train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000033_000002|Many a man's lost his life there since I came into this part of the country, that's a fact.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000001_000000|Chapter twenty six.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000001_000001|BUFFETED BY THE ELEMENTS
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000000|Nan knew she had never seen it rain so hard before.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000001|The falling water was like a drop curtain, swept across the stage of the open tract of sawdust.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000002|In a few minutes they were saturated to the skin.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000003|Nan could not have been any wetter if she had gone in swimming.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000003_000000|"Oh!" she gasped into Tom's ear.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000003_000001|"It is the deluge!"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000005_000000|"I know.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000005_000001|That's this one," she agreed.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000005_000002|"But, it's awful."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000006_000000|"Say!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000006_000001|Can you point out that tree that smoked?" asked Tom.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000007_000001|It can't be smoking now," gasped Nan, stifled with rain and laughter.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000000|"Don't know him," retorted her cousin.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000001|"But it'd put most anybody out, I allow.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000002|Still, fire isn't so easy to quench.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000003|Where's the tree?"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000009_000000|"I can't see it, Tom," declared Nan, with her eyes tightly closed.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000009_000001|She really thought he was too stubborn.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000009_000002|Of course, if there had been any fire in that tree top, this rain would put it out in about ten seconds. So Nan believed.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000010_000001|"This is no funning.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000010_000002|If there's fire in this swamp."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000000|"Goodness, gracious!" snapped Nan.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000002|If there was a fire, this rain would smother it.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000003|Oh!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000004|Did it ever pelt one so before?"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000012_000000|Fortunately the rain was warm, and she was not much discomforted by being wet.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000012_000001|Tom still clung to the idea that she had started in his slow mind.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000013_000000|"Fire's no funning, I tell you," he growled.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000013_000001|"Sometimes it smoulders for days and days, and weeks and weeks; then it bursts out like a hurricane."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000014_000000|"But the rain"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000015_000000|"This sawdust is mighty hard packed, and feet deep," interrupted Tom. "The fire might be deep down."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000000|"Why, Tom!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000001|How ridiculously you talk!" cried the girl.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000002|"Didn't I tell you I saw the smoke coming out of the top of a tree?
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000003|Fire couldn't be deep down in the sawdust and the smoke come out of the tree top."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000017_000000|"Couldn't, heh?" returned Tom.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000017_000001|"Dead tree, wasn't it?"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000018_000000|"Oh, yes."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000019_000000|"Hollow, too, of course?"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000021_000000|"Might be hollow clear through its length," Tom explained seriously. "The butt might be all rotted out.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000022_000000|"Oh, Tom!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000022_000001|I never thought of such a thing," gasped Nan.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000023_000000|"And you don't see the tree now?"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000024_000000|"Let me look!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000024_000001|Let me look!" cried Nan, conscience stricken.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000025_000000|In spite of the beating rain and wind she got to her knees, still clinging to her big cousin, and then stood upon the broad tongue of the wagon.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000025_000001|The horses stood still with their heads down, bearing the buffeting of the storm with the usual patience of dumb beasts.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000000|A sheer wall of water seemed to separate them from every object out upon the open land.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000001|Behind them the bulk of the forest loomed as another barrier.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000002|Nan had really never believed that rain could fall so hard.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000003|It almost took her breath.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000027_000000|Moreover, what Tom said about the smoking tree began to trouble the girl.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000027_000001|She thought of the fire at Pale Lick, of which she had received hints from several people.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000027_000002|That awful conflagration, in which she believed two children belonging to her uncle and aunt had lost their lives, had started in the sawdust.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000028_000000|Suddenly she cried aloud and seized Tom more tightly.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000029_000000|"Cracky!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000029_000001|Don't choke a fellow!" he coughed.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000030_000000|"Oh, Tom!"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000031_000000|"Well"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000032_000000|"I think I see it."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000033_000000|"The tree that smoked?" asked her cousin.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000034_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000034_000001|There!"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000035_000000|For the moment it seemed as though the downpour lightened.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000035_000001|Veiled by the still falling water a straight stick rose high in the air ahead of them. Tom chirruped to the horses and made them, though unwilling, go forward.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000036_000000|They dragged the heavy cart unevenly.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000036_000001|Through the heavy downpour the trail was hard to follow, and once in a while a rear wheel bumped over a stump, and Nan was glad to drop down upon the tongue again, and cling more tightly than ever to her cousin's collar.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000037_000000|"Sure that's it?" queried Tom, craning his neck to look up into the tall, straight tree.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000039_000000|"I, don't, see, any, smoke," drawled Tom, with his head still raised.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000000|The rain had almost ceased, an intermission which would not be of long duration.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000001|Nan saw that her cousin's prophecy had been true; the ground actually smoked after the downpour.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000002|The sun heated sawdust steamed furiously.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000003|They seemed to be crossing a heated cauldron.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000004|Clouds of steam rose all about the timber cart.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000041_000000|"Why, Tommy!" Nan choked.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000041_000001|"It does seem as though there must be fire under this sawdust now."
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000042_000000|Tom brought his own gaze down from the empty tree top with a jerk. "Hoo!" he shouted, and leaned forward suddenly to flick his off horse with the whiplash.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000042_000001|Just then the rear wheel on that side slumped down into what seemed a veritable volcano.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000043_000000|Flame and smoke spurted out around the broad wheel.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000043_000001|Nan screamed. The wind suddenly swooped down upon them, and a ball of fire, flaming sawdust was shot into the air and was tossed twenty feet by a puff of wind.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000044_000000|"We're over an oven!" gasped Tom, and laid the whip solidly across the backs of the frightened horses.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000045_000000|They plunged.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000045_000001|Another geyser of fire and smoke spurted from the hole into which the rear wheel had slumped.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000045_000002|Again and again the big horses flung themselves into the collars in an endeavor to get the wheel out.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000046_000000|"Oh, Tommy!" cried Nan.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000046_000001|"We'll be burned up!"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000049_000000|"Do as I say!" commanded Tom.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000049_000001|"Run!"
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000050_000000|"Where, where'll I run to?" gasped the girl, leaping off the tongue, too, and away from the horses' heels.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000051_000000|"To the road.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000051_000001|Get toward home!" cried Tom, running around to the rear of the timber cart.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000052_000000|"And leave you here?" cried Nan.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000052_000001|"I guess not, mr Tom!" she murmured.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000053_000000|But he did not hear that.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000053_000001|He had seized his axe and was striding toward the edge of the forest.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000053_000003|But that would not be like Tom Sherwood!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000054_000000|At the edge of the forest he laid the axe to the root of a sapling about four inches through at the butt.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000054_000001|Three strokes, and the tree was down. In a minute he had lopped off the branches for twenty feet, then removed the top with a single blow.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000055_000000|As he turned, dragging the pole with him, up sprang the fire again from the hollow into which the wheel of the wagon had sunk.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000055_000001|It was a smoking furnace down there, and soon the felloe and spokes would be injured by the flames and heat.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000055_000002|Sparks flew on the wings of the wind from out of the mouth of the hole.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000055_000003|Some of them scattered about the horses and they plunged again, squealing.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000000|It seemed to Nan impossible after the recent cloudburst that the fire could find anything to feed upon.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000001|But underneath the packed surface of the sawdust, the heat of summer had been drying out the moisture for weeks.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000002|And the fire had been smouldering for a long time.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000003|Perhaps for yards and yards around, the interior of the sawdust heap was a glowing furnace.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000000|Nan would not run away and Tom did not see her.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000001|As he came plunging back to the stalled wagon, suddenly his foot slumped into the yielding sawdust and he fell upon his face.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000002|He cried out with surprise or pain. Nan, horrified, saw the flames and smoke shooting out of the hole into which her cousin had stepped.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000003|For the moment the girl felt as if her heart had stopped beating.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000058_000000|"Oh, Tom!
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000058_000001|Oh, Tom!" she shrieked, and sprang toward him.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000059_000000|Tom was struggling to get up.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000059_000001|His right leg had gone into the yielding mass up to his hip, and despite his struggles he could not get it out. A long yellow flame shot out of the hole and almost licked his face.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000059_000002|It, indeed, scorched his hair on one side of his head.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000060_000000|But Nan did not scream again.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000060_000001|She needed her breath, all that she could get, for a more practical purpose.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000060_000002|Her cousin waved her back feebly, and tried to tell her to avoid the fire.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000061_000000|Nan rushed in, got behind him, and seized her cousin under the arms.
train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000061_000001|To lift him seemed a giant's task; but nevertheless she tried.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000003_000000|At first I could hardly see anything.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000003_000001|My eyes, unaccustomed to the light, quickly closed.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000003_000002|When I was able to reopen them, I stood more stupefied even than surprised.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000004_000000|"The sea!" I cried.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000005_000000|"Yes," my uncle replied, "the Liedenbrock Sea; and I don't suppose any other discoverer will ever dispute my claim to name it after myself as its first discoverer."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000001|The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells which had been inhabited by the first of created beings.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000002|The waves broke on this shore with the hollow echoing murmur peculiar to vast inclosed spaces.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000003|A light foam flew over the waves before the breath of a moderate breeze, and some of the spray fell upon my face. On this slightly inclining shore, about a hundred fathoms from the limit of the waves, came down the foot of a huge wall of vast cliffs, which rose majestically to an enormous height.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000005|Farther on the eye discerned their massive outline sharply defined against the hazy distant horizon.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000007_000000|It was quite an ocean, with the irregular shores of earth, but desert and frightfully wild in appearance.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000008_000000|If my eyes were able to range afar over this great sea, it was because a peculiar light brought to view every detail of it.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000008_000001|It was not the light of the sun, with his dazzling shafts of brightness and the splendour of his rays; nor was it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a nobler body of light.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000008_000003|It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon, filling a cavern of sufficient extent to contain an ocean.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000000|The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000001|I should have thought that under so powerful a pressure of the atmosphere there could be no evaporation; and yet, under a law unknown to me, there were broad tracts of vapour suspended in the air.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000003|Deep shadows reposed upon their lower wreaths; and often, between two separated fields of cloud, there glided down a ray of unspeakable lustre.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000005|The general effect was sad, supremely melancholy.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000011_000002|As for its height, it must have been several leagues.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000011_000003|Where this vault rested upon its granite base no eye could tell; but there was a cloud hanging far above, the height of which we estimated at twelve thousand feet, a greater height than that of any terrestrial vapour, and no doubt due to the great density of the air.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000012_000000|The word cavern does not convey any idea of this immense space; words of human tongue are inadequate to describe the discoveries of him who ventures into the deep abysses of earth.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000013_000000|Besides I could not tell upon what geological theory to account for the existence of such an excavation.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000013_000001|Had the cooling of the globe produced it?
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000014_000000|If the grotto of Guachara, in Colombia, visited by Humboldt, had not given up the whole of the secret of its depth to the philosopher, who investigated it to the depth of two thousand five hundred feet, it probably did not extend much farther.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000014_000002|But what were these cavities compared to that in which I stood with wonder and admiration, with its sky of luminous vapours, its bursts of electric light, and a vast sea filling its bed?
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000014_000003|My imagination fell powerless before such immensity.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000015_000001|Words failed me to express my feelings.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000015_000002|I felt as if I was in some distant planet Uranus or Neptune-and in the presence of phenomena of which my terrestrial experience gave me no cognisance.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000017_000000|It will be easily conceived that after an imprisonment of forty seven days in a narrow gallery it was the height of physical enjoyment to breathe a moist air impregnated with saline particles.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000019_000001|My uncle, already familiar with these wonders, had ceased to feel surprise.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000022_000000|"Well, take my arm, Axel, and let us follow the windings of the shore."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000023_000000|I eagerly accepted, and we began to coast along this new sea.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000023_000001|On the left huge pyramids of rock, piled one upon another, produced a prodigious titanic effect.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000024_000000|Amongst these streams I recognised our faithful travelling companion, the Hansbach, coming to lose its little volume quietly in the mighty sea, just as if it had done nothing else since the beginning of the world.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000025_000000|"We shall see it no more," I said, with a sigh.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000000|But at that moment my attention was drawn to an unexpected sight.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000001|At a distance of five hundred paces, at the turn of a high promontory, appeared a high, tufted, dense forest.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000002|It was composed of trees of moderate height, formed like umbrellas, with exact geometrical outlines.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000003|The currents of wind seemed to have had no effect upon their shape, and in the midst of the windy blasts they stood unmoved and firm, just like a clump of petrified cedars.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000001|I could not give any name to these singular creations.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000002|Were they some of the two hundred thousand species of vegetables known hitherto, and did they claim a place of their own in the lacustrine flora?
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000003|No; when we arrived under their shade my surprise turned into admiration.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000004|There stood before me productions of earth, but of gigantic stature, which my uncle immediately named.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000030_000000|"It is only a forest of mushrooms," said he.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000031_000000|And he was right.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000031_000003|There they stood in thousands.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000031_000004|No light could penetrate between their huge cones, and complete darkness reigned beneath those giants; they formed settlements of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African city.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000032_000000|Yet I wanted to penetrate farther underneath, though a chill fell upon me as soon as I came under those cellular vaults.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000033_000000|But the subterranean vegetation was not confined to these fungi. Farther on rose groups of tall trees of colourless foliage and easy to recognise.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000033_000001|They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000000|"Wonderful, magnificent, splendid!" cried my uncle.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000001|"Here is the entire flora of the second period of the world-the transition period.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000002|These, humble garden plants with us, were tall trees in the early ages.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000004|Never had botanist such a feast as this!"
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000035_000001|Providence seems to have preserved in this immense conservatory the antediluvian plants which the wisdom of philosophers has so sagaciously put together again."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000036_000000|"It is a conservatory, Axel; but is it not also a menagerie?"
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000038_000000|"Yes; no doubt of it.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000038_000001|Look at that dust under your feet; see the bones scattered on the ground."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000040_000000|I had rushed upon these remains, formed of indestructible phosphates of lime, and without hesitation I named these monstrous bones, which lay scattered about like decayed trunks of trees.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000001|"These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000002|It certainly is a menagerie, for these remains were not brought here by a deluge.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000004|Here are entire skeletons.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000005|And yet I cannot understand the appearance of these quadrupeds in a granite cavern."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000043_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000044_000000|"Because animal life existed upon the earth only in the secondary period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited by the rivers, and taken the place of the incandescent rocks of the primitive period."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000047_000000|"No doubt; and there is a geological explanation of the fact.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000047_000002|Probably there were subsidences of the outer crust, when a portion of the sedimentary deposits was carried down sudden openings."
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000048_000000|"That may be," I replied; "but if there have been creatures now extinct in these underground regions, why may not some of those monsters be now roaming through these gloomy forests, or hidden behind the steep crags?"
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000049_000000|And as this unpleasant notion got hold of me, I surveyed with anxious scrutiny the open spaces before me; but no living creature appeared upon the barren strand.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000050_000000|I felt rather tired, and went to sit down at the end of a promontory, at the foot of which the waves came and beat themselves into spray. Thence my eye could sweep every part of the bay; within its extremity a little harbour was formed between the pyramidal cliffs, where the still waters slept untouched by the boisterous winds.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000050_000002|I almost fancied I should presently see some ship issue from it, full sail, and take to the open sea under the southern breeze.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000000|But this illusion lasted a very short time.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000001|We were the only living creatures in this subterranean world.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000002|When the wind lulled, a deeper silence than that of the deserts fell upon the arid, naked rocks, and weighed upon the surface of the ocean.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000004|Anxious queries arose to my lips.
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000005|Where did that sea terminate?
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000006|Where did it lead to?
train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000052_000000|My uncle made no doubt about it at all; I both desired and feared.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty one.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000004_000000|The next morning I awoke feeling perfectly well.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000005_000000|I came back to breakfast with a good appetite.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000005_000001|Hans was a good caterer for our little household; he had water and fire at his disposal, so that he was able to vary our bill of fare now and then. For dessert he gave us a few cups of coffee, and never was coffee so delicious.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000006_000000|"Now," said my uncle, "now is the time for high tide, and we must not lose the opportunity to study this phenomenon."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000007_000000|"What! the tide!" I cried.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000007_000001|"Can the influence of the sun and moon be felt down here?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000008_000000|"Why not?
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000008_000002|This mass of water cannot escape the general law.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000008_000003|And in spite of the heavy atmospheric pressure on the surface, you will see it rise like the Atlantic itself."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000010_000000|"Here is the tide rising," I cried.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000012_000000|"This is wonderful," I said.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000014_000001|Who would ever have imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000015_000000|"Well," replied my uncle, "is there any scientific reason against it?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000019_000000|"To be sure," said I; "and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000020_000000|"At any rate," he replied, "we have not seen any yet."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000022_000000|"We will try, Axel, for we must penetrate all secrets of these newly discovered regions."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000023_000000|"But where are we, uncle? for I have not yet asked you that question, and your instruments must be able to furnish the answer."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000024_000000|"Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000025_000000|"So much as that?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000026_000000|"I am sure of not being a mile out of my reckoning."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000027_000000|"And does the compass still show south-east?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000029_000000|"Would you then conclude," I said, "that the magnetic pole is somewhere between the surface of the globe and the point where we are?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000030_000000|"Exactly so; and it is likely enough that if we were to reach the spot beneath the polar regions, about that seventy first degree where Sir james Ross has discovered the magnetic pole to be situated, we should see the needle point straight up.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000030_000001|Therefore that mysterious centre of attraction is at no great depth."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000031_000000|I remarked: "It is so; and here is a fact which science has scarcely suspected."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000032_000000|"Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000033_000000|"What depth have we now reached?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000034_000000|"We are thirty five leagues below the surface."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000036_000000|"Yes," answered the Professor laughing.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000036_000002|The great Architect has built it of the best materials; and never could man have given it so wide a stretch.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000036_000003|What are the finest arches of bridges and the arcades of cathedrals, compared with this far reaching vault, with a radius of three leagues, beneath which a wide and tempest tossed ocean may flow at its ease?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000037_000000|"Oh, I am not afraid that it will fall down upon my head.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000037_000001|But now what are your plans?
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000037_000002|Are you not thinking of returning to the surface now?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000039_000000|"But how are we to get down below this liquid surface?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000040_000000|"Oh, I am not going to dive head foremost.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000040_000001|But if all oceans are properly speaking but lakes, since they are encompassed by land, of course this internal sea will be surrounded by a coast of granite, and on the opposite shores we shall find fresh passages opening."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000041_000000|"How long do you suppose this sea to be?"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000042_000000|"Thirty or forty leagues; so that we have no time to lose, and we shall set sail to morrow."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000044_000000|"Set sail, shall we?
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000044_000001|But I should like to see my boat first."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000045_000000|"It will not be a boat at all, but a good, well made raft."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000046_000000|"Why," I said, "a raft would be just as hard to make as a boat, and I don't see-"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000047_000000|"I know you don't see; but you might hear if you would listen.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000047_000001|Don't you hear the hammer at work?
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000049_000001|Come, and you will see for yourself."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000050_000000|After half an hour's walking, on the other side of the promontory which formed the little natural harbour, I perceived Hans at work.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000050_000001|In a few more steps I was at his side.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000050_000002|To my great surprise a half finished raft was already lying on the sand, made of a peculiar kind of wood, and a great number of planks, straight and bent, and of frames, were covering the ground, enough almost for a little fleet.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000051_000000|"Uncle, what wood is this?" I cried.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000052_000000|"It is fir, pine, or birch, and other northern coniferae, mineralised by the action of the sea.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000052_000001|It is called surturbrand, a variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland."
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000054_000001|Just look," added my uncle, throwing into the sea one of those precious waifs.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000055_000000|The bit of wood, after disappearing, returned to the surface and oscillated to and fro with the waves.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000056_000000|"Are you convinced?" said my uncle.
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000057_000000|"I am quite convinced, although it is incredible!"
train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000058_000000|By next evening, thanks to the industry and skill of our guide, the raft was made.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty two.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000005_000000|On the thirteenth of August we awoke early.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000005_000001|We were now to begin to adopt a mode of travelling both more expeditious and less fatiguing than hitherto.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000006_000000|A mast was made of two poles spliced together, a yard was made of a third, a blanket borrowed from our coverings made a tolerable sail. There was no want of cordage for the rigging, and everything was well and firmly made.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000007_000000|The provisions, the baggage, the instruments, the guns, and a good quantity of fresh water from the rocks around, all found their proper places on board; and at six the Professor gave the signal to embark. Hans had fitted up a rudder to steer his vessel.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000007_000001|He took the tiller, and unmoored; the sail was set, and we were soon afloat.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000007_000002|At the moment of leaving the harbour, my uncle, who was tenaciously fond of naming his new discoveries, wanted to give it a name, and proposed mine amongst others.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000008_000000|"But I have a better to propose," I said: "Grauben.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000011_000000|The wind was from the north-west.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000011_000001|We went with it at a high rate of speed.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000011_000002|The dense atmosphere acted with great force and impelled us swiftly on.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000012_000001|At this rate, he said, we shall make thirty leagues in twenty four hours, and we shall soon come in sight of the opposite shore.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000000|I made no answer, but went and sat forward.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000002|The eastern and western strands spread wide as if to bid us farewell.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000003|Before our eyes lay far and wide a vast sea; shadows of great clouds swept heavily over its silver grey surface; the glistening bluish rays of electric light, here and there reflected by the dancing drops of spray, shot out little sheaves of light from the track we left in our rear.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000004|Soon we entirely lost sight of land; no object was left for the eye to judge by, and but for the frothy track of the raft, I might have thought we were standing still.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000014_000001|I was aware of the great powers of vegetation that characterise these plants, which grow at a depth of twelve thousand feet, reproduce themselves under a pressure of four hundred atmospheres, and sometimes form barriers strong enough to impede the course of a ship.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000017_000000|Evening came, and, as on the previous day, I perceived no change in the luminous condition of the air.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000017_000001|It was a constant condition, the permanency of which might be relied upon.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000018_000000|After supper I laid myself down at the foot of the mast, and fell asleep in the midst of fantastic reveries.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000019_000000|Hans, keeping fast by the helm, let the raft run on, which, after all, needed no steering, the wind blowing directly aft.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000021_000000|I shall therefore reproduce here these daily notes, written, so to speak, as the course of events directed, in order to furnish an exact narrative of our passage.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000022_000003|Nothing in sight before us.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000022_000004|Intensity of light the same.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000022_000005|Weather fine; that is to say, that the clouds are flying high, are light, and bathed in a white atmosphere resembling silver in a state of fusion.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000000|At noon Hans prepared a hook at the end of a line.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000001|He baited it with a small piece of meat and flung it into the sea.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000002|For two hours nothing was caught.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000004|No, there's a pull at the line.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000005|Hans draws it in and brings out a struggling fish.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000024_000000|"A sturgeon," I cried; "a small sturgeon."
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000025_000000|The Professor eyes the creature attentively, and his opinion differs from mine.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000026_000000|The head of this fish was flat, but rounded in front, and the anterior part of its body was plated with bony, angular scales; it had no teeth, its pectoral fins were large, and of tail there was none.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000026_000001|The animal belonged to the same order as the sturgeon, but differed from that fish in many essential particulars.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000027_000000|"This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations."
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000028_000000|"What!" I cried.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000029_000001|To have in one's possession a living specimen is a happy event for a naturalist."
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000030_000000|"But to what family does it belong?"
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000031_000001|But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000032_000000|I looked: nothing could be more certain.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000032_000001|But supposing it might be a solitary case, we baited afresh, and threw out our line.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000032_000003|This unhoped for catch recruited our stock of provisions.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000033_000000|Thus it is evident that this sea contains none but species known to us in their fossil state, in which fishes as well as reptiles are the less perfectly and completely organised the farther back their date of creation.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000034_000000|Perhaps we may yet meet with some of those saurians which science has reconstructed out of a bit of bone or cartilage.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000034_000001|I took up the telescope and scanned the whole horizon, and found it everywhere a desert sea.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000035_000000|I gaze upward in the air.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000035_000002|There are sufficient fish for their support.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000035_000003|I survey the whole space that stretches overhead; it is as desert as the shore was.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000001|Though awake I fell into a dream.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000002|I thought I could see floating on the surface of the waters enormous chelonia, pre adamite tortoises, resembling floating islands.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000006|Higher up, the protopitheca-the first monkey that appeared on the globe-is climbing up the steep ascents.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000008|In the uppermost regions of the air immense birds, more powerful than the cassowary, and larger than the ostrich, spread their vast breadth of wings and strike with their heads the granite vault that bounds the sky.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000001|I return to the scriptural periods or ages of the world, conventionally called 'days,' long before the appearance of man, when the unfinished world was as yet unfitted for his support.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000003|The mammals disappear, then the birds vanish, then the reptiles of the secondary period, and finally the fish, the crustaceans, molluscs, and articulated beings.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000004|Then the zoophytes of the transition period also return to nothing.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000007|Vegetation becomes accelerated.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000039_000000|And I myself am floating with wild caprice in the midst of this nebulous mass of fourteen hundred thousand times the volume of the earth into which it will one day be condensed, and carried forward amongst the planetary bodies.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000039_000001|My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000000|But is it not a dream?
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000001|Whither is it carrying me?
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000002|My feverish hand has vainly attempted to describe upon paper its strange and wonderful details.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000003|I have forgotten everything that surrounds me.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000004|The Professor, the guide, the raft-are all gone out of my ken.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000005|An illusion has laid hold upon me.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000041_000000|"What is the matter?" my uncle breaks in.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000042_000000|My staring eyes are fixed vacantly upon him.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000044_000000|At that moment I felt the sinewy hand of Hans seizing me vigorously. But for him, carried away by my dream, I should have thrown myself into the sea.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000045_000000|"Is he mad?" cried the Professor.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000046_000000|"What is it all about?" at last I cried, returning to myself.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000047_000000|"Do you feel ill?" my uncle asked.
train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000048_000001|Is all going on right?"
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000004_000000|The church has aureoled and sainted the men and women who have fought the Cosmic Urge.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000005_000000|As the traveler journeys through Southern Italy, Sicily and certain parts of what was Ancient Greece, he will see broken arches, parts of viaducts, and now and again a beautiful column pointing to the sky. All about is the desert, or solitary pastures, and only this white milestone marking the path of the centuries and telling in its own silent, solemn and impressive way of a day that is dead.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000006_000001|And that he might live absolutely beyond reproach, always in public view, free from temptation, and free from the tongue of scandal, he decided to live in the world, and still not be of it.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000006_000002|To this end he climbed to the top of a marble column, sixty feet high, and there on the capstone he began to live a life beyond reproach.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000007_000000|Simeon was then twenty four years old.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000000|The environment was circumscribed, but there were outlook, sunshine, ventilation-three good things.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000002|The capstone was a little less than three feet square, so Simeon could not lie down.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000003|He slept sitting, with his head bowed between his knees, and, indeed, in this posture he passed most of his time.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000004|Any recklessness in movement, and he would have slipped from his perilous position and been dashed to death upon the stones beneath.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000009_000000|As the sun arose he stood up, just for a few moments, and held out his arms in greeting, blessing and in prayer.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000009_000001|Three times during the day did he thus stretch his cramped limbs, and pray with his face to the East.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000009_000002|At such times, those who stood near shared in his prayers, and went away blessed and refreshed.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000010_000000|How did Simeon get to the top of the column?
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000011_000000|Well, his companions at the monastery, a mile away, said he was carried there in the night by a miraculous power; that he went to sleep in his stone cell and awoke on the pillar.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000011_000001|Other monks said that Simeon had gone to pay his respects to a fair lady, and in wrath God had caught him and placed him on high.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000011_000002|The probabilities are, however, Terese, as viewed by an unbeliever, that he shot a line over the column with a bow and arrow and then drew up a rope ladder and ascended with ease.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000012_000000|However, in the morning the simple people of the scattered village saw the man on the column.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000013_000000|All day he stayed there.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000014_000000|And the next day he was still there.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000015_000000|The days passed, with the scorching heat of the midday sun, and the cool winds of the night.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000016_000000|Still Simeon kept his place.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000017_000000|The rainy season came on.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000017_000001|When the nights were cold and dark, Simeon sat there with bowed head, and drew the folds of his single garment, a black robe, over his face.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000018_000001|Some prophesied he would be blown off, but the morning light revealed his form, naked from the waist up, standing with hands outstretched to greet the rising sun
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000019_000000|Once each day, as darkness gathered, a monk came with a basket containing a bottle of goat's milk and a little loaf of black bread, and Simeon dropped down a rope and drew up the basket.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000020_000000|Simeon never spoke, for words are folly, and to the calls of saint or sinner he made no reply.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000020_000001|He lived in a perpetual attitude of adoration.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000000|Did he suffer?
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000001|During those first weeks he must have suffered terribly and horribly.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000002|There was no respite nor rest from the hard surface of the rock, and aching muscles could find no change from the cramped and perilous position.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000003|If he fell, it was damnation for his soul-all were agreed as to this.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000000|But man's body and mind accommodate themselves to almost any condition.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000001|One thing at least, Simeon was free from economic responsibilities, free from social cares and intrusion.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000002|Bores with sad stories of unappreciated lives and fond hopes unrealized, never broke in upon his peace.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000003|He was not pressed for time.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000004|No frivolous dame of tarnished fame sought to share with him his perilous perch.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000005|The people on a slow schedule, ten minutes late, never irritated his temper.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000006|His correspondence never got in a heap.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000023_000000|Simeon kept no track of the days, having no engagements to meet, nor offices to perform, beyond the prayers at morn, midday and night.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000024_000000|Memory died in him, the hurts became callouses, the world pain died out of his heart, and to cling became a habit.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000025_000000|Language was lost in disuse.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000026_000000|The food he ate was minimum in quantity; sensation ceased, and the dry, hot winds reduced bodily tissue to a dessicated something called a saint-loved, feared and reverenced for his fortitude.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000027_000000|This pillar, which had once graced the portal of a pagan temple, again became a place of pious pilgrimage, and people flocked to Simeon's rock, so that they might be near when he stretched out his black, bony hands to the East, and the spirit of Almighty God, for a space, hovered close around.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000000|So much attention did the abnegation of Simeon attract that various other pillars, marking the ruins of art and greatness gone, in that vicinity, were crowned with pious monks.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000001|The thought of these monks was to show how Christianity had triumphed over heathenism.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000002|Imitators were numerous.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000003|About then the Bishops in assembly asked, "Is Simeon sincere?" To test the matter of Simeon's pride, he was ordered to come down from his retreat.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000030_000000|The order was shouted up to him in a Bishop's voice-he must let down his rope, draw up a ladder, and descend.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000032_000000|Simeon lifted his hands in adoration and thankfulness and renewed his lease.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000033_000000|And so he lived on and on and on-he lived on the top of that pillar, never once descending for thirty years.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000034_000000|All his former companions grew aweary, and one by one died, and the monastery bells tolled their requiem as they were laid to rest.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000034_000001|Did Simeon hear the bells and say, "Soon it will be my turn"?
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000035_000000|Probably not.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000035_000001|His senses had flown, for what good were they!
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000036_000000|"He has always been there," the people said, and crossed themselves hurriedly.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000037_000000|But one evening when the young monk came with his basket, no line was dropped down from above.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000037_000001|He waited and then called aloud, but all in vain.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000038_000000|When sunrise came, there sat the monk, his face between his knees, the folds of his black robe drawn over his head.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000038_000001|But he did not rise and lift his hands in prayer.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000039_000000|All day he sat there, motionless.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000040_000000|The people watched in whispered silence.
train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000040_000001|Would he arise at sundown and pray, and with outstretched hands bless the assembled pilgrims?
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000002_000000|EARLY HARDSHIPS
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000000|One of the earliest recollections of my adventurous childhood is the ride I had on a pony's side.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000001|I was passive in the whole matter.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000002|A little girl cousin of mine was put in a bag and suspended from the horn of an Indian saddle; but her weight must be balanced or the saddle would not remain on the animal's back.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000003|Accordingly, I was put into another sack and made to keep the saddle and the girl in position!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000004|I did not object, for I had a very pleasant game of peek a boo with the little girl, until we came to a big snow drift, where the poor beast was stuck fast and began to lie down.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000005|Then it was not so nice!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000000|This was the convenient and primitive way in which some mothers packed their children for winter journeys.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000001|However cold the weather might be, the inmate of the fur lined sack was usually very comfortable-at least I used to think so.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000002|I believe I was accustomed to all the precarious Indian conveyances, and, as a boy, I enjoyed the dog travaux ride as much as any.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000003|The travaux consisted of a set of rawhide strips securely lashed to the tent poles, which were harnessed to the sides of the animal as if he stood between shafts, while the free ends were allowed to drag on the ground.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000004|Both ponies and large dogs were used as beasts of burden, and they carried in this way the smaller children as well as the baggage.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000005_000000|This mode of travelling for children was possible only in the summer, and as the dogs were sometimes unreliable, the little ones were exposed to a certain amount of danger.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000005_000001|For instance, whenever a train of dogs had been travelling for a long time, almost perishing with the heat and their heavy loads, a glimpse of water would cause them to forget all their responsibilities.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000005_000002|Some of them, in spite of the screams of the women, would swim with their burdens into the cooling stream, and I was thus, on more than one occasion, made to partake of an unwilling bath.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000006_000000|I was a little over four years old at the time of the "Sioux massacre" in Minnesota.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000006_000001|In the general turmoil, we took flight into British Columbia, and the journey is still vividly remembered by all our family.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000006_000002|A yoke of oxen and a lumber wagon were taken from some white farmer and brought home for our conveyance.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000007_000001|It seemed almost like a living creature to me, this new vehicle with four legs, and the more so when we got out of axle grease and the wheels went along squealing like pigs!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000001|My elder brothers soon became experts.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000002|At last, I mustered up courage enough to join them in this sport.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000003|I was sure they stepped on the wheel, so I cautiously placed my moccasined foot upon it.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000004|Alas, before I could realize what had happened, I was under the wheels, and had it not been for the neighbor immediately behind us, I might have been run over by the next team as well.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000000|This was my first experience with a civilized vehicle.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000001|I cried out all possible reproaches on the white man's team and concluded that a dog travaux was good enough for me.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000002|I was really rejoiced that we were moving away from the people who made the wagon that had almost ended my life, and it did not occur to me that I alone was to blame.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000003|I could not be persuaded to ride in that wagon again and was glad when we finally left it beside the Missouri river.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000000|The summer after the "Minnesota massacre," General Sibley pursued our people across this river.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000001|Now the Missouri is considered one of the most treacherous rivers in the world.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000002|Even a good modern boat is not safe upon its uncertain current.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000003|We were forced to cross in buffalo skin boats-as round as tubs!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000011_000000|The Washechu (white men) were coming in great numbers with their big guns, and while most of our men were fighting them to gain time, the women and the old men made and equipped the temporary boats, braced with ribs of willow.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000011_000001|Some of these were towed by two or three women or men swimming in the water and some by ponies.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000011_000002|It was not an easy matter to keep them right side up, with their helpless freight of little children and such goods as we possessed.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000000|In our flight, we little folks were strapped in the saddles or held in front of an older person, and in the long night marches to get away from the soldiers, we suffered from loss of sleep and insufficient food.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000001|Our meals were eaten hastily, and sometimes in the saddle.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000002|Water was not always to be found.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000003|The people carried it with them in bags formed of tripe or the dried pericardium of animals.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000013_000000|Now we were compelled to trespass upon the country of hostile tribes and were harassed by them almost daily and nightly.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000013_000001|Only the strictest vigilance saved us.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000014_000001|It was a prairie fire.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000014_000002|We were surrounded.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000014_000003|Another fire was quickly made, which saved our lives.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000000|One of the most thrilling experiences of the following winter was a blizzard, which overtook us in our wanderings.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000001|Here and there, a family lay down in the snow, selecting a place where it was not likely to drift much.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000002|For a day and a night we lay under the snow.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000003|Uncle stuck a long pole beside us to tell us when the storm was over.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000004|We had plenty of buffalo robes and the snow kept us warm, but we found it heavy. After a time, it became packed and hollowed out around our bodies, so that we were as comfortable as one can be under those circumstances.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000016_000000|The next day the storm ceased, and we discovered a large herd of buffaloes almost upon us.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000016_000001|We dug our way out, shot some of the buffaloes, made a fire and enjoyed a good dinner.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000000|I was now an exile as well as motherless; yet I was not unhappy.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000001|Our wanderings from place to place afforded us many pleasant experiences and quite as many hardships and misfortunes.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000002|There were times of plenty and times of scarcity, and we had several narrow escapes from death.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000003|In savage life, the early spring is the most trying time and almost all the famines occurred at this period of the year.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000018_000000|The Indians are a patient and a clannish people; their love for one another is stronger than that of any civilized people I know.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000018_000001|If this were not so, I believe there would have been tribes of cannibals among them.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000018_000002|White people have been known to kill and eat their companions in preference to starving; but Indians-never!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000019_000000|In times of famine, the adults often denied themselves in order to make the food last as long as possible for the children, who were not able to bear hunger as well as the old.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000019_000001|As a people, they can live without food much longer than any other nation.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000020_000000|I once passed through one of these hard springs when we had nothing to eat for several days.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000020_000001|I well remember the six small birds which constituted the breakfast for six families one morning; and then we had no dinner or supper to follow!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000020_000003|Soon after this, we came into a region where buffaloes were plenty, and hunger and scarcity were forgotten.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000000|Such was the Indians' wild life!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000001|When game was to be had and the sun shone, they easily forgot the bitter experiences of the winter before. Little preparation was made for the future.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000002|They are children of Nature, and occasionally she whips them with the lashes of experience, yet they are forgetful and careless.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000003|Much of their suffering might have been prevented by a little calculation.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000022_000000|During the summer, when Nature is at her best, and provides abundantly for the savage, it seems to me that no life is happier than his!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000022_000001|Food is free-lodging free-everything free!
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000023_000000|The raids made upon our people by other tribes were frequent, and we had to be constantly on the watch.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000023_000001|I remember at one time a night attack was made upon our camp and all our ponies stampeded.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000023_000002|Only a few of them were recovered, and our journeys after this misfortune were effected mostly by means of the dog travaux.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000024_000000|The second winter after the massacre, my father and my two older brothers, with several others, were betrayed by a half breed at Winnipeg to the United States authorities.
train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000024_000001|As I was then living with my uncle in another part of the country, I became separated from them for ten years.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000001_000000|GAMES AND SPORTS
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000000|The Indian boy was a prince of the wilderness.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000001|He had but very little work to do during the period of his boyhood.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000002|His principal occupation was the practice of a few simple arts in warfare and the chase.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000003|Aside from this, he was master of his time.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000000|It is true that our savage life was a precarious one, and full of dreadful catastrophes; however, this never prevented us from enjoying our sports to the fullest extent.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000001|As we left our teepees in the morning, we were never sure that our scalps would not dangle from a pole in the afternoon!
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000002|It was an uncertain life, to be sure.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000003|Yet we observed that the fawns skipped and played happily while the gray wolves might be peeping forth from behind the hills, ready to tear them limb from limb.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000004_000000|Our sports were molded by the life and customs of our people; indeed, we practiced only what we expected to do when grown.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000004_000001|Our games were feats with the bow and arrow, foot and pony races, wrestling, swimming and imitation of the customs and habits of our fathers.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000004_000002|We had sham fights with mud balls and willow wands; we played lacrosse, made war upon bees, shot winter arrows (which were used only in that season), and coasted upon the ribs of animals and buffalo robes.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000005_000001|Before it fell to the ground a volley from the bows of the participants followed.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000005_000002|Each player was quick to note the direction and speed of the leading arrow and he tried to send his own at the same speed and at an equal height, so that when it fell it would be closer to the first than any of the others.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000000|It was considered out of place to shoot by first sighting the object aimed at.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000001|This was usually impracticable in actual life, because the object was almost always in motion, while the hunter himself was often upon the back of a pony at full gallop.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000002|Therefore, it was the off hand shot that the Indian boy sought to master.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000003|There was another game with arrows that was characterized by gambling, and was generally confined to the men.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000007_000001|At noon the boys were usually gathered by some pleasant sheet of water, and as soon as the ponies were watered, they were allowed to graze for an hour or two, while the boys stripped for their noonday sports.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000007_000002|A boy might say to some other whom he considered his equal:
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000008_000000|"I can't run; but I will challenge you to fifty paces."
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000009_000000|A former hero, when beaten, would often explain his defeat by saying: "I drank too much water."
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000010_000000|Boys of all ages were paired for a "spin," and the little red men cheered on their favorites with spirit.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000011_000000|As soon as this was ended, the pony races followed.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000011_000001|All the speedy ponies were picked out and riders chosen.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000011_000002|If a boy declined to ride, there would be shouts of derision.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000012_000000|Last of all came the swimming.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000012_000001|A little urchin would hang to his pony's long tail, while the latter, with only his head above water, glided sportively along.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000013_000002|When there were fifty or a hundred players on each side, the battle became warm; but anything to arouse the bravery of Indian boys seemed to them a good and wholesome diversion.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000001|It may seem odd, but wrestling was done by a great many boys at once-from ten to any number on a side.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000002|It was really a battle, in which each one chose his opponent.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000003|The rule was that if a boy sat down, he was let alone, but as long as he remained standing within the field, he was open to an attack.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000004|No one struck with the hand, but all manner of tripping with legs and feet and butting with the knees was allowed.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000005|Altogether it was an exhausting pastime-fully equal to the American game of football, and only the young athlete could really enjoy it.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000015_000000|One of our most curious sports was a war upon the nests of wild bees. We imagined ourselves about to make an attack upon the Ojibways or some tribal foe.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000015_000002|But it seemed that the bees were always on the alert and never entirely surprised, for they always raised quite as many scalps as did their bold assailants!
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000015_000003|After the onslaught upon the nest was ended, we usually followed it by a pretended scalp dance.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000000|On the occasion of my first experience in this mode of warfare, there were two other little boys who were also novices.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000002|As it was the custom of our people, when they killed or wounded an enemy on the battle field, to announce the act in a loud voice, we did the same.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000003|My friend, Little Wound (as I will call him, for I do not remember his name), being quite small, was unable to reach the nest until it had been well trampled upon and broken and the insects had made a counter charge with such vigor as to repulse and scatter our numbers in every direction.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000004|However, he evidently did not want to retreat without any honors; so he bravely jumped upon the nest and yelled:
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000017_000000|"I, the brave Little Wound, to day kill the only fierce enemy!"
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000019_000000|Scarcely were the last words uttered when he screamed as if stabbed to the heart.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000019_000001|One of his older companions shouted:
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000020_000000|"Dive into the water!
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000020_000002|Dive into the water!" for there was a lake near by.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000020_000003|This advice he obeyed.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000000|When we had reassembled and were indulging in our mimic dance, Little Wound was not allowed to dance.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000001|He was considered not to be in existence-he had been killed by our enemies, the Bee tribe.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000002|Poor little fellow!
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000003|His swollen face was sad and ashamed as he sat on a fallen log and watched the dance.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000000|We had some quiet plays which we alternated with the more severe and warlike ones.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000001|Among them were throwing wands and snow arrows.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000002|In the winter we coasted much.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000004|Sometimes a strip of bass wood bark, four feet long and about six inches wide, was used with considerable skill.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000005|We stood on one end and held the other, using the slippery inside of the bark for the outside, and thus coasting down long hills with remarkable speed.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000000|The spinning of tops was one of the all absorbing winter sports.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000001|We made our tops heart shaped of wood, horn or bone.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000002|We whipped them with a long thong of buckskin.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000003|The handle was a stick about a foot long and sometimes we whittled the stick to make it spoon shaped at one end.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000000|We played games with these tops-two to fifty boys at one time.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000001|Each whips his top until it hums; then one takes the lead and the rest follow in a sort of obstacle race.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000002|The top must spin all the way through.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000003|There were bars of snow over which we must pilot our top in the spoon end of our whip; then again we would toss it in the air on to another open spot of ice or smooth snow crust from twenty to fifty paces away.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000004|The top that holds out the longest is the winner.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000025_000000|We loved to play in the water.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000025_000001|When we had no ponies, we often had swimming matches of our own, and sometimes made rafts with which we crossed lakes and rivers.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000025_000002|It was a common thing to "duck" a young or timid boy or to carry him into deep water to struggle as best he might.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000026_000000|I remember a perilous ride with a companion on an unmanageable log, when we were both less than seven years old.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000026_000001|The older boys had put us on this uncertain bark and pushed us out into the swift current of the river.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000026_000003|I never knew how we managed to prevent a shipwreck on that voyage and to reach the shore.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000000|We had many curious wild pets.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000001|There were young foxes, bears, wolves, raccoons, fawns, buffalo calves and birds of all kinds, tamed by various boys.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000002|My pets were different at different times, but I particularly remember one.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000003|I once had a grizzly bear for a pet, and so far as he and I were concerned, our relations were charming and very close.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000004|But I hardly know whether he made more enemies for me or I for him.
train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000005|It was his habit to treat every boy unmercifully who injured me.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000002_000000|THE BIRD BOY
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000003_000001|Suddenly, far, far up in the sky, she heard the weird cry of birds flying southward, and lifting her eyes, the Queen beheld bird after bird fly across the golden shield of the moon.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000005_000000|Now it came to pass that before the harvest moon rose again over the land, the Queen became the mother of a little boy who was born with wings on his shoulders.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000005_000002|So the Queen and her baby were taken to an old and gloomy tower on a great rock overlooking the northern sea; and after they had been there a day or two, the chief jailer came to the Queen's room to take the child and kill him.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000001|But although she fought for her baby with all her might, the rude strength of the jailers prevailed, and the child was torn from its mother's arms.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000002|Then, before anyone could prevent her, the poor Queen beat open the rotted fastening of an old casement window, sprang upon the ledge, and giving one last look of love and tenderness to her unhappy child, leaped down into the sea surging and pounding over the rocks hundreds of feet below.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000003|She certainly would have been dashed to pieces, had not a good spirit of the ocean taken pity on her, and changed her into a great gray bird.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000004|Crying mournfully, the bird circled the old tower thrice, and disappeared over the white capped waters.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000009_000001|So, instead of killing the bird boy, he carried him many leagues back into the dark forest which bordered the sea, and gave him to a family of charcoal burners.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000009_000003|And every year, on the boy's birthday, a great gray bird came flying over the forest from the distant ocean, circled thrice the charcoal burners' hut, and disappeared again, crying mournfully.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000010_000000|One midsummer day, with a great deal of merry hallooing and blowing of sweet voiced horns, the King of the country, accompanied by his young wife, came hunting through the wood.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000010_000001|There was a pretty spring near the door of the hut, and the party came to a halt at its edge.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000010_000003|And a wonderful sight it was, indeed, to see the horses tossing their jeweled bridles, the hooded falcons riding on the saddlebow, clutching the leather with their curving claws, the merry young pages in their dark suits, and all the gay company in rich attire.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000011_000001|Really, dear, I must have him for my page.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000011_000003|Besides, he will be a playmate for Rosabella."
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000013_000000|So the bird boy became the best beloved playmate of the Queen's only child, her darling Rosabella.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000013_000001|Now, if the bird boy was the prettiest little boy in all the world, Rosabella was the prettiest little girl. Moreover, she had a sweet disposition, which is a gift even more precious than the gift of beauty.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000013_000002|It was a lovely picture to see the children building toy castles on the floor of the nursery in the castle tower, the sun streaming on the black brown hair and silver white wings of the little boy, and on the golden curls of Rosabella.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000014_000000|Twelve years passed.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000015_000000|Every year, on the bird boy's birthday, a great gray bird would fly in from over the sea, circle the castle thrice, and disappear, crying mournfully.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000016_000001|His enemy was no other than the wicked chamberlain Malefico, who had succeeded to the kingdom of the bird boy's father, when that Prince had died some years before. So the good King, who had been a real father to the bird boy, put on his shining armor, kissed his dear wife and child good bye, and rode off to the battlefield.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000017_000000|A month passed, an unhappy month in which there were no tidings from the King.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000017_000002|A great battle had been fought, the army of Rosabella's father had been completely defeated, and the troops of the wicked Malefico were hurrying toward the castle as fast as they could come.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000019_000000|When Malefico saw the bird boy, a look of surprise appeared on his face, for he had believed that the wonderful child was dead.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000020_000000|"If it were known that the winged child is alive," he thought, "the people would thrust me from my place, and restore him to his father's throne.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000020_000001|Now that the bird boy is in my hands, I will destroy him, and be sure of my power."
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000021_000004|When it was over, he sent a soldier to tell the King and the bird boy that they were to be punished the following day.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000022_000000|And now dawned the unhappy day.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000022_000002|The morning was fresh and fair; a pleasant southwest wind was blowing.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000022_000004|The clock marked a quarter to twelve.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000025_000001|And even if it were to come, what could it do to save us from these cruel people?"
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000026_000000|When the clock stood at five minutes to twelve, there was a confused noise below, and Malefico and the judges who shared with him the guilt of the unrighteous punishment took their places on a kind of platform which overlooked the place of execution.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000027_000000|"They will soon be coming to get us," said the King to the bird boy.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000028_000000|And sure enough, they heard the jangle of the jailer's keys at the foot of the stair.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000030_000003|The doom which Malefico had intended for another had overtaken him.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000031_000000|The King and the Queen, Rosabella and the bird boy, rushed down the stairs and out into the sunlight.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000031_000003|She took her son in her arms, and told them all his history and her misfortunes, and how she had watched over him year after year and gathered the birds to save him.
train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000032_000000|Thus it came to pass that, when the troops of Malefico saw their former Queen and heard her story, they acclaimed the bird boy as their rightful king, and carried him back in triumph into his own country.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000000|The old enchanter liked this life of quiet and study, and doubtless would have been teaching in Fairyland to this very day, had he not been so unfortunate as to quarrel with the terrible sorcerer Zidoc, who was then Lord High Chancellor of the Fairies' College.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000001|I have forgotten exactly what the quarrel was about, but I think that it had to do with the best spell for causing castles to fall to pieces in an instant.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000002|At any rate, Zidoc, who considered himself quite the most wonderful enchanter in Fairyland, was furious at being opposed, and told the old enchanter, very angrily, that he was not to have his classes any more and must leave the college at once.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000003|So the poor old gentleman packed up his magic books, put his enchanter's wand into its silver case, and went to the country one pleasant day in search of a house.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000004_000000|Thanks to the advice of a friendly chimney swift, it did not take him long to find one.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000004_000001|The dwelling was the property of the Fairy Jocapa.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000005_000001|It was very quiet.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000005_000002|Only the far away klingle klangle of a cow bell could be heard.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000006_000001|And he brought his possessions to the house.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000007_000000|Now, one autumnal morning, when a blue haze hung over the lonely fields from which the reapers had departed, and the golden leaves were wet underfoot, the old enchanter went for a walk down the lane, and finding the day agreeable, kept on until he found himself in the woods.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000007_000001|Arriving at the crest of a little hill in the woodland, he saw below him, almost at the foot of the slope, a countryman with a white puppy and a black kitten following at his heels.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000012_000000|"Give them to me," said the old enchanter, "I will bring them up." The countryman nodded his head.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000013_000000|Thus did the white puppy and black kitten change hands.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000014_000002|So he taught the cat and the dog all the known languages, then history, arithmetic, dancing, social deportment, and a variety of the best magic and spells. The cat, as was to be expected, was particularly good on anything that had 'cat' in it; he once catalogued all the principal catastrophes; while the dog, although a good student, had a fancy for writing doggerel.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000015_000002|For a long time the enchanter, who loved his charges very much indeed, resisted their request; but as they continued to press him, he came at length to yield.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000015_000003|Calling them before him, he said to them:--
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000016_000000|"Well, dear pupils, if you must go, you must go.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000016_000001|I owe the Fairy Jocapa twelve months rent for this house.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000017_000000|So the white dog, who was the stronger of the two, took the purse with the twelve golden coins, and put it in a large wallet which he wore at his side, and then both the wonderful animals said good bye.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000018_000004|Both the cat and the dog were awarded countless honorary decorations.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000019_000002|Arriving in the twilight, they were somewhat surprised to find a number of torchbearers waiting for them in the castle courtyard.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000019_000003|With great respect, these attendants conducted the cat and the dog into a little ante room, and then retired, leaving them alone.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000019_000004|A few minutes later, a very old woman, who, the animals noticed, was stone blind, came to take them before the king.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000021_000000|"Very," whispered back the dog in his deeper tone.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000022_000001|The cat, who could see quite well in the dark, did not mind this, but the dog was not particularly pleased.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000024_000003|Beside the fireplace, in which a wood fire was cheerily burning, sat a gray haired lady, who was no other than the Fairy Jocapa, and in the centre of the room, reading a great book by the light of many candles, sat a young man, the King.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000026_000002|Listen, then, to my story and help me if you can.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000027_000002|It was she who caused this enchanted chamber to appear in the heart of the foundations of my castle; and in this chamber I have hidden since that terrible hour when the spell was put upon me.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000027_000004|The Lord Chancellor rules the kingdom in my stead.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000027_000005|But hearken to my story.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000028_000001|The driver of the chariot was a tall, elderly man, wearing a wizard's cap; his face was red as with anger, an evil light gleamed in his small malicious eyes.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000028_000009|You know the rest.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000033_000002|The dog's plan was to pretend to be but an everyday stray dog, and to this end, he rolled several times in a mud puddle; the cat, too, was to appear as a stray cat, and neglected his fine black coat in order to look the part.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000035_000001|When twilight came, the dog ran out and met the cat in the castle garden.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000037_000000|"Nothing whatever," replied the dog.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000038_000000|"I will try to morrow," said the cat.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000041_000000|"Very little," replied the cat.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000043_000000|Now Zidoc knew very well where the dog had concealed himself.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000044_000001|First, Zidoc locked the only door with a great key and then he said to Serponel,--
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000047_000000|"And something tells me that it is time to let him feel your staff."
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000050_000002|At the same moment he caused the locked door to fly open.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000052_000000|When the darkness cleared, the hearts of the true animals fell for fear lest the sorcerer's ruse be successful; but they met the challenge readily, and instead of fleeing, stood their ground; the true dog battling with the false dog, the real cat with the false cat.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000053_000001|Hardly had he reached a point above the dog's jaws when a voice said:--
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000054_000002|Stop your quarreling this instant!"
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000055_000000|The animals turned to look, and saw their master, the old enchanter.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000055_000001|He had been worried by their long absence and had gone forth to look for them.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000057_000000|Now, if you remember the first part of this story, you will recall that Zidoc quarreled with the old enchanter over the right spell for destroying castles.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000059_000000|"There, I told him so!" said the old enchanter.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000060_000001|He came to the castle gate to meet them, for Zidoc's overthrow had broken the spell which had so oddly disfigured him.
train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000061_000000|So the old enchanter gave his arm to the Fairy Jocapa, the Prince gave his to the white dog, and the cat followed all by himself.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000007_000000|The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes,--life and love and death.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000007_000001|That "irresistible needle touch," as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very core of a thought, has found a response as wide and sympathetic as it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling power.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000008_000000|Although Emily Dickinson had been in the habit of sending occasional poems to friends and correspondents, the full extent of her writing was by no means imagined by them.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000010_000000|If such a thing should happen as that I should outlive you, I wish you would make me your literary legatee and executor.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000010_000001|Surely after you are what is called "dead" you will be willing that the poor ghosts you have left behind should be cheered and pleased by your verses, will you not?
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000010_000002|You ought to be.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000012_000000|HELEN JACKSON.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000000|The "portfolios" were found, shortly after Emily Dickinson's death, by her sister and only surviving housemate.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000002|While many of them bear evidence of having been thrown off at white heat, still more had received thoughtful revision.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000003|There is the frequent addition of rather perplexing foot notes, affording large choice of words and phrases.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000004|And in the copies which she sent to friends, sometimes one form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000015_000000|Emily Dickinson appears to have written her first poems in the winter of eighteen sixty two.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000000|The handwriting was at first somewhat like the delicate, running Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she advanced in breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its fellows.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000001|In most of her poems, particularly the later ones, everything by way of punctuation was discarded, except numerous dashes; and all important words began with capitals.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000002|The effect of a page of her more recent manuscript is exceedingly quaint and strong.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000004|Although there is nowhere a date, the handwriting makes it possible to arrange the poems with general chronologic accuracy.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000017_000000|As a rule, the verses were without titles; but "A Country Burial," "A Thunder Storm," "The Humming Bird," and a few others were named by their author, frequently at the end,--sometimes only in the accompanying note, if sent to a friend.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000019_000001|In Emily Dickinson's exacting hands, the especial, intrinsic fitness of a particular order of words might not be sacrificed to anything virtually extrinsic; and her verses all show a strange cadence of inner rhythmical music.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000019_000002|Lines are always daringly constructed, and the "thought rhyme" appears frequently,--appealing, indeed, to an unrecognized sense more elusive than hearing.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000020_000000|Emily Dickinson scrutinized everything with clear eyed frankness. Every subject was proper ground for legitimate study, even the sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000020_000001|She touches these themes sometimes lightly, sometimes almost humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is never by any chance frivolous or trivial.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000020_000002|And while, as one critic has said, she may exhibit toward God "an Emersonian self possession," it was because she looked upon all life with a candor as unprejudiced as it is rare.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000021_000000|She had tried society and the world, and found them lacking.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000021_000001|She was not an invalid, and she lived in seclusion from no love disappointment.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000021_000002|Her life was the normal blossoming of a nature introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not exist in pretence.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000022_000000|Storm, wind, the wild March sky, sunsets and dawns; the birds and bees, butterflies and flowers of her garden, with a few trusted human friends, were sufficient companionship.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000022_000001|The coming of the first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or birthday of pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an epoch.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000023_000000|MABEL LOOMIS TODD.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000024_000000|AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, August, eighteen ninety one.
train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000025_000000|My nosegays are for captives; Dim, long expectant eyes, Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till paradise,
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000003_000000|LOVE.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000005_000000|CHOICE.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000006_000000|Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is done;
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000007_000000|When that which is and that which was Apart, intrinsic, stand, And this brief tragedy of flesh Is shifted like a sand;
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000008_000000|When figures show their royal front And mists are carved away, -- Behold the atom I preferred To all the lists of clay!
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000010_000000|I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there;
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000011_000000|Nor tie to earths to come, Nor action new, Except through this extent, The realm of you.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000012_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000013_000000|Your riches taught me poverty. Myself a millionnaire In little wealths, -- as girls could boast, -- Till broad as Buenos Ayre,
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000014_000000|You drifted your dominions A different Peru; And I esteemed all poverty, For life's estate with you.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000016_000000|So much that, did I meet the queen, Her glory I should know: But this must be a different wealth, To miss it beggars so.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000019_000000|At least, it solaces to know That there exists a gold, Although I prove it just in time Its distance to behold!
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000022_000000|THE CONTRACT.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000023_000000|I gave myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000024_000000|The wealth might disappoint, Myself a poorer prove Than this great purchaser suspect, The daily own of Love
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000025_000000|Depreciate the vision; But, till the merchant buy, Still fable, in the isles of spice, The subtle cargoes lie.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000029_000000|"GOING to him!
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000030_000000|"Tell him it was n't a practised writer, You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled; You could hear the bodice tug, behind you, As if it held but the might of a child; You almost pitied it, you, it worked so. Tell him -- No, you may quibble there, For it would split his heart to know it, And then you and I were silenter.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000034_000000|And then I go the furthest off To counteract a knock; Then draw my little letter forth And softly pick its lock.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000035_000000|Then, glancing narrow at the wall, And narrow at the floor, For firm conviction of a mouse Not exorcised before,
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000036_000000|Peruse how infinite I am To -- no one that you know! And sigh for lack of heaven, -- but not The heaven the creeds bestow.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000037_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000038_000000|Wild nights!
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000038_000001|Wild nights!
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000039_000000|Futile the winds To a heart in port, -- Done with the compass, Done with the chart.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000041_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000042_000000|AT HOME.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000043_000000|The night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000044_000000|The wind pursued the little bush, And drove away the leaves November left; then clambered up And fretted in the eaves.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000045_000000|No squirrel went abroad; A dog's belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000046_000000|To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little rocking chair to draw, And shiver for the poor,
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000049_000000|POSSESSION.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000053_000000|A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, -- The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000056_000000|THE LOVERS.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000057_000000|The rose did caper on her cheek, Her bodice rose and fell, Her pretty speech, like drunken men, Did stagger pitiful.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000058_000000|Her fingers fumbled at her work, -- Her needle would not go; What ailed so smart a little maid It puzzled me to know,
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000059_000000|Till opposite I spied a cheek That bore another rose; Just opposite, another speech That like the drunkard goes;
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000064_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000065_000000|The moon is distant from the sea, And yet with amber hands She leads him, docile as a boy, Along appointed sands.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000066_000000|He never misses a degree; Obedient to her eye, He comes just so far toward the town, Just so far goes away.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000068_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000069_000000|He put the belt around my life, -- I heard the buckle snap, And turned away, imperial, My lifetime folding up Deliberate, as a duke would do A kingdom's title deed, -- Henceforth a dedicated sort, A member of the cloud.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000070_000000|Yet not too far to come at call, And do the little toils That make the circuit of the rest, And deal occasional smiles To lives that stoop to notice mine And kindly ask it in, -- Whose invitation, knew you not For whom I must decline?
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000071_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000072_000000|THE LOST JEWEL.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000074_000000|I woke and chid my honest fingers, -- The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000075_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000002_000000|Let down the bars, O Death! The tired flocks come in Whose bleating ceases to repeat, Whose wandering is done.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000005_000001|-- How dim it sounds! And yet it will be done As sure as flocks go home at night Unto the shepherd's arm!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000007_000000|The smallest "robe" will fit me, And just a bit of "crown;" For you know we do not mind our dress When we are going home.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000009_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000010_000000|At least to pray is left, is left. O Jesus! in the air I know not which thy chamber is, -- I 'm knocking everywhere.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000011_000000|Thou stirrest earthquake in the South, And maelstrom in the sea; Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Hast thou no arm for me?
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000013_000000|EPITAPH.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000014_000000|Step lightly on this narrow spot! The broadest land that grows Is not so ample as the breast These emerald seams enclose.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000015_000000|Step lofty; for this name is told As far as cannon dwell, Or flag subsist, or fame export Her deathless syllable.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000017_000000|Morns like these we parted; Noons like these she rose, Fluttering first, then firmer, To her fair repose.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000018_000000|Never did she lisp it, And 't was not for me; She was mute from transport, I, from agony!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000019_000000|Till the evening, nearing, One the shutters drew -- Quick! a sharper rustling! And this linnet flew!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000021_000000|A death blow is a life blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000022_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000023_000000|I read my sentence steadily, Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In its extremest clause, --
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000024_000000|The date, and manner of the shame; And then the pious form That "God have mercy" on the soul The jury voted him.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000025_000000|I made my soul familiar With her extremity, That at the last it should not be A novel agony,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000026_000000|But she and Death, acquainted, Meet tranquilly as friends, Salute and pass without a hint -- And there the matter ends.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000027_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000028_000000|I have not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it to the bee.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000029_000000|I will not name it in the street, For shops would stare, that I, So shy, so very ignorant, Should have the face to die.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000030_000000|The hillsides must not know it, Where I have rambled so, Nor tell the loving forests The day that I shall go,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000031_000000|Nor lisp it at the table, Nor heedless by the way Hint that within the riddle One will walk to day!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000033_000000|THE BATTLE FIELD.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000034_000000|They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000037_000000|The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, -- so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the bird, But rapid, like the roe; His fashions quaint, mosaic, Or, haply, mistletoe.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000040_000000|Some, too fragile for winter winds, The thoughtful grave encloses, -- Tenderly tucking them in from frost Before their feet are cold.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000041_000000|Never the treasures in her nest The cautious grave exposes, Building where schoolboy dare not look And sportsman is not bold.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000043_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000044_000000|As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear, As for the lost we grapple, Though all the rest are here, --
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000045_000000|In broken mathematics We estimate our prize, Vast, in its fading ratio, To our penurious eyes!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000046_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000047_000000|MEMORIALS.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000048_000000|Death sets a thing significant The eye had hurried by, Except a perished creature Entreat us tenderly
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000049_000000|To ponder little workmanships In crayon or in wool, With "This was last her fingers did," Industrious until
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000050_000000|The thimble weighed too heavy, The stitches stopped themselves, And then 't was put among the dust Upon the closet shelves.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000051_000000|A book I have, a friend gave, Whose pencil, here and there, Had notched the place that pleased him, -- At rest his fingers are.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000052_000000|Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000053_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000054_000000|I went to heaven, -- 'T was a small town, Lit with a ruby, Lathed with down. Stiller than the fields At the full dew, Beautiful as pictures No man drew. People like the moth, Of mechlin, frames, Duties of gossamer, And eider names. Almost contented I could be 'Mong such unique Society.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000055_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000057_000000|The house of supposition, The glimmering frontier That skirts the acres of perhaps, To me shows insecure.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000059_000000|Better than larger values, However true their show; This timid life of evidence Keeps pleading, "I don't know."
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000060_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000061_000000|There is a shame of nobleness Confronting sudden pelf, -- A finer shame of ecstasy Convicted of itself.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000067_000000|A triumph when temptation's bribe Is slowly handed back, One eye upon the heaven renounced And one upon the rack.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000069_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000071_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000072_000000|I noticed people disappeared, When but a little child, -- Supposed they visited remote, Or settled regions wild.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000075_000000|FOLLOWING.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000076_000000|I had no cause to be awake, My best was gone to sleep, And morn a new politeness took, And failed to wake them up,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000077_000000|But called the others clear, And passed their curtains by. Sweet morning, when I over sleep, Knock, recollect, for me!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000078_000000|I looked at sunrise once, And then I looked at them, And wishfulness in me arose For circumstance the same.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000080_000000|So choosing but a gown And taking but a prayer, The only raiment I should need, I struggled, and was there.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000081_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000083_000000|Their costume, of a Sunday, Some manner of the hair, -- A prank nobody knew but them, Lost, in the sepulchre.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000086_000000|You asked the company to tea, Acquaintance, just a few, And chatted close with this grand thing That don't remember you?
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000087_000000|Past bows and invitations, Past interview, and vow, Past what ourselves can estimate, -- That makes the quick of woe!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000089_000000|THE JOURNEY.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000090_000000|Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000091_000000|Our pace took sudden awe, Our feet reluctant led. Before were cities, but between, The forest of the dead.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000093_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000094_000000|A COUNTRY BURIAL.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000096_000000|Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000097_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000098_000000|GOING.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000099_000000|On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000100_000000|So quiet, oh, how quiet! That nobody might know But that the little figure Rocked softer, to and fro?
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000101_000000|On such a dawn, or such a dawn, Would anybody sigh That such a little figure Too sound asleep did lie
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000102_000000|For chanticleer to wake it, -- Or stirring house below, Or giddy bird in orchard, Or early task to do?
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000103_000000|There was a little figure plump For every little knoll, Busy needles, and spools of thread, And trudging feet from school.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000104_000000|Playmates, and holidays, and nuts, And visions vast and small. Strange that the feet so precious charged Should reach so small a goal!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000105_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000107_000000|The general rose decays; But this, in lady's drawer, Makes summer when the lady lies In ceaseless rosemary.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000108_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000109_000000|I lived on dread; to those who know The stimulus there is In danger, other impetus Is numb and vital less.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000113_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000114_000000|AT LENGTH.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000115_000000|Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000116_000000|A further force of life Developed from within, -- When Death lit all the shortness up, And made the hurry plain.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000117_000000|We wondered at our blindness, -- When nothing was to see But her Carrara guide post, -- At our stupidity,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000118_000000|When, duller than our dulness, The busy darling lay, So busy was she, finishing, So leisurely were we!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000119_000000|twenty nine.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000121_000000|One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000122_000000|Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000123_000000|Far safer through an Abbey gallop, The stones achase, Than, moonless, one's own self encounter In lonesome place.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000124_000000|Ourself, behind ourself concealed, Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment, Be horror's least.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000127_000000|VANISHED.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000128_000000|She died, -- this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000129_000000|Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000130_000000|thirty one.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000131_000000|PRECEDENCE.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000132_000000|Wait till the majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered footman Might dare to touch it now!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000133_000000|Wait till in everlasting robes This democrat is dressed, Then prate about "preferment" And "station" and the rest!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000134_000000|Around this quiet courtier Obsequious angels wait! Full royal is his retinue, Full purple is his state!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000137_000000|GONE.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000139_000000|Beguiling thus the wonder, The wondrous nearer drew; Hands bustled at the moorings -- The crowd respectful grew. Ascended from our vision To countenances new! A difference, a daisy, Is all the rest I knew!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000140_000000|thirty three.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000141_000000|REQUIEM.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000142_000000|Taken from men this morning, Carried by men to day, Met by the gods with banners Who marshalled her away.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000143_000000|One little maid from playmates, One little mind from school, -- There must be guests in Eden; All the rooms are full.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000145_000000|thirty four.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000146_000000|What inn is this Where for the night Peculiar traveller comes? Who is the landlord? Where the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth, No brimming tankards flow. Necromancer, landlord, Who are these below?
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000147_000000|thirty five.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000148_000000|It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out their tongues, for noon.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000149_000000|It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, -- Nor fire, for just my marble feet Could keep a chancel cool.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000150_000000|And yet it tasted like them all; The figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000151_000000|As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And 't was like midnight, some,
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000152_000000|When everything that ticked has stopped, And space stares, all around, Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, Repeal the beating ground.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000153_000000|But most like chaos, -- stopless, cool, -- Without a chance or spar, Or even a report of land To justify despair.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000154_000000|thirty six.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000155_000000|TILL THE END.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000157_000000|If I should disappoint the eyes That hunted, hunted so, to see, And could not bear to shut until They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000159_000000|My heart would wish it broke before, Since breaking then, since breaking then, Were useless as next morning's sun, Where midnight frosts had lain!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000161_000000|VOID.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000162_000000|Great streets of silence led away To neighborhoods of pause; Here was no notice, no dissent, No universe, no laws.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000163_000000|By clocks 't was morning, and for night The bells at distance called; But epoch had no basis here, For period exhaled.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000164_000000|thirty eight.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000165_000000|A throe upon the features A hurry in the breath, An ecstasy of parting Denominated "Death," --
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000167_000000|thirty nine.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000168_000000|SAVED!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000169_000000|Of tribulation these are they Denoted by the white; The spangled gowns, a lesser rank Of victors designate.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000170_000000|All these did conquer; but the ones Who overcame most times Wear nothing commoner than snow, No ornament but palms.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000171_000000|Surrender is a sort unknown On this superior soil; Defeat, an outgrown anguish, Remembered as the mile
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000172_000000|Our panting ankle barely gained When night devoured the road; But we stood whispering in the house, And all we said was "Saved"!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000174_000000|I think just how my shape will rise When I shall be forgiven, Till hair and eyes and timid head Are out of sight, in heaven.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000175_000000|I think just how my lips will weigh With shapeless, quivering prayer That you, so late, consider me, The sparrow of your care.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000176_000000|I mind me that of anguish sent, Some drifts were moved away Before my simple bosom broke, -- And why not this, if they?
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000177_000000|And so, until delirious borne I con that thing, -- "forgiven," -- Till with long fright and longer trust I drop my heart, unshriven!
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000179_000000|THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000180_000000|After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, -- Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000181_000000|Weeds triumphant ranged, Strangers strolled and spelled At the lone orthography Of the elder dead.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000006_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000000|The great dining room at Hilcrest, the old Spencer homestead, was perhaps the pleasantest room in the house.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000001|The house itself crowned the highest hill that overlooked the town, and its dining room windows and the veranda without, commanded a view of the river for miles, just where the valley was the greenest and the most beautiful.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000002|On the other side of the veranda which ran around three sides of the house, one might see the town with its myriad roofs and tall chimneys; but although these same tall chimneys represented the wealth that made possible the great Spencer estate, yet it was the side of the veranda overlooking the green valley that was the most popular with the family.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000003|It was said, to be sure, that old Jacob Spencer, who built the house, and who laid the foundations for the Spencer millions, had preferred the side that overlooked the town; and that he spent long hours gloating over the visible results of his thrift and enterprise.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000005|This was, indeed, typical of the Spencer code-the farther away they could get from the oil that made the machinery of life run easily and noiselessly, the better pleased they were.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000008_000000|The dining room looked particularly pleasant this July evening.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000008_000001|A gentle breeze stirred the curtains at the open windows, and the setting sun peeped through the vines outside and glistened on the old family plate. Three generations of Spencers looked down from the walls on the two men and the woman sitting at the great mahogany table.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000008_000002|The two men and the woman, however, were not looking at the sunlight, the vines, or the swaying curtains; they were looking at each other, and their eyes were troubled and questioning.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000009_000000|"You say she is coming next week?" asked the younger man, glancing at the letter in the other's hand.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000010_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000010_000001|Tuesday afternoon."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000011_000000|"But, Frank, this is so-sudden," remonstrated the young fellow, laughing a little as he uttered the trite phrase.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000012_000000|Frank Spencer made an impatient gesture that showed how great was his perturbation.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000013_000000|"Come, come, Ned, don't be foolish," he protested.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000013_000001|"You know very well that your brother's stepdaughter has been my ward for a dozen years."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000014_000000|"Yes, but that is all I know," rejoined the young man, quietly.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000000|"The boy is right," interposed the low voice of the woman across the table.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000001|"Ned doesn't know anything about her.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000002|He was a mere child himself when it all happened, and he's been away from home most of the time since.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000003|For that matter, we don't know much about her ourselves."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000000|"We certainly don't," sighed Frank Spencer; then he raised his head and squared his shoulders.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000001|"See here, good people, this will never do in the world," he asserted with sudden authority.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000002|"I have offered the hospitality of this house to a homeless, orphan girl, and she has accepted it.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000003|There is nothing for us to do now but to try to make her happy.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000004|After all, we needn't worry-it may turn out that she will make us happy."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000017_000001|How does she look?" catechized Ned.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000018_000000|His brother shook his head.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000019_000000|"I don't know," he replied simply.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000020_000000|"You don't know!
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000020_000001|But, surely you have seen her!"
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000022_000000|Frank paused, and looked at the letter in his hand.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000022_000001|After a minute he laid it gently down.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000022_000002|When he spoke his voice was not quite steady.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000001|You were twelve years old when he married a widow by the name of Kendall who lived in Houghtonsville where he had been practising.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000002|As it chanced, none of us went to the wedding.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000003|You were taken suddenly ill, and neither Della nor myself would leave you, and father was in Bermuda that winter for his health.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000004|mrs Kendall had a daughter, Margaret, about ten years old, who was at school somewhere in the Berkshires.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000005|It was to that school that I went when the terrible news came that Harry and his new wife had lost their lives in that awful railroad accident.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000006|That was the first time that I saw Margaret.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000000|"The poor child was, of course, heartbroken and inconsolable; but her grief took a peculiar turn.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000001|The mere sight of me drove her almost into hysterics.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000002|She would have nothing whatever to do with me, or with any of her stepfather's people.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000003|She reasoned that if her mother had not married, there would have been no wedding journey; and if there had been no wedding journey there would have been no accident, and that her mother would then have been alive, and well.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000000|"Arguments, pleadings, and entreaties were in vain.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000001|She would not listen to me, or even see me.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000002|She held her hands before her face and screamed if I so much as came into the room.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000003|She was nothing but a child, of course, and not even a normal one at that, for she had had a very strange life.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000004|At five she was lost in New York City, and for four years she lived on the streets and in the sweat shops, enduring almost unbelievable poverty and hardships."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000026_000000|"By Jove!" exclaimed Ned under his breath.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000027_000000|"It was only seven or eight months before the wedding that she was found," went on Frank, "and of course the influence of the wild life she had led was still with her more or less, and made her not easily subject to control.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000027_000001|There was nothing for me to do but to leave the poor little thing where she was, particularly as there seemed to be no other place for her.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000027_000002|She would not come with me, and she had no people of her own to whom she could turn for love and sympathy.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000000|"As you know, poor Harry was conscious for some hours after the accident, long enough to make his will and dictate the letter to me, leaving Margaret to my care-boy though I was.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000001|I was only twenty, you see; but, really, there was no one else to whom he could leave her.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000002|That was something over thirteen years ago.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000003|Margaret must be about twenty three now."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000029_000000|"And you've not seen her since?" There was keen reproach in Ned's voice.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000030_000000|Frank smiled.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000031_000000|"Yes, I've seen her twice," he replied.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000031_000001|"And of course I've written to her many times, and have always kept in touch with those she was with. She stayed at the Berkshire school five years; then-with some fear and trembling, I own-I went to see her.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000031_000002|I found a grave eyed little miss who answered my questions with studied politeness, and who agreed without comment to the proposition that I place her in a school where she might remain until she was ready for college-should she elect to go to college."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000032_000000|"But her vacations-did she never come then?" questioned Ned.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000000|"no
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000001|At first I did not ask her, of course.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000002|It was out of the question, as she was feeling.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000003|Some one of her teachers always looked out for her. They all pitied her, and naturally did everything they could for her, as did her mates at school.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000005|She wrote me stiff little notes in which she informed me that she was to spend the holidays with some Blanche or Dorothy or Mabel of her acquaintance.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000000|"She was nineteen when I saw her again.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000001|I found now a charming, graceful girl, with peculiarly haunting blue eyes, and heavy coils of bronze gold hair that kinked and curled about her little pink ears in a most distracting fashion.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000002|Even now, though, she would not come to my home. She was going abroad with friends.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000003|The party included an irreproachable chaperon, so of course I had nothing to say; while as for money-she had all of her mother's not inconsiderable fortune besides everything that had been her stepfather's; so of course there was no question on that score.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000001|When she came of age she specially requested me to make no change in her affairs, but to regard herself as my ward for the present, just as she had been.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000002|So I still call myself her guardian.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000003|This June was her graduation.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000004|I had forgotten the fact until I received the little engraved invitation a week or two ago.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000005|I thought of running down for it, but I couldn't get away very well, and-well, I didn't go, that's all. But I did write and ask her to make this house her home, and here is her reply.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000006|She thanks me, and will come next Tuesday.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000007|There! now you have it.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000008|You know all that I do." And Frank Spencer leaned back in his chair with a long sigh.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000037_000000|"Neither do i"
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000038_000000|"Oh, but you've seen her."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000000|"Yes; and how?
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000001|Do you suppose that those two or three meetings were very illuminating?
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000002|no
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000003|I've been told this, however," he added.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000005|She even carried her distress over their condition to such an extent that her mother really feared for her reason.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000006|All her teachers, therefore, were instructed to keep from her all further knowledge of poverty and trouble; and particularly to instil into her mind the fact that there was really in the world a great deal of pleasure and happiness."
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000040_000000|Over across the table mrs Merideth shivered a little.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000041_000000|"Dear me!" she sighed.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000041_000001|"I do hope the child is well over those notions. I shouldn't want her to mix up here with the mill people.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000041_000002|I never did quite like those settlement women, anyway, and only think what might happen with one in one's own family!"
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000042_000000|"I don't think I should worry, sister sweet," laughed Frank.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000042_000001|"I haven't seen much of the young lady, but I think I have seen enough for that.
train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000042_000003|As near as I can judge, Miss Margaret Kendall does not resemble your dreaded 'settlement worker' in the least.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000003_000000|thirteen
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000004_000000|HE DISCUSSES THE MUSIC CURE
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000005_000000|"Good morning, Doctor," said the Idiot, as Capsule, m d, entered the dining room, "I am mighty glad you've come.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000005_000001|I've wanted for a long time to ask you about this music cure that everybody is talking about, and get you, if possible, to write me out a list of musical nostrums for every day use.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000005_000003|There's nothing but one quinine pill and a soda mint drop left in it, and if there's anything in the music cure, I don't think I'll have it filled again.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000006_000001|"You ought to submit your tongue to some scientific student of dynamics.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000006_000002|I am inclined to think, from my own observation of its ways, that it contains the germ of perpetual motion."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000007_000000|"I will consider your suggestion," replied the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000007_000001|"Meanwhile, let us consult harmoniously together on the original point.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000008_000001|"And as for the music cure, I don't know anything about it; haven't heard everybody talking about it; and doubt the existence of any such thing outside of that mysterious realm which is bounded by the four corners of your own bright particular cerebellum.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000008_000002|What do you mean by the music cure?"
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000009_000000|"Why, the papers have been full of it lately," explained the Idiot. "The claim is made that in music lies the panacea for all human ills.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000009_000001|It may not be able to perform a surgical operation like that which is required for the removal of a leg, and I don't believe even Wagner ever composed a measure that could be counted on successfully to eliminate one's vermiform appendix from its chief sphere of usefulness; but for other things, like measles, mumps, the snuffles, or indigestion, it is said to be wonderfully efficacious.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000009_000002|What I wanted to find out from you was just what composers were best for which specific troubles."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000010_000000|"You'll have to go to somebody else for the information," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000011_000000|"I have seen a reference to it somewhere," put in mr Whitechoker, coming to the Idiot's rescue.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000011_000001|"As I recall the matter, some lady had been cured of a nervous affection by a scientific application of some musical poultice or other, and the general expectation seems to be that some day we shall find in music a cure for all our human ills, as the Idiot suggests."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000012_000001|"I saw that same item and several others besides, and I have only told the truth when I say that a large number of people are considering the possibilities of music as a substitute for drugs.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000012_000002|I am surprised that dr Capsule has neither heard nor thought about it, for I should think it would prove to be a pleasant and profitable field for speculation. Even I, who am only a dabbler in medicine and know no more about it than the effects of certain remedies upon my own symptoms, have noticed that music of a certain sort is a sure emollient for nervous conditions."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000013_000000|"For example?" said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000013_000001|"Of course, we don't doubt your word; but when a man makes a statement based upon personal observation it is profitable to ask him what his precise experience has been, merely for the purpose of adding to our own knowledge."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000000|"Well," said the Idiot, "the first instance that I can recall is that of a Wagner opera and its effects upon me.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000001|For a number of years I suffered a great deal from insomnia.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000002|I could not get two hours of consecutive sleep, and the effect of my sufferings was to make me nervous and irritable.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000003|Suddenly somebody presented me with a couple of tickets for a performance of 'Parsifal,' and I went.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000004|It began at five o'clock in the afternoon.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000006|I fell into a deep and refreshing slumber.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000010|I rubbed my eyes, and looked about me.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000011|It was true-the great auditorium was empty, and was gradually darkening.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000012|I put on my hat and walked out refreshed, having slept from five twenty until twelve, or six hours and forty minutes straight.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000014|The curtain had hardly risen before I retired to the little ante room of the box our party occupied and dozed off into a fathomless sleep.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000015|I didn't wake up this time until nine o'clock the next day, the rest of the party having gone off without awakening me as a sort of joke.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000016|Clearly Wagner, according to my way of thinking, then, deserves to rank among the most effective narcotics known to modern science.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000018|And, best of all, there was no reaction: no splitting headache or shaky hand the next day, but just the calm, quiet, contented feeling that goes with the sense of having got completely rested up."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000015_000000|"You run a dreadful risk, however," said the Doctor, with a sarcastic smile.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000015_000001|"The Wagner habit is a terrible thing to acquire, mr Idiot."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000000|"That may be," said the Idiot; "worse than the sulfonal habit by a great deal, I am told; but I am in no danger of becoming a victim to it while it costs from five to seven dollars a dose.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000002|He had spent the day down at Asbury Park, and had eaten not wisely but too copiously.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000007|At the second bar of the 'Lost Chord' the awful pain that was gradually gnawing away at his vitals seemed to lose its poignancy in the face of the greater suffering, and physical relief was instant.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000008|As the musician proceeded, the internal disorder yielded gradually to the external and finally passed away, entirely leaving him so far from prostrate that by one a m he was out of bed and actually girding himself with a shot gun and an Indian club to go up stairs for a physical encounter with the cornetist."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000017_000000|"And you reason from this that Sullivan's 'Lost Chord' is a cure for cholera morbus, eh?" sneered the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000000|"It would seem so," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000003|Scientific experiment will demonstrate before long just what composition will cure specific ills.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000005|Instead of dosing the kids with cod liver oil when they need a tonic, they will be set to work at a mechanical piano and braced up on 'Narcissus.' 'There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To night' will become an effective remedy for a sudden chill.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000007|Tchaikowsky, to be well shaken before taken, will be an effective remedy for a torpid liver, and the man or woman who suffers from lassitude will doubtless find in the lively airs of our two step composers an efficient tonic to bring their vitality up to a high standard of activity.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000019_000000|"And the drug stores will be driven out of business, I presume," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000020_000000|"No," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000020_000001|"They will substitute music for drugs, that is all.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000020_000003|This alone will serve to popularize sickness, and, instead of being driven out of business, their trade will pick up."
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000021_000000|"And the doctor, and the doctor's gig, and all the appurtenances of his profession-what becomes of them?" demanded the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000023_000000|"And why, pray?" asked the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000023_000001|"Because there are no more drugs, must the physician walk?"
train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000024_000000|"Not at all," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000001_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000002_000000|Shingis Old Town-The dynamiter-Yellow Creek.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000001|It was then the seat of Barney Curran, an Indian trader-the same Curran whom Washington, three years later, employed in the mission to Venango.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000002|But the smaller sister town of Beaver, on the lower side of the mouth,--or rather the western outskirts of Beaver a mile below the mouth,--has the most ancient history.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000003|On account of a ford across the Beaver, about where is now a slack water dam, the neighborhood became of early importance to the French as a fur trading center.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000005|During the French and Indian War, the place was prominent as a rendezvous for the enemies of American borderers; numerous bloody forays were planned here, and hither were brought to be adopted into the tribes, or to be cruelly tortured, according to savage whim, many of the captives whose tales have made lurid the history of the Ohio Valley.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000001|The wide uplands at once become more rustic, especially those of the left bank, which no longer is threaded by a railway, as heretofore all the way from Brownsville.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000002|The two ranges of undulating hills, some three hundred and fifty feet high, forming the rim of the basin, are about a half mile apart; while the river itself is perhaps a third of a mile in width, leaving narrow bottoms on alternate sides, as the stream in gentle curves rebounds from the rocky base of one hill to that of another.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000003|When winding about such a base, there is at this stage of the water a sloping, stony beach, some ten to twenty yards in width, from which ascends the sharp steep, for the most part heavily tree clad-maples, birches, elms and oaks of goodly girth, the latter as yet in but half leaf.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000004|On the "bottom side" of the river, the alluvial terrace presents a sheer wall of clay rising from eight to a dozen feet above the beach, which is often thick grown with willows, whose roots hold the soil from becoming too easy a prey to the encroaching current.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000005|Sycamores now begin to appear in the bottoms, although of less size than we shall meet below.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000006|Sometimes the little towns we see occupy a narrow and more or less rocky bench upon the hill side of the stream, but settlement is chiefly found upon the bottoms.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000005_000000|Shippingsport (thirty two miles), on the left bank, where we stopped this noon for eggs, butter, and fresh water, is on a narrow hill bench-a dry, woe begone hamlet, side tracked from the path of the world's progress. While I was on shore, negotiating with the sleepy storekeeper, Pilgrim and her crew waited alongside the flatboat which serves as the town ferry.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000006_000000|These cartridges, he explained, are dropped into oil or gas wells whose owners are desirous of accelerating the flow.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000006_000001|The cartridge, in exploding, enlarges the hole, and often the output of the well is at once increased by several hundred per cent.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000006_000002|The young fellow had the air of a self confident rustic, with little experience in the world. Indeed, it seemed from his elated manner as if this might be his first trip from home, and the blowing of oil wells an incidental speculation.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000007_000005|It was with some difficulty that he could comprehend the fact.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000007_000006|A hundred miles on the river was a great outing for this village lad; nine hundred was rather beyond his comprehension, although he finally compromised by "allowing" that we might be going as far as Cincinnati.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000007_000007|Wouldn't the Doctor go into partnership with him?
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000008_000000|By the middle of the afternoon we reached the boundary line (forty miles) between Pennsylvania on the east and Ohio and West Virginia on the west.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000008_000002|Two high iron towers supporting the cable of a current ferry add dignity to the twin settlements.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000008_000003|A stone monument, six feet high, just observable through the willows on the right shore, marks the boundary; while upon the left bank, surmounting a high, rock strewn beach, is the dilapidated frame house of a West Virginia "cracker," through whose garden patch the line takes its way, unobserved and unthought of by pigs, chickens and children, which in hopeless promiscuity swarm the interstate premises.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000009_000000|For many days to come we are to have Ohio on the right bank and West Virginia on the left.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000009_000001|There is no perceptible change, of course, in the contour of the rugged hills which hem us in; yet somehow it stirs the blood to reflect that quite within the recollection of all of us in Pilgrim's crew, save the Boy, that left bank was the house of bondage, and that right the land of freedom, and this river of ours the highway between.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000010_000000|East Liverpool (forty four miles) and Wellsville (forty eight miles) are long stretches of pottery and tile making works, both of them on the Ohio shore. There is nothing there to lure us, however, and we determined to camp on the banks of Yellow Creek (fifty one miles), a peaceful little Ohio stream some two rods in width, its mouth crossed by two great iron spans, for railway and highway.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000010_000001|But although Yellow Creek winds most gracefully and is altogether a charming bit of rustic water, deep set amid picturesque slopes of field and wood, we fail to find upon its banks an appropriate camping place.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000011_000000|It is storied ground, this neighborhood of ours.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000011_000001|Over there at the mouth of Yellow Creek was, a hundred and twenty years ago, the camp of Logan, the Mingo chief; opposite, on the West Virginia shore, Baker's Bottom, where occurred the treacherous massacre of Logan's family.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000011_000002|The tragedy is interwoven with the history of the trans Alleghany border; and schoolboys have in many lands and tongues recited the pathetic defense of the poor Mingo, who, more sinned against than sinning, was crushed in the inevitable struggle between savagery and civilization. "Who is there to mourn for Logan?"
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000012_000001|Above, just out of sight, are moored a brace of steam pile drivers engaged in strengthening the dam which unites us with Baker's Bottom.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000012_000004|There is a gentle tinkling of cowbells on the Ohio shore, and on both are human voices confused by distance.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000012_000005|All pervading is the deep, sullen roar of a great wing dam, a half mile or so down stream.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000013_000000|The camp is gypsy like.
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000013_000001|Our washing lies spread on bushes, where it will catch the first peep of morning sun
train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000013_000002|Perishable provisions rest in notches of trees, where the cool evening breeze will strike them. Seated upon the "grub" box, I am writing up our log by aid of the lantern hung from a branch overhead, while W----, ever busy, sits by with her mending.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000002_000000|JESUS: AS GOD; AS A MAN
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000004_000000|"These hereditary enemies of the Truth... have even had the heart to degrade this first preacher of the Mountain, the purest hero of Liberty; for, unable to deny that he was earth's greatest man, they have made of him heaven's smallest god."--Heine: Reisebilder.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000005_000000|The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus, which, in whatever relation regarded, is full of self contradictions and absurdities, is, above all, pernicious in its moral and spiritual results.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000005_000001|Most myths have a certain justification in their beauty, in their symbolism of high truth.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000005_000002|This one distorts the beauty, degrades the sublimity, stultifies the meaning of the facts and the character wherein it has been founded, taking away all true grandeur from Jesus, benumbing our love and reverence.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000000|Jesus, as a man, commands my heart's best homage.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000001|His words, as reported by the Evangelists, are ever flowing fountains of spiritual refreshments; and I feel that he was in himself even far more wise and good than he appears in the gospel.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000002|What disciple could be expected to report perfectly the words of a teacher so mystically sublime?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000005|When we find sentences of the purest beauty and wisdom in the records of a man's conversation, we may safely proportion the whole philosophical character of the speaker to such sentences.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000006|They mark the altitude at which his spirit loved to dwell.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000007|We are but completing the circle from the clearest fragment arc left.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000000|Jesus as a man, whose words have been recorded by fallible men, is not lowered in my esteem by such contradictions as I find between his various speeches.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000001|Every proverb has its antagonist proverb, each being true to a certain extent, or in certain relations.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000002|Could we conceive an abstract intellect, we might conceive it dwelling continually in the sphere of abstract and absolute truth; but no man, however wise, dwells continually in this sphere.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000004|The wise man finds himself surrounded and obstructed by certain concrete errors, and he attacks these errors with relative truths.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000006|For a wise man only attacks the errors that are in his way; things which he never meets he can scarcely think of as obstructions.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000007|Hannibal, whose business it is to get into Italy from Gaul, sets about blasting the Alps.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000008|Stephenson, whose business it is to get from Manchester to Liverpool, sets about filling up Chat Moss.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000009|The same man, who muffles himself in as many furs as he can get in Greenland, will strip himself to a linen robe in Jamaica.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000010|Luther said that the human mind is like a drunken peasant on horseback: he is rolling off on the right, you push him up, he then rolls over on the left.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000011|Exactly so; and because one sage, seeing him roll down to the right, has pushed him up on the right, while another sage, seeing him roll down to the left, has pushed him up on the left, are the two sages to be accounted antagonists?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000008_000001|When deity speaks and deity reports the speeches, all should be absolute truth transparently self consistent, else what advantage or gain have we by the substitution of God for Man?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000008_000002|Why bring in God to utter and record what could have been as well uttered and recorded by man?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000009_000000|Everything for which we love and venerate the man Jesus becomes a bitter and absurd mockery when attributed to the Lord Christ.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000000|He went about doing good: if God, why did he not do all good at once?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000001|He cured many sick: if God, why did he not give the whole world health?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000002|He associated with publicans and sinners: if God, why did he make publicans and sinners at all?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000003|He preached the kingdom of heaven: if God, why did he not bring the kingdom with him and make all mankind fit for it?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000004|He loved the poor, he taught the ignorant: if God, why did he let any remain poor and ignorant?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000008|He lived an example of holiness to us all: if God, how can our humanity imitate Deity?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000011_000001|And while one is grinding such chaff in the theological mill, he may as well have a turn at the Atonement, which is, in fact, the essence of the dogma of the Incarnation.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000011_000002|No wonder this poor Atonement has been attacked on all sides; it invites attack; one may say that in every aspect it piteously implores us to attack it and relieve it from the misery of its spectral existence.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000011_000003|It is so full of breaches that one does not know where to storm.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000001|The whole scheme of the Atonement, as planned by God, is based upon a crime-a crime infinitely atrocious, the crime of murder and deicide, is essential to its success: if Judas had not betrayed, if the Jews had not insisted, if Pilate had not surrendered, if all these turpitudes had not been secured, the Atonement could not have been consummated.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000002|Need one say more?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000003|Sometimes, when musing upon this doctrine, I have a vision of the God man getting old upon the earth, horribly anxious and wretched, because no one will murder him.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000005|The situation is desperate; he has again and again prayed his Father to despatch a special murderer to despatch him, yet none appears: shall he have to perish by old age or disease? may he be compelled to commit suicide?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000006|must he go back to Heaven unsacrificed, foiled for want of an assassin?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000013_000000|Benjamin Disraeli attained the cynical sublime when he suggested a monument of gratitude to Judas.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000013_000002|But the world, even the religious world, has always been ungrateful to its most generous benefactors.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000000|Is it not the worst of sacrilege, a foul profanation of our human nature, which for us, at least, should be holy and awful, when the heroic and saintly martyrdom of a true Man is thus falsified into the self schemed sham sacrifice, ineffectual, of a God?
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000002|Little matters whence we sprang; we are what we are.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000003|But much matters to what we may attain.
train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000006|It climbs to God by trampling on Man, it builds Heaven in contempt of Earth, its soul is a phosphorescence from the slain and rotting Body; its fervent faith vilifies us worse than the coldest sneer of Mephistopheles.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000003_000000|GREAT CHRIST IS DEAD
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000004_000000|(eighteen seventy five.)
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000001|He is the good Pan, the great Shepherd.... at whose death were moanings, sighs, trepidations and lamentations in all the machine of the universe, heavens, earth, sea, hells.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000002|With this my interpretation the time agrees.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000006|The poets have chanted this momentous revolution according to their religion, their phantasy, or their mood.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000007|Milton in his Hymn on the Nativity shouts harsh Puritanical scorn on the oracles stricken dumb, and the deities overthrown.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000011|Heine in his.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000012|"Gods of Greece," after declaring in his wild way that he has never loved the old deities, that to him the Greek are repugnant, and the romans thoroughly hateful, yet avows that when he considers how dastardly and windy are the gods who overcame them, the new reigning sorrowful gods, malignant in their sheep's, clothing of humility, he feels ready to fight for the former against these.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000000|More than eighteen hundred years have passed since the death of the great god Pan was proclaimed; and now it is full time to proclaim the death of the great god Christ.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000002|Fate, in the form of Science, has decreed the extinction of the gods.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000003|Mary and her babe must join Venus and Love, Isis and Horus; living with them only in the world of art.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000004|Jesus on his cross must dwindle to a point, even in the realms of legend under Prometheus on Caucasus.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000005|For ages already the Father has been as spectral as Jupiter; for ages already the Holy Ghost has been but the shadow of a shade.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000007|The Hebrew dynasty of the gods is no more; it has done much evil in its long sovranty, which we will try to forget now it ceases to reign; it has done some little good, whose remembrance we will cherish when it is sepulchred, Christ the Great is dead, but Pan the Great lives again, as mr Maccall told us in some lines published in this paper several years ago.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000008|Pan lives, not as a God, but as the All, Nature, now that the oppression of the Supernatural is removed.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000009|I may be told that Christianity is yet alive and flourishing, that its priesthood and its churches hold possession of Europe and America and Australia.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000010|So the priesthood and the shrines of the Olympians kept possession of the Roman Empire centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus.
train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000012|When the noblest hearts worship not at its altars, when the most vigorous intellects abandon its creeds, the knell of its doom has rung.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000001_000000|(eighteen seventy six.)
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000000|In reviewing mr r h Hutton's Essay on "Christian Evidences, Popular and Critical," I was obliged to follow his lead, joining issue on such pleas as he put forward.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000001|Thus with regard to the resurrection of Jesus, as mr Hutton adduced what he thought confirmatory evidence only from the New Testament itself, I confined myself to showing or attempting to show that such evidence is unsubstantial.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000002|But I could not consider this argument adequate or conclusive, for there are large general considerations of incomparably greater importance which it leaves out altogether.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000004|Therefore, while confident that even on these grounds the case must go against the Christian believer, I wish to add a few words on its wider relations, in order that the decision may be established, not merely by the letter of the law, but also by the spirit of justice.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000003_000000|We leave thus the torturing of texts in the dim cells of the theological Inquisition, a process by which almost any confession required can be and has been wrung from the unfortunate victims, and emerge into the open daylight of common sense and reason.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000003_000001|And here I venture to assert that if the story of the resurrection and ascension were recorded of any other than Jesus in any other sacred book than the Bible, mr Hutton and all other intelligent Christians would not only disbelieve it, but would not even condescend to investigate it, condemning it offhand as too preposterous to be worthy of serious attention.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000003_000002|Thus, what Christian has ever deigned to examine critically the marvels affirmed in the Koran, such as Mohammed's visit to heaven; although the Koran can be traced far more surely to the Prophet of Islam than can the Gospels to their reputed authors, and this Prophet bears a far higher character for truthfulness than do the early Christians?
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000004_000001|We have seen that it cannot be because of any superiority of evidence for the former, since the evidence for the latter is in many cases infinitely greater and better authenticated, and since he does not attempt to weigh evidence before either accepting or rejecting, though he may seek evidence and argument to confirm what he has already given himself to believe.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000005_000000|It is worth noting that while our Christian advocates insist with all their might, such as it is, upon the resurrection of Jesus, they willingly pass over as lightly as possible, if they do not altogether ignore, a similar miracle guaranteed by the very same authority.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000006_000000|"The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000000|This prodigal multiplicity and superfluity of resurrections seems to have been not a little embarrassing to modern Christian champions, though doubtless it did not in the least trouble the primitive non scientific believers, to whom nothing was more natural than the unnatural, including the supernatural and the infranatural.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000002|But the difficulties of the poor apologist are enormously increased if he must further contend that many bodies of the saints came out of their graves, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many, and still there is no external evidence.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000005|Once in the imperial archives, the record of the miracle would have spread everywhere; all subsequent historians would have related it, all subsequent writers referred to it.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000006|So it is no wonder that, recoiling from these manifold impossibilities, the Christian advocates prefer to dwell on the one resurrection as if it were unique, and avoid dwelling on the others that by the very same testimony immediately followed it.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000007|It is very significant that neither in the Acts nor in the Epistles is there any allusion to these resurrections.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000008|When peter and the others were preaching the resurrection of Christ, why did they not adduce and produce some of these many, risen saints, whose visible, tangible, living and speaking evidence would have been irresistible?
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000008_000000|Just as the resurrection of Jesus could be accepted without misgiving by the non scientific early Christians, to whom miracles appeared among the most frequent occurrences of life, so could the ascension.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000008_000001|Their earth was a plane, vaulted by the sky, lamped by the little sun and moon and stars; above this vault was Heaven, where their God dwelt enthroned; they knew nothing of the law of gravitation; their Christ, standing in the flesh on the Mount of Olives, floated up through this vault to sit enthroned beside his Father in the most natural supernatural manner.
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000008_000004|Where is the Heaven for its God? where the Hell for its Devil?
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000010_000003|Why did their risen Lord only slink about among his own disciples, appearing to these but at flying instants: why did he not, with his well-known features and with the wounds of the nails and the spear in his body, confront the chief priests and Pilate and the whole of Jerusalem, and compel them to acknowledge and bear enduring witness to his resurrection?
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000010_000004|Why did he not summon all the people from the highest to the lowest to the solemn spectacle of his ascension, securing multitudinous and permanently recorded evidence such as none of us could doubt?
train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000010_000005|We might go on asking Why? and Why? and Why? in this fashion on a hundred points, confident that to not one of our questions could the Christian apologist give a straightforward and satisfactory answer.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000010_000000|"Hello," said the boy.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000011_000000|"Hello," answered Trot, looking up surprised.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000011_000001|"Where did you come from?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000012_000000|"Philadelphia," said he.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000013_000000|"Dear me," said Trot; "you're a long way from home, then."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000014_000000|"'bout as far as I can get, in this country," the boy replied, gazing out over the water.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000014_000001|"Isn't this the Pacific Ocean?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000015_000000|"Of course."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000017_000000|"Because it's the biggest lot of water in all the world."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000018_000000|"How do you know?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000019_000000|"Cap'n Bill told me," she said.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000020_000000|"Who's Cap'n Bill?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000021_000001|He lives at my house, too-the white house you see over there on the bluff."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000022_000000|"Oh; is that your home?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000023_000000|"Yes," said Trot, proudly.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000026_000000|"Haven't you any father?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000027_000000|"Yes, 'n deed; Cap'n Griffith is my father; but he's gone, most of the time, sailin' on his ship.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000000|Trot wasn't very big herself, but the boy was not quite as big as Trot. He was thin, with a rather pale complexion and his blue eyes were round and earnest.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000001|He wore a blouse waist, a short jacket and knickerbockers. Under his arm he held an old umbrella that was as tall as he was.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000004|It was of wood and carved to resemble an elephant's head.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000005|The long trunk of the elephant was curved to make a crook for the handle.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000006|The eyes of the beast were small red stones, and it had two tiny tusks of ivory.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000029_000000|The boy's dress was rich and expensive, even to his fine silk stockings and tan shoes; but the umbrella looked old and disreputable.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000034_000000|He shook his head, still gazing far out over the water.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000035_000000|"I don't b'lieve this is bigger than any other ocean," said he.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000035_000001|"I can't see any more of it than I can of the Atlantic."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000036_000000|"You'd find out, if you had to sail across it," she declared.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000037_000000|"When I was in Chicago I saw Lake Michigan," he went on dreamily, "and it looked just as big as this water does."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000038_000000|"Looks don't count, with oceans," she asserted.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000039_000000|"Then it doesn't make any difference how big an ocean is," he replied. "What are those buildings over there?" pointing to the right, along the shore of the bay.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000040_000000|"That's the town," said Trot.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000041_000000|The boy sat down beside her on the flat rock.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000043_000000|"Not very well," the boy replied.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000043_000004|They can't help being girls, of course.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000044_000001|"My 'sperience with boys is that they don't know much, but think they do."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000045_000000|"That's true," he answered.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000046_000000|"Much obliged," laughed Trot.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000047_000000|He nodded, rather absently, and tossed a pebble into the water.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000049_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000000|"That's all.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000002|"That's why he don't sailor any more.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000003|I'm glad of it, 'cause Cap'n Bill knows ev'rything.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000004|I s'pose he knows more than anyone else in all the world."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000052_000001|A one legged sailor can't know much."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000053_000000|"Why not?" asked Trot, a little indignantly.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000053_000001|"Folks don't learn things with their legs, do they?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000054_000000|"No; but they can't get around, without legs, to find out things."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000056_000000|"What's a league?" asked the boy.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000058_000000|"What is it, then?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000061_000000|"If you do you're pretty smart," said Trot.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000000|"No; I'm not smart.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000001|Some folks think I'm stupid.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000002|I guess I am.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000003|But I know a few things that are wonderful.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000005|Say, what's your name?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000064_000000|"Button Bright."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000065_000000|"How did it happen?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000066_000000|"How did what happen?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000067_000000|"Such a funny name."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000068_000000|The boy scowled a little.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000069_000000|"Just like your own nickname happened," he answered gloomily.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000069_000001|"My father once said I was bright as a button, an' it made ever'body laugh.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000069_000002|So they always call me Button Bright."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000070_000000|"What's your real name?" she inquired.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000072_000000|"Guess I'll call you Button Bright," said Trot, sighing.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000073_000000|"I don't try to," he said.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000074_000000|"Thank you," said Trot.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000074_000001|"Oh, here comes Cap'n Bill!" as she glanced over her shoulder.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000075_000000|Button Bright turned also and looked solemnly at the old sailor who came stumping along the path toward them.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000075_000002|He was old, not very tall, somewhat stout and chubby, with a round face, a bald head and a scraggly fringe of reddish whisker underneath his chin.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000076_000000|Button Bright liked the sailor's looks.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000076_000001|There was something very winning-something jolly and care free and honest and sociable-about the ancient seaman that made him everybody's friend; so the strange boy was glad to meet him.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000077_000000|"Well, well, Trot," he said, coming up, "is this the way you hurry to town?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000078_000000|"No, for I'm on my way back," said she.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000079_000000|Cap'n Bill looked at the boy curiously.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000080_000001|"Guess as you're a stranger, my lad."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000081_000000|Button Bright nodded.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000083_000000|"No," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000084_000000|The sailor glanced around him.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000086_000000|"No," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000088_000000|Button Bright shook his head.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000090_000000|"No," said Button Bright; "I didn't come by water."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000091_000000|Trot laughed.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000093_000000|Button Bright nodded, very seriously.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000094_000000|"That's it," he said.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000096_000000|"I don't know," said Button Bright; "I've never seen one."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000099_000000|"'Riddlecum, riddlecum ree; What can the answer be?'"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000100_000000|Trot looked the boy over carefully.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000100_000002|The only queer thing about him was his big umbrella.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000101_000000|"Oh!" she said suddenly, clapping her hands together; "I know now."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000104_000000|"Shoot," said Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000104_000001|"They're called parashoots, mate; but why, I can't say.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000104_000002|Did you drop down in that way, my lad?" he asked the boy.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000105_000000|"Yes," said Button Bright; "that was the way."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000106_000001|"You had to get up in the air before you could drop down, an'--oh, Cap'n Bill! he says he's from Phillydelfy, which is a big city way at the other end of America."
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000108_000000|Button Bright nodded again.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000109_000000|"I ought to tell you my story," he said, "and then you'd understand.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000109_000001|But I'm afraid you won't believe me, and-" he suddenly broke off and looked toward the white house in the distance-"Didn't you say you lived over there?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000110_000000|"Yes," said Trot.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000110_000001|"Won't you come home with us?"
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000111_000000|"I'd like to," replied Button Bright.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000112_000000|"All right; let's go, then," said the girl, jumping up.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000113_000000|The three walked silently along the path.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000113_000001|The old sailorman had refilled his pipe and lighted it again, and he smoked thoughtfully as he pegged along beside the children.
train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000115_000000|"No one but you two," said the boy, following after Trot, with his umbrella tucked carefully underneath his arm.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000003_000000|Once upon a time a wicked nobleman rose in rebellion against his rightful king, and taking the royal forces by surprise, defeated them and seized the kingdom.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000004_000000|Into the dark forest which lay behind the palace ran the Queen, holding her baby daughter in her arms.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000004_000001|It was winter time, and a heavy snow had hidden the foot paths and the roads.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000004_000003|All afternoon, however, she trudged bravely on through the silence and the cold, her heart sinking as mile after mile revealed no sign of a house or a shelter.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000005_000000|But late in the afternoon, when the red shield of the sun could scarcely be seen through the tangle of the wild wood branches, she perceived a light coming from a little grove of cedars by the shore of a frozen lake.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000005_000001|The Queen made her way toward this light, and discovered a little thatched hut in the silent wood; it was the house of one of the dwarfs of the forest.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000005_000002|The dwarf took pity on the Queen, but his efforts were vain, for the poor woman was so weak and exhausted that she died without telling the dwarf anything about herself or the child she carried.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000006_000000|So the little dwarf, who was a good, kind old fellow, brought the little girl up as if she were his own child.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000006_000001|His brother, the dwarf of the mountain, made her the prettiest red leather shoes, and his cousins, the dwarfs of the pines, made the little girl dresses from cloth woven on fairy looms.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000008_000002|One spring morning a little yellow bird flew into the cedar grove, and gave the dwarf a letter which it held in its beak.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000009_000001|Alas, what are we to do?
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000010_000000|To this Marianna replied, "Do not fear, dear father.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000014_000000|"Dear lady," said the peasant girl, pressing Marianna's hand to her lips, "how sweet and kind thou art!
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000014_000001|Great is the debt I owe thee."
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000016_000000|"Poor little bird," said Marianna, bending down and taking him up in her hands, "why criest thou so mournfully?
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000017_000000|But the bird uttered only a forlorn little cry, and hid his head again under his wings.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000018_000001|"Someone has wounded him.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000018_000002|His wing is broken."
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000019_000002|Scarcely had she done so, when the yellow bird burst into a joyous and golden song, and flying to the window, beat madly against the panes.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000019_000003|Then the peasant girl threw open the casement, and the yellow bird flew out into the streaming sun
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000020_000000|"He is gone forever," said the peasant girl.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000021_000000|"Nay, he returns," said Marianna, gently, as the yellow bird flew back and perched in the sheltering bower of Marianna's arms.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000021_000002|When they reached the foot of the path, the peasant girl cried:--
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000023_000001|This pleasant land, unknown to Marianna, was part of her father's kingdom, and she was really its queen because her father had been the last rightful king.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000024_000002|For some time he had enjoyed undisturbed the possession of his stolen throne; but as Desire grew taller and stronger every year, Garabin began to fear the day when he would be compelled to resign in favor of his nephew.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000025_000000|When the Prince reached his twentieth year, Garabin would certainly have killed him openly had he dared; but, fearing the people, he resolved to use secret methods, and bribed a cruel magician to afflict poor Desire with a deadly and mysterious malady.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000025_000001|Of this malady, Desire was slowly dying, for no medicine could cure him or even give him any relief from his constant pain.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000026_000000|Garabin had just returned from a visit to the Prince, who was rapidly failing, when the Captain of the Castle Guard came to him with the news that the wonderful Marianna had arrived in the kingdom.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000026_000001|The King gave orders that she be brought before him.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000026_000002|So Marianna, walking between two halberdiers and followed across the courtyard by crowds of curious people, was led before the King.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000027_000001|Had he not been very old and crafty, he would have started from his golden throne, for he knew that the little golden heart set with diamonds had been one of the crown jewels, and that therefore Marianna must be the missing Princess, and rightful queen of the kingdom.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000028_000002|What was he to do with Marianna, whose right to the throne was superior even to his nephew's?
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000028_000003|Perplexed, and with fear in his heart, the King sought the cruel magician who had cast the spell on Desire.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000029_000000|The magician lived in a gloomy tower, and had an enchanted black dog that he fed with flaming coals.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000029_000001|He listened to Garabin's story, stirring a great cauldron all the while, and said, "Do not fear.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000029_000002|I will destroy both claimants to the throne at once."
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000030_000000|Garabin rubbed his hands together with glee.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000031_000000|"To night I shall cast a spell of sleep on Marianna, steal the crystal flask, empty it of the water of healing, and refill it with a liquid which will cause death within a night and a day.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000031_000001|I shall then replace the flask before Marianna wakes.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000031_000003|You can then try Marianna for having killed the Prince, and condemn her to be thrown from the precipice."
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000032_000000|So pleased was Garabin with this horrid plot, that he could have danced for joy.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000032_000001|That very night, the magician filled Marianna's flask with the poisonous water, and departed, thinking that nobody had noticed him.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000034_000000|"Welcome, thrice welcome, lovely maiden," said Garabin with the most dreadful hypocrisy.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000035_000000|Marianna replied that she would do her best to help the Prince; so the Court Chamberlain gave her his arm, and escorted her to the Prince's sick room.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000036_000000|Desire lay in a great old-fashioned bed, his face flushed with fever.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000036_000001|So weak was the poor Prince, that he could scarcely lift his head to look at his visitors.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000000|Now just as Marianna bent over the Prince to touch his forehead with the water of healing, the yellow bird screamed and cried as madly as if he were caught in a net.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000001|Marianna looked at the crystal flask.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000002|Nothing seemed changed; the water within seemed as pure and diamond like as ever.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000004|Alas, in a moment, so terrible was the magician's poison that the Prince turned white as the driven snow, and fell back on the pillows insensible.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000005|The lookers on, who had expected to see him spring up entirely cured, began to murmur, and Marianna herself, terrified at what had happened, let fall the flask, which broke into a thousand sparkling pieces.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000038_000000|Suddenly, Garabin cried at the top of his voice, "Seize the witch; she has killed the Prince!"
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000039_000000|Presently there was a great confusion, rough hands seized Marianna, and somebody caught the yellow bird.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000039_000002|At high noon, a trial was held, and since the doctors declared that the Prince was dying, Marianna was condemned to be thrown from the precipice.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000039_000003|When somebody asked about the yellow bird, Garabin laughed, and gave orders that the cook should wring its neck, and toss it to the cat.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000040_000000|So Marianna was hurried to a dark prison room and loaded with chains, and the yellow bird was taken to the castle kitchen, and given to the cook.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000000|By great good fortune, the cook's helper was no other than the peasant girl whom Marianna had saved.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000001|This girl recognized the yellow bird, and instead of wringing its neck, let it fly out of the window.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000002|The yellow bird flew to the window of the magician's room.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000003|The magician was in the chamber, stirring the giant cauldron.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000004|The bird flew to the window of Prince Desire's room, and saw that he was still insensible.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000043_000001|First came a troop of soldiers, then Marianna, weighted down with chains, and last of all, a little group in which were Garabin, the magician, and some of Garabin's favorites.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000044_000000|The bell kept on sadly tolling and tolling.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000044_000001|It roused the Prince from his swoon, and with his last measure of strength, poor Desire dragged himself to the window.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000044_000002|The procession was then passing directly underneath the window, and Desire's eyes met the eyes of Marianna.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000045_000000|"Stop!
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000045_000001|Stop!" cried the poor Prince, wildly; "I forbid-"
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000046_000000|An instant later he sank fainting to the floor.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000046_000001|The procession went on.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000047_000001|It was empty.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000047_000004|Desire still lay in a heap by the window, and over him the yellow bird poured the contents of the phial.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000048_000001|He arrived at the cliff just as the poor maiden was about to be pushed off into space, and standing by her side, dared anyone to lay hands upon her.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000049_000000|Garabin, seeing his precious plot miscarry, grew mad with rage.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000050_000000|"Seize them," cried he, "and toss them both over the precipice!"
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000051_000000|So the soldiers rushed at Marianna and the Prince, intending to carry out their wicked master's orders.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000052_000000|"Cruel King!" cried the dwarf sternly, "and thou, wicked and perfidious magician, the hour of thy punishment is at hand."
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000053_000000|Immediately the sky grew black, the lightning crashed, and there arose a terrible, howling wind.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000053_000001|Three giant gusts drove fiercely by, the first one blowing the King and the magician head over heels over the precipice, the second carrying away the soldiers, and the third the rascally favorites.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000053_000002|When the sky cleared, only the dwarf, Marianna, and Desire were left of the company.
train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000054_000001|You, Marianna, are the rightful Queen of this country."
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000001_000001|Most persons have an opportunity of becoming acquainted, if they will, with the lower classes of Irish, as they are so much employed among us in domestic service, and other kinds of labor.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000002_000000|We feel, say these persons, the justice of what has been said as to the duty and importance of improving these people.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000002_000001|We have sometimes tried; but the want of real gratitude which, in them, is associated with such warm and wordy expressions of regard, with their incorrigible habits of falsehood and evasion, have baffled and discouraged us.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000003_000000|We answer first with regard to those who have grown up in another land, and who, soon after arriving here, are engaged in our service.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000004_000000|First, as to ingratitude.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000001|Gratitude!
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000003|Then, the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table might be received with gratitude, and, if any but the dogs came to tend the beggar's sores, such might be received as angels.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000004|But the institutions which sustained such ideas have fallen to pieces.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000005|It is understood, even In Europe, that
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000009_000000|And you, O giver! how did you give?
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000009_000004|Or, with affability and condescending sweetness, made easy by internal delight at thine own wondrous virtue, didst thou give five dollars to balance five hundred spent on thyself?
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000009_000005|Did you say, "james, I shall expect you to do right in everything, and to attend to my concerns as I should myself; and, at the end of the quarter, I will give you my old clothes and a new pocket handkerchief, besides seeing that your mother is provided with fuel against Christmas?"
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000010_000000|Line upon line, and precept upon precept, the tender parent expects from the teacher to whom he confides his child; vigilance unwearied, day and night, through long years.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000010_000002|If we look fairly into the history of their people, and the circumstances under which their own youth was trained, we cannot expect that anything short of the most steadfast patience and love can enlighten them as to the beauty and value of implicit truth, and, having done so, fortify and refine them in the practice of it.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000012_000000|Second, Dismiss from your minds all thought of gratitude.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000012_000001|Do what you do for them for God's sake, and as a debt to humanity-interest to the common creditor upon principal left in your care.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000013_000002|The priest, too, will have to learn the duties of an American citizen; he will live less and less for the church, and more for the people, till at last, if there be Catholicism still, it will be under Protestant influences, as begins to be the case in Germany.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000014_000000|Between employer and employed there is not sufficient pains taken on the part of the former to establish a mutual understanding.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000014_000001|People meet, in the relations of master and servant, who have lived in two different worlds.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000014_000002|In this respect we are much worse situated than the same parties have been in Europe.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000017_000000|It is shocking to think to what falsehoods human beings like ourselves will resort, to excuse a love of amusement, to hide ill health, while they see us indulging freely in the one, yielding lightly to the other; and yet we have, or ought to have, far more resources in either temptation than they.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000019_000003|He has now got some ground on which to stand for intercourse.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000020_000003|Offer your aid, as a faithful friend, to watch their lapses, and refine their sense of truth.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000020_000004|You will not speak in vain.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000021_000001|They are so fond of change, they will leave us." What then?
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000021_000002|Why, let them go and carry the good seed elsewhere.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000022_000000|It is a simple duty we ask you to engage in; it is, also, a great patriotic work.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000023_000001|But this must be for another day.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000024_000001|We hear people blaming it in their servants, who can and do go to Niagara, to the South, to the Springs, to Europe, to the seaside; in short, who are always on the move whenever they feel the need of variety to reanimate mind, health, or spirits.
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000024_000003|How natural that they should incline to it!
train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000024_000004|Once more; put yourself in their places, and then judge them gently from your own, if you would be just to them, if you would be of any use.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000003_000001|He stooped and felt on the ground in the darkness and rain, for a stick, by means of which to tighten it still more; for the bleeding, though considerably checked, was by no means stanched.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000004_000001|Here he again paused to search for the much needed stick, found one suited to his purpose, and by its aid succeeded in decreasing still more the drain upon his life current; yet could not stop the flow entirely.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000005_000001|Leaving the path, he plunged deeper into the woods, ran for some distance along the edge of a swamp, and leaping in up to his knees in mud and water, doubled on his track, then turned again, and penetrating farther and farther into the depths of the morass, finally climbed a tree, groaning with the pain the effort cost him, and concealed himself among the branches.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000006_000000|His pursuers came up to the spot where he had made his plunge into the water; here they paused, evidently at fault.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000006_000001|He could hear the sound of their footsteps and voices, and judge of their movements by the gleam of the torches many of them carried.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000007_000000|Some now took one direction, some another, and he perceived with joy that his stratagem had been at least partially successful.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000007_000001|One party, however, soon followed him into the swamp.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000007_000002|He could hear Spriggs urging them on and anathematizing him as "a scoundrel, robber, burglar, murderer, who ought to be swung up to the nearest tree."
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000008_000000|Every thicket was undergoing a thorough search, heads were thrown back and torches held high that eager blacks eyes might scan the tree tops, and Jackson began to grow sick with the almost certainty of being taken, as several stout negroes drew nearer and nearer his chosen hiding place.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000009_000000|He uttered a low, breathed imprecation upon his useless right arm, and the man whose sure aim had made it so.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000011_000000|The search was kept up for some time longer, with no light but an occasional flash from the skies; but finally abandoned, as we have seen.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000012_000000|Jackson passed several hours most uncomfortably and painfully on his elevated perch, quaking with fear of both man and reptile, not daring to come down or to sleep in his precarious position, or able to do so for the pain of his wound, and growing hour by hour weaker from the bleeding which it was impossible to check entirely.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000013_000001|Perhaps he had now two new murders on his hands; he did not know, but he had at least attempted to take life, and the story would fly on the wings of the wind; such stories always did.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000014_000001|He must contrive a plausible story, and go to him; at break of day, before the news of the attack on Viamede would be likely to reach him.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000014_000002|It would be a risk, but what better could be done?
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000015_000000|The storm had spent itself before the break of day, and descending from his perch with the first faint rays of light that penetrated the gloomy recesses of the swamp, he made his way out of it, slowly and toilsomely, with weary, aching limbs, suffering intensely from the gnawings of hunger and thirst, the pain of his injury, and the fear of being overtaken by the avengers of his innocent victims.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000016_000001|The man reeled as he walked, either from intoxication or weakness and fatigue.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000017_000001|With the assistance of Nap's strong arm, the man tottered in, then sank, half fainting, into a chair.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000018_000000|"A glass of wine, Nap, quick!" cried the doctor, sprinkling some water in his patient's face, and applying ammonia to his nostrils.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000020_000000|"Food, for the love of God," he gasped.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000020_000001|"I'm starving!"
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000021_000000|"Bread, meat, coffee, anything that is on the table, Nap," said his master; "and don't let the grass grow under your feet."
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000024_000001|You haven't strength for talk just now."
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000025_000000|dr Balis had his own suspicions as he ripped up the coat sleeve, bared the swollen limb, and carefully dressed the wound; but kept them to himself.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000025_000001|The stranger's clothes, though much soiled and torn in several places by contact with thorns and briers, were of good material, fashionable cut, and not old or worn; his manners were gentlemanly, and his speech was that of an educated man.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000026_000000|"Is that mortification?" asked the sufferer, looking ruefully at the black, swollen hand and fore arm, and wincing under the doctor's touch as he took up the artery and tied it.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000029_000000|"Oh yes; neither the bone nor nerve has suffered injury; the ball has glanced from the bone, passed under the nerve, and cut the humeral artery. Your tourniquet has saved you from bleeding to death.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000029_000001|'tis well you knew enough to apply it.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000030_000000|The doctor's task was done.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000030_000001|Nap had set a plate of food within reach of the stranger's left hand, and he was devouring it like a hungry wolf.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000031_000001|I can't deny that things look suspicious.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000032_000000|"No; a party of us, from New Orleans last, came out to visit this beautiful region.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000032_000001|We were roaming through a forest yesterday, looking for game, when I somehow got separated from the rest, lost my way, darkness came on, and wondering hither and thither in the vain effort to find my comrades, tumbling over logs and fallen trees, scratched and torn by brambles, almost eaten up by mosquitos, I thought I was having a dreadful time of it.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000033_000000|The doctor listened in silence, his face telling nothing of his thoughts.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000034_000000|"A bad business," he said, rising and beginning to draw on his gloves. "You are not fit to travel, but are welcome to stay here for the present; had better lie down on the sofa there and take a nap while I am away visiting my patients.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000034_000001|Nap, clean the mud and blood from the gentleman's clothes; take his boots out and clean them too; and see that he doesn't want for attention while I am gone.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000034_000002|Good morning, sir; make yourself at home." And the doctor walked out, giving Nap a slight sign to follow him.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000035_000000|"Nap," he said, when they were out of ear shot of the stranger, "watch that man and keep him here if possible, till I come back."
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000037_000000|Nap went back into the office while the doctor mounted and rode away.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000038_000003|have you been house breaking or some other mischief?" dr Balis was traveling in the direction of Viamede, intending to call there too, but having several patients to visit on the way, did not arrive until the late breakfast of its master and mistress was over.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000039_000000|They were seated together on the veranda, her hand in his, the other arm thrown lightly about her waist, talking earnestly, and so engrossed with each other and the subject of their conversation, that they did not at first observe the doctor's approach.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000042_000000|"No, uncle, what is it?"
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000047_000000|"A murderer, sir; one whose object was to take my husband's life," Elsie answered with a shudder, and in low, tremulous tones, leaning on Edward's arm and gazing into his face with eyes swimming with tears of love and gratitude.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000048_000000|"My wife's also, I fear," mr Travilla said with emotion, fondly stroking her sunny hair.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000050_000000|"No; his ball passed over our heads, grazing mine so closely as to cut off a lock of my hair.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000052_000000|"A flash of lightning showed us to each other and we fired simultaneously, I aiming for his right arm.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000053_000000|"You had him pursued promptly, of course?"
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000054_000000|"Yes; but they did not find him.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000054_000001|I expected to see them return with his corpse, thinking he must bleed to death in a very short time.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000055_000001|I'd better return at once, lest he should make his escape.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000056_000000|"I do; I can," replied mr Travilla.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000056_000001|"But, my little wife, how you are trembling!
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000057_000000|"The man's name is Tom Jackson; he is a noted gambler and forger, has been convicted of manslaughter and other crimes, sent to the penitentiary and pardoned out.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000058_000001|"I must hurry home and prevent his escape.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000058_000002|Why, it's really dangerous to have him at large.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000060_000000|"But how could you tell where it entered or where it passed out, doctor?" inquired Elsie.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000061_000001|Why, where it goes in it makes merely a small hole; you see nothing but a blue mark; but a much larger opening in passing out, often tearing the flesh a good deal; as in this case.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000063_000000|"Don't take the trouble, doctor," said mr Travilla; "we will mount and follow you at once, to identify him if he is to be found.
train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000063_000001|Shall we not, wife?"
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000001_000000|"Calm me, my God, and keep me calm While these hot breezes blow; Be like the night dew's cooling balm Upon earth's fevered brow." --H.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000003_000000|"Dear old auntie! to think how hard at work for her country she is, while I sit idle here," sighed Elsie, closing the letter after reading it aloud to the assembled family.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000003_000001|"Mamma, papa, Edward, is there nothing we can do?"
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000005_000000|"I think you can," was the simultaneous reply; mr Travilla adding, "and we can help with the lint, and by running the sewing machines.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000005_000001|I'd be glad to add to the comfort of the poor fellows on both sides."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000007_000000|"And I can send that!" Elsie exclaimed joyously
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000009_000000|Several busy weeks followed, and a large box was packed and sent off.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000016_000000|"Yes," he said, gently taking it from her, "but rather too valuable a plaything for my little pet.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000018_000000|"I gave her leave to look over the contents of my jewel box; she is a very careful little body, and mammy and I are both on the watch:" answered mamma.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000021_000000|"Let papa see where you put it, precious," he said, following her as she tripped across the room and seated herself on a cushion in front of the box.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000022_000000|"Dere, papa, dus where Elsie dot it," she said, laying it carefully back in its proper place.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000023_000001|"Little wife, your jewels alone are worth what to very many would be a handsome fortune."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000025_000000|"No, it is a good investment; especially as things are at present."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000030_000001|Mamma, may I, too?"
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000038_000001|"Mammy, sit close to Elsie and keep a careful watch, lest she should drop something."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000039_000000|"I begin to think there's truth in the old saw, 'It's hard to teach old dogs new tricks,'" remarked mr Travilla, with a comically rueful face. "I've a mind to give it up.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000041_000000|"Oh, fighting's another thing, but I'll persevere as long as you do; unless I find I'm wearying my teacher."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000043_000000|"Ah! then I shall try harder than ever, to save your reputation; but take a recess now, for here comes my boy, reaching out his arms to papa.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000043_000002|Papa's own boy, he looks beautiful and as bright as the day."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000050_000001|"Papa!
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000050_000002|Edward! she is dying!"
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000054_000001|Quick, Aunt Chloe! a cloth dipped in spirits of turpentine, to lay over the stomach and bowels, and another to put between her shoulders.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000057_000000|"Thank God! she is still ours!" exclaimed the father, almost under his breath; then, a little louder, "Elsie, dear wife, I shall go at once for dr Channing, an English physician who has been highly recommended to me."
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000073_000000|With a silent prayer for help to control her emotion, Elsie cleared her voice, and began in low, sweet tones the old, old story of Jesus and His love, His birth, His life, His death.
train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000091_000001|"Is it not, Edward?"
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000001_000000|MOLLY PITCHER
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000000|In the days of the American Revolution a young woman lived as a servant in carlisle pennsylvania, with the family of General Irving, a retired British officer, who had fought in the French and Indian War and had seen a great deal of service.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000001|This young woman was named Molly Ludwig Hays, and was the wife of a barber who had been well known in the village.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000003|She was not only handsome, but as strong as a man, able to carry a heavy meal sack on her shoulder; and one of the hardest workers that the town knew.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000004|She washed and scrubbed and scoured and baked from morning till night, and seemed to revel in the hard work that gave the needed exercise to her strong muscles.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000003_000000|Throughout her life Molly Hays had admired soldiers, and more than once she expressed herself in no undecided terms to the effect that she wished she were a man so that she could bear arms and wear a uniform, and be a soldier herself.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000004_000000|When she was still a very young woman the American Revolution for freedom from Great Britain broke out.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000004_000001|All the country was aflame, and rang with the stories of what happened at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Man after man from the village took his powder horn and musket and went off to enlist for the war, and Molly grew more and more restless as she saw them go.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000005_000000|At last her husband came to her, somewhat sheepishly, for he disliked to tell her the intention he had in his heart; but at length he made her understand that just because he was married was no reason why he should remain at home with the women; and he, too, intended to enlist that very day.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000006_000000|Molly consented with the utmost enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000007_000000|When her husband had departed Molly returned to the Irving household where she worked as well as she had before her marriage, trying to find relief in the heavy labor from the pain of having lost her husband and the aching desire to go and do her part beside him even though she were a woman.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000007_000001|Fate, thought Molly, had made a sad mistake, in making her a woman, for she knew that in spite of her petticoats she could soldier as well as the men,--and if she had only been a man she believed she could have risen to an important position in the army.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000008_000000|The tide of the struggle wavered and battles with the red coats were fought and won.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000008_000001|It was hard to get the newspapers in those times and news of the armies and their doings was often weeks behind the actual events.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000008_000002|Molly hoped and waited, but for weeks at a time she went without word from her husband and did not know whether he were alive or dead.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000009_000001|He had a letter from john Hays for Molly, and it not only told her that he was alive and well, but was in camp not far off from her former home in trenton new jersey, where her aged parents were still living.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000009_000002|The letter ended by telling her to come to Trenton and live with her parents, for he would be able without doubt to get leave from his command and see her often.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000010_000000|Soon the war itself was being fought in the neighborhood of her home. The Americans attacked the British near Princeton killing and capturing a large number.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000011_000000|And now Molly found that there was something that she could do-namely, go and care for the wounded who were still lying where they had fallen on the field of battle.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000012_000001|She studied the cannon carefully and it seemed to be aimed right at a group of the enemy that was approaching.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000012_000002|The brave girl dropped the pail of water that she had been carrying, picked up the fuse and applied it to the touch hole.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000013_000003|Molly had left and had taken with her a wounded American soldier whom she carried on her shoulder.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000015_000001|As it was they thought she was only some country girl who had perhaps lost some relative in the recent battle and was carrying his dead body back to her home.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000015_000002|And so they paid no attention to her.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000017_000000|On a hot day of July in the following summer it chanced that Washington's forces were again not far away from Molly's home, and she took a difficult journey on the chance of seeing her husband.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000017_000001|Her first step in soldiering had been taken when she fired the cannon at the British in the preceding year.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000017_000002|A far greater adventure lay before her, for she fell in with the American soldiers just as they commenced the severe battle of Monmouth.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000018_000000|This battle had considerable importance, as a comparatively large number of troops were engaged in it.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000018_000002|The English had been retreating from Philadelphia, across New Jersey, followed by Washington, and the American general had decided to launch an attack on the left wing of the retreating forces and General Lee was ordered by Washington to attack the English on the flank and hold them in battle until he himself could come up with the bulk of the American Army.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000019_000000|General Lee, however, proved to be a poor man for this task and his indecision and semi cowardice left Washington exposed to the brunt of the enemy's attack before he was prepared to meet it and against the intentions of the American commander.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000019_000001|The situation was saved by General Greene, who saw what had happened, changed his own plans and diverted the attack of the British to his own position from which he poured in a heavy artillery fire that caused them terrible losses.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000020_000000|john Hays was one of the cannoneers of Greene's artillery and he worked all day loading and firing his piece.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000020_000001|It was a terribly hot day and many men in both the British and the American armies fell exhausted and even died from the heat of the sun
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000021_000000|All this time Molly Hays had been caring for the wounded and carrying water to the thirsty gunners, using for the purpose the bucket that was attached to her husband's cannon for cleaning purposes.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000021_000001|Tirelessly she continued her efforts to care for the wounded and comfort the fighting soldiers, heedless of the bullets that came her way or of the general turmoil of battle.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000021_000002|As the day wore on the men would greet her coming with: "Here comes Molly with her pitcher!" And gradually this was changed to "Here comes Molly Pitcher." And this was the name that history has adopted in regard to the brave woman for whom it was so used.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000022_000001|The sun had proved too much for him.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000023_000000|Molly stopped carrying water to care for her husband.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000023_000001|She bathed his head and moved him into the shade, returning to her duties just in time to hear General Knox give orders that the cannon be removed, because he had no other gunner cool enough and skilful enough to work it in its present exposed position.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000023_000002|At this Molly sprang forward crying out:
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000000|"Leave the gun where it is.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000001|I can fire it.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000002|I am a gunner's wife and know how to load and fire a cannon.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000003|I'll take the place that my brave husband has left!" And running to the gun Molly commenced to load and fire so determinedly and skilfully that a gasp of amazement ran through the men that saw her.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000025_000000|For many weary hours she toiled at the gun, until the British were driven back and the battle was claimed as an American victory.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000025_000002|Before she left her cannon General Greene himself came over to where she stood and grasping her hand thanked her in the name of the American Army.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000026_000000|This was not all the triumph she received, however, for word was soon brought to her that General Washington himself wished to see her.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000027_000000|Washington praised her highly and before a large number of his officers and men, and more cheering reechoed through the ranks when he gave her the brevet rank of Captain in the American Army.
train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000028_000000|And not only the Americans did her honor, but the French as well, for the Marquis de Lafayette with his own hand presented her with a purse of golden crowns.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty five
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000002_000000|FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000004_000000|She was born in eighteen twenty two in the city of Florence in Italy, and was named after the place where she first drew breath.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000004_000001|Her father was William Nightingale, an English gentleman, and her elder sister, Parthenope, also took her name from the place where she was born, for Parthenope is the ancient term for Naples.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000005_000000|The Nightingale family did not remain long in Italy, and soon after the birth of his youngest child William Nightingale, with his wife and two little daughters, returned to England where the two girls spent their childhood in a rambling old house in Derbyshire with many traditions and stories attached to it.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000005_000001|Here Florence conceived a love for nursing and used to tend sick animals in the neighborhood and when she grew older, to sit up with and cheer the sick among the cottagers.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000005_000003|Poor men used to come hat in hand to the old house requesting that Miss Florence spend a few hours with a sick wife or a young mother, and the Nightingales were kind enough and sensible enough to allow their daughter to do the work for which she had so evident an inclination.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000006_000001|Sick people were expected to be cared for by their relatives; hospitals were inefficient and badly run, and the comforts of the modern sickroom were unknown.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000006_000002|As Florence grew older she thought a great deal about these things, and finally decided that she would do something which at that time was regarded almost as strange as if she had declared her intention of visiting the North Pole-she said she was going to become a professional trained nurse, and went abroad to study nursing on the Continent which was far ahead of England in such matters.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000000|This home, like many another benevolent institution in those times, was badly administered.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000001|As it constantly showed a deficit, its friends had become discouraged in supporting it, and the subscriptions on which it lived had been falling off.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000002|The ladies who were compelled to remain there did not receive the care that they should have had, and were unhappy and dispirited.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000003|This was the state of affairs when Florence Nightingale became the Superintendent of the Home.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000009_000000|In a very short time the Home was completely changed.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000009_000001|Miss Nightingale had personally visited the former subscribers, and secured once more their help and patronage.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000000|Then war broke out between England, France and Turkey on the one side and Russia on the other,--a war that was brought about among other reasons by the desire of the Russian Czar to seize and hold the port of Constantinople.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000001|Great Britain and France supported the Turks and active fighting commenced.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000002|The theater of war soon shifted to the Crimean Peninsula where the British and French laid siege to the town of Sebastopol which was Russia's most important fortress and chief base of supplies.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000003|Before the walls of Sebastopol there took place severe fighting, which continued until bitter winter rendered further campaigning impossible.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000000|While the war was going on thousands of sick and wounded British soldiers were pouring into the base hospitals at Scutari, where no provision for their care had been made.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000001|With the constant flood of wounded men, and men who were dying of dysentery and cholera, with no medical supplies and little food, with no nurses and only a few doctors, the condition of the British wounded soon became terrible beyond description.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000002|As there were no field dressing stations they had to be carried for days with their wounds undressed before they reached the hospital, and when they arrived it was often some time before the harassed doctors could care for them.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000003|They were brought in with their uniforms covered with filth and blood, and were laid in long rows on the floors of the hospital where few cots were to be found.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000004|Vermin crawled over the floors, over the walls and over the bodies of the helpless men.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000005|Rats gnawed the fingers of the wounded who were too weak to drive them away.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000006|There were no conveniences of any kind and many men died of exhaustion because no food adequate for the sick could be prepared.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000007|All the food, we are told, consisted of beef and vegetables boiled together in one huge caldron, into which new supplies were thrown indiscriminately as fast as they were delivered.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000008|The bread was moldy and the beef too tough even for well men to eat.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000012_000001|But owing to the inefficiency and red tape of the War Department, the supplies were not delivered, but lay rotting in warehouses and in the holds of vessels while men died for the want of them.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000012_000002|On one occasion, we are told, a consignment of shoes for the soldiers turned out to be in women's sizes.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000012_000003|Improper inspections resulted in high profits, for the army contractors made uniforms out of shoddy and leather accouterments from paper, filled the cores of hay bales with kale stocks and cheated the Government right and left without forbearance or conscience.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000013_000000|Then the newspapers began calling for English women to go to the Crimea and care for the sick, and Florence Nightingale heard the call.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000013_000001|She wrote a letter to Sydney Herbert who was Minister of War, volunteering to organize a body of nurses and go out to the Crimea to care for the wounded.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000000|Right then a curious thing happened.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000001|The War Department had already decided that Miss Nightingale was the one person who could take charge of the reorganization of the hospitals in the Crimea, and had written a letter requesting her services.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000002|Offer and request crossed each other in the mails.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000003|On the following day her appointment was officially announced, and she was overwhelmed with proffers of assistance from all sides.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000015_000000|A large number of patriotic women volunteered to aid her, but only a very few possessed the necessary qualifications for such a task.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000015_000001|Of all that offered to go Miss Nightingale was only able to accept thirty that she considered would be capable of performing the severe tasks that lay ahead, for she knew only too well the grim welcome she would receive at the Crimea.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000016_000000|Without farewells, quietly and at night, seen off only by a few intimate relatives, the little group of nurses started on their mission-the first one where women were to care for the soldiers who had fallen in war.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000017_000001|From there they made their way to the seat of the war, and Miss Nightingale looked for the first time on the hospital where she was so soon to acquire immortal fame.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000018_000000|It may well be thought that her heart sank when she saw the enormity of the task that lay before her, for she had been sent to bring order from chaos, plenty from want, comfort from torture and cleanliness from wholesale filth.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000018_000001|She had to contend not only with these awful conditions, but with the dislike and distrust of the medical officers with whom she was to work, who resented the fact that a woman had been sent out to reorganize what they considered a part of their department, and who doubted, because she was a woman, that she would be capable of doing so efficiently.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000019_000000|And when she arrived there was no time to spend in preliminary planning, for active fighting had been going on at the front and the wounded from recent battles were pouring in, adding to the confusion that already existed.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000019_000001|They were laid groaning in hallways and on the bare ground until such time as the doctors could look after them.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000020_000000|Then Florence Nightingale, hardly taking breath, plunged into the task that awaited her and sent her nurses to the quarters where they were most needed.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000020_000002|They visited the quartermasters and obtained the supplies that had been tied up through faulty administration and through army red tape, and in a short time they had established a diet kitchen where several hundred sick and wounded men could have the food they required, food that would save their lives.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000022_000001|The doctors who had been her opponents soon looked up to her and became her devoted friends, and the men who had been through such terrible sufferings thought she was indeed an angel from heaven, and, as she passed down the long wards would furtively kiss her shadow as it fell across their blankets.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000022_000002|Many a time she took charge of cases that had been given up by the doctors, who turned their attention always to those whom they believed had a fighting chance for life, and she nursed them back to life with a patience and a tenderness that the doctors could not spare.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000023_000000|From the ships and warehouses there commenced to appear the comforts that sick men demanded-sheets and nightgowns, socks and pillows; in the place of the nauseous beef stew, the wounded began to get broths and jellies.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000023_000002|And the wonders she performed were heard of back in England, where her name became national.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000024_000000|She had gone to Scutari in eighteen fifty four.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000024_000001|In May, eighteen fifty five, she visited other hospitals that were nearer the seat of war and went into the trenches themselves before Sebastopol.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000024_000002|One of her biographers tells us that when she entered the trenches she was warned by a sentinel to go no further, because the enemy had the place under close watch and would certainly open fire when they beheld a group of people at that particular point.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000026_000000|Then she fell ill with Crimean fever, and through the army the news was received with more consternation than a severe defeat.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000026_000001|Men broke down and cried like children when they heard that Miss Nightingale lay at the point of death, and the Commander in Chief, Lord Raglan, rode through sleet and mud for hours to visit her personally.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000026_000002|She did not die, however, but recovered to take up again her duties as chief nurse and organizer.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000027_000000|When the war was ended Miss Nightingale remained at the Crimea until the last soldiers were sent home, and then, and not till then, she followed them.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000027_000001|After most of the men had left and only a few remained she still worked faithfully to serve them, establishing "reading huts" and places of recreation such as the Red Cross and the y m c a established in France and Belgium in the course of the World War some sixty years later.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000028_000000|As a matter of fact the work performed by Miss Nightingale was indirectly responsible for the birth of the Red Cross which was organized in Switzerland some four years after she had finished her work at the Crimea, and certainly no name in the Red Cross, in spite of the host of noble men and women who have served there, has ever equaled the glory of her own.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000029_000000|She returned to England quietly as she had left, although a British Government placed a battleship at her service-and she lived in England engaged in useful and philanthropic work for a great many years.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000029_000001|With a fund of about two hundred fifty thousand dollars she founded the Nightingale Home for the proper training of nurses, a fund that she could have doubled or trebled had she so desired, or if the needs of the home had required it.
train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000029_000002|In the following years she was frequently consulted on hospital organization in the armies not only of Great Britain but of Continental nations as well.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000002_000000|The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000004_000000|Early in the morning and late in the evenings the parents worked hard in the fields, resting, when the sun was high, under the shade of some tree.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000004_000001|While they were absent the little girl kept house alone, for her brother always got up before the dawn, when the air was fresh and cool, and drove out the cattle to the sweetest patches of grass he could find.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000006_000001|Give me a drink from the tree Koumongoe, which has the best milk in the world.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000007_000001|What would father say when he came home?
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000007_000002|For he would be sure to know.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000011_000001|She was afraid to disobey her parents, who would most likely beat her, yet the beasts would be sure to suffer if they were kept in, and she would perhaps be beaten for that too.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000013_000001|Go and get me three times as much!'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000014_000001|In an instant there poured forth such a stream of milk that it ran like a river into the hut.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000016_000000|The man saw a white stream a long way off, and guessed what had happened.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000017_000001|That is some mischief of the children's, I am sure.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000017_000002|I must go home and find out what is the matter.' And they both threw down their hoes and hurried to the side of Koumongoe.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000018_000000|Kneeling on the grass, the man and his wife made a cup of their hands and drank the milk from it.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000019_000001|Why did Koumongoe come to us in the fields instead of staying in the garden?'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000020_000001|So, as I did not know what else to do, I gave it to him.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000021_000001|Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000021_000003|When all was ready, the man sent for his servants and said:
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000022_000000|'I am going to get rid of Thakane.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000023_000000|'Get rid of your only daughter?' they answered, in surprise.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000023_000001|'But why?'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000024_000000|'Because she has eaten what she ought not to have eaten.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000025_000000|They were passing along some fields where the corn was ripening, when a rabbit suddenly sprang out at their feet, and standing on its hind legs, it sang:
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000026_000000|Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000027_000000|'You had better ask her,' replied the man, 'she is old enough to give you an answer.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000032_000000|Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000034_000000|Then, in her turn, Thakane sang:
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000037_000000|By this time it was nearly dark, and the father said they could travel no further that night, and must go to sleep where they were.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000037_000002|So, in spite of her dread of the ogre, she slept till dawn, when her father woke her, and told her roughly that he was ready to continue their journey.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000038_000000|Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelles feeding.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000039_000000|Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000040_000000|'You had better ask her, replied the man, 'she is old enough to answer for herself.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000043_000000|And the gazelles all cried: 'Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000044_000000|At last they arrived at the village where the ogre lived, and they went straight to his hut.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000044_000002|He ordered his servants to bring a pile of skins for Thakane to sit on, but told her father he must sit on the ground.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000046_000001|At first he did not know what to make of this strange feeling, for all his life he had hated women, and had refused several brides whom his parents had chosen for him.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000047_000001|But when her mother in law saw it was a girl, she wrung her hands and wept, saying:
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000048_000000|'O miserable mother!
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000048_000001|Miserable child!
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000048_000002|Alas for you! why were you not a boy!'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000051_000000|'But it is not the customer in MY country!
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000051_000001|There, when children die, they are buried in the earth.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000051_000002|No one shall take my baby from me.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000052_000001|Here, hidden from everyone, she sat down on a stone and began to think what she should do to save her child.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000053_000000|Suddenly she heard a rustling among the willows, and an old woman appeared before her.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000054_000000|'What are you crying for, my dear?' said she.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000056_000000|'What you say is true,' replied the old woman.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000056_000001|'Give me your child, and let me take care of it.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000056_000002|And if you will fix a day to meet me here I will bring the baby.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000058_000001|As soon as she got there, she crouched down among the willows, and sang softly:
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000059_000000|Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000060_000001|At last she felt she must return to the village, lest she should be missed, and the child was handed back to the old woman, who vanished with her into the lake.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000061_000001|Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000061_000002|He was so surprised to see how like the face of the girl was to Masilo, that he left his work and returned to the village.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000062_000000|'Masilo,' he said, as he entered the hut, 'I have just beheld your wife near the river with a girl who must be your daughter, she is so like you.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000062_000001|We have been deceived, for we all thought she was dead.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000064_000000|'But what shall we do now?' asked he.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000067_000000|'Well, you can go,' answered he.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000068_000000|Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000069_000000|Then the old woman came out of the water, holding the girl, now tall and slender, by the hand.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000069_000001|And as Masilo looked, he saw that she was indeed his daughter, and he wept for joy that she was not lying dead in the bottom of the lake.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000069_000003|I will not leave the girl to day, but will take her back with me'; and sinking beneath the surface, she drew the girl after her.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000070_000000|All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother who came in asked: 'Why are you weeping so bitterly, my son?'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000071_000000|'My head aches,' he answered; 'it aches very badly.' And his mother passed on, and left him alone.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000072_000000|In the evening he said to his wife: 'I have seen my daughter, in the place where you told me you had drowned her.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000073_000000|'I don't know what you are talking about,' replied Thakane. 'I buried my child under the sand on the beach.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000074_000000|Then Masilo implored her to give the child back to him; but she would not listen, and only answered: 'If I were to give her back you would only obey the laws of your country and take her to your father, the ogre, and she would be eaten.'
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000075_000000|But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane's heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000076_000000|'What am I to do?' she asked, when, after clapping her hands, the old woman appeared before her.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000077_000000|'If I let her go he must pay me a thousand head of cattle in exchange,' replied the old woman.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000078_000000|'Why, I would gladly give her two thousand!' cried he, 'for she has saved my daughter.' And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000078_000001|When they were all assembled he chose a thousand of the finest bulls and cows, and drove them down to the river, followed by a great crowd wondering what would happen.
train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000080_000000|Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000002_000000|GRACE DARLING
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000000|The coast of Northumberland in England is rocky and severe with lofty flint ledged cliffs where great waves thunder, hurling the white foam high into the air.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000001|It is a coast that is feared by vessels and many wrecks have taken place there.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000002|As is usual in such a locality it is the home of brave fishermen and daring boatmen who have many thrilling rescues to remember and many stormy encounters with the utmost fury of the sea.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000003|But of all the tales of daring that are talked of by the fisher folk, the bravest of all was performed by a girl whose name was Grace Darling,--a name that now is known not only in the places where she lived but all over the world.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000004_000000|Grace Horsley Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper named William Darling, who tended a light on one of the Farne Islands as his father had done before him.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000004_000001|Grace, who was the seventh of nine children, was born in eighteen fifteen, in Bamborough, and when she was a little girl of eleven years her father was given charge of the new light on Longstone Rock, which was one of a series of dangerous reefs where no vessel ever built could live when a gale was blowing.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000005_000001|It was a wild spot, even in calm weather, but when a storm blew it became terrible.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000006_000000|Grace did not find the life at the lighthouse unpleasant.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000006_000001|Her father was an intelligent and kind hearted man who gave an eye to her education himself, and taught her how to read and write.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000007_000000|But the confinement of the life in the lighthouse was not good for the growing girl, and Grace never was strong and robust as would be expected from the daughter of fishermen.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000007_000001|Nor was she handsome.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000007_000002|But she possessed a kindly and winning nature, and, as will be seen, the ability to rise to heights of greatness when necessity called on her to do so.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000008_000000|When Grace was a young woman of twenty three a terrible storm burst suddenly upon the coast and in the twinkling of an eye the reefs about the lighthouse were a sea of churning foam, while the great waves racing in from the ocean thundered so mightily at its base that it seemed as though they must tear it from its foundations and sweep it away.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000009_000002|She was a fine new steamer, well and strongly built, but she had put to sea with her boilers in poor condition, and it had been intended to give them a thorough overhauling in Dundee.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000000|When the steamer was off Flamborough Head the boilers commenced to leak, and the ship's fires were extinguished.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000002|While pitching in the heavy seas the boilers leaked terribly, the fires were again put out and the ship became unmanageable.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000003|Sails were hoisted, but were torn to ribbons by the wind.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000005|Fog and rain made it impossible for the sailors to see until they were in the teeth of the breakers, and then the beam of the lighthouse showed them the wild rocks only a short distance away.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000011_000000|Nothing could save them from destruction.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000011_000003|The rest clung to what supports they could find and held on expecting instant death.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000012_000001|The after half of the vessel was swept away by the seas with many passengers and the captain and his wife.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000012_000003|On the forward part of the ship about twelve wretched persons remained in most desperate plight, the seas breaking over them and threatening to engulf the remaining portion of the vessel.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000000|When day broke the wreck could be seen from the mainland, but the misery of the unfortunate persons who survived was even more plain to William Darling and his family.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000001|Grace begged her father to launch a boat and go to their assistance, but Darling, brave sailor as he was, knew that there was little or no chance of his ever reaching the doomed ship, and shook his head.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000003|Darling was no coward, and the prayers and entreaties of his daughter won the day.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000004|He decided to risk launching a boat from the lighthouse.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000000|With mrs Darling to help them in launching their boat, Grace and her father put forth from the lighthouse, running their boat into the sea in the lee of the rocks, and pulling strongly for the wreck.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000001|Father and daughter both labored at the oars, unable to speak on account of the roar of the sea and wind, and blinded by the spray that whirled over them.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000002|Their boat was tossed like a shuttlecock in the great waves, and they knew that unless the shipwrecked persons could aid them it would be impossible to return to the lighthouse.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000003|They must succeed or die, and their chance of success was small.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000015_000000|Little by little they drew near the wreck.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000015_000002|As the rescuers drew near the reef, Darling leaped ashore, and Grace kept the frail rowboat from dashing itself to pieces against the rocks.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000016_000000|Then followed the difficult task of getting the survivors into the boat.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000016_000002|When the last person was aboard Darling clambered back, and with new hands at the oars the boat was rowed back to the lighthouse-a trip that required great strength and much time for the current was against them.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000016_000003|And when the light was reached, the shipwrecked people were soon made comfortable and cared for by Grace and mrs Darling, and nine lives were thus saved by the determination of a single girl.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000017_000002|Among them was Grace's brother, Brooks Darling, and the heroism of his achievement and that of the other fishermen was only exceeded by the marvelous feat of the girl herself and of her father.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000017_000003|In the course of a few days the fishermen succeeded in returning to the shore, taking with them the news.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000000|All England rang with the fame of Grace's exploit, and letters and gifts poured in from every side.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000001|Scores of people visited the lighthouse.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000002|Grace was feted and admired, and a public subscription in her benefit resulted in a gift of seven hundred pounds, or about thirty five hundred dollars of our money.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000003|She also received four medals, and a large sum of money in private gifts.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000019_000000|Grace and her family took their new prominence with great good sense and modesty, and disliked the publicity which came to them.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000019_000001|They were astonished at the commotion their exploit had caused, for to them it appeared little more than a part of the day's work that duty required them to perform.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000020_000000|But Grace did not live long after her exploit.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000020_000001|Her confined life at the lighthouse and the exposure she underwent there resulted in the disease of consumption from which she rapidly wasted away.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000020_000002|In spite of the best medical aid she steadily drooped, and two years after she had done her brave deed she died in the town of Bamborough where she had been born.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000021_000000|Again a subscription was collected and a monument was erected in her honor.
train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000021_000001|Her father and mother lived to a ripe old age, reaping benefits from the money that Grace had left them.
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train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000002_000000|THE LIBRARY, SMOKING ROOM, AND "DEN"
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000003_000000|In the days when furniture was defined as "that which may be carried about," the natural bookcase was a chest with a strong lock.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000004_000000|Long after the establishment of the printing press, books, except in the hands of the scholar, continued to be a kind of curiosity, like other objects of art: less an intellectual need than a treasure upon which rich men prided themselves.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000004_000001|It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the taste for books became a taste for reading.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000004_000004|Beautiful bindings were still highly valued, and some of the most wonderful work produced in France belongs to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; but as people began to buy books for the sake of what they contained, less exaggerated importance was attached to their exterior, so that bindings, though perfect as taste and skill could make them, were seldom as extravagantly enriched as in the two preceding centuries.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000007_000000|The substitution of the octavo for the folio, and certain modifications in binding which made it possible to stand books upright instead of laying one above the other with edges outward, gradually gave to the library a more modern aspect.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000007_000001|In France, by the middle of the seventeenth century, the library had come to be a recognized feature in private houses.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000008_000000|There is no doubt that this is not only the most practical, but the most decorative, way of housing any collection of books large enough to be so employed.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000008_000001|To adorn the walls of a library, and then conceal their ornamentation by expensive bookcases, is a waste, or rather a misapplication, of effects-always a sin against aesthetic principles.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000009_000001|To be decorative, a bookcase need not contain the productions of the master binders,--old volumes by Eve and Derome, or the work of Roger Payne and Sanderson,--unsurpassed as they are in color value.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000010_000000|The question of binding leads incidentally to that of editions, though the latter is hardly within the scope of this book.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000010_000001|People who have begun to notice the outside of their books naturally come to appreciate paper and type; and thus learn that the modern book is too often merely the cheapest possible vehicle for putting words into print.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000010_000004|The plain paper or buckram covers of a good publisher are, in fact, more decorative, because more artistic, than showy tree calf or "antique morocco."
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000011_000000|The same principle applies to the library itself: plain shelves filled with good editions in good bindings are more truly decorative than ornate bookcases lined with tawdry books.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000012_000001|The best examples of this treatment are found in France.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000014_000002|It was natural that where books were few, small bookcases should be preferred to a room lined with shelves; and in the seventeenth century, according to john Evelyn, the "three nations of Great Britain" contained fewer books than Paris.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000015_000000|Almost all the old bookcases had one feature in common: that is, the lower cupboard with solid doors.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000015_000001|The bookcase proper rested upon this projecting cupboard, thus raising the books above the level of the furniture.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000015_000003|Architects are beginning to rediscover the forgotten fact that the stud of a room should be regulated by the dimensions of its floor space; so that in the newer houses the dwarf bookcase is no longer a necessity.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000022_000001|Fragile chairs, lace petticoat lamp shades and irrelevant bric a brac are consequently excluded; and the master's sense of comfort often expresses itself in a set of "office" furniture-a roller top desk, a revolving chair, and others of the puffy type already described as the accepted model of a luxurious seat.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000022_000004|Convenience was not sacrificed to beauty in either desk or chair; but both the old pieces, being designed by skilled cabinet makers, were as decorative as they were useful.
train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000026_000001|The walls should be free from pattern and light in color, since dark walls necessitate much artificial light, and have the disadvantage of making a room look small.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000001_000000|AN ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000001|The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favourite food and a pet theory.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000003|His theory was fixed around corned beef hash with poached egg.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000004|There was a story behind the picture, so I went home and let it drip out of a fountain pen.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000005|The idea of Kraft-but that is not the beginning of the story.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000000|Three years ago Kraft, Bill Judkins (a poet), and I took our meals at Cypher's, on Eighth Avenue.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000001|I say "took." When we had money, Cypher got it "off of" us, as he expressed it.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000002|We had no credit; we went in, called for food and ate it.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000003|We paid or we did not pay.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000004|We had confidence in Cypher's sullenness and smouldering ferocity.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000006|He sat at a worm eaten desk, covered with files of waiters' checks so old that I was sure the bottomest one was for clams that Hendrik Hudson had eaten and paid for. Cypher had the power, in common with Napoleon the third. and the goggle eyed perch, of throwing a film over his eyes, rendering opaque the windows of his soul.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000008|Now and then we paid up back scores.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000000|But the chief thing at Cypher's was Milly.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000001|Milly was a waitress.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000004|Pedestalled and in bronze she might have stood with the noblest of her heroic sisters as "Liver and Bacon Enlivening the World." She belonged to Cypher's.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000005|You expected to see her colossal figure loom through that reeking blue cloud of smoke from frying fat just as you expect the Palisades to appear through a drifting Hudson River fog.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000001|Her sleeves were always rolled above her elbows. She could have taken us three musketeers in her two hands and dropped us out of the window.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000002|She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000005|I never saw her but I thought of the Yosemite.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000006|And yet, somehow, I could never think of her as existing outside of Cypher's.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000007|There nature had placed her, and she had taken root and grown mightily.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000006_000000|It was Kraft who first voiced the fear that each of us must have held latently.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000009_000000|"She will go to night school and become refined?" I ventured anxiously.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000010_000001|"Caesar had his Brutus-the cotton has its bollworm, the chorus girl has her Pittsburger, the summer boarder has his poison ivy, the hero has his Carnegie medal, art has its Morgan, the rose has its-"
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000011_000000|"Speak," I interrupted, much perturbed.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000011_000001|"You do not think that Milly will begin to lace?"
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000012_000000|"One day," concluded Kraft, solemnly, "there will come to Cypher's for a plate of beans a millionaire lumberman from Wisconsin, and he will marry Milly."
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000013_000000|"Never!" exclaimed Judkins and I, in horror.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000014_000000|"A lumberman," repeated Kraft, hoarsely.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000015_000000|"And a millionaire lumberman!" I sighed, despairingly.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000016_000000|"From Wisconsin!" groaned Judkins.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000000|We agreed that the awful fate seemed to menace her.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000001|Few things were less improbable.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000002|Milly, like some vast virgin stretch of pine woods, was made to catch the lumberman's eye.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000005|Why, the alphabet itself connives.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000006|The Sunday newspaper's headliner's work is cut for him.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000018_000000|"Winsome Waitress Wins Wealthy Wisconsin Woodsman."
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000020_000002|We shuddered to think of Milly, with her voice modulated and her elbows covered, pouring tea in the marble teepee of a tree murderer.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000020_000003|No!
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000020_000004|In Cypher's she belonged-in the bacon smoke, the cabbage perfume, the grand, Wagnerian chorus of hurled ironstone china and rattling casters.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000021_000001|But Alaska and not Wisconsin bore the burden of the visitation.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000022_000001|We embraced him as a specimen, and in three minutes we had all but died for one another as friends.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000023_000001|He had just come off the "trail," he said, at one of the North River ferries.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000024_000000|"Bank drafts for two millions," was his summing up, "and a thousand a day piling up from my claims.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000024_000001|And now I want some beef stew and canned peaches.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000024_000004|You gentlemen order what you want."
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000026_000000|At last the bollworm had attacked the cotton-the poison ivy was reaching out its tendrils to entwine the summer boarder-the millionaire lumberman, thinly disguised as the Alaskan miner, was about to engulf our Milly and upset Nature's adjustment.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000000|Kraft was the first to act.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000001|He leaped up and pounded the Klondiker's back.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000002|"Come out and drink," he shouted.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000003|"Drink first and eat afterward." Judkins seized one arm and I the other.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000000|There he rumbled a roughly good humoured protest.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000001|"That's the girl for my money," he declared.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000002|"She can eat out of my skillet the rest of her life.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000004|I'm going back there and ask her to marry me.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000029_000000|"You'll take another whiskey and milk now," Kraft persuaded, with Satan's smile.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000029_000001|"I thought you up country fellows were better sports."
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000032_000001|With his own guns we drove him from the field.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000033_000000|"He will never find Cypher's again," said Kraft.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000033_000001|"He will propose to the first white apron he sees in a dairy restaurant to morrow.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000033_000002|And Milly-I mean the Natural Adjustment-is saved!"
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000034_000000|And back to Cypher's went we three, and, finding customers scarce, we joined hands and did an Indian dance with Milly in the centre.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000035_000000|This, I say, happened three years ago.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000035_000001|And about that time a little luck descended upon us three, and we were enabled to buy costlier and less wholesome food than Cypher's.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000035_000002|Our paths separated, and I saw Kraft no more and Judkins seldom.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000036_000000|But, as I said, I saw a painting the other day that was sold for five thousand dollars.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000036_000001|The title was "Boadicea," and the figure seemed to fill all out of doors.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000036_000002|But of all the picture's admirers who stood before it, I believe I was the only one who longed for Boadicea to stalk from her frame, bringing me corned beef hash with poached egg.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000037_000000|I hurried away to see Kraft.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000037_000001|His satanic eyes were the same, his hair was worse tangled, but his clothes had been made by a tailor.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000038_000000|"I didn't know," I said to him.
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000039_000001|"Any evening at seven."
train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000040_000000|"Then," said I, "when you led us against the lumberman-the-Klondiker --it wasn't altogether on account of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature?"
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000001_000000|Chapter nineteen
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000002_000000|London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000000|If this journey had taken place during my days of study and happiness, it would have afforded me inexpressible pleasure.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000001|But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000002|Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000003|But busy, uninteresting, joyous faces brought back despair to my heart.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000001|The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000003|His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000004|In Britain only could he further the execution of his plan.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000006|I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000007|I often refused to accompany him, alleging another engagement, that I might remain alone.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000008|I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000001|He mentioned the beauties of his native country and asked us if those were not sufficient allurements to induce us to prolong our journey as far north as Perth, where he resided.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000003|We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000004|We accordingly determined to commence our journey towards the north at the expiration of another month.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000005|In this expedition we did not intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000006_000000|We quitted London on the twenty seventh of March and remained a few days at Windsor, rambling in its beautiful forest.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000006_000001|This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all novelties to us.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000007_000000|From thence we proceeded to Oxford.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000007_000002|It was here that Charles the first had collected his forces.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000007_000005|The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000008_000000|I enjoyed this scene, and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000008_000001|I was formed for peaceful happiness.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000008_000003|But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be-a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000009_000003|For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000009_000004|For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000010_000000|We left Oxford with regret and proceeded to Matlock, which was our next place of rest.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000010_000003|The latter name made me tremble when pronounced by Henry, and I hastened to quit Matlock, with which that terrible scene was thus associated.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000011_000000|From Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000011_000001|I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000011_000003|Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000000|We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000002|I had now neglected my promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the daemon's disappointment.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000003|He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000005|I waited for my letters with feverish impatience; if they were delayed I was miserable and overcome by a thousand fears; and when they arrived and I saw the superscription of Elizabeth or my father, I hardly dared to read and ascertain my fate.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000006|Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion. When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000007|I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000014_000001|Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000014_000003|But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000015_000001|"Do you," said I, "enjoy yourself, and let this be our rendezvous.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000016_000001|He entreated me to write often.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000017_000000|Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland and finish my work in solitude.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000017_000004|The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000017_000005|Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh water, was to be procured from the mainland, which was about five miles distant.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000018_000003|The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000018_000004|I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession, an incident which would doubtless have occasioned some surprise had not all the senses of the cottagers been benumbed by want and squalid poverty.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000018_000005|As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000000|In this retreat I devoted the morning to labour; but in the evening, when the weather permitted, I walked on the stony beach of the sea to listen to the waves as they roared and dashed at my feet.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000001|It was a monotonous yet ever changing scene.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000002|I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000003|Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000000|In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000001|Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000002|It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000003|During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000000|Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000001|Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000002|Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dreaded to behold.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000003|I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion.
train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000022_000000|In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000002_000000|Chapter twenty
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000003_000000|I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000003_000002|I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000003_000006|Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000004_000000|I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the daemon at the casement.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000004_000001|A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000005_000000|As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000005_000001|I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000005_000002|The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000007_000000|Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000007_000001|A few fishing vessels alone specked the water, and now and then the gentle breeze wafted the sound of voices as the fishermen called to one another.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000007_000002|I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000008_000000|In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000008_000002|Presently I heard the sound of footsteps along the passage; the door opened, and the wretch whom I dreaded appeared.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000010_000000|"Begone!
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000010_000001|I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness."
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000011_000000|"Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000011_000001|Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000011_000002|You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!"
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000012_000003|Begone!
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000000|The monster saw my determination in my face and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000002|I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man!
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000003|You may hate, but beware!
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000006|You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains-revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000007|I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000014_000000|"Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000014_000001|Leave me; I am inexorable."
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000015_000000|"It is well.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000015_000001|I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night."
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000016_000000|I started forward and exclaimed, "Villain!
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000017_000000|I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the house with precipitation.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000017_000001|In a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000000|All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000001|I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000002|I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000003|Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000004|But I had suffered him to depart, and he had directed his course towards the mainland.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000005|I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000006|And then I thought again of his words-"I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT." That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000007|In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000008|The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000019_000000|The night passed away, and the sun rose from the ocean; my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000020_000000|I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000021_000000|I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000021_000002|I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000003|He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000004|This letter in a degree recalled me to life, and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000005|Yet, before I departed, there was a task to perform, on which I shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments, and for that purpose I must enter the room which had been the scene of my odious work, and I must handle those utensils the sight of which was sickening to me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000008|I paused to collect myself and then entered the chamber.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000023_000003|I had resolved in my own mind that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness, and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000000|Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000002|I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000004|The sky became clouded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the northeast breeze that was then rising.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000005|But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000006|Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000011|Thus situated, my only resource was to drive before the wind.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000012|I confess that I felt a few sensations of terror.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000013|I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000014|I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000015|I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000025_000000|Some hours passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000025_000001|But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000027_000001|I constructed another sail with a part of my dress and eagerly steered my course towards the land. It had a wild and rocky appearance, but as I approached nearer I easily perceived the traces of cultivation.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000027_000002|I saw vessels near the shore and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000027_000004|Fortunately I had money with me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000028_000000|As I turned the promontory I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000029_000000|As I was occupied in fixing the boat and arranging the sails, several people crowded towards the spot.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000029_000001|They seemed much surprised at my appearance, but instead of offering me any assistance, whispered together with gestures that at any other time might have produced in me a slight sensation of alarm.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000029_000002|As it was, I merely remarked that they spoke English, and I therefore addressed them in that language.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000031_000001|"Why do you answer me so roughly?" I replied.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000031_000002|"Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably."
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000032_000000|"I do not know," said the man, "what the custom of the English may be, but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains." While this strange dialogue continued, I perceived the crowd rapidly increase.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000032_000001|Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed and in some degree alarmed me.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000033_000000|I inquired the way to the inn, but no one replied.
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000033_000001|I then moved forward, and a murmuring sound arose from the crowd as they followed and surrounded me, when an ill looking man approaching tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Come, sir, you must follow me to mr Kirwin's to give an account of yourself."
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000034_000000|"Who is mr Kirwin?
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000034_000001|Why am I to give an account of myself?
train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000036_000000|This answer startled me, but I presently recovered myself.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000000_000000|HORACE GREELEY.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000000|Among the hills of New Hampshire, in a lonely, unpainted house, Horace Greeley was born, february third eighteen eleven, the third of seven children.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000001|His father was a plain farmer, hard-working, yet not very successful, but aided by a wife of uncommon energy and good spirits, notwithstanding her many cares.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000003|Her first two children having died, this boy was especially dear.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000004|mrs Greeley was a great reader of such books as she could obtain, and remembered all she read.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000005|It requires no great discernment to see from whence Horace Greeley derived his intense love for reading, and his boundless energy.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000003_000000|He learned to read, one can scarcely tell how.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000003_000001|When two years old, he would pore over the Bible, as he lay on the floor, and ask questions about the letters; at three, he went to the "district school," often carried through the deep snow on the shoulders of one of his aunts, or on the back of an older boy.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000003_000002|He soon stood at the head of his little class in spelling and reading, "and took it so much to heart when he did happen to lose his place, that he would cry bitterly; so that some boys, when they had gained the right to get above him, declined the honor, because it hurt Horace's feelings so."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000000|Before he was six years old he had read the Bible through, and "Pilgrim's Progress." Their home contained only about twenty books, and these he read and re read.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000001|As he grew older, every book within seven miles was borrowed, and perused after the hard day's work of farming was over.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000002|He gathered a stock of pine knots, and, lighting one each night, lay down by the hearth, and read, oblivious to all around him.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000003|The neighbors came and made their friendly visits, and ate apples and drank cider, as was the fashion, but the lad never noticed their coming or their going.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000004|When really forced to leave his precious books for bed, he would repeat the information he had learned, or the lessons for the next day, to his brother, who usually, most ungraciously, fell asleep before the conversation was half completed.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000000|When Horace was nearly ten years old, his father, who had speculated in a small way in lumber, became a bankrupt; his house and furniture were sold by the sheriff, and he was obliged to flee from the State to avoid arrest.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000001|Some of these debts were paid, thirty years afterward, by his noble son.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000002|Going to Westhaven, vermont., mr Greeley obtained work on a farm, and moved his family thither.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000003|They were very poor, the children sitting on the floor and eating their porridge together out of a tin pan; but they were happy in the midst of their hard work and plain food.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000005|Everybody has troubles; and very wise are they who do not tell them, either in their faces or by their words.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000006_000000|Horace earned a few pennies all his own; sometimes by selling nuts, or bundles of the roots of pitch pine for kindling, which he carried on his back to the store.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000001|From earliest childhood he had determined to be a printer; so, when eleven years of age, he walked nine miles to see the publisher of a newspaper, and obtain a situation.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000002|The editor looked at the small, tow haired boy, shook his head, and said, "You are too young." With a heavy heart the child walked the long nine miles back again.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000003|But he must do something; and, a little later, with seventy five cents in his pocket, and some food tied in a bundle, which he hung on the end of a stick, slung over his shoulder, he walked one hundred and twenty miles back to New Hampshire, to see his relatives.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000004|After some weeks he returned, with a few more cents in his purse than when he started!
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000008_000000|The father Greeley ought to have foreseen that such energy and will would produce results; but because Horace, in a fit of abstraction, tried to yoke the "off" ox on the "near" side, he said, "Ah! that boy will never get along in the world.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000008_000001|He'll never know more than enough to come in when it rains." Alas! for the blindness of Zaccheus Greeley, whose name even would not be remembered but for his illustrious son.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000000|When Horace was fourteen, he read in a newspaper that an apprentice was wanted in a printing office eleven miles distant.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000001|He hastened thither, and, though unprepossessing, from his thin voice, short pantaloons, lack of stockings, and worn hat, he was hired on trial.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000002|The first day he worked at the types in silence.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000003|Finally the boys began to tease him with saucy remarks, and threw type at him; but he paid no attention.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000004|On the third day, one of the apprentices took a large black ball, used to put ink on the type, and remarking that Horace's hair was too light, daubed his head four times.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000005|The pressman and editor both stopped their labors to witness a fight; but they were disappointed, for the boy never turned from his work.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000006|He soon left his desk, spent an hour in washing the ink from his hair, and returned to his duties.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000007|Seeing that he could not be irritated, and that he was determined to work, he became a great favorite.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000010_000000|When at his type, he would often compose paragraphs for the paper, setting up the words without writing them out.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000010_000001|He soon joined a debating society, composed of the best informed persons of the little town of East Poultney,--the minister, the doctor, the lawyer, the schoolteachers, and the like.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000010_000002|What was their surprise to find that the young printer knew almost every thing, and was always ready to speak, or read an essay.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000000|Soon after he had learned his trade, the newspaper suspended, and he was thrown out of work.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000001|The people with whom he boarded gave him a brown overcoat, not new, and with moistened eyes said good by to the poor youth whom they had learned to love as their own.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000002|He remained a few weeks with his family, then walked fifty miles east to a town in New York State, where he found plenty of work, but no money, and in six weeks returned to the log cabin.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000003|After trying various towns, he found a situation in Erie, taking the place of a workman who was ill, and for seven months he did not lose a day.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000005|Putting fifteen dollars in his pocket, he took the balance of sixty three in a note, and gave it to his father.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000006|A noble son indeed, who would not buy a single garment for himself, but carried the money home, so as to make the poor ones a trifle more comfortable!
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000013_000001|Fortunately, though it was the almost universal custom to use liquors, Horace was a teetotaler, and despised chewing or smoking tobacco, which he regarded "as the vilest, most detestable abuse of his corrupted sensual appetites whereof depraved man is capable;" therefore he had no fear of temptation from these sources.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000014_000000|All day Friday and Saturday he walked the streets of New York, looking for work.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000014_000002|Late in the day, a friend who called upon the owner of the house, learning that the printer wanted work, said he had heard of a vacancy at mr West's, eighty five Chatham Street.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000000|The next morning Horace was at the shop at half past five!
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000001|New York was scarcely awake; even the newsboys were asleep in front of the paper offices.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000002|He waited for an hour and a half,--a day, it seemed to him,--when one of the journey men arrived, and, finding the door locked, sat down beside the stranger.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000004|He took him to the foreman, who decided to try him on a Polyglot Testament, with marginal references, such close work that most of the men refused to do it.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000016_000000|"Yes; we need help, and he was the best I could get," said the foreman.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000017_000000|"Well, pay him off to night, and let him go about his business."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000001|By beginning his labors before six in the morning, and not leaving his desk till nine in the evening, working by the light of a candle stuck in a bottle, he could earn six dollars a week.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000002|At first his fellow workmen called him "the ghost," from his white hair and complexion; but they soon found him friendly, and willing to lend money, which, as a rule, was never returned to him; they therefore voted him to be a great addition to the shop.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000003|As usual, though always scrupulously clean, he wore his poor clothes, no stockings, and his wristbands tied together with twine.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000004|Once he bought a second-hand black suit of a Jew, for five dollars, but it proved a bad bargain.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000005|His earnings were sent, as before, to his parents.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000000|After a year, business grew dull, and he was without a place.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000001|For some months he worked on various papers, when a printer friend, mr Story, suggested that they start in business, their combined capital being one hundred and fifty dollars.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000002|They did so, and their first work was the printing of a penny "Morning Post," which suspended in three weeks, they losing sixty dollars.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000003|The partner was drowned shortly after, and his brother in law took his place.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000000|Young Greeley, now twenty three, and deeply interested in politics, determined to start a weekly paper.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000001|Fifteen of his friends promised to subscribe for it.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000002|The "New Yorker" was begun, and so well conducted was it that three hundred papers throughout the country gave it complimentary notices.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000003|It grew to a subscription list of nine thousand persons; but much of the business was done on trust, times were hard, and, after seven years, the enterprise had to be abandoned.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000005|Years after this he wrote, "Through most of this time I was very poor, and for four years really bankrupt, though always paying my notes, and keeping my word, but living as poorly as possible. My embarrassments were sometimes dreadful; not that I feared destitution, but the fear of involving my friends in my misfortunes was very bitter....
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000006|I would rather be a convict in a State prison, a slave in a rice swamp, than to pass through life under the harrow of debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable, but debt is infinitely worse than them all.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000007|Avoid pecuniary obligation as you would pestilence or famine.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000008|If you have but fifty cents, and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it, and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000000|Meantime the young editor had married Miss Mary y Cheney, a schoolteacher of unusual mind and strength of character.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000001|It was, of course, a comfort to have some one to share his sorrows; but it pained his tender heart to make another help bear his burdens.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000002|Beside editing the "New Yorker," he had also taken charge of the "Jeffersonian," a weekly campaign paper published at Albany, and the "Log Cabin," established to aid in the election of General Harrison to the Presidency.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000003|The latter paper was a great success, the circulation running up to ninety thousand, though very little money was made; but it gave mr Greeley a reputation in all parts of the country for journalistic ability.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000022_000000|President Harrison died after having been a month in office; and seven days after his death, mr Greeley started, april tenth eighteen forty one, a new paper, the "New York Tribune," with the dying words of Harrison as its motto: "I desire you to understand the true principles of the government.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000022_000001|I wish them carried out.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000000|Success did not come at first.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000001|Of the five thousand copies published and to be sold at a cent each, mr Greeley says, "We found some difficulty in giving them away." The expenses for the first week were five hundred and twenty five dollars; receipts, ninety two.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000002|But the boy who could walk nearly six hundred miles to see his parents, and be laughed at for poor clothes, while he saved his money for their use, was not to be overcome at thirty years of age, by the failure of one or of a dozen papers.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000003|Some of the New York journals fought the new sheet; but it lived and grew till, on the seventh week, it had eleven thousand subscribers. A good business manager was obtained as partner.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000004|mr Greeley worked sixteen hours a day.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000005|He wrote four columns of editorial matter (his copy, wittily says Junius Henri Browne, "strangers mistook for diagrams of Boston"), dozens of letters, often forgot whether he had been to his meals, and was ready to see and advise with everybody.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000006|When told that he was losing time by thus seeing people, he said, "I know it; but I'd rather be beset by loafers, and stopped in my work, than be cooped up where I couldn't be got at by men who really wanted to and had a right to see me." So warm as this were his sympathies with all humanity!
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000024_000000|In eighteen forty two, when he was thirty one, he visited Washington, Niagara, and his parents in Pennsylvania, and wrote delightful letters back to his paper.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000024_000002|What did Zaccheus think now of his boy of whom he prophesied "would never know more than enough to come in when it rains"?
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000000|The years passed on.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000001|Margaret Fuller came upon the editorial staff; for mr Greeley was ever the advocate of the fullest liberty for woman in any profession, and as much pay for her work as for that of men.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000002|And now came a great sorrow, harder to bear than poverty.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000003|His little son Pickie, called "the glorious boy with radiant beauty never equalled," died suddenly.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000000|In eighteen forty eight he was elected to Congress for three months to fill out the unexpired term of a deceased member, and did most effective work with regard to the mileage system and the use of the public lands.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000001|To a high position had come the printer boy.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000002|At this time he was also prominently in the lecture field, speaking twice a week to large audiences all over the country.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000003|In eighteen fifty his first book was published by the Harpers, "Hints toward Reform," composed of ten lectures and twenty essays.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000004|The following year he visited England as one of the "jury" in the awarding of prizes; and while there made a close study of philanthropic and social questions.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000000|In eighteen fifty five he again visited Europe; and four years later, California, where he was received with great demonstrations of honor and respect.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000001|In eighteen sixty he was at the Chicago Convention, and helped to nominate Abraham Lincoln in preference to William h Seward.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000003|His paper molded the opinions of hundreds of thousands.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000004|He had fought against slavery with all the strength of his able pen; but he advocated buying the slaves for four hundred million dollars rather than going to war,--a cheaper method than our subsequent conflict, with enormous loss of life and money.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000005|When he found the war inevitable, after General McClellan's defeat at the Chickahominy, he urged upon mr Lincoln immediate emancipation, which was soon adopted. The "New York World" said after his death, "mr
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000006|Greeley will hold the first place with posterity on the roll of emancipation."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000028_000000|In the draft riots in New York, in eighteen sixty three, the mob burst into the Tribune Building, smashing the furniture, and shouting, "Down with the old white coat!" mr Greeley always wore a coat and hat of this hue.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000028_000001|Had he been present, doubtless he would have been killed at once.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000028_000002|When urged to arm the office, he said, "No; all my life I have worked for the workingmen; if they would now burn my office and hang me, why, let them do it."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000029_000000|The same year he began his "History of the Civil War" for a Hartford publisher.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000029_000002|These volumes, dedicated to john Bright, have had a sale of several hundred thousand copies.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000000|After the war mr Greeley, while advocating "impartial suffrage" for black as well as white, advocated also "universal amnesty." He believed nothing was to be gained by punishing a defeated portion of our nation, and wanted the past buried as quickly as possible.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000001|He was opposed to the hanging of Jefferson Davis; and with Gerritt Smith, a well-known abolitionist, and about twenty others, he signed mr Davis's bail bond for one hundred thousand dollars, which released him from prison at Fortress Monroe, where he had been for two years.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000002|At once the North was aflame with indignation.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000003|No criticism was too scathing; but mr Greeley took the denunciations like a hero, because he had done what his conscience approved.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000004|He said, "Seeing how passion cools and wrath abates, I confidently look forward to the time when thousands who have cursed will thank me for what I have done and dared in resistance to their own sanguinary impulses....
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000005|Out of a life earnestly devoted to the good of human kind, your children will select my going to Richmond and signing that bail bond as the wisest act."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000031_000000|In eighteen seventy two considerable disaffection having arisen in the Republican party at the course pursued by President Grant at the South, the "Liberal Republicans," headed by Sumner, Schurz, and Trumbull, held a convention at Cincinnati, and nominated Horace Greeley for President.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000031_000001|The Democratic party saw the hopelessness of nominating a man in opposition to Grant and Greeley, and accepted the latter as their own candidate. The contest was bitter and partisan in the extreme.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000031_000002|mr Greeley received nearly three million votes, while General Grant received a half million majority.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000000|No doubt the defeat was a great disappointment to one who had served his country and the Republican party for so many years with very little political reward.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000001|But just a month before the election came the crushing blow of his life, in the death of his noble wife.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000002|He left his speech making, and for weeks attended her with the deepest devotion.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000004|I have not slept one hour in twenty four for a month.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000005|If she lasts, poor soul, another week, I shall go before her."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000000|After her death he could not sleep at all, and brain fever soon set in. friday november twenty ninth, the end came.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000001|At noon he said distinctly, his only remaining children, Ida and Gabriella, standing by his bedside, "I know that my Redeemer liveth;" and at half past three, "It is done." He was ready for the great change.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000002|He had written only a short time before, "With an awe that is not fear, and a consciousness of demerit which does not exclude hope, I await the opening, before my steps, of the gates of the eternal world." Dead at sixty one!
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000003|Overworked, not having had "a good night's sleep in fifteen years!"
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000000|When his death became known, the whole nation mourned for him. Newspapers from Maine to Louisiana gave touching tributes to his greatness, his purity, and his far sightedness as a leader of the people.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000001|The Union League Club, the Lotos, the Typographical Society, the Associated Press, German and colored clubs, and temperance organizations passed resolutions of sorrow.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000003|saint Louis, Albany, Indianapolis, Nashville, and other cities held memorial meetings.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000004|john Bright sent regrets over "our friend, Horace Greeley." Congress passed resolutions of respect for his "eminent services and personal purity and worth."
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000035_000000|And then came the sad and impressive burial.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000035_000003|Can't you possibly let me in to have one last look?"
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000035_000004|The man stood a moment by the open coffin, and then, pulling his hat low down to hide the tears, was lost in the crowd.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000000|And then through an enormous concourse of people, Fifth Avenue being blocked for a mile, the body was borne to Greenwood Cemetery.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000001|Stores were closed, and houses along the route were draped in black.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000002|Flags on the shipping, in the harbor, were at half mast; and bells tolled from one to three o'clock.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000003|Two hundred and fifty carriages, containing the President of the United States, governors, senators, and other friends, were in the procession.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000004|By the side of his wife and their three little children the great man was laid to rest, the two daughters stepping into the vault, and laying flowers tenderly upon the coffin.
train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000038_000000|The following Sabbath clergymen all over the country preached about this wonderful life: its struggles succeeded by world-wide honor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000004_000000|seventeen
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000005_000000|SUGGESTION TO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000006_000000|"By Jingo!" said the Idiot, as he wearily took his place at the breakfast table the other morning, "but I'm just regularly tuckered out."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000008_000000|"Not a late hour," returned the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000008_000001|"Matter of fact, I went to bed last night at half after seven and never waked until nine this morning. In spite of all that sleep and rest I feel now as if I'd been put through a threshing machine.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000008_000002|Every bone in my body from the funny to the medulla aches like all possessed, and my joints creak like a new pair of shoes on a school boy in church, they are so stiff."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000000|"Oh well," said the Doctor, "what of it?
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000001|The pace that kills is bound to have some symptoms preliminary to dissolution.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000002|If you, like other young men of the age, burn the candle at both ends and in the middle, what can you expect?
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000003|You push nature into a corner and then growl like all possessed because she rebels."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000000|"Not I," retorted the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000001|"mr Pedagog and the Poet and mr Bib may lead the strenuous life, but as for mine the simple life is the thing. I'm not striving after the unattainable.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000003|The cold and clammy touch of dissipation is not writing letters of burning condemnation proceedings on my brow. Excesses in any form are utterly unknown to me, and from one end of the Subway to the other you won't find another man of my age who in general takes better care of himself.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000005|No mother could watch over her offspring more tenderly than I watch over me, and-"
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000011_000001|"If this is all true, why on earth are you proclaiming yourself as a physical wreck?
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000011_000002|There must be some cause for your condition."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000012_000001|"I went Christmas shopping yesterday without having previously trained for it, and this is the result.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000012_000002|I sometimes wonder, Doctor, that you gentlemen, who have the public health more or less in your hands, don't take the initiative and stave off nervous prostration and other ills attendant upon a run down physical condition instead of waiting for a fully developed case and trying to cure it after the fact.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000013_000001|"I'm not afraid to tackle almost any kind of fever known to medical science, but the shopping fever-well, it is incurable.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000013_000003|I grant you that it is as much of a disease as scarlet, typhoid, or any other, but the mind has not yet been discovered that can find a remedy for it short of abject poverty, and even that has been known to fail."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000014_000001|There are lots of diseases that our forefathers used to regard as necessarily fatal that nowadays we look upon as mere trifles, because people can be put physically into such a condition that they are practically immune to their ravages."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000015_000000|"Maybe so-but if people will shop they are going to be knocked out by it.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000000|"Nonsense, Doctor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000002|"A college president might as well say that boys will play football, and that there's nothing they can do to stave off the inevitable consequences of playing the game to one who isn't prepared for it.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000003|You know as well as anybody else that from november fifteenth to december twenty fourth every year an epidemic of shopping is going to break out in our midst.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000005|You know that the men and women in your care, unless they have properly trained for the exigencies of the epidemic period, will be prostrated physically and nervously, racked in bone and body, aching from tip to toe, their energy exhausted and their spines as limp as a rag, and yet you claim you can do nothing.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000006|What would we think of a football trainer who would try thus to account for the condition of his eleven at the end of a season?
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000007|We'd bounce him, that's what."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000017_000000|"Perhaps that gigantic intellect of yours has something to suggest," sneered the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000018_000000|"Certainly," quoth the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000019_000000|"To eradicate the shopping evil?" laughed the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000020_000000|"Nay, nay," retorted the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000020_000001|"The shopping inebriate is too much of a factor in our commercial prosperity to make such a thing as that popular.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000021_000000|"A what?" roared the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000022_000002|Why not have a shopnasium in which to teach what we might call shopnastics?
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000023_000000|"Very nice," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000023_000001|"But how on earth can you train them? That's what I'd like to know."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000000|"How?
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000001|Why, how on earth do you train a football team except by practice?" demanded the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000003|Take a couple of bargain counters for the goals.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000004|Place one at one end of the shopnasium and one at the other.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000025_000000|"The women couldn't stand it," said the Doctor.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000025_000001|"They might as well be knocked out at the real thing as in the imitation."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000026_000001|"They wouldn't be knocked out if you gave them preliminary individual exercise with punching bags, dummies for tackle practice, and other things the football player uses to make himself tough and irresistible."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000027_000001|"Think of the glory of winning a goal which sustains the football player through the toughest of fights.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000027_000002|The knowledge that the nation will ring with its plaudits of his gallant achievement is half the backing of your quarter back."
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000000|"That's all right," said the Idiot, "but the make-up of the average woman is such that what pursuit of fame does for the gladiator, the chase after a bargain does for a woman.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000001|I have known women so worn and weary that they couldn't get up for breakfast who had a lion's strength an hour later at a Monday marked down sale of laundry soap and Yeats's poems.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000002|What the goal is to the man the bargain is to the woman, so on the question of incentive to action, mr Brief, the sexes are about even.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000003|I really think, Doctor, there's a chance here for you and me to make a fortune.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000004|dr Capsule's Shopnasium, opened every September for the training and development of expert shoppers in all branches of shopnastics, under the medical direction of yourself and my business management would be a winner.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000005|Moreover, it would furnish a business opening for all those football players our colleges are turning out, for, as our institution grew and we established branches of it all over the country, we should, of course, have to have managers in every city, and who better to teach all these things than the expert footballist of the hour?"
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000029_000000|"Oh, well," said the Doctor, "perhaps it isn't such a bad thing, after all; but I don't think I care to go into it.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000030_000000|"Very well," said the Idiot.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000030_000001|"That being the case, I will modify my suggestion somewhat and send the idea to President Taylor of Vassar and other heads of women's colleges.
train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000030_000003|That is the only way I can see for us to build up a woman of the future who will be able to cope with the strenuous life that is involved to day in the purchase of a cake of soap to send to one's grandmother at Christmas.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000003_000000|Chapter seven
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000004_000000|Andy Tries a Trick
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000005_000000|Without loss of time the young inventor and the aeronaut began to repair the damage done to the Red Cloud by colliding with the tower. The most important part to reconstruct was the propeller, and mr Sharp decided to make two, instead of one, in order to have an extra one in case of future accidents.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000006_000000|Tom's task was to arrange the mechanism so that, hereafter, the rudder could not become jammed, and so prevent the airship from steering properly.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000006_000001|This the lad accomplished by a simple but effective device which, when the balloonist saw it, caused him to compliment Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000007_000000|"That's worth patenting," he declared.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000007_000001|"I advise you to take out papers on that."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000008_000000|"It seems such a simple thing," answered the youth.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000008_000001|"And I don't see much use of spending the money for a patent.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000008_000002|Airships aren't likely to be so numerous that I could make anything off that patent."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000009_000000|"You take my advice," insisted mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000009_000002|You get that device patented."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000010_000000|Tom did so, and, not many years afterward he was glad that he had, as it brought him quite an income.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000011_000000|It required several days' work on the Red Cloud before it was in shape for another trial.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000011_000001|During the hours when he was engaged in the big shed, helping mr Sharp, the young inventor spent many minutes calling to mind the memory of a certain fair face, and I think I need not mention any names to indicate whose face it was.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000000|"She promised to go for a ride with me," mused the lad.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000001|"I hope she doesn't back out.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000002|But I'll want to learn more about managing the ship before I venture with her in it.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000003|It won't do to have any accidents then.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000004|There's Ned Newton, too.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000005|I must take him for a skim in the clouds.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000006|Guess I'll invite him over some afternoon, and give him a private view of the machine, when we get it in shape again."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000013_000000|About a week after the accident at the school mr Sharp remarked to Tom one afternoon:
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000014_000000|"If the weather is good to morrow, we'll try another flight.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000015_000001|"He seems much engrossed in something.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000015_000002|It's unusual, too, for he most generally tells me what he is engaged upon.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000015_000003|However, I guess he will say something about it when he gets ready."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000016_000001|He might be nervous, and, while the ship is new, I don't want any nervous passengers aboard.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000016_000002|I can't give them my attention and look after the running of the machinery."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000017_000000|"I was going to propose bringing a friend of mine over to see us make the trip to morrow," went on the young inventor.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000017_000001|"Ned Newton, you know him.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000000|"Oh, I guess Ned's all right.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000001|Let him come along.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000002|We won't go very high to morrow.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000003|After a trial rise by means of the gas, I'm going to lower the ship to the ground, and try for an elevation by means of the planes.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000004|Oh, yes, bring your friend along."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000019_000001|He got a half holiday from the bank, and, shortly after dinner went to Tom's house.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000020_000000|"Come on out in the shed and take a look at the Red Cloud," proposed the young inventor.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000021_000000|The big shed was deserted when the lads entered, and went to the loft where they were on a level with the big, red aluminum tank.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000022_000000|"Now we'll go down into the car or cabin," continued the young navigator of the air, "and I'll show you what we do when we're touring amid the clouds."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000023_000000|As they started to descend the flight of steps from the loft platform, a noise on the ground below attracted their attention.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000024_000000|"Guess that's mr Sharp coming," said Ned.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000025_000000|Tom leaned over and looked down.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000026_000000|"Take a look," whispered the young inventor.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000027_000000|"Andy Foger!" exclaimed Ned, peering over the railing.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000028_000001|They sneaked in when I left the door open.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000028_000002|Wonder what they want?"
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000029_000002|They're talking."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000030_000000|The two lads on the loft listened intently.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000030_000001|Though the cronies on the ground below them did not speak loudly, their voices came plainly to the listeners.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000031_000000|"Let's poke a hole in their gas bag," proposed Sam.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000031_000001|"That will make them think they're not so smart as they pretend."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000033_000000|"Why not?" declared Pete.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000035_000000|"You're afraid," sneered Sam.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000036_000000|"I am not!
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000036_000001|I'll punch your face if you say that again!
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000036_000002|Besides the thing that holds the gas is made of aluminum, and we can't make a hole in it unless we take an axe, and that makes too much noise."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000038_000000|Tom shook his fist at the lads on the ground, but of course they did not see him.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000039_000000|"I have it!" came from Andy.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000040_000000|"What?" demanded his two cronies.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000000|"We'll cut some of the guy wires from the planes and rudders.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000001|That will make the airship collapse.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000002|They'll think the wires broke from the strain.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000003|Take out your knives and saw away at the wires.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000004|Hurry, too, or they may catch us."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000042_000000|"You're caught now," whispered Ned to Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000042_000001|"Come on down, and give 'em a trouncing."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000043_000000|Tom hesitated.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000043_000001|He looked quickly about the loft, and then a smile replaced the frown of righteous anger on his face.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000044_000000|"I have a better way," he said.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000045_000000|"What is it?"
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000000|"See that pile of dirt?" and he pointed to some refuse that had been swept up from the floor of the loft.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000001|Ned nodded.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000002|"It consists of a lot of shavings, sawdust and, what's more, a lot of soot and lampblack that we used in mixing some paint.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000003|We'll sweep the whole pile down on their heads, and make them wish they'd stayed away from this place."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000047_000000|"Good!" exclaimed Ned, chuckling.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000047_000001|"Give me a broom.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000047_000002|There's another one for you."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000000|The two lads in the loft peered down.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000001|The red headed, squint eyed bully and his chums had their knives out, and were about to cut some of the important guy wires, when, at a signal from Tom, Ned, with a sweep of his broom, sent a big pile of the dirt, sawdust and lampblack down upon the heads of the conspirators.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000002|The young inventor did the same thing, and for an instant the lower part of the shed looked as if a dirtstorm had taken place there.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000003|The pile of refuse went straight down on the heads of the trio, and, as they were looking up, in order to see to cut the wires, they received considerable of it in their faces.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000050_000000|"Wow!
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000050_000001|Who did that!"
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000051_000000|"I'm blinded!
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000051_000001|The shed is falling down!"
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000052_000000|"Run fellows, run!" screamed Andy.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000052_000001|"There's been an explosion.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000052_000002|We'll be killed!"
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000053_000000|At that moment the big doors of the shed were thrown open, and mr Sharp came in.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000054_000001|Andy Foger!" cried Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000055_000001|Sam and Pete were wildly trying to wipe the stuff from their faces, but only made matters worse.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000056_000000|"Wish we had some more stuff to put on 'em," remarked Ned, who was holding his sides that ached from laughter.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000057_000000|"I have it!" cried Tom, and he caught up a bucket of red paint, that had been used to give the airship its brilliant hue.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000057_000001|Running to the end of the loft Tom stood for an instant over the trio of lads who were threatening and imploring by 'turns.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000058_000000|"Here's another souvenir of your visit," shouted the young inventor, as he dashed the bucket of red paint down on the conspirators.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000058_000002|They shed shavings, sawdust and lampblack at every step, and from their clothes and hands and faces dripped the carmine paint.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000059_000000|"Better have your pictures taken!" cried Ned, peering from an upper window.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000060_000000|"Yes, and send us one," added Tom, joining his chum.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000060_000001|Andy looked up at them.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000060_000002|He dug a mass of red paint from his left ear, removed a mass of soot from his right cheek, and, shaking his fist, which was alternately striped red and black, cried out in a rage:
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000061_000000|"I'll get even with you yet, Tom Swift!"
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000062_000000|"You only got what was coming to you," retorted the young inventor. "The next time you come sneaking around this airship, trying to damage it, you'll get worse, and I'll have you arrested.
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000062_000001|You've had your lesson, and don't forget it."
train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000063_000000|The red haired bully, doubly red haired now, had nothing more to say. There was nothing he could say, and, accompanied by his companions, he made a bee line for the rear gate in the fence, and darted across the meadow.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000001_000000|Chapter eight
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000002_000000|Winning a Prize
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000003_000001|"Looks as if you had had an exciting time here."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000004_000000|"No, those fellows had all the excitement," declared Ned.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000004_000001|"We had the fun." And the two lads proceeded to relate what had taken place.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000005_000000|"Tried to damage the airship, eh?" asked mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000005_000001|"I wish I'd caught them at it; the scoundrels!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000006_000000|"I guess so," assented Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000006_000001|"I must see if they did cut any of the wires."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000008_000000|A little later the airship was taken out of the shed, and made ready for a trip.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000008_000001|The gas ascension was first used, and Ned and mr Swift were passengers with Tom and mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000008_000002|The machine went about a thousand feet up in the air, and then was sent in various directions, to the no small delight of a large crowd that gathered in the meadow back of the Swift property; for it only required the sight of the airship looming its bulk above the fence and buildings, to attract a throng.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000009_000000|Although it was the first time mr Swift had ever been in an airship, he evinced no great astonishment.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000009_000001|In fact he seemed to be thinking deeply, and on some subject not connected with aeronautics.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000009_000002|Tom noticed the abstraction of his father, and shook his head.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000010_000000|As for Ned Newton his delight knew no bounds, At first he was a bit apprehensive as the big ship went higher and higher, and swung about, but he soon lost his fear, and enjoyed the experience as much as did Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000010_000001|The young inventor was busy helping mr Sharp manage the machinery, rudders planes and motor.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000011_000000|A flight of several miles was made, and Tom was wishing they might pay another visit to the Rocksmond Seminary, but mr Sharp, after completing several evolutions, designed to test the steering qualities of the craft, put back home.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000012_000000|"We'll land in the meadow and try rising by the planes alone," he said. In this evolution it was deemed best for mr Swift and Ned to alight, as there was no telling just how the craft would behave.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000012_000001|Tom's father was very willing to get out, but Ned would have remained in, only for the desire of his friend.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000013_000000|With the two propellers whirring at a tremendous speed, and all the gas out of the aluminum container, the Red Cloud shot forward, running over the level ground of the meadow, where a starting course had been laid out.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000014_000000|"Clear the track!" cried mr Sharp, as he saw the crowd closing up in front of him.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000014_000002|Through this shot the craft, and then, when sufficient momentum had been obtained, Tom, at a command from the aeronaut, pulled the lever of the elevation rudder.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000014_000003|Up into the air shot the nose of the Red Cloud as the wind struck the slanting surface of the planes, and, a moment later it was sailing high above the heads of the throng.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000015_000000|"That's the stuff!" cried mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000016_000000|Higher and higher it went, and then, coming to a level keel, the craft was sent here and there, darting about like a bird, and going about in huge circles.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000000|"Start the gas machine, and we'll come to rest in the air," said the balloonist, and Tom did so.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000002|The propellers were stopped, and the Red Cloud floated two thousand feet in the air, only a little distance below some fleecy, white masses from which she took her name.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000003|The demonstration was a great success.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000004|The gas was again allowed to escape, the propellers set in motion, and purely as an aeroplane, the ship was again sent forward.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000005|By means of the planes and rudders a perfect landing was made in the meadow, a short distance from where the start had been made.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000006|The crowd cheered the plucky youth and mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000018_000000|"Now I'm ready to go on a long trip any time you are, Tom," said the aeronaut that night.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000019_000000|"We'll fit up the car and get ready," agreed the 'youth.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000020_000000|"Me?
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000020_000001|Oh, well-er-that is, you see; well, I'll think about it," and mr Swift went to his own room, carrying with him a package of papers, containing intricate calculations.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000021_000000|Tom shook his head, but said nothing.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000021_000001|He could not understand his father's conduct.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000000|Work was started the next day on fitting up the car, or cabin, of the airship, so that several persons could live, eat and sleep in it for two weeks, if necessary.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000001|The third day after this task had been commenced the mail brought an unusual communication to Tom and mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000002|It was from an aero club of Blakeville, a city distant about a hundred miles, and stated that a competition for aeroplanes and dirigible balloons was to be held in the course of two weeks.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000003|The affair was designed to further interest in the sport, and also to demonstrate what progress had been made in the art of conquering the air.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000004|Prizes were to be given, and the inventors of the Red Cloud, the achievements of which the committee of arrangements had heard, were invited to compete.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000024_000000|"I'm willing if you are."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000000|"Then let's do it.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000001|We'll see how our craft shows up alongside of others.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000002|I know something of this club.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000004|Once I gave a balloon exhibition for them.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000006|Well, we'll have a try at it. Won't do us any harm to win a prize.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000007|Then for a long trip!"
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000026_000000|As it was not necessary to have the car, or cabin, completely fitted up in order to compete for the prize, work in that direction was suspended for the time being, and more attention was paid to the engine, the planes and rudders.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000026_000001|Some changes were made and, a week later the Red Cloud departed for Blakeville.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000026_000002|As the rules of the contest required three passengers, Ned Newton was taken along, mr Swift having arranged with the bank president so that the lad could have a few days off.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000027_000001|As the three navigators approached, they saw a small machine flying around the grounds.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000028_000000|"Look!" cried Ned excitedly.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000028_000001|"What a small airship."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000029_000000|"That's a monoplane," declared Tom, who was getting to be quite an expert.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000030_000000|"Yes, the same kind that was used to cross the English Channel," interjected mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000030_000001|"They're too uncertain for my purposes, though; they are all right under certain conditions."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000031_000000|Hardly had he spoken than a puff of wind caused the daring manipulator of the monoplane to swerve to one side.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000031_000001|He had to make a quick descent-so rapid was it, in fact, that the tips of one of his planes was smashed.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000032_000000|"It'll take him a day to repair that," commented the aeronaut dryly.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000033_000000|The Red Cloud created a sensation as she slowly settled down in front of the big tent assigned to her.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000033_000001|Tom's craft was easily the best one at the carnival, so far, though the managers said other machines were on the way.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000000|The exhibition opened the next day, but no flights were to be attempted until the day following.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000001|Two more crafts arrived, a large triplane, and a dirigible balloon.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000002|There were many visitors to the ground, and Tom, Ned and mr Sharp were kept busy answering questions put by those who crowded into their tent.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000003|Toward the close of the day a fussy little Frenchman entered, and, making his way to where Tom stood, asked:
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000036_000000|"One of them," replied the lad.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000037_000000|"Ha! Sacre!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000037_000001|Zen I challenge you to a race.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000037_000002|I have a monoplane zat is ze swiftest evaire!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000038_000000|"Shall we take him up, mr Sharp?" asked Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000039_000000|"We'll race with him, after we get through with the club entries," decided the aeronaut.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000039_000001|"But not for money.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000039_000002|It's against my principles, and I don't believe your father would like it.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000039_000003|Racing for prizes is a different thing."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000000|That night was spent in getting the Red Cloud in shape for the contests of the next day.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000001|She was "groomed" until every wire was taut and every cog, lever and valve working perfectly.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000002|Ned Newton helped all he could. So much has appeared in the newspapers of the races at Blakeville that I will not devote much space here to them.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000004|It was a closer contest with the large triplane, but Tom's airship won, and was given the prize, a fine silver cup.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000042_000000|As the carnival was a small one, no other craft in a class with the Red Cloud had been entered, so Tom and mr Sharp had to be content with the one race they won.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000042_000001|There were other contests among monoplanes and biplanes, and the little Frenchman won two races.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000043_000001|"I will in circles go around you, up and down, zis side zen ze ozzer, and presto!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000044_000000|"All right, wait and see," said Tom, easily.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000044_000001|But, though he showed much confidence he asked mr Sharp in private, just before the impromptu contest: "Do you think we can beat him?"
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000045_000000|"Well," said the aeronaut, shrugging his shoulders, "you can't tell much about the air.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000045_000001|His machine certainly goes very fast, but too much wind will be the undoing of him, while it will only help us.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000045_000002|And I think," he added, "that we're going to get a breeze."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000046_000000|It was arranged that the Red Cloud would start from the ground, without the use of the gas, so as to make the machines more even.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000046_000001|At the signal off they started, the motors making a great racket.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000046_000002|The monoplane with the little Frenchman in the seat got up first.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000047_000000|"Ah, ha!" he cried gaily, "I leave you in ze rear!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000047_000001|Catch me if you can!"
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000048_000000|"Don't let him beat us," implored Ned.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000049_000000|"Can't you speed her up any more?" inquired Tom of mr Sharp.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000050_000001|Like a flash the Red Cloud darted forward. But the Frenchman also increased his speed and did, actually, at first, circle around the bigger machine, for his affair was much lighter.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000051_000000|"That's the stuff!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000051_000001|We're winning!" yelled Tom, Ned joining in the shout.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000000|Then came a puff of wind.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000001|The monoplane had to descend, for it was in danger of turning turtle.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000002|Still the navigator was not going to give up. He flew along at a lower level.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000003|Then mr Sharp opened up the Red Cloud's engine at full speed, and it was the big machine which now sailed around the other.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000053_000000|"I protest!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000053_000001|I protest!" cried the Frenchman, above the explosions of his motor.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000053_000002|"Ze wind is too strong for me!"
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000000|mr Sharp said nothing, but, with a queer smile on his face he sent the airship down toward the earth.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000001|A moment later he was directly under the monoplane.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000002|Then, quickly rising, he fairly caught the Frenchman's machine on top of a square platform of the gas container, the bicycle wheels of the monoplane resting on the flat surface.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000003|And, so swiftly did the Red Cloud fly along that it carried the monoplane with it, to the chagrin of the French navigator.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000055_000000|"A trick!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000055_000001|A trick!" he cried.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000056_000000|Then, dropping down, mr Sharp allowed the monoplane to proceed under its own power, while he raced on to the finish mark, winning, of course, by a large margin.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000057_000000|"Ha!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000057_000001|A trick!
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000058_000000|"No, thanks," answered Tom.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000058_000001|"We've had enough.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000058_000002|I guess charity will be satisfied."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000059_000000|The little Frenchman was a good loser, and paid over the money, which was given to the Blakeville Hospital, the institution receiving it gladly.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000060_000000|At the request of the carnival committee, mr Sharp and Tom gave an exhibition of high and long flights the next day, and created no little astonishment by their daring feats.
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000061_000001|"We won the first contest we were ever in, and beat that speedy monoplane, which was no small thing to do, as they are very fast."
train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000062_000000|"But wait until we go on our trip," added Tom, as he looked at the cup they had won.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000002_000000|w h Hadow has said some pertinent things about Chopin in "Studies in Modern Music." Yet we cannot accept unconditionally his statement that "in structure Chopin is a child playing with a few simple types, and almost helpless as soon as he advances beyond them; in phraseology he is a master whose felicitous perfection of style is one of the abiding treasures of the art."
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000000|Chopin then, according to Hadow, is no "builder of the lofty rhyme," but the poet of the single line, the maker of the phrase exquisite. This is hardly comprehensive.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000001|With the more complex, classical types of the musical organism Chopin had little sympathy, but he contrived nevertheless to write two movements of a piano sonata that are excellent-the first half of the B flat minor Sonata.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000002|The idealized dance forms he preferred; the Polonaise, Mazurka and Valse were already there for him to handle, but the Ballade was not.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000003|Here he is not imitator, but creator.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000006|In them he attains the acme of his power as an artist," remarks Niecks.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000001|It is the Odyssey of Chopin's soul.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000002|That 'cello like largo with its noiseless suspension stays us for a moment in the courtyard of Chopin's House Beautiful.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000003|Then, told in his most dreamy tones, the legend begins.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000005|There is the tall lily in the fountain that nods to the sun
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000006|It drips in cadenced monotone and its song is repeated on the lips of the slender hipped girl with the eyes of midnight-and so might I weave for you a story of what I see in the Ballade and you would be aghast or puzzled.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000013|Only the Slav may hope to understand Chopin thoroughly.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000015|They belong as much to the world as to Poland.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000000|The G minor Ballade after "Konrad Wallenrod," is a logical, well knit and largely planned composition.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000001|The closest parallelism may be detected in its composition of themes.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000002|Its second theme in E flat is lovely in line, color and sentiment.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000003|The return of the first theme in A minor and the quick answer in E of the second are evidences of Chopin's feeling for organic unity.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000004|Development, as in strict cyclic forms, there is not a little.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000006|It is fascinating.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000008|The first questioning theme is heard again, and with a perpendicular roar the presto comes upon us.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000009|For two pages the dynamic energy displayed by the composer is almost appalling.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000010|A whirlwind I have called it elsewhere.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000011|It is a storm of the emotions, muscular in its virility.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000012|I remember de Pachmann-a close interpreter of certain sides of Chopin-playing this coda piano, pianissimo and prestissimo. The effect was strangely irritating to the nerves, and reminded me of a tornado seen from the wrong end of an opera glass.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000013|According to his own lights the Russian virtuoso was right: his strength was not equal to the task, and so, imitating Chopin, he topsy turvied the shading.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000000|This G minor Ballade was published in June, eighteen thirty six, and is dedicated to Baron Stockhausen.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000001|The last bar of the introduction has caused some controversy.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000002|Gutmann, Mikuli and other pupils declare for the E flat; Klindworth and Kullak use it.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000003|Xaver Scharwenka has seen fit to edit Klindworth, and gives a D natural in the Augener edition.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000004|That he is wrong internal testimony abundantly proves.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000005|Even Willeby, who personally prefers the D natural, thinks Chopin intended the E flat, and quotes a similar effect twenty eight bars later.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000006|He might have added that the entire composition contains examples-look at the first bar of the valse episode in the bass.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000007|As Niecks thinks, "This dissonant E flat may be said to be the emotional keynote of the whole poem.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000008|It is a questioning thought that, like a sudden pain, shoots through mind and body."
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000002|It was the property of Professor Lebert (Levy), since deceased, and in it, without any question, stands the much discussed E flat.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000003|This testimony is final.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000004|The D natural robs the bar of all meaning.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000005|It is insipid, colorless.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000000|Kullak gives sixty to the half note at the moderato.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000001|On the third page, third bar, he uses F natural in the treble.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000002|So does Klindworth, although F sharp may be found in some editions.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000003|On the last page, second bar, first line, Kullak writes the passage beginning with E flat in eighth notes, Klindworth in sixteenths.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000004|The close is very striking, full of the splendors of glancing scales and shrill octave progressions.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000000|"Perhaps the most touching of all that Chopin has written is the tale of the F major Ballade.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000001|I have witnessed children lay aside their games to listen thereto.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000002|It appears like some fairy tale that has become music.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000003|The four voiced part has such a clearness withal, it seems as if warm spring breezes were waving the lithe leaves of the palm tree.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000004|How soft and sweet a breath steals over the senses and the heart!"
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000000|And how difficult it seems to be to write of Chopin except in terms of impassioned prose!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000002|The second Ballade, although dedicated to Robert Schumann, did not excite his warmest praise.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000003|"A less artistic work than the first," he wrote, "but equally fantastic and intellectual.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000004|Its impassioned episodes seem to have been afterward inserted.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000005|I recollect very well that when Chopin played this Ballade for me it finished in F major; it now closes in A minor." Willeby gives its key as F minor.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000006|It is really in the keys of F major-A minor. Chopin's psychology was seldom at fault.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000000|In truth they cannot.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000001|"The second Ballade possesses beauties in no way inferior to those of the first," he continues.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000002|"What can be finer than the simple strains of the opening section!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000003|They sound as if they had been drawn from the people's store house of song.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000004|The entrance of the presto surprises, and seems out of keeping with what precedes; but what we hear after the return of tempo primo-the development of those simple strains, or rather the cogitations on them-justifies the presence of the presto.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000005|The second appearance of the latter leads to an urging, restless coda in A minor, which closes in the same key and pianissimo with a few bars of the simple, serene, now veiled first strain."
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000012_000000|Rubinstein bore great love for this second Ballade.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000000|I can find "no lack of affinity" between the andantino and presto.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000002|Chopin's robust treatment of the first theme results in a strong piece of craftmanship. The episodical nature of this Ballade is the fruit of the esoteric moods of its composer.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000003|It follows a hidden story, and has the quality-as the second Impromptu in F sharp-of great, unpremeditated art.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000004|It shocks one by its abrupt but by no means fantastic transitions. The key color is changeful, and the fluctuating themes are well contrasted.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000000|Presto con fuoco Chopin marks the second section.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000001|Kullak gives eighty four to the quarter, and for the opening sixty six to the quarter.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000002|He also wisely marks crescendos in the bass at the first thematic development.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000003|He prefers the E-as does Klindworth-nine bars before the return of the presto.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000004|At the eighth bar, after this return, Kullak adheres to the E instead of F at the beginning of the bar, treble clef.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000005|Klindworth indicates both.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000015_000002|It is the schoolgirls' delight, who familiarly toy with its demon, seeing only favor and prettiness in its elegant measures.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000015_000004|Forsooth, it is aristocratic, gay, graceful, piquant, and also something more.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000016_000000|"A coquettish grace-if we accept by this expression that half unconscious toying with the power that charms and fires, that follows up confession with reluctance-seems the very essence of Chopin's being."
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000000|"It becomes a difficult task to transcribe the easy transitions, full of an irresistible charm, with which he portrays Love's game.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000001|Who will not recall the memorable passage in the A flat Ballade, where the right hand alone takes up the dotted eighths after the sustained chord of the sixth of A flat?
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000002|Could a lover's confusion be more deliciously enhanced by silence and hesitation?" Ehlert above evidently sees a ballroom picture of brilliancy, with the regulation tender avowal.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000003|The episodes of this Ballade are so attenuated of any grosser elements that none but psychical meanings should be read into them.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000000|The disputed passage is on the fifth page of the Kullak edition, after the trills.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000002|To my mind this repetition adds emphasis, although it is a formal blur.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000003|And what an irresistible moment it is, this delightful territory, before the darker mood of the C sharp minor part is reached!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000004|Niecks becomes enthusiastic over the insinuation and persuasion of this composition: "the composer showing himself in a fundamentally caressing mood." The ease with which the entire work is floated proves that Chopin in mental health was not daunted by larger forms.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000005|There is moonlight in this music, and some sunlight, too.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000000|Contrapuntal skill is shown in the working out section.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000001|Chopin always wears his learning lightly; it does not oppress us.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000002|The inverted dominant pedal in the C sharp minor episode reveals, with the massive coda, a great master.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000003|Kullak suggests some variants.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000004|He uses the transient shake in the third bar, instead of the appoggiatura which Klindworth prefers.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000005|Klindworth attacks the trill on the second page with the upper tone-A flat.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000006|Kullak and Mertke, in the Steingraber edition, play the passage in this manner:
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000021_000000|Here is Klindworth:
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000022_000000|[Musical score excerpt of the same passage in Klindworth's edition]
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000001|It is Chopin in his most reflective, yet lyric mood.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000002|Lyrism is the keynote of the work, a passionate lyrism, with a note of self absorption, suppressed feeling-truly Slavic, this shyness!--and a concentration that is remarkable even for Chopin.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000003|The narrative tone is missing after the first page, a rather moody and melancholic pondering usurping its place.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000004|It is the mood of a man who examines with morbid, curious insistence the malady that is devouring his soul.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000005|This Ballade is the companion of the Fantaisie Polonaise, but as a Ballade "fully worthy of its sisters," to quote Niecks.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000006|It was published December, eighteen forty three.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000007|The theme in F minor has the elusive charm of a slow, mournful valse, that returns twice, bejewelled, yet never overladen.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000008|Here is the very apotheosis of the ornament; the figuration sets off the idea in dazzling relief.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000012|How wonderfully the introduction comes in for its share of thoughtful treatment.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000013|What a harmonist!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000015|I select for especial admiration this modulatory passage:
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000024_000000|[Musical score excerpt]
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000000|And what could be more evocative of dramatic suspense than the sixteen bars before the mad, terrifying coda!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000001|How the solemn splendors of the half notes weave an atmosphere of mystic tragedy!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000002|This soul suspension recalls Maeterlinck.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000003|Here is the episode:
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000026_000000|[Musical score excerpt]
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000027_000000|A story of de Lenz that lends itself to quotation is about this piece:
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000028_000001|It has three requirements: The comprehension of the programme as a whole,--for Chopin writes according to a programme, to the situations in life best known to, and understood by himself; and in an adequate manner; the conquest of the stupendous difficulties in complicated figures, winding harmonies and formidable passages.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000029_000001|The Ballade- andante con moto, six eighths-begins in the major key of the dominant; the seventh measure comes to a stand before a fermata on C major.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000029_000005|Rub the bloom from a peach or from a butterfly-what remains will belong to the kitchen, to natural history!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000030_000001|A little thread connects this with the chorale like introduction of the second theme.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000030_000004|Then followed a passage a tempo, in which the principal theme played hide and seek.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000030_000006|Of technical difficulties he knew literally nothing; the intricate and evasive parts were as easy as the easiest-I might say easier!
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000000|I admired the short trills in the left hand, which were trilled out quite independently, as if by a second player; the gliding ease of the cadence marked dolcissimo.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000001|It swung itself into the higher register, where it came to a stop before A major, just as the introduction stopped before C major.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000004|The coda, in modulated harp tones, came to a stop before a fermata which corresponded to those before mentioned, in order to cast anchor in the haven of the dominant, finishing with a witches' dance of triplets, doubled in thirds.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000005|This piece winds up with extreme bravura.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000032_000000|The "lingering" mentioned by de Lenz is tempo rubato, so fatally misunderstood by most Chopin players.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000032_000001|De Lenz in a note quotes Meyerbeer as saying-Meyerbeer, who quarrelled with Chopin about the rhythm of a mazurka-"Can one reduce women to notation?
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000032_000002|They would breed mischief, were they emancipated from the measure."
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000000|There is passion, refined and swelling, in the curves of this most eloquent composition.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000001|It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000002|I know of nothing in music like the F minor Ballade.
train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000005|Its inaccessible position preserves it from rude and irreverent treatment.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000004_000000|She was, in my opinion, the most superb of creatures, Clodagh-that haughty neck which seemed always scorning something just behind her left shoulder.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000006_000004|Sometimes she frightened me.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000007_000000|She was at this date no longer young, being by five years my senior, as also, by five years, the senior of her nephew, born from the marriage of her sister with Peters of Taunton.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000008_000000|On that day of Clark's visit to me I had not been seated five minutes with Clodagh, when I said:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000000|'dr
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000001|Clark-ha! ha!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000003|He says that if anything happened to Peters, I should be the first man he would run to.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000004|He has had an absurd dream...'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000010_000001|But I could no more help it than I could fly.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000011_000002|I saw her sharp cut, florid face in profile, steadily bent and smelling.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000011_000003|She said presently in her cold, rapid way:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000012_000000|'The man who first plants his foot on the North Pole will certainly be ennobled.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000012_000001|I say nothing of the many millions...
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000012_000002|I only wish that I was a man!'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000013_000000|'I don't know that I have any special ambition that way,' I rejoined.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000013_000001|'I am very happy in my warm Eden with my Clodagh.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000013_000002|I don't like the outer Cold.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000014_000000|'Don't let me think little of you!' she answered pettishly.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000015_000000|'Why should you, Clodagh?
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000015_000001|I am not bound to desire to go to the North Pole, am I?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000017_000000|'I might-I-doubt it.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000017_000001|There is our marriage....'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000018_000000|'Marriage indeed!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000019_000001|But there are many in an expedition.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000022_000000|'But why?
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000022_000002|They say...'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000023_000000|She stopped, she stopped.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000025_000000|Her voice dropped:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000026_000000|'That peter takes atropine.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000027_000001|She moved from the window, sat in a rocking chair, and turned the leaves of a book, without reading.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000027_000002|We were silent, she and I; I standing, looking at her, she drawing the thumb across the leaf edges, and beginning again, contemplatively.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000027_000003|Then she laughed dryly a little-a dry, mad laugh.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000028_000000|'Why did you start when I said that?' she asked, reading now at random.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000001|I did not start, Clodagh!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000002|What made you think that I started?
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000003|I did not start!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000004|Who told you, Clodagh, that Peters takes atropine?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000030_000001|But don't look dumbfoundered in that absurd fashion: I have no intention of poisoning him in order to see you a multimillionaire, and a Peer of the Realm....'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000031_000000|'My dearest Clodagh!'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000032_000000|'I easily might, however.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000032_000001|He will be here presently.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000032_000002|He is bringing mr Wilson for the evening.' (Wilson was going as electrician of the expedition.)
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000034_000002|Women are no longer admired for doing such things.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000035_000000|'Ha! ha!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000035_000002|Oh, my good Lord! let us change this talk....'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000036_000000|But now she could talk of nothing else.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000036_000001|She got from me that afternoon the history of all the Polar expeditions of late years, how far they reached, by what aids, and why they failed.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000036_000004|But now, suddenly, her mind seemed wholly possessed, my mention of Clark's visit apparently setting her well a burn with the Pole fever.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000037_000001|I went home with a pretty heavy heart.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000038_000000|The house of dr peter Peters was three doors from mine, on the opposite side of the street.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000038_000001|Toward one that night, his footman ran to knock me up with the news that Peters was very ill.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000038_000002|I hurried to his bed side, and knew by the first glance at his deliriums and his staring pupils that he was poisoned with atropine.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000039_000000|'What on earth is the matter?' he said to me.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000040_000000|'Poisoned,' I answered.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000041_000000|'Good God! what with?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000042_000000|'Atropine.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000043_000000|'Good Heavens!'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000044_000000|'Don't be frightened: I think he will recover.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000045_000000|'Is that certain?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000046_000000|'Yes, I think-that is, if he leaves off taking the drug, Wilson.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000048_000000|I hesitated, I hesitated.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000048_000001|But I said:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000051_000000|I slept till eleven a m, and then hurried over again to Peters.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000052_000000|My beloved put her forefinger to her lips, whispering:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000054_000000|She came closer to my ear, saying:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000055_000000|'I heard the news early.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000055_000001|I am come to stay with him, till-the last....'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000056_000000|We looked at each other some time-eye to eye, steadily, she and I: but mine dropped before Clodagh's.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000056_000001|A word was on my mouth to say, but I said nothing.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000057_000000|The recovery of Peters was not so steady as I had expected.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000057_000001|At the end of the first week he was still prostrate.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000057_000002|It was then that I said to Clodagh:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000058_000000|'Clodagh, your presence at the bed side here somehow does not please me. It is so unnecessary.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000059_000000|'Unnecessary certainly,' she replied: 'but I always had a genius for nursing, and a passion for watching the battles of the body.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000060_000001|I don't know.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000060_000002|This is a case that I dislike.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000060_000003|I have half a mind to throw it to the devil.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000061_000000|'Then do so.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000062_000000|'And you, too-go home, go home, Clodagh!'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000063_000001|In these days of "the corruption of the upper classes," and Roman decadence of everything, shouldn't every innocent whim be encouraged by you upright ones who strive against the tide?
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000063_000002|Whims are the brakes of crimes: and this is mine.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000063_000005|And I want you to get into the habit at once of letting me have my little way----'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000064_000000|Now she touched my hair with a lofty playfulness that soothed me: but even then I looked upon the rumpled bed, and saw that the man there was really very sick.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000065_000000|I have still a nausea to write about it!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000065_000001|Lucrezia Borgia in her own age may have been heroic: but Lucrezia in this late century!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000065_000002|One could retch up the heart...
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000066_000001|The second week passed, and only ten days remained before the start of the expedition.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000067_000000|At the end of that second week, Wilson, the electrician, was one evening sitting by Peter's bedside when I entered.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000069_000000|Meantime, Clark came each day.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000069_000002|The patient lay in a semi coma broken by passionate vomitings, and his condition puzzled us all.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000069_000003|I formally stated that he took atropine-had been originally poisoned by atropine: but we saw that his present symptoms were not atropine symptoms, but, it almost seemed, of some other vegetable poison, which we could not precisely name.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000070_000000|'Mysterious thing,' said Clark to me, when we were alone.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000072_000000|'Who are the two nurses?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000073_000000|'Oh, highly recommended people of my own.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000074_000001|It is clear that Peters is out of the running now.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000075_000000|I shrugged.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000076_000000|'I now formally invite you to join the expedition,' said Clark: 'do you consent?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000077_000000|I shrugged again.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000078_000000|'Well, if that means consent,' he said, 'let me remind you that you have only eight days, and all the world to do in them.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000079_000000|This conversation occurred in the dining room of Peters' house: and as we passed through the door, I saw Clodagh gliding down the passage outside-rapidly-away from us.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000080_000000|Not a word I said to her that day about Clark's invitation.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000080_000001|Yet I asked myself repeatedly: Did she not know of it?
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000000|However that was, about midnight, to my great surprise, Peters opened his eyes, and smiled.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000001|By noon the next day, his fine vitality, which so fitted him for an Arctic expedition, had re asserted itself.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000002|He was then leaning on an elbow, talking to Wilson, and except his pallor, and strong stomach pains, there was now hardly a trace of his late approach to death.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000003|For the pains I prescribed some quarter grain tablets of sulphate of morphia, and went away.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000082_000000|Now, David Wilson and I never greatly loved each other, and that very day he brought about a painful situation as between Peters and me, by telling Peters that I had taken his place in the expedition.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000082_000001|Peters, a touchy fellow, at once dictated a letter of protest to Clark; and Clark sent Peters' letter to me, marked with a big note of interrogation in blue pencil.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000000|This decided it: Peters was to go, I stay.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000003|Peters was now in an arm chair.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000004|He was cheerful, but with a fevered pulse, and still the stomach pains.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000005|I was giving him three quarter grains of morphia a day. That Friday night, at eleven p m, I visited him, and found Clodagh there, talking to him.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000085_000000|'Ah,' Clodagh said, 'I was waiting for you, Adam.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000085_000001|I didn't know whether I was to inject anything to night.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000085_000002|Is it Yes or No?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000086_000000|'What do you think, Peters?' I said: 'any more pains?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000087_000000|'Well, perhaps you had better give us another quarter,' he answered: 'there's still some trouble in the tummy off and on.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000088_000000|'A quarter grain, then, Clodagh, 'I said.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000089_000000|As she opened the syringe box, she remarked with a pout:
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000090_000000|'Our patient has been naughty!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000090_000001|He has taken some more atropine.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000091_000000|I became angry at once.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000092_000000|'Peters,' I cried, 'you know you have no right to be doing things like that without consulting me!
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000092_000001|Do that once more, and I swear I have nothing further to do with you!'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000093_000001|It was a mere flea bite.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000093_000002|I felt that I needed it.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000095_000001|Her back was turned upon us, and she was a long time.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000095_000002|I was standing; Peters in his arm chair, smoking.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000099_000000|'Well, how is everything?'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000100_000001|With lightning swiftness I remembered an under look of mistrust which I had once seen on his face.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000101_000000|Clodagh went to meet Wilson with frank right hand, in the left being the fragile glass containing the injection.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000101_000001|My eyes were fastened on her face: it was full of reassurance, of free innocence.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000101_000002|I said to myself: 'I must surely be mad!'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000102_000000|An ordinary chat began, while Clodagh turned up Peters' sleeve, and, kneeling there, injected his fore arm.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000102_000001|As she rose, laughing at something said by Wilson, the drug glass dropped from her hand, and her heel, by an apparent accident, trod on it.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000103_000000|'Your friend has been naughty, mr Wilson,' she said again with that same pout: 'he has been taking more atropine.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000105_000000|'Let me alone, the whole of you,' answered Peters: 'I ain't a child.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000106_000000|These were the last intelligible words he ever spoke.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000106_000001|He died shortly before one a m
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000106_000002|He had been poisoned by a powerful dose of atropine.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000107_000001|Only I remember the inquest, and how I was called upon to prove that Peters had himself injected himself with atropine.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000107_000002|This was corroborated by Wilson, and by Clodagh: and the verdict was in accordance.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000108_000000|And in all that chaotic hurry of preparation, three other things only, but those with clear distinctness now, I remember.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000109_000000|The first-and chief-is that tempest of words which I heard at Kensington from that big mouthed Mackay on the Sunday night.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000109_000002|Well, perhaps I know.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000110_000000|There I sat, and heard him: and most strangely have those words of his peroration planted themselves in my brain, when, rising to a passion of prophecy, he shouted: 'And as in the one case, transgression was followed by catastrophe swift and universal, so, in the other, I warn the entire race to look out thenceforth for nothing from God but a lowering sky, and thundery weather.'
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000000|And this second thing I remember: that on reaching home, I walked into my disordered library (for I had had to hunt out some books), where I met my housekeeper in the act of rearranging things.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000001|She had apparently lifted an old Bible by the front cover to fling it on the table, for as I threw myself into a chair my eye fell upon the open print near the beginning.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000002|The print was very large, and a shaded lamp cast a light upon it.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000003|I had been hearing Mackay's wild comparison of the Pole with the tree of Eden, and that no doubt was the reason why such a start convulsed me: for my listless eyes had chanced to rest upon some words.
train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000112_000000|'The woman gave me of the tree, and I did eat....'
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000000_000003|They had in many cases some reddish discoloration, which may have been the traces of betel nut stains: for betel nuts abound there.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000000_000004|And I was so pleased with these people, that I took on board with the gig one of their little tree canoes: which was my foolishness: for gig and canoe were only three nights later washed from the decks into the middle of the sea.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000002_000003|I went from one to the other without any system whatever, searching for the ideal resting place, and often thinking that I had found it: but only wearying of it at the thought that there was a yet deeper and dreamier in the world.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000002_000004|But in this search I received a check, my God, which chilled me to the marrow, and set me flying from these places.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000003_000002|I was therefore very tired when I went down, lit the central chain lever lamp and my own two, washed and dressed in my bedroom, and sat to dinner in the dining hall corner.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000003_000003|I ate voraciously, with sweat, as usual, pouring down my eager brow, using knife or spoon in the right hand, but never the Western fork, licking the plates clean in the Mohammedan manner, and drinking pretty freely.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000000|As I rose, I fell flat: and what I did thereafter I did in a state of existence whose acts, to the waking mind, appear unreal as dream.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000001|I must at once, I think, have been conscious that here was the cause of the destruction of mankind; that it still surrounded its own neighbourhood with poisonous fumes; and that I was approaching it.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000002|I must have somehow crawled, or dragged myself forward.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000003|There is an impression on my mind that it was a purple land of pure porphyry; there is some faint memory, or dream, of hearing a long drawn booming of waves upon its crags: I do not know whence I have them.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000004|I think that I remember retching with desperate jerks of the travailing intestines; also that I was on my face as I moved the regulator in the engine room: but any recollection of going down the stairs, or of coming up again, I have not.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000005|Happily, the wheel was tied, the rudder hard to port, and as the ship moved, she must, therefore, have turned; and I must have been back to untie the wheel in good time, for when my senses came, I was lying there, my head against the under gimbal, one foot on a spoke of the wheel, no land in sight, and morning breaking.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000003|Finally, by dint of throwing, I got the rope loop round a mast stump, drew myself up, and made fast the boat, my left hand cut by some cursed shell: and all for what?
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000004|the imperiousness of a whim.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000005|The faint moonlight shewed an ample tract of deck, invisible in most parts under rolled beds of putrid seaweed, and no bodies, and nothing but a concave, large esplanade of seaweed.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000008|Here I experienced a singular ghostly awe and timorousness, lest she should sink with me, or something: but striking matches, I saw an ordinary cabin, with some fungoids, skulls, bones and rags, but not one cohering skeleton.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000009|In the second starboard berth was a small table, and on the floor a thick round ink pot, whose continual rolling on its side made me look down; and there I saw a flat square book with black covers, which curved half open of itself, for it had been wet and stained.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000004|I follow the direction of his gaze to eastward!
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000009|It is affrighting, it is intolerable! the eyes can hardly bear to watch, the ears to hear!
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000010|it seems unholy travail, monstrous birth!
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000012|At the moment when that sublime emergence ceases, or seems to cease, the grand thought that smites me is this: "I, Albert Tissu, am immortalised: my name shall never perish from among men!" I rush down, I write it.
train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000018|There is a great deal of running about on the decks-they are descending.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000000_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000000_000001|Whether, the same immaterial Substance remaining, there can be two Persons.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000001|All those who hold pre existence are evidently of this mind; since they allow the soul to have no remaining consciousness of what it did in that pre existent state, either wholly separate from body, or informing any other body; and if they should not, it is plain experience would be against them.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000002|So that personal identity, reaching no further than consciousness reaches, a pre existent spirit not having continued so many ages in a state of silence, must needs make different persons.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000005|Can he be concerned in either of their actions?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000006|attribute them to himself, or think them his own more than the actions of any other men that ever existed?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000008|For this would no more make him the same person with Nestor, than if some of the particles of smaller that were once a part of Nestor were now a part of this man the same immaterial substance, without the same consciousness, no more making the same person, by being united to any body, than the same particle of matter, without consciousness, united to any body, makes the same person.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000009|But let him once find himself conscious of any of the actions of Nestor, he then finds himself the same person with Nestor.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000002_000001|The body, as well as the soul, goes to the making of a Man.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000000|And thus may we be able, without any difficulty, to conceive the same person at the resurrection, though in a body not exactly in make or parts the same which he had here,--the same consciousness going along with the soul that inhabits it.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000001|But yet the soul alone, in the change of bodies, would scarce to any one but to him that makes the soul the man, be enough to make the same man.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000002|For should the soul of a prince, carrying with it the consciousness of the prince's past life, enter and inform the body of a cobbler, as soon as deserted by his own soul, every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince's actions: but who would say it was the same MAN?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000003|The body too goes to the making the man, and would, I guess, to everybody determine the man in this case, wherein the soul, with all its princely thoughts about it, would not make another man: but he would be the same cobbler to every one besides himself.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000005|And indeed every one will always have a liberty to speak as he pleases, and to apply what articulate sounds to what ideas he thinks fit, and change them as often as he pleases.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000006|But yet, when we will inquire what makes the same SPIRIT, MAN, or PERSON, we must fix the ideas of spirit, man, or person in our minds; and having resolved with ourselves what we mean by them, it will not be hard to determine, in either of them, or the like, when it is the same, and when not.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000004_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000004_000001|Consciousness alone unites actions into the same Person.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000006_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000006_000001|Self depends on Consciousness, not on Substance.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000000|SELF is that conscious thinking thing,--whatever substance made up of, (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not)--which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000001|Thus every one finds that, whilst comprehended under that consciousness, the little finger is as much a part of himself as what is most so.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000002|Upon separation of this little finger, should this consciousness go along with the little finger, and leave the rest of the body, it is evident the little finger would be the person, the same person; and self then would have nothing to do with the rest of the body.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000003|As in this case it is the consciousness that goes along with the substance, when one part is separate from another, which makes the same person, and constitutes this inseparable self: so it is in reference to substances remote in time.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000004|That with which the consciousness of this present thinking thing CAN join itself, makes the same person, and is one self with it, and with nothing else; and so attributes to itself, and owns all the actions of that thing, as its own, as far as that consciousness reaches, and no further; as every one who reflects will perceive.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000008_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000009_000000|In this personal identity is founded all the right and justice of reward and punishment; happiness and misery being that for which every one is concerned for HIMSELF, and not mattering what becomes of any SUBSTANCE, not joined to, or affected with that consciousness.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000009_000001|For, as it is evident in the instance I gave but now, if the consciousness went along with the little finger when it was cut off, that would be the same self which was concerned for the whole body yesterday, as making part of itself, whose actions then it cannot but admit as its own now.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000009_000002|Though, if the same body should still live, and immediately from the separation of the little finger have its own peculiar consciousness, whereof the little finger knew nothing, it would not at all be concerned for it, as a part of itself, or could own any of its actions, or have any of them imputed to him.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000010_000001|Which shows wherein Personal identity consists.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000011_000000|This may show us wherein personal identity consists: not in the identity of substance, but, as I have said, in the identity of consciousness, wherein if Socrates and the present mayor of Queenborough agree, they are the same person: if the same Socrates waking and sleeping do not partake of the same consciousness, Socrates waking and sleeping is not the same person.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000011_000001|And to punish Socrates waking for what sleeping Socrates thought, and waking Socrates was never conscious of, would be no more of right, than to punish one twin for what his brother twin did, whereof he knew nothing, because their outsides were so like, that they could not be distinguished; for such twins have been seen.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000013_000000|But yet possibly it will still be objected,--Suppose I wholly lose the memory of some parts of my life, beyond a possibility of retrieving them, so that perhaps I shall never be conscious of them again; yet am I not the same person that did those actions, had those thoughts that I once was conscious of, though I have now forgot them?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000013_000002|And the same man being presumed to be the same person, I is easily here supposed to stand also for the same person.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000014_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000014_000001|Difference between Identity of Man and of Person.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000015_000000|But yet it is hard to conceive that Socrates, the same individual man, should be two persons.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000015_000001|To help us a little in this, we must consider what is meant by Socrates, or the same individual MAN.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000016_000000|First, it must be either the same individual, immaterial, thinking substance; in short, the same numerical soul, and nothing else.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000017_000000|Secondly, or the same animal, without any regard to an immaterial soul.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000018_000000|Thirdly, or the same immaterial spirit united to the same animal.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000019_000000|Now, take which of these suppositions you please, it is impossible to make personal identity to consist in anything but consciousness; or reach any further than that does.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000020_000001|A way of speaking which, whoever admits, must allow it possible for the same man to be two distinct persons, as any two that have lived in different ages without the knowledge of one another's thoughts.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000021_000001|But then they who place human identity in consciousness only, and not in something else, must consider how they will make the infant Socrates the same man with Socrates after the resurrection.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000021_000002|But whatsoever to some men makes a man, and consequently the same individual man, wherein perhaps few are agreed, personal identity can by us be placed in nothing but consciousness, (which is that alone which makes what we call SELF,) without involving us in great absurdities.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000023_000001|why else is he punished for the fact he commits when drunk, though he be never afterwards conscious of it?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000023_000002|Just as much the same person as a man that walks, and does other things in his sleep, is the same person, and is answerable for any mischief he shall do in it.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000024_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000025_000000|Nothing but consciousness can unite remote existences into the same person: the identity of substance will not do it; for whatever substance there is, however framed, without consciousness there is no person: and a carcass may be a person, as well as any sort of substance be so, without consciousness.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000026_000001|And whether, in the second case, there would not be one person in two distinct bodies, as much as one man is the same in two distinct clothings?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000026_000003|So that self is not determined by identity or diversity of substance, which it cannot be sure of, but only by identity of consciousness.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000027_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000027_000001|Not the substance with which the consciousness may be united.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000028_000001|In like manner it will be in reference to any immaterial substance, which is void of that consciousness whereby I am myself to myself: so that I cannot upon recollection join with that present consciousness whereby I am now myself, it is, in that part of its existence, no more MYSELF than any other immaterial being.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000029_000000|twenty seven.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000030_000000|I agree, the more probable opinion is, that this consciousness is annexed to, and the affection of, one individual immaterial substance.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000031_000000|But let men, according to their diverse hypotheses, resolve of that as they please.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000031_000003|In all which account of self, the same numerical SUBSTANCE is not considered a making the same self; but the same continued CONSCIOUSNESS, in which several substances may have been united, and again separated from it, which, whilst they continued in a vital union with that wherein this consciousness then resided, made a part of that same self.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000032_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000032_000001|Person a forensic Term.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000000|PERSON, as I take it, is the name for this self.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000001|Wherever a man finds what he calls himself, there, I think, another may say is the same person.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000002|It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents, capable of a law, and happiness, and misery.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000003|This personality extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness,--whereby it becomes concerned and accountable; owns and imputes to itself past actions, just upon the same ground and for the same reason as it does the present.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000004|All which is founded in a concern for happiness, the unavoidable concomitant of consciousness; that which is conscious of pleasure and pain, desiring that that self that is conscious should be happy.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000005|And therefore whatever past actions it cannot reconcile or APPROPRIATE to that present self by consciousness, it can be no more concerned in than if they had never been done: and to receive pleasure or pain, i e reward or punishment, on the account of any such action, is all one as to be made happy or miserable in its first being, without any demerit at all.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000006|For, supposing a MAN punished now for what he had done in another life, whereof he could be made to have no consciousness at all, what difference is there between that punishment and being CREATED miserable?
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000034_000000|twenty nine.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000034_000001|Suppositions that look strange are pardonable in our ignorance.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000035_000000|I am apt enough to think I have, in treating of this subject, made some suppositions that will look strange to some readers, and possibly they are so in themselves.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000036_000001|The Difficulty from ill Use of Names.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000038_000000|thirty one.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000000|For, supposing a rational spirit be the idea of a MAN, it is easy to know what is the same man, viz. the same spirit-whether separate or in a body-will be the SAME MAN.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000001|Supposing a rational spirit vitally united to a body of a certain conformation of parts to make a man; whilst that rational spirit, with that vital conformation of parts, though continued in a fleeting successive body, remains, it will be the SAME MAN.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000002|But if to any one the idea of a man be but the vital union of parts in a certain shape; as long as that vital union and shape remain in a concrete, no otherwise the same but by a continued succession of fleeting particles, it will be the SAME MAN.
train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000003|For, whatever be the composition whereof the complex idea is made, whenever existence makes it one particular thing under any denomination, THE SAME EXISTENCE CONTINUED preserves it the SAME individual under the same denomination.
train-clean-360/7339/86765/7339_86765_000038_000000|"In stock?"
train-clean-360/7339/86765/7339_86765_000042_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000012_000004|What for?--that they may try, a month hence, to marry me again; and to whom?--M.
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000012_000005|Debray, perhaps, as it was once proposed.
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000017_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000018_000000|"Our passport?"
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000021_000000|"M.
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000022_000001|How did you get this passport?"
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000035_000001|"But I cannot," said she; "I am not strong enough; do you shut it."
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000039_000000|"Will you dress here?"
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000044_000000|"Come and help me."
train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000051_000000|"What are you looking at?"
train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000001_000000|SEPTEMBER
train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000004_000000|Hardy Poppies should be sown even earlier; August is the best time.
train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000005_000000|Dahlias are now at their full growth.
train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000018_000006|It is a native plant, but not found in this neighbourhood; I brought it from Cornwall, where it is so plentiful in the chinks of the granite stone fences.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000002_000000|eight
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000003_000000|OFF NANTUCKET
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000004_000000|Upon the authors of that commotion Lanyard wasted no consideration whatever.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000004_000001|Let them knock and clamour; he had more urgent work in hand, and knew too well the penalty were he stupid enough to unbolt to them.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000004_000003|And all attempts would be futile to make them understand that, while they plagued him with futile questions, a murderer and spy and thief was making good his escape, being afforded ample opportunity to slough all traces of his recent work and resume unchallenged his place among them.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000005_000000|No; if by any freak of good fortune, any exertion of wit or daring, that one were to be apprehended, it must be within the next few minutes, it could only be through immediate pursuit.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000006_000001|With him, whose ways of life were ceaselessly beset by instant and mortal perils, each with its especial and imperative demand upon his readiness and ingenuity, action must ever press so hard upon the heels of thought as to make the two seem one.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000007_000000|For that matter, the whole transaction had been characterised by almost unbelievable rapidity.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000008_000000|Then, at the third shot, the automatic jammed upon a discharged shell.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000009_000000|Exasperated, the adventurer cast the weapon from him, shrugged hastily out of his unfastened coat and waistcoat, hitched tight his belt, and clambered through the port.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000010_000000|Dropping to the deck, he turned in time to see the fugitive dart round the shoulder of the superstructure.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000011_000000|As Lanyard gained the after rail of the promenade deck a man standing on the boat deck at the head of the companion ladder greeted him with pistol fire.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000011_000001|He dodged back, untouched, and instantaneously devised a stratagem to cope with this untoward development.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000012_000001|And the darkness in the shadow of the boat was dense, an excellent screen.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000014_000000|At the same time, "Karl" seemed mysteriously occupied with some object or objects in whose manipulation he was hampered to a degree by the necessity under which he laboured of holding his pistol ready and dividing his attention.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000015_000000|A man of good stature, broad at the shoulders, slender at the hips, he poised himself with athletic grace-the lower part of his face masked by what Lanyard took to be a dark silk handkerchief.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000017_000000|Then a brisk little spray of sparks jetted from the flint and steel of a patent cigar lighter in the hands of the spy.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000018_000000|The man leaned over the rail and cast a small black object to which the sputtering fuse was attached, down to the main deck.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000019_000000|As it struck midway between superstructure and stern it burst into brilliant flame, releasing upon the night an electric blue glare that must have been visible from any point within the compass of the horizon.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000020_000000|A yell of profane remonstrance saluted the light, and throughout the brief passage that followed Lanyard was conscious that pistols and rifles on the after deck below were making him and his antagonist their targets.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000021_000000|Before the German could face about, Lanyard, moving almost noiselessly in his bare feet, had covered more than half the intervening space.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000021_000002|But the distance was too great.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000021_000003|Twice the automatic blazed in his face as he closed in, the bullets clearing narrowly-or else he fancied that their deadly cold breath fanned his cheek.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000022_000000|Then the spy's weapon in turn went out of action.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000022_000001|Half blinded, Lanyard clipped the man round the body and hugged him tight, exerting all his skill and strength to effect a throw.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000023_000000|That effort failed; his onslaught was met with address and ability that all but matched his own.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000023_000002|For a moment Lanyard was able to accomplish no more than to smother resistance in a rib crushing embrace; no sooner did he relax it than all attempts to shift his hold were anticipated and met half way, forcing him back upon the defensive.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000024_000000|Yet he was given little chance to prove himself the master.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000024_000001|The first phase of the struggle was still in contest when the rear door of the smoking room opened and a man stepped out, paused, summed up the situation in a glance, seized Lanyard from behind.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000026_000001|Something in the brain of the adventurer seemed to let go; his head dropped weakly to one side.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000026_000002|The man who had struck him said quietly, "Loose the fool, Ed," and followed as Lanyard reeled away, striking him repeatedly.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000027_000001|He felt unutterably weary, and was weakened by a sensation of nausea.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000027_000002|Beneath him his knees buckled.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000027_000003|There fell one final blow, ruthless as the wrath of God.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000028_000000|He was falling backward into nothingness, into an everlasting gulf of night that yawned for him....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000029_000000|As he shot under the guard rope and into space between the edge of the deck and the keel of the lifeboat, the spy rounded smartly on a heel and darted to the smoking room door.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000029_000001|His confederate was in the act of stepping across the raised threshold.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000029_000002|He followed, closed the door.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000030_000000|The first officer, charging aft from the bridge, rounded the deck house and pulled up with a grunt of surprise to find the deck completely deserted....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000031_000000|The shock of icy immersion reanimated Lanyard.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000032_000000|He felt himself plunging headlong down, down, and down to inky depths unguessable.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000032_000001|The sheer habit of an accustomed swimmer alone bade him hold his breath.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000033_000000|Then came a pause: he was no more descending; for a time of indeterminate duration, an age of anguish, he seemed to float without motion, suspended in frigid purgatory.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000033_000003|His head felt swollen and enormous, on the point of bursting wide.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000035_000000|Instinctively he kept afloat with feeble strokes.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000036_000000|The cold was bitter, as sharp as the teeth of death; but his head was now clear, he was able to appreciate what had befallen him.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000038_000000|She seemed absurdly small.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000038_000001|Incredulity infected Lanyard's mind.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000040_000000|Then the cold began to bite into his marrow, and he struggled manfully to swim, taking long, slow strokes, at first comparatively powerful, by insensible degrees losing force.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000041_000000|Just why he took this trouble he did not know: for some dim reason it seemed desirable to live as long as possible.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000041_000001|Withal he was aware he could not live.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000041_000003|Even were an alarm to be given, were she to stop now and put out a boat, it would find him, if it found him at all, too late.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000042_000000|The cold was killing.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000043_000000|He felt very sleepy.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000043_000001|Drowsily he apprehended the beginning of the end. His senses, growing numb with cold, presently must cease to function altogether.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000043_000002|Then he would forget, and nothing would matter any more.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000000|Yet the will to live persisted amazingly.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000001|Had Lanyard wished it he could not have ceased to swim, at least to keep afloat.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000002|Vaguely he wondered how people ever managed to commit suicide by drowning; it seemed to pass human power to resist that buoyancy which sustained one, to let go, let one's self go down.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000003|Impossible to conceive how that was ever done....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000046_000000|No reading that riddle!...
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000047_000000|On obscure impulse he gave up swimming, turned upon his back, floated face to the sky, derelict, resigning himself to the cradling arms of the sea. The gradual, slow rocking of the swells soothed his passion like a kindly opiate.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000047_000002|What must be, must....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000048_000000|For all that, life clutched at him with jealous hands.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000049_000000|Athwart the drab texture of consciousness wild fancies played like heat lightning in a still midsummer night.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000050_000000|Death's countenance was kind.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000051_000000|That wide field of stars, drooping low and lifting away with rhythmic motion, would sometime dip swiftly down to the very sea itself and, swinging back, take with it his soul to some remote bourne....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000054_000000|The heave of a swell enabled him to glance incuriously after the steamship. She seemed smaller, less genuine than ever, a shadow shape that boasted visibility solely through that unearthly light on her after deck.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000054_000002|Even as he that had been named Michael Lanyard was a lost light, a tiny flame that guttered toward its swift extinction....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000055_000000|Why live, when one might die and, dying, find endless rest?
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000058_000000|This the one cogent reason why he must not, could not, die....
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000059_000000|Unjust to require him to give up life while that one lived.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000059_000002|It must not be!...
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000060_000000|Across the sea rolled a dull, brutish detonation.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000061_000000|It vanished instantly.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000062_000000|When his dazzled vision cleared, he could see no more of the ship.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000062_000001|He imagined a faint, wild rumour of panic voices, conjured up scenes of horror indescribable as that great fabric sank almost instantaneously, as if some gigantic hand plucked her under.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000063_000000|What had happened?
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000063_000003|They had got what they sought, that accursed document, whatever it was, that page torn from the Book of Doom.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000065_000001|A target for what?...
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000066_000001|A wave of pure fear flooded him, body, mind, and soul.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000067_000000|He heard a voice screaming thinly, and knew it was his own.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000000|The impossible was happening to him, out there, alone and helpless on the face of the waters.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000001|A shape of horror was rising out of the deep to engorge him.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000002|He could feel distinctly the slow, irresistible heave of its bulk beneath him.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000003|His feet touched and slipped upon its horrible sleek flanks.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000000|His most desperate efforts were all unavailing.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000001|He could not escape.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000002|The thing came up too rapidly.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000003|Following that first mad thrill of contact with it underfoot, he was lifted swiftly and irresistibly into the air.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000004|Almost instantly he was floundering in knee deep waters that parted, cascading away on either hand.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000070_000000|His clawing hands clutched something solid and substantial, an upright bar of metal.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000071_000000|Incredulously Lanyard pawed the body of the monster beneath him.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000071_000001|His hands passed over a riveted joint of metal plates.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000071_000002|Looking up, he made out the truncated cone of a conning tower with its antennae like periscope tubes stencilled black upon the soft purple of the star strewn sky.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000072_000000|Slowly the truth came home: a submarine had risen beneath him.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000072_000001|He lay upon its after deck, grasping a stanchion that supported the small raised bridge round the conning tower.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000074_000000|But when he sought to drag himself up to the bridge, he could not, he was too weak and faint.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000074_000001|Ceasing to struggle, he rested in half stupour, panting.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000000|With a harsh clang a hatch was thrown back.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000001|Rousing, Lanyard saw several figures emerge from the conning tower.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000002|Men uncouthly clothed in shapeless, shiny leather garments, straddled and stretched above him, filling their lungs with the sweet air.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000003|He tried to call to them, but evoked a mere rattle from his throat.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000077_000000|A pang of despair shot through Lanyard when he heard them conferring together in the German tongue.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000078_000000|Death, then, was but a little delayed.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000079_000000|Thereafter he lay in dumb apathy, save that he shivered and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000080_000000|Through the torpor that rested like a black cloud upon his senses he caught broken phrases, snatches of sentences:
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000086_000001|The crew on deck leaped to attention.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000086_000002|One leaned over the conning tower hatch and shouted to his mates below.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000086_000003|A hatch forward of the tower opened, and a quick firing gun on a disappearing carriage swung smoothly and silently up from its lair.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000088_000001|What's this?"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000089_000000|The first rejoined him.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000089_000001|"Impossible!"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000091_000000|"Have him up and see...."
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000093_000000|"At the last gasp, but alive," one announced.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000094_000000|"How the devil did he get out here?"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000096_000000|"Impossible for any man to swim this far since our torpedo struck-"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000097_000000|"Then he must have gone overboard before it struck-or was thrown-"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000099_000000|"Hell's fury!
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000099_000001|what's that searchlight?"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000100_000000|"A Yankee destroyer-in all probability the one we dodged yesterday afternoon."
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000101_000001|Forward, there-house that gun! And get below-quickly!"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000102_000000|During a moment of apparent confusion, one of the men sustaining Lanyard caught the attention of an officer.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000103_000000|"What shall we do with this fellow, sir?" he enquired.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000106_000001|"On the Emperor's service-"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000107_000000|"What's that?"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000107_000001|The officer turned back sharply.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000108_000000|"Imperial Secret Service," Lanyard faltered-"Personal Division-Wilhelmstrasse Number twenty seven--"
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000109_000000|A brilliant glare settled suddenly upon the deck of the submarine, and was welcomed by a panicky gust of oaths.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000109_000001|One officer had already popped through the conning tower hatch, followed by several of the crew.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000110_000000|"Take him below!" the latter ordered.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000110_000001|"He may be telling the truth.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000110_000002|If not...."
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000000|In the distance a gun boomed.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000001|A shell shrieked over the submarine and dropped into the sea not a hundred yards to starboard.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000002|The men rushed Lanyard toward the conning tower.
train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000003|He tried feebly to help them.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000000_000000|JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND: THE GIRL OF THE LAND OF FOGS, a d fourteen fourteen.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000003_000000|Count William was a gallant and courtly knight, learned in all the ways of chivalry, the model of the younger cavaliers, handsome in person, noble in bearing, the surest lance in the tilting yard, and the stoutest arm in the foray.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000004_000000|Like "Jephtha, Judge of Israel," of whom the mock mad Hamlet sang to Polonius, Count William had
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000005_000000|"One fair daughter, and no more, The which he loved passing well;"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000008_000000|As she sat, that day, in the great Hall of the Knights in the massive castle at The Hague, she could see, among all the knights and nobles who came from far and near to join in the festivities at Count William's court, not one that approached her father in nobility of bearing or manly strength-not even her husband.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000009_000000|Her husband?
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000009_000001|Yes.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000011_000000|Other young people were there, too,--nobles and pages and little ladies in waiting; and there was much of the stately ceremonial and flowery talk that in those days of knighthood clothed alike the fears of cowards and the desires of heroes.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000011_000001|For there have always been heroes and cowards in the world.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000013_000000|Then uprose the young Lord of Arkell.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000014_000001|"This Hubert of Malsen is but a craven, sirs, if he doth say the merchants of Dort are rascal cowards.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000014_000002|Had they been fairly mated, he had no more dared to put his nose within the gates of Dort than dare one of you here to go down yonder amid Count William's lions!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000016_000000|"I said nothing of him, madam," replied Count Otto.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000016_000001|"I did mean these young red hats here, who do no more dare to bait your father's lions than to face the Cods of Dort in fair and equal fight."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000017_000000|At this bold speech there was instant commotion.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000017_000001|For the nobles and merchants of Holland, four centuries and a half ago, were at open strife with one another.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000017_000004|So each faction had its leaders, its partisans, its badges, and its followers.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000018_000000|Certain of the younger nobles, however, who were opposed to the reigning house of Holland, of which Count William, young Jacqueline's father, was the head, had espoused the cause of the merchants, seeing in their success greater prosperity and wealth for Holland.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000018_000001|Among these had been the young Lord of Arkell, now a sort of half prisoner at Count William's court because of certain bold attempts to favor the Cods in his own castle of Arkell.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000018_000002|His defiant words therefore raised a storm of protests.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000019_000001|Face YOU the lions, lord count, and I will warrant me they will not prove as forbearing as did she."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000020_000001|So this fling of the Dauphin's cut deep.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000021_000000|But before the young Otto could return an angry answer, Jacqueline had interfered.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000022_000000|"Nay, nay, my lord," she said to her husband, the Dauphin; "'t is not a knightly act thus to impeach the honor of a noble guest."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000023_000000|But now the Lord of Arkell had found his tongue.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000024_000000|"My lord prince," he said, bowing low with stately courtesy, "if, as my lady mother and good Count William would force me, I am to be loyal vassal to you, my lieges here, I should but follow where you dare to lead.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000024_000001|Go YOU into the lions' den, lord prince, and I will follow you, though it were into old Hercules' very teeth."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000025_000000|It was a shrewd reply, and covered as good a "double dare" as ever one boy made to another.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000025_000001|Some of the manlier of the young courtiers indeed even dared to applaud.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000025_000002|But the Dauphin john was stronger in tongue than in heart.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000026_000003|See, Lord of Arkell, you who can prate so loudly of Cods and lions: here before all, I dare you to face Count William's lions yourself!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000027_000001|But without a word, with scarce a look toward his challenger, he turned to his nearest neighbor, a brave Zealand lad, afterward noted in Dutch history-Francis von Borselen.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000028_000000|"Lend me your gabardine, friend Franz, will you not?" he said.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000029_000000|The young von Borselen took from the back of the settle, over which it was flung, his gabardine-the long, loose gray cloak that was a sort of overcoat in those days of queer costume.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000030_000000|"It is here, my Otto," he said.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000031_000000|The Lord of Arkell drew the loose gray cloak over his rich silk suit, and turned toward the door.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000032_000000|"Otto von Arkell lets no one call him fool or coward, lord prince," he said.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000032_000002|See, now: I will face Count William's lions!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000033_000000|The Princess Jacqueline sprang up in protest.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000000|"No, no; you shall not!" she cried.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000001|"My lord prince did but jest, as did we all.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000002|john," she said, turning appealingly to her young husband, who sat sullen and unmoved, "tell him you meant no such murderous test.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000003|My father!" she cried, turning now toward Count William, whose attention had been drawn to the dispute, "the Lord of Arkell is pledged to face your lions!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000035_000000|Count William of Holland dearly loved pluck and nerve.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000037_000000|"But, my father," persisted the gentle hearted girl, "spear and banner are not lions' jaws.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000038_000000|"Nay, madam, have no fear," the Lord of Arkell said, bending in courteous recognition of her interest; "that which I do of mine own free will is no murder, even should it fail."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000040_000000|A raised gallery looked down into the spacious inclosure in which Count William kept the living specimens of his own princely badge of the lion. And here the company gathered to see the sport.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000041_000000|With the gray gabardine drawn but loosely over his silken suit, so that he might, if need be, easily slip from it, Otto von Arkell boldly entered the inclosure.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000042_000000|"Soho, Juno!
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000042_000001|up, Hercules; hollo, up, Ajax!" cried Count William, from the balcony.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000043_000000|Boldly and without hesitation, while all the watchers had eyes but for him alone, the young Lord of Arkell walked straight up to Hercules, the largest of the three, and laid his hand caressingly upon the shaggy mane.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000044_000000|But Ajax, fiercest of the three, took no notice of the lad.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000044_000001|Straight across his comrades he looked to where, scarce a rod behind the daring lad, came another figure, a light and graceful form in clinging robes of blue and undergown of cloth of gold-the Princess Jacqueline herself!
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000045_000000|The watchers in the gallery followed the lion's stare, and saw, with horror, the advancing figure of this fair young girl.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000045_000001|A cry of terror broke from every lip.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000045_000002|The Dauphin john turned pale with fright, and Count William of Holland, calling out, "Down, Ajax! back, girl, back!" sprang to his feet as if he would have vaulted over the gallery rail.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000046_000000|But before he could act, Ajax himself had acted.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000047_000001|Ajax slowly rose and looked up into the girl's calm face.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000047_000002|Then the voice of Jacqueline rang out fresh and clear as, standing with her hand buried in the lion's tawny mane, she raised her face to the startled galleries.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000048_000000|"You who could dare and yet dared not to do!" she cried, "it shall not be said that in all Count William's court none save the rebel Lord of Arkell dared to face Count William's lions!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000049_000000|The Lord of Arkell sprang to his comrade's side.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000000|And it WAS a rash and foolish act.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000001|But we must remember that those were days when such feats were esteemed as brave and valorous.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000002|For the Princess Jaqueline of Holland was reared in the school of so-called chivalry and romance, which in her time was fast approaching its end.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000003|She was, indeed, as one historian declares, the last heroine of knighthood.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000004|Her very titles suggest the days of chivalry.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000052_000000|All girls admire bravery, even though not themselves personally courageous.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000054_000000|The dream of future power and greatness as Queen of France, in which the girl wife of the Dauphin had often indulged, was thus rudely dispelled, and Jacqueline returned to her father's court in Holland, no longer crown princess and heiress to a throne, but simply "Lady of Holland."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000055_000000|But in Holland, too, sorrow was in store for her.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000055_000001|Swiftly following the loss of her husband, the Dauphin, came the still heavier blow of her father's death.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000056_000001|The death of Count William showed the Cods a way toward greater liberty.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000057_000000|And chief among the rebellious spirits, as leader and counsellor among the Cods, appeared the brave lad who had once been the companion of the princess in danger, the young Lord of Arkell.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000058_000000|It was he who lifted the standard of revolt against her regency.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000058_000002|The stout citadel of the town, was, however, garrisoned with loyal troops.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000058_000003|This the Lord of Arkell beseiged, and, demanding its surrender, sent also a haughty challenge to the young countess, who was hastening to the relief of her beleaguered town.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000059_000000|Jacqueline's answer was swift and unmistakable.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000060_000000|Her doughty Dutch general, von Brederode, counselled immediate attack, but the girl countess, though full of enthusiasm and determination, hesitated.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000000|From her station in the citadel she looked over the scene before her. Here, along the low bank of the river Maas, stretched the camp of her own followers, and the little gayly colored boats that had brought her army up the river from the red roofs of Rotterdam.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000001|There, stretching out into the flat country beyond the straggling streets of Gorkum, lay the tents of the rebels.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000002|And yet they were all her countrymen-rebels and retainers alike.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000003|Hollanders all, they were ever ready to combine for the defence of their homeland when threatened by foreign foes or by the destroying ocean floods.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000062_000000|Jacqueline's eye caught the flutter of the broad banner of the house of Arkell that waved over the rebel camp.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000063_000000|Again she saw the brave lad who alone of all her father's court, save she, had dared to face Count William's lions; again the remembrance of how his daring had made him one of her heroes, filled her heart, and a dream of what might be possessed her.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000063_000002|But how much better, so she reasoned, that the name and might of her house as rulers of Holland should be upheld by a brave and fearless knight.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000063_000003|On the impulse of this thought she summoned a loyal and trusted vassal to her aid.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000064_000001|Thus says the Lady of Holland: 'Were it not better, Otto of Arkell, that we join hands in marriage before the altar, than that we spill the blood of faithful followers and vassals in a cruel fight?'"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000065_000000|It was a singular, and perhaps, to our modern ears, a most unladylike proposal; but it shows how, even in the heart of a sovereign countess and a girl general, warlike desires may give place to gentler thoughts.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000066_000000|To the Lord Arkell, however, this unexpected proposition came as an indication of weakness.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000067_000001|In that is greater glory and more of power than being husband to the Lady of Holland."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000068_000000|And so he returned a most ungracious answer:
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000069_000000|"Tell the Countess Jacqueline," he said to the knight of Leyenburg, "that the honor of her hand I cannot accept.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000069_000001|I am her foe, and would rather die than marry her."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000070_000000|All the hot blood of her ancestors flamed in wrath as young Jacqueline heard this reply of the rebel lord.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000071_000000|"Crush we these rebel curs, von Brederode," she cried, pointing to the banner of Arkell; "for by my father's memory, they shall have neither mercy nor life from me."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000072_000000|Fast upon the curt refusal of the Lord of Arkell came his message of defiance.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000073_000000|"Hear ye, Countess of Holland," rang out the challenge of the herald of Arkell, as his trumpet blast sounded before the gate of the citadel, "the free Lord of Arkell here giveth you word and warning that he will fight against you on the morrow!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000074_000000|And from the citadel came back this ringing reply, as the knight of Leyenburg made answer for his sovereign lady:
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000075_000000|"Hear ye, sir Herald, and answer thus to the rebel Lord of Arkell: 'For the purpose of fighting him came we here, and fight him we will, until he and his rebels are beaten and dead.' Long live our Sovereign Lady of Holland!"
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000076_000000|On the morrow, a murky December day, in the year fourteen seventeen, the battle was joined, as announced.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000076_000001|On the low plain beyond the city, knights and men at arms, archers and spearmen, closed in the shock of battle, and a stubborn and bloody fight it was.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000077_000001|The brave von Brederode fell pierced with wounds, and the day seemed lost, indeed, to the Lady of Holland.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000078_000000|Then Jacqueline the Countess, seeing her cause in danger-like another Joan of Arc, though she was indeed a younger and much more beautiful girl general,--seized the lion banner of her house, and, at the head of her reserve troops, charged through the open gate straight into the ranks of her victorious foes.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000078_000001|There was neither mercy nor gentleness in her heart then.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000078_000002|As when she had cowed with a look Ajax, the lion, so now, with defiance and wrath in her face, she dashed straight at the foe.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000079_000000|Her disheartened knights rallied around her, and, following the impetuous girl, they wielded axe and lance for the final struggle.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000079_000001|The result came quickly.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000079_000002|The ponderous battle axe of the knight of Leyenburg crashed through the helmet of the Lord of Arkell, and as the brave young leader fell to the ground, his panic stricken followers turned and fled. The troops of Jacqueline pursued them through the streets of Gorkum and out into the open country, and the vengeance of the countess was sharp and merciless.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000080_000000|But in the flush of victory wrath gave way to pity again, and the young conqueror is reported to have said, sadly and in tears:
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000082_000000|But the knights and nobles who followed her banner loudly praised her valor and her fearlessness, and their highest and most knightly vow thereafter was to swear "By the courage of our Princess."
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000000|The brilliant victory of this girl of sixteen was not, however, to accomplish her desires.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000001|Peace never came to her.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000002|Harassed by rebellion at home, and persecuted by her relentless and perfidious uncles, Count john of Bavaria, rightly called "the Pitiless," and Duke Philip of Burgundy, falsely called "the Good," she, who had once been Crown Princess of France and Lady of Holland, died at the early age of thirty six, stripped of all her titles and estates.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000003|It is, however, pleasant to think that she was happy in the love of her husband, the baron of the forests of the Duke of Burgundy, a plain Dutch gentleman, Francis von Borselen, the lad who, years before, had furnished the gray gabardine that had shielded Count William's daughter from her father's lions.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000084_000000|The story of Jacqueline of Holland is one of the most romantic that has come down to us from those romantic days of the knights.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000084_000001|Happy only in her earliest and latest years, she is, nevertheless, a bright and attractive figure against the dark background of feudal tyranny and crime.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000084_000002|The story of her womanhood should indeed be told, if we would study her life as a whole; but for us, who can in this paper deal only with her romantic girlhood, her young life is to be taken as a type of the stirring and extravagant days of chivalry.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000085_000000|And we cannot but think with sadness upon the power for good that she might have been in her land of fogs and floods if, instead of being made the tool of party hate and the ambitions of men, her frank and fearless girl nature had been trained to gentle ways and charitable deeds.
train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000086_000000|To be "the most picturesque figure in the history of Holland," as she has been called, is distinction indeed; but higher still must surely be that gentleness of character and nobility of soul that, in these days of ours, may be acquired by every girl and boy who reads this romantic story of the Countess Jacqueline, the fair young Lady of Holland.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000003_000004|The beginning of which epistle is as follows:
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000006_000000|About this time, Mellitus, bishop of London, went to Rome, to confer with the Apostolic Pope Boniface about the necessary affairs of the English Church.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000006_000002|This pope was Boniface, the fourth after the blessed Gregory, bishop of the city of Rome.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000007_000000|Chap.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000009_000002|Among which, he set down first what satisfaction should be given by any one who should steal anything belonging to the Church, the bishop, or the other clergy, for he was resolved to give protection to those whom he had received along with their doctrine.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000001|Nor did the unbelieving king escape without the scourge of Divine severity in chastisement and correction; for he was troubled with frequent fits of madness, and possessed by an unclean spirit.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000002|The storm of this disturbance was increased by the death of Sabert, king of the East Saxons, who departing to the heavenly kingdom, left three sons, still pagans, to inherit his temporal crown.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000003|They immediately began openly to give themselves up to idolatry, which, during their father's lifetime, they had seemed somewhat to abandon, and they granted free licence to their subjects to serve idols.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000006|Mellitus and Justus accordingly went away first, and withdrew into the parts of Gaul, intending there to await the event.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000009|Nevertheless, the people, having been once turned to wickedness, though the authors of it were destroyed, would not be corrected, nor return to the unity of faith and charity which is in Christ.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000014_000002|But he and his nation, after his conversion to the Lord, sought to obey the commandments of God.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000015_000001|seven.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000015_000002|How Bishop Mellitus by prayer quenched a fire in his city.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000015_000003|[six nineteen a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000017_000002|The bishop, being carried thither by his servants, weak as he was, set about averting by prayer the danger which the strong hands of active men had not been able to overcome with all their exertions.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000017_000003|Immediately the wind, which blowing from the south had spread the conflagration throughout the city, veered to the north, and thus prevented the destruction of those places that had been exposed to its full violence, then it ceased entirely and there was a calm, while the flames likewise sank and were extinguished.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000019_000001|eight.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000019_000002|How Pope Boniface sent the Pall and a letter to Justus, successor to Mellitus. [six twenty four a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000020_000000|Justus, bishop of the church of Rochester, immediately succeeded Mellitus in the archbishopric.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000023_000000|"God preserve you in safety, most dear brother!"
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000029_000001|The king, in the presence of Bishop Paulinus, gave thanks to his gods for the birth of his daughter; and the bishop, on his part, began to give thanks to Christ, and to tell the king, that by his prayers to Him he had obtained that the queen should bring forth the child in safety, and without grievous pain.
train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000029_000002|The king, delighted with his words, promised, that if God would grant him life and victory over the king by whom the murderer who had wounded him had been sent, he would renounce his idols, and serve Christ; and as a pledge that he would perform his promise, he delivered up that same daughter to Bishop Paulinus, to be consecrated to Christ.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000000_000001|How King Edwin and his nation became Christians; and where Paulinus baptized them.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000000_000002|[six twenty seven a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000001_000002|In that city also he bestowed upon his instructor and bishop, Paulinus, his episcopal see.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000001_000005|Paulinus, for the space of six years from this time, that is, till the end of the king's reign, with his consent and favour, preached the Word of God in that country, and as many as were foreordained to eternal life believed and were baptized.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000006_000002|Nor were his good wishes in vain; for the pious labourer in the spiritual field reaped therein a great harvest of believers, delivering all that province (according to the inner signification of his name) from long iniquity and unhappiness, and bringing it to the faith and works of righteousness, and the gifts of everlasting happiness.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000008_000001|He likewise built, in that city, a stone church of beautiful workmanship; the roof of which has either fallen through long neglect, or been thrown down by enemies, but the walls are still to be seen standing, and every year miraculous cures are wrought in that place, for the benefit of those who have faith to seek them.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000009_000000|It is told that there was then such perfect peace in Britain, wheresoever the dominion of King Edwin extended, that, as is still proverbially said, a woman with her new born babe might walk throughout the island, from sea to sea, without receiving any harm.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000010_000001|How Edwin received letters of exhortation from Pope Honorius, who also sent the pall to Paulinus. [six thirty four a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000011_000000|At that time Honorius, successor to Boniface, was Bishop of the Apostolic see.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000012_000001|For the terms of your kingship you know to be this, that taught by orthodox preaching the knowledge of your King and Creator, you believe and worship God, and as far as man is able, pay Him the sincere devotion of your mind.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000012_000003|Employing yourself, therefore, in reading frequently the works of my lord Gregory, your Evangelist, of apostolic memory, keep before your eyes that love of his doctrine, which he zealously bestowed for the sake of your souls; that his prayers may exalt your kingdom and people, and present you faultless before Almighty God.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000012_000006|May God's grace preserve your Highness in safety!"
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000013_000001|How Honorius, who succeeded Justus in the bishopric of Canterbury, received the pall and letters from Pope Honorius. [six thirty four a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000014_000002|Which letter we have also thought fit to insert in this our history:
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000016_000002|God preserve you in safety, most dear brother!
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000017_000002|[six forty a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000018_000002|The beginning of the epistle was as follows:
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000022_000000|"And we have also learnt that the poison of the Pelagian heresy again springs up among you; we, therefore, exhort you, that you put away from your thoughts all such venomous and superstitious wickedness.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000022_000001|For you cannot be ignorant how that execrable heresy has been condemned; for it has not only been abolished these two hundred years, but it is also daily condemned by us and buried under our perpetual ban; and we exhort you not to rake up the ashes of those whose weapons have been burnt.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000023_000001|How Edwin being slain, Paulinus returned into Kent, and had the bishopric of Rochester conferred upon him.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000023_000002|[six thirty three a d]
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000024_000005|Nor did he pay any respect to the Christian religion which had sprung up among them; it being to this day the custom of the Britons to despise the faith and religion of the English, and to have no part with them in anything any more than with pagans.
train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000024_000006|King Edwin's head was brought to York, and afterwards taken into the church of the blessed peter the Apostle, which he had begun, but which his successor Oswald finished, as has been said before.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000001_000001|I mean erysipelas of new born infants, which commences at the genital organs, thence spreads over the skin, and terminates in the induration and destruction of this organ.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000001_000003|Hence I content myself with offering this suggestion for further practical trials.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000002_000000|The American Provings likewise show that Apis may be of great use in scarlatina.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000003_000008|twelve thirty six: scarlatina does not come out, in the place of which the throat becomes ulcerated. twelve thirty seven: retrocession of scarlatina, violent fever, excessive heat, congestion of the head, reddened eyes, violent delirium.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000004_000002|Thanks to the curative powers of Apis, scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000004_000003|The dangers to which children were usually exposed in scarlatina, have dwindled down to one, which fortunately is a comparatively rare phenomenon.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000004_000005|In all other cases, unless some strange mishap should interfere, the physician, who is familiar with Apis, need not fear any untoward results in his treatment of scarlatina.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000005_000000|In all lighter cases, where the disease sets in less tumultuously, and runs a mild course, it is proper, as soon as the disease has fairly broken out, to give a globule of Apis thirty, and to watch the effects of this dose without interference.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000006_000002|The sequelae especially are rendered less dangerous by this means.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000007_000001|To this end we dissolve a globule of Apis thirty, in seven dessert spoonfuls of water, by shaking the solution vigorously in a corked vial, and giving a dessert spoonful every three, six, or twelve hours as the case may require.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000004|If this change takes place, it is proper to exhibit Apis in a more dynamic form, in order to assimilate it more harmoniously to the newly awakened reactive power of the organism.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000006|If no improvement sets in after Apis has been used for three days, we may rest assured that a psoric miasm is in the way of a cure, which requires to be combated with some anti psoric remedy.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000008|In this way I succeeded in developing the curative powers of Apis, so that in a few days a gradual improvement, however slight, became perceptible to the careful observer.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000009|As soon as the improvement is well marked, all repetition of the medicine should cease, and the natural reaction of the organism should be permitted to complete the cure.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000011|An invaluable blessing of Nature!
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000009_000001|This treatment likewise keeps off dropsy and its dangers.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000010_000001|These are the only exceptions to the curative power of this drug.
train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000010_000002|Here we are told by our law of cure, that the sphere of Lachesis commences.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000003_000001|In
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000005_000000|likewise, Apis will prove a curative agent.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000009_000001|After Apis, the cough speedily begins to become looser and milder, to loose its dubious character, and to gradually disappear without leaving a trace behind.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000011_000001|If, after using the Aconite, the eruption breaks out and the fever abates, no further medication is necessary.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000012_000003|In
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000014_000000|Apis will likewise afford speedy and certain help.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000000|These developments lead us to suspect that urticaria and pemphigus are identical in essence; this fact is richly substantiated by the hom[oe]opathic law which furnishes identical means of cure for either of these affections.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000003|In the former case the medicine should be permitted to act still further; in the latter case, another dose of Apis thirty should be given, after which the result has to be carefully watched.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000006|The best anti psoric under these circumstances, is Sulphur thirty, one pellet, provided this drug has not yet been abused; or Causticum thirty, one pellet, if such an abuse has taken place.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000007|Syphilis may likewise complicate the disease, in which case Mercurius thirty, one pellet, may be given; or, if Mercury had been previously taken in excessive doses, Mercurius six thousand, one globule.
train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000018_000000|After one or the other of these remedies, the symptoms should be carefully observed without doing anything else, with a view of instituting whatever treatment may afterwards be necessary, we wind up the treatment with another dose of Apis thirty, one pellet, after which, the organic power is permitted to complete the cure.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000002_000000|are likewise cured by Apis in the speediest and easiest manner.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000004_000000|Apis has been a popular remedy for boils from time immemorial; the people have been in the habit of covering boils with honey, more particularly honey in which a bee had perished.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000005_000000|Apis, hom[oe]opathically prepared, is better adapted to such an end than honey.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000007_000001|No other remedial means are required, much less a surgical operation.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000010_000001|In
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000013_000003|Sulphur seems to attack the evil at its very foundation, and we feel perfectly satisfied with its action, except that we would like to hasten the course of the disease still more, in order to abbreviate the tortures inherent in this malady.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000013_000004|This result is most certainly accomplished by means of Apis.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000014_000005|In all such cases Apis is of the best use to us; it is even sufficient to arrest the disorganizing process, and to bring about a satisfactorily progressing cure.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000015_000000|The curative indications contained in the "American Provings," have been confirmed by my own experience.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000016_000000|From all this we deduce the highly important practical rule: In a case of whitlow, first ascertain whether and how far Sulphur has been abused by the patient.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000016_000001|Unfortunately the non abuse of Sulphur is an exception to the rule, whereas the abuse of Sulphur is quite common even in our age.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000016_000002|Would that in this respect the ancient darkness might yield to the new light.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000000|In case Sulphur had been abused by the patient, we mix a few drops of Apis three in twelve tablespoonfuls of water, giving a tablespoonful every hour, or every two or three hours, according as the pains are more or less violent.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000002|In either case the medicine need not be repeated, and the organic reaction will be sufficient to complete a cure without the interference of surgery.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000003|A simple bread and milk poultice may be used as soothing palliative, especially if the external skin is of a firm, hard texture. Resolution may be depended upon in every case, where Apis has been resorted to in time.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000005|If the Sulphur miasm gains the ascendancy, there will be no marked improvement during the first days of the treatment.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000006|In such a case we have at once to resort to a very high potency of Sulphur.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000007|A single globule of Sulphur six thousand would frequently ameliorate the worst aspect of the case as by a miracle, after which a few more doses of Apis three, a drop morning and evening, would so improve the symptoms, as to render all further medication unnecessary.
train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000019_000000|These explanations likewise point out the true course to be pursued, in case we should at the outset find that a whitlow owes its existence to the psoric miasm.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000001_000000|DYSENTERY.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000002_000002|Who has not often felt embarrassed to select the right remedy among three or four that seemed indicated by the symptoms, and where it was nevertheless important, in view of the threatening danger, to select at once the right remedy?
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000002_000003|Who has not been struck by the strange irregularity that in a disease which generally sets in as an epidemic, different remedies are often indicated by different groups of symptoms?
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000005_000001|This truth is abundantly confirmed by experience.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000005_000002|All my previously obtained results in practice, testify to the correctness of this statement.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000006_000000|At the very commencement of the disease, a globule of Apis three is sufficient to cut short the disease so that the patient feels easy, and sleeps quietly.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000007_000001|Under these circumstances we repeat the medicine every hour, or every two or three hours, one globule at a time, until all further medication has become unnecessary.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000008_000003|As far as my personal observations go, I am disposed to affirm that the best mode of effecting a good result, is to give Apis three and Aconite three, in alternation, one drop of each preparation well shaken in a bottle containing twelve tablespoonfuls of water, and giving a tablespoonful every hour or three hours, if the danger is great, and in milder cases a full drop alternately morning and evening.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000000|This end is not always attained with equal certainty and rapidity, if Apis is not given in alternation with Aconite.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000001|In such a case, Apis alone often develops a powerful reaction, which is avoided by the alternate use of Aconite.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000003|In most cases I have seen a few alternate doses give rise to a pleasant perspiration, speedily followed by quiet sleep and recovery on waking.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000004|May we not expect the same result at the commencement of Asiatic cholera, and thus arrest the further development of the disease?
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000000|Scarcely has the little being seen the light of the world, when the process of purgation begins.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000002|It is his habit, in after life, to combat every little costiveness, every digestive derangement, every incipient disease, by means of his cathartic mixture, and his skill is considered proportionate to the quantity of stuff which the bowels expel under the operation of his drugs.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000003|Laxative pills, rhubarb, glauber salts, bitter waters, aloes, gin, etc, etc, are in every body's hands, and become an increasing necessity for millions.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000006|Those who cannot afford to go to the springs, use artificial mineral water in order to accomplish similar purposes.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000008|It is still a profitable business to sell patent purgatives, such as cider in which a little magnesia has been dissolved.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000013_000000|In spite of all this, long habit has secured to these pernicious customs a sort of prescriptive right.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000013_000001|The distress consequent upon them, increases in proportion as the reactive powers of the organism decrease, which is more particularly the case in the present generation.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000013_000003|Indeed, the old proverb is again verified: "Where need is greatest, there help is nearest."
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000014_000000|The world is not only indebted to Hahnemann for a knowledge, but also for a natural corrective of this serious abuse.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000014_000002|Few men, if their attention has once been directed to this abuse, will feel disposed to deny its extent.
train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000014_000004|It should be considered a duty by every physician, to be acquainted with the new means of cure. The continued use of purgatives should be considered a crime against health.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000002_000000|CORNY'S CATAMOUNT
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000003_000001|The other lad appeared to be absorbed in shaping an arrow from the slender stick in his hand, but he watched his neighbor with a grin, saying a few words occasionally which seemed to add to his irritation, though they were in a sympathizing tone.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000005_000000|"But I won't give up, and I never say 'Beat.' I'm not going to be laughed out of it, and I'll do what I said I would, if it takes all summer, Chris Warner."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000006_000000|"You'll have to be pretty spry, then, for there's only two more days to August," replied the whittler, shutting one eye to look along his arrow and see if it was true.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000007_000000|"I intend to be spry, and if you won't go and blab, I'll tell you a plan I made last night."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000009_000000|"They all failed, so there was nothing to tell.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000010_000000|"Don't seem to feel anxious a mite.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000010_000001|But I'll stand ready to pick up the pieces, if you come to grief."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000011_000000|"Now, Chris, it's mean of you to keep on making fun when I'm in dead earnest; and this may be the last thing you can do for me."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000012_000000|"Wait till I get out my handkerchief; if you're going to be affectin' I may want it.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000012_000001|Granite's cheap up here; just mention what you'd like on your tombstone and I'll see that it's done, if it takes my last cent."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000013_000000|The big boy in the blue overalls spoke with such a comical drawl that the slender city lad could not help laughing, and with a slap that nearly sent his neighbor off his perch, Corny said good naturedly:
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000000|"Come now, stop joking and lend a hand, and I'll do anything I can for you.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000002|Mother won't let me go off far enough, so of course I don't do it, and then you all jeer at me.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000003|To morrow we are going up the mountain, and I'm set on trying again, for Abner says the big woods are the place to find the 'varmint'.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000004|Now you hold your tongue, and let me slip away when I think we've hit the right spot.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000005|I'm not a bit afraid, and while the rest go poking to the top, I'll plunge into the woods and see what I can do."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000015_000000|"All right.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000015_000001|Better take old Buff; he'll bring you home when you get lost, and keep puss from clawing you.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000015_000002|You won't like that part of the fun as much as you expect to, maybe," said Chris, with a sly twinkle of the eye, as he glanced at Corny and then away to the vast forest that stretched far up the mighty mountain's side.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000016_000001|I shall take some lunch and plenty of shot, and have a glorious time, even if I don't meet that confounded beast.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000016_000002|I will keep dashing in and out of the woods as we go; then no one will miss me for a while, and when they do you just say, 'Oh, he's all right; he'll be along directly,' and go ahead, and let me alone."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000017_000000|Corny spoke so confidently, and looked so pleased with his plan, that honest Chris could not bear to tell him how much danger he would run in that pathless forest, where older hunters than he had been lost.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000000|"No fear of that; I've tramped round all summer, and know my way like an Indian.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000001|Keep the girls quiet, and let me have a good lark.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000002|I'll turn up all right by sundown; so don't worry.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000003|Not a word to mother, mind, or she won't let me go.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000004|I'll make things straight with her after the fun is over."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000020_000000|"That ain't just square; but it's not my funeral, so I won't meddle. Hope you'll have first rate sport, and bag a brace of cats.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000020_000001|One thing you mind, don't get too nigh before you fire; and keep out of sight of the critters as much as you can."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000021_000001|If he had seen Chris dart behind the barn, and there roll upon the grass in convulsions of laughter, he would have been both surprised and hurt.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000022_000000|No deacon could have been more sober, however, than Chris when they met next morning, while the party of summer boarders at the old farm house were in a pleasant bustle of preparation for the long expected day on the mountain.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000022_000001|Three merry girls, a pair of small boys, two amiable mammas, Chris and Corny, made up the party, with Abner to drive the big wagon drawn by Milk and Molasses, the yellow span.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000023_000000|"All aboard!" shouted our young Nimrod, in a hurry to be off, as the lunch basket was handed up, and the small boys packed in the most uncomfortable corners, regardless of their arms and legs.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000024_000000|Away they rattled with a parting cheer, and peace fell upon the farm house for a few hours, to the great contentment of the good people left behind.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000024_000001|Corny's mother was one of them, and her last words were,--"A pleasant day, dear.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000024_000002|I wish you'd leave that gun at home; I'm so afraid you'll get hurt with it.'
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000025_000000|"No fun without it.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000025_000001|Don't worry, mammy; I'm old enough to take care of myself."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000027_000000|"We are going to walk up, and leave the horses to rest; so I can choose my time.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000027_000001|See, I've got a bottle of cold tea in this pocket, and a lot of grub in the other.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000027_000002|No danger of my starving, is there?" whispered Corny, as he leaned over to Chris, who sat, apparently, on nothing, with his long legs dangling into space.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000028_000001|Hunting is mighty hard work on a hot day, and this is going to be a blazer," answered Chris, pulling his big straw hat lower over his eyes.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000030_000001|The ladies went more slowly, enjoying the grand beauty of the scene, while Chris carried the lunch basket, and Corny lingered in the rear, waiting for a good chance to "plunge."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000032_000000|"The very next path I see, I'll dive in and run; Chris can't leave the rest to follow, and if I once get a good start, they won't catch me in a hurry," thought the boy, longing to be free and alone in the wild woods that tempted him on either hand.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000035_000000|"Certainly ma'am," answered Corny, obeying at once, and inwardly resolving to deposit his fair burden on the first fallen log they came to, and make his escape.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000036_000000|But mrs Barker got on bravely, with the support of his strong arm, and chatted away so delightfully that Corny would really have enjoyed the walk, if his soul had not been yearning for catamounts.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000036_000001|He did his best, but when they passed opening after opening into the green recesses of the wood, and the granite boulders grew more and more plentiful, his patience gave out, and he began to plan what he could say to excuse himself.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000000|"The hardest part is coming now, and we'd better rest a moment.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000001|Here's a nice rock, and the last spring we are likely to see till we get to the top.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000002|Come on, Chris, and give us the dipper.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000003|mrs Barker wants a drink, and so do I," called the young hunter, driven to despair at last.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000041_000000|"I'll rest a bit, and then go along down, keeping a look out for puss by the way," thought Corny, feeling safe and free, and very happy, for he had his own way, at last, and a whole day to lead the life he loved.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000042_000000|So he bathed his hot face, took a cool drink, and lay on the moss, staring up into the green gloom of the pines, blissfully dreaming of the joys of a hunter's life,--till a peculiar cry startled him to his feet, and sent him creeping warily toward the sound.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000042_000002|Abner said they purred and snarled and gave a mewing sort of cry; but which it was now he could not tell, having unfortunately been half asleep.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000043_000000|On he went, looking up into the trees for a furry bunch, behind every log, and in every rocky hole, longing and hoping to discover his heart's desire.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000043_000001|But a hawk was all he saw above, an ugly snake was the only living thing he found among the logs, and a fat woodchuck's hind legs vanished down the most attractive hole.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000043_000002|He shot at all three and missed them, so pushed on, pretending that he did not care for such small game.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000044_000001|He sunk up to his knees, and with great difficulty got out by clinging to the tussocks that grew near.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000044_000002|In his struggles the lunch was lost, for the bottle broke and the pocket where the sandwiches were stored was full of mud.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000045_000000|"Here's a mess!" thought poor Corny, surveying himself with great disgust and feeling very helpless, as well as tired, hungry, and mad. "Luckily, my powder is dry and my gun safe; so my fun isn't spoiled, though I do look like a wallowing pig.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000046_000000|So he washed as well as he could, hoping the sun would dry him, picked out a few bits of bread unspoiled by the general wreck, and trudged on with less ardor, though by no means discouraged yet.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000047_000000|"I'm too high for any game but birds, and those I don't want.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000047_000001|I'll go slap down, and come out in the valley.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000047_000002|Abner said any brook would show the way, and this rascal that led me into a scrape shall lead me out," he said, as he followed the little stream that went tumbling over the stones, that increased as the ground sloped toward the deep ravine, where a waterfall shone like silver in the sun
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000048_000001|My hands smart like fury, and I guess the mosquitoes have about eaten my face up.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000048_000002|Never saw such clouds of stingers before," said Corny, looking at his scratched hands, and rubbing his hot face in great discomfort,--for it was the gnat that drove the lion mad, you remember.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000049_000000|It was easy to say, "I'll follow the brook," but not so easy to do it; for the frolicsome stream went headlong over rocks, crept under fallen logs, and now and then hid itself so cleverly that one had to look and listen carefully to recover the trail.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000049_000001|It was long past noon when Corny came out near the waterfall, so tired and hungry that he heartily wished himself back among the party, who had lunched well and were now probably driving gayly homeward to a good supper.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000000|No chance for a bath appeared, so he washed his burning face and took a rest, enjoying the splendid view far over valley and intervale through the gap in the mountain range.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000001|He was desperately tired with these hours of rough travel, and very hungry; but would not own it, and sat considering what to do next, for he saw by the sun that the afternoon was half over.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000002|There was time to go back the way he had come, and by following the path down the hill he could reach the hotel and get supper and a bed, or be driven home.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000003|That was the wise thing to do, but his pride rebelled against returning empty handed after all his plans and boasts of great exploits.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000000|"I won't go home, to be laughed at by Chris and Abner.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000001|I'll shoot something, if I stay all night.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000002|Who cares for hunger and mosquito bites? Not i Hunters can bear more than that, I guess.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000003|The next live thing I see I'll shoot it, and make a fire and have a jolly supper.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000004|Now which way will I go,--up or down?
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000005|A pretty hard prospect, either way."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000000|The sight of an eagle soaring above him seemed to answer his question, and fill him with new strength and ardor.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000001|To shoot the king of birds and take him home in triumph would cover the hunter with glory.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000002|It should be done!
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000003|And away he went, climbing, tumbling, leaping from rock to rock, toward the place where the eagle had alighted.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000004|More cuts and bruises, more vain shots, and all the reward of his eager struggles was a single feather that floated down as the great bird soared serenely away, leaving the boy exhausted and disappointed in a wilderness of granite boulders, with no sign of a path to show the way out.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000053_000001|Here he was, alone, without a guide, in this wild region where there was neither food nor shelter, and night coming on.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000053_000002|Utterly used up, he could not get home now if he had known the way; and suddenly all the tales he had ever heard of men lost in the mountains came into his head.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000000|"The only thing to do now is to get down to the valley, if I can, before dark.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000001|Abner said there was an old cabin, where the hunters used to sleep, somewhere round that way.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000002|I can try for it, and perhaps shoot something on the way.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000003|May break my bones, but I can't sit and starve up here, and I was a fool to come.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000004|I'll keep the feather anyway, to prove that I really saw an eagle; that's better than nothing."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000055_000001|Coming to the ravine, he found the only road was down its precipitous side to the valley, that looked so safe and pleasant now.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000055_000002|Stunted pines grew in the fissures of the rocks, and their strong roots helped the clinging hands and feet as the boy painfully climbed, slipped, and swung along, fearing every minute to come to some impassable barrier in the dangerous path.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000056_000000|But he got on wonderfully well, and was feeling much encouraged, when his foot slipped, the root he held gave way, and down he went, rolling and bumping to his death on the rocks below, he thought, as a crash came, and he knew no more.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000058_000000|He seemed floating in the air, for he swayed to and fro on a soft bed, a pleasant murmur reached his ear, and when he looked down he saw what looked like clouds, misty and white, below him.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000058_000001|He lay a few minutes drowsily musing, for the fall had stunned him; then, as he moved his hand something pricked it, and he felt pine needles in the fingers that closed over them.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000059_000000|"Caught in a tree, by Jupiter!" and all visions of heaven vanished in a breath, as he sat up and stared about him, wide awake now, and conscious of many aching bones.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000060_000000|Yes, there he lay among the branches of one of the sturdy pines, into which he had fallen on his way down the precipice.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000060_000001|Blessed little tree! set there to save a life, and teach a lesson to a wilful young heart that never forgot that hour.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000061_000000|Holding fast, lest a rash motion should set him bounding further down, like a living ball, Corny took an observation as rapidly as possible, for the red light was fading, and the mist rising from the valley.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000061_000001|All he could see was a narrow ledge where the tree stood, and anxious to reach a safer bed for the night, he climbed cautiously down to drop on the rock, so full of gratitude for safety that he could only lie quite still for a little while, thinking of mother, and trying not to cry.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000000|He was much shaken by the fall, his flesh bruised, his clothes torn, and his spirit cowed; for hunger, weariness, pain, and danger, showed him what a very feeble creature he was, after all.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000001|He could do no more till morning, and resigned himself to a night on the mountain side, glad to be there alive, though doubtful what daylight would show him.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000002|Too tired to move, he lay watching the western sky, where the sun set gloriously behind the purple hills.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000003|All below was wrapped in mist, and not a sound reached him but the sigh of the pine, and the murmur of the waterfall.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000000|"This is a first-class scrape.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000002|Gun smashed in that confounded fall, so I can't even fire a shot to call help.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000003|Nothing to eat or drink, and very likely a day or so to spend here till I'm found, if I ever am. Chris said, 'Yell, if you want us.' Much good that would do now!
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000004|I'll try, though." And getting up on his weary legs, Corny shouted till he was hoarse; but echo alone answered him, and after a few efforts he gave it up, trying to accept the situation like a man.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000000|"The fellows we read about always come to grief in a place where they can shoot a bird, catch a fish, or knock over some handy beast for supper," he said, talking to himself for company.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000001|"Even the old chap lost in the bush in Australia had a savage with him who dug a hole in a tree, and pulled out a nice fat worm to eat.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000002|I'm not lucky enough even to find a sassafras bush to chew, or a bird's egg to suck.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000004|Oh, well!
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000005|I'll pull through, I guess, and when it's all over, it will be a jolly good story to tell."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000065_000000|Then, hoping to forget his woes in sleep, he nestled under the low growing branches of the pine, and lay blinking drowsily at the twilight world outside.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000065_000001|A dream came, and he saw the old farm house in sad confusion, caused by his absence,--the women crying, the men sober, all anxious, and all making ready to come and look for him.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000065_000002|So vivid was it that he woke himself by crying out, "Here I am!" and nearly went over the ledge, stretching out his arms to Abner.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000066_000000|The start and the scare made it hard to go to sleep again, and he sat looking at the solemn sky, full of stars that seemed watching over him alone there, like a poor, lost child on the great mountain's stony breast.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000068_000001|But the splash of the waterfall, and the rush of the night wind deadened the sounds to his ear, and drowned his own reply.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000001|I can't make them hear, and must wait till morning.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000002|Poor Chris will get an awful scolding for letting me go.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000003|Don't believe he told a word till he had to.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000004|I'll make it up to him.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000005|Chris is a capital fellow, and I just wish I had him here to make things jolly," thought the lonely lad.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000070_000001|Corny kept awake as long as he could, fearing to dream and fall; but by and by he dropped off, and slept soundly till the chill of dawn waked him.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000072_000001|He was stiff, and full of pain, but daylight and the hope of escape cheered him up, and gave him coolness and courage to see how best he could accomplish his end.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000073_000001|To reach it he must leap, at risk of his bones, or find some means to swing down ten or twelve feet.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000073_000002|Once there, it was pretty certain that by following the rough road he would come into the valley, from whence he could easily find his way home.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000073_000004|This he fastened firmly round the trunk of the pine, and finished his preparations by tying his handkerchief to one of the branches, that it might serve as a guide for him, a signal for others, and a trophy of his grand fall.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000074_000000|Then putting a little sprig of the evergreen tree in his jacket, with a grateful thought of all it had done for him, he swung himself off and landed safely below, not minding a few extra bumps after his late exploits at tumbling.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000075_000000|Feeling like a prisoner set free, he hurried as fast as bare feet and stiff legs would carry him along the bed of the stream, coming at last into the welcome shelter of the woods, which seemed more beautiful than ever, after the bleak region of granite in which he had been all night.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000076_000000|Anxious to report himself alive, and relieve his mother's anxiety, he pressed on till he struck the path, and soon saw, not far away, the old cabin Abner had spoken of.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000076_000001|Just before this happy moment he had heard a shot fired somewhere in the forest, and as he hurried toward the sound he saw an animal dart into the hut, as if for shelter.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000077_000000|Whether it was a rabbit, woodchuck or dog, he had not seen, as a turn in the path prevented a clear view; and hoping it was old Buff looking for him, he ran in, to find himself face to face with a catamount at last.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000078_000000|There she was, the big, fierce cat, crouched in a corner, with fiery eyes, growling and spitting at sight of an enemy, but too badly wounded to fight, as the blood that dripped from her neck, and the tremble of her limbs plainly showed.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000079_000000|"Now's my chance!
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000079_000001|Don't care who shot her, I'll kill her, and have her too, if I pay my last dollar," thought Corny; and catching up a stout bit of timber fallen from the old roof, he struck one quick blow, which finished poor puss, who gave up the ghost with a savage snarl, and a vain effort to pounce on him.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000000|"Wish I didn't look so like a scare crow; but perhaps my rags will add to the effect.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000001|Won't the girls laugh at my swelled face, and scream at the cat.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000002|Poor mammy will mourn over me and coddle me up as if I'd been to the wars.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000003|Hope some house isn't very far off, for I don't believe I can lug this brute much farther, I'm so starved and shaky."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000082_000000|Just as he paused to take breath and shift his burden from one shoulder to the other, a loud shout startled him, and a moment after, several men came bursting through the wood, cheering like lunatics as they approached.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000083_000000|It was Abner, Chris, and some of the neighbors, setting out again on their search, after a night of vain wandering.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000083_000001|Corny could have hugged them all and cried like a girl; but pride kept him steady, though his face showed his joy as he nodded his hatless head with a cool-
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000086_000000|The tale was soon told, and received with the most flattering signs of interest, wonder, sympathy, and admiration.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000088_000000|"That isn't a wild goose, is it?" proudly demanded Corny, pointing to the cat, which now lay on the ground, while he leaned against a tree to hide his weariness; for he felt ready to drop, now all the excitement was over.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000089_000001|Where did you shoot her?" asked Abner, stooping to examine the creature.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000090_000000|"Didn't shoot her; broke my gun when I took that header down the mountain.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000090_000001|I hit her a rap with a club, in the cabin where I found her," answered Corny, heartily wishing he need not share the prize with any one.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000090_000002|But he was honest, and added at once, "Some one else had put a bullet into her; I only finished her off."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000091_000000|"Chris did it; he fired a spell back and see the critter run, but we was too keen after you to stop for any other game.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000091_000001|Guess you've had enough of catamounts for one spell, hey?" and Abner laughed as he looked at poor Corny, who was a more sorry spectacle than he knew,--ragged and rough, hatless and shoeless, his face red and swelled with the poisoning and bites, his eyes heavy with weariness, and in his mouth a bit of wild cherry bark which he chewed ravenously.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000092_000000|"No, I haven't!
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000092_000002|I said I'd kill one, and I did, and want to keep the skin; for I ought to have something to show after all this knocking about and turning somersaults half a mile long," answered Corny stoutly, as he tried to shoulder his load again.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000093_000000|"Here, give me the varmint, and you hang on to Chris, my boy, or we'll have to cart you home.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000093_000002|Right about face, neighbors, and home we go, to the tune of Hail Columby."
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000094_000000|As Abner spoke, the procession set forth.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000095_000000|In this order they reached home, and Corny tumbled into his mother's arms, to be no more seen for some hours.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000095_000002|He made no more boasts of skill and courage that summer, set out on no more wild hunts, and gave up his own wishes so cheerfully that it was evident something had worked a helpful change in wilful Corny.
train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000096_000000|He liked to tell the story of that day and night when his friends were recounting adventures by sea and land; but he never said much about the hours on the ledge, always owned that Chris shot the beast, and usually ended by sagely advising his hearers to let their mothers know, when they went off on a lark of that kind.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000000_000001|Monsieur is Jealous of Guiche.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000000|Monsieur entered the room abruptly, as persons do who mean well and think they confer pleasure, or as those who hope to surprise some secret, the terrible reward of jealous people.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000003|The princess was dancing round him with a responsive smile, and the same air of alluring seductiveness.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000006|The Comte de Guiche had no power to move; Madame remained in the middle of one of the figures and of an attitude, unable to utter a word.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000007|The Chevalier de Lorraine, leaning his back against the doorway, smiled like a man in the very height of the frankest admiration.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000008|The pallor of the prince, and the convulsive twitching of his hands and limbs, were the first symptoms that struck those present.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000009|A dead silence succeeded the merry music of the dance. The Chevalier de Lorraine took advantage of this interval to salute Madame and De Guiche most respectfully, affecting to join them together in his reverences as though they were the master and mistress of the house.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000010|Monsieur then approached them, saying, in a hoarse tone of voice, "I am delighted; I came here expecting to find you ill and low spirited, and I find you abandoning yourself to new amusements; really, it is most fortunate.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000003_000000|"And you are perfectly right," said the prince, coldly.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000003_000002|If you wish to dine without me you have your ladies.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000004_000000|Madame felt the reproach and the lesson, and the color rushed to her face.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000004_000001|"Monsieur," she replied, "I was not aware, when I came to the court of France, that princesses of my rank were to be regarded as the women in Turkey are.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000005_000000|This repartee, which made Montalais and De Guiche smile, rekindled the prince's anger, no inconsiderable portion of which had already evaporated in words.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000008_000000|"Come," replied the prince, as his only answer to the remark, hurrying him away, and turning round with so hasty a movement that he almost ran against Madame.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000009_000000|"Give me your opinion," exclaimed the prince.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000010_000000|"Upon what?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000011_000000|"Upon what is taking place here."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000013_000000|"It is abominable!
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000013_000001|I cannot live in this manner."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000014_000001|"We hoped to enjoy tranquillity after that madman Buckingham had left."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000021_000000|"Yes, yes," exclaimed the prince, exciting himself like a self willed child; "but I will not endure it any longer, I must learn what is really going on."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000022_000000|"Oh, monseigneur, an exposure-"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000023_000001|Wait for me here, chevalier, wait for me here." The prince disappeared in the neighboring apartment and inquired of the gentleman in attendance if the queen mother had returned from chapel.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000024_000000|Anne of Austria felt that her happiness was now complete; peace restored to her family, a nation delighted with the presence of a young monarch who had shown an aptitude for affairs of great importance; the revenues of the state increased; external peace assured; everything seemed to promise a tranquil future.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000024_000001|Her thoughts recurred, now and then, to the poor young nobleman whom she had received as a mother, and had driven away as a hard hearted step mother, and she sighed as she thought of him.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000025_000001|"Dear mother," he exclaimed hurriedly, closing the door, "things cannot go on as they are now."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000026_000000|Anne of Austria raised her beautiful eyes towards him, and with an unmoved suavity of manner, said, "What do you allude to?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000027_000000|"I wish to speak of Madame."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000028_000000|"Your wife?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000029_000000|"Yes, madame."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000030_000000|"I suppose that silly fellow Buckingham has been writing a farewell letter to her."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000031_000000|"Oh! yes, madame; of course, it is a question of Buckingham."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000032_000000|"Of whom else could it be, then? for that poor fellow was, wrongly enough, the object of your jealousy, and I thought-"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000033_000000|"My wife, madame, has already replaced the Duke of Buckingham."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000034_000001|You are speaking very heedlessly."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000035_000000|"No, no Madame has so managed matters, that I am still jealous."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000037_000000|"Is it possible you have not remarked it?
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000038_000000|The queen clapped her hands together, and began to laugh.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000038_000001|"Philip," she said, "your jealousy is not merely a defect, it is a disease."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000039_000000|"Whether a defect or a disease, madame, I am the sufferer from it."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000040_000001|You wish it to be said you are right in being jealous, when there is no ground whatever for your jealousy."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000041_000000|"Of course, you will begin to say for this gentleman what you already said on the behalf of the other."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000042_000000|"Because, Philip," said the queen dryly, "what you did for the other, you are going to do for this one."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000043_000000|The prince bowed, slightly annoyed.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000043_000001|"If I give you facts," he said, "will you believe me?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000044_000000|"If it regarded anything else but jealousy, I would believe you without your bringing facts forward; but as jealousy is the case, I promise nothing."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000045_000000|"It is just the same as if your majesty were to desire me to hold my tongue, and sent me away unheard."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000046_000000|"Far from it; you are my son, I owe you a mother's indulgence."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000047_000000|"Oh, say what you think; you owe me as much indulgence as a madman deserves."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000048_000000|"Do not exaggerate, Philip, and take care how you represent your wife to me as a woman of depraved mind-"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000049_000000|"But facts, mother, facts!"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000051_000000|"This morning at ten o'clock they were playing music in Madame's apartments."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000052_000000|"No harm in that, surely."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000053_000001|I forgot to tell you, that, during the last ten days, he has never left her side."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000055_000000|"Very good," exclaimed the duke, "I expected you to say that.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000055_000001|Pray remember with precision the words you have just uttered.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000055_000002|This morning I took them by surprise, and showed my dissatisfaction in a very marked manner."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000056_000000|"Rely upon it, that is quite sufficient; it was, perhaps, even a little too much.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000056_000001|These young women easily take offense.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000057_000000|"Very good, very good; but wait a minute.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000057_000001|Do not forget what you have just this moment said, that this morning's lesson ought to have been sufficient, and that if they had been doing what was wrong, they would have hidden themselves."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000059_000000|"Well, just now, repenting of my hastiness of the morning, and imagining that Guiche was sulking in his own apartments, I went to pay Madame a visit.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000059_000001|Can you guess what, or whom, I found there?
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000059_000002|Another set of musicians; more dancing, and Guiche himself-he was concealed there."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000060_000000|Anne of Austria frowned.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000060_000001|"It was imprudent," she said.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000061_000000|"Nothing."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000062_000000|"And Guiche?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000063_000000|"As much-oh, no! he muttered some impertinent remark or another."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000064_000000|"Well, what is your opinion, Philip?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000065_000000|"That I have been made a fool of; that Buckingham was only a pretext, and that Guiche is the one who is really to blame in the matter."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000066_000001|"Well," she said, "what else?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000067_000000|"I wish De Guiche to be dismissed from my household, as Buckingham was, and I shall ask the king, unless-"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000068_000000|"Unless what?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000069_000000|"Unless you, my dear mother, who are so clever and so kind, will execute the commission yourself."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000070_000000|"I will not do it, Philip."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000071_000000|"What, madame?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000073_000000|"He has displeased me."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000074_000000|"That is your own affair."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000075_000000|"Very well, I know what I shall do," said the prince, impetuously.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000077_000000|"I will have him drowned in my fish pond the very next time I find him in my apartments again." Having launched this terrible threat, the prince expected his mother would be frightened out of her senses; but the queen was unmoved.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000078_000000|"Do so," she said.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000079_000000|Philip was as weak as a woman, and began to cry out, "Every one betrays me,--no one cares for me; my mother, even, joins my enemies."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000080_000000|"Your mother, Philip, sees further in the matter than you do, and does not care about advising you, since you will not listen to her."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000081_000000|"I will go to the king."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000082_000000|"I was about to propose that to you.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000082_000001|I am now expecting his majesty; it is the hour he usually pays me a visit; explain the matter to him yourself."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000000|She had hardly finished when Philip heard the door of the ante room open with some noise.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000002|At the sound of the king's footsteps, which could be heard upon the carpet, the duke hurriedly made his escape.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000003|Anne of Austria could not resist laughing, and was laughing still when the king entered.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000004|He came very affectionately to inquire after the even now uncertain health of the queen mother, and to announce to her that the preparations for the journey to Fontainebleau were complete.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000005|Seeing her laugh, his uneasiness on her account diminished, and he addressed her in a vivacious tone himself.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000084_000000|"Why, madame?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000085_000000|"Because Spanish women are worth more than English women at least."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000086_000000|"Explain yourself."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000087_000000|"Since your marriage you have not, I believe, had a single reproach to make against the queen."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000088_000000|"Certainly not."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000089_000000|"And you, too, have been married some time.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000089_000001|Your brother, on the contrary, has been married but a fortnight."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000090_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000091_000000|"He is now finding fault with Madame a second time."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000092_000000|"What, Buckingham still?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000093_000000|"No, another."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000095_000000|"Guiche."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000096_000000|"Really?
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000096_000001|Madame is a coquette, then?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000097_000000|"I fear so."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000099_000000|"You don't object to coquettes, it seems?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000100_000000|"In Madame, certainly I do; but Madame is not a coquette at heart."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000101_000000|"That may be, but your brother is excessively angry about it."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000102_000000|"What does he want?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000103_000000|"He wants to drown Guiche."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000104_000000|"That is a violent measure to resort to."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000105_000000|"Do not laugh; he is extremely irritated.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000105_000001|Think of what can be done."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000106_000000|"To save Guiche-certainly."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000107_000000|"Of, if your brother heard you, he would conspire against you as your uncle did against your father."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000108_000000|"No; Philip has too much affection for me for that, and I, on my side, have too great a regard for him; we shall live together on very good terms.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000108_000001|But what is the substance of his request?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000109_000000|"That you will prevent Madame from being a coquette and Guiche from being amiable."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000110_000000|"Is that all?
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000110_000001|My brother has an exalted idea of sovereign power.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000110_000002|To reform a man, not to speak about reforming a woman!"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000112_000000|"With a word to Guiche, who is a clever fellow, I will undertake to convince him."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000113_000000|"But Madame?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000114_000000|"That is more difficult; a word will not be enough.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000114_000001|I will compose a homily and read it to her."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000115_000000|"There is no time to be lost."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000116_000000|"Oh, I will use the utmost diligence.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000116_000001|There is a repetition of the ballet this afternoon."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000117_000000|"You will read her a lecture while you are dancing?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000118_000000|"Yes, madame."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000119_000000|"You promise to convert her?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000120_000000|"I will root out the heresy altogether, either by convincing her, or by extreme measures."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000121_000000|"That is all right, then.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000122_000000|"The king, madame, will take all upon himself.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000122_000001|But let me reflect."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000123_000000|"What about?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000124_000000|"It would be better, perhaps, if I were to go and see Madame in her own apartment."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000125_000000|"Would that not seem a somewhat serious step to take?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000126_000000|"Yes; but seriousness is not unbecoming in preachers, and the music of the ballet would drown half my arguments.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000126_000001|Besides, the object is to prevent any violent measures on my brother's part, so that a little precipitation may be advisable.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000126_000002|Is Madame in her own apartment?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000127_000000|"I believe so."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000128_000000|"What is my statement of grievances to consist of?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000129_000000|"In a few words, of the following: music uninterruptedly; Guiche's assiduity; suspicions of treasonable plots and practices."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000130_000000|"And the proofs?"
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000132_000000|"Very well; I will go at once to see Madame." The king turned to look in the mirrors at his costume, which was very rich, and his face, which was radiant as the morning.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000132_000001|"I suppose my brother is kept a little at a distance," said the king.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000134_000000|"That will do.
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000134_000001|Permit me, madame, to kiss your hands, the most beautiful hands in France."
train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000135_000000|"May you be successful, sire, as the family peacemaker."
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000001_000001|THE WINNING OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000002_000001|At a place that was called "The Ram's Couch" they fastened the Argo.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000002_000002|Then they marched to the field of Ares, where the king and the Colchian people were.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000003_000000|Jason, carrying his shield and spear, went before the king.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000003_000001|From the king's hand he took the gleaming helmet that held the dragon's teeth. This he put into the hands of Theseus, who went with him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000003_000002|Then with the spear and shield in his hands, with his sword girt across his shoulders, and with his mantle stripped off, Jason looked across the field of Ares.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000001|He followed the tracks until he came to the lair of the fire breathing bulls.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000002|Out of that lair, which was underground, smoke and fire belched.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000003|He set his feet firmly upon the ground and he held his shield before him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000004|He awaited the onset of the bulls.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000005|They came clanging up with loud bellowing, breathing out fire.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000006|They lowered their heads, and with mighty, iron tipped horns they came to gore and trample him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000005_000000|Medea's charm had made him strong; Medea's charm had made his shield impregnable.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000005_000001|The rush of the bulls did not overthrow him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000005_000002|His comrades shouted to see him standing firmly there, and in wonder the Colchians gazed upon him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000000|The bulls roared mightily.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000001|Grasping the horns of the bull that was upon his right hand, Jason dragged him until he had brought him beside the yoke of bronze.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000002|Striking the brazen knees of the bull suddenly with his foot he forced him down.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000003|Then he smote the other bull as it rushed upon him, and it too he forced down upon its knees.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000000|Castor and Polydeuces held the yoke to him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000001|Jason bound it upon the necks of the bulls.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000002|He fastened the plow to the yoke.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000003|Then he took his shield and set it upon his back, and grasping the handles of the plow he started to make the furrow.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000008_000001|Beside Jason Theseus went holding the helmet that held the dragon's teeth.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000008_000002|The hard ground was torn up by the plow of adamant, and the clods groaned as they were cast up.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000008_000003|Jason flung the teeth between the open sods, often turning his head in fear that the deadly crop of the Earth born Men were rising behind him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000000|By the time that a third of the day was finished the field of Ares had been plowed and sown.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000001|As yet the furrows were free of the Earth born Men.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000002|Jason went down to the river and filled his helmet full of water and drank deeply.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000003|And his knees that were stiffened with the plowing he bent until they were made supple again.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000000|He saw the field rising into mounds.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000001|It seemed that there were graves all over the field of Ares.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000002|Then he saw spears and shields and helmets rising up out of the earth.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000003|Then armed warriors sprang up, a fierce battle cry upon their lips.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000000|Jason remembered the counsel of Medea.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000002|The Colchians shouted to see such a stone cast by the hands of one man.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000003|Right into the middle of the Earth born Men the stone came.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000004|They leaped upon it like hounds, striking at one another as they came together.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000006|The Earth born Men, as fast as they arose, went down before the weapons in the hands of their brethren.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000012_000001|He slew some that had risen out of the earth only as far as the shoulders; he slew others whose feet were still in the earth; he slew others who were ready to spring upon him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000012_000002|Soon all the Earth born Men were slain, and the furrows ran with their dark blood as channels run with water in springtime.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000013_000000|The Argonauts shouted loudly for Jason's victory.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000013_000002|The Colchians followed him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000013_000003|Day faded, and Jason's contest was ended.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000014_000001|In the assembly place, with his son Apsyrtus beside him, and with the furious Colchians all around him, the king stood: on his breast was the gleaming corselet that Ares had given him, and on his head was that golden helmet with its four plumes that made him look as if he were truly the son of Helios, the sun
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000014_000002|Lightnings flashed from his great eyes; he spoke fiercely to the Colchians, holding in his hand his bronze topped spear.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000015_000000|He would have them attack the strangers and burn the Argo.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000015_000003|So the king spoke, and the Colchians, hating all strangers, shouted around him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000016_000000|Word of what her father had said was brought to Medea.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000016_000002|They would not go, she knew, without the Golden Fleece; then she, Medea, would have to show them how to gain the Fleece.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000017_000001|Forever afterward she would be dependent on the kindness of strangers.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000017_000002|Medea wept when she thought of all this.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000018_000000|The palace doors were all heavily bolted, but Medea did not have to pull back the bolts.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000018_000001|As she chanted her Magic Song the bolts softly drew back, the doors softly opened.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000018_000002|Swiftly she went along the ways that led to the river.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000019_000000|She called to them, and Phrontis, Chalciope's son, heard the cry and knew the voice.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000019_000001|To Jason he spoke, and Jason quickly went to where Medea stood.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000020_000000|She clasped Jason's hand and she drew him with her.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000020_000001|"The Golden Fleece," she said, "the time has come when you must pluck the Golden Fleece off the oak in the grove of Ares." When she said these words all Jason's being became taut like the string of a bow.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000000|It was then the hour when huntsmen cast sleep from their eyes-huntsmen who never sleep away the end of the night, but who are ever ready to be up and away with their hounds before the beams of the sun efface the track and the scent of the quarry.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000001|Along a path that went from the river Medea drew Jason.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000002|They entered a grove.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000003|Then Jason saw something that was like a cloud filled with the light of the rising sun
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000004|It hung from a great oak tree.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000000|His hand let slip Medea's hand and he went to seize the Fleece.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000001|As he did he heard a dreadful hiss.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000002|And then he saw the guardian of the Golden Fleece.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000003|Coiled all around the tree, with outstretched neck and keen and sleepless eyes, was a deadly serpent.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000004|Its hiss ran all through the grove and the birds that were wakening up squawked in terror.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000023_000000|Like rings of smoke that rise one above the other, the coils of the serpent went around the tree-coils covered by hard and gleaming scales.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000000|As she sang, the coils around the tree grew slack.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000001|Like a dark, noiseless wave the serpent sank down on the ground.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000002|But still its jaws were open, and those dreadful jaws threatened Jason.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000003|Medea, with a newly cut spray of juniper dipped in a mystic brew, touched its deadly eyes.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000004|And still she chanted her Magic Song.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000005|The serpent's jaws closed; its eyes became deadened; far through the grove its length was stretched out.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000025_000000|Then Jason took the Golden Fleece.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000025_000001|As he raised his hands to it, its brightness was such as to make a flame on his face.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000025_000002|Medea called to him.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000026_000000|They came to the river and down to the place where the Argo was moored. The heroes who were aboard started up, astonished to see the Fleece that shone as with the lightning of Zeus.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000026_000001|Over Medea Jason cast it, and he lifted her aboard the Argo.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000027_000000|"O friends," he cried, "the quest on which we dared the gulfs of the sea and the wrath of kings is accomplished, thanks to the help of this maiden.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000028_000000|Then he drew his sword and cut the hawsers of the ship, calling upon the heroes to drive the Argo on.
train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000028_000002|Beside the mast Medea stood; the Golden Fleece had fallen at her feet, and her head and face were covered by her silver veil.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000011_000000|by
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000015_000000|PREFACE
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000001|England still stands outside Europe.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000002|Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000004|But Europe is solid with herself.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000006|They flourished together, they have rocked together in a war, which we, in spite of our enormous contributions and sacrifices (like though in a less degree than America), economically stood outside, and they may fall together.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000010|There, at the nerve center of the European system, his British preoccupations must largely fall away and he must be haunted by other and more dreadful specters. Paris was a nightmare, and every one there was morbid.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000029_000000|Observe that all wide sight and self command Deserts these throngs now driven to demonry By the Immanent Unrecking.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000031_000000|Why prompts the Will so senseless shaped a doing?
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000034_000001|Yet there in Paris the problems of Europe were terrible and clamant, and an occasional return to the vast unconcern of London a little disconcerting.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000034_000002|For in London these questions were very far away, and our own lesser problems alone troubling.
train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000034_000003|London believed that Paris was making a great confusion of its business, but remained uninterested.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000001_000001|Being now about three hundred forty miles from the Pole, we hoped to reach it in forty three days, then, turning south, and feeding living dogs with dead, make either Franz Josef Land or Spitzbergen, at which latter place we should very likely come up with a whaler.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000002_000000|Well, during the first days, progress was very slow, the ice being rough and laney, and the dogs behaving most badly, stopping dead at every difficulty, and leaping over the traces.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000002_000003|Clark led on ski, captaining a sledge with four hundred pounds.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000002_000005|But on the third day Clark had an attack of snow blindness, and Mew took his place.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000003_000000|Pretty soon our sufferings commenced, and they were bitter enough.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000003_000002|Our sleeping bags (Clark and Mew slept together in one, I in another) were soaking wet all the night, being thawed by our warmth; and our fingers, under wrappings of senne grass and wolf skin, were always bleeding. Sometimes our frail bamboo cane kayaks, lying across the sledges, would crash perilously against an ice ridge-and they were our one hope of reaching land.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000003_000003|But the dogs were the great difficulty: we lost six mortal hours a day in harnessing and tending them.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000004_000000|Our one secret thought now was food, food-our day long lust for the eating time.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000004_000001|Mew suffered from 'Arctic thirst.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000005_000000|Under these conditions, man becomes in a few days, not a savage only, but a mere beast, hardly a grade above the bear and walrus.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000005_000001|Ah, the ice! A long and sordid nightmare was that, God knows.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000006_000000|On we pressed, crawling our little way across the Vast, upon whose hoar silence, from Eternity until then, Bootes only, and that Great Bear, had watched.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000007_000000|After the eleventh day our rate of march improved: all lanes disappeared, and ridges became much less frequent.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000008_000000|Yet, as it were, his arm reached out and touched me, even there.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000009_000000|His disappearance had been explained by a hundred different guesses on the ship-all plausible enough.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000011_000001|One of Mew's dogs was sick: it was necessary to kill it: he asked me to do it.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000012_000000|'Oh,' said I, 'you kill your own dog, of course.'
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000013_000000|'Well, I don't know,' he replied, catching fire at once, 'you ought to be used to killing, Jeffson.'
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000016_000000|I rushed at once to Clark, who was stooping among the dogs, unharnessing: and savagely pushing his shoulder, I exclaimed:
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000017_000000|'That beast accuses me of murdering David Wilson!'
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000018_000000|'Well?' said Clark.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000019_000000|'I'd split his skull as clean----!'
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000022_000000|'To the devil with you, man, say I, and let me be!' cried he: 'you know your own conscience best, I suppose.'
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000023_000000|Before this insult I stood with grinding teeth, but impotent.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000023_000001|However, from that moment a deeper mood of brooding malice occupied my spirit. Indeed the humour of us all was one of dangerous, even murderous, fierceness.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000024_000001|Like the lower animals, we were stricken now with dumbness, and hardly once in a week spoke a word one to the other, but in selfish brutishness on through a real hell of cold we moved.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000025_000000|As we advanced, the ice every day became smoother; so that, from four miles a day, our rate increased to fifteen, and finally (as the sledges lightened) to twenty.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000000|It was now that we began to encounter a succession of strange looking objects lying scattered over the ice, whose number continually increased as we proceeded.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000001|They had the appearance of rocks, or pieces of iron, incrusted with glass fragments of various colours, and they were of every size.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000002|Their incrustations we soon determined to be diamonds, and other precious stones.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000005|Clark grumbled something about their being meteor stones, whose ferruginous substance had been lured by the magnetic Pole, and kept from frictional burning in their fall by the frigidity of the air: and they quickly ceased to interest our sluggish minds, except in so far as they obstructed our way.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000027_000001|It lasted in its full power only an hour, but during that time snatched two of our sledges long distances, and compelled us to lie face downward.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000028_000000|We knew that the ice was in awful upheaval around us; we heard, as our eyelids sweetly closed, the slow booming of distant guns, and brittle cracklings of artillery.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000028_000001|This may have been a result of the tempest stirring up the ocean beneath the ice.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000028_000002|Whatever it was, we did not care: we slept deep.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000029_000000|We were within ten miles of the Pole.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000031_000000|I suppose it must have been about noon.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000031_000004|Instinctively, brutishly, as the Gadarean swine rushed down a steep place, I, rubbing my daft eyes, arose.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000032_000000|The first thing which my mind opened to perceive was that, while the tempest was less strong, the ice was now in extraordinary agitation.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000032_000003|As I stood, I plunged and staggered, and I found the dogs sprawling, with whimperings, on the heaving floor.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000033_000000|I did not care.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000034_000000|The sun shone with a clear, benign, but heatless shining: a ghostly, remote, yet quite limpid light, which seemed designed for the lighting of other planets and systems, and to strike here by happy chance.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000035_000001|Now, too, I noticed that, but for these stones, all roughness had disappeared, not a trace of the upheaval going on a little further south being here, for the ice lay positively as smooth as a table before me. It is my belief that this stretch of smooth ice has never, never felt one shock, or stir, or throe, and reaches right down to the bottom of the deep.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000036_000000|And now with a wild hilarity I flew.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000037_000000|The odometer measured nine miles from my start.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000038_000001|Forty more steps I took (slide I could not now for the meteorites)--perhaps sixty-perhaps eighty: and now, to my sudden horror, I stood by a circular clean cut lake.
train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000039_000000|One minute only, swaying and nodding there, I stood: and then I dropped down flat in swoon.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000001_000000|The fjord opened finally in a somewhat wider basin, shut in by quite steep, high towering mountains, which reflected themselves in the water to their last cloudy crag: and, at the end of this I saw ships, a quay, and a modest, homely old town.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000003_000000|I ran and stopped the engines, and, without anchoring, got down into an empty boat that lay at the ship's side when she stopped; and I paddled twenty yards toward the little quay.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000006_000000|They were there in the hope, and with the thought, to fly westward by boat.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000010_000000|And I asked myself this question: 'How came these foreign stragglers here in this obscure northern town?'
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000011_000000|And my wild heart answered: 'There has been an impassioned stampede, northward and westward, of all the tribes of Man.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000011_000001|And this that I, Adam Jeffson, here see is but the far tossed spray of that monstrous, infuriate flood.'
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000012_000000|Well, I passed up a street before me, careful, careful where I trod.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000013_000001|What then, my God, shall I do?
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000014_000000|I felt, I felt, that in this townlet, save the water gnats of Norway, was no living thing; that the hum and the savour of Eternity filled, and wrapped, and embalmed it.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000015_000001|Glancing into one open casement near the ground, I saw an aged woman, stout and capped, lie on her face before a very large porcelain stove; but I paced on without stoppage, traversed several streets, and came out, as it became dark, upon a piece of grass land leading downward to a mountain gorge.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000015_000002|It was some distance along this gorge that I found myself sitting the next morning: and how, and in what trance, I passed that whole blank night is obliterated from my consciousness.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000015_000003|When I looked about with the return of light I saw majestic fir grown mountains on either hand, almost meeting overhead at some points, deeply shading the mossy gorge.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000016_000000|About three in the afternoon I was startled to find myself there, and turned back.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000016_000004|In that confined place fantastic qualms beset me; I mounted to the first landing, and tried the door, but it was locked; I mounted to the second: the door was open, and with a chill reluctance I took a step inward where all was pitch darkness, the window stores being drawn.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000016_000005|I hesitated: it was very dark.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000017_000000|Out to sea, then, I went again; and within the next few days I visited Bergen, and put in at Stavanger.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000017_000001|And I saw that Bergen and Stavanger were dead.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000018_000000|It was then, on the nineteenth of august, that I turned my bow toward my native land.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000019_000000|From Stavanger I steered a straight course for the Humber.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000020_000000|I had no sooner left behind me the Norway coast than I began to meet the ships, the ships-ship after ship; and by the time I entered the zone of the ordinary alternation of sunny day and sunless night, I was moving through the midst of an incredible number of craft, a mighty and wide spread fleet.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000024_000000|And so fair was the world about them, too: the brightest suavest autumn weather; all the still air aromatic with that vernal perfume of peach: yet not so utterly still, but if I passed close to the lee of any floating thing, the spicy stirrings of morning or evening wafted me faint puffs of the odour of mortality over ripe for the grave.
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000029_000001|I could therefore have wired from Bergen or Stavanger, supposing the batteries not run down, to somewhere: but I would not: I was so afraid; afraid lest for ever from nowhere should come one answering click, or flash, or stirring....
train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000030_000001|For I was used to the silence of the ice: and I was used to the silence of the sea: but I was afraid of the silence of England.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000001_000000|LINKS WITH THE PAST
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000003_000000|Although the people were then well established in the land and possessed a high degree of civilisation, their history, as we now know it, dates only from the reign of Menes, somewhere over five thousand years before the birth of Christ.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000003_000001|From that date down to the present time we have a continuous record, the whole course of which may be divided into three clearly distinguished periods.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000004_000000|The second period began in five twenty nine b c with the conquest of the country by Cambyses.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000004_000001|In it after nearly two hundred years of Persian rule, interrupted by a brief restoration of the native power, Egypt was for a little more than three and half centuries in the hands of the Greeks, from whom in the thirtieth year of the Christian Era it passed to the Roman Empire.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000004_000003|It was, indeed, during this time that the world famous cities of Alexandria and Cairo were built as well as the magnificent mosques that are the pride of all Islam, but these were all the work, not of the people themselves, but of the foreigners by whom they were held in thraldom, and are therefore monuments not of the country's glory but of its shame.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000005_000000|The third and present period began in seventeen ninety eight when the landing of Bonaparte was the first of the series of events that by the introduction and gradual development of European influence have brought about the now existing social and political condition of the country.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000008_000001|Not a single ruler, patriot, statesman, demagogue, artist or author, in short, no man or woman that lived before the dawn of the modern period, has been instrumental in the making of Egypt or the Egyptians what they now are.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000008_000004|These two events, with four that belong to the modern period, are indeed all that the whole history of the country presents to us as still clearly and prominently exerting an important and permanent influence upon both the character of the people and the existing circumstances and condition of their country.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000008_000005|Of these six events the two that belong to the second period are, the conquest of the land by the Arabs and its subsequent seizure by the Turks.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000009_000000|Each and all of these six events have played important parts in moulding the present day aspect of Egypt and its people, and the more closely do we study the existing conditions, the more strikingly do these six events stand out from all others as the great and dominating landmarks in the history of modern Egypt.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000001|Now and again under some ruler of more humanity or of greater laxity than others their condition may be said to have for the time improved, but such changes were far too slight and their possible duration always far too uncertain for these benefits to be more to the people than as the grateful but passing pleasure a fleeting morning cloud brings to the traveller in a sunburnt desert.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000002|Hence, such as the fellaheen or peasantry were when Cheops was building his pyramid, such they remained in almost all respects down to the arrival of the French.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000003|The history of the country has, therefore, in the first two periods little to say of the people.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000004|In the modern period the two stories touch each other more closely, for in it the people have begun to have a political existence.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000001|To fully describe the importance of this event it would be necessary to enlarge upon the character and tendency of the Mahomedan religion at a length my limits forbid, and I must here therefore content myself with noting that, great as was the moral and mental revolution this conversion occasioned, it was by no means commensurate with that which followed the introduction of Islam into other countries.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000005|The political condition of the people was little, if at all, affected by the change in their religion; and consequently, under the Caliphs and their successors, the Egyptian continued to be as he had been before-a man with no higher ambition than that of passing through life with the least possible trouble.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000006|From year to year his one prayer was for an abundant Nile and a plentiful crop, not that he might thereby enrich himself, but that he might thereby secure a sufficiency for himself and his family and suffer less from the rapacious tyranny and heartless cruelty of those never resting oppressors, his rulers and all who, as officials or favourites, were lifted even a little above his own level.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000007|It was, and is, of the essence of Islam that it appeals to freemen and favours that love of freedom that is the birthright of every man; but Islam brought no freedom to the Egyptians, save, indeed, the spiritual and moral one their rulers could not rob them of.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000008|So such as he had been before, such he remained after the Arab conquest, but with a loftier sense of the dignity of manhood, a nobler conception of life and of its duties, and a stronger faith in a hereafter that should compensate him for all his sufferings and privations in this life.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000000|If socially and otherwise the Egyptians profited but little from the establishment of the Caliphate, they gained still less from the domination of the Turks.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000002|It left them practically under the same rulers, for though the system of government was modified, it placed the executive power, if not in the hands of the same men as before, at least in those of men of the same stamp, who ruled them as their predecessors had done, in the same manner, through the same agents, and with the same cruelty and wanton oppression.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000003|Yet the Turkish, like the Arab, conquest wrought one important effect, the influence of which time has strengthened so that it is only second to that in the urgency of its bearing upon existing conditions.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000004|Under the Arabs the Egyptians had been ruled by foreigners, but by foreigners who were in some degree allied to them.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000005|Under the Turks their sovereign was, and is, not only a foreigner, but one of an utterly alien race, wholly separated from them by language, character, habits, by everything, indeed, save the bond of their common religion.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000007|To Europeans this loyalty, which, it is worthy of mention here, is shared by the Moslems of India, has always appeared somewhat of an enigma.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000008|No one, however, who knows the peoples of the two countries can doubt that, apart from the fact of the Sultan being the official head of their religion, their loyalty to him is largely due to the desire of peoples who have lost the place they once held in the comity of nations to associate themselves with such kindred peoples as have in some extent maintained their ancient status.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000009|The Indian and the Egyptian Mahomedans alike look back to the time when Islam was the one dominant, unopposable power in their native lands, and, conscious of their own fallen condition, would fain relieve the darkness of their destiny by seeking a place, however humble, within the only radiance they can claim to share.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000012|Were, therefore, the hopes of the large section of the Mahomedans which is filled with the desire for the restoration of an Arab Caliphate to be realised it would entirely depend upon circumstances that it is quite impossible to foresee-whether the Egyptians would or would not remain faithful to the Empire.
train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000013|Meanwhile the revival of the Arabic power being a possibility too far removed from probability to take a place in the politics of the day, the loyalty of the Egyptians to the Turkish Empire must be accepted as a controlling feature in the affairs of the country.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000000_000001|But after making all proper allowances, he still appears to have been a weak prince, and unfit for government, less for want of natural parts and capacity, than of solid judgment and a good education.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000001_000000|On comparing the conduct and events of this reign with those of the preceding, we shall find equal reason to admire Edward and to blame Richard; but the circumstance of opposition, surely, will not lie in the strict regard paid by the former to national privileges, and the neglect of them by the latter.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000001_000006|But Richard, because he was detected in consulting and deliberating with the judges on the lawfulness of restoring the constitution, found his barons immediately in arms against him; was deprived of his liberty; saw his favorites, his ministers, his tutor, butchered before his face, or banished and attainted; and was obliged to give way to all this violence.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000005_000001|john Wickliffe, a secular priest, educated at Oxford, began in the latter end of Edward the third. to spread the doctrine of reformation by his discourses, sermons, and writings; and he made many disciples among men of all ranks and stations.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000026_000002|The French cardinals, as soon as they recovered their liberty, fled from Rome, and protesting against the forced election, chose Robert, son of the count of Geneva, who took the name of Clement the seventh., and resided at Avignon.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000026_000004|The court of France adhered to Clement, and was followed by its allies, the king of Castile and the king of Scotland: England of course was thrown into the other party, and declared for Urban.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000026_000006|But this circumstance, though it weakened the papal authority, had not so great an effect as might naturally be imagined.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000030_000000|This preamble contains a true picture of the state of the kingdom.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000030_000003|They wore public badges, by which their confederacy was distinguished.
train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000030_000006|Hence the perpetual turbulence, disorders, factions, and civil wars of those times: hence the small regard paid to a character, or the opinion of the public: hence the large discretionary prerogatives of the crown, and the danger which might have ensued from the too great limitation of them.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000001_000000|SIR MAGNUS MOUNTJOY.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000000|It was the peculiarity of Florence Mountjoy that she did not expect other people to be as good as herself.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000002|She had erected nothing.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000003|Nor did she know that she attempted to live by grand rules.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000005|These may be regarded as feminine virtues, and may be said to be sometimes tarnished, by faults which are equally feminine.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000006|Unselfishness may become want of character; generosity essentially unjust; confidence may be weak, and purity insipid.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000007|Here it was that the strength of Florence Mountjoy asserted itself.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000008|She knew well what was due to herself, though she would not claim it.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000009|She could trust to another, but in silence be quite sure of herself.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000010|Though pure herself, she was rarely shocked by the ways of others.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000000|In figure, form, and face she never demanded immediate homage by the sudden flash of her beauty.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000001|But when her spell had once fallen on a man's spirit it was not often that he could escape from it quickly.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000002|When she spoke a peculiar melody struck the hearer's ears.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000004|Of this she was all unconscious, but was as chary with her fingers as though it seemed that she could ill spare her divinity.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000000|In height she was a little above the common, but it was by the grace of her movements that the world was compelled to observe her figure.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000001|There are women whose grace is so remarkable as to demand the attention of all.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000003|They have studied their graces, and the result is there only too evident.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000004|But Florence seemed to have studied nothing.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000005|The beholder felt that she must have been as graceful when playing with her doll in the nursery.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000006|And it was the same with her beauty.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000008|Had you taken her face and measured it by certain rules, you would have found that her mouth was too large and her nose irregular.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000010|But her eyes were more than ordinarily bright, and when she laughed there seemed to stream from them some heavenly delight. When she did laugh it was as though some spring had been opened from which ran for the time a stream of sweetest intimacy.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000011|For the time you would then fancy that you had been let into the inner life of this girl, and would be proud of yourself that so much should have been granted you.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000014|It was simply Florence Mountjoy's hair, and that made it perfect in the eyes of her male friends generally.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000000|"She's not such a wonderful beauty, after all," once said of her a gentleman to whom it may be presumed that she had not taken the trouble to be peculiarly attractive.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000001|"No," said another,--"no
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000003|I shouldn't like to have the altering of her." It was thus that men generally felt in regard to Florence Mountjoy.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000004|When they came to reckon her up they did not see how any change was to be made for the better.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000000|To Florence, as to most other girls, the question of her future life had been a great trouble.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000002|and whom should she decline to marry?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000003|To a girl, when it is proposed to her suddenly to change everything in life, to go altogether away and place herself under the custody of a new master, to find for herself a new home, new pursuits, new aspirations, and a strange companion, the change must be so complete as almost to frighten her by its awfulness.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000004|And yet it has to be always thought of, and generally done.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000000|But this change had been presented to Florence in a manner more than ordinarily burdensome.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000001|Early in life, when naturally she would not have begun to think seriously of marriage, she had been told rather than asked to give herself to her cousin Mountjoy.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000005|Mountjoy Scarborough had been so represented to her that she had considered it to be almost a duty to yield.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000007|She had been subjected to what might be called cruel pressure.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000008|In season and out of season her mother had represented as a duty this marriage with her cousin.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000009|Why should she not marry her cousin?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000010|It must be understood that these questions had been asked before any of the terrible facts of Captain Scarborough's life had been made known to her.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000011|Because, it may be said, she did not love him.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000012|But in these days she had loved no man, and was inclined to think so little of herself as to make her want of love no necessary bar to the accomplishment of the wish of others.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000015|She did not quite know at first that she loved Harry Annesley, but was almost sure that it was impossible for her to become the wife of Mountjoy Scarborough.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000003|He was a dark, handsome, military looking man, whose chief sin it was in the eyes of his cousin that he seemed to demand from her affection, worship, and obedience.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000004|She did not analyse his character, but she felt it.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000005|And when it came to pass that tidings of his debts at last reached her, she felt that she was glad of an excuse, though she knew that the excuse would not have prevailed with her had she liked him.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000006|Then came his debts, and with the knowledge of them a keener perception of his imperiousness.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000007|She could consent to become the wife of the man who had squandered his property and wasted his estate; but not of one who before his marriage demanded of her that submission which, as she thought, should be given by her freely after her marriage.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000008|Harry Annesley glided into her heart after a manner very different from this.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000011|It was not till he had come to acknowledge the trouble to which Mountjoy had subjected him that he had ever ventured to speak plainly of his own passion, and even then he had not asked for a reply.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000009_000000|Even now, when the captain had been declared not to be his father's heir, and when all the world knew that he had disappeared from the face of the earth, mrs Mountjoy did not altogether give him up.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000009_000001|She partly disbelieved her brother, and partly thought that circumstances could not be so bad as they were described.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000000|To her feminine mind,--to her, living, not in the world of London, but in the very moderate fashion of Cheltenham,--it seemed to be impossible that an entail should be thus blighted in the bud.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000003|Augustus, whom she had regarded always as quite a Mountjoy, because of his talent, and appearance, and habit of command, had whispered to her a word.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000005|She did not like to be untrue to her gallant nephew. But as she came to turn it in her mind there were certain circumstances which recommended the change to her-should the change be necessary. Florence certainly had expressed an unintelligible objection to the elder brother.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000006|Why should the younger not be more successful?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000008|Another charmer had come, most objectionable in her sight, but to him no word of absolute encouragement had, as she thought, been yet spoken.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000009|Augustus had already obtained for himself among his friends the character of an eloquent young lawyer.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000011_000000|"I think, my love," she said to her daughter one day, "that, under the immediate circumstances of the family, we should retire for a while into private life."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000011_000001|This occurred on the very day on which Septimus Jones had been vaguely informed of the iniquitous falsehood of Harry Annesley.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000013_000001|Your poor uncle is dying."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000015_000000|"I fear, nevertheless, that he is dying,--though it may, perhaps, take a long time.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000015_000001|And then poor Mountjoy has disappeared.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000015_000002|I think that we should see no one till the mystery about Mountjoy has been cleared up. And then the story is so very discreditable."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000017_000000|"We cannot help ourselves.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000017_000001|This making his eldest son out to be-oh, something so very different-is too horrible to be thought of.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000017_000002|I am told that nobody knows the truth."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000018_000000|"We at any rate are not implicated in that."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000019_000002|Poor Augustus is thrown into terrible difficulties."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000020_000000|"I am told that he is greatly pleased at finding that Tretton is to belong to him."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000021_000000|"Who tells you that?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000021_000001|You have no right to believe anything about such near relatives from any one.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000021_000002|Whoever told you so has been very wicked." mrs Mountjoy no doubt thought that this wicked communication had been made by Harry Annesley.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000022_000000|"I do not know that the family can have any honor left," said Florence, severely.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000000|"My dear, you have no right to say that.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000001|The Scarboroughs have always held their heads very high in Staffordshire, and more so of late than ever.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000004|We'll go and spend six weeks with your uncle at Brussels.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000005|He has always been pressing us to come."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000024_000000|"Oh, mamma, he does not want us."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000025_000000|"How can you say that?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000025_000001|How do you know?"
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000026_000000|"I am sure Sir Magnus will not care for our coming now.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000026_000001|Besides, how could that be retiring into private life?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000026_000002|Sir Magnus, as ambassador, has his house always full of company."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000000|"My dear, he is not ambassador.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000001|He is minister plenipotentiary.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000002|It is not quite the same thing.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000003|And then he is our nearest relative,--our nearest, at least, since my own brother has made this great separation, of course.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000004|We cannot go to him to be out of the way of himself."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000028_000000|"Why do you want to go anywhere, mamma?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000000|Sir Magnus Mountjoy, the late general's elder brother, had been for the last four or five years the English minister at Brussels.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000001|He had been minister somewhere for a very long time, so that the memory of man hardly ran back beyond it, and was said to have gained for himself very extensive popularity.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000002|It had always been a point with successive governments to see that poor Sir Magnus got something, and Sir Magnus had never been left altogether in the cold.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000003|He was not a man who would have been left out in the cold in silence, and perhaps the feeling that such was the case had been as efficacious on his behalf as his well attested popularity.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000004|At any rate, poor Sir Magnus had always been well placed, and was now working out his last year or two before the blessed achievement of his pursuit should have been reached.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000005|Sir Magnus had a wife of whom it was said at home that she was almost as popular as her husband; but the opinion of the world at Brussels on this subject was a good deal divided.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000006|There were those who declared that Lady Mountjoy was of all women the most overbearing and impertinent.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000007|But they were generally English residents at Brussels, who had come to live there as a place at which education for their children would be cheaper than at home.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000008|Of these Lady Mountjoy had been heard to declare that she saw no reason why, because she was the minister's wife, she should be expected to entertain all the second class world of London.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000011|You could not see her going along the boulevards in her carriage without being aware that a special personage was passing.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000013|Of Sir Magnus it was hinted that he was afraid of his wife; but in truth he desired it to be understood that all the disagreeable things done at the Embassy were done by Lady Mountjoy, and not by him.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000014|He did not refuse leave to the ladies to drop their cards at his hall door.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000015|He could ask a few men to his table without referring the matter to his wife; but every one would understand that the asking of ladies was based on a different footing.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000000|He knew well that as a rule it was not fitting that he should ask a married man without his wife; but there are occasions on which an excuse can be given, and upon the whole the men liked it.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000001|He was a stout, tall, portly old gentleman, sixty years of age, but looking somewhat older, whom it was a difficulty to place on horseback, but who, when there, looked remarkably well.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000002|He rarely rose to a trot during his two hours of exercise, which to the two attache's who were told off for the duty of accompanying him was the hardest part of their allotted work.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000003|But other gentlemen would lay themselves out to meet Sir Magnus and to ride with him, and in this way he achieved that character for popularity which had been a better aid to him in life than all the diplomatic skill which he possessed.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000031_000000|"What do you think?" said he, walking off with mrs Mountjoy's letter into his wife's room.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000032_000000|"I don't think anything, my dear."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000033_000000|"You never do." Lady Mountjoy, who had not yet undergone her painting, looked cross and ill natured.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000033_000001|"At any rate, Sarah and her daughter are proposing to come here."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000034_000000|"Good gracious!
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000034_000001|At once?"
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000035_000000|"Yes, at once.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000035_000001|Of course, I've asked them over and over again, and something was said about this autumn, when we had come back from Pimperingen."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000036_000000|"Why did you not tell me?"
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000037_000000|"Bother!
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000037_000001|I did tell you.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000039_000000|"Anderson will know how to look after himself," said Sir Magnus.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000039_000001|"At any rate they must come.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000039_000002|They have never troubled us before, and we ought to put up with them once."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000040_000000|"But, my dear, what is all this about her brother?"
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000041_000000|"She won't bring her brother with her."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000042_000000|"How can you be sure of that?" said the anxious lady.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000043_000000|"He is dying, and can't be moved."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000000|"But that son of his-Mountjoy.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000001|It's altogether a most distressing story.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000003|What would you do if he were to turn up here?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000004|The girl was engaged to him, you know, and has only thrown him off since his own father declared that he was not legitimate.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000005|There never was such a mess about anything since London first began."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000045_000000|Then Sir Magnus declared that, let Mountjoy Scarborough and his father have misbehaved as they might, mr Scarborough's sister must be received at Brussels.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000045_000002|Sir Magnus had borrowed three thousand pounds from the general which had been settled on the general's widow, and the interest was not always paid with extreme punctuality.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000045_000003|To give mrs Mountjoy her due, it must be said that this had not entered into her consideration when she had written to her brother in law; but it was a burden to Sir Magnus, and had always tended to produce from him a reiteration of those invitations, which mrs Mountjoy had taken as an expression of brotherly love.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000046_000000|"Take her about in the carriage," said Sir Magnus, who was beginning to be a little angry with this interference.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000047_000000|"And the daughter?
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000047_000001|Daughters are twice more troublesome than their mothers."
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000048_000001|And for goodness' sake don't make so much trouble about things which need not be troublesome." Then Sir Magnus left his wife to ring for her chambermaid and go on with her painting, while he himself undertook the unwonted task of writing an affectionate letter to his sister in law.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000049_000000|The letter which Sir Magnus wrote was as follows:
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000050_000000|MY DEAR SARAH,--Lady Mountjoy bids me say that we shall be delighted to receive you and my niece at the British Ministry on the first of October, and hope that you will stay with us till the end of the month.--Believe me, most affectionately yours, MAGNUS MOUNTJOY.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000051_000000|"I have a most kind letter from Sir Magnus," said mrs Mountjoy to her daughter.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000052_000000|"What does he say?"
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000053_000000|"That he will be delighted to receive us on the first of October.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000054_000000|"Do you know her, mamma?" asked Florence.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000055_000000|"I did see her once; but I cannot say that I know her.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000056_000000|"I never saw him but that once," said Florence.
train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000057_000000|And so it was settled that she and her mother were to spend a month at Brussels.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000019_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000001|Michel Voss had gone to his niece immediately upon his return from his walk, intending to obtain a renewed pledge from her that she would be true to her engagement.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000004|He had been in such a tremor of passion that he had been unable to demand an answer.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000005|After that, when George was gone, he kept away from her during the remainder of the morning.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000006|Once or twice he said a few words to his wife, and she counselled him to take no farther outward notice of anything that George had said to him.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000010|'Don't put it into her head that there is to be a doubt,' said Madame Voss.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000022_000001|Let the matter go on.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000022_000002|She will see the things bought for her wedding, and when she remembers that she has allowed them to come into the house without remonstrating, she will be quite unable to object.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000022_000005|'Speak softly to her, my dear,' said Madame Voss.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000023_000000|'Don't I always speak softly?' said he, turning sharply round upon his spouse.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000001|He put his hand upon her shoulder, and smiled, and murmured some word of love.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000003|Craft indeed was not the strong point of his character.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000005|She knew that he was asking her to consent to the sacrifice, and he knew that she was imploring him to spare her.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000006|This was not what Madame Voss had meant by speaking softly.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000007|Could she have been allowed to dilate upon her own convictions, or had she been able adequately to express her own ideas, she would have begged that there might be no sentiment, no romance, no kissing of hands, no looking into each other's faces,--no half murmured tones of love.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000009|But then her husband was, by nature, of a fervid temperament, given to the influence of unexpressed poetic emotions;--and thus subject, in spite of the strength of his will, to much weakness of purpose.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000011|He would kiss Marie's hand, and press Marie's wrist, and hold dialogues by the eye with Marie.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000012|But with his wife his speech was,--not exactly yea, yea, and nay, nay,--but yes, yes, and no, no It was not unnatural therefore that she should specially dislike this weakness of his which came from his emotional temperament.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000013|'I would just let things go, as though there were nothing special at all,' she said again to him, before supper, in a whisper.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000025_000000|'And so I do.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000025_000001|What would you have me say?'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000027_000003|But he was unable to adopt that safe and golden mean, which his wife recommended.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000027_000004|He could not keep himself from interchanging a piteous glance or two with Marie at supper, and put a great deal too much unction into his caress to please Madame Voss, when Marie came to kiss him before she went to bed.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000000|In the mean time Marie was quite aware that it was incumbent on her to determine what she would do.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000002|When she was giving them their breakfast that morning her mind was fully made up.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000006|But when she had learned the truth,--a truth so unexpected,--then such servitude became impossible to her.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000009|Marie had thought of that also, and was aware that she must lose no time in making her purpose known, so that articles which would be unnecessary might not be purchased.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000011|It was with difficulty that she had brought herself to do that,--telling herself, however, that as the linen was there, it must be hemmed; when there had come a question of marking the sheets, she had evaded the task,--not without raising suspicion in the bosom of Madame Voss.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000000|But it was, as she knew, absolutely necessary that her uncle should be informed of her purpose.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000004|Her mind, the reader must remember, was somewhat dark in the matter.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000005|She was betrothed to the man, and she had always heard that a betrothal was half a marriage.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000008|But Marie had been sharp enough to understand perfectly the gist of her aunt's manoeuvres and of the priest's incidental information.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000010|But she did fear that if she simply told him that it must be done, he would have such a power over her that she would not succeed.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000030_000001|Much of the day after George's departure, and much of the night, was spent in the preparation of this letter.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000030_000003|It was a difficult thing for her to begin the letter, and a difficult thing for her to bring it to its end.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000030_000004|But the letter was written and sent.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000001|Then it was necessary that she should show the copy to her uncle.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000002|She had posted the letter between six and seven with her own hands, and had then come trembling back to the inn, fearful that her uncle should discover what she had done before her letter should be beyond his reach.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000006|When that hour was passed, the conveyance of her letter was insured, and then she must show the copy to her uncle.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000008|When pressed to do so by her uncle, she declared that she had eaten lately and was not hungry.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000009|It was seldom that she would sit down to dinner, and this therefore gave rise to no special remark.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000033_000000|'If you will come, I will show you.'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000034_000000|'Show me!
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000034_000001|What will you show me?'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000035_000003|It went this morning, and you must see it.'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000036_000000|'A letter to Urmand,' he said, as he took the paper suspiciously into his hands.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000037_000000|'Yes, Uncle Michel.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000037_000001|I was obliged to write it.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000037_000003|I am afraid you will be angry with me, and-turn me away; but I cannot help it.'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000038_000000|The letter was as follows:
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000041_000001|I have promised to be your wife, but it cannot be.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000042_000001|I did not mean to be bad.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000042_000002|I hope that you will forget me, and try to forgive me.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000042_000003|No one knows better than I do how bad I have been.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000043_000000|'Your most humble servant, 'With the greatest respect, 'MARIE BROMAR.'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000000|The letter had taken her long to write, and it took her uncle long to read, before he came to the end of it.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000002|He is not deceived at all.' 'Trash-you are not fond of another man.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000003|It is all nonsense.' 'You must do what your uncle wishes.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000004|You must, now!
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000005|you must!
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000006|Of course, you will love him.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000007|Why can't you let all that come as it does with others?' 'Letter gone;--yes indeed, and now I must go after it.' 'Trouble!--yes!
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000008|Why could you not tell me before you sent it?
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000010|You have been very good.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000012|Of course he won't.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000013|How should he? Are you not betrothed to him?
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000016|'Of course, it means nothing.'
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000046_000000|'I say it means nothing.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000046_000003|'If I cannot do that, I shall at any rate see him before he gets it.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000000|'But I don't repent it, Uncle Michel; I don't, indeed.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000001|I can't repent it.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000002|How can I repent it when I really mean it?
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000003|I shall never become his wife;--indeed I shall not.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000002|There was an hour during which he could continue to exercise his eloquence upon his niece, and endeavour to induce her to authorise him to contradict her own letter.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000003|He appealed first to her affection, and then to her duty; and after that, having failed in these appeals, he poured forth the full vials of his wrath upon her head.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000004|She was ungrateful, obstinate, false, unwomanly, disobedient, irreligious, sacrilegious, and an idiot.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000006|Though she had deserved all these bad things which he had spoken of her, yet she should be regarded as having deserved none of them, should again be accepted as having in all points done her duty, if she would only, even now, be obedient. But she was not to be shaken.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000007|She had at last formed a resolution, and her uncle's words had no effect towards turning her from it. 'Uncle Michel,' she said at last, speaking with much seriousness of purpose, and a dignity of person that was by no means thrown away upon him, 'if I am what you say, I had better go away from your house.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000008|I know I have been bad.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000010|I will not defend myself.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000011|But nothing on earth shall make me marry him.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000012|You had better let me go away, and get a place as a servant among our friends at Epinal.' But Michel Voss, though he was heaping abuse upon her with the hope that he might thus achieve his purpose, had not the remotest idea of severing the connection which bound him and her together.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000013|He wanted to do her good, not evil.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000014|She was exquisitely dear to him.
train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000015|If she would only let him have his way and provide for her welfare as he saw, in his wisdom, would be best, he would at once take her in his arms again and tell her that she was the apple of his eye.
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000008_000001|If ye have, how can ye disbelieve on the Son of God?
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000013_000001|And many did look and live.
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000014_000001|But there were many who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they perished.
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000017_000001|And behold, it will become a tree, springing up in you unto everlasting life.
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000017_000002|And then may God grant unto you that your burdens may be light, through the joy of his Son.
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000017_000004|Amen.
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000029_000001|Now, if a man murdereth, behold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother?
train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000052_000001|Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000002_000002|Hence English and American merchants, who only see Japan from the business side, continually speak of the Japanese as dishonest, tricky, and altogether unreliable, and greatly prefer to deal with the Chinese, who have much of the business virtue that is characteristic of the English as a nation.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000002_000005|Their trade, conducted in a small way upon small means, is more of the nature of a game, in which one person is the winner and the other the loser, than a fair exchange, in which both parties obtain what they want.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000002_000007|With them, trade is a warfare between buyer and seller, in which every man must take all possible advantage for himself, and it is the lookout of the other party if he is cheated.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000004_000002|With infinite patience, he waits while the merits of each piece are examined and discussed, and if none of his stock proves satisfactory, he is willing to come again with a new set of wares, knowing that in the end purchases will be made sufficient to cover all his trouble.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000001|Like all things else in Japan, shopping takes plenty of time.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000003|The store appears, to the foreign eye, to be simply a roofed and matted platform upon which both clerks and customers sit.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000004|This platform is screened from the street by dark blue cotton curtains or awnings hung from the low projecting eaves of the heavy roof.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000006|When this is given, the work begins; the little boys are summoned, and are soon sent off to the great fire proof warehouse, which stands with heavy doors thrown open, on the other side of the platform, away from the street.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000007|Through the doorway one can see endless piles of costly stuffs stored safely away, and from these piles the boys select the required fabric, loading themselves down with them so that they can barely stagger under the weights that they carry.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000010|During her stay in the store, the foreign customer, making her first visit to the place, is frequently startled by loud shouts from the whole staff of clerks and small boys,--outcries so sudden, so simultaneous, and so stentorian, that she cannot rid herself of the idea that something terrible is happening every time that they occur.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000000|There is less pomp and circumstance about the smaller stores, for all the goods are within easy reach, and the shops for household utensils and chinaware seem to have nearly the whole stock in trade piled up in front, or even in the street itself.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000001|Many such little places are the homes of the people who keep them.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000002|And at the back are rooms, which serve for dwelling rooms, opening upon well kept gardens.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000003|The whole work of the store is often attended to by the proprietor, assisted by his wife and family, and perhaps one or two apprentices.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000004|Each of the workers, in turn, takes an occasional holiday, for there is no day in the Japanese calendar when the shops are all closed; and even New Year's Day, the great festival of the year, finds most of the stores open.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000000|The stranger visiting any of the great Japanese cities is surprised by the lack of large stores and manufactories, and often wonders where the beautiful lacquer work and porcelains are made, and where the gay silks and crepes are woven.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000002|The delicate vases, the bronzes, and the silks are often made in humblest homes, the work of one or two laborers with rudest tools.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000003|There are no great manufactories to be seen, and the bane of so many cities, the polluting factory smoke, never rises over the cities of Japan.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000004|The hard, confining factory life, with its never ceasing roar of machinery, bewildering the minds and intellects of the men who come under its deadening influences, until they become scarcely more than machines themselves, is a thing as yet almost unknown in Japan.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000000|On certain days in the month, in different sections of the city, are held night festivals near temples, and many shopkeepers take the opportunity to erect temporary booths, in which they so arrange their wares as to tempt the passers by as they go to and fro.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000001|Very often there is a magnificent display of young trees, potted plants, and flowers, brought in from the country and ranged on both sides of the street.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000002|Here the gardeners make lively sales, as the displays are often fine in themselves, and show to a special advantage in the flaring torchlight. The eager venders, who do all they can to call the attention of the crowd to their wares, make many good bargains.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000004|You ask the price of a dwarf wistaria growing in a pot.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000005|The man answers at once, "Two dollars." "Two dollars!" you answer in surprise, "it is not worth more than thirty or forty cents." "Seventy five, then," he will respond; and thus the buyer and seller approach nearer in price, until the bargain is struck somewhere near the first price offered.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000001|The darkness is illuminated by torches, whose weird flames flare and smoke in the wind, and shine down upon the little sheds which line both sides of the road, and contain so tempting a display of cheap toys and trinkets that not only the children, but their elders, are attracted by them.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000002|Some of the booths are devoted to dolls; others to toys of various kinds; still others to birds in cages, goldfish in globes, queer chirping insects in wicker baskets, pretty ornaments for the hair, fans, candies, and cakes of all sorts, roasted beans and peanuts, and other things too numerous to mention.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000003|The long line of stalls ends with booths, or tents, in which shows of dancing, jugglery, educated animals, and monstrosities, natural or artificial, may be seen for the moderate admission fee of two sen
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000004|Each of these shows is well advertised by the beating of drums, by the shouting of doorkeepers, by wonderful pictures on the outside to entice the passer by, or even by an occasional brief lifting of the curtains which veil the scene from the crowd without, just long enough to afford a tantalizing glimpse of the wonders within.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000006|The supposed object of the expedition, the visit to the temple, has occupied but a small share of time and attention, and the little hands are filled with the amusing toys and trifles bought, and the little minds with the merry sights seen.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000011_000000|By ten o'clock, when the crowds have dispersed and the purchasers have all gone home and gone to bed, the busy booth keepers take down their stalls, pack up their wares, and disappear, leaving no trace of the night's gayeties to greet the morning sun
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000002|The streets are gayly decorated with flags, and bright lanterns-all alike in design and color-are hung in rows from the low eaves of the houses.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000004|It takes a day or two for the rejoicings to get fully under way, but by the second or third day the fun is at its height, and the streets are thronged with merrymakers.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000008|An evening walk through one of these thoroughfares was a sight to be remembered for a lifetime.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000011|Then slowly the great shell closed, once more the shouting crowds seized hold of the straining ropes, and the great bivalve with its fair freight was drawn slowly along through the gayly illuminated streets.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000012|Jimmu Tenno and other heroes of Japanese legend or history, each upon its lofty platform, a white elephant, and countless other subjects were represented in the festival cars sent forth by all the districts of the city to celebrate the great event.
train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000013_000000|Upon such festival occasions the shopkeeper does not put up his shutters and leave his place of business, but the open shop fronts add much to the gay appearance of the street.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000002_000000|There are, however, occupations in the city for women, by which they may support themselves or their families.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000003_000000|The business of hotel keeping we have referred to in a previous chapter, and it is a well-known fact that unless a hotel keeper has a capable wife, his business will not succeed.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000003_000003|When this time comes, the labor is redistributed, the woman frequently taking upon herself the reception of the guests and the keeping of the accounts, while the hired help waits on the tables.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000004_000001|They are consulted on every important step by believing ones of all classes.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000005_000000|A man and his family were about to move from their residence to another part of the city.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000005_000003|As the family could not wait two years before moving, it was decided that the change of residence should be made at once, but that the son should live with his uncle until the next year.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000005_000004|The uncle's home was, however, inconveniently remote, and so the young man stayed as a visitor at his father's house for the remaining months of the year, after which he became once more a member of the household.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000001|The brother himself, while not a Christian, had little belief in the old superstitions of his people; his wife was a professing Christian.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000003|The old lady was quite sure that there was some witchcraft or art magic at work among her dear ones, and, after consulting the servants (for she knew that she could expect no sympathy in her plans from either her brother or his wife), she betook herself to a fortune teller to discover through his means the causes of the illness in the family.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000004|The fortune teller revealed to her the fact that two occult forces were at work bringing evil upon the house.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000007|The fortune teller hinted, moreover, that for a consideration he might be able to afford material aid in the search for the well.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000000|At this information Go Inkyo Sama was much perturbed, for further aid for her afflicted family seemed to require the use of money, and of that commodity she had very little, being mainly dependent upon her brother for support.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000001|She returned to her home and consulted the servants upon the matter; but though they quite agreed with her that something should be done, they had little capital to invest in the enterprises suggested by the fortune teller.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000002|At last, the old lady went to her brother, but he only laughed at her well meant attempts to help his family, and refused to give her money for such a purpose.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000003|She retired discouraged, but, urged by the servants, she decided to make a last appeal, this time to her sister in law, who must surely be moved by the evil that was threatening herself and her children.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000004|Taking some of the head servants with her, she went to her sister and presented the case.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000005|This was her last resort, and she clung to her forlorn hope longer than many would have done, the servants adding their arguments to her impassioned appeals, only to find out after all that the steadfast sister could not be moved, and that she would not propitiate the horse's spirit, or allow money to be used for such a purpose.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000006|She gave it up then, and sat down to await the fate of her doomed house, doubtless wondering much and sighing often over the foolish skepticism of her near relatives, and wishing that the rationalistic tendencies of the time would take a less dangerous form than the neglecting of the plainest precautions for life and health.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000008_000003|When thoroughly taught, they form a valuable investment, and well repay the labor spent upon them, for a popular geisha commands a good price everywhere, and has her time overcrowded with engagements.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000008_000004|A Japanese entertainment is hardly regarded as complete without geishas in attendance, and their dancing, music, and graceful service at supper form a charming addition to an evening of enjoyment at a tea house.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000009_000000|The Japanese dances are charmingly graceful and modest; the swaying of the body and limbs, the artistic management of the flowing draperies, the variety of themes and costumes of the different dances, all go to make an entertainment by geishas one of the pleasantest of Japanese enjoyments.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000010_000000|The geishas unfortunately, though fair, are frail.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000010_000006|If the wives of the leaders in Japan are to come from among such a class of women, something must be done, and done quickly, for the sake of the future of Japan; either to raise the standards of the men in regard to women, or to change the old system of education for girls.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000010_000007|A liberal education, and more freedom in early life for women, has been suggested, and is now being tried, but the problem of the geisha and her fascination is a deep one in Japan.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000011_000002|The supervision that the government exercises over these places is extremely rigid; the effort is made, by licensing and regulating them, to minimize the evils that must flow from them.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000011_000009|A few may have sacrificed themselves freely but reluctantly for those whom they love, and by their revolting slavery may be earning the means to keep their dear ones from starvation or disgrace.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000012_000001|We have already mentioned incidentally the theatre as one of the favorite diversions of the people; and though it has never been regarded as a very refined amusement, it has done and is doing much for the education of the lower classes in the history and spirit of former times.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000012_000005|This alone, the most ancient and classical of Japanese theatrical performances, is considered worthy of the attention of the Emperor and the nobility, and takes the place with them of the more vulgar and realistic plays which delight common people.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000013_000001|In no case are the roles taken by both sexes upon one stage.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000013_000002|As the performances last all day, from ten or eleven in the forenoon until eight or nine in the evening, going to the theatre means much more than a few hours of entertainment after the day's work is over.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000013_000003|A lunch and dinner, with innumerable light edibles between, go to make up the usual bill of fare for a day at the play, and tea houses in the neighborhood of the theatre provide the necessary meals, a room to take them in, a resting place between the acts, and whatever tea, cakes, and other refreshments may be ordered.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000001|Each gesture, and each modulation of the voice, is studied as carefully as are those of the actors.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000002|Many charming tales are told of old Japan, and even Western stories have found their way to these assemblies.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000003|A long story is often continued from night to night until finished.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000004|Unfortunately, the class of people who patronize these places is low, and the moral tone of some of the stories is pitched accordingly; but the best of the story tellers-those who have talent and reputation-are often invited to come to entertainments given at private houses, to amuse a large company by their eloquence or mimicry.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000015_000001|Solemn and sad subjects are touched upon, as well as merry and bright things, and he never fails to make his audience weep or laugh, according to his theme, and well merits the applause he always receives at the end.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000016_000002|The river is crowded with picnic parties in boats.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000016_000007|Dango Zaka has its own peculiar attraction, the famous chrysanthemum dolls.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000016_000013|A roof of matting shields each group from the sun by day, and a slight sprinkling every night serves to keep the plants fresh for nearly a month, and the flowers continue their blooming during that time, as calmly as if in perfectly natural positions.
train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000017_000000|And so, amid the shopping, the festivals, the amusements of the great cities, the women find their lives varied in many ways.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000003_000001|Fairies and their like belong to every country and every age, and no doubt we should see plenty of them now-if we only knew how.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000000|In a large town in Germany there lived, some couple of hundred years ago, a cobbler and his wife.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000001|They were poor and hard-working.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000002|The man sat all day in a little stall at the street corner and mended any shoes that were brought him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000003|His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in the Market Place, and as she was always neat and clean and her goods were temptingly spread out she had plenty of customers.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000005_000000|The couple had one boy called Jem.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000005_000002|He used to sit by his mother in the market and would carry home what people bought from her, for which they often gave him a pretty flower, or a slice of cake, or even some small coin.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000006_000000|One day Jem and his mother sat as usual in the Market Place with plenty of nice herbs and vegetables spread out on the board, and in some smaller baskets early pears, apples, and apricots.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000006_000001|Jem cried his wares at the top of his voice:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000007_000000|'This way, gentlemen!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000007_000001|See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs! Early apples, ladies; early pears and apricots, and all cheap.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000007_000002|Come, buy, buy!'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000008_000000|As he cried an old woman came across the Market Place.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000009_000000|In this fashion she came along till she got to the stall where Jem and his mother were, and there she stopped.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000010_000000|'Are you Hannah the herb seller?' she asked in a croaky voice as her head shook to and fro.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000011_000000|'Yes, I am,' was the answer.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000011_000001|'Can I serve you?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000012_000001|Let me look at those herbs.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000012_000002|I wonder if you've got what I want,' said the old woman as she thrust a pair of hideous brown hands into the herb basket, and began turning over all the neatly packed herbs with her skinny fingers, often holding them up to her nose and sniffing at them.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000013_000000|The cobbler's wife felt much disgusted at seeing her wares treated like this, but she dared not speak.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000013_000001|When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago-all bad.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000014_000000|This made Jem very angry
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000015_000000|'You are a very rude old woman,' he cried out.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000015_000001|'First you mess all our nice herbs about with your horrid brown fingers and sniff at them with your long nose till no one else will care to buy them, and then you say it's all bad stuff, though the duke's cook himself buys all his herbs from us.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000016_000000|The old woman looked sharply at the saucy boy, laughed unpleasantly, and said:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000017_000000|'So you don't like my long nose, sonny?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000017_000001|Well, you shall have one yourself, right down to your chin.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000018_000000|As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000019_000001|'Your neck is as thin as a cabbage stalk, and it might easily break and your head fall into the basket, and then who would buy anything?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000020_000001|'Then you sha'n't have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000022_000000|'If you wish to buy, please make haste, as you are keeping other customers away.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000023_000000|'Very well, I will do as you ask,' said the old woman, with an angry look.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000023_000001|'I will buy these six cabbages, but, as you see, I can only walk with my stick and can carry nothing.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000023_000002|Let your boy carry them home for me and I'll pay him for his trouble.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000024_000000|The little fellow didn't like this, and began to cry, for he was afraid of the old woman, but his mother ordered him to go, for she thought it wrong not to help such a weakly old creature; so, still crying, he gathered the cabbages into a basket and followed the old woman across the Market Place.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000025_000001|She drew a rusty old hook from her pocket and stuck it into a little hole in the door, which suddenly flew open.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000025_000003|The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble, the furniture of ebony inlaid with gold and precious stones, the floor of such smooth slippery glass that the little fellow tumbled down more than once.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000026_000000|The old woman took out a silver whistle and blew it till the sound rang through the house.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000026_000001|Immediately a lot of guinea pigs came running down the stairs, but Jem thought it rather odd that they all walked on their hind legs, wore nutshells for shoes, and men's clothes, whilst even their hats were put on in the newest fashion.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000027_000000|'Where are my slippers, lazy crew?' cried the old woman, and hit about with her stick.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000028_000002|She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor, drawing little Jem after her.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000028_000003|At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it was so full of pots and pans, but the tables were of mahogany and the sofas and chairs covered with the richest stuffs.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000029_000000|'Sit down,' said the old woman pleasantly, and she pushed Jem into a corner of a sofa and put a table close in front of him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000029_000001|'Sit down, you've had a long walk and a heavy load to carry, and I must give you something for your trouble.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000000|So saying, she whistled again.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000001|First came in guinea pigs in men's clothing.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000002|They had tied on large kitchen aprons, and in their belts were stuck carving knives and sauce ladles and such things.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000004|They too walked on their hind legs, wore full Turkish trousers, and little green velvet caps on their heads.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000005|They seemed to be the scullions, for they clambered up the walls and brought down pots and pans, eggs, flour, butter, and herbs, which they carried to the stove.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000006|Here the old woman was bustling about, and Jem could see that she was cooking something very special for him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000007|At last the broth began to bubble and boil, and she drew off the saucepan and poured its contents into a silver bowl, which she set before Jem.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000031_000000|'There, my boy,' said she, 'eat this soup and then you'll have everything which pleased you so much about me.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000031_000001|And you shall be a clever cook too, but the real herb-no, the REAL herb you'll never find.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000031_000002|Why had your mother not got it in her basket?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000000|The child could not think what she was talking about, but he quite understood the soup, which tasted most delicious.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000001|His mother had often given him nice things, but nothing had ever seemed so good as this.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000002|The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup tasted both sweet and sharp at the same time, and was very strong.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000003|As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000004|They grew thicker and thicker and the scent nearly overpowered the boy.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000005|He reminded himself that he must get back to his mother, but whenever he tried to rouse himself to go he sank back again drowsily, and at last he fell sound asleep in the corner of the sofa.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000033_000000|Strange dreams came to him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000033_000001|He thought the old woman took off all his clothes and wrapped him up in a squirrel skin, and that he went about with the other squirrels and guinea pigs, who were all very pleasant and well mannered, and waited on the old woman.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000034_000000|First he learned to clean her cocoa nut shoes with oil and to rub them up.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000035_000000|In this way he passed from one kind of service to another, spending a year in each, till in the fourth year he was promoted to the kitchen. Here he worked his way up from under scullion to head pastrycook, and reached the greatest perfection.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000035_000001|He could make all the most difficult dishes, and two hundred different kinds of patties, soup flavoured with every sort of herb-he had learnt it all, and learnt it well and quickly.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000000|When he had lived seven years with the old woman she ordered him one day, as she was going out, to kill and pluck a chicken, stuff it with herbs, and have it very nicely roasted by the time she got back.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000001|He did this quite according to rule.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000003|Then he went to fetch the herbs to stuff it with.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000005|He peeped in and saw a lot of baskets from which came a strong and pleasant smell.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000006|He opened one and found a very uncommon herb in it.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000008|But the smell was so sharp that he began to sneeze again and again, and at last-he woke up!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000037_000000|There he lay on the old woman's sofa and stared about him in surprise. 'Well, what odd dreams one does have to be sure!' he said to himself. 'Why, I could have sworn I had been a squirrel, a companion of guinea pigs and such creatures, and had become a great cook, too.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000037_000002|But won't she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange house, instead of helping her at market!'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000038_000000|He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite stiff with his long sleep, especially his neck, for he could not move his head easily, and he laughed at his own stupidity at being still so drowsy that he kept knocking his nose against the wall or cupboards.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000038_000001|The squirrels and guinea pigs ran whimpering after him, as though they would like to go too, and he begged them to come when he reached the door, but they all turned and ran quickly back into the house again.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000039_000000|The part of the town was out of the way, and Jem did not know the many narrow streets in it and was puzzled by their windings and by the crowd of people, who seemed excited about some show.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000040_000000|He was quite puzzled when he reached the market place.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000040_000001|There sat his mother, with a good deal of fruit still in her baskets, so he felt he could not have slept so very long, but it struck him that she was sad, for she did not call to the passers by, but sat with her head resting on her hand, and as he came nearer he thought she looked paler than usual.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000041_000000|He hesitated what to do, but at last he slipped behind her, laid a hand on her arm, and said: 'Mammy, what's the matter?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000041_000001|Are you angry with me?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000042_000000|She turned round quickly and jumped up with a cry of horror.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000043_000000|'What do you want, you hideous dwarf?' she cried; 'get away; I can't bear such tricks.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000044_000001|'You can't be well.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000045_000000|'I have said already, get away,' replied Hannah, quite angrily.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000046_000001|'How can I manage to get her home?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000046_000003|Can't you see I am your own son Jem?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000047_000000|'Well, did you ever hear such impudence?' asked Hannah, turning to a neighbour.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000047_000001|'Just see that frightful dwarf-would you believe that he wants me to think he is my son Jem?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000048_000000|Then all the market women came round and talked all together and scolded as hard as they could, and said what a shame it was to make game of mrs Hannah, who had never got over the loss of her beautiful boy, who had been stolen from her seven years ago, and they threatened to fall upon Jem and scratch him well if he did not go away at once.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000000|Poor Jem did not know what to make of it all.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000002|And they called him a horrid dwarf!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000003|Why, what had happened to him?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000004|When he found that his mother would really have nothing to do with him he turned away with tears in his eyes, and went sadly down the street towards his father's stall.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000050_000001|'I'll stand by the door and talk to him.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000051_000000|When he got to the stall he stood in the doorway and looked in.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000051_000001|The cobbler was so busy at work that he did not see him for some time, but, happening to look up, he caught sight of his visitor, and letting shoes, thread, and everything fall to the ground, he cried with horror: 'Good heavens! what is that?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000052_000001|'How do you do?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000053_000000|'Very ill, little sir, replied the father, to Jem's surprise, for he did not seem to know him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000053_000001|'Business does not go well.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000053_000002|I am all alone, and am getting old, and a workman is costly.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000055_000000|'I had one: he was called Jem, and would have been a tall sturdy lad of twenty by this time, and able to help me well.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000055_000001|Why, when he was only twelve he was quite sharp and quick, and had learnt many little things, and a good looking boy too, and pleasant, so that customers were taken by him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000055_000002|Well, well! so goes the world!'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000056_000000|'But where is your son?' asked Jem, with a trembling voice.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000057_000000|'Heaven only knows!' replied the man; 'seven years ago he was stolen from the market place, and we have heard no more of him.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000058_000000|'SEVEN YEARS AGO!' cried Jem, with horror.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000059_000001|I always thought and said that something of the kind would happen.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000059_000002|Jem was a beautiful boy, and everyone made much of him, and my wife was so proud of him, and liked him to carry the vegetables and things to grand folks' houses, where he was petted and made much of.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000060_000000|'And that was seven years ago, you say?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000061_000000|'Yes, seven years: we had him cried-we went from house to house.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000061_000001|Many knew the pretty boy, and were fond of him, but it was all in vain.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000000|As his father spoke, things grew clearer to Jem's mind, and he saw now that he had not been dreaming, but had really served the old woman seven years in the shape of a squirrel.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000001|As he thought it over rage filled his heart.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000002|Seven years of his youth had been stolen from him, and what had he got in return?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000003|To learn to rub up cocoa nuts, and to polish glass floors, and to be taught cooking by guinea pigs!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000004|He stood there thinking, till at last his father asked him:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000063_000001|Shall I make you a pair of slippers, or perhaps' with a smile-'a case for your nose?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000064_000000|'What have you to do with my nose?' asked Jem. 'And why should I want a case for it?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000065_000001|Here is a nice piece; and think what a protection it would be to you.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000065_000002|As it is, you must be constantly knocking up against things.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000000|The lad was dumb with fright.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000001|He felt his nose.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000002|It was thick, and quite two hands long.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000003|So, then, the old woman had changed his shape, and that was why his own mother did not know him, and called him a horrid dwarf!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000067_000000|'Master,' said he, 'have you got a glass that I could see myself in?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000068_000000|'Young gentleman,' was the answer, 'your appearance is hardly one to be vain of, and there is no need to waste your time looking in a glass. Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better ask Urban the barber, who lives over the way, to lend you his.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000068_000001|Good morning.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000069_000000|So saying, he gently pushed Jem into the street, shut the door, and went back to his work.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000070_000000|Jem stepped across to the barber, whom he had known in old days.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000071_000000|'Good morning, Urban,' said he; 'may I look at myself in your glass for a moment?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000073_000001|Meantime Jem had stepped up to the mirror, and stood gazing sadly at his reflection. Tears came to his eyes.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000074_000000|'No wonder you did not know your child again, dear mother,' thought he; 'he wasn't like this when you were so proud of his looks.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000075_000001|He was no taller than he had been seven years ago, when he was not much more than twelve years old, but he made up in breadth, and his back and chest had grown into lumps like two great sacks.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000075_000002|His legs were small and spindly, but his arms were as large as those of a well grown man, with large brown hands, and long skinny fingers.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000077_000000|He determined to go again to his mother, and found her still in the market place.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000077_000003|At last she decided to go and talk to her husband about it.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000077_000004|She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straight to the cobbler's stall.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000078_000000|'Look here,' said she, 'this creature says he is our lost son.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000078_000001|He has been telling me how he was stolen seven years ago, and bewitched by a fairy.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000079_000000|'Indeed!' interrupted the cobbler angrily.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000079_000002|Wait a minute, you rascal!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000079_000005|Wait a bit, and I'll bewitch you!'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000080_000000|So saying, he caught up a bundle of straps, and hit out at Jem so hard that he ran off crying.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000081_000001|He woke next morning with the first rays of light, and began to think what he could do to earn a living.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000081_000002|Suddenly he remembered that he was an excellent cook, and he determined to look out for a place.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000082_000000|As soon as it was quite daylight he set out for the palace, for he knew that the grand duke who reigned over the country was fond of good things.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000083_000000|When he reached the palace all the servants crowded about him, and made fun of him, and at last their shouts and laughter grew so loud that the head steward rushed out, crying, 'For goodness sake, be quiet, can't you.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000083_000001|Don't you know his highness is still asleep?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000084_000000|Some of the servants ran off at once, and others pointed out Jem.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000085_000000|Indeed, the steward found it hard to keep himself from laughing at the comic sight, but he ordered the servants off and led the dwarf into his own room.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000086_000001|I think you want to be the grand duke's dwarf, don't you?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000087_000000|'No, sir,' replied Jem. 'I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the head cook he may find me of some use.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000088_000000|'Well, as you will; but believe me, you would have an easier place as the grand ducal dwarf.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000089_000000|So saying, the head steward led him to the head cook's room.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000091_000000|The head cook looked him over from head to foot, and burst out laughing.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000092_000000|'You a cook!
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000092_000002|Oh, my dear little fellow, whoever sent you to me wanted to make fun of you.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000094_000000|'What matters an extra egg or two, or a little butter or flour and spice more or less, in such a house as this?' said he.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000095_000000|He said much more, and at last persuaded the head cook to give him a trial.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000096_000000|They went into the kitchen-a huge place with at least twenty fireplaces, always alight.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000096_000001|A little stream of clear water ran through the room, and live fish were kept at one end of it.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000097_000000|When the head cook came in with Jem everyone stood quite still.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000098_000000|'What has his highness ordered for luncheon?' asked the head cook.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000099_000000|'Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000100_000000|'Good,' said the head cook.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000100_000002|Not that you will be able to make the dumplings, for they are a secret receipt.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000101_000000|'Is that all!' said Jem, who had often made both dishes.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000101_000002|Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,' he added in a low voice to the head cook, 'I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck's marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal well.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000102_000000|'Why,' cried the astonished cook, 'where did you learn cooking?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000001|He could not nearly reach up to the kitchen range, but by putting a wide plank on two chairs he managed very well.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000002|All the cooks stood round to look on, and could not help admiring the quick, clever way in which he set to work.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000003|At last, when all was ready, Jem ordered the two dishes to be put on the fire till he gave the word.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000004|Then he began to count: 'One, two, three,' till he got to five hundred when he cried, 'Now!' The saucepans were taken off, and he invited the head cook to taste.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000104_000000|The first cook took a golden spoon, washed and wiped it, and handed it to the head cook, who solemnly approached, tasted the dishes, and smacked his lips over them.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000104_000001|'First rate, indeed!' he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000104_000002|'You certainly are a master of the art, little fellow, and the herb heal well gives a particular relish.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000105_000001|The head cook took Jem to his own room, but had hardly had time to question him before he was ordered to go at once to the grand duke.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000106_000001|He had emptied the dishes, and was wiping his mouth as the head cook came in.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000106_000003|'I must say your dumplings are always very good; but I don't think I ever tasted anything so delicious as they were to day. Who made them?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000107_000001|Of course, Jem could not say he had been turned into a squirrel, but he said he was without parents and had been taught cooking by an old woman.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000108_000000|'If you will stay with me,' said the grand duke, 'you shall have fifty ducats a year, besides a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000109_000000|Jem bowed to the ground, and promised to obey his new master in all things.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000110_000000|He lost no time in setting to work, and everyone rejoiced at having him in the kitchen, for the duke was not a patient man, and had been known to throw plates and dishes at his cooks and servants if the things served were not quite to his taste.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000110_000001|Now all was changed.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000110_000002|He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three, thought everything delicious, and grew fatter daily.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000111_000000|And so Jem lived on for two years, much respected and considered, and only saddened when he thought of his parents.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000111_000001|One day passed much like another till the following incident happened.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000112_000000|Dwarf Long Nose-as he was always called-made a practice of doing his marketing as much as possible himself, and whenever time allowed went to the market to buy his poultry and fruit.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000112_000002|No one thought of laughing at his appearance now; he was known as the duke's special body cook, and every goose woman felt honoured if his nose turned her way.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000113_000001|He went up to her, felt and weighed her geese, and, finding them very good, bought three and the cage to put them in, hoisted them on his broad shoulders, and set off on his way back.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000114_000000|As he went, it struck him that two of the geese were gobbling and screaming as geese do, but the third sat quite still, only heaving a deep sigh now and then, like a human being.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000115_000000|But the goose answered him quite distinctly:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000117_000000|Quite frightened, the dwarf set down the cage, and the goose gazed at him with sad wise looking eyes and sighed again.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000000|'Good gracious!' said Long Nose.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000001|'So you can speak, Mistress Goose.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000003|Well, don't be anxious.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000004|I know better than to hurt so rare a bird.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000005|But I could bet you were not always in this plumage-wasn't I a squirrel myself for a time?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000119_000000|'You are right,' said the goose, 'in supposing I was not born in this horrid shape.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000119_000001|Ah! no one ever thought that Mimi, the daughter of the great Weatherbold, would be killed for the ducal table.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000000|The goose thanked him with tears in her eyes, and the dwarf kept his word.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000001|He killed the other two geese for dinner, but built a little shed for Mimi in one of his rooms, under the pretence of fattening her under his own eye.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000003|They confided their histories to each other, and Jem learnt that the goose was the daughter of the wizard Weatherbold, who lived on the island of Gothland.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000004|He fell out with an old fairy, who got the better of him by cunning and treachery, and to revenge herself turned his daughter into a goose and carried her off to this distant place.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000124_000000|About this time the grand duke had a visit from a neighbouring prince, a friend of his.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000124_000001|He sent for Long Nose and said to him:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000125_000006|I would rather be a poor man than have to blush before him.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000128_000000|From this time the little cook was hardly seen except in the kitchen, where, surrounded by his helpers, he gave orders, baked, stewed, flavoured and dished up all manner of dishes.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000129_000000|The prince had been a fortnight with the grand duke, and enjoyed himself mightily.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000129_000001|They ate five times a day, and the duke had every reason to be content with the dwarf's talents, for he saw how pleased his guest looked.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000129_000002|On the fifteenth day the duke sent for the dwarf and presented him to the prince.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000130_000000|'You are a wonderful cook,' said the prince, 'and you certainly know what is good.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000130_000001|All the time I have been here you have never repeated a dish, and all were excellent.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000130_000002|But tell me why you have never served the queen of all dishes, a Suzeraine Pasty?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000131_000001|But he did not lose his presence of mind, and replied:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000133_000000|'Indeed,' laughed the grand duke; 'then I suppose you would have waited for the day of my death to treat me to it, for you have never sent it up to me yet.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000133_000001|However, you will have to invent some other farewell dish, for the pasty must be on my table to morrow.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000135_000000|But it did not please HIM at all.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000135_000003|As he sat there lost in thought the goose Mimi, who was left free to walk about, came up to him and asked what was the matter?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000135_000004|When she heard she said:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000136_000001|I know the dish quite well: we often had it at home, and I can guess pretty well how it was made.' Then she told him what to put in, adding: 'I think that will be all right, and if some trifle is left out perhaps they won't find it out.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000137_000000|Sure enough, next day a magnificent pasty all wreathed round with flowers was placed on the table.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000137_000002|As he entered the head carver was in the act of cutting up the pie and helping the duke and his guests.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000137_000003|The grand duke took a large mouthful and threw up his eyes as he swallowed it.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000139_000000|The prince took several small pieces, tasted and examined carefully, and then said with a mysterious and sarcastic smile:
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000140_000000|'The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite complete-as I expected.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000141_000000|The grand duke flew into a rage.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000142_000000|'Dog of a cook,' he shouted; 'how dare you serve me so?
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000142_000001|I've a good mind to chop off your great head as a punishment.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000143_000001|I made the pasty according to the best rules; nothing has been left out.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000144_000000|The prince laughed.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000144_000002|Know, then, that a herb is wanting called Relish, which is not known in this country, but which gives the pasty its peculiar flavour, and without which your master will never taste it to perfection.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000146_000001|'Either the pasty must be made properly to morrow or this rascal's head shall come off.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000146_000002|Go, scoundrel, I give you twenty four hours respite.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000147_000000|The poor dwarf hurried back to his room, and poured out his grief to the goose.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000148_000000|'Oh, is that all,' said she, 'then I can help you, for my father taught me to know all plants and herbs.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000148_000001|Luckily this is a new moon just now, for the herb only springs up at such times.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000148_000002|But tell me, are there chestnut trees near the palace?'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000150_000000|'Because the herb only grows near the roots of chestnut trees,' replied Mimi; 'so let us lose no time in finding it.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000151_000000|He did as she bade, and as soon as they were in the garden put her on the ground, when she waddled off as fast as she could towards the lake, Jem hurrying after her with an anxious heart, for he knew that his life depended on her success.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000152_000000|Suddenly the dwarf noticed a big old tree standing alone on the other side of the lake.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000153_000000|The goose fluttered and skipped in front, and he ran after as fast as his little legs could carry him.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000153_000001|The tree cast a wide shadow, and it was almost dark beneath it, but suddenly the goose stood still, flapped her wings with joy, and plucked something, which she held out to her astonished friend, saying: 'There it is, and there is more growing here, so you will have no lack of it.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000154_000002|The stems and leaves were a bluish green, and it bore a dark, bright red flower with a yellow edge.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000156_000000|'Not yet,' said the goose.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000157_000000|So they went back to Jem's rooms, and here he gathered together some fifty ducats he had saved, his clothes and shoes, and tied them all up in a bundle.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000159_000001|'Oh, how big and how beautiful you are!' she cried.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000159_000002|'Thank heaven, you are quite changed.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000161_000000|'I owe you my life and my release,' he said, 'for without you I should never have regained my natural shape, and, indeed, would soon have been beheaded.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000161_000001|I will now take you back to your father, who will certainly know how to disenchant you.'
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000162_000000|The goose accepted his offer with joy, and they managed to slip out of the palace unnoticed by anyone.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000163_000000|They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon released his daughter, and loaded Jem with thanks and valuable presents. He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parents were very ready to recognise the handsome, well made young man as their long lost son.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000164_000000|I must not forget to mention that much disturbance was caused in the palace by Jem's sudden disappearance, for when the grand duke sent orders next day to behead the dwarf, if he had not found the necessary herbs, the dwarf was not to be found.
train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000164_000001|The prince hinted that the duke had allowed his cook to escape, and had therefore broken his word.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000001_000000|Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000001|The Nature of Experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000002|The nature of experience can be understood only by noting that it includes an active and a passive element peculiarly combined.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000003|On the active hand, experience is trying-a meaning which is made explicit in the connected term experiment.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000004|On the passive, it is undergoing.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000005|When we experience something we act upon it, we do something with it; then we suffer or undergo the consequences.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000006|We do something to the thing and then it does something to us in return: such is the peculiar combination.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000007|The connection of these two phases of experience measures the fruitfulness or value of the experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000008|Mere activity does not constitute experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000009|It is dispersive, centrifugal, dissipating.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000010|Experience as trying involves change, but change is meaningless transition unless it is consciously connected with the return wave of consequences which flow from it.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000011|When an activity is continued into the undergoing of consequences, when the change made by action is reflected back into a change made in us, the mere flux is loaded with significance.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000013|It is not experience when a child merely sticks his finger into a flame; it is experience when the movement is connected with the pain which he undergoes in consequence. Henceforth the sticking of the finger into flame means a burn.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000014|Being burned is a mere physical change, like the burning of a stick of wood, if it is not perceived as a consequence of some other action.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000015|Blind and capricious impulses hurry us on heedlessly from one thing to another.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000016|So far as this happens, everything is writ in water.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000018|On the other hand, many things happen to us in the way of pleasure and pain which we do not connect with any prior activity of our own. They are mere accidents so far as we are concerned.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000019|There is no before or after to such experience; no retrospect nor outlook, and consequently no meaning.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000020|We get nothing which may be carried over to foresee what is likely to happen next, and no gain in ability to adjust ourselves to what is coming-no added control.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000022|To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000023|Under such conditions, doing becomes a trying; an experiment with the world to find out what it is like; the undergoing becomes instruction-discovery of the connection of things.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000000|Two conclusions important for education follow. (one) Experience is primarily an active passive affair; it is not primarily cognitive.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000001|But (two) the measure of the value of an experience lies in the perception of relationships or continuities to which it leads up.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000003|In schools, those under instruction are too customarily looked upon as acquiring knowledge as theoretical spectators, minds which appropriate knowledge by direct energy of intellect.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000004|The very word pupil has almost come to mean one who is engaged not in having fruitful experiences but in absorbing knowledge directly.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000005|Something which is called mind or consciousness is severed from the physical organs of activity.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000006|The former is then thought to be purely intellectual and cognitive; the latter to be an irrelevant and intruding physical factor.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000007|The intimate union of activity and undergoing its consequences which leads to recognition of meaning is broken; instead we have two fragments: mere bodily action on one side, and meaning directly grasped by "spiritual" activity on the other.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000000|It would be impossible to state adequately the evil results which have flowed from this dualism of mind and body, much less to exaggerate them. Some of the more striking effects, may, however, be enumerated.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000001|(a) In part bodily activity becomes an intruder.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000002|Having nothing, so it is thought, to do with mental activity, it becomes a distraction, an evil to be contended with.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000003|For the pupil has a body, and brings it to school along with his mind.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000004|And the body is, of necessity, a wellspring of energy; it has to do something.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000005|But its activities, not being utilized in occupation with things which yield significant results, have to be frowned upon.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000006|They lead the pupil away from the lesson with which his "mind" ought to be occupied; they are sources of mischief.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000007|The chief source of the "problem of discipline" in schools is that the teacher has often to spend the larger part of the time in suppressing the bodily activities which take the mind away from its material.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000008|A premium is put on physical quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine like simulation of the attitudes of intelligent interest.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000009|The teachers' business is to hold the pupils up to these requirements and to punish the inevitable deviations which occur.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000000|The nervous strain and fatigue which result with both teacher and pupil are a necessary consequence of the abnormality of the situation in which bodily activity is divorced from the perception of meaning.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000001|Callous indifference and explosions from strain alternate.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000002|The neglected body, having no organized fruitful channels of activity, breaks forth, without knowing why or how, into meaningless boisterousness, or settles into equally meaningless fooling-both very different from the normal play of children.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000003|Physically active children become restless and unruly; the more quiescent, so-called conscientious ones spend what energy they have in the negative task of keeping their instincts and active tendencies suppressed, instead of in a positive one of constructive planning and execution; they are thus educated not into responsibility for the significant and graceful use of bodily powers, but into an enforced duty not to give them free play.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000004|It may be seriously asserted that a chief cause for the remarkable achievements of Greek education was that it was never misled by false notions into an attempted separation of mind and body.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000000|(b) Even, however, with respect to the lessons which have to be learned by the application of "mind," some bodily activities have to be used. The senses-especially the eye and ear-have to be employed to take in what the book, the map, the blackboard, and the teacher say.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000001|The lips and vocal organs, and the hands, have to be used to reproduce in speech and writing what has been stowed away.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000002|The senses are then regarded as a kind of mysterious conduit through which information is conducted from the external world into the mind; they are spoken of as gateways and avenues of knowledge.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000003|To keep the eyes on the book and the ears open to the teacher's words is a mysterious source of intellectual grace. Moreover, reading, writing, and figuring-important school arts-demand muscular or motor training.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000004|The muscles of eye, hand, and vocal organs accordingly have to be trained to act as pipes for carrying knowledge back out of the mind into external action.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000000|The obvious result is a mechanical use of the bodily activities which (in spite of the generally obtrusive and interfering character of the body in mental action) have to be employed more or less.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000002|The boy flying a kite has to keep his eye on the kite, and has to note the various pressures of the string on his hand.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000003|His senses are avenues of knowledge not because external facts are somehow "conveyed" to the brain, but because they are used in doing something with a purpose.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000006|It is such isolation of an act from a purpose which makes it mechanical.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000007|It is customary for teachers to urge children to read with expression, so as to bring out the meaning.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000008|But if they originally learned the sensory motor technique of reading-the ability to identify forms and to reproduce the sounds they stand for-by methods which did not call for attention to meaning, a mechanical habit was established which makes it difficult to read subsequently with intelligence.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000011|Mathematics, even in its higher branches, when undue emphasis is put upon the technique of calculation, and science, when laboratory exercises are given for their own sake, suffer from the same evil.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000000|(c) On the intellectual side, the separation of "mind" from direct occupation with things throws emphasis on things at the expense of relations or connections.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000001|It is altogether too common to separate perceptions and even ideas from judgments.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000002|The latter are thought to come after the former in order to compare them.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000003|It is alleged that the mind perceives things apart from relations; that it forms ideas of them in isolation from their connections-with what goes before and comes after.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000004|Then judgment or thought is called upon to combine the separated items of "knowledge" so that their resemblance or causal connection shall be brought out.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000006|We do not really know a chair or have an idea of it by inventorying and enumerating its various isolated qualities, but only by bringing these qualities into connection with something else-the purpose which makes it a chair and not a table; or its difference from the kind of chair we are accustomed to, or the "period" which it represents, and so on.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000007|A wagon is not perceived when all its parts are summed up; it is the characteristic connection of the parts which makes it a wagon.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000008|And these connections are not those of mere physical juxtaposition; they involve connection with the animals that draw it, the things that are carried on it, and so on.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000009|Judgment is employed in the perception; otherwise the perception is mere sensory excitation or else a recognition of the result of a prior judgment, as in the case of familiar objects.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000002|There is no difference of opinion as to the theory of the matter.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000004|The failure arises in supposing that relationships can become perceptible without experience-without that conjoint trying and undergoing of which we have spoken.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000005|It is assumed that "mind" can grasp them if it will only give attention, and that this attention may be given at will irrespective of the situation.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000006|Hence the deluge of half observations, of verbal ideas, and unassimilated "knowledge" which afflicts the world.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000007|An ounce of experience is better than a ton of theory simply because it is only in experience that any theory has vital and verifiable significance.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000008|An experience, a very humble experience, is capable of generating and carrying any amount of theory (or intellectual content), but a theory apart from an experience cannot be definitely grasped even as theory.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000009|It tends to become a mere verbal formula, a set of catchwords used to render thinking, or genuine theorizing, unnecessary and impossible.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000010|Because of our education we use words, thinking they are ideas, to dispose of questions, the disposal being in reality simply such an obscuring of perception as prevents us from seeing any longer the difficulty.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000001|Reflection in Experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000002|Thought or reflection, as we have already seen virtually if not explicitly, is the discernment of the relation between what we try to do and what happens in consequence.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000003|No experience having a meaning is possible without some element of thought.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000004|But we may contrast two types of experience according to the proportion of reflection found in them.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000006|We simply do something, and when it fails, we do something else, and keep on trying till we hit upon something which works, and then we adopt that method as a rule of thumb measure in subsequent procedure.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000007|Some experiences have very little else in them than this hit and miss or succeed process.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000008|We see that a certain way of acting and a certain consequence are connected, but we do not see how they are.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000009|We do not see the details of the connection; the links are missing.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000010|Our discernment is very gross.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000011|In other cases we push our observation farther.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000012|We analyze to see just what lies between so as to bind together cause and effect, activity and consequence.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000013|This extension of our insight makes foresight more accurate and comprehensive.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000014|The action which rests simply upon the trial and error method is at the mercy of circumstances; they may change so that the act performed does not operate in the way it was expected to.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000015|But if we know in detail upon what the result depends, we can look to see whether the required conditions are there.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000016|The method extends our practical control.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000000|In discovery of the detailed connections of our activities and what happens in consequence, the thought implied in cut and try experience is made explicit.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000001|Its quantity increases so that its proportionate value is very different.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000002|Hence the quality of the experience changes; the change is so significant that we may call this type of experience reflective-that is, reflective par excellence.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000003|The deliberate cultivation of this phase of thought constitutes thinking as a distinctive experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000004|Thinking, in other words, is the intentional endeavor to discover specific connections between something which we do and the consequences which result, so that the two become continuous. Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000005|The occurrence is now understood; it is explained; it is reasonable, as we say, that the thing should happen as it does.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000000|Thinking is thus equivalent to an explicit rendering of the intelligent element in our experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000001|It makes it possible to act with an end in view.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000002|It is the condition of our having aims.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000003|As soon as an infant begins to expect he begins to use something which is now going on as a sign of something to follow; he is, in however simple a fashion, judging.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000004|For he takes one thing as evidence of something else, and so recognizes a relationship.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000007|The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000008|The former accepts what has been customary as a full measure of possibility and omits to take into account the connections of the particular things done.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000009|The latter makes the momentary act a measure of value, and ignores the connections of our personal action with the energies of the environment.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000010|It says, virtually, "things are to be just as I happen to like them at this instant," as routine says in effect "let things continue just as I have found them in the past." Both refuse to acknowledge responsibility for the future consequences which flow from present action.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000011|Reflection is the acceptance of such responsibility.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000000|The starting point of any process of thinking is something going on, something which just as it stands is incomplete or unfulfilled.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000001|Its point, its meaning lies literally in what it is going to be, in how it is going to turn out.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000002|As this is written, the world is filled with the clang of contending armies.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000003|For an active participant in the war, it is clear that the momentous thing is the issue, the future consequences, of this and that happening.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000004|He is identified, for the time at least, with the issue; his fate hangs upon the course things are taking.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000005|But even for an onlooker in a neutral country, the significance of every move made, of every advance here and retreat there, lies in what it portends. To think upon the news as it comes to us is to attempt to see what is indicated as probable or possible regarding an outcome.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000006|To fill our heads, like a scrapbook, with this and that item as a finished and done for thing, is not to think.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000007|It is to turn ourselves into a piece of registering apparatus.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000008|To consider the bearing of the occurrence upon what may be, but is not yet, is to think.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000009|Nor will the reflective experience be different in kind if we substitute distance in time for separation in space.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000010|Imagine the war done with, and a future historian giving an account of it.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000011|The episode is, by assumption, past.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000012|But he cannot give a thoughtful account of the war save as he preserves the time sequence; the meaning of each occurrence, as he deals with it, lies in what was future for it, though not for the historian.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000013|To take it by itself as a complete existence is to take it unreflectively. Reflection also implies concern with the issue-a certain sympathetic identification of our own destiny, if only dramatic, with the outcome of the course of events.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000014|For the general in the war, or a common soldier, or a citizen of one of the contending nations, the stimulus to thinking is direct and urgent.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000015|For neutrals, it is indirect and dependent upon imagination.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000016|But the flagrant partisanship of human nature is evidence of the intensity of the tendency to identify ourselves with one possible course of events, and to reject the other as foreign.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000017|If we cannot take sides in overt action, and throw in our little weight to help determine the final balance, we take sides emotionally and imaginatively.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000018|We desire this or that outcome.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000019|One wholly indifferent to the outcome does not follow or think about what is happening at all.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000021|Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its tasks it must achieve a certain detached impartiality.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000022|The general who allows his hopes and desires to affect his observations and interpretations of the existing situation will surely make a mistake in calculation.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000025|The almost insurmountable difficulty of achieving this detachment is evidence that thinking originates in situations where the course of thinking is an actual part of the course of events and is designed to influence the result.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000026|Only gradually and with a widening of the area of vision through a growth of social sympathies does thinking develop to include what lies beyond our direct interests: a fact of great significance for education.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000000|To say that thinking occurs with reference to situations which are still going on, and incomplete, is to say that thinking occurs when things are uncertain or doubtful or problematic.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000001|Only what is finished, completed, is wholly assured.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000002|Where there is reflection there is suspense.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000003|The object of thinking is to help reach a conclusion, to project a possible termination on the basis of what is already given.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000004|Certain other facts about thinking accompany this feature.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000005|Since the situation in which thinking occurs is a doubtful one, thinking is a process of inquiry, of looking into things, of investigating.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000007|It is seeking, a quest, for something that is not at hand.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000008|We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000009|But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000000|It also follows that all thinking involves a risk.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000001|Certainty cannot be guaranteed in advance.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000002|The invasion of the unknown is of the nature of an adventure; we cannot be sure in advance.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000003|The conclusions of thinking, till confirmed by the event, are, accordingly, more or less tentative or hypothetical.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000004|Their dogmatic assertion as final is unwarranted, short of the issue, in fact.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000005|The Greeks acutely raised the question: How can we learn?
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000006|For either we know already what we are after, or else we do not know.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000008|The dilemma makes no provision for coming to know, for learning; it assumes either complete knowledge or complete ignorance. Nevertheless the twilight zone of inquiry, of thinking, exists.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000009|The possibility of hypothetical conclusions, of tentative results, is the fact which the Greek dilemma overlooked.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000010|The perplexities of the situation suggest certain ways out.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000011|We try these ways, and either push our way out, in which case we know we have found what we were looking for, or the situation gets darker and more confused-in which case, we know we are still ignorant.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000012|Tentative means trying out, feeling one's way along provisionally.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000013|Taken by itself, the Greek argument is a nice piece of formal logic.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000014|But it is also true that as long as men kept a sharp disjunction between knowledge and ignorance, science made only slow and accidental advance.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000015|Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations, whose development would confirm, refute, or modify the guiding conjecture.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000017|To recur to our illustration.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000018|A commanding general cannot base his actions upon either absolute certainty or absolute ignorance. He has a certain amount of information at hand which is, we will assume, reasonably trustworthy.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000019|He then infers certain prospective movements, thus assigning meaning to the bare facts of the given situation.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000020|His inference is more or less dubious and hypothetical.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000021|But he acts upon it. He develops a plan of procedure, a method of dealing with the situation. The consequences which directly follow from his acting this way rather than that test and reveal the worth of his reflections.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000023|But will this account apply in the case of the one in a neutral country who is thoughtfully following as best he can the progress of events?
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000024|In form, yes, though not of course in content.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000026|That is not his problem.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000027|But in the degree in which he is actively thinking, and not merely passively following the course of events, his tentative inferences will take effect in a method of procedure appropriate to his situation.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000028|He will anticipate certain future moves, and will be on the alert to see whether they happen or not.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000029|In the degree in which he is intellectually concerned, or thoughtful, he will be actively on the lookout; he will take steps which although they do not affect the campaign, modify in some degree his subsequent actions.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000030|Otherwise his later "I told you so" has no intellectual quality at all; it does not mark any testing or verification of prior thinking, but only a coincidence that yields emotional satisfaction-and includes a large factor of self deception.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000033|Apparatus is arranged; possibly an expedition is made to some far part of the globe.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000034|In any case, some active steps are taken which actually change some physical conditions. And apart from such steps and the consequent modification of the situation, there is no completion of the act of thinking.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000035|It remains suspended.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000036|Knowledge, already attained knowledge, controls thinking and makes it fruitful.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000000|So much for the general features of a reflective experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000002|It is the extent and accuracy of steps three and four which mark off a distinctive reflective experience from one on the trial and error plane.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000003|They make thinking itself into an experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000005|Our most elaborate and rationally consistent thought has to be tried in the world and thereby tried out.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000006|And since it can never take into account all the connections, it can never cover with perfect accuracy all the consequences.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000007|Yet a thoughtful survey of conditions is so careful, and the guessing at results so controlled, that we have a right to mark off the reflective experience from the grosser trial and error forms of action.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000000|Summary.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000001|In determining the place of thinking in experience we first noted that experience involves a connection of doing or trying with something which is undergone in consequence.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000002|A separation of the active doing phase from the passive undergoing phase destroys the vital meaning of an experience.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000003|Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000004|It notes not only that they are connected, but the details of the connection.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000005|It makes connecting links explicit in the form of relationships.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000006|The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000007|Then we anticipate consequences.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000008|This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000009|The projection of consequences means a proposed or tentative solution.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000010|To perfect this hypothesis, existing conditions have to be carefully scrutinized and the implications of the hypothesis developed-an operation called reasoning.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000011|Then the suggested solution-the idea or theory-has to be tested by acting upon it.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000012|If it brings about certain consequences, certain determinate changes, in the world, it is accepted as valid.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000014|Thinking includes all of these steps,--the sense of a problem, the observation of conditions, the formation and rational elaboration of a suggested conclusion, and the active experimental testing.
train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000015|While all thinking results in knowledge, ultimately the value of knowledge is subordinate to its use in thinking.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000002_000000|Chapter thirty.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000004_000001|No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000005_000000|Tempest.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000006_000000|It was the very next morning that several ladies and gentlemen were gathered on the piazza of the hotel at Montepoole, to brace minds or appetites with the sweet mountain air while waiting for breakfast.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000011_000000|"Whose are they?
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000011_000001|Are they for sale?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000013_000000|"Constance!" said mrs Evelyn from the piazza,--"don't take that!
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000013_000001|I dare say they are for mr Sweet."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000014_000000|"Well, mamma!--" said Constance with great equanimity,--"mr
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000014_000002|My taste leads me to prefer the simplicity of primitive arrangements this morning."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000015_000000|"Young man!" called out the landlady's reproving voice, "won't you never recollect to bring that basket round the back way?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000017_000000|"Where do you get them?" said mrs Evelyn.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000018_000000|"How?--" said Philetus.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000019_000001|Are they fresh picked?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000020_000000|"Just afore I started."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000021_000000|"Started from where?" said a gentleman standing by mrs Evelyn.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000022_000000|"From mr Rossitur's down to Queechy."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000023_000000|"mr Rossitur's!" said mrs Evelyn;--"does he send them here?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000024_000000|"He doos not," said Philetus;--"he doosn't keep to hum for a long spell."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000026_000000|"Who doos?
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000026_000001|It's Miss Fliddy Ringgan."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000027_000000|"Mamma!" exclaimed Constance looking up.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000028_000000|"What does she have to do with it?" said mrs Evelyn.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000029_000001|"Her and me was a picking 'em afore sunrise."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000030_000000|"All that basketful!"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000032_000000|"And does she send that too?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000034_000000|"But hasn't she any help in taking care of the garden?" said Constance.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000036_000000|"But where is mr Hugh?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000037_000000|"He's to hum."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000038_000001|does he leave it all to his cousin?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000039_000000|"He's to the mill."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000041_000000|"She doos," said Philetus.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000042_000000|And receiving a gratuity which he accepted without demonstration of any kind whatever, the basket bearer at length released moved off.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000044_000000|"She's a very clever girl," said mrs Evelyn dismissing the subject.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000045_000000|"She's too lovely for anything!" said Constance.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000045_000001|"mr Carleton,--if you will just imagine we are in China, and introduct a pair of familiar chop sticks into this basket, I shall be repaid for the loss of a strawberry by the expression of ecstasy which will immediately spread itself over your features.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000046_000000|He smiled a little as he complied with the young lady's invitation, but the expression of ecstasy did not come.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000047_000000|"Are mr Rossitur's circumstances so much reduced?" he said, drawing nearer to mrs Evelyn.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000050_000000|"They are all broken to pieces," said mrs Evelyn, as mr Carleton's eye went back to her for his answer;--"mr
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000050_000001|Rossitur failed and lost everything-bankrupt-a year or two after they came home."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000052_000001|They don't look like it.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000054_000001|He has gone down hill sadly since his misfortunes.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000054_000002|I am very sorry for them."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000055_000000|"And his niece takes care of his farm in the meantime?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000056_000000|"Do you know her?" asked both the Miss Evelyns again.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000057_000000|"I can hardly say that," he replied.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000057_000001|"I had such a pleasure formerly.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000058_000000|"So she says."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000059_000000|"And so she acts," said Constance.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000059_000001|"I wish you had heard her yesterday.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000059_000002|It was beyond everything.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000060_000000|The manner still more than the matter of this speech was beyond the withstanding of any good-natured muscles, though the gentleman's smile was a grave one and quickly lost in gravity.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000061_000000|"And this has been her life ever since mr Rossitur lost his property?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000062_000000|"Entirely,--sacrificed!--" said mrs Evelyn, with a compassionately resigned air;--"education, advantages and everything given up; and set down here where she has seen nobody from year's end to year's end but the country people about-very good people-but not the kind of people she ought to have been brought up among."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000063_000000|"Oh mamma!" said the eldest Miss Evelyn in a deprecatory tone,--"you shouldn't talk so-it isn't right-I am sure she is very nice-nicer now than anybody else I know; and clever too."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000064_000000|"Nice!" said Edith.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000066_000000|"And happy, mamma-Fleda don't look miserable-she seems perfectly happy and contented!"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000067_000001|She is a very good girl! but she might have been made something much better than a farmer's wife."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000068_000000|"You may set your mind at rest on that subject, mamma," said Constance, still using her chop sticks with great complacency;--"it's my opinion that the farmer is not in existence who is blessed with such a conjugal futurity.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000068_000001|I think Fleda's strong pastoral tastes are likely to develope themselves in a new direction."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000070_000000|"I don't know,--" said Constance, intent upon her basket,--"I feel a friend's distress for mr Thorn-it's all your doing, mamma,--you won't be able to look him in the face when we have Fleda next fall-I am sure I shall not want to look at his!
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000070_000001|He'll be too savage for anything."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000071_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000071_000001|Thorn!" said mr Carleton.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000072_000000|"Yes," said mrs Evelyn in an indulgent tone,--"he was very attentive to her last winter when she was with us, but she went away before anything was decided.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000072_000001|I don't think he has forgotten her."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000073_000000|"I shouldn't think anybody could forget her," said Edith.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000074_000000|"I am confident he would be here at this moment," said Constance, "if he wasn't in London."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000075_000000|"But what is 'all mamma's doing,' Constance?" inquired her sister.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000076_000000|"The destruction of the peace of the whole family of Thorns-shouldn't sleep sound in my bed if I were she with such a reflection.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000076_000001|I look forward to heart rending scenes,--with a very disturbed state of mind."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000077_000000|"But what have I done, my child?" said mrs Evelyn.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000078_000000|"Didn't you introduce your favourite mr Olmney to Miss Ringgan last summer?
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000079_000000|"Did you see him?" said mrs Evelyn.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000080_000000|"Only at that impracticable distance, mamma; but I introduced his name afterwards in my usual happy manner and I found that Miss Ringgan's cheeks were by no means indifferent to it.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000080_000001|I didn't dare go any further."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000081_000000|"I am very glad of it!
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000081_000002|He is a charming young man and would make her very happy."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000082_000001|mr Carleton, did your ears receive a faint announcement of ham and eggs which went quite through and through mine just now?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000083_000000|He bowed and handed the young lady in; but Constance declared that though he sat beside her and took care of her at breakfast he had on one of his intangible fits which drove her to the last extreme of impatience, and captivation.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000084_000000|The sun was not much more than two hours high the next morning when a rider was slowly approaching mr Rossitur's house from the bridge, walking his horse like a man who wished to look well at all he was passing.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000084_000001|He paused behind a clump of locusts and rose acacias in the corner of the courtyard as a figure bonneted and gloved came out of the house and began to be busy among the rose bushes.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000084_000002|Another figure presently appeared at the hall door and called out,
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000085_000000|"Fleda!--"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000086_000000|"Well, Barby-"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000087_000000|This second voice was hardly raised, but it came from so much nearer that the words could be distinctly heard.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000088_000000|"mr Skillcorn wants to know if you're going to fix the flowers for him to carry?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000089_000001|Sweet must send for them if he wants them.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000089_000002|Philetus must make haste back, for you know mr Douglass wants him to help in the barn meadow.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000089_000003|Lucas won't be here and now the weather is so fine I want to make haste with the hay."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000090_000000|"Well, will you have the samp for breakfast?"
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000091_000000|"No-we'll keep that for dinner.
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000091_000002|Thin, Barby."
train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000092_000000|The gentleman turned his horse and galloped back to Montepoole.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000000_000001|SOME TRAITS OF LIFE
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000000|It was the night Lady Glencore received; and, as usual, the street was crowded with equipages, which somehow seemed to have got into inextricable confusion,--some endeavoring to turn back, while others pressed forward,--the court of the palace being closely packed with carriages which the thronged street held in fast blockade.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000001|As the apartments which faced the street were not ever used for these receptions, the dark unlighted windows suggested no remark; but they who had entered the courtyard were struck by the gloomy aspect of the vast building: not only that the entrance and the stairs were in darkness, but the whole suite of rooms, usually brilliant as the day, were now in deep gloom.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000002|From every carriage window heads were protruded, wondering at this strange spectacle; and eager inquiries passed on every side for an explanation.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000003|The explanation of "sudden illness" was rapidly disseminated, but as rapidly contradicted, and the reply given by the porter to all demands quickly repeated from mouth to mouth, "Her Ladyship will not receive."
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000003_000000|Scaresby was, however, too busy in recounting his news to others to perceive the signals the old Princess held out; and it was only as her chasseur, six feet three of green and gold, bent down to give her Highness's message, that the Major hurried off, in all the importance of a momentary scandal, to the side of her carriage.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000004_000000|"Here I am, all impatience.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000004_000001|What is it, Scaresby?
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000006_000000|"You can't mean that her fortune is in peril?"
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000007_000000|"I suppose that must suffer also.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000009_000000|"All is very briefly related, then," said he.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000009_000001|"The charming Countess, you remember, ran away with a countryman of mine, young Glencore, of the eighth Hussars; I used to know his father intimately."
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000010_000000|"Never mind his father."
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000011_000001|He came over here and fell in love with the girl, and they ran off together; but they forgot to get married, Princess.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000012_000000|"I don't believe a word of it,--I'll never believe it," cried the Princess.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000013_000000|"That's exactly what I was recommending to the Mar quesa Guesteni.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000013_000001|I said, you need n't believe it.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000013_000002|Why, how do we go anywhere, nowadays, except by 'not believing' the evil stories that are told of our entertainers."
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000014_000001|She, a Countess, of a family second to none in all Italy; her father a Grand d'Espagne.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000015_000000|"She'll not see you.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000016_000000|"What is to be done?" exclaimed the Princess, sorrowfully.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000017_000000|"Just what you suggested a few moments ago,--don't believe it.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000017_000001|Hang me, but good houses and good cooks are growing too scarce to make one credulous of the ills that can be said of their owners."
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000019_000000|"I'll tell you, then.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000019_000002|You know as well as I, Princess, that social credit is as great a bubble as commercial; we should all of us be bankrupts if our books were seen.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000021_000000|Various were the sentiments expressed by the different speakers,--some sorrowfully deploring the disaster; others more eagerly inveighing against the infamy of the man who had proclaimed it.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000021_000001|Many declared that they had come to the determination to discredit the story.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000021_000002|Not one, however, sincerely professed that he disbelieved it.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000023_000001|At length the space slowly began to thin.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000024_000000|The next day Florence sat in committee over the lost Countess.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000024_000001|Witnesses were heard and evidence taken as to her case.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000024_000002|They all agreed it was a great hardship,--a terrible calamity; but still, if true, what could be done?
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000000|Never was there a society less ungenerously prudish, and yet there were cases-this, one of them-which transgressed all conventional rule. Like a crime which no statute had ever contemplated, it stood out self accused and self condemned.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000001|A few might, perhaps, have been merciful, but they were overborne by numbers.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000002|Lady Glencore's beauty and her vast fortune were now counts in the indictment against her, and many a jealous rival was not sorry at this hour of humiliation.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000003|The despotism of beauty is not a very mild sway, after all; and perhaps the Countess had exercised her rule right royally.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000005|They discussed and debated the question all day; but while they hesitated over the reprieve, the prisoner was beyond the law.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000006|The gate of the palace, locked and barred all day, refused entrance to every one; at night, it opened to admit the exit of a travelling carriage.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000007|The next morning large bills of sale, posted over the walls, declared that all the furniture and decorations were to be sold.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000027_000000|"I must really have those large Sevres jars," said one.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000028_000000|"And I, the small park phaeton," cried another.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000029_000000|"I hope she has not taken Horace with her; he was the best cook in Italy.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000029_000001|Splendid hock she had,--I wonder is there much of it left?"
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000030_000000|"I wish we were certain of another bad reputation to replace her," grunted out Scaresby; "they are the only kind of people who give good dinners, and never ask for returns."
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000032_000000|It may seem small minded and narrow to stigmatize such conduct as this. Some may say that for the ordinary courtesies of society no pledges of friendship are required, no real gratitude incurred.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000032_000002|Still, the revulsion, from habits of deference and respect, to disparagement, and even sarcasm, is a sorry evidence of human kindness; and the threshold, over which for years we had only passed as guests, might well suggest sadder thoughts as we tread it to behold desolation.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000001|They are often well born, almost always well mannered, invariably well dressed.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000002|They do not, at first blush, appear to discharge any very great or necessary function in life; but we must by no means, from that, infer their inutility.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000003|Naturalists tell us that several varieties of insect existence we rashly set down as mere annoyances, have their peculiar spheres of usefulness and good; and, doubtless, these same loungers contribute in some mysterious manner to the welfare of that state which they only seem to burden.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000006|Are they not invariably devouring and destroying some vermin a little smaller than themselves, and making thus a healthier atmosphere for their betters?
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000035_000001|To the former he gave vent to all his sarcasm and bitterness; they liked it just because they would n't condescend to it themselves.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000036_000000|He, however, effected this much: he kept the memory of her who had gone, alive by daily calumnies.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000037_000001|The gay world, for so it likes to be called, has no greater element of enjoyment amongst all its high gifts than its precious power of forgetting.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000037_000002|It forgets not only all it owes to others,--gratitude, honor, and esteem,--but even the closer obligations it has contracted with itself.
train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000037_000003|The Palazzo della Torre was for a fortnight the resort of the curious and the idle.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty two.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000002_000000|British Legation, Naples.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000002_000002|Should it ever reach you, you will perceive how unjustly you have charged me with neglecting your wishes.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000002_000003|I have ordered the Sicilian wine for your friend; I have obtained the Royal leave for you to shoot in Calabria; and I assure you it is rather a rare incident in my life to have forgotten nothing required of me!
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000003_000002|Important questions!
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000003_000003|why, my dear friend, there is not a matter between this country and our own that rises above the capacity of a Colonel of Dragoons.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000003_000004|Meanwhile really great events are preparing in the East of Europe,--not that I am going to inflict them upon you, nor ask you to listen to speculations which even those in authority turn a deaf ear to.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000000|It is very kind of you to think of my health.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000001|I am still a sufferer; the old pains rather aggravated than relieved by this climate.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000002|You are aware that, though warm, the weather here has some exciting property, some excess or other of a peculiar gas in the atmosphere, prejudicial to certain temperaments.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000003|I feel it greatly; and though the season is midsummer, I am obliged to dress entirely in a light costume of buckskin, and take Marsalla baths, which refresh me, at least for the while.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000004|I have also taken to smoke the leaves of the nux vomica, steeped in arrack, and think it agrees with me.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000005|The King has most kindly placed a little villa at Ischia at my disposal; but I do not mean to avail myself of the politeness.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000006|The Duke of San Giustino has also offered me his palace at Baia; but I don't fancy leaving this just now, where there is a doctor, a certain Luigi Buffeloni, who really seems to have hit off my case.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000007|He calls it arterial arthriticis,--a kind of inflammatory action of one coat of the arterial system; his notion is highly ingenious, and wonderfully borne out by the symptoms.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000008|I wish you would ask Brodie, or any of our best men, whether they have met with this affection; what class it affects, and what course it usually takes? My Italian doctor implies that it is the passing malady of men highly excitable, and largely endowed with mental gifts.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000009|He may, or may not, be correct in this.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000010|It is only nature makes the blunder of giving the sharpest swords the weakest scabbards.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000011|What a pity the weapon cannot be worn naked!
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000005_000001|I do, perhaps, as well as I should like anywhere.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000005_000002|There is a wonderful sameness over the world just now, preluding, I have very little doubt, some great outburst of nationality from all the countries of Europe,--just as periods of Puritanism succeed intervals of gross licentiousness.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000006_000001|There is really little peculiar to observe.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000006_000002|I don't perceive that there is more levity than elsewhere.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000006_000003|The difference is, perhaps, that there is less shame about it, since it is under the protection of the Church.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000000|I go out very little; my notion is, that the Diplomatist, like the ancient Augur, must not suffer himself to be vulgarized by contact.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000001|He can only lose, not gain, by that mixed intercourse with the world.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000002|I have a few who come when I want them, and go in like manner.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000003|They tell me "what is going on," far better and more truthfully than paid employees, and they cannot trace my intentions through my inquiries, and hasten off to retail them at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000004|Of my colleagues I see as little as possible, though, when we do meet, I feel an unbounded affection for them.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000008_000002|A moonstruck, romantic youth at a German University.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000008_000003|Is it not painting the lily?
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000009_000002|Let him "moon away," as you call it, my dear Harcourt.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000009_000003|It is wonderfully little consequence what any one does with his intellect till he be three or four and twenty.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000009_000004|Indeed, I half suspect that the soil might be left quietly to rear weeds till that time; and as to dreaminess, it signifies nothing if there be a strong "physique." With a weak frame, imagination will play the tyrant, and never cease till it dominates over all the other faculties; but where there is strength and activity, there is no fear of this.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000010_000001|The man is eminently remarkable,--with his opportunities, miraculous.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000010_000004|Imagine his delight as each day opened new stores of knowledge to him, surrounded as he was by all that could encourage zeal and reward research.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000010_000006|Poor lad, there is something very sad in his case.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000000|You need not have taken such trouble about accounts and expenditure; of course, whatever you have done I perfectly approve of.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000001|You say that the boy has no idea of money or its value.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000002|There is both good and evil in this.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000003|And now as to his future.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000004|I should have no objection whatever to having him attached to my Legation here, and perhaps no great difficulty in effecting his appointment; but there is a serious obstacle in his position.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000005|The young men who figure at embassies and missions are all "cognate numbers." They each of them know who and what the other is, whence he came, and so on.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000006|Now, our poor boy could not stand this ordeal, nor would it be fair he should be exposed to it.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000007|Besides this, it was never Glencore's wish, but the very opposite to it, that he should be brought prominently forward in life.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000012_000000|You have interested me much by what you say of the boy's progress.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000012_000001|His tastes, I infer, lie in the direction which, in a worldly sense, are least profitable; but, after all, Harcourt, every one has brains enough, and to spare, for any career.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000013_000000|If you really press the question of his coming to me, I will not refuse, seeing that I can take my own time to consider what steps subsequently should be adopted.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000013_000001|How is it that you know nothing of Glencore,--can he not be traced?
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000014_000000|Lord Selby, whom you may remember in the Blues formerly, dined here yesterday, and mentioned a communication he had received from his lawyer with regard to some property entail, which, if Glencore should leave no heir male, devolved upon him.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000014_000001|I tried to find out the whereabouts and the amount of this heritage; but, with the admirable indifference that characterizes him, he did not know or care.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000000|As to my Lady, I can give you no information whatever.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000001|Her house at Florence is uninhabited, the furniture is sold off; but no one seems even to guess whither she has betaken herself.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000002|The fast and loose of that pleasant city are, as I hear, actually houseless since her departure.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000005|He has left three cards upon me, each duly returned; but I am resolved that our inter change of courtesies shall proceed no farther.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000016_000000|I trust I have omitted nothing in reply to your last despatch, except it be to say that I look for you here about September, or earlier, if as convenient to you; you will, of course, write to me, however, meanwhile.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000017_000001|I am, as I have the right to be, on the sick list, and it is as well my rest should remain undisturbed.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000019_000000|Horace Upton.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000020_000000|Whose Magnesia is it that contains essence of Bark?
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000020_000001|Tripley's or Chipley's, I think.
train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000020_000003|I have got so accustomed to their stimulating power that I never write without one or two on my forehead.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000002_000000|LADY JANE GREY.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000003_000000|[BORN fifteen thirty seven.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000003_000001|DIED fifteen fifty four.]
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000004_000000|HUME.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000006_000000|Her heart, full of this passion for literature and the elegant arts, and of tenderness towards her husband [Lord Guildford], who was deserving of her affections, had never opened itself to the flattering allurements of ambition, and the intelligence of her elevation to the throne was nowise agreeable to her.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000006_000001|She even refused to accept of the present; pleaded the preferable title of the two princesses; expressed her dread of the consequences attending an enterprise so dangerous, not to say criminal; and desired to remain in the private station in which she was born.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000006_000002|Overcome at length by the entreaties rather than the reasons of her father and father in law, and above all of her husband, she submitted to their will, and was prevailed on to relinquish her own judgment.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000000|It was then usual for the kings of England, after their accession, to pass their first days in the Tower, and Northumberland thither conveyed the new sovereign.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000001|All the councillors were obliged to attend her to that fortress, and by this means became in reality prisoners in the hands of Northumberland, whose will they were necessitated to obey. Orders were given by the council to proclaim Jane throughout the kingdom, but their orders were executed only in London and the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000002|No applause ensued.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000003|The people heard the proclamation with silence and concern; some even expressed their scorn and contempt; and one Pot, a vintner's apprentice, was severely punished for this offence.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000004|The Protestant teachers themselves, who were employed to convince the people of Jane's title, found their eloquence fruitless; and Ridley, Bishop of London, preached a sermon to that purpose, which wrought no effect upon his audience.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000008_000001|The queen's zeal, under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul, induced her to send divines, who harassed her with perpetual disputations; and even a reprieve for three days was granted, in hopes that she should be persuaded during that time to pay, by a timely conversion, some regard to her eternal welfare.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000008_000002|The Lady Jane had presence of mind in those melancholy circumstances not only to defend her religion by all the topics then in use, but also to write a letter to her sister in the Greek language, in which, besides sending her a copy of the Scriptures in that tongue, she exhorted her to maintain in every feature a like steady perseverance.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000000|It had been intended to execute the Lady Jane and Lord Guildford together on the same scaffold at Tower Hill; but the council, dreading the compassion of the people for their youth, beauty, innocence, and noble birth, changed their orders, and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000001|She saw her husband led to execution, and, having given him from the window some token of remembrance, she waited with tranquillity till her own appointed hour should bring her to a like fate.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000002|She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart, and found herself more confirmed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end, than shaken by so tender and melancholy a spectacle.
train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000003|Sir john Gage, constable of the Tower, when he led her to execution, desired her to bestow on him some small present which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of her.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000003_000000|[BORN fifteen forty two.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000003_000001|DIED fifteen eighty seven.]
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000004_000000|ROBERTSON.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000000|To all the charms of beauty and the utmost elegance of external form, Mary added those accomplishments which render their impression irresistible.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000001|Polite, affable, insinuating, sprightly, and capable of speaking and writing with equal ease and dignity.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000002|Sudden, however, and violent in all her attachments, because her heart was warm and unsuspicious.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000003|Impatient of contradiction, because she had been accustomed from her infancy to be treated as a queen.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000004|No stranger, on some occasions, to dissimulation, which in that perfidious court where she received her education was reckoned among the necessary arts of government.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000005|Not insensible to flattery, or unconscious of that pleasure with which almost every woman beholds the influence of her own beauty. Formed with the qualities which we love, not with the talents that we admire, she was an agreeable woman rather than an illustrious queen.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000006|The vivacity of her spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment, and the warmth of her heart, which was not at all times under the restraint of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always unfortunate will not account for that long and almost uninterrupted succession of calamities which befell her; we must likewise add, that she was often imprudent.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000007|Her passion for Darnley was rash, youthful, and excessive; and though the sudden transition to the opposite extreme was the natural effect of her ill requited love, and of his ingratitude, insolence, and brutality, yet neither these nor Bothwell's artful address and important services can justify her attachments to that nobleman.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000008|Even the manners of the age, licentious as they were, are no apology for this unhappy passion; nor can they induce us to look on that tragical and infamous scene which followed upon it with less abhorrence.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000006_000000|Humanity will draw a veil over this part of her character which it cannot approve, and may perhaps prompt some to impute her actions to her situation more than to her dispositions; and to lament the unhappiness of the former, rather than accuse the perverseness of the latter.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000006_000001|Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties: we think of her faults with less indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000000|With regard to the queen's person, a circumstance not to be omitted in writing the history of a female reign, all contemporary authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000001|Her hair was black, although, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000002|Her eyes were a dark grey, her complexion was exquisitely fine, and her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000003|Her stature was of an height that rose to the majestic.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000004|She danced, walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste for music was just; and she both sung and played upon the lute with uncommon skill.
train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000005|Towards the end of her life, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which often deprived her of the use of her limbs.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000002_000000|META MOLLER.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000003_000000|[seventeen fifty.]
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000004_000000|LETTERS.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000000|Klopstock first beheld Meta Moeller in passing through Hamburg in april seventeen fifty one.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000001|In a letter to one of his friends, written soon after this, he describes her as mistress of the French, English, and Italian languages, and even conversant with Greek and Latin literature.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000003|Their marriage took place about three years afterwards.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000004|Here is Meta's own narrative of the rise and course of their true love, given in one of her letters to Richardson, a narrative which will bear a hundred readings, and a hundred more after that, and still be as fresh and as touching as ever:--
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000000|"You will know all what concerns me.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000001|Love, dear sir, is all what me concerns.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000002|And love shall be all what I will tell you in this letter.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000003|In one happy night I read my husband's poem, 'The Messiah.' I was extremely touched with it.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000004|The next day I asked one of his friends who was the author of this poem, and this was the first time I heard Klopstock's name.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000005|I believe I fell immediately in love with him.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000006|At the least, my thoughts were ever with him filled, especially because his friend told me very much of his character.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000007|But I had no hopes ever to see him, when quite unexpectedly I heard that he should pass through Hamburg.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000008|I wrote immediately to the same friend, for procuring, by his means, that I might see the author of the 'Messiah' when in Hamburg.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000009|He told him that a certain girl in Hamburg wished to see him, and for all recommendation showed him some letters in which I made bold to criticise Klopstock's verses.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000010|Klopstock came, and came to me.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000011|I must confess that, though greatly prepossessed of his qualities, I never thought him the amiable youth whom I found him.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000012|This made its effect.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000013|After having seen him for two hours I was obliged to pass the evening in a company which never had been so wearisome to me.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000014|I could not speak.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000015|I could not play.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000000|"I saw him the next day, and the following, and we were very seriously friends.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000001|But the fourth day he departed!
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000002|He wrote soon after, and from that time our correspondence began to be a very diligent one.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000003|I sincerely believed my love to be friendship.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000004|I spoke to my friends of nothing but Klopstock, and showed his letters.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000005|They rallied me, and said I was in love.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000006|I rallied them again, and said that they must have a very friendshipless heart if they had no idea of friendship to a man as well as to a woman.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000007|Thus it continued eight months, in which time my friends found as much love in Klopstock's letters as in mine.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000008|I perceived it likewise, but I would not believe it.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000009|At the last, Klopstock said plainly that he loved; and I startled as for a wrong thing.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000010|I answered that it was no love, but friendship, as it was what I felt for him; we had not seen one another enough to love (as if love must have more time than friendship).
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000012|This he did a year after we had seen one another for the first time.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000013|We saw; we were friends; we loved; and we believed that we loved; and a short time after I could even tell Klopstock that I loved.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000014|But we were obliged to part again, and wait two years for our wedding.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000016|I could marry then without her consentment, as by the death of my father my fortune depended not upon her; but this was an horrible idea for me, and thank heaven I have prevailed by prayers.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000017|At this time, knowing Klopstock, she loves him as her lifely son, and thanks God that she has not persisted.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000018|We married, and I am the happiest wife in the world."
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000000|This was written in march seventeen fifty eight, after they had been about four years married.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000001|Writing again in the beginning of May, she thus sketches the life they led together: "It will be a delightful occupation for me to make you more acquainted with my husband's poem.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000002|Nobody can do it better than I, being the person who knows the most of that which is not yet published, being always present at the birth of the young verses, which begin always by fragments here and there of a subject of which his soul is just then filled.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000003|He has many great fragments of the whole work ready.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000004|You may think that persons who love as we do have no need of two chambers; we are always in the same.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000005|I, with my little work, still only regarding sometimes my husband's sweet face, which is so venerable at that time with tears of devotion and all the sublimity of the subject, my husband reading me the young verses and suffering my criticism."
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000009_000000|With this we may compare what Klopstock says, writing of her: "How perfect was her taste! how exquisitely fine her feelings! she observed everything even to the slightest turn of the thought.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000009_000001|I had only to look at her, and could see in her face when even a syllable pleased or displeased her; and when I led her to explain the reason of her remarks, no demonstration could be more true, more accurate, or more appropriate to the subject.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000009_000002|But, in general, this gave us very little trouble, for we understood each other when we had scarcely began to explain our ideas."
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000000|But all this happiness, too bright for earth, or for long endurance, was about to be suddenly extinguished.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000002|It was the first time that they had been separated.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000003|It is remarkable that she seems to have had more than a mere apprehension, almost an assured foreboding, of what awaited her.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000005|The two following months they spent together at Hamburg.
train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000006|From that place poor Meta was never to return.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000002_000000|ELIZABETH BLACKWELL.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000003_000000|[seventeen twenty.]
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000004_000000|james BRUCE.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000001|Elizabeth Blackwell was the daughter of a stocking merchant in Aberdeen, where she was born about the beginning of last century.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000002|The first event of her life which is now known, was her secret marriage with Alexander Blackwell, and her elopement with him to London.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000003|He had received a finished education, and was an accurate Greek and Latin scholar.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000004|He had studied medicine under the famous Boerhaave, and, in travelling over the Continent, had lived in the best society, and had acquired an extensive knowledge of the modern languages.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000005|He was, however, unsuccessful in his endeavours to secure a comfortable livelihood.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000006|After having in vain attempted to get into practice as a physician, and having now a wife also to provide for, he applied for the situation of corrector of the press to a printer of the name of Wilkins, and for some time continued in that employment.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000007|He then set up a printing establishment in the Strand, but became involved in debt, and was thrown into prison.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000000|It was this circumstance that brought into practice the talents and virtues of Mrs Blackwell.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000001|She resolved, by an unexampled labour for a woman, to effect the delivery of her husband.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000002|She had in her girlish days practised the drawing and colouring of flowers, a suitable and amiable accomplishment of her sex.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000004|She now engaged in a labour which is at once a noble and marvellous monument of her enthusiastic and untiring conjugal affection, and interesting evidence of the elegant and truly womanly nature of her own mind.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000005|Having submitted her first drawings to Sir Hans Sloane and Dr Mead, these eminent physicians encouraged her to proceed with the work.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000006|She also received the kindest countenance from Mr Philip Miller, a well-known writer on horticulture.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000007|Amongst those who were honoured in patronising her labour of piety was Mr Rand of the Botanical Garden at Chelsea.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000008|By his advice Mrs Blackwell took lodgings in the neighbourhood of this garden, from which she was furnished with all the flowers and plants which she required for her work.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000009|Of these she made drawings, which she engraved on copper, and coloured with her own hands.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000010|Her husband supplied the Latin names and the descriptions of the plants, which were taken principally from Miller's "Botanicum Officinale," with the author's permission.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000002|Blackwell."
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000003|The profits which Mrs Blackwell received from this work enabled her to relieve her husband from prison.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000004|The adventures of Blackwell after his release are well known.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000006|He went there, leaving his wife in England.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000007|He was received with honour at the court of Stockholm, where he lived with the prime minister, in the enjoyment of a salary from the government. During this period of prosperity he had continued to send large sums of money to his wife, who was now making arrangements to leave England with her only child and join her husband.
train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000009|A conspiracy against the constitution of Sweden was formed by Count Tessin; and Blackwell, it is believed innocently, was suspected of being concerned in the plot.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000003_000000|Our Learned Friends
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000000|I do not know why the Bar has always seemed the most respectable of the professions, a profession which the hero of almost any novel could adopt without losing caste.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000001|But so it is.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000002|A schoolmaster can be referred to contemptuously as an usher; a doctor is regarded humorously as a licensed murderer; a solicitor is always retiring to gaol for making away with trust funds, and, in any case, is merely an attorney; while a civil servant sleeps from ten to four every day, and is only waked up at sixty in order to be given a pension.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000003|But there is no humorous comment to be made upon the barrister-unless it is to call him "my learned friend." He has much more right than the actor to claim to be a member of the profession.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000004|I don't know why.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000005|Perhaps it is because he walks about the Temple in a top hat.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000000|So many of one's acquaintances at some time or other have "eaten dinners" that one hardly dares to say anything against the profession.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000001|Besides, one never knows when one may not want to be defended.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000002|However, I shall take the risk, and put the barrister in the dock.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000003|"Gentlemen of the jury, observe this well dressed gentleman before you.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000004|What shall we say about him?"
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000000|Let us begin by asking ourselves what we expect from a profession.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000001|In the first place, certainly, we expect a living, but I think we want something more than that.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000002|If we were offered a thousand a year to walk from Charing Cross to Barnet every day, reasons of poverty might compel us to accept the offer, but we should hardly be proud of our new profession.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000003|We should prefer to earn a thousand a year by doing some more useful work.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000005|That is to say, he would have to persuade himself that he was walking, not only for himself, but also for the community.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000000|It seems to me, then, that a profession is a noble or an ignoble one, according as it offers or denies to him who practises it the opportunity of working for some other end than his own advancement.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000001|A doctor collects fees from his patients, but he is aiming at something more than pounds, shillings, and pence; he is out to put an end to suffering.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000002|A schoolmaster earns a living by teaching, but he does not feel that he is fighting only for himself; he is a crusader on behalf of education.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000003|The artist, whatever his medium, is giving a message to the world, expressing the truth as he sees it; for his own profit, perhaps, but not for that alone.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000005|We enter them full of high resolves.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000006|We tell ourselves that we will follow the light as it has been revealed to us; that our ideals shall never be lowered; that we will refuse to sacrifice our principles to our interests. We fail, of course.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000007|The painter finds that "Mother's Darling" brings in the stuff, and he turns out Mother's Darlings mechanically.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000008|The doctor neglects research and cultivates instead a bedside manner.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000009|The schoolmaster drops all his theories of education and conforms hastily to those of his employers.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000010|We fail, but it is not because the profession is an ignoble one; we had our chances.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000011|Indeed, the light is still there for those who look.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000012|It beckons to us.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000000|Now what of the Bar?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000001|Is the barrister after anything other than his own advancement?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000002|He follows what gleam?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000003|What are his ideals? Never mind whether he fails more often or less often than others to attain them; I am not bothering about that.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000004|I only want to know what it is that he is after.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000006|If a barrister ever has such a moment, what is his consolation?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000007|It can only be that he is helping Justice to be administered.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000008|If he is to be proud of his profession, and in that lonely moment tolerant of himself, he must feel that he is taking a noble part in the vindication of legal right, the punishment of legal wrong.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000009|But he must do more than this.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000000|Can he tell himself this?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000001|I do not see how he can.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000002|His increased expertness will be of increased service to himself, of increased service to his clients, but no ideal will be the better served by reason of it.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000005|Counsel is briefed for Smith.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000006|After examining the case he tells himself in effect this: "As far as I can see, the Law is all on the other side.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000007|Luckily, however, sentiment is on our side.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000008|Given an impressionable jury, there's just a chance that we might pull it off.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000009|It's worth trying." He tries, and if he is sufficiently expert he pulls it off.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000010|A triumph for himself, but what has happened to the ideal?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000011|Did he even think, "Of course I'm bound to do the best for my client, but he's in the wrong, and I hope we lose?" I imagine not.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000012|The whole teaching of the Bar is that he must not bother about justice, but only about his own victory. What ultimately, then, is he after?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000013|What does the Bar offer its devotees-beyond material success?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000000|I asked just now what were a barrister's ideals.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000001|Suppose we ask instead, What is the ideal barrister?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000002|If one spoke loosely of an ideal doctor, one would not necessarily mean a titled gentleman in Harley Street.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000003|An ideal schoolmaster is not synonymous with the Headmaster of Eton or the owner of the most profitable preparatory school.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000004|But can there be an ideal barrister other than a successful barrister?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000005|The eager young writer, just beginning a literary career, might fix his eyes upon Francis Thompson rather than upon Sir Hall Caine; the eager young clergyman might dream dreams over the Life of Father Damien more often than over the Life of the Archbishop of Canterbury; but to what star can the eager young barrister hitch his wagon, save to the star of material success?
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000006|If he does not see himself as Sir Edward Carson, it is only because he thinks that perhaps after all Sir john Simon's manner is the more effective.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000000|There may be other answers to the questions I have asked than the answers I have given, but it is no answer to ask me how the law can be administered without barristers.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000001|I do not know; nor do I know how the roads can be swept without getting somebody to sweep them.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000002|But that would not disqualify me from saying that road sweeping was an unattractive profession.
train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000003|So also I am entitled to my opinion about the Bar, which is this.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000003_000000|The true explanation of this subject is very difficult.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000003_000001|Know that beings are of two kinds: material and spiritual, those perceptible to the senses and those intellectual.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000000|Things which are sensible are those which are perceived by the five exterior senses; thus those outward existences which the eyes see are called sensible.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000001|Intellectual things are those which have no outward existence but are conceptions of the mind.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000002|For example, mind itself is an intellectual thing which has no outward existence.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000003|All man's characteristics and qualities form an intellectual existence and are not sensible.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000000|Briefly, the intellectual realities, such as all the qualities and admirable perfections of man, are purely good, and exist.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000001|Evil is simply their nonexistence.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000002|So ignorance is the want of knowledge; error is the want of guidance; forgetfulness is the want of memory; stupidity is the want of good sense.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000003|All these things have no real existence.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000006_000000|In the same way, the sensible realities are absolutely good, and evil is due to their nonexistence-that is to say, blindness is the want of sight, deafness is the want of hearing, poverty is the want of wealth, illness is the want of health, death is the want of life, and weakness is the want of strength.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000000|Nevertheless a doubt occurs to the mind-that is, scorpions and serpents are poisonous.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000001|Are they good or evil, for they are existing beings?
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000002|Yes, a scorpion is evil in relation to man; a serpent is evil in relation to man; but in relation to themselves they are not evil, for their poison is their weapon, and by their sting they defend themselves.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000003|But as the elements of their poison do not agree with our elements-that is to say, as there is antagonism between these different elements, therefore, this antagonism is evil; but in reality as regards themselves they are good.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000000|The epitome of this discourse is that it is possible that one thing in relation to another may be evil, and at the same time within the limits of its proper being it may not be evil.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000001|Then it is proved that there is no evil in existence; all that God created He created good.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000002|This evil is nothingness; so death is the absence of life.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000003|When man no longer receives life, he dies.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000004|Darkness is the absence of light: when there is no light, there is darkness.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000005|Light is an existing thing, but darkness is nonexistent.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000006|Wealth is an existing thing, but poverty is nonexisting.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000009_000000|Then it is evident that all evils return to nonexistence.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000011_000001|For example, ignorance itself is a torment, but it is a subtile torment; indifference to God is itself a torment; so also are falsehood, cruelty and treachery. All the imperfections are torments, but they are subtile torments. Certainly for an intelligent man death is better than sin, and a cut tongue is better than lying or calumny.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000012_000000|The other kind of torment is gross-such as penalties, imprisonment, beating, expulsion and banishment.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000012_000001|But for the people of God separation from God is the greatest torment of all.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000014_000000|Know that to do justice is to give to everyone according to his deserts. For example, when a workman labors from morning until evening, justice requires that he shall be paid his wages; but when he has done no work and taken no trouble, he is given a gift: this is bounty.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000014_000001|If you give alms and gifts to a poor man although he has taken no trouble for you, nor done anything to deserve it, this is bounty.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000014_000002|So Christ besought forgiveness for his murderers: this is called bounty.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000000|Now the question of the good or evil of things is determined by reason or by law.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000001|Some believe that it is determined by law; such are the Jews, who, believing all the commandments of the Pentateuch to be absolutely obligatory, regard them as matters of law, not of reason.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000002|Thus they say that one of the commandments of the Pentateuch is that it is unlawful to partake of meat and butter together because it is taref, and taref in Hebrew means unclean, as kosher means clean.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000003|This, they say, is a question of law and not of reason.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000000|But the theologians think that the good and evil of things depend upon both reason and law.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000002|Every intelligent man comprehends that murder, theft, treachery, falsehood, hypocrisy and cruelty are evil and reprehensible; for if you prick a man with a thorn, he will cry out, complain and groan; so it is evident that he will understand that murder according to reason is evil and reprehensible.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000003|If he commits a murder, he will be responsible, whether the renown of the Prophet has reached him or not; for it is reason that formulates the reprehensible character of the action.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000004|When a man commits this bad action, he will surely be responsible.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000017_000001|Though they do not deserve mercy and beneficence, nevertheless, God treats them with mercy and forgives them.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000000|Now vengeance, according to reason, is also blameworthy, because through vengeance no good result is gained by the avenger.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000001|So if a man strikes another, and he who is struck takes revenge by returning the blow, what advantage will he gain?
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000002|Will this be a balm for his wound or a remedy for his pain?
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000003|No, God forbid!
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000004|In truth the two actions are the same: both are injuries; the only difference is that one occurred first, and the other afterward.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000005|Therefore, if he who is struck forgives, nay, if he acts in a manner contrary to that which has been used toward him, this is laudable. The law of the community will punish the aggressor but will not take revenge.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000006|This punishment has for its end to warn, to protect and to oppose cruelty and transgression so that other men may not be tyrannical.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000019_000000|But if he who has been struck pardons and forgives, he shows the greatest mercy.
train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000019_000001|This is worthy of admiration.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000001_000000|seventy seven: THE RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING CRIMINALS
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000000|Answer.--There are two sorts of retributory punishments.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000001|One is vengeance, the other, chastisement.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000002|Man has not the right to take vengeance, but the community has the right to punish the criminal; and this punishment is intended to warn and to prevent so that no other person will dare to commit a like crime.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000003|This punishment is for the protection of man's rights, but it is not vengeance; vengeance appeases the anger of the heart by opposing one evil to another.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000004|This is not allowable, for man has not the right to take vengeance.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000005|But if criminals were entirely forgiven, the order of the world would be upset.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000006|So punishment is one of the essential necessities for the safety of communities, but he who is oppressed by a transgressor has not the right to take vengeance.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000007|On the contrary, he should forgive and pardon, for this is worthy of the world of man.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000004_000000|The communities must punish the oppressor, the murderer, the malefactor, so as to warn and restrain others from committing like crimes.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000004_000001|But the most essential thing is that the people must be educated in such a way that no crimes will be committed; for it is possible to educate the masses so effectively that they will avoid and shrink from perpetrating crimes, so that the crime itself will appear to them as the greatest chastisement, the utmost condemnation and torment.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000004_000002|Therefore, no crimes which require punishment will be committed.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000005_000000|We must speak of things that are possible of performance in this world. There are many theories and high ideas on this subject, but they are not practicable; consequently, we must speak of things that are feasible.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000000|For example, if someone oppresses, injures and wrongs another, and the wronged man retaliates, this is vengeance and is censurable.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000003|No, rather he must return good for evil, and not only forgive, but also, if possible, be of service to his oppressor.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000004|This conduct is worthy of man: for what advantage does he gain by vengeance? The two actions are equivalent; if one action is reprehensible, both are reprehensible.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000005|The only difference is that one was committed first, the other later.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000000|But the community has the right of defense and of self protection; moreover, the community has no hatred nor animosity for the murderer: it imprisons or punishes him merely for the protection and security of others.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000002|If the community and the inheritors of the murdered one were to forgive and return good for evil, the cruel would be continually ill treating others, and assassinations would continually occur.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000003|Vicious people, like wolves, would destroy the sheep of God.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000004|The community has no ill will and rancor in the infliction of punishment, and it does not desire to appease the anger of the heart; its purpose is by punishment to protect others so that no atrocious actions may be committed.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000008_000002|No, if Christ had known that a wolf had entered the fold and was about to destroy the sheep, most certainly He would have prevented it.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000000|As forgiveness is one of the attributes of the Merciful One, so also justice is one of the attributes of the Lord.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000001|The tent of existence is upheld upon the pillar of justice and not upon forgiveness.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000002|The continuance of mankind depends upon justice and not upon forgiveness.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000003|So if, at present, the law of pardon were practiced in all countries, in a short time the world would be disordered, and the foundations of human life would crumble.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000004|For example, if the governments of Europe had not withstood the notorious Attila, he would not have left a single living man.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000010_000000|Some people are like bloodthirsty wolves: if they see no punishment forthcoming, they will kill men merely for pleasure and diversion.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000010_000001|One of the tyrants of Persia killed his tutor merely for the sake of making merry, for mere fun and sport.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000000|To recapitulate: the constitution of the communities depends upon justice, not upon forgiveness.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000001|Then what Christ meant by forgiveness and pardon is not that, when nations attack you, burn your homes, plunder your goods, assault your wives, children and relatives, and violate your honor, you should be submissive in the presence of these tyrannical foes and allow them to perform all their cruelties and oppressions.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000003|But the communities must protect the rights of man.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000004|So if someone assaults, injures, oppresses and wounds me, I will offer no resistance, and I will forgive him.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000007|If at this moment a wild Arab were to enter this place with a drawn sword, wishing to assault, wound and kill you, most assuredly I would prevent him.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000008|If I abandoned you to the Arab, that would not be justice but injustice.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000009|But if he injure me personally, I would forgive him.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000000|One thing remains to be said: it is that the communities are day and night occupied in making penal laws, and in preparing and organizing instruments and means of punishment.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000001|They build prisons, make chains and fetters, arrange places of exile and banishment, and different kinds of hardships and tortures, and think by these means to discipline criminals, whereas, in reality, they are causing destruction of morals and perversion of characters.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000002|The community, on the contrary, ought day and night to strive and endeavor with the utmost zeal and effort to accomplish the education of men, to cause them day by day to progress and to increase in science and knowledge, to acquire virtues, to gain good morals and to avoid vices, so that crimes may not occur.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000003|At the present time the contrary prevails; the community is always thinking of enforcing the penal laws, and of preparing means of punishment, instruments of death and chastisement, places for imprisonment and banishment; and they expect crimes to be committed.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000004|This has a demoralizing effect.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000013_000000|But if the community would endeavor to educate the masses, day by day knowledge and sciences would increase, the understanding would be broadened, the sensibilities developed, customs would become good, and morals normal; in one word, in all these classes of perfections there would be progress, and there would be fewer crimes.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000000|It has been ascertained that among civilized peoples crime is less frequent than among uncivilized-that is to say, among those who have acquired the true civilization, which is divine civilization-the civilization of those who unite all the spiritual and material perfections.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000001|As ignorance is the cause of crimes, the more knowledge and science increases, the more crimes will diminish.
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000002|Consider how often murder occurs among the barbarians of Africa; they even kill one another in order to eat each other's flesh and blood!
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000003|Why do not such savageries occur in Switzerland?
train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000004|The reason is evident: it is because education and virtues prevent them.
train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000007_000002|I have.
train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000042_000000|"After the execution?" cried Franz.
train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000043_000000|"Before or after, whichever you please."
train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000057_000000|"Yes, there is something I wish to see."
train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000064_000000|"How attentively he looked at you."
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000003_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000007_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000007_000003|The first question to ask in the part of the study of economic society here undertaken is: What is its motive force?
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000007_000005|The question merits long and careful study, but the general answer is so simple that it seems almost self evident: The motive force in economics is found in the feelings of men.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000009_000002|And so the environment shapes and affects the animal.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000009_000005|After the animal has been thus fitted, its desire is for those things normally to be found in its surroundings.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000011_000003|He feels the need of companionship, for it is only through association and mutual help that men, so weak as compared with many kinds of animals, are able to resist the enemies which beset them.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000011_000004|He needs clothing to protect him against the harsher climates of the lands to which he moves.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000013_000000|four.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000013_000003|As men become more the masters of circumstances, their desires anticipate mere physical wants; they seek a more varied food of finer flavor and more delicately prepared.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000013_000004|Dress is not limited by physical comfort, for one of the earliest of the esthetic wants to develop is the love of personal ornament.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000016_000003|They are the mainspring of economic progress.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000016_000004|In recent discussion of the control of the tropics, the too great contentedness of tropical peoples has been brought out prominently.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000016_000009|If only the desire for a two or three room cabin can be aroused, experience shows that family life and industrial qualities may be improved in many other ways.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000018_000000|Not only in America, but in most civilized lands to day, is seen a rapid growth of wants in the working classes.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000021_000000|Sec.
train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000023_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty four
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000002_000000|GROWTH OF TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000002|In popular discussion, however, the word frequently implies great wealth in a single hand, though this wealth may be invested in a large number of small industries.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000003|Large production is the concentration of capital into large units of industry.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000004|The capital may be the same as before, the ownership may or may not be widely diffused, but the control and management are unified.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000005|Large factories may or may not have monopoly power; as factories grow in size, competition among them often becomes more, not less, complete and severe.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000006|On the contrary, monopoly, as before defined, may exist where the industry is small, as the waterworks in a small town, or a small factory for making patented articles.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000002|One billion people use only tools, and have no better source and means of power than domestic animals.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000004|About two hundred million people live in the stage of simple machines and small factories.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000005|These are found in eastern and southern Europe, small portions of South America, some parts even of the United States.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000006|In this stage there is not enough manufacturing power in the community to supply much more than its own needs.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000007|About two hundred million people in the United States and western Europe have reached the third and highest industrial plane, where the highest mechanical devices are employed and industry becomes highly specialized.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000008|These differences are broadly stated; there are contrasts within every nation.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000009|Three hundred miles from here, in the Alleghanies, people still can be found spinning and weaving and wearing homespun as in colonial days.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000010|In a trip of twenty miles in Tyrol or Switzerland one can observe every one of these industrial stages.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000011|The most striking development, if not the typical form, in America to day is large or concentrated industry.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000002|The early factories growing out of the household industry were small.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000003|A family specialized in producing cloth and exchanged with its neighbors; so with shoes, candles, soap, canned goods, cured meats, etc
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000004|Since that time two counter forces have been at work to affect the ratio of manufacturing establishments to population.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000005|The number of establishments has been increased by specialization of farming which has called for many industries to produce the things once made on farms, and by increasing wealth and invention, which has made possible many small industries supplying things before almost unknown.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000006|The number of establishments has been diminished as the staple products that can be transported have come to be made in larger factories.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000007|The resultant of these movements during the thirty years ending in nineteen hundred is somewhat surprising: the ratio of factories (with an output worth five hundred dollars) to population has somewhat increased.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000008|In eighteen seventy there were two hundred and fifty two thousand establishments; in eighteen ninety, three hundred and fifty five thousand, and in nineteen hundred, five hundred and twelve thousand, a ratio to population of one to one hundred and sixty two, one hundred and seventy seven, and one hundred and forty four respectively.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000009|The last date was one of great industrial prosperity, and doubtless many ephemeral enterprises had been called into existence, thus giving a somewhat abnormal result.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000010|Moreover, there has been a large increase in the number of things made in factories which were formerly made in the homes, and which then did not appear at all in the census of manufactures.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000001|The population meantime doubled.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000002|This movement has been going on for seventy years, there being about the same number of mills in nineteen hundred as in eighteen thirty, though population had multiplied six fold.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000005|There were twenty four thousand grist mills in eighteen eighty, eighteen thousand in eighteen ninety, and twenty five thousand in nineteen hundred, a change of ratio from two thousand one hundred to three thousand population per grist mill.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000006|There were twenty six thousand sawmills in eighteen eighty, twenty two thousand in eighteen ninety, and thirty three thousand in nineteen hundred, a change from about one thousand nine hundred and twenty to two thousand two hundred and seventy persons per sawmill.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000000|But while the number of establishments in these staple industries was decreasing, the number of employees per establishment in most cases was increasing.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000001|The average in all industries, in eighteen seventy, was eight; in eighteen ninety, twelve; in nineteen hundred, ten and four tenths.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000002|In cotton mills, in eighteen seventy, the average was one hundred and eighty four; in eighteen ninety, two hundred and forty four; in nineteen hundred, two hundred and eighty seven.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000003|The grist mills, in eighteen eighty, had two and four tenths persons per establishment; in eighteen ninety, three and four tenths.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000019_000000|four.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000019_000002|We are told that in cotton mills, in eighteen thirty, the average capital invested was fifty thousand dollars; in eighteen ninety, nearly four hundred thousand dollars; in nineteen hundred, four hundred and forty thousand dollars.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000019_000003|It is easy to observe the large increase in investment of capital in flouring mills since the new processes came into use.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000021_000001|Consolidation took place on a great scale in railroads and in manufactures.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000021_000002|Much of this has been of such a kind that it does not appear at all in the figures showing the number of establishments and of employees.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000021_000003|Many discrepancies appear in the data regarding this movement given by different authorities, as there is no generally accepted rule by which to determine the selection of the companies to be included in the lists, and as the conditions are changing from day to day.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000023_000000|The number organized and the capital represented by this movement in the last of these decades are eight times as great as in the thirty years preceding.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000026_000001|In eighteen ninety three, the number was less, but the total nominal capital (preferred and common stocks and bonds) was still the greatest it had ever been in any year.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000026_000003|Then followed the period of the greatest formation of trust companies the world has ever seen, which extended from eighteen ninety eight to nineteen o one, and ended in nineteen o two.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000033_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000035_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000036_000000|four.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000038_000000|six.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000041_000002|The machinery in a large factory is thus more fully utilized.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000043_000002|In making plows, nine men working separately will average sixty six plows each per year, while one hundred and eighty men working together will average one hundred and ten each per year, the output per man being increased sixty six and two thirds per cent.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000043_000003|In a rifle factory with a daily output of fifty, eight men are needed for the same product that can be supplied by three men in a factory with an output of one thousand daily.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000002|The necessary inspection of the results is more rapid and easy.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000003|The advertising of certain kinds of goods involves a large and inevitable outlay, which is relatively less for a larger business, as the greater the output the smaller the burden on each unit of the product.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000004|Combination effects a great saving in the number of commercial travelers, a result partly due to the decrease in competition, but partly also to better organization. Each of twenty different factories must send its drummers into every part of the country to seek business.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000005|In combination they can divide the territory, visit every merchant and get larger orders at smaller cost. Supplies can be purchased more cheaply in large amounts, and shipments in car load and train load lots make possible special (sometimes illegal) concessions from railroads and from carriers on waterways.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000000|four.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000002|When each man is working on the smallest possible subdivision of the product, doubling the number of employees will not increase his skill.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000003|When the finest machinery can be kept constantly in use, economy in its use has reached the maximum. As large factories tend to create cities around them, land rises in value and higher wages must be paid the workmen.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000005|The point is reached in the growth of establishments where oversight cannot be as perfect and complete; the eye of the master cannot be over all.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000049_000000|It is evident that most of these reasons apply to a single local factory with far greater force than to a federation of locally scattered plants. It was once believed that the growing disadvantages of large industry would set an early limit to consolidation.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000049_000001|While there is a truth in this thought not to be overlooked, the effects must now be recognized to be more distant than was supposed.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000050_000001|three. CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL COMBINATIONS
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000002|The old legal idea of a trust is the confidence imposed in a trustee.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000005|The word trust is popularly used of any large industry, though usually there is connected with it the idea of some evil power to raise prices to the consumers.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000006|A large number of the corporations called trusts have, however, little monopoly power, and some have none at all.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000002|The cost of management, amount of stock carried, advertising, cost of selling the product, may all be smaller per unit of product.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000003|A large aggregation can control credit better and escape loss from bad debts.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000004|By regulating and equalizing the output in the different localities, it can run more nearly full time. Being acquainted with the entire situation, it can reduce the friction. A strong combination has advantages in shipment.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000005|It can have a clearing house for orders and ship from the nearest source of supply. The least efficient factories can be first closed when demand falls off. Factories can be specialized to produce that for which each is best fitted.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000006|The magnitude of the industry and its presence in different localities strengthens its influence with the railroads.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000056_000001|A railroad line across the continent owns its own steamers for shipping goods to Asia or Europe.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000058_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000058_000002|But as this excessive competition usually is for the very purpose of forcing the combination, this explanation is a begging of the question.
train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000058_000003|It is fallacious also in that it ignores the marginal principle in the problem of profits.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000008_000000|When she had quenched her thirst, she came straight up to the queen, and said to her: 'Do not take it evil, noble lady, that I dare to speak to you, and do not be afraid of me, for it may be that I shall bring you good luck.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000010_000000|'Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,' replied the old woman.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000011_000000|The queen held out her hand, and the old woman examined its lines closely.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000011_000004|Your happiness is spoilt because you have no children.' At these words the queen became scarlet, and tried to draw away her hand, but the old woman said:
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000013_000000|'But who are you?' asked the queen, 'for you seem to be able to read my heart.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000014_000000|'Never mind my name,' answered she, 'but rejoice that it is permitted to me to show you a way to lessen your grief.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000015_000000|'Oh, I will obey you exactly,' cried the queen, 'and if you can help me you shall have in return anything you ask for.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000000|The old woman stood thinking for a little: then she drew something from the folds of her dress, and, undoing a number of wrappings, brought out a tiny basket made of birch bark.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000001|She held it out to the queen, saying, 'In the basket you will find a bird's egg.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000004|The boy you will bring up yourself, but you must entrust the little girl to a nurse.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000005|When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be godmother to the princess, and this is how you must send the invitation.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000006|Hidden in the cradle, you will find a goose's wing: throw this out of the window, and I will be with you directly; but be sure you tell no one of all the things that have befallen you.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000017_000001|Feeling a different being from the poor sad woman who had wandered into the garden so short a time before, she hastened to her room, and felt carefully in the basket for the egg. There it was, a tiny thing of soft blue with little green spots, and she took it out and kept it in her bosom, which was the warmest place she could think of.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000018_000001|At this proof that the old woman had spoken truth, the queen's heart bounded, for she now had fresh hopes that the rest of the prophecy might be fulfilled.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000020_000000|Three months passed, and, as the old woman had bidden her, the queen took the egg from her bosom, and laid it snugly amidst the warm woollen folds.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000020_000001|The next morning she went to look at it, and the first thing she saw was the broken eggshell, and a little doll lying among the pieces. Then she felt happy at last, and leaving the doll in peace to grow, waited, as she had been told, for a baby of her own to lay beside it.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000021_000000|In course of time, this came also, and the queen took the little girl out of the basket, and placed it with her son in a golden cradle which glittered with precious stones.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000021_000001|Next she sent for the king, who nearly went mad with joy at the sight of the children.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000022_000003|The boy was called Willem.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000023_000000|After the feast was over and the guests were going away, the godmother laid the baby in the cradle, and said to the queen, 'Whenever the baby goes to sleep, be sure you lay the basket beside her, and leave the eggshells in it.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000023_000001|As long as you do that, no evil can come to her; so guard this treasure as the apple of your eye, and teach your daughter to do so likewise.' Then, kissing the baby three times, she mounted her coach and drove away.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000024_000001|Every day the little girl seemed to grow prettier, and people used to say she would soon be as beautiful as her godmother, but no one knew, except the nurse, that at night, when the child slept, a strange and lovely lady bent over her.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000024_000002|At length she told the queen what she had seen, but they determined to keep it as a secret between themselves.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000000|The twins were by this time nearly two years old, when the queen was taken suddenly ill.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000001|All the best doctors in the country were sent for, but it was no use, for there is no cure for death.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000003|To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in charge, and besought her to treasure it carefully.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000004|'When my daughter,' said the queen, 'is ten years old, you are to hand it over to her, but warn her solemnly that her whole future happiness depends on the way she guards it.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000005|About my son, I have no fears.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000026_000000|After some years the king married again, but he did not love his second wife as he had done his first, and had only married her for reasons of ambition.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000026_000002|But if they ever strayed across the path of the queen, she would kick them out of her sight like dogs.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000027_000000|On Dotterine's tenth birthday her nurse handed her over the cradle, and repeated to her her mother's dying words; but the child was too young to understand the value of such a gift, and at first thought little about it.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000000|Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king's absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000002|Her nurse was not there, but suddenly, as she stood weeping, her eyes fell upon the golden case in which lay the precious basket.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000003|She thought it might contain something to amuse her, and looked eagerly inside, but nothing was there save a handful of wool and two empty eggshells.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000004|Very much disappointed, she lifted the wool, and there lay the goose's wing.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000005|'What old rubbish,' said the child to herself, and, turning, threw the wing out of the open window.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000000|In a moment a beautiful lady stood beside her.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000001|'Do not be afraid,' said the lady, stroking Dotterine's head.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000002|'I am your godmother, and have come to pay you a visit.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000003|Your red eyes tell me that you are unhappy.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000004|I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and patient, and better days will come.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000006|But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and cannot tell what to do, take the goose's wing from the basket, and throw it out of the window, and in a moment I will come to help you.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000007|Now come into the garden, that I may talk to you under the lime trees, where no one can hear us.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000031_000001|When they had finished eating, the godmother led the child back, and on the way taught her the words she must say to the basket when she wanted it to give her something.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000033_000000|About this time a terrible war broke out, and the king and his army were beaten back and back, till at length they had to retire into the town, and make ready for a siege.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000033_000001|It lasted so long that food began to fail, and even in the palace there was not enough to eat.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000035_000000|'Do not cry so, dear child,' said the godmother.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000035_000001|'I will carry you away from all this, but the others I must leave to take their chance.' Then, bidding Dotterine follow her, she passed through the gates of the town, and through the army outside, and nobody stopped them, or seemed to see them.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000036_000001|The queen had already met her death from a spear carelessly thrown.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000037_000001|'When better times come,' her protectress said cheerfully, 'and you want to look like yourself again, you have only to whisper the words I have taught you into the basket, and say you would like to have your own face once more, and it will be all right in a moment.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000038_000001|At first the work she had to do seemed very difficult, but either she was wonderfully quick in learning, or else the basket may have secretly helped her.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000040_000000|'Would you not like to come and enter my service?' she asked.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000041_000000|'Very much,' replied Dotterine, 'if my present mistress will allow me.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000044_000002|The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with getting ready their smart clothes, but at night when she went to bed she always dreamed that her godmother bent over her and said, 'Dress your young ladies for the feast, and when they have started follow them yourself.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000044_000003|Nobody will be so fine as you.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000045_000001|Then she seemed to hear a voice whisper to her, 'Look in your basket, and you will find in it everything that you need.'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000046_000000|Dotterine did not want to be told twice!
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000046_000001|Up she jumped, seized her basket, and repeated the magic words, and behold! there lay a dress on the bed, shining as a star.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000046_000002|She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in the glass, was struck dumb at her own beauty. She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage, into which she stepped and was driven away like the wind.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000000|The king's palace was a long way off, yet it seemed only a few minutes before Dotterine drew up at the great gates.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000001|She was just going to alight, when she suddenly remembered she had left her basket behind her. What was she to do?
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000002|Go back and fetch it, lest some ill fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen?
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000003|But before she could decide, a little swallow flew up with the basket in its beak, and the girl was happy again.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000048_000001|Their hopes faded as they gazed, but their mothers whispered together, saying, 'Surely this is our lost princess!'
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000049_000001|And at midnight a strange thing happened.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000049_000002|A thick cloud suddenly filled the hall, so that for a moment all was dark. Then the mist suddenly grew bright, and Dotterine's godmother was seen standing there.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000050_000000|'This,' she said, turning to the king, 'is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege.
train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000050_000001|She is not your sister at all, but the daughter of the king of a neighbouring country, who was given to your mother to bring up, to save her from the hands of a wizard.'
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000003_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000004_000000|MOHAMMED
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000006_000000|Thousands of years ago the Arabs had a religion that was not entirely different from that of the Jews.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000006_000001|As the years passed, however, they began to turn away from the old beliefs and to worship stone idols. These idols were set up in their principal cities and villages, notably in the city of Mecca, where there also remained a temple, built in the time of the older religion, that the Arabs still held to be sacred.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000008_000001|This child was named Mohammed, and he was born five hundred and seventy years after the death of Christ.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000008_000002|His father, Abdallah, died soon after he was born, and Mohammed's mother, according to custom, gave the baby into the charge of a nurse who might rear him in the free, open air of the desert where Arabs believed that children became strong and vigorous.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000009_000002|When he was six years old his mother died and he was brought up by his grandfather, Abd al Muttalib, a poor man, but one who was greatly respected by everybody that knew him.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000010_000001|When he grew old enough, he watched the flocks of the people of Mecca, and gained a meager livelihood by doing this.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000000|When Mohammed was twenty five years old there befell a change in his fortunes.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000001|In this year he entered the service of a rich widow, whose name was Kadijah, and went with her to the great fairs and bazaars on which journeys, perhaps, he acted as her camel driver.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000003|By marrying Kadijah Mohammed became rich.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000005|He and Kadijah had six children, four girls and two boys, but both of the boys died in their infancy.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000012_000000|But Mohammed was soon marked as being different from other men.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000013_000000|When he was forty years old he went one day to a mountain called Hira which was not far from Mecca.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000013_000003|Now Mohammed knew not how to read or write, but to his amazement he found that the words on the scroll were quite plain to him, and he read a wonderful message that proclaimed the glory and the greatness of God, whom he called Allah.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000015_000000|Mohammed went back to Kadijah and told her what he had seen.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000015_000002|Kadijah was a true and faithful wife and loved Mohammed better than herself.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000016_000000|At first Mohammed did not try to preach his new faith to the people of Mecca, but contented himself with teaching the word of Allah to his nearest relatives.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000017_000000|After four years of teaching Mohammed had only converted to the new belief forty people, who were mostly men of low degree or slaves.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000017_000001|He then thought that Allah called upon him to go forth publicly and preach his new belief to the entire world.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000017_000002|And soon afterward Mohammed could have been seen in the market place preaching the word of Allah.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000001|That is, it was much more like the religion of Christ than the worship of idols or the belief of the romans and Greeks in gods and goddesses, or the worship of fire or the stars.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000002|Mohammed preached that there was one God only, and that this God was greater than all things.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000003|If you died and had led a righteous life you went to Paradise; if you had been wicked you went to the lower regions to undergo eternal punishment.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000004|And there were a great many things in Mohammed's religion that any one would do well to follow, for he preached that God was merciful and his people on earth must be merciful also, that cleanliness was next to Godliness and that all his followers must wash themselves before they prayed.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000019_000000|In many ways, however, the Mohammedan faith was not so pure as the Christian faith, for the Heaven that Mohammed believed in was a place of feasting and merriment, but little else, and Mohammed also believed that it was right to teach his religion by the sword.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000020_000000|To spread the faith Mohammed set about preparing a great book which was to be the bible of those who believed in his religion.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000020_000001|This book was called the Koran.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000020_000003|It is thought, however, that he was helped in preparing the Koran by one of his disciples who could read and write.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000023_000001|So it came to pass that the poor men who were Mohammedans, particularly the slaves, were made to suffer dreadful tortures.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000023_000004|Mohammed, however, indignantly refused, and went on preaching, and his uncle continued to protect him.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000024_000000|At last Mohammed's enemies became so afraid of the success he was gaining that they decided they must have his life at all costs, and a plot was hatched against him.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000025_000001|But a great misfortune fell upon him, for his faithful wife Kadijah, whom he had loved deeply, and who was the first person to believe in him as a prophet, died, and left him inconsolable.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000026_000003|And these spirits listened attentively to what Mohammed said and did him reverence.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000027_000001|This flight was called the "Hegira," and the date of it is very important to the Mohammedans, for their calendar dates from it, and for them is practically the beginning of time.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000028_000000|In Yathrib the faith of Mohammed spread quickly and he received attention and reverence wherever he went.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000028_000001|And when he had a large following he desired to put up a house of prayer, or a temple which he called a mosque.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000028_000002|This was done, but the first Mohammedan mosque was a very simple affair indeed and the roof was supported by trees that were not removed from the earth where they had been growing.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000029_000001|They must all face toward Mecca as they pray, for that is the sacred city; and Mohammed so considered it because of the mysterious temple or Kaabah that was in it, and because, before the days of the idolaters, this temple had been connected with the religion of Abraham.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000000|"God is great; there is no god but the Lord.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000002|Come unto prayer!
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000004|God is great.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000005|There is no god but the Lord."
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000031_000002|And in Medinah, as it was later called, Mohammed spent the rest of his life.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000000|It was a wild fight, for the battle was fought in a furious storm of rain and wind that beat like whips upon the faces of the soldiers as they dashed against each other.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000002|At first the fray went badly for the Mohammedans, for the enemy with their superior numbers forced them back.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000003|Everywhere Mohammed himself might have been seen, encouraging his followers and urging them to greater efforts. Then, when it seemed as if his forces were breaking and that nothing could be done to hold them together any longer, he stooped to the ground and picking up a handful of gravel, hurled it against his foes.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000038_000001|The Meccans rallied and attacked him in front and the rear at the same time, and the day was lost.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000038_000002|However, the Meccans were too exhausted to pursue his men for a time and they believed that Mohammed himself had been slain, which was the first of their desires.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000038_000003|So they returned to Mecca.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000040_000001|This caused Mohammed great difficulty and might easily have brought about his defeat.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000040_000002|So, when the fight was over, he took a large number of soldiers and advanced against this tribe which had taken refuge in a stronghold in the mountains.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000040_000004|They found, however, that from that mercy they could expect nothing, for all the men were put to death, and the women and children were sold into slavery.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000042_000000|This was considered by Mohammed as a great triumph for his cause. Determined now to spread his faith to the uttermost ends of the earth, he sent messengers to the rulers of all the civilized kingdoms that he knew.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000042_000001|One went to Heraclius, Emperor of the romans, who was in Syria at the time; one to the Roman Governor of Egypt, one to the King of Abyssinia and one to each of the provinces of Gassan and Yamam that were also under Roman control.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000046_000000|Soon after this one desert tribe after another came under Mohammed's power, and finally all of Arabia had acknowledged him as God's prophet. He was planning to extend his religion still farther when a misfortune fell upon him that probably caused his death.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000046_000001|With one of his followers he had partaken of a dish that had been prepared for him by a Jewish girl who hated him and all of his sect.
train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000046_000002|The food was poisoned, and while Mohammed discovered it at once and ate but a single mouthful, the poison remained in his body.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000003_000000|"I think he's going to get well," she whispered.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000003_000002|Tom's heart felt better.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000005_000001|He looked around feebly.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000007_000000|"Yes, dad," was the eager answer
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000008_000000|"They tell me you-you made a great trip to get dr Hendrix-broken bridge-came through the air with him.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000008_000001|Is that right?"
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000009_000000|"Yes, dad.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000009_000001|But don't tire yourself.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000009_000002|You must get well and strong."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000010_000001|But tell me; did you go in-in the Humming Bird?"
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000011_000000|"Yes, dad."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000013_000001|Over a hundred, and the motor wasn't at its best."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000014_000000|"That's good.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000016_000000|"Why not?" mr Swift spoke more strongly.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000017_000000|"I-because-well, I don't want to."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000018_000000|"Nonsense, Tom!
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000018_000003|But listen to me.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000018_000008|Now promise me you'll go in it and-and-win!"
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000020_000000|"I-I---," began Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000021_000001|dr Hendrix made a hasty move toward the bed.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000023_000000|"I-I promise!" exclaimed Tom, and the aged inventor sank back with a smile of satisfaction on his pale face.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000024_000000|"Now you must go," said dr Gladby to Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000024_000001|"He has talked long enough. He must sleep now, and get up his strength."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000026_000000|"We can't say for sure," was the answer.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000026_000001|"We have great hopes."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000028_000000|"No one can say for a certainty that he will recover," spoke the physician.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000028_000001|"You will have to hope for the best, that is all, Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000028_000002|If I were you I'd go in the race.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000030_000000|The doctor thought for a moment.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000030_000001|Then he exclaimed:
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000034_000001|"I will go to the meet.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000034_000002|I'll take the Humming Bird apart at once, and ship it to Eagle Park.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000034_000003|Unless dr Hendrix wants to go back in it," he added as an after thought.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000035_000001|By that time the bridge will have been repaired, and he can go back by train.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000046_000002|It would be just like him."
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000047_000001|Have you heard from home to day, Tom?"
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000048_000003|He listened a moment.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000049_000000|"Good news!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000052_000001|His face looks very familiar!"
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000056_000000|"Bless my elevation rudder!" cried mr Damon.
train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000056_000001|"Andy's here at last!
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000001_000000|Chapter Twenty Three
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000003_000001|It will meet at once, and I'll let you know what they say."
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000004_000001|My plans are missing, and I think he took them.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000005_000001|"Get the evidence against him, and we'll act quickly enough."
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000007_000001|It was this:
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000008_000001|That is, they need not bring them out until just before the races," he added.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000014_000002|No, I've either got to stop Andy before the race, or not at all.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000014_000003|I will try to think of a plan."
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000016_000000|Meanwhile he and mr Damon, together with their machinist, were kept busy.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000023_000001|"Poor night, but doctor thinks day will show improvement.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000023_000002|Don't worry."
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000024_000000|"Don't worry!
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000024_000001|I wonder who could help it," mused poor Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000030_000001|However, he was more interested in what Andy Foger would turn out.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000035_000002|Then came a flight for height; and while no records were broken, the crowd was well satisfied.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000042_000000|"Get ready to make your protest," advised mr Damon to the young inventor.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000042_000003|I hope you beat him!"
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000044_000001|Would it prove to be a copy of his speedy Humming Bird?
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000046_000000|He pushed his way through the crowd.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000048_000000|Andy caught sight of Tom Swift.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000049_000000|"I'm going to beat you!" the bully boasted, "and I haven't a machine like yours, after all.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000050_000000|"So I see," stammered Tom, hardly knowing what to think.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000051_000000|"I never had them!"
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000056_000003|Tom started the propeller.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000057_000000|"How much thrust?" cried Tom to his machinist.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000059_000000|"Good!"
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000060_000001|But the smoke of it leaped into the air.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000061_000002|His helper thrust the Humming Bird forward.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000061_000003|Over the smooth ground it rushed.
train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000062_000001|He felt his craft soar upward.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000001_000000|Chapter Twenty Four
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000004_000000|"I don't believe he's going to make it," thought Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000005_000000|He was right.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000007_000000|However, he must think of himself and his own craft now.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000008_000000|"A good start!" shouted mr Damon in his ear.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000010_000000|"Where's the Slugger?" called Tom to his friend.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000012_000000|For a moment Tom's heart misgave him.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000018_000000|"I'll catch him!" muttered Tom, and he opened the throttle a trifle wider, and went after Andy, passing him with ease.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000020_000000|"Well?" asked mr Damon, as Tom took off the receiver.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000000|"Dad isn't quite so well," answered the lad.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000001|"mr
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000003|But dad is game.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000004|He sends me word to go on and win, and I'll do it, too, only-"
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000022_000000|Tom paused, and choked back a sob.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000023_000000|"Of course you will!" cried mr Damon.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000000|Tom glanced at the barograph.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000002|He looked at the speed gage.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000004|He looked down at the signals.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000005|There was twenty miles yet to go.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000007|Yet he would wait until five miles from the end, and then he felt that he could gain and maintain a lead.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000027_000000|"Andy seems to be doing well," said mr Damon.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000028_000000|"Yes, he has a good machine," conceded Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000029_000001|Then another five.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000029_000003|Eagerly Tom waited for the right signal.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000030_000001|Quickly the young inventor clamped the receiver to his ear.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000030_000002|mr Damon saw him turn pale.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000031_000000|"dr Gladby says dad has a turn for the worse.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000031_000001|There is little hope," translated Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000032_000000|"Will you-are you going to quit?" asked mr Damon.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000033_000000|Tom shook his head.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000034_000001|"My father has become unconscious, so mr Jackson says, but his last words were to me: 'Tell Tom to win the race!' And I'm going to do it!"
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000035_000000|Tom suddenly changed his plans.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000035_000002|He would begin his final spurt, and if possible finish the hundred miles at his utmost speed, win the race and then hasten to his father's side.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000036_000001|She shot ahead like an eagle darting after his prey.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000036_000002|Tom opened up a big gap between his machine and the one nearest him, which, at that moment, was the Antoinette, with the Spaniard driving her.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000037_000000|"Now to win!" cried Tom, grimly.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000038_000001|Tom flashed through the air so quickly that his speed was almost incredible.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000039_000001|But Tom and mr Damon could not hear them.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000039_000002|They only heard the powerful song of the motor.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000040_000000|Faster and faster flew the Humming Bird.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000040_000001|Tom looked down, and saw the signal put up which meant that there were but three miles more to go. He felt that he could do it.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000040_000002|He was half a lap ahead of them all now. But he saw Andy Foger's machine pulling away from the bunch.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000041_000000|"He's going to try to catch me!" exulted Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000042_000001|The motor of the Humming Bird suddenly slackened its speed, it missed explosions, and the trim little craft began to drop behind.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000043_000000|"What's the matter?" cried mr Damon.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000044_000001|"We're done for, I guess."
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000000|On came the other machines, Andy in the lead, then the Santos Dumont, then the Farman, and lastly the Wright.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000001|They saw the plight of the Humming Bird and determined to beat her.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000002|Tom cast a despairing look up at the motor.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000004|He could not reach it in mid-air.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000001|Then the Antoinette flashed by.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000003|His heart was like lead.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000004|mr Damon gazed blankly forward.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000005|They were beaten. It did not seem possible.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000000|There was but a single chance.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000001|If Tom shut off all power, coasted for a moment, and then, ere the propeller had ceased revolving, if he could start the motor on the spark, the silent cylinders might pick up, with the others, and begin again.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000002|He would try it.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000003|They could be no worse off than they were.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000048_000000|"A mile behind!" gasped Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000048_000001|"It's a long chance, but I'll take it."
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000049_000000|He shut off the power.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000049_000004|And such a roar as it was!
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000050_000000|"We did it!" yelled Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000051_000000|Slowly he crept on them.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000051_000001|They looked back and saw him coming.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000051_000002|They tried to put on more speed, but it was impossible.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000052_000000|"I'll get him!" muttered Tom.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000052_000001|"I'll pass 'em all!"
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000053_000000|And he did.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000053_000002|Then she crept up on Andy's Slugger.
train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000054_000000|In an instant more it was done, and, a good length in advance of the Foger craft, Tom shot over the finish line a winner, richer by ten thousand dollars, and, not only that, but he had picked up a mile that had been lost, and had snatched victory from almost certain defeat.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000004_000000|'Dear daddy, let the poor old men sleep here to night, do-to please me.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000006_000000|The three old men stood in the middle of the loft, leaning on their sticks, with their long grey beards flowing down over their hands, and were talking together in low voices.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000007_000000|'What news is there?' asked the eldest.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000008_000001|What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?' said the second.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000013_000002|Who can be got to stand godfather to such a little beggar boy?'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000015_000000|'Look here, my friend, you are a poor man.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000015_000001|How can you afford to bring up the boy?
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000015_000003|Is that a bargain?'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000016_000001|When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the edge of a steep precipice and threw it over, muttering, 'There, now try to take my property!'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000018_000000|As they were passing near the precipice they heard a sound of crying, and on looking over they saw a little green meadow wedged in between two great heaps of snow, and on the meadow lay a baby amongst the flowers.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000019_000000|The merchants picked up the child, wrapped it up carefully, and drove on.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000019_000002|Mark guessed at once that the child must be his godson, asked to see him, and said:
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000020_000001|If you will make him over to me, I will let you off your debt.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000000|At night Mark took the child, put it in a barrel, fastened the lid tight down, and threw it into the sea.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000001|The barrel floated away to a great distance, and at last it floated close up to a monastery.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000002|The monks were just spreading out their nets to dry on the shore, when they heard the sound of crying.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000003|It seemed to come from the barrel which was bobbing about near the water's edge.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000023_000000|The boy lived on with the monks, and grew up to be a clever, gentle, and handsome young man.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000024_000000|Now, it happened about this time that the merchant, Mark, came to the monastery in the course of a journey.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000024_000002|When he went into the church the choir was singing, and one voice was so clear and beautiful, that he asked who it belonged to.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000001|If he could only come to me I would make him overseer of all my business.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000002|As you say, he is so good and clever.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000003|Do spare him to me.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000004|I will make his fortune, and will present your monastery with twenty thousand crowns.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000026_000000|The abbot hesitated a good deal, but he consulted all the other monks, and at last they decided that they ought not to stand in the way of Vassili's good fortune.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000028_000001|On the way he met three beggars, who asked him: 'Where are you going, Vassili?'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000029_000000|'I am going to the house of Mark the Merchant, and have a letter for his wife,' replied Vassili.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000031_000001|They blew on it and gave it back to him, saying: 'Now go and give the letter to Mark's wife.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000031_000002|You will not be forsaken.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000032_000000|Vassili reached the house and gave the letter.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000032_000001|When the mistress read it she could hardly believe her eyes and called for her daughter.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000032_000003|If you don't obey my orders I shall be very angry.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000034_000000|In due time, Mark returned from his travels.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000034_000001|His wife, daughter, and son in law all went out to meet him.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000036_000000|Mark read it.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000036_000001|It certainly was his handwriting, but by no means his wishes.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000038_000001|Twelve years ago he built a castle on some land of mine.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000040_000001|As he tramped along he suddenly heard a voice saying: 'Vassili! where are you going?'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000042_000000|'I did; this old wide spreading oak.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000043_000000|'I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years' rent from him.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000044_000000|'When the time comes, remember me and ask the king: "Rotten to the roots, half dead but still green, stands the old oak.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000044_000001|Is it to stand much longer on the earth?"'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000048_000000|'Very well,' said Vassili; 'I'll ask him.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000049_000000|And he walked on.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000049_000002|As he stepped on it the whale said, 'Do tell me where you are going.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000050_000000|'I am going to the Serpent King.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000052_000000|'I will remember,' said Vassili, and he went on.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000053_000002|Vassili walked in, and went from one room to another astonished at all the splendour he saw.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000055_000000|As soon as she saw him she said: 'Oh, Vassili, what brings you to this accursed place?'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000057_000000|The girl said: 'You have not been sent here to collect rents, but for your own destruction, and that the serpent may devour you.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000059_000000|Then she rose up to receive the Serpent King.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000060_000000|The monster rushed into the room, and threw itself panting on the bed, crying: 'I've flown half over the world.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000060_000001|I'm tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep-scratch my head.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000061_000001|After you left, I had such a wonderful dream.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000062_000000|'Out with it then, quick!
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000063_000000|'I dreamt I was walking on a wide road, and an oak tree said to me: "Ask the king this: Rotten at the roots, half dead, and yet green stands the old oak.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000064_000000|'It must stand till some one comes and pushes it down with his foot. Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich has got.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000066_000000|'That depends on himself.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000067_000000|'And at last I dreamt that I was walking over a bridge made of a whale's back, and the living bridge spoke to me and said: "Here have I been stretched out these three years, and men and horses have trampled my back down into my ribs.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000067_000001|Must I lie here much longer?"'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000068_000001|Then he may plunge back into the sea and heal his back.'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000071_000000|When he reached the strait the whale asked: 'Have you thought of me?'
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000074_000000|The great fish heaved itself up and threw up all the twelve ships and their crews.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000078_000001|There, at the roots, was more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich had.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000080_000000|The sailors carried all the gold and silver into the ship, and then they set sail for home with Vassili on board.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000081_000000|Mark was more furious than ever.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000081_000001|He had his horses harnessed and drove off himself to see the Serpent King and to complain of the way in which he had been betrayed.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000082_000000|Vassili led a good and happy life with his dear wife, and his kind mother in law lived with them.
train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000083_000001|His face is wrinkled, his hair and beard are snow white, and his eyes are dim; but still he rows on.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000002_000001|But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000003_000000|At last the emperor said to his eldest son, 'If only I could prevent those robbers from stealing my fruit, how happy I should be!'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000004_000000|And his son replied, 'I will sit up to night and watch the tree, and I shall soon see who it is!'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000005_000000|So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the apple tree to begin his watch, but the apples had scarcely begun to ripen before he fell asleep, and when he awoke at sunrise the apples were gone.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000005_000001|He felt very much ashamed of himself, and went with lagging feet to tell his father!
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000006_000001|But no sooner had he lain himself down than his eyes grew heavy, and when the sunbeams roused him from his slumbers there was not an apple left on the tree.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000000|Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortable bed under the apple tree, and prepared himself to sleep.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000001|Towards midnight he awoke, and sat up to look at the tree.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000002|And behold!
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000003|the apples were beginning to ripen, and lit up the whole palace with their brightness.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000004|At the same moment nine golden pea hens flew swiftly through the air, and while eight alighted upon the boughs laden with fruit, the ninth fluttered to the ground where the prince lay, and instantly was changed into a beautiful maiden, more beautiful far than any lady in the emperor's court.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000007|Then she changed herself back into a pea hen, and the whole nine flew away.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000000|As soon as the sun rose the prince entered the palace, and held out the apple to his father, who was rejoiced to see it, and praised his youngest son heartily for his cleverness.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000001|That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything passed as before, and so it happened for several nights.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000003|So, when the evening came, the old woman hid herself under the tree and waited for the prince.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000006|Then the witch stretched out her hand, and cut off a lock of the maiden's hair, and in an instant the girl sprang up, a pea hen once more, spread her wings and flew away, while her sisters, who were busily stripping the boughs, flew after her.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000000|When he had recovered from his surprise at the unexpected disappearance of the maiden, the prince exclaimed, 'What can be the matter?' and, looking about him, discovered the old witch hidden under the bed.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000001|He dragged her out, and in his fury called his guards, and ordered them to put her to death as fast as possible.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000002|But that did no good as far as the pea hens went.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000003|They never came back any more, though the prince returned to the tree every night, and wept his heart out for his lost love.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000004|This went on for some time, till the prince could bear it no longer, and made up his mind he would search the world through for her.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000005|In vain his father tried to persuade him that his task was hopeless, and that other girls were to be found as beautiful as this one.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000006|The prince would listen to nothing, and, accompanied by only one servant, set out on his quest.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000000|After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large gate, and through the bars he could see the streets of a town, and even the palace.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000001|The prince tried to pass in, but the way was barred by the keeper of the gate, who wanted to know who he was, why he was there, and how he had learnt the way, and he was not allowed to enter unless the empress herself came and gave him leave.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000003|And she hastened to him, and took his hand, and drew him into the palace.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000004|In a few days they were married, and the prince forgot his father and his brothers, and made up his mind that he would live and die in the castle.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000012_000000|The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of being by himself, and began to look about for something to amuse him.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000013_000001|When he got to the twelfth he paused, but his curiosity was too much for him, and in another instant the key was turned and the cellar lay open before him.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000013_000002|It was empty, save for a large cask, bound with iron hoops, and out of the cask a voice was saying entreatingly, 'For goodness' sake, brother, fetch me some water; I am dying of thirst!'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000014_000000|The prince, who was very tender hearted, brought some water at once, and pushed it through a hole in the barrel; and as he did so one of the iron hoops burst.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000015_000000|He was turning away, when a voice cried the second time, 'Brother, for pity's sake fetch me some water; I'm dying of thirst!'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000016_000000|So the prince went back, and brought some more water, and again a hoop sprang.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000019_000000|'Oh, for pity's sake, my brother,' shrieked the little creature, 'help me, and put me back into the river, and I will repay you some day.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000019_000001|Take one of my scales, and when you are in danger twist it in your fingers, and I will come!'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000020_000000|The prince picked up the fish and threw it into the water; then he took off one of its scales, as he had been told, and put it in his pocket, carefully wrapped in a cloth.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000020_000001|Then he went on his way till, some miles further down the road, he found a fox caught in a trap.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000021_000000|'Oh! be a brother to me!' called the fox, 'and free me from this trap, and I will help you when you are in need.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000022_000000|So the prince unfastened the trap, pulled out one of the fox's hairs, and continued his journey.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000022_000001|And as he was going over the mountain he passed a wolf entangled in a snare, who begged to be set at liberty.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000023_000001|Take a lock of my fur, and when you need me twist it in your fingers.' And the prince undid the snare and let the wolf go.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000025_000000|'Oh, brother!' asked the prince, 'tell me, if you can, where the dragon emperor lives?'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000026_000001|When he entered the palace, to his great joy he found his wife sitting alone in a vast hall, and they began hastily to invent plans for her escape.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000027_000000|There was no time to waste, as the dragon might return directly, so they took two horses out of the stable, and rode away at lightning speed. Hardly were they out of sight of the palace than the dragon came home and found that his prisoner had flown.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000027_000001|He sent at once for his talking horse, and said to him:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000028_000000|'Give me your advice; what shall I do-have my supper as usual, or set out in pursuit of them?'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000029_000000|'Eat your supper with a free mind first,' answered the horse, 'and follow them afterwards.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000030_000000|So the dragon ate till it was past mid day, and when he could eat no more he mounted his horse and set out after the fugitives.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000030_000001|In a short time he had come up with them, and as he snatched the empress out of her saddle he said to the prince:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000031_000000|'This time I will forgive you, because you brought me the water when I was in the cask; but beware how you return here, or you will pay for it with your life.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000032_000000|Half mad with grief, the prince rode sadly on a little further, hardly knowing what he was doing.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000032_000001|Then he could bear it no longer and turned back to the palace, in spite of the dragon's threats.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000032_000002|Again the empress was sitting alone, and once more they began to think of a scheme by which they could escape the dragon's power.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000033_000000|'Ask the dragon when he comes home,' said the prince, 'where he got that wonderful horse from, and then you can tell me, and I will try to find another like it.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000034_000000|Then, fearing to meet his enemy, he stole out of the castle.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000035_000000|Soon after the dragon came home, and the empress sat down near him, and began to coax and flatter him into a good humour, and at last she said:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000036_000001|Where did you get it from?'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000037_000000|And he answered:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000002|And in one corner is a thin, wretched looking animal whom no one would glance at a second time, but he is in reality the best of the lot.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000003|He is twin brother to my own horse, and can fly as high as the clouds themselves.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000004|But no one can ever get this horse without first serving the old woman for three whole days. And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man who serves her must look after them for three whole days, and if he does not let them run away he will in the end get the choice of any horse as a present from the old woman.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000005|But if he fails to keep the foal and its mother safe on any one of the three nights his head will pay.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000039_000002|It was a long and steep climb, but at last he found her, and with a low bow he began:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000041_000001|What are you doing here?'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000042_000000|'I wish to become your servant,' answered he.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000043_000000|'So you shall,' said the old woman.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000043_000002|One post only was empty, and as they passed it cried out:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000045_000000|The old woman made no answer, but turned to the prince and said:
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000047_000000|But the prince did not waver, and declared he would abide by his words.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000048_000001|He managed to keep his seat for a long time, in spite of all her efforts to throw him, but at length he grew so weary that he fell fast asleep, and when he woke he found himself sitting on a log, with the halter in his hands.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000048_000002|He jumped up in terror, but the mare was nowhere to be seen, and he started with a beating heart in search of her.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000048_000005|It had hardly touched his fingers when the fish appeared in the stream beside him.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000049_000000|'What is it, my brother?' asked the fish anxiously.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000050_000000|'The old woman's mare strayed last night, and I don't know where to look for her.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000051_000001|But strike the water with the halter and say, "Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!" and she will come.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000052_000000|The prince did as he was bid, and the mare and her foal stood before him.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000053_000000|'You should have gone among the fishes,' cried the old woman, striking the animal with a stick.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000055_000000|'Well, go among the foxes this time,' said she, and returned to the house, not knowing that the prince had overheard her.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000056_000000|So when it began to grow dark the prince mounted the mare for the second time and rode into the meadows, and the foal trotted behind its mother. Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000056_000001|He gave a shriek of dismay, and sprang up in search of the wanderers.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000057_000000|'What is it, my brother?' asked the fox, who instantly appeared before him.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000058_000000|'The old witch's mare has run away from me, and I do not know where to look for her.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000060_000001|He mounted and rode back, and the old woman placed food on the table, and led the mare back to the stable.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000061_000000|'You should have gone to the foxes, as I told you,' said she, striking the mare with a stick.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000062_000000|'I did go to the foxes,' replied the mare, 'but they are no friends of mine and betrayed me.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000064_000001|He tried hard to keep awake, but it was of no use, and in the morning there he was again on the log, grasping the halter.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000065_000000|'What is it, my brother?' asked the wolf as it stood before him.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000068_000000|The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers the wolf changed back into a mare, with the foal beside her.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000069_000000|'You should have gone among the wolves,' said she, striking her with a stick.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000070_000000|'So I did,' replied the mare, 'but they are no friends of mine and betrayed me.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000071_000000|The old woman made no answer, and left the stable, but the prince was at the door waiting for her.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000072_000000|'I have served you well,' said he, 'and now for my reward.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000073_000000|'What I promised that will I perform,' answered she.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000074_000000|'Give me, instead, that half starved creature in the corner,' asked the prince.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000075_000000|'You can't really mean what you say?' replied the woman.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000000|'Yes, I do,' said the prince, and the old woman was forced to let him have his way.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000001|So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse's neck and led him into the forest, where he rubbed him down till his skin was shining like gold.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000002|Then he mounted, and they flew straight through the air to the dragon's palace.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000003|The empress had been looking for him night and day, and stole out to meet him, and he swung her on to his saddle, and the horse flew off again.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000077_000001|Shall we eat and drink, or shall we follow the runaways?' and the horse replied, 'Whether you eat or don't eat, drink or don't drink, follow them or stay at home, matters nothing now, for you can never, never catch them.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000078_000000|But the dragon made no reply to the horse's words, but sprang on his back and set off in chase of the fugitives.
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000079_000000|Soon the dragon's horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out, 'Oh, my brother, do not go so fast!
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000079_000001|I shall sink to the earth if I try to keep up with you.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000080_000000|And the prince's horse answered, 'Why do you serve a monster like that? Kick him off, and let him break in pieces on the ground, and come and join us.'
train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000081_000000|And the dragon's horse plunged and reared, and the dragon fell on a rock, which broke him in pieces.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000005_000004|That I should do so was indeed so completely a foregone conclusion, that I was especially educated for it at Greenwich; upon leaving which, I had been bound apprentice to my father.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000005_000005|And under him I had faithfully served my time, and had risen to the position of second mate when death claimed him, and he passed away in my arms, commending my mother to my tenderest care with his last breath.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000007_000001|This I had successfully accomplished, arriving home only nine days after my own ship.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000007_000002|A claim for salvage had been duly made, and I calculated that when the settling day arrived, my own share would fall very little short of three thousand pounds, if, indeed, it did not fully reach that figure.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000008_000000|I have stated that when, upon the termination of an Australian voyage and the completion of my duties as chief mate, I returned to my ancestral home for the purpose of spending a brief holiday with my mother prior to my departure upon yet another journey to the antipodes, I had found her in dire trouble.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000008_000001|This trouble was the natural-and I may say inevitable-result of my father's mistaken idea that he was as good a man of business as he was a seaman.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000010_000000|Then arose the question of what was best to be done under our altered circumstances.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000012_000000|"Ah!" I responded, with a still more hopeless sigh, "if only we could! But I suppose there is about as much chance of that as there is of my becoming Lord High Admiral of Great Britain.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000013_000000|"Well, I really don't know, my boy; I am not prepared to say so much as that," answered my mother.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000013_000001|"Your dear father took the same view of the matter that you do, and never, to my knowledge, devoted a single hour to the search.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000005|At length-in the year seventeen forty two, I think it was-it became whispered about among those restless spirits that a galleon had actually been captured, and that the captors had returned to England literally laden with wealth.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000007|He then sought out the leader of the fortunate expedition, and having pledged himself to the strictest secrecy, obtained the fullest particulars relating to the adventure.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000008|This done, his next step was to organise a company of adventurers, with himself as their head and leader, to sail in search of the next year's galleon.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000010|The expedition was a failure, so far as the capture of the galleon was concerned, for she fell into the hands of Commodore Anson. In other respects, however, the voyage proved fairly profitable; for though they missed the great treasure ship, they fell in with and captured another Spanish vessel which had on board sufficient specie to well recompense the captors for the time and trouble devoted to the adventure.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000013|Many, however, were so sorely hurt that they succumbed to their injuries, the English captain being among this number.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000015|With this object in view, and not caring to subject their booty to the manifold risks attendant upon a cruise of an entire year, they had sought out a secluded spot, and had there carefully concealed the treasure by burying it in the earth.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000016|Now, however, the poor man was dying, and could never hope to enjoy his share of the spoil, or even insure its possession to his relatives.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000017_000000|"Meanwhile, the consciousness gradually forced itself upon Richard Saint Leger that he was wounded unto death, and that time would soon be for him no more.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000017_000003|At length the stubborn courage of the English prevailed, and, despite their vast superiority in numbers, the Spaniards, who had boarded, were first driven back to their own deck and then below, when, further resistance being useless, they flung down their arms and surrendered.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000020_000001|But what you have related only strengthens my previous conviction, that the document or documents no longer exist.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000022_000000|"And have those relics never been examined since my ancestor Hugh abandoned the quest as hopeless?" I inquired.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000023_000000|"They may have been; I cannot say," answered my mother.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000023_000001|"But I do not believe that your dear father-or your grandfather either, for that matter-ever thought it worth while to subject them to a thoroughly exhaustive scrutiny.
train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000025_000000|"In the west attic, where they have always been kept," answered my mother.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000000|Once upon a time there lived a poor woman who had only one child, and he was a little boy called Hassebu.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000001|When he ceased to be a baby, and his mother thought it was time for him to learn to read, she sent him to school.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000002|And, after he had done with school, he was put into a shop to learn how to make clothes, and did not learn; and he was put to do silversmith's work, and did not learn; and whatsoever he was taught, he did not learn it.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000003|His mother never wished him to do anything he did not like, so she said: 'Well, stay at home, my son.' And he stayed at home, eating and sleeping.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000004_000000|One day the boy said to his mother: 'What was my father's business?'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000005_000000|'He was a very learned doctor,' answered she.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000006_000000|'Where, then, are his books?' asked Hassebu.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000007_000000|'Many days have passed, and I have thought nothing of them.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000008_000000|He was sitting at home one morning poring over the medicine book, when some neighbours came by and said to his mother: 'Give us this boy, that we may go together to cut wood.' For wood cutting was their trade, and they loaded several donkeys with the wood, and sold it in the town.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000009_000000|And his mother answered, 'Very well; to morrow I will buy him a donkey, and you can all go together.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000010_000000|So the donkey was bought, and the neighbours came, and they worked hard all day, and in the evening they brought the wood back into the town, and sold it for a good sum of money.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000010_000001|And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it rained, and the wood cutters ran and hid in the rocks, all but Hassebu, who did not mind wetting, and stayed where he was.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000012_000000|'Knock again!' cried they.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000012_000001|And he knocked and listened.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000013_000001|And they dug, and found a large pit like a well, filled with honey up to the brim.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000015_000000|The following day each man brought every bowl and vessel he could find at home, and Hassebu filled them all with honey.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000015_000001|And this he did every day for three months.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000016_000000|At the end of that time the honey was very nearly finished, and there was only a little left, quite at the bottom, and that was very deep down, so deep that it seemed as if it must be right in the middle of the earth.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000018_000000|Then they arose and went into the town and told his mother as they had agreed, and she wept much and made her mourning for many months.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000018_000001|And when the men were dividing the money, one said, 'Let us send a little to our friend's mother,' and they sent some to her; and every day one took her rice, and one oil; one took her meat, and one took her cloth, every day.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000019_000000|It did not take long for Hassebu to find out that his companions had left him to die in the pit, but he had a brave heart, and hoped that he might be able to find a way out for himself.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000019_000001|So he at once began to explore the pit and found it ran back a long way underground.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000019_000002|And by night he slept, and by day he took a little of the honey he had gathered and ate it; and so many days passed by.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000000|One morning, while he was sitting on a rock having his breakfast, a large scorpion dropped down at his feet, and he took a stone and killed it, fearing it would sting him.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000002|Perhaps there is a hole.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000003|I will go and look for it,' and he felt all round the walls of the pit till he found a very little hole in the roof of the pit, with a tiny glimmer of light at the far end of it.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000004|Then his heart felt glad, and he took out his knife and dug and dug, till the little hole became a big one, and he could wriggle himself through.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000005|And when he had got outside, he saw a large open space in front of him, and a path leading out of it.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000021_000000|He went along the path, on and on, till he reached a large house, with a golden door standing open.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000021_000001|Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set with precious stones and a sofa spread with the softest cushions.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000021_000002|And he went in and lay down on it, and fell fast asleep, for he had wandered far.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000022_000000|By and by there was a sound of people coming through the courtyard, and the measured tramp of soldiers.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000022_000001|This was the King of the Snakes coming in state to his palace.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000023_000001|The soldiers wished to kill him at once, but the king said, 'Leave him alone, put me on a chair,' and the soldiers who were carrying him knelt on the floor, and he slid from their shoulders on to a chair.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000023_000003|And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him, and one of them very beautiful, decked in royal robes.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000024_000000|'Who are you?' asked Hassebu.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000026_000000|'My name is Hassebu, but whence I come I know not, nor whither I go.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000027_000000|'Then stay for a little with me,' said the king, and he bade his soldiers bring water from the spring and fruits from the forest, and to set them before the guest.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000028_000000|For some days Hassebu rested and feasted in the palace of the King of the Snakes, and then he began to long for his mother and his own country.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000028_000001|So he said to the King of the Snakes, 'Send me home, I pray.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000029_000000|But the King of the Snakes answered, 'When you go home, you will do me evil!'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000030_000000|'I will do you no evil,' replied Hassebu; 'send me home, I pray.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000000|But the king said, 'I know it.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000001|If I send you home, you will come back, and kill me.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000002|I dare not do it.' But Hassebu begged so hard that at last the king said, 'Swear that when you get home you will not go to bathe where many people are gathered.' And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu in sight of his native city.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000003|Then he went straight to his mother's house, and the heart of his mother was glad.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000032_000000|Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said that the only thing to cure him was the flesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only man who could get it was a man with a strange mark on his chest.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000032_000001|So the Vizir had set people to watch at the public baths, to see if such a man came there.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000033_000000|For three days Hassebu remembered his promise to the King of the Snakes, and did not go near the baths; then came a morning so hot he could hardly breathe, and he forgot all about it.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000034_000000|The moment he had slipped off his robe he was taken before the Vizir, who said to him, 'Lead us to the place where the King of the Snakes lives.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000035_000000|'I do not know it!' answered he, but the Vizir did not believe him, and had him bound and beaten till his back was all torn.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000036_000000|Then Hassebu cried, 'Loose me, that I may take you.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000037_000000|They went together a long, long way, till they reached the palace of the King of the Snakes.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000038_000000|And Hassebu said to the King: 'It was not I: look at my back and you will see how they drove me to it.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000039_000000|'Who has beaten you like this?' asked the King.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000041_000000|'Then I am already dead,' said the King sadly, 'but you must carry me there yourself.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000000|So Hassebu carried him.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000001|And on the way the King said, 'When I arrive, I shall be killed, and my flesh will be cooked.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000002|But take some of the water that I am boiled in, and put it in a bottle and lay it on one side.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000003|The Vizir will tell you to drink it, but be careful not to do so.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000004|Then take some more of the water, and drink it, and you will become a great physician, and the third supply you will give to the Sultan.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000005|And when the Vizir comes to you and asks, "Did you drink what I gave you?" you must answer, "I did, and this is for you," and he will drink it and die! and your soul will rest.'
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000043_000000|And they went their way into the town, and all happened as the King of the Snakes had said.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000044_000000|And the Sultan loved Hassebu, who became a great physician, and cured many sick people.
train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000044_000001|But he was always sorry for the poor King of the Snakes.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000002_000000|Long, long ago there was born to a Roman knight and his wife Maja a little boy called Virgilius.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000002_000001|While he was still quite little, his father died, and the kinsmen, instead of being a help and protection to the child and his mother, robbed them of their lands and money, and the widow, fearing that they might take the boy's life also, sent him away to Spain, that he might study in the great University of Toledo.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000003_000001|But one afternoon, when the boys were given a holiday, he took a long walk, and found himself in a place where he had never been before.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000003_000002|In front of him was a cave, and, as no boy ever sees a cave without entering it, he went in.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000006_000000|'I do,' replied Virgilius.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000008_000000|'But who are you?' asked Virgilius, who never did anything in a hurry.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000009_000000|'I am an evil spirit,' said the voice, 'shut up here till Doomsday, unless a man sets me free.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000010_000001|Underneath was a small hole, and out of this the evil spirit gradually wriggled himself; but it took some time, for when at last he stood upon the ground he proved to be about three times as large as Virgilius himself, and coal black besides.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000011_000000|'Why, you can't have been as big as that when you were in the hole!' cried Virgilius.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000012_000000|'But I was!' replied the spirit.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000013_000000|'I don't believe it!' answered Virgilius.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000014_000000|'Well, I'll just get in and show you,' said the spirit, and after turning and twisting, and curling himself up, then he lay neatly packed into the hole.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000015_000001|But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in Toledo, begging him to come at once to Rome, as she had been ill, and could look after their affairs no longer.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000016_000000|Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showing promise of great learning, Virgilius would willingly have set out at once, but there were many things he had first to see to.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000016_000001|So he entrusted to the messenger four pack horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000016_000002|Then he set about his own preparations, and, followed by a large train of scholars, he at length started for Rome, from which he had been absent twelve years.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000017_000000|His mother welcomed him back with tears in her eyes, and his poor kinsmen pressed round him, but the rich ones kept away, for they feared that they would no longer be able to rob their kinsman as they had done for many years past.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000017_000001|Of course, Virgilius paid no attention to this behaviour, though he noticed they looked with envy on the rich presents he bestowed on the poorer relations and on anyone who had been kind to his mother.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000018_000000|Soon after this had happened the season of tax gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor. Like the rest, Virgilius went to court, and demanded justice from the emperor against the men who had robbed him.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000018_000001|But as these were kinsmen to the emperor he gained nothing, as the emperor told him he would think over the matter for the next four years, and then give judgment.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000018_000002|This reply naturally did not satisfy Virgilius, and, turning on his heel, he went back to his own home, and, gathering in his harvest, he stored it up in his various houses.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000019_000002|Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cast a spell over them of such power that they could not move, and then bade them defiance.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000019_000003|After which he lifted the spell, and the invading army slunk back to Rome, and reported what Virgilius had said to the emperor.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000020_000000|Now the emperor was accustomed to have his lightest word obeyed, almost before it was uttered, and he hardly knew how to believe his ears.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000000|Things seemed getting desperate, when a magician arrived in the camp and offered to sell his services to the emperor.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000001|His proposals were gladly accepted, and in a moment the whole of the garrison sank down as if they were dead, and Virgilius himself had much ado to keep awake.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000002|He did not know how to fight the magician, but with a great effort struggled to open his Black Book, which told him what spells to use.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000003|In an instant all his foes seemed turned to stone, and where each man was there he stayed.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000004|Some were half way up the ladders, some had one foot over the wall, but wherever they might chance to be there every man remained, even the emperor and his sorcerer.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000005|All day they stayed there like flies upon the wall, but during the night Virgilius stole softly to the emperor, and offered him his freedom, as long as he would do him justice.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000006|The emperor, who by this time was thoroughly frightened, said he would agree to anything Virgilius desired.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000007|So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and bestowing on every man a gift, bade them return to Rome.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000022_000003|Virgilius was enchanted at this quite unexpected favour, and stepped with glee into the basket.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000023_000001|The emperor, guessing that this was the work of Virgilius, besought him to break the spell.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000023_000003|And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and to suffer no neighbour to kindle it.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000023_000004|And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000025_000000|But the emperor was wroth at the vengeance of Virgilius, and threw him into prison, vowing that he should be put to death.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000025_000001|And when everything was ready he was led out to the Viminal Hill, where he was to die.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000026_000000|He went quietly with his guards, but the day was hot, and on reaching his place of execution he begged for some water.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000026_000001|A pail was brought, and he, crying 'Emperor, all hail! seek for me in Sicily,' jumped headlong into the pail, and vanished from their sight.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000027_000001|Virgilius spent many days in deep thought, and at length invented a plan which was known to all as the 'Preservation of Rome.'
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000029_000001|So the people chose three men who could be trusted, and, loading them with money, sent them to Rome, bidding them to pretend that they were diviners of dreams.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000029_000002|No sooner had the messengers reached the city than they stole out at night and buried a pot of gold far down in the earth, and let down another into the bed of the Tiber, just where a bridge spans the river.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000030_000000|Next day they went to the senate house, where the laws were made, and, bowing low, they said, 'Oh, noble lords, last night we dreamed that beneath the foot of a hill there lies buried a pot of gold.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000030_000001|Have we your leave to dig for it?' And leave having been given, the messengers took workmen and dug up the gold and made merry with it.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000031_000000|A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and said, 'Oh, noble lords, grant us leave to seek out another treasure, which has been revealed to us in a dream as lying under the bridge over the river.'
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000032_000000|And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000034_000001|Now, seeing that by your goodness we have been greatly enriched by our former dreams, we wish, in gratitude, to bestow this third treasure on you for your own profit; so give us workers, and we will begin to dig without delay.'
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000035_000000|And receiving permission they began to dig, and when the messengers had almost undermined the Capitol they stole away as secretly as they had come.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000037_000000|From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000038_000000|The emperor, desiring nothing so much as the safety of his subjects, took counsel with Virgilius how this violence could be put down.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000039_000000|Virgilius thought hard for a long time, and then he spoke:
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000040_000000|'Great prince,' said he, 'cause a copper horse and rider to be made, and stationed in front of the Capitol.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000040_000001|Then make a proclamation that at ten o'clock a bell will toll, and every man is to enter his house, and not leave it again.'
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000041_000000|The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laughed at the horse, and went about their misdeeds as usual.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000042_000000|But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop through the streets of Rome, and by daylight men counted over two hundred corpses that it had trodden down.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000043_000000|Then the emperor commanded two copper dogs to be made that would run after the horse, and when the thieves, hanging from the walls, mocked and jeered at Virgilius and the emperor, the dogs leaped high after them and pulled them to the ground, and bit them to death.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000045_000000|Now about this time there came to be noised abroad the fame of the daughter of the sultan who ruled over the province of Babylon, and indeed she was said to be the most beautiful princess in the world.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000047_000001|The hours passed as if they were minutes, till the princess said that she could be no longer absent from her father.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000050_000000|When they were all seated at the feast the princess rose and presented the cup to Virgilius, who directly he had drunk fell into a deep sleep.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000051_000000|Then the sultan ordered his guards to bind him, and left him there till the following day.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000052_000001|The moment he appeared the sultan's passion broke forth, and he accused his captive of the crime of conveying the princess into distant lands without his leave.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000054_000000|'Not so!' cried the sultan, 'but a shameful death you shall die!' And the princess fell on her knees, and begged she might die with him.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000055_000000|'You are out in your reckoning, Sir Sultan!' said Virgilius, whose patience was at an end, and he cast a spell over the sultan and his lords, so that they believed that the great river of Babylon was flowing through the hall, and that they must swim for their lives.
train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000055_000001|So, leaving them to plunge and leap like frogs and fishes, Virgilius took the princess in his arms, and carried her over the airy bridge back to Rome.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000004_000000|Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world all to himself to rule over, and in this world dwelt an old herd and his wife and their three daughters, Anna, Stana, and Laptitza.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000010_000000|'And if I,' said Stana, 'should be the one chosen, I would weave my husband a shirt which will keep him unscathed when he fights with dragons; when he goes through water he will never even be wet; or if through fire, it will not scorch him.'
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000014_000000|'And I will have you,' 'And I you,' exclaimed two of his friends, and they all rode back to the palace together.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000015_000002|And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one-that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000016_000000|Now the emperor had a stepmother, and she had a daughter by her first husband, who lived with her in the palace.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000016_000001|The girl's mother had always believed that her daughter would be empress, and not the 'Milkwhite Maiden,' the child of a mere shepherd.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000018_000000|At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. This time her scheme was successful.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000020_000001|No words were needed; he saw with his own eyes that Laptitza had not kept the promise she had made at the strawberry beds, and, though it nearly broke his heart, he must give orders for her punishment.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000022_000000|Not many days after, the stepmother's wish was fulfilled.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000024_000001|In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautiful young aspens, and the stepmother, who hated the sight of the trees, which reminded her of her crime, gave orders that they should be uprooted.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000025_000001|In each day they added a year's growth, and each night they added a year's growth, and at dawn, when the stars faded out of the sky, they grew three years' growth in the twinkling of an eye, and their boughs swept across the palace windows.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000026_000002|What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000028_000000|It was some time before the bait took, but at length-even emperors are only men!
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000029_000000|'Well, well,' he said at last, 'have your way and cut down the trees; but out of one they shall make a bed for me, and out of the other, one for you!'
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000030_000000|And with this the empress was forced to be content.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000032_000000|When the emperor was fast asleep, the bed began to crack loudly, and to the empress each crack had a meaning.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000033_000000|'Is it too heavy for you, little brother?' asked one of the beds.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000037_000000|By daybreak the empress had determined how to get rid of the beds.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000037_000001|She would have two others made exactly like them, and when the emperor had gone hunting they should be placed in his room.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000037_000002|This was done and the aspen beds were burnt in a large fire, till only a little heap of ashes was left.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000040_000000|But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks flew up, and, after floating in the air for a few moments, fell down into the great river that flows through the heart of the country.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000043_000000|'But what are we to do with you?' asked the fisherman.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000046_000000|And when he came back, what do you think he saw?
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000000|The boys grew fast.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000001|In every day they grew a year's growth, and in every night another year's growth, but at dawn, when the stars were fading, they grew three years' growth in the twinkling of an eye.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000002|And they grew in other things besides height, too.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000003|Thrice in age, and thrice in wisdom, and thrice in knowledge.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000004|And when three days and three nights had passed they were twelve years in age, twenty four in strength, and thirty six in wisdom.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000049_000001|'We wish to speak with the emperor,' said one of the boys.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000050_000000|'You must wait until he has finished his dinner,' replied the porter.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000051_000000|'No, while he is eating it,' said the second boy, stepping across the threshold.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000053_000000|'We desire to enter,' said one of the princes sharply to a servant who stood near the door.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000054_000000|'That is quite impossible,' replied the servant.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000060_000002|What boys are they?' said the emperor all in one breath.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000062_000000|The emperor, as he listened, grew red with anger.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000063_000001|'Set the dogs after them.'
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000065_000000|'The emperor commands you to return,' panted he: 'the empress wishes to see you.'
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000068_000000|'Take off your caps,' said one of the courtiers.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000070_000002|Where do you come from, and what do you want?'
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000071_000000|'We are twins, two shoots from one stem, which has been broken, and half lies in the ground and half sits at the head of this table.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000072_000000|And a second cushion fell down.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000073_000000|'Let them take their silliness home,' said the empress.
train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000077_000000|When they reached the warlike expedition of the emperor three of the cushions fell down at once.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000000_000000|CHAPTER fifteen DOUBT
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000001_000000|Marguerite Blakeney had watched the slight sable clad figure of Chauvelin, as he worked his way through the ball room.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000002_000000|Listlessly she sat in the small, still deserted boudoir, looking out through the curtained doorway on the dancing couples beyond: looking at them, yet seeing nothing, hearing the music, yet conscious of naught save a feeling of expectancy, of anxious, weary waiting.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000003_000000|Her mind conjured up before her the vision of what was, perhaps at this very moment, passing downstairs.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000005_000001|Ah! had Armand's life not been at stake! . . .
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000006_000000|"Faith! your ladyship must have thought me very remiss," said a voice suddenly, close to her elbow.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000006_000001|"I had a deal of difficulty in delivering your message, for I could not find Blakeney anywhere at first . . ."
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000008_000000|"I did find him at last," continued Lord Fancourt, "and gave him your message.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000008_000001|He said that he would give orders at once for the horses to be put to."
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000009_000000|"Ah!" she said, still very absently, "you found my husband, and gave him my message?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000010_000001|I could not manage to wake him up at first."
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000011_000000|"Thank you very much," she said mechanically, trying to collect her thoughts.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000016_000000|Lord Fancourt was very attentive.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000016_000001|She scarcely heard what he said, and suddenly startled him by asking abruptly,--
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000017_000000|"Lord Fancourt, did you perceive who was in the dining room just now besides Sir Percy Blakeney?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000018_000001|"Why does your ladyship ask?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000019_000000|"I know not . . .
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000019_000002|Did you notice the time when you were there?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000020_000000|"It must have been about five or ten minutes past one. . . .
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000020_000001|I wonder what your ladyship is thinking about," he added, for evidently the fair lady's thoughts were very far away, and she had not been listening to his intellectual conversation.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000000|But indeed her thoughts were not very far away: only one storey below, in this same house, in the dining room where sat Chauvelin still on the watch.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000001|Had he failed?
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000002|For one instant that possibility rose before as a hope-the hope that the Scarlet Pimpernel had been warned by Sir Andrew, and that Chauvelin's trap had failed to catch his bird; but that hope soon gave way to fear.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000003|Had he failed?
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000023_000000|"Shall I find out if your ladyship's coach is ready," he said at last, tentatively.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000025_000000|But Lord Fancourt went, and still Chauvelin did not come.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000025_000001|Oh! what had happened?
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000028_000000|Lord Grenville himself came presently to tell her that her coach was ready, and that Sir Percy was already waiting for her-ribbons in hand.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000033_000001|The crowd was very great, some of the Minister's guests were departing, others were leaning against the banisters watching the throng as it filed up and down the wide staircase.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000035_000000|"What has happened, dear lady?" he said, with affected surprise.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000035_000001|"Where? When?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000036_000000|"You are torturing me, Chauvelin.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000036_000002|What happened in the dining room at one o'clock just now?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000037_000000|She spoke in a whisper, trusting that in the general hubbub of the crowd her words would remain unheeded by all, save the man at her side.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000040_000000|"Nobody."
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000042_000000|"Yes! we have failed-perhaps . . ."
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000045_000000|"Chauvelin, I worked for you, sincerely, earnestly . . . remember . . ."
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000047_000000|"Which means that a brave man's blood will be on my hands," she said, with a shudder.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000048_000001|Surely at the present moment you must hope, as I do, that the enigmatical Scarlet Pimpernel will start for Calais to day-"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000050_000000|"And that is?"
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000053_000001|But Chauvelin remained urbane, sarcastic, mysterious; not a line betrayed to the poor, anxious woman whether she need fear or whether she dared to hope.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000054_000000|Downstairs on the landing she was soon surrounded.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000054_000003|"Give me some hope, my little Chauvelin," she pleaded.
train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000056_000000|"Pray heaven that the thread may not snap," he repeated, with his enigmatic smile.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000002_000001|But the islanders, while to the utmost of their power they repelled force with force, implored the assistance of the Divine mercy, and with constant imprecations invoked the vengeance of Heaven; and though such as curse cannot inherit the kingdom of God, yet it was believed, that those who were justly cursed on account of their impiety, soon suffered the penalty of their guilt at the avenging hand of God.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000005_000000|Chap. twenty seven.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000006_000003|Cuthbert, humbly submitting himself to this man's direction, from him received both a knowledge of the Scriptures, and an example of good works.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000000|After he had departed to the Lord, Cuthbert became provost of that monastery, where he instructed many in the rule of monastic life, both by the authority of a master, and the example of his own behaviour.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000002|In order to correct the error of both sorts, he often went forth from the monastery, sometimes on horseback, but oftener on foot, and went to the neighbouring townships, where he preached the way of truth to such as had gone astray; which Boisil also in his time had been wont to do.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000003|It was then the custom of the English people, that when a clerk or priest came to a township, they all, at his summons, flocked together to hear the Word; willingly heard what was said, and still more willingly practised those things that they could hear and understand.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000005|He was wont chiefly to resort to those places and preach in those villages which were situated afar off amid steep and wild mountains, so that others dreaded to go thither, and whereof the poverty and barbarity rendered them inaccessible to other teachers.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000009_000001|How the same saint Cuthbert, living the life of an Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000010_000002|When, after expelling the enemy, he had, with the help of the brethren, built himself a narrow dwelling, with a mound about it, and the necessary cells in it, to wit, an oratory and a common living room, he ordered the brothers to dig a pit in the floor of the room, although the ground was hard and stony, and no hopes appeared of any spring.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000010_000003|When they had done this relying upon the faith and prayers of the servant of God, the next day it was found to be full of water, and to this day affords abundance of its heavenly bounty to all that resort thither.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000010_000004|He also desired that instruments for husbandry might be brought him, and some wheat; but having prepared the ground and sown the wheat at the proper season, no sign of a blade, not to speak of ears, had sprouted from it by the summer.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000012_000000|Following the example of the blessed Apostles, he adorned the episcopal dignity by his virtuous deeds; for he both protected the people committed to his charge by constant prayer, and roused them, by wholesome admonitions, to thoughts of Heaven.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000012_000001|He first showed in his own life what he taught others to do, a practice which greatly strengthens all teaching; for he was above all things inflamed with the fire of Divine charity, of sober mind and patient, most diligently intent on devout prayers, and kindly to all that came to him for comfort.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000012_000003|And when he offered up to God the Sacrifice of the saving Victim, he commended his prayer to the Lord, not with uplifted voice, but with tears drawn from the bottom of his heart.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000015_000000|There was a certain priest, called Herebert, a man of holy life, who had long been united with the man of God, Cuthbert, in the bonds of spiritual friendship.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000015_000003|Whilst they alternately entertained one another with draughts of the celestial life, the bishop, among other things, said, "Brother Herebert, remember at this time to ask me and speak to me concerning all whereof you have need to ask and speak; for, when we part, we shall never again see one another with bodily eyesight in this world.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000017_000000|The most reverend father died in the isle of Farne, earnestly entreating the brothers that he might also be buried there, where he had served no small time under the Lord's banner.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000019_000000|In order to show forth the great glory of the life after death of the man of God, Cuthbert, whereas the loftiness of his life before his death had been revealed by the testimony of many miracles, when he had been buried eleven years, Divine Providence put it into the minds of the brethren to take up his bones.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000019_000001|They thought to find them dry and all the rest of the body consumed and turned to dust, after the manner of the dead, and they desired to put them into a new coffin, and to lay them in the same place, but above the pavement, for the honour due to him.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000019_000002|They made known their resolve to Bishop Eadbert, and he consented to it, and bade them to be mindful to do it on the anniversary of his burial.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000020_000002|The miracles of healing, sometimes wrought in that place testify to the merits of them both; of some of these we have before preserved the memory in the book of his life.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000020_000003|But in this History we have thought fit to add some others which have lately come to our knowledge.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000021_000001|Of one that was cured of a palsy at his tomb.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000022_000002|When he got up, he felt one half of his body, from the head to the foot, struck with palsy, and with great trouble made his way home by the help of a staff.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000000|He did accordingly as he had determined, and supporting his weak limbs with a staff, entered the church.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000001|There prostrating himself before the body of the man of God, he prayed with pious earnestness, that, through his intercession, the Lord might be propitious to him.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000002|As he prayed, he seemed to fall into a deep sleep, and, as he was afterwards wont to relate, felt a large and broad hand touch his head, where the pain lay, and likewise pass over all that part of his body which had been benumbed by the disease, down to his feet.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000003|Gradually the pain departed and health returned.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000004|Then he awoke, and rose up in perfect health, and returning thanks to the Lord for his recovery, told the brothers what had been done for him; and to the joy of them all, returned the more zealously, as if chastened by the trial of his affliction, to the service which he was wont before to perform with care.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000024_000000|Moreover, the very garments which had been on Cuthbert's body, dedicated to God, either while he was alive, or after his death, were not without the virtue of healing, as may be seen in the book of his life and miracles, by such as shall read it.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000025_000000|Chap. thirty two.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000025_000001|Of one who was lately cured of a disease in his eye at the relics of saint Cuthbert.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000000|Nor is that cure to be passed over in silence, which was performed by his relics three years ago, and was told me lately by the brother himself, on whom it was wrought.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000002|In that monastery was a youth whose eyelid was disfigured by an unsightly tumour, which growing daily greater, threatened the loss of the eye.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000003|The physicians endeavoured to mitigate it by applying ointments, but in vain. Some said it ought to be cut off; others opposed this course, for fear of greater danger.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000004|The brother having long laboured under this malady, when no human means availed to save his eye, but rather, it grew daily worse, on a sudden, through the grace of the mercy of God, it came to pass that he was cured by the relics of the holy father, Cuthbert.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000005|For when the brethren found his body uncorrupted, after having been many years buried, they took some part of the hair, to give, as relics, to friends who asked for them, or to show, in testimony of the miracle.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000027_000000|One of the priests of the monastery, named Thruidred, who is now abbot there, had a small part of these relics by him at that time.
train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000027_000002|The priest, having given his friend as much as he thought fit, gave the rest to the youth to put back into its place.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000004_000000|INDIANA
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000001|Life had assumed a more settled and orderly course.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000004|Thomas Lincoln, concluding that Kentucky was no country for a poor man, determined to seek his fortune in Indiana.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000005|He had heard of rich and unoccupied lands in Perry County in that State, and thither he determined to go.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000007|He met with only one accident on his way: his raft capsized in the Ohio River, but he fished up his kit of tools and most of the ardent spirits, and arrived safely at the place of a settler named Posey, with whom he left his odd invoice of household goods for the wilderness, while he started on foot to look for a home in the dense forest.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000008|He selected a spot which pleased him in his first day's journey.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000012|Insufficient bedding and clothing, a few pans and kettles, were their sole movable wealth.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000013|They relied on Lincoln's kit of tools for their furniture, and on his rifle for their food.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000014|At Posey's they hired a wagon and literally hewed a path through the wilderness to their new habitation near Little Pigeon Creek, a mile and a half east of Gentryville, in a rich and fertile forest country.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000007_000000|Thomas Lincoln, with the assistance of his wife and children, built a temporary shelter of the sort called in the frontier language "a half faced camp"; merely a shed of poles, which defended the inmates on three sides from foul weather, but left them open to its inclemency in front.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000007_000002|They moved into the latter before it was half completed; for by this time the Sparrows had followed the Lincolns from Kentucky, and the half faced camp was given up to them.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000007_000008|A few three legged stools; a bedstead made of poles stuck between the logs in the angle of the cabin, the outside corner supported by a crotched stick driven into the ground; the table, a huge hewed log standing on four legs; a pot, kettle, and skillet, and a few tin and pewter dishes were all the furniture.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000003|The rank woods were full of malaria, and singular epidemics from time to time ravaged the settlements.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000005|In many cases those who apparently recovered lingered for years with health seriously impaired.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000006|Among the Pioneers of Pigeon Creek, so ill fed, ill housed, and uncared for, there was little prospect of recovery from such a grave disorder.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000007|The Sparrows, husband and wife, died early in October, and Nancy Hanks Lincoln followed them after an interval of a few days. Thomas Lincoln made the coffins for his dead "out of green lumber cut with a whipsaw," and they were all buried, with scant ceremony, in a little clearing of the forest.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000009|[Footnote: A stone has been placed over the site of the grave "by p e Studebaker, of south bend indiana." The stone bears the following inscription: "Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of President Lincoln, died october fifth, a d eighteen eighteen, aged thirty five years.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000006|She had a store of household goods which filled a four horse wagon borrowed of Ralph Grume, Thomas Lincoln's brother in law, to transport the bride to Indiana.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000008|The lack of doors and floors was at once corrected.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000011|She dressed the children in warmer clothing and put them to sleep in comfortable beds.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000012|With this slight addition to their resources the family were much improved in appearance, behavior, and self respect.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000011_000000|Thomas Lincoln joined the Baptist church at Little Pigeon in eighteen twenty three; his oldest child, Sarah, followed his example three years later.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000011_000001|They were known as active and consistent members of that communion.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000000|Such a woman as Sarah Bush could not be careless of so important a matter as the education of her children, and they made the best use of the scanty opportunities the neighborhood afforded.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000002|There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin', and cipherin' to the Rule of Three.' If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000003|There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education." But in the case of this ungainly boy there was no necessity of any external incentive.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000008|He learned to write, first, that he might have an accomplishment his playmates had not; then that he might help his elders by writing their letters, and enjoy the feeling of usefulness which this gave him; and finally that he might copy what struck him in his reading and thus make it his own for future use.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000010|Had it not been for that interior spur which kept his clear spirit at its task, his schools could have done little for him; for, counting his attendance under Riney and Hazel in Kentucky, and under Dorsey, Crawford, and Swaney in Indiana, it amounted to less than a year in all.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000011|The schools were much alike.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000014|After a few months of desultory instruction young Abraham knew all that these vagrant literati could teach him. His last school days were passed with one Swaney in eighteen twenty six, who taught at a distance of four and a half miles from the Lincoln cabin.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000015|The nine miles of walking doubtless seemed to Thomas Lincoln a waste of time, and the lad was put at steady work and saw no more of school.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000000|But it is questionable whether he lost anything by being deprived of the ministrations of the backwoods dominies.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000001|When his tasks ended, his studies became the chief pleasure of his life.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000002|In all the intervals of his work-in which he never took delight, knowing well enough that he was born for something better than that-he read, wrote, and ciphered incessantly.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000004|But his voracity for anything printed was insatiable.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000005|He would sit in the twilight and read a dictionary as long as he could see.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000007|He could not afford to waste paper upon his original compositions.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000010|He wrought his appointed tasks ungrudgingly, though without enthusiasm; but when his employer's day was over, his own began.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000011|john Hanks says: "When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." The picture may be lacking in grace, but its truthfulness is beyond question.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000012|The habit remained with him always.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000013|Some of his greatest work in later years was done in this grotesque Western fashion,--"sitting on his shoulder blades."
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000004|Some of his comrades remember still his bursts of righteous wrath, when a boy, against the wanton murder of turtles and other creatures.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000006|At home he was the life of the singularly assorted household, which consisted, besides his parents and himself, of his own sister, mrs Lincoln's two girls and boy, Dennis Hanks, the legacy of the dying Sparrow family, and john Hanks (son of the carpenter Joseph with whom Thomas Lincoln learned his trade), who came from Kentucky several years after the others.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000008|It was a happy and united household: brothers and sisters and cousins living peacefully under the gentle rule of the good stepmother, but all acknowledging from a very early period the supremacy in goodness and cleverness of their big brother Abraham.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000009|mrs Lincoln, not long before her death, gave striking testimony of his winning and loyal character.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000010|She said to mr Herndon: "I can say, what scarcely one mother in a thousand can say, Abe never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused in fact or appearance to do anything I asked him.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000011|His mind and mine-what little I had-seemed to run together....
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000000|"We are making no claim of early saintship for him.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000001|He was merely a good boy, with sufficient wickedness to prove his humanity.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000003|It is also reported that he sometimes impeded the celerity of harvest operations by making burlesque speeches, or worse than that, comic sermons, from the top of some tempting stump, to the delight of the hired hands and the exasperation of the farmer.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000004|His budding talents as a writer were not always used discreetly.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000006|From this arose occasional heart burnings and feuds, in which Abraham bore his part according to the custom of the country.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000007|Despite his Quaker ancestry and his natural love of peace, he was no non resistant, and when he once entered upon a quarrel the opponent usually had the worst of it.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000008|But he was generous and placable, and some of his best friends were those with whom he had had differences, and had settled them in the way then prevalent,--in a ring of serious spectators, calmly and judicially ruminant, under the shade of some spreading oak, at the edge of the timber.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000009|Before we close our sketch of this period of Lincoln's life, it may not be amiss to glance for a moment at the state of society among the people with whom his lot was cast in these important years.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000001|Their houses were usually of one room, built of round logs with the bark on.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000002|We have known a man to gain the sobriquet of "Split log Mitchell" by indulging in the luxury of building a cabin of square hewn timbers.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000004|Their shoes were of the same, and a good Western authority calls a wet moccasin "a decent way of going barefoot." About the time, however, when Lincoln grew to manhood, garments of wool and of tow began to be worn, dyed with the juice of the butternut or white walnut, and the hides of neat cattle began to be tanned.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000006|There was little public worship.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000008|If a man was possessed of a wagon, the family rode luxuriously; but as a rule the men walked and the women went on horseback with the little children in their arms.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000010|Arriving at the place of meeting, which was some log cabin if the weather was foul, or the shade of a tree if it was fair, the assembled worshipers threw their provisions into a common store and picnicked in neighborly companionship.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000020_000002|In these affairs the women naturally took no part; but weddings, which were entertainments scarcely less rude and boisterous, were their own peculiar province.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000020_000004|The guests assembled in the morning.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000000|They were full of strange superstitions.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000001|The belief in witchcraft had long ago passed away with the smoke of the fagots from old and New England, but it survived far into this century in Kentucky and the lower halves of Indiana and Illinois-touched with a peculiar tinge of African magic.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000002|The pioneers believed in it for good and evil.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000003|Their veterinary practice was mostly by charms and incantations; and when a person believed himself bewitched, a shot at the image of the witch with a bullet melted out of a half dollar was the favorite curative agency.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000005|A dog crossing the hunter's path spoiled his day, unless he instantly hooked his little fingers together, and pulled till the animal disappeared.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000007|The commonest occurrences were heralds of death and doom.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000008|A bird lighting in a window, a dog baying at certain hours, the cough of a horse in the direction of a child, the sight, or worse still, the touch of a dead snake, heralded domestic woe.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000011|They must fell trees for fence rails before noon, and in the waxing of the moon.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000000|Among these people, and in all essential respects one of them, Abraham Lincoln passed his childhood and youth.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000001|He was not remarkably precocious.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000002|His mind was slow in acquisition, and his powers of reasoning and rhetoric improved constantly to the end of his life, at a rate of progress marvelously regular and sustained.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000005|He occasionally astounded his companions by such glimpses of occult science as that the world is round and that the sun is relatively stationary.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000006|He wrote, for his own amusement and edification, essays on politics, of which gentlemen of standing who had been favored with a perusal said with authority, at the cross roads grocery, "The world can't beat it." One or two of these compositions got into print and vastly increased the author's local fame.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000009|But perhaps, after all, the thing which gained and fixed his mastery over his fellows was to a great degree his gigantic stature and strength.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000010|He attained his full growth, six feet and four inches, two years before he came of age.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000011|He rarely met with a man he could not easily handle.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000012|His strength is still a tradition in Spencer County.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000013|One aged man says that he has seen him pick up and carry away a chicken house weighing six hundred pounds.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000014|At another time, seeing some men preparing a contrivance for lifting some large posts, Abe quickly shouldered the posts and took them where they were needed.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000017|But there is evidence that he felt too large for the life of a farmhand on Pigeon Creek, and his thoughts naturally turned, after the manner of restless boys in the West, to the river, as the avenue of escape from the narrow life of the woods.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000019|But in eighteen twenty eight an opportunity offered for a little glimpse of the world outside, and the boy gladly embraced it.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000020|He was hired by mr Gentry, the proprietor of the neighboring village of Gentryville, to accompany his son with a flat boat of produce to New Orleans and intermediate landings.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000021|The voyage was made successfully, and Abraham gained great credit for his management and sale of the cargo.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000027_000000|The next autumn, john Hanks, the steadiest and most trustworthy of his family, went to Illinois.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000027_000004|His daughter Sarah or Nancy, for she was called by both names, who married Aaron Grigsby a few years before, had died in childbirth. The emigrating family consisted of the Lincolns, john Johnston, mrs Lincoln's son, and her daughters, mrs Hall and mrs Hanks, with their husbands.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000001|He met them with a frank and energetic welcome.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000003|They numbered men enough to build without calling in their neighbors, and immediately put up a cabin on the north fork of the Sangamon River.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000004|The family thus housed and sheltered, one more bit of filial work remained for Abraham before assuming his virile independence.
train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000005|With the assistance of john Hanks he plowed fifteen acres, and split, from the tall walnut trees of the primeval forest, enough rails to surround them with a fence.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000004_000000|EARLY LAW PRACTICE
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000006_000005|The suits consisted of actions of tort and assumpsit.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000003|It may be true; if it must, let it.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000006|Broken by it I, too, may be; bow to it, I never will.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000008|It shall not deter me.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000013|But if after all we should fail, be it so.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000022_000001|Douglas has not been here since you left.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000022_000004|Noah, I still think, will be elected very easily.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000022_000009|The very moment a speaker is elected, write me who he is.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000026_000003|You know I am never sanguine; but I believe we will carry the State.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000027_000005|Yesterday Douglas, having chosen to consider himself insulted by something in the 'Journal,' undertook to cane Francis in the street.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000028_000002|He sought a quarrel with the latter, during their canvass in eighteen thirty eight, in a grocery, with the usual result.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000029_000003|I was much, very much, wounded myself, at his being left out.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000030_000001|This demoralizing doctrine had been promulgated by Jackson, and acted upon for so many years that it was too much to expect of human nature that the Whigs should not adopt it, partially at least, when their turn came, But we are left in no doubt as to the way in which Lincoln regarded the unseemly scramble.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000032_000001|We give this remarkable letter entire, from the manuscript submitted to us by the late john t Stuart:
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000034_000004|To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000034_000007|If I could be myself, I would rather remain at home with Judge Logan.
train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000034_000008|I can write no more.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000005_000000|As he was passing the house of Boo'koo, the big rat, that worthy gentleman invited him in.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000005_000001|So he went in, sat down, and remarked: "My father has died, and has left me a hive of honey.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000005_000002|I would like you to come and help me to eat it."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000006_000000|Of course Bookoo jumped at the offer, and he and the hare started off immediately.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000008_000000|In the midst of the feast, who should appear at the foot of the tree but Sim'ba, the lion?
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000008_000001|Looking up, and seeing them eating, he asked, "Who are you?"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000009_000001|Speak, I tell you!"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000009_000002|This made Bookoo so scared that he blurted out, "It's only us!"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000010_000000|Upon this the hare said to him: "You just wrap me up in this straw, call to the lion to keep out of the way, and then throw me down.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000012_000000|After waiting a minute or two, Simba roared out, "Well, come down, I say!" and, there being no help for it, the big rat came down.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000013_000000|As soon as he was within reach, the lion caught hold of him, and asked, "Who was up there with you?"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000014_000001|Didn't you see him when I threw him down?"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000015_000000|"Of course I didn't see him," replied the lion, in an incredulous tone, and, without wasting further time, he ate the big rat, and then searched around for the hare, but could not find him.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000017_000000|"Whose honey?" inquired Kobay, cautiously.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000019_000000|"Oh, all right; I'm with you," said the tortoise, eagerly; and away they went.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000020_000000|When they arrived at the great calabash tree they climbed up with their straw, smoked out the bees, sat down, and began to eat.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000021_000000|Just then mr Simba, who owned the honey, came out again, and, looking up, inquired, "Who are you, up there?"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000022_000001|You told me this honey was yours; am I right in suspecting that it belongs to Simba?"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000023_000000|So, when the lion asked again, "Who are you?" he answered, "It's only us." The lion said, "Come down, then;" and the tortoise answered, "We're coming."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000025_000001|I'll wait for you below.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000025_000002|He can't hurt you, you know."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000026_000000|"All right," said Kobay; but while he was wrapping the hare up he said to himself: "This fellow wants to run away, and leave me to bear the lion's anger.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000029_000000|So the lion, being deceived, took him by the tail and whirled him around, but just as he was going to knock him on the ground he slipped out of his grasp and ran away, and Simba had the mortification of losing him again.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000030_000000|Angry and disappointed, he turned to the tree and called to Kobay, "You come down, too."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000031_000000|When the tortoise reached the ground, the lion said, "You're pretty hard; what can I do to make you eatable?"
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000032_000000|"Oh, that's easy," laughed Kobay; "just put me in the mud and rub my back with your paw until my shell comes off."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000033_000000|Immediately on hearing this, Simba carried Kobay to the water, placed him in the mud, and began, as he supposed, to rub his back; but the tortoise had slipped away, and the lion continued rubbing on a piece of rock until his paws were raw.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000033_000001|When he glanced down at them he saw they were bleeding, and, realizing that he had again been outwitted, he said, "Well, the hare has done me to day, but I'll go hunting now until I find him."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000035_000000|Without loss of time the lion climbed the mountain, and soon arrived at the place indicated, only to find that there was no one at home.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000036_000001|Stopping at once, he said to mrs Soongoora: "You go back, my dear.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000036_000002|Simba, the lion, has passed this way, and I think he must be looking for me."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000037_000000|But she replied, "I will not go back; I will follow you, my husband."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000038_000001|Go back."
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000039_000000|So he persuaded her, and she went back; but he kept on, following the footmarks, and saw-as he had suspected-that they went into his house.
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000040_000001|Lion is inside, is he?" Then, cautiously going back a little way, he called out: "How d'ye do, house?
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000042_000000|Then Soongoora burst out laughing, and shouted: "Oho, mr Simba!
train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000044_000000|"Oh, I think you'll have to do the waiting," cried the hare; and then he ran away, the lion following.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000002_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000004|Paul could not plead.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000005|It was he who, in a way, had cast her off.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000008|It was final, as far as he was concerned.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000009|He could do nothing-not even beg his dearest lady to plead for him.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000000|As in his first speech, so in his campaign, he failed.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000001|He had been chosen for his youth, his joyousness, his magnetism, his radiant promise of great things to come.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000002|He went about the constituency an anxious, haggard man, working himself to death without being able to awaken a spark of emotion in the heart of anybody.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000004|On the other hand, Silas Finn, with his enthusiasms, and his aspect of an inspired prophet, made alarming progress.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000005|He swept the multitude.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000008|But hope reigned among his official supporters, whereas depression began to descend over Paul's brilliant host.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000005_000000|"They want stirring up a bit," said the Conservative agent despondently.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000005_000002|They nearly raised the roof off last night.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000006_000000|"I do my best," said Paul coldly, but the reproach cut deep.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000007_000000|Once on coming out of his headquarters he met Silas, who was walking up the street with two or three of his committee men.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000007_000002|This was the first time they had come together since the afternoon of revelation, and there was a moment of constraint during which Silas tugged at his streaked beard and looked with mournful wistfulness at his son.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000009_000001|"I see you're putting up an excellent fight."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000010_000000|"It's the Lord's battle.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000010_000001|If it weren't, do you think I would not let you win?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000011_000000|The same old cry.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000011_000001|Through sheer repetition, Paul began almost to believe in it.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000011_000003|In his father's eyes he recognized, with a pang, the glow of a faith which he had lost.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000012_000000|"That's the advantage of a belief in the Almighty's personal interest," he answered, with a touch of irony: "whatever happens, one is not easily disillusioned."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000013_000000|"That is true, my son," said Silas.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000014_000000|"Jane is well?" Paul asked, after an instant's pause, breaking off the profitless discussion.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000015_000000|"Very well."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000016_000000|"And Barney Bill?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000017_000000|"He upbraids me bitterly for what I have said."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000018_000000|Paul smiled at the curiously stilted phrase.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000019_000000|"Tell him from me not to do it.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000019_000001|My love to them both."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000020_000000|They shook hands again, and Paul drove off in the motor car that had been placed at his disposal during the election, and Silas continued his sober walk with his committee men up the muddy street.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000020_000001|Whereupon Paul conceived a sudden hatred for the car.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000020_000002|It was but the final artistic touch to this comedy of mockery of which he had been the victim....
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000021_000000|He turned suddenly to his companion, the Conservative agent.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000023_000000|The agent, not being versed in speculations regarding the attributes of the Deity, stared; then, disinclined to commit himself, took refuge in platitude.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000025_000000|"That's rot," said Paul.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000025_000001|"If there's an Almighty, He must move in a common sense way; otherwise the whole of this planet would have busted up long ago.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000026_000000|"Certainly not," said the agent, fervently.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000027_000000|"Then if God supported it, it wouldn't be common sense on His part.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000027_000001|It would be merely mysterious?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000001|"Our opponent undoubtedly has been making free with the name of the Almighty in his speeches.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000002|As a matter of fact he's rather crazy on the subject.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000003|I don't think it would be a bad move to make a special reference to it.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000004|It's all damned hypocrisy.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000005|There's a chap in the old French play-what's his name?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000000|"That's it.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000004|You can score tremendously.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000005|I never thought of it before.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000006|By George! you can get him in the neck if you like."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000031_000000|"But I don't like," said Paul.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000033_000000|"It's the difference between dirt and cleanliness," said Paul. "Besides, as I told you at the outset, mr Finn and I are close personal friends, and I have the highest regard for his character.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000035_000000|"It wasn't with mr Finn's cognizance.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000036_000001|That's a devilish good catch phrase," he added, starting forward in the joy of his newborn epigram: "Devilish good.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000036_000002|'The spoiled minion of the Almighty's ante chamber.' It'll become historical."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000037_000000|"If it does," said Paul, "it will be associated with the immediate retirement of the Conservative candidate."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000000|It was Paul's turn to start forward.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000001|"My dear Wilson," said he, "if you or anybody else thinks I'm a man to talk through his hat, I'll retire at once.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000002|I don't care a damn about myself.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000003|Not a little tuppenny damn. What the devil does it matter to me whether I get into Parliament or not?
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000004|Nothing.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000005|Not a tuppenny damn.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000006|You can't understand.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000007|It's the party and the country.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000008|For myself, personally, the whole thing can go to blazes.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000011|"But while I'm candidate everything I say I mean.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000012|I mean it intensely-with all my soul.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000040_000000|The agent watched the workings of his candidate's dark clear cut face. He was very proud of his candidate, and found it difficult to realize that there were presumably sane people who would not vote for him on sight.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000040_000001|A lingering memory of grammar school days flashed on him when he told his wife later of the conversation, and he likened Paul to a wrathful Apollo.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000041_000000|"It was the merest of suggestions, mr Savelli.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000041_000001|Heaven knows we don't want to descend to personalities, and your retirement would be an unqualifiable disaster.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000041_000002|But-you'll pardon my mentioning it-you began this discussion by asking me whether the Almighty had common sense."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000042_000000|"Well, has He or not?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000043_000000|"Of course," said Wilson.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000000|If he could have met enthusiasm with enthusiasm, all would have been well.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000001|The awakener of England could have captivated hearts by glowing pictures of a great and glorious future.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000002|It would have been a counter blaze to that lit by his opponent, which flamed in all the effulgence of a reckless reformer's promise, revealing a Utopia in which there would be no drunkenness, no crime, no poverty, and in which the rich, apparently, would have to work very hard in order to support the poor in comfortable idleness.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000003|But beyond proving fallacies, Paul could do nothing-and even then, has there ever been a mob since the world began susceptible to logical argument?
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000004|So, all through the wintry days of the campaign, Silas Finn carried his fiery cross through the constituency, winning frenzied adherents, while Paul found it hard to rally the faithful round the drooping standard of saint George.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000046_000001|Paul addressed his last meeting on the eve of the poll.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000046_000002|By a supreme effort he regained some of his former fire and eloquence.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000046_000003|He drove home exhausted, and going straight to bed slept like a dog till morning.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000047_000000|The servant who woke him brought a newspaper to the bedside.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000048_000000|"Something to interest you, sir."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000049_000000|Paul looked at the headline indicated by the man.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000050_000000|"Hickney Heath Election.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000050_000001|Liberal Candidate's Confession.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000051_000002|The spectre of the prison had risen up against him.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000052_000000|Towards the end of Silas Finn's speech, at his last great meeting, a man, sitting in the body of the hall near the platform, got up and interrupted him.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000052_000001|"What about your own past life?
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000052_000003|There was an angry tumult, and the interrupter would have fared badly, but for Silas Finn holding up his hand and imploring silence.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000053_000000|"I challenge the candidate to deny," said the man, as soon as he could be heard, "that his real name is Silas Kegworthy, and that he underwent three years' penal servitude for murderously assaulting his wife."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000054_000000|Then the candidate braced himself and said: "The bare facts are true. But I have lived stainlessly in the fear of God and in the service of humanity for thirty years.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000054_000001|I have sought absolution for a moment of mad anger under awful provocation in unremitting prayer and in trying to save the souls and raise the fortunes of my fellow men.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000054_000002|Is that all you have against me?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000055_000000|"That's all," said the man.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000056_000000|"It is for you, electors of Hickney Heath, to judge me."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000057_000000|He sat down amid tumultuous cheers, and the man who had interrupted him, after some rough handling, managed to make his escape.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000057_000001|The chairman then put a vote of confidence in the candidate, which was carried by acclamation, and the meeting broke up.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000058_000000|Such were the essential facts in the somewhat highly coloured newspaper story which Paul read in stupefied horror.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000058_000001|He dressed quickly and went to his sitting room, where he rang up his father's house on the telephone.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000058_000002|Jane's voice met his ear.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000059_000000|"It's Paul speaking," he replied.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000059_000003|How is my father?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000060_000000|"He's greatly upset," came the voice.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000060_000002|Oh, it was a cruel, cowardly blow."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000062_000000|"no Don't you?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000063_000000|"I?
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000063_000001|Does either of you think that I-?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000064_000000|"No, no," came the voice, now curiously tearful.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000064_000001|"I didn't mean that.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000064_000002|I forgot you've not had time to find out."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000067_000000|"Were you at the meeting?"
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000001|Oh, Paul, it was splendid to see him face the audience.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000002|He spoke so simply and with such sorrowful dignity.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000004|But it has broken him.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000069_000000|"It's all that's damnable.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000069_000001|It's tragic.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000070_000000|He rang off.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000070_000001|Almost immediately Wilson was announced.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000070_000002|He came into the room radiant.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000071_000000|"You were right about the divine common sensicality," said he.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000072_000000|He was a chubby little man of forty, with coarse black hair and scrubby moustache, not of the type that readily appreciates the delicacies of a situation.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000073_000000|"I would give anything for it not to have happened," he said.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000000|Wilson opened his eyes.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000003|An ex convict-it's enough to damn any candidate.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000004|But we want to make sure.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000005|Now I've got an idea."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000075_000000|Paul turned on him angrily.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000075_000001|"I'll have no capital made out of it whatsoever.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000075_000002|It's a foul thing to bring such an accusation up against a man who has lived a spotless life for thirty years.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000077_000000|"There's nothing to be done, except to find out who put up the man to make the announcement."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000078_000000|"He did it on his own," Wilson replied warmly.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000078_000001|"None of our people would resort to a dirty trick like that."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000080_000000|"That's quite a different matter."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000081_000000|"I can't see much difference," said Paul.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000001|But he could not eat.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000002|He was both stricken with shame and moved to the depths by immense pity.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000004|Each had made his way from the slum, each had been guided by an inner light-was Silas Finn's fantastic belief less of an ignis fatuus than his own?--each had sought to get away from a past, each was a child of Ishmael, each, in his own way, had lived romantically.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000006|He was very near him.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000007|The shame of the prison struck him as it had struck the old man.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000008|He saw him bowed down under the blow, and he clenched his hands in a torture of anger and indignation.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000009|And to crown all, came the intolerable conviction, in the formation of which Wilson's triumphant words had not been necessary, that if he won the election it would be due to this public dishonouring of his own father.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000010|He walked about the room in despair, and at last halted before the mantelpiece on which still stood the photograph of the Princess in its silver frame.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000011|Suddenly he remembered that he had not told her of this incident in his family history.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000013|He saw her proud lips curl.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000015|He tore the photograph from its frame and threw it into the fire and watched it burn.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000019|He had far sterner things to do than shriek his heart out over a woman in an alien star.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000020|He had his life to reconstruct in the darkness threatening and mocking; but at last he had truth for a foundation; on that he would build in defiance of the world.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000000|In the midst of these fine thoughts it occurred to him that he had hidden the prison episode in his father's career from the Winwoods as well as from the Princess.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000002|He went downstairs, and found the Colonel and Miss Winwood in the dining room.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000003|Their faces were grave.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000004|He came to them with outstretched arms-a familiar gesture, one doubtless inherited from his Sicilian ancestry.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000084_000002|I didn't tell you.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000084_000003|You must forgive me."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000085_000000|"I don't blame you, my boy," said Colonel Winwood.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000085_000002|You had no right to tell us."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000087_000001|He thanked them simply.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000088_000000|"It's hateful," said he, "to think I may win the election on account of this.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000088_000001|It's loathsome." He shuddered.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000089_000000|"I quite agree with you," said the Colonel.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000089_000001|"But in politics one has often to put up with hateful things in order to serve one's country. That's the sacrifice a high minded man is called upon to make."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000090_000000|"Besides," said Miss Winwood, "let us hope it won't affect votes.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000090_000001|All the papers say that the vote of confidence was passed amid scenes of enthusiasm."
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000091_000001|They understood.
train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000091_000002|A little while later they drove off with him to his committee room in the motor car gay with his colours.
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train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000002_000000|Symphony and Symphonic Poem
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000003_000000|That adventurous spirit, Claudio Monteverde, who nearly three hundred years ago made himself responsible for the first feeble utterances of an orchestra that tried to say something for itself, divined the possibilities of expression in varying combinations of tone quality and gave vigorous impulse to the germ of the symphony already existing in the formless instrumental preludes and interludes of his predecessors among opera makers.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000003_000002|The prelude developed into the operatic overture whose business it became to prepare the spectator for what followed.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000004_000001|As the vocal aria was the result of the simple folk song combined with the intense craving of song's master molders for individual expression, so instrumental music striving to walk alone, without support from words, gained vital elements through the discovery that various phases of mental disposition might be indicated by alternating dance tunes differing in rhythm and movement, according to Nature's own law of contrasts.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000004_000002|That unity of purpose was essential to the effectiveness of the diversity was instinctively discerned.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000005_000001|These compositions were usually written for the harpsichord and perhaps three instruments of the viol order, the master himself playing the leading melody on the violin.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000005_000004|Absolute music was set once for all on the right path by them.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000006_000001|It ceased to be a mere grouping of dances, the name suite being applied to that, and struck out into independent excursions in the domain of fancy.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000006_000002|The prevailing melody of its monophonic style proved suitable to furnish a subject for the most animated discussion.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000007_000000|A German critic has jocosely remarked that the early writers meant the sonata to show first what they could do, second what they could feel, and third how glad they were to have finished.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000007_000001|Time vastly increased its importance.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000007_000002|Two subjects, a melody in the tonic, another usually in the dominant, came to set forth the exposition of the opening movement, leading to a free development, with various episodes, and an assured return to the original statement.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000001|His thirty years of musical service to the house of Esterhazy, with an orchestra increasing from sixteen to twenty four pieces to experiment on, as the solo virtuoso experiments on piano or violin, brought him wholly under the spell of the instruments.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000002|Their individual characteristics afforded him continually new suggestions in regard to tone coloring, and he rose often to audacity, for his time, in his harmonic devices.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000003|Grace and spirit, originality of invention, joyous abandon, a fancy controlled by a studious mind, a profusion of quaint humor and a proper division of light and shade, combine to give the dominant note to his music.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000004|His symphonies recall the fairy tale, with its sparkling "once upon a time," and yet like it are not without their mysterious shadows.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000000|With Mozart, whose life work began after, but ended before that of Haydn, influencing and being influenced by the latter, the symphony broadened in scope and grew richer in warmth of melodious expression, definiteness of plan and completeness of form.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000001|His profoundly poetic musical nature, with its high capacity for joy and sorrow and infinite longing, was reflected in all that he wrote.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000002|By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. Musical instruments, as well as musical materials, were his servants in developing the glowing fancies of his marvelously constructive brain.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000003|The crowning glory of his graceful perfection of outline and detail is the noble spirit of serenity which illumines all its beauty.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000000|Beethoven further advanced the technique of the symphony, and proved its power to "strike fire from the soul of man." Varying his themes while repeating them, adding spice to his episodes and working out his entire scheme with consummate skill, he was able to construct from a motive of a few notes a mighty epic tone poem.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000001|He translated into superb orchestral pages the dreams of the human heart, the soul's longing for liberty and all the holiest aspirations of the inner being.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000002|He discussed in tones problems of man's life and destiny, ever displaying sublime faith that Fate, however cruel, is powerless to crush the spiritual being, the real individuality.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000003|His conflicts never fail to end in triumph.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000011_000000|Twenty six years younger than Beethoven Schubert lived but a year after he had passed away and died in eighteen twenty eight, two years later than Weber, and felt the glow of the spirit of romanticism.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000011_000001|From the perennial fount of song within his breast there streamed fresh melodious strains through his symphonies, the ninth and last of which, the C major, ranks him with the great symphonists.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000011_000004|Ultra romanticism was foreign to the nature and repulsive to the tastes of the refined, elegant Mendelssohn, yet in spite of himself its influence crept gently into his polished works.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000000|This brings us to Hector Berlioz, the famous French symphonist, the exponent par excellence of programme music, that is, music intended to illustrate a special story.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000001|He lived from eighteen o three to eighteen sixty nine, and because of his audacity in using new and startling tonal effects was called the most flagrant musical heretic of the nineteenth century.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000002|He was the first to impress on the world the idea of music as a definite language. His recurrent themes, called "fixed ideas," prefigured Wagner's "leading motives." His skill in combining instruments added new lustre to orchestration.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000004|His four famous symphonic works are: "Fantastic Symphony," "Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony," "Harold in Italy" and "Romeo and Juliet." In a preface to the first he thus explains his ideas: "The plan of a musical drama without words, requires to be explained beforehand.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000005|The programme (which is indispensable to the perfect comprehension of the work) ought therefore to be considered in the light of the spoken text of an opera, serving to lead up to the piece of music, and indicate the character and expression."
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000013_000000|From programme music came the symphonic poem of which Franz Liszt was the creator.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000000|Camille Saint Saens, without doubt the most original and intellectual modern French composer, who at sixty seven years of age is still in the midst of his activity, and who has made his own the spirit of the classic composers, owes to the symphonic poem a great part of his reputation, and has also written symphonies of great value.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000001|His orchestration is distinguished by its clarity, power and exquisite coloring.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000003|A strong national flavor is also felt in the work of Christian Sinding, the Norwegian, whose D minor symphony has been styled "a piece born of the gloomy romanticism of the North." Edward Grieg, known as the incarnation of the strong, vigorous, breezy spirit of the land of the midnight sun, has put some of his most characteristic work into symphonic poems and orchestral suites.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000004|The first composer to convey a message from the North in tones to the European world was Gade, the Dane, known as the Symphony Master of the North, who was born in eighteen seventeen and died in eighteen ninety.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000000|It is impossible to mention in a brief essay all the great workers in symphonic forms.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000001|One Titanic spirit, Johannes Brahms, (eighteen thirty three to eighteen ninety seven) who succeeded in striking the dominant note of musical sublimity amid modern unrest, is reserved for our final consideration.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000003|dr Riemann writes of him, "From Bach he inherited the depth, from Haydn, the humor, from Mozart, the charm, from Beethoven, the strength, from Schubert, the intimateness of his art.
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000004|Truly a wonderfully gifted nature that was able to absorb such a fulness of great gifts and still not lose the best of gifts-the strong individuality which makes the master."
train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000016_000000|Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000002_000000|Of Revenge
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000001|For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000003|And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man, to pass by an offence.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000004|That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do, with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000005|There is no man doth a wrong, for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000008|Some, when they take revenge, are desirous, the party should know, whence it cometh.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000010|For the delight seemeth to be, not so much in doing the hurt, as in making the party repent.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000011|But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000012|Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000013|But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also?
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000014|And so of friends in a proportion.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000016|Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000001|Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000002|Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000003|It is yet a higher speech of his, than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is true greatness, to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000006|But to speak in a mean.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000007|The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000008|Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000010|Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000011|We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work, upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work, upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000007_000001|Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000008_000000|Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and dissimulation of her son; attributing arts or policy to Augustus, and dissimulation to Tiberius.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000008_000002|These properties, of arts or policy, and dissimulation or closeness, are indeed habits and faculties several, and to be distinguished.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000008_000004|But if a man cannot obtain to that judgment, then it is left to him generally, to be close, and a dissembler.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000009_000001|The first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he is.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000009_000003|And the third, simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000000|For the first of these, secrecy; it is indeed the virtue of a confessor. And assuredly, the secret man heareth many confessions.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000001|For who will open himself, to a blab or a babbler?
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000002|But if a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open; and as in confession, the revealing is not for worldly use, but for the ease of a man's heart, so secret men come to the knowledge of many things in that kind; while men rather discharge their minds, than impart their minds.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000005|As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000006|For he that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth not.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000007|Therefore set it down, that an habit of secrecy, is both politic and moral.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000008|And in this part, it is good that a man's face give his tongue leave to speak.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000011_000000|For the second, which is dissimulation; it followeth many times upon secrecy, by a necessity; so that he that will be secret, must be a dissembler in some degree.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000011_000003|As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000011_000004|So that no man can be secret, except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation; which is, as it were, but the skirts or train of secrecy.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000012_000000|But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000001|First, to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000002|For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum, to call up all that are against them. The second is, to reserve to a man's self a fair retreat.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000003|For if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration, he must go through or take a fall.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000004|The third is, the better to discover the mind of another.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000007|As if there were no way of discovery, but by simulation.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000009|The first, that simulation and dissimulation commonly carry with them a show of fearfulness, which in any business, doth spoil the feathers, of round flying up to the mark.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000010|The second, that it puzzleth and perplexeth the conceits of many, that perhaps would otherwise co-operate with him; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his own ends.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000011|The third and greatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action; which is trust and belief.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000014_000000|Of Parents And Children
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000001|Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000002|They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000003|The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000005|So the care of posterity is most in them, that have no posterity.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000006|They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards their children; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work; and so both children and creatures.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000016_000001|A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest respected, and the youngest made wantons; but in the midst, some that are as it were forgotten, who many times, nevertheless, prove the best.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000016_000002|The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000016_000003|And therefore the proof is best, when men keep their authority towards the children, but not their purse.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000001|Yet it were great reason that those that have children, should have greatest care of future times; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, who though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000002|Nay, there are some other, that account wife and children, but as bills of charges.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000003|Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000005|But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000006|Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives, are of that condition.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000007|A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000008|It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000009|For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, maketh the vulgar soldier more base.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000011|Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity.
train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000016|It is often seen that bad husbands, have very good wives; whether it be, that it raiseth the price of their husband's kindness, when it comes; or that the wives take a pride in their patience.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000004|Several quires, placed one over against another, and taking the voice by catches, anthem wise, give great pleasure.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000005|Turning dances into figure, is a childish curiosity.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000006|And generally let it be noted, that those things which I here set down, are such as do naturally take the sense, and not respect petty wonderments. It is true, the alterations of scenes, so it be quietly and without noise, are things of great beauty and pleasure; for they feed and relieve the eye, before it be full of the same object.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000009|Let the music likewise be sharp and loud, and well placed.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000011|As for rich embroidery, it is lost and not discerned.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000012|Let the suits of the masquers be graceful, and such as become the person, when the vizors are off; not after examples of known attires; Turke, soldiers, mariners', and the like.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000013|Let anti masques not be long; they have been commonly of fools, satyrs, baboons, wild men, antics, beasts, sprites, witches, Ethiops, pigmies, turquets, nymphs, rustics, Cupids, statuas moving, and the like.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000015|But chiefly, let the music of them be recreative, and with some strange changes.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000016|Some sweet odors suddenly coming forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a company as there is steam and heat, things of great pleasure and refreshment.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000017|Double masques, one of men, another of ladies, addeth state and variety.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000000|NATURE is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000001|Force, maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse, maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000002|He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000004|For it breeds great perfection, if the practice be harder than the use.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000001|Let not a man force a habit upon himself, with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000002|For both the pause reinforceth the new onset; and if a man that is not perfect, be ever in practice, he shall as well practise his errors, as his abilities, and induce one habit of both; and there is no means to help this, but by seasonable intermissions.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000003|But let not a man trust his victory over his nature, too far; for nature will lay buried a great time, and yet revive, upon the occasion or temptation.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000005|Therefore, let a man either avoid the occasion altogether; or put himself often to it, that he may be little moved with it.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000006|A man's nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000008|In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it, of themselves; so as the spaces of other business, or studies, will suffice.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000007_000000|Of Custom And Education
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000000|MEN'S thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000001|And therefore, as Machiavel well noteth (though in an evil favored instance), there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000002|His instance is, that for the achieving of a desperate conspiracy, a man should not rest upon the fierceness of any man's nature, or his resolute undertakings; but take such an one, as hath had his hands formerly in blood.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000004|Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000007|The Indians (I mean the sect of their wise men) lay themselves quietly upon a stock of wood, and so sacrifice themselves by fire.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000009|The lads of Sparta, of ancient time, were wont to be scourged upon the altar of Diana, without so much as queching.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000011|There be monks in Russia, for penance, that will sit a whole night in a vessel of water, till they be engaged with hard ice.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000013|Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor, to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years: this we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000014|So we see, in languages, the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple, to all feats of activity and motions, in youth than afterwards.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000015|For it is true, that late learners cannot so well take the ply; except it be in some minds, that have not suffered themselves to fix, but have kept themselves open, and prepared to receive continual amendment, which is exceeding rare.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000016|But if the force of custom simple and separate, be great, the force of custom copulate and conjoined and collegiate, is far greater.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000017|For there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth: so as in such places the force of custom is in his exaltation.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000018|Certainly the great multiplication of virtues upon human nature, resteth upon societies well ordained and disciplined.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000000|IT CANNOT be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000003|And the most frequent of external causes is, that the folly of one man, is the fortune of another.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000004|For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000005|Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit draco.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000006|Overt and apparent virtues, bring forth praise; but there be secret and hidden virtues, that bring forth fortune; certain deliveries of a man's self, which have no name.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000007|The Spanish name, desemboltura, partly expresseth them; when there be not stonds nor restiveness in a man's nature; but that the wheels of his mind, keep way with the wheels of his fortune.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000010|The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000011|So are there a number of little, and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000014|And certainly there be not two more fortunate properties, than to have a little of the fool, and not too much of the honest.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000015|Therefore extreme lovers of their country or masters, were never fortunate, neither can they be.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000017|Fortune is to be honored and respected, and it be but for her daughters, Confidence and Reputation.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000018|For those two, Felicity breedeth; the first within a man's self, the latter in others towards him.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000020|So Sylla chose the name of Felix, and not of Magnus.
train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000022|It is written that Timotheus the Athenian, after he had, in the account he gave to the state of his government, often interlaced this speech, and in this, Fortune had no part, never prospered in anything, he undertook afterwards.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000002_000000|THE DRIFT OF POLITICS
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000001|The boasted finality was a broken reed; the life boat of compromise a hopeless wreck.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000002|If the agreement of a generation could be thus annulled in a breath, was there any safety even in the Constitution itself?
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000005|Men were for or against the bill-every other political subject was left in abeyance.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000006|The measure once passed, and the Compromise repealed, the first natural impulse was to combine, organize, and agitate for its restoration.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000007|This was the ready made, common ground of cooperation.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000004_000001|If there were demagogues here and there among them, seeking merely to create a balance of power for bargain and sale, they were unimportant in number, and only of local influence, and soon became deserters. There was no mistaking the earnestness of the body of this faction.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000004_000002|A few fanatical men, who had made it the vehicle of violent expressions, had kept it under the ban of popular prejudice.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000004_000004|Despite objurgation and contempt, it had become since eighteen forty a constant and growing factor in politics.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000000|This small party of antislavery veterans, over one hundred fifty eight thousand voters in the aggregate, and distributed in detachments of from three thousand to thirty thousand in twelve of the free States, now came to the front, and with its newspapers and speakers trained in the discussion of the subject, and its committees and affiliations already in action and correspondence, bore the brunt of the fight against the repeal.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000002|Now, combining wisdom with opportunity, it became conciliatory, and, abating something of its abstractions, made itself the exponent of a demand for a present and practical reform-a simple return to the ancient faith and landmarks.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000003|It labored specially to bring about the dissolution of the old party organizations and the formation of a new one, based upon the general policy of resisting the extension of slavery.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000004|Since, however, the repeal had shaken but not obliterated old party lines, this effort succeeded only in favorable localities.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000006_000000|[Illustration: HISTORICAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES IN eighteen fifty four SHOWING THE VARIOUS ACCESSIONS OF TERRITORY etc
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000000|For the present, party disintegration was slow; men were reluctant to abandon their old time principles and associations.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000001|The united efforts of Douglas and the Administration held the body of the Northern Democrats to his fatal policy, though protests and defections became alarmingly frequent.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000002|On the other hand, the great mass of Northern Whigs promptly opposed the repeal, and formed the bulk of the opposition, nevertheless losing perhaps as many pro slavery Whigs as they gained antislavery Democrats.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000003|The real and effective gain, therefore, was the more or less thorough alliance of the Whig party and the Free soil party of the Northern States: wherever that was successful it gave immediate and available majorities to the opposition, which made their influence felt even in the very opening of the popular contest following the Congressional repeal.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000009_000000|It happened that this was a year for electing Congressmen.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000009_000001|The Nebraska bill did not pass till the end of May, and the political excitement was at once transferred from Washington to every district of the whole country.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000009_000002|It may be said with truth that the year eighteen fifty four formed one continuous and solid political campaign from January to November, rising in interest and earnestness from first to last, and engaging in the discussion more fully than had ever occurred in previous American history all the constituent elements of our population.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000002|The Whig party, however, having carried two slave States for Scott in eighteen fifty two, and holding a strong minority in the remainder, was not so unanimous.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000003|Seven Southern Representatives and two Southern Senators had voted against the Nebraska bill, and many individual voters condemned it as an act of bad faith-as the abandonment of the accepted "finality," and as the provocation of a dangerous antislavery reaction.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000004|But public opinion in that part of the Union was fearfully tyrannical and intolerant; and opposition dared only to manifest itself to Democratic party organization-not to these Democratic party measures.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000005|The Whigs of the South were therefore driven precipitately to division.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000006|Those of extreme pro slavery views, like Dixon, of Kentucky,--who, when he introduced his amendment, declared, "Upon the question of slavery I know no Whiggery and no Democracy,"--went boldly and at once over into the Democratic camp, while those who retained their traditional party name and flag were sundered from their ancient allies in the Northern States by the impossibility of taking up the latter's antislavery war cry.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000011_000002|Operating in entire secrecy, the country was startled by the sudden appearance in one locality after another, on election day, of a potent and unsuspected political power, which in many instances pushed both the old organizations not only to disastrous but even to ridiculous defeat.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000000|When, in the opening of the anti Nebraska contest, the Free soil leaders undertook the formation of a new party to supersede the old, they had, because of their generally democratic antecedents, with great unanimity proposed that it be called the "Republican" party, thus reviving the distinctive appellation by which the followers of Jefferson were known in the early days of the republic.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000001|Considering the fact that Jefferson had originated the policy of slavery restriction in his draft of the ordinance of seventeen eighty four, the name became singularly appropriate, and wherever the Free soilers succeeded in forming a coalition it was adopted without question.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000002|But the refusal of the Whigs in many States to surrender their name and organization, and more especially the abrupt appearance of the Know Nothings on the field of parties, retarded the general coalition between the Whigs and the Free soilers which so many influences favored.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000003|As it turned out, a great variety of party names were retained or adopted in the Congressional and State campaigns of eighteen fifty four, the designation of "anti Nebraska" being perhaps the most common, and certainly for the moment the most serviceable, since denunciation of the Nebraska bill was the one all pervading bond of sympathy and agreement among men who differed very widely on almost all other political topics.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000004|This affiliation, however, was confined exclusively to the free States.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000000|Thus confronted, the Nebraska and anti Nebraska factions, or, more philosophically speaking, the pro slavery and antislavery sentiment of the several American States, battled for political supremacy with a zeal and determination only manifested on occasions of deep and vital concern to the welfare of the republic.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000001|However languidly certain elements of American society may perform what they deem the drudgery of politics, they do not shrink from it when they hear warning of real danger.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000002|The alarm of the nation on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was serious and startling.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000003|All ranks and occupations therefore joined with a new energy in the contest it provoked. Particularly was the religious sentiment of the North profoundly moved by the moral question involved.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000004|Perhaps for the first time in our modern politics, the pulpit vied with the press, and the Church with the campaign club, in the work of debate and propagandism.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000014_000000|The very inception of the struggle had provoked bitter words.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000014_000002|Douglas, seizing only too gladly the pretext to use denunciation instead of argument, replied in his opening speech, in turn stigmatizing them as "abolition confederates"
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000014_000003|"assembled in secret conclave"
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000017_000001|The gradual disruption of parties, and the new and radical attitudes assumed by men of independent thought, gave ample occasion to indulge in such epithets as "apostates," "renegades," and "traitors." Unusual acrimony grew out of the zeal of the Church and its ministers.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000017_000005|But they, on the other hand, persisted all the more earnestly in justifying their interference in moral questions wherever they appeared, and were clearly sustained by the public opinion of the North.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000018_000001|While the measure was yet under discussion in the House in March, New Hampshire led off by an election completely obliterating the eighty nine Democratic majority in her Legislature.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000018_000002|Connecticut followed in her footsteps early in April. Long before November it was evident that the political revolution among the people of the North was thorough, and that election day was anxiously awaited merely to record the popular verdict already decided.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000019_000000|The influence of this result upon parties, old and new, is perhaps best illustrated in the organization of the Thirty fourth Congress, chosen at these elections during the year eighteen fifty four, which witnessed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000019_000001|Each Congress, in ordinary course, meets for the first time about one year after its members are elected by the people, and the influence of politics during the interim needs always to be taken into account.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000020_000001|In the new Congress there were in the House, as nearly as the classification could be made, about one hundred eight anti Nebraska members, nearly forty Know Nothings, and about seventy five Democrats; the remaining members were undecided.
train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000021_000000|But as yet the new party was merely inchoate, its elements distrustful, jealous, and discordant; the feuds and battles of a quarter of a century were not easily forgotten or buried.
train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000011_000004|It was filial tenderness that gave the name.
train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000015_000001|I make but a poor figure at composition, my head is much too fickle, my thoughts are running after birds' eggs, play and trifles till I get vexed with myself.
train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000029_000012|It almost seems a mistake, but it was not.
train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000030_000004|But still
train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000007_000000|"You are discreet, and you evidently desire a position.
train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000007_000004|You understand me?"
train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000009_000000|"Not even to me," she emphasized.
train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000012_000001|The difficulties will not be great to a discreet person.
train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000001_000000|I knew all the current gossip about mrs Packard before I had parted with Miss Davies.
train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000001_000003|In doing this she had walked into a fortune.
train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000044_000001|I have political enemies, of course men, who, influenced by party feeling, are not above attacking methods and possibly my official reputation; but personal ones-wretches willing to stab me in my home life and affections, that I can not believe.
train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000053_000000|"Well-yes.
train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000062_000000|"I doubt if mrs Packard more than knows of his presence.
train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000005_000000|His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had promised to be present. He was coming on presently from the opera.
train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000009_000000|In his official capacity he had been received courteously by his English colleagues: mr Pitt had shaken him by the hand; Lord Grenville had entertained him more than once; but the more intimate circles of London society ignored him altogether; the women openly turned their backs upon him; the men who held no official position refused to shake his hand.
train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000015_000000|"His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite, Sir Percy Blakeney, Lady Blakeney."
train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000026_000000|"Ah! who is it?" asked the Prince.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000005_000000|"Oh, well," said his wife, carelessly, "put on your necktie-that'll keep it together."
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000006_000001|The ranch house-a two room box structure-was on the rise of a gently swelling hill in the midst of a wilderness of high chaparral.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000006_000003|Only a few feet back of it began the thorny jungle.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000001|At length he came out, ready for his ride.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000002|This being a business trip of some importance, and the Chapman ranch being almost a small town in population and size, Sam had decided to "dress up" accordingly.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000004|The tight white collar awkwardly constricted his muscular, mahogany colored neck.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000008|He gave Randy, his three year old son, a pat on the head, and hurried out to where Mexico, his favorite saddle horse, was standing.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000010_000000|Sam climbed awkwardly into the saddle.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000012_000002|I live in the bresh here like a varmint, never seein' nor hearin' nothin', and what other 'musement kin I have?
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000013_000002|He should have started three hours earlier.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000014_000003|He turned now to his right up a little hill, pebble covered, upon which grew only the tenacious and thorny prickly pear and chaparral.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000015_000000|Sam rode down the sloping hill and plunged into the great pear flat that lies between the Quintanilla and the Piedra.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000000|In about two hours he discovered that he was lost.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000003|At the moment his master's sureness of the route had failed his horse had divined the fact.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000004|There were no hills now that they could climb to obtain a view of the country.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000005|They came upon a few, but so dense and interlaced was the brush that scarcely could a rabbit penetrate the mass.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000017_000001|The thing often happened.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000017_000003|But in Sam's case it was different.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000017_000005|Marthy was afraid of the country-afraid of Mexicans, of snakes, of panthers, even of sheep.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000018_000004|If so he was now something like fifty miles from home.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000024_000003|Sam thought of roving, marauding Mexicans, of stealthy cougars that sometimes invaded the ranches, of rattlesnakes, centipedes, and a dozen possible dangers.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000025_000000|Still the interminable succession of stretches of brush, cactus, and mesquite.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000000|The straight line is Art.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000001|Nature moves in circles.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000002|A straightforward man is more an artificial product than a diplomatist is.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000003|Men lost in the snow travel in exact circles until they sink, exhausted, as their footprints have attested.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000027_000000|It was when Sam Webber was fullest of contrition and good resolves that Mexico, with a heavy sigh, subsided from his regular, brisk trot into a slow complacent walk.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000029_000000|Mexico gave a protesting grunt as if to say: "What's the use of that, now we're so near?" He quickened his gait into a languid trot. Rounding a great clump of black chaparral he stopped short.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000030_000000|Marthy, serene and comfortable, sat in her rocking chair before the door in the shade of the house, with her feet resting luxuriously upon the steps.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000030_000001|Randy, who was playing with a pair of spurs on the ground, looked up for a moment at his father and went on spinning the rowels and singing a little song.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000031_000000|Sam shook himself queerly, like a man coming out of a dream, and slowly dismounted.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000031_000001|He moistened his dry lips.
train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000033_000000|Sam had traveled round the circle and was himself again.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000000_000000|"The only times," said he, "that me and Andy Tucker ever had any hiatuses in our cordial intents was when we differed on the moral aspects of grafting.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000000_000001|Andy had his standards and I had mine.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000000_000002|I didn't approve of all of Andy's schemes for levying contributions from the public, and he thought I allowed my conscience to interfere too often for the financial good of the firm.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000001_000000|"'I don't know how you mean that, Andy,' says I, 'but we have been friends too long for me to take offense at a taunt that you will regret when you cool off.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000001_000001|I have yet,' says I, 'to shake hands with a subpoena server.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000002_000000|"One summer me and Andy decided to rest up a spell in a fine little town in the mountains of Kentucky called Grassdale.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000002_000001|We was supposed to be horse drovers, and good decent citizens besides, taking a summer vacation.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000002_000002|The Grassdale people liked us, and me and Andy declared a cessation of hostilities, never so much as floating the fly leaf of a rubber concession prospectus or flashing a Brazilian diamond while we was there.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000003_000000|"One day the leading hardware merchant of Grassdale drops around to the hotel where me and Andy stopped, and smokes with us, sociable, on the side porch.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000003_000001|We knew him pretty well from pitching quoits in the afternoons in the court house yard.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000003_000002|He was a loud, red man, breathing hard, but fat and respectable beyond all reason.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000005_000000|"After we talk on all the notorious themes of the day, this Murkison- for such was his entitlements-takes a letter out of his coat pocket in a careful, careless way and hands it to us to read.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000007_000001|It was one of them old time typewritten green goods letters explaining how for one thousand dollars you could get five thousand dollars in bills that an expert couldn't tell from the genuine; and going on to tell how they were made from plates stolen by an employee of the Treasury at Washington.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000010_000000|"'Lot's of good men get 'em,' says Andy.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000010_000002|If you answer it they write again asking you to come on with your money and do business.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000012_000000|"A few days later he drops around again.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000000|"'Boys,' says he, 'I know you are all right or I wouldn't confide in you.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000001|I wrote to them rascals again just for fun.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000002|They answered and told me to come on to Chicago.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000003|They said telegraph to j Smith when I would start.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000004|When I get there I'm to wait on a certain street corner till a man in a gray suit comes along and drops a newspaper in front of me.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000005|Then I am to ask him how the water is, and he knows it's me and I know it's him.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000000|"'Ah, yes,' says Andy, gaping, 'it's the same old game.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000001|I've often read about it in the papers.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000002|Then he conducts you to the private abattoir in the hotel, where mr Jones is already waiting.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000004|Of course it's brown paper when you come to look at it afterward.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000017_000000|"'I've always-I see by the papers that it always is,' says Andy.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000018_000000|"'Boys,' says Murkison, 'I've got it in my mind that them fellows can't fool me.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000018_000004|That's the kind of trader Bill Murkison is.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000019_000000|"Me and Andy tries to get this financial misquotation out of Murkison's head, but we might as well have tried to keep the man who rolls peanuts with a toothpick from betting on Bryan's election.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000020_000001|In our idle hours we always improved our higher selves by ratiocination and mental thought.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000021_000000|"'Jeff,' says Andy after a long time, 'quite unseldom I have seen fit to impugn your molars when you have been chewing the rag with me about your conscientious way of doing business.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000021_000003|There is but one way it can end.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000021_000004|Don't you think we would both feel better if we was to intervene in some way and prevent the doing of this deed?'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000022_000000|"I got up and shook Andy Tucker's hand hard and long.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000000|"'Andy,' says I, 'I may have had one or two hard thoughts about the heartlessness of your corporation, but I retract 'em now.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000001|You have a kind nucleus at the interior of your exterior after all.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000002|It does you credit.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000003|I was just thinking the same thing that you have expressed. It would not be honorable or praiseworthy,' says I, 'for us to let Murkison go on with this project he has taken up.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000004|If he is determined to go let us go with him and prevent this swindle from coming off.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000024_000000|"Andy agreed with me; and I was glad to see that he was in earnest about breaking up this green goods scheme.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000025_000000|"'I don't call myself a religious man,' says I, 'or a fanatic in moral bigotry, but I can't stand still and see a man who has built up his business by his own efforts and brains and risk be robbed by an unscrupulous trickster who is a menace to the public good.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000026_000000|"'Right, Jeff,' says Andy. 'We'll stick right along with Murkison if he insists on going and block this funny business.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000026_000001|I'd hate to see any money dropped in it as bad as you would.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000027_000000|"Well, we went to see Murkison.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000000|"'No, boys,' says he.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000001|'I can't consent to let the song of this Chicago siren waft by me on the summer breeze.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000004|Maybe you could help some when it comes to cashing in the ticket to that five to one shot.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000005|Yes, I'd really take it as a pastime and regalement if you boys would go along too.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000029_000001|He wires j Smith that he will set foot in the spider web on a given date; and the three of us lights out for Chicago.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000030_000000|"On the way Murkison amuses himself with premonitions and advance pleasant recollections.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000032_000000|"Sometimes Murkison was serious and tried to talk himself out of his cogitations, whatever they was.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000033_000005|Five dollars for one-that's what j Smith offers, and he'll have to keep his contract if he does business with Bill Murkison.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000034_000001|Murkison was to meet the gray man at half past nine.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000035_000000|"'Now, boys,' says Murkison, 'let's get our gumption together and inoculate a plan for defeating the enemy.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000036_000000|"'"Bring 'em along," he'll say, of course, "if they care to invest." Now, how does that scheme strike you?'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000001|Obey with velocity,' says I, 'for otherwise alternatives are impending.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000003|You come up here to rob these men of their money.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000004|Does it excuse you?' I asks, 'that they were trying to skin you?
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000005|No, sir; you was going to rob peter to stand off Paul.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000006|You are ten times worse,' says I, 'than that green goods man. You go to church at home and pretend to be a decent citizen, but you'll come to Chicago and commit larceny from men that have built up a sound and profitable business by dealing with such contemptible scoundrels as you have tried to be to day.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000007|How do you know,' says I, 'that that green goods man hasn't a large family dependent upon his extortions?
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000008|It's you supposedly respectable citizens who are always on the lookout to get something for nothing,' says I, 'that support the lotteries and wild cat mines and stock exchanges and wire tappers of this country.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000009|If it wasn't for you they'd go out of business. The green goods man you was going to rob,' says I, 'studied maybe for years to learn his trade.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000011|You come up here all sanctified and vanoplied with respectability and a pleasing post office address to swindle him.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000012|If he gets the money you can squeal to the police.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000013|If you get it he hocks the gray suit to buy supper and says nothing.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000040_000000|"I put the two thousand, which was all in twenty dollars bills, in my inside pocket.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000000|"'Now get out your watch,' says I to Murkison.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000001|'No, I don't want it,' says i 'Lay it on the table and you sit in that chair till it ticks off an hour.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000002|Then you can go.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000004|I guess your high position there is worth more than two thousand dollars to you.'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000043_000000|"On the train Andy was a long time silent.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000046_000000|"'Why, certainly,' says i 'What else could it have been?
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000046_000001|Wasn't it yours, too?'
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000047_000000|"In about half an hour Andy spoke again.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000047_000001|I think there are times when Andy don't exactly understand my system of ethics and moral hygiene.
train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000048_000000|"'Jeff,' says he, 'some time when you have the leisure I wish you'd draw off a diagram and foot notes of that conscience of yours.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000004_000000|THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000000|THE year eighteen forty seven marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000001|By the rational compromise with England in the dispute over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured during eighteen forty six, for undisturbed settlement, three hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land, and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley. Our active "policy of the Pacific" dated from that hour.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000002|With swift and clinching succession came the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, eighteen forty eight, saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United States.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000003|Thus in about eighteen months there had been pieced into the national domain for quick development and exploitation a region as large as the entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War of Independence.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000000|Equally momentous were the times in Europe, where the attempt to secure opportunities of expansion as well as larger liberty for the individual took quite different form.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000001|The old absolutist system of government was fast breaking up, and ancient thrones were tottering.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000004|But the retrospect indicates that many reforms and political changes were accomplished, although the process involved the exile of not a few ardent spirits to America, to become leading statesmen, inventors, journalists, and financiers.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000005|In eighteen forty seven, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000006|In England the fierce fervor of the Chartist movement, with its violent rhetoric as to the rights of man, was sobering down and passing pervasively into numerous practical schemes for social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a most profound change throughout every part of the national life.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000007_000000|Into such times Thomas Alva Edison was born, and his relations to them and to the events of the past sixty years are the subject of this narrative.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000007_000001|Aside from the personal interest that attaches to the picturesque career, so typically American, there is a broader aspect in which the work of the "Franklin of the Nineteenth Century" touches the welfare and progress of the race.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000000|Viewed from the standpoint of inventive progress, the first half of the nineteenth century had passed very profitably when Edison appeared-every year marked by some notable achievement in the arts and sciences, with promise of its early and abundant fruition in commerce and industry.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000005|The first photographs had been taken.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000006|Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000010|The application of machinery in the harvest field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000011|The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. The sewing machine had brought with it, like the friction match, one of the most profound influences in modifying domestic life, and making it different from that of all preceding time.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000009_000001|But it is when we turn to electricity that the rich virgin condition of an illimitable new kingdom of discovery is seen.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000009_000006|But these few appliances made up the meagre kit of tools with which the nineteenth century entered upon its task of acquiring the arts and conveniences now such an intimate part of "human nature's daily food" that the average American to day pays more for his electrical service than he does for bread.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000003|For the first time man had command of a steady supply of electricity without toil or effort.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000004|The useful results obtainable previously from the current of a frictional machine were not much greater than those to be derived from the flight of a rocket.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000006|No art or trade could be founded on it; no diminution of daily work or increase of daily comfort could be secured with it.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000007|But the little battery with its metal plates in a weak solution proved a perennial reservoir of electrical energy, safe and controllable, from which supplies could be drawn at will.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000008|That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000001|Almost all the electrical arts now employed made their beginnings in the next twenty five years, and while the more extensive of them depend to day on the dynamo for electrical energy, some of the most important still remain in loyal allegiance to the older source.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000002|The battery itself soon underwent modifications, and new types were evolved-the storage, the double fluid, and the dry.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000003|Various analogies next pointed to the use of heat, and the thermoelectric cell emerged, embodying the application of flame to the junction of two different metals.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000007|"Hitch your wagon to a star," said Emerson.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000008|To all the coal fields and all the waterfalls Faraday had directly hitched the wheels of industry.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000009|Not only was it now possible to convert mechanical energy into electricity cheaply and in illimitable quantities, but electricity at once showed its ubiquitous availability as a motive power.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000010|Boats were propelled by it, cars were hauled, and even papers printed.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000011|Electroplating became an art, and telegraphy sprang into active being on both sides of the Atlantic.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000000|At the time Edison was born, in eighteen forty seven, telegraphy, upon which he was to leave so indelible an imprint, had barely struggled into acceptance by the public.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000001|In England, Wheatstone and Cooke had introduced a ponderous magnetic needle telegraph.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000004|Everything was crude and primitive.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000005|The poles were two hundred feet apart and could barely hold up a wash line.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000006|The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was "down" for thirty six days in the first six months.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000007|The little glass knob insulators made seductive targets for ignorant sportsmen. Attempts to insulate the line wire were limited to coating it with tar or smearing it with wax for the benefit of all the bees in the neighborhood.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000008|The farthest western reach of the telegraph lines in eighteen forty seven was Pittsburg, with three ply iron wire mounted on square glass insulators with a little wooden pentroof for protection.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000009|In that office, where Andrew Carnegie was a messenger boy, the magnets in use to receive the signals sent with the aid of powerful nitric acid batteries weighed as much as seventy five pounds apiece.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000010|But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery men, had proved its utility.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000011|Then came the great outburst of activity.
train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000012|Within a score of years telegraph wires covered the whole occupied country with a network, and the first great electrical industry was a pronounced success, yielding to its pioneers the first great harvest of electrical fortunes.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000001|Dairy and poultry yard, and herb garden, and all the busy places of the farm seemed to lead by easy access into its wide flagged haven, where there was room for everything and where muddy boots left traces that were easily swept away.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000003|The window nook made almost a little room in itself, quite the pleasantest room in the farm as far as situation and capabilities went.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000004|Young mrs Ladbruk, whose husband had just come into the farm by way of inheritance, cast covetous eyes on this snug corner, and her fingers itched to make it bright and cosy with chintz curtains and bowls of flowers, and a shelf or two of old china.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000005|The musty farm parlour, looking out on to a prim, cheerless garden imprisoned within high, blank walls, was not a room that lent itself readily either to comfort or decoration.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000010_000000|"When we are more settled I shall work wonders in the way of making the kitchen habitable," said the young woman to her occasional visitors. There was an unspoken wish in those words, a wish which was unconfessed as well as unspoken.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000010_000001|Emma Ladbruk was the mistress of the farm; jointly with her husband she might have her say, and to a certain extent her way, in ordering its affairs.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000010_000002|But she was not mistress of the kitchen.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000000|On one of the shelves of an old dresser, in company with chipped sauce boats, pewter jugs, cheese graters, and paid bills, rested a worn and ragged Bible, on whose front page was the record, in faded ink, of a baptism dated ninety four years ago.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000001|"Martha Crale" was the name written on that yellow page.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000003|For longer than anyone could remember she had pattered to and fro between oven and wash house and dairy, and out to chicken run and garden, grumbling and muttering and scolding, but working unceasingly.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000004|Emma Ladbruk, of whose coming she took as little notice as she would of a bee wandering in at a window on a summer's day, used at first to watch her with a kind of frightened curiosity.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000005|She was so old and so much a part of the place, it was difficult to think of her exactly as a living thing.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000006|Old Shep, the white nozzled, stiff limbed collie, waiting for his time to die, seemed almost more human than the withered, dried up old woman.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000007|He had been a riotous, roystering puppy, mad with the joy of life, when she was already a tottering, hobbling dame; now he was just a blind, breathing carcase, nothing more, and she still worked with frail energy, still swept and baked and washed, fetched and carried.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000008|If there were something in these wise old dogs that did not perish utterly with death, Emma used to think to herself, what generations of ghost dogs there must be out on those hills, that Martha had reared and fed and tended and spoken a last good bye word to in that old kitchen.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000009|And what memories she must have of human generations that had passed away in her time.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000010|It was difficult for anyone, let alone a stranger like Emma, to get her to talk of the days that had been; her shrill, quavering speech was of doors that had been left unfastened, pails that had got mislaid, calves whose feeding time was overdue, and the various little faults and lapses that chequer a farmhouse routine.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000012|There had been a Palmerston, that had been a name down Tiverton way; Tiverton was not a far journey as the crow flies, but to Martha it was almost a foreign country.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000014|And they always quarrelled and shouted as to who was right and who was wrong.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000015|The one they quarrelled about most was a fine old gentleman with an angry face—she had seen his picture on the walls. She had seen it on the floor too, with a rotten apple squashed over it, for the farm had changed its politics from time to time.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000016|Martha had never been on one side or the other; none of "they" had ever done the farm a stroke of good.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000017|Such was her sweeping verdict, given with all a peasant's distrust of the outside world.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000000|When the half frightened curiosity had somewhat faded away, Emma Ladbruk was uncomfortably conscious of another feeling towards the old woman. She was a quaint old tradition, lingering about the place, she was part and parcel of the farm itself, she was something at once pathetic and picturesque—but she was dreadfully in the way.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000001|Emma had come to the farm full of plans for little reforms and improvements, in part the result of training in the newest ways and methods, in part the outcome of her own ideas and fancies.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000004|Above all, the coveted window corner, that was to be a dainty, cheerful oasis in the gaunt old kitchen, stood now choked and lumbered with a litter of odds and ends that Emma, for all her nominal authority, would not have dared or cared to displace; over them seemed to be spun the protection of something that was like a human cobweb. Decidedly Martha was in the way.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000005|It would have been an unworthy meanness to have wished to see the span of that brave old life shortened by a few paltry months, but as the days sped by Emma was conscious that the wish was there, disowned though it might be, lurking at the back of her mind.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000013_000000|She felt the meanness of the wish come over her with a qualm of self reproach one day when she came into the kitchen and found an unaccustomed state of things in that usually busy quarter.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000013_000001|Old Martha was not working.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000013_000002|A basket of corn was on the floor by her side, and out in the yard the poultry were beginning to clamour a protest of overdue feeding time.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000014_000000|"Is anything the matter, Martha?" asked the young woman.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000015_000001|I knew it.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000015_000006|I knew it were a coming."
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000000|The young woman's eyes clouded with pity.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000001|The old thing sitting there so white and shrunken had once been a merry, noisy child, playing about in lanes and hay lofts and farmhouse garrets; that had been eighty odd years ago, and now she was just a frail old body cowering under the approaching chill of the death that was coming at last to take her.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000003|Her husband, she knew, was down at a tree felling some little distance off, but she might find some other intelligent soul who knew the old woman better than she did.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000004|The farm, she soon found out, had that faculty common to farmyards of swallowing up and losing its human population.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000005|The poultry followed her in interested fashion, and swine grunted interrogations at her from behind the bars of their styes, but barnyard and rickyard, orchard and stables and dairy, gave no reward to her search.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000006|Then, as she retraced her steps towards the kitchen, she came suddenly on her cousin, young mr Jim, as every one called him, who divided his time between amateur horse dealing, rabbit shooting, and flirting with the farm maids.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000017_000000|"I'm afraid old Martha is dying," said Emma.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000017_000001|Jim was not the sort of person to whom one had to break news gently.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000018_000000|"Nonsense," he said; "Martha means to live to a hundred.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000018_000001|She told me so, and she'll do it."
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000019_000000|"She may be actually dying at this moment, or it may just be the beginning of the break-up," persisted Emma, with a feeling of contempt for the slowness and dulness of the young man.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000020_000000|A grin spread over his good-natured features.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000000|"It don't look like it," he said, nodding towards the yard.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000001|Emma turned to catch the meaning of his remark.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000002|Old Martha stood in the middle of a mob of poultry scattering handfuls of grain around her.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000004|But she threw the grain deftly amid the wilderness of beaks, and her quavering voice carried as far as the two people who were watching her.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000005|She was still harping on the theme of death coming to the farm.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000023_000000|"Who's dead, then, old Mother?" called out the young man.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000024_000000|"'tis young Mister Ladbruk," she shrilled back; "they've just a carried his body in.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000025_000000|And she turned to fling a handful of barley at a belated group of guinea fowl that came racing toward her.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000000|The farm was a family property, and passed to the rabbit shooting cousin as the next of kin.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000002|On a cold grey morning she stood waiting, with her boxes already stowed in the farm cart, till the last of the market produce should be ready, for the train she was to catch was of less importance than the chickens and butter and eggs that were to be offered for sale.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000003|From where she stood she could see an angle of the long latticed window that was to have been cosy with curtains and gay with bowls of flowers.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000004|Into her mind came the thought that for months, perhaps for years, long after she had been utterly forgotten, a white, unheeding face would be seen peering out through those latticed panes, and a weak muttering voice would be heard quavering up and down those flagged passages.
train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000005|She made her way to a narrow barred casement that opened into the farm larder.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000000|Mabel, seated in the gallery that evening behind the President's chair, had already glanced at her watch half a dozen times in the last hour, hoping each time that twenty one o'clock was nearer than she feared.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000001|She knew well enough by now that the President of Europe would not be half a minute either before or after his time.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000002|His supreme punctuality was famous all over the continent.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000003|He had said Twenty One, so it was to be twenty one.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000007_000000|A sharp bell note impinged from beneath, and in a moment the drawling voice of the speaker stopped.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000007_000001|Once more she lifted her wrist, saw that it wanted five minutes of the hour; then she leaned forward from her corner and stared down into the House.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000008_000001|All down the long brown seats members were shifting and arranging themselves more decorously, uncrossing their legs, slipping their hats beneath the leather fringes.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000008_000002|As she looked, too, she saw the President of the House coming down the three steps from his chair, for Another would need it in a few moments.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000009_000000|The house was full from end to end; a late comer ran in from the twilight of the south door and looked distractedly about him in the full light before he saw his vacant place.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000009_000002|When that ceased she would know that he was come.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000001|A month ago he had assented to a similar Bill in Germany, and had delivered a speech on the same subject at Turin.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000002|To morrow he was to be in Spain.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000004|A rumour had spread that his volor had been seen passing over Lake Como, and had been instantly contradicted.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000005|No one knew either what he would say to night.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000006|It might be three words or twenty thousand.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000007|There were a few clauses in the Bill-notably those bearing on the point as to when the new worship was to be made compulsory on all subjects over the age of seven-it might be he would object and veto these.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000011_000000|Mabel herself was inclined to these clauses.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000011_000002|These penalties were not vindictive: on a first offence a week's detention only was to be given; on the second, one month's imprisonment; on the third, one year's; and on the fourth, perpetual imprisonment until the criminal yielded.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000012_000001|These four things were facts-they were the manifestations of what she called the Spirit of the World-and if others called that Power God, yet surely these ought to be considered as His functions.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000012_000002|Where then was the difficulty?
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000000|For herself the new worship was a crowning sign of the triumph of Humanity.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000001|Her heart had yearned for some such thing as this-some public corporate profession of what all now believed.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000002|She had so resented the dulness of folk who were content with action and never considered its springs.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000004|Ah! these Christians had understood human nature, she had told herself a hundred times: it was true that they had degraded it, darkened light, poisoned thought, misinterpreted instinct; but they had understood that man must worship --must worship or sink.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000014_000000|For herself she intended to go at least once a week to the little old church half a mile away from her home, to kneel there before the sunlit sanctuary, to meditate on sweet mysteries, to present herself to That which she was yearning to love, and to drink, it might be, new draughts of life and power.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000015_000000|Ah! but the Bill must pass first....
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000015_000001|She clenched her hands on the rail, and stared steadily before her on the ranks of heads, the open gangways, the great mace on the table, and heard, above the murmur of the crowd outside and the dying whispers within, her own heart beat.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000016_000001|He would come in from beneath through the door that none but He might use, straight into the seat beneath the canopy.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000016_000002|But she would hear His voice-that must be joy enough for her....
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000017_000000|Ah! there was silence now outside; the soft roar had died.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000017_000001|He had come then.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000017_000002|And through swimming eyes she saw the long ridges of heads rise beneath her, and through drumming ears heard the murmur of many feet. All faces looked this way; and she watched them as a mirror to see the reflected light of His presence.
train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000018_000000|"Englishmen, I assent to the Bill of Worship."
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000002_000000|TEDDY'S BUTTON
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000006_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000007_000000|An Antagonist
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000008_000000|He stood in the centre of a little crowd of village boys; his golden head was bare in the blazing sun, but the crop of curls seemed thick enough to protect him from its rays, and he was far too engrossed in his occupation to heed any discomfort from the heat.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000009_000001|They were dancing and flashing with excitement now, and his whole frame was quivering with enthusiasm; with head thrown back, and tongue, hand, and foot all in motion, he seemed to have his audience completely spell bound, and they listened with open eyes and mouths to his oration.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000010_000000|With one hand he was fingering a large brass button, which figured conspicuously in the centre of his small waistcoat, and this button was the subject of his theme.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000002|My father drew his sword-and no one could stand against him, no one!
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000003|He cut and he slashed, and heads and arms and legs rolled off as quick as lightning, one after the other.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000004|He got up to the colours, and with a shout he plunged his sword right through the enemy's body that had stolen them!
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000005|The enemy fell stone dead.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000007|He was alone! The other soldiers had been beaten back.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000008|But was he in a funk?
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000009|No; he gave a loud "Hurrah!" picked up his sword, and fought his way back, the enemy hard after him.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000010|It was a race for life, and he ran backwards the whole way; he wasn't going to turn his back to the enemy.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000011|He pressed on, shouting "Hurrah!" till he got to his own side again, and then he reached his colonel.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000013_000000|The little orator paused as he sank his voice to a tragic whisper, then raising it again, he added triumphantly, 'And thirty bullets and six swords had gone through my father's body!
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000013_000001|That was something like a soldier!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000014_000000|'Oh, I say!' murmured a small sceptic from the crowd, 'it was twenty bullets last time; make it fifty, Teddy!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000015_000000|'And that's the story of my button,' pursued the boy, ignoring with scorn this last remark.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000016_000000|'And did your father have only one button to his coat?'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000017_000001|She was not dressed as an ordinary village child, but in a little rough serge sailor suit, with a large hat to match, set well back on a quantity of loose dark hair.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000017_000002|A rosy cheeked square set little figure she was, and her brown eyes, fringed with long black lashes, looked straight at Teddy with something of defiance and scorn in their glance.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000020_000000|There was a round of applause at this, but the small maiden remained undaunted.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000021_000000|'Is that a true story you told?' she demanded, with severity in her tone.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000022_000000|'Of course it's true,' was the indignant shout of all.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000023_000000|'Then I tell you, boy, I don't believe a word of it!' And with set determined lips she turned on her heel and walked away, having sown seeds of anger and resentment in more than one boyish breast.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000024_000000|'Who is she?' asked Teddy as, tired and exhausted by his recital, he threw himself on the grass to rest.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000024_000001|One of the bigger boys answered him.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000025_000000|'I seed her come yesterday in a cab from the town to old Sol at the turnpike-she and her mother, I reckon.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000025_000001|They had two carpet bags and a box and a poll parrot in a cage.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000028_000000|'She didn't believe me,' murmured Teddy, chewing a wisp of grass meditatively.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000029_000000|'Gals is no good, never!
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000000|Teddy turned his face upwards to the speaker.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000001|'No, I couldn't have fought her, Sam, if she'd been a boy.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000002|I've promised my mother I won't fight again till she gives me leave.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000003|You see, I fought four boys in one week last time, and she says she won't have it.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000004|I don't see if it is right for soldiers to fight, why it isn't right for boys!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000031_000000|'I don't think there's any fellers left for you to fight with, so you're pretty safe.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000031_000001|Besides, it was only Tom Larken, who set them on to try and get your button from you, and he's gone off to another part of the country now.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000032_000001|I think it was six bullets and three sword cuts.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000032_000002|I forget when I tell it how many it was; but she said she didn't believe a word!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000033_000000|Five o'clock struck by the old church clock close by.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000033_000001|Teddy was upon his feet in an instant, and with a wild whoop and shout he was scudding across the green, his curls flying in the wind, and his little feet hardly seeming to touch the ground.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000033_000002|There was none in the village so quick footed as Teddy, and for daring feats and downright pluck he held the foremost place.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000000|There was something very restful in the scene.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000002|Presiding at the tea tray was a stern, forbidding looking woman of sixty or more, opposite her was seated her son, the master of the farm, a heavy faced, sleepy looking man; and at his side, facing the door, sat Teddy's mother.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000003|A sweet gentle faced young woman she was, with the same deep blue eyes as her little son; she bore no resemblance to the elder woman, and looked, as she indeed was, superior to her surroundings.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000004|Two years ago she had come with her child to make her home amongst her husband's people, and though at first her mother in law, mrs Platt, was inclined to look upon her contemptuously as a poor, delicate, useless creature, time proved to her that for steady, quiet work no one could eclipse her daughter in law.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000005|Young mrs john, as she was called, was now her right hand, and the dairy work of the farm was made over entirely to her.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000036_000000|'Late again, you young scamp!' was the stern greeting of his grandmother, as Teddy appeared on the scene.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000037_000000|The boy looked at her with a twinkle in his eye, put his little hand to his forehead, and gave her a military salute.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000038_000000|'Sorry,' was all he said as he slipped into the chair that was waiting for him.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000039_000000|'What have you been doing, sonny?' asked the young mother, whose eyes had brightened at the sight of him.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000040_000000|'Telling father's story,' replied Teddy with alacrity.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000041_000001|'Your father was never late for his meals,' the grandmother put in with asperity.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000042_000000|'Never, granny?
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000042_000001|Not when he was a boy?
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000042_000002|I shall be always in time when I'm a soldier.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000043_000000|'Better begin now, then; bad habits, like weeds, grow apace!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000044_000001|Then, whilst tea was being taken away by the women, he turned to his uncle, who, pulling out a pipe from his pocket, sat down by the open door to smoke.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000045_000000|'Uncle Jake!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000046_000000|A grunt was the only response; but that was sufficient.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000046_000001|The two perfectly understood each other, and a minute after Teddy was perched on his knee.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000047_000000|'I'm wondering if I can't get an enemy!' the boy proceeded, folding his small arms and looking up at his uncle steadily; 'all good people had enemies in the Bible, and I haven't one, I should like to have a good right down enemy!'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000048_000000|'To fight?' asked his uncle.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000049_000000|'To carry on with, you know; he would lay traps for me, and I would for him, like David and Saul; we should have a fine time of it.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000049_000002|Don't you think that would be nice?'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000050_000000|'Fightin' ain't the only grand thing in this world; peace is grander,' was the slow response to this appeal.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000051_000000|'That's what mother says.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000051_000001|She made me learn this morning-"Blessed are the peacemakers!" but you must have an enemy to make peace with, and I haven't got one.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000052_000000|There was silence; the uncle puffed away at his pipe; he was a good man, and had more brains than his appearance warranted, but Teddy's speeches were often a sore puzzle to him.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000052_000001|The boy continued in a slow, thoughtful tone, 'I saw some one to day that I feel might be an enemy, but she's a girl; men don't fight with women.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000053_000000|'I'd rather tackle a man than a woman any day.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000053_000001|They be a powerful enemy sometimes, lad!
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000053_000002|And what have this young maid done to you?'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000054_000001|And she laughed, and walked away.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000055_000000|'That was coming it strong; and who is she, to talk so?'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000056_000000|'She's a stranger; Sam said she's come to live with old Sol at the turnpike.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000057_000000|'That must be Grace's child,' said old mrs Platt, coming up and joining in the conversation.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000057_000002|I suppose her husband is at sea again.'
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000058_000000|'What is her husband?' inquired Teddy's mother, as with work in hand she came out and took a seat in the old-fashioned porch.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000059_000000|'A sailor.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000059_000001|Grace was always a roving nature herself.
train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000059_000003|She was maid to our squire's lady then, and went to foreign parts with her; but folks say she's steadied down now wonderful.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000001_000000|First Victories
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000002_000000|'Please, sir, may I speak to you?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000004_000000|He smiled when he saw the boy.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000006_000000|'I want you to give me a name for my enemy, please, sir.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000007_000000|mr Upton looked amused.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000007_000001|'Have you had any battles with him yet?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000000|'I think I had one yesterday.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000002|Granny was very angry with me because I had made Uncle Jake's best handkerchief into a banner of love.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000003|I didn't really think it was naughty.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000004|I wrote "Love" in ink right across it; and I took such pains, for I wanted to show it to Nancy.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000005|And when I got home granny was so angry that she took me by the collar and she locked me into the back kitchen; and mother was out, and I cried, I was so miserable.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000008|And I was very happy then, and I jumped right out, and then I remembered, but I didn't want to go back again.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000009_000000|'And then the fight began?' suggested the rector, as the boy paused.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000010_000000|Teddy nodded.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000010_000001|'I asked God to drive my enemy away, but I was an awful long time thinking it out.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000010_000002|Is thinking fighting?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000012_000001|Was that being a soldier?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000013_000000|'Yes, my boy.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000014_000000|'And granny let me out soon after; and I kissed her and said I was sorry, but I told her how nearly I had run away, and asked her to see that the window was locked next time, so that I shouldn't have to fight so hard.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000015_000000|'You will have plenty of fighting.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000015_000001|Don't shirk the hottest part of the field; that isn't being brave.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000016_000000|'Will you give me a horrid, ugly name, please, sir?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000017_000000|'I thought your enemy's name was Teddy.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000018_000000|'No, that's mine; I must have a name for him-a different one, you know.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000020_000000|'What funny names!
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000024_000001|Will that be deserting to the enemy?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000025_000000|'It will be sure and certain defeat.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000000|Not long after this, Teddy and his schoolfellows were having a delightful afternoon in the woods.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000001|It was Saturday afternoon, and they were playing their favourite war game, Teddy, of course, being prime instigator of the whole affair.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000003|Her respect for Teddy was gradually increasing, though nothing seemed to quench her self assertion and independence of thought and action.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000004|At length Teddy announced his intention of going off on an expedition as a scout, and on Nancy's insisting that she should come too, the two children started, made their way out of the wood and down to the banks of the stream, which soon joined the river.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000029_000000|'What have we to do?' asked Nancy.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000030_000000|'It's great fun.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000031_000000|'And if we don't meet anybody?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000032_000000|'That's why I came down this way: there are always a lot of people fishing in the river.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000033_000000|'But they won't.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000034_000000|'You must make believe they will.' Teddy's tone was stern, and Nancy was too occupied in holding her hat on her head as they crept through some low bushes to advance any more sceptical opinions.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000035_000000|And then suddenly, a short time after, they came upon a fisherman.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000035_000001|It was only a burly farmer, who was evidently making a day of it, for he sat under the shade of a tree with the remnants of a substantial lunch around him; his fishing rod was in his hand, but the line was out of the water, and he, with head thrown back and mouth wide open, was fast asleep.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000036_000000|'Hush!' said Teddy, in an excited whisper.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000036_000001|'If he wakes, all is up with us; now let's get past him on tiptoe.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000000|This was accomplished safely; but having passed him Teddy stood still, and the spirit of mischief seized hold of him.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000001|Turning to Nancy, he said, with sparkling eyes, 'What fun to take him prisoner and tie him up to the tree with his own fishing line!
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000002|He's an enemy; I really think it's our duty to do it.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000003|You stay here and watch me.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000038_000001|Dancing like an elf with the line in his hand, he spun round and round the tree till the line was wound round to its very last extremity, and the farmer looked like some big bluebottle fly entangled in the fine meshes of a spider's web.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000039_000001|What fun! how I should like to see him!'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000040_000000|'Come on quick.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000040_000001|He's Farmer Green, and he's an awful angry man; he gave Sam such a thrashing for tying an old saucepan to one of his pigs' tails. He won't know who has done it, and I did tie the knots awful tight.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000042_000000|'What's the matter?' asked Nancy.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000042_000001|'Have you got a pain?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000044_000000|The words were uttered almost in a whisper, and Nancy looked on with wonder.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000045_000000|'It isn't right,' he said, after a long pause.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000046_000000|'Oh, you mustn't!' cried Nancy.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000046_000001|'You'll wake him up, and then you'll catch it!
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000046_000002|Let him undo himself!' Teddy shook his head, and then stole softly back to the tree, Nancy following him at a respectful distance.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000047_000000|It seemed a harder business to untie the knots than to tie them, but at length it was done, and the unwinding process began.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000047_000002|Farmer Green's nap was over, and with a hasty start he was roused to the full use of his faculties.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000047_000003|When he discovered his condition he swore a round oath, and turned upon Teddy in great wrath, as he vainly tried to extricate himself.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000049_000001|You're the plague of the parish, and a good thrashing is what you will get, sure as my name's Jonathan Green!'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000052_000000|And in another few minutes he had bound the boy securely to the tree, tying his hands together with his handkerchief; then, as Nancy stepped forward, indignant at this severe treatment, he turned upon her.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000053_000000|'There are two of you, are there?
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000053_000001|Well, you shall share the same fate till I think fit to release you.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000053_000002|I'll teach you to stop playing such impish tricks on decent folk.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000054_000001|'Why, he was undoing you when you woke up, which was very kind of him.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000054_000002|I wish he'd left you tied up, I do!'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000056_000000|'Button boy, did he hurt you?' asked Nancy anxiously; for all this time Teddy had not said a word.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000057_000000|He turned his head and looked at her.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000057_000001|'I feel shooken up dreadful, he's so awful strong; but I'm not very hurt, only I'm sorry, and I've been telling my Captain about it, and asking Him to forgive me.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000058_000000|'Shall we stay here all the evening and all the night?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000059_000000|'Oh no! he'll come and let us go soon.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000059_000001|It isn't fair on you, for you didn't do anything.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000060_000000|'I laughed at him, and I wanted you to leave him tied up.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000060_000001|But I don't care, it doesn't hurt.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000060_000002|You haven't told me ever what I asked you about Jesus' sailors.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000061_000000|'I did ask mother, and she said sailors were soldiers, they were sea soldiers.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000000|'Sailors fight, I know they do.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000001|Grandfather read me about Nelson the other evening, and showed me a picture of sailors cutting the enemy's arms off, as they tried to scramble on board ship.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000002|I shan't never change to soldiers.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000004|And if sailors fight, I can be a sailor for Jesus.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000063_000000|Their conversation was interrupted by voices and steps approaching, and in another moment two ladies and a gentleman appeared, evidently going home after a fishing excursion.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000064_000000|Teddy was the first to speak.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000064_000001|He recognised the newcomers to be the squire, Colonel Graham, and his wife, with a visitor staying with them. 'Please, sir, will you undo us?' he asked appealingly.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000065_000000|The colonel laughed heartily.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000065_000002|You wouldn't think it to look at him, would you?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000066_000001|'And who is the little girl?
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000066_000002|she looks a regular little gipsy!'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000067_000000|Neither of the children appreciated these remarks, but the colonel good naturedly put down his fishing basket and cut the piece of rope that bound them.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000069_000000|Having got his hands free, Teddy stood up bravely and told the story briefly and clearly, to the great amusement of his hearers.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000070_000000|'And he would never have been caught if he hadn't gone back to undo him,' put in Nancy; 'so he oughtn't to have been punished at all.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000071_000000|'What made you go back, my boy?' asked mrs Graham gently.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000073_000000|'I went back when I remembered it was wrong to have done it,' he said simply.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000074_000000|'But you are not such a paragon of goodness generally,' said the colonel.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000074_000001|'Wasn't it you and some others who scared our dairymaid into fits one night last winter, by playing pranks, after dark, outside the dairy window?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000075_000000|'Yes, sir,' said Teddy humbly.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000076_000000|'And why didn't you run away when the old man woke?' asked Lady Helen.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000077_000000|'I never run away from anybody,' said Teddy, his head more erect than ever.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000077_000001|'I'm a soldier's son.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000078_000001|What regiment?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000079_000000|'He's dead, sir.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000079_000001|May I tell you father's story?'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000080_000001|I remember now, though I'm not sure that I recollect the details,' said the colonel musingly.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000080_000002|'Your father was john Platt, who enlisted in one of the line regiments-the twenty fourth, wasn't it?
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000081_000001|He told it as he always did, with enthusiastic effect, and when he offered to show the ladies his button they were charmed with him.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000081_000003|'What a sensitive, refined little face it is!'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000082_000000|'Too good to be spoilt by house service,' said Colonel Graham. 'His mother is a superior young woman, with a very good education, and the Platts are highly respected about here.'
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000083_000000|The children ran back to their playfellows considerably sobered by their experience, and Teddy very soon made his way home, and told his mother all that had befallen him.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000084_000000|'It's dreadful difficult to remember in time, mother.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000084_000001|I'm not a very good soldier, am I? Do you think I ought to love old Farmer Green?
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000085_000000|'I think you must wait a little, sonny.
train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000085_000002|You know it was very naughty of you to act so.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000001_000000|Found
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000002_000000|It was winter time, and Teddy was back at school, full of health and spirits, yet, through all his boyish mirth, the loss of his button was never forgotten.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000002_000001|Daily he prayed for it to be found, and his hope and faith in God never failed him.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000003_000000|'Perhaps God will send it to me for a Christmas surprise.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000003_000001|Perhaps I shall find it in my stocking on Christmas morning,' he used to say to his mother; and she told him to pray on.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000005_000000|'The master wants you to let the youngster come up with me now and speak to him.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000006_000000|'What about?' questioned mrs john, rather alarmed at this summons, and wondering if Teddy had been up to mischief.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000007_000000|'He won't keep him long.' Then, as excited Teddy began pulling on his great coat, he whispered something into his mother's ear, which had the effect of completely reassuring her, and bringing a pleased smile about her lips.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000008_000000|'I shall never be a footman,' he was asserting; 'I couldn't keep my legs so stiff.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000008_000001|You're always like the soldiers when they stand at Attention.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000008_000002|Don't you never kick your legs out in the kitchen, or have you got stiff knees?'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000010_000000|'Don't you think it's nicer to be a soldier?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000010_000001|Wouldn't you like to be one?'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000011_000000|'No; their grub is something shocking, and they live like cattle!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000013_000000|'I say, just tell me, is the colonel angry?' asked Teddy, as looking into the large, brightly lighted hall, he suddenly felt his diminutive size.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000014_000000|'Not he.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000014_000001|Wipe your feet, and take your cap off.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000015_000000|Teddy stepped in upon the soft rugs almost on tiptoe, and the colonel himself came out into the hall to meet him.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000015_000001|'Come in, my little man, and don't be frightened.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000016_000000|Teddy held his head erect as he followed the colonel into a bright, cheery room, where a group of ladies and gentlemen were round the fire enjoying their cup of five o'clock tea.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000017_000000|mrs Graham came forward and gave him a kindly greeting.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000018_000000|'This is our would be soldier,' said Colonel Graham-'the "button boy," as I hear he is called.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000018_000001|Some of you remember his story told in our schoolroom to the regiment passing through in the summer, and we weren't surprised to hear of his narrow escape from death from trying to regain his button.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000018_000003|A button isn't worth much sorrow after the first pang of its loss is over.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000019_000001|I'd rather have it back than anything else in the world!
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000020_000000|'But it's at the bottom of the river, isn't it?'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000021_000000|'I don't know where it is, but God does, and I ask Him every day to send it back to me.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000021_000001|I'm quite sure He will, and I think it will be this Christmas.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000023_000000|'"Fact is stranger than fiction," certainly,' said the colonel.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000023_000001|'Now, my boy, come here.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000024_000000|He was standing on the hearthrug with his back to the fire, and putting his hand into his pocket he drew out a small box and placed it in the child's hand.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000025_000000|'Open it, and tell me if you recognise the contents.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000027_000000|'Oh, my button, my own button!
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000027_000001|Oh, sir!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000028_000000|And here the tears welled up in the blue eyes, and, utterly regardless of the place he was in, he flung himself down on the hearthrug and buried his head, face foremost, in his arms.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000028_000001|He lay there so still for a moment that mrs Graham bent forward to touch him, fearing that the excitement might be too much for him, but he was only trying to hide his emotion from those looking on.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000028_000002|In another minute he rose to his feet, and with a face perfectly radiant he turned to, the colonel, 'It's lovely, sir, it's lovely!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000030_000000|'Now, my boy, I don't think you will ever guess how it came into our possession.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000030_000001|The other day I brought home a few fish, and in preparing one of these for table our cook discovered your button inside it-I wonder the fish had not come to an untimely end before from such an indigestible meal!
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000030_000002|She told us of it, not recognising what a valuable treasure she had brought to light, and directly we saw it, we knew it was the redoubtable button that has been the means of causing such interest in our neighbourhood.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000031_000000|Teddy listened eagerly.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000031_000001|'No wonder no one couldn't find it!' he said, fingering his adornment proudly.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000031_000002|'It's like the fish that brought peter some money once.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000033_000000|'Now, major, what do you think of this youngster?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000033_000001|Would you like to take him as a drummer boy into your regiment?'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000034_000000|The major scanned the boy from head to foot, then answered emphatically, 'I wouldn't take a boy with a face like that for a good deal!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000035_000000|'Why not?' asked mrs Graham.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000000|'Because it's the ruination of them.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000001|I shall never forget a pretty boy we had once; he was called the "cherub," and had been a chorister-sang divinely.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000002|He was only four years in the regiment, and his case was brought to me before he was discharged.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000005|When I see a fresh drummer brought in, I wonder how long he will keep his innocence, and sometimes wish his friends could see the life he is subjected to.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000006|I give them a month generally, and then away flies their bloom and all their home training.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000037_000000|'But, Major Tracy, you are giving us a shocking idea of the morals in the Service,' said one lady.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000000|He shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000001|'I grant you, on the whole, they are better than they were, but the Service is no place for highly strung boys like this one.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000002|The rougher, harder natures get on best.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000003|When they get older, and have sense and strength enough to stick to their principles, then let them enlist.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000039_000000|'But I have always heard,' said mrs Graham, 'that the drummer boys are well looked after now.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000039_000001|They have a room to themselves, and the chaplains have classes for them.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000040_000000|'That may be.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000040_000001|I would only ask you to watch a boy, as I have, from the start, and see what kind of a man he grows into after having spent most of his early youth in the Service.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000040_000002|There are exceptions, I know, but precious few, as far as my experience goes.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000041_000000|Teddy did not understand this conversation, but he gathered from the major's tone that he did not approve of him.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000042_000000|'Do you think I'm too small to be a soldier?' he asked.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000043_000000|The major laughed.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000043_000001|'Don't bother your head about your size,' he said; 'you'll grow, and there's plenty of time before you.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000044_000000|'I don't want to be a drummer,' said Teddy earnestly; 'I'd rather wait and be a proper soldier-a soldier that fights.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000045_000000|'A capital decision-stick to it, little chap, and you have my hearty approval.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000046_000000|'You have your father's blood in your veins,' said the colonel, laughing; 'meanwhile, I suppose you try your hand on the village boys, to content your fighting propensities.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000047_000000|'No,' said Teddy, a grave look coming into his sunny blue eyes.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000049_000000|'He's my own enemy; mr Upton told me about him.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000049_000001|You see, I belong to God's army.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000049_000002|He takes very little soldiers.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000050_000000|There was silence on the little company for a minute, then Major Tracy said with a laugh, 'What an original little oddity it is!--quite a character!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000051_000000|And then Teddy was dismissed.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000051_000001|He flew down the avenue home as fast as he could go.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000051_000002|Snow was falling, but he heeded it not, and burst into the kitchen a little later in a breathless state of excitement.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000052_000000|His mother knew already, so was prepared for his news, but she was not prepared for the handsome adornment now on her boy's coat, and his grandmother and uncle were equally pleased and gratified at the colonel's kindness.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000054_000000|'O God, I do thank You.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000054_000001|I knew You would answer me, for You knew how dreadful it was to live without my button, and You knew how unhappy my heart was about it, though I tried to be brave, and not talk about it.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000055_000000|The next morning before breakfast, Teddy ran off to tell Nancy, and to show her the long lost treasure.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000055_000001|She was quite as delighted as he was, but said, a few minutes after, 'Button boy, do you remember telling me you couldn't live without your button?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000056_000000|'Yes, I thought I should; but as soon as I began to pray about it I knew it was coming back, and so I got better.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000057_000001|I would take great care of it.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000058_000000|'I meant it to be buried with me,' said Teddy, considering, 'but I don't mind altering my mind about it, and if you promise not to give it to any one else, I will let you have it.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000060_000000|'And we'll always remember that soldiers and sailors are just as good as each other-they're quite even!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000061_000000|'Yes,' nodded Nancy; 'sailors and soldiers are quite even, and my father is just as good as your father was!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000063_000000|'And when you die, and I get the button, I shall wear it as a brooch!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000064_000001|Is that wicked?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000064_000003|He does trouble me a lot now'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000065_000000|'Soldiers must never get tired of fighting, sonny, and you have your Captain to help you.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000066_000000|'Yes; and I suppose when I get bigger and stronger it will be much easier, won't it?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000066_000001|Mother, do you have any fighting?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000066_000002|Have you got an enemy like me?'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000067_000000|'Yes, indeed I have, my boy.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000068_000000|'But you're never beaten, are you?
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000068_000001|You never do anything wrong!'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000070_000000|Teddy pondered over this.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000071_000000|'No, darling; there will be no fighting with sin there.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000072_000000|Teddy smiled.
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000073_000000|'There is a verse in the Bible that says, "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Mother would rather have her little son fight God's battles than be the bravest soldier in the Queen's army.'
train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000074_000000|'But,' said Teddy, 'I mean to do both; and now, mother, just before I go to sleep, give me father's button to kiss!'
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000002_000000|Thurston did not go on the horse roundup.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000003_000000|That sounded all right as far as it went, but unfortunately it did not go far.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000003_000001|The boys winked at one another gravely behind his back and jerked their thumbs knowingly toward Milk River; by which pantomime they reminded one another-quite unnecessarily that Mona Stevens had come home.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000003_000003|The boys, it would seem, realized that it is against human nature for a man to declare openly to his fellows his intention of laying last, desperate siege to the heart of a girl who has already refused him three times, and to ask her for the fourth time if she will reconsider her former decisions and marry him.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000004_000000|That is really what kept Thurston at the Lazy Eight.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000004_000002|During the winter, when he did not see her, he could bring himself to think occasionally of other things; and it is a fact that the stories he wrote with no heroine at all hit the mark the straightest.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000005_000001|And since he was not a fool he realized the falling off and chafed against it and wondered why it was.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000006_000000|The wagons were out two weeks-which is quite long enough for a crisis to arise in the love affair of any man.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000006_000001|By the time the horse roundup was over, one Philip Thurston was in pessimistic mood and quite ready to follow the wagons, the farther the better.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000006_000003|His thoughts still ran to blue gray eyes and ripply hair, but he made no attempt to put them into a story.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000007_000000|He packed his trunk carefully with everything he would not need on the roundup, and his typewriter he put in the middle.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000008_000000|He wrote to Reeve Howard, the night before they were to start, and apologized gracefully for having neglected him during the past three weeks and told him he would certainly be home in another month.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000008_000001|He said that he was "in danger of being satiated with the Western tone" and would be glad to shake the hand of civilized man once more.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000008_000002|This was distinctly unfair, because he had no quarrel with the masculine portion of the West.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000010_000002|Yellow throated meadow larks perched swaying in the top of gray sage bushes and sang to him that the world was good. Sober gray curlews circled over his head, their long, funny bills thrust out straight as if to point the way for their bodies to follow and cried, "Kor r eck, kor r eck!"--which means just what the meadow larks sang.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000011_000001|The rattle of mess wagons, driven by the camp cook and followed by the bed wagon, was heard from all directions.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000012_000000|Park came along, saw what he was doing and laughed.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000012_000002|"When yuh can stand on this little hill and count fifty or sixty outfits camped within two or three miles uh here, yuh might begin taking pictures."
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000013_000000|"I think you're loading me,"
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000013_000001|Thurston retorted calmly, winding up the roll for another exposure.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000014_000000|"All right-suit yourself about it." Park walked off and left him peering into the view finder.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000015_000000|Still they came.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000015_000001|From Swift Current to the Cypress Hills the Canadian cattlemen sent their wagons to join the big meet.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000016_000000|For a day and a night the cowboys made merry in town while their foremen consulted and the captains appointed by the Association mapped out the different routes.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000016_000001|At times like these, foremen such as Park and Deacon Smith were shorn of their accustomed power, and worked under orders as strict as those they gave their men.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000019_000000|That meant day after day of "riding circle"--which is, being interpreted, riding out ten or twelve miles from camp, then turning and driving everything before them to a point near the center of the circle thus formed.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000019_000001|When they met the cattle were bunched, and all stock which belonged on that range was cut out, leaving only those which had crossed the river during the storms of winter.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000019_000002|These were driven on to the next camping place and held, which meant constant day herding and night guarding work which cowboys hate more than anything else.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000020_000003|But not all.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000020_000006|He is a sturdy, self reliant little rascal, is the range bred calf.
train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000021_000001|He would help take the herd home, he told Park, and then he intended to hit the trail for little, old New York.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000001_000001|HIGH WATER
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000002_000000|It was nearing the middle of June, and it was getting to be a very hot June at that.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000002_000002|Then the sky threatened for a day, and after that they plodded in the rain.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000000|"Thank the Lord that's done with," sighed Park when he saw the last of the herd climb, all dripping, up the north bank of the Milk River. "To morrow we can turn 'em loose.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000001|And I tell yuh, Bud, we didn't get across none too soon.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000002|Yuh notice how the river's coming up?
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000003|A day later and we'd have had to hold the herd on the other side, no telling how long."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000004_000000|"It is higher than usual; I noticed that," Thurston agreed absently.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000004_000003|He could easily ride down there and find out. It wasn't far; not a quarter of a mile, but he assured himself that he wasn't going, and that he was not quite a fool, he hoped Even if she were at home, what good could that possibly do him?
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000004_000005|Such nights were not pleasant, nor were the thoughts that caused them.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000005_000000|From where they were camped upon a ridge which bounded a broad coulee on the east, he could look down upon the Stevens ranch nestling in the bottomland, the house half hidden among the cottonwoods.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000005_000001|Through the last hours of the afternoon he watched it hungrily.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000005_000002|The big corral ran down to the water's edge, and he noted idly that three panels of the fence extended out into the river, and that the muddy water was creeping steadily up until at sundown the posts of the first panel barely showed above the water.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000006_000000|Park came up to him and looked down upon the little valley.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000007_000000|"There must be danger of it this year if ever," Thurston observed uneasily.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000007_000001|"The river is coming up pretty fast, it seems to me.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000008_000002|Where yuh going, Bud?"
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000009_000000|"I'm going to ride down there," Thurston answered constrainedly.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000010_000000|"Well, I'll go along, if you'll hold on a minute.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000010_000001|Jack ain't got a lick uh sense.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000010_000002|I don't care if he is Mona's brother."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000011_000000|"Half brother," corrected Thurston, as he swung up into the saddle.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000011_000001|He had a poor opinion of Jack and resented even that slight relation to Mona.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000001|When they galloped into the yard which sloped from the house gently down to the river fifty yards away, Mona's face appeared for a moment in the window.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000002|Evidently she had been watching for some one, and Thurston's heart flopped in his chest as he wondered, fleetingly, if it could be himself.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000003|When she opened the door her eyes greeted him with a certain wistful expression that he had never seen in them before.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000004|He was guilty of wishing that Park had stayed in camp.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000013_000000|"Oh, I'm glad you rode over," she welcomed-but she was careful, after that first swift glance, to look at Park.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000000|Park smiled vaguely.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000001|He was afraid it would not be polite to agree with her as emphatically as he would like to have done.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000002|But Thurston had no smile ready, polite or otherwise.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000003|Instead he drew down his brows in a way not complimentary to Jack.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000015_000000|"Where is your mother?" he asked, almost peremptorily.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000016_000001|"Aunt Mary has typhoid fever-there seems to be so much of that this spring and they sent for mamma.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000017_000000|Thurston did know, but he passed over the subject.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000018_000000|"Certainly not; aren't you two here?" Mona could be very pert when she tried.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000018_000001|"Jack and I are holding down the ranch just now; the boys are all on roundup, of course.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000018_000002|Jack went to town today to see some one.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000019_000000|"Um m yes, of course."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000019_000001|It was Park, still trying to be polite and not commit himself on the subject of Jack.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000019_000002|The "some one" whom Jack went oftenest to see was the bartender in the Palace saloon, but it was not necessary to tell her that.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000020_000000|"The river's coming up pretty fast, Mona," he ventured.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000020_000001|"Don't yuh think yuh ought to pull out and go visiting?"
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000021_000000|"No, I don't." Mona's tone was very decided.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000022_000000|"You can never tell what it might do," Park argued.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000022_000002|This hot weather we've been having lately, and then the rain, will bring it a whooping.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000023_000000|"No, I can't." Mona's chin went up perversely.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000023_000001|"I'm no coward, I hope, even if there was any danger which there isn't."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000000|Thurston's chin went up also, and he sat a bit straighter.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000001|Whether she meant it or not, he took her words as a covert stab at himself.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000002|Probably she did not mean it; at any rate the blood flew consciously to her cheeks after she had spoken, and she caught her under lip sharply between her teeth.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000003|And that did not help matters or make her temper more yielding.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000025_000000|"Anyway," she added hurriedly, "Jack will be here; he's likely to come any minute now."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000027_000001|He did not like even Park to be too familiar with Mona, though he knew there was a girl in Shellanne whose name Park sometimes spoke in his sleep.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000028_000000|She lifted the big glass lamp down from its place on the clock shelf and lighted it with fingers not quite steady.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000028_000001|"You men," she remarked, "think women ought to be wrapped in pink cotton and put in a glass cabinet.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000029_000000|"Would yuh?" Park grinned skeptically.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000029_000003|Then where'd yuh be at?"
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000030_000000|"It won't get up here, though," Mona asserted coolly.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000031_000000|"No, and the Lazy Eight never had to work the Yellowstone range on spring roundup before either," Park told her meaningly.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000032_000000|Whereupon Mona got upon her pedestal and smiled her unpleasant smile, against which even Park had no argument ready.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000033_000000|They lingered till long after all good cowpunchers are supposed to be in their beds-unless they are standing night guard-but Jack failed to appear.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000034_000000|When the clock struck a wheezy nine Mona glanced at it significantly and smothered a yawn more than half affected.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000034_000001|It was a hint which no man with an atom of self respect could overlook.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000035_000000|"I guess we'll have to be going," Park said with some ceremony.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000036_000000|"I don't see why not; I'm not the least bit afraid," Mona said.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000036_000001|Her tone was impersonal and had in it a note of dismissal.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000037_000000|So, there being nothing else that they could do, they said good night and took themselves off.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000000|"This is sure fierce," Park grumbled when they struck the lower ground. "Darn a man like Jack Stevens!
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000003|But no-it'd be awful if Jack had to cook his own grub for a week.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000004|Say, the water has come up a lot, don't yuh think, Bud? If it raises much more Mona'll sure have a chance to 'cope with the situation.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000005|It'd just about serve her right, too."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000039_000000|Thurston did not think so, but he was in too dispirited a mood to argue the point.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000040_000001|He cursed the conventions which forbade his staying and watching over the girl back there in the house which already stood upon an island, cut off from the safe, high land by a strip of backwater that was widening and deepening every minute, and, when it rose high enough to flow into the river below, would have a current that would make a nasty crossing.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000041_000000|On the first rise he stopped and looked back at the light which shone out from among the dripping cottonwoods.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000041_000001|Even then he was tempted to go back and brave her anger that he might feel assured of her safety.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000000|"Oh, come on," Park cried impatiently.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000002|I don't suppose the water will get clear up to the house; it'll likely do things to the sheds and corrals, though, and serve Jack right.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000003|Come on, Bud.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000005|She's got lots uh nerve; I guess she'll make out all right."
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000043_000000|There was common sense in the argument, and Thurston recognized it and rode on to camp.
train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000043_000001|But instead of unsaddling, as he would naturally have done, he tied Sunfish to the bed wagon and threw his slicker over his back to protect him from the rain.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000000_000001|"I'll STAY-ALWAYS"
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000001_000001|By and by the rain ceased and he could tell by the dim whiteness of the tent roof that the clouds must have been swept away from before the moon, then just past the full.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000002_000002|He studied critically the wide sweep of the river.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000002_000003|He might almost have thought it the Missouri itself, it stretched so far from bank to bank; indeed, it seemed to know no banks but the hills themselves.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000002_000004|He turned toward where the light had shone among the cottonwoods below; there was nothing but a great blot of shade that told him nothing.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000003_000000|A step sounded just behind.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000003_000001|A hand, the hand of Park, rested upon his shoulder.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000003_000003|Was yuh thinking about riding down there?"
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000004_000000|"Yes," Thurston answered simply.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000004_000001|"Are you coming?"
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000005_000000|"Sure," Park assented.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000006_000000|They got upon their horses and headed down the trail to the Stevens place.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000006_000001|Thurston would have put Sunfish to a run, but Park checked him.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000007_000000|"Go easy," he admonished.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000008_000000|Down the hill they stopped at the edge of a raging torrent and strained their eyes to see what lay on the other side.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000008_000001|While they looked, a light twinkled out from among the tree tops.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000008_000002|Thurston caught his breath sharply.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000009_000000|"She's upstairs," he said, and his voice sounded strained and unnatural. "It's just a loft where they store stuff." He started to ride into the flood.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000010_000000|"Come on back here, yuh chump!" Park roared.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000011_000002|A black, tar papered shack went scudding past, lodged upon a ridge where the water was shallower, and sat there swaying drunkenly.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000012_000000|"That's old Dutch Henry's house," Park shouted above the roar.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000012_000001|"I'll bet he's cussing things blue on some pinnacle up there." He laughed at the picture his imagination conjured, and rode out into the swirl.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000014_000003|He could not have helped Park, and he could very easily have drowned himself.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000014_000004|Though it was not thought of himself but of Mona that stayed his hand.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000000|They landed at the gate.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000001|Sunfish scrambled with his feet for secure footing, found it and waded up to the front door.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000002|The water was a foot deep on the porch.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000003|Thurston beat an imperative tattoo upon the door with the butt of his quirt, and shouted.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000004|And Mona's voice, shorn of its customary assurance, answered faintly from the loft.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000017_000000|"You didn't 'cope with the situation,' after all," he remarked while she was settling herself firmly in the saddle.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000018_000000|"I went to sleep and didn't notice the water till it was coming in at the door," she explained.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000018_000001|"And then-"
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000018_000002|She stopped abruptly.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000019_000000|"Then what?" he demanded maliciously.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000019_000001|"Were you afraid?"
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000020_000000|"A little," she confessed reluctantly.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000021_000001|After that he could think of little else.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000022_000003|Thurston felt his laboring and clutched Mona still tighter.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000023_000002|And though the under current clutched him and the weight of Mona taxed his strength, he managed to keep them both afloat and to make a little headway until the deepest part lay behind them.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000000|He stood a minute with his arm still around her, and coughed his voice clear.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000001|"Park went down," he began, hardly knowing what it was he was saying.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000002|"Park-"
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000004|"Park!
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000026_000000|And from somewhere down the river came a faint reassuring whoop.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000000|"Thank the Lord!" gasped Thurston, and leaned against her for a second. Then he straightened.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000001|"Are you all right?" he asked, and drew her toward a rock near at hand-for in truth, the knees of him were shaking.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000002|They sat down, and he looked more closely at her face and discovered that it was wet with something more than river water.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000007|He laid a hand tenderly against her cheek and wondered if he dared feel so happy.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000028_000000|"Little girl-oh, little girl," he said softly, and stopped.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000030_000001|"Stay?
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000030_000003|"Hank wanted to take me into the Lazy Eight, so now I'll buy an interest, and stay-always."
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000031_000000|"You dear!" Mona snuggled close and learned how it feels to be kissed, if she had never known before.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000032_000000|Sunfish, having scrambled ashore a few yards farther down, came up to them and stood waiting, as if to be forgiven for his failure to carry them safe to land, but Thurston, after the first inattentive glance, ungratefully took no heed of him.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000033_000000|There was a sound of scrambling foot steps and Park came dripping up to them.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000033_000004|I'll rout out the cook and make him boil us some coffee."
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000034_000000|Thurston turned joyfully toward him.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000034_000001|"Park, old fellow, I was afraid."
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000035_000000|"Yuh better reform and quit being afraid," Park bantered.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000035_000002|I was poking around below there looking for him."
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000036_000000|"Well, Mona, I see yuh was able to 'cope with the situation,' all right-but yuh needed Bud mighty bad, I reckon.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000036_000001|The chances is yuh won't have no house in the morning, so Bud'll have to get busy and rustle one for yuh.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000036_000002|I guess you'll own up, now, that the water can get through the gate." He laughed in his teasing way.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000037_000000|Mona stood up, and her shining eyes were turned to Thurston.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000037_000001|"I don't care," she asserted with reddened cheeks.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000037_000002|"I'm just glad it did get through."
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000038_000000|"Same here," said Thurston with much emphasis.
train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000039_000000|Then, with Mona once more in the saddle, and with Thurston leading Sunfish by the bridle rein, they trailed damply and happily up the long ridge to where the white tents of the roundup gleamed sharply against the sky line.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000003_000000|"I know she is.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000003_000001|Have a nice dinner for her.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000003_000002|I don't think she ever has a nice dinner at home."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000004_000000|"And the three eldest girls are coming."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000005_000000|"Three!"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000006_000000|"You asked them yourself on Sunday."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000007_000001|They said their papa would be away on business."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000007_000002|It was understood that mr Carroll was never asked to the Manor house.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000008_000000|"Business!
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000000|"They must have their dinner, at any rate," said mr Grey.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000001|"I don't think they should suffer because he drinks."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000002|This had been a subject much discussed between them, but on the present occasion Miss Grey would not renew it.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000003|She despatched her father in a cab, the cab having been procured because he was supposed to be a quarter of an hour late, and then went to work to order her dinner.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000000|It has been said that Miss Grey hated the Carrolls; but she hated the daughters worse than the mother, and of all the people she hated in the world she hated Amelia Carroll the worst.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000001|Amelia, the eldest, entertained an idea that she was more of a personage in the world's eyes than her cousin,--that she went to more parties, which certainly was true if she went to any,--that she wore finer clothes, which was also true, and that she had a lover, whereas Dolly Grey,--as she called her cousin behind her back,--had none.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000002|This lover had something to do with horses, and had only been heard of, had never been seen, at the Manor house. Sophy was a good deal hated also, being a forward, flirting, tricky girl of seventeen, who had just left the school at which Uncle john had paid for her education.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000003|Georgina, the third, was still at school under similar circumstances, and was pardoned her egregious noisiness and romping propensities under the score of youth.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000004|She was sixteen, and was possessed of terrible vitality.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000005|"I am sure they take after their father altogether," mr Grey had once said when the three left the Manor house together.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000006|At half past six punctually they came.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000007|Dolly heard a great clatter of four people leaving their clogs and cloaks in the hall, and would not move out of the unused drawing room, in which for the moment she was seated.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000010|"Well, Aunt Carroll, how does the world use you?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000011_000000|"Very badly.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000012_000000|"I haven't counted; but when I do come I don't often do any good.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000012_000001|How are Minna, and Brenda, and Potsey?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000013_000000|"Poor Potsey has got a nasty boil under her arm."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000014_000000|"It comes from eating too much toffy," said Georgina.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000014_000001|"I told her it would."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000015_000000|"How very nasty you are!" said Miss Carroll.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000015_000001|"Do leave the child and her ailments alone!"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000016_000000|"Poor papa isn't very well, either," said Sophy, who was supposed to be her father's pet.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000017_000000|"I hope his state of health will not debar him from dining with his friends to night," said Miss Grey.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000019_000001|This came from his afflicted wife, who, in spite of all his misfortunes, would ever speak with some respect of her husband's employments.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000019_000002|"He wasn't at all in a fit state to go to night, but he had promised, and that was enough."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000020_000000|When they had waited three quarters of an hour Amelia began to complain,--certainly not without reason.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000020_000001|"I wonder why Uncle john always keeps us waiting in this way?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000021_000000|"Papa has, unfortunately, something to do with his time, which is not altogether his own." There was not much in these words, but the tone in which they were uttered would have crushed any one more susceptible than Amelia Carroll.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000021_000001|But at that moment the cab arrived, and Dolly went down to meet her father.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000023_000001|"That girl up stairs is nearly famished."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000024_000000|"I won't be half a moment," said the repentant father, hastening up stairs to go through his ordinary dressing arrangement.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000025_000000|"I wouldn't hurry for her," said Dolly; "but of course you'll hurry. You always do, don't you, papa?" Then they sat down to dinner.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000026_000000|"Well, girls, what is your news?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000027_000000|"We were out to day on the Brompton Road," said the eldest, "and there came up Prince Chitakov's drag with four roans."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000028_000001|I didn't know there was such a prince."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000029_000000|"Oh, dear, yes; with very stiff mustaches, turned up high at the corners, and pink cheeks, and a very sharp, nobby looking hat, with a light colored grey coat, and light gloves.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000029_000001|You must know the prince."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000030_000001|What did the prince do?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000031_000000|"He was tooling his own drag, and he had a lady with him on the box.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000031_000001|I never saw anything more tasty than her dress,--dark red silk, with little fluffy fur ornaments all over it.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000031_000002|I wonder who she was?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000032_000000|"mrs Chitakov, probably," said the attorney.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000033_000000|"I don't think the prince is a married man," said Sophy.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000036_000001|"It's the Princess of Wales."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000037_000000|"But it isn't the Princess of Christian, nor yet the Princess of Teck, nor the Princess of England.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000038_000000|"Papa, don't bamboozle her," said his daughter.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000039_000000|"But," continued the attorney, "why shouldn't the lady have been his wife?
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000039_000001|Don't married ladies wear little fluffy fur ornaments?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000040_000001|"It really isn't becoming."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000043_000000|"He did," said Sophy.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000043_000001|"It's the most impertinent thing I ever heard.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000043_000002|If my father had seen it he'd have had the prince off the box of the coach in no time."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000044_000001|That she should be sitting at table with a girl who could boast that a reprobate foreigner had kissed his hand to her from the box of a fashionable four horsed coach!
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000044_000002|For it was in that light that Miss Grey regarded it. "And did you have any farther adventures besides this memorable encounter with the prince?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000045_000000|"Nothing nearly so interesting," said Sophy.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000046_000000|"That was hardly to be expected," said the attorney.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000046_000001|"Jane, you will have a glass of port wine?
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000046_000002|Girls, you must have a glass of port wine to support you after your disappointment with the prince."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000047_000000|"We were not disappointed in the least," said Amelia.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000049_000000|"That is because the prince did not kiss his hand to you," said Sophy. Then Miss Grey sunk again into silence, crushed beneath this last blow.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000000|In the evening, when the dinner things had been taken away, a matter of business came up, and took the place of the prince and his mustaches. mrs Carroll was most anxious to know whether her brother could "lend" her a small sum of twenty pounds.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000002|"He must have clothes, you know," said the poor woman, wailing.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000004|The loan had to be arranged in full conclave, as otherwise mrs Carroll would have found it difficult to obtain access to her brother's ear.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000005|But the one auditor whom she feared was her niece.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000006|On the present occasion Miss Grey simply took up her book to show that the subject was one which had no interest for her; but she did undoubtedly listen to all that was said on the subject. "There was never anything settled about poor Patrick's clothes," said mrs Carroll, in a half whisper.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000051_000000|"I dare say something ought to be done at some time," said mr Grey, who knew that he would be told, when the evening was over, that he would give away all his substance to that man if he were asked.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000052_000000|"Papa has not had a new pair of trousers this year," said Sophy.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000053_000000|"Except those green ones he wore at the races," said Georgina.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000054_000000|"Hold your tongue, miss!" said her mother.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000054_000001|"That was a pair I made up for him and sent them to the man to get pressed."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000055_000001|Of course, papa is a trouble."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000056_000001|"Uncle john would not like not to have any clothes."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000058_000001|His "own" income consisted of what had been saved out of his wife's fortune, and was thus named as in opposition to the larger sum paid to mrs Carroll by mr Grey.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000058_000002|There was one hundred and fifty pounds a year coming from settled property, which had been preserved by the lawyer's care, and which was regarded in the family as "papa's own."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000059_000002|It was very necessary that she should do so, if the family was to be kept on its legs at all. "I don't think any good can come from discussing what my uncle does with the money."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000059_000003|This was Dolly's first speech.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000059_000004|"If he is to have it, let him have it, but let him have as little as possible."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000061_000000|"Your cousin Dorothy is very fortunate," said mrs Carroll.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000061_000001|"She does not know what it is to want for anything."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000062_000001|"It is Dolly's only fault that she won't."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000063_000000|"Because she has it all done for her," said Amelia.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000000|Dolly had gone back to her book, and disdained to make any farther reply.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000002|"He does want them very badly-for decency's sake," said the poor wife, thus winding up her plea.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000003|Then mr Grey got out his check book and wrote the check for twenty pounds.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000004|But he made it payable, not to mr but to mrs Carroll.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000065_000000|"I suppose, papa, nothing can be done about mr Carroll."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000065_000001|This was said by Dolly as soon as the family had withdrawn.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000066_000000|"In what way 'done,' my dear?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000067_000000|"As to settling some farther sum for himself."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000068_000000|"He'd only spend it, my dear."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000069_000000|"That would be intended," said Dolly.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000070_000000|"And then he would come back just the same."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000071_000000|"But in that case he should have nothing more.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000072_000000|"My dear," said mr Grey, "you cannot get rid of the gnats of the world. They will buzz and sting and be a nuisance.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000072_000001|Poor Jane suffers worse from this gnat than you or i Put up with it; and understand in your own mind that when he comes for another twenty pounds he must have it.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000072_000002|You needn't tell him, but so it must be."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000000|"If I had my way," said Dolly, after ten minutes' silence, "I would punish him.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000001|He is an evil thing, and should be made to reap the proper reward.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000002|It is not that I wish to avoid my share of the world's burdens, but that justice should be done.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000003|I don't know which I hate the worst,--Uncle Carroll or mr Scarborough."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000074_000000|The next day was Sunday, and Dolly was very anxious before breakfast to induce her father to say that he would go to church with her; but he was inclined to be obstinate, and fell back upon his usual excuse, saying that there were Scarborough papers which it would be necessary that he should read before he started for Tretton on the following day.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000076_000001|That is the intention; but somehow it fails with me sometimes."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000077_000000|"Do you think that you hate people when you go to church as much as when you don't?"
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000078_000000|"I am not sure that I hate anybody very much."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000079_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000081_000000|"But if you don't hate them it is because you won't take the trouble, and that again is not right.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000081_000002|You'd hate Uncle Carroll's idleness and abominable self indulgence worse than you do."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000084_000000|"Then you certainly ought to go to church."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000000|"I know you would, you dear, sweet, kind hearted, but most un Christian, father.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000001|You must come to church, in order that some idea of what Christianity demands of you may make its way into your heart.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000002|It is not what the clergyman may say of you, but that your mind will get away for two hours from that other reptile and his concerns." Then mr Grey, with a loud, long sigh, allowed his boots, and his gloves, and his church going hat, and his church going umbrella to be brought to him.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000003|It was, in fact, his aversion to these articles that Dolly had to encounter.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000088_000001|I have got a frock which I will bring with me as a present for Potsey; and I will make her sew on the buttons for herself.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000088_000002|Tell Minna I will lend her that book I spoke of.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000089_000001|The discussion was held in the dining room, and may, therefore, be supposed to have been premeditated. Those at night in mr Grey's own bedroom were generally the result of sudden thought.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000089_000002|"I should lay down the law to him-" began Dolly.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000000|"I don't mean the law in that sense.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000002|If his son is willing to pay these money lenders what sums they have actually advanced, and if by any effort on his part the money can be raised, let it be done.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000003|There seems to be some justice in repaying out of the property that which was lent to the property when by mr Scarborough's own doing the property was supposed to go into the eldest son's hands.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000005|Go there prepared with your opinion.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000006|But if either father or son will not accept it, then depart, and shake the dust from your feet."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000092_000000|"You propose it all as though it were the easiest thing in the world."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000093_000000|"Easy or difficult.
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000093_000001|I would not discuss anything of which the justice may hereafter be disputed."
train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000094_000000|What was the result of the consultation on mr Grey's mind he did not declare, but he resolved to take his daughter's advice in all that she said to him.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty six THE JEW
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000004_000000|When she realised what had happened, a curious mixture of joy and wonder filled her heart.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000004_000002|Chauvelin was still absolutely helpless, far more so than he could even have been under a blow from the fist, for now he could neither see, nor hear, nor speak, whilst his cunning adversary had quietly slipped through his fingers.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000000|Blakeney was gone, obviously to try and join the fugitives at the Pere Blanchard's hut.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000003|Every place was watched, and every stranger kept in sight.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000004|How far could Percy go, thus arrayed in his gorgeous clothes, without being sighted and followed?
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000005|Now she blamed herself terribly for not having gone down to him sooner, and given him that word of warning and of love which, perhaps, after all, he needed.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000007_000000|Chauvelin had partially recovered; his sneezing had become less violent, and he had struggled to his feet.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000011_000000|"Here, man! through that door!
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000011_000001|not five minutes ago."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000012_000000|"We saw nothing, citoyen!
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000015_000000|"You did what I ordered you to do," said Chauvelin, with impatience. "I know that, but you were a precious long time about it.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000015_000001|Fortunately, there's not much harm done, or it had fared ill with you, Citoyen Desgas."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000016_000001|There was so much rage and hatred in his superior's whole attitude.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000017_000000|"The tall stranger, citoyen-" he stammered.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000018_000001|For obvious reasons, I dared not tackle him alone. Brogard is too big a fool, and that cursed Englishman appears to have the strength of a bullock, and so he slipped away under your very nose."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000019_000000|"He cannot go far without being sighted, citoyen."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000021_000001|He again assured me that the watch had been constant all day, and that no stranger could possibly get to the beach, or reach a boat, without being sighted."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000022_000000|"That's good.--Do the men know their work?" "They have had very clear orders, citoyen: and I myself spoke to those who were about to start. They are to shadow-as secretly as possible-any stranger they may see, especially if he be tall, or stoop as if he would disguise his height."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000023_000001|"That impudent Scarlet Pimpernel would slip through clumsy fingers.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000023_000002|We must let him get to the Pere Blanchard's hut now; there surround and capture him."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000025_000000|"That is right," said Chauvelin, rubbing his hands, well pleased.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000027_000000|"What is it?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000028_000000|"A tall Englishman had a long conversation about three quarters of an hour ago with a Jew, Reuben by name, who lives not ten paces from here."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000029_000000|"Yes-and?" queried Chauvelin, impatiently.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000030_000000|"The conversation was all about a horse and cart, which the tall Englishman wished to hire, and which was to have been ready for him by eleven o'clock."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000031_000000|"It is past that now.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000031_000001|Where does that Reuben live?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000032_000000|"A few minutes' walk from this door."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000033_000000|"Send one of the men to find out if the stranger has driven off in Reuben's cart."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000034_000000|"Yes, citoyen."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000035_000000|Desgas went to give the necessary orders to one of the men.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000036_000000|She had come all this way, and with such high hopes and firm determination to help her husband, and so far she had been able to do nothing, but to watch, with a heart breaking with anguish, the meshes of the deadly net closing round the daring Scarlet Pimpernel.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000037_000000|He could not now advance many steps, without spying eyes to track and denounce him.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000037_000001|Her own helplessness struck her with the terrible sense of utter disappointment.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000037_000002|The possibility of being the slightest use to her husband had become almost NIL, and her only hope rested in being allowed to share his fate, whatever it might ultimately be.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000038_000000|For the moment, even her chance of ever seeing the man she loved again, had become a remote one.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000038_000001|Still, she was determined to keep a close watch over his enemy, and a vague hope filled her heart, that whilst she kept Chauvelin in sight, Percy's fate might still be hanging in the balance.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000039_000001|Thus several minutes went by.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000039_000002|Chauvelin was evidently devoured with impatience.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000039_000003|Apparently he trusted no one: this last trick played upon him by the daring Scarlet Pimpernel had made him suddenly doubtful of success, unless he himself was there to watch, direct and superintend the capture of this impudent Englishman.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000040_000000|About five minutes later, Desgas returned, followed by an elderly Jew, in a dirty, threadbare gaberdine, worn greasy across the shoulders.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000040_000001|His red hair, which he wore after the fashion of the Polish Jews, with the corkscrew curls each side of his face, was plentifully sprinkled with grey-a general coating of grime, about his cheeks and his chin, gave him a peculiarly dirty and loathsome appearance.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000041_000000|Chauvelin, who had all the Frenchman's prejudice against the despised race, motioned to the fellow to keep at a respectful distance.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000041_000001|The group of the three men were standing just underneath the hanging oil lamp, and Marguerite had a clear view of them all.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000042_000000|"Is this the man?" asked Chauvelin.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000043_000000|"No, citoyen," replied Desgas, "Reuben could not be found, so presumably his cart has gone with the stranger; but this man here seems to know something, which he is willing to sell for a consideration."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000045_000000|The Jew, with characteristic patience, stood humbly on one side, leaning on the knotted staff, his greasy, broad brimmed hat casting a deep shadow over his grimy face, waiting for the noble Excellency to deign to put some questions to him.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000046_000000|"The citoyen tells me," said Chauvelin peremptorily to him, "that you know something of my friend, the tall Englishman, whom I desire to meet . . .
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000047_000000|"Yes, your Excellency," replied the Jew, who spoke the language with that peculiar lisp which denotes Eastern origin, "I and Reuben Goldstein met a tall Englishman, on the road, close by here this evening."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000048_000000|"Did you speak to him?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000049_000000|"He spoke to us, your Excellency.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000050_000000|"What did you say?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000051_000000|"I did not say anything," said the Jew in an injured tone, "Reuben Goldstein, that accursed traitor, that son of Belial . . ."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000052_000000|"Cut that short, man," interrupted Chauvelin, roughly, "and go on with your story."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000053_000000|"He took the words out of my mouth, your Excellency: when I was about to offer the wealthy Englishman my horse and cart, to take him wheresoever he chose, Reuben had already spoken, and offered his half starved nag, and his broken down cart."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000056_000000|"And, of course, the horse and cart were ready?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000057_000001|Reuben's nag was lame as usual; she refused to budge at first.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000058_000000|"Then they started?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000059_000002|An Englishman too!--He ought to have known Reuben's nag was not fit to drive."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000060_000000|"But if he had no choice?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000061_000001|He would not listen.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000061_000002|Reuben is such a liar, and has such insinuating ways. The stranger was deceived.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000061_000003|If he was in a hurry, he would have had better value for his money by taking my cart."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000063_000000|"Aye! that I have, your Excellency, and if your Excellency wants to drive . . ."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000065_000000|Thoughtfully the Jew rubbed his dirty chin.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000065_000001|Marguerite's heart was beating well nigh to bursting.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000065_000002|She had heard the peremptory question; she looked anxiously at the Jew, but could not read his face beneath the shadow of his broad brimmed hat.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000066_000001|He gazed at them thoughtfully, then remarked, in a quiet tone of voice,--
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000070_000000|"Twenty francs, your Excellency," replied the Jew, "and I have been an honest man all my life."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000072_000000|"How many gold pieces are there in the palm of my hand?" he asked quietly.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000073_000000|Evidently he had no desire to terrorize the man, but to conciliate him, for his own purposes, for his manner was pleasant and suave.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000073_000001|No doubt he feared that threats of the guillotine, and various other persuasive methods of that type, might addle the old man's brains, and that he would be more likely to be useful through greed of gain, than through terror of death.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000075_000000|"At least five, I should say, your Excellency," he replied obsequiously.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000076_000000|"Enough, do you think, to loosen that honest tongue of yours?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000078_000000|"Whether your horse and cart can take me to where I can find my friend the tall stranger, who has driven off in Reuben Goldstein's cart?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000080_000000|"To a place called the Pere Blanchard's hut?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000081_000000|"Your Honour has guessed?" said the Jew in astonishment.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000082_000000|"You know the place?
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000082_000001|Which road leads to it?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000084_000000|"You know the road?" repeated Chauvelin, roughly.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000085_000000|"Every stone, every blade of grass, your Honour," replied the Jew quietly.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000086_000000|Chauvelin without another word threw the five pieces of gold one by one before the Jew, who knelt down, and on his hands and knees struggled to collect them.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000086_000001|One rolled away, and he had some trouble to get it, for it had lodged underneath the dresser.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000086_000002|Chauvelin quietly waited while the old man scrambled on the floor, to find the piece of gold.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000088_000000|"How soon can your horse and cart be ready?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000090_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000091_000000|"Not ten meters from this door.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000091_000001|Will your Excellency deign to look."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000092_000000|"I don't want to see it.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000092_000001|How far can you drive me in it?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000093_000001|I am sure that, not two leagues from here, we shall come across that wily Reuben, his nag, his cart and the tall stranger all in a heap in the middle of the road."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000094_000000|"How far is the nearest village from here?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000095_000000|"On the road which the Englishman took, Miquelon is the nearest village, not two leagues from here."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000097_000000|"He could-if he ever got so far."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000098_000000|"Can you?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000100_000000|"That is my intention," said Chauvelin very quietly, "but remember, if you have deceived me, I shall tell off two of my most stalwart soldiers to give you such a beating, that your breath will perhaps leave your ugly body for ever.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000100_000001|But if we find my friend the tall Englishman, either on the road or at the Pere Blanchard's hut, there will be ten more gold pieces for you.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000100_000002|Do you accept the bargain?"
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000101_000000|The Jew again thoughtfully rubbed his chin.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000101_000002|After a moment's pause, he said deliberately,--
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000102_000000|"I accept."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000104_000000|With a final, most abject and cringing bow, the old Jew shuffled out of the room.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000104_000001|Chauvelin seemed pleased with his interview, for he rubbed his hands together, with that usual gesture of his, of malignant satisfaction.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000001|There will be hot work presently, if I mistake not, in the Pere Blanchard's hut.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000002|We shall corner our game there, I'll warrant, for this impudent Scarlet Pimpernel has had the audacity-or the stupidity, I hardly know which-to adhere to his original plans.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000005|Some of our men will, I presume, be put HORS DE COMBAT.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000006|These royalists are good swordsmen, and the Englishman is devilish cunning, and looks very powerful.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000007|Still, we shall be five against one at least.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000009|The Englishman is ahead of us, and not likely to look behind him."
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000109_000000|Whilst he gave these curt and concise orders, he had completed his change of attire.
train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000110_000002|The Pere Blanchard's hut is-an I mistake not-a lonely spot upon the beach, and our men will enjoy a bit of rough sport there with the wounded fox.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000001_000000|Chapter twelve
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000003_000001|To have been thus close to safety and then to have all hope snatched away by a cruel stroke of fate seemed unendurable.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000003_000003|He noted the remnants of the uniforms upon the blacks and immediately he demanded to know where were their officers.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000004_000000|"They cannot understand you," said the girl and so in the bastard tongue that is the medium of communication between the Germans and the blacks of their colony, she repeated the white man's question.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000005_000000|Usanga grinned.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000005_000001|"You know where they are, white woman," he replied. "They are dead, and if this white man does not do as I tell him, he, too, will be dead."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000006_000000|"What do you want of him?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000007_000000|"I want him to teach me how to fly like a bird," replied Usanga.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000008_000000|Bertha Kircher looked her astonishment, but repeated the demand to the lieutenant.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000009_000000|The Englishman meditated for a moment.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000009_000001|"He wants to learn to fly, does he?" he repeated.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000010_000000|The girl put the question to Usanga, who, degraded, cunning, and entirely unprincipled, was always perfectly willing to promise anything whether he had any intentions of fulfilling his promises or not, and so immediately assented to the proposition.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000011_000000|"Let the white man teach me to fly," he said, "and I will take you back close to the settlements of your people, but in return for this I shall keep the great bird," and he waved a black hand in the direction of the aeroplane.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000000|When Bertha Kircher had repeated Usanga's proposition to the aviator, the latter shrugged his shoulders and with a wry face finally agreed.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000001|"I fancy there is no other way out of it," he said. "In any event the plane is lost to the British government.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000002|If I refuse the black scoundrel's request, there is no doubt but what he will make short work of me with the result that the machine will lie here until it rots.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000003|If I accept his offer it will at least be the means of assuring your safe return to civilization and that" he added, "is worth more to me than all the planes in the British Air Service."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000013_000000|The girl cast a quick glance at him.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000013_000002|She regretted that he had spoken as he had and he, too, regretted it almost instantly as he saw the shadow cross her face and realized that he had unwittingly added to the difficulties of her already almost unbearable situation.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000014_000000|"Forgive me," he said quickly.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000014_000001|"Please forget what that remark implied.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000015_000000|She smiled and thanked him, but the thing had been said and could never be unsaid, and Bertha Kircher knew even more surely than as though he had fallen upon his knees and protested undying devotion that the young English officer loved her.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000016_000001|The Englishman attempted to dissuade him, but immediately the black became threatening and abusive, since, like all those who are ignorant, he was suspicious that the intentions of others were always ulterior unless they perfectly coincided with his wishes.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000017_000000|"All right, old top," muttered the Englishman, "I will give you the lesson of your life," and then turning to the girl: "Persuade him to let you accompany us.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000017_000001|I shall be afraid to leave you here with these devilish scoundrels." But when she put the suggestion to Usanga the black immediately suspected some plan to thwart him-possibly to carry him against his will back to the German masters he had traitorously deserted, and glowering at her savagely, he obstinately refused to entertain the suggestion.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000018_000000|"The white woman will remain here with my people," he said.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000018_000001|"They will not harm her unless you fail to bring me back safely."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000019_000000|"Tell him," said the Englishman, "that if you are not standing in plain sight in this meadow when I return, I will not land, but will carry Usanga back to the British camp and have him hanged."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000000|Usanga promised that the girl would be in evidence upon their return, and took immediate steps to impress upon his warriors that under penalty of death they must not harm her.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000002|Once seated within what he already considered his new possession, the black's courage began to wane and when the motor was started and the great propeller commenced to whir, he screamed to the Englishman to stop the thing and permit him to alight, but the aviator could neither hear nor understand the black above the noise of the propeller and exhaust.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000004|Then the plane rose from the ground and in a moment soared gracefully in a wide circle until it topped the trees.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000005|The black sergeant was in a veritable collapse of terror.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000006|He saw the earth dropping rapidly from beneath him.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000007|He saw the trees and river and at a distance the little clearing with the thatched huts of Numabo's village.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000008|He tried hard not to think of the results of a sudden fall to the rapidly receding ground below.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000009|He attempted to concentrate his mind upon the twenty four wives which this great bird most assuredly would permit him to command.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000022_000000|"I said I'd give this beggar the lesson of his life," he murmured as he heard, even above the whir of the propeller, the shriek of the terrified Negro.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000022_000001|A moment later Smith Oldwick had righted the machine and was dropping rapidly toward the earth.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000022_000002|He circled slowly a few times above the meadow until he had assured himself that Bertha Kircher was there and apparently unharmed, then he dropped gently to the ground so that the machine came to a stop a short distance from where the girl and the warriors awaited them.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000024_000000|So jealous was the black of his new found toy that he would not return to the village of Numabo, but insisted on making camp close beside the plane, lest in some inconceivable fashion it should be stolen from him.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000024_000001|For two days they camped there, and constantly during daylight hours Usanga compelled the Englishman to instruct him in the art of flying.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000025_000000|Smith Oldwick, in recalling the long months of arduous training he had undergone himself before he had been considered sufficiently adept to be considered a finished flier, smiled at the conceit of the ignorant African who was already demanding that he be permitted to make a flight alone.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000026_000000|"If it was not for losing the machine," the Englishman explained to the girl, "I'd let the bounder take it up and break his fool neck as he would do inside of two minutes."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000000|It was with these thoughts in mind that Usanga lay down to sleep in the evening of the second day.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000001|Constantly, however, the thought of Naratu and her temper arose to take the keen edge from his pleasant imaginings.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000003|The thought having taken form persisted, but always it was more than outweighed by the fact that the black sergeant was actually afraid of his woman, so much afraid of her in fact that he would not have dared to attempt to put her out of the way unless he could do so secretly while she slept.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000004|However, as one plan after another was conjured by the strength of his desires, he at last hit upon one which came to him almost with the force of a blow and brought him sitting upright among his sleeping companions.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000029_000000|When morning dawned Usanga could scarce wait for an opportunity to put his scheme into execution, and the moment that he had eaten, he called several of his warriors aside and talked with them for some moments.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000030_000001|Several times, too, he saw the eyes of the Negroes turned upon him and once they flashed simultaneously toward the white girl.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000031_000001|Even the spear that he had had when captured had been taken away from him, so that now he was unarmed and absolutely at the mercy of the black sergeant and his followers.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000033_000000|Without a word of explanation the warriors seized the young officer and threw him to the ground upon his face.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000033_000002|When they had finally secured him to their satisfaction, they rolled him over on his side and then it was he saw Bertha Kircher had been similarly trussed.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000034_000000|Smith Oldwick lay in such a position that he could see nearly the entire expanse of meadow and the aeroplane a short distance away. Usanga was talking to the girl who was shaking her head in vehement negatives.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000035_000000|"What is he saying?" called the Englishman.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000000|"God!" cried the man.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000002|Anything that you want.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000003|I have money, more money than that poor fool could imagine there was in the whole world.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000004|With it he can buy anything that money will purchase, fine clothes and food and women, all the women he wants.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000000|The girl shook her head.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000001|"It is useless," she said.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000002|"He would not understand and if he did understand, he would not trust you.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000003|The blacks are so unprincipled themselves that they can imagine no such thing as principle or honor in others, and especially do these blacks distrust an Englishman whom the Germans have taught them to believe are the most treacherous and degraded of people.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000004|No, it is better thus.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000005|I am sorry that you cannot go with us, for if he goes high enough my death will be much easier than that which probably awaits you."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000039_000000|Usanga had been continually interrupting their brief conversation in an attempt to compel the girl to translate it to him, for he feared that they were concocting some plan to thwart him, and to quiet and appease him, she told him that the Englishman was merely bidding her farewell and wishing her good luck.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000039_000001|Suddenly she turned to the black.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000039_000003|"If I go willingly with you?"
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000040_000000|"What is it you want?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000000|"Tell your men to free the white man after we are gone.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000001|He can never catch us.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000002|That is all I ask of you.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000003|If you will grant him his freedom and his life, I will go willingly with you.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000042_000000|"You will go with me anyway," growled Usanga.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000042_000001|"It is nothing to me whether you go willingly or not.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000042_000002|I am going to be a great king and you will do whatever I tell you to do."
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000043_000000|He had in mind that he would start properly with this woman.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000043_000001|There should be no repetition of his harrowing experience with Naratu. This wife and the twenty four others should be carefully selected and well trained.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000044_000000|Bertha Kircher saw that it was useless to appeal to the brute and so she held her peace though she was filled with sorrow in contemplating the fate that awaited the young officer, scarce more than a boy, who had impulsively revealed his love for her.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000046_000000|The girl turned her eyes toward the Englishman.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000046_000001|She was very pale but her lips smiled bravely.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000047_000000|"Good bye!" she cried.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000048_000000|"Good bye, and God bless you!" he called back-his voice the least bit husky-and then: "The thing I wanted to say-may I say it now, we are so very near the end?"
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000049_000000|Her lips moved but whether they voiced consent or refusal he did not know, for the words were drowned in the whir of the propeller.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000000|The black had learned his lesson sufficiently well so that the motor was started without bungling and the machine was soon under way across the meadowland.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000002|He saw the plane tilt and the machine rise from the ground.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000003|It was a good take-off--as good as Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith Oldwick could make himself but he realized that it was only so by chance.
train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000004|At any instant the machine might plunge to earth and even if, by some miracle of chance, the black could succeed in rising above the tree tops and make a successful flight, there was not one chance in one hundred thousand that he could ever land again without killing his fair captive and himself.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000001_000000|Chapter thirteen
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000002_000000|Usanga's Reward
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000003_000000|For two days Tarzan of the Apes had been hunting leisurely to the north, and swinging in a wide circle, he had returned to within a short distance of the clearing where he had left Bertha Kircher and the young lieutenant.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000003_000001|He had spent the night in a large tree that overhung the river only a short distance from the clearing, and now in the early morning hours he was crouching at the water's edge waiting for an opportunity to capture Pisah, the fish, thinking that he would take it back with him to the hut where the girl could cook it for herself and her companion.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000000|Motionless as a bronze statue was the wily ape man, for well he knew how wary is Pisah, the fish.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000001|The slightest movement would frighten him away and only by infinite patience might he be captured at all.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000002|Tarzan depended upon his own quickness and the suddenness of his attack, for he had no bait or hook.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000003|His knowledge of the ways of the denizens of the water told him where to wait for Pisah.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000004|It might be a minute or it might be an hour before the fish would swim into the little pool above which he crouched, but sooner or later one would come.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000005_000003|The moment that he turned he saw that the author of the disturbance was Zu tag.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000006_000000|"What does Zu tag want?" asked the ape man.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000007_000000|"Zu tag comes to the water to drink," replied the ape.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000008_000000|"Where is the tribe?" asked Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000009_000000|"They are hunting for pisangs and scimatines farther back in the forest," replied Zu tag.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000010_000000|"And the Tarmangani she and bull-" asked Tarzan, "are they safe?"
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000011_000000|"They have gone away," replied Zu tag.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000011_000001|"Kudu has come out of his lair twice since they left."
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000012_000000|"Did the tribe chase them away?" asked Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000013_000000|"No," replied the ape.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000013_000001|"We did not see them go.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000013_000002|We do not know why they left."
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000000|Tarzan swung quickly through the trees toward the clearing.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000001|The hut and boma were as he had left them, but there was no sign of either the man or the woman.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000002|Crossing the clearing, he entered the boma and then the hut.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000003|Both were empty, and his trained nostrils told him that they had been gone for at least two days.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000004|As he was about to leave the hut he saw a paper pinned upon the wall with a sliver of wood and taking it down, he read:
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000000|After what you told me about Miss Kircher, and knowing that you dislike her, I feel that it is not fair to her and to you that we should impose longer upon you.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000001|I know that our presence is keeping you from continuing your journey to the west coast, and so I have decided that it is better for us to try and reach the white settlements immediately without imposing further upon you.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000002|We both thank you for your kindness and protection.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000003|If there was any way that I might repay the obligation I feel, I should be only too glad to do so.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000000|Tarzan shrugged his shoulders, crumpled the note in his hand and tossed it aside.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000001|He felt a certain sense of relief from responsibility and was glad that they had taken the matter out of his hands.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000002|They were gone and would forget, but somehow he could not forget.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000003|He walked out across the boma and into the clearing.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000004|He felt uneasy and restless.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000005|Once he started toward the north in response to a sudden determination to continue his way to the west coast.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000007|Upon the other side of the range he would search for a stream running downward toward the west coast, and thus following the rivers he would be sure of game and water in plenty.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000018_000000|But he did not go far.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000018_000001|A dozen steps, perhaps, and he came to a sudden stop.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000018_000005|"Tarzan of the Apes is a fool and a weak, old woman," and he turned back toward the south.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000019_000000|Manu, the monkey, had seen the two Tarmangani pass two days before. Chattering and scolding, he told Tarzan all about it.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000020_000000|An inexplicable urge spurred Tarzan to increasing, speed.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000020_000002|Tarzan's conscience was troubling him, which accounted for the fact that he compared himself to a weak, old woman, for the ape man, reared in savagery and inured to hardships and cruelty, disliked to admit any of the gentler traits that in reality were his birthright.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000021_000001|At last there came to the ears of the ape man a peculiar whirring, throbbing sound.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000021_000002|For an instant he paused, listening intently, "An aeroplane!" he muttered, and hastened forward at greatly increased speed.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000000|When Tarzan of the Apes finally reached the edge of the meadowland where Smith Oldwick's plane had landed, he took in the entire scene in one quick glance and grasped the situation, although he could scarce give credence to the things he saw.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000001|Bound and helpless, the English officer lay upon the ground at one side of the meadow, while around him stood a number of the black deserters from the German command.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000002|Tarzan had seen these men before and knew who they were.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000003|Coming toward him down the meadow was an aeroplane piloted by the black Usanga and in the seat behind the pilot was the white girl, Bertha Kircher.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000005|His knowledge of Usanga, together with the position of the white man, told him that the black sergeant was attempting to carry off the white girl.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000008|He had told them that he would take the captive to a sultan of the north and there obtain a great price for her and that when he returned they should have some of the spoils.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000000|These things Tarzan did not know.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000002|Already the machine was slowly leaving the ground.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000003|In a moment more it would rise swiftly out of reach.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000004|At first Tarzan thought of fitting an arrow to his bow and slaying Usanga, but as quickly he abandoned the idea because he knew that the moment the pilot was slain the machine, running wild, would dash the girl to death among the trees.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000000|Usanga did not see him, being too intent upon the unaccustomed duties of a pilot, but the blacks across the meadow saw him and they ran forward with loud and savage cries and menacing rifles to intercept him.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000001|They saw a giant white man leap from the branches of a tree to the turf and race rapidly toward the plane.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000002|They saw him take a long grass rope from about his shoulders as he ran.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000004|They saw the white girl in the machine glance down and discover him.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000000|Twenty feet above the running ape man soared the huge plane.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000002|Simultaneously Tarzan was dragged from his feet and the plane lurched sideways in response to the new strain.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000003|Usanga clutched wildly at the control and the machine shot upward at a steep angle.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000004|Dangling at the end of the rope the ape man swung pendulum like in space.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000005|The Englishman, lying bound upon the ground, had been a witness of all these happenings. His heart stood still as he saw Tarzan's body hurtling through the air toward the tree tops among which it seemed he must inevitably crash; but the plane was rising rapidly, so that the beast man cleared the top most branches.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000006|Then slowly, hand over hand, he climbed toward the fuselage.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000007|The girl, clinging desperately to the noose, strained every muscle to hold the great weight dangling at the lower end of the rope.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000027_000000|Usanga, all unconscious of what was going on behind him, drove the plane higher and higher into the air.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000028_000000|Tarzan glanced downward.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000029_000000|It seemed to Bertha Kircher that the fingers of her hands were dead. The numbness was running up her arms to her elbows.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000029_000002|It seemed to her that those lifeless fingers must relax at any instant and then, when she had about given up hope, she saw a strong brown hand reach up and grasp the side of the fuselage.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000029_000003|Instantly the weight upon the rope was removed and a moment later Tarzan of the Apes raised his body above the side and threw a leg over the edge. He glanced forward at Usanga and then, placing his mouth close to the girl's ear he cried: "Have you ever piloted a plane?" The girl nodded a quick affirmative.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000030_000000|"Have you the courage to climb up there beside the black and seize the control while I take care of him?"
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000031_000000|The girl looked toward Usanga and shuddered.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000031_000001|"Yes," she replied, "but my feet are bound."
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000000|Tarzan drew his hunting knife from its sheath and reaching down, severed the thongs that bound her ankles.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000001|Then the girl unsnapped the strap that held her to her seat.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000002|With one hand Tarzan grasped the girl's arm and steadied her as the two crawled slowly across the few feet which intervened between the two seats.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000003|A single slight tip of the plane would have cast them both into eternity.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000004|Tarzan realized that only through a miracle of chance could they reach Usanga and effect the change in pilots and yet he knew that that chance must be taken, for in the brief moments since he had first seen the plane, he had realized that the black was almost without experience as a pilot and that death surely awaited them in any event should the black sergeant remain at the control.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000000|The first intimation Usanga had that all was not well with him was when the girl slipped suddenly to his side and grasped the control and at the same instant steel like fingers seized his throat.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000002|Usanga clawed the air and shrieked but he was helpless as a babe.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000003|Far below the watchers in the meadow could see the aeroplane careening in the sky, for with the change of control it had taken a sudden dive.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000005|Turning and twisting in mid-air it fell with ever increasing velocity and the Englishman held his breath as the thing hurtled toward them.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000034_000001|Usanga had reaped his reward.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000035_000000|Again and again the plane circled above the meadow.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000035_000001|The blacks, at first dismayed at the death of their leader, were now worked to a frenzy of rage and a determination to be avenged.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000036_000003|Dead and dying they lay strewn for fifty feet along the turf.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000038_000000|"You saved yourself," he insisted, "for had you been unable to pilot the plane, I could not have helped you, and now," he said, "you two have the means of returning to the settlements.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000038_000001|The day is still young.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000038_000002|You can easily cover the distance in a few hours if you have sufficient petrol." He looked inquiringly toward the aviator.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000039_000000|Smith Oldwick nodded his head affirmatively.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000039_000001|"I have plenty," he replied.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000040_000001|"Neither of you belong in the jungle." A slight smile touched his lips as he spoke.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000041_000000|The girl and the Englishman smiled too.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000041_000001|"This jungle is no place for us at least," said Smith Oldwick, "and it is no place for any other white man.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000041_000002|Why don't you come back to civilization with us?"
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000042_000000|Tarzan shook his head.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000042_000001|"I prefer the jungle," he said.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000043_000000|The aviator dug his toe into the ground and still looking down, blurted something which he evidently hated to say.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000000|Tarzan laughed.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000001|"No," he said.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000002|"I know what you are trying to say. It is not that.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000003|I was born in the jungle.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000004|I have lived all my life in the jungle, and I shall die in the jungle.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000005|I do not wish to live or die elsewhere."
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000045_000000|The others shook their heads.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000045_000001|They could not understand him.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000046_000001|"The quicker you go, the quicker you will reach safety."
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000000|They walked to the plane together.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000001|Smith Oldwick pressed the ape man's hand and clambered into the pilot's seat.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000002|"Good bye," said the girl as she extended her hand to Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000003|"Before I go won't you tell me you don't hate me any more?" Tarzan's face clouded. Without a word he picked her up and lifted her to her place behind the Englishman.
train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000004|An expression of pain crossed Bertha Kircher's face.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000001_000000|EARLY LESSONS IN THE LIFE OF FAITH
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000007_000002|Soon all were joining in the chase after the bird, which flew or hopped in front or just above, and sometimes on the ground almost within reach.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000015_000000|It was as if God spoke the words directly to me.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000017_000004|This unexpected and timely draft proved to be a bonus, which did not occur again.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000022_000000|The time came when two diverse paths lay before me-one to England, as an artist; one to China, as a missionary.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000022_000001|Circumstances made a definite decision most difficult.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000025_000001|In "China's Spiritual Needs and Claims" the writer told many instances of God's gracious provision in answer to prayer.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000025_000002|The incidents related impressed me deeply.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000025_000004|The thought came-if you cannot trust God for this, when Hudson Taylor could trust for so much more, are you worthy to be a missionary?
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000026_000000|It was my first experience of trusting quite alone for money.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000026_000002|But I was kept back from doing so; and though I had a week or more of severe testing, peace of mind and the assurance that God would supply my need, came at length.
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000027_000002|Not for a moment did I think there was anything in the purse till my brother said: "You foolish girl, why don't you open it?" I opened the purse, and found it contained a check for fifty dollars!
train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000028_000000|This incident has ever remained peculiarly precious; for it seemed to us a seal of God upon the new life opening before us.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000001_000000|three
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000012_000000|Some hours later he returned, his face beaming with joy.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000016_000003|They found themselves at last left alone, their lives spared, but everything gone.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000018_000003|His coming at such an opportune moment filled the hearts of their heathen enemies with fear.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000018_000004|Money and goods were returned, and from that time the violent opposition of the people ceased.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000021_000003|The people did not know what he could do, and moreover they were afraid to trust themselves into his hands.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000024_000001|We had heard of missionaries in India, China, and elsewhere, who had worked for many years without gaining converts; but we did not believe that this was God's will for us.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000024_000004|The experience of thirty years has confirmed this belief.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000025_000000|Space permits the mention of but two of these earliest converts.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000026_000000|The first was Wang Feng ao, who came with us into Honan as mr Goforth's personal teacher.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000029_000001|For many years his business had been that of a public story teller; but when mr Goforth came across him he was reduced to an utter wreck through opium smoking. He accepted the Gospel, but for a long time seemed too weak to break off the opium habit.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000029_000002|Again and again he tried to do so, but failed hopelessly each time.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000034_000002|So what could I do?
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000036_000002|And as I lay there ill and weak, the temptation came to yield.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000036_000003|But, as I remembered dr Corbett's testimony, and my own clear call, I felt that to go back would be to go against my own conscience.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000036_000004|I therefore determined to do as dr Corbett had done-leave myself in the Lord's hands-whether for life or for death. This happened more than twenty years ago, and since then I have had very little trouble from that dread disease.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000038_000000|During our fourth year in China, when we were spending the hot season at the coast, our little son, eighteen months old, was taken very ill with dysentery.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000038_000001|After several days' fight for the child's life came the realization, one evening, that the angel of death was at hand.
train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000040_000001|Thinking my darling was gone, I hastened for a light, for it was dark; but on examining the child's face I found that he had sunk into a deep, sound, natural sleep, which lasted most of the night. The following day he was practically well of the dysentery.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000002_000000|TO HIS PRAISE!
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000003_000000|"They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness."
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000005_000001|Only two ways seemed open to us.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000005_000004|We decided on the latter course.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000006_000001|The day came when this child and myself took possession of our new home.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000008_000000|Tears stood in her eyes as my daughter gave the letter back, saying: "Mother, we don't trust God half enough!"
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000009_000000|Were I to attempt to write the history of the months that followed, a long chapter would be required; but my testimony along this line is surely sufficient.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000010_000005|That is, so that I could stand up before an audience and not bring discredit to my Master.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000010_000006|Praise his name!
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000011_000000|"There is nothing too great for his power, And nothing too small for his love!"
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000012_000002|My boy did not know of this prayer.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000013_000001|Months later a call came for volunteers, to fill the great gaps made at the time of the first use of gas.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000013_000003|Just before they were to leave he was again sent for from Headquarters, and told he was to go to the Canadian Base in France as adjutant.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000013_000006|He had begun making arrangements for this step, when he had a fall from his horse, which caused him to be invalided home to Canada, where he was kept till the close of the war.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000015_000001|The request was a complicated one, including several definite details.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000015_000003|She wrote joyously, telling that she had received just what I had asked for, and in every detail as I had prayed.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000016_000002|On going there to get a site for our home, though we looked for more than a week, we could find no place.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000016_000005|And before we reached the station the assurance had come that we would get a place.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000016_000007|When he heard we had failed to get a site, he said:
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000017_000001|I'll ask them to give it to you."
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000019_000000|I am now writing these closing words in our God given home, built on this beautiful site, one of the most lovely spots to be found in China. So from this quiet mountain retreat, a monument of what God can give in answer to prayer, this little book of Prayer Testimonies is sent forth.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000020_000000|As the past has been reviewed, and God's wonderful faithfulness recalled, there has come a great sense of regret that I have not trusted God more, and asked more of him, both for my family and the Chinese. Yes, it is truly wonderful!
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000022_000000|Conditions of Prevailing Prayer
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000023_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000032_000000|Causes of Failure in Prayer
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000033_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000035_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000001_000003|"I consent to this Constitution," he declared, "because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." Washington sought also to secure unanimity, and Hamilton declared:--
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000002_000000|"I am anxious that every member should sign.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000002_000001|A few by refusing may do infinite mischief.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000003_000000|Such words had some weight, but not enough to secure unanimity.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000003_000001|All the states voted for the Constitution, but several delegates went on record against it, and Hamilton's two associates from New York were absent.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000003_000002|It was this alone which saved New York from being recorded against the Constitution.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000004_000003|Clinton was not absolutely opposed to union, but he attached to it so many reservations that for practical purposes he was an opponent of the new Constitution.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000004_000005|It was in this field that Hamilton fought the great fight with his pen which has left to posterity the fine exposition of the Constitution known as "The Federalist." A society was formed in the city of New York to resist the adoption of the Constitution, and articles soon began to appear in the local press criticising and opposing it.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000006_000001|"The Federalist," although a purely political argument, has survived the occasion which called it forth, as one of the master documents of political writing. That it has a distinct place in literature is admitted by so severe a critic as Professor Barrett Wendell in his recent "Literary History of America." It is worth while quoting his acute literary judgment of its merits:--
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000008_000001|It was in some respects the hardest task ever set with any hope of success before a parliamentary leader.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000008_000005|It was generally recognized, moreover, that however strong the objections were to the Constitution, the choice lay practically between this Constitution and none,--between the proposed government and anarchy.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000009_000000|So strong was the sentiment that the Constitution must be accepted in some form, that its opponents in the state convention did not venture upon immediate rejection.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000009_000001|Fortunately, their course in fighting for delay only tended to make it clearer that New York would stand alone if she failed to ratify.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000010_000000|It was fortunate for the state and the country that the leader of the opposition to the Constitution in the New York convention was a man of a high order of ability, whose mind was open in an unusual degree to the influence of logical reasoning.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000010_000002|This result was only reached, however, after a long and sometimes acrimonious struggle, in which Hamilton was on his feet day after day explaining and defending each separate clause of the Constitution,--not only in its real meaning, but against all the distorted constructions put upon it by the most acute and jealous of critics.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000000|But events had been fighting with Hamilton.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000001|State after state had ratified the new document, and news of their action had reached New York.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000002|Nine states, the number necessary to put the Constitution in force, were made up by the ratification of New Hampshire (june twenty first seventeen eighty eight).
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000003|Still New York hesitated, and Hamilton wrote to Madison: "Our chance of success depends upon you.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000004|Symptoms of relaxation in some of the leaders authorize a gleam of hope if you do well, but certainly I think not otherwise." Virginia justified his hopes by a majority of eighty nine against seventy nine for ratification (june twenty fifth seventeen eighty eight).
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000005|The news reached New York on july third.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000006|The opposition there, though showing signs of relenting, was still stubborn.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000007|Conditional ratification, with a long string of amendments, was first proposed.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000008|Jay firmly insisted that the word "conditional" must be erased.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000010|Melancthon Smith then proposed ratification with the right to withdraw if the amendments should not be accepted.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000011|Hamilton exposed the folly of such a project in a brilliant speech, which led Smith to admit that conditional ratification was an absurdity.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000012|Other similar proposals were brought forward, but they were evidently equivalent to rejection by indirection, which would have left New York out of the new Union.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000012_000000|Finally, Samuel Jones, another broad minded member of the opposition, proposed ratification without conditions, but "in full confidence" that Congress would adopt all needed amendments.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000012_000001|With the support of Smith, this form of ratification was carried by the slender majority of three votes (july twenty sixth seventeen eighty eight).
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000012_000002|By this narrow margin it was decided that New York should form a part of the Union, and that the great experiment in representative government should not begin with the two halves of the country separated by a hostile power, commanding the greatest seaport of the colonies.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000000|Hamilton thus played an important part in winning the first great battle for the Constitution.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000003|When he returned to New York, he was beaten for reelection to Congress, and Governor Clinton and his party retained such a firm grip upon the legislature that a deadlock occurred between the Federalist House and the opposition Senate.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000005|The state elections which followed resulted in defeat for the Federalists in the election of the governor, but they carried the legislature and elected two senators,--General Schuyler and Rufus King.
train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000006|King had recently come from Massachusetts, and Hamilton's insistence that he should be chosen caused a breach with the Livingstons, which contributed to the defeat of Schuyler two years later and the election of Aaron Burr.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000004_000002|He had endeavored to meet and disarm such opposition as far as possible in the careful and illuminating language of his report, but it soon became evident that against nearly all parts of it a bitter and persistent battle would be waged.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000004_000004|Rumors were already abroad that something was to be done to restore the national credit, but it was not until the reading of Hamilton's report in the House (january fourteenth seventeen ninety) that the full scope of his plans was made manifest.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000005_000001|This came about through the sudden rise in the public funds, and the promptness with which speculators bought them up from holders who were ignorant of their value.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000005_000004|The absence of a well organized stock market, with the ramifications of telegraphic quotations throughout the Union, put in the hands of the more daring of these speculators an opportunity to avail themselves of the ignorance of others to an extent which would not be possible to day.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000005_000005|Agents were soon scouring the country, buying up the certificates of the debt in all its varied forms, before the news of Hamilton's great report had reached the humble holders, some of whom were old soldiers or quiet farmers who had been compelled to furnish supplies for the army.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000006_000000|"Couriers and relay horses by land, and swift sailing pilot boats by sea, were flying in all directions.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000006_000001|Active partners and agents were associated and employed in every state, town, and county, and the paper bought up at five shillings, and even as low as two shillings in the pound, before the holder knew that Congress had already provided for its redemption at par."
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000001|Long and bitter were the debates in the House over this and other branches of Hamilton's project.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000002|But it was so obvious that a distinction between the holders of the debt would run directly counter to its character as negotiable paper, and would be almost impossible of just execution, that the friends of the funding project easily had the best of the argument. Madison, although inclined to oppose Hamilton, was forced to admit that the debt must be funded at par without discrimination.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000003|He brought forward a project to pay the original holders the difference between par and the price at which they had sold, and to pay to the present holders only what they had paid for the securities.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000004|This was shown to be so impracticable that only thirteen votes were given for it in a House of forty nine members voting.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000005|The advocates of the entire funding project carried it in committee of the whole (march ninth seventeen ninety) by a vote of thirty one to twenty six.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000003|North Carolina had been late in accepting the Constitution, and her members had not been present on previous votes.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000004|When, therefore, a motion to recommit the financial projects was made, it was carried by a vote of twenty nine to twenty seven.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000006|Further debate took place, but without shaking the firmness of the opposition to the assumption of the state debts.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000007|The project was rejected in committee (april twelfth) by a vote of thirty one to twenty nine.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000000|The situation was a grave one.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000001|Hamilton felt that the future of the Union was at stake.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000003|The government at Washington would be as helpless as the Continental Congress and its committees had been.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000004|This opinion was shared by all those who favored a vigorous central government, and practically by all the members of the party in Congress which was forming in support of the measures of Hamilton and looking to him as their leader.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000005|While casting about for some means for meeting the emergency, Hamilton fell upon a plan which represents one of the few cases in which he had recourse to diplomacy in his public career.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000007|It had already become involved with the assumption of the state debts.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000008|A strong bid had been made by the opponents of assumption for the five votes of Pennsylvania by the offer to locate the capital for fifteen years at Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000010_000000|The importance of having Congress and its officials in a given city represented more at that time, in spite of the small size of the body and the relative insignificance of the interests before it, than would be the case to day with either of the great commercial cities of New York, Boston, or Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000010_000002|In the sarcastic language of Professor McMaster, "The state debts might remain unpaid, the credit of the nation might fall, but come what might, the patronage of Congress must be drawn from New York and distributed among the grog shops and taverns of Philadelphia."
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000003|The latter held to their position and rejected the bill, thirty five to twenty three.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000004|It was while matters were in this acute stage, while threats were made on behalf of the North that the Union would be broken up if assumption were not carried, that Hamilton one day in front of the President's house met Thomas Jefferson.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000006|What followed is best told in Jefferson's own words, because he afterwards claimed that he had been "duped" by Hamilton and acted without knowledge of the effect of what he was doing.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000007|Jefferson's account of the matter is as follows:--
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000000|"As I was going to the President's one day, I met him (Hamilton) in the street.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000004|I told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject; that not having yet informed myself of the system of finance adopted, I knew not how far this was a necessary sequence; that undoubtedly, if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000006|The discussion took place.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000011|Some two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000012|In doing this, the influence he had established over the eastern members, with the agency of Robert Morris with those of the Middle States, effected his side of the engagement."
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000003|The bill to remove the capital was passed on july ninth seventeen ninety, by a majority of three, and the assumption of the state debts was carried soon after.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000004|The form of the assumption differed somewhat from the proposal of Hamilton, but it accomplished the result at which he aimed.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000005|A specific sum, twenty one million five hundred thousand dollars, was assumed by the government and distributed among the states in set proportions.
train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000006|The project passed the Senate july twenty second, by a vote of fourteen to twelve, and the House on july twenty fourth, by a vote of thirty four to twenty eight.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000002_000002|The first night we camped on the south fork of Big Creek, four miles west of Hays City.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000004_000000|"All right, Colonel; send along a wagon or two to bring in the meat," I said.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000005_000000|"I am not in the habit of sending out my wagons until I know that there is something to be hauled in; kill your buffaloes first, and then I'll send out the wagons," was the Colonel's reply.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000006_000000|The following afternoon he again requested me to go out and get some fresh buffalo meat.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000006_000003|He came up rather angrily, and demanded an explanation.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000007_000000|"I can't allow any such business as this, Cody," said he.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000012_000003|It was hard to convince Pat, however, of the truth.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000013_000001|None of these, however, discovering Indians, they all returned to camp about the same time, finding it in a state of great excitement, it having been attacked a few hours previously by a party of Indians, who had succeeded in killing two men and in making off with sixty horses belonging to Company h
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000016_000007|We fought them until dark, all the time driving them before us.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000017_000002|Major Brown declared it was a crack shot, because it broke the plate.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000023_000000|"Well, Cody, go ahead," said he; "I'll leave it to you; but remember that I don't want a dry camp."
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000024_000000|"No danger of that," said I; and then I rode on, leaving him to return to the command.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000025_000002|I disentangled myself, and jumped behind the dead body.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000025_000003|Looking in the direction whence the shot had come I saw two Indians, and at once turned my gun loose on them, but in the excitement of the moment I missed my aim.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000026_000000|On the opposite side of the creek, going over the hill, I observed a few lodges moving rapidly away, and also some mounted warriors, who could see me, and who kept blazing away with their guns.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000026_000001|The two Indians who had fired at me, and had killed my horse, were retreating across the creek on a beaver dam.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000026_000006|The redskins whirled and made off.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000031_000000|It was eleven o'clock at night when I got back to the camp.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000031_000001|A light was still burning in the General's tent, he having remained awake, anxiously awaiting my return.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000033_000000|"Cody, we're in a nice fix now," said General Carr.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000036_000000|"Never you mind the train, General.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000036_000001|You say you are looking for a good camp.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000036_000002|How does that beautiful spot down in the valley suit you?" I asked him.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000037_000000|"That will do.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000037_000001|I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down there is a puzzler to me," said he.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000038_000000|"By the time you are located in your camp, your wagons shall be there," said i
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000039_000000|"All right, Cody, I'll leave it to you, as you seem to want to be boss," he replied, pleasantly.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000039_000002|The wagon train was a mile in the rear, and when it came up one of the drivers asked, "How are we going down there?"
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000041_000000|"We can never do it; it's too steep; the wagons will run over the mules," said another wagon master.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000043_000000|I told Wilson, the chief wagon master, to bring on his mess wagon, which was at the head of the train, and I would try the experiment at least. Wilson drove the team and wagon to the brink of the hill, and following my directions he brought out some extra chains with which we locked the wheels on each side, and then rough locked them.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000043_000001|We now started the wagon down the hill.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000043_000003|Three other wagons immediately followed in the same way, and in half an hour every wagon was in camp, without the least accident having occurred.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000050_000000|"Where's your command?
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000053_000002|The camp presented a pitiful sight, indeed.
train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000054_000002|He then picked out five hundred of the best men and horses, and, taking his pack train with him, started south for the Canadian River, leaving the rest of the troops at the supply camp.
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train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000002_000001|ROCKERBILT'S TIARA
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000003_000000|Henriette had been unwontedly reserved for a whole week, a fact which was beginning to get sadly on my nerves when she broke an almost Sphinxlike silence with the extraordinary remark:
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000004_000001|You must get married."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000005_000000|To say that I was shocked by the observation is putting it mildly.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000005_000001|As you must by this time have realized yourself, there was only one woman in the world that I could possibly bring myself to think fondly of, and that woman was none other than Henriette herself.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000005_000002|I could not believe, however, that this was at all the notion she had in mind, and what little poise I had was completely shattered by the suggestion.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000006_000000|I drew myself up with dignity, however, in a moment and answered her.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000007_000002|You must have banked enough by this time to be able to support me in the style to which I am accustomed."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000008_000000|"That is not what I meant, Bunny," she retorted, coldly, frowning at me.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000010_000001|"What I meant, my dear boy, was not a permanent affair but one of these Newport marriages.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000010_000002|Not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith," she explained.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000011_000000|"I don't understand," said I, affecting denseness, for I understood only too well.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000012_000000|"Stupid!" cried Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000013_000000|"I fail to see the necessity for a maid of that kind," said i
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000000|"That's because you are a man, Bunny," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000001|"There are splendid opportunities for acquiring the gems these Newport ladies wear by one who may be stationed in the dressing room.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000002|There is mrs Rockerbilt's tiara, for instance.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000003|It is at present the finest thing of its kind in existence and of priceless value.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000015_000000|"Well, I'll tell you one thing, Henriette," I returned, with more positiveness than I commonly show, "I will not marry a lady's maid, and that's all there is about it.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000015_000001|You forget that I am a gentleman."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000016_000000|"It's only a temporary arrangement, Bunny," she pleaded.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000016_000001|"It's done all the time in the smart set."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000017_000000|"Well, the morals of the smart set are not my morals," I retorted.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000017_000002|Besides, what's to prevent my wife from blabbing when we try to ship her?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000018_000001|"I hadn't thought of that-it would be dangerous, wouldn't it?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000019_000000|"Very," said i "The only safe way out of it would be to kill the young woman, and my religious scruples are strongly against anything of the sort.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000020_000000|"Then what shall we do, Bunny?" demanded mrs Van Raffles.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000022_000000|"That is a good idea," said Henriette; "only I hate amateur theatricals. I'll think it over."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000025_000000|"Pretty good," said i "Chiefly architectural drawings, however-details of facades and ornamental designs."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000000|"Just the thing!" cried Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000002|They adjoin ours.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000003|She will wear her tiara, and I want you when she is in the gardens to hide behind some convenient bit of shrubbery and make an exact detail sketch of the tiara.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000004|Understand?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000027_000000|"I do," said i
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000028_000001|Get the whole thing to a carat," she commanded.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000029_000000|"And then?" I asked, excitedly.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000030_000000|"Bring it to me; I'll attend to the rest," said she.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000032_000002|And I have always remembered dear old Raffles's remark, "Take everything in sight, Bunny," he used to say; "but, damn it, do it like a gentleman, not a professional."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000034_000000|"It is simply perfect, Bunny," she cried, delightedly, as she looked at it.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000034_000001|"You have even got the sparkle of that incomparable ruby in the front."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000035_000000|Next morning we went to New York, and Henriette, taking my design to a theatrical property man we knew on Union Square, left an order for its exact reproduction in gilt and paste.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000036_000000|"I am going to a little fancy dress dance, mr Sikes," she explained, "as Queen Catharine of Russia, and this tiara is a copy of the very famous lost negligee crown of that unhappy queen.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000036_000001|Do you think you can let me have it by Tuesday next?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000037_000000|"Easily, madam," said Sikes.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000037_000001|"It is a beautiful thing and it will give me real pleasure to reproduce it.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000037_000003|It will cost you forty eight dollars.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000038_000000|"Agreed," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000039_000000|And Sikes was true to his word.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000039_000001|The following Tuesday afternoon brought to my New York apartment-for of course mrs Raffles did not give Sikes her right name-an absolutely faultless copy of mrs Rockerbilt's chiefest glory.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000039_000002|It was so like that none but an expert in gems could have told the copy from the original, and when I bore the package back to Newport and displayed its contents to my mistress she flew into an ecstasy of delight.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000040_000000|"We'll have the original in a week if you keep your nerve, Bunny," she cried.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000041_000000|"Theatricals?" said i
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000000|"No, indeed," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000002|No, indeed-a dinner.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000004|mrs Rockerbilt will sit at my left-Tommy Dare to the right.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000006|At the moment you are passing the poisson I will throw the room into darkness, and you-"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000043_000001|Why, darn it all, she'd scream the minute I tried it," I protested.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000046_000003|All was as Henriette had foretold, mrs Rockerbilt's lovely blond locks were frightfully demoralized, and the famous tiara with it had slid aslant athwart her cheek.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000047_000000|"Dear me!" cried Henriette, rising hurriedly and full of warm sympathy. "How very awkward!"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000048_000000|"Oh, don't speak of it," laughed mrs Rockerbilt, amiably.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000048_000001|"It is nothing, dear mrs Van Raffles.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000048_000002|These electric lights are so very uncertain these days, and I am sure james is not at all to blame for hitting me as he has done; it's the most natural thing in the world, only-may I please run up stairs and fix my hair again?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000050_000001|Tommy Dare gave three cheers for mrs Van Raffles, and mrs Gramercy Van Pelt, clad in a gorgeous red costume, stood up on a chair and toasted me in a bumper of champagne.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000050_000002|Meanwhile Henriette and mrs Rockerbilt had gone above.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000051_000000|"Isn't it a beauty, Bunny," said Henriette the next morning, as she held up the tiara to my admiring gaze, a flashing, coruscating bit of the jeweler's art that, I verily believe, would have tempted the soul of honor itself into rascally ways.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000052_000000|"Magnificent!" I asserted.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000052_000001|"But-which is this, the forty eight dollar one or the original?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000053_000000|"The original," said Henriette, caressing the bauble.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000053_000002|The copy was in the table drawer, and while my right hand was apparently engaged in manipulating the refractory light, and my voice was laughingly calling down maledictions upon the electric lighting company for its wretched service, my left hand was occupied with the busiest effort of its career in substituting the spurious tiara for the other."
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000054_000000|"And mrs Rockerbilt never even suspected?"
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000055_000000|"No," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000055_000001|"In fact, she placed the bogus affair in her hair herself.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000056_000000|"Well, you're a wonder, Henriette," said I, with a sigh.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000057_000000|"She won't, Bunny," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000057_000001|"She'll never have occasion to test the genuineness of her tiara.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000058_000000|But, alas! later on Henriette made a discovery herself that for the time being turned her eyes red with weeping.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000058_000001|The Rockerbilt tiara itself was as bogus as our own copy.
train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000058_000002|There wasn't a real stone in the whole outfit, and the worst part of it was that under the circumstances Henriette could not tell anybody over the teacups that mrs Rockerbilt was, in vulgar parlance, "putting up a shine" on high society.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000002_000000|There was little need for the swart gipsies to explain, as they stood knee deep in the snow round the bailiff of the Abbey Farm, what it was that had sent them.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000002_000001|The unbroken whiteness of the uplands told that, and, even as they spoke, there came up the hill the dark figures of the farm men with shovels, on their way to dig out the sheep.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000003_000000|"The hares and foxes were down four days ago, and the liquid manure pumps like a snow man," the bailiff said....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000003_000002|Maybe you'll help us find our sheep too-"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000004_000001|Coming back again, they had had some ado to discover the spot where their three caravans made a hummock of white against a broken wall.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000005_000001|She stood in the latticed porch, dark and handsome against the whiteness, and then, advancing, put her head into the great hall kitchen.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000006_000000|"Has the lady any chairs for the gipsy woman to mend?" she asked in a soft and insinuating voice....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000008_000000|As she worked, she cast curious glances into the old hall kitchen.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000008_000002|In the ancient walnut chair by the hearth sat the old, old lady who had told them to bring the chairs.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000011_000000|It was a childish game of funerals at which the children played.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000011_000001|The hand of Death, hovering over the dolls, had singled out Flora, the articulations of whose sawdust body were seams and whose boots were painted on her calves of fibrous plaster.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000012_000000|The youngest of the children passed the high backed walnut chair in which the old lady sat
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000012_000001|She stopped.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000014_000000|"Yes, dear?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000015_000000|"Flora's dead!"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000016_000000|The old lady, when she smiled, did so less with her lips than with her faded cheeks.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000016_000001|So sweet was her face that you could not help wondering, when you looked on it, how many men had also looked upon it and loved it. Somehow, you never wondered how many of them had been loved in return.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000019_000000|"In a what, dear?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000021_000000|"She means, Aunt Rachel,
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000023_000000|Sabrina, the eldest, interpreted.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000024_000000|"Ah!...
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000025_000000|"Yes, we will, presently, Aunt Rachel; gee up, horse!...
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000025_000001|Shall we go and ask the chair woman if she's warm enough?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000026_000000|"Do, dears."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000027_000000|Again the message was taken, and this time it seemed as if Annabel, the gipsy, was not warm enough, for she gathered up her loops of cane and brought the chair she was mending a little way into the hall kitchen itself.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000027_000001|She sat down on the square box they used to cover the sewing machine.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000029_000000|The gipsy woman beckoned to one of the children.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000030_000000|"Tell the lady, when she wakes, that I will tack a strip of felt to the rocker, and then it will make no noise at all," said the low and wheedling voice; and the child retired again.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000031_000000|The interment of Flora proceeded....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000032_000000|An hour later Flora had taken up the burden of Life again.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000032_000001|It was as Angela, the youngest, was chastising her for some offence, that Sabrina, the eldest, looked with wondering eyes on the babe in the gipsy's sling. She approached on tiptoe.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000033_000000|"May I look at it, please?" she asked timidly.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000034_000000|The gipsy set one shoulder forward, and Sabrina put the shawl gently aside, peering at the dusky brown morsel within.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000035_000000|"Sometime, perhaps-if I'm very careful-"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000000|Before replying, the gipsy once more turned her almond eyes towards Aunt Rachel's chair.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000001|Aunt Rachel had been awakened for the conclusion of Flora's funeral, but her eyes were closed again now, and once more her cheek was dropped in that tender suggestive little gesture, and she rocked.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000002|But you could see that she was not properly asleep....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000003|It was, somehow, less to Sabrina, still peering at the babe in the sling, than to Aunt Rachel, apparently asleep, that the gipsy seemed to reply.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000038_000000|"You'll know some day, little missis, that a wean knows its own pair of arms," her seductive voice came.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000039_000001|She opened her eyes with a start.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000039_000002|The little regular noise of the rocker ceased.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000041_000001|Though all the chairs were mended, Annabel still came daily to the farm, sat on the box they used to cover the sewing machine, and wove mats.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000041_000003|It was always the white haired lady who spoke first, and Annabel made all sorts of salutes and obeisances with her eyes before replying.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000042_000001|(The children at the other end of the apartment had converted a chest into an altar, and were solemnising the nuptials of the resurrected Flora and Jack, the raffish sailor doll.)
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000043_000000|Annabel made roving play with her eyes.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000043_000002|"Is there anything Annabel can bid him do?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000044_000000|"Nothing, thank you," said Aunt Rachel.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000045_000000|For a minute the gipsy watched Aunt Rachel, and then she got up from the sewing machine box and crossed the floor.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000045_000001|She leaned so close towards her that she had to put up a hand to steady the babe at her back.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000046_000000|"Lady dear," she murmured with irresistible softness, "your husband died, didn't he?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000047_000001|It was a hoop of pearls.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000048_000000|"I have never had a husband," she said.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000049_000000|The gipsy glanced at the ring.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000049_000001|"Then that is-?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000050_000000|"That is a betrothal ring," Aunt Rachel replied.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000051_000000|"Ah!..." said Annabel.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000052_000000|Then, after a minute, she drew still closer.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000053_000000|"Ah!...
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000054_000001|Her eyes avoided those of the gipsy, sought them, and avoided them again.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000055_000000|"Did what die?" she asked slowly and guardedly....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000056_000000|The child at the gipsy's back did not need suck; nevertheless, Annabel's fingers worked at her bosom, and she moved the sling.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000056_000001|As the child settled, Annabel gave Aunt Rachel a long look.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000057_000000|"Why do you rock?" she asked slowly.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000058_000000|Aunt Rachel was trembling.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000058_000001|She did not reply.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000058_000002|In a voice soft as sliding water the gipsy continued:
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000059_000000|"Lady dear, we are a strange folk to you, and even among us there are those who shuffle the pack of cards and read the palm when silver has been put upon it, knowing nothing...
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000060_000000|It was more than a minute before Aunt Rachel spoke.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000062_000000|But the gipsy shook her head.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000062_000002|I speak of eyes-these eyes."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000063_000001|Aunt Rachel had given a little start, but had become quiet again.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000063_000002|When at last she spoke it was in a voice scarcely audible.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000064_000000|"That cannot be.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000064_000002|He died on the eve of his wedding.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000064_000003|For my bridal clothes they made me black garments instead.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000064_000004|It is long ago, and now I wear neither black nor white, but-" her hands made a gesture.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000065_000000|But there came a sudden note of masterfulness into the gipsy's voice.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000067_000001|"None except I have seen it.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000068_000000|The gipsy sat suddenly erect.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000069_000001|Keep still in your chair," she ordered, "and I will tell you when-"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000000|It was a curious thing that followed.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000002|The gipsy sat with her own hands folded over the mat on her knees.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000004|Once more her head dropped.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000005|Her hands moved.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000006|Noiselessly on the rockers that the gipsy had padded with felt the chair began to rock.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000007|Annabel lifted one hand.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000071_000001|"It is there."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000072_000000|Aunt Rachel did not appear to hear her.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000072_000001|With that ineffable smile still on her face, she rocked....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000073_000000|Then, after some minutes, there crossed her face such a look as visits the face of one who, waking from sleep, strains his faculties to recapture some blissful and vanishing vision....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000075_000000|Aunt Rachel opened her eyes again.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000075_000001|She repeated dully after Annabel:
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000076_000000|"It is gone."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000077_000000|"Ghosts," the gipsy whispered presently, "are of the dead.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000077_000001|Therefore it must have lived."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000078_000000|But again Aunt Rachel shook her head.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000079_000000|"You were young, and beautiful?..."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000080_000000|Still the shake of the head.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000080_000001|"He died on the eve of his wedding.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000080_000002|They took my white garments away and gave me black ones.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000080_000003|How then could it have lived?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000081_000000|"Without the kiss, no...
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000081_000001|But sometimes a woman will lie through her life, and at the graveside still will lie....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000081_000002|Tell me the truth."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000082_000001|The gipsy's face became grave....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000083_000000|She broke another long silence.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000084_000001|"It is a new kind-but no more wonderful than the other.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000084_000002|The other I have seen, now I have seen this also.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000084_000003|Tell me, does it come to any other chair?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000085_000000|"It was his chair; he died in it," said Aunt Rachel.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000086_000000|"And you-shall you die in it?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000087_000000|"As God wills."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000089_000000|"Many years; but it is always small; it never grows."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000090_000000|"To their mothers babes never grow.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000090_000002|None other has ever seen it?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000091_000000|"Except yourself, none.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000091_000001|I sit here; presently it creeps into my arms; it is small and warm; I rock, and then... it goes."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000092_000000|"Would it come to another chair?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000093_000001|I think not.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000093_000002|It was his chair."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000094_000001|At the other end of the room Flora was now bestowed on Jack, the disreputable sailor.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000094_000002|The gipsy's eyes rested on the bridal party....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000096_000000|"None has."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000097_000000|"No; but yet....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000097_000001|The door does not always shut behind us suddenly. Perhaps one who has toddled but a step or two over the threshold might, by looking back, catch a glimpse....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000098_000000|"Angela."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000099_000000|"That means 'angel'...
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000099_000001|Look, the doll who died yesterday is now being married....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000099_000002|It may be that Life has not yet sealed the little one's eyes. Will you let Annabel ask her if she sees what it is you hold in your arms?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000100_000000|Again the voice was soft and wheedling....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000101_000000|"No, Annabel," said Aunt Rachel faintly.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000102_000000|"Will you rock again?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000104_000000|"Rock..." urged the cajoling voice.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000105_000000|But Aunt Rachel only turned the betrothal ring on her finger.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000105_000001|Over at the altar Jack was leering at his new made bride, past decency; and little Angela held the wooden horse's head, which had parted from its body.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000106_000000|"Rock, and comfort yourself-" tempted the voice.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000107_000000|Then slowly Aunt Rachel rose from her chair.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000000|"No, Annabel," she said gently.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000001|"You should not have spoken.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000004|It was not meant to be seen by another.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000005|I no longer want it.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000006|Please go."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000109_000000|The swarthy woman turned her almond eyes on her once more.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000110_000000|"You cannot live without it," she said as she also rose....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000113_000001|It was on the morning of Christmas Eve that they came down in a body to the Abbey Farm to express their thanks to those who had befriended them; but the bailiff was not there.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000113_000002|He and the farm men had ceased work, and were down at the church, practising the carols.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000113_000003|Only Aunt Rachel sat, still and knitting, in the black walnut chair; and the children played on the floor.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000114_000000|A night in the toy box had apparently bred discontent between Jack and Flora-or perhaps they sought to keep their countenances before the world; at any rate, they sat on opposite sides of the room, Jack keeping boon company with the lead soldiers, his spouse reposing, her lead balanced eyes closed, in the broken clockwork motor car.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000114_000002|In the intervals of kissing they told one another in whispers that Aunt Rachel was not very well, and Angela woke Flora to tell her that Aunt Rachel had Brown titus also.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000115_000001|She approached the chair in which Aunt Rachel sat
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000117_000000|"Lady dear, you must rock or you cannot live."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000118_000000|Aunt Rachel did not look up from her work.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000121_000000|"All leave me."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000122_000000|"Annabel fears she has taken away your comfort."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000123_000000|"Only for a little while.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000123_000001|The door closes behind us, but it opens again."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000124_000000|"But for that little time, rock-"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000125_000000|Aunt Rachel shook her head.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000126_000000|"no
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000126_000002|Another has seen....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000126_000003|Say good bye to your companions; they are very welcome to what they have had; and God speed you."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000127_000000|"They thank you, lady dear....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000128_000000|"No more."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000129_000000|Annabel stooped and kissed the hand that bore the betrothal hoop of pearls.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000129_000002|It trembled as it rested there, but the tremor passed, and Annabel, turning once at the porch, gave her a last look.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000129_000003|Then she departed with her companions.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000130_000000|That afternoon, Jack and Flora had shaken down to wedlock as married folk should, and sat together before the board spread with the dolls' tea things.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000131_000001|There was merry talk, but Aunt Rachel took no part in it.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000131_000002|The board was spread with ale and cheese and spiced loaf for the carol singers; and the time drew near for their coming.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000132_000000|When at midnight, faintly on the air from the church below, there came the chiming of Christmas morning, all bestirred themselves.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000133_000000|"They'll be here in a few minutes," they said; "somebody go and bring the children down;" and within a very little while subdued noises were heard outside, and the lifting of the latch of the yard gate.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000133_000001|The children were in their nightgowns, hardly fully awake; a low voice outside was heard giving orders; and then there arose on the night the carol.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000135_000000|It was the Cherry Tree Carol that rose outside, of how sweet Mary, the Queen of Galilee, besought Joseph to pluck the cherries for her Babe, and Joseph refused; and the voices of the singers, that had begun hesitatingly, grew strong and loud and free.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000136_000000|"... and Joseph wouldn't pluck the cherries," somebody was whispering to the tiny Angela....
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000141_000000|The little Angela, within the arms that held her, murmured, "It's the gipsies, isn't it, mother?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000142_000000|"No, darling.
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000142_000002|It's the carol singers, singing because Jesus was born."
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000144_000000|"Look where?"
train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000145_000001|The gipsy woman wouldn't go without her little baby, would she?"
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000002_000000|THE WHITE FAWN
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000003_000000|There was once upon a time a King and Queen who were perfectly happy, with one exception, and that was that they had no child.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000004_000000|One day when the Queen was staying in a watering place, some distance from home, she was sitting by a fountain alone, sadly thinking of the daughter she longed to have, when she perceived a crab coming in her direction, who, to the Queen's surprise, addressed her thus:
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000005_000000|"Great Queen, if you will condescend to be conducted by a humble crab, I will lead you to a Fairies' palace and your wish shall be fulfilled."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000006_000000|"I would certainly come with you," replied the Queen, "but I am afraid that I cannot walk backwards."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000007_000000|The crab smiled, and transforming herself into a beautiful little old woman, said:
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000008_000000|"Now, madam, it is not necessary to go backwards.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000008_000001|Come with me, and I beg of you to look upon me as your friend." She then escorted the Queen to the most magnificent palace that could possibly be imagined, it was built entirely of diamonds.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000010_000002|You have only to hold this bouquet, and mention each flower, thinking of us, and be assured that we shall at once appear in your chamber."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000011_000000|The Queen, transported with joy, and overcome with gratitude, threw herself upon their necks, and warmly embraced them; she then spent several hours admiring the wonders of the palace and its gardens, and it was not until evening that she returned to her attendants, who were in a serious state of anxiety at the prolonged absence of Her Majesty.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000000|Not very long afterwards, when the Queen was once more at home in her Royal Palace, a baby Princess was born, whom she named Desiree.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000001|Then taking the bouquet into her hand, the Queen, one by one, pronounced the names of the flowers, when there immediately appeared, flying through the air in elegant chariots drawn by different kinds of birds, the six Fairies who entered the apartment, bearing beautiful presents for the little baby.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000002|Marvellously fine linen, but so strong that it could be worn a hundred years without going into holes, lace of the finest, with the history of the world worked into its pattern, toys of all descriptions that a child would love to play with, and a cradle ornamented with rubies and diamonds, and supported by four Cupids ready to rock it should the baby cry.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000003|But, best of all, the Fairies endowed the little Princess with beauty, and virtue, and health, and every good thing that could be desired.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000016_000000|Then, with three waves of a wand, the Fairies caused a high tower to spring up; it had neither door nor window, an underground passage was made, through which everything necessary could be carried, and in this tower the little Princess was shut up and there she lived by candlelight, where never a glimpse of the sun could come.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000017_000000|When the Princess Desiree was fourteen years old, the Queen had her portrait painted, and copies of it were carried to all the Courts in the world.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000019_000000|"But where have you seen her?" enquired the King.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000020_000001|So the King despatched as ambassador a rich young lord named Becafigue.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000024_000003|Meanwhile once more Becafigue came to the capital where Desiree's father lived, and throwing himself at the King's feet, besought him in most touching words to let his daughter go with him at once to the Prince, who would surely die if he could not behold her.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000025_000000|When Princess Desiree heard of the Prince's illness, she suggested that she should set out without delay, but in a dark carriage, that only at night should be opened to give her food.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000029_000003|She placed the crown upon her head, the sceptre and orb she carried in her hands, so that all should take her for the Princess.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000029_000004|With her mother bearing her train she gravely walked in the direction of the town.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000032_000000|No one replied at first, and then one of the boldest said,
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000033_000000|"Sir, you will see; apparently the fatigue of the journey has somewhat changed her." The Prince was surprised, but when he saw Longue Epine words fail to express what he felt.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000034_000001|She was frightfully thin, and her nose, which was more hooked than a parrot's beak, shone like a danger signal.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000034_000002|Then her teeth were black and uneven, and, in fact, she was as ugly as Desiree was beautiful.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000035_000000|At first the Prince could not speak a word, he simply gazed at her in amazement.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000035_000001|Then he said, turning to his father, "We have been deceived, that portrait was painted to mislead us.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000035_000002|It will be the death of me."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000037_000000|"It is not to be wondered at," remarked the King, "that your father kept such a treasure shut up for fifteen years."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000038_000000|Then he and the Prince turned towards the town, and the false Princess and the Lady in Waiting, without any ceremony, were mounted each behind a soldier and taken to be shut up in a castle.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000041_000000|After three or four days' journeying, the wanderers found themselves in a thick forest.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000041_000001|Quite wearied out, the Prince threw himself upon the ground, while Becafigue went on further in search of fruit wherewith to refresh his royal master.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000042_000000|It is a long time since we left the White Fawn, that is to say the charming Princess.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000043_000000|Very desolately she wept when in a stream she saw her figure reflected, and when night came she was in great fear, for she heard wild beasts about her, and sometimes forgetting she was a fawn she would try to climb a tree.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000043_000001|But with morning dawn she felt a little safer, and the sun appeared a marvellous sight to her from which she could hardly turn her eyes.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000044_000000|It did not take Giroflee long to discover that this was her dearly loved mistress, and she promised the White Fawn never to forsake her, for she found she could hear all that was said although she could not speak.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000044_000001|Towards night the fear of having no shelter made the two friends so dreadfully dismayed that the Fairy Tulip suddenly appeared before them.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000046_000000|"I am not going to scold you," she said, "although it is through not following my advice that you are in this misfortune, for it goes to my heart to see you thus.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000046_000002|Giroflee and the Fawn walked in the direction the Fairy had pointed out, and arrived at a neat little cottage where an old woman showed them a room which they could occupy.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000048_000001|He addressed her politely and asked for the things he required for his master.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000048_000002|She hastened to fill a basket, and gave it to him, saying, "I fear that if you pass a night without shelter some harm may come to you.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000048_000003|I can offer you a poor one, but at any rate it is secure from the lions."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000049_000000|Becafigue went back to the Prince and together they returned to the cottage, where they were led into the room next to that occupied by the Princess.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000050_000000|Next morning the Prince arose early and went out; he had not long been in the forest when he saw a beautiful little Fawn.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000051_000000|"It is no use talking thus, when I am a Fawn this room is stifling to me and I must depart from it."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000052_000000|The next day the young Prince sought in vain for the White Fawn, and finally tired out threw himself upon the grass and fell asleep.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000053_000001|Coming nearer and nearer she presently touched him and he awoke.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000055_000000|"Stay, dear little Fawn," he cried, "I would not hurt you for the world." But the wind carried off the words before they reached her ears.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000056_000000|"Beautiful Fawn," said he, "do not fear me, I shall lead you with me everywhere." Then he covered her with roses and fed her with the choicest leaves and grasses.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000057_000001|The next day for a long time she hid from the Prince, but at last he found her, and as she dashed off he shot an arrow which wounded her in the leg.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000058_000000|Sad that he should have done so cruel a thing, the Prince took herbs and laid them upon the wound, and at last he went to fetch Becafigue to help him carry her to the house.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000058_000001|He tied her to a tree.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000059_000001|Who would have thought that the most beautiful Princess in the world would be treated thus?
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000059_000002|While she was straining at the ribbons trying to break them, Giroflee arrived, and was leading her away when the Prince met them and claimed the Fawn as his.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000061_000003|To be a Fawn all the day, to hear him speaking, and not to be able to tell him of my sad fate."
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000062_000000|One can guess the astonishment of Becafigue and of the Prince. Guerrier would almost have died of pleasure had he not thought that it must be some enchantment, for did he not know that Desiree and her Lady in Waiting were shut up in the castle.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000063_000000|He went softly and knocked at the chamber door, which Giroflee opened, thinking it was the old woman, for she required help for the wounded arm.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000066_000000|Then it was found that it was the Fairy Tulip in disguise of the old woman who had provided that sheltering cottage in the forest.
train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000069_000000|And, in accordance with the wish of Princess Desiree, Longue Epine and her mother, the false Lady in Waiting, were set at liberty.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000005_000000|There was once a king who was such an honourable man that his subjects called him "The Good King."
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000006_000000|One day while he was out hunting, a little rabbit that his dogs were about to kill, threw itself into his arms.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000006_000001|The King caressed the little creature, and said:
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000008_000000|That night when he was alone in his room, there appeared a lovely lady.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000008_000001|She wore a robe as white as snow, and a wreath of white roses on her head.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000009_000000|"I am the Fairy Candide; I wished to see if you were as good as everybody declares you are, and for this reason I changed myself into the little rabbit, and ran to you in my distress, for I know that those who have pity for dumb creatures have still more pity for mankind.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000013_000000|"Willingly," responded the Fairy, "I will make your son the most handsome prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose which you will for him."
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000015_000001|All that I can promise is that I will give him good advice, and punish him for his faults, if he will not himself correct them."
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000016_000000|And with this the father had to rest content.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000018_000000|"I promised your father to be your friend," she told him; "here is a little gold ring, take care of it, for it is worth more than diamonds. Every time that you are about to do any wrong action it will prick you.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000018_000001|If, in spite of the pricks, you continue your bad actions, you will lose my friendship and I shall become your enemy."
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000020_000001|At that moment the ring pricked like a pin running into his finger.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000021_000000|"What is this?" he exclaimed: "the Fairy must be mocking me, surely I've done no great harm in kicking an animal that annoyed me.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000021_000001|What's the use of being ruler of a great empire if I may not treat my dog as I will?"
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000025_000000|One day when he was out walking he saw a girl named Zelie, who was so beautiful that he resolved to marry her.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000026_000000|But Zelie was as good as she was beautiful, and said to him:
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000030_000000|Great was his surprise, on entering the apartment, to find the captive had disappeared, for he carried the key of the door in his pocket.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000000|"I promised your father," said she in a stern voice, "to give you good advice, and to punish you if you refused to follow it.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000001|You have despised my counsels and your crimes have converted you into a monster, the horror of heaven and earth.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000002|Now it is time to fulfill my promise of punishment.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000003|I condemn you to take the resemblance of the beasts you are like in disposition-A lion, because of your fury-a wolf, on account of your greediness-a serpent, for destroying him who has been your second father-a bull, by reason of your brutality."
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000038_000000|He had a lion's head, a bull's horns, the feet of a wolf, and the tail of a viper.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000038_000001|At the same moment he found himself in a forest, and there, after roaming about miserably for some time, he fell into a pit dug by hunters.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000038_000002|He was captured and led into the capital of his Kingdom.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000044_000000|One day he carried his little piece of bread into the garden to eat it there, but wandering with it in his mouth, still further on, he saw a young girl pale and thin, and almost fainting for want of food.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000045_000001|Just then he heard loud cries, and saw that it was the beautiful Zelie struggling to free herself from four men who were carrying her into a house near by.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000046_000001|Presently from a window was thrown a plateful of tempting looking food.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000048_000001|For several days he flew around hoping to catch sight of Zelie, and at last, seated by a hermit, outside a cave, he found her.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000048_000002|Fluttering down he alighted upon her shoulder.
train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000048_000005|The worthy Governor was delighted to behold his dear master, and gladly resigned the throne to him.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000000_000000|When he was four years old, his father moved to the town of Chatham, near the old city of Rochester.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000000_000001|Round about are chalk hills, green lanes, forests and marshes, and amid such scenes the little Charles's genius first began to show itself.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000001_000000|He did not like the rougher sports of his school fellows and preferred to amuse himself in his own way, or to wander about with his older sister, Fanny, whom he especially loved.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000001_000001|They loved to watch the stars together, and there was one particular star which they used to pretend was their own.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000001_000002|People called him a "very queer small boy" because he was always thinking or reading instead of playing.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000002_000000|He had a great affection for Chatham and Rochester, and after he began to write stories that were printed, he often used to put these places into them.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000002_000005|It is easy to see that the young Charles Dickens noted carefully and remembered everything he saw, and this habit was of great use to him all his life.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000003_000000|These happy years were not to last long.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000003_000001|When he was nine years old, his father became poor and the family was obliged to move to London, where it lived in a shabby house in a poor suburb.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000003_000002|Before another year had passed, his father was put into prison for debt-the same prison in which Little Dorrit, in the story of that name, grew up.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000004_000000|Better days, however, came at last.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000005_000001|This did not content him and he made up his mind to learn to write shorthand so as to become a reporter, in the Houses of Parliament, for a newspaper.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000005_000002|This was by no means an easy task.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000005_000003|But Dickens had great strength of will and a determination to do well whatever he did at all, and he succeeded, just as David Copperfield did in the story.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000006_000000|And like the latter, too, about this time Dickens fell in love.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000006_000001|He did not marry on this occasion, as did David, but how much he was in love one may see by the story of David's Dora.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000000|The theater had always a great attraction for Dickens.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000001|Throughout his life he loved to act in plays got up and often written, too, by himself and his friends.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000002|Some of his early experiences of this kind he has told in the adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at mr Crummles's theater.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000003|But his acting was for his own amusement, and it is doubtful if he ever thought seriously of adopting the stage as a profession.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000004|If he did, his success as a reporter soon determined him otherwise.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000000|When he was twenty one he saw his first printed sketch in a monthly magazine.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000001|He had dropped it into a letter box with mingled hope and fear, and read it now through tears of joy and pride.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000002|He followed this with others as successful, signed "Boz"--the child nickname of one of his younger brothers.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000003|This was his beginning.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000005|This was his first long story.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000006|It became, almost at once, the most popular book of its day, perhaps, indeed, the most popular book ever published in England.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000007|Soon after the appearance of its first chapters, Dickens married Miss Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the editor of one of the London newspapers, who had helped him in his career.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000009_000001|Certainly its honest fun, its merriment, its quaintness, good humor and charity appealed to every reader.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000009_000002|More than all, it made people acquainted with a new company of characters, none of whom had ever existed, or could ever exist, and yet whose manners and appearance were pictured so really that they seemed to be actual persons whom one might meet and laugh with anywhere.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000001|He was never content merely to tell an interesting story.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000002|He wrote with a purpose.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000005|It is good to learn that, as a result of this novel, an end was made of many such boys' schools.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000006|True artist as he was, Dickens seldom wrote without having in his mind the thought of showing some defect in the law, or some wrong condition of affairs which might be righted.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000009|Often, too, Dickens's stories are, in a sense, sermons against very human sins.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000000|With his increasing wealth, Dickens had, of course, changed his manner of life.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000001|He lived part of the time in the country near London, in Brighton, in Dover, and in France and Italy.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000002|He liked best, however, a little English watering place called Broadstairs-a tiny fishing village, built on a cliff, with the sea rolling and dashing beneath it. In such a place he felt that he could write best, but he greatly missed his London friends.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000003|He used to say that being without them was "like losing his arms and legs."
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000014_000000|When he was less than thirty, Dickens was invited to visit Scotland, and there he received his first great national tribute.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000014_000001|A public banquet was given him in Edinburgh, and he was much sought after and entertained.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000014_000002|Up to this time he had never seen the United States; he decided now to visit this country and meet his American readers face to face.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000015_000000|He landed at Boston accompanied by his wife, in eighteen forty two, and visited many of the greater cities of the Eastern states.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000015_000002|Unfortunately, however, Dickens had taken a dislike to American ways, and this dislike appeared in many things he wrote after his return to England.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000000|Dickens was a very active man, and his life was simple and full of work and exercise.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000001|He rose early and almost every day might have been seen tramping for miles along the country roads, or riding horseback with his dogs racing after him.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000002|He liked best to wander along the cliffs or across the downs by the sea.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000003|When he was in London he often walked the streets half the night, thinking out his stories, or searching for the odd characters which he put in them.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000006|It was not long before he withdrew also from this second venture.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000000|In the meantime he had met with both joy and sorrow.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000002|His much loved sister, his father, and his own little daughter, the youngest of his family, had died.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000003|These sorrows made him throw himself into his work with greater earnestness.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000005|One of these was performed before Queen Victoria.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000000|People have often wondered how Dickens found time to accomplish so many different things.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000001|One of the secrets of this, no doubt, was his love of order.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000002|He was the most systematic of men.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000003|Everything he did "went like clockwork," and he prided himself on his punctuality.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000004|He could not work in a room unless everything in it was in its proper place.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000005|As a consequence of this habit of regularity, he never wasted time.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000019_000001|His aim was to make it cheerful, useful and at the same time cheap, so that the poor could afford to buy it as well as the rich.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000019_000003|Dickens loved to encourage young writers, and would just as quickly accept a good story or poem from an unknown author as from the most famous.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000000|This book brought Dickens to the height of his career.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000001|He was now both famous and rich.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000002|He bought a house on Gad's Hill-a place near Chatham, where he had spent the happiest part of his childhood-and settled down to a life of comfort and labor.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000003|When he was a little boy his father had pointed out this fine house to him, and told him he might even come to live there some day, if he were very persevering and worked hard.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000004|And so, indeed, it had proved.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000001|Everyone, old and young throughout the neighborhood, liked him.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000002|Children, dogs and horses were his friends.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000003|His hand was open for charity, and he was always the champion of the poor, the helpless and the outcast.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000004|Everyone, he thought, had some good in him, and in all he met he was on the lookout to find it.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000006|So earnest was he in this that he was not pleased at all when a person praised one of his stories, unless the other showed that he had grasped the lesson that lay beneath it.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000023_000000|With such a tender heart for all the world, he was more than an affectionate father to his own children, and gave much thought to their happiness and education.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000023_000002|As the years went by, his letters to his oldest son told of his own work and plans. When his youngest son sailed away to live in Australia, he wrote: "Poor Plorn is gone.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000023_000003|It was a hard parting at the last.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000024_000003|But, however this may be, Dickens and his wife had not lived happily together, and now decided to part, and from that time, though they wrote to each other, he never saw her again.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000024_000004|It is sad to reflect that he who has painted so beautifully for others the joys and sorrows of perfect love and home, was himself destined to know neither.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000025_000000|The years that followed this separation were years of constant labor for Dickens.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000025_000001|His restlessness, perhaps also his lack of happiness, drove him to work without rest.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000025_000003|Much better to die doing." The idea of giving public readings from his stories suggested itself to him, and he was soon engaged in preparation.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000026_000000|He gave readings, not only in England, but also in Scotland and Ireland, and everywhere he met with enormous success.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000026_000001|The first series was hardly over, when he was at work on a new story, and this was scarcely completed when he was planning more readings.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000026_000003|A serious illness followed, and afterward he was troubled with an increasing lameness-the first real warning of the end.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000000|In spite of his weakness, he decided on another trip to America, and here, in eighteen sixty seven, he began a series of readings which left him in a far worse condition.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000001|Often at the close of an evening he would become so faint that he would have to lie down.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000002|He was unable to sleep and his appetite entirely failed him.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000004|A great banquet of farewell was given to him in New York and he returned to England bearing the admiration and love of the whole American people.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000028_000001|But he was too ill.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000028_000002|He found himself for the first time in his life feeling, as he said, "giddy, jarred, shaken, faint, uncertain of voice and sight, and tread and touch, and dull of spirit." He was obliged to discontinue the course and to rest.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000029_000000|This summer of eighteen sixty nine--the last summer of his life-was a contented and even a happy one.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000029_000002|He attempted one more series of readings, and with their close bade farewell for ever to his English audience.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000030_000000|He was seen in public but a few times more-once at the last dinner party he ever attended, to meet the Prince of Wales and the King of the Belgians, and once when the Queen invited him to Buckingham Palace.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000030_000001|Soon after, the end came.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000000|One day as he entered the house at Gad's Hill, he seemed tired and silent.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000001|As he sat down to dinner all present noticed that he looked very ill.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000002|They begged him to lie down.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000003|"Yes, on the ground," he said-these were the last words he ever uttered-and as he spoke he slipped down upon the floor.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000032_000000|He never fully recovered consciousness, and next day, june ninth eighteen seventy, Charles Dickens breathed his last.
train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000032_000001|Five days later he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, where are buried so many of the greatest of England's dead.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000001_000000|They all looked a merry, even a happy party, as they sat round the table; Sir Andrew Ffoulkes and Lord Antony Dewhurst, two typical good looking, well born and well bred Englishmen of that year of grace seventeen ninety two, and the aristocratic French comtesse with her two children, who had just escaped from such dire perils, and found a safe retreat at last on the shores of protecting England.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000002_000000|In the corner the two strangers had apparently finished their game; one of them arose, and standing with his back to the merry company at the table, he adjusted with much deliberation his large triple caped coat. As he did so, he gave one quick glance all around him.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000002_000002|The stranger then, with a loud "Good night," quietly walked out of the coffee room.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000003_000000|Not one of those at the supper table had noticed this curious and silent manoeuvre, but when the stranger finally closed the door of the coffee room behind him, they all instinctively sighed a sigh of relief.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000004_000000|"Alone, at last!" said Lord Antony, jovially.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000006_000000|"To His Majesty George Three of England.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000006_000001|God bless him for his hospitality to us all, poor exiles from France."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000007_000000|"His Majesty the King!" echoed Lord Antony and Sir Andrew as they drank loyally to the toast.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000009_000000|Everyone rose and drank this toast in silence.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000009_000001|The fate of the unfortunate King of France, then a prisoner of his own people, seemed to cast a gloom even over mr Jellyband's pleasant countenance.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000015_000000|"Aye, Madame!" here interposed Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, "trust in God by all means, but believe also a little in your English friends, who have sworn to bring the Count safely across the Channel, even as they have brought you to day."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000016_000002|The way some of my own friends have escaped from the clutches of that awful revolutionary tribunal was nothing short of a miracle-and all done by you and your friends-"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000001|I was torn between my duty to him, and to them.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000002|They refused to go without me . . . and you and your friends assured me so solemnly that my husband would be safe. But, oh!
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000003|now that I am here-amongst you all-in this beautiful, free England-I think of him, flying for his life, hunted like a poor beast . . . in such peril . . .
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000005|I should not have left him . . .
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000019_000001|She was crying gently to herself, whilst Suzanne ran up to her and tried to kiss away her tears.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000020_000001|There was no doubt that they felt deeply for her; their very silence testified to that-but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000022_000000|This was said with so much confidence, such unuttered hope and belief, that it seemed as if by magic to dry the mother's eyes, and to bring a smile upon everybody's lips.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000023_000000|"Nay!
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000023_000001|You shame me, Mademoiselle," replied Sir Andrew; "though my life is at your service, I have been but a humble tool in the hands of our great leader, who organised and effected your escape."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000024_000000|He had spoken with so much warmth and vehemence that Suzanne's eyes fastened upon him in undisguised wonder.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000000|"Your leader, Monsieur?" said the Comtesse, eagerly.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000001|"Ah! of course, you must have a leader.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000002|And I did not think of that before!
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000003|But tell me where is he?
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000026_000000|"Alas, Madame!" said Lord Antony, "that is impossible."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000029_000000|"The Scarlet Pimpernel?" said Suzanne, with a merry laugh.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000029_000002|What is the Scarlet Pimpernel, Monsieur?"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000030_000000|She looked at Sir Andrew with eager curiosity.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000030_000001|The young man's face had become almost transfigured.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000030_000002|His eyes shone with enthusiasm; hero worship, love, admiration for his leader seemed literally to glow upon his face.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000031_000000|"Ah, yes," here interposed the young Vicomte, "I have heard speak of this Scarlet Pimpernel.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000031_000001|A little flower-red?--yes!
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000031_000003|Yes?"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000032_000000|"Yes, that is so," assented Lord Antony.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000033_000000|"Then he will have received one such paper to day?"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000034_000000|"Undoubtedly."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000035_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000038_000000|"Why should you try, Madame?"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000039_000000|"But, tell me, why should your leader-why should you all-spend your money and risk your lives-for it is your lives you risk, Messieurs, when you set foot in France-and all for us French men and women, who are nothing to you?"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000042_000000|"Faith, Madame, I would like you to find it then . . . as for me, I vow, I love the game, for this is the finest sport I have yet encountered.--Hair breath escapes . . . the devil's own risks!--Tally ho!--and away we go!"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000000|But the Comtesse shook her head, still incredulously.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000001|To her it seemed preposterous that these young men and their great leader, all of them rich, probably wellborn, and young, should for no other motive than sport, run the terrible risks, which she knew they were constantly doing.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000002|Their nationality, once they had set foot in France, would be no safeguard to them.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000003|Anyone found harbouring or assisting suspected royalists would be ruthlessly condemned and summarily executed, whatever his nationality might be.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000046_000000|The Comtesse looked round at the quaint, old-fashioned English inn, the peace of this land of civil and religious liberty, and she closed her eyes to shut out the haunting vision of that West Barricade, and of the mob retreating panic stricken when the old hag spoke of the plague.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000047_000000|Every moment under that cart she expected recognition, arrest, herself and her children tried and condemned, and these young Englishmen, under the guidance of their brave and mysterious leader, had risked their lives to save them all, as they had already saved scores of other innocent people.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000048_000000|And all only for sport?
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000048_000001|Impossible!
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000050_000000|"Twenty all told, Mademoiselle," he replied, "one to command, and nineteen to obey.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000050_000001|All of us Englishmen, and all pledged to the same cause-to obey our leader and to rescue the innocent."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000053_000000|"It is wonderful to me, wonderful!--That you should all be so brave, so devoted to your fellowmen-yet you are English!--and in France treachery is rife-all in the name of liberty and fraternity."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000058_000000|"Yes!" replied the Comtesse, "surely you know her.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000058_000001|She was a leading actress of the Comedie Francaise, and she married an Englishman lately. You must know her-"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000059_000002|Of course, we all know Lady Blakeney."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000061_000002|Why should she have done such a thing?
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000061_000003|Surely there must be some mistake-"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000062_000002|I assure you there is no mistake. . . .
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000062_000003|You had not heard this story?"
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000063_000001|Sir Percy Blakeney, her husband, is a very wealthy man, of high social position, the intimate friend of the Prince of Wales . . . and Lady Blakeney leads both fashion and society in London."
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000065_000002|As for Lord Antony, he looked extremely uncomfortable, and glanced once or twice apprehensively towards Jellyband, who looked just as uncomfortable as himself.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000066_000000|"At what time do you expect Sir Percy and Lady Blakeney?" he contrived to whisper unobserved, to mine host.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000067_000000|"Any moment, my lord," whispered Jellyband in reply.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000068_000000|Even as he spoke, a distant clatter was heard of an approaching coach; louder and louder it grew, one or two shouts became distinguishable, then the rattle of horses' hoofs on the uneven cobble stones, and the next moment a stable boy had thrown open the coffee room door and rushed in excitedly.
train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000069_000000|"Sir Percy Blakeney and my lady," he shouted at the top of his voice, "they're just arriving."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000000_000000|I replied as best I could-as only a true lover can.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000000_000001|I spoke at length, and perseveringly of my devotion, of my passion-of her exceeding beauty, and of my own enthusiastic admiration.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000000_000002|In conclusion, I dwelt, with a convincing energy, upon the perils that encompass the course of love-that course of true love that never did run smooth-and thus deduced the manifest danger of rendering that course unnecessarily long.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000000|This latter argument seemed finally to soften the rigor of her determination.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000001|She relented; but there was yet an obstacle, she said, which she felt assured I had not properly considered.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000002|This was a delicate point-for a woman to urge, especially so; in mentioning it, she saw that she must make a sacrifice of her feelings; still, for me, every sacrifice should be made.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000003|She alluded to the topic of age.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000005|That the age of the husband, should surpass by a few years-even by fifteen or twenty-the age of the wife, was regarded by the world as admissible, and, indeed, as even proper, but she had always entertained the belief that the years of the wife should never exceed in number those of the husband.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000006|A discrepancy of this unnatural kind gave rise, too frequently, alas! to a life of unhappiness.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000007|Now she was aware that my own age did not exceed two and twenty; and I, on the contrary, perhaps, was not aware that the years of my Eugenie extended very considerably beyond that sum.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000002_000000|About all this there was a nobility of soul-a dignity of candor-which delighted-which enchanted me-which eternally riveted my chains.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000002_000001|I could scarcely restrain the excessive transport which possessed me.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000001|Your years surpass in some measure my own.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000002|But what then? The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000003|To those who love as ourselves, in what respect differs a year from an hour?
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000004|I am twenty two, you say, granted: indeed, you may as well call me, at once, twenty three.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000004_000000|Here I paused for an instant, in the expectation that Madame Lalande would interrupt me by supplying her true age.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000004_000002|In the present instance, Eugenie, who for a few moments past had seemed to be searching for something in her bosom, at length let fall upon the grass a miniature, which I immediately picked up and presented to her.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000000|"Keep it!" she said, with one of her most ravishing smiles.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000001|"Keep it for my sake-for the sake of her whom it too flatteringly represents. Besides, upon the back of the trinket you may discover, perhaps, the very information you seem to desire.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000002|It is now, to be sure, growing rather dark-but you can examine it at your leisure in the morning.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000003|In the meantime, you shall be my escort home to night.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000005|I can promise you, too, some good singing.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000006|We French are not nearly so punctilious as you Americans, and I shall have no difficulty in smuggling you in, in the character of an old acquaintance."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000006_000000|With this, she took my arm, and I attended her home.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000006_000003|In about an hour after my arrival, to be sure, a single shaded solar lamp was lit in the principal drawing room; and this apartment, I could thus see, was arranged with unusual good taste and even splendor; but two other rooms of the suite, and in which the company chiefly assembled, remained, during the whole evening, in a very agreeable shadow.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000006_000004|This is a well conceived custom, giving the party at least a choice of light or shade, and one which our friends over the water could not do better than immediately adopt.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000000|The evening thus spent was unquestionably the most delicious of my life. Madame Lalande had not overrated the musical abilities of her friends; and the singing I here heard I had never heard excelled in any private circle out of Vienna.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000001|The instrumental performers were many and of superior talents.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000002|The vocalists were chiefly ladies, and no individual sang less than well.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000004|I would have escorted her myself, but felt that, under the circumstances of my introduction to the house, I had better remain unobserved where I was.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000005|I was thus deprived of the pleasure of seeing, although not of hearing, her sing.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000000|The impression she produced upon the company seemed electrical but the effect upon myself was something even more.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000001|I know not how adequately to describe it.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000005|Her voice embraced three complete octaves, extending from the contralto D to the D upper soprano, and, though sufficiently powerful to have filled the San Carlos, executed, with the minutest precision, every difficulty of vocal composition ascending and descending scales, cadences, or fiorituri.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000006|In the final of the Somnambula, she brought about a most remarkable effect at the words:
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000011_000000|Here, in imitation of Malibran, she modified the original phrase of Bellini, so as to let her voice descend to the tenor G, when, by a rapid transition, she struck the G above the treble stave, springing over an interval of two octaves.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000012_000000|Upon rising from the piano after these miracles of vocal execution, she resumed her seat by my side; when I expressed to her, in terms of the deepest enthusiasm, my delight at her performance.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000000|Our conversation was now long, earnest, uninterrupted, and totally unreserved.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000001|She made me relate many of the earlier passages of my life, and listened with breathless attention to every word of the narrative.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000002|I concealed nothing-felt that I had a right to conceal nothing-from her confiding affection.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000004|I even went so far as to speak of a slightly hectic cough with which, at one time, I had been troubled-of a chronic rheumatism-of a twinge of hereditary gout-and, in conclusion, of the disagreeable and inconvenient, but hitherto carefully concealed, weakness of my eyes.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000014_000001|By the by," she continued, "have you any recollection " and here I fancied that a blush, even through the gloom of the apartment, became distinctly visible upon her cheek-"have you any recollection, mon cher ami of this little ocular assistant, which now depends from my neck?"
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000015_000000|As she spoke she twirled in her fingers the identical double eye glass which had so overwhelmed me with confusion at the opera.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000016_000001|They formed a complex and magnificent toy, richly chased and filigreed, and gleaming with jewels, which, even in the deficient light, I could not help perceiving were of high value.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000017_000000|"Eh bien! mon ami" she resumed with a certain empressment of manner that rather surprised me-"Eh bien! mon ami, you have earnestly besought of me a favor which you have been pleased to denominate priceless.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000017_000002|Should I yield to your entreaties-and, I may add, to the pleadings of my own bosom-would I not be entitled to demand of you a very-a very little boon in return?"
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000018_000000|"Name it!" I exclaimed with an energy that had nearly drawn upon us the observation of the company, and restrained by their presence alone from throwing myself impetuously at her feet.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000018_000001|"Name it, my beloved, my Eugenie, my own!--name it!--but, alas! it is already yielded ere named."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000001|You shall conquer, for my sake, this affectation which leads you, as you yourself acknowledge, to the tacit or implied denial of your infirmity of vision.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000002|For, this infirmity you virtually deny, in refusing to employ the customary means for its relief.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000003|You will understand me to say, then, that I wish you to wear spectacles;--ah, hush!--you have already consented to wear them, for my sake.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000006|It is in the former mode, however, and habitually, that you have already consented to wear it for my sake."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000020_000000|This request-must I confess it?--confused me in no little degree.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000020_000001|But the condition with which it was coupled rendered hesitation, of course, a matter altogether out of the question.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000000|"It is done!" I cried, with all the enthusiasm that I could muster at the moment.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000001|"It is done-it is most cheerfully agreed.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000002|I sacrifice every feeling for your sake.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000003|To night I wear this dear eye glass, as an eye glass, and upon my heart; but with the earliest dawn of that morning which gives me the pleasure of calling you wife, I will place it upon my-upon my nose,--and there wear it ever afterward, in the less romantic, and less fashionable, but certainly in the more serviceable, form which you desire."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000022_000000|Our conversation now turned upon the details of our arrangements for the morrow.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000022_000001|Talbot, I learned from my betrothed, had just arrived in town. I was to see him at once, and procure a carriage.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000022_000002|The soiree would scarcely break up before two; and by this hour the vehicle was to be at the door, when, in the confusion occasioned by the departure of the company, Madame l could easily enter it unobserved.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000023_000000|Having planned all this, I immediately took leave, and went in search of Talbot, but, on the way, I could not refrain from stepping into a hotel, for the purpose of inspecting the miniature; and this I did by the powerful aid of the glasses.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000023_000001|The countenance was a surpassingly beautiful one!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000023_000002|Those large luminous eyes!--that proud Grecian nose!--those dark luxuriant curls!--"Ah!" said I, exultingly to myself, "this is indeed the speaking image of my beloved!" I turned the reverse, and discovered the words-"Eugenie Lalande-aged twenty seven years and seven months."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000024_000001|He professed excessive astonishment, of course, but congratulated me most cordially, and proffered every assistance in his power.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000024_000002|In a word, we carried out our arrangement to the letter, and, at two in the morning, just ten minutes after the ceremony, I found myself in a close carriage with Madame Lalande-with mrs Simpson, I should say-and driving at a great rate out of town, in a direction Northeast by North, half North.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000025_000000|It had been determined for us by Talbot, that, as we were to be up all night, we should make our first stop at C-, a village about twenty miles from the city, and there get an early breakfast and some repose, before proceeding upon our route.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000025_000001|At four precisely, therefore, the carriage drew up at the door of the principal inn.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000025_000002|I handed my adored wife out, and ordered breakfast forthwith.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000026_000000|It was now nearly if not altogether daylight; and, as I gazed, enraptured, at the angel by my side, the singular idea came, all at once, into my head, that this was really the very first moment since my acquaintance with the celebrated loveliness of Madame Lalande, that I had enjoyed a near inspection of that loveliness by daylight at all.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000001|Ah! let me see!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000003|Yes; full easily do I call to mind the precise words of the dear promise you made to Eugenie last night.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000004|Listen!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000005|You spoke thus: 'It is done!--it is most cheerfully agreed!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000006|I sacrifice every feeling for your sake.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000029_000000|"Goodness gracious me!" I exclaimed, almost at the very instant that the rim of the spectacles had settled upon my nose-"My goodness gracious me!--why, what can be the matter with these glasses?" and taking them quickly off, I wiped them carefully with a silk handkerchief, and adjusted them again.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000000|But if, in the first instance, there had occurred something which occasioned me surprise, in the second, this surprise became elevated into astonishment; and this astonishment was profound-was extreme-indeed I may say it was horrific.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000001|What, in the name of everything hideous, did this mean?
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000002|Could I believe my eyes?--could I?--that was the question.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000003|Was that-was that-was that rouge?
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000006|Jupiter, and every one of the gods and goddesses, little and big!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000007|what-what-what-what had become of her teeth?
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000008|I dashed the spectacles violently to the ground, and, leaping to my feet, stood erect in the middle of the floor, confronting mrs Simpson, with my arms set a kimbo, and grinning and foaming, but, at the same time, utterly speechless with terror and with rage.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000033_000000|"You wretch!" said I, catching my breath-"you-you-you villainous old hag!"
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000034_000001|Me not one single day more dan de eighty doo."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000035_000000|"Eighty two!" I ejaculated, staggering to the wall-"eighty two hundred thousand baboons!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000036_000000|"To be sure!--dat is so!--ver true! but den de portraite has been take for dese fifty five year.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000037_000000|"Moissart!" said i
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000038_000000|"Yes, Moissart," said she, mimicking my pronunciation, which, to speak the truth, was none of the best,--"and vat den?
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000039_000000|"Nothing, you old fright!--I know nothing about him at all; only I had an ancestor of that name, once upon a time."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000041_000000|"Moissart?" I exclaimed, "and Voissart!
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000043_000000|"Froissart!" said I, beginning to faint, "why, surely you don't say Moissart, and Voissart, and Croissart, and Froissart?"
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000046_000000|Meantime I sank aghast into the chair which she had vacated.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000046_000001|"Moissart and Voissart!" I repeated, thoughtfully, as she cut one of her pigeon wings, and "Croissart and Froissart!" as she completed another-"Moissart and Voissart and Croissart and Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart!--why, you ineffable old serpent, that's me-that's me-d'ye hear?
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000046_000003|I am Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart! and if I havn't married my great, great, grandmother, I wish I may be everlastingly confounded!"
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000047_000000|Madame Eugenie Lalande, quasi Simpson-formerly Moissart-was, in sober fact, my great, great, grandmother.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000047_000001|In her youth she had been beautiful, and even at eighty two, retained the majestic height, the sculptural contour of head, the fine eyes and the Grecian nose of her girlhood.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000047_000003|In this respect, indeed, she might have been regarded as little less than the equal of the celebrated Ninon De L'Enclos.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000000|At the opera, my great, great, grandmother's attention was arrested by my notice; and, upon surveying me through her eye glass, she was struck with a certain family resemblance to herself.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000001|Thus interested, and knowing that the heir she sought was actually in the city, she made inquiries of her party respecting me.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000003|The information thus obtained induced her to renew her scrutiny; and this scrutiny it was which so emboldened me that I behaved in the absurd manner already detailed. She returned my bow, however, under the impression that, by some odd accident, I had discovered her identity.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000004|When, deceived by my weakness of vision, and the arts of the toilet, in respect to the age and charms of the strange lady, I demanded so enthusiastically of Talbot who she was, he concluded that I meant the younger beauty, as a matter of course, and so informed me, with perfect truth, that she was "the celebrated widow, Madame Lalande."
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000002|By way of punishing me for this imprudence, she concocted with Talbot a plot.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000003|He purposely kept out of my way to avoid giving me the introduction.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000006|When "Madame Lalande" was called upon to sing, the younger lady was intended; and it was she who arose to obey the call; my great, great, grandmother, to further the deception, arising at the same moment and accompanying her to the piano in the main drawing room.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000009|The eyeglass was presented by way of adding a reproof to the hoax-a sting to the epigram of the deception.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000010|Its presentation afforded an opportunity for the lecture upon affectation with which I was so especially edified.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000012|They suited me, in fact, to a t
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000000|The clergyman, who merely pretended to tie the fatal knot, was a boon companion of Talbot's, and no priest.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000001|He was an excellent "whip," however; and having doffed his cassock to put on a great coat, he drove the hack which conveyed the "happy couple" out of town.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000002|Talbot took a seat at his side.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000004|I believe I shall be forced to call them both out.
train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000052_000000|Nevertheless, I am not the husband of my great, great, grandmother; and this is a reflection which affords me infinite relief,--but I am the husband of Madame Lalande-of Madame Stephanie Lalande-with whom my good old relative, besides making me her sole heir when she dies-if she ever does-has been at the trouble of concocting me a match.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000000_000000|OUT OF NAZARETH
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000000|Okochee, in Georgia, had a boom, and j Pinkney Bloom came out of it with a "wad." Okochee came out of it with a half million dollar debt, a two and a half per cent. city property tax, and a city council that showed a propensity for traveling the back streets of the town.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000001|These things came about through a fatal resemblance of the river Cooloosa to the Hudson, as set forth and expounded by a Northern tourist.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000002|Okochee felt that New York should not be allowed to consider itself the only alligator in the swamp, so to speak.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000003|And then that harmless, but persistent, individual so numerous in the South-the man who is always clamoring for more cotton mills, and is ready to take a dollar's worth of stock, provided he can borrow the dollar-that man added his deadly work to the tourist's innocent praise, and Okochee fell.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000000|Okochee rose, as it were, from its sunny seat on the post office stoop, hitched up its suspender, and threw a granite dam two hundred and forty feet long and sixty feet high across the Cooloosa one mile above the town.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000001|Thereupon, a dimpling, sparkling lake backed up twenty miles among the little mountains.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000002|Thus in the great game of municipal rivalry did Okochee match that famous drawing card, the Hudson.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000003|It was conceded that nowhere could the Palisades be judged superior in the way of scenery and grandeur.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000005|Fourteen thousand horsepower would this dam furnish.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000006|Cotton mills, factories, and manufacturing plants would rise up as the green corn after a shower.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000007|The spindle and the flywheel and turbine would sing the shrewd glory of Okochee.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000008|Along the picturesque heights above the lake would rise in beauty the costly villas and the splendid summer residences of capital.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000009|The naphtha launch of the millionaire would spit among the romantic coves; the verdured hills would take formal shapes of terrace, lawn, and park.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000000|The fate of the good town is quickly told.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000001|Capital decided not to invest.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000002|Of all the great things promised, the scenery alone came to fulfilment.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000003|The wooded peaks, the impressive promontories of solemn granite, the beautiful green slants of bank and ravine did all they could to reconcile Okochee to the delinquency of miserly gold.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000004|The sunsets gilded the dreamy draws and coves with a minting that should charm away heart burning.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000005|Okochee, true to the instinct of its blood and clime, was lulled by the spell.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000001|In yachting caps and flowing neckties they pervaded the lake to its limits.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000002|Girls wore silk waists embroidered with anchors in blue and pink.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000003|The trousers of the young men widened at the bottom, and their hands were proudly calloused by the oft plied oar. Fishermen were under the spell of a deep and tolerant joy.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000004|Sailboats and rowboats furrowed the lenient waves, popcorn and ice cream booths sprang up about the little wooden pier.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000006_000000|Needless to say j Pinkney was no product of Georgia soil.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000006_000001|He came out of that flushed and capable region known as the "North." He called himself a "promoter"; his enemies had spoken of him as a "grafter"; Okochee took a middle course, and held him to be no better nor no worse than a "Yank."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000000|Far up the lake-eighteen miles above the town-the eye of this cheerful camp follower of booms had spied out a graft.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000001|He purchased there a precipitous tract of five hundred acres at forty five cents per acre; and this he laid out and subdivided as the city of Skyland-the Queen City of the Switzerland of the South.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000002|Streets and avenues were surveyed; parks designed; corners of central squares reserved for the "proposed" opera house, board of trade, lyceum, market, public schools, and "Exposition Hall." The price of lots ranged from five to five hundred dollars.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000003|Positively, no lot would be priced higher than five hundred dollars.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000008_000002|Pinkney Bloom) returned to each a deed, duly placed on record, to the best lot, at the price, on hand that day.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000009_000001|tax, j Pinkney Bloom (unloving of checks and drafts and the cold interrogatories of bankers) strapped about his fifty two inch waist a soft leather belt containing eight thousand dollars in big bills, and said that all was very good.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000000|One last trip he was making to Skyland before departing to other salad fields.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000002|There was a little business there to be settled-the postmaster was to be paid off for his light but lonely services, and the "inhabitants" had to be furnished with another month's homely rations, as per agreement.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000003|And then Skyland would know j Pinkney Bloom no more.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000005|The work of the Skyland Real Estate Company was finished.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000012_000001|He stepped forward, with that translucent, child candid smile upon his fresh, pink countenance, with that air of unaffected sincerity that was redeemed from bluffness only by its exquisite calculation, with that promptitude and masterly decision of manner that so well suited his calling-with all his stock in trade well to the front; he stepped forward to receive Colonel and mrs Peyton Blaylock.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000013_000000|"Our home, sir," said Colonel Blaylock, removing his wide brimmed, rather shapeless black felt hat, "is in Holly Springs-Holly Springs, Georgia.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000014_000000|The Colonel smoothed back, with a sweeping gesture, his long, smooth, locks.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000014_000002|He looked rather to be an old courtier handed down from the reign of Charles, and re attired in a modern suit of fine, but raveling and seam worn, broadcloth.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000015_000000|"Yes, sir," said mr Bloom, in his heartiest prospectus voice, "things have been whizzing around Okochee.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000015_000002|Did you happen to squeeze in on the ground floor in any of the gilt edged grafts, Colonel?"
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000017_000001|He has such a talent for financiering and markets and investments and those kind of things.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000019_000000|"Practical affairs," he said, with a wave of his hand toward the promoter, "are, if I may use the comparison, the garden walks upon which we tread through life, viewing upon either side of us the flowers which brighten that journey.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000019_000002|mrs Blaylock, sir, is one of those fortunate higher spirits whose mission it is to make the flowers grow.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000020_000002|It must be nice, though-quite nice."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000021_000001|My shawl, Peyton, if you please-the breeze comes a little chilly from yon verdured hills."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000001|Very fair and stately they looked in the clear morning air.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000002|They seemed to speak in familiar terms to the responsive spirit of Lorella.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000003|"My native hills!" she murmured, dreamily.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000004|"See how the foliage drinks the sunlight from the hollows and dells."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000023_000003|That is one portent reason for the change we are making.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000024_000000|mrs Blaylock turned a glance of speaking tenderness upon the Colonel, fingered for a moment the silvery curl that drooped upon her bosom, then looked again toward the mountains.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000028_000000|"That's great stuff, ma'am," said j Pinkney Bloom, enthusiastically, when the poetess had concluded.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000028_000001|"I wish I had looked up poetry more than I have.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000028_000002|I was raised in the pine hills myself."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000029_000000|"The mountains ever call to their children," murmured mrs Blaylock.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000029_000002|Peyton-a little taste of the currant wine, if you will be so good.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000029_000003|The journey, though delightful in the extreme, slightly fatigues me." Colonel Blaylock again visited the depths of his prolific coat, and produced a tightly corked, rough, black bottle. mr Bloom was on his feet in an instant.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000000|"Let me bring a glass, ma'am.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000001|You come along, Colonel-there's a little table we can bring, too.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000002|Maybe we can scare up some fruit or a cup of tea on board.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000003|I'll ask Mac."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000031_000000|mrs Blaylock reclined at ease.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000032_000000|It seemed (from the conversation of the Blaylocks) that the Springs was decadent.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000032_000001|A third of the population had moved away.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000032_000002|Business-and the Colonel was an authority on business-had dwindled to nothing.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000033_000002|I might give you a hunch as to whether you can make the game go or not."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000034_000001|They were so simple, impractical, and unsuspecting.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000035_000000|"No, sir," said Colonel Blaylock, pausing to arrange the queen's wrap. "I did not invest in Okochee.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000035_000003|The description was so pleasing, the future of the town set forth in such convincing arguments, and its increasing prosperity portrayed in such an attractive style that I decided to take advantage of the opportunity it offered.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000035_000004|I carefully selected a lot in the centre of the business district, although its price was the highest in the schedule-five hundred dollars-and made the purchase at once."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000037_000001|I consider the purchase a most fortuitous one.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000037_000002|It is my intention to erect a small building upon it at once, and open a modest book and stationery store.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000037_000006|Of course, mrs Blaylock would not personally serve behind the counter.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000000|Again followed that wonderful bow, as the Colonel lightly touched the pale cheek of the poetess.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000001|mrs Blaylock, blushing like a girl, shook her curl and gave the Colonel an arch, reproving tap.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000002|Secret of eternal youth-where art thou?
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000003|Every second the answer comes-"Here, here, here." Listen to thine own heartbeats, O weary seeker after external miracles.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000039_000000|"Those years," said mrs Blaylock, "in Holly Springs were long, long, long.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000039_000002|Skyland!--a lovely name."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000040_000000|"Doubtless," said the Colonel, "we shall be able to secure comfortable accommodations at some modest hotel at reasonable rates.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000040_000001|Our trunks are in Okochee, to be forwarded when we shall have made permanent arrangements."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000041_000000|J. Pinkney Bloom excused himself, went forward, and stood by the captain at the wheel.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000001|Now, you see that old babe in the wood over there? Well, he's the boy that drew the prize.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000002|That was the only five hundred dollar lot that went.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000003|The rest ranged from ten dollars to two hundred.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000004|His wife writes poetry.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000046_000001|"And he thinks there's an open house up there."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000047_000000|Captain MacFarland released the wheel long enough to give his leg a roguish slap.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000048_000000|"You old fat rascal!" he chuckled, with a wink.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000049_000000|"Mac, you're a fool," said j Pinkney Bloom, coldly.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000049_000001|He went back and joined the Blaylocks, where he sat, less talkative, with that straight furrow between his brows that always stood as a signal of schemes being shaped within.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000050_000000|"There's a good many swindles connected with these booms," he said presently.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000050_000001|"What if this Skyland should turn out to be one-that is, suppose business should be sort of dull there, and no special sale for books?"
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000051_000001|If I have been deceived again, still we may glean health and content, if not worldly profit.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000051_000003|My dear, can you recall those verses entitled 'He Giveth the Increase,' that you composed for the choir of our church in Holly Springs?"
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000055_000002|They were written to the music composed by a dear friend."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000056_000000|"It's a fine rhyme, just the same," declared mr Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000056_000001|"It seems to ring the bell, all right.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000057_000000|mr Bloom strayed thoughtfully back to the captain, and stood meditating.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000059_000000|"Go to the devil," said mr Bloom, still pensive.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000001|That was Cold Branch-no boom town, but the slow growth of many years.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000002|Cold Branch lay on the edge of the grape and corn lands.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000003|The big country road ran just back of the heights.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000004|Cold Branch had nothing in common with the frisky ambition of Okochee with its impertinent lake.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000061_000000|"Mac," said j Pinkney suddenly, "I want you to stop at Cold Branch. There's a landing there that they made to use sometimes when the river was up."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000001|"I've got the United States mails on board.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000002|Right to day this boat's in the government service.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000004|And the great city of Skyland, all disconsolate, waiting for its mail?
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000005|I'm ashamed of your extravagance, j p"
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000063_000004|I hate to mention these things, but-"
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000064_000000|"Oh, come now, j p," said the captain.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000064_000001|"You know I was just fooling. I'll put you off at Cold Branch, if you say so."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000065_000000|"The other passengers get off there, too," said mr Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000067_000002|Finally they entered the village of Cold Branch. Warmly both the Colonel and his wife praised it for its homelike and peaceful beauty.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000068_000000|J. Pinkney Bloom walked down Cold Branch's main street.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000069_000000|"Get your hat, son," said mr Bloom, in his breezy way, "and a blank deed, and come along.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000069_000001|It's a job for you."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000070_000000|"Now," he continued, when mr Cooly had responded with alacrity, "is there a bookstore in town?"
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000071_000000|"One," said the lawyer.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000072_000000|"Get there," said mr Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000072_000001|"We're going to buy it."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000000|Henry Williams was behind his counter.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000001|His store was a small one, containing a mixture of books, stationery, and fancy rubbish.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000002|Adjoining it was Henry's home-a decent cottage, vine embowered and cosy.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000003|Henry was lank and soporific, and not inclined to rush his business.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000074_000000|"I want to buy your house and store," said mr Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000074_000001|"I haven't got time to dicker-name your price."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000075_000000|"It's worth eight hundred," said Henry, too much dazed to ask more than its value.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000076_000000|"Shut that door," said mr Bloom to the lawyer.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000076_000001|Then he tore off his coat and vest, and began to unbutton his shirt.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000077_000001|"All right, hunky-sail in and cut yer capers."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000078_000000|"Keep your clothes on," said mr Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000078_000001|"I'm only going down to the bank."
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000079_000000|He drew eight one hundred dollar bills from his money belt and planked them down on the counter.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000079_000001|mr Cooly showed signs of future promise, for he already had the deed spread out, and was reaching across the counter for the ink bottle.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000079_000002|Never before or since was such quick action had in Cold Branch.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000081_000000|"Make it out to Peyton Blaylock," said mr Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000083_000000|"You'll find the party at the Pinetop Inn," said j Pinkney Bloom.
train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000083_000001|"Get it recorded, and take it down and give it to him.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000001_000000|Chapter thirty two.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000001_000001|Miss Westerfield.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000000|She locked the door of her bedchamber, and threw off her walking dress; light as it was, she felt as if it would stifle her.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000002|Her overburdened heart found no relief in tears.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000005|One of the windows was open already; she threw up the other to get more air.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000006|In the cooler atmosphere her memory recovered itself; she recollected the newspaper, that Herbert had taken from her.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000007|Instantly she rang for the maid.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000003_000000|When her wish had been gratified, when she had read it from beginning to end, one vivid impression only was left on her mind.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000003_000001|She could think of nothing but what the judge had said, in speaking of mrs Linley.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000004_000000|A cruel reproof, and worse than cruel, a public reproof, administered to the generous friend, the true wife, the devoted mother-and for what?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000004_000001|For having been too ready to forgive the wretch who had taken her husband from her, and had repaid a hundred acts of kindness by unpardonable ingratitude.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000005_000001|"Oh, God, how can I give that woman back the happiness of which I have robbed her!"
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000000|The composing influence of prayer on a troubled mind was something that she had heard of.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000001|It was not something that she experienced now.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000002|An overpowering impatience to make the speediest and completest atonement possessed her.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000003|Must she wait till Herbert Linley no longer concealed that he was weary of her, and cast her off?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000004|No!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000005|It should be her own act that parted them, and that did it at once.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000007_000000|Slowly and sadly she submitted, and went back to her room.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000008_000002|The Divorce, the merciless Divorce, answered:--No!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000000|She paused, thinking of the marriage that was now a marriage no more. The toilet table was close to her; she looked absently at her haggard face in the glass.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000001|What a lost wretch she saw!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000002|The generous impulses which other women were free to feel were forbidden luxuries to her.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000003|She was ashamed of her wickedness; she was eager to sacrifice herself, for the good of the once dear friend whom she had wronged.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000004|Useless longings! Too late!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000005|too late!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000010_000000|She regretted it bitterly.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000010_000001|Why?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000011_000000|Comparing mrs Linley's prospects with hers, was there anything to justify regret for the divorced wife?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000011_000002|While she held her place in the world as high as ever, what was the prospect before Sydney Westerfield?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000012_000000|If she had been a few years older, Herbert Linley might never again have seen her a living creature.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000012_000001|But she was too young to follow any train of repellent thought persistently to its end.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000012_000003|Even in his absence he pleaded with her to have some faith in him still.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000013_000001|He had been kind and considerate; he had listened to her little story of the relics of her father, found in the garret, as if her interests were his interests.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000013_000004|And yet, he might have found a kinder way of reproving a sensitive woman than looking into the street-as if he had forgotten her in the interest of watching the strangers passing by!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000013_000005|Perhaps he was not thinking of the strangers; perhaps his mind was dwelling fondly and regretfully on his wife?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000014_000001|Was there nothing she could find to do which would offer some other subject to occupy her mind than herself and her future?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000015_000000|Looking absently round the room, she noticed the packet of her father's letters placed on the table by her bedside.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000016_000001|They all related to race horses, and to cunningly devised bets which were certain to make the fortunes of the clever gamblers on the turf who laid them. Absolute indifference on the part of the winners to the ruin of the losers, who were not in the secret, was the one feeling in common, which her father's correspondents presented.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000000|The next letter which she picked out from the little heap was of some length, and was written in a clear and steady hand.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000001|By comparison with the blotted scrawls which she had just burned, it looked like the letter of a gentleman.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000002|She turned to the signature.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000003|The strange surname struck her; it was "Bennydeck."
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000018_000001|Had she heard her father mention it at home in the time of her early childhood?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000018_000002|There were no associations with it that she could now call to mind.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000019_000000|She read the letter.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000019_000001|It addressed her father familiarly as "My dear Roderick," and it proceeded in these words:--
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000000|"The delay in the sailing of your ship offers me an opportunity of writing to you again.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000001|My last letter told you of my father's death.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000003|Prepare yourself to be surprised.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000004|Our old moated house at Sandyseal, in which we have spent so many happy holidays when we were schoolfellows, is sold.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000000|"I think I see you look up from my letter, with your big black eyes staring straight before you, and say and swear that this must be one of my mystifications.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000001|Unfortunately (for I am fond of the old house in which I was born) it is only too true.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000002|The instructions in my father's will, under which Sandyseal has been sold, are peremptory.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000003|They are the result of a promise made, many years since, to his wife.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000023_000000|"You and I were both very young when my poor mother died; but I think you must remember that she, like the rest of her family, was a Roman Catholic.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000000|"Having reminded you of this, I may next tell you that Sandyseal Place was my mother's property.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000002|I am her only child.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000003|My father was therefore dealing with his own property when he ordered the house to be sold.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000005|I would rather have kept the house.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000025_000000|"But why did my mother make him promise to sell the place at his death?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000026_000001|In deference to my mother's wishes it was kept strictly a secret from me while my father lived.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000001|It is needless to make this long letter longer by dwelling on the girl's miserable story.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000002|You have heard it of other girls, over and over again.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000003|She loved and trusted; she was deceived and deserted.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000004|Alone and friendless in a foreign country; her fair fame blemished; her hope in the future utterly destroyed, she attempted to drown herself.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000005|This took place in France.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000006|The best of good women-a Sister of Charity-happened to be near enough to the river to rescue her.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000007|She was sheltered; she was pitied; she was encouraged to return to her family.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000008|The poor deserted creature absolutely refused; she could never forget that she had disgraced them.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000009|The good Sister of Charity won her confidence.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000011|That end was attained in a Priory of Benedictine Nuns, established in France.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000028_000000|"You will now understand how my mother's grateful remembrance associated her with the interests of more than one community of Nuns; and you will not need to be told what she had in mind when she obtained my father's promise at the time of her last illness.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000029_000001|My mother thanked him and refused.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000029_000003|Let it be sold.'
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000001|If I die first-oh, there is a chance of it!
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000002|We may have a naval war, perhaps, or I may turn out one of those incorrigible madmen who risk their lives in Arctic exploration.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000003|In case of the worst, therefore, I shall leave the interests of my contemplated Home in your honest and capable hands.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000004|For the present good by, and a prosperous voyage outward bound."
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000032_000000|So the letter ended.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000033_000000|Sydney dwelt with reluctant attention on the latter half of it.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000033_000003|What religious consolations would encourage her penitence? What prayers, what hopes, would reconcile her, on her death bed, to the common doom?
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000034_000001|"If my lot had fallen among good people," she thought, "perhaps I might have belonged to the Church which took care of that poor girl."
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000035_000000|Her mind was still pursuing its own sad course of inquiry; she was wondering in what part of England Sandyseal might be; she was asking herself if the Nuns at the old moated house ever opened their doors to women, whose one claim on their common Christianity was the claim to be pitied-when she heard Linley's footsteps approaching the door.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000036_000001|Her long absence had alarmed him; he feared she might be ill.
train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000036_000002|"I was only thinking," she said.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000001|For the men had rejected their lawful wives, loathing them, and had conceived a fierce passion for captive maids whom they themselves brought across the sea from their forays in Thrace; for the terrible wrath of Cypris came upon them, because for a long time they had grudged her the honours due.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000002|O hapless women, and insatiate in jealousy to their own ruin!
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000006|Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fields, was easier than the works of Athena, with which they were busied aforetime.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000009|And they streamed down speechless with dismay; such fear was wafted about them.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000001|And I will tell out truly all our evil plight, that ye yourselves too may know it well.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000004|For they hated their lawful wives, and, yielding to their own mad folly, drove them from their homes; and they took to their beds the captives of their spear, cruel ones.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000005|Long in truth we endured it, if haply again, though late, they might change their purpose, but ever the bitter woe grew, twofold.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000009|So they begged of us all the male children that were left in the city and went back to where even now they dwell on the snowy tilths of Thrace.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000028_000001|But just as they were in the assembly they made ready their departure in all haste, and the women came running towards them, when they knew their intent.
train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000034_000005|And they questioned one another in turn.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000000_000001|But there Heracles had been left behind with the younger heroes and he quickly bent his back springing bow against the monsters and brought them to earth one after another; and they in their turn raised huge ragged rocks and hurled them.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000000_000002|For these dread monsters too, I ween, the goddess Hera, bride of Zeus, had nurtured to be a trial for Heracles. And therewithal came the rest of the martial heroes returning to meet the foe before they reached the height of outlook, and they fell to the slaughter of the Earthborn, receiving them with arrows and spears until they slew them all as they rushed fiercely to battle.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000002|And they stepped ashore that same night; and the rock is still called the Sacred Rock round which they threw the ship's hawsers in their haste.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000003|Nor did anyone note with care that it was the same island; nor in the night did the Doliones clearly perceive that the heroes were returning; but they deemed that Pelasgian war men of the Macrians had landed.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000004|Therefore they donned their armour and raised their hands against them.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000008|For that no mortal may escape; but on every side a wide snare encompasses us.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000012|And after them the son of Oeneus slew bold Itomeneus, and Artaceus, leader of men; all of whom the inhabitants still honour with the worship due to heroes.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000013|And the rest gave way and fled in terror just as doves fly in terror before swift winged hawks. And with a din they rustled in a body to the gates; and quickly the city was filled with loud cries at the turning of the dolorous fight.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000014|But at dawn both sides perceived the fatal and cureless error; and bitter grief seized the Minyan heroes when they saw before them Cyzicus son of Aeneus fallen in the midst of dust and blood.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000002_000001|But in the next night the rest of the chieftains, overcome by sleep, were resting during the latest period of the night, while Acastus and Mopsus the son of Ampyeus kept guard over their deep slumbers.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000003_000002|For by her power the winds and the sea and all the earth below and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her, when from the mountains she ascends the mighty heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronos, gives place.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000001|And he arose from his bed with joy and woke all his comrades hurriedly and told them the prophecy of Mopsus the son of Ampycus.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000004|And there appeared the misty mouth of Bosporus and the Mysian hills; and on the other side the stream of the river Aesepus and the city and Nepeian plain of Adrasteia.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000008|Hence from that time forward the Phrygians propitiate Rhea with the wheel and the drum.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000009|And the gracious goddess, I ween, inclined her heart to pious sacrifices; and favourable signs appeared.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000010|The trees shed abundant fruit, and round their feet the earth of its own accord put forth flowers from the tender grass.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000011|And the beasts of the wild wood left their lairs and thickets and came up fawning on them with their tails. And she caused yet another marvel; for hitherto there was no flow of water on Dindymum, but then for them an unceasing stream gushed forth from the thirsty peak just as it was, and the dwellers around in after times called that stream, the spring of Jason.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000012|And then they made a feast in honour of the goddess on the Mount of Bears, singing the praises of Rhea most venerable; but at dawn the winds had ceased and they rowed away from the island.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000002|And they, trusting in the calm, mightily drove the ship forward; and as she sped through the salt sea, not even the storm footed steeds of Poseidon would have overtaken her.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000003|Nevertheless when the sea was stirred by violent blasts which were just rising from the rivers about evening, forspent with toil, they ceased.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000004|But Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong knit timbers of the ship to quiver.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000007|And he sat up in silence glaring round; for his hands were unaccustomed to be idle.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000006_000002|Hereupon some brought dried wood, others from the meadows leaves for beds which they gathered in abundance for strewing, whilst others were twirling sticks to get fire; others again were mixing wine in the bowl and making ready the feast, after sacrificing at nightfall to Apollo Ecbasius.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000007_000001|Wandering about he found a pine not burdened with many branches, nor too full of leaves, but like to the shaft of a tall poplar; so great was it both in length and thickness to look at.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000007_000003|And he loosened the pine from the ground with his bronze tipped club and grasped the trunk with both hands at the bottom, relying on his strength; and he pressed it against his broad shoulder with legs wide apart; and clinging close he raised it from the ground deep rooted though it was, together with clods of earth.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000007_000005|And at the same time he took up his bow and arrows, his lion skin and club, and started on his return.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000003|For he desired to find some pretext for war against the Dryopians for their bane, since they dwelt there reckless of right.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000004|But these tales would lead me far astray from my song.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000008|For the full moon beaming from the sky smote him.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000009|And Cypris made her heart faint, and in her confusion she could scarcely gather her spirit back to her.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000010_000001|Hylas has gone to the well and has not returned safe, but robbers have attacked and are carrying him off, or beasts are tearing him to pieces; I heard his cry."
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000001|And they embarked eagerly forthwith; and they drew up the ship's anchors and hauled the ropes astern.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000002|And the sails were bellied out by the wind, and far from the coast were they joyfully borne past the Posideian headland.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000003|But at the hour when gladsome dawn shines from heaven, rising from the east, and the paths stand out clearly, and the dewy plains shine with a bright gleam, then at length they were aware that unwittingly they had abandoned those men.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000004|And a fierce quarrel fell upon them, and violent tumult, for that they had sailed and left behind the bravest of their comrades.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000006|And wrath seized Telamon, and thus he spake:
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000013_000001|But what pleasure is there in words?
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000013_000002|For I will go, I only, with none of thy comrades, who have helped thee to plan this treachery."
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000002|Hapless ones, assuredly a bitter vengeance came upon them thereafter at the hands of Heracles, because they stayed the search for him.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000003|For when they were returning from the games over Pelias dead he slew them in sea girt Tenos and heaped the earth round them, and placed two columns above, one of which, a great marvel for men to see, moves at the breath of the blustering north wind.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000004|These things were thus to be accomplished in after times.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000005|But to them appeared Glaucus from the depths of the sea, the wise interpreter of divine Nereus, and raising aloft his shaggy head and chest from his waist below, with sturdy hand he seized the ship's keel, and then cried to the eager crew:
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000015_000001|At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment a few more yet; wherefore let there be no vain regret for him.
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000015_000003|But a goddess nymph through love has made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two wandered and were left behind."
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000017_000001|But let me give my fault to the winds and let our hearts be joined as before."
train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000018_000002|For it was not for flocks of sheep, no, nor for possessions that thou wast angered to fury, but for a man, thy comrade.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000001_000000|Henriette was visibly angry the other morning when I took to her the early mail and she discovered that mrs Van Varick Shadd had got ahead of her in the matter of Jockobinski, the monkey virtuoso.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000002_000000|"He's a whole orchestra in himself," said Tommy enthusiastically, "and is the only living creature that I know of who can tackle a whole symphony without the aid of a hired man."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000003_000001|better.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000004_000001|"I had quite set my heart on having Jockobinski here.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000004_000002|Not that I care particularly about the music end of it, but because there is nothing that gives a woman so assured a social position as being the hostess of an animal of his particular kind.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000005_000000|I confessed to having read something about such an incident in high society.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000006_000001|Of course mrs Shadd is doing this to retain her grip, but it irritates me more than I can say to have her get it just the same.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000006_000002|Heaven knows I was willing to pay for it if I had to abscond with a national bank to get the money."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000007_000000|"It isn't too late, is it?" I queried.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000008_000000|"Not too late?" echoed Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000008_000001|"Not too late with mrs Shadd's cards out and the whole thing published in the papers?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000009_000000|"It's never too late for a woman of your resources to do anything she has a mind to do," said i "It seems to me that a person who could swipe a Carnegie library the way you did should have little difficulty in lifting a musicale.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000010_000000|Henriette was silent for a moment, and then her face lit up with one of her most charming smiles.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000011_000000|"Bunny, do you know that at times, in spite of your supreme stupidity, you are a source of positive inspiration to me?" she said, looking at me, fondly, I ventured to think.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000012_000001|Perhaps hid in the dull residuum of my poor but honest gray matter lies the seed of real genius that will sprout the loveliest blossoms of achievement."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000013_000000|"Well, anyhow, dear, you have started me thinking, and maybe we'll have Jockobinski at Bolivar Lodge yet," she murmured.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000013_000001|"I want to have him first, of course, or not at all.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000013_000002|To be second in doing a thing of that kind is worse than never doing it at all."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000014_000001|Wednesday night came, and, consumed by curiosity to learn just how the matter stood, I attempted to sound Henriette on the subject.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000016_000000|"Shut up, Bunny," she returned, abruptly.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000016_000002|Just take this note over to mrs Shadd this evening and leave it-mind you, don't wait for an answer but just leave it, that's all."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000017_000000|She arose from the table and handed me a daintily scented missive addressed to mrs Shadd, and I faithfully executed her errand.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000017_000002|An hour later Bunderby appeared at the back door and handed me a note addressed to my mistress, which I immediately delivered.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000018_000000|"Is Bunderby waiting?" asked Henriette as she read the note.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000020_000001|What it said was that she would be only too happy to oblige mrs Shadd, and was very sorry indeed to hear that her son had been injured in an automobile accident while running into Boston from Bar Harbor.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000020_000002|It closed with the line, "you must know, my dear Pauline, that there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you, come weal or come woe."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000021_000000|This I handed to Bunderby and he made off.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000021_000001|On my return Henriette was dressed for travel.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000022_000001|"You will have the music room prepared at once, Bunny.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000022_000002|mrs Shadd's musicale will be given here.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000022_000005|See?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000001|Henriette made off at once for Providence by motor car, and got the midnight train out of Boston for the city where, from what I learned afterwards, she must have put in a strenuous day on Thursday.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000002|At any rate, a great sensation was sprung on Newport on Friday morning.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000003|Every member of the smart set in the ten o'clock mail received a little engraved card stating that owing to sudden illness in the Shadd family the Shadd musicale for that evening would be held at Bolivar Lodge instead of in the Onyx House ballroom.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000004|Friday afternoon Jockobinski's private and particular piano arrived at the Lodge and was set up promptly in the music room, and later when the caterers arrived with the supper for the four hundred odd guests bidden to the feast all was in readiness for them.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000005|Everything was running smoothly, and, although Henriette had not yet arrived, I felt easy and secure of mind until nearing five thirty o'clock when mrs Shadd herself drove up to the front door.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000024_000000|She demanded rather than asked to see my mistress, with a hauteur born of the arctic snow.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000025_000000|"mrs Van Raffles went to New York Wednesday evening," said I, "and has not yet returned.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000025_000001|I am expecting her every minute, madame.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000025_000003|Won't you wait?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000026_000001|"The musicale, indeed!
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000000|I must say I did not envy Henriette the meeting that was in prospect, for it was quite evident that mrs Shadd was mad all through.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000001|In spite of my stupidity I rather thought I could divine the cause too.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000002|She was not kept long in waiting, for ten minutes later the automobile, with Henriette in it, came thundering up the drive.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000003|I tried as I let her in to give her a hint of what awaited her, but mrs Shadd forestalled me, only however to be forestalled herself.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000029_000000|"My son is not ill, mrs Van Raffles," said mrs Shadd, coldly.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000029_000001|"I have come to ask you what-"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000030_000000|"Not ill?" cried Henriette, interrupting her.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000031_000000|"That is precisely what I have come to find out," said mrs Shadd.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000032_000001|"Surely, you got my note saying that I would let Jockobinski play here to night instead of-"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000033_000000|"I did receive a very peculiar note from you saying that you would gladly do as I wished," said mrs Shadd, beginning herself to look less angry and more puzzled.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000034_000000|"In reply to your note of Wednesday evening," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000034_000003|About half past seven o'clock it was-Wednesday."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000035_000000|"Yes, Bunderby did carry a note to you from me on Wednesday," said mrs Shadd.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000035_000001|"But-"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000037_000000|"I?" said mrs Shadd, showing more surprise than was compatible with her high social position.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000038_000000|"And attend to all the details-your very words, my dear Pauline," said Henriette, with an admirably timed break in her voice.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000000|Henriette was a perfect picture of despair.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000001|"I don't suppose we can do anything now," said mrs Shadd, ruefully.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000002|"It's too late.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000003|The cards have gone to everybody.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000004|You have all the supper-not a sandwich has come to my house-and I presume all of mr Jockobinski's instruments as well have come here."
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000040_000000|Henriette turned to me.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000041_000000|"All, madame," said I, briefly.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000042_000001|"I don't understand it.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000043_000001|"You can read it for yourself.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000043_000002|What else could I do after that?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000044_000000|Innocence on a monument could have appeared no freer of guile than Henriette at that moment.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000046_000000|"It certainly looks like it," said mrs Shadd.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000046_000002|Where could it have come from?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000047_000000|"I supposed it came from Onyx House," said Henriette simply, glancing at the envelope.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000048_000000|"Well-it's a very mysterious affair," said mrs Shadd, rising, "and I-oh, well, my dear woman, I-I can't blame you-indeed, after all you have done I ought to be-and really am-very much obliged to you. Only-"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000049_000000|"Whom did you have at dinner Wednesday night, dear?" asked Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000050_000000|"Only the Duke and Duchess of Snarleyow and-mercy!
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000050_000001|I wonder if he could have done it!"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000053_000001|"It wouldn't be unlike him, would it?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000054_000000|"Not a bit, the naughty boy!" cried mrs Shadd.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000054_000001|"That's it, mrs Van Raffles, as certainly as we stand here.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000055_000000|"Splendid!" said Henriette, with enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000056_000000|"Never!" said mrs Shadd, rising and kissing Henriette good bye.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000056_000001|"That's the best way out of it.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000056_000002|If we did we'd be the laughing stock of all Newport.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000057_000000|And so it was agreed, and Henriette successfully landed mrs Shadd's musicale.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000058_000000|Incidentally, Jockobinski was very affable and the function went off well.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000059_000000|"Who wrote that letter, Henriette?" I asked late in the evening when the last guest had gone.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000060_000000|"Who do you suppose, Bunny, my boy?" she asked with a grin.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000060_000001|"Bunderby?"
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000061_000000|"No," said i
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000062_000000|"You've guessed right," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000063_000001|Even then I doubt if he realizes what a good one it was on-everybody.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000000|"It is curious, Bunny," said Henriette the other morning after an unusually late breakfast, "to observe by what qualities certain of these Newport families have arrived, as the saying is.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000001|The Gasters of course belong at the top by patent right.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000002|Having invented American society, or at least the machine that at present controls it, they are entitled to all the royalties it brings in.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000003|The Rockerbilts got there all of a sudden by the sheer lavishness of their entertainment and their ability to give bonds to keep it up.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000000|"Bunny!" cried Henriette, with a silvery ripple of laughter.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000001|"Do be careful.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000002|An epigram from you?
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000003|My dear boy, you'll be down with brain fever if you don't watch out."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000009_000001|"Neither you nor my dear old friend Raffles ever gave me credit for any brains.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000010_000000|"Well, don't waste them here, Bunny," laughed Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000010_000003|But how do you suppose the Oliver Sloshingtons ever got in here?"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000011_000000|"He holds the divorce record I believe," said i "He's been married to four social leaders already, hasn't he?"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000013_000000|"Well, he got into the swim with each marriage-so he's got a four ply grip," said i
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000014_000000|"And the Dedbroke Hickses?" asked Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000014_000001|"How do you account for them?"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000015_000001|By Jove! she's that easy with men that even I tremble with anxiety whenever she comes into the house."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000016_000000|"But how do they live?--they haven't a cent to their names," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000017_000000|"Simplicity itself," said i "He is dressed by his tailors and she by her dressmaker; and as for food, they take home a suit case full of it from every house party they attend.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000018_000000|"Well-I don't envy them in the least," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000000|"Exactly; and with car fare and sandwiches, and the champagne supplied free by the importers, for the advertisement, it cost them exactly twelve dollars and was set down as the jolliest affair of the season," said i
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000001|"I call that genius of a pretty high order.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000002|I wouldn't pity them if I were you.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000003|They're happy."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000020_000000|"mrs Innitt, though-I envy her," said Henriette; "that is, in a way. She has no conversation at all, but her little dinners are the swellest things of the season.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000020_000001|Never more than ten people at a time and everything cooked to a turn."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000000|"That's just it," said i
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000002|It's her cook, that's what does it.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000003|If she lost her cook she'd be mrs Outofit.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000004|There never were such pancakes, such purees, such made dishes as that woman gets up.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000005|She turns hash into a confection and liver and bacon into a delicacy.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000007|A woman with a cook like Norah Sullivan could rule an empire."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000024_000000|"What, mrs Innitt?" I asked.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000025_000000|"No-her cook," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000026_000000|I stood aghast.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000026_000001|Full of sympathy as I had always been with the projects of mrs Van Raffles, and never in the least objecting on moral grounds to any of her schemes of acquisition, I could not but think that this time she proposed to go too far.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000027_000000|"You'd better think twice on that proposition, Henriette," I advised with a gloomy shake of the head.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000027_000001|"It is not only a mean crime, but a dangerous one to boot.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000027_000003|mrs Innitt would never forgive you, and society at large-"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000028_000000|"Society at large would dine with me instead of with mrs Innitt, that's all," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000029_000000|"Well, I draw the line at stealing a cook," said I, coldly.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000029_000001|"I've robbed churches and I've made way with fresh air funds, and I've helped you in many another legitimate scheme, but in this, mrs Van Raffles, you'll have to go it alone."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000030_000000|"Oh, don't you be afraid, Bunny," she answered.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000031_000001|"It's worse than murder, for it is prohibited twice in the decalogue, while murder is only mentioned once."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000032_000000|"What!" cried Henrietta "What, pray, does the decalogue say about cooks, I'd like to know?"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000000|"First, thou shalt not steal.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000001|You propose to steal this woman.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000002|Second, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's maid servant.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000003|How many times does that make?" I asked.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000034_000001|Anybody'd know you were the son of a clergyman! Well, let me tell you, I sha'n't steal the woman, and I sha'n't covet her.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000034_000002|I'm just going to get her, that's all."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000036_000000|The Friday before Norah's arrival Henriette requested me to get her a rusty nail, a piece of gravel from the drive, two hair pins, and a steel nut from the automobile.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000037_000000|"What on earth-" I began, but she shut me off with an imperious gesture.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000038_000000|"Do as I tell you," she commanded.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000038_000001|"You are not in on this venture." And then apparently she relented.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000038_000002|"But I'm willing to tell you just one thing, Bunny"--here her eyes began to twinkle joyously-"I'm going to mrs Innitt's to dinner to morrow night-so look out for Norah by Monday."
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000039_000000|I turned sulkily away.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000040_000000|"You know how I feel on that subject," said i "This business of going into another person's house as a guest and inducing their servants to leave is an infraction of the laws of hospitality.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000040_000001|How would you like it if mrs Gaster stole me away from you?"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000041_000000|Henriette's answer was a puzzling smile.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000041_000001|"You are free to better your condition, Bunny," she said.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000041_000002|"But I am not going to rob mrs Innitt, as I told you once before.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000043_000000|"I won out, Bunny-I won out!" she cried.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000045_000000|"mrs Innitt has discharged Norah, though I begged her not to," she fairly sang.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000046_000000|"On what grounds?"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000000|"Several," said Henriette, unfastening her glove.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000001|"To begin with, there was a rusty nail in my clam cocktail, and it nearly choked me to death. I tried hard to keep mrs Innitt from seeing what had happened, but she is watchful if not brainy, and all my efforts went for naught.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000002|She was much mortified of course and apologized profusely.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000003|All went well until the fish, when one of the two hair pins turned up in the pompano to the supreme disgust of my hostess, who was now beginning to look worried. Hair pin number two made its debut in my timbale.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000004|This was too much for the watchful mrs Innitt, self poised though she always is, and despite my remonstrances she excused herself from the table for a moment, and I judge from the flushed appearance of her cheeks when she returned five minutes later that somebody had had the riot act read to her somewhere.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000048_000000|"'I don't understand it at all, mrs Van Raffles,' she said with a sheepish smile.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000048_000001|'Cook's perfectly sober.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000048_000002|If anything of the kind ever happens again she shall go.'"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000049_000000|"Even as mrs Innitt spoke I conveyed a luscious morsel of filet mignon with mushrooms to my mouth and nearly broke my tooth on a piece of gravel that went with it, and Norah was doomed, for although we all laughed heartily, the thing had come to be such a joke, it was plain from the expression of mrs Innitt's countenance that she was very, very angry.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000050_000001|'After all it is the little surprises that give zest to life.'"
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000051_000000|"And you didn't have to use the automobile nut?" I asked, deeply impressed with the woman's ingenuity.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000052_000000|"Oh yes," said Henriette.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000052_000002|The Duke of Snarleyow got it and the climax was capped. mrs Innitt burst into a flood of tears and-well, to morrow, Bunny, Norah leaves.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000054_000000|With this Henriette retired and the next morning on her way to early church I waylaid Norah.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000054_000002|Her discharge was unrighteous; mrs Innitt was no lady; the butler was in a conspiracy to ruin her-and all that; indeed, her mood was most receptive to the furtherance of Henriette's plans.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000055_000000|"It's ruined I am unless somebody'll be good to me and give me a riference, which mrs Innitt, bad cess to her, won't do, at all, at all," she wailed, and then I left her.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000056_000000|She called that night, and two days later was installed in the Van Raffles's kitchen.
train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000057_000000|A new treasure was added to the stores of our loot, but somehow or other I have never been happy over the successful issue of the enterprise.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000005_000000|"A story that will just suit you, I think.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000005_000001|The hero is an Indian, and a brave one, as you will see.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000006_000000|With this very short preface, Aunt Elinor began to read, in her best manner, the story of
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000000|Long ago,--when hostile Indians haunted the great forests, and every settlement had its fort for the protection of the inhabitants,--in one of the towns on the Connecticut River, lived Parson Bain and his little son and daughter.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000002|Even the friendly Indians, who sometimes came for food or powder, were regarded with suspicion by the people.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000003|No man went to work without his gun near by.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000004|On Sundays, when they trudged to the rude meeting house, all carried the trusty rifle on the shoulder; and while the pastor preached, a sentinel mounted guard at the door, to give warning if canoes came down the river or a dark face peered from the wood.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000009_000000|One autumn night, when the first heavy rains were falling and a cold wind whistled through the valley, a knock came at the minister's door, and, opening it, he found an Indian boy, ragged, hungry, and foot sore, who begged for food and shelter.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000009_000001|In his broken way, he told how he had fallen ill, and been left to die by enemies who had taken him from his own people, months before; how he had wandered for days till almost sinking; and that he had come now to ask for help, led by the hospitable light in the parsonage window.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000010_000000|"Send him away, master, or harm will come of it.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000010_000001|He is a spy, and we shall all be scalped by the murdering Injuns who are waiting in the wood," said old Becky, harshly; while little Eunice hid in the old servant's ample skirts, and twelve year old Reuben laid his hand on his cross bow, ready to defend his sister if need be.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000011_000000|But the good man drew the poor lad in, saying, with his friendly smile: "Shall not a Christian be as hospitable as a godless savage?
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000011_000001|Come in, child, and be fed: you sorely need rest and shelter."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000012_000000|Leaving his face to express the gratitude he had no words to tell, the boy sat by the comfortable fire and ate like a famished wolf, while Becky muttered her forebodings and the children eyed the dark youth at a safe distance.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000012_000001|Something in his pinched face, wounded foot, and eyes full of dumb pain and patience, touched the little girl's tender heart, and, yielding to a pitiful impulse, she brought her own basin of new milk and, setting it beside the stranger, ran to hide behind her father, suddenly remembering that this was one of the dreaded Indians.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000013_000000|"That was well done, little daughter.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000013_000001|Thou shalt love thine enemies, and share thy bread with the needy.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000013_000002|See, he is smiling; that pleased him, and he wishes us to be his friends."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000014_000001|Reuben hid his fears better, and resolved to watch while others slept; but was off as soon as his curly head touched the pillow, and dreamed of tomahawks and war whoops till morning.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000015_000000|Next day, neighbors came to see the waif, and one and all advised sending him away as soon as possible, since he was doubtless a spy, as Becky said, and would bring trouble of some sort.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000016_000000|"When he is well, he may go whithersoever he will; but while he is too lame to walk, weak with hunger, and worn out with weariness, I will harbor him.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000016_000001|He cannot feign suffering and starvation like this.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000016_000002|I shall do my duty, and leave the consequences to the Lord," answered the parson, with such pious firmness that the neighbors said no more.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000017_000000|But they kept a close watch upon Onawandah, when he went among them, silent and submissive, but with the proud air of a captive prince, and sometimes a fierce flash in his black eyes when the other lads taunted him with his red skin.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000017_000002|The children were soon his friends, for with them he was always gentle, trying in his soft language and expressive gestures to show his good will and gratitude; for they defended him against their ruder playmates, and, following their father's example, trusted and cherished the homeless youth.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000000|When he was able to walk, he taught the boy to shoot and trap the wild creatures of the wood, to find fish where others failed, and to guide himself in the wilderness by star and sun, wind and water.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000001|To Eunice he brought little offerings of bark and feathers; taught her to make moccasins of skin, belts of shells, or pouches gay with porcupine quills and colored grass.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000002|He would not work for old Becky,--who plainly showed her distrust,--saying: "A brave does not grind corn and bring wood; that is squaw's work.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000003|Onawandah will hunt and fish and fight for you, but no more." And even the request of the parson could not win obedience in this, though the boy would have died for the good man.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000019_000000|"We can not tame an eagle as we can a barnyard fowl.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000019_000001|Let him remember only kindness of us, and so we turn a foe into a friend," said Parson Bain, stroking the sleek, dark head, that always bowed before him, with a docile reverence shown to no other living creature.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000020_000000|Winter came, and the settlers fared hardly through the long months, when the drifts rose to the eaves of their low cabins, and the stores, carefully harvested, failed to supply even their simple wants.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000020_000001|But the minister's family never lacked wild meat, for Onawandah proved himself a better hunter than any man in the town; and the boy of sixteen led the way on his snow shoes when they went to track a bear to its den, chase the deer for miles, or shoot the wolves that howled about their homes in the winter nights.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000021_000000|But he never joined in their games, and sat apart when the young folk made merry, as if he scorned such childish pastimes and longed to be a man in all things.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000021_000001|Why he stayed when he was well again, no one could tell, unless he waited for spring to make his way to his own people.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000024_000000|"I hope you mayn't find you've warmed a viper in your bosom, master."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000025_000001|In terror and confusion the whites flew to the fort; and, while the men fought bravely, the women held blankets to catch arrows and bullets, or bound up the hurts of their defenders.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000026_000000|It was all over by daylight, and the red men sped away up the river, with several prisoners, and such booty as they could plunder from the deserted houses.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000026_000002|Then it was discovered that Becky and the parson's children were gone, and great was the bewailing, for the good man was much beloved by all his flock.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000028_000000|"I am here, betwixt the beds.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000028_000001|Pull me out, neighbors, for I am half dead with fright and smothering."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000029_000000|The old woman was quickly extricated from her hiding place, and with much energy declared that she had seen Onawandah, disguised with war paint, among the Indians, and that he had torn away the children from her arms before she could fly from the house.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000030_000000|"He chose his time well, when they were defenceless, dear lambs!
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000030_000001|Spite of all my warnings, master trusted him, and this is the thanks we get. Oh, my poor master!
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000030_000002|How can I tell him this heavy news?"
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000031_000000|There was no need to tell it; for, as Becky sat moaning and beating her breast on the fireless hearth, and the sympathizing neighbors stood about her, the sound of a horse's hoofs was heard, and the parson came down the hilly road like one riding for his life.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000031_000001|He had seen the smoke afar off, guessed the sad truth, and hurried on, to find his home in ruins, and to learn by his first glance at the faces around him that his children were gone.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000000|When he had heard all there was to tell, he sat down upon his door stone with his head in his hands, praying for strength to bear a grief too deep for words.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000002|Suddenly a stir went through the mournful group, as Onawandah came from the wood with a young deer upon his shoulders, and amazement in his face as he saw the desolation before him.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000003|Dropping his burden, he stood an instant looking with eyes that kindled fiercely; then he came bounding toward them, undaunted by the hatred, suspicion, and surprise plainly written on the countenances before him.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000004|He missed his playmates, and asked but one question:--
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000033_000000|"The boy, the little squaw,--where gone?"
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000000|His answer was a rough one, for the men seized him and poured forth the tale, heaping reproaches upon him for such treachery and ingratitude.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000001|He bore it all in proud silence till they pointed to the poor father, whose dumb sorrow was more eloquent than all their wrath.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000002|Onawandah looked at him, and the fire died out of his eyes as if quenched by the tears he would not shed.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000003|Shaking off the hands that held him, he went to his good friend, saying with passionate earnestness:--
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000035_000001|Onawandah remembers!
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000035_000002|Onawandah grateful! You believe?"
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000036_000000|The poor parson looked up at him, and could not doubt his truth; for genuine love and sorrow ennobled the dark face, and he had never known the boy to lie.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000037_000000|"I believe and trust you still, but others will not.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000037_000001|Go, you are no longer safe here, and I have no home to offer you," said the parson, sadly, feeling that he cared for none, unless his children were restored to him.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000038_000000|"Onawandah has no fear.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000038_000001|He goes; but he comes again to bring the boy, the little squaw."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000039_000000|Few words, but they were so solemnly spoken that the most unbelieving were impressed; for the youth laid one hand on the gray head bowed before him, and lifted the other toward heaven, as if calling the Great Spirit to hear his vow.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000040_000000|A relenting murmur went through the crowd, but the boy paid no heed, as he turned away, and with no arms but his hunting knife and bow, no food but such as he could find, no guide but the sun by day, the stars by night, plunged into the pathless forest and was gone.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000041_000000|Then the people drew a long breath, and muttered to one another:--
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000042_000000|"He will never do it, yet he is a brave lad for his years."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000043_000000|"Only a shift to get off with a whole skin, I warrant you.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000043_000001|These varlets are as cunning as foxes," added Becky, sourly.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000045_000001|Their captors were not cruel to them, for Reuben was a stout fellow, and, thanks to Onawandah, could hold his own with the boys who would have tormented him if he had been feeble or cowardly.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000045_000002|Eunice also was a hardy creature for her years, and when her first fright and fatigue were over, made herself useful in many ways among the squaws, who did not let the pretty child suffer greatly; though she was neglected, because they knew no better.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000046_000000|Life in a wigwam was not a life of ease, and fortunately the children were accustomed to simple habits and the hardships that all endured in those early times.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000046_000002|Their clothes grew ragged, their hair unkempt, their faces tanned by sun and wind.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000047_000000|One day, when Reuben was snaring birds in the wood,--for the Indians had no fear of such young children venturing to escape,--he heard the cry of a quail, and followed it deeper and deeper into the forest, till it ceased, and, with a sudden rustle, Onawandah rose up from the brakes, his finger on his lips to prevent any exclamation that might betray him to other ears and eyes.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000048_000000|"I come for you and little Laroka" (the name he gave Eunice, meaning "Wild Rose").
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000048_000001|"I take you home.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000048_000003|Go and wait."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000050_000000|Lying hidden in the tall brakes they talked in whispers, while one told of the capture, and the other of a plan of escape; for, though a friendly tribe, these Indians were not Onawandah's people, and they must not suspect that he knew the children, else they might be separated at once.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000000|"Little squaw betray me.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000001|You watch her.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000002|Tell her not to cry out, not speak me any time.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000003|When I say come, we go-fast-in the night.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000004|Not ready yet."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000052_000000|These were the orders Reuben received, and, when he could compose himself, he went back to the wigwams, leaving his friend in the wood, while he told the good news to Eunice, and prepared her for the part she must play.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000054_000000|Not till the next day did Onawandah make his appearance, and then he came limping into the village, weary, lame, and half starved, after his long wandering in the wilderness.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000054_000001|He was kindly welcomed, and his story believed; for he told only the first part, and said nothing of his life among the white men.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000054_000002|He hardly glanced at the children when they were pointed out to him by their captors, and scowled at poor Eunice, who forgot her part in her joy, and smiled as she met the dark eyes that till now had always looked kindly at her.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000000|Onawandah took no further notice of them, but seemed to be very lame with the old wound in his foot, which prevented his being obliged to hunt with the men.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000001|He was resting and slowly gathering strength for the hard task he had set himself, while he waited for a safe time to save the children.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000002|They understood, but the suspense proved too much for little Eunice, and she pined with impatience to be gone.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000003|She lost appetite and color, and cast such appealing glances at Onawandah, that he could not seem quite indifferent, and gave her a soft word now and then, or did such acts of kindness as he could perform unsuspected.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000004|When she lay awake at night thinking of home, a cricket would chirp outside the wigwam, and a hand slip in a leaf full of berries, or a bark cup of fresh water for the feverish little mouth.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000005|Sometimes it was only a caress or a whisper of encouragement, that re assured the childish heart, and sent her to sleep with a comfortable sense of love and protection, like a sheltering wing over a motherless bird.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000057_000000|At last, in the early autumn, all the men went off on the war path, leaving only boys and women behind.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000057_000001|Then Onawandah's eyes began to kindle, and Reuben's heart to beat fast, for both felt that their time for escape had come.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000058_000001|A cricket chirped shrilly outside the tent where the children slept with one old squaw.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000058_000003|Not a broken twig, a careless step, or a whispered word betrayed them, and they vanished as swiftly and silently as hunted deer flying for their lives.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000059_000000|Till dawn they hurried on, Onawandah carrying Eunice, whose strength soon failed, and Reuben manfully shouldering the hatchet and the pouch of food.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000059_000001|At sunrise they hid in a thicket by a spring and rested, while waiting for the friendly night to come again.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000059_000002|Then they pushed on, and fear gave wings to their feet, so that by another morning they were far enough away to venture to travel more slowly and sleep at night.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000060_000000|If the children had learned to love and trust the Indian boy in happier times, they adored him now, and came to regard him as an earthly Providence; so faithful, brave, and tender was he,--so forgetful of himself, so bent on saving them.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000060_000001|He never seemed to sleep, ate the poorest morsels, or went without any food when provision failed; let no danger daunt him, no hardship wring complaint from him, but went on through the wild forest, led by guides invisible to them, till they began to hope that home was near.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000061_000000|Twice he saved their lives.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000061_000001|Once, when he went in search of food, leaving Reuben to guard his sister, the children, being very hungry, ignorantly ate some poisonous berries which looked like wild cherries, and were deliciously sweet.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000061_000003|Not knowing what to do, he could only rub her hands and call wildly for Onawandah.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000062_000000|The name echoed through the silent wood, and, though far away, the keen ear of the Indian heard it, his fleet feet brought him back in time, and his knowledge of wild roots and herbs made it possible to save the child when no other help was at hand.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000063_000000|"Make fire.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000063_000001|Keep warm.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000063_000002|I soon come," he said, after hearing the story and examining Eunice, who could only lift her eyes to him, full of childish confidence and patience.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000064_000000|Then he was off again, scouring the woods like a hound on the scent, searching everywhere for the precious little herb that would counteract the poison.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000065_000000|"Eat, eat, while I make drink.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000065_000001|All safe now," cried Onawandah, as he came leaping toward them with his hands full of green leaves, and his dark face shining with joy.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000066_000000|The boy was soon relieved, but for hours they hung over the girl, who suffered sadly, till she grew unconscious and lay as if dead.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000066_000001|Reuben's courage failed then, and he cried bitterly, thinking how hard it would be to leave the dear little creature under the pines and go home alone to father.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000066_000002|Even Onawandah lost hope for a while, and sat like a bronze statue of despair, with his eyes fixed on his Wild Rose, who seemed fading away too soon.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000067_000000|Suddenly he rose, stretched his arms to the west, where the sun was setting splendidly, and in his own musical language prayed to the Great Spirit.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000068_000000|"He hears! he hears!" cried Onawandah, and for the first time Reuben saw tears in his keen eyes, as the Indian boy turned his face to the sky, full of a gratitude that no words were sweet enough to tell.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000069_000000|All night Eunice lay peacefully sleeping, and the moon lighted Onawandah's lonely watch, for Reuben was worn out with suspense, and slept beside his sister.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000000|In the morning she was safe, and great was the rejoicing; but for two days the little invalid was not allowed to continue the journey, much as they longed to hurry on.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000001|It was a pretty sight, the bed of hemlock boughs spread under a green tent of woven branches, and on the pillow of moss the pale child watching the flicker of sunshine through the leaves, listening to the babble of a brook close by, or sleeping tranquilly, lulled by the murmur of the pines.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000002|Patient, loving, and grateful, it was a pleasure to serve her, and both the lads were faithful nurses.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000003|Onawandah cooked birds for her to eat, and made a pleasant drink of the wild raspberry leaves to quench her thirst.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000004|Reuben snared rabbits, that she might have nourishing food, and longed to shoot a deer for provision, that she might not suffer hunger again on their journey.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000005|This boyish desire led him deeper into the wood than it was wise for him to go alone, for it was near nightfall, and wild creatures haunted the forest in those days.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000072_000000|"If I could only kill it alone, how proud Onawandah would be of me," thought Reuben, burning for the good opinion of his friend.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000073_000000|It would have been wiser to hurry on and give the beast no time to spring; but the boy was over bold, and, fitting an arrow to the string, aimed at the bright eye ball and let fly.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000073_000001|A sharp snarl showed that some harm was done, and, rather daunted by the savage sound, Reuben raced away, meaning to come back next day for the prize he hoped he had secured.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000074_000000|But soon he heard the creature bounding after him, and he uttered one ringing shout for help, feeling too late that he had been foolhardy. Fortunately, he was nearer camp than he thought.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000074_000001|Onawandah heard him, and was there in time to receive the beast, as, mad with the pain of the wound, it sprung at Reuben.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000074_000002|There was no time for words, and the boy could only watch in breathless interest and anxiety the fight which went on between the brute and the Indian.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000075_000000|It was sharp but short; for Onawandah had his knife, and as soon as he could get the snarling, struggling creature down, he killed it with a skilful stroke.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000075_000001|But not before it had torn and bitten him more dangerously than he knew; for the dusk hid the wounds, and excitement kept him from feeling them at first.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000076_000000|Onawandah made light of his scratches, as he called them, got their supper, and sent Reuben early to bed, for to morrow they were to start again.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000077_000000|Excited by his adventure, the boy slept lightly, and waking in the night, saw by the flicker of the fire Onawandah binding up a deep wound in his breast with wet moss and his own belt.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000000|Next morning, they set out and pushed on as fast as Eunice's strength allowed.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000001|But it was evident that Onawandah suffered much, though he would not rest, forbade the children to speak of his wounds, and pressed on with feverish haste, as if he feared that his strength might not hold out.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000002|Reuben watched him anxiously, for there was a look in his face that troubled the boy and filled him with alarm, as well as with remorse and love.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000003|Eunice would not let him carry her as before, but trudged bravely behind him, though her feet ached and her breath often failed as she tried to keep up; and both children did all they could to comfort and sustain their friend, who seemed glad to give his life for them.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000079_000001|He knew that it was past help now, and only cared to see the children safe; then, worn out but happy, he was proud to die, having paid his debt to the good parson, and proved that he was not a liar nor a traitor.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000000|At last they saw the smoke from the cabins on the hillside, and, hastily mooring the canoe, all sprang out, eager to be at home after their long and perilous wandering.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000001|But as his foot touched the land, Onawandah felt that he could do no more, and stretching his arms toward the parsonage, the windows of which glimmered as hospitably as they had done when he first saw them, he said, with a pathetic sort of triumph in his broken voice: "Go.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000002|I cannot.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000003|Tell the good father, Onawandah not lie, not forget.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000004|He keep his promise."
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000082_000000|Then he dropped upon the grass and lay as if dead, while Reuben, bidding Eunice keep watch, ran as fast as his tired legs could carry him to tell the tale and bring help.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000084_000000|But poor Onawandah had waited too long; now he could only look up into the dear, loving, little face bent over him, and whisper wistfully: "Wild Rose will remember Onawandah?" as the light went out of his eyes, and his last breath was a smile for her.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000085_000000|When the parson and his people came hurrying up full of wonder, joy, and good will, they found Eunice weeping bitterly, and the Indian boy lying like a young warrior smiling at death.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000086_000001|Let us imitate his virtues, and do honor to his memory," said the pastor, as he held his little daughter close and looked down at the pathetic figure at his feet, whose silence was more eloquent than any words.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000087_000000|All felt it, and even old Becky had a remorseful sigh for the boy who had kept his word so well and given back her darlings safe.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000088_000000|They buried him where he lay; and for years the lonely mound under the great oak was kept green by loving hands.
train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000088_000001|Wild roses bloomed there, and the murmur of the Long River of Pines was a fit lullaby for faithful Onawandah.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000000_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty fifth Night,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000000|She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Yunus the Scribe said to Walid, "Allah forbid I should repent over her!
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000002|Art thou content?"
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000003|"I am content," answered Yunus and kissed his hands, saying, "By Allah, thou hast filled my eyes and my hands and my heart!" Quoth Walid, "By Allah, I have as yet had no privacy of her nor have I taken my fill of her singing.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000004|Bring her to me!" So she came and he bade her sit, then said to her, "Sing." And she sang these verses,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000002_000000|"O thou who dost comprise all Beauty's boons!
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000003_000001|Then I abode with him in all content of case and rise of rank and mine affairs prospered and my wealth increased and goods and farms became mine, such as sufficed me and will suffice my heirs after me; nor did I cease to abide with Walid, till he was slain, the mercy of Almighty Allah be on him!" And men tell a tale concerning
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000004_000000|HARUN AL RASHID AND THE ARAB GIRL.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000005_000001|As he drew near, one of them turned to her fellows and improvised these lines,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000007_000000|The Caliph marvelled at her elegance and eloquence.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000008_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty sixth Night,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000011_000000|Quoth the Caliph, "This also is stolen"; and quoth she, "Nay, 'tis my very own." He said, "If it be indeed thine own, change the rhyme again and keep the sense." So she recited the following,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000013_000000|Quoth Al Rashid, "This too is stolen"; and quoth she, "Not, so, 'tis mine." He said, "If thy words be true change the rhyme once more." And she recited,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000003|Furthermore, he bestowed on her father largesse such as succoured him among Arabs, till he was transported to the mercy of Almighty Allah.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000004|The Caliph, hearing of his death, went in to her greatly troubled; and, when she saw him looking afflicted, she entered her chamber and doffing all that was upon her of rich raiment, donned mourning apparel and raised lament for her father.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000006|The Caliph's eyes filled with tears and he condoled with her; but she ceased not to mourn for her father, till she followed him-Allah have mercy on the twain!
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000007|And a tale is also told of
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000017_000000|The Commander of the Faithful Harun Al Rashid was exceeding restless one night and rising from his bed, paced from chamber to chamber, but could not compose himself to sleep.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000017_000002|I have heard great store of women's verses; but none pleased me save three sets of couplets I once heard from three girls."--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000018_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty seventh Night,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000019_000001|However by looking right and left I came upon a porch swept and sprinkled, at the upper end whereof was a wooden bench under an open lattice window, whence exhaled a scent of musk.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000021_000000|Quoth the second,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000023_000000|Then said the youngest,
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000027_000000|Then I gave scroll to the slave girl, who went upsatirs with it, and behold, I heard a noise of dancing and clapping of hands and Doomsday astir.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000027_000002|I ate of both and praised their fashion and would have ganged my gait; but she cried out, 'Sit down, O Asma'i!' Wherewith I raised my eyes to her and saw a rosy palm in a saffron sleeve, meseemed it was the full moon rising splendid in the cloudy East.
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000027_000004|And I have heard a tale concerning
train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000029_000003|I was greatly vexed at his coming in to me and thought to turn away the doorkeepers; but he saluted me after the goodliest fashion and I returned his greeting and bade him be seated.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000004_000001|But Ivra did not stop to wonder.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000004_000004|Eric and the Wind Creatures followed.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000007_000003|Then came a young man in a stiff, funny hat, carrying a cane, beating up the snow flowers with it as he passed the flower beds.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000007_000004|And behind them walked-Helma, with her gaze on the ground.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000007_000005|That is why they did not know her at first, that and her very strange clothes.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000010_000002|She was saying, "No, never, never, never, in a thousand days and years will I ever be happy here.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000010_000004|Oh, how these heels bother!"
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000011_000001|"Your place is where you were born in a fine house and wearing clothes like other people.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000011_000003|Did you expect them to do any thing else but bother?
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000016_000004|Come, cheer up.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000019_000002|For a minute she looked steadily at them without believing, and then it was as though her pale face suddenly burst into song.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000019_000006|So there!"
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000021_000005|They must keep happy and wait."
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000023_000004|There's to be strawberry ice to day,--and goose to begin with of course.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000025_000003|Eric and the Wind Children sat cross legged and waited.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000025_000004|Soon she stopped and wiped her face on her sleeve.
train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000029_000001|And almost before the end the little story teller had fallen asleep with her head tipped back against the Tree Man's chest.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000003_000000|NORA'S GRANDCHILDREN
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000000|One afternoon Eric and Ivra started out for the Forest Children's moss village to play with them.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000001|But when they got there they found all the little houses deserted: not a Forest Child was to be found.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000002|They must have gone into some other part of the forest to play.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000004|Down in the pasture by the house half a dozen Snow Witches were dancing in a circle, now near, now far, all over the pasture, and sometimes right up to the farm house windows.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000000|Ivra clapped her hands and bounded forward.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000001|Eric did not follow.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000002|He stood to watch.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000004|For a minute she was lost in a cloud of blown snow, and then there she was dancing in their circle back and forth across the pasture, and then away, away, away!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000006_000000|"Come on," she called.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000006_000001|"We're going to slide on the brook below the cornfield."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000000|But Eric did not follow.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000001|He did not like the Snow Witches.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000002|And just as Ivra and the Witches drifted out of sight, he thought he heard the Forest Children laughing.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000004|So Eric ran to the door.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000005|It was a big sliding door, and now stood open on a crack just large enough for a child to slip through.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000006|Eric went in.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000001|Ahead of him were two stalls, with a horse in one.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000002|But Eric was most interested in the empty stall, for it was from there the laughter seemed to come.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000004|She sat up, saw Eric and stared.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000005|She was a little girl about his own age, freckle faced, snub nosed and red haired.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000006|She had the jolliest, the nicest face in the world.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000009_000001|This was a boy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000009_000003|He looked even jollier than the girl.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000010_000000|Before Eric had closed his mouth on his amazement, "Whoop!" and down came another boy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000010_000001|This boy was red haired, freckle faced and snub nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000012_000000|"Eric,--who are you?"
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000013_000000|"Nora's grandchildren, of course.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000013_000001|Come up.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000013_000002|We're having sport."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000014_000000|The three children ran across the barn to a ladder and scrambled up and disappeared through a trap door at the top.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000014_000001|Eric followed.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000015_000000|He found the hole in the stable ceiling and looked down.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000015_000002|"Look out down there!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000015_000003|Whoop!" cried Eric, and dropped, landing among them.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000017_000000|Then they played hide and go seek in the hay country, and after that Blind Man's Buff in the barn below.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000018_000000|By and by they played tag, just plain tag, and Eric liked that best of all.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000018_000001|Back and forth across the great room they raced,--up the ladder, over the hay, through the hole into the stable, round and round, in and out, up and down until they were too tired and hot for any more.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000019_000000|Then they lay up in the hay where there was a little window, looking far out across the meadows.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000001|She must have heard their shouts and laughter.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000002|He pointed her out to the other children.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000003|"That is my playmate out there," he said.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000004|"Let's open the window and call to her to come up.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000005|She'll tell us stories."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000021_000001|"But there's nobody there," they said.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000000|Eric laughed.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000001|"No, look!" He pointed with his finger.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000002|"Over there by the white birch.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000003|Look!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000004|She sees us." He waved.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000005|"Quick, help me open the window."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000023_000000|He could not find the catch.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000023_000001|The window was draped with cobwebs and dusty with the dust of years.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000024_000000|The little red headed girl put her hand on his arm.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000024_000002|"There's no one by the white birch.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000025_000001|Of course she's there!" Eric was impatient.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000025_000003|Of course you see her!"
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000026_000000|"Yes," said the jolliest of the boys.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000026_000002|We've seen it before too,--a kind of a shadow on the snow.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000026_000003|But father says it's nothing to mind.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000000|Then Eric remembered all that Ivra had told him.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000001|She was half fairy. People could see her if they looked hard enough.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000002|But they were not apt to believe their own eyes when they had looked.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000003|That was dreadful for her.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000004|She had not said so, but he had guessed it from her face when she told him.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000006|These were Earth Children, with shadows in their eyes.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000028_000002|But just now it was jolly and cozy here in the barn, and these Earth Children were good fun.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000029_000001|"If you do,--better not.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000029_000002|Grown ups will laugh at you."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000000|"Oh, yes," said the jolliest boy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000001|"But she is queer.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000002|We love her, and she's a fine grandmother, I can tell you.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000003|And she tells the best stories.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000004|But she's queer just the same, and she can't fool us."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000032_000000|"Let's go in and get some cookies from her," said the other boy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000032_000001|"They must be done by now."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000033_000000|So up they hopped, and without another look towards the shadow out on the snow by the white birch, jumped down the hole, and ran out of the barn into the kitchen.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000034_000000|Nora was there knitting by a table, two big pans of cookies just out of the oven cooling in front of her.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000035_000000|How good they smelled!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000035_000001|Eric had never tasted hot ginger cookies before, and when Nora gave him one, a big round one all for his own, he almost danced with delight.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000035_000002|He perched on the edge of the table and ate that one and many another before he was done.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000036_000000|"This boy, grandma," began the red headed girl.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000037_000000|"His name is Eric," interrupted Nora, handing him another cookie.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000038_000000|"Well, he saw It while we were looking out of the barn window!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000000|"Don't say 'It,'" said Nora.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000001|"Her name is 'Ivra.' But of course you can't play with her.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000003|She's a fairy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000004|So don't say anything about it to your father when he comes home to night.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000005|It would make him cross."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000040_000000|"But it doesn't make you cross," laughed the jolliest boy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000040_000001|"And so won't you tell us some stories about it now.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000042_000000|So Nora put down her knitting, and taking the cat on her lap, a great sleepy white fellow who had been purring by the stove, she began to tell them stories.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000044_000000|But Eric was lost in wonder.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000045_000000|And all the time Eric had only to turn his head to see Ivra walking out there around in the field, looking at the farm house, waiting for him. But gradually, as the stories went on the little figure out there grew more and more to look like just a blue shadow on the snow, paler and paler.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000045_000001|Finally he had to strain his eyes to see it at all.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000046_000004|He liked them,--oh, so much!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000046_000006|Yes.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000047_000000|"Take her some cookies," said Nora, filling his pockets.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000047_000001|The children laughed at the top of their voices.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000047_000002|"Yes, take some cookies to the fairy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000048_000000|Nora laughed with them, and so after a minute Eric joined in.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000049_000001|He overtook her a long way in, walking rapidly.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000051_000000|"Why didn't you come, too?" she said
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000052_000000|"Oh, it was too cold.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000052_000001|Nora's grandchildren are awfully good fun.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000053_000000|"Did they laugh at me?"
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000054_000002|They thought I was a funny boy."
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000055_000000|"To have me for a playmate?"
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000056_000000|Then Eric began to think that Ivra was not very happy.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000001|And it was like spring coming into winter.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000002|"Yes, play with them all you like!
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000007|They don't think I'm real.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000008|But they are awfully jolly.
train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000009|You play with them and when you tell me about it afterwards I'll pretend I was there playing too."
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000001_000000|THE JUNE MOON
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000002_000001|The Forest teemed with new playmates for him and Ivra.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000003_000000|Hide and go seek was still the favorite game.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000004_000001|And that was strange, for when he first spied her he did not like her at all.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000004_000002|Her dress was a purple slip just to her knees, with a big rent in the skirt.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000005_000000|But he cried, "I spy!
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000005_000001|You're It!" just the same.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000005_000002|She did not lift her eyes.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000006_000001|And he sprang forward as he laughed.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000006_000002|But she was quicker than he.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000000|But Eric did not let his surprise delay him.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000003|Eric sprang for her.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000004|She dodged.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000005|He sprang again.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000008|He caught her by her bushy hair as she turned to fly.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000008_000001|Instead of Wild Thyme and the sunny field, he was looking at the sea.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000009_000000|No girl, even a fairy, likes to have her hair pulled.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000009_000001|So Wild Thyme was angry.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000009_000002|She pinched Eric's arm with all her strength.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000010_000000|"You'll play with us, won't you?" Eric asked.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000011_000003|Goody!
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000012_000004|"And all come-come when the moon rises."
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000013_000001|He had never been to a dance before, and just at first he did not think there would be much fun in it.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000013_000006|The dances were just whirling and skipping and jumping, each dancer by himself, but all in a circle.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000013_000007|Eric liked it as well as though it had been a new game.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000014_000000|Late that afternoon Helma and Ivra and Eric gathered ferns and flowers to deck themselves for the evening.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000015_000000|Helma made a girdle of brakes for herself, and a dandelion wreath for her hair.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000015_000001|She wove a dear little cap of star flowers for Ivra, and a chain of them for her neck.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000015_000002|Eric crowned himself with bloodroot and contrived grass sandals for his feet.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000023_000003|And she was plotting no ill.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000023_000004|Her face was sparkling with delight and she had utterly forgotten herself in the dance.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000024_000000|When the great moon hung just above them, and shadows were few and far between, the Tree Mother came walking through the Forest, quieter and more beautiful than the moon.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000026_000000|Wild Thyme jumped back into the dance and the Tree Mother stood alone. But although she stood as still as a moonbeam under the tree, she made Eric think of dancing more than all the others put together.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000027_000000|But Eric, after all, was only an Earth Child, and his legs got very tired in spite of the music and the moonlight.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000027_000001|So at last he slipped out of the circle, and stumbling with weariness and sleepiness went to Tree Mother.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000027_000002|She picked him up in her arms, and the minute his head touched her shoulder he was sound asleep, the music at last hushed in his head.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000028_000000|When he woke it was summer dawn.
train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000028_000002|He was alone, lying beneath a silver birch, his head among the star flowers.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000000_000000|A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000001|This young gentleman was remarkable in every respect, and excited in me a profound interest and curiosity.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000003|Of his family I could obtain no satisfactory account.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000004|Whence he came, I never ascertained. Even about his age-although I call him a young gentleman-there was something which perplexed me in no little degree.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000005|He certainly seemed young-and he made a point of speaking about his youth-yet there were moments when I should have had little trouble in imagining him a hundred years of age.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000006|But in no regard was he more peculiar than in his personal appearance.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000007|He was singularly tall and thin.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000008|He stooped much.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000010|His forehead was broad and low.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000011|His complexion was absolutely bloodless.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000014|It was one of profound melancholy-of a phaseless and unceasing gloom.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000001|I soon, however, grew accustomed to it, and my uneasiness wore off.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000002|It seemed to be his design rather to insinuate than directly to assert that, physically, he had not always been what he was-that a long series of neuralgic attacks had reduced him from a condition of more than usual personal beauty, to that which I saw.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000003|For many years past he had been attended by a physician, named Templeton-an old gentleman, perhaps seventy years of age-whom he had first encountered at Saratoga, and from whose attention, while there, he either received, or fancied that he received, great benefit.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000004|The result was that Bedloe, who was wealthy, had made an arrangement with dr Templeton, by which the latter, in consideration of a liberal annual allowance, had consented to devote his time and medical experience exclusively to the care of the invalid.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000000|Doctor Templeton had been a traveller in his younger days, and at Paris had become a convert, in great measure, to the doctrines of Mesmer.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000002|The Doctor, however, like all enthusiasts, had struggled hard to make a thorough convert of his pupil, and finally so far gained his point as to induce the sufferer to submit to numerous experiments.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000003|By a frequent repetition of these, a result had arisen, which of late days has become so common as to attract little or no attention, but which, at the period of which I write, had very rarely been known in America.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000004|I mean to say, that between Doctor Templeton and Bedloe there had grown up, little by little, a very distinct and strongly marked rapport, or magnetic relation.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000005|I am not prepared to assert, however, that this rapport extended beyond the limits of the simple sleep producing power, but this power itself had attained great intensity.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000006|At the first attempt to induce the magnetic somnolency, the mesmerist entirely failed.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000007|In the fifth or sixth he succeeded very partially, and after long continued effort.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000008|Only at the twelfth was the triumph complete.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000009|After this the will of the patient succumbed rapidly to that of the physician, so that, when I first became acquainted with the two, sleep was brought about almost instantaneously by the mere volition of the operator, even when the invalid was unaware of his presence.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000010|It is only now, in the year eighteen forty five, when similar miracles are witnessed daily by thousands, that I dare venture to record this apparent impossibility as a matter of serious fact.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000004_000000|The temperature of Bedloe was, in the highest degree sensitive, excitable, enthusiastic.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000005_000000|Upon a dim, warm, misty day, toward the close of November, and during the strange interregnum of the seasons which in America is termed the Indian Summer, mr Bedloe departed as usual for the hills.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000005_000001|The day passed, and still he did not return.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000006_000000|About eight o'clock at night, having become seriously alarmed at his protracted absence, we were about setting out in search of him, when he unexpectedly made his appearance, in health no worse than usual, and in rather more than ordinary spirits.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000006_000001|The account which he gave of his expedition, and of the events which had detained him, was a singular one indeed.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000007_000001|I bent my steps immediately to the mountains, and, about ten, entered a gorge which was entirely new to me.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000007_000003|The scenery which presented itself on all sides, although scarcely entitled to be called grand, had about it an indescribable and to me a delicious aspect of dreary desolation.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000007_000004|The solitude seemed absolutely virgin.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000008_000000|"The thick and peculiar mist, or smoke, which distinguishes the Indian Summer, and which now hung heavily over all objects, served, no doubt, to deepen the vague impressions which these objects created.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000008_000001|So dense was this pleasant fog that I could at no time see more than a dozen yards of the path before me.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000008_000002|This path was excessively sinuous, and as the sun could not be seen, I soon lost all idea of the direction in which I journeyed.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000009_000001|And now an indescribable uneasiness possessed me-a species of nervous hesitation and tremor.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000009_000003|I remembered, too, strange stories told about these Ragged Hills, and of the uncouth and fierce races of men who tenanted their groves and caverns.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000000|"My amazement was, of course, extreme.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000001|A drum in these hills was a thing unknown.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000002|I could not have been more surprised at the sound of the trump of the Archangel.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000005|He came so close to my person that I felt his hot breath upon my face.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000007|Scarcely had he disappeared in the mist before, panting after him, with open mouth and glaring eyes, there darted a huge beast.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000008|I could not be mistaken in its character.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000009|It was a hyena.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000000|"The sight of this monster rather relieved than heightened my terrors-for I now made sure that I dreamed, and endeavored to arouse myself to waking consciousness.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000001|I stepped boldly and briskly forward. I rubbed my eyes.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000002|I called aloud.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000005|This seemed to dissipate the equivocal sensations which had hitherto annoyed me.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000002|At this shadow I gazed wonderingly for many minutes.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000003|Its character stupefied me with astonishment.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000004|I looked upward.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000005|The tree was a palm.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000013_000002|The heat became all at once intolerable.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000013_000003|A strange odor loaded the breeze.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000013_000004|A low, continuous murmur, like that arising from a full, but gently flowing river, came to my ears, intermingled with the peculiar hum of multitudinous human voices.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000015_000002|The streets seemed innumerable, and crossed each other irregularly in all directions, but were rather long winding alleys than streets, and absolutely swarmed with inhabitants.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000015_000007|From the swarming streets to the banks of the river, there descended innumerable flights of steps leading to bathing places, while the river itself seemed to force a passage with difficulty through the vast fleets of deeply-burthened ships that far and wide encountered its surface.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000016_000000|"You will say now, of course, that I dreamed; but not so.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000016_000002|All was rigorously self consistent.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000016_000003|At first, doubting that I was really awake, I entered into a series of tests, which soon convinced me that I really was. Now, when one dreams, and, in the dream, suspects that he dreams, the suspicion never fails to confirm itself, and the sleeper is almost immediately aroused.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000018_000002|Against the crowd which environed me, however, I experienced a deep sentiment of animosity.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000018_000003|I shrank from amid them, and, swiftly, by a circuitous path, reached and entered the city. Here all was the wildest tumult and contention.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000018_000005|I joined the weaker party, arming myself with the weapons of a fallen officer, and fighting I knew not whom with the nervous ferocity of despair.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000018_000007|Here we barricaded ourselves, and, for the present were secure.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000000|"And now a new object took possession of my soul.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000002|They retreated, at first, before us.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000003|They rallied, fought madly, and retreated again.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000005|The rabble pressed impetuously upon us, harrassing us with their spears, and overwhelming us with flights of arrows.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000008|One of them struck me upon the right temple.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000009|I reeled and fell.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000010|An instantaneous and dreadful sickness seized me.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000011|I struggled-I gasped-I died." "You will hardly persist now," said I smiling, "that the whole of your adventure was not a dream.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000020_000001|I looked toward Templeton.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000020_000002|He sat erect and rigid in his chair-his teeth chattered, and his eyes were starting from their sockets.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000000|"For many minutes," continued the latter, "my sole sentiment-my sole feeling-was that of darkness and nonentity, with the consciousness of death.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000001|At length there seemed to pass a violent and sudden shock through my soul, as if of electricity.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000003|This latter I felt-not saw.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000004|In an instant I seemed to rise from the ground.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000007|The tumult had ceased.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000008|The city was in comparative repose.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000009|Beneath me lay my corpse, with the arrow in my temple, the whole head greatly swollen and disfigured.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000010|But all these things I felt-not saw.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000011|I took interest in nothing.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000012|Even the corpse seemed a matter in which I had no concern.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000013|Volition I had none, but appeared to be impelled into motion, and flitted buoyantly out of the city, retracing the circuitous path by which I had entered it.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000015|I became my original self, and bent my steps eagerly homeward-but the past had not lost the vividness of the real-and not now, even for an instant, can I compel my understanding to regard it as a dream."
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000022_000002|Let us content ourselves with this supposition.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000022_000003|For the rest I have some explanation to make.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000000|We looked at the picture which he presented.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000001|I saw nothing in it of an extraordinary character, but its effect upon Bedloe was prodigious.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000002|He nearly fainted as he gazed.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000003|And yet it was but a miniature portrait-a miraculously accurate one, to be sure-of his own very remarkable features.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000004|At least this was my thought as I regarded it.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000024_000003|I was then only twenty years old.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000025_000000|"In your detail of the vision which presented itself to you amid the hills, you have described, with the minutest accuracy, the Indian city of Benares, upon the Holy River.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000025_000003|The party in the kiosk were sepoys and British officers, headed by Hastings.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000025_000005|That officer was my dearest friend.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000027_000000|"We have the painful duty of announcing the death of mr Augustus Bedlo, a gentleman whose amiable manners and many virtues have long endeared him to the citizens of Charlottesville.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000001|The proximate cause was one of especial singularity.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000003|To relieve this, dr Templeton resorted to topical bleeding.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000004|Leeches were applied to the temples.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000006|This creature fastened itself upon a small artery in the right temple.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000007|Its close resemblance to the medicinal leech caused the mistake to be overlooked until too late.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000029_000002|The poisonous sangsue of Charlottesville may always be distinguished from the medicinal leech by its blackness, and especially by its writhing or vermicular motions, which very nearly resemble those of a snake."
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000030_000000|I was speaking with the editor of the paper in question, upon the topic of this remarkable accident, when it occurred to me to ask how it happened that the name of the deceased had been given as Bedlo.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000031_000000|"I presume," I said, "you have authority for this spelling, but I have always supposed the name to be written with an e at the end."
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000032_000000|"Authority?--no," he replied.
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000032_000002|The name is Bedlo with an e, all the world over, and I never knew it to be spelt otherwise in my life."
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000033_000000|"Then," said I mutteringly, as I turned upon my heel, "then indeed has it come to pass that one truth is stranger than any fiction-for Bedloe, without the e, what is it but Oldeb conversed!
train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000033_000001|And this man tells me that it is a typographical error."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000015_000001|She was leaving it in Brett Street, of course.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000015_000012|What if Mr Verloc suddenly took it into his head to tell Stevie to take his blessed sticks somewhere out of that?
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000016_000003|They went out at the shop door.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000017_000001|This last peculiarity caused some embarrassment.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000017_000003|She really couldn't trust herself.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000017_000006|The passionate expostulations of the big faced cabman seemed to be squeezed out of a blocked throat.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000021_000000|The policeman's testimony settled it.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000021_000003|Stevie climbed on the box.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000025_000000|"Don't whip."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000026_000002|They remained closed.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000027_000000|"You mustn't," stammered out Stevie violently.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000028_000009|Is that boy hurt?"
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000030_000000|"Stevie!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000031_000000|"no
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000031_000001|no Walk.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000031_000002|Must walk."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000032_000004|"The idea!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000033_000001|What next!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000033_000003|He won't be happy at all."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000038_000002|And I don't think you'll be. That I don't.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000039_000000|"My dear," screamed the old woman earnestly above the noise, "you've been the best of daughters to me.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000039_000001|As to Mr Verloc-there-"
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000041_000001|It was a complexion, that under the influence of a blush would take on an orange tint.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000053_000000|"Mind!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000054_000000|Not think of it!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000057_000003|They agreed as to that.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000057_000009|It was too difficult!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000066_000000|"Here you are!"
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000071_000001|The little stiff tail seemed to have been fitted in for a heartless joke; and at the other end the thin, flat neck, like a plank covered with old horse hide, drooped to the ground under the weight of an enormous bony head.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000077_000000|"You may well look!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000077_000003|Looking for fares.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000077_000004|Drunks."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000083_000000|"Bad!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000083_000001|Bad!"
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000084_000002|He pouted in a scared way like a child. The cabman, short and broad, eyed him with his fierce little eyes that seemed to smart in a clear and corroding liquid.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000086_000000|"Poor!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000098_000000|"Poor!
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000099_000007|He knew it from experience.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000100_000000|Mrs Verloc, his only sister, guardian, and protector, could not pretend to such depths of insight.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000102_000003|He hung back to utter it at once.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000103_000000|"Bad world for poor people."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000104_000002|Somebody, he felt, ought to be punished for it-punished with great severity.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000105_000000|"Beastly!" he added concisely.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000106_000000|It was clear to Mrs Verloc that he was greatly excited.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000107_000001|"Do come along.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000113_000003|He had liked all police constables tenderly, with a guileless trustfulness.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000117_000004|He was impressed and startled now, and his intelligence was very alert.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000120_000001|"Certainly not.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000122_000001|Stop that green 'bus."
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000124_000018|Yet so it was.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000125_000001|Mr Verloc was sorry.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000131_000002|They had stood by each other.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000132_000002|I'm sure she couldn't have thought you had enough of her.
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000135_000005|And why?
train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000140_000005|He renewed his stock from Paris and Brussels.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000003_000000|I Go to Bristol
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000004_000002|Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000004_000003|Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000007_000000|Dear Livesey-As I do not know whether you are at the hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000008_000000|The ship is bought and fitted.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000008_000001|She lies at anchor, ready for sea.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000008_000002|You never imagined a sweeter schooner-a child might sail her-two hundred tons; name, HISPANIOLA.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000009_000000|I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000010_000000|"Redruth," said I, interrupting the letter, "dr Livesey will not like that.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000010_000001|The squire has been talking, after all."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000011_000000|"Well, who's a better right?" growled the gamekeeper.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000011_000001|"A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for dr Livesey, I should think."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000012_000000|At that I gave up all attempts at commentary and read straight on:
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000000|Blandly himself found the HISPANIOLA, and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trifle.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000001|There is a class of men in Bristol monstrously prejudiced against Blandly.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000002|They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the HISPANIOLA belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high-the most transparent calumnies.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000003|None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000014_000001|The workpeople, to be sure-riggers and what not-were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000014_000002|It was the crew that troubled me.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000016_000000|I was standing on the dock, when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000016_000001|I found he was an old sailor, kept a public house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000017_000001|Long john Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, since he lost it in his country's service, under the immortal Hawke.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000017_000002|He has no pension, Livesey.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000018_000000|Well, sir, I thought I had only found a cook, but it was a crew I had discovered.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000018_000001|Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable-not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000018_000002|I declare we could fight a frigate.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000019_000001|He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000000|I am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like a bull, sleeping like a tree, yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping round the capstan.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000001|Seaward, ho!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000002|Hang the treasure!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000004|So now, Livesey, come post; do not lose an hour, if you respect me.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000021_000000|Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Redruth for a guard; and then both come full speed to Bristol. john Trelawney
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000022_000000|Postscript-I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master-a stiff man, which I regret, but in all other respects a treasure.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000022_000001|Long john Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000022_000002|I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man o'-war fashion on board the good ship HISPANIOLA.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000023_000000|I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000023_000001|He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving. j t
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000024_000000|p p s--Hawkins may stay one night with his mother. j t
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000000|You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000001|I was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000002|Any of the under gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000003|Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000000|The next morning he and I set out on foot for the Admiral Benbow, and there I found my mother in good health and spirits.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000001|The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000002|The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture-above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000003|He had found her a boy as an apprentice also so that she should not want help while I was gone.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000027_000000|It was on seeing that boy that I understood, for the first time, my situation.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000027_000002|I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life, for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000028_000000|The night passed, and the next day, after dinner, Redruth and I were afoot again and on the road.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000028_000002|One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre cut cheek, and his old brass telescope. Next moment we had turned the corner and my home was out of sight.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000029_000000|The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George on the heath.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000031_000000|"Bristol," said Tom.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000031_000001|"Get down."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000032_000000|mr Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000032_000001|Thither we had now to walk, and our way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000032_000002|In one, sailors were singing at their work, in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider's. Though I had lived by the shore all my life, I seemed never to have been near the sea till then.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000033_000000|And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000034_000000|While I was still in this delightful dream, we came suddenly in front of a large inn and met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea officer, in stout blue cloth, coming out of the door with a smile on his face and a capital imitation of a sailor's walk.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000035_000000|"Here you are," he cried, "and the doctor came last night from London. Bravo!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000035_000001|The ship's company complete!"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000036_000000|"Oh, sir," cried I, "when do we sail?"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000037_000000|"Sail!" says he.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000038_000000|eight
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000039_000000|At the Sign of the Spy glass
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000040_000000|WHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to john Silver, at the sign of the Spy glass, and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope for sign.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000040_000001|I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000041_000001|The sign was newly painted; the windows had neat red curtains; the floor was cleanly sanded.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000041_000002|There was a street on each side and an open door on both, which made the large, low room pretty clear to see in, in spite of clouds of tobacco smoke.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000042_000000|The customers were mostly seafaring men, and they talked so loudly that I hung at the door, almost afraid to enter.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000043_000000|As I was waiting, a man came out of a side room, and at a glance I was sure he must be Long john.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000043_000001|His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000043_000003|Indeed, he seemed in the most cheerful spirits, whistling as he moved about among the tables, with a merry word or a slap on the shoulder for the more favoured of his guests.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000044_000000|Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long john in Squire Trelawney's letter I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000044_000001|But one look at the man before me was enough.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000044_000002|I had seen the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man, Pew, and I thought I knew what a buccaneer was like-a very different creature, according to me, from this clean and pleasant tempered landlord.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000045_000000|I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000046_000000|"mr Silver, sir?" I asked, holding out the note.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000047_000001|And who may you be?" And then as he saw the squire's letter, he seemed to me to give something almost like a start.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000048_000001|"I see.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000048_000002|You are our new cabin boy; pleased I am to see you."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000050_000000|Just then one of the customers at the far side rose suddenly and made for the door.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000050_000001|It was close by him, and he was out in the street in a moment.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000050_000002|But his hurry had attracted my notice, and I recognized him at glance.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000050_000003|It was the tallow faced man, wanting two fingers, who had come first to the Admiral Benbow.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000051_000000|"Oh," I cried, "stop him!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000051_000001|It's Black Dog!"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000052_000000|"I don't care two coppers who he is," cried Silver.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000052_000001|"But he hasn't paid his score.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000052_000002|Harry, run and catch him."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000053_000000|One of the others who was nearest the door leaped up and started in pursuit.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000054_000000|"If he were Admiral Hawke he shall pay his score," cried Silver; and then, relinquishing my hand, "Who did you say he was?" he asked.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000054_000001|"Black what?"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000055_000000|"Dog, sir," said i "Has mr Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers? He was one of them."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000000|"So?" cried Silver.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000001|"In my house!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000002|Ben, run and help Harry.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000003|One of those swabs, was he?
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000005|Step up here."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000058_000000|"Now, Morgan," said Long john very sternly, "you never clapped your eyes on that Black-Black Dog before, did you, now?"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000059_000000|"Not I, sir," said Morgan with a salute.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000061_000000|"No, sir."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000062_000001|"If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000062_000002|And what was he saying to you?"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000001|"Don't rightly know, don't you!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000002|Perhaps you don't happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps?
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000004|Pipe up!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000005|What was it?"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000065_000000|"We was a talkin' of keel hauling," answered Morgan.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000066_000001|And a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000066_000002|Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000067_000001|And now," he ran on again, aloud, "let's see-Black Dog?
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000067_000002|No, I don't know the name, not i Yet I kind of think I've-yes, I've seen the swab.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000068_000000|"That he did, you may be sure," said i "I knew that blind man too.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000068_000001|His name was Pew."
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000003|Ah, he looked a shark, he did!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000004|If we run down this Black Dog, now, there'll be news for Cap'n Trelawney!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000006|He should run him down, hand over hand, by the powers!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000007|He talked o' keel hauling, did he?
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000008|I'LL keel haul him!"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000070_000000|All the time he was jerking out these phrases he was stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch, slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show of excitement as would have convinced an Old Bailey judge or a Bow Street runner.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000070_000001|My suspicions had been thoroughly reawakened on finding Black Dog at the Spy glass, and I watched the cook narrowly.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000001|There's Cap'n Trelawney-what's he to think? Here I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house drinking of my own rum!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000002|Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed deadlights!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000005|I see that when you first come in.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000006|Now, here it is: What could I do, with this old timber I hobble on?
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000007|When I was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, I would; but now-"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000072_000000|And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000074_000000|And falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining, and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000000|"Why, what a precious old sea calf I am!" he said at last, wiping his cheeks.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000001|"You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000002|But come now, stand by to go about.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000003|This won't do.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000005|I'll put on my old cockerel hat, and step along of you to Cap'n Trelawney, and report this here affair. For mind you, it's serious, young Hawkins; and neither you nor me's come out of it with what I should make so bold as to call credit.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000006|Nor you neither, says you; not smart-none of the pair of us smart.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000007|But dash my buttons!
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000077_000001|I began to see that here was one of the best of possible shipmates.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000079_000000|Long john told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000080_000000|The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away, but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long john took up his crutch and departed.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000081_000000|"All hands aboard by four this afternoon," shouted the squire after him.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000082_000000|"Aye, aye, sir," cried the cook, in the passage.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000084_000000|"The man's a perfect trump," declared the squire.
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000085_000000|"And now," added the doctor, "Jim may come on board with us, may he not?"
train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000086_000001|"Take your hat, Hawkins, and we'll see the ship."
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000000|SHORTLY afterward an incident occurred which I am induced to look upon as more intensely productive of emotion, as far more replete with the extremes first of delight and then of horror, than even any of the thousand chances which afterward befell me in nine long years, crowded with events of the most startling and, in many cases, of the most unconceived and unconceivable character.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000002|I turned my head, and shall never forget the ecstatic joy which thrilled through every particle of my frame, when I perceived a large brig bearing down upon us, and not more than a couple of miles off.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000004|Peters and Parker were equally affected, although in different ways.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000005|The former danced about the deck like a madman, uttering the most extravagant rhodomontades, intermingled with howls and imprecations, while the latter burst into tears, and continued for many minutes weeping like a child.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000000|The vessel in sight was a large hermaphrodite brig, of a Dutch build, and painted black, with a tawdry gilt figure head.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000002|When we first saw her, she was, as I have already said, about two miles off and to windward, bearing down upon us.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000003|The breeze was very gentle, and what astonished us chiefly was, that she had no other sails set than her foremast and mainsail, with a flying jib-of course she came down but slowly, and our impatience amounted nearly to phrensy.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000004|The awkward manner in which she steered, too, was remarked by all of us, even excited as we were.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000005|She yawed about so considerably, that once or twice we thought it impossible she could see us, or imagined that, having seen us, and discovered no person on board, she was about to tack and make off in another direction.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000004_000000|No person was seen upon her decks until she arrived within about a quarter of a mile of us.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000004_000003|He seemed by his manner to be encouraging us to have patience, nodding to us in a cheerful although rather odd way, and smiling constantly, so as to display a set of the most brilliantly white teeth.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000004_000004|As his vessel drew nearer, we saw a red flannel cap which he had on fall from his head into the water; but of this he took little or no notice, continuing his odd smiles and gesticulations.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000000|The brig came on slowly, and now more steadily than before, and-I cannot speak calmly of this event-our hearts leaped up wildly within us, and we poured out our whole souls in shouts and thanksgiving to God for the complete, unexpected, and glorious deliverance that was so palpably at hand.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000001|Of a sudden, and all at once, there came wafted over the ocean from the strange vessel (which was now close upon us) a smell, a stench, such as the whole world has no name for-no conception of-hellish-utterly suffocating-insufferable, inconceivable.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000003|But we had now no time left for question or surmise-the brig was within fifty feet of us, and it seemed to be her intention to run under our counter, that we might board her without putting out a boat.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000005|Shall I ever forget the triple horror of that spectacle? Twenty five or thirty human bodies, among whom were several females, lay scattered about between the counter and the galley in the last and most loathsome state of putrefaction.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000000|As our first loud yell of terror broke forth, it was replied to by something, from near the bowsprit of the stranger, so closely resembling the scream of a human voice that the nicest ear might have been startled and deceived.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000001|At this instant another sudden yaw brought the region of the forecastle for a moment into view, and we beheld at once the origin of the sound.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000002|We saw the tall stout figure still leaning on the bulwark, and still nodding his head to and fro, but his face was now turned from us so that we could not behold it.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000003|His arms were extended over the rail, and the palms of his hands fell outward.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000004|His knees were lodged upon a stout rope, tightly stretched, and reaching from the heel of the bowsprit to a cathead.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000008|I sprang forward quickly, and, with a deep shudder, threw the frightful thing into the sea.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000000|The body from which it had been taken, resting as it did upon the rope, had been easily swayed to and fro by the exertions of the carnivorous bird, and it was this motion which had at first impressed us with the belief of its being alive.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000001|As the gull relieved it of its weight, it swung round and fell partially over, so that the face was fully discovered.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000003|The eyes were gone, and the whole flesh around the mouth, leaving the teeth utterly naked.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000004|This, then, was the smile which had cheered us on to hope!
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000005|this the-but I forbear.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000006|The brig, as I have already told, passed under our stern, and made its way slowly but steadily to leeward.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000007|With her and with her terrible crew went all our gay visions of deliverance and joy.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000008|Deliberately as she went by, we might possibly have found means of boarding her, had not our sudden disappointment and the appalling nature of the discovery which accompanied it laid entirely prostrate every active faculty of mind and body.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000009|We had seen and felt, but we could neither think nor act, until, alas! too late.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000010|How much our intellects had been weakened by this incident may be estimated by the fact, that when the vessel had proceeded so far that we could perceive no more than the half of her hull, the proposition was seriously entertained of attempting to overtake her by swimming!
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000000|I have, since this period, vainly endeavoured to obtain some clew to the hideous uncertainty which enveloped the fate of the stranger.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000001|Her build and general appearance, as I have before stated, led us to the belief that she was a Dutch trader, and the dresses of the crew also sustained this opinion.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000002|We might have easily seen the name upon her stern, and, indeed, taken other observations, which would have guided us in making out her character; but the intense excitement of the moment blinded us to every thing of that nature.
train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000004|If such were the case (and I know not what else to imagine), death, to judge from the positions of the bodies, must have come upon them in a manner awfully sudden and overwhelming, in a way totally distinct from that which generally characterizes even the most deadly pestilences with which mankind are acquainted.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000000_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000000|WE spent the remainder of the day in a condition of stupid lethargy, gazing after the retreating vessel until the darkness, hiding her from our sight, recalled us in some measure to our senses.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000001|The pangs of hunger and thirst then returned, absorbing all other cares and considerations.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000002|Nothing, however, could be done until the morning, and, securing ourselves as well as possible, we endeavoured to snatch a little repose.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000003|In this I succeeded beyond my expectations, sleeping until my companions, who had not been so fortunate, aroused me at daybreak to renew our attempts at getting up provisions from the hull.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000002_000000|It was now a dead calm, with the sea as smooth as have ever known it,--the weather warm and pleasant.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000002_000001|The brig was out of sight.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000003_000000|He succeeded very quickly in reaching the door, when, loosening one of the chains from his ankle, he made every exertion to force the passage with it, but in vain, the framework of the room being far stronger than was anticipated.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000003_000001|He was quite exhausted with his long stay under water, and it became absolutely necessary that some other one of us should take his place.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000003_000003|The condition of Augustus's wounded arm rendered it useless for him to attempt going down, as he would be unable to force the room open should he reach it, and it accordingly now devolved upon me to exert myself for our common deliverance.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000004_000001|In groping along the floor of the passage for this, I felt a hard substance, which I immediately grasped, not having time to ascertain what it was, but returning and ascending instantly to the surface.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000004_000003|Giving thanks to God for this timely and cheering assistance, we immediately drew the cork with my penknife, and, each taking a moderate sup, felt the most indescribable comfort from the warmth, strength, and spirits with which it inspired us.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000004_000004|We then carefully recorked the bottle, and, by means of a handkerchief, swung it in such a manner that there was no possibility of its getting broken.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000005_000000|Having rested a while after this fortunate discovery, I again descended, and now recovered the chain, with which I instantly came up.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000005_000002|I therefore returned in despair.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000000|There seemed now to be no longer any room for hope, and I could perceive in the countenances of my companions that they had made up their minds to perish.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000002|They talked incoherently, and about matters unconnected with our condition, Peters repeatedly asking me questions about Nantucket.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000003|Augustus, too, I remember, approached me with a serious air, and requested me to lend him a pocket comb, as his hair was full of fish scales, and he wished to get them out before going on shore.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000004|Parker appeared somewhat less affected, and urged me to dive at random into the cabin, and bring up any article which might come to hand.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000005|To this I consented, and, in the first attempt, after staying under a full minute, brought up a small leather trunk belonging to Captain Barnard.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000006|This was immediately opened in the faint hope that it might contain something to eat or drink.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000007|We found nothing, however, except a box of razors and two linen shirts.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000008|I now went down again, and returned without any success.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000009|As my head came above water I heard a crash on deck, and, upon getting up, saw that my companions had ungratefully taken advantage of my absence to drink the remainder of the wine, having let the bottle fall in the endeavour to replace it before I saw them.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000010|I remonstrated with them on the heartlessness of their conduct, when Augustus burst into tears.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000011|The other two endeavoured to laugh the matter off as a joke, but I hope never again to behold laughter of such a species: the distortion of countenance was absolutely frightful.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000012|Indeed, it was apparent that the stimulus, in the empty state of their stomachs, had taken instant and violent effect, and that they were all exceedingly intoxicated.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000013|With great difficulty I prevailed upon them to lie down, when they fell very soon into a heavy slumber, accompanied with loud stertorous breathing.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000007_000001|No prospect offered itself to my view but a lingering death by famine, or, at the best, by being overwhelmed in the first gale which should spring up, for in our present exhausted condition we could have no hope of living through another.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000000|The gnawing hunger which I now experienced was nearly insupportable, and I felt myself capable of going to any lengths in order to appease it.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000001|With my knife I cut off a small portion of the leather trunk, and endeavoured to eat it, but found it utterly impossible to swallow a single morsel, although I fancied that some little alleviation of my suffering was obtained by chewing small pieces of it and spitting them out.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000005|Their conduct, however, gave me great uneasiness and alarm; for it was evident that, unless some favourable change took place, they could afford me no assistance in providing for our common safety.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000006|I had not yet abandoned all idea being able to get up something from below; but the attempt could not possibly be resumed until some one of them was sufficiently master of himself to aid me by holding the end of the rope while I went down.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000007|Parker appeared to be somewhat more in possession of his senses than the others, and I endeavoured, by every means in my power, to rouse him.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000009|I had good reason to congratulate myself upon having made this experiment; for he appeared much revived and invigorated, and, upon getting out, asked me, in a rational manner, why I had so served him.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000010|Having explained my object, he expressed himself indebted to me, and said that he felt greatly better from the immersion, afterward conversing sensibly upon our situation.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000011|We then resolved to treat Augustus and Peters in the same way, which we immediately did, when they both experienced much benefit from the shock.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000000|Finding that I could now trust my companions to hold the end of the rope, I again made three or four plunges into the cabin, although it was now quite dark, and a gentle but long swell from the northward rendered the hulk somewhat unsteady.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000001|In the course of these attempts I succeeded in bringing up two case knives, a three gallon jug, empty, and a blanket, but nothing which could serve us for food.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000002|I continued my efforts, after getting these articles, until I was completely exhausted, but brought up nothing else.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000003|During the night Parker and Peters occupied themselves by turns in the same manner; but nothing coming to hand, we now gave up this attempt in despair, concluding that we were exhausting ourselves in vain.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000000|We passed the remainder of this night in a state of the most intense mental and bodily anguish that can possibly be imagined.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000001|The morning of the sixteenth at length dawned, and we looked eagerly around the horizon for relief, but to no purpose.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000005|Had I met them on shore in their present condition I should not have had the slightest suspicion that I had ever beheld them.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000007|Parker, although sadly reduced, and so feeble that he could not raise his head from his bosom, was not so far gone as the other two.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000008|He suffered with great patience, making no complaint, and endeavouring to inspire us with hope in every manner he could devise.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000001|Peters and Augustus took little notice of what he said, being apparently wrapped up in moody contemplation.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000002|Upon looking in the direction pointed out, I could not perceive the faintest appearance of the shore-indeed, I was too well aware that we were far from any land to indulge in a hope of that nature.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000003|It was a long time, nevertheless, before I could convince Parker of his mistake.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000004|He then burst into a flood of tears, weeping like a child, with loud cries and sobs, for two or three hours, when becoming exhausted, he fell asleep.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000012_000000|Peters and Augustus now made several ineffectual efforts to swallow portions of the leather.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000012_000001|I advised them to chew it and spit it out; but they were too excessively debilitated to be able to follow my advice.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000001|She appeared to be a large ship, and was coming nearly athwart us, being probably twelve or fifteen miles distant.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000002|None of my companions had as yet discovered her, and I forbore to tell them of her for the present, lest we might again be disappointed of relief.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000003|At length upon her getting nearer, I saw distinctly that she was heading immediately for us, with her light sails filled.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000004|I could now contain myself no longer, and pointed her out to my fellow sufferers. They immediately sprang to their feet, again indulging in the most extravagant demonstrations of joy, weeping, laughing in an idiotic manner, jumping, stamping upon the deck, tearing their hair, and praying and cursing by turns.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000000|It was some time before I could induce my poor companions to believe that this sad reverse in our prospects had actually taken place.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000001|They replied to all my assertions with a stare and a gesture implying that they were not to be deceived by such misrepresentations.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000002|The conduct of Augustus most sensibly affected me.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000003|In spite of all I could say or do to the contrary, he persisted in saying that the ship was rapidly nearing us, and in making preparations to go on board of her.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000004|Some seaweed floating by the brig, he maintained that it was the ship's boat, and endeavoured to throw himself upon it, howling and shrieking in the most heartrending manner, when I forcibly restrained him from thus casting himself into the sea.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000015_000001|As soon as she was entirely gone, Parker turned suddenly toward me with an expression of countenance which made me shudder.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000015_000002|There was about him an air of self possession which I had not noticed in him until now, and before he opened his lips my heart told me what he would say.
train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000015_000003|He proposed, in a few words, that one of us should die to preserve the existence of the others.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000002_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000003|Working on the soil that is at once their livelihood and their home, they do not consciously reckon the value of the labor they are putting upon it.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000004|No money can buy that which to them is beyond price.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000005|But, in our money economy, efforts are largely directed toward the increase of the capital sum.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000006|Investment takes the form of putting in a sum of money in the hope of getting an income bearing a certain relation to it.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000007|The first thought is of the value of the wealth invested, which has been carefully measured and expressed in dollars and cents.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000008|Wealth looked at in the older way was valued for what it did immediately for its owner, for its concrete fruits; looked at in the modern way, it is valued as a marketable income bearer readily convertible into a multitude of other forms.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000009|Thus investments come to be thought of in terms of general purchasing power, from which it is expected to realize an income of a given percentage.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000000|two.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000002|But they are undiminished only in a relative sense and in reference to present need.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000003|The water in the Western rivers long flowed on, undiminished by the uses made of it.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000004|But progressing civilization required more water for cities, for mining, and for irrigation, and now states and corporations are going to law over these formerly undiminished free goods.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000005|Some kinds of goods are produced from such very common materials that it might seem possible, by the substitution of agents, to produce an unlimited supply.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000006|How can bricks be limited in number, being made as they are from one of the commonest materials on the earth's surface?
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000007|But the largest clay banks are limited in size; a large proportion of the places where bricks are needed are not near a supply of clay of good quality; and after a brick yard has been used for a time there is increasing difficulty in getting out the material.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000008|While, therefore, bricks are scarce and hard to get from the outset in some places, the scarcity grows more marked in many places at first well supplied.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000011|This is true of clay, stone, water, and the commonest kinds of labor.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000011_000004|Progress, population, prosperity, are not primarily conditioned on their amount; limitation will be felt far earlier elsewhere.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000002|In the attempt to get some food products in greater quantity from a given area at a given time, increasing difficulty is met with at once.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000004|Some replenishing agents will restore themselves if given time; the forest will grow up if left untouched by man; the field will recover its fertile quality if allowed to lie fallow.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000005|But this self replenishing of agents is a slow process, and time is costly.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000006|Man therefore tries in other ways to force more uses out of goods, until checked by the increasing difficulty.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000008|But it can now be seen that the law may apply ultimately, though in differing degrees, to every kind of economic goods.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000009|Indeed, the principle just discussed is no more than one phase of the law of economic diminishing returns, which has a universal application to the realm of values.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000015_000000|four.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000015_000003|The second part of the opening proposition expresses the view here held: the supply of no important class of goods is absolutely fixed, in any reasonable sense.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000015_000004|Most, if not all, belong to the class that is increasable, although it may be with much difficulty. Even when the exact thing cannot be duplicated, as a bust by an ancient sculptor or an autograph of a dead author, many substitutes serving the same or closely related wants, affect and limit the demand, and thus increase the supply.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000003|The word supply means the amount that is available at the moment or during the period spoken of. The land in Greenland is not, and probably never can be, a part of the supply of land in England.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000004|The land in America for centuries was not, but now has become, for some purposes, a part of the supply in the same market as the land of England.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000006|The existence of coal mines in Venus or Mars is of no economic importance to us, but coal mines on the earth, yet undiscovered, present a potential supply that at any moment may be realized.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000020_000000|two.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000020_000004|Undeveloped areas will be opened to the world, and new geologic realms will be explored.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000020_000005|Yet the notion criticized above is found in all the older text books.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000002|Subsoil ploughing annexes to agricultural land new layers of soil that are just as important as new acres added to the surface.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000004|New trade routes and new means of transportation add to the supplies available in the older countries as effectively as if their areas were increased.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000005|The building of railroads in western America had an effect on English rents identical in nature with that which would have been produced had an equal area of somewhat less fertile land touching England, risen out of the ocean.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000006|Every country in Europe has repeatedly felt the shock of these great economic changes which have compelled the recapitalization on a lower plane, of nearly all kinds of their landed wealth.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000007|Where the same agents have not been multiplied, substitutes have been found that are just as effective in meeting the economic need.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000008|It is the result, the gratification, that man seeks: any particular good is but the means to an end.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000024_000000|four.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000024_000005|There are still great areas of fens, swamps, and marshlands, such as those on the Jersey coast in this country, which with moderate effort could be reclaimed.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000026_000001|The pioneer annexes new areas to the economic world and to the market in which he has lived.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000026_000002|This is recognized of late by writers that perhaps do not fully mark its significance to economic theory.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000002|Great areas on the edge of civilization still await the pioneer, the prospector, and the miner.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000003|Here is a source of wealth and a field for enterprise.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000004|The growth of society may cause some of the poorer agents in time to become the best.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000005|When men crossed the ocean to settle on Manhattan Island, it was a wilderness; but the growth of commerce has caused the land in New York city to become more valuable than that in London.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000006|Changes are still in progress, for of late the smaller ports to the south have increased their trade at a more rapid pace than New York has.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000000|The difference in increasableness of the various forms of wealth is of importance in considering various social questions such as the effects of an increase of population, and the kinds of taxation most equitable and most favorable to the progress of society.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000001|Account must be taken of the fact that the number of bricks can be increased more easily than the amount of land; but there must not be overlooked the possibility of increase in any of these forms of wealth, nor the limits to the increase of any one of them.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000002|When one wishes to save or increase wealth, he turns to these great unappropriated fields, unused things or things imperfectly used, and tries to convert them into effective agents.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000003|The different forms of wealth may be ranged on a scale according to the ease with which they can be increased by effort.
train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000005|Some natural resources belong at one end, and some at the other end of this scale.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000001_000000|MACHINERY AND LABOR
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000002|Tools are portions of matter, such as bone, wood, iron, which man guides and directs in applying his energy to things.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000004|In many cases there is a clearly marked distinction between tool and machine.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000005|A simple, single piece that can be taken into the hand, as a spade, a hammer, a knife, is a tool; a combination of wheels, levers, pulleys, etc, is a machine.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000007|The drag develops into the cart, a simple machine.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000008|The spinning stick, a tool used in ancient times, developed into the Saxon spinning wheel of the sixteenth century, the form used when America was colonized.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000009|The use of power derived from nature, as that of wind and water and steam, while not the essential mark of machines, is the most characteristic feature of their modern development.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000002|The great industrial changes in the Middle Ages generally grew out of political changes, or of changes of routes of trade whereby large industries were disturbed, or of changes in the use of land through new methods and the bringing into use of land in other places.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000003|The industrial changes in England at the end of the eighteenth century on the contrary were due mainly to great mechanical inventions. The development of the textile machines for cotton and wool spinning and weaving mark the beginning of the movement.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000004|Here for the first time were inventions in such numbers, of such a nature, and under such conditions, that they were rapidly and widely applied, affecting the lives of a great number of workers.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000005|The steam engine at the same time opened up the long line of mechanical inventions by which wood and iron are shaped and wrought, and the iron industry underwent notable developments.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000006|Since that time, have taken place in all Western countries that rapid expansion in the use of machines and those notable changes in industrial organization which distinguish our era from all others.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000002|It is especially adapted to the application of power.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000003|In the United States, in eighteen seventy, in manufactures alone, two and one third million horse power were used; in nineteen hundred, eleven and one third million, the increase being five fold.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000004|It is said that in the world, in eighteen seventy, three and one half million horse power was furnished by stationary engines, ten millions by locomotives.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000005|Probably to day the total is four fold as great.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000000|Machinery is applicable with especial advantage to industries that change the form of materials easily transported and widely used.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000001|There must be a large output to justify the use of machinery.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000002|In eighteen forty a man's work in spinning cotton was three hundred and twenty times as effective as in seventeen sixty nine, in eighteen fifty five it was seven hundred times; and though the rate of improvement is diminishing, to day the productivity of such labor is still greater.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000003|Similar examples are found in the manufacture of shoes, and in all varieties of wood and iron work.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000004|Machinery is most applicable where there is a compact plant; not so easily where the power has to be distributed over a wide area, unless a special track can be provided.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000000|Machinery, therefore, has affected manufactures much more immediately and greatly than it has agriculture.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000001|It has not as yet, for example, been found practicable to apply steam to ploughing to any great extent. As the profitable use of most farm machinery requires a level surface and a large area given to a single crop, it cannot be used as well east of the Alleghany Mountains as in the Mississippi Valley, and it is still uneconomical in large portions of the civilized world.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000002|Despite this difficulty the methods of the farmer of to day contrast strongly with those of one hundred or fifty years ago.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000003|Planters and seeders, reapers, harvesters, corn shellers, hay loaders, automatic unloading forks, elevators, water power, steam, and gasoline engines allow great economies.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000004|The labor needed to produce food for one hundred people is a fraction of what it was one hundred years ago.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000013_000001|two. EFFECT OF MACHINERY ON THE WELFARE AND WAGES OF THE MASSES
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000003|Men cannot quickly change their methods of working or their place of work.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000005|If machines displace labor rapidly, men who cannot adjust themselves to the new conditions suffer, and there are always some who cannot adjust themselves, always some who suffer.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000006|It is rarely possible for a man past middle life to shift over into a new trade where his efficiency will be as great and his pay as high as in the old.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000007|New methods of puddling iron sent many old men into the poorhouses of Pennsylvania only a few years ago.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000008|Even where the total employment increases, the individual sometimes suffers.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000009|The increased demand resulting from the cheapening of a product may call for more workers than were employed before the new machinery came in, and yet some of the former workmen may be thrown out of employment.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000011|As the machines are expensive and cannot be worked properly by men not highly expert, men past thirty five years of age have not been allowed to learn their use.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000001|The change crushes hardest the man at the margin of employment.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000002|The more skilled workman can hasten his pace and still earn a living wage in competition with a machine, while the less skilled can but drop out entirely, innocent victims of an economic change, sacrifices to the cause of industrial progress.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000003|Happily such pathetic incidents are relatively not numerous.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000004|Most machinery is introduced in commercial centers, and gradually spreads to other factories in such a way that most men can adapt themselves to the change.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000005|The effect of machinery must not be judged by the extreme cases.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000019_000002|The notion is that there is exactly so much labor predetermined to be done; therefore, if machines are introduced, there is that much less for men to do.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000019_000003|The logical conclusion easily drawn is that every machine reduces wages.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000019_000004|Few, however, would go on to the further conclusion that in the aggregate the existing machinery, like an enormous vampire, is sucking the life blood of the working people,--though traces of such a notion frequently appear.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000000|If extreme examples are taken, it may be made to appear either that an increase or that a decrease of employment results from machinery. Industries grade off from those that are capable of developing a greater and greater demand, to those at the other extreme that are capable of a very slight increase, as a result of a lowering of the price.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000001|There seems to be practically no limit to the consumption of textiles, provided their price falls; the demand for dress alone is indefinitely expansible.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000002|Queen Elizabeth, who had a different dress for every day in the year, has many potential imitators.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000003|There is a constant increase relatively, as well as absolutely, in the number employed in transportation, as each census shows; there are more railroad men relatively than there were stage drivers and teamsters before the day of railroads.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000004|The number of people now engaged in printing books and papers is larger by far than in the days when all the books of the world were written by the old monks in their cloisters.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000006|In part the change is, however, the effect of the use of machinery and other improvements in agricultural processes.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000007|The amount of raw food products required for each hundred persons is quite inelastic.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000008|As it becomes possible to expend more for food, the change is made in quality, variety, flavor, rather than in quantity.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000010|In other cases also, new industries are made possible as machines liberate energy from the production of the more necessary goods.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000023_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000023_000002|If the workers can do nothing but blindly pursue the same tasks, it is to be expected that the wages of hand labor will fall in a particular trade into which machinery is suddenly introduced.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000023_000003|When, as sometimes happens, employers introduce machines for the immediate purpose of breaking a strike, the workmen are convinced that machinery is the enemy of labor.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000024_000000|Because the extensive introduction of machinery in England was at first accompanied by the unhappy result of a lengthening of the hours of labor in factories, this result was deemed to be necessary in all other cases.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000024_000001|It was in fact quite abnormal, and has not been seen elsewhere. The owners of factories wished to keep their machines employed as many hours as possible; the laboring classes of England, being at the same time demoralized and depressed by industrial and social influences that had no logical connection with machinery, had no power to resist this movement.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000024_000002|In all other countries of Europe and in America, where the introduction of machinery has been more gradual and normal, it has been followed immediately by a shortening of working hours, as eventually it was in England also.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000002|The more perfect the economic environment, the higher the incomes even of those who own no part of the machinery.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000003|A part of this benefit may appear in the form of higher money wages received, a part in the form of the lower price of things bought.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000004|Real wages are the essential thing, and as a consumer the laborer shares with every other member of society in the benefits of improved machinery.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000005|The benefits resulting from greater abundance are diffused, and as goods are brought from the high, or scarcity, end of the scale of value down toward the level of free goods, everybody gains by the abundance and cheapness.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000000|The general, or average, gain is not to be judged by comparing the conditions of the lowest grade of society with those of fifty years ago, for while that grade may have been bettered only a little, it has been possible for large numbers to rise to higher grades because of the use of machinery.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000001|The physical tasks are to day much lighter than ever before, and a larger proportion of society is engaged in industries that require skill and thought rather than physical labor.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000002|That portion of the work is being more and more shifted upon machines.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000003|It is important, though, to distinguish between classes of workers in judging of the benefits and evils of machines.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000004|A machine is "an iron man," it has been said, and comes into competition with other men to lower their wages by outworking and underbidding them.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000005|But this iron man can do only automatic tasks; it is not capable of exercising judgment.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000006|Every intelligent laborer who can adjust, adapt, fit himself for more intelligent action will rise above the machine and profit by its presence.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000007|But the crude physical labor which can compete only on the plane of automatic machines, must find its field of employment more and more hedged in.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000008|If the wages of unskilled labor are not depressed, it is because of the enterprise of others who rise to more skilled employments and thus reduce the competitors of the lowest rank.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000003|Factories compel great numbers of laborers to live near each other and to work together.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000004|The sudden crowding together of people into new social relations is usually bad for morals.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000005|Men are moral under the eyes of their neighbors, acquaintances, and families; habits become adjusted to right standards, and the temptations in new conditions are always great.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000006|Until of late, engineering science has not been able to deal with the problems that arise where population is densely crowded, and the early factories with their surroundings were most unsanitary. Under the degrading conditions that resulted in some places, especially in England, the effect of machinery on the intelligence of the workers was bad.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000007|Whether this is its natural result is debatable, but the factory worker in general does not appear to be less intelligent than the agricultural worker.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000008|The alertness of the city dweller is due doubtless to social contact more than to the immediate work he does. This work may or may not be less thought awakening than work with simple tools.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000009|There is a general improvement along all the lines of intelligence, morals, and health.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000010|The conditions in the cities as regards health and morals are approaching those of agricultural communities.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000011|While many factory districts are forlorn, there may be seen around many factories more happy conditions, better buildings, better sanitation, increased leisure for workers, workmen's clubs, educational agencies, and many other evidences of civic and social progress.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000000|six.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000002|It is not yet evident how many can own a share in great factories, but the control drifts into few hands.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000003|It is not yet clear what social effects great corporations will have on our democratic institutions.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000004|Many problems of large industry remain to be solved in the near future.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000005|The question in the old form, as to the effect of machinery on labor, is no longer open.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000006|It has been clearly answered by experience and explained by theory: the economic effect of machinery is to lift the productiveness and efficiency of the average man.
train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000007|The benefits are unequally distributed, but nearly all share in them to some degree.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000003_000000|Chapter sixteen
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000004_000000|The Night Attack
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000006_000001|"There is something out there in the darkness."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000007_000002|Hadn't you noticed it before?"
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000008_000000|"Oh!" cried the girl, breathing a sigh of relief, "is it our lion?"
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000011_000000|"He is," replied the ape man. Smith Oldwick fingered the grip of his pistol.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000012_000000|Tarzan saw the involuntary movement and shook his head.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000013_000000|"Leave that thing where it is, Lieutenant," he said.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000014_000000|The officer laughed nervously.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000014_000001|"I couldn't help it, you know, old man," he said; "instinct of self preservation and all that."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000015_000000|"It would prove an instinct of self destruction," said Tarzan. "There are at least three hunting lions out there watching us.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000015_000001|If we had a fire or the moon were up you would see their eyes plainly. Presently they may come after us but the chances are that they will not.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000015_000002|If you are very anxious that they should, fire your pistol and hit one of them."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000016_000000|"What if they do charge?" asked the girl; "there is no means of escape."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000018_000000|"What chance would we three have against them?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000019_000001|"One must die sometime," he said.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000019_000004|What difference does it make which it is, or whether it comes tonight or next year or in ten years? After it is over it will be all the same."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000020_000000|The girl shuddered.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000020_000001|"Yes," she said in a dull, hopeless voice, "after it is over it will be all the same."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000021_000001|Smith Oldwick sat in the entrance and leaned against the cliff.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000021_000002|Tarzan squatted on the opposite side.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000022_000000|"May I smoke?" questioned the officer of Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000022_000001|"I have been hoarding a few cigarettes and if it won't attract those bouncers out there I would like to have one last smoke before I cash in. Will you join me?" and he proffered the ape man a cigarette.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000024_000000|Smith Oldwick lighted his cigarette and sat puffing slowly upon it.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000025_000000|It was Smith Oldwick who broke the silence.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000025_000001|"Aren't they unusually quiet for lions?" he asked.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000026_000001|They are very quiet when they are stalking their quarry."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000027_000002|Just knowing that they are there and occasionally seeing something like a shadow in the darkness and the faint sounds that come to us from them are getting on my nerves. But I hope," he said, "that all three don't charge at once."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000028_000000|"Three?" said Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000028_000001|"There are seven of them out there now."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000029_000000|"Good Lord! exclaimed Smith Oldwick.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000031_000001|A man is out there now with those lions."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000032_000000|"It is impossible!" exclaimed Smith Oldwick.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000032_000001|"They would tear him to pieces."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000033_000000|"What makes you think there is a man there?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000034_000001|"I am afraid you would not understand," he replied.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000035_000000|"What do you mean by that?" asked the officer.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000036_000000|"Well," said Tarzan, "if you had been born without eyes you could not understand sense impressions that the eyes of others transmit to their brains, and as you have both been born without any sense of smell I am afraid you cannot understand how I can know that there is a man there."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000037_000000|"You mean that you scent a man?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000038_000000|Tarzan nodded affirmatively.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000040_000000|"Yes," said Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000041_000001|"No," he said, "I cannot understand."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000042_000001|I have a theory, but it is utterly preposterous."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000043_000000|"What is it?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000046_000000|"We can't know," replied Tarzan, "and the chances are that the very place we are seeking is the place they don't wish us to trespass on."
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000047_000000|"You mean the water?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000048_000000|"Yes," replied Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000049_000000|For some time they sat in silence which was broken only by an occasional sound of movement from the outer darkness.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000049_000002|Smith Oldwick was dozing against the rocky wall of the cavern entrance, while the girl, exhausted by the excitement and fatigue of the day, had fallen into deep slumber.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000049_000003|An instant after Tarzan arose, Smith Oldwick and the girl were aroused by a volley of thunderous roars and the noise of many padded feet rushing toward them.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000051_000001|Yet something held him there in futile self sacrifice.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000052_000000|The great Tarmangani had not even the satisfaction of striking a blow in self defense.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000052_000002|In falling his head struck the rocky surface of the cliff, stunning him.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000053_000001|The first dim impression borne to his awakening mind was a confusion of savage sounds which gradually resolved themselves into the growling of lions, and then, little by little, there came back to him the recollections of what had preceded the blow that had felled him.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000054_000000|Strong in his nostrils was the scent of Numa, the lion, and against one naked leg he could feel the coat of some animal.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000054_000001|Slowly Tarzan opened his eyes.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000055_000000|With the full return of his senses Tarzan's nose told him that the beast above him was Numa of the Wamabo pit.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000056_000000|Thus reassured, the ape man spoke to the lion and at the same time made a motion as though he would arise.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000056_000001|Immediately Numa stepped from above him.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000057_000000|And then Tarzan turned his eyes into the cave and saw that the girl and Smith Oldwick were gone.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000058_000000|His efforts had been for naught.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000058_000001|With an angry toss of his head, the ape man turned upon the two lions who had continued to pace back and forth a few yards from him.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000060_000000|"Come," said Tarzan suddenly and grasping the lion's mane with his left hand he moved toward the other lions, his companion pacing at his side.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000061_000001|To have attempted to meet the full shock of a lion's charge would have been suicidal even for the giant Tarmangani.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000061_000002|Instead he resorted to methods of agility and cunning, for quick as are the great cats, even quicker is Tarzan of the Apes.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000062_000000|With outspread, raking talons and bared fangs Numa sprang for the naked chest of the ape man.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000064_000000|With a final effort he threw himself from Numa's back and sought, by his quickness, to elude the frenzied beast for the fraction of an instant that would permit him to regain his feet and meet the animal again upon a more even footing.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000064_000001|But this time Numa was too quick for him and he was but partially up when a great paw struck him on the side of the head and bowled him over.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000065_000000|As he fell he saw a black streak shoot above him and another lion close upon his antagonist.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000066_000000|He of the black coat tremendously outclassed his adversary in point of size and strength as well as in ferocity.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000067_000000|As Numa rose from his second victim and shook himself, Tarzan could not but again note the wondrous proportions and symmetry of the beast.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000067_000001|The lions they had bested were splendid specimens themselves and in their coats Tarzan noted a suggestion of the black which was such a strongly marked characteristic of Numa of the pit.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000068_000002|Immediately Numa of the pit pricked up his ears and, regarding the ape man steadily for a moment, he answered the call of hunger and started briskly off toward the south, stopping occasionally to see if Tarzan was following.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000070_000001|The ape man was puzzled by the possibilities suggested by the tracks, but in the light of any previous experience he could not explain satisfactorily to himself what his perceptions indicated.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000000|There was little change in the formation of the gorge; it still wound its erratic course between precipitous cliffs.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000002|Presently the bottom of the gorge began to slope more rapidly.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000003|Here and there were indications of ancient rapids and waterfalls.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000004|The trail became more difficult but was well marked and showed indications of great antiquity, and, in places, the handiwork of man.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000006|How far it extended east and west he could not see, but apparently it was no more than three or four miles across from north to south.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000072_000000|That it was a well watered valley was indicated by the wealth of vegetation that carpeted its floor from the rocky cliffs upon the north to the mountains on the south.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000073_000001|Preceded by the lion Tarzan descended into the valley, which, at this point, was forested with large trees.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000073_000003|Raucous voiced birds of brilliant plumage screamed among the branches while innumerable monkeys chattered and scolded above him.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000074_000003|It was as though he had been suddenly transported to another world and he felt a strange restlessness that might easily have been a premonition of danger.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000075_000000|Fruits were growing among the trees and some of these he saw that Manu, the monkey, ate.
train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000075_000001|Being hungry he swung to the lower branches and, amidst a great chattering of the monkeys, proceeded to eat such of the fruit as he saw the monkeys ate in safety.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000002_000002|There were places where the ape man alone might have negotiated the ascent but none where the others could hope successfully to reach the plateau, nor where Tarzan, powerful and agile as he was, could have ventured safely to carry them aloft.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000003_000003|Nor could he help but admire her fortitude and the uncomplaining effort she was making to push on.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000004_000001|"It's no use," he said to Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000004_000002|"I can go no farther.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000004_000004|You will have to go on without me."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000005_000000|"No," said the girl, "we cannot do that.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000005_000001|We have all been through so much together and the chances of our escape are still so remote that whatever comes, let us remain together, unless," and she looked up at Tarzan, "you, who have done so much for us to whom you are under no obligations, will go on without us.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000005_000003|It must be as evident to you as it is to me that you cannot save us, for though you succeeded in dragging us from the path of our pursuers, even your great strength and endurance could never take one of us across the desert waste which lies between here and the nearest fertile country."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000000|The ape man returned her serious look with a smile.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000001|"You are not dead," he said to her, "nor is the lieutenant, nor Otobu, nor myself.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000003|Because we remain here and rest is no indication that we shall die here.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000005|So far we have found a way.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000006|Let us take things as they come.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000007|Let us rest now because you and Lieutenant Smith Oldwick need the rest, and when you are stronger we will go on again."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000008_000000|"Yes," he said, "they probably will.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000008_000001|But we need not be concerned with them until they come."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000009_000000|"I wish," said the girl, "that I possessed your philosophy but I am afraid it is beyond me."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000010_000000|"You were not born and reared in the jungle by wild beasts and among wild beasts, or you would possess, as I do, the fatalism of the jungle."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000011_000000|And so they moved to the side of the gorge beneath the shade of an overhanging rock and lay down in the hot sand to rest.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000011_000001|Numa wandered restlessly to and fro and finally, after sprawling for a moment close beside the ape man, rose and moved off up the gorge to be lost to view a moment later beyond the nearest turn.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000012_000000|For an hour the little party rested and then Tarzan suddenly rose and, motioning the others to silence, listened.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000012_000002|"What is it?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000013_000000|"They are coming," he replied.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000013_000001|"They are yet some distance away, though not far, for the sandaled feet of the men and the pads of the lions make little noise upon the soft sands."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000000|"What shall we do-try to go on?" asked Smith Oldwick.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000001|"I believe I could make a go of it now for a short way.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000002|I am much rested.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000003|How about you Miss Kircher?"
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000015_000000|"Oh, yes," she said, "I am much stronger.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000015_000001|Yes, surely I can go on."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000016_000000|Tarzan knew that neither of them quite spoke the truth, that people do not recover so quickly from utter exhaustion, but he saw no other way and there was always the hope that just beyond the next turn would be a way out of the gorge.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000017_000001|They had gone no great distance when the others of the party became aware of the sounds of pursuit, for now the lions were whining as though the fresh scent spoor of their quarry had reached their nostrils.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000018_000000|"I wish that your Numa would return," said the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000000|"Yes," said Tarzan, "but we shall have to do the best we can without him.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000001|I should like to find some place where we can barricade ourselves against attack from all sides.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000002|Possibly then we might hold them off.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000003|Smith Oldwick is a good shot and if there are not too many men he might be able to dispose of them provided they can only come at him one at a time.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000004|The lions don't bother me so much. Sometimes they are stupid animals, and I am sure that these that pursue us, and who are so dependent upon the masters that have raised and trained them, will be easily handled after the warriors are disposed of."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000021_000000|"We are still alive," was his only answer.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000022_000001|It was a jagged fragment of rock which rose some ten feet above the surface of the sand, leaving a narrow aperture between it and the cliff behind.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000022_000002|Toward this they directed their steps and when finally they reached their goal they found a space about two feet wide and ten feet long between the rock and the cliff.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000022_000003|To be sure it was open at both ends but at least they could not be attacked upon all sides at once.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000023_000001|Otobu had seen the monkey too.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000023_000002|"He will tell the parrots," said the black, "and the parrots will tell the madmen."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000024_000000|"It is all the same," replied Tarzan; "the lions would have found us here.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000024_000001|We could not hope to hide from them."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000026_000000|The minutes that dragged by seemed veritable eternities to Bertha Kircher and then at last, and almost with relief, she knew that the pursuers were upon them.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000027_000000|Then she heard footsteps running rapidly toward Smith Oldwick and, as his pistol spoke, there was a scream and the sound of a falling body.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000027_000001|Evidently disheartened by the failure of their first attempt the assaulters drew off, but only for a short time.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000027_000002|Again they came, this time a man opposing Tarzan and a lion seeking to overcome Smith Oldwick.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000029_000000|"Is this the end?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000031_000001|In attempting to shield the girl, Tarzan received one of the shafts in the shoulder, and so heavily had the weapon been hurled that it bore him backward to the ground.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000031_000002|Smith Oldwick fired his pistol twice when he too was struck down, the weapon entering his right leg midway between hip and knee.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000032_000000|As he fell his pistol dropped from his fingers, and the girl, seeing, snatched it up.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000033_000000|Simultaneously there broke upon the astonished ears of both attackers and attacked a volley of shots from the gorge.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000033_000001|With the sweetness of the voice of an angel from heaven the Europeans heard the sharp barked commands of an English noncom.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000034_000000|Rolling the body of the warrior to one side Tarzan struggled to his feet, the spear still protruding from his shoulder.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000034_000006|"Don't shoot," she cried to the latter, "we are both friends."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000035_000000|"Hold up your hands, you, then," he commanded Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000036_000000|At this juncture the British sergeant who had been in command of the advance guard approached and when Tarzan and the girl spoke to him in English, explaining their disguises, he accepted their word, since they were evidently not of the same race as the creatures which lay dead about them.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000036_000002|Smith Oldwick's wounds were dressed, as well as were those of the ape man, and in half an hour they were on their way to the camp of their rescuers.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000037_000000|That night it was arranged that the following day Smith Oldwick and Bertha Kircher should be transported to British headquarters near the coast by aeroplane, the two planes attached to the expeditionary force being requisitioned for the purpose.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000037_000001|Tarzan and Otobu declined the offers of the British captain to accompany his force overland on the return march as Tarzan explained that his country lay to the west, as did Otobu's, and that they would travel together as far as the country of the Wamabos.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000038_000000|"You are not going back with us, then?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000039_000000|"No," replied the ape man.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000039_000002|I will continue my journey in that direction."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000040_000000|She cast appealing eyes toward him.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000040_000001|"You will go back into that terrible jungle?" she asked.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000040_000002|"We shall never see you again?"
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000041_000000|He looked at her a moment in silence.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000041_000001|"Never," he said, and without another word turned and walked away.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000042_000000|In the morning Colonel Capell came from the base camp in one of the planes that was to carry Smith Oldwick and the girl to the east. Tarzan was standing some distance away as the ship landed and the officer descended to the ground.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000042_000001|He saw the colonel greet his junior in command of the advance detachment, and then he saw him turn toward Bertha Kircher who was standing a few paces behind the captain.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000042_000003|He saw Colonel Capell walk toward her with outstretched hands and smiling face and, although he could not hear the words of his greeting, he saw that it was friendly and cordial to a degree.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000043_000000|Tarzan turned away scowling, and if any had been close by they might have heard a low growl rumble from his chest.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000043_000001|He knew that his country was at war with Germany and that not only his duty to the land of his fathers, but also his personal grievance against the enemy people and his hatred of them, demanded that he expose the girl's perfidy, and yet he hesitated, and because he hesitated he growled-not at the German spy but at himself for his weakness.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000045_000000|The Tommies, their packs and accouterments slung, were waiting the summons to continue their return march.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000045_000003|"I wish you would come back with us, Greystoke," he said, "and if my appeal carries no inducement possibly that of Smith Oldwick and the young lady who just left us may.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000045_000004|They asked me to urge you to return to civilization."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000046_000000|"No;" said Tarzan, "I shall go my own way.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000046_000001|Miss Kircher and Lieutenant Smith Oldwick were only prompted by a sense of gratitude in considering my welfare."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000048_000001|It was beyond him to conceive that a British officer should thus laconically speak of an enemy spy whom he had had within his power and permitted to escape.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000048_000002|"Yes," he replied, "I knew that she was Bertha Kircher, the German spy?"
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000052_000001|Look!
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000053_000000|"The diary of Hauptmann Fritz Schneider!" repeated Tarzan in a constrained voice.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000053_000002|He is the man who murdered Lady Greystoke."
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000054_000003|Capell looked at him questioningly.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000055_000001|"Can this be true?
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000055_000002|Listen!" and he read an excerpt from the closely written page:
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000056_000000|"'Played a little joke on the English pig.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000057_000000|"She lives!" cried Tarzan.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000058_000001|"And now?"
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000059_000000|"I will return with you, of course.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000059_000001|How terribly I have wronged Miss Canby, but how could I know?
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000059_000002|I even told Smith Oldwick, who loves her, that she was a German spy.
train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000060_000000|"Not only must I return to find my wife but I must right this wrong."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000003|Moreover, you must remember that he has got to think of the danger from his comrades too. He's there at his post.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000004|How could he explain leaving it?
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000005|But even if there were no obstacles to his freedom of action he would do nothing.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000006|At present he hasn't enough moral energy to take a resolution of any sort. Permit me also to point out that if I had detained him we would have been committed to a course of action on which I wished to know your precise intentions first."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000053_000000|The great personage rose heavily, an imposing shadowy form in the greenish gloom of the room.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000054_000000|"I'll see the Attorney General to night, and will send for you to morrow morning.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000054_000001|Is there anything more you'd wish to tell me now?"
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000055_000000|The Assistant Commissioner had stood up also, slender and flexible.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000056_000000|"I think not, Sir Ethelred, unless I were to enter into details which-"
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000057_000001|No details, please."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000058_000000|The great shadowy form seemed to shrink away as if in physical dread of details; then came forward, expanded, enormous, and weighty, offering a large hand.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000058_000001|"And you say that this man has got a wife?"
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000000|"Yes, Sir Ethelred," said the Assistant Commissioner, pressing deferentially the extended hand.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000003|Nothing could be more characteristic of the respectable bond than that," went on, with a touch of grimness, the Assistant Commissioner, whose own wife too had refused to hear of going abroad.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000004|"Yes, a genuine wife.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000005|And the victim was a genuine brother in law.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000006|From a certain point of view we are here in the presence of a domestic drama."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000060_000000|The Assistant Commissioner laughed a little; but the great man's thoughts seemed to have wandered far away, perhaps to the questions of his country's domestic policy, the battle ground of his crusading valour against the paynim Cheeseman.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000060_000001|The Assistant Commissioner withdrew quietly, unnoticed, as if already forgotten.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000001|This affair, which, in one way or another, disgusted Chief Inspector Heat, seemed to him a providentially given starting point for a crusade.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000002|He had it much at heart to begin. He walked slowly home, meditating that enterprise on the way, and thinking over Mr Verloc's psychology in a composite mood of repugnance and satisfaction.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000003|He walked all the way home.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000004|Finding the drawing room dark, he went upstairs, and spent some time between the bedroom and the dressing room, changing his clothes, going to and fro with the air of a thoughtful somnambulist.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000005|But he shook it off before going out again to join his wife at the house of the great lady patroness of Michaelis.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000000|He knew he would be welcomed there.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000001|On entering the smaller of the two drawing rooms he saw his wife in a small group near the piano.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000003|Behind the screen the great lady had only two persons with her: a man and a woman, who sat side by side on arm chairs at the foot of her couch.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000004|She extended her hand to the Assistant Commissioner.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000063_000000|"I never hoped to see you here to night.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000063_000001|Annie told me-"
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000064_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000064_000001|I had no idea myself that my work would be over so soon."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000065_000000|The Assistant Commissioner added in a low tone: "I am glad to tell you that Michaelis is altogether clear of this-"
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000066_000000|The patroness of the ex convict received this assurance indignantly.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000067_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000067_000001|Were your people stupid enough to connect him with-"
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000068_000000|"Not stupid," interrupted the Assistant Commissioner, contradicting deferentially.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000068_000001|"Clever enough-quite clever enough for that."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000069_000000|A silence fell.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000069_000001|The man at the foot of the couch had stopped speaking to the lady, and looked on with a faint smile.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000071_000000|Mr Vladimir and the Assistant Commissioner, introduced, acknowledged each other's existence with punctilious and guarded courtesy.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000072_000001|The Assistant Commissioner knew the lady.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000073_000000|"You do not look frightened," he pronounced, after surveying her conscientiously with his tired and equable gaze.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000074_000000|"Well, he tried to at least," amended the lady.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000075_000000|"Force of habit perhaps," said the Assistant Commissioner, moved by an irresistible inspiration.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000076_000000|"He has been threatening society with all sorts of horrors," continued the lady, whose enunciation was caressing and slow, "apropos of this explosion in Greenwich Park.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000076_000001|It appears we all ought to quake in our shoes at what's coming if those people are not suppressed all over the world.
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000076_000002|I had no idea this was such a grave affair."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000077_000000|Mr Vladimir, affecting not to listen, leaned towards the couch, talking amiably in subdued tones, but he heard the Assistant Commissioner say:
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000078_000000|"I've no doubt that Mr Vladimir has a very precise notion of the true importance of this affair."
train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000113_000000|"Theoretically.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000000|The evening was now at hand.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000001|The sun was setting once more over the Virginia hills destined to be scarred so deeply by battle, but attack and defense went on.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000002|As night came the thudding of cannon added to the tumult, and then the three boys saw the Rappahannock, a deep and wide stream flowing between high banks crested with timber.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000003|Ahead of them Pope's army was crossing on the bridge and in boats, and masses of infantry supported by heavy batteries had turned to protect the crossing.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000004|The Southern vanguard could not assail such a powerful force, and before the night was over the whole Union army passed to the Northern side of the Rappahannock.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000002_000000|Dick felt a mixture of chagrin and satisfaction as he crossed the river, chagrin that this great army should draw back, as McClellan's had been forced to draw back at the Seven Days, and satisfaction that they were safe for the time being and could prepare for a new start.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000000|But the feeling of exultation soon passed and gave way wholly to chagrin.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000001|They were retreating before an army not exceeding their own, in numbers, perhaps less.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000002|They had another great force, the Army of the Potomac, which should have been there, and then they could have bade defiance to Lee and Jackson.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000003|The North with its great numbers, its fine courage and its splendid patriotism should never be retreating.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000005|They ought not to be hiding behind a river.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000004_000000|Long after darkness came the firing continued between skirmishers across the stream, but finally it, too, waned and Dick was permitted to throw himself upon the ground and sleep with the sleeping thousands.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000004_000001|Warner and Pennington slept near him and not far away was the brave sergeant. Even he was overpowered by fatigue and he slept like one dead, never stirring.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000000|Dick was awakened next morning by the booming of cannon.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000001|He had become so much used to such sounds that he would have slept on had not the crashes been so irregular.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000002|He stood up, rubbed his eyes and then looked in the direction whence came the cannonade.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000003|He saw from the crest of a hill great numbers of Confederate troops on the other side of the river, the August sun glittering over thousands of bayonets and rifle barrels, and along the somber batteries of great guns.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000004|The firing, so far as he could determine, was merely to feel out or annoy the Northern army.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000006_000000|It was a strange sight to Dick, one that is not looked upon often, two great armies gazing across a river at each other, and, sure to meet, sooner or later, in mortal combat.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000006_000001|It was thrilling, awe inspiring, but it made his heart miss a beat or two at the thought of the wounds and death to come, all the more terrible because those who fought together were of the same blood, and the same nation.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000007_000000|Warner and Pennington joined him on the height where he stood, and they saw that in the early hours before dawn the Northern generals had not been idle.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000007_000001|The whole army of Pope was massed along the left bank of the river and every high point was crowned with heavy batteries of artillery.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000007_000002|There had been a long drought, and at some points the Rappahannock could be forded, but not in the face of such a defence as the North here offered.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000008_000000|Colonel Winchester himself came a moment or two later and joined them as they gazed at the two armies and the river between.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000008_000001|Both he and the boys used their glasses and they distinctly saw the Southern masses.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000009_000000|"Will they try to cross, sir?" asked Dick of the colonel.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000010_000000|"I don't think so, but if they do we ought to beat them back.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000010_000001|Meanwhile, Dick, my boy, every day's delay is a fresh card in our hand.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000010_000002|McClellan is landing his army at Aquia Creek, whence it can march in two days to a junction with us, when we would become overwhelming and irresistible. But I wish it didn't take so long to disembark an army!"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000011_000000|The note of anxiety in his voice did not escape Dick.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000011_000001|"You wish then to be sure of the junction between our two armies before Lee and Jackson strike?"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000000|"Yes, Dick.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000003|It gave us two chances, when we had but one before.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000004|But, Dick, I'm afraid.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000006|I wish I could divine what is in the mind of those two men, Lee and Jackson. They surely have a plan of some kind, but what is it?"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000013_000000|"Have we any definite news from the other side, sir?"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000000|"Shepard came in this morning.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000001|But little ever escapes him, and he says that the whole Southern army is up.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000003|He says that they are all flushed with confidence in their own courage and fighting powers and the ability of their leaders.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000004|Oh, if only the Army of the Potomac would come!
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000005|If we could only stave off battle long enough for it to reach us!"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000015_000000|"Don't you think we could do it, sir?
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000015_000001|Couldn't General Pope retreat on Washington then, and, as they continued to follow us, we could turn and spring on them with both armies."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000016_000000|But Colonel Winchester shook his head.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000001|"All Europe, eager to see the Union split, would then help the Confederacy in every possible manner.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000002|The old monarchies would say that despite our superior numbers we're not able to maintain ourselves outside the defenses of Washington.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000003|And these things would injure us in ways that we cannot afford.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000004|Remember, Dick, my boy, that this republic is the hope of the world, and that we must save it."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000018_000000|"It will be done, sir," said Dick, almost in the tone of a young prophet.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000018_000001|"I know the spirit of the men.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000018_000002|No matter how many defeats are inflicted upon us by our own brethren we'll triumph in the end."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000019_000000|"It's my own feeling, Dick.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000019_000001|It cannot, it must not be any other way!"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000020_000000|Dick remained upborne by a confidence in the future rather than in the present, and throughout the morning he remained with his comrades, under arms, but doing little, save to hear the fitful firing which ran along a front of several miles.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000020_000001|But later in the day a heavy crash came from a ford further up the stream.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000021_000000|Under cover of a great artillery fire Stuart's cavalry dashed into the ford, and drove off the infantry and a battery posted to defend it.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000021_000001|Then they triumphantly placed heavy lines of pickets about the ford on the Union side.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000022_000002|They charged with so much impetuosity that Stuart's cavalry abandoned such dangerous ground.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000023_000000|Then came a silence and a great looking back and forth.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000023_000001|The threatening armies stared at each other across the water, but throughout the afternoon they lay idle.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000023_000002|The pitiless August sun burned on and the dust that had been trodden up by the scores of thousands hung in clouds low, but almost motionless.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000024_000000|Dick went down into a little creek, emptying into the Rappahannock, and bathed his face and hands.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000024_000002|The water brought a great relief.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000024_000003|Then he went back to Colonel Winchester and his comrades, and waited patiently with them until evening.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000025_000000|He remembered Colonel Winchester's words earlier in the day, and, as the darkness came, he began to wonder what Lee and Jackson were thinking.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000025_000001|He believed that two such redoubtable commanders must have formed a plan by this time, and, perhaps in the end, it would be worth a hundred thousand men to know it.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000025_000002|But he could only stare into the darkness and guess and guess.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000026_000000|The night seemed portentous to him.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000026_000001|It was full of sinister omens.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000027_000000|Dick was not wrong.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000027_000001|The Confederate commanders did have a plan and the omens which seemed sinister to him were sinister in fact.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000027_000002|Jackson with his forces was marching up his side of the Rappahannock and the great brain under the old slouch hat was working hard.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000028_000001|They would leave McClellan and the Army of the Potomac nearer to Richmond, their own capital, than they were.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000028_000002|Nevertheless Lee, full of daring despite his years, followed, and the dangers were growing thicker every hour around Pope.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000000|Dick, with his regiment, moved the next morning up the river.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000001|The enemy was in plain view beyond the stream, and Shepard and the other spies reported that the Southern army showed no signs of retiring.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000002|But Shepard had said also that he would not be able to cross the river again.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000003|The hostile scouts and sharpshooters had become too vigilant.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000004|Yet he was sure that Lee and Jackson would attempt to force a passage higher up, where the drought had made good fords.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000030_000000|"It's well that we're showing vigilance," said Colonel Winchester to Dick.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000030_000001|He had fallen into the habit of talking much and confidentially to the boy, because he liked and trusted him, and for another reason which to Dick was yet in the background.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000000|"Beyond a doubt.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000001|They have every reason to strike before the Army of the Potomac can come.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000002|Besides, it is in accord with the character of their generals.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000004|Hear that booming ahead!
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000005|They're attacking one of the fords now!"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000033_000003|He confided at last to his favorite aide his belief that what lay behind the cannonade was more important than the cannonade itself.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000034_000000|"It must be a feint or a blind," he said.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000034_000001|"They fire a great deal, but they don't make any dash for the stream.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000035_000000|"Then what do you think they're up to, sir?"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000036_000000|"They must be sending a heavy force higher up the river to cross where there is no resistance.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000036_000001|And we must meet them there, with my regiment only, if we can obtain no other men."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000037_000000|The colonel obtained leave to go up the Rappahannock until nightfall, but only his own regiment, now reduced to less than four hundred men, was allotted to him.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000037_000001|In truth his division commander thought his purpose useless, but yielded to the insistence of Winchester who was known to be an officer of great merit.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000037_000002|It seemed to the Union generals that they must defend the fords where the Southern army lay massed before them.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000038_000000|Dick learned that there was a little place called Sulphur Springs some miles ahead, and that the river there was spanned by a bridge which the Union cavalry had wrecked the day before.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000038_000001|He divined at once that Colonel Winchester had that ford in mind, and he was glad to be with him on the march to it.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000039_000001|It was also late in the afternoon and Dick was quite sure that they would not reach Sulphur Springs before nightfall.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000040_000001|It makes your lungs work twice as hard as usual, and it's also a sign."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000041_000000|"Tell your sign, old weather sharp," said Warner.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000000|"It's simple enough.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000001|The sign may not be so strong here, but it applies just as it does on the great plains.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000002|It means that a storm is coming. Anybody could tell that.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000003|Look there, in the southwest.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000004|See that cloud edging itself over the horizon.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000005|Things will turn loose to night.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000007|You've been out in my country."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000043_000000|Sergeant Whitley was standing near them regarding the cloud attentively.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000044_000000|"Yes, mr Pennington," he replied.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000044_000001|"I was out there a long time and I'd rather be there now fighting the Indians, instead of fighting our own people, although no other choice was left me.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000044_000002|I've seen some terrible hurricanes on the plains, winds that would cut the earth as if it was done with a ploughshare, and these armies are going to be rained on mighty hard to night."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000045_000000|Dick smiled a little at the sergeant's solemn tone, and formal words, but he saw that he was very much in earnest.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000045_000001|Nor was he one to underrate weather effects upon movements in war.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000046_000000|"What will it mean to the two armies, sergeant?" he asked.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000047_000000|"Depends upon what happens before she busts.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000047_000002|This, I take it, is the end of the drought, and a flood will come tumbling down from the mountains."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000048_000000|The sun now darkened and the clouds gathered heavily on the Western horizon.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000048_000001|Colonel Winchester's anxiety increased fast.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000048_000002|It became evident that the regiment could not reach Sulphur Springs until far into the night, and, still full of alarms, he resolved to take a small detachment, chiefly of his staff, and ride forward at the utmost speed.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000049_000000|He chose about twenty men, including Dick, Warner, Pennington, Sergeant Whitley, and another veteran who were mounted on the horses of junior officers left behind, and pressed forward with speed.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000049_000001|A West Virginian named Shattuck knew something of the country, and led them.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000050_000000|"What is this place, Sulphur Springs?" asked Colonel Winchester of Shattuck.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000000|"Some big sulphur springs spout out of the bank and run down to the river.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000001|They are fine and healthy to drink an' there's a lot of cottages built up by people who come there to stay a while.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000002|But I guess them people have gone away.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000003|It ain't no place for health just at this time."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000052_000000|"That's a certainty," said Colonel Winchester.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000054_000000|"Fortunately.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000054_000001|But can't we go a little faster, boys?"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000055_000000|There was a well defined road and Shattuck now led them at a gallop. As they approached the springs they checked their speed, owing to the increasing darkness.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000055_000001|But Dick's good ears soon told him that something was happening at the springs.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000055_000002|He heard faintly the sound of voices, and the clank and rattle which many men with weapons cannot keep from making now and then.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000056_000000|"I'm afraid, sir," he said to Colonel Winchester, "that they're already across."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000057_000000|The little troop stopped at the command of its leader and all listened intently.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000000|"You're right, Dick," said Colonel Winchester, bitter mortification showing in his tone.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000001|"They're there, and they're on our side of the river.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000002|Oh, we might have known it!
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000003|They say that Stonewall Jackson never sleeps, and they make no mistake, when they call his infantry foot cavalry!"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000059_000000|Dick was silent.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000060_000000|"mr Shattuck," said Colonel Winchester, "how near do you think we can approach without being seen?"
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000062_000000|"Then you lead us.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000062_000002|Now follow softly, lads!
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000062_000003|All of you have hunted the 'coon and 'possum at night, and you should know how to step without making noise."
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000063_000000|Shattuck advanced with certainty, and the others, true to their training, came behind him in single file, and without noise.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000063_000001|But as they advanced the sounds of an army ahead of them increased, and when they reached the edge of the covert they saw a great Confederate division on their side of the stream, in full possession of the cottages and occupying all the ground about them.
train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000064_000000|"There must be seven or eight thousand men here," said Dick, who did not miss the full significance of the fact.
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train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000012_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty seventh Night,
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000006|Peace on Abraham the Friend await!
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000007|But afterwards.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000010|But an thou obey not my bidding, behold, I will hasten to thee and cut off thy head and lay waste thy dominions.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000011|Verily, I give thee good counsel, and the Peace be on those who pace the path of salvation and obey the Most High King!" When Ajib read these words and knew the threat they contained, his eyes sank into the crown of his head and he gnashed his teeth and flew into a furious rage.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000014|Ajib and his men also took horse and host charged down upon host.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000015|-- And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000014_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty eighth Night,
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000001|Then ruled the Kazi of Battle, in whose ordinance is no wrong, for a seal is on his lips and he speaketh not; and the blood railed in rills and purfled earth with curious embroidery; heads grew gray and hotter waxed battle and fiercer.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000005|Who is for jousting?
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000006|Let no sluggard come out nor weakling!" Whereupon there rushed at him a horseman of the Kafirs, as he were a flame of fire; but Sahim let him not stand long before him ere he overthrew him with a thrust.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000007|Then a second came forth and he slew him also, and a third and he tare him in twain, and a fourth and he did him to death; nor did they cease sallying out to him and he left not slaying them, till it was noon, by which time he had laid low two hundred braves.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000008|Then Ajib cried to his men, "Charge once more," and sturdy host on sturdy host down bore and great was the clash of arms and battle roar.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000012|And it was thus.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000019|If we prove the victors, we shall have power to him and, if we be beaten, his being alive in our hands will be a strength to us." And the Emirs said, "The Minister speaketh sooth"!
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000020|--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000016_000000|When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty ninth Night,
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000002|Then dashed out the Ghul of the Mountain, with a club on his shoulder, two hundred pounds in weight, and wheeled and careered, saying, "Ho, worshippers of idols, come ye out and renown it this day, for 'tis a day of onslaught!
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000003|Whoso knoweth me hath enough of my mischief and whoso knoweth me not, I will make myself known to him.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000005|Who is for jousting?
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000006|Who is for fighting? Let no faintheart come forth to me to day nor weakling." And there rushed upon him a Champion of the Infidels, as he were a flame of fire, and drove at him, but Sa'adan charged home at him and dealt him with his club a blow which broke his ribs and cast him lifeless to the earth.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000012|So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached Ajib and his Princes and they fell to the ground like dead men.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000014|So he cried out at the guards, saying, "Woe to you!
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000016|Thereupon he loosed their bonds and collars, and when they saw him, they blessed him and rejoiced In him.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000017|After this they went forth and took all the arms of the guards and Sahim said to them, "Go to your own camp;" while he re entered Ajib's pavilion and, wrapping him in his cloak, lifted him up and made for the Moslem encampment.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000021|Victory!" And he blessed Sahim and bade him arouse Ajib.
train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000022|So he made him smell the vinegar mixed with incense, and he opened his eyes and, finding himself bound and shackled, hung down his head earth wards.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000001_000000|THE LINCOLN STONE PROTEST
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000003_000000|On the third of March, the day before the Legislature adjourned, mr Lincoln caused to be entered upon its records a paper which excited but little interest at the time, but which will probably be remembered long after the good and evil actions of the Vandalia Assembly have faded away from the minds of men.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000003_000001|It was the authentic record of the beginning of a great and momentous career.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000004_000000|Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000005_000000|They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000006_000000|They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000007_000000|They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised, unless at the request of the people of the District.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000008_000000|The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is their reason for entering this protest.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000010_000000|It may seem strange to those who shall read these pages that a protest so mild and cautious as this should ever have been considered either necessary or remarkable.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000010_000001|We have gone so far away from the habits of thought and feeling prevalent at that time that it is difficult to appreciate such acts at their true value.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000010_000002|But if we look a little carefully into the state of politics and public opinion in Illinois in the first half of this century, we shall see how much of inflexible conscience and reason there was in this simple protest.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000013_000000|The whole of the north-west territory had, it is true, been dedicated to freedom by the ordinance of seventeen eighty seven, but in spite of that famous prohibition, slavery existed in a modified form throughout that vast territory wherever there was any considerable population.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000000|But this quasi toleration of the institution was not enough for the advocates of slavery.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000002|Some of the leading politicians, exaggerating the extent of this desire, imagined they saw in it a means of personal advancement, and began to agitate the question of a convention to amend the Constitution.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000003|At that time there was a considerable emigration setting through the State from Kentucky and Tennessee to Missouri.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000005|When young bachelors came from Kentucky on trips of business or pleasure, they dazzled the eyes of the women and excited the envy of their male rivals with their black retainers.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000006|The early Illinoisans were perplexed with a secret and singular sense of inferiority to even so new and raw a community as Missouri, because of its possession of slavery.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000007|Governor Edwards, complaining so late as eighteen twenty nine of the superior mail facilities afforded to Missouri, says: "I can conceive of no reason for this preference, unless it be supposed that because the people of Missouri have negroes to work for them they are to be considered as gentlefolks entitled to higher consideration than us plain 'free State' folks who have to work for ourselves."
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000003|In the House of Representatives there was a contest for a seat upon the result of which the two thirds majority depended.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000004|The seat was claimed by john Shaw and Nicholas Hansen, of Pike County.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000005|The way in which the contest was decided affords a curious illustration of the moral sense of the advocates of slavery.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000006|They wanted at this session to elect a senator and provide for the convention.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000007|Hansen would vote for their senator and not for the convention.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000008|Shaw would vote for the convention, but not for Thomas, their candidate for senator.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000011|They were not more magnanimous in their victory than scrupulous in the means by which they had gained it.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000000|They considered their success already assured; but they left out of view the value of the moral forces called into being by their insolent challenge.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000001|The better class of people in the State, those heretofore unknown in politics, the schoolmasters, the ministers, immediately prepared for the contest, which became one of the severest the State has ever known.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000002|They established three newspapers, and sustained them with money and contributions.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000003|The Governor gave his entire salary for four years to the expenses of this contest, in which he had no personal interest whatever.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000005|They spent their money mostly in printer's ink and in the payment of active and zealous colporteurs. The result was a decisive defeat for the slave party.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000006|The convention was beaten by eighteen hundred majority, in a total vote of eleven thousand six hundred twelve, and the State saved forever from slavery.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000000|But these supreme efforts of the advocates of public morals, uninfluenced by considerations of personal advantage, are of rare occurrence, and necessarily do not survive the exigencies that call them forth.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000001|The apologists of slavery, beaten in the canvass, were more successful in the field of social opinion.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000002|In the reaction which succeeded the triumph of the antislavery party, it seemed as if there had never been any antislavery sentiment in the State.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000006|Any mention of the subject of slavery was thought in the worst possible taste, and no one could avow himself opposed to it without the risk of social ostracism.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000007|Every town had its one or two abolitionists, who were regarded as harmless or dangerous lunatics, according to the energy with which they made their views known.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000000|From this arose a singular prejudice against New England people.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000002|Senator james a McDougall once told us that although he made no pretense of concealing his Eastern nativity, he never could keep his ardent friends in Pike County from denying the fact and fighting any one who asserted it.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000004|The taint of slavery, the contagion of a plague they had not quite escaped, was on the people of Illinois.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000005|They were strong enough to rise once in their might and say they would not have slavery among them.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000006|But in the petty details of every day, in their ordinary talk, and in their routine legislation, their sympathies were still with the slave holders.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000007|They would not enlist with them, but they would fight their battles in their own way.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000000|Their readiness to do what came to be called later, in a famous speech, the "dirty work" of the South was seen in the tragic death of Rev.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000001|Elijah p Lovejoy, in this very year of eighteen thirty seven.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000002|He had for some years been publishing a religious newspaper in saint Louis, but finding the atmosphere of that city becoming dangerous to him on account of the freedom of his comments upon Southern institutions, he moved to Alton, in Illinois, twenty five miles further up the river.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000004|Having thus expressed their determination to vindicate the law, they held a meeting, and cited him before it to declare his intentions.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000005|He said they were altogether peaceful and legal; that he intended to publish a religious newspaper and not to meddle with politics.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000007|But mr Lovejoy was a predestined martyr.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000008|He felt there was a "woe" upon him if he held his peace against the wickedness across the river.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000009|He wrote and published what was in his heart to say, and Alton was again vehemently moved.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000010|A committee appointed itself to wait upon him; for this sort of outrage is usually accomplished with a curious formality which makes it seem to the participants legal and orderly.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000011|The preacher met them with an undaunted front and told them he must do his duty as it appeared to him; that he was amenable to law, but nothing else; he even spoke in condemnation of mobs.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000012|Such language "from a minister of the gospel" shocked and infuriated the committee and those whom they represented. "The people assembled," says Governor Ford, "and quietly took the press and types and threw them into the river." We venture to say that the word "quietly" never before found itself in such company.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000013|It is not worth while to give the details of the bloody drama that now rapidly ran to its close.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000014|There was a fruitless effort at compromise, which to Lovejoy meant merely surrender, and which he firmly rejected. The threats of the mob were answered by defiance; from the little band that surrounded the abolitionist.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000016|They were there besieged by the infuriated crowd, and after a short interchange of shots Lovejoy was killed, his friends dispersed, and the press once more-and this time finally-thrown into the turbid flood.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000021_000000|These events took place in the autumn of eighteen thirty seven, but they indicate sufficiently the temper of the people of the State in the earlier part of the year.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000000|The vehemence with which the early antislavery apostles were conducting their agitation in the East naturally roused a corresponding violence of expression in every other part of the country.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000001|William Lloyd Garrison, the boldest and most aggressive non resistant that ever lived, had, since eighteen thirty one, been pouring forth once a week in the "Liberator" his earnest and eloquent denunciations of slavery, taking no account of the expedient or the possible, but demanding with all the fervor of an ancient prophet the immediate removal of the cause of offense.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000002|Oliver Johnson attacked the national sin and wrong, in the "Standard," with zeal and energy equally hot and untiring.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000003|Their words stung the slave holding States to something like frenzy.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000004|The Georgia Legislature offered a reward of five thousand dollars to any one who should kidnap Garrison, or who should bring to conviction any one circulating the "Liberator" in the State.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000006|Petitions to Congress, which were met by gag laws, constantly increasing in severity, brought the dreaded discussion more and more before the public.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000007|But there was as yet little or no antislavery agitation in Illinois.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000025_000000|There was no sympathy with nor even toleration for any public expression of hostility to slavery.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000025_000003|A long and dragging debate ensued of which no record has been preserved; the resolutions, after numberless amendments had been voted upon, were finally passed, in the Senate, unanimously, in the House with none but Lincoln and five others in the negative.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000000|There was no reason that Abraham Lincoln should take especial notice of these resolutions, more than another.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000001|He had done his work at this session in effecting the removal of the capital.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000002|He had only to shrug his shoulders at the violence and untruthfulness of the majority, vote against them, and go back to his admiring constituents, to his dinners and his toasts.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000003|But his conscience and his reason forbade him to be silent; he felt a word must be said on the other side to redress the distorted balance.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000004|He wrote his protest, saying not one word he was not ready to stand by then and thereafter, wasting not a syllable in rhetoric or feeling, keeping close to law and truth and justice.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000005|When he had finished it he showed it to some of his colleagues for their adhesion; but one and all refused, except Dan Stone, who was not a candidate for reelection, having retired from politics to a seat on the bench.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000006|The risk was too great for the rest to run.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000007|Lincoln was twenty eight years old; after a youth, of singular privations and struggles he had arrived at an enviable position in the politics and the society of the State.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000008|His intimate friends, those whom he loved and honored, were Browning, Butler, Logan, and Stuart-Kentuckians all, and strongly averse to any discussion of the question of slavery. The public opinion of his county, which was then little less than the breath of his life, was all the same way.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000009|But all these considerations could not withhold him from performing a simple duty-a duty which no one could have blamed him for leaving undone.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000027_000000|He had many years of growth and development before him.
train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000027_000001|There was a long distance to be traversed between the guarded utterances of this protest and the heroic audacity which launched the proclamation of emancipation.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000001_000000|COLLAPSE OF THE SYSTEM
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000002_000000|mr Lincoln had made thus far very little money-nothing more, in fact, than a subsistence of the most modest character.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000002_000001|But he had made some warm friends, and this meant much among the early Illinoisans.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000000|In this way began mr Lincoln's residence in Springfield, where he was to remain until called to one of the highest of destinies intrusted to men, and where his ashes were to rest forever in monumental marble.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000002|It had a population of fifteen hundred. The county contained nearly eighteen thousand souls, of whom seventy eight were free negroes, twenty registered indentured servants, and six slaves.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000003|Scarcely a perceptible trace of color, one would say, yet we find in the Springfield paper a leading article beginning with the startling announcement, "Our State is threatened to be overrun with free negroes." The county was one of the richest in Illinois, possessed of a soil of inexhaustible fertility, and divided to the best advantage between prairie and forest.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000004|It was settled early in the history of the State, and the country was held in high esteem by the aborigines.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000006_000000|There had been very little of what might be called pioneer life in Springfield.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000006_000001|Civilization came in with a reasonably full equipment at the beginning.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000006_000003|With a population like this, the town had, from the beginning, a more settled and orderly type than was usual in the South and West.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000009_000000|The taste for civilization had sometimes a whimsical manifestation. mr Stuart said the members of the Legislature bitterly complained of the amount of game-venison and grouse of the most delicious quality- which was served them at the taverns in Vandalia; they clamored for bacon-they were starving, they said, "for something civilized." There was plenty of civilized nourishment in Springfield.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000009_000001|Wheat was fifty cents a bushel, rye thirty three; corn and oats were twenty five, potatoes twenty five; butter was eight cents a pound, and eggs were eight cents a dozen; pork was two and a half cents a pound.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000010_000000|The town was built on the edge of the woods, the north side touching the timber, the south encroaching on the prairie.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000010_000001|The richness of the soil was seen in the mud of the streets, black as ink, and of an unfathomable depth in time of thaw.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000000|Lincoln did not gain any immediate eminence at the bar.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000001|His preliminary studies had been cursory and slight, and Stuart was then too much engrossed in politics to pay the unremitting attention to the law which that jealous mistress requires.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000002|He had been a candidate for Congress the year before, and had been defeated by w l May.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000003|He was a candidate again in eighteen thirty eight, and was elected over so agile an adversary as Stephen Arnold Douglas.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000004|His paramount interest in these canvasses necessarily prevented him from setting to his junior partner the example which Lincoln so greatly needed, of close and steady devotion to their profession.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000005|It was several years later that Lincoln found with Judge Logan the companionship and inspiration which he required, and began to be really a lawyer.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000006|During the first year or two he is principally remembered in Springfield as an excellent talker, the life and soul of the little gatherings about the county offices, a story teller of the first rank, a good-natured, friendly fellow whom everybody liked and trusted.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000000|Lincoln was not yet done with Vandalia, its dinners of game, and its political intrigue.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000001|The archives of the State were not removed to Springfield until eighteen thirty nine, and Lincoln remained a member of the Legislature by successive reelections from eighteen thirty four to eighteen forty two.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000002|His campaigns were carried on almost entirely without expense.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000003|joshua Speed told the writers that on one occasion some of the Whigs contributed a purse of two hundred dollars which Speed handed to Lincoln to pay his personal expenses in the canvass.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000004|After the election was over, the successful candidate handed Speed one hundred ninety nine dollars and twenty five cents, with the request that he return it to the subscribers.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000005|"I did not need the money," he said.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000006|"I made the canvass on my own horse; my entertainment, being at the houses of friends, cost me nothing; and my only outlay was seventy five cents for a barrel of cider, which some farm hands insisted I should treat them to." He was called down to Vandalia in the summer of eighteen thirty seven, by a special session of the Legislature.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000007|The magnificent schemes of the foregoing winter required some repairing.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000008|The banks throughout the United States had suspended specie payments in the spring, and as the State banks in Illinois were the fiscal agents of the railroads and canals, the Governor called upon the law makers to revise their own work, to legalize the suspension, and bring their improvement system within possible bounds.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000009|They acted as might have been expected: complied with the former suggestion, but flatly refused to touch their masterpiece.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000010|They had been glorifying their work too energetically to destroy it in its infancy.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000013|The whole State was excited to the highest pitch of frenzy and expectation.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000014|Money was as plenty as dirt. Industry, instead of being stimulated, actually languished.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000015|We exported nothing," says Governor Ford, "and everything from abroad was paid for by the borrowed money expended among us." Not only upon the railroads, but on the canal as well, the work was begun on a magnificent scale.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000016|Nine millions of dollars were thought to be a mere trifle in view of the colossal sum expected to be realized from the sale of canal lands, three hundred thousand acres of which had been given by the general Government.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000017|There were rumors of coming trouble, and of an unhealthy condition of the banks; but it was considered disloyal to look too curiously into such matters.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000000|But a year of baleful experience destroyed a great many illusions, and in the election of eighteen thirty eight the subject of internal improvements was treated with much more reserve by candidates.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000001|The debt of the State, issued at a continually increasing discount, had already attained enormous proportions; the delirium of the last few years was ending, and sensible people began to be greatly disquieted.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000002|Nevertheless, mr Cyrus Edwards boldly made his canvass for Governor as a supporter of the system of internal improvements, and his opponent, Thomas Carlin, was careful not to commit himself strongly on the other side.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000004|Lincoln was a member of this body, and, being by that time the unquestioned leader of the Whig minority, was nominated for Speaker, and came within one vote of an election.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000005|The Legislature was still stiff necked and perverse in regard to the system.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000006|It refused to modify it in the least, and voted, as if in bravado, another eight hundred thousand dollars to extend it.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000000|But this was the last paroxysm of a fever that was burnt out.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000001|The market was glutted with Illinois bonds; one banker and one broker after another, to whose hands they had been recklessly confided in New York and London, failed, or made away with the proceeds of sales.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000003|This work taxed the energies of the Legislature in eighteen thirty nine, and for some years after.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000004|It was a dismal and disheartening task.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000000|Many were the schemes devised for meeting these oppressive obligations without unduly taxing the voters; one of them, not especially wiser than the rest, was contributed by mr Lincoln.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000001|It provided for the issue of bonds for the payment of the interest due by the State, and for the appropriation of a special portion of State taxes to meet the obligations thus incurred.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000002|He supported his bill in a perfectly characteristic speech, making no effort to evade his share of the responsibility for the crisis, and submitting his views with diffidence to the approval of the Assembly.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000004|There was even an undercurrent of sentiment in favor of repudiation.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000006|Bonds were sold for this purpose at a heavy loss.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000018_000000|This session of the Legislature was enlivened by a singular contest between the Whigs and Democrats in relation to the State banks.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000018_000002|The Whigs, who were defending the banks, wished to prevent the adjournment of the special session until the regular session should begin, during the course of which they expected to renew the lease of life now held under sufferance by the banks-in which, it may be here said, they were finally successful.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000018_000004|"I think," says mr Joseph Gillespie, who was one of those who performed this feat of acrobatic politics, "mr Lincoln always regretted it, as he deprecated everything that savored of the revolutionary."
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000019_000001|Nothing was left of the brilliant schemes of the historic Legislature of eighteen thirty six but a load of debt which crippled for many years the energies of the people, a few miles of embankments which the grass hastened to cover, and a few abutments which stood for years by the sides of leafy rivers, waiting for their long delaying bridges and trains.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000001|There are those who can see only envy and jealousy in that strong dislike and disapproval with which mr Lincoln always regarded his famous rival.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000004|He held it only long enough to secure a nomination to the Legislature in eighteen thirty six.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000006|He held this place as a means of being nominated for Congress the next year; he was nominated and defeated.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000007|In eighteen forty he was engaged in another scheme to which we will give a moment's attention, as it resulted in giving him a seat on the Supreme Bench of the State, which he used merely as a perch from which to get into Congress.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000001|As the aliens were nearly all Democrats, that party insisted on their voting, and the Whigs objected.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000002|The best lawyers in the State were Whigs, and so it happened that most of the judges were of that complexion.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000004|This case was to come on at the June term in eighteen forty, and the Democratic counsel, chief among whom was mr Douglas, were in some anxiety, as an unfavorable decision would lose them about ten thousand alien votes in the Presidential election in November.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000007|The circuit judges were turned out of office, and five new judges were added to the Supreme Court, who were to perform circuit duty also.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000022_000000|It was useless for the Whigs to try to prevent this degradation of the bench.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000022_000001|There was no resource but a protest, and here again Lincoln uttered the voice of the conscience of the party.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000022_000002|He was joined on this occasion by Edward d Baker [Footnote: Afterwards senator from Oregon, and as colonel of the seventy first Pennsylvania (called the first California) killed at Ball's Bluff.] and some others, who protested against the act because
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000023_000000|first.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000023_000001|It violates the principles of free government by subjecting the Judiciary to the Legislature.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000024_000001|It is a fatal blow at the independence of the judges and the constitutional term of their offices.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000025_000001|It is a measure not asked for or wished for by the people.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000026_000000|fourth.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000026_000001|It will greatly increase the expense of our courts or else greatly diminish their utility.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000027_000000|fifth.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000027_000001|It will give our courts a political and partisan character, thereby impairing public confidence in their decisions.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000028_000000|sixth.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000028_000001|It will impair our standing with other States and the world.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000029_000000|seventh.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000029_000001|It is a party measure for party purposes from which no practical good to the people can possibly arise, but which may be the source of immeasurable evils.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000030_000000|The undersigned are well aware that this protest will be altogether unavailing with the majority of this body.
train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000032_000002|Many and most of the judges have had great personal popularity-so much so as to create complaint of so many of them being elected or appointed to other offices.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000002_000000|Clear running water filled the ditch, but the bottom was dull black, powdery mud.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000002_000001|It lay inches deep, layer upon layer of one tiny particle upon another, and so loose and light that a thick, opaque, smoke like column ascended at the slightest touch.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000003_000001|The entire monster measured scarcely a finger's length.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000005_000001|Her reddish brown colour with the tiger like transverse stripes made an excellent disguise.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000005_000003|Even the sharp eyed heron, which had dropped down unnoticed about a dozen yards off, and was now noiselessly, with slow, cautious steps, wading nearer and nearer, took her at the first glance for a stick.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000007_000002|The young pike peered upwards, and saw in the shelter of a tuft of rushes a collection of black, boat shaped whirligigs, showing like dots against the shining surface.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000009_000000|There was never any peace around her.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000009_000005|Air bubbles, too, were set free, and ascended quickly with a rotary motion.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000010_000000|Here two large tiger beetles were fighting with a poor water bug.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000010_000002|It must have been almost a pleasure to find oneself so neatly despatched!
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000012_000001|It was tired now, and had just stretched itself out for a moment's rest, when the supposed pieces of stick upon which it lay seized it, and voracious heads with sharp jaws attacked its flesh.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000012_000002|It was within an ace of being made captive for ever, but at last succeeded in making its escape and pushing off, with two of its tormentors after it.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000013_000000|The young pike watched attentively the flight of the black leech.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000015_000000|It was not long before she had forgotten her recent peril, and once more became filled with the cruel passion of the hunter.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000016_000001|This was a very favourite lurking place; she could lie there with her back right up against the under surface of the leaf, and her snout on the very border of its shadow, ready to strike.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000016_000002|The silvery flash of small fish twinkled around her, and myriads of tiny shining crustaceans whisked about so close to her nose that at any moment she could have snapped them up by the score into her voracious mouth.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000017_000000|It was especially things that moved that had a magic attraction for Grim.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000020_000000|----Meanwhile, the keen eyed heron, wading up to its breast in the water, comes softly and silently trawling through the ditch.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000021_000000|Sedately it goes about its business, stalking along with slow, measured steps.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000023_000000|Sea crows and terns scream around it, and from time to time three or four of them unite in harrying their great rival.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000023_000001|Just as the heron has brought its beak close to the surface of the water, ready to seize its prey, the gulls dash upon it from behind.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000023_000002|With a hiss it curves its neck and turns the foil upwards, snapping and biting at its tormentors.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000024_000000|An irritating little flock of gulls may go on thus for a long time; and when at last, screaming and mocking, they take their departure, they have spoilt many a chance and wasted many precious minutes of the big, silent, patient fisher's time.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000025_000000|The gulls once gone, the heron applies itself with redoubled zeal to its business.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000025_000001|From various attacking positions its beak darts down into the water, but often without result, and it has to go farther afield; then at last it captures a little eel.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000026_000001|The eel twists, and refuses to be swallowed; so the bird has to reduce its liveliness by rolling up and down in its sharp edged beak.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000026_000002|Then it glides down.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000027_000000|This time, too, fortune is disposed to favour the young pike.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000027_000001|The heron, coming up behind her, cautiously bends its neck over the drifting piece of reed.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000027_000002|It sees there is something suspicious about it, but thinks it is mistaken, and is about to take another step forward. When only half-way, it pauses with its foot in the air; and the next moment the blow falls.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000028_000000|Grim only once moved her tail.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000028_000001|Then she was seized, something hard and sharp and strong held her fast, and she passed head foremost down into a warm, narrow channel.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000029_000000|There was a fearful crush of fish in the channel, and much elbowing with fins and twisting of tails.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000031_000001|Out on the lake lay a boat in which a man sat fishing.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000031_000002|Experience told the bird it was a fisherman, but here the bird was wrong.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000032_000000|Grim was among the fortunate ones.
train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000032_000002|A little later the stream gathered furious pace and carried her with it; she saw light and felt space round her; she was able to move her fins.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000006_000001|The very next day, however, little fish had begun to gather about those tufts; one day more, and there were swarms of them.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000007_000000|Out of one of these Grim had come.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000008_000000|She possessed a remarkable power of placing herself, and knew how to choose her position so as to disappear, as it were, in the water.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000019_000000|But in the daytime, she lay peacefully drowsing.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000025_000002|A little later it begins its soft little sawing song, which blends so well with the perpetual, monotonous whispering of the reeds.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000027_000002|It puts forth its greatest speed, making in a straight line for the shore.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000036_000000|Flash follows flash, each bigger and brighter than the other.
train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000040_000001|It is successful.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000003_000000|BLUEBEARD
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000004_000000|In the long ago times, in a splendid house, surrounded by fine gardens and a park, there lived a man who had riches in abundance, and everything to make him popular except one, and that was his beard, for his beard was neither black as a raven's wing, golden as the sunlight, nor just an ordinary every day colour, but it was blue, bright blue.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000005_000000|Of course had blue beards come into fashion his would have been considered beautiful beyond words, but, as far as we know, blue beards have never as yet been fashionable, nor are they likely to be so.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000006_000000|However, in spite of his blue beard this man had married several times, though what had become of his wives nobody could say.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000007_000000|Now, not far from Bluebeard's house there dwelt a widow with two very lovely daughters, and one of these Bluebeard wished to marry, but which he did not mind, they might settle that between themselves.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000008_000000|Neither of these girls had the least desire to have a husband with a blue beard, and also, not knowing the fate of the other wives, they did not like to risk disappearing from the world as those had done, but being very polite young women they would not refuse Bluebeard's proposals outright.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000008_000001|The younger said, "I would not for a moment take away Sister Anne's chance of marrying such a wealthy man," while Sister Anne declared that, although the elder, she would much prefer to give way to her sister.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000009_000000|Then Bluebeard invited the widow and her daughters to spend a week with him, and many of their neighbours he also invited.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000010_000000|Most sumptuous was the entertainment provided for them.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000010_000001|Hunting and fishing expeditions, picnics and balls went on from morning till night, and all the night through, so that there was not time even to think of sleep, only feasting and pleasure the whole week long.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000011_000000|So well, indeed, did the younger sister enjoy this, that by the end of the week she had begun to think perhaps after all her host's beard was not so very blue, and that it would be a fine thing to be the mistress of such a magnificent mansion, and the wife of such a rich husband.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000012_000000|And so, not long afterwards, there was a grand wedding, and the widow's younger daughter became mrs Bluebeard.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000013_000000|About a month later, Bluebeard told his wife that he must leave her for several weeks, having to travel on business.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000014_000001|Unlock rooms and chests and use freely what you will."
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000016_000001|In fact, should you open that door, or even put this key into the lock, I should be dreadfully angry, indeed I should make you suffer for it in a terrible way."
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000018_000000|As soon as mrs Bluebeard's friends and relations knew that her husband was away, they came flocking to visit her, for they longed to see all her splendid possessions, but had feared to come before.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000019_000000|They could not enough admire the magnificent apartments, and ran from one to another praising everything they beheld.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000021_000000|At last she could bear it no longer, but slipping away from her visitors, she ran along the passages and stairs, nearly falling down them, so great was her haste, until she came to that door at the end of the corridor.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000022_000000|Not pausing an instant, she thrust the key into the lock, and the door sprang open.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000000|At first she could distinguish nothing, for the room was dark and gloomy, but then, all of a sudden, she knew what had become of Bluebeard's other wives, for there they lay, in a long, straight row, all dead.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000002|She wiped it with her handkerchief, but alas! it was blood that would not be wiped away.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000003|She washed the key and rubbed it, and scraped it and polished it, but all to no purpose, if she succeeded in cleansing one side, the mark came out on the other.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000004|For the key was enchanted.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000026_000000|Next morning he called for the keys; his wife brought them to him, but not the little one; that she left behind.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000026_000001|Bluebeard noticed this directly and sent her to fetch it.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000026_000002|Trembling, and white as a sheet, she was forced to give it into his hand.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000029_000000|"Wretched woman!" shouted Bluebeard, "you have used this key, you have unlocked the door of that room at the end of the passage.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000029_000001|You shall die!!!"
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000030_000000|In vain did his wife plead with him to spare her, kneeling before him with tears streaming from her eyes.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000030_000001|"You shall die!" he cried again, more savagely than before.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000031_000000|"Let me have a few moments alone, to prepare for death,"
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000033_000000|The poor young woman hastened to a room at the foot of the turret stairs where was her Sister Anne, and called to her.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000034_000000|"Sister Anne, Sister Anne, look from the tower window.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000034_000001|Can you see no one coming?" And Sister Anne, looking out, answered:
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000035_000000|"Alas!
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000035_000001|No!
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000035_000002|Nothing but the green grass, and the sun which shines upon it."
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000037_000000|"Sister Anne, Sister Anne, look once again, can you see no one coming?" whispered the young wife wringing her hands.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000037_000001|Her brothers, she knew, were to visit her that day-if only they would come in time!
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000038_000000|"Alas, No!" Sister Anne replied.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000038_000001|"I see a cloud of dust, but it is only a flock of sheep on the road."
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000041_000000|"I see two horsemen afar off," cried Sister Anne.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000043_000000|He would not, however, give heed to her prayers, and was just brandishing his sword, so that it might come down straight and true upon her slender neck, when the door burst open and two young army officers came rushing in, whom Bluebeard recognised as the brothers of his wife.
train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000043_000001|He swiftly fled, but they speedily followed, and for his many crimes slew him then and there.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000002_000000|Sir-Agreeably to my promise, I now relate to you all the particulars of the lost man and child which I have been able to collect.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000002_000001|It is entirely owing to the humane interest you seemed to take in the report, that I have pursued the inquiry to the following result.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000000|You may remember that business called me to Boston in the summer of eighteen twenty.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000001|I sailed in the packet to Providence, and when I arrived there I learned that every seat in the stage was engaged.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000002|I was thus obliged either to wait a few hours or accept a seat with the driver, who civilly offered me that accommodation.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000003|Accordingly I took my seat by his side, and soon found him intelligent and communicative.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000002|Soon after a small speck appeared in the road.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000003|"There," said my companion, "comes the storm breeder; he always leaves a Scotch mist behind him.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000004|By many a wet jacket do I remember him.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000005|I suppose the poor fellow suffers much himself, much more than is known to the world." Presently a man with a child beside him, with a large black horse, and a weather beaten chair, once built for a chaise body, passed in great haste, apparently at the rate of twelve miles an hour. He seemed to grasp the reins of his horse with firmness, and appeared to anticipate his speed.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000006|He seemed dejected, and looked anxiously at the passengers, particularly at the stage driver and myself.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000007|In a moment after he passed us, the horses' ears were up and bent themselves forward so that they nearly met.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000010|"I have never known him to stop anywhere longer than to inquire the way to Boston; and, let him be where he may, he will tell you he cannot stay a moment, for he must reach Boston that night."
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000001|"Do you look," said he, "in the direction whence the man came, that is the place to look; the storm never meets him, it follows him." We presently approached another hill, and when at the height, the driver pointed out in an eastern direction a little black speck as big as a hat.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000004|The appearance of this cloud attracted the notice of all the passengers; for after it had spread itself to a great bulk, it suddenly became more limited in circumference, grew more compact, dark, and consolidated.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000007|But in truth I saw no such thing.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000008|The man's fancy was doubtless at fault.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000009|It is a very common thing for the imagination to paint for the senses, both in the visible and invisible world.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000000|In the meantime the distant thunder gave notice of a shower at hand, and just as we reached Polley's tavern the rain poured down in torrents.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000001|It was soon over, the cloud passing in the direction of the turnpike toward Providence.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000002|In a few moments after, a respectable looking man in a chaise stopped at the door.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000004|He said he had met them; that the man seemed bewildered, and inquired the way to Boston; that he was driving at great speed, as though he expected to outstrip the tempest; that the moment he had passed him a thunderclap broke distinctly over the man's head and seemed to envelop both man and child, horse and carriage.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000006|But that which excited his surprise most was the strange conduct of his horse, for that, long before he could distinguish the man in the chair, his own horse stood still in the road and flung back his ears.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000001|"peter Rugg!" said I, "and who is peter Rugg?" "That," said the stranger, "is more than anyone can tell exactly.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000004|How long would it take, in that case, to send a letter to Boston?
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000005|For peter has already, to my knowledge, been more than twenty years travelling to that place." "But," said I, "does the man never stop anywhere, does he never converse with anyone?
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000006|I saw the same man more than three years since, near Providence, and I heard a strange story about him. Pray, sir, give me some account of this man." "Sir," said the stranger, "those who know the most respecting that man say the least. I have heard it asserted that heaven sometimes sets a mark on a man, either for judgment or trial.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000007|Under which peter Rugg now labours I cannot say; therefore I am rather inclined to pity than to judge." "You speak like a humane man," said I, "and if you have known him so long, I pray you will give me some account of him.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000008|Has his appearance much altered in that time?"
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000013|It is cruel to deceive a traveller.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000002|Accordingly.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000003|I stepped into the street, and as the horse approached I made a feint of stopping him.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000006|"In Middle Street." "When did you leave Boston?"
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000007|"I cannot tell precisely; it seems a considerable time." "But how did you and your child become so wet?
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000011|Is not this town Newburyport, and the river that I have been following the Merrimac?" "No, sir; this is Hartford, and the river the Connecticut." He wrung his hands and looked incredulous.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000012|"Have the rivers, too, changed their courses as the cities have changed places?
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000015|His impatient horse leaped off, his hind flanks rising like wings-he seemed to devour all before him and to scorn all behind.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000001|Soon after I was enabled to collect the following particulars from mrs Croft, an aged lady in Middle Street, who has resided in Boston during the last twenty years.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000002|Her narration is this: The last summer a person, just at twilight, stopped at the door of the late mrs Rugg.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000003|mrs Croft, on coming to the door, perceived a stranger, with a child by his side, in an old, weather beaten carriage, with a black horse.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000004|The stranger asked for mrs Rugg, and was informed that mrs Rugg had died, at a good old age, more than twenty years before that time.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000005|The stranger replied, "How can you deceive me so?
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000007|Indeed, everything here seems to be misplaced.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000009|He went a long voyage; he is my kinsman. If I could see him, he could give me some account of mrs Rugg." "Sir," said mrs Croft, "I never heard of john Foy.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000010|Where did he live?" "Just above here, in Orange Tree Lane." "There is no such place in this neighbourhood." "What do you tell me!
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000011|Are the streets gone? Orange Tree Lane is at the head of Hanover Street, near Pemberton's Hill." "There is no such lane now." "Madam! you cannot be serious.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000012|But you doubtless know my brother, William Rugg.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000013|He lives in Royal Exchange Lane, near King Street."
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000016|You may as well tell me there is no King George.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000018|I must find a resting place.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000020|But no such man as Hart has kept there these twenty years."
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000000|Here the stranger seemed disconcerted, and muttered to himself quite audibly: "Strange mistake!
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000001|How much this looks like the town of Boston!
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000004|I know of no other Boston." "City of Boston it may be, but it is not the Boston where I live.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000005|I recollect now, I came over a bridge instead of a ferry.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000011|It is a much finer city than the town of Boston.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000011_000000|It was evident that the generation to which peter Rugg belonged had passed away.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000012_000000|This was all the account of peter Rugg I could obtain from mrs Croft; but she directed me to an elderly man, mr james Felt, who lived near her, and who had kept a record of the principal occurrences for the last fifty years.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000012_000005|That peter Rugg is living is highly probable, as he was only ten years older than myself; and I was only eighty last March, and I am as likely to live twenty years longer as any man." Here I perceived that mr Felt was in his dotage, and I despaired of gaining any intelligence from him on which I could depend.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000013_000000|I took my leave of mrs Croft, and proceeded to my lodgings at the Marlborough Hotel.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000014_000000|If peter Rugg, thought I, has been travelling since the Boston Massacre, there is no reason why he should not travel to the end of time.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000015_000000|In the course of the evening I related my adventure in Middle Street. "Ha!" said one of the company, smiling, "do you really think you have seen peter Rugg?
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000016_000003|On Rugg's declining to stop, mr Cutter urged him vehemently.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000016_000015|Others, of a different opinion, shook their heads and said nothing.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000018_000001|The toll gatherer asserted that sometimes, on the darkest and most stormy nights, when no object could be discerned about the time Rugg was missing, a horse and wheelcarriage, with a noise equal to a troop, would at midnight, in utter contempt of the rates of toll, pass over the bridge.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000018_000005|As the appearance passed, he threw the stool at the horse, but heard nothing except the noise of the stool skipping across the bridge.
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000018_000008|And thus peter Rugg and his child, horse and carriage, remain a mystery to this day."
train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000019_000000|This, sir, is all that I could learn of peter Rugg in Boston....
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000002_000000|THE STORY OF A STONE
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000003_000000|By David Starr Jordan
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000005_000002|Then, one morning, down among the sea weeds, she laid a whole lot of tiny eggs, transparent as crab apple jelly and much smaller than a dew drop on the end of a pine leaf.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000005_000003|Now she leaves the scene, and our story henceforth concerns only one of these eggs.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000007_000000|But none of these got the little fellow, else I should not have any story to tell.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000000|At last, having paddled about long enough, he thought of settling in life.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000001|So he looked around until he found a flat bit of shell that just suited him, when he sat down upon it, and grew fast, like old Holger Danske, in the Danish myth.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000002|Only, unlike Holger, he didn't go to sleep, but proceeded to make himself at home.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000003|So he made an opening in his upper side, and rigged for himself a mouth and a stomach, and put a whole row of feelers out, and began catching little worms and floating eggs and bits of jelly and bits of lime,--everything he could get,--and cramming them into his little stomach.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000009_000001|He kept taking them in and tried to wall himself up inside with them, as a person would stone a well or as though a man should swallow pebbles and stow them away in his feet and all around under the skin, till he had filled himself full.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000012_000000|Well, the old ones died or swam away or were walled up, and new ones filled their places, and the colony thrived for a long time, and had accumulated quite a stock of lime.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000012_000002|They didn't like the taste of iron, so they all died; but we know that their house was not spoiled, for we have it here.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000012_000003|So the rock house they were making was tumbled about in the dirt, and the rolling pebbles knocked the corners off, and the mud worked its way into the cracks and destroyed its beautiful whiteness.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000013_000000|There it lay for ages, till the earth gave a great, long heave, that raised the rest of Wisconsin out of the ocean, and the mud around our Favosites' house packed and dried into hard rock and closed it in; and so it became part of the dry land.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000013_000001|There it lay, imbedded in the rock for centuries and centuries.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000014_000000|Then, the time of the first fishes came, and the other animals looked on them in awe and wonder as the Indians eyed Columbus.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000014_000001|They were like the gar pike in our Western rivers, only much larger,--as big as a stove pipe,--and with a crust as hard as a turtle's shell. Then there came sharks, of strange forms, savage and ferocious, with teeth like bowie knives.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000018_000001|Then it would thaw a little, and streams of water would run over the snow; then it would freeze again, and pack it into solid ice.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000019_000000|So it kept on for about a million years, until once when the spring came and the south winds blew, it began to thaw up.
train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000022_000000|Ages after, a farmer in Grand Chote, Michigan, plowing up his clover field, to sow for winter wheat, picked up a curious bit of "petrified honeycomb," and gave it to the schoolboys to take to their teacher, to hear what he would say about it.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000001_000000|Southwest Wind, Esquire, was as good as his word.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000002_000000|"Suppose we turn goldsmiths?" said Schwartz to Hans, as they entered the large city.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000000|The thought was agreed to be a very good one; they hired a furnace, and turned goldsmiths.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000002|So they melted all their gold, without making money enough to buy more, and were at last reduced to one large drinking mug, which an uncle of his had given to little Gluck, and which he was very fond of, and would not have parted with for the world; though he never drank anything out of it but milk and water.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000003|The mug was a very odd mug to look at.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000006|When it came to the mug's turn to be made into spoons, it half broke poor little Gluck's heart: but the brothers only laughed at him, tossed the mug into the melting pot, and staggered out to the ale house: leaving him, as usual, to pour the gold into bars, when it was all ready.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000000|When they were gone, Gluck took a farewell look at his old friend in the melting pot.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000001|The flowing hair was all gone; nothing remained but the red nose, and the sparkling eyes, which looked more malicious than ever.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000002|"And no wonder," thought Gluck, "after being treated in that way." He sauntered disconsolately to the window, and sat himself down to catch the fresh evening air, and escape the hot breath of the furnace.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000003|Now this window commanded a direct view of the range of mountains, which, as I told before, overhung the Treasure Valley, and more especially of the peak from which fell the Golden River.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000006_000000|"No it wouldn't, Gluck," said a clear, metallic voice close at his ear.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000007_000000|"Bless me!
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000007_000001|what's that?" exclaimed Gluck, jumping up.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000007_000002|There was nobody there.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000008_000000|"Not at all, my boy," said the same voice, louder than before.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000001|He looked again into all the corners and cupboards, and then began turning round, and round, as fast as he could in the middle of the room, thinking there was somebody behind him, when the same voice struck again on his ear. It was singing now very merrily, "Lala lira la;" no words, only a soft running, effervescent melody, something like that of a kettle on the boil.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000002|Gluck looked out of the window.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000003|No, it was certainly in the house.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000004|Upstairs, and downstairs.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000006|He ran to the opening, and looked in: yes, he saw right; it seemed to be coming, not only out of the furnace, but out of the pot.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000007|He uncovered it, and ran back in a great fright, for the pot was certainly singing!
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000011_000000|Gluck made no answer.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000012_000001|Gluck, my boy," said the pot again.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000013_000000|Gluck summoned all his energies, walked straight up to the crucible, drew it out of the furnace, and looked in.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000014_000000|"Come, Gluck, my boy," said the voice out of the pot again, "I'm all right; pour me out."
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000017_000000|Still Gluck couldn't move.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000018_000001|"I'm too hot."
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000000|"That's right!" said the dwarf, stretching out first his legs, and then his arms, and then shaking his head up and down, and as far round as it would go, for five minutes without stopping; apparently with the view of ascertaining if he were quite correctly put together, while Gluck stood contemplating him in speechless amazement.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000002|The features of the face, however, were by no means finished with the same delicacy; they were rather coarse, slightly inclining to coppery in complexion, and indicative, in expression, of a very pertinacious and intractable disposition in their small proprietor.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000003|When the dwarf had finished his self examination, he turned his small eyes full on Gluck, and stared at him deliberately for a minute or two.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000004|"No, it wouldn't, Gluck, my boy," said the little man.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000021_000000|This was certainly rather an abrupt and unconnected mode of commencing conversation.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000021_000001|It might indeed be supposed to refer to the course of Gluck's thoughts, which had first produced the dwarf's observations out of the pot; but whatever it referred to, Gluck had no inclination to dispute the dictum.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000022_000000|"Wouldn't it, sir?" said Gluck, very mildly and submissively indeed.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000023_000000|"No," said the dwarf, conclusively.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000023_000002|This pause gave time for Gluck to collect his thoughts a little, and, seeing no great reason to view his diminutive visitor with dread, and feeling his curiosity overcome his amazement, he ventured on a question of peculiar delicacy.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000024_000000|"Pray, sir," said Gluck, rather hesitatingly, "were you my mug?"
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000025_000000|On which the little man turned sharp round, walked straight up to Gluck, and drew himself up to his full height.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000025_000002|After which, he again walked up to Gluck and stood still, as if expecting some comment on his communication.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000026_000000|Gluck determined to say something at all events.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000026_000001|"I hope your Majesty is very well," said Gluck.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000000|"Listen!" said the little man, deigning no reply to this polite inquiry.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000001|"I am the King of what you mortals call the Golden River.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000002|The shape you saw me in was owing to the malice of a stronger king, from whose enchantments you have this instant freed me.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000003|What I have seen of you, and your conduct to your wicked brothers, renders me willing to serve you; therefore, attend to what I tell you.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000005|His figure became red, white, transparent, dazzling-a blaze of intense light-rose, trembled, and disappeared.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000006|The King of the Golden River had evaporated.
train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000028_000000|"Oh!" cried poor Gluck, running to look up the chimney after him; "oh dear, dear, dear me!
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000001_000000|three.--HOW mr
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000001_000001|HANS SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000000|The King of the Golden River had hardly made the extraordinary exit related in the last chapter, before Hans and Schwartz came roaring into the house, very savagely drunk.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000001|The discovery of the total loss of their last piece of plate had the effect of sobering them just enough to enable them to stand over Gluck, beating him very steadily for a quarter of an hour; at the expiration of which period they dropped into a couple of chairs, and requested to know what he had to say for himself.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000002|Gluck told them his story, of which, of course, they did not believe a word.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000003|They beat him again, till their arms were tired, and staggered to bed.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000004|In the morning, however, the steadiness with which he adhered to his story obtained him some degree of credence; the immediate consequence of which was, that the two brothers, after wrangling a long time on the knotty question, which of them should try his fortune first, drew their swords and began fighting.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000005|The noise of the fray alarmed the neighbours who, finding they could not pacify the combatants, sent for the constable.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000003_000000|Hans, on hearing this, contrived to escape, and hid himself; but Schwartz was taken before the magistrate, fined for breaking the peace, and, having drunk out his last penny the evening before, was thrown into prison till he should pay.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000004_000000|When Hans heard this, he was much delighted, and determined to set out immediately for the Golden River.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000004_000001|How to get the holy water was the question.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000005_000000|Next morning he got up before the sun rose, put the holy water into a strong flask, and two bottles of wine and some meat in a basket, slung them over his back, took his alpine staff in his hand, and set off for the mountains.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000006_000000|On his way out of the town he had to pass the prison, and as he looked in at the windows, whom should he see but Schwartz himself peeping out of the bars, and looking very disconsolate.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000007_000000|"Good morning, brother," said Hans; "have you any message for the King of the Golden River?"
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000009_000000|It was, indeed, a morning that might have made anyone happy, even with no Golden River to seek for.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000009_000001|Level lines of dewy mist lay stretched along the valley, out of which rose the massy mountains-their lower cliffs in pale gray shadow, hardly distinguishable from the floating vapour, but gradually ascending till they caught the sunlight, which ran in sharp touches of ruddy colour along the angular crags, and pierced, in long level rays, through their fringes of spear like pine.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000000|On this object, and on this alone, Hans's eyes and thoughts were fixed; forgetting the distance he had to traverse, he set off at an imprudent rate of walking, which greatly exhausted him before he had scaled the first range of the green and low hills.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000001|He was, moreover, surprised, on surmounting them, to find that a large glacier, of whose existence, notwithstanding his previous knowledge of the mountains, he had been absolutely ignorant, lay between him and the source of the Golden River.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000002|He entered on it with the boldness of a practised mountaineer; yet he thought he had never traversed so strange or so dangerous a glacier in his life.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000003|The ice was excessively slippery, and out of all its chasms came wild sounds of gushing water; not monotonous or low; but changeful and loud, rising occasionally into drifting passages of wild melody, then breaking off into short melancholy tones, or sudden shrieks, resembling those of human voices in distress or pain.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000012_000000|He had been compelled to abandon his basket of food, which became a perilous incumbrance on the glacier, and had now no means of refreshing himself but by breaking off and eating some of the pieces of ice.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000012_000001|This, however, relieved his thirst; an hour's repose recruited his hardy frame, and, with the indomitable spirit of avarice, he resumed his laborious journey.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000013_000001|It was past noon, and the rays beat intensely upon the steep path, while the whole atmosphere was motionless, and penetrated with heat.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000013_000002|Intense thirst was soon added to the bodily fatigue with which Hans was now afflicted; glance after glance he cast on the flask of water which hung at his belt.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000013_000003|"Three drops are enough," at last thought he; "I may, at least, cool my lips with it."
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000000|He opened the flask, and was raising it to his lips, when his eye fell on an object lying on the rock beside him; he thought it moved.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000001|It was a small dog, apparently in the last agony of death from thirst.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000002|Its tongue was out, its jaws dry, its limbs extended lifelessly, and a swarm of black ants were crawling about its lips and throat.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000003|Its eye moved to the bottle which Hans held in his hand.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000004|He raised it, drank, spurned the animal with his foot, and passed on.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000005|And he did not know how it was, but he thought that a strange shadow had suddenly come across the blue sky.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000000|The path became steeper and more rugged every moment; and the high hill air, instead of refreshing him, seemed to throw his blood into a fever.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000002|He stopped to open it, and again, as he did so, something moved in the path above him.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000003|It was a fair child, stretched nearly lifeless on the rock, its breast heaving with thirst, its eyes closed, and its lips parched and burning.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000004|Hans eyed it deliberately, drank, and passed on.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000006|Hans struggled on.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000007|The sun was sinking, but its descent seemed to bring no coolness; the leaden weight of the dead air pressed upon his brow and heart, but the goal was near.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000008|He saw the cataract of the Golden River springing from the hillside, scarcely five hundred feet above him.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000009|He paused for a moment to breathe, and sprang on to complete his task.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000016_000000|At this instant a faint cry fell on his ear.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000016_000001|He turned, and saw a gray haired old man extended on the rocks.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000016_000003|I am dying."
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000017_000000|"I have none," replied Hans; "thou hast had thy share of life." He strode over the prostrate body, and darted on.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000017_000001|And a flash of blue lightning rose out of the east, shaped like a sword; it shook thrice over the whole heaven, and left it dark with one heavy, impenetrable shade.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000017_000002|The sun was setting; it plunged toward the horizon like a red hot ball.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000018_000001|He stood at the brink of the chasm through which it ran.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000018_000005|As he did so, an icy chill shot through his limbs: he staggered, shrieked, and fell.
train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000018_000006|The waters closed over his cry.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000001_000000|THE SHEATH.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000003_000000|He led the way to his room, and the curate followed.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000003_000001|Seated there, in the shadowy old attic, through the very walls of which the ivy grew, and into which, by the open window in the gable, from the infinite west, blew the evening air, carrying with it the precious scent of honeysuckle, to mingle with that of old books, Polwarth recounted and Wingfold listened to a strange adventure.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000003_000002|The trees hid the sky, and the little human nest was dark around them.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000004_000000|"I am going to make a confidant of you, mr Wingfold," said the dwarf, with troubled face, and almost whispered word.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000004_000001|"You will know how much I have already learned to trust you when I say that what I am about to confide to you plainly involves the secret of another."
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000005_000000|His large face grew paler as he spoke, and something almost like fear grew in his eyes, but they looked straight into those of the curate, and his voice did not tremble.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000006_000000|"One night, some weeks ago-I can, if necessary, make myself certain of the date,--I was-no uncommon thing with me-unable to sleep.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000006_000002|I rose, dressed, and went out.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000007_000000|"It was a still, warm night, no moon, but plenty of star light, the wind blowing as now, gentle and sweet and cool-just the wind my lungs sighed for.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000007_000001|I got into the open park, avoiding the trees, and wandered on and on, without thinking where I was going.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000007_000002|The turf was soft under my feet, the dusk soft to my eyes, and the wind to my soul; I had breath and room and leisure and silence and loneliness, and everything to make me more than usually happy; and so I wandered on and on, neither caring nor looking whither I went: so long as the stars remained unclouded, I could find my way back when I pleased.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000000|"I had been out perhaps an hour, when through the soft air came a cry, apparently from far off.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000001|There was something in the tone that seemed to me unusually frightful.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000002|The bare sound made me shudder before I had time to say to myself it was a cry.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000003|I turned my face in the direction of it, so far as I could judge, and went on.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000004|I cannot run, for, if I attempt it, I am in a moment unable even to walk-from palpitation and choking.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000009_000001|I stood and listened for a moment, but all seemed still as the grave.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000009_000002|I must go in, and see whether anyone was there in want of help.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000009_000003|You may well smile at the idea of my helping anyone, for what could I do if it came to a struggle?"
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000010_000000|"On the contrary," interrupted Wingfold, "I was smiling with admiration of your pluck."
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000000|"At least," resumed Polwarth, "I have this advantage over some, that I cannot be fooled with the fancy that this poor miserable body of mine is worth thinking of beside the smallest suspicion of duty.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000001|What is it but a cracked jug?
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000002|So down the slope I went, got into the garden, and made my way through the tangled bushes to the house.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000003|I knew the place perfectly, for I had often wandered all over it, sometimes spending hours there.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000003|Ere I could breathe again after it, the tall figure of a woman rushed past me, tearing its way through the bushes towards the door.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000004|I followed instantly, saw her run up the steps, and heard her open and shut the door.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000008|I cannot describe the horror of it.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000011|I approached it softly, and finding that door inside a small closet, knew at once where I was. As I was in office on the ground, and it could hardly be any thing righteous that led to such an outcry in the house, which, although deserted, was still my master's, I felt justified in searching further into the matter.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000012|Laying my ear therefore against the door, I heard what was plainly a lady's voice.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000014|She soothed, she expostulated, she condoled, she coaxed.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000020|I crept out of the house, and up to the higher ground.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000022|But I had no longer any pleasure in the world.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000023|I went straight home, and to bed again-but had brought little repose with me: I must do something-but what?
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000024|The only result certain to follow, was more trouble to the troubled already.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000026|And the lady might be his wife, who had gone as soon as she could leave him to find help, but had failed.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000027|There MUST be some simple explanation of the matter, however strange it showed!
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000028|I might, in the morning, be of service to them.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000029|And partly comforted by the temporary conclusion, I got a little troubled sleep.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000000|"As soon as I had had a cup of tea, I set out for the old house.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000001|I heard the sounds of the workmen's hammers on the new one as I went.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000002|All else was silence.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000004|When I got into the garden I began to sing and knock the bushes about, then opened the door noisily, and clattered about in the hall and the lower rooms before going up the stair.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000005|Along every passage and into every room I went, to give good warning ere I approached that in which I had heard the voices.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000007|I knocked again.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000008|Still no answer.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000009|I opened it and peeped in.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000010|There was no one there!
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000011|An old bedstead was all I saw.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000015_000000|"Would you mind taking care of it, mr Wingfold?" the gate keeper continued as the curate examined it; "I don't like having it.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000015_000001|I can't even bear to think of it even in the house, and yet I don't quite care to destroy it."
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000016_000000|"I don't in the least mind taking charge of it," answered Wingfold.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000002|Why should he think of her now?
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000004|Certainly he had never till then thought of her with the slightest interest, and why should she come up to him now?
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000006|Good heavens!
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000007|There was her brother ill!
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000008|And had not Faber said there seemed something unusual about the character of his illness?--What could it mean?--It was impossible of course-but yet-and yet-
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000018_000000|"Do you think," he said, "we are in any way bound to inquire further into the affair?"
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000019_000000|"If I had thought so, I should not have left it unmentioned till now," answered Polwarth.
train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000019_000002|Meantime I have the relief of the confessional."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000001_000000|Chapter nine.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000000|Baskerville Hall, october fifteenth.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000001|MY DEAR HOLMES: If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000002|In my last report I ended upon my top note with Barrymore at the window, and now I have quite a budget already which will, unless I am much mistaken, considerably surprise you.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000003|Things have taken a turn which I could not have anticipated.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000004|In some ways they have within the last forty eight hours become much clearer and in some ways they have become more complicated.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000005|But I will tell you all and you shall judge for yourself.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000000|Before breakfast on the morning following my adventure I went down the corridor and examined the room in which Barrymore had been on the night before.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000001|The western window through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house-it commands the nearest outlook on to the moor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000003|It follows, therefore, that Barrymore, since only this window would serve the purpose, must have been looking out for something or somebody upon the moor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000004|The night was very dark, so that I can hardly imagine how he could have hoped to see anyone.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000005|It had struck me that it was possible that some love intrigue was on foot.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000006|That would have accounted for his stealthy movements and also for the uneasiness of his wife.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000007|The man is a striking looking fellow, very well equipped to steal the heart of a country girl, so that this theory seemed to have something to support it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000008|That opening of the door which I had heard after I had returned to my room might mean that he had gone out to keep some clandestine appointment.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000009|So I reasoned with myself in the morning, and I tell you the direction of my suspicions, however much the result may have shown that they were unfounded.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000004_000000|But whatever the true explanation of Barrymore's movements might be, I felt that the responsibility of keeping them to myself until I could explain them was more than I could bear.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000004_000002|He was less surprised than I had expected.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000005_000000|"I knew that Barrymore walked about nights, and I had a mind to speak to him about it," said he.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000006_000000|"Perhaps then he pays a visit every night to that particular window," I suggested.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000007_000000|"Perhaps he does.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000007_000002|I wonder what your friend Holmes would do if he were here."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000008_000000|"I believe that he would do exactly what you now suggest," said i "He would follow Barrymore and see what he did."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000010_000000|"But surely he would hear us."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000011_000000|"The man is rather deaf, and in any case we must take our chance of that.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000011_000001|We'll sit up in my room tonight and wait until he passes." Sir Henry rubbed his hands with pleasure, and it was evident that he hailed the adventure as a relief to his somewhat quiet life upon the moor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000000|The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000001|There have been decorators and furnishers up from Plymouth, and it is evident that our friend has large ideas and means to spare no pains or expense to restore the grandeur of his family.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000003|Between ourselves there are pretty clear signs that this will not be wanting if the lady is willing, for I have seldom seen a man more infatuated with a woman than he is with our beautiful neighbour, Miss Stapleton.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000004|And yet the course of true love does not run quite as smoothly as one would under the circumstances expect.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000005|Today, for example, its surface was broken by a very unexpected ripple, which has caused our friend considerable perplexity and annoyance.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000013_000000|After the conversation which I have quoted about Barrymore, Sir Henry put on his hat and prepared to go out.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000013_000001|As a matter of course I did the same.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000014_000000|"What, are you coming, Watson?" he asked, looking at me in a curious way.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000015_000000|"That depends on whether you are going on the moor," said i
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000016_000000|"Yes, I am."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000017_000000|"Well, you know what my instructions are.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000017_000001|I am sorry to intrude, but you heard how earnestly Holmes insisted that I should not leave you, and especially that you should not go alone upon the moor."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000018_000000|Sir Henry put his hand upon my shoulder with a pleasant smile.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000000|"My dear fellow," said he, "Holmes, with all his wisdom, did not foresee some things which have happened since I have been on the moor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000001|You understand me?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000002|I am sure that you are the last man in the world who would wish to be a spoil sport.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000003|I must go out alone."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000020_000000|It put me in a most awkward position.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000021_000001|I assure you my cheeks flushed at the very thought.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000000|I hurried along the road at the top of my speed without seeing anything of Sir Henry, until I came to the point where the moor path branches off.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000002|Thence I saw him at once.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000004|It was clear that there was already an understanding between them and that they had met by appointment.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000005|They were walking slowly along in deep conversation, and I saw her making quick little movements of her hands as if she were very earnest in what she was saying, while he listened intently, and once or twice shook his head in strong dissent.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000006|I stood among the rocks watching them, very much puzzled as to what I should do next.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000007|To follow them and break into their intimate conversation seemed to be an outrage, and yet my clear duty was never for an instant to let him out of my sight.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000008|To act the spy upon a friend was a hateful task.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000009|Still, I could see no better course than to observe him from the hill, and to clear my conscience by confessing to him afterwards what I had done.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000000|Our friend, Sir Henry, and the lady had halted on the path and were standing deeply absorbed in their conversation, when I was suddenly aware that I was not the only witness of their interview.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000001|A wisp of green floating in the air caught my eye, and another glance showed me that it was carried on a stick by a man who was moving among the broken ground.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000002|It was Stapleton with his butterfly net.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000003|He was very much closer to the pair than I was, and he appeared to be moving in their direction. At this instant Sir Henry suddenly drew Miss Stapleton to his side.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000004|His arm was round her, but it seemed to me that she was straining away from him with her face averted.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000005|He stooped his head to hers, and she raised one hand as if in protest.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000006|Next moment I saw them spring apart and turn hurriedly round.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000007|Stapleton was the cause of the interruption.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000008|He was running wildly towards them, his absurd net dangling behind him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000009|He gesticulated and almost danced with excitement in front of the lovers. What the scene meant I could not imagine, but it seemed to me that Stapleton was abusing Sir Henry, who offered explanations, which became more angry as the other refused to accept them.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000010|The lady stood by in haughty silence.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000011|Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, after an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000012|The naturalist's angry gestures showed that the lady was included in his displeasure.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000024_000001|I ran down the hill therefore and met the baronet at the bottom.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000025_000001|Where have you dropped from?" said he.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000025_000002|"You don't mean to say that you came after me in spite of all?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000026_000000|I explained everything to him: how I had found it impossible to remain behind, how I had followed him, and how I had witnessed all that had occurred.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000028_000000|"I was on that hill."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000029_000000|"Quite in the back row, eh?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000029_000001|But her brother was well up to the front. Did you see him come out on us?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000030_000000|"Yes, I did."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000032_000000|"I can't say that he ever did."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000000|"I dare say not.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000001|I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket. What's the matter with me, anyhow?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000003|Tell me straight, now!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000004|Is there anything that would prevent me from making a good husband to a woman that I loved?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000034_000000|"I should say not."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000035_000000|"He can't object to my worldly position, so it must be myself that he has this down on.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000035_000003|And yet he would not so much as let me touch the tips of her fingers."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000001|I tell you, Watson, I've only known her these few weeks, but from the first I just felt that she was made for me, and she, too-she was happy when she was with me, and that I'll swear. There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000002|But he has never let us get together and it was only today for the first time that I saw a chance of having a few words with her alone.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000003|She was glad to meet me, but when she did it was not love that she would talk about, and she wouldn't have let me talk about it either if she could have stopped it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000006|With that I offered in as many words to marry her, but before she could answer, down came this brother of hers, running at us with a face on him like a madman.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000007|He was just white with rage, and those light eyes of his were blazing with fury.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000008|What was I doing with the lady?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000000|I tried one or two explanations, but, indeed, I was completely puzzled myself.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000001|Our friend's title, his fortune, his age, his character, and his appearance are all in his favour, and I know nothing against him unless it be this dark fate which runs in his family.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000003|However, our conjectures were set at rest by a visit from Stapleton himself that very afternoon.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000004|He had come to offer apologies for his rudeness of the morning, and after a long private interview with Sir Henry in his study the upshot of their conversation was that the breach is quite healed, and that we are to dine at Merripit House next Friday as a sign of it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000040_000000|"Did he give any explanation of his conduct?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000000|"His sister is everything in his life, he says.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000001|That is natural enough, and I am glad that he should understand her value.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000002|They have always been together, and according to his account he has been a very lonely man with only her as a companion, so that the thought of losing her was really terrible to him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000004|If she had to leave him he had rather it was to a neighbour like myself than to anyone else.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000005|But in any case it was a blow to him and it would take him some time before he could prepare himself to meet it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000006|He would withdraw all opposition upon his part if I would promise for three months to let the matter rest and to be content with cultivating the lady's friendship during that time without claiming her love.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000007|This I promised, and so the matter rests."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000042_000002|And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear stained face of mrs Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000042_000004|All these things have by one night's work been thoroughly cleared.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000000|I have said "by one night's work," but, in truth, it was by two nights' work, for on the first we drew entirely blank.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000001|I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o'clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock upon the stairs.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000002|It was a most melancholy vigil and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000003|Fortunately we were not discouraged, and we determined to try again.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000004|The next night we lowered the lamp and sat smoking cigarettes without making the least sound.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000000|Very stealthily we heard it pass along until it died away in the distance.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000001|Then the baronet gently opened his door and we set out in pursuit.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000003|Softly we stole along until we had come into the other wing.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000004|We were just in time to catch a glimpse of the tall, black bearded figure, his shoulders rounded as he tiptoed down the passage.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000005|Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000006|We shuffled cautiously towards it, trying every plank before we dared to put our whole weight upon it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000007|We had taken the precaution of leaving our boots behind us, but, even so, the old boards snapped and creaked beneath our tread.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000009|However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000010|When at last we reached the door and peeped through we found him crouching at the window, candle in hand, his white, intent face pressed against the pane, exactly as I had seen him two nights before.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000045_000000|We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000045_000001|He walked into the room, and as he did so Barrymore sprang up from the window with a sharp hiss of his breath and stood, livid and trembling, before us.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000045_000002|His dark eyes, glaring out of the white mask of his face, were full of horror and astonishment as he gazed from Sir Henry to me.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000047_000002|I go round at night to see that they are fastened."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000048_000000|"On the second floor?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000000|"Look here, Barrymore," said Sir Henry sternly, "we have made up our minds to have the truth out of you, so it will save you trouble to tell it sooner rather than later.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000001|Come, now!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000002|No lies!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000003|What were you doing at that window?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000052_000001|I was holding a candle to the window."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000053_000000|"And why were you holding a candle to the window?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000054_000000|"Don't ask me, Sir Henry-don't ask me!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000054_000002|If it concerned no one but myself I would not try to keep it from you."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000056_000002|And then I gave a cry of exultation, for a tiny pinpoint of yellow light had suddenly transfixed the dark veil, and glowed steadily in the centre of the black square framed by the window.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000057_000000|"There it is!" I cried.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000059_000000|"Move your light across the window, Watson!" cried the baronet.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000059_000001|"See, the other moves also!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000059_000003|Who is your confederate out yonder, and what is this conspiracy that is going on?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000060_000000|The man's face became openly defiant.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000060_000001|"It is my business, and not yours. I will not tell."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000062_000000|"Very good, sir.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000062_000001|If I must I must."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000063_000000|"And you go in disgrace.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000064_000000|"No, no, sir; no, not against you!"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000064_000001|It was a woman's voice, and mrs Barrymore, paler and more horror struck than her husband, was standing at the door.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000064_000002|Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000065_000000|"We have to go, Eliza.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000065_000001|This is the end of it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000065_000002|You can pack our things," said the butler.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000066_000000|"Oh, john, john, have I brought you to this?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000066_000001|It is my doing, Sir Henry-all mine.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000066_000002|He has done nothing except for my sake and because I asked him."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000067_000000|"Speak out, then!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000067_000001|What does it mean?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000068_000000|"My unhappy brother is starving on the moor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000068_000001|We cannot let him perish at our very gates.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000068_000002|The light is a signal to him that food is ready for him, and his light out yonder is to show the spot to which to bring it."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000069_000000|"Then your brother is-"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000071_000000|"That's the truth, sir," said Barrymore.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000071_000001|"I said that it was not my secret and that I could not tell it to you.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000071_000002|But now you have heard it, and you will see that if there was a plot it was not against you."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000072_000000|This, then, was the explanation of the stealthy expeditions at night and the light at the window.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000072_000001|Sir Henry and I both stared at the woman in amazement.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000072_000002|Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000000|"Yes, sir, my name was Selden, and he is my younger brother.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000003|From crime to crime he sank lower and lower until it is only the mercy of God which has snatched him from the scaffold; but to me, sir, he was always the little curly headed boy that I had nursed and played with as an elder sister would.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000004|That was why he broke prison, sir.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000005|He knew that I was here and that we could not refuse to help him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000006|When he dragged himself here one night, weary and starving, with the warders hard at his heels, what could we do?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000007|We took him in and fed him and cared for him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000008|Then you returned, sir, and my brother thought he would be safer on the moor than anywhere else until the hue and cry was over, so he lay in hiding there. But every second night we made sure if he was still there by putting a light in the window, and if there was an answer my husband took out some bread and meat to him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000009|Every day we hoped that he was gone, but as long as he was there we could not desert him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000010|That is the whole truth, as I am an honest Christian woman and you will see that if there is blame in the matter it does not lie with my husband but with me, for whose sake he has done all that he has."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000074_000000|The woman's words came with an intense earnestness which carried conviction with them.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000076_000000|"Yes, Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000076_000001|Every word of it."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000077_000000|"Well, I cannot blame you for standing by your own wife.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000077_000001|Forget what I have said.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000077_000002|Go to your room, you two, and we shall talk further about this matter in the morning."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000078_000000|When they were gone we looked out of the window again.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000078_000002|Far away in the black distance there still glowed that one tiny point of yellow light.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000079_000000|"I wonder he dares," said Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000080_000000|"It may be so placed as to be only visible from here."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000081_000000|"Very likely.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000081_000001|How far do you think it is?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000083_000000|"Not more than a mile or two off."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000084_000000|"Hardly that."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000000|The same thought had crossed my own mind.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000002|Their secret had been forced from them.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000003|The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000006|Any night, for example, our neighbours the Stapletons might be attacked by him, and it may have been the thought of this which made Sir Henry so keen upon the adventure.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000087_000000|"I will come," said i
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000088_000000|"Then get your revolver and put on your boots.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000088_000001|The sooner we start the better, as the fellow may put out his light and be off."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000089_000002|Now and again the moon peeped out for an instant, but clouds were driving over the face of the sky, and just as we came out on the moor a thin rain began to fall.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000089_000003|The light still burned steadily in front.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000090_000000|"Are you armed?" I asked.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000091_000000|"I have a hunting crop."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000092_000000|"We must close in on him rapidly, for he is said to be a desperate fellow.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000092_000001|We shall take him by surprise and have him at our mercy before he can resist."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000093_000000|"I say, Watson," said the baronet, "what would Holmes say to this?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000093_000001|How about that hour of darkness in which the power of evil is exalted?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000094_000000|As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000094_000002|Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild, and menacing.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000094_000003|The baronet caught my sleeve and his face glimmered white through the darkness.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000095_000000|"My God, what's that, Watson?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000096_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000096_000002|I heard it once before."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000097_000001|We stood straining our ears, but nothing came.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000098_000000|"Watson," said the baronet, "it was the cry of a hound."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000099_000000|My blood ran cold in my veins, for there was a break in his voice which told of the sudden horror which had seized him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000101_000000|"Who?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000103_000001|Why should you mind what they call it?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000104_000000|"Tell me, Watson.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000104_000001|What do they say of it?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000105_000000|I hesitated but could not escape the question.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000107_000000|He groaned and was silent for a few moments.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000109_000000|"It was hard to say whence it came."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000110_000000|"It rose and fell with the wind.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000110_000001|Isn't that the direction of the great Grimpen Mire?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000111_000000|"Yes, it is."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000000|"Well, it was up there.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000001|Come now, Watson, didn't you think yourself that it was the cry of a hound?
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000002|I am not a child.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000003|You need not fear to speak the truth."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000113_000000|"Stapleton was with me when I heard it last.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000115_000000|"No, no"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000116_000002|There was the footprint of the hound beside him as he lay.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000116_000003|It all fits together.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000116_000004|I don't think that I am a coward, Watson, but that sound seemed to freeze my very blood.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000117_000000|It was as cold as a block of marble.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000118_000000|"You'll be all right tomorrow."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000120_000000|"Shall we turn back?"
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000121_000000|"No, by thunder; we have come out to get our man, and we will do it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000121_000002|Come on!
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000121_000003|We'll see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000122_000000|We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000122_000004|It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it-just the one straight yellow flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000123_000000|"What shall we do now?" whispered Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000124_000001|He must be near his light.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000124_000002|Let us see if we can get a glimpse of him."
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000000|The words were hardly out of my mouth when we both saw him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000001|Over the rocks, in the crevice of which the candle burned, there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000002|Foul with mire, with a bristling beard, and hung with matted hair, it might well have belonged to one of those old savages who dwelt in the burrows on the hillsides.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000003|The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000000|Something had evidently aroused his suspicions.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000001|It may have been that Barrymore had some private signal which we had neglected to give, or the fellow may have had some other reason for thinking that all was not well, but I could read his fears upon his wicked face.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000002|Any instant he might dash out the light and vanish in the darkness.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000003|I sprang forward therefore, and Sir Henry did the same.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000004|At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000005|I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run. At the same moment by a lucky chance the moon broke through the clouds. We rushed over the brow of the hill, and there was our man running with great speed down the other side, springing over the stones in his way with the activity of a mountain goat.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000127_000000|We were both swift runners and in fairly good training, but we soon found that we had no chance of overtaking him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000127_000002|We ran and ran until we were completely blown, but the space between us grew ever wider. Finally we stopped and sat panting on two rocks, while we watched him disappearing in the distance.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000000|And it was at this moment that there occurred a most strange and unexpected thing.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000001|We had risen from our rocks and were turning to go home, having abandoned the hopeless chase.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000003|There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000004|Do not think that it was a delusion, Holmes.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000005|I assure you that I have never in my life seen anything more clearly.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000006|As far as I could judge, the figure was that of a tall, thin man.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000007|He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of peat and granite which lay before him.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000008|He might have been the very spirit of that terrible place. It was not the convict.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000009|This man was far from the place where the latter had disappeared.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000010|Besides, he was a much taller man.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000011|With a cry of surprise I pointed him out to the baronet, but in the instant during which I had turned to grasp his arm the man was gone.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000012|There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000001|The baronet's nerves were still quivering from that cry, which recalled the dark story of his family, and he was not in the mood for fresh adventures.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000002|He had not seen this lonely man upon the tor and could not feel the thrill which his strange presence and his commanding attitude had given to me.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000003|"A warder, no doubt," said he.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000004|"The moor has been thick with them since this fellow escaped." Well, perhaps his explanation may be the right one, but I should like to have some further proof of it.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000006|Such are the adventures of last night, and you must acknowledge, my dear Holmes, that I have done you very well in the matter of a report.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000007|Much of what I tell you is no doubt quite irrelevant, but still I feel that it is best that I should let you have all the facts and leave you to select for yourself those which will be of most service to you in helping you to your conclusions.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000008|We are certainly making some progress.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000009|So far as the Barrymores go we have found the motive of their actions, and that has cleared up the situation very much.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000010|But the moor with its mysteries and its strange inhabitants remains as inscrutable as ever.
train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000011|Perhaps in my next I may be able to throw some light upon this also.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000002_000001|A great volume would not contain the record of them all.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000002_000003|The sight moved me as no great battle ever did afterward.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000003_000000|One half of the male population of Missouri was trying to kill the other half.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000003_000001|They were not opponents from different far off sections fighting, but near neighbors, and nothing seemed too awful or too cruel for them to do.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000005_000000|Now for months my regiment, with others, had chased up and down, and all over that unhappy old State of Missouri, trying to capture and punish these bands of murderers.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000005_000002|It was rare that we could catch them or have a real fight.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000005_000003|Their kind of war meant ambuscades and murder.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000006_000000|At last an end came to this dreadful guerrilla chasing business in Missouri so far as we were concerned, anyway.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000006_000001|We were to stop running after Price's ubiquitous army too.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000007_000000|The glad news came to my regiment that we were to be transferred to the South, where the real war was.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000000|One morning we left the cold and snow, where we had lived and shivered in thin tents all the winter, left the thankless duty of patrolling railroads in the storm at midnight, and marched in the direction of saint Louis.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000001|A long, cold, miserable march it was too, hurrying in the daytime and freezing in our bivouacs in the snow and woods at night.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000002|Many a man we left to sicken and die at some farmhouse by the roadside.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000003|Our destination was New Madrid, where we were to be a part of Pope's army in the siege and capture of that town.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000009_000000|As we were about to embark on boats at saint Louis we beheld in the snow and storm many steamers anchored out in the pitiless waters of the Mississippi River.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000009_000004|This army of prisoners taken in battle was his introduction to the world.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000000|Shortly we were before New Madrid, and the siege conducted by General Pope commenced.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000001|The town was defended by strong forts and many cannon, but its speedy capture by us helped to open up the Mississippi River.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000002|It was a new experience to us, to have cannonballs come rolling right into our camp occasionally.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000003|Yet few men were injured by them.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000004|We were in more danger when a fool officer one day took our brigade of infantry down through a cornfield to assault a gunboat that lay in a creek close by.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000011_000000|The Rebel commander had expected us, and had his grape shot and his hot water hose, and such things all ready for us.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000011_000001|We went out of that cornfield faster than we went in.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000012_000002|I recall finding a dead Rebel officer, lying on a table in his tent, in full uniform.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000012_000004|A candle burned beside him, and his cold hands closed on a pencil note that said, "Kindly bury this unfortunate officer." His breakfast waited on a table in the tent, showing how unexpected was his taking off.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000013_000000|Our victory was a great one for the nation, and it put two stars on the shoulder straps of General Pope.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000013_000001|It made him, too, commander of the Eastern army.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000000|A comrade in Company A of my regiment had been wounded a few days before and had died in the enemy's hands.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000001|I now found his grave.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000002|At its head stood a board with this curious inscription: "This man says he was a private in the Fifth Iowa Regiment.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000003|He was killed while trying to attend to other people's business."
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000015_000000|Our command was now hurried to the Shiloh battlefield, of course too late to be of any use.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000015_000001|But we took part in the long, wonderful, and ridiculous siege of Corinth, under Halleck, when our great army was held back by red tape, martinets, and the fear of a lot of wooden guns that sat on top of the enemy's breastworks, while that enemy, with all his men, and with all his guns, and bag and baggage, was escaping to the south.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000015_000002|Our deeds were no credit to anybody, though here and there we had a little fight.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000000|One incident of great importance, however, happened to my regiment here. It was the death of our colonel.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000002|The sentinel who did the killing declared that Rebels had been slipping up to his post all night, and when he would hail with "Who goes there?" they would fire at him and run into the darkness.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000003|He resolved to stand behind a tree the next time and fire without hailing.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000006|The bullet struck the colonel in the forehead, killing him instantly.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000007|As he fell from his horse the adjutant sprang to the ground and cried, "Who shot the officer of the day?" "I fired," exclaimed the sentinel, and he then told of his experiences of the night.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000008|He was arrested, tried, and acquitted.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000009|Yet there were many among us who believed that the colonel had been intentionally murdered. He was one of the most competent colonels in the army, but among his soldiers he was fearfully unpopular.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000010|He was, however, a splendid disciplinarian, but this was something the volunteers did not want.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000011|In their minds the colonel had been only a petty tyrant, and not even wholly loyal.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000012|With a different disposition he certainly would have been a distinguished soldier.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000013|He was one of the most military looking men in the whole army, but friends he had none.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000017_000000|His body was brought into camp the next morning and lay in his tent in state.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000018_000000|After his death numbers of the men of the regiment were indignant, when they found among his papers warrants and commissions intended by the governor for them, commissions that had never been delivered.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000018_000001|Their promotions had never come about.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000018_000002|Now they knew why.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000019_000000|Worthington was succeeded by Colonel c l Matthies, one of the bravest, best, and most loved commanders of our army.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000019_000001|Later Matthies was made a general, and at the close of the war died of wounds received in battle.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000000|Although I was quartermaster sergeant of the regiment, I was always careful that this should not keep me away from the command when enduring hard marches or when engagements were coming on.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000002|I deserved no special credit for this.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000003|I was only doing my duty.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000004|We had muzzle loading Whitney rifles and bayonets.
train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000005|The equipment and rations we carried in weight would have been a respectable load for a mule.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000003_000000|THE CACTUS
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000004_000000|The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000005_000000|That is what Trysdale was doing, standing by a table in his bachelor apartments.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000005_000001|On the table stood a singular looking green plant in a red earthen jar.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000005_000002|The plant was one of the species of cacti, and was provided with long, tentacular leaves that perpetually swayed with the slightest breeze with a peculiar beckoning motion.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000006_000001|Both men were in evening dress.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000006_000002|White favors like stars upon their coats shone through the gloom of the apartment.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000007_000000|As he slowly unbuttoned his gloves, there passed through Trysdale's mind a swift, scarifying retrospect of the last few hours.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000007_000001|It seemed that in his nostrils was still the scent of the flowers that had been banked in odorous masses about the church, and in his ears the lowpitched hum of a thousand well bred voices, the rustle of crisp garments, and, most insistently recurring, the drawling words of the minister irrevocably binding her to another.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000000|From this last hopeless point of view he still strove, as if it had become a habit of his mind, to reach some conjecture as to why and how he had lost her.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000004|Vanity and conceit?
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000005|These were the joints in his armor.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000006|And how free from either she had always been-But why-
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000001|He had told himself that her paleness was from thoughts of another than the man to whom she was about to give herself.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000002|But even that poor consolation had been wrenched from him.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000003|For, when he saw that swift, limpid, upward look that she gave the man when he took her hand, he knew himself to be forgotten.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000004|Once that same look had been raised to him, and he had gauged its meaning.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000005|Indeed, his conceit had crumbled; its last prop was gone.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000007|There had been no quarrel between them, nothing-
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000011_000000|She had always insisted upon placing him upon a pedestal, and he had accepted her homage with royal grandeur.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000000|As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000001|The scene was the night when he had asked her to come up on his pedestal with him and share his greatness.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000002|He could not, now, for the pain of it, allow his mind to dwell upon the memory of her convincing beauty that night-the careless wave of her hair, the tenderness and virginal charm of her looks and words.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000003|But they had been enough, and they had brought him to speak.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000004|During their conversation she had said:
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000013_000001|Why have you hidden this accomplishment from me?
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000013_000002|Is there anything you do not know?"
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000014_000000|Now, Carruthers was an idiot.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000014_000001|No doubt he (Trysdale) had been guilty (he sometimes did such things) of airing at the club some old, canting Castilian proverb dug from the hotchpotch at the back of dictionaries. Carruthers, who was one of his incontinent admirers, was the very man to have magnified this exhibition of doubtful erudition.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000015_000001|He allowed the imputation to pass without denial.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000015_000002|Without protest, he allowed her to twine about his brow this spurious bay of Spanish scholarship.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000015_000003|He let it grace his conquering head, and, among its soft convolutions, he did not feel the prick of the thorn that was to pierce him later.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000002|He could have sworn, and he could swear now, that unmistakable consent was in her eyes, but, coyly, she would give him no direct answer.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000003|"I will send you my answer to morrow," she said; and he, the indulgent, confident victor, smilingly granted the delay.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000006|There was no note, no message, merely a tag upon the plant bearing a barbarous foreign or botanical name.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000007|He waited until night, but her answer did not come.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000008|His large pride and hurt vanity kept him from seeking her. Two evenings later they met at a dinner.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000009|Their greetings were conventional, but she looked at him, breathless, wondering, eager.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000010|He was courteous, adamant, waiting her explanation.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000011|With womanly swiftness she took her cue from his manner, and turned to snow and ice. Thus, and wider from this on, they had drifted apart.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000012|Where was his fault?
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000013|Who had been to blame?
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000014|Humbled now, he sought the answer amid the ruins of his self conceit.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000015|If-
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000000|"I say, Trysdale, what the deuce is the matter with you?
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000001|You look unhappy as if you yourself had been married instead of having acted merely as an accomplice.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000002|Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice-please to observe how lightly my guilt rests upon my shoulders.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000005|take something to ease your conscience."
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000019_000000|"I don't drink just now, thanks," said Trysdale.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000020_000000|"Your brandy," resumed the other, coming over and joining him, "is abominable.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000020_000002|It's worth the trip. Hallo! here's an old acquaintance.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000020_000003|Wherever did you rake up this cactus, Trysdale?"
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000021_000000|"A present," said Trysdale, "from a friend.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000001|It's a tropical concern.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000002|See hundreds of 'em around Punta every day.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000003|Here's the name on this tag tied to it.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000004|Know any Spanish, Trysdale?"
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000023_000000|"No," said Trysdale, with the bitter wraith of a smile-"Is it Spanish?"
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000024_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000024_000002|They call it by this name-Ventomarme.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000000_000000|JOSE THE BEAST SLAYER
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000002_000001|He went to the Wise Man of the Forest to learn how best to bring her up, and this is what he was told:
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000003_000001|You must give her meat which has no bones in it."
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000000|The king ordered a tower constructed in the deep forest.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000001|It had no door, and only a little window.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000002|Here the princess was placed.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000004|The king himself took charge of this, so that he might be sure that there was no meat given her which had bones in it.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000005_000000|The years flew by, and at last the twelve year period was nearly up. Then the king went away one day and left the servants to carry food to the princess.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000005_000001|They were careless, and gave her meat which had a bone in it.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000006_000000|The little princess had grown very tired of being shut up in the tower of the forest.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000007_000000|"Ah," said she when she discovered the bone in her meat.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000007_000001|"At last I have something with which to make this little window larger.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000007_000002|I've tried in vain to make it bigger with my fingers."
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000008_000000|She used the bone to dig away the wall each side of the window and soon the little opening had grown so large that the princess could lean her head out of it and look up at lofty trees.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000008_000001|That very day a duke passed that way on a hunting expedition and saw the beautiful princess in the tower.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000009_000000|Now that the princess had some one to help her make the hole larger it was an easy matter to make it big enough to escape.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000009_000001|That very night she ran away with the duke.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000010_000000|When the king returned from his journey he found the tower in the forest entirely empty.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000010_000002|He tried in vain to find out what had become of her, but there was no person who could tell him anything about her.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000011_000000|The princess had gone with the duke across a great river which no one else knew how to cross.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000011_000001|She lived in a big cave in the rocks, and after all the years in the tower it seemed a wonderful home indeed. She was never tired of admiring the trees and flowers of the forest and listening to the songs of the birds.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000011_000002|When at last her baby son was born she thought that she was the very happiest person in the whole world.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000012_000000|Now when the baby was two years old, the duke decided that they must take him to a hermitage to be baptized.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000012_000002|Then he returned for the princess, but on the way his foot slipped and he fell into the river.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000012_000003|The strong current bore him swiftly away, leaving the princess on one side of the river and her little son on the other.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000013_000000|"How shall I get across?" cried the princess when she saw what had happened.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000014_000000|"Don't worry, mother," replied the child.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000014_000001|"I'll come and get you."
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000015_000000|To her amazement he crossed the great river in safety and bravely escorted his mother to the other bank in spite of her tears and cries of fear.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000016_000001|"You are indeed a son to be proud of!"
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000017_000000|They went to a church and the boy was baptized.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000017_000003|The boy thrust in his arm and opened the door as if it had been his own.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000018_000000|"Walk in, mother dear," were his words.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000000|Together they entered the house and together they explored the various rooms.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000001|There was nobody there and there was nothing to eat. Accordingly, Jose went out begging.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000002|He asked alms at the royal palace and there he was given money to buy food.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000003|There was even enough left over to pay for a gun.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000020_000000|Now that he owned a gun there was no need of begging any more.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000020_000001|He shot plenty of game for his mother and what was left he carried to the royal palace to give to the king.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000021_000000|One day in the deep forest he entered a cave where the giant of the forest lived.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000022_000000|"What are you doing here, little penny chicken?" asked the huge giant as he frowned down at Jose.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000024_000000|"I may be a little penny chicken, but I'm not in the least afraid of giants," replied the boy boldly.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000025_000000|"What, a little penny chicken like you not afraid of me!" cried the giant as he picked him up roughly and set him on his neck.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000026_000000|Jose seized the giant's long beard and drew it around his neck so tightly that the giant fell to the floor dead.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000027_000000|"You must carry some of this to the king," said his mother when she saw it and had heard his story.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000028_000000|Accordingly, Jose carried the money as a gift to the king.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000030_000000|"A little lad," replied the king's servants.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000031_000001|"I'd like to see him."
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000032_000000|Accordingly, the boy was led before the throne.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000033_000000|"What is your name, my lad?" asked the king kindly.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000034_000000|"I am called Jose the Beast Slayer, your majesty," replied the boy as he bowed low before the throne.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000035_000000|"Who are your parents?" asked the king.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000036_000000|"My father is dead," replied Jose, "and my mother is a princess who ran away from a tower in the forest."
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000037_000001|It was the tale he liked best of all.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000038_000000|At the boy's words the king started and looked at him sharply.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000039_000000|"Tell me about this tower," he said eagerly.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000040_000000|"It was a tower in the deep forest," replied Jose.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000040_000003|This was because the Wise Man of the Forest had told her father that it was the best way to bring her up. One day her father went away and the servants gave her meat with a bone in it and-"
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000041_000000|"I always suspected something like that," interrupted the king.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000042_000000|Jose looked at him in surprise.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000044_000000|The king nodded.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000044_000001|"Go on with your story, my boy," he said.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000045_000000|Jose told all the circumstances of his mother's escape from the tower, just as she had so often described them to him.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000045_000001|Tears were running down the king's cheeks when at last the story was ended.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000047_000001|"It is she who told me to carry the money to the king."
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000048_000000|"Why did she never come to me?" asked the father.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000049_000000|"I think she was afraid she'd be punished for running away from the tower without any door," was Jose's reply.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000050_000000|When the princess was brought home to the royal palace there was a great feast held which lasted for three days and three nights.
train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000050_000002|They brought home so many bags of gold that it required the entire royal army to transport it.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000006_000000|Inferno: Canto sixteen
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000007_000000|Now was I where was heard the reverberation Of water falling into the next round, Like to that humming which the beehives make,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000008_000000|When shadows three together started forth, Running, from out a company that passed Beneath the rain of the sharp martyrdom.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000009_000000|Towards us came they, and each one cried out: "Stop, thou; for by thy garb to us thou seemest To be some one of our depraved city."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000011_000000|Unto their cries my Teacher paused attentive; He turned his face towards me, and "Now wait," He said; "to these we should be courteous.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000013_000000|As soon as we stood still, they recommenced The old refrain, and when they overtook us, Formed of themselves a wheel, all three of them.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000014_000000|As champions stripped and oiled are wont to do, Watching for their advantage and their hold, Before they come to blows and thrusts between them,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000015_000000|Thus, wheeling round, did every one his visage Direct to me, so that in opposite wise His neck and feet continual journey made.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000016_000000|And, "If the misery of this soft place Bring in disdain ourselves and our entreaties," Began one, "and our aspect black and blistered,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000017_000000|Let the renown of us thy mind incline To tell us who thou art, who thus securely Thy living feet dost move along through Hell.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000020_000000|The other, who close by me treads the sand, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi is, whose fame Above there in the world should welcome be.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000021_000000|And I, who with them on the cross am placed, Jacopo Rusticucci was; and truly My savage wife, more than aught else, doth harm me."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000022_000000|Could I have been protected from the fire, Below I should have thrown myself among them, And think the Teacher would have suffered it;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000023_000000|But as I should have burned and baked myself, My terror overmastered my good will, Which made me greedy of embracing them.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000025_000000|As soon as this my Lord said unto me Words, on account of which I thought within me That people such as you are were approaching.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000026_000000|I of your city am; and evermore Your labours and your honourable names I with affection have retraced and heard.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000027_000000|I leave the gall, and go for the sweet fruits Promised to me by the veracious Leader; But to the centre first I needs must plunge."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000029_000000|Valour and courtesy, say if they dwell Within our city, as they used to do, Or if they wholly have gone out of it;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000030_000000|For Guglielmo Borsier, who is in torment With us of late, and goes there with his comrades, Doth greatly mortify us with his words."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000032_000000|In this wise I exclaimed with face uplifted; And the three, taking that for my reply, Looked at each other, as one looks at truth.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000033_000000|"If other times so little it doth cost thee," Replied they all, "to satisfy another, Happy art thou, thus speaking at thy will!
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000035_000000|See that thou speak of us unto the people." Then they broke up the wheel, and in their flight It seemed as if their agile legs were wings.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000036_000000|Not an Amen could possibly be said So rapidly as they had disappeared; Wherefore the Master deemed best to depart.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000037_000000|I followed him, and little had we gone, Before the sound of water was so near us, That speaking we should hardly have been heard.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000039_000000|Which is above called Acquacheta, ere It down descendeth into its low bed, And at Forli is vacant of that name,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000040_000000|Reverberates there above San Benedetto From Alps, by falling at a single leap, Where for a thousand there were room enough;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000041_000000|Thus downward from a bank precipitate, We found resounding that dark tinted water, So that it soon the ear would have offended.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000045_000000|"It must needs be some novelty respond," I said within myself, "to the new signal The Master with his eye is following so."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000046_000000|Ah me! how very cautious men should be With those who not alone behold the act, But with their wisdom look into the thoughts!
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000047_000000|He said to me: "Soon there will upward come What I await; and what thy thought is dreaming Must soon reveal itself unto thy sight."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000050_000000|Athwart that dense and darksome atmosphere I saw a figure swimming upward come, Marvellous unto every steadfast heart,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000051_000000|Even as he returns who goeth down Sometimes to clear an anchor, which has grappled Reef, or aught else that in the sea is hidden,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000053_000000|Inferno: Canto seventeen
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000054_000000|"Behold the monster with the pointed tail, Who cleaves the hills, and breaketh walls and weapons, Behold him who infecteth all the world."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000056_000000|And that uncleanly image of deceit Came up and thrust ashore its head and bust, But on the border did not drag its tail.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000057_000000|The face was as the face of a just man, Its semblance outwardly was so benign, And of a serpent all the trunk beside.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000058_000000|Two paws it had, hairy unto the armpits; The back, and breast, and both the sides it had Depicted o'er with nooses and with shields.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000059_000000|With colours more, groundwork or broidery Never in cloth did Tartars make nor Turks, Nor were such tissues by Arachne laid.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000062_000000|His tail was wholly quivering in the void, Contorting upwards the envenomed fork, That in the guise of scorpion armed its point.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000063_000000|The Guide said: "Now perforce must turn aside Our way a little, even to that beast Malevolent, that yonder coucheth him."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000064_000000|We therefore on the right side descended, And made ten steps upon the outer verge, Completely to avoid the sand and flame;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000065_000000|And after we are come to him, I see A little farther off upon the sand A people sitting near the hollow place.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000066_000000|Then said to me the Master: "So that full Experience of this round thou bear away, Now go and see what their condition is.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000067_000000|There let thy conversation be concise; Till thou returnest I will speak with him, That he concede to us his stalwart shoulders."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000068_000000|Thus farther still upon the outermost Head of that seventh circle all alone I went, where sat the melancholy folk.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000069_000000|Out of their eyes was gushing forth their woe; This way, that way, they helped them with their hands Now from the flames and now from the hot soil.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000070_000000|Not otherwise in summer do the dogs, Now with the foot, now with the muzzle, when By fleas, or flies, or gadflies, they are bitten.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000071_000000|When I had turned mine eyes upon the faces Of some, on whom the dolorous fire is falling, Not one of them I knew; but I perceived
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000072_000000|That from the neck of each there hung a pouch, Which certain colour had, and certain blazon; And thereupon it seems their eyes are feeding.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000073_000000|And as I gazing round me come among them, Upon a yellow pouch I azure saw That had the face and posture of a lion.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000074_000000|Proceeding then the current of my sight, Another of them saw I, red as blood, Display a goose more white than butter is.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000075_000000|And one, who with an azure sow and gravid Emblazoned had his little pouch of white, Said unto me: "What dost thou in this moat?
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000078_000000|He who shall bring the satchel with three goats;'" Then twisted he his mouth, and forth he thrust His tongue, like to an ox that licks its nose.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000079_000000|And fearing lest my longer stay might vex Him who had warned me not to tarry long, Backward I turned me from those weary souls.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000080_000000|I found my Guide, who had already mounted Upon the back of that wild animal, And said to me: "Now be both strong and bold.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000081_000000|Now we descend by stairways such as these; Mount thou in front, for I will be midway, So that the tail may have no power to harm thee."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000082_000000|Such as he is who has so near the ague Of quartan that his nails are blue already, And trembles all, but looking at the shade;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000083_000000|Even such became I at those proffered words; But shame in me his menaces produced, Which maketh servant strong before good master.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000085_000000|But he, who other times had rescued me In other peril, soon as I had mounted, Within his arms encircled and sustained me,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000087_000000|Even as the little vessel shoves from shore, Backward, still backward, so he thence withdrew; And when he wholly felt himself afloat,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000088_000000|There where his breast had been he turned his tail, And that extended like an eel he moved, And with his paws drew to himself the air.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000092_000000|Onward he goeth, swimming slowly, slowly; Wheels and descends, but I perceive it only By wind upon my face and from below.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000093_000000|I heard already on the right the whirlpool Making a horrible crashing under us; Whence I thrust out my head with eyes cast downward.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000094_000000|Then was I still more fearful of the abyss; Because I fires beheld, and heard laments, Whereat I, trembling, all the closer cling.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000095_000000|I saw then, for before I had not seen it, The turning and descending, by great horrors That were approaching upon divers sides.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000096_000000|As falcon who has long been on the wing, Who, without seeing either lure or bird, Maketh the falconer say, "Ah me, thou stoopest,"
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000098_000000|Even thus did Geryon place us on the bottom, Close to the bases of the rough hewn rock, And being disencumbered of our persons,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000100_000000|Inferno: Canto eighteen
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000101_000000|There is a place in Hell called Malebolge, Wholly of stone and of an iron colour, As is the circle that around it turns.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000102_000000|Right in the middle of the field malign There yawns a well exceeding wide and deep, Of which its place the structure will recount.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000104_000000|As where for the protection of the walls Many and many moats surround the castles, The part in which they are a figure forms,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000105_000000|Just such an image those presented there; And as about such strongholds from their gates Unto the outer bank are little bridges,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000106_000000|So from the precipice's base did crags Project, which intersected dikes and moats, Unto the well that truncates and collects them.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000107_000000|Within this place, down shaken from the back Of Geryon, we found us; and the Poet Held to the left, and I moved on behind.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000108_000000|Upon my right hand I beheld new anguish, New torments, and new wielders of the lash, Wherewith the foremost Bolgia was replete.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000109_000000|Down at the bottom were the sinners naked; This side the middle came they facing us, Beyond it, with us, but with greater steps;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000110_000000|Even as the romans, for the mighty host, The year of Jubilee, upon the bridge, Have chosen a mode to pass the people over;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000111_000000|For all upon one side towards the Castle Their faces have, and go unto saint Peter's; On the other side they go towards the Mountain.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000112_000000|This side and that, along the livid stone Beheld I horned demons with great scourges, Who cruelly were beating them behind.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000114_000000|While I was going on, mine eyes by one Encountered were; and straight I said: "Already With sight of this one I am not unfed."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000115_000000|Therefore I stayed my feet to make him out, And with me the sweet Guide came to a stand, And to my going somewhat back assented;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000116_000000|And he, the scourged one, thought to hide himself, Lowering his face, but little it availed him; For said I: "Thou that castest down thine eyes,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000118_000000|And he to me: "Unwillingly I tell it; But forces me thine utterance distinct, Which makes me recollect the ancient world.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000119_000000|I was the one who the fair Ghisola Induced to grant the wishes of the Marquis, Howe'er the shameless story may be told.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000120_000000|Not the sole Bolognese am I who weeps here; Nay, rather is this place so full of them, That not so many tongues to day are taught
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000124_000000|This very easily did we ascend, And turning to the right along its ridge, From those eternal circles we departed.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000129_000000|Still what a royal aspect he retains! That Jason is, who by his heart and cunning The Colchians of the Ram made destitute.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000130_000000|He by the isle of Lemnos passed along After the daring women pitiless Had unto death devoted all their males.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000131_000000|There with his tokens and with ornate words Did he deceive Hypsipyle, the maiden Who first, herself, had all the rest deceived.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000132_000000|There did he leave her pregnant and forlorn; Such sin unto such punishment condemns him, And also for Medea is vengeance done.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000135_000000|Thence we heard people, who are making moan In the next Bolgia, snorting with their muzzles, And with their palms beating upon themselves
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000136_000000|The margins were incrusted with a mould By exhalation from below, that sticks there, And with the eyes and nostrils wages war.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000139_000000|And whilst below there with mine eye I search, I saw one with his head so foul with ordure, It was not clear if he were clerk or layman.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000140_000000|He screamed to me: "Wherefore art thou so eager To look at me more than the other foul ones?" And I to him: "Because, if I remember,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000142_000000|And he thereon, belabouring his pumpkin: "The flatteries have submerged me here below, Wherewith my tongue was never surfeited."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000147_000000|Inferno: Canto nineteen
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000148_000000|O Simon Magus, O forlorn disciples, Ye who the things of God, which ought to be The brides of holiness, rapaciously
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000149_000000|For silver and for gold do prostitute, Now it behoves for you the trumpet sound, Because in this third Bolgia ye abide.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000150_000000|We had already on the following tomb Ascended to that portion of the crag Which o'er the middle of the moat hangs plumb.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000151_000000|Wisdom supreme, O how great art thou showest In heaven, in earth, and in the evil world, And with what justice doth thy power distribute!
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000152_000000|I saw upon the sides and on the bottom The livid stone with perforations filled, All of one size, and every one was round.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000153_000000|To me less ample seemed they not, nor greater Than those that in my beautiful Saint john Are fashioned for the place of the baptisers,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000154_000000|And one of which, not many years ago, I broke for some one, who was drowning in it; Be this a seal all men to undeceive.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000155_000000|Out of the mouth of each one there protruded The feet of a transgressor, and the legs Up to the calf, the rest within remained.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000157_000000|Even as the flame of unctuous things is wont To move upon the outer surface only, So likewise was it there from heel to point.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000158_000000|"Master, who is that one who writhes himself, More than his other comrades quivering," I said, "and whom a redder flame is sucking?"
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000159_000000|And he to me: "If thou wilt have me bear thee Down there along that bank which lowest lies, From him thou'lt know his errors and himself."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000162_000000|And the good Master yet from off his haunch Deposed me not, till to the hole he brought me Of him who so lamented with his shanks.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000163_000000|"Whoe'er thou art, that standest upside down, O doleful soul, implanted like a stake," To say began I, "if thou canst, speak out."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000164_000000|I stood even as the friar who is confessing The false assassin, who, when he is fixed, Recalls him, so that death may be delayed.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000167_000000|Such I became, as people are who stand, Not comprehending what is answered them, As if bemocked, and know not how to answer.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000168_000000|Then said Virgilius: "Say to him straightway, 'I am not he, I am not he thou thinkest.'" And I replied as was imposed on me.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000169_000000|Whereat the spirit writhed with both his feet, Then, sighing, with a voice of lamentation Said to me: "Then what wantest thou of me?
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000171_000000|And truly was I son of the She bear, So eager to advance the cubs, that wealth Above, and here myself, I pocketed.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000172_000000|Beneath my head the others are dragged down Who have preceded me in simony, Flattened along the fissure of the rock.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000173_000000|Below there I shall likewise fall, whenever That one shall come who I believed thou wast, What time the sudden question I proposed.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000174_000000|But longer I my feet already toast, And here have been in this way upside down, Than he will planted stay with reddened feet;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000176_000000|New Jason will he be, of whom we read In Maccabees; and as his king was pliant, So he who governs France shall be to this one."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000177_000000|I do not know if I were here too bold, That him I answered only in this metre: "I pray thee tell me now how great a treasure
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000178_000000|Our Lord demanded of Saint peter first, Before he put the keys into his keeping? Truly he nothing asked but 'Follow me.'
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000179_000000|Nor peter nor the rest asked of Matthias Silver or gold, when he by lot was chosen Unto the place the guilty soul had lost.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000180_000000|Therefore stay here, for thou art justly punished, And keep safe guard o'er the ill gotten money, Which caused thee to be valiant against Charles.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000182_000000|I would make use of words more grievous still; Because your avarice afflicts the world, Trampling the good and lifting the depraved.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000183_000000|The Evangelist you Pastors had in mind, When she who sitteth upon many waters To fornicate with kings by him was seen;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000184_000000|The same who with the seven heads was born, And power and strength from the ten horns received, So long as virtue to her spouse was pleasing.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000185_000000|Ye have made yourselves a god of gold and silver; And from the idolater how differ ye, Save that he one, and ye a hundred worship?
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000187_000000|And while I sang to him such notes as these, Either that anger or that conscience stung him, He struggled violently with both his feet.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000189_000000|Therefore with both his arms he took me up, And when he had me all upon his breast, Remounted by the way where he descended.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000190_000000|Nor did he tire to have me clasped to him; But bore me to the summit of the arch Which from the fourth dike to the fifth is passage.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000191_000000|There tenderly he laid his burden down, Tenderly on the crag uneven and steep, That would have been hard passage for the goats:
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000194_000000|Of a new pain behoves me to make verses And give material to the twentieth canto Of the first song, which is of the submerged.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000195_000000|I was already thoroughly disposed To peer down into the uncovered depth, Which bathed itself with tears of agony;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000196_000000|And people saw I through the circular valley, Silent and weeping, coming at the pace Which in this world the Litanies assume.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000197_000000|As lower down my sight descended on them, Wondrously each one seemed to be distorted From chin to the beginning of the chest;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000199_000000|Perchance indeed by violence of palsy Some one has been thus wholly turned awry; But I ne'er saw it, nor believe it can be.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000200_000000|As God may let thee, Reader, gather fruit From this thy reading, think now for thyself How I could ever keep my face unmoistened,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000203_000000|Here pity lives when it is wholly dead; Who is a greater reprobate than he Who feels compassion at the doom divine?
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000205_000000|Amphiaraus?
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000205_000001|Why dost leave the war?' And downward ceased he not to fall amain As far as Minos, who lays hold on all.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000206_000000|See, he has made a bosom of his shoulders! Because he wished to see too far before him Behind he looks, and backward goes his way:
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000207_000000|Behold Tiresias, who his semblance changed, When from a male a female he became, His members being all of them transformed;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000208_000000|And afterwards was forced to strike once more The two entangled serpents with his rod, Ere he could have again his manly plumes.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000210_000000|Among the marbles white a cavern had For his abode; whence to behold the stars And sea, the view was not cut off from him.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000212_000000|Was Manto, who made quest through many lands, Afterwards tarried there where I was born; Whereof I would thou list to me a little.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000213_000000|After her father had from life departed, And the city of Bacchus had become enslaved, She a long season wandered through the world.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000214_000000|Above in beauteous Italy lies a lake At the Alp's foot that shuts in Germany Over Tyrol, and has the name Benaco.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000215_000000|By a thousand springs, I think, and more, is bathed, 'Twixt Garda and Val Camonica, Pennino, With water that grows stagnant in that lake.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000218_000000|There of necessity must fall whatever In bosom of Benaco cannot stay, And grows a river down through verdant pastures.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000219_000000|Soon as the water doth begin to run, No more Benaco is it called, but Mincio, Far as Governo, where it falls in Po.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000220_000000|Not far it runs before it finds a plain In which it spreads itself, and makes it marshy, And oft 'tis wont in summer to be sickly.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000221_000000|Passing that way the virgin pitiless Land in the middle of the fen descried, Untilled and naked of inhabitants;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000222_000000|There to escape all human intercourse, She with her servants stayed, her arts to practise And lived, and left her empty body there.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000223_000000|The men, thereafter, who were scattered round, Collected in that place, which was made strong By the lagoon it had on every side;
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000224_000000|They built their city over those dead bones, And, after her who first the place selected, Mantua named it, without other omen.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000225_000000|Its people once within more crowded were, Ere the stupidity of Casalodi From Pinamonte had received deceit.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000226_000000|Therefore I caution thee, if e'er thou hearest Originate my city otherwise, No falsehood may the verity defraud."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000227_000000|And I: "My Master, thy discourses are To me so certain, and so take my faith, That unto me the rest would be spent coals.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000228_000000|But tell me of the people who are passing, If any one note worthy thou beholdest, For only unto that my mind reverts."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000231_000000|Eryphylus his name was, and so sings My lofty Tragedy in some part or other; That knowest thou well, who knowest the whole of it.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000233_000000|Behold Guido Bonatti, behold Asdente, Who now unto his leather and his thread Would fain have stuck, but he too late repents.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000234_000000|Behold the wretched ones, who left the needle, The spool and rock, and made them fortune tellers; They wrought their magic spells with herb and image.
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000235_000000|But come now, for already holds the confines Of both the hemispheres, and under Seville Touches the ocean wave, Cain and the thorns,
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000236_000000|And yesternight the moon was round already; Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee From time to time within the forest deep."
train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000237_000000|Thus spake he to me, and we walked the while.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000000_000002|And there, when they had taken their fill of food and drink, they kept awake all night waiting for the sons of Boreas.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000001_000002|I was infatuated aforetime, when in my folly I declared the will of Zeus in order and to the end.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000002|For they are not firmly fixed with roots beneath, but constantly clash against one another to one point, and above a huge mass of salt water rises in a crest, boiling up, and loudly dashes upon the hard beach.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000003|Wherefore now obey my counsel, if indeed with prudent mind and reverencing the blessed gods ye pursue your way; and perish not foolishly by a self sought death, or rush on following the guidance of youth.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000004|First entrust the attempt to a dove when ye have sent her forth from the ship.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000006|But if she flies onward and perishes midway, then do ye turn back; for it is better to yield to the immortals.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000007|For ye could not escape an evil doom from the rocks, not even if Argo were of iron."
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000004_000001|So high in the air does it rise turned towards the sea.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000004_000009|But what need is there that I should sin yet again declaring everything to the end by my prophetic art?
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000006_000001|What shall I do, how shall I go over again such a long path through the sea, unskilled as I am, with unskilled comrades?
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000007_000001|But, my friends, take thought of the artful aid of the Cyprian goddess.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000007_000003|And further than this ask me not."
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000008_000003|And quickly Aeson's son, with good will exceeding, addressed him:
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000010_000001|But instead of that, may the god grant me death at once, and after death I shall take my share in perfect bliss."
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000011_000001|To all alike, however poor he was that came, the aged man gave his oracles with good will, and freed many from their woes by his prophetic art; wherefore they visited and tended him.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000011_000003|The rest the old man pleased with words of wisdom and let them go; Paraebius only he bade remain there with the chiefs; and straightway he sent him and bade him bring back the choicest of his sheep.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000001|Even as this man, loyal as he is, came hither to learn his fate.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000003|But he was paying the sad penalty of his father's sin.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000005|So to him the nymph thereafter made her death a curse, to him and to his children.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000006|I indeed knew of the sin when he came; and I bid him build an altar to the Thynian nymph, and offer on it an atoning sacrifice, with prayer to escape his father's fate.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000007|Here, ever since he escaped the god sent doom, never has he forgotten or neglected me; but sorely and against his will do I send him from my doors, so eager is he to remain with me in my affliction."
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000001|And up rose Jason and up rose the sons of Boreas at the bidding of the aged sire.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000002|And quickly they called upon Apollo, lord of prophecy, and offered sacrifice upon the health as the day was just sinking.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000003|And the younger comrades made ready a feast to their hearts' desire.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000004|Thereupon having well feasted they turned themselves to rest, some near the ship's hawsers, others in groups throughout the mansion.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000015_000001|And afterwards they raised an altar to the blessed twelve on the sea beach opposite and laid offerings thereon and then entered their swift ship to row, nor did they forget to bear with them a trembling dove; but Euphemus seized her and brought her all quivering with fear, and they loosed the twin hawsers from the land.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000017_000001|Their spirit melted within them; and Euphemus sent forth the dove to dart forward in flight; and they all together raised their heads to look; but she flew between them, and the rocks again rushed together and crashed as they met face to face.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000001|Next the current whirled the ship round.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000004|For the rocks were again parting asunder.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000005|But as they rowed they trembled, until the tide returning drove them back within the rocks.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000006|Then most awful fear seized upon all; for over their head was destruction without escape.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000008|For it seemed about to leap down upon the ship's whole length and to overwhelm them.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000001|And the eddying current held her between the clashing rocks; and on each side they shook and thundered; and the ship's timbers were held fast. Then Athena with her left hand thrust back one mighty rock and with her right pushed the ship through; and she, like a winged arrow, sped through the air.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000002|Nevertheless the rocks, ceaselessly clashing, shore off as she passed the extreme end of the stern ornament.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000003|But Athena soared up to Olympus, when they had escaped unscathed.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000004|And the rocks in one spot at that moment were rooted fast for ever to each other, which thing had been destined by the blessed gods, when a man in his ship should have passed between them alive.
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000006|For they deemed that they were saved from Hades; and Tiphys first of all began to speak:
train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000020_000001|Son of Aeson, no longer fear thou so much the hest of thy king, since a god hath granted us escape between the rocks; for Phineus, Agenor's son, said that our toils hereafter would be lightly accomplished."
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000002_000001|And quickly they sighted and sailed past his shrine and the broad banks of the river and the plain, and deep flowing Calpe, and all the windless night and the day they bent to their tireless oars.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000002_000002|And even as ploughing oxen toil as they cleave the moist earth, and sweat streams in abundance from flank and neck; and from beneath the yoke their eyes roll askance, while the breath ever rushes from their mouths in hot gasps; and all day long they toil, planting their hoofs deep in the ground; like them the heroes kept dragging their oars through the sea.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000003_000001|Helpless amazement seized them as they looked; and no one dared to gaze face to face into the fair eyes of the god.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000004_000001|And now I bid you propitiate him with the steam of sacrifice and libations.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000004_000002|Be gracious, O king, be gracious in thy appearing."
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000005_000005|And none but Leto, daughter of Coeus, strokes them with her dear hands.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000001|Next, on the opposite side they saw and passed the mouth of the river Sangarius and the fertile land of the Mariandyni, and the stream of Lycus and the Anthemoeisian lake; and beneath the breeze the ropes and all the tackling quivered as they sped onward.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000002|During the night the wind ceased and at dawn they gladly reached the haven of the Acherusian headland.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000003|It rises aloft with steep cliffs, looking towards the Bithynian sea; and beneath it smooth rocks, ever washed by the sea, stand rooted firm; and round them the wave rolls and thunders loud, but above, wide spreading plane trees grow on the topmost point.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000004|And from it towards the land a hollow glen slopes gradually away, where there is a cave of Hades overarched by wood and rocks.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000005|From here an icy breath, unceasingly issuing from the chill recess, ever forms a glistening rime which melts again beneath the midday sun
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000006|And never does silence hold that grim headland, but there is a continual murmur from the sounding sea and the leaves that quiver in the winds from the cave.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000009|For indeed the river saved them with their ships when they were caught in a violent tempest.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000008_000002|And so they went up all together into the city, and all that day with friendly feelings made ready a feast within the palace of Lycus and gladdened their souls with converse.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000011_000003|And with a sharp cry the hero fell to the ground; and as he was struck his comrades flocked together with answering cry.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000001|For then a second time the heroes heaped up a barrow for a comrade dead.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000003|The tale goes that Tiphys son of Hagnias died; nor was it his destiny thereafter to sail any further.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000004|But him there on the spot a short sickness laid to rest far from his native land, when the company had paid due honours to the dead son of Abas.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000005|And at the cruel woe they were seized with unbearable grief.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000006|For when with due honours they had buried him also hard by the seer, they cast themselves down in helplessness on the sea shore silently, closely wrapped up, and took no thought for meat or drink; and their spirit drooped in grief, for all hope of return was gone.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000014_000001|Not so much for my prowess in war did Jason take me with him in quest of the fleece, far from Parthenia, as for my knowledge of ships.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000014_000002|Wherefore, I pray, let there be no fear for the ship.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000014_000004|But quickly tell forth all this and boldly urge them to call to mind their task."
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000015_000002|Wherefore let us not delay our attempt, but rouse yourselves to the work and cast away your griefs."
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000016_000001|For those whom we once deemed to be men of skill, they even more than I are bowed with vexation of heart.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000017_000001|And after him Erginus and Nauplius and Euphemus started up, eager to steer. But the others held them back, and many of his comrades granted it to Ancaeus.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000018_000001|And quickly with the oars they passed out through the river Acheron and, trusting to the wind, shook out their sails, and with canvas spread far and wide they were cleaving their passage through the waves in fair weather.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000001|And for a time they went no further, for Persephone herself sent forth the spirit of Actor's son which craved with many tears to behold men like himself, even for a moment.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000002|And mounting on the edge of the barrow he gazed upon the ship, such as he was when he went to war; and round his head a fair helm with four peaks gleamed with its blood red crest.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000003|And again he entered the vast gloom; and they looked and marvelled; and Mopsus, son of Ampycus, with word of prophecy urged them to land and propitiate him with libations.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000004|Quickly they drew in sail and threw out hawsers, and on the strand paid honour to the tomb of Sthenelus, and poured out drink offerings to him and sacrificed sheep as victims.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000005|And besides the drink offerings they built an altar to Apollo, saviour of ships, and burnt thigh bones; and Orpheus dedicated his lyre; whence the place has the name of Lyra.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000021_000001|For he longed for her love, and he promised to grant her whatever her hearts desire might be.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000021_000002|And she in her craftiness asked of him virginity.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000002|No river is like this, and none sends forth from itself such mighty streams over the land.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000003|If a man should count every one he would lack but four of a hundred, but the real spring is only one.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000004|This flows down to the plain from lofty mountains, which, men say, are called the Amazonian mountains.
train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000007|For they dwelt not gathered together in one city, but scattered over the land, parted into three tribes.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000000_000000|The concurrence of these two national assemblies served, no doubt, to increase the king's power over the people, and raised him to an authority more absolute than any prince in a simple monarchy, even by means of military force, is ever able to attain.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000000_000001|But there are certain bounds, beyond which the most slavish submission cannot be extended.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000003_000001|It seemed unjust to abolish pious institutions for the faults, real or pretended, of individuals.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000003_000002|Even the most moderate and reasonable deemed it somewhat iniquitous, that men who had been invited into a course of life by all the laws, human and divine, which prevailed in their country, should be turned out of their possessions, and so little care be taken of their future subsistence.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000004_000001|As Cromwell's person was little acceptable to the ecclesiastics, the authority which he exercised, being so new, so absolute, so unlimited, inspired them with disgust and terror.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000004_000002|He published, in the king's name, without the consent either of parliament or convocation, an ordinance by which he retrenched many of the ancient holy days; prohibited several superstitions gainful to the clergy, such as pilgrimages, images, relics; and even ordered the incumbents in the parishes to set apart a considerable portion of their revenue for repairs and for the support of exhibitioners and the poor of their parish.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000004_000003|The secular priests, finding themselves thus reduced to a grievous servitude, instilled into the people those discontents which they had long harbored in their own bosoms.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000005_000000|The first rising was in Lincolnshire.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000008_000001|He sent forces against the rebels, under the command of the duke of Suffolk; and he returned them a very sharp answer to their petition.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000008_000002|There were some gentry whom the populace had constrained to take part with them, and who kept a secret correspondence with Suffolk. They informed him, that resentment against the king's reply was the chief cause which retained the malecontents in arms, and that a milder answer would probably suppress the rebellion.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000008_000004|This expedient had its effect: the populace was dispersed: Mackrel and some of their leaders fell into the king's hands, and were executed: the greater part of the multitude retired peaceably to their usual occupations: a few of the more obstinate fled to the north, where they joined the insurrection that was raised in those parts.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000009_000000|The northern rebels, as they were more numerous, were also on other accounts more formidable than those of Lincolnshire; because the people were there more accustomed to arms, and because of their vicinity to the Scots, who might make advantage of these disorders.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000012_000002|The earls of Huntingdon, Derby, and Rutland imitated his example.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000000|The duke of Norfolk was appointed general of the king's forces against the northern rebels; and as he headed the party at court which supported the ancient religion, he was also suspected of bearing some favor to the cause which he was sent to oppose.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000001|His prudent conduct, however, seems to acquit him of this imputation.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000002|He encamped near Doncaster, together with the earl of Shrewsbury; and as his army was small, scarcely exceeding five thousand men, he made choice of a post where he had a river in front, the ford of which he purposed to defend against the rebels.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000005|It was agreed that two gentlemen should be despatched to the king with proposals from the rebels; and Henry purposely delayed giving an answer, and allured them with hopes of entire satisfaction, in expectation that necessity would soon oblige them to disperse themselves.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000008|Norfolk, therefore, soon found himself in the same difficulty as before; and he opened again a negotiation with the leaders of the multitude.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000010|The demands of the rebels were so exorbitant, that Norfolk rejected them; and they prepared again to decide the contest by arms.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000012|But while they were preparing to pass the ford, rain fell a second time in such abundance, as made it impracticable for them to execute their design; and the populace, partly reduced to necessity by want of provisions, partly struck with superstition at being thus again disappointed by the same accident, suddenly dispersed themselves.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000014|He published, however, a manifesto against the rebels, and an answer to their complaints; in which he employed a very lofty style, suited to so haughty a monarch.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000016|"And we," he added, "with our whole council, think it right strange that ye, who be but brutes and inexpert folk, do take upon you to appoint us who be meet or not for our council."
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000002|Every place was full of jealousy and complaints.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000006|Lord Hussey was found guilty, as an accomplice in the insurrection of Lincolnshire, and was executed at Lincoln.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000007|Lord Darcy, though he pleaded compulsion, and appealed for his justification to a long life spent in the service of the crown, was beheaded on Tower Hill.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000008|Before his execution, he accused Norfolk of having secretly encouraged the rebels; but Henry, either sensible of that nobleman's services, and convinced of his fidelity or afraid to offend one of such extensive power and great capacity, rejected the information.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000016_000000|Soon after this prosperous success, an event happened which crowned Henry's joy-the birth of a son, who was baptized by the name of Edward.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000019_000001|The prince, not six days old, was created prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall, and earl of Chester.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000019_000002|Sir Edward Seymour, the queen's brother, formerly made Lord Beauchamp, was raised to the dignity of earl of Hertford.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000019_000003|Sir William Fitz Williams, high admiral, was created earl of Southampton; Sir William Paulet, Lord saint John; Sir john Russel, Lord Russel.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000021_000000|Henry continued desirous of cementing a union with the German Protestants; and for that purpose he sent Christopher Mount to a congress which they held at Brunswick; but that minister made no great progress in his negotiation.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000023_000000|Henry would by no means acknowledge any error in these particulars; and was displeased that they should pretend to prescribe rules to so great a monarch and theologian.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000023_000001|He found arguments and syllogisms enough to defend his cause; and he dismissed the ambassadors without coming to any conclusion.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000000|There was only one particular in which Henry was quite decisive; because he was there impelled by his avarice, or, more properly speaking, his rapacity, the consequence of his profusion: this measure was the entire destruction of the monasteries.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000002|Anew visitation was appointed of all the monasteries in England; and a pretence only being wanted for their suppression, it was easy for a prince, possessed of such unlimited power, and seconding the present humor of a great part of the nation, to find or feign one.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000003|The abbots and monks knew the danger to which they were exposed; and having learned by the example of the lesser monasteries that nothing could withstand the king's will, they were most of them induced, in expectation of better treatment, to make a voluntary resignation of their houses.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000005|Some, also, having secretly embraced the doctrine of the reformation, were glad to be freed from their vows; and on the whole, the design was conducted with such success, than in less than two years the king had got possession of all the monastic revenues.
train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000027_000001|The males of all ranks, if endowed with industry might be of service to the public; and none of them could want employment suited to his station and capacity.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000000_000001|THE CURTAIN FALLS.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000001_000000|FOR the rest of the day, and through the night, I was kept a close prisoner in my room, watched by a man on whose fidelity my father could depend.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000000|The next morning I made an effort to escape, and was discovered before I had got free of the house.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000002|Useless!
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000004|The woman was suspected and followed, and the letter was taken from her.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000005|My father tore it up with his own hands.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000003_000000|Later in the day, my mother was permitted to see me.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000004_000000|She was quite unfit, poor soul, to intercede for me, or to serve my interests in any way.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000004_000001|My father had completely overwhelmed her by announcing that his wife and his son were to accompany him, when he returned to America.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000005_000001|He has raised money in London; he has let the house to some rich tradesman for seven years; he has sold the plate, and the jewels that came to me from his mother.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000005_000003|We have no home, George, and no choice but to go with him."
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000006_000000|An hour afterward the post chaise was at the door.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000000|My father himself took me to the carriage.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000001|I broke away from him, with a desperation which not even his resolution could resist.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000002|I ran, I flew, along the path that led to Dermody's cottage.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000003|The door stood open; the parlor was empty.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000004|I went into the kitchen; I went into the upper rooms. Solitude everywhere.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000005|The bailiff had left the place; and his mother and his daughter had gone with him.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000006|No friend or neighbor lingered near with a message; no letter lay waiting for me; no hint was left to tell me in what direction they had taken their departure.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000007|After the insulting words which his master had spoken to him, Dermody's pride was concerned in leaving no trace of his whereabouts; my father might consider it as a trace purposely left with the object of reuniting Mary and me.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000008|I had no keepsake to speak to me of my lost darling but the flag which she had embroidered with her own hand.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000009|The furniture still remained in the cottage.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000010|I sat down in our customary corner, by Mary's empty chair, and looked again at the pretty green flag, and burst out crying.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000008_000000|A light touch roused me.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000009_000000|"We shall not find Mary here, George," she said, gently.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000009_000002|Come with me."
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000000|I rose and silently gave her my hand.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000001|Something low down on the clean white door post caught my eye as we passed it.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000002|I stooped, and discovered some writing in pencil.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000003|I looked closer-it was writing in Mary's hand! The unformed childish characters traced these last words of farewell:
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000011_000000|"Good by, dear.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000011_000001|Don't forget Mary."
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000012_000000|I knelt down and kissed the writing.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000012_000001|It comforted me-it was like a farewell touch from Mary's hand.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000012_000002|I followed my mother quietly to the carriage.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000013_000000|Late that night we were in London.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000000|My good mother did all that the most compassionate kindness could do (in her position) to comfort me.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000001|She privately wrote to the solicitors employed by her family, inclosing a description of Dermody and his mother and daughter and directing inquiries to be made at the various coach offices in London.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000002|She also referred the lawyers to two of Dermody's relatives, who lived in the city, and who might know something of his movements after he left my father's service.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000003|When she had done this, she had done all that lay in her power.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000004|We neither of us possessed money enough to advertise in the newspapers.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000015_000000|A week afterward we sailed for the United States.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000016_000000|With this the first epoch in my love story comes to an end.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000017_000000|For ten long years afterward I never again met with my little Mary; I never even heard whether she had lived to grow to womanhood or not.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000017_000001|I still kept the green flag, with the dove worked on it.
train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000017_000002|For the rest, the waters of oblivion had closed over the old golden days at Greenwater Broad.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000004_000000|CLARA'S RETURN
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000005_000001|This afternoon her pause on each landing was longer than usual, for a yellow fog, which mocked the pale glimmer of gas jets on the staircase, made her gasp asthmatically.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000005_000003|She reached the door at length, and being too much exhausted to search her pocket for the latchkey, knocked for admission. Amy Hewett opened to her, and she sank on a chair in the first room, where the other two Hewett children were bending over 'home lessons' with a studiousness not altogether natural.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000005_000004|mrs Eagles had a shrewd eye; having glanced at Annie and Tom with a discreet smile, she turned her look towards the elder girl, who was standing full in the lamplight.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000006_000000|'Come here, Amy,' she said after a moment's scrutiny.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000008_000000|'Why, I haven't touched a drop, mrs Eagles!'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000009_000002|You're a silly girl, that's what you are!'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000010_000000|Of late Amy Hewett had become the victim of a singular propensity; whenever she could obtain vinegar, she drank it as a toper does spirits.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000010_000001|Inadequate nourishment, and especially an unsatisfied palate, frequently have this result in female children among the poor; it is an anticipation of what will befall them as soon as they find their way to the publichouse.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000000|Having administered a scolding, mrs Eagles went into the room which she and her husband occupied.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000001|It was so encumbered with furniture that not more than eight or ten square feet of floor can have been available for movement.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000002|On the bed sat mr Eagles, a spare, large headed, ugly, but very thoughtful looking man; he and Sidney Kirkwood had been acquaintances and fellow workmen for some years, but no close intimacy had arisen between them, owing to the difference of their tastes and views.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000005|Long before there existed a 'Financial Reform Almanack,' Eagles practically represented that work in his own person.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000008|'There it is in black and white!' But Sidney's faculties were quite unequal to calculations of this kind, and Eagles could never summon resolve to explain his schemes before an audience.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000009|Indefatigably he worked on, and the work had to be its own reward.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000012_000000|He was busy in the usual way this afternoon, as he sat on the bed, coatless, a trade journal open on his knees.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000012_000001|His wife never disturbed him; she was a placid, ruminative woman, generally finding the details of her own weekly budget quite a sufficient occupation.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000012_000002|When she had taken off her bonnet and was turning out the contents of her bag, Eagles remarked quietly:
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000013_000000|'They'll have a bad journey.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000014_000000|'What a day for her to be travelling all that distance, poor thing!
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000002|The truth of the situation was, that john had received by post, from he knew not whom, a newspaper report of the inquest held on the body of Grace Danver, wherein, of course, was an account of what had happened to Clara Vale; in the margin was pencilled, 'Clara Vale's real name is Clara Hewett.' An hour after receiving this john encountered Sidney Kirkwood.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000003|They read the report together.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000004|Before the coroner it had been made public that the dead woman was in truth named Rudd; she who was injured refused to give any details concerning herself, and her history escaped the reporters.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000005|Harbouring no doubt of the information thus mysteriously sent him-the handwriting seemed to be that of a man, but gave no further hint as to its origin-Hewett the next day journeyed down into Lancashire, Sidney supplying him with money.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000007|One consolation alone offered itself in the course of Hewett's inquiries; Clara, if she recovered, would not have lost her eyesight.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000008|The fluid had been thrown too low to effect the worst injury; the accident of a trembling hand, of a movement on her part, had kept her eyes untouched.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000016_000000|Necessity brought the father back to London almost at once, but the news sent him at brief intervals continued to be favourable.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000016_000001|Now that the girl could be removed from the infirmary, there was no retreat for her but her father's home.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000001|The children were aware that an all but forgotten sister was returning to them, and that she had been very ill; they promised quietude.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000002|Amy set the tea table in order, and kept the kettle ready. . . .
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000003|The knock for which they were waiting!
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000004|mrs Eagles withdrew into her own room; Amy went to the door.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000018_000000|A tall figure, so wrapped and veiled that nothing but the womanly outline could be discerned, entered, supported by john Hewett.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000019_000000|'Is there a light in the other room, Amy?' john inquired in a thick voice.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000020_000000|'Yes, father.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000000|He led the muffled form into the chamber where Amy and Annie slept.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000001|The door closed, and for several minutes the three children stood regarding each other, alarmed, mute.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000002|Then their father joined them.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000003|He looked about in an absent way, slowly drew off his overcoat, and when Amy offered to take it, bent and kissed her cheek.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000004|The girl was startled to hear him sob and to see tears starting from his eyes.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000005|Turning suddenly away, he stood before the fire and made a pretence of warming himself; but his sobs overmastered him.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000022_000000|'Shall I pour out the tea, father?' Amy ventured to ask, when there was again perfect silence.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000023_000000|'Haven't you had yours?' he replied, half facing her.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000025_000000|'Get it, then-all of you.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000025_000001|Yes, you can pour me out a cup-and put another on the little tray.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000025_000002|Is this stuff in the saucepan ready?' 'mrs Eagles said it would be in five minutes.'.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000026_000000|'All right.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000000|He went to mrs Eagles' room and talked there for a short time. Presently mrs Eagles herself came out and silently removed from the saucepan a mixture of broth and meat.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000001|Having already taken the cup of tea to Clara, Hewett now returned to her with this food.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000002|She was sitting by the fire, her face resting upon her hands.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000003|The lamp was extinguished; she had said that the firelight was enough.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000004|john deposited his burden on the table, then touched her shoulder gently and spoke in so soft a voice that one would not have recognised it as his.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000028_000001|Here's somethin' as has been made particular.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000028_000002|After travellin'--just a spoonful or two.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000029_000000|Clara expressed reluctance.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000030_000000|'I don't feel hungry, father.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000030_000001|Presently, perhaps.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000031_000000|'Well, well; it do want to cool a bit.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000031_000001|Do you feel able to sit up?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000032_000000|'Yes.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000032_000001|Don't take so much trouble, father.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000032_000002|I'd rather you left me alone.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000033_000000|The tone was not exactly impatient; it spoke a weary indifference to everything and every person.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000034_000000|'Yes, I'll go away, dear.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000034_000001|But you'll eat just a bit?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000034_000002|If you don't like this, you must tell me, and I'll get something you could fancy.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000035_000000|'It'll do well enough.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000035_000001|I'll eat it presently; I promise you.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000036_000000|john hesitated before going.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000037_000000|'Clara-shall you mind Amy and Annie comin' to sleep here?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000037_000001|If you'd rather, we'll manage it somehow else.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000038_000000|'no
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000038_000001|What does it matter?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000038_000002|They can come when they like, only they mustn't want me to talk to them.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000000|He went softly from the room, and joined the children at their tea.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000003|Overcome at first by the dark aspect of this home coming, he now began to taste the joy of having Clara under his roof, rescued alike from those vague dangers of the past and from the recent peril.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000004|Impossible to separate the sorrow he felt for her blighted life, her broken spirit, and the solace lurking in the thought that henceforth she could not abandon him.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000005|Never a word to reproach her for the unalterable; it should be as though there were no gap between the old love and its renewal in the present.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000006|For Clara used to love him, and already she had shown that his tenderness did not appeal to her in vain; during the journey she had once or twice pressed his hand in gratitude.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000007|How well it was that he had this home in which to receive her!
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000008|Half a year ago, and what should he have done?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000009|He would not admit to himself that there were any difficulties ahead; if it came to that, he would manage to get some extra work in the evening and on Saturday afternoons.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000010|He would take Sidney into council.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000011|But thereupon his face darkened again, and he lost himself in troubled musing.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000040_000002|Clara sat by the fireside, in her attitude of last night, hiding her face as far as she was able.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000040_000003|The beauty of her form would have impressed anyone who approached her, the grace of her bent head; but the countenance was no longer that of Clara Hewett; none must now look at her, unless to pity. Feeling herself thus utterly changed, she could not speak in her former natural voice; her utterance was oppressed, unmusical, monotonous.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000041_000000|When her father had taken a place near her she asked him, 'Have you got that piece of newspaper still?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000042_000000|He had, and at her wish produced it.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000042_000001|Clara held it in the light of the fire, and regarded the pencilled words closely.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000042_000003|Hewett took her hand, and for a while they kept silence.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000043_000000|'Do you live comfortably here, father?' she said presently.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000044_000000|'We do, Clara.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000044_000001|It's a bit high up, but that don't matter much.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000045_000000|'You've got new furniture.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000046_000000|'Yes, some new things.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000046_000001|The old was all done for, you know.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000047_000000|'And where did you live before you came here?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000048_000000|'Oh, we had a place in King's Cross Road-it wasn't much of a place, but I suppose it might a' been worse.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000049_000000|'And that was where-?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000050_000000|'Yes-yes-it was there.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000051_000000|'And how did you manage to buy this furniture?' Clara asked, after a pause.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000052_000000|'Well, my dear, to tell you the truth-it was a friend as-an old friend helped us a bit.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000053_000000|'You wouldn't care to say who it was?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000054_000000|john was gravely embarrassed.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000054_000001|Clara moved her head a little, so as to regard him, but at once turned away, shrinkingly, when she met his eyes.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000055_000000|'Why don't you like to tell me, father?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000055_000001|Was it mr Kirkwood?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000056_000000|'Yes, my dear, it was.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000057_000000|Neither spoke for a long time.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000057_000001|Clara's head sank lower; she drew her hand away from her father's, and used it to shield her face.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000057_000002|When she spoke, it was as if to herself.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000058_000000|'I suppose he's altered in some ways?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000059_000000|'Not much; I don't see much change, myself, but then of course- No, he's pretty much the same.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000060_000000|'He's married, isn't he?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000001|Why, what made you think that.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000002|Clara?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000003|No, not he.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000004|He had to move not long ago; his lodgin's is in Red Lion Street now.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000062_000000|'And does he ever come here?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000063_000000|'He has been-just now an' then.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000064_000000|'Have you told him?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000065_000000|'Why-yes, dear-I felt I had to.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000066_000000|'There's no harm.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000066_000001|You couldn't keep it a secret.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000066_000002|But he mustn't come whilst I'm here; you understand that, father?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000067_000001|He shall never come, if you don't wish it.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000068_000000|'Only whilst I'm here.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000070_000000|'Oh no! Do you think I'm going to burden you all the rest of my life?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000070_000001|I shall find some way of earning a living, and then I shall go and get a room for myself.'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000000|'Now don't-now don't talk like that!' exclaimed her father, putting his hand on her.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000001|'You shall do what else you like, my girl, but don't talk about goin' away from me.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000002|That's the one thing as I couldn't bear. I ain't so young as I was, and I've had things as was hard to go through-I mean when the mother died and-and other things at that time.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000003|Let you an' me stay by each other whilst we may, my girl.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000005|You won't speak about goin' away?'
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000072_000000|She remained mute.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000072_000001|Shadows from the firelight rose and fell upon the walls of the half darkened room.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000000|'If you went,' he continued, huskily, 'I should be afraid myself.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000001|I haven't told you.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000003|I've broke myself off that; but if you was to leave me-I've had hard things to go through.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000004|Do you know the Burial Club broke up just before she died?
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000005|I couldn't get not a ha'penny!
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000007|You may think how I felt, Clara, with her lyin' there, and I hadn't got as much as would pay for a coffin.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000008|It was Sidney Kirkwood found the money-he did!
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000010|Things is better with me now, but I'd rather beg my bread in the streets than you should go away.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000011|Don't be afraid, my dearest.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000012|I promise you nobody shan't come near.
train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000013|You won't mind mrs Eagles; she's very good to the children.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000001|Edmund Drake his father, was one of those clergy who devote themselves to the education of the people.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000002|His poverty was only equalled by the respect which was felt for his character.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000003|Burdened with a family as he was, the father of Francis Drake found himself obliged from necessity to allow his son to embrace the maritime profession, for which he had an ardent longing, and to serve as cabin boy on board a coasting vessel which traded with Holland.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000004|Industrious, active, self reliant, and saving, the young Francis Drake had soon acquired all the theoretical knowledge needed for the direction of a vessel.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000005|When he had realized a small sum, which was increased by the sale of a vessel bequeathed to him by his first master, he made more extended voyages; he visited the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Guinea, and laid out all his capital in purchasing a cargo which he hoped to sell in the West Indies.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000006|But no sooner had he arrived at Rio de la Hacha, than both ship and cargo were confiscated, we know not under what frivolous pretext. All the remonstrances of Drake, who thus saw himself ruined, were useless.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000007|He vowed to avenge himself for such a piece of injustice, and he kept his word.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000000|In fifteen sixty seven, two years after this adventure, a small fleet of six vessels, of which the largest was of seven hundred tons' burden, left Plymouth with the sanction of the Queen, to make an expedition to the Coasts of Mexico.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000001|Drake was in command of a ship of fifty tons.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000003|Then they besieged La Mina, where some more negroes were taken, which they sold at the Antilles.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000004|Hawkins, doubtless by the advice of Drake, captured the town of Rio de la Hacha; after which he reached saint Jean d'Ulloa, having encountered a fearful storm.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000005|But the harbour contained a numerous fleet, and was defended by formidable artillery. The English fleet was defeated, and Drake had much difficulty in regaining the English coast in January, fifteen sixty eight.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000000|Drake afterwards made two expeditions to the West Indies for the purpose of studying the country.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000002|The two vessels had as crew seventy three jack tars, who could be thoroughly depended on.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000004|Unfortunately these enterprises were not carried out without much cruelty and many acts of violence which would make men of the present day blush.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000005|But we will not dwell upon the scenes of piracy and barbarity which are only too frequently met with in the sixteenth century.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000005_000000|After assisting in the suppression of the rebellion in Ireland, Drake, whose name was beginning to be well known, was presented to Queen Elizabeth.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000000|Francis Drake started from Plymouth on the fifteenth of november fifteen seventy seven.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000004|They also had the face painted and diversified by several kinds of colours, and they each held a bow in the hand, from which every time they drew it, they discharged two arrows.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000006|For this there is more than one good reason.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000007|There exists in Patagonia more than one tribe, and the description here given by Drake of the savages whom he met, does not at all resemble that given by Pigafetta of the Patagonians of Port saint Julian.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000009|On the following day he reached the harbour of saint Julian, where he found a gibbet erected of yore by Magellan for the punishment of some rebellious members of his crew.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000012|Was his guilt thoroughly proved?
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000013|If Drake were accused upon his return to England-in spite of the moderation which he always evinced towards his men,--of having taken advantage of the opportunity to get rid of a rival whom he dreaded, it is difficult to conceive that the forty judges who pronounced the sentence should have concerted together to further the secret designs of their admiral and condemn an innocent man.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000000|On the twentieth of August, the fleet, now reduced to three vessels-two of the ships having been so much damaged that they were at once destroyed by the admiral-entered the strait, which had not been traversed since the time of Magellan.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000004|During a descent upon the island of Mocha, the English had two men killed and several wounded, while Drake himself, hit by two arrows on the head, found himself utterly unable to punish the Indians for their perfidy.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000005|In the harbour of Valparaiso he captured a vessel richly laden with the wines of Chili, and with ingots of gold valued at thirty seven thousand ducats; afterwards he pillaged the town, which had been precipitately abandoned by its inhabitants.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000006|At Coquimbo, the people were forewarned of his approach, so that he found there a strong force, which obliged him to re embark.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000011|For this, there were three different routes open to him: he might again pass the Strait of Magellan, or he might cross the Southern Sea, and doubling the Cape of Good Hope might so return to the Atlantic Ocean, or he could sail up the coast of China and return by the Frozen Sea and the North Cape.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000012|It was this last alternative, as being the safest of the three, which was adopted by Drake.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000013|He therefore put out to sea, reached the thirty eight degrees of north latitude, and landed on the shore of the Bay of San Francisco, which had been discovered three years previously by Bodega.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000014|It was now the month of June, the temperature was very low, and the ground covered with snow.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000015|The details given by Drake of his reception by the natives, are curious enough: "When we arrived, the savages manifested great admiration at the sight of us, and thinking that we were gods, they received us with great humanity and reverence."
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000008_000000|"As long as we remained, they continued to come and visit us, sometimes bringing us beautiful plumes made of feathers of divers colours, and sometimes petun (tobacco) which is a herb in general use among the Indians.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000008_000002|Then they made a long discourse after the manner of a harangue, and when they had finished, they laid aside their bows and arrows in that place, and approached us to offer their presents."
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000009_000000|"The first time they came their women remained in the same place, and scratched and tore the skin and flesh of their cheeks, lamenting themselves in a wonderful manner, whereat we were much astonished. But we have since learnt that it was a kind of sacrifice which they offered to us."
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000010_000000|The facts given by Drake with regard to the Indians of California are almost the only ones which he furnishes upon the manners and customs of the nations which he visited.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000010_000001|We would draw the reader's attention here, to that custom of long harangues which the traveller especially remarks, just as Cartier had observed upon it forty years earlier, and which is so noticeable amongst the Canadian Indians at the present day.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000010_000002|Drake did not advance farther north and gave up his project of returning by the Frozen Sea.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000000|On the thirteenth of October, fifteen seventy nine, Drake arrived in latitude eight degrees north, at a group of islands of which the inhabitants had their ears much lengthened by the weight of the ornaments suspended to them; their nails were allowed to grow, and appeared to serve as defensive weapons, while their teeth, "black as ship's pitch," contracted this colour from the use of the betel nut.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000003|On the morrow, some of the sailors who had landed, were present at a council.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000004|"When the king arrived, a rich umbrella or parasol all embroidered in gold was borne before him.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000006|He wore as an ornament upon the head, a kind of turban made of the same stuff, all worked in fine gold and enriched with jewels and tufts.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000007|On his neck there hung a fine gold chain many times doubled, and formed of broad links.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000008|On his fingers, he had six rings of very valuable stones, and his feet were encased in shoes of morocco leather."
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000013_000000|After quitting this richly endowed island, Drake landed at Greater Java, where he was very warmly welcomed by the five kings amongst whom the island was partitioned, and by the inhabitants.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000000|The reception which awaited him in England was at first extremely cold.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000001|His having fallen by surprise both upon Spanish towns and ships, at a time when the two nations were at peace, rightly caused him to be regarded by a portion of society as a pirate, who tramples under foot the rights of nations.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000002|For five months the Queen herself, under the pressure of diplomatic proprieties, pretended to be ignorant of his return.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000003|But at the end of that time, either because circumstances had altered, or because she did not wish to show herself any longer severe towards the skilful sailor, she repaired to Deptford where Drake's ship was moored, went on board, and conferred the honour of knighthood upon the navigator.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000016_000000|From this period Drake's part as a discoverer is ended, and his after life as a warrior and as the implacable enemy of the Spaniards does not concern us.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000000|To him pertains the honour of having been the second to pass through the Strait of Magellan, and to have visited Tierra del Fuego as far as the parts about Cape Horn.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000001|He also ascended the coast of North America to a point higher than any his predecessors had attained, and he discovered several islands and archipelagos.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000002|Being a very clever navigator, he made the transit through the Strait of Magellan with great rapidity.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000003|If there are but very few discoveries due to him, this is probably either because he neglected to record them in his journal, or because he often mentions them in so inaccurate a manner that it is scarcely possible to recognize the places.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000004|It was he who inaugurated that privateering warfare by which the English, and later on the Dutch, were destined to inflict much injury upon the Spaniards.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000005|And the large profits accruing to him from it, encouraged his contemporaries, and gave birth in their minds to the love for long and hazardous voyages.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000000|Among all those who took example by Drake, the most illustrious was undoubtedly Thomas Cavendish or Candish.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000001|Cavendish joined the English marine service at a very early age; and passed a most stormy youth, during which he rapidly dissipated his modest fortune.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000002|That which play had robbed him of, he resolved to recover from the Spaniards.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000003|Having in fifteen eighty five obtained letters of mark, he made a cruise to the East Indies and returned with considerable booty.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000004|Encouraged by his easy success as a highwayman on the great maritime roads, he thought that if he could acquire some honour and glory while engaged in making his fortune, so much the better would it be for him.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000006|Setting sail on the twenty second of july fifteen eighty six, he passed by the Canaries, and landed at Sierra Leone, which town he attacked and plundered; then, sailing again, he crossed the Atlantic, sighted Cape Sebastian in Brazil, sailed along the coast of Patagonia, and arrived on the twenty seventh of november at Port Desire.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000007|He found there an immense quantity of dog fish, very large, and so strong that four men could with difficulty kill them, and numbers of birds, which, having no wings, could not fly, and which fed upon fish.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000008|They are classed under the general names of auks and penguins.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000009|In this very secure harbour, the ships were drawn up on shore to be repaired. During his stay at this place Cavendish had some skirmishes with the Patagonians,--"men of gigantic size, and having feet eighteen inches long"--who wounded two of the sailors with arrows tipped with sharpened flints.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000001|This town, which had been built to bar the passage through the strait, had possessed no fewer than four forts as well as several churches.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000002|Cavendish could discern the fortress, then deserted and already falling into ruins.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000003|Its inhabitants, who had been completely prevented by the continual attacks of the savages from gathering in their harvests, had died of hunger, or had perished in endeavouring to reach the Spanish settlements in Chili.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000004|The Admiral, upon hearing this lamentable tale, changed the name of Philippeville into that of Port Famine, under which appellation the place is known at the present day.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000006|Not far from thence a fine river fell into the sea, on the banks of which dwelt the anthropophagi who had fought so fiercely with the Spaniards, and who endeavoured, but in vain, to entice the Englishmen into the interior of the country.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000020_000003|This country, rich in gold and silver, had hitherto successfully resisted all Spanish attempts to subjugate it, and its inhabitants, fully determined to maintain their liberty, repulsed by force of arms every attempt to land.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000020_000004|It was necessary therefore to go to the island of saint Maria, where the Indians, who took the Englishmen for Spaniards, furnished them with abundance of maize, fowls, sweet potatoes, pigs, and other provisions.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000001|A party of thirty musketeers advanced into the country and met with oxen, cows, wild horses, hares, and partridges in abundance.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000002|The little troop was attacked by the Spaniards, and Cavendish was obliged to return to his ships after losing twelve of his men.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000004|Then, "victorious and contented," Cavendish wished to secure the great spoils which he was conveying against any chance of danger.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000006|At the end of two years after his return, of all the great fortune which he had brought back with him, there remained only a sum sufficient for the fitting out of a third, and as it proved, a last expedition.
train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000022_000001|Assailed by fearful hurricanes in the Strait of Magellan, Cavendish was obliged to go back, after having seen himself deserted by three of his ships. The want of fresh provisions, the cold, and the privations of all kinds which he underwent, and which had decimated his crew, forced him to return northwards along the coast of Brazil, where the Portuguese opposed every attempt at landing.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000001|The commander in chief of this squadron was Oliver de Noort, a man at that time about thirty or thereabouts, and well known as having made several long cruising voyages.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000002|His second in command and vice admiral was Jacob Claaz d'Ulpenda, and as pilot there was a certain Melis, a skilful sailor of English origin.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000004|For this object, De Noort was to show his countrymen the route inaugurated by Magellan, and on the way to inflict as much injury as he could upon the Spaniards and Portuguese.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000006|The route which was the least frequented by the enemy's ships was that by the Strait of Magellan, and this was the one which De Noort was ordered to follow.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000004|De Noort, who was furious over this foul play, landed from his ships one hundred twenty men; but he found the Portuguese so well entrenched, that after a brisk skirmish in which seventeen more of his men were either killed or wounded, he was obliged to weigh anchor without having been able to avenge the wicked and cowardly perfidy to which his brother and twelve of his companions had fallen victims.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000007|De Noort had scarcely cast anchor in the Bay of Rio Janeiro before he sent some sailors on shore to obtain water and buy provisions from the natives; but the Portuguese opposed the landing, and killed eleven men.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000009|The putting into port at this place was marked by several disagreeable events.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000010|The flag ship struck upon a rock with so much violence that had the sea been a little rougher, she must have been lost.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000011|There were also some bloody and barbarous executions of mutinous sailors, notably that of a poor man, who having wounded a pilot with a knife thrust, was condemned to have his hand nailed to the mainmast.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000012|The invalids, of whom there were many on board the fleet, were brought on shore, and nearly all were cured by the end of a fortnight.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000003_000000|The Dutch saw also, but at too great a distance to shoot them, buffalos, stags, and ostriches, and from a single nest they obtained ten ostrich eggs.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000003_000001|Captain Jacob Jansz Huy de Cooper, died during the stay at this place, and was interred at Port Desire.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000003_000006|Nevertheless, could anything be more cruel than to abandon a man in a desert country, without arms and without provisions, to put him on shore in a country peopled by ferocious cannibals, prepared to make a repast on his flesh; what was it but condemning him to a horrible death?
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000000|On the twenty ninth of February, sixteen hundred, De Noort, after having been ninety nine days in passing through the strait, came out on to the Pacific Ocean.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000002|As for De Noort, who had now with him only one yacht besides his own vessel, he cast anchor at the island of Mocha, and, unlike the experience of his predecessors, he was very well received by the natives.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000003|Afterwards he sailed along the coast of Chili, where he was able to obtain provisions in abundance in exchange for Nuremberg knives, hatchets, shirts, hats, and other articles of no great value.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000004|After ravaging, plundering, and burning several towns on the Peruvian coast, after sinking all the vessels that he met with, and amassing a considerable booty, De Noort, hearing that a squadron commanded by the brother of the viceroy, Don Luis de Velasco, had been sent in pursuit of him, judged it time to make for the Ladrone Islands, where he anchored on the sixteenth of September.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000008|One of them, having succeeded in climbing along a part of the rigging, had the audacity to enter a cabin and seize upon a sword, with which he threw himself into the sea.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000005_000002|The Spaniards lost more than two hundred men, for their flag ship caught fire and sank.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000000|We have now to speak of a man who, endowed with eminent qualities and with at least equal defects, carried on his life's work in divers, sometimes even in opposing directions, and who after having reached the highest summit of honour to which a gentleman could aspire, at last laid his head upon a scaffold, accused of treason and felony.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000001|This man is Sir Walter Raleigh.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000002|If he have any claim to a place in this portrait gallery of great sailors, it is neither as founder of any English colony nor as a sailor; it is as a discoverer, and what we have to say of him is not to his credit.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000005|At this period England was passing through a very grave economic crisis.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000006|The practice of agriculture was undergoing a transformation; in all directions grazing was being substituted for tillage, and the number of agricultural labourers was greatly reduced by the change.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000007|From thence arose general distress, and also such a surplussage of population as was fast becoming a matter of anxious concern.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000008|At the same time, to long wars succeeds a peace, destined to endure throughout the reign of Elizabeth, so that a great number of adventurers know not how to find indulgence for their love of violent emotions.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000009|At this moment, therefore, arises the necessity for such an emigration as may relieve the country of its population, may permit all the miserable people dying of hunger to provide for their own wants in a new country, and by that means may increase the influence and prosperity of the mother country.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000011|But it is to the last named that belongs the credit of indicating the locality suitable for the establishing of colonies.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000012|Raleigh only joined with his brothers in the scheme, following their lead, but he neither conceived nor began the carrying into execution-as he has been too often credited with doing-of this fruitful project, the colonization of the American shores of the Atlantic.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000014|He gives up and sells his patent as soon as he perceives the inutility of his efforts, while he does not forget to reserve for himself the fifth part of any profit arising eventually from the colony.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000009_000002|To his mind, this is a gigantic enterprise of which the marvellous results are destined to draw upon him the attention of the whole world, and to restore to him the favour of his sovereign.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000009_000004|"They are," says this great traveller, "rocks of micaceous slate, and of sparkling talc, which are resplendent in the midst of a sheet of water, which acts as a reflector beneath the burning tropical sun" So are explained those massive domes of gold, those obelisks of silver, and all those marvels of which the boastful and enthusiastic minds of the Spaniards afforded them a glimpse.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000009_000006|Was he thoroughly convinced himself, or did he not yield to the illusions of a mind eager for glory?
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000001|What he took good care, however, not to confide to the public, was that all the information he received from his emissary was unfavourable to the enterprise.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000003|After stopping four days at Fortaventura, one of the Canaries, to take in wood and water there, he reached Teneriffe, where Captain Brereton ought to have rejoined him.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000004|Having waited for him in vain for eighty days, Raleigh sailed for Trinidad, where he met Whiddon.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000005|The island of Trinidad was at that time governed by Don Antonio de Berreo, who, it is said, had obtained accurate information concerning Guiana.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000006|The arrival of the English did not please him, and he immediately despatched emissaries to Cumana and to Margarita, with orders to gather together the troops to attack the Englishmen, while at the same time he forbade any Indians or Spaniards to hold intercourse with them under pain of death.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000007|Raleigh, forewarned, determined to be beforehand with him.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000009|At the same time arrived Captains Gifford and Knynin, from whom he had been separated upon the Spanish Coasts.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000011|The account which Raleigh gives of his campaign is so fabulous, with the coolness of a Gascon transported to the banks of the Thames, he so heaps one falsehood upon the top of another, that one is almost tempted to class his narrative amongst the number of imaginary voyages.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000012|He says that some Spaniards who had seen the town of Manoa, called El Dorado, told him that this town exceeds in size and wealth all the towns in the world, and everything which the "conquistadores" had seen in America.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000013|"There is no winter there," he says; "a soil dry and fertile, with game, and birds of every species in great abundance, who filled the air with hitherto unknown notes; it was a real concert for us.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000014|My captain, sent to search for mines, perceived veins both of gold and silver; but as he had no tool but his sword, he was unable to detach these metals to examine them in detail; however, he carried away several bits of them which he reserved for future examination.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000016|Whiddon and Milechappe, our surgeon, brought back several stones which resembled sapphires.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000018|He depicted these people as much civilized, as wearing clothes, and possessing great riches, especially in plates of gold; finally, he spoke to him of a mountain of pure gold.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000019|Raleigh relates that he wished to approach this mountain, but, sad mischance, it was at that moment half submerged. "It had the form of a tower, and appeared to me rather white than yellow.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000020|A torrent which precipitated itself from the mountain, swollen by the rains, made a tremendous noise, which could be heard at the distance of many miles, and which deafened our people.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000022|I had, however, some doubt as to the value of these stones; their extraordinary whiteness, nevertheless surprised me.
train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000012_000000|If we put on one side all these figments of an imagination run mad, what gain has been derived for geography?
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000001_000000|PART two.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000002_000000|OF PROPRIETY OF DEPORTMENT IN REGARD TO OUR SOCIAL RELATIONS.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000007_000001|They also, as they pass, ought to bow politely to you.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000009_000000|Further,--a young man of good breeding should promptly offer his hand to ladies, even if they are not acquaintances, when they pass such a place.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000010_000001|Any person, particularly a lady, who walks in this improper manner, whatever her education may be in other respects, will always appear awkward and clumsy.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000013_000002|With the right hand she should hold together the folds of her gown, and draw them towards the right side.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000013_000003|To raise the dress on both sides, and with both hands, is vulgar.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000013_000004|This ungraceful practice can be tolerated only for a moment, when the mud is very deep.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000018_000003|The direction being given us, we should thank them, at the same time bowing.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000018_000005|If you are a man, and a lady or distinguished person asks this favor of you, you should take off your hat while answering them.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000021_000001|This opinion, which obtains among some persons, is an error.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000022_000000|When we meet, in the street, a person of our acquaintance, we salute them by bowing and uncovering ourselves, if there is occasion.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000022_000005|During this interview, which should be very short, the speaker of least importance ought to take the lower part of the side walk, in order to keep the person with whom he is conversing, from the neighborhood of the carriages.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000022_000008|We will add, that at Paris, a young man ought to avoid approaching, and even saluting a young lady of his acquaintance, out of regard to the natural timidity of her sex.
train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000023_000001|This civility becomes a rigorous duty if they are accompanied by a lady.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty seven.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000002_000000|MARGARET'S LETTER.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000003_000001|He told his mother that he and his betrothed had parted; but he would tell no more.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000004_000000|"I have been cruelly disappointed, mother, and the subject is very bitter to me," he said; and mrs Austin had not the courage to ask any further questions.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000005_000002|But I can afford to be contented, Clement, so long as I have you with me."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000006_000000|Clement went back to London.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000006_000001|His life seemed to have altogether slipped away from him, and he felt like an old man who has lost all the bright chances of existence; the hope of domestic happiness and a pleasant home; the opportunity of a useful career and an honoured name; and who has nothing more to do but to wait patiently till the slow current of his empty life drops into the sea of death.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000007_000000|"I feel so old, mother," he said, sometimes; "I feel so old."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000009_000000|Clement Austin felt this, and yet he had no heart to begin life again, though tempting offers came to him from great commercial houses, whose chiefs were eager to secure the well-known cashier of Messrs.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000009_000001|Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby's establishment.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000010_000000|Poor Clement could not go into the world yet.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000010_000002|He wasted hour after hour, and day after day, in gloomy thoughts about the past.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000012_000001|This girl, who seemed the very incarnation of purity and candour, had her price, perhaps, as well as other people, and Henry Dunbar had bought the silence of his victim's daughter.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000013_000000|"It was the knowledge of this business that made her shrink away from me that night when she told me that she was a contaminated creature, unfit to be the associate of an honest man Oh, Margaret, Margaret!
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000013_000001|poverty must indeed be a bitter school if it has prepared you for such degradation as this!"
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000014_000000|The longer Clement thought of the subject, the more certainly he arrived at the conclusion that Margaret Wilmot had been, either bribed or frightened into silence by Henry Dunbar.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000014_000001|It might be that the banker had terrified this unhappy girl by some awful threat that had preyed upon her mind, and driven her from the man who loved her, whom she loved perhaps, in spite of those heartless words which she had spoken in the bitter hour of their parting.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000015_000001|Again and again he went over the same ground, trying to find some lurking circumstance, no matter how unlikely in its nature, which should explain and justify Margaret's conduct.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000016_000001|At last, by dint of going over the ground again and again, always pleading Margaret's cause against the stern witness of cruel facts, Clement came to look upon the girl's innocence as a settled thing.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000017_000001|There was a mystery, and Henry Dunbar was at the bottom of it.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000018_000001|"There will be no peace for us until the secret of the deed done in the grove near Winchester has been brought to light."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000019_000000|This thought, working night and day in Clement Austin's brain, gave rise to a fixed resolve.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000019_000001|Before he went back to the quiet routine of life, he set himself a task to accomplish, and that task was the solution of the Winchester mystery.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000020_000000|On the very day after this resolution took a definite form, Clement received a letter from Margaret Wilmot.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000020_000001|The sight of the well-known writing gave him a shock of mingled surprise and hope, and his fingers were faintly tremulous as they tore open the envelope.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000020_000002|The letter was carefully worded, and very brief.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000021_000001|Henry Dunbar was not the murderer of my father.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000021_000002|As Heaven is my witness, this is the truth, and I know it to be the truth.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000021_000003|Let this knowledge content you, and allow the secret of the murder to remain for ever a mystery upon earth, God knows the truth, and has doubtless punished the wretched sinner who was guilty of that crime, as He punishes every other sinner, sooner or later, in the course of His ineffable wisdom.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000022_000000|"MARGARET WILMOT."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000000|"No, Margaret," he thought; "even your pleading shall not turn me from my purpose.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000001|Besides, how can I tell in what manner this letter may have been written?
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000002|It may have been written at Henry Dunbar's dictation, and under coercion.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000003|Be it as it may, the mystery of the Winchester murder shall be set at rest, if patience or intelligence can solve the enigma. No mystery shall separate me from the woman I love."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000025_000001|He was a man whose appearance was something between the aspect of a shabby genteel half pay captain and an unlucky stockbroker: but Clement liked the steady light of his small grey eyes, and the decided expression of his thin lips and prominent chin.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000026_000000|The detective business happened to be rather dull just now.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000027_000000|"I'll look up a file of newspapers, and run my eye over the details of the case," said the detective.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000027_000001|"I was away in Glasgow, hunting up the particulars of the great Scotch plaid robberies, all last summer, and I can't say I remember much of what was done in the Wilmot business.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000027_000002|mr Dunbar himself offered a reward for the apprehension of the guilty party, didn't he?"
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000028_000000|"Yes; but that might be a blind."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000029_000001|You must always look at these sort of things from every point of view.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000029_000002|Start with a conviction of the man's guilt, and you'll go hunting up evidence to bolster that conviction.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000029_000003|My plan is to begin at the beginning; learn the alphabet of the case, and work up into the syntax and prosody."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000030_000000|"I should like to help you in this business," Clement Austin said, "for I have a vital interest in the issue of the case."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000031_000000|"You're rather more likely to hinder than help, sir," mr Carter answered, with a smile; "but you're welcome to have a finger in the pie if you like, as long as you'll engage to hold your tongue when I tell you."
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000032_000001|The detective called upon him two days after the interview at Scotland Yard.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000033_000000|"I've read up the Wilmot case, sir," mr Carter said; "and I think the next best thing I can do is to see the scene of the murder.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000034_000000|"Then I'll go with you," Clement said, promptly.
train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000035_000000|"So be it, mr Austin.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000004_000000|"I can spare an hour-I can spare the whole morning, mr Powlett.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000005_000000|"Well, I thought I would just step over and speak to you," Hiram began, in a slow, puzzled sort of a way.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000005_000001|"You know what I was telling you the other day about my girl?"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000000|"That's it; that's it," Hiram said, stroking his chin, thoughtfully, "that murder is at the bottom of it.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000002|She came in yesterday afternoon as white as a sheet, and fainted right off at the door.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000003|I shouldn't think so much of that, because she has often fainted since her illness, but that wasn't all. When her mother got her round she went upstairs to her room, and didn't come down again.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000004|There is not much in that, you would say; after a girl has fainted she likes to lie quiet a bit; but she didn't lie quiet.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000006|She is going about the house again this morning, but that white and still that it is cruel to look at her.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000009|I feel that myself, but there is no one in the village I should like to open my mind to about ruth, and seeing that you are father of a girl about the same age, and that I feel you are a true sort of a man, I come to you.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000011|If I did, I would cut my tongue out before I would speak a word.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000013|She has always been a good girl: not one of your light sort, but earnest and steady.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000015|I believe she has got some secret or other that is just wearing her out, and if we can't get to the bottom of it I don't believe ruth will see Christmas," and Hiram Powlett wiped his eyes violently.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000011_000003|Well, we shall see; we shall see.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000011_000004|I will be off back again to my work now; I feel all the better for having had this talk with you.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000012_000001|She found her quiet and pale.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000015_000002|Why, now, to look at you, I should have thought you could hardly have known what trouble meant, you always seem so bright and happy; that's what ruth has said, again and again."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000022_000001|"They tried to kill me, and I killed them.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000025_000000|"That cannot be all," ruth whispered; "there must be something more to tell, Mary."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000026_000000|"I will tell you another time, ruth," Mary said, in equally low tones, and then rising, put on her hat again, said good bye, and went out.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000027_000003|It quite made my flesh creep; didn't it yours?"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000031_000001|I never did hear such expressions!"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000036_000000|The two girls accordingly went back to the cottage.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000036_000002|ruth, who for a long time had scarcely taken up a needle, sat with her hands before her.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000041_000000|"Yes, but I can't help it.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000041_000002|Now, after what you said to me the other night, I don't know what to do.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000043_000000|The girl shook her head.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000045_000000|ruth Powlett did not speak for a minute or two, then she said, slowly:
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000053_000000|"Oh, Mary, how terrible!" ruth said, pitifully, "how terrible!
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000055_000000|ruth had given a little gasp as Mary Armstrong began, then she sat rigid and immovable.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000056_000000|"It was Captain Mervyn," she said, at last, in a low whisper.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000058_000000|"You shall not be," ruth said, more firmly than she had before spoken. "You shall not be, Mary.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000060_000004|And now, having told you this first, so that you should not think too hardly of me, I will tell you all."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000000|"I firmly believe," ruth said, "he would have murdered me had he not heard people coming along the road." Then she told how she found the open knife stained with blood at Margaret Carne's bedside, and how she had hidden it.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000002|"My love seemed to have been killed.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000011|I would have told then, but I did not know who to tell it to, or what good it could do if told.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000017|It has been dreadful," she said, wanly.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000023|Who shall I go to first?"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000063_000001|I must speak to my father, and he will think it over, and perhaps he will write and ask Ronald how he would like it done.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000066_000000|"It was all wrong and wicked," ruth said, "and it will be quite right if they punish me; but that would be nothing to what I have suffered lately.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000067_000000|"You need not be afraid about that," Mary said, laying her hand assuringly on Ruth's shoulder.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000067_000001|"Why, child, you have been a benefactor to us both!
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000071_000000|"What is it?" mr Armstrong asked in surprise.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000071_000001|"ruth Powlett nearly knocked me down in the passage, and rushed off without even the ordinary decency of apologising."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000073_000002|I am thankful, indeed, my child; how did it all come about?"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000075_000000|"Yes, there's no doubt about it this time," her father said.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000075_000001|"As you say, there could be no mistake about the knife, because she had given it to him herself, and had had his initials engraved upon it at Plymouth.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000075_000002|I don't think any reasonable man could have a doubt that the scoundrel did it; and now, my dear, what is to be done next?"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000076_000001|I think Ronald ought to be consulted."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000077_000001|"You think he knows a great deal better what ought to be done than I do?"
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000081_000001|The Cape mail touched at Plymouth yesterday."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000082_000000|"Why did you not tell me of it before, father?" the girl said, reproachfully.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000083_000001|Besides, as this is the fourth that you have had since you have been here, it is not of such extreme importance."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000085_000000|"What is it, my dear; has he changed his mind and married a Kaffir woman?
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000087_000000|"Well, my dear, that would be serious; at least I should have thought you would consider it so."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000090_000007|However, it cannot be helped.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000092_000001|This complicates matters a good deal."
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000094_000001|Anyhow, we must go cautiously to work.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000096_000001|It is a grave question altogether, Mary, and at any rate we will wait.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000097_000000|"I think so too, father.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000103_000000|"I don't, my dear.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000106_000001|I came in an hour ago, expecting to find tea ready, and there are no signs of it visible.
train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000108_000000|And so three days afterwards a full account of all that ruth Powlett had said, and of the circumstances of the case, was despatched to "Sergeant Blunt, Cape Mounted Rifles, Kaffirland."
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000001_000000|HOW THE ANCIENT IRISH EXCELLED IN MUSIC.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000002_000000|From the very earliest ages Irish musicians were celebrated for their skill, not only in their own country but all over Europe.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000002_000001|Our native literature, whether referring to pagan or Christian times, is full of references to music and to skilful musicians, who are always spoken of in terms of the utmost respect.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000003_000000|Everywhere through the Records we find evidences that the ancient Irish, both high and low, were passionately fond of music.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000003_000001|It was mixed up with their daily home life, and formed part of their amusements, meetings, and celebrations of every kind.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000003_000002|In the religious tales music is always one of the delights of heaven; and a chief function of the angels who attend on God is to chant music of ineffable sweetness to Him, which they generally do in the shape of beautiful white birds.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000005_000001|At a later time it was quite common among the Welsh bards to come over to Ireland to receive instruction from the Irish harpers.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000005_000003|Ireland was long the school for Scottish harpers also, who regularly came over, like those of Wales, to finish their musical education-a practice which continued down to about one hundred fifty years ago.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000006_000001|From that period, in spite of wars and troubles, music continued to be cultivated, and there was an unbroken succession of great professional harpers, till the end of the eighteenth century, when, for want of encouragement in the miserable condition of the country under the penal laws, the race died out.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000007_000000|The Harp is mentioned in the earliest Irish literature: it is constantly mixed up with our oldest legends; and it was in use from the remotest pagan times.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000007_000001|The old Irish harps were of a medium size, or rather small, the average height being about thirty inches: and some were not much more than half that height.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000007_000002|They had strings of brass wire which were tuned by a key, not very different from the present tuning key.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000008_000001|It had a body like a flat drum, to which at one side was attached a short neck: the strings were stretched across the flat face of the drum and along the neck: and were tuned and regulated by pins or keys and a bridge.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000009_000000|Harpers and timpanists were honoured in Ireland beyond all other musicians; and their rights and privileges were even laid down in the law. Kings had always harpers in their service, who resided in the palaces and were well paid for their services.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000010_000001|But the bagpipe was the great favourite of the common people.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000010_000002|The form in use was what we now call the Highland or Scotch pipes-slung from the shoulder: the bag inflated by the mouth.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000011_000002|On many of the great stone crosses are sculptured harp players and pipe players, from which we learn a great deal about the shapes and sizes of the several instruments.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000012_000001|In the National Museum in Dublin is a collection of twenty six ancient trumpets, varying in length from eight feet down to eighteen inches.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000013_000000|Among the household of every king and chief there was a band of trumpeters-as there were harpers-who were assigned their proper places at feasts and meetings.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000013_000001|Trumpets were used for various purposes:--in war; in hunting; for signals during meetings and banquets; as a mark of honour on the arrival of distinguished visitors; and such like.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000013_000002|For war purposes, trumpeters had different calls for directing movements-for battle, for unyoking, for marching, for halting, for retiring to sleep, for going into council, and so forth.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000014_000001|The musical branch figures much in Irish romantic literature.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000015_000000|The music of ancient Ireland consisted wholly of short airs, each with two strains or parts-seldom more.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000016_000006|Such airs are now known as lullabies, or nurse tunes, or cradle songs, of which numerous examples are preserved in collections of Irish music.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000016_000007|They were usually sung to put children to sleep.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000001|There were special spinning wheel songs, which the women sang, with words, in chorus or in dialogue, when employed in spinning.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000002|At milking time the girls were in the habit of chanting a particular sort of air, in a low gentle voice.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000004|This practice was common down to fifty or sixty years ago; and I well remember seeing cows grow restless when the song was interrupted, and become again quiet and placid when it was resumed.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000005|The same custom was common in the Highlands of Scotland.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000006|While ploughmen were at their work they whistled a sweet, slow, and sad strain, which had as powerful an effect in soothing the horses at their hard labour as the milking songs had on the cows: and these Plough whistles also were quite usual till about half a century ago.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000018_000000|Special airs and songs were used during working time by smiths, by weavers, and by boatmen.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000018_000002|In most cases words suitable to the several occasions were sung with lullabies, laments, and occupation tunes.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000018_000003|Examples of all the preceding classes of melodies will be found in the collections of Irish airs by Bunting, Petrie, and Joyce.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000019_000000|The Irish had numerous war marches, which the pipers played at the head of the clansmen when marching to battle, and which inspired them with courage and dash for the fight.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000020_000000|The man who did most in modern times to draw attention to Irish music was Thomas Moore.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000020_000001|He composed his exquisite songs to old Irish airs.
train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000021_000000|Of the entire body of Irish airs that are preserved, we know the authors of only a very small proportion; and these were composed within the last two hundred years.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000002_000000|THE WANDERERS
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000003_000002|That night they slept at a cottage where the people were kind to them, and all the next day they walked on and on.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000004_000000|At sunset they stopped to rest in a churchyard, where two men were sitting patching a Punch and Judy show booth, while the figures of Punch, the doctor, the executioner and the devil were lying on the grass waiting to be mended.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000005_000000|The men were mending the dolls very badly, so little Nell took a needle and sewed them all neatly.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000009_000000|It was the second day of the races before a chance came, and then, while the showmen's backs were turned, they slipped away in the crowd to the open fields again.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000010_000000|These alarms and the exposure had begun to affect the old man.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000010_000001|He seemed to understand that he was not wholly in his right mind.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000011_000001|The pale old schoolmaster sat smoking in the garden.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000011_000003|He made them sleep in the school room that night, and he begged them to stay longer next day, but little Nell was anxious to get as far as possible from London and from the dwarf, who she was all the time in fear might find them.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000011_000004|So they bade the schoolmaster good by and walked on.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000012_000001|They had almost reached another village when they came to a tiny painted house on wheels with horses to draw it.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000014_000002|As the wheels rattled on the old man fell asleep, and the stout lady made little Nell sit by her and talk.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000017_000000|But it was easy to see that they were not ordinary beggars, and she was kind hearted and wanted to help them.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000017_000001|So, after much thought, she asked little Nell if they would take a situation with her.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000017_000002|She explained that the child's duty would be to point out the wax figures to the visitors and tell their names, while her grandfather could help dust them.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000018_000000|They accepted this offer very thankfully (for almost all the money they had brought was now spent), and when the wagon arrived at the place of exhibition and the waxwork had been set up, mrs Jarley put a long wand in little Nell's hand and taught her to point out each figure and describe it:
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000019_000000|"This, ladies and gentlemen," little Nell learned to say, "is Jasper Packlemerton, who murdered fourteen wives by tickling the soles of their feet," or, "this is Queen Elizabeth's maid of honor, who died from pricking her finger while sewing on Sunday."
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000020_000000|She was quick to learn and soon became a great favorite with the visitors.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000022_000001|He made her give him the money she had earned from the waxwork, joined the gamblers and in a few hours had lost it all.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000023_000001|This she had to change into silver and to pay a part for their lodging.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000023_000002|When she was abed she could not sleep for fear of the wicked men she had seen gambling.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000000|When at last she fell asleep she waked suddenly to see a figure in the room.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000001|She was too frightened to scream, and lay very still and trembled. The robber searched her clothing, took the rest of the money and went out.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000002|She was dreadfully afraid he might return to harm her.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000003|If she could get to her grandfather, she thought, she would be safe.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000025_000001|She caught a view of his face and then she knew that the figure was her own grandfather, and that, crazed by the gambling scene, he himself had robbed her!
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000026_000001|She knew, to be sure, that her grandfather was not a thief and that he did not know what he was doing when he stole her money; but she knew, too, that if people found out he was crazy they would take him away from her and shut him up where she could not be with him, and of this she could not bear to think.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000027_000001|This, she soon knew, he gambled away, for often he was out all night, and even seemed to shun her; so she was sad and took many long walks alone through the fields.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000028_000002|One, she saw, was her grandfather, and the others were the gamblers with whom he had played at the inn on the night of the storm.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000029_000000|Little Nell crept close.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000029_000001|They were tempting the poor daft old man to steal the money from mrs Jarley's strong box, and while she listened he consented.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000000|She ran home in terrible grief.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000001|She tried to sleep, but could not.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000002|At last she could bear it no longer.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000003|She went to the old man's room and wakened him.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000031_000001|I can not stay!
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000031_000003|We must go."
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000032_000001|He dressed himself in fear, and with her little basket on her arm she led him out of the house, on, away from the town, into the country, far away from mrs Jarley, who had been so kind to them, and from the new home they had found.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000036_000000|The place to which they finally came was a town of wretched workmen who toiled all day in iron furnaces for little wages, and were almost as miserable and hungry as the wanderers themselves.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000037_000002|They begged, but no one would help them.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000038_000000|The child's strength was almost gone, when they met a traveler who was reading in a book as he walked along.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000038_000001|He looked up as they came near.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000038_000003|When she saw him little Nell shrieked and fell unconscious at his feet.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000039_000000|The schoolmaster carried her to an inn near by, where she was put to bed and doctored under his care, for she was very weak.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000039_000001|She told him all the story of their wanderings, and he heard it with astonishment and wonder to find such a great heart and heroism in a child.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000040_000000|He had been appointed schoolmaster, he told her, in another town, to which he was then on his way, and he declared they should go with him and he would care for them.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000042_000000|The child sewed the tattered curtains and mended the worn carpet and the schoolmaster trimmed the long grass and trained the ivy before the door. In the evening a bright fire was kindled and they all three took their supper together, and then the schoolmaster said a prayer before they went gladly to bed.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000043_000000|They were very happy in this new home.
train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000046_000000|So the weeks passed into winter, and though she came soon to know that she was not long for earth, she thought of death without regret and of heaven with joy.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000000|One of these was Quilp, the ugly dwarf.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000001|He had loaned the grandfather more money than the shop would bring, and he made up his mind now that the old man had a secret hoard somewhere, which might be his if he could find it.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000002|He soon learned that if Kit knew anything about it he would not tell, so he and his lawyer (a sleek, oily rascal named Brass) made many plans for finding them.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000003|But for a long time Quilp could get no trace.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000001_000000|Another who tried to find them was a curious lodger who roomed in Brass's house.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000002_000000|He kept in his room a big box like trunk, in which was a silver stove that he used to cook his meals.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000002_000001|The stove had a lot of little openings. In one he would put an egg, in another some coffee, in another a piece of meat and in the fourth some water.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000002_000002|Then he would light a lamp that stood under it, and in five minutes the egg would be cooked, the coffee boiled and the meat done-all ready to eat.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000003_000000|He was the queerest sort of boarder!
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000003_000001|The strangest habit he had was this: He seemed to be very fond of Punch and Judy shows, and whenever he heard one on the street he would run out without his hat, make the showmen perform in front of the house and then invite them to his rooms, where he would question them for a long time.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000002|The younger had become a traveler in many countries and had never seen his brother since.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000003|But he dreamed often of the days when they had been children and at last he forgot the thing that had driven them apart.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000004|He had come back now to England, a rich man, to find the other had vanished with little Nell, his grandchild.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000005|He had soon learned the story of their misfortune and how the fear of Quilp had driven them away.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000006|After much inquiry he had discovered they had been seen with a Punch and Judy show and now he was trying to find the showmen.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000007|And finally, in this way, he did find the very same pair the wanderers had met!
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000005_000001|But he remembered that his brother, little Nell's grandfather, could not be expected to know him after all the years he had been gone, and as for little Nell herself, she had never seen him, and he was afraid if they heard a strange man had come for them they would take fright and run away again.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000005_000002|So he tried to find some one they had loved to go with him to show that he intended only kindness.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000006_000000|He was not long in hearing of Kit, who had found a situation as footman, and he gained his employer's leave to take the lad with him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000006_000001|When Kit learned that The Stranger had discovered where little Nell was he was overjoyed; but he knew he himself was not the one to go, because before they disappeared she had told him he must never come to the Old Curiosity Shop again and that her grandfather blamed him as the cause of their misfortune.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000006_000002|But Kit promised the Stranger that his mother should go in his place, and went to tell her at once.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000007_000001|Kit took her home, packed her box and bundled her into the coach which the Stranger brought, and away they went to find the wanderers.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000008_000000|Now Quilp had all along suspected that Kit and his mother knew something of their whereabouts, and he had made it his business to watch either one or the other.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000008_000001|The dwarf, in fact, was in the church when Kit came for his mother, and he followed.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000008_000002|When she left with the Stranger he took another coach and pursued, feeling certain he was on the right track.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000009_000000|But they were all too late.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000010_000000|The part Kit had played in this made the dwarf hate him, if possible, more than ever, and he agreed to pay Brass, his rascally lawyer, to ruin the lad by making a false charge of theft against him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000011_000000|One day, when Kit came to Brass's house to see the Stranger, who lodged up stairs, the lawyer cunningly hid a five pound note in the lad's hat and as soon as he left ran after him, seized him in the street and accused him of taking it from his office desk.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000012_000000|Kit was arrested, and the note, of course, was found on his person.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000012_000001|The evidence seemed so strong that the poor fellow was quickly tried, found guilty and sentenced to prison for a long time.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000013_000000|All might have gone wrong but for a little maid servant of Brass's, whom the lawyer had starved and mistreated for years.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000013_000001|He used to keep her locked in the moldy cellar and gave her so little to eat that she would creep into the office at night (she had found a key that fitted the door) to pick up the bits of bread that Dick Swiveller, Brass's clerk, had left when he ate his luncheon.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000014_000000|One night, while this little drudge was prowling about above stairs, she overheard Brass telling his sister, Sally (who was his partner and colder and crueler and more wicked even than he was), the trick he was going to play.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000014_000001|After Kit was arrested she ran away from Brass's house and told her story to Kit's employer, who had all along believed in his innocence.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000017_000000|Officers were sent at once to arrest Quilp at a dingy dwelling on a wharf in the river where he often slept with the object of terrifying his wife by his long absences.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000017_000001|Here he had set up the battered figurehead of a wrecked ship and, imagining that its face resembled that of Kit whom he so fiendishly hated, he used to amuse himself by screwing gimlets into its breast, sticking forks into its eyes and beating it with a poker.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000018_000000|A few minutes before the officers arrived the dwarf received warning from Sally Brass, but he had no time to get away.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000018_000002|He tried to cover the light of the fire, but only succeeded in upsetting the stove.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000019_000000|It was a black, foggy night, and he could not see a foot before him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000019_000001|He thought he could climb over the wall to the next wharf and so escape, but in his fright he missed his way and fell over the edge of the platform into the swift flowing river.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000020_000000|He screamed in terror, but the water filled his throat and the knocking on the gates was so loud that no one heard him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000020_000001|The water swept him close to a ship, but its keel was smooth and slippery and there was nothing to cling to.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000020_000002|He had been so wicked that he was afraid to die and he fought desperately, but the rapid tide smothered his cries and dragged him down-to death.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000021_000000|The waves threw his drowned body finally on the edge of a dismal swamp, in the red glare of the blazing ruin which the overturned stove that night made of the building in which he had framed his evil plots.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000021_000001|And this was the end of Quilp, the dwarf.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000022_000000|As for Kit, he found himself all at once not only free, but a hero.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000024_000001|A gentleman who lived in the village to which they were now bound, who had himself been kind to the child and to the old man whom the new schoolmaster had brought with him, had written of the pair to Kit's employer, and the letter had been the lost clue, so long sought, to their hiding place.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000025_000000|Snow began falling as the daylight wore away, and the coach wheels made no noise.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000025_000001|All night and all the next day, they rode, and it was midnight before they came to the town where the two wanderers had taken refuge.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000026_000000|The village was very still, and the air was frosty and cold.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000026_000001|Only a single light was to be seen, coming from a window beside a church.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000027_000000|They left the driver to take the horses to the inn and approached the building afoot.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000027_000001|They went quite close and looked through the window.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000027_000002|In the room an old man bent low over a fire crooning to himself, and Kit, seeing that it was his old master, opened the door, ran in, knelt by him and caught his hand.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000028_000000|The old grandfather did not recognize Kit.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000028_000002|He was much changed, and it seemed as if some great blow or grief had crazed him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000028_000003|He had a dress of little Nell's in his hand and smoothed and patted it as he muttered that she had been asleep-asleep a long time now, and was marble cold and would not wake.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000001|"And see here-these shoes-how worn they are!
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000002|You see where her feet went bare upon the ground.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000003|They told me afterward that the stones had cut and bruised them.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000004|She never told me that.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000005|No, no, God bless her!
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000006|And I have remembered since how she walked behind me, that I might not see how lame she was, but yet she had my hand in hers and seemed to lead me still."
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000030_000000|So he muttered on, and the cheeks of the others were wet with tears, for they had begun to understand the sad truth.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000031_000002|Say that you had a brother, long forgotten, who now at last came back to you to be what you were then to him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000031_000003|Give me but one word, dear brother, to say you know me, and life will still be precious to us again."
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000032_000001|Pushing them aside, he went into the next room, calling little Nell's name softly as he went.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000033_000000|They followed.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000034_000001|The schoolmaster told them of her last hours.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000034_000002|They had read and talked to her a while, and then she had sunk peacefully to sleep.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000035_000000|Opening her eyes at last, she begged that they would kiss her once again.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000035_000001|That done, she turned to the old man with a lovely smile on her face-such, he said, as he had never seen-and threw both arms about his neck.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000035_000002|They did not know at first that she was dead.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000036_000000|They laid little Nell to rest the next day in the churchyard where she had so often sat
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000037_000000|One day he did not return at the usual hour and they went to look for him.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000037_000001|He was lying dead upon the stone.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000038_000000|They buried him beside the child he had loved, and there in the churchyard where they had often talked together they both lie side by side.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000000|None of those who had known little Nell ever forgot her story.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000001|After the death of the old man, his brother, the Stranger who had sought them so long, traveled in the footsteps of the two wanderers to search out and reward all who had been kind to them-mrs
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000002|Jarley of the waxwork, the Punch and Judy showmen, he found them all.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000003|Even the rough canal boatmen were not forgotten.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000040_000000|Kit's story got abroad and he found himself with hosts of friends, who gave him a good position and secured his mother from want.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000040_000001|So that his greatest misfortune turned out, after all, to be his greatest good.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000041_000000|The little maid whose evidence cleared Kit of the terrible charge against him lived to marry Dick Swiveller, the clerk of Brass, the lawyer, while meek mrs Quilp, after her husband's drowning, married a clever young man and lived a pleasant life on the dead dwarf's money.
train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000042_000000|The fate of the others, whose wickedness has been a part of this story, was not so pleasant.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000001_000003|She has room for more fish, mountains of fish!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000002_000000|With a jerk of her body she comes nearer, and is now right in the whirlpool of bleak and perch.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000003_000001|Her eyes gleam, and her thin lips quiver with insatiable desire.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000004_000001|Snap!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000004_000002|Snap!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000004_000003|There goes a bleak right before her nose!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000008_000000|Just as the pike's attack is at its height, the Rasper suddenly raises his twelve spined dorsal fin.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000011_000001|She quickly takes a better hold, even letting her prehensile teeth come into play, and the long board like tongue warp in co-operation; but no matter what she does, or how wide she opens her mouth, her efforts are in vain: the high backed one refuses to move beyond a certain point.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000012_000001|Impossible!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000013_000000|She tries again.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000013_000002|Colours dance before her eyes as the gullet opens and closes, trying to draw in the perch's head.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000014_000000|So there is nothing to be done, but give it up!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000014_000002|The torture in the spiked barrel is over.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000016_000000|He is still in the pike's throat, and cannot get away, for he has his twelve stiffest dorsal spines bored into his enemy's palate; and the more he worries and works with his dangerous opponent, the deeper and more firmly do the spines fix themselves.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000017_000001|The spines begin to hurt her, and her mouthful on the whole to incommode her.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000017_000002|She cannot get sufficient water over her gills, and what does filter into her mouth in spite of the gag, is needed by the gag itself.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000017_000003|She can feel it breathing inside her mouth; incessantly, with every indication of excitement, its gill covers open and close, and take the lion's share of the water.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000018_000000|It is impossible for her to bear this suffocation any longer; she must have air; and in ungovernable rage she begins to lash out with her tail.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000019_000000|Thus the combat continues.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000030_000001|It is corpse weather today.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000030_000002|The angry waves stir up carrion from the bottom, or carry it out from bridge and bank.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000031_000001|Like a huge eel she wriggles up to the surface, where she lies in wait, slowly drifting with the current.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000032_000002|Now her flecked sides and black back make a distinct stripe in the water.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000033_000000|A cunning expression comes into Oa's little eyes.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000033_000001|The queer fish with two tails attracts her.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000037_000001|Involuntarily the angler's attention is attracted to them.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000039_000000|What a haul!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000039_000001|A pike that has gorged itself on a giant perch!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000041_000002|No throwing this one back again!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000042_000002|For the third time she was as it were in the heron's throat!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000043_000001|Life was once more coursing through her veins.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000044_000000|She was in water, and with a stroke of her tail she made for the bottom.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000044_000001|Oh!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000045_000001|She would be all right there-for the present!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000046_000001|She scowled at them, but although her stomach was empty, she felt no desire to eat.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000048_000000|She dares not venture up to the surface.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000048_000002|She must wait patiently until her perquisites descend.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000049_000000|She also hears the splashing of the bird, and shouts and strange thumps on the boat planks; and she keeps her blue black pupils fixed expectantly upon the great dark shadow up there.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000050_000000|Who knows, some day perhaps a young one might drop out!
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000051_000001|He saw the pike throw up her head, and was glad to find her still as lively as ever.
train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000052_000000|And to think that Heaven should at last reward him for his magnanimity! For the mark on the dorsal fin showed distinctly that this fish had been in his hands before.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000002_000000|It was so natural for Grim to be once more splashing freely in the lake; it was so natural for her to be feeding on roach again.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000002_000001|She should have learned a lesson from her adventure in the air with the man, but the qualifications were lacking.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000005_000000|By this time she weighs about eighteen pounds, and measures the length of a grown man's leg from hip to heel; her dorsal fin measures more than two hand breadths, and it would take a large hand to span her back.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000006_000000|She loves peace and quiet, and feels very irritable under the influence of others.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000007_000001|She feels indisposed and ill, and remains motionless in her watery lair.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000007_000002|Day after day she stays thus, without feeling hunger, or any desire for action.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000007_000003|She sleeps and lets all her nerves and muscles rest; only her gills and fins keep working mechanically.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000008_000000|At such times the angler may try to tempt her with spoon or other artificial bait, or with live fish, but she will not touch them!
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000008_000001|One tempting little decoy fish after another may whisk past her nose, but both palate and stomach easily withstand the temptations that are placed before her surfeited eyes.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000009_000000|But when the weather calms down and the waves once more grow less, she comes to life again, and is then well and rested.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000009_000001|The storm has cleared her blood; she needs food and exercise, and is biting madly.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000012_000000|He has anchored off his favourite bank, a narrow reef which, in the shelter of the wood, runs far out into the lake.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000013_000000|It was hard work getting out to it!
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000013_000003|The boat quivered, and the angler started and let the main sail down, while the black wind from the frayed clouds raged under the heavens.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000016_000001|They are good Samaritans to all the half dead bait he from time to time throws overboard.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000016_000003|They want to hide because they feel weak; they do not want to go down into deep water to Oa.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000016_000004|Then the terns snap them up, and put them down their little red throats.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000017_000001|It reminds the fisherman of a heron he once shot at, and which sent out a shower of such half dead little fish.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000019_000000|He seizes the rod and lifts it.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000019_000001|The line is running out at full speed. He carefully checks it, making the resistance stronger and stronger, so as to prevent the fish from breaking the line with a sudden jerk.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000020_000002|Alas, it is another of those prickly fish, she notices at once, one of those confounded tit bits that are only to be looked at, but which neither teeth nor throat are ever glad to deal with; and she opens her mouth and chokes and spits.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000022_000000|She darts hither and thither, turning and twisting.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000024_000001|The reel shrieks and hums as if a giant grasshopper sat chirping in it.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000024_000002|All at once, Grim leaps out of the water high into the air, so that her golden, black streaked body, with the panther like spots and the trickling water drops, casts a gleam over the lake.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000026_000000|A little later a whirlpool appears on the seething water, and he catches a glimpse of a dorsal fin with the hinder point missing.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000026_000002|A marked fish, one of his oldest, perhaps his biggest!
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000027_000001|His big body is perspiring with his exertions, and he has to stand with his legs wide apart and his feet firmly fixed whenever the mighty fish gives one of its sudden jerks.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000030_000000|He notes the smallest movement of his captive.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000030_000001|It is still in full vigour, and there are many water plants and stalks in the way.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000030_000002|Will he be able to draw it from the deep water with his fine, fragile line?
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000031_000001|The angler chooses to let it go in the hope of picking it up on the other side.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000033_000000|The fight and nervous excitement recommence-the quick, exciting contest between man and fish.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000034_000001|They gleam, they sparkle, they flash; and great, heavy, September clouds drift over the lake.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000037_000000|No one sees the accident, and his heavy waders drag him quickly down.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000038_000001|And then, among the rocks of the reef, the line breaks; the angler's body drifts in among the reeds.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000039_000000|Towards evening the sky becomes overcast and the troubled water looks thick and muddy.
train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000041_000001|She blinks her cunning eyes, and their blue black pupils become large and round.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000000_000001|The years passed by and he did not marry, so one day his father called him before him and said:
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000002_000000|The prince replied:
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000003_000000|"I will wed no one except the daughter of the king of Naples."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000004_000000|"Do you know that the king of Naples has a daughter?" asked the father.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000005_000000|"No," answered the son.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000005_000001|"I do not know."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000007_000000|"That is good advice," replied the prince.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000007_000001|"I thank you."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000008_000001|There was no person to be found who knew anything about it.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000009_000000|"You'll have to go to Naples to obtain this information," advised the king.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000010_000001|It was a difficult, stormy voyage, but finally they arrived safely.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000011_000000|Then he asked: "Does any one know whether or not the king of Naples has a daughter?"
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000015_000000|The old woman hastened to the royal palace.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000017_000001|It looked like an interesting diversion to talk with the old woman.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000018_000000|"What do you wish, good mother?" she asked.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000019_000000|"Are you the daughter of the king of Naples?" questioned the old woman.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000020_000000|"I am," replied the princess.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000021_000000|"May I come some day to sell you pretty things?" asked the old woman.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000023_000000|"The king of Naples has a daughter!" she cried.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000023_000001|"A very beautiful daughter, too!"
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000025_000000|The old woman thanked him.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000025_000002|"I made an appointment to see the princess to morrow.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000025_000003|I am going to the palace at four o'clock to sell pretty things to her."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000026_000000|"Well done, good mother!" cried the prince, again thrusting his hand into his purse.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000026_000001|"Let me go in your place!"
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000027_000000|The old woman gladly consented, and the prince dressed himself as a peddler.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000027_000001|The next afternoon at four o'clock he went to the palace of the king of Naples.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000029_000000|"Yes," said the princess.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000029_000001|"A peddler was to come to day at four o'clock with pretty things for me to buy."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000033_000000|The prince would not set a price.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000035_000000|"That will be splendid!" cried the princess.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000035_000001|"Come again to morrow at this hour."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000036_000003|The princess was so surprised that she turned pale.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000039_000000|He told her of the quest which had led him there, and she admired all the patience and diligence he had shown in finding out her existence. When he asked her to marry him at once, she readily consented.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000040_000000|All this sounded very romantic to the daughter of the king of Naples. She had never dreamed that a thing like this would ever happen.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000043_000002|She came straight up to him.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000044_000000|"I'm ready, beloved," were her words.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000046_000000|"Where is your boat?" asked the princess after they had ridden together for some time without speaking.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000049_000000|"Of course, I've seen him only twice," she told herself in an effort to gain assurance.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000052_000000|"Does my lady know with whom she is going away?" he asked.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000058_000001|"It is a bit awkward to lose my horse.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000059_000002|Then he sorrowfully returned to his waiting ship.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000064_000000|"I thought you were a pretty little maid," he said, "when I first saw you, but now I've changed my mind about you."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000067_000001|In the stillness of the night they heard a cry.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000068_000000|"Some one is in trouble outside, mother," said the daughter.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000069_000000|"Perhaps the pirates have come and by this cry are trying to lure us out," answered her mother cautiously.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000069_000001|There were often pirate ships which stopped there.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000070_000000|"No, mother," she insisted.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000070_000001|"I'm sure this is a girl's cry."
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000071_000000|The two women opened their door and crept out in the darkness.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000071_000002|They lifted her tenderly and carried her home.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000074_000001|He stared hard at the princess.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000074_000002|Then he spoke in a voice which shook.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000076_000001|She blushed.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000076_000002|The prince she had recognized the very moment she had seen him.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000079_000000|"She is no king's daughter!" she cried.
train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000079_000002|We found her upon these very rocks.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000001_000000|MARIA OF THE FOREST
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000003_000001|He and his favorite page became separated from the rest of the party and soon they realized that they were lost. As night approached they found the rude hut of a charcoal burner and begged for permission to pass the night there.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000003_000002|They were received most hospitably.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000004_000001|This is what it said:
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000005_000000|"Here in this hut is born to night The maiden of your fate: You can't escape your lot, young king; Your fate for you will wait.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000006_000000|'tis fate-'tis fate-'tis fate."
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000007_000000|The king turned over on his pillow and tried to sleep, but the strange voice kept ringing in his ears.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000007_000001|He rose early.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000009_000000|"At what time?" asked the king.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000010_000000|"It was just midnight," replied the charcoal burner.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000012_000000|"I refuse to wed any maid born in this poor hut," he said.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000013_000000|"What can I do about it?" asked the page, yawning.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000014_000000|"You must steal this babe this very day and put it to death," said the king sternly.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000015_000001|He carried her away into the deep forest, but he did not have the heart to put an innocent babe to death. He left her in a hollow tree, wrapped up in the bright red sash he wore.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000016_000001|The king was angry.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000017_000000|"Take me to the baby," he said.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000017_000001|"I'll do the deed myself."
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000018_000001|They, of course, did not wish to return to the hut of the charcoal burner, and at length they found their way out of the deep forest.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000020_000000|The king agreed that it was quite impossible for the babe to escape death, but he could not forget the strange voice which had said:
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000021_000000|"Here in this hut is born to night The maiden of your fate: You can't escape your lot, young king; Your fate for you will wait.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000022_000000|'tis fate-'tis fate-'tis fate."
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000023_000000|Now it happened that very day that a woodcutter was working in the forest.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000025_000000|The cry continued, however, and it sounded very near, almost under the woodcutter's feet.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000026_000001|Her own mother has abandoned her.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000026_000002|My good wife will be a mother to her," he said.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000028_000002|It made Maria's dark eyes look even brighter than before.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000029_000002|He called her to him and examined it carefully.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000031_000001|The king ordered him again to steal her.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000031_000002|This time the king plotted her death by drowning.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000034_000000|"Here in this hut is born to night The maiden of your fate: You can't escape your lot, young king; Your fate for you will wait.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000035_000000|'tis fate-'tis fate-'tis fate."
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000037_000001|The sailors rescued it and opened it with interest.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000039_000003|The king danced with her.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000042_000001|The page, however, was suspicious when he heard her name.
train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000042_000004|He reported his suspicions to the king.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000001_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000002_000003|Truly, the church was a great institution-the solution of all the puzzles and problems of life.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000007_000002|Why should he continue selling liquor?
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000007_000004|He must help Finnegan.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000010_000001|"I'm the assistant sexton at saint Matthew's Church."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000011_000000|"You don't say!
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000013_000001|"What is it?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000015_000000|The other stared at him.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000015_000001|"Gee!" he said, "are you going to take me up in your airship?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000016_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000002|Think what drink does to men?
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000004|Drink makes men cruel and selfish.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000005|It takes away their self control.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000006|It makes them unfit for their work.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000019_000001|I never touch the stuff myself."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000023_000000|"I do it," said Finnegan, "because I have to live.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000024_000000|"It seems such a terrible trade!" exclaimed the boy.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000025_000001|"But take notice, it ain't a princely one.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000025_000002|I'm on the job all day and a good part of the night, and standing up all the time.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000025_000004|So what's a man to do?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000030_000000|"But it'd have to be a steady job," put in the other.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000030_000001|"I can take no chances with the baby."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000032_000001|"Do you carry 'em round in your pockets?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000034_000000|And so, forthwith, he made his way to the doctor's house, and was ushered into the presence of the unhappy clergyman.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000034_000001|He stated his case; and the other threw up his hands in despair.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000035_000001|I can't find employment for everyone in Lockmanville."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000036_000000|"But, doctor!" protested Samuel, "I don't think you understand.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000037_000000|"I understand all that Samuel."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000039_000000|There was a pause.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000041_000000|"Yes," said the other, "but that's what Professor Stewart taught men. And you said it was wicked of him."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000043_000001|"It puts you right back with Herbert Spencer!
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000044_000000|The boy waited.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000044_000001|"Don't you see that, dr Vince?" he persisted.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000045_000000|"Yes, I see that," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000046_000000|"And you told me that the only way to escape from that was to live for others-to serve them and help them.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000046_000001|And isn't that what I'm trying to do?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000048_000000|"Why, doctor, aren't you the head of the church?
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000048_000001|And the people come to you to be taught.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000052_000001|Only realize it-right at this very moment there are people starving to death-and here in Lockmanville!
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000052_000002|They want to work, and there is no work for them! I could take you to see them, sir-girls who want a job in mr Wygant's cotton mill, and he won't give it to them!"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000053_000001|It's because there is too much cloth already."
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000054_000000|"I've been thinking about that," said Samuel earnestly.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000054_000001|"And it doesn't sound right to me.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000054_000002|There are too many people who need good clothes.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000055_000001|But they haven't money to buy the cloth---"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000057_000000|There was no reply; and after a moment Samuel rushed on: "Surely it is selfish of mr Wygant to shut poor people out of his mill, just because they have no money.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000057_000001|Why couldn't he let them make cloth for themselves?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000061_000000|"So much the better, doctor!
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000061_000003|And if it's a question of there not being enough food, look at what's wasted in a place like Master Albert's!
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000063_000001|"Doctor!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000066_000001|The doctor winced visibly.
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000067_000002|"But think of the people who are suffering-nobody spares them!
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000067_000003|And how can you be silent, doctor-how can the shepherd of Christ be silent while some of his flock are living in luxury and others are starving to death?"
train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000068_000001|dr Vince sat rigid, clutching the arms of his chair.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty five
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000003_000000|Samuel rushed away into the darkness.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000004_000000|Then, as he waited, he saw an automobile draw up in front of the side entrance, and saw mr Wygant step out and enter.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000004_000001|The sight was like a blow in the face to him.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000004_000002|There was the proud rich man, defiant and unpunished, seated in the place of authority; while Samuel, the Seeker, was turned out of the door!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000005_000002|He would fight them-he would fight to the very end.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000005_000003|The church was not their church-it was the church of God!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000005_000004|And he had a right to belong to it-and to speak the truth in it, too!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000008_000000|dr Vince sprang to his feet in terror.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000008_000001|"Samuel Prescott!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000009_000000|"I have been ordered out of the church!" proclaimed Samuel.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000009_000001|"And I will not submit to it!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000009_000002|I have spoken the truth, and I will not permit the evil doers in saint Matthew's to silence me!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000010_000000|mr Hickman had sprung up.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000010_000001|"Boy," he commanded, "leave this room!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000011_000003|I have spoken the truth, and nothing but the truth!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000012_000000|"What is the boy talking about?" demanded another of the vestrymen.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000012_000001|This was mr Hamerton, a young lawyer, whose pleasant face Samuel had often noticed.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000012_000002|And Samuel, seeing curiosity and interest in his look, sprang toward him.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000013_000000|"Don't let them turn me out without a hearing!" he cried.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000015_000000|"You corrupted the city council!" shrilled Samuel.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000015_000001|"You bribed it to beat the water bill!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000015_000002|It's true, and you know it's true, and you don't dare to deny it!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000016_000000|mr Hickman was purple in the face with rage.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000017_000000|"I have talked with one of the men who got the money!" cried Samuel. "There was two thousand dollars paid to ten of the supervisors."
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000018_000000|"Who is this man?" cried the other furiously.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000019_000001|"He told me in confidence."
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000020_000000|"Aha!" laughed the other.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000021_000001|"dr Vince, you know that I am telling the truth.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000023_000001|"Anybody can find out about these things if he wants to.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000024_000001|"WHAT!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000025_000001|"Didn't you tell me this very afternoon?"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000026_000000|"I told you nothing of the sort!" declared the man.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000028_000000|"I submit that this is an outrage!" exclaimed mr Hickman.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000029_000000|"The poor people in this town are suffering and dying!" cried Samuel. "And they are being robbed and oppressed.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000000|"But why not, sir?
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000001|The guilty men are high in the councils of this church.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000002|They hold the church up to disgrace before all the world.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000003|And this is the church of Christ, sir!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000032_000000|"But yours is not the way to go about it, boy!" exclaimed mr Hamerton-who was alarmed because Samuel kept looking at him.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000033_000001|"Did not Christ drive out the money changers from the temple with whips?"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000034_000001|There was a pause after it, as if everyone were willing to let his neighbor speak first.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000035_000000|"Are we not taught to follow Christ's example, dr Vince?" asked the boy.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000036_000000|"Hardly in that sense, Samuel," said the terrified doctor.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000036_000001|"Christ was God.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000036_000002|And we can hardly be expected-"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000037_000005|And the rich men of His time despised Him and spit upon Him and crucified Him!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000039_000000|"I may be an infidel, mr Curtis," replied the other, quickly; "but I never paid two hundred dollars to Slattery so that the police would let me block the sidewalks of the town."
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000041_000005|You are crucifying Him again every day!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000042_000001|"It is blasphemy!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000043_000000|"It must stop instantly," put in mr Wygant.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000044_000001|"mr Hamerton, won't you help me?"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000045_000000|"What do you want us to do?" demanded mr Hamerton.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000000|"I want the vestry to investigate these charges.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000002|And if it is true, I want you to drive such men from the church!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000003|They have no place in the church, sir!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000006|They are the enemies the church exists to fight-"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000001|But I tell you I will not give up without a fight.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000002|I will expose you and denounce you to the world!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000003|The people shall know you for what you are-cowards and hypocrites, faithless to your trust!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000004|Plunderers of the public! Corrupters of the state!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000053_000003|I have been among the lowest-I have been with saloon keepers and criminals-with publicans and harlots and thieves-but never yet have I met a man as merciless and as hard as you!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000053_000004|You a Christian-you might be the Roman soldier who spat in Jesus' face!"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000055_000000|For at least a couple of hours Samuel paced the streets of Lockmanville, to let his rage and grief subside.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000058_000000|"I went to see little Ethel," she replied.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000061_000000|"And what came of it?"
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000062_000000|"She cried," said Sophie.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000062_000001|"She was terribly unhappy.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000066_000000|"She scolded me!
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000066_000001|She was very angry with me.
train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000066_000002|She said I had no right to fill the child's mind with falsehoods about her uncle.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000004_000000|After supper that evening came Everley with Friederich Bremer, to take Samuel to the meeting of the local, where he was to tell his story.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000000|The "local" met in an obscure hall, over a grocery shop.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000001|There were present those whom Samuel had met the night before, and about a score of others.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000002|Most of them were working men, but there were several who appeared to be well to do shopkeepers and clerks.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000003|Samuel noticed that they all called one another "comrade"; and several of them addressed him thus, which gave him a queer feeling.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000002|The boy stood upon his feet-and suddenly a deadly terror seized hold upon him.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000003|Suppose he should not be able to make a speech after all!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000005|What would they think of him?
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000007|The poor were suffering, and the truth was crying out for vindication!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000007_000002|And because he saw that these were people who understood, he found himself a case, and thinking no longer about himself.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000007_000003|He talked for nearly half an hour, and there was quite a sensation when he finished.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000008_000001|"Comrades," he said, "for the past year I have been urging that the local must make a fight for free speech in this town.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000008_000003|If we do not take up this fight, we might just as well give up."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000009_000000|"That's right," cried Beggs, the old carpenter.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000010_000000|"I took the liberty of ordering circulars," continued Everley.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000010_000001|"There was no time to be lost, and I felt sure that the comrades would back me. I now move that the local take charge of the meeting to morrow evening, and that the two thousand circulars I have here be given out secretly to night."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000011_000000|"I second that motion," said mrs Barton.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000012_000000|"It must be understood," added Everley, "that we can't expect help from the papers.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000012_000001|And our people ought to hear this story, as well as the members of the church."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000000|"Now," said Everley, "I suggest that the local make this the occasion of a contest for the right to hold street meetings in Lockmanville.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000001|As you know, the police have refused permits ever since the strike.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000002|And I move that beginning with Thursday evening, we hold a meeting on the corner of Market and Main streets, and tell this story to the public.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000003|And that we continue to hold a meeting every night thereafter until we have made good our right."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000015_000001|Everley launched into an impassioned speech.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000015_000004|Now they must make a stand.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000016_000000|"You realize that it will mean going to jail?" asked dr Barton.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000017_000000|"I realize it," said Everley.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000017_000001|"We shall probably have to go several times.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000018_000000|"That is the thing we must think of," said the woman in the chair.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000019_000000|"I am ready to do what I can," added the lawyer.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000022_000000|Samuel listened in breathless excitement to this discussion.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000023_000004|Wherever Capitalism had come, there men were uniting against it; and every day their power grew-there was nothing that could stop them.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000024_000002|They knew what they were facing at this moment; not only Chief McCullagh with his policemen and their clubs; not only the subsidized "Express" with its falsehoods and ridicule: but all the political and business power of the Hickmans and Wygants.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000024_000003|They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace-perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000025_000003|And so I ask you to join with me in taking this pledge-that we will speak on the streets of Lockmanville next Saturday night, and that we will continue to speak there as often as need be until we have vindicated our rights as American citizens."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000027_000001|If I am arrested, I know that I will not get it.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000028_000000|"And I am in Wygant's cotton mill," said another.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000028_000002|But I will help."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000030_000002|"But I will speak also!"
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000031_000002|Will you let me help?"
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000032_000000|"No one's help will be refused in a crisis like this," said Everley.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000032_000001|"We must stand by our guns, for if they can crush us this time, it may be years before we can be heard."
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000033_000001|Others took it up, until the walls of the building shook with a mighty chant.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000033_000002|"What is it?" whispered Samuel to Friedrich.
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000036_000000|Hark to the thunder, hark to the tramp-a myriad army comes!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000037_000000|An army sprung from a hundred lands, speaking a hundred tongues!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000038_000000|And overhead a portent new, a blood red banner see!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000043_000000|We come in the right of our new born might to set the people free!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000044_000000|Masters, we left you a world to make, the planning was yours to do-
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000047_000000|We have builded a temple with pillars white, ye have stained it with blood and tears!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000051_000000|We come in the right of our new born might to set the people free!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000053_000000|We come your dungeon walls to raze, your citadel to spoil!
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000054_000000|Yours is the power of club and jail, yours is the axe and fire-
train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000057_000000|Ours the host, the marching host-hark to our battle song!
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000002_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000003_000000|The table was set on the terrace; breakfast was served and the company was gathered.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000003_000002|There were four persons present, though there should have been five.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000003_000003|The two guests were an Englishman and his wife, whom the chances of travel had brought over night to Valedolmo.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000004_000003|This morning she was very business like in her short skirt, belted jacket, and green felt Alpine hat with a feather in the side.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000005_000003|Her father had finished his egg and hers too, before she appeared, as nonchalant and smiling as if she were out the earliest of all.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000008_000000|'I am sorry not to wear my own Alpine hat, Aunt Hazel; I look so deliciously German in it, but I simply can't afford to burn all the skin off my nose.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000009_000000|'You can't make us believe that,' said her father.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000009_000001|'The reason is, that Lieutenant di Ferara and Captain Coroloni are going with us to day, and that this hat is more becoming than the other.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000012_000000|'And the driver?'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000013_000001|There are two of him.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000014_000001|I only ordered one.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000016_000000|Constance eyed her father sharply.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000016_000001|There was something at once guilty and triumphant about his expression.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000019_000000|'Really?
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000020_000000|'I don't know about his Italian, but he talks uncommonly good English.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000021_000000|'English!' There was reproach, disgust, disillusionment, in her tone. 'Not really, father?'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000023_000000|'How simply horrible!'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000024_000000|'Very convenient, I should say.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000025_000000|'If there's anything I detest, it's an Americanized Italian-and here in Valedolmo of all places, where you have a right to demand something unique and romantic and picturesque and real.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000025_000001|It's too bad of Gustavo!
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000025_000002|I shall never place any faith in his judgment again.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000027_000001|Constance patted their shaggy mouse coloured noses, made the acquaintance of the boy, whose name was Beppo, and looked about for the driver proper.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000028_000000|He wore a loose white shirt-immaculately white-with a red silk handkerchief knotted about his throat, brown corduroy knee breeches, and a red cotton sash with the hilt of a knife conspicuously protruding.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000028_000002|His skin was dark-not too dark-just a good healthy out door tan: his brows level and heavy, his gaze candour itself.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000029_000000|Constance clasped her hands in an ecstasy of admiration.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000030_000000|'He's perfect!' she cried.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000032_000000|'My dear,' her father warned, 'he understands English.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000038_000000|'What is your name?'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000040_000000|'I don't care if you do speak English; I prefer Italian-what is your name?' She repeated the question in Italian.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000041_000002|Constance looked after him, puzzled and suspicious.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000041_000003|The one insult which she could not brook was for an Italian to fail to understand her when she talked Italian.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000041_000005|She suppressed it quickly and turned away.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000043_000000|'The poor fellow is embarrassed,' apologized her father.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000043_000001|'His name is Tony,' he added-even he had understood that much Italian.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000045_000001|The man is scarcely to blame for his name.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000046_000000|'I suppose not,' she agreed, 'though I should have included that in my order.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000047_000000|Further discussion was precluded by the appearance of a station carriage which turned in at the gate and stopped before them.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000047_000004|He had not counted upon this addition to the party, and was as scowling as she could have wished.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000049_000003|Zat donk', signorina, he go all day and never one little stumble.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000053_000000|Elizabetta appeared in the doorway with two rush covered flasks, and Tony hurried forward to receive them.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000053_000003|She stifled a laugh of prophetic triumph and sauntered over to Beppo.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000056_000000|'And who is Carlo?'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000057_000000|'He is the guide who owns them.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000059_000000|'Oh, indeed!
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000061_000000|He put forth this preposterous statement with a glance as grave and innocent as that of a little cherub.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000062_000000|'Is Tony a good guide?'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000063_000000|'But yes, of the best!'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000064_000001|He divined suspicion behind these persistent inquiries, and he knew that in case Tony were dismissed, his own munificent pay would stop.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000066_000001|'A word here, a word there; I learn it in school.'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000069_000000|'How long?'
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000070_000000|Beppo considered.
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000072_000000|'Really!
train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000075_000001|She drew from her pocket a handful of coppers and dropped them into his grimy little palm.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000002_000000|After some delay-owing to Tony's inability to balance the chafing dish on Cristoforo Colombo's back-they filed from the gateway, an imposing cavalcade.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000003_000001|He chased Fidilini over half the mountainside while the others were resting, and he carried the chafing dish for a couple of miles because it refused to adjust itself nicely to the pack.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000003_000002|The morning ended by his being left behind with a balking donkey, while the others completed the last ascent that led to their halting place for lunch.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000004_000001|It was owing to Beppo's knowledge of the mountain paths rather than Tony's which had guided them to this agreeable spot; though no one in the party except Constance appeared to have noted the fact.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000004_000006|But his moment was coming.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000004_000007|As they were about to start on, Constance spied high above their heads, where the stream burst from the rocks, a clump of starry white blossoms.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000005_000001|'Oh, I must have it-it's the first I ever saw growing; I hadn't supposed we were high enough.' She glanced at the officers.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000006_000003|It was very gracefully and easily done, and a burst of applause greeted his descent.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000006_000004|He divided his flowers into two equal parts, and sweeping off his hat, presented them with a bow, not to Constance, but to the officers, who somewhat sulkily passed them on.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000006_000005|She received them with a smile; for an instant her eyes met Tony's, and he fell back, rewarded.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000008_000002|He has been in the United States and speaks English, which is a great convenience.'
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000009_000000|The two said nothing, but they looked at each other and shrugged.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000011_000004|The winding path was both stony and steep, and, from a donkey's standpoint, thoroughly objectionable.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000011_000006|Whether Constance pulled the wrong rein, or whether, as she affirmed, it was merely his natural badness, in any case, he suddenly veered from the path and took a cross cut down the rocky slope below them.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000012_000002|Leaping forward, he dropped over the precipice, a fall of ten feet, to a narrow ledge below.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000012_000005|It was not a dignified rescue, but at least it was effective; Fidilini came to a halt.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000014_000000|mr Wilder, quite pale with anxiety, came scrambling to her side. Constance sat up and laughed hysterically, while she examined a bleeding elbow.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000016_000001|Captain Coroloni and her father helped Constance to her feet while Lieutenant di Ferara recovered a side comb and the white sun hat.
train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000016_000003|Tony rejoined them somewhat short of breath, but leading a humbled Fidilini.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000003_000000|Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000001|The Meaning of the Terms.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000002|We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000003|The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000004|The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000005|His fortunes are more or less at stake in the issue of events.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000006|Consequently he does whatever he can to influence the direction present occurrences take.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000008|The other is like a man who has planned an outing for the next day which continuing rain will frustrate. He cannot, to be sure, by his present reactions affect to morrow's weather, but he may take some steps which will influence future happenings, if only to postpone the proposed picnic.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000010|In many instances, he can intervene even more directly.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000011|The attitude of a participant in the course of affairs is thus a double one: there is solicitude, anxiety concerning future consequences, and a tendency to act to assure better, and avert worse, consequences.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000013|These words suggest that a person is bound up with the possibilities inhering in objects; that he is accordingly on the lookout for what they are likely to do to him; and that, on the basis of his expectation or foresight, he is eager to act so as to give things one turn rather than another. Interest and aims, concern and purpose, are necessarily connected.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000015|Such words as interest, affection, concern, motivation, emphasize the bearing of what is foreseen upon the individual's fortunes, and his active desire to act to secure a possible result.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000016|They take for granted the objective changes.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000017|But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000019|But for an active being, a being who partakes of the consequences instead of standing aloof from them, there is at the same time a personal response. The difference imaginatively foreseen makes a present difference, which finds expression in solicitude and effort.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000020|While such words as affection, concern, and motive indicate an attitude of personal preference, they are always attitudes toward objects-toward what is foreseen.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000021|We may call the phase of objective foresight intellectual, and the phase of personal concern emotional and volitional, but there is no separation in the facts of the situation.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000000|Such a separation could exist only if the personal attitudes ran their course in a world by themselves.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000001|But they are always responses to what is going on in the situation of which they are a part, and their successful or unsuccessful expression depends upon their interaction with other changes.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000003|They are literally bound up with these changes; our desires, emotions, and affections are but various ways in which our doings are tied up with the doings of things and persons about us.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000004|Instead of marking a purely personal or subjective realm, separated from the objective and impersonal, they indicate the non existence of such a separate world.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000006|Interest, concern, mean that self and world are engaged with each other in a developing situation.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000008_000001|In some legal transactions a man has to prove "interest" in order to have a standing at court.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000008_000002|He has to show that some proposed step concerns his affairs. A silent partner has an interest in a business, although he takes no active part in its conduct because its prosperity or decline affects his profits and liabilities.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000001|To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000002|To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000003|We say of an interested person both that he has lost himself in some affair and that he has found himself in it.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000004|Both terms express the engrossment of the self in an object.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000000|When the place of interest in education is spoken of in a depreciatory way, it will be found that the second of the meanings mentioned is first exaggerated and then isolated.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000001|Interest is taken to mean merely the effect of an object upon personal advantage or disadvantage, success or failure.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000002|Separated from any objective development of affairs, these are reduced to mere personal states of pleasure or pain.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000003|Educationally, it then follows that to attach importance to interest means to attach some feature of seductiveness to material otherwise indifferent; to secure attention and effort by offering a bribe of pleasure.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000004|This procedure is properly stigmatized as "soft" pedagogy; as a "soup kitchen" theory of education.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000011_000000|But the objection is based upon the fact-or assumption-that the forms of skill to be acquired and the subject matter to be appropriated have no interest on their own account: in other words, they are supposed to be irrelevant to the normal activities of the pupils.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000011_000003|If the material operates in this way, there is no call either to hunt for devices which will make it interesting or to appeal to arbitrary, semi coerced effort.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000012_000002|The fact that a process takes time to mature is so obvious a fact that we rarely make it explicit.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000012_000003|We overlook the fact that in growth there is ground to be covered between an initial stage of process and the completing period; that there is something intervening.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000012_000005|Only through them, in the literal time sense, will the initial activities reach a satisfactory consummation.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000000|So much for the meaning of the term interest.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000002|Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000003|It is obvious that a very large part of the everyday meaning of will is precisely the deliberate or conscious disposition to persist and endure in a planned course of action in spite of difficulties and contrary solicitations.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000005|His ability is executive; that is, he persistently and energetically strives to execute or carry out his aims.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000006|A weak will is unstable as water.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000015_000000|Clearly there are two factors in will.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000015_000001|One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000001|A man keeps on doing a thing just because he has got started, not because of any clearly thought out purpose.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000002|In fact, the obstinate man generally declines (although he may not be quite aware of his refusal) to make clear to himself what his proposed end is; he has a feeling that if he allowed himself to get a clear and full idea of it, it might not be worth while.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000003|Stubbornness shows itself even more in reluctance to criticize ends which present themselves than it does in persistence and energy in use of means to achieve the end.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000005|The people we called weak willed or self indulgent always deceive themselves as to the consequences of their acts.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000006|They pick out some feature which is agreeable and neglect all attendant circumstances.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000009|That the primary difference between strong and feeble volition is intellectual, consisting in the degree of persistent firmness and fullness with which consequences are thought out, cannot be over emphasized.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000002|They are something to look at and for curiosity to play with rather than something to achieve.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000003|There is no such thing as over intellectuality, but there is such a thing as a one sided intellectuality.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000005|A certain flabbiness of fiber prevents the contemplated object from gripping him and engaging him in action.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000006|And most persons are naturally diverted from a proposed course of action by unusual, unforeseen obstacles, or by presentation of inducements to an action that is directly more agreeable.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000000|A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000001|Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000002|Discipline means power at command; mastery of the resources available for carrying through the action undertaken.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000003|To know what one is to do and to move to do it promptly and by use of the requisite means is to be disciplined, whether we are thinking of an army or a mind. Discipline is positive.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000019_000000|It is hardly necessary to press the point that interest and discipline are connected, not opposed.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000020_000002|Parents and teachers often complain-and correctly-that children "do not want to hear, or want to understand." Their minds are not upon the subject precisely because it does not touch them; it does not enter into their concerns.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000020_000005|In the long run, its value is measured by whether it supplies a mere physical excitation to act in the way desired by the adult or whether it leads the child "to think"--that is, to reflect upon his acts and impregnate them with aims.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000022_000001|The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000022_000002|Interest represents the moving force of objects-whether perceived or presented in imagination-in any experience having a purpose.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000022_000005|Attitudes and methods of approach and response vary with the specific appeal the same material makes, this appeal itself varying with difference of natural aptitude, of past experience, of plan of life, and so on.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000022_000008|Too frequently mind is set over the world of things and facts to be known; it is regarded as something existing in isolation, with mental states and operations that exist independently.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000000|The facts of interest show that these conceptions are mythical.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000001|Mind appears in experience as ability to respond to present stimuli on the basis of anticipation of future possible consequences, and with a view to controlling the kind of consequences that are to take place.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000002|The things, the subject matter known, consist of whatever is recognized as having a bearing upon the anticipated course of events, whether assisting or retarding it.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000004|An illustration may clear up their significance.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000005|You are engaged in a certain occupation, say writing with a typewriter.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000010|You attend to the keys, to what you have written, to your movements, to the ribbon or the mechanism of the machine.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000014|You have to find out what your resources are, what conditions are at command, and what the difficulties and obstacles are.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000015|This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000017|In neither case is it intelligent.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000000|If we recur to the case where mind is not concerned with the physical manipulation of the instruments but with what one intends to write, the case is the same.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000001|There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000003|The whole attitude is one of concern with what is to be, and with what is so far as the latter enters into the movement toward the end.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000004|Leave out the direction which depends upon foresight of possible future results, and there is no intelligence in present behavior.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000000|If this illustration is typical, mind is not a name for something complete by itself; it is a name for a course of action in so far as that is intelligently directed; in so far, that is to say, as aims, ends, enter into it, with selection of means to further the attainment of aims.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000001|Intelligence is not a peculiar possession which a person owns; but a person is intelligent in so far as the activities in which he plays a part have the qualities mentioned.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000002|Nor are the activities in which a person engages, whether intelligently or not, exclusive properties of himself; they are something in which he engages and partakes.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000003|Other things, the independent changes of other things and persons, cooperate and hinder.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000026_000000|The problem of instruction is thus that of finding material which will engage a person in specific activities having an aim or purpose of moment or interest to him, and dealing with things not as gymnastic appliances but as conditions for the attainment of ends.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000000|In historic practice the error has cut two ways.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000005|By its nature, the allegation could not be checked up.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000006|Even when discipline did not accrue as matter of fact, when the pupil even grew in laxity of application and lost power of intelligent self direction, the fault lay with him, not with the study or the methods of teaching.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000007|His failure was but proof that he needed more discipline, and thus afforded a reason for retaining the old methods.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000008|The responsibility was transferred from the educator to the pupil because the material did not have to meet specific tests; it did not have to be shown that it fulfilled any particular need or served any specific end.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000011|Identification of will, or effort, with mere strain, results when a mind is set up, endowed with powers that are only to be applied to existing material.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000013|To attend to material because there is something to be done in which the person is concerned is not disciplinary in this view; not even if it results in a desirable increase of constructive power.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000015|This is more likely to occur if the subject matter presented is uncongenial, for then there is no motive (so it is supposed) except the acknowledgment of duty or the value of discipline.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000016|The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: "It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as he doesn't like it."
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000028_000002|Various branches of study represent so many independent branches, each having its principles of arrangement complete within itself.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000028_000003|History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000028_000004|Having a ready made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. This idea corresponds to the conventional practice in which the program of school work, for the day, month, and successive years, consists of "studies" all marked off from one another, and each supposed to be complete by itself-for educational purposes at least.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000002|Just as one "studies" his typewriter as part of the operation of putting it to use to effect results, so with any fact or truth.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000003|It becomes an object of study-that is, of inquiry and reflection-when it figures as a factor to be reckoned with in the completion of a course of events in which one is engaged and by whose outcome one is affected.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000005|Stated thus broadly, the formula may appear abstract.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000006|Translated into details, it means that the act of learning or studying is artificial and ineffective in the degree in which pupils are merely presented with a lesson to be learned.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000002|While the theoretical errors of which we have been speaking have their expressions in the conduct of schools, they are themselves the outcome of conditions of social life. A change confined to the theoretical conviction of educators will not remove the difficulties, though it should render more effective efforts to modify social conditions.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000005|Art is neither merely internal nor merely external; merely mental nor merely physical.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000007|The changes made by some actions (those which by contrast may be called mechanical) are external; they are shifting things about.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000008|No ideal reward, no enrichment of emotion and intellect, accompanies them.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000009|Others contribute to the maintenance of life, and to its external adornment and display.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000010|Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000011|Neither the people who engage in them, nor those who are directly affected by them, are capable of full and free interest in their work.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000012|Because of the lack of any purpose in the work for the one doing it, or because of the restricted character of its aim, intelligence is not adequately engaged.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000013|The same conditions force many people back upon themselves. They take refuge in an inner play of sentiment and fancies.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000015|Their mental life is sentimental; an enjoyment of an inner landscape.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000016|Even the pursuit of science may become an asylum of refuge from the hard conditions of life-not a temporary retreat for the sake of recuperation and clarification in future dealings with the world.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000017|The very word art may become associated not with specific transformation of things, making them more significant for mind, but with stimulations of eccentric fancy and with emotional indulgences.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000020|Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000031_000000|This state of affairs must exist so far as society is organized on a basis of division between laboring classes and leisure classes.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000031_000003|Their pursuits are fixed by accident and necessity of circumstance; they are not the normal expression of their own powers interacting with the needs and resources of the environment.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000000|This state of affairs explains many things in our historic educational traditions.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000001|It throws light upon the clash of aims manifested in different portions of the school system; the narrowly utilitarian character of most elementary education, and the narrowly disciplinary or cultural character of most higher education.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000002|It accounts for the tendency to isolate intellectual matters till knowledge is scholastic, academic, and professionally technical, and for the widespread conviction that liberal education is opposed to the requirements of an education which shall count in the vocations of life.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000005|But it should contribute through the type of intellectual and emotional disposition which it forms to the improvement of those conditions.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000006|And just here the true conceptions of interest and discipline are full of significance.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000007|Persons whose interests have been enlarged and intelligence trained by dealing with things and facts in active occupations having a purpose (whether in play or work) will be those most likely to escape the alternatives of an academic and aloof knowledge and a hard, narrow, and merely "practical" practice.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000009|To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000010|A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000011|It can only be accomplished piecemeal, a step at a time.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000013|It is a challenge to undertake the task of reorganization courageously and to keep at it persistently.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000002|Interest means that one is identified with the objects which define the activity and which furnish the means and obstacles to its realization.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000003|Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000007|Discipline or development of power of continuous attention is its fruit.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000010|It shows that mind and intelligent or purposeful engagement in a course of action into which things enter are identical.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000011|Hence to develop and train mind is to provide an environment which induces such activity.
train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000012|On the other side, it protects us from the notion that subject matter on its side is something isolated and independent.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000001_000000|QUESTION seventy six
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000003_000000|We now consider the union of the soul with the body; and concerning this there are eight points of inquiry:
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000004_000000|(one) Whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000005_000000|(two) Whether the intellectual principle is multiplied numerically according to the number of bodies; or is there one intelligence for all men?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000006_000000|(three) Whether in the body the form of which is an intellectual principle, there is some other soul?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000007_000000|(four) Whether in the body there is any other substantial form?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000008_000000|(five) Of the qualities required in the body of which the intellectual principle is the form?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000009_000000|(six) Whether it be united to such a body by means of another body?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000010_000000|(seven) Whether by means of an accident?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000013_000000|Whether the Intellectual Principle Is United to the Body As Its Form?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000014_000000|Objection one: It seems that the intellectual principle is not united to the body as its form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000015_000002|Therefore the intellect is not united to the body as its form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000016_000001|But the form of the thing understood is not received into the intellect materially and individually, but rather immaterially and universally: otherwise the intellect would not be capable of the knowledge of immaterial and universal objects, but only of individuals, like the senses.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000016_000002|Therefore the intellect is not united to the body as its form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000018_000002|Therefore it is not united to the body as its form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000019_000001|But to be united to matter belongs to the form by reason of its nature; because form is the act of matter, not by an accidental quality, but by its own essence; otherwise matter and form would not make a thing substantially one, but only accidentally one. Therefore a form cannot be without its own proper matter.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000019_000003|Therefore the intellectual principle is not united to the body as its form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000020_000001|But the difference which constitutes man is "rational," which is applied to man on account of his intellectual principle.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000020_000002|Therefore the intellectual principle is the form of man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000021_000001|For that whereby primarily anything acts is a form of the thing to which the act is to be attributed: for instance, that whereby a body is primarily healed is health, and that whereby the soul knows primarily is knowledge; hence health is a form of the body, and knowledge is a form of the soul.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000021_000004|For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000021_000005|Therefore this principle by which we primarily understand, whether it be called the intellect or the intellectual soul, is the form of the body.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000022_000000|But if anyone says that the intellectual soul is not the form of the body he must first explain how it is that this action of understanding is the action of this particular man; for each one is conscious that it is himself who understands.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000022_000003|We must therefore say either that Socrates understands by virtue of his whole self, as Plato maintained, holding that man is an intellectual soul; or that intelligence is a part of Socrates.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000022_000005|But one cannot sense without a body: therefore the body must be some part of man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000000|The Commentator held that this union is through the intelligible species, as having a double subject, in the possible intellect, and in the phantasms which are in the corporeal organs.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000001|Thus through the intelligible species the possible intellect is linked to the body of this or that particular man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000002|But this link or union does not sufficiently explain the fact, that the act of the intellect is the act of Socrates.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000005|Therefore, as the species of colors are in the sight, so are the species of phantasms in the possible intellect. Now it is clear that because the colors, the images of which are in the sight, are on a wall, the action of seeing is not attributed to the wall: for we do not say that the wall sees, but rather that it is seen.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000000|Some, however, tried to maintain that the intellect is united to the body as its motor; and hence that the intellect and body form one thing so that the act of the intellect could be attributed to the whole.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000001|This is, however, absurd for many reasons.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000002|First, because the intellect does not move the body except through the appetite, the movement of which presupposes the operation of the intellect.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000003|The reason therefore why Socrates understands is not because he is moved by his intellect, but rather, contrariwise, he is moved by his intellect because he understands.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000005|Whereas the act of intellect remains in the agent, and does not pass into something else, as does the action of heating. Therefore the action of understanding cannot be attributed to Socrates for the reason that he is moved by his intellect.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000006|Thirdly, because the action of a motor is never attributed to the thing moved, except as to an instrument; as the action of a carpenter to a saw.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000007|Therefore if understanding is attributed to Socrates, as the action of what moves him, it follows that it is attributed to him as to an instrument.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000025_000000|There remains, therefore, no other explanation than that given by Aristotle-namely, that this particular man understands, because the intellectual principle is his form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000025_000001|Thus from the very operation of the intellect it is made clear that the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000001|Now the proper operation of man as man is to understand; because he thereby surpasses all other animals.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000002|Whence Aristotle concludes (Ethic.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000004|Man must therefore derive his species from that which is the principle of this operation.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000006|It follows therefore that the intellectual principle is the proper form of man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000027_000001|And the higher we advance in the nobility of forms, the more we find that the power of the form excels the elementary matter; as the vegetative soul excels the form of the metal, and the sensitive soul excels the vegetative soul.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000027_000002|Now the human soul is the highest and noblest of forms.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000027_000004|This power is called the intellect.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000028_000000|It is well to remark that if anyone holds that the soul is composed of matter and form, it would follow that in no way could the soul be the form of the body.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000028_000001|For since the form is an act, and matter is only in potentiality, that which is composed of matter and form cannot be the form of another by virtue of itself as a whole.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000029_000001|He proves this from the fact that "man and the sun generate man from matter." It is separate indeed according to its intellectual power, because the intellectual power does not belong to a corporeal organ, as the power of seeing is the act of the eye; for understanding is an act which cannot be performed by a corporeal organ, like the act of seeing.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000030_000000|From this it is clear how to answer the Second and Third objections: since, in order that man may be able to understand all things by means of his intellect, and that his intellect may understand immaterial things and universals, it is sufficient that the intellectual power be not the act of the body.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000031_000001|Therefore there is nothing to prevent some power thereof not being the act of the body, although the soul is essentially the form of the body.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000032_000001|This is not the case with other non subsistent forms.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000032_000002|For this reason the human soul retains its own existence after the dissolution of the body; whereas it is not so with other forms.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000035_000000|Whether the Intellectual Principle Is Multiplied According to the Number of Bodies?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000001|For an immaterial substance is not multiplied in number within one species.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000003|Therefore there are not many human souls in one species.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000004|But all men are of one species.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000005|Therefore there is but one intellect in all men.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000037_000002|This is heretical; for it would do away with the distinction of rewards and punishments.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000038_000001|Now whatever is received into anything must be received according to the condition of the receiver.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000038_000002|Therefore the species of things would be received individually into my intellect, and also into yours: which is contrary to the nature of the intellect which knows universals.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000039_000001|If, therefore, my intellect is distinct from yours, what is understood by me must be distinct from what is understood by you; and consequently it will be reckoned as something individual, and be only potentially something understood; so that the common intention will have to be abstracted from both; since from things diverse something intelligible common to them may be abstracted.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000039_000002|But this is contrary to the nature of the intellect; for then the intellect would seem not to be distinct from the imagination.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000039_000003|It seems, therefore, to follow that there is one intellect in all men.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000040_000001|It seems, therefore, that the same individual knowledge which is in the master is communicated to the disciple; which cannot be, unless there is one intellect in both.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000040_000002|Seemingly, therefore, the intellect of the disciple and master is but one; and, consequently, the same applies to all men.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000042_000001|But it is impossible that a soul, one in species, should belong to animals of different species. Therefore it is impossible that one individual intellectual soul should belong to several individuals.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000043_000001|This is clear if, as Plato maintained, man is the intellect itself.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000043_000002|For it would follow that Socrates and Plato are one man; and that they are not distinct from each other, except by something outside the essence of each.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000043_000003|The distinction between Socrates and Plato would be no other than that of one man with a tunic and another with a cloak; which is quite absurd.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000000|Again, this is clearly impossible, whatever one may hold as to the manner of the union of the intellect to this or that man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000001|For it is manifest that, supposing there is one principal agent, and two instruments, we can say that there is one agent absolutely, but several actions; as when one man touches several things with his two hands, there will be one who touches, but two contacts.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000002|If, on the contrary, we suppose one instrument and several principal agents, we might say that there are several agents, but one act; for example, if there be many drawing a ship by means of a rope; there will be many drawing, but one pull.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000003|If, however, there is one principal agent, and one instrument, we say that there is one agent and one action, as when the smith strikes with one hammer, there is one striker and one stroke.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000005|Therefore, if we suppose two men to have several intellects and one sense-for instance, if two men had one eye-there would be several seers, but one sight.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000006|But if there is one intellect, no matter how diverse may be all those things of which the intellect makes use as instruments, in no way is it possible to say that Socrates and Plato are otherwise than one understanding man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000007|And if to this we add that to understand, which is the act of the intellect, is not affected by any organ other than the intellect itself; it will further follow that there is but one agent and one action: that is to say that all men are but one "understander," and have but one act of understanding, in regard, that is, of one intelligible object.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000046_000001|But the phantasm itself is not a form of the possible intellect; it is the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm that is a form.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000046_000003|Therefore, if there were one intellect for all men, the diversity of phantasms which are in this one and that one would not cause a diversity of intellectual operation in this man and that man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000046_000004|It follows, therefore, that it is altogether impossible and unreasonable to maintain that there exists one intellect for all men.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000049_000001|But the materiality of the knower, and of the species whereby it knows, impedes the knowledge of the universal.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000049_000003|But if the species be abstracted from the conditions of individual matter, there will be a likeness of the nature without those things which make it distinct and multiplied; thus there will be knowledge of the universal.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000001|Yet it is the stone which is understood, not the likeness of the stone; except by a reflection of the intellect on itself: otherwise, the objects of sciences would not be things, but only intelligible species.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000003|And since knowledge is begotten according to the assimilation of the knower to the thing known, it follows that the same thing may happen to be known by several knowers; as is apparent in regard to the senses; for several see the same color, according to different likenesses.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000006|For the common nature is understood as apart from the individuating principles; whereas such is not its mode of existence outside the soul.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000007|But, according to the opinion of Plato, the thing understood exists outside the soul in the same condition as those under which it is understood; for he supposed that the natures of things exist separate from matter.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000054_000000|Whether Besides the Intellectual Soul There Are in Man Other Souls Essentially Different from One Another?
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000055_000000|Objection one: It would seem that besides the intellectual soul there are in man other souls essentially different from one another, such as the sensitive soul and the nutritive soul.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000055_000001|For corruptible and incorruptible are not of the same substance.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000056_000001|But the sensitive soul in the horse, the lion, and other brute animals, is corruptible.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000057_000001|But "rational," which is the difference constituting man, is taken from the intellectual soul; while he is called "animal" by reason of his having a body animated by a sensitive soul.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000057_000002|Therefore the intellectual soul may be compared to the body animated by a sensitive soul, as form to matter.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000057_000003|Therefore in man the intellectual soul is not essentially the same as the sensitive soul, but presupposes it as a material subject.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000059_000001|Now this would not be the case if the various principles of the soul's operations were essentially different, and distributed in the various parts of the body.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000059_000002|But with regard to the intellectual part, he seems to leave it in doubt whether it be "only logically" distinct from the other parts of the soul, "or also locally."
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000060_000001|If we suppose, however, that the soul is united to the body as its form, it is quite impossible for several essentially different souls to be in one body.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000060_000002|This can be made clear by three different reasons.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000061_000000|In the first place, an animal would not be absolutely one, in which there were several souls.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000061_000004|It cannot be said that they are united by the one body; because rather does the soul contain the body and make it one, than the reverse.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000062_000000|Secondly, this is proved to be impossible by the manner in which one thing is predicated of another.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000062_000002|But both of these consequences are clearly false: because "animal" is predicated of man essentially and not accidentally; and man is not part of the definition of an animal, but the other way about. Therefore of necessity by the same form a thing is animal and man; otherwise man would not really be the thing which is an animal, so that animal can be essentially predicated of man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000063_000000|Thirdly, this is shown to be impossible by the fact that when one operation of the soul is intense it impedes another, which could never be the case unless the principle of action were essentially one.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000000|We must therefore conclude that in man the sensitive soul, the intellectual soul, and the nutritive soul are numerically one soul. This can easily be explained, if we consider the differences of species and forms.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000001|For we observe that the species and forms of things differ from one another, as the perfect and imperfect; as in the order of things, the animate are more perfect than the inanimate, and animals more perfect than plants, and man than brute animals; and in each of these genera there are various degrees.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000004|Thus the intellectual soul contains virtually whatever belongs to the sensitive soul of brute animals, and to the nutritive souls of plants.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000005|Therefore, as a surface which is of a pentagonal shape, is not tetragonal by one shape, and pentagonal by another-since a tetragonal shape would be superfluous as contained in the pentagonal-so neither is Socrates a man by one soul, and animal by another; but by one and the same soul he is both animal and man.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000065_000001|When, therefore, a soul is sensitive only, it is corruptible; but when with sensibility it has also intellectuality, it is incorruptible.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000065_000002|For although sensibility does not give incorruptibility, yet it cannot deprive intellectuality of its incorruptibility.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000066_000001|Now man is corruptible like other animals.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000066_000002|And so the difference of corruptible and incorruptible which is on the part of the forms does not involve a generic difference between man and the other animals.
train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000068_000001|Therefore since, as we have said, the intellectual soul contains virtually what belongs to the sensitive soul, and something more, reason can consider separately what belongs to the power of the sensitive soul, as something imperfect and material.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000001_000000|Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000002_000004|To make the general ideas set forth applicable to our own educational practice, it is, therefore, necessary to come to closer quarters with the nature of present social life.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000003_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000002|In social philosophy, the former connotation is almost always uppermost.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000004|The qualities which accompany this unity, praiseworthy community of purpose and welfare, loyalty to public ends, mutuality of sympathy, are emphasized.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000009|Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000012|Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000013|In seeking this measure, we have to avoid two extremes.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000016|But, as we have just seen, the ideal cannot simply repeat the traits which are actually found.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000007|Caution, circumspection, prudence, desire to foresee future events so as to avert what is harmful, these desirable traits are as much a product of calling the impulse of fear into play as is cowardice and abject submission.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000008|The real difficulty is that the appeal to fear is isolated.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000009|In evoking dread and hope of specific tangible reward-say comfort and ease-many other capacities are left untouched.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000010|Or rather, they are affected, but in such a way as to pervert them.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000011|Instead of operating on their own account they are reduced to mere servants of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000006_000007|The evils thereby affecting the superior class are less material and less perceptible, but equally real.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000006_000008|Their culture tends to be sterile, to be turned back to feed on itself; their art becomes a showy display and artificial; their wealth luxurious; their knowledge overspecialized; their manners fastidious rather than humane.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000012|Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000021|It springs from the fact that they have identified their experience with rigid adherence to their past customs. On such a basis it is wholly logical to fear intercourse with others, for such contact might dissolve custom.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000022|It would certainly occasion reconstruction.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000026|Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000008_000001|The Democratic Ideal.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000008_000002|The two elements in our criterion both point to democracy.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000008_000005|And these two traits are precisely what characterize the democratically constituted society.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000009_000001|The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000009_000003|Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000009_000004|But there is a deeper explanation.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000001|The Platonic Educational Philosophy.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000004|The first one to be considered is that of Plato.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000006|Much which has been said so far is borrowed from what Plato first consciously taught the world.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000010|If we do not know its end, we shall be at the mercy of accident and caprice.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000023|We seem to be caught in a hopeless circle. However, Plato suggested a way out.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000027|Each doing his own part, and never transgressing, the order and unity of the whole would be maintained.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000014_000001|Others reveal, upon education, that over and above appetites, they have a generous, outgoing, assertively courageous disposition. They become the citizen subjects of the state; its defenders in war; its internal guardians in peace.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000014_000002|But their limit is fixed by their lack of reason, which is a capacity to grasp the universal.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000014_000012|The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000015_000008|In reality its chief interest was in progress and in social progress.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000015_000009|The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society-toward cosmopolitanism.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000016_000002|Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000017_000003|What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000018_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000018_000001|Education as National and as Social.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000018_000006|Private individuals here and there could proclaim the gospel; they could not execute the work.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000021_000009|Two results should stand out from this brief historical survey.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000022_000021|Otherwise a democratic criterion of education can only be inconsistently applied.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000023_000000|Summary.
train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000023_000006|Three typical historic philosophies of education were considered from this point of view. The Platonic was found to have an ideal formally quite similar to that stated, but which was compromised in its working out by making a class rather than an individual the social unit.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000000|Borne on a gentle breeze, a large crane fly comes sailing out of the wood.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000001|It likes to cool its long legs, as it flies, by trailing them along the surface of the water.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000002|The whirligigs are after it, but it easily avoids them.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000003|Then comes a sudden surprise: a fish pops up its mouth, and closes its scissor jaws with a snap on the insect's legs, and it disappears in the centre of a rocking series of rings.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000003_000000|The lake is perfectly calm, its green black surface smooth and shining, and full of drifting summer clouds.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000003_000001|The reeds are reflected in it and look double their height, and the trees mirror their branches there, seeming twice as leafy; and a red house with a white flagstaff on one of the banks becomes quite a little submarine palace.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000005_000000|It is in one of the valleys in the submarine mountainous region that this shoal of thousands of bleak lies.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000005_000001|It covers the area of a market place, and makes the water alive for fathoms down.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000006_000001|In front and behind, the valley winds on between the hill sides until it widens out and finally loses itself in the barren, sandy desert.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000007_000000|Suddenly, at the end of the neighbouring valley, the water seethes and foams.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000007_000001|It is cleft incessantly from bottom to surface, bubbles rise and whirlpools are formed, and a long strip of lake foams and spurts.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000008_000000|It is not like a single large animal darting forward with rapidly twisting tail, and leaving a wake and waves behind it; but a general effervescence that makes the depths gleam with millions of scales.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000010_000000|They go together in a large company, like soldiers in an army, rows of them above, beside, and behind one another.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000011_000000|With their uppermost layer only a couple of inches below the surface of the water they hasten on.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000011_000001|Then all turn at once, changing from the long, narrow marching column into compact formation.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000011_000002|A fresh signal, inaudible, imperceptible to all but themselves, and once more, in a trice, the narrow, smoothly gliding hunting column is reformed.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000012_000000|Just as they twist and turn in the horizontal plane, so do they in the vertical.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000012_000001|They go suddenly and headlong from the surface to the depths, spinning out from their compact mass a long, living thread.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000014_000001|Now they are in the valley where it lies.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000015_000000|The lively little freshwater herring as yet suspect no danger; they are in constant motion, occupied in snapping up the fallen, half drowned insects.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000015_000001|Noses are pushed up, and little thimble like mouths open; the water streams in, and with it the food.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000015_000002|An eager interchange from bottom to surface goes on; for when the upper layer is satiated, it likes to enjoy its feeling of well-being in peace, until voracity once more makes them all rivals.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000016_000000|The splash of the waves on the surface lifts the gluttons up and down, while the ground swell rocks the satiated to rest.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000017_000000|The perch have quickened their pace; involuntarily the speed is increased; they already scent their prey.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000018_000000|Foremost of the company, with a dark golden, high backed leader at their head, swim a couple of hundred of the finest perch.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000018_000002|They lead, and with frolicsome eagerness push past one another, so as to be the first to arrive.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000019_000000|After them comes the great mass of the horde, big, heavily laden craft, their round backs and swelling bellies testifying to their success in their toil for material needs.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000019_000002|Sheaves of silvery gleaming rays flicker far out in their wake.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000021_000000|For the present the whole flock keeps to the bottom, darting along with dorsal fin erect, the stiff spines bristling menacingly.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000021_000001|It is as well to have bayonets fixed in case of the sudden appearance of a pike.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000022_000000|All at once the van slips away from the rest, and the latter have to exert themselves to catch up, twisting and turning their tails, and unfurling the stiff sail of their dorsal fin.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000022_000001|There must be nothing now to check their speed; fair weather sailing is over, and the privateering expedition has begun.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000023_000000|The certainty of booty fills them all.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000024_000001|All order among the assailants instantly ceases, and each member thinks only of its own mouth, and cares for nothing but getting it filled.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000025_000000|Like yellow flashes of water lightning the perch dart into the shoal of little fish, and like grain among a flock of chickens, masses of bleak disappear into their mouths.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000025_000001|They kill and devour-and it will be still worse when the rear guard comes up.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000026_000000|Now they arrive, and the alarm in the swarm of bleak below spreads with magical swiftness to the upper layers, where the bewildered little creatures make off at full speed.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000026_000001|Gleam after gleam flashes up as the little shining fish, uncertain of their way, twist and turn about.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000026_000002|Each makes itself as long and thin as it can, so as to show as little as possible, and disappear, as it were, in the water.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000027_000000|But now the fierce horde becomes still fiercer.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000027_000001|The rear guard overtakes the fugitives and cuts off their retreat; and smack after smack is heard after their charge.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000000|The swarm of bleak scatters in wild panic.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000002|They tumble over one another and try in their bewilderment which can leap highest and farthest.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000003|They rise like flying fish out of the water with a flash, and once more disappear with a splash into the water.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000004|There is a splash when they rise, and a splash when they again reach the surface of the water; making a sound like the falling of torrents of rain.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000000|Hell is beneath them in the water!
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000001|The yellow devils not only menace them from the side; they come upon them from all directions.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000002|When they descend in crowds from their flight into the air, they grow stiff with terror on finding themselves face to face with great, amber eyes that seem starting out of their sockets to go greedily hunting on their own account.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000003|Then a mouth opens, shoots out a pair of concertina like lips, and changes into a funnel; and the poor little fish disappear into a chasm, like threads into a vacuum cleaner.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000000|Above the spot a cloud of terns is circling.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000001|They fly low with half extended legs and drooping wings, ready to dart down.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000002|Sometimes they make a catch, sometimes miss their aim, but have the good fortune to take a fish that inadvertently appears close by; indeed the bleak often leap straight into the birds' open beak.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000003|The birds hold them at all sorts of angles in their beak, and fly away with them, shrieking and screaming, pursued by their fellows.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000031_000000|Poor little bleak! they were so pretty to look at.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000031_000001|An emerald green colour extended from the back right over the head and nose; and the rims of their eyes when they blinked could sparkle and shine like the gem itself.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000031_000002|Their shining breast was whiter than a swan's, and their plump sides gleamed and sparkled like ice under a wintry moon.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000033_000000|A boat lay anchored a few hundred yards off.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000033_000001|In it was an elderly man.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000034_000000|An angler this.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000034_000001|He had been out since early morning, and had a delightful day.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000035_000000|Not a single bite.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000035_000001|But what did that matter?
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000036_000000|He was lying now at the bottom of the boat, dreaming.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000037_000000|He was a regular visitor to the lake.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000037_000001|His ancestors' love of a free, out of door life had entered into his blood.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000038_000000|It is well known that it takes three generations to make a gentleman; but it would take three times as many to create, out of a race that ever since the morning of time had lived out of doors, a generation that did not care to handle either gun or rod.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000000|In his youth his gun had been his best friend; but the chase demands much of legs and muscles and heart.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000001|When a man is no longer in his prime, he should beware of paying ardent court to Dame Diana.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000002|In her suite-it is useless to deny it-the old man is seldom looked upon with favour: he has had his day.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000003|But Father Neptune clasps him rapturously in his wet embrace, and sets the fish around his boat leaping and playing.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000040_000000|It was thus in his later years that his fishing rod had become the old man's joy and companion.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000041_000000|Season after season he made his weekly journey from town by rail, and then drove out to the lake.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000042_000000|The weather to day, from a fisherman's point of view, is the worst possible.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000042_000001|The July sun is shining hotly, and sends its beams deep down into the water.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000043_000000|The lake slumbers.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000043_000001|There is a bottle green hue above the deep water, and a lilac shade in the shallows; but over the sandy bottom the colour is drab.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000043_000002|Far off a flock of wild ducks rising raise some little, gentle waves, that look so blue, so blue!
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000044_000000|The angler, who is a big, sturdy man with large, black rimmed spectacles upon his voluminous nose, is in his customary fishing dress-an old straw hat with an elastic under the chin, his coat off, and no collar, on his legs a pair of thick, yellowish brown moleskin trousers, his feet in a pair of felt shoes, lined with straw.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000046_000000|He is now lying outstretched in midday drowsiness, enjoying the great peace that rests on the lake.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000047_000000|Suddenly he awakes with a start.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000047_000001|He hears a rushing sound like that of the paddles of a distant steamer striking and tearing the water; he sees the terns flocking, and the surface of the water broken again and again by bleak leaping high into the air.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000047_000002|He takes up his anchor, and rows up until he hears the smack, smack of the greedy perch all round him, and knows he is in the middle of the whirlpool of fish.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000048_000000|He gets four lines clear, and has enough to do in throwing them out and pulling them in.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000049_000000|At last he can do no more, and drops exhausted on to a thwart.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000051_000000|Then he opens his wallet, takes out the bottle containing clear liquid, and takes a nip.
train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000051_000001|This he is accustomed to do every time he catches a fish of any importance.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000001_000000|thirteen: A FIGHT WITH AN OTTER
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000002_000000|The harrier was sitting on her newly hatched young, and the pair of crows were feeding theirs for the last time; it was the time of the owls-and the nightingales.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000002_000001|Silent and weary, the cuckoo came from the meadow land to the bog, where the twilight enveloped it and hid it on its branch.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000004_000000|The water began to sparkle with strong, bright colours, and patches of yellow, scarlet, and blue floated about, shot with brilliant flakes of emerald and purple, which gave darkened reflections of the birch tops.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000005_000000|Only a few moments before, all the sloping banks of the bog had been held by the sun; it shone upon the flowers of the wild chervil and upon a narrow strip of orange gravel that had been scraped out of one of the banks.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000006_000000|But now it was gone.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000007_000000|Suddenly the nightingale up in the thicket becomes silent, stops in the middle of its highest trill, and begins to snarl.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000008_000000|A large otter with low set ears cautiously raises its head above the strip of gravel.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000008_000001|It sniffs long and continuously, as it stretches its round, shaggy neck out over the ridge.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000009_000000|Above the distant banks on the other side of the bog, the first glow of the full moon peeps out.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000009_000001|Like a monster toadstool, it grows up out of the horizon, sending up a cloud of purple into the air.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000010_000000|For a moment the flower stands out perfect, large and round at the end of its slender, black stalk, and then the illusion is shattered: from a toadstool the poppy has turned into a moon!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000011_000000|Then the otter comes right up out of the earth, with body and tail and four legs, and shuffles down the slope.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000011_000001|A couple of herons, fishing at the edge of the bog, bend their necks and make off with hoarse, shrill trumpetings; and a herd of splashing heifers, scenting the approach of a beast of prey, begin to growl and snort.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000012_000000|The otter came to the bog every two or three months, when it was tired of hunting fish in the lake.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000013_000000|A rover's blood flowed in its veins.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000013_000001|Nature had endowed it with a peculiarly active power of assimilation, which was probably necessary if it was to keep warm in the cold water; it needed daily its own weight in fish, and therefore had to be incessantly changing its hunting ground.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000014_000000|It was timid and suspicious, but a great glutton.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000015_000000|Pike, which it used especially to catch in the bogs, were somewhat dry, it is true, but after all, one could not have salmon and trout every day!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000016_000000|After having labouriously shuffled over a piece of land, and reached the largest of the big pools, it allowed itself to glide noiselessly from its slip-a path trodden in the grass-into its true element.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000017_000001|A wild chase was going on in the depths, and where it passed the rushes bowed their sheaves and the flags their fans.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000017_000002|Black mud was stirred up in whirlpools; seething bubbles came to the surface and burst.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000018_000000|The otter, with a newly caught fish in its mouth, had been on its way out to a little island, intending to have its meal under a sallow, when it was suddenly attacked and robbed of its prey.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000018_000001|It caught a glimpse of the indistinct outline of a great fish, and exasperated at such audacity, determined to go in chase of the robber.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000019_000000|An attempt to get beneath Grim, in order to seize her round the gills or by the belly, was unsuccessful; at the decisive moment Grim had turned aside, so that the otter had to set its teeth where it could. And it needed a well placed grip to hold such a giant fish.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000020_000000|The instant it has taken hold-a little behind the neck-Grim darts into deep water with her assailant.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000020_000001|The otter backs, extends his fore and hind legs far out from his body, and spreads his web, so as to offer as much resistance as possible.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000021_000000|Grim soon sees that this pace is wearing out her strength, and pauses for a moment.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000022_000000|As she does so, she feels as if an eel were winding its pliant body round her chest.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000022_000001|She rolls round, unable to use her fins.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000022_000002|She quickly regains her balance, however, frees her body from the pressure, and sets off, with sudden twists, and leaps from the bottom to the surface, turning so suddenly that the fish snatcher's body swings out and hangs down in the water.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000023_000000|But the otter only keeps a firmer hold.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000023_000001|He is used to these desperate rallies, which always become fiercer and more violent as the quarry is on the point of giving in.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000023_000002|He takes care, however, in turning, not to let any of his legs hang in front of the pike's mouth; he is too well acquainted with the teeth of the fresh water shark!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000024_000000|Up and down, the two well matched opponents dive incessantly.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000025_000000|Whenever Grim goes to the surface, a puffing and growling is heard.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000025_000001|The otter hastily gasps for breath, and tightens his hold with his fore claws; but when they are on their way down to the depths, and air bubbles, like silver beads, roll through the water behind him, he has only to hold on and let himself go.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000026_000000|Once Grim is lucky.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000026_000001|An old snag sticks up in the water, and, in turning, the otter's body is dashed against it.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000028_000000|They lie fighting on the surface-a golden streaked, slimy, scaly fish twisted into a knot with a dark, hairy, furred body!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000029_000000|Once more there is a pause in the fighting.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000000|Now Grim's strength returns once more.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000001|With a powerful stroke of her tail, she disappears with lightning rapidity from the surface, and goes to the bottom with her rider, whose merry go round jaunt makes his head swim.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000002|She is trying to get hold of his leg or body, and therefore twists round with him so that he flaps like a loose piece of strap on an axle; but she is not sufficiently supple to reach him.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000003|Her back aches, her flexor muscles hurt.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000004|At last she has met with an opponent who puts her judgment, her ingenuity, and her endurance to the extreme test.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000032_000000|Down on the bottom, sticking out from the bank, are the roots of the willow bushes on the edge.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000032_000001|In her mad rush down, Grim has come near these, and instinctively seeks shelter beneath them.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000032_000002|At full speed she runs her long body into the network and sticks fast, rapidly twisting her tail screw both ahead and astern.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000033_000000|The otter treads water now on the right, now on the left side of her, and tries, by utilizing the roots as steps, to lift her up with him. But in vain; he cannot even stir the huge fish!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000034_000001|But he makes tremendous exertions, whipping his tail in under the peat bank, while with his hind paws he seeks for support in clefts and cracks.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000034_000002|Suddenly he feels one of his feet seized.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000034_000003|The grasp tightens, so that his whole leg aches; he tries to draw in his foot, but it is held immovable.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000035_000000|A monster crayfish, that has become so stiff with age that it can scarcely manage to strike a proper blow with its tail, has made for itself, in fear of Grim, a reliable place of refuge in the hole.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000035_000001|For a long time it has patiently followed the battle through its feelers, and hoped that some morsel would fall to its hungry stomach; now, with gratitude to Providence, it closes its great claw upon the warm blooded fisher.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000001|He had once been caught by the tip of one claw in an otter trap.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000002|The trap was heavy, and had dragged him under water; and he had only escaped at the last moment. With the grasp on his leg, his lungs begin to warn him, his throat contracts, and his eyes seem on the point of bursting.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000003|Up!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000004|Up!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000005|With or without his prey!
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000037_000000|He has let go of Grim, and now makes his escape from the hole with so sudden a jerk that the old crayfish accompanies him; but the dread of water, which no living being that breathes with lungs can quite overcome, has taken possession of the otter.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000037_000001|With all possible speed he slips out from among the roots, and is already rising; and as he approaches the surface and finds the blessed light beating more and more strongly upon the mud about his eyes, he hastens his flight, until, with an eager sniff, he reaches the surface.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000038_000000|Grim is close behind him, and as the otter lands, there is a loud splash.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000038_000001|It would have been all over with the brown beast if the old crayfish, on its way down from the surface, where it had at last let go its hold, had not dropped like a stone straight into Grim's mouth.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000038_000002|Grim has now to content herself with sending her opponent a cold, dull, fishy glance, and let the Nipper continue its journey down into her draw bag.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000039_000000|The wound that the old giant pike had received was not a dangerous one. True, there were two rows of deep cuts made by a pair of thick, round toothed jaws in the flesh on one side of her back; but they healed like so many others that she had had in her time.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000039_000001|Her back, however, was tender for days after, and she found it a little difficult to leap.
train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000040_000001|The otter felt quite sure that it was only by good fortune that it had not been annihilated by its great, dangerous rival.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000005_000001|We shall, necessarily, have little to say on this head; there are, however, some little rules which are not to be neglected.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000006_000000|It is proper to vary the phraseology of these formal questions, as much as possible; and we must abstain from them entirely, towards a superior, or a person with whom we are but little acquainted, for such inquiries presuppose some degree of intimacy.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000006_000001|In the last case, there is a method of manifesting our interest, without violating etiquette; it consists in making these inquiries of the domestics, or of other persons of the house, and of saying afterwards when introduced; 'I am happy Sir, to hear that you are in good health.'
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000007_000001|To put a corrective upon this mark of regard, a lady who addresses a gentleman, should be earnest in her inquiries of the health of his family, however little intimacy she may have with them.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000007_000002|Many persons ask this question mechanically, without waiting for the answer, or else hasten to reply, before they have received it.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000008_000001|We can put a general question, designating the most important members.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000008_000002|In case of the absence of near relations, we ask the person we are visiting, if they have heard from them lately, if the news is favorable.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000008_000003|They, on their part, ask the same of us.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000010_000000|Politeness infuses into visits of some little ceremony, a coloring of modesty, grace, and deference, which should be preserved with the greatest care.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000014_000001|The rules of politeness in this respect, are the same in speaking of the husband.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000017_000004|With these forms, they think they comply with the rules of politeness.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000017_000005|It is incivility with affectation.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000022_000000|If you strike against any one in the least, ask pardon for it immediately.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000023_000000|It is customary to employ the few moments of a visit of mere politeness, in looking at the portraits which adorn the fireplace, and even taking them down, if you are invited to do it.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000023_000002|It would moreover be improper to make long compliments; indirect, and ingenious praise, is all that is proper.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000026_000001|Questions are therefore necessary, but they demand infinite delicacy and tact, in order neither to fatigue nor ever wound the feelings.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000027_000000|Madame Necker ingeniously observes that these favorite and frequently repeated terms with which we fill our conversation, serve, ordinarily as a mark of people's character.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000028_000001|They embarrass and overwhelm our conversation, turn away the attention of those who listen to us, and render us importunate, and ridiculous, without our being able to perceive it.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000030_000000|SECTION three.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000032_000000|There are many conditions indispensable to the success of a narrative. These conditions are, first, novelty; the best stories weary when they are multiplied too much, because every one wishes to be an actor in his turn upon the stage of the world.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000032_000002|There are but too many people who discover the secret of wearying while telling very good things, on account of their too great eagerness to tell them.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000033_000000|The next thing is to take a suitable opportunity.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000001|If your opinion is asked, give it frankly, and without wishing to appear better informed than the narrator himself.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000003|Frequently, in the midst of a recital, the narrator, through forgetfulness, hesitates, and thinks that he can recall it.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000004|Look at him attentively.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000005|If he is in doubt, declare that you are altogether ignorant of the subject in question.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000007|This delicate politeness is particularly to be observed towards old persons.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000038_000000|When your narrations have had success, keep a modest countenance; leave others to point out the striking parts which have pleased them.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000038_000001|The surest means of not having the approbation of others, in actions as well as other things, is to solicit it, whether it be by looks, or by words.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000041_000002|When arrived at this point, abstain from these kinds of analysis, which though indeed more correct, seem labored.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000041_000003|They have besides less freedom, appropriateness, and grace.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000042_000000|Know this, and remember it well, that every other preparation than thinking what you are about to say, will make you acquire two intolerable faults, affectation and stiffness.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000044_000000|Those who are less engaged in these things, should content themselves with simply and briefly explaining a subject, and of mentioning the emotion they felt; with speaking of some brilliant passage, and adding that they do not pretend to pronounce judgment.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000045_000000|The first degree of digression is the parenthesis; provided it is short, natural, and seldom repeated; and that you take care to announce it always; and finally, in order not to abuse it, you should make a skilful use of it.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000045_000002|This method of speaking in italics may be striking and artless; but it often becomes obscure and trivial; the habit is dangerous, and one should use this difficult digression only before intimate friends.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000046_000002|But if it is an affair of nothings succeeding nothings, let it flow on.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000048_000000|Lawyers, literary people, military men, travellers, invalids and aged ladies, ought to have a prudent and continual distrust of the abuse of digressions.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000051_000000|The two shoals to be avoided in this form of language are directly opposed to each other; the one is triviality, the other bombast.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000053_000000|They are not so used, if, in the course of a discussion, you suppose a respectable person to supply the place of a madman, an ill bred person, or a robber; or, if you suppose him to be in a situation disgraceful or even ridiculous.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000059_000001|If you do not bring over your opponent to your own opinion, you will at least gain his esteem.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000060_000000|But if you have to do with one of those people who, possessed with a mania of discussion, commence by contradicting before they hear, and who are always ready to sustain the contrary opinion, yield to him; you will have nothing to gain with him.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000060_000001|Be assured that the spirit of contradiction can be conquered only by silence.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000069_000000|Popular quotations and proverbs, as well as other quotations, require some care; and, except in familiar conversation, are altogether misplaced.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000069_000001|If they are frequent, conversation becomes a tedious gossipping; if introduced without a short previous remark, one of two things will take place, they will either prevent the speaker from being understood, or they will give him the air of Sancho Panza.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000069_000003|A proverb well applied, and placed at the end of a phrase, frequently makes a very happy conclusion.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000070_000000|I only speak to censure; I entreat my readers not to suffer themselves to be the manufacturers of puns, and to despise this talent of fools and childish means to excite a passing laugh.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000071_000002|What pleasure can we find in causing ladies to blush, and in meriting the name of a man of bad society?
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000072_000002|It requires but a moment to lose those delicate shades of character which constitute a man of the world, and which cost us so much labor to acquire.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000078_000001|If we remain silent, we appear to be inhaling the incense with complacency; if we repel it, we only seem to excite it the more.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000078_000002|Thus we see, in such a case, and even among very clever persons too, those who reply by silly exclamations and by rude assertions.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000079_000001|This is a mistake, gentlemen, and I can with relation to this point, reveal to you what my sex prefers to these vulgar eulogiums.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000081_000000|But is it then necessary to proscribe eulogiums entirely?
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000082_000000|I repeat, as I have often said, let there be moderation in everything.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000083_000002|It is much better to cause people to think more than we say, and not outrage language, and run the risk of going beyond what we ought to say.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000084_000000|Under any circumstances, complaining has always a bad grace.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000086_000000|Politeness is not less opposed to making excessive complaints to the first person you meet, than to the frequent and extravagant eulogiums which you bestow improperly upon those from whom you expect a favor in return.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000087_000000|By the word improprieties, we generally understand all violations of politeness.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000087_000001|We, however, give to this word a particular and limited sense.
train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000087_000002|It signifies a want of due regard to, and a forgetfulness of, the delicate attentions which seem to identify us with the situation of others.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000001_000001|SCRAPS
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000003_000000|"A specter," her husband repeated with a suggestive glance at the brilliant sunshine in which we all stood.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000004_000000|"Yes." The tone was one of utter conviction.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000004_000001|"I had never believed in such things-never thought about them, but-it was a week ago-in the library-I have not seen a happy moment since-"
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000005_000000|"My darling!"
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000006_000001|I was sitting reading.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000006_000005|There was no mistaking their look.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000006_000006|As it burned into and through me, everything which had given reality to my life faded and seemed as far away and as unsubstantial as a dream.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000007_000001|Her husband, with a soothing touch on her arm, brought her back to the present.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000008_000000|"You speak of a form," he said, "a shadowy outline.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000008_000001|The form of what?
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000008_000002|A man or a woman?"
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000010_000000|In spite of himself and the sympathy he undoubtedly felt for her, an ejaculation of impatience left her husband's lips.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000011_000002|Do you wonder that my happiness vanished before it?
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000012_000000|The mayor was a practical man; he kept close to the subject.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000013_000000|"You saw this form between you and the lighted lamp.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000014_000000|"I can not tell you.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000014_000001|One moment it was there and the next it was gone, and I found myself staring into vacancy.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000014_000002|I seem to be staring there still, waiting for the blow destined to shatter this household."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000015_000001|What we have to fear and all we have to fear is that I may lose my election.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000015_000002|And that won't kill me, whatever effect it may have on the party."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000000|"Henry,"--her voice had changed to one more natural, also her manner. The confidence expressed in this outburst, the vitality, the masculine attitude he took were producing their effect.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000001|"You don't believe in what I saw or in my fears.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000002|Perhaps you are right.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000003|I am ready to acknowledge this; I will try to look upon it all as a freak of my imagination if you will promise to forget these dreadful days, and if people, other people, will leave me alone and not print such things about me."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000017_000000|"I am ready to do my part," was his glad reply, "and as for the other people you mention, we shall soon bring them to book." Raising his voice, he called out his secretary's name.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000019_000000|"Find out who did that."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000021_000000|"It is calumny," fell from mrs Packard's lips as she watched him.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000023_000001|Two days or a week, it is all one.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000024_000000|mr Steele bowed.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000025_000000|"Certainly; most happy."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000028_000000|This conclusion was brought back to me with fresh insistence a few minutes later, when, on hearing the front door shut, I stepped to the balustrade and looked over to see if mrs Packard was coming up.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000029_000001|This scrap of I knew not what, but which had been the occasion of the enigmatic scene I had witnessed at the breakfast table, necessarily interested me very much and I could not help giving it a look.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000029_000002|I saw that it was inscribed with Hebraic looking characters as unlike as possible to the scrawl of a little child.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000030_000000|With no means of knowing whether they were legible or not, these characters made a surprising impression upon me, one, indeed, that was almost photographic.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000031_000000|I also noted that these shapes or characters, of which there were just seven, were written on the face of an empty envelope.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000032_000000|Carrying it back to mrs Packard, I handed it over with the remark that I had found it lying in the hall.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000032_000001|She cast a quick look at it, gave me another look and tossed the paper into the grate.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000032_000002|As it caught fire and flared up, the characters started vividly into view.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000033_000000|This second glimpse of them, added to the one already given me, fixed the whole indelibly in my mind.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000033_000001|This is the way they looked.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000035_000000|While I watched these cabalistic marks pass from red to black and finally vanish in a wild leap up the chimney, mrs Packard remarked:
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000036_000000|"I wish I could destroy the memory of all my mistakes as completely as I can that old envelope."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000038_000000|"You are tired, mrs Packard," was my sympathetic observation.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000038_000001|"Will you not take a nap?
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000039_000002|Now that I feel better, now that I have relieved my mind, I must look over my letters and try to take up the old threads again."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000040_000000|"Can I help you?" I asked.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000041_000000|"Possibly.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000042_000000|I was glad to obey this order.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000000|I was met at the door by Ellen.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000001|She wore a look of dismay which I felt fully accounted for when I looked inside.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000002|Disorder reigned from one end of the room to the other, transcending any picture I may have formed in my own mind concerning its probable condition.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000003|mrs Packard must have forgotten all this disarray, or at least had supposed it to have yielded to the efforts of the maid, when she proposed my awaiting her there. There were bureau drawers with their contents half on the floor, boxes with their covers off, cupboard doors ajar and even the closet shelves showing every mark of a frenzied search among them.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000044_000000|"It's as bad as the attic room up stairs.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000044_000003|I have a whole morning's work before me."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000045_000002|Here, there and everywhere above and below lay scraps of torn up paper; and on many, if not on all of them, could be seen the broken squares and inverted angles which had marked so curiously the surface of the envelope she had handed to mr Steele, and which I had afterward seen her burn.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000047_000000|"The baby!
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000047_000001|Oh, the baby never did that.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000047_000002|She's too young."
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000048_000002|How old is she?"
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000049_000000|"Twenty months and such a darling!
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000049_000002|Why, look at this!"
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000000|"What?" I demanded, hurrying to the closet, where Ellen stood bending over something invisible to me.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000001|"Oh, nothing," she answered, coming quickly out.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000003|Her bag is in there almost packed.
train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000005|That accounts-" Stopping, she cast a glance around the room, ending with a shake of the head and a shrug.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000001|HE'S THERE AGAIN!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000003|LOOK!" the old man croaked, jabbing a calloused finger at the burial hill.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000004|"Old Piper again!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000006|Every year that way!"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000006_000000|"Ah?" The old man's leathery face rumpled into a maze of wrinkles.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000006_000001|"He's crazy, that's what.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000006_000002|Stands up there piping on his music from sunset until dawn."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000007_000000|The thin piping sounds squealed in the dusk, echoed back from the low hills, were lost in melancholy silence, fading.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000008_000000|The Piper was a tall, gaunt man, face as pale and wan as Martian moons, eyes electrical purple, standing against the soft of the dusking heaven, holding his pipe to his lips, playing.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000008_000001|The Piper-a silhouette-a symbol-a melody.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000009_000000|"Where did the Piper come from?" asked the Martian boy.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000010_000000|"From Venus." The old man took out his pipe and filled it.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000010_000002|I arrived on the same ship, coming from Earth, we shared a double seat together."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000011_000000|"What is his name?" Again the boyish, eager voice.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000012_000000|"I can't remember.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000012_000001|I don't think I ever knew, really."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000013_000000|A vague rustling sound came into existence.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000013_000002|From the darkness, across the star jewelled horizon, came mysterious shapes, creeping, creeping.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000014_000001|"Nothing ever happens of much gravity.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000014_000002|The Piper, I believe, is an exile."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000015_000000|The stars trembled like reflections in water, dancing with the music.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000016_000001|"Something like a leper.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000016_000002|They called him THE BRILLIANT.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000016_000003|He was the epitome of all Venerian culture until the Earthmen came with their greedy incorporations and licentious harlots. The Earthlings outlawed him, sent him here to Mars to live out his days."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000017_000000|"Mars is a dying world," repeated the boy.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000017_000001|"A dying world.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000018_000000|The old man chuckled.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000019_000000|"Where do they live?
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000019_000001|I have never seen them."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000020_000000|"You are young.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000020_000001|You have much to see, much to learn."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000021_000000|"Where do they live?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000022_000000|"Out there, beyond the mountains, beyond the dead sea bottoms, over the horizon and to the north, in the caves, far back in the subterrane."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000023_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000001|Now that's hard to say.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000002|They were a brilliant race once upon a time.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000003|But something happened to them, hybrided them.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000025_000000|"Does Earth own Mars?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000025_000001|The little boy's eyes were riveted upon the glowing planet overhead, the green planet.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000026_000000|"Yes, all of Mars.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000026_000004|They are miners.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000026_000005|With their huge machines they rip open the bowels of our planet and dig out our precious life blood from the mineral arteries."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000027_000000|"Is that all?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000028_000000|"That is all." The old man shook his head sadly.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000028_000001|"No culture, no art, no purpose.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000028_000002|Greedy, hopeless Earthlings."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000029_000000|"And the other two cities----where are they?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000030_000000|"One is up the same cobbled road five miles, the third is further still by some five hundred miles."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000031_000000|"I am glad I live here with you, alone." The boy's head nodded sleepily. "I do not like the men from Terra.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000031_000001|They are despoilers."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000000|"They have always been.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000001|But someday," said the old man, "they will meet their doom.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000002|They have blasphemed enough, have they.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000004|Someday----!" His voice rose high, in tempo and pitch with the Piper's wild music.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000033_000001|Music to stir the savage into life.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000033_000002|Music to effect man's destiny!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000034_000000|"Wild eyed Piper on the hill, Crying out your rigadoons, Bring the savages to kill 'Neath the waning Martian moons!"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000035_000000|"What is that?" asked the boy.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000000|"A poem," said the old man.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000001|"A poem I have written in the last few days. I feel something is going to happen very soon.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000002|The Piper's song is growing more insistent every night.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000003|At first, twenty years ago, he played on only a few nights of every year, but now, for the last three years he has played until dawn every night of every autumn when the planet is dying."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000037_000001|"What savages?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000039_000000|Along the star glimmered mountain tops a vast clustering herd of black, murmuring, advancing.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000040_000000|"Piper, pipe that song again! So he piped, I wept to hear."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000041_000000|"More of the poem?" asked the boy.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000042_000000|"Not my poem-but a poem from Earth some seventy years ago.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000042_000001|I learned it in school."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000043_000000|"Music is strange." The little boy's eyes were scintillant with thought. "It warms me inside.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000043_000001|This music makes me angry.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000043_000002|Why?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000044_000000|"Because it is music with a purpose."
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000045_000000|"What purpose?"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000000|"Music is the language of all things-intelligent or not, savage or educated civilian.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000001|This Piper knows his music as a god knows his heaven. For twenty years he has composed his hymn of action and hate and finally, tonight perhaps, the finale will be reached.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000002|At first, many years ago, when he played, he received no answer from the subterrane, but the murmur of gibbering voices.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000004|Tonight, for the first time, the herd of black will spill over the trails toward our hovel, toward the road, toward the cities of man!"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000000|Music screaming, higher, faster, insanely, sending shock after macabre shock thru night air, loosening the stars from their riveted stations. The Piper stretched high, six feet or more, upon his hillock, swaying back and forth, his thin shape attired in brown cloth.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000001|The black mass on the mountain came down like amoebic tentacles, met and coalesced, muttering and mumbling.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000003|"You are young, you must live to propagate the new Mars.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000004|Tonight is the end of the old, tomorrow begins the new!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000005|It is death for the men of Earth!" Higher still and higher.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000006|"Death!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000007|They come to overrun the Earthlings, destroy their cities, take their projectiles.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000008|Then-in the ships of man-to Earth!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000009|Turnabout!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000010|Revolution and Revenge!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000011|A new civilization! When monsters usurp men and men's greediness crumbles at his demise!" Shriller, faster, higher, insanely tempoed.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000012|"The Piper-The Brilliant One-He who has waited for years for this night.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000014|The return of Art to humanity!"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000049_000000|"But they are savages, these unpure Martians," the boy cried.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000000|"Men are savages.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000001|I am ashamed of being a man," the old man said, tremblingly.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000002|"Yes, these creatures are savages, but they will learn-these brutes-with music.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000003|Music in many forms----music for peace, music for love-music for hate and music for death.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000004|The Piper and his brood will set up a new cosmos.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000005|He is immortal!" Now, hurrying, muttering up the road, the first cluster of black things reminiscent of men.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000007|The Piper, from his hillock, walking down the road, over the cobbles, to the city.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000008|"Piper, pipe that song again!" cried the old man.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000009|"Go and kill and live again!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000010|Bring us love and art again!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000011|Piper, pipe the song!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000012|I weep!" Then: "Hide, child, hide quickly!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000014|Hurry!" And the child, crying, hurried to the small house and hid himself thru the night.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000000|Swirling, jumping, running, leaping, gamboling, crying-the new humanity surged to man's cities, his rockets, his mines.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000002|Stars shuddered.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000004|Nightbirds sang no songs.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000005|Echoes murmured only the voices of the ones who advanced, bringing new understanding.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000006|The old man, caught in the whirlpool of ebon, was swept down, screaming.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000007|Then up the road, by the awful thousands, vomiting out of hills, sprawling from caves, curling, huge fingers of beasts, around and about and down to the Man Cities.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000008|Sighing, leaping up, voices and destruction!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000052_000000|Rockets across the sky!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000053_000000|Guns.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000053_000001|Death.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000054_000000|And finally, in the pale advancement of dawn, the memory, the echoing of the old man's voice.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000054_000001|And the little boy arose to start afresh a new world with a new mate.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000055_000000|Echoing, the old man's voice:
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000056_000000|"Piper, pipe that song again!
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000056_000001|So he piped, I wept to hear!"
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000057_000000|A new day dawned.
train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000058_000000|The End
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000002_000000|Chapter three A GREAT HOUSEHOLD
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000003_000000|VINCENT remained two years in the house of Father de Berulle, in the hope of obtaining permanent work.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000003_000002|"This humble priest," he predicted one day to a friend, "will render great service to the Church and will work much for God's glory."
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000004_000000|saint Francis de Sales, who made Vincent's acquaintance while he was with de Berulle, was of the same opinion.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000004_000001|"He will be the holiest priest of his time," he said one day as he watched him.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000005_000000|At last Vincent's desire seemed about to be fulfilled.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000005_000001|A friend of de Berulle's, cure of the country parish of Clichy, near Paris, announced his intention of entering the Oratory, and at de Berulle's request chose Vincent de Paul as his successor.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000005_000002|Here, amidst his beloved poor, Vincent was completely happy.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000006_000001|Nothing less than the resignation of his beloved Clichy was now asked of him by this friend to whom he owed so much.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000006_000003|De Berulle decided at once that Vincent de Paul was the man for the position and that, as he was evidently destined to do great work for God, it would be to his advantage to have powerful and influential friends.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000007_000000|Although the prospect of such a post filled the humble parish priest with consternation, he owed too much to de Berulle to refuse.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000007_000001|Setting out from Clichy with his worldly goods on a hand barrow, he arrived at the Oratory, from whence he was to proceed to his new abode.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000008_000002|The de Gondi children, unfortunately, did not take after their parents, and the two boys whose education Vincent was to undertake and whose character he was to form were described by their aunt as "regular little demons." The youngest of the family, the famous, or rather infamous, Cardinal de Retz, was not yet born, but Vincent's hands were sufficiently full without him.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000008_000003|"I should like my children to be saints rather than great noblemen," said Madame de Gondi when she presented the boys to their tutor, but the prospect seemed remote enough.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000009_000002|With the servants, and there were many of every grade, he was always cordial and polite, losing no chance of winning their confidence, that he might influence them for good.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000010_000001|Knowing enough of his humility to be certain that he would refuse such a request, she applied to Father de Berulle to use his influence in the matter, and thus obtained her desire.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000010_000002|At Vincent's suggestion she soon afterwards undertook certain works of charity, which were destined to be the seed of a great enterprise.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000011_000000|The Count, too, began to feel the effects of Vincent's presence in his household.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000012_000001|De Gondi was present at Mass in the morning and remained on afterwards in the chapel, praying, probably, that he might prevail over his enemy.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000013_000000|Vincent waited till everyone had gone out, and then approached him softly.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000013_000001|"Monsieur," he said, "I know that you intend to fight a duel; and I tell you, as a message from my Saviour, before whom you kneel, that if you do not renounce this intention His judgment will fall on you and yours." The Count, after a moment's silence, promised to give up his project, and faithfully kept his word.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000013_000003|But the influence of sanctity is strong, and the Count was noble; for him it was the beginning of a better life.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000015_000000|It happened one day that Vincent was sent to the bedside of a dying peasant who had always borne a good character and was considered an excellent Christian.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000015_000001|The man was conscious, and Vincent-moved, no doubt, by the direct inspiration of God-urged him to make a General Confession.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000000|The incident made a lasting impression on both Vincent and the Countess.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000002|How many others might be in like case!
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000003|It was a terrible thought.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000004|"Ah, Monsieur Vincent," cried the great lady, "how many souls are being lost!
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000005|Can you do nothing to help them?"
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000000|Her words found an echo in Vincent's heart.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000001|Next Sunday he preached a sermon in the parish church on the necessity of General Confession. It was the first of the famous mission sermons destined to do so much good in France.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000002|While he spoke, Madame de Gondi prayed, and the result far surpassed their expectations.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000003|So great were the crowds that flocked to Confession that Vincent was unable to cope with them and had to apply to the Jesuits at Amiens for help.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000004|The other villages on the estate were visited in turn, with equal success. Vincent used to look back in later life to this first mission sermon as the beginning of his work for souls.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000019_000000|The result of all this for the preacher, however, was a certain prestige, and his humility took alarm.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000019_000003|The "little demons" were as headstrong and violent as ever; it was only on their parents that he had been able to make any impression.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000020_000000|Fearful of being caught in the snare of worldly honors, he resolved to seek safety in flight.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000020_000002|His work as a tutor had been a failure, he told him; he could do nothing with his pupils, and he was receiving honor which he in no way deserved. He ended by begging to be allowed to work for the poor in some humble and lonely place, and de Berulle decided to grant his wish.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000020_000003|The country parish of Chatillon was in need of workers, was the answer; let him go there and exercise his zeal for souls.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000000|Only when he had been already established for some time in his new parish did it dawn on the de Gondis that his absence was not to be merely temporary.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000001|They were in desperation.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000003|He shall live exactly as he likes if he will only come back.
train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000004|Get de Berulle to persuade him.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000003_000001|He then turned his attention to the clergy already there.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000003_000002|They were ignorant and easygoing men, for the most part, who thought a good deal more of their own amusement than of the needs of their flock, but they were not bad at heart.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000003_000003|Vincent's representations of what a priest's life ought to be astonished them at first and convinced them later-all the more so in that they saw in him the very ideal that he strove to set before them.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000004_000001|He was, moreover, half a heretic, and Vincent had been warned to have nothing to do with him.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000004_000002|But the new rector had his own ideas on the subject, and the ill assorted pair soon became very good friends.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000005_000001|His first step was to be reconciled to the Church, his second to begin to interest himself in the poor.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000005_000002|Gradually his bad companions dropped away, until one day Chatillon suddenly awoke to the fact that this most rackety of individuals was taking life seriously-was, in fact, a changed man. The whole town was in a stir.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000005_000003|Who was this priest who had so suddenly come among them, so self forgetful, so simple, so unassuming, yet whose influence was so strong with all classes?
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000006_000000|It was a question that might well be asked in the light of what was yet to come.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000008_000002|And he kept his word.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000009_000000|One by one he sold his estates to find the wherewithal for Vincent's schemes of charity, and he would have stripped himself of all that he had, had not Vincent himself forbidden it.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000009_000001|His sword, which had served him in all his duels, and to which he was very much attached, he broke in pieces on a rock.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000009_000003|He died the death of a saint a few years later, amid the blessings of all the people whom he had helped.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000010_000001|Some of them, moved by curiosity, went to see the new preacher, who, receiving them with his usual kindness and courtesy, drew a touching picture of the suffering and poverty that surrounded them and begged them to think sometimes of their less fortunate brothers and sisters.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000011_000001|They were the forerunners of those "Sisters of Charity" who were in after years to carry help and comfort among the poor of every country.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000012_000000|One day, as Vincent was about to say Mass, one of these ladies begged him to speak to the congregation in favor of a poor family whose members were sick and starving.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000012_000001|So successful was his appeal that when he himself went a few hours later to see what could be done, he found the road thronged with people carrying food and necessaries.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000013_000000|This, Vincent at once realized, was not practical.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000013_000001|There would be far too much today and nothing tomorrow.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000013_000002|There was no want of charity, but it needed organization.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000014_000003|The work developed quickly; confraternities of charity were soon adopted in nearly all the parishes of France and have since extended over the whole Christian world.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000015_000000|The de Gondis, in the meantime, had discovered the place of Vincent's retreat and had written him several letters, piteously urging him to return.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000016_000000|Vincent was humble enough to believe that he might be in the wrong.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000016_000003|The next day Vincent returned to the Hotel de Gondi, where he promised to remain during the lifetime of the Countess.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000017_000000|Delighted to have him back at any price, Vincent's noble patrons asked for nothing better than to further all his schemes for the welfare of the poor and infirm.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000017_000001|Confraternities of charity like that of Chatillon were established on all the de Gondi estates, Madame de Gondi herself setting the example of what a perfect Lady of Charity should be. Neither dirt, discourtesy nor risk of infection could discourage this earnest disciple of Vincent.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000017_000002|In spite of weak health she gave freely of her time, her energy and her money.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000019_000001|Chained to their oars night and day, kept in order by cruel cuts of the lash on their bare shoulders, these men lived and died on the rowers' bench without spiritual help or assistance of any kind.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000019_000002|The conditions of service were such that many prisoners took their own lives rather than face the torments of such an existence.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000020_000000|As Vincent went about his works of charity in Paris it occurred to him to visit the dungeons where the men who had been condemned to the galleys were confined.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000020_000001|What he saw filled him with horror.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000020_000002|Huddled together in damp and filthy prisons, crawling with vermin, covered with sores and ulcers, brawling, blaspheming and fighting, the galley slaves made a picture suggestive only of Hell.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000022_000000|"These are your people, Monseigneur!" he cried; "you will have to answer for them before God." The General was aghast; it had never occurred to him to think of the condition of the men who rowed his ships, and he gladly gave Vincent a free hand to do whatever he could to relieve them.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000000|Calling two other priests to his assistance, Vincent set to work at once to visit the convicts in the Paris prisons; but the men were so brutalized that it was difficult to know how to win them.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000001|The first advances were met with cursing and blasphemy, but Vincent was not to be discouraged.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000002|With his own gentle charity he performed the lowest offices for these poor wretches to whom his heart went out with such an ardent pity; he cleansed them from the vermin which infested them and dressed their neglected sores.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000003|Gradually they were softened and would listen while he spoke to them of the Saviour who had died to save their souls.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000024_000001|This enabled Vincent to carry his mission farther afield, and he determined to visit all the convict prisons in the seaport towns, taking Marseilles as his first station.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000025_000000|Here, where the conditions were perhaps even worse than in Paris, Vincent met them in the same spirit and conquered by the same means. The fact that he had once been a slave himself gave him an insight into the sufferings of the galley slaves and a wonderful influence over them.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000025_000002|This strange new friend who went about among them, kissing their chains, sympathizing with their sufferings and attending to their lowest needs seemed to them like an Angel from Heaven; even the most hardened could not resist such treatment.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000026_000000|In the meantime, through the generosity of Vincent's friends, hospitals were being built and men and women were offering themselves to help in any capacity in this work of charity.
train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000026_000001|Many of these earnest Christians gave their very lives for the galley slaves; for fevers, plague and contagious diseases of every kind raged in the filthy convict prisons, and many priests and lay helpers died of the infection.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000000_000000|Chapter five MISSION WORK
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000001_000001|It seemed to her that there was need to multiply such missions among the country poor, and no sooner had Vincent returned to her house than she offered him a large sum of money to endow a band of priests who would devote their lives to evangelizing the peasantry on her estates.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000002_000000|Vincent was delighted, but considering himself unfit to undertake the management of such an enterprise, he proposed that it should be put into the hands of the Jesuits or the Oratorians.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000001|In every case some obstacle intervened, until the Countess was more than ever persuaded that her first instinct had been right.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000002|Knowing Vincent's loyalty to Holy Church and his obedience to authority, she determined to have recourse to her brother in law, the Archbishop of Paris.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000003|An old house called the College des Bons Enfants was at that moment vacant.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000005|There was no longer room for hesitation; the will of God seemed plain; indeed, Vincent's love of the poor had been for some time struggling with his humility.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000004_000000|The new Congregation was to consist of a few good priests who, renouncing all thought of honor and worldly advancement, were to devote their lives to preaching in the villages and small towns of France.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000005_000000|In March, sixteen twenty five, the foundation was made, and Vincent de Paul was named the first superior.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000005_000001|It was stipulated, however, that he should remain, as he had already promised, in the house of the founders, a condition which seemed likely to doom the enterprise to failure.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000005_000002|Vincent could hardly fail to realize how necessary it was that the superior of a new Congregation should be in residence in his own house, but he confided the little company to God and awaited the development of events.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000006_000000|The solution was altogether unexpected.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000006_000002|Her broken hearted husband not only consented to Vincent's residence in the College des Bons Enfants, but shortly afterwards, leaving that world where he had shone so brilliantly, he himself became a postulant at the Oratory.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000007_000002|Before setting out on their mission journeys they used to give the key of the house to a neighbor; but as there was nothing in it to steal, there was little cause for anxiety. In the course of their travels other priests, realizing the greatness of the work, asked to be enrolled in the little company.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000007_000003|Its growth, nevertheless, was slow; ten years after the foundation the Congregation only numbered thirty three members; but Vincent had no desire that it should be otherwise.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000007_000004|In sixteen fifty two it was recognized by Pope Urban the eighth under the name of the Congregation of the Mission.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000008_000000|Vincent lavished the greatest care on the training of his priests. They were to be simple and frank in their relations with the poor, modest in manner, friendly and easy of access.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000009_000001|For "fine sermons" Vincent had the greatest contempt; he would use his merry wit to make fun of the pompous preachers whose only thought was to impress their audience with an idea of their own eloquence.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000010_000000|"Of what good is a display of rhetoric?" he would ask; "who is the better for it?
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000010_000001|It serves no purpose but self advertisement."
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000011_000000|The Mission Priests did good wherever they went; everybody wanted them, and it was hard to satisfy the appeals for missions which came from all over the country.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000012_000002|The religious wars had led to laxity and carelessness; drunkenness and vice were fearfully prevalent.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000013_000000|To Vincent, with his high ideals of the priesthood, this was a terrible revelation.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000013_000001|The old custom of giving a retreat to priests who were about to be ordained had fallen into disuse.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000013_000003|Here, in an atmosphere of prayer and recollection, those who were about to be ordained had every opportunity of realizing the greatness of the step that they were taking and of making resolutions for their future lives.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000014_000000|The Mission Priests were to help in this work more by example than by precept; they were to preach by humility and simplicity.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000014_000001|"It is not by knowledge that you will do them good," Vincent often repeated, "or by the fine things you say, for they are more learned than you-they have read or heard it all before.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000014_000002|It is by what they see of your lives that you will help them; if you yourselves are striving for perfection, God will use you to lead these gentlemen in the right way."
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000015_000001|Many to whom they had been the turning point of a lifetime, felt the need of further help and instruction from the man who had awakened all that was noblest in their natures.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000016_000000|To meet this necessity Vincent inaugurated a kind of guild for young priests who desire to live worthy of their vocation.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000016_000002|It was not easy to belong to the "Conferences." Members were pledged to offer their lives completely to God and to renounce all self interest. Nevertheless, they increased rapidly in number, and the Conferences were attended by all the most influential priests in Paris.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000017_000002|The work thrived beyond all expectation.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000018_000000|The only difficulty was the expense entailed, for many of the retreatants could pay nothing toward their board and lodging, and Vincent would refuse nobody.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000019_000000|The Congregation of the Mission Priests was to inaugurate another good work for which there was an urgent necessity in the world of Vincent's day.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000000|So the work of the Congregation increased and multiplied until it seemed almost too much for human capacity.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000003|"How can we lead souls to God?
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000004|How can we stem the tide of wickedness among the people?
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000006|Human energy will only hinder it unless directed by God.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000007|The most important point of all is that we should be in touch with Our Lord in prayer."
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000000|Dearest to his heart of all his undertakings was the first and chief work of the Congregation-the holding of missions for the poor.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000001|By twos and threes he would send out his sons to their labors, bidding them travel to their destination in the cheapest possible way.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000002|They were to accept neither free quarters nor gifts of any kind.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000004|Two sermons were to be preached daily-simple instructions on the great truths-and those who had not yet made their First Communion were to be catechized.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000005|The mission lasted ten or fourteen days, during which the Mission Priests were to have as much personal contact with the people as possible, visiting the sick and the infirm, reconciling enemies and showing themselves as the friends of all.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000022_000001|It meant self mastery, self renunciation, self forgetfulness total and complete.
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000022_000003|"Unless the Congregation of the Mission is humble," said Vincent, "and realizes that it can accomplish nothing of any value, but that it is more apt to mar than to make, it will never be of much effect; but when it has this spirit it will be fit for the purposes of God."
train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000023_000000|Yet, in spite of all that such a vocation meant of self renunciation, year after year the Mission Priests increased in number.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000001_000000|Chapter eight AT COURT
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000003_000000|Some remarks made by the King during his illness and certain other words of Vincent's were remembered by the Queen, Anne of Austria, who had been left Regent during the minority of her son.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000003_000003|She was a good-natured woman, quite ready to do right when it was not too inconvenient, and it was clear to her that of late years bishoprics and abbeys had been too often given to most unworthy persons.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000003_000004|In France the Crown was almost supreme in such matters; the Queen therefore determined to appoint a "Council of Conscience" consisting of five members, whose business it would be to help her with advice as to ecclesiastical preferment.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000005_000004|Well did Vincent know that he was no match for such a diplomatist; but having once realized that the duty must be undertaken, he determined that there should be no flinching.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000006_000000|He went to Court in the old cassock in which he went about his daily work, and which was probably the only one he had.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000007_000000|"Why not?" replied Vincent quietly; "it is neither stained nor torn."
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000008_000002|"A nice clodhopper you are!" he said amiably to his own reflection, and passed on, smiling.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000010_000001|Nearly all the priests of Paris had passed through his hands at the ordination retreats and those who belonged to the "Tuesday Conferences" were intimately known to him.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000010_000002|Who could be better fitted to select those who were suitable for preferment?
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000010_000004|Certain reforms on which Vincent insisted were not to his mind either, although he offered no opposition.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000011_000000|In the meantime it began to dawn upon the public that the Superior of st Lazare was for the moment a man of influence.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000012_000000|Vincent's reception of these proposals was disconcerting.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000012_000001|"God forbid!" he would cry indignantly.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000013_000000|Some would come with a recommendation from the Queen herself, which made things doubly embarrassing; but in spite of everything Vincent remained faithful to his first determination to choose for bishoprics no priests save those worthy of the position by reason of their virtue and learning.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000015_000000|"You are an old lunatic," said a young man who had been refused a benefice through Vincent's agency.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000016_000000|"You are quite right," was the only answer, accompanied by a good-natured smile.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000017_000000|Another day a gentleman who had come to recommend his son for a bishopric was so angry when Vincent explained that he did not see his way to grant his request that he answered the "impertinent peasant" with a blow.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000017_000001|Vincent, without the slightest allusion to this treatment, quietly escorted him downstairs and saw him into his carriage.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000018_000001|Catching her royal mistress in an unguarded moment, this lady succeeded in inducing the Queen to promise the bishopric of Poitiers to her son, a young man of very bad character.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000018_000004|Vincent, aghast, begged her to sit down and talk the matter over, but Madame declined curtly.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000019_000000|What was to be done?
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000019_000001|To resist would only provoke; submission seemed the wisest, if not the only course.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000022_000002|The form is not drawn up at all!"
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000024_000001|"Suppose you go and make my peace with her," she said pleasantly, despatching the unfortunate Vincent on this very disagreeable errand.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000025_000000|He was shown into the lady's presence and carried out his mission with the greatest possible tact, but the Duchess could not control her fury.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000025_000003|"Come on," said Vincent; "our business lies in another direction." "Is it not strange," he said, smiling, a few moments later, as he tried to staunch the blood with his handkerchief, "to what lengths the affection of a mother for her son will go!"
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000026_000001|As time went on he resolved at any cost to rid the Court of the presence of this man, whose simple, straightforward conduct baffled the wily and defeated their plans; but an attempt to get him ejected from the Council met with such stormy opposition that the Prime Minister determined to change his tactics.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000027_000000|But the summoning of the Council rested with Mazarin, and the intervals between its meetings became longer and longer.
train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000027_000001|Anne of Austria's sudden spurt of energy-she was a thoroughly indolent woman by nature-began to die out as she became accustomed to her new responsibilities; she was only too glad to leave all matters of State to a man who declared that his only desire was to save her worry and trouble.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000001_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000003_000000|Attention to one's person and reputation is also a duty.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000003_000001|If vanity, pride, or prudery, have frequently given to these attentions the names of coquetry, ambition, or folly, this is a still stronger reason, why we should endeavor to clear up these points.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000006_000000|Propriety requires that we should always be clothed in a cleanly and becoming manner, even in private, in leaving our bed, or in the presence of no one.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000006_000001|It requires that our clothing be in keeping with our sex, fortune, profession, age, and form, as well as with the season, the different hours of the day and our different occupations.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000007_000000|Let us now descend to the particulars of these general rules.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000000|The dress for a man on his first rising, is a cap of cotton, or silk and cotton, a morning gown, or a vest with sleeves; for a lady, a small muslin cap, (bonnet de percale,) a camisole or common robe.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000001|It is well that a half corset should precede the full corset, which last is used only when one is dressed; for it is bad taste for a lady not to be laced at all.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000002|The hair papers, which cannot be removed on rising (because the hair would not keep in curl till evening,) should be concealed under a bandeau of lace or of the hair.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000003|They should be removed as soon as may be.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000004|In this dress, we can receive only intimate friends or persons, who call upon urgent or indispensable business; even then we ought to offer some apology for it.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000005|To neglect to take off this morning dress as soon as possible, is to expose one's self to embarrassments often very painful, and to the appearance of a want of education.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000006|Moreover, it is well to impose upon yourself a rule to be dressed at some particular hour (the earliest possible,) since occupations will present themselves to hinder your being ready for the day; and you will easily acquire the habit of this.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000007|Such disorder of the toilet can be excused when it occurs rarely, or for a short time, as in such cases it seems evidently owing to a temporary embarrassment; but if it occur daily, or constantly; if it seems the result of negligence and slovenliness, it is unpardonable, particularly in ladies, whose dress seems less designed for clothing than ornament.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000000|To suppose that great heat of weather will authorise this disorder of the toilet, and will permit us to go in slippers, or with our legs and arms bare, or to take nonchalant or improper attitudes, is an error of persons of a low class, or destitute of education.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000001|Even the weather of dog days would not excuse this; and if we would remain thus dressed, we must give directions that we are not at home.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000002|On the other hand, to think that cold and rainy weather excuses like liberties, is equally an error.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000004|When you go to see any one, you cannot dispense with taking off your socks or clogs before you are introduced into the room.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000005|For to make a noise in walking is entirely at variance with good manners.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000001|Ladies should make morning calls in an elegant and simple neglige, all the details of which we cannot give, on account of their multiplicity and the numerous modification of fashion.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000002|We shall only say that ladies generally should make these calls in the dress which they wear at home.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000003|Gentlemen may call in an outside coat, in boots and pantaloons, as when they are on their ordinary business.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000004|In short, this dress is proper for gentlemen's visits in the middle of the day.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000005|With regard to ladies, it is necessary for them when visiting at this time, to arrange their toilet with more care.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000006|Ceremonious visits, evening visits, and especially balls, require more attention to the dress of gentlemen, and a more brilliant costume for ladies.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000012_000000|Situation in the world determines among ladies, those differences, which though otherwise well marked, are becoming less so every day.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000012_000002|Costly cashmeres, very rich furs, and diamonds, as well as many other brilliant ornaments, are to be forbidden a young lady; and those who act in defiance of these rational marks of propriety make us believe that they are possessed of an unrestrained love of luxury, and deprive themselves of the pleasure of receiving these ornaments from the hand of the man of their choice.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000013_000000|All ladies cannot use indiscriminately the privilege which marriage confers upon them in this respect, and the toilet of those whose fortune is moderate should not pass the bounds of an elegant simplicity. Considerations of a more elevated nature, as of good domestic order, the dignity of a wife, and the duties of a mother, come in support of this law of propriety, for it concerns morality in all its branches.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000000|We must beware of a shoal in this case; frequently a young lady of small fortune, desiring to appear decently in any splendid assembly, makes sacrifices in order to embellish her modest attire.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000002|The toilet then wants harmony, which is the soul of elegance as well as of beauty.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000003|Moreover, whatever be the opulence which you enjoy, luxury encroaches so much upon it, that no riches are able to satisfy its demands; but fortunately propriety, always in accordance with reason, encourages by this maxim social and sensible women.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000004|Neither too high, nor too low; it is equally ridiculous either to pretend to be the most showy, or to display the meanest attire in an assembly.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000016_000000|The rigorous simplicity of the dress of men establishes but very little difference between that of young and old.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000017_000001|Men till lately were almost free from this obligation; they used to be constantly clothed in broadcloth in all seasons: but now, although this may form the basis of their toilet, they must select stuffs for winter or summer, as may be suitable.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000017_000003|It only belongs to septuagenarians and ecclesiastics to wear doublets or wadded outer coats.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000018_000000|To finish our instructions relative to the toilet, it only remains for us to make a few observations.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000019_000000|It is superlatively ridiculous for a lady to go on foot, when dressed in her hair, or attired for the drawing room or a ball.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000019_000001|If one dwells in a provincial town where it is not customary to use carriages, they should go in a chair.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000019_000002|Who does not perceive how laughable it is to see a lady who is clothed in satin lace, or velvet, laboriously travelling in the dust or mud.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000020_000000|Vary your toilet as much as possible, for fear that idlers and malignant wits, who are always a majority in the world, should amuse themselves by making your dress the description of your person.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000021_000000|Certain fashionables seek to gain a kind of reputation by the odd choice of their attire, and by their eagerness to seize upon the first caprices of the fashions.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000021_000001|Propriety with difficulty tolerates these fancies of a spoiled child: but it applauds a woman of sense and taste, who is not in a hurry to follow the fashions and asks how long they will probably last before adopting them; finally, who selects and modifies them with success according to her size and figure.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000022_000000|It would be extremely clownish to carry dirt into a decent house, especially if one makes a ceremonious visit; and, when there is much mud, or when we cannot walk with skill, it is proper to go in a carriage, or at least to put in requisition the services of a shoe black at a short distance from the house.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000024_000000|SECTION two.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000026_000000|Among the cares which propriety obliges us to take of our person, to please is but an accessary circumstance; the principal end is to indicate by cleanliness, and the suitableness of apparel, that good order, a sense of what is right, and politeness in all things, direct our thoughts and actions.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000026_000001|In this point of view, we see that a regard to reputation is the necessary consequence of the duties of propriety toward one's self.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000027_000000|To inspire esteem and consideration, is then the grand object of propriety of conduct; for without this treasure, the relations of society would be a humiliation and punishment.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000027_000001|They are obtained by the accomplishment of our obligations of family and of our profession; by our probity and good manners; by our fortune and situation in society.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000028_000000|Consideration is not acquired by words; an article so precious demands a real value; it demands also the assistance of discretion.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000028_000001|So that we must begin by fulfilling exactly our duties towards relations; but we must beware of making public those petty quarrels, and little differences of interest, of ill humor or opinion, which sometimes trouble families most closely united.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000029_000000|Probity, that powerful means of obtaining consideration, by its elevated and religious nature, is not within our investigation of the principles of politeness.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000030_000000|This is not the case with that consideration which is attached to purity of morals.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000030_000002|Ladies, to whom the advice contained in this paragraph is particularly addressed, know how the shadow of suspicion withers and torments them.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000030_000003|This shadow, it is necessary to avoid at all hazards, and on that account to submit to all the requirements of propriety.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000031_000000|Young married ladies are at liberty to visit by themselves their acquaintances, but they cannot present themselves in public without their husband, or an aged lady.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000031_000001|They are at liberty however to walk with young married ladies or unmarried ones, while the latter should never walk alone with their companions.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000031_000002|Neither should they show themselves except with a gentleman of their family, and then he should be a near relation or of respectable age.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000032_000001|Young widows have equal liberty with married ladies.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000033_000000|A lady ought not to present herself alone in a library, or a museum, unless she goes there to study or work as an artist.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000000|A lady ought to have a modest and measured gait; too great hurry injures the grace which ought to characterize her.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000001|She should not turn her head on one side and the other, especially in large towns, where this bad habit seems to be an invitation to the impertinent.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000002|If such persons address her in any flattering or insignificant terms, she should take good care not to answer them a word.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000003|If they persist, she should tell them in a brief and firm, though polite tone, that she desires to be left to herself.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000004|If a man follow her in silence, she should pretend not to perceive him, and at the same time hasten a little her step.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000035_000000|Towards the close of the day, a young lady would conduct herself in an unbecoming manner, if she should go alone; and if she passes the evening with any one, she ought to see that a domestic comes to accompany her, if not, to request the person whom she is visiting, to allow some one to do so.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000035_000001|But however much this may be considered proper, and consequently an obligation, a married lady well educated will disregard it if circumstances prevent her being able, without trouble, to find a conductor.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000036_000000|If the master of the house wishes to accompany you himself, you must excuse yourself politely from giving him so much trouble, but finish however by accepting.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000036_000001|On arriving at your house, you should offer him your thanks.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000036_000003|The seeds of such an imputation, once sown, quickly come to maturity.
train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000037_000000|The care of the reputation of ladies further demands that they should have a modest deportment; should abstain from forward manners, and free speeches.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000002_000000|QUESTION seventy nine
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000004_000000|The next question concerns the intellectual powers, under which head there are thirteen points of inquiry:
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000005_000000|(one) Whether the intellect is a power of the soul, or its essence?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000006_000000|(two) If it be a power, whether it is a passive power?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000007_000000|(three) If it is a passive power, whether there is an active intellect?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000008_000000|(four) Whether it is something in the soul?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000011_000000|(seven) Whether the memory be distinct from the intellect?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000012_000000|(eight) Whether the reason is a distinct power from the intellect?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000013_000000|(nine) Whether the superior and inferior reason are distinct powers?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000014_000000|(ten) Whether the intelligence is distinct from the intellect?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000015_000000|(eleven) Whether the speculative and practical intellect are distinct powers?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000016_000000|(twelve) Whether "synderesis" is a power of the intellectual part?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000019_000000|Whether the Intellect Is a Power of the Soul?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000020_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the intellect is not a power of the soul, but the essence of the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000020_000001|For the intellect seems to be the same as the mind.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000021_000002|Therefore the mind and intellect of man is of the very essence of the soul and not a power thereof.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000023_000001|But the soul is immaterial through its essence.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000023_000002|Therefore it seems that the soul must be intellectual through its essence.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000025_000003|Wherefore in God alone is His intellect His essence: while in other intellectual creatures, the intellect is a power.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000028_000001|And for this reason an angel is called a "mind" or an "intellect"; because his whole power consists in this.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000028_000002|But the soul has many other powers, such as the sensitive and nutritive powers, and therefore the comparison fails.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000031_000000|Whether the Intellect Is a Passive Power?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000032_000001|But the intellectual power results from the immateriality of the intelligent substance.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000032_000002|Therefore it seems that the intellect is not a passive power.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000033_000002|Therefore the intellectual power is not passive.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000034_000002|But all the powers of the vegetative part are active; yet they are the lowest among the powers of the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000034_000003|Much more, therefore, all the intellectual powers, which are the highest, are active.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000001|Firstly, in its most strict sense, when from a thing is taken something which belongs to it by virtue either of its nature, or of its proper inclination: as when water loses coolness by heating, and as when a man becomes ill or sad.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000002|Secondly, less strictly, a thing is said to be passive, when something, whether suitable or unsuitable, is taken away from it.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000004|Thirdly, in a wide sense a thing is said to be passive, from the very fact that what is in potentiality to something receives that to which it was in potentiality, without being deprived of anything.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000005|And accordingly, whatever passes from potentiality to act, may be said to be passive, even when it is perfected.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000006|And thus with us to understand is to be passive.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000007|This is clear from the following reason.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000009|We may therefore see whether the intellect be in act or potentiality by observing first of all the nature of the relation of the intellect to universal being.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000010|For we find an intellect whose relation to universal being is that of the act of all being: and such is the Divine intellect, which is the Essence of God, in which originally and virtually, all being pre exists as in its first cause.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000011|And therefore the Divine intellect is not in potentiality, but is pure act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000012|But no created intellect can be an act in relation to the whole universal being; otherwise it would needs be an infinite being.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000013|Wherefore every created intellect is not the act of all things intelligible, by reason of its very existence; but is compared to these intelligible things as a potentiality to act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000000|Now, potentiality has a double relation to act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000003|And there is another potentiality which is not always in act, but proceeds from potentiality to act; as we observe in things that are corrupted and generated.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000004|Wherefore the angelic intellect is always in act as regards those things which it can understand, by reason of its proximity to the first intellect, which is pure act, as we have said above.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000006|This is made clear from the fact, that at first we are only in potentiality to understand, and afterwards we are made to understand actually.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000008|And consequently the intellect is a passive power.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000038_000001|But in the third sense passion is in anything which is reduced from potentiality to act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000039_000004|Hence it is incorruptible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000040_000001|Now the intellect is a passive power in regard to the whole universal being: while the vegetative power is active in regard to some particular thing, namely, the body as united to the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000042_000000|Whether There Is an Active Intellect?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000000|Objection one: It would seem that there is no active intellect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000001|For as the senses are to things sensible, so is our intellect to things intelligible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000002|But because sense is in potentiality to things sensible, the sense is not said to be active, but only passive.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000003|Therefore, since our intellect is in potentiality to things intelligible, it seems that we cannot say that the intellect is active, but only that it is passive.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000044_000001|But in the operation of the intellect there is no appointed medium that has to be brought into act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000044_000002|Therefore there is no necessity for an active intellect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000045_000001|But the passive intellect is an immaterial power.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000045_000003|Now a form is intelligible in act from the very fact that it is immaterial. Therefore there is no need for an active intellect to make the species actually intelligible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000001|For Plato supposed that the forms of natural things subsisted apart from matter, and consequently that they are intelligible: since a thing is actually intelligible from the very fact that it is immaterial.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000003|But since Aristotle did not allow that forms of natural things exist apart from matter, and as forms existing in matter are not actually intelligible; it follows that the natures or forms of the sensible things which we understand are not actually intelligible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000004|Now nothing is reduced from potentiality to act except by something in act; as the senses as made actual by what is actually sensible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000005|We must therefore assign on the part of the intellect some power to make things actually intelligible, by abstraction of the species from material conditions.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000048_000001|Wherefore it is clear that in the nutritive part all the powers are active, whereas in the sensitive part all are passive: but in the intellectual part, there is something active and something passive.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000049_000001|For some say that light is required for sight, in order to make colors actually visible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000049_000002|And according to this the active intellect is required for understanding, in like manner and for the same reason as light is required for seeing.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000050_000001|But if the agent does not pre exist, the disposition of the recipient has nothing to do with the matter.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000050_000002|Now the intelligible in act is not something existing in nature; if we consider the nature of things sensible, which do not subsist apart from matter.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000052_000000|Whether the Active Intellect Is Something in the Soul?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000053_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the active intellect is not something in the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000053_000001|For the effect of the active intellect is to give light for the purpose of understanding.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000055_000001|If, therefore, the passive intellect, which is a passive power, is something belonging to the soul; and also the active intellect, which is an active power: it follows that a man would always be able to understand when he wished, which is clearly false.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000055_000002|Therefore the active intellect is not something in our soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000056_000001|If, therefore, the passive intellect, which is in potentiality to all things intelligible, is something in the soul, it seems impossible for the active intellect to be also something in our soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000001|For it is neither a passion nor a habit; since habits and passions are not in the nature of agents in regard to the passivity of the soul; but rather passion is the very action of the passive power; while habit is something which results from acts.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000002|But every power flows from the essence of the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000003|It would therefore follow that the active intellect flows from the essence of the soul. And thus it would not be in the soul by way of participation from some higher intellect: which is unfitting.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000004|Therefore the active intellect is not something in our soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000001|In order to make this evident, we must observe that above the intellectual soul of man we must needs suppose a superior intellect, from which the soul acquires the power of understanding.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000002|For what is such by participation, and what is mobile, and what is imperfect always requires the pre existence of something essentially such, immovable and perfect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000003|Now the human soul is called intellectual by reason of a participation in intellectual power; a sign of which is that it is not wholly intellectual but only in part.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000005|Again it has an imperfect understanding; both because it does not understand everything, and because, in those things which it does understand, it passes from potentiality to act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000006|Therefore there must needs be some higher intellect, by which the soul is helped to understand.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000000|Wherefore some held that this intellect, substantially separate, is the active intellect, which by lighting up the phantasms as it were, makes them to be actually intelligible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000001|But, even supposing the existence of such a separate active intellect, it would still be necessary to assign to the human soul some power participating in that superior intellect, by which power the human soul makes things actually intelligible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000002|Just as in other perfect natural things, besides the universal active causes, each one is endowed with its proper powers derived from those universal causes: for the sun alone does not generate man; but in man is the power of begetting man: and in like manner with other perfect animals.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000004|Wherefore we must say that in the soul is some power derived from a higher intellect, whereby it is able to light up the phantasms.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000005|And we know this by experience, since we perceive that we abstract universal forms from their particular conditions, which is to make them actually intelligible.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000007|Therefore the power which is the principle of this action must be something in the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000063_000002|From this point of view it matters not whether the active intellect is something belonging to the soul, or something separate from the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000064_000001|On the contrary, phantasms are actual images of certain species, but are immaterial in potentiality.
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train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000067_000000|Whether the Active Intellect Is One in All?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000068_000000|Objection one: It would seem that there is one active intellect in all. For what is separate from the body is not multiplied according to the number of bodies.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000068_000002|Therefore it is not multiplied in the many human bodies, but is one for all men.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000069_000001|But that which is the cause of unity is still more itself one.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000069_000002|Therefore the active intellect is the same in all.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000071_000002|Therefore the same active intellect is not in various men.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000072_000001|For if the active intellect were not something belonging to the soul, but were some separate substance, there would be one active intellect for all men.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000072_000002|And this is what they mean who hold that there is one active intellect for all.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000073_000001|And in the same sense the active intellect is also called "separate"; but not as a separate substance.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000074_000001|But for this purpose it need not be the same intellect in all intelligent beings; but it must be one in its relationship to all those things from which it abstracts the universal, with respect to which things the universal is one.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000074_000002|And this befits the active intellect inasmuch as it is immaterial.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000001|Now to know the first intelligible principles is the action belonging to the human species.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000002|Wherefore all men enjoy in common the power which is the principle of this action: and this power is the active intellect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000003|But there is no need for it to be identical in all.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000004|Yet it must be derived by all from one principle.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000076_000001|six]
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000077_000000|Whether Memory Is in the Intellectual Part of the Soul?
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000078_000000|Objection one: It would seem that memory is not in the intellectual part of the soul.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000079_000001|But the past is said of something with regard to a fixed time.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000079_000002|Memory, therefore, knows a thing under a condition of a fixed time; which involves knowledge under the conditions of "here" and "now." But this is not the province of the intellect, but of the sense.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000079_000003|Therefore memory is not in the intellectual part, but only in the sensitive.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000080_000001|But this cannot happen in the intellect, because the intellect is reduced to act by the fact that the intelligible species are received into it.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000001|For he admitted that this could happen in the sensitive part, as to some powers, inasmuch as they are acts of corporeal organs, in which certain species may be preserved apart from actual apprehension.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000002|But in the intellect, which has no corporeal organ, nothing but what is intelligible exists.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000004|Thus, therefore, according to him, as soon as we cease to understand something actually, the species of that thing ceases to be in our intellect, and if we wish to understand that thing anew, we must turn to the active intellect, which he held to be a separate substance, in order that the intelligible species may thence flow again into our passive intellect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000005|And from the practice and habit of turning to the active intellect there is formed, according to him, a certain aptitude in the passive intellect for turning to the active intellect; which aptitude he calls the habit of knowledge.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000006|According, therefore, to this supposition, nothing is preserved in the intellectual part that is not actually understood: wherefore it would not be possible to admit memory in the intellectual part.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000083_000001|And, even then, it is in potentiality, but not in the same way as before learning and discovering." Now, the passive intellect is said to be each thing, inasmuch as it receives the intelligible species of each thing.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000083_000002|To the fact, therefore, that it receives the species of intelligible things it owes its being able to operate when it wills, but not so that it be always operating: for even then is it in potentiality in a certain sense, though otherwise than before the act of understanding-namely, in the sense that whoever has habitual knowledge is in potentiality to actual consideration.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000000|The foregoing opinion is also opposed to reason.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000002|But the intellect is of a more stable nature, and is more immovable than corporeal nature.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000003|If, therefore, corporeal matter holds the forms which it receives, not only while it actually does something through them, but also after ceasing to act through them, much more cogent reason is there for the intellect to receive the species unchangeably and lastingly, whether it receive them from things sensible, or derive them from some superior intellect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000004|Thus, therefore, if we take memory only for the power of retaining species, we must say that it is in the intellectual part.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000005|But if in the notion of memory we include its object as something past, then the memory is not in the intellectual, but only in the sensitive part, which apprehends individual things.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000006|For past, as past, since it signifies being under a condition of fixed time, is something individual.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000085_000001|For species are not retained in the sensitive part of the soul only, but rather in the body and soul united: since the memorative power is the act of some organ.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000085_000002|But the intellect in itself is retentive of species, without the association of any corporeal organ.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000001|These two are found together in the sensitive part, which apprehends something from the fact of its being immuted by a present sensible: wherefore at the same time an animal remembers to have sensed before in the past, and to have sensed some past sensible thing.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000002|But as concerns the intellectual part, the past is accidental, and is not in itself a part of the object of the intellect.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000003|For the intellect understands man, as man: and to man, as man, it is accidental that he exist in the present, past, or future.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000004|But on the part of the act, the condition of past, even as such, may be understood to be in the intellect, as well as in the senses.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000008|In this way, then, the notion of memory, in as far as it regards past events, is preserved in the intellect, forasmuch as it understands that it previously understood: but not in the sense that it understands the past as something "here" and "now."
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000087_000001|Sometimes the intelligible species is in the intellect as regards the ultimate completion of the act, and then it understands in act.
train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000087_000002|And sometimes the intelligible species is in a middle state, between potentiality and act: and then we have habitual knowledge.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000004_000005|I ask my friend to read some extracts from the decision.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000006_000000|"The Territory being a part of the United States, the Government and the citizen both enter it under the authority of the Constitution, with their respective rights defined and marked out; and the Federal Government can exercise no power over his person or property beyond what that instrument confers, nor lawfully deny any right which it has reserved....
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000007_000000|"The powers over person and property, of which we speak, are not only not granted to Congress, but are in express terms denied, and they are forbidden to exercise them.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000007_000001|And this prohibition is not confined to the States, but the words are general, and extend to the whole territory over which the Constitution gives it power to legislate, including those portions of it remaining under territorial government, as well as that covered by States.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000007_000003|And if Congress itself can not do this-if it is beyond the powers conferred on the Federal Government-it will be admitted, we presume, that it could not authorize a territorial government to exercise them.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000009_000000|"This is done in plain words-too plain to be misunderstood.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000009_000002|The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in his rights.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000011_000002|It was obligatory on those who selected the umpire and agreed to abide by the award.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000002|In eighteen forty eight it made its appearance for good purposes.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000003|It was ushered in by a great and good man.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000007|I thought it a fallacy which would surely be exploded. I doubted then, and still more for some time afterward, when held to a dread responsibility for the position which I occupied.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000013|This was the first fruit.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000014|More deadly than the fatal upas, its effect was not limited to the mere spot of ground on which the dew fell from its leaves, but it spread throughout the United States; it kindled all which had been collected for years of inflammable material.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000015|It was owing to the strength of our Government and the good sense of the quiet masses of the people that it did not wrap our country in one widespread conflagration.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000014_000001|Can this be a definition of sovereignty?
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000001|This is confounding the whole theory and the history of our Government.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000002|The States were the grantors; they made the compact; they gave the Federal agent its powers; they inhibited themselves from doing certain things, and all else they retained to themselves.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000003|This Federal agent got just so much as the States chose to give-no more.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000005|Therefore its powers are not comparable to the powers of the State Legislature, because one is the creature of grant, and the other the exponent of sovereign power.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000001|It seems to have been more malleable than gold; to have been hammered out to an extent that covers boundless regions undiscovered by those who proclaimed the doctrine.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000002|Non intervention then meant, as the debates show, that Congress should neither prohibit nor establish slavery in the Territories.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000003|That I hold to now.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000005|Why, sir, the very acts which they passed at the time refute it.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000017_000000|"And that all laws, or parts of laws, usages, or customs, preexisting in the Territories acquired by the United States from Mexico, and which in said Territories restrict, abridge, or obstruct, the full enjoyment of any right of person or property of a citizen of the United States, as recognized or guaranteed by the Constitution or laws of the United States, are hereby declared and shall be held as repealed."
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000018_000000|Upon that, mr Clay said:
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000019_000000|"mr
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000020_000000|That was the position taken by mr Clay, the leader.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000020_000001|A mere sentence will show with what view I regarded the dogma of non intervention when that amendment was offered.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000020_000002|I said:
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000021_000000|"But what is non intervention seems to vary as often as the light and shade of every fleeting cloud.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000021_000001|It has different meanings in every State, in every county, in every town.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000021_000002|If non intervention means that we shall not have protection for our property in slaves, then I always was, and always shall be, opposed to it.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000022_000000|mr Downs, one of the Committee of Thirteen, and an advocate of the measures, said:
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000024_000005|We differed radically then.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000025_000001|It has been sometimes assumed that this was the recognition of the power of the Territorial Legislature to exercise plenary legislation, as might that of a State.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000002|That was all the difference.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000004|It left Congress, as to its power, just where it was.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000005|I find myself physically unable to go as fully into the subject as I intended, and therefore, omitting a reference to those acts, suffice it to say that here was the recognition of the obligation of Congress to interpose against a Territorial Legislature for the protection of personal right. That is what we ask of Congress now.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000006|I am not disposed to ask this Congress to go into speculative legislation.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000007|I am not one of those who would willingly see this Congress enact a code to be applied to all Territories and for all time to come.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000011|That is the announcement of the fifth resolution.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000002|I honor them, and I approve their conduct.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000003|I think their bearing was worthy of the mother State which sent them there; and I doubt not she will receive them with joy and gratitude.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000004|They have asserted and vindicated her equality of right.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000005|By that asserted equality of right I doubt not she will stand.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000000|The sixth resolution of the series declares at what time a State may form a Constitution and decide upon her domestic institutions.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000001|I deny this right to the territorial condition, because the Territory belongs in common to the States.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000002|Every citizen of the United States, as a joint owner of that Territory, has a right to go into it with any property which he may possess.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000003|These territorial inhabitants require municipal law, police, and government.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000005|They have no right within their municipal power to attempt to decide the rights of the people of the States.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000029_000000|The last resolution refers to a law founded on a provision of the Constitution, which contains an obligation of faith to every State of the Union; and that obligation of faith has been violated by thirteen States of the Confederacy-as many as originally fought the battles of the Revolution and established the Confederation.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000029_000001|Is it to be expected that a compact thus broken in part, violated in its important features, will be regarded as binding in all else?
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000029_000003|We have a right to claim abstinence from interference with our rights from any Government on the earth.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000030_000001|It was first for political power, and directed against new States; now it has assumed a social form, is all prevailing, and has reached the point of revolution and civil war.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000030_000002|For it was only last fall that an overt act was committed by men who were sustained by arms and money, raised by extensive combination among the non slaveholding States, to carry treasonable war against the State of Virginia, because now, as before the Revolution, and ever since, she held the African in bondage.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000030_000003|This is part of the history and marks the necessity of the times.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000004|The argument, then, or the reason on which this agitation commenced, has passed away; and yet we are asked, if a party hostile to our institutions shall gain possession of the Government, that we shall stand quietly by, and wait for an overt act.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000006|Is not a declaration of war an overt act?
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000009|I can speak for myself-and I have no right to speak for others-when I say, that, if I belonged to a party organized on the basis of making war on any section or interest in the United States, if I know myself, I would instantly quit it.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000012|We claim to have but the Constitution fairly and equally administered.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000000|Among the great purposes declared in the preamble of the Constitution is one to provide for the general welfare.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000001|Provision for the general welfare implies general fraternity.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000002|This Union was not expected to be held together by coercion; the power of force as a means was denied. They sought, however, to bind it perpetually together with that which was stronger than triple bars of brass and steel-the ceaseless current of kind offices, renewing and renewed in an eternal flow, and gathering volume and velocity as it rolled.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000003|It was a function intended not for the injury of any.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000004|It declared its purpose to be the benefit of all. Concessions which were made between the different States in the Convention prove the motive.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000007|We have tamed a wilderness; we have spanned a continent.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000009|Higher than all this, we have achieved a moral triumph.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000034_000001|We have tampered with a question which has grown in magnitude by each year's delay.
train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000034_000004|But so long as we deal, like the Delphic oracle, in words of double meaning, so long as we attempt to escape from responsibility, and exhibit our fear to declare the truth by the fact that we do not act upon it, we must expect speculative theory to occupy the mind of the public, and error to increase as time rolls on.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000000_000000|DIVISION B-WEALTH AND RENT
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000002_000000|WEALTH AND ITS INDIRECT USES
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000002|If one wishing the hickory nut hanging above his head must first pick up a stick to throw at it, the nut is removed one step from desire.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000003|But even among savages the processes are much more complicated.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000004|The Indian with a crude knife fashions his bow and arrow, fastens the flint and cord which represent still other processes of industry, and shoots the bird which satisfies his hunger.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000005|In modern conditions the relations are vastly more complicated; only at the end of a long series do men arrive at the thing which gratifies their wants.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000002|No agent or influence intervening, a thing may yet be removed a long way from gratification.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000003|A tree may not be fitted to bear fruit for ten years to come.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000004|Meantime, there are many other possible uses for the tree: it may be used for fuel, or to make a canoe with which to catch fish, or to follow some other indirect method of production.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000006|The number of steps has no necessary relation to the time.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000007|A number of technical steps may be taken in half an hour, or a process of a single technical step may last a year.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000000|Many goods of just the same form as the foregoing may not be affording current gratification (except that afforded by thrift and forethought), but are kept because later they will gratify a more intense want or gratify a want better.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000001|Apples and potatoes are kept in a cellar so that their use is distributed throughout the winter; cider and wine are kept till they get a quality that appeals more to the palate.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000002|Coal, wood, and stocks of goods, are thus kept in the form of enjoyable goods, destined to be physically destroyed when at length they yield a gratification. Evidently they must be storing up meantime a certain additional utility, for otherwise there would be no reason why they should be kept for the future.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000003|Such goods as these are sometimes called unripened consumption goods, but until ripened they bear in part the character of durable agents.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000000|Abiding sources of economic enjoyments are called durable agents.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000001|The inhabited house is a source of continued gratification in each moment's shelter it affords; but, further, it is the durable source of a series of future uses, as yet unripened.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000002|The hammer, the hoe, the tree, the field may all be considered as agents to secure consumption goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000003|Some of these are but one step removed from direct gratification, as the hoe helping the gardener to get food for his own use.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000013_000003|Yet the classification is practical, corresponding as it does with thoughts which men have in the use of goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000013_000004|By repairs and other methods goods become, and are looked upon as, durable sources of a series of uses.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000014_000000|It is to be noted further that the enjoyable goods pass over into psychic income, that is, they are the stream of objective utilities that is each moment detaching itself as income from the great mass of wealth. The durable goods are those utilities which for the time remain, not yet ripened or ready to be converted into psychic income.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000015_000002|CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC WEALTH
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000002|Climate is itself a direct source of gratification.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000003|As temperature must be adjusted to man's need, climate satisfies wants directly.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000004|Health, energy, the beauty of noonday woods and of sunlit clouds are conditioned on the favor of nature.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000005|Climate affects, further, the supply of material economic goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000008|So civilization moved northward from Egypt and India to Greece and Rome, to northern Europe and America.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000019_000000|Soil conditions for vegetable life determine first the amount and kind of animal life.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000019_000001|Animal life from one point of view is a parasite, living on the vegetable; it is only the vegetable that has power to assimilate most inorganic compounds.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000019_000003|Man, therefore, depends on the resources of the soil directly or indirectly; a fertile soil furnishes him either directly a supply of vegetable food, or indirectly a supply of animal food.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000020_000000|Natural supplies of metals, of coal, and of timber are important consumption goods, but they are also indirectly the condition for a vast variety of other goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000020_000001|The industry that could exist without iron, copper, and coal would be of a very low grade.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000000|The variety of flora and fauna, and their fitness for man's needs, largely condition the possible production.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000001|If, in the course of evolution, it had chanced that wheat and corn, the horse and the cow, had been crowded out in the struggle for existence, we should have had a very different civilization.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000002|The possibilities of civilization in Peru, and those of all the Indians on the American continent, were limited for lack of domestic animals.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000003|Animals that are fit for domestication are a necessary intermediate agent by aid of which man can appropriate and turn to his use the fertile qualities of the soil.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000023_000000|Not content with the material world about him, even when it is at its best, man alters it in many ways.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000023_000001|He enriches the soil, improves the varieties of animals, he even in some slight degree affects the climate, and by the use of a multitude of artificial bits of matter called tools, works profound changes in the world in which he lives.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000025_000002|The outer world is to man the sole source of motive forces.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000025_000003|He can bring things together and they produce the result. Further, it may be said that nearly every kind of utility is conditioned on motion.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000025_000005|To secure this either he must move to get the goods, or he must cause goods to move toward him.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000000|The law of "conservation of energy" helps to explain economic action; the supply of energy in the universe cannot be increased or diminished, but may take on new forms.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000001|So a limited supply in man's control may take on various forms and so have different effects on gratifications.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000002|One and the same source of energy may be converted into the different forms of heat, light, motion, electricity, etc
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000003|But there must be some source. Man's desire is directed to getting force at the right place and in the right degree.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000004|If light or heat is too intense, it causes pain; the glare of the sun blinds instead of giving keener vision.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000005|A moderate force applied to any of the senses gives the maximum clearness or pleasure. Man is constantly endeavoring to secure forces from the outer world and to adjust motion so that it will directly or indirectly best serve his purposes.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000028_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000028_000002|There must be a source of energy likewise that mental action may go on, and the power of sunbeams, stored for a time in food, is liberated in the processes of thought.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000029_000001|Such a mode is "labor," which becomes at times painful and distasteful.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000029_000002|In the earliest societies known, some sorts of domestic animals are found supplementing man's efforts and acting upon the material world to alter it for man. The dog joining in the chase guards his master's safety, and helps to bear his burdens.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000029_000003|The draft beast in the field turns the heavy soil, and aids in the final harvest.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000029_000004|The trained elephant does the work of twenty men piling logs, loading ships, or carrying burdens.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000030_000000|Man further increases his control over the material world by making other men do his bidding.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000030_000001|Domestic slavery, where wife or child serves the father of the family, or chattel slavery, where the vanquished toils for the victor, are all but universal in early communities.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000030_000002|Such a method of increasing one's control over the forces of the world requires only superior strength, no special intelligence in mechanics, and is thus one of the first crude devices in a primitive civilization.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000031_000000|Fuel has been, up to the present time, perhaps the most important source of energy.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000031_000001|Fire in the hands of savage man gave him dominion over the forests and over the metals.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000031_000002|In this age of steam the liberation of the energy of the sun, stored up in coal in ages past, is still the indispensable condition of our developed industry.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000002|To make use of the wind for sailing a boat, only the simplest arrangements are needed; a windmill fixed at one place requires more ingenuity and machinery.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000004|If some means can be found for equalizing the flow and for storing the power of the wind, it may yet become a great agency of industry.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000005|The force of falling water, long used in a petty way by the old water mills, is just beginning to be employed on a large scale at such points as Niagara.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000007|But the constant motion of the tides offers, at some favored points, a source of power that will remain as long as the earth revolves upon its axis.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000002|As man grows in power of control over nature, he seeks to apply these forces in forms and at places he has selected.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000004|He ceases to accept passively its conditions, and to live on its grudging gifts; he becomes its fashioner, in a sense its creator.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000005|His intelligence and his wants are most important factors determining what the form of the physical world about him shall be.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000000|But all the efforts of men in the most developed economy cannot make to disappear the differences in the quality of goods and agents.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000001|Desirable goods to consume are limited in quantity, and they vary in quality; hence they have value and some higher than others.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000002|Likewise, durable material agents and sources of power are limited in number and vary in convenience of location and efficiency.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000003|As men seek to gratify their desires, they attach importance to these agents of power.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000004|Each is valued for its service or its series of services.
train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000005|When anything is seen to contain a series of uses, it becomes a rent bearer, and the economic problem of rent arises, one step more complex than the problem of valuing simple consumption goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000002_000000|THE RENTING CONTRACT
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000005_000002|The apple tree is valued because it bears fruit, and the orchard because the trees give promise of yielding a succession of crops for years to come.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000005_000003|There are thus two problems of value in connection with durable goods: that of the value of a temporary use for a brief period, as for a year; and that of the value of a thing itself, the use bearer, for a long series of years or in perpetuity.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000005_000004|To explain what fixes the value of the temporary use is the problem of rent; to explain what determines the value of long continued use or of permanent control and ownership of a use bearer is the problem of capitalization.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000007_000006|Rental is a collective term for a number of rents.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000007_000007|The total yield of an estate was called its rental or rent roll, and a list of the various sources of income, including all payments from tenants in money, produce or services, constituted its rental.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000009_000002|In the European languages the word is used more frequently in that sense.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000010_000001|This was put in contrast with interest for money and capital, and with wages of labor.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000000|A wider meaning recently given to the word by many economists turns on the supposed relation of some portions of price to cost of production. Thus, frequent use is made of the expressions: consumer's rent, producer's rent, buyer's rent, seller's rent, etc
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000001|In the well founded opinion of some recent critics this usage rests on a mistaken reasoning. However, in the midst of this wide variety of usage the student must be forewarned and alert.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000002|Doubtless agreement will at length be arrived at. Meantime, no economist can dictate what meaning is to be attached to the term, but one may suggest the definition that seems to him most expedient.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000003|Throughout this work we shall endeavor to use the term rent uniformly and consistently as it is now to be defined.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000015_000003|Every economist since Ricardo's time has recognized this, and many excuses for the inaccuracy have been given.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000015_000007|It is only by a fiction that most indirect agents can be regarded as indestructible.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000015_000008|Things yielding rent are not indestructible, but generally they are preserved undestroyed.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000002|When this allowance has been made, the income may be considered as a net sum not due to the sale, or to the using up of any part of the thing rented.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000003|This is the essential thought in typical rent-that it is the value of the surplus, or net product, of an economic agent leaving the agent itself unimpaired in efficiency.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000004|The total product is sometimes called the "gross rent," but economic rent is "net rent."
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000005|This thought is made clearer by the following discussion.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000018_000000|Sec.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000018_000002|THE HISTORY OF CONTRACT RENT AND CHANGES IN IT
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000020_000000|one.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000020_000002|The one is impersonal or economic; the other is personal or legal, being fixed by agreements between persons.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000020_000003|The rents usually spoken of are contract rents.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000000|The two diverge more or less.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000002|Contracts of long standing often bind the tenant or borrower to pay either more or less than the present competitive price.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000003|If, after a time, the value of the use is greater than the contract rent, the tenant is fortunate in having his lease.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000004|But he is the loser if he is bound by lease or agreement to pay rent in a locality where land has become less valuable.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000022_000000|Economic and contract rent usually diverge also because of the agreement that the owner, or lender, keep up the repairs and pay the taxes.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000022_000001|Here it is simply the difference between gross and net rent.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000023_000001|If the contract rent is less than the economic rent, evidently the borrower enjoys a part of the usufruct, without charge, and to that degree is in the position of an owner.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000023_000002|The usufruct in this case is divided between the two parties.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000023_000003|Such instances were numerous in the Middle Ages in the renting of land, and still are found in many countries.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000024_000000|Contract rent is based on economic rent and tends to conform to it whenever there is competition.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000024_000001|The existence of economic rent is the basis of the agreement to pay contract rent.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000024_000002|Prospective hirers of agents forecast what the use will be worth to them and make their bids accordingly.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000026_000002|Some provide that one party, some that the other party, shall keep up repairs.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000026_000004|If they count the gross product of an agent as rent, it is bad bookkeeping.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000026_000005|In many cases it is necessary, therefore, to follow the form of the renting contract in order to determine the net yield of indirect goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000000|three.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000002|But at a later stage, as in the Middle Ages in Europe, land and the things pertaining to it, as ditches, houses, mills, cattle, stock, and the few simple implements, constituted the larger portion of the wealth.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000003|Land was granted to the tenant or serf in return for services.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000004|The contract was pretty strictly drawn and all items were specified.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000005|It was not hard to hold the tenant to his contract to keep the land in about the same condition.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000006|There was a certain rotation of crops; the tenant was obliged to keep his stock up to standard; and, moreover, he had a certain interest in the land because his contract rent (as explained above) was less than the economic rent. The landlord, therefore, could count pretty surely on the undiminished power of his land and stock from one year to another.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000000|At that time, truck and barter were the common modes of exchange, and rents were paid in products and services, not in money.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000001|The fruits of the soil were consumed on the spot instead of being sold as now.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000002|Land was rarely, if ever, sold outright, so that there was no occasion to estimate its total selling value.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000004|Its yearly use was all that was subject to contract, sale, and exchange.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000006|Many medieval estates were so tied up by legal conditions that they could not be sold outright; all that the owner could do was to sell or mortgage the annual rental.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000007|Thus, in the Middle Ages, it was all but universal to look upon most indirect agents as exchangeable only under the renting contract, as subject to renting but not to complete transfer and sale.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000031_000003|He must agree to repay the loan in goods of the same kind and quality as those received, a contract most difficult to execute, and giving occasion to costly tests and countless disagreements.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000031_000005|With the growth of industry and commerce, wealth increased in towns, taking many forms, as those of ships, wagons, tools, and stocks of goods, that could not conveniently be rented.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000001|It is a simple example of the association of ideas.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000002|In the transfer or loan of movable goods, the rent contract was quite overshadowed by the other form of contract, that of a money loan.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000003|According to this explanation the essential and primary difference between renting wealth and borrowing money at interest is not in the kind of wealth whose use is thus temporarily transferred, but in the nature of the contract.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000004|But as forms of wealth differ in their fitness for transfer under the two forms of contract, there goes on a competition between them, as a result of which each becomes associated with certain groups of goods.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000005|In the Middle Ages the renting contract was the dominant form, but it has been progressively displaced by loans in the money form, and its importance is still declining.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000000|five.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000002|Under the old, almost fixed, conditions in agriculture such a lease was equitable, but when prices are rapidly changing and when new methods are being introduced, it gives rise to great hardships.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000003|About twenty five years ago, the great fall in the price of agricultural products brought ruin to many of the tenant farmers.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000005|When the lease expired, the landlord could appropriate all the improvements that the tenant had made.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000006|In America farms are let usually on shares, and from year to year, but the plan of a money rent is increasingly followed.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000007|The difficulty of getting an equitable arrangement between landlord and tenant is recognized by all.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000009|On the other hand, the tenant under the renting contract has little motive for improvement, and many occasions for discontent.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000010|So in America, far more than in the older countries, land changes hands by sale, the purchaser going into debt for it, giving his note and paying interest on the loan rather than rent for the farm.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000000|Many less durable goods are rented for brief periods.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000001|Carriages are rented for the day, bicycles by the week or month.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000002|Sewing machines, boats, guns, tents, and even diamond engagement rings, yield their joys under the renting contract.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000003|People frequently hesitate between the renting and the purchase of a piano, and in some cases renting is the more convenient and desirable way of securing its use.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000004|The purchase of a dress coat or of a masquerade suit to be worn but once, involves for some an excessive and needless sacrifice.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000005|For a moderate sum its temporary use may be had, and it is then returned, little the worse for wear, to the accommodating clothier.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000039_000000|A final word of caution may be given.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000039_000001|Economic rent is not confined to the cases of contract rent.
train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000039_000003|The owner who uses a thing himself gets the advantage in the product as clearly as if he collected rent from a borrower.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000000|The remainder of the day mr Booth spent in melancholy contemplation on his present condition.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000001|He was destitute of the common necessaries of life, and consequently unable to subsist where he was; nor was there a single person in town to whom he could, with any reasonable hope, apply for his delivery.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000002|Grief for some time banished the thoughts of food from his mind; but in the morning nature began to grow uneasy for want of her usual nourishment: for he had not eat a morsel during the last forty hours.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000003|A penny loaf, which is, it seems, the ordinary allowance to the prisoners in Bridewell, was now delivered him; and while he was eating this a man brought him a little packet sealed up, informing him that it came by a messenger, who said it required no answer.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000000|mr Booth now opened his packet, and, after unfolding several pieces of blank paper successively, at last discovered a guinea, wrapt with great care in the inmost paper.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000001|He was vastly surprized at this sight, as he had few if any friends from whom he could expect such a favour, slight as it was; and not one of his friends, as he was apprized, knew of his confinement.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000002|As there was no direction to the packet, nor a word of writing contained in it, he began to suspect that it was delivered to the wrong person; and being one of the most untainted honesty, he found out the man who gave it him, and again examined him concerning the person who brought it, and the message delivered with it.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000003|The man assured Booth that he had made no mistake; saying, "If your name is Booth, sir, I am positive you are the gentleman to whom the parcel I gave you belongs."
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000005_000000|The most scrupulous honesty would, perhaps, in such a situation, have been well enough satisfied in finding no owner for the guinea; especially when proclamation had been made in the prison that mr Booth had received a packet without any direction, to which, if any person had any claim, and would discover the contents, he was ready to deliver it to such claimant.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000006_000000|The first thing after redemption of the coat, which mr Booth, hungry as he was, thought of, was to supply himself with snuff, which he had long, to his great sorrow, been without.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000006_000001|On this occasion he presently missed that iron box which the methodist had so dexterously conveyed out of his pocket, as we mentioned in the last chapter.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000007_000001|Though mr Booth was, as we have hinted, a man of a very sweet disposition, yet was he rather overwarm.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000007_000002|Having, therefore, no doubt concerning the person of the thief, he eagerly sought him out, and very bluntly charged him with the fact.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000000|The gambler, whom I think we should now call the philosopher, received this charge without the least visible emotion either of mind or muscle. After a short pause of a few moments, he answered, with great solemnity, as follows: "Young man, I am entirely unconcerned at your groundless suspicion.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000001|He that censures a stranger, as I am to you, without any cause, makes a worse compliment to himself than to the stranger.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000002|You know yourself, friend; you know not me.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000003|It is true, indeed, you heard me accused of being a cheat and a gamester; but who is my accuser?
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000004|Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and gamesters wear such cloaths as these? play is my folly, not my vice; it is my impulse, and I have been a martyr to it.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000009_000000|Booth was a little staggered at this defence.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000010_000000|Robinson answered, "If that be the case, you have nothing more to do but to signify your intention in the prison, and I am well convinced you will not be long without regaining the possession of your snuff box."
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000011_000002|"Have I not heard you often say, the wickeder any man was the better, provided he was what you call a believer?" "You mistake me," cries Cooper (for that was the name of the methodist): "no man can be wicked after he is possessed by the spirit.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000011_000003|There is a wide difference between the days of sin and the days of grace.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000011_000006|"I care not," answered the other, "what an atheist believes.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000012_000000|Booth testified great compassion at this account; and, he having invited Robinson to dinner, they spent that day together.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000012_000001|In the afternoon Booth indulged his friend with a game at cards; at first for halfpence and afterwards for shillings, when fortune so favoured Robinson that he did not leave the other a single shilling in his pocket.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000013_000000|A surprizing run of luck in a gamester is often mistaken for somewhat else by persons who are not over zealous believers in the divinity of fortune.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000013_000002|And certain it is, that mr Booth, though of a temper very little inclined to suspicion, began to waver in his opinion whether the character given by mr Robinson of himself, or that which the others gave of him, was the truer.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000014_000002|And this experiments he thought, would confirm him either in a good or evil opinion of that gentleman.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000015_000000|To this demand Robinson answered, with great alacrity, that he should very gladly have complied, had not fortune played one of her jade tricks with him: "for since my winning of you," said he, "I have been stript not only of your money but my own." He was going to harangue farther; but Booth, with great indignation, turned from him.
train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000016_000000|This poor gentleman had very little time to reflect on his own misery, or the rascality, as it appeared to him, of the other, when the same person who had the day before delivered him the guinea from the unknown hand, again accosted him, and told him a lady in the house (so he expressed himself) desired the favour of his company.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000006_000000|Eight or nine years had past since any interview between mr Booth and Miss Matthews; and their meeting now in so extraordinary a place affected both of them with an equal surprize.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000008_000000|Booth made many handsome acknowledgments of her favour; and added that he very little wondered at the disorder of her spirits, concluding that he was heartily concerned at seeing her there; "but I hope, madam," said he-
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000009_000000|Here he hesitated; upon which, bursting into an agony of tears, she cried out, "O captain!
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000009_000001|captain! many extraordinary things have passed since last I saw you.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000009_000002|O gracious heaven! did I ever expect that this would be the next place of our meeting?"
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000010_000000|She then flung herself into her chair, where she gave a loose to her passion, whilst he, in the most affectionate and tender manner, endeavoured to soothe and comfort her; but passion itself did probably more for its own relief than all his friendly consolations.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000010_000002|I have disgraced him, mr Booth, I am unworthy the name of his daughter."--Here passion again stopped her words, and discharged itself in tears.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000011_000001|To say the truth, these are, I believe, as critical discharges of nature as any of those which are so called by the physicians, and do more effectually relieve the mind than any remedies with which the whole materia medica of philosophy can supply it.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000012_000001|O, sir! you are a stranger to the cause of my sorrows."
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000013_000003|perhaps the law calls it so.--Let it call it what it will, or punish me as it pleases.---Punish me!--no, no---that is not in the power of man-not of that monster man, mr Booth.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000013_000004|I am undone, am revenged, and have now no more business for life; let them take it from me when they will."
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000016_000000|"What do you hear?" reiterated she.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000016_000002|You have heard, you say, of the murder; but do you know the cause, mr Booth?
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000017_000000|Booth hesitated for an answer; indeed, he had heard some imperfect stories, not much to her advantage.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000017_000002|If these circumstances raise your curiosity, I will satisfy it."
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000018_000001|Upon which, with very little previous ceremony, she began to relate what is written in the following chapter.
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000022_000000|Or, if the critic be a Whig, and consequently dislikes such kind of similes, as being too favourable to Jacobitism, let him be contented with the following story:
train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000023_000001|One of the ladies, I remember, said to the other-"Did you ever see anything look so modest and so innocent as that girl over the way?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000001_000000|three
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000003|Most men were toiling at tasks which they did not like, by rules which they did not understand.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000004|They never looked beyond the edge of their work.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000005|The philosophical life was a spider's web-filmy threads of theory spun out of the inner consciousness-it touched the world only at certain chosen points of attachment.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000006|There was nothing firm, nothing substantial in it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000009|Knowing did not come by speculating, theorising. Knowing came by seeing.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000011|To see the world, the whole world, as it is, to look behind the scenes, to read human life like a book, that was the glorious thing-most satisfying, divine.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000003_000000|Thus he had talked as we climbed the hill.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000003_000001|Now, as we came by the place where we had first met, a new eagerness sounded in his voice.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000004_000002|I am planning to write a book-a book of knowledge, in the true sense-a great book about human life.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000004_000005|How much darker, how much smaller, and therefore how much more interesting and wonderful.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000004_000007|I might call it a 'Bionopsis.'"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000005_000000|"But surely," said I, "you have chosen a strange place to write it-the Hilltop School-this quiet and secluded region!
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000005_000003|You must be in the full current and feel its force.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000005_000004|You must take part in the active life of mankind in order really to know it."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000006_000000|"A mistake!" he cried.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000008_000000|To know the world you must stand apart from it and above it; you must look down on it."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000009_000000|"Well, then," said I, "you will have to find some secret spring of inspiration, some point of vantage from which you can get your outlook and your insight."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000010_000000|He stopped short and looked me full in the face.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000011_000000|"And that," cried he, "is precisely what I have found!"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000012_000001|After a few minutes we came to a little stream, flowing through a grove of hemlocks.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000000|"I promised to give you an explanation to day-to take you on one of my long walks.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000002|It is always the same.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000007|I have been doubtful, troubled, almost distracted.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000009|But it could not be helped.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000010|The risk was worth while.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000012|I simply could not throw it away.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000015|But you must judge fairly, without haste, without prejudice.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000016|I ask you to make me one promise.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000017|You will suspend judgment, you will say nothing, you will keep my secret, until you have been with me three times at the place where I am now taking you."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000000|By this time it was clear to me that I had to do with a case lying far outside of the common routine of life; something subtle, abnormal, hard to measure, in which a clear and careful estimate would be necessary.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000001|If Keene was labouring under some strange delusion, some disorder of mind, how could I estimate its nature or extent, without time and study, perhaps without expert advice?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000002|To wait a little would be prudent, for his sake as well as for the sake of others.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000003|If there was some extraordinary, reality behind his mysterious hints, it would need patience and skill to test it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000004|I gave him the promise for which he asked.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000000|At once, as if relieved, he sprang up, and crying, "Come on, follow me!" began to make his way up the bed of the brook.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000003|I could see, here and there, the track of his former journeys: broken branches of witch hazel and moose wood, ferns trampled down, a faint trail across some deeper bed of moss.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000004|At mid day we rested for a half hour to eat lunch.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000006|He swallowed it hastily, and stooping his face to the spring by which he had halted, drank long and eagerly.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000000|"An Indian trick," said he, shaking the drops of water from his face. "On a walk, food is a hindrance, a delay.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000001|But this tiny taste of bitter gum is a tonic; it spurs the courage and doubles the strength-if you are used to it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000002|Otherwise I should not recommend you to try it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000003|Faugh! the flavour is vile."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000000|He rinsed his mouth again with water, and stood up, calling me to come on.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000001|The way, now tangled among the nameless peaks and ranges, bore steadily southward, rising all the time, in spite of many brief downward curves where a steep gorge must be crossed.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000003|Breasting a long slope, we reached the summit of a broad, smoothly rounding ridge covered with a dense growth of stunted spruce.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000004|The trees rose above our heads, about twice the height of a man, and so thick that we could not see beyond them.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000005|But, from glimpses here and there, and from the purity and lightness of the air, I judged that we were on far higher ground than any we had yet traversed, the central comb, perhaps, of the mountain system.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000000|A few yards ahead of us, through the crowded trunks of the dwarf forest, I saw a gray mass, like the wall of a fortress, across our path.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000001|It was a vast rock, rising from the crest of the ridge, lifting its top above the sea of foliage.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000002|At its base there were heaps of shattered stones, and deep crevices almost like caves.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000003|One side of the rock was broken by a slanting gully.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000001|The snakes are in their winter quarters now, almost dormant, but they can still strike if you tread on them.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000002|Step here!
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000003|Give me your hand-use that point of rock-hold fast by this bush; it is firmly rooted-so!
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000005|You have heard of it?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000006|I thought so. Other people have heard of it, and imagine that they have found it-five miles east of us-on a lower ridge.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000010|This earth holds no more perfect view point.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000000|The prospect was indeed magnificent; it was strange what a vast enlargement of vision resulted from the slight elevation above the surrounding peaks.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000001|It was like being lifted up so that we could look over the walls.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000002|The horizon expanded as if by magic.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000005|Every feature of the landscape seemed alive, quivering, pulsating with conscious beauty.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000006|You could almost see the world breathe.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000021_000001|"Most wonderful!
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000022_000001|Your eyes are new to it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000022_000002|You have not learned the power of far sight, the secret of Spy Rock.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000023_000000|"Do you mean to say that you can look beyond it?"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000024_000001|And beyond any that you would dream possible-See! Your sight reaches to that dim cloud of smoke in the south?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000024_000002|And beneath it you can make out, perhaps, a vague blotch of shadow, or a tiny flash of brightness where the sun strikes it?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000027_000000|"It pleases you to call it so," he said, "but I only tell you my real experience.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000027_000002|There is no reason why the power of sight should not be cultivated, enlarged, expanded indefinitely."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000028_000000|"And the straight rays of light?" I asked.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000001|"Who can prove that it may not be curved, under certain conditions, or refracted in some places in a way that is not possible elsewhere?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000002|I tell you there is something extraordinary about this Spy Rock.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000003|It is a seat of power-Nature's observatory.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000004|More things are visible here than anywhere else-more than I have told you yet.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000005|But come, we have little time left.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000007|Then home again to the narrower outlook, the restricted life."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000030_000001|He glowed like a piece of phosphorus that has been drenched with light.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000031_000000|Graham took the first opportunity of speaking with me alone.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000032_000000|"Well?" said he.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000003|But there is something very strange.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000005|We must wait a few days.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000006|It will do no harm to be patient.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000007|Indeed, I have promised not to judge, not to speak of it, until a certain time.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000008|Are you satisfied?"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000034_000000|"This is a curious story," said he, "and I am puzzled by it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000034_000001|But I trust you, I agree to wait, though I am far from satisfied."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000035_000000|Our second expedition was appointed for the following Saturday.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000035_000001|Keene was hungry for it, and I was almost as eager, desiring to penetrate as quickly as possible into the heart of the affair.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000035_000002|Already a conviction in regard to it was pressing upon me, and I resolved to let him talk, this time, as freely as he would, without interruption or denial.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000036_000000|When we clambered up on Spy Rock, he was more subdued and reserved than he had been the first time.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000036_000002|Then he began to tell me stories of the places that we could see-strange stories of domestic calamity, and social conflict, and eccentric passion, and hidden crime.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000001|Everyone has something to hide.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000002|The surface of life is a mask.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000003|The substance of life is a secret.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000005|But it is not impenetrable.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000007|Here, on Spy Rock, I have found it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000008|I have learned how to look through the veil.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000009|I can see, not by the light rays only, but by the rays which are colourless, imperceptible, irresistible the rays of the unknown quantity, which penetrate everywhere.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000013|I can see how the illusions of love appear and vanish, and how men and women swear that their dreams are eternal, even while they fade.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000014|I can see how poor people blind themselves and deceive each other, calling selfishness devotion, and bondage contentment.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000038_000001|"Stop, before you say what can never be unsaid. You know it is not true.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000039_000000|"I think not," said he, "but I will come.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000039_000004|I will follow you in a quarter of an hour.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000039_000005|And remember we are to be here together once more!"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000040_000001|Yes, and then what must be done?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000000|How was this strange case to be dealt with so as to save all the actors, as far as possible, from needless suffering?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000001|That Keene's mind was disordered at least three of us suspected already.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000002|But to me alone was the nature and seat of the disorder known.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000003|How make the others understand it?
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000005|As yet, at least, he was no patient for a mad house: it would be unjust, probably it would be impossible to have him committed.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000006|But on the other hand they might take it too lightly, as the result of overwork, or perhaps of the use of some narcotic.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000009|It was the working out, in abnormal form, but with essential truth, of his chosen and cherished ideal of life.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000011|The solitary trail that led thither was the symbol of his search for happiness-alone, forgetful of life's lowlier ties, looking down upon the world in the cold abstraction of scornful knowledge.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000000|This was what perplexed and oppressed me.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000001|I needed all the time until the next Saturday to think the question through, to decide what should be done.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000002|But the matter was taken out of my hands.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000003|After our latest expedition Keene's dark mood returned upon him with sombre intensity. Dull, restless, indifferent, half contemptuous, he seemed to withdraw into himself, observing those around him with half veiled glances, as if he had nothing better to do and yet found it a tiresome pastime.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000005|Nothing pleased him.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000006|He responded to nothing.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000000|Graham controlled his indignation by a constant effort.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000001|A dozen times he was on the point of speaking out.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000002|But he restrained himself and played fair.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000004|Her loyalty was strained to the breaking point.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000044_000000|Keene's restlessness increased.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000044_000001|The intervening Thursday was Thanksgiving Day; most of the boys had gone home; the school had holiday.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000000|"Let us take our walk to day.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000001|We have no work to do.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000002|Come!
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000003|In this clear, frosty air, Spy Rock will be glorious!"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000001|This is the home day.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000002|Stay here and be happy with us all.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000003|You owe this to love and friendship.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000004|You owe it to Dorothy Ward."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000047_000000|"Owe it?" said he.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000047_000001|"Speaking of debts, I think each man is his own preferred creditor.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000047_000002|But of course you can do as you like about to day. Tomorrow or Saturday will answer just as well for our third walk together."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000048_000001|They talked together in low tones.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000048_000002|Then she stood up, with pale face and wide open eyes.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000049_000000|"Do not go, Edward.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000051_000000|"You will excuse me, Dorothy, I am sure.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000051_000001|I feel the need of exercise. Absolutely I must go; good by-until the evening."
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000001|There was a sense of disaster in the air.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000002|Something irretrievable had fallen from our circle. But no one dared to name it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000004|All the stars were hidden.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000005|The wind whimpered and then shouted.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000006|The rain swept down in spiteful volleys, deepening at last into a fierce, steady discharge.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000007|Nine o'clock, ten o'clock passed, and Keene did not return.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000008|By midnight we were certain that some accident had befallen him.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000053_000001|But we could send down to the village for men to organise a search party and to bring the doctor.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000053_000002|At daybreak we set out-some of the men going with the Master along Black Brook, others in different directions to make sure of a complete search-Graham and the doctor and I following the secret trail that I knew only too well. Dorothy insisted that she must go.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000053_000003|She would bear no denial, declaring that it would be worse for her alone at home, than if we took her with us.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000054_000000|It was incredible how the path seemed to lengthen.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000054_000001|Graham watched the girl's every step, helping her over the difficult places, pushing aside the tangled branches, his eyes resting upon her as frankly, as tenderly as a mother looks at her child.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000054_000002|In single file we marched through the gray morning, clearing cold after the storm, and the silence was seldom broken, for we had little heart to talk.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000055_000001|There, on the back of it, with his right arm hanging over the edge, was the outline of Edward Keene's form.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000000|We called to him but there was no answer.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000001|The doctor climbed up with me, and we hurried to the spot where he was lying.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000002|His face was turned to the sky, his eyes blindly staring; there was no pulse, no breath; he was already cold in death.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000003|His right hand and arm, the side of his neck and face were horribly swollen and livid.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000004|The doctor stooped down and examined the hand carefully.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000005|"See!" he cried, pointing to a great bruise on his wrist, with two tiny punctures in the middle of it from which a few drops of blood had oozed, "a rattlesnake has struck him.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000006|He must have fairly put his hand upon it, perhaps in the dark, when he was climbing.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000007|And, look, what is this?"
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000057_000000|He picked up a flat silver box, that lay open on the rock.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000057_000001|There were two olive green pellets of a resinous paste in it.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000057_000002|He lifted it to his face, and drew a long breath.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000058_000000|"Yes," he said, "it is Gunjab, the most powerful form of Hashish, the narcotic hemp of India.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000060_000004|There were tear marks on her face.
train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000061_000001|We have lost him."
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000002_000000|HOW IRELAND BECAME THE MOST LEARNED COUNTRY IN EUROPE.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000003_000000|In old pagan times, long before the arrival of saint Patrick, there were schools in Ireland taught by druids.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000003_000001|And when at last Christianity came, and was spreading rapidly over the land, those old schools were still held on; but they were no longer taught by druids, and they were no longer pagan, for teachers and scholars were now all Christians.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000004_000001|These were what are called monastic or ecclesiastical schools, for they were mostly taught by monks; while the older schools, being taught by laymen, were called lay schools.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000005_000000|In lay schools was taught what might be called the native learning-the learning that had grown up in the country in the course of ages.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000005_000002|In these last the professional men were educated.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000000|These lay schools, being now within the Christian communion, were not abolished or discouraged in any way by saint Patrick or his successors.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000001|They were simply let alone, to teach their own secular learning just as they pleased.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000002|They continued on, and were to be found in every part of Ireland for fourteen centuries after saint Patrick's arrival, down to a period within our own memory; but of course greatly changed as time went on.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000004|I was myself educated in some of those lay schools; and I remember with pleasure several of my old teachers: rough and unpolished men most of them, but excellent, solid scholars, and full of enthusiasm for learning-enthusiasm which they communicated to their pupils.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000006|But the famine of eighteen forty seven broke up those schools, and in a very few years they nearly all disappeared.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000007_000000|But our business here is mainly with the early monastic schools, which became so celebrated all over Europe.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000007_000001|Before going farther it is well to remark that these schools also continued, and increased and multiplied as time went on.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000007_000002|They held their ground successfully-as the lay schools did-during the evil days of later ages, when determined attempts were made, under the penal laws, to suppress them; and at the present day they are working all over the country quite as vigorously as in days of yore.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000008_000000|To notice all the monastic schools of old that attained eminence would demand more space than can be afforded here.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000008_000004|Cork), and Derry.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000008_000005|Besides these, at least twenty five others, all eminent, are specially mentioned in our old books.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000009_000000|Many of the monastic colleges had very large numbers of students.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000009_000001|In Clonard there were three thousand, all residing in and around the college; and Bangor founded by saint Comgall, and Clonfert founded by saint Brendan the Navigator, had each as many.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000000|The students were of all classes-rich and poor-from the sons of kings and chiefs down to the sons of farmers, tradesmen, and labourers; young laymen for general education, as well as ecclesiastical students for the priesthood.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000001|All those who had the means paid their way in everything.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000003|But most of even the poorest did their best to pay something; and in this respect it is interesting to compare the usages of those long past times with some features of the college life of our own days.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000004|In some of the present American universities there is an excellent custom which enables very poor students to support themselves and pay their college fees.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000005|They wait on their richer comrades, bring up the dishes, etc, from the kitchen for meals, and lay the tables: and when the meal is over, they remove everything, wash up dishes and plates, and put them all by in their proper places.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000006|In fact, they perform most of the work expected from ordinary servants.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000007|For this they receive food and some small payment, which renders them independent of charity.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000011_000000|And the pleasing feature of this arrangement is, that it is not attended with any sense of humiliation or loss of self respect.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000011_000001|During study and lecture hours these same young men, having put by aprons and napkins, and donned their ordinary dress, are received and treated on terms of perfect equality by those they have served, who take on no airs, and do not pose as superiors, but mix with them in free and kindly intercourse as fellow students and comrades.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000012_000000|All this was anticipated in Ireland more than a thousand years ago; for a similar custom existed in some of the old Irish colleges.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000013_000000|The greatest number of the students lived in houses built by themselves, or by hired workmen-some, mere huts, each for a single person; some, large houses, for several: and all around the central college buildings there were whole streets of these houses, often forming a good sized town.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000014_000000|Where there were large numbers great care was taken that there should be no confusion or disorder.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000014_000002|The Fer leginn was always some distinguished man-of course a great scholar.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000014_000003|He was generally a monk, but sometimes a layman; for those good monks selected the best man they could find, whether priest or layman.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000015_000000|I suppose those who are accustomed to the grand universities and colleges of the present day, with their palatial buildings, would feel inclined to laugh at the simple, rough and ready methods and appliances of the old Irish colleges.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000015_000001|There were no comfortable study rooms, well furnished with desks, seats, and rostrums: no spacious lecture halls.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000015_000002|The greater part of the work, indeed, was carried on in the open air when the weather at all permitted.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000015_000003|At study time the students went just where they pleased, and accommodated themselves as best they could.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000016_000000|Then the little handbell tinkled for some particular lecture, and the special students for this hurried to their places, and seated themselves as best they could-on chair, stool, form, stone, or bank, and opened their books.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000016_000001|These same books, too, were a motley collection-some large, some small, some fresh from the scribe, some tattered and brown with age: but all most carefully covered and preserved; for they were very expensive.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000017_000000|Then the master went over the text, translating and explaining it, and whenever he thought it necessary questioned his pupils, to draw them out. After this he had to stand the cross fire of the students' questions, who asked him to explain all sorts of difficulties: for this was one of the college regulations.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000017_000001|There were no grammars, no dictionaries, no simple introductory lesson books, such as we have now.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000017_000003|And in this rugged and difficult fashion they mastered the language.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000000|The great Irish colleges were, in fact, universities in the full sense of the word, that is to say, schools which taught the whole circle of knowledge: they were, indeed, in a great measure the models on which our present universities were formed.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000001|The Latin and Greek languages and literatures were studied and taught with success.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000002|In science the Irish scholars were famous for their knowledge of Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music, Geography, and so forth.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000003|And they were equally eminent in sacred learning-Theology, Divinity, and the Holy Scriptures.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000020_000000|The schools proved their mettle by the scholars they educated and sent forth: scholars who astonished all Europe in their day.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000020_000002|john Scotus Erigena ('john the Irish born Scot') of the ninth century taught in Paris; he was the greatest Greek scholar of his time, and was equally eminent in Theology.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000000|These men, and scores of others that we cannot find space for here, spread the fame of their native country everywhere.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000001|It was no wonder that the people of Great Britain and the Continent, when they met such scholars, all from Ireland, came to the conclusion that the schools which educated them were the best to be found anywhere.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000002|Accordingly, students came from all parts of the known world, to place themselves under the masters of these schools.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000003|From Germany, France, Italy, Egypt, came priests and laymen, princes, chiefs, and peasant students-all eagerly seeking to drink from the fountain of Irish learning.
train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000005|But even in much greater numbers than these came students from Great Britain.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000000|Towards the end of the sixth century the great body of the Irish were Christians, so that the holy men of Ireland were able to turn their attention to the conversion of other people.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000001|Then arose an extraordinary zeal for spreading religion and learning in foreign lands; and hundreds of devoted and determined missionaries left our shores.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000002|There was ample field for their noble ambition.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000003|For these were the Dark Ages, when the civilisation and learning bequeathed by old Greece and Rome had been almost wiped out of existence by the barbarous northern hordes who overran Europe; and Christianity had not yet time to spread its softening influence among them.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000004_000000|To begin with the Irish missionary work in Great Britain.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000000|In the seven kingdoms of England-the Heptarchy-the Anglo Saxons were the ruling race, rude and stubborn, and greatly attached to their gloomy northern pagan gods.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000002|Aidan was an Irishman who entered the monastery of Iona, from which he was sent to preach to the Northumbrians on the invitation of their good king, Oswald.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000003|He founded the monastery of Lindisfarne, which afterwards became so illustrious.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000004|He was its first abbot; and for thirty years it was governed by him and by two other Irish abbots, Finan and Colman, in succession.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000006_000000|Whole crowds of ardent and learned Irishmen travelled on the Continent in the sixth, seventh, and succeeding centuries, spreading Christianity and secular knowledge everywhere among the people.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000006_000001|On this point we have the decisive testimony of an eminent French writer of the ninth century, Eric of Auxerre, who himself witnessed what he records.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000006_000002|In a letter written by him to Charles the Bald, king of France, he says:--"What shall I say of Ireland, who, despising the dangers of the deep, is migrating with almost her whole train of philosophers to our coasts?" And other foreign evidences of a like kind might be brought forward.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000000|These men, on their first appearance on the Continent, caused much surprise, they were so startlingly different from those preachers the people had been accustomed to.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000001|They travelled on foot towards their destination in small companies, generally of thirteen.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000003|The long hair behind flowed down on the back: and the eyelids were painted or stained black.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000004|Each had a long stout walking stick: and slung from the shoulder a leathern bottle for water, and a wallet containing his greatest treasure-a book or two and some relics.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000005|They spoke a strange language among themselves, used Latin to those who understood it, and made use of an interpreter when preaching, until they had learned the language of the place.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000001|Most of them were persons in good position, who might have lived in plenty and comfort at home.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000003|Once on the Continent, they had to make their way, poor and friendless, through people whose language they did not understand, and who were in many places ten times more rude and dangerous in those ages than the inhabitants of these islands: and we know as a matter of history, that many were killed on the way.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000004|But these stout hearted pilgrims were prepared for all this, and looking only to the service of their Master, never flinched.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000005|They were confident, cheerful, and self helpful, faced privation with indifference, caring nothing for luxuries; and when other provisions failed them, they gathered wild fruit, trapped animals, and fished, with great dexterity and with any sort of next to hand rude appliances.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000006|They were somewhat rough in outward appearance: but beneath all that they had solid sense and much learning.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000007|Their simple ways, their unmistakable piety, and their intense earnestness in the cause of religion caught the people everywhere, so that they made converts in crowds.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000009_000001|They were to be found everywhere through Europe, even as far as Iceland and the Faroe and Shetland Islands.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000009_000002|Europe was too small for their missionary enterprise.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000009_000003|Many were to be found in Egypt; and as early as the seventh century, three learned Irish monks found their way to Carthage, where they laboured for a long time and with great success.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000010_000000|Wherever they went they made pilgrimages to holy places-places sanctified by memories of early saints-and whenever they found it practicable they were sure to make their way to Rome, to visit the shrines of the apostles, and obtain the blessing of the Pope.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000011_000000|The Irish "passion for pilgrimage and preaching" never died out: it is a characteristic of the race.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000000|Irishmen were equally active in spreading secular knowledge.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000001|Indeed the two functions were generally combined; for it was quite common to find a man a successful missionary, while at the same time acting as professor in a college, or as head of some great seminary for general education.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000002|Irish professors and teachers were in those times held in such estimation that they were employed in most of the schools and colleges of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000003|The revival of learning on the Continent was indeed due in no small degree to those Irish missionaries.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000004|It was enough that the candidate for an appointment came from Ireland: he needed no other recommendation.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000013_000001|In Glastonbury especially, they taught with great success.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000013_000002|We are told by English writers that "they were skilled in every department of learning sacred and profane"; and that under them were educated many young English nobles, sent to Glastonbury with that object.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000013_000003|Among these students the most distinguished was saint Dunstan, who, according to all his biographers, received his education, both Scriptural and secular, from Irish masters there.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000014_000000|As for the numerous Continental schools and colleges in which Irishmen figured either as principals or professors, it would be impossible, with our limited space, to notice them here.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000015_000001|Observing how the merchants exhibited and drew attention to their wares, they acted in a similar fashion to force themselves into notice like the others.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000015_000003|This they repeated as they went from place to place, so that the people wondered very much; and some thought them to be nothing more than persons half crazed.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000016_000000|Strange rumours regarding them went round, and at length came to the ears of King Charles; on which he sent for the brothers, and had them brought to his presence.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000000|Now at this very time King Charles was using his best efforts to restore learning, by opening schools throughout his dominions, but found it hard to procure a sufficient supply of qualified teachers.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000001|And as he perceived that these brothers were evidently men of real learning, and of a superior cast in every way, he joyfully accepted their proposals.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000002|Having kept them for some time on a visit in his palace, he finally opened a great school in some part of France-probably Paris-for the education of boys of all ranks of society, not only for the sons of the highest nobles, but also for those of the middle and low classes, at the head of which he placed Clement.
train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000003|He also directed that all the scholars should be provided with food and suitable habitations: it was in fact a great free boarding school, founded and maintained at the expense of the king.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000000_000000|CHAPTER six THE FIRST VALLEY
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000001_000001|Some of the voices sounded loud and shrill, others low and deep, but all rang with a happy tone that aroused the children's interest at once, and made them wonder what occasion could cause so much amusement.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000002_000000|Then, so suddenly that it quite startled the childish voyagers, the boat glided from the archway into the most beautiful country one could imagine.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000003_000000|It was a Valley, as the Watch Dog had said; but it was level and sunny and dotted with broad leaved trees; while soft, tender grasses, mingled with brilliant flowers, covered the ground in every direction.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000004_000000|On many of these raised and padded platforms, Dot and Tot saw groups of funny looking Clowns, all dressed in wide, baggy trousers, puffy jackets and soft, pointed caps.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000004_000001|Yet in their costumes was an endless variety of colorings and combinations of colors, making the groups look remarkably bright and pleasing.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000006_000001|These feats were greeted with shouts of laughter by other Clowns who were resting and looking on, and these spectators also cried out their approval or poked fun at the performers when they failed to accomplish the acts they were attempting.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000009_000001|As his lips seemed to move, she took away her fingers from her ears that she might hear what he was saying.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000011_000000|Then, with another bow, the leader addressed her, speaking in a sweet and most pleasing tone of voice, "Welcome, O King and Queen of Children, to the Valley of Clowns!
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000013_000000|Then the leader of the Clowns again spoke, "If you will graciously consent to land in our country, where everything we have is at your service, we shall be delighted to amuse you to the best of our ability."
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000014_000000|"You are very kind," answered Dot, "and as we are tired by sitting in the boat so long, we shall be glad to accept your invitation."
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000015_000001|Then Dot and Tot stepped out upon land, and as they did so every Clown present turned a backward somersault and shouted, "Here we are again!"
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000016_000000|The one who had first spoken to them now came forward and shook hands with both Dot and Tot in a very polite manner.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000017_000001|I beg you will allow me to escort you to my dwelling; but first I should like to know your names, and how you came here."
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000018_000001|We've come in a boat, long, long ways off.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000019_000000|"We are delighted to have you with us, however you came here," replied the Clown; "and as for your getting home again, why, that is worry, and no one ever worries in the Valley of Clowns.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000019_000001|You are welcome to remain our guests as long as you please, and while you are with us you must consider us your slaves, for Clowns have always been the slaves of children." Then he turned to the others.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000020_000001|"Allow me to introduce you to our friends Dot and Tot, of the Big Round World.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000021_000000|Instantly every Clown stood upon his head and knocked his heels together in the air.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000023_000000|The Prince carried them to one of the prettiest platforms and set them gently upon its cushioned top.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000024_000000|"Welcome to my dwelling," he said.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000027_000001|Let us enter."
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000029_000000|"Come on!" he cried, and jumping down the hole, disappeared from view.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000030_000001|Just beneath her was Flippityflop, holding out his arms.
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000031_000000|"Come on!" he said again; "I'll catch you."
train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000032_000000|Dot did not hesitate, but dropped through the opening, and the Prince caught her safely in his arms.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000000_000000|CHAPTER seven THE CLOWN COUNTRY
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000001_000000|Flippityflop's house proved to be one big room, built under the platform, and lighted by a soft glow from hidden electric lamps.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000001_000001|The walls were covered with bright yellow silk hangings and on the floor was a crimson carpet.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000002_000001|Therefore I am proud of them."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000003_000000|"They look very jolly," said Dot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000004_000000|"They were jolly, and proved a comfort to thousands of children.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000004_000001|But you must be hungry, and I trust you will allow me to offer you some dinner.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000004_000002|What will you have?"
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000005_000000|"What you got?" inquired Tot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000006_000000|"Well, I have in my cupboard some fried goldfish, boiled buttercups and pickled shoelaces," he answered.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000008_000000|"These seem rather foolish things to eat," remarked Dot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000009_000000|"Of course, they are foolish things," agreed Flippityflop, cheerfully.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000009_000001|"Everything we do here is foolish.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000009_000002|You certainly can't expect wisdom in a country of Clowns."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000010_000000|"Course not," said Tot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000011_000000|"If you'll send to the boat for our basket, I think we will prefer to eat the things we brought with us," declared Dot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000012_000000|"Certainly!" answered the Prince, and immediately sticking his head through the trapdoor, he asked a Clown who stood outside to fetch the basket.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000013_000000|It came in a remarkably short time, and then Flippityflop assisted Dot to lay the cloth on the blue and silver table, while the children proceeded to eat of the sandwiches, cake and apple tarts that remained in the basket.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000014_000000|"Wouldn't you like something to drink?" asked the Prince.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000016_000001|"But we have some excellent green paint, or, if you prefer it, I can give a bottle of red mucilage."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000017_000000|"No, thank you," said Dot; "we couldn't drink those.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000017_000001|Perhaps you will bring us some fresh water from the river."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000018_000000|"But the water is quite wet," exclaimed the Clown, "and is liable to make you damp.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000019_000000|"Oh, yes; we're accustomed to drinking water," said the girl.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000020_000000|So the water was sent for, and Dot and Tot took long and refreshing drinks, although their action alarmed Flippityflop, who urged them to eat a few handfuls of sawdust afterward to absorb the dampness.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000022_000001|"You see, we train them all very carefully, and every year one is selected to go into the world."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000024_000000|"At the upper edge of our Valley there is one place not so steep as the rest.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000025_000001|"I've seen 'em--in circuses."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000026_000001|Do they make the children laugh?"
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000000|"When they do not," said Flippityflop, gravely, "they are imitation Clowns, and were never trained in this Valley of Merryland.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000001|The real Clowns are sure to make you laugh.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000002|But come, it is time our people were gathering on the platforms for their evening practice.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000003|Would you like to watch them?"
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000029_000000|"Yes, indeed!" cried Dot, joyfully; and Tot clapped his hands and echoed: "'Deed, yes!"
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000030_000000|So Flippityflop lifted them through the hole to the top of the padded platform, where they saw a strange and merry sight.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000031_000001|The trees were full of electric lights, which shed brilliant rays over the scene and enabled the children to see everything distinctly.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000033_000000|They left the Prince's platform and came to the next, where three gaily dressed Clowns were bounding into the air and whirling around before they came down again.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000033_000002|When this happened they were not hurt, for the platform was soft and yielding; so they sprang up at once and tried it over again, laughing at their own mishaps.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000034_000001|One of these placed a light ladder on his shoulders, and another ran up it and stood upon his head on the top rung.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000036_000001|They stopped to listen while he sang as follows:
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000039_000000|After each verse another Clown cracked a long whip at the singer, which made him leap into the air and screw his face up in such a comical way that Dot and Tot were greatly amused, and applauded him rapturously.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000042_000000|This singer had so droll an expression on his face that Tot yelled with rapture, and Dot found herself laughing heartily.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000042_000001|Indeed, the whole performance was a delight to the children, and they were sorry when a bell rang and put a stop to the antics of the Clowns.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000044_000001|In less than a minute Dot and Tot were fast asleep, curled up side by side, with their arms entwined.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000046_000000|"That is my alarm clock," answered Flippityflop, who had been reclining upon a bench at the other side of the room.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000047_000000|"It's a queer alarm clock," said the girl.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000048_000000|"But a very good one," returned the Clown.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000048_000001|"It is really a big music box under the bench, which starts playing every morning at seven o'clock.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000049_000000|"I think it's a lovely clock," said Tot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000052_000000|"Don't want 'em!" cried Tot.
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000053_000001|"What peculiar tastes you children have!"
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000054_000000|But he allowed them to breakfast from their own stock of food, and when the meal was finished Dot said, "We must be going now; but first I wish to thank you for the pleasant time we have had in your Valley. We enjoyed the Clowns very much indeed."
train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000055_000000|"Nice Clowns," declared Tot, with emphasis.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000001_000000|The carriage itself was of the kind that are sold in toy shops, and it was drawn by two horses standing upon wooden platforms with rollers underneath, so that instead of the horses themselves running, the wheels of the platforms whirled around, taking the carriage wherever the driver might direct.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000001_000001|This driver looked for all the world like a rag doll dressed in a coachman's uniform.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000001_000002|His neck was rather weak, and that caused his head to lean slightly to one side, giving him a somewhat broken down appearance; but he held the reins firmly in his stuffed hands and looked straight ahead, like a well trained servant.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000002_000002|Her silken hair was long and of a golden color, while her eyes were blue, and had in their depths a sweet and gentle expression.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000002_000003|As for her complexion, it was a dainty pink and white, delicately blended.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000006_000000|"We came in a boat," replied the girl; "and this is my friend, Tot Thompson, and I am Dot Freeland."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000008_000001|"This is private property, and I have placed guards to prevent anyone entering my Valleys."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000009_000000|"Are you the Queen?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000011_000001|"It was we who disobeyed. But we really couldn't help it, for we had to go wherever the boat carried us."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000013_000000|After she had heard the story, the little lady looked puzzled for a moment and then said, "No one who enters my kingdom should ever be allowed to leave it again, for if they did the world should soon know all about me and my people.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000013_000001|If that happened, all our comfort and fun would be spoiled, for strangers would be coming here every day."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000014_000000|"Have strangers been here before?" asked Dot, timidly.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000015_000000|"Never," answered the Queen.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000016_000000|"Then what are you going to do with us?" inquired the girl.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000017_000001|You see, I am so perplexed that I have stopped smiling, and that will never do in the world; for should the weather change and cool my wax, I would remain solemn until it warmed up again, and my people would then think me unworthy to be the Queen of Merryland."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000018_000000|"I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble," said Dot, softly. "I'd much rather be at home again, if I could, although your Valleys are so queer and delightful."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000019_000000|Then the Queen again smiled upon them.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000020_000001|Until then you must come to my palace and be treated as my guests."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000021_000000|"Thank you," said Dot and Tot together.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000022_000000|The Queen turned to the wooden Captain and commanded:
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000023_000000|"Escort these strangers to my royal palace, and see that you treat them most politely; for although they are in reality my prisoners, they have been guilty of no intentional wrong and seem to be nice children."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000026_000000|Then the Queen stepped into her carriage, the rag coachman cracked his whip, and the wheels of the horses' platform began spinning around.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000026_000001|Then the Queen rode swiftly up the street to her royal palace.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000027_000000|Dot and Tot followed more slowly, for the Captain who escorted them was exceedingly small and walked stiffly, having no joints in his knees.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000027_000001|As they trudged along Tot asked the Captain:
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000028_000000|"Why do the horses go on wheels?"
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000029_000000|"Because they're made that way, I suppose," was the reply.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000031_000000|"It would tire them too much," answered the Captain.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000031_000001|"Being on platforms, the horses never get tired, you see, for the wheels do all the work."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000032_000000|"Oh!" said Tot, "I see." Then, after a pause, he asked:
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000000|"Cotton," answered the Captain.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000001|"We keep them quite full of it all the time.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000002|That's what makes them look so plump and healthy.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000003|What do they feed horses on in your country?"
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000036_000000|"We tried stuffing ours with hay once," remarked the Captain; "but it made their skins look lumpy, it was so coarse; so now we use cotton altogether."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000037_000000|"I see," said Tot again, in a rather bewildered voice.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000039_000000|Thereupon the gate opened slowly, and they passed into a beautiful flower garden, and walked along the green bordered paths until they came to the high arched doorway of the palace.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000043_000000|She touched a bell that stood upon a table near by, and at once there came into the room a little boy doll, dressed in a brown suit with brass buttons.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000043_000001|He was larger in size than any doll Tot had seen outside of Merryland, yet he was not so big as the Queen herself. When the children looked at him closely, they could see that his face and hands and feet were knitted from colored worsteds, while his eyes were two big black beads.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000044_000000|This curious doll walked straight up to the Queen and bowed before her, while she said, "Scollops, show this young man to the laughing chamber, and wait upon him while he arranges his toilet."
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000045_000000|Scollops, as the knitted boy seemed named, bowed again and murmured, "Your Majesty shall be obeyed." Then, turning to Tot, he took his hand and led him from the room.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000047_000000|"To the laughing chamber," replied Scollops; and having reached the top of the stairs, they walked down a long hallway and entered a room so odd and pretty that Tot stopped short and gazed at it in astonishment.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000048_000001|But upon the wall were painted hundreds of heads of children-boys and girls of all countries, with light and dark hair, straight and curly hair, blue and black and brown and gray eyes, and all with laughing faces.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000048_000002|The posts of the bed were also carved into laughing baby faces; the chairs and the dresser showed a face upon every spot where there was a place for one, and every face throughout the whole room had a smile upon it.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000048_000003|To match the rest of the furniture, the carpet had woven upon it in bright colors all kinds of laughing children's faces, and the effect of the queer room was to make Tot himself laugh until the tears roll down his cheeks.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000049_000000|When the boy had looked the room over and seen all the faces, Scollops helped him to wash his hands and face, to comb his hair and to brush his clothes, and when this task was finished, the woolly doll said:
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000051_000002|Softly his eyes closed, and in another moment he would have been sound asleep had not Scollops raised him to his feet and said:
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000052_000000|"It is not time for sleep yet, for you haven't had your dinner.
train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000052_000001|But the laughing faces will make you slumber peacefully when the time comes, and give you pleasant dreams, too."
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000000_000000|james MONROE.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000001_000000|The fifth president of the United States was a native of the grand Old Dominion, being born in Westmoreland county virginia, april twenty eighth seventeen fifty eight. Like his predecessor, Madison, he was the son of a planter.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000001_000001|Another strange incident:--Within sight of Blue Ridge in Virginia, lived three presidents of the United States, whose public career commenced in the revolutionary times and whose political faith was the same throughout a long series of years.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000001_000002|These were Thomas Jefferson, james Madison and james Monroe.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000000|In early youthhood Monroe received a good education, but left school to join the army and soon after was commissioned a lieutenant.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000001|He took an active part in the campaign on the Hudson, and in the attack on Trenton, at the head of a small detachment, he captured one of the British batteries.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000002|On this occasion he received a ball in the shoulder, and was promoted to a captaincy.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000003|As aide de camp to Lord Sterling, with the rank of major, he served in the campaign of seventeen seventy seven and seventeen seventy eight, and distinguished himself in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000003_000000|Leaving the army, he returned to Virginia and commenced the study of law under Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of the State.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000003_000001|When the British appeared soon afterward in the State, Monroe exerted himself to the utmost in organizing the militia of the lower counties; and when the enemy proceeded southward, Jefferson sent him as military commissioner to the army in South Carolina.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000004_000000|In seventeen eighty two, he was elected to the assembly of Virginia from the county of King George, and was appointed by that body, although but twenty three years of age, a member of the executive council.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000005_000000|The resolution was referred to a committee of which he was chairman, and a report was made in favor of the measure.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000006_000001|In seventeen eighty five he married a daughter of peter Kortright, a lady of refinement and culture.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000007_000003|In the Senate he became a strong representative of the anti Federal party, and acted with it until his term expired in seventeen ninety four.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000009_000000|On his return to America he published a 'View of the conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States,' which widened the breach between him and the administration, but socially Monroe remained upon good terms with both Washington and Jay.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000011_000000|In the same year he was commissioned Minister Plenipotentiary to England, and endeavored to conclude a convention for the protection of neutral rights, and against the impressment of seamen.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000011_000001|In the midst of these negotiations he was directed to proceed to Madrid as Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to adjust the difficulties between the United States and Spain, in relation to the boundaries of the new purchase of Louisiana.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000011_000003|On the last day of that year a treaty was concluded, but because of the omission of any provision against the impressment of seamen, and its doubtfulness in relation to other leading points the president sent it back for revisal.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000012_000000|The time was approaching for the election of a president, and a considerable body of the Republican party had brought Monroe forward as their candidate, but the preference of Jefferson for Madison was well known and of course had its influence.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000012_000001|Monroe believed that the rejection of the treaty and the predilection expressed for his rival indicated hostility on the part of the retiring President, and a correspondence on the subject ensued.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000015_000000|His attention was also directed to the defence of New Orleans, and finding the public credit completely prostrated, he pledged his private means as subsidary to the credit of the Government, and enabled the city to successfully oppose the forces of the enemy.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000016_000000|In that year he succeeded to the Presidency himself, by an electoral vote of one hundred eighty three out of two hundred seventeen, as the candidate of the party now generally known as Democratic.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000018_000000|On this tour he wore the undress uniform of a continental officer.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000022_000000|He was chosen a justice of the peace, and as such sat in the county court.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000022_000001|In eighteen twenty nine he became a member of the Virginia convention to revise the constitution, and was chosen to preside over the deliberations of that body but he was obliged, on account of ill health, to resign his position in that body and return to his home.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000023_000000|Although Monroe had received three hundred fifty thousand dollars for his public services alone, he was greatly harrassed with creditors toward the latter part of his life. Toward the last he made his home with his son in law, Samuel l Gouverneur of New York city, where he was originally buried, but in eighteen thirty he was removed to Richmond with great pomp and re interred in Holleywood Cemetery.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000024_000002|He encouraged the army, increased the navy, augmented the national defences, protected commerce, approved of the United States Bank, and infused vigor into every department of the public service.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000025_000000|His honesty, good faith, and simplicity were generally acknowledged, and disarmed the political rancor of the strongest opponents.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000025_000001|Madison thought the country had never fully appreciated the robust understanding of Monroe.
train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000025_000002|In person, Monroe was tall and well formed, with light complexion and blue eyes.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000001_000000|MOTTO FOR THE MOTHER
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000005_000000|The first knight was called Sir Brian the Brave.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000005_000001|He had killed the great lion that came out of the forest to frighten the women and children, had slain a dragon, and had saved a princess from a burning castle; for he was afraid of nothing under the sun
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000006_000000|The second knight was Gerald the Glad, who was so happy himself that he made everybody around him happy too; for his sweet smile and cheery words were so comforting that none could be sad or cross or angry when he was near.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000007_000000|Sir Kenneth the Kind was the third knight, and he won his name by his tender heart.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000007_000001|Even the creatures of the wood knew and loved him, for he never hurt anything that God had made.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000008_000000|The fourth knight had a face as beautiful as his name, and he was called Percival the Pure.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000008_000001|He thought beautiful thoughts, said beautiful words, and did beautiful deeds, for he kept his whole life as lovely as a garden full of flowers without a single weed.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000009_000000|Tristram the True was the last knight, and he was leader of them all.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000010_000000|The king of the country trusted these five knights; and one morning in the early spring time he called them to him and said:--
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000000|"My trusty knights, I am growing old, and I long to see in my kingdom many knights like you to take care of my people; and so I will send you through all my kingdom to choose for me a little boy who may live at my court and learn from you those things which a knight must know.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000001|Only a good child can be chosen.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000002|A good child is worth more than a kingdom.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000003|And when you have found him, bring him, if he will come willingly, to me, and I shall be happy in my old age."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000012_000000|Now the knights were well pleased with the words of the king, and at the first peep of day they were ready for their journey, and rode down the king's highway with waving plumes and shining shields.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000014_000000|The parents' messages were so full of praises of their children that the knights scarcely knew where to go.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000014_000001|Some of the parents said that their sons were beautiful; some said theirs were smart; but as the knights cared nothing for a child who was not good, they did not hurry to see these children.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000015_000000|On the second day, however, as they rode along, they met a company of men in very fine clothes, who bowed down before them; and while the knights drew rein in astonishment, a little man stepped in front of the others to speak to them.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000016_000000|He was a fat little man, with a fat little voice; and he told the knights that he had come to invite them to the castle of the Baron Borribald, whose son Florimond was the most wonderful child in the world.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000017_000000|"Oh! there is nothing he cannot do," cried the fat little man whose name was Puff.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000017_000001|"You must hear him talk!
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000017_000002|You must see him walk!"
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000018_000000|So the knights followed him; and when they had reached the castle, Florimond ran to meet them.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000018_000001|He was a merry little fellow, with long fair curls and rosy cheeks; and when he saw the fine horses he clapped his hands with delight.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000018_000002|The baron and baroness, too, were well pleased with their visitors, and made a feast in their honor; but early the next morning, the knights were startled by a most awful sound which seemed to come from the hall below.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000019_000001|It sounded something like the howling of a dog; but as they listened, it grew louder and louder, until it sounded like the roaring of a lion.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000021_000000|His mamma and papa were begging him to be quiet.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000022_000000|Then the knights saw that they were not wanted, and they hurried upstairs to prepare for their journey.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000022_000001|The baron and baroness and fat little Puff all begged them to stay, and Florimond cried again when they left him; but the knights did not care to stay with a child who was not good.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000024_000000|North, south, east, and west, they searched; and at last, one afternoon, they halted under an oak tree, to talk, and they decided to part company.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000028_000000|"Greeting to you, little boy," said he.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000029_000000|"Greeting to you, fair sir," said the boy, looking up with eager eyes at the knight on his splendid horse, that stood so still when the knight bade it.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000030_000000|"What is your name?" asked the knight.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000032_000000|"And can you prove a trusty guide, little Gauvain, and lead me to a pleasant place where I may rest to night?" asked the knight.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000034_000000|Now little Gauvain wanted to help the good knight so much that he was sorry to say this; but Sir Tristram told him to run, and promised to wait patiently until his return; and before many moments Gauvain was back, bounding like a fawn through the wood, to lead the way to his own home.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000035_000000|When they came there the little dog ran out to meet them, and the cat rubbed up against Gauvain, and the mother called from the kitchen:--
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000036_000000|"Is that my sunbeam coming home to roost?" which made Gauvain and the knight both laugh.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000041_000000|Sir Tristram was so glad of this that he could scarcely wait for the time to come when he should meet his comrades under the oak tree.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000043_000000|"I have found a child whom you must see," he said, as soon as they came together.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000045_000000|"And I," exclaimed Kenneth the Kind.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000046_000000|"And I," said Brian the Brave.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000047_000000|"And I," said Percival the Pure; and they looked at each other in astonishment.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000048_000000|"I do not know the child's name," continued Gerald the Glad; "but as I was riding in the forest I heard some one singing the merriest song!
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000049_000000|"I rode by the highway," said Sir Brian the Brave, "and I came suddenly upon a crowd of great, rough fellows who were trying to torment a small black dog; and just as I saw them, a little boy ran up, as brave as a knight, and took the dog in his arms, and covered it with his coat.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000049_000001|The rest ran away when I rode up; but the child stayed, and told me his name-Gauvain."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000050_000001|I tarried all night at her cottage, and she told me of his kindness."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000051_000000|"I saw a lad at the spring near by," said Percival the Pure.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000051_000002|I should like to find his home and see him there."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000053_000000|"Come, and I will carry you to the child!" And when the knights followed him, he led them to the home where little Gauvain was working with his mother, as happy as a lark and as gentle as a dove.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000057_000000|"Greeting to you!
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000057_000001|The king, our wise ruler, has sent us here to see your good child; for a good child is more precious than a kingdom.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000057_000002|And the king offers him his love and favor if you will let him ride with us to live at the king's court and learn to be a knight."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000058_000000|Little Gauvain and his mother were greatly astonished.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000060_000000|"I cannot spare my good child from my home.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000060_000001|The king's love is precious; but I love my child more than the whole world, and he is dearer to me than a thousand kingdoms."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000061_000001|All day and all night they rode, and it was the peep of day when they came to the king's highway.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000061_000002|Then they rode slowly, for they were sad because of their news; but the king rejoiced when he heard it, for he said: "Such a child, with such a mother, will grow into a knight at home."
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000062_000000|The king's words were true; for when the king was an old, old man, Gauvain rode to his court and was knighted.
train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000063_000000|Gauvain had a beautiful name of his own then, for he was called "Gauvain the Good"; and he was brave, happy, kind, pure, and true.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000000|It was the second day in Easter week.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000001|The air was warm, the sky was blue, the sun was high, warm, bright, but my soul was very gloomy.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000002|I sauntered behind the prison barracks.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000004|This was the second day of the "holidays" in the prison; the convicts were not taken out to work, there were numbers of men drunk, loud abuse and quarrelling was springing up continually in every corner.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000006|Several of the convicts who had been sentenced by their comrades, for special violence, to be beaten till they were half dead, were lying on the platform bed, covered with sheepskins till they should recover and come to themselves again; knives had already been drawn several times.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000007|For these two days of holiday all this had been torturing me till it made me ill.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000008|And indeed I could never endure without repulsion the noise and disorder of drunken people, and especially in this place.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000010|At last a sudden fury flamed up in my heart.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000011|A political prisoner called m met me; he looked at me gloomily, his eyes flashed and his lips quivered.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000014|Now on returning I noticed on the bed in the furthest corner of the room Gazin lying unconscious, almost without sign of life.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000018|But why describe my impressions; I sometimes dream even now of those times at night, and I have no dreams more agonising.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000020|I may add by the way that since then, very many persons have supposed, and even now maintain, that I was sent to penal servitude for the murder of my wife.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000000|Gradually I sank into forgetfulness and by degrees was lost in memories. During the whole course of my four years in prison I was continually recalling all my past, and seemed to live over again the whole of my life in recollection.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000001|These memories rose up of themselves, it was not often that of my own will I summoned them.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000002|It would begin from some point, some little thing, at times unnoticed, and then by degrees there would rise up a complete picture, some vivid and complete impression.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000003|I used to analyse these impressions, give new features to what had happened long ago, and best of all, I used to correct it, correct it continually, that was my great amusement.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000005|I remembered the month of August in our country house: a dry bright day but rather cold and windy; summer was waning and soon we should have to go to Moscow to be bored all the winter over French lessons, and I was so sorry to leave the country.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000006|I walked past the threshing floor and, going down the ravine, I went up to the dense thicket of bushes that covered the further side of the ravine as far as the copse.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000007|And I plunged right into the midst of the bushes, and heard a peasant ploughing alone on the clearing about thirty paces away.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000008|I knew that he was ploughing up the steep hill and the horse was moving with effort, and from time to time the peasant's call "come up!" floated upwards to me.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000009|I knew almost all our peasants, but I did not know which it was ploughing now, and I did not care who it was, I was absorbed in my own affairs.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000010|I was busy, too; I was breaking off switches from the nut trees to whip the frogs with.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000011|Nut sticks make such fine whips, but they do not last; while birch twigs are just the opposite.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000012|I was interested, too, in beetles and other insects; I used to collect them, some were very ornamental.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000014|There were not many mushrooms there.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000002_000000|It was our peasant Marey.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000002_000001|I don't know if there is such a name, but every one called him Marey-a thick set, rather well grown peasant of fifty, with a good many grey hairs in his dark brown, spreading beard.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000002_000003|He stopped his horse on hearing my cry, and when, breathless, I caught with one hand at his plough and with the other at his sleeve, he saw how frightened I was.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000003_000000|"There is a wolf!" I cried, panting.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000004_000000|He flung up his head, and could not help looking round for an instant, almost believing me.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000005_000000|"Where is the wolf?"
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000006_000000|"A shout ... some one shouted: 'wolf' ..." I faltered out.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000000|"Nonsense, nonsense!
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000001|A wolf?
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000002|Why, it was your fancy!
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000003|How could there be a wolf?" he muttered, reassuring me.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000004|But I was trembling all over, and still kept tight hold of his smock frock, and I must have been quite pale.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000005|He looked at me with an uneasy smile, evidently anxious and troubled over me.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000008_000001|"There, dear....
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000010_000000|"Come, come, there; Christ be with you!
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000010_000001|Cross yourself!"
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000011_000000|But I did not cross myself.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000011_000001|The corners of my mouth were twitching, and I think that struck him particularly.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000011_000002|He put out his thick, black nailed, earth stained finger and softly touched my twitching lips.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000012_000001|There; come, come!"
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000013_000001|Yet that shout had been so clear and distinct, but such shouts (not only about wolves) I had imagined once or twice before, and I was aware of that. (These hallucinations passed away later as I grew older.)
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000014_000000|"Well, I will go then," I said, looking at him timidly and inquiringly.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000000|"Well, do, and I'll keep watch on you as you go.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000002|Come, run along then," and he made the sign of the cross over me and then over himself.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000003|I walked away, looking back almost at every tenth step.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000006|With Voltchok I felt quite safe, and I turned round to Marey for the last time; I could not see his face distinctly, but I felt that he was still nodding and smiling affectionately to me.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000016_000000|All this I recalled all at once, I don't know why, but with extraordinary minuteness of detail.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000016_000001|I suddenly roused myself and sat up on the platform bed, and, I remember, found myself still smiling quietly at my memories.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000016_000002|I brooded over them for another minute.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000000|When I got home that day I told no one of my "adventure" with Marey.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000001|And indeed it was hardly an adventure.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000002|And in fact I soon forgot Marey.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000003|When I met him now and then afterwards, I never even spoke to him about the wolf or anything else; and all at once now, twenty years afterwards in Siberia, I remembered this meeting with such distinctness to the smallest detail.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000005|"There, there, you have had a fright, little one!" And I remembered particularly the thick earth stained finger with which he softly and with timid tenderness touched my quivering lips.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000006|Of course any one would have reassured a child, but something quite different seemed to have happened in that solitary meeting; and if I had been his own son, he could not have looked at me with eyes shining with greater love.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000007|And what made him like that?
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000008|He was our serf and I was his little master, after all.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000009|No one would know that he had been kind to me and reward him for it.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000010|Was he, perhaps, very fond of little children?
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000011|Some people are.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000018_000001|I walked about, looking into the faces that I met. That shaven peasant, branded on his face as a criminal, bawling his hoarse, drunken song, may be that very Marey; I cannot look into his heart.
train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000019_000000|I met m again that evening.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000001_000000|There is something exceedingly delusive in thus looking back, through the long vista of departed years, and catching a glimpse of the fairy realms of antiquity.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000001_000001|Like a landscape melting into distance, they receive a thousand charms from their very obscurity, and the fancy delights to fill up their outlines with graces and excellences of its own creation.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000001_000002|Thus loom on my imagination those happier days of our city, when as yet New Amsterdam was a mere pastoral town, shrouded in groves of sycamores and willows, and surrounded by trackless forests and wide spreading waters, that seemed to shut out all the cares and vanities of a wicked world.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000002_000001|And in this particular I greatly admire the wisdom and sound knowledge of human nature displayed by the sage Oloffe the Dreamer and his fellow legislators.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000002_000002|For my part, I have not so bad an opinion of mankind as many of my brother philosophers.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000002_000003|I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000003_000001|Thus, having quietly settled themselves down, and provided for their own comfort, they bethought themselves of testifying their gratitude to the great and good saint Nicholas, for his protecting care in guiding them to this delectable abode.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000003_000002|To this end they built a fair and goodly chapel within the fort, which they consecrated to his name; whereupon he immediately took the town of New Amsterdam under his peculiar patronage, and he has even since been, and I devoutly hope will ever be, the tutelar saint of this excellent city.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000004_000000|At this early period was instituted that pious ceremony, still religiously observed in all our ancient families of the right breed, of hanging up a stocking in the chimney on saint Nicholas Eve; which stocking is always found in the morning miraculously filled; for the good saint Nicholas has ever been a great giver of gifts, particularly to children.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000005_000002|As however, in spite of the most diligent search, I cannot lay my hands upon this little book, I must confess that I entertain considerable doubt on the subject.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000000|Thus benignly fostered by the good saint Nicholas, the infant city thrived apace.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000001|Hordes of painted savages, it is true, still lurked about the unsettled parts of the island.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000002|The hunter still pitched his bower of skins and bark beside the rills that ran through the cool and shady glens, while here and there might be seen, on some sunny knoll, a group of Indian wigwams whose smoke arose above the neighboring trees, and floated in the transparent atmosphere.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000003|A mutual good will, however, existed between these wandering beings and the burghers of New Amsterdam.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000009_000000|The legend of this sylvan war was long current among the nurses, old wives, and other ancient chroniclers of the place; but time and improvement have almost obliterated both the tradition and the scene of battle; for what was once the blood stained valley is now in the center of this populous city, and known by the name of Dey Street.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000010_000000|I know not whether it was to this "Peach War," and the acquisitions of Indian land which may have grown out of it, that we may ascribe the first seeds of the spirit of "annexation" which now began to manifest themselves.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000010_000002|Shortly after the Peach War however, a restless spirit was observed among the New Amsterdammers, who began to cast wistful looks upon the wild lands of their Indian neighbors; for somehow or other wild Indian land always looks greener in the eyes of settlers than the land they occupy.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000010_000003|It is hinted that Oloffe the Dreamer encouraged these notions; having, as has been shown, the inherent spirit of a land speculator, which had been wonderfully quickened and expanded since he had become a landholder.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000011_000000|The result of these dreams were certain exploring expeditions sent forth in various directions to "sow the seeds of empire," as it was said.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000011_000002|He was accompanied by Mynheer Ten Breeches, as land measurer, in case of any dispute with the Indians.
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000012_000000|What was the consequence of these exploring expeditions?
train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000014_000000|But as this opens a new era in the fortunes of New Amsterdam I will here put an end to this second book of my history, and will treat of the maternal policy of the mother country in my next.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000001|He is five feet eight inches in height, and has brown hair and eyes.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000004|He is of quick, nervous temperament.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000005|Has an aversion from most outdoor sports, but a great esthetic attraction to nature.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000006|Highly educated.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000000|As far back as he can remember, he lived in a house from which his parents removed when he was four years old.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000001|Before this removal, he remembers two distinctly sexual experiences.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000002|A cousin five years older was in the bathroom, seated, and m o was feeling his sexual organs; his mother called him out.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000004|They were lying on a carriage seat attempting intercourse.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000005|The girl's older sister came in and found them.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000006|She said: "I am going to tell mamma; you know she said for you not to do that any more." With each of these clear memories comes the strong impression that it was but one among many.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000007|Five years ago m o met a man of his own age who had lived in that neighborhood at the same time. Comparing notes, they found that nearly all the small children in it had been given to such practices.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000000|From it, m o removed to another of just about the same character, and lived there until he was eleven years old.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000001|Of this period his memories are very fresh and abundant.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000002|With a single exception, all the children between five and fourteen years of age appear to have indulged freely in promiscuous sexual play.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000003|In little companies of from four to twelve they went where trees or long grass hid them from observation, and exhibited their persons to one another; sometimes, also, they handled one another, but not in the way of masturbation.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000006|In m o's case there was eager sexual curiosity, and a more or less keen desire, but actual contact brought no great satisfaction.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000008|In all these plays he is sure that girls took the initiative as often as boys did.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000001|This was conventional among the children, and was fostered by the banter of older persons.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000002|m o's sexual curiosity was certainly greater in regard to the opposite sex.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000003|At this time, however, his homosexual interests appeared.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000005|He and another boy were once in an abandoned garden, and they took off all their clothes, the better to examine each other.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000006|The other boy then offered to kiss m o's fundament, and did so.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000007|It caused a surprisingly keen and distinctly sexual sensation, the first sexual shock that he can remember experiencing.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000008|He refused to reciprocate, however, when asked.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000000|Toward the end of this period there was a new and increasing development of another sort, not recognized then as at all sexual in character.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000001|He began to feel toward certain boys in a way very different and much keener than he had done thus far toward girls, although at the time he made no comparisons.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000002|For instance there was a boy whom he considered very pretty.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000003|They visited each other often and spent long times playing together.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000004|In school they looked and looked at each other until delicious, uncontrollable giggling spells came on.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000005|Sexual matters were never discussed or thought of.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000007|m o is sure that with himself the main consideration was always the other boy's beauty.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000007_000001|From this time until the changes of puberty were well under way his sexual life contrasted strongly, in its solitude, with the former promiscuity.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000007_000004|He flirted, consciously flirted, with certain school girls, but never even suggested anything sexual to them.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000007_000005|He read a few family medical books.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000008_000001|He repeated the thing and before long produced emissions.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000008_000002|Masturbation soon followed. Certain days he would perform the act two or three times, but again he would avoid it for days.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000008_000003|He began at once to fight the tendency, and felt very guilty and very ashamed for indulging it. He prayed for help and at times wept over his failures to break the habit so quickly formed.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000010_000001|He lay for hours dreaming of this, and inventing thrilling situations. Suddenly, at church, he became acquainted with the very youth, Edmund, who seemed to satisfy all his longings.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000010_000006|Their parents may have been slightly uneasy at times, but the connection continued uninterruptedly for a year and a half or more.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000010_000007|In the meantime m o occasionally had relations with other boys, but never wavered in his real preference for Edmund.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000011_000000|Then m o and Edmund went to college at different places, but they met in vacations and wrote frequent and ardent love letters. Both had genuine attacks of love sickness and of jealousy.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000011_000001|As m o looks back on this first love passion he can by no means regret it.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000011_000002|It doubtless had great formative influence.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000012_000000|After the first year at college, Edmund transferred to another school farther away from m o and the opportunities for meeting became rarer, but their affection was maintained and the intercourse resumed whenever it was possible.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000013_000000|On the whole m o preferred boys a year or two younger than himself, but as he grew older the age difference increased.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000000|m o is always unhappy unless his affections have fairly free course.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000001|Life has been very disappointing to him in other respects.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000002|His greatest joys have come to him in this way.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000003|If he is able to consummate his present plan of union with the youth just referred to, he will feel that his life has been crowned by what is for him the best possible end; otherwise, he declares, he would not care to live at all.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000015_000001|Feminine beauty he perceives objectively, as he would any design of flowing curves and delicate coloring, but it has no sexual charm for him whatever. Women have put themselves in his way repeatedly, but he finds himself more and more irritated by their specifically feminine foibles.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000000|The first literature that appealed to him was Plato's dialogues, first read at twenty years of age.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000002|He read what he could of classic literature.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000003|He enjoys Pater, appreciating his attitude toward his own sex.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000004|Four or five years, later he came across Raffalovich's book, and ever since has felt a real debt of gratitude to its author.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000017_000000|m o has no wish to injure society at large.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000017_000001|As an individual he holds that he has the same right to be himself that anyone else has.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000017_000002|He thinks that while boys of from thirteen to fifteen might possibly be rendered inverts, those who reach sixteen without it cannot be bent that way.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000018_000000|m o feels strongly the poetic and elevated character of his principal homosexual relationships, but he shrinks from appearing too sentimental.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000019_000000|With regard to the traces of feminism in inverts he writes:--
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000021_000000|"Somewhat later and until puberty, I took great delight in acting, but generally took female roles, wearing skirts, shawls, beads, wigs, head dresses.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000021_000001|When I was about thirteen my family began to make fun of me for it.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000022_000001|My feeling for them is much like my feeling for flowers.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000023_000000|"Before I reached puberty I was sometimes called a 'sissy' by my father.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000023_000004|Every one of them has been very emphatically of the opinion that my rational life is distinctively masculine, being logical, impartial, skeptical.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000023_000005|One or two have suggested that I have a finer discrimination than most men, and that I take care of my rooms somewhat as a woman might, though this does not extend to the style of decorations.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000023_000009|If trained for it early, I believe I would have made a good contortionist.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000024_000001|The dessert is always the best part of the meal.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000024_000002|These tastes I attribute largely to my sedentary life.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000025_000000|"My physical courage has never been put to the test, but I observe that others appear to count on it.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000025_000002|In moral courage I am either reckless or courageous, I do not know which.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000026_000000|"I am, perhaps, a better whistler than most men.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000027_000000|"When I was quite little my grandmother taught me to do certain kinds of fancy work, and I continued to do a little from time to time until I was twenty four.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000027_000001|Then I became irritated over a piece that troubled me, put it in the fire, and have not wanted to touch any since.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000028_000001|My estheticism is very pronounced as compared with most of the men with whom I associate, although I have never been able to give it much scope. It makes for cleanliness, order, and general good taste.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000028_000002|My dress is economical and by no means fastidious; yet it seems to be generally approved.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000028_000003|I have been complimented often on my ability to select appropriate presents, clothing, and to arrange a room."
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000029_000000|m o states that he practises the love bite at times, though very gently.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000029_000001|He often wants to pinch one who interests him sexually.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000030_000001|Very few people, he says, are perfectly honest, and the more dangerous society makes it for a man to be so, the less likely he is to be.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000031_000000|The foregoing narrative was received eight years ago.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000031_000001|During this interval m o's health has very greatly improved.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000031_000002|There has been a marked increase in outdoor activities and interests.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000000|Two years since m o consulted a prominent specialist who performed a thorough psychoanalysis.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000003|m o had continued up to that age very affectionate toward his mother and dependent on her.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000004|He can remember friends and neighbors commenting on it.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000007|His greatest craving was for affection, and his greatest grief the fancied belief that no one cared for him.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000008|At ten or eleven he attempted suicide for this reason.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000033_000000|Also as a result of the psychoanalysis, but trying to eliminate the influence of suggestion, he recollects and emphasizes more the attraction he felt toward girls before the age of twelve.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000033_000001|Had his sexual experiences subsequently proved normal, he doubts if those before twelve could be held to give evidence of homosexuality, but only of precocious nervous and sexual irritability, greatly heightened and directed by the secret practices of the children with whom he associated.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000034_000000|The psychoanalysis recalled to m o that during the period of early flirtation he had often kissed and embraced various girls, but likewise he recalled having observed at the same time, with some surprise, that no definitely sexual desire arose, though the way was probably open to gratify it.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000034_000001|Such interest as did exist ceased wholly or almost so as the relation with Edmund developed. There was no aversion from the company of girls and women, however; the intellectual friendships were mainly with them, while the emotional ones were with boys.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000035_000000|Very recently m o spent several days with Edmund, who has been married for several years.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000035_000002|Neither regrets anything of the past, but feels that the final outcome of their earlier relation has been good. Edmund's beauty is still pronounced, and is remarked by others.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000037_000000|Again, as to traces of feminism: Perhaps two years ago, all impulse to give the love bite disappeared suddenly.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000038_000001|With the improvement in general health, has come the changes that would be expected in food and other matters of daily life.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000039_000002|His physical relation with m o then ceased, but the friendship otherwise continues strong.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000000|Shortly after the first break in this relation, m o became, through the force of quite unusual circumstances, very friendly and intimate with a young woman of considerable charm.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000001|He confided to her his abnormality, and was not repulsed.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000003|m o felt that in honor he must propose marriage to her.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000006|They corresponded, but less and less often.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000007|His relations with boys continued.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000002|m o had no secrets from this woman.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000003|After a full and prolonged consideration of all sides of the matter they married.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000005|With her they are not passionate, but they are animated by the strong desire for children.
train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000006|Of the parental instinct he had become aware several years before this.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000003_000000|APPENDIX a
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000004_000000|HOMOSEXUALITY AMONG TRAMPS.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000005_000000|BY "JOSIAH FLYNT."
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000006_000001|I have lived with the tramps there for eight consecutive months, besides passing numerous shorter periods in their company, and my acquaintance with them is nearly of ten years' standing.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000006_000003|This can only be done by becoming part and parcel of its manifestations.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000007_000001|The latter are the real tramps. They make a business of begging-a very good business too-and keep at it, as a rule, to the end of their days.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000008_000006|By smiles and flattering caresses they let him know that the stories are meant for him alone, and before long, if the boy is a suitable subject, he smiles back just as slyly.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000008_000007|In time he learns to think that he is the favorite of the tramp, who will take him on his travels, and he begins to plan secret meetings with the man.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000008_000011|They are also expected to beg in every town they come to, any laziness on their part receiving very severe punishment.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000009_000000|How the act of unnatural intercourse takes place is not entirely clear; the hoboes are not agreed.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000001|In company with eight hoboes, I was in a freight car attached to a slowly moving train.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000002|A colored boy succeeded in scrambling into the car, and when the train was well under way again he was tripped up and "seduced" (to use the hobo euphemism) by each of the tramps.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000005|At first they do not submit, and are inclined to run away or fight, but the men fondle and pet them, and after awhile they do not seem to care.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000008|What the pleasure consists in I cannot say.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000010|Those who have passed the age of puberty seem to be satisfied in pretty much the same way that the men are.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000011|Among the men the practice is decidedly one of passion.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000003|One of the prisoners said he had known her before she was married and had lived with her.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000005|On learning that she was still approachable, he looked her up immediately after his release, and succeeded in staying with her for nearly a month.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000007|I asked him why he went with boys at all, and he replied: "'cause there ain't women enough.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000008|If I can't get them I've got to have the other."
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000001|In the daytime the prisoners are let out into a long hall, and can do much as they please; at night they are shut up, two and even four in a cell.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000002|If there are any boys in the crowd, they are made use of by all who care to have them.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000006|In one of these places I once witnessed the fiercest fight I have ever seen among hoboes; a boy was the cause of it.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000007|Two men said they loved him, and he seemed to return the affection of both with equal desire.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000009|They slashed away for over half an hour, cutting each other terribly, and then their backers stopped them for fear of fatal results.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000014_000001|As a rule, the prushun is freed when he is able to protect himself.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000014_000003|This is the one reward held out to prushuns during their apprenticeship.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000000|It is difficult to say how many tramps are sexually inverted.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000002|I have stated in one of my papers on tramps that, counting the boys, there are between fifty and sixty thousand genuine hoboes in the United States.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000003|A vagabond in Texas who saw this statement wrote me that he considered my estimate too low.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000004|The newspapers have criticised it as too high, but they are unable to judge.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000005|If my figures are, as I believe, at least approximately correct, the sexually perverted tramps may be estimated at between five and six thousand; this includes men and boys.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000016_000003|But from what I know of their disinclination to adopt the latter alternative, I am inclined to think that the passion may be dying out somewhat.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000016_000005|So much for my finding in the United States.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000019_000001|In their intercourse with boys they always take the active part.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000019_000004|That it is, however, a genuine liking, in altogether too many instances, I do not, in the least, doubt.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000019_000005|As such, and all the more because it is such, it deserves to be more thoroughly investigated and more reasonably treated.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000020_000000|"Josiah Flynt" who wrote the foregoing account of tramp life for the second edition of this volume, was well known as author, sociologist, and tramp.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000020_000003|His real name was f Willard and he was a nephew of Miss Frances Willard.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000020_000005|I am able to supplement his observations on tramps, so far as England is concerned, by the following passages from a detailed record sent to me by an English correspondent:--
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000021_000000|"I am a male invert with complete feminine, sexual inclinations.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000022_000000|"As in the United States, there are two classes of tramps those who would work, such as harvesters, road makers, etc, and those who will not work, but make tramping a profession.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000024_000000|"Another one, who told me that he had been twenty five years on the road, said that he could not endure to sleep alone. (He was a pedlar, openly of cheap religious books and secretly of the vilest pamphlets and photographs).
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000024_000001|He had 'done time' and he said the greatest punishment to him was not being able to have a 'make' who would submit to penetration, though he was not particular what form the sexual act took.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000024_000003|Another and very powerful influence in 'tramps' toward homosexuality is that, in the low lodging houses they are obliged to frequent, a single bed is perhaps double to one with a bedmate whom perhaps he has never seen before, and especially in hot weather, when the rule is nakedness.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000001|The incident took place in a small seafaring town in Scotland one evening before a Fair was to be held.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000003|A blind man came in led by an extremely pretty but effeminate looking youth of about seventeen, wearing a ragged kilt and with bare legs and feet.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000004|He had long, curling, fair hair which reached to his shoulders and on it an old bonnet was perched.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000005|He also wore an old velveteen shooting jacket.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000006|All eyes were turned on the pair and they were quickly offered drinks.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000008|The boy said, 'I will show you I am a laddie,' and pulled up his kilt, exposing his genitals and then his posterior. Boisterous laughter greeted this indecent exposure and suggestion, and more drinks were provided.
train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000010|He was seized, kissed, and caressed by quite a number of men, some of whom endeavored to masturbate him, which he resisted, but performed it for them.
train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000001_000003|His terms are moderate, so much cash down when the goods are delivered, so much in blackmail afterwards.
train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000001_000008|He has a way with tapestry; you would scarcely notice that the edges had been cut.
train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000005_000001|mrs Eggins, the caretaker, glanced up the street, and then she let them in, and left them to wait in the drawing room amongst furniture all mysterious with sheets.
train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000010_000004|Five minutes before midnight Tommy Tonker, instructed by mr Nuth, who waited outside, came away with one pocketful of rings and shirt studs.
train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000015_000001|They did not speak of it there, and elsewhere it is unheard of.
train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000021_000000|"Oh, no, my child" (for such a question is childish).
train-clean-360/803/139753/803_139753_000008_000005|With cobbled agates were its streets a glory.
train-clean-360/803/139753/803_139753_000008_000006|Through small square panes of rose quartz the citizens looked from their houses.
train-clean-360/803/139753/803_139753_000008_000007|To them as they looked abroad the World far off seemed happy.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000004_000000|Chapter four.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000004_000001|Sir Henry Baskerville
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000005_000000|Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing gown for the promised interview.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000005_000001|Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when dr Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young baronet.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000005_000002|The latter was a small, alert, dark eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000006_000000|"This is Sir Henry Baskerville," said dr Mortimer.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000008_000000|"Pray take a seat, Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000009_000000|"Nothing of much importance, mr Holmes.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000010_000000|He laid an envelope upon the table, and we all bent over it.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000010_000001|It was of common quality, grayish in colour.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000010_000002|The address, "Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland Hotel," was printed in rough characters; the post mark "Charing Cross," and the date of posting the preceding evening.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000012_000000|"No one could have known.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000012_000001|We only decided after I met dr Mortimer."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000013_000000|"But dr Mortimer was no doubt already stopping there?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000014_000000|"No, I had been staying with a friend," said the doctor.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000015_000000|"There was no possible indication that we intended to go to this hotel."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000016_000001|Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements." Out of the envelope he took a half sheet of foolscap paper folded into four. This he opened and spread flat upon the table.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000016_000002|Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000016_000003|It ran:
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000018_000000|The word "moor" only was printed in ink.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000019_000000|"Now," said Sir Henry Baskerville, "perhaps you will tell me, mr Holmes, what in thunder is the meaning of that, and who it is that takes so much interest in my affairs?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000020_000000|"What do you make of it, dr Mortimer?
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000020_000001|You must allow that there is nothing supernatural about this, at any rate?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000021_000000|"No, sir, but it might very well come from someone who was convinced that the business is supernatural."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000022_000000|"What business?" asked Sir Henry sharply.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000022_000001|"It seems to me that all you gentlemen know a great deal more than I do about my own affairs."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000000|"You shall share our knowledge before you leave this room, Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000001|I promise you that," said Sherlock Holmes.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000002|"We will confine ourselves for the present with your permission to this very interesting document, which must have been put together and posted yesterday evening.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000003|Have you yesterday's Times, Watson?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000025_000000|"Might I trouble you for it-the inside page, please, with the leading articles?" He glanced swiftly over it, running his eyes up and down the columns.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000025_000001|"Capital article this on free trade.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000025_000002|Permit me to give you an extract from it.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000027_000000|"What do you think of that, Watson?" cried Holmes in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000027_000001|"Don't you think that is an admirable sentiment?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000028_000000|dr Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of professional interest, and Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyes upon me.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000029_000000|"I don't know much about the tariff and things of that kind," said he, "but it seems to me we've got a bit off the trail so far as that note is concerned."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000030_000000|"On the contrary, I think we are particularly hot upon the trail, Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000031_000000|"No, I confess that I see no connection."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000032_000000|"And yet, my dear Watson, there is so very close a connection that the one is extracted out of the other.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000033_000001|Well, if that isn't smart!" cried Sir Henry.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000034_000000|"If any possible doubt remained it is settled by the fact that 'keep away' and 'from the' are cut out in one piece."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000036_000000|"Really, mr Holmes, this exceeds anything which I could have imagined," said dr Mortimer, gazing at my friend in amazement.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000036_000002|How did you do it?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000037_000000|"I presume, Doctor, that you could tell the skull of a negro from that of an Esquimau?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000039_000000|"But how?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000040_000000|"Because that is my special hobby.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000040_000002|The supra orbital crest, the facial angle, the maxillary curve, the-"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000041_000000|"But this is my special hobby, and the differences are equally obvious. There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000041_000001|The detection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mercury with the Western Morning News.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000041_000003|As it was done yesterday the strong probability was that we should find the words in yesterday's issue."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000042_000000|"So far as I can follow you, then, mr Holmes," said Sir Henry Baskerville, "someone cut out this message with a scissors-"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000043_000001|"You can see that it was a very short bladed scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away.'"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000044_000000|"That is so.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000045_000000|"Gum," said Holmes.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000046_000001|But I want to know why the word 'moor' should have been written?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000047_000000|"Because he could not find it in print.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000047_000001|The other words were all simple and might be found in any issue, but 'moor' would be less common."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000048_000000|"Why, of course, that would explain it.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000048_000001|Have you read anything else in this message, mr Holmes?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000000|"There are one or two indications, and yet the utmost pains have been taken to remove all clues.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000001|The address, you observe is printed in rough characters.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000002|But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000005|'Life,' for example is quite out of its proper place.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000006|That may point to carelessness or it may point to agitation and hurry upon the part of the cutter.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000009|Did the composer fear an interruption-and from whom?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000050_000000|"We are coming now rather into the region of guesswork," said dr Mortimer.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000051_000000|"Say, rather, into the region where we balance probabilities and choose the most likely.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000051_000001|It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000052_000000|"How in the world can you say that?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000000|"If you examine it carefully you will see that both the pen and the ink have given the writer trouble.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000002|Now, a private pen or ink bottle is seldom allowed to be in such a state, and the combination of the two must be quite rare.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000003|But you know the hotel ink and the hotel pen, where it is rare to get anything else.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000007|What's this?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000054_000000|He was carefully examining the foolscap, upon which the words were pasted, holding it only an inch or two from his eyes.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000056_000000|"Nothing," said he, throwing it down.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000056_000001|"It is a blank half sheet of paper, without even a water mark upon it.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000056_000002|I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened to you since you have been in London?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000057_000001|I think not."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000059_000000|"I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000059_000001|"Why in thunder should anyone follow or watch me?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000060_000000|"We are coming to that.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000060_000001|You have nothing else to report to us before we go into this matter?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000061_000000|"Well, it depends upon what you think worth reporting."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000062_000000|"I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life well worth reporting."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000063_000000|Sir Henry smiled.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000063_000001|"I don't know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000063_000002|But I hope that to lose one of your boots is not part of the ordinary routine of life over here."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000064_000000|"You have lost one of your boots?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000065_000000|"My dear sir," cried dr Mortimer, "it is only mislaid.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000065_000001|You will find it when you return to the hotel.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000065_000002|What is the use of troubling mr Holmes with trifles of this kind?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000066_000000|"Well, he asked me for anything outside the ordinary routine."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000067_000000|"Exactly," said Holmes, "however foolish the incident may seem.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000067_000001|You have lost one of your boots, you say?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000000|"Well, mislaid it, anyhow.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000001|I put them both outside my door last night, and there was only one in the morning.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000002|I could get no sense out of the chap who cleans them.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000003|The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand, and I have never had them on."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000069_000000|"If you have never worn them, why did you put them out to be cleaned?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000070_000001|That was why I put them out."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000071_000000|"Then I understand that on your arrival in London yesterday you went out at once and bought a pair of boots?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000072_000000|"I did a good deal of shopping.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000072_000002|Among other things I bought these brown boots-gave six dollars for them-and had one stolen before ever I had them on my feet."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000073_000000|"It seems a singularly useless thing to steal," said Sherlock Holmes. "I confess that I share dr Mortimer's belief that it will not be long before the missing boot is found."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000074_000000|"And, now, gentlemen," said the baronet with decision, "it seems to me that I have spoken quite enough about the little that I know.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000074_000001|It is time that you kept your promise and gave me a full account of what we are all driving at."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000075_000001|"dr Mortimer, I think you could not do better than to tell your story as you told it to us."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000076_000000|Thus encouraged, our scientific friend drew his papers from his pocket and presented the whole case as he had done upon the morning before. Sir Henry Baskerville listened with the deepest attention and with an occasional exclamation of surprise.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000077_000001|"Of course, I've heard of the hound ever since I was in the nursery.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000077_000002|It's the pet story of the family, though I never thought of taking it seriously before.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000077_000003|But as to my uncle's death-well, it all seems boiling up in my head, and I can't get it clear yet.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000079_000000|"And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000079_000001|I suppose that fits into its place."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000080_000000|"It seems to show that someone knows more than we do about what goes on upon the moor," said dr Mortimer.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000081_000000|"And also," said Holmes, "that someone is not ill disposed towards you, since they warn you of danger."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000082_000000|"Or it may be that they wish, for their own purposes, to scare me away."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000083_000000|"Well, of course, that is possible also.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000083_000001|I am very much indebted to you, dr Mortimer, for introducing me to a problem which presents several interesting alternatives.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000083_000002|But the practical point which we now have to decide, Sir Henry, is whether it is or is not advisable for you to go to Baskerville Hall."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000084_000000|"Why should I not go?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000085_000000|"There seems to be danger."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000086_000000|"Do you mean danger from this family fiend or do you mean danger from human beings?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000087_000000|"Well, that is what we have to find out."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000000|"Whichever it is, my answer is fixed.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000001|There is no devil in hell, mr Holmes, and there is no man upon earth who can prevent me from going to the home of my own people, and you may take that to be my final answer." His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke. It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000002|"Meanwhile," said he, "I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000003|It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000004|I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000005|Now, look here, mr Holmes, it's half past eleven now and I am going back right away to my hotel.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000007|I'll be able to tell you more clearly then how this thing strikes me."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000090_000000|"Perfectly."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000091_000000|"Then you may expect us.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000091_000001|Shall I have a cab called?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000094_000000|"Then we meet again at two o'clock.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000000|"Your hat and boots, Watson, quick!
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000001|Not a moment to lose!"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000002|He rushed into his room in his dressing gown and was back again in a few seconds in a frock coat.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000003|We hurried together down the stairs and into the street.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000004|dr Mortimer and Baskerville were still visible about two hundred yards ahead of us in the direction of Oxford Street.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000097_000000|"Shall I run on and stop them?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000098_000000|"Not for the world, my dear Watson.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000098_000001|I am perfectly satisfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000098_000002|Our friends are wise, for it is certainly a very fine morning for a walk."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000099_000000|He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000099_000002|Once our friends stopped and stared into a shop window, upon which Holmes did the same.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000099_000003|An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000100_000000|"There's our man, Watson!
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000100_000002|We'll have a good look at him, if we can do no more."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000101_000001|Holmes looked eagerly round for another, but no empty one was in sight.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000102_000000|"There now!" said Holmes bitterly as he emerged panting and white with vexation from the tide of vehicles.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000102_000001|"Was ever such bad luck and such bad management, too?
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000102_000002|Watson, Watson, if you are an honest man you will record this also and set it against my successes!"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000103_000000|"Who was the man?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000104_000000|"I have not an idea."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000105_000000|"A spy?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000106_000000|"Well, it was evident from what we have heard that Baskerville has been very closely shadowed by someone since he has been in town.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000106_000001|How else could it be known so quickly that it was the Northumberland Hotel which he had chosen?
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000106_000003|You may have observed that I twice strolled over to the window while dr Mortimer was reading his legend."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000107_000000|"Yes, I remember."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000000|"I was looking out for loiterers in the street, but I saw none.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000001|We are dealing with a clever man, Watson.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000002|This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I am conscious always of power and design.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000005|His method had the additional advantage that if they were to take a cab he was all ready to follow them.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000006|It has, however, one obvious disadvantage."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000111_000000|"What a pity we did not get the number!"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000112_000000|"My dear Watson, clumsy as I have been, you surely do not seriously imagine that I neglected to get the number?
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000112_000002|But that is no use to us for the moment."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000113_000000|"I fail to see how you could have done more."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000114_000001|I should then at my leisure have hired a second cab and followed the first at a respectful distance, or, better still, have driven to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000114_000002|When our unknown had followed Baskerville home we should have had the opportunity of playing his own game upon himself and seeing where he made for.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000114_000003|As it is, by an indiscreet eagerness, which was taken advantage of with extraordinary quickness and energy by our opponent, we have betrayed ourselves and lost our man."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000116_000000|"There is no object in our following them," said Holmes.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000116_000002|We must see what further cards we have in our hands and play them with decision.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000116_000003|Could you swear to that man's face within the cab?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000117_000000|"I could swear only to the beard."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000118_000000|"And so could I-from which I gather that in all probability it was a false one.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000118_000001|A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000118_000002|Come in here, Watson!"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000119_000000|He turned into one of the district messenger offices, where he was warmly greeted by the manager.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000120_000000|"Ah, Wilson, I see you have not forgotten the little case in which I had the good fortune to help you?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000121_000000|"No, sir, indeed I have not.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000121_000001|You saved my good name, and perhaps my life."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000122_000000|"My dear fellow, you exaggerate.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000122_000001|I have some recollection, Wilson, that you had among your boys a lad named Cartwright, who showed some ability during the investigation."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000123_000000|"Yes, sir, he is still with us."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000124_000000|"Could you ring him up?--thank you!
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000124_000001|And I should be glad to have change of this five pound note."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000125_000000|A lad of fourteen, with a bright, keen face, had obeyed the summons of the manager.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000125_000001|He stood now gazing with great reverence at the famous detective.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000000|"Let me have the Hotel Directory," said Holmes.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000001|"Thank you!
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000002|Now, Cartwright, there are the names of twenty three hotels here, all in the immediate neighbourhood of Charing Cross.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000003|Do you see?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000127_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000128_000000|"You will visit each of these in turn."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000129_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000130_000000|"You will begin in each case by giving the outside porter one shilling. Here are twenty three shillings."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000131_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000132_000000|"You will tell him that you want to see the waste paper of yesterday. You will say that an important telegram has miscarried and that you are looking for it.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000132_000001|You understand?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000133_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000000|"But what you are really looking for is the centre page of the Times with some holes cut in it with scissors.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000001|Here is a copy of the Times.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000002|It is this page.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000003|You could easily recognize it, could you not?"
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000135_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000136_000001|Here are twenty three shillings.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000136_000005|There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.
train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000136_000006|Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000002_000001|They waited until the cars had passed the spot where they stood and then quickly ran across the track before the engine came around again.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000004_000000|"It's almost like a side show!" cried Dot enthusiastically, as she seated herself upon a camel.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000004_000001|Tot bestrode a dapple gray horse, and the Queen sat upon a lion and took hold of its mane to steady herself.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000007_000000|"Oh, I shall be glad to make a change," she cried, and leaping off the camel's back she sprang upon the tiger, who thereupon dried his tears and smiled in a most delightful manner.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000008_000001|I don't see the good of a merry go round if it isn't used."
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000011_000000|mr Split had spread a white cloth upon the grass close to one edge of the forest, and Dot and Tot and the Queen sat around this and ate of the delicious fruit the queer man had gathered.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000011_000001|There were melons, grapes, bananas, oranges, plums, strawberries, and pears and all were ripe and exquisitely flavored.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000012_000000|By the time they finished their meal it had become twilight, and the Queen declared it would soon be dark.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000013_000000|"I wonder where we can sleep," said Tot.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000013_000001|But Dot looked around and saw that mr Split was fastening three big hammocks between the trees at the edge of the forest.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000013_000002|These hammocks were lined with soft, silken cushions and looked very pleasant and cozy to the sleepy children.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000014_000000|The Queen and Dot and Tot each climbed into one of the hammocks and were covered over with silk quilted comfortables, after which mr Split turned a key at the end of each hammock and set them moving gently to and fro like the rocking of a cradle.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000015_000000|Before she went to sleep Dot looked over the edge of her hammock and saw that the merry go round and the tin train were now motionless, while all the animals seemed to have run down and were standing quite still waiting for morning, when mr Split would come and wind them up again.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000016_000000|The little girl was awakened next morning by a sharp clicking sound near by, and opening her eyes she saw a tin monkey running up and down a string fastened to a branch of the tree.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000017_000000|"Dear me!" she said, looking at him intently; "are you wound up so early in the morning?"
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000018_000000|"Yes, indeed," replied the monkey, still busily climbing his string; "mr
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000018_000001|Split was here some time ago.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000020_000000|Tot was already up and sitting near the railway track watching the tin train go round.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000020_000001|The Queen now joined Dot and they called Tot to breakfast, for mr Split had loaded the cloth with a variety of cool, fresh fruit and berries.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000021_000000|"He gathered those before he unhooked himself," said the Queen, "for then he had two arms to carry them.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000021_000001|But when it came to winding up the animals he had to separate in order that he might use each hand in a different place, and so get around quicker."
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000022_000000|"mr Split's name suits him very well," said Dot, who was enjoying the fruit.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000023_000000|"Yes, it would be hard to call him anything else," replied the Queen.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000024_000000|"I suppose your own name fits you in the same way," ventured the girl.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000025_000000|"Certainly it does," answered the Queen.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000026_000000|Dot's heart now began to beat rapidly, for she thought she would at last discover what the Queen's name was.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000026_000001|Tot also looked interested, and forgot his slice of melon as he listened.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000028_000000|The little Queen laughed merrily.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000028_000001|"Isn't it funny," she exclaimed, "that I always forget to tell you?
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000028_000002|There is no reason in the world why you should not know my name."
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000029_000000|"Then," said Tot, sharply, "tell it!"
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000030_000000|"Well," she said, "it's-"
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000031_000001|Springing to their feet they saw the tin train lying upside down near the track, with its wheels whirling around like the wind, and near by was a wooden goat and cart, completely wrecked and splintered into many pieces.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000032_000001|It started to run again in its usual rushing way, but Dot noticed that the cow catcher was badly bent and that some of the paint had been knocked off.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000033_000002|But it is wrecked now, beyond repair, so there is nothing more to worry about."
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000035_000000|"You are too late," said the Queen; "the trouble is all over."
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000036_000000|"Then we may as well go back," said the officer, grumpily.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000037_000000|"Well," said the Queen, when the Patrol and the Fire Engine had gone back to their stables, "it is time for us to go."
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000038_000000|They looked around for mr Split, but not seeing him they walked across the opening to the path that led through the forest to the river.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000038_000001|They each squeaked the Alligator when they came to him, and left him feeling joyful and contented.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000039_000000|The boat was lying where they had left it, and they at once stepped in and seated themselves.
train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000040_000000|"I'm sorry not to say good bye to mr Split," said Dot, as the boat glided out into the river.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000009_000000|"You brutes!
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000009_000004|Don't you know you will be punished for your impudence?
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000011_000000|"Of course it's Sky Island.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000011_000001|What else could it be?
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000012_000000|"Glad to meet you, sir," said Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000013_000001|"But I'll punish you.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000014_000000|"Seems to me," said Trot, "you're actin' rather imperlite to strangers. If anyone comes to our country to visit us, we always treat 'em decent."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000015_000001|"Where in the Sky did you come from, then, and where is your country located?"
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000016_000000|"We live on the Earth, when we're at home," replied the girl.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000017_000000|"The Earth?
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000017_000002|I've heard of the Earth, my child, but it isn't inhabited.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000018_000000|"Oh, you're wrong about that," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000019_000000|"You surely are," added Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000021_000000|"I don't believe it.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000021_000003|Aren't you sorry for yourselves?"
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000022_000002|We'll go home, pretty soon."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000024_000003|I'm an ol' man, myself, but if you don't behave I'll spank you like I would a baby, an' it won't be any trouble at all to do it, thank'e.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000025_000000|"Sail away?
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000025_000001|How?" asked the Boolooroo.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000027_000002|"Go ahead, then, and eat your lunch."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000028_000000|He retreated a little way to a marble seat beside the fountain, but watched the strangers carefully.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000030_000000|"Have you nearly finished?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000031_000000|"No," said Trot; "we've got to eat our apples yet."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000032_000000|"Apples-apples?
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000032_000001|What are apples?" he asked.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000033_000000|Trot took some from the basket.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000034_000001|"They're awful good."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000036_000000|"Guess they don't grow anywhere but on the Earth," remarked Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000037_000000|"Are they good to eat?" asked the Boolooroo.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000038_000000|"Try it and see," answered Trot, biting into an apple herself.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000043_000001|The Magic Umbrella fell to the ground and Button Bright promptly seized it.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000043_000002|Then the sailor let go his hold and the King staggered to a seat, choking and coughing to get his breath back.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000044_000000|"I told you to let things alone," growled Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000044_000001|"If you don't behave, your Majesty, this Blue Island'll have to get another Boolooroo."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000045_000000|"Why?" asked the Blueskin.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000048_000000|"Kill me?
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000048_000001|Why, he couldn't do that," observed the King, who was trying to rearrange the ruffle around his neck.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000048_000002|"Nothing can kill me."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000049_000000|"Why not?" asked Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000052_000000|"It's a fact," said the King.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000052_000002|When the final minute is up, we die; but we're obliged to live all of the six hundred years, whether we want to or not.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000052_000004|It can't be done."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000053_000001|"I'm no murderer, thank goodness, and I wouldn't kill you if I could-much as you deserve it."
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000056_000000|"How long have you lived?" asked Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000060_000003|The Boolooroo tells them whom to vote for, and if they don't obey they are severely punished.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000060_000005|It ought to be for life.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000064_000000|"Yes, you are.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000067_000000|"Well," said he, "let's go home.
train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000068_000000|"All right," agreed Trot, jumping up.
train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000008_000000|As the domestic cat in different parts of the world will breed occasionally with the wild races of the locality, and as cats are conveyed from country to country, it is probable that our cats are of somewhat compound pedigree.
train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000008_000001|It is considered probable that our fine English tabbies have a trace of the British wild cat blood in their veins, although it may be obscure.
train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000008_000009|It is not found very far north, and neither in Norway nor Sweden; there the lynx reigns supreme. The wild cat is a fine animal, of larger growth than the cat of our familiar acquaintance, and stands tall.
train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000010_000000|In country places, where rabbits are abundant,--and, we may add, the smaller, but not less destructive, rodents, and a variety of feathered game,--the barn door cat is sometimes tempted to abscond and take to a romantic and semi wild life in the woods.
train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000010_000001|Kittens born of such parents have no desire for the domestic hearth, and are wild and suspicions to a degree.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000000_000000|eight
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000001_000000|"Ha! ha!
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000001_000002|But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality, say what you like," you will interpose with a chuckle.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000000|Stay, gentlemen, I meant to begin with that myself I confess, I was rather frightened.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000001|I was just going to say that the devil only knows what choice depends on, and that perhaps that was a very good thing, but I remembered the teaching of science ... and pulled myself up.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000002|And here you have begun upon it.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000003|Indeed, if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices-that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula-then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000004|For who would want to choose by rule?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000005|Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000006|What do you think?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000007|Let us reckon the chances-can such a thing happen or not?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000002|We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000004|And as all choice and reasoning can be really calculated-because there will some day be discovered the laws of our so-called free will-so, joking apart, there may one day be something like a table constructed of them, so that we really shall choose in accordance with it.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000006|Then I should be able to calculate my whole life for thirty years beforehand.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000007|In short, if this could be arranged there would be nothing left for us to do; anyway, we should have to understand that.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000001|Gentlemen, you must excuse me for being over philosophical; it's the result of forty years underground! Allow me to indulge my fancy.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000003|And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000004|Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000006|Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000007|I suspect, gentlemen, that you are looking at me with compassion; you tell me again that an enlightened and developed man, such, in short, as the future man will be, cannot consciously desire anything disadvantageous to himself, that that can be proved mathematically.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000008|I thoroughly agree, it can-by mathematics.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000010|Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000011|And in particular it may be more advantageous than any advantage even when it does us obvious harm, and contradicts the soundest conclusions of our reason concerning our advantage-for in any circumstances it preserves for us what is most precious and most important-that is, our personality, our individuality.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000012|Some, you see, maintain that this really is the most precious thing for mankind; choice can, of course, if it chooses, be in agreement with reason; and especially if this be not abused but kept within bounds.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000013|It is profitable and sometimes even praiseworthy.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000014|But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason ... and ... and ... do you know that that, too, is profitable, sometimes even praiseworthy?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000015|Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000016|In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000017|But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity, perpetual-from the days of the Flood to the Schleswig Holstein period. Moral obliquity and consequently lack of good sense; for it has long been accepted that lack of good sense is due to no other cause than moral obliquity.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000018|Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000019|What will you see?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000020|Is it a grand spectacle? Grand, if you like.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000021|Take the Colossus of Rhodes, for instance, that's worth something.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000022|With good reason mr Anaevsky testifies of it that some say that it is the work of man's hands, while others maintain that it has been created by nature herself.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000023|Is it many coloured?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000024|May be it is many coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages-that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000025|Is it monotonous?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000026|May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last-you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000027|In short, one may say anything about the history of the world-anything that might enter the most disordered imagination.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000028|The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000029|The very word sticks in one's throat.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000030|And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000031|And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000032|Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000034|He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000035|It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself-as though that were so necessary-that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000036|And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000037|And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point!
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000038|He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object-that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano key!
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000039|If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated-chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point!
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000040|I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key!
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000041|It may be at the cost of his skin, it may be by cannibalism!
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000006_000000|Good heavens, gentlemen, what sort of free will is left when we come to tabulation and arithmetic, when it will all be a case of twice two make four?
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000006_000001|Twice two makes four without my will.
train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000006_000002|As if free will meant that!
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000000_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000000_000001|Mr Waller Appears in a New Light
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000001_000000|The department into which Mike was sent was the Cash, or, to be more exact, that section of it which was known as Paying Cashier.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000001_000001|The important task of shooting doubloons across the counter did not belong to Mike himself, but to Mr Waller.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000001_000002|Mike's work was less ostentatious, and was performed with pen, ink, and ledgers in the background. Occasionally, when Mr Waller was out at lunch, Mike had to act as substitute for him, and cash cheques; but Mr Waller always went out at a slack time, when few customers came in, and Mike seldom had any very startling sum to hand over.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000000|He enjoyed being in the Cash Department.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000001|He liked Mr Waller.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000002|The work was easy; and when he did happen to make mistakes, they were corrected patiently by the grey bearded one, and not used as levers for boosting him into the presence of Mr Bickersdyke, as they might have been in some departments.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000003|The cashier seemed to have taken a fancy to Mike; and Mike, as was usually the way with him when people went out of their way to be friendly, was at his best.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000004|Mike at his ease and unsuspicious of hostile intentions was a different person from Mike with his prickles out.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000003_000001|It was an unheard of thing, he said, depriving a man of his confidential secretary without so much as asking his leave.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000000|'It has caused me the greatest inconvenience,' he told Mike, drifting round in a melancholy way to the Cash Department during a slack spell one afternoon.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000001|'I miss you at every turn.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000004|In the cart.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000005|I evolved a slightly bright thought on life just now.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000006|There was nobody to tell it to except the new man.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000008|I tell you, Comrade Jackson, I feel like some lion that has been robbed of its cub.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000011|We still talk brokenly about Manchester United-they got routed in the first round of the Cup yesterday and Comrade Rossiter is wearing black-but it is not the same.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000012|I try work, but that is no good either.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000013|From ledger to ledger they hurry me, to stifle my regret.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000014|And when they win a smile from me, they think that I forget.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000015|But I don't.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000016|I am a broken man.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000018|One of Nature's blighters.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000020|Comrade Rossiter awaits me.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000001|His worst defect-which he could not help-was that he was not Mike.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000002|His others-which he could-were numerous.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000003|His clothes were cut in a way that harrowed Psmith's sensitive soul every time he looked at them.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000004|The fact that he wore detachable cuffs, which he took off on beginning work and stacked in a glistening pile on the desk in front of him, was no proof of innate viciousness of disposition, but it prejudiced the Old Etonian against him.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000005|It was part of Psmith's philosophy that a man who wore detachable cuffs had passed beyond the limit of human toleration.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000006_000000|Mike would sometimes stroll round to the Postage Department to listen to the conversations between the two.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000006_000001|Bristow was always friendliness itself.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000003|It was this tolerance which sometimes got him into trouble with Mr Bickersdyke.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000004|The manager did not often perambulate the office, but he did occasionally, and the interview which ensued upon his finding Hutchinson, the underling in the Cash Department at that time, with his stool tilted comfortably against the wall, reading the sporting news from a pink paper to a friend from the Outward Bills Department who lay luxuriously on the floor beside him, did not rank among Mr Waller's pleasantest memories.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000005|But Mr Waller was too soft hearted to interfere with his assistants unless it was absolutely necessary.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000006|The truth of the matter was that the New Asiatic Bank was over staffed.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000007|There were too many men for the work.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000008|The London branch of the bank was really only a nursery.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000009|New men were constantly wanted in the Eastern branches, so they had to be put into the London branch to learn the business, whether there was any work for them to do or not.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000008_000000|It was after one of these visits of Psmith's that Mr Waller displayed a new and unsuspected side to his character.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000001|The whisper is beginning to circulate, "Psmith's number is up-As a reformer he is merely among those present.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000003|The moment I concentrate myself on Comrade Bickersdyke for a brief spell, and seem to be doing him a bit of good, what happens?
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000004|Why, Comrade Bristow sneaks off and buys a sort of woollen sunset.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000005|I saw the thing unexpectedly.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000006|I tell you I was shaken.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000007|It is the suddenness of that waistcoat which hits you.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000008|It's discouraging, this sort of thing.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000009|I try always to think well of my fellow man.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000010_000000|Mr Waller intervened at this point.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000011_000000|'I think you must really let Jackson go on with his work, Smith,' he said.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000011_000001|'There seems to be too much talking.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000012_000001|'Well, well, I will go back and do my best to face it, but it's a tough job.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000013_000000|He tottered wearily away in the direction of the Postage Department.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000014_000000|'Oh, Jackson,' said Mr Waller, 'will you kindly take my place for a few minutes?
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000014_000002|I shall be back very soon.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000000|Mike was becoming accustomed to deputizing for the cashier for short spaces of time.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000001|It generally happened that he had to do so once or twice a day.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000002|Strictly speaking, perhaps, Mr Waller was wrong to leave such an important task as the actual cashing of cheques to an inexperienced person of Mike's standing; but the New Asiatic Bank differed from most banks in that there was not a great deal of cross counter work.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000003|People came in fairly frequently to cash cheques of two or three pounds, but it was rare that any very large dealings took place.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000016_000000|Having completed his business with the Inward Bills, Mr Waller made his way back by a circuitous route, taking in the Postage desk.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000022_000002|And yet I do not give way.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000023_000000|'Oh-er-Smith,' said Mr Waller, 'when you were talking to Jackson just now-'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000001|'It shall not occur again.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000002|Why should I dislocate the work of your department in my efforts to win a sympathetic word?
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000003|I will bear Comrade Bristow like a man here.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000004|After all, there are worse things at the Zoo.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000025_000001|By all means pay us a visit now and then, if it does not interfere with your own work.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000025_000002|But I noticed just now that you spoke to Bristow as Comrade Bristow.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000026_000001|He will be getting above himself.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000027_000000|'And when you were speaking to Jackson, you spoke of yourself as a Socialist.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000029_000000|Mr Waller's face grew animated.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000029_000001|He stammered in his eagerness.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000030_000000|'I am delighted,' he said.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000030_000002|I also-'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000033_000001|Mr Waller shook it with enthusiasm.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000034_000000|'I have never liked to speak of it to anybody in the office,' said Mr Waller, 'but I, too, am heart and soul in the movement.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000036_000000|'Just so.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000036_000001|Just so.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000036_000002|Exactly.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000037_000000|'Hyde Park?'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000000|'no
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000001|no
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000002|Clapham Common.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000004|Now, as you are interested in the movement, I was thinking that perhaps you might care to come and hear me speak next Sunday.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000005|Of course, if you have nothing better to do.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000040_000000|'Excellent.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000040_000001|Bring Jackson with you, and both of you come to supper afterwards, if you will.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000041_000000|'Thanks very much.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000042_000000|'Perhaps you would speak yourself?'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000043_000003|I seldom speak.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000043_000004|But it would be a treat to listen to you.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000044_000001|Well, I am perhaps a little bitter-'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000045_000000|'Yes, yes.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000046_000000|'A little mordant and ironical.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000047_000001|'I shall look forward to Sunday with every fibre quivering.
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000047_000002|And Comrade Jackson shall be at my side.'
train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000048_000000|'Excellent,' said Mr Waller.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000002_000000|CHAPTER forty three
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000003_000000|THE KILLER KILLED
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000004_000000|A rough low cabin of logs, hastily thrown together, housed through the winter months of the Sierra foothills the two men who now, in the warm days of early June, sat by the primitive fireplace cooking a midday meal.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000005_000000|That his companion, younger, bearded, dressed also in buckskins, was Will Banion it would have taken closer scrutiny even of a friend to determine, so much had the passing of these few months altered him in appearance and in manner.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000005_000001|Once light of mien, now he smiled never at all.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000005_000003|He spoke at last to his ancient and faithful friend, kindly as ever, and with his own alertness and decision.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000006_000000|"Let's make it our last meal on the Trinity, Bill.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000007_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000007_000001|What's eatin' ye, boy?
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000008_000000|"Yes, I want to move."
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000009_000000|"Most does."
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000010_000000|"We've got enough, Bill.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000010_000001|The last month has been a crime.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000010_000002|The spring snows uncovered a fortune for us, and you know it!"
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000011_000003|Why, rich?
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000012_000001|But if you'll agree, I'll sell this claim to the company below us and let them have the rest.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000012_000002|They offer fifty thousand flat, and it's enough-more than enough.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000012_000003|I want two things-to get Jim Bridger his share safe and sound; and I want to go to Oregon."
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000013_000000|The old man paused in the act of splitting off a deer rib from his roast.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000015_000000|"Well, go on and finish your meal in this plain fireplace of ours, Bill.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000016_000001|Moodily he walked along the side of the steep ravine to which the little structure clung.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000016_000002|Below him lay the ripped open slope where the little stream had been diverted.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000016_000003|Below again lay the bared bed of the exploited water course, floored with bowlders set in deep gravel, at times with seamy dams of flat rock lying under and across the gravel stretches; the bed rock, ages old, holding in its hidden fingers the rich secrets of immemorial time.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000017_000000|Here he and his partner had in a few months of strenuous labor taken from the narrow and unimportant rivulet more wealth than most could save in a lifetime of patient and thrifty toil.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000017_000002|The hillside now looked like any other hillside, innocent as a woman's eyes, yet covering how much!
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000017_000003|Banion could not realize that now, young though he was, he was a rich man.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000018_000000|He climbed down the side of the ravine, the little stones rattling under his feet, until he stood on the bared floor of the bed rock which had proved so unbelievably prolific in coarse gold.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000019_000001|As he stood, half musing, Will Banion heard, on the ravine side around the bend, the tinkle of a falling stone, lazily rolling from one impediment to another.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000019_000002|It might be some deer or other animal, he thought.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000019_000003|He hastened to get view of the cause, whatever it might be.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000020_000000|And then fate, chance, the goddess of fortune which some men say does not exist, but which all wilderness goers know does exist, for one instant paused, with Will Banion's life and wealth and happiness lightly a balance in cold, disdainful fingers.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000021_000000|He turned the corner.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000021_000001|Almost level with his own, he looked into the eyes of a crawling man who-stooped, one hand steadying himself against the slant of the ravine, the other below, carrying a rifle-was peering frowningly ahead.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000022_000000|It was an evil face, bearded, aquiline, not unhandsome; but evil in its plain meaning now.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000022_000001|The eyes were narrowed, the full lips drawn close, as though some tense emotion now approached its climax.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000022_000002|The appearance was that of strain, of nerves stretched in some purpose long sustained.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000023_000000|And why not?
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000023_000001|When a man would do murder, when that has been his steady and premeditated purpose for a year, waiting only for opportunity to serve his purpose, that purpose itself changes his very lineaments, alters his whole cast of countenance.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000023_000002|Other men avoid him, knowing unconsciously what is in his soul, because of what is written on his face.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000024_000002|His questions, his movements, his changes of locality showed that; and Woodhull was one of those who cannot avoid asseverance, needing it for their courage sake.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000024_000003|Now morose and brooding, now loudly profane, now laughing or now aloof, his errand in these unknown hills was plain.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000024_000004|Well, he was not alone among men whose depths were loosed. Some time his hour might come.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000000|It had come!
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000001|He stared now full into the face of his enemy!
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000002|He at last had found him.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000003|Here stood his enemy, unarmed, delivered into his hands.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000026_000000|For one instant the two stood, staring into one another's eyes.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000026_000002|Woodhull was taken as much unawares as he.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000027_000000|It had been Woodhull's purpose to get a stand above the sluices, hidden by the angle, where he could command the reach of the stream bed where Banion and Jackson last had been working.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000027_000001|He had studied the place before, and meant to take no chances.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000027_000002|His shot must be sure.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000028_000000|But now, in his climbing on the steep hillside, his rifle was in his left hand, downhill, and his footing, caught as he was with one foot half raised, was insecure.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000028_000001|At no time these last four hours had his opportunity been so close-or so poor-as precisely now!
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000030_000001|He snarled, for he saw Banion stoop, unarmed.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000030_000003|There was time even to exult, and that was much better in a long deferred matter such as this.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000031_000000|"Now, damn you, I've got you!"
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000032_000000|He gave Banion that much chance to see that he was now to die.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000033_000000|Half leaning, he raised the long rifle to its line and touched the trigger.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000000|The report came; and Banion fell.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000002|It was not more than the piece of rotten quartz he had picked up and planned to examine later.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000003|He flung it straight at Woodhull's face-an act of chance, of instinct.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000004|By a hair it saved him.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000002|The rifle carried but the one shot.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000003|He flung it down, reached for his heavy knife, raising an arm against the second piece of rock which Banion flung as he closed.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000004|He felt his wrist caught in an iron grip, felt the blood gush where his temple was cut by the last missile.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000005|And then once more, on the narrow bared floor that but now was patterned in parquetry traced in yellow, and soon must turn to red, it came to man and man between them-and it was free!
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000000|They fell and stumbled so that neither could much damage the other at first.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000001|Banion knew he must keep the impounded hand back from the knife sheath or he was done.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000002|Thus close, he could make no escape.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000003|He fought fast and furiously, striving to throw, to bend, to beat back the body of a man almost as strong as himself, and now a maniac in rage and fear.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000001|To Jackson, shaving off bits of sweet meat between thumb and knife blade, it meant the presence of a stranger, friend or foe, for he knew Banion had carried no weapon with him.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000002|His own long rifle he snatched from its pegs.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000004|His moccasined feet made no sound.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000005|He saw no one in the creek bed or at the long turn.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000007|It was Will Banion's voice.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000038_000000|The two struggling men grappled below him had no notion of how long they had fought.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000038_000001|It seemed an age, and the denouement yet another age deferred.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000038_000002|But to them came the sound of a voice:
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000039_000001|Stand back!"
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000040_000000|It was Jackson.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000041_000000|They both, still gripped, looked up the bank.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000041_000001|The long barrel of a rifle, foreshortened to a black point, above it a cold eye, fronted and followed them as they swayed.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000041_000002|The crooked arm of the rifleman was motionless, save as it just moved that deadly circle an inch this way, an inch back again.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000042_000003|For just one instant he looked up at the death staring down on him, then turned to run.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000043_000000|There was no place where he could run.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000044_000001|Sam Woodhull, look at me!"
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000045_000000|He did turn, in horror, in fascination at sight of the Bright Angel.
train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000045_000001|The rifle barrel to his last gaze became a small, round circle, large as a bottle top, and around it shone a fringed aura of red and purple light. That might have been the eye.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000002_000000|"LITTLE MOTHER"
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000003_000000|She was a clear eyed, fresh cheeked little maiden, living on the banks of the great Mississippi, the oldest of four children, and mother's "little woman" always.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000003_000001|They called her so because of her quiet, matronly care of the younger Mayfields-that was the father's name.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000003_000002|Her own name was the beautiful one of Elizabeth, but they shortened it to Bess.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000004_000001|"Be mother's little woman, dear," said mrs Mayfield as she kissed the rosy face.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000004_000002|Her husband added: "I leave the children in your care, Bess; be a little mother to them."
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000000|Bess waved her old sun bonnet vigorously, and held up the baby Rose, that she might watch them to the last.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000001|Old Daddy Jim and Mammy had been detailed by mr Mayfield to keep an unsuspected watch on the little nestlings, and were to sleep at the house.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000003|She put the little girls to bed and persuaded Rob to go; then seated herself by the table with her mother's work basket, in quaint imitation of mrs Mayfield's industry in the evening time.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000004|But what was this?
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000005|Her feet touched something cold!
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000006|She bent down and felt around with her hand.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000007|A pool of water was spreading over the floor.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000009|What should she do?
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000011|"Oh, if I had a boat!" she exclaimed.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000012|"But there isn't anything of the sort on the place." She ran wildly out to look for Mammy; and stumbled over something sitting near the edge of the porch. A sudden inspiration took her.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000013|Here was her boat! a very large, old-fashioned, oblong tub.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000014|The water was now several inches deep on the porch and she contrived to half float, half row the tub into the room.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000000|Without frightening the children she got them dressed in the warmest clothes they had.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000001|She lined the oblong tub with a blanket, and made ready bread and cold meat left from supper.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000002|With Rob's assistance she dragged the tub upstairs.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000003|There was a single large window in the room, and they set the tub directly by it, so that when the water rose the tub would float out.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000004|There was no way for the children to reach the roof, which was a very steep, inclined one.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000005|It did not seem long before the water had very nearly risen to the top of the stairs leading from below.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000000|Bess flung the window open, and made Rob get into their novel boat; then she lifted in Kate, and finally baby Rose, who began to cry, was given into Rob's arms, and now the little mother, taking the basket of food, made ready to enter, too; but, lo! there was no room for her with safety to the rest.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000001|Bess paused a moment, drew a long breath, and kissed the children quietly.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000002|She explained to Rob that he must guard the basket, and that they must sit still.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000003|"Goodbye, dears.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000004|Say a prayer for sister, Rob.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000005|If you ever see father and mother, tell them I took care of you." Then the water seized the insecure vessel, and out into the dark night it floated.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000009_000000|The next day mr Mayfield, who, with his neighbors, scoured the broad lake of eddying water that represented the Mississippi, discovered the tub lodged in the branches of a sycamore with the children weeping and chilled, but safe.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000010_000000|And Bess?
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000010_000001|Ah, where was Bess, the "little mother," who in that brief moment resigned herself to death?
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000010_000002|They found her later, floating on the water with her brave childish face turned to the sky; and as strong arms lifted her into the boat, the tears from every eye paid worthy tribute to the "little mother."
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000012_000000|ROBBIE GOODMAN'S PRAYER
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000000|"What can be the matter with Walter," thought Mama Ellis as she sat sewing in her pleasant sitting room.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000001|"He came in so very quietly, closed the door gently and I think I even heard him go to the closet to hang up his books.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000002|Oh! dear.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000003|I hope he isn't going to have another attack of 'Grippe,'" and mrs Ellis shivered as she glanced out at the snow covered landscape.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000005|Little Walter was all that remained of four beautiful children, who, only a year ago, romped gaily through the large halls.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000006|That dread disease, diphtheria, had stolen the older brother and laughing little sisters in one short week's time, so that now, as the sad anniversary came near to hand, mrs Ellis' heart ached for her lost birdlings and yearned more jealously than ever over her remaining little one.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000007|Today his usually merry face was very grave and he looked very thoughtful as he gave his mother her kiss and allowed himself to be drawn upon her lap.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000014_000001|Is he sick?" she asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000000|"No, Mother dear, I'm not sick, but I feel so sad at heart.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000002|Of course I noticed it, for nearly everyone else was all bundled up; but I didn't say anything as I did not want to be impolite.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000003|After awhile he said, 'My, I am so cold,' and I said: 'Where's your overcoat?' Then he told me it was too small and his papa can't buy him any this winter so he is afraid he will have to stop school.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000005|Even that one is thin and patched.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000016_000000|"Tonight, Mother," continued Walter, "he had an awful cold and coughed just like our Harry did last year," and the long pent up tears flowed from the child's eyes.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000016_000001|As mother and son dried their tears, the child looked up with perfect confidence as he said, "The Lord will answer Robbie's prayer, won't he.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000016_000002|Mama?"
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000018_000000|"Yes darling," said mrs Ellis; and sent the child off to the play room.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000019_000000|"By the way, my dear," remarked mrs Ellis as they sat chatting at the tea table after Walter had retired, "what has become of that preacher Goodman who preached for us once on trial?"
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000020_000002|He looked very needy.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000020_000003|The man had wonderful talents and might have a rich congregation and improve himself; but he is persistent in his ideas concerning this holiness movement, and of course a large church like ours wants something to attract and interest instead of such egotistical discourses.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000020_000004|I, for one, go to sleep under them." And mr Ellis drew himself up with a pompous air as he went into the library, whither his wife presently followed.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000021_000000|He had picked up a newspaper and was apparently absorbed, but mrs Ellis had not had her say, so she continued "Walter was telling me about the little boy.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000022_000000|"Oh, yes," interrupted her husband, "he met me in the hall and poured out the whole story.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000022_000001|The child's nerves were all wrought up, too.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000022_000003|He wants me to give up buying him the fur trimmed overcoat and get a coat and shoes for Goodman's children, as they were praying so hard for them, but I have enough to do without clothing other people's children.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000023_000000|"But Paul," said mrs Ellis, "Surely you would not have mr Goodman sacrifice his convictions simply for money and praise, when you yourself, are convinced that his doctrines are sound?
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000023_000001|Besides he must be doing a good work down among the poor classes of the city as it appears the rich don't want him."
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000025_000000|"They do give far beyond their means but the Lord calls on such as us to give.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000025_000001|I know it has been an unusually hard year but the Lord has blessed us and He will hold us to an account.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000025_000002|I feel very sad as the anniversary of our darlings' departure draws near and I dread to think of any little ones suffering while we could so easily help them."
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000026_000001|When the house is so quiet and I think of those white graves in the cemetery I confess I feel very bitter."
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000000|"Paul, my dear husband, don't feel that way.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000002|Remember also that we have one left, to live for, to train.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000003|And, Paul, let us train him for the Master and in such a way that we may never have the feeling that it were better if he, too, had departed when he was pure and innocent.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000004|Let us encourage benevolence and gentleness and if he wishes to go without the fur trimmed coat, why not do as he asks?" mrs Ellis kissed her husband and quietly left the room.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000000|Long and late, Paul Ellis sat there and many things, ghosts of the past, rose before him.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000001|As the midnight chimes rang out he knelt and prayed. "Oh, Lord, forgive me.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000003|I have been prejudiced.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000004|It was my influence which turned the tide against Robert Goodman.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000006|Now, if Thou wilt only forgive and help me I will walk in the light as Thou sendest it, even consenting to be called a 'holiness crank.'"
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000000|A few days afterward Robert Goodman received a large package from an unknown friend containing a warm overcoat and three pairs of shoes.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000001|His father also received a present.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000002|It came through the mail and was an honest confession of a wrong done him, also a check for one hundred dollars.
train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000003|One year later this church gave a unanimous call to Brother Goodman and the revival which broke out that winter was unprecedented in the annals of that church.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000001_000001|His mother worked hard for their daily bread. "Please give me something to eat, for I am very hungry," he said to her one evening.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000002_000000|His mother let the work that she was sewing fall upon her knees, and drew Johnny toward her.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000002_000001|As she kissed him the tears fell fast on his face, while she said, "Johnny, my dear, I have not a penny in the world. There is not a morsel of bread in the house, and I cannot give you any tonight."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000003_000000|Johnny did not cry when he heard this.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000003_000001|He was only a little fellow but he had learned the lesson of trusting in God's promises.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000003_000002|He had great faith in the sweet words of Jesus when he said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000004_000001|But you must sit here and sew, hungry and cold.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000004_000002|Poor mama!" he said, as he threw his arms around her neck and kissed her many times to comfort her.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000005_000000|Then he knelt down at his mother's knee to say his prayers after her. They said "Our Father," till they came to the petition, "Give us this day our daily bread." The way in which his mother said these words made Johnny's heart ache.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000005_000001|He stopped and looked at her, and repeated with his eyes full of tears.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000005_000002|"Give us this day our daily bread."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000007_000000|When they got through he looked at his mother and said, "Now mother, do not be afraid.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000007_000002|God is our Father.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000008_000000|Then he went to bed.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000008_000001|Before midnight he woke up, while his mother was still at work, and asked if the bread had come yet.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000000|In the morning, before Johnny was awake, a gentleman called who wanted his mother to come to his house and take charge of his two motherless children.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000001|She agreed to go.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000002|He left some money with her.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000003|She went out at once to buy some things for breakfast; and when Johnny awoke, the bread was there, and all that he needed!
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000010_000000|Johnny is now a man, but he has never wanted bread from that day; and whenever he was afraid since then, he has remembered God's promises, and trusted in him.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000012_000000|TRIUMPHANT DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000000|Some years ago we knew a Brother and Sister G----, who told of the remarkable experience of their little girl, only seven years old, who had a short time ago gone home to heaven.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000001|The parents were devoted Christians who had taught their children to love and honor God.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000002|During little Ella's illness she manifested wonderful patience and told of her love for Jesus.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000003|The morning she died she called her papa and mama to her side and said: "I have been in heaven all night.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000004|My room is full of angels and Jesus is here.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000005|I'm going to heaven." Then she asked them to promise to meet her there.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000006|As soon as they could control their feelings they made her the promise.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000007|Then she kissed them and called for her little brother and sister and other friends.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000008|She talked with each one in turn, telling them in substance, the same she had told her papa and mama, asking each one to make her the same promise, and kissing each one good bye.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000009|That was a touching scene.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000010|Those who were there said it seemed more like heaven than earth to be in her presence.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000011|In the midst of many tears all promised her they would surely meet her in that bright and beautiful home to which she was going.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000000|Little Ella's death was glorious and she is not the only one that has left us such bright, joyous testimony.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000001|We have ourselves known of many children and older ones who had quite similar experiences.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000002|And though we may not all see, before we die, all that Ella saw, if we love Jesus and do what he asks us to, he will surely fulfill to each of us his promise: "I go to prepare a place for you.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000003|And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000015_000000|--Editor
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000019_000000|Into her chamber went A little girl one day, And by a chair she knelt, And thus began to pray:--
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000020_000000|"Jesus, my eyes I close, Thy form I cannot see; If Thou art near me, Lord, I pray Thee to speak to me."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000021_000000|A still, small voice she heard within her soul- "What is it child?
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000023_000000|"The path of life is dark, I would not go astray; Oh, let me have Thy hand To lead me in the way."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000025_000000|"They tell me, Lord, that all The living pass away; The aged soon must die, And even children may.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000026_000000|"Oh, let my parents live Till I a woman grow; For if they die, what can A little orphan do?"
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000027_000000|"Fear not, my child; whatever ill may come I'll not forsake thee till I bring thee home."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000028_000000|Her little prayer was said, And from her chamber now She passed forth with the light Of heaven upon her brow.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000029_000000|"Mother, I've seen the Lord, His hand in mine I felt, And, oh, I heard Him say, As by my chair I knelt-
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000032_000000|Jimmy was lying on an old cot out in the orchard, getting some of the nice spring sunshine on his thin body.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000032_000002|kitty!
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000033_000000|But Annette did not come.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000033_000001|His mother came and reminded him that Annette was very old indeed, and it might be that she would never come again.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000034_000000|"She was here yesterday, Mother," he answered her, and the big tears came to his eyes "She felt perfectly fine then."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000035_000000|"I know, but she's an old cat.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000035_000001|She never strays away of her own accord, and certainlv no one would steal an old blind cat."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000001|He introduced himself as the new neighbor who just moved across the little creek.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000002|He made inquiries as to where he could buy fresh vegetables and milk.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000003|And just as he was about to leave he remarked, "I did a strange thing early this morning.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000004|There was an old cat came over to my place.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000005|One ear was almost gone and it was blind.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000006|I'm not much of a hand to make way with things, but I felt so sorry for that poor old animal that I killed it."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000037_000000|"Oh!" With a strangled sob Jimmy quickly left the room.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000038_000001|He was very sorry, but of course that did not bring the cat back.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000039_000000|"When I saw it, I just banged it over the head with a stick and then buried it.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000040_000000|When he was gone, mother went out to find Jimmy and comfort him.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000040_000001|He was out in the orchard on his knees.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000040_000002|Quietly she went up and knelt beside him, slipping her arm about his shoulder.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000041_000000|He turned to her at once.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000041_000001|"Mother, there's something funny about Annette. I've been praying and I feel all happy inside.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000042_000001|"He does help us bear our burdens in a wonderful way."
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000000|"I'll say he does.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000001|This morning I felt so bad I didn't know what to do, and then when that man said-he had killed Annette-I thought I just could not stand it.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000002|And here I am happy as anything again.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000003|And just because I took it all to Jesus.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000044_000000|"She was very old, son.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000045_000000|But Jimmy was running swiftly across the field toward an old blind cat that was staggering in his direction.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000046_000000|Apparently the new neighbor had only stunned the cat and she had dug her way out of the shallow hole and come home again.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000047_000000|It was years before she really died, and long before she presented Jimmy with a very tiny kitten with two whole ears and two very bright eyes.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000050_000000|HOW GOD ANSWERED DONALD'S PRAYER
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000051_000001|Little children not only have a deep faith but a childlike trust in believing that God answers their prayers.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000053_000000|As years went by, I went into sin and shared in the common sins of worldly people.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000053_000001|I knew better than to do the things I did, but sin is a miry clay pulling its victims down deeper and deeper.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000053_000002|For ten years I never entered a church house except to attend my father's funeral.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000000|Donald learned much of the Scriptures.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000001|He would pray and ask God's blessings at the table.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000002|In august nineteen thirty two we were living in Minneapolis.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000003|One evening in particular I shall not forget.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000005|Donald was then twelve years old.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000006|He suffered over my sins and came to the door to call me. I promised him to come up soon, but I continued on for some hours with the drunken crowd.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000007|When I did come up to our apartment I found Donald on his knees by his bed with his Testament and an old hymn book of my mother in law's.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000008|The books were open on the bed.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000009|He looked up through his tears and said, "Mother, I am praying for you." I looked at the Testament and hymnal which were wet with tears that he had shed for his ungodly mother.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000010|On september fifteenth, following this experience I went to a mission.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000012|When the song, "Lord, I'm coming home," was sung after the service I made my way to the altar.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000013|While kneeling there I felt someone very close to my side.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000014|It was Donald who was praying for his mother.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000015|God heard my prayer to be saved.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000016|He was merciful and washed away my sins.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000000|God saved me for service.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000001|I marvel at his grace and mercy toward me.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000002|I cannot cease to thank Him for picking me up out of the miry clay.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000003|I am thankful also for my little boy who never ceased to pray for his mother. Now, my life is in God's hands.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000004|I want to help others find the Savior. I am especially burdened for others in the bondage of sin as I was.
train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000005|But even more than that, I am burdened for children who have no opportunity of knowing Jesus as their personal Savior.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000003_000000|It is not generally known that the newt, although one of the smallest of our North American animals, has an extremely happy home life.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000003_000001|It is just one of those facts which never get bruited about.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000005_000001|Since that time I have practically lived among newts, jotting down observations, making lantern slides, watching them in their work and in their play (and you may rest assured that the little rogues have their play-as who does not?) until, from much lying in a research posture on my stomach, over the inclosure in which they were confined, I found myself developing what I feared might be rudimentary creepers.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000005_000002|And so, late this autumn, I stood erect and walked into my house, where I immediately set about the compilation of the notes I had made.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000006_000000|So much for the non technical introduction.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000006_000001|The remainder of this article bids fair to be fairly scientific.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000000|In studying the more intimate phases of newt life, one is chiefly impressed with the methods by means of which the males force their attentions upon the females, with matrimony as an object.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000001|For the newt is, after all, only a newt, and has his weaknesses just as any of the rest of us.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000002|And I, for one, would not have it different.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000003|There is little enough fun in the world as it is.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000000|The peculiar thing about a newt's courtship is its restraint.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000001|It is carried on, at all times, with a minimum distance of fifty paces (newt measure) between the male and the female.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000002|Some of the bolder males may now and then attempt to overstep the bounds of good sportsmanship and crowd in to forty five paces, but such tactics are frowned upon by the Rules Committee.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000003|To the eye of an uninitiated observer, the pair might be dancing a few of the more open figures of the minuet.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000009_000000|The means employed by the males to draw the attention and win the affection of those of the opposite sex (females) are varied and extremely strategic.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000011_000000|But the little creature, true to her sex instinct, does not at once give evidence that her morale has been shattered.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000011_000001|She affects a coyness and lack of interest, by hitching herself sideways along the bottom of the aquarium, with her head turned over her right shoulder away from the swain.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000011_000002|A trained ear might even detect her whistling in an indifferent manner.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000012_000000|The male, in the meantime, is flashing his gleamer frantically two blocks away and is performing all sorts of attractive feats, calculated to bring the lady newt to terms.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000012_000001|I have seen a male, in the stress of his handicap courtship, stand on his fore feet, gesticulating in amorous fashion with his hind feet in the air.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000013_000000|In order to test the power of observation in the male during these manœuvers, I carefully removed the female, for whose benefit he was undulating, and put in her place, in slow succession, another (but less charming) female, a paper weight of bronze shaped like a newt, and, finally, a common rubber eraser.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000013_000001|From the distance at which the courtship was being carried on, the male (who was, it must be admitted, a bit near sighted congenitally) was unable to detect the change in personnel, and continued, even in the presence of the rubber eraser, to gyrate and undulate in a most conscientious manner, still under the impression that he was making a conquest.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000015_000001|Not I, for one....
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000015_000002|In fact, the two cases are not at all analogous.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000016_000000|And now that we have seen how wonderfully Nature works in the fulfilment of her laws, even among her tiniest creatures, let us study for a minute a cross section of the community life of the newt.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000016_000001|It is a life full of all kinds of exciting adventure, from weaving nests to crawling about in the sun and catching insect larvæ and crustaceans. The newt's day is practically never done, largely because the insect larvæ multiply three million times as fast as the newt can possibly catch and eat them.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000016_000002|And it takes the closest kind of community team work in the newt colony to get things anywhere near cleaned up by nightfall.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000000|It is early morning, and the workers are just appearing, hurrying to the old log which is to be the scene of their labors.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000001|What a scampering!
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000002|What a bustle!
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000003|Ah, little scamperers!
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000004|Ah, little bustlers! How lucky you are, and how wise!
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000005|You work long hours, without pay, for the sheer love of working.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000006|An ideal existence, I'll tell the scientific world.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000018_000000|Over here on the right of the log are the Master Draggers.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000018_000001|Of all the newt workers, they are the most futile, which is high praise indeed. Come, let us look closer and see what it is that they are doing.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000019_000000|The one in the lead is dragging a bit of gurry out from the water and up over the edge into the sunlight.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000019_000001|Following him, in single file, come the rest of the Master Draggers.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000019_000002|They are not dragging anything, but are sort of helping the leader by crowding against him and eating little pieces out of the filament of his tail.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000020_000000|And now they have reached the top.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000021_000000|The little workers, reaching the goal with their precious freight, are now giving it over to the Master Pushers, who have been waiting for them in the sun all this while.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000021_000001|The Master Pushers' work is soon accomplished, for it consists simply in pushing the piece of gurry over the other side of the log until it falls with a splash into the water, where it is lost.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000022_000001|Would that my own work were as clean cut and as satisfying.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000023_000000|And so it goes.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000023_000001|Day in and day out, the busy army of newts go on making the world a better place in which to live.
train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000024_000000|And, after all, what more has life to offer?
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000001_000000|GARDENING NOTES
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000002_000000|During the past month almost every paper, with the exception of the agricultural journals, has installed an agricultural department, containing short articles by Lord Northcliffe, or some one else in the office who had an unoccupied typewriter, telling the American citizen how to start and hold the interest of a small garden.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000003_000000|But all of these editorial suggestions appear to be conducted by professionals for the benefit of the layman, which seems to me to be a rather one sided way of going about the thing.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000003_000001|Obviously the suggestions should come from a layman himself, in the nature of warnings to others.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000000|I am qualified to put forth such an article because of two weeks' service in my own back yard, doing my bit for peter Henderson and planting all sorts of things in the ground without the slightest expectation of ever seeing anything of any of them again.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000002|In fact, I would take it as a personal favor, and would feel that anything that I might do in the future for Nature would be little enough in return for the special work she went to all the trouble of doing for me.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000003|But all of this is on condition that something of mine grows into manhood.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000004|Otherwise, Nature can go her way and I go mine, just as we have gone up till now.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000005_000000|However, although I am an amateur, I shall have to adopt, in my writing, the tone of a professional, or I shall never get any one to believe what I say.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000000|This is one of the most important things that the young gardener is called upon to do.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000001|In fact, a great many young gardeners never do anything further.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000002|Some inherited weakness, something they never realized they had before, may crop out during this process: weak back, tendency of shoulder blades to ossification, misplacement of several important vertebræ, all are apt to be discovered for the first time during the course of one day's digging.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000003|If, on the morning following the first attempt to prepare the ground for planting, you are able to walk in a semi erect position as far as the bathtub (and, without outside assistance, lift one foot into the water), you may flatter yourself that you are, joint for joint, in as perfect condition as the man in the rubber heels advertisements.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000000|Authorities differ as to the best way of digging.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000001|All agree that it is impossible to avoid walking about during the following week as if you were impersonating an old colored waiter with the lumbago; but there are two schools, each with its own theory, as to the less painful method.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000002|One advocates bending over, without once raising up, until the whole row is dug.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000003|The others, of whom I must confess that I am one, feel that it is better to draw the body to a more or less erect position after each shovelful.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000011_000000|The necessity for work of such a strenuous nature in the mere preliminaries of the process of planting a garden is due to the fact that the average back yard has, up till the present time, been behaving less like a garden than anything else in the world.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000011_000001|You might think that a back yard, possessed of an ordinary amount of decency and civic pride would, at some time during its career, have said to itself:
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000012_000000|"Now look here!
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000012_000001|I may some day be called upon to be a garden, and the least I can do is to get myself into some sort of shape, so that, when the time comes, I will be fairly ready to receive a seed or two."
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000013_000000|But no! Year in and year out they have been drifting along in a fools' paradise, accumulating stones and queer, indistinguishable cans and things, until they were prepared to become anything, quarries, iron mines, notion counters,--anything but gardens.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000014_000000|I have saved in a box all the things that I have dug from my back yard, and, when I have them assembled, all I will need will be a good engine to make them into a pretty fairly decent runabout,--nothing elaborate, mind you, but good enough to run the family out in on Sunday afternoons.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000015_000000|And then there are lots of other things that wouldn't even fit into the runabout.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000015_000002|But there, I mustn't get sentimental.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000016_000001|If you have an empty and detached furnace boiler, you might bring that along to fill with the stones you will dig up.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000016_000002|If it is a small garden, you ought not to have to empty the boiler more than three or four times. Any neighbor who is building a stone house will be glad to contract with you for the stones, and those that are left over after he has got his house built can be sold to another neighbor who is building another stone house.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000016_000003|Your market is limited only by the number of neighbors who are building stone houses.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000000|On the first day, when you find yourself confronted by a stretch of untouched ground which is to be turned over (technical phrase, meaning to "turn over"), you may be somewhat at a loss to know where to begin. Such indecision is only natural, and should cause no worry on the part of the young gardener.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000001|It is something we all have to go through with.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000002|You may feel that it would be futile and unsystematic to go about digging up a forkful here and a shovelful there, tossing the earth at random, in the hope that in due time you will get the place dug up.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000003|And so it would.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000000|The thing to do is to decide just where you want your garden, and what its dimensions are to be.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000001|This will have necessitated a previous drawing up of a chart, showing just what is to be planted and where. As this chart will be the cause of considerable hard feeling in the family circle, usually precipitating a fist fight over the number of rows of onions to be set out, I will not touch on that in this article.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000002|There are some things too intimate for even a professional agriculturist to write of.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000003|I will say, however, that those in the family who are standing out for onions might much better save their time and feelings by pretending to give in, and then, later in the day, sneaking out and slipping the sprouts in by themselves in some spot where they will know where to find them again.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000019_000000|Having decided on the general plan and dimensions of the plot, gather the family about as if for a corner stone dedication, and then make a rather impressive ceremony of driving in the first stake by getting your little boy to sing the first twelve words of some patriotic air. (If he doesn't know the first twelve, any twelve will do.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000019_000001|The idea is to keep the music going during the driving of the stake.)
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000021_000002|You will feel that at last you have something tangible. Now all that remains is to turn the ground over, harrow it, smooth it up nice and neat, plant your seeds, cultivate them, thin out your plants and pick the crops.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000000|It may seem that I have spent most of my time in advice on preparing the ground for planting.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000001|Such may well be the case, as that was as far as I got.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000002|I then found a man who likes to do those things and whose doctor has told him that he ought to be out of doors all the time.
train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000003|He is an Italian, and charges really very little when you consider what he accomplishes.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000001_000000|A PIECE OF ROAST BEEF
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000002_000000|Personally, I class roast beef with watercress and vanilla cornstarch pudding as tasty articles of diet.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000003_000000|But for all that I can't seem to feel that I am having a good time while I am eating it.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000003_000001|It stimulates the same nerve centers in me that a lantern slide lecture on "Palestine-the Old and the New," does.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000005_000000|Roast beef is not the same price in all eating places.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000005_000001|What makes the difference?
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000006_000000|To answer these questions I started out on a tour of the representative eating places of some of our best known strata of society, and, whatever my conclusions are, you may be sure that they are thoroughly inexpert.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000007_000000|First, I tried out what is known as the Bay State Lunch, so called because on Thursdays they have a fishcake special.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000008_000000|Here the roast beef shot through the Punch and Judy arrangement in the wall, a piece of meat about as large around as a man's size mitten, steeping in its own gravy and of a pale reddish hue.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000008_000001|The price was twenty cents, which included a dab of mashed potato dished out in an ice cream scoop, a generous allowance of tender peas, two hot tea biscuits and butter to match.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000011_000000|For the next experiment I went to a restaurant where business men are wont to gather for luncheon, men who pride themselves on their acumen and adherence to the principles of efficiency.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000011_000001|The place has a French name and its menus are printed on a card the size of a life insurance company's complimentary calendar, always an ominous sign.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000011_000002|The roast beef here was served cold, with a plate of escarole salad (when I was a boy I used to have to dig escarole out of the front lawn with a trowel so that the grass could have a chance) for seventy five cents.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000012_000000|The meat bulked a little larger than at the Bay State Lunch, but when the fat had been cut away and trimmed off the salvage was about the size of a boy's mitten.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000012_000001|As for the taste, the only difference that I could detect was that one had been hot and the other cold.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000013_000001|Beef and salad, plus tip, ninety cents.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000014_000002|I said to myself: "Look here!
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000014_000004|This thing is getting the best of you." But before I knew it I was inside and seated at an oilcloth covered table, saying, in a hoarse voice, "Roast beef!"
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000001|The article itself was of the regulation size, cut somewhat thinner, perhaps, and bordering on the gray in hue, but undoubtedly roast beef.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000002|It, too, had an affinity for its own gravy and hid itself modestly under an avalanche of mashed potatoes.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000003|A cup of coffee was also included in the ten cents' initial expense, but I somehow wasn't coffee thirsty that night, and so didn't sample it.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000004|But I did help myself to the plate piled high with fresh bread which was left in front of me.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000005|All in all, it was what I should call a representative roast beef dinner.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000006|And I got more than ten cents' worth of calories, I know.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000000|But so far I had kept below the Fourteenth Street belt in my investigations.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000001|Roast beef is a cosmopolitan habit, and knows no arbitrary boundaries; so I went uptown.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000003|Here, I felt, would be the test.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000004|Could roast beef come back?
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000005|Surrounded by glittering chandeliers and rich tapestries, snowy table linen and silver service, here was the chance for the ordinary roast beef to become a veritable dainty, with some character, some distinctive touch that should lift it above all that roast beef has ever meant before.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000018_000000|But apparently the hotel retainers weren't trained to look through a rough exterior and find the sterling qualities beneath.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000018_000001|They looked through my rough exterior all right, but they didn't stop at my sterling qualities.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000018_000002|They looked right through to the man behind me, and gave him the signal that there was a seat for him.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000019_000000|Not to be outdone, however, I got my place in the sun by cleverly tripping my rival as he passed me, so that he fell into the fountain arrangement, while I sat down in the seat pulled out for him by the head waiter.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000019_000001|And, once I was in, there was nothing for them to do but let me stay.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000020_000000|After I had been there a few minutes a waiter came and put on a fresh table cloth.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000020_000001|Five minutes later another man placed a knife and spoon at my plate.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000020_000002|Later in the evening a boy with a basket of rolls wandered by and deposited one on my table with a pair of pincers. Personally, I was rather glad that it was working out this way, for it would make my story all the better, but I might have really been in a hurry for my dinner.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000021_000000|It wasn't long, as the crow flies, before one of the third assistant waiters unloosened enough to drop round and see if there was anything else I wanted besides one roll and a knife and spoon.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000021_000001|I looked over the menu as if I were in a pretty captious mood, and then, with the air of an epicure who has tasted to the dregs all the condiments of Arabia and whose jaded palate refuses to thrill any longer, I ordered "roast beef."
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000023_000000|The waiter wasn't very enthusiastic over my order, and something saved me from asking him if they threw in "a side" of mashed potatoes with the meat.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000023_000002|That cheered him up more than anything I had done that evening, and he really got quite fratty and said: "A little salad, sir?" Again I imitated a man who has had more experience with salads than any other three men put together and who has found them a miserable sham.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000025_000000|"No; that will be all for now," I said, and turned wearily away.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000025_000001|I wanted to tell him that I had a dinner coat at home that looked enough sight better than his, but there is no use in making a scene when it can be avoided.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000026_000000|During the next twenty minutes the orchestra played once and I ate my roll.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000026_000001|Then the roast beef came.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000027_000000|On a silver platter, with a silver cover, it was placed before me under the best possible scenic conditions.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000027_000001|But the thing that met my gaze when the cover was lifted might just as well have been the same property piece of roast beef that was keeping company with a dab of mashed potato in the Bay State Lunch.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000027_000002|It had a trifle more fat, was just a shade pinker, and perhaps a micrometer could have detected a bit more bulk; but, so far as I was concerned or so far as the calories were concerned, it was the same.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000028_000000|As a fitting garniture to such a dish, there was a corsage of watercress draped on the corner of the salver.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000028_000001|At any rate, it could be said for it that it was not intoxicating, and so could never cause any real misery in this world.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000029_000000|I nibbled at my roast beef, but my spirit was broken.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000029_000001|I had gone through a week of self denial, ordering roast beef when I craved edibles, eating at restaurants while my family waited for me at home, and here was the result of my researches: Roast beef is roast beef, and nothing can prevent it.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000029_000002|From the ten cent order of the Busy Home Restaurant, up through to the piece I was then eating, it was the same grim reality, the only justification for a difference in price being a silver salver or a waiter in a tuxedo.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000031_000000|This quite reconciled me, until my check was brought.
train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000032_000000|These investigations may not prove to be much of a contribution to modern science or economics.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000005_000001|We were to sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my state room.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000000|I found that we were to have a great many passengers, including a more than usual number of ladies.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000001|On the list were several of my acquaintances, and among other names, I was rejoiced to see that of mr Cornelius Wyatt, a young artist, for whom I entertained feelings of warm friendship.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000002|He had been with me a fellow student at C- University, where we were very much together.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000003|He had the ordinary temperament of genius, and was a compound of misanthropy, sensibility, and enthusiasm. To these qualities he united the warmest and truest heart which ever beat in a human bosom.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000000|I observed that his name was carded upon three state rooms; and, upon again referring to the list of passengers, I found that he had engaged passage for himself, wife, and two sisters-his own.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000001|The state rooms were sufficiently roomy, and each had two berths, one above the other.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000002|These berths, to be sure, were so exceedingly narrow as to be insufficient for more than one person; still, I could not comprehend why there were three state rooms for these four persons.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000003|I was, just at that epoch, in one of those moody frames of mind which make a man abnormally inquisitive about trifles: and I confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the supernumerary state room.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000004|It was no business of mine, to be sure, but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000007|"Oh, extra baggage, to be sure," I now said to myself-"something he wishes not to be put in the hold-something to be kept under his own eye-ah, I have it-a painting or so-and this is what he has been bargaining about with Nicolino, the Italian Jew." This idea satisfied me, and I dismissed my curiosity for the nonce.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000008_000000|Wyatt's two sisters I knew very well, and most amiable and clever girls they were.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000008_000003|I was, therefore, quite anxious to make her acquaintance.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000009_000000|On the day in which I visited the ship (the fourteenth), Wyatt and party were also to visit it-so the captain informed me-and I waited on board an hour longer than I had designed, in hope of being presented to the bride, but then an apology came.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000009_000001|"mrs w was a little indisposed, and would decline coming on board until to morrow, at the hour of sailing."
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000000|I did not receive the expected message from the captain for nearly a week.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000001|It came at length, however, and I immediately went on board.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000002|The ship was crowded with passengers, and every thing was in the bustle attendant upon making sail.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000003|Wyatt's party arrived in about ten minutes after myself.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000004|There were the two sisters, the bride, and the artist-the latter in one of his customary fits of moody misanthropy.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000006|He did not even introduce me to his wife-this courtesy devolving, per force, upon his sister Marian-a very sweet and intelligent girl, who, in a few hurried words, made us acquainted.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000012_000000|mrs Wyatt had been closely veiled; and when she raised her veil, in acknowledging my bow, I confess that I was very profoundly astonished.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000000|The truth is, I could not help regarding mrs Wyatt as a decidedly plain looking woman.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000001|If not positively ugly, she was not, I think, very far from it.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000002|She was dressed, however, in exquisite taste-and then I had no doubt that she had captivated my friend's heart by the more enduring graces of the intellect and soul.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000003|She said very few words, and passed at once into her state room with mr w
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000000|My old inquisitiveness now returned.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000001|There was no servant-that was a settled point.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000002|I looked, therefore, for the extra baggage.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000004|Immediately upon its arrival we made sail, and in a short time were safely over the bar and standing out to sea.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000000|The box in question was, as I say, oblong.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000001|It was about six feet in length by two and a half in breadth; I observed it attentively, and like to be precise.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000004|This point, therefore, I considered as sufficiently settled.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000005|I chuckled excessively when I thought of my acumen.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000006|It was the first time I had ever known Wyatt to keep from me any of his artistical secrets; but here he evidently intended to steal a march upon me, and smuggle a fine picture to New York, under my very nose; expecting me to know nothing of the matter.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000007|I resolved to quiz him well, now and hereafter.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000000|One thing, however, annoyed me not a little.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000001|The box did not go into the extra state room.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000002|It was deposited in Wyatt's own; and there, too, it remained, occupying very nearly the whole of the floor-no doubt to the exceeding discomfort of the artist and his wife;--this the more especially as the tar or paint with which it was lettered in sprawling capitals, emitted a strong, disagreeable, and, to my fancy, a peculiarly disgusting odor.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000003|On the lid were painted the words-"mrs
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000004|Adelaide Curtis, albany new york.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000006|This side up. To be handled with care."
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000017_000000|Now, I was aware that mrs Adelaide Curtis, of Albany, was the artist's wife's mother,--but then I looked upon the whole address as a mystification, intended especially for myself.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000017_000001|I made up my mind, of course, that the box and contents would never get farther north than the studio of my misanthropic friend, in Chambers Street, New York.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000000|For the first three or four days we had fine weather, although the wind was dead ahead; having chopped round to the northward, immediately upon our losing sight of the coast.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000001|The passengers were, consequently, in high spirits and disposed to be social.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000002|I must except, however, Wyatt and his sisters, who behaved stiffly, and, I could not help thinking, uncourteously to the rest of the party.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000003|Wyatt's conduct I did not so much regard.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000004|He was gloomy, even beyond his usual habit-in fact he was morose-but in him I was prepared for eccentricity.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000005|For the sisters, however, I could make no excuse.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000006|They secluded themselves in their staterooms during the greater part of the passage, and absolutely refused, although I repeatedly urged them, to hold communication with any person on board.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000000|mrs Wyatt herself was far more agreeable.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000001|That is to say, she was chatty; and to be chatty is no slight recommendation at sea.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000003|I say "amused"--and scarcely know how to explain myself.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000005|The gentlemen said little about her; but the ladies, in a little while, pronounced her "a good hearted thing, rather indifferent looking, totally uneducated, and decidedly vulgar." The great wonder was, how Wyatt had been entrapped into such a match.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000006|Wealth was the general solution-but this I knew to be no solution at all; for Wyatt had told me that she neither brought him a dollar nor had any expectations from any source whatever.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000007|"He had married," he said, "for love, and for love only; and his bride was far more than worthy of his love." When I thought of these expressions, on the part of my friend, I confess that I felt indescribably puzzled.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000008|Could it be possible that he was taking leave of his senses?
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000009|What else could I think?
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000010|He, so refined, so intellectual, so fastidious, with so exquisite a perception of the faulty, and so keen an appreciation of the beautiful!
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000020_000001|I pitied him from the bottom of my heart-but could not, for that reason, quite forgive his incommunicativeness in the matter of the "Last Supper." For this I resolved to have my revenge.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000000|One day he came upon deck, and, taking his arm as had been my wont, I sauntered with him backward and forward.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000001|His gloom, however (which I considered quite natural under the circumstances), seemed entirely unabated.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000002|He said little, and that moodily, and with evident effort.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000003|I ventured a jest or two, and he made a sickening attempt at a smile.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000004|Poor fellow!--as I thought of his wife, I wondered that he could have heart to put on even the semblance of mirth.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000005|I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or innuendoes, about the oblong box-just to let him perceive, gradually, that I was not altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000006|My first observation was by way of opening a masked battery.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000022_000001|At first he stared at me as if he found it impossible to comprehend the witticism of my remark; but as its point seemed slowly to make its way into his brain, his eyes, in the same proportion, seemed protruding from their sockets.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000022_000002|Then he grew very red-then hideously pale-then, as if highly amused with what I had insinuated, he began a loud and boisterous laugh, which, to my astonishment, he kept up, with gradually increasing vigor, for ten minutes or more.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000022_000003|In conclusion, he fell flat and heavily upon the deck. When I ran to uplift him, to all appearance he was dead.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000000|I called assistance, and, with much difficulty, we brought him to himself.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000001|Upon reviving he spoke incoherently for some time.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000002|At length we bled him and put him to bed.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000003|The next morning he was quite recovered, so far as regarded his mere bodily health.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000005|I avoided him during the rest of the passage, by advice of the captain, who seemed to coincide with me altogether in my views of his insanity, but cautioned me to say nothing on this head to any person on board.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000000|Several circumstances occurred immediately after this fit of Wyatt which contributed to heighten the curiosity with which I was already possessed.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000003|Wyatt's three rooms were in the after cabin, which was separated from the main one by a slight sliding door, never locked even at night.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000004|As we were almost constantly on a wind, and the breeze was not a little stiff, the ship heeled to leeward very considerably; and whenever her starboard side was to leeward, the sliding door between the cabins slid open, and so remained, nobody taking the trouble to get up and shut it.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000005|But my berth was in such a position, that when my own state room door was open, as well as the sliding door in question (and my own door was always open on account of the heat,) I could see into the after cabin quite distinctly, and just at that portion of it, too, where were situated the state rooms of mr Wyatt.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000006|Well, during two nights (not consecutive) while I lay awake, I clearly saw mrs w, about eleven o'clock upon each night, steal cautiously from the state room of mr w, and enter the extra room, where she remained until daybreak, when she was called by her husband and went back.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000007|That they were virtually separated was clear.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000008|They had separate apartments-no doubt in contemplation of a more permanent divorce; and here, after all I thought was the mystery of the extra state room.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000025_000000|There was another circumstance, too, which interested me much. During the two wakeful nights in question, and immediately after the disappearance of mrs Wyatt into the extra state room, I was attracted by certain singular cautious, subdued noises in that of her husband. After listening to them for some time, with thoughtful attention, I at length succeeded perfectly in translating their import.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000025_000001|They were sounds occasioned by the artist in prying open the oblong box, by means of a chisel and mallet-the latter being apparently muffled, or deadened, by some soft woollen or cotton substance in which its head was enveloped.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000026_000001|After this there was a dead stillness, and I heard nothing more, upon either occasion, until nearly daybreak; unless, perhaps, I may mention a low sobbing, or murmuring sound, so very much suppressed as to be nearly inaudible-if, indeed, the whole of this latter noise were not rather produced by my own imagination.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000026_000005|He had opened his oblong box, in order to feast his eyes on the pictorial treasure within.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000026_000006|There was nothing in this, however, to make him sob. I repeat, therefore, that it must have been simply a freak of my own fancy, distempered by good Captain Hardy's green tea.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000027_000001|We were, in a measure, prepared for it, however, as the weather had been holding out threats for some time.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000027_000002|Every thing was made snug, alow and aloft; and as the wind steadily freshened, we lay to, at length, under spanker and foretopsail, both double reefed.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000028_000000|In this trim we rode safely enough for forty eight hours-the ship proving herself an excellent sea boat in many respects, and shipping no water of any consequence.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000028_000001|At the end of this period, however, the gale had freshened into a hurricane, and our after-sail split into ribbons, bringing us so much in the trough of the water that we shipped several prodigious seas, one immediately after the other.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000028_000003|Scarcely had we recovered our senses, before the foretopsail went into shreds, when we got up a storm stay-sail and with this did pretty well for some hours, the ship heading the sea much more steadily than before.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000029_000000|The gale still held on, however, and we saw no signs of its abating. The rigging was found to be ill fitted, and greatly strained; and on the third day of the blow, about five in the afternoon, our mizzen mast, in a heavy lurch to windward, went by the board.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000029_000001|For an hour or more, we tried in vain to get rid of it, on account of the prodigious rolling of the ship; and, before we had succeeded, the carpenter came aft and announced four feet of water in the hold.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000029_000002|To add to our dilemma, we found the pumps choked and nearly useless.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000030_000000|All was now confusion and despair-but an effort was made to lighten the ship by throwing overboard as much of her cargo as could be reached, and by cutting away the two masts that remained.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000030_000001|This we at last accomplished-but we were still unable to do any thing at the pumps; and, in the meantime, the leak gained on us very fast.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000031_000000|At sundown, the gale had sensibly diminished in violence, and as the sea went down with it, we still entertained faint hopes of saving ourselves in the boats.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000031_000001|At eight p m, the clouds broke away to windward, and we had the advantage of a full moon-a piece of good fortune which served wonderfully to cheer our drooping spirits.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000032_000000|After incredible labor we succeeded, at length, in getting the longboat over the side without material accident, and into this we crowded the whole of the crew and most of the passengers.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000032_000001|This party made off immediately, and, after undergoing much suffering, finally arrived, in safety, at Ocracoke Inlet, on the third day after the wreck.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000033_000000|Fourteen passengers, with the captain, remained on board, resolving to trust their fortunes to the jolly boat at the stern.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000033_000001|We lowered it without difficulty, although it was only by a miracle that we prevented it from swamping as it touched the water.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000033_000002|It contained, when afloat, the captain and his wife, mr Wyatt and party, a Mexican officer, wife, four children, and myself, with a negro valet.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000034_000000|We had no room, of course, for any thing except a few positively necessary instruments, some provisions, and the clothes upon our backs. No one had thought of even attempting to save any thing more.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000034_000001|What must have been the astonishment of all, then, when having proceeded a few fathoms from the ship, mr Wyatt stood up in the stern sheets, and coolly demanded of Captain Hardy that the boat should be put back for the purpose of taking in his oblong box!
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000035_000000|"Sit down, mr Wyatt," replied the captain, somewhat sternly, "you will capsize us if you do not sit quite still.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000036_000000|"The box!" vociferated mr Wyatt, still standing-"the box, I say! Captain Hardy, you cannot, you will not refuse me.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000036_000001|Its weight will be but a trifle-it is nothing-mere nothing.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000036_000002|By the mother who bore you-for the love of Heaven-by your hope of salvation, I implore you to put back for the box!"
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000037_000000|The captain, for a moment, seemed touched by the earnest appeal of the artist, but he regained his stern composure, and merely said:
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000000|"mr Wyatt, you are mad.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000001|I cannot listen to you.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000002|Sit down, I say, or you will swamp the boat.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000003|Stay-hold him-seize him!--he is about to spring overboard!
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000004|There-I knew it-he is over!"
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000040_000002|We saw at a glance that the doom of the unfortunate artist was sealed.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000041_000001|While we gazed in the extremity of astonishment, he passed, rapidly, several turns of a three inch rope, first around the box and then around his body.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000041_000002|In another instant both body and box were in the sea-disappearing suddenly, at once and forever.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000000|We lingered awhile sadly upon our oars, with our eyes riveted upon the spot.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000001|At length we pulled away.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000002|The silence remained unbroken for an hour.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000003|Finally, I hazarded a remark.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000043_000000|"Did you observe, captain, how suddenly they sank?
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000043_000001|Was not that an exceedingly singular thing?
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000043_000002|I confess that I entertained some feeble hope of his final deliverance, when I saw him lash himself to the box, and commit himself to the sea."
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000044_000000|"They sank as a matter of course," replied the captain, "and that like a shot.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000045_000000|"The salt!" I ejaculated.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000046_000001|"We must talk of these things at some more appropriate time."
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000047_000001|We landed, in fine, more dead than alive, after four days of intense distress, upon the beach opposite Roanoke Island.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000047_000002|We remained here a week, were not ill treated by the wreckers, and at length obtained a passage to New York.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000048_000000|About a month after the loss of the "Independence," I happened to meet Captain Hardy in Broadway.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000048_000001|Our conversation turned, naturally, upon the disaster, and especially upon the sad fate of poor Wyatt.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000000|The artist had engaged passage for himself, wife, two sisters and a servant.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000001|His wife was, indeed, as she had been represented, a most lovely, and most accomplished woman.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000002|On the morning of the fourteenth of June (the day in which I first visited the ship), the lady suddenly sickened and died.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000003|The young husband was frantic with grief-but circumstances imperatively forbade the deferring his voyage to New York. It was necessary to take to her mother the corpse of his adored wife, and, on the other hand, the universal prejudice which would prevent his doing so openly was well known.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000050_000002|In this state room the pseudo wife, slept, of course, every night.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000050_000003|In the daytime she performed, to the best of her ability, the part of her mistress-whose person, it had been carefully ascertained, was unknown to any of the passengers on board.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000051_000000|My own mistake arose, naturally enough, through too careless, too inquisitive, and too impulsive a temperament.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000051_000001|But of late, it is a rare thing that I sleep soundly at night.
train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000051_000002|There is a countenance which haunts me, turn as I will.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000004_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000005_000000|HOLLYHOCK
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000006_000000|The Emperor has at last abdicated his throne, as he has long intended, in favor of the Heir apparent, and the only child of the Princess Wistaria is made Heir apparent to the new Emperor.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000007_000000|The ex Emperor now lived in a private palace with this Princess in a less royal style; and the Niogo of Kokiden, to whom was given the honorary title of ex Empress, resided in the Imperial Palace with the Emperor, her son, and took up a conspicuous position.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000007_000001|The ex Emperor still felt some anxiety about the Heir apparent, and appointed Genji as his guardian, as he had not yet a suitable person for that office.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000008_000000|This change in the reigning Emperor, and the gradual advancement of Genji's position, gave the latter greater responsibility, and he had to restrain his wandering.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000011_000001|She was the favorite child of her mother as well as of her father, and the ceremonies for the day of consecration were arranged with especial splendor.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000011_000002|The number of persons who take a share in the procession on this occasion is defined by regulations; yet the selection of this number was most carefully made from the most fashionable of the nobles of the time, and their dresses and saddles were all chosen of beautiful appearance.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000011_000003|Genji was also directed by special order to take part in the ceremony.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000012_000000|As the occasion was expected to be magnificent, every class of the people showed great eagerness to witness the scene, and a great number of stands were erected all along the road.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000012_000001|The day thus looked forward to at last arrived.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000013_000001|Her attendants, however, suggested to her that she ought to go.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000013_000002|"It is a great pity," they said, "not to see it; people come from a long distance to see it." Her mother also said, "You seem better to day.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000013_000003|I think you had better go. Take these girls with you."
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000014_000000|Being pressed in this way, she hastily made up her mind, and went with a train of carriages.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000016_000000|The lady so maltreated was of course extremely indignant, and she would fain have gone home without seeing the spectacle, but there was no passage for retiring.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000016_000001|Meanwhile the approach of the procession was announced, and only this calmed her a little.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000017_000001|There were several carriages along the roads on whose occupants his glance was cast; that of Lady Aoi, however, was the most striking, and as he passed by the attendants saluted him courteously, which act Genji acknowledged.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000018_000000|In due course the procession passed, and the exciting scene of the day was over.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000018_000001|The quarrels about the carriage naturally came to the ears of Genji.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000019_000000|He felt for the wounded lady, and hastened to see her; but she, under some pretext, refused to see him.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000021_000002|It caused her great suffering, and seemed not to be of a casual nature, but a permanent hostile influence.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000021_000003|Some imagined this to be the effect of fearful jealousy of some one who was intimately known to Genji and who had most influence over him; but the spirit gave no information to this effect.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000000|This became stronger when she was told that the sufferings of the Lady Aoi were owing to some living spirit.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000001|She thought that she never wished any evil to her; but, when she reflected, there were several times when she began to think that a wounded spirit, such as her own, might have some influence of the kind.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000002|She had sometimes dreams, after weary thinking, between slumber and waking, in which she seemed to fly to some beautiful girl, apparently Lady Aoi, and to engage in bitter contention and struggle with her.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000003|She became even terrified at these dreams; but yet they took place very often.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000004|"Even in ordinary matters," she thought, "it is too common a practice, to say nothing of the good done by people, but to exaggerate the bad; and so, in such cases, if it should be rumored that mine was that living spirit which tormented Lady Aoi, how trying it would be to me!
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000005|It is no rare occurrence that one's disembodied spirit, after death, should wander about; but even that is not a very agreeable idea.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000006|How much more, then, must it be disagreeable to have the repute that one's living spirit was inflicting pain upon another!"
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000023_000000|These thoughts still preyed upon her mind, and made her listless and depressed.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000024_000000|In due course, the confinement of Lady Aoi approached.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000024_000001|At the same time, the jealous spirit still vexed her, and now more vigorous exorcising was employed.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000024_000002|She became much affected by it, and cried out, "Please release me a little; I have something to tell the Prince."
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000025_000001|The curtain was dropped, and the mother of the lady left the room, as she thought her daughter might prefer to speak to him in private.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000025_000003|The lady was lying on her couch, dressed in a pure white garment, with her long tresses unfastened.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000025_000004|He approached her, and taking her hand, said: "What sad affliction you cause us!" She then lifted her heavy eyelids, and gazed on Genji for some minutes.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000000|He tried to soothe her, and said, "Pray don't trouble yourself too much about matters.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000001|Everything will come right.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000002|Your illness, I think, will soon pass away.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000003|Even supposing you quit this present world, there is another where we shall meet, and where I shall see you once more cheerful, and there will be a time when your mother and father will also join you."
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000027_000000|"Ah! no I only come here to solicit you to give me a little rest.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000027_000001|I feel extremely disturbed.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000027_000002|I never thought of coming here in such a way; but it seems the spirit of one whose thoughts are much disconcerted wanders away unknown even to itself.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000001|"You speak thus," said Genji, as if he was addressing the spirit, "but you do not tell me who you are.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000003|On this, Genji was still more perplexed and anxious, and put a stop to the colloquy.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000004|Presently she became very calm, and people thought that she was a little relieved.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000005|Soon after this, the lady was safely delivered of a child.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000030_000001|They came in all haste, wiping off the perspiration from their faces as they journeyed; and, from the Emperor and Royal princes down to the ordinary nobles, all took an interest in the ceremony of Ub yashinai (first feeding), and the more so as the child was a boy.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000031_000000|To return to the Lady of Rokjio.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000032_000000|Some days passed, and the day of autumn appointments arrived.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000033_000000|When he said good by to her, there was a strange and unusual look in her eyes.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000033_000001|Sadaijin also went to Court, as well as his sons, who had some expectation of promotion, and there were few people left in the mansion.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000034_000000|It was in the evening of that day that Lady Aoi was suddenly attacked by a spasm, and before the news of this could be carried to the Court, she died.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000035_000000|These sad tidings soon reached the Court, and created great distress and confusion: even the arrangements for appointments and promotion were disturbed.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000035_000001|As it happened late in the evening there was no time to send for the head of the monastery, or any other distinguished priest.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000035_000002|Messengers of inquiry came one after another to the mansion, so numerous that it was almost impossible to return them all answers. We need not add how greatly affected were all her relations.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000000|As the death took place from a malign spiritual influence, she was left untouched during two or three days, in the hope that she might revive; but no change took place, and now all hope was abandoned.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000001|In due course the corpse was taken to the cemetery of Toribeno.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000002|Numerous mourners and priests of different churches crowded to the spot, while representatives of the ex Emperor, Princess Wistaria, and the Heir apparent also were present.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000003|The ceremony of burial was performed with all solemnity and pathos.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000037_000000|Thus the modest and virtuous Lady Aoi passed away forever.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000039_000000|It was on one of these occasions that a soft shower of rain was falling.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000039_000002|Genji was leaning out of a window, his cheek resting on his hand; and, looking out upon the half fading shrubberies, was humming-
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000043_000000|This was soon responded to by Genji:--
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000044_000000|"That cloudy shrine we view on high, Where my lost love may dwell unseen, Looks gloomy now to this sad eye That looks with tears on what has been."
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000000|Genji still felt lonely.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000001|He wrote a letter to the Princess Momo zono (peach gardens).
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000003|He admired her, too.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000005|In his letter he stated that she might have a little sympathy with him in his sorrow, and he also sent with it the following:--
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000049_000000|There was, indeed, nothing serious between Genji and this princess; yet, as far as correspondence was concerned, they now and then exchanged letters, so she did not object to receiving this communication.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000049_000001|She felt for him much, and an answer was returned, in which she expressed her sympathy at his bereavement.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000050_000000|Now, in the mansion of Sadaijin every performance of requiem was celebrated.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000050_000003|The room was the same as before, and everything was unchanged; but his only daughter, the pride of his old days, was no more, and his son in law had gone too.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000051_000002|Among these papers he saw one on which the words "Old pillows and old quilts" were written, and close to these the following:--
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000052_000000|"How much the soul departed, still May love to linger round this couch, My own heart tells me, even I Reluctant am to leave it now."
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000055_000000|As Sadaijin was turning over these papers a withered flower, which seems to have marked some particular occasion, dropped from amongst them.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000000|Return we now to Genji.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000001|He went to the ex Emperor, to whom he still seemed thin and careworn.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000002|He had some affectionate conversation with him, remained till evening, and then proceeded to his mansion at Nijio.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000003|He went to the western wing to visit the young Violet.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000004|All were habited in new winter apparel, and looked fresh and blooming.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000057_000001|Violet turned her glance a little aside.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000057_000002|She was apparently shy, which only increased her beauty.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000058_000000|He approached, and after having a little conversation, said, "I have many things to say to you, but now I must have a little rest," and returned to his own quarters.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000060_000000|At this time he confined himself more than usual to his own house, and for companionship he was constantly with Violet, who was now approaching womanhood.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000001|The inmates of the house, who did not know what was the reason, were anxious about her, thinking she was indisposed.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000002|About noon Genji came.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000003|He entered the little room, saying, "Are you not quite well?
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000004|Perhaps you would like to play at Go again, like last night, for a change;" but she was more than ever shy.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000062_000000|"Why are you so shy?" he exclaimed; "be a little more cheerful-people may think it strange," said he, and stayed with her a long time trying to soothe her; but to no effect-she still continued silent and shy.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000064_000000|He called Koremitz before him and said, "To day is not a very opportune day; I would rather have them to morrow evening.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000065_000000|Up to this time nothing about Violet had been publicly known, and Genji thought it was time to inform her father about his daughter; but he considered he had better have the ceremony of Mogi first performed, and ordered preparations to be made with that object.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000066_000000|Let us here notice that the young daughter of Udaijin, after she saw Genji, was longing to see him again.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000066_000001|This inclination was perceived by her relations.
train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000066_000002|It seems that her father was not quite averse to this liking, and he told his eldest daughter, the reigning Emperor's mother, that Genji was recently bereaved of his good consort, and that he should not feel discontented if his daughter were to take the place of Lady Aoi; but this the royal mother did not approve.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000002_000000|OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000003_000000|Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge our selves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000003_000004|'tis, methinks, a virtue to which I, who am no conjuror, could without any great endeavour arrive.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000003_000006|Forasmuch as ambition never comports itself better, according to itself, than when it proceeds by obscure and unfrequented ways.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000005_000000|But if my heart be not great enough, 'tis open enough to make amends, at any one's request, freely to lay open its weakness.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000007_000000|But if I was to compare them with my own, I should then also say that the first is as much according to my capacity, and from desire, which I conform to my capacity, as the second is far beyond it; that I could not approach the last but with veneration, the other I could readily attain by use.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000008_000000|Let us return to our temporal greatness, from which we are digressed.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000009_000004|Superiority and inferiority, dominion and subjection are bound to a natural envy and contest, and must of necessity perpetually intrench upon one another.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000012_000000|running against Alexander, purposely missed his blow, and made a fault in his career; Alexander chid him for it, but he ought to have had him whipped.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000013_000006|Evil to man is in its turn good, and good evil.
train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000013_000007|Neither is pain always to be shunned, nor pleasure always to be pursued.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000003_000000|THE BUYER OF SORROWS
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000004_000000|On an evening of singular sunset, about the rich beginning of May, the little market town of Beethorpe was startled by the sound of a trumpet.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000005_000000|Beethorpe was an ancient town, mysteriously sown, centuries ago, like a wandering thistle down of human life, amid the silence and the nibbling sheep of the great chalk downs.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000005_000001|It stood in a hollow of the long smooth billows of pale pasture that suavely melted into the sky on every side. The evening was so still that the little river running across the threshold of the town, and encircling what remained of its old walls, was the noisiest thing to be heard, dominating with its talkative murmur the bedtime hum of the High Street.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000009_000000|Again the trumpet blew, and then the braver of the young men of the town hastened up the hill to learn its meaning.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000010_000000|As they approached the horsemen, they perceived that the center of the three was a young man of great nobility of bearing, richly but somberly dressed, and with a dark, beautiful face filled with a proud melancholy. He kept his eyes on the fading sunset, sitting motionless upon his horse, apparently oblivious of the commotion his arrival had caused.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000010_000001|The horseman on his right hand was clad after the manner of a herald, and the horseman on his left hand was clad after the manner of a steward. And the three horsemen sat motionless, awaiting the bewildered ambassadors of Beethorpe.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000011_000000|When these had approached near enough the herald once more set the trumpet to his lips and blew; and then, unfolding a parchment scroll, read in a loud voice:
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000012_000000|"To the Folk of Beethorpe-Greeting from the High and Mighty Lord, Mortimer of the Marches:
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000014_000000|And when the herald had finished reading he blew again upon the trumpet three times; and the villagers looked at one another in bewilderment-but some ran down the hill to tell their neighbors of the strange proposal of their lord.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000014_000001|Thus, presently, nearly all the village of Beethorpe was making its way up the hill to where those three horsemen loomed against the evening sky.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000015_000000|Never was such a sorrowful company.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000015_000001|Up the hill they came, carrying their sorrows in their hands-sorrows for which, in excited haste, they had rummaged old drawers and forgotten cupboards, and even ran hurriedly into the churchyard.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000017_000000|Lord Mortimer of the Marches sat his horse with the same austere indifference, his melancholy profile against the fading sky.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000017_000001|Only those who stood near to him noted a kindly ironic flicker of a smile in his eyes, as he saw, apparently seeing nothing, the poor little raked up sorrows of his village of Beethorpe.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000001|His heart had been broken in a very strange way.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000002|Death and Pity were his closest friends.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000003|He was so sad himself that he had come to realize that sorrow is the only sincerity of life.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000004|Thus sorrow had become a kind of passion with him, even a kind of connoisseurship; and he had come, so to say, to be a collector of sorrows.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000005|It was partly pity and partly an odd form of dilettanteism-for his own sad heart made him pitiful for and companionable with any other sad heart; but the sincerity of his sorrow made him jealous of the sanctity of sorrow, and at the same time sternly critical of, and sadly amused by, the hypocrisies of sorrow.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000019_000000|So, as he sat his horse and gazed at the sunset, he smiled sadly to himself as he heard, without seeming to hear, the small, insincere sorrows of his village of Beethorpe-sorrows forgotten long ago, but suddenly rediscovered in old drawers and unopened cupboards, at the sound of his lordship's trumpet and the promise of his strange proclamation.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000020_000000|Was there a sorrow in the world that no money could buy?
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000021_000000|It was to find such a sorrow that Lord Mortimer thus fantastically rode from village to village of his estates, with herald and steward.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000022_000000|The unpurchasable sorrow-the sorrow no gold can gild, no jewel can buy!
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000023_000000|Far and wide he had ridden over his estates, seeking so rare a sorrow; but as yet he had found no sorrow that could not be bought with a little bag of gold and silver coins.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000024_000000|So he sat his horse, while the villagers of Beethorpe were paid out of a great leathern bag by the steward-for the steward understood the mind of his master, and, without troubling him, paid each weeping and whimpering peasant as he thought fit.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000025_000000|In another great bag the steward had collected the sorrows of the Village of Beethorpe; and, by this, the moon was rising, and, with another blast of trumpet by way of farewell, the three horsemen took the road again to Lord Mortimer's castle.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000026_000000|When, out of the great leathern bag, in Lord Mortimer's cabinet they poured upon the table the sorrows of Beethorpe, the young lord smiled to himself, turning over one sorrow after the other, as though they had been precious stones-for there was not one genuine sorrow among them.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000027_000000|But, later, there came news to him that there was one real sorrow in Beethorpe; and he rode alone on horseback to the village, and found a beautiful girl laying flowers on a grave.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000027_000001|She was so beautiful that he forgot his ancient grief, and he thought that all his castles would be but a poor exchange for her face.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000029_000000|And the girl looked up at him from the grave, with eyes of forget me not, and said: "My lord, you mistake.
train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000029_000001|This is not sorrow.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000002_000000|THE FARMER AND THE CRANES
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000003_000000|Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000003_000001|When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000003_000002|It was their feast, they thought.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000004_000000|So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000005_000001|He had had experience with such birds before.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000005_000003|But he did not bring any stones with him.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000005_000004|He expected to scare the Cranes just by swinging the sling in the air, and shouting loudly at them.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000006_000002|They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air, and as for words, they would kill nobody.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000006_000003|At last they paid no attention whatever to the Farmer.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000007_000001|He wanted to save at least some of his grain.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000007_000002|So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000007_000003|This had the effect the Farmer wanted, for from that day the Cranes visited his field no more.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000010_000000|THE FARMER AND HIS SONS
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000001|Do not on any account part with the estate that has belonged to our family for so many generations.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000002|Somewhere on it is hidden a rich treasure.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000003|I do not know the exact spot, but it is there, and you will surely find it.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000004|Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search."
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000013_000000|The father died, and no sooner was he in his grave than the sons set to work digging with all their might, turning up every foot of ground with their spades, and going over the whole farm two or three times.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000018_000000|THE TWO POTS
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000019_000000|Two Pots, one of brass and the other of clay, stood together on the hearthstone.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000019_000001|One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000019_000002|But the Earthen Pot excused himself, saying that it would be wiser for him to stay in the corner by the fire.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000021_000000|"Don't let that keep you at home," urged the Brass Pot.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000021_000002|If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and save you."
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000023_000000|The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000023_000001|They had not gone ten paces before the Earthen Pot cracked, and at the next jolt he flew into a thousand pieces.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000025_000000|THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000026_000000|There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000027_000001|But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000027_000002|He was not getting rich fast enough.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000028_000000|Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open.
train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000028_000001|But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000019_000000|For with his eye he could not follow it So as to see aught else than flame alone, Even as a little cloud ascending upward,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000022_000000|And the Leader, who beheld me so attent, Exclaimed: "Within the fires the spirits are; Each swathes himself with that wherewith he burns."
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000031_000000|Leave me to speak, because I have conceived That which thou wishest; for they might disdain Perchance, since they were Greeks, discourse of thine."
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000036_000000|Thereafterward, the summit to and fro Moving as if it were the tongue that spake, It uttered forth a voice, and said: "When I
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000052_000000|Joyful were we, and soon it turned to weeping; For out of the new land a whirlwind rose, And smote upon the fore part of the ship.
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000053_000000|Three times it made her whirl with all the waters, At the fourth time it made the stern uplift, And the prow downward go, as pleased Another,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000056_000000|Already was the flame erect and quiet, To speak no more, and now departed from us With the permission of the gentle Poet;
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000077_000000|But inasmuch as never from this depth Did any one return, if I hear true, Without the fear of infamy I answer,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000093_000000|Francis came afterward, when I was dead, For me; but one of the black Cherubim Said to him: 'Take him not; do me no wrong;
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000095_000000|For who repents not cannot be absolved, Nor can one both repent and will at once, Because of the contradiction which consents not.'
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000100_000000|Onward we passed, both I and my Conductor, Up o'er the crag above another arch, Which the moat covers, where is paid the fee
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000118_000000|"Nor death hath reached him yet, nor guilt doth bring him," My Master made reply, "to be tormented; But to procure him full experience,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000123_000000|After one foot to go away he lifted, This word did Mahomet say unto me, Then to depart upon the ground he stretched it.
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000125_000000|Staying to look in wonder with the others, Before the others did his gullet open, Which outwardly was red in every part,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000140_000000|But I remained to look upon the crowd; And saw a thing which I should be afraid, Without some further proof, even to recount,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000145_000000|When it was come close to the bridge's foot, It lifted high its arm with all the head, To bring more closely unto us its words,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000165_000000|When we were now right over the last cloister Of Malebolge, so that its lay brothers Could manifest themselves unto our sight,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000171_000000|I do not think a sadder sight to see Was in Aegina the whole people sick, (When was the air so full of pestilence,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000185_000000|Wholly to me did the good Master gather, Saying: "Say unto them whate'er thou wishest." And I began, since he would have it so:
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000194_000000|And Niccolo, who the luxurious use Of cloves discovered earliest of all Within that garden where such seed takes root;
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000202_000000|He cried: "Spread out the nets, that I may take The lioness and her whelps upon the passage;" And then extended his unpitying claws,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000212_000000|And he to me: "That is the ancient ghost Of the nefarious Myrrha, who became Beyond all rightful love her father's lover.
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000215_000000|And after the two maniacs had passed On whom I held mine eye, I turned it back To look upon the other evil born.
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000217_000000|The heavy dropsy, that so disproportions The limbs with humours, which it ill concocts, That the face corresponds not to the belly,
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000231_000000|"I found them here," replied he, "when I rained Into this chasm, and since they have not turned, Nor do I think they will for evermore.
train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000246_000000|Such I became, not having power to speak, For to excuse myself I wished, and still Excused myself, and did not think I did it.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000002_000000|"So dear!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000002_000001|So dear!" crooned the Cardinal
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000000|She had taken possession of the sumac.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000001|The location was her selection and he loudly applauded her choice.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000002|She placed the first twig, and after examining it carefully, he spent the day carrying her others just as much alike as possible.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000003|If she used a dried grass blade, he carried grass blades until she began dropping them on the ground.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000004|If she worked in a bit of wild grape vine bark, he peeled grape vines until she would have no more.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000006|She was not a skilled architect.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000007|Her nest certainly was a loose ramshackle affair; but she had built it, and had allowed him to help her.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000008|It was hers; and he improvised a paean in its praise.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000000|Then she nestled them against her warm breast, and turned adoring eyes toward the Cardinal.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000001|If he sang from the dogwood, she faced that way. If he rocked on the wild grape vine, she turned in her nest.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000002|If he went to the corn field for grubs, she stood astride her eggs and peered down, watching his every movement with unconcealed anxiety.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000003|The Cardinal forgot to be vain of his beauty; she delighted in it every hour of the day.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000005_000002|It was not enough that he brooded while she went to bathe and exercise.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000005_000003|The daintiest of every morsel he found was carried to her.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000005_000004|When she refused to swallow another particle, he perched on a twig close by the nest many times in a day; and with sleek feathers and lowered crest, gazed at her in silent worshipful adoration.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000006_000001|In the sumac he uttered not the faintest "Chip!" that might attract attention.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000006_000002|He was so anxious to be inconspicuous that he appeared only half his real size.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000006_000003|Always on leaving he gave her a tender little peck and ran his beak the length of her wing-a characteristic caress that he delighted to bestow on her.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000007_000000|If he felt that he was disturbing her too often, he perched on the dogwood and sang for life, and love, and happiness.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000007_000001|His music was in a minor key now.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000007_000005|So dear!"
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000008_000000|The farmer leaned on his corn planter and listened to him intently.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000008_000001|"I swanny!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000009_000000|One night he said to his wife: "Maria, have you been noticin' the redbird of late?
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000009_000002|I can't for the life of me make out what he's saying.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000000|Maria felt flattered.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000001|She always had believed that she had a musical ear.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000002|Here was an opportunity to test it and please Abram at the same time.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000003|She hastened her work the following morning, and very early slipped along the line fence.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000004|Hiding behind the oak, with straining ear and throbbing heart, she eagerly listened.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000005|"Clip, clip," came the sound of the planter, as Abram's dear old figure trudged up the hill. "Chip!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000006|Chip!" came the warning of the Cardinal, as he flew to his mate.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000011_000001|As he trilled forth his tender caressing strain, the heart of the listening woman translated as did that of the brooding bird.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000000|With shining eyes and flushed cheeks, she sped down the fence.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000001|Panting and palpitating with excitement, she met Abram half-way on his return trip.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000002|Forgetful of her habitual reserve, she threw her arms around his neck, and drawing his face to hers, she cried: "Oh, Abram!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000005|Oh, Abram, my love!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000006|My own!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000008|So dear!"
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000013_000000|"So dear!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000013_000001|So dear!" echoed the Cardinal.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000014_000000|The bewilderment in Abram's face melted into comprehension.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000014_000001|He swept Maria from her feet as he lifted his head.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000015_000001|You have got it, honey!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000015_000002|That's what he's saying, plain as gospel!
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000016_000000|He gathered Maria in his arms, pressed her head against his breast with a trembling old hand, while the face he turned to the morning was beautiful.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000017_000001|So dear!"
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000018_000000|After that Abram's devotion to his bird family became a mild mania.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000018_000001|He carried food to the top rail of the line fence every day, rain or shine, with the same regularity that he curried and fed Nancy in the barn.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000000|He drove a stake to mark the spot where the killdeer hen brooded in the corn field, so that he would not drive Nancy over the nest.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000002|Alders and sweetbriers grew in his fence corners undisturbed that spring if he discovered that they sheltered an anxious eyed little mother.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000003|He left a square yard of clover unmowed, because it seemed to him that the lark, singing nearer the Throne than any other bird, was picking up stray notes dropped by the Invisible Choir, and with unequalled purity and tenderness, sending them ringing down to his brooding mate, whose home and happiness would be despoiled by the reaping of that spot of green.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000004|He delayed burning the brush heap from the spring pruning, back of the orchard, until fall, when he found it housed a pair of fine thrushes; for the song of the thrush delighted him almost as much as that of the lark.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000005|He left a hollow limb on the old red pearmain apple tree, because when he came to cut it there was a pair of bluebirds twittering around, frantic with anxiety.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000020_000000|His pockets were bulgy with wheat and crumbs, and his heart was big with happiness.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000020_000004|His very muscles seemed to relax, and new strength arose to meet the demands of his uplifted spirit.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000021_000000|Then he hunted a sign painter, and came home bearing a number of pine boards on which gleamed in big, shiny black letters:
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000024_000000|Maria studied the signs meditatively.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000025_000000|Abram caught Maria, and planted a resounding smack on her cheek, where the roses of girlhood yet bloomed for him.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000025_000001|Then he filled his pockets with crumbs and grain, and strolled to the river to set the Cardinal's table.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000025_000002|He could hear the sharp incisive "Chip!" and the tender mellow love notes as he left the barn; and all the way to the sumac they rang in his ears.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000000|The Cardinal met him at the corner of the field, and hopped over bushes and the fence only a few yards from him.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000001|When Abram had scattered his store on the rail, the bird came tipping and tilting, daintily caught up a crumb, and carried it to the sumac.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000002|His mate was pleased to take it; and he carried her one morsel after another until she refused to open her beak for more.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000003|He made a light supper himself; and then swinging on the grape vine, he closed the day with an hour of music. He repeatedly turned a bright questioning eye toward Abram, but he never for a moment lost sight of the nest and the plump gray figure of his little mate.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000005|So dear!"
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000027_000001|He had overstayed his time, chasing a fat moth he particularly wanted for his mate, and she, growing thirsty past endurance, left the nest and went to the river.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000027_000002|Seeing her there, he made all possible haste to take his turn at brooding, so he arrived just in time to see a pilfering red squirrel starting away with an egg.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000028_000000|With a vicious scream the Cardinal struck him full force.
train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000028_000002|The Cardinal mournfully carried away the tell tale bits of shell, so that any one seeing them would not look up and discover his treasures.
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train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000002_000000|THE SHADOW OF THE THUNDER OAK
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000004_000000|Withered leaves still clung to the branches of the oak: torn and faded banners of the departed summer.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000004_000001|The bright crimson of autumn had long since disappeared, bleached away by the storms and the cold.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000004_000002|But to night these tattered remnants of glory were red again: ancient bloodstains against the dark blue sky.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000005_000001|Seen against that glowing background, it was but the silhouette of a crowd, vague, black, formless, mysterious.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000006_000000|The travellers paused for a moment at the edge of the thicket, and took counsel together.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000000|"It is the assembly of the tribe," said one of the foresters, "the great night of the council.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000001|I heard of it three days ago, as we passed through one of the villages.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000002|All who swear by the old gods have been summoned.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000004|It will be at the peril of our lives if we approach them.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000005|At least we must hide the cross, if we would escape death."
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000008_000002|I have seen it in a dream.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000008_000003|Here the cross must stand and be our rede."
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000009_000001|They approached unnoticed, for all the multitude were looking intently towards the fire at the foot of the oak.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000010_000001|A stranger claims the warmth of your fire in the winter night."
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000013_000000|The only figure untouched by the glow was the old priest, Hunrad, with his long, spectral robe, flowing hair and beard, and dead pale face, who stood with his back to the fire and advanced slowly to meet the strangers.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000014_000000|"Who are you?
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000014_000001|Whence come you, and what seek you here?" His voice was heavy and toneless as a muffled bell.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000016_000001|Canst thou work miracles?"
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000017_000000|The question came sharply, as if a sudden gleam of hope had flashed through the tangle of the old priest's mind.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000018_000000|"Stand still, then, thou common man," said Hunrad, scornfully, "and behold what the gods have called us hither to do.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000018_000002|This night is the hour of darkness and the power of winter, of sacrifice and mighty fear.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000020_000001|Thor!
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000021_000001|The old priest stood silent for a moment.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000021_000002|His shaggy brows swept down over his eyes like ashes quenching flame.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000021_000003|Then he lifted his face and spoke.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000022_000000|"None of these things will please the god.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000022_000001|More costly is the offering that shall cleanse your sin, more precious the crimson dew that shall send new life into this holy tree of blood.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000022_000002|Thor claims your dearest and your noblest gift."
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000024_000000|"Here," said the old man, with his voice vibrating as when a thick rope is strained by a ship swinging from her moorings, "here is the chosen one, the eldest son of the Chief, the darling of the people.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000024_000001|Hearken, Bernhard, wilt thou go to Valhalla, where the heroes dwell with the gods, to bear a message to Thor?"
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000025_000000|The boy answered, swift and clear:
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000026_000000|"Yes, priest, I will go if my father bids me.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000026_000001|Is it far away? Shall I run quickly?
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000026_000002|Must I take my bow and arrows for the wolves?"
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000027_000002|The other dragged at the silver chain about her neck until the rough links pierced her flesh, and the red drops fell unheeded on the snow of her breast.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000029_000000|"Yes, my Prince, both bow and spear shalt thou have, for the way is long, and thou art a brave huntsman.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000029_000001|But in darkness thou must journey for a little space, and with eyes blindfolded.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000029_000002|Fearest thou?"
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000030_000000|"Naught fear I," said the boy, "neither darkness, nor the great bear, nor the were wolf.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000000|Then the priest led the child in his raiment of lamb's wool to a broad stone in front of the fire.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000001|He gave him his little bow tipped with silver, and his spear with shining head of steel.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000002|He bound the child's eyes with a white cloth, and bade him kneel beside the stone with his face to the east.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000004|Winfried moved noiselessly until he stood close behind the priest.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000032_000000|The old man stooped to lift a black hammer of stone from the ground,--the sacred hammer of the god Thor.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000032_000001|Summoning all the strength of his withered arms, he swung it high in the air.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000032_000002|It poised for an instant above the child's fair head-then turned to fall.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000033_000000|One keen cry shrilled out from where the women stood: "Me! take me!
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000033_000001|not Bernhard!"
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000034_000001|But swifter still was the hand of the deliverer.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000035_000000|Winfried's heavy staff thrust mightily against the hammer's handle as it fell.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000035_000001|Sideways it glanced from the old man's grasp, and the black stone, striking on the altar's edge, split in twain.
train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000035_000003|The branches of the oak shivered.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000002_000000|THE FELLING OF THE TREE
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000004_000000|A swift mountain flood rolling down its channel; a huge rock tumbling from the hill side and falling in mid stream; the baffled waters broken and confused, pausing in their flow, dash high against the rock, foaming and murmuring, with divided impulse, uncertain whether to turn to the right or the left.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000005_000000|Even so Winfried's bold deed fell into the midst of the thoughts and passions of the council.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000005_000001|They were at a standstill.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000000|The old priest crouched by the altar, silent.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000001|Conflicting counsels troubled the air.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000002|Let the sacrifice go forward; the gods must be appeased.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000004|Not so, there is a better counsel yet; seize the stranger whom the gods have led hither as a victim and make his life pay the forfeit of his daring.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000007_000002|The angry voices clashed against each other and fell like opposing waves.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000007_000003|Then the chieftain Gundhar struck the earth with his spear and gave his decision.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000000|"All have spoken, but none are agreed.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000001|There is no voice of the council.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000002|Keep silence now, and let the stranger speak.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000003|His words shall give us judgment, whether he is to live or to die."
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000009_000000|Winfried lifted himself high upon the altar, drew a roll of parchment from his bosom, and began to read.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000011_000000|A murmur of awe ran through the crowd.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000011_000002|There is magic in it.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000001|Hearken to him in all things like a father.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000002|Bow your hearts to his teaching.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000003|He comes not for earthly gain, but for the gain of your souls.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000004|Depart from evil works.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000005|Worship not the false gods, for they are devils.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000006|Offer no more bloody sacrifices, nor eat the flesh of horses, but do as our Brother Boniface commands you.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000007|Build a house for him that he may dwell among you, and a church where you may offer your prayers to the only living God, the Almighty King of Heaven.'"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000014_000000|It was a splendid message: proud, strong, peaceful, loving.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000014_000001|The dignity of the words imposed mightily upon the hearts of the people.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000014_000002|They were quieted as men who have listened to a lofty strain of music.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000015_000000|"Tell us, then," said Gundhar, "what is the word that thou bringest to us from the Almighty.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000001|Not a life shall be blotted out in the darkness tonight; but the great shadow of the tree which hides you from the light of heaven shall be swept away.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000004|Since He has come to earth the bloody sacrifices must cease.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000005|The dark Thor, on whom you vainly call, is dead.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000007|His power in the world is broken.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000008|Will you serve a helpless god?
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000009|See, my brothers, you call this tree his oak.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000010|Does he dwell here?
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000011|Does he protect it?"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000000|A troubled voice of assent rose from the throng.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000001|The people stirred uneasily.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000002|Women covered their eyes.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000003|Hunrad lifted his head and muttered hoarsely, "Thor! take vengeance!
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000004|Thor!"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000000|Winfried beckoned to Gregor.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000001|"Bring the axes, thine and one for me.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000002|Now, young woodsman, show thy craft!
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000003|The king tree of the forest must fall, and swiftly, or all is lost!"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000019_000000|The two men took their places facing each other, one on each side of the oak.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000019_000002|Firmly they grasped the axe helves and swung the shining blades.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000020_000000|"Tree god!" cried Winfried, "art thou angry?
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000021_000001|Thus we fight thee!"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000022_000002|The axe heads glittered in their rhythmic flight, like fierce eagles circling about their quarry.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000023_000000|The broad flakes of wood flew from the deepening gashes in the sides of the oak.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000023_000003|Then the great wonder of Winfried's life came to pass.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000024_000000|Out of the stillness of the winter night, a mighty rushing noise sounded overhead.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000026_000000|A strong, whirling wind passed over the tree tops.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000026_000001|It gripped the oak by its branches and tore it from its roots.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000027_000000|Winfried let his axe drop, and bowed his head for a moment in the presence of almighty power.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000028_000000|Then he turned to the people, "Here is the timber," he cried, "already felled and split for your new building.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000028_000001|On this spot shall rise a chapel to the true God and his servant saint Peter.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000002|Let us call it the tree of the Christ child.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000003|Take it up and carry it to the chieftain's hall.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000004|You shall go no more into the shadows of the forest to keep your feasts with secret rites of shame.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000005|You shall keep them at home, with laughter and song and rites of love.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000030_000001|The horses tossed their heads and drew their load bravely, as if the new burden had made it lighter.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000031_000001|They kindled lights among the branches until it seemed to be tangled full of fire flies.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000032_000001|All the people listened, charmed into stillness.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000035_000000|"Mother," whispered the boy again, laying his finger on the stains upon her breast, "see, your dress is red!
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000035_000001|What are these stains? Did some one hurt you?"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000036_000001|"Dear, be still, and listen!"
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000000|The boy obeyed.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000001|His eyes were heavy with sleep.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000002|But he heard the last words of Winfried as he spoke of the angelic messengers, flying over the hills of Judea and singing as they flew.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000004|Suddenly his face grew bright. He put his lips close to Irma's cheek again.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000000|"Oh, mother!" he whispered very low, "do not speak.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000001|Do you hear them?
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000002|Those angels have come back again.
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000003|They are singing now behind the tree."
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000039_000000|And some say that it was true; but others say that it was only Gregor and his companions at the lower end of the hall, chanting their Christmas hymn:
train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000040_000000|All glory be to God on high, And to the earth be peace! Good will, henceforth, from heaven to men Begin, and never cease.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000003_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000004_000001|The cottages were prepared for the higher officers, but the men stacked arms in the open ground all about.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000005_000000|Colonel Winchester suppressed a groan.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000005_000001|Dick noticed that his face was pallid in the uncertain shadows, and he understood the agony of spirit that the brave man must suffer when he saw that they had been outflanked by their enemy.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000006_000000|Sergeant Whitley, moving forward a little, touched the colonel on the arm.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000007_000000|"All the clouds that we saw a little further back," he said, "have gathered together, an' the storm is about to bust.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000008_000000|"It's so, sergeant," said Colonel Winchester.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000008_000002|We've seen enough anyway and we'd better get back as fast as we can."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000000|But the storm was upon them before they could reach their horses.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000001|The last star was gone and the somber clouds covered the whole heavens.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000003|Deep and sullen thunder began to mutter on the southwestern horizon.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000004|Then came a mighty crash and a great blaze of lightning seemed to cleave the sky straight down the center.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000011_000000|The lightning and thunder made Dick jump, and for a few moments he was blinded by the electric glare.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000012_000000|"Are any of you hurt?"
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000013_000000|"No," said Warner, who alone heard him, "but we're scared half to death.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000013_000001|When a drought breaks up I wish it wouldn't break up with such a terrible fuss.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000013_000002|Listen to that thunder again, won't you!"
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000014_000001|Despite himself Dick shrank again.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000014_000002|The first bolt had struck a tree which had fallen within thirty feet of them, but the second left this bit of the woods unscathed.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000015_000001|The close, dense heat was swept away, and the first blasts of the rain were as cold as ice.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000016_000001|Dick heard Warner on his right, and he followed the sound of his voice.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000017_000001|He clapped his hand to the left side of his head, and felt there a big bump and a sharp ache. His weapons were still in his belt and he knew that his injuries were not serious, but he heard nothing save the drive and roar of the wind and rain.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000017_000002|There was no calling of voices and no beat of footsteps.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000018_000000|He divined at once that his comrades, wholly unaware of his fall, when no one could either see or hear it, had gone on without missing him. They might also mount their horses and gallop away wholly ignorant that he was not among them.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000019_000000|Although he was a little dazed, Dick had a good idea of direction and he plunged through the mud which was now growing deep toward the little ravine in which they had hitched their horses.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000019_000001|All were gone, including his own mount, and he had no doubt that the horse had broken or slipped the bridle in the darkness and followed the others.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000020_000000|He stood a while behind the trunk of a great tree, trying to shelter himself a little from the rain, and listened.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000020_000002|The storm was of uncommon fury.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000020_000003|He had never seen one fiercer, and knowing that he had little to dread from the Southerners while it raged he knew also that he must make his way on foot, and as best he could, to his own people.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000001|He meant to keep close to the banks of the Rappahannock, and if he persisted he would surely come in time to Pope's army.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000002|The rain did not abate.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000003|Both armies were flooded that night, but they could find some measure of protection.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000004|To the scouts and skirmishers and to Dick, wandering through the forest, nature was an unmitigated foe.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000022_000000|But nothing could stop the boy.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000022_000001|He was resolved to get back to the army with the news that a heavy Southern force was across the Rappahannock. Others might get there first with the fact, but one never knew.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000000|He stumbled on.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000001|He was able to keep his cartridges dry in his pouch, but that was all.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000002|His wet, cold clothes flapped around him and he shivered to the bone.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000005|He was compelled to stop a while and take refuge behind a big oak.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000007|The Union and its fate, gigantic as they were, slipped away from his mind, and it took an effort of the will to bring them back.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000024_000000|But his will made the effort, and recalling his mission he struggled on again.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000024_000001|He had the river on his right, and it now became an unfailing guide.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000024_000003|The river swished high against its banks and once or twice, when he caught dim glimpses of it through the trees, he saw a yellow torrent bearing much brushwood upon its bosom.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000000|He had very little idea of his progress.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000001|It was impossible to judge of pace under such circumstances.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000002|The army might be ten miles further on or it might be only two.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000004|He grasped at weeds and bushes, but they slipped through his hands.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000005|Then he shot into a creek, swollen by the flood, and went over his head.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000000|He came up, gasping, struck out and reached the further shore.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000002|But he had lost everything.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000003|His belt had broken in his struggles, and pistols, small sword and ammunition were gone.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000005|Then he laughed at the idea.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000028_000001|They were wrapped in cloaks, but cloaks and uniforms alike were sodden.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000029_000000|Dick looked at them attentively.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000029_000002|Just behind came three youths, and Dick's heart fairly leaped when he saw the last of the three.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000029_000003|He could not mistake the figure, and a turning of the head caused him to catch a faint glimpse of the face.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000030_000000|Dick was so sodden and cold and wretched that he was tempted to call out to them-the sight of Harry was like a light in the darkness-but the temptation was gone in an instant.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000030_000001|His way lay in another direction. What they wished he did not wish, and while they fought for the triumph of the South it was his business to endure and struggle on that he might do his own little part for the Union.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000031_000000|But despite the storm and his sufferings, he drew courage from nature itself.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000031_000001|While a portion of the Southern army was across it must be a minor portion, and certainly the major part could not span such a flood and attack.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000031_000002|The storm and time allied were now fighting for Pope.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000032_000001|The yellow torrent of the Rappahannock was now his only sure guide and he stuck to it.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000032_000002|He wondered why the rain and wind did not die down.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000033_000000|He became conscious after a while of a growing weakness, but he had recalled all the powers of his will and it was triumphant over his body. He trudged on on feet that were unconscious of sensation, and his face as if the flesh were paralyzed no longer felt the beat of the rain.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000000|A mile or two further and in the swish of the storm he heard hoofbeats again.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000001|Looking forth from the bushes he saw another line of horsemen, but now they were going in the direction of Pope's army.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000002|Dick recognized these figures.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000003|Shapeless as he might appear on his horse that was Colonel Winchester, and there were the broad shoulders of Sergeant Whitley and the figures of the others.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000035_000001|Colonel Winchester recognized the voice, but the light was so dim that he did not recognize him from whom it came.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000036_000000|"Colonel," cried Dick, "it is I, Richard Mason, whom you left behind!"
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000037_000000|"So it is," said Sergeant Whitley, keener of eye than the others.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000038_000000|The whole troop set up a shout as Dick came forward, taking off his dripping cap.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000039_000002|Your horse must have broken loose in the storm. But here, you look as if you were nearly dead!
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000039_000003|Jump up behind me!"
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000040_000000|Dick made an effort, but his strength failed and he slipped back to the ground.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000040_000001|He had not realized that he was walking on his spirit and courage and that his strength was gone, so powerful had been the buffets of the wind and rain.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000042_000001|It's lucky we found you."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000043_000000|"It is, sir, and I not only look like a wreck but I feel like one.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000044_000001|But what a night!
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000044_000002|What a night!
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000044_000003|Not many men can be abroad at such a time.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000046_000000|"You have!
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000046_000001|What did you see?"
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000047_000000|"A mile or two back I passed a line of Southern horsemen, just as wet and bedraggled as ours."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000048_000000|"Might they not have been our own men?
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000048_000001|It would be hard to tell blue and gray apart on such a night."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000049_000000|"One could make such a mistake, but in this case it was not possible. I saw my own cousin, Harry Kenton, riding with them.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000049_000001|I recognized them perfectly."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000050_000000|"Then that settles it.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000050_000002|But they must be few who dare to ride in such a storm."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000051_000000|"That's surely true, sir."
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000053_000000|Earlier in the day Stuart, full of enterprise, and almost insensible to fatigue, had crossed the Rappahannock much higher up and at the head of a formidable body of his horsemen, unseen by scouts and spies, was riding around the Union right.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000053_000001|They galloped into Warrenton where the people, red hot as usual for the South, crowded around them cheering and laughing and many of the women crying with joy.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000053_000002|It was like Jackson and Stuart to drop from the clouds this way and to tell them, although the land had been occupied by the enemy, that their brave soldiers would come in time.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000054_000000|News, where a Northern force could not have obtained a word, was poured out for the South.
train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000054_000002|Stuart shook his plumed head until his long golden hair flew about his neck.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000002_000001|The Confederates, after the fierce fighting of the day before, had abandoned both gaps, and the way at last lay clear before the Army of the Potomac.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000003_000000|Dick was mounted again.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000003_000001|In fact his horse, after pulling the reins from his hands and fleeing from the Confederate fire, had been retaken by a member of his own regiment and returned to him.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000003_000002|It was another good omen.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000000|But Dick said nothing to anybody of his duel with Harry Kenton.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000001|He shuddered even now when he recalled it.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000002|And yet there had been no guilt in either.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000004|Again he was thankful.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000005_000000|"How did you stand that fighting yesterday afternoon, George?" Dick asked of Warner.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000006_000000|"First rate.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000006_000001|The open air agreed with me, and as no bullet sought me out I felt benefited.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000006_000002|I didn't get away from that hospital too soon.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000007_000000|"It's only eight miles from the gap," said Pennington, who had been making inquiries, "and as we have come three miles it must be only five miles away."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000008_000000|"Correct," said Warner, who was in an uncommonly fine humor.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000008_000001|"Your mathematical power grows every day, Frank.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000008_000003|Wonderful! wonderful! You'll soon have a great head on you, Frank."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000009_000000|"If some rebel cannoneer doesn't shoot it off in the coming battle.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000009_000001|By George, we're driving their skirmishers before us!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000009_000002|They don't seem to make any stand at all!"
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000011_000000|Yet the Northern advance was slow.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000012_000000|"Why don't we hurry!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000012_000002|With Jackson tied up before Harper's Ferry, Lee's defeat is sure, unless he retreats across the Potomac, and that would be equivalent to a defeat.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000012_000003|Good Heavens, why don't we push on?"
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000014_000000|"Do you know anything about the Antietam, colonel?" asked Dick.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000015_000000|"It's a narrow stream, but deep, and crossed by several stone bridges. It will be hard to force a crossing here, but further up it can be done with ease since we outnumber Lee so much that we can overlap him by far. I have my information from Shepard, and he makes no mistakes.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000015_000001|There is a church, too, on the upper part of the peninsula, a little church belonging to an order called the Dunkards."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000016_000000|"Ah," murmured Dick, "the little church of Shiloh!"
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000017_000000|"What do you mean by that?"
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000018_000003|It's another good omen.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000018_000004|We're bound to achieve a great victory, colonel."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000019_000000|"I hope and believe so.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000019_000001|We've the materials with which to do it.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000019_000002|But we've got to push and push hard."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000020_000000|The colonel raised his glasses and took a long look in front.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000020_000003|The whole country would have been heavy with forest had it not been for the tramp of war.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000021_000001|The glasses carried far.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000021_000002|Dick saw a line of trees which he surmised marked the course of the Antietam, and he saw small detachments of cavalry which he knew were watching the advance of the Army of the Potomac. Their purpose convinced him that Lee had not retreated across the Potomac, but that he would fight and surely lose.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000021_000003|Dick now believed that so many good omens could not fail.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000022_000000|A horseman galloped toward them.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000022_000001|It was Shepard again, dustier than ever, his face pale from weariness.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000023_000000|"What is it, mr Shepard?" asked Colonel Winchester.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000000|"My God!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000001|My God!" cried the colonel.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000002|"Oh, that lost day!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000004|What a day!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000005|What a day!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000006|Nothing can ever pay us back for the losing of it!"
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000026_000000|Dick, too, felt a sinking of the heart, but despair was not written on his face as it was on that of his colonel.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000026_000001|Jackson might come, but it would only be with a part of his force, that which marched the swiftest, and the victory of the Army of the Potomac would be all the grander.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000027_000000|"Why, colonel!" he exclaimed, "we can beat them anyhow!"
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000000|"That's so, my lad, so we can!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000001|And so we will!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000002|It was childish of me to talk as I did.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000003|Here, Johnson, blow your best on that trumpet.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000004|I want our regiment to be the first to reach the Antietam."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000029_000002|Dick looked back, and he saw once more that vast billowing cloud of dust made by the marching army.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000029_000003|But in front he saw only quiet and peace, save for a few distant horsemen who seemed to be riding at random.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000030_000001|But he isn't going to cross without a battle, that's sure. The rebels are flushed with victory, they think they have the greatest leaders ever born and they believe, despite the disparity of numbers, that they can beat us."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000031_000000|"And I believe they can't," said Dick.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000033_000000|The regiment in its swift advance now came nearer to the Antietam, the narrow but deep creek between its high banks.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000034_000001|Great armies drawn up for battle were a spectacle that no boy could ever view calmly, and his heart beat so hard that it caused him actual physical pain.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000035_000000|He saw through the powerful glasses the walls of the little village of Sharpsburg, and to the north a roof which he believed was that of the Dunkard Church, of which Shepard spoke.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000035_000001|But his eyes came back from the church and rested on the country around Sharpsburg.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000035_000003|Beyond the peninsula he caught glimpses of the broad Potomac.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000036_000001|Jackson, even with his vanguard, could not arrive before night, and the main force certainly could not come from Harper's Ferry before the morrow.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000036_000002|Here was a full half day for the Army of the Potomac, enough in which to destroy a divided portion of the Army of Northern Virginia.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000000|But Colonel Winchester raged again and again in vain.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000001|There was no attack.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000002|Brigade after brigade in blue came up and sat down before the Antietam.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000004|The Winchester regiment was moved far to the north, where its officers hopefully believed that the first attack would be made.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000038_000000|Despite the delay, Dick and his comrades, thrilled at the great and terrible panorama spread before them.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000038_000003|But they did not hide the view of the armies, arrayed for battle, and with only a narrow river between.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000000|Dick, through his own glasses saw Confederate officers watching them also.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000001|He tried to imagine that this was Lee and that Longstreet, and that one of the Hills, and the one who wore a gorgeous uniform must surely be Stuart.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000002|Why should they be allowed to ride about so calmly? His heart fairly ached for the attack.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000003|McClellan said that fifty thousand men were there, and that Jackson was coming with fifty thousand more, but Shepard, who always knew, said that they did not number more than twenty thousand.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000004|What a chance!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000005|What a chance!
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000007|If he said anything at all he would have to say it in a guarded manner and to his best friends.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000000|The Winchester regiment went into camp in a pleasant grove at the northern end of the Union line.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000001|Dick and his two young comrades had no fault to find with their quarters.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000002|They had dry grass, warm air and the open sky.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000003|A more comfortable summer home for a night could not be asked. And there was plenty of food, too.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000004|The Army of the Potomac never lacked it.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000006|Heavenly aromas arose.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000000|Dick and his comrades ate and drank, and then lay down in the grove.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000001|If they must rest they would rest well.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000002|Now and then they heard the booming of guns, and just before dark there had been a short artillery duel across the Antietam, but now the night was quiet, save for the murmur and movement of a great army.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000003|Through the darkness came the sound of many voices and the clank of moving wheels.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000042_000000|Dick asked permission for his two comrades and himself to go down near the river and obtained it.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000043_000000|"But don't get shot," cautioned Colonel Winchester.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000043_000001|"The Confederate riflemen will certainly be on watch on the other side of the stream."
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000044_000000|Dick promised and the three went forward very carefully among some bushes.
train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000044_000001|They were led on by curiosity and they did not believe that they would be in any great danger.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000002_000000|Although I find a sad pleasure in lingering over these times, with such a history still impending, I cannot afford the indulgence.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000003_000000|Dear mother's simple funeral took me once more to my native place.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000003_000002|But difficulties, sore to encounter at such a time, would have met me on every side.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000003_000003|Moreover the kind act cheered and led me through despondency, like the hand and face of God.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000004_000000|Caring little what people might say or think, I could not stay at a distance.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000004_000001|Nature told me that it was my duty to go, and duty or not, I could not stay away.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000001|So far away now, so hopelessly far away!
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000002|There it lies indeed, I can touch it, kiss it, and embrace it; but oh how small a part of mother! and even that part is not mine.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000004|I can see it, but it never will know me again; I may die beside it, and it cannot weep.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000005|The last last look of all on earth-they must have carried me away.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000006_000003|One of them brought me a bunch, then stared, and was afraid to offer them.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000007_000001|Some one from time to time gave out the words of a verse and then it was sung to a simple impressive tune. That ancient hymn, which has drowned so many sobs, I did not hear, but felt it.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000000|We arrived at Vaughan saint Mary late in the afternoon of the second day. The whole of the journey was to me a long and tearful dream.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000001|mr Huxtable came with us.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000002|He had never before been further from home than Exeter; and his single visit to that city had formed the landmark of his life.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000003|He never tried to comfort me as the others did.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000004|The ignorant man knew better.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000009_000000|Alone I sat by my father's grave, with my mother's ready before my feet. They had cast the mould on the other side, so as not to move my father's coverlet.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000009_000001|The poor old pensioner had been true to her promise, and man's last garden was blooming like his first flower bed.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000000|My mind (if any I had) seemed to have undergone some change.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000001|Defiance, and pride, and savage delight in misery, were entirely gone; and depression had taken the place of dejection.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000002|Death now seemed to me the usual and proper condition of things, and I felt it an impertinence that I should still be alive.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000003|So I waited, with heavy composure, till she should be brought, who so often had walked there with me.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000004|At length she was coming for good and all, and a space was left for me.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000005|But I must not repose there yet; I had still my task before me.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000011_000000|The bell was tolling faster, and the shadows growing longer, and the children who had been playing at hide and seek, where soon themselves shall be sought in vain, had flitted away from sight, perhaps scared at my presence, perhaps gone home to tea, to enjoy the funeral afterwards. The evening wind had ceased from troubling the yews, and the short-lived songs of the birds were done.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000000|The sun was setting behind me: suddenly a shadow eclipsed my own upon the red loam across the open grave.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000001|Without a start, and dreamily (as I did all things now), I turned to see whence it came.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000002|Within a yard of me stood mr Edgar Vaughan.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000003|In a moment the old feeling was at my heart, and my wits were all awake.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000013_000000|I observed that he was paler than when I had seen him last, and the rigid look was wavering on his face, like steel reflected by water.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000013_000001|He lifted his hat to me.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000013_000002|I neither rose nor spoke, but turned and watched him.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000015_000000|I heard, with some surprise, his allusion to the Great Being, whom he was not wont to recognise; but I made him no reply.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000016_000000|"Very well," he resumed, with the ancient chill hardening over his features; "so then let it be.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000016_000001|I am not come to offer you condolence, which you would despise; nor do I mean to be present when you would account the sight of me an insult.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000016_000002|And yet I loved your mother, Clara; I loved her very truly."
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000017_000000|This he said with such emotion, that a new thought broke upon me.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000018_000000|Quick as the thought, he asked, "Would you know who killed your father?"
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000019_000000|"And my mother, too," I answered, "whose coffin I see coming."
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000001|He took his hat off, and the perspiration stood upon his forehead.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000002|Betwixt suspense and terror, and the wildness of grief, I was obliged to lean on the headstone for support, and a giddiness came over me.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000004|In vain I wiped them hurriedly and looked again.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000005|mr Vaughan was gone; but on the grass at my feet lay a folded letter.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000006|I seized it quickly, and broke the seal.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000007|That moment a white figure appeared between the yew trees by the porch.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000008|It was the aged minister leading my mother the last path of all. The book was in his hand, and his form was tall and stately, and his step so slow, that the white hair fell unruffled, while the grand words on his lips called majesty into his gaze.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000009|Thrusting aside the letter, I followed into the Church, and stood behind the old font where I had been baptized; a dark and gloomy nook, fit for such an entrance.
train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000010|She who had carried me there was carried past it now, and the pall waved in the damp cold air, and all the world seemed stone and mould.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000004_000000|CHAPTER six
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000006_000000|"They're coming out of the ship." I spoke quietly, with my hand over my mouth, for fear they might hear me.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000006_000001|"One-two-three-four, five-six-seven-eight-nine.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000006_000002|That seems to be all.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000008_000000|"How are they armed?" I asked.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000009_000000|"Just knives," came the reply.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000009_000002|Afraid of accidents.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000009_000003|Have a ruling against it."
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000010_000002|Abandon the ring target.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000010_000004|You, on the hilltops, all train on the repellors of the ships to the south.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000010_000005|Shoot at the word, but not before.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000000|"Wilma, crawl over to your left where you can make a straight leap for the door in that ship.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000001|These men are all walking around the wreck in a bunch.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000003|I'll follow.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000004|Maybe we won't be seen. We'll overpower the guard inside, but don't shoot.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000006|They can't see over this wreck."
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000013_000000|At last they were on the far side.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000013_000001|In a moment they would be picking their way into the wreck.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000014_000000|"Wilma, leap!" I almost whispered the order.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000000|The distance between Wilma's hiding place and the door in the side of the Han ship was not more than fifteen feet.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000001|She was already crouched with her feet braced against a metal beam.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000002|Taking the lift of that wonderful inertron belt into her calculation, she dove headforemost, like a green projectile, through the door.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000003|I followed in a split second, more clumsily, but no less speedily, bruising my shoulder painfully, as I ricocheted from the edge of the opening and brought up sliding against the unconscious girl; for she evidently had hit her head against the partition within the ship into which she had crashed.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000016_000000|We had made some noise within the ship.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000017_000000|"Any signs we have been observed?" I asked my men on the hillsides.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000000|"Not yet," I heard the Boss reply.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000001|"Ships overhead still standing.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000002|No beams have been broken out.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000004|Most of them have crawled into it out of sight."
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000000|"Good," I said quickly.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000002|Knocked out.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000004|We're not discovered yet.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000005|I'll take care of them.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000006|Stand a bit longer, but be ready."
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000020_000000|I think my last words must have been heard by the man who was approaching, for he stopped suddenly.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000021_000000|I crouched at the far side of the compartment, motionless.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000021_000001|I would not draw my sword if there were only one of them.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000022_000000|Apparently reassured at the absence of any further sound, a man came around a sort of bulkhead-and I leaped.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000002|And it was deserted.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000004|I gazed at the mass of controls.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000006|In the center of the compartment, on a massively braced universal joint mounting, was what I took for the repellor generator.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000007|A dial on it glowed and a faint hum came from within its shielding metallic case.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000008|But I had no time to study it.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000025_000000|Above all else, I was afraid that some automatic telephone apparatus existed in the room, through which I might be heard on the other ships. The risk of trying to jam the controls was too great.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000025_000001|I abandoned the idea and withdrew softly.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000000|I ran back to the entrance compartment.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000001|Wilma still lay where she had slumped down.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000003|It was time to act.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000005|I spoke.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000027_000000|"Are you boys all ready?" I asked, creeping to a position opposite the door and drawing my hand gun.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000028_000000|Again there was a chorus of assent.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000030_000000|I think my "three" was a bit weak.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000030_000001|I know it took all the courage I had to utter it.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000031_000000|For an agonizing instant nothing happened, except that the landing party from the ship strolled into my range of vision.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000032_000000|Then startled, they turned their eyes upward.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000032_000001|For an instant they stood frozen with horror at whatever they saw.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000000|One hurled his knife at me.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000001|It grazed my cheek.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000002|Then a couple of them made a break for the doorway.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000003|The rest followed.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000004|But I fired pointblank with my hand gun, pressing the button as fast as I could and aiming at their feet to make sure my explosive rockets would make contact and do their work.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000034_000003|They had been fairly bunched, and I got them all.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000036_000000|Some eighth of a mile away I saw one of the ships crash to earth.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000036_000002|But it never reached it.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000038_000001|The other, farther away, drifted down diagonally, its disintegrator ray playing viciously over the ground below it.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000041_000000|His commands, sending out jumpers in pursuit of the descending ship, rang in my ears, but I paid no attention to them.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000041_000001|I leaped back into the compartment of the Han ship and knelt beside my Wilma.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000042_000000|"Oh, my head!" she groaned, coming to as I lifted her gently in my arms and strode out in the open with her.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000043_000001|"All but one crashed and that one is drifting down toward the south; we've captured this one we're in intact.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000045_000001|It was in the form of a public warning and news item, and read as follows:
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000049_000003|So unless further evidence actually is developed, or the Heaven Born orders to the contrary, the Military will hold to a defensive policy.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000052_000006|The party debarked, leaving one man on board in the control cabin.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000053_000003|An instant later confused sounds reached the control room electrophone, such as might be made by a man falling heavily, and footsteps reapproached the control room, a figure entering and leaving the control room hurriedly.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000053_000004|The Base Captain now believes, and the stills of the photorecord support his belief, that this was not the crew member who had been left in the control room.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000053_000005|Before the Base Captain could speak to him he left the room, nor was any response given to the attention signal the Captain flashed throughout the ship.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000054_000000|"At this point projectoscope r b three of the ship now out of focus control, dimly showed the landing party walking back toward the ship.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000057_000003|Then the forward rep ray generator exploded, and all signals went dead.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000059_000000|"As its control room was shattered, verbal report from its Action Captain was precluded.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000059_000002|The projectoscope relays, swinging in wide arcs, recorded little of value except at the ends of their swings.
train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000059_000003|One of these, from a machine which happened to be set in telescopic focus, shows several views of great value in picturing the falls of the other ships, and all of the rear projectoscope records enable the reconstruction in detail of the pendulum and torsional movements of the ship, and its sag toward the earth.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000002_000000|Incredible Treason
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000005_000000|The synthetic fabrics plant had been partially wiped out, though the lower levels underground had not been reached by the dis ray.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000006_000000|The ammunition plant, and the rocket ship plant, which had just been about to start operation at the time of the raid, were intact, as were the other important plants.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000008_000000|During this period, a sharp check was kept upon Han messages, for the phone plant had been one of the first to be put in operation, and when it became evident that the Hans did not intend any immediate reprisals, the entire membership of the community was summoned back, and normal life was resumed.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000009_000001|On our return, we had a camp of our own, of course.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000009_000002|We were assigned to location ten seventeen.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000009_000003|And as might be expected, we had a great deal of banter over which one of us was Camp Boss.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000000|I found myself a full fledged member of the Gang now, for I had elected to search no farther for a permanent alliance, much as I would have liked to familiarize myself with this twenty fifth Century life in other sections of the country.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000001|The Wyomings had a high morale, and had prospered under the rule of Big Boss Hart for many years.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000002|But many of the gangs, I found, were badly organized, lacked strong hands in authority, and were rife with intrigue.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000003|On the whole, I thought I would be wise to stay with a group which had already proved its friendliness, and in which I seemed to have prospects of advancement.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000004|Under these modern social and economic conditions, the kind of individual freedom to which I had been accustomed in the twentieth Century was impossible.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000011_000000|This entire modern life, it appeared to me, judging from my ancient viewpoint, was organized along what I called "political" lines.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000013_000000|As society was organized in the twentieth Century, I do not believe the system could have worked in anything but politics.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000014_000000|But owing to the centuries of desperate suffering the people had endured at the hands of the Hans, there developed a spirit of self sacrifice and consideration for the common good that made the scheme applicable and efficient in all forms of human co-operation.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000016_000002|The eternal cycle seems to be at work.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000017_000000|All this, however, is wandering afar from my story, which concerns our early battles against the Hans, and not our more modern problems of self control.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000018_000000|Our victory over the seven Han ships had set the country ablaze.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000018_000002|There was feverish activity in the ammunition plants, and the hunting of stray Han ships became an enthusiastic sport.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000000|From the Pacific Coast came the report of a great transpacific liner of seventy five thousand tons "lift" being brought to earth from a position of invisibility above the clouds.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000001|A dozen Sacramentos had caught the hazy outlines of its rep rays approaching them, head on, in the twilight, like ghostly pillars reaching into the sky.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000003|They got one rep ray. The other was not strong enough to hold it up.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000004|It floated to earth, nose down, and since it was unarmed and unarmored, they had no difficulty in shooting it to pieces and massacring its crew and passengers.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000005|It seemed barbarous to me.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000020_000001|The Sand snipers, practically invisible in their sand colored clothing, and half buried along the beaches, lay in wait for days, risking the play of dis beams along the route, and finally registering four hits within a week.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000000|"Tony," he said, "There are two things I want to talk to you about.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000001|One of them will become public property in a few days, I think.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000004|They're putting armor of great thickness in the hulls of their ships below the rep ray machines.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000007|As near as we can gather from their reports, their laboratories have developed a new alloy of great tensile strength and elasticity which nevertheless lets the rep rays through like a sieve.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000008|Our reports indicate that the Eries' rockets bounced off harmlessly.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000023_000003|I have been made Superboss of the Mid Atlantic Zone.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000024_000002|I'm thinking of developing a permanent field force, along the lines of the regular armies of the twentieth Century you told me about.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000025_000002|You know, a hundred and fifteen or twenty years ago there were certain of these people's ancestors who actually degraded themselves by mating with the Hans, sometimes even serving them as slaves, in the days before they brought all their service machinery to perfection.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000026_000001|But I hardly suspect the Pineys. There is little intelligence among them.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000026_000002|They wouldn't have the information to give the Hans, nor would they be capable of imparting it. They're absolute savages."
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000027_000000|"Just what evidence is there that anybody has been clearing information to the Hans?" I asked.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000000|"Well," he replied, "first of all there was that raid upon us.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000001|That first Han ship knew the location of our plants exactly.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000003|Then, the Hans quite obviously have learned that we are picking up their electrophone waves, for they've gone back to their old, but extremely accurate, system of directional control.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000006|But they've been beaming those paths so hard, it looks as though they even had information of this strategy.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000008|Finally, we've picked up three of their messages in which they discuss, with some nervousness, the existence of our 'mysterious' ultrophone."
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000031_000000|"Then it's quite clear," I ventured, "that whoever is 'clearing' us to them is doing it piecemeal.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000031_000001|It sounds like a bit of occasional barter, rather than an out and out alliance.
train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000032_000001|The trick would be to locate the goods.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000000_000000|SUNDRY ARRIVALS IN eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000002_000001|She stated that she had been very cruelly treated, that she was owned by a man named Joseph O'Neil, "a tax collector and a very bad man." Under said O'Neil she had been required to chop wood, curry horses, work in the field like a man, and all one winter she had been compelled to go barefooted.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000002_000002|Three weeks before Sarah fled, her mistress was called away by death; nevertheless Sarah could not forget how badly she had been treated by her while living.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000002_000003|According to Sarah's testimony the mistress was no better than her husband.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000004_000001|She was of a dark chestnut color, well formed, with a large and high forehead, indicative of intellect.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000004_000005|Fortunately, Caroline was a single woman.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000005_000001|Previous to being sold he was under a master by the name of Jonathan Bailey, who followed farming in the neighborhood of Laurel, Delaware, and, as a master, was considered a moderate man-was also well to do in the world; but the new master he could not endure, as he had already let the secret out that Levin was to be sent South.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000006_000000|William james Conner, his wife, child, and four brothers came next.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000007_000000|No very serious charges were made against Lewis, but on the contrary they said, that he had been looked upon as a "moderate slave holder;" they also said, that "he had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty years, and stood high in that body." Furthermore they stated, that he sold slaves occasionally.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000007_000001|Eight had been sold by him some time before this party escaped (two of them to Georgia); besides William james had been sold and barely found opportunity to escape.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000000|Richard Williams gave a full account of himself, but only a meagre report was recorded.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000001|He said that he came from Richmond, and left because he was on the point of being sold by john a Smith, who owned him.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000002|He gave Smith credit for being a tolerable fair kind of a slave holder, but added, that "his wife was a notoriously hard woman;" she had made a very deep impression on Richard's mind by her treatment of him.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000003|In finding himself on free ground, however, with cheering prospects ahead, he did not stop to brood over the ills that he had suffered, but rejoiced heartily.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000004|He left his wife, Julia, who was free.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000002|Henry could find no justification for such treatment.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000003|He suffered greatly under the said Barnes, and finally his eyes were open to see that there was an Underground Rail Road for the benefit of all such slavery sick souls as himself.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000004|So he got a ticket as soon as possible, and came through without accident, leaving amos Barnes to do the best he could for a living.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000005|This candidate for Canada was twenty one years of age, and a likely looking boy.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000011_000000|Joseph Henry Hill.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000011_000001|The spirit of freedom in this passenger was truly the "one idea" notion.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000011_000003|Joseph was a fair specimen of a man physically and mentally, could read and write, and thereby keep the run of matters of interest on the Slavery question.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000000|james Thomas junior, a tobacco merchant, in Richmond, had Joe down in his ledger as a marketable piece of property, or a handy machine to save labor, and make money.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000001|To Joe's great joy he heard the sound of the Underground Rail Road bell in Richmond,--had a satisfactory interview with the conductor,--received a favorable response, and was soon a traveler on his way to Canada.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000002|He left his mother, a free woman, and two sisters in chains.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000003|He had been sold twice, but he never meant to be sold again.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000013_000000|ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000014_000001|FACE CANADA WARD FOR YEARS.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000015_000000|Quite an agreeable interview took place between Cornelius and the Committee.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000015_000001|He gave his experience of Slavery pretty fully, and the Committee enlightened him as to the workings of the Underground Rail Road, the value of freedom, and the safety of Canada as a refuge.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000003|"Within the last four or five years, times have gone pretty hard with me.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000004|My mistress, mrs Mary f Price, had lately put me in charge of her brother, Samuel m Bailey, a tobacco merchant of Richmond.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000005|Both believed in nothing as they did in Slavery; they would sooner see a black man dead than free.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000007|He and his sister own well on to one hundred head, though within the last few years he has been thinning off the number by sale.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000009|On Christmas week he allowed me no board money, but made me a present of seventy five cents; my mistress added twenty five cents, which was the extent of their liberality.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000010|I was well cared for.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000012|If they did not get well as soon as he thought they should, he would order them to their work, and if they did not go he would beat them.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000013|My cousin was badly beat last year in the presence of his wife, and he was right sick.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000015|She let on to be very good."
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000001|My mother is now old, but is still in the service of Bailey.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000002|He promised to take care of her in her old age, and not compel her to labor, so she is only required to cook and wash for a dozen slaves.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000007|I believed that God would assist me if I would try.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000008|I then made up my mind to put my case in the hands of God, and start for the Underground Rail Road.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000010|But to bid good bye to my old mother in chains, was no easy job, and if my desire for freedom had not been as strong as my desire for life itself, I could never have stood it; but I felt that I could do her no good; could not help her if I staid.
train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000011|As I was often threatened by my master, with the auction block, I felt I must give up all and escape for my life."
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000001_000000|Section thirty five
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000002_000001|The huge military machine was getting under way, the storm of public feeling was rising.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000002_000002|Congress had voted a huge loan, a country wide machine of propaganda was being organized, and the oratory of Four Minute Men was echoing from Maine to California.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000003_000000|The Reds had a religion, as you might call it; but this religion had failed to attract peter.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000003_000001|In the first place it was low; its devotees were wholly lacking in the graces of life, in prestige, and that ease which comes with assurance of power.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000003_000002|They were noisy in their fervors, and repelled peter as much as the Holy Rollers.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000000|It was the fashion these days for orators and public men to vie with one another in expressing the extremes of patriotism, and peter would read these phrases, and cherish them; they came to seem a part of him, he felt as if he had invented them.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000003|peter was so much of an American that the very sight of a foreigner filled him with a fighting impulse.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000004|As for the Reds-well, peter groped for quite a time before he finally came upon a formula which expressed his feelings.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000005|It was a famous clergyman who achieved it for him-saying that if he could have his way he would take all the Reds, and put them in a ship of stone with sails of lead, and send them forth with hell for their destination.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000006_000002|peter would ask this question of McGivney again and again, and McGivney would answer: "Keep your shirt on.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000006_000003|You're getting your pay every week.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000006_000004|What's the matter with you?"
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000007_000000|"The matter is, I'm tired of listening to these fellows ranting," peter would say.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000007_000001|"I want to stop their mouths."
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000008_000000|Yes, peter had come to take it as a personal affront that these radicals should go on denouncing the cause which peter had espoused. They all thought of peter as a comrade, they were most friendly to him; but peter had the knowledge of how they would regard him when they knew the real truth, and this imagined contempt burned him like an acid.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000008_000001|Sometimes there would be talk about spies and informers, and then these people would exhaust their vocabulary of abuse, and peter, of course, would apply every word of it to himself and become wild with anger.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000010_000000|"Well," said McGivney one day, "I've got something interesting for you now.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000011_000001|"These people are spending lots of money for printing," said McGivney, "and we hear this fellow Lackman is putting it up.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000000|So peter was to meet a millionaire!
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000001|peter had never known one of these fortunate beings, but he was for them-he had always been for them.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000003|He had read these stories as a child reads fairy tales.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000004|They were his creatures of dreams, belonging to a world above reality, above pain and inconvenience.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000013_000003|The world had changed much since then, and for the worse; those who had power must take it as their task to restore beauty and splendor to the world, and to develop the gracious possibilities of being.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000015_000000|Now since peter had come to know the Reds, who wanted to blow up the palaces of the millionaires, he was more than ever on the side of his gods and goddesses.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000015_000001|His fervors for them increased every time he heard them assailed; he wanted to meet some of them, and passionately, yet respectfully, pour out to them his allegiance.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000016_000000|And now he was to meet one; it was to be a part of his job to cultivate one!
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000016_000002|peter had met "Parlor Reds" at the home of the Todd sisters; the large shining ladies who came in large shining cars to hear him tell of his jail experiences.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000017_000000|But young Lackman was a real millionaire, McGivney positively assured him; and so peter was free to admire him in spite of all his freak ideas, which the rat faced man explained with intense amusement.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000017_000001|Young Lackman conducted a school for boys, and when one of the boys did wrong, the teacher would punish himself instead of the boy!
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000017_000002|peter must pretend to be interested in this kind of "education," said McGivney, and he must learn at least the names of Lackman's books.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000018_000000|"But will he pay any attention to me?" demanded peter.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000019_000001|"That's the point-you've been in jail, you've really done something as a pacifist.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000020_000000|The address of young Lackman was the Hotel de Soto; and as he heard this, Peter's heart gave a leap.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000020_000002|peter had walked by the vast white structure, and seen the bronze doors swing outward, and the favored ones of the earth emerging to their magic chariots; but never had it occurred to him that he might pass thru those bronze doors, and gaze upon those hidden mysteries!
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000022_000001|However, he would try it; McGivney must be right, for it was the same thing mrs james had impressed upon him many times.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000022_000002|You must watch what other people did, and practice by yourself, and then go in and do it as if you had never done anything else.
train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000022_000003|All life was a gigantic bluff, and you encouraged yourself in your bluffing by the certainty that everybody else was bluffing just as hard.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000001_000000|Section thirty nine
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000001|He had done his best, he declared; he had inquired at the desk, and waited and waited, but the hotel people had failed to notify him of Lackman's arrival.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000002|All this was strictly true; but it did not pacify McGivney, who was in a black fury.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000003|"It might have been worth thousands of dollars to you!" he declared.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000004|"He's the biggest fish we'll ever get on our hook."
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000003_000000|"Won't he come again?" asked grief stricken peter.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000004_000000|"No," declared the other.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000004_000001|"They'll get him at his home city."
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000006_000000|"You damned fool!" was McGivney's response.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000007_000000|The rat faced man hadn't intended to tell peter so much, but in his rage he let it out.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000007_000001|He and a couple of his friends had planned to "get something" on this young millionaire, and scare the wits out of him, with the idea that he would put up a good many thousand dollars to be let off.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000008_000000|peter offered to follow the young man to his home city, and find some way to lure him back into McGivney's power.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000008_000001|After McGivney had stormed for a while, he decided that this might be possible.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000009_000000|peter read this news, and knew that he was in for another stormy hour with his boss.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000010_000000|"All right.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000010_000001|Meet me in the waiting room of Guggenheim's Department Store at two o'clock this afternoon.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000010_000002|But for God's sake forget Nell Doolin.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000011_000000|So here was peter dressed in his best clothes, as for his temporary honeymoon with the grass widow, and on the way to the rendezvous an hour ahead of time.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000012_000002|Nell wanted to know forthwith what was he doing; he answered that he could not tell, it was a secret of the most desperate import; he was under oath.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000014_000000|He told about the sums he had been making and was expecting to make; he told about Lackman, and showed Nell the newspaper with pictures of the young millionaire and his school.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000015_000000|"How do you mean?" asked peter, a little puzzled.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000015_000001|Could it be that Nell had any sympathy for these Reds?
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000016_000000|"I mean," she answered, "that he'd have been worth more to you than all the rest put together."
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000017_000002|They're getting the swag, and just giving you tips.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000018_000000|Peter's heart leaped.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000019_000001|"He'd cut my throat, and yours too, if he knew I was here.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000019_000002|But I'll try to get myself free, and then maybe-I won't promise, but I'll think over your problem, peter, and I'll certainly try to help, so that McGivney and Guffey and those fellows can't play you for a sucker any longer."
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000020_000001|She would meet peter again the next day, and in a more private place than here.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000020_000002|She named a spot in the city park which would be easy to find, and yet sufficiently remote for a quiet conference.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000021_000000|Section forty
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000022_000000|peter had been made so bold by Nell's flattery and what she had said about his importance, that he did not go back to McGivney to take his second scolding about the Lackman case.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000022_000002|peter walked the streets all day and a part of the night, thinking about Nell, and thrilling over the half promises she had made him.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000023_000000|They met next day in the park.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000023_000001|No one was following them, and they found a solitary place, and Nell let him kiss her several times, and in between the kisses she unfolded to him a terrifying plan.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000024_000000|peter had been doing the hard work, and these big fellows had been using him, handing him a tip now and then, and making fortunes out of the information he brought them.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000024_000002|What peter must do was to work up something of his own, and get the real money, and make himself one of the big fellows.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000024_000003|peter had the facts, he knew the people; he had watched in the Goober case exactly how a "frame up" was made, and now he must make one for himself, and one that would pay.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000025_000000|Nell had spent the night figuring over it, trying to pick out the right person.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000025_000001|She had hit on old "Nelse" Ackerman, the banker. Ackerman was enormously and incredibly wealthy; he was called the financial king of American City.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000026_000000|If peter had stood alone, would he have dared so perilous a dream as this?
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000026_000001|Or was he a "piker"; a little fellow, the victim of his own fears and vanities?
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000026_000004|So he said all right, he would go in on that plan; and proceeded to discuss with Nell the various personalities he might use.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000001|"Mac," with his grim, set face and his silent, secretive habits, fitted perfectly to Peter's conception of a dynamiter.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000002|Also "Mac" was Peter's personal enemy; "Mac" had just returned from his organizing trip in the oil fields, and had been denouncing peter and gossiping about him in the various radical groups.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000003|"Mac" was the most dangerous Red of them all!
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000004|He must surely be one of the dynamiters!
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000028_000001|He was the boldest and most defiant of all the Reds that peter had yet come upon.
train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000028_000003|It wasn't writing poems and passing resolutions that was wanted; it wasn't even men who would refuse to put on the uniform, but men who would take the guns that were offered to them, and drill themselves, and at the proper time face about and use the guns in the other direction.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000007_000000|There was once a King's daughter who was the most beautiful thing in the world, and as her hair was fair and reached to her feet she was called the Princess Goldenhair.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000008_000000|A handsome young King in the neighbourhood, although he had never seen this Princess, fell so deeply in love with her from what he had heard, that he could neither eat nor sleep.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000012_000000|When the King heard of her refusal he wept like a child.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000013_000001|He was as beautiful as the sun, and a more finely made fellow than any in the kingdom; everybody loved him except a few envious people, who were angry because the King favoured and confided in him, and in the presence of these, one day, Avenant incautiously remarked,
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000015_000000|In this sad plight, Avenant exclaimed one day, "How have I offended his Majesty?
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000018_000000|"It is true, sir," replied Avenant, "I did say so, for I would have represented your noble qualities in such a way, that she could not help being persuaded."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000020_000000|One day, alighting from his horse to write down some suitable words that had come into his mind, he saw a golden carp who, leaping from the water to catch flies, had thrown herself upon the river bank, and was now nearly dead.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000021_000000|Avenant pitied the poor thing, and put her carefully back into the water.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000021_000001|Recovering directly, the carp dived to the bottom, but returning to the edge of the river, said,
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000023_000000|Another day as Avenant journeyed he noticed a raven who was pursued by an eagle.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000023_000003|The raven perched on a bough and cried.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000024_000000|"Avenant you have saved my life, I will not be ungrateful, I will repay you."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000026_000000|Not long after this, Avenant found an owl caught in a snare, he cut the strings, and freed the trembling captive.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000026_000001|"Avenant," said the owl, "you have saved my life, I will repay you."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000028_000000|When Avenant reached the Palace of the Princess Goldenhair, and saw the Princess seated upon her throne, she looked so lovely that at first all his fine speeches forsook him, and he could not utter a word; however, taking courage, he addressed her in exquisitely chosen language, begging her to become the King's bride.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000032_000000|They wandered down to the river, and there Avenant heard a voice calling him, and what should he see but the golden carp, with the Princess's ring in her mouth.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000032_000001|"Take it, dear Avenant," said she, "I promised to repay you for saving my life, and now I can fulfil my promise."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000034_000000|The Princess thought she must be dreaming when she saw the ring, but she set Avenant another task.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000000|"Not far from here there is a prince named Galifron," said she; "he wishes to marry me, and threatens to ravish my kingdom if I refuse; but how can I accept him?
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000001|He is a giant, taller than my highest tower, he eats a man as a monkey would eat a chestnut, and when he speaks, his voice is so loud that it deafens those who hear him.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000002|He will not take my refusal, but kills my subjects.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000003|You must fight and bring me his head."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000039_000000|"Where are the children small, so small, With my teeth I will crush them all, On so many would I feed, feed, feed. The whole world can't supply my need."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000042_000001|He began striking out on all sides, but Avenant avoided his blows, and with his sword pierced him so many times that at last he fell to the ground.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000042_000002|Then Avenant cut off his head, and the raven, who had perched on a tree, said,
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000043_000000|"I have not forgotten how you rescued me from the eagle; I promised to repay you, I think I have done so to day."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000045_000000|When he entered the town, crowds followed him crying, "Here is the brave Avenant who has slain the monster."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000046_000000|Avenant advanced to the Princess, and said, "Madam, your enemy is dead.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000000|"Although it is so," answered the Princess, "I shall refuse him unless you will bring me some water from the Grotto of Darkness.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000001|At the entrance there are two dragons, with fire in their eyes and mouths; inside the grotto there is a deep pit into which you must descend, it is full of toads, scorpions, and serpents.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000002|At the bottom of this pit there is a little cave where flows the fountain of beauty and health. Positively I must possess the water; all who wash in it, if they are beautiful, continue so always, if they are ugly they become beautiful; if they are young they remain young, if they are old they regain their youth.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000003|You cannot wonder, Avenant, that I will not leave my kingdom without taking it with me."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000048_000001|He was a frightful looking creature with a green and yellow body, and his tail was so long that it went into a hundred curves.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000000|As he was speaking, a voice called, "Avenant, Avenant," and looking around he saw an owl.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000001|"You saved my life from the fowlers," said the owl.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000002|"I promised to repay you, the time has now come.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000004|I will bring you the water of beauty."
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000051_000000|And carrying the flask, the owl entered the grotto, unhindered, returning in less than a quarter of an hour with it full to the brim. Avenant thanked the owl heartily, and joyously started for the town, where he presented the flask to the Princess, who immediately gave orders to prepare for her departure.
train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000052_000000|But as she considered Avenant altogether charming, before she set out, she several times said to him: "If you wish, we need not go, for I will make you king of my country." But Avenant made reply:
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000006_000000|The Congress, initiated by Virginia for the laudable purpose of endeavoring, by constitutional means, to adjust all the issues which threatened the peace of the country, failed to achieve anything that would cause or justify a reconsideration by the seceded States of their action to reclaim the grants they had made to the General Government, and to maintain for themselves a separate and independent existence.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000007_000000|The Commissioners sent by the Confederate Government, after having been shamefully deceived, as has been heretofore fully set forth, left the United States capital to report the result of their mission to the Confederate Government.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000000|The bloodless bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter occurred on april thirteenth eighteen sixty one.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000001|The garrison was generously permitted to retire with the honors of war.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000005|Had there been delay, the more serious conflict between larger forces, land and naval, would scarcely have been bloodless, as the bombardment fortunately was.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000006|The event, however, was seized upon to inflame the mind of the Northern people, and the disguise which had been worn in the communications with the Confederate Commissioners was now thrown off, and it was cunningly attempted to show that the South, which had been pleading for peace and still stood on the defensive, had by this bombardment inaugurated a war against the United States.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000010_000000|On the fifteenth day of the same month, President Lincoln, introducing his farce "of combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings," called forth the military of the several States to the number of seventy five thousand, and commanded "the persons composing the combinations" to disperse, etc
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000010_000002|The levy of so large an army could only mean war; but the power to declare war did not reside in the President-it was delegated to the Congress only.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000010_000004|The authorities on this subject have been heretofore cited, and need not be referred to again.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000011_000001|To add that there could be no justification for the invasion of a State by an army of the United States, is but to repeat what has been said, on the absence of any authority in the General Government to coerce a State.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000013_000000|Two days had elapsed between the surrender of Fort Sumter and the proclamation of President Lincoln calling for seventy five thousand militia as before stated.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000013_000001|Two other days elapsed, and Virginia passed her ordinance of secession, and two days thereafter the citizens of Baltimore resisted the passage of troops through that city on their way to make war upon the Southern States.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000013_000002|Thus rapidly did the current of events bear us onward from peace to the desolating war which was soon to ensue.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000014_000000|The manly effort of the unorganized, unarmed citizens of Baltimore to resist the progress of armies for the invasion of her Southern sisters, was worthy of the fair fame of Maryland; becoming the descendants of the men who so gallantly fought for the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of the States.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000015_000000|The bold stand, then and thereafter taken, extorted a promise from the Executive authorities that no more troops should be sent through the city of Baltimore, which promise, however, was only observed until, by artifice, power had been gained to disregard it.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000016_000000|Virginia, as has been heretofore stated, passed her ordinance of secession on the seventeenth of April.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000016_000001|It was, however, subject to ratification by the people at an election to be held on the fourth Thursday of May. She was in the mean time, like her Southern sisters, the object of Northern hostilities, and, having a common cause with them, properly anticipated the election of May by forming an alliance with the Confederate States, which was ratified by the Convention on the twenty fifth of April.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000018_000000|To those who criticise South Carolina as having acted precipitately in withdrawing from the Union, it may be answered that intervening occurrences show that her delay could not have changed the result; and, further, that her prompt action had enabled her better to prepare for the contingency which it was found impossible to avert.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000019_000001|Referring to an application that had been made to him from Baltimore, I wrote: "Sustain Baltimore if practicable.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000019_000002|We will reenforce you." The universal feeling was that of a common cause and common destiny.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000020_000000|The early demonstrations of the enemy showed that Virginia was liable to invasion from the north, from the east, and from the west.
train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000021_000000|The narrow peninsula between the james and York Rivers had topographical features well adapted to defense.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000006_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000008_000000|Genji well remembered the dream which he had dreamt at Suma, and in which his father, the late ex Emperor, had made a faint allusion to his fallen state.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000008_000001|He was always thinking of having solemn service performed for him, which might prove to be a remedy for evils.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000000|He was now in the capital, and at liberty to do anything he wished.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000001|In October, therefore, he ordered the grand ceremony of Mihakko to be performed for the repose of the dead.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000002|Meanwhile the respect of the public towards Genji had now returned to its former state, and he himself had become a distinguished personage in the capital.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000003|The Empress mother, though indisposed, regretted she had not ruined Genji altogether; while the Emperor, who had not forgotten the injunction of the late ex Emperor, felt satisfied with his recent disposition towards his half brother, which he believed to be an act of goodness.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000010_000001|He did not, however, believe he should be long on the throne, and when he found himself lonely, he often sent for Genji, and spent hours conversing with him, without any reserve, on public affairs.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000012_000000|At the end of the same month the Emperor abdicated the throne in favor of the Heir apparent, and his own son was made the Heir apparent to the new Emperor.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000000|The new reign opened with several changes in public affairs.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000001|Genji had been made Naidaijin.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000003|He was to take an active part in the administration, but as he was not yet disposed to engage in the busy cares of official life, the ex Sadaijin, his father in law, was solicited to become the regent for the young Emperor.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000004|He at first declined to accept the office, on the ground that he was advanced in age, that he had already retired from official life, and that the decline of his life left him insufficient energy.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000006|Nor was it an unusual thing for a statesman who had retired from political scenes to assume again a place under another government.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000000|So the ex Sadaijin did not persist in his refusal, but finally accepted the post of Dajiodaijin (the Premier).
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000001|He was now sixty three years of age.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000004|His daughter by his wife, the fourth daughter of Udaijin, was now twelve years old, and was shortly expected to be presented at Court; while his son, who had sung the "high sand" at a summer day reunion at Genji's mansion, received a title.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000005|The young Genji too, the son of the late Lady Aoi, was admitted to the Court of the Emperor and of the Heir apparent.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000016_000001|This he did with a notion of placing there some of his intimate friends, such as the younger one of the ladies in the "Villa of Falling Flowers."
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000017_000000|Now the young maiden also, whom Genji had left behind at Akashi, and who had been in delicate health, did not pass away from his thoughts. He despatched a messenger there on the first of March, as he deemed the happy event would take place about that time.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000017_000001|When the messenger returned, he reported that she was safely delivered of a girl on the sixteenth of the month.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000002|When he reflected on this prediction and on the series of events, he began thinking of the remarkable coincidences they betrayed; and as he thought of sending for her, as soon as the condition of the young mother's health would admit, he hurried forward the repairs of the eastern mansion.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000003|He also thought that as there might not be a suitable nurse at Akashi for the child, he ought to send one from the capital.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000004|Fortunately there was a lady there who had lately been delivered of a child.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000005|Her mother, who had waited at Court when the late ex Emperor lived, and her father, who had been some time Court Chamberlain, were both dead.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000006|She was now in miserable circumstances.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000007|Genji sounded her, through a certain channel, whether she would not be willing to be useful to him.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000008|This offer on his part she accepted without much hesitation, and was despatched with a confidential servant to attend on the new born child.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000009|He also sent with her a sword and other presents.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000010|She left the capital in a carriage, and proceeded by boat to the province of Settsu, and thence on horseback to Akashi.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000019_000001|The child was very healthy, and the nurse at once began to discharge her duties most faithfully.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000000|Hitherto Genji did not confide the story of his relations with the maiden of Akashi to Violet, but he thought he had better do so, as the matter might naturally reach her ears.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000001|He now, therefore, informed her of all the circumstances, and of the birth of the child, saying, "If you feel any unpleasantness about the matter, I cannot blame you in any way.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000002|It was not the blessing which I desired.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000003|How greatly do I regret that in the quarter where I wished to see the heavenly gift, there is none, but see it in another, where there was no expectation. The child is merely a girl too, and I almost think that I need pay no further attention.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000004|But this would make me heartless towards my undoubted offspring.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000006|Can you assure me you will be so?" At these words Violet's face became red as crimson, but she did not lose her temper, and quietly replied:
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000021_000000|"Your saying this only makes me contemptible to myself, as I think my generosity may not yet be fully understood; but I should like to know when and where I could have learnt to be ungenerous."
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000000|"These words sound too hard to me," said he.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000001|"How can you be so cruel to me?
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000003|He felt sorry for her, and continued, "In my anxious thoughts about this child, I have some intentions which may be agreeable to you also, only I will not tell you too hastily, since, if I do so now, they might not be taken in a favorable light.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000004|The attractions of the mother seem only to have arisen from the position in which she was placed.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000005|You must not think of the matter too seriously." He then briefly sketched her character and her skill in music.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000006|But on the part of Violet she could not but think that it was cruel to her to give away part of his heart, while her thoughts were with no one but him, and she was quite cast down for some time.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000023_000000|Genji tried to console her.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000024_000000|The fifth of May was the fiftieth day of the birth of the child, so Genji sent a messenger to Akashi a few days before the time when he would be expected.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000024_000001|At Akashi the feast for the occasion was arranged with great pains, and the arrival of Genji's messenger was most opportune.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000000|Let us now relate something about the Princess Wistaria.--Though she had become a nun, her title of ex Empress had never been lost; and now the change in the reigning sovereign gave her fresh honors.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000001|She had been recognized as equivalent to an Empress regnant who had abdicated.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000002|A liberal allowance was granted to her, and a becoming household was established for her private use.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000003|She, however, still continued her devotion to religion, now and then coming to Court to see her son, where she was received with all cordiality; so that her rival, the mother of the ex Emperor, whose influence was overwhelming till lately, now began to feel like one to whom the world had become irksome.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000027_000000|In August, of this year, the daughter of Gon Chiunagon (formerly To no Chiujio) was introduced at Court.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000027_000001|She took up her abode in the Kokiden, which had been formerly occupied by her maternal aunt, and she was also styled from this time the Niogo of Kokiden.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000027_000003|What will he eventually do about this matter?
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000028_000000|In the same autumn Genji went to the Temple of Sumiyoshi to fulfil his vows.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000028_000001|His party consisted of many young nobles and Court retainers, besides his own private attendants.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000029_000000|By a coincidence the maiden of Akashi, who had been prevented from coming to the Temple since the last year, happened to arrive there on the same day.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000029_000001|Her party travelled in a boat, and when it reached the beach they saw the procession of Genji's party crossing before them. They did not know what procession it was, and asked the bystanders about it, who, in return, asked them sarcastically, "Can there be anyone who does not know of the coming of Naidaijin, the Prince Genji, here to day to fulfil his vows?"
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000030_000000|Most of the young nobles were on horseback, with beautifully made saddles; and others, including Ukon no Jio, Yoshikiyo, and Koremitz, in fine uniforms of different colors (blue, green, or scarlet), according to their different ranks, formed the procession, contrasting with the hue of the range of pine trees on both sides of the road.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000031_000000|Genji was in a carriage, which was followed by ten boy pages, granted by the Court in the same way as a late Sadaijin, Kawara, had been honored.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000031_000001|They were dressed in admirable taste, and their hair was twisted up in the form of a double knot, with ribbons of gorgeous purple.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000031_000002|The young Genji was also in the procession on horseback, and followed the carriage.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000032_000000|The maiden of Akashi witnessed the procession, but she avoided making herself known.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000032_000002|As to Genji, he knew nothing of the maiden being a spectator of the procession, and spent the whole night in the Temple with his party in performing services which might please the God.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000033_000001|On the morrow Genji and his party set off for their homes.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000033_000002|As they proceeded Genji hummed,
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000035_000000|and he stopped, while contemplating the bay.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000036_000000|"Divinely led by love's bright flame, To this lone temple's shrine we come; And as yon beacon meets our eye, To dream, perchance, of days gone by."
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000037_000002|Her health, however, began to fail, and she became a nun, and after some time died.
train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000037_000003|Before her death Genji visited her, and with her last breath she consigned her daughter to his care.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000003_000000|OVERGROWN MUGWORT
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000000|When Genji was an exile on the sea coast, many people had been longing for his return.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000001|Among these was the Princess Hitachi.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000002|She was, as we have seen, the survivor of his Royal father, and the kindness which she had received from Genji was to her like the reflection of the broad starlit sky in a basin of water.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000003|After Genji left the capital, however, no correspondence ever passed between them.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000004|Several of her servants left her, and her residence became more lonely than ever.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000006|One might imagine some mysterious "tree spirit" to reign there.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000007|Nevertheless, such grounds as these, surrounded with lofty trees, are more tempting to those who desire to have a stylish dwelling.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000008|Hence there were several Durios (local governors) who had become rich, and having returned from different provinces, sounded the Princess to see if she were inclined to part with her residence; but this she always refused to do, saying that, however unfortunate she might be, she was not able to give up a mansion inherited from her parents.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000005_000000|The mansion contained also a store of rare and antique articles. Several fashionable persons endeavored to induce the Princess to part with them; but such people appeared only contemptible to her, as she looked upon them as proposing such a thing solely because they knew she was poor.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000006_000000|Scarcely anyone paid a visit to her dwelling, her only occasional visitor being her brother, a priest, who came to see her when he came to the capital, but he was a man of eccentric character, and was not very flourishing in his circumstances.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000007_000001|The surrounding walls of massive earth broke down here and there and crumbled away, being trampled over by wandering cattle.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000007_000002|In spring and summer boys would sometimes play there.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000007_000004|Only one blessing remained there-no thief intruded into the enclosure, as no temptation was offered to them for their attack.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000008_000000|But never did the Princess lose her accustomed reserve, which her parents had instilled into her mind.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000008_000001|Society for her had no attractions.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000001|This marriage had been considered an unequal match by the father of the Princess, and for this reason she was not very friendly with the family.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000002|Jijiu, however, who was a daughter of the Princess's nurse, and who still remained with the Princess, used to go to her.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000004|It seems to me that where a lady of ordinary degree is elevated to a higher position, she often acquires a refinement like one originally belonging to it; but there are other women, who when degraded from their rank spoil their taste and habits just like the lady in question.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000005|She fondly hoped to revenge herself for having been formerly looked down upon, by showing an apparent kindness to the Princess Hitachi, and by wishing to take her into her home, and make her wait upon her daughters.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000006|With this view she told Jijiu to tell her mistress to come to her, and Jijiu did so; but the Princess did not comply with this request.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000011_000000|About this time Genji returned, but for some while she heard nothing from him, and only the public rejoicing of many people, and the news about him from the outside world reached her ears.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000011_000003|It is not praiseworthy to display such self importance as you did in the lifetime of your father." And again she pressed her to go with her, but the Princess still clung to the hope that the time would come when Genji would remember her and renew his kindness.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000012_000000|Winter came!
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000012_000001|One day, quite unexpectedly, the aunt arrived at the mansion, bringing as a present a dress for the Princess.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000012_000002|Her carriage dashed into the garden in a most pompous style, and drove right up to the southern front of the building.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000000|"I must soon be leaving the capital," said the visitor.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000001|"It is not my wish to leave you behind, but you would not listen to me, and now there is no help.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000002|But this one, this Jijiu at least, I wish to take with me.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000003|I have come to day to fetch her.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000004|I cannot understand how you can be content with your present condition."
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000014_000000|Here she manifested a certain sadness, but her delight at her husband's promotion was unmistakable, and she continued:--
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000015_000000|"When your father was alive, I was looked down upon by him, which caused a coolness between us.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000015_000001|But nevertheless I at no time entertained any ill will towards you, only you were much favored by Prince Genji, as I heard, which made me abstain from visiting you often; but fortune is fickle, for those in a humble position often enjoy comfort, and those that are higher in station are not quite so well circumstanced.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000015_000002|I do really feel sorry to leave you behind."
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000016_000000|The Princess said very little, but her answer was, "I really thank you for your kind attention, but I do not think I am now fit to move about in the world.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000016_000001|I shall be quite happy to bury myself under this roof."
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000000|"Well, you may think so, but it is simply foolish to abandon one's self, and to bury one's life under such a mass of dilapidation.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000001|Had Prince Genji been kind enough to repair the place, it might have become transformed into a golden palace, and how joyous would it not be?
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000002|but this you cannot expect.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000004|How, then, can you expect him to say that, because you have been faithful to him, he will therefore come to you again?"
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000018_000000|These words touched the Princess, but she gave no vent to her feelings.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000018_000001|The visitor, therefore, hurried Jijiu to get ready, saying that they must leave before the dusk.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000019_000001|Thus I am puzzled between the two.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000019_000002|Let me, however, say this, I will only see the lady off to day."
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000021_000000|Jijiu had been an attendant on the Princess for a very long time, besides, her mother (the nurse), before she died, told the Princess and her daughter that she hoped they might be long together; so the parting with Jijiu was very trying to the Princess who said to her that though she could not blame her for leaving, she still felt sorry to lose her.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000021_000001|To this Jijiu replied, that she never forgot the wishes of her mother, and was only too happy to share joy and sorrow with the Princess; yet she was sorry to say that circumstances obliged her to leave her for some time; but before she could say much, she was hurried away by the visitor.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000022_000000|It was one evening in April of the following year that Genji happened to be going to the villa of "the falling flowers," and passed by the mansion of the Princess.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000022_000002|A sigh of the evening breeze shook them as they hung in the silver moonlight, and scattered their rich fragrance towards the wayfarer.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000023_000001|He stopped his carriage, and said to Koremitz, who was with him as usual-
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000024_000000|"Is this not the mansion of the Princess Hitachi?"
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000028_000001|He then asked her about the Princess, and told her of Genji's intention.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000028_000002|To his inquiries he soon obtained a satisfactory answer, and duly reported it to Genji, who now felt a pang of remorse for his long negligence of one so badly circumstanced.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000029_000000|Inside, meanwhile, the Princess, though she felt very pleased, experienced a feeling of shyness.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000029_000002|She now took this out and put it on.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000029_000003|Genji was presently shown into the room.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000031_000000|The Princess, as usual, said very little, only thanking him for his visit.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000000|This was about the time of the feast in the Temple of Kamo, and Genji received several presents under various pretexts.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000001|He distributed these presents among his friends, such as those in the villa of "the falling flowers," and to the Princess.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000002|He also sent his servant to the mansion of the latter to cut down the rampant mugwort, and he restored the grounds to proper order.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000003|Moreover, he had a wooden enclosure placed all round the garden.
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000033_000002|How was this?
train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000033_000003|it might have been preordained to be so.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000003_000000|Chapter thirteen
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000007_000002|"Halt! halt!"
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000008_000000|The rifle was lowered to a position of caution and the loud soldier came slowly forward.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000011_000015|I got shot, too."
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000012_000001|"What?
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000012_000002|Got shot?
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000013_000003|His voice was anger toned.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000013_000004|"Who yeh talkin' to?
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000015_000000|But his friend had interrupted hastily.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000017_000002|There was a faltering in his voice.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000019_000002|It's full 'a coffee.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000022_000002|He puckered his mouth with a critical air.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000023_000009|Still, I don't much think so.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000024_000000|The corporal went away.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000029_000001|From it swelled light smoke.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000035_000000|The youth contemplated his friend with grateful eyes.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000041_000000|The youth, with his manner of doglike obedience, got carefully down like a crone stooping.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000041_000001|He stretched out with a murmur of relief and comfort.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000044_000000|"Well, but hol' on a minnit," continued the youth.
train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000046_000000|After the reproof the youth said no more.
train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000000_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000000_000001|The Prince Who Acquired Wisdom.
train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000001_000007|The ploughman agreed and said.
train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000001_000008|"Listen attentively!
train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000001_000011|"The second maxim is this: You are the son of a Raja; whenever you go to bathe, do not bathe at the common bathing place, but at a place by yourself; give me my coin," and the Prince did so.
train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000002_000000|After this the prince set his face homewards as he had spent all his money; and he began to repent of having spent his gold pieces on advice that seemed worthless.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000003_000000|CONDITIONS FOR EFFICIENT LABOR
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000002|In part it depends on the physical and mental powers of men; in part on things outside of the worker that either stimulate and strengthen him, or give him more favorable conditions in which to work.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000003|These are respectively the subjective and the objective factors of efficiency.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000004|In its broader sense, therefore, the phrase "efficiency of labor" implies any and every influence that makes for a larger and better supply of goods.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000003|If resources were much more abundant than at present, many goods now scarce would become almost, or quite, free.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000004|In the last chapter it was shown that an increase of the labor in a limited area or with a limited supply of indirect agents results in a decline in the relative bounty of the environment.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000005|A certain part of the result is thought of as due to material agents, a certain part to labor.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000006|"Efficiency of labor" is thought of in the narrower sense as the part of the product that is logically attributable to labor,--the laborer's contribution to the value of the product,--as apart from rent, the part attributable to material resources.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000002|The question arises: which is cause, which effect?
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000003|Some maintain that all that is needed to make workmen more efficient is to feed them well.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000004|In some cases this is probably true.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000005|The Porto Ricans enlisted in the American regular army are reported to have increased at once in strength, weight, and vigor; the Filipino recruits, thanks to the American army rations, soon outgrew their uniforms.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000006|Some employers in Europe pay their workmen an extra sum on condition that it is spent for meat.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000007|But if wages increase, it is by no means certain that more or better food will be bought or if it is that the workmen's powers will be increased.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000009|There is some reason to believe that in America great numbers of our people, perhaps even many manual laborers, would be better off if they bought simpler and less costly food.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000010|The maximum of health and vigor may be attained with moderate outlay, and beyond that point richer food doubtless does more harm than good.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000011|Poor judgment in the selection of food is shown in many workers' families, and there is no appreciation of its influence on health.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000000|A few years ago an experiment in the feeding of pigs was tried on the Cornell farm.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000001|Four groups of six pigs each were put in four different pens and fed four different rations.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000003|One group squealed more; another scratched more; another waxed fat faster.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000006|They were given daily baths, special physical exercises, and were fed on a specially bountiful diet. Scientific philanthropy stopped there, but photographs "before and after," reproduced in the printed reports, show the great physical improvement that resulted, and a marked change occurred likewise in disposition and intelligence.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000007|Many laboratory experiments have been made of late to test the chemical nature and the physiological effects of foods.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000008|It is becoming more fully recognized that the quality and quantity of food, and the cooking of it, have a great influence on the economic quality of the worker.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000014_000001|The cost of clothing enough for comfort is, however, comparatively small, the amount spent for ornament is comparatively high.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000014_000002|Even more important in its effects on efficiency is housing.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000016_000002|As population grows more dense, these things become more difficult to secure; men are brought into unnatural conditions, the evils of slum and factory life develop, and the housing problem appears.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000017_000002|When the unsanitary conditions about each family are visited upon its neighbors, society must deal with them.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000020_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000020_000003|There must be a close relation between work and the fruits of work.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000002|We are accustomed to the thought that in an Asiatic despotism a worker beginning a task is uncertain whether he will reap the reward, as public officials may at any moment seize upon the fruits of his labor.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000003|But in our own country similar evils are not entirely lacking.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000004|Assessments often are unfair, and justice sometimes is bought. Men in high executive positions are able to make or mar the fortunes of their followers.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000005|Sometimes a legislator from a country town goes to the state capital poor and returns rich.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000006|Such things becoming generally known tend to break down the motives to industry.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000008|Dishonesty in private business means the use of energy not to produce wealth, not to add to the sum for all to enjoy, but to get it from some one else.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000009|Public corruption and commercial dishonesty alike entail on the industrious not only the immediate loss, but the far greater cost of weakened character, relaxed energy, and decreased efficiency of labor.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000002|It exists in some form throughout the world, and where it is not called by that name, the same caste spirit is at work.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000004|Where slavery exists the master class at times feels its hardships.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000005|"It is not so hard to live," says the hungry Creole daughter in "The Grandissimes," "but it is hard to be ladies....
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000006|We are compelled not to make a living.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000007|Look at me: I can cook, but I must not cook; I am skilful with the needle, but I must not take in sewing; I could keep accounts; I could nurse the sick; but I must not." Nowhere in the world is there less caste than in America, but it is here.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000008|The negro's low measure of industrial virtues is partly the cause of the prejudice against him, but in turn doubtless inherited class feeling is in some measure the cause of his inefficiency.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000009|To close to a worker all but the menial occupations is to take from him the most powerful motives for effort.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000010|The thought is paralyzing.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000011|The race problem in America is in part one of caste sentiment, whatever can or cannot be done about it.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000026_000003|To Western eyes already the young men in the older East seem to be trammeled by social conventions.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000026_000004|In an older community there is less of hopeful ambition; one's position depends more on what his fathers achieved; in the new community, more on what he does himself.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000026_000005|If it is true, as wise students declare, that the frontier has been the nursery of our democratic ideas, we may well ask what effect the closing of the frontier will have on our national sentiment and on our material prosperity.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000000|four.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000003|The answer is determined by the balance of utility and disutility.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000005|Does the pain of toil repel more than its fruits attract?
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000006|The use made of spare time differs according to climate, race, and temperament.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000007|In the tropics the margin is converted usually into loafing, in the temperate zones largely into objective forms of enjoyment.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000009|The prudent man, in the old maxims, makes hay while the sun shines and ploughs deep while sluggards sleep.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000010|In the modern larger organization of industry, working hours are much the same for all workers in the establishment.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000011|Individual preferences are still expressed, however, in irregularity of employment. In the South some manufacturers have found that on an average the negroes will work in a factory not more than five or six hours a day, working ten hours for four days and lying off two days a week.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000013|A moderate change in that direction cannot but increase rather than diminish the efficiency of labor.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000029_000001|three. DIVISION OF LABOR
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000031_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000031_000002|Its full discussion would cover the whole field of political economy, but only its most essential aspects can here be touched upon.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000031_000007|The worker finds division of labor existing as a social institution and, according as he adapts himself to it wisely or foolishly, it increases more or less his efficiency.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000033_000000|two.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000033_000004|The natural advantages in another district must be large to enable it to start successfully against these acquired economies, and territorial division of labor thus tends to continue for long periods when once established.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000002|It is none too many, as every reason for the modern, as contrasted with the primitive, organization of industry should be included.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000003|The phrase division of labor is but a synonym for specialization, a word that expresses all that is most characteristic of our complex industrial society.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000004|The headings just given may serve, however, to suggest the leading phases of the subject.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000009|In fact this fuller economic use of machinery and plant where a large product is turned out at one place, is a prime factor in the advantages of large production, a subject to be treated elsewhere much more fully than is here possible.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000012|The most complex machines have been developed gradually by combinations and adaptations of simple tools, and the more a process is subdivided, the greater is the chance of hitting upon a device to repeat mechanically the few simple movements.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000002|The world is filled with industrial misfits, "round men in square holes," good carpenters spoiled to make poor doctors.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000004|Unreasoning imitation, family traditions, parental wishes, class pride, social prejudice, childish whim, are often decisive of the life career.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000005|Happily in some cases, before too late, the man "finds himself," but too often the poverty of the family and the obstacles to education preclude the exercise of intelligent choice.
train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000006|It is of importance to society as well as to the individual that talent should be discovered in time, that tasks should be fitted to aptitudes, that each member of society should attain to his highest efficiency.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000001_000000|REACTION OF CONSUMPTION ON PRODUCTION
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000002|To take away the prospect of the enjoyment of goods is to take away all their value.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000004|Food is consumed quickly, clothing more slowly, and houses wear out after many years.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000005|The using up is, in some cases, due to the forces of nature, and is not hastened by enjoyment.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000006|A house goes to ruin more rapidly if uninhabited than with a careful tenant; clothing is destroyed more quickly by moths than by wear.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000006_000002|The control of purchasing power means the potential control of industry to that degree. It was necessary in discussing the enterpriser to recognize that the buyer eventually dictates the direction of industry; the enterpriser seeks to produce that for which there is most demand.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000006_000003|A change of taste affects the value of natural agents.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000006_000007|Therefore, choosing vines or violets, pictures or pretzels, each with his nickel helps to determine what shall be produced.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000000|The distribution of wealth thus affects the value of agents.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000001|The wealthy spend relatively more for luxuries, the poor for food and other essentials.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000003|If there were no rich men, the demand for vineyards producing fine wines would be less.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000004|The very best qualities of goods take on the highest prices when there is a small, but very wealthy, class of purchasers.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000009_000000|Inventions often shift demand, and value follows.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000009_000001|The invention of the bicycle with pneumatic tires, coincident with the adoption of electric traction for street cars, reduced the price of horses between eighteen ninety and eighteen ninety five.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000009_000003|This change was sudden, extreme, and temporary, and there has since been a gradual adjustment and a return to the former values.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000011_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000011_000004|Great herds of buffalo were slaughtered to get the hides, which were of comparatively slight value.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000011_000005|Rich land has been exhausted to get a few harvests.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000012_000003|The lender parts with his wealth and society uses it up.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000014_000002|An influence also is exerted from the side of goods upon the price of labor.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000014_000004|A low grade of labor that performs only simple tasks, and those but badly, is injured if demand shifts to better products.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000014_000005|Back of the sweat shop shirt is the problem of the inefficient worker.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000000|Every buyer then determines in some degree the direction of industry. The market is a democracy where every penny gives a right of vote.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000003|Undoubtedly there is here a great economic force which an enlightened public opinion, even without a formal association, can make in large measure effective.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000005|Will he read a yellow journal or a pink or a white one?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000007|He has a dollar; will he go to the theater or buy ten dishes of ice cream?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000008|He decides to buy a book, and more type and paper are made, and more printers are employed; he subscribes to foreign missions and Christian workers penetrate farther into Africa.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000009|Every purchase has far reaching consequences.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000010|You may spend your monthly allowance as an agent of iniquity or of truth.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000011|You cannot escape a choice even by burying the money, for that is either a demand for gold or a gift to the issuer of paper currency.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000003|In primitive society instinct and appetite must generally have been safe guides.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000004|Food not merely appeased hunger and gratified the palate, but it gave strength.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000007|In the struggle for existence the more efficient tribes survive, and those that develop many abnormal tastes must perish.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000008|But the conditions of modern life are more complex, and temptations beset men on every side.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000002|Food values are not measured by the pleasure afforded the palate.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000003|The wide variety and greater choice now possible, even to the modest purse, make the chance of error much greater than in simpler conditions.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000004|This subject, already touched upon in the sections on the efficiency of labor, deserves further notice.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000005|From youth to age, the foolish choice of goods yields its harvest of ultimate misery.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000006|When babies are fed on crackers dipped in coffee, or, as among the Italian immigrants, on stale bread dipped in sour wine, there is a poor foundation laid for a vigorous manhood.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000007|Rich and poor cook too much for taste and too little for nutrition or digestion.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000008|Much cooking is still done in ways fit only for our grandfathers who had cast iron stomachs and worked in the open air. Culinary methods have not been adapted as yet to a sedentary life.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000023_000000|Drinking tempts some men not only by taste, but by the appeal to sociability; to other coarser natures the joys of Bacchus offer the one hope of exhilaration.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000023_000001|The pleasure from alcoholic liquor may at the moment outweigh the cost in money, but a diseased appetite forbids any reckoning of the vast psychic cost that follows.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000023_000002|The coin paid for the drink is the beginning of the expense; misery, disgrace, degeneracy, and bestialty too often are the unreckoned items.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000001|That was the historical order, and it is the logical order in most minds to day.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000005|A mistake is made likewise by workers in physical tasks in imitating the dress of the wealthy and professional classes.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000006|The dress of the higher classes often is chosen because of its unsuitableness for an active worker.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000007|It serves thus to mark its wearer as one engaged in delicate tasks or as a person of leisure.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000008|Possibly, therefore, because of their strong social ambitions, the manual workers in America more than elsewhere adopt a costume that is not sensible or sanitary.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000002|The choice of recreation reacts upon the nature of the man.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000003|Will he read a book or play billiards?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000004|In proper proportions both may be good, in excess both are evil.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000005|Liking realism, does he read Howells or the blood curdling serial entitled "Piping the Mystery"?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000006|Does he devote his spare hours to the "Scientific American" or to the "Police Gazette"?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000007|At the moment there may be as much pleasure in one as in the other (and one might add, in Hibernian phrase, "Yes, and more too.").
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000008|Does he enjoy music, the theater, or the cheaper attractions of Coney Island and the Bowery?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000009|Is his recreation permeated with a certain intellectual ambition?
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000011|Much depends on the natural bent; some natures incline to the healthy as the plant grows toward the sun
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000012|With most characters much depends on the influences of neighborhood life; thus the boy's clubs and college settlements of the cities, the schools and playgrounds of the villages, are tending to surround child life with healthier conditions, that will mould it into better social habits.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000002|There are some moral qualities, however, that are closely connected with efficiency, while others are not.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000003|Some individuals are corrupt in private personal relations, but "square" in business dealings.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000004|But usually there is some connection between the two, and under modern conditions this is becoming closer.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000005|Fitness for daily tasks is affected by the daily thoughts of the worker.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000006|Sordid and foul thoughts, like an internal malady, sap the economic efficiency of the worker; clean, bright thoughts act as a tonic.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000007|Drink, gambling, fast living, unfit men for positions of trust, while many pastimes leave the moral nature cleaner and stronger.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000008|Few can live a double life-honorable, conscientious, and exact in one part of the day, and corrupt in another.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000011|It is said that "A man is what his work makes him," but it is equally true that a man's work tends to become what he is.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000012|A man fit for a higher kind of work rises to it in the usual order of things; but no matter how humble the task, it partakes of the worth and wholesomeness of its doer.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000030_000001|three. EFFECTS ON THE ABIDING WELFARE OF THE CONSUMER
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000002|Momentary gratification is only a way station, not the journey's end.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000003|Too often, in economic reasoning, things are looked at from the employer's point of view.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000005|But, in the broader view, the welfare of men as men is the subject most worthy of economic study.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000006|The workman's food is to gratify his hunger, primarily; not merely to make him a better working machine.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000008|The use made of the income is itself a kind of production-its last stage.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000009|Is the process, on the whole, worth while? This can only be judged by finding whether, on the whole, the welfare of man has been furthered.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000002|The choice lies among many thousands of articles.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000003|Utility varies not only according to the kinds of good, but according to the varying quantities of each.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000004|Every moment, therefore, the conditions of a choice are changing.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000005|The best use of income forbids the purchase of an additional unit of any good unless it affords the highest gratification obtainable, at the moment, at an equal price.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000006|Various circumstances prevent the exact application of this rule.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000007|Expenditure is a matter of habit, in large measure, rather than a matter of judgment.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000008|The knowledge needed for a rational choice very often is lacking.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000009|Appetites change, making unwise the old purchases, yet men go on buying the same things in the same proportions simply because a readjustment that would give greater gratification requires thought.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000010|Finally, the best economic adjustment must conform to the abiding physical and moral welfare of the user, not to a temporary impulse; and such a choice is far more difficult than that of the temporary good.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000002|But old wants vary and new wants develop with prosperity.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000003|Desire grows by what it feeds on.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000004|Ambition passes on to other and higher peaks.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000006|Wealth makes possible a new adjustment of life, a new character, both in the individual and in the society.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000038_000000|The thought that needs emphasis in this connection is that, while production and consumption are separable in thought and distinguishable in practice, they are not opposed in their ultimate purpose.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000038_000001|The highest fruits of production are in the lessons of sacrifice and discipline, and in its opportunities for experience and self expression.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000038_000004|Wealth, even in an economic view, is not the end of life, but merely the means to its realization.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000002|An element added to the dress or to the diet heightens greatly the total gratification.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000003|The result is a unit. Think of a dinner without butter, or a cranberry pie without sugar, or a dress suit without a linen collar.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000005|Combinations of complementary goods enhance the enjoyment; inharmonious combinations decrease it.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000006|That certain things "go together" is a fact that rests often in the nature of things. Complementary colors please the eye; well seasoned dishes please the palate.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000000|Again, the harmony of goods is affected by the special nature of the occupation.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000001|A farmer with his out of door life can use tobacco with far less danger than the sedentary worker.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000002|A piano player cannot be a base ball player: the one requires soft and supple hands, the other hard and callous ones.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000003|The young man must give up the piano or the game, or play both badly.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000004|The harmony may rest on a still more complex social adjustment.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000005|The loss to the man whose life is in the main on a higher plane is greater if he descends occasionally to a lower.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000006|A ditch digger, looking at the question short sightedly, may deem "a good drunk" a very desirable form of enjoyment.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000000|Wise consumption depends not alone on physical pleasures, but on the spiritual unity of the uses made of goods.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000001|Happiness and character are akin in the qualities of simplicity and unity.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000002|Happiness, so far as it depends on wealth, is a harmony of gratifications.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000003|Character is a harmony of actions, a group of complementary deeds.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000004|There can be no harmony, without a central, simple, guiding principle.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000006|Life is a unity.
train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000007|The results of the choice of goods are reflected in the health, intelligence, happiness, morality, and progress of society.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000001_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000003_000000|When the days grow cold and the nights are clear, There stalks abroad the spirit of fear.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000005_000000|It is sad but true.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000005_000002|But it shouldn't be.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000005_000006|It is the season when food is plentiful, and every one is fat and is, or ought to be, care free.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000000|But instead of this, a grim, dark figure goes stalking over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest, and it is called the Spirit of Fear.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000001|It peers into every hiding place and wherever it finds one of the little people it sends little cold chills over him, little chills which jolly, round, bright mr Sun cannot chase away, though he shine his brightest.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000003|It will not let them sleep.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000004|It will not let them eat in peace.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000006|It keeps them ever ready to fly or run at the slightest sound.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000007_000000|peter Rabbit was thinking of this as he sat at the edge of the dear Old Briar patch, looking over to the Green Forest.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000007_000003|The Purple Hills were more softly purple than at any other season of the year.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000000|But peter had no thought for the beauty of it all, for the Spirit of Fear had visited even the dear Old Briar patch, and peter was afraid.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000001|It wasn't fear of Reddy Fox, or Redtail the Hawk, or Hooty the Owl, or Old Man Coyote.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000002|They were forever trying to catch him, but they did not strike terror to his heart because he felt quite smart enough to keep out of their clutches.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000003|To be sure, they gave him sudden frights sometimes, when they happened to surprise him, but these frights lasted only until he reached the nearest bramble tangle or hollow log where they could not get at him.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000009_000001|It was even clutching at the hearts of Granny and Reddy Fox and of great, big Buster Bear.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000009_000002|It seemed to peter that no one was so big or so small that this terrible Spirit of Fear had not searched him out.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000000|Far in the distance sounded a sudden bang.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000001|peter jumped and shivered.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000002|He knew that every one else who had heard that bang had jumped and shivered just as he had.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000003|It was the season of hunters with terrible guns.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000011_000000|"I don't understand these men creatures," said peter to little mrs peter, as they stared fearfully out from the dear Old Briar patch.
train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000011_000001|"They seem to find pleasure, actually find pleasure, in trying to kill us.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000003_000000|One day, about a fortnight after the coroner's inquest had been held, and when the excitement of the terrible affair was calming down and Polk Street beginning to resume its monotonous routine, Old Grannis sat in his clean, well kept little room, in his cushioned armchair, his hands lying idly upon his knees.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000003_000001|It was evening; not quite time to light the lamps.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000003_000002|Old Grannis had drawn his chair close to the wall-so close, in fact, that he could hear Miss Baker's grenadine brushing against the other side of the thin partition, at his very elbow, while she rocked gently back and forth, a cup of tea in her hands.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000000|Old Grannis's occupation was gone.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000001|That morning the bookselling firm where he had bought his pamphlets had taken his little binding apparatus from him to use as a model.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000002|The transaction had been concluded.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000003|Old Grannis had received his check.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000004|It was large enough, to be sure, but when all was over, he returned to his room and sat there sad and unoccupied, looking at the pattern in the carpet and counting the heads of the tacks in the zinc guard that was fastened to the wall behind his little stove.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000006|It was five o'clock, the time when she was accustomed to make her cup of tea and "keep company" with him on her side of the partition.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000008|The minutes passed; side by side, and separated by only a couple of inches of board, the two old people sat there together, while the afternoon grew darker.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000001|There was nothing for him to do.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000002|His hands lay idly in his lap.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000003|His table, with its pile of pamphlets, was in a far corner of the room, and, from time to time, stirred with an uncertain trouble, he turned his head and looked at it sadly, reflecting that he would never use it again.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000004|The absence of his accustomed work seemed to leave something out of his life.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000005|It did not appear to him that he could be the same to Miss Baker now; their little habits were disarranged, their customs broken up.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000006|He could no longer fancy himself so near to her.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000007|They would drift apart now, and she would no longer make herself a cup of tea and "keep company" with him when she knew that he would never again sit before his table binding uncut pamphlets.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000008|He had sold his happiness for money; he had bartered all his tardy romance for some miserable banknotes.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000009|He had not foreseen that it would be like this.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000010|A vast regret welled up within him.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000011|What was that on the back of his hand?
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000000|Old Grannis leant his face in his hands.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000001|Not only did an inexplicable regret stir within him, but a certain great tenderness came upon him. The tears that swam in his faded blue eyes were not altogether those of unhappiness.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000003|For thirty years his eyes had not been wet, but tonight he felt as if he were young again.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000004|He had never loved before, and there was still a part of him that was only twenty years of age.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000005|He could not tell whether he was profoundly sad or deeply happy; but he was not ashamed of the tears that brought the smart to his eyes and the ache to his throat.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000006|He did not hear the timid rapping on his door, and it was not until the door itself opened that he looked up quickly and saw the little retired dressmaker standing on the threshold, carrying a cup of tea on a tiny Japanese tray.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000007|She held it toward him.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000007_000000|"I was making some tea," she said, "and I thought you would like to have a cup."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000001|One moment she had been sitting quietly on her side of the partition, stirring her cup of tea with one of her Gorham spoons.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000002|She was quiet, she was peaceful.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000003|The evening was closing down tranquilly.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000004|Her room was the picture of calmness and order.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000005|The geraniums blooming in the starch boxes in the window, the aged goldfish occasionally turning his iridescent flank to catch a sudden glow of the setting sun
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000006|The next moment she had been all trepidation.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000007|It seemed to her the most natural thing in the world to make a steaming cup of tea and carry it in to Old Grannis next door.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000008|It seemed to her that he was wanting her, that she ought to go to him.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000009|With the brusque resolve and intrepidity that sometimes seizes upon very timid people-the courage of the coward greater than all others-she had presented herself at the old Englishman's half open door, and, when he had not heeded her knock, had pushed it open, and at last, after all these years, stood upon the threshold of his room.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000010|She had found courage enough to explain her intrusion.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000009_000000|"I was making some tea, and I thought you would like to have a cup."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000010_000000|Old Grannis dropped his hands upon either arm of his chair, and, leaning forward a little, looked at her blankly.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000010_000001|He did not speak.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000000|The retired dressmaker's courage had carried her thus far; now it deserted her as abruptly as it had come.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000001|Her cheeks became scarlet; her funny little false curls trembled with her agitation.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000002|What she had done seemed to her indecorous beyond expression.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000003|It was an enormity.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000005|She had done this-she who could not pass him on the stairs without a qualm. What to do she did not know.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000007|Helplessly, and with a little quaver in her voice, she repeated obstinately:
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000012_000000|"I was making some tea, and I thought you would like to have a cup of tea." Her agitation betrayed itself in the repetition of the word.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000012_000001|She felt that she could not hold the tray out another instant.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000012_000002|Already she was trembling so that half the tea was spilled.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000013_000000|Old Grannis still kept silence, still bending forward, with wide eyes, his hands gripping the arms of his chair.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000014_000000|Then with the tea tray still held straight before her, the little dressmaker exclaimed tearfully:
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000000|"Oh, I didn't mean-I didn't mean-I didn't know it would seem like this.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000001|I only meant to be kind and bring you some tea; and now it seems SO improper.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000002|I-I-I'm SO ashamed!
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000003|I don't know what you will think of me.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000004|I-" she caught her breath-"improper"--she managed to exclaim, "unlady like-you can never think well of me-I'll go.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000005|I'll go." She turned about.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000016_000000|"Stop," cried Old Grannis, finding his voice at last.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000016_000001|Miss Baker paused, looking at him over her shoulder, her eyes very wide open, blinking through her tears, for all the world like a frightened child.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000000|"Stop," exclaimed the old Englishman, rising to his feet.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000001|"I didn't know it was you at first.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000002|I hadn't dreamed-I couldn't believe you would be so good, so kind to me.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000003|Oh," he cried, with a sudden sharp breath, "oh, you ARE kind.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000004|I-I-you have-have made me very happy."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000000|"No, no," exclaimed Miss Baker, ready to sob.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000001|"It was unlady like.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000002|You will-you must think ill of me." She stood in the hall.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000003|The tears were running down her cheeks, and she had no free hand to dry them.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000000|"Let me-I'll take the tray from you," cried Old Grannis, coming forward.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000001|A tremulous joy came upon him.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000002|Never in his life had he been so happy.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000003|At last it had come-come when he had least expected it.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000005|He felt his awkwardness leaving him.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000006|He was almost certain that the little dressmaker loved him, and the thought gave him boldness.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000007|He came toward her and took the tray from her hands, and, turning back into the room with it, made as if to set it upon his table. But the piles of his pamphlets were in the way.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000008|Both of his hands were occupied with the tray; he could not make a place for it on the table. He stood for a moment uncertain, his embarrassment returning.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000020_000000|"Oh, won't you-won't you please-"
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000021_000000|"Wait, I'll help you," she said.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000021_000001|She came into the room, up to the table, and moved the pamphlets to one side.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000022_000000|"Thanks, thanks," murmured Old Grannis, setting down the tray.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000023_000000|"Now-now-now I will go back," she exclaimed, hurriedly.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000024_000000|"No-no," returned the old Englishman.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000024_000001|"Don't go, don't go.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000024_000002|I've been so lonely to night-and last night too-all this year-all my life," he suddenly cried.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000025_000000|"I-I-I've forgotten the sugar."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000026_000000|"But I never take sugar in my tea."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000027_000000|"But it's rather cold, and I've spilled it-almost all of it."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000028_000000|"I'll drink it from the saucer." Old Grannis had drawn up his armchair for her.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000029_000000|"Oh, I shouldn't.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000030_000000|"Think ILL of you?" cried Old Grannis, "think ILL of you?
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000030_000001|Why, you don't know-you have no idea-all these years-living so close to you, I-I-" he paused suddenly.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000030_000002|It seemed to him as if the beating of his heart was choking him.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000031_000000|"I thought you were binding your books to night," said Miss Baker, suddenly, "and you looked tired.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000031_000001|I thought you looked tired when I last saw you, and a cup of tea, you know, it-that-that does you so much good when you're tired.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000031_000002|But you weren't binding books."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000032_000000|"No, no," returned Old Grannis, drawing up a chair and sitting down. "No, I-the fact is, I've sold my apparatus; a firm of booksellers has bought the rights of it."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000033_000001|"I thought you always did about four o'clock.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000033_000002|I used to hear you when I was making tea."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000000|It hardly seemed possible to Miss Baker that she was actually talking to Old Grannis, that the two were really chatting together, face to face, and without the dreadful embarrassment that used to overwhelm them both when they met on the stairs.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000001|She had often dreamed of this, but had always put it off to some far distant day.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000002|It was to come gradually, little by little, instead of, as now, abruptly and with no preparation. That she should permit herself the indiscretion of actually intruding herself into his room had never so much as occurred to her.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000003|Yet here she was, IN HIS ROOM, and they were talking together, and little by little her embarrassment was wearing away.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000035_000000|"Yes, yes, I always heard you when you were making tea," returned the old Englishman; "I heard the tea things.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000035_000002|I used to pass the whole evening that way."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000036_000000|"And, yes-yes-I did too," she answered.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000036_000001|"I used to make tea just at that time and sit there for a whole hour."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000037_000000|"And didn't you sit close to the partition on your side?
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000037_000002|I could even fancy that I could hear your dress brushing against the wall paper close beside me.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000037_000003|Didn't you sit close to the partition?"
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000039_000000|Old Grannis shyly put out his hand and took hers as it lay upon her lap.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000040_000000|"Didn't you sit close to the partition on your side?" he insisted.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000041_000000|"No-I don't know-perhaps-sometimes.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000041_000001|Oh, yes," she exclaimed, with a little gasp, "Oh, yes, I often did."
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000042_000000|Then Old Grannis put his arm about her, and kissed her faded cheek, that flushed to pink upon the instant.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000000|After that they spoke but little.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000001|The day lapsed slowly into twilight, and the two old people sat there in the gray evening, quietly, quietly, their hands in each other's hands, "keeping company," but now with nothing to separate them.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000002|It had come at last.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000003|After all these years they were together; they understood each other.
train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000004|They stood at length in a little Elysium of their own creating.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000002_000000|THE END OF IT
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000003_000000|Yes! and the bedpost was his own.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000003_000002|Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000004_000001|'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000004_000002|O Jacob Marley!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000004_000003|Heaven and the Christmas Time be praised for this!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000005_000000|He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000005_000001|He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000006_000000|'They are not torn down,' cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed curtains in his arms, 'They are not torn down, rings and all.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000006_000002|I know they will!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000007_000000|His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000000|'I don't know what to do!' cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000001|A merry Christmas to everybody!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000002|A happy New Year to all the world!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000004|Whoop!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000005|Hallo!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000009_000000|He had frisked into the sitting room, and was now standing there, perfectly winded.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000000|'There's the saucepan that the gruel was in!' cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fireplace.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000001|'There's the door by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000003|There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000004|It's all right, it's all true, it all happened.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000011_000000|Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000000|'I don't know what day of the month it is,' said Scrooge. 'I don't know how long I have been among the Spirits.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000001|I don't know anything.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000002|I'm quite a baby.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000003|Never mind.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000004|I don't care.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000006|Hallo!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000007|Whoop! Hallo here!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000000|He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000001|Clash, clash, hammer; ding, dong, bell!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000002|Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clash, clash!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000003|Oh, glorious, glorious!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000014_000000|Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000014_000001|No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; golden sunlight; heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000014_000003|Glorious!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000016_000000|'EH?' returned the boy with all his might of wonder.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000017_000000|'What's to day, my fine fellow?' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000000|'It's Christmas Day!' said Scrooge to himself.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000001|'I haven't missed it.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000002|The Spirits have done it all in one night.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000003|They can do anything they like. Of course they can.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000004|Of course they can.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000020_000000|'Hallo!' returned the boy.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000021_000000|'Do you know the poulterer's in the next street but one, at the corner?' Scrooge inquired.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000022_000000|'I should hope I did,' replied the lad.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000023_000000|'An intelligent boy!' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000023_000001|'A remarkable boy!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000023_000002|Do you know whether they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there?--Not the little prize turkey: the big one?'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000025_000000|'What a delightful boy!' said Scrooge. 'It's a pleasure to talk to him. Yes, my buck!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000026_000000|'It's hanging there now,' replied the boy.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000027_000000|'Is it?' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000027_000001|'Go and buy it.'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000028_000000|'Walk ER!' exclaimed the boy.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000029_000000|'No, no,' said Scrooge. 'I am in earnest.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000029_000001|Go and buy it, and tell 'em to bring it here, that I may give them the directions where to take it. Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000029_000002|Come back with him in less than five minutes, and I'll give you half a crown!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000030_000000|The boy was off like a shot.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000030_000001|He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half as fast.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000000|'I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's,' whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000001|'He shan't know who sends it.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000002|It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000003|Joe Miller never made such a joke as sending it to Bob's will be!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000032_000000|The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one; but write it he did, somehow, and went downstairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000032_000001|As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000000|'I shall love it as long as I live!' cried Scrooge, patting it with his hand.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000001|'I scarcely ever looked at it before.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000002|What an honest expression it has in its face!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000003|It's a wonderful knocker!--Here's the turkey.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000004|Hallo! Whoop!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000005|How are you!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000006|Merry Christmas!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000034_000001|He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000035_000000|'Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town,' said Scrooge. 'You must have a cab.'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000037_000000|Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000037_000001|But if he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking plaster over it, and been quite satisfied.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000000|He dressed himself 'all in his best,' and at last got out into the streets.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000001|The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and, walking with his hands behind him, Scrooge regarded every one with a delighted smile.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000002|He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good humoured fellows said, 'Good morning, sir!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000003|A merry Christmas to you!' And Scrooge said often afterwards that, of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000000|'My dear sir,' said Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands, 'how do you do?
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000001|I hope you succeeded yesterday.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000002|It was very kind of you.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000003|A merry Christmas to you, sir!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000041_000000|'mr Scrooge?'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000042_000000|'Yes,' said Scrooge. 'That is my name, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000042_000001|Allow me to ask your pardon.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000000|'If you please,' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000001|'Not a farthing less.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000002|A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000003|Will you do me that favour?'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000045_000000|'My dear sir,' said the other, shaking hands with him, 'I don't know what to say to such munifi----'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000046_000000|'Don't say anything, please,' retorted Scrooge. 'Come and see me.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000046_000001|Will you come and see me?'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000047_000000|'I will!' cried the old gentleman.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000047_000001|And it was clear he meant to do it.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000048_000000|'Thankee,' said Scrooge. 'I am much obliged to you.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000048_000001|I thank you fifty times.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000048_000002|Bless you!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000049_000000|He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000049_000001|He had never dreamed that any walk-that anything-could give him so much happiness.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000049_000002|In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000050_000000|He passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to go up and knock.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000050_000001|But he made a dash and did it.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000051_000001|'Nice girl! Very.'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000053_000000|'Where is he, my love?' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000054_000000|'He's in the dining room, sir, along with mistress.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000054_000001|I'll show you upstairs, if you please.'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000055_000000|'Thankee.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000055_000001|He knows me,' said Scrooge, with his hand already on the dining room lock.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000055_000002|'I'll go in here, my dear.'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000056_000000|He turned it gently, and sidled his face in round the door.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000056_000001|They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000057_000000|'Fred!' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000058_000000|Dear heart alive, how his niece by marriage started!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000058_000001|Scrooge had forgotten, for the moment, about her sitting in the corner with the footstool, or he wouldn't have done it on any account.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000059_000000|'Why, bless my soul!' cried Fred, 'who's that?'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000060_000001|I have come to dinner.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000062_000001|It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000062_000002|He was at home in five minutes.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000000|But he was early at the office next morning.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000001|Oh, he was early there!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000002|If he could only be there first, and catch Bob Cratchit coming late!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000003|That was the thing he had set his heart upon.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000000|And he did it; yes, he did!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000001|The clock struck nine.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000002|No Bob.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000003|A quarter past.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000005|He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time. Scrooge sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the tank.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000065_000000|His hat was off before he opened the door; his comforter too.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000065_000001|He was on his stool in a jiffy, driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000068_000000|'You are!' repeated Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000068_000001|'Yes, I think you are.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000068_000002|Step this way, sir, if you please.'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000069_000000|'It's only once a year, sir,' pleaded Bob, appearing from the tank.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000069_000001|'It shall not be repeated.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000070_000000|'Now, I'll tell you what, my friend,' said Scrooge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000070_000001|'I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000070_000002|And therefore,' he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the tank again-'and therefore I am about to raise your salary!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000071_000001|He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait waistcoat.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000072_000000|'A merry Christmas, Bob!' said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000072_000001|'A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000072_000002|I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob!
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000072_000003|Make up the fires and buy another coal scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!'
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000074_000002|He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000074_000004|His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000075_000000|He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle ever afterwards; and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000075_000001|May that be truly said of us, and all of us!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000008_000001|Her name was Pandora.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000011_000000|"My dear little Pandora," answered Epimetheus, "that is a secret, and you must be kind enough not to ask any questions about it.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000012_000000|"But who gave it to you?" asked Pandora.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000012_000001|"And where did it come from?"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000016_000001|Then, everybody was a child.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000016_000002|There needed no fathers and mothers to take care of the children; because there was no danger, nor trouble of any kind, and no clothes to be mended, and there was always plenty to eat and drink.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000017_000002|The truth is, those ugly little winged monsters, called Troubles, which are now almost as numerous as mosquitoes, had never yet been seen on the earth.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000019_000001|"And what in the world can be inside of it?"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000020_000001|"I wish, dear Pandora, you would try to talk of something else.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000021_000000|"Always talking about grapes and figs!" cried Pandora, pettishly.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000023_000001|"And, besides, I never do have any. This ugly box!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000023_000002|I am so taken up with thinking about it all the time.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000026_000000|"Pandora, what are you thinking of?" exclaimed Epimetheus.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000027_000001|Still, however, she could not help thinking and talking about the box.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000031_000000|"Oh, the most curious staff you ever saw!" cried Epimetheus.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000031_000001|"It was like two serpents twisting around a stick, and was carved so naturally that I, at first, thought the serpents were alive."
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000032_000000|"I know him," said Pandora, thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000032_000001|"Nobody else has such a staff. It was Quicksilver; and he brought me hither, as well as the box.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000033_000001|"But until Quicksilver comes back and tells us so, we have neither of us any right to lift the lid of the box."
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000034_000000|"What a dull boy he is!" muttered Pandora, as Epimetheus left the cottage.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000043_000003|Even Epimetheus would not blame me for that.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000043_000004|I need not open the box, and should not, of course, without the foolish boy's consent, even if the knot were untied."
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000044_000003|When life is all sport, toil is the real play.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000044_000006|And then, for the rest of the day, there was the box!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000045_000001|It supplied her with such a variety of ideas to think of, and to talk about, whenever she had anybody to listen!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000045_000003|Or, if she chanced to be ill tempered, she could give it a push, or kick it with her naughty little foot.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000045_000004|And many a kick did the box-(but it was a mischievous box, as we shall see, and deserved all it got)--many a kick did it receive.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000046_000003|Do you think that you should be less curious than Pandora?
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000046_000005|But you would not do it.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000046_000006|Oh, fie! No, no! Only, if you thought there were toys in it, it would be so very hard to let slip an opportunity of taking just one peep!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000047_000002|Ah, naughty Pandora!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000048_000006|Or was it merely the singing in Pandora's ears? Or could it be the beating of her heart?
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000048_000007|The child could not quite satisfy herself whether she had heard anything or no But, at all events, her curiosity was stronger than ever.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000049_000000|As she drew back her head, her eyes fell upon the knot of gold cord.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000050_000002|I am resolved, at least, to find the two ends of the cord."
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000051_000003|Pandora stopped to listen.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000051_000004|What a beautiful day it was!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000053_000000|"That face looks very mischievous," thought Pandora.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000053_000002|I have the greatest mind in the world to run away!"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000054_000000|But just then, by the merest accident, she gave the knot a kind of twist, which produced a wonderful result.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000054_000001|The gold cord untwined itself, as if by magic, and left the box without a fastening.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000055_000001|"What will Epimetheus say?
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000057_000001|How shall I make him believe that I have not looked into the box?"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000058_000003|And so perhaps she might, if the enchanted face on the lid of the box had not looked so bewitchingly persuasive at her, and if she had not seemed to hear, more distinctly, than before, the murmur of small voices within.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000059_000000|"Let us out, dear Pandora-pray let us out!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000059_000002|Only let us out!"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000062_000002|He could not find a sweet grape or a ripe fig (if Epimetheus had a fault, it was a little too much fondness for figs); or, if ripe at all, they were overripe, and so sweet as to be cloying.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000062_000005|Neither did he himself know what ailed him, any better than they did.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000063_000003|The fingers of little girls, it has always appeared to me, are the fittest to twine flower wreaths; but boys could do it, in those days, rather better than they can now.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000065_000000|He entered softly, for he meant, if possible, to steal behind Pandora, and fling the wreath of flowers over her head, before she should be aware of his approach.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000065_000003|She was too intent upon her purpose.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000068_000002|Naughty Pandora! why have you opened this wicked box?"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000072_000005|She was crying bitterly, and sobbing as if her heart would break.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000073_000000|Suddenly there was a gentle little tap on the inside of the lid.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000074_000000|"What can that be?" cried Pandora, lifting her head.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000075_000000|But either Epimetheus had not heard the tap, or was too much out of humour to notice it.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000075_000001|At any rate, he made no answer.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000077_000000|Again the tap!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000079_000000|A sweet little voice spoke from within-
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000081_000000|"No, no," answered Pandora, again beginning to sob, "I have had enough of lifting the lid!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000081_000003|You need never think that I shall be so foolish as to let you out!"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000083_000003|Come, come, my pretty Pandora!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000086_000001|"And what of it?"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000092_000000|"And, as the lid seems very heavy," cried Epimetheus, running across the room, "I will help you!"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000095_000000|"Pray, who are you, beautiful creature?" inquired Pandora.
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000100_000002|Yes, my dear children, and I know something very good and beautiful that is to be given you hereafter!"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000101_000000|"Oh tell us," they exclaimed-"tell us what it is!"
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000102_000001|Trust in my promise, for it is true."
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000104_000004|But then that lovely and lightsome little figure of Hope!
train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000104_000005|What in the world could we do without her?
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000003_000001|Why then give a date to this story I have to tell?
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000003_000002|Let it suffice to say, that at the period of which I speak, there existed, in the interior of Hungary, a settled although hidden belief in the doctrines of the Metempsychosis. Of the doctrines themselves-that is, of their falsity, or of their probability-I say nothing.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000004_000000|But there are some points in the Hungarian superstition which were fast verging to absurdity.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000005_000001|Never before were two houses so illustrious, mutually embittered by hostility so deadly.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000005_000002|The origin of this enmity seems to be found in the words of an ancient prophecy-"A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing."
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000000|To be sure the words themselves had little or no meaning.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000002|Besides, the estates, which were contiguous, had long exercised a rival influence in the affairs of a busy government.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000003|Moreover, near neighbors are seldom friends; and the inhabitants of the Castle Berlifitzing might look, from their lofty buttresses, into the very windows of the palace Metzengerstein.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000004|Least of all had the more than feudal magnificence, thus discovered, a tendency to allay the irritable feelings of the less ancient and less wealthy Berlifitzings.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000006|The prophecy seemed to imply-if it implied anything-a final triumph on the part of the already more powerful house; and was of course remembered with the more bitter animosity by the weaker and less influential.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000008_000000|Frederick, Baron Metzengerstein, was, on the other hand, not yet of age. His father, the Minister G-, died young.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000008_000001|His mother, the Lady Mary, followed him quickly after.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000009_000000|From some peculiar circumstances attending the administration of his father, the young Baron, at the decease of the former, entered immediately upon his vast possessions.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000009_000002|His castles were without number.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000010_000000|Upon the succession of a proprietor so young, with a character so well known, to a fortune so unparalleled, little speculation was afloat in regard to his probable course of conduct.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000012_000001|The horse itself, in the foreground of the design, stood motionless and statue like-while farther back, its discomfited rider perished by the dagger of a Metzengerstein.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000013_000000|On Frederick's lip arose a fiendish expression, as he became aware of the direction which his glance had, without his consciousness, assumed. Yet he did not remove it.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000013_000002|It was with difficulty that he reconciled his dreamy and incoherent feelings with the certainty of being awake.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000013_000003|The longer he gazed the more absorbing became the spell-the more impossible did it appear that he could ever withdraw his glance from the fascination of that tapestry.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000000|The action, however, was but momentary, his gaze returned mechanically to the wall.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000001|To his extreme horror and astonishment, the head of the gigantic steed had, in the meantime, altered its position.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000002|The neck of the animal, before arched, as if in compassion, over the prostrate body of its lord, was now extended, at full length, in the direction of the Baron.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000003|The eyes, before invisible, now wore an energetic and human expression, while they gleamed with a fiery and unusual red; and the distended lips of the apparently enraged horse left in full view his gigantic and disgusting teeth.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000015_000000|Stupified with terror, the young nobleman tottered to the door.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000015_000001|As he threw it open, a flash of red light, streaming far into the chamber, flung his shadow with a clear outline against the quivering tapestry, and he shuddered to perceive that shadow-as he staggered awhile upon the threshold-assuming the exact position, and precisely filling up the contour, of the relentless and triumphant murderer of the Saracen Berlifitzing.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000016_000001|At the principal gate of the palace he encountered three equerries.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000016_000002|With much difficulty, and at the imminent peril of their lives, they were restraining the convulsive plunges of a gigantic and fiery colored horse.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000017_000000|"Whose horse?
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000018_000001|We caught him flying, all smoking and foaming with rage, from the burning stables of the Castle Berlifitzing. Supposing him to have belonged to the old Count's stud of foreign horses, we led him back as an estray.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000019_000000|"The letters w v b are also branded very distinctly on his forehead," interrupted a second equerry, "I supposed them, of course, to be the initials of Wilhelm Von Berlifitzing-but all at the castle are positive in denying any knowledge of the horse."
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000020_000000|"Extremely singular!" said the young Baron, with a musing air, and apparently unconscious of the meaning of his words.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000020_000001|"He is, as you say, a remarkable horse-a prodigious horse!
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000020_000002|although, as you very justly observe, of a suspicious and untractable character, let him be mine, however," he added, after a pause, "perhaps a rider like Frederick of Metzengerstein, may tame even the devil from the stables of Berlifitzing."
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000021_000001|If such had been the case, we know our duty better than to bring him into the presence of a noble of your family."
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000022_000000|"True!" observed the Baron, dryly, and at that instant a page of the bedchamber came from the palace with a heightened color, and a precipitate step.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000023_000000|The young Frederick, during the conference, seemed agitated by a variety of emotions.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000023_000001|He soon, however, recovered his composure, and an expression of determined malignancy settled upon his countenance, as he gave peremptory orders that a certain chamber should be immediately locked up, and the key placed in his own possession.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000027_000000|A rapid smile shot over the countenance of the listener.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000027_000001|"How died he?"
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000028_000000|"In his rash exertions to rescue a favorite portion of his hunting stud, he has himself perished miserably in the flames."
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000030_000000|"Indeed;" repeated the vassal.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000031_000000|"Shocking!" said the youth, calmly, and turned quietly into the chateau.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000032_000000|From this date a marked alteration took place in the outward demeanor of the dissolute young Baron Frederick Von Metzengerstein.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000032_000001|Indeed, his behavior disappointed every expectation, and proved little in accordance with the views of many a manoeuvering mamma; while his habits and manner, still less than formerly, offered any thing congenial with those of the neighboring aristocracy.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000032_000002|He was never to be seen beyond the limits of his own domain, and, in this wide and social world, was utterly companionless-unless, indeed, that unnatural, impetuous, and fiery colored horse, which he henceforward continually bestrode, had any mysterious right to the title of his friend.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000033_000001|"Will the Baron honor our festivals with his presence?"
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000033_000002|"Will the Baron join us in a hunting of the boar?"--"Metzengerstein does not hunt;" "Metzengerstein will not attend," were the haughty and laconic answers.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000034_000000|These repeated insults were not to be endured by an imperious nobility. Such invitations became less cordial-less frequent-in time they ceased altogether.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000035_000001|Some there were, indeed, who suggested a too haughty idea of self consequence and dignity.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000036_000000|Indeed, the Baron's perverse attachment to his lately acquired charger-an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal's ferocious and demon like propensities-at length became, in the eyes of all reasonable men, a hideous and unnatural fervor.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000036_000001|In the glare of noon-at the dead hour of night-in sickness or in health-in calm or in tempest-the young Metzengerstein seemed rivetted to the saddle of that colossal horse, whose intractable audacities so well accorded with his own spirit.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000037_000000|There were circumstances, moreover, which coupled with late events, gave an unearthly and portentous character to the mania of the rider, and to the capabilities of the steed.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000037_000003|His stable, too, was appointed at a distance from the rest; and with regard to grooming and other necessary offices, none but the owner in person had ventured to officiate, or even to enter the enclosure of that particular stall.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000038_000000|Among all the retinue of the Baron, however, none were found to doubt the ardor of that extraordinary affection which existed on the part of the young nobleman for the fiery qualities of his horse; at least, none but an insignificant and misshapen little page, whose deformities were in everybody's way, and whose opinions were of the least possible importance.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000039_000000|One tempestuous night, Metzengerstein, awaking from a heavy slumber, descended like a maniac from his chamber, and, mounting in hot haste, bounded away into the mazes of the forest.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000040_000000|As the flames, when first seen, had already made so terrible a progress that all efforts to save any portion of the building were evidently futile, the astonished neighborhood stood idly around in silent and pathetic wonder.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000040_000001|But a new and fearful object soon rivetted the attention of the multitude, and proved how much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000041_000000|Up the long avenue of aged oaks which led from the forest to the main entrance of the Chateau Metzengerstein, a steed, bearing an unbonneted and disordered rider, was seen leaping with an impetuosity which outstripped the very Demon of the Tempest.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000042_000000|The career of the horseman was indisputably, on his own part, uncontrollable.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000042_000001|The agony of his countenance, the convulsive struggle of his frame, gave evidence of superhuman exertion: but no sound, save a solitary shriek, escaped from his lacerated lips, which were bitten through and through in the intensity of terror.
train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000043_000000|The fury of the tempest immediately died away, and a dead calm sullenly succeeded.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000003_000000|After the first few minutes of watching Tom click out the messages, the little throng of castaways that had gathered about the shack, moved away.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000003_000001|The matter had lost its novelty for them, though, of course, they were vitally interested in the success of Tom's undertaking.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000004_000000|"Any answer yet, mr Swift?" she would ask.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000005_000001|"We can hardly expect any so soon," and mrs Nestor would depart, with a sigh.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000006_000001|He consulted with his two friends on the subject, and mr Damon said:
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000007_000000|"Well, the best plan, I think, would be only to send out the flashes over the wires at times when other wireless operators will be on the lookout, or, rather, listening.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000007_000002|We can't get any more here."
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000008_000000|"That's true," admitted Tom, "but how can we pick out any certain time, when we can be sure that wireless operators, within a zone of a thousand miles, will be listening to catch clicks which call for help from the unknown?"
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000009_000000|"We can't," decided mr Fenwick.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000010_000000|Tom shook his head.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000011_000000|"Have you any plan, then?" asked mr Damon.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000012_000000|"I thought of this," said Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000012_000001|"I'll send out our call for help from nine to ten in the morning.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000012_000002|Then I'll wait, and send out another call from two to three in the afternoon.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000013_000000|"That ought to be sufficient," agreed mr Fenwick.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000013_000001|"Certainly we must save our gasolene, for there is no telling how long we may have to stay here, and call for help."
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000000|"I guess we all do," remarked mr Fenwick.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000001|"But, Tom, here is another matter.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000002|Have you thought about getting an answer from the unknown-from some ship or wireless station, that may reply to your calls?
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000003|How can you tell when that will come in?"
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000016_000000|"I can't."
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000017_000000|"Then won't you or some of us, have to be listening all the while?"
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000018_000000|"No, for I think an answer will come only directly after I have sent out a call, and it has been picked up by some operator.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000018_000003|But to guard against that I will sleep with the telephone receiver clamped to my ear.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000020_000000|"Yes," answered Tom, simply.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000024_000000|"Yes," replied the young inventor, with a smile.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000024_000002|The latter listened a moment.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000025_000000|"All I can hear are some faint clicks," he said.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000000|"But they are a message," spoke Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000001|"Wait, I'll translate," and he put the receiver to his ear.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000002|"'STEAMSHIP "FALCON" REPORTS A SLIGHT FIRE IN HER FORWARD COMPARTMENT,'" said Tom, slowly.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000003|"'IT IS UNDER CONTROL, AND WE WILL PROCEED.'"
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000028_000001|"I did not catch it all, nor to whom it was sent."
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000029_000001|"Even if they have had a fire, it is out now, and they ought to be glad to save life."
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000032_000000|"Yes, but sometimes it is easier to pick up messages than it is to send them.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000035_000002|There was a flooding rush of water, but no harm resulted.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000036_000000|"It is coming nearer," said mr Parker.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000037_000000|"What is?" demanded mr Hosbrook.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000038_000000|"The destruction of our island.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000038_000001|My theory will soon be confirmed," and the scientist actually seemed to take pleasure in it.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000039_000000|"Oh, you and your theory!" exclaimed the millionaire in disgust. "Don't let me hear you mention it again!
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000039_000001|Haven't we troubles enough?" whereat mr Parker went off by himself, to look at the place where the cliff had fallen.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000040_000000|Each night Tom slept with the telephone receiver to his ear, but, though it clicked many times, there was not sounded the call he had adopted for his station-"E.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000040_000001|I."--Earthquake Island.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000041_000001|mrs Nestor came up the little hill to the shack where Tom was clicking away.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000043_000000|"None yet, but they may come any minute," and Tom tried to speak cheerfully.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000044_000000|"I certainly hope so," added Mary's mother, "But I came up more especially now, mr Swift, to inquire where you had stored the rest of the food."
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000045_000000|"The rest of the food?"
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000046_000000|"Yes, the supply you took from the wrecked airship.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000047_000000|"The reserve," murmured Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000048_000001|Isn't there any more?"
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000049_000000|Tom did not answer.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000049_000002|Their food was nearly gone, yet the castaways from the RESOLUTE thought there was still plenty.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000049_000003|As a matter of fact there was not another can, except those in the kitchen shack.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000051_000000|"Oh-all right," answered Tom, weakly.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000052_000000|His hand dropped from the key of the instrument.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000052_000003|Truly the situation was desperate.
train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000052_000004|Tom shook his head.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000001_000000|A REPLY IN THE DARK
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000002_000000|The young inventor looked out of the wireless shack.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000002_000002|They were gathered in a group about mr Jenks, who seemed to be talking earnestly to them. The two ladies were over near the small building that served as a kitchen.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000003_000001|"Well, I don't know where any more is to come from.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000003_000002|We've stripped the WHIZZER bare." He glanced toward what remained of the airship.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000005_000000|But there came no answering clicks to the "E.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000005_000001|I." station-to Earthquake Island-and, after a little longer working of the key, Tom shut down the dynamo, and joined the group on the beach.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000006_000002|I have large interests at stake.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000007_000000|"What do you think about it, Tom?" asked mr Damon, turning to the young inventor.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000008_000000|"Think about what?"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000009_000001|He thinks we should leave the island."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000011_000001|I think it would be a good plan to make one, then anchor it some distance out from the island.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000012_000000|"Yes, that's a good idea, too," conceded Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000013_000000|"And we must stock it well with provisions," said mr Damon.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000013_000001|"Put plenty of water and food aboard."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000014_000000|"We can't," spoke Tom, quietly.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000015_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000016_000000|"Because we haven't plenty of provisions.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000016_000001|That's what I came down to speak about," and the lad related what mrs Nestor had said.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000017_000000|"Then there is but one thing to do," declared mr Fenwick.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000018_000000|"What?" asked Captain Mentor.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000000|"We must go on half rations, or quarter rations, if need be.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000001|That will make our supply last longer.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000002|And another thing-we must not let the women folks know.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000003|Just pretend that we're not hungry, but take only a quarter, or at most, not more than a half of what we have been in the habit of taking.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000004|There is plenty of water, thank goodness, and we may be able to live until help comes."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000020_000000|"Then shall we build the raft?" asked mr Hosbrook.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000021_000002|A smaller raft, as a sort of ferry, was also made.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000000|This occupied them all that day, and part of the next.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000001|In the meanwhile, Tom continued to flash out his appeals for help, but no answers came.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000002|The men cut down their rations, and when the two ladies joked them on their lack of appetite, they said nothing.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000003|Tom was glad that mrs Nestor did not renew her request to him to get out the reserve food supply from what remained in the wreck of the airship.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000004|Perhaps mr Nestor had hinted to her the real situation.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000023_000001|On board were put cans of water, which were lashed fast, but no food could be spared to stock the rude craft.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000023_000002|All the castaways could depend on, was to take with them, in the event of the island beginning to sink, what rations they had left when the final shock should come.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000024_000000|This done, they could only wait, and weary was that waiting.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000024_000002|He heard message after message flash through space, and click on his instrument, but none of them was in answer to his.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000024_000003|On his face there came a grim and hopeless look.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000025_000001|He caught some, by turning them over on their backs, and also located a number of nests of eggs under the warm sands.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000026_000001|Some fish were caught, and some clams were cast up by the tide, all of which eked out the scanty food supply that remained.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000026_000002|The two ladies suspected the truth now and they, too, cut down their allowance.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000027_000000|Tom, who had been sitting with the men in their sleeping shack, that evening, rose, as the hour of ten approached.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000028_000000|"Well, are you off?" asked mr Damon, kindly.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000028_000001|"I wish some of us could relieve you, Tom."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000029_000000|"Oh, I don't mind it," answered the lad "Perhaps the message may come to night."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000030_000000|Hardly had he spoken than there sounded the ominous rumble and shaking that presaged another earthquake.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000030_000001|The shack rocked, and threatened to come down about their heads.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000031_000000|"We must be doomed!" cried mr Parker.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000031_000001|"The island is about to sink! Make for the raft!"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000032_000000|"Wait and see how bad it is," counseled mr Hosbrook.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000032_000001|"It may be only a slight shock."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000034_000000|"I guess it's passed over," spoke mr Fenwick.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000035_000000|An instant later there came another tremor, but it was not like that of an earthquake shock.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000035_000001|It was more like the rumble and vibration of an approaching train.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000036_000000|"Look!" cried Tom, pointing to the left.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000036_000001|Their gaze went in that direction, and, under the light of a full moon they saw, sliding into the sea, a great portion of one of the rocky hills.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000037_000000|"A landslide!" cried Captain Mentor.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000037_000001|"The island is slowly breaking up."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000038_000000|"It confirms my theory!" said mr Parker, almost in triumph.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000039_000000|"Forget your theory for a while, Parker, please," begged mr Hosbrook.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000041_000000|They found that the earthquake shock had slightly disturbed the apparatus, and it took them half an hour to adjust it.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000041_000001|As there had been a delay on account of the landslide, it was eleven o'clock before Tom began sending out any flashes, and he kept it up until midnight.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000041_000002|But there came no replies, so he shut off the power, and prepared to get a little rest.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000042_000000|"It looks pretty hopeless; doesn't it?" said mr Fenwick, as he and mr Damon were on their way back to the sleeping shack.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000043_000000|"Yes, it does.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000043_000001|Our signal hasn't been seen, no ships have passed this way, and our wireless appeal isn't answered.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000043_000002|It does look hopeless but, do you know, I haven't given up yet."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000044_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000045_000000|"Because I have faith in Tom Swift's luck!" declared the eccentric man.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000046_000000|"Perhaps, but here there doesn't seem to be anything to do.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000047_000000|"That's all right.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000047_000002|He'll get an answer yet, you see if he doesn't."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000048_000000|It was an hour past midnight.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000048_000002|The telephone receiver on his ear hurt him, and he could not sleep.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000050_000000|"Guess I'll start her up, and send out some calls," he murmured.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000050_000001|"I might just happen to catch some ship operator who is up late.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000051_000001|He tested the wireless apparatus.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000051_000002|It shot out great long sparks, which snapped viciously through the air.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000051_000003|Then, in the silence of the night, Tom clicked off his call for help for the castaways of Earthquake Island.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000052_000000|For half an hour he sent it away into space, none of the others in their shacks below him, awakening.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000000|But what was this?
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000002|He listened.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000003|It was not a jumble of dots and dashes, conveying through space a message that meant nothing to him.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000004|No!
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000006|The call of his station-"e i"--Earthquake Island!
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000054_000000|"WHERE ARE YOU?
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000054_000001|WHAT'S WANTED?"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000056_000000|"I GET YOUR MESSAGE 'E.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000056_000002|DO I HEAR YOU RIGHT? REPEAT." Tom heard those questions in the silence of the night.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000057_000000|With trembling fingers Tom pressed his own key.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000057_000001|Out into the darkness went his call for help.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000058_000000|"WE ARE ON EARTHQUAKE ISLAND." He gave the longitude and latitude. "COME QUICKLY o r WE WILL BE ENGULFED IN THE SEA!
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000059_000000|Came then this query:
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000060_000000|"WHAT'S THAT ABOUT AIRSHIP?"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000061_000000|"NEVER MIND AIRSHIP," clicked Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000061_000001|"SEND HELP QUICKLY!
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000063_000001|JUST CAUGHT YOUR MESSAGE.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000063_000002|THOUGHT IT A FAKE."
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000064_000000|"NO FAKE," Tom sent back.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000064_000002|HOW SOON CAN YOU COME?"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000065_000001|Then came the report:
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000068_000000|He rushed from the shack, calling to the others.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000069_000000|"What's that?" demanded mr Hosbrook.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000070_000000|Tom briefly told of how the message had come to him in the night.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000071_000000|"Tell them to hurry," begged the rich yacht owner.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000071_000001|"Say that I will give twenty thousand dollars reward if we are taken off!"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000072_000001|"I must get to the place where-"
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000072_000002|Then he seemed to recollect himself, and stopped suddenly. "Tell them to hurry," he begged Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000072_000003|The whole crowd of castaways, save the women, were gathered about the wireless shack.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000075_000000|Suddenly the wireless instruments hummed.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000076_000000|"Another message," whispered Tom.
train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000076_000001|He listened.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000000_000000|FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000001_000000|ARCHER BARLOW, ALIAS EMIT ROBINS.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000000|This passenger arrived from norfolk virginia in eighteen fifty three.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000001|For the last four years previous to escaping, he had been under the yoke of dr George Wilson.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000002|Archer declared that he had been "very badly treated" by the Doctor, which he urged as his reason for leaving.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000004|As Archer had been "sickly" most of the time, during the last year, he complained that there was "no reduction" in his hire on this account.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000006|When a slave reached this decision, he was in a very hopeful state.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000007|He was near the Underground Rail Road, and was sure to find it, sooner or later.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000009|His arrival in Philadelphia, per one of the Richmond steamers, was greeted with joy by the Vigilance Committee, who extended to him the usual aid and care, and forwarded him on to freedom.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000010|For a number of years, he has been a citizen of Boston.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000000|This "piece of property" fled in the fall of eighteen fifty three.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000001|As a specimen of this article of commerce, he evinced considerable intelligence.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000002|He was a man of dark color, although not totally free from the admixture of the "superior" southern blood in his veins; in stature, he was only ordinary.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000003|For leaving, he gave the following reasons: "I found that I was working for my master, for his advantage, and when I was sick, I had to pay just as much as if I were well-seven dollars a month.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000004|But my master was cross, and said that he intended to sell me-to do better by me another year.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000008|The man whom Samuel was compelled to call master was named Hoyle.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000005_000000|The Committee's interview with Samuel was quite satisfactory, and they cheerfully accorded to him brotherly kindness and material aid at the same time.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000006_000000|john SPENCER AND HIS SON WILLIAM, AND james ALBERT.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000007_000000|These individuals escaped from the eastern shore of Maryland, in the Spring of eighteen fifty three, but were led to conclude that they could enjoy the freedom they had aimed to find, in New Jersey.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000007_000001|They procured employment in the neighborhood of Haddonfield, some six or eight miles from camden new jersey, and were succeeding, as they thought, very well.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000000|Things went on favorably for about three months, when to their alarm "slave hunters were discovered in the neighborhood," and sufficient evidence was obtained to make it quite plain that, john, William and james were the identical persons, for whom the hunters were in "hot pursuit." When brought to the Committee, they were pretty thoroughly alarmed and felt very anxious to be safely off to Canada.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000001|While the Committee always rendered in such cases immediate protection and aid, they nevertheless, felt, in view of the imminent dangers existing under the fugitive slave law, that persons disposed to thus stop by the way, should be very plainly given to understand, that if they were captured they would have themselves the most to blame.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000002|But the dread of Slavery was strong in the minds of these fugitives, and they very fully realized their folly in stopping in New Jersey.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000003|The Committee procured their tickets, helped them to disguise themselves as much as possible, and admonished them not to stop short of Canada.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000009_000000|HETTY SCOTT ALIAS MARGARET DUNCANS AND DAUGHTER PRISCILLA.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000010_000002|The motive which prompted them to escape was the fact that their master had "threatened to sell" them.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000011_000000|She had three children of her own to bring, besides she was intimately acquainted with a young man and a young woman, both slaves, to whom she felt that it would be safe to confide her plans with a view of inviting them to accompany her.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000011_000001|The young couple were ready converts to the eloquent speech delivered to them by Hetty on Freedom, and were quite willing to accept her as their leader in the emergency.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000012_000001|For prudential reasons it was deemed desirable to separate the party, to send some one way and some another.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000012_000002|Thus safely, through the kind offices and aid of the friends at Quakertown, they were duly forwarded on to the Committee in Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000012_000003|Here similar acts of charity were extended to them, and they were directed on to Canada.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000013_000000|ROBERT FISHER.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000000|THIS PASSENGER AVAILS HIMSELF OF HOLIDAY WEEK, BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S, TO MAKE HIS NORTHERN TRIP.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000001|Robert was about thirty years of age, dark color, quite tall, and in talking with him a little while, it was soon discovered that Slavery had not crushed all the brains out of his head by a good deal.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000003|Far from it.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000004|The fact was, that he hated Slavery so decidedly and had such a clear common sense like view of the evils and misery of the system, that he declared he had as a matter of principle refrained from marrying, in order that he might have no reason to grieve over having added to the woes of slaves.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000005|Nor did he wish to be encumbered, if the opportunity offered to escape.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000006|According to law he was entitled to his freedom at the age of twenty five.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000000|But what right had a negro, which white slave holders were "bound to respect?" Many who had been willed free, were held just as firmly in Slavery, as if no will had ever been made.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000001|Robert had too much sense to suppose that he could gain anything by seeking legal redress.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000002|This method, therefore, was considered out of the question.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000003|But in the meantime he was growing very naturally in favor of the Underground Rail Road.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000004|From his experience Robert did not hesitate to say that his master was "mean," "a very hard man," who would work his servants early and late, without allowing them food and clothing sufficient to shield them from the cold and hunger.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000005|Robert certainly had unmistakable marks about him, of having been used roughly.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000007|Nathan listened to the proposal, and was suddenly converted to freedom, and the two united during Christmas week, eighteen fifty four, and set out on the Underground Rail Road.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000008|It is needless to say that they had trying difficulties to encounter.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000009|These they expected, but all were overcome, and they reached the Vigilance Committee, in Philadelphia safely, and were cordially welcomed.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000010|During the interview, a full interchange of thought resulted, the fugitives were well cared for, and in due time both were forwarded on, free of cost.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000016_000000|HANSEL WAPLES.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000001|While Hansel did not really own himself, he had the reputation of having a wife and six children.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000002|In June, some six months prior to her husband's arrival, Hansel's wife had been allowed by her mistress to go out on a begging expedition, to raise money to buy herself; but contrary to the expectation of her mistress she never returned.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000003|Doubtless the mistress looked upon this course as a piece of the most highhanded stealing.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000004|Hansel did not speak of his owner as being a hard man, but on the contrary he thought that he was about as "good" as the best that he was acquainted with.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000005|While this was true, however, Hansel had quite good ground for believing that his master was about to sell him.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000006|Dreading this fate he made up his mind to go in pursuit of his wife to a Free state.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000007|Exactly where to look or how to find her he could not tell.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000020_000000|She fled from Isaac Tonnell of Georgetown, Delaware, in Christmas week, eighteen fifty three.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000020_000001|A young woman with a little boy of seven years of age accompanied Rose Anna.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000020_000002|Further than the simple fact of their having thus safely arrived, except the expense incurred by the Committee, no other particulars appear on the records.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000022_000000|Mary arrived with her two children in the early Spring of eighteen fifty four.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000000|The mother was a woman of about thirty three years of age, quite tall, with a countenance and general appearance well fitted to awaken sympathy at first sight.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000001|Her oldest child was a little girl seven years of age, named Lydia; the other was named Louisa Caroline, three years of age, both promising in appearance.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000002|They were the so called property of john Ennis, of Georgetown, Delaware.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000003|For their flight they chose the dead of Winter.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000004|After leaving they made their way to West Chester, and there found friends and security for several weeks, up to the time they reached Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000005|Probably the friends with whom they stopped thought the weather too inclement for a woman with children dependent on her support to travel.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000006|Long before this mother escaped, thoughts of liberty filled her heart.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000007|She was ever watching for an opportunity, that would encourage her to hope for safety, when once the attempt should be made.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000008|Until, however, she was convinced that her two children were to be sold, she could not quite muster courage to set out on the journey.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000009|This threat to sell proved in multitudes of instances, "the last straw on the camel's back." When nothing else would start them this would.
train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000010|Mary and her children were the only slaves owned by this Ennis, consequently her duties were that of "Jack of all trades;" sometimes in the field and sometimes in the barn, as well as in the kitchen, by which, it is needless to say, that her life was rendered servile to the last degree.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000002_000000|AN IRISH GIRL'S DEVOTION TO FREEDOM.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000000|"april twenty seventh eighteen fifty five.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000001|john Hall arrived safely from richmond virginia, per schooner, (Captain B).
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000003|john had been sold several times, in consequence of which, he had possessed very good opportunities of experiencing the effect of change of owners.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000004|Then, too, the personal examination made before sale, and the gratification afforded his master when he (john), brought a good price-left no very pleasing impressions on his mind.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000000|By one of his owners, named Burke, john alleged that he had been "cruelly used." When quite young, both he and his sister, together with their mother, were sold by Burke.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000001|From that time he had seen neither mother nor sister-they were sold separately.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000002|For three or four years the desire to seek liberty had been fondly cherished, and nothing but the want of a favorable opportunity had deterred him from carrying out his designs.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000003|He considered himself much "imposed upon" by his master, particularly as he was allowed "no choice about living" as he "desired." This was indeed ill treatment as john viewed the matter.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000005|He was about thirty five years of age, light complexion-tall-rather handsome looking, intelligent, and of good manners.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000008|The idea of having had a white father, in many instances, depreciated the pecuniary value of male slaves, if not of the other sex. john emphatically was one of this injured class; he evidently had blood in his veins which decidedly warred against submitting to the yoke.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000009|In addition to the influence which such rebellious blood exerted over him, together with a considerable amount of intelligence, he was also under the influence and advice of a daughter of old Ireland.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000010|She was heart and soul with john in all his plans which looked Canada ward.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000011|This it was that "sent him away."
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000000|It is very certain, that this Irish girl was not annoyed by the kinks in John's hair.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000001|Nor was she overly fastidious about the small percentage of colored blood visible in John's complexion.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000002|It was, however, a strange occurrence and very hard to understand.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000003|Not a stone was left unturned until john was safely on the Underground Rail Road.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000004|Doubtless she helped to earn the money which was paid for his passage.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000005|And when he was safe off, it is not too much to say, that john was not a whit more delighted than was his intended Irish lassie, Mary Weaver.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000006|john had no sooner reached Canada than Mary's heart was there too.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000007|Circumstances, however, required that she should remain in Richmond a number of months for the purpose of winding up some of her affairs.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000008|As soon as the way opened for her, she followed him.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000009|It was quite manifest, that she had not let a single opportunity slide, but seized the first chance and arrived partly by means of the Underground Rail Road and partly by the regular train. Many difficulties were surmounted before and after leaving Richmond, by which they earned their merited success.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000011|At least two or three of these letters, bearing on particular phases of their escape, etc, are too valuable not to be published in this connection:
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000007_000000|FIRST LETTER.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000008_000000|HAMILTON, march twenty fifth eighteen fifty six.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000009_000000|mr Still:--Sir and Friend-I take the liberty of addressing you with these few lines hoping that you will attend to what I shall request of you.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000000|I have written to Virginia and have not received an answer yet. I want to know if you can get any one of your city to go to Richmond for me.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000001|If you can, I will pay the expense of the whole.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000002|The person that I want the messenger to see is a white girl.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000003|I expect you know who I allude to, it is the girl that sent me away.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000005|I will forward the money and a letter.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000006|Please use your endeavors.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000011_000000|Yours Respectfuliy,
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000013_000000|Direct yours to mr Hill.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000014_000000|SECOND LETTER.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000015_000000|HAMILTON, september fifteenth eighteen fifty six.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000000|To mr Still, Dear Sir:--I take this opportunity of addressing these few lines to you hoping to find you in good health I am happy to inform you that Miss Weaver arrived here on Tuesday last, and I can assure you it was indeed a happy day.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000001|As for your part that you done I will not attempt to tell you how thankful I am, but I hope that you can imagine what my feelings are to you.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000002|I cannot find words sufficient to express my gratitude to you, I think the wedding will take place on Tuesday next, I have seen some of the bread from your house, and she says it is the best bread she has had since she has been in America.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000005|He can be found out by seeing Fountain Tombs who belongs to mr Rutherford and if you should not see him, there is james Turner who lives at the Governors, Please to see Captain Bayliss and tell him to take these directions and go to john Hill, in Petersburgh, and he may find him.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000008|C. Mayo, and please to send it as directed.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000010|You will greatly oblige me by so doing.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000011|In this letter I have enclosed a trifle for postage which you will please to keep on account of my letters I hope you wont think hard of me but I simply send it because I know you have done enough, and are now doing more, without imposing in the matter I have done it a great many more of our people who you have done so much fore.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000017_000000|john HALL, Norton's Hotel, Hamilton.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000018_000000|THIRD LETTER.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000019_000000|monday september twenty ninth fifty six.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000001|I have told him not to pay for them but to send them to you so when you get them write me word what the cost of them are, and I will send you the money for them.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000002|Mary desires you to give her love to mrs Still.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000003|If any letters come for me please to send to me at Nortons Hotel, Please to let me know if you had a letter from me about twelve days ago.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000004|You will please Direct the enclosed to mr w c
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000005|Mayo, richmond virginia
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000006|Let me know if you have heard anything of Willis Johnson mr and mrs Hill send their kind love to you, they are all well, no more at present from your affect.,
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000021_000000|john HALL
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000023_000000|FOURTH LETTER.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000000|DEAR SIR:--I am happy to inform you that we are both enjoying good health and hope you are the same.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000001|I have been expecting a letter from you for some time but I suppose your business has prevented you from writing.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000002|I suppose you have not heard from any of my friends at Richmond.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000003|I have been longing to hear some news from that part, you may think "Out of sight and out of mind," but I can assure you, no matter how far I may be, or in what distant land, I shall never forget you, if I can never reach you by letters you may be sure I shall always think of you.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000004|I have found a great many friends in my life, but I must say you are the best one I ever met with, except one, you must know who that is, 'tis one who if I did not consider a friend, I could not consider any other person a friend, and that is mrs Hall.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000005|Please to let me know if the navigation between New York and Richmond is closed.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000006|Please to let me know whether it would be convenient to you to go to New York if it is please let me know what is the expense.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000026_000000|john HALL.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000027_000000|mr and mrs Hill desire their best respects to you and mrs Still.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000000|It cannot be denied that this is a most extraordinary occurrence.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000001|In some respects it is without a parallel.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000002|It was, however, no uncommon thing for white men (slave holders) in the South to have colored wives and children whom, they did not hesitate to live with and acknowledge by their actions, with their means, and in their wills as the rightful heirs of their substance.
train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000003|Probably there is not a state in the Union where such relations have not existed.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000000|john fled from under the yoke of dr joshua r Nelson.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000001|Until within two years of "Jack's" flight, the doctor "had been a very fine man," with whom Jack found no fault.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000002|But suddenly his mode of treatment changed; he became very severe.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000003|Nothing that Jack could do, met the approval of the doctor.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000004|Jack was constantly looked upon with suspicion.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000004_000000|The very day that Jack fled, four men approached him (the doctor one of them), with line in hand; that sign was well understood, and Jack resolved that they should not get within tying distance of him.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000004_000001|"I dodged them," said Jack.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000004_000002|Never afterwards was Jack seen in that part of the country, at least as long as a fetter remained.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000005_000000|The day that he "dodged" he also took the Underground Rail Road, and although ignorant of letters, he battled his way out of Maryland, and succeeded in reaching Pennsylvania and the Committee.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000006_000001|His master evidently supposed that Jack would be mean enough to wish to see his wife, even in a free State, and that no slave, with such an unnatural desire, could be tolerated or trusted, that the sooner such "articles" were turned into cash the better.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000006_000003|In defense of his course, Jack referred to the treatment which he had received while in servitude under his old master, in something like the following words: "I served under my young master's father, thirty five years, and from him received kind treatment.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000006_000004|I was his head man on the place, and had everything to look after."
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000007_000000|ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, eighteen fifty seven.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000009_000000|Although these three passengers arrived in Philadelphia at the same time, they did not come from Maryland together.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000011_000000|Susan Jane came from New Market, near Georgetown Cross Roads, where she had been held to unrequited labor by Hezekiah Masten, a farmer.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000011_000003|Whether they ever heard what became of their daughter is not known.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000000|Amarian was twenty one years of age, a person of light color, medium size, with a prepossessing countenance and smart; she could read, write, and play on the piano.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000001|From a child, Amarian had been owned by mrs Elizabeth Key Scott, who resided near Braceville, but at the time of her flight she was living at Westminster, in the family of a man named "Boile," said to be the clerk of the court.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000002|In reference to treatment, Amarian said: "I have always been used very well; have had it good all my life, etc" This was a remarkable case, and, at first, somewhat staggered the faith of the Committee, but they could not dispute her testimony, consequently they gave her the benefit of the doubt.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000003|She spoke of having a mother living in Hagerstown, by the name of Amarian Ballad, also three sisters who were slaves, and two who were free; she also had a brother in chains in Mississippi.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000013_000000|ARRIVAL FROM norfolk virginia eighteen fifty seven.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000014_000000|WILLIAM CARNEY AND ANDREW ALLEN.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000016_000000|He belonged to the estate of the late mrs Sarah Twyne, who bore the reputation of being a lady of wealth, and owned one hundred and twelve slaves.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000016_000001|Most of her slave property was kept on her plantation not far from Old Point Comfort.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000016_000002|According to William's testimony "of times mrs Twyne would meddle too freely with the cup, and when under its influence she was very desperate, and acted as though she wanted to kill some of the slaves."
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000000|After the evil spirit left her and she had regained her wonted composure, she would pretend that she loved her "negroes," and would make a great fuss over them.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000002|Having license to do as they pleased, they would of course carry their cruelties to the most extreme verge of punishment.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000003|If a slave was maimed or killed under their correction, it was no loss of theirs.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000005|This system was organized and times were somewhat better.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000018_000000|William had been hired out almost his entire life.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000018_000002|In order to meet this demand he commonly resorted to oystering.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000020_000000|With full faith in her promises year by year the slaves awaited her demise with as much patience as possible, and often prayed that her time might be shortened for the general good of the oppressed.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000021_000000|In November, previous to William's escape, her long looked for dissolution took place.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000021_000003|In this sad case, the slaves could imagine no other fate than soon to be torn asunder and scattered. The fact was soon made known that the High Sheriff had administered on the estate of the late mistress; it was therefore obvious enough to William and the more intelligent slaves that the auction block was near at hand.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000022_000001|Without stopping to consider the danger, he immediately made up his mind that he would make a struggle, cost what it might.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000022_000005|William and one of the accommodating Captains running on the Richmond and Philadelphia Line, to the effect that he, William, should have a first class Underground Rail Road berth, so perfectly private that even the law officers could not find him.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000023_000002|It was no light matter to bid them farewell forever.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000023_000003|The separation from them was a trial such as rarely falls to the lot of mortals; but he nerved himself for the undertaking, and when the hour arrived his strength was sufficient for the occasion.
train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000025_000000|Andrew was about twenty four years of age, very tall, quite black, and bore himself manfully.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000011_000000|"My people seem to dislike strangers," said the Majordomo, thoughtfully, "and that surprises me because you are the first strangers they have ever seen.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000012_000000|"They needn't worry 'bout that," replied Trot; "the Snubnoses hate me worse than the people do."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000014_000000|"Or a necktie mixer," added Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000000|The Majordomo found the Boolooroo in a bad temper.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000002|Also his wife, the Queen, had made him angry by begging for gold to buy ribbons with.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000004|But the umbrella, in his hands, proved just as common as any other umbrella might.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000005|He opened it and closed it, and turned it this way and that, commanding it to do all sorts of things; but of course the Magic Umbrella would obey no one but a member of the family that rightfully owned it.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000018_000000|"No, your Majesty; I do not," was the reply.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000019_000001|Make the Whiteskins tell you, so that I can use it for my own amusement."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000021_000000|"You'll do more than that, or I'll have you patched!" roared the angry Boolooroo.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000023_000000|"Why can't I?"
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000025_000000|The King looked at him with a sneer.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000026_000000|"Has anyone ever come out of that Arch alive?" he asked.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000028_000000|"Well, I'm going to try the experiment," declared the Boolooroo.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000028_000004|I really hope they'll come out of the Great Blue Grotto alive!"
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000031_000001|He did not approve the way the strangers were being treated and thought it was wicked and cruel to try to destroy them.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000032_000000|During his absence the prisoners had been talking together very earnestly.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000034_000000|"No; I must surely manage to get my umbrella first," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000035_000000|"Do it quick, then," urged Trot, "for I can't stand those snubnoses much longer."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000038_000000|"No; it won't be easy," Button Bright admitted.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000039_000001|There's a Blue Wolf in the Treasure Chamber!" exclaimed Trot.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000040_000000|"Yes; I know."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000044_000000|The boy nodded.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000044_000002|But their present position was a very serious one and even Cap'n Bill dared not advise Button Bright to give up the desperate attempt.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000046_000000|"You must be very careful not to anger the Boolooroo, or he may do you a mischief.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000046_000003|Cap'n Bill won't have anything to do, for I've ordered Tiggle to mix the nectar."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000047_000000|"Thank 'e, friend Sizzle," said Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000048_000000|"Now follow me and I will take you to your rooms."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000050_000000|"You're safer in the palace than anywhere else," said the Majordomo, "for there is no way you can escape from the island, and here the servants and soldiers dare not injure you for fear of the Boolooroo."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000051_000000|He placed Trot and her six pets-which followed her wherever she went-in one room, and Cap'n Bill in another, and took Button Bright away with him to show the boy the way to the King's bedchamber.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000051_000002|It was Jimfred Jinksjones, the double of the Fredjim Jonesjinks they had talked with in the servants' hall, and he bowed low before the Majordomo.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000053_000000|"I'm sorry for him," muttered Jimfred.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000054_000001|"The Boolooroo's afraid of me."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000055_000001|"You're the first person I ever knew that could scare our Boolooroo."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000057_000001|He had marked the place well, so he couldn't miss it when he wanted to find it again.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000058_000000|When they came to the King's apartments there was another guard before the door, this time a long necked soldier with a terrible scowl.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000060_000000|"All right," answered the guard.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000060_000002|It will go hard with this little short necked creature if he doesn't polish the shoes properly."
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000062_000000|"Hi, there!
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000062_000001|What are you doing here?" he roared, as he saw Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000063_000000|"I've come for the shoes," said the boy.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000065_000000|While he polished the shoes he told his plans to Cap'n Bill and Trot, and asked them to be ready to fly with him as soon as he returned with the Magic Umbrella.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000066_000002|But the sleepy guard before the King's apartments was cross and surly.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000067_000000|"What are you doing here at this hour?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000068_000000|"I'm returning his Majesty's shoes," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000069_000000|"Go back and wait till morning," commanded the guard.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000071_000000|This threat frightened the long necked guard, who did not know what orders the Boolooroo had given his Royal Bootblue.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000073_000000|"I'll be quiet," promised the boy.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000074_000001|The boy had taken off his own shoes after he passed the guard and now he tiptoed carefully into the room, set down the royal shoes very gently and then crept to the chair where his Majesty's clothes were piled.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000075_000002|He passed the long necked guard again, finding the man half asleep, and then made his way to the Treasure Chamber.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000078_000000|"I am to take your place," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000079_000000|"Oh, very well," replied Jimfred; "this is a queer freak for our Boolooroo to indulge in, but he is always doing something absurd.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000079_000002|Do you understand?"
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000080_000000|"Yes," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000082_000000|He placed the key in the lock and the bolt turned with a sharp click. Button Bright did not hesitate.
train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000082_000001|He was afraid, to be sure, and his heart was beating fast with the excitement of the moment, but he knew he must regain the Magic Umbrella if he would save his comrades and himself from destruction, for without it they could never return to the Earth.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000007_000002|The terrible teeth came together and buried themselves in the pillow, and then mr Wolf found he could not pull them out again-because his mouth was stuffed full.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000008_000001|Of course he could not find it, as it was not there.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000010_000001|It was the voice of the Boolooroo, crying: "My Key-my Key!
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000010_000002|Who has stolen my golden Key?" And then there followed shouts of soldiers and guards and servants and the rapid pattering of feet was heard throughout the palace.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000012_000000|"Quick!" cried the boy; "we must escape from here at once or we will be caught and patched."
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000014_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000014_000001|I can't find it.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000014_000003|Come, let's get away at once!"
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000016_000000|"We must make for the open country and hide in the Fog Bank, or in the Arch of Phinis," replied the boy.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000022_000002|They'd tear us to pieces, if they could."
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000024_000000|"Don't like that place, Cap'n," whispered Trot.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000025_000000|"No more do I, mate," he answered.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000026_000000|"I think I'd rather take a chance on the Fog Bank," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000028_000000|"Where are you, Trot? As like as not I've been forgot!"
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000031_000000|"Gee!
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000033_000001|They were all astonished to hear the bird talk-and in poetry, too-but Cap'n Bill told Trot that some parrots he had known had possessed a pretty fair gift of language, and he added that this blue one seemed an unusually bright bird.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000034_000001|Rhymes come from your head, but real po'try from your heart, an' whether the blue parrot has a heart or not he's sure got a head."
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000036_000000|The Blueskins fell back, horrified at the mad act of the strangers.
train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000037_000000|"That's the end of those short necked Yellowskins," said one, shaking his head.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000003_000000|THROUGH THE FOG BANK
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000005_000000|It was rather moist in the Fog Bank.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000007_000001|"When it's a case of life 'n' death, clo's don't count for much.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000007_000002|I'm sort o' drippy myself."
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000009_000000|"Floods and gushes fill our path- This is not my day for a bath! Shut it off, or fear my wrath."
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000011_000000|"Had we better go to the other side?" asked Button Bright, anxiously.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000012_000000|"Why not?" returned Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000013_000000|"We don't know that, sir," said the boy.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000019_000000|"We can't say till we get there, mate," answered the sailor in a cheerful voice.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000024_000000|"Can't you dry up?" asked Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000028_000000|"Look out!" cried the parrot, sharply; and they all halted to find a monstrous frog obstructing their path.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000032_000000|"Oh, I'm glad to hear that!" cried Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000034_000001|"I'm just a common frog; and a little wee tiny frog, too.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000034_000002|But I hope to grow, in time.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000036_000000|"Follow me," said the frog.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000036_000002|It's only about six jumps."
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000037_000000|He turned around, made a mighty leap and disappeared in the gray mist.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000040_000000|"Brooks and creeks, How it leaks!"
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000042_000000|"How can we jog To a frog in a fog?"
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000043_000001|When at last they came up to him he made a second jump-out of sight, as before-and when they attempted to follow they found a huge lizard lying across the path.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000043_000002|Cap'n Bill thought it must be a giant alligator, at first, it was so big; but he looked at them sleepily and did not seem at all dangerous.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000045_000000|cried the parrot.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000047_000001|Did you ever taste a parsnip?"
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000048_000000|"We're in a hurry, if it's the same to you, sir," said Cap'n Bill, politely.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000050_000000|"Then climb over me-or go around-I don't care which," murmured the lizard.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000051_000001|Then off it went again, its tremendous leap carrying it far into the fog.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000051_000002|Suddenly Cap'n Bill tripped and would have fallen flat had not Trot and Button Bright held him up.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000052_000000|"Oh; beg parding, I'm sure!" exclaimed Cap'n Bill backing away.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000055_000000|"Probably not," said the crab.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000060_000000|"If you don't mind, we'd like to pass on," said Button Bright.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000061_000001|They're rheumatic, it's so moist here."
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000062_000001|Soon they had left the creature far behind.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000064_000000|"It isn't that," said Trot.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000065_000000|The frog chuckled and leaped again.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000069_000000|"Right you are, mate," he replied, and although he shook a bit with fear, the old man at once began to climb to the frog's back.
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000071_000000|"Ding dong!" cried the parrot;
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000072_000000|"All aboard! let 'er go! Jump the best jump that you know."
train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000073_000000|"Don't-don't!
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000006_000001|And Lynceus the quick eyed saw him coming, while he was still many a mile away, and cried: "I see a hundred ships, like a flock of white swans, far in the east." And at that they rowed hard, like heroes; but the ships came nearer every hour.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000009_000001|But he sent on his sailors toward the westward, and bound them by a mighty curse: "Bring back to me that dark witch woman, that she may die a dreadful death.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000009_000002|But if you return without her, you shall die by the same death yourselves."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000010_000000|So the Argonauts escaped for that time; but Father Zeus saw that foul crime; and out of the heavens he sent a storm, and swept the ship far from her course.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000012_000000|Then out and spoke the magic bough which stood upon the Argo's beak: "Because Father Zeus is angry, all this has fallen on you; for a cruel crime has been done on board, and the sacred ship is foul with blood."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000013_000000|At that some of the heroes cried: "Medeia is the murderess.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000013_000001|Let the witch woman bear her sin, and die!"
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000014_000000|And they seized Medeia, to hurl her into the sea and atone for the young boy's death; but the magic bough spoke again: "Let her live till her crimes are full.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000014_000001|Vengeance waits for her, slow and sure; but she must live, for you need her still.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000015_000000|Then all the heroes wept aloud when they heard the sentence of the oak; for they knew that a dark journey lay before them, and years of bitter toil.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000015_000001|And some upbraided the dark witch woman, and some said: "Nay, we are her debtors still; without her we should never have won the fleece." But most of them bit their lips in silence, for they feared the witch's spells.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000016_000000|And now the sea grew calmer, and the sun shone out once more, and the heroes thrust the ship off the sand bank, and rowed forward on their weary course, under the guiding of the dark witch maiden, into the wastes of the unknown sea.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000017_000003|But all these are but dreams and fables, and dim hints of unknown lands.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000019_000000|But all say that they came to a place where they had to drag their ship across the land nine days with ropes and rollers, till they came into an unknown sea.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000025_000001|So raise up the mast, and set the sail, and face what comes like men."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000026_000001|Better so, than to wander forever, disgraced by the guilt of my princes; for the blood of Absyrtus still tracks me, and woe follows hard upon woe.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000027_000001|And away they drove twelve nights, on the wide wild western sea, through the foam, and over the rollers, while they saw neither sun nor stars.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000027_000002|And they cried again: "We shall perish, for we know not where we are.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000027_000003|We are lost in the dreary damp darkness, and cannot tell north from south."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000030_000000|But Orpheus said: "Turn from them, for no living man can land there: there is no harbour on the coast, but steep walled cliffs all round."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000032_000001|And as they went inland, Circe met them, coming down toward the ship; and they trembled when they saw her; for her hair, and face, and robes, shone like flame.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000033_000000|And she came and looked at Medeia; and Medeia hid her face beneath her veil.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000034_000000|And Circe cried, "Ah, wretched girl, have you forgotten all your sins, that you come hither to my island, where the flowers bloom all the year round?
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000034_000001|Where is your aged father, and the brother whom you killed? Little do I expect you to return in safety with these strangers whom you love.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000035_000000|And the heroes prayed her, but in vain, and cried, "Cleanse us from our guilt!" But she sent them away and said, "Go on to Malea, and there you may be cleansed, and return home."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000000|Then a fair wind rose, and they sailed eastward, by Tartessus on the Iberian shore, till they came to the Pillars of Hercules, and the Mediterranean Sea.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000001|And thence they sailed on through the deeps of Sardinia, and past the Ausonian Islands, and the capes of the Tyrrhenian shore, till they came to a flowery island, upon a still, bright summer's eve.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000002|And as they neared it, slowly and wearily, they heard sweet songs upon the shore.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000003|But when Medeia heard it, she started, and cried: "Beware, all heroes, for these are the rocks of the Sirens.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000004|You must pass close by them, for there is no other channel; but those who listen to that song are lost."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000037_000000|Then Orpheus spoke, the king of all minstrels: "Let them match their song against mine.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000038_000000|And now they could see the Sirens, on Anthemousa, the flowery isle; three fair maidens sitting on the beach, beneath a red rock in the setting sun, among beds of crimson poppies and golden asphodel.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000038_000001|Slowly they sung and sleepily, with silver voices, mild and clear, which stole over the golden waters, and into the hearts of all the heroes, in spite of Orpheus's song.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000039_000000|And all things stayed around and listened; the gulls sat in white lines along the rocks; on the beach great seals lay basking, and kept time with lazy heads; while silver shoals of fish came up to hearken, and whispered as they broke the shining calm.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000039_000001|The Wind overhead hushed his whistling, as he shepherded his clouds toward the west; and the clouds stood in mid blue, and listened dreaming, like a flock of golden sheep.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000040_000000|And as the heroes listened, the oars fell from their hands, and their heads drooped on their breasts, and they closed their heavy eyes; and they dreamed of bright still gardens, and of slumbers under murmuring pines, till all their toil seemed foolishness, and they thought of their renown no more.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000041_000000|Then one lifted his head suddenly, and cried, "What use in wandering forever?
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000041_000001|Let us stay here and rest awhile." And another, "Let us row to the shore, and hear the words they sing." And another, "I care not for the words, but for the music.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000041_000002|They shall sing me to sleep, that I may rest."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000043_000000|Then Medeia clapped her hands together, and cried, "Sing louder, Orpheus, sing a bolder strain; wake up these hapless sluggards, or none of them will see the land of Hellas more."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000045_000000|And he sung the song of Perseus, how the Gods led him over land and sea, and how he slew the loathly Gorgon, and won himself a peerless bride; and how he sits now with the Gods upon Olympus, a shining star in the sky, immortal with his immortal bride, and honoured by all men below.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000046_000000|So Orpheus sang, and the Sirens, answering each other across the golden sea, till Orpheus's voice drowned the Sirens, and the heroes caught their oars again.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000047_000000|And they cried: "We will be men like Perseus, and we will dare and suffer to the last.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000047_000001|Sing us his song again, brave Orpheus, that we may forget the Sirens and their spell."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000048_000000|And as Orpheus sang, they dashed their oars into the sea, and kept time to his music, as they fled fast away; and the Sirens' voices died behind them, in the hissing of the foam along their wake.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000050_000000|Then slowly rose up those three fair sisters, with a cruel smile upon their lips; and slowly they crept down toward him, like leopards who creep upon their prey; and their hands were like the talons of eagles, as they stept across the bones of their victims to enjoy their cruel feast.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000053_000001|And there Charybdis caught them in its fearful coils of wave, and rolled mast high about them, and spun them round and round; and they could go neither back nor forward, while the whirlpool sucked them in.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000054_000000|And while they struggled they saw near them, on the other side of the strait, a rock stand in the water, with a peak wrapt round in clouds; a rock which no man could climb, though he had twenty hands and feet, for the stone was smooth and slippery, as if polished by man's hand; and half way up a misty cave looked out toward the west.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000055_000001|And "Little will it help to us," he cried, "to escape the jaws of the whirlpool; for in that cave lives Scylla, the sea hag with a young whelp's voice; my mother warned me of her ere we sailed away from Hellas; she has six heads, and six long necks, and hides in that dark cleft.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000055_000002|And from her cave she fishes for all things which pass by, for sharks, and seals, and dolphins, and all the herds of Amphitrite.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000055_000003|And never ship's crew boasted that they came safe by her rock; for she bends her long necks down to them, and every mouth takes up a man And who will help us now?
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000056_000000|Then out of the depths came Thetis, Peleus's silver footed bride, for love of her gallant husband, and all her nymphs around her; and they played like snow white dolphins, diving on from wave to wave, before the ship, and in her wake, and beside her, as dolphins play.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000056_000001|And they caught the ship, and guided her, and passed her on from hand to hand, and tossed her through the billows, as maidens toss the ball.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000056_000004|Then Thetis and her nymphs sank down to their gardens of green and purple, where live flowers of bloom all the year round; while the heroes went on rejoicing, yet dreading what might come next.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000057_000000|After that they rowed on steadily for many a weary day, till they saw a long high island, and beyond it a mountain land.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000057_000001|And they searched till they found a harbour, and there rowed boldly in.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000057_000002|But after awhile they stopped, and wondered; for there stood a great city on the shore, and temples and walls and gardens, and castles high in air upon the cliffs. And on either side they saw a harbour, with a narrow mouth, but wide within; and black ships without number, high and dry upon the shore.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000058_000001|I know all isles, and harbours, and the windings of all the seas; and this should be Corcyra, where a few wild goatherds dwell.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000059_000000|But Jason said: "They can be no savage people.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000059_000001|We will go in and take our chance."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000060_000001|And they wondered at that mighty city, with its roofs of burnished brass, and long and lofty walls of marble, with strong palisades above.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000062_000001|We keep our business to ourselves."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000063_000000|But Jason answered gently, with many a flattering word, and praised their city and their harbour, and their fleet of gallant ships.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000063_000001|"Surely you are the children of Poseidon, and the masters of the sea; and we are but poor wandering mariners, worn out with thirst and toil.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000063_000002|Give us but food and water, and we will go on our voyage in peace."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000064_000000|Then the sailors laughed and answered: "Stranger, you are no fool; you talk like an honest man, and you shall find us honest too.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000064_000001|We are the children of Poseidon, and the masters of the sea; but come ashore to us, and you shall have the best that we can give."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000065_000001|And one said; "These fellows are but raw sailors; they look as if they had been sea sick all the day." And another: "Their legs have grown crooked with much rowing, till they waddle in their walk like ducks."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000066_000000|At that Idas the rash would have struck them; but Jason held him back, till one of the merchant kings spoke to them, a tall and stately man.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000067_000000|"Do not be angry, strangers; the sailor boys must have their jest.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000067_000001|But we will treat you justly and kindly, for strangers and poor men come from God; and you seem no common sailors by your strength, and height, and weapons.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000068_000000|But Medeia hung back, and trembled, and whispered in Jason's ear, "We are betrayed, and are going to our ruin; for I see my countrymen among the crowd; dark eyed Colchi in steel mail shirts, such as they wear in my father's land."
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000069_000000|"It is too late to turn," said Jason.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000069_000001|And he spoke to the merchant king: "What country is this, good sir; and what is this new built town?"
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000070_000000|"This is the land of the Phaeaces, beloved by all the Immortals; for they come hither and feast like friends with us, and sit by our side in the hall.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000070_000001|Hither we came from Liburnia to escape the unrighteous Cyclopes; for they robbed us, peaceful merchants, of our hard earned wares and wealth.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000071_000003|And within, against the walls, stood thrones on either side, down the whole length of the hall, strewn with rich glossy shawls; and on them the merchant kings of those crafty sea roving Phaeaces sat eating and drinking in pride, and feasting there all the year round.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000071_000004|And boys of molten gold stood each on a polished altar, and held torches in their hands, to give light all night to the guests.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000071_000005|And round the house sat fifty maid servants, some grinding the meal in the mill, some turning the spindle, some weaving at the loom, while their hands twinkled as they passed the shuttle, like quivering aspen leaves.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000072_000000|And outside before the palace a great garden was walled round, filled full of stately fruit trees, with olives and sweet figs, and pomegranates, pears, and apples, which bore the whole year round.
train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000072_000001|For the rich southwest wind fed them, till pear grew ripe on pear, fig on fig, and grape on grape, all the winter and the spring.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000002_000000|Then Alcinous rose, and welcomed them, and bade them sit and eat; and the servants brought them tables, and bread, and meat, and wine.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000004_000000|"I am your guest, fair queen, and I entreat you be Zeus from whom prayers come.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000004_000001|Do not send me back to my father, to die some dreadful death; but let me go my way, and bear my burden.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000004_000002|Have I not had enough of punishment and shame?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000005_000000|"Who are you, strange maiden?
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000005_000001|and what is the meaning of your prayer?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000000|"We are the heroes of the Minuai," said Jason; "and this maiden has spoken truth.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000001|We are the men who took the golden fleece, the men whose fame has run round every shore.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000003|We went out many, and come back few, for many a noble comrade have we lost.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000004|So let us go, as you should let your guests go, in peace; that the world may say, 'Alcinous is a just king.'"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000010_000000|But Alcinous frowned, and stood deep in thought; and at last he spoke:
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000012_000000|"Let them choose out their champions, and we will fight them, man for man."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000013_000000|"No guest of ours shall fight upon our island; and if you go outside, they will outnumber you.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000013_000001|I will do justice between you; for I know and do what is right."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000014_000000|Then he turned to his kings, and said: "This may stand over till to morrow.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000014_000001|To night we will feast our guests, and hear the story of all their wanderings, and how they came hither out of the ocean."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000001|And they were glad when they saw the warm water, for it was long since they had bathed.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000002|And they washed off the sea salt from their limbs, and anointed themselves from head to foot with oil, and combed out their golden hair.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000003|Then they came back again into the hall, while the merchant kings rose up to do them honour.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000004|And each man said to his neighbour: "No wonder that these men won fame.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000016_000000|Then they went out to the garden; and the merchant princes said: "Heroes, run races with us.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000016_000001|Let us see whose feet are nimblest."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000017_000001|But do not think us cowards; if you wish to try our strength, we will shoot and box, and wrestle, against any men on earth."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000018_000000|And Alcinous smiled, and answered: "I believe you, gallant guests; with your long limbs and broad shoulders, we could never match you here.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000018_000001|For we care nothing here for boxing, or for shooting with the bow; but for feasts, and songs, and harping, and dancing, and running races, to stretch our limbs on shore."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000019_000000|So they danced there and ran races, the jolly merchant kings, till the night fell, and all went in.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000020_000000|And then they ate and drank, and comforted their weary souls, till Alcinous called a herald, and bade him go and fetch the harper.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000021_000000|The herald went out, and fetched the harper, and led him in by the hand; and Alcinous cut him a piece of meat from the fattest of the haunch, and sent it to him, and said: "Sing to us, noble harper, and rejoice the heroes' hearts."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000022_000000|So the harper played and sang, while the dancers danced strange figures; and after that the tumblers showed their tricks, till the heroes laughed again.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000023_000001|or heard such music and such singing?
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000023_000002|We hold ours to be the best on earth."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000024_000000|"Such dancing we have never seen," said Orpheus; "and your singer is a happy man; for Phoebus himself must have taught him, or else he is the son of a Muse; as I am also, and have sung once or twice, though not so well as he."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000027_000000|Then he went on, and told their journey over the sluggish northern main, and through the shoreless outer ocean, to the fairy island of the West; and of the Sirens, and Scylla, and Charybdis, and all the wonders they had seen, till midnight passed, and the day dawned; but the kings never thought of sleep.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000027_000001|Each man sat still and listened, with his chin upon his hand.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000029_000001|And she said: "The Gods will punish her, not we.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000029_000002|After all, she is our guest and my suppliant, and prayers are the daughters of Zeus.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000029_000003|And who, too, dare part man and wife, after all they have endured together?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000030_000000|And Alcinous smiled.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000030_000001|"The minstrel's song has charmed you; but I must remember what is right; for songs cannot alter justice; and I must be faithful to my name.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000031_000000|So next morning he sent a herald, and called the kings into the square, and said: "This is a puzzling matter; remember but one thing.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000031_000002|Which, then, of the two is it safer to offend, the men near us, or the men far off?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000032_000000|The princes laughed, and praised his wisdom; and Alcinous called the heroes to the square, and the Colchi also; and they came and stood opposite each other; but Medeia stayed in the palace.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000032_000001|Then Alcinous spoke: "Heroes of the Colchi, what is your errand about this lady?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000033_000000|"To carry her home with us, that she may die a shameful death; but if we return without her, we must die the death she should have died."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000000|"I say," said the cunning Jason, "that they are come here on a bootless errand.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000001|Do you think that you can make her follow you, heroes of the Colchi?
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000004|And why return home at all, brave heroes, and face the long seas again, and the Bosphorus, and the stormy Euxine, and double all your toil?
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000005|There is many a fair land round these coasts, which waits for gallant men like you.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000036_000001|Take her, since you are no wiser; and we will sail away toward the north."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000037_000000|Then Alcinous gave them food, and water, and garments, and rich presents of all sorts; and he gave the same to the Minuai, and sent them all away in peace.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000038_000000|So Jason kept the dark witch maiden to breed him woe and shame; and the Colchi went northward into the Adriatic, and settled, and built towns along the shore.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000001|And they rowed till they were spent with struggling, through the darkness and the blinding rain, but where they were they could not tell, and they gave up all hope of life.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000002|And at last they touched the ground, and when daylight came they waded to the shore; and saw nothing round but sand, and desolate salt pools; for they had come to the quicksands of the Syrtis, and the dreary treeless flats, which lie between Numidia and Cyrene, on the burning shore of Africa.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000003|And there they wandered starving for many a weary day, ere they could launch their ship again, and gain the open sea.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000004|And there Canthus was killed while he was trying to drive off sheep, by a stone which a herdsman threw.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000040_000000|And there, too, Mopsus died, the seer who knew the voices of all birds; but he could not foretell his own end, for he was bitten in the foot by a snake, one of those which sprang from the Gorgon's head when Perseus carried it across the sands.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000041_000000|At last they rowed away toward the northward, for many a weary day, till their water was spent, and their food eaten; and they were worn out with hunger and thirst.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000000|But when they came nearer to the island they saw a wondrous sight upon the cliffs.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000001|For on a cape to the westward stood a giant, taller than any mountain pine; who glittered aloft against the sky like a tower of burnished brass.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000002|He turned and looked on all sides round him, till he saw the Argo and her crew; and when he saw them he came toward them, more swiftly than the swiftest horse, leaping across the glens at a bound, and striding at one step from down to down.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000003|And when he came abreast of them he brandished his arms up and down, as a ship hoists and lowers her yards, and shouted with his brazen throat like a trumpet from off the hills: "You are pirates, you are robbers!
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000004|If you dare land here, you die."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000043_000001|We are all good men and true; and all we ask is food and water"; but the giant cried the more-
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000044_000000|"You are robbers, you are pirates all; I know you; and if you land, you shall die the death."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000045_000000|Then he waved his arms again as a signal, and they saw the people flying inland, driving their flocks before them, while a great flame arose among the hills.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000045_000001|Then the giant ran up a valley and vanished; and the heroes lay on their oars in fear.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000046_000000|But Medeia stood watching all, from under her steep black brows, with a cunning smile upon her lips, and a cunning plot within her heart.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000046_000001|At last she spoke; "I know this giant.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000046_000003|Thrice a day he walks round the island, and never stops to sleep; and if strangers land he leaps into his furnace, which flames there among the hills; and when he is red hot he rushes on them, and burns them in his brazen hands."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000047_000000|Then all the heroes cried, "What shall we do, wise Medeia?
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000047_000001|We must have water, or we die of thirst.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000047_000002|Flesh and blood we can face fairly; but who can face this red hot brass?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000048_000000|"I can face red hot brass, if the tale I hear be true.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000048_000001|For they say that he has but one vein in all his body, filled with liquid fire; and that this vein is closed with a nail; but I know not where that nail is placed.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000048_000002|But if I can get it once into these hands, you shall water your ship here in peace."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000049_000000|Then she bade them put her on shore, and row off again, and wait what would befall.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000050_000000|And the heroes obeyed her unwillingly; for they were ashamed to leave her so alone; but Jason said, "She is dearer to me than to any of you, yet I will trust her freely on shore; she has more plots than we can dream of, in the windings of that fair and cunning head."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000051_000000|So they left the witch maiden on the shore; and she stood there in her beauty all alone, till the giant strode back red hot from head to heel, while the grass hissed and smoked beneath his tread.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000052_000000|And when he saw the maiden alone, he stopped; and she looked boldly up into his face without moving, and began her magic song:
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000053_000000|"Life is short, though life is sweet; and even men of brass and fire must die.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000053_000001|The brass must rust, the fire must cool, for time gnaws all things in their turn.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000053_000002|Life is short, though life is sweet; but sweeter to live forever; sweeter to live ever youthful like the Gods, who have ichor in their veins; ichor which gives life, and youth, and joy, and a bounding heart."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000054_000000|Then Talus said, "Who are you, strange maiden; and where is this ichor of youth?"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000055_000000|Then Medeia held up a flask of crystal, and said, "Here is the ichor of youth.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000055_000001|I am Medeia the enchantress; my sister Circe gave me this, and said, 'Go and reward Talus the faithful servant, for his fame is gone out into all lands.' So come, and I will pour this into your veins, that you may live forever young."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000057_000000|Then that simple Talus dipped himself in the sea, till it hissed, and roared, and smoked; and came and knelt before Medeia, and showed her the secret nail.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000058_000000|And she drew the nail out gently; but she poured no ichor in; and instead the liquid fire spouted forth, like a stream of red hot iron. And Talus tried to leap up, crying, "You have betrayed me, false witch maiden!"
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000058_000001|But she lifted up her hands before him, and sang, till he sank beneath her spell.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000058_000002|And as he sank, his brazen limbs clanked heavily, and the earth groaned beneath his weight; and the liquid fire ran from his heel, like a stream of lava to the sea; and Medeia laughed, and called to the heroes, "Come ashore, and water your ship in peace."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000059_000000|So they came, and found the giant lying dead; and they fell down, and kissed Medeia's feet; and watered their ship, and took sheep and oxen, and so left that inhospitable shore.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000060_000000|At last, after many more adventures, they came to the Cape of Malea, at the southwest point of the Peloponnese.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000060_000001|And there they offered sacrifices, and Orpheus purged them from their guilt.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000061_000000|And they ran the ship ashore; but they had no strength left to haul her up the beach; and they crawled out on the pebbles, and sat down, and wept till they could weep no more.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000063_000001|We went to fetch the golden fleece; and we have brought it, and grief therewith.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000065_000000|Then Jason went up with Medeia to the palace of his uncle Pelias.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000065_000001|And when he came in, Pelias sat by the hearth, crippled and blind with age; while opposite him sat AEson, Jason's father, crippled and blind likewise; and the two old men's heads shook together, as they tried to warm themselves before the fire.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000066_000000|And Jason fell down at his father's knees, and wept, and called him by his name.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000066_000001|And the old man stretched his hands out, and felt him, and said: "Do not mock me, young hero.
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000066_000002|My son Jason is dead long ago at sea."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000067_000001|So now give me up the kingdom, Pelias my uncle, and fulfil your promise as I have fulfilled mine."
train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000068_000000|Then his father clung to him like a child, and wept, and would not let him go; and cried, "Now I shall not go down lonely to my grave.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000000|Slowly and painfully, through waves of deadly nausea and with the surging of deep waters in her ears, Diana struggled back to consciousness.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000001|The agony in her head was excruciating, and her limbs felt cramped and bruised.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000002|Recollection was dulled in bodily pain, and, at first, thought was merged in physical suffering.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000004|She remembered fragmentary incidents of what had gone before the oblivion from which she had just emerged.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000006|Her own dread-not of the death that was imminent, but lest the mercy it offered should be snatched from her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000007|Then before the valet could effect his supreme devotion had come the hail of bullets, and he had fallen against her, the blood that poured from his wounds saturating her linen coat, and rolled over across her feet.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000000|Her eyes were still shut; a leaden weight seemed fixed on them, and the effort to open them was beyond her strength.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000002|But instead of his body or the dry hot sand her fingers had expected to encounter they closed over soft cushions, and with the shock she sat up with a jerk, her eyes staring wide, but, sick and faint, she fell back again, her arm flung across her face, shielding the light that pierced like daggers through her throbbing eye balls.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000003|For a while she lay still, fighting against the weakness that overpowered her, and by degrees the horrible nausea passed and the agony in her head abated, leaving only a dull ache.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000005|She moved her arm slightly from before her eyes so that she could see, and looked cautiously from under thick lashes, screened by the sleeve of her coat.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000006|She was lying on a pile of cushions in one corner of a small tented apartment which was otherwise bare, except for the rug that covered the floor.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000007|In the opposite corner of the tent an Arab woman crouched over a little brazier, and the smell of native coffee was heavy in the air.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000008|She closed her eyes again with a shudder. The attempted devotion of Gaston had been useless.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000000|She lay still, pressing closely down amongst the cushions, and clenching the sleeve of her jacket between her teeth to stifle the groan that rose to her lips.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000001|A lump came into her throat as she thought of Gaston.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000002|In those last moments all inequality of rank had been swept away in their common peril-they had been only a white man and a white woman together in their extremity.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000004|All that he could do he had done, he had shielded her body with his own, it must have been over his lifeless body that they had taken her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000005|He had proved his faithfulness, sacrificing his life for his master's play thing.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000006|Gaston was in all probability dead, but she was alive, and she must husband her strength for her own needs. She forced the threatening emotion down, and, with an effort, controlled the violent shivering in her limbs, and sat up slowly, looking at the Arab woman, who, hearing her move, turned to gaze at her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000007|Instantly Diana realised that there was no help or compassion to be expected from her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000010|And the feeling gave a necessary spur to the courage that was fast coming back to her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000007_000000|Diana's muscles relaxed and she sat back easily on the cushions, the little passage of wills had restored her confidence in herself.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000007_000001|She moved her hand and it brushed against her jacket, coming away stained and sticky, and she noticed for the first time that all one side and sleeve were soaked with blood.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000007_000002|She ripped it off with a shudder and flung it from her, rubbing the red smear from her hands with a kind of horror.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000008_000001|Her sensitive lip curled with disgust, all her innate fastidiousness in revolt.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000008_000002|The heat aggravated a burning thirst that was parching her throat.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000008_000004|She crossed the tent to the side of the Arab woman.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000009_000001|Diana repeated the request in Arabic, one of the few sentences she knew without stumbling.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000010_000000|Diana hated the sweet, thick stuff, but it would do until she could get the water she wanted, and she put out her hand to take the little cup. But her eyes met the other's fixed on her, and something in their malignant stare made her pause.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000010_000003|What beyond the woman's expression made her think so she did not know, but she was sure of it.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000010_000004|She put the cup aside impatiently.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000011_000000|"no
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000011_000001|Not coffee.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000000|Before she realised what was happening the woman thrust a strong arm round her and forced the cup to her lips.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000001|That confirmed Diana's suspicions and rage lent her additional strength.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000002|The woman was strong, but Diana was stronger, younger and more active.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000003|She dashed the cup to the floor, spilling its contents, and, with an effort, tore the clinging hands from her and sent the woman crashing on to the ground, rolling against the brazier, oversetting it, and scattering brass pots and cups over the rug.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000005|And, in answer to her cries, a curtain at the side of the tent, that Diana had not noticed, slid aside and a gigantic Nubian came in. With outstretched hand shaking with rage, pointing at Diana, she burst into voluble abuse, punctuating every few words with the shrieks that had brought the negro.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000001|The Nubian listened with white teeth flashing in a broad grin, and shook his head in response to some request urged with denunciatory fist.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000002|He picked up the last remaining embers that had scattered on the rug, rubbing the smouldering patches till they were extinguished, and then turned to leave the room.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000003|But Diana called him back.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000004|She went a step forward, her head high, and looked him straight in the face.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000014_000001|He pointed to the coffee that the woman had recommenced to make, her back turned to them, but Diana stamped her foot.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000014_000002|"Water!
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000014_000003|Bring me water!" she said again, more imperiously than before.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000000|The thought of its condition made her hesitate for a moment, but only for a moment.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000002|She picked up one of the clean coffee cups that had rolled to her feet, rinsed it several times, and then drank.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000003|The water was warm and slightly brackish, but she needed it too much to mind.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000004|In spite of being tepid it relieved the dry, suffocating feeling in her throat and refreshed her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000016_000001|But her courage had risen with a bound; the fact that she was physically stronger than the woman who had been put to guard her, and also that she had gained her point with the burly negro, had a great moral effect on her, further restoring her confidence in herself.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000000|Her position was an appalling one, but hope was strong within her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000002|She did not credit him with so much acumen.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000004|If it could only be prolonged until Ahmed reached her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000006|If he only came in time! Hours had passed since the ambuscade had surprised them.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000007|It had been early afternoon then.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000008|Now the lighted lamp told her it was night.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000009|How late she did not know.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000010|Her watch had been broken some months before, and she had no means of even guessing the hour, but it must be well on in the evening.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000011|By now the absence of herself and Gaston and their escort would be discovered.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000012|He would know her peril and he would come to her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000013|Of that she had no doubt.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000014|Although he had changed so strangely in the last few days, though the wonderful gentleness of the last two months had merged again into indifference and cruelty, still she never doubted.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000016|He might discard her at his own pleasure, but no one would take her from him with impunity.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000017|Her woman's intuition had sensed the jealousy that had actuated him during the unhappy days since Saint Hubert had come.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000018|An inconsistent jealousy that had been unprovoked and unjustified, but for which she had suffered. She had known last night, when she winced under his sarcastic tongue, and later, when Saint Hubert had left them and his temper had suddenly boiled over, that she was paying for the unaccustomed strain that he was putting on his own feelings.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000019|His curses had eaten into her heart, and she had fled from him to stifle the coward instinct that urged her to confess her love and beg his mercy.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000021|And long after she knew from his even breathing that he was asleep she had lain wide eyed beside him, grasping at what happiness she could, living for the moment as she had schooled herself to live, trying to be content with just the fact of his nearness.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000022|And the indifference of the night had been maintained when he had left her at dawn, his persistent silence pointing the continuance of his displeasure.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000024|He would come!
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000025|He would come!
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000027|He would not let anything happen to her.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000029|The reversal of the role he played in her life brought a quivering smile to her lips.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000030|For the advent of the man who a few weeks before she had loathed for his brutal abduction of herself she now prayed with the desperation of despair.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000031|He represented safety, salvation, everything that made life worth living.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000018_000001|But the sharp, guttural voice predominating over the other voices killed the wild hope that had sprung up in her by its utter dissimilarity to the soft low tones for which she longed.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000018_000002|Ibraheim Omair!
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000018_000003|He had come first!
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000019_000001|She stood rigid, one foot beating nervously into the soft rug.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000020_000000|The voices in the next room continued, until Diana almost prayed for the moment she was waiting for would come; suspense was worse than the ordeal for which she was nerving herself, It came at last.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000020_000001|The curtain slid aside again, and the same huge negro she had seen before entered. He came towards her, and her breath hissed in suddenly between her set teeth, but before he reached her the Arab woman intercepted him, blocking his way, and with wild eyes and passionate gestures poured out a stream of low, frenzied words.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000020_000002|The Nubian turned on her impatiently and thrust her roughly out of his way, and, coming to Diana, put out his hand as if to grasp her arm, but she stepped back with flashing eyes and a gesture that he obeyed.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000000|Her heart was pounding, but she had herself under control.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000001|Only her hands twitched, her long fingers curling and uncurling spasmodically, and she buried them deep in her breeches' pockets to hide them.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000002|She walked slowly to the curtain and nodded to the Nubian to draw it aside, and slower still she passed into the other room.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000003|Only a little larger than the one she had left, almost as bare, but her mind took in these things uncomprehendingly, for all her attention was focussed on the central figure in the room.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000001|The hold she was exercising over herself was tremendous, her body was rigid with the effort, and her hands deep down in her pockets clenched till the nails bit into the palms.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000002|Every instinct was rebelling against the calm she forced upon herself.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000003|She longed to scream and make a dash for the opening that she guessed was behind her, and to take her chance in the darkness outside.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000004|But she knew that such a chance was impossible; if she ever reached the open air she would never be allowed to get more than a few steps from the tent.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000005|Her only course lay in the bravado that alone kept her from collapse.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000006|She must convey the impression of fearlessness, though cold terror was knocking at her heart.
train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000008|His heavy face lit up with a gleam of malicious satisfaction as Diana came towards him, his loose mouth broadened in a wicked smile.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000001|She had seen him in cruel, even savage moods, but nothing that had ever approached the look of horrible pleasure that was on his face now.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000002|It was a revelation of the real man with the thin layer of civilisation stripped from him, leaving only the primitive savage drunk with the lust of blood.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000003|And she was afraid, with a shuddering horror, of the merciless, crimson stained hands that would touch her, of the smiling, cruel mouth that would be pressed on hers, and of the murderous light shining in his fierce eyes.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000004|But for the dying wretch expiating his crimes so hideously she felt no pity, he was beyond all sympathy.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000006|And the retribution was swift.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000000|The noise outside the tent was growing louder as the fighting rolled back in its direction, and once or twice a bullet ripped through the hangings.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000003|Agony leaped into her eyes.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000004|The fear of him was wiped out in the fear for him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000006|He dropped the dead chief back into the tumbled cushions and looked up swiftly, and at the same moment Ibraheim Omair's men made a rush.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000007|Without a word he thrust her behind the divan and turned to meet them.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000009|Three times he fired and one of the negroes and two Arabs fell, but the rest hurled themselves on him, and Diana saw him surrounded.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000010|His strength was abnormal, and for some minutes the struggling mass of men strained and heaved about him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000011|Diana was on her feet, swaying giddily, powerless to help him, cold with dread.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000015|Diana tried to get to him, faint and stumbling, flung here and there by the fighting, struggling men, until a strong hand caught her and drew her aside.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000016|She strained against the detaining arm, but it was one of Ahmed's men, and she gave in as a growing faintness came over her. Mistily she saw Saint Hubert clear a way to his friend's side, and then she fainted, but only for a few moments.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000018|The camp of Ibraheim Omair had been wiped out, but Ahmed Ben Hassan's men looked only at the unconscious figure of their leader.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000002_000000|Saint Hubert glanced up hastily as Diana came to his side.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000002_000002|What did it matter about her?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000004_000000|"I don't know-but we must get away from here.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000004_000001|I need more appliances than I have with me, and we are too few to stay and risk a possible attack if there are others of Ibraheim Omair's men in the neighbourhood."
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000005_000000|Diana looked down on the wounded man fearfully.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000005_000001|"But the ride-the jolting," she gasped.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000006_000000|"It has got to be risked," replied Saint Hubert abruptly.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000007_000001|It was an agony of dread and apprehension, of momentary waiting for some word or exclamation from the powerful Arab who was holding him, or from Saint Hubert, who was riding beside him, that would mean his death, and of momentary respites from fear and faint glimmerings of hope as the minutes dragged past and the word she was dreading did not come.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000007_000004|He must not die.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000007_000005|God would not be so cruel.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000008_000000|From time to time Saint Hubert spoke to her, and the quiet courage of his voice steadied her breaking nerves.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000008_000001|As they passed the scene of the ambuscade he told her of Gaston.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000009_000000|The dawn was breaking when they reached the camp.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000009_000001|Diana had a glimpse of rows of unusually silent men grouped beside the tent, but all her mind was concentrated on the long, limp figure that was being carefully lifted down from the sweating horse.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000009_000002|They carried him into the tent and laid him on the divan, beside which Henri had already put out all the implements that his master would need.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000010_000000|While Saint Hubert, with difficulty, cleared the tent of the Sheik's men Diana stood beside the divan and looked at him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000010_000001|He was soaked in blood that had burst through the temporary bandages, and his whole body bore evidence of the terrible struggle that had gone before the blow that had felled him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000011_000000|"Diane, you have been through enough," he said gently.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000011_000001|"Go and rest while I do what I can for Ahmed.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000011_000002|I will come and tell you as soon as I am finished."
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000000|She looked up fiercely.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000001|"It's no good telling me to go away, because I won't.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000002|I must help you.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000003|I can help you.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000004|I shall go mad if you don't let me do something.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000005|See!
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000006|My hands are quite steady." She held them out as she spoke, and Saint Hubert gave in without opposition.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000000|The weakness that had sent her trembling into his arms the day before had been the fear of danger to the man she loved, but in the face of actual need the courage that was so much a part of her nature did not fail her.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000001|He made no more remonstrances, but set about his work quickly.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000003|Her face was deadly pale, and dark lines showed below her eyes, but her hands did not shake, and her voice was low and even.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000004|She suffered horribly.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000006|She winced as if the hurt had been her own when Saint Hubert's gentle, dexterous fingers touched the Sheik's bruised head.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000007|And when it was over and Raoul had turned aside to wash his hands, she slipped on to her knees beside him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000008|Would he live?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000009|The courage that had kept her up so far had not extended to asking Saint Hubert again, and a few muttered words from Henri, to which the Vicomte had responded with only a shrug, had killed the words that were hovering on her lips.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000010|She looked at him with anguished eyes.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000000|Only a few hours before he had come to her in all the magnificence of his strength.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000001|She looked at the long limbs lying now so still, so terribly, suggestively still, and her lips trembled again, but her pain filled eyes were dry.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000002|She could not cry, only her throat ached and throbbed perpetually.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000003|She leaned over him whispering his name, and a sudden hunger came to her to touch him, to convince herself that he was not dead.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000004|She glanced back over her shoulder at Saint Hubert, but he had gone to the open doorway to speak to Yusef, and was standing out under the awning.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000005|She bent lower over the unconscious man; his lips were parted slightly, and the usual sternness of his mouth was relaxed.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000015_000001|Then for a moment she dropped her bright head beside the bandaged one on the pillow, but when the Vicomte came back she was kneeling where he had left her, her hands clasped over one of the Sheik's and her face hidden against the cushions.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000000|Saint Hubert put his hand on her shoulder.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000001|"Diane, you are torturing yourself unnecessarily.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000002|We cannot know for some time how it will go with him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000003|Try and get some sleep for a few hours.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000004|You can do no good by staying here.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000005|Henri and I will watch.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000006|I will call you if there is any change, my word of honour."
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000017_000000|She shook her head without looking up.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000017_000001|"I can't go.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000017_000002|I couldn't sleep."
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000018_000000|Saint Hubert did not press it.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000018_000001|"Very well," he said quietly, "but if you are going to stay you must take off your riding boots and put on something more comfortable than those clothes."
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000019_000001|She even had to admit to herself a certain sensation of relief after she had bathed her aching head and throat, and substituted a thin, silk wrap for the torn, stained riding suit.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000020_000000|Henri was pouring out coffee when she came back, and Saint Hubert turned to her with a cup in his outstretched hand.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000020_000001|"Please take it.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000021_000000|She took it unheeding, and, swallowing it hastily, went to the side of the divan again.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000021_000001|She slid down on to the rug where she had knelt before.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000021_000003|For a few moments she looked at him, then drowsily her eyes closed and her head fell forward on the cushions, and with a half sad smile of satisfaction Saint Hubert gathered her up into his arms.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000000|He carried her into the bedroom, hesitating beside the couch before he put her down.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000002|He would never have the torturing happiness of holding her in his arms again, would never again clasp her against the heart that was crying out for her with the same mad passion that had swept over him yesterday.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000003|He looked down longingly on the pale face lying against his arm, and his features contracted at the sight of the cruel marks marring the whiteness of her delicate throat.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000007|And yet as he looked at her with eyes filled with hopeless misery a demon of suggestion whispered within him, tempting him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000008|He knew his friend as no one else did.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000011|To him, all his life, a thing desired had upon possession become valueless.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000013|The pleasure of pursuit faded with ownership.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000015|Her chance was slight, if any.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000016|Ahmed in the full power of his strength again would be the man he had always been, implacable, cruel, merciless.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000017|Saint Hubert's own longing, his passionate, Gallic temperament, were driving him as they had driven him the day before.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000018|The longing to save her from misery was acute, that, and his own love, prompted by the urging of the desire within him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000019|Then he trembled, and a great fear of himself came over him.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000020|Ahmed was his friend.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000021|Who was he that he should judge him?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000022|He could at least be honest with himself, he could own the truth.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000023|He coveted what was not his, and masked his envy with a hypocrisy that now appeared contemptible.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000024|The clasp of his arms around her seemed suddenly a profanation, and he laid her down very gently on the low couch, drawing the thin coverlet over her, and went back slowly to the other room.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000000|He sent Henri away and sat down beside the divan to watch with a feeling of weariness that was not bodily.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000002|He had need of all his calm, and he gripped himself resolutely.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000003|For a time Ahmed Ben Hassan lay motionless, and then, as the day crept on and the early rays of the warm sun filled the tent, he moved uneasily, and began to mutter feverishly in confused Arabic and French.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000005|And beside him, with his face buried in his hands, Raoul de Saint Hubert thanked God fervently that he had saved Diana the added torture of listening to the revelations of the past four months.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000024_000000|The first words were in Arabic, then the slow, soft voice lapsed into French, pure as the Vicomte's own.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000000|"Two hours south of the oasis with the three broken palm trees by the well....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000001|Lie still, you little fool, it is useless to struggle.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000002|You cannot get away, I shall not let you go....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000007|I will not spare you.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000008|Give me what I want willingly and I will be kind to you, but fight me, and by Allah! you shall pay the cost!...
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000010|Shall I make you love me?...
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000014|For four months she has fought me.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000015|Why does it give me no pleasure to have broken her at last?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000018|I have tortured her to keep my vow, and still I want her....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000019|Diane, Diane, how beautiful you are!... What devil makes me hate Raoul after twenty years?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000020|Last night she only spoke to him, and when he went I cursed her till I saw the terror in her eyes.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000025|I wanted to kill Raoul when he would not come with me, but for that I would have gone back to her....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000026|Allah! how long the day has been....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000027|Has it been long to her?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000029|Where is Diane?...
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000030|Diane, Diane, how could I know how much you meant to me?
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000031|How could I know that I should love you?...
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000033|The tent is cold and dark without you....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000036|Grant me time to get to her....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000037|How the jackals are howling....
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000040|Grand Dieu!
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000044|Diane, Diane, it is all black.
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000045|I cannot see you, Diane, Diane...."
train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000026_000000|And hour after hour with weary hopelessness the tired voice went on-"Diane, Diane...."
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000000|The sumac seemed to fill his idea of a perfect location from the very first.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000001|He perched on a limb, and between dressing his plumage and pecking at last year's sour dried berries, he sent abroad his prediction.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000002|Old Mother Nature verified his wisdom by sending a dashing shower, but he cared not at all for a wetting.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000004|He knew he would appear brighter when it was past, and he seemed to know, too, that every day of sunshine and shower would bring nearer his heart's desire.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000000|He was a very Beau Brummel while he waited.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000001|From morning until night he bathed, dressed his feathers, sunned himself, fluffed and flirted. He strutted and "chipped" incessantly.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000002|He claimed that sumac for his very own, and stoutly battled for possession with many intruders.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000004|Crowded around it were thickets of papaw, wild grape vines, thorn, dogwood, and red haw, that attracted bug and insect; and just across the old snake fence was a field of mellow mould sloping to the river, that soon would be plowed for corn, turning out numberless big fat grubs.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000004_000000|He was compelled almost hourly to wage battles for his location, for there was something fine about the old stag sumac that attracted homestead seekers.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000004_000002|He had little trouble with the robins.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000000|The Cardinal was left boasting and strutting in the sumac, but in his heart he found it lonesome business.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000001|Being the son of a king, he was much too dignified to beg for a mate, and besides, it took all his time to guard the sumac; but his eyes were wide open to all that went on around him, and he envied the blackbird his glossy, devoted little sweetheart, with all his might.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000002|He almost strained his voice trying to rival the love song of a skylark that hung among the clouds above a meadow across the river, and poured down to his mate a story of adoring love and sympathy.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000003|He screamed a "Chip" of such savage jealousy at a pair of killdeer lovers that he sent them scampering down the river bank without knowing that the crime of which they stood convicted was that of being mated when he was not.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000001|The dove had no dignity; he was so effusive he was a nuisance.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000002|He kept his dignified Quaker mate stuffed to discomfort; he clung to the side of the nest trying to help brood until he almost crowded her from the eggs.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000003|He pestered her with caresses and cooed over his love song until every chipmunk on the line fence was familiar with his story.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000004|The Cardinal's temper was worn to such a fine edge that he darted at the dove one day and pulled a big tuft of feathers from his back.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000007_000000|Every morning brought new arrivals-trim young females fresh from their long holiday, and big boastful males appearing their brightest and bravest, each singer almost splitting his throat in the effort to captivate the mate he coveted.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000000|The heart of the Cardinal sank as he watched.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000002|He pitied himself as he wondered if fate had in store for him the trials he saw others suffering.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000003|Those dreadful feathered females!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000004|How they coquetted!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000005|How they flirted!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000006|How they sleeked and flattened their plumage, and with half open beaks and sparkling eyes, hopped closer and closer as if charmed.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000000|The Cardinal flew to the very top of the highest sycamore and looked across country toward the Limberlost.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000002|It was not an endurable thought.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000004|No bird beside the shining river had plumed, paraded, or made more music than he.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000005|Was it all to be wasted?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000006|By this time he confidently had expected results.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000007|Only that morning he had swelled with pride as he heard mrs Jay tell her quarrelsome husband that she wished she could exchange him for the Cardinal.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000009|No doubt she devoutly wished her plain pudgy husband wore a scarlet coat.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000010|But it is praise from one's own sex that is praise indeed, and only an hour ago the lark had reported that from his lookout above cloud he saw no other singer anywhere so splendid as the Cardinal of the sumac.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000011|Because of these things he held fast to his conviction that he was a prince indeed; and he decided to remain in his chosen location and with his physical and vocal attractions compel the finest little cardinal in the fields to seek him.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000011_000000|For several days he had boasted, he had bantered, he had challenged, he had on this last day almost condescended to coaxing, but not one little bright eyed cardinal female had come to offer herself.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000000|The performance of a brown thrush drove him wild with envy.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000001|The thrush came gliding up the river bank, a rusty coated, sneaking thing of the underbrush, and taking possession of a thorn bush just opposite the sumac, he sang for an hour in the open.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000002|There was no way to improve that music.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000004|With care and deliberation the brown thrush selected the most attractive, and she followed him to the thicket as if charmed.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000013_000000|It was the Cardinal's dream materialized for another before his very eyes, and it filled him with envy.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000013_000002|Should he, the proudest, most magnificent of cardinals, be compelled to go seeking a mate like any common bird?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000013_000003|Perish the thought!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000014_000000|He went to the river to bathe.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000000|On the tip top antler of the old stag sumac, he perched and strained until his jetty whiskers appeared stubby.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000001|He poured out a tumultuous cry vibrant with every passion raging in him.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000002|He caught up his own rolling echoes and changed and varied them.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000004|Wet year!"
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000016_000000|He whistled and whistled until all birdland and even mankind heard, for the farmer paused at his kitchen door, with his pails of foaming milk, and called to his wife:
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000017_000000|"Hear that, Maria!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000017_000002|I swanny, if that bird doesn't stop predictin' wet weather, I'll get so scared I won't durst put in my corn afore June.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000019_000000|Abram grinned sheepishly.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000019_000001|"I'm willin' to call it the bird if you are, Maria.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000019_000003|I'm really curious to set eyes on him.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000020_000000|"Bosh!" exclaimed Maria.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000020_000002|It's jest the old Wabash rollin' up the echoes.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000020_000004|I've knowed that for forty year.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000021_000000|As Abram opened the door, "Wet year!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000022_000000|He went out, closing the door softly, and with an utter disregard for the corn field, made a bee line for the musician.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000023_000001|"I don't jest rightly s'pose I should go; but I'm free to admit I'd as lief be dead as not to answer when I get a call, an' the fact is, I'm CALLED down beside the river."
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000024_000001|Wet year!" rolled the Cardinal's prediction.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000025_000000|"Thanky, old fellow!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000025_000001|Glad to hear you!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000025_000004|Looks as if you might be stayin' round these parts!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000026_000000|Abram went peering and dodging beside the fence, peeping into the bushes, searching for the bird.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000028_000000|But it came nearer being a scared man than a frightened bird, for the Cardinal flashed straight toward him until only a few yards away, and then, swaying on a bush, it chipped, cheered, peeked, whistled broken notes, and manifested perfect delight at the sight of the white haired old man.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000028_000001|Abram stared in astonishment.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000029_000001|"Big as a blackbird, red as a live coal, an' a comin' right at me.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000029_000003|Settin' on a sawed stick in a little wire house takes all the ginger out of any bird, an' their feathers are always mussy.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000029_000007|Cage never touched you!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000030_000000|Leaning toward Abram, the Cardinal turned his head from side to side, and peered, "chipped," and waited for an answering "Chip" from a little golden haired child, but there was no way for the man to know that.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000032_000000|Abram lifted his old hat, and the raindrops glistened on his white hair.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000032_000001|He squared his shoulders and stood very erect.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000033_000005|Well, you never was more welcome any place in your life.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000033_000007|How do you like it?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000034_000002|Look at the grass a creepin' right down till it's a trailin' in the water!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000034_000011|Most anything you can name, you can find it 'long this ole Wabash, if you only know where to hunt for it.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000036_000000|Abram set a foot on the third rail and leaned his elbows on the top. The Cardinal chipped delightedly and hopped and tilted closer.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000037_000004|I've hung on to it like grim death, for it's jest that much o' Paradise I'm plumb sure of.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000001|Man!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000004|Well, you struck it all right, mr Redbird.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000005|Feed you?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000006|You bet I will!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000007|You needn't even 'rastle for grubs if you don't want to.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000009|Land's sake!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000012|I haven't a scrap about me now.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000013|Yes, I have, too!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000015|he's fat as a young shoat now.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000039_000000|Abram took out his jack knife, and dotting a row of grains along the top rail, he split and shaved them down as fine as possible; and as he reached one end of the rail, the Cardinal, with a spasmodic "Chip!" dashed down and snatched a particle from the other, and flashed back to the bush, tested, approved, and chipped his thanks.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000040_000004|Well!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000040_000008|Look at that topknot a wavin' in the wind!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000041_000005|It's a dratted shame!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000043_000000|"Here!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000043_000002|Here!" whistled the Cardinal.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000000|"Well, I'm mighty glad if you're sayin' you'll stay!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000002|Lord! the Limberlost ain't to be compared with the river, mr Redbird.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000003|You're foolish if you go!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000005|But then you WARNED me, didn't you, old fellow?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000045_000000|Abram straightened and touched his hat brim in a trim half military salute.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000045_000001|"Well, good bye, mr Redbird.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000045_000005|See you in the mornin', right after breakfast, no count taken o' the weather."
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000046_000001|Wet year!" called the Cardinal after his retreating figure.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000047_000001|The Cardinal went to the top rail and feasted on the sweet grains of corn until his craw was full, and then nestled in the sumac and went to sleep.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000047_000002|Early next morning he was abroad and in fine toilet, and with a full voice from the top of the sumac greeted the day-"Wet year!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000047_000003|Wet year!"
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000048_000001|He located them, but it was only several staid old couples, a long time mated, and busy with their nest building.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000049_000000|He decided to prospect in the opposite direction, and taking wing, he started up the river.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000049_000001|Following the channel, he winged his flight for miles over the cool sparkling water, between the tangle of foliage bordering the banks.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000050_000000|He rounded curve after curve, and frequently stopping on a conspicuous perch, flung a ringing challenge in the face of the morning.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000050_000001|With every mile the way he followed grew more beautiful.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000050_000002|The river bed was limestone, and the swiftly flowing water, clear and limpid.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000051_000002|Startled, the Cardinal took wing.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000000|The river circled in one great curve.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000001|The Cardinal mounted to the tip top limb of the ash and looked around him.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000003|The mist and shimmer of early spring were in the air.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000005|Scattered around were mighty trees, but conspicuous above any, in the very center, was a giant sycamore, split at its base into three large trees, whose waving branches seemed to sweep the face of heaven, and whose roots, like miserly fingers, clutched deep into the black muck of Rainbow Bottom.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000053_000000|It was in this lovely spot that the rainbow at last materialized, and at its base, free to all humanity who cared to seek, the Great Alchemist had left His rarest treasures-the gold of sunshine, diamond water drops, emerald foliage, and sapphire sky.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000054_000001|Above all, the sycamore waved its majestic head.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000001|Look this way!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000002|Behold me!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000003|Have you seen any other of so great size?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000004|Have you any to equal my grace?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000005|Who can whistle so loud, so clear, so compelling a note?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000006|Who will fly to me for protection?
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000007|Who will come and be my mate?"
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000056_000000|He flared his crest high, swelled his throat with rolling notes, and appeared so big and brilliant that among the many cardinals that had gathered to hear, there was not one to compare with him.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000057_000000|Black envy filled their hearts.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000057_000002|There were many unmated cardinals in Rainbow Bottom, and many jealous males.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000000|The Cardinal, with a royal flourish, sprang in air to seek her; but her outraged mate was ahead of him, and with a scream she fled, leaving a tuft of feathers in her mate's beak.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000001|In turn the Cardinal struck him like a flashing rocket, and then red war waged in Rainbow Bottom.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000002|The females scattered for cover with all their might.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000003|The Cardinal worked in a kiss on one poor little bird, too frightened to escape him; then the males closed in, and serious business began.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000004|The Cardinal would have enjoyed a fight vastly with two or three opponents; but a half dozen made discretion better than valour.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000005|He darted among them, scattering them right and left, and made for the sycamore.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000059_000001|The newly mated pair finally made up; the females speedily resumed their coquetting, and forgot the captivating stranger-all save the poor little one that had been kissed by accident.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000000|She had been hatched from a fifth egg to begin with; and every one knows the disadvantage of beginning life with four sturdy older birds on top of one.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000001|It was a meager egg, and a feeble baby that pipped its shell.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000002|The remainder of the family stood and took nearly all the food so that she almost starved in the nest, and she never really knew the luxury of a hearty meal until her elders had flown.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000004|Hunger driven, she climbed to the edge and exercised her wings until she managed some sort of flight to a neighbouring bush. She missed the twig and fell to the ground, where she lay cold and shivering.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000061_000000|She cried pitifully, and was almost dead when a brown faced, barefoot boy, with a fishing pole on his shoulder, passed and heard her.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000062_000000|"Poor little thing, you are almost dead," he said.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000062_000001|"I know what I'll do with you.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000062_000002|I'll take you over and set you in the bushes where I heard those other redbirds, and then your ma will feed you."
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000064_000000|So her troubles continued.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000064_000002|She was left so badly frightened that she could not move for a long time.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000065_000000|All the tribulations of birdland fell to her lot.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000065_000001|She was so frail and weak she lost her family in migration, and followed with some strangers that were none too kind.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000065_000002|Life in the South had been full of trouble. Once a bullet grazed her so closely she lost two of her wing quills, and that made her more timid than ever.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000066_000000|She was such a shy, fearsome little body, the females all flouted her; and the males never seemed to notice that there was material in her for a very fine mate.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000066_000001|Every other female cardinal in Rainbow Bottom had several males courting her, but this poor, frightened, lonely one had never a suitor; and she needed love so badly!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000066_000002|Now she had been kissed by this magnificent stranger!
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000067_000001|He had intended it for the bold creature that had answered his challenge, but since it came to her, it was hers, in a way, after all.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000067_000003|All day she hid and waited, and the following days were filled with longing, but he never came again.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000068_000001|For miles she sneaked through the underbrush, and watched and listened; until at last night came, and she returned to Rainbow Bottom.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000068_000003|From there she glided through the bushes and underbrush, trembling and quaking, yet pushing stoutly onward, straining her ears for some note of the brilliant stranger's.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000069_000001|She sprang into air, and fled a mile before she realized that she was flying.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000069_000002|Then she stopped and listened, and rolling with the river, she heard those bold true tones.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000070_000000|High in the sumac the Cardinal had sung until his throat was parched, and the fountain of hope was almost dry.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000070_000003|Yet no one had come to seek him.
train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000070_000007|Wet year!"
train-clean-360/820/123133/820_123133_000014_000001|I transcribe it word for word:
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000000|After a short combat, the cavalry of the royalists gave way; and such of the infantry as stood next them were likewise borne down and put to flight.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000001|Newcastle's regiment alone, resolute to conquer or to perish, obstinately kept their ground, and maintained, by their dead bodies, the same order in which they had at first been ranged.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000002|In the other wing, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Colonel Lambert, with some troops, broke through the royalists; and, transported by the ardor of pursuit, soon reached their victorious friends, engaged also in pursuit of the enemy.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000004|When ready to seize on their carriages and baggage, he perceived Cromwell, who was now returned from pursuit of the other wing.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000005|Both sides were not a little surprised to find that they must again renew the combat for that victory which each of them thought they had already obtained.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000006|The front of the battle was now exactly counterchanged; and each army occupied the ground which had been possessed by the enemy at the beginning of the day.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000007|This second battle was equally furious and desperate with the first: but after the utmost efforts of courage by both parties, victory wholly turned to the side of the parliament.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000000|This event was in itself a mighty blow to the king; but proved more fatal in its consequences.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000001|The marquis of Newcastle was entirely lost to the royal cause.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000002|That nobleman the ornament of the court and of his order, had been engaged, contrary to the natural bent of his disposition, into these military operations merely by a high sense of honor and a personal regard to his master.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000003|The dangers of war were disregarded by his valor; but its fatigues were oppressive to his natural indolence.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000006_000000|When Prince Rupert, contrary to his advice, resolved on this battle, and issued all orders without communicating his intentions to him, he took the field, but, he said, merely as a volunteer; and, except by his personal courage, which shone out with lustre, he had no share in the action.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000006_000002|Next morning early, he sent word to the prince, that he was instantly to leave the kingdom; and without delay, he went to Scarborough, where he found a vessel, which carried him beyond sea.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000006_000003|During the ensuing years, till the restoration, he lived abroad in great necessity, and saw with indifference his opulent fortune sequestered by those who assumed the government of England.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000007_000000|Prince Rupert, with equal precipitation, drew off the remains of his army, and retired into Lancashire.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000013_000000|While these events passed in the north, the king's affairs in the south were conducted with more success and greater abilities.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000013_000001|Ruthven, a Scotchman, who had been created earl of Brentford, acted under the king as general.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000014_000001|The great zeal of the city facilitated this undertaking.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000014_000002|Many speeches were made to the citizens by the parliamentary leaders, in order to excite their ardor.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000000|The two generals had orders to march with their combined armies towards Oxford; and, if the king retired into that city, to lay siege to it, and by one enterprise put a period to the war.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000002|He marched towards Worcester; and Waller received orders from Essex to follow him and watch his motions, while he himself marched into the west, in quest of Prince Maurice.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000003|Waller had approached within two miles of the royal camp, and was only separated from it by the Severn, when he received intelligence that the king was advanced to Bewdly, and had directed his course towards Shrewsbury.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000004|In order to prevent him, Waller presently dislodged, and hastened by quick marches to that town while the king, suddenly returning upon his own footsteps reached Oxford; and having reenforced his army from that garrison, now in his turn marched out in quest of Waller.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000005|The two armies faced each other at Cropredy Bridge, near Banbury; but the Charwell ran between them.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000006|Next day, the king decamped, and marched towards Daventry.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000007|Waller ordered a considerable detachment to pass the bridge, with an intention of falling on the rear of the royalists.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000009|That general, having obliged Prince Maurice to raise the siege of Lyme, having taken Weymouth and Taunton, advanced still in his conquests, and met with no equal opposition.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000010|The king followed him, and having reenforced his army from all quarters, appeared in the field with an army superior to the enemy.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000011|Essex, retreating into Cornwall, informed the parliament of his danger, and desired them to send an army which might fall on the king's rear. General Middleton received a commission to execute that service; but came too late.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000014|Essex, Robarts, and some of the principal officers escaped in a boat to Plymouth; Balfour with his horse passed the king's outposts in a thick mist, and got safely to the garrisons of his own party.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000015|The foot under Skippon were obliged to surrender their arms, artillery, baggage, and ammunition; and being conducted to the parliament's quarters, were dismissed.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000019_000000|No sooner did this intelligence reach London, than the committee of the two kingdoms voted thanks to Essex for his fidelity, courage, and conduct; and this method of proceeding, no less politic than magnanimous, was preserved by the parliament throughout the whole course of the war.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000019_000001|Equally indulgent to their friends and rigorous to their enemies, they employed with success these two powerful engines of reward and punishment, in confirmation of their authority.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000020_000000|That the king might have less reason to exult in the advantages which he had obtained in the west, the parliament opposed to him very numerous forces.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000020_000002|Though the king's troops defended themselves with valor, they were overpowered by numbers; and the night came very seasonably to their relief, and prevented a total overthrow.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000020_000003|Charles, leaving his baggage and cannon in Dennington Castle, near Newbury, forthwith retreated to Wallingford, and thence to Oxford.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000023_000001|There had long prevailed in that party a secret distinction, which, though the dread of the king's power had hitherto suppressed it, yet, in proportion as the hopes of success became nearer and more immediate, began to discover itself with high contest and animosity.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000023_000002|The Independents, who had at first taken shelter and concealed themselves under the wings of the Presbyterians, now evidently appeared a distinct party, and betrayed very different views and pretensions.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000023_000003|We must here endeavor to explain the genius of this party, and of its leaders, who henceforth occupy the scene of action.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000024_000001|Every man, as prompted by the warmth of his temper, excited by emulation, or supported by his habits of hypocrisy, endeavored to distinguish himself beyond his fellows, and to arrive at a higher pitch of saintship and perfection.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000024_000002|In proportion to its degree of fanaticism, each sect became dangerous and destructive; and as the Independents went a note higher than the Presbyterians, they could less be restrained within any bounds of temper and moderation.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000024_000003|From this distinction, as from a first principle, were derived, by a necessary consequence, all the other differences of these two sects.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000025_000000|The Independents rejected all ecclesiastical establishments, and would admit of no spiritual courts, no government among pastors, no interposition of the magistrate in religious concerns, no fixed encouragement annexed to any system of doctrines or opinions.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000025_000001|According to their principles, each congregation, united voluntarily and by spiritual ties, composed within itself a separate church, and exercised a jurisdiction, but one destitute of temporal sanctions, over its own pastor and its own members.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000025_000003|The soldier, the merchant, the mechanic, indulging the fervors of zeal, and guided by the illapses of the spirit, resigned himself to an inward and superior direction, and was consecrated, in a manner, by an immediate intercourse and communication with heaven.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000026_000002|Of all Christian sects, this was the first which, during its prosperity as well as its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration; and it is remarkable that so reasonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the height of extravagance and fanaticism.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000027_000000|Popery and prelacy alone, whose genius seemed to tend towards superstition, were treated by the Independents with rigor.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000027_000001|The doctrines too of fate or destiny were deemed by them essential to all religion. In these rigid opinions the whole sectaries, amidst all their other differences, unanimously concurred.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000028_000001|In consequence of this scheme, they were declared enemies to all proposals of peace, except on such terms as they knew it was impossible to obtain; and they adhered to that maxim, which is in the main prudent and political, that whoever draws the sword against his sovereign, should throw away the scabbard.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000028_000002|By terrifying others with the fear of vengeance from the offended prince, they had engaged greater numbers into the opposition against peace, than had adopted their other principles with regard to government and religion.
train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000029_000000|Sir Henry Vane, Oliver Cromwell, Nathaniel Fiennes, and Oliver saint John, the solicitor general, were regarded as the leaders of the Independents. The earl of Essex, disgusted with a war of which he began to foresee the pernicious consequences, adhered to the Presbyterians, and promoted every reasonable plan of accommodation.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000000|These violent dissensions brought matters to extremity, and pushed the Independents to the execution of their designs.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000001|The present generals, they thought, were more desirous of protracting than finishing the war; and having entertained a scheme for preserving still some balance in the constitution, they were afraid of entirely subduing the king, and reducing him to a condition where he should not be entitled to ask any concessions.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000002|A new model alone of the army could bring complete victory to the parliament, and free the nation from those calamities under which it labored.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000003|But how to effect this project was the difficulty. The authority, as well as merits, of Essex was very great with the parliament.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000000|A fast, on the last Wednesday of every month, had been ordered by the parliament at the beginning of these commotions; and their preachers on that day were careful to keep alive, by their vehement declamations, the popular prejudices entertained against the king, against prelacy, and against Popery.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000002|On that day, the preachers, after many political prayers, took care to treat of the reigning divisions in the parliament, and ascribed them entirely to the selfish ends pursued by the members.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000003|In the hands of those members, they said, are lodged all the considerable commands of the army, all the lucrative offices in the civil administration: and while the nation is falling every day into poverty, and groans under an insupportable load of taxes, these men multiply possession on possession, and will in a little time be masters of all the wealth of the kingdom.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000004|That such persons, who fatten on the calamities of their country, will ever embrace any effectual measure for bringing them to a period, or insuring final success to the war, cannot reasonably be expected.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000005|Lingering expedients alone will be pursued; and operations in the field concurring in the same pernicious end with deliberations in the cabinet, civil commotions will forever be perpetuated in the nation.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000010_000000|On the day subsequent to these devout animadversions when the parliament met, a new spirit appeared in the looks of many.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000002|The parliament, no doubt, continued he, had done wisely on the commencement of the war, in engaging several of its members in the most dangerous parts of it, and thereby satisfying the nation that they intended to share all hazards with the meanest of the people.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000003|But affairs are now changed.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000004|During the progress of military operations, there have arisen in the parliamentary armies many excellent officers, who are qualified for higher commands than they are now possessed of.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000006|The army, indeed, he was sorry to say it, did not correspond by its discipline to the merit of the officers; nor were there any hopes, till the present vices and disorders which prevail among the soldiers were repressed by a new model that their forces would ever be attended with signal success in any undertaking.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000012_000000|In opposition to this reasoning of the Independents, many of the Presbyterians showed the inconvenience and danger of the projected alteration.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000014_000000|Notwithstanding these reasonings, a committee was chosen to frame what was called the "self denying ordinance," by which the members of both houses were excluded from all civil and military employments, except a few offices which were specified.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000014_000001|This ordinance was the subject of great debate, and for a long time rent the parliament and city into factions.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000014_000003|A pension of ten thousand pounds a year was settled on Essex.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000015_000001|He was saved by a subtlety, and by that political craft in which he was so eminent.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000015_000002|At the time when the other officers resigned their commissions, care was taken that he should be sent with a body of horse to relieve Taunton besieged by the royalists.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000015_000003|His absence being remarked orders were despatched for his immediate attendance in parliament; and the new general was directed to employ some other officer in that service.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000020_000000|Fairfax was a person equally eminent for courage and for humanity; and though strongly infected with prejudices, or principles derived from religious and party zeal, he seems never, in the course of his public conduct, to have been diverted by private interest or ambition from adhering strictly to these principles.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000000|Cromwell, by whose sagacity and insinuation Fairfax was entirely governed, is one of the most eminent and most singular personages that occurs in history: the strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked, as the schemes of his conduct were, during the time, dark and impenetrable.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000001|His extensive capacity enabled him to form the most enlarged projects: his enterprising genius was not dismayed with the boldest and most dangerous.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000002|Carried by his natural temper to magnanimity, to grandeur, and to an imperious and domineering policy, he yet knew, when necessary, to employ the most profound dissimulation, the most oblique and refined artifice, the semblance of the greatest moderation and simplicity.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000004|And by using well that authority which he had attained by fraud and violence, he has lessened, if not overpowered, our detestation of his enormities, by our admiration of his success and of his genius.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000022_000000|During this important transaction of the self denying ordinance, the negotiations for peace were likewise carried on, though with small hopes of success.
train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000026_000000|The advantages gained during the campaign and the great distresses of the royalists, had much elevated their hopes; and they were resolved to repose no trust in men inflamed with the highest animosity against them, and who, were they possessed of power, were fully authorized by law to punish all their opponents as rebels and traitors.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000002_000000|Had Charles been of a disposition to neglect all theological controversy, he yet had been obliged, in good policy, to adhere to episcopal jurisdiction; not only because it was favorable to monarchy, but because all its adherents were passionately devoted to it; and to abandon them, in what they regarded as so important an article, was forever to relinquish their friendship and assistance.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000002_000001|But Charles had never attained such enlarged principles.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000002_000002|He deemed bishops essential to the very being of a Christian church; and he thought himself bound, by more sacred ties than those of policy, or even of honor, to the support of that order.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000004_000000|These concessions, though considerable gave no satisfaction to the parliamentary commissioners; and, without abating any thing of their rigor on this head, they proceeded to their demands with regard to the militia.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000005_000000|The king's partisans had all along maintained, that the fears and jealousies of the parliament, after the securities so early and easily given to public liberty, were either feigned or groundless; and that no human institution could be better poised and adjusted than was now the government of England.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000005_000002|In this situation, surely the nation, governed by so virtuous a monarch, may for the present remain in tranquillity, and try whether it be not possible, by peaceful arts, to elude that danger with which it is pretended its liberties are still threatened.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000006_000000|But though the royalists insisted on these plausible topics before the commencement of war, they were obliged to own, that the progress of civil commotions had somewhat abated the force and evidence of this reasoning.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000006_000001|If the power of the militia, said the opposite party, be intrusted to the king, it would not now be difficult for him to abuse that authority.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000006_000003|Were the arms of the state, therefore, put entirely into such hands, what public security, it may be demanded, can be given to liberty, or what private security to those who, in opposition to the letter of the law, have so generously ventured their lives in its defence?
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000007_000001|Whether there were any equity in securing only one party, and leaving the other, during the space of seven years, entirely at the mercy of their enemies?
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000008_000001|Amidst such violent animosities, power alone could insure safety; and the power of one side was necessarily attended with danger to the other.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000008_000002|Few or no instances occur in history of an equal, peaceful, and durable accommodation that has been concluded between two factions which had been inflamed into civil war.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000009_000000|With regard to Ireland, there were no greater hopes of agreement between the parties.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000000|What rendered an accommodation more desperate was, that the demands on these three heads, however exorbitant, were acknowledged, by the parliamentary commissioners, to be nothing but preliminaries.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000001|After all these were granted, it would be necessary to proceed to the discussion of those other demands, still more exorbitant, which a little before had been transmitted to the king at Oxford.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000002|Such ignominious terms were there insisted on, that worse could scarcely be demanded, were Charles totally vanquished, a prisoner, and in chains.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000004|It was insisted that forty eight more, with all the members who had sitten in either house at Oxford, all lawyers and divines who had embraced the king's party, should be rendered incapable of any office, be forbidden the exercise of their profession, be prohibited from coming within the verge of the court, and forfeit the third of their estates to the parliament.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000017_000000|The Presbyterians, it must be confessed, after insisting on such conditions, differed only in words from the Independents, who required the establishment of a pure republic.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000017_000001|When the debates had been carried on to no purpose during twenty days among the commissioners, they separated, and returned; those of the king to Oxford, those of the parliament to London.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000019_000001|After the union with Scotland, the bigoted prejudices of that nation revived the like spirit in England; and the sectaries resolved to gratify their vengeance in the punishment of this prelate, who had so long, by his authority, and by the execution of penal laws, kept their zealous spirit under confinement.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000019_000002|He was accused of high treason, in endeavoring to subvert the fundamental laws, and of other high crimes and misdemeanors.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000020_000000|We shall not enter into a detail of this matter, which at present seems to admit of little controversy.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000020_000002|Notwithstanding the low condition into which the house of peers was fallen, there appeared some intention of rejecting this ordinance; and the popular leaders were again obliged to apply to the multitude, and to extinguish, by threats of new tumults, the small remains of liberty possessed by the upper house.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000020_000003|Seven peers alone voted in this important question.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000023_000002|Sincere he undoubtedly was, and, however misguided, actuated by pious motives in all his pursuits; and it is to be regretted that a man of such spirit, who conducted his enterprises with so much warmth and industry, had not entertained more enlarged views, and embraced principles more favorable to the general happiness of society.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000026_000000|The great and important advantage which the party gained by Strafford's death, may in some degree palliate the iniquity of the sentence pronounced against him: but the execution of this old, infirm prelate, who had so long remained an inoffensive prisoner, can be ascribed to nothing but vengeance and bigotry in those severe religionists by whom the parliament was entirely governed.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000026_000001|That he deserved a better fate was not questioned by any reasonable man: the degree of his merit in other respects was disputed.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000026_000002|Some accused him of recommending slavish doctrines, of promoting persecution, and of encouraging superstition; while others thought that his conduct in these three particulars would admit of apology and extenuation.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000027_000000|That the letter of the law, as much as the most flaming court sermon, inculcates passive obedience, is apparent; and though the spirit of a limited government seems to require, in extraordinary cases, some mitigation of so rigorous a doctrine, it must be confessed, that the presiding genius of the English constitution had rendered a mistake in this particular very natural and excusable.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000027_000001|To inflict death, at least, on those who depart from the exact line of truth in these nice questions, so far from being favorable to national liberty, savors strongly of the spirit of tyranny and proscription.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000028_000000|Toleration had hitherto been so little the principle of any Christian sect, that even the Catholics, the remnant of the religion professed by their forefathers, could not obtain from the English the least indulgence.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000028_000002|They openly challenged the superiority, and even menaced the established church with that persecution which they afterwards exercised against her with such severity.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000000|Whatever ridicule, to a philosophical mind, may be thrown on pious ceremonies, it must be confessed that, during a very religious age, no institutions can be more advantageous to the rude multitude, and tend more to mollify that fierce and gloomy spirit of devotion to which they are subject.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000001|Even the English church, though it had retained a share of Popish ceremonies, may justly be thought too naked and unadorned, and still to approach too near the abstract and spiritual religion of the Puritans.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000002|Laud and his associates, by reviving a few primitive institutions of this nature, corrected the error of the first reformers, and presented to the affrightened and astonished mind some sensible, exterior observances, which might occupy it during its religious exercises, and abate the violence of its disappointed efforts.
train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000003|The thought, no longer bent on that divine and mysterious essence, so superior to the narrow capacities of mankind, was able, by means of the new model of devotion, to relax itself in the contemplation of pictures, postures, vestments, buildings; and all the fine arts which minister to religion, thereby received additional encouragement.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000000|But though the king was naturally the gainer by such a method of conducting war, and it was by favor of law that the train, bands were raised in Cornwall, it appeared that those maxims were now prejudicial to the royal party.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000001|These troops could not legally, without their own consent, be carried out of the county; and consequently it was impossible to push into Devonshire the advantage which they had obtained.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000002|The Cornish royalists, therefore, bethought themselves of levying a force which might be more serviceable.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000003|Sir Bevil Granville, the most beloved man of that country, Sir Ralph Hopton, Sir Nicholas Slanning, Arundel, and Trevannion undertook as their own charges to raise an army for the king; and their great interest in Cornwall soon enabled them to effect their purpose.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000004|The parliament, alarmed at this appearance of the royalists, gave a commission to Ruthven, a Scotchman, governor of Plymouth, to march with all the forces to Dorset.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000005|Somerset, and Devon, and make an entire conquest of Cornwall.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000006|The earl of Stamford followed him at some distance With a considerable supply.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000009|The battle was fought on Bradoc Down; and the king's forces, though inferior in number, gave a total defeat to their enemies.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000010|Ruthven, with a few broken troops, fled to Saltash; and when that town was taken, he escaped with some difficulty, and almost alone, into Plymouth.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000011|Stamford retired, and distributed his forces into Plymouth and Exeter.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000000|Notwithstanding these advantages, the extreme want both of money and ammunition under which the Cornish royalists labored, obliged them to enter into a convention of neutrality with the parliamentary party in Devonshire; and this neutrality held all the winter season.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000001|In the spring, it was broken by the authority of the two houses; but war recommenced with great appearance of disadvantage to the king's party. Stamford, having assembled a strong body of near seven thousand men, well supplied with money, provisions, and ammunition, advanced upon the royalists, who were not half his number, and were oppressed by every kind of necessity.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000002|Despair, joined to the natural gallantry of these troops, commanded by the prime gentry of the county, made them resolve by one vigorous effort, to overcome all these disadvantages.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000003|Stamford being encamped on the top of a high hill near Stratum, they attacked him in four divisions, at five in the morning, having lain all night under arms.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000006|The fight continued with doubtful success, till word was brought to the chief officers of the Cornish, that their ammunition was spent to less than four barrels of powder.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000007|This defect, which they concealed from the soldiers, they resolved to supply by their valor. They agreed to advance without firing till they should reach the top of the hill, and could be on equal ground with the enemy.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000009_000000|After this success, the attention both of king and parliament was turned towards the west, as to a very important scene of action.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000009_000002|On the other hand, the parliament, having supplied Sir William Waller, in whom they much trusted, with a complete army, despatched him westwards, in order to check the progress of the royalists.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000000|The royalists next attempted to march eastwards, and to join their forces to the king's at Oxford: but Waller hung on their rear, and infested their march till they reached the Devizes.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000002|It was resolved that Hertford and Prince Maurice should proceed with the cavalry; and, having procured a reenforcement from the king, should hasten back to the relief of their friends.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000003|Waller was so confident of taking this body of infantry, now abandoned by the horse, that he wrote to the parliament that their work was done, and that by the next post he would inform them of the number and quality of the prisoners.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000006|After a sharp action, he was totally routed, and flying with a few horse, escaped to Bristol.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000014_000000|This important victory, following so quick after many other successes, struck great dismay into the parliament, and gave an alarm to their principal army, commanded by Essex.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000014_000001|Waller exclaimed loudly against that general, for allowing Wilmot to pass him, and proceed without any interruption to the succor of the distressed infantry at the Devizes. But Essex, finding that his army fell continually to decay after the siege of Reading, was resolved to remain upon the defensive; and the weakness of the king, and his want of all military stores, had also restrained the activity of the royal army.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000000|Colonel Urrey, a Scotchman, who served in the parliamentary army, having received some disgust, came to Oxford and offered his services to the king.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000001|In order to prove the sincerity of his conversion, he informed Prince Rupert of the loose disposition of the enemy's quarters, and exhorted him to form some attempt upon them.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000003|The alarm being given, every one mounted on horseback, in order to pursue the prince, to recover the prisoners, and to repair the disgrace which the army had sustained.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000004|Among the rest Hambden, who had a regiment of infantry that lay at a distance, joined the horse as a volunteer; and overtaking the royalists on Chalgrave field, entered into the thickest of the battle.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000005|By the bravery and activity of Rupert, the king's troops were brought off, and a great booty, together with two hundred prisoners, was conveyed to Oxford.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000017_000003|But whether, in the pursuit of this violent enterprise, he was actuated by private ambition or by honest prejudices, derived from the former exorbitant powers of royalty, it belongs not to an historian of this age, scarcely even to an intimate friend, positively to determine.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000000|Essex, discouraged by this event, dismayed by the total rout of Waller, was further informed, that the queen, who landed at Burlington Bay, had arrived at Oxford, and had brought from the north a reenforcement of three thousand foot and fifteen hundred horse.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000001|Dislodging from Thame and Aylesbury, where he had hitherto lain, he thought proper to retreat nearer to London; and he showed to his friends his broken and disheartened forces, which a few months before he had led into the field in so flourishing a condition.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000002|The king, freed from this enemy, sent his army westward under Prince Rupert; and, by their conjunction with the Cornish troops, a formidable force, for numbers as well as reputation and valor, was composed.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000003|That an enterprise correspondent to men's expectations might be undertaken, the prince resolved to lay siege to Bristol, the second town for riches and greatness in the kingdom. Nathaniel Fiennes, son of Lord Say he himself, as well as his father, a great parliamentary leader was governor, and commanded a garrison of two thousand five hundred foot, and two regiments, one of horse, another of dragoons.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000006|On the prince's side, the assault was conducted with equal courage, and almost with equal loss, but with better success.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000007|One party, led by Lord Grandison, was indeed beaten off, and the commander himself mortally wounded: another, conducted by Colonel Bellasis, met with a like fate: but Washington, with a less party, finding a place in the curtain weaker than the rest, broke in, and quickly made room for the horse to follow.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000022_000001|Five hundred excellent soldiers perished.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000022_000004|Having joined the camp at Bristol, and sent Prince Maurice with a detachment into Devonshire, he deliberated how to employ the remaining forces in an enterprise of moment.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000022_000006|But this undertaking, by reason of the great number and force of the London militia, was thought by many to be attended with considerable difficulties.
train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000023_000000|The governor of Gloucester was one Massey, a soldier of fortune, who, before he engaged with the parliament, had offered his service to the king; and as he was free from the fumes of enthusiasm, by which most of the officers on that side were intoxicated, he would lend an ear, it was presumed, to proposals for accommodation.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000001|The rapid progress of the royalists threatened the parliament with immediate subjection: the factions and discontents among themselves in the city, and throughout the neighboring counties, prognosticated some dangerous division or insurrection.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000002|Those parliamentary leaders, it must be owned, who had introduced such mighty innovations into the English constitution, and who had projected so much greater, had not engaged in an enterprise which exceeded their courage and capacity.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000003|Great vigor, from the beginning, as well as wisdom, they had displayed in all their counsels; and a furious, headstrong body, broken loose from the restraint of law, had hitherto been retained in subjection under their authority, and firmly united by zeal and passion, as by the most legal and established government.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000006|In the beginning of this summer, a combination, formed against them in London, had obliged them to exert the plenitude of their authority.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000004_000000|Edward Waller, the first refiner of English versification, was a member of the lower house; a man of considerable fortune, and not more distinguished by his poetical genius than by his parliamentary talents, and by the politeness and elegance of his manners.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000004_000001|As full of keen satire and invective in his eloquence, as of tenderness and panegyric in his poetry, he caught the attention of his hearers, and exerted the utmost boldness in blaming those violent counsels by which the commons were governed.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000004_000005|While this affair was in agitation, and lists were making of such as they conceived to be well affected to their design, a servant of Tomkins, who had overheard their discourse, immediately carried intelligence to Pym.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000006_000000|They were all three condemned, and the two latter executed on gibbets erected before their own doors.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000006_000001|A covenant, as a test, was taken by the lords and commons, and imposed on their army, and on all who lived within their quarters.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000007_000000|Waller, as soon as imprisoned, sensible of the great danger into which he had fallen, was so seized with the dread of death, that all his former spirit deserted him; and he confessed whatever he knew, without sparing his most intimate friends, without regard to the confidence reposed in him, without distinguishing between the negligence of familiar conversation and the schemes of a regular conspiracy.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000007_000001|With the most profound dissimulation, he counterfeited such remorse of conscience, that his execution was put off, out of mere Christian compassion, till he might recover the use of his understanding.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000008_000001|But by the progress of the king's arms, the defeat of Sir William Waller, the taking of Bristol, the siege of Gloucester, a cry for peace was renewed, and with more violence than ever.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000000|The upper house sent down terms of accommodation, more moderate than had hitherto been insisted on.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000001|It even passed by a majority among the commons, that these proposals should be transmitted to the King.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000002|The zealots took the alarm.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000003|A petition against peace was framed in the city, and presented by Pennington, the factious mayor.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000017_000000|Massey, resolute to make a vigorous defence, and having under his command a city and garrison ambitious of the crown of martyrdom, had hitherto maintained the siege with courage and abilities, and had much retarded the advances of the king's army.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000017_000001|By continual sallies he infested them in their trenches, and gained sudden advantages over them: by disputing every inch of ground, he repressed the vigor and alacrity of their courage, elated by former successes.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000017_000002|His garrison, however, was reduced to the last extremity; and he failed not from time to time to inform the parliament that, unless speedily relieved, he should be necessitated, from the extreme want of provisions and ammunition, to open his gates to the enemy.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000000|The parliament, in order to repair their broken condition, and put themselves in a posture of defence, now exerted to the utmost their power and authority.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000002|Having associated in their cause the counties of Hertford, Essex, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincoln, and Huntingdon, they gave the earl of Manchester a commission to be general of the association, and appointed an army to be levied under his command.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000003|But, above all, they were intent that Essex's army, on which their whole fortune depended, should be put in a condition of marching against the king.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000004|They excited afresh their preachers to furious declamations against the royal cause.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000019_000002|One barrel of powder was their whole stock of ammunition remaining; and their other provisions were in the same proportion.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000020_000000|The chief difficulty still remained.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000020_000001|Essex dreaded a battle with the king's army, on account of its great superiority in cavalry; and he resolved to return, if possible, without running that hazard.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000020_000002|He lay five days at Tewkesbury, which was his first stage after leaving Gloucester; and he feigned, by some preparations, to point towards Worcester.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000001|On both sides the battle was fought with desperate valor and a steady bravery.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000002|Essex's horse were several times broken by the king's, but his infantry maintained themselves in firm array; and, besides giving a continued fire, they presented an invincible rampart of pikes against the furious shock of Prince Rupert, and those gallant troops of gentry of which the royal cavalry was chiefly composed.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000003|The militia of London especially, though utterly unacquainted with action, though drawn hut a few days before from their ordinary occupations, yet having learned all military exercises, and being animated with unconquerable zeal for the cause in which they were engaged, equalled on this occasion what could be expected from the most veteran forces.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000004|While the armies were engaged with the utmost ardor, night put an end to the action and left the victory undecided.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000005|Next morning, Essex proceeded on his march; and though his rear was once put in some disorder by an incursion of the king's horse, he reached London in safety, and received applause for his conduct and success in the whole enterprise.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000027_000001|Before assembling the present parliament, this man, devoted to the pursuits of learning and to the society of all the polite and elegant, had enjoyed himself in every pleasure which a fine genius, a generous disposition, and an opulent fortune could afford.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000027_000005|In excuse for the too free exposing of his person, which seemed unsuitable in a secretary of state, he alleged, that it became him to be more active than other men in all hazardous enterprises, lest his impatience for peace might bear the imputation of cowardice or pusillanimity.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000027_000006|From the commencement of the war, his natural cheerfulness and vivacity became clouded; and even his usual attention to dress, required by his birth and station gave way to a negligence which was easily observable.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000029_000000|The loss sustained on both sides in the battle of Newbury, and the advanced season, obliged the armies to retire into winter quarters.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000000|In the north, during this summer, the great interest and popularity of the earl, now created marquis of Newcastle, had raised a considerable force for the king; and great hopes of success were entertained from that quarter.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000001|There appeared, however, in opposition to him, two men on whom the event of the war finally depended, and who began about this time to be remarked for their valor and military conduct.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000002|These were Sir Thomas Fairfax, son of the lord of that name, and Oliver Cromwell.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000003|The former gained a considerable advantage at Wakefield over a detachment of royalists, and took General Goring prisoner: the latter obtained a victory at Gainsborough over a party commanded by the gallant Cavendish, who perished in the action.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000005|After this victory, Newcastle, with an army of fifteen thousand men, sat down before Hull. Hotham was no longer governor of this place.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000006|That gentleman and his son partly from a jealousy entertained of Lord Fairfax, partly repenting of their engagements against the king, had entered into a correspondence with Newcastle, and had expressed an intention of delivering Hull into his hands.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000031_000000|Newcastle, having carried on the attack of Hull for some time, was beat off by a sally of the garrison, and suffered so much that he thought proper to raise the siege.
train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000031_000001|About the same time, Manchester, who advanced from the eastern associated counties, having joined Cromwell and young Fairfax, obtained a considerable victory over the royalists at Horncastle; where the two officers last mentioned gained renown by their conduct and gallantry.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000000|When the Scottish Covenanters obtained that end for which they so earnestly contended, the establishment of Presbyterian discipline in their own country, they were not satisfied, but indulged still in an ardent passion for propagating, by all methods, that mode of religion in the neighboring kingdoms.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000003|Should the king, they said, be able by force of arms to prevail over the parliament of England, and reestablish his authority in that powerful kingdom, he will undoubtedly retract all those concessions which, with so many circumstances of violence and indignity, the Scots have extorted from him.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000006|Does not the parliament consist of those very men who have ever opposed all war with Scotland, who have punished the authors of our oppressions, who have obtained us the redress of every grievance, and who, with many honorable expressions, have conferred on us an ample reward for our brotherly assistance?
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000007|And is not the court full of Papists, prelates, malignants; all of them zealous enemies to our religious model, and resolute to sacrifice their lives for their idolatrous establishments?
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000008|Not to mention our own necessary security can we better express our gratitude to Heaven for that pure light with which we are, above all nations, so eminently distinguished, than by conveying the same divine knowledge to our unhappy neighbors, who are wading through a sea of blood in order to attain it?
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000006_000001|The commissioners were also empowered to press the king on the article of religion, and to recommend to him the Scottish model of ecclesiastic worship and discipline.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000012_000001|Under color of providing for national peace, endangered by the neighborhood of English armies, was a convention called; an assembly which though it meets with less solemnity, has the same authority as a parliament in raising money and levying forces.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000012_000002|Hamilton, and his brother the earl of Laneric, who had been sent into Scotland in order to oppose, these measures, wanted either authority or sincerity; and passively yielded to the torrent.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000012_000003|The general assembly of the church met at the same time with the convention; and exercising an authority almost absolute over the whole civil power, made every political consideration yield to their theological zeal and prejudices.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000013_000000|The English parliament was at that time fallen into great distress by the progress of the royal arms; and they gladly sent to Edinburgh commissioners, with ample powers to treat of a nearer union and confederacy with the Scottish nation.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000016_000000|In this negotiation, the man chiefly trusted was Vane, who, in eloquence, address, capacity, as well as in art and dissimulation, was not surpassed by any one even during that age, so famous for active talents.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000018_000000|The subscribers of the covenant vowed also to preserve the reformed religion established in the church of Scotland; but, by the artifice of Vane, no declaration more explicit was made with regard to England and Ireland, than that these kingdoms should be reformed according to the word of God and the example of the purest churches.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000019_000000|In the English parliament there remained some members who, though they had been induced, either by private ambition or by zeal for civil liberty, to concur with the majority, still retained an attachment to the hierarchy, and to the ancient modes of worship.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000019_000001|But in the present danger which threatened their cause, all scruples were laid aside; and the covenant, by whose means alone they could expect to obtain so considerable a reenforcement as the accession of the Scottish nation, was received without opposition.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000019_000002|The parliament, therefore, having first subscribed it themselves, ordered it to be received by all who lived under their authority.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000020_000001|And being determined that the sword should carry conviction to all refractory minds, they prepared themselves, with great vigilance and activity, for their military enterprises.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000020_000002|By means of a hundred thousand pounds, which they received from England; by the hopes of good pay and warm quarters; not to mention men's favorable disposition towards the cause; they soon completed their levies.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000001|They had entered, indeed, into a contract with the Scots, for sending over an army of ten thousand men into Ireland; and in order to engage that nation in this undertaking, besides giving a promise of pay, they agreed to put Caricfergus into their hands, and to invest their general with an authority quite independent of the English government.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000002|These troops, so long as they were allowed to remain, were useful, by diverting the force of the Irish rebels, and protecting in the north the small remnants of the British planters.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000003|But except this contract with the Scottish nation, all the other measures of the parliament either were hitherto absolutely insignificant, or tended rather to the prejudice of the Protestant cause in Ireland.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000004|By continuing their violent persecution, and still more violent menaces against priests and Papists, they confirmed the Irish Catholics in their rebellion, and cut off all hopes of indulgence and toleration.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000000|But notwithstanding these successes, even the most common necessaries of life were wanting to the victorious armies.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000001|The Irish, in their wild rage against the British planters, had laid waste the whole kingdom, and were themselves totally unfit, from their habitual sloth and ignorance, to raise any convenience of human life.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000002|During the course of six months, no supplies had come from England, except the fourth part of one small vessel's lading.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000003|Dublin, to save itself from starving, had been obliged to send the greater part of its inhabitants to England.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000004|The army had little ammunition, scarcely exceeding forty barrels of gunpowder; not even shoes or clothes; and for want of food, the soldiers had been obliged to eat their own horses.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000030_000000|The justices and council of Ireland had been engaged, chiefly by the interest and authority of Ormond, to fall into an entire dependence on the king.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000030_000001|Parsons, Temple, Loftus, and Meredith, who favored the opposite party, had been removed; and Charles had supplied their place by others better affected to his service.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000030_000003|They even intercepted some small succors sent thither by the king.
train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000031_000001|A truce with the rebels, he thought, would enable his subjects in Ireland to provide for their own support, and would procure him the assistance of the army against the English parliament.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000006_000001|I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000014_000001|And may God grant that it may be done according to my words, even as I have spoken.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000014_000002|Amen.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000026_000001|Nevertheless, there was no law against a man's belief; therefore, a man was punished only for the crimes which he had done; therefore all men were on equal grounds.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000028_000001|Why do ye look for a Christ?
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000036_000001|And he came over into the land of Gideon, and began to preach unto them also; and here he did not have much success, for he was taken and bound and carried before the high priest, and also the chief judge over the land.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000037_000001|Why do ye teach this people that there shall be no Christ, to interrupt their rejoicings?
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000037_000002|Why do ye speak against all the prophecies of the holy prophets?
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000038_000001|And Korihor said unto him: Because I do not teach the foolish traditions of your fathers, and because I do not teach this people to bind themselves down under the foolish ordinances and performances which are laid down by ancient priests, to usurp power and authority over them, to keep them in ignorance, that they may not lift up their heads, but be brought down according to thy words.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000039_000001|Behold, I say they are in bondage.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000054_000001|For behold, I say unto you, I know there is a God, and also that Christ shall come.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000068_000001|And he said unto me: There is no God; yea, and he taught me that which I should say.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000073_000001|And Korihor did go about from house to house, begging food for his support.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000094_000001|Amen.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000103_000001|Behold, O God, they cry unto thee with their mouths, while they are puffed up, even to greatness, with the vain things of the world.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000106_000001|O Lord, wilt thou give me strength, that I may bear with mine infirmities.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000106_000002|For I am infirm, and such wickedness among this people doth pain my soul.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000108_000001|Yea, wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000112_000001|And behold, as he clapped his hands upon them, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000114_000001|Now this was according to the prayer of Alma; and this because he prayed in faith.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000133_000001|Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000135_000001|Behold, I say unto you, that it is on the one hand even as it is on the other; and it shall be unto every man according to his work.
train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000138_000001|Now this is not all; little children do have words given unto them many times which confound the wise and the learned.
train-clean-360/8266/258262/8266_258262_000005_000010|Then he fared on into the valley.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
train-clean-360/8266/258262/8266_258262_000007_000007|But, on the third day as he was despairing he caught sight of an island steep and mountainous; so he swam for it and landing, walked on inland, where he rested a day and a Night, feeding on the growth of the ground.
train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000003_000011|Then she called him to her one day and said to him, "Wilt thou hearken to me?" And he signed to her with his head, "Yes." So she rejoiced and freed him from the enchantment.
train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000003_000013|When it was night she lay down and said to him, "Come, do thy business." He replied, " 'tis well;" and, mounting on her breast, seized her by the neck and brake it, nor did he arise from her till life had left her.
train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000003_000015|As soon as it was morning, he went forth and stood at the gate of the palace.
train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000005_000005|He abode Zalzal's guest six months, when he desired to depart; so Zalzal gave him rich presents and despatched three thousand Marids, who brought the spoils of Karaj city and added them to those of Jan Shah.
train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000007_000000|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the cause of this army coming upon Isbanir city was wondrous.
train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000007_000011|When he reached the age of fifteen, his spirit waxed big in him and he said to Fakhr Taj, "O my mamma, who is my papa?" She replied, "O my son, Gharib, King of Irak, is thy father and I am the King's daughter, of the Persians," and she told him her story.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000004_000000|Colonel Woodville had begun to swear.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000004_000001|It was not the torrent of loud imprecation that Dick had heard in Jackson, but subdued, and all the more fierce because it was so like the ferocious whine of a powerful and hurt wild animal.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000005_000000|Dick heard oaths, ripe and rich, entirely new to him, and he heard the old ones in new arrangements and with new inflections.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000005_000001|And yet there was no blasphemy about it.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000006_000000|They reached the door, the cut in the side of the ravine, and at once a wide portion of the battlefield sprang into the light, while the roar of the guns was redoubled.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000006_000001|Dick would have stepped back now, but Colonel Woodville's hand rested on his shoulder and his support was needed.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000000|"My glasses, Margaret!" said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000001|"I must see!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000002|I will see!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000003|If I am but an old hound, lying here while the pack is in full cry, I will nevertheless see the chase!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000004|And even if I am an old hound I could run with the best of them if that infernal Yankee bullet had not taken me in the leg!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000001|Dick saw only the field of battle, dark lines and blurs, the red flare of cannon and rifle fire, and towers and banks of smoke, but the colonel saw individual human beings, and, with his trained military eye, he knew what the movements meant.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000002|Dick felt the hand upon his shoulder trembling with excitement.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000003|He was excited himself.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000004|Miss Woodville stood just behind them, and a faint tinge of color appeared in her pale face.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000000|"The Yankees are getting ready to charge," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000001|"At the point we see they will not yet rush forward.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000003|But the woods and ravines are filled with their skirmishers, trying to clear the way.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000004|I can see them in hundreds and hundreds, and their rifles make sheets of flame.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000005|All the time the cannon are firing over their heads.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000006|Heavens, what a bombardment!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000007|I've never before listened to its like!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000010_000000|"What are our troops doing, father?" asked Miss Woodville.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000011_000000|"Very little yet, and they should do little.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000011_000001|Pemberton is showing more judgment than I expected of him.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000011_000002|The defense should hold its fire until the enemy is well within range and that's what we're doing!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000012_000000|The colonel leaned a little more heavily upon him, but Dick steadied himself.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000012_000002|The hills shook with the thunder of the cannon, and the brilliant sun, piercing through the smoke, lighted up the vast battle line.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000000|"The attack of the skirmishers grows hotter," said the old man.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000001|"The thickets blaze with the fire of their rifles.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000003|Now they stop and lie on their arms.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000004|They are awaiting the word from other parts of the field, and it shows with certainty that a grand attack is coming.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000005|Two batteries of eight guns each have come nearer.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000006|I did not think it possible for the fire of their cannon to increase, but it has done so.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000007|Young sir, would you care to look through the glasses?"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000014_000000|"I believe not, Colonel.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000014_000001|I will trust to the naked eye and your report."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000015_000000|It was an odd feeling that made Dick decline the glasses.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000015_000001|If he looked he must tell to the others what he saw, and he wished to show neither exultation nor depression.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000015_000002|The colonel, the duty of courtesy discharged, resumed his own position of witness and herald.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000000|"The columns of infantry are getting up again," he said.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000001|"I see a man in what I take to be a general's uniform riding along their front.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000002|He must be making a speech.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000003|No doubt he knows the desperate nature of the attack, and would inspire them.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000004|Now he is gone and other officers, colonels and majors are moving about."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000017_000000|"What are the skirmishers doing, Colonel?"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000000|"Their fire is not so hot.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000001|They must be drawing back.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000002|They have made the prelude, and the importance of their role has passed.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000003|The masses of infantry are drawing together again.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000004|Now I see men on horseback with trumpets to their lips.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000005|Yes, the charge is coming.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000007|That burnt them!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000019_000000|There was a terrific crash much nearer, and Dick knew that it was the Southern batteries opening fire.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000019_000001|The shoulder upon which the colonel's hand rested shook a little, but it was from excitement.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000019_000002|He said nothing and Colonel Woodville continued:
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000020_000000|"The smoke is so heavy I can't see what damage was done!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000020_000001|Now it has cleared away!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000020_000002|There are gaps in the Yankee lines, but the men have closed up, and they come on at the double quick with their cannon still firing over their heads!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000021_000000|In his excitement he took his hand off Dick's shoulder and leaned forward a little farther, supporting himself now against the earthen wall.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000021_000001|Dick stood just behind him, shielded from the sight of any one who might be passing in the ravine, although there was little danger now from searchers with a great battle going on.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000021_000002|Meanwhile he watched the combat with an eagerness fully equal to that of the old colonel.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000022_000000|The mighty crash of cannon and rifles together continued, but for a little while the smoke banked up in front so densely that the whole combat was hidden from them.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000022_000001|Then a wind slowly rolled the smoke away. The figures of the men began to appear like shadowy tracery, and then emerged, distinct and separate from the haze.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000023_000000|"They are nearer now," said the Colonel.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000023_000002|But our batteries are raking them horribly.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000023_000003|Their men are falling by the scores and hundreds."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000024_000000|Miss Woodville uttered a deep sigh and turned her face away.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000024_000001|But she looked again in a few moments.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000024_000002|The terrible spell was upon her, too.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000025_000000|Dick's nerves were quivering.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000025_000001|His heart was with the assailants and theirs with the assailed, but he would not speak aloud against the hopes of Colonel Woodville and his daughter, since he was in their house, such as it was, and, in a measure, under their protection.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000000|"Their charge is splendid," continued the colonel, "and I hope Pemberton has made full use of the ground for defense!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000001|He will need all the help he can get!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000002|Oh, to be out of the battle on such a day!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000003|The smoke is in the way again and I can see nothing.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000004|Now it has passed and the enemy is still advancing, but our fire grows hotter and hotter!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000006|They must go back!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000027_000000|Nevertheless the blue lines came steadily toward the Southern earthworks.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000028_000001|Ah, you riflemen, your target is there!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000029_000001|Never flinching, the men of the west and northwest hurled themselves upon the powerful fortified positions.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000029_000002|Some reached shelves of the plateau almost at the mouths of the guns and hung there, their comrades falling dead or dying around them, but now the rebel yell began to swell along the vast line, and reached the ears of those in the ravine.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000000|"The omen of victory!" exclaimed the colonel exultantly.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000001|"Our brave lads feel that they're about to triumph!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000002|Grant can't break through our line! Why doesn't he call off his men?
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000003|It's slaughter!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000000|Dick's heart sank.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000001|He knew that the colonel's words were true.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000002|The Southern army, posted in its defenses, was breaking the ring of steel that sought to crush it to death.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000003|Groups of men in blue who had seized ground in the very front of the defenses either died there or were gradually driven back.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000004|The inner ring along its front of miles thundered incessantly on the outer ring, and repelled every attempt to crush it.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000000|"They yield," said the colonel, after a long time.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000001|"The Northern fire has sunk at many points, and there! and there!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000002|they're retreating!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000003|The attack has failed and the South has won a victory!"
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000033_000000|"But Grant will come again," said Dick, speaking his opinion for the first time.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000034_000000|"No doubt of it," said Colonel Woodville, "but likely he will come to the same fate."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000000|He spoke wholly without animosity.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000001|The battle now died fast.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000002|The men in gray had been invincible.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000004|Many thousands had fallen and the Southern generals were exultant.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000005|Johnston would come up, and Grant, having such heavy losses, would be unable to withstand the united Confederate armies.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000037_000000|When the last cannon shot echoed over the far hills Colonel Woodville turned away from the door of his hillside home.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000038_000001|"What I have seen rejoices me greatly, but I do not say it to taunt you.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000039_000000|"May I help you back to your bed, sir?" asked Dick.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000000|"You may.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000001|You are a good young man.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000002|I'm glad I saved you from that scoundrel, Slade.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000003|As the score between us is even I wish that you were out of Vicksburg and with your own people."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000041_000000|"I was thinking, too, sir, that I ought to go.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000041_000001|I may take a quick departure."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000042_000000|"Then if you do go I wish you a speedy and safe journey, but I tell you to beware of one, Slade, who has a malicious heart and a long memory."
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000000|Dick withdrew to his own cell, as he called it, and he passed bitter hours there.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000001|The repulse had struck him a hard blow.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000002|Was it possible that Grant could not win?
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000003|And if he could not win what terrible risks he would run in the heart of the Confederacy, with perhaps two armies to fight!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000004|He felt that only the Mississippi, that life line connecting him with the North, could save him.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000044_000000|But as dusk came gradually in the ravine he resolved that he would go. His supper, as usual, was brought to him by Miss Woodville.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000044_000001|She was as taciturn as ever, speaking scarcely a half dozen words.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000045_000000|Dick was confident that nobody but Colonel Woodville, his daughter, and himself were in the cave home.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000045_000001|It was but a small place, and new callous places on her hands indicated that she was doing the cooking and all other work.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000045_000002|His resolve to risk everything and go was strengthened.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000002|He had surrendered his holster and pistols to Colonel Woodville, and so he must issue forth unarmed, but it could not be helped.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000003|He had several ten dollar gold pieces in his pocket, and he put one of them on the tiny table in his cell.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000004|He knew that it would be most welcome, and he could not calculate how many hundreds in Confederacy currency it was worth.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000005|He was glad that he could repay a little at least.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000000|Then he stepped lightly toward the larger chamber in which Colonel Woodville lay.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000001|The usual candle was burning on the table near his bed, but the great bald head lay motionless on the pillow, and the heavy white eyebrows drooped over closed lids.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000002|Sound asleep!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000003|Dick was glad of it.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000004|The colonel, with his strong loyalty to the South, might seek to hold him, at least as his personal prisoner, and now the trouble was avoided.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000048_000000|He moved gently across the floor, and then passed toward the open door. How good that puff of fresh air and freedom felt on his face!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000048_000001|He did not know that Colonel Woodville raised his head on the pillow, glanced after him, and then let his head sink back and his eyes close again.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000000|Dick stepped into the narrow path cut in the side of the ravine and inhaled more draughts of the fresh air.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000001|How sweet and strong it was!
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000002|How it filled one's lungs and brought with it life, courage and confidence! One had to live in a hole in a hill before he could appreciate fully the blessed winds that blew about the world.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000003|He knew that the path ran in front of other hollows dug in the earth, and he felt sorry for the people who were compelled to burrow in them.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000004|He felt sorry, in truth, for all Vicksburg, because now that he was outside his fears for Grant disappeared, and he knew that he must win.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000050_000000|While he remained in the path a deep boom came from the direction of the Union army and a huge shell burst over the town.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000050_000001|It was followed in a moment by another and then by many others.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000050_000002|While the besieged rejoiced in victory the besiegers had begun anew the terrible bombardment, sending a warning that the iron ring still held.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000051_000000|Dick paused no longer, but ran rapidly along the path until he emerged upon the open plateau and proceeded toward the center of the town.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000051_000001|He judged that in the hours following a great battle, while there was yet much confusion, he would find his best chance.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000052_000000|He had reckoned rightly.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000052_000001|There was a great passing to and fro in Vicksburg, but its lights were dim.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000053_000000|He had concluded that "the longest way around was the shortest way through," and he directed his steps toward the river.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000053_000001|He had formed a clear plan at last, and he believed that it would succeed.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000053_000002|Twisting and turning, always keeping in the shadows, he made good progress, descended the bluff, and at last stood behind the ruins of an old warehouse near the stream.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000054_000000|Southern batteries were not far away from him and he heard the men talking.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000054_000001|Then, strengthening his resolution, he came from behind the ruins, flung himself almost flat on the ground, and crawled toward the river, pushing in front of him a board, which some Northern gun had shot from the warehouse.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000055_000000|He knew that his task was difficult and dangerous, though in the last resort he could rush to the water and spring in.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000055_000001|But he was almost at the edge before any sentinel saw the black shadow passing over the ground.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000056_000000|A hail came, and Dick flattened himself against the ground and lay perfectly still.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000056_000001|Evidently the sentinel was satisfied that his fancy had been making merry with him, as he did not look further at the shadow, and Dick, after waiting two or three minutes, resumed his slow creeping.
train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000057_000000|He reached the edge, shoved the board into it, and dropped gently into the water beside it, submerged to the head.
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000006_000000|"Oh, have you really begun it?" cried Diana, all alight with eager interest in a moment.
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000016_000000|"How much do you suppose you'll get for it?" asked Diana.
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000020_000000|"How are you going to end it-happily or unhappily?"
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000023_000000|"But you like to cry over stories?"
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000024_000001|But I like everything to come right at last."
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000031_000000|"Why did you kill MAURICE LENNOX?" she asked reproachfully.
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000032_000001|"He had to be punished."
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000036_000000|"That wouldn't have been romantic, and, besides, it would have made the story too long."
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000037_000001|Have you got a title for it?"
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000038_000001|I call it AVERIL'S ATONEMENT. Doesn't that sound nice and alliterative?
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000047_000001|"But your folks ain't like real folks anywhere.
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000047_000004|If he'd done that in real life she'd have pitched him."
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000048_000000|"I don't believe it," said Anne flatly.
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000053_000001|He was bad."
train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000077_000003|I can teach.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000011_000000|"Darn her," exploded Davy.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000025_000000|"He didn't," cried Davy indignantly.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000025_000002|I'm not going to Sunday School or church at all.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000027_000000|"You've got to," said Davy.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000028_000000|"I couldn't help it.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000031_000000|"The very idea of your being scared of those cows," scoffed Davy.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000032_000000|"They're bigger," said Dora.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000033_000002|This is great.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000037_000000|"We've come to go fishing," announced Davy.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000046_000001|"And they have far better times than we have.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000059_000000|"Were all your class in Sunday School today?"
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000063_000000|"Did you put your collection in?"
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000067_000000|"Was the Ladies' Aid announced for next week?"
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000069_000000|"Was prayer meeting?"
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000076_000000|"You look pale.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000079_000001|"You just shut up, Dora Keith."
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000102_000000|"You bet!" said Davy emphatically.
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000122_000003|Good night."
train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000129_000001|Go, now!"
train-clean-360/830/130728/830_130728_000000_000000|Artistic Japan
train-clean-360/830/130728/830_130728_000020_000001|These are the recipes as he wrote them for us:
train-clean-360/830/130728/830_130728_000025_000000|Select six nice fresh sand dabs.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000006_000000|Chapter twelve.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000007_000000|Waiting for Sydney to come into the bedroom as usual and wish her good night, Kitty was astonished by the appearance of her grandmother, entering on tiptoe from the corridor, with a small paper parcel in her hand.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000008_000001|"This is your birthday present.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000008_000002|You mustn't look at it till you wake to morrow morning." She pushed the parcel under the pillow-and, instead of saying good night, took a chair and sat down.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000010_000000|The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture book. Kitty's grandmother disapproved of spending money lavishly on birthday gifts to children.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000010_000001|"Show it, of course; and take the greatest care of it," mrs Presty answered gravely.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000013_000001|"We will breakfast early, my precious child.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000015_000000|Sydney's heart ached when she thought of the separation that was to come with the next day; her despair forced its way to expression in words.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000017_000000|The child was still too drowsy to hear plainly.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000018_000000|Sydney laid her down again on the pillow, gave her a last kiss, and ran out of the room.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000019_000004|She went back to her bed chamber.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000021_000000|She hesitated; her tears dropped on the photographs.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000021_000001|"They're as good as spoiled now," she thought; "they're no longer fit for anybody but me." She paused, and abruptly took up the third and last photograph-the likeness of Herbert Linley.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000022_000000|Was it an offense, now, even to look at his portrait?
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000022_000005|Her longing eyes stole a last look at him-a frenzy seized her-she pressed her lips to the photograph in a passion of hopeless love.
train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000024_000001|As yet, he had failed to find the opportunity of addressing to Sydney the only words of encouragement he could allow to pass his lips: he had asked for her earlier in the evening, and nobody could tell him where she was.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000000_000000|Chapter thirteen.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000000_000001|Kitty Keeps Her Birthday.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000006_000003|Then there came a pause.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000007_000001|"Now," the spoiled child declared, addressing the company present, "I'm going to play."
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000014_000000|The reply only increased his perplexity.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000017_000000|"What is there to look at?" he inquired.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000024_000000|mrs Presty recovered the command of her temper.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000026_000001|"My indiscretion has deserved it.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000026_000003|Sit down, if you please.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000034_000000|She never once looked at her mother; her face, white and rigid, was turned toward Randal.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000041_000001|She refused to hear him.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000044_000000|She dropped into a chair.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000044_000003|Wondering what had become of her father and her governess, Kitty had asked the nursemaid to look for them.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000046_000000|"Yes, ma'am."
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000048_000000|"In the shrubbery."
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000052_000001|I might have been mistaken-"
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000052_000002|The girl paused, and looked confused.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000054_000000|"I might have been mistaken," the maid repeated-"but I thought Miss Westerfield was crying."
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000055_000001|The parasol caught her eye.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000055_000003|May I take the parasol?"
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000057_000001|The servant looked at her with vague misgivings.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000060_000003|One by one the tourists disappeared under the portico of the front door.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000060_000006|The thoughts from which she recoiled forced their way back into her mind; the narrative of the nursemaid's discovery became a burden on her memory once more.
train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000061_000003|She looked round.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000000|Once upon a time there lived a king and queen, who had an only daughter.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000001|Her incomparable beauty, sweetness, and intelligence caused her to be named Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000002|She was all her mother's joy.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000003|Every day she had given her a different dress, of gold brocade, velvet, or satin; yet she was neither conceited nor boastful.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000005|She had, however, plenty of play time, and sweetmeats without end, so that she was altogether the happiest princess alive.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000001|Her hair was fiery red, her face fat and spotty, and she had but one eye.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000002|Her mouth was so big that you might have thought she could eat you up, only she had no teeth to do it with; she was also humpbacked and lame.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000003|Of course she could not help her ugliness, and nobody would have disliked her for that, if she had not been of such an unpleasant temper that she hated everything sweet and beautiful, and especially Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000004|She had also a very good opinion of herself, and when any one praised the princess, would say angrily, "That is a lie!
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000005|My little finger is worth her whole body."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000000|In course of time the queen fell sick and died, and her daughter was almost broken hearted.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000001|So was her husband for a year, and then he began to comfort himself by hunting.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000002|One day, after a long chase, he came to a strange castle, which happened to be that of the Duchess Grognon.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000003|She, informed of his approach, went out to meet him, and received him most respectfully.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000004|As he was very hot with hunting, she took him into the coolest place in the palace, which was a vaulted cave, most elegantly furnished, where there were two hundred barrels arranged in long rows.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000007_000000|"Yes, sire, but I shall be most happy if you will condescend to taste their contents.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000007_000001|Which wine do you prefer-canary, hermitage, champagne?" and she ran over a long list, out of which his majesty made his choice.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000008_000000|Grognon took a little hammer, and struck "toc, toc," on the cask, from which there rolled out a handful of silver money.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000008_000002|"I never saw the like-what nonsense!" and she tried the third, out of which came a heap of pearls and diamonds, so that the floor of the cave was strewn with them.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000008_000003|"Sire," she exclaimed, "some one has robbed me of my good wine, and put this rubbish in its place."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000009_000001|Why, such rubbish would buy my whole kingdom."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000011_000000|The king, who was a great lover of money, replied eagerly, "Certainly, madam, I'll marry you to morrow if you will."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000012_000000|Grognon, highly delighted, made but one other condition-that she should have the Princess Graciosa entirely in her own rule and power, just as if she had been her real mother; to which the foolish king consented, for he thought much more of riches than he did of his child.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000012_000001|So he and Grognon departed hand in hand out of the cave, very well pleased.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000013_000000|When the king returned home, Graciosa ran out with joy to welcome her father, and asked him if he had had good sport in his hunting.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000014_000000|"Yes, my child," said he, "for I have taken a dove alive."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000015_000000|"Oh, give it me, and I will nourish and cherish it," cried the princess.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000016_000000|"That is impossible; for it is the Duchess Grognon, whom I have promised to marry."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000017_000000|"She a dove!--she is rather a hawk," sighed the princess in despair; but her father bade her hold her tongue, and promise to love her stepmother, who would have over her all the authority of a mother, and to whom he wished to present her that very day.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000018_000000|The obedient princess went to her apartment, where her nurse soon found out the sorrow in her face, and its cause.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000019_000000|"My child," said the good old woman, "princesses ought to show a good example to humbler women.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000019_000002|She may not be so bad after, all."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000020_000000|And the nurse gave so much good advice, that Graciosa began to smile, and dressed herself in her best attire, a green robe embroidered with gold; while her fair, loose falling hair was adorned, according to the fashion of the day, with a coronet of jasmine, of which the leaves were made of large emeralds.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000021_000000|Grognon, on her part, made the best of herself that was possible.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000022_000000|Meantime, Graciosa waited in fear the moment of her arrival, and, to pass the time away, she went all alone into a little wood, where she sobbed and wept in secret, until suddenly there appeared before her a young page, whom she had never seen before.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000024_000000|"Princess," said the page, bowing, "I am in no one's service but your own.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000024_000002|I have loved you long, and seen you often, for I have the fairy gift of making myself invisible.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000024_000003|I might longer have concealed myself from you, but for your present sorrow, in which, however, I hope to be of both comfort and assistance-a page and yet a prince, and your faithful lover."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000025_000001|They talked a little while together, and then returned to the palace, where the page assisted her to mount her horse; on which she looked so beautiful, that all the new queen's splendours faded into nothing in comparison, and not one of the courtiers had eyes for any except Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000026_000000|As soon as Grognon saw it, "What!" cried she, "has this creature the impudence to be better mounted than myself!
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000026_000001|Descend, Miss, and let me try your horse;--and your page, whom everybody thinks so much of, bid him come and hold my bridle."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000000|Prince Percinet, who was the page, cast one look at his fair Graciosa and obeyed; but no sooner had the duchess mounted, than the horse ran away with her and dragged her over briers, stones, and mud, and finally threw her into a deep ditch.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000001|Her head was cut in several places, and her arm fractured.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000002|They picked her up in little pieces, like a broken wineglass; never was there a poor bride in worse plight. But in spite of her sufferings her malice remained.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000003|She sent for the king:
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000028_000000|"This is all Graciosa's fault; she wished to kill me.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000028_000001|I desire that your majesty will punish her, or leave me to do it-else I will certainly be revenged upon you both."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000029_000000|The king, afraid of losing his casks full of gold pieces, consented, and Graciosa was commanded to appear.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000029_000001|She came trembling and looking round vainly for Prince Percinet.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000029_000002|The cruel Grognon ordered four women, ugly as witches, to take her and strip off her fine clothes, and whip her with rods till her white shoulders were red with blood. But lo! as soon as the rods touched her, they turned into bundles of feathers, and the women tired themselves to death with whipping, without hurting Graciosa the least in the world!
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000030_000000|"Ah! kind Percinet, what do I not owe you?
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000030_000001|What should I do without you!" sighed the princess, when she was taken back to her own chamber and her nurse.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000030_000002|And then she saw the prince standing before her, in his green dress and his white plume, the most charming of pages.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000031_000000|Percinet advised her to pretend illness on account of the cruel treatment she was supposed to have received; which so delighted Grognon, that she got well all the sooner, and the marriage was celebrated with great splendour.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000032_000000|Soon after, the king, who knew that his wife's weak point was her vanity, gave a tournament, at which he ordered the six bravest knights of the court to proclaim that Queen Grognon was the fairest lady alive.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000032_000001|No knight ventured to dispute this fact, until there appeared one who carried a little box adorned with diamonds, and proclaimed aloud that Grognon was the ugliest woman in the universe, and that the most beautiful was she whose portrait was in the box.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000032_000002|He opened it, and behold the image of the Princess Graciosa!
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000033_000000|The princess, who sat behind her stepmother, felt sure that the unknown knight was Percinet; but she dared say nothing.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000033_000002|Graciosa, in solitude and darkness, groped through the forest, sometimes falling against the trunks of trees, sometimes tearing herself with bushes and briers; at last, overcome with fear and grief, she sank on the ground, sobbing out, "Percinet, Percinet, have you forsaken me?"
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000034_000001|She knew it was the doing of the fairy prince who loved her, and felt a joy mingled with fear.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000034_000002|She turned to fly, but saw him standing before her, more handsome and charming than ever.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000035_000000|"Princess," said he, "why are you afraid of me?
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000035_000001|This is the palace of the fairy queen my mother, and the princesses my sisters, who will take care of you, and love you tenderly.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000035_000002|Enter this chariot, and I will convey you there."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000037_000000|"How is this?" she said.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000037_000001|"Prince, you know everything about me."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000038_000000|"Yes; and I wish to preserve everything concerning you," said he tenderly; whereupon Graciosa cast down her eyes.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000038_000001|She was only too happy, and afraid that she should learn to love the fairy prince too much.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000039_000000|She spent eight days in his palace-days full of every enjoyment; and Percinet tried all the arguments he could think of to induce her to marry him, and remain there for ever.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000039_000001|But the good and gentle Graciosa remembered her father who was once so kind to her, and she preferred rather to suffer than to be wanting in duty.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000039_000002|She entreated Percinet to use his fairy power to send her home again, and meantime to tell her what had become of her father.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000040_000000|"Come with me into the great tower there, and you shall see for yourself."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000041_000000|Thereupon he took her to the top of a tower, prodigiously high, put her little finger to his lips, and her foot upon his foot.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000042_000000|"She will not be much loss, sire; and as, when dead, she was far too frightful for you to look at, I have given orders to bury her at once."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000044_000000|The sight of her father's grief quite overcame Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000044_000002|If you love me, take me home."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000045_000001|As they quitted the courtyard, they heard a great noise, and Graciosa saw the palace all falling to pieces with a great crash.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000046_000000|"What is this?" she cried, terrified.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000047_000000|"Princess, my palace, which you forsake, is among the things which are dead and gone.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000047_000001|You will enter it no more till after your burial."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000048_000000|"Prince, you are angry with me," said Graciosa sorrowfully; only she knew well that she suffered quite as much as he did in thus departing and quitting him.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000049_000000|Arrived in her father's presence, she had great difficulty in persuading him that she was not a ghost, until the coffin with the faggot inside it was taken up, and Grognon's malice discovered But even then, the king was so weak a man, that the queen soon made him believe he had been cheated, that the princess was really dead, and that this was a false Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000049_000001|Without more ado, he abandoned his daughter to her stepmother's will.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000050_000000|Grognon, transported with joy, dragged her to a dark prison, took away her clothes, made her dress in rags, feed on bread and water, and sleep upon straw.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000050_000001|Forlorn and hopeless, Graciosa dared not now call upon Percinet; she doubted if he still loved her enough to come to her aid.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000051_000000|Meantime, Grognon had sent for a fairy, who was scarcely less malicious than herself.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000051_000001|"I have here," said she, "a little wretch of a girl for whom I wish to find all sorts of difficult tasks; pray assist me in giving her a new one every day."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000052_000000|The fairy promised to think of it, and soon brought a skein as thick as four persons, yet composed of thread so fine, that it broke if you only blew upon it, and so tangled that it had neither beginning nor end.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000052_000001|Grognon, delighted, sent for her poor prisoner.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000053_000000|"There, miss, teach your clumsy fingers to unwind this skein, and if you break a single thread I will flay you alive.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000053_000001|Begin when you like, but you must finish at sunset, or it will be the worse for you." Then she sent her to her miserable cell, and treble locked the door.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000054_000000|Graciosa stood dismayed, turning the skein over and over, and breaking hundreds of threads each time.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000054_000001|"Ah! Percinet," she cried in despair, "come and help me, or at least receive my last farewell."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000055_000000|Immediately Percinet stood beside her, having entered the cell as easily as if he carried the key in his pocket.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000055_000001|"Behold me, princess, ready to serve you, even though you forsook me." He touched the skein with his wand, and it untangled itself, and wound itself up in perfect order.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000055_000002|"Do you wish anything more, madam?" asked he coldly.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000056_000000|"Percinet, Percinet, do not reproach me; I am only too unhappy."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000057_000000|"It is your own fault.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000057_000001|Come with me, and make us both happy." But she said nothing, and the fairy prince disappeared.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000058_000000|At sunset, Grognon eagerly came to the prison door with her three keys, and found Graciosa smiling and fair, her task all done.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000058_000001|There was no complaint to make, yet Grognon exclaimed that the skein was dirty, and boxed the princess's ears till her rosy cheeks turned yellow and blue.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000058_000002|Then she left her, and overwhelmed the fairy with reproaches.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000059_000000|"Find me, by to morrow, something absolutely impossible for her to do."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000060_000000|The fairy brought a great basket full of feathers, plucked from every kind of bird-nightingales, canaries, linnets, larks, doves, thrushes, peacocks, ostriches, pheasants, partridges, magpies, eagles-in fact, if I told them all over, I should never come to an end; and all these feathers were so mixed up together, that they could not be distinguished.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000062_000000|Grognon jumped for joy, sent for the princess, and ordered her to take her task, and finish it, as before, by set of sun
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000063_000000|Graciosa tried patiently, but she could see no difference in the feathers; she threw them all back again into the basket, and began to weep bitterly.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000063_000002|Percinet loves me no longer; if he did, he would already have been here."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000064_000000|"Here I am, my princess," cried a voice from under the basket; and the fairy prince appeared.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000064_000001|He gave three taps with his wand-the feathers flew by millions out of the basket, and arranged themselves in little heaps, each belonging to a different bird.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000065_000000|"What do I not owe you?" cried Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000000|When Grognon arrived, she found the task done.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000001|She was furious at the fairy, who was as much astonished as herself at the result of their malicious contrivances.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000002|But she promised to try once more; and for several days employed all her industry in inventing a box, which, she said, the prisoner must be forbidden on any account to open.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000003|"Then," added the cunning fairy, "of course, being such a disobedient and wicked girl, as you say, she will open it, and the result will satisfy you to your heart's content."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000069_000001|She was dressed like any poor peasant, in a cotton gown, a woollen hood and wooden shoes; yet, as she walked along, people took her for a queen in disguise, so lovely were her looks and ways.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000069_000002|But being weak with imprisonment, she soon grew weary, and, sitting down upon the edge of a little wood, took the box upon her lap.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000069_000003|Suddenly a wonderful desire seized her to open it.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000070_000000|"I will take nothing out, I will touch nothing," said she to herself, "but I must see what is inside."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000071_000000|Without reflecting on the consequences, she lifted up the lid, and instantly there jumped out a number of little men and little women, carrying little tables and chairs, little dishes, and little musical instruments.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000071_000001|The whole company were so small, that the biggest giant among them was scarcely the height of a finger.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000071_000002|They leaped into the green meadow, separated into various bands, and began dancing and singing, eating and drinking, to Graciosa's wonder and delight.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000000|Again, in her distress, she called upon Percinet, and again he appeared; and, with a single touch of his wand, sent all the little people back into the box.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000001|Then, in his chariot, drawn by stags, he took her to the castle, where she did all that she had been commanded, and returned in safety, to her stepmother, who was more furious than ever.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000002|If a fairy could be strangled, Grognon certainly would have done it in her rage.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000003|At last, she resolved to ask help no more, but to work her own wicked will upon Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000073_000000|She caused to be dug a large hole in the garden, and taking the princess there, showed her the stone which covered it.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000074_000000|"Underneath this stone lies a great treasure; lift it up, and you will see."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000075_000000|Graciosa obeyed; and while she was standing at the edge of the pit, Grognon pushed her in, and let the stone fall down again upon her, burying her alive.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000075_000001|After this, there seemed no more hope for the poor princess.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000076_000002|Still, death will be less bitter, if only you regret me a little."
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000000|While she spoke, she saw through the blank darkness a glimmer of light; it came through a little door.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000001|She remembered what Percinet had said: that she would never return to the fairy palace, until after she was buried.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000002|Perhaps this final cruelty of Grognon would be the end of her sorrows.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000003|So she took courage, crept through the little door, and lo! she came out into a beautiful garden, with long alleys, fruit trees, and flower beds.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000004|Well she knew it, and well she knew the glitter of the rock crystal walls.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000005|And there, at the palace gate, stood Percinet, and the queen, his mother, and the princesses, his sisters.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000006|"Welcome, Graciosa!" cried they all; and Graciosa, after all her sufferings, wept for joy.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000000|The marriage was celebrated with great splendour; and all the fairies, for a thousand leagues round, attended it.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000001|Some came in chariots drawn by dragons, or swans, or peacocks; some were mounted upon floating clouds, or globes of fire.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000002|Among the rest, appeared the very fairy who had assisted Grognon to torment Graciosa.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000003|When she discovered that Grognon's poor prisoner was now Prince Percinet's bride, she was overwhelmed with confusion, and entreated her to forget all that had passed, because she really was ignorant who she had been so cruelly afflicting.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000079_000000|"But I will make amends for all the evil that I have done," said the fairy; and, refusing to stay for the wedding dinner, she remounted her chariot, drawn by two terrible serpents, and flew to the palace of Graciosa's father.
train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000079_000001|There, before either king, or courtiers, or ladies in waiting could stop her-even had they wished to do it, which remains doubtful-she came behind the wicked Grognon, and twisted her neck, just as a cook does a barn door fowl.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000003|Where is the young man, the son of yonder magnanimous King?" And quoth the Wazir, "O mighty King, thou didst command him be put to death." When the King heard this, he was clean distraught and cried out from his heart's core and in most of head, saying, "Woe to you!
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000005|Send for the midwives and let them examine her before thee.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000009|Then the King threw his arms about Ardashir's neck and entreated him with all worship and honour, bidding his chief eunuchs bear him to the bath.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000010|When he came out, he cast over his shoulders a costly robe and crowned him with a coronet of jewels; he also girt him with a girdle of silk, purfled with red gold and set with pearls and gems, and mounted him on one of his noblest mares, with selle and trappings of gold inlaid with pearls and jewels.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000014|And all who had seen him selling stuffs in the linendrapers' bazar marvelled how his soul could have consented thereto, considering the nobility of his spirit and the loftiness of his dignity; but it was his love and inclination to the King's daughter that to this had constrained him.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000015|Meanwhile, news of the multitude of her lover's troops came to Hayat al Nufus, who was still jailed by her sire's commandment, till they knew what he should order respecting her, whether pardon and release or death and burning; and she looked down from the terrace roof of the palace and, turning towards the mountains, saw even these covered with armed men.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000016|When she beheld all those warriors and knew that they were the army of Ardashir's father, she feared lest he should be diverted from her by his sire and forget her and depart from her, whereupon her father would slay her.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000017|So she called a handmaid that was with her in her apartment by way of service, and said to her, "Go to Ardashir, son of the Great King, and fear not.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000002_000000|When it was the Seven Hundred and Thirty seventh Night,
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000000|She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the bondmaid sent by Hayat al Nufus made her way to Ardashir and delivered him her lady's message, which when he heard, he wept with sore weeping and said to her, "Know that Hayat al Nufus is my mistress and that I am her slave and the captive of her love.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000002|So, if he send to her to consult her, let her make no opposition; for I will not return to my country without her." Then the handmaid returned to Hayat al Nufus; and, kissing her hands, delivered to her the message, which when she heard, she wept for very joy and returned thanks to Almighty Allah.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000003|Such was her case; but as regards Ardashir, he was alone with his father that night and the Great King questioned him of his case, whereupon he told him all that had befallen him, first and last.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000007|He rose up standing and received him with honour; but the Minister made haste to fall at his feet and kissing them cried, "Pardon, O King of the Age!
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000008|The like of thee should not rise to the like of me, for I am the least of servants' slaves.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000004_000000|When it was the Seven Hundred and Thirty eighth Night,
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000006|They spread the marriage feasts and banquets and lastly Ardashir went in unto the Princess and found her a jewel which had been hidden, an union pearl unthridden and a filly that none but he had ridden, so he notified this to his sire.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000010|She carried with her all her waiting women and eunuchs, as well as the nurse, who had returned, after her flight, and resumed her office.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000013|Then he went in to the Princess and embraced her; and she kissed his hands and they wept in the standing place of parting.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000014|After this he returned to his capital and Ardashir and his company fared on, till they reached Shiraz, where they celebrated the marriage festivities anew.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000015|And they abode in all comfort and solace and joyance of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and Severer of societies; the Depopulator of palaces and the Garnerer of graveyards.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000016|And men also relate the tale of
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000007_000005|The merchant uncovered her face, whereupon the place was illumined by her beauty and her seven tresses hung down to her anklets like horses' tails.
train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000007_000006|She had Nature kohl'd eyes, heavy hips and thighs and waist of slenderest guise, her sight healed all maladies and quenched the fire of sighs, for she was even as the poet cries,
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000002_000000|A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his family feasting on a roasted lamb.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000003_000000|"Aha!" he muttered.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000005_000000|THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000006_000000|A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover. The Goatherd tried to call it back, but in vain.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000006_000001|It would not obey him.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000006_000002|Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000008_000000|"Do not tell the master," he begged the Goat.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000011_000000|THE MISER
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000012_000000|A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000013_000000|When the Miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000013_000001|He groaned and cried and tore his hair.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000014_000000|A passerby heard his cries and asked what had happened.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000015_000000|"My gold!
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000015_000001|O my gold!" cried the Miser, wildly, "someone has robbed me!"
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000017_000000|"Your gold!
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000017_000002|Why did you put it there?
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000017_000003|Why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things?"
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000018_000001|"Why, I never touched the gold.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000018_000002|I couldn't think of spending any of it."
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000019_000000|The stranger picked up a large stone and threw it into the hole.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000020_000000|"If that is the case," he said, "cover up that stone.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000020_000001|It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!"
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000023_000000|THE WOLF AND THE HOUSE DOG
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000024_000000|There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000024_000001|He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000025_000000|One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000025_000002|So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000026_000001|Why, you have to fight hard for every bite you get.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000027_000000|"What must I do?" asked the Wolf.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000028_000000|"Hardly anything," answered the House Dog.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000028_000001|"Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000028_000002|In return you will get tidbits of every kind, chicken bones, choice bits of meat, sugar, cake, and much more beside, not to speak of kind words and caresses."
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000029_000000|The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he almost wept.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000030_000000|"What is that on your neck?"
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000031_000000|"Nothing at all," replied the Dog.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000032_000000|"What! nothing!"
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000034_000000|"But please tell me."
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000035_000000|"Perhaps you see the mark of the collar to which my chain is fastened."
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000036_000000|"What!
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000036_000001|A chain!" cried the Wolf.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000036_000002|"Don't you go wherever you please?"
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000037_000000|"Not always!
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000037_000001|But what's the difference?" replied the Dog.
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000038_000000|"All the difference in the world!
train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000038_000001|I don't care a rap for your feasts and I wouldn't take all the tender young lambs in the world at that price." And away ran the Wolf to the woods.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000005_000000|The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000006_000000|WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land's completing its assignment.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000008_000000|A second well polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000009_000000|We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000010_000000|"Apes maybe?" Ned Land exclaimed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000011_000001|"Savages."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000012_000000|"Head for the skiff!" I said, moving toward the sea.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000013_000000|Indeed, it was essential to beat a retreat because some twenty natives, armed with bows and slings, appeared barely a hundred paces off, on the outskirts of a thicket that masked the horizon to our right.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000014_000000|The skiff was aground ten fathoms away from us.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000015_000000|The savages approached without running, but they favored us with a show of the greatest hostility.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000016_000000|Ned Land was unwilling to leave his provisions behind, and despite the impending danger, he clutched his pig on one side, his kangaroos on the other, and scampered off with respectable speed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000000|In two minutes we were on the strand.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000002|We hadn't gone two cable lengths when a hundred savages, howling and gesticulating, entered the water up to their waists.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000003|I looked to see if their appearance might draw some of the Nautilus's men onto the platform.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000004|But no Lying well out, that enormous machine still seemed completely deserted.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000018_000001|The hatches were open. After mooring the skiff, we reentered the Nautilus's interior.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000019_000000|I went below to the lounge, from which some chords were wafting. Captain Nemo was there, leaning over the organ, deep in a musical trance.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000020_000000|"Captain!" I said to him.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000021_000000|He didn't hear me.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000022_000000|"Captain!" I went on, touching him with my hand.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000023_000000|He trembled, and turning around:
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000024_000000|"Ah, it's you, professor!" he said to me.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000024_000001|"Well, did you have a happy hunt?
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000024_000002|Was your herb gathering a success?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000025_000000|"Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000026_000000|"What sort of bipeds?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000027_000000|"Savages."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000028_000000|"Savages!" Captain Nemo replied in an ironic tone.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000028_000001|"You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you're surprised to find savages there?
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000028_000002|Where aren't there savages? And besides, are they any worse than men elsewhere, these people you call savages?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000029_000000|"But captain-"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000030_000000|"Speaking for myself, sir, I've encountered them everywhere."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000031_000000|"Well then," I replied, "if you don't want to welcome them aboard the Nautilus, you'd better take some precautions!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000032_000000|"Easy, professor, no cause for alarm."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000034_000000|"What's your count?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000035_000000|"At least a hundred."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000037_000000|The captain's fingers then ran over the instrument's keyboard, and I noticed that he touched only its black keys, which gave his melodies a basically Scottish color.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000038_000000|I climbed onto the platform.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000038_000001|Night had already fallen, because in this low latitude the sun sets quickly, without any twilight. I could see Gueboroa Island only dimly.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000039_000000|For several hours I was left to myself, sometimes musing on the islanders- but no longer fearing them because the captain's unflappable confidence had won me over-and sometimes forgetting them to marvel at the splendors of this tropical night.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000040_000000|The night passed without mishap.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000040_000001|No doubt the Papuans had been frightened off by the mere sight of this monster aground in the bay, because our hatches stayed open, offering easy access to the Nautilus's interior.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000041_000000|At six o'clock in the morning, january eighth, I climbed onto the platform. The morning shadows were lifting.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000041_000001|The island was soon on view through the dissolving mists, first its beaches, then its summits.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000042_000000|The islanders were still there, in greater numbers than on the day before, perhaps five hundred or six hundred of them.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000042_000003|Beneath their pierced, distended earlobes there dangled strings of beads made from bone. Generally these savages were naked.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000042_000004|I noted some women among them, dressed from hip to knee in grass skirts held up by belts made of vegetation.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000043_000000|One of these chieftains came fairly close to the Nautilus, examining it with care.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000043_000001|He must have been a "mado" of high rank, because he paraded in a mat of banana leaves that had ragged edges and was accented with bright colors.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000044_000000|I could easily have picked off this islander, he stood at such close range; but I thought it best to wait for an actual show of hostility. Between Europeans and savages, it's acceptable for Europeans to shoot back but not to attack first.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000045_000000|During this whole time of low tide, the islanders lurked near the Nautilus, but they weren't boisterous.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000045_000001|I often heard them repeat the word "assai," and from their gestures I understood they were inviting me to go ashore, an invitation I felt obliged to decline.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000046_000000|So the skiff didn't leave shipside that day, much to the displeasure of mr Land who couldn't complete his provisions. The adroit Canadian spent his time preparing the meat and flour products he had brought from Gueboroa Island.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000046_000002|However, I didn't see one local dugout canoe.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000047_000001|Besides, it was the last day the Nautilus would spend in these waterways, if, tomorrow, it still floated off to the open sea as Captain Nemo had promised.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000050_000000|"They're cannibals even so, my boy."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000051_000000|"A person can be both a cannibal and a decent man," Conseil replied, "just as a person can be both gluttonous and honorable. The one doesn't exclude the other."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000052_000002|However, I'm opposed to being devoured, even in all decency, so I'll keep on my guard, especially since the Nautilus's commander seems to be taking no precautions. And now let's get to work!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000053_000000|For two hours our fishing proceeded energetically but without bringing up any rarities.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000053_000001|Our dragnet was filled with Midas abalone, harp shells, obelisk snails, and especially the finest hammer shells I had seen to that day.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000056_000000|"No, my boy, but I'd gladly have sacrificed a finger for such a find!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000059_000000|"But that's simply an olive shell of the 'tent olive' species, genus Oliva, order Pectinibranchia, class Gastropoda, branch Mollusca-"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000060_000001|But instead of coiling from right to left, this olive shell rolls from left to right!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000061_000000|"It can't be!" Conseil exclaimed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000062_000000|"Yes, my boy, it's a left-handed shell!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000063_000000|"A left-handed shell!" Conseil repeated, his heart pounding.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000064_000000|"Look at its spiral!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000066_000000|And there was good reason to be excited!
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000066_000001|In fact, as naturalists have ventured to observe, "dextrality" is a well-known law of nature. In their rotational and orbital movements, stars and their satellites go from right to left.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000066_000002|Man uses his right hand more often than his left, and consequently his various instruments and equipment (staircases, locks, watch springs, etc) are designed to be used in a right to left manner. Now then, nature has generally obeyed this law in coiling her shells. They're right handed with only rare exceptions, and when by chance a shell's spiral is left-handed, collectors will pay its weight in gold for it.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000068_000000|I gave a yell of despair!
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000068_000001|Conseil pounced on his rifle and aimed at a savage swinging a sling just ten meters away from him. I tried to stop him, but his shot went off and shattered a bracelet of amulets dangling from the islander's arm.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000070_000001|What?
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000070_000002|Didn't master see that this man eater initiated the attack?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000071_000000|"A shell isn't worth a human life!" I told him.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000072_000000|"Oh, the rascal!" Conseil exclaimed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000072_000001|"I'd rather he cracked my shoulder!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000073_000001|Now some twenty dugout canoes were surrounding the Nautilus.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000073_000002|Hollowed from tree trunks, these dugouts were long, narrow, and well designed for speed, keeping their balance by means of two bamboo poles that floated on the surface of the water. They were maneuvered by skillful, half naked paddlers, and I viewed their advance with definite alarm.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000074_000002|Without thunderclaps, lightning bolts would be much less frightening, although the danger lies in the flash, not the noise.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000075_000000|Just then the dugout canoes drew nearer to the Nautilus, and a cloud of arrows burst over us.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000077_000000|"We've got to alert Captain Nemo," I said, reentering the hatch.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000078_000000|I went below to the lounge.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000078_000001|I found no one there.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000078_000002|I ventured a knock at the door opening into the captain's stateroom.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000079_000000|The word "Enter!" answered me.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000079_000001|I did so and found Captain Nemo busy with calculations in which there was no shortage of X and other algebraic signs.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000080_000000|"Am I disturbing you?" I said out of politeness.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000081_000000|"Correct, Professor Aronnax," the captain answered me. "But I imagine you have pressing reasons for looking me up?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000082_000000|"Very pressing.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000082_000001|Native dugout canoes are surrounding us, and in a few minutes we're sure to be assaulted by several hundred savages."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000083_000000|"Ah!" Captain Nemo put in serenely.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000085_000000|"Well, sir, closing the hatches should do the trick."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000086_000000|"Precisely, and that's what I came to tell you-"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000087_000000|"Nothing easier," Captain Nemo said.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000088_000000|And he pressed an electric button, transmitting an order to the crew's quarters.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000089_000000|"There, sir, all under control!" he told me after a few moments. "The skiff is in place and the hatches are closed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000090_000000|"No, captain, but one danger still remains."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000091_000000|"What's that, sir?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000094_000000|"But if these Papuans are occupying the platform at that moment, I don't see how you can prevent them from entering."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000095_000000|"Then, sir, you assume they'll board the ship?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000096_000000|"I'm certain of it."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000097_000000|"Well, sir, let them come aboard.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000097_000001|I see no reason to prevent them. Deep down they're just poor devils, these Papuans, and I don't want my visit to Gueboroa Island to cost the life of a single one of these unfortunate people!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000098_000000|On this note I was about to withdraw; but Captain Nemo detained me and invited me to take a seat next to him.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000098_000001|He questioned me with interest on our excursions ashore and on our hunting, but seemed not to understand the Canadian's passionate craving for red meat. Then our conversation skimmed various subjects, and without being more forthcoming, Captain Nemo proved more affable.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000099_000000|Among other things, we came to talk of the Nautilus's circumstances, aground in the same strait where Captain Dumont d'Urville had nearly miscarried.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000099_000001|Then, pertinent to this:
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000100_000000|"He was one of your great seamen," the captain told me, "one of your shrewdest navigators, that d'Urville!
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000100_000001|He was the Frenchman's Captain Cook.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000100_000002|A man wise but unlucky! Braving the ice banks of the South Pole, the coral of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, only to perish wretchedly in a train wreck! If that energetic man was able to think about his life in its last seconds, imagine what his final thoughts must have been!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000101_000000|As he spoke, Captain Nemo seemed deeply moved, an emotion I felt was to his credit.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000103_000000|"What your d'Urville did on the surface of the sea," Captain Nemo told me, "I've done in the ocean's interior, but more easily, more completely than he.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000104_000000|"Even so, captain," I said, "there is one major similarity between Dumont d'Urville's sloops of war and the Nautilus."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000105_000000|"What's that, sir?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000106_000000|"Like them, the Nautilus has run aground!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000107_000000|"The Nautilus is not aground, sir," Captain Nemo replied icily. "The Nautilus was built to rest on the ocean floor, and I don't need to undertake the arduous labors, the maneuvers d'Urville had to attempt in order to float off his sloops of war. The Zealous and the new Astrolabe wellnigh perished, but my Nautilus is in no danger.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000107_000001|Tomorrow, on the day stated and at the hour stated, the tide will peacefully lift it off, and it will resume its navigating through the seas."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000108_000000|"Captain," I said, "I don't doubt-"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000109_000000|"Tomorrow," Captain Nemo added, standing up, "tomorrow at two forty in the afternoon, the Nautilus will float off and exit the Torres Strait undamaged."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000110_000000|Pronouncing these words in an extremely sharp tone, Captain Nemo gave me a curt bow.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000110_000001|This was my dismissal, and I reentered my stateroom.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000112_000000|"My boy," I replied, "when I expressed the belief that these Papuan natives were a threat to his Nautilus, the captain answered me with great irony.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000112_000001|So I've just one thing to say to you: have faith in him and sleep in peace."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000113_000000|"Master has no need for my services?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000114_000000|"No, my friend.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000114_000001|What's Ned Land up to?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000115_000000|"Begging master's indulgence," Conseil replied, "but our friend Ned is concocting a kangaroo pie that will be the eighth wonder!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000117_000000|I got up at six o'clock in the morning.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000117_000001|The hatches weren't open. So the air inside hadn't been renewed; but the air tanks were kept full for any eventuality and would function appropriately to shoot a few cubic meters of oxygen into the Nautilus's thin atmosphere.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000118_000000|I worked in my stateroom until noon without seeing Captain Nemo even for an instant.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000118_000001|Nobody on board seemed to be making any preparations for departure.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000119_000000|I still waited for a while, then I made my way to the main lounge. Its timepiece marked two thirty.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000119_000001|In ten minutes the tide would reach its maximum elevation, and if Captain Nemo hadn't made a rash promise, the Nautilus would immediately break free.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000119_000002|If not, many months might pass before it could leave its coral bed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000120_000000|But some preliminary vibrations could soon be felt over the boat's hull. I heard its plating grind against the limestone roughness of that coral base.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000121_000000|At two thirty five Captain Nemo appeared in the lounge.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000122_000000|"We're about to depart," he said.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000123_000000|"Ah!" I put in.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000124_000000|"I've given orders to open the hatches."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000125_000000|"What about the Papuans?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000127_000000|"Won't they come inside the Nautilus?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000128_000000|"How will they manage that?"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000129_000000|"By jumping down the hatches you're about to open."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000130_000000|"Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo replied serenely, "the Nautilus's hatches aren't to be entered in that fashion even when they're open."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000131_000000|I gaped at the captain.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000133_000000|"Not in the least."
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000134_000000|"Well, come along and you'll see!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000135_000000|I headed to the central companionway.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000136_000000|The hatch lids fell back onto the outer plating. Twenty horrible faces appeared.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000136_000001|But when the first islander laid hands on the companionway railing, he was flung backward by some invisible power, lord knows what!
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000136_000002|He ran off, howling in terror and wildly prancing around.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000137_000000|Ten of his companions followed him.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000137_000001|All ten met the same fate.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000138_000001|Carried away by his violent instincts, Ned Land leaped up the companionway.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000138_000002|But as soon as his hands seized the railing, he was thrown backward in his turn.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000139_000000|"Damnation!" he exclaimed.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000139_000001|"I've been struck by a lightning bolt!"
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000140_000002|Anyone who touched it got a fearsome shock- and such a shock would have been fatal if Captain Nemo had thrown the full current from his equipment into this conducting cable! It could honestly be said that he had stretched between himself and his assailants a network of electricity no one could clear with impunity.
train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000141_000000|Meanwhile, crazed with terror, the unhinged Papuans beat a retreat. As for us, half laughing, we massaged and comforted poor Ned Land, who was swearing like one possessed.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000005_000000|At eleven o'clock the electric lights came back on.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000005_000001|I went into the lounge.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000005_000002|It was deserted.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000008_000000|By evening we had cleared two hundred leagues up the Atlantic.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000009_000000|I repaired to my stateroom.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000009_000001|I couldn't sleep.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000010_000001|Always at incalculable speed! Always amid the High Arctic mists!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000015_000000|"We're going to escape!"
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000016_000000|I sat up.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000017_000000|"When?" I asked.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000018_000000|"Tonight.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000019_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000019_000001|Where are we?"
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000021_000000|"What land is it?"
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000023_000001|We'll escape tonight even if the sea swallows us up!"
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000026_000000|"What's more," the Canadian added, "if they catch me, I'll defend myself, I'll fight to the death."
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000027_000000|"Then we'll die together, Ned my friend."
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000028_000002|I went out on the platform, where I could barely stand upright against the jolts of the billows. The skies were threatening, but land lay inside those dense mists, and we had to escape.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000029_000002|No!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000029_000003|It was best not to meet him face to face! Best to try and forget him!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000029_000004|And yet . . . !
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000031_000000|At six o'clock I ate supper, but I had no appetite.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000032_000000|At six thirty Ned Land entered my stateroom.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000032_000001|He told me:
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000033_000001|At ten o'clock the moon won't be up yet.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000033_000002|We'll take advantage of the darkness. Come to the skiff.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000037_000002|My heart was pounding mightily. I couldn't curb its pulsations.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000038_000000|What was he doing just then?
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000038_000001|I listened at the door to his stateroom. I heard the sound of footsteps.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000040_000003|I no longer wanted to think. A half hour still to wait!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000042_000000|Then a sudden thought terrified me.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000042_000001|Captain Nemo had left his stateroom. He was in the same lounge I had to cross in order to escape. There I would encounter him one last time.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000042_000002|He would see me, perhaps speak to me!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000043_000000|Even so, ten o'clock was about to strike.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000046_000001|I opened it gently. The lounge was plunged in profound darkness.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000049_000000|"O almighty God!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000049_000002|Enough!"
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000052_000000|"Let's go, let's go!" I exclaimed.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000053_000000|"Right away!" the Canadian replied.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000055_000001|What was it? Had they spotted our escape?
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000056_000000|"Yes," I muttered, "we know how to die!"
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000057_000000|The Canadian paused in his work.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000058_000000|"Maelstrom!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000058_000001|Maelstrom!" they were shouting.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000059_000000|The Maelstrom!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000062_000000|What a predicament!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000062_000001|We were rocking frightfully.
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000062_000003|Its steel muscles were cracking. Sometimes it stood on end, the three of us along with it!
train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000063_000000|"We've got to hold on tight," Ned said, "and screw the nuts down again! If we can stay attached to the Nautilus, we can still make it . . . !"
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000004_000000|BACCHUS-ARIADNE
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000002|Heaving a sigh, she said, "I hope it will turn out so, but I can't help being afraid.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000004|If he is indeed Jove, make him give some proof of it.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000006|That will put the matter beyond a doubt." Semele was persuaded to try the experiment.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000009|Then she made known her request.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000010|The god would have stopped her as she spake, but she was too quick for him.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000011|The words escaped, and he could neither unsay his promise nor her request.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000014|Arrayed in this, he entered the chamber of Semele. Her mortal frame could not endure the splendors of the immortal radiance.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000015|She was consumed to ashes.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000007_000001|When Bacchus grew up he discovered the culture of the vine and the mode of extracting its precious juice; but Juno struck him with madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000007_000004|Returning in triumph, he undertook to introduce his worship into Greece, but was opposed by some princes, who dreaded its introduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000008_000001|But when it was known that Bacchus was advancing, men and women, but chiefly the latter, young and old, poured forth to meet him and to join his triumphal march.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000009_000000|mr Longfellow in his "Drinking Song" thus describes the march of Bacchus:
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000013_000002|Pentheus, beholding him with wrathful countenance, said, "Fellow! you shall speedily be put to death, that your fate may be a warning to others; but though I grudge the delay of your punishment, speak, tell us who you are, and what are these new rites you presume to celebrate."
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000014_000003|Next morning I sent the men for fresh water, and myself mounted the hill to observe the wind; when my men returned bringing with them a prize, as they thought, a boy of delicate appearance, whom they had found asleep.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000014_000007|I said to my men, 'What god there is concealed in that form I know not, but some one there certainly is.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000000|"Then Bacchus (for it was indeed he), as if shaking off his drowsiness, exclaimed, 'What are you doing with me?
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000001|What is this fighting about?
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000002|Who brought me here?
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000003|Where are you going to carry me?' One of them replied, 'Fear nothing; tell us where you wish to go and we will take you there.' 'Naxos is my home,' said Bacchus; 'take me there and you shall be well rewarded.' They promised so to do, and told me to pilot the ship to Naxos.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000005|I was confounded and said, 'Let some one else pilot the ship;' withdrawing myself from any further agency in their wickedness.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000006|They cursed me, and one of them, exclaiming, 'Don't flatter yourself that we depend on you for our safety;' took any place as pilot, and bore away from Naxos.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000000|"Then the god, pretending that he had just become aware of their treachery, looked out over the sea and said in a voice of weeping, 'Sailors, these are not the shores you promised to take me to; yonder island is not my home.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000003|All at once-strange as it may seem, it is true,--the vessel stopped, in the mid sea, as fast as if it was fixed on the ground.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000015|Trembling with fear, the god cheered me.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000016|'Fear not,' said he; 'steer towards Naxos.' I obeyed, and when we arrived there, I kindled the altars and celebrated the sacred rites of Bacchus."
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000017_000000|Pentheus here exclaimed, "We have wasted time enough on this silly story.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000018_000007|In vain he cries to his aunts to protect him from his mother.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000018_000008|Autonoe seized one arm, Ino the other, and between them he was torn to pieces, while his mother shouted, "Victory!
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000018_000009|Victory! we have done it; the glory is ours!"
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000021_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine.
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000023_000000|ARIADNE
train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000025_000000|The island where Ariadne was left was the favorite island of Bacchus, the same that he wished the Tyrrhenian mariners to carry him to, when they so treacherously attempted to make prize of him. As Ariadne sat lamenting her fate, Bacchus found her, consoled her, and made her his wife.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000001_000000|THE QUEEN BEE
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000002_000000|By Carl Ewald
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000003_000000|The farmer opened his hive.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000003_000002|Get to work, and gather a good lot of honey for me to sell to the shopkeeper in the autumn.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000003_000003|'Many a streamlet makes a river,' and you know these are bad times for farmers."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000004_000001|But all the same they flew out; for they had been sitting all the winter in the hive, and they longed for a breath of fresh air.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000004_000002|They hummed and buzzed, they stretched their legs, they tried their wings.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000004_000003|They swarmed out in all directions; they crawled up and down the hive; they flew off to the flowers and bushes, or wandered all around on the ground.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000000|Last of all came the Queen.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000001|She was bigger than the others, and it was she who ruled the hive.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000002|"Stop your nonsense, little children," she said, "and set to work and do something.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000003|A good Bee does not idle, but turns to with a will and makes good use of its time."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000006_000000|So she divided them into parties and set them to work.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000006_000001|"You over there, fly out and see if there is any honey in the flowers.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000006_000002|The others can collect flower dust, and when you come home give it in smartly to the old Bees in the hive."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000007_000000|Away they flew at once.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000007_000001|But all the very young ones stayed behind. They made the last party, for they had never been out with the others.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000008_000000|"You! you must perspire," said the Queen.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000008_000001|"One, two, three!
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000008_000002|Then we can begin our work." And they perspired as well as they had learned to, and the prettiest yellow wax came out of their bodies.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000009_000000|"Good!" said the Queen.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000009_000001|"Now we will begin to build." The old Bees took the wax, and began to build a number of little six sided cells, all alike and close up to one another.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000009_000002|All the time they were building, the others came flying in with flower dust and honey, which they laid at the Queen's feet.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000010_000000|"We can now knead the dough," she said.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000010_000001|"But first put a little honey in-that makes it taste so much better." They kneaded and kneaded, and before very long they had made some pretty little loaves of Bee bread, which they carried into the cells.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000011_000001|She sat down in the middle of the hive and began to lay her eggs.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000011_000002|She laid great heaps of them, and the Bees were kept very busy running with the little eggs in their mouths and carrying them into the new cells. Each egg had a little cell to itself; and when they had all been put in their places, the Queen gave orders to fix doors to all the cells and shut them fast.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000012_000000|"Good!" she said, when this was done.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000013_000000|The Bees had them ready in no time, and then the Queen laid ten pretty eggs, one in each of the big rooms, and the doors were fixed as before.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000013_000001|Every day the Bees flew in and out, gathering great heaps of honey and flower dust; but in the evening, when their work was done, they would open the doors just a crack and have a peep at the eggs.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000014_000000|"Take care," the Queen said one day.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000015_000000|"What funny creatures!" said the young Bees.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000000|"They are Grubs," said the Queen.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000002|One must be a Grub before one can become a Bee.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000003|Be quick now, and give them something to eat." The Bees bestirred themselves to feed the little ones, but they were not equally kind to them all.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000004|The ten, however, that lay in the large cells got as much to eat as ever they wanted, and every day a great quantity of honey was carried in to them.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000017_000000|"They are Princesses," said the Queen, "so you must treat them well.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000017_000001|The others you can stint; they are only working people, and they must accustom themselves to be content with what they can get." And every morning the poor little wretches got a little piece of Bee bread and nothing more, and with that they had to be satisfied, though they were ever so hungry.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000018_000001|She was the youngest of them all, and only just come out of the egg.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000018_000002|She could not see, but she could plainly hear the grown up Bees talking outside, and for a while she lay quite still and kept her thoughts to herself.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000019_000000|"You have had enough for to day," answered the old Bee who was appointed to be head Bee Nurse, creeping up and down in the passage outside.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000020_000000|"Maybe, but I am hungry!" shouted the little Grub.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000020_000001|"I will go into one of the Princesses' chambers; I have not room to stir here."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000021_000000|"Just listen to her!" said the old Bee mockingly.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000021_000002|You are born to toil and drudge, my little friend.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000021_000003|You are a mere working Bee, and you will never be anything else all your days."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000022_000000|"But I want to be Queen!" cried the Grub, and thumped on the door. Of course the old Bee did not answer such nonsense, but went on to the others.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000022_000001|From every side they were calling out for more food, and the little Grub could hear it all.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000023_000000|"It is hard, though," she thought, "that we should have to be so hungry." And then she knocked on the Princess' wall and called to her, "Give me a little of your honey.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000023_000001|Let me come into your chamber.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000024_000000|"Are you?
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000026_000000|The head Bee Nurse came running up in an instant and opened the doors.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000026_000001|"What are your graces' orders?" she asked, dropping a curtsy and scraping the ground with her feet.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000027_000000|"More honey!" they shouted, all in one voice.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000027_000001|"But me first-me first.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000000|"In a moment, in a moment, your graces," she answered, and ran off as fast as her six legs could carry her.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000001|She soon came back with many other Bees.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000002|They were dragging ever so much honey, which they crammed down the cross little Princesses' throats.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000003|And then they got them to hold their tongues and lie still and rest.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000000|But the little Grub lay awake, thinking over what had happened.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000001|She longed so much for some honey that she began to shake the door again.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000002|"Give me some honey!
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000003|I can't stand it any longer.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000004|I am just as good as the others."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000030_000000|The old Bee tried to hush her.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000030_000001|"Hold your tongue, little bawler! The Queen's coming." And at the same moment the Queen Bee came.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000000|For a long time she stood in silence before the Princesses' chambers.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000001|"Now they are lying there asleep," she said at last. "From morning till evening they do nothing but eat and sleep, and they grow bigger and fatter every day.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000002|In a few days they will be full grown, and will creep out of their cells.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000003|Then my turn will be over.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000004|I know that too well.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000005|I have heard the Bees saying to one another that they would like to have a younger and more beautiful Queen, and they will chase me away in disgrace.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000006|But I will not submit to it.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000033_000000|Then she went away.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000033_000001|But the little Grub had heard all she said.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000034_000000|"Dear me!" she thought; "it is really a pity about the little Princesses.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000035_000001|"You must mind what you are doing, my good Grub," she said.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000036_000000|"First listen to me," said the Grub, and she told her about the Queen's wicked design.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000037_000000|"Good gracious! is that true?" cried the old Nurse, and beat her wings in horror.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000037_000001|And without hearing a word more, she hurried off to tell the other Bees.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000038_000000|"I think I deserve a little honey for what I have done," said the little Grub.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000038_000001|"But I can now lie down and sleep with a good conscience."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000039_000001|The Grub could hear her talking aloud to herself.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000039_000002|But she was quite afraid of the wicked Queen, and dared not stir.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000039_000003|"I hope she won't kill the Princesses," she thought, and squeezed herself nearer to the door to hear what happened.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000000|The Queen looked cautiously round on all sides, and then opened the first of the doors.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000001|But at the same moment the Bees swarmed out from all directions, seized her by the legs and wings, and dragged her out.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000002|"What is the matter?" she cried.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000003|"Are you raising a rebellion?"
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000041_000001|What would become of us in the autumn after your majesty's death?"
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000042_000000|"Let me go!" cried the Queen, and tried to get away.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000042_000001|"I am Queen now anyway, and have the power to do what I like.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000042_000002|How do you know that I shall die in the autumn?" But the Bees held her fast, and dragged her outside the hive.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000043_000000|"You are disloyal subjects, who are not worth ruling over.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000043_000001|I won't stay here an hour longer, but I will go out into the world and build a new nest.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000043_000002|Are there any of you who will come with me?"
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000044_000000|Some of the old Bees, who had been Grubs at the same time as the Queen, declared that they would follow her.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000044_000001|And soon after they flew away.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000045_000000|"Now we have no Queen," said the others, "we must take good care of the Princesses." And so they crammed them with honey from morning till night; and they grew, and grabbed, and squabbled, and made more noise each day than the day before.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000046_000000|As for the little Grub, no one gave a single thought to her.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000000|One morning the doors of the Princesses' chambers flew open, and all ten of them stepped out, beautiful full grown Queen Bees.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000001|The other Bees ran up and gazed at them in admiration.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000002|"How pretty they are!" they said.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000003|"It is hard to say which is the most beautiful."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000049_000000|"You make a mistake," said another, and stabbed her with her sting.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000050_000000|"You are rather conceited," shrieked a third.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000051_000001|We can't do with more than one."
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000000|At this the Bees formed round in a ring and looked on at the battle.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000002|Wings and legs which had been bitten off were flying about in the air, and after some time eight of the Princesses lay dead upon the ground.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000003|The two last were still fighting.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000004|One of them had lost all her wings, and the other had only four legs left.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000053_000001|"We should have done better to have kept the old one." But she might have spared herself the remark, for in the same moment the Princesses gave each other such a stab with their stings that they both fell dead as a door nail.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000054_000000|"That is a pretty business!" called the Bees, and ran about among each other in dismay.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000054_000002|What shall we do?
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000054_000003|What shall we do?"
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000000|In despair they crawled about the hive, and did not know which way to turn.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000001|But the oldest and cleverest sat in a corner and held a council.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000002|For a long time they talked this way and that as to what they should decide on doing in their unhappy circumstances.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000003|But at last the head Bee Nurse got a hearing, and said,--"I can tell you how you can get out of the difficulty, if you will but follow my advice.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000004|I remember that the same misfortune happened to us in this hive a long time ago.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000005|I was then a Grub myself.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000006|I lay in my cell, and distinctly heard what took place.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000007|All the Princesses had killed one another, and the old Queen had gone out into the world: it was just as it is now.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000008|But the Bees took one of us Grubs and laid her in one of the Princesses' cells.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000009|They fed her every day with the finest and best honey in the whole hive; and when she was full grown, she was a charming and good Queen.
train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000011|But we may do the same thing again.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000000_000001|I said we were well provided with food and fire arms, that she might feel quite safe from the brigands.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000000_000002|Now Coonskin called for me and said our evening meal was under way.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000000_000003|So, I bade mrs Green a good night.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000002_000000|"Gee!
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000002_000001|Wouldn't I like to capture 'em, though!" he said enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000003_000001|Something tells me that we'll meet these outlaws."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000004_000000|Supper over and dishes washed, we retired.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000004_000001|Our bed, only separated from the earth by a single canvas, never was more comfortable.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000004_000003|Suddenly I heard Don, who was on guard, growl, then a sound of wheels and a horse's whinny.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000005_000000|"Will your dog bite, mr Pod?" called mr Green.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000006_000000|I rushed out barefoot and dispelled his fears, and, after shaking hands, questioned him how he knew who I was.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000007_000000|"Oh," he chuckled, "anybody would know you by your outfit; besides, everybody along the trail has been expecting you, even two desperadoes."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000008_000000|This was interesting.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000008_000001|But I explained that his wife had told me all, whereupon he invited us men to breakfast, and was escorted by Don to a point which he considered the limit of his master's domain.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000000|"Griswold is the unfortunate man's name," said Green.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000001|"The outlaws pretended to be friendly, lunched with him, and started off on their horses.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000004|The poor fellow regained consciousness, and managed by morning to crawl six miles to a ranch.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000005|Resolute men hurriedly saddled their horses, and soon thirty were after the outlaws.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000006|I hear Griswold is with them, he having recovered.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000007|But they say at Egan that some of the boys this afternoon gave up the chase, because it was getting too warm for them; they felt pretty near the game."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000011_000000|mr Green gave me a second handed description of the desperadoes and their outfit, and directing me on my route, wished us Godspeed.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000000|We soon arrived at Egan, where we were kindly received.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000001|The men showed us about the works, allowing me to take photographs, and gave me a more accurate description of the outlaws, and the long trail of a hundred miles to Eureka.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000002|At three points only should we find water, at Nine Mile Spring, Thirty Mile and Pinto Creek, the latter being seventy miles away.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000003|No habitation would we see; only an occasional coyote, or a band of wild horses, or possibly some prairie schooner, or the outlaws, or some of the posses.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000014_000000|By trailing through Egan Canyon we cut the backbone of the mountain range and now, at an altitude of several hundred feet above the plain, were climbing higher and higher the rugged plateau, until we reached Nine Mile, and unpacked.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000014_000001|The spring was in a grassy spot, and Coonskin first replenished our canteens, then released the donkeys.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000000|It was noon.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000001|Accustomed as we were to travel on two meals a day, I could set no regular hour for them.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000002|It was twenty one miles to Thirty Mile Spring.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000003|So we cooked here.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000016_000000|The desperadoes formed the chief topic of discussion, even Don showed the bloodhound in him, and, ever since leaving Egan, showed unusual excitement and was more vigilant.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000016_000004|I was relieved when I saw one of the riders wearing a bandage round his head; it must be Griswold.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000000|The strangers left their steeds standing, each tying a rein to a stirrup, then introduced themselves.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000002|They were affable fellows and resolute, but had set out hardly equipped for the chase.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000003|One picked up a two quart canteen, saying good naturedly that he reckoned he would have to rustle it.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000004|I said they were welcome to anything I could spare.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000018_000000|Before separating on our several missions, Coonskin photographed the party, and Griswold repeated his description of the outlaws. Couriers had been dispatched to Ely, Hamilton, Eureka, and other points; these men were bound for Hunter, seven miles over the mesa.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000018_000002|They also admonished me to hold up and shoot without considering an instant any two mounted men of the description given, else we two would never live to tell how it happened.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000000|With this parting injunction, unofficial though it was, the riders loped away, and my nervous troop, at half past two, "hit the trail" in lively form.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000001|I was glad the country was clear and open. Only an occasional dwarf cedar stood in dark relief against the sage.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000003|I felt we must be near to Thirty Mile.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000004|The idea of passing the spring and having to trace our steps next morning was not to be entertained.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000006|And there we camped.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000020_000000|By ten o'clock next morning we had breakfasted, and were trailing toward the summit of the plateau.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000021_000000|The noon hour found us weary travelers reclining on a heap of blankets.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000021_000001|To the east, some fifty feet away, stood a tub, obscured by pussy willows, and brimming with cool water furnished by a cedar trough which reached from the bubbling spring.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000022_000000|"I'm afraid the fellows ain't going to bother us after all," said Coonskin disappointedly, at length.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000023_000001|"Jove!" he added, "I believe the outlaws are coming."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000024_000001|Assigning to my valet the shot gun and the Smith and Wesson double action revolver, I loaded two extra shells with buckshot, tested the locks of my Winchester and single action Colt revolver, gave Coonskin explicit instructions, and awaited events.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000025_000001|It was plain they were cinching their saddles, probably preparing to do some rough riding.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000025_000002|The dark horse appeared to be somewhat darker than the one described by Griswold, but I was cautioned that they might exchange a horse for one on the range in order to mislead their pursuers.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000026_000002|Don seemed to understand, and stationing himself some ten feet before us, watched the strangers eagerly.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000026_000004|"Don't let them corral us," I cautioned; "if they get us between them, the game is up."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000000|Those were anxious moments for me, as well as for the young man who was ten years my junior.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000001|I was seated on our packs, my Winchester lying across my knees, cocked; Coonskin sat on the ground at my right, with shot gun in hand.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000002|Our revolvers were in our belts.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000003|Our bearded and sun burned faces, long hair, and generally rough attire, added to our unfriendly attitude, must have puzzled the approaching horsemen.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000004|When they had come to a hundred feet from us, I called roughly, "Helloa, boys! come in. You're just in time for grub."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000028_000000|Instantly Don leaped to his feet, and with tail straight out and body trembling from rage he uttered a savage growl of defiance.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000028_000001|He identified the desperadoes.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000029_000000|Instantly reining their steeds, one of them slung some simple questions at me, designed, no doubt, to throw us off guard.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000030_000000|"Purty nice lot of burros you've got," he began.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000031_000000|"Pretty fair," I replied disinterestedly.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000032_000000|"Which way you traveling?"
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000033_000000|"West.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000034_000000|"Just lookin' round.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000034_000001|Which is the trail to Hamilton?"
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000035_000000|I did not answer.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000038_000000|"No, better water our horses and go on," said the partner.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000040_000000|Instantly I rose to my feet, and trailing the rifle over my wrist strode, eyeing him defiantly, in a line at a right angle with the course of his horse, but the rogue did not go far before turning his steed in the direction of the tub.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000040_000001|There both men dismounted behind their steeds, took off the bridles with spade bits that their horses might drink, and regarded us tenderfeet with some respect and concern.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000044_000000|"Not exactly," I said with a faint smile.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000045_000000|"That so?" queried the outlaw, quite excitably.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000045_000001|"How long ago were they here?
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000046_000000|"Oh just a little while ago.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000046_000001|They took in a few cans of water," I here pointed in their direction, and said: "They were going to cook over there behind that knoll."
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000047_000000|At once, as I hoped they would, the desperadoes were thrown off their guard and looked behind them.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000047_000003|The outlaws turned their eyes upon us so quickly I think they must have overheard my whispered command.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000048_000000|I was in the mood to "jump" Coonskin for not aiding me to hold up the outlaws.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000048_000003|And think of the handsome reward," I said.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000049_000000|The thought of a forfeited reward seemed to stagger the boy.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000050_000001|I pinned a penciled message on paper to the tub before departing, for the benefit of the posse, and my caravan was on the move again.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000050_000002|About midnight we made a dry camp at a discreet distance from the trail, where without building a fire we made a cold lunch serve for our second meal that day, and retired.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000051_000001|By two o'clock we had crossed the Long Valley Mountains and were on the margin of a sage covered plain, still probably twenty miles to Pinto.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000051_000002|Several times we were puzzled by forking trails, and were in doubt whether we were on the right one to Eureka.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000000|I judged the valley to be ten miles wide.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000002|I decided to head for it.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000004|They were mr Robinson, proprietor of Newark Mines, and his superintendent.
train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000005|Both were very hospitable.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000002_000000|STORY twenty three
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000005_000000|"Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000006_000000|"Ha! that sounds like some one who can't get out of bed," exclaimed the bunny uncle.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000006_000002|Perhaps I can help them."
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000008_000001|I can't get up!
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000010_000000|There was silence for a minute, and then the first voice said again:
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000012_000000|"Trouble, eh?" cried Uncle Wiggily.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000012_000001|"Here is where I come in.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000013_000004|Oh, dear!" sighed the Woodland flower.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000014_000000|"Oh, don't worry about that!" cried Uncle Wiggily, in his jolly voice. "I'll lift the stone off your head for you," and he did, just as he once had helped a Jack in the pulpit flower to grow up, as I have told you in another story.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000015_000000|"There you are!" cried the bunny uncle.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000015_000001|"But you don't look much like a flower."
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000016_000000|"Oh!
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000016_000004|Then came the cold winter, and I went to sleep.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000016_000006|I don't know by whom.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000018_000000|"How will all that happen?" Uncle Wiggily asked.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000020_000001|"Thank you, Uncle Wiggily, for taking the stone off the leaves so I could shine on them," went on the sunbeam, who had known Uncle Wiggily for some time.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000020_000002|"Though I am strong I am not strong enough to lift stones, nor was the flower.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000023_000000|Then the sunbeam played about the little green plant, turning the pale leaves a darker color and swelling out the tiny buds.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000025_000000|"I want a loaf of bread, a yeast cake and three pounds of sugar," said Nurse Jane.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000026_000001|On his way home from the store with the sugar, bread and yeast cake, Uncle Wiggily thought he would hop past the place where he had lifted the stone off the head of the plant, to see how it was growing.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000028_000000|"You want to see me?" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000028_000001|"I think you must be mistaken," he went on politely.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000031_000002|Eight, Nine and Ten.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000031_000003|They have numbers instead of names, you see."
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000032_000002|I don't like it!"
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000033_000000|"You can't always do as you like," barked the fox.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000035_000000|"Oh, throw it away!" growled the fox.
train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000037_000000|So Uncle Wiggily held out the bright yeast cake.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000002_000000|STORY twenty six
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000004_000000|"Will you go to the store for me, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, of the rabbit gentleman one day, as he sat out on the porch of his hollow stump bungalow in the woods.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000005_000000|"Indeed I will, Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy," said mr Longears, most politely. "What is it you want?"
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000006_000000|"A loaf of bread and a pound of sugar," she answered, and Uncle Wiggily started off.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000009_000000|On his way to the store through the woods, the bunny uncle came to a big beech tree, which had nice, shiny white bark on it, and, to his surprise the rabbit gentleman saw a big black bear, standing up on his hind legs and scratching at the tree bark as hard as he could.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000010_000000|"Ha!
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000010_000003|I must drive the bear away."
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000012_000000|So Uncle Wiggily picked up a stone, and throwing it at the bear, hit him on the back, where the skin was so thick it hurt hardly at all.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000015_000001|"The hunter man with his gun must be after me.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000015_000002|He has shot me once, but the bullet did not hurt.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000017_000000|"Thank you, Uncle Wiggily," said the beech tree.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000017_000001|"You saved my life by not letting the bear scratch off all my bark."
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000018_000000|"I am glad I did," spoke the rabbit, making a polite bow with his tall silk hat, for mr Longears was polite, even to a tree.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000019_000000|"The bear would not stop scratching my bark when I asked him to," went on the beech tree, "so I am glad you came along, and scared him.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000020_000000|"Thank you," spoke Uncle Wiggily, and then he hopped on to the store to get the loaf of bread and the pound of sugar for Nurse Jane.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000021_000000|It was on the way back from the store that an adventure happened to Uncle Wiggily.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000023_000000|"Ah, ha!" growled the bear, as soon as he saw Uncle Wiggily, "you can't fool me again, making believe a stone is a bullet, and that your 'Bang!' is a gun!
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000023_000001|You can't fool me!
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000023_000002|I know all about the trick you played on me.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000024_000001|I wanted to save the beech tree."
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000025_000000|"Oh, I don't care!" cried the bear, saucy like and impolitely.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000025_000001|"I'm going to scratch as much as I like!"
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000028_000000|"Oh, dear!
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000029_000000|"First, I'll bite you," said the bear.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000029_000001|"No, I guess I'll first scratch you.
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000029_000004|I'll scrite you!"
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000033_000001|Ouch!
train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000034_000000|And away he ran from the shower of sharp beech nuts which didn't hurt Uncle Wiggily at all because he raised his umbrella and kept them off. Then he thanked the tree for having saved him from the bear and went safely home.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000001_000000|STORY twenty seven
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000006_000001|"They seemed to get over them nicely, at least Peetie did, but then Jackie caught the epizootic, and he has to stay in bed a week longer, and take bitter medicine."
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000007_000000|"Bitter medicine, eh?" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000007_000001|"I am sorry to hear that, for I don't like bitter medicine myself."
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000009_000000|"Why, not?" asked the rabbit gentleman.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000010_000000|"Because we can't get him to take a drop," said the puppy dog boy's mother.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000013_000000|"Of course he does," agreed Uncle Wiggily.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000018_000001|"But I'm glad to see you.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000019_000004|Where is it?"
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000022_000000|"Oh, I'll do that for you, Uncle Wiggily, but I'll not take it," Jackie said.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000023_000000|"Never mind about that," laughed the bunny uncle.
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000023_000004|Just hold the cup to your lips, but don't swallow any."
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000029_000001|"It went down my throat!
train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000029_000002|And it wasn't so bad, after all."
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000000_000000|STORY twenty eight
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000002_000001|He had been looking all around for an adventure, which was something he liked to have happen to him, but he had seen nothing like one so far.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000006_000000|It was nice and warm in the woods, and, with the sun shining down upon him, Uncle Wiggily soon dozed off in a little sleep.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000006_000001|But when he awakened still no adventure had happened to him.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000007_000001|He could not move his back away from the pine tree against which he had leaned to rest.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000008_000000|"Oh, dear! what has happened," cried the bunny uncle.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000008_000003|Oh, dear!"
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000011_000001|"I am holding you fast!"
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000012_000000|"Who are you, if you please?" asked the rabbit gentleman.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000013_000000|"I am the pine tree against which you leaned your back.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000013_000002|It is that which is holding you fast," the tree answered.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000014_000000|"Why-why, it's just like sticky flypaper, isn't it?" asked Uncle Wiggily, trying again to get loose, but not doing so.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000014_000001|"And it is just like the time you held the bear fast for me."
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000015_000003|Try to get loose yourself."
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000016_000000|"I will," said Uncle Wiggily, and he did, but he could not get loose, though he almost pulled out all his fur.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000017_000000|"Help!
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000018_000000|Then, all of a sudden, along through the woods came Neddie Stubtail, the little bear boy, and Neddie had some butter, which he had just bought at the store for his mother.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000019_000000|"Oh!" cried the pine tree.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000020_000000|Neddie did so, and soon the bunny uncle was free.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000022_000001|"As for having stuck me fast, that was my own fault.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000022_000002|I should have looked before I leaned back.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000023_000002|Oh, I wish I were a peach tree, or a rose bush!"
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000024_000001|Don't feel so badly."
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000027_000000|"Hush!" cried Uncle Wiggily.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000027_000001|"You must try to do the best you can for what you are!
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000027_000002|And I have come to tell you how useful your pine cones were."
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000028_000000|"Really?" asked the tree, in great surprise.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000029_000002|With others I built a little play house, and amused Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck girl, when she had the toothache.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000029_000003|And other cones I threw at a big bear that was chasing me.
train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000031_000000|And, if the roof of our house doesn't come down stairs to play with the kitchen floor and let the rain in on the gold fish, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and his torn coat.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000000_000001|THE RESURRECTION.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000001_000001|If he was one with the Father, the question cannot be argued, seeing that Jesus apart from the Father is not a conceivable idea.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000001|All knew that the Lord had risen indeed: what matter whether some of them saw one or two angels in the tomb?
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000002|The first who came saw one angel outside and another inside the sepulchre.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000003|One at a different time saw two inside.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000004|What wonder then that one of the records should say of them all, that they saw two angels?
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000005|I do not care to set myself to the reconciliation of the differing reports.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000006|Their trifling disagreement is to me even valuable from its truth to our human nature.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000007|All I care to do is to suggest to any one anxious to understand the records the following arrangement of facts.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000009|Perhaps something might yet be done to rescue the precious form, and lay it aside with all futile honours.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000010|With peter and john she returned to the grave, whence, in the mean time, her former companions, having seen and conversed with the angel outside and the angel inside, had departed to find their friends.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000012|As she wept, she stooped down into the sepulchre.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000015|It is a lovely story that follows, full of marvel, as how should it not be?
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000003_000000|"Woman, why weepest thou?" said the angels.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000004_000000|"Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him," answered Mary, and turning away, tear blinded, saw the gardener, as she thought.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000005_000000|"Woman, why weepest thou?" repeats the gardener.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000006_000000|"Whom seekest thou?"
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000007_000000|Hopelessness had dulled every sense: not even a start at the sound of his voice!
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000008_000000|"Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away."
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000009_000000|"Mary!"
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000010_000000|"Master!"
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000012_000000|She had the first sight of him.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000012_000001|It would almost seem that, arrested by her misery, he had delayed his ascent, and shown himself sooner than his first intent.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000012_000002|"Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended." She was about to grasp him with the eager hands of reverent love: why did he refuse the touch?
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000000|Doubtless the tone of the words deprived them of any sting.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000002|For the rest, we know so little of the new conditions of his bodily nature, that nothing is ours beyond conjecture.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000008|If any one thinks this founded on too human a notion of the Saviour, I would only reply that I suspect a great part of our irreligion springs from our disbelief in the humanity of God.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000009|There lie endless undiscovered treasures of grace.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000010|After he had once ascended to the Father, he not only appeared to his disciples again and again, but their hands handled the word of life, and he ate in their presence.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000012|Upon the body he inhabited, death could no longer lay his hands, and from the vantage ground he thus held, he could stretch down the arm of salvation to each and all.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000000|For in regard of this glorified body of Jesus, we must note that it appeared and disappeared at the will of its owner; and it would seem also that other matter yielded and gave it way; yes, even that space itself was in some degree subjected to it.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000001|Upon the first of these, the record is clear.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000002|If any man say he cannot believe it, my only answer is that I can.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000004|The wisdom of this world can believe that matter generates mind: what seems to me the wisdom from above can believe that mind generates matter-that matter is but the manifest mind.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000005|On this supposition matter may well be subject to mind; much more, if Jesus be the Son of God, his own body must be subject to his will.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000006|I doubt, indeed, if the condition of any man is perfect before the body he inhabits is altogether obedient to his will-before, through his own absolute obedience to the Father, the realm of his own rule is put under him perfectly.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000015_000000|It may be objected that although this might be credible of the glorified body of even the human resurrection, it is hard to believe that the body which suffered and died on the cross could become thus plastic to the will of the indwelling spirit.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000015_000001|But I do not see why that which was born of the spirit of the Father, should not be so inter penetrated and possessed by the spirit of the Son, that, without the loss of one of its former faculties, it should be endowed with many added gifts of obedience; amongst the rest such as are indicated in the narrative before us.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000016_000000|Why was this miracle needful?
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000017_000000|Perhaps, for one thing, that men should not limit him, or themselves in him, to the known forms of humanity; and for another, that the best hope might be given them of a life beyond the grave; that their instinctive desires in that direction might thus be infinitely developed and assured.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000017_000001|I suspect, however, that it followed just as the natural consequence of all that preceded.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000018_000000|If Christ be risen, then is the grave of humanity itself empty.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000018_000003|Ever since the Lord lay down in the tomb, and behold it was but a couch whence he arose refreshed, we may say of every brother: He is not dead but sleepeth.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000019_000001|They can tell us little of this, and nothing of the glad safety beyond.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000000|With any theory of the conditions of our resurrection, I have scarcely here to do.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000001|It is to me a matter of positively no interest whether or not, in any sense, the matter of our bodies shall be raised from the earth.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000003|Not to believe in mutual recognition beyond, seems to me a far more reprehensible unbelief than that in the resurrection itself.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000004|I can well understand how a man should not believe in any life after death.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000009|In truth I am ashamed of even combating such an essential falsehood.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000010|Were it not that here and there a weak soul is paralysed by the presence of the monstrous lie, and we dare not allow sympathy to be swallowed up of even righteous disdain, a contemptuous denial would be enough.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000021_000000|What seemed to the disciples the final acme of disappointment and grief, the vanishing of his body itself, was in reality the first sign of the dawn of an illimitable joy.
train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000021_000001|He was not there because he had risen.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000002_000000|HERCULES
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000005_000000|THE TWELVE LABORS OF HERCULES
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000008_000000|The Fates were three, namely, Clotho who spun the thread of life, Lachesis who settled the lot of gods and mortals in life, and Atropos who cut the thread of life spun by Clotho.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000011_000000|All that was conceded to her was that Hercules should be put under the dominion of Eurystheus, King of Thebes, his eldest brother, a harsh and pitiless man.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000012_000000|In fact, Hercules was but a child, when Juno sent two enormous serpents against him.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000012_000001|These serpents, gliding into his cradle, were on the point of biting the child when he, with his own hands, seized them and strangled the life out of their slimy bodies.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000013_000001|But the hatred of Juno always pursued him.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000014_000000|When he came again to his sober senses, and learnt that he was the murderer of his own offspring he was filled with horror, and betook himself into exile so that he might hide his face from his fellow men. After a time he went to the oracle at Delphi to ask what he should do in atonement for his dreadful deed.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000015_000000|He was ordered to serve his brother Eurystheus-who, by the help of Juno, had robbed him of his kingdom-for twelve years.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000015_000003|He therefore resolved to banish him and to impose such tasks upon him as must certainly bring about his destruction.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000015_000004|Hence arose the famous twelve labors of Hercules.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000016_000000|Eurystheus first set Hercules to keep his sheep at Nemea and to kill the lion that ofttimes carried off the sheep, and sometimes the shepherd also.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000017_000001|Arming himself with a heavy club and with a bow and arrows, he went in search of the lion's lair and soon found it.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000018_000000|Finding that arrows and club made no impression upon the thick skin of the lion, the hero was constrained to trust entirely to his own thews and sinews.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000018_000001|Seizing the lion with both hands, he put forth all his mighty strength and strangled the beast just as he had strangled the serpents in his cradle.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000018_000002|Then, having despoiled the dead man eater of his skin, Hercules henceforth wore this trophy as a garment, and as a shield and buckler.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000019_000000|In those days, there was in Greece a monstrous serpent known as the Hydra of Lerna, because it haunted a marsh of that name whence it issued in search of prey.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000019_000001|As his second labor, Hercules was sent to slay this creature.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000020_000000|This reptile had nine heads of which the midmost was immortal.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000020_000001|When Hercules struck off one of these heads with his club, two others at once appeared in its place.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000022_000000|The third labor imposed upon Hercules by Eurystheus was the capture of the Arcadian Stag.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000022_000001|This remarkable beast had brazen feet and antlers of solid gold.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000023_000000|It proved no easy task to do this.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000024_000000|At length he shot at it and wounded it with an arrow-not, you may be sure, with one of the poisoned ones-and, having caught it thus wounded, he carried it on his shoulder to his brother and thus completed the third of his labors.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000027_000002|The stench was terrible and greatly troubled the health of the land.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000027_000003|Eurystheus set Hercules the task of cleaning out these Augean stables in a single day!
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000028_000002|Such was the fifth labor of Hercules.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000029_000000|On an island in a lake near Stymphalus, in Arcadia, there nested in those days some remarkable and terrible birds-remarkable because their claws, wings and beaks were brazen, and terrible because they fed on human flesh and attacked with their terrible beaks and claws all who came near the lake.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000029_000001|To kill these dreadful birds was the sixth labor.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000030_000000|Minerva supplied Hercules with a brazen rattle with which he roused the birds from their nests, and then slew them with his poisoned arrows while they were on the wing.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000034_000000|He not only caught the monster, but tamed him, and bore him aloft on his shoulders, into the presence of the affrighted Eurystheus, who was at a loss to find a task impossible for Hercules to perform.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000035_000000|The taking of the mares of Diomedes was the eighth labor.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000035_000001|These horses were not ordinary horses, living on corn.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000036_000002|The scene of this labor was Thrace, an extensive region lying between the AEgean Sea, the Euxine or Black Sea, and the Danube.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000040_000002|Geryon was a three bodied monster whose cattle were kept by a giant and a two headed dog!
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000042_000000|Hercules slew the giant, the two headed dog and Geryon himself, and in due course brought the oxen to Eurystheus.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000043_000000|Sometime afterwards, Eurystheus, having heard rumors of a wonderful tree which, in some unknown land, yielded golden apples, was moved with great greed to have some of this remarkable fruit.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000043_000002|He had been told that Atlas could give him news of the tree.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000044_000001|This means, perhaps, that in the kingdom of Atlas there were some mountains so high that their summits seemed to touch the sky.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000046_000001|These Hesperides were none other than the three daughters of Atlas, and it was their duty, in which they were helped by a dragon, to guard the golden apples.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000047_000000|Hercules killed the dragon and carried off the apples, but they were afterwards restored to their place by Minerva.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000053_000000|He is said to have been the great friend of mankind, and was chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus because he stole fire from heaven and gave it as a gift to the sons of man.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000056_000000|HERCULES IN THE NETHER WORLD
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000057_000000|Theseus and Pirithous were two Athenians, who, after having been at enmity for a long time at last became the very best of friends.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000057_000002|This did not prevent them from forming a very foolish project.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000058_000000|This rashness brought about their ruin, for they were seized by Pluto and chained to a rock.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000058_000001|All this Hercules, who was the friend of Theseus, learnt while on one of his journeys, and he resolved to rescue Theseus from his eternal punishment.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000059_000000|As for Pirithous, the prime mover in the attempted outrage, him Hercules meant to leave to his fate.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000060_000001|When he found himself face to face with Cerberus he seized him, threw him down and chained him with strong chains.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000062_000000|This river had not always run under the vaults of Hades.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000062_000001|Formerly its course was upon the earth.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000062_000002|But when the Titans attempted to scale the heaven, this river had the ill luck to quench their thirst, and Jupiter to punish even the waters of the river for abetting his enemies, turned its course aside into the under world where its waves, slow moving and filthy, lost themselves in Styx, the largest of all the rivers of Hades, which ran round Pluto's gloomy kingdom no less than nine times.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000064_000000|Fierce Charon frowned when he beheld Hercules for he feared his light boat of bark would sink under his weight, it being only adapted for the light and airy spirits of the dead; but when the son of Jupiter told him his name he was mollified and allowed the hero to take his place at his side.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000065_000000|As soon as the boat had touched the shore, Hercules went towards the gloomy palace of Pluto where he with difficulty, on account of the darkness, saw Pluto seated upon an ebony throne by the side of his beloved Proserpina.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000066_000001|When Hercules announced himself, however, he gave him a permit to go round his kingdom and, in addition, acceded to his prayer for the release of Theseus.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000067_000000|At the foot of Pluto's throne Hercules saw Death the Reaper.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000067_000001|He was clothed in a black robe spotted with stars and his fleshless hand held the sharp sickle with which he is said to cut down mortals as the reaper cuts down corn.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000068_000001|During his progress he saw the shades of many people of whom, on earth, he had heard much talk.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000069_000000|He had been wandering about some time when, in a gloomy chamber, he saw three old sisters, wan and worn, spinning by the feeble light of a lamp.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000069_000001|They were the Fates, deities whose duty it was to thread the days of all mortals who appeared on earth, were it but for an instant.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000070_000000|Clotho, the spinner of the thread of life, was the eldest of the three.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000070_000001|She held in her hand a distaff, wound with black and white woollen yarn, with which were sparingly intermixed strands of silk and gold.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000070_000002|The wool stood for the humdrum everyday life of man: the silk and gold marked the days of mirth and gladness, always, alas! too few in number.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000071_000000|Lachesis, the second of the Fates, was quickly turning with her left hand a spindle, while her right hand was leading a fine thread which the third sister, Atropos by name, used to cut with a pair of sharp shears at the death of each mortal.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000072_000001|Hercules would have liked them to tell him how long they had yet to spin for him, but they had no time to answer questions and so the hero passed on.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000074_000000|They were Minos, AEacus and Rhadamanthus, the three judges of Hades, whose duty it was to punish the guilty by casting them into a dismal gulf, Tartarus, whence none might ever emerge, and to reward the innocent by transporting them to the Elysian Fields where delight followed delight in endless pleasure.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000075_000000|These judges could never be mistaken because Themis, the Goddess of Justice, held in front of them a pair of scales in which she weighed the actions of men.
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train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000077_000000|BLACK TARTARUS AND THE ELYSIAN FIELDS
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000078_000000|Immediately on quitting the presence of the three judges, Hercules saw them open out before him an immense gulf whence arose thick clouds of black smoke.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000079_000000|Not far remote from this rolled Cocytus, another endless stream, fed by the tears of the wretches doomed to Black Tartarus, in which place of eternal torment Hercules now found himself.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000080_000000|The rulers of these mournful regions were the Furies who, with unkempt hair and armed with whips, tormented the condemned without mercy by showing them continually in mirrors the images of their former crimes.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000081_000000|Into Tartarus were thrown, never to come out again, the shades or manes of traitors, ingrates, perjurers, unnatural children, murderers and hypocrites who had during their lives pretended to be upright and honorable in order to deceive the just.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000082_000001|There were to be seen great scoundrels who had startled the world with their frightful crimes.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000082_000002|For these Pluto and the Furies had invented special tortures.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000083_000000|Among the criminals so justly overtaken by the divine vengeance Hercules noticed Salmoneus, whom he had formerly met upon earth.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000086_000000|Sisyphus, the brother of Salmoneus, was no better than he.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000087_000000|Theseus, whom Hercules was bent on freeing from his torment, had met and killed this robber assassin, and Jupiter, for his sins, decreed that the malefactor should continually be rolling up a hill in Tartarus a heavy stone which, when with incredible pains he had brought nearly to the top, always rolled back again, and he had to begin over and over again the heart breaking ascent.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000088_000000|Some distance from Sisyphus Hercules came upon Tantalus, who, in the flesh, had been King of Phrygia, but who now, weak from hunger and parched with thirst, was made to stand to his chin in water with branches of tempting luscious fruit hanging ripe over his head.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000088_000001|When he essayed to drink the water it always went from him, and when he stretched out his hand to pluck the fruit, back the branches sprang out of reach.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000090_000001|For this he was "tantalized" with food and drink, which, seeming always to be within his reach, ever mocked his hopes by eluding his grasp.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000092_000000|One only of the fifty, to wit Hypermnestra, had the courage to disobey this unlawful command and so saved the life of Lynceus, her husband, with whom she fled.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000093_000000|To punish the forty nine Danaides, Jupiter cast them into the outer darkness of Black Tartarus, where they were ever engaged in the hopeless task of pouring water into a sieve.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000093_000001|Hypermnestra, on the contrary, was honored while alive, and also after her death, for loving goodness even more than she loved her father.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000094_000000|Glutted with horror Hercules at length quitted gloomy Tartarus and beheld in front of him still another river.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000094_000001|This was Lethe.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000095_000000|Across Lethe stretched the Elysian Fields where the shades of the blest dwelt in bliss without alloy.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000095_000002|Sunlit, yet never parched with torrid heat, everywhere their verdure charmed the delighted eye, and all things conspired to make the shades of the good and wise, who were privileged to dwell in these Elysian Fields, delightfully happy.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000097_000000|Having at length found and released Theseus, Hercules set out with him for the upper world.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000097_000001|The two left Hades by an ivory door, the key of which Pluto had confided to their care.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000100_000000|THE TUNIC OF NESSUS THE CENTAUR
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000101_000001|They were called Centaurs, or Bull Slayers.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000102_000001|But many of them, although learned, were not good.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000103_000002|This offer Hercules gladly accepted.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000104_000002|He shot one of his poisoned arrows with so much force that it went right through the traitor Centaur, and wounded him even unto death.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000107_000001|So when Hercules put it on, which he did immediately upon receiving it, he was seized with frenzy and, in his madness, he uttered terrible cries and did dreadful deeds.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000108_000000|With his powerful hands he broke off huge pieces of rock, tore up pine trees by their roots and hurled them with resounding din into the valley.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000109_000000|He could not take off the fatal shirt, and as he tore off portions of it he tore, at the same time, his quivering flesh.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000111_000000|But at length the majesty and the courage of the hero asserted themselves, and, although still in agony, his madness left him.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000112_000000|Calling to his side his friend Philoctetes, he wished to embrace him once more before dying; but fearful lest he should, in so doing, infect his friend with the deadly poison that was consuming him, he cried in his agony: "Alas, I am not even permitted to embrace thee!"
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000113_000000|Then he gathered together the trees he had uprooted and made a huge funeral pyre, such as was used by the ancients in burning their dead. Climbing to the top of the heap, he spread out the skin of the Nemean lion, and, supporting himself upon his club, gave the signal for Philoctetes to kindle the fire that was to reduce him to ashes.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000114_000000|In return for this service he gave Philoctetes a quiver full of those deadly arrows that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra of Lerna.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000115_000000|He further enjoined his friend to let no man know of his departure from life, to the intent that the fear of his approach might prevent fresh monsters and new robbers from ravaging the earth.
train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000116_000000|Thus died Hercules, and after his death he was received as a god amongst the Immortals on Mount Olympus, where he married Hebe, Jove's cupbearer.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000001_000000|THE CABALLERO'S WAY
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000003_000000|The Kid was twenty five, looked twenty; and a careful insurance company would have estimated the probable time of his demise at, say, twenty six.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000003_000002|He killed for the love of it-because he was quick tempered- to avoid arrest-for his own amusement-any reason that came to his mind would suffice.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000003_000003|He had escaped capture because he could shoot five sixths of a second sooner than any sheriff or ranger in the service, and because he rode a speckled roan horse that knew every cow path in the mesquite and pear thickets from San Antonio to Matamoras.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000006_000000|The captain turned the colour of brick dust under his tan, and forwarded the letter, after adding a few comments, per ranger Private Bill Adamson, to ranger Lieutenant Sandridge, camped at a water hole on the Nueces with a squad of five men in preservation of law and order.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000007_000000|Lieutenant Sandridge turned a beautiful /couleur de rose/ through his ordinary strawberry complexion, tucked the letter in his hip pocket, and chewed off the ends of his gamboge moustache.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000010_000001|It had been one of the Kid's pastimes to shoot Mexicans "to see them kick": if he demanded from them moribund Terpsichorean feats, simply that he might be entertained, what terrible and extreme penalties would be certain to follow should they anger him!
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000010_000002|One and all they lounged with upturned palms and shrugging shoulders, filling the air with "/quien sabes/" and denials of the Kid's acquaintance.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000011_000000|But there was a man named Fink who kept a store at the Crossing-a man of many nationalities, tongues, interests, and ways of thinking.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000001|"They're afraid to tell.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000002|This /hombre/ they call the Kid-Goodall is his name, ain't it?--he's been in my store once or twice.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000003|I have an idea you might run across him at-but I guess I don't keer to say, myself.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000004|I'm two seconds later in pulling a gun than I used to be, and the difference is worth thinking about.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000005|But this Kid's got a half Mexican girl at the Crossing that he comes to see.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000007|Maybe she-no, I don't suppose she would, but that /jacal/ would be a good place to watch, anyway."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000013_000001|The sun was low, and the broad shade of the great pear thicket already covered the grass thatched hut.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000013_000002|The goats were enclosed for the night in a brush corral near by.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000013_000003|A few kids walked the top of it, nibbling the chaparral leaves.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000014_000000|The Cisco Kid was a vain person, as all eminent and successful assassins are, and his bosom would have been ruffled had he known that at a simple exchange of glances two persons, in whose minds he had been looming large, suddenly abandoned (at least for the time) all thought of him.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000015_000000|Never before had Tonia seen such a man as this.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000015_000003|The men she had known had been small and dark.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000015_000004|Even the Kid, in spite of his achievements, was a stripling no larger than herself, with black, straight hair and a cold, marble face that chilled the noonday.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000000|As for Tonia, though she sends description to the poorhouse, let her make a millionaire of your fancy.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000001|Her blue black hair, smoothly divided in the middle and bound close to her head, and her large eyes full of the Latin melancholy, gave her the Madonna touch.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000002|Her motions and air spoke of the concealed fire and the desire to charm that she had inherited from the /gitanas/ of the Basque province.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000003|As for the humming bird part of her, that dwelt in her heart; you could not perceive it unless her bright red skirt and dark blue blouse gave you a symbolic hint of the vagarious bird.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000017_000000|The newly lighted sun god asked for a drink of water.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000017_000001|Tonia brought it from the red jar hanging under the brush shelter.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000019_000000|Which leads to a suspicion that the Kid's fences needed repairing, and that the adjutant general's sarcasm had fallen upon unproductive soil.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000020_000001|That sounded business like.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000020_000002|Twice a week he rode over to the Lone Wolf Crossing of the Frio, and directed Tonia's slim, slightly lemon tinted fingers among the intricacies of the slowly growing lariata.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000020_000003|A six strand plait is hard to learn and easy to teach.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000021_000002|Thus he might bring down the kite and the humming bird with one stone.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000022_000000|While the sunny haired ornithologist was pursuing his studies the Cisco Kid was also attending to his professional duties.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000022_000001|He moodily shot up a saloon in a small cow village on Quintana Creek, killed the town marshal (plugging him neatly in the centre of his tin badge), and then rode away, morose and unsatisfied.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000023_000002|He wanted her to call his bloodthirstiness bravery and his cruelty devotion.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000023_000003|He wanted Tonia to bring him water from the red jar under the brush shelter, and tell him how the /chivo/ was thriving on the bottle.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000024_000000|The Kid turned the speckled roan's head up the ten mile pear flat that stretches along the Arroyo Hondo until it ends at the Lone Wolf Crossing of the Frio.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000024_000001|The roan whickered; for he had a sense of locality and direction equal to that of a belt line street car horse; and he knew he would soon be nibbling the rich mesquite grass at the end of a forty foot stake rope while Ulysses rested his head in Circe's straw roofed hut.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000025_000001|With dismal monotony and startling variety the uncanny and multiform shapes of the cacti lift their twisted trunks, and fat, bristly hands to encumber the way.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000025_000002|The demon plant, appearing to live without soil or rain, seems to taunt the parched traveller with its lush grey greenness.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000025_000003|It warps itself a thousand times about what look to be open and inviting paths, only to lure the rider into blind and impassable spine defended "bottoms of the bag," leaving him to retreat, if he can, with the points of the compass whirling in his head.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000026_000000|To be lost in the pear is to die almost the death of the thief on the cross, pierced by nails and with grotesque shapes of all the fiends hovering about.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000028_000001|He knew but one tune and sang it, as he knew but one code and lived it, and but one girl and loved her.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000028_000003|He had a voice like a coyote with bronchitis, but whenever he chose to sing his song he sang it.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000029_000000|Don't you monkey with my Lulu girl Or I'll tell you what I'll do-
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000032_000000|As though he were in a circus ring the speckled roan wheeled and danced through the labyrinth of pear until at length his rider knew by certain landmarks that the Lone Wolf Crossing was close at hand.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000032_000002|A few yards farther the Kid stopped the roan and gazed intently through the prickly openings.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000032_000003|Then he dismounted, dropped the roan's reins, and proceeded on foot, stooping and silent, like an Indian.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000033_000000|The Kid crept noiselessly to the very edge of the pear thicket and reconnoitred between the leaves of a clump of cactus.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000034_000002|But if all must be told, there is to be added that her head reposed against the broad and comfortable chest of a tall red and yellow man, and that his arm was about her, guiding her nimble fingers that required so many lessons at the intricate six strand plait.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000035_000000|Sandridge glanced quickly at the dark mass of pear when he heard a slight squeaking sound that was not altogether unfamiliar.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000035_000001|A gun scabbard will make that sound when one grasps the handle of a six shooter suddenly.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000035_000002|But the sound was not repeated; and Tonia's fingers needed close attention.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000036_000000|And then, in the shadow of death, they began to talk of their love; and in the still July afternoon every word they uttered reached the ears of the Kid.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000037_000001|Soon he will be here.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000037_000002|A /vaquero/ at the /tienda/ said to day he saw him on the Guadalupe three days ago.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000037_000003|When he is that near he always comes.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000038_000000|"All right," said the stranger.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000038_000001|"And then what?"
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000039_000000|"And then," said the girl, "you must bring your men here and kill him. If not, he will kill you."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000040_000001|"It's kill or be killed for the officer that goes up against mr Cisco Kid."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000041_000000|"He must die," said the girl.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000043_000000|Tonia dropped the lariat, twisted herself around, and curved a lemon tinted arm over the ranger's shoulder.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000044_000000|"But then," she murmured in liquid Spanish, "I had not beheld thee, thou great, red mountain of a man!
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000044_000001|And thou art kind and good, as well as strong.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000044_000003|Let him die; for then I will not be filled with fear by day and night lest he hurt thee or me."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000046_000000|"When he comes," said Tonia, "he remains two days, sometimes three. Gregorio, the small son of old Luisa, the /lavendera/, has a swift pony.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000046_000003|And bring many men with thee, and have much care, oh, dear red one, for the rattlesnake is not quicker to strike than is '/El Chivato/,' as they call him, to send a ball from his /pistola/."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000047_000001|I'll get him by myself or not at all.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000047_000002|The Cap wrote one or two things to me that make me want to do the trick without any help.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000048_000000|"I will send you the message by the boy Gregorio," said the girl.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000048_000001|"I knew you were braver than that small slayer of men who never smiles. How could I ever have thought I cared for him?"
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000049_000002|No sound or movement disturbed the serenity of the dense pear thicket ten yards away.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000050_000000|When the form of Sandridge had disappeared, loping his big dun down the steep banks of the Frio crossing, the Kid crept back to his own horse, mounted him, and rode back along the tortuous trail he had come.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000051_000000|But not far.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000051_000001|He stopped and waited in the silent depths of the pear until half an hour had passed.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000001|He dismounted, and his girl sprang into his arms.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000002|The Kid looked at her fondly.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000003|His thick, black hair clung to his head like a wrinkled mat.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000004|The meeting brought a slight ripple of some undercurrent of feeling to his smooth, dark face that was usually as motionless as a clay mask.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000053_000000|"How's my girl?" he asked, holding her close.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000054_000001|"My eyes are dim with always gazing into that devil's pincushion through which you come.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000054_000003|But you are here, beloved one, and I will not scold.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000056_000000|"Not if the court knows itself do I let a lady stake my horse for me," said he.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000056_000001|"But if you'll run in, /chica/, and throw a pot of coffee together while I attend to the /caballo/, I'll be a good deal obliged."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000000|Besides his marksmanship the Kid had another attribute for which he admired himself greatly.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000001|He was /muy caballero/, as the Mexicans express it, where the ladies were concerned.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000003|He could not have spoken a harsh word to a woman.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000004|He might ruthlessly slay their husbands and brothers, but he could not have laid the weight of a finger in anger upon a woman. Wherefore many of that interesting division of humanity who had come under the spell of his politeness declared their disbelief in the stories circulated about mr Kid.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000005|One shouldn't believe everything one heard, they said.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000006|When confronted by their indignant men folk with proof of the /caballero's/ deeds of infamy, they said maybe he had been driven to it, and that he knew how to treat a lady, anyhow.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000058_000000|Considering this extremely courteous idiosyncrasy of the Kid and the pride he took in it, one can perceive that the solution of the problem that was presented to him by what he saw and heard from his hiding place in the pear that afternoon (at least as to one of the actors) must have been obscured by difficulties.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000058_000001|And yet one could not think of the Kid overlooking little matters of that kind.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000059_000001|Afterward, the ancestor, his flock corralled, smoked a cigarette and became a mummy in a grey blanket.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000059_000002|Tonia washed the few dishes while the Kid dried them with the flour sacking towel. Her eyes shone; she chatted volubly of the inconsequent happenings of her small world since the Kid's last visit; it was as all his other home comings had been.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000061_000000|"Do you love me just the same, old girl?" asked the Kid, hunting for his cigarette papers.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000062_000000|"Always the same, little one," said Tonia, her dark eyes lingering upon him.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000063_000000|"I must go over to Fink's," said the Kid, rising, "for some tobacco.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000063_000001|I thought I had another sack in my coat.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000063_000002|I'll be back in a quarter of an hour."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000064_000000|"Hasten," said Tonia, "and tell me-how long shall I call you my own this time?
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000064_000001|Will you be gone again to morrow, leaving me to grieve, or will you be longer with your Tonia?"
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000065_000000|"Oh, I might stay two or three days this trip," said the Kid, yawning. "I've been on the dodge for a month, and I'd like to rest up."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000067_000000|"It's funny," said the Kid, "how I feel.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000067_000002|I never had mullygrubs like them before.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000067_000004|The Guadalupe country is burning up about that old Dutchman I plugged down there."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000068_000000|"You are not afraid-no one could make my brave little one fear."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000069_000001|Somebody might get hurt that oughtn't to."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000070_000000|"Remain with your Tonia; no one will find you here."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000071_000000|The Kid looked keenly into the shadows up and down the arroyo and toward the dim lights of the Mexican village.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000074_000000|At midnight a horseman rode into the rangers' camp, blazing his way by noisy "halloes" to indicate a pacific mission.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000074_000001|Sandridge and one or two others turned out to investigate the row.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000074_000003|Old Luisa, the /lavendera/, had persuaded him to bring it, he said, her son Gregorio being too ill of a fever to ride.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000075_000000|Sandridge lighted the camp lantern and read the letter.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000075_000001|These were its words:
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000001|Hardly had you ridden away when he came out of the pear.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000002|When he first talked he said he would stay three days or more.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000004|Soon he said he must leave before daylight when it is dark and stillest.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000005|And then he seemed to suspect that I be not true to him.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000006|He looked at me so strange that I am frightened.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000007|I swear to him that I love him, his own Tonia.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000008|Last of all he said I must prove to him I am true.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000010|To escape he says he will dress in my clothes, my red skirt and the blue waist I wear and the brown mantilla over the head, and thus ride away.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000012|This before he goes, so he can tell if I am true and if men are hidden to shoot him.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000013|It is a terrible thing.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000014|An hour before daybreak this is to be.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000017|Knowing all, you should do that.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000019|It is dark in there.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000020|He will wear my red skirt and blue waist and brown mantilla.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000078_000000|Sandridge quickly explained to his men the official part of the missive.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000078_000001|The rangers protested against his going alone.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000079_000000|"I'll get him easy enough," said the lieutenant.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000079_000001|"The girl's got him trapped.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000079_000002|And don't even think he'll get the drop on me."
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000080_000000|Sandridge saddled his horse and rode to the Lone Wolf Crossing.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000080_000001|He tied his big dun in a clump of brush on the arroyo, took his Winchester from its scabbard, and carefully approached the Perez /jacal/.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000080_000002|There was only the half of a high moon drifted over by ragged, milk white gulf clouds.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000081_000000|The wagon shed was an excellent place for ambush; and the ranger got inside it safely.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000082_000001|And then the other figure, in skirt, waist, and mantilla over its head, stepped out into the faint moonlight, gazing after the rider.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000082_000002|Sandridge thought he would take his chance then before Tonia rode back.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000083_000000|"Throw up your hands," he ordered loudly, stepping out of the wagon shed with his Winchester at his shoulder.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000084_000000|There was a quick turn of the figure, but no movement to obey, so the ranger pumped in the bullets-one-two-three-and then twice more; for you never could be too sure of bringing down the Cisco Kid.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000084_000001|There was no danger of missing at ten paces, even in that half moonlight.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000085_000000|The old ancestor, asleep on his blanket, was awakened by the shots. Listening further, he heard a great cry from some man in mortal distress or anguish, and rose up grumbling at the disturbing ways of moderns.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000087_000001|"Who wrote it?"
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000089_000000|Just then all that Sandridge could think of to do was to go outside and throw himself face downward in the dust by the side of his humming bird, of whom not a feather fluttered.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000089_000001|He was not a /caballero/ by instinct, and he could not understand the niceties of revenge.
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000090_000000|A mile away the rider who had ridden past the wagon shed struck up a harsh, untuneful song, the words of which began:
train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000091_000000|Don't you monkey with my Lulu girl Or I'll tell you what I'll do-
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000001_000000|WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BACK PARLOUR OF THE BANKING HOUSE.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000002_000000|Henry Dunbar arrived in London a couple of hours after mr Vernon left the Abbey.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000002_000001|He went straight to the Clarendon Hotel.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000002_000002|He had no servant with him, and his luggage consisted only of a portmanteau, a dressing case, and a despatch box; the same despatch box whose contents he had so carefully studied at the Winchester hotel, upon the night of the murder in the grove.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000003_000000|The day after his arrival was Sunday, and all that day the banker occupied himself in reading a morocco bound manuscript volume, which he took from the despatch box.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000004_000000|There was a black fog upon this November day, and the atmosphere out of doors was cold and bleak.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000004_000001|But the room in which Henry Dunbar sat looked the very picture of comfort and elegance.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000005_000000|He had drawn his chair close to the fire, and on a table near his elbow were arranged the open despatch box, a tall crystal jug of Burgundy, with a goblet shaped glass, on a salver, and a case of cigars.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000006_000000|Until long after dark that evening, Henry Dunbar sat by the fire, smoking and drinking, and reading the manuscript volume.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000006_000001|He only paused now and then to take pencil notes of its contents in a little memorandum book, which he carried in the breast pocket of his coat.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000007_000000|It was not till seven o'clock, when the liveried servant who waited upon him came to inform him that his dinner was served in an adjoining chamber, that mr Dunbar rose from his seat and put away the book in the despatch box.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000007_000001|He laid down the volume on the table while he replaced other papers in the box, and it fell open at the first page.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000007_000002|On that first page was written, in Henry Dunbar's bold, legible hand-
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000009_000000|This was the book the banker had been studying all that winter's day.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000012_000000|It was by no means wonderful, then, that, after becoming possessor of the united fortunes of his father and his uncle, Henry Dunbar should keep aloof from a place that had always been obnoxious to him.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000012_000001|The business had gone on without him very well during his absence, and it went on without him now, for his place in India had been assumed by a very clever man, who for twenty years had acted as cashier in the Calcutta house.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000013_000001|All the width of thirty five years between the present hour and that day might not be wide enough to separate the memory of the past from the thoughts which were busy this morning in the mind of Henry Dunbar.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000014_000001|He was very pale as he rode citywards, in the comfortable brougham, from the Clarendon; and his face had a stern, fixed look, like a man who has nerved himself to meet some crisis, which he knows is near at hand.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000015_000000|There was a stoppage upon Ludgate Hill.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000015_000001|Great wooden barricades and mountains of uprooted paving stones, amidst which sturdy navigators disported themselves with spades and pickaxes, and wheelbarrows full of rubbish, blocked the way; so the brougham turned into Farringdon Street, and went up Snow Hill, and under the grim black walls of dreadful Newgate.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000016_000000|The vehicle travelled very slowly, for the traffic was concentrated in this quarter by reason of the stoppage on Ludgate Hill, and mr Dunbar was able to contemplate at his leisure the black prison walls, and the men and women selling dogs'-collars under their dismal shadows.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000017_000000|It may be that the banker's face grew a shade paler after that contemplation.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000017_000002|But he drew a long breath, and held his head proudly erect as he pushed open the doors and went in.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000018_000000|Never since the day of the discovery of the forged bills had that man entered the banking house.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000018_000001|Dark thoughts came back upon his mind, and the shadows deepened on his face as he gave one rapid glance round the familiar office.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000019_000000|He walked straight towards the private parlour in which that well remembered scene had occurred five and thirty years ago.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000019_000001|But before he arrived at the door leading from the public offices to the back of the house, he was stopped by a gentlemanly looking man, who came forward from a desk in some shadowy region, and intercepted the stranger.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000020_000000|This man was Clement Austin, the cashier.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000021_000000|"Do you wish to see mr Balderby, sir?" he asked.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000022_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000022_000001|I have an appointment with him at one o'clock.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000022_000002|My name is Dunbar."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000023_000000|The cashier bowed and opened the door.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000023_000001|The banker passed across the threshold, which he had not crossed for five and thirty years until to day.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000024_000000|But as mr Dunbar went towards the familiar parlour at the back of the banking house, he stopped for a minute, and looked at the cashier.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000025_000000|Clement Austin was scarcely less pale than Henry Dunbar himself.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000025_000002|Now that the meeting had come to pass, he looked at Henry Dunbar with an earnest, scrutinizing gaze, as if he would fain have discovered the secret of the man's guilt or innocence in his countenance.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000028_000000|The banker's gaze never flinched during that encounter.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000028_000001|It is taken as a strong proof of a man's innocence that he should look you full in the face with a steadfast gaze when you look at him with suspicion plainly visible in your eyes; but would he not be the poorest villain if he shirked that encounter of glances when he knows full surely that he is in that moment put to the test?
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000028_000002|It is rather innocence whose eyelids drop when you peer too closely into its eyes, for innocence is appalled by the stern, accusing glances which it is unprepared to meet.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000029_000000|Clement Austin opened the door of mr Balderby's parlour; mr Dunbar went in unannounced.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000029_000001|The cashier closed the parlour door and returned to his desk in the public office.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000030_000000|The junior partner was sitting at an office table near the fire writing, but he rose as the banker entered the room, and went forward to meet him.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000031_000000|"You are very punctual, mr Dunbar," he said.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000032_000000|"Yes, I am generally punctual."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000034_000000|"It may seem late in the day to bid you welcome to the bank, mr Dunbar," said the junior partner, "but I do so, nevertheless-most heartily!"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000000|Henry Dunbar did not return his partner's greeting.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000001|He was looking round the room, and remembering the day upon which he had last seen it.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000002|There was very little alteration in the appearance of the dismal city chamber. There was the same wire blind before the window, the same solitary tree, leafless, in the narrow courtyard without.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000003|The morocco covered arm chairs had been re-covered, perhaps, during that five and thirty years; but if so, the covering had grown shabby again.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000004|Even the Turkey carpet was in the very stage of dusky dinginess that had distinguished the carpet on which Henry Dunbar had stood five and thirty years before.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000037_000000|"I received your letter announcing your journey to London, and your desire for a private interview, on Saturday afternoon," mr Balderby said, after a pause.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000037_000001|"I have made arrangements to assure our being undisturbed so long as you may remain here.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000037_000002|If you wish to make any investigation of the affairs of the house, I----"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000038_000000|mr Dunbar waved his hand with a deprecatory air.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000000|"Nothing is farther from my thoughts than any such design," he said. "No, mr Balderby, I have only been a man of business because all chance of another career, which I infinitely preferred, was closed upon me five and thirty years ago.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000001|I am quite content to be a sleeping partner in the house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000002|For ten years prior to my father's death he took no active part in the business.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000003|The house got on very well without his aid; it will get on equally well without mine.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000004|The business that brings me to London is an entirely personal matter.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000005|I am a rich man, but I don't exactly know how rich I am, and I want to realize rather a large sum of money."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000040_000000|mr Balderby bowed, but his eyebrows went up a little, as if he found it impossible to control some slight evidence of his surprise.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000002|So far so good.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000003|Neither Laura nor her husband will have any reason for dissatisfaction.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000004|But this is not quite enough, mr Balderby.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000005|I am not a demonstrative man, and I have never made any great fuss about my love for my daughter; but I do love her, nevertheless."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000042_000000|mr Dunbar spoke very slowly here, and stopped once or twice to pass his handkerchief across his forehead, as he had done in the hotel at Winchester.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000043_000001|I want to give my daughter a diamond necklace as a wedding present, and I want it to be such as an Eastern prince or a Rothschild might offer to his only child.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000043_000002|You understand?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000044_000000|"Oh, perfectly," answered mr Balderby; "I shall be most happy to be of any use to you in the matter."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000045_000000|"All I want is a large sum of money at my command.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000045_000001|I may go rather recklessly to work and make a large investment in this necklace; it will be something for Lady Jocelyn to bequeath to her children.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000046_000000|"I did, in concurrence with mr Lovell."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000047_000000|"Precisely; Lovell wrote me a letter to that effect.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000047_000001|My father kept two accounts here, I believe-a deposit and a drawing account?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000048_000000|"He did."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000049_000000|"And those two accounts have gone on since my return in the same manner as during his lifetime?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000000|"Precisely.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000001|The income which mr Percival Dunbar set aside for his own use was seven thousand a year.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000002|He rarely, spent as much as that; sometimes he spent less than half.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000003|The balance of this income, and his double share in the profits of the business, went to the credit of his deposit account, and various sums have been withdrawn from time to time, and duly invested under his order."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000051_000000|"Perhaps you can let me see the ledgers containing those two accounts?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000052_000000|"Most certainly."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000053_000000|mr Balderby touched the spring of a handbell upon his table.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000055_000000|Clement Austin appeared five minutes afterwards, carrying two ponderous morocco bound volumes.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000000|mr Balderby opened both ledgers, and placed them before his senior partner.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000001|Henry Dunbar looked at the deposit account.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000002|His eyes ran eagerly down the long row of figures before him until they came to the sum total.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000003|Then his chest heaved, and he drew a long breath, like a man who feels almost stifled by some internal oppression.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000057_000000|The last figures in the page were these:
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000059_000001|The twopence seemed a ridiculous anti climax; but business men are necessarily as exact in figures as calculating machines.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000060_000000|"How is this money invested?" asked Henry Dunbar, pointing to the page. His fingers trembled a little as he did so, and he dropped his hand suddenly upon the ledger.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000061_000000|"There's fifty thousand in India stock," mr Balderby answered, as indifferently as if fifty thousand pounds more or less was scarcely worth speaking of; "and there's five and twenty in railway debentures, Great Western.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000061_000001|Most of the remainder is floating in Exchequer bills."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000062_000000|"Then you can realize the Exchequer bills?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000063_000000|mr Balderby winced as if some one had trodden upon one of his corns.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000063_000001|He was a banker heart and soul, and he did not at all relish the idea of any withdrawal of the bank's resources, however firm that establishment might stand.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000064_000000|"It's rather a large amount of capital to withdraw from the business," he said, rubbing his chin, thoughtfully.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000065_000000|"I suppose the bank can afford it!" mr Dunbar exclaimed, with a tone of surprise.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000000|"Oh, yes; the bank can afford it well enough.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000001|Our calls are sometimes heavy.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000002|Lord Yarsfield-a very old customer-talks of buying an estate in Wales; he may come down upon us at any moment for a very stiff sum of money.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000003|However, the capital is yours, mr Dunbar; and you've a right to dispose of it as you please.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000004|The Exchequer bills shall be realized immediately."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000067_000000|"Good; and if you can dispose of the railway bonds to advantage, you may do so."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000068_000000|"You think of spending----"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000000|"I think of reinvesting the money.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000001|I have an offer of an estate north of the metropolis, which I think will realize cent per cent a few years hence: but that is an after consideration.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000003|I shall buy the diamonds myself, direct from the merchant importers.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000004|You will hold yourself ready after Wednesday, we'll say, to cash some very heavy cheques on my account?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000070_000000|"Certainly, mr Dunbar."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000071_000000|"Then I think that is really all I have to say.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000072_000000|There was very little heartiness in the tone of this invitation; and mr Balderby perfectly understood that it was only a formula which mr Dunbar felt himself called upon to go through.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000072_000001|The junior partner murmured his acknowledgment of Henry Dunbar's politeness; and then the two men talked together for a few minutes on indifferent subjects.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000073_000000|Five minutes afterwards mr Dunbar rose to leave the room.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000073_000002|This passage was very dark; but the offices were well lighted by lofty plate glass windows.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000073_000003|Between the end of the passage and the outer doors of the bank, Henry Dunbar saw the figure of a woman sitting near one of the desks and talking to Clement Austin.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000074_000000|The banker stopped suddenly, and went back to the parlour.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000075_000000|He looked about him a little absently as he re-entered the room.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000077_000001|"I don't remember seeing one in your hand."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000078_000000|"Ah, then, I suppose I was mistaken."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000079_000000|He still lingered in the parlour, putting on his gloves very slowly, and looking out of the window into the dismal backyard, where there was a dingy little wooden door set deep in the stone wall.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000080_000000|While the banker loitered near the window, Clement Austin came into the room, to show some document to the junior partner.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000080_000001|Henry Dunbar turned round as the cashier was about to leave the parlour.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000081_000001|That's not very business like, is it, mr Austin?
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000081_000002|Who is the woman?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000082_000000|"She is a young lady, sir."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000083_000000|"A young lady?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000084_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000085_000000|"What brings her here?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000086_000000|The cashier hesitated for a moment before he replied, "She-wishes to see you, mr Dunbar," he said, after that brief pause.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000087_000000|"What is her name?--who-who is she?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000090_000000|"Shut that door, sir!" he said, impatiently, to the cashier; "the draught from the passage is strong enough to cut a man in two.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000091_000000|"The daughter of that unfortunate man, Joseph Wilmot, who was cruelly murdered at Winchester!" answered the cashier, very gravely.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000092_000000|He looked Henry Dunbar full in the face as he spoke.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000002|I have suffered enough already on account of that hideous business at Winchester, and I shall most resolutely defend myself from any further persecution.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000003|This young person can have no possible motive for wishing to see me.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000004|If she is poor and wants money of me, I am ready and willing to assist her.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000005|I have already offered to do so-I can do no more.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000006|But if she is in distress----"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000094_000000|"She is not in distress, mr Dunbar," interrupted Clement Austin.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000094_000001|"She has friends who love her well enough to shield her from that."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000095_000000|"Indeed; and you are one of those friends, I suppose, mr Austin?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000096_000000|"I am."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000097_000000|"Prove your friendship, then, by teaching Margaret Wilmot that she has a friend and not an enemy in me.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000097_000001|If you are-as I suspect from your manner-something more than a friend: if you love her, and she returns your love, marry her, and she shall have a dowry that no gentleman's wife need be ashamed to bring to her husband."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000098_000000|There was no anger, no impatience in the banker's voice now, but a tone of deep feeling.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000098_000001|Clement Austin locked at him, astonished by the change in his manner.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000099_000000|Henry Dunbar saw the look, and it seemed as if he endeavoured to answer it.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000000|"You have no need to be surprised that I shrink from seeing Margaret Wilmot," he said.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000002|I am an old man, and I have been thirty five years in India.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000003|My health is shattered, and I have a horror of all tragic scenes.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000004|I have not yet recovered from the shock of that horrible business at Winchester.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000101_000000|There was something very straightforward, very simple, in all this.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000101_000001|For a time, at least, Clement Austin's mind wavered.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000101_000002|Margaret was, perhaps, wrong, after all, and Henry Dunbar might be an innocent man.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000103_000000|Clement returned to the office, where he had left Margaret, in order to repeat to her mr Dunbar's message.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000104_000000|No sooner had the door of the parlour closed upon the cashier than Henry Dunbar turned abruptly to his junior partner.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000106_000000|He pointed to the dark little yard outside the window as he spoke.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000107_000000|"Yes, there is a door, I believe."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000108_000000|"Is it locked?"
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000109_000000|"No; it is seldom locked till four o'clock; the clerks use it sometimes, when they go in and out."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000000|"Then I shall go out that way," said mr Dunbar, who was almost breathless in his haste.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000001|"You can send the carriage back to the Clarendon by and by.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000002|I don't want to see that girl.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000003|Good morning."
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000111_000000|He hurried out of the parlour, and into a passage leading to the yard, followed by mr Balderby, who wondered at his senior partner's excitement.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000111_000001|The door in the yard was not locked.
train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000111_000002|Henry Dunbar opened it, went out into the court, and closed the door behind him.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000001_000000|GOING AWAY.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000002_000000|At one o'clock on the appointed Thursday morning, mr Dunbar presented himself in the diamond merchant's office.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000002_000001|Henry Dunbar was not alone.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000005_000001|He did not go straight back to the Clarendon, but pierced his way across Smithfield, and into a busy smoky street, where he stopped by and by at a dingy looking currier's shop.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000006_000000|He went in and selected a couple of chamois skins, very thick and strong.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000006_000001|At another shop he bought some large needles, half a dozen skeins of stout waxed thread, a pair of large scissors, a couple of strong steel buckles, and a tailor's thimble.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000006_000002|When he had made these purchases, he hailed the first empty cab that passed him, and went back to his hotel.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000007_000000|He dined, drank the best part of a bottle of Burgundy, and then ordered a cup of strong tea to be taken to his dressing room.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000007_000001|He had fires in his bedroom and dressing room every night.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000007_000002|To night he retired very early, dismissed the servant who attended upon him, and locked the door of the outer room, the only door communicating with the corridor of the hotel.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000009_000000|But he was not going to write; he pushed aside the writing materials, and took his purchases of the afternoon from his pocket.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000009_000001|He spread the chamois leather out upon the table, and cut the skins into two long strips, about a foot broad.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000009_000002|He measured these round his waist, and then began to stitch them together, slowly and laboriously.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000010_000001|It was past twelve o'clock when he had stitched both sides and one end of the double chamois leather belt; the other end he left open.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000011_000000|When he had completed the two sides and the end that was closed, he took four or five little canvas bags from his pocket.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000011_000001|Every one of these canvas bags was full of loose diamonds.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000012_000000|A thrill of rapture ran through the banker's veins as he plunged his fingers in amongst the glittering stones.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000012_000001|He filled his hands with the bright gems, and let them run from one hand to the other, like streams of liquid light.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000012_000002|Then, very slowly and carefully, he began to drop the diamonds into the open end of the chamois leather belt.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000000|When he had dropped a few into the belt, he stitched the leather across and across, quilting in the stones.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000001|This work took him so long, that it was four o'clock in the morning when he had quilted the last diamond into the belt.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000002|He gave a long sigh of relief as he threw the waste scraps of leather upon the top of the low fire, and watched them slowly smoulder away into black ashes.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000003|Then he put the chamois leather belt under his pillow, and went to bed.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000014_000001|He wore the chamois leather belt buckled tightly round his waist next to his inner shirt, and was able to defy the swell mob, had those gentry been aware of the treasures which he carried about with him.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000016_000000|But when the jeweller's agent came, two or three days afterwards, mr Dunbar could find no design that suited him; and the man returned to London without having received an order, and without having even seen the brilliants which the banker had bought.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000017_000000|"Tell your employer that I will retain two or three of these designs," mr Dunbar said, selecting the drawings as he spoke; "and if, upon consideration, I find that one of them will suit me, I will communicate with your establishment.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000017_000001|If not, I shall take the diamonds to Paris, and get them made up there."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000018_000000|The jeweller ventured to suggest the inferiority of Parisian workmanship as compared with that of a first rate English establishment; but mr Dunbar did not condescend to pay any attention to the young man's remonstrance.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000019_000001|"Good morning."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000020_000000|Major Vernon had returned to the Rose and Crown at Lisford.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000020_000001|The deed which transferred to him the possession of Woodbine Cottage was speedily executed, and he took up his abode there.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000020_000002|His establishment was composed of the old housekeeper, who had waited on the deceased admiral, and a young man of all work, who was nephew to the housekeeper, and who had also been in the service of the late owner of the cottage.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000021_000000|From his new abode mr Vernon was able to keep a tolerably sharp look out upon the two great houses in his neighbourhood-Maudesley Abbey and Jocelyn's Rock.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000021_000002|Nothing could have better pleased the new inhabitant of Woodbine Cottage, who was speedily on excellent terms with his housekeeper.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000025_000000|"You're a clever fellow, dear friend," he muttered, as he lighted his cigar; "you're a stupendous fellow, dear boy; but your friend can see through less transparent blinds than this diamond business.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000025_000002|And you've my best wishes, dear boy; but-you must pay for them-you must pay for them, Henry Dunbar."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000026_000000|This little conversation between the new tenant of Woodbine Cottage and his housekeeper occurred on the very evening on which Major Vernon took possession of his new abode.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000026_000001|The next day was Sunday-a cold wintry Sunday; for the snow had been falling all through the last three days and nights, and lay deep on the ground, hiding the low thatched roofs, and making feathery festoons about the leafless branches, until Lisford looked like a village upon the top of a twelfth cake.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000000|But not towards the church.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000001|Major Vernon was not going to church on this bright winter's morning.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000002|He went the other way, tramping through the snow, towards the eastern gate of Maudesley Park.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000003|He went in by the low iron gate, for there was a bridle path by this part of the park-that very bridle path by which Philip Jocelyn had ridden to Lisford so often in the autumn weather.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000030_000000|"So much the better," Major Vernon answered, coolly.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000030_000001|"You may bring up some fresh coffee, john; for I haven't made much of a breakfast myself; and if you'll tell the cook to devil the thigh of a turkey, with plenty of cayenne pepper and a squeeze of lemon, I shall be obliged.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000030_000002|You need'nt trouble yourself; I know my way."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000031_000001|Cold meats, raised pies, and other comestibles were laid out upon the carved oak sideboard.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000033_000000|"It's comfortable!" he exclaimed; "to say the least of it, it's very comfortable, dear boy!"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000034_000000|The dear boy did not look particularly pleased as he lifted his eyes to his visitor's face.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000035_000000|"I thought you were in London?" he said.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000037_000000|"Do you mean to say that you have bought property in this neighbourhood?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000038_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000038_000001|I am leasehold proprietor of Woodbine Cottage, near Lisford and Shorncliffe."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000040_000000|"I do."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000041_000000|Henry Dunbar smiled to himself as his friend said this.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000042_000000|"You're welcome to do so," he said, "as far as I am concerned."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000043_000000|The Major looked at him sharply.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000000|"Your sentiments are liberality itself, my dear friend.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000001|But I must respectfully remind you that the expenses attendant upon taking possession of my humble abode have been very heavy.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000004|What's a thousand or so, more or less, to the senior partner in the house of d, d, and b?
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000007|Make it two five, Prince of Maudesley!"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000046_000000|He did not leave Maudesley Abbey until he had succeeded in the object of his visit, and he carried away in his pocket book cheques to the amount of two thousand five hundred pounds.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000047_000000|"I flatter myself I was just in the nick of time," the Major thought, as he walked back to Woodbine Cottage, "for as sure as my name's what it is, my friend means a bolt.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000047_000001|He means a bolt; and the money I've had to day is the last I shall ever receive from that quarter."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000048_000000|Almost immediately after Major Vernon's departure, Henry Dunbar rang the bell for the servant who acted as his valet whenever he required the services of one, which was not often.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000049_000000|"I shall start for Paris to night, Jeffreys," he said to this man.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000049_000001|"I want to see what the French jewellers can do before I trust Lady Jocelyn's necklace into the hands of English workmen.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000050_000000|"Am I to go with you, sir?" the man asked.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000051_000000|Henry Dunbar looked at his watch, and seemed to reflect upon this question some moments before he answered.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000053_000000|"There's an express from the north stops at Rugby at six o'clock, sir. You might meet that, if you left Shorncliffe by the four thirty five train."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000054_000000|"I could do that," answered the banker; "it's only three o'clock.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000054_000002|No, I won't take you to Paris with me.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000054_000003|You can follow me in a day or two with some more things."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000055_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000056_000000|There was no such thing as bustle and confusion in a household organized like that of mr Dunbar.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000000|Round his waist he wore the chamois leather belt which he had made with his own hands at the Clarendon Hotel.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000001|This belt had never quitted him since the night upon which he made it.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000002|The carriage conveyed him to the Shorncliffe station.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000003|He got out and went upon the platform.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000004|Although it was not yet five o'clock, the wintry light was fading in the grey sky, and in the railway station it was already dark.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000005|There were lamps here and there, but they only made separate splotches of light in the dusky atmosphere.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000058_000000|Henry Dunbar walked slowly up and down the platform.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000059_000000|"mr Dunbar," he said; "mr
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000059_000001|Dunbar!"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000060_000000|The banker turned sharply round, and recognized Arthur Lovell.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000061_000000|"Ah! my dear Lovell, is that you?
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000061_000001|You quite startled me."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000062_000000|"Are you going by the next train?
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000062_000001|I was so anxious to see you."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000063_000000|"Why so?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000064_000000|"Because there's some one here who very much wishes to see you; quite an old friend of yours, he says.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000064_000001|Who do you think it is?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000000|"I don't know, I can't guess-I've so many old friends.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000001|I can't see any one, Lovell.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000002|I'm very ill, I saw a physician while I was in London; and he told me that my heart is diseased, and that if I wish to live I must avoid any agitation, any sudden emotion, as I would avoid a deadly poison.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000003|Who is it that wants to see me?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000000|"Lord Herriston, the great Anglo Indian statesman.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000001|He is a friend of my father's, and he has been very kind to me-indeed, he offered me an appointment, which I found it wisest to decline.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000002|He talked a great deal about you, when my father told him that you'd settled at Maudesley, and would have driven over to see you if he could have managed to spare the time, without losing his train.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000003|You'll see him, wont you?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000067_000000|"Where is he?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000068_000000|"Here, in the station-in the waiting room.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000068_000002|You'll come and see him?"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000069_000000|"Yes, I shall be very glad; I----"
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000070_000000|Henry Dunbar stopped suddenly, with his hand upon his side.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000070_000002|The train came into the station at this moment.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000000|"I shan't be able to see Lord Herriston to night," mr Dunbar said, hurriedly; "I must go by this train, or I shall lose a day.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000001|Good bye, Lovell.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000002|Make my best compliments to Herriston; tell him I have been very ill.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000003|Good bye."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000072_000001|Henry Dunbar got into the carriage.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000072_000002|At the moment of his doing so, an elderly gentleman came out of the waiting room.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000073_000000|"Is this my train, Lovell?" he asked.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000074_000000|"No, my Lord.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000074_000001|mr Dunbar is here; he goes by this train.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000074_000002|You'll have time to speak to him."
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000000|The train was moving.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000001|Lord Herriston was an active old fellow.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000002|He ran along the platform, looking into the carriages.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000003|But the old man's sight was not as good as his legs were; he looked eagerly into the carriage windows, but he only saw a confusion of flickering lamplight, and strange faces, and newspapers unfurled in the hands of wakeful travellers, and the heads of sleepy passengers rolling and jolting against the padded sides of the carriage.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000076_000000|"My eyes are not what they used to be," he said, with a good tempered laugh, when he went back to Arthur Lovell.
train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000076_000001|"I didn't succeed in getting a glimpse of my old friend Henry Dunbar."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000004_000000|The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000005_000000|BY john KENDRICK BANGS
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000007_000001|The owners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of the damp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight, but without avail.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000007_000002|They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghost would not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just the same, with that fearful miasmatic personality of hers, and there she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly saturated.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000008_000002|And then he swooned away, and was found unconscious in his bed the next morning by his host, simply saturated with sea water and fright, from the combined effects of which he never recovered, dying four years later of pneumonia and nervous prostration at the age of seventy eight.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000009_000000|The next year the master of Harrowby Hall decided not to have the best spare bedroom opened at all, thinking that perhaps the ghost's thirst for making herself disagreeable would be satisfied by haunting the furniture, but the plan was as unavailing as the many that had preceded it.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000010_000001|Finding no one there, she immediately set out to learn the reason why, and she chose none other to haunt than the owner of the Harrowby himself.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000010_000002|She found him in his own cosey room drinking whiskey-whiskey undiluted-and felicitating himself upon having foiled her ghost ship, when all of a sudden the curl went out of his hair, his whiskey bottle filled and overflowed, and he was himself in a condition similar to that of a man who has fallen into a water butt.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000010_000004|The sight was so unexpected and so terrifying that he fainted, but immediately came to, because of the vast amount of water in his hair, which, trickling down over his face, restored his consciousness.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000000|Now it so happened that the master of Harrowby was a brave man, and while he was not particularly fond of interviewing ghosts, especially such quenching ghosts as the one before him, he was not to be daunted by an apparition.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000002|He would have liked to put on a dry suit of clothes first, but the apparition declined to leave him for an instant until her hour was up, and he was forced to deny himself that pleasure.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000003|Every time he would move she would follow him, with the result that everything she came in contact with got a ducking.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000004|In an effort to warm himself up he approached the fire, an unfortunate move as it turned out, because it brought the ghost directly over the fire, which immediately was extinguished.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000005|The whiskey became utterly valueless as a comforter to his chilled system, because it was by this time diluted to a proportion of ninety per cent of water.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000006|The only thing he could do to ward off the evil effects of his encounter he did, and that was to swallow ten two grain quinine pills, which he managed to put into his mouth before the ghost had time to interfere. Having done this, he turned with some asperity to the ghost, and said:
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000012_000001|Go sit out on the lake, if you like that sort of thing; soak the water butt, if you wish; but do not, I implore you, come into a gentleman's house and saturate him and his possessions in this way.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000012_000002|It is damned disagreeable."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000014_000000|"Madam," returned the unhappy householder, "I wish that remark were strictly truthful.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000014_000001|I was talking about you.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000015_000000|"That is a bit of specious nonsense," returned the ghost, throwing a quart of indignation into the face of the master of Harrowby.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000016_000000|"No, I don't," returned the master of Harrowby.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000019_000000|"No doubt.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000019_000001|I'm never dry.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000019_000003|I have been the incumbent of this highly unpleasant office for two hundred years to night."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000020_000000|"How the deuce did you ever come to get elected?" asked the master.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000021_000001|"I am the ghost of that fair maiden whose picture hangs over the mantelpiece in the drawing room.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000022_000000|"But what induced you to get this house into such a predicament?"
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000000|"I was not to blame, sir," returned the lady.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000001|"It was my father's fault. He it was who built Harrowby Hall, and the haunted chamber was to have been mine.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000002|My father had it furnished in pink and yellow, knowing well that blue and gray formed the only combination of color I could tolerate.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000003|He did it merely to spite me, and, with what I deem a proper spirit, I declined to live in the room; whereupon my father said I could live there or on the lawn, he didn't care which.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000004|That night I ran from the house and jumped over the cliff into the sea."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000024_000000|"That was rash," said the master of Harrowby.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000025_000000|"So I've heard," returned the ghost.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000025_000001|"If I had known what the consequences were to be I should not have jumped; but I really never realized what I was doing until after I was drowned.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000026_000000|"I'll sell the place."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000027_000000|"That you cannot do, for it is also required of me that I shall appear as the deeds are to be delivered to any purchaser, and divulge to him the awful secret of the house."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000029_000000|"You have stated the case, Oglethorpe.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000029_000001|And what is more," said the water ghost, "it doesn't make the slightest difference where you are, if I find that room empty, wherever you may be I shall douse you with my spectral pres----"
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000030_000000|Here the clock struck one, and immediately the apparition faded away.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000030_000001|It was perhaps more of a trickle than a fade, but as a disappearance it was complete.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000031_000000|"By saint George and his Dragon!" ejaculated the master of Harrowby, wringing his hands.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000032_000000|But the master of Harrowby would have lost his wager had there been anyone there to take him up, for when Christmas Eve came again he was in his grave, never having recovered from the cold contracted that awful night.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000032_000001|Harrowby Hall was closed, and the heir to the estate was in London, where to him in his chambers came the same experience that his father had gone through, saving only that, being younger and stronger, he survived the shock.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000032_000002|Everything in his rooms was ruined-his clocks were rusted in the works; a fine collection of water color drawings was entirely obliterated by the onslaught of the water ghost; and what was worse, the apartments below his were drenched with the water soaking through the floors, a damage for which he was compelled to pay, and which resulted in his being requested by his landlady to vacate the premises immediately.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000034_000000|So the heir of Harrowby Hall resolved, as his ancestors for several generations before him had resolved, that something must be done.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000034_000002|None of his friends would consent to sacrifice their personal comfort to his, nor was there to be found in all England a man so poor as to be willing to occupy the doomed chamber on Christmas Eve for pay.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000035_000000|Then the thought came to the heir to have the fireplace in the room enlarged, so that he might evaporate the ghost at its first appearance, and he was felicitating himself upon the ingenuity of his plan, when he remembered what his father had told him-how that no fire could withstand the lady's extremely contagious dampness.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000035_000001|And then he bethought him of steam pipes.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000036_000001|The water ghost appeared at the specified time, and found the heir of Harrowby prepared; but hot as the room was, it shortened her visit by no more than five minutes in the hour, during which time the nervous system of the young master was well nigh shattered, and the room itself was cracked and warped to an extent which required the outlay of a large sum of money to remedy.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000036_000002|And worse than this, as the last drop of the water ghost was slowly sizzling itself out on the floor, she whispered to her would be conqueror that his scheme would avail him nothing, because there was still water in great plenty where she came from, and that next year would find her rehabilitated and as exasperatingly saturating as ever.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000037_000000|It was then that the natural action of the mind, in going from one extreme to the other, suggested to the ingenious heir of Harrowby the means by which the water ghost was ultimately conquered, and happiness once more came within the grasp of the house of Oglethorpe.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000038_000000|The heir provided himself with a warm suit of fur under clothing. Donning this with the furry side in, he placed over it a rubber garment, tight fitting, which he wore just as a woman wears a jersey.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000038_000001|On top of this he placed another set of under clothing, this suit made of wool, and over this was a second rubber garment like the first.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000038_000002|Upon his head he placed a light and comfortable diving helmet, and so clad, on the following Christmas Eve he awaited the coming of his tormentor.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000039_000000|It was a bitterly cold night that brought to a close this twenty fourth day of December.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000039_000001|The air outside was still, but the temperature was below zero.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000041_000000|The clock clanged out the hour of twelve.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000044_000001|"May I ask where did you get that hat?"
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000045_000000|"Certainly, madam," returned the master, courteously.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000046_000000|"That is my delectable fate," returned the lady.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000048_000000|"You can't get rid of me that way," returned the ghost.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000048_000001|"The water won't swallow me up; in fact, it will just add to my present bulk."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000049_000000|"Nevertheless," said the master, firmly, "we will go out on the lake."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000050_000000|"But, my dear sir," returned the ghost, with a pale reluctance, "it is fearfully cold out there.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000051_000002|Come!" This last in a tone of command that made the ghost ripple.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000052_000000|And they started.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000053_000000|They had not gone far before the water ghost showed signs of distress.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000054_000000|"You walk too slowly," she said.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000054_000001|"I am nearly frozen.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000054_000003|I beseech you to accelerate your step."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000055_000000|"I should like to oblige a lady," returned the master, courteously, "but my clothes are rather heavy, and a hundred yards an hour is about my speed.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000055_000001|Indeed, I think we would better sit down here on this snowdrift, and talk matters over."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000056_000000|"Do not!
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000056_000001|Do not do so, I beg!" cried the ghost.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000056_000004|If we stop here, I shall be frozen stiff."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000057_000000|"That, madam," said the master slowly, and seating himself on an ice cake-"that is why I have brought you here.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000057_000001|We have been on this spot just ten minutes; we have fifty more.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000057_000002|Take your time about it, madam, but freeze, that is all I ask of you."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000059_000000|"Never, madam.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000059_000001|It cannot be.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000059_000002|I have you at last."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000060_000000|"Alas!" cried the ghost, a tear trickling down her frozen cheek.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000060_000001|"Help me, I beg.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000060_000002|I congeal!"
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000061_000001|"You have drenched me and mine for two hundred and three years, madam.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000061_000002|To night you have had your last drench."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000062_000000|"Ah, but I shall thaw out again, and then you'll see.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000062_000001|Instead of the comfortably tepid, genial ghost I have been in my past, sir, I shall be iced water," cried the lady, threateningly.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000063_000000|"No, you won't, either," returned Oglethorpe; "for when you are frozen quite stiff, I shall send you to a cold storage warehouse, and there shall you remain an icy work of art forever more."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000064_000000|"But warehouses burn."
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000065_000000|"So they do, but this warehouse cannot burn.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000066_000000|"For the last time let me beseech you.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000066_000002|I beg of you do not doo----"
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000067_000001|There was a momentary tremor throughout the ice bound form, and the moon, coming out from behind a cloud, shone down on the rigid figure of a beautiful woman sculptured in clear, transparent ice.
train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000067_000002|There stood the ghost of Harrowby Hall, conquered by the cold, a prisoner for all time.
train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000033_000007|If it were found in the animal then, after having made its exit, I saw clearly that it must have been deposited by the person who found it.
train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000033_000008|The bloody shirt and handkerchief confirmed the idea suggested by the bullet; for the blood on examination proved to be capital claret, and no more. When I came to think of these things, and also of the late increase of liberality and expenditure on the part of mr Goodfellow, I entertained a suspicion which was none the less strong because I kept it altogether to myself.
train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000034_000000|In the meantime, I instituted a rigorous private search for the corpse of mr Shuttleworthy, and, for good reasons, searched in quarters as divergent as possible from those to which mr Goodfellow conducted his party.
train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000034_000001|The result was that, after some days, I came across an old dry well, the mouth of which was nearly hidden by brambles; and here, at the bottom, I discovered what I sought.
train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000035_000001|Upon this hint I acted.
train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000035_000002|I procured a stiff piece of whalebone, thrust it down the throat of the corpse, and deposited the latter in an old wine box taking care so to double the body up as to double the whalebone with it.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000000_000000|"DEAR b........
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000000_000001|Believing only a portion of my former volume to be worthy a second edition that small portion I thought it as well to include in the present book as to republish by itself.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000000_000002|I have therefore herein combined 'Al Aaraaf' and 'Tamerlane' with other poems hitherto unprinted.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000000|"It has been said that a good critique on a poem may be written by one who is no poet himself.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000002|On this account, and because there are but few B 's in the world, I would be as much ashamed of the world's good opinion as proud of your own.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000003|Another than yourself might here observe, 'Shakespeare is in possession of the world's good opinion, and yet Shakespeare is the greatest of poets.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000005|A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000002_000000|"You are aware of the great barrier in the path of an American writer. He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and established wit of the world.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000002_000002|Besides, one might suppose that books, like their authors, improve by travel their having crossed the sea is, with us, so great a distinction.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000002_000003|Our antiquaries abandon time for distance; our very fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the title page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so many letters of recommendation.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000001|I think the notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own writings is another.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000002|I remarked before that in proportion to the poetical talent would be the justice of a critique upon poetry.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000005|Perhaps an inadvertent word has descended to posterity.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000006|But, in fact, the 'Paradise Regained' is little, if at all, inferior to the 'Paradise Lost,' and is only supposed so to be because men do not like epics, whatever they may say to the contrary, and, reading those of Milton in their natural order, are too much wearied with the first to derive any pleasure from the second.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000004_000000|"I dare say Milton preferred 'Comus' to either . if so justly.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000005_000000|"As I am speaking of poetry, it will not be amiss to touch slightly upon the most singular heresy in its modern history the heresy of what is called, very foolishly, the Lake School.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000005_000001|Some years ago I might have been induced, by an occasion like the present, to attempt a formal refutation of their doctrine; at present it would be a work of supererogation.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000006_000002|Therefore the end of instruction should be happiness; and happiness is another name for pleasure;-therefore the end of instruction should be pleasure: yet we see the above mentioned opinion implies precisely the reverse.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000008_000001|In such case I should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in 'Melmoth.' who labors indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one or two souls, while any common devil would have demolished one or two thousand.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000009_000000|"Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study not a passion it becomes the metaphysician to reason but the poet to protest. Yet Wordsworth and Coleridge are men in years; the one imbued in contemplation from his childhood; the other a giant in intellect and learning.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000009_000001|The diffidence, then, with which I venture to dispute their authority would be overwhelming did I not feel, from the bottom of my heart, that learning has little to do with the imagination intellect with the passions or age with poetry.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000010_000000|"'Trifles, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below,'
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000011_000001|As regards the greater truths, men oftener err by seeking them at the bottom than at the top; Truth lies in the huge abysses where wisdom is sought not in the palpable palaces where she is found.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000012_000002|He who regards it directly and intensely sees, it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray while he who surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is useful to us below its brilliancy and its beauty.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000013_000000|"As to Wordsworth, I have no faith in him.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000000|"He was to blame in wearing away his youth in contemplation with the end of poetizing in his manhood.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000001|With the increase of his judgment the light which should make it apparent has faded away.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000002|His judgment consequently is too correct.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000003|This may not be understood but the old Goths of Germany would have understood it, who used to debate matters of importance to their State twice, once when drunk, and once when sober sober that they might not be deficient in formality-drunk lest they should be destitute of vigor.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000000|"Again, in estimating the merit of certain poems, whether they be Ossian's or Macpherson's can surely be of little consequence, yet, in order to prove their worthlessness, mr w has expended many pages in the controversy.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000003|But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in favor of these poems, he triumphantly drags forward a passage, in his abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000005|We shall see what better he, in his own person, has to offer.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000006|Imprimis:
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000018_000000|A few sad tears does Betty shed.... She pats the pony, where or when She knows not.... happy Betty Foy! Oh, Johnny, never mind the doctor!'
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000019_000000|Secondly:
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000021_000000|"Now, we have no doubt this is all true: we will believe it, indeed we will, mr w Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite?
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000021_000001|I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000022_000000|"But there are occasions, dear B, there are occasions when even Wordsworth is reasonable.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000022_000001|Even Stamboul, it is said, shall have an end, and the most unlucky blunders must come to a conclusion.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000022_000002|Here is an extract from his preface:-
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000024_000000|"Yet, let not mr w despair; he has given immortality to a wagon, and the bee Sophocles has transmitted to eternity a sore toe, and dignified a tragedy with a chorus of turkeys.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000025_000000|"Of Coleridge, I can not speak but with reverence.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000025_000001|His towering intellect! his gigantic power!
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000001|Shade of the immortal Shakespeare!
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000002|I imagine to myself the scowl of your spiritual eye upon the profanity of that scurrilous Ursa Major.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000003|Think of poetry, dear B, think of poetry, and then think of dr Samuel Johnson!
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000004|Think of all that is airy and fairy like, and then of all that is hideous and unwieldy; think of his huge bulk, the Elephant! and then and then think of the 'Tempest'--the 'Midsummer Night's Dream'--Prospero Oberon-and Titania!
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000029_000000|"To sum up this long rigmarole, I have, dear B-, what you, no doubt, perceive, for the metaphysical poets as poets, the most sovereign contempt.
train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000029_000001|That they have followers proves nothing
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000012_000000|NOTES
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000014_000005|If any one becomes too much interested in them, and sees them over much, he loses all interest in ordinary things.
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000001|And if any one comes into the house, it's into the room he'll slip, not to see them; and as to work, he has the garden dug to bits, and the whole place smeared with cow dung; and such a crop as was never seen; and the alders all plaited till they look grand.
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000004|A doctor believes this boy to be mad.
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000005|Those that are at times 'away,' as it is called, know all things, but are afraid to speak.
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000016_000002|When the king asked him who he was, he said, 'I am your candlestick.' I do not remember where I have read this story, and I have, maybe, half forgotten it.
train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000017_000008|The people of the waters have been in all ages beautiful and changeable and lascivious, or beautiful and wise and lonely, for water is everywhere the signature of the fruitfulness of the body and of the fruitfulness of dreams.
train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000001_000001|I have used them in this book more as principles of the mind than as actual personages.
train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000003_000000|MONGAN THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS.
train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000005_000000|The Rose has been for many centuries a symbol of spiritual love and supreme beauty.
train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000005_000007|I have read somewhere that a stone engraved with a Celtic god, who holds what looks like a rose in one hand, has been found somewhere in England; but I cannot find the reference, though I certainly made a note of it.
train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000006_000000|I have made the Seven Lights, the constellation of the Bear, lament for the theft of the Rose, and I have made the Dragon, the constellation Draco, the guardian of the Rose, because these constellations move about the pole of the heavens, the ancient Tree of Life in many countries, and are often associated with the Tree of Life in mythology.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000000|Calliope Catesby was in his humours again.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000001|Ennui was upon him.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000002|This goodly promontory, the earth-particularly that portion of it known as Quicksand-was to him no more than a pestilent congregation of vapours.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000003|Overtaken by the megrims, the philosopher may seek relief in soliloquy; my lady find solace in tears; the flaccid Easterner scold at the millinery bills of his women folk.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000004|Such recourse was insufficient to the denizens of Quicksand.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000005|Calliope, especially, was wont to express his ennui according to his lights.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000000|Over night Calliope had hung out signals of approaching low spirits. He had kicked his own dog on the porch of the Occidental Hotel, and refused to apologise.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000001|He had become capricious and fault finding in conversation.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000002|While strolling about he reached often for twigs of mesquite and chewed the leaves fiercely.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000003|That was always an ominous act.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000004|Another symptom alarming to those who were familiar with the different stages of his doldrums was his increasing politeness and a tendency to use formal phrases.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000006|A dangerous courtesy marked his manners.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000007|Later, his smile became crooked, the left side of his mouth slanting upward, and Quicksand got ready to stand from under.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000003_000000|At this stage Calliope generally began to drink.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000003_000001|Finally, about midnight, he was seen going homeward, saluting those whom he met with exaggerated but inoffensive courtesy.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000003_000004|More magnanimous than Nero, he would thus give musical warning of the forthcoming municipal upheaval that Quicksand was scheduled to endure.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000000|A quiet, amiable man was Calliope Catesby at other times-quiet to indolence, and amiable to worthlessness.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000001|At best he was a loafer and a nuisance; at worst he was the Terror of Quicksand.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000002|His ostensible occupation was something subordinate in the real estate line; he drove the beguiled Easterner in buckboards out to look over lots and ranch property.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000003|Originally he came from one of the Gulf States, his lank six feet, slurring rhythm of speech, and sectional idioms giving evidence of his birthplace.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000006_000001|Inspired by his own barbarous melodies and the contents of his jug, he was ready primed to gather fresh laurels from the diffident brow of Quicksand.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000006_000002|Encircled and criss crossed with cartridge belts, abundantly garnished with revolvers, and copiously drunk, he poured forth into Quicksand's main street.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000006_000005|A yellow dog, the personal property of Colonel Swazey, the proprietor of the Occidental, fell feet upward in the dust with one farewell yelp.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000007_000000|The artillery was in trim.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000008_000000|Down the street went Calliope, shooting right and left.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000008_000002|The din was perforated at intervals by the /staccato/ of the Terror's guns, and was drowned periodically by the brazen screech that Quicksand knew so well.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000000|But some four squares farther down lively preparations were being made to minister to mr Catesby's love for interchange of compliments and repartee.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000002|The patience of that official, often strained in extending leniency toward the disturber's misdeeds, had been overtaxed.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000004|Providing that the lives of the more useful citizens were not recklessly squandered, or too much property needlessly laid waste, the community sentiment was against a too strict enforcement of the law. But Calliope had raised the limit.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000005|His outbursts had been too frequent and too violent to come within the classification of a normal and sanitary relaxation of spirit.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000010_000000|Buck Patterson had been expecting and awaiting in his little ten by twelve frame office that preliminary yell announcing that Calliope was feeling blue.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000000|"Gather that fellow in," said Buck Patterson, setting forth the lines of the campaign.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000001|"Don't have no talk, but shoot as soon as you can get a show.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000004|It's up to Calliope to turn up his toes this time, I reckon.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000005|Go to him all spraddled out, boys.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000012_000000|Buck Patterson, tall, muscular, and solemn faced, with his bright "City Marshal" badge shining on the breast of his blue flannel shirt, gave his posse directions for the onslaught upon Calliope.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000012_000001|The plan was to accomplish the downfall of the Quicksand Terror without loss to the attacking party, if possible.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000013_000000|The splenetic Calliope, unconscious of retributive plots, was steaming down the channel, cannonading on either side, when he suddenly became aware of breakers ahead.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000013_000001|The city marshal and one of the deputies rose up behind some dry goods boxes half a square to the front and opened fire.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000013_000002|At the same time the rest of the posse, divided, shelled him from two side streets up which they were cautiously manoeuvring from a well executed detour.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000014_000001|Feeling braced up by this unexpected tonic to his spiritual depression, Calliope executed a fortissimo note from his upper register, and returned the fire like an echo.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000015_000001|Choosing with a rapid eye the street from which the weakest and least accurate fire had come, he invaded it at a double quick, abandoning the unprotected middle of the street.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000015_000002|With rare cunning the opposing force in that direction-one of the deputies and two of the valorous volunteers- waited, concealed by beer barrels, until Calliope had passed their retreat, and then peppered him from the rear.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000015_000004|His eye fell upon a structure that seemed to hold out this promise, providing he could reach it.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000016_000000|Not far away was the little railroad station, its building a strong box house, ten by twenty feet, resting upon a platform four feet above ground.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000016_000001|Windows were in each of its walls.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000016_000002|Something like a fort it might become to a man thus sorely pressed by superior numbers.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000017_000000|Calliope made a bold and rapid spurt for it, the marshal's crowd "smoking" him as he ran.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000017_000001|He reached the haven in safety, the station agent leaving the building by a window, like a flying squirrel, as the garrison entered the door.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000018_000001|In the station was an unterrified desperado who was an excellent shot and carried an abundance of ammunition.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000019_000000|The city marshal was resolved.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000019_000001|He had decided that Calliope Catesby should no more wake the echoes of Quicksand with his strident whoop. He had so announced.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000019_000003|It played bad tunes.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000000|Standing near was a hand truck used in the manipulation of small freight.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000001|It stood by a shed full of sacked wool, a consignment from one of the sheep ranches.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000002|On this truck the marshal and his men piled three heavy sacks of wool.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000004|The posse, scattering broadly, stood ready to nip the besieged in case he should show himself in an effort to repel the juggernaut of justice that was creeping upon him.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000005|Only once did Calliope make demonstration.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000006|He fired from a window, and some tufts of wool spurted from the marshal's trustworthy bulwark.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000007|The return shots from the posse pattered against the window frame of the fort.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000008|No loss resulted on either side.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000021_000000|The marshal was too deeply engrossed in steering his protected battleship to be aware of the approach of the morning train until he was within a few feet of the platform.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000021_000004|He had only to step out the other door, mount the train, and away.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000022_000001|The members of the posse heard one shot fired inside, and then there was silence.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000001|After a blank space he again could see and hear and feel and think.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000003|A tall man with a perplexed countenance, wearing a big badge with "City Marshal" engraved upon it, stood over him.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000004|A little old woman in black, with a wrinkled face and sparkling black eyes, was holding a wet handkerchief against one of his temples.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000005|He was trying to get these facts fixed in his mind and connected with past events, when the old woman began to talk.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000025_000000|"There now, great, big, strong man!
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000025_000008|You don't know me, I reckon, and 'tain't surprisin' that you shouldn't.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000025_000012|This is my son, sir."
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000026_000000|Half turning, the old woman looked up at the standing man, her worn face lighting with a proud and wonderful smile.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000026_000001|She reached out one veined and calloused hand and took one of her son's.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000001|One of my nephews, Elkanah Price, he's a conductor on one of them railroads and he got me a pass to come out here.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000002|I can stay a whole week on it, and then it'll take me back again.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000006|I reckon he thought his old mother'd be skeered about the danger he was in.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000007|But, laws!
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000013|He met me at the door, and squeezes me 'most to death.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000028_000000|"I think I'll sit up now," said the concussion patient.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000028_000001|"I'm feeling pretty fair by this time."
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000029_000000|He sat, somewhat weakly yet, leaning against the wall.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000029_000001|He was a rugged man, big boned and straight.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000002|Don't you take it as meddlesome fer an old woman with a son as big as you to talk about it.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000004|A officer has got to take up for the law-it's his duty-and them that acts bad and lives wrong has to suffer.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000005|Don't blame my son any, sir-'tain't his fault.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000006|He's always been a good boy-good when he was growin' up, and kind and 'bedient and well behaved.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000007|Won't you let me advise you, sir, not to do so no more?
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000008|Be a good man, and leave liquor alone and live peaceably and goodly.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000031_000000|The black mitted hand of the old pleader gently touched the breast of the man she addressed.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000032_000000|"What does the marshal say?" he asked.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000032_000002|Suppose the marshal speaks up and says if the talk's all right?"
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000033_000001|He fingered the badge on his breast for a moment, and then he put an arm around the old woman and drew her close to him.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000034_000003|I'll drop the tanglefoot and the gun play, and won't play hoss no more.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000034_000004|I'll be a good citizen and go to work and quit my foolishness.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000034_000005|So help me God!' That's what I'd say to you if you was marshal and I was in your place."
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000035_000000|"Hear my son talkin'," said the old woman softly.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000035_000001|"Hear him, sir.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000035_000002|You promise to be good and he won't do you no harm.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000038_000003|I wouldn't have nothin' happen to them jars for a red apple."
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000040_000001|I seen her through the window a comin' in.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000040_000005|The idea struck me sudden, and I just took your badge off and fastened it onto myself, and I fastened my reputation onto you.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000040_000007|You can take your badge back now, Buck."
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000042_000000|"Easy there!" said Buck Patterson.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000042_000001|"You keep that badge right where it is, Calliope Catesby.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000042_000002|Don't you dare to take it off till the day your mother leaves this town.
train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000044_000000|"Shut up," said Buck.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000004_000001|Their father divided a small inheritance equally between them.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000004_000003|Ali Baba married a woman as poor as himself, and lived by cutting wood, and bringing it upon three asses into the town to sell.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000005_000001|He observed it with attention, and distinguished soon after a body of horsemen, whom he suspected might be robbers.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000005_000002|He determined to leave his asses to save himself.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000005_000003|He climbed up a large tree, planted on a high rock, whose branches were thick enough to conceal him, and yet enabled him to see all that passed without being discovered.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000006_000000|The troop, who were to the number of forty, all well mounted and armed, came to the foot of the rock on which the tree stood, and there dismounted.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000006_000001|Every man unbridled his horse, tied him to some shrub, and hung about his neck a bag of corn which they brought behind them.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000007_000000|The robbers stayed some time within the rock, during which Ali Baba, fearful of being caught, remained in the tree.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000008_000000|At last the door opened again, and as the captain went in last, so he came out first, and stood to see them all pass by him; when Ali Baba heard him make the door close by pronouncing these words, "Shut, Sesame!" Every man at once went and bridled his horse, fastened his wallet, and mounted again.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000008_000001|When the captain saw them all ready, he put himself at their head, and they returned the way they had come.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000009_000000|Ali Baba followed them with his eyes as far as he could see them, and afterward stayed a considerable time before he descended. Remembering the words the captain of the robbers used to cause the door to open and shut, he had the curiosity to try if his pronouncing them would have the same effect.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000009_000001|Accordingly, he went among the shrubs, and perceiving the door concealed behind them, stood before it and said, "Open, Sesame!"
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000009_000002|The door instantly flew wide open.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000010_000000|Ali Baba, who expected a dark, dismal cavern, was surprised to see a well lighted and spacious chamber, which received the light from an opening at the top of the rock, and in which were all sorts of provisions, rich bales of silk, stuff, brocade, and valuable carpeting, piled upon one another, gold and silver ingots in great heaps, and money in bags.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000010_000001|The sight of all these riches made him suppose that this cave must have been occupied for ages by robbers, who had succeeded one another.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000011_000000|Ali Baba went boldly into the cave, and collected as much of the gold coin, which was in bags, as he thought his three asses could carry.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000011_000001|When he had loaded them with the bags, he laid wood over them in such a manner that they could not be seen.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000011_000003|He then made the best of his way to town.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000012_000000|When Ali Baba got home, he drove his asses into a little yard, shut the gates very carefully, threw off the wood that covered the panniers, carried the bags into the house, and ranged them in order before his wife.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000012_000001|He then emptied the bags, which raised such a great heap of gold as dazzled his wife's eyes, and then he told her the whole adventure from beginning to end, and, above all, recommended her to keep it secret.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000000|The wife rejoiced greatly at their good fortune, and would count all the gold piece by piece.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000001|"Wife," replied Ali Baba, "you do not know what you undertake, when you pretend to count the money; you will never have done.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000002|I will dig a hole and bury it.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000003|There is no time to be lost." "You are in the right, husband," replied she; "but let us know, as nigh as possible, how much we have.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000004|I will borrow a small measure, and measure it while you dig the hole."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000014_000002|The other asked for a small one.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000014_000003|She bade her stay a little, and she would readily fetch one.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000015_000000|The sister in law did so, but as she knew Ali Baba's poverty, she was curious to know what sort of grain his wife wanted to measure, and, artfully putting some suet at the bottom of the measure, brought it to her, with the excuse that she was sorry that she had made her stay so long, but that she could not find it sooner.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000000|Ali Baba's wife went home, set the measure upon the heap of gold, filled it, and emptied it often upon the sofa, till she had done, when she was very well satisfied to find the number of measures amounted to so many as they did, and went to tell her husband, who had almost finished digging the hole.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000001|While Ali Baba was burying the gold, his wife, to show her exactness and diligence to her sister in law, carried the measure back again, but without taking notice that a piece of gold had stuck to the bottom.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000002|"Sister," said she, giving it to her again, "you see that I have not kept your measure long.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000003|I am obliged to you for it, and return it with thanks."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000017_000002|"What!" said she, "has Ali Baba gold so plentiful as to measure it?
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000017_000003|Whence has he all this wealth?"
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000018_000002|He does not count his money, but measures it." Cassim desired her to explain the riddle, which she did by telling him the stratagem she had used to make the discovery, and showed him the piece of money, which was so old that they could not tell in what prince's reign it was coined.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000001|He could not sleep all that night, and went to him in the morning before sunrise.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000002|"Ali Baba," said he, "I am surprised at you!
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000003|you pretend to be miserably poor, and yet you measure gold.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000004|My wife found this at the bottom of the measure you borrowed yesterday."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000020_000001|Therefore, without showing the least surprise or trouble, he confessed all, and offered his brother part of his treasure to keep the secret.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000021_000000|"I expect as much," replied Cassim haughtily; "but I must know exactly where this treasure is, and how I may visit it myself when I choose; otherwise, I will go and inform against you, and then you will not only get no more, but will lose all you have, and I shall have a share for my information."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000022_000000|Ali Baba told him all he desired, even to the very words he was to use to gain admission into the cave.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000000|Cassim rose the next morning long before the sun, and set out for the forest with ten mules bearing great chests, which he designed to fill, and followed the road which Ali Baba had pointed out to him.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000001|It was not long before he reached the rock, and found out the place, by the tree and other marks which his brother had given him.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000003|On examining the cave, he was in great admiration to find much more riches than he had expected from Ali Baba's relation.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000005|He named several sorts of grain, but still the door would not open.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000000|About noon the robbers visited their cave.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000001|At some distance they saw Cassim's mules straggling about the rock, with great chests on their backs.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000002|Alarmed at this, they galloped full speed to the cave.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000003|They drove away the mules, who strayed through the forest so far that they were soon out of sight, and went directly, with their naked sabres in their hands, to the door, which, on their captain pronouncing the proper words, immediately opened.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000026_000001|He rushed to the door, and no sooner saw the door open, than he ran out and threw the leader down, but could not escape the other robbers, who with their cimeters soon deprived him of life.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000027_000001|They could not deny the fact of his being there; and to terrify any person or accomplice who should attempt the same thing, they agreed to cut Cassim's body into four quarters-to hang two on one side, and two on the other, within the door of the cave.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000027_000003|They mounted their horses, went to beat the roads again, and to attack the caravans they might meet.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000028_000000|In the meantime, Cassim's wife was very uneasy when night came, and her husband was not returned.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000001|She went home again, and waited patiently till midnight.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000002|Then her fear redoubled, and her grief was the more sensible because she was forced to keep it to herself.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000003|She repented of her foolish curiosity, and cursed her desire of prying into the affairs of her brother and sister in law.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000004|She spent all the night in weeping; and, as soon as it was day, went to them, telling them, by her tears, the cause of her coming.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000030_000001|He went to the forest, and when he came near the rock, having seen neither his brother nor the mules in his way, was seriously alarmed at finding some blood spilled near the door, which he took for an ill omen; but when he had pronounced the word, and the door had opened, he was struck with horror at the dismal sight of his brother's body.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000030_000002|He was not long in determining how he should pay the last dues to his brother; but without adverting to the little fraternal affection he had shown for him, went into the cave to find something to enshroud his remains; and having loaded one of his asses with them, covered them over with wood.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000030_000004|When he came home, he drove the two asses loaded with gold into his little yard, and left the care of unloading them to his wife, while he led the other to his sister in law's house.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000000|Ali Baba knocked at the door, which was opened by Morgiana, a clever, intelligent slave, who was fruitful in inventions to meet the most difficult circumstances.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000001|When he came into the court, he unloaded the ass, and taking Morgiana aside, said to her: "You must observe an inviolable secrecy.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000003|We must bury him as if he had died a natural death.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000005|I leave the matter to your wit and skilful devices."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000001|The apothecary inquired who was ill.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000002|She replied, with a sigh, Her good master, Cassim himself, and that he could neither eat nor speak.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000003|In the evening Morgiana went to the same druggist's again, and with tears in her eyes, asked for an essence which they used to give to sick people only when at the last extremity.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000004|"Alas!" said she, taking it from the apothecary, "I am afraid that this remedy will have no better effect than the lozenges; and that I shall lose my good master."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000034_000001|The next morning at daybreak, Morgiana went to an old cobbler whom she knew to be always early at his stall, and bidding him good morrow, put a piece of gold into his hand, saying, "Baba Mustapha, you must bring with you your sewing tackle, and come with me; but I must tell you, I shall blindfold you when you come to such a place."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000035_000000|Baba Mustapha seemed to hesitate a little at these words.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000037_000000|"Baba Mustapha," said she, "you must make haste and sew the parts of this body together; and when you have done, I will give you another piece of gold."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000038_000002|Not long after, the proper officer brought the bier, and when the attendants of the mosque, whose business it was to wash the dead, offered to perform their duty, she told them that it was done already.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000038_000005|Ali Baba came after with some neighbors, who often relieved the others in carrying the bier to the burying ground.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000038_000006|Morgiana, a slave to the deceased, followed in the procession, weeping, beating her breast, and tearing her hair. Cassim's wife stayed at home mourning, uttering lamentable cries with the women of the neighborhood, who came, according to custom, during the funeral, and, joining their lamentations with hers, filled the quarter far and near with sounds of sorrow.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000039_000000|In this manner Cassim's melancholy death was concealed, and hushed up between Ali Baba, his widow, and Morgiana, his slave, with so much contrivance that nobody in the city had the least knowledge or suspicion of the cause of it.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000039_000001|Three or four days after the funeral, Ali Baba removed his few goods openly to his sister in law's house, in which it was agreed that he should in future live; but the money he had taken from the robbers he conveyed thither by night.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000039_000002|As for Cassim's warehouse, he intrusted it entirely to the management of his eldest son.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000000|While these things were being done, the forty robbers again visited their retreat in the forest.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000001|Great, then, was their surprise to find Cassim's body taken away, with some of their bags of gold.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000002|"We are certainly discovered," said the captain.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000003|"The removal of the body and the loss of some of our money plainly show that the man whom we killed had an accomplice; and for our own lives' sake we must try and find him.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000041_000000|All the robbers unanimously approved of the captain's proposal.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000042_000000|"Well," said the captain, "one of you, the boldest and most skilful among you, must go into the town, disguised as a traveller and a stranger, to try if he can hear any talk of the man whom we have killed, and endeavor to find out who he was, and where he lived.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000042_000001|This is a matter of the first importance, and for fear of any treachery, I propose that whoever undertakes this business without success, even though the failure arises only from an error of judgment, shall suffer death."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000043_000000|Without waiting for the sentiments of his companions, one of the robbers started up, and said, "I submit to this condition, and think it an honor to expose my life to serve the troop."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000044_000000|After this robber had received great commendations from the captain and his comrades, he disguised himself so that nobody would take him for what he was; and taking his leave of the troop that night, went into the town just at daybreak, and walked up and down, till accidentally he came to Baba Mustapha's stall, which was always open before any of the shops.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000045_000000|Baba Mustapha was seated with an awl in his hand, just going to work.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000046_000000|The robber saluted him, bidding him good morrow; and, perceiving that he was old, said, "Honest man, you begin to work very early: is it possible that one of your age can see so well?
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000046_000001|I question, even if it were somewhat lighter, whether you could see to stitch."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000047_000000|"You do not know me," replied Baba Mustapha; "for old as I am, I have extraordinary good eyes; and you will not doubt it when I tell you that I sewed the body of a dead man together in a place where I had not so much light as I have now."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000048_000000|"A dead body!" exclaimed the robber, with affected amazement. "Yes, yes," answered Baba Mustapha; "I see you want to have me speak out, but you shall know no more."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000049_000000|The robber felt sure that he had discovered what he sought.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000049_000001|He pulled out a piece of gold, and putting it into Baba Mustapha's hand, said to him, "I do not want to learn your secret, though I can assume you you might safely trust me with it.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000049_000002|The only thing I desire of you is to show me the house where you stitched up the dead body."
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000050_000000|"If I were disposed to do you that favor," replied Baba Mustapha, "I assure you I cannot.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000051_000000|"Well," replied the robber, "you may, however, remember a little of the way that you were led blindfold.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000051_000001|Come, let me blind your eyes at the same place.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000052_000000|The two pieces of gold were great temptations to Baba Mustapha.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000052_000003|"It was here," said Baba Mustapha, "I was blindfolded; and I turned this way." The robber tied his handkerchief over his eyes, and walked by him till they stopped directly at Cassim's house, where Ali Baba then lived.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000052_000004|The thief, before he pulled off the band, marked the door with a piece of chalk, which he had ready in his hand, and then asked him if he knew whose house that was; to which Baba Mustapha replied, that as he did not live in that neighborhood he could not tell.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000053_000000|The robber, finding he could discover no more from Baba Mustapha, thanked him for the trouble he had taken, and left him to go back to his stall, while he returned to the forest, persuaded that he should be very well received.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000054_000000|A little after the robber and Baba Mustapha had parted, Morgiana went out of Ali Baba's house upon some errand, and upon her return, seeing the mark the robber had made, stopped to observe it.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000054_000001|"What can be the meaning of this mark?" said she to herself; "somebody intends my master no good: however, with whatever intention it was done, it is advisable to guard against the worst." Accordingly, she fetched a piece of chalk, and marked two or three doors on each side, in the same manner, without saying a word to her master or mistress.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000055_000000|In the meantime, the robber rejoined his troop in the forest, and recounted to them his success, expatiating upon his good fortune in meeting so soon with the only person who could inform him of what he wanted to know.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000055_000001|All the robbers listened to him with the utmost satisfaction; when the captain, after commending his diligence, addressing himself to them all, said, "Comrades, we have no time to lose: let us set off well armed, without its appearing who we are; but that we may not excite any suspicion, let only one or two go into the town together, and join at our rendezvous, which shall be the great square.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000056_000000|This speech and plan were approved of by all, and they were soon ready.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000056_000001|They filed off in parties of two each, after some interval of time, and got into the town without being in the least suspected.
train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000056_000002|The captain, and he who had visited the town in the morning as spy, came in the last.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000001_000001|He himself set them the example, and they all returned as they had come.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000002_000000|When the troop was all got together, the captain told them the reason of their returning; and presently the conductor was declared by all worthy of death.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000002_000001|He condemned himself, acknowledging that he ought to have taken better precaution, and prepared to receive the stroke from him who was appointed to cut off his head.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000003_000000|Not long after, Morgiana, whose eyes nothing could escape, went out, and seeing the red chalk, and arguing with herself as she had done before, marked the other neighbors' houses in the same place and manner.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000004_000000|The robber, at his return to his company, valued himself much on the precaution he had taken, which he looked upon as an infallible way of distinguishing Ali Baba's house from the others; and the captain and all of them thought it must succeed.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000006_000000|The captain, having lost two brave fellows of his troop, was afraid of diminishing it too much by pursuing this plan to get information of the residence of their plunderer.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000010_000002|He stopped his mules, addressed himself to him, and said, "I have brought some oil a great way to sell at to morrow's market; and it is now so late that I do not know where to lodge.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000010_000003|If I should not be troublesome to you, do me the favor to let me pass the night with you, and I shall be very much obliged by your hospitality."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000011_000002|At the same time he called to a slave, and ordered him, when the mules were unloaded, to put them into the stable, and to feed them; and then went to Morgiana to bid her to get a good supper for his guest.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000011_000003|After they had finished supper, Ali Baba, charging Morgiana afresh to take care of his guest, said to her, "To morrow morning I design to go to the bath before day; take care my bathing linen be ready, give them to Abdalla (which was the slave's name) and make me some good broth against I return." After this he went to bed.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000012_000000|In the meantime the captain of the robbers went into the yard, took off the lid of each jar, and gave his people orders what to do.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000013_000001|What to do she did not know, for the broth must be made.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000013_000002|Abdalla, seeing her very uneasy, said, "Do not fret and tease yourself, but go into the yard, and take some oil out of one of the jars."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000014_000000|Morgiana thanked Abdalla for his advice, took the oil pot, and went into the yard; when, as she came nigh the first jar, the robber within said softly, "Is it time?"
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000016_000000|By this means Morgiana found that her master Ali Baba had admitted thirty eight robbers into his house, and that this pretended oil merchant was their captain.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000000|She had not waited long before the captain of the robbers got up, opened the window, and finding no light, and hearing no noise, or any one stirring in the house, gave the appointed signal by throwing little stones, several of which hit the jars, as he doubted not by the sound they gave.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000001|He then listened, but not hearing or perceiving anything whereby he could judge that his companions stirred, he began to grow very uneasy, threw stones a second and also a third time, and could not comprehend the reason that none of them should answer his signal.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000002|Much alarmed, he went softly down into the yard, and going to the first jar, while asking the robber, whom he thought alive, if he was in readiness, smelled the hot boiled oil, which sent forth a steam out of the jar.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000003|Hence he suspected that his plot to murder Ali Baba, and plunder his house, was discovered.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000004|Examining all the jars, one after another, he found that all his gang were dead; and, enraged to despair at having failed in his design, he forced the lock of a door that led from the yard to the garden, and, climbing over the walls, made his escape.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000019_000000|When Morgiana saw him depart, she went to bed, satisfied and pleased to have succeeded so well in saving her master and family.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000020_000000|Ali Baba rose before day, and, followed by his slave, went to the baths, entirely ignorant of the important event which had happened at home.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000021_000000|When he returned from the baths, he was very much surprised to see the oil jars, and that the merchant was not gone with the mules. He asked Morgiana, who opened the door, the reason of it.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000021_000001|"My good master," answered she, "God preserve you and all your family.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000021_000002|You will be better informed of what you wish to know when you have seen what I have to show you, if you will follow me."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000000|As soon as Morgiana had shut the door, Ali Baba followed her, when she requested him to look into the first jar, and see if there was any oil.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000001|Ali Baba did so, and seeing a man, started back in alarm, and cried out.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000002|"Do not be afraid," said Morgiana, "the man you see there can neither do you nor anybody else any harm.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000004|Explain yourself."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000005|"I will," replied Morgiana.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000006|"Moderate your astonishment, and do not excite the curiosity of your neighbors; for it is of great importance to keep this affair secret.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000007|Look into all the other jars."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000023_000000|Ali Baba examined all the other jars, one after another; and when he came to that which had the oil in, found it prodigiously sunk, and stood for some time motionless, sometimes looking at the jars, and sometimes at Morgiana, without saying a word, so great was his surprise.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000024_000000|At last, when he had recovered himself, he said, "And what is become of the merchant?"
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000025_000000|"Merchant!" answered she; "he is as much one as I am.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000027_000000|On hearing of these brave deeds from the lips of Morgiana, Ali Baba said to her, "God, by your means, has delivered me from the snares these robbers laid for my destruction.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000027_000001|I owe, therefore, my life to you; and, for the first token of my acknowledgment, give you your liberty from this moment, till I can complete your recompense, as I intend."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000028_000000|Ali Baba's garden was very long, and shaded at the further end by a great number of large trees.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000028_000001|Near these he and the slave Abdalla dug a trench, long and wide enough to hold the bodies of the robbers; and as the earth was light, they were not long in doing it.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000028_000002|When this was done, Ali Baba hid the jars and weapons; and as he had no occasion for the mules, he sent them at different times to be sold in the market by his slave.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000029_000000|While Ali Baba took these measures, the captain of the forty robbers returned to the forest with inconceivable mortification. He did not stay long: the loneliness of the gloomy cavern became frightful to him.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000029_000001|He determined, however, to avenge the fate of his companions, and to accomplish the death of Ali Baba.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000029_000002|For this purpose he returned to the town and took a lodging in a khan, and disguised himself as a merchant in silks.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000030_000002|Two or three days after he was settled, Ali Baba came to see his son, and the captain of the robbers recognized him at once, and soon learned from his son who he was.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000030_000003|After this he increased his assiduities, caressed him in the most engaging manner, made him some small presents, and often asked him to dine and sup with him, when he treated him very handsomely.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000031_000001|He therefore acquainted his father, Ali Baba, with his wish to invite him in return.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000032_000000|Ali Baba with great pleasure took the treat upon himself.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000033_000001|"This, sir," said he, "is my father's house, who, from the account I have given him of your friendship, charged me to procure him the honor of your acquaintance; and I desire you to add this pleasure to those for which I am already indebted to you."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000036_000002|I will return immediately."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000038_000000|Morgiana, who was always ready to obey her master, could not help being surprised at his strange order.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000038_000001|"Who is this strange man," said she, "who eats no salt with his meat?
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000038_000002|Your supper will be spoiled if I keep it back so long." "Do not be angry, Morgiana," replied Ali Baba; "he is an honest man, therefore do as I bid you."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000039_000000|Morgiana obeyed, though with no little reluctance, and had a curiosity to see this man who ate no salt.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000046_000001|Sometimes she presented the poniard to one breast, sometimes to another, and oftentimes seemed to strike her own.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000000|Ali Baba and his son, shocked at this action, cried out aloud. "Unhappy woman!" exclaimed Ali Baba, "what have you done, to ruin me and my family?"
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000002|Look well at him, and you will find him to be both the fictitious oil merchant, and the captain of the gang of forty robbers.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000003|Remember, too, that he would eat no salt with you; and what would you have more to persuade you of his wicked design? Before I saw him, I suspected him as soon as you told me you had such a guest.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000004|I knew him, and you now find that my suspicion was not groundless."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000049_000002|Consider, that by marrying Morgiana you marry the preserver of my family and your own."
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000000|The son, far from showing any dislike, readily consented to the marriage; not only because he would not disobey his father, but also because it was agreeable to his inclination.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000001|After this they thought of burying the captain of the robbers with his comrades, and did it so privately that nobody discovered their bones till many years after, when no one had any concern in the publication of this remarkable history.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000002|A few days afterward Ali Baba celebrated the nuptials of his son and Morgiana with great solemnity, a sumptuous feast, and the usual dancing and spectacles; and had the satisfaction to see that his friends and neighbors, whom he invited, had no knowledge of the true motives of the marriage; but that those who were not unacquainted with Morgiana's good qualities, commended his generosity and goodness of heart.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000003|Ali Baba did not visit the robbers' cave for a whole year, as he supposed the other two might be alive.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000000|At the year's end, when he found they had not made any attempt to disturb him, he had the curiosity to make another journey.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000001|He mounted his horse, and when he came to the cave he alighted, tied his horse to a tree, then approaching the entrance, and pronouncing the words, "Open, Sesame!" the door opened.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000002|He entered the cavern and by the condition he found things in, judged that nobody had been there since the captain had fetched the goods for his shop.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000003|From this time he believed he was the only person in the world who had the secret of opening the cave, and that all the treasure was at his sole disposal.
train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000004|He put as much gold into his saddle bag as his horse could carry, and returned to town.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000004_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000006_000000|The course pursued by the Government of the United States with regard to the forts had not passed without earnest remonstrance from the most intelligent and patriotic of its own friends during the period of the events which constitute the subject of the preceding chapter.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000006_000001|In the Senate of the United States, which continued in executive session for several weeks after the inauguration of mr Lincoln, it was the subject of discussion.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000000|"We certainly can not justify the holding of forts there, much less the recapturing of those which have been taken, unless we intend to reduce those States themselves into subjection.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000001|I take it for granted, no man will deny the proposition, that whoever permanently holds Charleston and South Carolina is entitled to the possession of Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000002|Whoever permanently holds Pensacola and Florida is entitled to the possession of Fort Pickens.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000003|Whoever holds the States in whose limits those forts are placed is entitled to the forts themselves, unless there is something peculiar in the location of some particular fort that makes it important for us to hold it for the general defense of the whole country, its commerce and interests, instead of being useful only for the defense of a particular city or locality.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000005|Not so with Moultrie, Johnson, Castle Pinckney, and Sumter, in Charleston Harbor; not so with Pulaski, on the Savannah River; not so with Morgan and other forts in Alabama; not so with those other forts that were intended to guard the entrance of a particular harbor for local defense....
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000008_000001|We may regret it.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000008_000003|I proclaim boldly the policy of those with whom I act.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000009_000001|He knew that their continued occupation was virtually a declaration of war.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000010_000000|The General in Chief of the United States Army, also, it is well known, urgently advised the evacuation of the forts.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000010_000001|But the most striking protest against the coercive measures finally adopted was that of Major Anderson himself.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000010_000002|The letter in which his views were expressed has been carefully suppressed in the partisan narratives of that period and wellnigh lost sight of, although it does the highest honor to his patriotism and integrity.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000014_000001|I am preparing, by the side of my barbette guns, protection for our men from the shells which will be almost continually bursting over or in our work.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000015_000001|I trust that this matter will be at once put in a correct light, as a movement made now, when the South has been erroneously informed that none such would be attempted, would produce most disastrous results throughout our country.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000015_000002|It is, of course, now too late for me to give any advice in reference to the proposed scheme of Captain Fox.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000015_000004|Even with his boat at our walls, the loss of life (as I think I mentioned to mr Fox) in unloading her will more than pay for the good to be accomplished by the expedition, which keeps us, if I can maintain possession of this work, out of position, surrounded by strong works which must be carried to make this fort of the least value to the United States Government.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000016_000000|"We have not oil enough to keep a light in the lantern for one night.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000017_000000|"We shall strive to do our duty, though I frankly say that my heart is not in this war, which I see is to be thus commenced. That God will still avert it, and cause us to resort to pacific means to maintain our rights, is my ardent prayer!
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000018_000000|"I am, Colonel, very respectfully,
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000019_000000|"Your obedient servant,
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000022_000000|This frank and manly letter, although written with the reserve necessarily belonging to a communication from an officer to his military superiors, expressing dissatisfaction with orders, fully vindicates Major Anderson from all suspicion of complicity or sympathy with the bad faith of the Government which he was serving.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000024_000000|These facts became known to the Confederate Government, and it was obvious that no time was to be lost in preparing for, and if possible anticipating the impending assault.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000026_000000|"L.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000027_000000|"An authorized messenger from President Lincoln just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000028_000000|(Signed) "G.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000031_000000|"If you have no doubt of the authorized character of the agent who communicated to you the intention of the Washington Government to supply Fort Sumter by force, you will at once demand its evacuation, and, if this is refused, proceed, in such a manner as you may determine, to reduce it.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000031_000001|Answer.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000032_000000|(Signed) "L.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000034_000000|"L.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000040_000000|(Signed) "L.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000042_000000|"L.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000043_000000|"The reasons are special for twelve o'clock.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000044_000000|(Signed) "G.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000047_000000|"Sir: The Government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstration against Fort Sumter, in the hope that the Government of the United States, with a view to the amicable adjustment of all questions between the two Governments, and to avert the calamities of war, would voluntarily evacuate it.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000048_000000|"But the Confederate States can no longer delay assuming actual possession of a fortification commanding the entrance of one of their harbors, and necessary to its defense and security.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000000|"I am ordered by the Government of the Confederate States to demand the evacuation of Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000001|My aides, Colonel Chesnut and Captain Lee, are authorized to make such demand of you.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000002|All proper facilities will be afforded for the removal of yourself and command, together with company arms and property, and all private property, to any post in the United States which you may elect.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000003|The flag which you have upheld so long and with so much fortitude, under the most trying circumstances, may be saluted by you on taking it down.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000050_000000|"Colonel Chesnut and Captain Lee will, for a reasonable time, await your answer.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000051_000000|"I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000052_000000|(Signed) "G.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000058_000000|"Thanking you for the fair, manly, and courteous terms proposed, and for the high compliment paid me,
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000066_000001|You are thus to avoid the effusion of blood.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000066_000002|If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000067_000000|(Signed) "L.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000071_000000|"If you will state the time at which you will evacuate Fort Sumter, and agree that in the mean time you will not use your guns against us, unless ours shall be employed against Fort Sumter, we will abstain from opening fire upon you.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000071_000002|You are therefore requested to communicate to them an open answer.
train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000097_000000|Inasmuch as it was known to the Confederate commander that the "controlling instructions" were already issued, and that the "additional supplies" were momentarily expected; inasmuch, also, as any attempt to introduce the supplies would compel the opening of fire upon the vessels bearing them under the flag of the United States-thereby releasing Major Anderson from his pledge-it is evident that his conditions could not be accepted.
train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000004_000001|His knife was on his belt.
train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000014_000000|That was true.
train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000014_000003|He spoke again:
train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000015_000000|"If you care not because some spoke against you, what is the trouble?
train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000026_000002|Let us hope this is a good fight."
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000003_000003|Their packs bore tanned skins, fruit of the saguaro cactus, edible roots of the mescal plant, and other trade goods.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000013_000001|All these soldier police were mounted and armed, and their snapping black eyes were filled with hatred for Apaches.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000016_000001|You may enter."
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000018_000002|His body was dirty.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000020_000001|"See, Senor Apache?
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000021_000001|The peddler called anxiously, "Will you give me some mescal?"
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000023_000000|"Some tobacco?" the eagle's captor wailed.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000026_000000|The amazed Apaches halted and gaped.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000030_000001|He took out his pouch of gold.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000033_000000|Geronimo dropped the still half filled pouch of gold into the dust and forgot it.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000035_000000|"This way."
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000037_000003|And two girl children.
train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000038_000001|"I know not from where!
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000003_000000|Harry left Madame Delaunay's house immediately after breakfast, still firm in his purpose to avoid Shepard, and went to the bank, on which he held drafts properly attested.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000003_000001|Not knowing what the future held, and inspired perhaps by some counsel of caution, he drew half of it in gold, intending to keep it about his person, risking the chance of robbery.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000003_000002|Then he went toward the bay, anxious to see the sea and those famous forts, Sumter, Moultrie and the others, of which he had heard so much.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000005_000000|"What is it, Arthur?" asked Harry.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000006_000002|That's Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000006_000003|Yesterday, while we were enjoying our Christmas dinner and talking of the things that we would do, Major Anderson, who commanded the United States garrison in Fort Moultrie, quietly moved it over to Sumter, which is far stronger.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000006_000004|The wives and children of the soldiers and officers have been landed in the city with the request that we send them to their homes in the states, which, of course, we will do. But Major Anderson, who holds the fort in the name of the United States, refuses to give it up to South Carolina, which claims it."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000007_000000|Harry felt an extraordinary thrill, a thrill that was, in many ways, most painful.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000007_000001|Talk was one thing, action was another.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000007_000003|Sumter had one hundred and forty guns, most of which commanded the city, and the people of Charleston had thrown up great earthworks, mounting many cannon.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000008_000002|He was not one to sentimentalize, but the sight of the defiant flag, the most beautiful in all the world, stirred him in every fiber.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000008_000003|It was the flag under which both his father and Colonel Talbot had fought.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000010_000000|"I suppose so," said Harry.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000010_000001|"But look how the people gather!"
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000011_000003|He recognized for the first time that they might not share the opinions of Charleston, and this name of Anderson was full of significance for him.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000011_000004|Major Anderson was a Kentuckian.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000011_000005|He had heard his father speak of him; they had served together, but it was now evident to Harry that Anderson would not go with South Carolina.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000013_000000|"I don't believe he'll do it," said Harry impulsively.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000013_000001|Some one touched him upon the shoulder, and turning quickly he saw Colonel Leonidas Talbot.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000014_000000|"I have just come into the city," said the colonel, "and I heard only a few minutes ago that Major Anderson had removed his garrison from Moultrie to Sumter."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000015_000001|"He is defiant.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000016_000000|"I had hoped that he would give up," said Colonel Talbot.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000016_000001|"It might help the way to a composition."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000000|He pulled his long mustache and looked somberly at the flag.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000001|The wind had risen a little, and it whipped about the staff.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000002|Its fluttering motions seemed to Harry more significant than ever of defiance.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000004|He, too, like the boy's father, had fought under that flag, the same flag that had led him up the flame swept slopes of Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000000|The small boat that he had predicted put out from Sumter and quickly landed at the Battery.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000001|It contained three commissioners, prominent men of Charleston who had been sent to treat with Major Anderson, and his answer was quickly known to all the crowd.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000002|Sumter was the property of the United States, not of South Carolina, and he would hold it for the Union.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000003|At that moment the wind strengthened, and the flag stood straight out over the lofty walls of Sumter.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000020_000000|"I knew it would be so," said Colonel Talbot, with a sigh.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000020_000003|I am to help in building the fortifications, and as I am about to make a tour of inspection I will take you with me."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000022_000000|Strong works were going up along the mainland.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000022_000002|Circling batteries would soon threaten Sumter, and, however defiantly the flag there might snap in the breeze, it must come down.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000023_000001|He knew by his rigid attitude that he was looking intently at the battery and he knew, moreover, that it was Shepard.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000023_000002|He wished to avoid him, and he wished also that his companion would not see him. He started to draw Colonel Talbot away, but it was too late.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000023_000003|Shepard turned at that moment, and the colonel caught sight of his face.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000025_000000|"Come away, colonel!" said Harry hastily.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000025_000001|"We don't know anything against him!"
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000026_000000|But Shepard himself acted first.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000026_000001|He came forward quickly, his hand extended, and his eyes expressing pleasure.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000027_000000|"I missed you this morning, mr Kenton," he said.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000028_000000|Harry took the outstretched hand-he could not keep from liking Shepard-but Colonel Talbot, by turning slightly, avoided it without giving the appearance of brusqueness.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000029_000000|"I did not expect to find events so far advanced in Charleston," said Shepard.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000029_000001|"With the Federal garrison concentrated in Sumter and the batteries going up everywhere, matters begin to look dangerous."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000031_000000|"Casual, not careful," returned Shepard, in his usual cheerful tones. "It is impossible, at such a time, to keep from looking at Sumter, the batteries and all the other preparations.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000032_000000|"You see truly," said Colonel Talbot, with some emphasis.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000033_000000|"A happy chance has put me at the same place as mr Kenton," continued Shepard easily.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000033_000002|We are likely to see much of each other."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000035_000001|"I'm already long overdue, but it will be forgiven at such a time as this.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000036_000000|"It is true, he doesn't, although I don't know just why," said Harry.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000038_000002|A slight air of constraint appeared and Harry was glad when the dinner was over.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000038_000004|The last thing Harry saw as he turned back toward Madame Delaunay's was that defiant flag of the Union, still waving above the dark and looming mass of old Sumter.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000040_000000|"I want to tell you good bye, mr Kenton," he said, "I thought we were to be together here at the inn for some time, but it is not to be so."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000041_000000|"What has happened?"
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000042_000001|I was not informed of it when I came here, but Madame Delaunay has recalled the fact and I cannot doubt the word of a Charleston lady.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000042_000003|So, I go."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000043_000000|He did not seem at all discouraged, his tone being as cheerful as ever, and he held out his hand.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000044_000000|"Take good care of yourself, mr Shepard.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000044_000001|As I see it, the people of Charleston are not taking to you, and we do not know what is going to happen."
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000045_000001|Nothing yet had been able to disturb his poise.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000046_000001|He looked down into a piazza and he saw two figures there, a man and a woman.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000046_000002|They were Colonel Talbot and Madame Delaunay.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000046_000003|He closed the blind promptly, feeling that unconsciously he had touched upon something hallowed, the thread of an old romance, a thread which, though slender, was nevertheless yet strong.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000000|Several more days passed.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000001|Harry found that he was taken into the city's heart, and its spell was very strong upon him.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000003|A letter came from his father, to whom he had written at once of his purpose, giving his approval, and sending him more money. Colonel Kenton wrote that he would come South himself, but he was needed in Kentucky, where a powerful faction was opposing their plans.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000004|He said that Harry's cousin, Dick Mason, had joined the home guards, raised in the interests of the old Union, and was drilling zealously.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000048_000000|The letter made the boy very thoughtful.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000048_000001|The news about his cousin opened his eyes.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000048_000004|His quickness and zeal caused him to be used as a messenger, and he was continually passing back and forth among the Confederate leaders in Charleston. He also came into contact with the Union officers in Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000049_000001|Strict orders kept anyone from offering violence or insult to them.
train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000050_000000|He picked up a copy of the Mercury one morning and saw that a steamer, the Star of the West, was on its way to Charleston from a northern port with supplies for the garrison in Fort Sumter.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000005_000000|IN VIRGINIA
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000006_000001|Affairs must be moving now in the great world in the east, and he wished to be at the heart of them.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000008_000000|Jarvis, Ike, and mrs Simmons gave him farewells which were full of feeling.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000009_000000|"Good bye, Aunt Susan," he said.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000009_000001|"I came a stranger, but this house has been made a home to me."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000011_000000|"Good bye, governor," she said, holding out a wrinkled and trembling hand.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000011_000002|You will come again, and you will be thin and pale and in rags, and you will fall at the door.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000012_000000|"Hush, Aunt Suse," exclaimed mrs Simmons.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000012_000001|"It is not Governor Ware, it is his great grandson, and you mustn't send him away tellin' of terrible things that will happen to him."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000013_000000|"I'm not afraid," said Harry, "and I hope that I'll see Aunt Susan and all of you again."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000014_000000|He lifted her hand and kissed it in the old-fashioned manner.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000015_000000|She smiled and he heard her murmur:
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000016_000001|He kissed my hand like that once before, when I went to Frankfort on the lumber raft."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000017_000000|"Good bye, Harry," repeated Jarvis.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000017_000003|After that it's easy."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000018_000000|When Harry rode away something rose in his throat and choked him for a moment.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000018_000002|Then in vivid phrases he heard once more the old woman's prophecy: "You will come again, and you will be thin and pale and in rags, and you will fall at the door." For a moment it shadowed the sunlight.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000018_000004|No one could see into the future.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000019_000000|He was now across the valley and his path led along the base of the mountain.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000019_000001|He looked back and saw the four standing on the porch, Jarvis, Ike, mrs Simmons, and old Aunt Suse.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000019_000004|Could it be possible that he would come again, and in the manner that the old woman had predicted?
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000020_000000|The path, in another minute, curved around the mountain, and the valley was shut from view.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000021_000000|The two days passed without event.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000021_000001|The weather remained fair, and no one interfered with him.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000021_000002|He slept the first night at a log cabin that Jarvis had named, having reached it in due time, and the second day he reached, also in due time, the old Wilderness Road.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000023_000001|The Virginians were less volatile than the South Carolinians, and they had long refused to go out, but now that they were out they were pouring into the Southern army, and they were animated by an extraordinary zeal.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000023_000002|He began to hear new or unfamiliar names, Early, and Ewell, and Jackson, and Lee, and Johnston, and Hill, and Stuart, and Ashby, names that he would never forget, but names that as yet meant little to him.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000024_000000|He had letters from his father and he expected to find his friends of Charleston in Richmond or at the front.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000000|It was now early in June, and the country was at its best.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000003|Then a shade smaller than Charleston, it, too, was a famous place in the South, and it was full of great associations.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000004|Harry, like all the educated boys of the South, honored and admired its public men.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000005|They were mighty names to him.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000006|He was about to tread streets that had been trod by the famous Jefferson, by Madison, Monroe, Randolph of Roanoke, and many others.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000007|The shades of the great Virginians rose in a host before him.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000026_000000|He arrived about noon, and, as he carried no baggage except his saddle bags and weapons, he was quickly within the city, his papers being in perfect order.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000026_000002|It was said that he was at the residence of President Davis, called the White House, after that other and more famous one at Washington, in which the lank, awkward man, Abraham Lincoln, now lived.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000027_000000|But Harry paused frequently on the way, as there was nothing to hurry him, and there was much to be seen.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000027_000001|If Charleston had been crowded, Richmond was more so.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000028_000000|Harry stopped a while to look at the ancient and noble state house, now the home also of the Confederate Congress, standing in Capitol Square, and the spire of the Bell Tower, on Shockoe Hill.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000029_000000|He was informed at the "White House" that General Beauregard was there, and sending in his card he was admitted promptly.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000033_000000|"Yes, sir," replied the boy, "I came chiefly by the river and the Wilderness Road."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000035_000000|"The Southern leaders did their best, but they could not move the state."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000037_000000|"If I may," returned Harry.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000037_000001|"In South Carolina I was with Colonel Leonidas Talbot.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000037_000002|I have had a letter from him here, and, if it is your pleasure and that of General Beauregard, I shall be glad to join his command."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000038_000000|General Beauregard laughed a little.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000000|"You do well," he said.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000002|Colonel Talbot is at the front, and you'll probably find him closer than any other officer to the Yankee army.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000005|Be ready.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000006|It will take you part of the way and you will march on for the rest."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000040_000000|mr Benjamin did not speak throughout the interview, but he watched Harry closely.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000040_000002|The boy's view of Richmond was in truth brief, as before night he saw its spires and roofs fading behind him.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000041_000000|Harry heard from some of the officers that the army was gathered at a place called Manassas Junction, where Beauregard had taken command on june first, and to which he would quickly return.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000041_000001|But Harry did not know any of these officers and he felt a little lonely.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000042_000001|Harry's heart leaped again.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000043_000000|The whole scene was inspiring in the extreme to the heart of youth. Far to the right he saw cavalry galloping back and forth, and to the left he saw infantry drilling.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000046_000000|"It's a mixed regiment," he said, "made up of Virginians, South Carolinians, North Carolinians, and a few Kentuckians and Tennesseeans, but it's already one of the best in the service.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000046_000002|They're mostly boys and already they call themselves 'The Invincibles.' You can see the tents of their commanding officers over there by that little creek."
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000000|Harry's eyes followed the pointing finger, and again his heart leaped. His friends were there, the two colonels for whom he had such a strong affection, and the two lads of his own age.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000001|Theirs looked like a good camp, too.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000002|It was arranged neatly, and by its side flowed the clear, cool waters of Young's Branch, a tributary of the little Manassas River. He walked briskly, crossed the brook, stepping from stone to stone, and entered the grounds of the Invincibles.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000003|A tall youth rushed forward, seized his hand and shook it violently, meanwhile uttering cries of welcome in an unbroken stream.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000048_000000|"By all the powers, it's our own Harry!" he exclaimed, "the new Harry of the West, whom we were afraid we should never see again.
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000048_000001|Everything is for the best, but we hardly hoped for this!
train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000048_000002|How did you get here, Harry?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000011_000000|CHAPTER three-A STRANGE STORY
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000012_000000|"Well, mr Jenks," began Tom, when he had descended to the garden, and greeted the man who had acted so strangely on Earthquake Island, "this is rather an odd time for a visit."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000013_000000|"I realize that, Tom Swift," was the answer, and the lad noticed that the man spoke much more calmly than he had that evening at the jewelry shop.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000013_000001|"I realize that, but I have to be cautious in my movements."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000014_000000|"Why?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000015_000000|"Because there are enemies on my track.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000015_000001|If they thought I was seeking aid to discover the secret of Phantom Mountain, my life might pay the forfeit."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000016_000000|"Are you in earnest, mr Jenks?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000018_000000|"Oh, I don't mind being awakened," answered Tom, good naturedly, "but I will be frank with you, mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000018_000001|I hardly can believe what you have stated to me several times-that you know how diamonds can be made."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000019_000000|"I can prove it to you," was the quiet answer.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000020_000000|"Yes, I know.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000020_000002|But they have all been failures."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000021_000000|"All except this process-the process used at Phantom Mountain," insisted the queer man.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000021_000001|"Do you want to hear my story?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000022_000000|"I have no objections."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000023_000000|"Then let me warn you," went on mr Jenks, "that if you do hear it, you will be so fascinated by it that I am sure you will want to cast your lot in with mine, and aid me to get my rights, and solve the mystery. And I also want to warn you that if you do, there is a certain amount of danger connected with it."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000024_000000|"I'm used to danger," answered Tom, quietly.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000024_000001|"Let me hear your story. But first explain how you came to come here, and why you acted so strangely at the jewelry store."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000025_000000|"Willingly.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000025_000001|I tried to attract your attention at the store, because I saw that you were going to buy a diamond, and I didn't want you to."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000026_000000|"Why not?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000000|"Because I want to present you with a beautiful stone, that will answer your purpose as well or better, than any one you could buy.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000001|That will prove my story better than any amount of words or argument.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000002|But I could not attract your attention without also attracting that of the jeweler. He became suspicious, gave chase, and I thought it best to vanish.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000003|I hope no one was made to suffer for what may have been my imprudence."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000028_000000|"No, the lad whom mr Track caught was let go.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000028_000001|But how did you happen to come to Shopton?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000000|"To see you.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000001|I got your address from the owner of the yacht Resolute.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000002|I knew that if there was one person who could aid me to recover my rights, it would be you, Tom Swift.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000003|Will you help me?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000004|Will you come with me to discover the secret of Phantom Mountain?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000005|If we go, it will have to be in an airship, for in no other way, I think, can we come upon the place, as it is closely guarded.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000006|Will you come?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000007|I will pay you well."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000000|"Perhaps I had better hear your story," said the young inventor.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000001|"But first let me suggest that we move farther away from the house.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000002|My father, or mr Jackson, or the housekeeper, may hear us talking, and it may disturb them.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000003|Come with me to my private shop," and Tom led the way to a small building where he did experimental work.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000004|He unlocked the door with a key he carried, turned on the lights, which were run by a storage battery, and motioned mr Jenks to a seat.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000031_000000|"Now I'll hear your story," said Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000032_000000|"I'll make it as short as possible," went on the queer man.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000032_000001|"To begin with, it is now several years ago since a poorly dressed stranger applied to me one night for money enough to get a meal and a bed to sleep in.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000032_000002|I was living in New York City at the time, and this was midnight, as I was returning home from my club.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000000|"I was touched by the man's appearance, and gave him some money.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000001|He asked for my card, saying he would repay me some day.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000002|I gave it to him, little thinking I would hear from the man again.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000003|But I did.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000004|He called at my apartments about a week later, saying he had secured work as an expert setter of diamonds, and wanted to repay me.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000005|I did not want to take his money, but the fact that such a sorry looking specimen of manhood as he had been when I aided him, was an expert handler of gems interested me.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000006|I talked with the man, and he made a curious statement.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000000|"This man, who gave his name as Enos Folwell, said he knew a place where diamonds could be made, partly in a scientific manner, and partly by the forces of nature.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000001|I laughed at him, but he told me so many details that I began to believe him.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000002|He said he and some other friends of his, who were diamond cutters, had a plant in the midst of the Rocky Mountains, where they had succeeded in making several small, but very perfect diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000003|They had come to the end of their rope, though, so to speak, because they could not afford to buy the materials needed.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000005|They had all agreed to go out into civilization, and work for enough funds to enable them to go on with their diamond making.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000035_000000|"I hardly knew whether to believe the man or not, but he offered proof. He had several small, but very perfect diamonds with him, and he gave them to me, to have tested in any way I desired.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000036_000000|"I promised to look into the matter, and, as I was quite wealthy, as, in fact I am now, and if I found that the stones he gave me were real, I said I might invest some money in the plant."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000038_000000|"They were-stones of the first water, though small.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000038_000001|An expert gem merchant, to whom I took them, said he had never seen any diamonds like them, and he wanted to know where I got them.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000038_000002|Of course I did not tell him.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000039_000000|"To make a long story short, I saw Folwell again, told him to communicate with his companions, and to tell them that I would agree to supply the cash needed, if I could share in the diamond making.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000039_000001|To this they agreed, and, after some weeks spent in preparation, a party of us set out for Phantom Mountain."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000040_000000|"Phantom Mountain?" interrupted Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000040_000001|"Where is it?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000000|"I don't know, exactly-it's somewhere in the Rockies, but the exact location is a mystery.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000001|That is why I need your help.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000002|You will soon understand the reason.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000003|Well, as I said, myself, Folwell and the others, who were not exactly prepossessing sort of men, started west.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000004|When we got to a small town, called Indian Ridge, near Leadville, Colorado, the men insisted that I must now proceed in secret, and consent to be blindfolded, as they were not yet ready to reveal the secret of the place where they made the diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000042_000000|"I did not want to agree to this, but they insisted, and I gave in, foolishly perhaps.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000042_000002|After traveling for some distance I was led, still blindfolded, up a steep trail.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000043_000000|"When the bandage was taken off my eyes I saw that I was in a large cave.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000043_000001|The men were with me, and they apologized for the necessity that caused them to blindfold me.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000043_000003|I had to agree.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000044_000000|"Next they demanded that I give them a large sum, which I had promised when they showed me, conclusively, that they could make diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000044_000001|I refused to do this until I had seen some of the precious stones, and they agreed that this was fair, but said I would have to wait a few days.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000045_000000|"Well, I waited, and, all that while, I was virtually a prisoner in the cave.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000046_000000|"At last one night, during a terrific thunder storm, the leader of the diamond makers-Folwell-announced that I could now see the stones made. The men had been preparing their chemicals for some days previous.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000046_000001|I was taken into a small chamber of the cave, and there saw quite a complicated apparatus.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000046_000002|Part of it was a great steel box, with a lever on it.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000047_000000|"We will let you make some diamonds for yourself," Folwell said to me, and he directed me to pull the lever of the box, at a certain signal. The signal came, just as a terrific crash of thunder shook the very mountain inside of which we were.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000000|mr Jenks held out one hand.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000001|In the palm glittered a large stone-ostensibly a diamond.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000002|In the rays of the moon it showed all the colors of the rainbow-a beautiful gem.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000003|"That is one of the stones I made-or rather that I supposed I had made," went on mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000004|"It is one of several I have, but they have not all been cut and polished as has this one.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000050_000000|"Naturally I was much impressed by what I saw, and, after I had made certain tests which convinced me that the stones in the steel box were diamonds, I paid over the money as I had promised.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000050_000001|That was my undoing."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000051_000000|"How?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000052_000000|"As soon as the men got the cash, they had no further use for me.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000052_000001|The next I remember is eating a rude meal, while we discussed the future of making diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000052_000002|I knew nothing more until I found myself back in the small hotel at Indian Ridge, whence I had gone some time previous, with the men, to the cave in the mountain."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000053_000000|"What happened?" asked Tom, much surprised by the unexpected outcome of the affair.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000054_000000|"I had been tricked, that was all!
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000054_000001|As soon as the men had my money they had no further use for me.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000054_000002|They did not want me to learn the secret of their diamond making, and they drugged me, carried me away from the cave, and left me in the hotel."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000055_000000|"Didn't you try to find the cave again?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000056_000000|"I did, but without avail.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000056_000001|I spent some time in the Rockies, but no one could tell where Phantom Mountain was; in fact, few had heard of it, and I was nearly lost searching for it.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000000|"I came back East, determined to get even.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000002|Probably the stones are worth nearly as much as the money I invested, but I was cheated, for I was promised an equal share in the profits.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000003|These were denied me, and I was tricked.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000004|I determined to be revenged, or at least to discover the secret of making diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000005|It is my right."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000058_000000|"I agree with you," spoke Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000059_000000|"But, up to the time I met you on Earthquake Island, I could form no plan for discovering Phantom Mountain, and learning the secret of the diamond makers," went on mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000059_000002|But I knew I needed an airship in which to fly over the mountains, and pick out the location of the cave where the diamonds are made."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000060_000000|"But how can you locate it, if you were blindfolded when you were taken there, mr Jenks?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000061_000000|"I forgot to tell you that, on our journey into the mountains, and just before I was carried into the cave, I managed to raise one corner of the bandage.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000061_000001|I caught a glimpse of a very peculiarly shaped cliff-it is like a great head, standing out in bold relief against the moonlight, when I saw it.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000061_000003|It may be the landmark by which we can locate Phantom Mountain."
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000062_000000|"Perhaps," admitted the young inventor.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000000|"What I want to know is this," went on mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000001|"Will you go with me on this quest-go in your airship to discover the secret of the diamond makers?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000002|If you will, I will share with you whatever diamonds we can discover, or make; besides paying all expenses.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000003|Will you go, Tom Swift?"
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000000|The young inventor did not know what to answer.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000001|How far was mr Jenks to be trusted?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000002|Were the stones he had real diamonds?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000003|Was his story, fantastical as it sounded-true?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000004|Would it be safe for Tom to go?
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000065_000000|The lad asked himself these questions.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000065_000001|mr Jenks saw his hesitation.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000000|"Here," said the strange man, "I will prove what I say.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000002|I intended it for you, anyhow, for what you did for me on Earthquake Island.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000003|Take it, and-and give it to the person for whom you were about to purchase a diamond to night.
train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000004|But, first of all, take it to a gem expert, and get his opinion.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000000_000000|CHAPTER four-ANDY FOGER GETS A FRIGHT
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000000|Tom Swift considered a few minutes.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000001|On the face of it, the proposition appealed to him.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000003|The search for the mysterious mountain, and the cave of the diamond makers, might offer a new field for him.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000004|But there came to him a certain distrust of mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000002_000000|"I don't like to doubt your word," began Tom, slowly, "but you know, mr Jenks, that some of the greatest chemists have tried in vain to make diamonds; or, at best, they have made only tiny ones.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000002_000001|To think that any man, or set of men, made real diamonds as large as the ones you have, doesn't seem-well-" and Tom hesitated.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000003_000000|"You mean you can hardly believe me?" asked mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000004_000000|"I guess that's it," assented Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000000|"I don't blame you a bit!" exclaimed the odd man.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000001|"In fact, I didn't believe it when they told me they could make diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000002|But they proved it to me.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000003|I'm ready now to prove it to you."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000000|"I'll tell you what I'll do.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000001|Here's this one stone, cut ready for setting.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000002|Here's another, uncut," and mr Jenks drew from his pocket what looked like a piece of crystal.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000003|"Take them to any jeweler," he resumed-"to the one in whose place I saw you to night.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000004|I'll abide by the verdict you get, and I'll come here to morrow night, and hear what you have to say."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000008_000000|"Because my life might be in danger if I was seen talking to you, and showing you diamonds in the daytime-especially just now.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000009_000000|"Why at this particular time?"
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000010_000000|"For the reason that the diamond makers are on my trail.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000010_000001|As long as I remained quiet, after their shabby treatment of me, and did not try to discover their secret, they were all right.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000010_000002|But, after I realized that I had been cheated out of my rights, and when I began to make an investigation, with a view to discovering their secret whereabouts, I received mysterious and anonymous warnings to stop."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000000|"But I did not.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000001|I came East, and tried to get help to discover the cave of the diamond makers, but I was unsuccessful.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000002|I needed an airship, as I said, and no person who could operate one, would agree to go with me on the quest.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000003|Again I received a warning to drop all search for the diamond makers, but I persisted, and about a week ago I found I was being shadowed."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000012_000000|"Shadowed; by whom?" asked Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000014_000000|"Do you think he means you harm?"
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000000|"I'm sure of it.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000002|I don't want those scoundrels to find out what I am about to do.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000003|On my return from Earthquake Island, I again endeavored to interest an airship man in my plan, but he evidently thought me insane. Then I thought of you, as I had done before, but I was afraid you, too, would laugh at my proposition.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000004|However, I decided to come here, and I did.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000006|I took it as a good omen.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000007|Now it remains with you.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000008|May I call here to morrow night, and get your answer?"
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000000|Tom Swift made up his mind quickly.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000001|After all it would be easy enough to find out if the diamonds were real.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000002|If they were, he could then decide whether or not to go with mr Jenks on the mysterious quest.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000003|So he answered:
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000017_000000|"I'll consider the matter, mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000017_000001|I'll meet you here to morrow night.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000017_000002|In the meanwhile, for my own satisfaction, I'll let an expert look at these stones."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000018_000000|"Get the greatest diamond expert in the world, and he'll pronounce them perfect!" predicted the odd man.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000018_000001|"Now I'll bid you goodnight, and be going.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000018_000002|I'll be here at this time to morrow."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000000|"Who's that?" asked the diamond man, in a hoarse whisper.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000001|"Did you see that, Tom Swift?
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000002|Some one was here-listening to what I said!
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000003|Perhaps it was the man who has been shadowing me!"
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000021_000000|"I think not.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000021_000001|I guess it was Eradicate Sampson, a colored man who does work for us," said Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000021_000002|"Is that you, Rad?" he called.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000023_000000|"Where are you, Rad?" called the young inventor.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000024_000002|Sometimes he's restless, an' don't sleep laik he oughter."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000025_000000|"Then that wasn't you over in the orchard?" asked Tom, in some uneasiness.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000027_000000|"If it wasn't your man, it was some one else," said mr Jenks, decidedly.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000028_000000|"We'll have a look!" exclaimed Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000028_000001|"Here, Rad, come over and scurry among those trees.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000028_000002|We just saw some one sneaking around."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000030_000000|"I don't believe it was any one after the mule," murmured mr Jenks, "but it certainly was some one-more likely some one after me."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000031_000000|The three made a hasty search among the trees, but the intruder had vanished, leaving no trace.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000031_000001|They went out into the road, which the moon threw into bold relief along its white stretch, but there was no figure scurrying away.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000032_000000|"Whoever it was, is gone," spoke Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000032_000001|"You can go back to bed, Rad," for the colored man, of late, had been sleeping in a shack on the Swift premises.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000033_000000|"And I guess it's time for me to go, too," added mr Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000033_000001|"I'll be here to morrow night, Tom, and I hope your answer will be favorable."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000034_000000|Tom did not sleep well the remainder of the night, for his fitful slumbers were disturbed by dreams of enormous caves, filled with diamonds, with dark, shadowy figures trying to put him into a red hot steel box.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000034_000002|They had not been disturbed.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000035_000000|Tom made up his mind to find out if the stones were really diamonds, before saying anything to his father about the chance of going to seek Phantom Mountain.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000036_000000|"Though if this one proves to be a good gem, I'll have mr Track set it in a brooch, and give it to Mary for her birthday," decided the young inventor.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000036_000001|"Guess I'll take a run over to Chester in the Butterfly, and see what one of the jewelers there has to say."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000037_000000|In addition to his big airship, Red Cloud, Tom owned a small, swift monoplane, which he called Butterfly.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000037_000001|This had been damaged by Andy Foger just before Tom left on the trip that ended at Earthquake Island, but the monoplane had been repaired, and Andy had left town, not having returned since.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000038_000000|Telling his father that he was going off on a little business trip, which he often did in his aeroplane, Tom, with the aid of mr Jackson, the engineer, wheeled the Butterfly out of its shed.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000039_000000|Adjusting the mechanism, and seeing that it was in good shape, Tom took his place in one of the two seats, for the monoplane would carry two. mr Jackson then spun the propellers, and, with a crackle and roar the motor started.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000039_000001|Over the ground ran the dainty, little aeroplane, until, having momentum enough, Tom tilted the wing planes and the machine sailed up into the air.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000040_000000|Rising about a thousand feet, and circling about several times to test the wind currents, Tom headed his craft toward Chester, a city about fifty miles from Shopton.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000040_000001|In his pocket, snugly tucked away, were the two stones mr Jenks had given him.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000041_000000|It was not long before Tom saw, looming up in the distance the church spires and towering factory chimneys of Chester, for his machine was a speedy one, and could make ninety miles an hour when driven.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000041_000001|But now a slower speed satisfied our hero.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000042_000000|"I'll just drop down outside of the city," he reasoned, "for too much of a crowd gathers when I land in the street.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000042_000001|Besides I might frighten horses, and then, too, it's hard to get a good start from the street. I'll leave it in some barn until I want to go back."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000043_000000|Tom sent his craft down, in order to pick out a safe place for a landing.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000044_000000|"Looks like a good place there," he murmured.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000044_000001|"I'll shut off the motor, and vol plane down."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000045_000000|Suiting the action to the word, Tom shut off his power.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000045_000001|The little craft dipped toward the ground, but the lad threw up the forward planes, and caught a current of air that sent him skimming along horizontally.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000046_000001|Something about the figure struck Tom as being familiar, and he recognized the cyclist a moment later.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000047_000000|"It's Andy Foger!" said Tom, in a whisper.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000047_000002|Evidently he doesn't dare venture back to Shopton.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000047_000003|Well, here's where I give him a scare."
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000048_000000|Tom's monoplane was making no more noise, now, than a soaring bird.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000048_000001|He was gliding swiftly toward the earth, and, with the plan in his mind of administering some sort of punishment to the bully, he aimed the machine directly at him.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000049_000000|Nearer and nearer shot the monoplane, as quietly as a sheet of paper might fall.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000049_000001|Andy pedaled on, never looking up nor behind him, A moment later, as Tom threw up his headplanes, to make his landing more easy, and just as he swooped down at one side of the cyclist, our hero let out a most alarming yell, right into Andy's ear.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000050_000000|"Now I've got you!" he shouted.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000050_000001|"I'll teach you to slash my aeroplane! Come with me!"
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000051_000000|Andy gave one look at the white bird like apparatus that had flown up beside him so noiselessly, and, being too frightened to recognize Tom's voice, must have thought that he had been overtaken by some supernatural visitor.
train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000052_000000|Andy gave a yell like an Indian, about to do a stage scalping act, and fairly dived over the handlebars of his bicycle, sprawling in a heap on the dusty road.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000001_000000|For several minutes Andy Foger did not arise.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000001_000001|He remained prostrate in the dust, and Tom, observing him, thought perhaps the bully might have been seriously injured.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000001_000002|But, a little later, Andy cautiously raised his head, and inquired in a frightened voice:
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000002_000000|"Is it-is it gone?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000003_000000|"Is what gone?" asked Tom, grimly.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000004_000001|"Was that you, Tom Swift?" he demanded.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000004_000002|"Did you knock me off my wheel?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000005_000000|"My monoplane and I together did," was the reply; "or, rather, we didn't.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000005_000001|It was the nervous reaction caused by your fright, and the knowledge that you had done wrong, that made you jump over the handlebars.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000005_000002|That's the scientific explanation."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000006_000000|"You-you did it!" stammered Andy, getting to his feet.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000006_000001|He wasn't hurt much, Tom thought.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000007_000000|"Have it your own way," resumed our hero.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000007_000001|"Did you think it was a hob goblin in a chariot of fire after you, Andy?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000008_000000|"Huh!
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000008_000001|Never mind what I thought!
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000008_000002|I'll have you arrested for this!"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000000|"Will you?
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000001|Delighted, as the boys say.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000002|Hop in my airship and I'll take you right into town.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000004|I've mended her up, however, so she goes better than ever, and I can take you to the police station in jig time.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000005|Want to come, Andy?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000010_000000|This was too much for the bully.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000010_000001|He knew that Tom would have a clear case against him, and he did not dare answer.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000010_000002|Instead he shuffled over to where his wheel lay, picked it up, and rode slowly off.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000011_000000|"Good riddance," murmured Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000011_000001|He looked about, and saw that he was near a house, in the rear of which was a good sized barn.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000011_000002|"Guess I'll ask if I can leave the Butterfly there," he murmured, and, ringing the doorbell, he was greeted by a man.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000012_000000|"I'll pay you if you'll let me store my machine in the barn a little while, until I go into the city, and return," spoke the lad.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000013_000000|"Indeed, you're welcome to leave it there without pay," was the answer. "I'm interested in airships, and, I'll consider it a favor if you'll let me look yours over while it's here."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000014_000000|Tom readily agreed, and a few minutes later he had caught a trolley going into the city.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000014_000001|He was soon in one of the largest jewelry stores of Chester.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000017_000000|The young man disappeared into a private office with the stones, and Tom waited.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000017_000001|He wondered if he was going to have his trouble for his pains. Presently two elderly gentlemen came from the little room, on the glass door of which appeared the word "Diamonds."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000018_000000|"Who brought these stones in?" asked one of the men, evidently the proprietor, from the deference paid him by the clerk.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000019_000000|"Will you kindly step inside here?" requested the elderly man.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000019_000001|When the door was closed, Tom found himself in a room which was mostly taken up with a bench for the display of precious stones, a few chairs, and some lights arranged peculiarly; while various scales and instruments stood on a table.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000020_000000|"You wished an opinion on-on these?" queried the proprietor of the place.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000020_000001|Tom noticed at once that the word "diamonds" was not used.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000021_000000|"I wanted to find out if they were of any value," he said.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000021_000001|"Are they diamonds?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000022_000000|"Would you mind stating where you got them?" asked the other of the two men.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000023_000000|"Is that necessary?" inquired the lad.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000024_000000|"Oh, it isn't that," the proprietor hastened to assure him.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000024_000001|"But these are diamonds of such a peculiar kind, so perfect and without a flaw, that I wondered from what part of the world they came."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000025_000000|"Then they are diamonds?" asked Tom, eagerly.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000000|"The finest I have ever tested!" declared the other man, evidently mr Porter, the gem expert.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000001|"They are a joy to look at, mr Roberts," he went on, turning to the proprietor.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000002|"If it is possible to get a supply of them you would be justified in asking half as much again as we charge for African or Indian diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000003|The Kimberly products are not to be compared to these," and he looked at the two stones in his hand-the one cut, and sparkling brilliantly, the other in a rough state.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000027_000000|"Do you care to state where these diamonds came from?" asked mr Roberts, looking critically at Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000028_000000|"I had rather not," answered the lad.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000028_000001|"It is enough for me to know that they are diamonds.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000028_000002|How much is your charge?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000029_000000|"Nothing," was the unexpected answer.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000029_000001|"We are very glad to have had the opportunity of seeing such stones.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000029_000002|Is there any chance of getting any more?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000030_000000|"Perhaps," answered Tom, as he accepted the gems which the expert held out to him.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000031_000000|"Then might we speak for a supply?" went on mr Roberts, eagerly.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000031_000001|"We will pay you the full market price."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000032_000000|"What is the value of these stones?" asked Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000033_000000|mr Roberts looked at his gem expert.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000001|"They are so far superior to the usual run of diamonds, that I feel justified in saying that the cut one would bring fifteen hundred dollars, anywhere.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000002|In fact, I would offer that for it.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000003|The other is larger, though what it would lose in cutting would be hard to say.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000004|I should say it was worth two thousand dollars as it is now."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000035_000000|"Thirty five hundred dollars for these two stones!" exclaimed Tom.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000036_000000|"They are worth every cent of it," declared mr Roberts.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000036_000001|"Do you want to sell?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000000|Tom shook his head.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000001|He could scarcely believe the good news.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000002|mr Jenks had told the truth.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000003|Now the young inventor could go with him to seek the diamond makers.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000038_000000|"Can you get any more of these?" went on mr Roberts.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000039_000000|"I think so-that is I don't know-I am going to try," answered the lad.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000040_000000|"Then if you succeed I wish you would sell us some," fairly begged the proprietor of the store.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000041_000000|"I will," promised Tom, but he little knew what lay before him, or perhaps he would not have made that promise.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000041_000001|He thanked the diamond merchant for his kindness, and arranged to have the cut stone set in a pin for Miss Nestor.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000041_000002|The uncut gem Tom took away with him.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000043_000000|"I think I'll go with mr Jenks," he decided, as he prepared for a landing in the open space near his aeroplane shed.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000043_000001|"It will be a risky trip, perhaps, but I've taken risks before.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000043_000002|When mr Jenks comes to night I'll tell him I'll help him to get his rights, and discover the secret of the diamond makers."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000044_000000|As Tom was wheeling the Butterfly into the shed, Eradicate came out to help him.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000046_000000|"Who is it?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000048_000000|"It isn't mr Damon; is it, Rad?
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000049_000000|"No, Massa Tom, it ain't him.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000050_000000|"In the airship shed!
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000050_000001|No strangers are allowed in there, Rad."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000052_000000|"I'll see about this," exclaimed Tom, striding to the large shed, where the Red Cloud was kept.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000052_000001|As he entered it he saw a man looking over the wonderful craft.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000054_000000|"I did, and I apologize for entering here, but I am interested in airships, and I thought you might want to hire a pilot.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000054_000001|I am in need of employment, and I have had considerable to do with balloons and aeroplanes, but never with an airship like this, which combines the two features.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000056_000000|"I was told that you did," was the rather surprising answer.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000057_000000|"Who told you?"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000059_000000|"mr Jenks told me!"
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000060_000000|"mr Jenks?" Tom could not conceal his astonishment.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000001|mr Barcoe Jenks.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000002|But I did not come here to merely ask you for employment.
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000003|I would like to hire out to you, but the real object of my visit was to say this to you."
train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000062_000000|The man approached still closer to Tom, and, in a lower voice, and one that could scarcely be heard, he fairly hissed:
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000003_000000|Concerning the General Power of Taxation
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000005_000000|HAMILTON
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000006_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000000|IT HAS been already observed that the federal government ought to possess the power of providing for the support of the national forces; in which proposition was intended to be included the expense of raising troops, of building and equipping fleets, and all other expenses in any wise connected with military arrangements and operations.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000001|But these are not the only objects to which the jurisdiction of the Union, in respect to revenue, must necessarily be empowered to extend.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000002|It must embrace a provision for the support of the national civil list; for the payment of the national debts contracted, or that may be contracted; and, in general, for all those matters which will call for disbursements out of the national treasury.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000003|The conclusion is, that there must be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000008_000000|Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000008_000001|A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000000|In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000001|The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors of provinces to pillage the people without mercy; and, in turn, squeezes out of them the sums of which he stands in need, to satisfy his own exigencies and those of the state.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000002|In America, from a like cause, the government of the Union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay, approaching nearly to annihilation.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000003|Who can doubt, that the happiness of the people in both countries would be promoted by competent authorities in the proper hands, to provide the revenues which the necessities of the public might require?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000010_000000|The present Confederation, feeble as it is intended to repose in the United States, an unlimited power of providing for the pecuniary wants of the Union.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000010_000004|It is this which has chiefly contributed to reduce us to a situation, which affords ample cause both of mortification to ourselves, and of triumph to our enemies.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000011_000000|What remedy can there be for this situation, but in a change of the system which has produced it in a change of the fallacious and delusive system of quotas and requisitions?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000000|The more intelligent adversaries of the new Constitution admit the force of this reasoning; but they qualify their admission by a distinction between what they call INTERNAL and EXTERNAL taxation.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000001|The former they would reserve to the State governments; the latter, which they explain into commercial imposts, or rather duties on imported articles, they declare themselves willing to concede to the federal head.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000002|This distinction, however, would violate the maxim of good sense and sound policy, which dictates that every POWER ought to be in proportion to its OBJECT; and would still leave the general government in a kind of tutelage to the State governments, inconsistent with every idea of vigor or efficiency.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000003|Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000005|I believe it may be regarded as a position warranted by the history of mankind, that, IN THE USUAL PROGRESS OF THINGS, THE NECESSITIES OF A NATION, IN EVERY STAGE OF ITS EXISTENCE, WILL BE FOUND AT LEAST EQUAL TO ITS RESOURCES.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000000|To say that deficiencies may be provided for by requisitions upon the States, is on the one hand to acknowledge that this system cannot be depended upon, and on the other hand to depend upon it for every thing beyond a certain limit.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000001|Those who have carefully attended to its vices and deformities as they have been exhibited by experience or delineated in the course of these papers, must feel invincible repugnancy to trusting the national interests in any degree to its operation.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000002|Its inevitable tendency, whenever it is brought into activity, must be to enfeeble the Union, and sow the seeds of discord and contention between the federal head and its members, and between the members themselves. Can it be expected that the deficiencies would be better supplied in this mode than the total wants of the Union have heretofore been supplied in the same mode?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000003|It ought to be recollected that if less will be required from the States, they will have proportionably less means to answer the demand.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000005|How is it possible that a government half supplied and always necessitous, can fulfill the purposes of its institution, can provide for the security, advance the prosperity, or support the reputation of the commonwealth?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000006|How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home or respectability abroad?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000007|How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000009|How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000001|We will presume, for argument's sake, that the revenue arising from the impost duties answers the purposes of a provision for the public debt and of a peace establishment for the Union.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000002|Thus circumstanced, a war breaks out.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000003|What would be the probable conduct of the government in such an emergency? Taught by experience that proper dependence could not be placed on the success of requisitions, unable by its own authority to lay hold of fresh resources, and urged by considerations of national danger, would it not be driven to the expedient of diverting the funds already appropriated from their proper objects to the defense of the State?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000004|It is not easy to see how a step of this kind could be avoided; and if it should be taken, it is evident that it would prove the destruction of public credit at the very moment that it was becoming essential to the public safety.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000005|To imagine that at such a crisis credit might be dispensed with, would be the extreme of infatuation.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000006|In the modern system of war, nations the most wealthy are obliged to have recourse to large loans.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000007|A country so little opulent as ours must feel this necessity in a much stronger degree.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000008|But who would lend to a government that prefaced its overtures for borrowing by an act which demonstrated that no reliance could be placed on the steadiness of its measures for paying?
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000009|The loans it might be able to procure would be as limited in their extent as burdensome in their conditions.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000015_000000|It may perhaps be imagined that, from the scantiness of the resources of the country, the necessity of diverting the established funds in the case supposed would exist, though the national government should possess an unrestrained power of taxation.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000016_000000|The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.
train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000017_000000|Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age; but to those who believe we are likely to experience a common portion of the vicissitudes and calamities which have fallen to the lot of other nations, they must appear entitled to serious attention.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000007_000000|HAMILTON
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000008_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000009_000000|IN DISQUISITIONS of every kind, there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend. These contain an internal evidence which, antecedent to all reflection or combination, commands the assent of the mind.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000009_000001|Where it produces not this effect, it must proceed either from some defect or disorder in the organs of perception, or from the influence of some strong interest, or passion, or prejudice.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000009_000003|And there are other truths in the two latter sciences which, if they cannot pretend to rank in the class of axioms, are yet such direct inferences from them, and so obvious in themselves, and so agreeable to the natural and unsophisticated dictates of common sense, that they challenge the assent of a sound and unbiased mind, with a degree of force and conviction almost equally irresistible.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000010_000001|The INFINITE DIVISIBILITY of matter, or, in other words, the INFINITE divisibility of a FINITE thing, extending even to the minutest atom, is a point agreed among geometricians, though not less incomprehensible to common sense than any of those mysteries in religion, against which the batteries of infidelity have been so industriously leveled.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000000|But in the sciences of morals and politics, men are found far less tractable.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000003|But this untractableness may be carried too far, and may degenerate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity. Though it cannot be pretended that the principles of moral and political knowledge have, in general, the same degree of certainty with those of the mathematics, yet they have much better claims in this respect than, to judge from the conduct of men in particular situations, we should be disposed to allow them.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000004|The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000005|Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000012_000001|They are in substance as follows:
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000013_000000|A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000014_000000|As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000015_000000|As revenue is the essential engine by which the means of answering the national exigencies must be procured, the power of procuring that article in its full extent must necessarily be comprehended in that of providing for those exigencies.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000016_000000|As theory and practice conspire to prove that the power of procuring revenue is unavailing when exercised over the States in their collective capacities, the federal government must of necessity be invested with an unqualified power of taxation in the ordinary modes.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000017_000001|It may therefore be satisfactory to analyze the arguments with which they combat it.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000000|Those of them which have been most labored with that view, seem in substance to amount to this: "It is not true, because the exigencies of the Union may not be susceptible of limitation, that its power of laying taxes ought to be unconfined.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000001|Revenue is as requisite to the purposes of the local administrations as to those of the Union; and the former are at least of equal importance with the latter to the happiness of the people.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000002|It is, therefore, as necessary that the State governments should be able to command the means of supplying their wants, as that the national government should possess the like faculty in respect to the wants of the Union.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000003|But an indefinite power of taxation in the LATTER might, and probably would in time, deprive the FORMER of the means of providing for their own necessities; and would subject them entirely to the mercy of the national legislature.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000005|It might allege a necessity of doing this in order to give efficacy to the national revenues.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000006|And thus all the resources of taxation might by degrees become the subjects of federal monopoly, to the entire exclusion and destruction of the State governments."
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000000|This mode of reasoning appears sometimes to turn upon the supposition of usurpation in the national government; at other times it seems to be designed only as a deduction from the constitutional operation of its intended powers.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000001|It is only in the latter light that it can be admitted to have any pretensions to fairness.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000002|The moment we launch into conjectures about the usurpations of the federal government, we get into an unfathomable abyss, and fairly put ourselves out of the reach of all reasoning.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000003|Imagination may range at pleasure till it gets bewildered amidst the labyrinths of an enchanted castle, and knows not on which side to turn to extricate itself from the perplexities into which it has so rashly adventured.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000004|Whatever may be the limits or modifications of the powers of the Union, it is easy to imagine an endless train of possible dangers; and by indulging an excess of jealousy and timidity, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute scepticism and irresolution.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000005|I repeat here what I have observed in substance in another place, that all observations founded upon the danger of usurpation ought to be referred to the composition and structure of the government, not to the nature or extent of its powers.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000006|The State governments, by their original constitutions, are invested with complete sovereignty.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000007|In what does our security consist against usurpation from that quarter?
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000008|Doubtless in the manner of their formation, and in a due dependence of those who are to administer them upon the people.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000009|If the proposed construction of the federal government be found, upon an impartial examination of it, to be such as to afford, to a proper extent, the same species of security, all apprehensions on the score of usurpation ought to be discarded.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000000|It should not be forgotten that a disposition in the State governments to encroach upon the rights of the Union is quite as probable as a disposition in the Union to encroach upon the rights of the State governments.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000001|What side would be likely to prevail in such a conflict, must depend on the means which the contending parties could employ toward insuring success.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000003|But it is evident that all conjectures of this kind must be extremely vague and fallible: and that it is by far the safest course to lay them altogether aside, and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the Constitution.
train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000004|Every thing beyond this must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the State governments.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000002_000000|ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000003_000000|JIM KELL, CHARLES HEATH, WILLIAM CARLISLE, CHARLES RINGGOLD, THOMAS MAXWELL, AND SAMUEL SMITH.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000000|Sam had been tied up and beat many times severely.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000001|William had been stripped naked, and frequently and cruelly cowhided.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000003|Jim had been whipped with clubs and switches times without number.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000004|Charles had had five men on him at one time, with cowhides, his master in the lead.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000001|The night we left, he had a woman tied up-God knows what he done.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000002|He was always blustering, you could never do enough for him no how.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000003|First thing in the morning and last thing at night, you would hear him cussing-he would cuss in bed.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000004|He was a large farmer, all the time drunk.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000005|He had a good deal of money but not much character.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000006|He was a savage, bluff, red face looking concern." Thus, in the most earnest, as well as in an intelligent manner, Charles described the man (Aquila Cain), who had hitherto held him under the yoke.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000000|james left his mother, Nancy Kell, two brothers, Robert and Henry, and two sisters, Mary and Annie; all living in the neighborhood whence he fled.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000001|Besides these, he had eight brothers and sisters living in Baltimore and elsewhere, under the yoke.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000002|He was twenty four years of age, of a jet color, but of a manly turn.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000004|Charles Heath was twenty five years of age, medium size, full black, a very keen looking individual.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000008_000000|William was also of unmixed blood, shrewd and wide awake for his years,--had been ground down under the heel of Aquila Cain.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000008_000001|He left his mother and two sisters.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000009_000000|Charles Ringgold was eighteen years of age; no white blood showed itself in the least in this individual.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000009_000001|He fled from dr Jacob Preston, a member of the Episcopal Church, and a practical farmer with twenty head of slaves.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000009_000002|"He was not so bad, but his wife was said to be a 'stinger.'" Charles left his mother and father behind, also four sisters.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000010_000000|Thomas was of pure blood, with a very cheerful, healthy looking countenance,--twenty one years of age, and was to "come free" at twenty five, but he had too much good sense to rely upon the promises of slave holders in matters of this kind.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000010_000001|He too belonged to Cain who, he said, was constantly talking about selling, etc
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000010_000002|He left his father and mother.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000011_000000|After being furnished with food, clothing, and free tickets, they were forwarded on in triumph and full of hope.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000012_000000|SUNDRY ARRIVALS, eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000013_000000|john EDWARD LEE, john HILLIS, CHARLES ROSS, james RYAN, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, EDWARD WOOD, CORNELIUS FULLER AND HIS WIFE HARRIET, john PINKET, ANSAL CANNON, AND james BROWN.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000014_000000|john came from Maryland, and brought with him a good degree of pluck.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000014_000001|He satisfied the Committee that he fully believed in freedom, and had proved his faith by his works, as he came in contact with pursuers, whom he put to flight by the use of an ugly looking knife, which he plunged into one of them, producing quite a panic; the result was that he was left to pursue his Underground Rail Road journey without further molestation.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000014_000002|There was nothing in John's appearance which would lead one to suppose that he was a blood thirsty or bad man, although a man of uncommon muscular powers; six feet high, and quite black, with resolution stamped on his countenance.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000000|john Hillis was a tiller of the ground under a widow lady (mrs Louisa Le Count), of the New Market District, Maryland.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000001|He signified to the mistress, that he loved to follow the water, and that he would be just as safe on water as on land, and that he was discontented.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000002|The widow heard John's plausible story, and saw nothing amiss in it, so she consented that he should work on a schooner.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000003|The name of the craft was "Majestic." The hopeful john endeavored to do his utmost to please, and was doubly happy when he learned that the "Majestic" was to make a trip to Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000004|On arriving John's eyes were opened to see that he owed mrs Le Count nothing, but that she was largely indebted to him for years of unrequited toil; he could not, therefore, consent to go back to her.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000005|He was troubled to think of his poor wife and children, whom he had left in the hands of mrs Harriet Dean, three quarters of a mile from New Market; but it was easier for him to imagine plans by which he could get them off than to incur the hazard of going back to Maryland; therefore he remained in freedom.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000016_000001|Very good reasons were given by Charles for the charge which he made against Rodgers, and it went far towards establishing the fact, that "colored men had no rights which white men were bound to respect," in Maryland.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000016_000002|Although he was only twenty three years of age, he had fully weighed the matter of his freedom, and appeared firmly set against Slavery.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000017_000003|He left one brother and one sister; his mother was dead, and of his father's whereabouts he knew nothing.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000017_000004|William was nineteen years of age, brown color, smart and good looking.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000018_000001|Edward left a wife and three children, but the strong desire to be free, which had been a ruling passion of his being from early boyhood, rendered it impossible for him to stay, although the ties were very hard to break.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000018_000002|Slavery was crushing him hourly, and he felt that he could not submit any longer.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000019_000000|Cornelius Fuller, and his wife, Harriet, escaped together from Kent county, Maryland.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000020_000000|john Pinket and Ansal Cannon took the Underground Rail Road cars at New Market, Dorchester county, Maryland.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000000|john was a tall young man, of twenty seven years of age, of an active turn of mind and of a fine black color.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000001|He was the property of Mary Brown, a widow, firmly grounded in the love of Slavery; believing that a slave had no business to get tired or desire his freedom.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000002|She sold one of John's sisters to Georgia, and before john fled, had still in her possession nine head of slaves.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000003|She was a member of the Methodist church at East New Market.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000004|From certain movements which looked very suspicious in John's eyes, he had been allotted to the Southern Market, he therefore resolved to look out for a habitation in Canada.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000005|He had a first rate corn field education, but no book learning.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000006|Up to the time of his escape, john had shunned entangling himself with a wife.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000022_000001|He escaped from Kitty Cannon, another widow, who owned nine chattels.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000022_000002|"Sometimes she treated her slaves pretty well," was the testimony of Ansal.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000022_000003|He ran away because he did not get pay for his services.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000023_000000|ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000024_000000|james BROWN.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000025_000001|He was six feet three inches high, and in every respect, a man of bone, sinew and muscle.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000025_000002|For one who had enjoyed only a field hand's privileges for improvement, he was not to be despised.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000000|Jim owed service to Henry Jones; at least he admitted that said Jones claimed him, and had hired him out to himself for seven dollars per month.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000003|Having heard of the Underground Rail Road running to Canada, he concluded to take a trip and see the country, for himself; so he arranged his affairs with this end in view, and left Henry Jones with one less to work for him for nothing.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000004|The place that he fled from was called North Point, Baltimore county.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000005|The number of fellow slaves left in the hands of his old master, was fifteen.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000027_000000|ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000028_000000|EDWARD, john, AND CHARLES HALL.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000029_000001|They were young; the eldest being about twenty, the youngest not far from seventeen years of age.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000030_000002|Charles resolved that when his brothers crossed the line dividing Delaware and Pennsylvania, he would not be far behind.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000000|The mother of these boys was freed at the age of twenty eight, and lived in wilmington delaware.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000001|It was owing to the fact that their mother had been freed that they entertained the vague notion that they too might be freed; but it was a well established fact that thousands lived and died in such a hope without ever realizing their expectations.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000002|The boys, more shrewd and wide awake than many others, did not hearken to such "stuff." The two younger heard the views of the elder brother, and expressed a willingness to follow him.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000003|Edward, becoming satisfied that what they meant to do must be done quickly, took the lead, and off they started for a free State.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000032_000000|john was owned by one james b Rodgers, a farmer, and "a most every kind of man," as john expressed himself; in fact john thought that his owner was such a strange, wicked, and cross character that he couldn't tell himself what he was.
train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000032_000001|Seeing that slaves were treated no better than dogs and hogs, john thought that he was none too young to be taking steps to get away.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000002_000000|ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, eighteen fifty nine.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000003_000000|james TAYLOR, ALBERT GROSS, AND john GRINAGE.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000004_000000|To see mere lads, not twenty one years of age, smart enough to outwit the very shrewdest and wisest slave holders of Virginia was very gratifying.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000004_000001|The young men composing this arrival were of this keen sighted order.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000005_000000|james was only a little turned of twenty, of a yellow complexion, and intelligent.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000005_000002|He said that he had been used tolerable well, not so bad as many had been used.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000005_000003|james was learning the carpenter trade; but he was anxious to obtain his freedom, and finding his two companions true on the main question, in conjunction with them he contrived a plan of escape, and 'took out.' His father and mother, Harrison and Jane Taylor, were left at Fredericksburg to mourn the absence of their son.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000006_000002|Albert testified that he was a bad man.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000007_000000|john Grinage was only twenty, a sprightly, active young man, of a brown color.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000007_000001|He came from Middle Neck, Cecil county, where he had served under William Flintham, a farmer.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000009_000000|AND OTHER PLACES.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000010_000000|james ANDY WILKINS, and wife LUCINDA, with their little boy, CHARLES, CHARLES HENRY GROSS, A WOMAN with her TWO CHILDREN-one in her arms-john BROWN, john ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENRY SMALLWOOD.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000011_000000|The above named passengers did not all come from the same place, or exactly at the same time; but for the sake of convenience they are thus embraced under a general head.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000012_000000|james Andy Wilkins "gave the slip" to a farmer, by the name of George Biddle, who lived one mile from Cecil, Cecil county, Maryland.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000012_000001|While he hated Slavery, he took a favorable view of his master in some respects at least, as he said that he was a "moderate man in talk;" but "sly in action." His master provided him with two pairs of pantaloons in the summer, and one in the winter, also a winter jacket, no vest, no cap, or hat.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000000|Lucinda, the companion of james, was twenty one years of age, good looking, well formed and of a brown color.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000001|She spoke of a man named George Ford as her owner.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000003|Once in a great while Lucinda was allowed to go to church, when she could be spared from her daily routine of cooking, washing, etc
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000004|Twice a week she was permitted the special favor of seeing her husband.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000005|These simple privations not being of a grave character, no serious fault was found with them; yet Lucinda was not without a strong ground of complaint.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000006|Not long before escaping, she had been threatened with the auction block; this fate she felt bound to avert, if possible, and the way she aimed to do it was by escaping on the Underground Rail Road.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000007|Charley, a bright little fellow only three years of age, was "contented and happy" enough. Lucinda left her father, Moses Edgar Wright, and two brothers, both slaves.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000009|Her mother, who was known by the name of Betsy Wright, escaped when she (Lucinda) was seven years of age.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000010|Of her whereabouts nothing further had ever been heard.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000011|Lucinda entertained strong hopes that she might find her in Canada.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000015_000001|Owing to hard treatment, Charles was induced to fly to Canada for refuge.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000016_000000|A woman with two children, one in her arms, and the other two years of age (names, etc, not recorded), came from the District of Columbia. Mother and children, appealed loudly for sympathy.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000000|john Brown, being at the beck of a man filling the situation of a common clerk (in the shoe store of McGrunders), became dissatisfied.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000002|He found an agent and soon had matters all fixed.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000003|He left his father, mother and seven sisters and one brother, all slaves.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000004|john was a man small of stature, dark, with homely features, but he was very determined to get away from oppression.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000001|john was the so-called property of joshua O'Bear, "a fractious, hard swearing man, and when mad would hit one of his slaves with anything he could get in his hands." john and his companion made the long journey on foot.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000002|The former had been trained to farm labor and the common drudgery of slave life.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000004|While it was a fact, that his wife had already been sold, as above stated, the change of ownership was not to take place for some months, consequently john "took out in a hurry." His wife was the property of dr Shipley, of Seaford, who had occasion to raise some money for which he gave security in the shape of this wife and mother.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000005|Horsey was the name of the gentleman from whom it was said that he obtained the favor; so when the time was up for the payment to be made, the dr was not prepared. Horsey, therefore, claimed the collateral (the wife) and thus she had to meet the issue, or make a timely escape to Canada with her husband.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000006|No way but walking was open to them.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000007|Deciding to come this way, they prosecuted their journey with uncommon perseverance and success.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000000|Henry Smallwood saw that he was working every day for nothing, and thought that he would do better.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000003|At this point Henry lost all trace of the rest.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000004|He heard afterwards that two of them had been captured, but received no further tidings of the others.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000005|Henry was a fine representative for Canada; a tall, dark, and manly looking individual, thirty six years of age.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000006|He left his father and mother behind.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000021_000000|HENRY JONES AND TURNER FOSTER.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000000|Henry was left free by the will of his mistress (Elizabeth Mann), but the heirs were making desperate efforts to overturn this instrument.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000001|Of this, there was so much danger with a Richmond court, that Henry feared that the chances were against him; that the court was not honest enough to do him justice.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000004|Again, he was not in the secret of the Underground Rail Road movement; he knew that many got off, but how they managed it he was ignorant.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000005|If he could settle these two points satisfactorily, he thought that he would be willing to endure any sacrifice for the sake of his freedom.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000006|He found an agent of the Underground Rail Road, and after surmounting various difficulties, this point was settled.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000007|As good luck would have it, his wife, who was a free woman, although she heard the secret with great sorrow, had the good sense to regard his step for the best, and thus he was free to contend with all other dangers on the way.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000023_000000|He encountered the usual suffering, and on his arrival experienced the wonted pleasure.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000023_000001|He was a man of forty one years of age, spare made, with straight hair, and Indian complexion, with the Indian's aversion to Slavery.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000024_000001|He was about twenty one, a bright, smart, prepossessing young man.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000024_000003|Mosen, a lawyer, represented to be one of the first in the city, and a firm believer in Slavery.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000024_000004|Turner differed widely with his master with reference to this question, although, for prudential reasons, he chose not to give his opinion to said Mosen.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000000|The appearance of these young mothers at first produced a sudden degree of pleasure, but their story of suffering quite as suddenly caused the most painful reflections.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000001|It was hardly possible to listen to their tales of outrage and wrong with composure.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000003|Anna and Sarah were respectively twenty four and twenty five years of age; Anna was of a dark chestnut color, while Sarah was two shades lighter; both had good manners, and a fair share of intelligence, which afforded a hopeful future for them in freedom.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000004|Each had a babe in her arms.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000001|Elizabeth's child was a girl, nineteen months old, and named Sarah Catharine Young.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000002|Elizabeth had never been married.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000003|They had lived with Massey five years up to the last March prior to their escape, having been bought out of the Baltimore slave pen, with the understanding that they were to be free at the expiration of five years' service under him.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000006|Threats and fears were so horrifying to them, that they could not stand it; this was what prompted them to flee.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000008|The last flogging I received from him, was about four weeks before last Christmas; he then tied me up to a locust tree standing before the door, and whipped me to his satisfaction."
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000029_000000|Sarah had fared no better than Elizabeth, according to her testimony. "Three times," said she, "I have been tied up; the last time was in planting corn time, this year.
train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000029_000001|My clothing was all stripped off above my waist, and then he whipped me till the blood ran down to my heels." Her back was lacerated all over.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000002_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000003_000000|THE SWEET SINGER OF ISRAEL
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000004_000000|"VERY well, then.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000004_000001|Let us go back to the days of long ago, long, even, before the destruction of our beloved city.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000004_000002|Let us seek David on the hillsides, tending his flocks with loving care.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000005_000000|"One day a visitor came to the house of Jesse, David's father.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000005_000001|This visitor was no other than the prophet Samuel.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000005_000002|He had received a command from the Lord telling him to take a vial of oil and seek the house of Jesse.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000006_000000|"'There,' said the Lord, 'you will find the new king who is to succeed Saul.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000000|"Samuel hastened to obey.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000001|When he reached Jesse's house, he asked to see his sons.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000002|One by one passed before him till the eighth son, David, appeared.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000003|Then the voice of the Lord again spoke to Samuel.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000004|It said:
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000008_000000|"'Arise, anoint him, for this is he.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000009_000000|"As soon as the prophet had anointed David with the oil, the young man was filled with the spirit and power of God.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000009_000001|At the same time, they left King Saul, who did many foolish and bad deeds after this.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000001|Did he go out into the world and declare himself the future king of Israel?
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000002|Not so.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000003|He continued to live his peaceful, quiet life as a shepherd.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000004|He learned to sing, and play upon the harp.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000005|He now showed himself indeed the 'Sweet Singer of Israel.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000011_000000|"He began to show power in other ways, too.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000011_000001|Many times the fierce lions and savage bears came creeping upon his flocks.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000011_000002|Many times David met and overpowered them with the strength given to him by the Lord."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000012_000000|"It seems as though I can see him guarding his flocks," said Solomon, as Levi stopped talking to rest for a moment.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000012_000001|"His beautiful black eyes are looking out into the night and watching for danger.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000012_000003|Then he hears the sound of foes drawing near and springs to meet them."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000014_000000|Levi now went on with his story.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000015_000000|"While David was still tending his flocks, King Saul was waging war upon the Philistines, the bitter enemies of our people.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000015_000001|They became more and more daring, until at last they gathered on the side of a mountain right here in Israel.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000016_000000|"Three of David's brothers were fighting in Saul's army and went out to meet the Philistines.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000016_000001|David often went to the camp to visit his brothers.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000016_000002|He happened to be there once when a Philistine giant marched forth and dared any Israelite to fight with him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000017_000000|"There was no one who felt able to say, 'I am not afraid; I accept your challenge.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000000|"'No one,' did I say?
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000001|At first, this was true, for every one in Saul's army kept silent.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000002|But when David saw this, he felt the spirit of the Lord stir within him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000003|He arose, saying, 'I will meet you.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000019_000000|"He was now led before Saul, and there, in the presence of the king, he said he had faith that God would save him from harm, even from the hand of the giant.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000019_000001|At first, Saul thought:
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000020_000000|"'It is of no use for this young shepherd to go out alone to meet the giant.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000000|"But when he heard what David said, he changed his mind.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000001|He got out a strong suit of armour, and even helped him to put it on.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000002|David was not used to such things.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000004|He said:
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000022_000000|"'It would be better for me to carry only such weapons as I know.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000022_000001|Let me take my shepherd's staff and the sling I have used so often in meeting the wild beasts.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000023_000000|"He was allowed to do as he chose.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000023_000001|He went forth to meet the giant with nothing to help him save his staff and sling.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000024_000000|"And what did the giant, Goliath, say when he saw the young shepherd draw near?
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000024_000001|He spoke in scornful words.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000024_000003|As soon as David saw the success of his shot, he rushed to the giant's side, seized his sword, and cut off his head.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000025_000000|"The watching Philistines were filled with fear.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000025_000001|They began to flee. But Saul's army followed and overtook them and killed great numbers.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000026_000000|"All Israel now began to praise David.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000026_000001|Saul, too, was filled with delight.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000026_000002|He declared he was willing David should marry his elder daughter after a while.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000027_000001|This was, perhaps, because he gave way to fits of bad temper.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000027_000002|When he learned of David's power to play and sing, he often asked the young shepherd to quiet his angry feelings with the sweet music of his harp and voice.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000028_000001|They said, 'Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.'
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000029_000000|"His anger was now turned against the brave shepherd.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000029_000002|It was when the lad was playing on his harp. But Saul failed to do what his wicked heart desired.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000029_000003|The Lord was protecting the future king of Israel.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000030_000000|"Again he tried to kill David, and again he failed.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000030_000001|Saul must have thought that it was of no use, so now he sought to injure the young man in a different way.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000030_000002|He gave the daughter he had promised David to another lover.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000032_000000|"'You may have Michal if you will first kill one hundred Philistines.' He only said this because he hoped David would be killed by the enemy."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000033_000000|"I know what David did," exclaimed Solomon, who could keep still no longer.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000033_000001|"He went out and destroyed two hundred Philistines, instead of one hundred."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000034_000001|The king was now obliged to have David for a son in law. But he hated him as much as ever.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000035_000002|He did all in his power to make his father feel more kindly toward him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000035_000003|He had almost succeeded, when Saul was seized with a new spirit of madness.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000035_000004|All his wicked feelings came back, and he hired some bad men to take David by surprise when he was asleep, and kill him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000036_000002|But Michal did not stop here.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000036_000003|She made the shape of a man and placed it in David's bed.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000036_000004|In this way the bad men who came to kill him were deceived.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000037_000001|"Won't you go on and tell the children about David's flight?"
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000000|"Certainly," said his wife.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000001|In her sweet, clear voice she made a picture of David hiding near Ramah.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000003|He sent men there to take him prisoner.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000004|A strange thing happened on their way.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000005|They were overcome by the spirit of the Lord, and they did not dare seize David.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000000|"When Saul was told how they had failed, he went himself in search of David.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000001|But he, too, was overpowered by the spirit of the Lord.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000002|And what do you think happened?
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000003|Instead of harming him, he asked David to come back to the palace.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000040_000000|"But David did not feel sure that Saul was a true friend.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000040_000001|He thought it would be the wisest thing for him to see Jonathan first and ask him to find out how his father really felt.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000000|"Jonathan was a true friend.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000001|It did not take him long to learn that Saul was as much an enemy as ever.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000002|He must now let David know about it, and prevent his return to the palace.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000003|He knew where David was hiding, but he did not dare seek him out.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000000|"Instead of that, he started from the palace to go shooting.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000001|He took a boy with him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000002|When he had come close to the place where his friend was hidden, he began to shoot.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000003|He spoke to the boy from time to time.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000004|He used such words as to let the listening David know that the king was no more his friend than ever."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000043_000000|When Rebecca had got thus far, Miriam looked a little perplexed.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000044_000000|"I don't see how David could understand what he meant," she said.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000045_000000|"He had agreed with Jonathan that certain words should mean certain things, my dear."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000046_000001|Go on with the story, please."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000047_000000|Rebecca smiled pleasantly, and went on.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000048_000000|"David prepared to flee at once.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000048_000001|But he had no arms or food.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000048_000002|He must have both.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000000|"He went to the house of the High Priest.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000001|When he had entered, he told him he had come with a message from the king.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000002|He asked for the sword of Goliath, which was in the High Priest's keeping.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000003|He also asked for five sacred loaves of shewbread, which no one dared to eat except the priests.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000050_000001|He had one adventure after another.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000050_000003|His brothers and a great many other Israelites joined him there.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000051_000000|"While he was hiding in the cave of Adullam, the prophet of God came to him, telling him to go into the land of Judah.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000051_000001|He started at once to obey the prophet's command.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000051_000002|Saul heard where he was and followed him. On his way, the king heard how David had been helped by the High Priest. He was so angry that he ordered not only the High Priest to be killed, but also his eighty five helpers, and all the people of the town in which he lived.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000000|"The son of the High Priest managed to escape.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000001|He fled to David and told him the sad story.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000002|You can imagine how bad David felt when he learned what had happened through his own deceit.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000003|But his mind was kept busy with plans to keep out of Saul's reach, for the king followed him from place to place.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000053_000000|"One night while David was hiding in a cave, the king stopped to rest at that very spot.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000053_000002|While he lay sleeping David crept to his side and cut off a piece of his cloak.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000053_000003|He might have killed Saul at this time, but he had too great a heart.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000000|"The next day, just as the king was riding away in his chariot, David appeared in the mouth of the cave.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000001|He held up the piece he had cut from Saul's cloak.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000002|Then the king knew he had been in David's power.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000004|He felt such shame that he determined to do the young man no more harm.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000000|"David again showed him how generous he was.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000001|He crept into Saul's tent one night.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000002|The king's army was encamped all around him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000003|Only a servant went with David on this dangerous trip.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000056_000000|"No one saw them as they stole along.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000056_000001|No one heard them as David stepped to the side of the sleeping Saul and seized his spear and cup; then away they sped till they reached the hilltop opposite the one where Saul had taken his stand.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000000|"David now cried out in a loud voice to wake the sleeping army.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000001|He showed the cup and spear he had taken away from Saul's tent.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000002|Saul saw that David had spared his life a second time.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000003|He was again filled with gratitude.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000058_000000|"But David had learned not to trust him.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000058_000001|He sought a home among the Philistines and helped them in their wars.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000058_000002|They treated him with great kindness and their king became his true friend.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000001|It was a sad day for the Israelites.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000002|They were badly beaten and Saul's sons were killed.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000004|Saul was overcome with sorrow.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000005|He threw himself upon his sword and died by his own hand.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000060_000001|He mourned bitterly over the death of Jonathan.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000060_000002|But this could not be helped now, and there was much work to do for his people.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000000|"The Israelites were in a pitiful state.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000001|The Philistines had most of the country in their power.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000002|A leader was needed.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000003|That leader was at hand.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000004|It was David, the hero, the Sweet Singer.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000062_000001|'How brave he is!' all cried.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000063_000001|At first, he lived in Hebron, but afterward he went to Jerusalem, where a beautiful palace was built for him and his family.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000063_000002|And now he went on and became great, for the Lord God of hosts was with him."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000064_000000|Rebecca bowed her head as she said these words.
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000065_000001|"It is a good way to end our afternoon."
train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000066_000000|Rebecca began the words of the beautiful twenty third psalm.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000000|In September, mr Young, having accomplished all that he had intended, informed his men that he was going to New Mexico.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000001|The homeward route was through most of the country over which they had previously traveled.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000003|Scattered over various parts of the dominion of Old Mexico are these Peublos, or Indian villages, called so because they are inhabited by Indians who bear that name.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000004|These are the true descendants of the ancient Aztecs, who were once the subjects of the Montezumas.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000005|They are usually a quiet and industrious race, and are most devout in their religious worship, according to the principles, forms, and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000006|They have not failed to inherit the superstition of their forefathers.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000003_000003|Former experience in a similar matter of official duty had taught those Mexicans that the American trappers were men of a peculiarly resolute nature.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000003_000004|Fair and legitimate means were therefore laid aside, and a foul policy adopted.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000002|The treacherous Mexicans, however, continued annoying the commander of the trappers by gratuitously offering the men all the liquor they desired.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000004|They would soon have fallen a complete prey to their enemies, had not a most singular circumstance put the Mexicans to flight.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000005|One of the trappers, named james Higgins, without any provocation and without any excuse, except that he was intoxicated, shot a man named james Lawrence, inflicting a slight wound.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000006|Such conduct so terrified the Mexicans that they took sudden and precipitous leave.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000000|About dark, Young, by urging his half drunken men into a forced march, succeeded in overtaking Carson.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000001|At the first supply of water, they went into camp.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000002|A night of sleep soon set the brains of Young's trappers once more to rights.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000003|The next day the party, most of them sufficiently ashamed of their drunken debauch, commenced with vigor the homeward march.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000004|They continued nine days almost upon their former track, when outward bound.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000005|On the ninth day, they once more stood on the banks of the Colorado River.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000000|While encamped on this stream, a band of five hundred Indians made their appearance and entered the camp.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000001|The rascals professed the greatest friendship for the trappers, but their actions not fully measuring their words, the white men looked to Carson for advice.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000002|He had discovered that beneath their articles of dress their weapons were very carefully concealed; and from this circumstance it became quite clearly apparent the Indians intended to massacre the entire party. Here Carson's boldness proved, as it had before, and did many a time afterwards, the safety of himself and friends or associates.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000003|At the time the Indians entered the camp, Carson, with only a few of the party, occupied it; the rest were out visiting their traps, which it was their general custom to set whenever they arrived at a suitable stream.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000005|He found present among the warriors one who could speak the Spanish language.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000007_000001|Seeing that they would inevitably lose several of their braves if they made any hostile demonstration, they chose the discreet part of best policy, and departed.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000007_000002|As a general rule, no matter what the profit or urgent necessity which chance offers, these Indians will not hazard a contest when, to a certainty, they must expect their own killed will equal the number of scalps which they can obtain.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000007_000003|This rule, and doubtless some fearfulness on the part of the Indians, saved the lives of the entire band.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000008_000003|Not having forgotten their former troubles with these people, they determined to pay them off in their own coin by depriving them of the herd.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000008_000006|The entire herd fell into the possession of the trappers.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000000|On the same evening, after the men had wrapped themselves up in their blankets and laid down for a sleep, and while enjoying their slumbers, a noise reached their ears which sounded very much like distant thunder; but a close application of the sense of hearing showed plainly that an enemy was near at hand.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000001|Springing up, with rifle in hand-for generally in the mountains a man's gun rests in the same blanket with himself on all sleeping occasions-they sallied forth to reconnoitre, and discovered a few warriors driving along a band of at least two hundred horses.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000002|The trappers comprehended instantly that the warriors had been to the Mexican settlements in Sonora on a thieving expedition, and that the horses had changed hands with only one party to the bargain.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000003|The opportunity to instill a lesson on the savage marauders was too good to be lost.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000000|They saluted the thieves with a volley from their rifles, which, with the bullet whizzing about their heads and bodies, so astonished them, that they seemed almost immediately to forget their stolen property, and to think only of a precipitous flight.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000001|In a few moments, the whites found themselves masters of the field, and also of the property.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000002|To return the animals to their owners was an impossibility; mr Young, therefore, selected as many of the best horses as he needed for himself and men, and game being very scarce, killed two and dried most of the meat for future use, turning the remainder loose.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000003|Such either became wild mustangs or fell again into the clutches of the Indians.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000004|The company then renewed their trapping, and continued it up the Gila to a point opposite the copper mines of New Mexico.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000005|Here they left the river and proceeded to the copper mines, where they found mr Robert McKnight engaged in trading with the neighboring Indian tribes. These mines were not then, and ever since have not been, worked.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000006|The holes which had many years before been made by the miners-but who they were is unknown-formed a safe hiding place for their skins.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000007|The stock of beaver was therefore placed under the care of mr McKnight. Young and his men then renewed their march, and in due time arrived safely at Santa Fe.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000008|Here they purchased licenses to trade with the Indians who live about the copper mines.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000010|The deserted mines of New Mexico show incontrovertible signs of having been successfully and extensively worked, at some remote period, for various kinds of metals.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000011|They have proved a knotty historical problem to many an investigating mind; for their authentic history has fallen, and probably will ever remain in oblivion.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000014|The more probable hypothesis, however, is that the Indians themselves, many centuries in the past, were versed to some extent in the art of mining, and carried on the business in these mines; but from indolence or, to them, uselessness of the metals, the work was abandoned, and their descendants failed to obtain the knowledge which their ancestors possessed.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000015|These mines, and those which exist nearer to the large towns, will some day render New Mexico a profitable and rich field for the learned antiquary.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000000|The ruse which mr Young found absolutely necessary to employ, in order to blind the Mexican authorities, succeeded so well, that when the fur arrived at Santa Fe, every one considered the trappers had made a very good trade.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000001|The amount of beaver thus brought in amounted to two thousand pounds.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000002|The market price was twelve dollars the pound. The proceeds, therefore, of the entire trip were nearly twenty four thousand dollars.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000004|It was during the month of April, eighteen thirty, that mr Young's party again reached the town of Taos.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000005|Here they disbanded, having completed their enterprise.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000006|Like as Jack, when he returns from his battles with old ocean, having a pocket well lined with hard earnings, fails not to plunge into excess, with the determination to make up for the pleasure lost by years of toil, the brave mountaineers courted merrymaking.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000007|From their own accounts, they passed a short time gloriously.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000009|These hardy trappers, like reliable old salts, proved to be as true to the bowl as they had been to their steel; for, most of the party, in a very brief space of time, were penniless and ready to be fitted out for another expedition.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000010|Young Kit, at this period of his life, imitated the example set by his elders, for he wished to be considered by them as an equal and a friend.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000011|He, however, passed through this terrible ordeal, which most frequently ruins its votary, and eventually came out brighter, clearer and more noble for the conscience polish which he received.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000012|He contracted no bad habits, but learned the usefulness and happiness of resisting temptation, and became so well schooled that he was able, by the caution and advice of wisdom founded on experience, to prevent many a promising and skillful hand from grasping ruin in the same vortex.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000000|The scenes of pleasure lasted until the fall of eighteen thirty.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000001|Kit then joined his second trapping expedition.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000002|This band had been formed for the purpose of trapping the principal streams of the Rocky Mountains.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000003|mr Fitzpatrick, a trapper well known and respected by the mountaineers, had charge of the party.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000004|He was, at that time, well acquainted by experience with the Rocky Mountains, and has, since then, gained an enviable fame as an Indian Agent.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000006|From here they worked on until they reached the Green River.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000007|Hence they journeyed to Jackson's Hole, which is a fork of the Great Columbia River.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000008|After making a short stay at this point they started for the Salmon River.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000009|Here they were joined by a band of their own party, who had left Taos some days in advance of the main body, and for whom they were then hunting.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000010|The whole party, as now organized, remained where they were throughout the winter of eighteen thirty and eighteen thirty one, employed in killing only the amount of game necessary for their sustenance.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000011|An unfortunate affair here happened to them.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000013|In April of eighteen thirty one, they recommenced trapping, shaping their course for Bear River.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000014|This is the principal stream that empties into GREAT SALT LAKE.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000016|Kit Carson and four of his companions determined to join him.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000017|For this purpose they started, and, after ten days of steady travel, found his party.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000000|There are two of these natural Parks in the Rocky Mountains.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000002|As their names imply, they are fair natural examples of the manufactured parks of civilization.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000003|In some things nature has lavished upon them charms and beauties which no human skill can imitate.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000005|Kit and his companions were graciously received by Gaunt; and, with him they trapped the streams in the vicinity of the New Park and the plains of Laramie to the South fork of the Platte.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000006|Having finished here, they left for the Arkansas, remaining there while their captain went to Taos to dispose of their stock of furs and to make such purchases of necessaries as the men required.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000007|Gaunt returned after an absence of two months; when, trapping operations were resumed on the Arkansas River, which they trapped until it froze over.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000008|The party then went into Winter Quarters.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000014_000000|The business of trapping for beaver is no child's play.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000014_000001|A person unaccustomed to it may possibly look upon it as no very difficult task.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000014_000002|A single trial is usually sufficient to satisfy the uninitiated on this point; for, the beaver, above all other wild animals of America is endowed with an extraordinary amount of instinct.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000016_000000|During the winter the trappers had many very pleasant times, for they had little work beyond the task of making themselves comfortable. The snow fell to a great depth, which proved rather hard for their animals.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000016_000001|By dint of cutting down cottonwood trees and gathering the bark and branches for fodder, they managed to prevent them from dying of starvation.
train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000016_000002|The buffalo existed about there in great abundance; and, early in the winter, they had taken the precaution to kill and prepare a large supply of this kind of game, while it was in good condition.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000000|In the month of January, the daily routine of their lives was rather unpleasantly disturbed.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000001|A party of fifty Crow Indians made an unfriendly visit to their camp on one very dark night.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000002|They succeeded in stealing nine of their loose animals, with which they escaped unperceived.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000004|Kit Carson, with twelve of his companions, immediately saddled their horses and started in pursuit.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000005|It was very difficult to follow the trail of the Indians from the fact that many herds of buffalo had crossed and repeatedly recrossed it during the night, making the tracks very indistinct.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000006|Having traveled forty miles, their horses, which were very poor in flesh, became fatigued, causing them to think of making a halt.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000008|With this object in view they traveled towards some timber which was near by.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000009|On arriving at the woods, the advance of the party, to their surprise and not less to their satisfaction, discovered the smoke of their enemies' fires.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000011|Their first care was to secure and provide for their animals.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000012|The second was to prepare their arms.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000013|As soon as it would do for them to move, they started, eager for the strife.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000015|Their movements were made slowly and with great care in order not to alarm the savages.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000016|Having obtained a position close enough to observe the strength of their enemies, they stopped to reconnoitre.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000017|The men then crept for a long distance on their hands and knees until finally they obtained a full view of the Indians, which showed them that the savages had erected two rough forts and that they were now divided into two parties.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000018|A dance was in progress in honor of the robbery so recently perpetrated, which proved conclusively, that they were without even a suspicion of danger.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000019|Just outside one of the forts, the nine stolen animals were securely tied.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000020|This sight did not tend to allay the wrath of the trappers.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000021|They resolved that come what might the attempt to regain their property and punish the Indians should be made notwithstanding their strength.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000022|To insure success in spite of their weakness, they determined to conceal themselves and wait quietly until the Indians had lain down for sleep.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000023|During this time of suspense the trappers were subjected to great suffering for the weather was intensely cold and they possessed but a scanty allowance of clothing fit for such work.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000024|But as there is an end to all things, there was an end to the dance and other festivities and the savages sought their rest.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000025|At last the time for action arrived.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000026|Kit Carson and five of his companions commenced crawling towards the stolen horses, which, on reaching, were easily set free by cutting their halters.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000027|They then threw snow balls at them and by this means drove them away without disturbing the sleeping Indians.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000030|The remainder, those who had lost no animals, wanted satisfaction for the trouble and hardship they had undergone while in pursuit of the thieves. Kit Carson and two others composed this latter party and thus were determined to punish the thieves, let the consequences of the attempt be ever so fatal.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000031|The more peaceful party, seeing this earnestness, could not do otherwise than lend their aid in the fight and cheerfully did so.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000002_000000|There always existed such a feeling of brotherly love among the old trappers of the Rocky Mountains, that the hour of peril was never the hour for separation or desertion.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000002_000001|This instance affords a fair example how the minority could easily rule the majority when the minority held to the side of danger.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000002_000002|The whole band were now unanimous in favor of the attack.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000000|Kit Carson, who had from the first acted as captain, ordered three men to take the recovered animals back to where they had secured their saddle horses.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000001|Then, with his comrades, he marched directly for the Indian camp.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000003|As soon as the occupants of the fort heard the noise they sprang to their feet, and thus became fair marks for the unerring rifles of the trappers.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000004|The whites did not throw away a single shot; every ball struck a warrior in some vital spot.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000005|Those who survived retreated to the fort occupied by their friends, and, as soon as possible, commenced returning the fire; but without execution, as the trappers, on discharging their first volley, had well concealed themselves behind trees, from whence they were shooting only when sure of an object.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000006|It was now nearly daybreak; and as the savages discovered the weakness of the attacking party, they resolved to charge, feeling sure of success.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000009|The remainder immediately retreated into the fort.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000000|After considerable deliberation, the Indians decided once more to make a sortie.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000001|On they came, and this time with such determination that the trappers could not withstand the assault, but were compelled to retreat.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000002|They disputed, however, every inch of ground over which they trod, as they fell back from one tree to another, continually making their bullets tell with terrible effect on their foes.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000004|They had heard the incessant firing and had become convinced that the fight was hotly contested and that their services were required.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000005|On their joining, the whole party resolved to make one more stand, and as soon as the Indians saw this, they wavered and finally drew off.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000006|Both sides had now, seemingly, had enough of fighting, and hostilities soon after entirely ceased, the savages marching back and leaving the whites masters of the field. Several of the trappers were slightly, but none dangerously, wounded. The Indians had paid dearly, in numbers killed, for their rascality. Finding the coast clear, Carson and his men set out and soon rejoined their comrades on the Arkansas River.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000000|While on the south fork of the Platte, two of the party deserted, taking with them three of their best animals.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000001|Suspecting their design, Gaunt sent Kit Carson and another man in pursuit of the fugitives, who had one day the start.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000002|As was suspected, the two deserters had gone to the camp where the beaver fur was concealed and buried.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000003|They had succeeded in digging it up and stealing about three hundred pounds of this valuable property, belonging to the company in general, share and share alike.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000004|Carson and his companion failed entirely in their efforts to find the two men.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000006|It is probable that they were killed by Indians, a fate which they, at least, richly merited.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000000|This old camp, the reader will please bear in mind, was on the Arkansas River.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000002|As has also been seen, they were unsuccessful.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000003|It now remained for them to determine their future course.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000004|The country was so infested with hostile Indians that it made their position, thus alone, very precarious.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000005|To regain their commander's company was almost impracticable; at least, without a more important object to make the risk necessary, it was a foolhardy attempt.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000006|Time in learning the loss was of no great importance either to their leader or their party. Sooner or later this, as a matter of course, would be fully shown.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000007|Kit and his comrade, therefore, determined to remain where they were, in the old camp; and, to this end, immediately arranged everything so that they could make a successful defence in case they should be attacked by the savages.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000008|They did not dare to venture out far from their fortifications; but, this was no great trial to them, as game existed in great plenty and came very near their fortifications.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000009|While one slept, the other stood on guard.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000010|It was their intention to await the return of their party; but, at the expiration of one month, they were quite happily relieved from their perilous position.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000011|mr Blackwell, mr Gaunt's partner, arrived from the United States.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000012|He was accompanied by fifteen men, and brought with him a complete outfit for the entire band.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000013|Kit and his comrade had been expecting and were anxiously looking for this party.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000014|They were also made quite happy in obtaining the articles of outfit which would render their wild life more agreeable and easy.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000015|Shortly after this arrival, four men from the trapping party came into camp and brought the news as to the whereabouts of Gaunt and his men.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000000|These Springs form the head waters of the south fork of the River Platte.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000001|When four days' journey had been accomplished, and while they were partaking of their breakfast in camp, an alarm of Indians was given by one of the men.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000002|He had accidentally discovered the red skin rascals as they were prowling about the camp.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000003|A rush was instantly made by the trappers, with rifles in hand, to save their horses. Shots were fired and one Indian fell.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000004|The rest of the band made off as empty handed as they came, with one exception.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000005|One brave had succeeded in capturing and mounting a horse before the white men could reach him.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000007|On the contrary, he galloped off; seemingly, quite proud of his trophy.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000000|[Footnote four: These stampedes are a source of great profit to the Indians of the Plains.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000002|The Camanches are particularly expert and daring in this kind of robbery.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000004|When a camp is made which is nearly in range they turn their trained animals loose, who at once fly across the plain, penetrating and passing through the camp of their victims.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000005|All of the picketed animals will endeavor to follow, and usually succeed in following, the trained horses.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000006|Such are invariably led into the haunts of the thieves, who easily secure them. Young horses and mules are easily frightened; and, in the havoc which generally ensues, oftentimes great injury is done to the runaways themselves.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000007|The sight of a stampede on a grand scale requires steady nerves to witness without tremor; and, woe to the footman who cannot get out of the way when the frightened animals come along.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000009|Such, most frequently, is the fate of stampeded horses which have been bred in the States, not being trained by a prairie life experience to take care of themselves.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000010|Instead of bravely stopping and fighting off the wolves, they run.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000011|The whole pack are sure to leave the bolder animals and make for the runaways, which they seldom fail to overtake and dispatch.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000010_000001|This animal seldom fails to frighten the remainder, when away they all go with long ropes and picket pins dangling after them.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000010_000003|At other times, the limbs of the running horses get entangled in the ropes, when they are suddenly thrown.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000010_000004|Such seldom escape without broken legs or severe contusions, which are often incurable.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000001|The experience of the day, however, had admonished them to be on their guard against surprise.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000002|To make things sure as to their animals, they fastened them to stakes driven in the earth, sufficient rope being given them for grazing.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000004|There are many of these charming little brooks which, emptying into, form this river. To the general traveler, however, they present one great drawback as eligible camping sites.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000005|Their banks are usually pretty thickly lined with rattlesnakes.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000007|Not so however with the mere visitor of, or casual traveller over, the Western Territories.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000008|To them his rattlesnake ship is a formidable personage.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000000|The rattlesnake rarely moves after sunset.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000001|The night air is generally too chilling for him.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000002|In the day time they are a noble enemy, always warning their antagonist of their hostile intentions by springing their rattles, thus giving a person warning of his danger.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000003|By these two wise provisions of the Creator the power of this otherwise terrible reptile, is so limited or restrained, that the trapper rarely gives him a thought unless he comes in direct contact.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000004|Although they are so numerous, it very seldom happens that either the Indian or the trapper is bitten by them.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000000|The party had not been long at rest before their suspicions were aroused that hostile Indians were near them.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000001|A faithful dog belonging to the camp kept up a furious barking, much more lustily than when wolves annoyed him.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000002|An extra guard was therefore immediately posted, when the remainder of the party lay down; but, not for sleep.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000003|They expected at every moment that their services would be needed to defend the camp.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000004|Everything however passed as usual during the night; and, with the morning, all suspicion was laid aside.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000005|Kit Carson, with three companions, proposed a visit to a fork of a river close by, to look for signs of beaver.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000006|They had been informed that these animals were numerous in this particular stream.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000008|The rascals succeeded in running off all of their loose animals.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000014_000002|A sharp skirmish ensued in which one of the warriors was killed, when the remainder fled, leaving the property once more in the hands of its rightful owners. The men however did not come off entirely safe.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000014_000003|One of them received a very severe wound; which, eventually, gave him considerable difficulty; but from the effects of which he finally recovered.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000000|Kit and his companions in the mean time, in order to reach their destination, found it necessary, unless they should take a long and circuitous route, to cross one of those lofty peaks for which the Rocky Mountains are so famous.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000001|The ascent was however commenced and successfully accomplished; but, not without labor and an occasional resting place being sought for breathing their animals.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000002|In due time, they reached the desired stream; but, the beaver signs did not appear. Finding their errand had proved entirely useless, they started to return into camp.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000003|Experience had taught them that the longest way round was, in this case, the quickest way home.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000004|Taking therefore a circuitous route, they avoided recrossing the lofty mountain peak already alluded to.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000005|As they were riding carelessly homeward, beguiling the time with anecdote and remark upon their future prospects, the scenery around them, with an occasional sight at some kind of game, what should appear ahead of them but four Indian warriors, remarkably well mounted, painted and decked with feathers, showing, conclusively, that they were out upon the war path.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000001|The bullets from the rifles of the Indians flew about their ears thick and fast, for a heavy fire was opened upon them, as they passed, and incessantly kept up until they were out of their reach.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000002|The trappers did not return a shot.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000003|It would not have been according to their custom.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000005|There is nothing they so much dread as being left on foot with an empty gun and no time to load, when perhaps a single shot might change defeat into victory; sure captivity into freedom, or a dead companion into a laughing, jolly and lovable help mate, ready for setting a trap or to engage in the next bloody skirmish.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000006|This must inevitably happen if, after the rider has fired, among the score or so of passing bullets, one of them, perchance, took a peculiar fancy for a vital organ of his horse.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000009|For some unaccountable reason the savages did not give chase.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000000|As soon as Carson and his comrades had got out of the reach of the Indians they began to recall the suspicions concerning signs of Indians which their faithful dog had aroused.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000001|Fears for the safety of their companions arose accordingly.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000002|Therefore, giving spurs to their horses they pushed on with vigor to know the worst.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000004|They had already surmised the reason why the Indians had thus set a trap for them.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000005|Having been watching the camp during the night and finding the white men fully on the alert and carefully guarding against any surprise, they had quietly waited until suspicion of their proximity had been entirely laid aside.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000006|The departure of Carson and his companions from camp was doubtless seen by the savages and afforded them a clear proof that the white men had forgotten their fears.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000007|As Kit's departure with the men weakened the camp party the Indians had gathered together sufficient courage to make a bold charge for the coveted plunder.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000009|The attack was skillfully planned and would undoubtedly have succeeded, but for the unexpected daring and promptitude displayed by Kit and his comrades.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000011|Had such a skirmish taken place, nothing beyond an absolute miracle, or change of the laws of nature, could have saved the little band.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000012|Kit and his friends had reason, therefore, to be very thankful for their safety.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000013|They all felt that they had retained their scalps by a very close shave.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000018_000001|In consequence, the whole party was obliged to halt and again go into camp, having accomplished but a very short remove from their savage foes.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000018_000003|However, they succeeded in passing the night without further molestation.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000019_000004|If the poles are long they will act as springs, especially when the wood used is of a kind which has considerable elasticity.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000020_000002|It speaks more than would volumes of mere praise, concerning their character for true manhood.
train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000021_000000|When the wounded men had so far recovered that they could safely proceed, the whole party, now quite strong in its numerical power, as well as skill and mountaineer experience, departed for, and, in due time, arrived at the Old Park.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000002_000000|PART SECOND.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000003_000001|The Origin of Property.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000004_000000|The true form of human society cannot be determined until the following question has been solved:--
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000005_000000|Property not being our natural condition, how did it gain a foothold? Why has the social instinct, so trustworthy among the animals, erred in the case of man?
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000006_000000|I have said that human society is COMPLEX in its nature.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000006_000001|Though this expression is inaccurate, the fact to which it refers is none the less true; namely, the classification of talents and capacities.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000006_000003|Man, by his nature and his instinct, is predestined to society; but his personality, ever varying, is adverse to it.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000007_000001|A society of beasts is a collection of atoms, round, hooked, cubical, or triangular, but always perfectly identical.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000007_000003|The labors which animals perform, whether alone or in society, are exact reproductions of their character.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000007_000004|Just as the swarm of bees is composed of individual bees, alike in nature and equal in value, so the honeycomb is formed of individual cells, constantly and invariably repeated.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000008_000001|In the bee, the will is constant and uniform, because the instinct which guides it is invariable, and constitutes the animal's whole life and nature.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000008_000002|In man, talent varies, and the mind wavers; consequently, his will is multiform and vague.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000008_000003|He seeks society, but dislikes constraint and monotony; he is an imitator, but fond of his own ideas, and passionately in love with his works.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000009_000000|If, like the bees, every man were born possessed of talent, perfect knowledge of certain kinds, and, in a word, an innate acquaintance with the functions he has to perform, but destitute of reflective and reasoning faculties, society would organize itself.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000009_000001|We should see one man plowing a field, another building houses; this one forging metals, that one cutting clothes; and still others storing the products, and superintending their distribution.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000009_000002|Each one, without inquiring as to the object of his labor, and without troubling himself about the extent of his task, would obey orders, bring his product, receive his salary, and would then rest for a time; keeping meanwhile no accounts, envious of nobody, and satisfied with the distributor, who never would be unjust to any one.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000000|But man acquires skill only by observation and experiment.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000001|He reflects, then, since to observe and experiment is to reflect; he reasons, since he cannot help reasoning.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000002|In reflecting, he becomes deluded; in reasoning, he makes mistakes, and, thinking himself right, persists in them.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000003|He is wedded to his opinions; he esteems himself, and despises others.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000004|Consequently, he isolates himself; for he could not submit to the majority without renouncing his will and his reason,--that is, without disowning himself, which is impossible.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000006|A final illustration will make these facts still clearer.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000011_000000|If to the blind but convergent and harmonious instincts of a swarm of bees should be suddenly added reflection and judgment, the little society could not long exist.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000011_000001|In the first place, the bees would not fail to try some new industrial process; for instance, that of making their cells round or square.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000011_000004|Evil would be introduced into the honey producing republic by the power of reflection,--the very faculty which ought to constitute its glory.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000012_000000|Thus, moral evil, or, in this case, disorder in society, is naturally explained by our power of reflection.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000012_000002|Man, in his infancy, is neither criminal nor barbarous, but ignorant and inexperienced.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000013_000001|The difficulty of satisfying these various desires at the same time is the primary cause of the despotism of the will, and the appropriation which results from it.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000013_000002|On the other hand, man always needs a market for his products; unable to compare values of different kinds, he is satisfied to judge approximately, according to his passion and caprice; and he engages in dishonest commerce, which always results in wealth and poverty.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000014_000000|The practice of justice is a science which, when once discovered and diffused, will sooner or later put an end to social disorder, by teaching us our rights and duties.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000015_000000|This progressive and painful education of our instinct, this slow and imperceptible transformation of our spontaneous perceptions into deliberate knowledge, does not take place among the animals, whose instincts remain fixed, and never become enlightened.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000016_000003|But, in man, almost every thing is accomplished by intelligence; and intelligence supplements instinct.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000017_000002|Cuvier: Introduction to the Animal Kingdom.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000018_000000|Intelligence and instinct being common, then, though in different degrees, to animals and man, what is the distinguishing characteristic of the latter?
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000018_000002|This lacks clearness, and requires an explanation.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000019_000000|If we grant intelligence to animals, we must also grant them, in some degree, reflection; for, the first cannot exist without the second, as f Cuvier himself has proved by numerous examples.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000019_000001|But notice that the learned observer defines the kind of reflection which distinguishes us from the animals as the POWER OF CONSIDERING OUR OWN MODIFICATIONS.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000019_000002|This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000020_000000|The intelligence acquired by animals never modifies the operations which they perform by instinct: it is given them only as a provision against unexpected accidents which might disturb these operations.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000021_000005|This fact is one of the most curious and indisputable which philology has observed.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000022_000002|Man esteems only the products of reflection and of reason.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000022_000003|The most wonderful works of instinct are, in his eyes, only lucky GOD SENDS; he reserves the name DISCOVERY-I had almost said creation-for the works of intelligence.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000022_000004|Instinct is the source of passion and enthusiasm; it is intelligence which causes crime and virtue.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000023_000001|He keeps an account of his experience, and preserves the record; so that the race, as well as the individual, becomes more and more intelligent.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000023_000002|The animals do not transmit their knowledge; that which each individual accumulates dies with him.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000025_000000|Thus, evil-or error and its consequences-is the firstborn son of the union of two opposing faculties, instinct and reflection; good, or truth, must inevitably be the second child.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000000|Property, born of the reasoning faculty, intrenches itself behind comparisons.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000001|But, just as reflection and reason are subsequent to spontaneity, observation to sensation, and experience to instinct, so property is subsequent to communism.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000002|Communism-or association in a simple form-is the necessary object and original aspiration of the social nature, the spontaneous movement by which it manifests and establishes itself.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000003|It is the first phase of human civilization.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000004|In this state of society,--which the jurists have called NEGATIVE COMMUNISM-man draws near to man, and shares with him the fruits of the field and the milk and flesh of animals.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000007|To express this idea by an Hegelian formula, I will say:
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000000|Communism-the first expression of the social nature-is the first term of social development,--the THESIS; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term,--the ANTITHESIS.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000001|When we have discovered the third term, the SYNTHESIS, we shall have the required solution.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000003|Therefore it is necessary, by a final examination of their characteristics, to eliminate those features which are hostile to sociability.
train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000004|The union of the two remainders will give us the true form of human association.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000002_000000|WHAT IS PROPERTY?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000002_000001|SECOND MEMOIR
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000005_000000|PARIS, april first eighteen forty one.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000006_000000|MONSIEUR,--
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000007_000002|Any one who, wishing to publish a treatise upon the constitution of the country, could not satisfy this threefold condition, would be obliged to procure the endorsement of a responsible patron possessing the requisite qualifications.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000000|But we Frenchmen have the liberty of the press.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000001|This grand right-the sword of thought, which elevates the virtuous citizen to the rank of legislator, and makes the malicious citizen an agent of discord-frees us from all preliminary responsibility to the law; but it does not release us from our internal obligation to render a public account of our sentiments and thoughts.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000002|I have used, in all its fulness, and concerning an important question, the right which the charter grants us.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000004|You have criticised in a kindly spirit-I had almost said with partiality for the writer-a work which teaches a doctrine that you thought it your duty to condemn.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000010_000001|Poets have sung of it in their hymns; philosophers have dreamed of it in their Utopias; priests teach it, but only for the spiritual world.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000011_000000|Like a stone thrown into a mass of serpents, the First Memoir on Property excited intense animosity, and aroused the passions of many. But, while some wished the author and his work to be publicly denounced, others found in them simply the solution of the fundamental problems of society; a few even basing evil speculations upon the new light which they had obtained.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000011_000001|It was not to be expected that a system of inductions abstractly gathered together, and still more abstractly expressed, would be understood with equal accuracy in its ensemble and in each of its parts.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000012_000001|But it is not my purpose here to pass upon the theory of the right of possession.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000000|A flagrant violation of the right of property.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000002|Naboth, and the miller of Sans Souci, would have protested against French law, as they protested against the caprice of their kings.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000003|"It is the field of our fathers," they would have cried, "and we will not sell it!" Among the ancients, the refusal of the individual limited the powers of the State.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000006|Man leaves his imprint, stamps his character, upon the objects of his handiwork. This plastic force of man, as the modern jurists say, is the seal which, set upon matter, makes it holy.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000009|Soon, in the name of public utility, methods of cultivation and conditions of enjoyment will be prescribed; inspectors of agriculture and manufactures will be appointed; property will be taken away from unskilful hands, and entrusted to laborers who are more deserving of it; and a general superintendence of production will be established.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000010|It is not two years since I saw a proprietor destroy a forest more than five hundred acres in extent.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000011|If public utility had interfered, that forest-the only one for miles around-would still be standing.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000016_000000|But, it is said, expropriation on the ground of public utility is only an exception which confirms the principle, and bears testimony in favor of the right.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000016_000001|Very well; but from this exception we will pass to another, from that to a third, and so on from exceptions to exceptions, until we have reduced the rule to a pure abstraction.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000017_000000|How many supporters do you think, sir, can be claimed for the project of the conversion of the public funds?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000017_000002|Now, this so-called conversion is an extensive expropriation, and in this case with no indemnity whatever. The public funds are so much real estate, the income from which the proprietor counts upon with perfect safety, and which owes its value to the tacit promise of the government to pay interest upon it at the established rate, until the fund holder applies for redemption.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000018_000000|That such a measure may be justly executed, it must be generalized; that is, the law which provides for it must decree also that interest on sums lent on deposit or on mortgage throughout the realm, as well as house and farm rents, shall be reduced to three per cent.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000018_000002|See! If at the moment of conversion a piece of real estate yields an income of one thousand francs, after the new law takes effect it will yield only six hundred francs.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000019_000001|This last motive seems the most plausible one; for in spite of the clamors of interested parties, and the flagrant violation of certain rights, the public conscience is bound to fulfil its desire, and is no more affected when charged with attacking property, than when listening to the complaints of the bondholders.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000019_000002|In this case, instinctive justice belies legal justice.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000001|Did they leave these two industries to themselves?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000002|The native manufacturer was ruined by the colonist.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000003|To maintain the beet root, the cane had to be taxed.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000004|To protect the property of the one, it became necessary to violate the property of the other.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000005|The most remarkable feature of this business was precisely that to which the least attention was paid; namely, that, in one way or another, property had to be violated.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000006|Did they impose on each industry a proportional tax, so as to preserve a balance in the market?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000007|They created a maximum PRICE for each variety of sugar; and, as this maximum PRICE was not the same, they attacked property in two ways,--on the one hand, interfering with the liberty of trade; on the other, disregarding the equality of proprietors.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000008|Did they suppress the beet root by granting an indemnity to the manufacturer?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000009|They sacrificed the property of the tax payer.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000010|Finally, did they prefer to cultivate the two varieties of sugar at the nation's expense, just as different varieties of tobacco are cultivated?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000011|They abolished, so far as the sugar industry was concerned, the right of property.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000021_000001|For a long time, a revision of the law concerning mortgages was clamored for; a process was demanded, in behalf of all kinds of credit and in the interest of even the debtors themselves, which would render the expropriation of real estate as prompt, as easy, and as effective as that which follows a commercial protest.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000021_000002|The Chamber of Deputies, in the early part of this year, eighteen forty one, discussed this project, and the law was passed almost unanimously.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000021_000003|There is nothing more just, nothing more reasonable, nothing more philosophical apparently, than the motives which gave rise to this reform.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000022_000001|Henceforth, the promptness of expropriation will save him from total ruin.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000022_000005|three.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000023_000000|These arguments, and others besides, you clearly stated, sir, in your first lectures of this academic year.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000024_000002|This certainly is not my plan for the abolition of property.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000024_000003|Far from mobilizing the soil, I would, if possible, immobilize even the functions of pure intelligence, so that society might be the fulfilment of the intentions of Nature, who gave us our first possession, the land.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000001|Under the system of competition which is killing us, and whose necessary expression is a plundering and tyrannical government, the farmer will need always capital in order to repair his losses, and will be forced to contract loans.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000002|Always depending upon the future for the payment of his debts, he will be deceived in his hope, and surprised by maturity.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000004|I address this question to all whom this pitiless Nemesis pursues, and even troubles in their dreams.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000007|Now, the debtor's sentence is irrevocable: he has but a few days of grace.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000027_000000|Lower interest on money!
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000027_000001|But, as we have just seen, that is to limit property.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000027_000005|So the government thinks.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000028_000002|But it is a law of political economy that an increase of production augments the mass of available capital, consequently tends to raise wages, and finally to annihilate interest.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000029_000001|They formed a conspiracy against property! Their law to regulate the labor of children in factories will, without doubt, prevent the manufacturer from compelling a child to labor more than so many hours a day; but it will not force him to increase the pay of the child, nor that of its father.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000029_000003|But to fix their minimum wages is to compel the proprietor, is to force the master to accept his workman as an associate, which interferes with freedom and makes mutual insurance obligatory.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000029_000005|Little by little the government will become manufacturer, commission merchant, and retail dealer.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000030_000000|It will be the sole proprietor.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000031_000001|Even now the legislative power is asked, no longer simply to regulate the government of factories, but to create factories itself.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000033_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000033_000001|TO CHECK THE CONTINUAL EMIGRATION OF LABORERS FROM THE COUNTRY INTO THE CITIES.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000034_000000|But, to keep the peasant in his village, his residence there must be made endurable: to be just to all, the proletaire of the country must be treated as well as the proletaire of the city.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000034_000002|What becomes, during this progressive invasion, of independent cultivation, exclusive domain, property?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000037_000000|I omit, for the sake of brevity, the numerous considerations which the professor adduces in support of what he calls, too modestly in my opinion, his Utopia.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000038_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000000|But, sir, the stoppage of private industry is the result of over production, and insufficient markets.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000001|If, then, production continues in the national workshops, how will the crisis be terminated? Undoubtedly, by the general depreciation of merchandise, and, in the last analysis, by the conversion of private workshops into national workshops.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000002|On the other hand, the government will need capital with which to pay its workmen; now, how will this capital be obtained?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000003|By taxation.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000004|And upon what will the tax be levied?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000005|Upon property.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000007|What, think you, will become, in this fatal circle, of the possibility of profit,--in a word, of property?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000040_000003|make haste to seize this glorious initiative; let the watchwords of equality, uttered from the heights of science and power, be repeated in the midst of the people; let them thrill the breasts of the proletaires, and carry dismay into the ranks of the last representatives of privilege!
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000000|The tendency of society in favor of compelling proprietors to support national workshops and public manufactories is so strong that for several years, under the name of ELECTORAL REFORM, it has been exclusively the question of the day.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000001|What is, after all, this electoral reform which the people grasp at, as if it were a bait, and which so many ambitious persons either call for or denounce?
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000005|Already we have a minister of public works.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000006|National workshops will follow; and soon, as a consequence, the excess of the proprietor's revenue over the workingman's wages will be swallowed up in the coffers of the laborers of the State.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000002|There should be no secrets or reservations from peoples and powers.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000003|He disgraces himself and fails in respect for his fellows, who, in publishing his opinions, employs evasion and cunning.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000004|Before the people act, they need to know the whole truth.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000005|Unhappy he who shall dare to trifle with them!
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000006|For the people are credulous, but they are strong.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000043_000003|There are thousands of documents, even official documents, to prove this, if necessary.
train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000043_000004|For the rest, the present system is only a continuation of the municipal system, which, in the middle ages, sprang up in connection with feudalism,--an oppressive, mischief making system, full of petty passions and base intrigues.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000008_000002|Yet the suggestion attracted Helen, too.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000013_000000|"Here we be!" he croaked.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000014_000000|Mary Cox pulled open the door and the first newcomer popped out as though she had been clinging to the handle when The Fox made the movement.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000020_000001|"We will lead the march."
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000022_000002|We will take you to the office of the Preceptress."
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000034_000000|"Yes!" agreed Sarah Fish, one of the Infants just arrived.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000034_000004|"Two of them came into our room at once-the girl they call The Fox, and Miss Steele.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000034_000006|I don't want either."
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000035_000001|"I think it would be nicer for us Infants, as they call us, to keep together.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000037_000000|"Hear! hear!" cried Miss Fish.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000038_000001|I, for one, want to get into the real school society----"
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000040_000001|It would look silly," cried Helen.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000041_000000|"We won't keep the older girls out of it, if they want to join," laughed Sarah.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000047_000000|Most of the girls laughed at that.
train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000047_000001|And the suggestion of a separate club for the Infants seemed to be well received.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000015_000000|"AUNT HANNAH MOORE."
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000002|If such were her calculations she was greatly mistaken.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000003|For although Aunt Hannah was destitute of book learning she was nevertheless a woman of thought and natural ability, and while she wisely kept her counsel from her mistress she took care to make her wants known to an abolitionist.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000005|The store keeper quickly made known her condition at the Anti slavery Office, and in double quick time j m
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000007|In the eyes of the mistress this procedure was so extraordinary that she became very much excited and for a moment threatened them with the "broomstick," but her raving had no effect on Messrs.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000008|McKim and Wise, who did not rest contented until Aunt Hannah was safely in their hands.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000010|It was prior to her coming into the possession of Moore that Aunt Hannah had been made to drink the bitter waters of oppression.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000011|From this point, therefore, we shall present some of the incidents of her life, from infancy, and very nearly word for word as she related them:
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000000|"Moore bought me from a man named McCaully, who owned me about a year.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000001|I fared dreadful bad under McCaully.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000002|One day in a rage he undertook to beat me with the limb of a cherry tree; he began at me and tried in the first place to snatch my clothes off, but he did not succeed.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000003|After that he beat the cherry tree limb all to pieces over me.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000007|I crept out of doors and throwed up blood; some days I was hardly able to creep. With this beating I was laid up several weeks.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000008|Another time Mistress McCaully got very angry.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000009|One day she beat me as bad as he did.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000010|She was a woman who would get very mad in a minute.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000011|One day she began scolding and said the kitchen wasn't kept clean.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000013|She soon ordered me to come in to her.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000014|I went in as she ordered me; she met me with a mule rope, and ordered me to cross my hands.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000015|I crossed my hands and she tied me to the bedstead.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000019|He said to his wife she has begged and begged and you have whipped her enough.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000021|The little girl was not able to do it; mr McCaully then untied me himself.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000022|Both times that I was beat the blood run down from my head to my feet.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000018_000000|"They wouldn't give you anything to eat hardly.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000018_000003|He could tell all about how he was kidnapped, but could not find anybody to do anything for him, so he had to content himself.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000002|He was afraid I was going to die, or he would lose me, and I would not be of any service to him, so he took and traded me off for a wagon.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000003|I was something better when he traded me off; well enough to be about.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000004|My health remained bad for about four years, and I never got my health until Moore bought me. Moore took me for a debt.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000006|I was not born in Missouri but was born in Virginia.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000007|From my earliest memory I was owned by Conrad Hackler; he lived in Grason County.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000010|Hackler bought me from a man named William Scott.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000011|I must go back by good rights to the beginning and tell all: Scott bought me first from a young man he met one day in the road, with a bundle in his arms.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000012|Scott, wishing to know of the young man what he had in his bundle, was told that he had a baby.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000013|'What are you going to do with it?' said Scott.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000015|Scott offered the young man a horse for it, and the young man took him up.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000016|This is the way I was told that Scott came by me.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000017|I never knowed anything about my mother or father, but I have always believed that my mother was a white woman, and that I was put away to save her character; I have always thought this.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000018|Under Hackler I was treated more like a brute than a human being.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000021|A bed of straw and old rags was made for me in a big trough called the tan trough (a trough having been used for tanning purposes).
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000022|The cats about the place came and slept with me, and was all the company I had.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000023|I had to work with the hoe in the field and help do everything in doors and out in all weathers.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000026|After I growed up to be a woman my master thought nothing of taking my clothes off, and would whip me until the blood would run down to the ground.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000027|After I was twenty five years old they did not treat me so bad; they both professed to get religion about that time; and my master said he would never lay the weight of his finger on me again. Once after that mistress wanted him to whip me, but he didn't do it, nor never whipped me any more.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000028|After awhile my master died; if they had gone according to law I would have been hired out or sold, but my mistress wanted to keep me to carry on the place for her support.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000029|So I was kept for seven or eight years after his death.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000030|It was understood between my mistress, and her children, and her friends, who all met after master died, that I was to take care of mistress, and after mistress died I should not serve anybody else.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000031|I done my best to keep my mistress from suffering.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000032|After a few years they all became dissatisfied, and moved to Missouri.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000034|Without means they lived as poor people commonly live, on small farms in the woods.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000035|I still lived with my mistress.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000036|Some of the heirs got dissatisfied, and sued for their rights or a settlement; then I was sold with my child, a boy."
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000001|The half of what she passed through in the way of suffering has scarcely been hinted at in this sketch.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000002|Fifty seven years were passed in bondage before she reached Philadelphia.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000004|Gillingham's), whose hearts had been in deep sympathy with the slave for many years.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000006|Her mind was deeply imbued with religious feeling, and an unshaken confidence in God as her only trust; she connected herself with the a m e
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000007|Bethel Church, of Philadelphia, where she has walked, blameless and exemplary up to this day.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000008|Probably there is not a member in that large congregation whose simple faith and whose walk and conversation are more commendable than Aunt Hannah's.
train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000011|The name of the recipient of the good Quaker friend's bounty and Aunt Hannah's companion, was Thomas Todd.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000001_000000|CHAPTER eighteen: CANNAE
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000002_000000|As the elephant tore down the road to the town many were the narrow escapes that, as they thought, those coming up had of being crushed or thrown into the air by the angry beast.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000002_000001|Some threw themselves on their faces, others got over the parapet and hung by their hands until he had passed, while some squeezed themselves against the wall; but the elephant passed on without doing harm to any.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000000|On reaching the foot of the descent the mahout guided the animal to the left, and, avoiding the busy streets of the town, directed its course towards the more quiet roads of the opulent quarter of Megara.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000001|The cries of the people at the approach of the elephant preceded its course, and all took refuge in gardens or houses.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000002|The latter became less and less frequent, until, at a distance of two miles from the foot of the citadel, the mahout, on looking round, perceived no one in sight.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000003|He brought the elephant suddenly to a standstill.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000004_000000|"Quick, my lord," he exclaimed, "now is the time."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000005_000000|Malchus threw off the sack, climbed out of the howdah, and slipped down by the elephant's tail, the usual plan for dismounting when an elephant is on its feet.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000006_000000|A minute or two later Malchus issued out and quietly followed it.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000006_000004|The scheme had been entirely successful.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000006_000005|Malchus had escaped from the citadel without the possibility of a suspicion arising that he had issued from its gates, and in his Arab garb he could now traverse the streets unsuspected.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000007_000001|Nessus and the Arab at once returned to the citadel.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000007_000002|It was agreed that the former had better continue his work as usual until the evening, and then ask for his discharge on the plea that he had received a message requiring his presence in his native village, for it was thought that suspicion might be excited were he to leave suddenly without drawing his pay, and possibly a search might be instituted in the city to discover his whereabouts.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000010_000000|"Hanno's faction is all powerful at present," he said, "and were Hannibal himself here I doubt whether his voice could stir the senate into taking action such as is needed.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000010_000002|I think it would be in the highest degree dangerous were we, as you propose, to introduce you suddenly to the senate as Hannibal's ambassador to them, and leave you to plead his cause.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000010_000005|You would, I am convinced, throw away your life for no good purpose, while your presence and your mysterious escape from prison would be made the pretense for a fresh series of persecutions of our partisans.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000011_000000|"To ask Carthage to make these sacrifices in her present mood is hopeless; we must await an opportunity.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000011_000001|I and my friends will prepare the way, will set our agents to work among the people, and when the news of another victory arrives and the people's hopes are aroused and excited, we will strike while the iron is hot, and call upon them to make one great effort to bring the struggle to a conclusion and to finish with Rome forever.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000012_000000|"Such is, in my opinion, the only possible mode of proceeding.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000012_000001|To move now would be to ensure a rejection of our demands, to bring fresh persecutions upon us, and so to weaken us that we should be powerless to turn to good account the opportunity which the news of another great victory would afford.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000013_000000|"In the meantime you must, for a short time, remain in concealment, while I arrange for a ship to carry you back to Italy."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000014_000000|"The sooner the better," Malchus said bitterly, "for Carthage with its hideous tyranny, its foul corruption, its forgetfulness of its glory, its honour, and even its safety, is utterly hateful to me.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000014_000001|I trust that never again shall I set foot within its walls.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000015_000003|She sees unmoved the heroic efforts which Hannibal and his army are making to save her, and she will not stretch out a hand to aid him.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000015_000004|She lives contentedly under the constant tyranny of Hanno's rule, satisfied to be wealthy, luxurious, and slothful, to carry on her trade, to keep her riches, caring nothing for the manly virtues, indifferent to valour, preparing herself slowly and surely to fall an easy prey to Rome.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000016_000001|A nation which can place a mere handful of its own citizens in the line of battle voluntarily dooms herself to destruction."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000017_000000|"Whether it comes in my time or not," Malchus said, "I will be no sharer in the fate of Carthage.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000017_000001|I have done with her; and if I do not fall in the battlefield I will, when the war is over, seek a refuge among the Gauls, where, if the life is rough, it is at least free and independent, where courage and manliness and honour count for much, and where the enervating influence of wealth is as yet unknown.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000018_000000|"I say nothing to dissuade you, Malchus," the old man replied, "such are the natural sentiments of your age; and methinks, were my own time to come over again, I too would choose such a life in preference to an existence in the polluted atmosphere of ungrateful Carthage.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000018_000001|And now, will you stop here with me, or will you return to the place where you are staying?
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000001|Let your follower come nightly to me for instructions; let him enter the gate and remain in the garden near it.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000002|I will come down and see him; his visits, were they known, would excite suspicion.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000003|Bid him on his return watch closely to see that he is not followed, and tell him to go by devious windings and to mix in the thickest crowds in order to throw any one who may be following off his track before he rejoins you.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000005|Come again and see me before you leave.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000006|Here is a bag of gold; you will need it to reward those who have assisted in your escape."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000021_000001|Suddenly Nessus stopped and listened, and then resumed his walk.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000022_000000|"I think we are followed, my lord," he said, "one of Hanno's spies in Manon's household is no doubt seeking to discover who are the Arabs who have paid his master a visit.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000022_000002|When we get to the next turning do you walk on and I will turn down the road.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000022_000003|If the man behind us be honest he will go straight on; if he be a spy, he will hesitate and stop at the corner to decide which of us he shall follow; then I shall know what to do."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000023_000000|Accordingly at the next crossroad they came to Nessus turned down and concealed himself a few paces away, while Malchus, without pausing, walked straight on.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000023_000001|A minute later Nessus saw a dark figure come stealthily along.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000023_000002|He stopped at the junction of the roads and stood for a few seconds in hesitation, then he followed Malchus.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000024_000000|Nessus issued from his hiding place, and, with steps as silent and stealthy as those of a tiger tracking his prey, followed the man.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000024_000001|When within a few paces of him he gave a sudden spring and flung himself upon him, burying his knife between his shoulders.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000024_000003|Nessus coolly wiped his knife upon the garments of the spy, and then proceeded at a rapid pace until he overtook Malchus.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000028_000000|After bidding farewell to the old noble, Malchus returned to the house of the Arab and prepared for his departure.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000028_000002|In the course of the day he had provided himself with the garments of a trader, the character which he was now about to assume.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000030_000001|On the sixth day after leaving Carthage the ship entered the port of Corinth.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000032_000001|We are ready, of course, to pay extra for the trouble."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000033_000003|He asked rather a high price for putting them ashore in a boat as they wished, and Malchus haggled over the sum for a considerable time, as a readiness to pay an exorbitant price might have given rise to doubts in the captain's mind as to the quality of his passengers.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000033_000004|Once or twice he made as if he would go ashore, and the captain at last abated his demands to a reasonable sum.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000035_000002|The Roman army was as before watching him at a short distance off.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000036_000000|Malchus at once sought the tent of the general, whose surprise at seeing him enter was great, for he had not expected that he would return until the spring.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000037_000001|He and his friends will doubtless work quietly to prepare the public mind, and I trust that ere very long some decisive victory will give them the opportunity for exciting a great demonstration on our behalf."
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000039_000000|From first to last, through the long war, there was neither grumbling, nor discontent, nor insubordination among the troops.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000039_000001|They served willingly and cheerfully.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000039_000002|They had absolute confidence in their general, and were willing to undertake the most tremendous labours and to engage in the most arduous conflicts to please him, knowing that he, on his part, was unwearied in promoting their comfort and well being at all other times.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000040_000000|As the spring advanced the great magazines which Hannibal had brought with him became nearly exhausted, and no provisions could be obtained from the surrounding country, which had been completely ruined by the long presence of the two armies.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000040_000002|The romans possessed the great advantage over him of having magazines in their rear constantly replenished by their allies, and move where they might, they were sure of obtaining subsistence without difficulty.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000040_000003|Thus, upon the march, they were unembarrassed by the necessity of taking a great baggage train with them, and, when halted, their general could keep his army together in readiness to strike a blow whenever an opportunity offered; while Hannibal, on the other hand, was forced to scatter a considerable portion of the army in search of provisions.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000000|The annual elections at Rome had just taken place, and Terentius Varro and Emilius Paulus had been chosen consuls.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000002|Varro belonged to the popular party, and is described by the historians of the period as a coarse and brutal demagogue, the son of a butcher, and having himself been a butcher.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000003|But he was unquestionably an able man, and possessed some great qualities.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000004|The praetor Marcellus, who had slain a Gaulish king with his own hand in the last Gaulish war, was at Ostia with a legion.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000044_000000|Hannibal saw the opportunity, and when spring was passing into summer broke up his camp and marched straight to Cannae, where the vast magazines of the romans at once fell into his hands.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000044_000001|He thus not only obtained possession of his enemy's supplies, but interposed between the romans and the low lying district of Southern Apulia, where alone, at, this early season of the year, the corn was fully ripe.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000045_000001|The senate therefore, having largely reinforced the army, ordered the consuls to advance and give battle.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000046_000004|Varro wished to march against the enemy without delay, while Emilius was adverse to risking an engagement in a country which, being level and open, was favourable to the action of Hannibal's superior cavalry.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000047_000000|On the following day Varro, whose turn it was to command, marched towards the hostile camp.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000047_000001|Hannibal attacked the Roman advanced guard with his cavalry and light infantry, but Varro had supported his cavalry not only by his light troops, but by a strong body of his heavy armed infantry, and after an engagement, which lasted for several hours, he repulsed the Carthaginians with considerable loss.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000048_000001|The next morning Emilius, who was in command, detached a third of his force across the river, and encamped them there for the purpose of supporting the Roman foraging parties on that side and of interrupting those of the Carthaginians.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000049_000000|The next day passed quietly, but on the following morning Hannibal quitted his camp and formed his army in order of battle to tempt the romans to attack; but Emilius, sensible that the ground was against him, would not move, but contented himself with further strengthening his camps.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000049_000001|Hannibal, seeing that the romans would not fight, detached his Numidian cavalry across the river to cut off the Roman foraging parties and to surround and harass their smaller camp on that side of the river.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000050_000000|By thus doing he obtained a position which he could the better hold with his inferior forces, while the romans, deeming that he intended to attack their camp on that side of the river, would be likely to move their whole army across and to give battle.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000050_000001|This in fact Varro proceeded to do.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000000|This had been skillfully chosen.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000001|The river, whose general course was east and west, made a loop, and across this Hannibal had drawn up his army with both wings resting upon the river.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000002|Thus the romans could not outflank him, and the effect of their vastly superior numbers in infantry would to some extent be neutralized.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000003|The following was the disposition of his troops.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000052_000000|The Spaniards and Gauls occupied the centre of the line of infantry.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000052_000001|The Africans formed the two wings.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000053_000000|Varro placed his infantry in close and heavy order, so as to reduce their front to that of the Carthaginians.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000053_000001|The Roman cavalry, numbering two thousand four hundred men, was on his right wing, and was thus opposed to Hannibal's heavy cavalry, eight thousand strong.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000054_000000|Emilius commanded the Roman right, Varro the left.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000054_000003|While this contest was going on, Hannibal advanced his centre so as to form a salient angle projecting in front of his line.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000055_000000|The latter were instantly overthrown, and were driven from the field with great slaughter.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000055_000002|While the Carthaginian heavy horse were thus defeating the Roman cavalry, the Numidians maneuvered near the greatly superior cavalry of the Italian allies, and kept them occupied until the heavy horse, after destroying the Roman cavalry, swept round behind their infantry and fell upon the rear of the Italian horse, while the Numidians charged them fiercely in front.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000056_000000|Thus caught in a trap the Italian horse were completely annihilated, and so, before the heavy infantry of the two armies met each other, not a Roman cavalry soldier remained alive and unwounded on the field.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000057_000001|These resisted with great obstinacy.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000057_000002|The principes, who formed the second line of the Roman infantry, came forward and joined the spearmen, and even the triarii pressed forward and joined in the fight.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000057_000003|Fighting with extreme obstinacy the Carthaginian centre was forced gradually back until they were again in a line with the Africans on their flanks.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000002|This was the moment for which Hannibal had waited.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000003|He wheeled round both his flanks, and the Africans, who had hitherto not struck a blow, now fell in perfect order upon the flanks of the Roman mass, while Hasdrubal with his victorious cavalry charged down like a torrent upon their rear.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000004|Then followed a slaughter unequalled in the records of history.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000005|Unable to open out, to fight, or to fly, with no quarter asked or given, the romans and their Latin allies fell before the swords of their enemies, till, of the seventy thousand infantry which had advanced to the fight, forty thousand had fallen on the field.
train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000007|All the troops in both camps were forced to surrender on the following morning, and thus only fifteen thousand scattered fugitives escaped of the eighty seven thousand two hundred infantry and cavalry under the command of the Roman consuls.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000002_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000005_000001|Duration, time, and eternity, are, not without reason, thought to have something very abstruse in their nature.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000006_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000006_000001|Nature and origin of the idea of Duration.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000007_000000|To understand TIME and ETERNITY aright, we ought with attention to consider what idea it is we have of DURATION, and how we came by it.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000010_000000|five.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000010_000001|The Idea of Duration applicable to Things whilst we sleep.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000011_000002|But if Adam and Eve, (when they were alone in the world,) instead of their ordinary night's sleep, had passed the whole twenty four hours in one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty four hours had been irrecoverably lost to them, and been for ever left out of their account of time.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000012_000000|six.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000014_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000014_000001|Very slow motions unperceived.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000016_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000016_000001|Very swift motions unperceived.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000018_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000019_000000|Hence I leave it to others to judge, whether it be not probable that our ideas do, whilst we are awake, succeed one another in our minds at certain distances; not much unlike the images in the inside of a lantern, turned round by the heat of a candle.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000020_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000020_000001|Real succession in swift motions without sense of succession.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000022_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000022_000001|In slow motions.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000024_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000026_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000028_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000028_000001|Proof.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000030_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000034_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000035_000001|This consideration of duration, as set out by certain periods and marked by certain measures or epochs, is that, I think, which most properly we call TIME.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000036_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000037_000004|'Before all time,' and 'When time shall be no more.'
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000038_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000038_000001|The Revolutions of the Sun and Moon, the properest Measures of Time for mankind.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000000_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000000_000001|But not by their Motion, but periodical Appearances.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000002_000001|No two Parts of Duration can be certainly known to be equal.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000003_000002|These yet, by their presumed and apparent equality, serve as well to reckon time by (though not to measure the parts of duration exactly) as if they could be proved to be exactly equal.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000004_000001|Time not the Measure of Motion
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000006_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000007_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000007_000001|Our Measure of Time applicable to Duration before Time.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000009_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000011_000000|twenty six.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000013_000000|twenty seven.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000013_000001|Eternity.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000015_000000|twenty eight.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000017_000000|twenty nine.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000019_000000|thirty.
train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000021_000000|thirty one.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000007_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000008_000000|IDEAS OF DURATION AND EXPANSION, CONSIDERED TOGETHER.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000009_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000011_000001|Expansion not bounded by Matter.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000014_000000|Just so is it in duration.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000017_000000|five.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000017_000001|Time to Duration is as Place to Expansion.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000019_000000|six.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000022_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000024_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000024_000001|They belong to all finite beings.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000026_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000028_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000028_000001|Their Parts inseparable.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000032_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000033_000005|Finite or any magnitude holds not any proportion to infinite.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000007_000001|The cord didn't wind around the Pinkie, as he was too far off, but the weight hit him in the eye and made him howl lustily as he trotted back to his comrades at full speed.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000007_000002|After this experience the invaders were careful to keep a safe distance from the wall.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000008_000000|The Boolooroo, having made all preparations to receive the enemy, was annoyed because they held back.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000008_000001|He was himself so nervous and excited that he became desperate and after an hour of tedious waiting, during which time he pranced around impatiently, he decided to attack the hated Pinkies and rid the country of them.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000009_000000|"Their dreadful color makes me hysterical," he said to his soldiers, "so if I am to have any peace of mind we must charge the foe and drive them back into the Fog Bank.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000009_000001|But take all the prisoners you can, my brave men, and to morrow we will have a jolly time patching them.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000009_000002|Don't be afraid; those pink creatures have no blue blood in their veins and they'll run like rabbits when they see us coming."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000010_000000|Then he ordered the gate thrown open and immediately the Blueskins poured out into the open plain and began to run toward the Pinkies.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000010_000001|The Boolooroo went out, too, but he kept well behind his people, remembering the sharp sticks with which the enemy were armed.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000001|The Pinkies did not run like rabbits, but formed a solid line and knelt down with their long, sharp sticks pointed directly toward the Blueskins, the other ends being set firmly upon the ground.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000002|Of course the Blueskins couldn't run against these sharp points, so they halted a few feet away and began to swing their cord and weights.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000004|The Blueskins hesitated until a few got pricked and began to yell with terror, when the whole of the Boolooroo's attacking party turned and ran back to the gate, their Ruler reaching it first of all.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000005|The Pinkies tried to chase them, but their round, fat legs were no match for the long, thin legs of the Blueskins, who quickly gained the gate and shut themselves up in the City again.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000012_000000|"It is evident," panted the Boolooroo, facing his defeated soldiers wrathfully, "that you are a pack of cowards!"
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000014_000000|"I merely ran back to the City to get a drink of water, for I was thirsty," declared the Boolooroo.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000015_000000|"So did we!
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000015_000001|So did we!" cried the soldiers, eagerly.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000015_000002|"We were all thirsty."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000016_000000|"Your High and Mighty Spry and Flighty Majesty," remarked the Captain, respectfully, "it occurs to me that the weapons of the Pinkies are superior to our own.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000016_000001|What we need, in order to oppose them successfully, is a number of sharp sticks which are longer than their own."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000017_000000|"True-true!" exclaimed the Boolooroo, enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000017_000001|"Get to work at once and make yourselves long sharp sticks, and then we will attack the enemy again."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000018_000000|So the soldiers and citizens all set to work preparing long sharp sticks, and while they were doing this Rosalie the Witch had a vision in which she saw exactly what was going on inside the City wall.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000018_000001|Queen Trot and Cap'n Bill and Button Bright saw the vision, too, for they were all in the tent together, and the sight made them anxious.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000019_000000|"What can be done?" asked the girl.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000019_000001|"The Blueskins are bigger and stronger than the Pinkies, and if they have sharp sticks which are longer than ours they will surely defeat us."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000020_000000|"I have one magic charm," said Rosalie, thoughtfully, "that will save our army; but I am allowed to work only one magic charm every three days-not oftener-and perhaps I'll need the magic for other things."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000021_000000|"Strikes me, ma'am," returned the sailor, "that what we need most on this expedition is to capture the Blueskins.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000021_000001|If we don't, we'll need plenty of magic to help us back to the Pink Country; but if we do, we can take care of ourselves without magic."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000022_000000|"Very well," replied Rosalie; "I will take your advice, Cap'n, and enchant the weapons of the Pinkies."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000023_000000|She then went out and had all the Pinkies come before her, one by one, and she enchanted their sharp sticks by muttering some cabalistic words and making queer passes with her hands over the weapons.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000024_000000|"Now," she said to them, "you will be powerful enough to defeat the Blueskins, whatever they may do."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000025_000000|The Pinkies were overjoyed at this promise and it made them very brave indeed, since they now believed they would surely be victorious.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000026_000001|Their sticks were twice as long as those of the Pinkies and the Boolooroo chuckled with glee to think what fun they would have in punching holes in the round, fat bodies of his enemies.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000000|Out from the gate they marched very boldly and pressed on to attack the Pinkies, who were drawn up in line of battle to receive them, with Cap'n Bill at their head.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000001|When the opposing forces came together, however, and the Blueskins pushed their points against the Pinkies, the weapons which had been enchanted by Rosalie began to whirl in swift circles-so swift that the eye could scarcely follow the motion.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000002|The result was that the lances of the Boolooroo's people could not touch the Pinkies, but were thrust aside with violence and either broken in two or sent hurling through the air in all directions.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000003|Finding themselves so suddenly disarmed, the amazed Blueskins turned about and ran again, while Cap'n Bill, greatly excited by his victory, shouted to his followers to pursue the enemy, and hobbled after them as fast as he could make his wooden leg go, swinging his sharp stick as he advanced.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000028_000000|The Blues were in such a frightened, confused mass that they got in one another's way and could not make very good progress on the retreat, so the old sailor soon caught up with them and began jabbing at the crowd with his stick.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000028_000001|Unfortunately the Pinkies had not followed their commander, being for the moment dazed by their success, so that Cap'n Bill was all alone among the Blueskins when he stepped his wooden leg into a hole in the ground and tumbled full length, his sharp stick flying from his hand and pricking the Boolooroo in the leg as it fell.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000029_000000|At this the Ruler of the Blues stopped short in his flight to yell with terror, but seeing that only the sailorman was pursuing them and that this solitary foe had tumbled flat upon the ground, he issued a command and several of his people fell upon poor Cap'n Bill, seized him in their long arms and carried him struggling into the City, where he was fast bound.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000030_000000|Then a panic fell upon the Pinkies at the loss of their leader, and Trot and Button Bright called out in vain for them to rescue Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000030_000001|By the time the army recovered their wits and prepared to obey, it was too late.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000030_000002|And, although Trot ran with them, in her eagerness to save her friend, the gate was found to be fast barred and she knew it was impossible for them to force an entrance into the City.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000031_000000|So she went sorrowfully back to the camp, followed by the Pinkies, and asked Rosalie what could be done.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000032_000000|"I'm sure I do not know," replied the Witch.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000033_000000|"Three days is a long time," remarked Trot, dismally.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000034_000000|"The Boolooroo may decide to patch him at once," added Button Bright, with equal sadness, for he too mourned the sailor's loss.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000035_000001|"I am not a fairy, my dears, but merely a witch, and so my magic powers are limited.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000035_000002|We can only hope that the Boolooroo won't patch Cap'n Bill for three days."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000001|The band tried to enliven them by playing the "Dead March," but it was not a success.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000002|The Pinkies were despondent in spite of the fact that they had repulsed the attack of the Blues, for as yet they had not succeeded in gaining the City or finding the Magic Umbrella, and the blue dusk of this dread country-which was so different from their own land of sunsets-made them all very nervous.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000003|They saw the moon rise for the first time in their lives, and its cold, silvery radiance made them shudder and prevented them from going to sleep.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000004|Trot tried to interest them by telling them that on the Earth the people had both the sun and the moon, and loved them both; but nevertheless it is certain that had not the terrible Fog Bank stood between them and the Pink Land most of the invading army would have promptly deserted and gone back home.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000038_000000|Trot couldn't sleep, either, she was so worried over Cap'n Bill.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000039_000000|"We can make a rope ladder that will enable you to climb to the top of the wall, and then you can lower it to the other side and descend into the City.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000039_000001|But, if anyone should see you, you would be captured."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000040_000000|"I'll risk that," said the child, excited at the prospect of gaining the side of Cap'n Bill in this adventurous way.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000040_000001|"Please make the rope ladder at once, Rosalie!"
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000041_000000|So the Witch took some ropes and knotted together a ladder long enough to reach to the top of the wall.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000041_000001|When it was finished, the three-Rosalie, Trot and Button Bright-stole out into the moonlight and crept unobserved into the shadow of the wall.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000041_000002|The Blueskins were not keeping a very close watch, as they were confident the Pinkies could not get into the City.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000042_000000|The hardest part of Rosalie's task was to toss up one end of the rope ladder until it would catch on some projection on top of the wall.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000042_000001|There were few such projections, but after creeping along the wall for a distance they saw the end of a broken flagstaff near the top edge.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000042_000002|The Witch tossed up the ladder, trying to catch it upon this point, and on the seventh attempt she succeeded.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000043_000000|"Good!" cried Trot; "now I can climb up."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000044_000000|"Don't you want me to go with you?" asked Button Bright, a little wistfully.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000045_000000|"No," said the girl; "you must stay to lead the army.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000045_000001|And, if you can think of a way, you must try to rescue us.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000045_000002|Perhaps I'll be able to save Cap'n Bill myself; but if I don't it's all up to you, Button Bright."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000046_000000|"I'll do my best," he promised.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000047_000000|"And here-keep my polly till I come back," added Trot, giving him the bird.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000048_000000|As the beautiful Witch kissed the little girl good bye she slipped upon her finger a curious ring.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000048_000001|At once Button Bright exclaimed:
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000049_000000|"Why, where has she gone?"
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000050_000001|"Can't you see me?"
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000051_000000|"No," replied the boy, mystified.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000052_000001|"It's a magic ring I've loaned you, my dear," said she, "and as long as you wear it you will be invisible to all eyes-those of Blueskins and Pinkies alike.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000052_000003|If at any time you wish to be seen, take the ring from your finger; but as long as you wear it, no one can see you-not even Earth people."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000053_000000|"Oh, thank you!" cried Trot.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000053_000001|"That will be fine."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000054_000001|Where did you get it?"
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000055_000000|"The Queen of the Mermaids gave it to me," answered Trot; "but Sky Island is so far away from the sea that the ring won't do me any good while I'm here.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000055_000001|It's only to call the mermaids to me if I need them, and they can't swim in the sky, you see."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000000|Rosalie smiled and kissed her again.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000001|"Be brave, my dear," she said, "and I am sure you will be able to find Cap'n Bill without getting in danger yourself.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000002|But be careful not to let any Blueskin touch you, for while you are in contact with any person you will become visible.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000003|Keep out of their way and you will be perfectly safe.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000004|Don't lose the ring, for you must give it back to me when you return.
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000005|It is one of my witchcraft treasures and I need it in my business."
train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000057_000001|A little way off she found a bluestone seat, near to the inner edge, and attaching the ladder to this she easily descended it and found herself in the Blue City.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000004_000000|All the Blueskins except a few sentries had gone to bed and were sound asleep.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000004_000001|A blue gloom hung over the City, which was scarcely relieved by a few bluish, wavering lights here and there, but Trot knew the general direction in which the palace lay and she decided to go there first.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000005_000000|Once or twice the little girl lost her way, for the streets were very puzzling to one not accustomed to them, but finally she sighted the great palace and went up to the entrance.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000005_000001|There she found a double guard posted.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000005_000002|They were sitting on a bench outside the doorway and both stood up as she approached.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000006_000000|"We thought we heard footsteps," said one.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000008_000001|It was the first time the girl had seen them together and she marveled at the queer patching that had so strongly united them, yet so thoroughly separated them.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000009_000000|"You see," remarked Jimfred, as they seated themselves again upon the bench, "the Boolooroo has ordered the patching to take place to morrow morning after breakfast.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000010_000000|"We're sorry for anyone who has to be patched," replied Fredjim in a reflective tone, "for although it didn't hurt us as much as we expected, it's a terrible mix up to be in-until we become used to our strange combination.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000010_000001|You and we are about alike now, Jimfred, although we were so different before."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000011_000000|"Not so," said Jimfred; "we are really more intelligent than you are, for the left side of our brain was always the keenest before we were patched."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000012_000000|"That may be," admitted Fredjim, "but we are much the strongest, because our right arm was by far the best before we were patched."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000013_000000|"We are not sure of that," responded Jimfred, "for we have a right arm, too, and it is pretty strong."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000014_000000|"We will test it," suggested the other, "by all pulling upon one end of this bench with our right arms.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000000|While they were tussling at the bench, dragging it first here and then there in the trial of strength, Trot opened the door of the palace and walked in.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000001|It was pretty dark in the hall and only a few dim blue lights showed at intervals down the long corridors.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000002|As the girl walked through these passages she could hear snores of various degrees coming from behind some of the closed doors and knew that all the regular inmates of the place were sound asleep.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000003|So she mounted to the upper floor, and thinking she would be likely to find Cap'n Bill in the Room of the Great Knife she went there and tried the door.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000004|It was locked, but the key had been left on the outside.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000005|She waited until the sentry who was pacing the corridor had his back toward her and then she turned the key and slipped within, softly closing the door behind her.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000016_000001|After a moment's thought she began feeling her way to the window, stumbling over objects as she went.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000016_000002|Every time she made a noise some one groaned, and that made the child uneasy.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000017_000000|At last she found a window and managed to open the shutters and let the moonlight in.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000017_000002|In the center stood the Great Knife which the Boolooroo used to split people in two when he patched them, and at one side was a dark form huddled upon the floor and securely bound.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000018_000000|Trot hastened to this form and knelt beside it, but was disappointed to find it was only Tiggle.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000019_000000|"Oh, it's the Earth Child," said he.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000019_000001|"Are you condemned to be patched, too, little one?"
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000020_000000|"No," answered Trot.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000020_000001|"Tell me where Cap'n Bill is."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000021_000000|"I can't," said Tiggle.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000021_000001|"The Boolooroo has hidden him until to morrow morning, when he's to be patched to me.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000024_000000|"Oh, that's worse than being patched!" cried Trot.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000025_000000|"Much worse," said Tiggle, with a groan.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000026_000000|But now an idea occurred to the girl.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000027_000000|"Would you like to escape?" she asked the captive.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000028_000000|"I would, indeed!" said he.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000029_000000|"If I get you out of the palace, can you hide yourself so that you won't be found?"
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000030_000001|"I know a house where I can hide so snugly that all the Boolooroo's soldiers cannot find me."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000031_000000|"All right," said Trot; "I'll do it; for when you're gone the Boolooroo will have no one to patch Cap'n Bill to."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000032_000000|"He may find some one else," suggested the prisoner.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000033_000000|"But it will take him time to do that, and time is all I want," answered the child.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000033_000001|Even while she spoke Trot was busy with the knots in the cords, and presently she had unbound Tiggle, who soon got upon his feet.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000035_000000|"I'll do that, all right," promised the delighted Tiggle.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000035_000001|"You've made a friend of me, little girl, and if ever I can help you I'll do it with pleasure."
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000036_000000|Then Trot started for the door and Tiggle could no longer see her because she was not now touching him.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000036_000001|The man was much surprised at her disappearance, but listened carefully and when he heard the girl make a noise at one end of the corridor he opened the door and ran in the opposite direction, as he had been told to do.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000001|When Tiggle had safely escaped, the little girl wandered through the palace in search of Cap'n Bill, but soon decided such a quest in the dark was likely to fail and she must wait until morning.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000002|She was tired, too, and thought she would find a vacant room-of which there were many in the big palace-and go to sleep until daylight.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000003|She remembered there was a comfortable vacant room just opposite the suite of the Six Snubnosed Princesses, so she stole softly up to it and tried the door.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000004|It was locked, but the key was outside, as the Blueskins seldom took a door key away from its place.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000005|So she turned the key, opened the door, and walked in.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000038_000003|Looking out, he found that a few feet below the window was the broad wall that ran all around the palace gardens.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000038_000004|A little way to the right the wall joined the wall of the City, being on the same level with it.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000039_000001|It would be a dangerous leap, for as his arms were bound he might topple off the wall into the garden; but he resolved to take this chance.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000040_000001|When she finally opened the door he slipped off and let himself fall to the wall, where he doubled up in a heap.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000040_000002|The next minute, however, he had scrambled to his feet and was running swiftly along the garden wall.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000041_000002|More guards were yelling, now, running along the foot of the wall to keep the fugitive in sight, and people began to pour out of the houses and join in the chase.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000042_000001|If he leaped down into the City he would be seized at once.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000042_000002|Just then he came opposite the camp of the Pinkies and decided to trust himself to the mercies of his Earth friends rather than be made a prisoner by his own people, who would obey the commands of their detested but greatly feared Boolooroo.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000042_000003|So, suddenly he gave a mighty leap and came down into the field outside the City.
train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000043_000001|They soon gave up the chase and returned to the City, while the runaway Majordomo was captured by Captain Coralie and marched away to the tent of Rosalie the Witch, a prisoner of the Pinkies.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000014_000001|These were known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brown, made to sit comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats, broad solid looking shoes, and thick hose or gaiters.--They had all slightly bald heads, from which the right ears, long used to pen holding, had an odd habit of standing off on end.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000014_000003|Theirs was the affectation of respectability;--if indeed there be an affectation so honorable.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000000|The gamblers, of whom I descried not a few, were still more easily recognisable.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000002|Still all were distinguished by a certain sodden swarthiness of complexion, a filmy dimness of eye, and pallor and compression of lip.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000005|They seem to prey upon the public in two battalions-that of the dandies and that of the military men.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000006|Of the first grade the leading features are long locks and smiles; of the second frogged coats and frowns.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000018_000001|All was dark yet splendid-as that ebony to which has been likened the style of Tertullian.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000002|I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000004|I felt singularly aroused, startled, fascinated.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000005|"How wild a history," I said to myself, "is written within that bosom!" Then came a craving desire to keep the man in view-to know more of him.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000006|Hurriedly putting on an overcoat, and seizing my hat and cane, I made my way into the street, and pushed through the crowd in the direction which I had seen him take; for he had already disappeared. With some little difficulty I at length came within sight of him, approached, and followed him closely, yet cautiously, so as not to attract his attention.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000021_000000|I had now a good opportunity of examining his person.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000021_000001|He was short in stature, very thin, and apparently very feeble.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000000|It was now fully night fall, and a thick humid fog hung over the city, soon ending in a settled and heavy rain.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000005|For half an hour the old man held his way with difficulty along the great thoroughfare; and I here walked close at his elbow through fear of losing sight of him.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000007|By and bye he passed into a cross street, which, although densely filled with people, was not quite so much thronged as the main one he had quitted.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000008|Here a change in his demeanor became evident.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000011|A second turn brought us into a square, brilliantly lighted, and overflowing with life.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000014|He urged his way steadily and perseveringly.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000023_000001|The rain fell fast; the air grew cool; and the people were retiring to their homes.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000024_000002|At no moment did he see that I watched him.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000003|It was the most noisome quarter of London, where every thing wore the worst impress of the most deplorable poverty, and of the most desperate crime.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000004|By the dim light of an accidental lamp, tall, antique, worm eaten, wooden tenements were seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious that scarce the semblance of a passage was discernible between them. The paving stones lay at random, displaced from their beds by the rankly growing grass.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000005|Horrible filth festered in the dammed up gutters. The whole atmosphere teemed with desolation.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000006|Yet, as we proceeded, the sounds of human life revived by sure degrees, and at length large bands of the most abandoned of a London populace were seen reeling to and fro. The spirits of the old man again flickered up, as a lamp which is near its death hour.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000007|Once more he strode onward with elastic tread.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000027_000005|Long and swiftly he fled, while I followed him in the wildest amazement, resolute not to abandon a scrutiny in which I now felt an interest all absorbing.
train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000027_000011|He refuses to be alone.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000001|"Why, my dear colonel," said he, "would you not acquaint me with that secret which this letter hath disclosed?" james read the letter, at which his countenance changed more than once; and then, after a short silence, said, "mr
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000002|Booth, I have been to blame, I own it; and you upbraid me with justice.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000005|I know what the impertinence of virtue is, and I can submit to it; but to be treated thus by a whore-You must forgive me, dear Booth, but your success was a kind of triumph over me, which I could not bear.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000006|I own, I have not the least reason to conceive any anger against you; and yet, curse me if I should not have been less displeased at your lying with my own wife; nay, I could almost have parted with half my fortune to you more willingly than have suffered you to receive that trifle of my money which you received at her hands.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000000|Booth exprest much astonishment at this declaration; he said he could not conceive how it was possible to have such an affection for a woman who did not shew the least inclination to return it.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000002|Vanity is plainly her predominant passion, and, if you will administer to that, it will infallibly throw her into your arms.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000003|To this I attribute my own unfortunate success.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000004|While she relieved my wants and distresses she was daily feeding her own vanity; whereas, as every gift of yours asserted your superiority, it rather offended than pleased her.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000005|Indeed, women generally love to be of the obliging side; and, if we examine their favourites, we shall find them to be much oftener such as they have conferred obligations on than such as they have received them from."
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000005_000001|Damnation seize the proud insolent harlot! the devil take me if I don't love her more than I ever loved a woman!"
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000006_000000|The rest of their conversation turned on Booth's affairs.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000006_000001|The colonel again reassumed the part of a friend, gave him the remainder of the money, and promised to take the first opportunity of laying his memorial before a great man.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000007_000000|Booth was greatly overjoyed at this success.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000007_000003|His fear, moreover, betrayed him into a meanness which he would have heartily despised on any other occasion. This was to order the maid to deliver him any letter directed to Amelia; at the same time strictly charging her not to acquaint her mistress with her having received any such orders.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000008_000000|A servant of any acuteness would have formed strange conjectures from such an injunction; but this poor girl was of perfect simplicity; so great, indeed, was her simplicity, that, had not Amelia been void of all suspicion of her husband, the maid would have soon after betrayed her master.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000009_000003|believe me, for my own sake, you ought not; for, as you cannot hide the consequences, you make me always suspect ten times worse than the reality.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000009_000004|While I have you and my children well before my eyes, I am capable of facing any news which can arrive; for what ill news can come (unless, indeed, it concerns my little babe in the country) which doth not relate to the badness of our circumstances? and those, I thank Heaven, we have now a fair prospect of retrieving.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000010_000002|nor could she, upon telling her name, obtain any admission.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000011_000000|Amelia, who had no suspicion that mrs james was really at home, and, as the phrase is, was denied, would have made a second visit the next morning, had she not been prevented by a cold which she herself now got, and which was attended with a slight fever.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000011_000001|This confined her several days to her house, during which Booth officiated as her nurse, and never stirred from her.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000013_000000|Poor Amelia, who was going to rush into her friend's arms, was struck motionless by this behaviour; but re collecting her spirits, as she had an excellent presence of mind, she presently understood what the lady meant, and resolved to treat her in her own way.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000013_000001|Down therefore the company sat, and silence prevailed for some time, during which mrs james surveyed the room with more attention than she would have bestowed on one much finer.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000013_000002|At length the conversation began, in which the weather and the diversions of the town were well canvassed.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000014_000000|After a visit of twenty minutes, during which not a word of any former occurrences was mentioned, nor indeed any subject of discourse started, except only those two above mentioned, mrs james rose from her chair and retired in the same formal manner in which she had approached.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000014_000001|We will pursue her for the sake of the contrast during the rest of the evening.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000014_000002|She went from Amelia directly to a rout, where she spent two hours in a croud of company, talked again and again over the diversions and news of the town, played two rubbers at whist, and then retired to her own apartment, where, having past another hour in undressing herself, she went to her own bed.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000000|Booth and his wife, the moment their companion was gone, sat down to supper on a piece of cold meat, the remains of their dinner.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000001|After which, over a pint of wine, they entertained themselves for a while with the ridiculous behaviour of their visitant.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000003|The little actions of their children, the former scenes and future prospects of their life, furnished them with many pleasant ideas; and the contemplation of Amelia's recovery threw Booth into raptures.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000004|At length they retired, happy in each other.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000016_000000|It is possible some readers may be no less surprized at the behaviour of mrs james than was Amelia herself, since they may have perhaps received so favourable an impression of that lady from the account given of her by mr Booth, that her present demeanour may seem unnatural and inconsistent with her former character.
train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000016_000002|And what was her present behaviour more than that of a fine lady who considered form and show as essential ingredients of human happiness, and imagined all friendship to consist in ceremony, courtesies, messages, and visits?
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000002_000000|NURSING VAGARIES.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000000|The cat, unlike most animals, seems singularly exempt from the pains of parturition.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000001|"In sorrow shalt thou bring forth," was never meant to apply to pussy.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000002|In fact about this time she always appears jollier than at any other, apparently looking upon the whole business as a capital lark-a rather enjoyable practical joke.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000003|My own cat, Muffie, invariably gives due notice of the coming event, by some of the most wonderful specimens of cantation I ever listened to.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000004|In fact she becomes a small opera in herself, chorus and all.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000005|Her song, moreover, is interlarded with little hysterical squeaks, as if she were brim full of some strange joy, and running over.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000006|At the same time she lavishes more caresses than usual upon Nero, who, not knowing what to make of it, looks very foolish indeed.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000000|CATS EATING THEIR KITTENS.--Numerous instances might be cited of cats eating their kittens as soon as born.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000003|She had the bite and was satisfied.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000004|We trust the baker was.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000005|Or the princess who had her husband killed; she ate part of him, and had the remainder salted for future consumption.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000005_000000|"But, in the name of goodness," said I, "what have you got in the pot? French missionary?"
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000006_000000|"No," she said; exhibiting no sort of surprise at my question, for a dish of French missionary was by no means unknown in those parts.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000007_000000|Cats are greatly sensible of the honour of maternity, and when deprived of their kittens feel very wretched indeed.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000007_000001|Under these circumstances, they will nurse and suckle almost any creature.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000008_000000|CATS REARING DOGS.--A cat of mine, a few years ago, suckled and reared a beautiful Pomeranian dog.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000008_000001|I thought at the time this was rather surprising; but I should not be surprised now at anything a cat did.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000009_000000|A gentleman, the other day, had a very nice fox terrier bitch.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000009_000001|The poor thing died giving birth to a litter of four puppies.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000009_000003|She proved a good mother to them, and successfully reared every one of them.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000010_000000|I know of another similar instance, where a cat was house mate with a rather valuable bitch; this bitch brought forth a litter of seven pups. The cat had five kittens at the same time.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000000|One day she gave birth to her kittens in an out house, and at once leaving them to shift for themselves, she entered the dwelling house and insisted on giving suck to the dog of her first adoption.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000001|As he was now a full grown dog, and had a great regard for his own respectability, he didn't see the fun of it.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000002|Pussy went after him nevertheless, lying down in front of him, and mewing piteously up in his face.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000003|When, to get rid of her importunities, the dog went out, she even followed him to the street, and only ceased pestering him, when her kittens were discovered and brought to her.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000012_000001|The mother was of a quiet, domesticated turn of mind, and preferred fire side enjoyments to out of door sports; but the daughter was quite the reverse.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000012_000002|She was a mighty huntress, and it was no uncommon thing, to see her coming waddling across the fields with a rabbit as big as herself in her mouth.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000012_000003|Both these cats had kittens at the same time, but the daughter seemed determined, that nursing should not interfere with her hunting expeditions.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000014_000001|There being no chance of finding homes for so many, they were all drowned with the exception of three.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000014_000003|No one cat, they thought, could nurse and suckle ten kits, and it was equally evident that three kittens did not require the services of two cats.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000014_000005|This was accordingly done, and turned out to be a very satisfactory arrangement for all parties concerned; for either cat could now go abroad when she pleased, happy in the thought that nothing could go wrong at home.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000015_000000|NURSING A HARE.--A certain carpenter whom I knew had a cat which in due season,--as all cats will,--produced a litter of kittens which-very cruel and thoughtless was the action-were all drowned.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000016_000001|I'll seek the mountain, and be it what it may, I'll have something to love, something to suckle me."
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000018_000000|NURSING SQUIRRELS.--This is by no means uncommon in cats.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000018_000002|Squirrels thus reared make most delightful little pets.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000000|NURSING CHICKENS.--I know several instances of cats supplying the place of their lost kittens with a chicken.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000001|One cat, for example, had had all her offspring,--it was her first litter,--drowned; she went at once out into the court yard, where a hen was gathering crumbs to a large brood of chickens.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000002|One of these pussy, watching her chance, sprang upon and seized by the neck, and although hotly pursued by the enraged mother, managed to reach the house in safety, and went straight to her own bed.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000004|So it became a sort of household pet, and when not eating, it was always cuddling down beside its funny foster mother.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000005|I may mention here, that next time this same cat had kittens they were all drowned again; but this time she did a wiser thing. She found out that a cat, belonging to one of the neighbours, was the happy mother of three kittens which she had been allowed to keep.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000006|Off goes puss to this neighbour's house, and having thrashed the mother to begin with, she kidnapped and carried home one of her family.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000007|Several times was the kitten taken back, and each time pussy went and stole it again; and as she never failed to give the other cat a preliminary hiding, it was at last deemed most prudent to let her retain it.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000020_000000|Miss G---- is an old maid, and a great lover of cats and poultry.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000020_000001|Once she had a cat nursing a litter of kittens, and one of the chickens in the yard being rather deformed and not thriving, Miss g brought it and flung it to the cat, thinking it would be a great treat to her.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000000|A gentleman in New Deer, also possessed a cat who reared a chicken to hen hood.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000001|In this case the adopted chicken was nursed alone, pussy's kittens having been drowned.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000003|We see, then, that chicken rearing by cats does not give that amount of satisfaction which is desired.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000004|It might pay, though, if they could do the hatching; but cats at present cannot be taught to sit upon eggs.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000022_000000|I think the reader will now be prepared to hear of cats-
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000023_000000|NURSING HEDGEHOGS.--Yes, three of those thorny little things were actually nursed, suckled, and reared lately by a cat belonging to a gentleman, who is very fond of trying experiments of this sort.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000023_000004|But three pairs of bright beady eyes were keeking at her from among the thorns; and before she had reached the fender, the little pigs were all unfolded and after her at the galop.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000000|SUCKLING RATS.--Some years ago there was a cat in Scotland who, when three of her kittens were drowned, supplied their place by bringing in three young rats to make up the number.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000002|But still another died, and probably she could not find any more, for she contented herself with nursing, and tending the two remaining ones, along with her own two kittens.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000003|I never heard what eventually became of the rats.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000004|I don't think she would have eaten them.
train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000005|More probably they lived and grew, and went back as missionaries to their own people.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000009_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000010_000000|EDITH'S HOME ON THE THAMES
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000012_000000|Miss Green smiled indulgently as she closed her book.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000013_000000|You may imagine it did not take Edith long to put away her books; then giving her good-natured governess a hug she skipped off for her hat and coat.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000014_000000|"There are Eleanor and Clarence waiting for us now," cried Edith, as she and Miss Green, who was carrying the tea basket, crossed the gardens. Running over the lawn, which stretched down to the river, she greeted her two little playmates from the vicarage.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000014_000001|All three were bubbling over with glee at the prospect of an outing this bright June afternoon upon the river Thames.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000015_000000|The children were soon seated on cushions in the neat little shallow punt.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000015_000001|Towser, the big collie dog, was already in the boat, for he knew he was a welcome companion on these trips.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000016_000001|This looks like an easy thing to do, but it takes a great deal of skill to handle a punt.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000017_000000|"Does not the river look gay?" said Eleanor.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000001|Daintily fitted up rowboats with soft cushioned seats, the ladies in their bright summer dresses, with parasols of gay colours; the men in white flannel suits and straw hats.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000002|There were many punts like their own.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000003|Also tiny sailboats, some of them with bright red or blue sails; while every now and then a crew of young men from one of the colleges sculled past them, practising for the forthcoming boat race.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000004|All made way for these swift racing boats, for one of the unwritten rules of the river is that boat crews must not be interfered with while practising.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000019_000000|Occasionally our party in the punt would get the effect of a gentle wave from an automobile boat or a steam launch as it rushed by.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000000|In the midst of it all were to be seen the swans gliding in and out among the boats.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000001|The Thames swans are as well known as the river itself. They are very privileged birds and directly under the protection of the government itself.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000002|There are special keepers to look after them, and any person who injured a swan in any way would be punished.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000003|But no harm ever happens to them, for the lovely white birds are great pets with every one, and the children especially like nothing better than to feed them.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000021_000000|Along the banks, under the shade of overhanging trees, were merry boat loads of family parties making a picnic of their afternoon tea, as our little party intended to do.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000023_000000|Presently the punt glided behind a clump of trees.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000024_000000|Then the tea basket was brought from the punt.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000024_000001|"Now, Clarence," said Miss Green, "you fill the teakettle while the girls help me."
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000025_000000|Their kettle was especially constructed for these occasions with a hollow space in the bottom into which fits a small spirit lamp,--this so the wind cannot blow out the flame.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000026_000000|"My! we have got a jolly lot of cake; that's good," and Clarence looked very approvingly at the nice plum cake and the Madeira cake, which is a sort of sponge cake with slices of preserved citron on top of it,--a favourite cake for teas.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000027_000000|In a few minutes the water boiled in spite of everybody watching it attentively, and Miss Green filled the teapot.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000027_000001|Then they all gathered around the dainty cloth spread on the grass, and the slices of bread and butter, known as "cut bread and butter," and the lovely strawberry jam quickly disappeared.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000028_000000|"Why do we always eat more out of doors," said Edith, "than when we are indoors eating in the proper way?
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000029_000000|"Perhaps the fresh air has more to do with it than anything else," laughed Miss Green, as she cut them the sixth piece of cake all around.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000030_000000|"Now you rest, Miss Green, and we will pack up everything," said Eleanor.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000031_000000|"Yes, and let's wash up the tea things.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000031_000001|It will be fun," said Edith, "and Betty will be surprised."
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000032_000000|So the little girls amused themselves with their housekeeping, while Clarence and Towser ran races up and down the greensward until it was time to return.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000034_000000|The sun was setting when they pulled up at the steps of their boat landing where Colonel and mrs Howard, Edith's parents, were sitting in comfortable wicker garden chairs, waiting for them.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000035_000000|Oldham Manor, Edith's home, was a fine old house built in the "Tudor" style, of red brick with stone doorways and windows, and quaint, tall, ornamental chimneys, with the lower story entirely covered with ivy.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000036_000000|Colonel Howard was a retired army officer who had seen much service in far away India.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000037_000000|Tom, Edith's brother, was at school at Eton College, so Edith had a double share of petting, and led a very happy existence with plenty of work and plenty of play.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000037_000001|She had a pretty little room, with a little brass bed, and an old-fashioned chest of drawers for her clothes.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000037_000003|The chairs were covered with a bright, pretty pink, green, and white chintz, and the carpet was pale green with pink roses.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000038_000000|From the window of this delightful room, one overlooked the rose garden. Adjoining was the schoolroom, a big room where Miss Green and Edith spent much of their time.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000039_000000|Edith usually dressed quickly, for, when the weather was fine, she and her papa always took a walk around the gardens before breakfast.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000039_000001|Colonel Howard was very proud of his roses, and the rose garden of the manor was quite famous; many of the rose bushes were trained to form great arches over the walks.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000040_000000|Another hobby of Colonel Howard's was his fancy chickens and ducks, of which he had a great variety.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000040_000001|Edith had her pet chickens, too, and she and her papa could never agree as to whose chickens were the finest, when they went to feed them in the morning.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000041_000000|Edith would run each morning into the breakfast room, a bright faced little girl with sparkling blue eyes and golden brown hair tied up with a pink ribbon and waving loosely over her shoulders-as all English girls wear their hair until they are quite young ladies.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000041_000001|Her dress was very simply made, and around the neck was a pink ribbon-pink was her favourite colour-tied in a bow.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000042_000001|Always she finished with marmalade.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000044_000000|Thursday was a red letter day for Edith, for in the afternoon she always took tea with mamma and papa in state, in the drawing room.
train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000044_000002|"I take two lumps of sugar only, thank you." Rainy afternoons she often worked on fancy articles for the bazaars held by the Children's League of Mercy. Edith was a member, and the money from the sales was given to help the very poor children in their neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000005_000008|Breca ne'er yet, not one of you pair, in the play of war such daring deed has done at all with bloody brand, -- I boast not of it!
train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000005_000013|Lustily took he banquet and beaker, battle famed king.
train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000006_000000|Through the hall then went the Helmings' Lady, to younger and older everywhere carried the cup, till come the moment when the ring graced queen, the royal hearted, to Beowulf bore the beaker of mead. She greeted the Geats' lord, God she thanked, in wisdom's words, that her will was granted, that at last on a hero her hope could lean for comfort in terrors.
train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000011_000000|He spied in hall the hero band, kin and clansmen clustered asleep, hardy liegemen.
train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000011_000001|Then laughed his heart; for the monster was minded, ere morn should dawn, savage, to sever the soul of each, life from body, since lusty banquet waited his will!
train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000011_000008|Danes of the North with fear and frenzy were filled, each one, who from the wall that wailing heard, God's foe sounding his grisly song, cry of the conquered, clamorous pain from captive of hell.
train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000003_000000|twenty five
train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000004_000005|Be glad at banquet, warrior worthy!
train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000005_000000|twenty six
train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000007_000006|The wave roamer bode riding at anchor, its owner awaiting. As they hastened onward, Hrothgar's gift they lauded at length.
train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000007_000007|-- 'twas a lord unpeered, every way blameless, till age had broken -- it spareth no mortal -- his splendid might.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000001|At the awful sight tottered that guest, and terror seized him; yet the wretched fugitive rallied anon from fright and fear ere he fled away, and took the cup from that treasure hoard. Of such besides there was store enough, heirlooms old, the earth below, which some earl forgotten, in ancient years, left the last of his lofty race, heedfully there had hidden away, dearest treasure.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000004|Few words he spake: "Now hold thou, earth, since heroes may not, what earls have owned!
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000007|My brave are gone. And the helmet hard, all haughty with gold, shall part from its plating.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000014|His hoard of bliss that old ill doer open found, who, blazing at twilight the barrows haunteth, naked foe dragon flying by night folded in fire: the folk of earth dread him sore.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000016|So the barrow was plundered, borne off was booty.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000018|The stark heart found footprint of foe who so far had gone in his hidden craft by the creature's head.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000021|The barrow he entered, sought the cup, and discovered soon that some one of mortals had searched his treasure, his lordly gold.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000003_000000|thirty one
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000004_000000|THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out, and bright homes burned.
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000004_000004|In its barrow it trusted, its battling and bulwarks: that boast was vain!
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000005_000008|-- A good king he!
train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000006_000000|thirty two
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000000_000000|thirty nine
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000001|-- Now haste is best, that we go to gaze on our Geatish lord, and bear the bountiful breaker of rings to the funeral pyre.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000002|No fragments merely shall burn with the warrior.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000003|Wealth of jewels, gold untold and gained in terror, treasure at last with his life obtained, all of that booty the brands shall take, fire shall eat it.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000004|No earl must carry memorial jewel.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000003_000003|The fiery dragon, fearful fiend, with flame was scorched. Reckoned by feet, it was fifty measures in length as it lay.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000006|Alive was he still, still wielding his wits.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000007|The wise old man spake much in his sorrow, and sent you greetings and bade that ye build, when he breathed no more, on the place of his balefire a barrow high, memorial mighty.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000013|The dragon they cast, the worm, o'er the wall for the wave to take, and surges swallowed that shepherd of gems. Then the woven gold on a wain was laden -- countless quite!
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000014|-- and the king was borne, hoary hero, to Hrones Ness.
train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000007_000001|Wood smoke rose black over blaze, and blent was the roar of flame with weeping (the wind was still), till the fire had broken the frame of bones, hot at the heart.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000000_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000001_000000|YOUTH.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000002_000002|He spoke to George a bout it, and the boy was wild with joy.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000002_000004|But as the time drew near, her heart, which had been so strong and brave and full of pride, gave way and she felt that she could not part with her dear boy.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000004_000000|So they gave up the scheme, and George was sent back to school.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000006_000000|These neat ways, formed in his youth, were kept up through all his life, and what seems strange is that day books, and such books as you will find in great use now a days were not known at that time.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000008_000003|In fact he did not know their size or shape, but he had heard that men had sought out some of the best spots, and had built homes there, and laid out farms for which they paid no rent, and he thought it quite time to put a stop to such things.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000009_000001|He wrote down what was done from day to day, and by these notes we learn that he had quite a rough time of it, and yet found much that was to his taste.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000011_000000|One night, writes George, when they had been hard at work all day, they came to the house where they were to be fed and lodged.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000012_000002|They made up their minds to stay there for a day or two; went to see the Warm Springs, and at night camped out in the field.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000012_000004|The men crossed in birch bark boats, and rode all the next day in a rain storm to a place two score miles from where they had set out that morn.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000013_000000|On march twenty third, they fell in with a score or two of red men who had been off to war and brought home but one scalp, and they had a chance to see a war dance.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000013_000001|The red men cleared a large space, and built a fire in the midst of it, round which they all sat
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000013_000002|One of the men then made a grand speech in which he told them how they were to dance.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000014_000000|When he had done, the one who could dance the best sprang up as if he had just been roused from sleep, and ran and jumped round the ring in a queer kind of way.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000014_000001|The rest soon joined him, and did just as he did. By this time the band made it self heard, and I shall have to tell you what a fine band it was.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000015_000000|There was a pot half full of water with a piece of deer skin stretched tight on the top, and a gourd with some shot in it, and a piece of horse's tail tied to it to make it look fine.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000016_000000|Late in the day of march twenty sixth, they came to a place where dwelt a man named Hedge, who was in the pay of King George as justice of the peace.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000016_000001|Here they camped, and at the meal that was spread there was not a knife nor a fork to eat with but such as the guests had brought with them.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000017_000000|On the night of the first of A pril the wind blew and the rain fell. The straw on which they lay took fire, and George was saved by one of the men, who woke him when it was in a blaze.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000021_000000|This rough kind of life, though he did not know it, was to fit him for the toils and ills of war, of which he may have dreamt in those days, as he still kept up his love for war like things.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000022_000001|He lived on a knoll, in a small house not more than twelve feet square.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000022_000003|Red men, half breeds, and wood men thronged the place, where they were sure they would get a good meal.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000022_000004|He had steeds of fine breed, and hounds of keen scent, for he was fond of the chase, and the woods and hills were full of game.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000023_000001|This wise friend lent George good books which he took with him to the woods and read with great care, and in this way stored his mind with rich thoughts.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000025_000000|A Dutch man, named Van Bra am, was one of these men, and he claimed to know a great deal of the art of war.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000027_000002|At sea he kept a log book, took notes of the course of the winds, and if the days were fair or foul, and learned all he could of the ways of a ship and how to sail one.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000029_000000|They had been but two weeks in Bar ba does when George fell ill with small pox, and this for a time put an end to all their sports.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000029_000001|But he had the best of care, and at the end of three weeks was so well that he could go out of doors.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000030_000000|Law rence soon tired of this place, and longed for a change of scene. They had to ride out by the first dawn of day, for by the time the sun was half an hour high it was as hot as at mid day.
train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000032_000000|Law rence did not gain in health, and ere his wife could join him he wrote her that he would start for home-"to his grave." He reached Mount Ver non in time to die 'neath his own roof, and with kind friends at his bed side.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000000_000001|It would need gold to buy these things, as well as to pay for fresh troops.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000001_000000|Gold was placed in the Gov er nor's hands to use as he pleased.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000001_000001|Our force was spread out in to ten bands, of one hundred men each.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000001_000003|This, of course, was more than he could bear, so he left the ar my at once, and with a sad heart.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000003_000001|Our men were full of joy, and thought the war would soon be at an end.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000004_000001|He rode in a fine turn out that he had bought of Gov er nor Sharpe, which he soon found out was not meant for use on rough roads.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000004_000002|But he had fought with dukes, and men of high rank, and was fond of show, and liked to put on a great deal of style.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000005_000000|He thought that this would make the troops look up to him, and would add much to his fame.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000000|All the rules and forms of camp life were kept up.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000001|One of the head men who died while in camp, was borne to the grave in this style: A guard marched in front of the corpse, the cap tain of it in the rear. Each man held his gun up side down, as a sign that the dead would war no more, and the drums beat the dead march.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000002|When near the grave the guard formed two lines that stood face to face, let their guns rest on the ground, and leaned their heads on the butts.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000003|The corpse was borne twixt these two rows of men with the sword and sash on the top of the box in which he lay, and in the rear of it the men of rank marched two and two.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000004|When the corpse was put in the ground, the guard fired their guns three times, and then all the troops marched back to camp.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000008_000001|With them were White Thun der, who had charge of the "speech belts," and Sil ver Heels, who was swift of foot.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000008_000002|Half King was dead, and White Thun der reigned in his stead.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000009_000000|The red men had a camp to them selves, where they would sing, and dance, and howl and yell for half the night.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000010_000000|In the day time the red men and their squaws, rigged up in their plumes and war paint, hung round Brad dock's camp, and gazed spell bound at the troops as they went through their drills.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000011_000000|But this state of things did not last long, and strife rose twixt the red and white men, and some of the red skins left the camp.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000011_000001|They told Brad dock they would meet him on his march, but they did not keep their word.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000013_000000|The march was a hard one for man and beast.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000015_000002|They must push on at once.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000016_000000|While at this place Cap tain Jack, and his brave band of hunts men came in to camp.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000016_000001|They were fond of the chase, and were well armed with knives and guns, and looked quite like a tribe of red skins as they came out of the wood.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000017_000000|Brad dock met them in a stiff sort of way.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000017_000001|Cap tain Jack stepped in front of his band and said that he and his men were used to rough work, and knew how to deal with the red men, and would be glad to join the force.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000018_000000|Brad dock looked on him with a gaze of scorn, and spoke to him in a way that roused the ire of Cap tain Jack.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000018_000001|He told his men what had been said, and the whole band turned their backs on the camp, and went through the woods to their old haunts where they were known and prized at their true worth.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000020_000003|By that time he could move, but not with out much pain, for he was still quite weak.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000020_000004|It was his wish to join the troops in time for the great blow, and while yet too weak to mount his horse, he set off with his guards in a close cart, and reached Brad dock's camp on the eighth of Ju ly.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000021_000002|The plan was to ford the stream near the camp, march on the west bank of the stream for five miles or so, and then cross to the east side and push on to the fort.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000023_000000|At one o'clock the whole force had crossed the ford north of the fort, and were on their way up the bank, when they were met by a fierce and sharp fire from foes they could not see.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000023_000001|Wild war whoops and fierce yells rent the air.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000000|Now and then one of the red men would dart out of the woods with a wild yell to scalp a red coat who had been shot down.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000001|Wild fear seized Brad dock's men, who fired and took no aim.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000002|Those in the front rank were killed by those in the rear.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000005|When some of them took to the trees, Brad dock stormed at them, and called them hard names, and struck them with the flat of his sword.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000025_000001|He was in all parts of the field, a fine mark for the guns of the foe, and yet not a shot struck him to do him harm.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000025_000002|Four small shots went through his coat.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000026_000000|The fight raged on.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000026_000001|Death swept through the ranks of the red coats. The men at the guns were seized with fright.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000026_000003|But this act did not bring the men back to their guns.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000027_000000|Brad dock was on the field the whole day, and did his best to turn the tide.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000028_000000|At last a shot struck him in the right arm and went in to his lungs. He fell from his horse, and was borne from the field.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000028_000001|The troops took fright at once, and most of them fled.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000029_000000|"All is lost!" they cried.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000030_000000|"Brad dock is killed!"
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000033_000002|But he was a proud man, and when he made up his mind to do a thing he would do it at all risks.
train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000033_000003|Through this fault he missed the fame he hoped to win, lost his life, and found a grave in a strange land.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000002_000001|The house stood on a knoll, and near it were wild woods and deep dells, haunts of the fox and the deer, and bright streams where fish could be found at all times.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000003_000000|His chief sport was the chase, and, at the right time of the year, he would go out two or three times a week, with dogs and horns and trained steeds, in search of the sly fox who would lead him and his friends a fine run.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000004_000000|Some times he would go out with his gun and shoot wild ducks, great flocks of which might be found on the streams close at hand.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000005_000000|A man who had a bad name and paid no heed to the laws that were made, was wont to make his way to the grounds near Mount Ver non and shoot just what game he chose.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000006_000001|He put spurs to his horse, dashed through bush and brake, and soon came up to the rogue who had just time to jump in his boat and push from shore.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000008_000001|They had a large force of slaves, and made great feasts for their friends.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000008_000003|This barge was rowed by six black men in check shirts and black vel vet caps.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000011_000001|He knew, too, just the kind of work each one was fit for, and which he could do the best.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000012_000003|In this way he found out just how much work four men could do in the course of a day-and take their ease.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000014_000000|The cares of home and state made such calls on his time and thoughts, that he could not be said to live quite at his ease, and he left his mark-a high one-on all that he did.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000015_000000|His crops were of the best, and he sought to cheat no one.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000017_000001|For these last he had to give size and height, name, and age, of those who were to wear them.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000018_000001|He was then thirty one years old.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000019_000001|They were five sweet years to him; full of peace, and rest, and joy.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000019_000002|He was fond of his home, and felt as much pride in Nel lie and john Parke Cus tis as if they had been his own boy and girl.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000019_000003|Nel lie was a frail child, and did not gain in strength, though she had the best of care.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000020_000001|But he died in the year seventeen eighty one, at the age of twenty eight.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000022_000000|Large tracts of wood land were laid waste; homes were burnt, and those who dwelt in them robbed and slain; and so sly and shrewd were the red skins that it was some time ere the white men could put a stop to their deeds of blood.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000001|The trade was large, and in this way the king could add much to his wealth.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000002|But the scheme did not work well.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000005|They had come to this land to be free, and free they would be.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000006|They would do with out tea and such things, and dress as well as they could in clothes made out of home-made goods.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000024_000000|The king next said that goods bought from Eng land must bear the king's stamp, for which a sum was to be paid more than the cost of the goods.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000024_000001|This was known as the Stamp Act.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000024_000003|They had not the means to pay this tax.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000026_000000|In New York, the Act-in clear print-was borne through the streets on a pole, on top of which was a death's head.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000028_000000|At night they took the form down, put it in a coach, and bore it back to Bow ling Green, where the whole thing-coach and all-was burnt right in range of the guns of the fort where the King's troops were.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000029_000001|But he made it known that he felt it to be his right as their king to tax them as he chose, and this hurt the pride of those who wished to make their own laws, and be in bonds to no one.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000032_000000|The band met with closed doors.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000032_000001|Each man wore a grave face.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000032_000004|They are all thrown down."
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000034_000001|But what he said was of great weight as it came from a wise brain and a true heart.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000035_000003|George Fair fax-who had been his friend from boy hood-had gone to Eng land to live, and Bel voir took fire one night and was burnt to the ground.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000037_000000|It was of no use to plead with the king.
train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000038_000000|He told them that he thought there was but one thing to do.
train-clean-360/8643/269254/8643_269254_000015_000000|PREFACE.
train-clean-360/8643/269254/8643_269254_000018_000001|Such, however, is not the case.
train-clean-360/8643/269254/8643_269254_000018_000004|To day this edition is only valuable on account of its comparative rarity.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000000_000000|THE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000001_000002|Many a German trooper saw the sea for the first time when he rode his horse girth deep into the waves at Dieppe.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000000|Black and bitter were the thoughts of Frenchmen when they saw this weal of dishonour slashed across the fair face of their country.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000001|They had fought and they had been overborne.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000002|That swarming cavalry, those countless footmen, the masterful guns-they had tried and tried to make head against them.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000003|In battalions their invaders were not to be beaten, but man to man, or ten to ten, they were their equals.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000005|Thus, unchronicled amid the battles and the sieges, there broke out another war, a war of individuals, with foul murder upon the one side and brutal reprisal on the other.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000000|Colonel von Gramm, of the twenty fourth Posen Infantry, had suffered severely during this new development.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000001|He commanded in the little Norman town of Les Andelys, and his outposts stretched amid the hamlets and farmhouses of the district round.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000003|Then the colonel would go forth in his wrath, and farmsteadings would blaze and villages tremble; but next morning there was still that same dismal tale to be told.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000004|Do what he might, he could not shake off his invisible enemies.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000004_000001|Gold might be more successful.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000004_000003|There was no response.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000004_000005|The peasants were incorruptible.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000005_000000|"You say that you know who did these crimes?" asked the Prussian colonel, eyeing with loathing the blue bloused, rat faced creature before him.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000006_000000|"Yes, colonel."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000008_000000|"Those thousand francs, colonel-"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000009_000001|Come!
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000010_000000|"It is Count Eustace of Chateau Noir."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000011_000000|"You lie!" cried the colonel, angrily.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000011_000001|"A gentleman and a nobleman could not have done such crimes."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000000|The peasant shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000001|"It is evident to me that you do not know the count.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000002|It is this way, colonel.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000003|What I tell you is the truth, and I am not afraid that you should test it.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000004|The Count of Chateau Noir is a hard man, even at the best time he was a hard man. But of late he has been terrible.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000005|It was his son's death, you know. His son was under Douay, and he was taken, and then in escaping from Germany he met his death.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000006|It was the count's only child, and indeed we all think that it has driven him mad.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000008|I do not know how many he has killed, but it is he who cut the cross upon the foreheads, for it is the badge of his house."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000013_000000|It was true.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000013_000001|The murdered sentries had each had a saltire cross slashed across their brows, as by a hunting knife.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000013_000002|The colonel bent his stiff back and ran his forefinger over the map which lay upon the table.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000015_000000|"Three and a kilometre, colonel."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000016_000000|"You know the place?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000017_000000|"I used to work there."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000018_000000|Colonel von Gramm rang the bell.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000019_000000|"Give this man food and detain him," said he to the sergeant.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000020_000000|"Why detain me, colonel?
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000020_000001|I can tell you no more."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000022_000000|"As guide?
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000022_000001|But the count?
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000023_000000|The Prussian commander waved him away.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000023_000001|"Send Captain Baumgarten to me at once," said he.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000024_000002|The colonel could trust him where a more dashing officer might be in danger.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000025_000000|"You will proceed to Chateau Noir to night, captain," said he.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000025_000001|"A guide has been provided.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000025_000002|You will arrest the count and bring him back. If there is an attempt at rescue, shoot him at once."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000026_000000|"How many men shall I take, colonel?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000027_000000|"Well, we are surrounded by spies, and our only chance is to pounce upon him before he knows that we are on the way.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000027_000001|A large force will attract attention.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000027_000002|On the other hand, you must not risk being cut off."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000028_000000|"I might march north, colonel, as if to join General Goeben.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000028_000002|In that case, with twenty men-"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000029_000000|"Very good, captain.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000029_000001|I hope to see you with your prisoner to morrow morning."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000000|It was a cold December night when Captain Baumgarten marched out of Les Andelys with his twenty Poseners, and took the main road to the north west.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000001|Two miles out he turned suddenly down a narrow, deeply rutted track, and made swiftly for his man.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000003|The captain walked first with Moser, a veteran sergeant, beside him.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000004|The sergeant's wrist was fastened to that of the French peasant, and it had been whispered in his ear that in case of an ambush the first bullet fired would be through his head.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000005|Behind them the twenty infantrymen plodded along through the darkness with their faces sunk to the rain, and their boots squeaking in the soft, wet clay. They knew where they were going, and why, and the thought upheld them, for they were bitter at the loss of their comrades.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000031_000001|At half past eleven their guide stopped at a place where two high pillars, crowned with some heraldic stonework, flanked a huge iron gate.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000031_000002|The wall in which it had been the opening had crumbled away, but the great gate still towered above the brambles and weeds which had overgrown its base.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000031_000004|At the top they halted and reconnoitred.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000001|The moon had shone out between two rain clouds, and threw the old house into silver and shadow.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000002|It was shaped like an L, with a low arched door in front, and lines of small windows like the open ports of a man of war.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000003|Above was a dark roof, breaking at the corners into little round overhanging turrets, the whole lying silent in the moonshine, with a drift of ragged clouds blackening the heavens behind it.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000004|A single light gleamed in one of the lower windows.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000000|The captain whispered his orders to his men.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000001|Some were to creep to the front door, some to the back.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000002|Some were to watch the east, and some the west.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000003|He and the sergeant stole on tiptoe to the lighted window.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000034_000000|It was a small room into which they looked, very meanly furnished. An elderly man, in the dress of a menial, was reading a tattered paper by the light of a guttering candle.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000034_000001|He leaned back in his wooden chair with his feet upon a box, while a bottle of white wine stood with a half filled tumbler upon a stool beside him.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000034_000002|The sergeant thrust his needle gun through the glass, and the man sprang to his feet with a shriek.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000035_000001|The house is surrounded, and you cannot escape.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000035_000002|Come round and open the door, or we will show you no mercy when we come in."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000036_000000|"For God's sake, don't shoot!
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000036_000001|I will open it!
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000036_000002|I will open it!" He rushed from the room with his paper still crumpled up in his hand. An instant later, with a groaning of old locks and a rasping of bars, the low door swung open, and the Prussians poured into the stone flagged passage.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000038_000000|"My master!
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000038_000001|He is out, sir."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000039_000001|Your life for a lie!"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000040_000000|"It is true, sir.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000041_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000042_000000|"I do not know."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000043_000000|"Doing what?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000044_000000|"I cannot tell.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000044_000001|No, it is no use your cocking your pistol, sir.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000044_000002|You may kill me, but you cannot make me tell you that which I do not know."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000045_000000|"Is he often out at this hour?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000046_000000|"Frequently."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000048_000000|"Before daybreak."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000000|Captain Baumgarten rasped out a German oath.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000002|The man's answers were only too likely to be true.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000003|It was what he might have expected.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000007|Up above, in an attic, they found Marie, the elderly wife of the butler; but the owner kept no other servants, and of his own presence there was no trace.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000000|It was long, however, before Captain Baumgarten had satisfied himself upon the point.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000001|It was a difficult house to search.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000002|Thin stairs, which only one man could ascend at a time, connected lines of tortuous corridors.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000003|The walls were so thick that each room was cut off from its neighbour.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000005|Captain Baumgarten stamped with his feet, tore down curtains, and struck with the pommel of his sword.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000052_000000|"Yes, captain."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000053_000000|"And you will place four men in ambush at the front and at the back.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000053_000001|It is likely enough that about daybreak our bird may return to the nest."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000054_000000|"And the others, captain?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000055_000000|"Let them have their suppers in the kitchen.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000056_000000|"And yourself, captain?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000057_000000|"I will take my supper up here in the dining hall.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000057_000002|You will call me if there is any alarm. What can you give me for supper-you?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000059_000001|Let a guard go about with him, sergeant, and let him feel the end of a bayonet if he plays us any tricks."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000000|Captain Baumgarten was an old campaigner.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000001|In the Eastern provinces, and before that in Bohemia, he had learned the art of quartering himself upon the enemy.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000002|While the butler brought his supper he occupied himself in making his preparations for a comfortable night.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000004|The fire was already burning up, crackling merrily, and sending spurts of blue, pungent smoke into the room.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000007|It was a sight which gave a zest to his comfortable quarters, and to the cold fowl and the bottle of wine which the butler had brought up for him.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000008|He was tired and hungry after his long tramp, so he threw his sword, his helmet, and his revolver belt down upon a chair, and fell to eagerly upon his supper.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000061_000000|He sat within a small circle of brilliant light which gleamed upon his silver shoulder straps, and threw out his terra cotta face, his heavy eyebrows, and his yellow moustache.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000061_000002|Two sides were oak panelled and two were hung with faded tapestry, across which huntsmen and dogs and stags were still dimly streaming.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000061_000003|Above the fireplace were rows of heraldic shields with the blazonings of the family and of its alliances, the fatal saltire cross breaking out on each of them.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000062_000002|But the fire was hot, and the captain's eyes were heavy.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000062_000003|His chin sank slowly upon his chest, and the ten candles gleamed upon the broad, white scalp.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000063_000002|There, beside the table, and almost within arm's length of him, was standing a huge man, silent, motionless, with no sign of life save his fierce glinting eyes.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000063_000004|His cheeks were wrinkled like a last year's apple, but his sweep of shoulder, and bony, corded hands, told of a strength which was unsapped by age.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000063_000005|His arms were folded across his arching chest, and his mouth was set in a fixed smile.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000064_000000|"Pray do not trouble yourself to look for your weapons," he said, as the Prussian cast a swift glance at the empty chair in which they had been laid.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000064_000001|"You have been, if you will allow me to say so, a little indiscreet to make yourself so much at home in a house every wall of which is honeycombed with secret passages.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000064_000003|Ah! what then?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000066_000001|"You have no cause to trouble about your men.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000066_000002|They have already been provided for.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000067_000000|"I am Captain Baumgarten of, the twenty fourth Posen Regiment."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000069_000000|"The Count of Chateau Noir."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000070_000000|"Precisely.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000070_000003|I have much to talk to you about."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000071_000000|Captain Baumgarten sat still in his chair.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000071_000001|Brave as he was, there was something in this man's manner which made his skin creep with apprehension.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000071_000003|The count had picked up the claret bottle and held it to the light.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000072_000002|I am ashamed to look you in the face, Captain Baumgarten.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000072_000003|We must improve upon this."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000000|"Drink!" said he.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000002|Drink, sir, and be happy!
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000003|There are cold joints below.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000005|Will you not venture upon a second and more savoury supper?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000076_000000|The German officer shook his head.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000000|"There is nothing in my house which is not at your disposal.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000001|You have but to say the word.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000002|Well, then, you will allow me to tell you a story while you drink your wine.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000004|It is about my son, my only child, Eustace, who was taken and died in escaping.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000005|It is a curious little story, and I think that I can promise you that you will never forget it.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000078_000000|"You must know, then, that my boy was in the artillery-a fine young fellow, Captain Baumgarten, and the pride of his mother.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000078_000002|It was brought by a brother officer who was at his side throughout, and who escaped while my lad died.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000078_000003|I want to tell you all that he told me.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000079_000000|"Eustace was taken at Weissenburg on the fourth of August.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000079_000001|The prisoners were broken up into parties, and sent back into Germany by different routes.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000079_000002|Eustace was taken upon the fifth to a village called Lauterburg, where he met with kindness from the German officer in command. This good colonel had the hungry lad to supper, offered him the best he had, opened a bottle of good wine, as I have tried to do for you, and gave him a cigar from his own case.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000000|"The colonel, as I say, was good to my boy.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000001|But, unluckily, the prisoners were moved next day across the Rhine into Ettlingen. They were not equally fortunate there.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000002|The officer who guarded them was a ruffian and a villain, Captain Baumgarten.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000004|That night upon my son answering fiercely back to some taunt of his, he struck him in the eye, like this!"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000000|"My boy was disfigured by the blow, and this villain made his appearance the object of his jeers.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000001|By the way, you look a little comical yourself at the present moment, captain, and your colonel would certainly say that you had been getting into mischief.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000002|To continue, however, my boy's youth and his destitution-for his pockets were empty-moved the pity of a kind hearted major, and he advanced him ten Napoleons from his own pocket without security of any kind.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000003|Into your hands, Captain Baumgarten, I return these ten gold pieces, since I cannot learn the name of the lender.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000004|I am grateful from my heart for this kindness shown to my boy.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000084_000001|He heaped every outrage upon my lad, because the spirit of the Chateau Noirs would not stoop to turn away his wrath by a feigned submission.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000085_000000|The German writhed and struggled.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000085_000002|When at last, blinded and half senseless, he staggered to his feet, it was only to be hurled back again into the great oaken chair.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000085_000003|He sobbed in his impotent anger and shame.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000086_000001|"You will understand me when I say that it is a bitter thing to be helpless in the hands of an insolent and remorseless enemy.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000086_000003|I regret to see that your eye is bleeding so.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000086_000004|Will you permit me to bind it with my silk handkerchief?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000088_000000|"I am in your power, you monster!" he cried; "I can endure your brutalities, but not your hypocrisy."
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000001|Let me see, I had got as far as the young Bavarian at Carlsruhe.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000002|I regret extremely that you will not permit me to use such slight skill in surgery as I possess.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000004|That reminds me, captain, that you are not quite situated upon a bed of roses yourself, are you now?
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000007|Get back into the chair, you dog!
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000000|"Well, to continue my story-at the end of a fortnight my son and his friend escaped.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000002|Suffice it that to disguise themselves they had to take the clothes of two peasants, whom they waylaid in a wood.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000003|Hiding by day and travelling by night, they had got as far into France as Remilly, and were within a mile-a single mile, captain-of crossing the German lines when a patrol of Uhlans came right upon them.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000004|Ah! it was hard, was it not, when they had come so far and were so near to safety?"
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000005|The count blew a double call upon his whistle, and three hard faced peasants entered the room.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000092_000000|"These must represent my Uhlans," said he.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000093_000000|The unfortunate soldier was dragged from his chair to where a noosed rope had been flung over one of the huge oaken rafters which spanned the room.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000093_000002|The three peasants seized the other end, and looked to the count for his orders.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000093_000003|The officer, pale, but firm, folded his arms and stared defiantly at the man who tortured him.
train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000094_000001|My son was also face to face with death, and he prayed, also.
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000002_000000|The next day the curate called again on Leopold.
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000002_000004|He might make him turn monk, or Socinian, or latter day saint, for what she knew!
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000003_000000|That same afternoon, Wingfold took the draper to see Polwarth.
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000007_000000|It is not often in real life that such conversations occur.
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000008_000000|I shall attempt only a general impression of the result of their evening's intercourse, partly recording the utterances of Polwarth.
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000010_000000|"Ah!
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000010_000007|Shall I, to take a step farther, degrade the sanctity of the closet, hallowed in the words of Jesus, by shutting its door in the vain fancy of there doing something that God requires of me as a sacred OBSERVANCE?
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000012_000000|"Yes, doubtless; but what would you think of a child who said, 'I am very useful to my father, for when I ask him for anything, or tell him I love him, it gives him-oh, such pleasure!'?"
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000016_000003|It makes me so happy!' 'Come nearer still-come to my bosom, my child, and be yet happier.'--Talk not of public worship as divine service; it is a mockery.
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000026_000000|"Very few."
train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000033_000000|He sat down suddenly, and a deep silence filled the room.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000004_000000|Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000007_000001|Brittania rules the waves! Britons never shall be slaves!
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000008_000000|J. THOMSON.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000009_000000|one hundred twenty three.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000009_000001|THE BARD.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000014_000001|What terrors round him wait! Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000015_000000|"Mighty Victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable warrior fled? Thy son is gone.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000015_000001|He rests among the dead. The swarm that in thy noon tide beam were born? --Gone to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000017_000001|Britannia's issue, hail!
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000020_000000|T. GRAY.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000021_000000|one hundred twenty four.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000022_000000|How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000024_000000|W. COLLINS.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000025_000000|one hundred twenty five.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000025_000001|LAMENT FOR CULLODEN.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000028_000000|R. BURNS.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000029_000000|one hundred twenty six.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000029_000001|LAMENT FOR FLODDEN.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000030_000000|I've heard them lilting at our ewe milking, Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day; But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning- The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000036_000000|J. ELLIOTT.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000002_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000003_000000|LITTLE FLORENCE.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000005_000000|Wait a moment, girls, and boys too!
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000005_000001|I advise you to read on, and see what came in this case of playing with dolls.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000006_000000|There were a good many thousands of boys in England at that time, in the Twenties and Thirties, who might have been badly off when the terrible Fifties came, if Florence Nightingale had not played with her dolls. Read on, and see for yourselves!
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000000|Florence Nightingale loved her dolls dearly, and took the greatest possible care of them; and yet they were always delicate and given to sudden and alarming illnesses.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000001|A doll never knew when she might be told that she was very ill, and undressed and put to bed, though she might but just have got on her new frock.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000002|Then Mamma Florence would wait upon her tenderly, smoothing her pillow, bathing her forehead or rubbing her poor back, and bringing her all kinds of good things in the doll house dishes.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000003|The doll might feel very much better the next day, and think it was time to get up and put on the new frock again; but she was very apt to have a relapse and go back to bed and gruel again, once at least, before she was allowed to recover entirely.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000000|The truth is, Florence was born to be a nurse, and a sick doll was dearer to her than a strong and healthy one.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000002|These dolls were very unlucky, or else their mamma was very careless; you can call it whichever you like.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000003|They were always tumbling down and breaking their heads, or losing arms and legs, or burning themselves at the nursery fire, or suffering from doll's consumption, that dreadful complaint otherwise known as loss of sawdust.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000004|When these things happened, Aunt Florence was called in as a matter of course; and she set the fractures, and salved the burns, and stopped the flow of sawdust, and proved herself in every way a most skillful nursery surgeon and physician.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000000|So it was that unconsciously, and in play, Florence began her training for her life work.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000001|She was having lessons, of course; arithmetic, and all the other proper things.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000003|Her mother, meantime, taught her all kinds of handiwork, and before she was twelve years old she could hemstitch, and seam and embroider.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000004|These things were all good, and very good; without them she could not have accomplished all she did; but in the years that were to come all the other learning was going to help that wonderful learning that began with nursing the sick dolls.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000010_000000|Soon she was to take another step in her profession.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000010_000001|The little fingers grown so skillful by bandaging waxen and china arms and legs, were now to save a living, loving creature from death.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000011_000000|To every English child this story is a nursery tale.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000011_000001|No doubt it is to many American children also, yet it is one that no one can ever tire of hearing, so I shall tell it again.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000012_000000|Much as Florence loved dolls, she loved animals better, and in her country homes she was surrounded by them.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000012_000002|"Good morning, Peggy!" Florence would say.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000012_000003|"Would you like an apple?"
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000013_000001|You may try any other way that looks to you more natural.)
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000014_000000|"Then look for it!" Florence would reply.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000014_000001|At this Peggy would sniff and snuff, and hunt round with her soft velvety nose till she found Florence's pocket, then delicately take out the apple and crunch it up, and whinny again, the second whinny meaning at once "Thank you!" and "More, please!" Horse language is a simple one compared to English, and has no grammar.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000015_000002|They had the same tastes and feelings.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000015_000004|Here was another teacher.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000015_000005|I suppose everyone we know could teach us something good, if we were ready to learn.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000000|As I said, Florence and the vicar were riding along on the green downs; and here I must stop again a moment to tell you what the downs are, for when I was a child I used to wonder.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000001|They are great rounded hills, covered with close, thick turf, like a velvet carpet.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000002|They spread in long smooth green billows, miles and miles of them, the slopes so gentle that it is delightful to drive or ride on them; only you must be careful not to go near the edge, where the green breaks off suddenly, and a white chalk cliff goes down, down, hundreds of feet, to the blue sea tossing and tumbling below.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000003|These are the white cliffs of England that you have so often read about.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000017_000000|Am I never going on with the story?
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000017_000001|Yes; have patience! there is plenty of time.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000018_000000|There were many sheep on the downs, and there was one special flock that Florence knew very well.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000018_000001|It belonged to old Roger, a shepherd, who had often worked for her father.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000018_000002|Roger and his good dog Cap were both friends of Florence's, and she was used to seeing them on the downs, the sheep in a more or less orderly compact flock, Cap guarding them and driving back any stragglers who went nibbling off toward the cliff edge.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000019_000000|But to day there seemed no order anywhere.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000019_000001|The sheep were scattered in twos and threes, straying hither and thither; and old Roger alone was trying to collect them, and apparently having a hard time of it.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000020_000000|The vicar saw his trouble, and rode up to him.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000020_000001|"What is the matter, Roger?" he asked kindly.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000020_000002|"Where is your dog?"
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000021_000001|I shall have to take a bit of cord and put an end to his misery."
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000022_000000|"Oh!" cried Florence, who had ridden up with the vicar.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000022_000001|"Poor Cap!
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000022_000002|Are you sure his leg is broken, Roger?"
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000023_000000|"Yes, Miss, it's broke sure enough.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000023_000002|Best put him out of his pain, I says."
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000024_000001|"Not till we have tried to help him.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000024_000002|Where is he?"
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000001|Poor Cap's days is over.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000002|Ah; he were a good dog.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000003|Do everything but speak, he could, and went as near to that as a dumb beast could.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000004|I'll never get another like him."
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000026_000000|While the old man lamented, Florence was looking eagerly in the face of the clergyman.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000026_000001|He met her look with a smile and nod.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000027_000000|"We will go and see!" he said; and off they rode, leaving Roger shaking his head and calling to the sheep.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000000|They soon reached the cottage.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000001|The door was fastened, and when they tried to open it a furious barking was heard within.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000002|A little boy came from the next cottage, bringing the key, which Roger had left there. They entered, and there lay Cap on the brick floor, helpless and weak, but still barking as hard as he could at what he supposed to be intruders.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000003|When he saw Florence and the little boy he stopped barking, and wagged his tail feebly; then he crawled from under the table where he lay, dragged himself to Florence's feet and looked up pitifully in her face.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000004|She knelt down by him, and soothed and petted and talked to him, while the good clergyman examined the injured leg.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000005|It was dreadfully swollen, and every touch was painful; but Cap knew well enough that the hands that hurt were trying to help him, and though he moaned and winced, he licked the hands and made no effort to draw the leg away.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000029_000001|"No," said the vicar.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000029_000002|"No bones are broken.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000029_000003|There's no reason why Cap should not recover; all he needs is care and nursing."
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000030_000000|Florence quietly laid down her riding whip and tucked up her sleeves. "What shall I do first?" she said.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000031_000000|"Well," said the vicar, "I think a hot compress is the thing." Florence looked puzzled; the dolls had never had hot compresses.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000031_000001|"What is it?" she asked.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000032_000001|Very simple, you see, Nurse Florence!
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000032_000002|The first thing is to light the fire."
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000033_000000|That was soon done, with the aid of the boy, who hovered about, interested, but ignorant of surgery.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000033_000002|Florence looked all about the room, but could see nothing save Roger's clean smock frock which hung against the door.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000034_000000|"This will do!" she cried.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000035_000000|The vicar nodded approval.
train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000036_000000|As the heat drew out the inflammation and pain, Cap looked up at the little helper, all his simple dog heart shining in his eyes; the look sank into the child's heart and deepened the tenderness already there. Another step, and a great one, was taken on the blessed road she was to travel.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000002_000000|Have you heard the Taoist tale of the Taming of the Harp?
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000003_000001|It reared its head to talk to the stars; its roots struck deep into the earth, mingling their bronzed coils with those of the silver dragon that slept beneath.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000004_000000|At last came Peiwoh, the prince of harpists.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000004_000005|Hark! a tiger roars,--the valley answers again.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000004_000006|It is autumn; in the desert night, sharp like a sword gleams the moon upon the frosted grass.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000005_000001|The forest swayed like an ardent swain deep lost in thought.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000005_000007|I left the harp to choose its theme, and knew not truly whether the harp had been Peiwoh or Peiwoh were the harp."
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000003|At the magic touch of the beautiful the secret chords of our being are awakened, we vibrate and thrill in response to its call.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000004|Mind speaks to mind.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000005|We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000006|The master calls forth notes we know not of. Memories long forgotten all come back to us with a new significance. Hopes stifled by fear, yearnings that we dare not recognise, stand forth in new glory.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000008_000004|Several of his pupils submitted plays for his approval, but only one of the pieces appealed to him.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000009_000006|In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000010_000002|At once he is and is not.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000010_000003|He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000010_000009|Rarely was the object exposed to view, and then only to the initiated.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000014_000004|The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000014_000005|As a Chinese critic complained many centuries ago, "People criticise a picture by their ear." It is this lack of genuine appreciation that is responsible for the pseudo classic horrors that to day greet us wherever we turn.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000000|Another common mistake is that of confusing art with archaeology.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000003|The mere fact that they have passed unscathed through centuries of criticism and come down to us still covered with glory commands our respect.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000008|A collector is anxious to acquire specimens to illustrate a period or a school, and forgets that a single masterpiece can teach us more than any number of the mediocre products of a given period or school.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000009|We classify too much and enjoy too little.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000016_000001|The art of to day is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection.
train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000016_000002|In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000001_000001|Flowers
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000001|We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000003|We dare not die without them.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000004|We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000005|We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000006|How could we live without them?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000007|It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000008|What solace do they not bring to the bedside of the sick, what a light of bliss to the darkness of weary spirits?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000004_000004|We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000004_000006|What atrocities do we not perpetrate in the name of culture and refinement!
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000005_000002|To morrow a ruthless hand will close around your throats.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000005_000004|The wretch, she may be passing fair.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000005_000006|Tell me, will this be kindness?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000001|He would call himself a Master of Flowers.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000002|He would claim the rights of a doctor and you would instinctively hate him, for you know a doctor always seeks to prolong the troubles of his victims.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000003|He would cut, bend, and twist you into those impossible positions which he thinks it proper that you should assume.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000005|He would burn you with red hot coals to stop your bleeding, and thrust wires into you to assist your circulation.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000009|Would you not have preferred to have been killed at once when you were first captured?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000007_000002|Beside this utter carelessness of life, the guilt of the Flower Master becomes insignificant.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000007_000003|He, at least, respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour to their remains.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000007_000004|In the West the display of flowers seems to be a part of the pageantry of wealth,--the fancy of a moment.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000008_000000|Why were the flowers born so beautiful and yet so hapless?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000008_000001|Insects can sting, and even the meekest of beasts will fight when brought to bay. The birds whose plumage is sought to deck some bonnet can fly from its pursuer, the furred animal whose coat you covet for your own may hide at your approach.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000008_000003|The only flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000009_000001|The man of the pot is far more humane than he of the scissors.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000009_000007|In Japan, one of the most popular of the No dances, the Hachinoki, composed during the Ashikaga period, is based upon the story of an impoverished knight, who, on a freezing night, in lack of fuel for a fire, cuts his cherished plants in order to entertain a wandering friar.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000000|However, let us not be too sentimental.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000001|Let us be less luxurious but more magnificent.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000003|Destruction below and above, destruction behind and before. Change is the only Eternal,--why not as welcome Death as Life?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000004|They are but counterparts one of the other,--The Night and Day of Brahma.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000006|We have worshipped Death, the relentless goddess of mercy, under many different names.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000007|It was the shadow of the All devouring that the Gheburs greeted in the fire.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000009|The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000010|From our ashes springs the phoenix of celestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000014_000000|Why not destroy flowers if thereby we can evolve new forms ennobling the world idea?
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000015_000005|Here we are apt to see only the flower stems, heads as it were, without body, stuck promiscuously into a vase.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000017_000008|Thus Sekishiu ordained that white plum blossoms should not be made use of when snow lay in the garden. "Noisy" flowers were relentlessly banished from the tea room.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000020_000003|The tea master deems his duty ended with the selection of the flowers, and leaves them to tell their own story.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000020_000005|Again, if you go into a noon tea on some irritatingly hot summer day, you may discover in the darkened coolness of the tokonoma a single lily in a hanging vase; dripping with dew, it seems to smile at the foolishness of life.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000021_000003|One of the guests has recorded that he felt in the whole composition the breath of waning autumn.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000022_000000|Flower stories are endless.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000022_000001|We shall recount but one more.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000022_000003|The fame of his convulvuli reached the ear of the Taiko, and he expressed a desire to see them, in consequence of which Rikiu invited him to a morning tea at his house.
train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000023_000001|They are not cowards, like men.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000000_000000|seven. Tea Masters
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000000|In religion the Future is behind us.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000004|The cut and color of the dress, the poise of the body, and the manner of walking could all be made expressions of artistic personality.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000005|These were matters not to be lightly ignored, for until one has made himself beautiful he has no right to approach beauty. Thus the tea master strove to be something more than the artist,--art itself.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000008|Rikiu loved to quote an old poem which says: "To those who long only for flowers, fain would I show the full blown spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow covered hills."
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000003|The Seven Kilns of Enshiu are well known to all students of Japanese pottery.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000004|Many of our textile fabrics bear the names of tea masters who conceived their color or design.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000007|One of the greatest schools of painting owes its origin to the tea master Honnami Koyetsu, famed also as a lacquer artist and potter.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000009|The whole Korin school, as it is generally designated, is an expression of Teaism. In the broad lines of this school we seem to find the vitality of nature herself.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000000|Great as has been the influence of the tea masters in the field of art, it is as nothing compared to that which they have exerted on the conduct of life.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000002|Many of our delicate dishes, as well as our way of serving food, are their inventions.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000004|They have instructed us in the proper spirit in which to approach flowers.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000005|They have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000004_000001|We stagger in the attempt to keep our moral equilibrium, and see forerunners of the tempest in every cloud that floats on the horizon.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000005_000001|The last moments of the great tea masters were as full of exquisite refinement as had been their lives.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000005_000002|Seeking always to be in harmony with the great rhythm of the universe, they were ever prepared to enter the unknown. The "Last Tea of Rikiu" will stand forth forever as the acme of tragic grandeur.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000000|Long had been the friendship between Rikiu and the Taiko Hideyoshi, and high the estimation in which the great warrior held the tea master.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000001|But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000004|Taking advantage of the coldness which had for some time existed between the Taiko and Rikiu, the enemies of the latter accused him of being implicated in a conspiracy to poison the despot.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000005|It was whispered to Hideyoshi that the fatal potion was to be administered to him with a cup of the green beverage prepared by the tea master.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000007_000000|On the day destined for his self immolation, Rikiu invited his chief disciples to a last tea ceremony.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000007_000007|Soon the host enters the room.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000007_000012|"Never again shall this cup, polluted by the lips of misfortune, be used by man." He speaks, and breaks the vessel into fragments.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000008_000001|One only, the nearest and dearest, is requested to remain and witness the end.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000008_000002|Rikiu then removes his tea gown and carefully folds it upon the mat, thereby disclosing the immaculate white death robe which it had hitherto concealed.
train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000008_000003|Tenderly he gazes on the shining blade of the fatal dagger, and in exquisite verse thus addresses it:
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000004_000000|He dropped down softly to the causeway.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000004_000004|It was the death keening of proud Atlantis, Queen of the Atlantic for fifty thousand years.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000004_000005|She was dying in darkness.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000005_000000|For, with the blinding of the Eye, all the soft lights within the city had gone out.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000005_000001|Dense, utter, impenetrable darkness reigned, and even the gibbous moon, floating overhead, seemed to give no light.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000000|Jim dropped to the causeway and began running in the direction of the city.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000001|But, feeling the drag of his wings, he unbuckled the strap and flung them away.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000002|He might need them, but his one thought was to get to Lucille, if she were still alive.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000003|And he felt that each moment lost might mean that he would be too late.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000000|Through the blackness he raced forward, hearing that sobbing ululation within the walls.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000001|But behind him he heard another sound, and shuddered at it, all his hopes suddenly reversed.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000002|For that sound was the shouting of the Drilgoes as they rushed forward to conquest.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000003|And now it seemed a monstrous thing that proud Atlantis should be at the mercy of these hordes.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000004|He had let loose destruction upon the world.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000005|But it was to save Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000008_000000|That was his consolation.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000008_000002|He must get to her before the Drilgoes entered.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000008_000003|And he ran faster, panting, gasping, till of a sudden the portals loomed before him, and he saw a crowd of frenzied Atlanteans struggling to pass through, and a file of soldiers struggling to keep them back.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000009_000000|He could distinguish nothing more than the confused struggle.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000009_000001|He hurled himself into the midst of the crowd and swept it back.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000009_000002|He was within the walls now, and struggling to pass through the mob of people that was swarming like homeless bees.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000010_000000|He fought them with flailing fists, he clove a pathway through them, until he found himself in a great shadowy space that he recognized as the central assembly of the city.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000010_000001|More by instinct than design he hit upon the narrow court that was the elevator.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000010_000002|But the court was filled with another mob of struggling people, and in the darkness there was no possibility of discovering the secret of raising it.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000011_000000|He blundered about, raging, forcing a path now here, now there.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000011_000001|He ran into blind alleys, into small threading streets about the court, which led him back into the central place of assembly.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000011_000002|It was like a nightmare, that blind search under the pale three quarter moon and the black, star blotched sky.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000000|Suddenly Jim found himself wedged by the pressure of the crowd into a sort of recess leading off the elevator court.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000001|So strong was the pressure here that he was unable to move an inch.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000002|Wedged bolt upright, he could only wait and let the frenzied mob stream past him.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000003|And louder above the sound of wailing came the roars of the Drilgoes swarming along the causeway.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000013_000000|Suddenly something gave behind him-a door, as it seemed, broken off its hinges by the mob pressure.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000013_000001|Jim was hurled backward, and fell heavily down a flight of stone stairs, bringing up against a stone balustrade.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000013_000002|He got up, unconscious of his bruises, ran to the top of the flight, and saw the dim square of palest twilight where the door had been.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000014_000001|That stairway must lead to the top of the building, and thence there should be some access to the amphitheatre.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000014_000002|Jim turned toward it.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000015_000000|Suddenly a tremendous uproar filled the streets, yells, the clicking grunts of the Drilgoes, the screams of the panic stricken populace. The invaders had arrived, and they were sweeping all before them.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000015_000001|No chance of recognition in that darkness.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000015_000002|Lucille!
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000016_000000|But long before he reached the top he was ascending one by one, with straining limbs and laboring breath.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000016_000001|Red slaughter down below, a very inferno of sound; above, that shadowy stairway, still extending almost to the heavens.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000016_000002|Step after step, flight beyond flight!
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000000|Jim's lungs were bursting, and his heart hammering as if it would break his chest.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000001|One flight more!
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000003|Another!
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000004|Suddenly he realized that his task was ended.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000005|In place of the stairs stood a vast hall, and beyond that another hall, dim in the faint light that filtered through the glass above.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000018_000000|Jim thought he remembered where he was.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000018_000001|Beyond that next hall there should be the tongue of flooring, crossing the amphitheatre and joining the platform of the idols.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000018_000002|But he stopped suddenly as he emerged, not upon the tongue, but upon still another stairway.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000019_000000|He had gone astray, and out of his bursting lungs a cry of rage and despair went up.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000019_000001|For a moment he stood still.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000019_000002|What use to proceed further?
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000020_000000|And then, amazingly, there came what might have been a sign from heaven.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000020_000001|Down through a small, square opening overhead, no larger than a ventilator, it came ... a glimmer of violet flame!
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000021_000000|And Jim hurled himself like a madman against the stairs, and surmounted them with two bounds.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000021_000001|There were no more.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000021_000002|Instead, Jim found himself looking down into the amphitheatre.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000022_000000|The thick walls had cut off all sound from his ears, save a confused murmur, but now a hideous uproar assailed them.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000022_000001|The whole floor of the amphitheatre was a mass of moving shadows, of slayers and slain.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000023_000000|The Drilgoes had broken in and trapped the multitudes that had taken refuge there.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000023_000001|Their fearful stone tipped spears thrust in and out, to the accompaniment of their savage howls and the screams of the dying.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000024_000000|Never has such a shadow play been seen, perhaps, as that below, where death stalked in dense darkness, and the slayer did not even see his victim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000024_000001|Only the thrust of spears, the soft, yielding flesh that they encountered, the scream, the wrench of stone from tissue, and the blended howl of triumph and scream of despair.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000025_000000|Yet only for a moment did Jim turn his eyes upon that sight.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000025_000001|For he knew where he was now.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000025_000002|He had emerged upon the other side of the amphitheatre, upon the platform where he had seen the priests and dignitaries gathered when he was led forward to be sacrificed.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000026_000000|There, in the rear, were the hideous, shadowy gods, looming up out of the darkness, their outstretched arms interlaced.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000026_000001|And there upon the platform was the Atom Smasher, a little thread of violet light seeping out of the central tube.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000027_000000|Beside it stood a group of figures, impossible to distinguish in the darkness, but of a sudden Lucille's scream rang out above the din below.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000028_000000|With three leaps Jim was at her side.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000028_000002|They were dragging them toward the idols, and Jim understood what that scene portended.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000030_000001|She knew him, turned toward him.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000030_000002|Then one of the priests, armed with a great stone headed club-for no metal is permitted within the precincts of the god Cruk-struck at him furiously.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000031_000000|Jim leaped aside, letting the club descend harmlessly upon the floor. He shot out his right with all his strength behind it, catching the priest upon the jaw, and the man crumpled.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000032_000000|Whirling the club around his head, he fought back the fanatics, all the while shouting to Tode to start the Atom Smasher.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000032_000001|In such a moment he only remembered that Tode was a white man, and of his own generation.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000033_000000|He struck down three of the priests; then he was seized around the knees from behind, and fell heavily.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000034_000000|As he stopped struggling for a moment, to gather his strength for a supreme effort, he heard a whir overhead, and saw the arms of the stone gods begin their horrible revolution.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000034_000001|The priests had started the machinery.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000035_000000|Jim saw him now, a figure poised upon a platform behind the arms, his own arms raised heavenward.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000037_000000|Jim was being dragged forward, with Lucille beside him, old Parrish following, still making a futile struggle for life, while pitiful screeches issued from his mouth.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000038_000000|Jim saw the revolving arms descend within a foot of his head.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000038_000001|One more fight-one more, the last.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000039_000000|Suddenly, with loud yells, a band of Drilgoes leaped forward from the head of the stairs and rushed upon the struggling priests and victims. And, dark as it was, Jim recognized their leader-Cain.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000040_000000|And Cain knew Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000040_000001|As the priests rallied for a desperate resistance, Cain hurled his great body through the air, landing squarely upon the shoulders of the priest nearest the revolving arms, and knocking him flat.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000041_000000|Then the arms caught priest and Drilgo, and the steel hooks dug deep into their flesh.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000041_000001|A screech of terror, a howl that reverberated through the amphitheatre, and nothing remained of either but a heap of macerated flesh.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000042_000000|But in that instant Jim had fought free again.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000042_000001|He caught Lucille and dragged her back toward the Atom Smasher.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000043_000000|Tode had already broken from his captors and was working at it frantically.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000044_000000|"Hold on!" screeched old Parrish.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000044_000001|"Hold on!"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000045_000000|They had a moment's leeway.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000045_000001|The Drilgoes had driven the priests back into the hooks.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000045_000002|With awful shrieks the fanatics were yielding up their lives, in the place of their selected victims.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000046_000000|But more Drilgoes were pouring up the stairs.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000046_000001|A moment's leeway, and no more, before the savage band would impale the four upon their stone pointed spears.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000046_000002|There was not the slightest chance that they would be able to make their identity known.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000047_000000|"For God's sake hurry!" Jim yelled in Tode's ear.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000048_000000|The wheels were revolving, a stream of violet light, leaping out of the central tunnel, cast a lurid illumination upon the scene.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000049_000000|But it was too late.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000049_000001|A score of Drilgoes, with leveled spears, were rushing on the four.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000000|"Hold tight!" screeched Parrish.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000001|He thrust his arm into his breast, and pulled out a little lever.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000002|Jim recognized it and remembered.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000003|It was the instrument of universal death-the uranium release of untold forces of cataclysmic depredation.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000000|A roar that seemed to rend the heavens followed.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000001|Roar upon roar, as the infinite momentum of the disintegrating uranium struck obstacle after obstacle.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000002|The Drilgoes vanished, the amphitheatre melted away, walls and roof....
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000003|Overhead were the moon and stars.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000000|And proud Atlantis was sinking into the depths of the sea....
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000001|Not as a ship sinks, but piecemeal, her walls and towers crumbling and toppling as a child's sand castle crumbles under the attack of the lapping waves.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000002|Down they crashed, carrying their freight of black, clinging, human ants, while from the sea's depths a wave, a mile high, rose and battered the fragments to destruction.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000003|From the crater of the volcano a huge wave of fire fanned forward, and where fire and water met a cloud of steam rose up.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000056_000000|A boiling chaos in which water and earth and fire were blended, spread over land and sea.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000056_000001|And then suddenly it was ended.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000056_000002|Where the last island of the Atlantean continent had been, only the ocean was to be seen, placid beneath the stars.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000057_000000|The Atom Smasher was vibrating at tremendous speed.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000057_000001|Jim, with one arm round Lucille, faced Tode at the instrument board.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000057_000002|Near by sat Parrish, watching him too.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000000|"That took a whole year," said Tode.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000001|"That pretty little scene of destruction we've just witnessed.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000002|The good old Atom Smasher has been doing some lively stunts, or we'd have been engulfed too.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000003|We're not likely to see anything so pretty in history again, unless we go to watch the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii by lava from Vesuvius.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000004|But that would be quite tame in comparison with this."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000059_000000|Tode's jeering tone grated on Jim's ears immeasurably.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000060_000000|"I don't think any of us are craving any more experiments, Tode," he said, trying to keep his voice steady.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000060_000001|"Suppose you take us back to Peconic Bay.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000060_000002|We'll dump the Atom Smasher into the pond, and try to forget that we've had anything except a bad nightmare."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000061_000000|"Don't trust him, Jim," whispered Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000000|Tode heard.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000001|"Thank you," he answered, scowling.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000002|"But seriously, Dent, we can't go back with nothing to show for all our trouble.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000003|Those fools tried to betray me, and then the Eye went out.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000004|Perhaps I have you to thank for that performance?
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000005|However, the sensible thing is to let bygones be bygones.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000006|But we must make a little excursion.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000007|How about picking up a little treasure from the hoards of Solomon or Genghis Khan?
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000008|A few pounds of precious stones would make a world of difference in our social status when we reach Long Island."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000063_000000|Jim felt a cold fury permeating him.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000063_000001|Tode saw his grim look and laughed malignantly.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000000|"Well, Dent, I'm ready to be frank with you," he said.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000001|"The game's still in my hands.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000002|I want Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000003|I'm willing to take you and Parrish back, provided you agree she shall be mine.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000004|I'll have to trust you, but I shall have means of evening up if you play crooked."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000065_000000|"Why don't you ask my girl herself?" piped old Parrish.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000066_000000|"He needn't trouble.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000066_000001|He knows the answer!" cried Lucille scornfully.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000067_000000|"There's your answer," said Jim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000067_000001|"Now, what's the alternative?"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000000|"The alternative is, that I have already set the dial to eternity, Dent," grinned Tode.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000001|"Eternity in the fifth dimension.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000002|Didn't know I'd worked that out, did you?
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000003|A pleasant little surprise.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000004|No, don't try to move.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000005|My hand is on the lever.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000006|I have only to press it, and we're there."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000069_000000|Jim stood stock still in horror.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000069_000001|Tode's voice rang true.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000069_000002|He believed Tode had the power he claimed.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000070_000000|"Yes, the fifth dimension, and eternity," said Tode, "where time and space reel into functionlessness.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000070_000001|Don't ask me what it's like there. I've never been there.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000070_000002|But my impression of it is that it's a fairly good representation of the place popularly known as hell.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000071_000000|"You fool, Dent," Tode's voice rang out with vicious, snarling emphasis, "I gave you your chance to come in with me.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000071_000001|Together we'd have made ourselves masters of Atlantis and brought back her plunder to our Twentieth Century world.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000071_000002|You refused because of a girl-a girl, Dent, who loved me long before you came upon the scene."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000072_000000|"That's a lie, Lucius," answered Lucille steadily.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000072_000001|"And you can do your worst.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000072_000002|There's one factor you haven't reckoned in your calculations, and that's called God."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000073_000000|"The dark blur on the spectral lines," old Parrish muttered.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000001|"Come, make your choice, Dent," he mocked. "It's merely to press this lever.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000002|You'll find yourself-well, we won't go into that.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000003|I don't know where you'll find yourself.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000004|You'll disappear.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000006|I must have Lucille. Choose!" His voice rang out in maniac tones.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000007|"Choose, all of you!"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000075_000000|"Lucille has answered you," Jim retorted.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000076_000000|"And how about you, old man?" called Tode to Parrish.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000077_000000|Parrish leased forward, making a swift movement with his hand.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000077_000001|"Go to your own hell, you dev-"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000078_000000|A blinding light, a frantic oscillation of the Atom Smasher, a sense of death, awful and indescribable-and stark unconsciousness rushed over Jim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000078_000001|His last thought was that Lucille's arms were about him, and that he was holding her.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000078_000002|Nothing mattered, therefore, even though they two were plunged into that awful nothingness of the fifth dimension, where neither space nor time recognizably exists.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000081_000000|"He's coming around, Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000081_000001|Thank God for it!"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000000|Jim opened his eyes.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000001|For a few moments he looked about him without understanding.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000002|Then the outlines of a room etched themselves against the clouded background.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000003|And in the foreground Lucille's face.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000004|The girl was bending over Jim, one hand soothing his forehead.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000083_000000|"Where am I?" Jim muttered.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000084_000000|"Back on earth, Jim, the good old earth, never again to leave it," answered Lucille, with a catch in her voice.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000084_000001|With an effort she composed herself.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000084_000002|"You mustn't talk," she said.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000085_000000|"But what place is this?"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000000|But the first explanation came from Andy Lumm.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000001|"Well, mr Dent, my wife and me sure were glad to be on the spot when you and Miss Parrish got bogged on the edge of the Black Pool," he said.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000002|"Mean, treacherous place it is.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000003|Thar was a cow got mired thar last month, up to her belly.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000004|If us hadn't found her, and dragged her out with ropes, she'd have gone clear under.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000005|Granpop Dawes says thar's underground springs around the edge, and that it runs straight down to hell, though that seems sorter far fetched to me.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000088_000001|Made me and my wife uneasy, that did.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000088_000002|'Andy,' she says.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000088_000003|'I got an inkling you oughter go to the Vanishing Place and see if she ain't there.' And there I found you two, mired to the waist, and mr Parrish dancing around and fretting, and his clothes burned to cinders.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000090_000001|The return of Parrish had been duly chronicled in the newspapers, and had provoked a mild interest, but fortunately the public mind was so occupied at the moment with the trial of a night club hostess that, after the first rush of newspaper men, the three were left alone.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000091_000000|Day after day, in the brilliant autumn weather, Jim and Lucille would roam the tinted woods, recharging themselves with the feel of Earth, until the memory of those dread experiences grew dim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000000|"Well, Jim, I reckon I'd better tell you and get it over," said old Parrish one morning-Parrish, quite his old, jaunty self again.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000001|"Tode had got the dials pointing to the fifth dimension-eternity, he called it, though actually I believe it's nothing more than annihilation, a grand smash.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000002|Well, he pressed that lever.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000003|But something had gone wrong.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000093_000000|"You remember how poor Cain seemed to take great interest in the Atom Smasher.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000093_000001|There's no way of telling what had been going on in that brain of his, but it looks to me like he'd known that that lever meant death.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000093_000002|It was sealed up in wax, and Tode had got it free on the way out of Atlantis.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000001|He'd pried loose one of the wires that hooked to the transformer, and short circuited it, not knowing, of course, just what he was doing.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000002|The result was that when Tode pressed that lever, instead of blowing the whole contraption to pieces, he got a couple of billion volts of electricity through his body, combined with a larger amperage than has ever been imagined.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000003|It burned him to a few grease spots.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000004|He simply-vanished.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000005|You don't remember what you did at the moment, boy?"
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000095_000000|"I don't seem to remember anything," said Jim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000000|"Well, your response was an automatic one.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000001|You jumped him.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000002|Luckily you were too late, for Tode vanished like that!" Old Parrish snapped his fingers.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000003|"But you must have got into the field of magnetic force-any way, you were almost electrocuted.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000004|Lucille and I thought you were dead for hours.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000000|"We laid you down and set a course for home.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000001|I used those dial numberings Tode had given me.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000002|He'd said they wouldn't work, but he'd lied.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000003|They did work.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000004|They brought us back to the Vanishing Place.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000098_000000|"We carried you out, and then I saw your eyelid twitch.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000098_000001|We worked over you with artificial respiration till it looked as if there was a chance for you.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000098_000002|Then I shut off the power and let the waters rush in over the Atom Smasher, and swam ashore.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000100_000000|"Let's think no more about him," said Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000100_000001|She had come up to them, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000100_000002|Love is self centred; other things it forgets very quickly.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000101_000000|"To morrow we go back to New York," said Jim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000102_000000|"I think so, Jim," said Lucille.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000104_000000|"No, Jim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000104_000001|I was thinking of poor Cain.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000104_000002|He died for me."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000105_000000|"But that was twelve thousand years ago, my dear, and to day's to day," said Jim.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000105_000001|"And to morrow a new life begins for you and me."
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000106_000000|He drew her closer to him.
train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000106_000001|No, he would never quite forget, but that was twelve thousand years ago ... and to morrow was his wedding day.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000002_000001|Under Vespasian and titus, Pliny, the naturalist, exclaimed: "Large estates have ruined Italy, and are ruining the provinces."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000003_000001|When the Senate sold captured lands at auction, it was in the interest of the treasury and of public welfare. When the patricians bought up possessions and property, they realized the purpose of the Senate's decrees; when they lent at high rates of interest, they took advantage of a legal privilege.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000006_000000|"The concentration of property," says m Laboulaye, "while causing extreme poverty, forced the emperors to feed and amuse the people, that they might forget their misery.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000007_000001|In the time of Caesar, three hundred and twenty thousand people were thus fed.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000008_000000|"The emperor shrank at the thought.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000009_000000|"While grain was gratuitous, agriculture was impossible.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000009_000001|Tillage gave way to pasturage, another cause of depopulation, even among slaves.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000000|"Finally, luxury, carried further and further every day, covered the soil of Italy with elegant villas, which occupied whole cantons.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000001|Gardens and groves replaced the fields, and the free population fled to the towns.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000002|Husbandry disappeared almost entirely, and with husbandry the husbandman.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000003|Africa furnished the wheat, and Greece the wine.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000005|One day later, and three hundred thousand starving men walked the streets of Rome: that was a revolution.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000011_000000|"This decline of Italy and the provinces did not stop.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000011_000001|After the reign of Nero, depopulation commenced in towns as noted as Antium and Tarentum.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000011_000003|Senators were compelled to invest one third of their fortunes in real estate in Italy; but this measure served only to increase the evil which they wished to cure.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000013_000000|Let us now trace the revolutions in property among the Barbarians.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000014_000000|As long as the German tribes dwelt in their forests, it did not occur to them to divide and appropriate the soil.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000014_000001|The land was held in common: each individual could plow, sow, and reap.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000014_000002|But, when the empire was once invaded, they bethought themselves of sharing the land, just as they shared spoils after a victory.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000001|This property, like that of the romans, was wholly individual, independent, exclusive, transferable, and consequently susceptible of accumulation and invasion.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000003|The Roman wanted matter; the Barbarian wanted man.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000004|Consequently, in the feudal ages, rents were almost nothing,--simply a hare, a partridge, a pie, a few pints of wine brought by a little girl, or a Maypole set up within the suzerain's reach.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000005|In return, the vassal or incumbent had to follow the seignior to battle (a thing which happened almost every day), and equip and feed himself at his own expense.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000007|The lands, like the men, were secured to a chief or seignior by a bond of mutual protection and fidelity.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000008|This subjection was the labor of the German epoch which gave birth to feudalism.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000009|By fair means or foul, every proprietor who could not be a chief was forced to be a vassal." (Laboulaye: History of Property.)
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000017_000000|The times which paved the way for the advent of feudalism and the reappearance of large proprietors were times of carnage and the most frightful anarchy.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000017_000002|The tenth century, among others, if my memory serves me rightly, was called the CENTURY OF IRON.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000017_000003|His property, his life, and the honor of his wife and children always in danger the small proprietor made haste to do homage to his seignior, and to bestow something on the church of his freehold, that he might receive protection and security.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000001|The Capitularies are full of repressive provisions; but the incessant reiteration of these threats only shows the perseverance of the evil and the impotency of the government.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000002|Oppression, moreover, varies but little in its methods.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000004|It is said that, whenever a poor man refused to give his estate to the bishop, the curate, the count, the judge, or the centurion, these immediately sought an opportunity to ruin him.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000005|They made him serve in the army until, completely ruined, he was induced, by fair means or foul, to give up his freehold."--Laboulaye: History of Property.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000019_000000|How many small proprietors and manufacturers have not been ruined by large ones through chicanery, law suits, and competition?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000021_000001|Reduced to personal exploitation, it is property only potentially.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000021_000002|At its second term, it exists in its perfection; then it is truly property.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000023_000000|When property is concentrated, society, abusing itself, polluted, so to speak, grows corrupt, wears itself out-how shall I express this horrible idea?--plunges into long continued and fatal luxury.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000000|When feudalism was established, society had to die of the same disease which killed it under the Caesars,--I mean accumulated property.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000001|But humanity, created for an immortal destiny, is deathless; the revolutions which disturb it are purifying crises, invariably followed by more vigorous health.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000002|In the fifth century, the invasion of the Barbarians partially restored the world to a state of natural equality.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000003|In the twelfth century, a new spirit pervading all society gave the slave his rights, and through justice breathed new life into the heart of nations. It has been said, and often repeated, that Christianity regenerated the world.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000004|That is true; but it seems to me that there is a mistake in the date.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000007|The patrician families became extinct, as the feudal families did, and as all aristocracies must.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000026_000000|The destruction of feudalism, the conversion of the serf into the commoner, the emancipation of the communes, and the admission of the Third Estate to political power, were deeds accomplished by Christianity exclusively.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000001|Slavery among the romans.--"The Roman slave was, in the eyes of the law, only a thing,--no more than an ox or a horse.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000002|He had neither property, family, nor personality; he was defenceless against his master's cruelty, folly, or cupidity.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000004|Claudius was the first defender of this shameful practice."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000030_000000|"Discharge your old workman," says the economist of the proprietary school; "turn off that sick domestic, that toothless and worn out servant.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000030_000001|Put away the unserviceable beauty; to the hospital with the useless mouths!"
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000032_000000|"As soon as the Church met in council, it launched an anathema against the masters who had exercised over their slaves this terrible right of life and death.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000032_000002|Constantine, who embodied in the laws the grand ideas of Christianity, valued the life of a slave as highly as that of a freeman, and declared the master, who had intentionally brought death upon his slave, guilty of murder.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000034_000001|In what did it differ from Roman slavery, and whence came this difference?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000034_000002|Let the same author answer.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000035_000002|Some are employed in the personal service of the master; others are charged with household cares.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000035_000003|The women spin the wool; the men grind the grain, make the bread, or practise, in the interest of the seignior, what little they know of the industrial arts. The master punishes them when he chooses, kills them with impunity, and sells them and theirs like so many cattle.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000035_000006|In all these particulars Germanic slavery and Roman servitude are alike."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000036_000000|This similarity is worthy of notice.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000036_000001|Slavery is always the same, whether in a Roman villa or on a Barbarian farm.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000037_000000|Why did his condition improve?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000039_000000|Always Christianity, always religion, though we should like to speak of the laws only.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000039_000001|Did the philanthropy of the Visigoths make its first appearance before or after the preaching of the Gospel?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000039_000002|This point must be cleared up.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000040_000001|They were rarely separated from their homes when their land was sold; they and all that they had became the property of the purchaser.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000040_000002|The law favored this realization of the serf, in not allowing him to be sold out of the country."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000042_000000|"The Barbarians," again says m Laboulaye, "were the first to recognize the slave's rights of family and property,--two rights which are incompatible with slavery."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000043_000002|Suppose that the Barbarians had remained Pagans in the midst of a Pagan world.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000043_000004|The Barbarians were less selfish, less imperious, less dissolute, and less cruel than the romans.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000045_000000|When, how, and by what title did they obtain this privilege?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000046_000000|"GRADUALLY their duties were regulated."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000047_000000|Whence came the regulations?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000047_000001|Who had the authority to introduce them?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000048_000000|"The master took a part of the labor of the serf,--three days, for instance,--and left the rest to him.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000048_000001|As for Sunday, that belonged to God."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000000|But this law itself, on what did it bear?--what was its principle?--what was the philosophy of the councils and popes with reference to this matter?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000001|The reply to all these questions, coming from me alone, would be distrusted.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000002|The authority of m Laboulaye shall give credence to my words.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000003|This holy philosophy, to which the slaves were indebted for every thing, this invocation of the Gospel, was an anathema against property.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000051_000000|The proprietors of small freeholds, that is, the freemen of the middle class, had fallen, in consequence of the tyranny of the nobles, into a worse condition than that of the tenants and serfs.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000051_000002|It was better to have a noble for a seignior than for a judge."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000052_000001|The honest tenant-the laborer who earns weekly a moderate but constant salary-is more to be envied than the independent but small farmer, or the poor licensed mechanic.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000053_000000|At that time, all were either seigniors or serfs, oppressors or oppressed.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000053_000001|"Then, under the protection of convents, or of the seigniorial turret, new societies were formed, which silently spread over the soil made fertile by their hands, and which derived their power from the annihilation of the free classes whom they enlisted in their behalf.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000053_000003|As fast as the social tempest abated, it became necessary to respect the union and heritage of these villeins, who by their labor had truly prescribed the soil for their own profit."
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000000|I ask how prescription could take effect where a contrary title and possession already existed?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000001|M. Laboulaye is a lawyer.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000002|Where, then, did he ever see the labor of the slave and the cultivation by the tenant prescribe the soil for their own profit, to the detriment of a recognized master daily acting as a proprietor?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000003|Let us not disguise matters.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000005|In doing these things they were perfectly right; for, in fact, their condition was intolerable.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000006|But in law-I mean in Roman and Napoleonic law-their refusal to obey and pay tribute to their masters was illegitimate.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000000|The seignior had attached the serf to the soil; religion granted the serf rights over the soil.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000001|The seignior imposed duties upon the serf; religion fixed their limits.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000002|The seignior could kill the serf with impunity, could deprive him of his wife, violate his daughter, pillage his house, and rob him of his savings; religion checked his invasions: it excommunicated the seignior.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000003|Religion was the real cause of the ruin of feudal property.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000004|Why should it not be bold enough to day to resolutely condemn capitalistic property?
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000005|Since the middle ages, there has been no change in social economy except in its forms; its relations remain unaltered.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000059_000002|There were sub associations, fraternities, tradesmen's associations in the communes, and colleges in the universities.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000060_000000|In France, the Revolution was much more gradual.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000060_000001|The communes, in taking refuge under the protection of the kings, had found them masters rather than protectors.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000060_000004|The nobles, the clergy, the commoners, the parliaments, every thing in short except a few seeming privileges, were controlled by the king; who, like his early predecessors, consumed regularly, and nearly always in advance, the revenues of his domain,--and that domain was France.
train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000061_000000|Finally, 'eighty nine arrived; liberty resumed its march; a century and a half had been required to wear out the last form of feudal property,--monarchy.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000001_000000|THE CLEARER SIGHT
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000002_000000|BY ERNEST STARR
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000001|He held a steady hand on the lever, so that he might push it back instantly if he saw in the crucible too sudden a transformation.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000002|As he watched, the dull saffron powder took on a deeper hue about the edge, the body of it remaining unchanged.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000004|No further change appeared.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000006|He was as a man attuned to a tremendous hazard, anticipation and mental endurance taut, all his force focused on one throbbing desire.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000008|The deepened hue touched only the edge, following regularly the contour of the vessel; it made no advance toward the centre of the substance.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000004_000000|'It shall!' Noakes breathed; and as if conning an oft repeated formula, he said, 'The entire mass should deepen in color, regularly and evenly. Heat!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000004_000001|Heat!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000005_000000|His glance shifted to the control switch under his hand.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000005_000001|Its metal knobs, marking the degrees of intensity of the current it controlled, caught the light and blinked like so many small, baleful eyes. Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000006_000000|He jerked back his head decisively; he would increase the current.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000006_000001|The thought burned before him like a live thing; and in the light of it he saw many pictures-heliographs of happenings in and about the laboratories: flame, smoke dense and turgid, splintered wood, metal hurtling through air, bleeding hands, lacerated breasts, sightless eyes.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000007_000000|'That's the trouble with high explosives,' he half groaned.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000000|He turned away from the stand and went to the single window that lit the room.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000001|Through it he saw shops, store houses, and small buildings similar to his own, all a part of the plant of Maxineff.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000002|He thought of each small laboratory as a potential inferno, each experimenter a bondman to ecstasy, the whole frenzied, gasping scheme a furtherance of the fame and power of Henry Maxineff, already world known, inventor of the deadliest high explosives.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000003|One of the buildings had been turned into a temporary hospital.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000004|He thought of the pitiful occupant-his face scarred, one socket eyeless-and shivered.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000009_000000|'It isn't that I want to hedge,' he said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000009_000001|'I shall take the chance; but having risked everything, I will go to her able and whole, offering it all without an apology.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000010_000000|His gaze was drawn back to the crucible.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000010_000001|In the thin haze above it a face seemed to shine.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000011_000000|'Let me bring with an avowal all that you have now, more!--for in your life there can't be anything bigger than my love.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000011_000001|And it's that which makes the deal right.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000011_000002|Don't judge me yet!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000000|He whispered to the face, and his breath made little swirls and eddies in the haze about it.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000001|The filmy curves wafted toward him, bringing it close to his lips.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000002|The lids fluttered.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000004|The face vanished.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000005|He started back, distraught.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000013_000000|A rushing recollection of Maxineff's tragedies came to him, more vivid even than the face.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000013_000001|Halsey, who jarred the nitro, had been annihilated. Ewell was mad from the violent termination of an experiment similar to that now in development.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000014_000000|'A year ago!' Noakes said, 'and still Ewell lives and raves!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000015_000000|How alike the cases were!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000015_000002|If the mixture there were properly prepared, added heat would metamorphose it calmly from its present harmlessness into something new, wonderful, deadly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000015_000003|It would become imbued with marvelous possibility, a thing for which royal military bureaus, imperial navies, would pay a great price.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000016_000000|A twist of the lever would do it.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000016_000001|Yet how alike- And Ewell was mad, injured gruesomely, living dead.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000017_000000|Again the blinking switch caught him, but he shrugged away its evil suggestiveness.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000017_000001|He sought to flee the strain of the moment, to make it seem natural and like the smaller risks of his daily occupation.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000017_000002|He assumed a tottering bravado, and as he put his hand to the lever, he smiled crookedly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000019_000000|His hand left the lever as if it pricked him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000020_000000|'You!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000021_000000|'Am I a wraith?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000022_000000|Noakes looked at her silently.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000022_000001|In the moment's abstraction her presence seemed a manifestation of some psychic conduction which he tried lamely to understand-here, now, in a moment of danger of which she unknowingly was the moving force.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000023_000000|'Then exorcise me quickly, but don't sprinkle me with acid; it would be fatal to my clothes.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000024_000000|Noakes warmed to the aura of light and cheer about her.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000025_000000|'There isn't an alkali in the shop; I won't endanger you,' he replied easily.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000027_000000|'mrs
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000027_000001|Max says you are confining yourself too closely.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000027_000002|I've been with her all morning.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000028_000000|While she spoke she took off her hat and smoothed her hair.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000029_000000|'I'm blown to pieces.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000029_000001|I drove Cornish this morning; he got by everything on the way.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000030_000003|He knew that in her were no dim angles of cross grained purpose, no shadowy intersections of the lines of good and evil.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000032_000001|But see-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000000|She turned her back while she arranged her hair before the makeshift mirror.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000001|Relieved from her direct gaze, he stepped quickly to the stand, and looked into the crucible.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000003|He had expected none, but he could not be sure.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000004|Maxineff himself could not be sure of this new mixture.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000006|The suspense was unbearable.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000035_000000|'Well, Cagliostro!' she called.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000035_000001|'You alchemists are capable of the utterest abstraction, aren't you?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000036_000000|'Why have you come?' he said quickly, frowning at her.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000037_000000|'To take you driving,' with an enticing smile.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000038_000000|'Will you not go?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000038_000001|Please, at once?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000039_000000|Her manner lost something of its verve.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000041_000000|'And won't you come?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000042_000000|'I cannot; not this morning.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000043_000000|'Well,' she said, with a little sigh, as she thrust in her hat pins, 'mrs
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000043_000001|Max will be disappointed.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000043_000002|On her command I came to break up this seclusion of yours.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000044_000000|'A week, seven days!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000045_000000|'What are you doing?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000046_000000|'Oh-I've been working out some ideas.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000047_000000|'But you are so quiet about it!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000047_000001|What are the ideas?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000048_000000|Noakes hesitated, and she laughed merrily as she went toward the door.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000049_000000|'We laity are hopeless, aren't we?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000050_000000|'No, I wasn't, because I scarcely understand myself.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000052_000000|'Indeed, no,' he said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000052_000001|'mr Max knows nothing about it-that is,' he continued hurriedly, 'it's the sort of thing- At any rate, I'll soon be through.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000053_000000|She stood in the doorway, outlined against the bright incoming mid daylight, her face turned back to him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000054_000000|'And then you will come out into the world again?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000054_000001|mrs Max and Cornish and I shall be honored.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000055_000000|'Then I shall be free.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000056_000000|He spoke the words with singular feeling.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000057_000000|'Truly, though, mr Noakes,' she said in a straightforward manner, 'you are too busy.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000057_000001|mrs Max says you are to break out, break out with the measles if nothing else will interrupt you, and you are to have tea with her this afternoon.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000058_000000|Noakes looked doubtful.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000058_000001|She went down the steps and turned again.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000059_000000|'Oh, I almost forgot-here's a letter for you.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000060_000000|'Where-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000061_000000|'It came in the Maxineffs' mail this morning.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000061_000001|mrs Max suggested my bringing it to you.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000062_000000|Noakes took the long, foreign stamped envelope.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000062_000001|The typed superscription was noncommittal, but at the Berlin postmark his eyes narrowed and the knuckles of the hand by his side whitened.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000062_000002|He drew a quick breath and looked keenly at the girl.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000063_000000|'Was mr Maxineff at home this morning?' he asked quietly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000065_000000|'Oh!' he breathed.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000065_000001|'Thank you very much.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000066_000000|He slipped the letter into his pocket.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000067_000000|'Well, I can't stay any longer.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000068_000000|Noakes pressed her hand.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000069_000000|'And, Cagliostro, when the puzzle's solved, come to see me.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000069_000001|I'll sing away the worries, Good bye.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000070_000000|'Good bye, Miss Becky.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000070_000001|Excuse my untractableness, won't you?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000000|He watched her a moment, then strode rapidly to the stand.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000001|Looking through the faint haze, he saw her pass down the straight path which led to the great gate of the Maxineff work yard.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000002|When she was close to it he grasped the switch lever with cramped fingers.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000003|His face was colorless. He moved the lever forward with a jerk, and lifting his eyes, saw her pass out of the gate.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000073_000000|Beyond reach of time he waited.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000073_000002|Still he waited, fearfully wondering at the stability of this new thing.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000073_000004|He pushed back the lever, watched again, and waited.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000074_000001|He had succeeded; he had created a thing new to the world, an explosive which would be more powerful than the deadliest in existence; he had perfected the work of a week's exquisite danger; he had won.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000075_000000|'I am glad, glad!' he said faintly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000076_000000|As he straightened up he found himself suddenly weak.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000076_000001|The strain had been galling, and the madness of gratification consumed his strength.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000076_000002|He moved toward the door, stepping very gently, for he knew not how slight a vibration might shatter the delicate affinity in his discovery.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000077_000000|He remembered the foreign letter, and taking it from his pocket, tore open the envelope.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000078_000000|He looked through the open door, conscious for the first time of the perfectness of the day.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000078_000001|It was good to be alive, he thought, free, something accomplished, with leave to tell a girl-
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000000|A tall man entered the gate and took the walk toward the laboratory. Noakes looked at him in a moment of amazement, almost of stupefaction. The necessity of instant action startled him to movement.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000001|As quickly as he thought, he pushed the door three quarters shut, replaced the jars from which he had taken his materials, filled a second crucible with a harmless haphazard mixture, and placed it over a dead furnace in a stand in the corner behind the door.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000002|He lifted the window sash.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000003|With all his strength he hurled his priceless crucible.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000004|By a marvel of speed he had the sash lowered, and was behind the door, when the building was shaken by an explosion.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000080_000000|'What is that, mr Noakes?' came in deep, calm tones from the door.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000081_000000|'Good morning, mr Maxineff,' said Noakes, turning slowly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000081_000001|'The racket? Some half baked fulminate I put in the ditch out there an hour ago.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000082_000000|'So long since?' said the older man, advancing toward the window.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000083_000001|I think the jarring of the wagon you see leaving the chemical house caused it.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000084_000000|A hole several feet in diameter marked the spot where the crucible fell. The stuff had delayed not an instant in working its havoc.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000084_000001|Noakes was glad there was too little of it to cause a suspicious deal of damage.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000085_000000|Maxineff looked reflectively about the yard, while Noakes nervously eyed his chief's expressive profile.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000085_000001|His eyes wandered to the fine gray head of this tall, straight man.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000085_000002|He could not fail to be impressed afresh by the forceful exterior, significant of the inner attitude which had won for Henry Maxineff a name honored among nations.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000086_000000|'What of your work?' he said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000087_000000|Noakes was glad those seeing eyes were not on him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000088_000000|'I'm beat,' he said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000088_000001|'I've gone at it every way I know, and I have been consistently and finally unsuccessful.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000089_000000|In the ensuing pause Noakes realized that this was the first admission of failure he had ever made to his chief.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000089_000001|The surprise it called forth was grateful to him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000090_000000|'What's the trouble?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000090_000001|But I think the trouble with you is that you have overreached yourself, Noakes.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000091_000000|'Oh, no; the idea is a fine, tremendous one.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000091_000001|Sheer stupidity is my trouble, I think.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000092_000000|His humility seemed real, and perhaps the unusualness of it brought a curious expression to Maxineff's face, and into his eyes a contemplative light that Noakes did not care to meet.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000093_000000|'I met Miss Hallam as I entered,' Maxineff said carelessly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000095_000000|'Yes?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000095_000001|She came to tell me that mrs Max will permit me to have tea with her this afternoon.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000096_000000|'You are coming, I hope?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000097_000000|'Indeed, yes.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000097_000003|I understood the fulminate was running low, and spent my morning blundering over making some.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000097_000004|I couldn't do that even, familiar as I am with the process.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000098_000000|'Well, leave it all and come with me over the yard.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000098_000001|I am inspecting this morning.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000098_000002|Be my secretary for a while.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000099_000000|Five o'clock had passed when they emerged upon the New England town's stolid main street.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000099_000001|They walked beneath the venerable flanking trees toward the Maxineff villa, which surmounted a wooded continuation of the street.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000100_000000|In a high gray and white room they found mrs Maxineff.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000100_000001|She touched a bell as she said in an odd manner of inflecting, 'But you are late!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000101_000000|Moving to one end of the spindle legged sofa, she made place at her side for Maxineff, and motioned Noakes to a chair near them.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000102_000000|'Ah, I see it: you will be a second Max-all science, all absence, and a woman waiting at home!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000102_000001|Immolation, you call it?' she continued, her hands moving quickly among the appurtenances of the tea table. 'That is what you prefer, my young mr Noakes.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000104_000000|A servant brought in buttered rusks, and served the men with tea.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000105_000000|'Orders!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000105_000002|Then you are easily immolate!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000106_000000|Over his cup Maxineff smiled encouragement to his wife.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000107_000000|'You are practical, my friend.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000107_000001|Confess now, there is a reason for your-your application?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000108_000000|Noakes's attitude was uncompromising.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000108_000001|He placed his cup on the table before he spoke.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000111_000000|'So! Science has made your dark skin white; love for this business of killing men has kept you hid a week.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000112_000000|'Of saving men,' Maxineff corrected, while his wife smiled as at the recurrence of a customary witticism.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000113_000000|'And you gave the orders, Max!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000113_000001|You are to be blamed for this display of energy.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000114_000000|'Don't scold, dear.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000114_000001|It will be a wonderful thing!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000115_000000|'A new explosive?' she interrupted.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000116_000000|'Do you remember the day we motored from Stoneham?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000116_000001|I first thought of it then.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000117_000000|'And I have made application to a home for the feeble minded, mrs Max,' Noakes said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000117_000001|'mr Max will never commission me again.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000118_000000|'I'll be with you to morrow, and we shall see wherein is the difficulty.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000119_000000|'But, Max, another?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000119_000001|Now I see your scheme of universal peace quite puffed away!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000120_000000|'This will bring it nearer!' Maxineff said enthusiastically.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000122_000000|'Stay to dinner, will you?' she said to Noakes.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000123_000000|'Thanks, but I couldn't with propriety.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000123_000001|I forgot to have luncheon to day, and your tea has given me a keen anticipation for dinner; my zest would be embarrassing to you, and past my control.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000123_000002|Besides, I shall take a half mile walk to night.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000000|'Lucky Becky!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000001|Then come again soon.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000002|Max, dear,' she said, turning to her husband, 'I cannot hear that again.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000003|I shall be on the porch.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000125_000001|Frequently he bent his head in acquiescence, and occasionally interjected a pertinent question under the guidance of his secondary mind; but his thoughts moved in a circle of smaller radius.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000126_000000|What to him was a policy of world peace?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000126_000002|Maxineff's argument was not new to him; when he gave it serious attention he doubted its practicability.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000127_000000|The older man's voice seemed far away, as it said, 'Each new explosive deals a blow at war,--war!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000128_000000|Noakes had heard the same thing when his chief concluded with the government an agreement which secured to it the exclusive use of his latest product.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000129_000002|Granted then-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000000|Noakes was practical.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000001|He placed before himself a definite goal.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000002|He exerted every power to attain it, and used the means at his disposal.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000003|If he encompassed it, he put it to the use for which it was intended.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000004|He gave no thought to the extraneous influence it exerted on other phases upon which his life touched.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000005|He had made a great discovery-not a fortunate accident like that of the man who discovered nitro.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000006|With great danger to himself, he had followed a line of reasoning to its proximate end; the resulting discovery he would use to his individual advantage. He did not accord to himself the godlike privilege of casting discord among the nations, and he did not care what peaceful zoo the lion, the bear, and the various species of eagle found as common refuge.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000132_000000|The great man's argument was advanced step by step.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000132_000001|The light faded. Secure in the dusk, Noakes no longer maintained a semblance of attention.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000133_000000|A servant clicked soft light from the wall, and removed the tea table.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000134_000000|Noakes rose, uttered a commonplace, and bade his chief good night.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000135_000000|Soon he was descending the village street, keeping pace with his rapid thoughts.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000136_000000|From the exchange he dispatched a messenger to the house a half mile away.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000137_000000|He dressed quickly, the while reading repeatedly his foreign letter. When dressed, he sat on the bed, chin in his palms, and looked at the blank bedroom wall.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000137_000002|Later he sat before the shelves in his study, absently scanning the backs of the books.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000138_000000|'When?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000000|In the morning Maxineff would come to search for that which he had found.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000001|He might be there for weeks, from morning till night.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000002|In that case the work must be delayed and misguided.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000003|The proportions were finely calculated; the method could not be bettered.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000004|He could duplicate it in an hour.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000005|If only he could repeat the experiment before-
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000140_000000|'To night!' he said, and left the room with a firm step.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000000|He took the path by the side of the road which led in the opposite direction from the Maxineff place.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000001|He lit his first pipe since morning. How good life was!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000002|The town, the plant, Maxineff, were all behind him. Ahead was a goal toward which he bore with increasing lightness of heart.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000003|Clearly defined decisions, unregretted, faded into the brightness of anticipation.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000004|His pack of problems dropped from him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000005|One day more and he could speak-one evening of companionable friendship.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000143_000000|Her yard was a gnomish alternation of unsullied light and alluring shade.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000143_000002|Noakes traversed less rapidly the curved driveway, pausing where it was cut by a paved way to the door.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000145_000000|She came to the door to meet him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000146_000000|'Will duty call you back before you have been with me just a little while?' she asked as they entered the room.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000147_000000|'No, duty has lost her voice at present.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000148_000000|She dropped into a big arm chair.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000148_000001|He turned his back to the light, and sat facing her.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000150_000000|'Singing mostly.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000151_000000|'Sing now, please.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000152_000000|'No, let's talk first.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000153_000000|'Well, how did Cornish behave on your way back?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000154_000000|'Quite as well as if you had been with us, Noakes.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000155_000000|He leaned forward quickly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000156_000000|'Do you know, that's the first time you've called me "Noakes"?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000157_000000|'It slipped.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000157_000001|mrs Max says it, you know; I am weak about taking on colloquialisms.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000159_000000|'You do not seem to be overjoyed.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000160_000000|'I am,' he said gently.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000161_000000|'Don't be hilarious over it.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000162_000000|'I will; I wish-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000163_000000|'Well, certainly; "Noakes" it shall be.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000164_000000|'Thanks, Miss Beck.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000165_000000|'Haven't you done anything but work these days?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000166_000000|'I have thought more or less.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000167_000000|'Strange; what about?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000168_000000|'You, of course.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000169_000000|'Steady!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000169_000001|Spring has passed.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000170_000000|'And to night I heard a queer thing about you.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000171_000000|'What?' she asked in an engaging manner of invitation to confidence.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000172_000000|'That you are to be married.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000172_000001|I have it on the word of my landlady.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000173_000000|'I?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000174_000000|'So it is rumored in the village.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000175_000000|'I am glad my family is not so anxious to thrust me off as my friends are.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000177_000000|'Married?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000177_000002|It is so very final, you know. A woman gives up everything.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000178_000000|'Not necessarily.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000179_000000|'Oh, yes she does: freedom, family, associations.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000180_000000|'And in return?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000181_000000|'From the right man she gets-a sort of compensation.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000183_000000|'A true one; she knows she cares more than he does.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000184_000000|'No, no!' Noakes spoke from a full heart.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000185_000000|'She does; and knowing it, she need not expect equal return-only part compensation.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000185_000001|But how good he ought to be!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000186_000000|'Good?' he asked doubtfully.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000189_000000|'Noakes, you are disillusioning, and incorrect, and moreover traitorous to your kind.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000190_000000|'Not a bit of it; you overpraise my kind.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000191_000000|'But-let's be definite-you know he may be all-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000192_000000|'And may not always have been; in which connection he may not be expected to enlighten the dreaming lady, may he?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000193_000000|'I think he may.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000194_000000|'But he may possess a certain masculine trait, a kind of secretiveness.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000195_000000|'Secretive,' she mused.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000195_000001|'Then he is a bit of a coward, I think.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000196_000000|'He would be a cad,' Noakes said quickly, 'to tell her things that would pain her.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000197_000001|'It is better to become accustomed to a thing than have it come as a revelation.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000198_000000|'I see,' Noakes said; 'like taking a tonic in midwinter to fend off spring fever.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000198_000001|You forget,' he continued in a different tone, looking at her speculatively, 'that understanding may never come.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000199_000000|'Then he has put her on a lower intellectual plane; he has withheld from her, as he might from a child.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000200_000000|'No, he has loved her too well to hurt her.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000201_000000|'Loved her so ill that he has deceived her from the beginning.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000202_000000|'To my mind there is something active in deception; this would be rather an omission.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000204_000000|'Not at all!' Noakes spoke somewhat vehemently.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000205_000000|'Don't think I mean,' she said, 'that there should be a detailed interchange of trivial confidence.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000205_000001|That would be tiresome.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000205_000002|If, however, there were one big thing in his life that might influence her feeling toward him, he should tell it, and let her judge.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000206_000000|'Not smooth over a disagreeable occurrence?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000207_000000|'Never!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000207_000001|It would be cruel.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000208_000000|Noakes sat very still.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000209_000000|'If I were the girl,--' she began, and checked the speech with a faint laugh.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000209_000001|'But we will not be dramatic, nor personal.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000000|Noakes told himself he had always known that this was her thought; she was too clear hearted to feel anything else.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000001|The understanding of which she had half seriously spoken must never come, and the only means of avoiding it was to night's silence, the silence of all the days to follow.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000003|Alive, aware of its possible fulfillment, he could not condemn himself to the sacrifice.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000004|She had not asked it of him, and he would not face that which she might ask if he obeyed the weak voice which counseled a surrender to her judgment.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000005|To the last intoxicating drop he would drink, in reverent loving thankfulness for the draught vouchsafed him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000006|He would care, not in fearful accumulation of credit against a day of reckoning, but in surrender to the brimming abundance of their store.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000007|He would secure to her freedom from that possible pain by following the inevitable trend.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000211_000000|His regard was a compelling force with which he had lived and grown since he had known Becky.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000211_000001|He had not spoken of it to her, silenced by the piteous bane of insufficient income; but now almost he was free. When he spoke, the breadth and depth of the thing it was would induce her assent.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000211_000003|His failure to anticipate such a chance was by no means due to an under estimation of her powers of will, determination, or selection; rather to the feeling which, with the beat of his heart, knocked for freedom to go out, out, about the world, and with its sweeping lines converged again, to enter and permeate a heart attuned to reception and response.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000212_000000|He sat beside her on the piano bench, and placed before her the songs he liked best.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000213_000000|Her voice was a pure soprano, of an expressive sweetness which affected Noakes as nothing else he had known.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000213_000001|It seemed to him that her clarity of soul found expression in her exquisitely pure singing tones.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000214_000000|With hands tight clasped between his knees, fearing to look at her, Noakes listened while she sang him into a half visualized dream, as obsessing as it was immanent, which he clung to and enjoyed to the full in order that he might ignore the longing then to speak his thought.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000214_000001|His dream keyed him to a responsiveness which made his throat throb in sympathy with the vibration of her tones.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000215_000000|Presently he went away.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000216_000000|Alone in the silver splotched yard, the spell yet held him; but when the white road pointed a way back to what he had left behind, a fog of uncertainty encircled him, dissipating the glow of his dream, checking his anticipation, crushing his problem close to him in the narrow circle of his vision, so close that, although a thing solved and set aside, it loomed ominous and insistent.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000217_000000|He followed the road back to what he had left behind.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000000|In the laboratory Noakes bent over a crucible.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000001|The room was still.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000004|He drew a deep breath that quivered through the room with startling distinctness.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000005|He bent closer to the tiny quantity of powder in the bottom of the vessel.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000219_000000|Suddenly he stood erect and looked about him.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000219_000001|His glance slowly circled the room, and fell to the hand on the switch lever.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000219_000002|Then he advanced the lever.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000000|It came as a burst of light taken up and radiated by clouds of fume and gas with which the air was instantly impregnated.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000002|His eyes pained horribly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000003|He heard a crescendo roaring as of a billow breaking on the shore; as suddenly as it had come, the light went out. He was in darkness.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000004|He trained his gaze into the void and succeeded only in augmenting the pain back of his eyes.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000005|The darkness was impenetrable. He began to realize what had happened.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000006|With a low moan he crumpled and sank to the floor.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000221_000000|Late in the afternoon of the next day, behind a livery horse, two men were covering the roadway between town and the Hallam place.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000221_000001|To one the way seemed long.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000221_000002|He leaned back wearily and pulled a soft hat down over his bandaged eyes.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000222_000000|'Where are we?' he asked.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000223_000000|'At the gate,' the driver replied.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000224_000000|Noakes stiffened.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000224_000001|The gate closed behind them, and the wheels rumbled on the driveway.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000225_000000|'Is-is any one in front?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000226_000000|'Miss Hallam is on the porch, sir.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000227_000000|The vehicle came to a stop.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000228_000000|'Afternoon, Miss Beck,' Noakes called.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000229_000000|He tried to make it sound pleasant and commonplace, and knew that he failed.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000230_000000|Grasping the side of the vehicle, he descended clumsily.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000231_000000|Becky took his hand and pressed it warmly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000231_000001|She turned and took a step toward the house, still holding his hand.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000231_000002|He withdrew it.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000232_000000|'I-don't, please; I know the way.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000233_000000|With the shuffling tread of the blind he ascended the walk, stopping uncertainly at the foot of the steps.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000233_000001|He heard Becky, at his side, draw a quick breath, as if about to speak.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000234_000000|'Do you know,' he said, as he paused at the top, 'I've never counted these steps before.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000234_000001|I didn't know there were so many.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000234_000002|Let's sit inside, if you don't mind.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000236_000000|'It's this way, Noakes,' she said gently, as she guided him into the room in which they were the night before.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000237_000000|'Thank you.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000237_000001|It's a bit hard to be led,' Noakes said huskily.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000238_000000|They sat on a deep couch.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000239_000000|'Noakes, was it wise to come?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000239_000001|I am glad you are here, but won't it hurt you, retard your recovery?' Becky asked anxiously.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000240_000000|'I had to come.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000241_000000|'mr Max told me-both he and the doctor telephoned me early this morning-that in spite of all they said to you, you insisted on coming.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000242_000000|'I am fit, sound except for my eyes; that's the shame of it,' he said bitterly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000242_000001|'They couldn't persuade me that I should rest now, rest to recover from a shock that will last a lifetime.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000243_000000|'I thought-I was afraid you might add fresh danger by coming out so soon.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000244_000001|'As for my eyes, the harm is done.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000245_000000|'Is it irremediable?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000247_000000|'But soon-some day, surely-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000248_000000|'no
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000248_000001|The doctor gives me banalities for answers.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000248_000002|I suppose he thinks I would go to pieces if he told me the truth.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000249_000000|'Yes, perhaps he thinks you could not bear the truth,' Becky assented very gently.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000000|Her low, feeling tones brought a lump to Noakes's throat.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000001|He felt the sympathy which quivered in her voice, and it nearly unmanned him; but he misunderstood her meaning.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000002|He thought that she felt with him the sting of being deprived of full knowledge of his condition, the hurt of their doubting his strength.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000003|That Becky meant something far different, he might have known from her humble acquiescence, and the sudden touch of her hand on his arm.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000252_000000|'Don't!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000000|'I didn't intend to speak so to you.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000001|I haven't the right.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000002|You must pardon me.' He was silent a moment.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000003|'I came to say something else.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000254_000000|He turned his head about impatiently, calling upon his bandaged eyes to perform their function.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000255_000000|'Is it dark yet?' he asked.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000256_000000|'We are in the gloaming,' Becky answered softly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000257_000000|Noakes shut his lips, taking counsel of his powers of control before he spoke.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000258_000000|'Becky,' he began, and gave a tired little sigh.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000258_000001|'Let me call you "Becky" to day.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000259_000000|'Yes,' she acquiesced quietly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000260_000000|'Becky,' he continued, lingering over the word, thinking of the privilege of its use as an accolade conferred by her, 'you need not speak when I have finished; I'll go away then.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000261_000000|'What is it?' Becky asked.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000261_000001|'Tell me.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000262_000000|Noakes leaned forward, pressing his temples; then sat erect and turned his face toward her.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000000|'I love you,' he said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000002|I could no more grow away from it than I could add a cubit to my stature by taking thought.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000003|I kept silent because I was poor.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000004|Don't think of this as a bit of sordidness creeping in.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000005|My love would not ask of you any sacrifice.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000006|I could not give you the things you are accustomed to, so I said nothing.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000007|I planned and worked for a time when I would be privileged to speak.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000264_000000|He heard an inarticulate sound at his side, and quickly continued:--
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000000|'Last night I thought the time was close at hand.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000001|I thought in a few days I could come to you, and ask you for your love.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000002|Success of a certain kind was about to crown an effort of a despicable kind.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000003|Of that I must tell you.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000004|To night I am confessing a wrong I have done you. That's what it is.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000005|O, Becky, the explosion last night took away my sight, made me a useless blind man, but it opened my eyes too!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000006|It is as if a scroll were outspread before me, on which is a record of all my tendencies and crucial acts.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000007|I can see my failures at the crises of my life, and I can trace them back to causes, can see wherein a lightly taken determination has later borne bitter fruit.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000008|Last night I thought I had reached the pinnacle of attainment; in reality I had fallen lower than ever before.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000009|The success which was to be the beginning of all good things was stolen.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000010|I robbed Maxineff of it.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000011|He gave me an idea to work out.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000012|I followed his instructions to a point where I knew a different treatment might bring about a fine result.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000013|I saw great possibilities in the experiment and determined to keep for myself the benefits of it. From that point I followed my own ideas, and called the thing mine.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000014|I opened correspondence with the representatives of a foreign government. They agreed to buy the secret in case of a successful test.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000015|It was an excellent bargain I made-I put a high price on the betrayal of my benefactor!
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000016|The experiment was successful.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000017|I was forced to destroy the result, why it is needless to say.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000018|Last night, when I left you, I went back to repeat the experiment, intending to make a small quantity to be used in the test which would have taken place to morrow.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000019|Something went wrong with the unstable stuff,--and you know the rest.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000266_000000|In relief from the tension of his confession, his voice dropped lower as he said, 'Now you know me!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000267_000000|He shifted his position, stretching out his hands toward her.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000267_000001|He touched her face, started, and drew back.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000268_000000|'And Becky, do you realize that it was after I left you last night that I went back?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000268_000001|After what you told me?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000268_000002|O Becky, I am glad I cannot see you now!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000269_000000|His voice quivered off to a whisper.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000000|'It is poor consolation that I know myself for what you judge me.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000001|I know bitterly well; I see much now.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000002|I could not come to the weakest agreement with the self I want to be, until I had told you of the wrong I have done you.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000003|And let me think my love is not distasteful to you.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000005|Won't you, Becky?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000271_000000|He paused and listened.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000271_000001|He heard Becky's uneven breathing.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000000|'I don't offer any excuse; there is none to offer.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000001|I want only the comparative peace of the assurance that those I have wronged understand now.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000002|I have talked with mr Maxineff.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000003|He was with me afterwards, when the pain-He hushed me far too gently, but he will not forget.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000005|If, though, you should ask me why, I would say again, I love you.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000006|It is the only reason. I was thinking of you while I was making myself unfit for you to think of me.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000273_000000|'Do you care so much?' Becky asked softly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000274_000001|May I keep on caring?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000275_000000|'To what good?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000276_000000|'For the sake of the little good in me, which love of you will keep alive and growing.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000277_000000|'You ask nothing of me.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000277_000001|What will you find in caring for me?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000278_000000|'There will be a constant joy in knowing that you permit me to care.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000279_000000|Becky was silent.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000280_000000|'If you won't let me, I am afraid it will make no difference, because I cannot help it, you know.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000280_000001|I don't want to help it; you don't mind my saying so?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000281_000000|For a moment neither of them spoke.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000281_000001|Noakes rose.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000282_000000|'I-Becky, I thank you for hearing me out.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000284_000000|'I'm going.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000285_000000|She did not rise.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000286_000001|I know what you-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000287_000000|'How do you know what I think?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000288_000000|'I know; that's all.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000289_000000|'Don't go, please,' Becky said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000290_000000|'Hadn't I better?
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000290_000001|I'm tired, and the doctor-A last acknowledgment: I am afraid to hear you.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000291_000000|'But I don't want you to go,' she said softly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000292_000000|Something in her tone made Noakes turn sharply.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000293_000000|'Becky!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000294_000000|'Yes, Noakes?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000295_000000|'You don't-'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000296_000000|'Yes!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000297_000000|'You love me, and blind?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000298_000000|'You are brave!'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000299_000000|Her hands were in his when he sat by her side.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000300_000000|'I talked with the doctor this morning,' she said.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000301_000000|'As I did.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000302_000000|'no
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000302_000001|He gave me a message for you.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000303_000000|'A message from the doctor?'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000304_000000|'It was mr Max's notion that I should tell you.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000305_000000|'What is it?' Noakes asked quickly.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000306_000000|'Your eyes-they will be well in time, if you are very careful.'
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000307_000000|As Noakes breathed deep in relief and gratitude, one of his hands engaged two of Becky's, and he found a different use for the other.
train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000308_000000|'Noakes,' Becky said, 'I'll take care of the eyes.'
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty three.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000001_000000|OF OUR COMPLEX IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000006_000003|These, and the like fashions of speaking, intimate that the substance is supposed always SOMETHING BESIDES the extension, figure, solidity, motion, thinking, or other observable ideas, though we know not what it is.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000007_000001|No clear or distinct idea of Substance in general.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000009_000001|As clear an Idea of spiritual substance as of corporeal substance.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000012_000000|Whatever therefore be the secret abstract nature of substance in general, all the ideas we have of particular distinct sorts of substances are nothing but several combinations of simple ideas, co existing in such, though unknown, cause of their union, as makes the whole subsist of itself.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000012_000003|Thus, the idea of the sun,--what is it but an aggregate of those several simple ideas, bright, hot, roundish, having a constant regular motion, at a certain distance from us, and perhaps some other: as he who thinks and discourses of the sun has been more or less accurate in observing those sensible qualities, ideas, or properties, which are in that thing which he calls the sun
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000014_000000|For he has the perfectest idea of any of the particular sorts of substances, who has gathered, and put together, most of those simple ideas which do exist in it; among which are to be reckoned its active powers, and passive capacities, which, though not simple ideas, yet in this respect, for brevity's sake, may conveniently enough be reckoned amongst them.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000014_000001|Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000018_000001|First, the ideas of the primary qualities of things, which are discovered by our senses, and are in them even when we perceive them not; such are the bulk, figure, number, situation, and motion of the parts of bodies; which are really in them, whether we take notice of them or not.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000020_000000|POWERS therefore justly make a great part of our complex ideas of substances.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000023_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000024_000000|The infinite wise Contriver of us, and all things about us, hath fitted our senses, faculties, and organs, to the conveniences of life, and the business we have to do here.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000024_000006|But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least wellbeing, in the part of the universe which we inhabit.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000025_000001|Conjecture about the corporeal organs of some Spirits.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000027_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000029_000001|Our Ideas of spiritual Substances, as clear as of bodily Substances.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000030_000003|For our idea of substance is equally obscure, or none at all, in both: it is but a supposed I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000030_000005|Every act of sensation, when duly considered, gives us an equal view of both parts of nature, the corporeal and spiritual.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000031_000001|No Idea of abstract Substance either in Body or Spirit.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000033_000001|Cohesion of solid parts and Impulse, the primary ideas peculiar to Body.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000034_000000|The primary ideas we have PECULIAR TO BODY, as contradistinguished to spirit, are the COHESION OF SOLID, AND CONSEQUENTLY SEPARABLE, PARTS, and a POWER OF COMMUNICATING MOTION BY IMPULSE.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000034_000001|These, I think, are the original ideas proper and peculiar to body; for figure is but the consequence of finite extension.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000035_000001|Thinking and Motivity
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000036_000000|The ideas we have belonging and PECULIAR TO SPIRIT, are THINKING, and WILL, or A POWER OF PUTTING BODY INTO MOTION BY THOUGHT, AND, WHICH IS CONSEQUENT TO IT, LIBERTY.
train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000036_000001|For, as body cannot but communicate its motion by impulse to another body, which it meets with at rest, so the mind can put bodies into motion, or forbear to do so, as it pleases.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000007_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000012_000005|And since any idea, whether simple or complex, may be the occasion why the mind thus brings two things together, and as it were takes a view of them at once, though still considered as distinct: therefore any of our ideas may be the foundation of relation.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000014_000000|These and the like relations, expressed by relative terms that have others answering them, with a reciprocal intimation, as father and son, bigger and less, cause and effect, are very obvious to every one, and everybody at first sight perceives the relation.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000015_000001|Some seemingly absolute Terms contain Relations.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000018_000001|g.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000020_000000|The nature therefore of relation consists in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which comparison one of both comes to be denominated.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000023_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000027_000000|Secondly, This further may be considered concerning relation, that though it be not contained in the real existence of things, but something extraneous and superinduced, yet the ideas which relative words stand for are often clearer and more distinct than of those substances to which they do belong.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000027_000003|THE IDEAS, THEN, OF RELATIONS, ARE CAPABLE AT LEAST OF BEING MORE PERFECT AND DISTINCT IN OUR MINDS THAN THOSE OF SUBSTANCES.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000029_000000|Thirdly, Though there be a great number of considerations wherein things may be compared one with another, and so a multitude of relations, yet they all terminate in, and are concerned about those simple ideas, either of sensation or reflection, which I think to be the whole materials of all our knowledge.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000035_000000|OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND OTHER RELATIONS.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000036_000001|Whence the Ideas of cause and effect got.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000040_000000|First, When the thing is wholly made new, so that no part thereof did ever exist before; as when a new particle of matter doth begin to exist, IN RERUM NATURA, which had before no being, and this we call CREATION.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000041_000002|When the cause is extrinsical, and the effect produced by a sensible separation, or juxta position of discernible parts, we call it MAKING; and such are all artificial things.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000042_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000042_000001|Relations of Time.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000000|It was the third week in August; summer was dying, as a London summer dies, in days of feverish sunlight and breathless languor.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000001|Everywhere there was the same torpor, the same wornout, desiccated life in death. It was in the streets with their sultry pallor, in the parks and squares where the dust lay like a grey blight on every green thing.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000002|Everywhere the glare accentuated this toneless melancholy.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000004|This lassitude is felt most by those who have shared least in the amusement, the workers who must stay behind in the great workshop because they are too busy or too poor to leave it.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000001|For one thing, it gave him opportunity for cultivating Miss Craven's acquaintance.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000003|Compared with this great work, all former efforts would seem to the taste they had created as so much literary trifling.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000004|Hitherto he had been merely trying his instrument, running his fingers over the keys in his easy professional way; but these preliminary flourishes gave no idea of the constructive harmonies to follow.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000005|And now, on a dull evening, some three weeks after Audrey's dinner party, he was alone in his study, smoking, as he leaned back in his easy chair, in one of those dreamy moods which with him meant fiction in the making, the tobacco smoke curling round his head the Pythian fumes of his inspiration.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000006|The study was curiously suggestive of its owner's inconsistencies.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000007|With its silk cushions, Oriental rugs, and velvet draperies, its lining of books, and writing table heaped with manuscripts and proofs, it witnessed to his impartial love of luxury and hard work.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000008|It told other secrets too.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000009|The cigar case on the table beside him was embroidered by a woman's hand, the initials l w worked with gold thread in a raised monogram.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000000|To night he had left his proofs untouched on the writing table, and had settled himself comfortably to his pipe, with the voluptuous satisfaction of a man who has put off a disagreeable duty.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000001|He felt that delicious turmoil of ideas which with him accompanied the building up of a story round its central character.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000002|Not that he yet understood that character.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000003|Wyndham had his intuitions, but he was not the man to trust them as such; it was his habit to verify them by a subsequent logic.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000005|No action was too small, no emotion too insignificant, for his uncompromising realism.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000006|He had applied the same method to his own experience.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000007|Whatever came in his way, the tragedy or comedy of his daily life, his moods of passion and apathy, the aspirations of his better moments, all underwent the same disintegrating process.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000008|He had the power of standing aloof from himself, of arresting the flight of his own sensations, and criticising his own actions as a disinterested spectator.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000009|Thus he made no experiment on others that he had not first tried on his own person.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000000|What he really prided himself on was his knowledge of other people, especially of women.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000002|His work "took" because of its coarser qualities, the accentuated bitterness, the startling irony, the vigorous, characteristic phrase.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000003|Those black strokes were not introduced to throw up the grey wash or pencilled shading; Wyndham's cynicism was no mere literary affectation, it was engrained in his very nature.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000004|He had gone through many phases of disillusionment (including disgust at his own success) before that brief crisis of feeling which ended in his engagement to Miss Fraser.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000005|Then, for the first time in his life, a woman's nature had been given to him to know.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000006|It was a glorious opportunity for the born analyst; and for the first time in his life he let an opportunity go.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000007|He loved Alison Fraser, and he found that love made understanding impossible.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000008|He never wanted to understand her; the relentless passion for analysis was absorbed in a comprehensive enthusiasm which embraced the whole of Alison and took no count of the parts.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000012|As Miss Gladys Armstrong had guessed (or as she would have put it, diagnosed), a detail of Wyndham's past life had come to Miss Fraser's knowledge, as these details always come, through a well meaning friend.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000013|It was one which made it difficult for her to reconcile her marriage with Wyndham to her conscience.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000014|And because she loved him, because the thought of him, so hard to other women, so tender to herself, fascinated her reason and paralysed her will-flattering the egoism inherent even in the very good-because she was weak and he was irresistibly strong, she cut herself from him deliberately, open eyed, and with one stroke.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000015|She had just sufficient strength for the sudden breaking off of their engagement, none for explanation, and none, alas! to save her from regretting her act of supererogatory virtue.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000005_000000|Wyndham gave no sign of suffering.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000005_000001|He simply sank back into himself, and became the man he had been before, plus his experience of feeling, and minus the ingenuousness of his self knowledge.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000005_000004|He became if anything more intently, more remorselessly analytical, more absolutely the student of human nature.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000000|He struck out into new paths; he was tired of his neutral washes, and striking effects in black and white.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000001|He had begun to dream of glorious subtilties of design and colour.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000002|Novels were lying in his head ten deep. He had whole note books full of germs and embryos, all neatly arranged in their separate pigeon holes.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000003|In some he had jotted down a name and a date, or a word which stood for a whole train of ideas.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000004|In others he had recorded some illustration as it occurred to him; or a single sentence stood flanked by a dozen variants-Wyndham being a careful worker and sensitive to niceties of language.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000005|To night he was supremely happy.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000008|In Audrey Craven he had found the indispensable thing-intimacy without love, or even, as he understood the word, friendship.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000009|She was the type he had long desired, the feminine creature artless in perpetual artifice, for ever revealing herself in a succession of disguises.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000000|He was beginning to adjust his latest impressions to his earlier idea of her.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000001|He recalled the evening when he had first seen her-the hot, crowded drawing room, the heavy atmosphere, the dull faces coming and going, and the figure of Audrey flashing through it all.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000002|She had irritated him then, for he had not yet classified her.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000004|She dogged his thoughts with most unmaidenly insistence; her image lay in wait for him at every cross road of association; it was something vivid yet elusive, protean yet persistent. He recalled that other evening of her dinner party-their first recognised meeting.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000005|Her whole person, which at first sight had impressed him with its emphatic individuality, now struck him as characterless and conventional.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000006|And yet-what was she like?
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000007|She was like a chameleon.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000008|No, she wasn't; he recollected that the change of colour was a vital process in that animal.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000009|She was like an opal-all sparkle when you move it, and at rest dull, most undeniably dull.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000012|After a moment's satisfaction with this last fancy, he became aware that he was being made the fool of metaphor.
train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000014|To find out what lay at the bottom of this shifting personality, what elemental thoughts and feelings, if any, the real Audrey was composed of; to see for himself the play of circumstances on her plastic nature, and know what reaction it was capable of-in a word, to experimentalise in cold blood on the living nerve and brain tissue, was his plan of work for the year eighteen ninety six.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000000|His life was passed like this.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000001|As a rule he got up at eight o'clock in the morning, dressed, and drank his tea.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000002|Then he sat down in his study to read, or went to the hospital.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000003|At the hospital the out patients were sitting in the dark, narrow little corridor waiting to be seen by the doctor.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000005|Andrey Yefimitch knew that such surroundings were torture to feverish, consumptive, and impressionable patients; but what could be done?
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000006|In the consulting room he was met by his assistant, Sergey Sergeyitch-a fat little man with a plump, well washed shaven face, with soft, smooth manners, wearing a new loosely cut suit, and looking more like a senator than a medical assistant.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000007|He had an immense practice in the town, wore a white tie, and considered himself more proficient than the doctor, who had no practice.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000011|The ikon had been put up at his expense; at his instructions some one of the patients read the hymns of praise in the consulting room on Sundays, and after the reading Sergey Sergeyitch himself went through the wards with a censer and burned incense.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000003_000000|There were a great many patients, but the time was short, and so the work was confined to the asking of a few brief questions and the administration of some drugs, such as castor oil or volatile ointment.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000003_000001|Andrey Yefimitch would sit with his cheek resting in his hand, lost in thought and asking questions mechanically.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000003_000002|Sergey Sergeyitch sat down too, rubbing his hands, and from time to time putting in his word.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000004_000000|"We suffer pain and poverty," he would say, "because we do not pray to the merciful God as we should.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000004_000001|Yes!"
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000005_000001|When he had to open a child's mouth in order to look at its throat, and the child cried and tried to defend itself with its little hands, the noise in his ears made his head go round and brought tears to his eyes.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000005_000002|He would make haste to prescribe a drug, and motion to the woman to take the child away.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000006_000000|He was soon wearied by the timidity of the patients and their incoherence, by the proximity of the pious Sergey Sergeyitch, by the portraits on the walls, and by his own questions which he had asked over and over again for twenty years.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000006_000001|And he would go away after seeing five or six patients.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000006_000002|The rest would be seen by his assistant in his absence.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000000|With the agreeable thought that, thank God, he had no private practice now, and that no one would interrupt him, Andrey Yefimitch sat down to the table immediately on reaching home and took up a book.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000002|Half his salary went on buying books, and of the six rooms that made up his abode three were heaped up with books and old magazines.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000004|He would always go on reading for several hours without a break and without being weary.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000005|He did not read as rapidly and impulsively as Ivan d mitritch had done in the past, but slowly and with concentration, often pausing over a passage which he liked or did not find intelligible.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000006|Near the books there always stood a decanter of vodka, and a salted cucumber or a pickled apple lay beside it, not on a plate, but on the baize table cloth. Every half hour he would pour himself out a glass of vodka and drink it without taking his eyes off the book.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000007|Then without looking at it he would feel for the cucumber and bite off a bit.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000008_000000|At three o'clock he would go cautiously to the kitchen door; cough, and say, "Daryushka, what about dinner? . ."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000009_000000|After his dinner-a rather poor and untidily served one-Andrey Yefimitch would walk up and down his rooms with his arms folded, thinking.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000009_000001|The clock would strike four, then five, and still he would be walking up and down thinking.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000009_000002|Occasionally the kitchen door would creak, and the red and sleepy face of Daryushka would appear.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000010_000000|"Andrey Yefimitch, isn't it time for you to have your beer?" she would ask anxiously.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000011_000000|"No, it's not time yet . . ." he would answer.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000012_000002|He had a hale and hearty appearance, luxuriant grey whiskers, the manners of a well bred man, and a loud, pleasant voice.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000012_000003|He was good-natured and emotional, but hot tempered.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000013_000000|"Here I am," he would say, going in to Andrey Yefimitch.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000013_000001|"Good evening, my dear fellow!
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000014_000001|"I am always glad to see you."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000015_000000|The friends would sit on the sofa in the study and for some time would smoke in silence.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000016_000000|"Daryushka, what about the beer?" Andrey Yefimitch would say.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000017_000001|The doctor was always the one to begin the conversation.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000018_000000|"What a pity," he would say quietly and slowly, not looking his friend in the face (he never looked anyone in the face)--"what a great pity it is that there are no people in our town who are capable of carrying on intelligent and interesting conversation, or care to do so.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000018_000001|It is an immense privation for us.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000018_000002|Even the educated class do not rise above vulgarity; the level of their development, I assure you, is not a bit higher than that of the lower orders."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000019_000001|I agree."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000000|"You know, of course," the doctor went on quietly and deliberately, "that everything in this world is insignificant and uninteresting except the higher spiritual manifestations of the human mind. Intellect draws a sharp line between the animals and man, suggests the divinity of the latter, and to some extent even takes the place of the immortality which does not exist.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000001|Consequently the intellect is the only possible source of enjoyment.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000003|We have books, it is true, but that is not at all the same as living talk and converse.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000004|If you will allow me to make a not quite apt comparison: books are the printed score, while talk is the singing."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000021_000000|"Perfectly true."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000022_000000|A silence would follow.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000022_000001|Daryushka would come out of the kitchen and with an expression of blank dejection would stand in the doorway to listen, with her face propped on her fist.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000023_000001|"To expect intelligence of this generation!"
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000000|And he would describe how wholesome, entertaining, and interesting life had been in the past.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000001|How intelligent the educated class in Russia used to be, and what lofty ideas it had of honour and friendship; how they used to lend money without an i o u, and it was thought a disgrace not to give a helping hand to a comrade in need; and what campaigns, what adventures, what skirmishes, what comrades, what women!
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000003|The wife of a battalion commander, a queer woman, used to put on an officer's uniform and drive off into the mountains in the evening, alone, without a guide.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000004|It was said that she had a love affair with some princeling in the native village.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000025_000000|"Queen of Heaven, Holy Mother..." Daryushka would sigh.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000026_000000|"And how we drank!
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000000|"I often dream of intellectual people and conversation with them," he said suddenly, interrupting Mihail Averyanitch.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000001|"My father gave me an excellent education, but under the influence of the ideas of the sixties made me become a doctor.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000002|I believe if I had not obeyed him then, by now I should have been in the very centre of the intellectual movement.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000003|Most likely I should have become a member of some university.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000004|Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000005|Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000006|Indeed, he is summoned without his choice by fortuitous circumstances from non existence into life . . . what for?
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000008|And so, just as in prison men held together by common misfortune feel more at ease when they are together, so one does not notice the trap in life when people with a bent for analysis and generalization meet together and pass their time in the interchange of proud and free ideas.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000009|In that sense the intellect is the source of an enjoyment nothing can replace."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000029_000000|"Perfectly true."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000032_000000|"No, honoured Mihail Averyanitch; I do not believe it, and have no grounds for believing it."
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000033_000000|"I must own I doubt it too.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000033_000001|And yet I have a feeling as though I should never die.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000033_000002|Oh, I think to myself: 'Old fogey, it is time you were dead!' But there is a little voice in my soul says: 'Don't believe it; you won't die.'"
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000034_000000|Soon after nine o'clock Mihail Averyanitch would go away.
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000034_000001|As he put on his fur coat in the entry he would say with a sigh:
train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000035_000001|What's most vexatious of all is to have to die here.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000002_000000|Lovely was the maid of Pohja, Famed on land, on water peerless, On the arch of air high seated, Brightly shining on the rainbow, Clad in robes of dazzling lustre, Clad in raiment white and shining. There she wove a golden fabric, Interwoven all with silver, And her shuttle was all golden, And her comb was all of silver.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000003_000000|From her hand flew swift the shuttle, In her hands the reel was turning, And the copper shafts they clattered, And the silver comb resounded, As the maiden wove the fabric, And with silver interwove it.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000004_000000|Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Thundered on upon his journey, From the gloomy land of Pohja, Sariola for ever misty.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000005_000000|Thereupon his head he lifted, And he gazed aloft to heaven, And beheld a glorious rainbow; On the arch the maiden seated As she wove a golden fabric. As the silver comb resounded.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000006_000000|Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Stayed his horse upon the instant. And he raised his voice, and speaking, In such words as these addressed her: "Come into my sledge, O maiden, In the sledge beside me seat thee."
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000009_000000|Then the maiden gave him answer, And in words like these addressed him: "As I wandered through the bedstraws Tripping o'er the yellow meadows, Yesterday, in time of evening, As the sun was slowly sinking, In the bush a bird was singing, And I heard the fieldfare trilling, Singing of the whims of maidens, And the whims of new wed damsels.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000010_000000|"Thus the bird was speaking to me, And I questioned it in this wise:
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000011_000000|'Tell me O thou little fieldfare, Sing thou, that my ears may hear it, Whether it indeed is better, Whether thou hast heard 'tis better, For a girl in father's dwelling, Or in household of a husband?'
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000015_000000|But the maid gave crafty answer, And in words like these responded: "As a man I will esteem you, And as hero will regard you, If you can split up a horsehair With a blunt and pointless knife blade, And an egg in knots you tie me, Yet no knot is seen upon it."
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000017_000000|Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Did not find the task a hard one. From the stone the rind he severed, And a pile of ice he hewed her, But no splinters scattered from it, Nor the smallest fragment loosened. Then again he asked the maiden In the sledge to sit beside him.
train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000020_000000|At the boat with zeal he laboured, Toiling at the work unresting, Working thus one day, a second, On the third day likewise working, But the rocks his axe blade touched not, And upon the hill it rang not.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000000_000000|MISS KATY DID AND MISS CRICKET
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000001_000000|Miss Katy did sat on the branch of a flowering azalea, in her best suit of fine green and silver, with wings of point lace from Mother Nature's finest web.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000002_000000|Miss Katy was in the very highest possible spirits, because her gallant cousin, Colonel Katy did, had looked in to make her a morning visit.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000002_000001|It was a fine morning, too, which goes for as much among the Katy dids as among men and women.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000002_000002|It was, in fact, a morning that Miss Katy thought must have been made on purpose for her to enjoy herself in.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000003_000000|"Certainly I am a pretty creature," she said to herself; and when the gallant colonel said something about being dazzled by her beauty, she only tossed her head and took it as quite a matter of course.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000004_000000|"The fact is, my dear colonel," she said, "I am thinking of giving a party, and you must help me to make out the lists."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000005_000000|"My dear, you make me the happiest of Katy dids."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000006_000000|"Now," said Miss Katy did, drawing an azalea leaf towards her, "let us see-whom shall we have?
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000006_000001|The Fireflies, of course; everybody wants them, they are so brilliant,--a little unsteady, to be sure, but quite in the higher circles."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000007_000000|"Yes, we must have the Fireflies," echoed the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000000|"Well, then, and the Butterflies and the Moths.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000001|Now, there's a trouble.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000002|There's such an everlasting tribe of those Moths; and if you invite dull people they're always sure all to come, every one of them.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000003|Still, if you have the Butterflies, you can't leave out the Moths."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000009_000000|"Old mrs Moth has been laid up lately with a gastric fever, and that may keep two or three of the Misses Moth at home," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000010_000000|"Whatever could give the old lady such a turn?" said Miss Katy.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000010_000001|"I thought she never was sick."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000011_000000|"I suspect it's high living.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000011_000001|I understand she and her family ate up a whole ermine cape last month, and it disagreed with them."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000012_000000|"For my part, I can't conceive how the Moths can live as they do," said Miss Katy, with a face of disgust.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000012_000001|"Why, I could no more eat worsted and fur, as they do-"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000013_000000|"That is quite evident from the fairy like delicacy of your appearance," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000013_000001|"One can see that nothing so gross or material has ever entered into your system."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000014_000000|"I'm sure," said Miss Katy, "mamma says she don't know what does keep me alive; half a dewdrop and a little bit of the nicest part of a rose leaf, I assure you, often last me for a day.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000014_000001|But we are forgetting our list.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000014_000002|Let's see-the Fireflies, Butterflies, Moths. The Bees must come, I suppose."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000015_000000|"The Bees are a worthy family," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000016_000000|"Worthy enough, but dreadfully humdrum," said Miss Katy.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000017_000000|"Well, then, there are the Bumble Bees."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000018_000000|"Oh, I dote on them!
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000018_000001|General Bumble is one of the most dashing, brilliant fellows of the day."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000019_000000|"I think he is shockingly corpulent," said Colonel Katy did, not at all pleased to hear him praised; "don't you?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000020_000000|"I don't know but he IS a little stout," said Miss Katy; "but so distinguished and elegant in his manners-something quite martial and breezy about him."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000021_000000|"Well, if you invite the Bumble Bees, you must have the Hornets."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000022_000000|"Those spiteful Hornets!
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000022_000001|I detest them!"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000023_000000|"Nevertheless, dear Miss Katy, one does not like to offend the Hornets."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000000|"No, one can't.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000001|There are those five Misses Hornet-dreadful old maids!--as full of spite as they can live.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000002|You may be sure they will every one come, and be looking about to make spiteful remarks.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000003|Put down the Hornets, though."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000025_000000|"How about the Mosquitoes!" said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000026_000000|"Those horrid Mosquitoes-they are dreadfully plebeian!
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000027_000000|"Well dear Miss Katy," said the colonel, "if you ask my candid opinion as a friend, I should say not.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000027_000001|There's young Mosquito, who graduated last year, has gone into literature, and is connected with some of our leading papers, and they say he carries the sharpest pen of all the writers.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000027_000002|It won't do to offend him."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000029_000000|"It is a pity," said the colonel; "but one must pay one's tax to society."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000030_000000|Just at this moment the conference was interrupted by a visitor, Miss Keziah Cricket, who came in with her work bag on her arm to ask a subscription for a poor family of Ants who had just had their house hoed up in clearing the garden walks.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000031_000000|"How stupid of them," said Katy, "not to know better than to put their house in the garden walk; that's just like those Ants."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000032_000000|"Well, they are in great trouble; all their stores destroyed, and their father killed-cut quite in two by a hoe."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000033_000001|I don't like to hear of such disagreeable things; it affects my nerves terribly.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000033_000002|Well, I'm sure I haven't anything to give.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000033_000003|Mamma said yesterday she was sure she didn't know how our bills were to be paid; and there's my green satin with point lace yet to come home." And Miss Katy did shrugged her shoulders and affected to be very busy with Colonel Katy did, in just the way that young ladies sometimes do when they wish to signify to visitors that they had better leave.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000034_000000|Little Miss Cricket perceived how the case stood, and so hopped briskly off, without giving herself even time to be offended.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000035_000000|"Pray, shall you invite the Crickets?" said Colonel Katy did.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000000|"Who?
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000001|I?
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000002|Why, colonel, what a question!
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000003|Invite the Crickets?
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000004|Of what can you be thinking?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000037_000000|"And shall you not ask the Locusts, and the Grasshoppers?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000038_000000|"Certainly.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000038_000001|The Locusts, of course,--a very old and distinguished family; and the Grasshoppers are pretty well, and ought to be asked. But we must draw a line somewhere,--and the Crickets! why, it's shocking even to think of!"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000039_000000|"I thought they were nice, respectable people."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000040_000001|But then you must see the difficulty."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000041_000000|"My dear cousin, I am afraid you must explain."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000042_000000|"Why, their COLOUR, to be sure.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000042_000001|Don't you see?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000043_000000|"Oh!" said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000043_000001|"That's it, is it?
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000043_000002|Excuse me, but I have been living in France, where these distinctions are wholly unknown, and I have not yet got myself in the train of fashionable ideas here."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000044_000000|"Well, then, let me teach you," said Miss Katy.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000044_000001|"You know we republicans go for no distinctions except those created by Nature herself, and we found our rank upon COLOUR, because that is clearly a thing that none has any hand in but our Maker.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000044_000002|You see?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000045_000000|"Yes; but who decides what colour shall be the reigning colour?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000000|"I'm surprised to hear the question!
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000001|The only true colour-the only proper one-is OUR colour, to be sure.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000002|A lovely pea green is the precise shade on which to found aristocratic distinction.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000003|But then we are liberal;--we associate with the Moths, who are gray; with the Butterflies, who are blue and gold coloured; with the Grasshoppers, yellow and brown; and society would become dreadfully mixed if it were not fortunately ordered that the Crickets are black as jet.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000004|The fact is, that a class to be looked down upon is necessary to all elegant society; and if the Crickets were not black, we could not keep them down, because, as everybody knows, they are often a great deal cleverer than we are.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000005|They have a vast talent for music and dancing; they are very quick at learning, and would be getting to the very top of the ladder if we once allowed them to climb.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000006|But their being black is a convenience; because, as long as we are green and they black, we have a superiority that can never be taken from us. Don't you see now?"
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000047_000000|"Oh yes, I see exactly," said the colonel.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000048_000000|"Now that Keziah Cricket, who just came in here, is quite a musician, and her old father plays the violin beautifully;--by the way, we might engage him for our orchestra."
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000049_000000|And so Miss Katy's ball came off, and the performers kept it up from sundown till daybreak, so that it seemed as if every leaf in the forest were alive.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000049_000001|The Katy dids and the Mosquitoes, and the Locusts, and a full orchestra of Crickets made the air perfectly vibrate, insomuch that old Parson Too Whit, who was preaching a Thursday evening lecture to a very small audience, announced to his hearers that he should certainly write a discourse against dancing for the next weekly occasion.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000050_000000|The good doctor was even with his word in the matter, and gave out some very sonorous discourses, without in the least stopping the round of gaieties kept up by these dissipated Katy dids, which ran on, night after night, till the celebrated Jack Frost epidemic, which occurred somewhere about the first of September.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000051_000000|Poor Miss Katy, with her flimsy green satin and point lace, was one of the first victims, and fell from the bough in company with a sad shower of last year's leaves.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000051_000001|The worthy Cricket family, however, avoided Jack Frost by emigrating in time to the chimney corner of a nice little cottage that had been built in the wood that summer.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000052_000000|There good old mr and mrs Cricket, with sprightly Miss Keziah and her brothers and sisters, found a warm and welcome home; and when the storm howled without, and lashed the poor naked trees, the Crickets on the warm hearth would chirp out cheery welcome to papa as he came in from the snowy path, or mamma as she sat at her work basket.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000053_000000|"Cheep, cheep, cheep!" little Freddy would say.
train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000053_000001|"Mamma, who is it says 'cheep'?"
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000002_000000|CHAPTER one
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000003_000000|ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FOREFATHERS
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000000|Lincoln's grandfather, for whom he was named Abraham, was a distant cousin to Daniel Boone.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000001|The Boones and the Lincolns had intermarried for generations.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000002|The Lincolns were of good old English stock.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000003|When he was President, Abraham Lincoln, who had never given much attention to the family pedigree, said that the history of his family was well described by a single line in Gray's "Elegy":
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000005_000000|"The short and simple annals of the poor."
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000006_000000|Yet Grandfather Abraham was wealthy for his day.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000006_000001|He accompanied Boone from Virginia to Kentucky and lost his life there.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000006_000002|He had sacrificed part of his property to the pioneer spirit within him, and, with the killing of their father, his family lost the rest.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000007_000000|Grandfather Lincoln had built a solid log cabin and cleared a field or two around it, near the Falls of the Ohio, about where Louisville now stands.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000007_000001|But, in the Summer of seventeen eighty four, the tragic day dawned upon the Lincolns which has come to many a pioneer family in Kentucky and elsewhere.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000007_000002|His son Thomas told this story to his children:
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000008_000000|HOW INDIANS KILLED "GRANDFATHER LINCOLN"
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000009_000001|He was rich for them times, as he had property worth seventeen thousand dollars; but mr Boone he told Father he could make a good deal more by trappin' and tradin' with the Injuns for valuable pelts, or fur skins.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000000|"You know, Dan'l Boone he had lived among the Injuns.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000001|He was a sure shot with the rifle so's he could beat the redskins at their own game.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000003|He was such a good fellow that them Injuns admired his shrewdness, and they let him do about what he pleased.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000004|So he thought they'd let Father alone.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000011_000000|"Well, your grandfather was a Quaker, you see, and believed in treatin' them red devils well-like William Penn done, you know.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000011_000001|He was a man for peace and quiet, and everything was goin' smooth with the tribes of what we called the Beargrass Country, till one day, when he and my brothers, Mordecai-'Mord' was a big fellow for his age-and Josiah, a few years younger-was out in the clearin' with the oxen, haulin' logs down to the crick.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000011_000002|I went along too, but I didn't help much-for I was only six.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000012_000000|"Young as I was, I remember what happened that day like it was only yesterday.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000012_000001|It come like a bolt out of the blue.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000000|"Injuns!" gasps Mord, and starts on the run for the house-to get his gun.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000001|Josiah, he starts right off in the opposite direction to the Beargrass fort-we called it a fort, but it was nothin' but a stockade. The way we boys scattered was like a brood o' young turkeys, or pa'tridges, strikin' for cover when the old one is shot.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000002|I knowed I'd ought to run too, but I didn't want to leave my father layin' there on the ground.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000003|Seemed like I'd ought to woke him up so he could run too. Yet I didn't feel like touchin' him.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000004|I think I must 'a' knowed he was dead.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000014_000001|I knowed what he was goin' to do-skelp my father!
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000014_000003|I never think what the devil looks like without seein' that red demon with his snaky black eyes, grinnin' at me!
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000015_000000|TOM LINCOLN CHASED BY INDIANS
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000017_000000|"I was standin' there, kind o' dazed, watchin' another puff o' white smoke, comin' out between two logs in the side of our house.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000017_000001|Then I knowed 'Mord' had shot my Injun.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000017_000003|Waitin' till the ol' demon turns away, so's not to hit me, 'Mord' he aims at a silver dangler on mr Injun's breast and makes him drop in his tracks like I said.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000001|It was like hell broke loose.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000002|They had been watchin' an', of course, 'twas all right to kill Father, but when 'Mord' killed one o' their bucks, that made a big difference.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000003|I had sense enough left to run for the house with them Injuns after me.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000004|Seemed like I couldn't run half as fast as usual, but I must 'a' made purty good time, from what 'Mord' an' Mother said afterward.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000019_000001|That made the others mad an' they took after me, but 'Mord' he drops the head one jist when he's goin' to hit me.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000022_000000|"MORD" LINCOLN, INDIAN FIGHTER
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000000|"That was the breaking up of our family.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000002|He was welcome to it too, for he was the only one of us that could take care of it.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000003|'Mord' he wasn't satisfied with killin' a few Injuns that day to revenge Father's death.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000004|He made a business of shootin' 'em on sight-a reg'lar Injun stalker!
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000005|He couldn't see that he was jist as savage as the worst Injun, to murder 'em without waitin' to see whether mr Injun was a friend or a foe.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000025_000002|Folks didn't mind his shootin' an' Injun or two, more or less, when he got the chancet.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000026_000001|Josiah he stayed with her, an' between him an' 'Mord,' they helped her along, but I had to git out and scratch for a livin'.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000027_000000|Little is known today of Mordecai Lincoln, and there would be less interest in poor Thomas if he had not become the father of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000027_000001|Mordecai Lincoln was a joker and humorist.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000027_000002|One who knew him well said of him:
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000028_000000|"He was a man of great drollery, and it would almost make you laugh to look at him.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000028_000001|I never saw but one other man whose quiet, droll look excited in me the disposition to laugh, and that was 'Artemus Ward.'
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000029_000000|"Mordecai was quite a story teller, and in this Abe resembled his 'Uncle Mord,' as we called him.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000029_000001|He was an honest man, as tender hearted as a woman, and to the last degree charitable and benevolent.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000030_000000|"Abe Lincoln had a very high opinion of his uncle, and on one occasion remarked, 'I have often said that Uncle Mord had run off with all the talents of the family.'"
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000031_000000|In a letter about his family history, just before he was nominated for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln wrote:
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000000|"My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families-second families, perhaps I should say.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000001|My mother was of a family of the name of Hanks.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000002|My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county virginia, to Kentucky about seventeen eighty one or two, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians-not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000003|His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000004|An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, and the like.
train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000033_000000|"My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education."
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000002_000000|ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FATHER AND MOTHER
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000000|While Thomas Lincoln was living with a farmer and doing odd jobs of carpentering, he met Nancy Hanks, a tall, slender woman, with dark skin, dark brown hair and small, deep set gray eyes.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000001|She had a full forehead, a sharp, angular face and a sad expression.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000002|Yet her disposition was generally cheerful.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000003|For her backwoods advantages she was considered well educated.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000004|She read well and could write, too.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000005|It is stated that Nancy Hanks taught Thomas Lincoln to write his own name.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000006|Thomas was twenty eight and Nancy twenty three when their wedding day came. Christopher Columbus Graham, when almost one hundred years old, gave the following description of the marriage feast of the Lincoln bride and groom:
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000004_000001|I was hunting roots for my medicine and just went to the wedding to get a good supper and got it.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000005_000000|"Tom Lincoln was a carpenter, and a good one for those days, when a cabin was built mainly with the ax, and not a nail or a bolt or hinge in it, only leathers and pins to the doors, and no glass, except in watches and spectacles and bottles.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000006_000000|"Jesse Head, the good Methodist minister that married them, was also a carpenter or cabinet maker by trade, and as he was then a neighbor, they were good friends.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000007_000000|"While you pin me down to facts, I will say that I saw Nancy Hanks Lincoln at her wedding, a fresh looking girl, I should say over twenty. Tom was a respectable mechanic and could choose, and she was treated with respect.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000008_000000|"I was at the infare, too, given by john h Parrott, her guardian, and only girls with money had guardians appointed by the court.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000008_000002|Our table was of the puncheons cut from solid logs, and the next day they were the floor of the new cabin."
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000000|Thomas Lincoln took his bride to live in a little log cabin in a Kentucky settlement-not a village or hardly a hamlet-called Elizabethtown.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000001|He evidently thought this place would be less lonesome for his wife, while he was away hunting and carpentering, than the lonely farm he had purchased in Hardin County, about fourteen miles away.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000002|There was so little carpentering or cabinet making to do that he could make a better living by farming or hunting.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000003|Thomas was very fond of shooting and as he was a fine marksman he could provide game for the table, and other things which are considered luxuries to day, such as furs and skins needed for the primitive wearing apparel of the pioneers.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000004|A daughter was born to the young couple at Elizabethtown, whom they named Sarah.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000010_000000|Dennis Hanks, a cousin of Nancy, lived near the Lincolns in the early days of their married life, and gave mrs Eleanor Atkinson this description of their early life together:
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000011_000000|"Looks didn't count them days, nohow.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000011_000005|They killed off the varmints an' made it safe fur other fellers to go into the woods with an ax.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000012_000000|"When Nancy married Tom he was workin' in a carpenter shop.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000012_000002|Thar was sca'cely any money in that kentry.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000013_000000|"Pore?
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000013_000007|The Hankses was some smarter'n the Lincolns.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000014_000000|"NANCY'S BOY BABY"
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000000|Evidently Elizabethtown failed to furnish Thomas Lincoln a living wage from carpentering, for he moved with his young wife and his baby girl to a farm on Nolen Creek, fourteen miles away.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000001|The chief attraction of the so-called farm was a fine spring of water bubbling up in the shade of a small grove.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000002|From this spring the place came to be known as "Rock Spring Farm."
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000003|It was a barren spot and the cabin on it was a rude and primitive sort of home for a carpenter and joiner to occupy.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000004|It contained but a single room, with only one window and one door.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000005|There was a wide fireplace in the big chimney which was built outside.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000006|But that rude hut became the home of "the greatest American."
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000016_000000|Abraham Lincoln was born to poverty and privation, but he was never a pauper.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000017_000000|After his nomination to the presidency, mr Lincoln gave to mr Hicks, a portrait painter, this memorandum of his birth:
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000018_000000|"I was born february twelfth eighteen o nine, in then Hardin county kentucky, at a point within the now county of Larue, a mile or a mile and a half from where Hodgen's mill now is.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000018_000001|My parents being dead, and my memory not serving, I know no means of identifying the precise locality. It was on Nolen Creek.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000020_000000|The exact spot was identified after his death, and the house was found standing many years later.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000020_000001|The logs were removed to Chicago, for the World's Columbian Exposition, in eighteen ninety three, and the cabin was reconstructed and exhibited there and elsewhere in the United States.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000020_000002|The materials were taken back to their original site, and a fine marble structure now encloses the precious relics of the birthplace of "the first American," as Lowell calls Lincoln in his great "Commemoration Ode."
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000021_000000|Cousin Dennis Hanks gives the following quaint description of "Nancy's boy baby," as reported by mrs Eleanor Atkinson in her little book on "Lincoln's Boyhood."
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000024_000000|"You bet I was tickled to death.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000024_000001|Babies wasn't as common as blackberries in the woods o' Kaintucky.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000001|Nancy let me hold him purty soon.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000002|Folks often ask me if Abe was a good lookin' baby.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000005|Abe never was much fur looks.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000006|I ricollect how Tom joked about Abe's long legs when he was toddlin' round the cabin.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000026_000000|"But he was mighty good comp'ny, solemn as a papoose, but interested in everything.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000026_000003|If he told us what he was laughin' at, half the time we couldn't see no joke.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000027_000000|"Abe never give Nancy no trouble after he could walk excep' to keep him in clothes.
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000027_000002|Ever wear a wet buckskin glove?
train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000028_000000|When little Abe was four years old his father and mother moved from Rock Spring Farm to a better place on Knob Creek, a few miles to the northeast of the farm where he was born.
train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000017_000000|"A Cat may look at a king."
train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000020_000000|"When candles are out, all Cats are grey." Otherwise, "Joan is as good as my Lady in the dark."
train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000030_000000|"The wandering Cat gets many a rap."
train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000046_000000|Again:--
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train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000011_000000|INTRODUCTORY
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000012_000002|three.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000000|The word 'character' occurs only once in the New Testament, and that is in the passage in the prologue of the Epistle to the hebrews, where the original word is translated 'express image' in our version.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000003|The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000005|The Son is thus the Father's character stamped upon and set forth in human nature.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000006|The Word was made flesh.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000007|This is the highest and best use to which our so expressive word 'character' has ever been put, and the use to which it is put when we speak of Bunyan's Characters partakes of the same high sense and usage.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000008|For it is of the outstanding good or evil in a man that we think when we speak of his character.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000009|It is really either of his likeness or unlikeness to Jesus Christ we speak, and then, through Him, his likeness or unlikeness to God Himself.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000010|And thus it is that the adjective 'moral' usually accompanies our word 'character'--moral or immoral.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000011|A man's character does not have its seat or source in his body; character is not a physical thing: not even in his mind; it is not an intellectual thing.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000012|Character comes up out of the will and out of the heart.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000014|There are more clever people than good people; character,--high, spotless, saintly character,--is a far rarer thing in this world than talent or even genius.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000015|Character is an infinitely better thing than either of these, and it is of corresponding rarity.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000016|And yet so true is it that the world loves its own, that all men worship talent, and even bodily strength and bodily beauty, while only one here and one there either understands or values or pursues moral character, though it is the strength and the beauty and the sweetness of the soul.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000000|We naturally turn to Bishop Butler when we think of moral character. Butler is an author who has drawn no characters of his own.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000001|Butler's genius was not creative like Shakespeare's or Bunyan's.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000002|Butler had not that splendid imagination which those two masters in character painting possessed, but he had very great gifts of his own, and he has done us very great service by means of his gifts.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000003|Bishop Butler has helped many men in the intelligent formation of their character, and what higher praise could be given to any author?
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000004|Butler will lie on our table all winter beside Bunyan; the bishop beside the tinker, the philosopher beside the poet, the moralist beside the evangelical minister.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000000|In seeking a solid bottom for our subject, then, we naturally turn to Butler.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000001|Bunyan will people the house for us once it is built, but Butler lays bare for us the naked rock on which men like Bunyan build and beautify and people the dwelling place of God and man.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000003|we ask the sagacious bishop.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000009|Christian and Christiana, Obstinate and Pliable, mr Fearing and mr Feeblemind, Temporary and Talkative, mr By ends and mr Facing both ways, Simple, Sloth, Presumption, that brisk lad Ignorance, and the genuine mr Brisk himself.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000001|But let us ask in this introductory lecture if we can find out any law or principle upon which all our own characters, good or bad, are formed.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000002|Do our characters come to be what they are by chance, or have we anything to do in the formation of our own characters, and if so, in what way?
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000003|And here, again, Butler steps forward at our call with his key to our own and to all Bunyan's characters in his hand, and in three familiar and fruitful words he answers our question and gives us food for thought and solemn reflection for a lifetime.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000004|There are but three steps, says Butler, from earth to heaven, or, if you will, from earth to hell-acts, habits, character.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000005|All Butler's prophetic burden is bound up in these three great words-acts, habits, character. Remember and ponder these three words, and you will in due time become a moral philosopher.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000006|Ponder and practise them, and you will become what is infinitely better-a moral man.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000007|For acts, often repeated, gradually become habits, and habits, long enough continued, settle and harden and solidify into character.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000008|And thus it is that the severe and laconic bishop has so often made us shudder as he demonstrated it to us that we are all with our own hands shaping our character not only for this world, but much more for the world to come, by every act we perform, by every word we speak, almost by every breath we draw.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000009|Butler is one of the most terrible authors in the world.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000011|He is indeed terrible, but it is with a terror that purifies the heart and keeps the life in the hour of temptation.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000012|Paul sometimes arms himself with the same terror; only he composes in another style than that of Butler, and, with all his vivid intensity, he calls it the terror of the Lord.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000013|Paul and Bunyan are of the same school of moralists and stylists; Butler went to school to the Stoics, to Aristotle, and to Plato.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000000|Our Lord Himself came to be the express image He was and is by living and acting under this same universal law of human life-acts, habits, character.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000001|He was made perfect on this same principle.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000002|He learned obedience both by the things that He did, and the things that He suffered.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000003|Butler says in one deep place, that benevolence and justice and veracity are the basis of all good character in God and in man, and thus also in the God man.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000004|And those three foundation stones of our Lord's character settled deeper and grew stronger to bear and to suffer as He went on practising acts and speaking words of justice, goodness, and truth.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000007|His forgiveness of injuries, and thus His splendid benevolence, had not yet come to its climax and crown till He said on the cross, 'Father, forgive them'.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000008|And, as He was, so are we in this world.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000009|This world's evil and ill desert made it but the better arena and theatre for the development and the display of His moral character; and the same instruments that fashioned Him into the perfect and express image He was and is, are still, happily, in full operation. Take that divinest and noblest of all instruments for the carving out and refining of moral character, the will of God.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000000|It is not in the great tragedies of life only that character is tested and strengthened and consolidated.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000003|And so of all the other forms and features of moral character; so of humility and meekness, so of purity and temperance, so of magnanimity and munificence, so of all self suppression and self extinction, and all corresponding exalting and magnifying and benefiting of other men.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000004|Whatever other passing uses this present world, so full of trial and temptation and suffering, may have, this surely is the supreme and final use of it-to be a furnace, a graving house, a refining place for human character.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000008|You do not put a pearl under the potter's wheel; you do not cast clay into a refining fire.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000009|Abraham's character was not like David's, nor David's like Christ's, nor Christ's like Paul's.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000010|As Butler says, there is 'a providential disposition of things' around every one of us, and it is as exactly suited to the flaws and excrescences, the faults and corruptions of our character as if Providence had had no other life to make a disposition of things for but one, and that one our own.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000011|Have you discovered that in your life, or any measure of that?
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000012|Have you acknowledged to God that you have at last discovered the true key of your life?
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000013|Have you given Him the satisfaction to know that He is not making His providential dispositions around a stock or a stone, but that He has one under His hand who understands His hand, and responds to it, and rises up to meet and salute it?
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000000|And we cease to wonder so much at the care God takes of human character, and the cost He lays out upon it, when we think that it is the only work of His hands that shall last for ever.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000001|It is fit, surely, that the ephemeral should minister to the eternal, and time to eternity, and all else in this world to the only thing in this world that shall endure and survive this world.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000002|All else we possess and pursue shall fade and perish, our moral character shall alone survive.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000003|Riches, honours, possessions, pleasures of all kinds: death, with one stroke of his desolating hand, shall one day strip us bare to a winding sheet and a coffin of all the things we are so mad to possess.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000004|But the last enemy, with all his malice and all his resistless power, cannot touch our moral character-unless it be in some way utterly mysterious to us that he is made under God to refine and perfect it.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000005|The Express Image carried up to His Father's House, not only the divine life He had brought hither with Him when He came to obey and submit and suffer among us; He carried back more than He brought, for He carried back a human heart, a human life, a human character, which was and is a new wonder in heaven.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000006|He carried up to heaven all the love to God and angels and men He had learned and practised on earth, with all the earthly fruits of it.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000007|He carried back His humility, His meekness, His humanity, His approachableness, and His sympathy.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000008|And we see to our salvation some of the uses to which those parts of His moral character are at this moment being put in His Father's House; and what we see not now of all the ends and uses and employments of our Lord's glorified humanity we shall, mayhap, see hereafter.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000009|And we also shall carry our moral character to heaven; it is the only thing we have worth carrying so far.
train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000010|But, then, moral character is well worth achieving here and then carrying there, for it is nothing else and nothing less than the divine nature itself; it is the divine nature incarnate, incorporate, and made manifest in man.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000003_000000|PLIABLE
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000004_000000|'He hath not root in himself.'--Our Lord.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000005_000002|We call the text a parable, but our Lord's parables are all portraits-portraits and groups of portraits, rather than ordinary parables.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000005_000003|Our Lord knew this man quite well who had no root in himself.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000005_000004|Our Lord had crowds of such men always running after Him, and He threw off this rapid portrait from hundreds of men and women who caused discredit to fall on His name and His work, and burdened His heart continually.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000000|Our Lord's short preliminary description of Pliable goes, like all His descriptions, to the very bottom of the whole matter.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000001|Our Lord in this passage is like one of those masterly artists who begin their portrait painting with the study of anatomy.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000002|All the great artists in this walk build up their best portraits from the inside of their subjects.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000004|'Without self knowledge,' says one of the greatest students of the human heart that ever lived, 'you have no real root in yourselves.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000006|It is a deceit and a mischief to think that the Christian doctrines can either be understood or aright accepted by any outward means.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000007|It is just in proportion as we search our own hearts and understand our own nature that we shall ever feel what a blessing the removal of sin will be; redemption, pardon, sanctification, are all otherwise mere words without meaning or power to us.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000009|Honest, that is, with itself, and with God and man about itself.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000010|As David says in his so honest psalm, 'Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom.' And, indeed, all the preachers and writers in Scripture, and all Scriptural preachers and writers outside of Scripture, are at one in this: that all true wisdom begins at home, and that it all begins at the heart.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000011|And they all teach us that he is the wisest of men who has the worst opinion of his own heart, as he is the foolishest of men who does not know his own heart to be the worst heart that ever any man was cursed with in this world.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000012|'Here is wisdom': not to know the number of the beast, but to know his mark, and to read it written so indelibly in our own heart.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000000|And where this first and best of all wisdom is not, there, in our Lord's words, there is no deepness of earth, no root, and no fruit.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000002|This was all the religion that poor Pliable ever had.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000003|This poor creature had a certain slight root of something that looked like religion for a short season, but even that slight root was all outside of himself.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000004|His root, what he had of a root, was all in Christian's companionship and impassioned appeals, and then in those impressive passages of Scripture that Christian read to him.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000005|At your first attention to these things you would think that no possible root could be better planted than in the Bible and in earnest preaching.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000006|But even the Bible, and, much more, the best preaching, is all really outside of a man till true religion once gets its piercing roots down into himself.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000007|We have perhaps all heard of men, and men of no small eminence, who were brought up to believe the teaching of the Bible and the pulpit, but who, when some of their inherited and external ideas about some things connected with the Bible began to be shaken, straightway felt as if all the grounds of their faith were shaken, and all the roots of their faith pulled up.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000008|But where that happened, all that was because such men's religion was all rooted outside of themselves; in the best things outside of themselves, indeed, but because, in our Lord's words, their religion was rooted in something outside of themselves and not inside, they were by and by offended, and threw off their faith.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000009|There is another well known class of men all whose religion is rooted in their church, and in their church not as a member of the body of Christ, but as a social institution set up in this world.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000010|They believe in their church.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000011|They worship their church.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000012|They suffer and make sacrifices for their church. They are proud of the size and the income of their church; her past contendings and sufferings, and present dangers, all endear their church to their heart.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000013|But if tribulation and persecution arise, that is to say, if anything arises to vex or thwart or disappoint them with their church, they incontinently pull up their roots and their religion with it, and transplant both to any other church that for the time better pleases them, or to no church at all.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000016|They love their earthly home with that supreme satisfaction and that all absorbing affection that truly religious men entertain for their heavenly home.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000017|And thus it is that when anything happens to disturb or break up their earthly home their rootless religiosity goes with it.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000018|Other men's religion, again, and all their interest in it, is rooted in their shop; you can make them anything or nothing in religion, according as you do or do not do business in their shop.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000020|If they happen to fall in with godly lovers and friends, they are sincerely godly with them; but if their companions are indifferent or hostile to true religion, they gradually fall into the same temper and attitude.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000021|We sometimes see students destined for the Christian ministry also with all their religion so without root in themselves that a session in an unsympathetic class, a sceptical book, sometimes just a sneer or a scoff, will wither all the promise of their coming service.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000022|And so on through the whole of human life.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000023|He that hath not the root of the matter in himself dureth for a while, but by and by, for one reason or another, he is sure to be offended.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000000|So much, then,--not enough, nor good enough-for our Lord's swift stroke at the heart of His hearers.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000001|But let us now pass on to Pliable, as he so soon and so completely discovers himself to us under john Bunyan's so skilful hand.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000002|Look well at our author's speaking portrait of a well-known man in Bedford who had no root in himself, and who, as a consequence, was pliable to any influence, good or bad, that happened to come across him.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000003|'Don't revile,' are the first words that come from Pliable's lips, and they are not unpromising words.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000005|Pliable, at least, is a gentleman compared with Obstinate, and his gentlemanly feelings and his good manners make him at once take sides with Christian.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000006|Obstinate's foul tongue has almost made Pliable a Christian.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000008|Where men are in dead earnest about religion it always arouses the bad passions of bad men; and where earnest preachers and devoted workers are assailed with violence or with bad language, there is always enough love of fair play in the bystanders to compel them to take sides, for the time at least, with those who suffer for the truth.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000009|And we are sometimes too apt to count all that love of common fairness, and that hatred of foul play, as a sure sign of some sympathy with the hated truth itself.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000010|When an onlooker says 'Don't revile,' we are too ready to set down that expression of civility as at least the first beginning of true religion.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000011|But the religion of Jesus Christ cuts far deeper into the heart of man than to the dividing asunder of justice and injustice, civility and incivility, ribaldry and good manners.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000012|And it is always found in the long run that the cross of Christ and its crucifixion of the human heart goes quite as hard with the gentlemanly mannered man, the civil and urbane man, as it does with the man of bad behaviour and of brutish manners.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000013|'Civil men,' says Thomas Goodwin, 'are this world's saints.' And poor Pliable was one of them.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000014|'My heart really inclines to go with my neighbour,' said Pliable next.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000015|'Yes,' he said, 'I begin to come to a point.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000016|I really think I will go along with this good man.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000017|Yes, I will cast in my lot with him.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000018|Come, good neighbour, let us be going.'
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000000|The apocalyptic side of some men's imaginations is very easily worked upon.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000001|No kind of book sells better among those of our people who have no root in themselves than just picture books about heaven.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000002|Our missionaries make use of lantern slides to bring home the scenes in the Gospels to the dull minds of their village hearers, and with good success.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000003|And at home a magic lantern filled with the splendours of the New Jerusalem would carry multitudes of rootless hearts quite captive for a time.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000004|'Well said; and what else?
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000005|This is excellent; and what else?' Christian could not tell Pliable fast enough about the glories of heaven. 'There we shall be with seraphim and cherubim, creatures that will dazzle your eyes to look on them.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000006|There also you shall meet with thousands and ten thousands who have gone before us to that place.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000007|Elders with golden crowns, and holy virgins with golden harps, and all clothed with immortality as with a garment.' 'The hearing of all this,' cried Pliable, 'is enough to ravish one's heart.' 'An overly faith,' says old Thomas Shepard, 'is easily wrought.'
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000001|As the picture of a man's soul being pulled for rises before my mind, I can think of no better companion picture to that of Pliable than that of poor, hard beset Brodie of Brodie, as he lets us see the pull for his soul in the honest pages of his inward diary.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000003|'The writer of this diary desires to be cast down under the facileness and plausibleness of his nature, by which he labours to please men more than God, and whence it comes that the wicked speak good of him . . .
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000004|The Lord pity the proneness of his heart to comply with the men who have the power . . .
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000005|Lord, he is unsound and double in his heart, politically crafty, selfish, not savouring nor discerning the things of God . . .
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000006|Let not self love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification . . . Shall I expose myself and my family to danger at this time?
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000010|Came to Cuttiehillock.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000011|I am neither cold nor hot.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000012|I am not rightly principled as to the time.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000014|Brodie's diary is one of the most humiliating, heart searching, and heart instructing books I ever read.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000015|Let all public men tempted and afflicted with a facile, pliable, time serving heart have honest Brodie at their elbow.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000001|Come on, let us mend our pace.' This is delightful, this is perfect.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000002|How often have we ourselves heard these very words of challenge and reproof from the pliable frequenters of emotional meetings, and from the emotional members of an emotional but rootless ministry.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000003|Come on, let us mend our pace!
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000005|We must open our hearts to our religion; we must have the inward soil broken up, freely and deeply its roots must penetrate our inner being.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000001|Christian was bound to fall sooner or later into a slough filled with his own despondency about himself, his past guilt, his present sinfulness, and his anxious future.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000002|But Pliable had not knowledge enough of himself to make him ever despond.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000004|He had no burden on his back, and therefore no doubt in his heart.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000005|But Christian had enough of both for any ten men, and it was Christian's overflowing despondency and doubt at this point of the road that suddenly filled his own slough, and, I suppose, overflowed into a slough for Pliable also.
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000006|Had Pliable only had a genuine and original slough of his own to so sink and be bedaubed in, he would have got out of it at the right side of it, and been a tender stepping pilgrim all his days.--'Is this the happiness you have told me all this while of?
train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000008|Let us go home thinking about that.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000002_000000|THE PRODUCTION OF THE WOMAN (In Four Articles)
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000003_000000|We must next consider the production of the woman.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000003_000001|Under this head there are four points of inquiry:
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000004_000000|(one) Whether the woman should have been made in that first production of things?
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000005_000000|(two) Whether the woman should have been made from man?
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000006_000000|(three) Whether of man's rib?
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000009_000000|Whether the Woman Should Have Been Made in the First Production of Things?
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000010_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the woman should not have been made in the first production of things.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000012_000001|But God foresaw that the woman would be an occasion of sin to man.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000014_000003|Among perfect animals the active power of generation belongs to the male sex, and the passive power to the female.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000014_000005|But man is yet further ordered to a still nobler vital action, and that is intellectual operation. Therefore there was greater reason for the distinction of these two forces in man; so that the female should be produced separately from the male; although they are carnally united for generation.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000015_000003|On the other hand, as regards human nature in general, woman is not misbegotten, but is included in nature's intention as directed to the work of generation.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000015_000004|Now the general intention of nature depends on God, Who is the universal Author of nature.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000015_000005|Therefore, in producing nature, God formed not only the male but also the female.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000016_000001|One is servile, by virtue of which a superior makes use of a subject for his own benefit; and this kind of subjection began after sin.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000016_000002|There is another kind of subjection which is called economic or civil, whereby the superior makes use of his subjects for their own benefit and good; and this kind of subjection existed even before sin.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000020_000001|For sex belongs both to man and animals.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000020_000002|But in the other animals the female was not made from the male.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000020_000003|Therefore neither should it have been so with man.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000003|Secondly, that man might love woman all the more, and cleave to her more closely, knowing her to be fashioned from himself.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000006|Wherefore it was suitable for the woman to be made out of man, as out of her principle.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000007|Fourthly, there is a sacramental reason for this.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000008|For by this is signified that the Church takes her origin from Christ.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000010|five thirty two): "This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the Church."
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000026_000003|On the other hand, the Divine Power, being infinite, can produce things of the same species out of any matter, such as a man from the slime of the earth, and a woman from out of man.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000030_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the woman should not have been formed from the rib of man.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000031_000001|Therefore a rib of Adam belonged to the integrity of his body.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000031_000002|So, if a rib was removed, his body remained imperfect; which is unreasonable to suppose.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000032_000001|But there was no pain before sin.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000035_000001|But this is quite impossible.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000035_000002|For such an increase of matter would either be by a change of the very substance of the matter itself, or by a change of its dimensions.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000035_000004|Wherefore multiplication of matter is quite unintelligible, as long as the matter itself remains the same without anything added to it; unless it receives greater dimensions.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000036_000000|Wherefore, as no rarefaction is apparent in such multiplication of matter, we must admit an addition of matter: either by creation, or which is more probable, by conversion.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000037_000001|Much more, therefore, was it possible that by the Divine power the body of the woman should be produced from the man's rib.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000041_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the woman was not formed immediately by God.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000041_000003|Therefore she was not made immediately by God.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000042_000002|But the woman's body was formed from corporeal matter.
train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000045_000003|Now God alone, the Author of nature, can produce an effect into existence outside the ordinary course of nature.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000004_000000|QUESTION ninety three
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000008_000000|(two) Whether the image of God is in irrational creatures?
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000010_000000|(four) Whether the image of God is in every man?
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000011_000000|(five) Whether the image of God is in man by comparison with the Essence, or with all the Divine Persons, or with one of them?
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000012_000000|(six) Whether the image of God is in man, as to his mind only?
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000018_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God is not in man.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000022_000001|seventy four): "Where an image exists, there forthwith is likeness; but where there is likeness, there is not necessarily an image." Hence it is clear that likeness is essential to an image; and that an image adds something to likeness-namely, that it is copied from something else.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000022_000002|For an "image" is so called because it is produced as an imitation of something else; wherefore, for instance, an egg, however much like and equal to another egg, is not called an image of the other egg, because it is not copied from it.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000001|seventy four): "Where there is an image there is not necessarily equality," as we see in a person's image reflected in a glass.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000002|Yet this is of the essence of a perfect image; for in a perfect image nothing is wanting that is to be found in that of which it is a copy.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000003|Now it is manifest that in man there is some likeness to God, copied from God as from an exemplar; yet this likeness is not one of equality, for such an exemplar infinitely excels its copy. Therefore there is in man a likeness to God; not, indeed, a perfect likeness, but imperfect.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000004|And Scripture implies the same when it says that man was made "to" God's likeness; for the preposition "to" signifies a certain approach, as of something at a distance.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000026_000001|Now a thing is said to be one not only numerically, specifically, or generically, but also according to a certain analogy or proportion.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000029_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God is to be found in irrational creatures.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000031_000002|Therefore the whole universe is to the image of God, and not only man.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000034_000001|For instance, a worm, though from man it may originate, cannot be called man's image, merely because of the generic likeness.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000034_000002|Nor, if anything is made white like something else, can we say that it is the image of that thing; for whiteness is an accident belonging to many species.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000034_000003|But the nature of an image requires likeness in species; thus the image of the king exists in his son: or, at least, in some specific accident, and chiefly in the shape; thus, we speak of a man's image in copper. Whence Hilary says pointedly that "an image is of the same species."
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000035_000000|Now it is manifest that specific likeness follows the ultimate difference.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000035_000002|fifty one) "approach so near to God in likeness, that among all creatures nothing comes nearer to Him." It is clear, therefore, that intellectual creatures alone, properly speaking, are made to God's image.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000036_000001|Therefore even what falls short of the nature of an image, so far as it possesses any sort of likeness to God, participates in some degree the nature of an image.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000038_000001|Or else we may say that a part is not rightly divided against the whole, but only against another part.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000039_000001|Thus every creature is an image of the exemplar type thereof in the Divine mind.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000042_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the angels are not more to the image of God than man is.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000043_000001|fifty one), "man is so much to God's image that God did not make any creature to be between Him and man: and therefore nothing is more akin to Him." But a creature is called God's image so far as it is akin to God.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000044_000001|But the intellectual nature does not admit of intensity or remissness; for it is not an accidental thing, since it is a substance.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000001|First, we may consider in it that in which the image chiefly consists, that is, the intellectual nature.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000004|Secondly, we may consider the image of God in man as regards its accidental qualities, so far as to observe in man a certain imitation of God, consisting in the fact that man proceeds from man, as God from God; and also in the fact that the whole human soul is in the whole body, and again, in every part, as God is in regard to the whole world.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000006|But these do not of themselves belong to the nature of the Divine image in man, unless we presuppose the first likeness, which is in the intellectual nature; otherwise even brute animals would be to God's image.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000007|Therefore, as in their intellectual nature, the angels are more to the image of God than man is, we must grant that, absolutely speaking, the angels are more to the image of God than man is, but that in some respects man is more like to God.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000052_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God is not found in every man.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000052_000002|Therefore, as woman is an individual of the human species, it is clear that every individual is not an image of God.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000053_000001|Therefore all men have not the conformity of image.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000054_000001|But by sin man becomes unlike God.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000056_000001|Now the intellectual nature imitates God chiefly in this, that God understands and loves Himself.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000056_000003|First, inasmuch as man possesses a natural aptitude for understanding and loving God; and this aptitude consists in the very nature of the mind, which is common to all men.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000056_000004|Secondly, inasmuch as man actually and habitually knows and loves God, though imperfectly; and this image consists in the conformity of grace.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000057_000003|But in a secondary sense the image of God is found in man, and not in woman: for man is the beginning and end of woman; as God is the beginning and end of every creature.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000057_000004|So when the Apostle had said that "man is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man," he adds his reason for saying this: "For man is not of woman, but woman of man; and man was not created for woman, but woman for man."
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train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000060_000000|Whether the Image of God Is in Man According to the Trinity of Persons?
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000061_000000|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God does not exist in man as to the Trinity of Persons.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000066_000001|Now the mode of origin is not the same in all things, but in each thing is adapted to the nature thereof; animated things being produced in one way, and inanimate in another; animals in one way, and plants in another.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000066_000002|Wherefore it is manifest that the distinction of the Divine Persons is suitable to the Divine Nature; and therefore to be to the image of God by imitation of the Divine Nature does not exclude being to the same image by the representation of the Divine Persons: but rather one follows from the other.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000066_000003|We must, therefore, say that in man there exists the image of God, both as regards the Divine Nature and as regards the Trinity of Persons; for also in God Himself there is one Nature in Three Persons.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000067_000000|Thus it is clear how to solve the first two objections.
train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000069_000002|First, because as the Son is like to the Father by a likeness of essence, it would follow of necessity if man were made in likeness to the Son, that he is made to the likeness of the Father.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000003_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000005_000000|FISHING EXPLOITS.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000000|Cats are, as a rule, averse to water in every shape.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000002|Parsons might preach in peace, and actors rant undisturbed.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000003|It would be a bad thing in a business way, however, as far as the medical profession and their friends the undertakers are concerned; for, if the former did not work with additional zeal, many of the latter would starve.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000004|Did you ever observe a cat crossing the street on a rainy day?
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000005|How gingerly she treads, how carefully picks out the driest spots, lifting each fore paw and shaking it with an air of supreme disgust, and finally, for the last few yards, making a reckless bolt to the front door.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000007_000001|But let the occasion arise, either in the pursuit of game or in some case of necessity, and she at once throws all her scruples overboard, and goes overboard after them, wetting both feet and fur with a will.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000008_000001|This is told as a great curiosity; but I can assure the reader that such things are by no means rare.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000008_000002|I have known of hundreds of such cases; and they are occurring every day.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000000|Joe, a nice she tabby, was a curious specimen of the feline fish catcher. Her master was a disciple of Walton's.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000002|Anxiously she would watch the skimming fly, squaring her lips and emitting little excited screams of delight, whenever a fish rose to nibble.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000003|Then, when a trout was landed, pussy at once threw herself upon it and despatched it.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000004|At other times, she would spring into the stream, perhaps up to the neck, and commence fishing on her own account, by feeling with her paws below all the banks, working as hard and as eagerly as any bare legged school boy.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000000|Gibbey was a fine, large, brindled Tom.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000001|He was a noted fisherman and a daring and reckless poacher, so much so that the gamekeepers threatened to kill him, whenever they could catch him.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000002|They did not mind, they said, his taking a good clean sea trout occasionally; but the beast fished in season and out of season.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000003|In fact, Gibbey found the spawning time much more convenient than any other.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000004|When the salmon came up the shallow streams to spawn in thousands, all waggling under his very nose, and to be had for the mere lifting out, he couldn't stand that.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000001|It was not so much what he ate that the keepers grudged; but he was in the constant habit of carrying away large fish to hide for future use; and as he generally forgot where he had put them, he still went on hiding more.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000002|Sometimes, in taking a walk through the wood, you would find yourself suddenly sprawling on all fours, having trampled on one of Gibbey's salmon.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000006|Has the horse conceived?
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000007|Nay, the poor brute has eaten all his oats, but he could not stomach-one of Gibbey's salmon.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000008|Something has been making its presence felt in your bed room for days.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000010|Even the immortal Condy fails to lay the dread thing.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000011|At last you peep below the bed, and with the tongs pull out-what?--only one of Gibbey's salmon.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000014_000001|At last, however, poor Gilbert was trapped and slain.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000000|One day, when out shooting, I met a large white cat.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000001|He was coming trotting along the foot path, and wore about his neck what I took to be a very tasteful thing in cravats.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000004|I hate to be done.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000005|Five minutes afterwards I was at the cottage door.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000006|A pleasant little woman answered my knock.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000016_000000|"Might I trouble you for a glass of water?"
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000017_000000|"Certainly, sir; but would you not come in, and have a drink of nice sweet whey?"
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000018_000000|I would.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000018_000001|Tom was singing on the hearth, but he had laid aside the wrap-it was nowhere to be seen.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000019_000000|"That's a fine cat you've got," said I, when I had finished my whey.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000020_000000|"He is, sir; everybody admires our Tom."
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000021_000000|"He has caught cold, I think?"
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000022_000000|"Dear me!
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000022_000001|no, sir."
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000024_000000|"No, no, Tom was never better in his life."
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000026_000000|"A cravat!" cried she.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000027_000001|It was pleasant, though I did not know what I was laughing at; only I had a slight inkling that somehow or other I had made a mighty fool of myself.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000000|An eel, was it!
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000001|The cravat was an eel!
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000002|And I was "an awful gowk!" Well, I always guessed I was; but then she said it so pleasantly, and as soon as she said it off she went again.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000003|I thought it was time I was going off too; so bidding her good morning, I did, and left her laughing-such a pleasant little woman!
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000030_000001|I know an instance of a cat bred and reared at a flour mill: it was a universal custom with this pussy to watch by the dam side, where she might have been seen at any time either in winter or summer.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000030_000003|She was also great in catching water rats, which she seized and killed as eagerly and speedily as any English terrier would.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000031_000000|But not only can cats swim and fish, but they have been known to teach their offspring to do so; and a knowledge of the gentle art has been transmitted in some cat families down to the third and fourth generation.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000000|This cat not only fished herself, but taught her children to do so too. The way in which she managed this was very amusing, and shows how extremely sagacious feline nature is.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000001|When the kittens came of sufficient age, she would entice them down, some fine sunny day to a part of the stream, where the water was very clear and shallow.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000002|Here the smaller trout fry and minnows would be gambolling; and, making a spring, pussy would seize one of these and bring it out alive.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000003|After letting it jump about for some little time, to amuse the kittens and attract their undivided attention, she would kill and return it to the stream, jumping after it and playing with it in the water to entice a kitten in.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000004|Thus, in course of time, the kittens could all swim and fish, and rivalled even their mother in quickness and daring.
train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000034_000001|I have a fine tom kitten which I intend training to catch fish.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000003_000000|HUNTING EXPLOITS.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000000|Catching mice is, to a proper minded cat, a mere parlour pastime, only to be resorted to on rainy days, or of a night when too restless to sleep.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000001|It stands to pussy in the same relation that indoor croquet, billiards, or reading a book in bed does to our noble selves.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000002|Rat catching is only just one degree better, and principally enjoyed by cats who have not reached maturity in body and intellect-cats, in fact, in their hobble de hoy hood.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000004|There is as much difference between the hunting of an animal of the cat kind and that of one of the canine order, as there is between the skilled tactics of German warfare, and the wild rush to battle of Arab cavalry.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000005|There is more honesty in the one, more craft and cunning in the other.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000006|A dog is singularly destitute in what is called in Scotland, "canniness." He also wants patience; but the cat, armed with this gift, combined with cunning, and skill gained from experience, is master for anything in the field which she considers game and chooses to square her moustache at.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000008|The latter is pleasing, certainly, but the former is charming.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000009|Pussy prefers the charming, while our friend the dog merely runs down his prey, and takes little pains to show skill even in that.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000005_000000|Leaving rats and mice along with blue bottle flies, in the category of mere kitten's play, pussy's game list includes hares, rabbits, stoats, weasels, water rats, and moles, besides everything that flies or has feathers, from the humble household sparrow to the black cock of the mountain.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000006_000001|At the time I write, she is over twenty years old; but hale and hearty, and as playful as a kitten.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000006_000003|When she spies a mole hill, she at once sets herself down to watch it; nor will she raise the siege for hours, until the little gentleman in velvet gives signs of his presence by casting up a few grains of earth.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000006_000004|Then is pussy's opportunity. She springs nimbly on the bank, and plunges her arms up to the shoulders into the earth, and never fails to bring poor molie to bank; and the daylight has hardly had time to dazzle his eyes before he is dead.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000007_000002|"The hare," says my informant, "fought with great vigour, and often floored her antagonist; but Pirnie sent in her claws and teeth, till blood flew like rain, and fur like drift (driven snow); and the hare soon becoming exhausted, Pirnie seized it by the throat, and its plaintive screams were presently hushed in death."
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000008_000002|The battle was witnessed by Graysie's owners, and lasted the greater part of the afternoon, and ended triumphantly for pussy, in the defeat and death of the weasel.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000009_000000|A cat never springs on her prey unless sure of catching it, and her aim is most unerring.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000000|I counted one day no less than three hundred fifty mice which a cat had killed single handed at the removal of a rick of oats in a farmer's yard.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000001|He was a fine, noble, red tabby, and it was quite a sight to see the surprising strength and agility with which he worked.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000002|He killed most of them with his paws, seldom putting a tooth in one.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000005|Indeed, high bred cats seldom care to eat mice unless they are very hungry; they much prefer fish to anything else, and the flesh of birds they consider a greater luxury than even that of rabbits.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000011_000001|They are very wise too, and this wisdom is especially displayed in the number of doors they have in each of their dwellings; so that should an enemy, in the shape of a pussy, or a ferret, pop in at one door, Bunny would just pop out at the other.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000011_000004|Of course, Bunny by this time was scampering off to the opposite hole, and there at the door pussy would nab him just as he came out.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000012_000000|Cats almost invariably bring home their prey to be either leisurely eaten, given to their kittens, or presented to their owners.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000000|A man in Banffshire rented a small farm from a game preserving laird.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000001|This man was ruined by rabbits, and turned out of house and home by them.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000002|They first ate up all his oats, his grass, and turnips, so that only potatoes could be grown on the place.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000004|She also took a few youthful prisoners, whom she brought home to play with and amuse a fine family of kittens, which she had in the cottage garret.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000005|These young rabbits lived and grew, and burrowed and made nests in the thatch.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000006|It was the awful row this happy family used to make every night which first led to the discovery.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000007|When the farmer found out one night the cause of the disturbance, he came down and awakened his wife and-
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000014_000000|"Jane," said he, and he looked almost sublime as he stood on the cold damp floor with a penny candle in one hand, in rather scanty shirt tails and red Kilmarnock night cap-he was a study for a Rembrandt, "Jane, I've been a duffer too long.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000015_000000|Gamekeepers do all they can to destroy the life of poor pussy by setting traps for, and shooting her wherever met.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000015_000001|But some cats come to know all about the treacherous wires and how to avoid them.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000015_000002|They know too that hares and rabbits often fall into these snares, and accordingly they turn this knowledge to good account; and when they find a half strangled animal in the gin, they quietly despatch, and if possible carry it home.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000016_000000|Cats are great enemies to birds in the breeding season; but it is surprising with what terrible fierceness even the smallest birds will defend their nests from the inroads of predatory cats, whose evil intentions are thus often frustrated.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000000|A poacher, the other day, was returning home in the grey light of early morning, when he observed a large fox coming in his direction, with what the man took to be a hare over his shoulder.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000001|The man fired, and Reynard dropped.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000002|His burden was a fine large cat.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000004|"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip;" and the poacher's gun brought matters to quite a different conclusion.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000019_000001|They were no doubt sitting cheek by jowl when pussy made the spring.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000020_000000|If I tell the reader of a cat that is so clever that she can catch swallows on the wing, I suppose I may be allowed to close this chapter in peace.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000021_000000|At the foot of a certain post master's garden, flows a stream in which his cat takes many a good salmon trout.
train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000021_000002|On this bridge crouches this sagacious cat, and often secures a swallow, as it skims out from under.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000010_000000|THE BOOK OF CATS.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000000|One day, ever so long ago, it struck me that I should like to try and write a book about Cats.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000001|I mentioned the idea to some of my friends: the first burst out laughing at the end of my opening sentence, so I refrained from entering into further details.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000003|The third said, "Nobody would read it," and added, "Besides, what do you know of the subject?" and before I had time to begin to tell him, said he expected it was very little.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000004|"Why not Dogs?" asked one friend of mine, hitting upon the notion as though by inspiration.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000016_000000|Somewhat disheartened by the reception my little project had met with, I gave up the idea for awhile, and went to work upon other things.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000018_000003|Again, nothing can be more unjust than to call Cats cruel.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000020_000000|But stay, little Robin, did you ever spare, A grub on the ground or a fly in the air? No, that you never did, I'll swear; So I won't kill the Cat, That's flat."
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000021_000000|But all the cruel and unjust things that have been said about poor pussy I will tell you in another chapter.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000021_000002|In the first place, what is the meaning of the word "Cat." Let us look in the dictionary.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000021_000003|A Cat, according to dr Johnson, is "a domestick animal that catches mice." But the word has one or two other meanings, for instance:--
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000022_000000|In thieves' slang the word "Cat" signifies a lady's muff, and "to free a cat" to steal a muff.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000024_000000|Cat harping is the name for a purchase of ropes employed to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their yards.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000025_000001|Two little holes astern, above the Gun room ports, are called Cat holes.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000026_000000|A Cat's paw is a particular turn in the bight of a rope made to hook a tackle in; and the light air perceived in a calm by a rippling on the surface of the water, is known by the same name.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000027_000000|A kind of double tripod with six feet, intended to hold a plate before the fire and so constructed that, in whatever position it is placed, three of the legs rest on the ground, is called a Cat, from the belief that however a Cat may be thrown, she always falls on her feet.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000029_000000|Cat's eye or Sun stone of the Turks is a kind of gem found chiefly in Siberia.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000029_000001|It is very hard and semi transparent, and has different points from whence the light is reflected with a kind of yellowish radiation somewhat similar to the eyes of cats.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000030_000000|Catkins are imperfect flowers hanging from trees in the manner of a rope or cat's tail.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000031_000001|Cat silver is a fossil. Cat's tail is a seed or a long round substance growing on a nut tree.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000032_000001|Guanahani, or Cat Island, a small island of the Bahama group, in the West Indies, is supposed to be so called because wild Cats of large size used to infest it, but I can find no particulars upon the subject in the works of writers on the West Indies.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000033_000000|In the North of England, a common expression of contempt is to call a person Cat faced.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000033_000002|With little boys in the street a Cat is a dreadfully objectionable plaything, roughly cut out of a stick or piece of wood, and sharpened at each end.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000035_000000|In the North, however, the same game is called "Piggie." I learn by the newspaper that a young woman at Leeds nearly lost her eye sight by a blow from one of these piggies or cats, and the magistrates sent the boy who was the cause of it to an industrial school, ordering his father to pay half a crown a week for his maintenance.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000036_000000|The shrill whistle indulged in upon the first night of a pantomime by those young gentlemen with the figure six curls in the front row of the gallery are denominated cat calls.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000036_000002|Such a thing has been known before this, as a young costermonger having one of his front teeth pulled out to enable him to whistle well.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000036_000003|Let us hope that his talent was properly appreciated in the circles in which he moved.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000037_000002|Kemble made his appearance in the costume of 'Macbeth,' and, amid vollies of hissing, hooting, groans, and cat calls, seemed as though he meant to speak a steril and pointless address announced for the occasion."
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000042_000001|The instrument was readily concealed within the mouth, and the perpetrator of the noise could not be detected.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000043_000001|George Rose, so well known in after life as the friend of Pitt, Clerk of the Parliament, Secretary of the Treasury, etc, and executor of the Earl of Marchmont, but then "a bashful young man," was one of the frequenters of this tavern.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000046_000000|It was once upon a time the trick of a countryman to bring a Cat to market in a bag, and substitute it for a sucking pig in another bag, which he sold to the unwary when he got the chance.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000046_000001|If the trick was discovered prematurely, it was called letting the cat out of the bag-if not-he that made the bad bargain was said to have bought a pig in a poke.
train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000047_000000|There is a kind of ship, too, called a Cat, a vessel formed on the Norwegian model, of about six hundred tons burthen.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000003_000000|Walter Scott
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000004_000000|The Boy of the Canongate: seventeen seventy one to eighteen thirty two
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000005_000001|A boy of fifteen sat on a high stool at an old oak desk, and watched the snow falling in the street.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000007_000001|He closed the book with a bang.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000008_000000|"Father."
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000009_000000|"Yes, Walter, lad?"
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000009_000001|The lawyer looked up from his writing, and smiled at the figure on the high stool.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000010_000000|"I'd best be going home; there's no more light here to see by."
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000011_000001|Wrap yourself up warm, for the night is cold."
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000012_000001|He was a sturdy, well built lad, with tousled yellow hair, frank eyes with a twinkle in them, and a mouth that was large and betokened humor.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000013_000001|Nobody who could help it was abroad, and Walter was glad when he reached the door of his father's house in George's Square and could find shelter from the cutting wind.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000013_000002|The Scotch evening meal was simple, soon over, and then came the time to sit before the blazing logs on the great open hearth and tell stories.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000015_000002|They sat in a circle about him, listening eagerly to story after story, forgetting everything but the boy's words, and showing their fondness and admiration for the romancer in each glance.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000016_000000|Walter was minstrel and prophet and historian to the boys of the Canongate by the winter fire, as he was to be later to the whole nation of Englishmen.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000017_000001|Walter Scott and his brothers belonged to a clan that made George's Square their headquarters, and their nearest and dearest enemies were the boys of the Crosscauseway, a poorer section of the city that lay not very far distant.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000018_000000|On the day the storm ceased Walter left his high stool and ponderous book early and joined his friends in solid array in their square.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000018_000001|While they waited for the enemy to come up from the side street, the boys built snow fortifications across the Square and stocked them with ammunition sufficient to stand a siege.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000018_000002|Still no enemy appeared, and, eager for a chance to try their aim, the boys of the Square boldly left their own haunts and proceeded down the Crosscauseway in search of the foe.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000019_000001|Slipping from door to door, from one point of vantage to the next, the boys made the whole distance of the enemy's land without sight of an enemy.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000019_000003|The invaders fired one round, then turned and fled before a fierce charge.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000020_000000|Back the way they came the boys retreated, and after them came the enemy pelting them without mercy and with good aim.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000020_000001|In the van of the pursuit ran a tall, fair haired boy, who wore the bright green breeches of a tailor's clerk, who was famous for his prowess in these schoolboy battles, and who, because of his clothes, had been given the picturesque nickname of "Green Breeks."
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000000|Young Scott and his friends ran back into their square, but the enemy were close upon their heels.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000001|Green Breeks was now far in the lead of his forces, so far in the lead that he might have been cut off had not the pursued been panic stricken.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000002|Over their own fortifications the boys fled and dropped behind them for safety.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000003|Their banner, a flag given them by a lady of the Square, waved defiantly in Green Breeks' face.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000005|He fell stunned, and the blood poured from a cut in his head.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000022_000001|He hurried over to the fallen Green Breeks, and the boys of both armies melted silently away.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000022_000002|Shortly after Green Breeks was in the hospital, his head bandaged, but otherwise little the worse for his mishap.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000023_000003|Thereupon Walter presented the old woman with a pound of snuff, and as soon as Green Breeks was out of the hospital made him one of his friends.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000024_000000|With the opening of spring Walter spent all his spare hours in his favorite pursuit, riding through the country on a search for old legends or curious tales of the neighborhood.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000024_000002|Stories of sprites and goblins, of witches and magicians, were eagerly sought by him.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000024_000003|Many an old woman was led to tell the lame boy with the eager eyes the tales she had heard as a schoolgirl, and was well repaid by the boy's rapt attention.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000026_000000|Every Saturday in fair weather, and more frequently during the vacations, his father allowed him a holiday from the office.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000026_000001|Walter and a boy friend named john Irving used to take two or three books from the public library of Edinburgh, and go out into the neighboring country, to Salisbury Crags, Arthur's Seat, or to a height called Blackford Hill, from which there was a splendid view of the Lowland country.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000026_000002|There they read the books together, Walter always a little ahead of his friend, and obliged to wait at the end of every two pages for him to catch up.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000030_000000|Although Walter spent considerable time in his father's office, he was still studying under a tutor with other boys, preparing for college.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000031_000000|At one time there was a certain boy who always stood at the top of Walter's class whom young Scott could not supplant, try as he would. Finally Walter noticed that whenever the master asked that boy a question the latter always fumbled with his fingers at a certain button on the lower part of his waistcoat.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000031_000001|Walter Scott thereupon determined to cut off that particular button, and see what would happen.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000031_000003|Then Walter waited with the greatest interest to see what would happen.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000032_000002|Walter came next, and, being able to answer the question, took the other boy's place, chuckling to himself. He did not hold it long.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000033_000000|In a thousand ways Walter showed his love of history and romance. Anything that was picturesque, whether it was a view or an old dirk, caught his attention at once.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000033_000001|For a short time he took lessons in oil painting from a German.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000033_000002|He soon found that he had not the eye nor the hand for the work, but it happened that the teacher's father had been a soldier in the army of Frederick the Great, and as soon as Walter found this out, he plied the man with questions.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000034_000000|Often in good weather the boys of George's Square would go on long excursions into the country, frequently staying away from home for several days at a time.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000035_000000|His father was not at all pleased with his long absence, and asked how he had managed with so little money.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000041_000000|Riding northward on this visit the vale of Perth first burst on his view.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000044_000000|He found a man who knew that rugged country well, and for seven successive years Walter Scott made a "raid," as he called it, into that country, following each stream to its source, and studying every ruined tower or castle from foundation stone to topmost battlement.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000046_000000|In course of time Scott was called to the bar as a lawyer, and took his place with the dozens of young men who hung about the Parliament House in Edinburgh waiting for briefs of cases to be argued.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000046_000001|There were lots of debating clubs in the Scotch capital at that time, and Scott was a member of several.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000047_000000|Here the young lawyer ruled supreme.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000048_000000|"Why," said Scott, with twinkling eyes, "I don't change stories.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000048_000001|I only put a cocked hat on their heads, and stick a cane into their hands-to make them fit for going into company."
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000049_000000|Fifteen years passed and all England was reading eagerly the wonderful historical poems and romances written by a man who called himself the "Wizard of the North."
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000050_000001|Even the narrow streets of Edinburgh and the old Canongate itself became historic ground under the Wizard's spell.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000050_000002|The Wizard was Walter Scott, and now he found the whole world as eager to hear the stories and poems he had to tell about his country as his boy friends had been years before.
train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000050_000003|He had not changed much as he grew up.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000004_000000|We think we have advanced too rapidly.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000004_000001|Let us go back a little.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000004_000003|But here again we digress from the history of the evolution of our knowledge, for as a matter of fact we become aware of dreams entirely free of distortion only after the consistent application of our method of interpretation and after complete analysis of the distorted dream.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000005_000002|But do not think that all children's dreams are like this.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000005_000003|Dream distortion makes its appearance very early in childhood, and dreams of children from five to eight years of age have been recorded that showed all the characteristics of later dreams.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000005_000004|But if you will limit yourselves to the age beginning with conscious psychic activity, up to the fourth or fifth year, you will discover a series of dreams that are of a so-called infantile character.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000005_000006|Even among adults, dreams that closely resemble the typically infantile ones occur under certain conditions.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000007_000000|one.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000007_000001|For the understanding of these dreams we need no analysis, no technical methods.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000007_000002|We need not question the child that is giving an account of his dream.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000008_000000|We shall now consider a few examples so that we may base our further deductions upon them.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000009_000001|A boy of twenty two months is to present a basket of cherries as a birthday gift.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000010_000001|A little girl of three and a quarter years makes her first trip across a lake.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000010_000002|At the landing she does not want to leave the boat and cries bitterly.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000010_000003|The time of the trip seems to her to have passed entirely too rapidly.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000001|A boy of five and a quarter years is taken on an excursion into the Escherntal near Hallstatt.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000003|The child had tried again and again to see it through the telescope, with what result no one knew.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000004|He started on the excursion in a joyously expectant mood.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000005|Whenever a new mountain came in sight the boy asked, "Is that the Dachstein?"
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000006|The oftener this question was answered in the negative, the more moody he became; later he became entirely silent and would not take part in a small climb to a waterfall.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000008|The only detail he gave was one he had heard before, "you had to climb steps for six hours."
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000013_000002|You will recall what I represented to you as the medical opinion concerning the dream, the simile of untrained fingers wandering aimlessly over the keys of the piano.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000013_000003|You cannot fail to see how decidedly these dreams of childhood are opposed to this conception.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000013_000005|Indeed, we have every reason to attribute the more normal and deeper sleep to the child.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000000|three.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000001|Dream distortion is lacking in these dreams, therefore they need no interpretation.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000002|The manifest and latent dreams are merged.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000004|But upon closer consideration we shall have to admit of a tiny bit of distortion, a certain differentiation between manifest dream content and latent dream thought, even in these dreams.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000001|The child's dream is a reaction to an experience of the day, which has left behind it a regret, a longing or an unfulfilled desire.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000003|We learned definite facts about this, but could only explain a very small number of dreams in this way.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000004|In these children's dreams nothing points to the influence of such somatic stimuli; we cannot be mistaken, for the dreams are entirely intelligible and easy to survey. But we need not give up the theory of physical causation entirely on this account.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000006|The dreamer does not wish to interrupt his life, but would rather continue his work with the things that occupy him, and for this reason he does not sleep.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000007|The unfulfilled wish, to which he reacts by means of the dream, is the psychic sleep disturbing stimulus for the child.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000016_000002|The dream, as a reaction to the psychic stimulus, must have the value of a release of this stimulus which results in its elimination and in the continuation of sleep.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000016_000004|It is true, we think we would have slept better if we had not dreamt, but here we are wrong; as a matter of fact, we would not have slept at all without the help of the dream.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000016_000006|It could not help disturbing us slightly, just as the night watchman often cannot avoid making a little noise while he drives away the rioters who would awaken us with their noise.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000000|six.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000001|One main characteristic of the dream is that a wish is its source, and that the content of the dream is the gratification of this wish. Another equally constant feature is that the dream does not merely express a thought, but also represents the fulfillment of this wish in the form of a hallucinatory experience.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000003|In the interpretation of the dream it is of utmost importance that this change be traced back.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000005|Only extensive investigation can ascertain that the cause of the dream must always be a wish, and cannot also be an anxiety, a plan or a reproach; but this does not alter the other characteristic, that the dream does not simply reproduce the stimulus but by experiencing it anew, as it were, removes, expells and settles it.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000003|The dream fits into the same scheme.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000005|For the interfering tendency we substitute the psychic stimulus, the wish which strives for its fulfillment, let us say, for thus far we are not familiar with any other sleep disturbing psychic stimulus.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000007|We sleep, and yet we experience the removal of a wish; we gratify the wish, but at the same time continue to sleep. Both are partly carried out and partly given up.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000003|In this instance, therefore, the less firmly established of the two main characteristics of the dream holds, while the other proves itself entirely dependent upon the condition of sleep and impossible to the waking state.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000004|In colloquial usage, therefore, there is a presentment of the fact that the fulfillment of a wish is a main characteristic of the dream.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000006|For day dreaming is an activity closely bound up in gratification and is, indeed, pursued only for this reason.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000000|Not only this but other colloquial usages also express the same feeling. well-known proverbs say, "The pig dreams of acorns, the goose of maize," or ask, "Of what does the hen dream?
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000002|Many turns of speech seem to point to the same thing-"dreamlike beauty,"
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000003|"I should never have dreamed of that," "in my wildest dreams I hadn't imagined that." This is open partisanship on the part of colloquial usage.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000005|It is true that common usage recognizes "bad" dreams, but still the dream plainly connotates to it only the beautiful wish fulfillment.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000006|There is indeed no proverb that tells us that the pig or the goose dreams of being slaughtered.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000021_000001|Indeed, this was very often the case, but none of them thought of acknowledging this characteristic as universal and of making it the basis of an explanation of the dream. We can easily imagine what may have deterred them and shall discuss it subsequently.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000022_000001|And we were almost able to forget that we are engaged in psychoanalysis.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000022_000002|Aside from its connection with errors our work has no specific connotation.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000022_000003|Any psychologist, who is entirely ignorant of the claims of psychoanalysis, could have given this explanation of children's dreams.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000000|If there were only infantile dreams, our problem would be solved, our task accomplished, and that without questioning the dreamer, or approaching the unconscious, and without taking free association into consideration.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000001|The continuation of our task plainly lies in this direction.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000002|We have already repeatedly had the experience that characteristics that at first seemed universally true, have subsequently held good only for a certain kind and for a certain number of dreams.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000003|It is therefore for us to decide whether the common characteristics which we have gathered from children's dreams can be applied universally, whether they also hold for those dreams that are not transparent, whose manifest content shows no connection with wishes left over from the previous day.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000005|We also suspect that for the explanation of this distortion we shall need the psychoanalytic method which we could dispense with in the understanding of children's dreams.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000001|It is those that are called up throughout life by the imperative needs of the body-hunger, thirst, sexual desire-hence wish fulfillments in reaction to internal physical stimuli.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000002|For this reason, I have noted the dream of a young girl, that consisted of a menu following her name (Anna f....., strawberry, huckleberry, egg dish, pap), as a reaction to an enforced day of fasting on account of a spoiled stomach, which was directly traceable to the eating of the fruits twice mentioned in the dream.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000005|"Very significant in determining the trend of our inmost thoughts were our dreams, which were never more vivid and numerous than just at this time.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000007|All of them dealt with that outside world that now was so far away from us, but often they fitted into our present condition.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000008|Food and drink were most often the pivots about which our dreams revolved.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000009|One of us, who excelled in going to great dinners in his sleep, was most happy whenever he could tell us in the morning that he attended a dinner of three courses; another one dreamed of tobacco, whole mountains of tobacco; still another dreamed of a ship that came along on the open sea, under full sail.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000012|It would surely be of great psychological interest if all these dreams were recorded.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000014|"Mungo Park, who during a trip in Africa was almost exhausted, dreamed without interruption of the fertile valleys and fields of his home.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000025_000000|A man who feels great thirst at night after enjoying highly seasoned food for supper, often dreams that he is drinking.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000025_000001|It is of course impossible to satisfy a rather strong desire for food or drink by means of the dream; from such a dream one awakes thirsty and must now drink real water.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000025_000002|The effect of the dream is in this case practically trifling, but it is none the less clear that it was called up for the purpose of maintaining the sleep in spite of the urgent impulse to awake and to act.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000026_000000|In a like manner, under the influence of sexual stimuli, the dream brings about satisfaction that shows noteworthy peculiarities.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000026_000002|This peculiarity of the dream of pollution, as o Rank has observed, makes it a fruitful subject to pursue in the study of dream distortion.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000026_000003|Moreover, all dreams of desire of adults usually contain something besides satisfaction, something that has its origin in the sources of the purely psychic stimuli, and which requires interpretation to render it intelligible.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000027_000002|As, for example, in dreams of impatience, whenever a person has made preparations for a journey, for a theatrical performance, for a lecture or for a visit, and now dreams of the anticipated fulfillment of his expectations, and so arrives at his goal the night before the actual experience, in the theatre or in conversation with his host.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000027_000003|Or the well named dreams of comfort, when a person who likes to prolong his sleep, dreams that he is already up, is washing himself, or is already in school, while as a matter of fact he continues sleeping, hence would rather get up in a dream than in reality.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000028_000002|It is a very neat stroke that the release should be effected through the window, for the ray of light that awakens the prisoner comes through the same window.
train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000029_000000|In all other dreams except those of children and those of the infantile type, distortion, as we have said, blocks our way.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000001_000000|The entire range of Henriot's experience, read, imagined, dreamed, then fainted into unreality before the sheer wonder of what he saw.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000001_000003|But both were dim, dropped somewhere into a lesser scale.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000000|For a tempest that seemed to toss loose stars about the sky swept round about him, pouring up the pillared avenue in front of the procession.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000001|A blast of giant energy, of liberty, came through.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000003|It came to the accurate out line of its form they had traced for it.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000004|He held his mind steady enough to realise that it was akin to what men call a "descent" of some "spiritual movement" that wakens a body of believers into faith-a race, an entire nation; only that he experienced it in this brief, concentrated form before it has scattered down into ten thousand hearts.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000007|It sought to warm them with the stress of its own irresistible life stream, to beat them into shape, and make pliable their obstinate resistance.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000008|Through all things the impulse poured and spread, like fire at white heat.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000003_000000|Yet nothing visible came as yet, no alteration in the actual landscape, no sign of change in things familiar to his eyes, while impetus thus fought against inertia.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000003_000002|Calm and untouched himself, he lay outside the circle of evocation, watching, waiting, scarcely daring to breathe, yet well aware that any minute the scene would transfer itself from memory that was subjective to matter that was objective.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000001|How or where he did not see, he could not tell.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000003|He saw it, as he saw the hands he was holding stupidly up to shield his face. For this terrific release of force long held back, long stored up, latent for centuries, came pouring down the empty Wadi bed prepared for its reception.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000004|Through stones and sand and boulders it came in an impetuous hurricane of power.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000005|The liberation of its life appalled him. All that was free, untied, responded instantly like chaff; loose objects fled towards it; there was a yielding in the hills and precipices; and even in the mass of Desert which provided their foundation.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000006|The hinges of the Sand went creaking in the night.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000007|It shaped for itself a bodily outline.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000000|Yet, most strangely, nothing definitely moved.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000001|How could he express the violent contradiction?
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000004|For stubborn matter turned docile before the stress of this returning life, taught somewhere to be plastic.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000007|The two officiating human beings, safe at the stationary centre, and himself, just outside the circle of operation, alone remained untouched and unaffected.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000006_000003|The stars themselves, it seemed, contributed some part of the terrific, flowing impulse that conquered matter and shaped itself this physical expression.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000007_000000|Then, before he was able to fashion any preconceived idea of what visible form this potent life might assume, he was aware of further change.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000007_000001|It came at the briefest possible interval after the beginning-this certainty that, to and fro about him, as yet however indeterminate, passed Magnitudes that were stupendous as the desert. There was beauty in them too, though a terrible beauty hardly of this earth at all.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000007_000002|A fragment of old Egypt had returned-a little portion of that vast Body of Belief that once was Egypt.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000008_000000|Yet only a portion came.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000008_000002|It stretched forth an arm.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000009_000000|Here was the beginning the woman had spoken of-little opening clue. Entire reconstruction lay perhaps beyond.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000000|And Henriot next realised that these Magnitudes in which this group energy sought to clothe itself as visible form, were curiously familiar.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000002|Booming softly as they dropped downwards through the sky, with a motion the size of them rendered delusive, they trooped up the Avenue towards the central point that summoned them.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000005|He recognised them, cold in him of death, though the outlines reared higher than the pyramids, and towered up to hide whole groups of stars.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000006|Yes, he recognised them in their partial revelation, though he never saw the monstrous host complete.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000007|But, one of them, he realised, posing its eternal riddle to the sands, had of old been glimpsed sufficiently to seize its form in stone,--yet poorly seized, as a doll may stand for the dignity of a human being or a child's toy represent an engine that draws trains....
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000003|He forgot himself.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000004|He merely watched.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000005|The glory numbed him.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000006|Block and pencil, as the reason of his presence there at all, no longer existed....
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000012_000000|Yet one small link remained that held him to some kind of consciousness of earthly things: he never lost sight of this-that, being just outside the circle of evocation, he was safe, and that the man and woman, being stationary in its untouched centre, were also safe.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000012_000001|But-that a movement of six inches in any direction meant for any one of them instant death.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000013_000000|What was it, then, that suddenly strengthened this solitary link so that the chain tautened and he felt the pull of it?
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000013_000001|Henriot could not say.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000013_000003|The chill breath of the Desert made him shiver.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000000|But at first, so deeply had his soul been dipped in this fragment of ancient worship, he could remember nothing more.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000001|Somewhere lay a little spot of streets and houses; its name escaped him.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000002|He had once been there; there were many people, but insignificant people.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000003|Who were they? And what had he to do with them?
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000004|All recent memories had been drowned in the tide that flooded him from an immeasurable Past.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000002|Yet he remembered them; and, thus robbed of association that names bring, he saw them for an instant naked, and knew that one of them was evil.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000004|Blackness touched the picture there.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000005|The man, his name still out of reach, was sinister, impure and dark at the heart.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000007|The admixture of an evil motive was the flaw that marred complete success.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000016_000000|The names then flashed upon him-Lady Statham-Richard Vance.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000000|Vance!
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000001|With a horrid drop from splendour into something mean and sordid, Henriot felt the pain of it.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000002|The motive of the man was so insignificant, his purpose so atrocious.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000003|More and more, with the name, came back-his first repugnance, fear, suspicion.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000004|And human terror caught him.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000005|He shrieked.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000001|The inner perception clouded and grew dark.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000002|Outer and inner mingled in violent, inextricable confusion.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000003|The wrench seemed almost physical.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000004|It happened all at once, retreat and continuation for a moment somehow combined. And, if he did not definitely see the awful thing, at least he was aware that it had come to pass.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000006|He witnessed it.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000019_000000|The supreme moment of evocation was close.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000019_000001|Life, through that awful sandy vortex, whirled and raged.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000020_000001|And the Group Soul caught and used it.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000000|The actual accomplishment Henriot did not claim to see.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000001|He was a witness, but a witness who could give no evidence.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000002|Whether the woman was pushed of set intention, or whether some detail of sound and pattern was falsely used to effect the terrible result, he was helpless to determine.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000003|He pretends no itemised account.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000004|She went.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000006|Sand took her.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000022_000000|There followed emptiness-a hush of unutterable silence, stillness, peace.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000023_000000|The moon had sunk into the Libyan wilderness; the eastern sky was red.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000023_000002|The Desert settled back to sleep, huge, unfathomable, charged to the brim with life that watches, waits, and yet conceals itself behind the ruins of apparent desolation.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000023_000003|And the Wadi, empty at his feet, filled slowly with the gentle little winds that bring the sunrise.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000024_000000|Then, across the pale glimmering of sand, Henriot saw a figure moving.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000024_000003|And the horror of the man's approach struck him like a hammer in the face. He closed his eyes, sinking back to hide.
train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000025_000000|But, before he swooned, there reached him the clatter of the murderer's tread as he began to climb over the splintered rocks, and the faint echo of his voice, calling him by name-falsely and in pretence-for help.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000002_000000|THE DREAM
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000000|We have learned to know the origin, nature and function of the dream from the study of children's dreams.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000002|As to the others we know nothing as yet, nor do we understand them.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000003|For the present, however, we have obtained a result whose significance we do not wish to under estimate.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000004|Every time a dream is completely comprehensible to us, it proves to be an hallucinated wish fulfillment.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000005|This coincidence cannot be accidental, nor is it an unimportant matter.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000005_000001|Our next task is the investigation and the understanding of this dream distortion.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000000|Dream distortion is the thing which makes the dream seem strange and incomprehensible to us.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000001|We want to know several things about it; firstly, whence it comes, its dynamics; secondly, what it does; and finally, how it does it.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000002|We can say at this point that dream distortion is the product of the dream work, that is, of the mental functioning of which the dream itself is the conscious symptom.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000003|Let us describe the dream work and trace it back to the forces which work upon it.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000000|And now I shall ask you to listen to the following dream.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000001|It was recorded by a lady of our profession, and according to her, originated with a highly cultivated and respected lady of advanced age.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000002|No analysis of this dream was made.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000003|Our informant remarks that to a psychoanalyst it needs no interpretation.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000001|She stresses the word 'service,' so love services.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000003|But instead of reaching the chief physician, she finds herself in a large somber room in which there are many officers and army doctors sitting and standing around a long table.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000004|She turns with her proposal to a staff doctor who, after a few words, soon understands her.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000005|The words of her speech in the dream are, 'I and numerous other women and girls of Vienna are ready for the soldiers, troops, and officers, without distinction....' Here in the dream follows a murmuring.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000006|That the idea is, however, correctly understood by those present she sees from the semi embarrassed, somewhat malicious expressions of the officers.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000007|The lady then continues, 'I know that our decision sounds strange, but we are in bitter earnest.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000008|The soldier in the field is not asked either whether or not he wants to die.' A moment of painful silence follows.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000009|The staff doctor puts his arm around her waist and says, 'Madame, let us assume that it really came to that ...' (murmurs).
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000011|At this she realizes with great dismay that she does not know his name.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000013|In going up she hears an officer say, 'That is a tremendous decision irrespective of whether a woman is young or old; all honor to her!'
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000009_000000|"With the feeling that she is merely doing her duty, she goes up an endless staircase."
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000010_000000|This dream she repeats twice in the course of a few weeks, with-as the lady notices-quite insignificant and very senseless changes.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000000|This dream corresponds in its structure to a day dream.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000001|It has few gaps, and many of its individual points might have been elucidated as to content through inquiry, which, as you know, was omitted.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000002|The conspicuous and interesting point for us, however, is that the dream shows several gaps, gaps not of recollection, but of original content. In three places the content is apparently obliterated, the speeches in which these gaps occur are interrupted by murmurs.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000005|For example, the phrase "services of love," and above all the bits of speech which immediately precede the murmurs, demand a completion which can have but one meaning. If we interpolate these, then the phantasy yields as its content the idea that the dreamer is ready, as an act of patriotic duty, to offer her person for the satisfaction of the erotic desires of the army, officers as well as troops.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000006|That certainly is exceedingly shocking, it is an impudent libidinous phantasy, but-it does not occur in the dream at all.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000000|I hope you will recognize the inevitability of the conclusion that it is the shocking character of these places in the dream that was the motive for their suppression.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000001|Yet where do you find a parallel for this state of affairs?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000002|In these times you need not seek far.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000003|Take up any political paper and you will find that the text is obliterated here and there, and that in its place shimmers the white of the paper.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000004|You know that that is the work of the newspaper censor.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000006|You think that it is a pity, that it probably was the most interesting part, it was "the best part."
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000013_000000|In other places the censorship did not touch the completed sentence.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000013_000001|The author foresaw what parts might be expected to meet with the objection of the censor, and for that reason he softened them by way of prevention, modified them slightly, or contented himself with innuendo and allusion to what really wanted to flow from his pen.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000013_000002|Thus the sheet, it is true, has no blank spaces, but from certain circumlocutions and obscurities of expression you will be able to guess that thoughts of the censorship were the restraining motive.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000000|Now let us keep to this parallel.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000001|We say that the omitted dream speeches, which were disguised by a murmuring, were also sacrifices to a censorship.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000003|Wherever there are gaps in the manifest dream, it is the fault of the dream censor.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000004|Indeed, we should go further, and recognize each time as a manifestation of the dream censor, those places at which a dream element is especially faint, indefinitely and doubtfully recalled among other, more clearly delineated portions.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000015_000000|For a third type of dream censorship I know of no parallel in the practice of newspaper censorship, yet it is just this type that I can demonstrate by the only dream example which we have so far analyzed.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000015_000003|In the latter, going to the theatre and getting the tickets were shoved into the foreground.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000015_000005|This displacement of emphasis is a favorite device of the dream distortion and gives the dream that strangeness which makes the dreamer himself unwilling to recognize it as his own production.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000016_000001|The dream censorship itself is the author, or one of the authors, of the dream distortion whose investigation now occupies us.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000000|After these remarks concerning the effects of the dream censor, let us now turn to their dynamics.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000001|I hope you will not consider the expression too anthropomorphically, and picture the dream censor as a severe little manikin who lives in a little brain chamber and there performs his duties; nor should you attempt to localize him too much, to think of a brain center from which his censoring influence emanates, and which would cease with the injury or extirpation of this center.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000002|For the present, the term "dream censor" is no more than a very convenient phrase for a dynamic relationship.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000003|This phrase does not prevent us from asking by what tendencies such influence is exerted and upon which tendencies it works; nor will we be surprised to discover that we have already encountered the dream censor before, perhaps without recognizing him.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000000|For such was actually the case.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000001|You will remember that we had a surprising experience when we began to apply our technique of free association.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000002|We then began to feel that some sort of a resistance blocked our efforts to proceed from the dream element to the unconscious element for which the former is the substitute.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000003|This resistance, we said, may be of varying strength, enormous at one time, quite negligible at another.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000004|In the latter case we need cross only a few intermediate steps in our work of interpretation.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000005|But when the resistance is strong, then we must go through a long chain of associations, are taken far afield and must overcome all the difficulties which present themselves as critical objections to the association technique.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000007|The resistance to interpretation is nothing but the objectivation of the dream censor.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000008|The latter proves to us that the force of the censor has not spent itself in causing the dream distortion, has not since been extinguished, but that this censorship continues as a permanent institution with the purpose of preserving the distortion.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000001|This question, which is fundamental to the understanding of the dream, indeed perhaps to human life, is easily answered if we look over a series of those dreams which have been analyzed.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000002|The tendencies which the censorship exercises are those which are recognized by the waking judgment of the dreamer, those with which he feels himself in harmony.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000003|You may rest assured that when you reject an accurate interpretation of a dream of your own, you do so with the same motives with which the dream censor works, the motives with which it produces the dream distortion and makes the interpretation necessary. Recall the dream of our fifty year old lady.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000004|Without having interpreted it, she considers her dream abominable, would have been still more outraged if our informant had told her anything about the indubitable meaning; and it is just on account of this condemnation that the shocking spots in her dream were replaced by a murmur.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000000|The tendencies, however, against which the dream censor directs itself, must now be described from the standpoint of this instance.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000001|One can say only that these tendencies are of an objectionable nature throughout, that they are shocking from an ethical, aesthetic and social point of view, that they are things one does not dare even to think, or thinks of only with abhorrence.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000002|These censored wishes which have attained to a distorted expression in the dream, are above all expressions of a boundless, reckless egoism.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000003|And indeed, the personal ego occurs in every dream to play the major part in each of them, even if it can successfully disguise itself in the manifest content.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000000|The ego which has been freed of all ethical restraints feels itself in accord with all the demands of the sexual striving, with those demands which have long since been condemned by our aesthetic rearing, demands of such a character that they resist all our moral demands for restraint.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000001|The pleasure striving-the libido, as we term it-chooses its objects without inhibitions, and indeed, prefers those that are forbidden.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000002|It chooses not only the wife of another, but, above all, those incestuous objects declared sacred by the agreement of mankind-the mother and sister in the man's case, the father and brother in the woman's.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000003|Even the dream of our fifty year old lady is an incestuous one, its libido unmistakably directed toward her son.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000004|Desires which we believe to be far from human nature show themselves strong enough to arouse dreams.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000005|Hate, too, expends itself without restraint. Revenge and murderous wishes toward those standing closest to the dreamer are not unusual, toward those best beloved in daily life, toward parents, brothers and sisters, toward one's spouse and one's own children.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000006|These censored wishes seem to arise from a veritable hell; no censorship seems too harsh to be applied against their waking interpretation.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000000|But do not reproach the dream itself for this evil content.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000001|You will not, I am sure, forget that the dream is charged with the harmless, indeed the useful function of guarding sleep from disturbance.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000002|This evil content, then, does not lie in the nature of the dream.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000003|You know also that there are dreams which can be recognized as the satisfaction of justified wishes and urgent bodily needs.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000004|These, to be sure, undergo no dream distortion.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000005|They need none.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000006|They can satisfy their function without offending the ethical and aesthetic tendencies of the ego.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000007|And will you also keep in mind the fact that the amount of dream distortion is proportional to two factors.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000008|On the one hand, the worse the censorable wish, the greater the distortion; on the other hand, however, the stricter the censor himself is at any particular time the greater the distortion will be also.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000009|A young, strictly reared and prudish girl will, by reason of those factors, disfigure with an inexorable censorship those dream impulses which we physicians, for example, and which the dreamer herself ten years later, would recognize as permissible, harmless, libidinous desires.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000002|It is not at all difficult to "find a hitch" in it.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000003|Our dream interpretations were made on the hypotheses we accepted a little while ago, that the dream has some meaning, that from the hypnotic to the normal sleep one may carry over the idea of the existence at such times of an unconscious psychic activity, and that all associations are predetermined.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000004|If we had come to plausible results on the basis of these hypotheses, we would have been justified in concluding that the hypotheses were correct.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000005|But what is to be done when the results are what I have just pictured them to be?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000006|Then it surely is natural to say, "These results are impossible, foolish, at least very improbable, hence there must have been something wrong with the hypotheses.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000007|Either the dream is no psychic phenomenon after all, or there is no such thing as unconscious mental activity in the normal condition, or our technique has a gap in it somewhere.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000008|Is that not a simpler and more satisfying conclusion than the abominations which we pretend to have disclosed on the basis of our suppositions?"
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000000|Both, I answer.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000001|It is a simpler as well as a more satisfying conclusion, but not necessarily more correct for that reason.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000002|Let us take our time, the matter is not yet ripe for judgment.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000003|Above all we can strengthen the criticism against our dream interpretation still further.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000004|That its conclusions are so unpleasant and unpalatable is perhaps of secondary importance.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000005|A stronger argument is the fact that the dreamers to whom we ascribe such wish tendencies from the interpretation of their dreams reject the interpretations most emphatically, and with good reason. "What," says the one, "you want to prove to me by this dream that I begrudged the sums which I spent for my sister's trousseau and my brother's education?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000006|But indeed that can't be so.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000007|Why I work only for my sister, I have no interest in life but to fulfill my duties toward her, as being the oldest child, I promised our blessed mother I would." Or a woman says of her dream, "You mean to say that I wish my husband were dead!
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000008|Why, that is simply revolting, nonsense.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000009|It isn't only that we have the happiest possible married life, you probably won't believe me when I tell you so, but his death would deprive me of everything else that I own in the world." Or another will tell us, "You mean that I have sensual desires toward my sister?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000010|That is ridiculous.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000012|We don't get along and I haven't exchanged a word with her in years." We might perhaps ignore this sort of thing if the dreamers did not confirm or deny the tendencies ascribed to them; we could say that they are matters which the dreamers do not know about themselves.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000013|But that the dreamers should feel the exact opposite of the ascribed wish, and should be able to prove to us the dominance of the opposite tendency-this fact must finally disconcert us.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000014|Is it not time to lay aside the whole work of the dream interpretation as something whose results reduce it to absurdity?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000001|Assuming that there are unconscious tendencies in the psychic life, nothing is proved by the ability of the subject to show that their opposites dominate his conscious life.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000003|The first two objections raised against our work hold merely that the results of dream interpretation are not simple, and very unpleasant.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000004|In answer to the first of these, one may say that for all your enthusiasm for the simple solution, you cannot thereby solve a single dream problem.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000005|To do so you must make up your mind to accept the fact of complicated relationships.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000008|"That doesn't prevent them from existing," as I used to hear my teacher Charcot say in similar cases, when I was a young doctor.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000011|This prospect is too unpleasant." On the contrary, you will be silent until another physicist proves some error in the assumptions or calculations of the first.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000012|If you reject the unpleasant, you are repeating the mechanism of dream construction instead of understanding and mastering it.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000001|But does your own experience justify you in saying that?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000002|I will not discuss the question of how you may estimate yourselves, but have you found so much good will among your superiors and rivals, so much chivalry among your enemies, so little envy in their company, that you feel yourselves in duty bound to enter a protest against the part played by the evil of egoism in human nature?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000003|Are you ignorant of how uncontrolled and undependable the average human being is in all the affairs of sex life?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000004|Or do you not know that all the immoralities and excesses of which we dream nightly are crimes committed daily by waking persons?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000000|And now turn your attention from the individual case to the great war devastating Europe.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000001|Think of the amount of brutality, the cruelty and the lies allowed to spread over the civilized world.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000002|Do you really believe that a handful of conscienceless egoists and corruptionists could have succeeded in setting free all these evil spirits, if the millions of followers did not share in the guilt?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000003|Do you dare under these circumstances to break a lance for the absence of evil from the psychic constitution of mankind?
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000028_000001|It is not our intention to deny the noble strivings of human nature, nor have we ever done anything to deprecate their value.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000028_000002|On the contrary, I show you not only the censored evil dream wishes, but also the censor which suppresses them and renders them unrecognizable.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000028_000004|When, however, we give up this one sided ethical estimate, we shall surely be able to find a more accurate formula for the relationship of the evil to the good in human nature.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000000|And thus the matter stands.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000001|We need not give up the conclusions to which our labors in dream interpretation lead us even though we must consider those conclusions strange.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000002|Perhaps we can approach their understanding later by another path.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000003|For the present, let us repeat: dream distortion is a consequence of the censorship practised by accredited tendencies of the ego against those wish impulses that are in any way shocking, impulses which stir in us nightly during sleep.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000004|Why these wish impulses come just at night, and whence they come-these are questions which will bear considerable investigation.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000000|It would be a mistake, however, to omit to mention, with fitting emphasis, another result of these investigations.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000001|The dream wishes which try to disturb our sleep are not known to us, in fact we learn of them first through the dream interpretation.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000002|Therefore, they may be described as "at that time" unconscious in the sense above defined.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000003|But we can go beyond this and say that they are more than merely "at that time" unconscious.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000004|The dreamer to be sure denies their validity, as we have seen in so many cases, even after he has learned of their existence by means of the interpretation.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000005|The situation is then repeated which we first encountered in the interpretation of the tongue slip "hiccough" where the toastmaster was outraged and assured us that neither then nor ever before had he been conscious of disrespectful impulse toward his chief.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000006|This is repeated with every interpretation of a markedly distorted dream, and for that reason attains a significance for our conception.
train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000007|We are now prepared to conclude that there are processes and tendencies in the psychic life of which one knows nothing at all, has known nothing for some time, might, in fact, perhaps never have known anything.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000000|If any further evidence had been required to show that it was the determination of the Northern people not only to make no concessions to the grievances of the Southern States, but to increase them to the last extremity, it was furnished by the proclamation of President Lincoln, issued on april fifteenth eighteen sixty one.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000001|This proclamation, which has already been mentioned, requires a further examination, as it was the official declaration, on the part of the Government of the United States, of the war which ensued.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000002|In it the President called for seventy five thousand men to suppress "combinations" opposed to the laws, and obstructing their execution in seven sovereign States which had retired from the Union.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000003|Seventy five thousand men organized and equipped are a powerful army, and, when raised to operate against these States, nothing else than war could be intended.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000000|On november sixth eighteen sixty, the Legislature of South Carolina assembled and gave the vote of the State for electors of a President of the United States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000001|On the next day an act was passed calling a State Convention to assemble on december seventeenth, to determine the question of the withdrawal of the State from the United States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000003|All were in favor of secession.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000004|The Convention assembled on december seventeenth, and on the twentieth passed "an ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America.'" The ordinance began with these words: "We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain," etc
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000005|The State authorities immediately conformed to this action of the Convention, and the laws and authority of the United States ceased to be obeyed within the limits of the State.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000006|About four months afterward, when the State, in union with others which had joined her, had possessed herself of the forts within her limits, which the United States Government had refused to evacuate, President Lincoln issued the above mentioned proclamation.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000003_000002|Though President Lincoln designated her as a "combination," it did not make her a combination.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000003_000003|Though he refused to recognize her as a State, it did not make her any less a State.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000003_000004|By assertion, he attempted to annihilate seven States; and the war which followed was to enforce the revolutionary edict, and to establish the supremacy of the General Government on the ruins of the blood bought independence of the States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000004_000000|By designating the State as a "combination," and considering that under such a name it might be in a condition of insurrection, he assumed to have authority to raise a great military force and attack the State. Yet, even if the fact had been as assumed, if an insurrection had existed, the President could not lawfully have derived the power he exercised from such condition of affairs.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000004_000002|For a State or union of States to attack with military force another State, is to make war.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000000|The answer to this question is very plain.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000001|In the nature of things, no union can be formed except by separate, independent, and distinct parties.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000004|A new union might subsequently be formed, but the original one could never by coercion be restored.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000005|Any effort on the part of the others to force the seceding State to consent to come back is an attempt at subjugation.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000006|It is a wrong which no lapse of time or combination of circumstances can ever make right.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000007|A forced union is a political absurdity.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000008|No less absurd is President Lincoln's effort to dissever the sovereignty of the people from that of the State; as if there could be a State without a people, or a sovereign people without a State.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000000|But the question which mr Lincoln presents "to the whole family of man" deserves a further notice.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000001|The answer which he seems to infer would be given "by the whole family of man" is that such a government as he supposes "can maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." And, therefore, he concluded that he was right in the judgment of "the whole family of man" in commencing hostilities against us.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000002|He says, "So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." That is the power to make war against foreign nations, for the Government has no other war power.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000003|Planting himself on this position, he commenced the devastation and bloodshed which followed to effect our subjugation.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000000|Nothing could be more erroneous than such views.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000001|The supposed case which he presents is entirely unlike the real case.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000002|The Government of the United States is like no other government.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000004|Neither is it a "government of the people by the same people"; but it is known and designated as "the Government of the United States." It is an anomaly among governments.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000005|Its authority consists solely of certain powers delegated to it, as a common agent, by an association of sovereign and independent States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000006|These powers are to be exercised only for certain specified objects; and the purposes, declared in the beginning of the deed or instrument of delegation, were "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000001|All its powers are there expressed, defined, and limited.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000002|It was only to that instrument mr Lincoln as President should have gone to learn his duties.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000003|That was the chart which he had just solemnly pledged himself to the country faithfully to follow.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000004|He soon deviated widely from it-and fatally erroneous was his course.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000005|The administration of the affairs of a great people, at a most perilous period, is decided by the answer which it is assumed "the whole family of man" would give to a supposed condition of human affairs which did not exist and which could not exist.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000006|This is the ground upon which the rectitude of his cause was placed.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000007|He says, "No choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation."
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000000|"Here," he says, "no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." For what purpose must he call out this war power?
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000002|The assertion is not only incorrect, in stating that force was employed by us, but also in declaring that it was for the destruction of the Government of the United States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000003|On the contrary, we wished to leave it alone.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000004|Our separation did not involve its destruction.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000005|To such fiction was mr Lincoln compelled to resort to give even apparent justice to his cause.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000006|He now goes to the Constitution for the exercise of his war power, and here we have another fiction.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000001|It further declared that all persons who should under their authority molest any vessel of the United States, or the persons or cargo on board, should be treated as pirates.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000002|In their efforts to subjugate us, the destruction of our commerce was regarded by the authorities at Washington as a most efficient measure.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000003|It was early seen that, although acts of Congress established ports of entry where commerce existed, they might be repealed, and the ports nominally closed or declared to be closed; yet such a declaration would be of no avail unless sustained by a naval force, as these ports were located in territory not subject to the United States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000004|An act was subsequently passed authorizing the President of the United States, in his discretion, to close our ports, but it was never executed.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000000|The scheme of blockade was resorted to, and a falsehood was asserted on which to base it.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000003|Under the laws of nations, separate governments when at war blockade each other's ports.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000004|This is decided to be justifiable.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000005|But the Government of the United States could not consent to justify its blockade of our ports on this ground, as it would be an admission that the Confederate States were a separate and distinct sovereignty, and that the war was prosecuted only for subjugation.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000006|It, therefore, assumed that the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union was an insurrection.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000000|Was it an insurrection?
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000001|When certain sovereign and independent States form a union with limited powers for some general purposes, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal an insurrection?
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000004|The ambitious and aggressive States obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the States.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000005|Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire, is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels," as if they had revolted against a master, and a war of subjugation is begun.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000007|Where is the value of constitutional liberty?
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000008|What strength is there in bills of rights-in limitations of power?
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000010|Such must be the verdict of mankind.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000014_000000|Men do not fight to make a fraternal union, neither do nations.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000015_000000|To be prepared for self defense, I called Congress together at Montgomery on april twenty ninth, and, in the message of that date, thus spoke of the proclamation of the President of the United States: "Apparently contradictory as are the terms of this singular document, one point is unmistakably evident.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000015_000001|The President of the United States calls for an army of seventy five thousand men, whose first service is to be the capture of our forts.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000015_000002|It is a plain declaration of war, which I am not at liberty to disregard, because of my knowledge that, under the Constitution of the United States, the President is usurping a power granted exclusively to Congress."
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000016_000000|I then proceeded to say that I did not feel at liberty to disregard the fact that many of the States seemed quite content to submit to the exercise of the powers assumed by the President of the United States, and were actively engaged in levying troops for the purpose indicated in the proclamation.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000016_000003|Finally, that the intent of the President of the United States, already developed, to invade our soil, capture our forts, blockade our ports, and wage war against us, rendered it necessary to raise means to a much larger amount than had been done, to defray the expenses of maintaining independence and repelling invasion.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000017_000001|This we will, we must, resist to the direst extremity.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000017_000002|The moment that this pretension is abandoned, the sword will drop from our grasp, and we shall be ready to enter into treaties of amity and commerce that can not but be mutually beneficial.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000017_000003|So long as this pretension is maintained, with a firm reliance on that Divine Power which covers with its protection the just cause, we must continue to struggle for our inherent right to freedom, independence, and self government."
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000018_000001|An act was also passed to provide revenue from imports; another, relative to prisoners of war; and such others as were necessary to complete the internal organization of the Government, and establish the administration of public affairs.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000019_000003|The gravity of age and the zeal of youth rivaled each other in the desire to be foremost in the public defense.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000020_000001|Volunteers were ordered to be enrolled and held in readiness in every part of the State.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000000|Already the Northern officer in charge had evacuated Harper's Ferry, after having attempted to destroy the public buildings there.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000001|His report says: "I gave the order to apply the torch.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000002|In three minutes or less, both of the arsenal buildings, containing nearly fifteen thousand stand of arms, together with the carpenter's shop, which was at the upper end of a long and connected series of workshops of the armory proper, were in a blaze.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000004|The great ship Pennsylvania was burned, and the frigates Merrimac and Columbus, and the Delaware, Raritan, Plymouth, and Germantown were sunk.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000006|The value of the property destroyed was estimated at several millions of dollars.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000022_000000|This property thus destroyed had been accumulated and constructed with laborious care and skillful ingenuity during a course of years to fulfill one of the objects of the Constitution, which was expressed in these words, "To provide for the common defense" (see Preamble of the Constitution).
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000022_000001|It had belonged to all the States in common, and to each one equally with the others.
train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000024_000000|How unreasonable, how blind with rage must have been that administration of affairs which so quickly brought the Government to the necessity of destroying its own means of defense in order, as it publicly declared, "to maintain its life"!
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000009_000000|We should not omit to refer once more to the most prolific source of sectional strife and alienation, which is believed to have been the question of the tariff, or duties upon imports.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000009_000001|Its influence extended to and affected subjects with which it was not visibly connected, and finally assumed a form surely not contemplated in the original formation of the Union.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000009_000002|In the Articles of Confederation, the first Constitution of the United States, the theory was that of direct taxation, and the manner was to impose upon the States an amount which each was to furnish to the common Treasury to defray expenses for the common defense and general welfare.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000010_000000|During the period of our colonial existence, the policy of the British Government had been to suppress the growth of manufacturing industry.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000000|In the Convention which framed the Constitution for a "more perfect Union," one of the greatest difficulties in agreeing upon its terms was found in the different interests of the States, but, among the compromises which were made, there prominently appears the purpose of a strict equality in the burdens to be borne, as well as the blessings to be enjoyed, by the people of the several States.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000001|For a long time after the formation of the "more perfect Union," but little capital was invested in manufacturing establishments; and, though in the early part of the present century the amount had considerably increased, the products were yet quite insufficient for the necessary supplies of our armies in the War of eighteen twelve.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000002|Government contracts, high prices, and to some extent, no doubt, patriotic impulses, led to the investment of capital in the articles required for the prosecution of the war.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000004|The Congress of the United States, in eighteen sixteen, from motives at least to be commended for their generosity, enacted a law to protect from the threatened ruin those of their countrymen who had employed their capital for purposes demanded by the general welfare and common defense.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000005|These good intentions, if it be conceded that the danger was real which it was designed to avert, were most unfortunate as the beginning of a policy the end of which was fraught with the greatest evils that have ever befallen the Union.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000002|Not so with the tariff law of eighteen sixteen: though sustained by men from all sections of the Union, and notably by so strict a constructionist as mr Calhoun, there were not wanting those who saw in it a departure from the limitation of the Constitution, and sternly opposed it as the usurpation of a power to legislate for the benefit of a class.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000003|The law derived much of its support from the assurance that it was only a temporary measure, and intended to shield those whose patriotism had exposed them to danger, thus presenting the not uncommon occurrence of a good case making a bad precedent.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000004|For the first time a tariff law had protection for its object, and for the first time it produced discontent.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000005|In the law there was nothing which necessarily gave to it or in its terms violated the obligation that duties should be uniform throughout the United States.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000006|The fact that it affected the sections differently was due to physical causes-that is, geographical differences.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000007|The streams of the Southern Atlantic States ran over wide plains into the sea; their last falls were remote from ocean navigation; and their people, almost exclusively agricultural, resided principally on this plain, and as near to the seaboard as circumstances would permit.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000008|In the Northern Atlantic States the highlands approached more nearly to the sea, and the rivers made their last leap near to harbors of commerce.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000009|Water power being relied on before the steam engine had been made, and ships the medium of commerce before railroads and locomotives were introduced, it followed that the staples of the Southern plains were economically sent to the water power of the North to be manufactured.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000010|This remark, of course, applies to such articles as were not exported to foreign countries, and is intended to explain how the North became the seat of manufactures, and the South remained agricultural.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000011|From this it followed that legislation for the benefit of manufacturers became a Northern policy.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000012|It was not, as has been erroneously stated, because of the agricultural character of the Southern people, that they were opposed to the policy inaugurated by the tariff act of eighteen sixteen.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000013|This is shown by the fact that anterior to that time they had been the friends of manufacturing industry, without reference to its location.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000014|As long as duties were imposed for revenue, so that the object was to supply the common Treasury, it had been cheerfully borne, and the agriculture of one section and the manufacturing of another were properly regarded as handmaids, and not unfrequently referred to as the means of strengthening and perpetuating the bonds by which the States were united.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000015|When duties were imposed, not for revenue, but as a bounty to a particular industry, it was regarded both as unjust and without warrant, expressed or implied, in the Constitution.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000000|Then arose the controversy, quadrennially renewed and with increasing provocation, in eighteen twenty, in eighteen twenty four, and in eighteen twenty eight--each stage intensifying the discontent, arising more from the injustice than the weight of the burden borne.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000002|It was not the stamp duty nor the tea tax, but the principle involved in taxation without representation, against which our colonial fathers took up arms.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000003|So the tariff act in eighteen twenty eight, known at the time as "the bill of abominations," was resisted by Southern representatives, because it was the invasion of private rights in violation of the compact by which the States were united.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000005|Those who had passed the bill refused to allow the opportunity to test the validity of a tax imposed for the protection of a particular industry.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000006|Though the debates showed clearly enough the purpose to be to impose duties for protection, the phraseology of the law presented it as enacted to raise revenue, and therefore the victims of the discrimination were deprived of an appeal to the tribunal instituted to hear and decide on the constitutionality of a law.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000000|South Carolina, oppressed by onerous duties and stung by the injustice of a refusal to allow her the ordinary remedy against unconstitutional legislation, asserted the right, as a sovereign State, to nullify the law.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000002|Before an actual collision of arms occurred, Congress wisely adopted the compromise act of eighteen thirty three.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000005|As the Southern representatives were mainly those who denied the constitutional power to make such expenditures, it naturally resulted that the mass of those appropriations were made for Northern works.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000006|Now that direct taxes had in practice been so wholly abandoned as to be almost an obsolete idea, and now that the Treasury was supplied by the collection of duties upon imports, two golden streams flowed steadily to enrich the Northern and manufacturing region by the impoverishment of the Southern and agricultural section.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000007|In the train of wealth and demand for labor followed immigration and the more rapid increase of population in the Northern than in the Southern States.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000008|I do not deny the existence of other causes, such as the fertile region of the Northwest, the better harbors, the greater amount of shipping of the Northeastern States, and the prejudice of Europeans against contact with the negro race; but the causes I have first stated were, I think, the chief, and those only which are referable to the action of the General Government.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000009|It was not found that the possession of power mitigated the injustice of its use by the North, and discontent therefore was steadily accumulating, and, as stated in the beginning of this chapter, I think was due to class legislation in the form of protective duties and its consequences more than to any or all other causes combined.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000010|Turning from the consideration of this question in its sectional aspect, I now invite attention to its general effect upon the character of our institutions.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000011|If the common Treasury of the States had, as under the Confederation, been supplied by direct taxation, who can doubt that a rigid economy would have been the rule of the Government; that representatives would have returned to their tax paying constituents to justify appropriations for which they had voted by showing that they were required for the general welfare, and were authorized by the Constitution under which they were acting?
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000012|When the money was obtained by indirect taxation, so that but few could see the source from which it was derived, it readily followed that a constituency would ask, not why the representative had voted for the expenditure of money, but how much he had got for his own district, and perhaps he might have to explain why he did not get more.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000013|Is it doubtful that this would lead to extravagance, if not to corruption?
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000014|Nothing could be more fatal to the independence of the people and the liberties of the States than dependence for support upon the public Treasury, whether it be in the form of subsidies, of bounties, or restrictions on trade for the benefit of special interests.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000015|In the decline of the Roman Empire, the epoch in which the hopelessness of renovation was made manifest was that in which the people accepted corn from the public granaries: it preceded but a little the time when the post of emperor became a matter of purchase.
train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000016_000000|Now that fanaticism can no longer inflame the prejudices of the uninformed, it may be hoped that our statesmen will review the past, and give to our country a future in accordance with its early history, and promotive of true liberty.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000003_000000|BUSINESS IS BUSINESS
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000000|Cargan turned first, as usual, to the stock market reports.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000004|His eye caught an explanatory note: the dividend on the preferred had been cut; the surplus was heavily reduced. His mind, searching rapidly over their business, fixed upon two marginal accounts-Jim Smith's and Waldron's.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000005|In each case the collateral deposited had already been insufficient.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000006|Drawing out his note book he swiftly figured.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000009|Gotta sell Waldron out. Must have made a thousand dollars out of that account first and last. Too bad.' A momentary sense of Waldron's calamity swept over him, but quickly evaporated.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000010|'Business is business,' he thought, and remembered, with a little angry satisfaction, Anita Waldron's coming out dance and how the Runkles, who were invited, kept talking about it all winter. 'Old Waldron won't be so darn particular next year.'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000008_000002|Give me a kiss, dear, and take your old shirt.' She was a graceful woman, stiffened by an obvious corset, and faintly powdered.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000008_000003|A long yellow feather dangled from her orange hat, big pearls were set in her ears, and her shoe buckles glittered as she walked.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000009_000000|He kissed her admiringly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000009_000001|'Say, Martha, you look great,' he chuckled.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000000|The train was starting; indeed he had just time to dash up the steps of his car.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000001|'Good bye, dear,' she caroled.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000004|A lurch of the train swung him heavily out among the chairs; to save himself he caught a shoulder and dropped into a seat.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000006|It was Waldron.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000011_000002|Cargan offered him a cigar, but he put it aside quickly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000012_000000|'No, thank you; no, thank you-Well-they cut the dividend.' He looked at Cargan with a wan smile.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000012_000001|'What'll I do, Cargan?
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000012_000002|They told me I'd find you on the train, and I thought I'd ask your advice.'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000013_000001|'Sell, mr Waldron,' he answered earnestly, 'sell right off.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000013_000002|That Brogan crowd's runnin' the company now, and they're no good, sell quick.'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000014_000000|Waldron looked at him in doubt.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000014_000001|'How much do I lose?' he asked feebly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000016_000000|The old man blinked rapidly, then conquered his pride.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000016_000001|With punctilious care he unbuttoned his gray cutaway, took out a wallet from under the button of the Society of Colonial Wars, drew forth a sheet of note paper, and with a pencil inscribed a broad o 'There's my collateral, mr Cargan,' he said whimsically.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000019_000000|The gentleman put his wallet back hurriedly as if some one had laughed at it, and cast a quick, hurt look at his broker.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000020_000000|'You haven't been thinking of selling me out-after all the business I've given you?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000021_000000|Cargan nodded.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000022_000000|Incredulity, horror, resolve, passed over Waldron's face.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000022_000001|'You cannot! It's impossible!' he said firmly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000000|Different worlds of imagination revolved in the two men's minds. Theophilus Waldron thought of the children, and of his father the governor, and of the family pride.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000002|'I didn't mean it that way,' he answered hurriedly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000005|I've borrowed money from my wife-and other places.'--He was too proud to add, 'This is confidential.'--'My boy's just entered college, my girl's just come out. It isn't just the money-' a gush of emotion reddened his face-'You've got to pull me through, Cargan.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000006|It's impossible; it's out of the question for me to break now!'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000026_000000|'Business is business, mr Waldron,' he said curtly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000026_000001|'Ab so lute ly, we won't take the risk.'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000027_000001|Waldron got up stiffly and carefully brushed the cinders from his coat.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000028_000000|'This is Bloomfield, I think,' he said coldly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000028_000002|mr Cargan, there are considerations above business.' His voice failed a little.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000029_000000|Cargan had heard that bluff before.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000030_000001|'I mean,' he faltered, 'that I may not be able to stand up under it.' And then his voice resumed its desperate certainty.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000030_000002|'I mean, sir, that what you propose is impossible.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000030_000003|I mean that ab so lute ly you cannot sell me out.'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000031_000000|He bowed and felt his way down the corridor.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000001|mrs Waldron followed.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000002|She was a stiff woman, a little faded, quietly dressed.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000003|Her face was troubled, and when they reached the motor, she caught her husband's elbow gently as if to ask him something, but he merely nodded and turned her glance toward Cargan's window.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000005|Then the children hustled the old folks into the tonneau and they were off, just as the train started.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000034_000003|"It's impossible!" Nevertheless, in self defense he began to calculate what it might have cost to carry the account, until the appalling magnitude of the risk shut off the discussion.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000037_000000|'Eccentrics or hot box,' said the man who jumped off the step beside him.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000037_000002|What is it, Bill?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000040_000000|'Walk then,' said the conductor stolidly.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000041_000000|There was no house in sight, no road, nothing but the dead train, the new land of endless shimmering prairies, and, beyond the ditch, a single horseman looking curiously at the long cars and the faces strained against the glass of the windows.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000042_000000|'Say, you!' Cargan called, 'can you get an auto anywhere here?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000043_000000|The figure looked at him impassively, then shook its dusty head.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000044_000000|'Or a team?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000045_000000|It shook its head again.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000046_000000|'Or a-horse?' Cargan hesitated.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000046_000001|He had never ridden a horse.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000048_000002|Say-do you want to?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000049_000000|Cargan was tempted.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000050_000000|'What'll I do with my suit case?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000051_000000|'Gimme it to take for you.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000053_000001|He walked his horse onward, not daring to trot, struck the dusty highway, rode on over an imperceptible roll of the plains, and was alone on a vast bare earth, naked as when born from the womb of time.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000054_000004|He had never before looked at the country except as real estate, never seen the plains, and a curious new sense of the bigness of the earth oppressed him.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000054_000005|He felt very small and very mean.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000001|The sky was enormous; he was only a speck on the vast floor.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000005|That face lingered.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000006|He saw him looking vaguely out of the car window-saying that he couldn't stand up under it-that it was 'impossible.' He wondered if it was a bluff, after all.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000007|The face faded away leaving a dull pity behind it, a struggling remorse.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000010|He was alone with God.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000011|God saw into his heart.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000057_000002|Cargan suddenly became conscious of his appearance-his serge suit, his straw hat, his awkward seat in the saddle.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000000|'Maybe they'll think I stole this horse.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000001|Guess I'll go round,' he said aloud.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000004|He lost a stirrup, he slipped sidewise on the saddle; then in a panicky fright he began to shout and saw at the bit.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000008|The speed sickened him.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000009|The flat earth swung beneath, the sky swam dizzily.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000010|He dared not pull on the reins; he could only hold on grimly and shut his eyes.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000011|Once he slipped, and, screaming, saw for an instant a blur of grass before he could pull himself back to safety.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000000|He did not note how far they ran; but at last came a slower motion, a gallop, and then a trot.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000002|Flinging himself outward, he rolled over on the soft ground, and lay groaning on the prairie.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000003|The well trained horse stopped and began to graze; he too was quivering with fatigue, but his fright was over.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000005|The world again was empty, and this time there was no road.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000061_000003|A profound pity for himself stirred him.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000061_000004|Never had he so felt the need of humanity, of human aid.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000062_000001|It, too, was lost.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000064_000000|'Hello, is that Annie?' came faintly across the silence.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000066_000000|'Say, is Hamden near here?' he asked of a slim woman in a gingham dress who appeared at the door.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000068_000000|'And say, can I use your telephone?'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000069_000002|He called Cargan and Casey, then waited, fidgeting.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000069_000004|The clock ticked in a hush; the chickens droned in whispers; the woman herself worked over the stove with slow fingers, moving the kettles gently.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000070_000001|He could see her tiptoeing at their telephone.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000070_000004|'Martha,' he called quickly,--'tell Casey not to sell out Waldron-tell him right away.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000071_000000|The connection roared and failed.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000071_000001|He hung up the instrument.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000073_000001|He scarcely noticed the loiterers who stared at him, or thought of his streaked face, his trousers split at the knee, his hat lost on the wild ride.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000074_000000|But as he plodded onward the atmosphere of town had its effect.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000077_000002|There was a row of customers along the soda water counter, and through the open windows came scraps of conversation: two boys were teasing each other about a girl; a group of men were talking auctions, options, prices, real estate.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000077_000004|Then he slid inside the door, and ordered a chocolate soda.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000078_000001|He brushed furtively at the caked dust on his legs, remembering, irritably, the elegance of Waldron, whom he had saved.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000078_000002|In the mirror of the soda fountain he saw himself, torn, dirty, shrinking, and the sight filled him with disgust and anger.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000078_000004|'Gimme a cigar,' he called to the boy at the magazine counter; bit off the end, lit it, and began to think business.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000079_000000|The clerk, swirling a cataract of milk from glass to glass, revealed the inner sheet of the paper propped before him.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000079_000003|'Good gosh,' he gulped inwardly, 'what a chance!' It was a sure thing for the man with the money.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000080_000001|Except for Waldron he could have scooped it all in; but now four hundred was all he dared touch,--and perhaps not that.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000080_000003|Soft headed donkey!
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000080_000004|The reaction was complete.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000000|'Go ahead,' said the operator,--and, at the word, 'Hey there, Casey,' he yelled at the dim voice on the wires, 'I've gotta have five thousand quick!
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000001|Sell that Benningham Common-yes, Waldron's.' At the name his anger broke loose.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000002|'The old high brow tried to bluff me.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000003|What!!--' The connection failed and left him gasping.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000000|'What!
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000001|Sold it!
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000002|He told you to!--No, I dunno anything about a court decision.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000003|Up fifteen points on a merger!
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000004|Well what do you think-' He gulped down the sudden reversal and felt for words.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000005|'Say, tell him,--' he licked his lips,--'tell him I'm sure glad I saved him.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000006|I'm sure glad.'
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000084_000002|'I'm sure glad,' he repeated more vigorously; 'carryin' him to day was what did it.' A vision of mrs Waldron's happy face rose to bless him; the exhilaration of the morning coursed back into his heart, with a comfortable feeling of good business about it.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000084_000003|He felt better and better.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000084_000004|From somewhere a saying floated into his head: 'Doing good unto others is the only happiness.' 'By heck, that's true,' he commented aloud, and sat smoking peacefully, his mind aglow with pleasant thoughts.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000085_000001|He saw that he had forgotten to replace the receiver, and putting it to his ear caught Casey's voice again:--
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000086_000001|Montana Pacific's off two points more.
train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000087_000001|'Sell out the old gambler!
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000003_000000|HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000005_000000|But the temperature was much lower.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000005_000001|I was cold and more hungry than cold.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000006_000000|It was a peasant's house, but in point of hospitality it was equal to a king's.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000007_000001|Therefore, we followed, as he bid us.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000008_000002|I was hardly expecting so much comfort; the only discomfort proceeded from the strong odour of dried fish, hung meat, and sour milk, of which my nose made bitter complaints.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000010_000000|My uncle lost no time in obeying the friendly call, nor was I slack in following.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000013_000000|After him his wife pronounced the same words, accompanied with the same ceremonial; then the two placing their hands upon their hearts, inclined profoundly before us.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000015_000000|My uncle and I treated this little tribe with kindness; and in a very short time we each had three or four of these brats on our shoulders, as many on our laps, and the rest between our knees.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000016_000000|This concert was brought to a close by the announcement of dinner.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000018_000000|Then calmly, automatically, and dispassionately he kissed the host, the hostess, and their nineteen children.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000019_000001|The luckiest had only two urchins upon their knees.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000021_000001|After this little pinch of warmth the different groups retired to their respective rooms.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000022_000000|At five next morning we bade our host farewell, my uncle with difficulty persuading him to accept a proper remuneration; and Hans signalled the start.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000023_000001|On our right the chain of mountains was indefinitely prolonged like an immense system of natural fortifications, of which we were following the counter scarp or lesser steep; often we were met by streams, which we had to ford with great care, not to wet our packages.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000028_000000|This word produced a repulsive effect.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000028_000001|The horrible disease of leprosy is too common in Iceland; it is not contagious, but hereditary, and lepers are forbidden to marry.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000029_000001|The last tufts of grass had disappeared from beneath our feet.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000029_000002|Not a tree was to be seen, unless we except a few dwarf birches as low as brushwood.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000029_000004|Sometimes we could see a hawk balancing himself on his wings under the grey cloud, and then darting away south with rapid flight.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000030_000000|We had to cross a few narrow fiords, and at last quite a wide gulf; the tide, then high, allowed us to pass over without delay, and to reach the hamlet of Alftanes, one mile beyond.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000031_000001|The ice king certainly held court here, and gave us all night long samples of what he could do.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000032_000000|No particular event marked the next day.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000032_000001|Bogs, dead levels, melancholy desert tracks, wherever we travelled.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000033_000001|Yet here and there were a few jets of steam from hot springs.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000034_000000|We had no time to watch these phenomena; we had to proceed on our way.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000035_000000|The horses did their duty well, no difficulties stopped them in their steady career.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000035_000001|I was getting tired; but my uncle was as firm and straight as he was at our first start.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000035_000002|I could not help admiring his persistency, as well as the hunter's, who treated our expedition like a mere promenade.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000036_000000|june twentieth.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000036_000001|At six p.m. we reached Buedir, a village on the sea shore; and the guide there claiming his due, my uncle settled with him.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000037_000000|The soil told of the neighbourhood of the mountain, whose granite foundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of some huge oak.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000037_000001|We were rounding the immense base of the volcano.
train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000037_000002|The Professor hardly took his eyes off it.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000002_000001|It extends along the inner edge of a small fiord, inclosed between basaltic walls of the strangest construction.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000003_000000|Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000003_000002|Here nature had done her work geometrically, with square and compass and plummet. Everywhere else her art consists alone in throwing down huge masses together in disorder.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000004_000000|I had heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal's Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen a basaltic formation.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000005_000000|At Stapi I beheld this phenomenon in all its beauty.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000000|The wall that confined the fiord, like all the coast of the peninsula, was composed of a series of vertical columns thirty feet high.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000001|These straight shafts, of fair proportions, supported an architrave of horizontal slabs, the overhanging portion of which formed a semi arch over the sea.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000002|At intervals, under this natural shelter, there spread out vaulted entrances in beautiful curves, into which the waves came dashing with foam and spray.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000003|A few shafts of basalt, torn from their hold by the fury of tempests, lay along the soil like remains of an ancient temple, in ruins for ever fresh, and over which centuries passed without leaving a trace of age upon them.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000007_000000|This was our last stage upon the earth.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000007_000001|Hans had exhibited great intelligence, and it gave me some little comfort to think then that he was not going to leave us.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000012_000000|"The rector," repeated the Professor.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000012_000001|"It seems, Axel, that this good man is the rector."
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000013_000001|I was in great alarm lest she should treat me to the Icelandic kiss; but there was no occasion to fear, nor did she do the honours at all too gracefully.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000014_000001|It was close, dirty, and evil smelling.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000014_000004|Very far from it.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000014_000005|Before the day was over I saw that we had to do with a blacksmith, a fisherman, a hunter, a joiner, but not at all with a minister of the Gospel.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000015_000002|Hence the necessity to work for their livelihood; but after fishing, hunting, and shoeing horses for any length of time, one soon gets into the ways and manners of fishermen, hunters, and farriers, and other rather rude and uncultivated people; and that evening I found out that temperance was not among the virtues that distinguished my host.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000017_000002|This was to be clearly understood.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000000|Hans merely nodded.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000002|For my own part the incidents of the journey had hitherto kept me amused, and made me forgetful of coming evils; but now my fears again were beginning to get the better of me.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000003|But what could I do?
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000004|The place to resist the Professor would have been Hamburg, not the foot of Snaefell.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000020_000000|One thought, above all others, harassed and alarmed me; it was one calculated to shake firmer nerves than mine.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000000|Now, thought I, here we are, about to climb Snaefell.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000001|Very good.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000002|We will explore the crater.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000003|Very good, too, others have done as much without dying for it.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000004|But that is not all.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000006|Now, there is no proof that Snaefell is extinct.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000007|Who can assure us that an eruption is not brewing at this very moment?
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000008|Does it follow that because the monster has slept since twelve twenty nine he must therefore never awake again?
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000009|And if he wakes up presently, where shall we be?
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000022_000000|It was worth while debating this question, and I did debate it.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000022_000001|I could not sleep for dreaming about eruptions.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000023_000000|So, at last, when I could hold out no longer, I resolved to lay the case before my uncle, as prudently and as cautiously as possible, just under the form of an almost impossible hypothesis.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000024_000000|I went to him.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000024_000001|I communicated my fears to him, and drew back a step to give him room for the explosion which I knew must follow.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000024_000002|But I was mistaken.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000025_000000|"I was thinking of that," he replied with great simplicity.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000026_000000|What could those words mean?--Was he actually going to listen to reason?
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000026_000002|This was too good to be true.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000027_000000|After a few moments' silence, during which I dared not question him, he resumed:
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000028_000000|"I was thinking of that.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000029_000000|"No, indeed!" I replied with forcible emphasis.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000030_000001|I have therefore examined the natives, I have studied external appearances, and I can assure you, Axel, that there will be no eruption."
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000031_000000|At this positive affirmation I stood amazed and speechless.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000032_000000|"You don't doubt my word?" said my uncle.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000032_000001|"Well, follow me."
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000000|I obeyed like an automaton.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000001|Coming out from the priest's house, the Professor took a straight road, which, through an opening in the basaltic wall, led away from the sea.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000002|We were soon in the open country, if one may give that name to a vast extent of mounds of volcanic products.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000003|This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous ejected rocks of trap, basalt, granite, and all kinds of igneous rocks.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000034_000000|Here and there I could see puffs and jets of steam curling up into the air, called in Icelandic 'reykir,' issuing from thermal springs, and indicating by their motion the volcanic energy underneath.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000034_000001|This seemed to justify my fears: But I fell from the height of my new born hopes when my uncle said:
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000035_000000|"You see all these volumes of steam, Axel; well, they demonstrate that we have nothing to fear from the fury of a volcanic eruption."
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000036_000000|"Am I to believe that?" I cried.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000037_000000|"Understand this clearly," added the Professor.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000037_000001|"At the approach of an eruption these jets would redouble their activity, but disappear altogether during the period of the eruption.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000038_000000|"But-"
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000039_000000|'No more; that is sufficient.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000040_000000|I returned to the parsonage, very crestfallen.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000040_000001|My uncle had beaten me with the weapons of science.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000040_000002|Still I had one hope left, and this was, that when we had reached the bottom of the crater it would be impossible, for want of a passage, to go deeper, in spite of all the Saknussemm's in Iceland.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000041_000000|I spent that whole night in one constant nightmare; in the heart of a volcano, and from the deepest depths of the earth I saw myself tossed up amongst the interplanetary spaces under the form of an eruptive rock.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000042_000000|The next day, june twenty third, Hans was awaiting us with his companions carrying provisions, tools, and instruments; two iron pointed sticks, two rifles, and two shot belts were for my uncle and myself.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000042_000001|Hans, as a cautious man, had added to our luggage a leathern bottle full of water, which, with that in our flasks, would ensure us a supply of water for eight days.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000043_000001|The priest and his tall Megaera were awaiting us at the door.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000043_000003|But the farewell was put in the unexpected form of a heavy bill, in which everything was charged, even to the very air we breathed in the pastoral house, infected as it was.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000043_000004|This worthy couple were fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper might have done, and estimated their imperfect hospitality at the highest price.
train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000045_000000|This point being settled, Hans gave the signal, and we soon left Stapi behind us.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000004_000000|Snaefell is five thousand feet high.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000004_000002|From our starting point we could see the two peaks boldly projected against the dark grey sky; I could see an enormous cap of snow coming low down upon the giant's brow.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000005_000000|We walked in single file, headed by the hunter, who ascended by narrow tracks, where two could not have gone abreast.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000005_000001|There was therefore no room for conversation.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000006_000000|After we had passed the basaltic wall of the fiord of Stapi we passed over a vegetable fibrous peat bog, left from the ancient vegetation of this peninsula.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000007_000000|As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite of my dismal prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000000|This most curious island has evidently been projected from the bottom of the sea at a comparatively recent date.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000001|Possibly, it may still be subject to gradual elevation.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000003|Therefore, in this case, the theory of Sir Humphry Davy, Saknussemm's document, and my uncle's theories would all go off in smoke.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000004|This hypothesis led me to examine with more attention the appearance of the surface, and I soon arrived at a conclusion as to the nature of the forces which presided at its birth.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000009_000001|Before the volcanoes broke out it consisted of trap rocks slowly upraised to the level of the sea by the action of central forces.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000009_000002|The internal fires had not yet forced their way through.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000010_000001|No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000011_000002|Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys. Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000012_000000|To the eruption succeeded other volcanic phenomena.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000012_000002|We were moving over grey rocks of dense and massive formation, which in cooling had formed into hexagonal prisms.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000012_000003|Everywhere around us we saw truncated cones, formerly so many fiery mouths.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000015_000000|So I felt a little comforted as we advanced to the assault of Snaefell.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000016_000000|The way was growing more and more arduous, the ascent steeper and steeper; the loose fragments of rock trembled beneath us, and the utmost care was needed to avoid dangerous falls.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000017_000000|Hans went on as quietly as if he were on level ground; sometimes he disappeared altogether behind the huge blocks, then a shrill whistle would direct us on our way to him.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000017_000002|A very wise precaution in itself, but, as things turned out, quite useless.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000018_000001|There Hans bid us come to a halt, and a hasty breakfast was served out.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000018_000002|My uncle swallowed two mouthfuls at a time to get on faster.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000018_000003|But, whether he liked it or not, this was a rest as well as a breakfast hour and he had to wait till it pleased our guide to move on, which came to pass in an hour.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000019_000000|We were now beginning to scale the steep sides of Snaefell.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000019_000001|Its snowy summit, by an optical illusion not unfrequent in mountains, seemed close to us, and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it!
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000019_000002|The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots of vegetation, rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice below with the swiftness of an avalanche.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000020_000001|Then we helped each other with our sticks.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000021_000001|He himself seemed to possess an instinct for equilibrium, for he never stumbled.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000021_000002|The Icelanders, though burdened with our loads, climbed with the agility of mountaineers.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000022_000000|To judge by the distant appearance of the summit of Snaefell, it would have seemed too steep to ascend on our side.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000022_000002|It was formed by one of those torrents of stones flung up by the eruptions, called 'sting' by the Icelanders.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000023_000000|Such as it was, it did us good service.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000023_000001|The steepness increased, but these stone steps allowed us to rise with facility, and even with such rapidity that, having rested for a moment while my companions continued their ascent, I perceived them already reduced by distance to microscopic dimensions.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000025_000000|Three thousand two hundred feet below us stretched the sea.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000025_000004|The Professor saw that my limbs were refusing to perform their office, and in spite of his impatience he decided on stopping.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000025_000005|He therefore spoke to the hunter, who shook his head, saying:
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000032_000000|"Look!" said my uncle.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000033_000000|I looked down upon the plain.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000033_000002|If that huge revolving pillar sloped down, it would involve us in its whirling eddies.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000033_000003|This phenomenon, which is not unfrequent when the wind blows from the glaciers, is called in Icelandic 'mistour.'
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000035_000000|Without knowing Danish I understood at once that we must follow Hans at the top of our speed.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000035_000002|Happily we were on the opposite side, and sheltered from all harm.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000036_000000|Yet Hans did not think it prudent to spend the night upon the sides of the cone.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000036_000004|I was yielding to the effects of hunger and cold.
train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000036_000005|The rarefied air scarcely gave play to the action of my lungs.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000002_000000|"'tis only fools speak evil of the clay- The very stars are made of clay like mine."
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000003_000000|The mightiest and absurdest sleep walker on the planet!
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000003_000001|Chained in the circle of his own imaginings, man is only too keen to forget his origin and to shame that flesh of his that bleeds like all flesh and that is good to eat.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000003_000002|Civilization (which is part of the circle of his imaginings) has spread a veneer over the surface of the soft shelled animal known as man.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000004_000001|The flesh and blood body of man has not changed in the last several thousand years.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000004_000004|Man has to day no concept that is too wide and deep and abstract for the mind of Plato or Aristotle to grasp.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000004_000005|Give to Plato or Aristotle the same fund of knowledge that man to day has access to, and Plato and Aristotle would reason as profoundly as the man of to day and would achieve very similar conclusions.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000005_000001|The raw animal crouching within him is like the earthquake monster pent in the crust of the earth.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000005_000002|As he persuades himself against the latter till it arouses and shakes down a city, so does he persuade himself against the former until it shakes him out of his dreaming and he stands undisguised, a brute like any other brute.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000000|It is not necessary to call him a liar to touch his vanity.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000001|Tell a plains Indian that he has failed to steal horses from the neighbouring tribe, or tell a man living in bourgeois society that he has failed to pay his bills at the neighbouring grocer's, and the results are the same. Each, plains Indian and bourgeois, is smeared with a slightly different veneer, that is all.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000002|It requires a slightly different stick to scrape it off.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000003|The raw animals beneath are identical.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000008_000000|But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the centre of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000009_000000|True, he lives in a real world, breathes real air, eats real food, and sleeps under real blankets, in order to keep real cold away.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000009_000001|And there's the rub.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000009_000003|The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000000|Prize fighting is terrible.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000001|This is the dictum of the man who walks in his sleep.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000002|He prates about it, and writes to the papers about it, and worries the legislators about it.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000005|The man who walks in his sleep ignores the flesh and all its wonderful play of muscle, joint, and nerve.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000002|With tremendous exercise of craft, deceit, and guile, he devotes his life godlike to this purpose.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000003|As he succeeds, his somnambulism grows profound.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000005|And the funniest thing about it is that this arch deceiver believes all that they tell him.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000006|He reads only the newspapers and magazines that tell him what he wants to be told, listens only to the biologists who tell him that he is the finest product of the struggle for existence, and herds only with his own kind, where, like the monkey folk, they teeter up and down and tell one another how great they are.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000013_000000|In the course of his life godlike he ignores the flesh-until he gets to table.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000013_000002|He has a piece of cloth which he calls a napkin, with which he wipes from his lips, and from the hair on his lips, the greasy juices of the meat.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000014_000000|He is fastidiously nauseated at the thought of two prize fighters bruising each other with their fists; and at the same time, because it will cost him some money, he will refuse to protect the machines in his factory, though he is aware that the lack of such protection every year mangles, batters, and destroys out of all humanness thousands of working men, women, and children.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000014_000001|He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000000|"Ah, but we do not stand for the commercial life," object the refined, scholarly, and professional men.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000002|They do not stand for the commercial life, but neither do they stand against it with all their strength.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000004|They develop classical economists who announce that the only possible way for men and women to get food and shelter is by the existing method.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000007|They paint pictures for the commercial men, write books for them, sing songs for them, act plays for them, and dose them with various drugs when their bodies have grown gross or dyspeptic from overeating and lack of exercise.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000017_000002|But the good, kind people who don't do anything won't believe this, and the assertion will make them angry-for a moment.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000017_000003|They possess several magic phrases, which are like the incantations of a voodoo doctor driving devils away.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000017_000004|The phrases that the good, kind people repeat to themselves and to one another sound like "abstinence," "temperance," "thrift," "virtue." Sometimes they say them backward, when they sound like "prodigality," "drunkenness," "wastefulness," and "immorality." They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000018_000002|The world of graft!
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000018_000004|The world of somnambulism, whose exalted and sensitive citizens are outraged by the knockouts of the prize ring, and who annually not merely knock out, but kill, thousands of babies and children by means of child labour and adulterated food.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000018_000005|Far better to have the front of one's face pushed in by the fist of an honest prize fighter than to have the lining of one's stomach corroded by the embalmed beef of a dishonest manufacturer.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000000|In a prize fight men are classed.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000002|Yet in the world of the somnambulists, where soar the sublimated spirits, there are no classes, and foul blows are continually struck and never disallowed.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000003|Only they are not called foul blows.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000004|The world of claw and fang and fist and club has passed away-so say the somnambulists.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000006|A Wall Street raid is not a fang slash.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000007|Dummy boards of directors and fake accountings are not foul blows of the fist under the belt.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000008|A present of coal stock by a mine operator to a railroad official is not a claw rip to the bowels of a rival mine operator.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000010|The man who walks in his sleep says it is not a club.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000012|They gather together and solemnly and gloatingly make and repeat certain noises that sound like "discretion," "acumen," "initiative," "enterprise." These noises are especially gratifying when they are made backward.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000013|They mean the same things, but they sound different.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000014|And in either case, forward or backward, the spirit of the dream is not disturbed.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000021_000003|They are the foul blows of the spirit that have never been disbarred, as the foul blows of the prize ring have been disbarred. (Would it not be preferable for a man to strike one full on the mouth with his fist than for him to tell a lie about one, or malign those that are nearest and dearest?)
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000023_000000|It is well enough to let the ape and tiger die, but it is hardly fair to kill off the natural and courageous apes and tigers and allow the spawn of cowardly apes and tigers to live.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000023_000001|The prize fighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.
train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000023_000002|This is not a brief for the prize fighter.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000004_000002|Strive as he will, he cannot escape it-unless he be a genius, one of those rare creations to whom alone is granted the privilege of doing entirely new and original things in entirely new and original ways.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000004_000003|But the common clay born man, possessing only talents, may do only what has been done before him.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000004_000004|At the best, if he work hard, and cherish himself exceedingly, he may duplicate any or all previous performances of his kind; he may even do some of them better; but there he stops, the composite hand of his whole ancestry bearing heavily upon him.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000005_000002|And he permits these things, and continues to permit them, for he cannot help them, and he is a slave. Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000005_000004|He is only a clay born; so he bends his neck.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000006_000001|In the watches of the night, we may assure ourselves that there is no such dignity; but jostling with our fellows in the white light of day, we find that it does exist, and that we ourselves measure ourselves by the dollars we happen to possess.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000000|I remember once absenting myself from civilization for weary months. When I returned, it was to a strange city in another country.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000002|A fur cap, soiled and singed by many camp fires, half sheltered the shaggy tendrils of my uncut hair.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000003|My foot gear was of walrus hide, cunningly blended with seal gut. The remainder of my dress was as primal and uncouth.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000004|I was a sight to give merriment to gods and men.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000005|Olympus must have roared at my coming. The world, knowing me not, could judge me by my clothes alone.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000006|But I refused to be so judged.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000008|And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000009|Oh, it's absurd, I grant, but had that belt not been so circumstanced, and so situated, I should have shrunk away into side streets and back alleys, walking humbly and avoiding all gregarious humans except those who were likewise abroad without belts.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000010|Why?
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000011|I do not know, save that in such way did my fathers before me.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000001|I was possessed of the arrogance of a Roman governor.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000002|At last I knew what it was to be born to the purple, and I took my seat in the hotel carriage as though it were my chariot about to proceed with me to the imperial palace.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000003|People discreetly dropped their eyes before my proud gaze, and into their hearts I know I forced the query, What manner of man can this mortal be?
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000004|I was superior to convention, and the very garb which otherwise would have damned me tended toward my elevation.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000006|The sweat of months was upon it, toil had defaced it, and it was not a creation such as would appeal to the aesthetic mind; but it was plethoric.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000001|I purchased a host of things from the tradespeople, and bought me such pleasures and diversions as befitted one who had long been denied.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000003|And, because of these things I did, I demanded homage.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000004|Nor was it refused.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000005|I moved through wind swept groves of limber backs; across sunny glades, lighted by the beaming rays from a thousand obsequious eyes; and when I tired of this, basked on the greensward of popular approval.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000006|Money was very good, I thought, and for the time was content.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000007|But there rushed upon me the words of Erasmus, "When I get some money I shall buy me some Greek books, and afterwards some clothes," and a great shame wrapped me around.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000008|But, luckily for my soul's welfare, I reflected and was saved. By the clearer vision vouchsafed me, I beheld Erasmus, fire flashing, heaven born, while I-I was merely a clay born, a son of earth.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000009|For a giddy moment I had forgotten this, and tottered.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000002|It was a very foolish thing to do.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000003|I am sure it was.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000005|Oh no, not for long.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000006|They are again enshrined, as bright and polished as of yore, and my destiny is once more in their keeping.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000001|Without the bitter one may not know the sweet.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000003|The inexorable pendulum had swung the counter direction, and there was upon me an urgent need.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000004|The hogskin belt was flat as famine, nor did it longer gird my loins.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000005|From my window I could descry, at no great distance, a very ordinary mortal of a man, working industriously among his cabbages.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000007|And as he stood there drearily, he became reproach incarnate.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000000|I shrank back.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000001|Then I waxed rebellious.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000002|I refused to answer the question.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000004|And a dignity entered into me, and my neck was stiffened, my head poised.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000005|I gathered together certain certificates of goods and chattels, pointed my heel towards him and his cabbages, and journeyed townward.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000007|There was naught in those certificates to be ashamed of.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000008|But alack a day!
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000009|While my heels thrust the cabbage man beyond the horizon, my toes were drawing me, faltering, like a timid old beggar, into a roaring spate of humanity-men, women, and children without end.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000010|They had no concern with me, nor I with them. I knew it; I felt it.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000012|My feet were uncertain and heavy, and my soul became as a meal sack, limp with emptiness and tied in the middle.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000013|People looked upon me scornfully, pitifully, reproachfully. (I can swear they did.) In every eye I read the question, Man, where are your cabbages?
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000000|So I avoided their looks, shrinking close to the kerbstone and by furtive glances directing my progress.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000001|At last I came hard by the place, and peering stealthily to the right and left that none who knew might behold me, I entered hurriedly, in the manner of one committing an abomination. 'Fore God!
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000003|Why?
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000006|It is mentioned in exodus; so it must have been created soon after the foundations of the world; and despite the thunder of ecclesiastics and the mailed hand of kings and conquerors, it has endured even to this day.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000007|Nor is it unfair to presume that the accounts of this most remarkable business will not be closed until the Trumps of Doom are sounded and all things brought to final balance.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000000|Wherefore it was in fear and trembling, and with great modesty of spirit, that I entered the Presence.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000001|To confess that I was shocked were to do my feelings an injustice.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000002|Perhaps the blame may be shouldered upon Shylock, Fagin, and their ilk; but I had conceived an entirely different type of individual.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000003|This man-why, he was clean to look at, his eyes were blue, with the tired look of scholarly lucubrations, and his skin had the normal pallor of sedentary existence.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000006|My heart gave a great leap.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000007|Here was hope!
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000009|I communed with myself: By his brow he is a thinker, but his intellect has been prostituted to a mercenary exaction of toll from misery.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000011|He trades upon sorrow and draws a livelihood from misfortune. He transmutes tears into treasure, and from nakedness and hunger garbs himself in clean linen and develops the round of his belly.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000012|He is a bloodsucker and a vampire.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000016_000003|Law and order upheld him, while I titubated, cabbageless, on the ragged edge.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000016_000004|Moreover, he was possessed of a formula whereby to extract juice from a flattened lemon, and he would do business with me.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000017_000003|Never had they appeared so insignificant and paltry as then, when he sniffed over them with the air of one disdainfully doing a disagreeable task.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000017_000004|It is said, "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury"; but he evidently was not my brother, for he demanded seventy per cent.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000017_000005|I put my signature to certain indentures, received my pottage, and fled from his presence.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000000|Faugh!
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000001|I was glad to be quit of it.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000002|How good the outside air was!
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000005|In people's eyes the cabbage question no longer brooded.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000006|And there was a spring to my body, an elasticity of step as I covered the pavement.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000007|Within me coursed an unwonted sap, and I felt as though I were about to burst out into leaves and buds and green things.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000008|My brain was clear and refreshed.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000010|My nerves were tingling and I was a pulse with the times.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000013|I would go back and wreck the establishment.
train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000015|But before fancy could father the act, I recollected myself and all which had passed.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000000|"Foma Gordyeeff" is a big book-not only is the breadth of Russia in it, but the expanse of life.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000002|For Gorky, the Bitter One, is essentially a Russian in his grasp on the facts of life and in his treatment.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000004|And, like all his brother Russians, ardent, passionate protest impregnates his work.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000005|There is a purpose to it.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000007|From that clenched fist of his, light and airy romances, pretty and sweet and beguiling, do not flow, but realities-yes, big and brutal and repulsive, but real.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000005_000000|He raises the cry of the miserable and the despised, and in a masterly arraignment of commercialism, protests against social conditions, against the grinding of the faces of the poor and weak, and the self pollution of the rich and strong, in their mad lust for place and power.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000005_000003|To them it will be inexplicable that this man, with his health and his millions, could not go on living as his class lived, keeping regular hours at desk and stock exchange, driving close contracts, underbidding his competitors, and exulting in the business disasters of his fellows.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000006_000000|"Why do you brag?" Foma, bursts out upon him.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000006_000003|Your daughter-what is she?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000006_000005|Come, now, you're clever, you know everything-tell me, why do you live?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000007_000003|It is without significance!
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000007_000005|What is there underneath?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000007_000006|What is the meaning of that which is underneath?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000008_000003|And you must know that when a man complains about everything, and cries out and groans-he is not worth more than two kopeks, he is not worthy of pity, and will be of no use to you if you do help him."
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000009_000001|Now comes Mayakin, speaking softly and without satire:
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000010_000003|But men have so ordered their lives that it is utterly impossible for them to act in accordance with Christ's teaching, and Jesus Christ has become entirely superfluous to us.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000010_000004|Not once, but, in all probability, a thousand times, we have given Him over to be crucified, but still we cannot banish Him from our lives so long as His poor brethren sing His name in the streets and remind us of Him.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000010_000005|And so now we have hit upon the idea of shutting up the beggars in such special buildings, so that they may not roam about the streets and stir up our consciences."
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000000|But Foma will have none of it.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000001|He is neither to be enticed nor cajoled. The cry of his nature is for light.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000002|He must have light.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000003|And in burning revolt he goes seeking the meaning of life.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000004|"His thoughts embraced all those petty people who toiled at hard labour.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000005|It was strange-why did they live?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000006|What satisfaction was it to them to live on the earth?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000007|All they did was to perform their dirty, arduous toil, eat poorly; they were miserably clad, addicted to drunkenness.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000008|One was sixty years old, but he still toiled side by side with young men.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000012_000000|He becomes the living interrogation of life.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000012_000003|Why should men fetch and carry for him?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000012_000004|be slaves to him and his money?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000000|"Work is not everything to a man," he says; "it is not true that justification lies in work . . .
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000002|Why is that?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000004|And how will all the people who give their orders justify themselves?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000006|But my idea is that everybody ought, without fail, to know solidly what he is living for.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000007|Is it possible that a man is born to toil, accumulate money, build a house, beget children, and-die?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000008|No; life means something in itself. . . .
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000010|All of us must consider why we are living, by God, we must!
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000011|There is no sense in our life-there is no sense at all.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000000|But Foma can only be destructive.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000001|He is not constructive.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000003|He does not drink because liquor tastes good in his mouth.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000004|In the vile companions who purvey to his baser appetites he finds no charm.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000005|It is all utterly despicable and sordid, but thither his quest leads him and he follows the quest.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000010|"You have not constructed life-you have made a cesspool!
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000011|You have disseminated filth and stifling exhalations by your deeds.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000012|Have you any conscience?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000013|Do you remember God?
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000014|A five kopek piece-that is your God!
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000015|But you have expelled your conscience!"
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000015_000001|You shall perish-you shall be called to account for all!
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000015_000002|For all-to the last little tear drop!"
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000016_000000|Stunned by this puddle of life, unable to make sense of it, Foma questions, and questions vainly, whether of Sofya Medynsky in her drawing room of beauty, or in the foulest depths of the first chance courtesan's heart.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000016_000002|And so, wondering, pondering, perplexed, amazed, whirling through the mad whirlpool of life, dancing the dance of death, groping for the nameless, indefinite something, the magic formula, the essence, the intrinsic fact, the flash of light through the murk and dark-the rational sanction for existence, in short-Foma Gordyeeff goes down to madness and death.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000017_000000|It is not a pretty book, but it is a masterful interrogation of life-not of life universal, but of life particular, the social life of to day.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000017_000003|So fearful is its portrayal of social disease, so ruthless its stripping of the painted charms from vice, that its tendency cannot but be strongly for good.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000000|But no story is told, nothing is finished, some one will object.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000002|It was pregnant with possibilities.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000003|Yet it was not finished, was not decisive. She left him to go with the son of a rich vodka maker.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000005|She might have been a power for good in his life, she might have shed light into it and lifted him up to safety and honour and understanding.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000006|Yet she went away next day, and he never saw her again.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000007|No story is told, nothing is finished.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000019_000002|But it is a less tedious realism than that of Tolstoy or Turgenev.
train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000020_000002|He knows life, why and how it should be lived.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000000_000001|SENSATIONS AND IMAGES
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000000|The dualism of mind and matter, if we have been right so far, cannot be allowed as metaphysically valid.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000001|Nevertheless, we seem to find a certain dualism, perhaps not ultimate, within the world as we observe it.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000002|The dualism is not primarily as to the stuff of the world, but as to causal laws.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000003|On this subject we may again quote William james.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000000|"I make for myself an experience of blazing fire; I place it near my body; but it does not warm me in the least.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000001|I lay a stick upon it and the stick either burns or remains green, as I please.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000002|I call up water, and pour it on the fire, and absolutely no difference ensues.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000003|I account for all such facts by calling this whole train of experiences unreal, a mental train.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000004|Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mental fire....
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000001|This is, of course, not the case: they have their effects, just as much as physical phenomena do, but their effects follow different laws.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000002|For example, dreams, as Freud has shown, are just as much subject to laws as are the motions of the planets.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000003|But the laws are different: in a dream you may be transported from one place to another in a moment, or one person may turn into another under your eyes.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000004|Such differences compel you to distinguish the world of dreams from the physical world.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000005_000000|If the two sorts of causal laws could be sharply distinguished, we could call an occurrence "physical" when it obeys causal laws appropriate to the physical world, and "mental" when it obeys causal laws appropriate to the mental world.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000000|These definitions would have all the precision that could be desired if the distinction between physical and psychological causation were clear and sharp.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000001|As a matter of fact, however, this distinction is, as yet, by no means sharp.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000002|It is possible that, with fuller knowledge, it will be found to be no more ultimate than the distinction between the laws of gases and the laws of rigid bodies.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000005|The law of habit, which is one of the most distinctive, may be fully explicable in terms of the peculiarities of nervous tissue, and these peculiarities, in turn, may be explicable by the laws of physics.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000006|It seems, therefore, that we are driven to a different kind of definition.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000007|It is for this reason that it was necessary to develop the definition of perception.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000008|With this definition, we can define a sensation as the non mnemic elements in a perception.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000000|When, following our definition, we try to decide what elements in our experience are of the nature of sensations, we find more difficulty than might have been expected.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000001|Prima facie, everything is sensation that comes to us through the senses: the sights we see, the sounds we hear, the smells we smell, and so on; also such things as headache or the feeling of muscular strain.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000006|In a foreign language, these inferences are more difficult, and we are more dependent upon actual sensation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000007|If we found ourselves in a foreign world, where tables looked like cushions and cushions like tables, we should similarly discover how much of what we think we see is really inference.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000008|Every fairly familiar sensation is to us a sign of the things that usually go with it, and many of these things will seem to form part of the sensation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000009|I remember in the early days of motor cars being with a friend when a tyre burst with a loud report.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000010|He thought it was a pistol, and supported his opinion by maintaining that he had seen the flash.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000011|But of course there had been no flash.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000008_000002|Thus, although it may be difficult to determine what exactly is sensation in any given experience, it is clear that there is sensation, unless, like Leibniz, we deny all action of the outer world upon us.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000003|It is of course undeniable that knowledge comes THROUGH the seeing, but I think it is a mistake to regard the mere seeing itself as knowledge.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000004|If we are so to regard it, we must distinguish the seeing from what is seen: we must say that, when we see a patch of colour of a certain shape, the patch of colour is one thing and our seeing of it is another.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000005|This view, however, demands the admission of the subject, or act, in the sense discussed in our first lecture.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000006|If there is a subject, it can have a relation to the patch of colour, namely, the sort of relation which we might call awareness.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000007|In that case the sensation, as a mental event, will consist of awareness of the colour, while the colour itself will remain wholly physical, and may be called the sense datum, to distinguish it from the sensation. The subject, however, appears to be a logical fiction, like mathematical points and instants.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000008|It is introduced, not because observation reveals it, but because it is linguistically convenient and apparently demanded by grammar.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000009|Nominal entities of this sort may or may not exist, but there is no good ground for assuming that they do.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000011|If we are to avoid a perfectly gratuitous assumption, we must dispense with the subject as one of the actual ingredients of the world.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000012|But when we do this, the possibility of distinguishing the sensation from the sense datum vanishes; at least I see no way of preserving the distinction.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000014|A patch of colour is certainly not knowledge, and therefore we cannot say that pure sensation is cognitive.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000016|But in itself the pure sensation is not cognitive.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000001|The kind of argument which formerly made me accept Brentano's view in this case was exceedingly simple.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000002|When I see a patch of colour, it seemed to me that the colour is not psychical, but physical, while my seeing is not physical, but psychical.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000003|Hence I concluded that the colour is something other than my seeing of the colour.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000004|This argument, to me historically, was directed against idealism: the emphatic part of it was the assertion that the colour is physical, not psychical.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000005|I shall not trouble you now with the grounds for holding as against Berkeley that the patch of colour is physical; I have set them forth before, and I see no reason to modify them.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000006|But it does not follow that the patch of colour is not also psychical, unless we assume that the physical and the psychical cannot overlap, which I no longer consider a valid assumption.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000007|If we admit-as I think we should-that the patch of colour may be both physical and psychical, the reason for distinguishing the sense datum from the sensation disappears, and we may say that the patch of colour and our sensation in seeing it are identical.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000011_000000|This is the view of William james, Professor Dewey, and the American realists.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000013_000000|The stuff of the world, so far as we have experience of it, consists, on the view that I am advocating, of innumerable transient particulars such as occur in seeing, hearing, etc, together with images more or less resembling these, of which I shall speak shortly.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000013_000002|But this topic belongs to the philosophy of physics, and need not concern us in our present inquiry.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000000|Sensations are what is common to the mental and physical worlds; they may be defined as the intersection of mind and matter.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000002|The essence of sensation, according to the view I am advocating, is its independence of past experience.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000003|It is a core in our actual experiences, never existing in isolation except possibly in very young infants.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000004|It is not itself knowledge, but it supplies the data for our knowledge of the physical world, including our own bodies.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000016_000000|The distinction between images and sensations might seem at first sight by no means difficult.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000016_000001|When we shut our eyes and call up pictures of familiar scenes, we usually have no difficulty, so long as we remain awake, in discriminating between what we are imagining and what is really seen.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000016_000002|If we imagine some piece of music that we know, we can go through it in our mind from beginning to end without any discoverable tendency to suppose that we are really hearing it.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000017_000002|Hallucinations often begin as persistent images, and only gradually acquire that influence over belief that makes the patient regard them as sensations.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000017_000003|When we are listening for a faint sound-the striking of a distant clock, or a horse's hoofs on the road-we think we hear it many times before we really do, because expectation brings us the image, and we mistake it for sensation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000020_000000|(one) By the less degree of vividness in images;
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000021_000000|(two) By our absence of belief in their "physical reality";
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000022_000000|(three) By the fact that their causes and effects are different from those of sensations.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000025_000001|Every one of himself will readily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000025_000002|The common degrees of these are easily distinguished, though it is not impossible but in particular instances they may very nearly approach to each other.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000026_000001|But by his own confession in the above passage, his criterion for distinguishing them is not always adequate.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000026_000003|But so far we have seen no reason to think that the difference between sensations and images is only one of degree.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000027_000000|Professor Stout, in his "Manual of Psychology," after discussing various ways of distinguishing sensations and images, arrives at a view which is a modification of Hume's.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000000|"Our conclusion is that at bottom the distinction between image and percept, as respectively faint and vivid states, is based on a difference of quality.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000001|The percept has an aggressiveness which does not belong to the image.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000002|It strikes the mind with varying degrees of force or liveliness according to the varying intensity of the stimulus.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000003|This degree of force or liveliness is part of what we ordinarily mean by the intensity of a sensation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000029_000002|But I believe that this criterion fails in very much the same instances as those in which Hume's criterion fails in its original form.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000000|The whistle of a steam engine could hardly have a stronger effect than this.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000001|A very intense emotion will often bring with it-especially where some future action or some undecided issue is involved-powerful compelling images which may determine the whole course of life, sweeping aside all contrary solicitations to the will by their capacity for exclusively possessing the mind.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000002|And in all cases where images, originally recognized as such, gradually pass into hallucinations, there must be just that "force or liveliness" which is supposed to be always absent from images.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000003|The cases of dreams and fever delirium are as hard to adjust to Professor Stout's modified criterion as to Hume's.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000004|I conclude therefore that the test of liveliness, however applicable in ordinary instances, cannot be used to define the differences between sensations and images.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000032_000002|What we call the "unreality" of images requires interpretation it cannot mean what would be expressed by saying "there's no such thing." Images are just as truly part of the actual world as sensations are.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000032_000005|But this means that the so-called "unreality" of images consists merely in their not obeying the laws of physics, and thus brings us back to the causal distinction between images and sensations.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000033_000001|Images cannot be defined by the FEELING of unreality, because when we falsely believe an image to be a sensation, as in the case of dreams, it FEELS just as real as if it were a sensation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000033_000002|Our feeling of unreality results from our having already realized that we are dealing with an image, and cannot therefore be the definition of what we mean by an image.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000033_000003|As soon as an image begins to deceive us as to its status, it also deceives us as to its correlations, which are what we mean by its "reality."
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000000|(three) This brings us to the third mode of distinguishing images from sensations, namely, by their causes and effects.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000003|It is caused by what we call a STIMULUS.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000008|This is probably true, but it is an hypothesis, and for our purposes an unnecessary one.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000009|It would seem to fit better with what we can immediately observe if we were to say that an image is occasioned, through association, by a sensation or another image, in other words that it has a mnemic cause-which does not prevent it from also having a physical cause.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000012|When habit and past experience play this part, we are in the region of mnemic as opposed to ordinary physical causation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000013|And I think that, if we could regard as ultimately valid the difference between physical and mnemic causation, we could distinguish images from sensations as having mnemic causes, though they may also have physical causes.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000014|Sensations, on the other hand, will only have physical causes.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000035_000000|However this may be, the practically effective distinction between sensations and images is that in the causation of sensations, but not of images, the stimulation of nerves carrying an effect into the brain, usually from the surface of the body, plays an essential part.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000035_000001|And this accounts for the fact that images and sensations cannot always be distinguished by their intrinsic nature.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000000|Images also differ from sensations as regards their effects.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000001|Sensations, as a rule, have both physical and mental effects.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000002|As you watch the train you meant to catch leaving the station, there are both the successive positions of the train (physical effects) and the successive waves of fury and disappointment (mental effects).
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000003|Images, on the contrary, though they MAY produce bodily movements, do so according to mnemic laws, not according to the laws of physics.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000004|All their effects, of whatever nature, follow mnemic laws.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000037_000000|Professor Watson, as a logical carrying out of his behaviourist theory, denies altogether that there are any observable phenomena such as images are supposed to be.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000037_000001|He replaces them all by faint sensations, and especially by pronunciation of words sotto voce.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000037_000005|It seems to me that in this matter he has been betrayed into denying plain facts in the interests of a theory, namely, the supposed impossibility of introspection.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000002|Whether this is the case or not might even be decided experimentally.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000003|If there were a delicate instrument for recording small movements in the mouth and throat, we might place such an instrument in a person's mouth and then tell him to recite a poem to himself, as far as possible only in imagination.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000005|The point is important, because what is called "thought" consists mainly (though I think not wholly) of inner speech.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000006|If Professor Watson is right as regards inner speech, this whole region is transferred from imagination to sensation.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000007|But since the question is capable of experimental decision, it would be gratuitous rashness to offer an opinion while that decision is lacking.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000000|But visual and auditory images are much more difficult to deal with in this way, because they lack the connection with physical events in the outer world which belongs to visual and auditory sensations.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000001|Suppose, for example, that I am sitting in my room, in which there is an empty arm chair.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000004|My friend reached the chair without coming in at the door in the usual way; subsequent inquiry will show that he was somewhere else at the moment.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000005|If regarded as a sensation, my image has all the marks of the supernatural.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000007|By saying that it is an event in me, we leave it possible that it may be PHYSIOLOGICALLY caused: its privacy may be only due to its connection with my body.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000009|And it cannot, like inner speech, be regarded as a SMALL sensation, since it occupies just as large an area in my visual field as the actual sensation would do.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000040_000001|This view seems to me flatly to contradict experience.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000041_000000|I shall henceforth assume that the existence of images is admitted, and that they are to be distinguished from sensations by their causes, as well as, in a lesser degree, by their effects.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000041_000001|In their intrinsic nature, though they often differ from sensations by being more dim or vague or faint, yet they do not always or universally differ from sensations in any way that can be used for defining them.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000041_000003|Bodily sensations are admitted by even the most severe critics of introspection, although, like images, they can only be observed by one observer.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000042_000003|On this subject Hume is the classic.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000044_000000|He next explains the difference between simple and complex ideas, and explains that a complex idea may occur without any similar complex impression.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000045_000000|It is this fact, that images resemble antecedent sensations, which enables us to call them images "of" this or that.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000045_000001|For the understanding of memory, and of knowledge generally, the recognizable resemblance of images and sensations is of fundamental importance.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000046_000000|There are difficulties in establishing Hume's principles, and doubts as to whether it is exactly true.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000047_000000|I am by no means confident that the distinction between images and sensations is ultimately valid, and I should be glad to be convinced that images can be reduced to sensations of a peculiar kind.
train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000047_000001|I think it is clear, however, that, at any rate in the case of auditory and visual images, they do differ from ordinary auditory and visual sensations, and therefore form a recognizable class of occurrences, even if it should prove that they can be regarded as a sub class of sensations.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000007_000000|It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000010_000000|I have on several occasions been to the Shakespeare country, approaching it from different directions, but each time I am set down at Leamington.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000010_000001|Perhaps this is by some Act of Parliament-I really do not know; anyway, I have ceased to kick against the pricks and now meekly accept my fate.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000011_000000|Leamington seems largely under subjection to that triumvirate of despots-the Butler, the Coachman and the Gardener.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000011_000001|You hear the jingle of keys, the flick of the whip and the rattle of the lawnmower; and a cold, secret fear takes possession of you-a sort of half frenzied impulse to flee, before smug modernity takes you captive and whisks you off to play tiddledywinks or to dance the racquet.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000013_000000|Warwick is worth our while.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000013_000001|For here we see scenes such as Shakespeare saw, and our delight is in the things that his eyes beheld.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000014_000000|At the foot of Mill Street are the ruins of the old Gothic bridge that leads off to Banbury.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000014_000002|Just beyond the bridge, settled snugly in a forest of waving branches, we see storied old Warwick Castle, with Caesar's Tower lifting itself from the mass of green.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000015_000000|All about are quaint old houses and shops, with red tiled roofs, and little windows, with diamond panes, hung on hinges, where maidens fair have looked down on brave men in coats of mail.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000015_000002|And again they came back when Will Shakespeare, a youth from Stratford, eight miles away, came here and waved his magic wand.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000016_000001|But practically it is the same.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000016_000002|It is the only castle in England where the portcullis is lowered at ten o'clock every night and raised in the morning (if the coast happens to be clear) to tap of drum.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000017_000000|It costs a shilling to visit the castle.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000017_000001|A fine old soldier in spotless uniform, with waxed white moustache and dangling sword, conducts the visitors.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000018_000000|The long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the angular entrance cut through solid rock, crooked, abrupt, with places where fighting men can lie in ambush, all is as Shakespeare knew it.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000019_000000|There are the cedars of Lebanon, brought by Crusaders from the East, and the screaming peacocks in the paved courtway: and in the Great Hall are to be seen the sword and accouterments of the fabled Guy, the mace of the "Kingmaker," the helmet of Cromwell, and the armor of Lord Brooke, killed at Litchfield.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000000|And that Shakespeare saw these things there is no doubt.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000001|But he saw them as a countryman who came on certain fete days, and stared with open mouth.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000002|We know this, because he has covered all with the glamour of his rich, boyish imagination that failed to perceive the cruel mockery of such selfish pageantry.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000003|Had his view been from the inside he would not have made his kings noble nor his princes generous; for the stress of strife would have stilled his laughter, and from his brain the dazzling pictures would have fled.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000004|Yet his fancies serve us better than the facts.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000022_000000|"This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. This guest of Summer, The temple haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle; Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate."
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000023_000000|Five miles from Warwick (ten, if you believe the cab drivers) are the ruins of Kenilworth Castle.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000000|In Fifteen Hundred Seventy five, when Shakespeare was eleven years of age, Queen Elizabeth came to Kenilworth.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000001|Whether her ticket was by way of Leamington I do not know.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000002|But she remained from July Ninth to July Twenty seventh, and there were great doings 'most every day, to which the yeomanry were oft invited.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000003|john Shakespeare was a worthy citizen of Warwickshire, and it is very probable that he received an invitation, and that he drove over with Mary Arden, his wife, sitting on the front seat holding the baby, and all the other seven children sitting on the straw behind.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000004|And we may be sure that the eldest boy in that brood never forgot the day.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000005|In fact, in "Midsummer Night's Dream" he has called on his memory for certain features of the show.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000007|No doubt Kenilworth was stupendous in its magnificence, and it will pay you to take down from its shelf Sir Walter's novel and read about it.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000008|But today it is all a crumbling heap; ivy, rooks and daws hold the place in fee, each pushing hard for sole possession.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000025_000000|It is eight miles from Warwick to Stratford by the direct road, but ten by the river.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000025_000001|I have walked both routes and consider the latter the shorter.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000000|Two miles down the river is Barford, and a mile farther is Wasperton, with its quaint old stone church.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000001|It is a good place to rest: for nothing is so soothing as a cool church where the dim light streams through colored windows, and out of sight somewhere an organ softly plays.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000002|Soon after leaving the church a rustic swain hailed me and asked for a match. The pipe and the Virginia weed-they mean amity the world over.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000003|If I had questions to ask, now was the time!
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000004|So I asked, and Rusticus informed me that Hampton Lucy was only a mile beyond and that Shakespeare never stole deer at all; so I hope we shall hear no more of that libelous accusation.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000027_000000|"But did Shakespeare run away?" I demanded.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000029_000000|And come to think of it Rusticus is right.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000030_000001|Indeed, it seems necessary that a man should have "run away" at least once, in order afterward to attain eminence.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000030_000002|Moses, Lot, Tarquin, Pericles, Demosthenes, Saint Paul, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Voltaire, Goldsmith, Hugo-but the list is too long to give.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000031_000000|But just suppose that Shakespeare had not run away!
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000031_000001|And to whom do we owe it that he did leave-Justice Shallow or Ann Hathaway, or both?
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000031_000002|I should say to Ann first and His Honor second.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000032_000001|No record is found of the marriage.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000032_000002|But we should think of her gratefully, for no doubt it was she who started the lad off for London.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000001|The winding Avon, full to its banks, strays lazily through rich fields and across green meadows, past the bright red brick pile of Charlcote Mansion.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000002|The river bank is lined with rushes, and in one place I saw the prongs of antlers shaking the elders.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000003|I sent a shrill whistle and a stick that way, and out ran four fine deer that loped gracefully across the turf.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000004|The sight brought my poacher instincts to the surface, but I bottled them, and trudged on until I came to the little church that stands at the entrance to the park.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000035_000000|All mansions, castles and prisons in England have chapels or churches attached.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000035_000001|And this is well, for in the good old days it seemed wise to keep in close communication with the other world.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000035_000003|So each estate hired its priests by the year, just as men with a taste for litigation hold attorneys in constant retainer.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000036_000000|In Charlcote Church is a memorial to Sir Thomas Lucy; and there is a glowing epitaph that quite upsets any of those taunting and defaming allusions in "The Merry Wives." At the foot of the monument is a line to the effect that the inscription thereon was written by the only one in possession of the facts, Sir Thomas himself.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000038_000000|"Farewell, proud, vain, false, treacherous world, We have seen enough of thee: We value not what thou canst say of we."
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000039_000000|When the Charlcote Mansion was built, there was a housewarming, and Good Queen Bess (who was not so awful good) came in great state; so we see that she had various calling acquaintances in these parts.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000040_000000|Some hasty individual has put forth a statement to the effect that poets can only be bred in a mountainous country, where they could lift up their eyes to the hills.
train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000040_000001|Rock and ravine, beetling crag, singing cascade, and the heights where the lightning plays and the mists hover are certainly good timber for poetry-after you have caught your poet-but Nature eludes all formula.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000000_000000|Drayton before Shakespeare's time called Warwick "the heart of England," and the heart of England it is today-rich, luxuriant, slow.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000000_000002|Down toward Stratford there are flat islands covered with sedge, long rows of weeping willows, low hazel, hawthorn, and places where "Green Grow the Rushes, o" Then, if the farmer leaves a spot untilled, the dogrose pre empts the place and showers its petals on the vagrant winds.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000001_000000|The first glimpse we get of Stratford is the spire of Holy Trinity; then comes the tower of the new Memorial Theater, which, by the way, is exactly like the city hall at Dead Horse, Colorado.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000000|Stratford is just another village of Niagara Falls.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000002|In fact, a "cabby" just outside of New Place offered to take me to the Whirlpool and the Canada side for a dollar.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000003|At least, this is what I thought he said.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000004|Of course, it is barely possible that I was daydreaming, but I think the facts are that it was he who dozed, and waking suddenly as I passed gave me the wrong cue.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000003_000000|There is a Macbeth livery stable, a Falstaff bakery, and all the shops and stores keep Othello this and Hamlet that.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000003_000001|I saw briarwood pipes with Shakespeare's face carved on the bowl, all for one and six; feather fans with advice to the players printed across the folds; the "Seven Ages" on handkerchiefs; and souvenir spoons galore, all warranted Gorham's best.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000004_000001|The young ladies who perform this office are clever women with pleasant voices and big, starched, white aprons.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000004_000002|I was at Stratford four days and went just four times to the old curiosity shop.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000004_000003|Each day the same bright British damsel conducted me through, and told her tale, but it was always with animation, and a certain sweet satisfaction in her mission and starched apron that was very charming.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000000|Judith married Thomas Quiney.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000001|The only letter addressed to Shakespeare that can be found is one from the happy father of Thomas, mr Richard Quiney, wherein he asks for a loan of thirty pounds.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000002|Whether he was accommodated we can not say; and if he was, did he pay it back, is a question that has caused much hot debate.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000003|But it is worthy of note that, although considerable doubt as to authenticity has smooched the other Shakespearian relics, yet the fact of the poet having been "struck" for a loan by Richard Quiney stands out in a solemn way as the one undisputed thing in the master's career.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000004|Little did mr Quiney think, when he wrote that letter, that he was writing for the ages.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000005|Philanthropists have won all by giving money, but who save Quiney has reaped immortality by asking for it!
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000010_000000|The inscription over Shakespeare's grave is an offer of reward if you do, and a threat of punishment if you don't, all in choice doggerel.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000011_000000|But I rather guess I know why his grave was not marked with his name.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000011_000001|He was a play actor, and the church people would have been outraged at the thought of burying a "strolling player" in that sacred chancel.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000012_000000|Then they hastily replaced the stones, and over the grave they placed the slab that they had brought:
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000013_000000|"Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here, Blest be the man who spares these stones, And cursed be he who moves my bones."
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000014_000000|A threat from a ghost!
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000015_000000|Under certain circumstances, if occasion demands, I might muster a sublime conceit; but considering the fact that ten thousand Americans visit Stratford every year, and all write descriptions of the place, I dare not in the face of Baedeker do it.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000015_000001|Further than that, in every library there are Washington Irving, Hawthorne, and William Winter's three lacrimose but charming volumes.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000017_000000|In England poets are relegated to a "Corner." The earth and the fulness thereof belongs to the men who can kill; on this rock have the English State and Church been built.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000018_000000|As the tourist approaches the city of London for the first time, there are four monuments that probably will attract his attention.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000018_000001|They lift themselves out of the fog and smoke and soot, and seem to struggle toward the blue.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000019_000000|One of these monuments is to commemorate a calamity-the conflagration of Sixteen Hundred Sixty six-and the others are in honor of deeds of war.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000020_000000|The finest memorial in Saint Paul's is to a certain eminent Irishman, Arthur Wellesley.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000020_000001|The mines and quarries of earth have been called on for their richest contributions; and talent and skill have given their all to produce this enduring work of beauty, that tells posterity of the mighty acts of this mighty man.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000020_000002|The rare richness and lavish beauty of the Wellington mausoleum are only surpassed by a certain tomb in France.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000021_000000|As an exploiter, the Corsican overdid the thing a bit-so the world arose and put him down; but safely dead, his shade can boast a grave so sumptuous that Englishmen in Paris refuse to look upon it.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000022_000001|Her land is spiked with glistening monuments to greatness gone.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000022_000002|And on these monuments one often gets the epitomized life of the man whose dust lies below.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000023_000000|On the carved marble to Lord Cornwallis I read that, "He defeated the Americans with great slaughter." And so, wherever in England I see a beautiful monument, I know that probably the inscription will tell how "he defeated" somebody.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000023_000001|And one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000023_000002|And if he can "defeat with great slaughter" his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000025_000000|When I visited the site of the Globe Theater and found thereon a brewery, whose shares are warranted to make the owner rich beyond the dream of avarice, I was depressed.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000026_000000|But there is no park, and no monument, and no white haired old poet to give you welcome-only a brewery.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000000|Yes, yes, I must be truthful-it is a big brewery, and there are four big bulldogs in the courtway; and there are big vats, and big workmen in big aprons.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000001|And each of these workmen is allowed to drink six quarts of beer each day, without charge, which proves that kindliness is not dead.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000002|Then there are big horses that draw the big wagons, and on the corner there is a big taproom where the thirsty are served with big glasses.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000003|The founder of this brewery became rich; and if my statistical friend is right, the owners of these mighty vats have defeated mankind with "great slaughter."
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000029_000000|We have seen that, although Napoleon, the defeated, has a more gorgeous tomb than Wellington, who defeated him, yet there is consolation in the thought that although England has no monument to Shakespeare he now has the freedom of Elysium; while the present address of the British worthies who have battened and fattened on poor humanity's thirst for strong drink, since Samuel Johnson was executor of Thrale's estate, is unknown.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000030_000000|We have this on the authority of a solid Englishman, who says: "The virtues essential and peculiar to the exalted station of British Worthy debar the unfortunate possessor from entering Paradise.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000030_000002|This is the only dignity beyond their reach."
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000031_000000|The writer quoted is an honorable man, and I am sure he would not make this assertion if he did not have proof of the fact.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000031_000001|So, for the present, I will allow him to go on his own recognizance, believing that he will adduce his documents at the proper time.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000032_000000|But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000032_000002|His name is honored in every school or college of earth where books are prized.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000032_000003|There is no scholar in any clime who is not his debtor.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000033_000000|He was born in England; he never was out of England; his ashes rest in England.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000033_000001|But England's Budget has never been ballasted with a single pound to help preserve inviolate the memory of her one son to whom the world uncovers.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000034_000000|Victor Hugo has said something on this subject which runs about like this:
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000035_000000|Why a monument to Shakespeare?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000036_000001|Shakespeare has no need of a pyramid; he has his work.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000037_000001|Malachite and alabaster are of no avail; jasper, serpentine, basalt, porphyry, granite: stones from Paros and marble from Carrara-they are all a waste of pains: genius can do without them.
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000038_000000|What is as indestructible as these: "The Tempest," "The Winter's Tale," "Julius Caesar," "Coriolanus"?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000038_000001|What monument sublimer than "Lear," sterner than "The Merchant of Venice," more dazzling than "Romeo and Juliet," more amazing than "Richard the third"?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000000|What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000001|What capital, were it even in London, could rumble around it as tumultuously as Macbeth's perturbed soul?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000002|What framework of cedar or oak will last as long as "Othello"?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000003|What bronze can equal the bronze of "Hamlet"?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000040_000001|What edifice can equal thought?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000041_000000|What architect has the skill to build a tower so high as the name of Shakespeare?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000041_000001|Add anything if you can to mind!
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000041_000002|Then why a monument to Shakespeare?
train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000042_000000|I answer, not for the glory of Shakespeare, but for the honor of England!
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000001_000000|THE DIARY
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000002_000000|Before Miss Berengaria could communicate with Durham, he had left the castle for town.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000002|We have accepted him as Bernard, and when you come down you can question him either in that character or as Michael.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000003|To tell you the truth, I am sorry for the boy-he is only twenty one or thereabouts, and I think he has been misguided.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000005|The servants-with the exception of my own especial maid, Maria Tait-know nothing of the man's presence in the turret chamber.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000006|And you may be sure that I am taking care Jerry Moon learns nothing.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000009|Nor do I wish Bernard to know.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000010|With his impetuosity, he would probably come over at once, and run the chance of arrest. The whole matter is in your hands, Durham, so write and tell me what I am to do.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000011|At all events I have a fast hold of Bernard's double, and you may be sure I shall not allow him to go until this mystery is cleared up."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000000|In reply to this pressing epistle, Durham wrote, telling Miss Berengaria to wait for three or four days.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000001|He was advertising for Tolomeo, and hoped to see him at his office.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000003|The examination of Michael-which Durham proposed to make, would then be rendered much easier.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000004|The lawyer, in conclusion, quite agreed with Miss Plantagenet that Conniston and Bernard should not be told.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000005|"I hope to be with you by the end of the week," he finished.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000005_000000|"Deuce take the man," said Miss Berengaria, rubbing her nose.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000005_000001|"Does he think I can wait all that time?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000006_000001|"And this poor creature is so weak, that I do not think he will be able to speak much for a few days.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000008_000000|"Oh, he is quite convinced of that," said Alice, quickly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000008_000001|"I suppose he hoped I would think his altered looks might induce me to overlook any lack of resemblance to Bernard."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000010_000000|"Perhaps that is why he holds his tongue," said Alice, rising.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000011_000000|"I suppose we must," said Miss Berengaria, dolefully.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000011_000001|"Drat the whole business!
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000011_000002|Was there ever such a coil?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000012_000000|"Well then, aunt, will you leave it alone?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000013_000000|"Certainly not.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000013_000001|I intend to see the thing through.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000013_000002|Owing to my reticence to Sir Simon about your parents, Alice, I am really responsible for the whole business, so I will keep working at it until Bernard is out of danger and married to you."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000014_000000|"Ah!" sighed Miss Malleson.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000014_000001|"And when will that be?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000015_000000|"Sooner than you think, perhaps.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000015_000001|Every day brings a surprise."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000001|She learned that Conniston loved her, though, to be sure, his frequent visits might have shown her how he was losing his heart.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000002|She was glad of this as she admired Conniston exceedingly, and, moreover, wished to escape from her awkward position at the Hall.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000003|When Bernard came back and married Alice, she would have to leave the Hall and live on the small income allotted to her by the generosity of the dead man.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000004|It would be much better, as she truly thought, to marry Conniston, even though he was the poorest of peers.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000005|One can do a lot with a title even without money, and Lucy was wise in her generation.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000006|Moreover, she was truly in love with the young man, and thought, very rightly, that he would make her a good husband.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000017_000000|As usual, Conniston, having taken into his head that Lucy would be an ideal wife, pursued his suit with characteristic impetuosity.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000017_000001|He came over daily-or almost daily-to Gore Hall, and, finally, when Lucy broke off her engagement to Beryl, he told her of the whereabouts of Bernard. Lucy was overwhelmed and delighted.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000018_000000|"To think that he should be alive after all," she said.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000018_000001|"I am so pleased, so glad.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000018_000002|Dear Bernard, now he will be able to enjoy the fortune and the title, and marry Alice."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000019_000000|"You forget," said Conniston, a trifle dryly, "Bernard has yet to prove his innocence.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000019_000001|We are all trying to help him.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000020_000000|Lucy stared at him with widely open eyes.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000020_000001|"Of course I will, Lord Conniston," she said heartily.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000020_000002|"What do you wish me to do?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000021_000000|"In the first place, tell me if you sent a boy to bring Bernard to Crimea Square?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000022_000001|I know the boy you mean.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000022_000003|Julius found him selling matches in town, ragged and poor.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000022_000004|He helped him, and the other day he procured him a situation with Miss Berengaria."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000023_000000|"He is there now.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000023_000001|But he-we have reason to believe-is the boy who lured Bernard to Crimea Square."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000024_000000|"I know nothing about that," said Lucy, frankly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000024_000001|"Why not ask the boy himself?
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000024_000002|It would be easy."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000025_000000|"We will ask the boy shortly," replied Conniston, evasively, not wishing at this juncture to tell her that the great object of everyone was to prevent Jerry thinking he was suspected.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000025_000001|"Should you meet the boy say nothing to him."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000026_000000|"I will not, and I am not likely to meet the boy.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000026_000001|He is usually in Miss Plantagenet's poultry yard, and I rarely go round there." Lucy paused. "It is strange that the boy should act like that.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000026_000002|I wonder if Sir Simon sent him to fetch Bernard, and arranged the Red Window as a sign which house it was?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000027_000000|"The Red Window.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000027_000002|mrs Webber saw the light, and----"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000000|"And Julius afterwards didn't.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000001|I know that.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000002|It was my fault.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000004|When I saw Bernard in the hall I was not astonished, for I thought he had come in answer to the light.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000005|I went upstairs, and after attending to Sir Simon, I went to the window.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000006|The lamp was before it, and stretched across the pane was a red bandanna handkerchief of Sir Simon's.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000007|I took that away, so you see how it was Julius did not see the light."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000029_000000|"Why did you remove the handkerchief?" asked the puzzled Conniston.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000030_000000|"Well, I wanted to save Bernard if possible, and I thought if the Red Light which had drawn him were removed, he could make some excuse. Julius knew about the Red Light, and, as he hated Bernard, I fancied he would use it against him.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000030_000001|But really," added Miss Randolph, wrinkling her pretty brows, "I hardly knew what I was doing, save that in some vague way I fancied the removal of the handkerchief might help Bernard. Is that clear?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000031_000000|"Perfectly clear," said Conniston, "and I am glad I know this.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000031_000001|May I tell Bernard and Durham?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000032_000000|"Certainly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000032_000001|I want to do all I can to help Bernard."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000033_000001|"I wonder if you could make a chap good?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000035_000000|"I know a chap who----"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000036_000000|"Please stop, Lord Conniston," cried Lucy, starting up in confusion.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000036_000001|"I have heaps and heaps to do.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000036_000002|You prevent my working."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000000|Her hurried flight prevented Conniston from putting the question on that occasion.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000001|But he was not daunted.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000002|He resolved to propose as soon as possible.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000003|But Lucy thought he was making love too ardently, and by those arts known to women alone, she managed to keep him at arm's length.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000004|She was anxious that Bernard should be cleared, that he should take up his rightful position, and should receive back the Hall from her, before Lord Conniston proposed.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000005|Of course, Lucy was ready to accept him, but, sure of her fish, she played with him until such time as she felt disposed to accept his hand and heart and title and what remained of the West fortune.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000006|Conniston, more determined than ever to win this adorable woman, came over regularly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000007|But Lucy skilfully kept him off the dangerous ground, whereby he fell deeper in love than ever.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000038_000000|"Fancy," said Lucy, running to meet Conniston one afternoon as soon as he appeared at the drawing room door, "I have found the diary of mrs Gilroy."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000039_000000|"That's a good thing," said Conniston, eagerly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000039_000002|We must read her diary."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000040_000000|"Will that be honorable?" said Lucy, retaining her hold of the book.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000000|"Perfectly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000001|One does not stand on ceremony when a man's neck is at stake.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000002|mrs Gilroy's diary may save Bernard's life.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000003|She knew too much about the murder, and fled because she thought Durham would come and question her."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000042_000000|"Oh! Was that why she ran away?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000043_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000043_000001|A woman like mrs Gilroy does not take such a course for nothing. She's a clever woman."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000044_000000|"And a very disagreeable woman," said Lucy, emphatically.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000044_000001|"But what did she know?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000045_000002|But, after some reflection, he decided to speak out.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000045_000003|"You are, of course, on Bernard's side," he said.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000046_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000046_000001|And against Julius, who hates Bernard.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000046_000002|I will do anything I can to help Bernard.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000047_000000|"I know-I know.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000047_000001|You are the truest and best woman in the world," said Conniston, eagerly, "but what I have to tell you is not my own secret. It concerns Bernard."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000048_000000|"Then don't tell me," said Lucy, coloring angrily.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000049_000000|"Yes, I will.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000049_000001|You have the diary and I want to read it.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000049_000002|To know why I do, it is necessary that you should learn all that we have discovered."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000050_000000|"What have you discovered?
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000050_000001|Who killed Sir Simon?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000051_000001|We are trying to hunt down the assassin.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000051_000002|And mrs Gilroy's diary may tell us."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000052_000000|"I don't see that."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000053_000000|"You will, when you learn what I have to say." And Conniston related everything concerning the false marriage and the half brother of young Gore.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000053_000001|"And now, you see," he finished triumphantly, "mrs Gilroy is fighting for her son.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000053_000002|It is probable that she has set down the events of that night in her diary."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000054_000000|"She would not be such a fool, if her son is guilty."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000055_000000|"Oh, people do all manner of queer things.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000055_000001|Criminals who are very secretive in speech sometimes give themselves away in writing.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000055_000002|You were at the theatre on that night?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000056_000000|"Yes, with Julius; so neither of us had anything to do with the matter, if that is what you mean."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000057_000000|"I mean nothing of the sort," said Conniston, quickly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000057_000001|"How can you think I should suspect you?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000058_000000|"You might suspect Julius," said Lucy, suspiciously, "and although we have quarrelled I don't want to harm him."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000059_000000|"Would you rather have Bernard hanged?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000060_000000|"Oh!" Lucy burst into tears and impulsively threw the book into Conniston's lap.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000060_000001|"Read it at once; I would rather save Bernard than Julius."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000000|Conniston availed himself of this permission at once.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000001|He took away the diary with Lucy's permission, and carried it in triumph to the castle. Here he and Bernard sat down to master its contents.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000002|These astonished them considerably.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000003|Conniston made out a short and concise account of the events of that fatal night, for the benefit of Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000004|They were as follows:
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000000|mrs Gilroy, it appears, thought that her son, Michael, was really and truly in America.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000001|She had no suspicion that the lover of Jane Riordan was her son, but truly believed from the description that he was young Gore whom she hated-as she plainly stated in several pages.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000002|When the presumed Bernard went away before six, he did not call again at ten o'clock.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000004|He saw Sir Simon and after a stormy interview he departed.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000000|"Wait a bit," said Conniston, who was reading his precis.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000001|"This diary is meant for her eye alone.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000002|Still, she may have thought it might fall into the hands of another person, and therefore made her son safe.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000004|See! here's the bit," and he read, "Sir Simon was alive after mr Gore left the house."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000065_000000|"Go on," said Bernard.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000065_000001|"If I am innocent, why did she accuse me?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000000|"Because I believe her son is guilty.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000001|He left Sir Simon dead.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000002|mrs Gilroy found the body, knew what had occurred, and then ran out on hearing Jerry's whistle knowing she would meet you.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000003|It's all plain."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000067_000000|"Very plain," said Gore, emphatically.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000067_000001|"A regular trap.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000000|"Afterwards, and shortly before a quarter past ten, there came a ring at the door.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000001|mrs Gilroy went, and there she found Signor Tolomeo, who asked to see Sir Simon.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000002|She took him up the stairs, and left him to speak with Sir Simon.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000003|What took place she did not know, but she was sitting below working, and heard the door close.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000004|It was just before a quarter to eleven that she heard this."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000069_000000|"About the time I came," muttered Bernard.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000000|mrs Gilroy-as appeared from the diary-ran up to see if the master was all right.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000001|She found him strangled, and with the handkerchiefs tied over his mouth and round his neck.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000002|Then she ran out and found Gore at the door.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000003|He had come back again, and mrs Gilroy said she accused him.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000004|She then stated in her diary that she looked upon Bernard as an accessory after the fact.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000005|He had hired Guiseppe Tolomeo to kill his grandfather, and then came to see if the deed had been executed thoroughly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000006|mrs Gilroy ended her diary by stating that she would do her best to get both the Italian and his nephew hanged.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000071_000000|"Very much obliged to her," said Bernard, when Conniston concluded reading, and beginning to walk to and fro.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000071_000001|"Well, it seems my uncle is the guilty person, Conniston."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000072_000000|"I don't believe it," said Dick, firmly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000072_000001|"mrs Gilroy is trying to shield her son.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000072_000002|I believe he killed him."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000073_000000|"If we could only find Michael," said Bernard, dolefully.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000074_000001|Things would soon be put right then," replied Conniston, and neither was aware that the man they wished to see was at that very moment lying in the turret chamber at the Bower, "or even mrs Gilroy. Could we see her, and show her the diary, she might put things straight."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000075_000000|"I believe she left the diary behind on purpose," said Gore, with some ill humor.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000075_000001|"I can't believe that Tolomeo killed Sir Simon."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000076_000000|"What kind of man is he?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000000|"A very decent chap in his own way.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000001|His blood is hot, and he has a temper something like the one I have inherited from my mother, who was Guiseppe's sister.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000002|But Tolomeo is not half bad.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000003|He has the credit for being a scamp, but I don't think he deserves it."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000078_000000|"Can't you see him and show him the diary?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000079_000001|I don't know his whereabouts.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000079_000002|However, Durham, at my request, has put an advertisement in the papers which may bring him to the office, then we can see how much of this story is true.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000079_000003|Certainly, mrs Gilroy may have seen him at the house on that night."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000080_000000|"What would he go for?"
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000000|"To ask my grandfather for money.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000001|He was always hard up.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000002|Sir Simon hated him, but if Guiseppe was hard up he wouldn't mind that.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000003|I daresay Tolomeo did see Sir Simon, and did have a row, as both he and grandfather were hot blooded.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000004|But I don't believe my uncle killed Sir Simon," said Bernard, striking the table.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000082_000001|Tolomeo, from your account of him, would not commit a murder without getting some money from doing it.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000082_000002|But the best thing to do, is to take this up to Durham and see what he thinks."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000083_000000|"I'll come too," said Gore, excitedly.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000083_000001|"I tell you, Dick, I'm dead tired of doing nothing.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000083_000002|It will be better to do what Miss Berengaria suggests and give myself up."
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000084_000000|"Wait a bit," persuaded Dick.
train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000084_000001|"Let me take this up to Durham, and if he agrees you can be arrested."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty three
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000003_000000|A YEAR LATER
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000000|It was midsummer, and Miss Berengaria's garden was a sight.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000001|Such splendid colors, such magnificent blossoms, such triumphs of the floricultural art, had never been seen outside the walls of a flower show.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000002|The weather was exceedingly warm, and on this particular day there was not a cloud in the sky.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000004|And well she might be, for this was a red letter day with her.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000005_000001|She looked particularly pretty, and her face was a most becoming color.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000006_000000|"The train won't be here for another hour," he said, smiling.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000006_000001|"You will see Bernard soon enough, Miss Malleson."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000007_000000|"Oh, dear me," sighed Alice, "can I ever see him soon enough?
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000007_000002|I wish he hadn't gone."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000008_000000|"Well," said Durham, following with his eyes the spare little figure of Miss Berengaria flitting about amongst the flowers, "I didn't approve of it at the time, and I told Conniston so.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000008_000001|But now I think it was just as well Bernard did keep to his original intention and go to the Front.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000008_000002|It is advisable there should be an interval between the new life and the old."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000009_000000|"The new life?" asked Alice, flushing.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000010_000000|"He is coming home to be married to you," said Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000011_000001|"I shall have to nurse him back to health before we can marry."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000012_000000|"Miss Randolph will be occupied in the same pleasing task with Conniston," replied Durham, lazily, "and I envy both my friends."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000013_000000|"You needn't," laughed Miss Malleson, opening her sunshade which cast a delicate pink hue on her cheeks.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000013_000001|"Poor Bernard has been wounded and Lord Conniston has been down with enteric fever."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000014_000000|"I am glad they have got off so easily.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000015_000000|Alice shuddered and grew pale.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000015_000001|"Don't, mr Durham!"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000016_000000|"That was why I feared about his going out," said he.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000016_000001|"I thought it would be a pity, after all he passed through, that he should be killed by a Boer bullet.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000017_000000|"And Lord Conniston?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000018_000000|"He is coming also to marry Miss Randolph.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000018_000001|Both weddings will take place on the same day, and Conniston has escaped the dangers of the war with a slight touch of fever.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000018_000002|But why tell you all this-you know it as well as I do."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000019_000000|"What's that?" asked Miss Berengaria, coming up to the pair.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000020_000000|"I was only discussing Miss Malleson's future life," said Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000021_000000|"Ah," sighed the old lady, sitting down.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000021_000001|"What I shall do without her I don't know."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000022_000001|The Hall is within visiting distance."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000023_000001|"But Bernard will want you all to himself, and small blame to him.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000023_000002|What is the time?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000024_000000|Alice glanced at her watch.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000024_000002|"Oh, I wish we could meet them."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000025_000000|"Not at all," rejoined Miss Berengaria, brusquely, "better wait here with Lucy.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000025_000002|I don't want a scene of kissing and weeping on the platform.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000026_000001|"Bernard at Gore Hall and Conniston at the castle."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000027_000000|"I hope he and Lucy won't live there," said the old lady, rubbing her nose.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000027_000001|"A dreadfully damp place.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000027_000002|I went over there the other day to tell mrs Moon about Jerry."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000028_000000|"Have you had good reports of him?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000029_000000|"So, so.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000029_000001|The reformatory he was put into seems to be a good one, and the boys are well looked after.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000029_000002|But Jerry is a tree which will grow crooked. He seems to have been giving a lot of trouble."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000030_000000|"Yet he was lucky to get off as he did," said Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000031_000001|"At least, Bernard seems to think so."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000032_000000|"I fancy Bernard is about right," replied Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000032_000001|"The lad is a born criminal.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000032_000002|I wonder how he inherited such a tainted nature."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000033_000000|Miss Berengaria sat up briskly.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000033_000001|"I can tell you," she said.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000033_000002|"mrs Moon informed me that her son-Jerry's father-was a desperate scamp, and also that several of her husband's people had come to bad ends."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000034_000000|"To rope ends, I suppose, as Jerry will come," said Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000034_000001|"However, he is safe for the next three years in his reformatory.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000034_000002|When he comes out, we will see what will happen.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000035_000000|"Michael Gilroy?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000036_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000036_000001|Has he taken that name for good?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000000|"He has.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000001|It's the only name he is entitled to.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000002|How glad I am that the poor creature was acquitted after that dreadful trial.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000003|I am sure there is good in him."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000038_000000|"So Bernard thought, and that was why he assisted him," said Alice.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000039_000000|"I think you put in a good word for him, Miss Malleson."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000000|Alice assented.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000001|"I was sorry for the poor fellow.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000002|While I nursed him I saw much good in him.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000003|And, remember, that he had intended to tell me who he was when he arrived, only he was so ill."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000042_000000|"Well, I don't think he was quite himself during that illness," said Alice, pensively.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000042_000001|"Had he been better, he would certainly have doubted the fact of aunty's and my beliefs.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000042_000002|A few questions from me, and he would have been exposed, even had I truly believed he was Bernard."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000043_000000|"And he must have wondered how you never put the questions."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000044_000000|"Perhaps.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000044_000002|However, he spoke up well at the trial, and quite explained Bernard's innocence."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000045_000000|Durham shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000045_000001|"The serpent in the bamboo.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000045_000002|He was forced to be honest at the trial for his own sake."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000000|"Don't be hard on him," said Miss Berengaria, suddenly.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000001|"I received a letter from him yesterday.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000002|He is doing very well in America, and with the money Bernard gave him he has bought a farm.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000003|Also, he hopes to marry."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000047_000000|"I wonder will he tell his future wife anything of his past life."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000048_000000|"Not if he is wise," said Durham, looking at Alice, who had spoken.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000048_000001|"By the way, Miss Berengaria, does he mention his mother?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000000|"No," replied the old lady, promptly.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000001|"Drat you, Durham! why should the boy mention his mother at this point?
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000002|She has been dead all these months.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000003|Poor soul! her end was a sad one.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000004|I never heard, though, of what poison she died."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000050_000001|"The gipsies use it to poison pigs."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000051_000000|"Why do they wish to poison pigs?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000052_000000|"Because, if they kill a pig in that way, the farmer to whom it belongs, thinking the animal has died a natural death, gives it to the gipsies and they eat it."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000053_000001|"I'll look well after my own pigs.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000053_000002|So the poor creature killed herself with that drug?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000001|"I can't explain what it is.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000002|She hinted that I would know what drows meant before the end of the day, and I did.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000003|While I was telling Inspector Groom about her confession, she poisoned herself in my office.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000004|I thought she was asleep, but she evidently was watching for her opportunity to make away with herself."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000055_000001|"I wonder you can bear to sit in that office after such an occurrence."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000056_000000|"How lucky it was that she signed that confession before she died," was the remark made by Alice.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000057_000000|"My dear young lady, she came especially to confess, so as to save her son.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000059_000000|"Oh, I think so," said Durham, reflectively.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000059_000001|"After all, her confession meant hanging to her.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000059_000002|She wished to escape the gallows."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000060_000000|"I am glad Bernard did," said Miss Berengaria, emphatically; "even at the risk of all that scandal."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000061_000000|"It couldn't be kept out of the papers," said Durham, with a shrug. "After all, Bernard's character had to be fully cleansed.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000061_000001|It was therefore necessary to tell the whole of Beryl's plot, to produce Michael as an example of what Nature can do in the way of resemblances, and to supplement the whole with mrs Gilroy's confession."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000062_000000|"And a nice trouble there was over it," said the old lady, annoyed.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000062_000001|"I believe Bernard had a man calling on him who wished to write a play about the affair-a new kind of 'Corsican Brothers.'"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000063_000000|"Or a new 'Comedy of Errors,'" said Alice, smiling.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000063_000001|"Well, the public learned everything and were sorry for Bernard.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000063_000002|They cheered him when he left the court."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000064_000001|"The man who should have suffered was that wretch Beryl."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000065_000000|"We couldn't catch him," said Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000065_000001|"Victoria reached him on that very night, and he cleared without loss of time.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000065_000002|Of course, he was afraid of being accused of the crime, although he knew he was innocent, but, besides that, there was the conspiracy to get the estate by means of the false will.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000000|Miss Berengaria nodded.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000002|I understand she still believes in Jerry and will marry him when he comes out of the reformatory.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000003|He will then be of a marriageable age, the brat!
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000004|But, regarding Beryl, what became of him?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000067_000000|"I never could find out," confessed Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000068_000000|"Then I can tell you, Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000068_000001|Michael saw him in New York."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000069_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000070_000000|"In some low slum, very ragged and poor.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000070_000001|He didn't see Michael, or he might have troubled him.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000070_000002|He has taken to drink, I believe-Beryl I mean-so some day he will die, and a nice fate awaits him where he will go," said Miss Berengaria, grimly.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000001|"Well," said he, looking down on the two ladies, "the whole case is over and ended.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000002|I don't see why we should revive such very unpleasant memories.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000003|The past is past, so let it rest.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000004|Bernard has the title and the money and----"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000072_000001|"Dear girl, how sweet she looks!"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000000|It was indeed Lucy tripping across the lawn in the lightest of summer frocks.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000001|She looked charming, and greeted Alice with a kiss.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000002|"I am so anxious," she whispered.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000003|"The train will be in soon."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000074_000000|"You are anxious to see Conniston?" said Miss Berengaria.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000075_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000076_000000|Durham bowed.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000076_000001|"You have been an admirable Lady of the Manor," he said. "But soon you will be Lady Conniston."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000077_000000|"And Alice will be Lady of the Manor," laughed Lucy.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000077_000001|"Oh, by the way, mr Durham, I forgot to tell you that Signor Tolomeo called at the Hall yesterday.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000077_000002|He thought Bernard was back, and came to thank him for his allowing him an income."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000078_000000|"I thought he had gone back to Italy," said Durham.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000079_000000|"He is going next week, and talks of marriage."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000080_000000|"I don't envy his wife," said Miss Berengaria, rising.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000080_000001|"Girls, come into the house to see that everything is prepared for our heroes."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000081_000000|The girls laughed and tripped away.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000081_000001|Durham left the garden and drove to the station to fetch back Conniston and Bernard.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000081_000002|They did not come by that train, however, much to the disappointment of those at the Bower. It was seven before they arrived, and then the three ladies came out to meet them on the lawn.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000082_000000|"Dear Alice," said Bernard, who had his arm in a sling, but otherwise looked what Conniston called "fit!", "how glad I am to see you!"
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000083_000000|"And you, Lucy," said Conniston, taking his sweetheart in his arms.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000000|"Really," cried Miss Berengaria, while Durham stood by laughing, "it is most perplexing to assist at the meeting of a quartette of lovers.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000001|Gore, how are you?
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000002|Conniston, your fever has pulled you down.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000003|I hope you have both sown your wild oats and have come back to settle for good."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000085_000000|"With the most charming of wives," said Dick, bowing.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000085_000001|"We have."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000000|Miss Berengaria took Durham's arm.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000001|"I must look out a wife for you, sir," she said, leading him to the house.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000002|"Come away and let the turtle doves coo alone.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000003|I expect dinner will be late."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000000|And dinner was late.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000001|Conniston, with Lucy on his arm, strolled away in the twilight, but Bernard and Alice remained under the elm.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000002|When it grew quite dusk a red light was seen shining from the window of the drawing room.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000003|Gore pointed it out.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000088_000000|"That is the signal Lucy used to set in the window at the Hall to show that all was well," he said, putting his unwounded arm round the girl, "and now it gleams as a sign that there is a happy future for you and I, dearest."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000089_000000|"A red light is a danger signal," said Alice, laughing.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000090_000000|"This is the exception that proves the rule," said Gore.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000090_000001|"It once led me into trouble, but now it shines upon me with my arms around you.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000090_000002|Thank Heaven that, after all our trouble, we are at last in smooth waters. There's the gong for dinner."
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000091_000000|Alice laughed.
train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000091_000001|"A prosaic ending to a pretty speech," she said.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000000_000001|JUDY'S NEWS.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000001_000001|Possibly, being by nature gifted, as I have certainly discovered, with more of hope than is usually mingled with the other elements composing the temperament of humanity, I did not suffer quite so much as some would have suffered during such an illness.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000001_000005|Within was a labyrinth of passages in the walls, and "long sounding corridors," and sudden galleries, whence I looked down into the great church aching with silence.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000003_000000|When all this vanished from me in the returning wave of health that spread through my weary brain, I was yet left anxious and thoughtful. There was no one from whom I could ask any information about the family at the Hall, so that I was just driven to the best thing-to try to cast my care upon Him who cared for my care.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000003_000002|We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000003_000003|And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven; that we have been compelled, as to the last remaining, so to the best, the only, the central help, the causing cause of all the helps to which we had turned aside as nearer and better.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000004_000000|One day when, having considerably recovered from my second attack, I was sitting reading in my study, who should be announced but my friend Judy!
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000005_000001|"I haven't had a chance of coming to see you before; though we've always managed-I mean auntie and I-to hear about you.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000005_000002|I would have come to nurse you, but it was no use thinking of it."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000006_000000|I smiled as I thanked her.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000007_000002|I am so sorry for you!"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000010_000000|"Mrs Pearson is a very kind woman, and an excellent nurse," I said; but she would not heed me.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000012_000001|I assure you. But now I want to hear how everybody is at the Hall."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000013_000000|"What, grannie, and the white wolf, and all?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000014_000000|"As many as you please to tell me about."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000015_000000|"Well, grannie is gracious to everybody but auntie."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000016_000000|"Why isn't she gracious to auntie?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000017_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000017_000001|I only guess."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000018_000000|"Is your visitor gone?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000000|"Yes, long ago.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000002|But he's very nice.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000005|I don't QUITE like him-not so well as you by a whole half, Mr Walton.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000006|I wish you would marry auntie; but that would never do.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000007|It would drive grannie out of her wits."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000020_000000|To stop the strange girl, and hide some confusion, I said:
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000021_000000|"Now tell me about the rest of them."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000000|"Sarah comes next.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000001|She's as white and as wolfy as ever.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000002|Mr Walton, I hate that woman.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000004|I am sure she is bad."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000023_000001|If you did, I think you would be so sorry for her, you could not hate her."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000024_000000|At the same time, knowing what I knew now, and remembering that impressions can date from farther back than the memory can reach, I was not surprised to hear that Judy hated Sarah, though I could not believe that in such a child the hatred was of the most deadly description.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000026_000000|"How is Mr Stoddart?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000027_000000|"There now!
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000029_000000|"Oh, yes, I told her.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000029_000001|Not grannie, you know.--You mustn't let it out."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000030_000000|"I shall be careful.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000030_000001|How is Mr Stoddart, then?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000031_000000|"Not well at all.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000000|"Thank you.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000001|I believe that's just what auntie wanted.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000002|He won't like it at first, I daresay.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000003|But he'll come to, and you'll do him good.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000004|You do everybody good you come near."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000034_000001|I fear it is not.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000034_000002|What good did I ever do you, Judy?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000035_000000|"Do me!" she exclaimed, apparently half angry at the question.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000036_000000|And here the odd creature laughed, leaving me in absolute ignorance of how to interpret her.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000036_000001|But presently her eyes grew clearer, and I could see the slow film of a tear gathering.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000037_000000|"Mr Walton," she said, "I HAVE been trying not to be selfish.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000037_000001|You have done me that much good."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000038_000000|"I am very glad, Judy.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000038_000001|Don't forget who can do you ALL good.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000038_000002|There is One who can not only show you what is right, but can make you able to do and be what is right.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000039_000000|Judy did not answer, but sat looking fixedly at the carpet.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000039_000001|She was thinking, though, I saw.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000040_000000|"Who has played the organ, Judy, since your uncle was taken ill?" I asked, at length.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000041_000000|"Why, auntie, to be sure.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000041_000001|Didn't you hear?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000042_000000|"No," I answered, turning almost sick at the idea of having been away from church for so many Sundays while she was giving voice and expression to the dear asthmatic old pipes.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000042_000002|Think of HER there, and me here!
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000043_000002|And this child has just been telling me that I have taught her to try not to be selfish.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000043_000003|Certainly I should be ashamed of myself."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000044_000000|"When was your uncle taken ill?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000045_000000|"I don't exactly remember.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000045_000001|But you will come and see him to morrow?
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000045_000002|And then we shall see you too.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000046_000000|"I will come if Dr Duncan will let me.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000046_000001|Perhaps he will take me in his carriage."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000001|Uncle can't bear doctors.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000002|He never was ill in his life before, and he behaves to Dr Duncan just as if he had made him ill.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000003|I wish I could send the carriage for you.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000004|But I can't, you know."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000048_000000|"Never mind, Judy.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000048_000001|I shall manage somehow.--What is the name of the gentleman who was staying with you?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000049_000000|"Don't you know?
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000049_000001|Captain George Everard.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000050_000000|What a foolish pain, like a spear thrust, they sent through me-those words spoken in such a taken for granted way!
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000000|"He's a relation-on grannie's side mostly, I believe.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000001|But I never could understand the explanation.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000003|Captain Everard has what grandmamma calls a neat little property of his own from his mother, some where in Northumberland; for he IS only a third son, one of a class grannie does not in general feel very friendly to, I assure you, Mr Walton.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000004|But his second brother is dead, and the eldest something the worse for the wear, as grannie says; so that the captain comes just within sight of the coronet of an old uncle who ought to have been dead long ago.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000005|Just the match for auntie!"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000053_000000|"Oh! but you know that doesn't matter," returned Judy, with bitterness. "What will grannie care for that?
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000053_000001|It's nothing to anybody but auntie, and she must get used to it.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000053_000002|Nobody makes anything of her."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000054_000000|It was only after she had gone that I thought how astounding it would have been to me to hear a girl of her age show such an acquaintance with worldliness and scheming, had I not been personally so much concerned about one of the objects of her remarks.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000054_000001|She certainly was a strange girl.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000054_000003|Evidently she had inherited her father's fearlessness; and if only it should turn out that she had likewise inherited her mother's firmness, she might render the best possible service to her aunt against the oppression of her wilful mother.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000055_000000|"How were you able to get here to day?" I asked, as she rose to go.
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000056_000001|Auntie wouldn't leave uncle."
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000057_000000|"They have been a good deal in London of late, have they not?"
train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000058_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000002_000000|As I sat in my study, in the twilight of that same day, the door was hurriedly opened, and Judy entered.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000002_000001|She looked about the room with a quick glance to see that we were alone, then caught my hand in both of hers, and burst out crying.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000003_000000|"Why, Judy!" I said, "what IS the matter?" But the sobs would not allow her to answer.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000003_000001|I was too frightened to put any more questions, and so stood silent-my chest feeling like an empty tomb that waited for death to fill it.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000004_000000|"They are killing auntie.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000004_000001|She looks like a ghost already," said the child, again bursting into tears.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000005_000000|"Tell me, Judy, what CAN I do for her?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000006_000000|"You must find out, Mr Walton.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000006_000001|If you loved her as much as I do, you would find out what to do."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000007_000000|"But she will not let me do anything for her."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000008_000000|"Yes, she will.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000008_000001|She says you promised to help her some day."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000009_000000|"Did she send you, then?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000010_000000|"no
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000011_000000|"Then how-what-what can I do!"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000012_000003|Do get your hat, Mr Walton."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000013_000001|I will go at once.--Shall I see her?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000016_000001|It was a still night, with an odour of damp earth, and a hint of green buds in it.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000018_000000|"I don't know what they are doing.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000019_000000|"Is she ill?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000020_000000|"She is as white as a sheet, and will not leave her room.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000020_000001|Grannie must have frightened her dreadfully.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000020_000002|Everybody is frightened at her but me, and I begin to be frightened too.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000021_000000|"But what can her mother do to her?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000002|Then there is no one allowed to wait on her but Sarah, and I know the very sight of her is enough to turn auntie sick almost.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000003|What has become of Jane I don't know.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000005|Auntie can't eat what Sarah brings her, I am sure; else I should almost fancy she was starving herself to death to keep clear of that Captain Everard."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000023_000000|"Is he still at the Hall?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000024_000000|"Yes.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000024_000001|But I don't think it is altogether his fault.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000024_000002|Grannie won't let him go.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000025_000000|"Nothing can make her worth more than she is, Judy," I said, perhaps with some discontent in my tone.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000027_000000|"But, Judy, we must have some plan laid before we reach the Hall; else my coming will be of no use."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000000|"Of course.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000001|I know how much I can do, and you must arrange the rest with her.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000002|I will take you to the little room up stairs-we call it the octagon.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000003|That you know is just under auntie's room.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000005|I will leave you there, and tell auntie that you want to see her."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000029_000000|"But, Judy,---"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000030_000000|"Don't you want to see her, Mr Walton?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000031_000000|"Yes, I do; more than you can think."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000032_000000|"Then I will tell her so."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000033_000000|"But will she come to me?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000034_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000034_000001|We have to find that out."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000035_000000|"Very well.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000001|All my dubitation and distress were gone, for I had something to do, although what I could not yet tell.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000003|This was what I hoped to strengthen her to do.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000006|As I have said before, she was clad in the mail of endurance, but was utterly without weapons.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000008|In respect of this, I prayed heartily that I might help her.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000037_000002|The moon was now quite obscured, and I was under no apprehension of discovery.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000000|I had not to wait long before the door opened behind me noiselessly, and I stepped into the dark house.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000001|Judy took me by the hand, and led me along a passage, and then up a stair into the little drawing room.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000002|There was no light.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000003|She led me to a seat at the farther end, and opening a door close beside me, left me in the dark.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000039_000001|Castle after castle I built up; castle after castle fell to pieces in my hands.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000039_000004|Still she did not come, and partly from weakness, partly from hope deferred, I found myself beginning to tremble all over.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000039_000005|Nor could I control myself.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000040_000002|Before I could speak, a voice said brokenly, in a half whisper:--
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000042_000000|And she moved to go, but I held her.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000043_000000|But ere I ceased came a revulsion of feeling.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000044_000000|"Forgive me," I said, "I am selfishness itself to speak to you thus now, to take advantage of your misery to make you listen to mine.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000044_000001|But, at least, it will make you sure that if all I am, all I have will save you-"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000045_000000|"But I am saved already," she interposed, "if you love me-for I love you."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000046_000000|And for some moments there were no words to speak.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000046_000001|I stood holding her hand, conscious only of God and her.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000046_000002|At last I said:
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000047_000002|Will you come home to my sister?
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000047_000003|Or I will take you wherever you please."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000048_000000|"I will go with you anywhere you think best.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000049_000000|"Put on your bonnet, then, and a warm cloak, and we will settle all about it as we go."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000000|"No lights here!" she said.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000001|"Sarah, bring candles, and tell Captain Everard, when he will join us, to come to the octagon room.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000002|Where can that little Judy be?
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000003|The child gets more and more troublesome, I do think.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000052_000000|I had been in great perplexity how to let her know that I was there; for to announce yourself to a lady by a voice out of the darkness of her boudoir, or to wait for candles to discover you where she thought she was quite alone-neither is a pleasant way of presenting yourself to her consciousness.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000052_000001|But I was helped out of the beginning into the middle of my difficulties, once more by that blessed little Judy.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000000|"Here I am, grannie," said her voice.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000001|"But I won't be taken in hand by you or any one else.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000002|I tell you that.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000003|So mind.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000057_000000|Here Judy interrupted her.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000058_000000|"I beg your pardon, grannie, Mr Walton WAS wanted-very much wanted.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000058_000001|I went and fetched him."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000060_000000|"---and to be sitting in my room in the dark too!"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000062_000000|"Sarah," said Mrs Oldcastle, "ask Captain Everard to be kind enough to step this way."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000064_000000|We could now see each other.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000064_000001|Knowing words to be but idle breath, I would not complicate matters by speech, but stood silent, regarding Mrs Oldcastle.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000064_000004|Whereupon she spoke, but to me.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000065_000000|"Mr Walton," she said, "will you explain to Captain Everard to what we owe the UNEXPECTED pleasure of a visit from you?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000066_000001|To you, Mrs Oldcastle, I would have answered, had you asked me, that I was waiting for Miss Oldcastle."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000068_000000|"That is quite unnecessary.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000068_000001|Miss Oldcastle will be here presently," I said.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000069_000001|She was always white, as I have said: the change I can describe only by the word I have used, indicating a bluish darkening of the whiteness.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000069_000002|She walked towards the door beside me.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000070_000000|"Pardon me, Mrs Oldcastle.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000070_000001|That is the way to Miss Oldcastle's room.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000070_000002|I am here to protect her."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000072_000000|"Miss Oldcastle, go to your room instantly, I COMMAND you," said her mother; and she approached as if to remove her hand from my arm.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000073_000000|"No, Mrs Oldcastle," I said.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000077_000000|"At least," said that lady, "do not disgrace yourself, Ethelwyn, by leaving the house in this unaccountable manner at night and on foot.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000077_000001|If you WILL leave the protection of your mother's roof, wait at least till tomorrow."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000078_000001|You have been a strange mother to me-and Dorothy too!"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000080_000000|Ethelwyn smiled.--She was now as collected as I was, seeming to have cast off all her weakness.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000080_000001|My heart was uplifted more than I can say.--She knew her mother too well to be caught by the change in her tone.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000081_000001|But now she answered nothing, only looked at me, and I understood her, of course.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000083_000002|She made a spring at her daughter, and seized her by the arm.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000084_000000|"Then I forbid it," she screamed; "and I WILL be obeyed.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000084_000002|Go to your room, you minx."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000085_000001|How old are you, Ethelwyn?"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000087_000000|"Twenty seven," answered Miss Oldcastle.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000088_000001|Let her arm go."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000089_000000|But she kept her grasp.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000090_000000|"You hurt me, mother," said Miss Oldcastle.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000091_000000|"Hurt you?
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000091_000002|I will hurt you then!"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000092_000000|But I took Mrs Oldcastle's arm in my hand, and she let go her hold.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000093_000000|"How dare you touch a woman?" she said.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000096_000000|"The riot act ought to be read, I think.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000097_000000|"Well put, Captain Everard," I said.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000099_000000|"Say on."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000100_000000|"This lady has jilted me."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000102_000000|"I have not."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000105_000000|And he strode a pace nearer.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000107_000000|"You presume on your cloth, but-" he said, lifting his hand.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000108_000001|Insult me as you will, and I will bear it.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000108_000002|Call me coward, and I will say nothing.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000109_000001|He turned on his heel.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000110_000000|"I really am not sufficiently interested in the affair to oppose you. You may take the girl for me.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000110_000002|I do not like brawling where one cannot fight. You shall hear from me before long, Mr Walton."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000000|"No, Captain Everard, I shall not hear from you.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000001|You know you dare not write to me.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000002|I know that of you which, even on the code of the duellist, would justify any gentleman in refusing to meet you.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000003|Stand out of my way!"
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000112_000001|He drew back; and we left the room.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000113_000001|Mrs Oldcastle gave a scream, and sunk fainting on a chair.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000113_000003|Miss Oldcastle would have returned, but I would not permit her.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000114_000000|"No," I said; "she will be better without you.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000114_000001|Judy, ring the bell for Sarah."
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000115_000001|Then assuming the heroic, she added, "From this moment she is no daughter of mine.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000117_000001|The moon was shining from the edge of a vaporous mountain, which gradually drew away from her, leaving her alone in the midst of a lake of blue.
train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000117_000002|But we had not gone many paces from the house when Miss Oldcastle began to tremble violently, and could scarcely get along with all the help I could give her.
train-clean-360/8855/302395/8855_302395_000013_000000|Being the doggerel Itinerary of a Holiday in September, nineteen o eight
train-clean-360/8855/302395/8855_302395_000018_000001|Where, oh! where?
train-clean-360/8855/302395/8855_302395_000020_000000|When in other lands I roam And sing "There is no place like home." In this respect I must confess That no place has its ugliness. Here on my mother's granite breast We settled down and took our rest. On Saturday we ventured forth To push our journey to the North.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000004_000001|He had always suspected that Julius was in some way connected with the crime, although he had not thought him personally guilty.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000005_000001|"The whole thing was a plant.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000005_000006|What's to be done next?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000006_000003|It was difficult to know why Beryl should pay a visit to an avowed enemy.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000006_000004|But Julius soon explained the reason for his call.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000008_000000|"I am not your legal adviser," said Durham, quickly.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000009_000000|"You are Bernard's."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000012_000001|"Bernard is supposed to be dead."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000016_000001|"Why did you not stop him?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000017_000001|He walked on the other side of the street, and before I could cross over, which was difficult on account of the traffic, Bernard disappeared.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000017_000003|Now I am."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000018_000000|"Indeed?" said Durham, with a qualm, for he fancied Julius might have learned of Gore's whereabouts.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000019_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000020_000000|It was on the tip of Durham's tongue to say that no doubt Jerry had been placed as a spy at the Bower, but he suppressed this remark.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000020_000002|He thought it would be best to give the man rope enough to hang himself.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000023_000001|Miss Plantagenet-as I knew she would,--denied that he was there; but afterwards, when I threatened to bring the police on to the scene, she gave way and let me see Bernard."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000024_000000|"You are sure, then, that Bernard committed the crime?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000025_000001|"Let us understand one another clearly.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000027_000000|"Bernard answered it for you.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000028_000001|He wondered if Julius really believed the man at the Bower to be Bernard Gore, or if he was trying to learn what he-Durham-thought himself.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000028_000004|"Yes," he said at length, throwing down his pen and taking up a position on the hearth rug.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000029_000000|"Why did you not tell me?" asked Julius, sharply.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000030_000000|Durham shrugged his shoulders.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000030_000003|To assist you to arrest him?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000033_000002|His death is only a question of days.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000033_000003|Mind you"--Julius wagged his finger again-"I really believe he killed Sir Simon, but as he is dying, why, I shall do nothing.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000033_000004|I am not a vindictive man.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000036_000002|Durham was perplexed, and wondered what Julius was driving at, and how much he knew.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000036_000003|A clue came with the next words.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000037_000000|"And being friends with Bernard," went on Beryl, "he is sorry that we quarrelled.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000038_000003|However, Durham kept his temper under, and pretended to believe that Julius was speaking in all good faith.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000040_000000|"No," said Durham, returning to his seat.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000040_000001|"If Gore wishes to make a will, I suppose I am the man to draw it up.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000041_000000|"I have them with me," said Julius, bringing out a sealed letter.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000042_000003|The rest of the estate, real and personal, went to Julius Beryl.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000042_000004|Durham smiled inwardly as he read this document.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000042_000005|It was exactly the kind of will Julius wanted. Michael was simply his instrument, and Durham shrewdly suspected that from some knowledge of the forged check Beryl had obtained this extraordinary influence.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000045_000000|"Then mrs Gilroy," said Durham, pretending ignorance.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000046_000000|"I can't say.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000046_000001|Bernard will probably tell you himself.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000047_000000|For the sake of appearances Durham went on making objections.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000049_000000|Durham, for the sake of keeping up the deception, had to shake hands, although he loathed himself for doing so.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000050_000001|"And how confoundedly clever.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000050_000002|Of course, if the real Bernard were dead this will might stand.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000051_000000|However, Durham, true to his appointment, arrived at the station the next day and had the will in his pocket.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000051_000004|In it Durham told the whole of Beryl's scheme to get possession of the property.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000051_000007|But the letter prepared the minds of both ladies for the execution of the will.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000053_000000|Durham looked hard at the young scoundrel who was such a worthy instrument of Beryl's.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000053_000001|He would have liked to examine him then and there touching his luring of Bernard to Crimea Square, but the present moment was not propitious, so he passed on.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000053_000002|Julius, however, in a most benevolent way spoke to the boy-"I hope you are giving your good mistress satisfaction?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000054_000000|"Oh yes, sir.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000061_000001|It was a very pretty comedy, but Durham was not to be taken in.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000062_000002|Durham guessed this and touched her hand.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000062_000004|As for Miss Berengaria, that indomitable old lady never turned a hair.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000063_000000|"So poor Bernard is going to make his will," she said briskly.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000063_000001|"I hope he has left Alice something."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000065_000000|"Indeed, mr Durham; and why to mrs Gilroy?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000066_000002|I hope, however, she will reappear to claim her legacy."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000069_000000|Julius shook his head.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000069_000001|"dr Payne assures me he cannot live.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000069_000002|I am glad he has decided to make this will."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000070_000000|"Yes, you would be," said Miss Berengaria ironically, and she might have been rash enough to say more, but that Durham intervened.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000071_000000|"I hope none of the servants know that Bernard is here?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000072_000000|"They all know by this time," said Miss Berengaria, calmly.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000072_000001|"We kept the matter from them as long as possible; and with Alice I waited on Bernard myself.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000072_000002|But Jerry told the servants as well as mr Beryl."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000073_000001|"I don't want Bernard arrested."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000076_000001|"I don't approve of having boys with long tongues in my house.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000076_000002|Jerry had no right to be hanging round the garden when Bernard arrived, much less to write and tell you that he was here."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000078_000000|"I daresay you are," said the old dame, "to see Bernard hanged."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000079_000001|"I wish him to die in peace."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000080_000001|"Well," she added sharply, "are we to go upstairs and witness this will?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000081_000000|"Yes!
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000081_000003|But you, Miss Plantagenet, and----"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000082_000000|"And yourself?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000083_000000|"no
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000083_000001|I am the executor."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000085_000002|I shall stay here.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000086_000001|"You go up with mr Durham, aunt."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000087_000000|"Come along then," said Miss Berengaria, hastening out of the room; "the sooner this is over the better.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000088_000001|At the foot of this stair she stopped.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000089_000001|I wish Julius Beryl to commit himself beyond recall."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000090_000000|"What will you do then?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000091_000000|"I can't say.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000091_000001|One thing at a time.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000092_000000|"Yes," said Miss Berengaria, climbing the stairs with a briskness surprising in a woman of her years, "something will happen.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000092_000001|This poor foresworn wretch upstairs will die."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000000|"I know I did.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000001|I could help him back to life with careful nursing, and I wish to do so, since I think there is good in the rascal.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000002|But Beryl, having had the will made, will-kill him.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000003|Yes," added she, nodding, "there will be a repetition of the crime.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000004|I believe Beryl himself killed Simon-the old-no, he is dead.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000005|Let us be just."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000096_000002|"And if he tries anything of that sort on," thought Durham, "I'll have him arrested at once for the first murder.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000097_000000|The young man lying in bed was very weak.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000097_000002|He looked haggard and anxious, and started up when the door opened.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000097_000004|"We have come about the will."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000098_000000|Michael raised himself on his elbow.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000098_000001|"Have you got it?" he asked.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000099_000000|"Yes," said Durham, producing the document.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000099_000001|"Miss Plantagenet, will you please call up your maid to witness it?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000100_000003|The whole deception was cleverly carried out.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000103_000005|Then Durham put the will into an envelope and prepared to go down.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000103_000006|Michael stopped him.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000104_000000|"Mark," he said, using the name Bernard usually called the lawyer by, "don't you think I am looking better?"
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000107_000000|"I hope not.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000107_000001|With nursing you may get better."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000108_000000|Michael's face assumed an expression of terror.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000108_000001|"I won't die," he moaned, sinking back.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000109_000001|You will get well."
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000110_000002|I daresay he will disappear.
train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000111_000001|"Beryl will now murder this poor reptile, and take all the money to himself."
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000007_000006|This brings the exploration of the Pacific down to eighteen o six.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000008_000000|Take a look at the map!
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000008_000001|Mackenzie had crossed overland from the Peace river to Bella Coola.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000008_000005|He had ascended that same Parsnip river, which Mackenzie had found so appalling, to a little emerald lake set like a jewel in the mountains.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000001|john Stuart accompanied Fraser as lieutenant.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000005|They thought the white men in smoking were emitting spirits with each breath.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000006|When the traders offered soap to the squaws, the women at once began to devour it.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000008|History does not record whether the women became as addicted to soap as the men to the fragrant weed.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000010_000004|It was four or five miles wide, and was gemmed with green islets; and all round, appearing through the clouds in jagged outline, were the opal summits of the snowy peaks.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000010_000005|No wonder the two Scotsmen named the new inland empire New Caledonia-after their native land.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000011_000001|This was forty miles south of Stuart Lake, at the headwaters of the Nechaco, the north fork of the Fraser.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000011_000003|Again a fort was erected and named Fort Fraser, making three forts in the interior of New Caledonia.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000012_000000|Fraser had sent a request to the directors of the north-west Company to be permitted to fit out an expedition down the great river, which he thought was the Columbia; and in the spring of eighteen o seven two canoes under Jules Quesnel were sent out with goods.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000012_000003|Fraser went down the river and strengthened British possession by building a fourth fort-Fort George at the mouth of the Nechaco.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000014_000002|On the third day they passed Mackenzie's farthest south-the site of the present Alexandria.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000014_000003|Below this the river was unexplored and unknown.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000014_000005|In sublime unconsciousness of heroism Fraser records:
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000001|I ordered the five best men of the crews into a canoe lightly loaded; and in a moment it was under way.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000005|To continue by water would be certain destruction.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000007|The bank was high and steep.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000010|However, we cleared the bank before dark.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000000|Indians warned the white men to desist from their undertaking.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000001|Better, they advised, go overland eastward to a great peaceful river and descend that to the sea.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000002|Fraser, of course, did not know that the peaceful river they spoke of was really the Columbia.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000003|He thought the river he was following was the Columbia.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000007|Beyond it several minor rapids were passed without difficulty; and then they came upon a series of great whirlpools which seemed impassable.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000008|But the men unloaded the canoes and-'a desperate undertaking'--ran them down the rapids with light ballast.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000009|They then came back overland for the packs.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000000|This task [says Fraser] was as dangerous as going by water.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000001|The men passed and repassed a declivity, on loose stones and gravel, which constantly gave way under foot.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000002|One man, who lost the path, got in a most intricate and perilous position.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000004|I crawled, not without great risk, to his assistance, and saved his life by cutting his pack so [that] it dropped back in the river.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000019_000003|Thus skimming along as fast as lightning, the crews, cool and determined, followed each other in awful silence; and when we arrived at the end, we stood gazing at each other in silent congratulation on our narrow escape from total destruction.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000000|The natives here warned Fraser that it would be madness to go forward. At the same time they furnished him with a guide.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000005|The Indians declared that the sea lay only ten 'sleeps' distant.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000006|One of the chiefs said that he had himself seen white men, who were great 'tyees,' because 'they were well dressed and very proud and went about this way'--clapping his hands to his hips and strutting about with an air of vast importance. The Indians told Fraser of another great river that came in from the east and joined this one some distance below.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000011|The voyageurs again embarked, and swept down the narrow bends of the turbulent floods at what are now Lytton, Yale, and Hope.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000022_000000|The return journey was fraught with danger.
train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000022_000005|Then he forced each voyageur to swear on the Cross: 'I do solemnly swear that I will sooner perish than forsake in distress any of our crew during the present voyage.' With renewed self respect they then paddled off, singing voyageurs' songs to keep up their courage. Imagine, for a moment, the scene!
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000000_000003|Strange that the Spaniards should look on complaisantly while English traders from China-Meares and Hanna and Barkley and Douglas-were taking possession of Nootka.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000000_000004|The answer came unexpectedly.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000002_000001|Some of the names, however, were afterwards changed.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000002_000002|What is to day known as Esquimalt, Quimper called Valdes, and Victoria he named Cordoba.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000003_000004|Loop holes punctured the palisades of the fort, and cannon were above the gates.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000003_000008|On the morning of the twentieth the woods were seen to be alive with Indians.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000004_000002|Let us leave him for the present stealing furtively along the coast from Cape Flattery to Cape Disappointment.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000000|It was the spring of seventeen ninety two.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000004|It was a new river, with wonderful purple water-the purple of river silt blending with ocean blue.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000010|The ragged starveling crew of Pilot Narvaez had found what are now known as Burrard Inlet, Vancouver City, Point Grey, Shaughnessy Heights, and the Fraser River.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000013|Narvaez himself lay almost unconscious in his berth.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000006_000004|Yet they sang as they sailed their rickety death traps, and they laughed as they rowed; and when the tide rip caught them, they sank without a cry to any but the Virgin.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000006_000006|First were the Spaniards at every harbour gate; and yet to day, of all their deep-sea findings on that coast, not a rod, not a foot, does Spain own.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000006_000008|But if actual accomplishments count, these pilots with their ragged peon crews, half bloods of Aztec woman and Spanish adventurer, deserve higher rank in the roll of Pacific coast exploration than history has yet accorded them.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000000|England, it may be believed, did not calmly submit to seeing the ships and forts of her traders seized at Nootka.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000004|And as mistress of the seas, she could not tolerate as much as the seizure of a fishing smack.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000005|For some time there were mutterings of war, but at length diplomacy prevailed. England demanded, among other things, the restoration of the buildings and the land, and full reparation for all losses.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000008|This expedition was commanded by Captain George Vancouver, who had been on the Pacific with Cook.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000013|The American told an astounding story.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000014|He had found Bruno Heceta's River of the West.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000015|Vancouver refused to credit the news; yet there was the ship's log; there were the details-landmarks, soundings, anchorages for twenty miles up the Columbia from its mouth.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000016|Gray had, indeed, been up the river, and had crossed the bar and come out on the Pacific again.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000008_000003|In June the explorers passed up the Strait of Georgia.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000010_000002|Vancouver found the Spaniards occupying a fort on an island at the mouth of the harbour. On the main shore stood the Indian village of Chief Maquinna.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000010_000006|Spanish cannon thundered a welcome that shook the hills, and English guns made answer.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000010_000012|Don Quadra held that he had been instructed to relinquish only the land on which the fort stood-according to Vancouver, 'but little more than one hundred yards in extent any way.' No understanding could be arrived at, and Quadra at the end of September took his departure for Monterey, leaving Vancouver to follow a few days later.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000011_000000|Vancouver was anxious to be off on further exploration.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000011_000002|He spent most of October exploring this river.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000011_000003|Explorers in that day, as in this, were not fair judges of each other's feats.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000012_000000|Vancouver then visited the presidio at San Francisco, and thence proceeded to Monterey, where Quadra awaited him.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000012_000001|His lieutenant, Broughton, who had been in charge of the boats that explored the Columbia, here left him and accompanied Quadra to San Blas, whence he went overland to the Atlantic and sailed for England, bearing dispatches to the government.
train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000012_000003|Portland Canal, Jervis Inlet, Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, Lynn Canal-all were traced to head waters by Vancouver.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000000_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000001_000000|JEALOUSY.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000002_000000|At the close of the game there was another boy on the field who was quite as glum and downcast as Hooker himself.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000002_000001|This was Phil Springer, who remained seated on the bench while his team mates and a portion of the enthusiastic crowd swarmed, cheering, around Grant and lifted him to their shoulders.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000003_000000|Presently he realized that this behavior on his part must attract attention the moment the excitement relaxed, and he got up with the intention of hurrying at once to the gymnasium.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000003_000001|Barely had he started, however, when something brought him to a halt, and beneath his breath he muttered:
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000004_000000|"That won't do.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000005_000000|He was jealous-bitterly so; but he forced himself to join the cheering crowd and to make a half hearted pretense of rejoicing.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000005_000002|For Phil had long entertained the ambition of becoming the first pitcher on the academy nine, and this year he had been fully confident until the present hour that the goal he sought was his beyond dispute.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000007_000000|So many persons wished to shake hands with Rodney Grant that he laughingly protested, saying they would put his "wing out of commission." Suddenly perceiving Phil, the Texan pushed aside those between them, sprang forward and placed a hand on Springer's shoulder, crying:
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000000|"Here's my mentor.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000001|Only for him, I'd never been able to do it.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000002|I owe what little I know about pitching to Springer.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000003|Let's give him a cheer, fellows."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000009_000000|They did so, but that cheer lacked the spontaneous enthusiasm and genuine admiration which had been thrown into the cheering for Grant, something which Springer did not fail to note.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000010_000000|"Oh, thanks," said Phil, weakly returning the warm grasp of Rod's strong hand.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000010_000001|"I didn't do anything-except blow up."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000011_000000|Under cover of the chatter, joking and laughter, while they were changing their clothes in the dressing room of the gymnasium, Grant, observing the dejection Springer could not hide to save himself, again uttered some friendly words of encouragement.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000012_000000|"Don't you feel so bad about it, old partner," he said.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000012_000001|"The best professional pitchers in the business get their bumps sometimes, and I might have got mine, all right, if I'd started the game on the slab, as you did.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000012_000002|You'll make up for that next time."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000013_000000|"You're very kind, Grant," was Springer's only response.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000000|Phil got away from the others as soon as he could, and hurried home to brood over it.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000001|It had been a hard blow, and he had stood up poorly beneath it.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000002|Thinking the matter over in solitude, he was forced into a realization of the fact that he lacked, in a great measure, the confidence and steadiness characteristic of Rodney Grant, and he could not put aside the conviction that it was Grant, the fellow he had coached, who was destined to become the star pitcher of the nine.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000003|In spite of himself, this thought, aided by other unpleasant contemplations, awoke in his heart a sensation of envious resentment toward Rodney.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000004|He was sorry now that he had ever spent his time teaching the Texan to pitch, and it occurred to him that the same amount of coaching and encouragement bestowed upon Hooker would not have resulted in the training of a man to outdo him upon the slab and push him into the background.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000015_000001|When practice time came after school was over, he put on his suit and appeared upon the field, but soon complained that he was not feeling well, and departed.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000016_000002|When he arrived at school, a few minutes before time for the morning session to begin, Grant was waiting for him.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000017_000000|"What became of you after breakfast, partner?" questioned Rod.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000017_000001|"I piked over to your ranch looking for you, but you had disappeared. Your mother said you were around a few moments before, and she thought you must be somewhere about; all the same, I couldn't find hide or hair of you."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000018_000000|"I-I took a walk," faltered Phil, flushing.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000019_000000|"Got a cold, eh?" said Rodney sympathetically.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000019_000001|"You caught it sitting on the bench during the last four innings of that game, I reckon.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000019_000002|I remember now that you didn't even put on your sweater."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000020_000000|"Yes, I guess that's when I got it," agreed Phil.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000021_000000|"Well, you've got to shake it in time for the game with Clearport. That's when you'll even things up."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000022_000000|All that day Springer sought to avoid talking baseball with any of the fellows, for invariably they spoke of Grant's surprisingly successful performance; and when they did so something like a sickening poison seemed to bubble within the jealous youth, who told himself that he could not long continue to join in this praise, but must soon betray himself by bursting forth into a tirade against the Texan.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000022_000001|In a measure he did relieve his feelings by expressing his opinion of Herbert Rackliff, who was brazenly seeking to ignore the open disdain of his schoolmates.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000022_000002|He did not come out for practice that night, and Grant explained to the others that Phil was knocked out by a cold, whereupon Cooper chucklingly remarked that he thought it was Barville that had knocked Springer out.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000023_000000|Shortly before dark, Phil, chancing to take a cross cut from Middle Street to High Street, observed Roy Hooker pelting away with a baseball at the white shingle on the barn.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000023_000001|Drawing near, Phil asked Roy what he was doing, and the latter, startled and perspiring, looked round.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000024_000000|"Oh, is it you?" said Roy.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000024_000001|"I thought perhaps it was Rackliff.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000024_000002|I'm practicing a little by my lonesome."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000025_000000|"That's a hard way to practice," said Springer.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000025_000001|"You can't get much good out of that."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000026_000000|"Oh, I don't know.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000026_000001|I'm getting so I can hit that shingle once in a while, and use a curve, too.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000026_000002|I couldn't seem to hit it with a straight ball when I began."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000027_000000|"You haven't given up the idea of pitching?"
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000028_000000|"Not quite.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000028_000001|After watching your performance Saturday-seeing you soak a batter in the ribs, and then hand out free passes enough to force a run-I came to realize what control means.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000028_000002|I'm trying to get it."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000029_000000|Phil felt his face burn.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000029_000001|"Control is necessary," he admitted; "but it isn't everything.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000029_000002|When I put the ball over, they pup pounded it."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000030_000000|"But they wouldn't if it hadn't been for----" Choking, as he realized what he had so nearly said, Hooker bit his tongue.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000030_000001|Then he hastened to make an observation that snapped Springer's self restraint.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000030_000002|"They didn't seem to pound Grant much, and he appeared able to put the ball just about where he wanted to."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000031_000000|"Grant!" snarled Phil furiously.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000031_000002|Grant, Grant, Grant!
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000031_000003|It makes me tired!"
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000001|"It does, does it?
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000002|Well, say, didn't you realize what you were doing while you were coaching that fellow?
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000003|I knew what would happen.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000004|I knew the time would come when you'd be mighty sore with yourself.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000005|I'm going to talk plain to you.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000006|This fellow Grant is practically an outsider; he doesn't belong in Oakdale. He's a presuming cub, too-always pushing himself forward.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000008|You won't be in it hereafter; he'll be the whole show."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000033_000001|"He may get his some time."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000034_000000|"He may, and then again he may not; you can't be sure of it.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000034_000001|If you'd only spent your time with me, I would have been willing to act as second string pitcher, and you would not have been crowded out.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000034_000002|You put your foot in it, all right, old man."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000035_000000|"I suppose I did.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000035_000001|But let's not talk about it.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000035_000002|You weren't at school to day."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000037_000000|"How did that happen?"
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000038_000000|"Working."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000039_000000|"Working?
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000039_000001|How careless!
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000039_000002|I didn't know you ever did such a thing."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000040_000000|"Well," said Roy slowly, "this was a case of necessity, you see."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000043_000000|"Lost it?"
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000044_000000|"Yes; lost it, or-or something," Roy replied stumblingly.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000044_000001|"It wasn't much, but it was all she had.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000044_000002|She'd saved up a little at a time to buy material for a new dress."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000045_000000|"How did she happen to lul lose it?"
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000046_000000|"I can't tell.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000046_000001|She doesn't quite know herself.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000047_000000|"That sounds like a robbery instead of a loss."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000000|"But it couldn't be a robbery," protested Hooker quickly and earnestly. "Nobody would come into the house and take money out of that drawer-nobody around here.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000001|You never hear of such a thing happening around this town.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000002|Perhaps mother mislaid it somewhere.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000003|Anyhow, it's gone, and I'm going to try to earn enough to replace it."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000049_000000|"Well, say, Hooker," exclaimed Phil, "you're all right!
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000049_000001|I didn't suppose you'd stoop to work, even under such circumstances.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000049_000002|Do you know, lots of times we're liable to misjudge some one until something happens to show us just the sort of a person he is."
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000050_000000|"Yes; I suppose that's right," said Roy.
train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000050_000001|But he did not look Phil in the eyes.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000003_000000|PLAIN TALK FROM ELIOT.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000004_000000|"How's your cold, Phil?"
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000005_000000|It was Eliot who asked the question, and Springer, pausing with one foot on the academy steps, replied:
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000006_000000|"Oh, it's some bub better, I think."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000007_000000|"Glad to hear it," said Roger, slipping his arm through Springer's. "Come on, let's walk over yonder to the fence.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000007_000001|I want to have a little chin with you.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000007_000002|It will be ten minutes yet before school begins."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000008_000000|Together they walked to the fence at the back of the yard, pausing beneath one of the tall old trees which was putting forth tender green leaves.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000008_000001|Leaning against the fence, the captain of the nine faced his companion.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000009_000000|"As a rule," he began, "you've been a great enthusiast over baseball, and I didn't think you'd let a slight cold keep you away from practice. Exercise is one of the best remedies for a cold, if a person takes care of himself when he's through exercising."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000010_000000|"I know that," said Phil, poking his toe into an ant's nest and declining to meet Roger's steady, level gaze; "but, really, I-I was feeling pretty rotten, you know, and I didn't have mum much heart for practice."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000011_000000|"Yes," said the captain, "I'm afraid that was the principal trouble-you didn't have much heart for it.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000011_000001|You lost heart in the game, and you haven't braced up yet.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000011_000002|I hardly thought it of you, Phil; I didn't expect you to play the baby."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000012_000000|"The baby!" exclaimed Springer resentfully.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000000|"Yes; that's just what you've been doing.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000001|I made up my mind to speak plainly to you, and I'm going to do so-for your own good.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000002|You've been sulking, old fellow.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000003|It doesn't pay, Phil; you're hurting yourself far more than any one else."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000014_000000|"I don't think you've got any right to call it sulking," objected Springer in a low tone.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000015_000000|"Is that the reason why you've been giving Rod Grant the cold shoulder?"
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000016_000000|"I haven't been giving him---- What has he said to you, Eliot?
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000017_000000|"Not a word."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000019_000000|"It was apparent to the dullest, Phil.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000019_000001|For some time before that game you and Grant were very chummy; you were nearly always together, so that everybody noticed it.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000020_000000|Weakly Springer sought to protest against this, but stopped in the midst of it, fully comprehending how feeble his words were.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000021_000000|"It's folly, Springer," said Eliot, "sheer childish folly.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000021_000001|We were all sorry to see you get your bumps and lose control, and I don't believe any one was any sorrier than Grant himself; for, somehow, I've come firmly to believe that he's on the square.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000021_000002|He was reluctant about going on to the slab when I called him."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000022_000000|"Perhaps that was because he was afraid he'd get his, too," muttered Springer.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000000|"Now, that isn't generous, and you know it.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000001|If the score had been heavy against us at the time, some fellows might have fancied Grant's reluctance was prompted by fear and a disinclination to shoulder another man's load in the first game he pitched.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000002|I've not sized it up as anything of the sort.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000003|You and he were close friends, and, knowing how you must feel to be batted out, he was loath to go in.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000004|You must realize it was a mighty lucky thing for us that we had a pitcher to take your place.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000005|Barville had you going, Phil, and you couldn't seem to steady down.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000006|Even old stagers get into that condition sometimes when pitching, and it's not an infrequent occurrence that a slabman who is not thought so good steps in and stops the slaughter."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000024_000000|"Every bub body seems to think Grant is pretty good," mumbled Springer.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000025_000000|"He certainly did amazingly well, for which he generously gave you all the credit."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000026_000000|"I suppose he'll be the whole shooting match, now."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000027_000000|"Those words betray you, my boy.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000027_000001|You've been trapped by the green eyed monster.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000028_000000|The color mounted into Phil's cheeks and slowly receded, leaving him pale, and still with downcast eyes.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000028_000001|Eliot went on, steadily and earnestly:
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000000|"We need two pitchers-we must have them if we hope to make a decent showing in the series.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000001|By and by we'll have to play two games a week, and some of those games come so close together that one pitcher alone, unless he has an arm of iron, can't do all the flinging.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000002|You've been wonderfully successful in coaching Grant, and all the time you were training him to relieve you in a measure when the hardest work should come.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000004|But if you continue to sulk, as you have for the past few days, you'll lose the sympathy of your teammates; but you won't hurt Grant-otherwise than his feelings."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000030_000000|"I don't believe it would hurt his feelings a great deal."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000000|Roger was vexed, but he continued to maintain his calm manner.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000001|"You ought to know him better than any one else around here; you ought to know whether he's at all sensitive or not.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000002|I'll tell you honestly, if I were in his place to day, I'd feel it.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000003|Now, I'm your friend, old fellow, and I want you to listen to me and take my advice.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000005|You'll have plenty of chances to show the stuff you're made of."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000032_000000|"I don't suppose the fellows have much confidence in me now."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000033_000001|Unless they're chumps, they know every pitcher has his off days.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000033_000002|There'll be a practice game to night; we'll play against a picked up scrub team.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000033_000003|Now, I want to see you at the field in a suit and ready to do your part."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000034_000000|"All right," agreed Phil.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000035_000001|And Grant, having begun to feel piqued, made no further advances.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000036_000000|At noon that day Roy Hooker returned to school, bringing a written excuse from his mother.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000036_000001|Having a chance to speak privately with Springer, he said:
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000037_000000|"I hear Eliot has expressed his estimation of you and Rod Grant."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000038_000000|Phil started.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000039_000001|"They say Eliot has said Grant will make a better pitcher than you, because you lack heart."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000040_000000|It was a blow below the belt, and, in spite of himself, Phil could not help showing the effect.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000042_000000|Nevertheless, he was so much disturbed that, in spite of his promise to Roger, he was not with the team when it took the field that night for the practice game.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000042_000001|For he himself had vainly sought to put aside the depressing and unnerving conviction that in steadiness, stamina and self confidence, Rodney Grant was his superior; something he had determined never to breathe to any one else, but which the keen judgment of the team captain had found out.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000043_000000|Nevertheless, when he reached home by a roundabout course, and found it impossible to dismiss thoughts of the boys engaged in that practice game, he eventually decided that he was a fool.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000044_000001|It did not take him long to shed his outer clothes and get into a baseball suit.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000045_000000|The game was in the second inning, with the regular team at bat and Hooker pitching for the scrub, which was made up partly of grammar school boys.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000045_000001|Everybody seemed to be watching Roy, and Phil walked on to the field and toward one of the benches without attracting attention.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000046_000000|"Look at Hook!" whooped Chipper Cooper.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000046_000001|"He's actually trying to strike Roger out!"
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000047_000000|Eliot was at bat, and the umpire had just called the second strike on him.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000047_000001|There were no runners on the sacks.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000048_000001|"I guess that's got him puffed up some."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000049_000000|Apparently not at all discomposed by these remarks, Hooker continued steadily about his business, and presently, rousing a shout of surprise, he succeeded in fanning the captain of the nine.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000049_000001|Roger stepped back from the plate, after striking out, and stood there gazing at Roy, with one of his strange, rare smiles.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000050_000000|Crane followed.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000051_000000|A moment later Hooker pulled him handsomely on a wide one, and the first strike was called, Cooper being again awakened to a wondering, whooping state of merriment.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000000|"Look out! look out!" shouted the little fellow.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000001|"He'll get you if you don't.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000002|Who said Hooky couldn't pitch?
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000003|There's more pitch in him than you can find in a big chew of spruce gum."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000053_000000|Crane, setting his teeth, made two fouls, and then sent Chipper into real convulsions by whiffing at a high one which Roy whistled across his shoulders with surprising accuracy.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000000|"You wanted to see it," yelled Cooper.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000001|"You got a look, all right. Oh, say!
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000002|Where did this new Christy Mathewson come from, anyhow?
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000003|Look out for him, Roddy, or he'll add you to his list.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000004|List' to my warning."
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000055_000000|Rodney Grant did not strike out, but, nevertheless, he failed to meet one of Hooker's shoots squarely, and the grammar school shortstop gathered in an easy grounder and threw to first for the third put out.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000056_000000|Roger Eliot lingered to speak a word to Hooker, and Springer, still unnoticed, plainly heard what he said.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000057_000000|"Perhaps we've made a mistake in sizing you up, Roy, old fellow.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000057_000001|It's your work alone that has prevented us from scoring in either of these innings.
train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000057_000002|You've always had speed and curves, but now you seem able to get the pill over.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000001_000000|Part Fourth
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000002_000000|AT SHASTON
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000003_000000|"Whoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before the Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity, let him profess Papist, or Protestant, or what he will, he is no better than a Pharisee."--J.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000007_000000|(as Drayton sang it), was, and is, in itself the city of a dream. Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of South Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions-all now ruthlessly swept away-throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000007_000003|To this fair creation of the great Middle Age the Dissolution was, as historians tell us, the death knell.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000007_000004|With the destruction of the enormous abbey the whole place collapsed in a general ruin: the Martyr's bones met with the fate of the sacred pile that held them, and not a stone is now left to tell where they lie.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000009_000000|It has a unique position on the summit of a steep and imposing scarp, rising on the north, south, and west sides of the borough out of the deep alluvial Vale of Blackmoor, the view from the Castle Green over three counties of verdant pasture-South, Mid, and Nether Wessex-being as sudden a surprise to the unexpectant traveller's eyes as the medicinal air is to his lungs.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000013_000002|In front of the schools, which were extensive and stone built, grew two enormous beeches with smooth mouse coloured trunks, as such trees will only grow on chalk uplands.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000013_000003|Within the mullioned and transomed windows he could see the black, brown, and flaxen crowns of the scholars over the sills, and to pass the time away he walked down to the level terrace where the abbey gardens once had spread, his heart throbbing in spite of him.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000016_000001|The imposed hand was a little one he seemed to know, and he turned.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000017_000000|"Don't stop," said Sue.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000017_000001|"I like it.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000017_000003|They used to play it in the training school."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000018_000001|Play it for me."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000019_000000|"Oh well-I don't mind."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000020_000001|She, like him, was evidently touched-to her own surprise-by the recalled air; and when she had finished, and he moved his hand towards hers, it met his own half-way.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000020_000002|jude grasped it-just as he had done before her marriage.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000023_000000|"I am not that sort-quite."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000024_000000|"Not easily moved?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000025_000000|"I didn't quite mean that."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000028_000000|She played on and suddenly turned round; and by an unpremeditated instinct each clasped the other's hand again.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000029_000001|"I wonder what we both did that for?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000030_000000|"I suppose because we are both alike, as I said before."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000031_000001|Perhaps a little in our feelings."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000032_000000|"And they rule thoughts...
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000033_000000|"What-you know him?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000034_000000|"I went to see him."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000035_000001|Why did you?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000036_000000|"Because we are not alike," he said drily.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000037_000002|It is no trouble to get the kettle and things brought in.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000037_000006|In a new place like these schools there is only your own life to support.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000037_000007|Sit down, and I'll tell Ada to bring the tea things across."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000038_000000|He waited in the light of the stove, the door of which she flung open before going out, and when she returned, followed by the maiden with tea, they sat down by the same light, assisted by the blue rays of a spirit lamp under the brass kettle on the stand.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000039_000000|"This is one of your wedding presents to me," she said, signifying the latter.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000040_000000|"Yes," said jude.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000041_000001|You don't read them in the school I suppose?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000044_000001|"It is quite like the genuine article.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000046_000000|She regarded him curiously.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000047_000000|"Why do you look at me like that?" said jude.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000050_000000|"We won't get on to that now!" she coaxed.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000051_000000|"Yes, perhaps."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000053_000000|"no Don't come!"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000055_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000056_000000|"I didn't know that.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000057_000000|"No, I am not."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000061_000007|Now you must go.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000061_000008|I am sorry my husband is not at home."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000062_000000|"Are you?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000064_000002|"When do you leave here to catch your train, jude?" she asked.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000065_000000|He looked up in some surprise.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000066_000000|"What will you do with yourself for the time?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000068_000002|Stay there."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000069_000000|"Where?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000001|I can talk to you better like this than when you were inside...
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000003|You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear jude.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000004|And a tragic Don Quixote.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000006|Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000072_000005|You must come to the house then."
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000073_000000|"Yes!" said jude.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000073_000001|"When shall it be?"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000000|"To morrow week.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000001|Good bye-good bye!"
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000002|She stretched out her hand and stroked his forehead pitifully-just once.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000003|jude said good bye, and went away into the darkness.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000076_000001|They were entirely in darkness.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000000|A glimmering candlelight shone from a front window, the shutters being yet unclosed.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000001|He could see the interior clearly-the floor sinking a couple of steps below the road without, which had become raised during the centuries since the house was built.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000002|Sue, evidently just come in, was standing with her hat on in this front parlour or sitting room, whose walls were lined with wainscoting of panelled oak reaching from floor to ceiling, the latter being crossed by huge moulded beams only a little way above her head.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000003|The mantelpiece was of the same heavy description, carved with Jacobean pilasters and scroll work.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000079_000001|It was too dark for her to see jude without, but he could see her face distinctly, and there was an unmistakable tearfulness about the dark, long lashed eyes.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000080_000001|"Whose photograph was she looking at?" he said.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000080_000002|He had once given her his; but she had others, he knew.
train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000081_000001|But he could not.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000002_000000|However, if God disposed not, woman did.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000005_000003|He replied:
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000006_000000|I acquiesce.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000006_000001|You are right.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000007_000000|jude.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000009_000001|Come at once.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000010_000000|He threw down his tools and went.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000010_000002|"I can see in his face that she is dead," said jude.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000010_000003|"Poor Aunt Drusilla!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000013_000002|He wrote in the briefest terms:
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000014_000000|Aunt Drusilla is dead, having been taken almost suddenly. The funeral is on Friday afternoon.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000015_000001|She had not written, and that seemed to signify rather that she would come than that she would not.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000017_000001|And so-at the last moment-I came."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000022_000000|"Yes. Particularly for members of our family."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000026_000000|Sue was silent.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000029_000000|"Yes, I suppose.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000030_000000|"But even apart from that?
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000031_000000|jude threw a troubled look at her.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000031_000001|He said, looking away: "It would be just one of those cases in which my experiences go contrary to my dogmas.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000031_000004|Sue, I believe you are not happy!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000033_000000|"'Chose freely!'"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000034_000001|But I have to go back by the six o'clock train.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000035_000001|This house is gone now. Shall I go to the train with you?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000036_000001|"I think not.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000036_000002|You may come part of the way."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000037_000000|"But stop-you can't go to night!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000037_000002|You must stay and go back to morrow.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000038_000000|"Very well," she said dubiously.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000041_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000041_000001|Why?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000042_000000|"I can't tell you all my part of the gloom.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000042_000001|Your part is that you ought not to have married him.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000042_000003|I was wrong.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000045_000000|Her hand lay on the table, and jude put his upon it.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000047_000002|There, you may hold it as much as you like.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000047_000003|Is that good of me?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000048_000000|"Yes; very."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000049_000000|"But I must tell him."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000051_000000|"Richard."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000055_000000|"That's news.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000055_000001|How has it come to be?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000057_000000|She winced at the hit; then said curiously, "When did you see her?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000058_000000|"When I was at Christminster."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000059_000000|"So she's come back; and you never told me!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000060_000000|"Of course-just as you live with your husband."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000061_000001|"What is it?" said jude, in a softened tone.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000062_000001|Of course it is not now!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000063_000000|"A special Providence, I suppose, helped it on its way."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000064_000001|"You are teasing me-that's all-because you think I am not happy!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000066_000002|Do you think, jude, that a man ought to marry a woman his own age, or one younger than himself-eighteen years-as I am than he?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000071_000000|jude could hardly speak, but he said, "I thought there was something wrong, Sue!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000072_000006|Don't-don't!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000074_000000|"I told you not to, jude!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000076_000001|jude did not follow her.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000077_000000|In the lonely room of his aunt's house, jude sat watching the cottage of the Widow Edlin as it disappeared behind the night shade. He knew that Sue was sitting within its walls equally lonely and disheartened; and again questioned his devotional motto that all was for the best.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000078_000002|It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000078_000003|As was the little creature's habit, it did not soon repeat its cry; and probably would not do so more than once or twice; but would remain bearing its torture till the morrow when the trapper would come and knock it on the head.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000080_000002|He reached the hedge bordering the widow's garden, when he stood still.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000080_000003|The faint click of the trap as dragged about by the writhing animal guided him now, and reaching the spot he struck the rabbit on the back of the neck with the side of his palm, and it stretched itself out dead.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000081_000001|"It is you-is it not?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000082_000000|"Yes, dear!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000083_000002|They ought not to be allowed to set these steel traps, ought they!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000085_000000|"Did it keep you awake?" he said.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000086_000000|"No-I was awake."
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000087_000000|"How was that?"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000090_000000|"I knew it-I knew it!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000090_000002|But-I am SO GLAD to see you!--and, oh, I didn't mean to see you again, now the last tie between us, Aunt Drusilla, is dead!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000091_000000|jude seized her hand and kissed it.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000091_000001|"There is a stronger one left!" he said.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000091_000003|Let them go!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000092_000000|"Don't say it!--I know what you mean; but I can't admit so much as that.
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000092_000001|There!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000092_000002|Guess what you like, but don't press me to answer questions!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000093_000000|"I wish you were happy, whatever I may be!"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000094_000000|"I CAN'T be!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000094_000005|And I MUST tell somebody!
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000094_000009|So I rushed on, when I had got into that training school scrape, with all the cock sureness of the fool that I was! ...
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000095_000001|How I wish-I wish-"
train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000096_000000|"You must go in now!"
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000033_000000|"Well?"
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000047_000000|"There!
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000050_000003|I found the tenant.
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000051_000007|Night arrived; I allowed it to become quite dark.
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000054_000002|I went to work.
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000079_000002|They traced her to Chalons, and there they lost her."
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000080_000000|"They lost her?"
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000081_000001|"And this is all?" said she; "and you stopped there?"
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000085_000000|"no"
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000089_000000|"Yes, doubtless."
train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000094_000001|Do you keep a journal?"
train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000006_000001|So she took them to him and asked him to keep them till her child was born; and no one was present at the time but the headman's wife.
train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000006_000004|You must have had witnesses in such a business." And they drove her out.
train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000008_000002|Then the headman was dumbfounded and reluctantly brought out five gold pieces and gave them to the woman.
train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000010_000001|On the way he met a man who asked him where he was going and he answered that he was going to make a petition to Singh Chando.
train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000010_000002|"Then," said the man, "make a petition for me also.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000014_000000|THE 'ARGONAUTS'
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000000|Early in eighteen forty nine the sleepy quiet of Victoria, Vancouver Island, was disturbed by the arrival of straggling groups of ragged nondescript wanderers, who were neither trappers nor settlers.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000001|They carried blanket packs on their backs and leather bags belted securely round the waist close to their pistols.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000002|They did not wear moccasins after the fashion of trappers, but heavy, knee high, hobnailed boots.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000003|In place of guns over their shoulders, they had picks and hammers and such stout sticks as mountaineers use in climbing.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000004|They did not forgather with the Indians.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000005|They shunned the Indians and had little to say to any one.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000006|They volunteered little information as to whence they had come or whither they were going.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000007|They sought out Roderick Finlayson, chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000010|They unstrapped those little leather bags round under their cartridge belts and produced in tiny gold nuggets the price of what they had bought.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000000|Finlayson did not know exactly what to do.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000002|The miner, wherever he went, sounded the knell of fur trading; and the trapper did not like to have his game preserve overrun by fellows who scared off all animals from traps, set fire going to clear away underbrush, and owned responsibility to no authority.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000003|No doubt these men were 'argonauts' drifted up from the gold diggings of California; no doubt they were searching for new mines; but who had ever heard of gold in Vancouver Island, or in New Caledonia, as the mainland was named?
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000004|If there had been gold, would not the company have found it?
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000000|He handled their nuggets doubtfully.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000001|Who knew for a certainty that it was gold anyhow?
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000003|Finlayson, smiling sceptically, did as he was told.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000004|The nuggets flattened to a yellow leaf as fine and flexible as silk.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000006|It proved sixteen dollars to the ounce.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000001|Many of the company's servants drifted away to California in the wake of the 'Forty Niners,' and the company found it hard to keep its trappers from deserting all up and down the Pacific Coast.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000002|The quest for gold had become a sort of yellow fever madness.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000003|Men flung certainty to the winds and trekked recklessly to California, to Oregon, to the hinterland of the country round Colville and Okanagan.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000004|Yet nothing occurred to cause any excitement in Victoria.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000006|But the nugget was an isolated freak; the quartz could not be worked at a profit; and the movement suddenly died out.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000009|Though Maclean, the chief factor at Kamloops, kept all the specks and flakes brought to his post as samples from eighteen fifty two to eighteen fifty six, he had less than would fill a half pint bottle.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000010|If a half pint is counted as a half pound and the gold at the company's price of eleven dollars an ounce, it will be seen why four years of such discoveries did not set Victoria on fire.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000019_000000|It has been so with every discovery of gold in the history of the world.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000020_000000|Victoria went to sleep again.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000020_000001|When men drifted in to trade dust and nuggets for picks and flour, the fur traders smiled, and rightly surmised that the California diggings were playing out.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000021_000001|He was assisted in the administration by a council of three, nominated by himself-john Tod, james Cooper, and Roderick Finlayson.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000000|Because California and Oregon had gone American, some small British warships lay at Esquimalt harbour.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000001|The little fort had expanded beyond the stockade.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000002|The governor's house was to the east of the stockade.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000003|A new church had been built, and the Rev.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000004|Edward Cridge, afterwards known as Bishop Cridge, was the rector.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000006|Inside the fort were perhaps forty five employees.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000007|Inside and outside lived some eight hundred people.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000008|But grass grew in the roads.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000010|Three hundred acres about the fort were worked by the company as a farm, which gave employment to about two dozen workmen, and on which were perhaps a hundred cattle and a score of brood mares.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000011|The company also had a saw mill.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000012|Buildings of huge, squared timbers flanked three sides of the inner stockades-the dining hall, the cook house, the bunk house, the store, the trader's house.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000013|There were two bastions, and from each cannon pointed.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000016|The fort was sound asleep, secure in an eternal certainty that the domain which it guarded would never be overrun by American settlers as California and Oregon had been.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000017|The little Admiralty cruisers which lay at Esquimalt were guarantee that New Caledonia should never be stampeded into a republic by an inrush of aliens.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000018|Then, as now, it was Victoria's boast that it was more English than England.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000000|Then, in march eighteen fifty eight, just when Victoria felt most secure as the capital of a perpetual fur realm, something happened.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000002|The Hudson's Bay men had thought nothing of this. Other treasure seekers had come to New Caledonia before and had gone back to San Francisco disappointed.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000004|And with them came a mad rabble of gold crazy prospectors.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000005|A city of tents sprang up overnight round Victoria.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000006|The smithy was besieged for picks, for shovels, for iron ladles.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000007|Men stood in long lines for their turn at the trading store.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000008|By canoe, by dugout, by pack horse, and on foot, they planned to ascend the Fraser, and they mobbed the company for passage to Langley by the first steamer out from Victoria.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000009|Goods were paid for in cash.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000010|Before Finlayson could believe his own eyes, he had two million dollars in his safe, some of it for purchases, some of it on deposit for safe keeping. Though the company gave no guarantee to the depositors and simply sealed each man's leather pouch as it was placed in the safe, no complaint was ever made against it of dishonesty or unfair treatment.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000000|Without waiting instructions from England and with poignant memory of Oregon, Governor Douglas at once clapped on a licence of twenty one shillings a month for mining privileges under the British crown.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000001|Thus he obtained a rough registration of the men going to the up country; but thousands passed Victoria altogether and went in by pack train from Okanagan or rafted across from Puget Sound.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000003|Another boat load of eight hundred and fifty came in April.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000004|In four months sixty seven vessels, carrying from a hundred to a thousand men each, had come up from San Francisco to Victoria.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000005|Crews deserted their ships, clerks deserted the company, trappers turned miners and took to the gold bars.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000006|Before Victoria awoke to what it was all about, twenty thousand people were camped under tents outside the stockade, and the air was full of the wildest rumours of fabulous gold finds.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000026_000001|In the spring the Fraser rolled to the sea a swollen flood.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000026_000002|Against the turbid current worked tipsy rafts towed by wheezy steamers or leaky old sailing craft, and rickety row boats raced cockle shell canoes for the gold bars above.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000026_000003|Ashore, the banks of the river were lined with foot passengers toiling under heavy packs, wagons to which clung human forms on every foot of space, and long rows of pack horses bogged in the flood of the overflowing river.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000001|Victoria was a ten hour trip from the mainland.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000002|Whatcom and Townsend, on the American side, advertised the advantages of the Washington route to the Fraser river gold mines.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000003|A mushroom boom in town lots had sprung up at these points before Victoria was well awake.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000004|By the time speculators reached Victoria the best lots in that place had already been bought by the company's men; and some of the substantial fortunes of Victoria date from this period.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000005|Though the river was so high that the richest bars could not be worked till late in August, five hundred thousand dollars in gold was taken from the bed of the Fraser during the first six months of 'fifty eight.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000006|This amount, divided among the ten thousand men who were on the bars around Yale, would not average as much as they could have earned as junior clerks with the fur company, or as peanut pedlars in San Francisco; but not so does the mind of the miner work.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000008|Later these tolls were disallowed by the home authorities.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000009|The prompt action of Douglas, however, had the effect of keeping the mining movement in hand.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000010|Though the miners were of the same class as the 'argonauts' of California, they never broke into the lawlessness that compelled vigilance committees in San Francisco.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000029_000000|Judge Howay gives the letter of a treasure seeker who reached the Fraser in April, the substance of which is as follows:
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000001|About a fourth of the canoes that attempt to come up are lost in the rapids which extend from Fort Yale nearly to the Forks.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000002|A few days ago six men were drowned by their canoe upsetting.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000003|There is more danger going down than coming up.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000004|There can be no doubt about this country being immensely rich in gold.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000005|Almost every bar on the river from Yale up will pay from three dollars to seven dollars a day to the man at the present stage of water.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000006|When the river gets low, which will be about August, the bars will pay very well.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000011|We only commenced work yesterday and we are satisfied that when we get fully under way we can make from five dollars to seven dollars a day each.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000012|The prospect is better as we go up the river on the bars.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000013|The gold is not any coarser, but there is more of it.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000014|There are also in that region diggings of coarser gold on small streams that empty into the main river.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000015|A few men have been there and proved the existence of rich diggings by bringing specimens back with them.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000016|The Indians all along the river have gold in their possession that they say they dug themselves, but they will not tell where they get it, nor allow small parties to go up after it.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000018|The Indians above are disposed to be troublesome and went into a camp twenty miles above us and forcibly took provisions and arms from a party of four men and cut two severely with their knives.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000019|They came to our camp the same day and insisted that we should trade with them or leave the country.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000020|We design to remain here until we can get a hundred men together, when we will move up above the falls and do just what we please without regard to the Indians.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000021|We are at present the highest up of any white men on the river, and we must go higher to be satisfied.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000023|There is a pack trail from Hope, but it cannot be travelled till the snow is off the mountains.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000000|The prices of provisions are as follows: flour thirty five dollars per hundred weight, pork a dollar a pound, beans fifty cents a pound, and other things in proportion.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000001|Every party that starts from the Sound should have their own supplies to last them three or four months, and they should bring the largest size chinook canoes, as small ones are very liable to swamp in the rapids.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000002|Each canoe should be provided with thirty fathoms of strong line for towing over swift water, and every man well armed.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000003|The Indians here can beat anything alive stealing. They will soon be able to steal a man's food after he has eaten it.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000033_000000|Within two miles of Yale eighty Indians and thirty white men were working the gold bars; and log boarding houses and saloons sprang up along the river bank as if by magic.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000033_000001|Naturally, the last comers of 'fifty eight were too late to get a place on the gold bars, and they went back to the coast in disgust, calling the gold stampede 'the Fraser River humbug.' Nevertheless, men were washing, sluicing, rocking, and digging gold as far as Lillooet.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000033_000003|That is the hope that draws the prospector from river to stream, from stream to dry gully bed, from dry gully to precipice edge, and often over the edge to death or fortune.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000000|Exactly fifty six years from the first rush of 'fifty eight in the month of April, I sat on the banks of the Fraser at Yale and punted across the rapids in a flat bottomed boat and swirled in and out among the eddies of the famous bars.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000002|Higher up could be seen some Chinamen, but whether they were fishing or washing we could not tell.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000003|Two transcontinental railroads skirted the canyon, one on each side, and the tents of a thousand construction workers stood where once were the camps of the gold seekers banded together for protection.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000004|When we came back across the river an old, old man met us and sat talking to us on the bank.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000005|He had come to the Fraser in that first rush of 'fifty eight.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000006|He had been one of the leaders against the murderous bands of Indians.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000009|'But,' he said, pointing his trembling old hands at the two railways, 'if we prospectors hadn't blazed the trail of the canyon, you wouldn't have your railroads here to day.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000010|They only followed the trail we first cut and then built.
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000011|We followed the "float" up and they followed us.'
train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000035_000000|What the trapper was to the fur trade, the prospector was to the mining era that ushered civilization into the wilds with a blare of dance halls and wine and wassail and greed.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000002_000000|CHAPTER four
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000003_000000|THE OVERLANDERS
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000000|When the Cariboo fever reached the East, the public there had heard neither of the Indian massacres in Oregon nor that the Sioux were on the war path in Dakota.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000001|Promoters who had never set foot west of Buffalo launched wild cat mining companies and parcel express devices and stages by routes that went up sheer walls and crossed unbridged rivers.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000002|To such frauds there could be no certain check; for it took six months to get word in and out of Cariboo.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000003|Eastern papers were full of advertisements of easy routes to the gold diggings.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000005|Far off gold glittered the brighter for the distance. Cariboo became in popular imagination a land where nuggets grew on the side of the road and could be picked by the bushel basket.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000006|Besides, times were so hard in the East that the majority of the youthful adventurers who were caught by the fever had nothing to lose except their lives.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000000|A group of threescore young men from different parts of Canada, from Kingston, Niagara, and Montreal, having noticed advertisements of an easy stage route from saint Paul, set out for the gold diggings in may eighteen sixty two.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000001|Tickets could be purchased in London, England, as well as in Canada, for when these young Canadians reached saint Paul, they found eighteen young men from England, like themselves, diligently searching the whereabouts of the stage route.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000002|That was their first inkling that fraudulent practices were being carried on and that they had been deceived, that there was, in fact, no stage route from saint Paul to Cariboo.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000003|A few of them turned back, but the majority, by ox cart and rickety stagecoach, pushed on to the Red River and went up to a point near the boundary of modern Manitoba, where lay the first steamboat to navigate that river, about to start on her maiden trip.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000001|On the way to the vessel some of the Overlanders had narrowly escaped a massacre.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000002|The story is told that as they slowly made their way in ox carts up the river bank, a band of horsemen swept over the horizon, and the travellers found themselves surrounded by Sioux warriors.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000003|The old plainsman who acted as guide bethought him of a ruse: he hoisted a flag of the Hudson's Bay Company and waved it in the face of the Sioux without speaking.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000004|The painted warriors drew together and conferred.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000005|The oxen stood complacently chewing the cud. Indians never molested British fur traders.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000006|Presently the raiders went off over the horizon as swiftly as they had come, and the gold seekers drove on, little realizing the fate from which they had been delivered.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000000|There had been heavy rains that spring on the prairie, and trees came jouncing down the muddy flood of the Red River.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000003|But everybody was jubilant.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000004|This was the first navigation of the Red River by steam.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000005|The Queen's Birthday, the twenty fourth of May, was celebrated on board the vessel pottle deep to the tune of the bagpipes played by the governor's Scottish piper.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000000|The arrival of the steamer at Fort Garry (Winnipeg) was celebrated with great rejoicing.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000001|Indians ran along the river bank firing off rifles in welcome, and opposite the flats where the fort gate opened, on what is now Main Street, the company's men came out and fired a royal salute. The people bound for Cariboo camped on the flats outside Fort Garry. Here was a strange world indeed.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000002|Two wheeled ox carts, made wholly of wood, without iron or bolt, wound up to the fort from saint Paul in processions a mile long, with fat squaws and whole Indian families sitting squat inside the crib like structure of the cart.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000004|Only a few stores stood along what is now Main Street, which ran northward towards the Selkirk Settlement.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000005|With the Indians, who were camped everywhere in the woods along the Assiniboine, the Overlanders began to barter for carts, oxen, ponies, and dried deer meat or pemmican.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000006|An ox and cart cost from forty to fifty dollars.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000007|Ponies sold at twenty five dollars.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000008|Pemmican cost sixteen cents a pound, and a pair of duffel Hudson's Bay blankets cost eight or ten dollars.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000009|Instead of blankets, many of the travellers bought the cheaper buffalo robes.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000010|These sold as low as a dollar each.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000000|john Black, the Presbyterian 'apostle of the Red River,' preached special sermons on Sunday for the miners.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000001|And on a beautiful June afternoon the Overlanders headed towards the setting sun in a procession of almost a hundred ox carts; and the fort waved them farewell.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000002|One wonders whether, as the last ox cart creaked into the distance, the fur traders realized that the miner heralded the settler, and that the settler would fence off the hunter's game preserve into farms and cities.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000004|The unfenced prairie billowed to the horizon a sea of green, diversified by the sky blue waters of slough and lake, and decked with the hues of gorgeous flowers-the prairie rose, fragrant, tender, elusive, and fragile as the English primrose; the blood red tiger lily; the brown windflower with its corn tassel; the heavy wax cups of the sedgy water lily, growing where wild duck flackered unafraid.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000005|Game was superabundant.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000006|Prairie chickens nestled along the single file trail. Deer bounded from the poplar thickets and shy coyotes barked all night in the offing.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000007|Night in June on the northern prairie is but the shadowy twilight between two long days.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000008|The sun sets between nine and ten, and rises between three and four, and the moonlight is clear enough on cloudless nights for campers to see the time on their watches.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000002|A scout preceded the marchers, and at sundown camp was formed in a big triangle with the carts as a stockade, the animals tethered or hobbled inside.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000003|Tents were pitched outside with six men doing sentry duty all night.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000004|At two in the morning a halloo roused camp.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000005|An hour was permitted for harnessing and breaking camp, and then the carts creaked out in line.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000006|They halted at six for breakfast and marched again at seven.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000008|On Sunday the procession rested and some one read divine service.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000009|The oxen and ponies foraged for themselves.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000010|By limiting camp to five hours, in spite of the slow pace of the oxen, forty to fifty miles a day could be made on a good trail in fair weather.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000011|While the scout led the way, the captain and his lieutenants kept the long procession in line; and the travellers for the most part dozed lazily in their carts, dreaming of the fortunes awaiting them in Cariboo.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000012|Some nights, when the captain permitted a longer halt than usual and when camp fires blazed before the tents, men played the violin and sang and danced.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000014|In the company was one woman, with two children.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000015|She was an Irishwoman; but she bore the name of Shubert, from which we may infer that her husband was not an Irishman.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000001|Another week passed before they arrived at Fort Ellice.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000002|Heavy rains came on now, and james M'Kay, chief trader at Fort Ellice, opened his doors to the gold seekers. Harness and carts repaired and more pemmican bought, the travellers crossed the Qu'Appelle river in a Hudson's Bay scow, paying toll of fifty cents a cart.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000003|From the Qu'Appelle westward the journey grew more arduous.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000006|From Fort Pitt westward the trail crossed a rough, wooded country, and there were no more scows to take the ox carts across the rivers.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000009|Where the trees swerved to the current, some one would swim out and anchor them with ropes till the hundred carts had passed safely to the other side.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000014_000000|It was the twenty first of July when the travellers came out on the high banks of the North Saskatchewan, flowing broad and swift, opposite Fort Edmonton.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000014_000001|There had been floods and all the company's rafts had been carried away.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000000|The arrival of the Overlanders is remembered at Edmonton by some old timers even to this day.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000001|Salvoes of welcome were fired from the fort cannon by a half breed shooting his musket into the touch hole of the big gun.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000002|Concerts were given, with bagpipes, concertinas, flutes, drums, and fiddles, in honour of the far travellers.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000003|Pemmican bags were replenished from the company's stores.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000016_000000|Miners often uttered loud complaints against the charges made by the fur traders for provisions, forgetting what it cost to pack these provisions in by dog train and canoe.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000016_000002|Though the miner did everything to destroy the fur trade-started fires which ravaged the hunter's forest haunts, put up saloons which demoralized the Indians, built wagon roads where aforetime wandered only the shy creatures of the wilds-though the miner heralded the doom of the fur trade-yet with an unvarying courtesy, from Fort Garry to the Rockies, the Hudson's Bay men helped the Overlanders.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000017_000001|A few continued with oxen, and these oxen were to save their lives in the mountains.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000020_000000|'Why?' asked the amused trader.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000020_000001|'Why, now, when the huskies have chewed all you own but your instruments?
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000020_000002|You are locking the stable door after your horse has been stolen.'
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000021_000000|'No,' answered the prospectors.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000021_000001|'If those husky dogs last night could devour all our camp kit without disturbing us, to night they might swallow us before we'd waken.'
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000002|Afterwards many who failed in the mines drifted back to the plains and became farmers.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000003|The same thing had happened in California, and was repeated at a later day in the rush to the Klondike.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000004|Great seams of coal, too, were seen projecting from the banks of the Saskatchewan.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000006|Later, when these belated Overlanders decided to follow on to Cariboo, they suffered terrible hardships.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000000|The Overlanders were to enter the Rockies by the Yellowhead Pass, which had been discovered long ago by Jasper Hawse, of the Hudson's Bay Company.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000001|This section of their trail is visible to the modern traveller from the windows of a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway train, just as the lower sections of the Cariboo Trail in the Fraser Canyon are to be seen from the trains of the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000002|First came the fur trader, seeking adventure through these passes, pursuing the little beaver.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000003|The miner came next, fevered to delirium, lured by the siren of an elusive yellow goddess.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000004|The settler came third, prosaic and plodding, but dauntless too.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000005|And then came the railroad, following the trail which had been beaten hard by the stumbling feet of pioneers.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000025_000002|And to the skirl of the bagpipes the procession wound away westward bound for the mountains.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000026_000000|Instead of the thirty miles a day which they had made farther east, the travellers were now glad to cover ten miles a day.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000001|Three times in one day windfall and swamp forced the party to ford the stream for passage on the opposite side.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000002|The oxen swam and the ox carts floated and the packs came up the bank dripping.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000003|For eleven days in August every soul of the company, including Mrs Shubert's babies, travelled wet to the skin.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000004|At night great log fires were kindled and the Overlanders sat round trying to dry themselves out.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000005|Then the trail lifted to the foothills.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000006|And on the evening of the fifteenth of August there pierced through the clouds the snowy, shining, serrated peaks of the Rockies.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000001|Just beyond the shining mountains lay-Fortune.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000002|What cared these argonauts, who had tramped across the width of the continent, that the lofty mountains raised a sheer wall between them and their treasure?
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000003|Cheer on cheer rang from the encampment.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000006|But there were no faint hearts in the camp that night.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000007|Even the Irishwoman's two little children came out and gazed at what they could not understand.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000000|The party now crossed a ravine to the main stream of the Athabaska.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000001|It was necessary to camp here for a week.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000003|To the stern of this was attached a tree, the branch end dipping in the water, as a sweep and rudder to keep the craft to its course.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000004|On this the Overlanders were ferried across the Athabaska.
train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000005|And so they entered the Yellowhead Pass.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000004_000003|Thus, in this work of world-wide celebrity, is the feline race discussed.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000004_000004|I give the author's words as I find them:--
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000005_000000|"The Cat is a faithless domestic, and only kept through necessity to oppose to another domestic which incommodes us still more, and which we cannot drive away; for we pay no respect to those, who, being fond of all beasts, keep Cats for amusement.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000005_000002|They are, naturally, inclined to theft, and the best education only converts them into servile and flattering robbers; for they have the same address, subtlety, and inclination for mischief or rapine.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000006_000001|In his opinion the cat "is a useful but deceitful domestic.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000006_000003|Constantly bent upon theft and rapine, though in a domestic state, it is full of cunning and dissimulation: it conceals all its designs, seizes every opportunity of doing mischief, and then flies from punishment.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000006_000006|In a word, the Cat is totally destitute of friendship."
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000008_000000|"No!
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000002|That they want strength, both of body and instinct, are dependant, and ill educated?
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000003|No! their errors are thrust upon them; they become selfish per force, cowards from their tenacious regard for that personal neatness which they so labour to preserve.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000004|Oh! that all females made such good use of their tongues!
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000007|Suppose they only fawn on us because we house and feed them, they have no nobler proofs of friendship with which to thank us; and if their very gratitude for this self interested hire be adduced as a crime, alas!
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000008|poor Pussies!
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000009|Had Minette been a Thomas, a whiskered fur collared Philander, he would most probably have surmounted that unmanly weakness, and received all favours as but his due.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000010|I never see a mrs Mouser rubbing her soft coat against me, with round upturned eyes, but I translate her purr into words like these:--'I can't swim; I can neither fetch and carry, nor guard the house; I can only love you, mistress; pray accept all I have to offer.'"
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000000|An anonymous writer says: "We may learn some useful lessons from Cats, as indeed, from all animals.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000004|In their delicate walking amidst the fragile articles on a table or mantel piece, is illustrated the tact and discrimination by which we should thread rather than force our way; and, in pursuit of our own ends, avoid the injuring of others.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000005|In their noiseless tread and stealthy movements, we are reminded of the frequent importance of secresy and caution prior to action, while their promptitude at the right moment, warns us, on the other hand, against the evils of irresolution and delay.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000006|The curiosity with which they spy into all places, and the thorough smelling which any new object invariably receives from them, commends to us the pursuit of knowledge, even under difficulties.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000007|Cats, however, will never smell the same thing twice over, thereby showing a retentive as well as an acquiring faculty.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000009|What Cat was ever awkward or clumsy?
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000014|A cat rolled up into a ball, or crouched with its paws folded underneath it, seems an emblem of repose and contentment.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000018|You never get to the bottom of Cats.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000012_000000|Instances are frequent, I am happy to tell Cat haters, of illustrious persons who have been attached to the feline race, and of Cats who have merited such attachment.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000013_000003|It was at Damascus that the incident above related occurred to Mahomet.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000013_000004|His followers in this place ever afterwards paid a great respect to Cats, and supported the hospital in question by public subscriptions with much liberality.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000015_000001|On the bishop requesting one of the chaplains to help the Signora Desdemona, the butler stepped up to his lordship, and observed, 'My lord, La Signora Desdemona will prefer waiting for the roasts.'"
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000000|Gottfried Mind, the celebrated Swiss painter, was called the "Cat Raphael," from the excellence with which he painted that animal.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000001|This peculiar talent was discovered and awakened by chance.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000002|At the time when Frendenberger painted his picture of the "Peasant Clearing Wood," before his cottage, with his wife sitting by, and feeding her child out of a basin, round which a Cat is prowling, Mind, his new pupil, stared very hard at the sketch of this last figure, and Frendenberger asked with a smile whether he thought he could draw a better.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000003|Mind offered to show what he could do, and did draw a Cat, which Frendenberger liked so much that he asked his pupil to elaborate the sketch, and the master copied the scholar's work, for it is Mind's Cat that is engraved in Frendenberger's plate.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000017_000004|It is said that Minette sometimes occupied his lap, while two or three kittens perched on his shoulders; and he was often known to remain for an hour together in almost the same attitude for fear of disturbing them; yet he was generally thought to be a passionate, sour tempered man.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000018_000000|There is a funny story told of Barrett, the painter, another lover of Cats.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000018_000001|He had for pets a Cat and a kitten, its progeny.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000018_000003|Barrett said it was for the Cats to go in and out.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000019_000000|"Why," replied his friend, "would not one do for both?"
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000020_000000|"You silly man," answered the painter, "how could the big Cat get into the little hole?"
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000021_000000|"But," said his friend, "could not the little one go through the big hole?"
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000022_000000|"Dear me," cried Barrett, "so she could; well, I never thought of that."
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000023_000001|How many times have her tender caresses made me forget my troubles, and consoled me in my misfortunes.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000023_000002|My beautiful companion at length perished.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000024_000000|You have heard, of course, of Doctor Johnson's feline favourite, and how it fell ill, and how he, thinking the servants might neglect it, himself turned Cat nurse, and having found out that the invalid had a fancy for oysters, daily administered them to poor Pussy until she had quite recovered.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000024_000002|I dare say now, in that tavern parlour where the lexicographer held forth so ably after sun set, he made but scant allusion to his nursing feats, lest some mad wit might have twitted him upon the subject, for you may be sure that the wits of those days, as of ours, could have been mighty satirical on such a theme.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000025_000002|During Madame Helvetius's last illness, the poor animal never quitted her chamber, and though it was removed after her death, it returned again next morning, and slowly and mournfully paced to and fro in the room, crying piteously all the time. Some days after its mistress's funeral, it was found stretched dead upon her grave, having, it would seem, died of grief.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000027_000000|As a strong instance of attachment, I can quote the case of a she Cat of my own, which always waited for me in the passage when I returned home of an evening, and mounted upon my shoulder to ride upstairs.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000029_000000|The Cat is reproached with treachery and cruelty, but Bigland argues that the artifices which it uses are the particular instincts which the all wise Creator has given it, in conformity with the purposes for which it was designed.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000029_000001|Being destined to prey upon a lively and active animal like the mouse, which possesses so many means of escape, it is requisite that it should be artful; and, indeed, the Cat, when well observed, exhibits the most evident proofs of a particular adaptation to a particular purpose, and the most striking example of a peculiar instinct suited to its destiny.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000030_000001|The fox leaves the legs and hinder parts of a hare or rabbit; the weasel and stoat eat the brains, and nibble about the head, and suck the blood; crows and magpies peck at the eyes; the dog tears his prey to pieces indiscriminately; the Cat always turns the skin inside out like a glove.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000002|There was a story attached to each head.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000003|One Cat was killed in such a wood; another in such a hedge row; some in traps, some shot, some knocked on the head with a stick; but what was most remarkable was the different expression of countenance observable in each individual head.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000004|One had died fighting desperately to the last, and giving up its nine lives inch by inch.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000005|Caught in a trap, it had lingered the night through in dreadful agony, the pain of its entrapped limb causing it to make furious efforts to free itself, each effort but lending another torment to the wound.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000033_000000|A third head belonged to a poor little Puss that had died before it had attained the age of cathood; her young life had been knocked out of her with a stick: her head still retained the kitten's playful look, and there was an appealing expression about it as though it had died quickly, wondering in what it had done wrong.
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000034_000000|I find a writer upon Cats who speaks thus in their praise:--
train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000037_000000|"Authors seem to delight in exaggerating the good qualities of the Dog, while they depreciate those of the Cat; the latter, however, is not less useful, and certainly less mischievous, than the former."
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000006_000002|He is slye and wittie, and seeth so sharpely that he overcommeth darkness of the nighte by the shyninge lyghte of his eyne.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000009_000001|I have noticed this often myself, and have seen them rush about in a half wild state just before windy weather.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000010_000001|This is a question I cannot say I have gone into deeply.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000010_000003|All Cats are fond of warmth.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000010_000007|A Cat's love of the sunshine is well known, and perhaps this story may not be unfamiliar to the reader:--
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000011_000001|The Prince asked for an explanation of this apparent miracle.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000012_000000|"Your Royal Highness," said Fox, "chose, of course, the shady side of the way as most agreeable.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000012_000001|I knew that the sunny side would be left for me, and that Cats prefer the sunshine."
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000013_000000|Cats usually, but not always, fall on their feet, because of the facility with which they balance themselves when springing from a height, which power of balancing is in some degree produced by the flexibility of the heel, the bones of which have no fewer than four joints.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000013_000001|Cats alight softly on their feet, because in the middle of the foot is a large ball or pad in five parts, formed of an elastic substance, and at the base of each toe is a similar pad.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000014_000000|A Cat, when falling with its head downwards, curls its body, so that the back forms an arch, while the legs remain extended.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000017_000003|It is a half bred Persian Cat, and its eyes are perfectly blue, with round pupils, not elongated, as those of Cats usually are.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000018_000000|Do you know why Cats always wash themselves after a meal?
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000018_000001|A Cat caught a sparrow, and was about to devour it, but the sparrow said,
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000020_000000|The Cat, struck with this remark, set the sparrow down, and began to wash his face with his paw, but the sparrow flew away.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000020_000001|This vexed Pussy extremely, and he said,
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000021_000000|"As long as I live I will eat first and wash my face afterwards."
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000023_000000|A French writer says, the three animals that waste most time over their toilet are cats, flies, and women.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000025_000001|A cat can look round pretty far behind it without moving its body, which might be apt to startle its prey. The spine of the Cat is very full and loose, in order that all its movements in all possible directions and circumstances may be free and unrestrained.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000025_000002|For this purpose, too, all the joints which connect its bones together are extremely loose and free.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000025_000005|The shape of the external ear, or rather cartilaginous portion, is admirably adapted to intercept sounds.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000026_000000|"'A May kitten makes a dirty Cat,' is a piece of Huntingdonshire folk lore," says mr Cuthbert Bede, "quoted to me in order to deter me from keeping a kitten that had been born in May."
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000029_000000|Few, even amongst Pussy's most ardent admirers, who possess the faculty of hearing, and have heard the music of Cats, would desire the continuance of their "sweet voices"; yet a concert was exhibited at Paris, wherein Cats were the performers.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000029_000001|They were placed in rows, and a monkey beat time to them, as the Cats mewed; and the historian of the facts relates that the diversity of the tones which they emitted produced a very ludicrous effect.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000030_000000|This would seem to prove that Cats may be taught tricks, which is not generally believed, but is nevertheless the case.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000032_000002|The rete mirabile is much developed in the sheep, but scarcely perceptible in the Cat.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000033_000000|Being an animal which hunts both by day and night, the structure of its visual organs is adjusted for both.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000033_000001|The retina, or expansion of the optic nerve, is most sensitive to the stimulus of light; hence, a well marked ciliary muscle contracts the pupil to a mere vertical fissure during the day, while in the dark, the pupil dilates enormously, and lets in as much light as possible.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000033_000008|Hence, in common with most animals, the Cat is furnished with a nictitating membrane, which is, in fact, a third eyelid, sliding over the transparent cornea beneath the common eyelids.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000034_000002|When these rays reach the observer direct, he sees the lamps or luminiferous bodies themselves, but when he is out of their direct sight, the brightness of their illumination only becomes apparent, through the rays being collected and reflected by some appropriate substance.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000035_000000|The cornea of the eye of the Cat, and of many other animals, has a great power of concentrating the rays and reflecting them through the pupil. Professor Bohn, at Leipsic, made experiments proving that when the external light is wholly excluded, none can be seen in the Cat's eye.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000035_000004|When the animal is alarmed, or first disturbed, it naturally dilates the pupil, and the eye glares; when it is appeased or composed, the pupil contracts, and the light in the eye is no longer seen.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000036_000000|A German savant says, that at the end of each hair of a Cat's whiskers is a sort of bulb of nervous substance, which converts it into a most sensitive feeler.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000000|"Every one must have observed what are usually called the "whiskers" on a Cat's upper lip.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000002|They are organs of touch; they are attached to a bed of close glands under the skin; and each of these long and stiff hairs is connected with the nerves of the lip.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000004|They stand out on each side in the lion, as well as in the common Cat; so that, from point to point, they are equal in width to the animal's body.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000005|If we imagine, therefore, a lion stealing through a covert of wood in an imperfect light, we shall at once see the use of these long hairs.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000039_000005|The Reverend mr Wood expresses an opinion, that on account of the superabundance of electricity which is developed in the Cat, the animal is found very useful to paralysed persons, who instinctively encourage its approach, and from the touch derive some benefit.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000039_000007|The same gentleman, writing of a favourite Cat, says, that if a hair of her mistress's head were laid upon the animal's back it would writhe as though in agony, and rolling on the floor, would strive to free herself from the object of her fears.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000000|It is difficult to account for the fondness of Cats for fish, as nature seems to have given them an appetite, which, with their great antipathy to water, they can rarely gratify unassisted.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000001|Many instances have, however, been recorded of Cats catching fish.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000002|A mr Moody, of Sesmond, near Newcastle upon Tyne, had a Cat in eighteen twenty nine which had been in his possession for some years, and caught fish with great assiduity, and frequently brought them home alive.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000004|At other times they were seen at opposite sides of the river, not far from each other, on the look out for game.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000041_000001|She is now seven years old, and has long been a useful caterer.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000043_000001|The animal is certainly rare, as is also a Queen Anne's farthing; but it is not such a rarity as we are led to believe.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000045_000000|The she Cat goes with young from fifty five to fifty eight days, and generally has four or five kittens at a litter.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000000|Those who wish their Cats to catch mice, I should advise not to neglect the Cat's food.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000002|A good mouser does not eat the mouse.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000003|I have a black Cat, which is very fat, but a wonderful huntsman, and surprisingly nimble at the chase.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000006|It was clear that he had made me a present of the game; and, as we sometimes think, when we make anyone a present of something to eat, it would be more delicate for us to go away immediately, lest it might be supposed we desired to be asked to stop and partake of it, Tom thus departed, no doubt with a similar idea.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000047_000000|"No experiment," says an intelligent writer, "can be more beautiful than that of setting a kitten for the first time before a looking glass.
train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000047_000002|It again views itself, and tries to touch the image with its foot, suddenly looking at intervals behind the glass.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000002_000000|LIFE AT THE MINES
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000001|The ordinary wage was ten dollars a day, and men who could be trusted, and who were brave enough to pack the gold out to the coast, received twenty and even as high as fifty dollars a day.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000002|There is a letter, written by Sir matthew Begbie, describing how the mountain trails were infested that winter by desperadoes lying in wait for the miners who came staggering over the trail literally weighted down with gold.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000003|The miners found what the great banks have always found, that the presence of unused gold is a nuisance and a curse.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000006|In a mining camp there is no mercy for the crook.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000007|If the trail could have told tales, there would have been many a story of dead men washed up on the bars, of sneak thieves given thirty nine lashes and like the scapegoat turned out into the mountain wilds-a rough and ready justice administered without judge or jury.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000004_000001|Mrs Cameron, wife of the famous Cariboo Cameron, lived with her husband on his claim till she died, and many other women lived in the camps with their husbands.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000004_000002|When the road opened, there was a rush of hurdy gurdy girls for dance halls; but that did not modify the rough chivalry of an unwritten law.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000005_000000|They danced a' nicht in dresses licht Fra' late until the early, O! But O, their hearts were hard as flint, Which vexed the laddies sairly, O!
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000006_000000|The dollar was their only love, And that they loved fu' dearly, O! They dinna care a flea for men, Let them court hooe'er sincerely, O!
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000000|Cariboo was what the miners call a 'he camp.' Not unnaturally, the 'she camps' heard 'the call from Macedonia.' The bishop of Oxford, the bishop of London, the lord mayor of London, and a colonial society in England gathered up some industrious young women as suitable wives for the British Columbia miners.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000001|Alack the day, there was no poet to send letters to the outside world on this handling of Cupid's bow and arrow! The comedy was pushed in the most business like fashion.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000002|Threescore young girls came out under the auspices of the society and the Church, carefully shepherded by a clergyman and a stern matron.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000003|They reached Victoria in September of 'sixty two and were housed in the barracks.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000005|A man looking anything but respect would have been knocked down on the spot.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000006|We laugh now! Victoria did not laugh then.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000008|On the instant, every girl was offered some kind of situation, which she voluntarily and almost immediately exchanged for matrimony.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000011|The disreputable also found their own places.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000012|And the mining camp began to take on an appearance of domesticity and home.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000000|matthew Begbie, later, like Douglas, given a title for his services to the Empire, had, as we have seen, first come out under direct appointment by the crown; and when parliamentary government was organized in British Columbia his position was confirmed as chief justice.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000003|He stood for the rights of the poorest miner.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000004|In private life he was fond of music, art, and literature; but in public life he was autocratic as a czar and sternly righteous as a prophet.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000005|He was a vigilance committee in himself through sheer force of personality.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000008|From hating and fearing him, the camp came almost to worship him.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000009_000000|Many are the stories of his circuits.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000010_000001|You deserve to be hanged.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000010_000002|Had the jury performed their duty, I might have the painful satisfaction of condemning you to death.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000010_000003|You, gentlemen of the jury, permit me to say that it would give me great pleasure to sentence you to be hanged each and every one of you, for bringing in a murderer guilty only of manslaughter.'
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000011_000002|On his way down the prisoner escaped from the constable. This type of hair trigger gunmen at once fled the country when Begbie came.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000000|Mr Alexander, one of the Overlanders of 'sixty two, tells how 'Begbie's decisions may not have been good law, but they were first-class justice.' His 'doctrine was that if a man were killed, some one had to be hanged for it; and the effect was salutary.' A man had been sandbagged in a Victoria saloon and thrown out to die.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000001|His companion in the saloon was arrested and tried.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000002|The circumstantial evidence was strong, and the judge so charged the jury.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000003|But the jury acquitted the prisoner.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000004|Dead silence fell in the court room.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000005|The prisoner's counsel arose and requested the discharge of the man.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000007|You can go, and I devoutly hope the next man you sandbag will be one of the jury.' On another occasion a man was found stabbed on the Cariboo Road.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000009|Begbie adjourned the court with the pious wish that the murderer should go out and cut the throats of the jury.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000013_000000|But, in spite of his harsh manner towards the wrong doer, 'the old man,' as the miners affectionately called him, kept law and order.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000013_000001|In the early days gold commissioners not only settled all mining disputes, but acted as judge and jury.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000000|The effect of sudden wealth on some of the hungry, ragged horde who infested Cariboo was of a sort to discount fiction.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000002|A lunatic escaped from a madhouse could not have been more foolish.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000003|He came to the best saloon of Barkerville.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000007|There was still a basket of champagne left.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000008|He danced the hurdy gurdy on that basket till he cut his feet.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000009|The champagne was all gone, but he still had some gold nuggets.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000011|The miner stood and proudly surveyed his own figure in the glass.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000013|He gathered his last nuggets and hurled them in handfuls at the mirror, shattering it in countless pieces.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000014|Then he went out in the night to sleep under the stars, penniless.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000015|He settled down to work for the rest of his life in other men's mines.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000016_000000|I ken a body made a strike. He looked a little lord. He had a clan o' followers Amang a needy horde.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000000|In Barkerville, which became the centre of Cariboo, saloons and dance halls grew up overnight.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000002|Champagne in pint bottles sold at two ounces of gold.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000004|Nails were cheap at a dollar a pound.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000005|Milk was retailed frozen at a dollar a pound.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000006|Boots still cost fifty dollars. Such luxuries as mirrors and stoves cost as high as seven hundred dollars each.
train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000021_000000|A newspaper was published in Barkerville.
train-clean-360/9026/282386/9026_282386_000018_000000|Bull teams of twenty yokes, long lines of pack horses led by a bell mare, mule teams with a tinkling of bells and singing of the drivers, met the stage and passed with happy salute.
train-clean-360/9026/282386/9026_282386_000020_000000|This does not mean that the camp had collapsed.
train-clean-360/9026/282386/9026_282386_000020_000003|This meant shafts, tunnels, hydraulic machinery, stamp mills.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000002|The visitors left their carriage at the hotel, outside the precincts, and went to the gates of the monastery on foot.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000003|Except Fyodor Pavlovitch, none of the party had ever seen the monastery, and Miuesov had probably not even been to church for thirty years.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000004|He looked about him with curiosity, together with assumed ease.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000006|The last of the worshippers were coming out of the church, bareheaded and crossing themselves.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000007|Among the humbler people were a few of higher rank-two or three ladies and a very old general.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000001_000001|Yet no official personage met them.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000002_000001|His liberal irony was rapidly changing almost into anger.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000003_000000|"Who the devil is there to ask in this imbecile place?
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000004_000000|All at once there came up a bald headed, elderly man with ingratiating little eyes, wearing a full, summer overcoat.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000006_000000|"I know it's the other side of the copse," observed Fyodor Pavlovitch, "but we don't remember the way.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000007_000000|"This way, by this gate, and straight across the copse ... the copse.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000009_000001|"That personage has granted us an audience, so to speak, and so, though we thank you for showing us the way, we cannot ask you to accompany us."
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000010_000000|"I've been there.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000013_000000|But his incoherent talk was cut short by a very pale, wan looking monk of medium height, wearing a monk's cap, who overtook them.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000014_000000|The monk, with an extremely courteous, profound bow, announced:
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000015_000000|"The Father Superior invites all of you gentlemen to dine with him after your visit to the hermitage.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000016_000000|"That I certainly will, without fail," cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, hugely delighted at the invitation.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000016_000002|And you, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, will you go, too?"
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000017_000000|"Yes, of course.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000017_000001|What have I come for but to study all the customs here? The only obstacle to me is your company...."
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000019_000002|So we will come to dinner. Thank the Father Superior," he said to the monk.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000020_000000|"No, it is my duty now to conduct you to the elder," answered the monk.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000022_000001|But as you please-" the monk hesitated.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000023_000000|"Impertinent old man!" Miuesov observed aloud, while Maximov ran back to the monastery.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000024_000000|"He's like von Sohn," Fyodor Pavlovitch said suddenly.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000025_000000|"Is that all you can think of?...
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000025_000001|In what way is he like von Sohn?
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000026_000000|"I've seen his portrait.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000026_000001|It's not the features, but something indefinable. He's a second von Sohn.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000026_000002|I can always tell from the physiognomy."
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000027_000001|But, look here, Fyodor Pavlovitch, you said just now that we had given our word to behave properly.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000027_000002|Remember it.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000027_000005|You see what a man he is"--he turned to the monk-"I'm afraid to go among decent people with him." A fine smile, not without a certain slyness, came on to the pale, bloodless lips of the monk, but he made no reply, and was evidently silent from a sense of his own dignity.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000028_000001|An outer show elaborated through centuries, and nothing but charlatanism and nonsense underneath," flashed through Miuesov's mind.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000029_000002|"The gates are shut."
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000031_000003|And not one woman goes in at this gate.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000031_000004|That's what is remarkable.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000031_000005|And that really is so.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000032_000000|"Women of the people are here too now, lying in the portico there waiting. But for ladies of higher rank two rooms have been built adjoining the portico, but outside the precincts-you can see the windows-and the elder goes out to them by an inner passage when he is well enough.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000032_000002|There is a Harkov lady, Madame Hohlakov, waiting there now with her sick daughter.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000034_000001|They'll turn you out when I'm gone."
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000035_000001|Look," he cried suddenly, stepping within the precincts, "what a vale of roses they live in!"
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000037_000000|"And was it like this in the time of the last elder, Varsonofy?
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000037_000002|They say he used to jump up and thrash even ladies with a stick," observed Fyodor Pavlovitch, as he went up the steps.
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000038_000001|He never thrashed any one," answered the monk. "Now, gentlemen, if you will wait a minute I will announce you."
train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000040_000002|They say he can tell by one's eyes what one has come about.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000019_000000|Chapter six.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000000|He did in fact find his father still at table.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000001|Though there was a dining room in the house, the table was laid as usual in the drawing room, which was the largest room, and furnished with old-fashioned ostentation. The furniture was white and very old, upholstered in old, red, silky material.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000002|In the spaces between the windows there were mirrors in elaborate white and gilt frames, of old-fashioned carving.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000003|On the walls, covered with white paper, which was torn in many places, there hung two large portraits-one of some prince who had been governor of the district thirty years before, and the other of some bishop, also long since dead. In the corner opposite the door there were several ikons, before which a lamp was lighted at nightfall ... not so much for devotional purposes as to light the room.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000004|Fyodor Pavlovitch used to go to bed very late, at three or four o'clock in the morning, and would wander about the room at night or sit in an arm chair, thinking.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000021_000000|When Alyosha came in, dinner was over, but coffee and preserves had been served.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000021_000001|Fyodor Pavlovitch liked sweet things with brandy after dinner. Ivan was also at table, sipping coffee.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000003|Sit down.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000005|I don't offer you brandy, you're keeping the fast.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000006|But would you like some?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000008|Smerdyakov, go to the cupboard, the second shelf on the right.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000009|Here are the keys.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000010|Look sharp!"
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000024_000001|If you won't have it, we will," said Fyodor Pavlovitch, beaming.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000024_000002|"But stay-have you dined?"
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000025_000001|"Though I should be pleased to have some hot coffee."
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000001|He'll have some coffee.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000002|Does it want warming?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000003|No, it's boiling.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000004|It's capital coffee: Smerdyakov's making.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000005|My Smerdyakov's an artist at coffee and at fish patties, and at fish soup, too.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000006|You must come one day and have some fish soup.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000007|Let me know beforehand....
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000008|But, stay; didn't I tell you this morning to come home with your mattress and pillow and all?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000009|Have you brought your mattress?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000028_000001|There, my darling, I couldn't do anything to vex you.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000028_000004|Alyosha, let me give you my blessing-a father's blessing."
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000029_000000|Alyosha rose, but Fyodor Pavlovitch had already changed his mind.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000001|"I'll just make the sign of the cross over you, for now.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000002|Sit still.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000003|Now we've a treat for you, in your own line, too.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000004|It'll make you laugh.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000005|Balaam's ass has begun talking to us here-and how he talks!
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000006|How he talks!"
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000031_000002|Not that he was shy or bashful.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000031_000003|On the contrary, he was conceited and seemed to despise everybody.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000000|But we must pause to say a few words about him now.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000001|He was brought up by Grigory and Marfa, but the boy grew up "with no sense of gratitude," as Grigory expressed it; he was an unfriendly boy, and seemed to look at the world mistrustfully.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000002|In his childhood he was very fond of hanging cats, and burying them with great ceremony.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000004|All this he did on the sly, with the greatest secrecy.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000006|He shrank into a corner and sulked there for a week.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000007|"He doesn't care for you or me, the monster," Grigory used to say to Marfa, "and he doesn't care for any one.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000008|Are you a human being?" he said, addressing the boy directly.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000011|Grigory taught him to read and write, and when he was twelve years old, began teaching him the Scriptures.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000012|But this teaching came to nothing.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000013|At the second or third lesson the boy suddenly grinned.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000033_000000|"What's that for?" asked Grigory, looking at him threateningly from under his spectacles.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000034_000001|God created light on the first day, and the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000034_000002|Where did the light come from on the first day?"
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000000|Grigory was thunderstruck.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000001|The boy looked sarcastically at his teacher. There was something positively condescending in his expression.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000002|Grigory could not restrain himself.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000003|"I'll show you where!" he cried, and gave the boy a violent slap on the cheek.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000004|The boy took the slap without a word, but withdrew into his corner again for some days.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000005|A week later he had his first attack of the disease to which he was subject all the rest of his life-epilepsy.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000006|When Fyodor Pavlovitch heard of it, his attitude to the boy seemed changed at once.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000007|Till then he had taken no notice of him, though he never scolded him, and always gave him a copeck when he met him. Sometimes, when he was in good humor, he would send the boy something sweet from his table.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000008|But as soon as he heard of his illness, he showed an active interest in him, sent for a doctor, and tried remedies, but the disease turned out to be incurable.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000009|The fits occurred, on an average, once a month, but at various intervals.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000010|The fits varied too, in violence: some were light and some were very severe.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000011|Fyodor Pavlovitch strictly forbade Grigory to use corporal punishment to the boy, and began allowing him to come upstairs to him.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000012|He forbade him to be taught anything whatever for a time, too.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000013|One day when the boy was about fifteen, Fyodor Pavlovitch noticed him lingering by the bookcase, and reading the titles through the glass.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000017|You shall be my librarian.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000036_000000|He read a little but didn't like it.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000036_000001|He did not once smile, and ended by frowning.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000037_000000|"Why?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000037_000001|Isn't it funny?" asked Fyodor Pavlovitch.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000038_000000|Smerdyakov did not speak.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000039_000000|"Answer, stupid!"
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000040_000000|"It's all untrue," mumbled the boy, with a grin.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000000|"Then go to the devil!
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000001|You have the soul of a lackey.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000003|That's all true.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000004|Read that."
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000042_000001|He thought it dull.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000042_000002|So the bookcase was closed again.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000043_000000|Shortly afterwards Marfa and Grigory reported to Fyodor Pavlovitch that Smerdyakov was gradually beginning to show an extraordinary fastidiousness.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000043_000001|He would sit before his soup, take up his spoon and look into the soup, bend over it, examine it, take a spoonful and hold it to the light.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000044_000001|A beetle?" Grigory would ask.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000045_000000|"A fly, perhaps," observed Marfa.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000046_000000|The squeamish youth never answered, but he did the same with his bread, his meat, and everything he ate.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000046_000001|He would hold a piece on his fork to the light, scrutinize it microscopically, and only after long deliberation decide to put it in his mouth.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000047_000001|What fine gentlemen's airs!" Grigory muttered, looking at him.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000000|When Fyodor Pavlovitch heard of this development in Smerdyakov he determined to make him his cook, and sent him to Moscow to be trained.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000001|He spent some years there and came back remarkably changed in appearance.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000002|He looked extraordinarily old for his age.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000003|His face had grown wrinkled, yellow, and strangely emasculate.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000004|In character he seemed almost exactly the same as before he went away.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000006|In Moscow, too, as we heard afterwards, he had always been silent.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000007|Moscow itself had little interest for him; he saw very little there, and took scarcely any notice of anything.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000009|On the other hand, he came back to us from Moscow well dressed, in a clean coat and clean linen.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000010|He brushed his clothes most scrupulously twice a day invariably, and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000011|He turned out a first rate cook.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000012|Fyodor Pavlovitch paid him a salary, almost the whole of which Smerdyakov spent on clothes, pomade, perfumes, and such things.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000013|But he seemed to have as much contempt for the female sex as for men; he was discreet, almost unapproachable, with them. Fyodor Pavlovitch began to regard him rather differently.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000014|His fits were becoming more frequent, and on the days he was ill Marfa cooked, which did not suit Fyodor Pavlovitch at all.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000049_000000|"Why are your fits getting worse?" asked Fyodor Pavlovitch, looking askance at his new cook.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000049_000001|"Would you like to get married?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000049_000002|Shall I find you a wife?"
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000000|But Smerdyakov turned pale with anger, and made no reply.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000001|Fyodor Pavlovitch left him with an impatient gesture.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000002|The great thing was that he had absolute confidence in his honesty.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000003|It happened once, when Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk, that he dropped in the muddy courtyard three hundred rouble notes which he had only just received.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000004|He only missed them next day, and was just hastening to search his pockets when he saw the notes lying on the table.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000005|Where had they come from?
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000006|Smerdyakov had picked them up and brought them in the day before.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000000|"Well, my lad, I've never met any one like you," Fyodor Pavlovitch said shortly, and gave him ten roubles.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000002|If it had occurred to any one to wonder at the time what the young man was interested in, and what was in his mind, it would have been impossible to tell by looking at him.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000003|Yet he used sometimes to stop suddenly in the house, or even in the yard or street, and would stand still for ten minutes, lost in thought.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000004|A physiognomist studying his face would have said that there was no thought in it, no reflection, but only a sort of contemplation.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000006|He stands, as it were, lost in thought.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000010|Those impressions are dear to him and no doubt he hoards them imperceptibly, and even unconsciously.
train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000012|He may suddenly, after hoarding impressions for many years, abandon everything and go off to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage for his soul's salvation, or perhaps he will suddenly set fire to his native village, and perhaps do both.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000004_000000|Lobby
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000005_000000|Feldman had set his legs the problem of heading for the great spaceport and escape from Earth, and he let them take him without further guidance.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000005_000001|His mind was wrapped up in a whirl of the past-his past and that of the whole planet.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000000|Idealism!
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000001|Throughout history, some men had sought the ideal, and most had called it freedom.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000002|Only fools expected absolute freedom, but wise men dreamed up many systems of relative freedom, including democracy. They had tried that in America, as the last fling of the dream.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000003|It had been a good attempt, too.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000007_000000|The men who drew the Constitution had been pretty practical dreamers. They came to their task after a bitter war and a worse period of wild chaos, and they had learned where idealism stopped and idiocy began. They set up a republic with all the elements of democracy that they considered safe.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000007_000002|But the men who followed the framers of the new plan were a different sort, without the knowledge of practical limits.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000000|The privileges their ancestors had earned in blood and care became automatic rights.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000001|Practical men tried to explain that there were no such rights-that each generation had to pay for its rights with responsibility.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000002|That kind of talk didn't get far.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000003|People wanted to hear about rights, not about duties.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000009_000001|In a way, they got it.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000000|They got the vote extended to everyone.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000001|The man on subsidy or public dole could vote to demand more.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000002|The man who read of nothing beyond sex crimes could vote on the great political issues of the world.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000003|No ability was needed for his vote.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000004|In fact, he was assured that voting alone was enough to make him a fine and noble citizen.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000006|He became a great man by listing his unthought, hungry desire for someone to take care of him without responsibility.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000007|So he went out and voted for the man who promised him most, or who looked most like what his limited dreams felt to be a father image or son image or hero image.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000008|He never bothered later to see how the men he'd elected had handled the jobs he had given them.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000000|Someone had to look, of course, and someone did.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000001|Organized special interests stepped in where the mob had failed.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000002|Lobbies grew up.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000003|There had always been pressure groups, but now they developed into a third arm of the government.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000000|The old Farm Lobby was unbeatable.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000001|The big farmers shaped the laws they wanted.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000002|They convinced the little farmers it was for the good of all, and they made the story stick well enough to swing the farm vote.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000003|They made the laws when it came to food and crops.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000013_000000|The last of the great lobbies was Space, probably.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000013_000001|It was an accident that grew up so fast it never even knew it wasn't a real part of the government.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000013_000002|It developed during a period of chaos when another country called Russia got the first hunk of metal above the atmosphere and when the representatives who had been picked for everything but their grasp of science and government went into panic over a myth of national prestige.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000014_000000|The space effort was turned over to the aircraft industry, which had never been able to manage itself successfully except under the stimulus of war or a threat of war.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000014_000001|The failing airplane industry became the space combine overnight, and nobody kept track of how big it was, except a few sharp operators.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000015_000000|They worked out a system of subcontracts that spread the profits so wide that hardly a company of any size in the country wasn't getting a share. Thus a lot of patriotic, noble voters got their pay from companies in the lobby block and could be panicked by the lobby at the first mention of recession.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000016_000000|So Space Lobby took over completely in its own field.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000016_000001|It developed enough pressure to get whatever appropriations it wanted, even over Presidential veto.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000016_000002|It created the only space experts, which meant that the men placed in government agencies to regulate it came from its own ranks.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000017_000000|The other lobbies learned a lot from Space.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000018_000000|There had been a medical lobby long before, but it had been a conservative group, mostly concerned with protecting medical autonomy and ethics.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000018_000001|It also tried to prevent government control of treatment and payment, feeling that it couldn't trust the people to know where to stop.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000018_000002|But its history was a long series of retreats.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000000|It fought what it called socialized medicine.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000001|But the people wanted their troubles handled free-which meant by government spending, since that could be added to the national debt, and thus didn't seem to cost anything.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000003|Then quantity of treatment paid, rather than quality.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000004|Competence no longer mattered so much.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000005|The Lobby lost, but didn't know it-because the lowered standards of competence in the profession lowered the caliber of men running the political aspects of that profession as exemplified by the Lobby.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000020_000000|It took a world-wide plague to turn the tide.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000020_000001|The plague began in old China; anything could start there, with more than a billion people huddled in one area and a few madmen planning to conquer the world.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000021_000000|It wiped out two billion people, depopulated Africa and most of Asia, and wrecked Europe, leaving only America comparatively safe to take over.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000021_000001|An obscure scientist in one of the laboratories run by the Medical Lobby found a cure before the first waves of the epidemic hit America. Rutherford Ryan, then head of the Lobby, made sure that Medical Lobby got all the credit.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000022_000000|By the time the world recovered, America ran it and the Medical Lobby was untouchable.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000022_000001|Ryan made a deal with Space Lobby, and the two effectively ran the world.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000022_000002|None of the smaller lobbies could buck them, and neither could the government.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000023_000000|There was still a president and a congress, as there had been a Senate under the Roman Caesars.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000023_000002|The real government had become a kind of oligarchy, as it always did after too much false democracy ruined the ideals of real and practical self rule.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000023_000003|A man belonged to his Lobby, just as a serf had belonged to his feudal landlord.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000024_000000|It was a safe world now.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000024_000001|Maybe progress had been halted at about the level of nineteen eighty, but so long as the citizens didn't break the rules of their lobbies, they had very little to worry about.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000024_000002|For that, for security and the right not to think, most people were willing to leave well enough alone.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000000|Some rules seemed harsh, of course, such as the law that all operations had to be performed in Lobby hospitals.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000001|But that could be justified; it was the only safe kind of surgery and the only way to make sure there was no unsupervised experimentation, such as that which supposedly caused the plague.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000002|The rule was now an absolute ethic of medicine.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000003|It also made for better fees.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000026_000000|Feldman's father had stuck by the rule but had questioned it.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000026_000001|Feldman learned not to question in medical school.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000026_000002|He scored second in Medical Ethics only to Christina Ryan.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000000|He had never figured why she singled him out for her attentions, but he gloried in both those attentions and the results.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000001|He became automatically a rising young man, the favorite of the daughter of the Lobby president.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000002|He went through internship without a sign of trouble. Chris humored him in his desire to spend three years of practice in a poor section loaded with disease, and her father approved; such selfless dedication was the perfect image projection for a future son in law.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000003|In return, he agreed to follow that period by becoming an administrator.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000004|A doctor's doctor, as they put it.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000028_000000|They were married in April and his office was ready in May, complete with a staff of eighty.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000028_000001|The publicity releases had gone out, and the Public Relations Lobby that handled news and education was paid to begin the greatest build-up any young genius ever had.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000029_000000|They celebrated that, with a little party of some four hundred people and reporters at Ryan's lodge in Canada.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000029_000001|It was to be a gala weekend.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000030_000000|It was then that Baxter shot himself.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000000|Baxter had been Feldman's closest friend in the Lobby.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000001|He'd come along to handle press relations and had gotten romantic about the countryside, never having been out of a city before.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000002|He hired a guide and went hunting, eighty miles beyond the last outpost of civilization.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000003|Somehow, he got his hand on a gun, though only guides were supposed to touch them, managed to overcome its safety devices, and then pulled the trigger with the gun pointed the wrong way.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000032_000000|Chris, Feldman and Harnett from Public Relations had accompanied him on the trip.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000032_000001|They were sitting in a nearby car while Feldman enjoyed the scenery, Chris made further plans, and Harnett gathered material.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000032_000002|There was also a photographer and writer, but they hadn't been introduced by name.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000000|Feldman reached Baxter first.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000001|The man was moaning and scared, and he was bleeding profusely.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000002|Only a miracle had saved him from instant death.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000003|The bullet had struck a rib, been deflected and robbed of some of its energy, and had barely reached the heart.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000004|But it had pierced the pericardium, as best Feldman could guess, and it could be fatal at any moment.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000034_000000|He'd reached for a probe without thinking.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000034_000001|Chris knocked his hand aside.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000000|She was right, of course.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000001|He couldn't operate outside a hospital.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000002|But they had no phone in the lodge where the guide lived and no way to summon an ambulance.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000003|They'd have to drive Baxter back in the car, which would almost certainly result in his death.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000000|When Feldman seemed uncertain, Harnett had given his warning in a low but vehement voice.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000001|"You touch him, Dan, and I'll spread it in every one of our media.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000002|I'll have to.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000004|There'd be a leak, with all the guides and others here, and we can't afford that.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000005|I like you-you have color.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000006|But touch that wound and I'll crucify you."
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000000|Chris added her own threats.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000001|She'd spent years making him the outlet for all her ambitions, denied because women were still only second rate members of Medical Lobby.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000002|She couldn't let it go now.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000003|And she was probably genuinely shocked.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000038_000000|Baxter groaned again and started to bleed more profusely.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000000|There wasn't much equipment.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000001|Feldman operated with a pocketknife sterilized in a bottle of expensive Scotch and only anodyne tablets in place of anesthesia.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000002|He got the bullet out and sewed up the wound with a bit of surgical thread he'd been using to tie up a torn good luck emblem.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000004|Chris swore harshly and beat her fists against the bole of a tree.
train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000005|But Baxter lived.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000002_000000|Execution
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000003_000001|There were periods when fear clogged his throat and left him gasping with the need to scream and beat his cell walls.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000003_000002|There were also times when it didn't seem to matter, and when his only thoughts were for the villages and the plague.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000004_000000|They brought him the papers, where he was painted as a monster beside whom Jack the Ripper and Albrecht Delier were gentle amateurs.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000004_000001|They were trying to focus all fear and resentment on him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000004_000002|Maybe it was working. There were screaming crowds outside the jail, and the noise of their hatred was strong enough to carry through even the atmosphere of Mars. But there were also signs that the Lobby was worried, as if afraid that some attempt might still be made to rescue him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000000|He'd looked forward to the trip to the airport as a way of judging public reaction.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000001|But apparently the Lobby had no desire to test that. The guards led him up to the roof of the jail, where a rocket was waiting.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000002|The landing space was too small for one of the station shuttles, but a little Northport Southport shuttle was parked there after what must have been a difficult set down.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000003|The guards tested Doc's manacles and forced him into the shuttle.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000006_000000|Inside, Chris was waiting, carrying an official automatic.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000006_000001|There was also a young pilot, looking nervous and unhappy.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000006_000002|He was muttering under his breath as the guards locked Doc's legs to a seat and left.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000007_000000|"All right," Chris ordered.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000007_000001|"Up ship!"
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000000|"I tell you we're overweight with you.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000001|I wasn't counting on three for the trip," the pilot protested.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000002|"The only thing that will get this into orbit with the station is faith.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000003|I'm loaded with every drop of fuel she'll hold and it still isn't enough."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000009_000000|"That's your problem," Chris told him firmly.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000009_000001|"You've got your orders, and so have i Up ship!"
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000010_000001|Chris had never been afraid to do what she felt she should.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000010_000002|The pilot stared at her doubtfully and finally turned back to his controls, still muttering.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000011_000000|The shuttle lifted sluggishly, but there was no great difficulty.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000011_000001|Doc could see that there was even some fuel remaining when they slipped into the tube at the orbital station.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000011_000002|Chris went out, and other guards came in to free him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000012_000000|"So long, dr Feldman," the pilot called softly as they led him out. Then the guards shoved him through the airlock into the station.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000013_000000|He grinned wryly.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000000|He roamed the cabin until he found a little collapsible table.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000001|He set the electron microscope up on that and plugged it in.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000002|It seemed a shame that good equipment should be wasted along with his life.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000003|He wondered if they would really throw it out into space with him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000004|Probably they would.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000015_000000|He pushed a button on the call board over the table and asked for the steward.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000015_000001|There was a long wait, as if the procedure were being checked with some authority, but finally he received a surly acknowledgement. "Steward.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000016_000000|"How's the chance of getting some food?"
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000017_000000|"You're on first-class."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000018_000000|They could afford it, Doc decided.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000018_000001|He wouldn't cost them much, considering the distance he was going.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000018_000002|"Bring me two complete dinners-one Earth normal and one Mars normal."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000019_000000|"Okay, Feldman.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000000|A sharp click interrupted him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000001|"That's enough, Steward.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000002|Captain Everts speaking.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000003|dr Feldman, you have my apologies.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000004|Until you reach your destination, you are my passenger and entitled to every consideration of any other passenger except freedom of movement through the ship.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000005|I am always available for legitimate complaints."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000021_000000|Feldman shook his head.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000021_000001|He'd heard of such men.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000021_000002|But he'd thought the species extinct.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000022_000000|The steward brought his food in a thoroughly chastened manner.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000022_000001|He managed to find space for it and came to attention.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000000|For a moment, as the smell of real steak reached him, Doc regretted the fact that his metabolism had been switched.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000001|Then he shrugged.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000002|A little wouldn't hurt him, though there was no proper nourishment in it.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000003|He squeezed some of the gravy and bits of meat into one of his bottles, sticking to his purpose; then he fell to on the rest.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000004|But after a few bites, it was queerly unsatisfactory.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000005|The seemingly unappealing Mars normal ragout suited his current tastes better, after all.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000024_000000|Once the steward had cleared away the dishes, Doc went to work.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000024_000001|It was better than wasting his time in dread.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000024_000002|He might even be able to leave some notes behind.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000025_000000|A gong sounded, and a red light warned him that acceleration was due.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000025_000001|He finished with his bottles, put them into the incubator, and piled into his bunk, swallowing one of the tablets of morphetal the ship furnished.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000026_000000|Acceleration had ended, and a simple breakfast was waiting when he awoke.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000026_000002|He flipped the switch while reaching for the coffee.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000027_000000|"Captain Everts," the speaker said.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000028_000000|"Come ahead," Feldman invited.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000028_000001|He cut off the switch and glanced at the clock on the wall.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000028_000002|There were less than eleven hours left to him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000029_000001|There was neither friendliness nor hostility in his glance.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000029_000002|His words were courteous as Doc motioned toward the tray of breakfast.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000029_000003|"I've already eaten, thank you."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000000|He accepted a chair.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000001|His voice was apologetic when he began.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000002|"This is a personal matter which I perhaps have no right to bring up.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000003|But my wife is greatly worried about this plague.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000005|The ship physician believes mrs Everts may have the plague, but isn't sure of the symptoms.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000031_000000|Doc wondered about the physician.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000031_000001|Apparently there was another man who placed his patients above anything else, though he was probably meticulous about obeying all actual rules.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000031_000002|There was no law against listening to a pariah, at least.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000032_000000|"When did she have Selznik's migraine?" he asked.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000033_000001|We went through it together, shortly after having our metabolism switched during the food shortage of 'eighty eight."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000034_000000|Doc felt carefully at the base of the Captain's skull; the swelling was there.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000034_000001|He asked a few questions, but there could be no doubt.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000035_000000|"Both of you must have it, Captain, though it won't mature for another year.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000035_000001|I'm sorry."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000000|Doc studied the man.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000001|But Everts wasn't the sort to dicker even for his life.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000002|"Nothing that I've found, Captain.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000003|I have a clue, but I'm still working on it.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000004|Perhaps if I could leave a few notes for your physician-"
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000000|It was Everts' turn to shake his head.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000001|"I'm sorry, dr Feldman.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000002|I have orders to burn out your cabin when you leave.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000003|But thank you." He got to his feet and left as quietly and erectly as he had entered.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000039_000000|Doc tore up his notes bitterly.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000039_000001|He paced his cabin slowly, reading out the hours while his eyes lingered on the little bottle of cultures.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000039_000003|There was half an hour left when he began opening the little bottles and making his films.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000040_000000|He was still not finished when steps echoed down the hall, but he was reasonably sure of his results.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000040_000001|The bug could not grow in Earth normal tissue.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000041_000000|Three men entered the room.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000041_000001|One of them, dressed in a spacesuit, held out another suit to him.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000042_000000|Doc forced his hands to steadiness with foolish pride and began climbing into the suit.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000042_000001|He reached for the helmet, but the man shook his head, pointing to the oxygen gauge.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000042_000002|There would be exactly one hour's supply of oxygen when he was thrown out and it still lacked five minutes of the deadline.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000043_000001|The spacesuited man climbed into it and began strapping down so that the rush of air would not sweep him outward when the other seal was released.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000044_000000|Doc had saved one bracky weed.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000044_000001|Now he raised it to his lips, fumbling for a light.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000045_000000|Everts stepped forward and flipped a lighter.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000045_000001|Doc inhaled deeply.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000045_000003|Then he caught himself.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000046_000000|"Better change your metabolism back to Earth normal, Captain Everts," he said, and his voice was so normal that he hardly recognized it.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000047_000000|Everts' eyes widened briefly.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000047_000001|The man bowed faintly.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000047_000002|"Thank you, dr Feldman."
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000048_000000|It was ridiculous, impossible, and yet there was a curious relief at the formality of it.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000048_000001|It was like something from a play, too unreal to affect his life.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000000|Everts nodded to the man holding the helmet.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000001|Doc dropped his bracky weed and felt the helmet snap down.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000002|A hiss of oxygen reached him and the suit ballooned out.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000003|There was no gravity; the two men handed him up easily to the one in the airlock while the inner seal began to close.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000050_000000|There was still ten seconds to go, according to the big chronometer that had been installed in the lock.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000050_000001|The spaceman used it in tying the sack of possessions firmly to Doc's suit.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000000|A red light went on.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000001|The man caught Doc and held him against the outer seal.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000002|The red light blinked.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000003|Four seconds ... three ... two....
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000052_000001|The spaceman's face swung around in surprise.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000053_000000|The red light blinked and stayed on.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000054_000000|The outer seal snapped open and the spaceman heaved.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000054_000001|Air exploded outwards, and Doc went with it.
train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000054_000002|He was alone in space, gliding away from the ship, with oxygen hissing softly through the valve and ticking away his life.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000004_000001|It was sheer stupidity, since nothing could have been more merciful than to lose this reality.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000004_000002|But the will to be himself was stronger than logic.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000004_000003|And bit by bit, he forced the fear and horror away from him until he could examine his situation.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000005_000000|He was spinning slowly, so that stars ahead of him seemed to crawl across his view.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000005_000001|The ship was retreating from him already hundreds of yards away.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000005_000002|Mars was a shrunken pill far away.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000006_000000|Then something blinked to one side.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000006_000001|He turned his head to stare.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000007_000000|A little ship was less than three hundred yards away.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000007_000001|He recognized it as a life raft.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000007_000002|Now his spin brought him around to face it, and he saw it was parallelling his course.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000008_000000|It meant someone was trying to save him.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000009_000000|He flailed his arms and beat his legs together, senselessly trying to force himself closer, while trying to guess who could have taken the chance.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000009_000002|There wasn't that much free money in the villages.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000010_000000|Something flashed a hot blue, and the little ship leaped forward. Whoever was handling it knew nothing about piloting.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000010_000001|It picked up too much speed at too great an angle.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000000|Again blue spurts came, but this time matters were even worse.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000001|Then there was a long wait before a third try was made.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000002|He estimated the course.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000003|It would miss him by a good hundred feet, but it was probably the best the amateur pilot could do.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000004|The ship drifted closer, but to one side.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000005|It would soon pass him completely.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000000|A spacesuited figure suddenly appeared in the tiny airlock, holding a coil of rope.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000001|The rope shot out, well thrown.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000002|But it was too short.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000003|It would pass within ten feet-and might as well have been ten miles for all the good it would do him.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000000|Every film he had seen on space seemed to form a mad jumble in his mind, but he seized on the first idea he could remember.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000001|He inhaled deeply and yanked the oxygen tank free.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000002|An automatic seal on the suit cut off the connection.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000003|He aimed the hissing bottle, fumbling for the manual valve.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000000|It almost worked.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000001|It kicked him toward the rope slightly, but most of the energy was wasted in setting him into a wilder spin.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000002|He blinked, trying to spot the rope.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000003|It was within five feet now.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000015_000001|This time he threw the bottle away from it.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000015_000002|It added spin to his vertical axis, but the rope came into view within arm's reach.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000016_000000|He grasped it, just as his lungs seemed about to burst.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000016_000001|He couldn't hold on long enough to tie the rope....
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000017_000000|His lungs gave up suddenly, collapsing and then sucking in greedily. Clean air rushed in, letting his head clear.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000017_000001|He'd forgotten that the inflated suit held enough oxygen for several minutes.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000018_000000|His body struck the edge of the airlock and a hand jerked him inside. The outer seal was slammed shut and locked, and there was a hiss of air entering.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000019_000000|He threw back his helmet just as Chris Ryan jerked hers off.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000020_000000|Her voice shook almost hysterically.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000020_000001|"Thank God.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000020_000002|Dan, I almost gave up!"
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000021_000000|"I liked the air out there better," he told her bitterly.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000021_000001|"If you'll open the lock again, I'll leave.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000022_000000|"I came along to see you killed, as you know very well.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000022_000001|Saving you wasn't in my orders."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000023_000000|He grunted and reached for the handle that would release the outer lock. "Better get back inside if you don't want to blow out with me."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000024_000000|"It's up to you, Dan," she told him, and there was all the sincerity in the world in her blue eyes.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000024_000001|"I'm on your side now."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000025_000000|He began counting on his fingers.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000025_000001|"Let's see.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000026_000000|"It was all true." Anger began to grow in her eyes.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000026_000002|If you don't care about me, you might consider the people dying of the plague who need you!"
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000027_000000|She'd played her trump, and it took the round.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000027_000001|He followed her.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000028_000000|"All right," he said grudgingly.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000028_000001|"Spill your story."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000029_000000|She held out a copy of a space radiogram, addressed to mrs d e Everts, and signed by one of the best doctors on the Lobby Board of Directors.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000000|Regret confirm diagnosis.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000001|Topsecret.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000002|Repeat topsecret. Martian fever incubates fourteen years, believed highly fatal.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000003|No cure, research beginning immediately.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000004|Penalty violation topsecret, death all concerned.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000031_000000|"mrs Everts rates a topsecret break?" Doc commented dryly.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000031_000001|"Come off it, Chris!"
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000000|"She's the daughter of Elmers of Space Lobby!" Chris answered.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000001|She pointed to the message, underlining words with her finger.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000005|I can see that now.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000006|I can see a lot of things."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000000|"You've got me beat then," he said.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000001|"I can't see how such a reformed young noblewoman calmly walked over and stole a life raft.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000002|I can't see how your brilliant mind concocted this whole scheme in almost no time. And to be honest, I can't even see why Medical Lobby decided to save me at the last minute and sent you to do the job.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000003|You didn't have to spy out knowledge from me.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000004|I've been trying all along to get it to your Research division."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000034_000000|She sighed and dropped onto a little seat.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000000|"I can't prove my motives.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000001|You'll just have to believe me.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000002|But it wasn't hard to do what I've done.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000003|That shuttle pilot was found in a routine check, stowed away on the life raft.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000004|I was with Captain Everts when he was found, so I discovered how to get into the raft.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000005|And I heard his whole confession.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000006|He wasn't the real pilot.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000007|He'd come from the villages to save you.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000008|The whole scheme was his.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000009|I just used it, hoping I could reach you."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000036_000000|As always her story had a convincing element she shouldn't have known. The pilot's farewell, addressing him as dr Feldman, had been too low for her to hear, but it was something that fitted her story.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000036_000001|It was probably a deliberate clue to give him hope, to assure him the villages were still trying.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000036_000002|It shook his confidence.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000037_000000|"And your motive-your real motive?" he insisted.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000038_000000|She swore at him, then began ripping off the spacesuit.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000038_000001|She turned her back, pulling a thin blouse down from her neck.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000038_000002|He stared, then reached out to touch the lump there.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000039_000001|And you've decided your precious Lobby won't save you?"
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000000|She dropped her eyes, then raised them to meet his defiantly.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000001|"I'm not just scared and selfish.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000002|Dad caught it, too, and it must be close to the time for him.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000003|He switched to Mars normal when he was a liaison agent and never changed back.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000004|Dan, are we all going to have to die?
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000005|Can't you save him?"
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000000|Feldman was out of his suit and at the control panel.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000001|There was a manual lever, which Chris must have used before.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000002|It might work out here where there was room to maneuver and nothing to hit.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000003|But trying to make a landing was going to be different.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000042_000000|"Dan?" she repeated.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000000|He shrugged.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000001|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000002|They've started research too late and they'll be under so much pressure that the real brains won't have a chance.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000003|The topsecret stuff looks bad for research.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000004|Maybe there's a cure.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000005|It works in culture bottles, but it may fail in person.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000006|When I'm convinced I'm safe with you, I may tell you about it."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000044_000000|"Oh." Her voice was low.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000044_000001|Then she sighed.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000044_000002|"I suppose I can understand why you hate me, Dan."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000000|"I don't hate you.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000001|I'm too mixed up.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000002|Tomorrow maybe, but not now.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000003|Shut up and let me see if I can figure out how to land this thing."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000046_000000|He found that the fuel tanks were nearly full, but that still didn't leave much margin.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000046_000002|He had to reach the wastelands away from any of the shuttle ports.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000046_000003|They had no aspirators, however, and they couldn't cover much territory in the spacesuits they would have to use.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000000|He jockeyed the ship around by trial and error, studying the manual that was lying prominently on the control panel.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000001|According to the booklet, the ship was simple to operate.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000002|It was self leveling in an atmosphere, and automatic flare computers were supposed to make it possible for an amateur to judge the rate of descent near the surface.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000003|It looked reassuring-and was probably written with that in mind.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000000|Finally he reached for the control, hoping he'd figured his landing orbit reasonably well by simple logic.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000001|He smoothed it out in the following hours as he watched the markings on Mars.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000002|When they were near turnover point, he began cranking the little gyroscope to swing the ship.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000003|It saved fuel to turn without power, and he wasn't sure he could have turned accurately by blasting.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000049_000000|He was gaining some proficiency, however, he felt.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000049_000001|But now he had to waste fuel and ruin his orbit again.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000049_000002|There was no way to practice maneuvering without actually doing so.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000050_000000|In the end, he compromised, leaving a small margin for a bad landing that would require a second attempt, but with less practice than he wanted.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000051_000000|He had located Jake's village through the little telescope when he finally reached for the main blast control.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000051_000001|The thin haze of Mars' atmosphere came rushing up, while the blast lashed out.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000052_000000|He turned to the flare computer and back to what he could see through the quartz viewport.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000053_000000|The computer seemed to work as it should.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000053_000001|The speed was within acceptable limits.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000053_000002|He gave up trying to see the ground and was forced to trust the machinery designed for amateur pilots.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000053_000003|The flare bloomed, and he yanked down on the little lever.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000000|It could have been worse.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000001|They hit the ground, bounced twice, and turned over.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000002|The ship was a mess when Feldman freed himself from the elastic straps of the seat.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000003|Chris had shrieked as they hit, but she was unbuckling herself now.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000055_000000|He threw her her spacesuit and one of the emergency bottles of oxygen from the rack.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000055_000001|"Hurry up with that.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000055_000002|We've sprung a leak and the pressure's dropping."
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000056_000000|They were halfway to the village when a dozen tractors came racing up and Jake piled out of the lead one to drag the two in with him.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000057_000000|"Heard about it from the broadcasts and figured you might land around here.
train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000058_000000|Jake caught his look and nodded.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000001|You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick tempered, or "touchy" disposition.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000002|This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000006|Its brand falls, without a challenge, upon the Prodigal.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000007|But are we right?
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000006_000001|"He was angry," we read, "and would not go in." Look at the effect upon the father, upon the servants, upon the happiness of the guests.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000006_000003|What is it made of?
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000007_000000|BORN AGAIN,
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000009_000005|A want of patience, a want of kindness, a want of generosity, a want of courtesy, a want of unselfishness, are all instantaneously symbolized in one flash of Temper.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000000|Hence it is not enough to deal with the Temper.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000002|Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting something in-a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000003|Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000006|Time does not change men.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000013_000002|I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000016_000001|In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative fellowship.
train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000017_000004|To be trusted is to be saved.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000000_000005|The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000000_000007|And
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000001|Practice.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000003|Practice.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000004|What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer?
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000005|Practice.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000007|Practice.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000013|And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000005_000000|What was Christ doing in the carpenter's shop?
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000005_000008|It is growing more beautiful, though you see it not; and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000005_000009|Therefore keep in the midst of life.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000000|How?
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000006|And love is something more than all its elements-a palpitating, quivering, sensitive, living thing. By synthesis of all the colors, men can make whiteness, they cannot make light.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000007|By synthesis of all the virtues, men can make virtue, they cannot make love.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000010|We try to copy those who have it.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000012|We watch.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000004|We cannot help it.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000008|Stand before that mirror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the same image from tenderness to tenderness.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000012|And so look at this Perfect Character, this Perfect Life.
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000013|Look at
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000014_000000|"God loves me!
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000014_000001|God loves me!"
train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000015_000004|And there is no other way to get it. There is no mystery about it.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000000_000001|WHAT YOKES ARE FOR.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000001_000000|There is still one doubt to clear up.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000001_000001|After the statement, "Learn of Me," Christ throws in the disconcerting qualification:
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000003_000002|Is the Christian life, after all, what its enemies take it for-an additional weight to the already great woe of life, some extra punctiliousness about duty, some painful devotion to observances, some heavy restriction and trammeling of all that is joyous and free in the world?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000003_000003|Is life not hard and sorrowful enough without being fettered with yet another yoke?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000001|Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000002|Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000003|It is just the opposite.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000004|It is to make its burden light.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000005|Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000006|Worked by means of a yoke, it is light.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000007|A yoke is not an instrument of torture; it is
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000000|It is not a malicious contrivance for making work hard; it is a gentle device to make hard labor light.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000001|It is not meant to give pain, but to save pain.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000003|For generations we have had homilies on "The Yoke of Christ"--some delighting in portraying its narrow exactions; some seeking in these exactions the marks of its divinity; others apologizing for it, and toning it down; still others assuring us that, although it be very bad, it is not to be compared with the positive blessings of Christianity.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000004|How many, especially among the young, has this one mistaken phrase driven forever away from the kingdom of God?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000007_000001|It is the literal wooden yoke which He, with His own hands in the carpenter shop, had probably often made.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000007_000002|He knew the difference between a smooth yoke and a rough one, a bad fit and a good fit; the difference also it made to the patient animal which had to wear it. The rough yoke galled, and the burden was heavy; the smooth yoke caused no pain, and the load was lightly drawn.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000000|And what was the "burden"?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000002|It was what all men bear.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000003|It was simply life, human life itself, the general burden of life which all must carry with them from the cradle to the grave.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000004|Christ saw that men took life painfully.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000006|How to carry this burden of life had been the whole world's problem.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000007|It is still the whole world's problem.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000009|Take life as I take it.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000010|Look at it from My point of view.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000011|Interpret it upon My principles.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000012|Take My yoke and learn of Me, and you will find it easy.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000009_000001|That would be to absolve him from living, since it is life itself that is the burden.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000009_000002|What Christianity does propose is to make it tolerable.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000011_000000|is simply His secret for the alleviation of human life, His prescription for the best and happiest method of living.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000011_000002|The harness they put on is antiquated.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000011_000003|A rough, ill fitted collar at the best, they make its strain and friction past enduring, by placing it where the neck is most sensitive; and by mere continuous irritation this sensitiveness increases until the whole nature is quick and sore.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000012_000000|This is the origin, among other things, of a disease called "touchiness"--a disease which, in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of restlessness in the world.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000013_000001|It has a perfectly miraculous gift of healing.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000013_000002|Without doing any violence to human nature it sets it right with life, harmonizing it with all surrounding things, and restoring those who are jaded with the fatigue and dust of the world to a new grace of living.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000013_000003|In the mere matter of altering the perspective of life and changing the proportions of things, its function in lightening the care of man is altogether its own.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000014_000001|Suppose the attraction of the earth were removed?
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000014_000004|What was a ton yesterday is not half a ton today.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000014_000005|So without changing one's circumstances, merely by offering a wider horizon and a different standard, it alters the whole aspect of the world.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000015_000001|But let us be quite sure when we speak of Christianity that we mean Christ's Christianity.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000015_000002|Other versions are either caricatures, or exaggerations, or misunderstandings, or shortsighted and surface readings.
train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000015_000003|For the most part their attainment is hopeless and the results wretched.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000001_000000|Butter.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000002_000000|It is of the first importance that every thing connected with milk and butter should be kept clean; if the milk acquires an unpleasant taste, it communicates it to the butter.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000002_000001|Tin pans are best to keep milk in, and they should be painted on the outside to keep them from rusting when they are put in water.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000003_000000|In summer, milk should be kept as cool as possible; before it is strained, the pans and strainer should be rinsed with cold water, and the milk not covered until it is cold, as soon as the cream rises sufficiently, it should be skimmed, and put in a large tin bucket with a lid that fits down tight, and stirred every day.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000003_000001|Butter will be spoiled by neglecting to stir the cream, a yellow scum will form on it, which gives it an unpleasant taste.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000004_000000|If you have no way of keeping your cream cool in hot weather, it ought to be churned twice a week, the earlier in the morning the better. Always put cold water in your churn the night before you use it, and change it in the morning just before you put in the cream.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000004_000001|When the butter is gathering, take off the lid of the churn to let the heated air escape, and move it gently, have your butter ladle and pan scalded and cooled, take out the butter and work it till all the milk is out, scrape some lumps of salt, and work in, cover it up, and set away in a cool place till the next morning, when work it again.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000005_000001|The air of a well will keep butter sweet for several weeks in the hottest weather.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000005_000003|It can be kept in this way as firm and sweet as in an ice house.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000005_000005|If you print butter for home use, it is not necessary to weigh it, make it out in little lumps that will weigh about half a pound, scald the print and ladle, and put them in cold water, as you print each lump, lay it on a dish.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000008_000000|To put up Butter for Winter.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000009_000000|Work it well, and salt it rather more than for table use, and pack it in stone pans or jars, with a thin cloth on the top, and salt on it an inch thick, keep it in a cool place, and if it is sweet when made, it will keep good till spring.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000009_000001|It should be tied up with paper to exclude the air.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000011_000001|Sift these ingredients one above another, on a large sized sheet of paper, then mix them well together, keep this mixture covered up close in a nice jar, and placed in a dry closet.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000012_000000|When your butter is worked and salted in the usual way, and ready to put in the jars, use one ounce of this composition to every pound of butter, work it well into the mass.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000013_000000|Butter cured in this way, (it is said) will keep good for several years. I have never kept it longer than from the fall until late in the spring, it was then very sweet and good.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000014_000000|It will not do to use for a month, because earlier, the salts will not be sufficiently blended with it.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000014_000001|It should be kept in wooden vessels, or nice stone jars.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000014_000002|Earthen ware jars are not suitable for butter, as during the decomposition of the salts, they corrode the glazing; and the butter becomes rancid and unhealthy.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000015_000001|Thus in cities during warm weather butter is often cheap, a house keeper may then purchase her winter supply.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000016_000001|It is very important to keep the butter in a cool place."
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000017_000000|A great deal depends on the butter being well worked.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000017_000002|A large churning may be more effectually cleared of the butter milk in a few minutes, than in the old way in an hour.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000017_000003|By doing it quickly, it does not get soft and oily in hot weather.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000018_000000|A Pickle for Butter.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000019_000001|If the butter is good when put up in the fall, it will keep till you can get grass butter, in the spring.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000019_000002|The jars for this purpose should not have been previously used for pickles.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000021_000000|Persons living in the country sometimes have more milk than they can use, of which cheese may be made.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000022_000000|Have a clean cloth in the vat, put in the curd, close it over and put on the cover; if you have no cheese press, a heavy stone will answer the purpose; press it very gently at first, to keep the richness from running out.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000023_000000|Cheese made in this way has a rich, mild taste, and most persons are fond of it.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000023_000001|If you get eight gallons of milk a day, you may make cheese twice a week, and still have butter for the family.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000024_000000|Pennsylvania Cream Cheese.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000025_000000|The cheese called by this name is not in reality made of cream.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000025_000002|In six or seven hours it will be ready to take out of the press, when rub it over with fine salt, set it in a dry dark place, change it from one plate to another twice a day, and it will be fit for use in less than a week.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000026_000000|To Prepare Rennet for making Whey or Cheese.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000028_000000|Cottage Cheese or Smearcase.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000030_000000|Roasting Coffee.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000031_000000|Pick out the stones and black grains from the coffee, and if it is green, let it dry in an oven, or on a stove, then roast it till it is a light brown, be careful that it does not burn, as a few burnt grains will spoil the flavor of the whole.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000000|White coffee need not be dried before roasting, and will do in less time.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000002|The whites of one or two eggs, well beaten, and stirred in the coffee when half cold, and well mixed through it, are sufficient to clear two pounds, and is the most economical way of using eggs.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000003|It will answer either for summer or winter.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000005|Many persons use coffee roasters,--but some old experienced housekeepers think that the fine flavor flies off more than when done in a dutch oven, and constantly stirred.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000000|If you are careful, it can be done very well in the dripping pan of a stove.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000002|Coffee may be roasted in a dripping pan in a brick oven.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000003|After the bread is taken out, there will be heat sufficient, put about two pounds in a pan, stir it a few times-it will roast gradually, and if not sufficiently brown, finish in a stove or before the fire.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000004|If you have a large family, by using several pans, six pounds of coffee can thus be roasted, and but little time spent on it.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000034_000000|Boiling Coffee.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000035_000001|If you boil coffee too long, the aromatic flavor flies off.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000037_000000|Always be sure that the kettle is boiling when you make tea, or the flavor will not be so good, scald the pot, and allow a tea spoonful for each person.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000037_000002|Persons with weak nerves should never drink strong tea and coffee.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000037_000004|Before pouring out tea, it should be stirred with a spoon that the strength of each cup may be alike.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000038_000000|Milk is the best drink for children, but if that cannot be had, sweetened water, with a little milk, will do.
train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000039_000000|A New Mode of Preparing Chocolate.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000001_000000|one.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000001_000001|The Master said, Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000002_000001|The Master said, Loveless men cannot bear need long, they cannot bear fortune long.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000003_000000|three.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000005_000000|five.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000007_000000|six.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000008_000001|The Master said, A man and his faults are of a piece.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000008_000002|By watching his faults we learn whether love be his.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000009_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000010_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000012_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000012_000002|He follows right.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000013_000000|eleven.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000014_000000|twelve.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000014_000001|The Master said, The chase of gain is rich in hate.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000015_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000015_000001|The Master said, What is it to sway a kingdom by courteous yielding?
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000016_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000017_000000|fifteen.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000019_000000|Yes, said Tseng tzu.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000020_000000|After the Master had left, the disciples asked what was meant.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000022_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000024_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000025_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000025_000002|If thou must travel, hold a set course.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000026_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000027_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000029_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000030_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000031_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000002_000000|one.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000007_000000|three.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000007_000001|Tzu kung asked, And what of me?
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000008_000000|Thou art a vessel, said the Master.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000009_000000|What kind of vessel?
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000010_000000|A rich temple vessel.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000011_000000|four.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000015_000000|five.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000018_000000|six.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000019_000000|When Tzu lu heard this he was glad.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000021_000000|seven.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000029_000000|eight.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000032_000000|nine.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000038_000001|Why chide with Yue?
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000039_000002|I righted this on Yue.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000040_000000|ten.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000040_000001|The Master said, I have met no firm man.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000046_000000|thirteen.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000047_000000|fourteen.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000050_000000|sixteen.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000051_000000|seventeen.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000052_000000|eighteen.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000053_000000|He was faithful, said the Master.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000055_000000|I do not know, said the Master: how should this amount to love?
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000056_000001|On coming to another kingdom he said, 'Like my lord Ts'ui,' and left it.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000059_000000|I do not know, said the Master: how should this amount to love?
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000060_000000|nineteen.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000060_000001|Chi Wen thought thrice before acting.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000062_000000|twenty.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000064_000000|twenty one.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000065_000000|twenty two.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000066_000000|twenty three.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000067_000000|twenty four.
train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000068_000000|twenty five.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000000|In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books jude had grown callous to the shabby trick played him by the dead languages.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000001|In fact, his disappointment at the nature of those tongues had, after a while, been the means of still further glorifying the erudition of Christminster.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000002|To acquire languages, departed or living in spite of such obstinacies as he now knew them inherently to possess, was a herculean performance which gradually led him on to a greater interest in it than in the presupposed patent process.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000003|The mountain weight of material under which the ideas lay in those dusty volumes called the classics piqued him into a dogged, mouselike subtlety of attempt to move it piecemeal.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000004_000000|He had endeavoured to make his presence tolerable to his crusty maiden aunt by assisting her to the best of his ability, and the business of the little cottage bakery had grown in consequence.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000004_000001|An aged horse with a hanging head had been purchased for eight pounds at a sale, a creaking cart with a whity brown tilt obtained for a few pounds more, and in this turn out it became Jude's business thrice a week to carry loaves of bread to the villagers and solitary cotters immediately round Marygreen.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000006_000000|The only copies he had been able to lay hands on were old Delphin editions, because they were superseded, and therefore cheap.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000006_000002|The hampered and lonely itinerant conscientiously covered up the marginal readings, and used them merely on points of construction, as he would have used a comrade or tutor who should have happened to be passing by.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000006_000003|And though jude may have had little chance of becoming a scholar by these rough and ready means, he was in the way of getting into the groove he wished to follow.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000008_000000|He was frequently met in the lanes by pedestrians and others without his seeing them, and by degrees the people of the neighbourhood began to talk about his method of combining work and play (such they considered his reading to be), which, though probably convenient enough to himself, was not altogether a safe proceeding for other travellers along the same roads.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000008_000002|Then a private resident of an adjoining place informed the local policeman that the baker's boy should not be allowed to read while driving, and insisted that it was the constable's duty to catch him in the act, and take him to the police court at Alfredston, and get him fined for dangerous practices on the highway.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000008_000003|The policeman thereupon lay in wait for jude, and one day accosted him and cautioned him.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000009_000002|To do that official justice, he did not put himself much in the way of Jude's bread cart, considering that in such a lonely district the chief danger was to jude himself, and often on seeing the white tilt over the hedges he would move in another direction.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000010_000002|The sun was going down, and the full moon was rising simultaneously behind the woods in the opposite quarter.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000010_000004|He turned first to the shiny goddess, who seemed to look so softly and critically at his doings, then to the disappearing luminary on the other hand, as he began:
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000012_000000|The horse stood still till he had finished the hymn, which jude repeated under the sway of a polytheistic fancy that he would never have thought of humouring in broad daylight.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000000|Reaching home, he mused over his curious superstition, innate or acquired, in doing this, and the strange forgetfulness which had led to such a lapse from common sense and custom in one who wished, next to being a scholar, to be a Christian divine.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000001|It had all come of reading heathen works exclusively.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000002|The more he thought of it the more convinced he was of his inconsistency.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000003|He began to wonder whether he could be reading quite the right books for his object in life.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000004|Certainly there seemed little harmony between this pagan literature and the mediaeval colleges at Christminster, that ecclesiastical romance in stone.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000014_000001|He had dabbled in Clarke's Homer, but had never yet worked much at the New Testament in the Greek, though he possessed a copy, obtained by post from a second-hand bookseller.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000014_000002|He abandoned the now familiar Ionic for a new dialect, and for a long time onward limited his reading almost entirely to the Gospels and Epistles in Griesbach's text.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000014_000003|Moreover, on going into Alfredston one day, he was introduced to patristic literature by finding at the bookseller's some volumes of the Fathers which had been left behind by an insolvent clergyman of the neighbourhood.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000015_000000|As another outcome of this change of groove he visited on Sundays all the churches within a walk, and deciphered the Latin inscriptions on fifteenth century brasses and tombs.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000015_000001|On one of these pilgrimages he met with a hunch backed old woman of great intelligence, who read everything she could lay her hands on, and she told him more yet of the romantic charms of the city of light and lore.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000016_000000|But how live in that city?
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000016_000001|At present he had no income at all.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000016_000002|He had no trade or calling of any dignity or stability whatever on which he could subsist while carrying out an intellectual labour which might spread over many years.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000000|What was most required by citizens?
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000001|Food, clothing, and shelter. An income from any work in preparing the first would be too meagre; for making the second he felt a distaste; the preparation of the third requisite he inclined to.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000002|They built in a city; therefore he would learn to build.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000003|He thought of his unknown uncle, his cousin Susanna's father, an ecclesiastical worker in metal, and somehow mediaeval art in any material was a trade for which he had rather a fancy.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000004|He could not go far wrong in following his uncle's footsteps, and engaging himself awhile with the carcases that contained the scholar souls.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000018_000000|As a preliminary he obtained some small blocks of freestone, metal not being available, and suspending his studies awhile, occupied his spare half hours in copying the heads and capitals in his parish church.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000019_000000|There was a stone mason of a humble kind in Alfredston, and as soon as he had found a substitute for himself in his aunt's little business, he offered his services to this man for a trifling wage. Here jude had the opportunity of learning at least the rudiments of freestone working.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000019_000001|Some time later he went to a church builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000020_000000|Not forgetting that he was only following up this handicraft as a prop to lean on while he prepared those greater engines which he flattered himself would be better fitted for him, he yet was interested in his pursuit on its own account.
train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000020_000001|He now had lodgings during the week in the little town, whence he returned to Marygreen village every Saturday evening.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000002_000001|It being the end of the week he had left work early, and had come out of the town by a round about route which he did not usually frequent, having promised to call at a flour mill near Cresscombe to execute a commission for his aunt.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000000|He was in an enthusiastic mood.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000001|He seemed to see his way to living comfortably in Christminster in the course of a year or two, and knocking at the doors of one of those strongholds of learning of which he had dreamed so much.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000002|He might, of course, have gone there now, in some capacity or other, but he preferred to enter the city with a little more assurance as to means than he could be said to feel at present.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000003|A warm self content suffused him when he considered what he had already done.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000004|Now and then as he went along he turned to face the peeps of country on either side of him.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000004_000000|"I have acquired quite an average student's power to read the common ancient classics, Latin in particular." This was true, jude possessing a facility in that language which enabled him with great ease to himself to beguile his lonely walks by imaginary conversations therein.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000005_000002|I wish there was only one dialect all the same.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000006_000000|"I have done some mathematics, including the first six and the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid; and algebra as far as simple equations.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000007_000000|"I know something of the Fathers, and something of Roman and English history.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000008_000000|"These things are only a beginning.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000008_000002|Hence I must next concentrate all my energies on settling in Christminster. Once there I shall so advance, with the assistance I shall there get, that my present knowledge will appear to me but as childish ignorance.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000008_000003|I must save money, and I will; and one of those colleges shall open its doors to me-shall welcome whom now it would spurn, if I wait twenty years for the welcome.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000000|And then he continued to dream, and thought he might become even a bishop by leading a pure, energetic, wise, Christian life.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000001|And what an example he would set!
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000003|Well, on second thoughts, a bishop was absurd.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000005|Perhaps a man could be as good and as learned and as useful in the capacity of archdeacon as in that of bishop.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000006|Yet he thought of the bishop again.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000012_000001|Hoity toity!"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000012_000002|The sounds were expressed in light voices on the other side of the hedge, but he did not notice them. His thoughts went on:
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000014_000000|"Hoity toity!"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000015_000000|"--but I can work hard.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000015_000001|I have staying power in abundance, thank God! and it is that which tells....
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000015_000002|Yes, Christminster shall be my Alma Mater; and I'll be her beloved son, in whom she shall be well pleased."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000016_000000|In his deep concentration on these transactions of the future Jude's walk had slackened, and he was now standing quite still, looking at the ground as though the future were thrown thereon by a magic lantern.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000016_000001|On a sudden something smacked him sharply in the ear, and he became aware that a soft cold substance had been flung at him, and had fallen at his feet.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000017_000000|A glance told him what it was-a piece of flesh, the characteristic part of a barrow pig, which the countrymen used for greasing their boots, as it was useless for any other purpose.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000017_000001|Pigs were rather plentiful hereabout, being bred and fattened in large numbers in certain parts of North Wessex.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000018_000000|On the other side of the hedge was a stream, whence, as he now for the first time realized, had come the slight sounds of voices and laughter that had mingled with his dreams.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000018_000001|He mounted the bank and looked over the fence.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000018_000002|On the further side of the stream stood a small homestead, having a garden and pig sties attached; in front of it, beside the brook, three young women were kneeling, with buckets and platters beside them containing heaps of pigs' chitterlings, which they were washing in the running water.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000019_000000|"Thank you!" said jude severely.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000020_000000|"I DIDN'T throw it, I tell you!" asserted one girl to her neighbour, as if unconscious of the young man's presence.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000021_000000|"Nor I," the second answered.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000022_000000|"Oh, Anny, how can you!" said the third.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000023_000000|"If I had thrown anything at all, it shouldn't have been THAT!"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000024_000001|I don't care for him!" And they laughed and continued their work, without looking up, still ostentatiously accusing each other.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000025_000000|jude grew sarcastic as he wiped his face, and caught their remarks.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000026_000000|"YOU didn't do it-oh no!" he said to the up stream one of the three.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000027_000000|She whom he addressed was a fine dark eyed girl, not exactly handsome, but capable of passing as such at a little distance, despite some coarseness of skin and fibre.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000027_000001|She had a round and prominent bosom, full lips, perfect teeth, and the rich complexion of a Cochin hen's egg.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000029_000000|"Whoever did it was wasteful of other people's property."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000030_000000|"Oh, that's nothing."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000031_000000|"But you want to speak to me, I suppose?"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000032_000000|"Oh yes; if you like to."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000033_000000|"Shall I clamber across, or will you come to the plank above here?"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000035_000000|Springing to her feet, she said: "Bring back what is lying there."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000000|jude was now aware that no message on any matter connected with her father's business had prompted her signal to him.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000001|He set down his basket of tools, picked up the scrap of offal, beat a pathway for himself with his stick, and got over the hedge.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000002|They walked in parallel lines, one on each bank of the stream, towards the small plank bridge.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000003|As the girl drew nearer to it, she gave without jude perceiving it, an adroit little suck to the interior of each of her cheeks in succession, by which curious and original manoeuvre she brought as by magic upon its smooth and rotund surface a perfect dimple, which she was able to retain there as long as she continued to smile.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000004|This production of dimples at will was a not unknown operation, which many attempted, but only a few succeeded in accomplishing.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000037_000000|They met in the middle of the plank, and jude, tossing back her missile, seemed to expect her to explain why she had audaciously stopped him by this novel artillery instead of by hailing him.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000040_000000|"Oh no"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000041_000000|"We are doing this for my father, who naturally doesn't want anything thrown away.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000041_000001|He makes that into dubbin." She nodded towards the fragment on the grass.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000042_000000|"What made either of the others throw it, I wonder?" jude asked, politely accepting her assertion, though he had very large doubts as to its truth.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000043_000000|"Impudence.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000043_000001|Don't tell folk it was I, mind!"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000046_000000|"Do!"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000047_000000|"Arabella Donn.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000047_000001|I'm living here."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000048_000000|"I must have known it if I had often come this way.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000048_000001|But I mostly go straight along the high road."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000049_000000|"My father is a pig breeder, and these girls are helping me wash the innerds for black puddings and such like."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000050_000000|They talked a little more and a little more, as they stood regarding each other and leaning against the hand rail of the bridge.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000050_000001|The unvoiced call of woman to man, which was uttered very distinctly by Arabella's personality, held jude to the spot against his intention-almost against his will, and in a way new to his experience.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000051_000000|"What a nice looking girl you are!" he murmured, though the words had not been necessary to express his sense of her magnetism.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000053_000000|"I don't suppose I could?" he answered
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000054_000000|"That's for you to think on.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000054_000001|There's nobody after me just now, though there med be in a week or two." She had spoken this without a smile, and the dimples disappeared.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000055_000000|jude felt himself drifting strangely, but could not help it.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000055_000001|"Will you let me?"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000056_000000|"I don't mind."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000057_000000|By this time she had managed to get back one dimple by turning her face aside for a moment and repeating the odd little sucking operation before mentioned, jude being still unconscious of more than a general impression of her appearance.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000057_000001|"Next Sunday?" he hazarded. "To morrow, that is?"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000058_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000059_000000|"Shall I call?"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000060_000000|"Yes."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000062_000000|jude Fawley shouldered his tool basket and resumed his lonely way, filled with an ardour at which he mentally stood at gaze.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000062_000001|He had just inhaled a single breath from a new atmosphere, which had evidently been hanging round him everywhere he went, for he knew not how long, but had somehow been divided from his actual breathing as by a sheet of glass.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000062_000002|The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000063_000001|It had been no vestal who chose THAT missile for opening her attack on him. He saw this with his intellectual eye, just for a short; fleeting while, as by the light of a falling lamp one might momentarily see an inscription on a wall before being enshrouded in darkness.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000063_000002|And then this passing discriminative power was withdrawn, and jude was lost to all conditions of things in the advent of a fresh and wild pleasure, that of having found a new channel for emotional interest hitherto unsuspected, though it had lain close beside him.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000063_000003|He was to meet this enkindling one of the other sex on the following Sunday.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000064_000000|Meanwhile the girl had joined her companions, and she silently resumed her flicking and sousing of the chitterlings in the pellucid stream.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000066_000000|"I don't know.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000067_000000|"Lord! he's nobody, though you med think so.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000067_000002|Since then he's been very stuck up, and always reading.
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000067_000003|He wants to be a scholar, they say."
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000068_000001|Don't you think it, my child!"
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000069_000000|"Oh, don't ye!
train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000069_000003|Whether you do or whether you don't, he's as simple as a child.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000001_000000|It is dark here in the forest.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000001_000002|The moss is soft and warm.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000001_000004|We have no bed now, save the moss, and no future, save the beasts.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000002_000001|No men stopped us at the gate.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000004_000002|It is true that our tunic was torn and stained with brown stains which had been blood. We raised our right arm and we said:
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000007_000000|"Who are you, our brother?
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000007_000001|For you do not look like a Scholar."
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000009_000000|Then it was as if a great wind had stricken the hall, for all the Scholars spoke at once, and they were angry and frightened.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000010_000000|"A Street Sweeper!
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000010_000003|It is against all the rules and all the laws!"
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000014_000001|We spoke of it, and of our long quest, and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000014_000003|Then we put the wires to the box, and they all bent forward and sat still, watching.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000014_000005|And slowly, slowly as a flush of blood, a red flame trembled in the wire. Then the wire glowed.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000015_000000|But terror struck the men of the Council.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000017_000002|It is yours.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000017_000003|We give it to you."
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000018_000000|Still they would not move.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000020_000000|But they looked upon us, and suddenly we were afraid.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000022_000001|They moved to the table and the others followed.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000032_000003|We do not care.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000032_000004|But the light?
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000032_000005|What will you do with the light?"
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000041_000002|We cannot alter the Plans again so soon."
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000046_000000|"It must be destroyed!"
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000049_000000|"You fools!" we cried.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000049_000002|You thrice damned fools!"
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000051_000000|We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000051_000003|And the road seemed not to be flat before us, but as if it were leaping up to meet us, and we waited for the earth to rise and strike us in the face.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000051_000004|But we ran.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000052_000002|Then we knew.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000052_000003|We were in the Uncharted Forest.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000053_000001|We crawled to it, we fell upon it, our face in our arms, and we lay still.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000054_000000|We lay thus for a long time.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000054_000001|Then we rose, we took our box and walked on into the forest.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000055_000000|It mattered not where we went.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000055_000002|We had nothing to fear from them. The forest disposes of its own victims.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000055_000004|So we walked on, our box in our arms, our heart empty.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000056_000001|Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone. And we have heard of the corruption to be found in solitude.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000057_000000|We know these things, but we do not care.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000057_000001|We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000058_000002|We have not built this box for the good of our brothers.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000058_000003|We built it for its own sake.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000059_000000|Then a blow of pain struck us, our first and our only.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000059_000001|We thought of the Golden One.
train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000059_000003|It is best.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000002_000001|We hid in the bushes, and we waited.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000002_000002|The steps came closer.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000002_000003|And then we saw the fold of a white tunic among the trees, and a gleam of gold.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000004_000001|And they could not speak.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000007_000000|But they whispered only:
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000018_000000|Then they knelt, and bowed their golden head before us.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000019_000000|We had never thought of that which we did.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000019_000001|We bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000019_000003|The Golden One breathed once, and their breath was a moan, and then their arms closed around us.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000020_000000|We stood together for a long time.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000022_000001|Fear nothing of the forest.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000022_000002|There is no danger in solitude.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000022_000005|Give us your hand.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000025_000000|We have walked for many days.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000002|At night, we choose a clearing, and we build a ring of fires around it.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000003|We sleep in the midst of that ring, and the beasts dare not attack us.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000005|The fires smoulder as a crown of jewels around us, and smoke stands still in the air, in columns made blue by the moonlight.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000006|We sleep together in the midst of the ring, the arms of the Golden One around us, their head upon our breast.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000027_000000|Some day, we shall stop and build a house, when we shall have gone far enough.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000028_000001|When questions come to puzzle us, we walk faster, then turn and forget all things as we watch the Golden One following. The shadows of leaves fall upon their arms, as they spread the branches apart, but their shoulders are in the sun
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000028_000003|We watch the leaf which has fallen upon their shoulder, and it lies at the curve of their neck, and a drop of dew glistens upon it like a jewel.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000028_000004|They approach us, and they stop, laughing, knowing what we think, and they wait obediently, without questions, till it pleases us to turn and go on.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000029_000000|We go on and we bless the earth under our feet.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000029_000001|But questions come to us again, as we walk in silence.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000029_000003|If this is the great evil of being alone, then what is good and what is evil?
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000031_000001|But we lived not, when we toiled for our brothers, we were only weary.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000031_000005|Thus do we wonder.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000032_000001|What is that error?
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000032_000002|We do not know, but the knowledge struggles within us, struggles to be born.
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000036_000000|They were silent, then they spoke slowly, and their words were halting, like the words of a child learning to speak for the first time:
train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000038_000000|We looked into each other's eyes and we knew that the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000001_000001|I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000002_000001|I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000002_000002|I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000003_000001|Then I called the Golden One, and I told her what I had read and what I had learned.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000003_000002|She looked at me and the first words she spoke were:
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000004_000000|"I love you."
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000006_000000|"My dearest one, it is not proper for men to be without names.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000006_000001|There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000006_000005|And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000008_000001|Her name was Gaea.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000008_000002|Let this be your name, my Golden One, for you are to be the mother of a new kind of gods."
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000010_000000|Now I look ahead.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000003|I have found the engine which produced this light. I shall learn how to repair it and how to make it work again.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000004|I shall learn how to use the wires which carry this power.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000006|For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000007|I have my mind.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000013_000000|Then here, on this mountaintop, with the world below me and nothing above me but the sun, I shall live my own truth.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000013_000001|Gaea is pregnant with my child.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000013_000003|He will be taught to say "I" and to bear the pride of it.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000015_000001|And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000015_000004|Freedom from what?
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000015_000007|That is freedom.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000001|But he broke their chains.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000002|Then he was enslaved by the kings.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000003|But he broke their chains.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000004|He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000005|But he broke their chains.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000006|He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000017_000000|But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000018_000000|What brought it to pass?
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000018_000002|What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission?
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000019_000001|Those men who survived those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them-those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000019_000002|Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000020_000000|But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000000|Perhaps, in those days, there were a few among men, a few of clear sight and clean soul, who refused to surrender that word.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000001|What agony must have been theirs before that which they saw coming and could not stop! Perhaps they cried out in protest and in warning.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000004|And they chose to perish, for they knew.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000005|To them, I send my salute across the centuries, and my pity.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000001|And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000003|For that which they died to save can never perish.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000004|Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000005|It may sleep, but it will awaken.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000006|It may wear chains, but it will break through.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000008|Man, not men.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000023_000001|And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000023_000004|And all my brothers, and the Councils of my brothers, will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000001|For the freedom of Man.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000002|For his rights.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000003|For his life.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000004|For his honor.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000025_000000|And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000025_000001|The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle.
train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000026_000000|The sacred word:
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000002_000005|The monarch, after making some inquiry into the rank and character of his rival, despatched the informer with a present of a pair of purple slippers, to complete the magnificence of his Imperial habit.
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000002_000008|But that youth was the son of Marcellus, the general of cavalry, who, in the first campaign of the Gallic war, had deserted the standard of the Caesar and the republic.
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000002_000009|Without appearing to indulge his personal resentment, Julian might easily confound the crime of the son and of the father; but he was reconciled by the distress of Marcellus, and the liberality of the emperor endeavored to heal the wound which had been inflicted by the hand of justice.
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000004|The office, or rather the name, of consul, was cherished by a prince who contemplated with reverence the ruins of the republic; and the same behavior which had been assumed by the prudence of Augustus was adopted by Julian from choice and inclination.
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000005|On the calends of January, at break of day, the new consuls, Mamertinus and Nevitta, hastened to the palace to salute the emperor.
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000006|As soon as he was informed of their approach, he leaped from his throne, eagerly advanced to meet them, and compelled the blushing magistrates to receive the demonstrations of his affected humility.
train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000007|From the palace they proceeded to the senate.
train-clean-360/949/134660/949_134660_000010_000003|They fixed, by unquestionable tradition, the scene of each memorable event.
train-clean-360/949/134660/949_134660_000018_000005|This minister, to whom Julian communicated, without reserve, his most careless levities, and his most serious counsels, received an extraordinary commission to restore, in its pristine beauty, the temple of Jerusalem; and the diligence of Alypius required and obtained the strenuous support of the governor of Palestine.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000002_000000|THE PROCESS OF COLONIZATION
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000003_000001|It involved the use of capital to pay for their passage, to sustain them on the voyage, and to start them on the way of production.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000003_000002|Under this stern economic necessity, Puritans, Scotch Irish, Germans, and all were alike laid.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000001|What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture. Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000002|Henry Cabot Lodge is authority for the statement that "the settlers of New England were drawn from the country gentlemen, small farmers, and yeomanry of the mother country....
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000004|They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind." Though it would be interesting to know how accurate this statement is or how applicable to the other colonies, no study has as yet been made to gratify that interest.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000005|For the present it is an unsolved problem just how many of the colonists were able to bear the cost of their own transfer to the New World.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000005_000001|The great barrier in the way of the poor who wanted to go to America was the cost of the sea voyage.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000005_000002|To overcome this difficulty a plan was worked out whereby shipowners and other persons of means furnished the passage money to immigrants in return for their promise, or bond, to work for a term of years to repay the sum advanced.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000005_000003|This system was called indentured servitude.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000000|It is probable that the number of bond servants exceeded the original twenty thousand Puritans, the yeomen, the Virginia gentlemen, and the Huguenots combined.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000001|All the way down the coast from Massachusetts to Georgia were to be found in the fields, kitchens, and workshops, men, women, and children serving out terms of bondage generally ranging from five to seven years.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000002|In the proprietary colonies the proportion of bond servants was very high.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000004|Hence the gates of the proprietary colonies were flung wide open. Every inducement was offered to immigrants in the form of cheap land, and special efforts were made to increase the population by importing servants.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000005|In Pennsylvania, it was not uncommon to find a master with fifty bond servants on his estate.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000000|The story of this traffic in white servants is one of the most striking things in the history of labor.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000001|Bondmen differed from the serfs of the feudal age in that they were not bound to the soil but to the master. They likewise differed from the negro slaves in that their servitude had a time limit.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000002|Still they were subject to many special disabilities.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000004|A free citizen of Pennsylvania who indulged in horse racing and gambling was let off with a fine; a white servant guilty of the same unlawful conduct was whipped at the post and fined as well.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000008_000001|A bondman could not marry without his master's consent; nor engage in trade; nor refuse work assigned to him.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000008_000002|For an attempt to escape or indeed for any infraction of the law, the term of service was extended. The condition of white bondmen in Virginia, according to Lodge, "was little better than that of slaves.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000008_000003|Loose indentures and harsh laws put them at the mercy of their masters." It would not be unfair to add that such was their lot in all other colonies.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000009_000001|When their weary years of servitude were over, if they survived, they might obtain land of their own or settle as free mechanics in the towns.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000009_000003|For thousands, on the contrary, bondage proved to be a real avenue to freedom and prosperity.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000010_000002|Many of the victims of the practice were young children, for the traffic in them was highly profitable.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000000|In this gruesome business there lurked many tragedies, and very few romances.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000001|Parents were separated from their children and husbands from their wives.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000002|Hundreds of skilled artisans-carpenters, smiths, and weavers-utterly disappeared as if swallowed up by death.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000004|In one case a young man who was forcibly carried over the sea lived to make his way back to England and establish his claim to a peerage.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000012_000001|The Americans protested vigorously but ineffectually against this practice. Indeed, they exaggerated its evils, for many of the "criminals" were only mild offenders against unduly harsh and cruel laws.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000012_000003|Other transported offenders were "political criminals"; that is, persons who criticized or opposed the government.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000012_000004|This class included now Irish who revolted against British rule in Ireland; now Cavaliers who championed the king against the Puritan revolutionists; Puritans, in turn, dispatched after the monarchy was restored; and Scotch and English subjects in general who joined in political uprisings against the king.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000001|When this form of bondage was first introduced into Virginia in sixteen nineteen, it was looked upon as a temporary necessity to be discarded with the increase of the white population.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000002|Moreover it does not appear that those planters who first bought negroes at the auction block intended to establish a system of permanent bondage.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000003|Only by a slow process did chattel slavery take firm root and become recognized as the leading source of the labor supply.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000004|In sixteen fifty, thirty years after the introduction of slavery, there were only three hundred Africans in Virginia.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000000|The great increase in later years was due in no small measure to the inordinate zeal for profits that seized slave traders both in Old and in New England.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000001|Finding it relatively easy to secure negroes in Africa, they crowded the Southern ports with their vessels.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000002|The English Royal African Company sent to America annually between seventeen thirteen and seventeen forty three from five to ten thousand slaves.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000003|The ship owners of New England were not far behind their English brethren in pushing this extraordinary traffic.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000002|This effort was futile, for the royal governor promptly vetoed it.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000003|From time to time similar bills were passed, only to meet with royal disapproval.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000004|South Carolina, in seventeen sixty, absolutely prohibited importation; but the measure was killed by the British crown.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000005|As late as seventeen seventy two, Virginia, not daunted by a century of rebuffs, sent to George the third a petition in this vein: "The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear, will endanger the very existence of Your Majesty's American dominions....
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000006|Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly beseech Your Majesty to remove all those restraints on Your Majesty's governors of this colony which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce."
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000000|All such protests were without avail.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000001|The negro population grew by leaps and bounds, until on the eve of the Revolution it amounted to more than half a million.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000002|In five states-Maryland, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia-the slaves nearly equalled or actually exceeded the whites in number.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000003|In South Carolina they formed almost two thirds of the population.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000005|To the North, the proportion of slaves steadily diminished although chattel servitude was on the same legal footing as in the South.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000000|The climate, the soil, the commerce, and the industry of the North were all unfavorable to the growth of a servile population.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000001|Still, slavery, though sectional, was a part of the national system of economy.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000002|Northern ships carried slaves to the Southern colonies and the produce of the plantations to Europe.
train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000003|"If the Northern states will consult their interest, they will not oppose the increase in slaves which will increase the commodities of which they will become the carriers," said john Rutledge, of South Carolina, in the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000011_000000|Irruption of Northern people upon the Roman territories-Visigoths-Barbarians called in by Stilicho-Vandals in Africa-Franks and Burgundians give their names to France and Burgundy-The Huns-Angles give the name to England-Attila, king of the Huns, in Italy-Genseric takes Rome-The Lombards.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000013_000000|These migrating masses destroyed the Roman empire by the facilities for settlement which the country offered when the emperors abandoned Rome, the ancient seat of their dominion, and fixed their residence at Constantinople; for by this step they exposed the western empire to the rapine of both their ministers and their enemies, the remoteness of their position preventing them either from seeing or providing for its necessities.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000013_000001|To suffer the overthrow of such an extensive empire, established by the blood of so many brave and virtuous men, showed no less folly in the princes themselves than infidelity in their ministers; for not one irruption alone, but many, contributed to its ruin; and these barbarians exhibited much ability and perseverance in accomplishing their object.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000001|The emperor Theodosius conquered them with great glory; and, being wholly reduced to his power, they no longer selected a sovereign of their own, but, satisfied with the terms which he granted them, lived and fought under his ensigns, and authority.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000002|On the death of Theodosius, his sons Arcadius and Honorius, succeeded to the empire, but not to the talents and fortune of their father; and the times became changed with the princes.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000004|Each of these, after the death of Theodosius, determined not to be governors merely, but to assume sovereign dominion over their respective provinces.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000006|To make the Visigoths their enemies, he advised that the accustomed stipend allowed to this people should be withheld; and as he thought these enemies would not be sufficient alone to disturb the empire, he contrived that the Burgundians, Franks, Vandals, and Alans (a northern people in search of new habitations), should assail the Roman provinces.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000016_000000|After this victory, Alaric died, and his successor, Astolphus, having married Placidia, sister of the emperors, agreed with them to go to the relief of Gaul and Spain, which provinces had been assailed by the Vandals, Burgundians, Alans, and Franks, from the causes before mentioned.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000000|At this time Theodosius, son of Arcadius, succeeded to the empire; and, bestowing little attention on the affairs of the west, caused those who had taken possession to think of securing their acquisitions.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000001|Thus the Vandals ruled Africa; the Alans and Visigoths, Spain; while the Franks and Burgundians not only took Gaul, but each gave their name to the part they occupied; hence one is called France, the other Burgundy.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000003|To these disorders it must be added, that the emperor, seeing himself attacked on so many sides, to lessen the number of his enemies, began to treat first with the Vandals, then with the Franks; a course which diminished his own power, and increased that of the barbarians.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000006|He, a short time previously, in order to possess the entire monarchy, had murdered his brother Bleda; and having thus become very powerful, Andaric, king of the Zepidi, and Velamir, king of the Ostrogoths, became subject to him.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000007|Attila, having entered Italy, laid siege to Aquileia, where he remained without any obstacle for two years, wasting the country round, and dispersing the inhabitants.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000008|This, as will be related in its place, caused the origin of Venice.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000000|Attila having left Italy, Valentinian, emperor of the west, thought of restoring the country; and, that he might be more ready to defend it against the barbarians, abandoned Rome, and removed the seat of government to Ravenna.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000003|Tempted by the hope of booty, he came immediately, and finding Rome abandoned, plundered the city during fourteen days.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000004|He also ravaged many other places in Italy, and then, loaded with wealth, withdrew to Africa.
train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000005|The romans, having returned to their city, and Maximus being dead, elected Avitus, a Roman, as his successor.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000000_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000002_000000|Then we discussed the food question.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000002_000001|George said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000005_000000|We had taken up an oil stove once, but "never again." It had been like living in an oil shop that week.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000000|We tried to get away from it at Marlow.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000001|We left the boat by the bridge, and took a walk through the town to escape it, but it followed us.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000002|The whole town was full of oil.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000004|The High Street stunk of oil; we wondered how people could live in it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000005|And we walked miles upon miles out Birmingham way; but it was no use, the country was steeped in oil.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000000|Therefore, in the present instance, we confined ourselves to methylated spirit.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000001|Even that is bad enough.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000002|You get methylated pie and methylated cake.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000003|But methylated spirit is more wholesome when taken into the system in large quantities than paraffine oil.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000000|For other breakfast things, George suggested eggs and bacon, which were easy to cook, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, and jam.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000002|Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000003|It wants the whole boat to itself.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000004|It goes through the hamper, and gives a cheesy flavour to everything else there.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000005|You can't tell whether you are eating apple pie or German sausage, or strawberries and cream.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000007|There is too much odour about cheese.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000011_000000|I remember a friend of mine, buying a couple of cheeses at Liverpool. Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000012_000000|"Oh, with pleasure, dear boy," I replied, "with pleasure."
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000013_000000|I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000013_000003|There, the wind carried a whiff from the cheeses full on to our steed.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000013_000004|It woke him up, and, with a snort of terror, he dashed off at three miles an hour.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000014_000000|It took two porters as well as the driver to hold him in at the station; and I do not think they would have done it, even then, had not one of the men had the presence of mind to put a handkerchief over his nose, and to light a bit of brown paper.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000015_000000|I took my ticket, and marched proudly up the platform, with my cheeses, the people falling back respectfully on either side.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000015_000001|The train was crowded, and I had to get into a carriage where there were already seven other people.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000015_000002|One crusty old gentleman objected, but I got in, notwithstanding; and, putting my cheeses upon the rack, squeezed down with a pleasant smile, and said it was a warm day.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000016_000000|A few moments passed, and then the old gentleman began to fidget.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000018_000000|"Quite oppressive," said the man next him.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000019_000000|And then they both began sniffing, and, at the third sniff, they caught it right on the chest, and rose up without another word and went out. And then a stout lady got up, and said it was disgraceful that a respectable married woman should be harried about in this way, and gathered up a bag and eight parcels and went.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000019_000001|The remaining four passengers sat on for a while, until a solemn looking man in the corner, who, from his dress and general appearance, seemed to belong to the undertaker class, said it put him in mind of dead baby; and the other three passengers tried to get out of the door at the same time, and hurt themselves.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000021_000000|I smiled at the black gentleman, and said I thought we were going to have the carriage to ourselves; and he laughed pleasantly, and said that some people made such a fuss over a little thing.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000021_000002|He accepted, and we forced our way into the buffet, where we yelled, and stamped, and waved our umbrellas for a quarter of an hour; and then a young lady came, and asked us if we wanted anything.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000022_000000|"What's yours?" I said, turning to my friend.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000023_000000|"I'll have half a crown's worth of brandy, neat, if you please, miss," he responded.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000025_000000|From Crewe I had the compartment to myself, though the train was crowded. As we drew up at the different stations, the people, seeing my empty carriage, would rush for it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000025_000002|And they would run along, carrying heavy bags, and fight round the door to get in first.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000026_000000|From Euston, I took the cheeses down to my friend's house.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000026_000001|When his wife came into the room she smelt round for an instant.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000026_000002|Then she said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000027_000000|"What is it?
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000027_000001|Tell me the worst."
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000028_000000|I said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000029_000000|"It's cheeses.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000029_000001|Tom bought them in Liverpool, and asked me to bring them up with me."
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000031_000000|My friend was detained in Liverpool longer than he expected; and, three days later, as he hadn't returned home, his wife called on me.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000031_000001|She said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000032_000000|"What did Tom say about those cheeses?"
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000033_000000|I replied that he had directed they were to be kept in a moist place, and that nobody was to touch them.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000034_000000|She said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000035_000000|"Nobody's likely to touch them.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000035_000001|Had he smelt them?"
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000037_000000|"You think he would be upset," she queried, "if I gave a man a sovereign to take them away and bury them?"
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000040_000000|"Do you mind keeping them for him?
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000040_000001|Let me send them round to you."
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000041_000000|"Madam," I replied, "for myself I like the smell of cheese, and the journey the other day with them from Liverpool I shall ever look back upon as a happy ending to a pleasant holiday.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000041_000001|But, in this world, we must consider others.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000042_000000|"Very well, then," said my friend's wife, rising, "all I have to say is, that I shall take the children and go to an hotel until those cheeses are eaten.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000043_000000|She kept her word, leaving the place in charge of the charwoman, who, when asked if she could stand the smell, replied, "What smell?" and who, when taken close to the cheeses and told to sniff hard, said she could detect a faint odour of melons.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000044_000003|They said it made them feel quite faint.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000044_000004|And, after that, he took them one dark night and left them in the parish mortuary.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000044_000005|But the coroner discovered them, and made a fearful fuss.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000045_000000|He said it was a plot to deprive him of his living by waking up the corpses.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000046_000000|My friend got rid of them, at last, by taking them down to a sea side town, and burying them on the beach.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000046_000001|It gained the place quite a reputation.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000046_000002|Visitors said they had never noticed before how strong the air was, and weak chested and consumptive people used to throng there for years afterwards.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000047_000000|Fond as I am of cheese, therefore, I hold that George was right in declining to take any.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000049_000000|Harris grew more cheerful.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000049_000001|George suggested meat and fruit pies, cold meat, tomatoes, fruit, and green stuff.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000049_000002|For drink, we took some wonderful sticky concoction of Harris's, which you mixed with water and called lemonade, plenty of tea, and a bottle of whisky, in case, as George said, we got upset.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000050_000000|It seemed to me that George harped too much on the getting upset idea. It seemed to me the wrong spirit to go about the trip in.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000051_000000|But I'm glad we took the whisky.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000052_000001|They are a mistake up the river.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000052_000002|They make you feel sleepy and heavy.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000053_000001|The next day, which was Friday, we got them all together, and met in the evening to pack.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000053_000002|We got a big Gladstone for the clothes, and a couple of hampers for the victuals and the cooking utensils.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000054_000000|I said I'd pack.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000055_000000|I rather pride myself on my packing.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000055_000003|George put on a pipe and spread himself over the easy chair, and Harris cocked his legs on the table and lit a cigar.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000056_000001|What I had meant, of course, was, that I should boss the job, and that Harris and George should potter about under my directions, I pushing them aside every now and then with, "Oh, you-!" "Here, let me do it." "There you are, simple enough!"--really teaching them, as you might say.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000056_000002|Their taking it in the way they did irritated me.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000057_000003|He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000058_000003|It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000059_000000|However, I did not say anything, but started the packing.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000060_000000|"Ain't you going to put the boots in?" said Harris.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000000|And I looked round, and found I had forgotten them.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000001|That's just like Harris.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000002|He couldn't have said a word until I'd got the bag shut and strapped, of course.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000003|And George laughed-one of those irritating, senseless, chuckle headed, crack jawed laughs of his.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000004|They do make me so wild.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000062_000000|I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000063_000000|My tooth brush is a thing that haunts me when I'm travelling, and makes my life a misery.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000063_000001|I dream that I haven't packed it, and wake up in a cold perspiration, and get out of bed and hunt for it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000001|I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000002|Of course, I found George's and Harris's eighteen times over, but I couldn't find my own.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000003|I put the things back one by one, and held everything up and shook it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000004|Then I found it inside a boot. I repacked once more.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000065_000000|When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000065_000001|I said I didn't care a hang whether the soap was in or whether it wasn't; and I slammed the bag to and strapped it, and found that I had packed my tobacco pouch in it, and had to re-open it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000066_000000|They began in a light-hearted spirit, evidently intending to show me how to do it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000066_000001|I made no comment; I only waited.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000067_000000|It did.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000067_000001|They started with breaking a cup.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000068_000000|Then Harris packed the strawberry jam on top of a tomato and squashed it, and they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000069_000003|I felt that.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000069_000004|It made them nervous and excited, and they stepped on things, and put things behind them, and then couldn't find them when they wanted them; and they packed the pies at the bottom, and put heavy things on top, and smashed the pies in.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000070_000001|I never saw two men do more with one and twopence worth of butter in my whole life than they did.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000070_000002|After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000071_000000|"I'll take my oath I put it down on that chair," said George, staring at the empty seat.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000074_000000|"Most extraordinary thing I ever heard of," said George.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000075_000000|"So mysterious!" said Harris.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000076_000000|Then George got round at the back of Harris and saw it.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000078_000000|"Where?" cried Harris, spinning round.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000079_000000|"Stand still, can't you!" roared George, flying after him.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000080_000000|And they got it off, and packed it in the teapot.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000081_000000|Montmorency was in it all, of course.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000081_000002|If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000082_000000|To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000083_000000|He came and sat down on things, just when they were wanted to be packed; and he laboured under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris or George reached out their hand for anything, it was his cold, damp nose that they wanted.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000084_000000|Harris said I encouraged him.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000084_000002|A dog like that don't want any encouragement.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000084_000003|It's the natural, original sin that is born in him that makes him do things like that.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000085_000004|Harris was to sleep with us that night, and we went upstairs.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000086_000001|He said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000087_000000|"Do you prefer the inside or the outside, j?"
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000090_000000|George said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000092_000000|Harris said:
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000093_000000|"Seven."
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000095_000000|"No-six," because I wanted to write some letters.
train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000096_000000|Harris and I had a bit of a row over it, but at last split the difference, and said half past six.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000001_000000|Kingston.--Instructive remarks on early English history.--Instructive observations on carved oak and life in general.--Sad case of Stivvings, junior.--Musings on antiquity.--I forget that I am steering.--Interesting result.--Hampton Court Maze.--Harris as a guide.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000008_000000|Perhaps, from the casement, standing hand in hand, they were watching the calm moonlight on the river, while from the distant halls the boisterous revelry floated in broken bursts of faint heard din and tumult.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000010_000000|Years later, to the crash of battle music, Saxon kings and Saxon revelry were buried side by side, and Kingston's greatness passed away for a time, to rise once more when Hampton Court became the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and the royal barges strained at their moorings on the river's bank, and bright cloaked gallants swaggered down the water steps to cry: "What Ferry, ho!
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000010_000001|Gadzooks, gramercy."
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000012_000000|Speaking of oak staircases reminds me that there is a magnificent carved oak staircase in one of the houses in Kingston.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000012_000001|It is a shop now, in the market place, but it was evidently once the mansion of some great personage.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000013_000001|My friend said he would, and the shopman, thereupon, took him through the shop, and up the staircase of the house.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000014_000000|From the stairs, they went into the drawing room, which was a large, bright room, decorated with a somewhat startling though cheerful paper of a blue ground.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000014_000002|The proprietor went up to the paper, and tapped it.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000014_000003|It gave forth a wooden sound.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000015_000000|"Oak," he explained.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000017_000002|But the room looks cheerful now.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000018_000003|It would be like living in a church.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000020_000000|Married men have wives, and don't seem to want them; and young single fellows cry out that they can't get them.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000020_000002|Rich old couples, with no one to leave their money to, die childless.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000022_000000|It does not do to dwell on these things; it makes one so sad.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000023_000002|I believe he really liked study.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000024_000000|Well, that boy used to get ill about twice a week, so that he couldn't go to school.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000025_000000|They put him under laughing gas one year, poor lad, and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set, because he suffered so terribly with toothache; and then it turned to neuralgia and ear ache.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000030_000001|Will the prized treasures of to day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000031_000002|It is a white dog.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000031_000003|Its eyes blue.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000031_000007|Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000033_000001|We are too familiar with it.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000033_000003|So it is with that china dog.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000036_000001|I said, pleasantly enough:
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000038_000000|"What's that for?
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000038_000001|Why-"
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000041_000000|But, there, I don't suppose I should really care for it when it came to actual practice.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000043_000004|It was a country cousin that Harris took in.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000043_000005|He said:
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000045_000001|They said it was very kind of him, and fell behind, and followed.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000046_000000|They picked up various other people who wanted to get it over, as they went along, until they had absorbed all the persons in the maze.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000050_000003|That made Harris mad, and he produced his map, and explained his theory.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000051_000000|"The map may be all right enough," said one of the party, "if you know whereabouts in it we are now."
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000052_000000|Harris didn't know, and suggested that the best thing to do would be to go back to the entrance, and begin again.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000054_000000|Anyhow, they had got something to start from then.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000055_000000|And three minutes later they were back in the centre again.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000056_000001|Whatever way they turned brought them back to the middle.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000056_000002|It became so regular at length, that some of the people stopped there, and waited for the others to take a walk round, and come back to them.
train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000056_000003|Harris drew out his map again, after a while, but the sight of it only infuriated the mob, and they told him to go and curl his hair with it.
train-clean-360/957/130588/957_130588_000071_000000|"Manning!"
train-clean-360/957/132537/957_132537_000003_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-clean-360/957/132537/957_132537_000009_000000|Several weeks passed away in quiet retirement, and Emily's affliction began to soften into melancholy.
train-clean-360/957/132537/957_132537_000010_000000|When her mind had recovered from the first shock of affliction, perceiving the danger of yielding to indolence, and that activity alone could restore its tone, she scrupulously endeavoured to pass all her hours in employment.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000006_000003|At length, she revived, and, looking feebly up at her niece, whose tears were falling over her, made an effort to speak, but her words were unintelligible, and Emily again apprehended she was dying.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000006_000004|Afterwards, however, she recovered her speech, and, being somewhat restored by a cordial, conversed for a considerable time, on the subject of her estates in France, with clearness and precision.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000007_000003|But her spirits were wakeful and agitated, and, finding it impossible to sleep, she determined to watch, once more, for the mysterious appearance, that had so much interested and alarmed her.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000008_000002|It was in one of these moments of obscurity, that she observed a small and lambent flame, moving at some distance on the terrace.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000008_000003|While she gazed, it disappeared, and, the moon again emerging from the lurid and heavy thunder clouds, she turned her attention to the heavens, where the vivid lightnings darted from cloud to cloud, and flashed silently on the woods below.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000000|Emily, looking again upon the rampart, perceived the flame she had seen before; it moved onward; and, soon after, she thought she heard a footstep.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000001|The light appeared and disappeared frequently, while, as she watched, it glided under her casements, and, at the same instant, she was certain, that a footstep passed, but the darkness did not permit her to distinguish any object except the flame.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000002|It moved away, and then, by a gleam of lightning, she perceived some person on the terrace.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000004|This person advanced, and the playing flame alternately appeared and vanished.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000005|Emily wished to speak, to end her doubts, whether this figure were human or supernatural; but her courage failed as often as she attempted utterance, till the light moved again under the casement, and she faintly demanded, who passed.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000014_000000|'This light, lady,' said the soldier, 'has appeared to night as you see it, on the point of my lance, ever since I have been on watch; but what it means I cannot tell.'
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000017_000000|'How does your comrade account for it?' said Emily.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000019_000000|'And what harm can it bode?' rejoined Emily.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000020_000000|'He knows not so much as that, lady.'
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000023_000001|There are amongst us, who believe strange things.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000023_000002|Strange stories, too, have long been told of this castle, but it is no business of mine to repeat them; and, for my part, I have no reason to complain; our Chief does nobly by us.'
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000025_000000|When he was gone, she opened it again, listened with a gloomy pleasure to the distant thunder, that began to murmur among the mountains, and watched the arrowy lightnings, which broke over the remoter scene.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000025_000001|The pealing thunder rolled onward, and then, reverbed by the mountains, other thunder seemed to answer from the opposite horizon; while the accumulating clouds, entirely concealing the moon, assumed a red sulphureous tinge, that foretold a violent storm.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000027_000000|She had continued thus for a considerable time, when, amidst the uproar of the storm, she thought she heard a voice, and, raising herself to listen, saw the chamber door open, and Annette enter with a countenance of wild affright.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000029_000001|When she entered, her aunt appeared to have fainted, for she was quite still, and insensible; and Emily with a strength of mind, that refused to yield to grief, while any duty required her activity, applied every means that seemed likely to restore her.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000030_000000|When Emily perceived, that all her efforts were ineffectual, she interrogated the terrified Annette, and learned, that Madame Montoni had fallen into a doze soon after Emily's departure, in which she had continued, until a few minutes before her death.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000032_000000|Emily, at this recital, shed tears.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000032_000001|She had no doubt but that the violent change in the air, which the tempest produced, had effected this fatal one, on the exhausted frame of Madame Montoni.
train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000033_000001|With Annette alone, therefore, whom she encouraged by her own example, she performed some of the last solemn offices for the dead, and compelled herself to watch during the night, by the body of her deceased aunt.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000004_000000|JANE REPORTS PROGRESS
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000005_000000|Letter from the Honourable Jane Champion to Sir Deryck Brand.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000007_000000|My dear Deryck: My wires and post cards have not told you much beyond the fact of my safe arrival.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000007_000001|Having been here a fortnight, I think it is time I sent you a report.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000007_000004|And yet I wish I might, for once, borrow the pen of a ready writer; because I cannot help knowing that I have been passing through experiences such as do not often fall to the lot of a woman.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000008_000001|She is making herself indispensable to the patient, and he turns to her with a completeness of confidence which causes her heart to swell with professional pride.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000009_000003|And you, dear, clever doctor, are proved perfectly right in your diagnosis of the sentiment of the case.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000009_000006|But how to make him realise this, is the puzzle.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000010_000004|And behind come galloping the hosts of Pharaoh; chance, speeding on the wheels of circumstance.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000010_000007|Dear wise old Boy, dare you undertake the role of Moses!
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000012_000000|As you may suppose, Jane grows haggard and thin in spite of old Margery's porridge-which is "put on" every day after lunch, for the next morning's breakfast, and anybody passing "gives it a stir." Did you know that was the right way to make porridge, Deryck?
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000012_000001|I always thought it was made in five minutes, as wanted.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000013_000000|But what a syntactical digression!
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000013_000004|By the way, I was quite unprepared to find him such a character.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000013_000005|I learn much from dr Mackenzie, and I love dr Rob, excepting on those occasions when I long to pick him up by the scruff of his fawn overcoat and drop him out of the window.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000014_000000|On the point of Nurse Rosemary's personal appearance, I found it best to be perfectly frank with the household.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000014_000002|Mercifully, the perfect training of an English man servant saved the situation, and he merely said: "Yessir; certainly sir," and looked upon, me, standing silently by, as a person who evidently delighted in giving unnecessary trouble.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000015_000001|He thought me small and slim; fair and very pretty; and it was most important, in order to avoid long explanations and mental confusion for him, that he should not at present be undeceived.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000015_000002|Simpson's expression of polite attention did not vary, and his only comment was: "Certainly, miss.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000016_000000|Well, to continue my report.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000019_000004|And a breath of the moors would be good for you. Also I have a little private plan, which depends largely for its fulfilment on your coming.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000019_000005|Oh, Boy-come!
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000021_000000|Jeanette.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000023_000000|Wimpole Street.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000024_000000|My dear Jeanette: Certainly I will come.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000025_000002|Moreover, latest investigations have proved that the Israelites could not have crossed at the place you mention, but further north at the Bitter Lakes; a mere matter of detail, in no way affecting the extreme appositeness of your illustration, rather, adding to it; for I fear there are bitter waters ahead of you, my poor girl.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000000|Still I am hopeful, nay, more than hopeful,--confident.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000001|Often of late, in connection with you, I have thought of the promise about all things working together for good.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000002|Any one can make GOOD things work together for good: but only the Heavenly Father can bring good out of evil; and, taking all our mistakes and failings and foolishnesses, cause them to work to our most perfect well-being.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000003|The more intricate and involved this problem of human existence becomes, the greater the need to take as our own clear rule of life: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000004|In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Ancient marching orders, and simple; but true, and therefore eternal.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000027_000003|We must avert such a catastrophe.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000029_000001|And you so priceless!
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000029_000003|Trust me to prove it to him,--to my own satisfaction and his,--if I get the chance.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000030_000000|Yours always devotedly,
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000031_000000|Deryck Brand.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000032_000000|From Sir Deryck Brand to dr Robert Mackenzie.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000033_000000|Dear Mackenzie: Do you consider it to be advisable that I should shortly pay a visit to our patient at Gleneesh and give an opinion on his progress?
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000034_000000|I find I can make it possible to come north this week end.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000035_000000|I hope you are satisfied with the nurse I sent up.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000036_000000|Yours very faithfully,
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000037_000000|Deryck Brand.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000038_000000|From dr Robert Mackenzie to Sir Deryck Brand.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000040_000001|She may confide in you.
train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000040_000002|She cannot quite bring herself to trust in
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty one
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000004_000000|HARD ON THE SECRETARY
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000005_000000|Nurse Rosemary sat with her patient in the sunny library at Gleneesh.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000005_000001|A small table was between them, upon which lay a pile of letters-his morning mail-ready for her to open, read to him, and pass across, should there chance to be one among them he wished to touch or to keep in his pocket.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000006_000000|They were seated close to the French window opening on to the terrace; the breeze, fragrant with the breath of spring flowers, blew about them, and the morning sun streamed in.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000007_000000|Garth, in white flannels, wearing a green tie and a button hole of primroses, lay back luxuriously, enjoying, with his rapidly quickening senses, the scent of the flowers and the touch of the sun beams.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000008_000001|Deryck was coming. He had not failed her.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000010_000000|"Quite right," said Nurse Rosemary.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000011_000000|"Because it was on one sheet.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000014_000000|Nurse Rosemary laughed.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000014_000001|"You are getting on so fast, mr Dalmain, that soon we shall be able to keep no secrets.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000014_000002|My letter was from-"
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000015_000000|"Oh, don't tell me," cried Garth quickly, putting out his hand in protest.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000015_000001|"I had no idea of seeming curious as to your private correspondence, Miss Gray.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000015_000002|Only it is such a pleasure to report progress to you in the things I manage to find out without being told."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000016_000000|"But I meant to tell you anyway," said Nurse Rosemary.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000016_000001|"The letter is from Sir Deryck, and, amongst other things, he says he is coming up to see you next Saturday."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000017_000000|"Ah, good!" said Garth.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000017_000001|"And what a change he will find!
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000018_000000|"No," said Nurse Rosemary, "not yet.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000018_000001|But, mr Dalmain, I was wanting to ask whether you could spare me just during forty eight hours; and dr Brand's visit would be an excellent opportunity.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000018_000004|dr Brand would read you Saturday's and Sunday's-Ah, I forgot; there is no Sunday post.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000019_000001|"I should have liked that we three should have talked together.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000019_000002|But no wonder you want a time off.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000019_000003|Shall you be going far?"
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000020_000000|"No; I have friends near by.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000000|"Yes," said Garth, reaching out his hand.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000001|"Wait a minute.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000004|I don't want that.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000005|But kindly give me the rest."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000022_000000|Nurse Rosemary took out the newspaper; then pushed the pile along, until it touched his hand.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000000|Garth took them.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000001|"What a lot!" he said, smiling in pleasurable anticipation.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000004|Kind old soul!
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000006|It is always best to avoid classical allusions, especially if sacred, unless one has them accurately.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000024_000000|He had been handling his letters, one by one; carefully fingering each, before laying it on the table beside him.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000024_000001|He had just come to one written on foreign paper, and sealed.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000024_000002|He broke off his sentence abruptly, held the letter silently for a moment, then passed his fingers slowly over the seal.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000025_000000|Nurse Rosemary watched him anxiously.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000025_000001|He made no remark, but after a moment laid it down and took up the next.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000026_000000|Then the usual order of proceedings commenced.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000026_000001|Garth lighted a cigarette-one of the first things he had learned to do for himself-and smoked contentedly, carefully placing his ash tray, and almost unfailingly locating the ash, in time and correctly.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000027_000000|Nurse Rosemary took up the first letter, read the postmark, and described the writing on the envelope.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000028_000000|Nurse Rosemary's fingers shook as she replaced the eighth in its envelope.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000029_000000|"Did I shoot straight, nurse?" he asked.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000031_000000|"Quite straight," she said.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000031_000001|"mr Dalmain, this letter has an Egyptian stamp, and the postmark is Cairo.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000031_000002|It is sealed with scarlet sealing wax, and the engraving on the seal is a plumed helmet with the visor closed."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000032_000000|"And the writing?" asked Garth, mechanically and very quietly.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000033_000000|"The handwriting is rather bold and very clear, with no twirls or flourishes.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000033_000001|It is written with a broad nib."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000035_000000|Nurse Rosemary fought with her throat, which threatened to close altogether and stifle her voice.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000035_000001|She opened the letter, turned to the last page, and found the signature.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000036_000000|"It is signed 'Jane Champion,' mr Dalmain," said Nurse Rosemary.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000038_000001|If I were with you, there would be so much I could say; but writing is so difficult, so impossible.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000040_000000|I hear you receive no visitors; but cannot you make just one exception, and let me come?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000000|I was at the Great Pyramid when I heard.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000001|I was sitting on the piazza after dinner.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000002|The moonlight called up memories.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000004|Would you have come, Garth?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000000|And now, my friend, as you cannot come to me, may I come to you?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000001|If you just say: "COME," I will come from any part of the world where I may chance to be when the message reaches me.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000002|Never mind this Egyptian address.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000004|Direct to me at my aunt's town house.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000043_000000|LET ME COME.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000044_000000|Believe me to be,
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000045_000000|Yours, more than I can write,
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000046_000000|Jane Champion.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000047_000000|Garth removed the hand which had been shielding his face.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000000|"If you are not tired, Miss Gray, after reading so many letters, I should like to dictate my answer to that one immediately, while it is fresh in my mind.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000001|Have you paper there?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000002|Thank you.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000003|May we begin?-- Dear Miss Champion ...
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000004|I am deeply touched by your kind letter of sympathy ...
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000049_000000|A long pause.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000050_000000|"I am glad you did not give up the Nile trip but-"
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000051_000000|An early bee hummed in from the hyacinths and buzzed against the pane. Otherwise the room was very still.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000052_000000|--"but of course, if you had sent for me I should have come."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000053_000000|The bee fought the window angrily, up and down, up and down, for several minutes; then found the open glass and whirled out into the sunshine, joyfully.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000055_000000|"It is more than kind of you to suggest coming to see me, but-"
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000056_000000|Nurse Rosemary dropped her pen.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000056_000001|"Oh, mr Dalmain," she said, "let her come."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000057_000000|Garth turned upon her a face of blank surprise.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000058_000000|"I do not wish it," he said, in a tone of absolute finality.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000059_000000|"But think how hard it must be for any one to want so much to be near a-a friend in trouble, and to be kept away."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000060_000000|"It is only her wonderful kindness of heart makes her offer to come, Miss Gray.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000060_000002|It would greatly sadden her to see me thus."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000061_000003|Did I read it badly?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000062_000001|He spoke with quiet sternness, a frown bending his straight black brows.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000063_000000|"You read it quite well," he said, "but you do not do well to discuss it.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000063_000001|I must feel able to dictate my letters to my secretary, without having to explain them."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000064_000000|"I beg your pardon, sir," said Nurse Rosemary humbly.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000065_000000|Garth stretched his hand across the table, and left it there a moment; though no responsive hand was placed within it.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000000|"Never mind," he said, with his winning smile, "my kind little mentor and guide.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000001|You can direct me in most things, but not in this.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000002|Now let us conclude.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000003|Where were we?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000002|Now let us go on ...
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000004|During the summer I shall be learning step by step to live this new life, in complete seclusion at Gleneesh.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000005|I feel sure my friends will respect my wish in this matter.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000006|I have with me one who most perfectly and patiently is helping-Ah, wait!" cried Garth suddenly.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000007|"I will not say that.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000008|She might think-she might misunderstand.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000009|Had you begun to write it?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000010|No? What was the last word?
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000013|Full stop after 'matter.' Now let me think."
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000069_000000|Garth dropped his face into his hands, and sat for a long time absorbed in thought.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000000|Nurse Rosemary waited.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000001|Her right hand held the pen poised over the paper.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000002|Her left was pressed against her breast.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000004|At last Garth lifted his face.
train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000005|"Yours very sincerely, Garth Dalmain;" he said.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000016_000001|Nightmare is caused by the nightmare man, a kind of evil spirit, struggling with one.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000019_000000|Sty, sty, go off my eye, Go on the first one that passes by.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000021_000001|To cure a sty repeat at a cross roads,--
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000024_000001|Toothache may be cured by a written charm, sealed up and worn around the neck of the afflicted person.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000024_000002|The following is a copy of the charm:--
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000026_000001|For toothache take an eyelash, an eyebrow, trimmings of the finger nails, and toe nails of the patient, bore a hole in a beech tree, and put them in.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000029_000000|WATER.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000034_000001|Rain water caught the first of June will cure freckles.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000035_000001|An Indian doctor used for inflammation of the eyes rain water caught on the third, fourth, and fifth of June.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000042_000001|A variant,--
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000046_000002|Another custom is to steadily point a finger at the hiccougher, or to make him hold up his arm and shake it.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000054_000001|For nose bleed, put a key down the back.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000055_000001|For nose bleed, hold up the right arm.
train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000056_000001|For nose bleed, place a wad of paper between the upper lip and the gum.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000004_000000|CURES.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000009_000001|If you find an old bone in the field, rub the wart with it, then lay it down exactly as you found it.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000023_000001|Warts are cured by stealing pork from the family barrel of salted pork, rubbing the warts with it, and throwing it into the road.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000026_000001|Make a wart bleed, and put the blood on a penny, throw the latter away, and the finder will get the wart.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000031_000003|Roll them in paper and throw them away.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000032_000001|Go out of doors, count three, stop and pick up the stone nearest to your toe.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000032_000002|Wrap it up in a paper, and throw it away.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000039_000001|Take a potato and rub it over the wart, then wrap the potato in a piece of paper and throw it away.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000040_000001|Rub the wart with a cotton rag, spit on the rag and hide it under a water board (a wooden gutter used as a duct for rain water off the roof of a house), where the water will drip on it.
train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000047_000002|As the joints rot, the warts disappear.
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000003_000001|If your left ear itches, some one is saying unpleasant things about you; but if your right ear, pleasant things.
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000003_000002|Some say,--
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000013_000001|If your nose itches, it is a sign of a present.
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000022_000001|Itching in the palm is a sign of a fight, or of seeing a stranger.
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000023_000001|An unexpected scratch denotes surprise.
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000035_000000|APPAREL.
train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000048_000001|If you break your needle in making a dress, you will live to wear it out.
train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000008_000001|On cutting the finger nails:--
train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000027_000000|DOMESTIC LIFE.
train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000031_000001|Wet the finger and touch the "letter" on the candle.
train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000042_000001|Sweep the floor after dark, you'll see sickness before morning.
train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000056_000001|If, when a newly married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother's dish cloth or dish wiper, she will never be homesick.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000002_000000|Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips, all in a row.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000004_000000|One spring, just as the grasses began to grow green upon the cliff and the trees were dressing their stiff, barren branches in robes of delicate foliage, the father and brothers bade good bye to Mary and her mother, for they were starting upon a voyage to the Black Sea.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000005_000000|"And how long will you be gone, papa?" asked Mary, who was perched upon her father's knee, where she could nestle her soft cheek against his bushy whiskers.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000006_000000|"How long?" he repeated, stroking her curls tenderly as he spoke; "well, well, my darling, it will be a long time indeed!
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000006_000001|Do you know the cowslips that grow in the pastures, Mary?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000007_000000|"Oh, yes; I watch for them every spring," she answered.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000008_000000|"And do you know the dingle bells that grow near the edge of the wood?" he asked again.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000010_000000|"And how about the cockle shells?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000011_000000|"Them also I know," said Mary eagerly, for she was glad her father should find her so well acquainted with the field flowers; "there is nothing prettier than the big white flowers of the cockle shells.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000011_000001|But tell me, papa, what have the flowers to do with your coming home?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000012_000002|So one more kiss, sweetheart, and then we must go, for our time is up."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000013_000000|The next morning, when Mary and her mother had dried their eyes, which had been wet with grief at the departure of their loved ones, the little girl asked earnestly,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000014_000000|"Mamma, may I make a flower garden?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000016_000000|"I want to plant in it the cockle shells and the cowslips and the dingle bells," she answered.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000017_000000|And her mother, who had heard what the sailor had said to his little girl, knew at once what Mary meant; so she kissed her daughter and replied,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000018_000000|"Yes, Mary, you may have the flower garden, if you wish.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000018_000001|We will dig a nice little bed just at the side of the house, and you shall plant your flowers and care for them yourself."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000019_000000|"I think I 'd rather have the flowers at the front of the house," said Mary.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000020_000000|"But why?" enquired her mother; "they will be better sheltered at the side."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000021_000000|"I want them in front," persisted Mary, "for the sun shines stronger there."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000023_000000|"But I do n't want you to help," said Mary, "for this is to be my own little flower garden, and I want to do all the work myself."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000024_000000|Now I must tell you that this little girl, although very sweet in many ways, had one serious fault.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000024_000001|She was inclined to be a bit contrary, and put her own opinions and ideas before those of her elders.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000026_000000|So Mary made a long, narrow bed at the front of the house, and then she prepared to plant her flowers.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000027_000000|"If you scatter the seeds," said her mother, "the flower bed will look very pretty."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000028_000001|And in the end she planted the dingle bells all in one straight row, and the cockle shells in another straight row the length of the bed, and she finished by planting the cowslips in another long row at the back.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000029_000000|Her mother smiled, but said nothing; and now, as the days passed by, Mary watered and tended her garden with great care; and when the flowers began to sprout she plucked all the weeds that grew among them, and so in the mild spring weather the plants grew finely.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000030_000000|"When they have grown up big and strong," said Mary one morning, as she weeded the bed, "and when they have budded and blossomed and faded away again, then papa and my brothers will come home.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000030_000002|And now I feel as if the flowers were really my dear ones, and I must be very careful that they come to no harm!"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000031_000000|She was filled with joy when one morning she ran out to her flower garden after breakfast and found the dingle bells and cowslips were actually blossoming, while even the cockle shells were showing their white buds.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000031_000001|They looked rather comical, all standing in stiff, straight rows, one after the other; but Mary did not mind that.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000032_000000|While she was working she heard the tramp of a horse's hoofs, and looking up saw the big bluff Squire riding toward her.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000032_000001|The big Squire was very fond of children, and whenever he rode near the little white cottage he stopped to have a word with Mary.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000032_000002|He was old and bald headed, and he had side whiskers that were very red in color and very short and stubby; but there was ever a merry twinkle in his blue eyes, and Mary well knew him for her friend.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000033_000000|Now, when she looked up and saw him coming toward her flower garden, she nodded and smiled to him, and the big bluff Squire rode up to her side, and looked down with a smile at her flowers.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000034_000000|Then he said to her in rhyme (for it was a way of speaking the jolly Squire had),
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000035_000000|"Mistress Mary, so contrary, How does your garden grow? With dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips all in a row!"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000036_000000|And Mary, being a sharp little girl, and knowing the Squire's queer ways, replied to him likewise in rhyme, saying,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000037_000000|"I thank you, Squire, that you enquire How well the flowers are growing; The dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips all are blowing!"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000040_000000|"That is a long story, Squire," said Mary; "but this much I may tell you,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000043_000000|"Oh, that 's the idea, is it?" asked the big bluff Squire, forgetting his poetry.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000043_000002|I shall come and see you again, little one, and watch the garden grow." And then he said "gee up" to his gray mare, and rode away.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000044_000000|The very next day, to Mary's great surprise and grief; she found the leaves of the dingle bells curling and beginning to wither.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000045_000000|"Oh, mamma," she called, "come quick!
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000045_000001|Something is surely the matter with brother Hobart!"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000046_000000|"The dingle bells are dying," said her mother, after looking carefully at the flowers; "but the reason is that the cold winds from the sea swept right over your garden last night, and dingle bells are delicate flowers and grow best where they are sheltered by the woods.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000046_000001|If you had planted them at the side of the house, as I wished you to, the wind would not have killed them."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000047_000000|Mary did not reply to this, but sat down and began to weep, feeling at the same time that her mother was right and it was her own fault for being so contrary.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000048_000000|While she sat thus the Squire rode up, and called to her
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000049_000000|"Fie, Mary, fie!
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000049_000001|Why do you cry; And blind your eyes to knowing How dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips all are growing?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000050_000000|"Oh, Squire!" sobbed Mary, "I am in great trouble "Each dingle bell I loved so well Before my eyes is dying, And much I fear my brother dear In sickness now is lying!"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000051_000000|"Nonsense!" said the Squire; "because you named the flowers after your brother Hobart is no reason he should be affected by the fading of the dingle bells.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000051_000002|Dingle bells are delicate.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000053_000000|The weather now began to change, and the cold sea winds blew each night over Mary's garden.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000053_000001|She did not know this, for she was always lying snugly tucked up in her bed, and the warm morning sun usually drove away the winds; but her mother knew it, and feared Mary's garden would suffer.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000054_000000|One day Mary came into the house where her mother was at work and said, gleefully,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000056_000000|"Why do you think so?" asked her mother.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000057_000000|"Because the cockle shells and cowslips are both fading away and dying, just as the dingle bells did, and papa said when they faded and withered he and the boys would come back to us."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000058_000000|Mary's mother knew that the harsh winds had killed the flowers before their time, but she did not like to disappoint her darling, so she only said, with a sigh,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000059_000000|"I hope you are right, Mary, for we both shall be glad to welcome our dear ones home again."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000061_000000|"Pray tell me, dear, though much I fear The answer sad I know, How grow the sturdy cockle shells And cowslips, all in a row?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000062_000000|And Mary looked up at him with her bright smile and answered,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000064_000001|See here, Mary, how would you like a little ride with me on my nag?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000065_000000|"I would like it very much, sir," replied Mary.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000066_000000|"Then reach up your hand.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000068_000001|Then said the Squire,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000069_000000|"Take a look within that nook And tell me what is there."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000070_000000|And Mary exclaimed,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000071_000000|"A dingle bell, and truth to tell In full bloom, I declare!"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000072_000000|The Squire now clucked to his nag, and as they rode away he said,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000073_000000|"Now come with me and you shall see A field with cowslips bright And not a garden in the land Can show so fair a sight."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000074_000000|And so it was, for as they rode through the pastures the cowslips bloomed on every hand, and Mary's eyes grew bigger and bigger as she thought of her poor garden with its dead flowers.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000075_000000|And then the Squire took her toward the little brook that wandered through the meadows, flowing over the pebbles with a soft, gurgling sound that was very nearly as sweet as music; and when they reached it the big Squire said,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000077_000000|This was indeed true, and as Mary saw them she suddenly dropped her head and began to weep.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000078_000000|"What 's the matter, little one?" asked the Squire in his kind, bluff voice.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000078_000001|And Mary answered,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000079_000000|"Although the flowers I much admire, You know papa did say He won't be home again, Squire, Till all have passed away."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000080_000000|"You must be patient, my child," replied her friend; "and surely you would not have been thus disappointed had you not tried to make the field flowers grow where they do not belong.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000080_000002|Your father meant you to watch the flowers in the field; and if you will come and visit them each day, you will find the time waiting very short indeed."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000081_000000|Mary dried her eyes and thanked the kindly old Squire, and after that she visited the fields each day and watched the flowers grow.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000082_000001|And when it came nearer and had grown larger, both she and her mother saw that it was the "Skylark" come home again, and you can imagine how pleased and happy the sight of the pretty little ship made them.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000083_000000|And soon after, when Mary had been hugged by her two sunburned brothers and was clasped in her father's strong arms, she whispered,
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000084_000000|"I knew you were coming soon, papa."
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000085_000000|"And how did you know, sweetheart?" he asked, giving her an extra kiss.
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000086_000001|And did you not say that, God willing, when this happened you would come back to us?"
train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000087_000000|"To be sure I did," answered her father, with a happy laugh; "and I must have spoken truly, sweetheart, for God in His goodness was willing, and here I am!"
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000002_000000|CHAPTER two
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000000|When the hour of departure drew near, the maternal anxiety of mrs Morland will be naturally supposed to be most severe.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000001|A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; and advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000002|Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000003|Who would not think so?
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000004|But mrs Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000005|Her cautions were confined to the following points.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000005_000000|Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?), must from situation be at this time the intimate friend and confidante of her sister.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000005_000001|It is remarkable, however, that she neither insisted on Catherine's writing by every post, nor exacted her promise of transmitting the character of every new acquaintance, nor a detail of every interesting conversation that Bath might produce.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000005_000002|Everything indeed relative to this important journey was done, on the part of the Morlands, with a degree of moderation and composure, which seemed rather consistent with the common feelings of common life, than with the refined susceptibilities, the tender emotions which the first separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000006_000000|Under these unpromising auspices, the parting took place, and the journey began.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000006_000001|It was performed with suitable quietness and uneventful safety.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000006_000002|Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000007_000000|They arrived at Bath.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000007_000001|Catherine was all eager delight-her eyes were here, there, everywhere, as they approached its fine and striking environs, and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000007_000002|She was come to be happy, and she felt happy already.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000000|mrs Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000001|She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000002|The air of a gentlewoman, a great deal of quiet, inactive good temper, and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible, intelligent man like mr Allen.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000003|In one respect she was admirably fitted to introduce a young lady into public, being as fond of going everywhere and seeing everything herself as any young lady could be.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000004|Dress was her passion.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000005|She had a most harmless delight in being fine; and our heroine's entree into life could not take place till after three or four days had been spent in learning what was mostly worn, and her chaperone was provided with a dress of the newest fashion.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000006|Catherine too made some purchases herself, and when all these matters were arranged, the important evening came which was to usher her into the Upper Rooms.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000007|Her hair was cut and dressed by the best hand, her clothes put on with care, and both mrs Allen and her maid declared she looked quite as she should do.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000008|With such encouragement, Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000009|As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000001|The season was full, the room crowded, and the two ladies squeezed in as well as they could.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000004|But this was far from being the case, and though by unwearied diligence they gained even the top of the room, their situation was just the same; they saw nothing of the dancers but the high feathers of some of the ladies.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000005|Still they moved on-something better was yet in view; and by a continued exertion of strength and ingenuity they found themselves at last in the passage behind the highest bench.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000007|It was a splendid sight, and she began, for the first time that evening, to feel herself at a ball: she longed to dance, but she had not an acquaintance in the room.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000008|mrs Allen did all that she could do in such a case by saying very placidly, every now and then, "I wish you could dance, my dear-I wish you could get a partner." For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes; but they were repeated so often, and proved so totally ineffectual, that Catherine grew tired at last, and would thank her no more.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000012_000000|They were not long able, however, to enjoy the repose of the eminence they had so laboriously gained.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000012_000001|Everybody was shortly in motion for tea, and they must squeeze out like the rest.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000012_000003|They saw nothing of mr Allen; and after looking about them in vain for a more eligible situation, were obliged to sit down at the end of a table, at which a large party were already placed, without having anything to do there, or anybody to speak to, except each other.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000013_000000|mrs Allen congratulated herself, as soon as they were seated, on having preserved her gown from injury.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000014_000000|"How uncomfortable it is," whispered Catherine, "not to have a single acquaintance here!"
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000015_000000|"Yes, my dear," replied mrs Allen, with perfect serenity, "it is very uncomfortable indeed."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000016_000000|"What shall we do?
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000016_000001|The gentlemen and ladies at this table look as if they wondered why we came here-we seem forcing ourselves into their party."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000017_000000|"Aye, so we do.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000017_000002|I wish we had a large acquaintance here."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000018_000000|"I wish we had any-it would be somebody to go to."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000019_000000|"Very true, my dear; and if we knew anybody we would join them directly. The Skinners were here last year-I wish they were here now."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000020_000001|Here are no tea things for us, you see."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000000|"No more there are, indeed.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000001|How very provoking!
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000002|But I think we had better sit still, for one gets so tumbled in such a crowd!
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000004|Somebody gave me a push that has hurt it, I am afraid."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000022_000000|"No, indeed, it looks very nice.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000022_000002|I think you must know somebody."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000000|"I don't, upon my word-I wish I did.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000001|I wish I had a large acquaintance here with all my heart, and then I should get you a partner.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000002|I should be so glad to have you dance.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000005|How old-fashioned it is!
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000006|Look at the back."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000024_000000|After some time they received an offer of tea from one of their neighbours; it was thankfully accepted, and this introduced a light conversation with the gentleman who offered it, which was the only time that anybody spoke to them during the evening, till they were discovered and joined by mr Allen when the dance was over.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000025_000000|"Well, Miss Morland," said he, directly, "I hope you have had an agreeable ball."
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000026_000000|"Very agreeable indeed," she replied, vainly endeavouring to hide a great yawn.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000027_000000|"I wish she had been able to dance," said his wife; "I wish we could have got a partner for her.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000027_000001|I have been saying how glad I should be if the Skinners were here this winter instead of last; or if the Parrys had come, as they talked of once, she might have danced with George Parry.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000027_000002|I am so sorry she has not had a partner!"
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000028_000000|"We shall do better another evening I hope," was mr Allen's consolation.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000001|Every five minutes, by removing some of the crowd, gave greater openings for her charms.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000002|She was now seen by many young men who had not been near her before.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000003|Not one, however, started with rapturous wonder on beholding her, no whisper of eager inquiry ran round the room, nor was she once called a divinity by anybody.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000004|Yet Catherine was in very good looks, and had the company only seen her three years before, they would now have thought her exceedingly handsome.
train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000030_000000|She was looked at, however, and with some admiration; for, in her own hearing, two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl.
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train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000013_000000|PREFACE
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000000|This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000001|Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000004|While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000005|It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000006|It deals first with all the writer's own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000007|But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000015_000000|Gilbert k Chesterton.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000020_000000|THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000020_000004|I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000001|There will probably be a general impression that the man who landed (armed to the teeth and talking by signs) to plant the British flag on that barbaric temple which turned out to be the Pavilion at Brighton, felt rather a fool. I am not here concerned to deny that he looked a fool.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000002|But if you imagine that he felt a fool, or at any rate that the sense of folly was his sole or his dominant emotion, then you have not studied with sufficient delicacy the rich romantic nature of the hero of this tale.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000004|What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane security of coming home again?
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000005|What could be better than to have all the fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of landing there?
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000006|What could be more glorious than to brace one's self up to discover New South Wales and then realize, with a gush of happy tears, that it was really old South Wales. This at least seems to me the main problem for philosophers, and is in a manner the main problem of this book.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000007|How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this queer cosmic town, with its many legged citizens, with its monstrous and ancient lamps, how can this world give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour of being our own town?
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000000|To show that a faith or a philosophy is true from every standpoint would be too big an undertaking even for a much bigger book than this; it is necessary to follow one path of argument; and this is the path that I here propose to follow.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000002|For the very word "romance" has in it the mystery and ancient meaning of Rome. Any one setting out to dispute anything ought always to begin by saying what he does not dispute.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000003|Beyond stating what he proposes to prove he should always state what he does not propose to prove. The thing I do not propose to prove, the thing I propose to take as common ground between myself and any average reader, is this desirability of an active and imaginative life, picturesque and full of a poetical curiosity, a life such as western man at any rate always seems to have desired.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000004|If a man says that extinction is better than existence or blank existence better than variety and adventure, then he is not one of the ordinary people to whom I am talking. If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000005|But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition that we need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000007|We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable. It is THIS achievement of my creed that I shall chiefly pursue in these pages.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000000|But I have a peculiar reason for mentioning the man in a yacht, who discovered England.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000002|I do not see how this book can avoid being egotistical; and I do not quite see (to tell the truth) how it can avoid being dull.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000004|I know nothing so contemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the indefensible. If it were true (as has been said) that mr Bernard Shaw lived upon paradox, then he ought to be a mere common millionaire; for a man of his mental activity could invent a sophistry every six minutes.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000005|It is as easy as lying; because it is lying. The truth is, of course, that mr Shaw is cruelly hampered by the fact that he cannot tell any lie unless he thinks it is the truth. I find myself under the same intolerable bondage.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000006|I never in my life said anything merely because I thought it funny; though of course, I have had ordinary human vainglory, and may have thought it funny because I had said it.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000007|It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't. One searches for truth, but it may be that one pursues instinctively the more extraordinary truths.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000008|And I offer this book with the heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write, and regard it (very justly, for all I know), as a piece of poor clowning or a single tiresome joke.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000002|I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000004|Like them I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000007|And I was punished in the fittest and funniest way, for I have kept my truths: but I have discovered, not that they were not truths, but simply that they were not mine.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000009|The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000010|I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000000|I add one purely pedantic note which comes, as a note naturally should, at the beginning of the book.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000001|These essays are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles' Creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000002|They are not intended to discuss the very fascinating but quite different question of what is the present seat of authority for the proclamation of that creed.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000003|When the word "orthodoxy" is used here it means the Apostles' Creed, as understood by everybody calling himself Christian until a very short time ago and the general historic conduct of those who held such a creed.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000004|I have been forced by mere space to confine myself to what I have got from this creed; I do not touch the matter much disputed among modern Christians, of where we ourselves got it.
train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000005|This is not an ecclesiastical treatise but a sort of slovenly autobiography.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000000|It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000001|But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000002|Take one quite external case; the streets are noisy with taxicabs and motorcars; but this is not due to human activity but to human repose. There would be less bustle if there were more activity, if people were simply walking about.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000005|We know they are carrying thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for themselves.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000007|But if you begin "I wish Jones to go to gaol and Brown to say when Jones shall come out," you will discover, with a thrill of horror, that you are obliged to think.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000008|The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000003_000001|This difficulty occurs when the same long word is used in different connections to mean quite different things. Thus, to take a well-known instance, the word "idealist" has one meaning as a piece of philosophy and quite another as a piece of moral rhetoric.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000000|A confusion quite as unmeaning as this has arisen in connection with the word "liberal" as applied to religion and as applied to politics and society.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000001|It is often suggested that all Liberals ought to be freethinkers, because they ought to love everything that is free.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000003|The thing is a mere accident of words.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000004|In actual modern Europe a freethinker does not mean a man who thinks for himself.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000001|Almost every contemporary proposal to bring freedom into the church is simply a proposal to bring tyranny into the world.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000002|For freeing the church now does not even mean freeing it in all directions.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000004|In fact, it is a remarkable circumstance (indeed not so very remarkable when one comes to think of it) that most things are the allies of oppression. There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression-and that is orthodoxy.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000005|I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000006_000001|We concluded the last chapter with the discovery of one of them.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000006_000003|The doctrine seemingly most unpopular was found to be the only strength of the people. In short, we found that the only logical negation of oligarchy was in the affirmation of original sin.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000000|I take the most obvious instance first, the case of miracles. For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000003|It is common to find trouble in a parish because the parish priest cannot admit that saint Peter walked on water; yet how rarely do we find trouble in a parish because the clergyman says that his father walked on the Serpentine?
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000008|The only thing which is still old-fashioned enough to reject miracles is the New Theology. But in truth this notion that it is "free" to deny miracles has nothing to do with the evidence for or against them.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000009|It is a lifeless verbal prejudice of which the original life and beginning was not in the freedom of thought, but simply in the dogma of materialism. The man of the nineteenth century did not disbelieve in the Resurrection because his liberal Christianity allowed him to doubt it. He disbelieved in it because his very strict materialism did not allow him to believe it.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000010|Tennyson, a very typical nineteenth century man, uttered one of the instinctive truisms of his contemporaries when he said that there was faith in their honest doubt.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000011|There was indeed. Those words have a profound and even a horrible truth.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000003|If you wish to feed the people, you may think that feeding them miraculously in the wilderness is impossible-but you cannot think it illiberal. If you really want poor children to go to the seaside, you cannot think it illiberal that they should go there on flying dragons; you can only think it unlikely.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000005|A miracle only means the liberty of God. You may conscientiously deny either of them, but you cannot call your denial a triumph of the liberal idea.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000006|The Catholic Church believed that man and God both had a sort of spiritual freedom. Calvinism took away the freedom from man, but left it to God. Scientific materialism binds the Creator Himself; it chains up God as the Apocalypse chained the devil.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000008|And those who assist this process are called the "liberal theologians."
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000009_000001|But if he can believe in miracles, he is certainly the more liberal for doing so; because they mean first, the freedom of the soul, and secondly, its control over the tyranny of circumstance.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000009_000002|Sometimes this truth is ignored in a singularly naive way, even by the ablest men. For instance, mr Bernard Shaw speaks with hearty old-fashioned contempt for the idea of miracles, as if they were a sort of breach of faith on the part of nature: he seems strangely unconscious that miracles are only the final flowers of his own favourite tree, the doctrine of the omnipotence of will.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000009_000003|Just in the same way he calls the desire for immortality a paltry selfishness, forgetting that he has just called the desire for life a healthy and heroic selfishness. How can it be noble to wish to make one's life infinite and yet mean to wish to make it immortal?
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000010_000000|But I must pass on to the larger cases of this curious error; the notion that the "liberalising" of religion in some way helps the liberation of the world.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000010_000001|The second example of it can be found in the question of pantheism-or rather of a certain modern attitude which is often called immanentism, and which often is Buddhism. But this is so much more difficult a matter that I must approach it with rather more preparation.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000000|The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those quite opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000001|Here is a case. There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion: "the religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they are the same in what they teach."
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000004|You may walk round and round them and subject them to the most personal and offensive study without seeing anything Swedenborgian in the hat or anything particularly godless in the umbrella.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000007|It is exactly the opposite. They agree in machinery; almost every great religion on earth works with the same external methods, with priests, scriptures, altars, sworn brotherhoods, special feasts.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000009|Creeds that exist to destroy each other both have scriptures, just as armies that exist to destroy each other both have guns.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000012_000002|But in the case of the great religion of Gautama they feel sincerely a similarity.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000000|Students of popular science, like mr Blatchford, are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000001|This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it. The reasons were of two kinds: resemblances that meant nothing because they were common to all humanity, and resemblances which were not resemblances at all.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000002|The author solemnly explained that the two creeds were alike in things in which all creeds are alike, or else he described them as alike in some point in which they are quite obviously different.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000003|Thus, as a case of the first class, he said that both Christ and Buddha were called by the divine voice coming out of the sky, as if you would expect the divine voice to come out of the coal cellar.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000005|You might as well say that it was a remarkable coincidence that they both had feet to wash.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000007|It is rather like alluding to the obvious connection between the two ceremonies of the sword: when it taps a man's shoulder, and when it cuts off his head.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000008|It is not at all similar for the man.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000009|These scraps of puerile pedantry would indeed matter little if it were not also true that the alleged philosophical resemblances are also of these two kinds, either proving too much or not proving anything.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000012|Most of humanity agrees that there is some way out. But as to what is the way out, I do not think that there are two institutions in the universe which contradict each other so flatly as Buddhism and Christianity.
train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000014_000002|Granted that both images are extravagances, are perversions of the pure creed, it must be a real divergence which could produce such opposite extravagances. The Buddhist is looking with a peculiar intentness inwards. The Christian is staring with a frantic intentness outwards.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000002_000004|The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000002_000007|He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000002_000009|He does not say if any of the wounded recovered.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000005_000001|Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000009_000000|Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000009_000001|That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000010_000001|They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye-dared not See better than their master.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000012_000000|The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000014_000001|A festival.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000015_000001|A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000019_000001|A lie that has not cut its teeth.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000022_000001|The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000026_000001|A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000029_000001|The Second Person of the secular Trinity.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000036_000004|He created patriotism and taught the nations war-founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000059_000000|Armit Huff Bettle
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000060_000005|The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear.
train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000067_000000|Jex Wopley
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000001_000004|Before laying it before the public it would be as well, perhaps, that I should refresh their memories as to the singular facts upon which this commentary is founded.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000001_000005|These facts were briefly as follows:
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000002_000000|At five o'clock on the evening of the eighteenth of March in the year already mentioned a train left Euston Station for Manchester.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000002_000001|It was a rainy, squally day, which grew wilder as it progressed, so it was by no means the weather in which anyone would travel who was not driven to do so by necessity.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000002_000002|The train, however, is a favourite one among Manchester business men who are returning from town, for it does the journey in four hours and twenty minutes, with only three stoppages upon the way. In spite of the inclement evening it was, therefore, fairly well filled upon the occasion of which I speak.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000002_000003|The guard of the train was a tried servant of the company-a man who had worked for twenty two years without a blemish or complaint.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000002_000004|His name was john Palmer.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000003_000000|The station clock was upon the stroke of five, and the guard was about to give the customary signal to the engine driver when he observed two belated passengers hurrying down the platform.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000003_000002|I have already said that the evening was an inclement one, and the tall traveller had the high, warm collar turned up to protect his throat against the bitter March wind.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000003_000003|He appeared, as far as the guard could judge by so hurried an inspection, to be a man between fifty and sixty years of age, who had retained a good deal of the vigour and activity of his youth.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000003_000004|In one hand he carried a brown leather Gladstone bag.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000004_000000|"Now then, sir, look sharp, the train is going," said he.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000005_000000|"first-class," the man answered.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000006_000000|The guard turned the handle of the nearest door.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000006_000005|The tall man paused with his foot upon the step.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000007_000000|"This is a smoking compartment.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000008_000000|"All right!
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000008_000001|Here you are, sir!" said john Palmer.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000008_000002|He slammed the door of the smoking carriage, opened that of the next one, which was empty, and thrust the two travellers in.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000008_000004|The man with the cigar was at the window of his carriage, and said something to the guard as he rolled past him, but the words were lost in the bustle of the departure.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000011_000002|The door of this carriage was fastened.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000011_000004|All three passengers had disappeared.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000011_000005|On the other hand, there was found upon the floor of this carriage-the one in which the tall traveller and the lady had been-a young man fashionably dressed and of elegant appearance.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000011_000006|He lay with his knees drawn up, and his head resting against the farther door, an elbow upon either seat.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000011_000009|Who he was, whence he had come, and how he had met his end were each as great a mystery as what had occurred to the three people who had started an hour and a half before from Willesden in those two compartments.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000012_000000|I have said that there was no personal property which might help to identify him, but it is true that there was one peculiarity about this unknown young man which was much commented upon at the time.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000012_000006|In appearance he was young, short, smooth cheeked, and delicately featured.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000012_000007|One of his front teeth was conspicuously stopped with gold.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000013_000000|On the discovery of the tragedy an examination was instantly made of the tickets of all passengers, and the number of the passengers themselves was counted.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000013_000001|It was found that only three tickets were unaccounted for, corresponding to the three travellers who were missing.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000013_000003|The carriage which included the two compartments in question was uncoupled and side tracked.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000013_000004|Then, on the arrival of Inspector Vane, of Scotland Yard, and of mr Henderson, a detective in the service of the railway company, an exhaustive inquiry was made into all the circumstances.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000014_000000|That crime had been committed was certain.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000014_000001|The bullet, which appeared to have come from a small pistol or revolver, had been fired from some little distance, as there was no scorching of the clothes.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000014_000003|A lady's parasol was found upon the rack, but no other trace was to be seen of the travellers in either of the sections.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000014_000004|Apart from the crime, the question of how or why three passengers (one of them a lady) could get out of the train, and one other get in during the unbroken run between Willesden and Rugby, was one which excited the utmost curiosity among the general public, and gave rise to much speculation in the London Press.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000015_000001|There was a spot between Tring and Cheddington, according to his statement, where, on account of some repairs to the line, the train had for a few minutes slowed down to a pace not exceeding eight or ten miles an hour.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000015_000002|At that place it might be possible for a man, or even for an exceptionally active woman, to have left the train without serious injury.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000016_000000|The guard also deposed that there was a good deal of movement upon the platform at Willesden Junction, and that though it was certain that no one had either joined or left the train there, it was still quite possible that some of the passengers might have changed unseen from one compartment to another.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000016_000001|It was by no means uncommon for a gentleman to finish his cigar in a smoking carriage and then to change to a clearer atmosphere.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000016_000003|But what the second stage had been, or how the final one had been arrived at, neither the guard nor the experienced detective officers could suggest.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000017_000000|A careful examination of the line between Willesden and Rugby resulted in one discovery which might or might not have a bearing upon the tragedy.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000017_000001|Near Tring, at the very place where the train slowed down, there was found at the bottom of the embankment a small pocket Testament, very shabby and worn.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000017_000002|It was printed by the Bible Society of London, and bore an inscription: "From john to Alice.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000017_000003|january thirteenth eighteen fifty six," upon the fly leaf.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000017_000004|Underneath was written: "james.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000018_000001|On the contrary, the Press, both in England and in America, teemed with suggestions and suppositions, most of which were obviously absurd.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000018_000003|It was surmised, by some, that he was concealed under the seat, and that, being discovered, he was for some reason, possibly because he had overheard their guilty secrets, put to death by his fellow passengers.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000019_000000|The fact that he should be without a ticket would be consistent with the idea of concealment, and it was well known that women played a prominent part in the Nihilistic propaganda.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000019_000001|On the other hand, it was clear, from the guard's statement, that the man must have been hidden there BEFORE the others arrived, and how unlikely the coincidence that conspirators should stray exactly into the very compartment in which a spy was already concealed!
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000019_000002|Besides, this explanation ignored the man in the smoking carriage, and gave no reason at all for his simultaneous disappearance.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000020_000000|There was a letter in the Daily Gazette, over the signature of a well-known criminal investigator, which gave rise to considerable discussion at the time.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000020_000001|He had formed a hypothesis which had at least ingenuity to recommend it, and I cannot do better than append it in his own words.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000021_000000|"Whatever may be the truth," said he, "it must depend upon some bizarre and rare combination of events, so we need have no hesitation in postulating such events in our explanation.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000021_000001|In the absence of data we must abandon the analytic or scientific method of investigation, and must approach it in the synthetic fashion.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000022_000000|"Now, there is one most remarkable and suggestive fact which has not met with the attention which it deserves.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000022_000003|It is within every one's experience how, under such circumstances, the occupant of each carriage can see very plainly the passengers in the other carriages opposite to him.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000023_000000|"Now, the sequence of events as I reconstruct them would be after this fashion.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000023_000001|This young man with the abnormal number of watches was alone in the carriage of the slow train.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000023_000002|His ticket, with his papers and gloves and other things, was, we will suppose, on the seat beside him. He was probably an American, and also probably a man of weak intellect. The excessive wearing of jewellery is an early symptom in some forms of mania.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000024_000002|The young man was excitable and impulsive.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000024_000003|He opened the door of his carriage, stepped from the footboard of the local train to the footboard of the express, opened the other door, and made his way into the presence of these two people.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000025_000001|It is possible that the pair were also Americans, which is the more probable as the man carried a weapon-an unusual thing in England.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000025_000002|If our supposition of incipient mania is correct, the young man is likely to have assaulted the other.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000025_000004|We will suppose that all this happened very rapidly, and that the train was still going at so slow a pace that it was not difficult for them to leave it.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000025_000005|A woman might leave a train going at eight miles an hour.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000025_000006|As a matter of fact, we know that this woman DID do so.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000026_000000|"And now we have to fit in the man in the smoking carriage.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000026_000004|I acknowledge that there are some difficulties in the way.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000026_000007|It was absolutely necessary for him to take it with him.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000026_000009|If such a ticket were found my case is proved.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000026_000010|If not, my theory may still be the correct one, for it is conceivable either that he travelled without a ticket or that his ticket was lost."
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000027_000001|So perished the only satisfying explanation, and five years have elapsed without supplying a new one.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000027_000002|Now, at last, there comes a statement which covers all the facts, and which must be regarded as authentic.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000028_000001|There's less reason now than there was five years ago when mother was still living.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000028_000002|But for all that, I had rather cover up our tracks all I can.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000028_000003|But I owe you an explanation, for if your idea of it was wrong, it was a mighty ingenious one all the same.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000028_000004|I'll have to go back a little so as you may understand all about it.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000029_000001|They settled in Rochester, in the State of New York, where my father ran a large dry goods store.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000029_000002|There were only two sons: myself, james, and my brother, Edward.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000029_000004|He was a bright, spirited boy, and just one of the most beautiful creatures that ever lived.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000029_000005|But there was always a soft spot in him, and it was like mould in cheese, for it spread and spread, and nothing that you could do would stop it.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000000|"At last he fairly got his head, and nothing that we could do would stop him.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000001|He got off into New York, and went rapidly from bad to worse.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000002|At first he was only fast, and then he was criminal; and then, at the end of a year or two, he was one of the most notorious young crooks in the city.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000004|They took to card sharping, and frequented some of the best hotels in New York.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000005|My brother was an excellent actor (he might have made an honest name for himself if he had chosen), and he would take the parts of a young Englishman of title, of a simple lad from the West, or of a college undergraduate, whichever suited Sparrow MacCoy's purpose.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000006|And then one day he dressed himself as a girl, and he carried it off so well, and made himself such a valuable decoy, that it was their favourite game afterwards.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000030_000007|They had made it right with Tammany and with the police, so it seemed as if nothing could ever stop them, for those were in the days before the Lexow Commission, and if you only had a pull, you could do pretty nearly everything you wanted.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000031_000000|"And nothing would have stopped them if they had only stuck to cards and New York, but they must needs come up Rochester way, and forge a name upon a cheque.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000031_000001|It was my brother that did it, though everyone knew that it was under the influence of Sparrow MacCoy.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000031_000005|I could not prosecute, he said, without breaking our mother's heart, and he knew that I would not do that.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000031_000007|So at last he gave in, and he made me a solemn promise that he would see Sparrow MacCoy no more, that he would go to Europe, and that he would turn his hand to any honest trade that I helped him to get.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000031_000008|I took him down right away to an old family friend, Joe Willson, who is an exporter of American watches and clocks, and I got him to give Edward an agency in London, with a small salary and a fifteen per cent commission on all business.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000032_000003|I had a friend in the New York detective force, and through him I kept a watch upon MacCoy.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000033_000002|But I soon changed all that.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000034_000000|"'Gentlemen,' said I, 'are you aware whom you are playing with?'
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000035_000000|"'What's that to you?
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000036_000000|"'Who is it, anyway?' asked one of the dudes.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000039_000000|"'Prove your words, you----!' said he.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000040_000000|"'I will!' said i 'If you will turn up your right shirt sleeve to the shoulder, I will either prove my words or I will eat them.'
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000041_000003|I reckoned on it being there, and it was.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000041_000004|He cursed me, slunk out of the saloon, and was hardly seen again during the voyage.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000041_000005|For once, at any rate, I got level with Mister Sparrow MacCoy.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000042_000000|"But he soon had his revenge upon me, for when it came to influencing my brother he outweighed me every time.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000042_000002|I did my best, but the best was little enough.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000042_000004|The first I learned of it was in the evening paper, and I was at once certain that my brother and MacCoy were back at their old games.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000042_000007|The landlady had heard them give several directions to the cabman, ending with Euston Station, and she had accidentally overheard the tall gentleman saying something about Manchester.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000042_000008|She believed that that was their destination.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000043_000001|I had only time to get the later one, but found no sign of them either at the depot or in the train.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000043_000002|They must have gone on by the earlier one, so I determined to follow them to Manchester and search for them in the hotels there.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000043_000004|My nerves were overstrung, and I lit a cigar to steady them.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000044_000001|MacCoy had a great astrakhan collar drawn up, so that only his eyes and nose were showing.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000044_000002|My brother was dressed like a woman, with a black veil half down his face, but of course it did not deceive me for an instant, nor would it have done so even if I had not known that he had often used such a dress before.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000044_000003|I started up, and as I did so MacCoy recognized me.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000045_000000|"When we stopped at Willesden, I instantly changed my carriage.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000045_000003|That is what I fancy, for I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000046_000000|"'Why don't you run a Sunday school?' he would say to me, and then, in the same breath: 'He thinks you have no will of your own.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000046_000001|He thinks you are just the baby brother and that he can lead you where he likes. He's only just finding out that you are a man as well as he.'
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000047_000000|"It was those words of his which set me talking bitterly.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000047_000002|My temper got the better of me, and for the first time in my life I let my brother see the rough side of me.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000047_000003|Perhaps it would have been better had I done so earlier and more often.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000050_000001|'Now,' said I, 'you'll never make a Mary Jane of yourself while I can help it.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000053_000000|"'He's my brother, and you shall not ruin him,' said i 'I believe a spell of prison is the very best way of keeping you apart, and you shall have it, or it will be no fault of mine.'
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000054_000002|At the same instant he fired, and the bullet which would have struck me passed through the heart of my unfortunate brother.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000055_000001|MacCoy still held the loaded revolver in his hand, but his anger against me and my resentment towards him had both for the moment been swallowed up in this sudden tragedy.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000055_000004|At the bottom I struck my head against a stone, and I remembered nothing more.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000055_000006|It was Sparrow MacCoy.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000056_000001|'I didn't want to have the blood of two of you on my hands in one day.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000056_000002|You loved your brother, I've no doubt; but you didn't love him a cent more than I loved him, though you'll say that I took a queer way to show it.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000056_000003|Anyhow, it seems a mighty empty world now that he is gone, and I don't care a continental whether you give me over to the hangman or not.'
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000057_000002|And then, as my wits gradually returned, I began to realize also that I could do nothing against MacCoy which would not recoil upon my mother and myself.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000057_000003|How could we convict him without a full account of my brother's career being made public-the very thing which of all others we wished to avoid?
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000057_000005|The place in which we found ourselves was one of those pheasant preserves which are so common in the Old Country, and as we groped our way through it I found myself consulting the slayer of my brother as to how far it would be possible to hush it up.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000058_000000|"I soon realized from what he said that unless there were some papers of which we knew nothing in my brother's pockets, there was really no possible means by which the police could identify him or learn how he had got there.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000058_000001|His ticket was in MacCoy's pocket, and so was the ticket for some baggage which they had left at the depot.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000058_000004|Anyhow, I have seen nothing about it in the London papers.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000058_000005|As to the watches, they were a selection from those which had been intrusted to him for business purposes.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000000|"I don't blame the police for being at fault.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000001|I don't see how it could have been otherwise.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000003|I mean that small, circular mirror which was found in my brother's pocket.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000004|It isn't a very common thing for a young man to carry about with him, is it?
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000005|But a gambler might have told you what such a mirror may mean to a card sharper.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000006|If you sit back a little from the table, and lay the mirror, face upwards, upon your lap, you can see, as you deal, every card that you give to your adversary.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000059_000007|It is not hard to say whether you see a man or raise him when you know his cards as well as your own.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000060_000000|"I don't think there is much more for me to explain.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000060_000001|We got to a village called Amersham that night in the character of two gentlemen upon a walking tour, and afterwards we made our way quietly to London, whence MacCoy went on to Cairo and I returned to New York.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000060_000002|My mother died six months afterwards, and I am glad to say that to the day of her death she never knew what happened.
train-other-500/1006/135212/1006_135212_000060_000004|He never wrote; but, then, he never did write at any time, so that made no difference.
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train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000003_000000|ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000005_000000|HISTORY.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000010_000001|Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000010_000003|Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000010_000006|The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000010_000007|Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000000|This human mind wrote history, and this must read it.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000003|There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000005|Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000006|All its properties consist in him.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000009|Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000010|The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000011|We, as we read, must become Greeks, romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000011_000014|This throws our actions into perspective; and as crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac, so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000012_000000|It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000012_000001|Human life, as containing this, is mysterious and inviolable, and we hedge it round with penalties and laws.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000012_000005|It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000013_000001|We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000013_000003|All literature writes the character of the wise man.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000013_000004|Books, monuments, pictures, conversation, are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000013_000006|A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000013_000008|Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature, from the mountains and the lights of the firmament.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000014_000000|These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000014_000002|Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000001|There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000003|He should see that he can live all history in his own person.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000008|No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to keep a fact a fact.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000009|Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000011|Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000013|"What is history," said Napoleon, "but a fable agreed upon?"
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000014|This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece, Gaul, England, War, Colonization, Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000015|I will not make more account of them.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000016|I believe in Eternity.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000015_000017|I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands,--the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000016_000000|We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000016_000001|All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,--must go over the whole ground.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000016_000002|What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000016_000003|What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, it will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000017_000000|History must be this or it is nothing.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000018_000001|Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy pits and pyramids of Thebes, until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000019_000000|A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000019_000001|Surely it was by man, but we find it not in our man.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000019_000002|But we apply ourselves to the history of its production.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000019_000003|We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000019_000005|When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints' days and image worship, we have as it were been the man that made the minster; we have seen how it could and must be.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000019_000006|We have the sufficient reason.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000020_000000|The difference between men is in their principle of association. Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by intrinsic likeness, or by the relation of cause and effect.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000020_000001|The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000020_000002|To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000020_000004|Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000021_000000|Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000021_000003|Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge, ere they fall, by infinite diameters.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000021_000006|She casts the same thought into troops of forms, as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000021_000007|Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000022_000000|The identity of history is equally intrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000022_000001|There is, at the surface, infinite variety of things; at the centre there is simplicity of cause.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000022_000003|Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000022_000004|We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000022_000005|We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy; a very complete form.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000022_000006|Then we have it once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself, limited to the straight line and the square,--a builded geometry.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000023_000000|Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000023_000003|She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000024_000003|And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000025_000001|So Roos "entered into the inmost nature of a sheep." I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000025_000003|It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000025_000004|By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000026_000000|It has been said that "common souls pay with what they do, nobler souls with that which they are." And why?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000027_000001|There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe,--the roots of all things are in man.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000027_000003|Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000027_000007|A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000029_000001|The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000029_000002|The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000029_000003|The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000029_000004|"The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock," says Heeren in his Researches on the Ethiopians, "determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000030_000001|Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns, its spikes of flowers, its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000031_000000|The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000032_000000|In like manner all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000033_000000|In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000033_000001|The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000033_000006|In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italo mania of Boston Bay.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000036_000001|What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000036_000005|The reverence exhibited is for personal qualities; courage, address, self command, justice, strength, swiftness, a loud voice, a broad chest.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000036_000006|Luxury and elegance are not known.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000036_000007|A sparse population and want make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier, and the habit of supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000037_000001|Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000037_000002|The Greeks are not reflective, but perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical organization in the world.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000037_000007|The attraction of these manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000037_000008|A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000037_000011|I feel the eternity of man, the identity of his thought.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000039_000002|Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000040_000000|Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000040_000001|They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000040_000002|As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact, every word.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000041_000001|I cannot find any antiquity in them.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000042_000000|I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000043_000003|He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door, and himself has laid the courses.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000044_000000|Again, in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to virtue.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000045_000001|He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations, but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000002|Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000006|The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000007|Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000009|When the gods come among men, they are not known.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000010|Jesus was not; Socrates and Shakspeare were not.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000013|The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000015|What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000017|Tantalus is but a name for you and me.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000020|I would it were; but men and women are only half human.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000025|If he could solve the riddle, the Sphinx was slain.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000026|What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000046_000028|Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000047_000002|So far then are they eternal entities, as real to day as in the first Olympiad.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000048_000000|The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard, sits on his neck and writes through his hand; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000048_000002|Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000050_000002|We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful, by fighting down the unjust and sensual.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000051_000006|He cannot live without a world.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000053_000000|Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000053_000001|Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick strewn celestial areas.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000053_000004|Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000053_000006|Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000053_000008|Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000054_000000|I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000055_000002|History no longer shall be a dull book.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000055_000006|A man shall be the Temple of Fame.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000055_000007|He shall walk, as the poets have described that goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;--his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000056_000002|But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000056_000003|I hold our actual knowledge very cheap.
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000056_000009|What light does it shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?
train-other-500/102/129232/102_129232_000056_000014|What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000000_000000|No English sovereign has ever given stronger proof of a cruel nature than james the Second.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000000_000001|Yet his cruelty was not more odious than his mercy.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000000_000002|Or perhaps it may be more correct to say that his mercy and his cruelty were such that each reflects infamy on the other.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000001_000002|This rule, so evidently agreeable to justice and humanity, was not only not observed: it was inverted.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000001_000004|This eccentric clemency has perplexed some writers, and has drawn forth ludicrous eulogies from others.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000001_000005|It was neither at all mysterious nor at all praiseworthy.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000002_000000|In the case of Grey there was no mitigating circumstance.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000002_000004|If he died, his lands at once devolved on the next heir.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000002_000005|If he were pardoned, he would be able to pay a large ransom.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000003_000001|That Cochrane should be forgiven by a prince vindictive beyond all example, seemed incredible. But Cochrane was the younger son of a rich family; it was therefore only by sparing him that money could be made out of him.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000005_000003|They had then separated.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000006_000001|Of all the enemies of the government he was, without doubt, the most deeply criminal.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000006_000002|He was the original author of the plot for assassinating the royal brothers. He had written that Declaration which, for insolence, malignity, and mendacity, stands unrivalled even among the libels of those stormy times.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000006_000006|The next thing that was heard of him was that he was safe on the Continent.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000007_000000|And now Jeffreys had done his work, and returned to claim his reward.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000007_000001|He arrived at Windsor from the West, leaving carnage, mourning, and terror behind him.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000007_000003|It was not to be quenched by time or by political changes, was long transmitted from generation to generation, and raged fiercely against his innocent progeny.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000008_000000|But at the Court Jeffreys was cordially welcomed.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000008_000001|He was a judge after his master's own heart.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000008_000002|james had watched the circuit with interest and delight.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000008_000004|With his own hand he had penned accounts of what he facetiously called his Lord Chief Justice's campaign in the West.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000008_000005|Some hundreds of rebels, His Majesty wrote to the Hague, had been condemned.
train-other-500/104/123365/104_123365_000008_000008|The King read, and remained, according to the saying of Churchill, hard as the marble chimneypieces of Whitehall.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000002_000000|I think I said I felt all right.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000002_000002|He must have seen the question in my face, for my voice was inaccessible to me.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000003_000000|"You were picked up in a boat, starving.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000004_000000|At the same time my eye caught my hand, so thin that it looked like a dirty skin purse full of loose bones, and all the business of the boat came back to me.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000008_000000|"What ship is this?" I said slowly, hoarse from my long silence.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000010_000000|(Then the noise overhead began again, a snarling growl and the voice of a human being together.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000010_000001|Then another voice, telling some "Heaven forsaken idiot" to desist.)
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000011_000000|"You were nearly dead," said my interlocutor.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000011_000001|"It was a very near thing, indeed.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000011_000003|Injections.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000012_000000|I thought slowly. (I was distracted now by the yelping of a number of dogs.) "Am I eligible for solid food?" I asked.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000013_000000|"Thanks to me," he said.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000015_000000|"But," said he with a momentary hesitation, "you know I'm dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000015_000001|Damn that howling!" I thought I detected a certain suspicion in his eyes.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000016_000001|Then he shouted at the dogs, and returned to the cabin.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000017_000000|"Well?" said he in the doorway.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000017_000001|"You were just beginning to tell me."
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000019_000000|He seemed interested in this.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000019_000001|"I've done some science myself.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000019_000003|Lord!
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000020_000000|He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000020_000001|He began to question me closely about Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street. "Is Caplatzi still flourishing?
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000020_000003|He told me some anecdotes.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000021_000000|"Left it all," he said, "ten years ago.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000021_000003|But I must look up that ass of a cook, and see what he's done to your mutton."
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000022_000000|The growling overhead was renewed, so suddenly and with so much savage anger that it startled me.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000022_000001|"What's that?" I called after him, but the door had closed.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000022_000002|He came back again with the boiled mutton, and I was so excited by the appetising smell of it that I forgot the noise of the beast that had troubled me.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000023_000000|After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far recovered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000023_000001|I judged the schooner was running before the wind.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000023_000002|Montgomery-that was the name of the flaxen haired man-came in again as I stood there, and I asked him for some clothes. He lent me some duck things of his own, for those I had worn in the boat had been thrown overboard.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000023_000004|He told me casually that the captain was three parts drunk in his own cabin.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000024_000000|"Where?" said i
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000025_000000|"It's an island, where I live.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000026_000000|He stared at me with his nether lip dropping, and looked so wilfully stupid of a sudden that it came into my head that he desired to avoid my questions.
train-other-500/104/129578/104_129578_000026_000001|I had the discretion to ask no more.
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train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000003_000000|WHAT KATY DID
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000004_000000|By
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000005_000000|SUSAN COOLIDGE
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000007_000000|TO FIVE.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000009_000000|Did the sun always shine?
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000009_000001|I can't remember A single cloud that dimmed the happy blue,-- A single lightning bolt or peal of thunder, To daunt our bright, unfearing lives: can you?
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000011_000000|Is it long since?--it seems a moment only: Yet here we are in bonnets and tail coats, Grave men of business, members of committees, Our play time ended: even Baby votes!
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000031_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000032_000000|THE LITTLE CARRS
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000033_000000|I was sitting in the meadows one day, not long ago, at a place where there was a small brook.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000033_000001|It was a hot day.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000033_000002|The sky was very blue, and white clouds, like great swans, went floating over it to and fro.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000033_000003|Just opposite me was a clump of green rushes, with dark velvety spikes, and among them one single tall, red cardinal flower, which was bending over the brook as if to see its own beautiful face in the water.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000034_000000|The picture was so pretty that I sat a long time enjoying it.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000034_000001|Suddenly, close to me, two small voices began to talk-or to sing, for I couldn't tell exactly which it was.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000034_000002|One voice was shrill; the other, which was a little deeper, sounded very positive and cross.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000034_000003|They were evidently disputing about something, for they said the same words over and over again.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000034_000004|These were the words-"Katy did." "Katy didn't." "She did." "She didn't." "She did." "She didn't." "Did." "Didn't." I think they must have repeated them at least a hundred times.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000035_000001|Their eyes seemed to be weak, for they both wore black goggles.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000035_000002|They had six legs apiece,--two short ones, two not so short, and two very long.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000035_000005|They didn't say anything so long as I was there, but the moment my back was turned they began to quarrel again, and in the same old words-"Katy did." "Katy didn't." "She did." "She didn't."
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000036_000000|As I walked home I fell to thinking about another Katy,--a Katy I once knew, who planned to do a great many wonderful things, and in the end did none of them, but something quite different,--something she didn't like at all at first, but which, on the whole, was a great deal better than any of the doings she had dreamed about.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000036_000001|And as I thought, this little story grew in my head, and I resolved to write it down for you.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000036_000003|Here it is-the story of What Katy Did.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000037_000000|Katy's name was Katy Carr.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000038_000000|There were six of the Carr children-four girls and two boys.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000038_000001|Katy, the oldest, was twelve years old; little Phil, the youngest, was four, and the rest fitted in between.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000039_000000|dr Carr, their Papa, was a dear, kind, busy man, who was away from home all day, and sometimes all night, too, taking care of sick people.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000039_000001|The children hadn't any Mamma.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000039_000002|She had died when Phil was a baby, four years before my story began.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000040_000001|Aunt Izzie was a small woman, sharp faced and thin, rather old looking, and very neat and particular about everything.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000041_000000|Then dr Carr was another person who worried her.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000041_000001|He wished to have the children hardy and bold, and encouraged climbing and rough plays, in spite of the bumps and ragged clothes which resulted.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000041_000003|At this time she looked at them with pleased eyes, they were all so spick and span, with such nicely brushed jackets and such neatly combed hair.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000041_000004|But the moment the bell rang her comfort was over.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000041_000005|From that time on, they were what she called "not fit to be seen." The neighbors pitied her very much.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000042_000000|"Clover, go up stairs and wash your hands!
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000042_000001|Dorry, pick your hat off the floor and hang it on the nail!
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000042_000002|Not that nail-the third nail from the corner!" These were the kind of things Aunt Izzie was saying all day long.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000042_000003|The children minded her pretty well, but they didn't exactly love her, I fear.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000043_000001|This ice house was one of their favorite places.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000043_000002|It was only a low roof set over a hole in the ground, and, as it stood in the middle of the side yard, it always seemed to the children that the shortest road to every place was up one of its slopes and down the other.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000043_000005|Shoes and trousers, and clothes generally, were Aunt Izzie's affair; theirs was to slide and enjoy themselves.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000044_000001|She was a fair, sweet dumpling of a girl, with thick pig tails of light brown hair, and short sighted blue eyes, which seemed to hold tears, just ready to fall from under the blue.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000044_000002|Really, Clover was the jolliest little thing in the world; but these eyes, and her soft cooing voice, always made people feel like petting her and taking her part.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000044_000003|Once, when she was very small, she ran away with Katy's doll, and when Katy pursued, and tried to take it from her, Clover held fast and would not let go.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000000|Pretty little Phil sat next on the roof to Clover, and she held him tight with her arm.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000002|Poor little Elsie was the "odd one" among the Carrs.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000003|She didn't seem to belong exactly to either the older or the younger children.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000005|But they didn't want Elsie, and used to tell her to "run away and play with the children," which hurt her feelings very much.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000006|When she wouldn't run away, I am sorry to say they ran away from her, which, as their legs were longest, it was easy to do.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000008|Her eyes were bright and quick as a bird's.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000045_000010|Poor little Elsie!
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000046_000000|Dorry and Joanna sat on the two ends of the ridge pole.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000046_000001|Dorry was six years old; a pale, pudgy boy, with rather a solemn face, and smears of molasses on the sleeve of his jacket.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000046_000003|These two were great friends, though Dorry seemed like a girl who had got into boy's clothes by mistake, and Johnnie like a boy who, in a fit of fun, had borrowed his sister's frock.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000047_000000|"Hurray!" she cried, "all done, and Aunt Izzie says we may go.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000047_000001|Are you tired out waiting?
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000047_000002|I couldn't help it, the holes were so big, and took so long.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000047_000003|Hurry up, Clover, and get the things!
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000048_000000|The children jumped up gladly, and slid down the roof.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000048_000001|Clover fetched a couple of baskets from the wood shed.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000048_000002|Elsie ran for her kitten.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000048_000004|Just as they were ready, the side door banged, and Katy and Cecy Hall came into the yard.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000000|I must tell you about Cecy.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000001|She was a great friend of the children's, and lived in a house next door.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000003|She was a neat, dapper, pink and white girl, modest and prim in manner, with light shiny hair, which always kept smooth, and slim hands, which never looked dirty.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000008|Whenever she stopped to think about her height she became very awkward, and felt as if she were all legs and elbows, and angles and joints.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000009|Happily, her head was so full of other things, of plans and schemes, and fancies of all sorts, that she didn't often take time to remember how tall she was.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000010|She was a dear, loving child, for all her careless habits, and made bushels of good resolutions every week of her life, only unluckily she never kept any of them.
train-other-500/104/132091/104_132091_000049_000015|I don't think she had made up her mind what this wonderful thing was to be; but while thinking about it she often forgot to learn a lesson, or to lace her boots, and then she had a bad mark, or a scolding from Aunt Izzie.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000001_000000|"No, no! We want to go by Sassafras Path!" cried john and Dorry.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000002_000000|However, Katy, as usual, had her way.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000003_000001|This "Rosary" was a fascinating thing to their minds. They were always inventing stories about it, and were in constant terror lest some hungry cow should take a fancy to the rose bush and eat it up.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000004_000000|"Yes," said Katy, stroking a leaf with her finger, "it was in great danger one night last winter, but it escaped."
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000005_000001|Tell us about it!" cried the others, for Katy's stories were famous in the family.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000006_000000|"It was Christmas Eve," continued Katy, in a mysterious tone.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000006_000001|"The fairy of the Rosary was quite sick.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000006_000002|She had taken a dreadful cold in her head, and the poplar tree fairy, just over there, told her that sassafras tea is good for colds.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000006_000003|So she made a large acorn cup full, and then cuddled herself in where the wood looks so black and soft, and fell asleep.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000006_000004|In the middle of the night, when she was snoring soundly, there was a noise in the forest, and a dreadful black bull with fiery eyes galloped up.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000007_000000|"Is there really any fairy?" asked Dorry, who had listened to this narrative with open mouth.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000008_000000|"Of course," answered Katy.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000010_000000|The Path of Peace got its name because of its darkness and coolness. High bushes almost met over it, and trees kept it shady, even in the middle of the day.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000010_000001|A sort of white flower grew there, which the children called Pollypods, because they didn't know the real name.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000010_000002|They staid a long while picking bunches of these flowers, and then john and Dorry had to grub up an armful of sassafras roots; so that before they had fairly gone through Toadstool Avenue, Rabbit Hollow, and the rest, the sun was just over their heads, and it was noon.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000011_000000|"I'm getting hungry," said Dorry.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000013_000000|When it was done they all cuddled in underneath.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000013_000002|I don't think there would have been room for anybody else, not even another kitten.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000013_000003|Katy, who sat in the middle, untied and lifted the lid of the largest basket, while all the rest peeped eagerly to see what was inside.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000014_000000|First came a great many ginger cakes.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000014_000001|These were carefully laid on the grass to keep till wanted: buttered biscuit came next-three apiece, with slices of cold lamb laid in between; and last of all were a dozen hard boiled eggs, and a layer of thick bread and butter sandwiched with corn beef.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000015_000001|No grown up dinner party ever had half so much fun.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000016_000001|Even demure Cecy was pleased, and Dorry and john kicked their heels on the ground in a tumult of joy.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000016_000002|Seven pairs of hands were held out at once toward the basket; seven sets of teeth went to work without a moment's delay.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000018_000000|"I don't know," replied Katy, dreamily.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000019_000000|"Let's play we're grown up," said Cecy, "and tell what we mean to do."
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000020_000000|"Well," said Clover, "you begin.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000020_000001|What do you mean to do?"
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000021_000001|I shall be very good, too; as good as mrs Bedell, only a great deal prettier.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000021_000002|All the young gentlemen will want me to go and ride, but I shan't notice them at all, because you know I shall always be teaching in Sunday school, and visiting the poor.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000021_000003|And some day, when I am bending over an old woman and feeding her with currant jelly, a poet will come along and see me, and he'll go home and write a poem about me," concluded Cecy, triumphantly.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000022_000003|And I'm going to live in a yellow castle, with yellow pillars to the portico, and a square thing on top, like mr Sawyer's.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000022_000004|My children are going to have a play house up there.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000022_000005|There's going to be a spy glass in the window, to look out of.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000023_000000|"I mean to have just the same," cried Elsie, whose imagination was fired by this gorgeous vision, "only my pond will be the biggest.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000023_000001|I shall be a great deal beautifuller, too," she added.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000024_000000|"You can't," said Katy from overhead.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000024_000001|"Clover is going to be the most beautiful lady in the world."
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000026_000000|"What'll you be, Johnnie?" asked Clover, anxious to change the subject, for Elsie's voice was growing plaintive.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000027_000000|But Johnnie had no clear ideas as to her future.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000027_000001|She laughed a great deal, and squeezed Dorry's arm very tight, but that was all.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000027_000002|Dorry was more explicit.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000028_000000|"I mean to have turkey every day," he declared, "and batter puddings; not boiled ones, you know, but little baked ones, with brown shiny tops, and a great deal of pudding sauce to eat on them.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000029_000000|"Oh, Dorry, you pig!" cried Katy, while the others screamed with laughter.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000029_000001|Dorry was much affronted.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000030_000000|"I shall just go and tell Aunt Izzie what you called me," he said, getting up in a great pet.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000034_000000|"Isn't it the same thing?" asked Cecy.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000035_000002|Or perhaps I shall go and nurse in the hospital, like Miss Nightingale.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000035_000003|Or else I'll head a crusade and ride on a white horse, with armor and a helmet on my head, and carry a sacred flag.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000035_000004|Or if I don't do that, I'll paint pictures, or sing, or scalp-sculp,--what is it?
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000035_000007|And when Aunt Izzie sees it, and reads about me in the newspapers she will say, 'The dear child!
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000036_000000|"Oh, Katy! how beautiful it will be!" said Clover, clasping her hands. Clover believed in Katy as she did in the Bible.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000038_000000|"Yes they will!" said Clover; and gave Elsie a push.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000039_000000|By and by john and Dorry trotted away on mysterious errands of their own.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000040_000000|"Wasn't Dorry funny with his turkey?" remarked Cecy; and they all laughed again.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000041_000000|"If you won't tell," said Katy, "I'll let you see Dorry's journal.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000041_000001|He kept it once for almost two weeks, and then gave it up.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000041_000002|I found the book, this morning, in the nursery closet."
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000042_000000|All of them promised, and Katy produced it from her pocket.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000042_000001|It began thus:
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000043_000000|"march twelfth.--Have resolved to keep a jurnal.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000046_000001|Gridel cakes for brekfast.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000046_000002|Debby didn't fry enuff.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000047_000000|march twenty fourth.--This is Sunday.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000047_000001|Corn befe for dinnir.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000047_000002|Studdied my Bibel leson.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000047_000006|Nothing pertikeler for tea.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000050_000000|march twenty ninth.--Played.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000051_000000|march thirty first.--Forgit what did.
train-other-500/104/132092/104_132092_000053_000001|It was dreadful to have to pick up the empty baskets and go home, feeling that the long, delightful Saturday was over, and that there wouldn't be another for a week.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000001_000001|Harker affected no surprise at all-he looked the astonishment he felt as the younger man rose and motioned him to the comfortable easy chair which he himself had just previously taken.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000002_000000|"Dear me!" he exclaimed, nodding his thanks.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000004_000001|He took the chair which Bryce drew forward and pulled out an old-fashioned cigar case, offering it to his companion.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000005_000001|"Genuine stuff that, sir-I've a friend in Cuba who remembers me now and then.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000005_000002|No," he went on, as Bryce thanked him and took a cigar, "I didn't know you'd finished with the doctor.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000006_000000|"You know it?" inquired Bryce.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000007_000001|"I come down to see him now and then-I've been here since yesterday.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000007_000003|Stopping long, doctor?"
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000009_000000|"I'm off tomorrow morning-eleven o'clock," said Harker.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000011_000000|The two travellers sat talking until bedtime-but neither made any mention of the affair which had recently set all Wrychester agog with excitement.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000011_000001|But Bryce was wondering all the time if his companion's story of having a friend at Barthorpe was no more than an excuse, and when he was alone in his own bedroom and reflecting more seriously he came to the conclusion that old Harker was up to some game of his own in connection with the Paradise mystery.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000012_000000|"The old chap was in the Library when Ambrose Campany said that there was a clue in that Barthorpe history," he mused.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000012_000001|"I saw him myself examining the book after the inquest.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000012_000002|No, no, mr Harker!--the facts are too plain-the evidences too obvious.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000012_000004|I'd give a good deal to know what Harker really is doing here-and who his Barthorpe friend is."
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000013_000002|And at that hour Simpson Harker, who had breakfasted before nine, was in close consultation with his friend-that friend being none other than the local superintendent of police, who was confidentially closeted with the old man in his private house, whither Harker, by previous arrangement, had repaired as soon as his breakfast was over.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000013_000003|Had Bryce been able to see through walls or hear through windows, he would have been surprised to find that the Harker of this consultation was not the quiet, easy going, gossipy old gentleman of Wrychester, but an eminently practical and business like man of affairs.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000014_000001|Put your best plainclothes man on to him at once-he'll easily know him from the description I gave you-and let him shadow him wherever he goes.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000014_000002|And then let me know of his movement-he's certainly on the track of something, and what he does may be useful to me-I can link it up with my own work.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000014_000003|And as regards the other matter-keep me informed if you come on anything further.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000014_000004|Now I'll go out by your garden and down the back of the town to the station.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000015_000002|He was not going to draw any attention to himself by asking questions of present day inhabitants, whose curiosity might then be aroused; he knew better methods than that.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000015_000003|Every town, said Bryce to himself, possesses public records-parish registers, burgess rolls, lists of voters; even small towns have directories which are more or less complete-he could search these for any mention or record of anybody or any family of the name of Braden.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000015_000004|And he spent all that day in that search, inspecting numerous documents and registers and books, and when evening came he had a very complete acquaintance with the family nomenclature of Barthorpe, and he was prepared to bet odds against any one of the name of Braden having lived there during the past half century.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000016_000000|The man who had spent a very lazy day in keeping an eye on Bryce, as he visited the various public places whereat he made his researches, was also keeping an eye upon him next morning, when Bryce, breakfasting earlier than usual, prepared for a second day's labours.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000016_000004|And there he pursued his tactics of the day before and went straight to the vicarage and its vicar, with a request to be allowed to inspect the parish registers.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000016_000005|The vicar, having no objection to earning the resultant fees, hastened to comply with Bryce's request, and inquired how far back he wanted to search and for what particular entry.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000019_000001|"Perhaps you will kindly lend me this book for an hour?--then, if I see anything very noteworthy in the index, I can look at the actual registers when I bring it back."
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000020_000000|The vicar replied that that was precisely what he had been about to suggest, and Bryce carried the book away.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000020_000002|On the third page he saw the name Bewery.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000021_000001|But the follower, knowing his man was safe for an hour, was in the bar outside eating bread and cheese and drinking ale, and Bryce's surprise was witnessed by no one.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000022_000001|A name so uncommon that here-here, in this out of the way Midland village!--there must be some connection with the object of his search.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000022_000003|He turned to page three hundred eighty seven with a sense of sure discovery.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000023_000000|And there an entry caught his eye at once-and he knew that he had discovered more than he had ever hoped for.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000024_000000|june nineteenth eighteen ninety one.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000000|Twenty two years ago!
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000002|But john Brake who married that Mary Bewery-who was he?
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000003|Who indeed, laughed Bryce, but john Braden, who had just come by his death in Wrychester Paradise?
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000004|And there was the name of Mark Ransford as witness.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000005|What was the further probability?
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000007|Clear!--clear as noonday!
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000025_000008|And-what did it all mean, and imply, and what bearing had it on Braden or Brake's death?
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000026_000001|And his lunch done, he set off for the vicarage again, intent on getting further information, and before he reached the vicarage gates noticed, by accident, a place whereat he was more likely to get it than from the vicar-who was a youngish man.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000028_000000|"Are you the Charles Claybourne mentioned there?" he asked, without ceremony.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000029_000000|"That's me, sir!" replied the old shoemaker briskly, after a glance. "Yes-right enough!"
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000030_000000|"How came you to witness that marriage?" inquired Bryce.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000031_000000|The old man nodded at the church across the way.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000033_000000|"Do you remember this marriage?" asked Bryce, perching himself on the bench at which the shoemaker was working.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000033_000001|"Twenty two years since, I see."
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000034_000001|"Miss Bewery's marriage?--why, of course!"
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000035_000000|"Who was she?" demanded Bryce.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000036_000000|"Governess at the vicarage," replied Claybourne.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000036_000001|"Nice, sweet young lady."
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000037_000000|"And the man she married?--mr
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000037_000001|Brake," continued Bryce.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000037_000002|"Who was he?"
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000038_000000|"A young gentleman that used to come here for the fishing, now and then," answered Claybourne, pointing at the river.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000038_000001|"Famous for our trout we are here, you know, sir.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000039_000000|"You remember him, too?" asked Bryce.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000041_000000|Bruce assimilated all this information greedily-and asked for more.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000042_000000|"I'm interested in that entry," he said, tapping the open book.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000042_000001|"I know some people of the name of Bewery-they may be relatives."
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000043_000000|The shoemaker shook his head as if doubtful.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000044_000000|"I remember hearing it said," he remarked, "that Miss Mary had no relations.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000045_000000|"Do you know what Brake was?" asked Bryce.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000045_000001|"As you say he came here for a good many times before the marriage, I suppose you'd hear something about his profession, or trade, or whatever it was?"
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000046_000001|"A banker-that was his trade, sir.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000047_000000|Bryce had now got all the information he wanted, and he made the old parish clerk a small present and turned to go.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000048_000000|"Your late vicar?" he said.
train-other-500/1049/133454/1049_133454_000048_000002|Dead?"
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000001_000000|"But I must work hard, or I can't catch up with the others.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000004_000000|"Yes; for one thing, you can keep your temper, and Jack, who is quick at numbers, cannot; that is an excellent lesson, and I think you have learned it well.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000004_000001|Then, you can play the violin, and not one of the lads can, though they want to do it very much.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000005_000001|"Yes, I can keep my temper father's beating taught me that; and I can fiddle, though I don't know where the Bay of Biscay is," he thought, with a sense of comfort impossible to express.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000005_000002|Then he said aloud, and so earnestly that Demi heard him:
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000006_000000|"I do want to learn, and I will try.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000006_000001|I never went to school, but I couldn't help it; and if the fellows don't laugh at me, I guess I'll get on first rate you and the lady are so good to me."
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000010_000001|But his garden was his best medicine, and he worked away like a beaver, preparing his little farm, sowing his beans, watching eagerly to see them grow, and rejoicing over each green leaf and slender stock that shot up and flourished in the warm spring weather.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000011_000000|"This is the crop I like best," mrs Bhaer used to say, as she pinched the once thin cheeks, now getting plump and ruddy, or stroked the bent shoulders that were slowly straightening up with healthful work, good food, and the absence of that heavy burden, poverty.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000012_000000|Demi was his little friend, Tommy his patron, and Daisy the comforter of all his woes; for, though the children were younger than he, his timid spirit found a pleasure in their innocent society, and rather shrunk from the rough sports of the elder lads.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000013_000000|It takes so little to make a child happy that it is a pity, in a world so full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000013_000004|As fast as the toys were mended, they were put carefully away in a certain drawer which was to furnish forth a Christmas tree for all the poor children of the neighborhood, that being the way the Plumfield boys celebrated the birthday of Him who loved the poor and blessed the little ones.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000015_000000|Another helpful thing happened in a most unexpected and agreeable manner.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000016_000001|"Give a boy a trade, and he is independent.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000018_000000|"Can I go and fiddle for some people who are to have a picnic in our woods?
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000018_000001|They will pay me, and I'd like to earn some money as the other boys do, and fiddling is the only way I know how to do it."
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000019_000000|mr Bhaer answered readily:
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000020_000000|"Go, and welcome.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000020_000001|It is an easy and a pleasant way to work, and I am glad it is offered you."
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000022_000000|"It is so much nicer than fiddling in the street, for then I got none of the money, and now I have it all, and a good time besides.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000022_000001|I'm in business now as well as Tommy and Jack, and I like it ever so much," said Nat, proudly patting the old pocketbook, and feeling like a millionaire already.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000023_000001|He was always at liberty to go if lessons were not neglected, and if the picnickers were respectable young people.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000023_000002|For mr Bhaer explained to him that a good plain education is necessary for everyone, and that no amount of money should hire him to go where he might be tempted to do wrong.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000025_000000|"I hope so, Nat; but we must get you strong and hearty first, and put a little more knowledge into this musical head of yours.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000025_000001|Then mr Laurie will find you a place somewhere, and in a few years we will all come to hear you play in public."
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000026_000001|The fear of losing his bosom friend entirely made him go at his books with a will; and having proved that he could master the lessons, what was the use of saying "I can't?"
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000028_000002|Perhaps his love of music kept it sweet in spite of the discord all about him; mr Laurie said so, and he ought to know.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000029_000001|I regret to say that Nat sometimes told lies.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000031_000001|I used to tell 'em because I was afraid of father and Nicolo, and now I do sometimes because the boys laugh at me.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000032_000000|"When I was a little lad I used to tell lies!
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000032_000003|Then said the dear old grandmother, 'I shall help you to remember, and put a check on this unruly part,' with that she drew out my tongue and snipped the end with her scissors till the blood ran.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000032_000004|That was terrible, you may believe, but it did me much good, because it was sore for days, and every word I said came so slowly that I had time to think.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000032_000005|After that I was more careful, and got on better, for I feared the big scissors.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000032_000006|Yet the dear grandmother was most kind to me in all things, and when she lay dying far away in Nuremberg, she prayed that little Fritz might love God and tell the truth."
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000034_000000|mr Bhaer smiled, but shook his head.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000035_000000|"I have a better way than that, I tried it once before and it worked well.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000036_000000|"How?" asked Nat, startled at the idea.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000038_000000|"Strike you?
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000038_000001|Oh, I couldn't!" cried Nat.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000039_000000|"Then mind that tripping tongue of thine.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000039_000001|I have no wish to be hurt, but I would gladly bear much pain to cure this fault."
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000043_000000|"My eye!
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000043_000001|He's going to come down heavy on Nat this time.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000046_000000|"Why don't he up and take it like a man?
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000046_000001|I would," thought Tommy, though his heart beat fast at the sight.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000047_000000|"I shall keep my word, and you must remember to tell the truth.
train-other-500/1051/133883/1051_133883_000048_000000|Tommy was so staggered by this last speech that he nearly tumbled down the bank, but saved himself, and hung onto the window ledge, staring in with eyes as round as the stuffed owl's on the chimney piece.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000005_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000005_000001|NAUGHTY NAN
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000008_000000|"Daisy needs a companion, and the boys would be all the better for another girl among them; you know we believe in bringing up little men and women together, and it is high time we acted up to our belief.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000008_000002|Then they must learn gentle ways, and improve their manners, and having girls about will do it better than any thing else."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000009_000000|"You are right, as usual.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000009_000001|Now, who shall we have?" asked mr Bhaer, seeing by the look in her eye that mrs Jo had some one all ready to propose.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000010_000000|"Little Annie Harding."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000011_000000|"What!
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000011_000001|Naughty Nan, as the lads call her?" cried mr Bhaer, looking very much amused.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000012_000002|He said he would gladly if he could find as good a school for girls as ours was for boys.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000012_000003|I know he would rejoice to have her come; so suppose we drive over this afternoon and see about it."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000014_000000|"Oh dear, no," said Mother Bhaer, briskly.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000014_000001|"I like it, and never was happier than since I had my wilderness of boys.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000014_000003|She is full of spirits, and only needs to be taught what to do with them to be as nice a little girl as Daisy.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000014_000004|Those quick wits of hers would enjoy lessons if they were rightly directed, and what is now a tricksy midget would soon become a busy, happy child.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000016_000000|"Now, if you make fun of my plan I'll give you bad coffee for a week, and then where are you, sir?" cried mrs Jo, tweaking him by the ear just as if he was one of the boys.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000017_000000|"Won't Daisy's hair stand erect with horror at Nan's wild ways?" asked mr Bhaer, presently, when Teddy had swarmed up his waistcoat, and Rob up his back, for they always flew at their father the minute school was done.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000018_000000|"At first, perhaps, but it will do Posy good.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000018_000001|She is getting prim and Bettyish, and needs stirring up a bit.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000018_000002|She always has a good time when Nan comes over to play, and the two will help each other without knowing it.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000018_000003|Dear me, half the science of teaching is knowing how much children do for one another, and when to mix them."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000019_000000|"I only hope she won't turn out another firebrand."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000020_000000|"My poor Dan!
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000021_000000|At the sound of the name, little Teddy, who had never forgotten his friend, struggled down from his father's arms, and trotted to the door, looked out over the sunny lawn with a wistful face, and then trotted back again, saying, as he always did when disappointed of the longed for sight,
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000022_000000|"My Danny's tummin' soon."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000023_000000|"I really think we ought to have kept him, if only for Teddy's sake, he was so fond of him, and perhaps baby's love would have done for him what we failed to do."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000024_000000|"I've sometimes felt that myself; but after keeping the boys in a ferment, and nearly burning up the whole family, I thought it safer to remove the firebrand, for a time at least," said mr Bhaer.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000027_000000|"A dozen Nans if you want them, my dear," answered mr Bhaer, who had room in his fatherly heart for all the naughty neglected children in the world.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000029_000000|"Hi, Daisy! where are you?"
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000031_000001|Isn't it great fun?"
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000032_000000|"Why, yes.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000033_000000|"Yes, she's somewhere round," returned Nan, with most unmaternal carelessness.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000033_000001|"I made you a ring coming along, and pulled the hairs out of Dobbin's tail.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000034_000000|Won by the beauty of the offering, Daisy grew more cordial, and proposed retiring to the nursery, but Nan said, "No, I want to see the boys, and the barn," and ran off, swinging her hat by one string till it broke, when she left it to its fate on the grass.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000036_000000|"I'm going to stay."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000037_000000|"Hooray!" bawled Tommy from the wall on which he was perched, for Nan was a kindred spirit, and he foresaw "larks" in the future.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000038_000000|"I can bat; let me play," said Nan, who could turn her hand to any thing, and did not mind hard knocks.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000039_000000|"We ain't playing now, and our side beat without you."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000040_000000|"I can beat you in running, any way," returned Nan, falling back on her strong point.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000042_000000|"She runs very well for a girl," answered Jack, who looked down upon Nan with condescending approval.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000043_000000|"Will you try?" said Nan, longing to display her powers.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000044_000000|"It's too hot," and Tommy languished against the wall as if quite exhausted.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000045_000000|"What's the matter with Stuffy?" asked Nan, whose quick eyes were roving from face to face.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000047_000000|"I don't, I never cry, no matter how I'm hurt; it's babyish," said Nan, loftily.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000048_000001|I could make you cry in two minutes," returned Stuffy, rousing up.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000049_000000|"See if you can."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000050_000000|"Go and pick that bunch of nettles, then," and Stuffy pointed to a sturdy specimen of that prickly plant growing by the wall.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000051_000000|Nan instantly "grasped the nettle," pulled it up, and held it with a defiant gesture, in spite of the almost unbearable sting.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000052_000000|"Good for you," cried the boys, quick to acknowledge courage even in one of the weaker sex.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000053_000000|More nettled than she was, Stuffy determined to get a cry out of her somehow, and he said tauntingly, "You are used to poking your hands into every thing, so that isn't fair.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000053_000001|Now go and bump your head real hard against the barn, and see if you don't howl then."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000054_000000|"Don't do it," said Nat, who hated cruelty.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000055_000000|But Nan was off, and running straight at the barn, she gave her head a blow that knocked her flat, and sounded like a battering ram.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000055_000001|Dizzy, but undaunted, she staggered up, saying stoutly, though her face was drawn with pain,
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000056_000000|"That hurt, but I don't cry."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000058_000000|"Stop it, or I'll throw you over the barn!" and so shook and hustled poor Stuffy that for a minute he did not know whether he was on his head or his heels.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000059_000000|"She told me to," was all he could say, when Tommy let him alone.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000060_000000|"Never mind if she did; it is awfully mean to hurt a little girl," said Demi, reproachfully.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000061_000000|"Ho!
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000061_000001|I don't mind; I ain't a little girl, I'm older than you and Daisy; so now," cried Nan, ungratefully.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000062_000000|"Don't preach, Deacon, you bully Posy every day of your life," called out the Commodore, who just then hove in sight.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000064_000000|"You are the best boy in the world," promptly answered Daisy; adding, as truth compelled her to do, "You hurt me sometimes, but you don't mean to."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000066_000001|"Give the right hand, little daughter, and mind thy manners," he added, as Nan offered him her left.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000067_000000|"The other hurts me."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000069_000000|Before Nan could think of any excuse, Daisy burst out with the whole story, during which Stuffy tried to hide his face in a bowl of bread and milk.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000070_000000|"This rather belongs to your side of the house, so I won't meddle with it, my dear."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000071_000000|mrs Jo knew what he meant, but she liked her little black sheep all the better for her pluck, though she only said in her soberest way,
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000072_000000|"Do you know why I asked Nan to come here?"
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000074_000000|"To help make little gentlemen of you, and I think you have shown that some of you need it."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000075_000000|Here Stuffy retired into his bowl again, and did not emerge till Demi made them all laugh by saying, in his slow wondering way,
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000076_000000|"How can she, when she's such a tomboy?"
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000079_000000|"She'd like it; wouldn't you, Nan?" added Tommy.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000080_000000|"No, I shouldn't; I hate boys!" said Nan fiercely, for her hand still smarted, and she began to think that she might have shown her courage in some wiser way.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000081_000000|"I am sorry you hate my boys, because they can be well mannered, and most agreeable when they choose.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000082_000001|Nan said nothing, but kept herself quiet and refrained from tickling Demi, though strongly tempted to do so, because of the dignified airs he put on.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000082_000002|She also appeared to have forgotten her hatred of boys, and played "I spy" with them till dark.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000082_000003|Stuffy was observed to offer her frequent sucks on his candy ball during the game, which evidently sweetened her temper, for the last thing she said on going to bed was,
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000084_000000|Her first remark in the morning was "Has my box come?" and when told that it would arrive sometime during the day, she fretted and fumed, and whipped her doll, till Daisy was shocked.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000086_000000|"She has run home, little gypsy!" cried mrs Bhaer, looking anxious.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000087_000000|"Perhaps she has gone to the station to look after her luggage," suggested Franz.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000088_000000|"That is impossible, she does not know the way, and if she found it, she could never carry the box a mile," said mrs Bhaer, beginning to think that her new idea might be rather a hard one to carry out.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000090_000000|There was Miss Nan, to be sure, tugging along a very large band box tied up in linen bag.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000091_000000|"I couldn't wait any longer, so I went and got it."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000093_000000|"Oh, I found it, I never get lost."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000094_000000|"It's a mile, how could you go so far?"
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000095_000000|"Well, it was pretty far, but I rested a good deal."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000096_000000|"Wasn't that thing very heavy?"
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000097_000000|"It's so round, I couldn't get hold of it good, and I thought my arms would break right off."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000098_000000|"I don't see how the station master let you have it," said Tommy.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000099_000000|"I didn't say anything to him.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000100_000000|"Run down and tell him it is all right, Franz, or old Dodd will think it is stolen," said mr Bhaer, joining in the shout of laughter at Nan's coolness.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000101_000000|"I told you we would send for it if it did not come.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000102_000000|"Well, I won't, only papa tells me not to put off doing things, so I don't."
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000103_000000|"That is rather a poser; I think you had better give her some supper now, and a private lecture by and by," said mr Bhaer, too much amused to be angry at the young lady's exploit.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000000|It was those good traits that soon made little "Giddygaddy," as they called her, a favorite with every one.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000001|Daisy never complained of being dull again, for Nan invented the most delightful plays, and her pranks rivalled Tommy's, to the amusement of the whole school.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000002|She buried her big doll and forgot it for a week, and found it well mildewed when she dragged it up.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000004|She gave away her new shoes to a beggar child, hoping to be allowed to go barefoot, but found it impossible to combine charity and comfort, and was ordered to ask leave before disposing of her clothes.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000005|She delighted the boys by making a fire ship out of a shingle with two large sails wet with turpentine, which she lighted, and then sent the little vessel floating down the brook at dusk.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000006|She harnessed the old turkey cock to a straw wagon, and made him trot round the house at a tremendous pace.
train-other-500/1051/133886/1051_133886_000107_000009|She rode every animal on the place, from the big horse Andy to the cross pig, from whom she was rescued with difficulty.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000001_000000|"I've asked Latimer Springfield to spend Sunday with us and stop the night," announced mrs Durmot at the breakfast table.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000002_000000|"I thought he was in the throes of an election," remarked her husband.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000003_000000|"Exactly; the poll is on Wednesday, and the poor man will have worked himself to a shadow by that time.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000003_000001|Imagine what electioneering must be like in this awful soaking rain, going along slushy country roads and speaking to damp audiences in draughty schoolrooms, day after day for a fortnight.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000003_000002|He'll have to put in an appearance at some place of worship on Sunday morning, and he can come to us immediately afterwards and have a thorough respite from everything connected with politics.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000003_000003|I won't let him even think of them.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000003_000004|I've had the picture of Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament taken down from the staircase, and even the portrait of Lord Rosebery's 'Ladas' removed from the smoking room.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000004_000000|"On state occasions I always wear a black ribbon in my hair," said Vera with crushing dignity.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000005_000000|Latimer Springfield was a rather cheerless, oldish young man, who went into politics somewhat in the spirit in which other people might go into half mourning.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000005_000002|The restful lull which his hostess enforced on him was decidedly welcome, and yet the nervous excitement of the contest had too great a hold on him to be totally banished.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000006_000000|"I know he's going to sit up half the night working up points for his final speeches," said mrs Durmot regretfully; "however, we've kept politics at arm's length all the afternoon and evening.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000006_000001|More than that we cannot do."
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000007_000000|"That remains to be seen," said Vera, but she said it to herself.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000008_000000|Latimer had scarcely shut his bedroom door before he was immersed in a sheaf of notes and pamphlets, while a fountain pen and pocket book were brought into play for the due marshalling of useful facts and discreet fictions.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000009_000000|"These" were a small black pig and a lusty specimen of black red gamecock.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000010_000000|Latimer was moderately fond of animals, and particularly interested in small livestock rearing from the economic point of view; in fact, one of the pamphlets on which he was at that moment engaged warmly advocated the further development of the pig and poultry industry in our rural districts; but he was pardonably unwilling to share even a commodious bedroom with samples of henroost and stye products.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000011_000000|"Wouldn't they be happier somewhere outside?" he asked, tactfully expressing his own preference in the matter in an apparent solicitude for theirs.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000012_000000|"There is no outside," said Vera impressively, "nothing but a waste of dark, swirling waters.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000012_000001|The reservoir at Brinkley has burst."
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000013_000000|"I didn't know there was a reservoir at Brinkley," said Latimer.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000015_000001|Have any lives been lost?"
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000016_000000|"Heaps, I should say.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000016_000002|Either she's engaged to a large assortment of the population round here or else she's very careless at identification.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000017_000000|"But we ought to go out and do rescue work, oughtn't we?" said Latimer, with the instinct of a Parliamentary candidate for getting into the local limelight.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000018_000000|"We can't," said Vera decidedly, "we haven't any boats and we're cut off by a raging torrent from any human habitation.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000018_000001|My aunt particularly hoped you would keep to your room and not add to the confusion, but she thought it would be so kind of you if you would take in Hartlepool's Wonder, the gamecock, you know, for the night.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000018_000002|You see, there are eight other gamecocks, and they fight like furies if they get together, so we're putting one in each bedroom.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000018_000004|And then I thought perhaps you wouldn't mind taking in this wee piggie; he's rather a little love, but he has a vile temper.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000018_000005|He gets that from his mother—not that I like to say things against her when she's lying dead and drowned in her stye, poor thing.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000018_000007|I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them."
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000019_000000|"Couldn't the pig go in the bathroom?" asked Latimer faintly, wishing that he had taken up as determined a stand on the subject of bedroom swine as the chow had.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000021_000000|"Boy Scouts?"
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000023_000000|"It's a new overcoat," said Latimer, with every indication of minding dreadfully.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000024_000000|"You'll take every care of Hartlepool's Wonder, won't you?" said Vera. "His mother took three firsts at Birmingham, and he was second in the cockerel class last year at Gloucester.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000024_000003|The hens are all in the pantry, and I think I could pick out Hartlepool Helen; she's his favourite."
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000001|Latimer undressed and got into bed with all due speed, judging that the pig would abate its inquisitorial restlessness once the light was turned out.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000002|As a substitute for a cosy, straw bedded sty the room offered, at first inspection, few attractions, but the disconsolate animal suddenly discovered an appliance in which the most luxuriously contrived piggeries were notably deficient.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000005|A series of slaps directed at the pig's body were accepted more as an additional and pleasing irritant than as a criticism of conduct or a hint to desist; evidently something more than a man's firm hand was needed to deal with the case.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000006|Latimer slipped out of bed in search of a weapon of dissuasion.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000007|There was sufficient light in the room to enable the pig to detect this manœuvre, and the vile temper, inherited from the drowned mother, found full play.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000009|During the long wakeful hours which ensued Latimer tried to distract his mind from his own immediate troubles by dwelling with decent sympathy on the second housemaid's bereavement, but he found himself more often wondering how many Boy Scouts were sharing his Melton overcoat.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000025_000010|The rôle of Saint Martin malgré lui was not one which appealed to him.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000026_000001|The deflected energies of the gamecock found new outlet in a sudden and sustained attack on the sleeping and temporarily inoffensive pigling, and the duel which followed was desperate and embittered beyond any possibility of effective intervention.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000031_000000|"If Miss Vera's dog sees that pig—!" exclaimed the maid, and hurried off to avert such a catastrophe.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000032_000000|A cold suspicion was stealing over Latimer's mind; he went to the window and drew up the blind.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000032_000001|A light, drizzling rain was falling, but there was not the faintest trace of any inundation.
train-other-500/1065/134593/1065_134593_000033_000000|Some half hour later he met Vera on the way to the breakfast room.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000004_000001|The latter was interested in comparing and contrasting allied types of animals occurring in the North American and Old World fauna.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000005_000000|"One of the most remarkable things in the wanderings of species," he observed, "is the sudden impulse to trek and migrate that breaks out now and again, for no apparent reason, in communities of hitherto stay at home animals."
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000006_000000|"In human affairs the same phenomenon is occasionally noticeable," said Sir Lulworth; "perhaps the most striking instance of it occurred in this country while you were away in the wilds of Mexico.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000006_000001|I mean the wander fever which suddenly displayed itself in the managing and editorial staffs of certain London newspapers.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000006_000003|The migration was a brief one, but it heralded an era of restlessness in the Press world which lent quite a new meaning to the phrase 'newspaper circulation.' Other editorial staffs were not slow to imitate the example that had been set them.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000006_000005|And even when enterprising and adventurous editors took themselves and their staffs further afield there were some unavoidable clashings.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000006_000008|This was, in many respects, the most remarkable of all the Press stampedes that were experienced at this time.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000007_000000|"That was doing things rather thoroughly, wasn't it?" said the nephew.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000008_000004|Quite in keeping, too, with the older and better traditions of British journalism was the manner of the home coming; no bombast, no personal advertisement, no flamboyant interviews.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000008_000005|Even a complimentary luncheon at the Voyagers' Club was courteously declined.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000008_000006|Indeed, it began to be felt that the self effacement of the returned pressmen was being carried to a pedantic length.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000008_000007|Foreman compositors, advertisement clerks, and other members of the non editorial staff, who had, of course, taken no part in the great trek, found it as impossible to get into direct communication with the editor and his satellites now that they had returned as when they had been excusably inaccessible in Central Asia.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000008_000011|People began to talk unkindly of the effect of high altitudes and Eastern atmosphere on minds and temperaments unused to such luxuries.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000008_000012|The Yarkand manner was not popular."
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000009_000000|"And the contents of the paper," said the nephew, "did they show the influence of the new style?"
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000010_000001|In home affairs, social questions, and the ordinary events of the day not much change was noticeable.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000010_000003|The aforetime standard of excellence was scarcely maintained, but at any rate the general lines of policy and outlook were not departed from.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000010_000004|It was in the realm of foreign affairs that a startling change took place.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000010_000005|Blunt, forcible, outspoken articles appeared, couched in language which nearly turned the autumn manœuvres of six important Powers into mobilisations.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000010_000008|A deputation, consisting of the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, four leading financiers, and a well-known Nonconformist divine, made its way to the offices of the paper.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000010_000009|At the door leading to the editorial department the way was barred by a nervous but defiant office boy.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000011_000000|"'You can't see the editor nor any of the staff,' he announced.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000012_000000|"'We insist on seeing the editor or some responsible person,' said the Prime Minister, and the deputation forced its way in.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000012_000001|The boy had spoken truly; there was no one to be seen.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000012_000002|In the whole suite of rooms there was no sign of human life.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000013_000000|"'Where is the editor?' 'Or the foreign editor?' 'Or the chief leader writer?
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000013_000001|Or anybody?'
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000014_000001|It contained a scrap of paper on which was written the following message:
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000015_000000|"'Entire party captured by brigand tribe on homeward journey. Quarter of million demanded as ransom, but would probably take less. Inform Government, relations, and friends.'
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000016_000000|"There followed the signatures of the principal members of the party and instructions as to how and where the money was to be paid.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000017_000000|"The letter had been directed to the office boy in charge, who had quietly suppressed it.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000017_000001|No one is a hero to one's own office boy, and he evidently considered that a quarter of a million was an unwarrantable outlay for such a doubtfully advantageous object as the repatriation of an errant newspaper staff.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000017_000002|So he drew the editorial and other salaries, forged what signatures were necessary, engaged new reporters, did what sub editing he could, and made as much use as possible of the large accumulation of special articles that was held in reserve for emergencies.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000017_000003|The articles on foreign affairs were entirely his own composition.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000018_000001|The articles on foreign affairs reverted to the wonted traditions of the paper."
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000020_000000|"That," said Sir Lulworth, "was the most brilliant stroke of all.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000020_000002|Many of the wives started off immediately in pursuit of their errant husbands, and it took the Government a considerable time and much trouble to reclaim them from their fruitless quests along the banks of the Oxus, the Gobi Desert, the Orenburg steppe, and other outlandish places.
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000020_000003|One of them, I believe, is still lost somewhere in the Tigris Valley."
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000021_000000|"And the boy?"
train-other-500/1065/134602/1065_134602_000022_000000|"Is still in journalism."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000000|Theophil Eshley was an artist by profession, a cattle painter by force of environment.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000002|His home was in a park like, villa dotted district that only just escaped the reproach of being suburban.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000004|At noonday in summertime the cows stood knee deep in tall meadow grass under the shade of a group of walnut trees, with the sunlight falling in dappled patches on their mouse sleek coats.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000006|The Royal Academy encourages orderly, methodical habits in its children.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000007|Eshley had painted a successful and acceptable picture of cattle drowsing picturesquely under walnut trees, and as he had begun, so, of necessity, he went on.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000009|In due succession there came "Where the Gad Flies Cease from Troubling," "The Haven of the Herd," and "A dream in Dairyland," studies of walnut trees and dun cows.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000002_000010|His two attempts to break away from his own tradition were signal failures: "Turtle Doves alarmed by Sparrow hawk" and "Wolves on the Roman Campagna" came back to his studio in the guise of abominable heresies, and Eshley climbed back into grace and the public gaze with "A Shaded Nook where Drowsy Milkers Dream."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000003_000000|On a fine afternoon in late autumn he was putting some finishing touches to a study of meadow weeds when his neighbour, Adela Pingsford, assailed the outer door of his studio with loud peremptory knockings.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000004_000000|"There is an ox in my garden," she announced, in explanation of the tempestuous intrusion.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000005_000000|"An ox," said Eshley blankly, and rather fatuously; "what kind of ox?"
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000006_000000|"Oh, I don't know what kind," snapped the lady.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000006_000001|"A common or garden ox, to use the slang expression.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000006_000002|It is the garden part of it that I object to.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000007_000000|"How did it get into the garden?" asked Eshley.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000008_000000|"I imagine it came in by the gate," said the lady impatiently; "it couldn't have climbed the walls, and I don't suppose anyone dropped it from an aeroplane as a Bovril advertisement.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000008_000001|The immediately important question is not how it got in, but how to get it out."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000010_000000|"If it was anxious to go," said Adela Pingsford rather angrily, "I should not have come here to chat with you about it.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000010_000001|I'm practically all alone; the housemaid is having her afternoon out and the cook is lying down with an attack of neuralgia.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000010_000002|Anything that I may have learned at school or in after life about how to remove a large ox from a small garden seems to have escaped from my memory now.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000010_000004|Possibly I was mistaken."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000011_000000|"I paint dairy cows, certainly," admitted Eshley, "but I cannot claim to have had any experience in rounding up stray oxen.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000011_000001|I've seen it done on a cinema film, of course, but there were always horses and lots of other accessories; besides, one never knows how much of those pictures are faked."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000012_000000|Adela Pingsford said nothing, but led the way to her garden.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000012_000001|It was normally a fair sized garden, but it looked small in comparison with the ox, a huge mottled brute, dull red about the head and shoulders, passing to dirty white on the flanks and hind quarters, with shaggy ears and large blood shot eyes.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000012_000003|Eshley stood very near the gate while he studied the animal's appearance and demeanour. Adela Pingsford continued to say nothing.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000013_000000|"It's eating a chrysanthemum," said Eshley at last, when the silence had become unbearable.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000014_000000|"How observant you are," said Adela bitterly.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000014_000001|"You seem to notice everything.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000014_000002|As a matter of fact, it has got six chrysanthemums in its mouth at the present moment."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000015_000000|The necessity for doing something was becoming imperative.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000015_000001|Eshley took a step or two in the direction of the animal, clapped his hands, and made noises of the "Hish" and "Shoo" variety.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000015_000002|If the ox heard them it gave no outward indication of the fact.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000016_000001|You 'shoo' beautifully. Meanwhile, do you mind trying to drive that ox away?
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000017_000000|"Since you have been so frank about the variety of the chrysanthemum," said Eshley, "I don't mind telling you that this is an Ayrshire ox."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000018_000000|The icy calm broke down; Adela Pingsford used language that sent the artist instinctively a few feet nearer to the ox.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000018_000001|He picked up a pea stick and flung it with some determination against the animal's mottled flanks.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000018_000003|Adela gazed with equal concentration and more obvious hostility at the same focus.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000018_000004|As the beast neither lowered its head nor stamped its feet Eshley ventured on another javelin exercise with another pea stick.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000018_000009|He discontinued his attempt to interfere with its choice of surroundings.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000019_000000|"mr Eshley," said Adela in a shaking voice, "I asked you to drive that beast out of my garden, but I did not ask you to drive it into my house. If I must have it anywhere on the premises I prefer the garden to the morning room."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000020_000000|"Cattle drives are not in my line," said Eshley; "if I remember I told you so at the outset." "I quite agree," retorted the lady, "painting pretty pictures of pretty little cows is what you're suited for.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000021_000000|This time it seemed as if the worm had turned; Eshley began striding away.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000022_000000|"Where are you going?" screamed Adela.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000023_000000|"To fetch implements," was the answer.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000024_000000|"Implements?
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000024_000001|I won't have you use a lasso.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000024_000002|The room will be wrecked if there's a struggle."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000025_000000|But the artist marched out of the garden.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000025_000001|In a couple of minutes he returned, laden with easel, sketching stool, and painting materials.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000026_000000|"Do you mean to say that you're going to sit quietly down and paint that brute while it's destroying my morning room?" gasped Adela.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000027_000000|"It was your suggestion," said Eshley, setting his canvas in position.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000030_000000|"You seem to forget that it's in my morning room, eating my flowers," came the raging retort.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000031_000000|"You seem to forget that the cook has neuralgia," said Eshley; "she may be just dozing off into a merciful sleep and your outcry will waken her. Consideration for others should be the guiding principle of people in our station of life."
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000032_000000|"The man is mad!" exclaimed Adela tragically.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000032_000001|A moment later it was Adela herself who appeared to go mad.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000032_000003|Eshley noticed its restlessness and promptly flung it some bunches of Virginia creeper leaves as an inducement to continue the sitting.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000034_000000|"I shall go to the Public Library and get them to telephone for the police," announced Adela, and, raging audibly, she departed.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000036_000000|The episode was the turning point in Eshley's artistic career.
train-other-500/1065/134611/1065_134611_000036_000001|His remarkable picture, "Ox in a morning room, late autumn," was one of the sensations and successes of the next Paris Salon, and when it was subsequently exhibited at Munich it was bought by the Bavarian Government, in the teeth of the spirited bidding of three meat extract firms.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000001_000002|The greater part of mankind are naturally apt to be affirmative and dogmatical in their opinions; and while they see objects only on one side, and have no idea of any counterpoising argument, they throw themselves precipitately into the principles, to which they are inclined; nor have they any indulgence for those who entertain opposite sentiments.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000001_000003|To hesitate or balance perplexes their understanding, checks their passion, and suspends their action.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000001_000004|They are, therefore, impatient till they escape from a state, which to them is so uneasy: and they think, that they could never remove themselves far enough from it, by the violence of their affirmations and obstinacy of their belief.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000001_000005|But could such dogmatical reasoners become sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding, even in its most perfect state, and when most accurate and cautious in its determinations; such a reflection would naturally inspire them with more modesty and reserve, and diminish their fond opinion of themselves, and their prejudice against antagonists.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000001_000007|In general, there is a degree of doubt, and caution, and modesty, which, in all kinds of scrutiny and decision, ought for ever to accompany a just reasoner.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000002_000004|To bring us to so salutary a determination, nothing can be more serviceable, than to be once thoroughly convinced of the force of the Pyrrhonian doubt, and of the impossibility, that anything, but the strong power of natural instinct, could free us from it.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000002_000005|Those who have a propensity to philosophy, will still continue their researches; because they reflect, that, besides the immediate pleasure, attending such an occupation, philosophical decisions are nothing but the reflections of common life, methodized and corrected.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000002_000006|But they will never be tempted to go beyond common life, so long as they consider the imperfection of those faculties which they employ, their narrow reach, and their inaccurate operations.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000002_000007|While we cannot give a satisfactory reason, why we believe, after a thousand experiments, that a stone will fall, or fire burn; can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination, which we may form, with regard to the origin of worlds, and the situation of nature, from, and to eternity?
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000003_000000|This narrow limitation, indeed, of our enquiries, is, in every respect, so reasonable, that it suffices to make the slightest examination into the natural powers of the human mind and to compare them with their objects, in order to recommend it to us.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000003_000001|We shall then find what are the proper subjects of science and enquiry.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000004_000001|It seems to me, that the only objects of the abstract science or of demonstration are quantity and number, and that all attempts to extend this more perfect species of knowledge beyond these bounds are mere sophistry and illusion.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000004_000002|As the component parts of quantity and number are entirely similar, their relations become intricate and involved; and nothing can be more curious, as well as useful, than to trace, by a variety of mediums, their equality or inequality, through their different appearances.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000004_000004|Or if there be any difficulty in these decisions, it proceeds entirely from the undeterminate meaning of words, which is corrected by juster definitions.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000005_000001|All other enquiries of men regard only matter of fact and existence; and these are evidently incapable of demonstration.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000005_000003|No negation of a fact can involve a contradiction. The non existence of any being, without exception, is as clear and distinct an idea as its existence.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000005_000004|The proposition, which affirms it not to be, however false, is no less conceivable and intelligible, than that which affirms it to be.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000005_000005|The case is different with the sciences, properly so called.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000005_000006|Every proposition, which is not true, is there confused and unintelligible.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000005_000007|That the cube root of sixty four is equal to the half of ten, is a false proposition, and can never be distinctly conceived.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000006_000000|The existence, therefore, of any being can only be proved by arguments from its cause or its effect; and these arguments are founded entirely on experience.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000006_000002|The falling of a pebble may, for aught we know, extinguish the sun; or the wish of a man control the planets in their orbits.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000008_000001|All deliberations in life regard the former; as also all disquisitions in history, chronology, geography, and astronomy.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000011_000000|Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000011_000001|Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000011_000002|Or if we reason concerning it, and endeavour to fix its standard, we regard a new fact, to wit, the general tastes of mankind, or some such fact, which may be the object of reasoning and enquiry.
train-other-500/1065/135665/1065_135665_000012_000000|When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make?
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000001_000000|[Note: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts-even to the public confession of the accused.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000001_000002|I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000001_000003|-- m t]
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000002_000000|WELL, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansaw.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000002_000002|It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000003_000000|Don't you know what that is?
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000003_000001|It's spring fever.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000003_000002|That is what the name of it is.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000003_000003|And when you've got it, you want-oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000003_000005|That is the idea; you want to go and be a wanderer; you want to go wandering far away to strange countries where everything is mysterious and wonderful and romantic.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000003_000006|And if you can't do that, you'll put up with considerable less; you'll go anywhere you CAN go, just so as to get away, and be thankful of the chance, too.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000004_000001|We was setting on the front steps one day about sundown talking this way, when out comes his aunt Polly with a letter in her hand and says:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000005_000000|"Tom, I reckon you've got to pack up and go down to Arkansaw-your aunt Sally wants you."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000006_000001|I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000006_000003|Why, we might lose it if he didn't speak up and show he was thankful and grateful.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000006_000004|But he set there and studied and studied till I was that distressed I didn't know what to do; then he says, very ca'm, and I could a shot him for it:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000007_000000|"Well," he says, "I'm right down sorry, Aunt Polly, but I reckon I got to be excused-for the present."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000008_000000|His aunt Polly was knocked so stupid and so mad at the cold impudence of it that she couldn't say a word for as much as a half a minute, and this gave me a chance to nudge Tom and whisper:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000009_000000|"Ain't you got any sense?
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000009_000001|Sp'iling such a noble chance as this and throwing it away?"
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000010_000000|But he warn't disturbed.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000010_000001|He mumbled back:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000011_000000|"Huck Finn, do you want me to let her SEE how bad I want to go?
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000011_000002|You lemme alone; I reckon I know how to work her."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000012_000000|Now I never would 'a' thought of that.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000012_000001|But he was right.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000012_000003|By this time his aunt Polly was all straight again, and she let fly.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000012_000004|She says:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000013_000000|"You'll be excused!
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000013_000002|Well, I never heard the like of it in all my days!
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000013_000004|Now take yourself off and pack your traps; and if I hear another word out of you about what you'll be excused from and what you won't, I lay I'LL excuse you-with a hickory!"
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000014_000000|She hit his head a thump with her thimble as we dodged by, and he let on to be whimpering as we struck for the stairs.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000014_000001|Up in his room he hugged me, he was so out of his head for gladness because he was going traveling.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000014_000002|And he says:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000015_000000|"Before we get away she'll wish she hadn't let me go, but she won't know any way to get around it now.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000015_000001|After what she's said, her pride won't let her take it back."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000016_000001|Then we went down, being in a sweat to know what the letter said.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000017_000000|She was setting there in a brown study, with it laying in her lap.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000017_000001|We set down, and she says:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000018_000000|"They're in considerable trouble down there, and they think you and Huck'll be a kind of diversion for them-'comfort,' they say.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000018_000001|Much of that they'll get out of you and Huck Finn, I reckon.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000018_000002|There's a neighbor named Brace Dunlap that's been wanting to marry their Benny for three months, and at last they told him point blank and once for all, he COULDN'T; so he has soured on them, and they're worried about it.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000018_000003|I reckon he's somebody they think they better be on the good side of, for they've tried to please him by hiring his no account brother to help on the farm when they can't hardly afford it, and don't want him around anyhow.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000018_000004|Who are the Dunlaps?"
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000019_000000|"They live about a mile from Uncle Silas's place, Aunt Polly-all the farmers live about a mile apart down there-and Brace Dunlap is a long sight richer than any of the others, and owns a whole grist of niggers. He's a widower, thirty six years old, without any children, and is proud of his money and overbearing, and everybody is a little afraid of him.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000019_000001|I judge he thought he could have any girl he wanted, just for the asking, and it must have set him back a good deal when he found he couldn't get Benny.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000019_000002|Why, Benny's only half as old as he is, and just as sweet and lovely as-well, you've seen her.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000019_000003|Poor old Uncle Silas-why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way-so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000020_000000|"What a name-Jubiter!
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000020_000001|Where'd he get it?"
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000021_000001|I reckon they've forgot his real name long before this.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000021_000002|He's twenty seven, now, and has had it ever since the first time he ever went in swimming.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000021_000004|He's tall, and lazy, and sly, and sneaky, and ruther cowardly, too, but kind of good-natured, and wears long brown hair and no beard, and hasn't got a cent, and Brace boards him for nothing, and gives him his old clothes to wear, and despises him.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000021_000005|Jubiter is a twin."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000023_000000|"Just exactly like Jubiter-so they say; used to was, anyway, but he hain't been seen for seven years.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000023_000001|He got to robbing when he was nineteen or twenty, and they jailed him; but he broke jail and got away-up North here, somers.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000023_000002|They used to hear about him robbing and burglaring now and then, but that was years ago.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000023_000003|He's dead, now.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000023_000004|At least that's what they say.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000023_000005|They don't hear about him any more."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000024_000000|"What was his name?"
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000025_000000|"Jake."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000026_000000|There wasn't anything more said for a considerable while; the old lady was thinking.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000026_000001|At last she says:
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000027_000000|"The thing that is mostly worrying your aunt Sally is the tempers that that man Jubiter gets your uncle into."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000029_000000|"Tempers?
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000029_000001|Uncle Silas?
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000029_000002|Land, you must be joking!
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000029_000003|I didn't know he HAD any temper."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000030_000000|"Works him up into perfect rages, your aunt Sally says; says he acts as if he would really hit the man, sometimes."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000031_000000|"Aunt Polly, it beats anything I ever heard of.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000031_000001|Why, he's just as gentle as mush."
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000032_000000|"Well, she's worried, anyway.
train-other-500/107/22885/107_22885_000032_000001|Says your uncle Silas is like a changed man, on account of all this quarreling.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000000_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000000_000001|A DIAMOND ROBBERY
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000001|He said he had been so lonesome, and it was such a comfort to him to have company, and somebody to talk to in his troubles.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000003|It turned out just so.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000005|The way it come about was this: He got to asking us, kind of indifferent like, about the passengers down on deck.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000006|We told him about them.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000007|But he warn't satisfied; we warn't particular enough.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000008|He told us to describe them better.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000009|Tom done it.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000001_000010|At last, when Tom was describing one of the roughest and raggedest ones, he gave a shiver and a gasp and says:
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000002_000000|"Oh, lordy, that's one of them!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000002_000001|They're aboard sure-I just knowed it.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000002_000002|I sort of hoped I had got away, but I never believed it.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000002_000003|Go on."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000003_000000|Presently when Tom was describing another mangy, rough deck passenger, he give that shiver again and says:
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000004_000000|"That's him!--that's the other one.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000004_000001|If it would only come a good black stormy night and I could get ashore.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000004_000002|You see, they've got spies on me. They've got a right to come up and buy drinks at the bar yonder forrard, and they take that chance to bribe somebody to keep watch on me-porter or boots or somebody.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000004_000003|If I was to slip ashore without anybody seeing me, they would know it inside of an hour."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000005_000000|So then he got to wandering along, and pretty soon, sure enough, he was telling!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000005_000001|He was poking along through his ups and downs, and when he come to that place he went right along.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000005_000002|He says:
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000006_000000|"It was a confidence game.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000006_000001|We played it on a julery shop in saint Louis.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000006_000002|What we was after was a couple of noble big di'monds as big as hazel nuts, which everybody was running to see.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000006_000003|We was dressed up fine, and we played it on them in broad daylight.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000007_000000|"Twelve thousand dollars!" Tom says.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000007_000001|"Was they really worth all that money, do you reckon?"
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000008_000000|"Every cent of it."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000010_000000|"As easy as nothing.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000010_000001|I don't reckon the julery people know they've been robbed yet.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000010_000003|One was for going one way, one another, so we throwed up, heads or tails, and the Upper Mississippi won.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000010_000004|We done up the di'monds in a paper and put our names on it and put it in the keep of the hotel clerk, and told him not to ever let either of us have it again without the others was on hand to see it done; then we went down town, each by his own self-because I reckon maybe we all had the same notion.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000010_000005|I don't know for certain, but I reckon maybe we had."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000011_000000|"What notion?" Tom says.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000012_000000|"To rob the others."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000013_000000|"What-one take everything, after all of you had helped to get it?"
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000014_000000|"Cert'nly."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000015_000000|It disgusted Tom Sawyer, and he said it was the orneriest, low downest thing he ever heard of.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000015_000001|But Jake Dunlap said it warn't unusual in the profession.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000015_000002|Said when a person was in that line of business he'd got to look out for his own intrust, there warn't nobody else going to do it for him.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000015_000003|And then he went on.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000015_000004|He says:
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000000|"You see, the trouble was, you couldn't divide up two di'monds amongst three.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000001|If there'd been three-But never mind about that, there warn't three.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000002|I loafed along the back streets studying and studying.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000004|So I got the false whiskers and the goggles and this countrified suit of clothes, and fetched them along back in a hand bag; and when I was passing a shop where they sell all sorts of things, I got a glimpse of one of my pals through the window.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000005|It was Bud Dixon.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000006|I was glad, you bet.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000007|I says to myself, I'll see what he buys.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000008|So I kept shady, and watched.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000016_000009|Now what do you reckon it was he bought?"
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000017_000000|"Whiskers?" said i
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000019_000000|"Goggles?"
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000021_000000|"Oh, keep still, Huck Finn, can't you, you're only just hendering all you can.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000021_000001|What WAS it he bought, Jake?"
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000022_000001|It was only just a screwdriver-just a wee little bit of a screwdriver."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000000|"That's what I thought.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000001|It was curious.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000002|It clean stumped me.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000003|I says to myself, what can he want with that thing?
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000004|Well, when he come out I stood back out of sight, and then tracked him to a second-hand slop shop and see him buy a red flannel shirt and some old ragged clothes-just the ones he's got on now, as you've described.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000006|I seen our other pal lay in HIS stock of old rusty second handers.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000024_000007|We got the di'monds and went aboard the boat.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000025_000000|"But now we was up a stump, for we couldn't go to bed.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000025_000001|We had to set up and watch one another.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000025_000005|At last Bud Dixon he dropped off.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000025_000006|As soon as he was snoring a good regular gait that was likely to last, and had his chin on his breast and looked permanent, Hal Clayton nodded towards the di'monds and then towards the outside door, and I understood.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000026_000000|"There warn't nobody stirring anywhere, and the boat was slipping along, swift and steady, through the big water in the smoky moonlight.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000026_000001|We never said a word, but went straight up onto the hurricane deck and plumb back aft, and set down on the end of the sky light.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000026_000002|Both of us knowed what that meant, without having to explain to one another.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000026_000004|He would come, and we would heave him overboard, or get killed trying.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000026_000005|It made me shiver, because I ain't as brave as some people, but if I showed the white feather-well, I knowed better than do that.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000026_000006|I kind of hoped the boat would land somers, and we could skip ashore and not have to run the risk of this row, I was so scared of Bud Dixon, but she was an upper river tub and there warn't no real chance of that.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000027_000001|THAT'S the reason he could set there and snooze all night so comfortable.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000027_000002|Smart?
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000027_000003|Well, I reckon!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000027_000004|He had had them two papers all fixed and ready, and he had put one of them in place of t'other right under our noses.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000000|"We felt pretty cheap.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000001|But the thing to do, straight off, was to make a plan; and we done it.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000004|But I didn't have no real hope.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000005|I knowed we could get him drunk-he was always ready for that-but what's the good of it?
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000006|You might search him a year and never find-Well, right there I catched my breath and broke off my thought!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000007|For an idea went ripping through my head that tore my brains to rags-and land, but I felt gay and good!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000008|You see, I had had my boots off, to unswell my feet, and just then I took up one of them to put it on, and I catched a glimpse of the heel bottom, and it just took my breath away.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000028_000009|You remember about that puzzlesome little screwdriver?"
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000029_000000|"You bet I do," says Tom, all excited.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000030_000001|You look at this boot heel, now.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000030_000002|See, it's bottomed with a steel plate, and the plate is fastened on with little screws.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000030_000003|Now there wasn't a screw about that feller anywhere but in his boot heels; so, if he needed a screwdriver, I reckoned I knowed why."
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000031_000000|"Huck, ain't it bully!" says Tom.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000032_000000|"Well, I got my boots on, and we went down and slipped in and laid the paper of sugar on the berth, and sat down soft and sheepish and went to listening to Bud Dixon snore.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000032_000001|Hal Clayton dropped off pretty soon, but I didn't; I wasn't ever so wide awake in my life.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000032_000002|I was spying out from under the shade of my hat brim, searching the floor for leather.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000032_000005|It was a little round plug about as thick as the end of your little finger, and I says to myself there's a di'mond in the nest you've come from.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000032_000006|Before long I spied out the plug's mate.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000033_000000|"Think of the smartness and coolness of that blatherskite!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000033_000001|He put up that scheme on us and reasoned out what we would do, and we went ahead and done it perfectly exact, like a couple of pudd'nheads.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000033_000002|He set there and took his own time to unscrew his heelplates and cut out his plugs and stick in the di'monds and screw on his plates again.
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000033_000003|He allowed we would steal the bogus swag and wait all night for him to come up and get drownded, and by George it's just what we done!
train-other-500/107/22887/107_22887_000033_000004|I think it was powerful smart."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty four
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000002_000000|THE BARGAIN
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000003_000002|And I should have been infinitely surprised if any other voice than his had spoken-as he did speak when the last grumble of the thunder died out in a sulky, reluctant murmur.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000004_000001|Lively, now!"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000005_000000|He trailed the muzzle of the revolver round from my temple to the back of my head as he spoke, pressing it into my hair in its course in a fashion that was anything but reassuring.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000005_000001|I have often thought since of how I expected the thing to go off at any second, and how I was-for it's a fact-more curious than frightened about it.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000005_000002|But the sense of self preservation was on me, self assertive enough, and I obliged him, stumbling in at the door under the pressure of his strong arm and of the revolver, and beginning to boggle at the first steps-old and much worn ones, which were deeply hollowed in the middle.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000005_000003|He shoved me forward.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000006_000000|"Up you go," he said, "straight ahead!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000007_000000|He kept one hand on the scruff of my neck-too tightly for comfort-and with the other pressed the revolver into the cavity just above it, and in this fashion we went up.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000007_000001|And even in that predicament I must have had my wits about me, for I counted two and twenty steps.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000007_000002|Then came the door-a heavy, iron studded piece of strong oak, and it was slightly open, and as I pushed it wider in the darkness, a musty, close smell came from whatever was within.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000008_000001|Now then, halt-and keep halting!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000008_000002|If you move one finger, Moneylaws, out fly your brains!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000008_000003|No great loss to the community, my lad-but I've some use for them yet."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000009_000002|With the released hand he had snapped the catch of an electric pocket lamp, and in its blue glare he drew the revolver away from my head, and stepping aside, but always covering me with his weapon, motioned me to the further stool.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000009_000003|I obeyed him mechanically, and he pulled the table a little towards him, sat down on the other stool, and, resting his elbow on the table ledge, poked the revolver within a few inches of my nose.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000010_000000|"Now, we'll talk for a few minutes, Moneylaws," he said quietly, "Storm or no storm, I'm bound to be away on my business, and I'd have been off now if it hadn't been for your cursed peeping and prying.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000010_000002|Are there more of you outside or about?"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000011_000000|"Not to my knowledge!" said i
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000012_000000|"You came alone?" he asked.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000013_000000|"Absolutely alone," I replied.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000014_000000|"And why?" he demanded.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000016_000001|"Come now-straight talk, Moneylaws!--and it'll be all the better for you."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000017_000000|"She's missing since last night," I replied.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000017_000001|"It came to me that she likely took a short cut across these grounds, and that in doing so she fell in with Sir Gilbert-or with you-and was kept, lest she should let out what she'd seen.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000017_000002|That's the plain truth, mr Hollins."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000018_000000|He was keeping his eyes on me just as steadily as he kept the revolver, and I saw from the look in them that he believed me.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000020_000000|"Absolutely!" I repeated.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000023_000000|I thought he might have dropped the muzzle of the revolver at that, but he still kept it in a line with my nose and made no sign of relaxing his vigilance.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000023_000001|But, as he was silent for the moment, I let out a question at him.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000024_000000|"It'll do you no harm to tell me the truth, mr Hollins," I said.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000024_000001|"Do you know anything about Miss Dunlop?
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000024_000003|You've maybe had a young lady yourself one time or another-you'll understand what I'm feeling about it?"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000025_000000|He nodded solemnly at that and in quite a friendly way.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000026_000003|"I'm a soft hearted man, Moneylaws-or else you wouldn't have your brains in their place at this present minute!"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000027_000000|"There's a mighty lot of chance of my harming you, anyway!" said I, with a laugh that surprised myself.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000027_000001|"Not so much as a penknife on me, and you with that thing at my head."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000028_000001|"And you might be using it!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000028_000003|What's the police doing?"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000029_000000|"What police do you mean?" I inquired.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000030_000000|"Here, there, everywhere, anywhere!" he exclaimed.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000030_000001|"No quibbles, now!--you'll have had plenty of information."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000031_000000|"They're acting on yours," I retorted.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000031_000001|"Searching about Glasgow for Sir Gilbert and Lady Carstairs-you put us on to that, mr Hollins."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000032_000000|"I had to," he answered.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000032_000002|It gained time, do you see, Moneylaws-it had to be done."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000033_000000|"Then-they aren't in Glasgow?" I asked.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000034_000000|He shook his big head solemnly at that, and something like a smile came about the corners of his lips.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000035_000001|Out of hand, Moneylaws!--out of hand, d'ye see-for the police!"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000037_000001|"You're not in any danger that I know of."
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000039_000000|"I'm leaving this part-finally," he answered.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000039_000001|"That's Sir Gilbert's brand new car that's all ready for me down the stairs; and as I say, whether it's storm or no storm, I must be away.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000039_000002|And there's just two things I can do, Moneylaws-I can lay you out on the floor here, with your brains running over your face, or I can-trust to your honour!"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000040_000000|We looked at each other for a full minute in silence-our eyes meeting in the queer, bluish light of the electric pocket lamp which he had set on the table before us.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000041_000001|Whatever quality my brains may have, I'd rather they were used than misused in the way you're suggesting!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000041_000002|If it's just this-that you want me to hold my tongue-"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000042_000000|"I'll make a bargain with you," he broke in on me.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000043_000000|"Aye!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000043_000001|I would that!" I exclaimed.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000043_000002|"Give me the chance, mr Hollins!"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000045_000000|"Where's Miss Dunlop?" asked i
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000046_000001|Will you do that?"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000047_000000|"She's close by?" I demanded.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000048_000000|"Over our heads," he said calmly.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000048_000001|"And you've only to say the word-"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000049_000000|"It's said, mr Hollins!" I exclaimed.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000049_000001|"Go your ways!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000049_000002|I'll never breathe a syllable of it to a soul!
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000050_000000|He drew his free hand off the table, still watching me, and still keeping up the revolver, and from a drawer in the table between us pulled out a key and pushed it over.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000051_000000|"There's a door behind you in yon corner," he said.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000051_000001|"And you'll find a lantern at its foot-you've matches on you, no doubt.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000051_000002|And beyond the door there's another stair that leads up to the turret, and you'll find her there-and safe-and so-go your ways, now, Moneylaws, and I'll go mine!"
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000052_000000|He dropped the revolver into a side pocket of his waterproof coat as he spoke, and, pointing me to the door in the corner, turned to that by which he had entered.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000052_000001|And as he turned he snapped off the light of his electric lamp, while I myself, having fumbled for a box of matches, struck one and looked around me for this lantern he had mentioned.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000052_000003|And with my heart in my mouth and fingers trembling so that I could scarcely hold the match, I made shift to light the candle in the lantern, and went fearfully after him.
train-other-500/1084/139230/1084_139230_000052_000004|There, in an angle of the stairway, he was lying, with the blood running in dark streams from a gap in his throat; while his hands, which he had instinctively put up to it, were feebly dropping away and relaxing on his broad chest.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000001_000000|"Of course I recognized his voice instantly when he said, 'That you, Penny?' and it's a wonder I didn't scream," said Penny Crain, fighting her way up through dazed bewilderment to explain in detail, in answer to Dundee's pelting questions.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000001_000001|"I said, 'Of course, Ralph....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000001_000003|I don't blame you, honey.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000001_000005|Exactly!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000002_000000|"Did you ask him where he was?" Dundee asked finally.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000003_000001|I just told him to come on over, and he said I could depend on it that he wouldn't waste any time....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000003_000002|Oh, Bonnie!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000004_000000|"Listen, Penny!" Dundee urged rapidly.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000004_000002|Will you let me eavesdrop behind these portieres?...
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000004_000003|I know it's a beastly thing to do, but-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000006_000001|The Ralph Hammond of Saturday had had a white, drawn face and sick eyes.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000006_000002|But this boy....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000007_000000|Like his older brother, Clive, Ralph Hammond had dark red, curling hair. But unlike his brother's, his eyes were a wide, candid hazel-the green iris thickly flecked with brown.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000007_000001|A little shorter than Clive, a trifle more slender.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000007_000002|But that which held the detective's eyes was something less tangible but at once more evident than superlative masculine good looks.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000007_000003|It was a sort of shy joyousness and buoyance, which flushed the tan of his cheeks, sang in his voice, made his eyes almost unbearably bright....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000009_000000|"Don't look like that, Penny!" Dundee heard him plead, his voice suddenly humble.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000009_000002|I know I've been an awful cad these last few weeks, but I'm myself again.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000009_000003|I'm cured now, Penny-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000010_000000|"Wait, Ralph!" Penny protested faintly, holding back as he would have hugged her hard against his breast.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000010_000001|"What about-Nita?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000011_000001|I'm cured of-Nita.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000011_000002|I can't express it any other way except to say I was sick, and now I'm cured-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000012_000000|"You mean-" Penny faltered, but with a swift, imploring glance toward Dundee, "--you don't love Nita any more?
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000013_000000|The boy's face was very pale as he dropped his hands from Penny's shoulders, but Dundee, from behind the portieres, was not troubling to spy for the moment.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000013_000001|He was too indignant with Penny for having withheld from him the vital fact of Nita's engagement to Ralph Hammond....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000014_000000|"That's true, Penny," Ralph was saying dully.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000014_000002|I did propose to Nita again Thursday night, and she did accept me.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000014_000003|I confess now I was wild with happiness-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000015_000000|"Why did she refuse you before?" Penny cut in, and Dundee silently thanked her for asking the question he would have liked to ask himself. "Was it because she wasn't sure she was in love with you?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000016_000000|"You're making it awfully hard for me, honey," the boy protested, then admitted humbly, "Of course you want to know, and you should know....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000016_000002|Then I thought it might be because I was younger than she was, though I can't believe she is more than twenty three or so, and I'm twenty five, you know.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000018_000000|"Yes," the boy admitted, his face darkly flushed again.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000018_000001|"This is awfully hard, honey, but I'll tell you once for all and get it over with....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000018_000002|I took her to dinner.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000018_000003|We drove to Burnsville because she said she was sick of Hamilton.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000018_000004|When we were driving back she suddenly became very queer-reckless, defiant....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000019_000000|"Oh!" Penny gasped, then, controlling her horror, she asked with what sounded like real curiosity, "Then what-happened, Ralph?
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000021_000000|"Can't we forget it, honey?...
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000021_000001|You do love me a little, don't you?
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000021_000002|Can't you take my word for it that-I'm cured now-forever?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000022_000000|Penny's hands went up to cover her face, and Dundee had the grace to feel very sorry indeed for her-sorry even if she intended to give her promise to Ralph Hammond, as a sick feeling in his stomach prophesied that she was about to do....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000023_000000|"How can I know you're really-cured, if I don't know what cured you?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000024_000000|"I suppose you're right," the boy admitted miserably.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000024_000001|"There's no need to ask you not to tell anyone else.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000024_000002|Although I don't want to see her again ever-.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000025_000000|"I don't-quite understand, Ralph," Penny interrupted.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000025_000001|"You mean something happened when you were at Nita's house yesterday morning?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000026_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000026_000003|Of course I was glad of the chance to see Nita again-I hadn't been with her since Thursday night.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000026_000005|I had to go into the finished half to make some measurements, and in the bedroom I found-oh, God!" he groaned, and pressed a fist against his trembling mouth.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000028_000000|"How did you know?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000028_000001|The boy stared at the girl blankly for a moment, then seemed to crumple as if from a new blow.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000028_000002|"I suppose it was common gossip that Nita and Sprague were lovers, and I was the only one she fooled!...
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000028_000003|My God!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000029_000000|"Did you-want to kill her, Ralph?" Penny whispered, touching one of his knotted fists with a trembling hand.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000030_000000|"Kill her?...
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000030_000002|"I'm not such an ass as that!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000030_000003|You girls are all alike!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000030_000004|Polly had so little sense as to think I'd want to kill Nita and Sprague both!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000030_000005|She couldn't see, and neither could Clive, that all I wanted was to get away from everybody and get so drunk I could forget what a fool I'd been-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000032_000000|"Why, I got drunk, of course," the boy answered, as if surprised at her persistence.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000034_000001|"After I shook Clive-Polly went on to Nita's bridge party, because she couldn't throw her down at the last minute-I wandered around till I came to the Railroad Men's Hotel, down on State Street, you know, the other side of the tracks.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000034_000002|It's a miserable dump, but I sort of hankered for a place to hide in that was as miserable and cheap as I felt-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000035_000000|"Did you register under your own name?"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000000|"Ashamed of me, Penny?...
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000001|No, I registered under my first two names-Ralph Edwards.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000002|And the rat faced, filthy little hotel clerk turned out to be a bootlegger....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000003|Well, when I woke up about eleven this morning I give you my word I wasn't sick and headachy, though God knows I'd drunk enough to put me out for a week....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000005|All washed up!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000006|At first I thought my heart was empty-it felt so free of pain.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000008|It was brimming full of love-Gosh, honey!
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000009|I sound like a Laura Jean Libbey hero, don't I?...
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000010|But before I rang you from the lunch room where I ate breakfast I wrote Nita a special delivery note, telling her it was all off.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000011|I had to be free actually, before I could ask you....
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000036_000013|I knew this morning I had never really loved anyone else-"
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000037_000001|But as she spoke, her brown eyes, enormous in her white face, were upon Dundee, who had stepped silently from behind the portieres.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000038_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1084/145077/1084_145077_000038_000001|I'll marry you, Ralph!...
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000001_000000|CHAPTER one A NOVEL CASE
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000002_000000|"Talking of sudden disappearances the one you mention of Hannah in that Leavenworth case of ours, is not the only remarkable one which has come under my direct notice.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000004_000000|I was one Sunday morning loitering at the ----- Precinct Station, when the door opened and a respectable looking middle aged woman came in, whose agitated air at once attracted my attention.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000004_000001|Going up to her, I asked her what she wanted.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000005_000001|"I don't wish anything said about it, but a girl disappeared from our house last night, and"--she stopped here, her emotion seeming to choke her-"and I want some one to look her up," she went on at last with the most intense emphasis.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000006_000000|"A girl?
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000007_000000|She looked at me keenly before replying.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000007_000001|"You are a young man," said she; "isn't there some one here more responsible than yourself that I can talk to?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000008_000002|Drawing him aside, she whispered a few low eager words which I could not hear.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000008_000004|I was about to walk off, convinced he had got hold of something he would prefer to manage himself, when the Superintendent came in.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000010_000000|mr Gryce heard him and hastened forward.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000010_000001|As he passed me, he whispered, "Take a man and go with this woman; look into matters and send me word if you want me; I will be here for two hours."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000011_000000|I did not need a second permission.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000011_000001|Beckoning to Harris, I reapproached the woman.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000011_000002|"Where do you come from," said I, "I am to go back with you and investigate the affair it seems."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000012_000000|"Did he say so?" she asked, pointing to mr Gryce who now stood with his back to us busily talking with the Superintendent.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000013_000002|She was taken from her room-" "Yes," she cried vehemently, seeing my look of sarcastic incredulity, "taken from her room; she never went of her own accord; and she must be found if I spend every dollar of the pittance I have laid up in the bank against my old age."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000016_000000|We were by this time in the street.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000017_000000|"Nothing must be said about it," she now whispered, catching me by the arm.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000017_000001|"I told him so," nodding back to the building from which we had just issued, "and he promised secrecy.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000017_000002|It can be done without folks knowing anything about it, can't it?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000018_000000|"What?" I asked.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000019_000000|"Finding the girl."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000020_000000|"Well," said I, "we can tell you better about that when we know a few more of the facts.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000020_000001|What is the girl's name and what makes you think she didn't go out of the house door of her own accord?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000021_000000|"Why, why, everything.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000021_000001|She wasn't the person to do it; then the looks of her room, and-They all got out of the window," she cried suddenly, "and went away by the side gate into ------ Street."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000022_000000|"They?
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000022_000001|Who do you mean by they?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000024_000000|I could not suppress the "bah!" that rose to my lips.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000024_000001|mr Gryce might have been able to, but I am not Gryce.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000026_000000|"Well, no," said I, "not in the sense you mean."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000027_000000|She gave another nod back to the police station now a block or so distant.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000027_000001|"He did'nt seem to doubt it at all."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000028_000000|I laughed.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000030_000000|"You heard men talking in her room-when?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000031_000000|"O, it must have been as late as half past twelve.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000031_000001|I had been asleep and the noise they made whispering, woke me."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000032_000000|"Wait," I said, "tell me where her room is, hers and yours."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000034_000000|"Who are you?" I now inquired.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000035_000000|"I am the housekeeper."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000036_000000|mr Blake was a bachelor.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000037_000000|"And you were wakened last night by hearing whispering which seemed to come from this girl's room."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000040_000000|The woman wiped her forehead with a hand that trembled like a leaf. "Where was I?" said she.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000040_000003|I waited a moment, then I turned the knob and called her: she did not reply and I called again.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000040_000004|Then she came to the door, but did not unlock it.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000040_000005|'What is it?' she asked.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000040_000007|I begged pardon and went back to my room.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000040_000008|There was no more noise, but when in the morning we broke into her room and found her gone, the window open and signs of distress and struggle around, I knew I had not been mistaken; that there were men with her when I went to her door, and that they had carried her off-"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000041_000000|This time I could not restrain myself.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000042_000000|"Did they drop her out of the window?" I inquired.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000043_000000|"O," said she, "we are building an extension, and there is a ladder running up to the third floor, and it was by means of that they took her."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000045_000001|"Don't you believe it," gasped she, stopping me in the street where we were.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000046_000000|"Was she pretty," I asked, hurrying the woman along, for more than one passer by had turned their heads to look at us.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000046_000001|The question seemed in some way to give her a shock.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000048_000000|For the first time I felt a thrill of anticipation shoot through my veins.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000048_000001|Why, I could not say.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000048_000002|Her tone was peculiar, and she spoke in a sort of brooding way as though she were weighing something in her own mind; but then her manner had been peculiar throughout.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000048_000003|Whatever it was that aroused my suspicion, I determined henceforth to keep a very sharp eye upon her ladyship.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000049_000000|"Doesn't mr Blake know anything about it?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000050_000001|"Yes," said she, "I told him at breakfast time; but mr Blake doesn't take much interest in his servants; he leaves all such matters to me."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000051_000000|"Then he does not know you have come for the police?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000052_000001|It is not necessary he should know.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000052_000002|I shall let you in the back way.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000052_000003|mr Blake is a man who never meddles with anything, and-"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000054_000000|"Emily."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000055_000000|"That this girl, Emily, had disappeared during the night?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000056_000000|"Not much of anything, sir.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000056_000001|He was sitting at the breakfast table reading his paper, he merely looked up, frowned a little in an absent minded way, and told me I must manage the servants' affairs without troubling him."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000057_000000|"And you let it drop?"
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000058_000000|"Yes sir; mr Blake is not a man to speak twice to."
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000059_000000|I could easily believe that from what I had seen of him in public, for though by no means a harsh looking man, he had a reserved air which if maintained in private must have made him very difficult of approach.
train-other-500/1084/151395/1084_151395_000062_000000|And having by this time reached the basement door, she took out a key from her pocket and inserting it in the lock, at once admitted us into the dwelling.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000000_000001|It disappeared on the other side.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000001_000000|She waited one minute-two minutes-thought of Troy's disappointment at her non fulfilment of a promised engagement, till she again ran along the field, clambered over the bank, and followed the original direction.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000001_000001|She was now literally trembling and panting at this her temerity in such an errant undertaking; her breath came and went quickly, and her eyes shone with an infrequent light.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000001_000002|Yet go she must.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000001_000003|She reached the verge of a pit in the middle of the ferns. Troy stood in the bottom, looking up towards her.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000002_000000|"I heard you rustling through the fern before I saw you," he said, coming up and giving her his hand to help her down the slope.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000003_000000|The pit was a saucer shaped concave, naturally formed, with a top diameter of about thirty feet, and shallow enough to allow the sunshine to reach their heads.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000003_000001|Standing in the centre, the sky overhead was met by a circular horizon of fern: this grew nearly to the bottom of the slope and then abruptly ceased.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000003_000002|The middle within the belt of verdure was floored with a thick flossy carpet of moss and grass intermingled, so yielding that the foot was half buried within it.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000000|"Now," said Troy, producing the sword, which, as he raised it into the sunlight, gleamed a sort of greeting, like a living thing, "first, we have four right and four left cuts; four right and four left thrusts.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000001|Infantry cuts and guards are more interesting than ours, to my mind; but they are not so swashing.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000002|They have seven cuts and three thrusts.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000003|So much as a preliminary.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000004|Well, next, our cut one is as if you were sowing your corn-so." Bathsheba saw a sort of rainbow, upside down in the air, and Troy's arm was still again.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000005|"Cut two, as if you were hedging-so.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000006|Three, as if you were reaping-so.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000007|Four, as if you were threshing-in that way.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000008|Then the same on the left.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000009|The thrusts are these: one, two, three, four, right; one, two, three, four, left." He repeated them.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000004_000011|"One, two-"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000005_000000|She hurriedly interrupted: "I'd rather not; though I don't mind your twos and fours; but your ones and threes are terrible!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000006_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000006_000001|I'll let you off the ones and threes.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000006_000002|Next, cuts, points and guards altogether." Troy duly exhibited them.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000006_000003|"Then there's pursuing practice, in this way." He gave the movements as before.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000006_000004|"There, those are the stereotyped forms.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000006_000005|The infantry have two most diabolical upward cuts, which we are too humane to use. Like this-three, four."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000007_000000|"How murderous and bloodthirsty!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000008_000001|Now I'll be more interesting, and let you see some loose play-giving all the cuts and points, infantry and cavalry, quicker than lightning, and as promiscuously-with just enough rule to regulate instinct and yet not to fetter it.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000008_000003|Mind you don't flinch, whatever you do."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000009_000000|"I'll be sure not to!" she said invincibly.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000010_000000|He pointed to about a yard in front of him.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000011_000000|Bathsheba's adventurous spirit was beginning to find some grains of relish in these highly novel proceedings.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000011_000001|She took up her position as directed, facing Troy.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000012_000000|"Now just to learn whether you have pluck enough to let me do what I wish, I'll give you a preliminary test."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000013_000001|The third item of consciousness was that of seeing the same sword, perfectly clean and free from blood held vertically in Troy's hand (in the position technically called "recover swords").
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000013_000002|All was as quick as electricity.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000014_000001|"Have you run me through?--no, you have not!
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000014_000002|Whatever have you done!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000015_000000|"I have not touched you," said Troy, quietly.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000015_000001|"It was mere sleight of hand.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000015_000002|The sword passed behind you.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000015_000004|Because if you are I can't perform.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000016_000000|"I don't think I am afraid.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000017_000000|"Quite sure."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000019_000000|"O no-only stand as still as a statue.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000019_000001|Now!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000021_000000|Never since the broadsword became the national weapon had there been more dexterity shown in its management than by the hands of Sergeant Troy, and never had he been in such splendid temper for the performance as now in the evening sunshine among the ferns with Bathsheba.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000021_000001|It may safely be asserted with respect to the closeness of his cuts, that had it been possible for the edge of the sword to leave in the air a permanent substance wherever it flew past, the space left untouched would have been almost a mould of Bathsheba's figure.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000022_000001|Next, his movements lapsed slower, and she could see them individually.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000022_000002|The hissing of the sword had ceased, and he stopped entirely.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000023_000000|"That outer loose lock of hair wants tidying," he said, before she had moved or spoken.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000023_000001|"Wait: I'll do it for you."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000024_000000|An arc of silver shone on her right side: the sword had descended. The lock dropped to the ground.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000025_000000|"Bravely borne!" said Troy.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000025_000001|"You didn't flinch a shade's thickness. Wonderful in a woman!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000026_000000|"It was because I didn't expect it.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000026_000001|Oh, you have spoilt my hair!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000027_000000|"Only once more."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000028_000001|I am afraid of you-indeed I am!" she cried.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000029_000000|"I won't touch you at all-not even your hair.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000029_000001|I am only going to kill that caterpillar settling on you.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000029_000002|Now: still!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000030_000000|It appeared that a caterpillar had come from the fern and chosen the front of her bodice as his resting place.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000030_000001|She saw the point glisten towards her bosom, and seemingly enter it.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000030_000002|Bathsheba closed her eyes in the full persuasion that she was killed at last.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000030_000003|However, feeling just as usual, she opened them again.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000031_000000|"There it is, look," said the sergeant, holding his sword before her eyes.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000032_000000|The caterpillar was spitted upon its point.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000033_000000|"Why, it is magic!" said Bathsheba, amazed.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000034_000000|"Oh no-dexterity.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000035_000000|"But how could you chop off a curl of my hair with a sword that has no edge?"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000036_000000|"No edge!
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000036_000001|This sword will shave like a razor.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000036_000002|Look here."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000037_000000|He touched the palm of his hand with the blade, and then, lifting it, showed her a thin shaving of scarf skin dangling therefrom.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000038_000000|"But you said before beginning that it was blunt and couldn't cut me!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000039_000000|"That was to get you to stand still, and so make sure of your safety. The risk of injuring you through your moving was too great not to force me to tell you a fib to escape it."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000040_000000|She shuddered.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000040_000001|"I have been within an inch of my life, and didn't know it!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000041_000000|"More precisely speaking, you have been within half an inch of being pared alive two hundred and ninety five times."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000042_000000|"Cruel, cruel, 'tis of you!"
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000043_000000|"You have been perfectly safe, nevertheless.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000043_000001|My sword never errs." And Troy returned the weapon to the scabbard.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000044_000000|Bathsheba, overcome by a hundred tumultuous feelings resulting from the scene, abstractedly sat down on a tuft of heather.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000045_000000|"I must leave you now," said Troy, softly.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000045_000001|"And I'll venture to take and keep this in remembrance of you."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000046_000000|She saw him stoop to the grass, pick up the winding lock which he had severed from her manifold tresses, twist it round his fingers, unfasten a button in the breast of his coat, and carefully put it inside.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000046_000001|She felt powerless to withstand or deny him.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000046_000002|He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it blow so strongly that it stops the breath. He drew near and said, "I must be leaving you."
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000047_000000|He drew nearer still.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000048_000000|That minute's interval had brought the blood beating into her face, set her stinging as if aflame to the very hollows of her feet, and enlarged emotion to a compass which quite swamped thought.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000048_000001|It had brought upon her a stroke resulting, as did that of Moses in Horeb, in a liquid stream-here a stream of tears.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000048_000002|She felt like one who has sinned a great sin.
train-other-500/1085/138296/1085_138296_000049_000000|The circumstance had been the gentle dip of Troy's mouth downwards upon her own.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000001_000001|I never interfered with my worthy dragoman upon these occasions, because from my entire ignorance of the Arabic I should have been quite unable to exercise any real control over his words, and it would have been silly to break the stream of his eloquence to no purpose.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000001_000003|A few weeks before Ibrahim had craftily sent a body of troops across the Jordan.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000001_000004|The force went warily round to the foot of the mountains on the east, so as to cut off the retreat of this tribe, and then surrounded them as they lay encamped in the vale; their camels, and indeed all their possessions worth taking, were carried off by the soldiery, and moreover the then Sheik, together with every tenth man of the tribe, was brought out and shot.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000002_000000|After some discussion the Arabs agreed, as I thought, to conduct me to a ford, and we moved on towards the river, followed by seventeen of the most able bodied of the tribe, under the guidance of several grey bearded elders, and Sheik Ali Djoubran at the head of the whole detachment.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000002_000001|Upon leaving the encampment a sort of ceremony was performed, for the purpose, it seemed, of ensuring, if possible, a happy result for the undertaking. There was an uplifting of arms, and a repeating of words that sounded like formulæ, but there were no prostrations, and I did not understand that the ceremony was of a religious character.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000002_000002|The tented Arabs are looked upon as very bad Mahometans.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000003_000002|The fellows all gathered together in circle, at a little distance from my party, and there disputed with great vehemence and fury for nearly two hours.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000003_000003|I can't give a correct report of the debate, for it was held in a barbarous dialect of the Arabic unknown to my dragoman.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000003_000004|I recollect I sincerely felt at the time that the arguments in favour of robbing me must have been almost unanswerable, and I gave great credit to the speakers on my side for the ingenuity and sophistry which they must have shown in maintaining the fight so well.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000004_000000|During the discussion I remained lying in front of my baggage, which had all been taken from the pack saddles and placed upon the ground.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000004_000001|I was so languid from want of food, that I had scarcely animation enough to feel as deeply interested as you would suppose in the result of the discussion.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000004_000002|I thought, however, that the pleasantest toys to play with during this interval were my pistols, and now and then, when I listlessly visited my loaded barrels with the swivel ramrods, or drew a sweet, musical click from my English firelocks, it seemed to me that I exercised a slight and gentle influence on the debate.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000004_000003|Thanks to Ibrahim Pasha's terrible visitation the men of the tribe were wholly unarmed, and my advantage in this respect might have counterbalanced in some measure the superiority of numbers.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000005_000000|Mysseri (not interpreting in Arabic) had no duty to perform, and he seemed to be faint and listless as myself.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000005_000001|Shereef looked perfectly resigned to any fate.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000005_000003|He could not understand the debate, which indeed was carried on at a distance too great to be easily heard, even if the language had been familiar; but he was always on the alert, and now and then conferring with men who had straggled out of the assembly.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000006_000000|The council now broke up, and most of the men rushed madly towards me, and overwhelmed me with vehement gratulations; they caressed my boots with much affection, and my hands were severely kissed.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000007_000000|The Arabs now went to work in right earnest to effect the passage of the river.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000007_000002|In this way they constructed a raft not more than about four or five feet square, but rendered buoyant by the inflated skins which supported it.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000007_000003|On this a portion of my baggage was placed, and was firmly tied to it by the cords used on my pack saddles.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000007_000004|The little raft with its weighty cargo was then gently lifted into the water, and I had the satisfaction to see that it floated well.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000008_000000|Twelve of the Arabs now stripped, and tied inflated skins to their loins; six of the men went down into the river, got in front of the little raft, and pulled it off a few feet from the bank.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000008_000001|The other six then dashed into the stream with loud shouts and swam along after the raft, pushing it from behind.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000008_000002|Off went the craft in capital style at first, for the stream was easy on the eastern side; but I saw that the tug was to come, for the main torrent swept round in a bend near the western bank of the river.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000009_000000|The old men, with their long grey grisly beards, stood shouting and cheering, praying and commanding.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000009_000001|At length the raft entered upon the difficult part of its course; the whirling stream seized and twisted it about, and then bore it rapidly downwards; the swimmers, flagged and seemed to be beaten in the struggle.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000001|I took my seat upon the top of the cargo, and the raft thus laden passed the river in the same way, and with the same struggle as before.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000002|The skins, however, not being perfectly air tight, had lost a great part of their buoyancy, so that I, as well as the luggage that passed on this last voyage, got wet in the waters of Jordan. The raft could not be trusted for another trip, and the rest of my party passed the river in a different and (for them) much safer way.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000003|Inflated skins were fastened to their loins, and thus supported, they were tugged across by Arabs swimming on either side of them.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000004|The horses and mules were thrown into the water and forced to swim over.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000005|The poor beasts had a hard struggle for their lives in that swift stream; and I thought that one of the horses would have been drowned, for he was too weak to gain a footing on the western bank, and the stream bore him down.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000006|At last, however, he swam back to the side from which he had come.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000010_000007|Before dark all had passed the river except this one horse and old Shereef.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000011_000000|I lay that night on the banks of the river, and at a little distance from me the Arabs kindled a fire, round which they sat in a circle.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000011_000001|They were made most savagely happy by the tobacco with which I supplied them, and they soon determined that the whole night should be one smoking festival. The poor fellows had only a cracked bowl, without any tube at all, but this morsel of a pipe they handed round from one to the other, allowing to each a fixed number of whiffs.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000011_000002|In that way they passed the whole night.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000012_000000|The next morning old Shereef was brought across.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000012_000001|It was a strange sight to see this solemn old Mussulman, with his shaven head and his sacred beard, sprawling and puffing upon the surface of the water.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000012_000002|When at last he reached the bank the people told him that by his baptism in Jordan he had surely become a mere Christian.
train-other-500/1085/156170/1085_156170_000012_000003|Poor Shereef!—the holy man!
train-other-500/1085/169444/1085_169444_000003_000000|He has so,--replied my uncle Toby.--I knew it, said my father, though, for the soul of me, I cannot see what kind of connection there can be betwixt dr Slop's sudden coming, and a discourse upon fortification;--yet I fear'd it.--Talk of what we will, brother,--or let the occasion be never so foreign or unfit for the subject,--you are sure to bring it in.
train-other-500/1085/169444/1085_169444_000003_000001|I would not, brother Toby, continued my father,--I declare I would not have my head so full of curtins and horn works.--That I dare say you would not, quoth dr Slop, interrupting him, and laughing most immoderately at his pun.
train-other-500/1085/169444/1085_169444_000006_000000|As for the horn work (high! ho!
train-other-500/1085/169444/1085_169444_000010_000000|This is to serve for parents and governors instead of a whole volume upon the subject.
train-other-500/1085/169444/1085_169444_000011_000000|I could not give the reader this stroke in my uncle Toby's picture, by the instrument with which I drew the other parts of it,--that taking in no more than the mere Hobby Horsical likeness:--this is a part of his moral character.
train-other-500/1085/169444/1085_169444_000013_000000|I need not tell the reader, if he keeps a Hobby Horse,--that a man's Hobby Horse is as tender a part as he has about him; and that these unprovoked strokes at my uncle Toby's could not be unfelt by him.--No:--as I said above, my uncle Toby did feel them, and very sensibly too.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000003_000000|Particular discontents and grievances, are either of body, mind, or fortune, which as they wound the soul of man, produce this melancholy, and many great inconveniences, by that antidote of good counsel and persuasion may be eased or expelled.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000003_000001|Deformities and imperfections of our bodies, as lameness, crookedness, deafness, blindness, be they innate or accidental, torture many men: yet this may comfort them, that those imperfections of the body do not a whit blemish the soul, or hinder the operations of it, but rather help and much increase it.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000003_000002|Thou art lame of body, deformed to the eye, yet this hinders not but that thou mayst be a good, a wise, upright, honest man.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000003_000005|How many deformed princes, kings, emperors, could I reckon up, philosophers, orators?
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000003_000009|Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000005_000000|"Like tall Orion stalking o'er the flood: When with his brawny breast he cuts the waves, His shoulder scarce the topmost billow laves."
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000008_000003|Sickness is the mother of modesty, putteth us in mind of our mortality; and when we are in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, she pulleth us by the ear, and maketh us know ourselves.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000008_000008|In the mean time, let it take its course, thy mind is not any way disabled.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000008_000009|Bilibaldus Pirkimerus, senator to Charles the Fifth, ruled all Germany, lying most part of his days sick of the gout upon his bed.
train-other-500/1085/35680/1085_35680_000008_000010|The more violent thy torture is, the less it will continue: and though it be severe and hideous for the time, comfort thyself as martyrs do, with honour and immortality.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000007_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000008_000000|It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000008_000001|The task of writing an autobiography is a difficult one.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000008_000002|When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000008_000003|The woman paints the child's experiences in her own fantasy.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000008_000005|In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interesting and important.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000009_000000|I was born on june twenty seventh eighteen eighty, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000012_000001|She was also second cousin to Robert e Lee.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000013_000000|My father, Arthur h Keller, was a captain in the Confederate Army, and my mother, Kate Adams, was his second wife and many years younger.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000013_000001|Her grandfather, Benjamin Adams, married Susanna e Goodhue, and lived in Newbury, Massachusetts, for many years.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000013_000002|Their son, Charles Adams, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and moved to Helena, Arkansas.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000013_000003|When the Civil War broke out, he fought on the side of the South and became a brigadier general.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000013_000004|He married Lucy Helen Everett, who belonged to the same family of Everetts as Edward Everett and dr Edward Everett Hale. After the war was over the family moved to memphis tennessee.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000014_000000|I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived me of my sight and hearing, in a tiny house consisting of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000014_000002|Such a house my father built after the Civil War, and when he married my mother they went to live in it.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000014_000003|It was completely covered with vines, climbing roses and honeysuckles.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000014_000004|From the garden it looked like an arbour.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000014_000005|The little porch was hidden from view by a screen of yellow roses and Southern smilax.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000016_000000|Even in the days before my teacher came, I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell would find the first violets and lilies.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000016_000001|There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000017_000001|I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000017_000003|My father suggested the name of Mildred Campbell, an ancestor whom he highly esteemed, and he declined to take any further part in the discussion.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000018_000000|I am told that while I was still in long dresses I showed many signs of an eager, self asserting disposition.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000018_000001|Everything that I saw other people do I insisted upon imitating.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000018_000002|At six months I could pipe out "How d'ye," and one day I attracted every one's attention by saying "Tea, tea, tea" quite plainly.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000018_000003|Even after my illness I remembered one of the words I had learned in these early months.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000018_000004|It was the word "water," and I continued to make some sound for that word after all other speech was lost.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000018_000005|I ceased making the sound "wah wah" only when I learned to spell the word.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000019_000000|They tell me I walked the day I was a year old.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000019_000001|My mother had just taken me out of the bath tub and was holding me in her lap, when I was suddenly attracted by the flickering shadows of leaves that danced in the sunlight on the smooth floor.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000019_000002|I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000019_000003|The impulse gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up in her arms.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000020_000000|These happy days did not last long.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000020_000002|Then, in the dreary month of February, came the illness which closed my eyes and ears and plunged me into the unconsciousness of a new born baby.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000020_000003|They called it acute congestion of the stomach and brain.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000020_000004|The doctor thought I could not live.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000020_000005|Early one morning, however, the fever left me as suddenly and mysteriously as it had come.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000020_000006|There was great rejoicing in the family that morning, but no one, not even the doctor, knew that I should never see or hear again.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000021_000000|I fancy I still have confused recollections of that illness.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000021_000001|I especially remember the tenderness with which my mother tried to soothe me in my waling hours of fret and pain, and the agony and bewilderment with which I awoke after a tossing half sleep, and turned my eyes, so dry and hot, to the wall away from the once loved light, which came to me dim and yet more dim each day.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000021_000002|But, except for these fleeting memories, if, indeed, they be memories, it all seems very unreal, like a nightmare.
train-other-500/1092/134562/1092_134562_000021_000003|Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever been different, until she came-my teacher-who was to set my spirit free.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000002_000000|I cannot recall what happened during the first months after my illness. I only know that I sat in my mother's lap or clung to her dress as she went about her household duties.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000002_000001|My hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned to know many things.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000002_000003|A shake of the head meant "No" and a nod, "Yes," a pull meant "Come" and a push, "Go." Was it bread that I wanted?
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000002_000004|Then I would imitate the acts of cutting the slices and buttering them.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000002_000006|My mother, moreover, succeeded in making me understand a good deal.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000002_000008|Indeed, I owe to her loving wisdom all that was bright and good in my long night.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000003_000005|On a sudden thought I ran upstairs before any one could stop me, to put on my idea of a company dress.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000004_000000|I do not remember when I first realized that I was different from other people; but I knew it before my teacher came to me.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000004_000002|Sometimes I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000004_000003|I could not understand, and was vexed.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000004_000004|I moved my lips and gesticulated frantically without result.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000004_000005|This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000005_000001|But I cannot remember any instance in which this feeling prevented me from repeating the naughtiness when I failed to get what I wanted.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000006_000003|I was strong, active, indifferent to consequences.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000006_000004|I knew my own mind well enough and always had my own way, even if I had to fight tooth and nail for it.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000006_000007|I was quite ill afterward, and I wonder if retribution also overtook the turkey.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000007_000001|When we were fortunate enough to find a nest I never allowed her to carry the eggs home, making her understand by emphatic signs that she might fall and break them.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000008_000000|The sheds where the corn was stored, the stable where the horses were kept, and the yard where the cows were milked morning and evening were unfailing sources of interest to Martha and me.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000009_000000|The making ready for Christmas was always a delight to me.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000009_000001|Of course I did not know what it was all about, but I enjoyed the pleasant odours that filled the house and the tidbits that were given to Martha Washington and me to keep us quiet.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000010_000001|The other was white, with long golden curls.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000010_000002|One child was six years old, the other two or three years older.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000010_000003|The younger child was blind-that was I-and the other was Martha Washington.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000010_000005|She objected at first, but finally submitted.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000010_000006|Thinking that turn and turn about is fair play, she seized the scissors and cut off one of my curls, and would have cut them all off but for my mother's timely interference.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000011_000001|I tried hard to teach her my sign language, but she was dull and inattentive.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000011_000002|She sometimes started and quivered with excitement, then she became perfectly rigid, as dogs do when they point a bird.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000011_000003|I did not then know why Belle acted in this way; but I knew she was not doing as I wished.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000011_000004|This vexed me and the lesson always ended in a one sided boxing match.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000012_000000|Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000013_000001|The apron did not dry quickly enough to suit me, so I drew nearer and threw it right over the hot ashes.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000013_000002|The fire leaped into life; the flames encircled me so that in a moment my clothes were blazing.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000013_000004|Throwing a blanket over me, she almost suffocated me, but she put out the fire. Except for my hands and hair I was not badly burned.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000014_000000|About this time I found out the use of a key.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000014_000003|This most naughty prank of mine convinced my parents that I must be taught as soon as possible.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000014_000004|After my teacher, Miss Sullivan, came to me, I sought an early opportunity to lock her in her room.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000014_000006|I could not be induced to tell where the key was.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000014_000008|Months after I produced the key.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000015_000000|When I was about five years old we moved from the little vine covered house to a large new one.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000015_000002|My earliest distinct recollection of my father is making my way through great drifts of newspapers to his side and finding him alone, holding a sheet of paper before his face.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000015_000003|I was greatly puzzled to know what he was doing.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000015_000004|I imitated this action, even wearing his spectacles, thinking they might help solve the mystery.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000015_000006|Then I learned what those papers were, and that my father edited one of them.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000016_000000|My father was most loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving us, except in the hunting season.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000016_000001|He was a great hunter, I have been told, and a celebrated shot.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000016_000002|Next to his family he loved his dogs and gun.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000016_000005|I remember his caressing touch as he led me from tree to tree, from vine to vine, and his eager delight in whatever pleased me.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000017_000000|He was a famous story teller; after I had acquired language he used to spell clumsily into my hand his cleverest anecdotes, and nothing pleased him more than to have me repeat them at an opportune moment.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000018_000001|He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000018_000002|This was my first great sorrow-my first personal experience with death.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000020_000000|For a long time I regarded my little sister as an intruder.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000020_000001|I knew that I had ceased to be my mother's only darling, and the thought filled me with jealousy.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000020_000002|She sat in my mother's lap constantly, where I used to sit, and seemed to take up all her care and time.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000020_000003|One day something happened which seemed to me to be adding insult to injury.
train-other-500/1092/134563/1092_134563_000021_000000|At that time I had a much petted, much abused doll, which I afterward named Nancy.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000002_000000|The next important step in my education was learning to read.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000003_000000|As soon as I could spell a few words my teacher gave me slips of cardboard on which were printed words in raised letters.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000003_000003|I found the slips of paper which represented, for example, "doll," "is," "on," "bed" and placed each name on its object; then I put my doll on the bed with the words is, on, bed arranged beside the doll, thus making a sentence of the words, and at the same time carrying out the idea of the sentence with the things themselves.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000004_000000|One day, Miss Sullivan tells me, I pinned the word girl on my pinafore and stood in the wardrobe.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000004_000001|On the shelf I arranged the words, is, in, wardrobe.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000004_000002|Nothing delighted me so much as this game.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000004_000003|My teacher and I played it for hours at a time.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000004_000004|Often everything in the room was arranged in object sentences.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000005_000000|From the printed slip it was but a step to the printed book.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000005_000002|Thus I began to read.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000005_000003|Of the time when I began to read connected stories I shall speak later.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000006_000000|For a long time I had no regular lessons.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000006_000001|Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed more like play than work.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000006_000002|Everything Miss Sullivan taught me she illustrated by a beautiful story or a poem.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000006_000003|Whenever anything delighted or interested me she talked it over with me just as if she were a little girl herself.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000006_000004|What many children think of with dread, as a painful plodding through grammar, hard sums and harder definitions, is to day one of my most precious memories.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000007_000000|I cannot explain the peculiar sympathy Miss Sullivan had with my pleasures and desires.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000007_000001|Perhaps it was the result of long association with the blind.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000007_000002|Added to this she had a wonderful faculty for description.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000007_000003|She went quickly over uninteresting details, and never nagged me with questions to see if I remembered the day before yesterday's lesson.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000007_000004|She introduced dry technicalities of science little by little, making every subject so real that I could not help remembering what she taught.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000008_000000|We read and studied out of doors, preferring the sunlit woods to the house.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000008_000001|All my early lessons have in them the breath of the woods-the fine, resinous odour of pine needles, blended with the perfume of wild grapes.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000008_000002|Seated in the gracious shade of a wild tulip tree, I learned to think that everything has a lesson and a suggestion.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000008_000003|"The loveliness of things taught me all their use." Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education noisy throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my hand until forgetting their embarrassment, they trilled their reedy note, little downy chickens and wildflowers, the dogwood blossoms, meadow violets and budding fruit trees.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000009_000000|Sometimes I rose at dawn and stole into the garden while the heavy dew lay on the grass and flowers.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000009_000002|Sometimes I caught an insect in the flower I was plucking, and I felt the faint noise of a pair of wings rubbed together in a sudden terror, as the little creature became aware of a pressure from without.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000010_000000|Another favourite haunt of mine was the orchard, where the fruit ripened early in July.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000010_000001|The large, downy peaches would reach themselves into my hand, and as the joyous breezes flew about the trees the apples tumbled at my feet.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000010_000002|Oh, the delight with which I gathered up the fruit in my pinafore, pressed my face against the smooth cheeks of the apples, still warm from the sun, and skipped back to the house!
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000011_000000|Our favourite walk was to Keller's Landing, an old tumbledown lumber wharf on the Tennessee River, used during the Civil War to land soldiers.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000011_000001|There we spent many happy hours and played at learning geography.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000011_000002|I built dams of pebbles, made islands and lakes, and dug river beds, all for fun, and never dreamed that I was learning a lesson. I listened with increasing wonder to Miss Sullivan's descriptions of the great round world with its burning mountains, buried cities, moving rivers of ice, and many other things as strange.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000011_000003|She made raised maps in clay, so that I could feel the mountain ridges and valleys, and follow with my fingers the devious course of rivers.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000012_000000|Arithmetic seems to have been the only study I did not like.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000012_000001|From the first I was not interested in the science of numbers.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000012_000002|Miss Sullivan tried to teach me to count by stringing beads in groups, and by arranging kintergarten straws I learned to add and subtract.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000012_000003|I never had patience to arrange more than five or six groups at a time.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000012_000004|When I had accomplished this my conscience was at rest for the day, and I went out quickly to find my playmates.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000014_000001|These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000014_000003|For a long time these strange creatures haunted my dreams, and this gloomy period formed a somber background to the joyous Now, filled with sunshine and roses and echoing with the gentle beat of my pony's hoof.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000015_000001|Just as the wonder working mantle of the Nautilus changes the material it absorbs from the water and makes it a part of itself, so the bits of knowledge one gathers undergo a similar change and become pearls of thought.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000016_000000|Again, it was the growth of a plant that furnished the text for a lesson.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000016_000001|We bought a lily and set it in a sunny window.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000016_000002|Very soon the green, pointed buds showed signs of opening.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000016_000003|The slender, fingerlike leaves on the outside opened slowly, reluctant, I thought, to reveal the loveliness they hid; once having made a start, however, the opening process went on rapidly, but in order and systematically.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000016_000004|There was always one bud larger and more beautiful than the rest, which pushed her outer, covering back with more pomp, as if the beauty in soft, silky robes knew that she was the lily queen by right divine, while her more timid sisters doffed their green hoods shyly, until the whole plant was one nodding bough of loveliness and fragrance.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000017_000000|Once there were eleven tadpoles in a glass globe set in a window full of plants.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000017_000001|I remember the eagerness with which I made discoveries about them.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000017_000003|The only sign of life was a slight wriggling of his tail.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000017_000004|But no sooner had he returned to his element than he darted to the bottom, swimming round and round in joyous activity.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000017_000005|He had made his leap, he had seen the great world, and was content to stay in his pretty glass house under the big fuchsia tree until he attained the dignity of froghood.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000018_000000|Thus I learned from life itself.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000018_000001|At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000018_000002|It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000018_000003|When she came, everything about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000019_000001|It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000020_000000|Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000020_000001|He will not work joyously unless he feels that liberty is his, whether he is busy or at rest; he must feel the flush of victory and the heart sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way bravely through a dull routine of textbooks.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000021_000000|My teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her.
train-other-500/1092/134568/1092_134568_000021_000002|I feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000000_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000001_000000|In October, eighteen ninety six, I entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, to be prepared for Radcliffe.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000002_000000|When I was a little girl, I visited Wellesley and surprised my friends by the announcement, "Some day I shall go to college-but I shall go to Harvard!"
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000002_000001|When asked why I would not go to Wellesley, I replied that there were only girls there.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000002_000003|When I left New York the idea had become a fixed purpose; and it was decided that I should go to Cambridge.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000003_000000|At the Cambridge School the plan was to have Miss Sullivan attend the classes with me and interpret to me the instruction given.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000004_000000|Of course my instructors had had no experience in teaching any but normal pupils, and my only means of conversing with them was reading their lips.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000004_000001|My studies for the first year were English history, English literature, German, Latin, arithmetic, Latin composition and occasional themes.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000004_000003|I had had, moreover, a good start in French, and received six months' instruction in Latin; but German was the subject with which I was most familiar.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000005_000000|In spite, however, of these advantages, there were serious drawbacks to my progress.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000005_000001|Miss Sullivan could not spell out in my hand all that the books required, and it was very difficult to have textbooks embossed in time to be of use to me, although my friends in London and Philadelphia were willing to hasten the work.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000005_000002|For a while, indeed, I had to copy my Latin in braille, so that I could recite with the other girls.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000005_000003|My instructors soon became sufficiently familiar with my imperfect speech to answer my questions readily and correct mistakes.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000005_000004|I could not make notes in class or write exercises; but I wrote all my compositions and translations at home on my typewriter.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000006_000000|Each day Miss Sullivan went to the classes with me and spelled into my hand with infinite patience all that the teachers said.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000006_000001|In study hours she had to look up new words for me and read and reread notes and books I did not have in raised print.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000006_000002|The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000006_000003|Frau Grote, my German teacher, and mr Gilman, the principal, were the only teachers in the school who learned the finger alphabet to give me instruction.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000006_000005|Nevertheless, in the goodness of her heart she laboriously spelled out her instructions to me in special lessons twice a week, to give Miss Sullivan a little rest.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000008_000000|mr Gilman instructed me part of the year in English literature.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000009_000000|Burke's speech was more instructive than any other book on a political subject that I had ever read.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000009_000001|My mind stirred with the stirring times, and the characters round which the life of two contending nations centred seemed to move right before me.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000009_000003|Then I entered into the melancholy details of the relation in which the great statesman stood to his party and to the representatives of the people.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000009_000004|I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000010_000000|In a different way Macaulay's "Life of Samuel Johnson" was interesting. My heart went out to the lonely man who ate the bread of affliction in Grub Street, and yet, in the midst of toil and cruel suffering of body and soul, always had a kind word, and lent a helping hand to the poor and despised.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000011_000000|At the Cambridge school, for the first time in my life, I enjoyed the companionship of seeing and hearing girls of my own age.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000011_000001|I lived with several others in one of the pleasant houses connected with the school, the house where mr Howells used to live, and we all had the advantage of home life.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000011_000002|I joined them in many of their games, even blind man's buff and frolics in the snow; I took long walks with them; we discussed our studies and read aloud the things that interested us.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000011_000003|Some of the girls learned to speak to me, so that Miss Sullivan did not have to repeat their conversation.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000012_000000|At Christmas, my mother and little sister spent the holidays with me, and mr Gilman kindly offered to let Mildred study in his school.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000012_000002|It makes me most happy to remember the hours we spent helping each other in study and sharing our recreation together.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000014_000000|Perhaps an explanation of the method that was in use when I took my examinations will not be amiss here.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000014_000001|The student was required to pass in sixteen hours-twelve hours being called elementary and four advanced. He had to pass five hours at a time to have them counted.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000014_000003|Each candidate was known, not by his name, but by a number.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000015_000000|It was thought advisable for me to have my examinations in a room by myself, because the noise of the typewriter might disturb the other girls.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000015_000001|mr Gilman read all the papers to me by means of the manual alphabet.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000015_000002|A man was placed on guard at the door to prevent interruption.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000016_000000|The first day I had German.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000016_000001|mr Gilman sat beside me and read the paper through first, then sentence by sentence, while I repeated the words aloud, to make sure that I understood him perfectly.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000016_000002|The papers were difficult, and I felt very anxious as I wrote out my answers on the typewriter.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000016_000004|I wish to say here that I have not had this advantage since in any of my examinations.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000016_000005|At Radcliffe no one reads the papers to me after they are written, and I have no opportunity to correct errors unless I finish before the time is up.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000016_000006|In that case I correct only such mistakes as I can recall in the few minutes allowed, and make notes of these corrections at the end of my paper.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000018_000001|None of them was so difficult as the first.
train-other-500/1092/134579/1092_134579_000018_000003|This encouraged me greatly, and I sped on to the end of the ordeal with a light heart and a steady hand.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000001_000000|TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000001_000001|SECOND DIVISION.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000000|We termed dialectic in general a logic of appearance.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000001|This does not signify a doctrine of probability; for probability is truth, only cognized upon insufficient grounds, and though the information it gives us is imperfect, it is not therefore deceitful.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000002|Hence it must not be separated from the analytical part of logic.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000003|Still less must phenomenon and appearance be held to be identical.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000005|It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000006|Hence truth and error, consequently also, illusory appearance as the cause of error, are only to be found in a judgement, that is, in the relation of an object to our understanding.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000007|In a cognition which completely harmonizes with the laws of the understanding, no error can exist.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000010|But in accordance with the laws of the understanding consists the formal element in all truth.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000011|In the senses there is no judgement-neither a true nor a false one.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000012|But, as we have no source of cognition besides these two, it follows that error is caused solely by the unobserved influence of the sensibility upon the understanding.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000004_000015|In pure a priori judgements this must be done by means of transcendental reflection, whereby, as has been already shown, each representation has its place appointed in the corresponding faculty of cognition, and consequently the influence of the one faculty upon the other is made apparent.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000006_000002|Thus transcendental and transcendent are not identical terms.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000007_000001|So soon as the attention is awakened to the case before us, this illusion totally disappears. Transcendental illusion, on the contrary, does not cease to exist, even after it has been exposed, and its nothingness clearly perceived by means of transcendental criticism.
train-other-500/1094/129661/1094_129661_000008_000000|Transcendental dialectic will therefore content itself with exposing the illusory appearance in transcendental judgements, and guarding us against it; but to make it, as in the case of logical illusion, entirely disappear and cease to be illusion is utterly beyond its power.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000000_000001|"What have you seen?"
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000001_000000|"It was not so much what I saw, though that was bad enough, as what I heard," said I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000002_000000|"Tell us!
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000002_000001|What heard and saw you?"
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000003_000000|"I saw the dead O Mai," said I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000003_000001|The others shuddered.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000004_000000|"And you went not mad?" they asked.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000006_000000|"And you will go again?"
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000007_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000008_000000|"Then indeed you are mad," cried one.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000009_000000|"You saw the dead O Mai; but what heard you that was worse?" whispered another.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000011_000000|"And you are not afraid to go there again?" demanded several.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000012_000000|"The dead cannot harm me," said I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000012_000003|I heard it once and live-I can hear it again.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000013_000000|"I Gos, you are a very brave man," said a chieftain.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000015_000002|He had come alone for two very excellent reasons, the first of which was that thus none might note his terror stricken state nor his defection should he fail at the last moment, and the other was that should he accomplish the thing alone or be able to make his chiefs believe that he had, the credit would be far greater than were he to be accompanied by warriors.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000016_000000|But though he had started alone he had become aware that he was being followed, and he knew that it was because his people had no faith in either his courage or his veracity.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000016_000002|He did not very much want to find him, for though O Tar was an excellent swordsman and a brave warrior in physical combat, he had seen how Turan had played with U Dor and he had no stomach for a passage at arms with one whom he knew outclassed him.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000017_000000|And so O Tar stood with his hand upon the door-afraid to enter; afraid not to.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000017_000001|But at last his fear of his own warriors, watching behind him, grew greater than the fear of the unknown behind the ancient door and he pushed the heavy skeel aside and entered.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000018_000001|His naked sword trembled in his grasp.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000018_000002|He paused after each forward step to listen and when he was almost at the door of the ghost haunted chamber, his heart stood still within his breast and the cold sweat broke from the clammy skin of his forehead, for from within there came to his affrighted ears the sound of muffled breathing.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000018_000004|But again came the fear of the wrath and contempt of his warriors and his chiefs.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000018_000005|They would degrade him and they would slay him into the bargain.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000000|He moved forward.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000001|A few steps took him to the doorway.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000002|The chamber before him was darker than the corridor, so that he could just indistinctly make out the objects in the room.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000004|He moved a step farther into the doorway and the scabbard of his sword scraped against the stone frame.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000005|To his horror he saw the sleeping silks and furs upon the central dais move.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000008|He hesitated just a moment.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000009|He felt eyes upon him-ghoulish eyes that bored through the darkness into his withering heart-eyes that he could not see.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000019_000010|He gathered himself for the rush-and then there broke from the thing upon the couch an awful shriek, and O Tar sank senseless to the floor.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000020_000000|Gahan rose from the couch of O Mai, smiling, only to swing quickly about with drawn sword as the shadow of a noise impinged upon his keen ears from the shadows behind him.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000020_000001|Between the parted hangings he saw a bent and wrinkled figure.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000020_000002|It was I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000022_000000|"What do you here?" demanded Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000023_000000|"I came to make sure that the great coward did not cheat us.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000023_000003|It all but blasted my own courage.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000024_000000|"It was you, then, old scoundrel?" demanded Gahan, moving threateningly toward I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000025_000001|I would not do it now.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000025_000002|Conditions have changed."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000026_000000|"How have they changed?
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000026_000001|What has changed them?" asked Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000000|"Then I did not fully realize the cowardice of my jeddak, or the bravery of you and the girl.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000001|I am an old man from another age and I love courage.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000002|At first I resented the girl's attack upon me, but later I came to see the bravery of it and it won my admiration, as have all her acts.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000004|And you!
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000005|Blood of a million sires! how you fight!
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000007|I am sorry that I dragged the girl Tara back to O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000008|I would make amends.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000009|I would be your friend.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000027_000010|Here is my sword at your feet," and drawing his weapon I Gos cast it to the floor in front of Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000029_000000|"Where is the Princess Tara of Helium?" asked Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000029_000001|"Is she safe?"
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000031_000001|"I will make short work of him if he is not already dead from fright," and he stepped toward the fallen O Tar to run his sword through the jeddak's heart.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000033_000000|"How is that?" asked Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000034_000000|"If word of O Tar's death reached the quarters of the women the Princess Tara would be lost.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000034_000003|Should O Tar die they would turn her over to the warriors and the male slaves, for there would be none to avenge her."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000035_000001|"Your point is well taken; but what shall we do with him?"
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000036_000000|"Leave him where he lies," counseled I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000036_000001|"He is not dead.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000037_000001|The two quit the chamber of O Mai and took their way toward the spiral runway.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000037_000002|Here I Gos led Gahan to a higher level and out upon the roof of that portion of the palace from where he pointed to a high tower quite close by. "There," he said, "lies the Princess of Helium, and quite safe she will be until the time of the ceremony."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000039_000000|"She would do that?" asked I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000040_000000|"She will, unless you can get word to her that I still live and that there is yet hope," replied Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000041_000000|"I cannot get word to her," said I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000041_000001|"The quarters of his women O Tar guards with jealous hand.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000041_000002|Here are his most trusted slaves and warriors, yet even so, thick among them are countless spies, so that no man knows which be which.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000041_000003|No shadow falls within those chambers that is not marked by a hundred eyes."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000042_000000|Gahan stood gazing at the lighted windows of the high tower in the upper chambers of which Tara of Helium was confined.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000043_000000|"There is no way," replied the old man.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000044_000001|It was then, and then alone, argued I Gos, that any hope of rescuing her might be entertained.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000045_000000|"Your time shall come then, I Gos," Gahan assured the other, "and if you have any party that thinks as you do, prepare them for the eventuality that will succeed O Tar's presumptuous attempt to wed the daughter of The Warlord.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000045_000001|Where shall I see you again, and when?
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000045_000002|I go now to speak with Tara, Princess of Helium."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000046_000000|"I like your boldness," said I Gos; "but it will avail you naught.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000046_000001|You will not speak with Tara, Princess of Helium, though doubtless the blood of many Manatorians will drench the floors of the women's quarters before you are slain."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000047_000000|Gahan smiled.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000047_000001|"I shall not be slain.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000047_000002|Where and when shall we meet?
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000047_000003|But you may find me in O Mai's chamber at night.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000047_000005|I go!"
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000048_000000|"And may the spirits of your ancestors surround you," said I Gos.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000049_000001|Though wrought ages since, it was but little weather worn owing to the aridity of the Martian atmosphere, the infrequency of rains, and the rarity of dust storms.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000049_000002|To scale it, though, presented difficulties and danger that might have deterred the bravest of men-that would, doubtless, have deterred Gahan, had he not felt that the life of the woman he loved depended upon his accomplishing the hazardous feat.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000050_000000|Removing his sandals and laying aside all of his harness and weapons other than a single belt supporting a dagger, the Gatholian essayed the dangerous ascent.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000050_000001|Clinging to the carvings with hands and feet he worked himself slowly aloft, avoiding the windows and keeping upon the shadowy side of the tower, away from the light of Thuria and Cluros. The tower rose some fifty feet above the roof of the adjacent part of the palace, comprising five levels or floors with windows looking in every direction.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000051_000000|His progress was noiseless and he came at last, undetected, to the windows of the upper level.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000051_000001|These, like several of the others he had passed at lower levels, were heavily barred, so that there was no possibility of his gaining ingress to the apartment where Tara was confined.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000051_000002|Darkness hid the interior behind the first window that he approached.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000051_000004|Here also was the top of the runway leading to the next level below.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000051_000005|Passing still farther around the tower Gahan approached another window, but now he clung to that side of the tower which ended in a courtyard a hundred feet below and in a short time the light of Thuria would reach him.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000051_000006|He realized that he must hasten and he prayed that behind the window he now approached he would find Tara of Helium.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000052_000000|Coming to the opening he looked in upon a small chamber dimly lighted. In the center was a sleeping dais upon which a human form lay beneath silks and furs.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000052_000001|A bare arm, protruding from the coverings, lay exposed against a black and yellow striped orluk skin-an arm of wondrous beauty about which was clasped an armlet that Gahan knew.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000052_000002|No other creature was visible within the chamber, all of which was exposed to Gahan's view.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000052_000003|Pressing his face to the bars the Gatholian whispered her dear name.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000052_000004|The girl stirred, but did not awaken.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000052_000005|Again he called, but this time louder.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000053_000000|Both sprang to their feet.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000053_000001|The eunuch drew his sword and leaped for the window where the helpless Gahan would have fallen an easy victim to a single thrust of the murderous weapon the fellow bore, had not Tara of Helium leaped upon her guard dragging him back.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000053_000002|At the same time she drew the slim dagger from its hiding place in her harness and even as the eunuch sought to hurl her aside its keen point found his heart. Without a sound he died and lunged forward to the floor.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000053_000003|Then Tara ran to the window.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000054_000000|"Turan, my chief!" she cried.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000054_000001|"What awful risk is this you take to seek me here, where even your brave heart is powerless to aid me."
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000055_000000|"Be not so sure of that, heart of my heart," he replied.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000055_000001|"While I bring but words to my love, they be the forerunner of deeds, I hope, that will give her back to me forever.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000055_000002|I feared that you might destroy yourself, Tara of Helium, to escape the dishonor that O Tar would do you, and so I came to give you new hope and to beg that you live for me through whatever may transpire, in the knowledge that there is yet a way and that if all goes well we shall be freed at last.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000055_000003|Look for me in the throne room of O Tar the night that he would wed you.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000055_000004|And now, how may we dispose of this fellow?" He pointed to the dead eunuch upon the floor.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000056_000000|"We need not concern ourselves about that," she replied.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000056_000001|"None dares harm me for fear of the wrath of O Tar-otherwise I should have been dead so soon as ever I entered this portion of the palace, for the women hate me.
train-other-500/1094/157767/1094_157767_000056_000002|O Tar alone may punish me, and what cares O Tar for the life of a eunuch?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000001_000000|"O brave and glorious jeddak!" cried the major domo.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000001_000001|"We rejoice at your safe return and beg of you the story of your adventure."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000002_000000|"It was naught," exclaimed O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000002_000001|"I searched the chambers carefully and waited in hiding for the return of the slave, Turan, if he were temporarily away; but he came not.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000002_000002|He is not there and I doubt if he ever goes there.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000002_000003|Few men would choose to remain long in such a dismal place."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000003_000001|"You heard no screams, nor moans?"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000004_000000|"I heard hideous noises and saw phantom figures; but they fled before me so that never could I lay hold of one, and I looked upon the face of O Mai and I am not mad.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000004_000001|I even rested in the chamber beside his corpse."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000005_000000|In a far corner of the room a bent and wrinkled old man hid a smile behind a golden goblet of strong brew.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000006_000000|"Come!
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000006_000001|Let us drink!" cried O Tar and reached for the dagger, the pommel of which he was accustomed to use to strike the gong which summoned slaves, but the dagger was not in its scabbard.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000006_000002|O Tar was puzzled.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000006_000004|He seized instead a table utensil and struck the gong, and when the slaves came bade them bring the strongest brew for O Tar and his chiefs.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000007_000000|Came at last the day that O Tar would take the Princess Tara of Helium to wife.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000007_000001|For hours slaves prepared the unwilling bride.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000007_000002|Seven perfumed baths occupied three long and weary hours, then her whole body was anointed with the oil of pimalia blossoms and massaged by the deft fingers of a slave from distant Dusar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000007_000004|The glossy mass of her jet hair had been built into a coiffure of stately and becoming grandeur, into which diamond headed pins were stuck until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a moonless night.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000008_000000|But it was a sullen and defiant bride that they led from the high tower toward the throne room of O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000008_000001|The corridors were filled with slaves and warriors, and the women of the palace and the city who had been commanded to attend the ceremony.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000009_000000|Slowly Tara, surrounded by a heavy guard of honor, moved along the marble corridors filled with people.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000009_000002|The Hall was empty except for its ranks of dead chieftains upon their dead mounts.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000009_000004|Here the bride would await the groom at the foot of the steps leading to the throne.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000009_000005|The guests followed her in and took their places, leaving the central aisle from The Hall of Chiefs to the throne clear, for up this O Tar would approach his bride alone after a short solitary communion with the dead behind closed doors in The Hall of Chiefs.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000009_000006|It was the custom.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000010_000000|The guests had all filed through The Hall of Chiefs; the doors at both ends had been closed.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000010_000001|Presently those at the lower end of the hall opened and O Tar entered.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000011_000000|As the doors at the lower end of the Hall closed behind him O Tar the Jeddak stood alone with the great dead.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000011_000001|By the dictates of ages no mortal eye might look upon the scene enacted within that sacred chamber.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000000|Five minutes passed.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000001|The bride stood silently at the foot of the throne.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000002|The guests spoke together in low whispers until the room was filled with the hum of many voices.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000003|At length the doors leading into The Hall of Chiefs swung open, and the resplendent bridegroom stood framed for a moment in the massive opening.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000004|A hush fell upon the wedding guests.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000005|With measured and impressive step the groom approached the bride.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000006|Tara felt the muscles of her heart contract with the apprehension that had been growing upon her as the coils of Fate settled more closely about her and no sign came from Turan.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000007|Where was he?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000008|What, indeed, could he accomplish now to save her?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000012_000009|Surrounded by the power of O Tar with never a friend among them, her position seemed at last without vestige of hope.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000013_000001|And now the groom was at her side and taking her hand was leading her up the steps to the throne, before which they halted and stood facing the gathering below.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000014_000000|Would Turan's promised succor come too late?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000014_000001|Tara listened to the long, monotonous intonation of the wedding service.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000014_000002|She heard the virtues of O Tar extolled and the beauties of the bride.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000014_000004|But what could he accomplish should he succeed in reaching the throne room, other than to die with her?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000014_000005|There could be no hope of rescue.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000015_000000|The dignitary lifted the golden handcuffs from the pillow upon which they reposed.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000015_000001|He blessed them and reached for Tara's wrist.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000015_000002|The time had come!
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000015_000004|Even should rescue come then or later she could never dissolve those bonds and Turan would be lost to her as surely as though death separated them.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000016_000000|Her hand stole toward the hidden blade, but instantly the hand of the groom shot out and seized her wrist.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000016_000002|For a tense moment the two stood thus.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000016_000003|The people below them kept breathless silence for the play before the throne had not passed unnoticed.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000017_000000|Dramatic as was the moment it was suddenly rendered trebly so by the noisy opening of the doors leading to The Hall of Chiefs.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000018_000000|"Stop!" he screamed, springing forward along the aisle toward the throne.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000018_000001|"Seize the impostor!"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000019_000000|All eyes shot to the figure of the groom before the throne.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000020_000000|"Turan the slave," they cried then.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000020_000001|"Death to him!
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000020_000002|Death to him!"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000021_000000|"Wait!" shouted Turan, drawing his sword, as a dozen warriors leaped forward.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000024_000000|The people looked at the little old man in amazement.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000025_000000|"Down with him!" shouted O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000026_000001|"It is my right.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000026_000002|If I fail my life is forfeit-that you all know and I know.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000026_000003|I demand therefore to be heard.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000026_000004|It is my right!"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000027_000000|"It is his right," echoed the voices of a score of warriors in various parts of the chamber.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000028_000002|I was there, hiding behind the hangings, and I saw all that transpired.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000028_000004|Turan, disturbed, arose to a sitting position at the same time voicing a piercing shriek.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000029_000000|"It is a lie!" cried O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000030_000003|And that he had no dagger?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000030_000004|O Tar, where is the dagger that you carried into the chamber of O Mai?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000030_000005|You do not know; but I know.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000030_000006|While you lay in the swoon of terror I took it from your harness and hid it among the sleeping silks upon the couch of O Mai.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000031_000000|"But what of this impostor?" demanded one.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000033_000000|"We will choose our own jeddak.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000033_000001|Seize and slay the slave!" There were cries of approval from all parts of the room.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000033_000002|Gahan was listening intently, as though for some hoped for sound.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000033_000005|If they had it would mean death for him, and he knew that Tara would take her life if he fell.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000033_000006|Had he, then, served her so futilely after all his efforts?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000034_000000|Several warriors were urging the necessity for sending at once to the chamber of O Mai to search for the dagger that would prove, if found, the cowardice of O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000034_000003|"There is naught there to harm you.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000034_000004|I have been there often of late and Turan the slave has slept there for these many nights.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000035_000000|And now the others turned their attention once more to Gahan.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000035_000002|They had reached the foot of the steps when from far above there sounded a deep boom, and another, and another, and Turan smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000035_000003|Perhaps, after all, it had not come too late.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000035_000004|The warriors stopped and listened as did the others in the chamber.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000035_000005|Now there broke upon their ears a loud rattle of musketry and it all came from above as though men were fighting upon the roofs of the palace.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000038_000001|"Seize him!"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000039_000001|An exclamation of surprise and dismay broke from the lips of the warriors of O Tar.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000039_000003|"What treason is this?"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000040_000002|No lying poltroon, but a courageous man whom you all love."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000042_000000|O Tar was exhorting his warriors to attack, when a bloody and disheveled padwar burst into the chamber through a side entrance.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000042_000001|"The city has fallen!" he cried aloud.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000042_000002|"The hordes of Manatos pour through The Gate of Enemies.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000042_000003|The slaves from Gathol have arisen and destroyed the palace guards.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000042_000007|The skies are black with ships.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000042_000008|They come in great processions from the east and from the south."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000043_000001|Tara of Helium saw him and her heart leaped in exultation, for it was john Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, come at the head of a victorious host to the rescue of his daughter, and at his side was d j o r Kantos to whom she had been betrothed.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000044_000000|The Warlord eyed the assemblage for a moment before he spoke.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000044_000003|Your city is filled with the fighting men of U Thor, and those from Gathol and from Helium.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000044_000004|The palace is in the hands of the slaves from Gathol, beside a thousand of my own warriors who fill the halls and chambers surrounding this room.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000044_000005|The fate of your jeddak lies in your own hands. I have no wish to interfere.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000044_000006|I come only for my daughter and to free the slaves from Gathol.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000044_000007|I have spoken!" and without waiting for a reply and as though the room had been filled with his own people rather than a hostile band he strode up the broad main aisle toward Tara of Helium.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000045_000001|They looked to O Tar; but he could only gaze helplessly about him as the enemy entered from The Hall of Chiefs and circled the throne room until they had surrounded the entire company.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000047_000000|"Fetch them," ordered The Warlord.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000051_000000|O Tar took the proffered blade and drawing himself to his full height plunged it to the guard into his breast, in that single act redeeming himself in the esteem of his people and winning an eternal place in The Hall of Chiefs.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000052_000001|"O Tar is dead!" he cried.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000052_000003|What is your answer?"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000053_000000|"Let A Kor rule!
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000053_000002|The cries filled the room and there was no dissenting voice.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000054_000000|A Kor raised his sword for silence.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000054_000004|The girl's happiness at rescue had been blighted by sight of this man whom her virtuous heart told her she had wronged.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000054_000005|She dreaded the ordeal that lay before her and the dishonor that she must admit before she could hope to be freed from the understanding that had for long existed between them.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000055_000000|"Beautiful daughter of Helium," he said, "how may I tell you the thing that I must tell you-of the dishonor that I have all unwittingly done you?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000055_000001|I can but throw myself upon your generosity for forgiveness; but if you demand it I can receive the dagger as honorably as did O Tar."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000056_000001|"What are you talking about-why speak thus in riddles to one whose heart is already breaking?"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000057_000000|Her heart already breaking!
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000058_000000|"Tara of Helium," he continued, "we all thought you dead.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000058_000001|For a long year have you been gone from Helium.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000058_000002|I mourned you truly and then, less than a moon since, I wed with Olvia Marthis." He stopped and looked at her with eyes that might have said: "Now, strike me dead!"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000059_000000|"Oh, foolish man!" cried Tara.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000059_000001|"Nothing you could have done could have pleased me more.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000060_000000|"I do not think that Olvia Marthis would mind," he said, his face now wreathed with smiles.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000060_000002|They were tall men trapped in plain harness, absolutely without ornamentation.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000062_000000|john Carter and the leader of the new come warriors, who were standing near, looked quickly at the little group.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000062_000001|The former smiled an inscrutable smile, the latter addressed the Princess of Helium.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000062_000002|"'Turan the panthan!'" he cried.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000062_000003|"Know you not, fair daughter of Helium, that this man you call panthan is Gahan, Jed of Gathol?"
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000063_000000|For just a moment Tara of Helium looked her surprise; and then she shrugged her beautiful shoulders as she turned her head to cast her eyes over one of them at Gahan of Gathol.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000064_000000|"Jed or panthan," she said; "what difference does it make what one's slave has been?" and she laughed roguishly into the smiling face of her lover.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000065_000000|His story finished, john Carter rose from the chair opposite me, stretching his giant frame like some great forest bred lion.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000066_000000|"You must go?" I cried, for I hated to see him leave and it seemed that he had been with me but a moment.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000067_000000|"The sky is already red beyond those beautiful hills of yours," he replied, "and it will soon be day."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000069_000000|"Well?" he assented, good naturedly.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000070_000000|"How was Gahan able to enter the throne room garbed in O Tar's trappings?" I asked.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000071_000000|"It was simple-for Gahan of Gathol," replied The Warlord.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000071_000002|He came from the pits through the corridor that opened behind the arras at the rear of the throne, and passing into The Hall of Chiefs took his place upon the back of a riderless thoat, whose warrior was in I Gos' repair room.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000071_000003|When O Tar entered and came near him Gahan fell upon him and struck him with the butt of a heavy spear.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000071_000004|He thought that he had killed him and was surprised when O Tar appeared to denounce him."
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000072_000000|"And Ghek?
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000072_000001|What became of Ghek?" I insisted.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000073_000000|"After leading Val Dor and Floran to Tara's disabled flier which they repaired, he accompanied them to Gathol from where a message was sent to me in Helium.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000073_000001|He then led a large party including A Kor and U Thor from the roof, where our ships landed them, down a spiral runway into the palace and guided them to the throne room.
train-other-500/1094/157768/1094_157768_000073_000003|But come!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000003_000001|THE SOOTHSAYER.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000004_000000|"-And I saw a great sadness come over mankind.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000004_000001|The best turned weary of their works.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000005_000000|A doctrine appeared, a faith ran beside it: 'All is empty, all is alike, all hath been!'
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000006_000000|And from all hills there re echoed: 'All is empty, all is alike, all hath been!'
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000007_000001|What was it fell last night from the evil moon?
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000008_000000|In vain was all our labour, poison hath our wine become, the evil eye hath singed yellow our fields and hearts.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000010_000000|All our fountains have dried up, even the sea hath receded.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000011_000000|'Alas! where is there still a sea in which one could be drowned?' so soundeth our plaint-across shallow swamps.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000012_000000|Verily, even for dying have we become too weary; now do we keep awake and live on-in sepulchres."
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000013_000001|Sorrowfully did he go about and wearily; and he became like unto those of whom the soothsayer had spoken.--
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000014_000001|Alas, how shall I preserve my light through it!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000015_000000|That it may not smother in this sorrowfulness!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000018_000000|Hear, I pray you, the dream that I dreamed, my friends, and help me to divine its meaning!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000020_000000|All life had I renounced, so I dreamed.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000020_000001|Night watchman and grave guardian had I become, aloft, in the lone mountain fortress of Death.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000022_000000|The odour of dust covered eternities did I breathe: sultry and dust covered lay my soul.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000022_000001|And who could have aired his soul there!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000023_000000|Brightness of midnight was ever around me; lonesomeness cowered beside her; and as a third, death rattle stillness, the worst of my female friends.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000024_000000|Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knew how to open with them the most creaking of all gates.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000025_000000|Like a bitterly angry croaking ran the sound through the long corridors when the leaves of the gate opened: ungraciously did this bird cry, unwillingly was it awakened.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000026_000000|But more frightful even, and more heart strangling was it, when it again became silent and still all around, and I alone sat in that malignant silence.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000027_000000|Thus did time pass with me, and slip by, if time there still was: what do I know thereof!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000027_000001|But at last there happened that which awoke me.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000028_000000|Thrice did there peal peals at the gate like thunders, thrice did the vaults resound and howl again: then did I go to the gate.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000029_000000|Alpa! cried I, who carrieth his ashes unto the mountain?
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000029_000001|Alpa!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000029_000002|Alpa! who carrieth his ashes unto the mountain?
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000030_000001|But not a finger's breadth was it yet open:
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000031_000000|Then did a roaring wind tear the folds apart: whistling, whizzing, and piercing, it threw unto me a black coffin.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000034_000000|Fearfully was I terrified thereby: it prostrated me.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000035_000000|But mine own crying awoke me:--and I came to myself.--
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000036_000000|Thus did Zarathustra relate his dream, and then was silent: for as yet he knew not the interpretation thereof.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000036_000001|But the disciple whom he loved most arose quickly, seized Zarathustra's hand, and said:
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000037_000000|"Thy life itself interpreteth unto us this dream, O Zarathustra!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000039_000000|Art thou not thyself the coffin full of many hued malices and angel caricatures of life?
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000042_000000|And when the long twilight cometh and the mortal weariness, even then wilt thou not disappear from our firmament, thou advocate of life!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000047_000001|Zarathustra, however, sat upright on his couch, with an absent look.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000047_000002|Like one returning from long foreign sojourn did he look on his disciples, and examined their features; but still he knew them not.
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000047_000003|When, however, they raised him, and set him upon his feet, behold, all on a sudden his eye changed; he understood everything that had happened, stroked his beard, and said with a strong voice:
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000048_000000|"Well! this hath just its time; but see to it, my disciples, that we have a good repast; and without delay!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000048_000001|Thus do I mean to make amends for bad dreams!
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000049_000000|The soothsayer, however, shall eat and drink at my side: and verily, I will yet show him a sea in which he can drown himself!"--
train-other-500/1096/128264/1096_128264_000050_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000001_000001|REDEMPTION.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000002_000000|When Zarathustra went one day over the great bridge, then did the cripples and beggars surround him, and a hunchback spake thus unto him:
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000003_000000|"Behold, Zarathustra!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000003_000002|Here hast thou now a fine selection, and verily, an opportunity with more than one forelock!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000004_000000|Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit-so do the people teach.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000004_000001|And when one giveth the blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad things on the earth: so that he curseth him who healed him.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000004_000002|He, however, who maketh the lame man run, inflicteth upon him the greatest injury; for hardly can he run, when his vices run away with him-so do the people teach concerning cripples.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000004_000003|And why should not Zarathustra also learn from the people, when the people learn from Zarathustra?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000007_000000|And when I came out of my solitude, and for the first time passed over this bridge, then I could not trust mine eyes, but looked again and again, and said at last: "That is an ear!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000007_000001|An ear as big as a man!" I looked still more attentively-and actually there did move under the ear something that was pitiably small and poor and slim.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000007_000002|And in truth this immense ear was perched on a small thin stalk-the stalk, however, was a man!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000007_000003|A person putting a glass to his eyes, could even recognise further a small envious countenance, and also that a bloated soullet dangled at the stalk.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000007_000004|The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000010_000000|This is the terrible thing to mine eye, that I find man broken up, and scattered about, as on a battle and butcher ground.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000011_000000|And when mine eye fleeth from the present to the bygone, it findeth ever the same: fragments and limbs and fearful chances-but no men!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000012_000000|The present and the bygone upon earth-ah! my friends-that is MY most unbearable trouble; and I should not know how to live, if I were not a seer of what is to come.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000014_000001|What shall he be called by us?" And like me, did ye give yourselves questions for answers.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000000|Is he a promiser?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000001|Or a fulfiller?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000002|A conqueror?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000004|A harvest?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000005|Or a ploughshare?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000006|A physician?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000015_000007|Or a healed one?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000016_000000|Is he a poet?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000016_000002|An emancipator?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000016_000004|A good one?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000016_000005|Or an evil one?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000017_000000|I walk amongst men as the fragments of the future: that future which I contemplate.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000018_000000|And it is all my poetisation and aspiration to compose and collect into unity what is fragment and riddle and fearful chance.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000019_000000|And how could I endure to be a man, if man were not also the composer, and riddle reader, and redeemer of chance!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000020_000000|To redeem what is past, and to transform every "It was" into "Thus would I have it!"--that only do I call redemption!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000021_000000|Will-so is the emancipator and joy bringer called: thus have I taught you, my friends!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000021_000001|But now learn this likewise: the Will itself is still a prisoner.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000022_000000|Willing emancipateth: but what is that called which still putteth the emancipator in chains?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000023_000000|"It was": thus is the Will's teeth gnashing and lonesomest tribulation called.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000024_000000|Not backward can the Will will; that it cannot break time and time's desire-that is the Will's lonesomest tribulation.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000025_000000|Willing emancipateth: what doth Willing itself devise in order to get free from its tribulation and mock at its prison?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000026_000000|Ah, a fool becometh every prisoner!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000026_000001|Foolishly delivereth itself also the imprisoned Will.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000030_000000|This, yea, this alone is REVENGE itself: the Will's antipathy to time, and its "It was."
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000031_000000|Verily, a great folly dwelleth in our Will; and it became a curse unto all humanity, that this folly acquired spirit!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000032_000000|THE SPIRIT OF REVENGE: my friends, that hath hitherto been man's best contemplation; and where there was suffering, it was claimed there was always penalty.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000033_000000|"Penalty," so calleth itself revenge.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000033_000001|With a lying word it feigneth a good conscience.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000034_000000|And because in the willer himself there is suffering, because he cannot will backwards-thus was Willing itself, and all life, claimed-to be penalty!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000035_000000|And then did cloud after cloud roll over the spirit, until at last madness preached: "Everything perisheth, therefore everything deserveth to perish!"
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000036_000000|"And this itself is justice, the law of time-that he must devour his children:" thus did madness preach.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000037_000000|"Morally are things ordered according to justice and penalty.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000038_000000|"Can there be deliverance when there is eternal justice?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000038_000001|Alas, unrollable is the stone, 'It was': eternal must also be all penalties!" Thus did madness preach.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000039_000000|"No deed can be annihilated: how could it be undone by the penalty! This, this is what is eternal in the 'existence' of penalty, that existence also must be eternally recurring deed and guilt!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000040_000000|Unless the Will should at last deliver itself, and Willing become non Willing-:" but ye know, my brethren, this fabulous song of madness!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000041_000000|Away from those fabulous songs did I lead you when I taught you: "The Will is a creator."
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000043_000000|Until the creating Will saith thereto: "But thus do I will it!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000043_000001|Thus shall I will it!"
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000044_000000|But did it ever speak thus?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000046_000000|And who hath taught it reconciliation with time, and something higher than all reconciliation?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000047_000000|Something higher than all reconciliation must the Will will which is the Will to Power-: but how doth that take place?
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000048_000000|--But at this point in his discourse it chanced that Zarathustra suddenly paused, and looked like a person in the greatest alarm.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000048_000001|With terror in his eyes did he gaze on his disciples; his glances pierced as with arrows their thoughts and arrear thoughts.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000048_000002|But after a brief space he again laughed, and said soothedly:
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000049_000000|"It is difficult to live amongst men, because silence is so difficult- especially for a babbler."--
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000050_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000050_000001|The hunchback, however, had listened to the conversation and had covered his face during the time; but when he heard Zarathustra laugh, he looked up with curiosity, and said slowly:
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000051_000000|"But why doth Zarathustra speak otherwise unto us than unto his disciples?"
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000052_000000|Zarathustra answered: "What is there to be wondered at!
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000052_000001|With hunchbacks one may well speak in a hunchbacked way!"
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000053_000000|"Very good," said the hunchback; "and with pupils one may well tell tales out of school.
train-other-500/1096/128265/1096_128265_000054_000000|But why doth Zarathustra speak otherwise unto his pupils-than unto himself?"--
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000000_000000|Yesterday towards evening there spake unto me MY STILLEST HOUR: that is the name of my terrible mistress.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000001_000000|And thus did it happen-for everything must I tell you, that your heart may not harden against the suddenly departing one!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000003_000000|To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground giveth way under him, and the dream beginneth.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000004_000000|This do I speak unto you in parable.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000004_000001|Yesterday at the stillest hour did the ground give way under me: the dream began.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000005_000000|The hour hand moved on, the timepiece of my life drew breath-never did I hear such stillness around me, so that my heart was terrified.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000006_000000|Then was there spoken unto me without voice: "THOU KNOWEST IT, ZARATHUSTRA?"--
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000007_000000|And I cried in terror at this whispering, and the blood left my face: but I was silent.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000010_000001|Is this true?
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000011_000001|Exempt me only from this!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000012_000000|Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: "What matter about thyself, Zarathustra!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000013_000002|I await the worthier one; I am not worthy even to succumb by it."
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000014_000000|Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: "What matter about thyself?
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000015_000000|And I answered: "What hath not the skin of my humility endured!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000015_000001|At the foot of my height do I dwell: how high are my summits, no one hath yet told me.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000015_000002|But well do I know my valleys."
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000017_000001|I went, indeed, unto men, but not yet have I attained unto them."
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000019_000000|And I answered: "They mocked me when I found and walked in mine own path; and certainly did my feet then tremble.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000020_000000|And thus did they speak unto me: Thou forgottest the path before, now dost thou also forget how to walk!"
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000021_000000|Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: "What matter about their mockery!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000021_000001|Thou art one who hast unlearned to obey: now shalt thou command!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000025_000000|And I answered: "I lack the lion's voice for all commanding."
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000026_000001|Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000028_000000|And I answered: "I am ashamed."
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000031_000000|And I considered a long while, and trembled.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000031_000001|At last, however, did I say what I had said at first.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000031_000002|"I will not."
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000032_000001|Alas, how that laughing lacerated my bowels and cut into my heart!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000035_000001|I lay, however, on the ground, and the sweat flowed from my limbs.
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000038_000001|I should have something more to say unto you!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000038_000002|I should have something more to give unto you!
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000038_000003|Why do I not give it?
train-other-500/1096/128267/1096_128267_000039_000000|When, however, Zarathustra had spoken these words, the violence of his pain, and a sense of the nearness of his departure from his friends came over him, so that he wept aloud; and no one knew how to console him.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000002_000000|Petya, having left his people after their departure from Moscow, joined his regiment and was soon taken as orderly by a general commanding a large guerrilla detachment.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000002_000003|And he was always in a hurry to get where he was not.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000003_000004|Before they had ridden to the outskirts of the forest Petya had considered he must carry out his instructions strictly and return at once.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000004_000000|It was already growing dusk when Denisov, Petya, and the esaul rode up to the watchhouse.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000004_000001|In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000004_000004|Petya took off his wet clothes, gave them to be dried, and at once began helping the officers to fix up the dinner table.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000005_000000|In ten minutes the table was ready and a napkin spread on it.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000005_000001|On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000006_000000|Sitting at table with the officers and tearing the fat savory mutton with his hands, down which the grease trickled, Petya was in an ecstatic childish state of love for all men, and consequently of confidence that others loved him in the same way.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000007_000001|"It's all right my staying a day with you?" And not waiting for a reply he answered his own question: "You see I was told to find out-well, I am finding out....
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000007_000002|Only do let me into the very... into the chief...
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000007_000003|I don't want a reward...
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000007_000004|But I want..."
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000008_000000|Petya clenched his teeth and looked around, throwing back his head and flourishing his arms.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000010_000000|"Only, please let me command something, so that I may really command..." Petya went on.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000010_000001|"What would it be to you?...
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000011_000000|And he handed him his clasp knife.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000011_000001|The officer admired it.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000000|"Please keep it.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000001|I have several like it," said Petya, blushing.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000002|"Heavens!
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000003|I was quite forgetting!" he suddenly cried.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000004|"I have some raisins, fine ones; you know, seedless ones.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000006|I bought ten pounds.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000007|I am used to something sweet.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000012_000009|"Have some, gentlemen, have some!"
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000013_000002|He has splendid things.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000013_000003|And he's very honest, that's the chief thing.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000013_000004|I'll be sure to send it to you.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000013_000006|I have brought some with me, here they are"--and he showed a bag-"a hundred flints.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000013_000007|I bought them very cheap.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000013_000008|Please take as many as you want, or all if you like...."
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000014_000000|Then suddenly, dismayed lest he had said too much, Petya stopped and blushed.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000015_000000|He tried to remember whether he had not done anything else that was foolish.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000015_000002|"It's capital for us here, but what of him?
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000015_000006|But having caught himself saying too much about the flints, he was now afraid to speak out.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000016_000001|Will it seem odd if I ask?" Petya thought.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000016_000002|"Well, never mind!" and immediately, blushing and looking anxiously at the officers to see if they appeared ironical, he said:
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000017_000000|"May I call in that boy who was taken prisoner and give him something to eat?...
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000017_000001|Perhaps..."
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000018_000000|"Yes, he's a poor little fellow," said Denisov, who evidently saw nothing shameful in this reminder.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000018_000001|"Call him in.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000018_000002|His name is Vincent Bosse.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000018_000003|Have him fetched."
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000019_000000|"I'll call him," said Petya.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000020_000000|"Yes, yes, call him.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000020_000001|A poor little fellow," Denisov repeated.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000021_000001|He slipped in between the officers, came close to Denisov, and said:
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000022_000000|"Let me kiss you, dear old fellow!
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000022_000001|Oh, how fine, how splendid!"
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000024_000001|Vincent!" Petya cried, stopping outside the door.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000028_000000|Vincent, the boy's name, had already been changed by the Cossacks into Vesenny (vernal) and into Vesenya by the peasants and soldiers.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000028_000001|In both these adaptations the reference to spring (vesna) matched the impression made by the young lad.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000029_000001|Ho, Vesenya!
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000029_000002|Vesenya!-- Vesenny!" laughing voices were heard calling to one another in the darkness.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000030_000001|"We gave him something to eat a while ago.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000032_000001|"Voulez vous manger?
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000033_000001|Do you want something to eat?
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000037_000000|There were many things Petya wanted to say to the drummer boy, but did not dare to.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000038_000000|"Come in, come in!" he repeated in a gentle whisper.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000038_000001|"Oh, what can I do for him?" he thought, and opening the door he let the boy pass in first.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000039_000000|When the boy had entered the hut, Petya sat down at a distance from him, considering it beneath his dignity to pay attention to him.
train-other-500/1096/17320/1096_17320_000039_000001|But he fingered the money in his pocket and wondered whether it would seem ridiculous to give some to the drummer boy.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000002_000000|Day after day as he bent his steps homeward, returning from some new effort to procure employment, Kit raised his eyes to the window of the little room he had so much commended to the child, and hoped to see some indication of her presence.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000003_000000|'I think they must certainly come to morrow, eh mother?' said Kit, laying aside his hat with a weary air and sighing as he spoke.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000003_000001|'They have been gone a week.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000003_000002|They surely couldn't stop away more than a week, could they now?'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000004_000000|The mother shook her head, and reminded him how often he had been disappointed already.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000005_000000|'For the matter of that,' said Kit, 'you speak true and sensible enough, as you always do, mother.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000006_000000|'Quite long enough, Kit, longer than enough, but they may not come back for all that.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000007_000000|Kit was for a moment disposed to be vexed by this contradiction, and not the less so from having anticipated it in his own mind and knowing how just it was.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000007_000001|But the impulse was only momentary, and the vexed look became a kind one before it had crossed the room.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000008_000001|You don't think they've gone to sea, anyhow?'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000009_000000|'Not gone for sailors, certainly,' returned the mother with a smile. 'But I can't help thinking that they have gone to some foreign country.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000010_000000|'I say,' cried Kit with a rueful face, 'don't talk like that, mother.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000011_000000|'I am afraid they have, and that's the truth,' she said.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000011_000001|'It's the talk of all the neighbours, and there are some even that know of their having been seen on board ship, and can tell you the name of the place they've gone to, which is more than I can, my dear, for it's a very hard one.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000012_000000|'I don't believe it,' said Kit.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000012_000001|'Not a word of it.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000012_000002|A set of idle chatterboxes, how should they know!'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000013_000001|That don't seem very far out of the way now, do it?'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000014_000000|Kit scratched his head mournfully, in reluctant admission that it did not, and clambering up to the old nail took down the cage and set himself to clean it and to feed the bird.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000014_000002|He no sooner remembered this, than he hung up the cage with great precipitation, and hastily explaining the nature of his errand, went off at full speed to the appointed place.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000015_000001|Greatly relieved to find that he was not too late, Kit leant against a lamp post to take breath, and waited the advent of the pony and his charge.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000016_000000|Sure enough, before long the pony came trotting round the corner of the street, looking as obstinate as pony might, and picking his steps as if he were spying about for the cleanest places, and would by no means dirty his feet or hurry himself inconveniently.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000019_000000|The pony looked with great attention into a fire plug which was near him, and appeared to be quite absorbed in contemplating it.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000020_000000|'Oh dear, such a naughty Whisker!' cried the old lady.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000020_000001|'After being so good too, and coming along so well!
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000020_000002|I am quite ashamed of him.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000020_000003|I don't know what we are to do with him, I really don't.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000021_000000|The pony having thoroughly satisfied himself as to the nature and properties of the fire plug, looked into the air after his old enemies the flies, and as there happened to be one of them tickling his ear at that moment he shook his head and whisked his tail, after which he appeared full of thought but quite comfortable and collected.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000021_000001|The old gentleman having exhausted his powers of persuasion, alighted to lead him; whereupon the pony, perhaps because he held this to be a sufficient concession, perhaps because he happened to catch sight of the other brass plate, or perhaps because he was in a spiteful humour, darted off with the old lady and stopped at the right house, leaving the old gentleman to come panting on behind.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000022_000000|It was then that Kit presented himself at the pony's head, and touched his hat with a smile.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000023_000000|'Why, bless me,' cried the old gentleman, 'the lad is here!
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000023_000001|My dear, do you see?'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000024_000001|'I hope you've had a pleasant ride, sir.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000025_000000|'My dear,' said the old gentleman.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000025_000001|'This is an uncommon lad; a good lad, I'm sure.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000026_000000|'I'm sure he is,' rejoined the old lady.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000026_000001|'A very good lad, and I am sure he is a good son.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000027_000001|The old gentleman then handed the old lady out, and after looking at him with an approving smile, they went into the house-talking about him as they went, Kit could not help feeling.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000027_000003|Therefore he patted the pony more and more; and this liberty the pony most handsomely permitted.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000028_000001|In giving him this direction Mr Chuckster remarked that he wished that he might be blessed if he could make out whether he (Kit) was 'precious raw' or 'precious deep,' but intimated by a distrustful shake of the head, that he inclined to the latter opinion.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000029_000001|Mr Witherden too was a bustling gentleman who talked loud and fast, and all eyes were upon him, and he was very shabby.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000030_000000|'Well, boy,' said Mr Witherden, 'you came to work out that shilling;--not to get another, hey?'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000031_000000|'No indeed, sir,' replied Kit, taking courage to look up.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000031_000001|'I never thought of such a thing.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000032_000000|'Father alive?' said the Notary.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000033_000000|'Dead, sir.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000034_000000|'Mother?'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000037_000000|Kit made answer, not without some indignation, that she was a widow with three children, and that as to her marrying again, if the gentleman knew her he wouldn't think of such a thing.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000038_000000|'Now,' said Mr Garland when they had made some further inquiries of him, 'I am not going to give you anything-'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000039_000000|'Thank you, sir,' Kit replied; and quite seriously too, for this announcement seemed to free him from the suspicion which the Notary had hinted.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000040_000000|'--But,' resumed the old gentleman, 'perhaps I may want to know something more about you, so tell me where you live, and I'll put it down in my pocket book.'
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000041_000000|Kit told him, and the old gentleman wrote down the address with his pencil.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000041_000001|He had scarcely done so, when there was a great uproar in the street, and the old lady hurrying to the window cried that Whisker had run away, upon which Kit darted out to the rescue, and the others followed.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000042_000003|By these means Mr Chuckster was pushed and hustled to the office again, in a most inglorious manner, and arrived in a state of great exhaustion and discomfiture.
train-other-500/1097/136910/1097_136910_000043_000000|The old lady then stepped into her seat, and Mr Abel (whom they had come to fetch) into his.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000004_000000|The remainder of that day and the whole of the next were a busy time for the Nubbles family, to whom everything connected with Kit's outfit and departure was matter of as great moment as if he had been about to penetrate into the interior of Africa, or to take a cruise round the world.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000004_000002|At last it was conveyed to the carrier's, at whose house at Finchley Kit was to find it next day; and the box being gone, there remained but two questions for consideration: firstly, whether the carrier would lose, or dishonestly feign to lose, the box upon the road; secondly, whether Kit's mother perfectly understood how to take care of herself in the absence of her son.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000005_000000|'I don't think there's hardly a chance of his really losing it, but carriers are under great temptation to pretend they lose things, no doubt,' said Mrs Nubbles apprehensively, in reference to the first point.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000006_000000|'No doubt about it,' returned Kit, with a serious look; 'upon my word, mother, I don't think it was right to trust it to itself.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000006_000001|Somebody ought to have gone with it, I'm afraid.'
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000007_000000|'We can't help it now,' said his mother; 'but it was foolish and wrong. People oughtn't to be tempted.'
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000009_000000|'YOU know you must keep up your spirits, mother, and not be lonesome because I'm not at home.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000011_000000|'I know who has been putting that in your head,' rejoined her son disconsolately; 'that's Little Bethel again.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000012_000000|'Oh, Kit, don't talk like that.'
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000013_000000|'I would, indeed, mother, and unless you want to make me feel very wretched and uncomfortable, you'll keep that bow on your bonnet, which you'd more than half a mind to pull off last week.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000013_000001|Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000013_000008|Isn't it, mother?'
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000014_000000|There was something contagious in Kit's laugh, for his mother, who had looked grave before, first subsided into a smile, and then fell to joining in it heartily, which occasioned Kit to say that he knew it was natural, and to laugh the more.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000014_000002|This new illustration of his argument so tickled Kit, that he fell backward in his chair in a state of exhaustion, pointing at the baby and shaking his sides till he rocked again.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000014_000003|After recovering twice or thrice, and as often relapsing, he wiped his eyes and said grace; and a very cheerful meal their scanty supper was.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000016_000001|And in this attire, rather wondering that he attracted so little attention, and attributing the circumstance to the insensibility of those who got up early, he made his way towards Abel Cottage.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000017_000000|Without encountering any more remarkable adventure on the road, than meeting a lad in a brimless hat, the exact counterpart of his old one, on whom he bestowed half the sixpence he possessed, Kit arrived in course of time at the carrier's house, where, to the lasting honour of human nature, he found the box in safety.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000017_000001|Receiving from the wife of this immaculate man, a direction to Mr Garland's, he took the box upon his shoulder and repaired thither directly.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000018_000000|To be sure, it was a beautiful little cottage with a thatched roof and little spires at the gable ends, and pieces of stained glass in some of the windows, almost as large as pocket books.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000018_000001|On one side of the house was a little stable, just the size for the pony, with a little room over it, just the size for Kit.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000018_000002|White curtains were fluttering, and birds in cages that looked as bright as if they were made of gold, were singing at the windows; plants were arranged on either side of the path, and clustered about the door; and the garden was bright with flowers in full bloom, which shed a sweet odour all round, and had a charming and elegant appearance.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000018_000003|Everything within the house and without, seemed to be the perfection of neatness and order.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000018_000004|In the garden there was not a weed to be seen, and to judge from some dapper gardening tools, a basket, and a pair of gloves which were lying in one of the walks, old Mr Garland had been at work in it that very morning.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000019_000001|There was abundance of time to look about him again though, when he had rung it, for nobody came, so after ringing it twice or thrice he sat down upon his box, and waited.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000020_000002|'I suppose you're Christopher, sir,' said the servant girl.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000021_000000|Kit got off the box, and said yes, he was.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000022_000000|'I'm afraid you've rung a good many times perhaps,' she rejoined, 'but we couldn't hear you, because we've been catching the pony.'
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000024_000000|The old gentleman received him very kindly and so did the old lady, whose previous good opinion of him was greatly enhanced by his wiping his boots on the mat until the soles of his feet burnt again.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000024_000002|All these kindnesses, Kit acknowledged with various expressions of gratitude, and so many touches of the new hat, that the brim suffered considerably.
train-other-500/1097/136912/1097_136912_000026_000002|Barbara's little looking glass hung in a good light near the window, and Barbara's bonnet was on a nail behind the door.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixty five
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000002_000000|It was well for the small servant that she was of a sharp, quick nature, or the consequence of sending her out alone, from the very neighbourhood in which it was most dangerous for her to appear, would probably have been the restoration of Miss Sally Brass to the supreme authority over her person.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000002_000001|Not unmindful of the risk she ran, however, the Marchioness no sooner left the house than she dived into the first dark by way that presented itself, and, without any present reference to the point to which her journey tended, made it her first business to put two good miles of brick and mortar between herself and Bevis Marks.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000003_000000|When she had accomplished this object, she began to shape her course for the notary's office, to which-shrewdly inquiring of apple women and oyster sellers at street corners, rather than in lighted shops or of well dressed people, at the hazard of attracting notice-she easily procured a direction.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000003_000001|As carrier pigeons, on being first let loose in a strange place, beat the air at random for a short time before darting off towards the spot for which they are designed, so did the Marchioness flutter round and round until she believed herself in safety, and then bear swiftly down upon the port for which she was bound.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000004_000001|Indeed, the poor little creature experienced so much trouble and delay from having to grope for these articles of dress in mud and kennel, and suffered in these researches so much jostling, pushing, squeezing and bandying from hand to hand, that by the time she reached the street in which the notary lived, she was fairly worn out and exhausted, and could not refrain from tears.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000005_000000|But to have got there at last was a great comfort, especially as there were lights still burning in the office window, and therefore some hope that she was not too late.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000005_000001|So the Marchioness dried her eyes with the backs of her hands, and, stealing softly up the steps, peeped in through the glass door.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000006_000001|Before the ashes of the fire stood two gentlemen, one of whom she rightly judged to be the notary, and the other (who was buttoning his great coat and was evidently about to depart immediately) Mr Abel Garland.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000007_000001|With this purpose she slipped out again, and crossing the road, sat down upon a door step just opposite.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000008_000000|She had hardly taken this position, when there came dancing up the street, with his legs all wrong, and his head everywhere by turns, a pony.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000009_000001|'I wish I had the rewarding of you-I do.'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000012_000000|'He'll never stand still, if you call him names,' said Mr Abel, getting in, and taking the reins.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000012_000002|This is the first time he has been out, this long while, for he has lost his old driver and wouldn't stir for anybody else, till this morning.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000012_000004|That's well.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000012_000005|Be here to take him to morrow, if you please.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000012_000006|Good night!'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000013_000000|And, after one or two strange plunges, quite of his own invention, the pony yielded to Mr Abel's mildness, and trotted gently off.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000014_000000|All this time Mr Chuckster had been standing at the door, and the small servant had been afraid to approach.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000014_000002|The case was desperate; for the pony was quickening his pace.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000015_000000|Mr Abel being in a thoughtful frame of mind, and having quite enough to do to keep the pony going, went jogging on without looking round: little dreaming of the strange figure that was close behind him, until the Marchioness, having in some degree recovered her breath, and the loss of her shoe, and the novelty of her position, uttered close into his ear, the words-'I say, Sir'--
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000017_000000|'Don't be frightened, Sir,' replied the still panting messenger.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000019_000002|There's somebody wants to see you there.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000020_000000|'What do you tell me, child?'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000021_000000|'The truth, upon my word and honour I do.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000022_000000|Mr Abel involuntarily urged the pony forward.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000023_000000|'See!
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000023_000002|'Come!'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000024_000000|Mr Abel, who was one of the simplest and most retiring creatures in existence, and naturally timid withal, hesitated; for he had heard of people being decoyed into strange places to be robbed and murdered, under circumstances very like the present, and, for anything he knew to the contrary, by guides very like the Marchioness.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000024_000001|His regard for Kit, however, overcame every other consideration.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000024_000002|So, entrusting Whisker to the charge of a man who was lingering hard by in expectation of the Job, he suffered his companion to take his hand, and to lead him up the dark and narrow stairs.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000025_000000|He was not a little surprised to find himself conducted into a dimly lighted sick chamber, where a man was sleeping tranquilly in bed.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000026_000001|'Oh! you'd say it was, if you had only seen him two or three days ago.'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000027_000000|Mr Abel made no answer, and, to say the truth, kept a long way from the bed and very near the door.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000027_000001|His guide, who appeared to understand his reluctance, trimmed the candle, and taking it in her hand, approached the bed.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000027_000002|As she did so, the sleeper started up, and he recognised in the wasted face the features of Richard Swiveller.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000029_000000|'Very,' replied Dick. 'Nearly dead.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000029_000001|You might have chanced to hear of your Richard on his bier, but for the friend I sent to fetch you. Another shake of the hand, Marchioness, if you please.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000029_000002|Sit down, Sir.'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000030_000000|Mr Abel seemed rather astonished to hear of the quality of his guide, and took a chair by the bedside.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000031_000000|'I have sent for you, Sir,' said Dick-'but she told you on what account?'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000032_000000|'She did.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000032_000001|I am quite bewildered by all this.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000032_000002|I really don't know what to say or think,' replied Mr Abel.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000033_000000|'You'll say that presently,' retorted Dick. 'Marchioness, take a seat on the bed, will you?
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000033_000001|Now, tell this gentleman all that you told me; and be particular.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000033_000002|Don't you speak another word, Sir.'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000034_000000|The story was repeated; it was, in effect, exactly the same as before, without any deviation or omission.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000034_000001|Richard Swiveller kept his eyes fixed on his visitor during its narration, and directly it was concluded, took the word again.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000000|'You have heard it all, and you'll not forget it.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000002|After this long delay, every minute is an age.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000003|If ever you went home fast in your life, go home fast to night.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000004|Don't stop to say one word to me, but go.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000005|She will be found here, whenever she's wanted; and as to me, you're pretty sure to find me at home, for a week or two. There are more reasons than one for that.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000006|Marchioness, a light!
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000035_000007|If you lose another minute in looking at me, sir, I'll never forgive you!'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000036_000001|He was gone in an instant; and the Marchioness, returning from lighting him down stairs, reported that the pony, without any preliminary objection whatever, had dashed away at full gallop.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000037_000000|'That's right!' said Dick; 'and hearty of him; and I honour him from this time.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000037_000001|But get some supper and a mug of beer, for I am sure you must be tired.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000037_000002|Do have a mug of beer.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000037_000003|It will do me as much good to see you take it as if I might drink it myself.'
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000038_000000|Nothing but this assurance could have prevailed upon the small nurse to indulge in such a luxury.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000038_000001|Having eaten and drunk to Mr Swiveller's extreme contentment, given him his drink, and put everything in neat order, she wrapped herself in an old coverlet and lay down upon the rug before the fire.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000039_000000|Mr Swiveller was by that time murmuring in his sleep, 'Strew then, oh strew, a bed of rushes.
train-other-500/1097/136955/1097_136955_000039_000001|Here will we stay, till morning blushes.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000002_000001|In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare's sonnets:
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000003_000000|"My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed!"
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000004_000000|But as it is wholesome that the parsimonious public should know what has been doing, and still is doing, in this connexion, I mention here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true, and within the truth.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000004_000001|The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a disinterested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000004_000004|If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of-a parsimonious public.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000005_000000|There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000005_000002|I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000006_000000|In Bleak House I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000011_000000|In Chancery
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000000|London.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000001|Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000002|Implacable November weather.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000003|As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000004|Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes-gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000005|Dogs, undistinguishable in mire.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000012_000006|Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000013_000000|Fog everywhere.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000013_000002|Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000014_000000|Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000014_000001|Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time-as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000016_000000|Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000018_000000|Who happen to be in the Lord Chancellor's court this murky afternoon besides the Lord Chancellor, the counsel in the cause, two or three counsel who are never in any cause, and the well of solicitors before mentioned?
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000018_000003|The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers invariably decamp with the rest of the regulars when Jarndyce and Jarndyce comes on.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000018_000004|Their places are a blank.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000018_000007|She carries some small litter in a reticule which she calls her documents, principally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000018_000009|In the meantime his prospects in life are ended.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000019_000000|Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000019_000001|This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000019_000002|The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000019_000003|Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000019_000005|The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000020_000000|Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000020_000002|It has been death to many, but it is a joke in the profession.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000020_000003|Every master in Chancery has had a reference out of it.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000020_000004|Every Chancellor was "in it," for somebody or other, when he was counsel at the bar.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000020_000006|Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000021_000000|How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt would be a very wide question.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000021_000002|In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000021_000003|The very solicitors' boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that mr Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise was particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner, may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000021_000005|Chizzle, Mizzle, and otherwise have lapsed into a habit of vaguely promising themselves that they will look into that outstanding little matter and see what can be done for Drizzle-who was not well used-when Jarndyce and Jarndyce shall be got out of the office.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000022_000000|Thus, in the midst of the mud and at the heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000023_000000|"mr Tangle," says the Lord High Chancellor, latterly something restless under the eloquence of that learned gentleman.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000024_000001|mr Tangle knows more of Jarndyce and Jarndyce than anybody.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000024_000002|He is famous for it-supposed never to have read anything else since he left school.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000025_000000|"Have you nearly concluded your argument?"
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000027_000000|"Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I believe?" says the Chancellor with a slight smile.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000029_000000|"We will proceed with the hearing on Wednesday fortnight," says the Chancellor.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000029_000001|For the question at issue is only a question of costs, a mere bud on the forest tree of the parent suit, and really will come to a settlement one of these days.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000031_000000|"In reference," proceeds the Chancellor, still on Jarndyce and Jarndyce, "to the young girl-"
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000032_000000|"Begludship's pardon-boy," says mr Tangle prematurely.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000032_000002|Tangle crushed-"whom I directed to be in attendance to day and who are now in my private room, I will see them and satisfy myself as to the expediency of making the order for their residing with their uncle."
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000033_000000|mr Tangle on his legs again.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000033_000001|"Begludship's pardon-dead."
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000034_000000|"With their"--Chancellor looking through his double eye glass at the papers on his desk-"grandfather."
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000035_000000|"Begludship's pardon-victim of rash action-brains."
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000036_000001|I appear for him.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000036_000002|He is a cousin, several times removed.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000036_000003|I am not at the moment prepared to inform the court in what exact remove he is a cousin, but he IS a cousin."
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000037_000000|Leaving this address (delivered like a sepulchral message) ringing in the rafters of the roof, the very little counsel drops, and the fog knows him no more.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000037_000001|Everybody looks for him.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000037_000002|Nobody can see him.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000038_000000|"I will speak with both the young people," says the Chancellor anew, "and satisfy myself on the subject of their residing with their cousin.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000039_000000|The Chancellor is about to bow to the bar when the prisoner is presented.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000039_000001|Nothing can possibly come of the prisoner's conglomeration but his being sent back to prison, which is soon done.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000039_000002|The man from Shropshire ventures another remonstrative "My lord!" but the Chancellor, being aware of him, has dexterously vanished.
train-other-500/110/1/110_1_000039_000003|Everybody else quickly vanishes too.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000001_000000|In Fashion
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000002_000000|It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000002_000001|It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery but that we may pass from the one scene to the other, as the crow flies.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000002_000002|Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage: oversleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight will wake one day, when all the stopped spits in the kitchen shall begin to turn prodigiously!
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000003_000000|It is not a large world.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000003_000001|Relatively even to this world of ours, which has its limits too (as your Highness shall find when you have made the tour of it and are come to the brink of the void beyond), it is a very little speck.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000003_000002|There is much good in it; there are many good and true people in it; it has its appointed place.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000003_000003|But the evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000003_000004|It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000001|The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000002|To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000003|My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000004|The waters are out in Lincolnshire.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000005|An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000006|The adjacent low lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain. My Lady Dedlock's place has been extremely dreary.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000007|The weather for many a day and night has been so wet that the trees seem wet through, and the soft loppings and prunings of the woodman's axe can make no crash or crackle as they fall.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000008|The deer, looking soaked, leave quagmires where they pass.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000009|The shot of a rifle loses its sharpness in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice topped, that makes a background for the falling rain.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000010|The view from my Lady Dedlock's own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000011|The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall-drip, drip, drip-upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000013|My Lady Dedlock (who is childless), looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper's lodge and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes, and smoke rising from the chimney, and a child, chased by a woman, running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped up man coming through the gate, has been put quite out of temper.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000004_000014|My Lady Dedlock says she has been "bored to death."
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000005_000000|Therefore my Lady Dedlock has come away from the place in Lincolnshire and has left it to the rain, and the crows, and the rabbits, and the deer, and the partridges and pheasants.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000005_000001|The pictures of the Dedlocks past and gone have seemed to vanish into the damp walls in mere lowness of spirits, as the housekeeper has passed along the old rooms shutting up the shutters.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000006_000001|His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000006_000002|He has a general opinion that the world might get on without hills but would be done up without Dedlocks.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000006_000005|He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000007_000000|Sir Leicester is twenty years, full measure, older than my Lady.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000007_000001|He will never see sixty five again, nor perhaps sixty six, nor yet sixty seven.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000007_000002|He has a twist of the gout now and then and walks a little stiffly.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000007_000003|He is of a worthy presence, with his light grey hair and whiskers, his fine shirt frill, his pure white waistcoat, and his blue coat with bright buttons always buttoned.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000007_000004|He is ceremonious, stately, most polite on every occasion to my Lady, and holds her personal attractions in the highest estimation.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000008_000000|Indeed, he married her for love.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000008_000001|A whisper still goes about that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000008_000003|Wealth and station, added to these, soon floated her upward, and for years now my Lady Dedlock has been at the centre of the fashionable intelligence and at the top of the fashionable tree.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000009_000000|How Alexander wept when he had no more worlds to conquer, everybody knows-or has some reason to know by this time, the matter having been rather frequently mentioned.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000009_000001|My Lady Dedlock, having conquered HER world, fell not into the melting, but rather into the freezing, mood.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000009_000003|She is perfectly well bred.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000009_000004|If she could be translated to heaven to morrow, she might be expected to ascend without any rapture.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000010_000000|She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000010_000001|She has a fine face-originally of a character that would be rather called very pretty than handsome, but improved into classicality by the acquired expression of her fashionable state.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000010_000002|Her figure is elegant and has the effect of being tall.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000010_000003|Not that she is so, but that "the most is made," as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, "of all her points." The same authority observes that she is perfectly got up and remarks in commendation of her hair especially that she is the best groomed woman in the whole stud.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000011_000000|With all her perfections on her head, my Lady Dedlock has come up from her place in Lincolnshire (hotly pursued by the fashionable intelligence) to pass a few days at her house in town previous to her departure for Paris, where her ladyship intends to stay some weeks, after which her movements are uncertain.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000011_000002|Across the hall, and up the stairs, and along the passages, and through the rooms, which are very brilliant in the season and very dismal out of it-fairy land to visit, but a desert to live in-the old gentleman is conducted by a Mercury in powder to my Lady's presence.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000000|The old gentleman is rusty to look at, but is reputed to have made good thrift out of aristocratic marriage settlements and aristocratic wills, and to be very rich.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000001|He is surrounded by a mysterious halo of family confidences, of which he is known to be the silent depository. There are noble mausoleums rooted for centuries in retired glades of parks among the growing timber and the fern, which perhaps hold fewer noble secrets than walk abroad among men, shut up in the breast of mr Tulkinghorn.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000002|He is of what is called the old school-a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young-and wears knee breeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000003|One peculiarity of his black clothes and of his black stockings, be they silk or worsted, is that they never shine.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000004|Mute, close, irresponsive to any glancing light, his dress is like himself.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000005|He never converses when not professionally consulted.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000012_000006|He is found sometimes, speechless but quite at home, at corners of dinner tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing rooms, concerning which the fashionable intelligence is eloquent, where everybody knows him and where half the Peerage stops to say "How do you do, mr Tulkinghorn?" He receives these salutations with gravity and buries them along with the rest of his knowledge.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000013_000000|Sir Leicester Dedlock is with my Lady and is happy to see mr Tulkinghorn.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000013_000001|There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000013_000002|He likes mr Tulkinghorn's dress; there is a kind of tribute in that too.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000013_000004|It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000014_000000|Has mr Tulkinghorn any idea of this himself?
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000014_000002|She supposes herself to be an inscrutable Being, quite out of the reach and ken of ordinary mortals-seeing herself in her glass, where indeed she looks so.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000014_000003|Yet every dim little star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices and lives upon as accurate a calculation and as nice a measure of her moral nature as her dressmaker takes of her physical proportions.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000014_000004|Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set up?
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000015_000000|Therefore, while mr Tulkinghorn may not know what is passing in the Dedlock mind at present, it is very possible that he may.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000016_000000|"My Lady's cause has been again before the Chancellor, has it, mr Tulkinghorn?" says Sir Leicester, giving him his hand.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000017_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000017_000001|It has been on again to day," mr Tulkinghorn replies, making one of his quiet bows to my Lady, who is on a sofa near the fire, shading her face with a hand screen.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000019_000000|"Nothing that YOU would call anything has been done to day," replies mr Tulkinghorn.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000020_000000|"Nor ever will be," says my Lady.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000021_000000|Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable Chancery suit.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000021_000001|It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000021_000002|To be sure, he has not a vital interest in the suit in question, her part in which was the only property my Lady brought him; and he has a shadowy impression that for his name-the name of Dedlock-to be in a cause, and not in the title of that cause, is a most ridiculous accident.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000022_000000|"As a few fresh affidavits have been put upon the file," says mr Tulkinghorn, "and as they are short, and as I proceed upon the troublesome principle of begging leave to possess my clients with any new proceedings in a cause"--cautious man mr Tulkinghorn, taking no more responsibility than necessary-"and further, as I see you are going to Paris, I have brought them in my pocket."
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000024_000000|mr Tulkinghorn takes out his papers, asks permission to place them on a golden talisman of a table at my Lady's elbow, puts on his spectacles, and begins to read by the light of a shaded lamp.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000025_000000|"'In Chancery.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000026_000000|My Lady interrupts, requesting him to miss as many of the formal horrors as he can.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000027_000000|mr Tulkinghorn glances over his spectacles and begins again lower down.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000027_000001|My Lady carelessly and scornfully abstracts her attention.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000027_000003|It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and that the hand screen is more beautiful than useful, being priceless but small.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000027_000004|My Lady, changing her position, sees the papers on the table-looks at them nearer-looks at them nearer still-asks impulsively, "Who copied that?"
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000028_000000|mr Tulkinghorn stops short, surprised by my Lady's animation and her unusual tone.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000030_000000|"Not quite.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000030_000001|Probably"--mr
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000030_000002|Tulkinghorn examines it as he speaks-"the legal character which it has was acquired after the original hand was formed.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000030_000003|Why do you ask?"
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000031_000000|"Anything to vary this detestable monotony.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000031_000001|Oh, go on, do!"
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000032_000000|mr Tulkinghorn reads again.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000032_000001|The heat is greater; my Lady screens her face.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000032_000003|What do you say?"
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000034_000000|"Faint," my Lady murmurs with white lips, "only that; but it is like the faintness of death.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000034_000001|Don't speak to me.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000034_000002|Ring, and take me to my room!"
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000035_000000|mr Tulkinghorn retires into another chamber; bells ring, feet shuffle and patter, silence ensues.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000035_000001|Mercury at last begs mr Tulkinghorn to return.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000036_000000|"Better now," quoth Sir Leicester, motioning the lawyer to sit down and read to him alone.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000036_000001|"I have been quite alarmed.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000036_000002|I never knew my Lady swoon before.
train-other-500/110/2/110_2_000036_000003|But the weather is extremely trying, and she really has been bored to death down at our place in Lincolnshire."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000000_000000|CHAPTER six
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000001_000000|IN THE EAST CORRIDOR
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000002_000000|When the detective left he enjoined absolute secrecy on everybody in the household.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000002_000003|I had not seen mr Jamieson since morning, but I knew he had been interrogating the servants.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000002_000004|Gertrude was locked in her room with a headache, and I had luncheon alone.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000003_000000|mr Harton, the lawyer, was a little, thin man, and he looked as if he did not relish his business that day.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000004_000000|"This is very unfortunate, Miss Innes," he said, after we had shaken hands.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000004_000001|"Most unfortunate-and mysterious.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000004_000002|With the father and mother in the west, I find everything devolves on me; and, as you can understand, it is an unpleasant duty."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000005_000000|"No doubt," I said absently.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000005_000001|"mr Harton, I am going to ask you some questions, and I hope you will answer them.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000005_000002|I feel that I am entitled to some knowledge, because I and my family are just now in a most ambiguous position."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000006_000000|I don't know whether he understood me or not: he took of his glasses and wiped them.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000008_000000|"Thank you.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000008_000001|mr Harton, did mr Arnold Armstrong know that Sunnyside had been rented?"
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000009_000000|"I think-yes, he did.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000009_000001|In fact, I myself told him about it."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000010_000000|"And he knew who the tenants were?"
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000011_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000012_000000|"He had not been living with the family for some years, I believe?"
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000013_000000|"no
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000013_000001|Unfortunately, there had been trouble between Arnold and his father.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000013_000002|For two years he had lived in town."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000015_000000|"I should think it hardly possible," he admitted.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000016_000000|"To be perfectly frank, Miss Innes, I can not think of any reason whatever for his coming here as he did.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000016_000001|He had been staying at the club house across the valley for the last week, Jarvis tells me, but that only explains how he came here, not why.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000016_000002|It is a most unfortunate family."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000017_000000|He shook his head despondently, and I felt that this dried up little man was the repository of much that he had not told me.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000017_000001|I gave up trying to elicit any information from him, and we went together to view the body before it was taken to the city.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000017_000003|A soft hat lay beside it, and the collar of the dinner coat was still turned up.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000017_000004|The handsome, dissipated face of Arnold Armstrong, purged of its ugly lines, was now only pathetic.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000017_000005|As we went in mrs Watson appeared at the card room door.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000018_000000|"Come in, mrs Watson," the lawyer said.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000020_000000|But there was nothing to be seen.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000020_000001|The countryside lay sunny and quiet in its peaceful Sunday afternoon calm, and far down the drive mr Jamieson was walking slowly, stooping now and then, as if to examine the road.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000020_000002|When I went back, mr Harton was furtively wiping his eyes.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000021_000000|"The prodigal has come home, Miss Innes," he said.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000021_000001|"How often the sins of the fathers are visited on the children!" Which left me pondering.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000022_000001|Arnold was a son by the first marriage.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000022_000003|This child, now perhaps twenty, was Louise Armstrong, having taken her stepfather's name, and was at present in California with the family.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000023_000000|"They will probably return at once," he concluded "sad part of my errand here to day is to see if you will relinquish your lease here in their favor."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000024_000000|"We would better wait and see if they wish to come," I said.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000024_000001|"It seems unlikely, and my town house is being remodeled." At that he let the matter drop, but it came up unpleasantly enough, later.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000025_000000|At six o'clock the body was taken away, and at seven thirty, after an early dinner, mr Harton went.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000025_000003|It was about nine o'clock, I think, when the bell rang and he was ushered into the living room.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000026_000000|"Sit down," I said grimly.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000026_000001|"Have you found a clue that will incriminate me, mr Jamieson?"
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000027_000000|He had the grace to look uncomfortable.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000027_000001|"No," he said.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000027_000002|"If you had killed mr Armstrong, you would have left no clues.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000027_000003|You would have had too much intelligence."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000028_000000|After that we got along better.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000028_000001|He was fishing in his pocket, and after a minute he brought out two scraps of paper.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000028_000003|One is curious; the other is puzzling."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000029_000000|The first was a sheet of club note paper, on which was written, over and over, the name "Halsey b Innes."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000029_000001|It was Halsey's flowing signature to a dot, but it lacked Halsey's ease.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000029_000002|The ones toward the bottom of the sheet were much better than the top ones.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000029_000003|mr Jamieson smiled at my face.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000030_000000|"His old tricks," he said.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000030_000001|"That one is merely curious; this one, as I said before, is puzzling."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000031_000000|The second scrap, folded and refolded into a compass so tiny that the writing had been partly obliterated, was part of a letter-the lower half of a sheet, not typed, but written in a cramped hand.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000032_000000|"----by altering the plans for----rooms, may be possible.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000032_000001|The best way, in my opinion, would be to----the plan for----in one of the----rooms----chimney."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000034_000000|"Well?" I said, looking up.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000034_000002|A man ought to be able to change the plan of his house without becoming an object of suspicion."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000035_000001|He never built a house, you may be sure of that.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000035_000002|If it is this house, it may mean anything, from a secret room-"
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000036_000000|"To an extra bath room," I said scornfully.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000036_000001|"Haven't you a thumb print, too?"
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000038_000000|His audacity was the only thing that saved me: his amused smile put me on my mettle, and I ripped out a perfectly good scallop before I answered.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000039_000000|"Why did I step into the tulip bed?" I asked with interest.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000040_000000|"You picked up something," he said good humoredly, "which you are going to tell me about later."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000041_000000|"Am I, indeed?" I was politely curious.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000042_000000|"I was just coming to that," he said.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000042_000001|"You will find it about thirty miles away, at Andrews Station, in a blacksmith shop, where it is being repaired."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000043_000000|I laid down my knitting then and looked at him.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000044_000000|"And Halsey?" I managed to say.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000045_000000|"We are going to exchange information," he said "I am going to tell you that, when you tell me what you picked up in the tulip bed."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000046_000001|Then he smiled a little and got up.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000047_000001|You might think over my offer in the meantime."
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000048_000000|He went on through the drawing room, and I listened to his footsteps growing gradually fainter.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000048_000001|I dropped my pretense at knitting and, leaning back, I thought over the last forty eight hours.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000048_000002|Here was I, Rachel Innes, spinster, a granddaughter of old john Innes of Revolutionary days, a d a r, a Colonial Dame, mixed up with a vulgar and revolting crime, and even attempting to hoodwink the law! Certainly I had left the straight and narrow way.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000049_000000|I was roused by hearing mr Jamieson coming rapidly back through the drawing room.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000049_000001|He stopped at the door.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000050_000000|"Miss Innes," he said quickly, "will you come with me and light the east corridor?
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000051_000000|I jumped! up at once.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000052_000000|"You mean-the murderer?" I gasped.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000053_000001|I spoke; instead of an answer, whoever it was turned and ran up.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000053_000002|I followed-it was dark-but as I turned the corner at the top a figure darted through this door and closed it.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000053_000003|The bolt was on my side, and I pushed it forward.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000056_000002|And just around the corner, in the small corridor, was the door mr Jamieson had indicated.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000056_000003|I was still unfamiliar with the house, and I did not remember the door.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000056_000004|My heart was thumping wildly in my ears, but I nodded to him to go ahead.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000056_000005|I was perhaps eight or ten feet away-and then he threw the bolt back.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000057_000000|"Come out," he said quietly.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000057_000001|There was no response.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000057_000002|"Come-out," he repeated.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000058_000002|It seemed at first to be a closet, empty.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000058_000003|Then I went close and examined it, to stop with a shudder.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000058_000004|Where the floor should have been was black void and darkness, from which came the indescribable, damp smell of the cellars.
train-other-500/1107/1042/1107_1042_000059_000001|As I leaned over I fancied I heard a groan-or was it the wind?
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train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000001_000001|It made a very interesting story when it was told with all the details.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000001_000003|All these things were talked about and written about, and caused a tremendous sensation.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000001_000004|And then there came the rumor that the Earl of Dorincourt was not satisfied with the turn affairs had taken, and would perhaps contest the claim by law, and the matter might end with a wonderful trial.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000002_000002|They related wonderful anecdotes about the Earl's rage and his determination not to acknowledge the new Lord Fauntleroy, and his hatred of the woman who was the claimant's mother.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000002_000003|But, of course, it was mrs Dibble who could tell the most, and who was more in demand than ever.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000004_000001|He was a one as it were some pleasure to ride behind."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000005_000001|That person was the little Lord Fauntleroy who was said not to be Lord Fauntleroy at all.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000007_000000|"It makes me feel very queer," he said; "it makes me feel-queer!"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000008_000000|The Earl looked at the boy in silence.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000008_000001|It made him feel queer, too-queerer than he had ever felt in his whole life.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000008_000002|And he felt more queer still when he saw that there was a troubled expression on the small face which was usually so happy.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000010_000000|"NO!" said the Earl decidedly-in quite a loud voice, in fact.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000010_000001|"They can take nothing from her."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000011_000000|"Ah!" said Cedric, with evident relief.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000015_000000|"No?" he exclaimed, in wonderment.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000015_000002|I thought----"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000018_000000|How the old Earl did look at him from head to foot, to be sure!
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000020_000000|Cedric's face turned red to the roots of his hair; it turned red with relief and pleasure.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000021_000000|"Do you?" he said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000022_000000|The Earl put his hand on his shoulder and drew him nearer.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000023_000001|"I won't believe yet that they can take anything from you.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000023_000002|You were made for the place, and-well, you may fill it still.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000023_000003|But whatever comes, you shall have all that I can give you-all!"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000025_000001|He had never seen his strength and good qualities and beauty as he seemed to see them now.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000025_000003|And he had determined that he would not give it up without a fierce struggle.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000026_000001|She was sent away.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000026_000002|The Earl would not see her, she was told by the footman at the door; his lawyer would attend to her case. It was Thomas who gave the message, and who expressed his opinion of her freely afterward, in the servants' hall.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000029_000000|"She is evidently," the lawyer said to mrs Errol, "a person from the lower walks of life.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000029_000001|She is uneducated and untrained in everything, and quite unused to meeting people like ourselves on any terms of equality. She does not know what to do.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000029_000002|Her visit to the Castle quite cowed her. She was infuriated, but she was cowed.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000029_000003|The Earl would not receive her, but I advised him to go with me to the Dorincourt Arms, where she is staying.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000030_000001|He simply stared at her, taking her in from head to foot as if she were some repulsive curiosity. He let her talk and demand until she was tired, without himself uttering a word, and then he said:
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000031_000000|"You say you are my eldest son's wife.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000031_000001|If that is true, and if the proof you offer is too much for us, the law is on your side.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000031_000002|In that case, your boy is Lord Fauntleroy.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000031_000003|The matter will be sifted to the bottom, you may rest assured.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000031_000004|If your claims are proved, you will be provided for.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000031_000006|You are exactly the kind of person I should have expected my son Bevis to choose."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000032_000000|And then he turned his back upon her and stalked out of the room as he had stalked into it.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000033_000001|The maid, who brought the message, looked rather excited; her eyes were quite round with amazement, in fact, and being young and inexperienced, she regarded her mistress with nervous sympathy.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000035_000000|When mrs Errol entered the drawing room, a very tall, majestic looking old man was standing on the tiger skin rug.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000036_000000|"mrs Errol, I believe?" he said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000037_000000|"mrs Errol," she answered.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000038_000000|"I am the Earl of Dorincourt," he said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000040_000000|"The boy is very like you," he said abruptly.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000043_000001|"Do you know," he said, "why I have come here?"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000044_000000|"I have seen mr Havisham," mrs Errol began, "and he has told me of the claims which have been made----"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000045_000000|"I have come to tell you," said the Earl, "that they will be investigated and contested, if a contest can be made.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000045_000001|I have come to tell you that the boy shall be defended with all the power of the law. His rights----"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000046_000000|The soft voice interrupted him.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000047_000000|"He must have nothing that is NOT his by right, even if the law can give it to him," she said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000048_000000|"Unfortunately the law can not," said the Earl.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000049_000000|"Perhaps she cares for him as much as I care for Cedric, my lord," said little mrs Errol.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000049_000001|"And if she was your eldest son's wife, her son is Lord Fauntleroy, and mine is not."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000051_000000|"I suppose," he said, scowling slightly, "that you would much prefer that he should not be the Earl of Dorincourt."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000052_000000|Her fair young face flushed.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000053_000000|"It is a very magnificent thing to be the Earl of Dorincourt, my lord," she said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000053_000001|"I know that, but I care most that he should be what his father was-brave and just and true always."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000054_000000|"In striking contrast to what his grandfather was, eh?" said his lordship sardonically.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000056_000000|"Would he have loved me," said the Earl dryly, "if you had told him why I did not receive you at the Castle?"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000057_000000|"No," answered mrs Errol, "I think not.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000058_000000|"Well," said my lord brusquely, "there are few women who would not have told him."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000059_000000|He suddenly began to walk up and down the room, pulling his great mustache more violently than ever.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000000|"Yes, he is fond of me," he said, "and I am fond of him.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000001|I can't say I ever was fond of anything before.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000002|I am fond of him.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000003|He pleased me from the first.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000004|I am an old man, and was tired of my life.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000005|He has given me something to live for.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000060_000006|I am proud of him.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000061_000000|He came back and stood before mrs Errol.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000062_000000|"I am miserable," he said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000062_000001|"Miserable!"
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000063_000000|He looked as if he was.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000063_000001|Even his pride could not keep his voice steady or his hands from shaking.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000063_000004|"I used to hate you; I have been jealous of you.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000063_000005|This wretched, disgraceful business has changed that.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000063_000008|You are like the boy, and the boy is the first object in my life.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000063_000010|Treat me as well as you can, for the boy's sake."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000064_000000|He said it all in his harsh voice, and almost roughly, but somehow he seemed so broken down for the time that mrs Errol was touched to the heart.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000064_000001|She got up and moved an arm chair a little forward.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000065_000001|"You have been so much troubled that you are very tired, and you need all your strength."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000066_000000|It was just as new to him to be spoken to and cared for in that gentle, simple way as it was to be contradicted.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000066_000001|He was reminded of "the boy" again, and he actually did as she asked him.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000066_000002|Perhaps his disappointment and wretchedness were good discipline for him; if he had not been wretched he might have continued to hate her, but just at present he found her a little soothing.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000066_000003|Almost anything would have seemed pleasant by contrast with Lady Fauntleroy; and this one had so sweet a face and voice, and a pretty dignity when she spoke or moved.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000066_000004|Very soon, through the quiet magic of these influences, he began to feel less gloomy, and then he talked still more.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000067_000000|"Whatever happens," he said, "the boy shall be provided for.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000067_000001|He shall be taken care of, now and in the future."
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000068_000000|Before he went away, he glanced around the room.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000069_000000|"Do you like the house?" he demanded.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000070_000000|"Very much," she answered.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000071_000000|"This is a cheerful room," he said.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000072_000000|"As often as you wish, my lord," she replied.
train-other-500/1107/133727/1107_133727_000073_000000|And then he went out to his carriage and drove away, Thomas and Henry almost stricken dumb upon the box at the turn affairs had taken.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000003_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000004_000000|Six months later t x Meredith was laboriously tracing an elusive line which occurred on an ordnance map of Sussex when the Chief Commissioner announced himself.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000005_000000|Sir George described t x as the most wholesome corrective a public official could have, and never missed an opportunity of meeting his subordinate (as he said) for this reason.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000007_000000|"The lesson this morning," said t x without looking up, "is maps."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000008_000000|Sir George passed behind his assistant and looked over his shoulder.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000009_000000|"That is a very old map you have got there," he said.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000010_000000|"eighteen seventy six.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000010_000001|It shows the course of a number of interesting little streams in this neighbourhood which have been lost sight of for one reason or the other by the gentleman who made the survey at a later period.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000010_000002|I am perfectly sure that in one of these streams I shall find what I am seeking."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000011_000000|"You haven't given up hope, then, in regard to Lexman?"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000012_000000|"I shall never give up hope," said t x, "until I am dead, and possibly not then."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000013_000000|"Let me see, what did he get-fifteen years!"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000014_000000|"Fifteen years," repeated t x, "and a very fortunate man to escape with his life."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000015_000000|Sir George walked to the window and stared out on to busy Whitehall.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000016_000000|"I am told you are quite friendly with Kara again."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000017_000000|t x made a noise which might be taken to indicate his assent to the statement.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000018_000000|"I suppose you know that gentleman has made a very heroic attempt to get you fired," he said.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000019_000001|What did he do?
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000019_000002|See ministers and people?"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000020_000000|"He did," said Sir George.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000021_000000|"He's a silly ass," responded t x
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000022_000000|"I can understand all that"--the Chief Commissioner turned round-"but what I cannot understand is your apology to him."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000023_000000|"There are so many things you don't understand, Sir George," said t x tartly, "that I despair of ever cataloguing them."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000024_000000|"You are an insolent cub," growled his Chief.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000024_000001|"Come to lunch."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000026_000000|"To my club."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000027_000000|"I'm sorry," said the other, with elaborate politeness, "I have lunched once at your club.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000027_000001|Need I say more?"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000028_000000|He smiled, as he worked after his Chief had gone, at the recollection of Kara's profound astonishment and the gratification he strove so desperately to disguise.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000029_000000|Kara was a vain man, immensely conscious of his good looks, conscious of his wealth.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000030_000001|Kara had even gone to the length of engaging a theatrical company to play "Sweet Lavender," and for this purpose the big ballroom at Hever Court had been transformed into a theatre.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000032_000000|In a score of other ways Kara had endeavoured to consolidate the friendship.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000032_000001|He gave the young Commissioner advice about a railway company which was operating in Asia Minor, and the shares of which stood a little below par.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000032_000002|t x thanked him for the advice, and did not take it, nor did he feel any regret when the shares rose three pounds in as many weeks.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000033_000000|t x had superintended the disposal of Beston Priory.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000033_000001|He had the furniture removed to London, and had taken a flat for Grace Lexman.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000035_000000|"Fifteen years," murmured t x, as he worked and whistled.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000036_000000|There had been no hope for john Lexman from the start.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000036_000002|His story of threatening letters was not substantiated.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000036_000003|The revolver which he said had been flourished at him had never been found.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000037_000000|Every stream in the neighbourhood had been dragged.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000037_000001|In one case a small river had been dammed, and the bed had been carefully dried and sifted, but there was no trace of the weapon, and t x had tried methods more effective and certainly less legal.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000040_000000|As it happened, most of Kara's valuable and confidential possessions were at the bank.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000040_000001|In a fret of panic and at considerable cost he had the safe removed and another put in its place of such potency that the makers offered to indemnify him against any loss from burglary.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000041_000000|t x finished his work, washed his hands, and was drying them when Mansus came bursting into the room.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000041_000002|He was a slow, methodical, painstaking man, with a deliberate and an official, manner.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000042_000000|"What's the matter?" asked t x quickly.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000043_000000|"We didn't search Vassalaro's lodgings," cried Mansus breathlessly.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000043_000001|"It just occurred to me as I was coming over Westminster Bridge.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000043_000002|I was on top of a bus-"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000044_000001|Of course we searched Vassalaro's lodgings!"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000045_000001|"He lived in Great james Street."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000046_000000|"He lived in the Adelphi," corrected t x
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000047_000000|"There were two places where he lived," said Mansus.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000048_000000|"When did you learn this?" asked his Chief, dropping his flippancy.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000049_000000|"This morning.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000050_000000|"It was very unnatural, but proceed," said t x
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000051_000000|"One of the men-a very respectable person-said, 'That chap Vassalaro used to lodge in my place, and I've still got a lot of his things.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000051_000001|What do you think I ought to do?'"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000052_000000|"And you said," suggested the other.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000053_000001|"I said, 'I am a police officer and I want you to come along with me.'"
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000054_000000|"And of course he shut up and would not say another word," said t x
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000055_000002|He had a good reason for keeping two addresses by all accounts."
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000056_000000|t x nodded wisely.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000057_000000|"What was her name?" he asked.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000058_000000|"He had a wife," said the other, "but she left him about four months before he was killed.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000058_000001|He used the Adelphi address for business purposes and apparently he slept two or three nights of the week at Great james Street.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000060_000001|He added, somewhat unnecessarily, that the late tenant owed him six months' rent.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000061_000000|The articles which had been the property of Vassalaro included a tin trunk, a small writing bureau, a secretaire bookcase and a few clothes. The secretaire was locked, as was the writing bureau.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000061_000001|The tin box, which had little or nothing of interest, was unfastened.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000062_000000|The other locks needed very little attention.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000062_000001|Without any difficulty Mansus opened both.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000062_000002|The leaf of the bureau, when let down, formed the desk, and piled up inside was a whole mass of letters opened and unopened, accounts, note books and all the paraphernalia which an untidy man collects.
train-other-500/1107/134311/1107_134311_000063_000001|Then his eye was attracted by a small tin case thrust into one of the oblong pigeon holes at the back of the desk.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000002_000000|t x came from Downing Street at eleven o'clock one night, and his heart was filled with joy and gratitude.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000003_000000|He swung his stick to the common danger of the public, but the policeman on point duty at the end of the street, who saw him, recognized and saluted him, did not think it fit to issue any official warning.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000004_000000|He ran up the stairs to his office, and found Mansus reading the evening paper.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000005_000000|"My poor, dumb beast," said t x "I am afraid I have kept you waiting for a very long time, but tomorrow you and I will take a little journey to Devonshire.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000005_000001|It will be good for you, Mansus-where did you get that ridiculous name, by the way!"
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000006_000000|"M. or n," replied Mansus, laconically.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000007_000000|"I repeat that there is the dawn of an intellect in you," said t x, offensively.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000008_000000|He became more serious as he took from a pocket inside his waistcoat a long blue envelope containing the paper which had cost him so much to secure.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000010_000000|The man coloured with pleasure for the subordinates of t x loved him, and a word of praise was almost equal to promotion.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000010_000001|It was on the advice of Mansus that the road from London to Lewes had been carefully covered and such streams as passed beneath that road had been searched.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000012_000000|"Obviously the gift of one brigand to another," was t x's comment.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000015_000000|Instantly it had filled the Home Secretary's office with a pungent and most disagreeable smoke, for which he was heartily cursed by his superiors.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000016_000000|He looked at his watch.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000018_000000|"I don't think any hour would be too late," suggested Mansus.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000020_000000|But a disappointment awaited.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000020_000001|mrs Lexman was not in and neither the ringing at her electric bell nor vigorous applications to the knocker brought any response.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000020_000002|The hall porter of the flats where she lived was under the impression that mrs Lexman had gone out of town.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000020_000003|She frequently went out on Saturdays and returned on the Monday and, he thought, occasionally on Tuesdays.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000021_000000|It happened that this particular night was a Monday night and t x was faced with a dilemma.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000021_000001|The night porter, who had only the vaguest information on the subject, thought that the day porter might know more, and aroused him from his sleep.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000022_000000|Yes, mrs Lexman had gone.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000022_000002|The porter ventured the opinion that she was rather excited, but when asked to define the symptoms relapsed into a chaos of incoherent "you knows" and "what I means."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000023_000000|"I don't like this," said t x, suddenly.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000023_000001|"Does anybody know that we have made these discoveries?"
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000024_000000|"Nobody outside the office," said Mansus, "unless, unless..."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000025_000000|"Unless what?" asked the other, irritably.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000025_000001|"Don't be a jimp, Mansus.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000025_000002|Get it off your mind.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000025_000003|What is it?"
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000026_000000|"I am wondering," said Mansus slowly, "if the landlord at Great james Street said anything.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000026_000001|He knows we have made a search."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000027_000000|"We can easily find that out," said t x
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000028_000000|They hailed a taxi and drove to Great james Street.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000028_000002|Recognizing t x he checked his sarcasm, which he had prepared for a keyless lodger, and led the way into the drawing room.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000030_000000|"What did he want?" asked t x
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000032_000000|"What like of man was he?" asked t x
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000033_000000|The brief description the man gave sent a cold chill to the Commissioner's heart.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000035_000000|"Cadogan Square," he ordered.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000036_000000|His ring was answered promptly.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000036_000001|mr Kara was out of town, had indeed been out of town since Saturday.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000036_000003|He did not know when mr Kara would return, perhaps it would be a long time and perhaps a short time.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000036_000004|He might come back that night or he might not.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000037_000001|"You ought to be a fortune teller."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000038_000000|"This settles the matter," he said, in the cab on the way back.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000038_000001|"Find out the first train for Tavistock in the morning and wire the George Hotel to have a car waiting."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000039_000001|"There is the midnight train.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000040_000000|"Too late," he said, "unless you can invent a method of getting from here to Paddington in about fifty seconds."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000041_000000|The morning journey to Devonshire was a dispiriting one despite the fineness of the day.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000041_000001|t x had an uncomfortable sense that something distressing had happened.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000041_000002|The run across the moor in the fresh spring air revived him a little.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000042_000000|As they spun down to the valley of the Dart, Mansus touched his arm.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000044_000000|"By Jove!" said t x "What an excellent way for a man to escape!"
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000045_000000|"It's about the only way," said Mansus.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000046_000001|A glance at his card was enough to pass him.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000047_000000|"What is the matter?" he asked.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000048_000000|"A prisoner has escaped," said the sentry.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000049_000000|"Escaped-by aeroplane?" asked t x
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000050_000000|"I don't know anything about aeroplanes, sir.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000051_000000|The car came to the gates of the prison and t x sprang out, followed by his assistant.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000051_000001|He had no difficulty in finding the Governor, a greatly perturbed man, for an escape is a very serious matter.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000052_000000|The official was inclined to be brusque in his manner, but again the magic card produced a soothing effect.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000053_000000|"I am rather rattled," said the Governor.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000053_000001|"One of my men has got away.
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000053_000002|I suppose you know that?"
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000055_000000|"This is an order for the release of john Lexman, convicted under sentence of fifteen years penal servitude."
train-other-500/1107/134313/1107_134313_000056_000000|The Governor looked at it.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000002_000000|On the Beach
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000003_000001|Its sands and waters are ever changing.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000003_000002|Its rugged coast, with rocks scattered in wild profusion, is one of the most interesting spots in all the world.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000004_000000|A piece of wreckage is thrown upon the beach, and you wonder what dire disaster happened far out at sea, and if the rest of the ship went to the bottom with all on board.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000004_000001|But take it home, let it dry in the sun, then place it on your open grate fire, and as you watch the iridescent blaze curl up the chimney, dream dreams, and weave strange fancies in the light of your driftwood fire.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000005_000000|A day at the seashore is one of pleasure, a delightful change from woods and uplands to rocks and rushing waters.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000006_000000|We started down the steep incline, strewn with jagged rocks, to follow the narrow path along the cliffs.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000006_000001|But our outing was marred by meeting two men toiling up the path along the narrow way, carrying an unfortunate sightseer who had ventured too near the edge of the cliff and fallen into the ocean.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000006_000003|His resuscitation must have been painful, judging by his agonizing groans, but the ambulance officers had been summoned and the unfortunate sufferer was cared for at the hospital.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000007_000000|The incident served to make us more careful, and at the narrowest place in the path we used the utmost caution, for the rocks below rose up like dragon's teeth, ready to impale us if we should make a false step-and that white drawn face haunted us like a specter.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000008_000000|The path along the ocean is a narrow and tortuous one, running about halfway between the water and the top of the cliff.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000008_000001|Great granite rocks rise up like giants to dispute our passage, but by numerous twistings the path skirts their base, or wriggles snakelike over the top.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000010_000001|Then receding like a roaring lion baffled of its prey, it gathers new strength, and flings itself again and again against the rocks, like a gladiator striving for the mastery.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000011_000001|Looking out upon the ocean, we see a wave mightier than all the others sweeping onward, as if challenging the rocks to mortal combat, its mighty curving crest white and seething with foam, hissing like a serpent.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000011_000002|On it comes, sweeping over half submerged rocks, growling in its fury, sublime in its towering majesty, awful in its giant's strength.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000014_000000|Here we venture to a place that seems accessible in order to procure a photograph.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000014_000002|But fortune favored us, and the much desired picture was secured.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000015_000001|Far out the lighthouse stands anchored to the rocks, the waves dashing against it, as if to tear it from its firm foundation.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000015_000002|But it defies them all, and sends the cheery beacon light over the waters, to guide the stately ships between the portals of the Golden Gate.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000018_000001|Barnacles cover the top of every rock that the tide reaches, and the long, blackish, snakelike seaweed is strewn along the beach.
train-other-500/111/126265/111_126265_000019_000000|We watch the tide come creeping in, each succeeding wave running a little farther up the beach and driving us back with relentless energy from its rightful possessions.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000001_000000|The Old Road
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000002_000000|There is an old road that I love to follow.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000003_000000|It is a quaint little place, and might have inspired the poet to write that beautiful poem containing the lines,
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000004_000000|Let me live in a house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man,
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000005_000000|for the cooling draught passed out to me one hot afternoon from this house would certainly class the occupant as a benefactor.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000006_000000|The dew was sparkling on the grass when I set out in the early morning, gossamer spider webs strung from leaf and stem glistened in the sunlight, and up from a tuft of grass a meadow lark sprang on silent wing, scattering his silvery notes, a paean of praise to the early dawn.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000008_000000|At this place a hill encroaches upon the road at the right, covered thickly with underbrush and blackberry vines, its crest surmounted with a stately grove of eucalyptus trees, while on the left there is an almost perpendicular drop to the valley below.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000008_000002|Why it should crowd itself into such narrow quarters when there is room to spare is its own secret.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000012_000001|There a bridge spans the brook that gurgles its elfin song to cheer the dusty traveler on its way.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000013_000001|A dozen or more yellow winged butterflies gathered at a moist spot, scatter like autumn leaves before a gust of wind at my approach, dancing away on fairy wings like golden sunbeams.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000015_000000|At a place where the road makes a bend to the right, and the cat tails and rushes grow in profusion, a blue heron, that spirit of the marsh, stands grotesque and sedate, and gazes with melancholy air into the water.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000015_000001|Bullfrogs pipe, running the whole gamut of tones from treble to bass, hidden away amid the water grasses.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000015_000002|Darning needles dodge in and out among the rushes in erratic flight, and a blackbird teeters up and down on a tulle stem while repeating over and over his pleasant "O ko lee."
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000016_000000|But the road does not stop to look or listen, and once more it climbs the hill where the golden poppy basks in the sunshine, and the dandelions spread their yellow carpet for it to pass over, or, nodding silken heads scatter their tiny fleet of a hundred fairy balloons upon the wings of the summer winds.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000017_000000|Down the road, whistling blithely, comes a slip of a boy, with fishing rod, cut from the adjacent thicket, over his shoulder and a can of bait tucked securely under his arm, happy as a king in anticipation of the fish he may never catch.
train-other-500/111/126277/111_126277_000017_000001|At his heels trots contentedly a yellow dog.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000001_000000|Chapter twenty five
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000002_000000|Bonnet again to the Front
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000003_000001|He obeyed the orders of his usurping partner because he was obliged to do so, but he did not hate Blackbeard any the less because he had to keep quiet about it.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000004_000001|So long as he was on shore spending his money and having a good time, he did not want to have a lot of men about him who would look to him to support them when they had spent their portion of the spoils.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000004_000002|Having no further use for Bonnet, he dismissed him also, and did not object to his resuming possession of his own vessel.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000005_000002|It was about this time that King George of England, very desirous of breaking up piracy, issued a proclamation in which he promised pardon to any pirate who would appear before the proper authorities, renounce his evil practices, and take an oath of allegiance.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000005_000003|It also happened that very soon after this proclamation had been issued, England went to war with Spain.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000006_000001|Of course it would not do for him, in his present respectable capacity, to go about enlisting unemployed pirates, but at this point fortune again favored him; he knew of a desert island not very far away where Blackbeard, at the end of his last cruise, had marooned a large party of his men.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000007_000001|He had supposed that Blackbeard, whom he had never forgiven for the shameful and treacherous manner in which he had treated him, was still on shore enjoying himself, but he was told by the captain of a small trading vessel that the old pirate was preparing for another cruise, and that he was then in Ocracoke Inlet.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000007_000002|Now Bonnet folded his arms and stamped his feet upon the quarter deck.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000007_000003|The time had come for him to show that the name of his vessel meant something.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000007_000004|Never before had he had an opportunity for revenging himself on anybody, but now that hour had arrived.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000007_000005|He would revenge himself upon Blackbeard!
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000008_000000|The implacable Bonnet sailed out to sea in a truly warlike frame of mind.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000009_000000|When Bonnet reached Ocracoke Inlet, he was deeply disappointed to find that Blackbeard had left that harbor, but he did not give up the pursuit.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000012_000000|The next thing he did was to change his own name, for he thought this would make matters better for him if he should be captured after entering upon his new criminal career.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000012_000001|So he called himself Captain Thomas, by which name he was afterwards known.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000013_000000|When these preliminaries had been arranged, he gathered his crew together and announced that instead of going to saint Thomas to get a commission as a privateer, he had determined to keep on in his old manner of life, and that he wished them to understand that not only was he a pirate captain, but that they were a pirate crew.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000014_000000|However, the crew's opinion of the green hand captain had been a good deal changed.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000015_000000|Bonnet now cruised about in grand style and took some prizes on the Virginia coast, and then went up into Delaware Bay, where he captured such ships as he wanted, and acted generally in the most domineering and insolent fashion.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000015_000001|Once, when he stopped near the town of Lewes, in order to send some prisoners ashore, he sent a message to the officers of the town to the effect that if they interfered with his men when they came ashore, he would open fire upon the town with his cannon, and blow every house into splinters.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000015_000002|Of course the citizens, having no way of defending themselves, were obliged to allow the pirates to come on shore and depart unmolested.
train-other-500/111/129000/111_129000_000018_000000|Now the people of the North Carolina coast very seldom interfered with pirates, as we have seen, and it is likely that Bonnet might have stayed in port as long as he pleased, and repaired and refitted his vessel without molestation if he had bought and paid for the planks and timber he required.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000004_000000|CHAPTER three-JAVERT SATISFIED
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000005_000000|This is what had taken place.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000006_000001|He regained his inn just in time to set out again by the mail wagon, in which he had engaged his place.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000008_000000|Nevertheless, the district attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000009_000000|Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the district attorney shut himself up with the President.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000009_000002|His first emotion having passed off, the President did not offer many objections.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000009_000003|Justice must, after all, take its course.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000010_000000|The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000012_000000|Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000014_000000|Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air the most ordinary in the world.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000014_000001|He was cool, calm, grave, his gray hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted the stairs with his habitual deliberation.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000014_000002|Any one who was thoroughly acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, would have shuddered.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000014_000003|The buckle of his leather stock was under his left ear instead of at the nape of his neck.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000015_000000|Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of his coat.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000016_000000|That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000017_000000|He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men inquiring for the mayor.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000019_000000|Properly speaking, he did not enter.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000019_000001|He stood erect in the half open door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which was buttoned up to the chin.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000020_000000|Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being perceived.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000021_000001|No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000023_000000|The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that was in his soul to appear in his countenance.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000023_000001|The depths having been stirred up, mounted to the surface.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000023_000004|The deformity of triumph overspread that narrow brow.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000024_000000|Javert was in heaven at that moment.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000024_000001|Without putting the thing clearly to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000024_000003|There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000024_000005|The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000026_000000|Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,--error.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000026_000001|The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.
train-other-500/1110/134828/1110_134828_000026_000002|Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000000_000000|Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn her from the man.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000000_000002|She could not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000001_000000|"Monsieur Madeleine, save me!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000002_000000|Jean Valjean-we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise-had risen. He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000004_000000|Then he addressed Javert, and said:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000005_000000|"I know what you want."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000006_000000|Javert replied:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000007_000000|"Be quick about it!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000010_000001|In his eyes, Jean Valjean was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five years, without being able to throw him.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000010_000002|This arrest was not a beginning, but an end.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000010_000003|He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000012_000000|It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow of her bones two months previously.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000013_000001|But the mayor was there; what had she to fear?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000014_000000|Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000015_000000|"See here now!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000016_000000|The unhappy woman glanced about her.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000016_000002|To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? To her only.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000018_000000|She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she saw the mayor bow his head.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000018_000001|It seemed to her that the world was coming to an end.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000020_000000|"Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000021_000000|Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all his gums.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000022_000000|"There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000023_000000|Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the collar of his coat.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000023_000001|He said:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000025_000000|Javert interrupted him: "Call me mr Inspector."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000026_000000|"Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in private."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000027_000000|"Aloud!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000027_000001|Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of talking aloud to me."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000028_000000|Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000029_000000|"I have a request to make of you-"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000030_000000|"I tell you to speak loud."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000031_000000|"But you alone should hear it-"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000032_000000|"What difference does that make to me?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000032_000001|I shall not listen."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000034_000000|"Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the child of this unhappy woman.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000034_000001|I will pay whatever is necessary.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000034_000002|You shall accompany me if you choose."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000035_000000|"You are making sport of me!" cried Javert.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000035_000001|"Come now, I did not think you such a fool!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000035_000002|You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! Ah!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000035_000004|That's good!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000035_000005|That's really capital!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000036_000000|Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000037_000002|Answer me, sister; where is Cosette?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000037_000003|I want my child!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000037_000004|Monsieur Madeleine!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000038_000000|Javert stamped his foot.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000039_000000|"And now there's the other one!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000039_000003|But we are going to change all that; it is high time!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000040_000000|He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000041_000001|There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean Valjean!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000041_000002|And I have him in my grasp!
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000041_000003|That's what there is!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000046_000000|"You have murdered that woman."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000047_000000|"Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here to listen to argument.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000047_000001|Let us economize all that; the guard is below; march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb screws!"
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000048_000002|Javert retreated towards the door.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000048_000003|Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked slowly up to Fantine's couch.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000048_000004|When he arrived there he turned and said to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:--
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000049_000000|"I advise you not to disturb me at this moment."
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000052_000001|He remained thus, mute, absorbed, evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible pity.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000052_000002|After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, and spoke to her in a low voice.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000053_000000|What did he say to her?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000053_000001|What could this man, who was reproved, say to that woman, who was dead?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000053_000002|What words were those?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000053_000003|No one on earth heard them.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000053_000004|Did the dead woman hear them?
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000053_000005|There are some touching illusions which are, perhaps, sublime realities.
train-other-500/1110/134829/1110_134829_000054_000000|Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000000_000001|This was better than trying to escape where the trees and shrubs would have prevented her making those astonishing bounds.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000000_000002|But the clouds had left the moon clear for a while, so that the Blackfellows and the dogs easily followed every movement, as they pursued the hunt on a smoother level below.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000000_000003|The Blacks were trying to hurry on, so as to cut off the Kangaroo's retreat at a spur of the hill, where, to get away, she would have to leave the rocks and descend towards them.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000001_000000|Then Dot's busy little brain told her another thing, which made her more miserable.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000001_000001|It was becoming quite clear that the poor Kangaroo was getting rapidly exhausted, owing to her having to bear Dot's weight.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000001_000002|Her panting became more and more distressing, and so did her sad moans; and flecks of foam from her straining lips fell on Dot's face and hands.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000001_000003|Dot knew that her Kangaroo was trying to save her at the risk of her own life.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000001_000004|Without the little girl in her pouch, she might get away safely; but, with her to carry, they would both probably fall victims to the fierce Blacks and their dogs.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000002_000000|"Kangaroo!
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000002_000001|Kangaroo!" she cried, "put me down; drop Dot anywhere, anywhere, but don't get killed yourself!"
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000003_000000|But all Dot heard was a little hissing sound from the brave animal, which sounded like, "Never again!"
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000004_000000|"You will be killed," moaned Dot.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000006_000001|They were perched on a rock, and the moonlight lit all their surroundings like day.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000006_000002|To the right was a deep black chasm, with a white foaming waterfall pouring into the darkness below.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000006_000003|In front was the same wide chasm, only less wide, and beyond it, on the other side of the great yawning cleft in the earth, was a wild spread of morass country-a gloomy, terrible looking place.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000006_000004|To the left was a steep slope of small rocks and stones, leading downwards to the hollow of sedgy land that fringed the cliffs of the chasm.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000006_000005|The only retreat possible was to pass down this declivity, and try to escape by the sedgy land, and this is what the Black huntsmen had expected.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000006_000007|In that light Dot could see the Blacks hurrying forward. Already one of the dogs had far outrun the others, and with wolfish gait and savage sounds, was pressing towards their place of observation.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000007_000000|The panting, trembling Kangaroo saw the approaching dog, also, and leaped down from the crag.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000007_000002|Here the poor hunted creature took her stand, with her back close to the rock.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000007_000003|Gentle and timid as she was, and unfitted by nature to fight for her life against fierce odds, it was brave indeed of the poor Kangaroo to face her enemies, prepared to do battle for the lives of little Dot and herself.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000008_000000|So noble did Dot's Kangaroo look in that desperate moment, standing erect, waiting for her foe, and conquering her naturally frightened nature by a grand effort of courage, that it seemed impossible that either dogs or men should be so cruel as to take her life.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000008_000002|Dot could see its sharp wicked teeth gleaming in the moonlight.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000008_000004|Then the dog could no longer control its savage nature.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000008_000005|It longed to leap at the poor Kangaroo's throat-that pretty furry throat that Dot's arms had so often encircled lovingly, and it was impatient to fix its terrible teeth there, and hold, and hold, in a wild struggle, until the poor Kangaroo should gradually weaken from fear and exhaustion, and be choked to death.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000008_000006|These thoughts filled the dog with a wicked joy.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000009_000000|Dot clasped her cold hands together.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000010_000000|But before the terrified little girl could reach the big rock, the dog had made its spring upon her friend.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000010_000001|The brave Kangaroo, instead of trying to avoid her fierce enemy, opened her little arms, and stood erect and tall to receive the attack.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000010_000002|The dog in its eagerness, and owing to the nature of the ground, misjudged the distance it had to spring.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000010_000003|It failed to reach the throat it had aimed at, and in a moment the Kangaroo had seized the hound in a tight embrace.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000010_000006|The dog yelped in pain as the Kangaroo threw it to the ground, where it lay rolling in agony and dying; for the Kangaroo had given it a terrible wound.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000010_000007|The other dogs were still some distance below, and the cries of their companion caused them to pause in fear and wonder, while the Black men could be seen advancing in the dim light, flourishing their spears and boomerangs.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000011_000003|It seemed impossible that with one bound she could span that terrible place and reach the sedged morass beyond; and still more impossible that it should be done by the poor animal with heavy Dot in her pouch.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000012_000000|All she heard was something like "try," or "we'll die." She could not make out what the Kangaroo said, for the crashing of the waterfall, the whistling of the wind, and the scattering of stones as they dashed forward, made such a storm of noises in her ears.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000012_000001|She could see when they reached the grassy fringe of the precipice, where the Kangaroo was able to quicken her pace, and literally seemed to fly to their fate. Then came the last bound before the great spring.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000012_000002|Dot held her breath, and a feeling of sickness came over her.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000012_000003|Her head seemed giddy, and she could not see, but she clasped her hands together and said, "God help my Kangaroo!" and then she felt the fearful leap and rush through the air.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000000|Yes! they had just reached the other side.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000001|No! they had not quite: what was the matter?
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000002|What a struggle! stones falling, twigs and grasses wrenching, the courageous Kangaroo fighting for a foothold on the very brink of the precipice.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000003|What a terrible moment!
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000004|Every second Dot felt sure they would fall backward and drop deep into the gully below, to be dashed to pieces on the rocks and the tree tops.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000005|But God did help Dot's Kangaroo; the little reeds and rushes held tightly in the earth, and the poor struggling animal, exerting all her remaining strength, gained the reedy slope safely.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000006|She staggered forward a few reeling hops, and then fell to the earth like a dead creature.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000007|In an instant Dot was out of the pouch and had her arm round the poor animal's neck, crying, as she saw blood and foam oozing from her mouth, and a strange dim look in her sad eyes.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000013_000009|Oh, please don't die!" cried Dot, wringing her hands, and burying her face in the fur of the poor gasping creature.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000015_000000|The little girl didn't understand why the Kangaroo wanted her to make a noise, and she had, in her fear and sorrow, quite forgotten their pursuers.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000015_000001|But now she turned, and could hear the Blacks urging on their dogs as they were making an attempt to skirt round the precipice, and gain the other side of the chasm.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000015_000002|So Dot did as she was told, and screamed and cried like the most naughty of children; and the gasping Kangaroo told her to go on doing so.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000017_000000|Then what seemed to Dot a very terrifying thing happened; for she soon heard other cries mingle with hers.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000017_000002|She stopped crying and listened, and could hear those awesome voices all around, and the echoes made them still more hobgoblinish.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000017_000004|"Go on," she said, "we're safe now," so Dot made more crying, and her noises and the others would have frightened anyone who had heard them in that lonely place, with the wind storming in the trees, and the black clouds flying over the moon.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000017_000005|It frightened the Blackfellows directly.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000018_000000|They stopped in their headlong speed, shouting together in their shrill voices, "The Bunyip! the Bunyip!" and they tumbled over one another in their hurry to get away from a place haunted, as they thought, by that wicked demon which they fear so much.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000018_000002|There they told the "Gins," in awe struck voices, how it had been no Kangaroo they had hunted, but the "Bunyip," who had pretended to be one.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000018_000003|And the Black gins' eyes grew wider and wider, and they made strange noises and exclamations, as they listened to the story of how the "Bunyip" had led the huntsmen to that dreadful place.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000018_000004|How it had torn one of the dogs to pieces, and had leaped over the precipice into Dead Man's Gully, where it had cried like a picaninny, and bellowed like a bull.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000018_000005|No one slept in the camp that night, and early next morning the whole tribe went away, being afraid to remain so near the haunt of the dreaded "Bunyip."
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000020_000000|In vain Dot caressed her, and called her by endearing names; she lay quite still, as if unable to hear or feel.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000021_000000|Presently she was startled by hearing a brisk voice, "Then it was a human picaninny, after all!
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000023_000000|The little brown bird strutted with an important air to where it had a better view of Dot and her companion, and eyed them both in the same perky manner.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000023_000001|"Friend Kangaroo's in a bad way," it said; "why don't you do something, sensible, instead of messing about with its head?"
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000024_000000|"What can I do?" whimpered Dot.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000025_000002|"And I suppose you will tell me there is no water here, when all the time you are sitting on a spring."
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000026_000000|"But I'm sitting on grass," said Dot, now fully attentive to the bird's remarks.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000027_000000|"Well, booby," sneered the bird, "and under the grass is wet moss, which, if you make a hole in it, will fill with water.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000027_000001|Why, I'd do it myself, in a moment, only your claws are better suited for the purpose than mine.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000027_000002|Set about it at once!" it said sharply.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000028_000000|In an instant Dot did what the bird directed, and thrust her little hands into the soft grass roots and moss, out of which water pressed, as if from a sponge.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000028_000001|She had soon made a little hole, and the most beautiful clear water welled up into it at once.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000028_000003|Gradually the breathing of the Kangaroo became less of an effort, her tongue moistened and returned to the mouth, and at last Dot saw with joy the brown eyes open, and she knew that her good friend was not going to die, but would get well again.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000029_000000|Whilst all this took place, the little brown bird stood on one leg, with its head cocked on one side, watching the exhausted Kangaroo's recovery with a comic expression of curiosity and conceit.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000029_000001|When it spoke to Dot, it did so without any attempt at being polite, and Dot thought it the strangest possible creature, because it was really very kind in helping her to save the Kangaroo's life, and yet it seemed to delight in spoiling its kindheartedness by its rudeness.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000029_000002|Afterwards the Kangaroo told her that the little Bittern is a really tender hearted fellow, but he has an idea that kindness in rather small creatures provokes the contempt of the big ones.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000030_000000|"How do you feel now?" asked the Bittern, as the Kangaroo presently struggled up and squatted rather feebly on her haunches, looking about in a somewhat dazed way.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000031_000001|how everything seems to dance up and down!" She shut her eyes, for she felt giddy.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000032_000000|"That was rather a good jump of yours," said the Bittern, patronizingly, as if jumps for life like that of Dot's Kangaroo were made every day, and he was a judge of them!
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000033_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000033_000001|I remember!" said the Kangaroo, opening her eyes again and looking round.
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000033_000002|"Where is Dot?"
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000034_000002|He! he!
train-other-500/1110/136055/1110_136055_000034_000004|They thought the Bunyip had got them this time.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000002_000000|In the old land of Brittany, once called Cornwall, there lived a woman named Barbaik Bourhis, who spent all her days in looking after her farm with the help of her niece Tephany.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000002_000002|And as for poor people she positively hated them, and declared that such lazy creatures had no business in the world.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000003_000000|Well, this being the sort of person Barbaik was, it is easy to guess at her anger when one day she found Tephany talking outside the cowhouse to young Denis, who was nothing more than a day labourer from the village of Plover.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000003_000001|Seizing her niece by the arm, she pulled her sharply away, exclaiming:
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000006_000000|'Nonsense,' cried Barbaik, 'he will never save enough for a farm till he is a hundred.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000006_000001|I would sooner see you in your grave than the wife of a man who carries his whole fortune on his back.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000007_000000|'What does fortune matter when one is young and strong?' asked Tephany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000008_000000|'What does fortune matter?' repeated Barbaik, in a shocked voice.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000008_000001|'Is it possible that you are really so foolish as to despise money?
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000008_000003|Now go and wash the clothes and spread them out to dry.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000009_000000|Tephany did not dare to disobey, but with a heavy heart went down the path to the river.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000010_000000|'She is harder than these rocks,' said the girl to herself, 'yes, a thousand times harder.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000012_000000|'You would like to sit down and rest, granny?' asked Tephany, pushing aside her bundle.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000014_000000|'Are you so lonely, then?' inquired Tephany, full of pity.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000014_000001|'Have you no friends who would welcome you into their houses?'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000015_000000|The old woman shook her head.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000017_000000|The girl did not speak for a moment, then held out the small loaf and some bacon intended for her dinner.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000019_000000|'Those who help others deserve to be helped,' she answered; 'your eyes are still red because that miser Barbaik has forbidden you to speak to the young man from Plover.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000019_000001|But cheer up, you are a good girl, and I will give you something that will enable you to see him once every day.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000022_000001|If it had not been for the pin in her hands she would have thought she was dreaming.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000022_000002|But by that token she knew it was no common old woman who had given it to her, but a fairy, wise in telling what would happen in the days to come.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000022_000003|Then suddenly Tephany's eyes fell on the clothes, and to make up for lost time she began to wash them with great vigour.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000023_000002|And so it was for many days after that.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000023_000003|Then, at last, Tephany began to notice something, and the something made her very sad.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000025_000000|Day by day her heart grew heavier and her cheeks paler, and one evening, when she had waited for him in vain, she put her water pot on her shoulder and went slowly down to the spring.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000025_000001|On the path in front of her stood the fairy who had given her the pin, and as she glanced at Tephany she gave a little mischievous laugh and said:
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000027_000002|He is so clever, you know.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000027_000003|Help me to be clever too.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000028_000000|'Is that what you want?' cried the old woman.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000028_000001|'Well, take this feather and stick it in your hair, and you will be as wise as Solomon himself.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000000|Blushing with pleasure Tephany went home and stuck the feather into the blue ribbon which girls always wear in that part of the country.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000001|In a moment she heard Denis whistling gaily, and as her aunt was safely counting her cabbages, she hurried out to meet him.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000002|The young man was struck dumb by her talk.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000003|There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000004|Was this really the quiet girl who had been so anxious to learn all he could teach her, or was it somebody else?
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000005|Perhaps she had gone suddenly mad, and there was an evil spirit inside her.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000029_000007|Soon the neighbours whispered their surprise among themselves, for Tephany had not been able to resist the pleasure of putting the feather in her hair for some of the people who despised her for her poor clothes, and many were the jokes she made about them.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000032_000000|So matters went on till one evening Denis told Tephany that he really could not stay a moment, as he had promised to go to a dance that was to be held in the next village.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000033_000000|Tephany's face fell; she had worked hard all day, and had been counting on a quiet hour with Denis.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000033_000001|She did her best to persuade him to remain with her, but he would not listen, and at last she grew angry.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000034_000000|'Oh, I know why you are so anxious not to miss the dance,' she said; 'it is because Aziliez of Pennenru will be there.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000036_000000|'Oh yes, Aziliez will be there,' answered Denis, who was quite pleased to see her jealous, 'and naturally one would go a long way to watch her dance.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000037_000000|'Go then!' cried Tephany, and entering the house she slammed the door behind her.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000038_000000|Lonely and miserable she sat down by the fire and stared into the red embers.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000038_000001|Then, flinging the feather from her hair, she put her head on her hands, and sobbed passionately.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000041_000001|Ah, this time she was not afraid of Aziliez or of any other girl, for surely none could be as fair and white as she.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000043_000000|'What a lovely maiden!' he exclaimed, as Tephany approached.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000043_000001|'Why, there is not a girl in my own country that can be compared to her.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000043_000002|She, and no other, shall be my bride.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000044_000000|The carriage was large and barred the narrow road, so Tephany was forced, much against her will, to remain where she was.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000045_000000|'Go your way, noble lord, and let me go mine.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000045_000001|I am only a poor peasant girl, accustomed to milk, and make hay and spin.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000047_000001|Unluckily the young man guessed what she was doing, and signed to his attendants, who seized her and put her in the coach.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000048_000002|It did not seem easy.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000049_000000|By this time night had fallen, and Tephany was very tired.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000049_000001|Thankfully she found herself at the gate of a convent, and asked if she might stay there till morning.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000050_000000|In front of the house was a group of people; two or three women and the sons of the farmer.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000050_000002|From words they came to blows, and the women, frightened at the disturbance, pelted Tephany with insulting names.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000050_000003|She quickly ran down the nearest path, hoping to escape them in the darkness of the trees, but in an instant she heard their footsteps behind her.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000051_000000|On she went, scarcely knowing where she was going, till she found herself, to her surprise and joy, close to her aunt's house.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000051_000001|For several days she felt so tired and unhappy that she could hardly get through her work, and to make matters worse Denis scarcely ever came near her.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000052_000000|'He was too busy,' he said, 'and really it was only rich people who could afford to waste time in talking.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000053_000000|As the days went on Tephany grew paler and paler, till everybody noticed it except her aunt.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000053_000001|The water pot was almost too heavy for her now, but morning and evening she carried it to the spring, though the effort to lift it to her shoulder was often too much for her.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000054_000000|'How could I have been so foolish,' she whispered to herself, when she went down as usual at sunset.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000055_000001|'If you look in your right-hand pocket when you go home you will find a small box.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000055_000002|Rub your eyes with the ointment it contains, and you will see that you yourself contain a priceless treasure.'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000056_000000|Tephany did not in the least understand what she meant, but ran back to the farm as fast as she could, and began to fumble joyfully in her right-hand pocket.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000056_000003|Ever since she had been obliged to leave her work and pass her time, she did not know why, in counting cabbages, everything had gone wrong, and she could not get a labourer to stay with her because of her bad temper.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000057_000000|'So this is what you do when I am out in the fields!
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000057_000002|Are you not ashamed, girl, to behave so?'
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000058_000001|At this Tephany, hurt, bewildered and excited, could control herself no longer, and turning away burst into tears.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000058_000003|Barbaik, who also beheld this marvel, uttered a cry of astonishment, and threw herself on her knees to pick them up from the floor.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000059_000000|She was still gathering them when the door opened and in came Denis.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000060_000000|'Pearls!
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000060_000001|Are they really pearls?' he asked, falling on his knees also, and looking up at Tephany he perceived others still more beautiful rolling down the girl's cheeks.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000061_000001|Cry on, my dear, cry on,' she continued to Tephany.
train-other-500/1124/132846/1124_132846_000062_000000|But Tephany could hardly bear any more.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000001_000000|CHAPTER one-THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000002_000001|It was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000002_000003|A cap with a drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000003_000000|The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000003_000001|His hair was closely cut, yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to have been cut for some time.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000004_000000|No one knew him.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000004_000001|He was evidently only a chance passer by.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000004_000002|Whence came he?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000004_000004|This man must have been walking all day.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000004_000005|He seemed very much fatigued.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000004_000007|He must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in the market place.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000006_000000|The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town hall.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000008_000000|The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the country side.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000008_000001|He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the street.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000008_000004|Any one who has travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than wagoners.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000010_000000|"What do you wish, sir?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000011_000000|"Food and lodging," said the man.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000012_000000|"Nothing easier," replied the host.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000012_000001|At that moment he turned his head, took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By paying for it."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000013_000000|The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and answered, "I have money."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000014_000000|"In that case, we are at your service," said the host.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000015_000000|The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000015_000001|D---- is in the mountains.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000015_000002|The evenings are cold there in October.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000016_000000|But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000017_000000|"Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000018_000000|"Immediately," replied the landlord.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000019_000000|While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small table near the window.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000019_000001|On the white margin he wrote a line or two, folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and lackey.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000020_000000|The traveller saw nothing of all this.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000021_000000|Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000022_000000|"Immediately," responded the host.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000023_000000|The child returned.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000023_000001|He brought back the paper.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000023_000002|The host unfolded it eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000023_000003|He seemed to read it attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to be immersed in reflections which were not very serene.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000024_000000|"I cannot receive you, sir," said he.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000025_000000|The man half rose.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000026_000000|"What!
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000026_000001|Are you afraid that I will not pay you?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000026_000002|Do you want me to pay you in advance?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000026_000003|I have money, I tell you."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000027_000000|"It is not that."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000028_000000|"What then?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000029_000000|"You have money-"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000030_000000|"Yes," said the man.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000031_000000|"And I," said the host, "have no room."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000032_000000|The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000033_000000|"I cannot."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000034_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000035_000000|"The horses take up all the space."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000036_000000|"Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of straw.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000036_000001|We will see about that after dinner."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000037_000000|"I cannot give you any dinner."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000038_000000|This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger as grave.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000038_000001|He rose.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000039_000000|"Ah! bah!
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000039_000001|But I am dying of hunger.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000039_000002|I have been walking since sunrise.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000039_000003|I have travelled twelve leagues.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000039_000004|I pay.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000039_000005|I wish to eat."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000040_000000|"I have nothing," said the landlord.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000042_000000|"All that is engaged."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000043_000000|"By whom?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000045_000000|"How many are there of them?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000046_000000|"Twelve."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000047_000000|"There is enough food there for twenty."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000048_000000|"They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000051_000001|Do you want me to tell you your name?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000051_000002|Your name is Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000051_000003|Now do you want me to tell you who you are?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000051_000004|When I saw you come in I suspected something; I sent to the town hall, and this was the reply that was sent to me.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000051_000005|Can you read?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000052_000001|The man cast a glance upon it.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000052_000002|The landlord resumed after a pause.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000053_000000|"I am in the habit of being polite to every one.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000053_000001|Go away!"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000054_000000|The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited on the ground, and took his departure.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000055_000000|He chose the principal street.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000055_000001|He walked straight on at a venture, keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000055_000002|He did not turn round a single time.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000056_000000|He saw nothing of all this.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000056_000001|People who are crushed do not look behind them.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000056_000002|They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000057_000000|Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, as is often the case when a man is sad.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000057_000001|All at once he felt the pangs of hunger sharply.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000057_000002|Night was drawing near.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000057_000003|He glanced about him, to see whether he could not discover some shelter.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000059_000000|Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch suspended from a cross beam of iron was outlined against the white sky of the twilight.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000059_000001|He proceeded thither.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000060_000000|It proved to be, in fact, a public house.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000061_000001|Some men were engaged in drinking there.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000061_000002|The landlord was warming himself.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000061_000003|An iron pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000062_000000|The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by two doors.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000062_000001|One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled with manure.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000062_000002|The traveller dare not enter by the street door.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000062_000003|He slipped into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened the door.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000063_000000|"Who goes there?" said the master.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000064_000000|"Some one who wants supper and bed."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000065_000000|"Good.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000065_000001|We furnish supper and bed here."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000066_000000|He entered.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000066_000001|All the men who were drinking turned round.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000066_000002|The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000066_000003|They examined him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000067_000000|The host said to him, "There is the fire.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000067_000002|Come and warm yourself, comrade."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000068_000000|He approached and seated himself near the hearth.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000068_000002|All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual suffering bestows.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000069_000000|It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000069_000001|This physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and ended by seeming severe.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000069_000002|The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire beneath brushwood.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000000|One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to stable his horse at Labarre's.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000002|I think it was Escoublon.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000003|Now, when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had made no reply except by redoubling his gait.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000005|From where he sat he made an imperceptible sign to the tavern keeper.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000006|The tavern keeper went to him.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000007|They exchanged a few words in a low tone.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000070_000008|The man had again become absorbed in his reflections.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000071_000000|The tavern keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on the shoulder of the man, and said to him:--
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000072_000000|"You are going to get out of here."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000073_000000|The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah!
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000073_000001|You know?--"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000074_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000076_000000|"And you are to be turned out of this one."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000077_000000|"Where would you have me go?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000078_000000|"Elsewhere."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000079_000000|The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000081_000000|He passed before the prison.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000081_000002|He rang.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000082_000000|The wicket opened.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000083_000000|"Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000084_000000|A voice replied:--
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000085_000000|"The prison is not an inn.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000085_000001|Get yourself arrested, and you will be admitted."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000086_000000|The wicket closed again.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000000|He entered a little street in which there were many gardens.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000002|In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000003|He peered through the pane as he had done at the public house.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000004|Within was a large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double barrelled gun hanging on the wall.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000005|A table was spread in the centre of the room.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000006|A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup tureen.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000007|At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000008|Close by a very young woman was nursing another child.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000087_000009|The father was laughing, the child was laughing, the mother was smiling.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000088_000000|The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming spectacle.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000088_000001|What was taking place within him?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000088_000002|He alone could have told.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000089_000000|He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000090_000000|They did not hear him.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000091_000000|He tapped again.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000092_000000|He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is knocking."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000093_000000|"No," replied the husband.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000094_000000|He tapped a third time.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000096_000000|He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000096_000003|He had thick eyelashes, enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, which is indescribable.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000097_000000|"Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the garden, in which to sleep?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000097_000001|Tell me; can you?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000097_000002|For money?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000098_000000|"Who are you?" demanded the master of the house.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000099_000001|I have walked all day long.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000099_000002|I have travelled twelve leagues.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000099_000003|Can you?--if I pay?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000100_000000|"I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man who would pay me.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000101_000000|"There is no room."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000102_000000|"Bah!
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000102_000001|Impossible.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000102_000002|This is neither a fair nor a market day.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000102_000003|Have you been to Labarre?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000103_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000104_000000|"Well?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000105_000001|He did not receive me."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000106_000000|"Have you been to What's his name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000107_000000|The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not receive me either."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000108_000000|The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of shudder:--
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000109_000000|"Are you the man?--"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000111_000000|Meanwhile, at the words, Are you the man?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000112_000000|All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to one's self.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000112_000001|After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and said:--
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000113_000000|"Clear out!"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000114_000000|"For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000115_000000|"A shot from my gun!" said the peasant.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000116_000001|A moment later, the window shutter was closed, and the sound of a bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000000|Night continued to fall.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000001|A cold wind from the Alps was blowing.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000002|By the light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be built of sods.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000003|He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found himself in the garden.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000004|He approached the hut; its door consisted of a very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which road laborers construct for themselves along the roads.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000005|He thought without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road laborer; he was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter from the cold.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000008|He lay, for a moment, stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so fatigued was he.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000010|At that moment, a ferocious growl became audible.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000011|He raised his eyes.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000117_000012|The head of an enormous dog was outlined in the darkness at the entrance of the hut.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000118_000000|It was a dog's kennel.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000121_000000|When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a stone, and it appears that a passer by heard him exclaim, "I am not even a dog!"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000122_000000|He soon rose again and resumed his march.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000122_000001|He went out of the town, hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford him shelter.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000123_000000|He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000123_000001|When he felt himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed searchingly about him.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000123_000002|He was in a field.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000123_000003|Before him was one of those low hills covered with close cut stubble, which, after the harvest, resemble shaved heads.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000124_000000|The horizon was perfectly black.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000124_000001|This was not alone the obscurity of night; it was caused by very low hanging clouds which seemed to rest upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole sky.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000124_000002|Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a gleam of light fell upon the earth.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000125_000000|The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000125_000001|The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000127_000000|This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back abruptly.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000127_000001|There are instants when nature seems hostile.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000128_000000|He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000128_000002|He passed through a breach and entered the town again.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000129_000000|It might have been eight o'clock in the evening.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000129_000001|As he was not acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000130_000000|In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000130_000001|As he passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000131_000000|At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000131_000001|It is there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon himself, were printed for the first time.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000132_000000|Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000133_000000|At that moment an old woman came out of the church.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000133_000001|She saw the man stretched out in the shadow.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000133_000002|"What are you doing there, my friend?" said she.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000135_000000|"On this bench?" she went on.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000137_000000|"You have been a soldier?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000138_000000|"Yes, my good woman, a soldier."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000140_000000|"Because I have no money."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000142_000000|"Give it to me all the same."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000143_000000|The man took the four sous.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000143_000001|Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000143_000002|But have you tried?
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000143_000003|It is impossible for you to pass the night thus.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000143_000004|You are cold and hungry, no doubt.
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000143_000005|Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000144_000000|"I have knocked at all doors."
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000145_000000|"Well?"
train-other-500/1124/134775/1124_134775_000146_000000|"I have been driven away everywhere."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty seven.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000001_000000|mr Cheesacre's Disappointment.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000002_000001|There were three paths open before her.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000002_000002|She might take mr Cheesacre, or she might take Captain Bellfield-or she might decide that she would have nothing more to say to either of them in the way of courting.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000002_000004|She was going to leave Norwich after Easter, and they knew that such was her purpose.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000002_000005|Something had been said of her returning to Yarmouth in the summer.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000002_000006|She was a just woman at heart, and justice required that each of them should know what was to be his prospect if she did so return.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000000|There was a good deal to be said on mr Cheesacre's behalf. Mahogany furnitured bedrooms assist one's comfort in this life; and heaps of manure, though they are not brilliant in romance, are very efficacious in farming.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000002|But she had already married for money once, as she told herself very plainly on this occasion, and she thought that she might now venture on a little love.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000003|Her marriage for money had been altogether successful.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000004|The nursing of old Greenow had not been very disagreeable to her, nor had it taken longer than she had anticipated.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000005|She had now got all the reward that she had ever promised herself, and she really did feel grateful to his memory.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000006|I almost think that among those plentiful tears some few drops belonged to sincerity.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000007|She was essentially a happy tempered woman, blessed with a good digestion, who looked back upon her past life with contentment, and forward to her future life with confidence.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000008|She would not be greedy, she said to herself.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000009|She did not want more money, and therefore she would have none of mr Cheesacre.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000003_000010|So far she resolved,--resolving also that, if possible, the mahogany furnitured bedrooms should be kept in the family, and made over to her niece, Kate Vavasor.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000000|But should she marry for love; and if so, should Captain Bellfield be the man?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000001|Strange to say, his poverty and his scampishness and his lies almost recommended him to her.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000002|At any rate, it was not of those things that she was afraid.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000003|She had a woman's true belief in her own power, and thought that she could cure them,--as far as they needed cure.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000004|As for his stories about Inkerman, and his little debts, she cared nothing about that.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000006|But there was this danger,--that there might be more behind of which she had never heard.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000007|Another mrs Bellfield was not impossible; and what, if instead of being a real captain at all, he should be a returned ticket of leave man!
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000008|Such things had happened.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000004_000010|Under all these circumstances, she could not quite make up her mind either for or against Captain Bellfield.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000005_000000|Between nine and ten in the evening, an hour or so after mr Cheesacre had left her, Jeannette brought to her some arrowroot with a little sherry in it.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000006_000000|"Jeannette," she said, as she stirred the lumps of white sugar in the bowl, "I'm afraid those two gentlemen have quarrelled."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000007_000001|How was they to help it?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000008_000000|Jeannette, on these occasions, was in the habit of standing beside the chair of her mistress, and chatting with her; and then, if the chatting was much prolonged, she would gradually sink down upon the corner of a chair herself,--and then the two women would be very comfortable together over the fire, Jeannette never forgetting that she was the servant, and mrs Greenow never forgetting that she was the mistress.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000009_000000|"And why should they quarrel, Jeannette?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000009_000001|It's very foolish."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000010_000000|"I don't know about being foolish, ma'am; but it's the most natural thing in life.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000011_000000|"You're a young thing, Jeannette."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000012_000000|"Well, ma'am-yes; I am young, no doubt.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000012_000001|But I won't say but what I've had a beau, young as I look."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000013_000000|"But you don't suppose that I want beaux, as you call them?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000014_000000|"I don't know, ma'am, as you wants 'em exactly.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000014_000001|That's as may be. There they are; and if they was to blow each other's brains out in the gig to night, I shouldn't be a bit surprised for one.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000015_000000|"Why, you silly child, they're not going home together at all.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000015_000001|Did not the Captain go away first?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000017_000000|"They won't fight, Jeannette.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000017_000001|Gentlemen have given over fighting."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000018_000000|"Have they, ma'am?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000018_000001|That makes it much easier for ladies, no doubt. Perhaps them peaceable ways will come down to such as us in time. It'd be a comfort, I know, to them as are quiet given, like me.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000018_000002|I hate to see men knocking each other's heads about,--I do.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000018_000003|So mr Cheesacre and the Captain won't fight, ma'am?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000019_000000|"Of course they won't, you little fool, you."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000020_000001|I wonder which it would have been?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000021_000000|"But why should they quarrel at all, Jeannette?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000021_000001|It is the most foolish thing."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000022_000000|"Well, ma'am, I don't know about that.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000023_000000|"About what, Jeannette?"--"Why, about you, ma'am."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000024_000000|"Jeannette, I wonder how you can say such things; as if I, in my position, had ever said a word to encourage either of them.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000024_000001|You know it's not true, Jeannette, and you shouldn't say so." Whereupon mrs Greenow put her handkerchief to her eyes, and Jeannette, probably in token of contrition, put her apron to hers.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000026_000000|"Indeed I have, Jeannette."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000027_000000|"And if gentlemen will make fools of themselves, it isn't your fault; is it, ma'am?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000028_000000|"But I'm so sorry that they should have quarrelled.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000028_000001|They were such dear friends, you know;--quite all in all to each other."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000029_000000|"When you've settled which it's to be, ma'am, that'll all come right again,--seeing that gentlefolks like them have given up fighting, as you say." Then there was a little pause.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000029_000002|To be sure, he's a man as is uncommonly well to do in the world."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000030_000000|"What's all that to me, Jeannette?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000030_000001|I shall ever regard mr Cheesacre as a dear friend who has been very good to me at a time of trouble; but he'll never be more than that."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000031_000000|"Then it'll be the Captain, ma'am?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000031_000001|I'm sure, for my part, I've always thought the Captain was the nicer gentleman of the two,--and have always said so."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000035_000000|"But he will be?" said Jeannette, plainly asking a question.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000036_000000|"Well, I'm sure!
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000036_000001|What's the world come to, I wonder, when you sit yourself down there, and cross examine your mistress in that way!
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000036_000002|Get to bed, will you?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000036_000003|It's near ten o'clock."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000038_000000|"It's my fault for encouraging you," said mrs Greenow.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000038_000001|"Go down stairs and finish your work, do; and then take yourself off to bed.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000038_000002|Next week we shall have to be packing up, and there'll be all my things to see to before that." So Jeannette got up and departed, and after some few further thoughts about Captain Bellfield, mrs Greenow herself went to her bedroom.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000000|mr Cheesacre, when he drove back to Oileymead alone from Norwich, after dining with mrs Greenow, had kept himself hot, and almost comfortable, with passion against Bellfield; and his heat, if not his comfort, had been sustained by his seeing the Captain, with his portmanteau, escaping just as he reached his own homestead.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000001|But early on the following morning his mind reverted to mrs Greenow, and he remembered, with anything but satisfaction, some of the hard things which she had said to him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000002|He had made mistakes in his manner of wooing.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000003|He was quite aware of that now, and was determined that they should be rectified for the future.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000004|She had rebuked him for having said nothing about his love.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000005|He would instantly mend that fault. And she had bidden him not to be so communicative about his wealth. Henceforth he would be dumb on that subject.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000006|Nevertheless, he could not but think that the knowledge of his circumstances which the lady already possessed, must be of service to him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000008|He was very far from feeling that the battle was already lost.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000009|Her last word to him had been an assurance of her friendship; and then why should she have been at so much trouble to tell him the way in which he ought to address her if she were herself indifferent as to his addresses?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000010|He was, no doubt, becoming tired of his courtship, and heartily wished that the work were over; but he was not minded to give it up.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000011|He therefore prepared himself for another attack, and took himself into Norwich without seeking counsel from any one.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000012|He could not trust himself to think that she could really wish to refuse him after all the encouragement she had given him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000014|He clothed his nether person in knickerbockers, with tight, leathern, bright coloured gaiters round his legs, being conscious of certain manly graces and symmetrical proportions which might, as he thought, stand him in good stead.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000015|And he put on a new shooting coat, the buttons on which were elaborate, and a wonderful waistcoat worked over with foxes' heads.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000016|He completed his toilet with a round, low crowned hat, with dog's skin gloves, and a cutting whip.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000017|Thus armed he went forth resolved to conquer or to die,--as far as death might result from any wound which mrs Greenow might be able to give him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000039_000018|He waited, on this occasion, for the coming of no market day; indeed, the journey into the city was altogether special, and he was desirous that she should know that such was the case.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000040_000000|"Is that you, Cheesacre?" said a friendly voice, in one of the narrow streets.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000040_000002|It was Grimsby, the son of old Grimsby of Hatherwich, a country gentleman, and one, therefore, to whom Cheesacre would generally pay much respect; but on this occasion he did not even pull up for an instant, or moderate his pace.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000040_000004|"I'm not going to be afraid of a woman-not if I know it," he said to himself; but, nevertheless, at a certain pastrycook's, of whose shop he had knowledge, he pulled up and had another glass of cherry brandy.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000041_000000|"mrs Greenow is at home," he said to Jeannette, not deigning to ask any question.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000042_000000|"Oh, yes, sir; she is at home," said Jeannette, conscious that some occasion had arrived; and in another second he was in the presence of his angel.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000043_000000|"mr Cheesacre, whoever expected to see you in Norwich on a Thursday?" said the lady, as she welcomed him, using almost the same words as his friend had done in the street.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000043_000001|Why should not he come into Norwich on a Thursday, as well as any one else?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000043_000002|Did they suppose that he was tied for ever to his ploughs and carts?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000043_000003|He was minded to conduct himself with a little spirit on this occasion, and to improve the opinion which mrs Greenow had formed about him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000043_000004|On this account he answered her somewhat boldly.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000044_000001|I'm one of those men of whom nobody knows anything certain, except that I pay as I go." Then he remembered that he was not to make any more boasts about his money, and he endeavoured to cover the error.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000045_000000|"Won't you sit down, mr Cheesacre?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000046_000000|"Well,--thank you,--I will sit down for a few minutes if you'll let me, mrs Greenow.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000046_000001|mrs Greenow, I'm in such a state of mind that I must put an end to it, or else I shall be going mad, and doing somebody a damage."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000047_000000|"Dear me! what has happened to you?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000047_000001|You're going out shooting, presently; are you not?" and mrs Greenow looked down at his garments.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000048_000000|"No, mrs Greenow, I'm not going out shooting.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000048_000001|I put on these things because I thought I might take a shot as I came along.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000048_000003|What does it matter what a man wears?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000049_000000|"Not in the least, so long as he is decent."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000051_000000|"Oh, dear, yes.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000051_000001|More than that, I should say.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000051_000002|I consider you to be rather gay in your attire."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000052_000001|I like to be nice, and all that kind of thing.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000052_000003|It is the case, of course, with those who have to make their rent and living out of it." Then he remembered that he was again treading on forbidden ground, and stopped himself.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000052_000004|"But it don't matter what a man wears if his heart isn't easy within him."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000000|mr Cheesacre was rather at a loss to know how he should begin.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000001|This allusion to the departed one did not at all assist him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000002|He had so often told the widow that care killed a cat, and that a live dog was better than a dead lion; and had found so little efficacy in the proverbs, that he did not care to revert to them.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000003|He was aware that some more decided method of proceeding was now required.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000005|He had put on a coat with brilliant buttons, and new knickerbockers, in order that he might be master of the occasion. He was resolved to call a spade a spade, and to speak boldly of his passion; but how was he to begin?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000006|There was the difficulty.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000054_000007|He was now seated in a chair, and there he remained silent for a minute or two, while she smoothed her eyebrows with her handkerchief after her last slight ebullition of grief.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000000|"mrs Greenow," he exclaimed at last, jumping up before her; "dearest mrs Greenow; darling mrs Greenow, will you be my wife?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000001|There!
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000002|I have said it at last, and I mean it.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000003|Everything that I've got shall be yours.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000006|I don't think there's a man in Norfolk better able to love a woman than I am.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000007|Ever since I first saw you at Yarmouth, I've been in love to that extent that I've not known what I've been about.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000055_000009|I haven't really.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000057_000000|"Upon my word it has.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000057_000001|I can't move about anywhere without thinking about you.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000058_000000|"Not stay at Oileymead?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000000|"No, indeed.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000001|I'll let the place, and go and travel somewheres.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000002|What's the use of my hanging on there without the woman of my heart?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000003|I couldn't do it, mrs Greenow; I couldn't, indeed.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000004|Of course I've got everything there that money can buy,--but it's all of no use to a man that's in love.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000005|Do you know, I've come quite to despise money and stock, and all that sort of thing.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000006|I haven't had my banker's book home these last three months.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000059_000007|Only think of that now."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000060_000000|"But how can I help you, mr Cheesacre?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000061_000000|"Just say one word, and the thing'll be done.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000061_000002|I will, indeed.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000062_000000|"No, mr Cheesacre; it cannot be."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000063_000000|"And why not?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000063_000001|Look here, Arabella!" At these words he rose from his chair, and coming immediately before her, went down on both knees so close to her as to prevent the possibility of her escaping from him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000063_000002|There could be no doubt as to the efficacy of the cherry brandy. There he was, well down on his knees; but he had not got down so low without some little cracking and straining on the part of the gaiters with which his legs were encompassed.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000063_000003|He, in his passion, had probably omitted to notice this; but mrs Greenow, who was more cool in her present temperament, was painfully aware that he might not be able to rise with ease.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000064_000000|"mr Cheesacre, don't make a fool of yourself.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000065_000000|"Never, till you have told me that you will be mine!"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000066_000000|"Then you'll remain there for ever, which will be inconvenient.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000066_000001|I won't have you take hold of my hand, mr Cheesacre.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000066_000002|I tell you to have done." Whereupon his grasp upon her hand was released; but he made no attempt to rise.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000067_000001|There; don't you hear? There's somebody coming."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000068_000000|But Cheesacre, whose senses were less acute than the lady's, did not hear.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000069_000000|"Bid you play the fiddle.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000069_000001|Get away from my knees, at any rate. There;--he'll be in the room now before-"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000071_000003|May I venture to congratulate my friend Cheesacre on his success?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000072_000000|In the meantime Cheesacre had risen; but he had done so slowly, and with evident difficulty.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000072_000001|"I'll trouble you to leave the room, Captain Bellfield," said he.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000072_000002|"I'm particularly engaged with mrs Greenow, as any gentleman might have seen."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000073_000000|"There wasn't the slightest difficulty in seeing it, old fellow," said the Captain.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000073_000001|"Shall I wish you joy?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000074_000000|"I'll trouble you to leave the room, sir," said Cheesacre, walking up to him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000075_000000|"Certainly, if mrs Greenow will desire me to do so," said the Captain.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000076_000000|Then mrs Greenow felt herself called upon to speak.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000077_000000|"Gentlemen, I must beg that you will not make my drawing room a place for quarrelling.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000078_000000|"I can easily believe that, mrs Greenow," said the Captain.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000079_000000|"Who cares what you believe, sir?" said mr Cheesacre.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000080_000002|this is really unkind.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000080_000003|Captain Bellfield, I think I had better ask you to withdraw."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000081_000000|"By all means," said mr Cheesacre.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000082_000000|"As it is absolutely necessary that I should give mr Cheesacre a definite answer after what has occurred-"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000083_000000|"Of course," said Captain Bellfield, preparing to go.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000083_000002|Perhaps I might be allowed to come this evening?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000084_000000|To this mrs Greenow half assented with an uncertain nod, and then the Captain went.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000084_000001|As soon as the door was closed behind his back, mr Cheesacre again prepared to throw himself into his former position, but to this mrs Greenow decidedly objected.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000084_000002|If he were allowed to go down again, there was no knowing what force might be necessary to raise him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000084_000003|"mr Cheesacre," she said, "let there be an end to this little farce between us."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000086_000000|"It is certainly either a farce or a mistake.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000088_000000|"No, mr Cheesacre; no One husband is enough for any woman, and mine lies buried at Birmingham."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000089_000001|The expression, at such a moment, militated against courtesy; but even mrs Greenow herself felt that the poor man had been subjected to provocation.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000091_000000|But he turned his back upon her, for there was something in his eye that he wanted to hide.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000092_000000|"Will you not give me your hand," said she, "in token that there is no anger between us?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000093_000000|"Do think about it again-do!" said he.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000093_000002|I'll give up Oileymead altogether, if you don't like being so near the farm yard.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000093_000004|mrs Greenow, if you only knew how I've set my heart upon it!" And now, though his back was turned, the whimpering of his voice told plainly that tears were in his eyes.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000094_000000|She was a little touched.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000094_000001|No woman would feel disposed to marry a man simply because he cried, and perhaps few women would be less likely to give way to such tenderness than mrs Greenow.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000094_000002|She understood men and women too well, and had seen too much both of the world's rough side and of its smooth side to fall into such a blunder as that; but she was touched.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000094_000003|"My friend," she said, putting her hand upon his arm, "think no more of it."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000096_000000|"No, no, no," said she, still touching him with her hand.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000096_000001|"Why, mr Cheesacre, how can you bring yourself to care for an old woman like me, when so many pretty young ladies would give their eyes to get a kind word from you?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000099_000002|The very idea of having such a bride palmed off upon him did something to restore him to his manly courage.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000100_000000|"Or my niece, Kate Vavasor, who has a nice little fortune of her own, and who is as accomplished as she is good looking."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000102_000000|"That's because you never asked her to be anything.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000102_000001|If I get her to come back to Yarmouth next summer, will you think about it?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000104_000000|"And that's my niece."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000105_000002|I didn't ever think I should feel so much about a thing of the kind-I didn't, really.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000105_000003|I hardly know what to do with myself; but I suppose I'd better go back to Oileymead." He had become so painfully unconscious of his new coat and his knickerbockers that it was impossible not to pity him.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000106_000000|"That will pass away.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000108_000000|"What shall I do?"--"Yes; what will you do?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000109_000000|"That is, if you marry Kate?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000109_000001|Why, I'll come and stay with you half my time, and nurse the children, as an old grand aunt should."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000110_000000|"But about-." Then he hesitated, and she asked him of what he was thinking.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000111_000000|"You don't mean to take that man Bellfield, do you?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000112_000000|"Come, mr Cheesacre, that's rank jealousy.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000112_000001|What right can you have to ask me whether I shall take any man or no man?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000112_000002|The chances are that I shall remain as I am till I'm carried to my grave; but I'm not going to give any pledge about it to you or to any one."
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000113_000000|"You don't know that man, mrs Greenow; you don't, indeed.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000113_000002|Does not it stand to reason, when he has got nothing in the world, that he must be a beggar?
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000113_000003|It's all very well saying that when a man is courting a lady, he shouldn't say much about his money; but you won't make me believe that any man will make a good husband who hasn't got a shilling.
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000113_000004|And for lies, there's no beating him!"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000114_000000|"Why, then, has he been such a friend of yours?"
train-other-500/1132/138883/1132_138883_000115_000000|"Well, because I've been foolish.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000002_000001|In reference to these troubles in a letter to her brother Charles, after mentioning that she had been laid up with an attack of bilious fever, she says: 'I live up stairs for the present and am coddled.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000000|'MY DEAR e--Many thanks.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000001|A thank for every line, and as many to mr w Digweed for coming.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000002|We have been wanting very much to hear of your mother, and are happy to find she continues to mend, but her illness must have been a very serious one indeed.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000003|When she is really recovered, she ought to try change of air, and come over to us.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000004|Tell your father that I am very much obliged to him for his share of your letter, and most sincerely join in the hope of her being eventually much the better for her present discipline.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000005|She has the comfort moreover of being confined in such weather as gives one little temptation to be out.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000006|It is really too bad, and has been too bad for a long time, much worse than any one can bear, and I begin to think it will never be fine again.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000008|I wish it may prove so now, and that when mr w Digweed reaches Steventon to morrow, he may find you have had a long series of hot dry weather.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000009|We are a small party at present, only grandmamma, Mary Jane, and myself.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000010|Yalden's coach cleared off the rest yesterday.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000011|I am glad you recollected to mention your being come home.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000013|But now I have no doubt of your being at home.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000014|I am sure you would not say it so seriously unless it actually were so.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000016|You have never thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000017|I cannot bear not to be thanked.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000021|It beats against the window.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000022|Mary Jane and I have been wet through once already to day; we set off in the donkey carriage for Farringdon, as I wanted to see the improvement mr Woolls is making, but we were obliged to turn back before we got there, but not soon enough to avoid a pelter all the way home.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000023|We met mr Woolls.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000025|We hear that mrs s does not quit Tangier: why and wherefore?
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000026|Do you know that our Browning is gone?
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000027|You must prepare for a William when you come, a good looking lad, civil and quiet, and seeming likely to do.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000004_000028|Good bye.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000006_000000|In the next letter will be found her description of her own style of composition, which has already appeared in the notice prefixed to 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Persuasion':--
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000001|I give you joy of having left Winchester.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000003|Charles Knight and his companions passed through Chawton about nine this morning; later than it used to be.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000004|Uncle Henry and I had a glimpse of his handsome face, looking all health and good humour.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000006|I know what I rather speculate upon, but shall say nothing.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000007|We think uncle Henry in excellent looks.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000008|Look at him this moment, and think so too, if you have not done it before; and we have the great comfort of seeing decided improvement in uncle Charles, both as to health, spirits, and appearance.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000009|And they are each of them so agreeable in their different way, and harmonise so well, that their visit is thorough enjoyment.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000010|Uncle Henry writes very superior sermons.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000013|Two chapters and a half to be missing is monstrous!
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000016|What should I do with your strong, manly, vigorous sketches, full of variety and glow?
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000008_000017|How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000009_000000|'You will hear from uncle Henry how well Anna is.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000009_000001|She seems perfectly recovered.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000009_000002|Ben was here on Saturday, to ask uncle Charles and me to dine with them, as to morrow, but I was forced to decline it, the walk is beyond my strength (though I am otherwise very well), and this is not a season for donkey carriages; and as we do not like to spare uncle Charles, he has declined it too.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000010_000002|mr e I doubt your seeing uncle Henry at Steventon to day.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000010_000003|The weather will prevent your expecting him, I think.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000011_000001|Uncle Charles thanks your mother for her letter; it was a great pleasure to him to know that the parcel was received and gave so much satisfaction, and he begs her to be so good as to give three shillings for him to Dame Staples, which shall be allowed for in the payment of her debt here.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000012_000001|I hope Caroline behaves well to you.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000013_000001|AUSTEN.'
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000014_000000|I cannot tell how soon she was aware of the serious nature of her malady. By God's mercy it was not attended with much suffering; so that she was able to tell her friends as in the foregoing letter, and perhaps sometimes to persuade herself that, excepting want of strength, she was 'otherwise very well;' but the progress of the disease became more and more manifest as the year advanced.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000014_000001|The usual walk was at first shortened, and then discontinued; and air was sought in a donkey carriage.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000014_000002|Gradually, too, her habits of activity within the house ceased, and she was obliged to lie down much.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000014_000003|The sitting room contained only one sofa, which was frequently occupied by her mother, who was more than seventy years old.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000014_000005|Her reasons for this might have been left to be guessed, but for the importunities of a little niece, which obliged her to explain that if she herself had shown any inclination to use the sofa, her mother might have scrupled being on it so much as was good for her.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000000|It is certain, however, that the mind did not share in this decay of the bodily strength.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000001|'Persuasion' was not finished before the middle of August in that year; and the manner in which it was then completed affords proof that neither the critical nor the creative powers of the author were at all impaired.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000003|But her performance did not satisfy her.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000004|She thought it tame and flat, and was desirous of producing something better.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000005|This weighed upon her mind, the more so probably on account of the weak state of her health; so that one night she retired to rest in very low spirits.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000006|But such depression was little in accordance with her nature, and was soon shaken off.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000008|She cancelled the condemned chapter, and wrote two others, entirely different, in its stead.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000011|Wentworth, by which the two faithful lovers were at last led to understand each other's feelings.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000012|The tenth and eleventh chapters of 'Persuasion' then, rather than the actual winding up of the story, contain the latest of her printed compositions, her last contribution to the entertainment of the public.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000015_000014|The cancelled chapter exists in manuscript.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000016_000000|The following letter was addressed to her friend Miss Bigg, then staying at Streatham with her sister, the wife of the Reverend Herbert Hill, uncle of Robert Southey.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000004|You will be glad to hear thus much of me, I am sure.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000005|We have just had a few days' visit from Edward, who brought us a good account of his father, and the very circumstance of his coming at all, of his father's being able to spare him, is itself a good account.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000007|This is not a time of year for donkey carriages, and our donkeys are necessarily having so long a run of luxurious idleness that I suppose we shall find they have forgotten much of their education when we use them again.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000008|We do not use two at once however; don't imagine such excesses. . .
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000010|I shall be very glad when the first hearing is over.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000011|It will be a nervous hour for our pew, though we hear that he acquits himself with as much ease and collectedness, as if he had been used to it all his life.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000012|We have no chance we know of seeing you between Streatham and Winchester: you go the other road and are engaged to two or three houses; if there should be any change, however, you know how welcome you would be. . . .
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000013|We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," and generally with much approbation.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000018_000014|Nothing will please all the world, you know; but parts of it suit me better than much that he has written before.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000019_000001|AUSTEN.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000020_000001|We remember some excellent orange wine at Manydown, made from Seville oranges, entirely or chiefly.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000020_000002|I should be very much obliged to you for the receipt, if you can command it within a few weeks.'
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000022_000000|Alas! summer came to her only on her deathbed.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000022_000001|march seventeenth is the last date to be found in the manuscript on which she was engaged; and as the watch of the drowned man indicates the time of his death, so does this final date seem to fix the period when her mind could no longer pursue its accustomed course.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000023_000000|And here I cannot do better than quote the words of the niece to whose private records of her aunt's life and character I have been so often indebted:--
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000024_000000|'I do not know how early the alarming symptoms of her malady came on. It was in the following March that I had the first idea of her being seriously ill.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000024_000005|I was struck by the alteration in herself.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000024_000006|She was very pale, her voice was weak and low, and there was about her a general appearance of debility and suffering; but I have been told that she never had much acute pain. She was not equal to the exertion of talking to us, and our visit to the sick room was a very short one, Aunt Cassandra soon taking us away.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000024_000007|I do not suppose we stayed a quarter of an hour; and I never saw Aunt Jane again.'
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000025_000000|In may eighteen seventeen she was persuaded to remove to Winchester, for the sake of medical advice from mr Lyford.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000025_000001|The Lyfords have, for some generations, maintained a high character in Winchester for medical skill, and the mr Lyford of that day was a man of more than provincial reputation, in whom great London practitioners expressed confidence.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000025_000002|mr Lyford spoke encouragingly.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000025_000003|It was not, of course, his business to extinguish hope in his patient, but I believe that he had, from the first, very little expectation of a permanent cure.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000025_000004|All that was gained by the removal from home was the satisfaction of having done the best that could be done, together with such alleviations of suffering as superior medical skill could afford.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000026_000000|Jane and her sister Cassandra took lodgings in College Street.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000026_000002|Heathcote of Hursley, between whose family and ours a close friendship has existed for several generations.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000026_000004|It was shortly after settling in these lodgings that she wrote to a nephew the following characteristic letter, no longer, alas in her former strong, clear hand.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000000|'There is no better way, my dearest e, of thanking you for your affectionate concern for me during my illness than by telling you myself, as soon as possible, that I continue to get better.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000001|I will not boast of my handwriting; neither that nor my face have yet recovered their proper beauty, but in other respects I gain strength very fast.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000002|I am now out of bed from nine in the morning to ten at night: upon the sofa, it is true, but I eat my meals with aunt Cassandra in a rational way, and can employ myself, and walk from one room to another.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000003|mr Lyford says he will cure me, and if he fails, I shall draw up a memorial and lay it before the Dean and Chapter, and have no doubt of redress from that pious, learned, and disinterested body.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000005|We have a neat little drawing room with a bow window overlooking dr Gabell's garden.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000007|Knight, who kindly attended us on horseback, riding in the rain almost the whole way.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000008|We expect a visit from them to morrow, and hope they will stay the night; and on Thursday, which is a confirmation and a holiday, we are to get Charles out to breakfast.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000011|God bless you, my dear e If ever you are ill, may you be as tenderly nursed as I have been.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000028_000012|May the same blessed alleviations of anxious, sympathising friends be yours: and may you possess, as I dare say you will, the greatest blessing of all in the consciousness of not being unworthy of their love.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000030_000000|The following extract from a letter which has been before printed, written soon after the former, breathes the same spirit of humility and thankfulness:--
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000031_000000|'I will only say further that my dearest sister, my tender, watchful, indefatigable nurse, has not been made ill by her exertions.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000031_000001|As to what I owe her, and the anxious affection of all my beloved family on this occasion, I can only cry over it, and pray God to bless them more and more.'
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000001|Both were with her when she died.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000003|While she used the language of hope to her correspondents, she was fully aware of her danger, though not appalled by it.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000004|It is true that there was much to attach her to life.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000005|She was happy in her family; she was just beginning to feel confidence in her own success; and, no doubt, the exercise of her great talents was an enjoyment in itself.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000006|We may well believe that she would gladly have lived longer; but she was enabled without dismay or complaint to prepare for death.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000007|She was a humble, believing Christian.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000008|Her life had been passed in the performance of home duties, and the cultivation of domestic affections, without any self seeking or craving after applause.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000009|She had always sought, as it were by instinct, to promote the happiness of all who came within her influence, and doubtless she had her reward in the peace of mind which was granted her in her last days.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000011|She was ever considerate and grateful to those who attended on her.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000032_000012|At times, when she felt rather better, her playfulness of spirit revived, and she amused them even in their sadness.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000033_000001|A large slab of black marble in the pavement marks the place.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000033_000002|Her own family only attended the funeral.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000033_000004|Her brothers went back sorrowing to their several homes.
train-other-500/1132/145024/1132_145024_000033_000005|They were very fond and very proud of her.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000003_000001|His still refusing to tell her what he had gone for was but the promotion of gaiety; a day before it might have irritated, but now it was a pleasant joke-suspected only of concealing something planned as a pleasant surprise to herself.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000004_000000|"Sitting with them an hour and a half!" exclaimed Mary.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000005_000000|But this was only the beginning of her surprise.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000006_000000|"Yes, Mary," said he, drawing her arm within his, and walking along the sweep as if not knowing where he was: "I could not get away sooner; Fanny looked so lovely!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000006_000001|I am quite determined, Mary.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000006_000002|My mind is entirely made up.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000006_000003|Will it astonish you?
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000006_000004|No: you must be aware that I am quite determined to marry Fanny Price."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000007_000000|The surprise was now complete; for, in spite of whatever his consciousness might suggest, a suspicion of his having any such views had never entered his sister's imagination; and she looked so truly the astonishment she felt, that he was obliged to repeat what he had said, and more fully and more solemnly.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000007_000001|The conviction of his determination once admitted, it was not unwelcome.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000007_000002|There was even pleasure with the surprise.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000007_000003|Mary was in a state of mind to rejoice in a connexion with the Bertram family, and to be not displeased with her brother's marrying a little beneath him.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000008_000000|"Yes, Mary," was Henry's concluding assurance.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000000|"Lucky, lucky girl!" cried Mary, as soon as she could speak; "what a match for her!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000002|You will have a sweet little wife; all gratitude and devotion.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000003|Exactly what you deserve.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000004|What an amazing match for her!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000005|mrs Norris often talks of her luck; what will she say now?
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000006|The delight of all the family, indeed!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000009|But tell me all about it!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000010|Talk to me for ever.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000009_000011|When did you begin to think seriously about her?"
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000010_000000|Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000010_000001|"How the pleasing plague had stolen on him" he could not say; and before he had expressed the same sentiment with a little variation of words three times over, his sister eagerly interrupted him with, "Ah, my dear Henry, and this is what took you to London!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000010_000002|This was your business!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000010_000003|You chose to consult the Admiral before you made up your mind."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000011_000000|But this he stoutly denied.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000011_000001|He knew his uncle too well to consult him on any matrimonial scheme.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000011_000002|The Admiral hated marriage, and thought it never pardonable in a young man of independent fortune.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000012_000000|"When Fanny is known to him," continued Henry, "he will doat on her. She is exactly the woman to do away every prejudice of such a man as the Admiral, for she he would describe, if indeed he has now delicacy of language enough to embody his own ideas.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000012_000001|But till it is absolutely settled-settled beyond all interference, he shall know nothing of the matter.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000012_000002|No, Mary, you are quite mistaken.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000012_000003|You have not discovered my business yet."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000000|"Well, well, I am satisfied.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000001|I know now to whom it must relate, and am in no hurry for the rest.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000002|Fanny Price! wonderful, quite wonderful!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000004|But you are quite right; you could not have chosen better.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000005|There is not a better girl in the world, and you do not want for fortune; and as to her connexions, they are more than good.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000006|The Bertrams are undoubtedly some of the first people in this country.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000008|But go on, go on.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000009|Tell me more.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000010|What are your plans?
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000013_000011|Does she know her own happiness?"
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000014_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000016_000000|"For-for very little more than opportunity.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000016_000001|Mary, she is not like her cousins; but I think I shall not ask in vain."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000017_000000|"Oh no! you cannot.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000017_000001|Were you even less pleasing-supposing her not to love you already (of which, however, I can have little doubt)--you would be safe.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000017_000002|The gentleness and gratitude of her disposition would secure her all your own immediately.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000000|As soon as her eagerness could rest in silence, he was as happy to tell as she could be to listen; and a conversation followed almost as deeply interesting to her as to himself, though he had in fact nothing to relate but his own sensations, nothing to dwell on but Fanny's charms. Fanny's beauty of face and figure, Fanny's graces of manner and goodness of heart, were the exhaustless theme.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000001|The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000002|Her temper he had good reason to depend on and to praise.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000003|He had often seen it tried.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000004|Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance?
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000005|Her affections were evidently strong.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000006|To see her with her brother!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000007|What could more delightfully prove that the warmth of her heart was equal to its gentleness?
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000008|What could be more encouraging to a man who had her love in view?
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000009|Then, her understanding was beyond every suspicion, quick and clear; and her manners were the mirror of her own modest and elegant mind.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000018_000010|Nor was this all.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000020_000000|Well might his sister, believing as she really did that his opinion of Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000021_000001|Your wicked project upon her peace turns out a clever thought indeed.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000021_000002|You will both find your good in it."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000000|"It was bad, very bad in me against such a creature; but I did not know her then; and she shall have no reason to lament the hour that first put it into my head.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000001|I will make her very happy, Mary; happier than she has ever yet been herself, or ever seen anybody else.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000002|I will not take her from Northamptonshire.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000003|I shall let Everingham, and rent a place in this neighbourhood; perhaps Stanwix Lodge.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000004|I shall let a seven years' lease of Everingham.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000005|I am sure of an excellent tenant at half a word.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000022_000006|I could name three people now, who would give me my own terms and thank me."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000023_000000|"Ha!" cried Mary; "settle in Northamptonshire!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000023_000001|That is pleasant!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000023_000002|Then we shall be all together."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000024_000000|When she had spoken it, she recollected herself, and wished it unsaid; but there was no need of confusion; for her brother saw her only as the supposed inmate of Mansfield parsonage, and replied but to invite her in the kindest manner to his own house, and to claim the best right in her.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000025_000000|"You must give us more than half your time," said he.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000025_000001|"I cannot admit mrs Grant to have an equal claim with Fanny and myself, for we shall both have a right in you.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000025_000002|Fanny will be so truly your sister!"
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000026_000000|Mary had only to be grateful and give general assurances; but she was now very fully purposed to be the guest of neither brother nor sister many months longer.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000027_000000|"You will divide your year between London and Northamptonshire?"
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000028_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000029_000000|"That's right; and in London, of course, a house of your own: no longer with the Admiral.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000029_000001|My dearest Henry, the advantage to you of getting away from the Admiral before your manners are hurt by the contagion of his, before you have contracted any of his foolish opinions, or learned to sit over your dinner as if it were the best blessing of life!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000029_000003|To have seen you grow like the Admiral in word or deed, look or gesture, would have broken my heart."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000030_000000|"Well, well, we do not think quite alike here.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000030_000001|The Admiral has his faults, but he is a very good man, and has been more than a father to me.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000030_000002|Few fathers would have let me have my own way half so much.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000030_000003|You must not prejudice Fanny against him.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000030_000004|I must have them love one another."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000032_000000|The impossibility of not doing everything in the world to make Fanny Price happy, or of ceasing to love Fanny Price, was of course the groundwork of his eloquent answer.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000034_000000|"My dearest Henry," cried Mary, stopping short, and smiling in his face, "how glad I am to see you so much in love!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000034_000001|It quite delights me.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000034_000002|But what will mrs Rushworth and Julia say?"
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000035_000000|"I care neither what they say nor what they feel.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000035_000001|They will now see what sort of woman it is that can attach me, that can attach a man of sense. I wish the discovery may do them any good.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000035_000002|And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000035_000003|They will be angry," he added, after a moment's silence, and in a cooler tone; "mrs Rushworth will be very angry.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000035_000005|Yes, Mary, my Fanny will feel a difference indeed: a daily, hourly difference, in the behaviour of every being who approaches her; and it will be the completion of my happiness to know that I am the doer of it, that I am the person to give the consequence so justly her due. Now she is dependent, helpless, friendless, neglected, forgotten."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000036_000000|"Nay, Henry, not by all; not forgotten by all; not friendless or forgotten.
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000036_000001|Her cousin Edmund never forgets her."
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000037_000000|"Edmund!
train-other-500/1152/126549/1152_126549_000037_000001|True, I believe he is, generally speaking, kind to her, and so is Sir Thomas in his way; but it is the way of a rich, superior, long worded, arbitrary uncle.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty one
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000002_000001|The two ladies were together in the breakfast room, and, fortunately for him, Lady Bertram was on the very point of quitting it as he entered.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000002_000002|She was almost at the door, and not chusing by any means to take so much trouble in vain, she still went on, after a civil reception, a short sentence about being waited for, and a "Let Sir Thomas know" to the servant.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000000|Henry, overjoyed to have her go, bowed and watched her off, and without losing another moment, turned instantly to Fanny, and, taking out some letters, said, with a most animated look, "I must acknowledge myself infinitely obliged to any creature who gives me such an opportunity of seeing you alone: I have been wishing it more than you can have any idea.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000001|Knowing as I do what your feelings as a sister are, I could hardly have borne that any one in the house should share with you in the first knowledge of the news I now bring.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000002|He is made.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000003|Your brother is a lieutenant.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000004|I have the infinite satisfaction of congratulating you on your brother's promotion.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000005|Here are the letters which announce it, this moment come to hand.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000003_000006|You will, perhaps, like to see them."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000004_000000|Fanny could not speak, but he did not want her to speak.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000004_000001|To see the expression of her eyes, the change of her complexion, the progress of her feelings, their doubt, confusion, and felicity, was enough.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000004_000002|She took the letters as he gave them.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000004_000004|Sloop Thrush being made out was spreading general joy through a wide circle of great people.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000005_000000|While her hand was trembling under these letters, her eye running from one to the other, and her heart swelling with emotion, Crawford thus continued, with unfeigned eagerness, to express his interest in the event-
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000000|"I will not talk of my own happiness," said he, "great as it is, for I think only of yours.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000001|Compared with you, who has a right to be happy?
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000002|I have almost grudged myself my own prior knowledge of what you ought to have known before all the world.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000003|I have not lost a moment, however. The post was late this morning, but there has not been since a moment's delay.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000007|My uncle, who is the very best man in the world, has exerted himself, as I knew he would, after seeing your brother.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000008|He was delighted with him.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000006_000009|I would not allow myself yesterday to say how delighted, or to repeat half that the Admiral said in his praise.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000007_000001|"Good heaven!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000007_000002|how very, very kind!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000007_000004|I beg your pardon, but I am bewildered.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000007_000005|Did Admiral Crawford apply?
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000007_000006|How was it?
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000007_000007|I am stupefied."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000000|Henry was most happy to make it more intelligible, by beginning at an earlier stage, and explaining very particularly what he had done.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000001|His last journey to London had been undertaken with no other view than that of introducing her brother in Hill Street, and prevailing on the Admiral to exert whatever interest he might have for getting him on.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000002|This had been his business.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000004|Oh, mr Crawford, we are infinitely obliged to you!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000005|Dearest, dearest William!" She jumped up and moved in haste towards the door, crying out, "I will go to my uncle.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000006|My uncle ought to know it as soon as possible." But this could not be suffered. The opportunity was too fair, and his feelings too impatient.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000007|He was after her immediately.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000009|When she did understand it, however, and found herself expected to believe that she had created sensations which his heart had never known before, and that everything he had done for William was to be placed to the account of his excessive and unequalled attachment to her, she was exceedingly distressed, and for some moments unable to speak.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000011|While her heart was still bounding with joy and gratitude on William's behalf, she could not be severely resentful of anything that injured only herself; and after having twice drawn back her hand, and twice attempted in vain to turn away from him, she got up, and said only, with much agitation, "Don't, mr Crawford, pray don't!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000012|I beg you would not.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000013|This is a sort of talking which is very unpleasant to me.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000014|I must go away.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000015|I cannot bear it." But he was still talking on, describing his affection, soliciting a return, and, finally, in words so plain as to bear but one meaning even to her, offering himself, hand, fortune, everything, to her acceptance.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000016|It was so; he had said it.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000017|Her astonishment and confusion increased; and though still not knowing how to suppose him serious, she could hardly stand.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000008_000018|He pressed for an answer.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000009_000000|"No, no, no!" she cried, hiding her face.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000009_000001|"This is all nonsense.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000009_000002|Do not distress me.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000009_000003|I can hear no more of this.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000009_000004|Your kindness to William makes me more obliged to you than words can express; but I do not want, I cannot bear, I must not listen to such-No, no, don't think of me.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000009_000006|I know it is all nothing."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000010_000000|She had burst away from him, and at that moment Sir Thomas was heard speaking to a servant in his way towards the room they were in.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000010_000001|It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000011_000000|She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000011_000001|It was all beyond belief!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000011_000002|He was inexcusable, incomprehensible!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000011_000003|But such were his habits that he could do nothing without a mixture of evil.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000011_000004|He had previously made her the happiest of human beings, and now he had insulted-she knew not what to say, how to class, or how to regard it.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000011_000005|She would not have him be serious, and yet what could excuse the use of such words and offers, if they meant but to trifle?
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000012_000000|But William was a lieutenant.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000012_000002|She would think of it for ever and forget all the rest.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000012_000003|mr Crawford would certainly never address her so again: he must have seen how unwelcome it was to her; and in that case, how gratefully she could esteem him for his friendship to William!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000013_000002|This was a most unwelcome hearing, for though he might think nothing of what had passed, it would be quite distressing to her to see him again so soon.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000014_000000|She tried to get the better of it; tried very hard, as the dinner hour approached, to feel and appear as usual; but it was quite impossible for her not to look most shy and uncomfortable when their visitor entered the room.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000014_000001|She could not have supposed it in the power of any concurrence of circumstances to give her so many painful sensations on the first day of hearing of William's promotion.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000015_000000|mr Crawford was not only in the room-he was soon close to her.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000015_000001|He had a note to deliver from his sister.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000015_000002|Fanny could not look at him, but there was no consciousness of past folly in his voice.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000015_000003|She opened her note immediately, glad to have anything to do, and happy, as she read it, to feel that the fidgetings of her aunt Norris, who was also to dine there, screened her a little from view.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000016_000001|Go on, my dear Fanny, and without fear; there can be no difficulties worth naming.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000017_000001|There was wretchedness in the idea of its being serious; there was perplexity and agitation every way.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000018_000000|She was more silent than ever.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000018_000001|She would hardly join even when William was the subject, for his commission came all from the right hand too, and there was pain in the connexion.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000019_000000|She thought Lady Bertram sat longer than ever, and began to be in despair of ever getting away; but at last they were in the drawing room, and she was able to think as she would, while her aunts finished the subject of William's appointment in their own style.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000020_000000|mrs Norris seemed as much delighted with the saving it would be to Sir Thomas as with any part of it.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000022_000000|"Indeed!" cried mrs Norris, reddening.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000022_000001|"Upon my word, he must have gone off with his pockets well lined, and at no expense for his journey to London either!"
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000024_000000|mrs Norris, being not at all inclined to question its sufficiency, began to take the matter in another point.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000025_000000|"It is amazing," said she, "how much young people cost their friends, what with bringing them up and putting them out in the world!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000025_000001|They little think how much it comes to, or what their parents, or their uncles and aunts, pay for them in the course of the year.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000026_000000|"Very true, sister, as you say.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000026_000001|But, poor things! they cannot help it; and you know it makes very little difference to Sir Thomas.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000026_000004|I think I will have two shawls, Fanny."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000000|Fanny, meanwhile, speaking only when she could not help it, was very earnestly trying to understand what mr and Miss Crawford were at.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000002|Everything natural, probable, reasonable, was against it; all their habits and ways of thinking, and all her own demerits.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000005|Nothing could be more unnatural in either.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000006|Fanny was ashamed of her own doubts.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000007|Everything might be possible rather than serious attachment, or serious approbation of it toward her.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000008|She had quite convinced herself of this before Sir Thomas and mr Crawford joined them.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000009|The difficulty was in maintaining the conviction quite so absolutely after mr Crawford was in the room; for once or twice a look seemed forced on her which she did not know how to class among the common meaning; in any other man, at least, she would have said that it meant something very earnest, very pointed.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000027_000010|But she still tried to believe it no more than what he might often have expressed towards her cousins and fifty other women.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000028_000000|She thought he was wishing to speak to her unheard by the rest.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000028_000001|She fancied he was trying for it the whole evening at intervals, whenever Sir Thomas was out of the room, or at all engaged with mrs Norris, and she carefully refused him every opportunity.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000029_000000|At last-it seemed an at last to Fanny's nervousness, though not remarkably late-he began to talk of going away; but the comfort of the sound was impaired by his turning to her the next moment, and saying, "Have you nothing to send to Mary?
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000029_000001|No answer to her note?
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000029_000002|She will be disappointed if she receives nothing from you.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000029_000003|Pray write to her, if it be only a line."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000030_000000|"Oh yes!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000030_000001|certainly," cried Fanny, rising in haste, the haste of embarrassment and of wanting to get away-"I will write directly."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000031_000000|She went accordingly to the table, where she was in the habit of writing for her aunt, and prepared her materials without knowing what in the world to say.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000032_000000|"I am very much obliged to you, my dear Miss Crawford, for your kind congratulations, as far as they relate to my dearest William.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000032_000001|The rest of your note I know means nothing; but I am so unequal to anything of the sort, that I hope you will excuse my begging you to take no farther notice.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000032_000002|I have seen too much of mr Crawford not to understand his manners; if he understood me as well, he would, I dare say, behave differently.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000032_000003|I do not know what I write, but it would be a great favour of you never to mention the subject again.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000032_000004|With thanks for the honour of your note, I remain, dear Miss Crawford, etc, etc"
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000033_000000|The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that mr Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000034_000000|"You cannot think I mean to hurry you," said he, in an undervoice, perceiving the amazing trepidation with which she made up the note, "you cannot think I have any such object.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000034_000001|Do not hurry yourself, I entreat."
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000035_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000036_000000|The note was held out, and must be taken; and as she instantly and with averted eyes walked towards the fireplace, where sat the others, he had nothing to do but to go in good earnest.
train-other-500/1152/126550/1152_126550_000037_000000|Fanny thought she had never known a day of greater agitation, both of pain and pleasure; but happily the pleasure was not of a sort to die with the day; for every day would restore the knowledge of William's advancement, whereas the pain, she hoped, would return no more.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixteen
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000002_000000|Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000002_000003|She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of it.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000002_000004|She got up with a headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000002_000005|Her sensibility was potent enough!
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000003_000000|When breakfast was over she walked out by herself, and wandered about the village of Allenham, indulging the recollection of past enjoyment and crying over the present reverse for the chief of the morning.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000004_000001|She played over every favourite song that she had been used to play to Willoughby, every air in which their voices had been oftenest joined, and sat at the instrument gazing on every line of music that he had written out for her, till her heart was so heavy that no farther sadness could be gained; and this nourishment of grief was every day applied.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000004_000002|She spent whole hours at the pianoforte alternately singing and crying; her voice often totally suspended by her tears.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000004_000003|In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000004_000004|She read nothing but what they had been used to read together.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000006_000001|But mrs Dashwood could find explanations whenever she wanted them, which at least satisfied herself.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000007_000000|"Remember, Elinor," said she, "how very often Sir john fetches our letters himself from the post, and carries them to it.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000009_000001|From you, her mother, and so kind, so indulgent a mother, the question could not give offence.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000009_000002|It would be the natural result of your affection for her.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000010_000000|"I would not ask such a question for the world.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000010_000001|Supposing it possible that they are not engaged, what distress would not such an enquiry inflict!
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000010_000002|At any rate it would be most ungenerous.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000010_000003|I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000011_000000|Elinor thought this generosity overstrained, considering her sister's youth, and urged the matter farther, but in vain; common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in mrs Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000014_000000|"Months!" cried Marianne, with strong surprise.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000014_000001|"No-nor many weeks."
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000016_000000|One morning, about a week after his leaving the country, Marianne was prevailed on to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000016_000001|Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000017_000000|Amongst the objects in the scene, they soon discovered an animated one; it was a man on horseback riding towards them.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000017_000001|In a few minutes they could distinguish him to be a gentleman; and in a moment afterwards Marianne rapturously exclaimed,
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000019_000000|"Indeed, Marianne, I think you are mistaken.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000020_000000|"He has, he has," cried Marianne, "I am sure he has.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000020_000002|I knew how soon he would come."
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000021_000000|She walked eagerly on as she spoke; and Elinor, to screen Marianne from particularity, as she felt almost certain of its not being Willoughby, quickened her pace and kept up with her.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000021_000001|They were soon within thirty yards of the gentleman.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000022_000000|He was the only person in the world who could at that moment be forgiven for not being Willoughby; the only one who could have gained a smile from her; but she dispersed her tears to smile on HIM, and in her sister's happiness forgot for a time her own disappointment.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000023_000000|He dismounted, and giving his horse to his servant, walked back with them to Barton, whither he was purposely coming to visit them.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000024_000000|He was welcomed by them all with great cordiality, but especially by Marianne, who showed more warmth of regard in her reception of him than even Elinor herself.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000024_000002|On Edward's side, more particularly, there was a deficiency of all that a lover ought to look and say on such an occasion.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000024_000004|Marianne saw and listened with increasing surprise.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000024_000005|She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000025_000000|After a short silence which succeeded the first surprise and enquiries of meeting, Marianne asked Edward if he came directly from London.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000025_000001|No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000028_000000|"Have you been lately in Sussex?" said Elinor.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000029_000000|"I was at Norland about a month ago."
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000030_000000|"And how does dear, dear Norland look?" cried Marianne.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000031_000001|The woods and walks thickly covered with dead leaves."
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000032_000000|"Oh," cried Marianne, "with what transporting sensation have I formerly seen them fall!
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000032_000002|What feelings have they, the season, the air altogether inspired!
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000032_000003|Now there is no one to regard them.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000033_000000|"It is not every one," said Elinor, "who has your passion for dead leaves."
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000034_000001|But SOMETIMES they are."--As she said this, she sunk into a reverie for a few moments;--but rousing herself again, "Now, Edward," said she, calling his attention to the prospect, "here is Barton valley.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000034_000002|Look up to it, and be tranquil if you can.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000034_000003|Look at those hills!
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000034_000004|Did you ever see their equals?
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000034_000005|To the left is Barton park, amongst those woods and plantations.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000034_000006|You may see the end of the house.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000035_000000|"It is a beautiful country," he replied; "but these bottoms must be dirty in winter."
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000036_000000|"How can you think of dirt, with such objects before you?"
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000038_000000|"How strange!" said Marianne to herself as she walked on.
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000041_000000|"Marianne," cried her sister, "how can you say so?
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000041_000001|How can you be so unjust?
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000041_000003|Have you forgot, Marianne, how many pleasant days we have owed to them?"
train-other-500/1154/129975/1154_129975_000042_000000|"No," said Marianne, in a low voice, "nor how many painful moments."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000000_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000001_000000|mrs Dashwood was surprised only for a moment at seeing him; for his coming to Barton was, in her opinion, of all things the most natural. Her joy and expression of regard long outlived her wonder.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000001_000003|Indeed a man could not very well be in love with either of her daughters, without extending the passion to her; and Elinor had the satisfaction of seeing him soon become more like himself.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000001_000004|His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000001_000005|He was not in spirits, however; he praised their house, admired its prospect, was attentive, and kind; but still he was not in spirits.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000001_000006|The whole family perceived it, and mrs Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000003_000000|"no
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000003_000001|I hope my mother is now convinced that I have no more talents than inclination for a public life!"
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000004_000000|"But how is your fame to be established? for famous you must be to satisfy all your family; and with no inclination for expense, no affection for strangers, no profession, and no assurance, you may find it a difficult matter."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000005_000001|I have no wish to be distinguished; and have every reason to hope I never shall.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000005_000002|Thank Heaven!
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000005_000003|I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000006_000000|"You have no ambition, I well know.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000006_000001|Your wishes are all moderate."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000007_000000|"As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000007_000002|Greatness will not make me so."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000008_000000|"Strange that it would!" cried Marianne.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000008_000001|"What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?"
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000010_000000|"Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000010_000001|Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000011_000000|"Perhaps," said Elinor, smiling, "we may come to the same point.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000011_000002|Your ideas are only more noble than mine.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000011_000003|Come, what is your competence?"
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000012_000000|"About eighteen hundred or two thousand a year; not more than THAT."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000013_000001|"TWO thousand a year!
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000013_000002|ONE is my wealth!
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000013_000003|I guessed how it would end."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000014_000001|I am sure I am not extravagant in my demands.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000014_000002|A proper establishment of servants, a carriage, perhaps two, and hunters, cannot be supported on less."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000015_000000|Elinor smiled again, to hear her sister describing so accurately their future expenses at Combe Magna.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000016_000000|"Hunters!" repeated Edward-"but why must you have hunters?
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000016_000001|Every body does not hunt."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000017_000000|Marianne coloured as she replied, "But most people do."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000018_000000|"I wish," said Margaret, striking out a novel thought, "that somebody would give us all a large fortune apiece!"
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000019_000000|"Oh that they would!" cried Marianne, her eyes sparkling with animation, and her cheeks glowing with the delight of such imaginary happiness.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000020_000000|"We are all unanimous in that wish, I suppose," said Elinor, "in spite of the insufficiency of wealth."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000022_000000|Marianne looked as if she had no doubt on that point.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000024_000000|"You must begin your improvements on this house," observed Elinor, "and your difficulties will soon vanish."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000025_000006|But I was willing to shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000026_000000|"I love to be reminded of the past, Edward-whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it-and you will never offend me by talking of former times.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000030_000000|"Undoubtedly.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000032_000000|"She is only grown a little more grave than she was."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000033_000000|"Nay, Edward," said Marianne, "you need not reproach me.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000033_000001|You are not very gay yourself."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000034_000000|"Why should you think so!" replied he, with a sigh.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000035_000000|"Nor do I think it a part of Marianne's," said Elinor; "I should hardly call her a lively girl-she is very earnest, very eager in all she does-sometimes talks a great deal and always with animation-but she is not often really merry."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000036_000000|"I believe you are right," he replied, "and yet I have always set her down as a lively girl."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000037_000000|"I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what the deception originated.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000037_000001|Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000038_000000|"But I thought it was right, Elinor," said Marianne, "to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000038_000002|This has always been your doctrine, I am sure."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000039_000000|"No, Marianne, never.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000039_000001|My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000039_000002|All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000039_000003|You must not confound my meaning.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000040_000000|"You have not been able to bring your sister over to your plan of general civility," said Edward to Elinor.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000040_000001|"Do you gain no ground?"
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000041_000000|"Quite the contrary," replied Elinor, looking expressively at Marianne.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000042_000000|"My judgment," he returned, "is all on your side of the question; but I am afraid my practice is much more on your sister's.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000044_000000|"She knows her own worth too well for false shame," replied Edward. "Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000044_000001|If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000045_000000|"But you would still be reserved," said Marianne, "and that is worse."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000046_000001|Am I reserved, Marianne?"
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000047_000000|"Yes, very."
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000048_000000|"I do not understand you," replied he, colouring.
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000048_000001|"Reserved!--how, in what manner?
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000048_000002|What am I to tell you?
train-other-500/1154/129976/1154_129976_000048_000003|What can you suppose?"
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000001_000000|LETTER twelve
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000002_000000|My dear Sir,
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000004_000000|Agriculture is both a science and an art.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000005_000001|No experience, drawn from the exercise of the art, can be opposed to true scientific principles, because the latter should include all the results of practical operations, and are in some instances solely derived therefrom.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000005_000002|Theory must correspond with experience, because it is nothing more than the reduction of a series of phenomena to their last causes.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000006_000000|A field in which we cultivate the same plant for several successive years becomes barren for that plant in a period varying with the nature of the soil: in one field it will be in three, in another in seven, in a third in twenty, in a fourth in a hundred years.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000006_000001|One field bears wheat, and no peas; another beans or turnips, but no tobacco; a third gives a plentiful crop of turnips, but will not bear clover.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000006_000002|What is the reason that a field loses its fertility for one plant, the same which at first flourished there?
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000006_000003|What is the reason one kind of plant succeeds in a field where another fails?
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000007_000000|These questions belong to Science.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000009_000000|These last questions are put by Art, but they cannot be answered by Art.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000010_000001|How large a capital, and how much power, are wasted in these experiments!
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000010_000002|Very different, and far more secure, is the path indicated by SCIENCE; it exposes us to no danger of failing, but, on the contrary, it furnishes us with every guarantee of success.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000011_000000|The most exact observations prove that the method of cultivation must vary with the geognostical condition of the subsoil.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000011_000002|This fully explains the difference in the necessary methods of culture for different places; since it is obvious that the essential elements of the soil must vary with the varieties of composition of the rocks, from the disintegration of which they originated.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000012_000000|Wheat, clover, turnips, for example, each require certain elements from the soil; they will not flourish where the appropriate elements are absent.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000012_000001|Science teaches us what elements are essential to every species of plants by an analysis of their ashes.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000013_000000|The empiric attributes all his success to the mechanical operations of agriculture; he experiences and recognises their value, without inquiring what are the causes of their utility, their mode of action: and yet this scientific knowledge is of the highest importance for regulating the application of power and the expenditure of capital,--for insuring its economical expenditure and the prevention of waste.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000013_000002|Nobody, perhaps, seriously entertains such an opinion.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000013_000003|Nevertheless, the modus operandi of these mechanical operations is by no means generally understood.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000013_000004|The fact is quite certain, that careful ploughing exerts the most favourable influence: the surface is thus mechanically divided, changed, increased, and renovated; but the ploughing is only auxiliary to the end sought.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000014_000000|In the effects of time, in what in Agriculture are technically called fallows-the repose of the fields-we recognise by science certain chemical actions, which are continually exercised by the elements of the atmosphere upon the whole surface of our globe.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000015_000000|These chemical actions, poetically denominates the "tooth of time," destroy all the works of man, and gradually reduce the hardest rocks to the condition of dust.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000015_000002|They accelerate the decomposition of the soil, in order to provide a new generation of plants with the necessary elements in a condition favourable to their assimilation.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000015_000003|It is obvious that the rapidity of the decomposition of a solid body must increase with the extension of its surface; the more points of contact we offer in a given time to the external chemical agent, the more rapid will be its action.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000017_000001|These are described in a very interesting manner by Darwin.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000017_000002|The rock containing the gold ore is pounded by mills into the finest powder; this is subjected to washing, which separates the lighter particles from the metallic; the gold sinks to the bottom, while a stream of water carries away the lighter earthy parts into ponds, where it subsides to the bottom as mud.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000017_000003|When this deposit has gradually filled up the pond, this mud is taken out and piled in heaps, and left exposed to the action of the atmosphere and moisture.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000017_000004|The washing completely removes all the soluble part of the disintegrated rock; the insoluble part, moreover, cannot undergo any further change while it is covered with water, and so excluded from the influence of the atmosphere at the bottom of the pond.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000017_000005|But being exposed at once to the air and moisture, a powerful chemical action takes place in the whole mass, which becomes indicated by an efflorescence of salts covering the whole surface of the heaps in considerable quantity.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000017_000007|The exposure and washing of the same mud is repeated six or seven times, and at every washing it furnishes a new quantity of gold, although its amount diminishes every time.
train-other-500/1154/134886/1154_134886_000018_000000|Precisely similar is the chemical action which takes place in the soil of our fields; and we accelerate and increase it by the mechanical operations of our agriculture.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000001_000000|LETTER thirteen
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000002_000000|My dear Sir,
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000004_000000|All plants cultivated as food require for their healthy sustenance the alkalies and alkaline earths, each in a certain proportion; and in addition to these, the cerealia do not succeed in a soil destitute of silica in a soluble condition.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000005_000001|In Hungary, extensive districts are not uncommon where wheat and tobacco have been grown alternately upon the same soil for centuries, the land never receiving back any of those mineral elements which were withdrawn in the grain and straw.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000006_000000|The term fallow, in Agriculture, designates that period in which the soil, left to the influence of the atmosphere, becomes enriched with those soluble mineral constituents.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000006_000002|That store of silicates and alkalies which is the principal condition of their success is obtained, if potatoes or turnips are grown upon the same fields in the intermediate periods, since these crops do not abstract a particle of silica, and therefore leave the field equally fertile for the following crop of wheat.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000007_000000|The preceding remarks will render it obvious to you, that the mechanical working of the soil is the simplest and cheapest method of rendering the elements of nutrition contained in it accessible to plants.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000009_000000|In order to obtain correct views respecting the effect of quick lime upon the soil, let me remind you of the first process employed by the chemist when he is desirous of analysing a mineral, and for this purpose wishes to bring its elements into a soluble state.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000010_000001|The lime, in combining with the elements of the clay, liquifies it; and, what is more remarkable, liberates the greater part of its alkalies.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000012_000000|According to the humus theory, quick lime ought to exert the most noxious influence upon the soil, because all organic matters contained in it are destroyed by it, and rendered incapable of yielding their humus to a new vegetation.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000012_000001|The facts are indeed directly contrary to this now abandoned theory: the fertility of the soil is increased by the lime.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000012_000002|The cerealia require the alkalies and alkaline silicates, which the action of the lime renders fit for assimilation by the plants.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000012_000003|If, in addition to these, there is any decaying organic matter present in the soil supplying carbonic acid, it may facilitate their development; but it is not essential to their growth.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000012_000004|If we furnish the soil with ammonia, and the phosphates, which are indispensable to the cerealia, with the alkaline silicates, we have all the conditions necessary to ensure an abundant harvest.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000013_000000|A no less favourable influence than that of lime is exercised upon the soil of peaty land by the mere act of burning it: this greatly enhances its fertility.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000013_000002|Many of these, in their natural state, are not acted on by acids, but they become perfectly soluble if heated to redness before the application of the acid.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000013_000003|This property belongs to potters' clay, pipe clay, loam, and many different modifications of clay in soils.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000013_000004|In their natural state they may be boiled in concentrated sulphuric acid, without sensible change; but if feebly burned, as is done with the pipe clay in many alum manufactories, they dissolve in the acid with the greatest facility, the contained silica being separated like jelly in a soluble state.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000013_000005|Potters' clay belongs to the most sterile kinds of soil, and yet it contains within itself all the constituent elements essential to a most luxurious growth of plants; but their mere presence is insufficient to secure this end.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000013_000008|Plastic clay is wanting in these properties; but they are imparted to it by a feeble calcination.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000014_000000|At Hardwicke Court, near Gloucester, I have seen a garden (mr Baker's) consisting of a stiff clay, which was perfectly sterile, become by mere burning extremely fertile.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000014_000001|The operation was extended to a depth of three feet.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000014_000002|This was an expensive process, certainly; but it was effectual.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000015_000000|The great difference in the properties of burnt and unburnt clay is illustrated by what is seen in brick houses, built in moist situations.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000015_000002|If this saline incrustation is washed away by the rain, it soon re appears; and this is even observed on walls which, like the gateway of Lisle, have been erected for centuries.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000015_000004|The influence of lime in their production is manifested by their appearing first at the place where the mortar and brick come into contact.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000016_000000|It will now be obvious to you, that in a mixture of clay with lime, all the conditions exist for the solution of the silicated clay, and the solubility of the alkaline silicates.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000016_000001|The lime gradually dissolving in water charged with carbonic acid, acts like milk of lime upon the clay.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000016_000002|This explains also the favourable influence which marl (by which term all those varieties of clay rich in chalk are designated) exerts upon most kinds of soil.
train-other-500/1154/134887/1154_134887_000017_000000|The ashes of coals and lignite are also excellent means of ameliorating the soil, and they are used in many places for this purpose.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000004_000000|The New Catacomb
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000005_000000|"Look here, Burger," said Kennedy, "I do wish that you would confide in me."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000006_000000|The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedy's comfortable room overlooking the Corso.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000006_000003|But inside, in the sumptuous chamber of the rich young English archaeologist, there was only old Rome to be seen.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000006_000005|On the centre table, amidst a litter of inscriptions, fragments, and ornaments, there stood the famous reconstruction by Kennedy of the Baths of Caracalla, which excited such interest and admiration when it was exhibited in Berlin.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000006_000006|Amphorae hung from the ceiling, and a litter of curiosities strewed the rich red Turkey carpet.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000006_000008|Kennedy had often been seduced by whim and pleasure from his studies, but his mind was an incisive one, capable of long and concentrated efforts which ended in sharp reactions of sensuous languor.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000007_000000|Of a very different type was his companion, Julius Burger.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000007_000004|In age and in reputation, he was on the same level as his English companion, but his life and his work had both been far more arduous.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000007_000005|Twelve years before, he had come as a poor student to Rome, and had lived ever since upon some small endowment for research which had been awarded to him by the University of Bonn.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000007_000007|But the singleness of purpose which had brought him to the same high level as the rich and brilliant Englishman, had caused him in everything outside their work to stand infinitely below him.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000007_000008|He had never found a pause in his studies in which to cultivate the social graces.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000007_000009|It was only when he spoke of his own subject that his face was filled with life and soul.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000008_000000|And yet for some years there had been an acquaintanceship which appeared to be slowly ripening into a friendship between these two very different rivals.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000008_000002|And then gradually something had been added to this.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000008_000003|Kennedy had been amused by the frankness and simplicity of his rival, while Burger in turn had been fascinated by the brilliancy and vivacity which had made Kennedy such a favourite in Roman society.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000008_000005|A love affair, the details of which had never quite come out, had indicated a heartlessness and callousness upon his part which shocked many of his friends.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000010_000000|As he spoke he waved his hand in the direction of a rug which lay upon the floor.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000010_000002|It was the German who had brought them in, and the Englishman's eyes were hungry as he looked at them.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000011_000000|"I won't interfere with your treasure trove, but I should very much like to hear about it," he continued, while Burger very deliberately lit a cigar.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000011_000001|"It is evidently a discovery of the first importance. These inscriptions will make a sensation throughout Europe."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000013_000000|Kennedy sat thinking with his fine forehead wrinkled and his fingers playing with his long, fair moustache.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000014_000000|"You have given yourself away, Burger!" said he at last.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000014_000001|"Your words can only apply to one thing.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000014_000002|You have discovered a new catacomb."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000016_000000|"Well, they certainly appeared to indicate it, but your last remarks make it certain.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000016_000001|There is no place except a catacomb which could contain so vast a store of relics as you describe."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000017_000000|"Quite so.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000017_000001|There is no mystery about that.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000017_000002|I HAVE discovered a new catacomb."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000018_000000|"Where?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000019_000000|"Ah, that is my secret, my dear Kennedy.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000019_000002|Its date is different from that of any known catacomb, and it has been reserved for the burial of the highest Christians, so that the remains and the relics are quite different from anything which has ever been seen before.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000019_000003|If I was not aware of your knowledge and of your energy, my friend, I would not hesitate, under the pledge of secrecy, to tell you everything about it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000021_000001|Nothing would induce me to put pen to paper about anything which I see until I have your express permission.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000022_000000|Burger smiled thoughtfully over his cigar.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000023_000000|"I have noticed, friend Kennedy," said he, "that when I want information over any point you are not always so ready to supply it."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000024_000001|You remember, for example, my giving you the material for your paper about the temple of the Vestals."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000025_000002|This new catacomb is a very intimate thing to me, and I should certainly expect some sign of confidence in return."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000027_000000|"Well, then," said Burger, leaning luxuriously back in his settee, and puffing a blue tree of cigar smoke into the air, "tell me all about your relations with Miss Mary Saunderson."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000029_000001|"What sort of a question is this?
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000029_000002|You may mean it as a joke, but you never made a worse one."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000030_000001|"I am really rather interested in the details of the matter.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000031_000000|"I won't tell you a word."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000032_000000|"That's all right.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000032_000001|It was only my whim to see if you would give up a secret as easily as you expected me to give up my secret of the new catacomb.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000032_000002|You wouldn't, and I didn't expect you to.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000032_000003|But why should you expect otherwise of me?
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000032_000004|There's Saint John's clock striking ten.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000032_000005|It is quite time that I was going home."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000033_000000|"No; wait a bit, Burger," said Kennedy; "this is really a ridiculous caprice of yours to wish to know about an old love affair which has burned out months ago.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000033_000001|You know we look upon a man who kisses and tells as the greatest coward and villain possible."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000034_000000|"Certainly," said the German, gathering up his basket of curiosities, "when he tells anything about a girl which is previously unknown he must be so.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000035_000000|"Wait a bit, Burger," said Kennedy, laying his hand upon the other's arm; "I am very keen upon this catacomb business, and I can't let it drop quite so easily.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000035_000001|Would you mind asking me something else in return-something not quite so eccentric this time?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000036_000000|"No, no; you have refused, and there is an end of it," said Burger, with his basket on his arm.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000036_000001|"No doubt you are quite right not to answer, and no doubt I am quite right also-and so again, my dear Kennedy, good night!"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000038_000000|"Hold on, old fellow," said he; "I think you are behaving in a most ridiculous fashion; but still; if this is your condition, I suppose that I must submit to it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000038_000002|What was it you wanted to know?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000039_000000|The German came back to the stove, and, laying down his basket, he sank into his chair once more.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000040_000001|"Thank you very much!
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000040_000002|I never smoke when I work, but I enjoy a chat much more when I am under the influence of tobacco.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000040_000003|Now, as regards this young lady, with whom you had this little adventure.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000041_000000|"She is at home with her own people."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000042_000000|"Oh, really-in England?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000043_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000044_000000|"What part of England-London?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000046_000000|"You must excuse my curiosity, my dear Kennedy, and you must put it down to my ignorance of the world.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000046_000001|No doubt it is quite a simple thing to persuade a young lady to go off with you for three weeks or so, and then to hand her over to her own family at-what did you call the place?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000049_000000|Kennedy looked moodily into the red eye of the stove.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000050_000001|"Love is a big word, and it represents a good many different shades of feeling.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000050_000002|I liked her, and-well, you say you've seen her-you know how charming she could look.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000050_000003|But still I am willing to admit, looking back, that I could never have really loved her."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000051_000000|"Then, my dear Kennedy, why did you do it?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000052_000000|"The adventure of the thing had a great deal to do with it."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000053_000000|"What!
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000053_000001|You are so fond of adventures!"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000054_000000|"Where would the variety of life be without them?
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000054_000001|It was for an adventure that I first began to pay my attentions to her.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000054_000002|I've chased a good deal of game in my time, but there's no chase like that of a pretty woman.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000054_000004|On the top of all the other obstacles which attracted me, I learned from her own lips very early in the proceedings that she was engaged."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000055_000001|To whom?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000056_000000|"She mentioned no names."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000057_000000|"I do not think that anyone knows that.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000057_000001|So that made the adventure more alluring, did it?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000058_000000|"Well, it did certainly give a spice to it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000058_000001|Don't you think so?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000059_000000|"I tell you that I am very ignorant about these things."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000060_000000|"My dear fellow, you can remember that the apple you stole from your neighbour's tree was always sweeter than that which fell from your own. And then I found that she cared for me."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000061_000000|"What-at once?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000062_000001|But at last I won her over.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000062_000002|She understood that my judicial separation from my wife made it impossible for me to do the right thing by her-but she came all the same, and we had a delightful time, as long as it lasted."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000063_000000|"But how about the other man?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000064_000000|Kennedy shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000065_000000|"I suppose it is the survival of the fittest," said he.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000065_000001|"If he had been the better man she would not have deserted him.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000066_000000|"Only one other thing.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000066_000001|How did you get rid of her in three weeks?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000067_000003|Then, again, her old father turned up at the hotel in London, and there was a scene, and the whole thing became so unpleasant that really-though I missed her dreadfully at first-I was very glad to slip out of it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000068_000000|"My dear Kennedy, I should not dream of repeating it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000068_000001|But all that you say interests me very much, for it gives me an insight into your way of looking at things, which is entirely different from mine, for I have seen so little of life.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000068_000002|And now you want to know about my new catacomb.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000068_000003|There's no use my trying to describe it, for you would never find it by that.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000068_000004|There is only one thing, and that is for me to take you there."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000069_000000|"That would be splendid."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000071_000000|"The sooner the better.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000071_000001|I am all impatience to see it."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000072_000001|Suppose we start in an hour.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000073_000000|"We can't be too cautious," said Kennedy.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000073_000001|"Is it far?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000074_000000|"Some miles."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000075_000000|"Not too far to walk?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000076_000000|"Oh, no, we could walk there easily."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000077_000000|"We had better do so, then.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000077_000001|A cabman's suspicions would be aroused if he dropped us both at some lonely spot in the dead of the night."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000078_000000|"Quite so.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000078_000001|I think it would be best for us to meet at the Gate of the Appian Way at midnight.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000078_000002|I must go back to my lodgings for the matches and candles and things."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000079_000000|"All right, Burger!
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000079_000001|I think it is very kind of you to let me into this secret, and I promise you that I will write nothing about it until you have published your report.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000079_000002|Good bye for the present!
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000079_000003|You will find me at the Gate at twelve."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000080_000001|Kennedy stepped out of the shadow to meet him.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000083_000000|"I hope you left no clue as to where we were going."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000084_000000|"Not such a fool!
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000085_000000|Their footsteps sounded loud and crisp upon the rough stone paving of the disappointing road which is all that is left of the most famous highway of the world.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000085_000003|Then Burger stopped with his hand to his side.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000086_000000|"Your legs are longer than mine, and you are more accustomed to walking," said he, laughing.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000086_000001|"I think that the place where we turn off is somewhere here.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000086_000002|Yes, this is it, round the corner of the trattoria. Now, it is a very narrow path, so perhaps I had better go in front and you can follow."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000087_000002|At last Burger stopped at a solitary wooden cow house, and he drew a key from his pocket.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000087_000003|"Surely your catacomb is not inside a house!" cried Kennedy.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000088_000000|"The entrance to it is.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000090_000000|"Not he.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000090_000002|So I rented it from him, and did my excavations for myself.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000090_000003|Come in, and shut the door behind you."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000091_000001|Burger put his lantern down on the ground, and shaded its light in all directions save one by draping his overcoat round it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000092_000000|"It might excite remark if anyone saw a light in this lonely place," said he.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000092_000001|"Just help me to move this boarding."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000093_000000|The flooring was loose in the corner, and plank by plank the two savants raised it and leaned it against the wall.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000094_000000|"Be careful!" cried Burger, as Kennedy, in his impatience, hurried down them.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000094_000002|Wait until I bring the light."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000096_000000|"I had some very narrow escapes at first, but I have gradually learned to go about.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000096_000001|There is a certain system to it, but it is one which a lost man, if he were in the dark, could not possibly find out.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000096_000002|Even now I always spin out a ball of string behind me when I am going far into the catacomb.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000097_000001|In every direction were the black openings of passages which radiated from this common centre.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000098_000000|"I want you to follow me closely, my friend," said Burger.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000098_000001|"Do not loiter to look at anything upon the way, for the place to which I will take you contains all that you can see, and more.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000098_000002|It will save time for us to go there direct."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000099_000001|Every now and then the passage bifurcated, but Burger was evidently following some secret marks of his own, for he neither stopped nor hesitated.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000099_000002|Everywhere along the walls, packed like the berths upon an emigrant ship, lay the Christians of old Rome.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000099_000003|The yellow light flickered over the shrivelled features of the mummies, and gleamed upon rounded skulls and long, white armbones crossed over fleshless chests.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000099_000004|And everywhere as he passed Kennedy looked with wistful eyes upon inscriptions, funeral vessels, pictures, vestments, utensils, all lying as pious hands had placed them so many centuries ago.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000100_000000|"What would happen if the light went out?" he asked, as they hurried onwards.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000101_000000|"I have a spare candle and a box of matches in my pocket.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000101_000001|By the way, Kennedy, have you any matches?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000104_000000|"How far are we going?
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000105_000000|"More than that, I think.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000105_000002|This is a very difficult place, so I think that I will use our ball of string."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000107_000000|"By Jove!" cried Kennedy in an ecstasy, as Burger swung his lantern over the marble.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000107_000001|"It is a Christian altar-probably the first one in existence.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000107_000002|Here is the little consecration cross cut upon the corner of it.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000107_000003|No doubt this circular space was used as a church."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000108_000000|"Precisely," said Burger.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000108_000002|Go over to that one and look at it!"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000109_000000|Kennedy went across, and stared at the ghastly head which lay loosely on the shredded and mouldering mitre.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000110_000000|"This is most interesting," said he, and his voice seemed to boom against the concave vault.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000110_000001|"As far as my experience goes, it is unique.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000111_000000|But the German had strolled away, and was standing in the middle of a yellow circle of light at the other side of the hall.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000112_000001|"There are over two thousand.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000112_000002|No doubt it was one of the means of protection which the Christians adopted.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000113_000000|"So I should think."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000114_000000|"And the darkness is something dreadful.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000114_000001|I tried it once for an experiment.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000114_000003|Never had he known what such darkness was.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000114_000004|It seemed to press upon him and to smother him.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000114_000005|It was a solid obstacle against which the body shrank from advancing.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000114_000006|He put his hands out to push it back from him.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000115_000000|"That will do, Burger," said he, "let's have the light again."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000116_000000|But his companion began to laugh, and in that circular room the sound seemed to come from every side at once.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000117_000000|"You seem uneasy, friend Kennedy," said he.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000118_000000|"Go on, man, light the candle!" said Kennedy impatiently.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000119_000001|Could you tell where I am?"
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000120_000000|"No; you seem to be on every side of me."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000121_000000|"If it were not for this string which I hold in my hand I should not have a notion which way to go."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000122_000000|"I dare say not.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000123_000000|"Well, Kennedy, there are two things which I understand that you are very fond of.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000123_000001|The one is an adventure, and the other is an obstacle to surmount.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000123_000002|The adventure must be the finding of your way out of this catacomb.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000123_000004|But you need not hurry, for you have plenty of time, and when you halt for a rest now and then, I should like you just to think of Miss Mary Saunderson, and whether you treated her quite fairly."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000124_000000|"You devil, what do you mean?" roared Kennedy.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000124_000001|He was running about in little circles and clasping at the solid blackness with both hands.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000125_000000|"Good bye," said the mocking voice, and it was already at some distance.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000125_000001|"I really do not think, Kennedy, even by your own showing that you did the right thing by that girl.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000125_000003|Miss Saunderson was engaged to a poor ungainly devil of a student, and his name was Julius Burger."
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000126_000000|There was a rustle somewhere, the vague sound of a foot striking a stone, and then there fell silence upon that old Christian church-a stagnant, heavy silence which closed round Kennedy and shut him in like water round a drowning man.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000127_000000|Some two months afterwards the following paragraph made the round of the European Press:
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000128_000002|Although the first to publish his discovery, it appears that a less fortunate adventurer had anticipated dr Burger.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000128_000005|His body was discovered in the heart of the new catacomb, and it was evident from the condition of his feet and boots that he had tramped for days through the tortuous corridors which make these subterranean tombs so dangerous to explorers.
train-other-500/1161/135206/1161_135206_000128_000006|The deceased gentleman had, with inexplicable rashness, made his way into this labyrinth without, as far as can be discovered, taking with him either candles or matches, so that his sad fate was the natural result of his own temerity.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000001_000001|The New Education
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000002_000000|"So you're going back to college in a fortnight," I said to the Bright Young Thing on the veranda of the summer hotel.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000002_000001|"Aren't you sorry?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000003_000000|"In a way I am," she said, "but in another sense I'm glad to go back. One can't loaf all the time."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000004_000000|She looked up from her rocking chair over her Red Cross knitting with great earnestness.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000005_000000|How full of purpose these modern students are, I thought to myself.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000005_000001|In my time we used to go back to college as to a treadmill.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000006_000000|"I know that," I said, "but what I mean is that college, after all, is a pretty hard grind.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000006_000001|Things like mathematics and Greek are no joke, are they?
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000006_000002|In my day, as I remember it, we used to think spherical trigonometry about the hardest stuff of the lot."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000007_000000|She looked dubious.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000009_000000|"Oh," I said, "I see.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000009_000001|So you don't have to take it.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000010_000000|"For this coming half semester-that's six weeks, you know-I've elected Social Endeavour."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000012_000001|It's the study of conditions."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000013_000000|"What kind of conditions?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000014_000000|"All conditions.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000014_000001|Perhaps I can't explain it properly.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000014_000002|But I have the prospectus of it indoors if you'd like to see it.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000014_000003|We take up Society."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000015_000000|"And what do you do with it?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000016_000000|"Analyse it," she said.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000017_000000|"But it must mean reading a tremendous lot of books."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000018_000000|"No," she answered.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000018_000001|"We don't use books in this course.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000018_000002|It's all Laboratory Work."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000019_000001|"What do you mean by Laboratory Work?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000020_000000|"Well," answered the girl student with a thoughtful look upon her face, "you see, we are supposed to break society up into its elements."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000021_000000|"In six weeks?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000022_000000|"Some of the girls do it in six weeks.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000022_000001|Some put in a whole semester and take twelve weeks at it."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000023_000000|"So as to break up pretty thoroughly?" I said.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000024_000000|"Yes," she assented.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000024_000001|"But most of the girls think six weeks is enough."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000025_000000|"That ought to pulverize it pretty completely.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000025_000001|But how do you go at it?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000026_000000|"Well," the girl said, "it's all done with Laboratory Work.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000026_000001|We take, for instance, department stores.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000026_000002|I think that is the first thing we do, we take up the department store."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000027_000000|"And what do you do with it?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000028_000000|"We study it as a Social Germ."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000030_000000|"Yes," said the girl, delighted to see that I was beginning to understand, "as a Germ.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000030_000001|All the work is done in the concrete.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000030_000002|The class goes down with the professor to the department store itself-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000031_000000|"And then-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000032_000000|"Then they walk all through it, observing."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000033_000000|"But have none of them ever been in a departmental store before?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000034_000000|"Oh, of course, but, you see, we go as Observers."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000035_000000|"Ah, now, I understand.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000035_000001|You mean you don't buy anything and so you are able to watch everything?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000036_000000|"No," she said, "it's not that.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000036_000001|We do buy things.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000036_000002|That's part of it. Most of the girls like to buy little knick knacks, and anyway it gives them a good chance to do their shopping while they're there.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000036_000004|Then afterwards they make charts."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000037_000000|"Charts of what?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000039_000000|"Do you find much?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000042_000000|"No, no, not exactly that.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000042_000001|Didn't you use Curves when you were at college?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000043_000000|"Never," I said.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000044_000000|"Oh, well, nowadays nearly everything, you know, is done into a Curve. We put them on the board."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000045_000000|"And what is this particular Curve of the employe used for?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000046_000000|"Why," said the student, "the idea is that from the Curve we can get the Norm of the employe."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000047_000000|"Get his Norm?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000048_000000|"Yes, get the Norm.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000049_000000|"And what can you do with that?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000050_000000|"Oh, when we have that we can tell what the employe would do under any and every circumstance.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000050_000001|At least that's the idea-though I'm really only quoting," she added, breaking off in a diffident way, "from what Miss Thinker, the professor of Social Endeavour, says.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000050_000002|She's really fine. She's making a general chart of the female employes of one of the biggest stores to show what percentage in case of fire would jump out of the window and what percentage would run to the fire escape."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000051_000000|"It's a wonderful course," I said.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000051_000001|"We had nothing like it when I went to college.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000051_000002|And does it only take in departmental stores?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000052_000000|"No," said the girl, "the laboratory work includes for this semester ice cream parlours as well."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000054_000000|"We take them up as Social Cells, Nuclei, I think the professor calls them."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000055_000000|"And how do you go at them?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000056_000000|"Why, the girls go to them in little laboratory groups and study them."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000057_000000|"They eat ice cream in them?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000058_000001|But while they are doing it they are considering the ice cream parlour merely as a section of social protoplasm."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000059_000000|"Does the professor go?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000060_000000|"Oh, yes, she heads each group.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000060_000001|Professor Thinker never spares herself from work."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000061_000000|"Dear me," I said, "you must be kept very busy.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000061_000001|And is Social Endeavour all that you are going to do?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000062_000000|"No," she answered, "I'm electing a half course in Nature Work as well."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000063_000000|"Nature Work?
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000063_000001|Well!
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000063_000002|Well!
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000063_000003|That, I suppose, means cramming up a lot of biology and zoology, does it not?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000064_000000|"No," said the girl, "it's not exactly done with books.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000064_000001|I believe it is all done by Field Work."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000065_000000|"Field Work?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000066_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000066_000001|Field Work four times a week and an Excursion every Saturday."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000067_000000|"And what do you do in the Field Work?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000068_000000|"The girls," she answered, "go out in groups anywhere out of doors, and make a Nature Study of anything they see."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000069_000000|"How do they do that?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000070_000000|"Why, they look at it.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000070_000001|Suppose, for example, they come to a stream or a pond or anything-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000071_000000|"Yes-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000073_000000|"Had they never done that before?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000074_000000|"Ah, but they look at it as a Nature Unit.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000074_000001|Each girl must take forty units in the course.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000074_000002|I think we only do one unit each day we go out."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000075_000000|"It must," I said, "be pretty fatiguing work, and what about the Excursion?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000076_000000|"That's every Saturday.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000076_000001|We go out with Miss Stalk, the professor of Ambulation."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000077_000000|"And where do you go?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000078_000000|"Oh, anywhere.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000078_000001|One day we go perhaps for a trip on a steamer and another Saturday somewhere in motors, and so on."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000079_000000|"Doing what?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000080_000000|"Field Work.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000080_000001|The aim of the course-I'm afraid I'm quoting Miss Stalk but I don't mind, she's really fine-is to break nature into its elements-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000081_000000|"I see-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000082_000000|"So as to view it as the external structure of Society and make deductions from it."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000083_000000|"Have you made any?" I asked.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000084_000000|"Oh, no"--she laughed-"I'm only starting the work this term.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000084_000001|But, of course, I shall have to.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000084_000002|Each girl makes at least one deduction at the end of the course.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000084_000003|Some of the seniors make two or three.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000085_000000|"It's a great course," I said.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000085_000001|"No wonder you are going to be busy; and, as you say, how much better than loafing round here doing nothing."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000086_000001|"It gives one such a sense of purpose, such a feeling of doing something."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000087_000000|"It must," I answered.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000088_000000|"Oh, goodness," she exclaimed, "there's the lunch bell.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000088_000001|I must skip and get ready."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000089_000000|She was just vanishing from my side when the Burly Male Student, who was also staying in the hotel, came puffing up after his five mile run.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000089_000001|He was getting himself into trim for enlistment, so he told me.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000089_000002|He noted the retreating form of the college girl as he sat down.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000090_000000|"I've just been talking to her," I said, "about her college work.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000090_000001|She seems to be studying a queer lot of stuff-Social Endeavour and all that!"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000091_000000|"Awful piffle," said the young man.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000091_000001|"But the girls naturally run to all that sort of rot, you know."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000092_000000|"Now, your work," I went on, "is no doubt very different.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000092_000001|I mean what you were taking before the war came along.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000092_000002|I suppose you fellows have an awful dose of mathematics and philology and so on just as I did in my college days?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000093_000000|Something like a blush came across the face of the handsome youth.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000094_000000|"Well, no," he said, "I didn't co opt mathematics.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000094_000001|At our college, you know, we co opt two majors and two minors."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000095_000000|"I see," I said, "and what were you co opting?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000096_000000|"I co opted Turkish, Music, and Religion," he answered.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000097_000000|"Oh, yes," I said with a sort of reverential respect, "fitting yourself for a position of choir master in a Turkish cathedral, no doubt."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000099_000000|"Fitted in?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000100_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000100_000001|Turkish comes at nine, music at ten and religion at eleven.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000100_000002|So they make a good combination; they leave a man free to-"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000101_000000|"To develop his mind," I said.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000101_000001|"We used to find in my college days that lectures interfered with it badly.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000101_000002|But now, Turkish, that must be an interesting language, eh?"
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000102_000000|"Search me!" said the student.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000102_000001|"All you have to do is answer the roll and go out.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000102_000002|Forty roll calls give you one Turkish unit-but, say, I must get on, I've got to change.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000102_000003|So long."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000103_000000|I could not help reflecting, as the young man left me, on the great changes that have come over our college education.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000103_000002|He agreed with me that the old strenuous studies seem to be very largely abandoned.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000105_000000|"Now your work," I said, "is very different from what these young people are doing-hard, solid, definite effort.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000105_000001|What a relief it must be to you to get a brief vacation up here.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000105_000002|I couldn't help thinking to day, as I watched you moving round doing nothing, how fine it must feel for you to come up here after your hard work and put in a month of out and out loafing."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000106_000000|"Loafing!" he said indignantly.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000106_000001|"I'm not loafing.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000106_000002|I'm putting in a half summer course in Introspection.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000106_000003|That's why I'm here.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000106_000004|I get credit for two majors for my time here."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000107_000000|"Ah," I said, as gently as I could, "you get credit here."
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000108_000000|He left me.
train-other-500/1166/136562/1166_136562_000108_000001|I am still pondering over our new education.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000002_000000|CHAPTER three
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000004_000000|They say that everyone is capable of one novel.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000004_000001|And, in my opinion, most people could write one play.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000005_000000|Whether I wrote mine in an inspiration of despair, I cannot say.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000005_000001|I wrote it.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000006_000000|Three years had passed, and james was still haggling with those who buy men's brains.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000006_000001|His earnings were enough just to keep his head above water, but not enough to make us two one.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000000|Perhaps, because everything is clear and easy for us now, I am gradually losing a proper appreciation of his struggle.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000001|That should never be.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000002|He did not win.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000003|But he did not lose; which means nearly as much.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000004|For it is almost less difficult to win than not to lose, so my mother has told me, in modern journalistic London.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000005|And I know that he would have won.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000006|The fact that he continued the fight as he did was in itself a pledge of ultimate victory.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000007_000007|What he went through while trying with his pen to make a living for himself and me I learned from his letters.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000008_000000|"London," he wrote, "is not paved with gold; but in literary fields there are nuggets to be had by the lightest scratching.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000008_000001|And those nuggets are plays.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000008_000003|What the ordinary writer makes in a year the successful dramatist receives, without labour, in a fortnight." He went on to deplore his total lack of dramatic intuition.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000008_000004|"Some men," he said, "have some of the qualifications while falling short of the others. They have a sense of situation without the necessary tricks of technique.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000008_000005|Or they sacrifice plot to atmosphere, or atmosphere to plot. I, worse luck, have not one single qualification.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000008_000006|The nursing of a climax, the tremendous omissions in the dialogue, the knack of stage characterisation-all these things are, in some inexplicable way, outside me."
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000009_000000|It was this letter that set me thinking.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000009_000002|While he toiled in London, what was I doing?
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000009_000003|Nothing.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000009_000004|I suppose I helped him in a way.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000009_000005|The thought of me would be with him always, spurring him on to work, that the time of our separation might be less.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000009_000008|And it was during these restless weeks that I wrote my play.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000010_000001|It was a boisterous October evening.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000010_000003|Now the branches of the lilac were dancing in the rush of the storm, and far out in the bay one could see the white crests of the waves gleaming through the growing darkness.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000010_000004|We had just finished tea.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000011_000000|Something in the unruffled peace of the scene tore at my nerves.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000011_000001|I have seldom felt so restless.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000011_000002|It may have been the storm that made me so.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000011_000003|I think myself that it was James's letter.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000011_000004|The boat had been late that morning, owing to the weather, and I had not received the letter till after lunch.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000011_000005|I listened to the howl of the wind, and longed to be out in it.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000012_000000|My mother looked at me over her book.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000013_000000|"You are restless, Margie," she said.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000013_000001|"There is a volume of Marcus Aurelius on the table beside you, if you care to read."
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000014_000000|"No, thank you, mother," I said.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000014_000001|"I think I shall go for a walk."
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000015_000000|"Wrap up well, my dear," she replied.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000016_000000|She then resumed her book.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000017_000000|I went out of our little garden, and stood on the cliff.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000017_000001|The wind flew at me like some wild thing.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000017_000002|Spray stung my face.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000018_000001|The simplest, most dramatic idea.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000018_000002|Quaint, whimsical, with just that suggestion of pathos blended with it which makes the fortunes of a play.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000019_000000|Of my Maenad tramp along the cliff top with my brain afire, and my return, draggled and dripping, an hour late for dinner; of my writing and re writing, of my tears and black depression, of the pens I wore out and the quires of paper I spoiled, and finally of the ecstasy of the day when the piece began to move and the characters to live, I need not speak.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000019_000001|Anyone who has ever written will know the sensations.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000019_000002|james must have gone through a hundred times what I went through once.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000019_000003|At last, at long last, the play was finished.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000020_000000|For two days I gloated alone over the great pile of manuscript.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000021_000000|Then I went to my mother.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000022_000000|My diffidence was exquisite.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000022_000001|It was all I could do to tell her the nature of my request, when I spoke to her after lunch.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000022_000002|At last she understood that I had written a play, and wished to read it to her.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000022_000003|She took me to the bow window with gentle solicitude, and waited for me to proceed.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000023_000000|At first she encouraged me, for I faltered over my opening words.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000023_000001|But as I warmed to my work, and as my embarrassment left me, she no longer spoke.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000023_000002|Her eyes were fixed intently upon the blue space beyond the lilac.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000024_000001|The strain had been too much for me.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000025_000000|Tenderly my mother drew me to the sofa; and quietly, with closed eyelids, I lay there until, in the soft cool of the evening, I asked for her verdict.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000026_000000|Seeing, as she did instantly, that it would be more dangerous to deny my request than to accede to it, she spoke.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000027_000001|I had expected to listen to a natural, ordinary, unactable episode arranged more or less in steichomuthics. There is no work so scholarly and engaging as the amateur's.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000027_000002|But in your play I am amazed to find the touch of the professional and experienced playwright.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000027_000004|As your mother, I am disappointed.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000027_000005|I had hoped for originality.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000027_000006|As your literary well wisher, I stifle my maternal feelings and congratulate you unreservedly."
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000028_000000|I thanked my mother effusively.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000028_000001|I think I cried a little.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000029_000000|She said affectionately that the hour had been one of great interest to her, and she added that she would be glad to be consulted with regard to the steps I contemplated taking in my literary future.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000030_000000|She then resumed her book.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000031_000000|I went to my room and re read the last letter I had had from james.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000000|MY DARLING MARGIE,--I am writing this line simply and solely for the selfish pleasure I gain from the act of writing to you.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000001|I know everything will come right some time or other, but at present I am suffering from a bad attack of the blues.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000002|I am like a general who has planned out a brilliant attack, and realises that he must fail for want of sufficient troops to carry a position, on the taking of which the whole success of the assault depends.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000003|Briefly, my position is like this.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000004|My name is pretty well known in a small sort of way among editors and the like as that of a man who can turn out fairly good stuff.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000005|Besides this, I have many influential friends.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000006|You see where this brings me?
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000007|I am in the middle of my attacking movement, and I have not been beaten back; but the key to the enemy's position is still uncaptured.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000008|You know what this key is from my other letters. It's the stage.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000010|Only one!
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000011|It would mean everything.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000012|Apart from the actual triumph and the direct profits, it would bring so much with it.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000013|The enemy's flank would be turned, and the rest of the battle would become a mere rout.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000014|I should have an accepted position in the literary world which would convert all the other avenues to wealth on which I have my eye instantly into royal roads.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000015|Obstacles would vanish.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000016|The fact that I was a successful playwright would make the acceptance of the sort of work I am doing now inevitable, and I should get paid ten times as well for it.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000017|And it would mean-well, you know what it would mean, don't you?
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000018|Darling Margie, tell me again that I have your love, that the waiting is not too hard, that you believe in me.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000019|Dearest, it will come right in the end.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000020|Nothing can prevent that.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000021|Love and the will of a man have always beaten Time and Fate.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000033_000022|Write to me, dear.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000035_000000|How utterly free from thought of self!
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000035_000001|His magnificent loyalty forgot the dreadful tension of his own great battle, and pictured only the tedium of waiting which it was my part to endure.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000036_000000|I finished my letter to james very late that night.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000036_000001|It was a very long and explanatory letter, and it enclosed my play.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000000|The main point I aimed at was not to damp his spirits.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000001|He would, I knew well, see that the play was suitable for staging.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000002|He would, in short, see that I, an inexperienced girl, had done what he, a trained professional writer, had failed to do.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000004|"Here," I said, "we have the means to achieve all we want.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000005|Do not-oh, do not-criticise.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000006|I have written down the words.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000007|But the conception is yours.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000008|The play was inspired by you.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000009|But for you I should never have begun it.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000010|Take my play, james; take it as your own.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000011|For yours it is.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000012|Put your name to it, and produce it, if you love me, under your own signature.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000013|If this hurts your pride, I will word my request differently.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000014|You alone are able to manage the business side of the production.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000015|You know the right men to go to.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000016|To approach them on behalf of a stranger's work is far less likely to lead to success.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000017|I have assumed, you will see, that the play is certain to be produced.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000018|But that will only be so if you adopt it as your own.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000037_000019|Claim the authorship, and all will be well."
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000038_000000|Much more I wrote to james in the same strain; and my reward came next day in the shape of a telegram: "Accept thankfully.--Cloyster."
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000039_000000|Of the play and its reception by the public there is no need to speak. The criticisms were all favourable.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000040_000000|Neither the praise of the critics nor the applause of the public aroused any trace of jealousy in james.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000040_000001|Their unanimous note of praise has been a source of pride to him.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000040_000002|He is proud-ah, joy!--that I am to be his wife.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000041_000000|I have blotted the last page of this commonplace love story of mine.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000042_000000|The moon has come out from behind a cloud, and the whole bay is one vast sheet of silver.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000042_000001|I could sit here at my bedroom window and look at it all night.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000042_000002|But then I should be sure to oversleep myself and be late for breakfast.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000042_000003|I shall read what I have written once more, and then I shall go to bed.
train-other-500/1166/14986/1166_14986_000043_000000|I think I shall wear my white muslin tomorrow.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000001_000000|EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000002_000001|They were all pretty, but the prettiest of all was the youngest daughter, who was so beautiful that there were no bounds to her beauty.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000003_000000|So once-it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn, and wild weather outside, terribly dark, and raining so heavily and blowing so hard that the walls of the cottage shook again-they were all sitting together by the fireside, each of them busy with something or other, when suddenly some one rapped three times against the window pane.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000003_000001|The man went out to see what could be the matter, and when he got out there stood a great big white bear.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000005_000000|"Good evening," said the man.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000007_000000|Truly the man would have had no objection to be rich, but he thought to himself: "I must first ask my daughter about this," so he went in and told them that there was a great white bear outside who had faithfully promised to make them all rich if he might but have the youngest daughter.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000008_000000|She said no, and would not hear of it; so the man went out again, and settled with the White Bear that he should come again next Thursday evening, and get her answer.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000008_000001|Then the man persuaded her, and talked so much to her about the wealth that they would have, and what a good thing it would be for herself, that at last she made up her mind to go, and washed and mended all her rags, made herself as smart as she could, and held herself in readiness to set out.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000008_000002|Little enough had she to take away with her.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000009_000000|Next Thursday evening the White Bear came to fetch her.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000009_000001|She seated herself on his back with her bundle, and thus they departed.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000009_000002|When they had gone a great part of the way, the White Bear said: "Are you afraid?"
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000010_000000|"No, that I am not," said she.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000011_000000|"Keep tight hold of my fur, and then there is no danger," said he.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000012_000001|The White Bear gave her a silver bell, and told her that when she needed anything she had but to ring this bell, and what she wanted would appear.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000012_000002|So after she had eaten, and night was drawing near, she grew sleepy after her journey, and thought she would like to go to bed.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000012_000003|She rang the bell, and scarcely had she touched it before she found herself in a chamber where a bed stood ready made for her, which was as pretty as anyone could wish to sleep in.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000012_000004|It had pillows of silk, and curtains of silk fringed with gold, and everything that was in the room was of gold or silver, but when she had lain down and put out the light a man came and lay down beside her, and behold it was the White Bear, who cast off the form of a beast during the night.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000012_000005|She never saw him, however, for he always came after she had put out her light, and went away before daylight appeared.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000013_000001|Then the White Bear asked what it was that she wanted, and she told him that it was so dull there in the mountain, and that she had to go about all alone, and that in her parents' house at home there were all her brothers and sisters, and it was because she could not go to them that she was so sorrowful.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000017_000000|"No, indeed," said she, "I shall never forget;" and as soon as she was at home the White Bear turned round and went back again.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000000|There were such rejoicings when she went in to her parents that it seemed as if they would never come to an end.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000002|Now they had everything that they wanted, and everything was as good as it could be.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000003|They all asked her how she was getting on where she was.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000004|All was well with her too, she said; and she had everything that she could want.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000005|What other answers she gave I cannot say, but I am pretty sure that they did not learn much from her.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000006|But in the afternoon, after they had dined at midday, all happened just as the White Bear had said.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000007|Her mother wanted to talk with her alone in her own chamber.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000008|But she remembered what the White Bear had said, and would on no account go. "What we have to say can be said at any time," she answered.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000009|But somehow or other her mother at last persuaded her, and she was forced to tell the whole story.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000011|"Oh!" cried the mother, in horror, "you are very likely sleeping with a troll!
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000012|But I will teach you a way to see him.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000018_000013|You shall have a bit of one of my candles, which you can take away with you hidden in your breast.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000019_000002|So she did kiss him; but while she was doing it she let three drops of hot tallow fall upon his shirt, and he awoke.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000019_000004|If you had but held out for the space of one year I should have been free.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000019_000005|I have a step mother who has bewitched me so that I am a white bear by day and a man by night; but now all is at an end between you and me, and I must leave you, and go to her.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000020_000000|She wept and lamented, but all in vain, for go he must.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000020_000001|Then she asked him if she could not go with him.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000020_000002|But no, that could not be.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000021_000000|"Yes, you may do that," said he; "but there is no way thither.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000021_000001|It lies east of the sun and west of the moon, and never would you find your way there."
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000000|When she awoke in the morning both the Prince and the castle were gone, and she was lying on a small green patch in the midst of a dark, thick wood.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000002|So when she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, and wept till she was weary, she set out on her way, and thus she walked for many and many a long day, until at last she came to a great mountain.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000003|Outside it an aged woman was sitting, playing with a golden apple.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000004|The girl asked her if she knew the way to the Prince who lived with his stepmother in the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and who was to marry a princess with a nose which was three ells long.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000005|"How do you happen to know about him?" inquired the old woman; "maybe you are she who ought to have had him." "Yes, indeed, I am," she said.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000007|You will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get to it at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse, and then you can ride on it to an old woman who is a neighbor of mine: perhaps she can tell you about him.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000022_000008|When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again; but you may take the golden apple with you."
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000023_000000|So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long way, and at last she came to the mountain, where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding comb.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000026_000000|So she did this, and journeyed to the South Wind, neither was she very long on the way.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000026_000004|If you like, however, I will go with you to my brother, the North Wind; he is the oldest and strongest of all of us, and if he does not know where it is no one in the whole world will be able to tell you.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000026_000005|You may sit upon my back, and then I will carry you there." So she seated herself on his back, and off he went from his house in great haste, and they were not long on the way.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000026_000007|"What do you want?" he roared out from afar, and they froze as they heard.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000027_000000|"Yes," said the North Wind, "I know where it is.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000027_000002|However, if you really are anxious to go there, and are not afraid to go with me, I will take you on my back, and try if I can blow you there."
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000028_000000|"Get there I must," said she; "and if there is any way of going I will; and I have no fear, no matter how fast you go."
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000030_000001|Down below there was such a storm!
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000030_000002|It blew down woods and houses, and when they were above the sea the ships were wrecked by hundreds.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000030_000004|"Art thou afraid?" said the North Wind.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000030_000005|"I have no fear," said she; and it was true.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000031_000001|"How much do you want for that gold apple of yours, girl?" said she, opening the window.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000031_000002|"It can't be bought either for gold or money," answered the girl.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000031_000003|"If it cannot be bought either for gold or money, what will buy it?
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000031_000004|You may say what you please," said the Princess.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000032_000005|In the daytime she sat down once more beneath the windows of the castle, and began to card with her golden carding comb; and then all happened as it had happened before.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000032_000006|The Princess asked her what she wanted for it, and she replied that it was not for sale, either for gold or money, but that if she could get leave to go to the Prince, and be with him during the night, she should have it.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000032_000007|But when she went up to the Prince's room he was again asleep, and, let her call him, or shake him, or weep as she would, he still slept on, and she could not put any life in him.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000032_000010|So she opened the window, and asked what she would take for it.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000032_000011|The girl said what she had said on each of the former occasions-that it was not for sale either for gold or for money, but if she could get leave to go to the Prince who lived there, and be with him during the night, she should have it.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000033_000000|"Yes," said the Princess, "I will gladly consent to that."
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000034_000001|So that evening, when the Princess came once more with her sleeping drink, he pretended to drink, but threw it away behind him, for he suspected that it was a sleeping drink.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000034_000004|I will say that I want to see what my bride can do, and bid her wash the shirt which has the three drops of tallow on it.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000035_000001|If she cannot do that, she is not worth having."
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000000|So the other trolls had to come and wash, but, the more they did, the blacker and uglier grew the shirt, until at length it was as black as if it had been up the chimney.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000002|There is a beggar girl sitting outside the window, and I'll be bound that she can wash better than any of you!
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000003|Come in, you girl there!" he cried.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000004|So she came in.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000005|"Can you wash this shirt clean?" he cried.
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000006|"Oh!
train-other-500/1168/134958/1168_134958_000037_000007|I don't know," she said; "but I will try." And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water than it was white as driven snow, and even whiter than that.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000001_000000|One day only had passed since Anne's conversation with Mrs Smith; but a keener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr Elliot's conduct, except by its effects in one quarter, that it became a matter of course the next morning, still to defer her explanatory visit in Rivers Street.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000001_000001|She had promised to be with the Musgroves from breakfast to dinner.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000002_000000|She could not keep her appointment punctually, however; the weather was unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friends' account, and felt it very much on her own, before she was able to attempt the walk.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000002_000001|When she reached the White Hart, and made her way to the proper apartment, she found herself neither arriving quite in time, nor the first to arrive.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000002_000002|The party before her were, Mrs Musgrove, talking to Mrs Croft, and Captain Harville to Captain Wentworth; and she immediately heard that Mary and Henrietta, too impatient to wait, had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon, and that the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to keep her there till they returned.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000002_000004|There was no delay, no waste of time.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000002_000005|She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000002_000006|Two minutes after her entering the room, Captain Wentworth said-
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000004_000000|Materials were at hand, on a separate table; he went to it, and nearly turning his back to them all, was engrossed by writing.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000005_000000|Mrs Musgrove was giving Mrs Croft the history of her eldest daughter's engagement, and just in that inconvenient tone of voice which was perfectly audible while it pretended to be a whisper.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000005_000002|Mrs Croft was attending with great good humour, and whenever she spoke at all, it was very sensibly.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000006_000001|At any rate, said I, it will be better than a long engagement."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000007_000000|"That is precisely what I was going to observe," cried Mrs Croft.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000007_000001|"I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000007_000002|I always think that no mutual-"
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000008_000001|It is what I always protested against for my children.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000008_000002|It is all very well, I used to say, for young people to be engaged, if there is a certainty of their being able to marry in six months, or even in twelve; but a long engagement-"
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000009_000001|To begin without knowing that at such a time there will be the means of marrying, I hold to be very unsafe and unwise, and what I think all parents should prevent as far as they can."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000012_000001|He looked at her with a smile, and a little motion of the head, which expressed, "Come to me, I have something to say;" and the unaffected, easy kindness of manner which denoted the feelings of an older acquaintance than he really was, strongly enforced the invitation.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000012_000003|As she joined him, Captain Harville's countenance re assumed the serious, thoughtful expression which seemed its natural character.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000013_000000|"Look here," said he, unfolding a parcel in his hand, and displaying a small miniature painting, "do you know who that is?"
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000014_000000|"Certainly: Captain Benwick."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000000|"Yes, and you may guess who it is for.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000001|But," (in a deep tone,) "it was not done for her.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000002|Miss Elliot, do you remember our walking together at Lyme, and grieving for him?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000003|I little thought then-but no matter. This was drawn at the Cape.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000004|He met with a clever young German artist at the Cape, and in compliance with a promise to my poor sister, sat to him, and was bringing it home for her; and I have now the charge of getting it properly set for another!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000005|It was a commission to me!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000006|But who else was there to employ?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000007|I hope I can allow for him.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000015_000008|I am not sorry, indeed, to make it over to another.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000016_000000|"No," replied Anne, in a low, feeling voice.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000016_000001|"That I can easily believe."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000017_000000|"It was not in her nature.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000017_000001|She doted on him."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000018_000000|"It would not be the nature of any woman who truly loved."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000000|Captain Harville smiled, as much as to say, "Do you claim that for your sex?" and she answered the question, smiling also, "Yes.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000001|We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000002|It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000003|We cannot help ourselves.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000004|We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000005|You are forced on exertion.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000019_000006|You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000020_000000|"Granting your assertion that the world does all this so soon for men (which, however, I do not think I shall grant), it does not apply to Benwick.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000020_000001|He has not been forced upon any exertion.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000020_000002|The peace turned him on shore at the very moment, and he has been living with us, in our little family circle, ever since."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000021_000000|"True," said Anne, "very true; I did not recollect; but what shall we say now, Captain Harville?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000022_000000|"No, no, it is not man's nature.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000022_000001|I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or have loved.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000022_000002|I believe the reverse.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000022_000003|I believe in a true analogy between our bodily frames and our mental; and that as our bodies are the strongest, so are our feelings; capable of bearing most rough usage, and riding out the heaviest weather."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000023_000000|"Your feelings may be the strongest," replied Anne, "but the same spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000023_000001|Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000023_000002|You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000023_000003|You are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship. Your home, country, friends, all quitted.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000023_000004|Neither time, nor health, nor life, to be called your own.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000024_000001|It was nothing more than that his pen had fallen down; but Anne was startled at finding him nearer than she had supposed, and half inclined to suspect that the pen had only fallen because he had been occupied by them, striving to catch sounds, which yet she did not think he could have caught.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000025_000000|"Have you finished your letter?" said Captain Harville.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000026_000000|"Not quite, a few lines more.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000026_000001|I shall have done in five minutes."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000000|"There is no hurry on my side.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000001|I am only ready whenever you are.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000002|I am in very good anchorage here," (smiling at Anne,) "well supplied, and want for nothing.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000003|No hurry for a signal at all.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000004|Well, Miss Elliot," (lowering his voice,) "as I was saying we shall never agree, I suppose, upon this point.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000005|No man and woman, would, probably.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000006|But let me observe that all histories are against you-all stories, prose and verse.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000007|If I had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000027_000008|Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000028_000000|"Perhaps I shall.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000028_000001|Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000028_000003|I will not allow books to prove anything."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000029_000000|"But how shall we prove anything?"
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000030_000000|"We never shall.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000030_000001|We never can expect to prove any thing upon such a point.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000031_000001|If I could explain to you all this, and all that a man can bear and do, and glories to do, for the sake of these treasures of his existence!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000031_000002|I speak, you know, only of such men as have hearts!" pressing his own with emotion.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000032_000000|"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000032_000001|God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow creatures!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000032_000002|I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000032_000003|I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as-if I may be allowed the expression-so long as you have an object.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000032_000004|I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000032_000005|All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000033_000000|She could not immediately have uttered another sentence; her heart was too full, her breath too much oppressed.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000034_000001|"There is no quarrelling with you.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000034_000002|And when I think of Benwick, my tongue is tied."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000035_000000|Their attention was called towards the others.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000035_000001|Mrs Croft was taking leave.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000036_000001|"I am going home, and you have an engagement with your friend.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000038_000000|"Yes," said he, "very true; here we separate, but Harville and I shall soon be after you; that is, Harville, if you are ready, I am in half a minute.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000038_000001|I know you will not be sorry to be off.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000038_000002|I shall be at your service in half a minute."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000039_000000|Mrs Croft left them, and Captain Wentworth, having sealed his letter with great rapidity, was indeed ready, and had even a hurried, agitated air, which shewed impatience to be gone.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000039_000002|She had the kindest "Good morning, God bless you!" from Captain Harville, but from him not a word, nor a look!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000039_000003|He had passed out of the room without a look!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000040_000000|She had only time, however, to move closer to the table where he had been writing, when footsteps were heard returning; the door opened, it was himself.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000041_000001|The letter, with a direction hardly legible, to "Miss a e--," was evidently the one which he had been folding so hastily. While supposed to be writing only to Captain Benwick, he had been also addressing her!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000041_000002|On the contents of that letter depended all which this world could do for her.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000041_000003|Anything was possible, anything might be defied rather than suspense.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000000|"I can listen no longer in silence.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000002|You pierce my soul.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000003|I am half agony, half hope.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000004|Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000005|I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000006|Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000007|I have loved none but you.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000010|For you alone, I think and plan.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000011|Have you not seen this?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000012|Can you fail to have understood my wishes?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000013|I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000014|I can hardly write.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000015|I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000016|You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000042_000017|You do us justice, indeed.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000043_000000|"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000043_000001|A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000044_000000|Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000044_000002|It was overpowering happiness.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000044_000003|And before she was beyond the first stage of full sensation, Charles, Mary, and Henrietta all came in.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000045_000000|The absolute necessity of seeming like herself produced then an immediate struggle; but after a while she could do no more.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000045_000002|They could then see that she looked very ill, were shocked and concerned, and would not stir without her for the world.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000045_000003|This was dreadful.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000046_000002|Charles, ring and order a chair.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000046_000003|She must not walk."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000047_000000|But the chair would never do.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000047_000001|Worse than all!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000049_000001|Pray be so good as to mention to the other gentlemen that we hope to see your whole party this evening.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000049_000002|I am afraid there had been some mistake; and I wish you particularly to assure Captain Harville and Captain Wentworth, that we hope to see them both."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000050_000001|Captain Harville has no thought but of going."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000051_000000|"Do you think so?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000051_000001|But I am afraid; and I should be so very sorry. Will you promise me to mention it, when you see them again?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000051_000002|You will see them both this morning, I dare say.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000051_000003|Do promise me."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000052_000000|"To be sure I will, if you wish it.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000052_000001|Charles, if you see Captain Harville anywhere, remember to give Miss Anne's message.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000052_000002|But indeed, my dear, you need not be uneasy.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000052_000003|Captain Harville holds himself quite engaged, I'll answer for it; and Captain Wentworth the same, I dare say."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000053_000001|It could not be very lasting, however. Even if he did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her power to send an intelligible sentence by Captain Harville.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000053_000002|Another momentary vexation occurred.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000053_000003|Charles, in his real concern and good nature, would go home with her; there was no preventing him.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000053_000004|This was almost cruel.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000054_000000|They were on Union Street, when a quicker step behind, a something of familiar sound, gave her two moments' preparation for the sight of Captain Wentworth.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000054_000001|He joined them; but, as if irresolute whether to join or to pass on, said nothing, only looked.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000054_000003|The cheeks which had been pale now glowed, and the movements which had hesitated were decided.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000054_000005|Presently, struck by a sudden thought, Charles said-
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000055_000001|Only to Gay Street, or farther up the town?"
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000056_000000|"I hardly know," replied Captain Wentworth, surprised.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000057_000000|"Are you going as high as Belmont?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000057_000001|Are you going near Camden Place? Because, if you are, I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my place, and give Anne your arm to her father's door.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000057_000004|By his description, a good deal like the second size double barrel of mine, which you shot with one day round Winthrop."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000058_000003|There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000058_000006|All the little variations of the last week were gone through; and of yesterday and today there could scarcely be an end.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000059_000000|She had not mistaken him.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000000|Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified. He persisted in having loved none but her.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000001|She had never been supplanted.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000002|He never even believed himself to see her equal.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000003|Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000004|He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000005|Her character was now fixed on his mind as perfection itself, maintaining the loveliest medium of fortitude and gentleness; but he was obliged to acknowledge that only at Uppercross had he learnt to do her justice, and only at Lyme had he begun to understand himself.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000006|At Lyme, he had received lessons of more than one sort.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000060_000007|The passing admiration of Mr Elliot had at least roused him, and the scenes on the Cobb and at Captain Harville's had fixed her superiority.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000061_000001|There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000062_000000|From that period his penance had become severe.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000000|"I found," said he, "that I was considered by Harville an engaged man! That neither Harville nor his wife entertained a doubt of our mutual attachment.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000001|I was startled and shocked.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000002|To a degree, I could contradict this instantly; but, when I began to reflect that others might have felt the same-her own family, nay, perhaps herself-I was no longer at my own disposal.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000003|I was hers in honour if she wished it. I had been unguarded.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000004|I had not thought seriously on this subject before.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000005|I had not considered that my excessive intimacy must have its danger of ill consequence in many ways; and that I had no right to be trying whether I could attach myself to either of the girls, at the risk of raising even an unpleasant report, were there no other ill effects.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000063_000006|I had been grossly wrong, and must abide the consequences."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000064_000001|It determined him to leave Lyme, and await her complete recovery elsewhere.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000064_000002|He would gladly weaken, by any fair means, whatever feelings or speculations concerning him might exist; and he went, therefore, to his brother's, meaning after a while to return to Kellynch, and act as circumstances might require.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000065_000001|I could have no other pleasure.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000065_000002|I deserved none.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000066_000001|It was too pleasing a blunder for a reproach.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000068_000000|"Here," said he, "ended the worst of my state; for now I could at least put myself in the way of happiness; I could exert myself; I could do something.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000068_000001|But to be waiting so long in inaction, and waiting only for evil, had been dreadful.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000068_000002|Within the first five minutes I said, 'I will be at Bath on Wednesday,' and I was.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000068_000003|Was it unpardonable to think it worth my while to come? and to arrive with some degree of hope?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000068_000004|You were single.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000068_000005|It was possible that you might retain the feelings of the past, as I did; and one encouragement happened to be mine.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000069_000001|That evening seemed to be made up of exquisite moments.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000070_000001|Even if your own feelings were reluctant or indifferent, to consider what powerful supports would be his!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000070_000002|Was it not enough to make the fool of me which I appeared?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000070_000003|How could I look on without agony?
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000071_000000|"You should have distinguished," replied Anne.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000071_000001|"You should not have suspected me now; the case is so different, and my age is so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000071_000003|In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000072_000000|"Perhaps I ought to have reasoned thus," he replied, "but I could not. I could not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of your character.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000072_000001|I could not bring it into play; it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000072_000003|I had no reason to believe her of less authority now.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000072_000004|The force of habit was to be added."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000074_000000|"No, no! your manner might be only the ease which your engagement to another man would give.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000074_000001|I left you in this belief; and yet, I was determined to see you again.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000075_000001|All the surprise and suspense, and every other painful part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she re-entered the house so happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some momentary apprehensions of its being impossible to last.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000076_000000|The evening came, the drawing rooms were lighted up, the company assembled.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000076_000001|It was but a card party, it was but a mixture of those who had never met before, and those who met too often; a commonplace business, too numerous for intimacy, too small for variety; but Anne had never found an evening shorter.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000076_000002|Glowing and lovely in sensibility and happiness, and more generally admired than she thought about or cared for, she had cheerful or forbearing feelings for every creature around her.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000076_000003|Mr Elliot was there; she avoided, but she could pity him. The Wallises, she had amusement in understanding them.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000076_000004|Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret-they would soon be innoxious cousins to her.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000076_000005|She cared not for Mrs Clay, and had nothing to blush for in the public manners of her father and sister.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000077_000000|It was in one of these short meetings, each apparently occupied in admiring a fine display of greenhouse plants, that she said-
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000078_000000|"I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of the right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe that I was right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly right in being guided by the friend whom you will love better than you do now.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000078_000002|Do not mistake me, however.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000078_000004|It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides; and for myself, I certainly never should, in any circumstance of tolerable similarity, give such advice.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000078_000005|But I mean, that I was right in submitting to her, and that if I had done otherwise, I should have suffered more in continuing the engagement than I did even in giving it up, because I should have suffered in my conscience.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000078_000006|I have now, as far as such a sentiment is allowable in human nature, nothing to reproach myself with; and if I mistake not, a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion."
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000079_000000|He looked at her, looked at Lady Russell, and looking again at her, replied, as if in cool deliberation-
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000080_000000|"Not yet.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000080_000001|But there are hopes of her being forgiven in time.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000080_000002|I trust to being in charity with her soon.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000081_000000|"Would I!" was all her answer; but the accent was decisive enough.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000000|"Good God!" he cried, "you would!
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000001|It is not that I did not think of it, or desire it, as what could alone crown all my other success; but I was proud, too proud to ask again.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000002|I did not understand you.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000003|I shut my eyes, and would not understand you, or do you justice.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000004|This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000005|Six years of separation and suffering might have been spared. It is a sort of pain, too, which is new to me.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000006|I have been used to the gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000007|I have valued myself on honourable toils and just rewards. Like other great men under reverses," he added, with a smile.
train-other-500/1171/130776/1171_130776_000082_000008|"I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000004_000000|WHY THE SEA IS SALT
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000005_000000|Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were two brothers, the one rich and the other poor.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000005_000001|When Christmas Eve came, the poor one had not a bite in the house, either of meat or bread; so he went to his brother, and begged him, in God's name, to give him something for Christmas Day.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000006_000000|"If you will do what I ask you, you shall have a whole ham," said he. The poor one immediately thanked him, and promised this.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000007_000000|"Well, here is the ham, and now you must go straight to Dead Man's Hall," said the rich brother, throwing the ham to him.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000008_000000|"Well, I will do what I have promised," said the other, and he took the ham and set off.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000008_000001|He went on and on for the livelong day, and at nightfall he came to a place where there was a bright light.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000009_000000|"I have no doubt this is the place," thought the man with the ham.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000010_000000|An old man with a long white beard was standing in the outhouse, chopping Yule logs.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000012_000000|"Good evening to you.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000012_000001|Where are you going at this late hour?" said the man.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000013_000000|"I am going to Dead Man's Hall, if only I am on the right track," answered the poor man.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000014_000000|"Oh! yes, you are right enough, for it is here," said the old man.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000014_000001|"When you get inside they will all want to buy your ham, for they don't get much meat to eat there; but you must not sell it unless you can get the hand mill which stands behind the door for it.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000014_000002|When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the hand mill, which is useful for almost everything."
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000016_000000|When he got in, everything happened just as the old man had said it would: all the people, great and small, came round him like ants on an ant hill, and each tried to outbid the other for the ham.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000017_000001|"But, if I sell it, I will have the hand mill which is standing there behind the door."
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000018_000000|At first they would not hear of this, and haggled and bargained with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and the people were forced to give him the hand mill.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000018_000001|When the man came out again into the yard, he asked the old wood cutter how he was to stop the hand mill, and when he had learned that, he thanked him and set off home with all the speed he could, but did not get there until after the clock had struck twelve on Christmas Eve.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000019_000000|"Where in the world have you been?" said the old woman.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000019_000001|"Here I have sat waiting hour after hour, and have not even two sticks to lay across each other under the Christmas porridge pot."
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000020_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000020_000002|"Bless me!" said the old woman as one thing after another appeared; and she wanted to know where her husband had got the mill from, but he would not tell her that.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000021_000000|"Never mind where I got it; you can see that it is a good one, and the water that turns it will never freeze," said the man.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000021_000001|So he ground meat and drink, and all kinds of good things, to last all Christmas tide, and on the third day he invited all his friends to come to a feast.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000022_000000|Now when the rich brother saw all that there was at the banquet and in the house, he was both vexed and angry, for he grudged everything his brother had.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000022_000002|"But, for heaven's sake, tell me where you got your riches from," said he to his brother.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000023_000001|"There you see what has brought me all my wealth!" said he, and brought out the mill, and made it grind first one thing and then another.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000023_000003|It was evening when the rich man got the mill home, and in the morning he bade the old woman go out and spread the hay after the mowers, and he would attend to the house himself that day, he said.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000025_000000|So the mill began to grind herrings and milk pottage, and first all the dishes and tubs were filled, and then it came out all over the kitchen floor.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000025_000002|So he threw open the parlor door, but it was not long before the mill had ground the parlor full too, and it was with difficulty and danger that the man could go through the stream of pottage and get hold of the door latch.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000025_000003|When he got the door open, he did not stay long in the room, but ran out, and the herrings and pottage came after him, and it streamed out over both farm and field.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000025_000005|It may be that he finds he is not good at making pottage and I should do well to help him." So they began to straggle homeward, but when they had got a little way up the hill they met the herrings and pottage and bread, all pouring forth and winding about one over the other, and the man himself in front of the flood.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000025_000008|Now the poor brother had both the money and the mill again.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000026_000001|"Yes, it could make salt," said he who owned it, and when the skipper heard that, he wished with all his might and main to have the mill, let it cost what it might, for, he thought, if he had it, he would get off having to sail far away over the perilous sea for freights of salt.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000026_000002|At first the man would not hear of parting with it, but the skipper begged and prayed, and at last the man sold it to him, and got many, many thousand dollars for it.
train-other-500/1171/134968/1171_134968_000027_000001|So the mill began to grind salt, till it spouted out like water, and when the skipper had got the ship filled he wanted to stop the mill, but whichsoever way he turned it, and how much soever he tried, it went on grinding, and the heap of salt grew higher and higher, until at last the ship sank.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000003_000000|THE CURTAIN FALLS
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000004_000000|May day.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000004_000001|There is merry making in Cripple Corner, the chimneys smoke, the patriarchal dining hall is hung with garlands, and mrs Goldstraw, the respected housekeeper, is very busy.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000005_000000|The bells ring gaily in the little town of Brieg, and flags are stretched across the street, and rifle shots are heard, and sounding music from brass instruments.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000005_000001|Streamer decorated casks of wine have been rolled out under a gay awning in the public way before the Inn, and there will be free feasting and revelry.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000005_000002|What with bells and banners, draperies hanging from windows, explosion of gunpowder, and reverberation of brass music, the little town of Brieg is all in a flutter, like the hearts of its simple people.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000006_000000|It was a stormy night last night, and the mountains are covered with snow.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000006_000001|But the sun is bright to day, the sweet air is fresh, the tin spires of the little town of Brieg are burnished silver, and the Alps are ranges of far off white cloud in a deep blue sky.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000007_000000|The primitive people of the little town of Brieg have built a greenwood arch across the street, under which the newly married pair shall pass in triumph from the church.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000007_000002|A scheme not difficult to carry into execution in the crooked little town of Brieg.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000008_000001|And behold Madame Dor, arrayed in a spotless pair of gloves of her own, with no hand in the air, but both hands clasped round the neck of the bride; to embrace whom Madame Dor has turned her broad back on the company, consistent to the last.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000009_000000|"Forgive me, my beautiful," pleads Madame Dor, "for that I ever was his she cat!"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000010_000000|"She cat, Madame Dor?
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000011_000000|"Engaged to sit watching my so charming mouse," are the explanatory words of Madame Dor, delivered with a penitential sob.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000012_000000|"Why, you were our best friend!
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000012_000001|George, dearest, tell Madame Dor.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000012_000002|Was she not our best friend?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000013_000001|What should we have done without her?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000014_000000|"You are both so generous," cries Madame Dor, accepting consolation, and immediately relapsing.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000014_000001|"But I commenced as a she cat."
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000015_000001|But like the cat in the fairy story, good Madame Dor," says Vendale, saluting her cheek, "you were a true woman.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000015_000002|And, being a true woman, the sympathy of your heart was with true love."
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000016_000000|"I don't wish to deprive Madame Dor of her share in the embraces that are going on," mr Bintrey puts in, watch in hand, "and I don't presume to offer any objection to your having got yourselves mixed together, in the corner there, like the three Graces.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000016_000001|I merely remark that I think it's time we were moving.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000017_000000|"Clear, sir," replies Joey, with a gracious grin.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000017_000001|"I'm clearer altogether, sir, for having lived so many weeks upon the surface.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000017_000003|At Cripple Corner, I was too much below it.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000017_000004|Atop of the Simpleton, I was a deal too high above it.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000017_000006|And if ever I take it in convivial, in all the rest of my days, I mean to do it this day, to the toast of 'Bless 'em both.'"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000018_000000|"I, too!" says Bintrey.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000019_000000|They go down to the door, where others are waiting for them, and they go quietly to the church, and the happy marriage takes place.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000019_000001|While the ceremony is yet in progress, the notary is called out.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000019_000002|When it is finished, he has returned, is standing behind Vendale, and touches him on the shoulder.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000020_000000|"Go to the side door, one moment, Monsieur Vendale.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000020_000001|Alone.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000020_000002|Leave Madame to me."
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000021_000000|At the side door of the church, are the same two men from the Hospice. They are snow stained and travel worn.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000021_000001|They wish him joy, and then each lays his broad hand upon Vendale's breast, and one says in a low voice, while the other steadfastly regards him:
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000022_000000|"It is here, Monsieur.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000022_000001|Your litter.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000022_000002|The very same."
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000023_000000|"My litter is here?
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000023_000001|Why?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000024_000000|"Hush!
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000024_000001|For the sake of Madame.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000024_000002|Your companion of that day-"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000025_000000|"What of him?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000026_000000|The man looks at his comrade, and his comrade takes him up.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000026_000001|Each keeps his hand laid earnestly on Vendale's breast.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000027_000001|The weather was now good, now bad."
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000028_000000|"Yes?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000029_000000|"He arrived at our Hospice the day before yesterday, and, having refreshed himself with sleep on the floor before the fire, wrapped in his cloak, was resolute to go on, before dark, to the next Hospice.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000029_000001|He had a great fear of that part of the way, and thought it would be worse to morrow."
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000030_000000|"Yes?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000031_000000|"He went on alone.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000031_000001|He had passed the gallery when an avalanche-like that which fell behind you near the Bridge of the Ganther-"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000032_000000|"Killed him?"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000000|"We dug him out, suffocated and broken all to pieces!
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000002|We have brought him here on the litter, to be buried.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000003|We must ascend the street outside.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000004|Madame must not see.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000005|It would be an accursed thing to bring the litter through the arch across the street, until Madame has passed through.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000006|As you descend, we who accompany the litter will set it down on the stones of the street the second to the right, and will stand before it.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000007|But do not let Madame turn her head towards the street the second to the right.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000008|There is no time to lose. Madame will be alarmed by your absence.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000033_000009|Adieu!"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000034_000000|Vendale returns to his bride, and draws her hand through his unmainied arm.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000034_000002|Heads are uncovered as she passes, hands are kissed to her, all the people bless her.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000034_000004|See where she goes in her youth and beauty; she who so nobly saved his life!"
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000035_000000|Near the corner of the street the second to the right, he speaks to her, and calls her attention to the windows on the opposite side.
train-other-500/1179/136599/1179_136599_000035_000001|The corner well passed, he says: "Do not look round, my darling, for a reason that I have," and turns his head.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000010_000000|CHAPTER one-THE DAWN
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000000|An ancient English Cathedral Tower?
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000001|How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here!
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000002|The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral?
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000003|How can that be here!
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000005|Maybe it is set up by the Sultan's orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000006|It is so, for cymbals clash, and the Sultan goes by to his palace in long procession.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000007|Ten thousand scimitars flash in the sunlight, and thrice ten thousand dancing girls strew flowers.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000008|Then, follow white elephants caparisoned in countless gorgeous colours, and infinite in number and attendants.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000009|Still the Cathedral Tower rises in the background, where it cannot be, and still no writhing figure is on the grim spike.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000010|Stay!
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000011|Is the spike so low a thing as the rusty spike on the top of a post of an old bedstead that has tumbled all awry?
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000011_000012|Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000012_000001|He is in the meanest and closest of small rooms.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000012_000002|Through the ragged window curtain, the light of early day steals in from a miserable court.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000012_000003|He lies, dressed, across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weight upon it.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000012_000004|Lying, also dressed and also across the bed, not longwise, are a Chinaman, a Lascar, and a haggard woman.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000012_000005|The two first are in a sleep or stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000013_000000|'Another?' says this woman, in a querulous, rattling whisper.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000013_000001|'Have another?'
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000014_000000|He looks about him, with his hand to his forehead.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000015_000001|'Poor me, poor me, my head is so bad.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000016_000000|She blows at the pipe as she speaks, and, occasionally bubbling at it, inhales much of its contents.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000017_000006|And it takes away the hunger as well as wittles, deary.'
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000018_000000|She hands him the nearly emptied pipe, and sinks back, turning over on her face.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000019_000000|He rises unsteadily from the bed, lays the pipe upon the hearth stone, draws back the ragged curtain, and looks with repugnance at his three companions.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000019_000001|He notices that the woman has opium smoked herself into a strange likeness of the Chinaman.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000019_000002|His form of cheek, eye, and temple, and his colour, are repeated in her.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000019_000003|Said Chinaman convulsively wrestles with one of his many Gods or Devils, perhaps, and snarls horribly.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000019_000004|The Lascar laughs and dribbles at the mouth.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000019_000005|The hostess is still.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000021_000001|'Visions of many butchers' shops, and public houses, and much credit?
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000021_000002|Of an increase of hideous customers, and this horrible bedstead set upright again, and this horrible court swept clean?
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000021_000003|What can she rise to, under any quantity of opium, higher than that!--Eh?'
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000022_000000|He bends down his ear, to listen to her mutterings.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000025_000000|Then he comes back, pounces on the Chinaman, and seizing him with both hands by the throat, turns him violently on the bed.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000025_000001|The Chinaman clutches the aggressive hands, resists, gasps, and protests.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000026_000000|'What do you say?'
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000027_000000|A watchful pause.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000029_000001|As he falls, the Lascar starts into a half risen attitude, glares with his eyes, lashes about him fiercely with his arms, and draws a phantom knife.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000029_000002|It then becomes apparent that the woman has taken possession of this knife, for safety's sake; for, she too starting up, and restraining and expostulating with him, the knife is visible in her dress, not in his, when they drowsily drop back, side by side.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000030_000000|There has been chattering and clattering enough between them, but to no purpose.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000030_000002|Wherefore 'unintelligible!' is again the comment of the watcher, made with some reassured nodding of his head, and a gloomy smile.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000030_000003|He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out.
train-other-500/1179/138367/1179_138367_000031_000000|That same afternoon, the massive gray square tower of an old Cathedral rises before the sight of a jaded traveller.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000002_000000|THE INQUEST ON john PHILLIPS
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000003_000000|Several of the notabilities of the neighbourhood had ridden or driven to the inn, attracted, of course, by curiosity, and the man with the maimed hand immediately joined them as they stood talking apart from the rest of us.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000003_000001|Now, I knew all such people of our parts well enough by sight, but I did not know this man, who certainly belonged to their class, and I turned to mr Lindsey, asking him who was this gentleman that had just ridden up.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000003_000002|He glanced at me with evident surprise at my question.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000004_000000|"What?" said he.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000004_000001|"You don't know him?
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000004_000002|That's the man there's been so much talk about lately-Sir Gilbert Carstairs of Hathercleugh House, the new successor to the old baronetcy."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000005_000000|I knew at once what he meant.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000005_000002|Its last proprietor, Sir Alexander Carstairs, sixth baronet, had been a good deal of a recluse, and I never remember seeing him but once, when I caught sight of him driving in the town-a very, very old man who looked like what he really was, a hermit.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000005_000004|It was said that the old gentleman was queer and eccentric, and hard to please or manage; however that may be, it is certain that he lived a lonely life till he was well over eighty years of age.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000000|So here was Sir Gilbert Carstairs, seventh baronet, before me, chatting away to some of the other gentlemen of the neighbourhood, and there was not a doubt in my mind that he was the man whom I had seen on the road the night of the murder.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000002|Moreover, the general build of the man, the tweed suit of grey that he was wearing, the attitude in which he stood, all convinced me that this was the person I had seen at the cross roads, holding his electric torch to the face of his map.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000005|No, I would say nothing.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000007|We were all packed pretty tightly in the big room of the inn when the coroner opened his inquiry.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000008|And at the very onset of the proceedings he made a remark which was expected by all of us that knew how these things are done and are likely to go.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000009|We could not do much that day; there would have to be an adjournment, after taking what he might call the surface evidence.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000006_000011|And all they could do that day, he went on, was to hear such evidence-not much-as had already been collected, and then to adjourn.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000007_000000|mr Lindsey had said to me as we drove along to the inn that I should find myself the principal witness, and that Gilverthwaite would come into the matter more prominently than anybody fancied.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000007_000001|And this, of course, was soon made evident.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000007_000002|What there was to tell of the dead man, up to that time, was little.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000007_000005|There was the telegram which had been sent by mr Gavin Smeaton-whoever he might be-from Dundee.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000008_000000|"And the question comes to this," observed the coroner, "what was this man doing at that place, and who was he likely to meet there?
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000009_000001|Mine, of course, was a straight enough story, told in a few sentences, and I did not see what great amount of questioning could arise out of it.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000009_000002|But whether it was that he fancied I was keeping something back, or that he wanted, even at that initial stage of the proceedings, to make matters as plain as possible, a solicitor that was representing the county police began to ask me questions.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000011_000000|"No one," I answered.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000012_000000|"And you've told me everything that he said to you?"
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000013_000000|"As near as I can recollect it, every word."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000014_000000|"He didn't describe the man you were to meet?"
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000015_000000|"He didn't-in any way."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000016_000000|"Nor tell you his name?"
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000017_000000|"Nor tell me his name."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000018_000000|"So that you'd no idea whatever as to who it was that you were to meet, nor for what purpose he was coming to meet Gilverthwaite, if Gilverthwaite had been able to meet him?"
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000019_000000|"I'd no idea," said i
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000019_000001|"I knew nothing but that I was to meet a man and give him a message."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000020_000000|He seemed to consider matters a little, keeping silence, and then he went off on another tack.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000021_000000|"What do you know of the movements of this man Gilverthwaite while he was lodging with your mother?" he asked.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000022_000000|"Next to nothing," I replied.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000023_000000|"But how much?" he inquired.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000024_000000|"Of my own knowledge, next to nothing," I repeated.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000024_000001|"I've seen him in the streets, and on the pier, and taking his walks on the walls and over the Border Bridge; and I've heard him say that he'd been out in the country. And that's all."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000025_000000|"Was he always alone?" he asked.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000028_000000|"Not one," said i "From first to last, not one."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000029_000000|He was silent again for a time, and all the folk staring at him and me; and for the life of me I could not think what other questions he could get out of his brain to throw at me.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000029_000001|But he found one, and put it with a sharp cast of his eye.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000031_000000|"Yes," I answered; "he did that when he came asking for lodgings.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000031_000001|He said he had folk of his own buried in the neighbourhood, and he was minded to take a look at their graves and at the old places where they'd lived."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000033_000000|"Just that," I replied.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000034_000000|"Did he tell you the names of such folk, or where they were buried, or anything of that sort?" he suggested.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000035_000000|"No-never," said i "He never mentioned the matter again."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000037_000000|"No," I replied; "but we knew that he took his walks into the country on both sides Tweed."
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000038_000000|He hesitated a bit, looked at me and back at his papers, and then, with a glance at the coroner, sat down.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000038_000001|And the coroner, nodding at him as if there was some understanding between them, turned to the jury.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000039_000000|"It may seem without the scope of this inquiry, gentlemen," he said, "but the presence of this man Gilverthwaite in the neighbourhood has evidently so much to do with the death of the other man, whom we know as john Phillips, that we must not neglect any pertinent evidence.
train-other-500/1179/139203/1179_139203_000039_000001|There is a gentleman present that can tell us something.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000000_000000|CHAPTER two-IN THE FEN
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000001_000000|It was near six in the May morning when Dick began to ride down into the fen upon his homeward way.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000002_000001|On either hand there were great fields of blowing reeds and willows, pools of water shaking in the wind, and treacherous bogs, as green as emerald, to tempt and to betray the traveller.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000002_000002|The path lay almost straight through the morass.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000002_000003|It was already very ancient; its foundation had been laid by Roman soldiery; in the lapse of ages much of it had sunk, and every here and there, for a few hundred yards, it lay submerged below the stagnant waters of the fen.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000003_000000|About a mile from Kettley, Dick came to one such break in the plain line of causeway, where the reeds and willows grew dispersedly like little islands and confused the eye.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000003_000001|The gap, besides, was more than usually long; it was a place where any stranger might come readily to mischief; and Dick bethought him, with something like a pang, of the lad whom he had so imperfectly directed.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000003_000002|As for himself, one look backward to where the windmill sails were turning black against the blue of heaven-one look forward to the high ground of Tunstall Forest, and he was sufficiently directed and held straight on, the water washing to his horse's knees, as safe as on a highway.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000004_000000|half-way across, and when he had already sighted the path rising high and dry upon the farther side, he was aware of a great splashing on his right, and saw a grey horse, sunk to its belly in the mud, and still spasmodically struggling.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000004_000001|Instantly, as though it had divined the neighbourhood of help, the poor beast began to neigh most piercingly.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000005_000000|"Alack!" thought Dick, "can the poor lad have perished?
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000005_000001|There is his horse, for certain-a brave grey!
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000005_000003|Shalt not lie there to drown by inches!"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000006_000000|And he made ready his crossbow, and put a quarrel through the creature's head.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000007_000000|Dick rode on after this act of rugged mercy, somewhat sobered in spirit, and looking closely about him for any sign of his less happy predecessor in the way.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000007_000001|"I would I had dared to tell him further," he thought; "for I fear he has miscarried in the slough."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000008_000000|And just as he was so thinking, a voice cried upon his name from the causeway side, and, looking over his shoulder, he saw the lad's face peering from a clump of reeds.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000009_000000|"Are ye there?" he said, reining in.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000009_000004|Here be none to trouble you."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000010_000000|"Nay, good boy, I have no arms, nor skill to use them if I had," replied the other, stepping forth upon the pathway.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000011_000000|"Why call me 'boy'?" cried Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000012_000000|"Good Master Shelton," said the other, "prithee forgive me.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000012_000001|I have none the least intention to offend.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000012_000002|Rather I would in every way beseech your gentleness and favour, for I am now worse bested than ever, having lost my way, my cloak, and my poor horse.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000012_000003|To have a riding rod and spurs, and never a horse to sit upon!
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000012_000004|And before all," he added, looking ruefully upon his clothes-"before all, to be so sorrily besmirched!"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000013_000000|"Tut!" cried Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000013_000002|Blood of wound or dust of travel-that's a man's adornment."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000014_000000|"Nay, then, I like him better plain," observed the lad.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000014_000002|Prithee, good Master Richard, help me with your good counsel.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000014_000003|If I come not safe to Holywood, I am undone."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000015_000001|Take my horse, and I will run awhile, and when I am weary we shall change again, that so, riding and running, both may go the speedier."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000016_000000|So the change was made, and they went forward as briskly as they durst on the uneven causeway, Dick with his hand upon the other's knee.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000018_000000|"Call me john Matcham," replied the lad.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000019_000000|"And what make ye to Holywood?" Dick continued.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000020_000000|"I seek sanctuary from a man that would oppress me," was the answer. "The good Abbot of Holywood is a strong pillar to the weak."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000021_000000|"And how came ye with Sir Daniel, Master Matcham?" pursued Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000022_000000|"Nay," cried the other, "by the abuse of force!
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000022_000003|Nay, there shall come a day between us; he shall smart for all!"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000023_000001|"'tis a valiant knight, and hath a hand of iron.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000025_000000|"Boy again!" said Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000026_000000|"Nay, then, shall I call you girl, good Richard?" asked Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000027_000000|"Never a girl for me," returned Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000027_000001|"I do abjure the crew of them!"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000029_000000|"Not I," said Dick, stoutly.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000029_000001|"They come not in my mind.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000029_000003|I never heard of a maid yet that was for any service, save one only; and she, poor shrew, was burned for a witch and the wearing of men's clothes in spite of nature."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000030_000000|Master Matcham crossed himself with fervour, and appeared to pray.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000031_000000|"What make ye?" Dick inquired.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000033_000000|"For a witch's spirit?" Dick cried.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000033_000001|"But pray for her, an ye list; she was the best wench in Europe, was this Joan of Arc.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000034_000000|"Well, but, good Master Richard," resumed Matcham, "an ye like maids so little, y' are no true natural man; for God made them twain by intention, and brought true love into the world, to be man's hope and woman's comfort."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000035_000000|"Faugh!" said Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000036_000000|"Nay, I am no fighter," said Matcham, eagerly.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000036_000001|"I mean no tittle of offence.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000036_000002|I meant but pleasantry.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000036_000003|And if I talk of women, it is because I heard ye were to marry."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000037_000000|"I to marry!" Dick exclaimed.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000037_000002|And with whom was I to marry?"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000038_000000|"One Joan Sedley," replied Matcham, colouring.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000038_000001|"It was Sir Daniel's doing; he hath money to gain upon both sides; and, indeed, I have heard the poor wench bemoaning herself pitifully of the match.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000038_000002|It seems she is of your mind, or else distasted to the bridegroom."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000039_000000|"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all," said Dick, with resignation.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000039_000001|"And she bemoaned herself?
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000039_000003|Do I bemoan myself?
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000039_000005|But if ye know her, prithee, of what favour is she?
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000039_000006|fair or foul?
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000039_000007|And is she shrewish or pleasant?"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000040_000000|"Nay, what matters it?" said Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000040_000002|What matters foul or fair?
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000040_000003|These be but toys.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000041_000000|"It is well said," replied Shelton.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000041_000001|"Little I reck."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000042_000000|"Your lady wife is like to have a pleasant lord," said Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000043_000001|"It trow there be worse as well as better."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000045_000000|"And why so poor?" asked Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000046_000000|"To wed a man of wood," replied his companion.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000046_000001|"O me, for a wooden husband!"
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000047_000000|"I think I be a man of wood, indeed," said Dick, "to trudge afoot the while you ride my horse; but it is good wood, I trow."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000048_000000|"Good Dick, forgive me," cried the other.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000048_000002|Forgive me now, sweet Dick."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000049_000001|"No harm is done.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000049_000002|I am not touchy, praise the saints."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000050_000000|And at that moment the wind, which was blowing straight behind them as they went, brought them the rough flourish of Sir Daniel's trumpeter.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000051_000000|"Hark!" said Dick, "the tucket soundeth."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000053_000002|And it is I, methinks, that am unhorsed."
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000054_000000|"Alack, I shall be taken!" cried the fugitive.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000001|"Methinks I help you very patently.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000002|But my heart is sorry for so spiritless a fellow!
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000004|The saints so do to me again if I default you.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000005|Come, pick me up a good heart, Sir White face.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000006|The way betters here; spur me the horse.
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000007|Go faster!
train-other-500/1184/135532/1184_135532_000055_000008|faster!
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000000_000000|It was, indeed, high time for them to run.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000000_000001|On every side the company of the Black Arrow was making for the hill.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000000_000002|Some, being better runners, or having open ground to run upon, had far outstripped the others, and were already close upon the goal; some, following valleys, had spread out to right and left, and outflanked the lads on either side.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000001_000000|Dick plunged into the nearest cover.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000001_000002|There followed next a piece of open, which Dick avoided, holding to his left.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000001_000003|Two minutes after, and the same obstacle arising, the lads followed the same course.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000002_000000|The lads paused to breathe.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000002_000001|There was no sound of pursuit.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000002_000002|Dick put his ear to the ground, and still there was nothing; but the wind, to be sure, still made a turmoil in the trees, and it was hard to make certain.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000003_000000|"On again," said Dick; and, tired as they were, and Matcham limping with his injured foot, they pulled themselves together, and once more pelted down the hill.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000004_000000|Three minutes later, they were breasting through a low thicket of evergreen.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000004_000001|High overhead, the tall trees made a continuous roof of foliage.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000004_000002|It was a pillared grove, as high as a cathedral, and except for the hollies among which the lads were struggling, open and smoothly swarded.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000005_000000|On the other side, pushing through the last fringe of evergreen, they blundered forth again into the open twilight of the grove.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000006_000000|"Stand!" cried a voice.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000007_000000|And there, between the huge stems, not fifty feet before them, they beheld a stout fellow in green, sore blown with running, who instantly drew an arrow to the head and covered them.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000007_000001|Matcham stopped with a cry; but Dick, without a pause, ran straight upon the forester, drawing his dagger as he went.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000007_000002|The other, whether he was startled by the daring of the onslaught, or whether he was hampered by his orders, did not shoot; he stood wavering; and before he had time to come to himself, Dick bounded at his throat, and sent him sprawling backward on the turf.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000007_000003|The arrow went one way and the bow another with a sounding twang.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000007_000004|The disarmed forester grappled his assailant; but the dagger shone and descended twice.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000008_000000|"On!" said Dick; and he once more pelted forward, Matcham trailing in the rear.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000008_000001|To say truth, they made but poor speed of it by now, labouring dismally as they ran, and catching for their breath like fish.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000008_000002|Matcham had a cruel stitch, and his head swam; and as for Dick, his knees were like lead.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000008_000003|But they kept up the form of running with undiminished courage.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000009_000000|Presently they came to the end of the grove.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000009_000001|It stopped abruptly; and there, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point, between two even walls of forest.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000010_000001|It was at first like the rush of a very high gust of wind, but soon it became more definite, and resolved itself into the galloping of horses; and then, in a flash, a whole company of men at arms came driving round the corner, swept before the lads, and were gone again upon the instant.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000010_000002|They rode as for their lives, in complete disorder; some of them were wounded; riderless horses galloped at their side with bloody saddles.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000010_000003|They were plainly fugitives from the great battle.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000011_000000|The noise of their passage had scarce begun to die away towards Shoreby, before fresh hoofs came echoing in their wake, and another deserter clattered down the road; this time a single rider and, by his splendid armour, a man of high degree.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000011_000001|Close after him there followed several baggage waggons, fleeing at an ungainly canter, the drivers flailing at the horses as if for life.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000011_000002|These must have run early in the day; but their cowardice was not to save them.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000011_000003|For just before they came abreast of where the lads stood wondering, a man in hacked armour, and seemingly beside himself with fury, overtook the waggons, and with the truncheon of a sword, began to cut the drivers down.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000011_000004|Some leaped from their places and plunged into the wood; the others he sabred as they sat, cursing them the while for cowards in a voice that was scarce human.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000012_000000|All this time the noise in the distance had continued to increase; the rumble of carts, the clatter of horses, the cries of men, a great, confused rumour, came swelling on the wind; and it was plain that the rout of a whole army was pouring, like an inundation, down the road.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000013_000000|Dick stood sombre.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000013_000001|He had meant to follow the highway till the turn for Holywood, and now he had to change his plan.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000013_000002|But above all, he had recognised the colours of Earl Risingham, and he knew that the battle had gone finally against the rose of Lancaster.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000013_000003|Had Sir Daniel joined, and was he now a fugitive and ruined? or had he deserted to the side of York, and was he forfeit to honour?
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000014_000000|"Come," he said, sternly; and, turning on his heel, he began to walk forward through the grove, with Matcham limping in his rear.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000015_000000|For some time they continued to thread the forest in silence.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000015_000001|It was now growing late; the sun was setting in the plain beyond Kettley; the tree tops overhead glowed golden; but the shadows had begun to grow darker and the chill of the night to fall.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000017_000000|Matcham sat down and began to weep.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000019_000000|"Conscience!" cried Matcham, looking fiercely up.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000019_000001|"Mine!
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000019_000003|And wherefore did ye slay him, the poor soul?
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000019_000004|He drew his arrow, but he let not fly; he held you in his hand, and spared you!
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000019_000005|'tis as brave to kill a kitten, as a man that not defends himself."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000020_000000|Dick was struck dumb.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000021_000000|"I slew him fair.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000023_000000|Dick was too furious to observe that "she."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000024_000000|"Marry!" he cried, "and here is news!
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000024_000001|Of any two the one will still be stronger.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000024_000003|Ye deserve a belting, Master Matcham, for your ill guidance and unthankfulness to meward; and what ye deserve ye shall have."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000025_000000|And Dick, who, even in his angriest temper, still preserved the appearance of composure, began to unbuckle his belt.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000026_000000|"Here shall be your supper," he said, grimly.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000026_000001|Matcham had stopped his tears; he was as white as a sheet, but he looked Dick steadily in the face, and never moved.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000026_000002|Dick took a step, swinging the belt.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000026_000003|Then he paused, embarrassed by the large eyes and the thin, weary face of his companion.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000026_000004|His courage began to subside.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000028_000000|"Nay," said Matcham, "I was in the right.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000028_000001|Come, cruel!
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000028_000002|I be lame; I be weary; I resist not; I ne'er did thee hurt; come, beat me-coward!"
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000029_000001|The strap fell by his side, and he stood irresolute, feeling like a fool.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000030_000000|"A plague upon thee, shrew!" he said.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000030_000003|"Beat you I will not," he continued; "but forgive you?--never.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000030_000007|Nay, then, if one cometh charging at you with a lance, and crieth he is weak, ye must let him pierce your body through!
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000031_000000|"And yet ye beat me not," returned Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000032_000000|"Let be," said Dick-"let be.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000032_000001|I will instruct you.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000032_000004|But, come, let us on.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000033_000000|But though Dick had talked himself back into his usual good humour, Matcham had forgiven him nothing.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000033_000001|His violence, the recollection of the forester whom he had slain-above all, the vision of the upraised belt, were things not easily to be forgotten.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000034_000000|"I will thank you, for the form's sake," said Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000034_000001|"But, in sooth, good Master Shelton, I had liever find my way alone.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000034_000002|Here is a wide wood; prithee, let each choose his path; I owe you a dinner and a lesson. Fare ye well!"
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000035_000000|"Nay," cried Dick, "if that be your tune, so be it, and a plague be with you!"
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000036_000000|Each turned aside, and they began walking off severally, with no thought of the direction, intent solely on their quarrel.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000036_000001|But Dick had not gone ten paces ere his name was called, and Matcham came running after.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000037_000000|"Dick," he said, "it were unmannerly to part so coldly.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000037_000001|Here is my hand, and my heart with it.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000037_000002|For all that wherein you have so excellently served and helped me-not for the form, but from the heart, I thank you. Fare ye right well."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000038_000001|But I misdoubt it shrewdly.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000039_000000|"Here," he said, "take my cross bow; shalt not go unarmed."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000040_000001|"Nay, boy, I have neither the strength to bend nor yet the skill to aim with it.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000040_000002|It were no help to me, good boy. But yet I thank you."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000042_000001|"The night is dark.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000042_000002|I would fain leave you on a path, at least.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000042_000003|My mind misgiveth me, y' are likely to be lost."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000043_000000|Without any more words, he began to walk forward, and the other once more followed him.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000043_000001|The blackness grew thicker and thicker.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000043_000002|Only here and there, in open places, they saw the sky, dotted with small stars.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000044_000000|At the end of half an hour of silent progress they came forth upon a broad patch of heathy open.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000047_000000|"I hear the chiding of a river," returned Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000049_000000|"Dick," said Matcham, "it may not be.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000049_000001|I can no more."
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000050_000000|"I saw a pit as we came down," said Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000051_000000|"Nay, but with all my heart!" cried Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135536/1184_135536_000052_000000|The pit was sandy and dry; a shock of brambles hung upon one hedge, and made a partial shelter; and there the two lads lay down, keeping close together for the sake of warmth, their quarrel all forgotten.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000001_000000|CHAPTER three-THE ROOM OVER THE CHAPEL
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000002_000000|From the battlements nothing further was observed.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000003_000000|When the night was at length fairly come, Throgmorton was led to a room overlooking an angle of the moat.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000003_000003|The messenger had got away in safety.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000004_000000|Sir Daniel's brow grew clearer.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000004_000001|He turned to Hatch.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000006_000002|It was now his chief purpose to escape from Tunstall Moat House as speedily as might be; and yet, before he went, he desired a word with both of these.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000007_000000|At length, with a lamp in one hand, he mounted to his new apartment.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000007_000001|It was large, low, and somewhat dark.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000007_000002|The window looked upon the moat, and although it was so high up, it was heavily barred.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000007_000003|The bed was luxurious, with one pillow of down and one of lavender, and a red coverlet worked in a pattern of roses.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000007_000005|Dick made the round, lifting the arras, sounding the panels, seeking vainly to open the cupboards.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000008_000000|For what reason had he been given this chamber?
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000008_000001|It was larger and finer than his own.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000008_000002|Could it conceal a snare?
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000008_000003|Was there a secret entrance? Was it, indeed, haunted?
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000008_000004|His blood ran a little chilly in his veins.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000009_000000|Immediately over him the heavy foot of a sentry trod the leads.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000009_000002|Certainly there was a secret passage in the hall; the eye that had watched him from the arras gave him proof of that.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000010_000000|To sleep in such a place, he felt, would be foolhardy.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000010_000001|He made his weapons ready, and took his position in a corner of the room behind the door.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000010_000002|If ill was intended, he would sell his life dear.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000014_000000|Dick ran to the door, drew the bolt, and admitted Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000014_000001|He was very pale, and carried a lamp in one hand and a drawn dagger in the other.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000015_000001|"Swift, Dick!
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000015_000002|This house is full of spies; I hear their feet follow me in the corridors; I hear them breathe behind the arras."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000016_000000|"Well, content you," returned Dick, "it is closed.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000016_000001|We are safe for this while, if there be safety anywhere within these walls.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000016_000002|But my heart is glad to see you.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000016_000003|By the mass, lad, I thought ye were sped!
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000016_000004|Where hid ye?"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000017_000001|"Since we be met, it matters not. But, Dick, are your eyes open?
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000017_000002|Have they told you of to morrow's doings?"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000018_000000|"Not they," replied Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000018_000001|"What make they to morrow?"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000019_000000|"To morrow, or to night, I know not," said the other, "but one time or other, Dick, they do intend upon your life.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000019_000001|I had the proof of it; I have heard them whisper; nay, they as good as told me."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000020_000001|I had thought as much."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000021_000000|And he told him the day's occurrences at length.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000022_000000|When it was done, Matcham arose and began, in turn, to examine the apartment.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000023_000000|"No," he said, "there is no entrance visible.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000023_000001|Yet 'tis a pure certainty there is one.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000023_000002|Dick, I will stay by you.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000023_000004|And I can help-look!
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000023_000005|I have stolen a dagger-I will do my best!
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000025_000000|And he grasped the other's hand in silence.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000026_000000|"I will tell you," he resumed.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000026_000001|"There is a window, out of which the messenger descended; the rope should still be in the chamber.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000026_000002|'tis a hope."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000027_000000|"Hist!" said Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000028_000000|Both gave ear.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000028_000001|There was a sound below the floor; then it paused, and then began again.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000030_000001|Well, let him come; it shall go hard with him;" and he ground his teeth.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000031_000001|"Perchance he will betray himself."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000032_000000|They blew out both the lamps and lay still as death.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000032_000001|The footfalls underneath were very soft, but they were clearly audible.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000033_000001|It widened; a trap door was being opened, letting in a gush of light.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000033_000002|They could see the strong hand pushing it up; and Dick raised his cross bow, waiting for the head to follow.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000034_000000|But now there came an interruption.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000034_000001|From a distant corner of the Moat House shouts began to be heard, and first one voice, and then several, crying aloud upon a name.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000035_000000|Here was a moment's respite.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000035_000001|Dick breathed deep, and then, and not till then, he gave ear to the disturbance which had interrupted the attack, and which was now rather increasing than diminishing.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000035_000002|All about the Moat House feet were running, doors were opening and slamming, and still the voice of Sir Daniel towered above all this bustle, shouting for "Joanna."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000036_000000|"Joanna!" repeated Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000036_000001|"Why, who the murrain should this be?
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000036_000002|Here is no Joanna, nor ever hath been.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000036_000003|What meaneth it?"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000037_000000|Matcham was silent.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000037_000001|He seemed to have drawn further away.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000038_000000|"Jack," said Dick, "I wot not where ye were all day.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000039_000000|"Nay," returned Matcham, "I saw her not."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000040_000000|"Nor heard tell of her?" he pursued.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000041_000000|The steps drew nearer.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000041_000001|Sir Daniel was still roaring the name of Joanna from the courtyard.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000042_000000|"Did ye hear of her?" repeated Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000043_000000|"I heard of her," said Matcham.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000044_000000|"How your voice twitters!
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000044_000002|"'tis a most excellent good fortune, this Joanna; it will take their minds from us."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000045_000000|"Dick," cried Matcham, "I am lost; we are both lost.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000045_000001|Let us flee if there be yet time.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000045_000002|They will not rest till they have found me.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000045_000004|Let me forth, Dick-good Dick, let me away!"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000046_000000|She was groping for the bolt, when Dick at last comprehended.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000049_000001|But now death has me, and my time's out, and before I die I must say this: Y' are the best maid and the bravest under heaven, and, if only I could live, I would marry you blithely; and, live or die, I love you."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000050_000000|She answered nothing.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000051_000000|"Come," he said, "speak up, Jack.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000051_000001|Come, be a good maid, and say ye love me!"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000052_000000|"Why, Dick," she cried, "would I be here?"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000053_000001|But now that I think, how found ye my chamber?"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000054_000000|"I asked it of Dame Hatch," she answered.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000055_000001|We have time before us."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000056_000000|And just then, as if to contradict his words, feet came down the corridor, and a fist beat roughly on the door.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000057_000000|"Here!" cried a voice.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000057_000001|"Open, Master Dick; open!" Dick neither moved nor answered.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000059_000000|One after another, men came trooping to the door.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000059_000001|Then Sir Daniel arrived himself, and there was a sudden cessation of the noise.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000060_000000|"Dick," cried the knight, "be not an ass.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000060_000002|We know she is within there.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000060_000003|Open, then, the door, man."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000061_000000|Dick was again silent.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000062_000000|"Down with it," said Sir Daniel.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000062_000002|Solid as it was, and strongly bolted, it would soon have given way; but once more fortune interfered. Over the thunderstorm of blows the cry of a sentinel was heard; it was followed by another; shouts ran along the battlements, shouts answered out of the wood.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000062_000003|In the first moment of alarm it sounded as if the foresters were carrying the Moat House by assault.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000062_000004|And Sir Daniel and his men, desisting instantly from their attack upon Dick's chamber, hurried to defend the walls.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000063_000000|"Now," cried Dick, "we are saved."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000064_000000|He seized the great old bedstead with both hands, and bent himself in vain to move it.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000065_000000|"Help me, Jack.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000065_000001|For your life's sake, help me stoutly!" he cried.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000067_000001|"He will then enter by the trap."
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000068_000000|"Not so," replied Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000068_000002|It is by the trap that we shall flee.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000068_000003|Hark!
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000070_000000|"He will return anon," said Dick.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000070_000001|"To the trap!"
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000071_000000|He lighted a lamp, and they went together into the corner of the room. The open chink through which some light still glittered was easily discovered, and, taking a stout sword from his small armoury, Dick thrust it deep into the seam, and weighed strenuously on the hilt.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000071_000001|The trap moved, gaped a little, and at length came widely open.
train-other-500/1184/135540/1184_135540_000071_000002|Seizing it with their hands, the two young folk threw it back.
train-other-500/1187/136220/1187_136220_000066_000001|It was terrible to see her, so small a thing, driving on thus into what appeared to be the very jaws of death.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000000_000001|"Amongst many other things, I have learned, White Man, of that ceremony which is to take place to morrow, whereat my husband is to be deposed and my child dishonoured, that they may make room for you and for your child-you, the white wanderer, and your son, the Heaven born, the Fore ordained!"
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000001_000001|"If Tikal is to be driven from his place, it is because of his crimes."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000002_000001|I know how you forged the writing, setting the false for the true within the holy symbol of the Heart.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000002_000003|Yes, I have the proofs, and when needful I will show them.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000002_000004|I did not come here to do murder, at least not upon the infant; but the sight of it sleeping in its cradle overcame me, and of a sudden I determined to wreak my wrongs upon it and upon its mother.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000002_000005|In this I have failed, but when I denounce you to the Council, then I shall not fail; then you will be known for what you are, and die the death that you deserve."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000003_000000|"It comes into my mind, husband," said Maya coldly, "that if we would save our own lives we must rob this woman of hers.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000003_000001|Such a doom she has richly earned, nor will any blame us when they learn what was her errand here."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000005_000000|"Be silent," he said, "if you wish to keep your soul in you.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000007_000000|"Now let us take counsel," I said.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000008_000000|"Yes," answered the señor, "let us take counsel, for we need it.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000009_000002|Also, we should be missed and overtaken."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000012_000002|So soon as she could leave her bed of sickness she came here to taunt me with the doom she had prepared, knowing that I was alone.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000012_000004|No, the issue is plain; if we cannot fly, either she must die or we must.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000012_000005|Is it not so, Ignatio?"
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000013_000000|"It seems that it is so," I answered sadly, "and yet the thing is awful."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000014_000001|Alas! that I was ever born, that I should live to stand face to face with such necessity. Could not another hand be found?
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000014_000002|No; for then we should confess ourselves as murderers.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000016_000000|Presently he was with us again.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000017_000000|"Is it done?" asked Maya hoarsely.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000018_000001|If she is to be killed, some other man must do the deed."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000020_000000|"What, then, is to be done with this woman?" I asked.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000020_000001|"We cannot take her with us."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000021_000000|"No; but we can leave her here gagged and bound till they chance to find her," answered the señor.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000021_000002|May your fierce heart learn a lesson of mercy from the deed.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000021_000003|Farewell."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000023_000000|Into this skiff we entered, and, having hoisted the sail, set our course by the stars, steering for that village whence, a year before, we had embarked for the City of the Heart.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000023_000001|The wind being favourable to us, our progress was rapid, and by the first grey light of dawn we caught sight of the village not a mile away.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000024_000000|Passing round the back of the village without being seen, for as yet folk were scarcely astir, we began our dreadful journey.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000024_000001|For a while Maya bore up well, but as the heat of the day increased she showed signs of tiring, which was little to be wondered at, seeing that she carried in her arms a child not three weeks old.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000024_000003|In the early afternoon we started on again, and for the rest of that dreary day struggled forward as best we could, the señor and I carrying the infant alternately in addition to our other burdens.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000025_000001|Still we rose with the sun and went on our way, for it seemed that there was nothing else to do.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000027_000000|Now, our plan had been to avoid this house and gain the pass, where we proposed to stay till daybreak, and then to travel down the mountain slopes into the wilderness.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000029_000000|"If we do not enter, my child will die in the cold," she answered. "You were too tender to secure our safety by putting that would be murderess to death; have you, then, the heart, husband, to kill your own child?"
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000031_000000|"Be it as you will."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000033_000000|"Who are you?" he cried, springing up.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000033_000001|"Pardon, Lady, but in that garb I did not know you."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000034_000002|Give us food, as you are bound to do."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000035_000001|We ate, and, after eating, slept, for we were very weary, bidding the man watch and tell us if he saw any stranger approaching the house.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000035_000002|Before dawn he woke us, and we rose.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000035_000004|Then I knew that it was finished, and called the others.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000036_000000|"Now, there are three things that we can do," I said: "fly towards the pass; defend this house; or surrender ourselves."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000037_000000|"There is no time to fly," answered the señor, "therefore it is my counsel that we fight."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000038_000001|Well, friend, we can try it if you wish, and perhaps it will be as good a way of meeting our deaths as any other."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000039_000000|"This is folly," broke in Maya; "there is but one thing to do; yield ourselves and trust to fortune, if, indeed, fortune has any good in store for us.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000039_000001|Only I wish that we had done it before we undertook this weary journey."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000040_000000|As she spoke, by the light of the rising sun we saw a great number of men forming a circle round the house.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000041_000000|"Let us put a bold face on it," said Maya.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000041_000001|So we opened the door, walked out, and came into the presence of Tikal, Dimas, and the other lords.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000043_000000|"Whom should I seek but your fair self, cousin?" answered Tikal-and I saw that his eye was wild, as though with drink.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000045_000000|"Tell us of what we are charged that you follow us as though we were evil doers."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000046_000000|"Lady," the old priest answered gravely, "it would seem that you have earned this name, you and your companions together.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000046_000002|Search was made, and at last your private apartments were broken open, and there she was discovered bound and gagged.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000046_000003|From her we learned the secret of your flight, and followed after you."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000049_000000|"If we have broken our oaths," said Maya, "we broke them to save our lives.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000049_000002|On the very night of my marriage a murderer was set upon my husband, and perhaps one stands there"--and she pointed to Tikal-"who could tell us who he was and whence he came.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000049_000003|Three days ago another murderer sought the life of our child, and that murderer the wife of the Lord Tikal.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000049_000004|Is it, then, a sin that we should take from the land one whose life is not safe within it."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000050_000002|Come, enter the litter that is prepared for you, and let us be going."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000052_000000|"It shall be as you wish, Lady.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000052_000001|Your husband and your friend can travel by your side, and guards shall surround your litter to see that none molest you."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000000|Then we started.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000002|Then, indeed, we were footsore, hungry, and racked with fears, but at least the hope of freedom shone before us like a guiding star, whereas now, although we travelled in comfort, it was to find shame, exposure, and death awaiting us at last.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000003|For my part, indeed, this thought did not move me very much, seeing that hope had left me, and without hope I no longer wished to live.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000005|Even now I sometimes dream that I am back in the City of the Heart, and wake cold with fear as a man wakes from some haunted sleep.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000006|True, there I had place and power and luxury, but oh!
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000007|sooner would I have earned my livelihood herding cattle in the wilderness than fret away my life within that golden cage.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000053_000010|Therefore I, an outworn and disappointed man, was prepared to welcome the doom that awaited me, but how would it be with the others who were still full of love and youth?
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000054_000000|Late that night we reached the city and were led, not to the palace where we lived, but towards the enclosure of the pyramid.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000055_000001|"Our road lies yonder."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000056_000000|"No, lady," he answered, "my orders are to take you up the stairway of the pyramid."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000057_000000|Now Maya pressed her face against the face of her child and sobbed, for she knew that once more we must inhabit the darksome vault where her father had been taken to die.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000057_000001|They led us up the stair and down the narrow way, till we stood in the lamp lit hall, and heard our prison gates clash behind us.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000058_000001|I remembered that shaft before the altar, and seemed to hear the murmur of the water in its depths!
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000059_000000|As I mused thus, even through the massive walls of the vault I heard a woman scream, and, springing from my bed, I ran into the central hall, where the lamps burned always.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000061_000002|"I have dreamed a fearful dream.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000061_000003|I dreamed that my father came to me, and-I cannot tell it-the child-the child----" and she broke down utterly, and could say no more.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000062_000000|"This place is full of evil memories, and her strength is shattered," said the señor, when we had calmed her somewhat.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000062_000001|"Come back, wife, and sleep."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000063_000000|"Sleep!" she answered.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000063_000002|Oh! that vision!
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000063_000003|Truly the curse of Mattai has taken hold of me."
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000064_000000|Some few hours later we met again in the great hall, but Maya said nothing of her dream, nor did I ask her to tell it, though I could see from her face that it was not forgotten.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000064_000001|We ate, or made pretence to eat, and sat for a while in silence, till at length the gates opened, and through them came Dimas and some companion priests.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000064_000002|Bidding these to stand back, he advanced alone and greeted us kindly.
train-other-500/1187/136238/1187_136238_000065_000000|"I am grieved," he said, "that you should again be called upon to occupy this gloomy lodging; but I had no choice in the matter, since I am but the servant of the Council, and its commands were strict.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000003_000000|My friend, now I, Ignatio, have finished writing that story of how I came to visit the Golden City of the Indians, which so many have believed to be fabulous, and that to day exists no more.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000003_000001|It is a strange story, and I trust that it may interest you to read it when I am dead and buried.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000004_000000|Perhaps you would like to know the details of our homeward journey, but in truth I have neither the strength nor the patience to set them down.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000004_000002|We found the /hacienda/ deserted, for it had the reputation of being haunted, though some of the Indian dependents, or rather slaves, of that great villain, Don Pedro Moreno, still worked patches of the land.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000004_000004|For, my friend, now my ambitions were finished.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000004_000005|I had played my last card and it had failed me, and, albeit with a sorrowful mind, I abandoned my hopes for the regeneration of the Indians which I had no longer the means or the health and vigour to attempt.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000004_000006|Also, I was no more Lord of the Heart, for with its counterpart it was lost in the Sanctuary yonder beneath the waters of the Holy Lake, and with the ancient symbol went much of my power.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000005_000000|For five years the señor and I lived here together, but I think that during all this time he was dying.
train-other-500/1187/136241/1187_136241_000005_000002|In vain; he would not do it, indeed I do not think that he cared whether he lived or died.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000000_000000|CHAPTER six
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000002_000000|She was not one that would have disturbed the house much on her own account.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000002_000001|Every object she saw, the moment she crossed the threshold, appeared to delight her; and every circumstance that took place about her: except the preparing for the burial, and the presence of the mourners.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000002_000003|I imagined her as little likely to die as myself. She was rather thin, but young, and fresh complexioned, and her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000002_000005|We don't in general take to foreigners here, mr Lockwood, unless they take to us first.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000003_000002|Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000005_000000|Heathcliff bore his degradation pretty well at first, because Cathy taught him what she learnt, and worked or played with him in the fields. They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000005_000004|We searched the house, above and below, and the yard and stables; they were invisible: and, at last, Hindley in a passion told us to bolt the doors, and swore nobody should let them in that night.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000005_000006|In a while, I distinguished steps coming up the road, and the light of a lantern glimmered through the gate.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000005_000007|I threw a shawl over my head and ran to prevent them from waking mr Earnshaw by knocking.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000000|'Where is Miss Catherine?' I cried hurriedly.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000003|Or reading sermons, and being catechised by their manservant, and set to learn a column of Scripture names, if they don't answer properly?' 'Probably not,' I responded.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000005|We ran from the top of the Heights to the park, without stopping-Catherine completely beaten in the race, because she was barefoot.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000006|You'll have to seek for her shoes in the bog to morrow.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000011|Shouldn't they have been happy?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000013|And now, guess what your good children were doing?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000014|Isabella-I believe she is eleven, a year younger than Cathy-lay screaming at the farther end of the room, shrieking as if witches were running red hot needles into her.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000016|That was their pleasure! to quarrel who should hold a heap of warm hair, and each begin to cry because both, after struggling to get it, refused to take it.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000017|We laughed outright at the petted things; we did despise them!
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000006_000018|When would you catch me wishing to have what Catherine wanted? or find us by ourselves, seeking entertainment in yelling, and sobbing, and rolling on the ground, divided by the whole room?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000007_000000|'Hush, hush!' I interrupted.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000000|'I told you we laughed,' he answered.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000002|Oh, papa!
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000003|Oh, mamma, come here.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000004|Oh, papa, oh!"
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000005|They really did howl out something in that way.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000007|I had Cathy by the hand, and was urging her on, when all at once she fell down.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000009|"They have let the bull dog loose, and he holds me!"
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000010|The devil had seized her ankle, Nelly: I heard his abominable snorting.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000014|The dog was throttled off; his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000015|The man took Cathy up; she was sick: not from fear, I'm certain, but from pain.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000016|He carried her in; I followed, grumbling execrations and vengeance.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000017|"What prey, Robert?" hallooed Linton from the entrance.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000020|mr Linton, sir, don't lay by your gun." "No, no, Robert," said the old fool.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000021|"The rascals knew that yesterday was my rent day: they thought to have me cleverly.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000022|Come in; I'll furnish them a reception.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000023|There, john, fasten the chain.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000024|Give Skulker some water, Jenny.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000025|To beard a magistrate in his stronghold, and on the Sabbath, too! Where will their insolence stop?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000026|Oh, my dear Mary, look here!
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000028|He pulled me under the chandelier, and mrs Linton placed her spectacles on her nose and raised her hands in horror.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000029|The cowardly children crept nearer also, Isabella lisping-"Frightful thing!
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000030|Put him in the cellar, papa.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000031|He's exactly like the son of the fortune teller that stole my tame pheasant.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000008_000032|Isn't he, Edgar?"
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000009_000000|'While they examined me, Cathy came round; she heard the last speech, and laughed.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000009_000002|They see us at church, you know, though we seldom meet them elsewhere.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000009_000003|"That's Miss Earnshaw?" he whispered to his mother, "and look how Skulker has bitten her-how her foot bleeds!"
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000010_000000|'"Miss Earnshaw?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000010_000001|Nonsense!" cried the dame; "Miss Earnshaw scouring the country with a gipsy!
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000010_000002|And yet, my dear, the child is in mourning-surely it is-and she may be lamed for life!"
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000011_000000|'"What culpable carelessness in her brother!" exclaimed mr Linton, turning from me to Catherine.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000011_000001|"I've understood from Shielders"' (that was the curate, sir) '"that he lets her grow up in absolute heathenism. But who is this?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000011_000002|Where did she pick up this companion?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000011_000003|Oho!
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000012_000001|Did you notice his language, Linton?
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000013_000001|I refused to go without Cathy; he dragged me into the garden, pushed the lantern into my hand, assured me that mr Earnshaw should be informed of my behaviour, and, bidding me march directly, secured the door again.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000013_000002|The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments, unless they let her out.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000013_000003|She sat on the sofa quietly.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000013_000005|Then the woman servant brought a basin of warm water, and washed her feet; and mr Linton mixed a tumbler of negus, and Isabella emptied a plateful of cakes into her lap, and Edgar stood gaping at a distance.
train-other-500/1200/135043/1200_135043_000014_000002|The luckless adventure made Earnshaw furious.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000003_000004|I gazed round for a means of diverting her thoughts.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000003_000005|On one side of the road rose a high, rough bank, where hazels and stunted oaks, with their roots half exposed, held uncertain tenure: the soil was too loose for the latter; and strong winds had blown some nearly horizontal.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000004_000000|'Look, Miss!' I exclaimed, pointing to a nook under the roots of one twisted tree.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000004_000001|'Winter is not here yet.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000004_000002|There's a little flower up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000005_000001|You're so low, I daresay I shall keep up with you.'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000009_000000|'Oh, it will be something worse,' she said.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000010_000001|'It's wrong to anticipate evil.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000010_000003|My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000013_000000|'I fret about nothing on earth except papa's illness,' answered my companion.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000013_000002|And I'll never-never-oh, never, while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000013_000003|I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000014_000000|'Good words,' I replied.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000015_000003|But the return was no such easy matter: the stones were smooth and neatly cemented, and the rose bushes and black berry stragglers could yield no assistance in re ascending.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000015_000004|I, like a fool, didn't recollect that, till I heard her laughing and exclaiming-'Ellen! you'll have to fetch the key, or else I must run round to the porter's lodge.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000015_000005|I can't scale the ramparts on this side!'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000017_000000|Catherine amused herself with dancing to and fro before the door, while I tried all the large keys in succession.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000017_000001|I had applied the last, and found that none would do; so, repeating my desire that she would remain there, I was about to hurry home as fast as I could, when an approaching sound arrested me.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000017_000002|It was the trot of a horse; Cathy's dance stopped also.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000018_000000|'Who is that?' I whispered.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000020_000001|Don't be in haste to enter, for I have an explanation to ask and obtain.'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000001|Yes; you have cause to blush.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000003|You especially, the elder; and less sensitive, as it turns out.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000004|I've got your letters, and if you give me any pertness I'll send them to your father.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000005|I presume you grew weary of the amusement and dropped it, didn't you?
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000006|Well, you dropped Linton with it into a Slough of Despond.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000007|He was in earnest: in love, really.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000008|As true as I live, he's dying for you; breaking his heart at your fickleness: not figuratively, but actually.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000022_000009|Though Hareton has made him a standing jest for six weeks, and I have used more serious measures, and attempted to frighten him out of his idiotcy, he gets worse daily; and he'll be under the sod before summer, unless you restore him!'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000023_000000|'How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?' I called from the inside.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000023_000001|'Pray ride on!
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000024_000000|'I was not aware there were eavesdroppers,' muttered the detected villain.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000024_000001|'Worthy mrs Dean, I like you, but I don't like your double dealing,' he added aloud.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000024_000005|I swear, on my salvation, he's going to his grave, and none but you can save him!'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000026_000000|'I swear Linton is dying,' repeated Heathcliff, looking hard at me.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000026_000001|'And grief and disappointment are hastening his death.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000026_000002|Nelly, if you won't let her go, you can walk over yourself.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000026_000003|But I shall not return till this time next week; and I think your master himself would scarcely object to her visiting her cousin.'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000028_000001|I'll own that he's with a harsh set.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000028_000003|Don't mind mrs Dean's cruel cautions; but be generous, and contrive to see him.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000028_000004|He dreams of you day and night, and cannot be persuaded that you don't hate him, since you neither write nor call.'
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000029_000000|I closed the door, and rolled a stone to assist the loosened lock in holding it; and spreading my umbrella, I drew my charge underneath: for the rain began to drive through the moaning branches of the trees, and warned us to avoid delay.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000029_000001|Our hurry prevented any comment on the encounter with Heathcliff, as we stretched towards home; but I divined instinctively that Catherine's heart was clouded now in double darkness. Her features were so sad, they did not seem hers: she evidently regarded what she had heard as every syllable true.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000030_000002|She returned, and asked me to sit with her in the library.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000030_000003|We took our tea together; and afterwards she lay down on the rug, and told me not to talk, for she was weary.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000030_000004|I got a book, and pretended to read.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000030_000007|Alas!
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000030_000008|I hadn't skill to counteract the effect his account had produced: it was just what he intended.
train-other-500/1200/135059/1200_135059_000031_000000|'You may be right, Ellen,' she answered; 'but I shall never feel at ease till I know.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000000_000001|None here care what becomes of him; if you do, act the nurse; if you do not, lock him up and leave him."
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000002_000004|I did pity her then, I'm sure: still I didn't wish to lose my place, you know.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000003_000001|Get up, instantly, and tell him."
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000004_000000|'Having uttered this speech, she vanished again.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000004_000002|Nothing stirred-the house was quiet.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000005_000000|'She's mistaken, I said to myself.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000005_000001|He's got over it.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000005_000002|I needn't disturb them; and I began to doze.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000006_000000|'I delivered Catherine's message.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000006_000002|I followed.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000007_000000|'"Now-Catherine," he said, "how do you feel?"
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000008_000000|'She was dumb.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000009_000000|'"How do you feel, Catherine?" he repeated.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000010_000001|I feel like death!"
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000011_000001|I gave her a little wine.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000011_000004|But the master bid him get off to bed again: we didn't want his help.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000012_000001|I informed mr Heathcliff, and he replied,--"Well, let her be till after the funeral; and go up now and then to get her what is needful; and, as soon as she seems better, tell me."'
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000014_000002|The lands, being a minor, he could not meddle with.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000016_000003|I let him know that his cousin would very likely sit with us, and she had been always used to see the Sabbath respected; so he had as good leave his guns and bits of indoor work alone, while she stayed.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000016_000005|The train oil and gunpowder were shoved out of sight in a minute.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000019_000001|I got up and offered her my seat in the arm chair.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000019_000002|No, she turned up her nose at my civility.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000022_000002|She continued reading, or seeking for something to read.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000023_000000|'"Get away this moment!
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000023_000001|How dare you touch me?
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000023_000004|I'll go upstairs again, if you come near me."
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000026_000000|'"mr
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000027_000000|'She frowned; and looking up, answered-
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000028_000000|'"mr
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000028_000003|But I won't complain to you!
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000028_000004|I'm driven down here by the cold; not either to amuse you or enjoy your society."
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000030_000000|'"Oh! you are an exception," answered mrs Heathcliff.
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000030_000001|"I never missed such a concern as you."
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000032_000000|'"Be silent!
train-other-500/1200/135067/1200_135067_000035_000000|Thus ended mrs Dean's story.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty one
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000001_000000|Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000001_000001|I went to the Heights as I proposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to her young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not conscious of anything odd in her request.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000001_000003|The fellow is as handsome a rustic as need be seen.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000002_000000|I asked if mr Heathcliff were at home?
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000002_000002|It was eleven o'clock, and I announced my intention of going in and waiting for him; at which he immediately flung down his tools and accompanied me, in the office of watchdog, not as a substitute for the host.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000003_000000|We entered together; Catherine was there, making herself useful in preparing some vegetables for the approaching meal; she looked more sulky and less spirited than when I had seen her first.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000003_000001|She hardly raised her eyes to notice me, and continued her employment with the same disregard to common forms of politeness as before; never returning my bow and good morning by the slightest acknowledgment.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000004_000000|'She does not seem so amiable,' I thought, 'as mrs Dean would persuade me to believe.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000004_000001|She's a beauty, it is true; but not an angel.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000005_000000|Earnshaw surlily bid her remove her things to the kitchen.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000005_000001|'Remove them yourself,' she said, pushing them from her as soon as she had done; and retiring to a stool by the window, where she began to carve figures of birds and beasts out of the turnip parings in her lap.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000005_000002|I approached her, pretending to desire a view of the garden; and, as I fancied, adroitly dropped mrs Dean's note on to her knee, unnoticed by Hareton-but she asked aloud, 'What is that?' And chucked it off.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000006_000000|'A letter from your old acquaintance, the housekeeper at the Grange,' I answered; annoyed at her exposing my kind deed, and fearful lest it should be imagined a missive of my own.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000007_000000|'I should like to be riding Minny down there!
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000007_000001|I should like to be climbing up there!
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000007_000002|Oh!
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000008_000000|'mrs
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000009_000000|She appeared to wonder at this speech, and asked,--
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000010_000000|'Does Ellen like you?'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000011_000000|'Yes, very well,' I replied, hesitatingly.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000012_000000|'You must tell her,' she continued, 'that I would answer her letter, but I have no materials for writing: not even a book from which I might tear a leaf.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000013_000000|'No books!' I exclaimed.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000013_000001|'How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000014_000001|Only once, I searched through Joseph's store of theology, to his great irritation; and once, Hareton, I came upon a secret stock in your room-some Latin and Greek, and some tales and poetry: all old friends.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000014_000002|I brought the last here-and you gathered them, as a magpie gathers silver spoons, for the mere love of stealing!
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000014_000005|But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those!'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000015_000000|Earnshaw blushed crimson when his cousin made this revelation of his private literary accumulations, and stammered an indignant denial of her accusations.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000016_000000|'mr Hareton is desirous of increasing his amount of knowledge,' I said, coming to his rescue.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000016_000002|He'll be a clever scholar in a few years.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000017_000001|I wish you would repeat Chevy Chase as you did yesterday: it was extremely funny.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000018_000001|I had a similar notion; and, remembering mrs Dean's anecdote of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which he had been reared, I observed,--'But, mrs Heathcliff, we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold; had our teachers scorned instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000019_000001|Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000020_000001|I never want to hear, or read, or think of them again!'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000021_000000|'I won't have them now,' she answered.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000021_000001|'I shall connect them with you, and hate them.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000022_000000|She opened one that had obviously been often turned over, and read a portion in the drawling tone of a beginner; then laughed, and threw it from her.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000022_000001|'And listen,' she continued, provokingly, commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000023_000000|But his self love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual check given to her saucy tongue.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000023_000001|The little wretch had done her utmost to hurt her cousin's sensitive though uncultivated feelings, and a physical argument was the only mode he had of balancing the account, and repaying its effects on the inflictor.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000023_000003|I read in his countenance what anguish it was to offer that sacrifice to spleen.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000023_000006|Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompters to higher pursuits; and instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavours to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000024_000000|'Yes that's all the good that such a brute as you can get from them!' cried Catherine, sucking her damaged lip, and watching the conflagration with indignant eyes.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000026_000000|And his agitation precluded further speech; he advanced hastily to the entrance, where I made way for him to pass.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000026_000001|But ere he had crossed the door stones, mr Heathcliff, coming up the causeway, encountered him, and laying hold of his shoulder asked,--'What's to do now, my lad?'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000028_000000|Heathcliff gazed after him, and sighed.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000029_000000|'It will be odd if I thwart myself,' he muttered, unconscious that I was behind him.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000029_000002|How the devil is he so like?
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000030_000000|He bent his eyes to the ground, and walked moodily in.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000030_000001|There was a restless, anxious expression in his countenance.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000030_000002|I had never remarked there before; and he looked sparer in person.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000030_000003|His daughter in law, on perceiving him through the window, immediately escaped to the kitchen, so that I remained alone.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000032_000000|'An idle whim, I fear, sir,' was my answer; 'or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000032_000001|I shall set out for London next week; and I must give you warning that I feel no disposition to retain Thrushcross Grange beyond the twelve months I agreed to rent it.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000032_000002|I believe I shall not live there any more.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000033_000000|'Oh, indeed; you're tired of being banished from the world, are you?' he said.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000033_000001|'But if you be coming to plead off paying for a place you won't occupy, your journey is useless: I never relent in exacting my due from any one.'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000034_000000|'I'm coming to plead off nothing about it,' I exclaimed, considerably irritated.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000034_000001|'Should you wish it, I'll settle with you now,' and I drew my note book from my pocket.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000035_000000|'No, no,' he replied, coolly; 'you'll leave sufficient behind to cover your debts, if you fail to return: I'm not in such a hurry.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000035_000002|Catherine! bring the things in: where are you?'
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000036_000000|Catherine reappeared, bearing a tray of knives and forks.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000038_000000|She obeyed his directions very punctually: perhaps she had no temptation to transgress.
train-other-500/1200/135068/1200_135068_000038_000001|Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000001_000000|PICKAXE AND TROWEL
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000003_000001|Attracted by the high pay and considerable bounties offered by the Gun Club, he had enlisted a choice legion of stokers, iron founders, lime burners, miners, brickmakers, and artisans of every trade, without distinction of color.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000003_000002|As many of these people brought their families with them, their departure resembled a perfect emigration.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000005_000000|During the first few days they were busy discharging the cargo brought by the flotilla, the machines, and the rations, as well as a large number of huts constructed of iron plates, separately pieced and numbered.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000005_000001|At the same period Barbicane laid the first sleepers of a railway fifteen miles in length, intended to unite Stones Hill with Tampa Town.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000005_000003|This they enclosed with palisades; and in respect of energy and activity, it might have been mistaken for one of the great cities of the Union.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000006_000000|The nature of the soil having been carefully examined, by means of repeated borings, the work of excavation was fixed for the fourth of November.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000007_000000|On that day Barbicane called together his foremen and addressed them as follows: "You are well aware, my friends, of the object with which I have assembled you together in this wild part of Florida.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000007_000001|Our business is to construct a cannon measuring nine feet in its interior diameter, six feet thick, and with a stone revetment of nineteen and a half feet in thickness.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000007_000002|We have, therefore, a well of sixty feet in diameter to dig down to a depth of nine hundred feet.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000007_000004|That which would present no difficulty to a thousand navvies working in open country will be of course more troublesome in a comparatively confined space.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000007_000005|However, the thing must be done, and I reckon for its accomplishment upon your courage as much as upon your skill."
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000008_000001|The gangs relieved each other every three hours.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000009_000000|On the fourth of November fifty workmen commenced digging, in the very center of the enclosed space on the summit of Stones Hill, a circular hole sixty feet in diameter.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000009_000001|The pickaxe first struck upon a kind of black earth, six inches in thickness, which was speedily disposed of.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000009_000002|To this earth succeeded two feet of fine sand, which was carefully laid aside as being valuable for serving the casting of the inner mould.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000010_000002|When this work was accomplished, the miners resumed their picks and cut away the rock from underneath the wheel itself, taking care to support it as they advanced upon blocks of great thickness.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000010_000003|At every two feet which the hole gained in depth they successively withdrew the blocks.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000010_000004|The wheel then sank little by little, and with it the massive ring of masonry, on the upper bed of which the masons labored incessantly, always reserving some vent holes to permit the escape of gas during the operation of the casting.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000011_000001|More than one, in digging underneath the wheel, was dangerously injured by the splinters of stone.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000011_000002|But their ardor never relaxed, night or day.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000011_000003|By day they worked under the rays of the scorching sun; by night, under the gleam of the electric light.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000012_000001|This depth was doubled in December, and trebled in January.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000013_000000|During the month of February the workmen had to contend with a sheet of water which made its way right across the outer soil. It became necessary to employ very powerful pumps and compressed air engines to drain it off, so as to close up the orifice from whence it issued; just as one stops a leak on board ship.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000013_000002|This accident cost the life of several workmen.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000014_000000|No fresh occurrence thenceforward arrested the progress of the operation; and on the tenth of June, twenty days before the expiration of the period fixed by Barbicane, the well, lined throughout with its facing of stone, had attained the depth of nine hundred feet.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000014_000001|At the bottom the masonry rested upon a massive block measuring thirty feet in thickness, while on the upper portion it was level with the surrounding soil.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000015_000000|President Barbicane and the members of the Gun Club warmly congratulated their engineer Murchison; the cyclopean work had been accomplished with extraordinary rapidity.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000016_000000|During these eight months Barbicane never quitted Stones Hill for a single instant.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000017_000000|Many workmen, it is true, paid with their lives for the rashness inherent in these dangerous labors; but these mishaps are impossible to be avoided, and they are classed among the details with which the Americans trouble themselves but little.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000017_000001|They have in fact more regard for human nature in general than for the individual in particular.
train-other-500/1225/129526/1225_129526_000018_000000|Nevertheless, Barbicane professed opposite principles to these, and put them in force at every opportunity.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000004_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000005_000000|THE FETE OF THE CASTING
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000006_000000|During the eight months which were employed in the work of excavation the preparatory works of the casting had been carried on simultaneously with extreme rapidity.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000006_000001|A stranger arriving at Stones Hill would have been surprised at the spectacle offered to his view.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000007_000002|Being all constructed on the same plan, each with its high quadrangular chimney, they produced a most singular effect.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000008_000000|It will be remembered that on their third meeting the committee had decided to use cast iron for the Columbiad, and in particular the white description.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000009_000000|Cast iron, however, if subjected to only one single fusion, is rarely sufficiently homogeneous; and it requires a second fusion completely to refine it by dispossessing it of its last earthly deposits.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000009_000002|The cost of transport would have been double that of material.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000009_000004|This, however, required not less than sixty eight vessels of one thousand tons, a veritable fleet, which, quitting New York on the third of May, on the tenth of the same month ascended the Bay of Espiritu Santo, and discharged their cargoes, without dues, in the port at Tampa Town.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000009_000005|Thence the iron was transported by rail to Stones Hill, and about the middle of January this enormous mass of metal was delivered at its destination.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000011_000000|The day following that on which the works of the masonry and boring had been completed, Barbicane set to work upon the central mould.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000011_000003|The space left between the mould and the masonry was intended to be filled up by the molten metal, which would thus form the walls six feet in thickness.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000012_000000|This operation was completed on the eighth of July, and the run of the metal was fixed for the following day.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000015_000000|"What! will you not open the gates of the enclosure to all comers?"
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000016_000000|"I must be very careful, Maston.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000017_000000|The president was right.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000017_000001|The operation involved unforeseen dangers, which a great influx of spectators would have hindered him from averting.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000017_000003|No one was admitted within the enclosure except a delegation of members of the Gun Club, who had made the voyage to Tampa Town.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000017_000004|Among these was the brisk Bilsby, Tom Hunter, Colonel Blomsberry, Major Elphinstone, General Morgan, and the rest of the lot to whom the casting of the Columbiad was a matter of personal interest.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000017_000006|At the end of the twelve hundredth visit they were pretty well knocked up.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000018_000002|The powerful ventilators added their continuous blasts and saturated with oxygen the glowing plates.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000018_000003|The operation, to be successful, required to be conducted with great rapidity.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000018_000004|On a signal given by a cannon shot each furnace was to give vent to the molten iron and completely to empty itself.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000018_000005|These arrangements made, foremen and workmen waited the preconcerted moment with an impatience mingled with a certain amount of emotion.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000018_000006|Not a soul remained within the enclosure.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000018_000007|Each superintendent took his post by the aperture of the run.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000019_000000|Barbicane and his colleagues, perched on a neighboring eminence, assisted at the operation.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000020_000000|Twelve o'clock struck!
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000020_000001|A gunshot suddenly pealed forth and shot its flame into the air.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000020_000002|Twelve hundred melting troughs were simultaneously opened and twelve hundred fiery serpents crept toward the central well, unrolling their incandescent curves. There, down they plunged with a terrific noise into a depth of nine hundred feet.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000020_000003|It was an exciting and a magnificent spectacle. The ground trembled, while these molten waves, launching into the sky their wreaths of smoke, evaporated the moisture of the mould and hurled it upward through the vent holes of the stone lining in the form of dense vapor clouds.
train-other-500/1225/129527/1225_129527_000020_000004|These artificial clouds unrolled their thick spirals to a height of one thousand yards into the air.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty two.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000000_000001|HOSTILITIES
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000001_000000|In the great harbour of Port Royal, spacious enough to have given moorings to all the ships of all the navies of the world, the Arabella rode at anchor.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000003_000000|On a cane day bed that had been set for him on the quarter deck, sheltered from the dazzling, blistering sunshine by an improvised awning of brown sailcloth, lounged peter Blood, a calf bound, well thumbed copy of Horace's Odes neglected in his hands.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000004_000001|Despite the heat and the stagnant air, one of the toilers found breath to croak a ribald buccaneering ditty:
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000006_000000|Blood fetched a sigh, and the ghost of a smile played over his lean, sun tanned face.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000006_000001|Then the black brows came together above the vivid blue eyes, and thought swiftly closed the door upon his immediate surroundings.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000007_000000|Things had not sped at all well with him in the past fortnight since his acceptance of the King's commission.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000007_000001|There had been trouble with Bishop from the moment of landing.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000007_000002|As Blood and Lord Julian had stepped ashore together, they had been met by a man who took no pains to dissemble his chagrin at the turn of events and his determination to change it.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000007_000003|He awaited them on the mole, supported by a group of officers.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000008_000000|"You are Lord Julian Wade, I understand," was his truculent greeting. For Blood at the moment he had nothing beyond a malignant glance.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000009_000000|Lord Julian bowed.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000009_000003|Then he plunged on.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000010_000001|"Your motives were no doubt worthy... your gratitude to him for delivering you from the Spaniards.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000010_000002|But the thing itself is unthinkable, my lord.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000010_000003|The commission must be cancelled."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000011_000000|"I don't think I understand," said Lord Julian distantly.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000012_000001|The fellow's bubbled you.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000012_000002|Why, he's first a rebel, then an escaped slave, and lastly a bloody pirate.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000012_000003|I've been hunting him this year past."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000013_000001|I do not grant the King's commission lightly."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000014_000000|"Don't you, by God!
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000014_000001|And what else do you call this?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000014_000002|But as His Majesty's Deputy Governor of Jamaica, I'll take leave to correct your mistake in my own way."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000015_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000015_000001|And what way may that be?"
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000016_000000|"There's a gallows waiting for this rascal in Port Royal."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000018_000000|"I see, sir, that you do not yet quite apprehend the circumstances.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000018_000001|If it is a mistake to grant Captain Blood a commission, the mistake is not mine.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000019_000000|Colonel Bishop's mouth fell open in surprise and dismay.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000020_000000|"Lord Sunderland designated him?" he asked, amazed.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000021_000000|"Expressly."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000022_000000|His lordship waited a moment for a reply.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000022_000001|None coming from the speechless Deputy Governor, he asked a question: "Would you still venture to describe the matter as a mistake, sir?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000023_000000|"I...
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000023_000001|I had not dreamed...."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000024_000000|"I understand, sir.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000024_000001|Let me present Captain Blood."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000025_000000|Perforce Bishop must put on the best face he could command.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000025_000001|But that it was no more than a mask for his fury and his venom was plain to all.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000027_000000|Blood's thoughts were upon this and other things as he lounged there on the day bed.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000027_000003|For the sake of a girl who avoided him so persistently and intentionally that he must assume that she still regarded him with aversion.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000027_000005|Nor was that the worst of it.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000027_000006|He was allowed plainly to perceive that it was the graceful, elegant young trifler from saint James's, Lord Julian Wade, to whom her every moment was devoted.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000028_000000|You conceive the bitterness of his soul.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000028_000001|He beheld himself to be as the dog in the fable that had dropped the substance to snatch at a delusive shadow.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000029_000000|He sought comfort in a line on the open page before him:
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000031_000000|Sought it, but hardly found it.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000033_000000|The sounds disturbed Captain Blood from his disgruntled musings.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000033_000001|He rose, tall, active, and arrestingly elegant in a scarlet, gold laced coat that advertised his new position, and slipping the slender volume into his pocket, advanced to the carved rail of the quarter deck, just as Jeremy Pitt was setting foot upon the companion.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000034_000000|"A note for you from the Deputy Governor," said the master shortly, as he proffered a folded sheet.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000035_000000|Blood broke the seal, and read.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000035_000001|Pitt, loosely clad in shirt and breeches, leaned against the rail the while and watched him, unmistakable concern imprinted on his fair, frank countenance.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000036_000001|"It is a very peremptory summons," he said, and passed the note to his friend.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000037_000000|The young master's grey eyes skimmed it.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000037_000001|Thoughtfully he stroked his golden beard.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000038_000000|"You'll not go?" he said, between question and assertion.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000039_000000|"Why not?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000039_000001|Haven't I been a daily visitor at the fort...?"
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000040_000000|"But it'll be about the Old Wolf that he wants to see you.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000040_000001|It gives him a grievance at last.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000040_000002|You know, peter, that it is Lord Julian alone has stood between Bishop and his hate of you.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000040_000003|If now he can show that...."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000041_000003|Don't be forgetting that."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000042_000000|Jeremy clenched his hands.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000042_000001|"Why did ye let Wolverstone and the others go?" he cried, with a touch of bitterness.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000042_000002|"You should have seen the danger."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000043_000000|"How could I in honesty have detained them?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000043_000002|"I'll be getting my hat and cane and sword, and go ashore in the cock boat.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000043_000003|See it manned for me."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000045_000000|"Well, well, maybe he'll not find me quite so easy to grasp as he imagines.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000045_000001|There's a thorn or two left on me." And with a laugh Blood departed to his cabin.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000046_000000|Jeremy Pitt answered the laugh with an oath.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000046_000002|Then slowly, reluctance dragging at his feet, he went down the companion to give the order for the cock boat.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000047_000001|These fifty lads may be lukewarm at present, as you say, but-sink me!--they'll be anything but lukewarm if there's a breach of faith."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000048_000000|"And what should be happening to me, Jeremy?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000048_000001|Sure, now, I'll be back for dinner, so I will."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000049_000000|Blood climbed down into the waiting boat.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000049_000003|He realized that he might have to retreat in a hurry.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000050_000000|Walking leisurely, he skirted the embattled wall, and passed through the great gates into the courtyard.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000050_000001|Half a dozen soldiers lounged there, and in the shadow cast by the wall, Major Mallard, the Commandant, was slowly pacing.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000050_000003|peter Blood's attention, however, was elsewhere.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000051_000000|On his right stretched a spacious garden, beyond which rose the white house that was the residence of the Deputy Governor.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000051_000001|In that garden's main avenue, that was fringed with palm and sandalwood, he had caught sight of Miss Bishop alone.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000053_000000|"Why do you run, then?" she asked him coolly, standing slim and straight before him, all in white and very maidenly save in her unnatural composure.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000053_000001|"I am pressed," she informed him.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000053_000002|"So you will forgive me if I do not stay."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000054_000000|"You were none so pressed until I came," he protested, and if his thin lips smiled, his blue eyes were oddly hard.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000055_000000|"Since you perceive it, sir, I wonder that you trouble to be so insistent."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000056_000000|That crossed the swords between them, and it was against Blood's instincts to avoid an engagement.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000057_000000|"Faith, you explain yourself after a fashion," said he.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000057_000001|"But since it was more or less in your service that I donned the King's coat, you should suffer it to cover the thief and pirate."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000058_000000|She shrugged and turned aside, in some resentment and some regret. Fearing to betray the latter, she took refuge in the former.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000058_000001|"I do my best," said she.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000059_000001|"Glory be, now, I should be thankful for so much.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000059_000002|Maybe I'm presumptuous.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000060_000000|"Why not?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000060_000001|In those days you had some claim upon my kindness.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000060_000002|You were just an unfortunate gentleman then."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000061_000000|"And what else would you be calling me now?"
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000062_000000|"Hardly unfortunate.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000062_000001|We have heard of your good fortune on the seas-how your luck has passed into a byword.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000062_000002|And we have heard other things: of your good fortune in other directions."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000063_000001|But peter Blood swept them lightly aside, reading into them none of her meaning, as she feared he would.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000067_000000|"What I think of you can be a very little matter to you, sir."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000068_000000|This was a disarming stroke.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000068_000001|He abandoned combat for expostulation.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000069_000002|Didn't ye tell me that I might redeem the past?
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000069_000003|It's little enough I am concerned to redeem the past save only in your eyes. In my own I've done nothing at all that I am ashamed of, considering the provocation I received."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000070_000000|Her glance faltered, and fell away before his own that was so intent.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000071_000000|"I...
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000073_000000|"Oh, please." There was real alarm in her voice.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000073_000001|"I realize fully what you did, and I realize that partly, at least, you may have been urged by consideration for myself.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000073_000002|Believe me, I am very grateful.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000073_000003|I shall always be grateful."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000075_000000|A livelier colour crept into her cheeks.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000075_000001|There was a perceptible heave of the slight breast that faintly swelled the flimsy bodice of white silk.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000075_000003|She realized that perhaps she had, herself, provoked his anger.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000075_000004|She honestly desired to make amends.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000076_000000|"You are mistaken," she began.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000076_000001|"It isn't that."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000078_000000|Jealousy, that troubler of reason, had been over busy with his wits as it had with hers.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000079_000000|"What is it, then?" quoth he, and added the question: "Lord Julian?"
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000080_000000|She started, and stared at him blankly indignant now.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000081_000000|"Och, be frank with me," he urged her, unpardonably.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000081_000001|"'Twill be a kindness, so it will."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000082_000000|For a moment she stood before him with quickened breathing, the colour ebbing and flowing in her cheeks.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000082_000001|Then she looked past him, and tilted her chin forward.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000083_000000|"You... you are quite insufferable," she said.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000083_000001|"I beg that you will let me pass."
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000084_000000|He stepped aside, and with the broad feathered hat which he still held in his hand, he waved her on towards the house.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000085_000000|"I'll not be detaining you any longer, ma'am.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000085_000001|After all, the cursed thing I did for nothing can be undone.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000086_000000|She moved to depart, then checked, and faced him again.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000086_000001|It was she now who was on her defence, her voice quivering with indignation.
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000087_000000|"You take that tone!
train-other-500/1225/129802/1225_129802_000087_000001|You dare to take that tone!" she cried, astounding him by her sudden vehemence.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000003_000000|Let us show whence arose this sovereignty.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000004_000000|In the first place you must know that everybody is shooting mad in these parts, from the greatest to the least.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000004_000001|The chase is the local craze, and so it has ever been since the mythological times when the Tarasque, as the county dragon was called, flourished himself and his tail in the town marshes, and entertained shooting parties got up against him.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000004_000002|So you see the passion has lasted a goodish bit.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000005_000001|Unfortunately, there's a lack of game, an absolute dearth.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000006_000000|Stupid as the brute creation is, you can readily understand that, in time, it learnt some distrust.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000007_000001|You'll not find a single quail or blackbird, one little leveret, or the tiniest tit.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000007_000002|And yet the pretty hillocks are mightily tempting, sweet smelling as they are of myrtle, lavender, and rosemary; and the fine muscatels plumped out with sweetness even unto bursting, as they spread along the banks of the Rhone, are deucedly tempting too.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000007_000003|True, true; but Tarascon lies behind all this, and Tarascon is down in the black books of the world of fur and feather.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000007_000004|The very birds of passage have ticked it off on their guide books, and when the wild ducks, coming down towards the Camargue in long triangles, spy the town steeples from afar, the outermost flyers squawk out loudly:
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000008_000000|"Look out!
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000009_000000|And the flocks take a swerve.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000010_000000|In short, as far as game goes, there's not a specimen left in the land save one old rogue of a hare, escaped by miracle from the massacres, who is stubbornly determined to stick to it all his life!
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000010_000002|"Rapid" is what they call him.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000010_000004|At present, only two or three inveterate fellows worry themselves about him.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000011_000000|"But that won't do!" you will say.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000012_000000|What can they do?
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000015_000000|It is needless to say that cap selling is a fine business in the town. There are even some hatters who sell hunting caps ready shot, torn, and perforated for the bad shots; but the only buyer known is the chemist Bezuquet.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000015_000001|This is dishonourable!
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000017_000000|Every Sunday morning out he would march in a new cap, and back he would strut every Sunday evening with a mere thing of shreds.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000017_000001|The loft of Baobab Villa was full of these glorious trophies.
train-other-500/123/25081/123_25081_000017_000002|Hence all Tarascon acknowledged him as master; and as Tartarin thoroughly understood hunting, and had read all the handbooks of all possible kinds of venery, from cap popping to Burmese tiger shooting, the sportsmen constituted him their great cynegetical judge, and took him for referee and arbitrator in all their differences.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000003_000001|"They!"
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000004_000003|The brave commandant, Bravida, honorary captain retired-in the Military Clothing Factory Department-called him a game fellow; and you may well admit that the warrior knew all about game fellows, he played such a capital knife and fork on game of all kinds.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000006_000000|"He is a character!"
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000007_000001|He had become the swell bruiser, the aristocratic pugilist, the crack bully of the local Corinthians for the Tarasconers, from his build, bearing, style-that aspect of a guard's trumpeter's charger which fears no noise; his reputation as a hero coming from nobody knew whence or for what, and some scramblings for coppers and a few kicks to the little ragamuffins basking at his doorway.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000009_000000|"Now, there's a powerful chap if you like! he has double muscles!"
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000012_000000|The great man of Tarascon was bored in Tarascon.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000013_000001|Poor dear great man!
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000013_000002|If this existence were only prolonged, there would be sufficient tedium in it to kill him with consumption.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000014_000000|In vain did he surround himself with baobabs and other African trees, to widen his horizon, and some little to forget his club and the market place; in vain did he pile weapon upon weapon, and Malay kreese upon Malay kreese; in vain did he cram with romances, endeavouring like the immortal Don Quixote to wrench himself by the vigour of his fancy out of the talons of pitiless reality.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000014_000001|Alas! all that he did to appease his thirst for deeds of daring only helped to augment it.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000014_000003|His revolvers, repeating rifles, and ducking guns shouted "Battle! battle!" out of their mouths.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000015_000002|He would translate his readings into action, and, goading himself with his own voice, shout out whilst swinging a battle axe or tomahawk:
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000017_000000|"Them"? who were they?
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000018_000002|The grizzly of the Rocky Mountains, who wobbles on his hind legs, and licks himself with a tongue full of blood.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000018_000003|The Touareg, too, in the desert, the Malay pirate, the brigand of the Abruzzi-in short, "they" was warfare, travel, adventure, and glory.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000019_000000|But, alas!! it was to no avail that the fearless Tarasconer called for and defied them; never did they come.
train-other-500/123/25083/123_25083_000019_000001|Odsboddikins! what would they have come to do in Tarascon?
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000003_000001|"All hands make ready for action!" as the men of war's men say.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000004_000001|On his chest, betwixt outer and under garment, lay a Malay kreese.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000004_000002|But never any poisoned arrows-they are weapons altogether too unfair.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000005_000001|"Cool and calm-British courage, that is the true sort, gentlemen." At the garden end he opened the heavy iron door, violently and abruptly so that it should slam against the outer wall.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000005_000002|If "they" had been skulking behind it, you may wager they would have been jam.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000005_000003|Unhappily, they were not there.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000006_000001|Then, on the way.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000007_000000|Not so much as a cat upon the Avignon road-all the doors closed, and no lights in the casements.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000007_000001|All was black, except for the parish lamps, well spaced apart, blinking in the river mist.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000008_000001|Whether in avenues, streets, or lanes, he took care to keep in the middle of the road-an excellent method of precaution, allowing one to see danger coming, and, above all, to avoid any droppings from windows, as happens after dark in Tarascon and the Old Town of Edinburgh.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000009_000001|The poor knight constantly hoped that, beyond the turn of one of these cut throats' haunts, "they" would leap from the shadow and fall on his back.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000010_000001|He would catch a sound of steps and muffled voices.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000011_000001|The steps would draw nearer, and the voices grow more distinct, till no more doubt was possible.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000011_000002|"They" were coming-in fact, here "they" were!
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000013_000002|Good night, old fellow!"
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000014_000000|Maledictions upon it!
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000014_000001|It was the chemist Bezuquet, with his family, coming from singing their family ballad at Costecalde's.
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000017_000000|"Nothing, nothing at all!
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000017_000001|there never is nothing!"
train-other-500/123/25084/123_25084_000018_000000|Upon which double negation, which he meant as a stronger affirmative, the worthy champion would walk in to play his game of bezique with the commandant.
train-other-500/123/25085/123_25085_000004_000000|For that is a fact: up to the age of five and forty, the dreadless Tarasconian had never once slept outside his own room.
train-other-500/123/25085/123_25085_000004_000001|He had not even taken that obligatory trip to Marseilles which every sound Provencal makes upon coming of age.
train-other-500/123/25085/123_25085_000004_000002|The most of his knowledge included Beaucaire, and yet that's not far from Tarascon, there being merely the bridge to go over.
train-other-500/123/25085/123_25085_000004_000003|Unfortunately, this rascally bridge has so often been blown away by the gales, it is so long and frail, and the Rhone has such a width at this spot that-well, faith! you understand!
train-other-500/123/25085/123_25085_000006_000000|Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the one same man! you will readily comprehend what a cat and dog couple they made! what strife!
train-other-500/123/25085/123_25085_000006_000001|what clapper clawing!
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000005_000000|MY AUTOMOBILE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000006_000000|Which when I read it some Of these Brain throbs Jumped over the fence, climbed a Telegraph pole, burst its Cylinder head, exploded all its Tires And then turned around and Barked at me.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000007_000000|ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS WORK
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000000|A.b.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000002|Butt in. c o.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000003|Catch on. d t.l.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000006|In the neck. i u.t.y.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000007|It's up to you. i f.M.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000009|Make mine the same. n g.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000010|Nice gentleman. o t.l.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000011|On the level. p d.q.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000012|Pass the butter. t l.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000008_000013|The limit.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000009_000000|PREFACE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000010_000000|Some eighteen months ago I took this brilliant bunch of brain burrs to my esteemed Publisher and with much enthusiasm invited him to spend a lot of money thereon.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000013_000001|He at once reached over and grabbed the public pulse.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000013_000002|To his astonishment it was jumping and making signs in my direction.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000014_000000|In a frenzied effort to make up for lost time my publisher then yelled feverishly for a printer.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000015_000000|Enclosed please find the result.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000018_000000|Don't you?
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000020_000000|Chestnut Hill june twelfth nineteen o five
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000022_000000|A man can drop a lot of dough trying to pick up money.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000023_000000|A fool and his money are soon spotted.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000024_000000|An accommodation liar soon learns to run like an express.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000025_000000|A guilty conscience needs no accuser if you catch him at it.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000029_000000|A SHARP.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000029_000001|A musical term which cannot be explained here, because the Musical Union might get sore.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000030_000000|A FLAT.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000030_000001|A people coop.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000030_000002|Seven rooms and a landlord, with hot and cold gas and running servants.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000031_000000|ABROAD.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000031_000001|A place where people go to be cured of visiting foreign lands.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000032_000001|To duck with the dough.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000033_000000|ABSINTHE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000033_000001|The national headache of the French.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000033_000002|A jag builder which is mostly wormwood and bad dreams.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000033_000003|A liquid substance which when applied to a "holdover" revivifies it and enables its owner to sit up and notice the bar tender.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000034_000000|ABSTAIN.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000034_000001|The stepladder which leads up to the water wagon.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000035_000000|ABSTEMIOUS.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000035_000001|Having an aisle seat on the water wagon.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000036_000000|ACROBAT.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000036_000001|A fellow of infinite chest.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000037_000000|ACCUMULATE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000037_000001|To collect or bring together.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000039_000000|A THING OF BEAUTY.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000039_000001|A joy forever until we get used to it.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000040_000000|ALCOHOL.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000040_000001|The forefather of a hold over.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000041_000000|AMBITION.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000041_000001|The only disease which laziness can cure.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000042_000000|AMUSEMENT.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000042_000001|The hard work a man does on the golf links to give himself an appetite for sausage links.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000043_000000|ANGEL.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000043_000001|Something behind a show-and always something behind.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000044_000000|APE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000044_000001|To imitate.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000045_000000|APPLAUSE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000046_000000|AUTOMOBILE.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000047_000000|AXE GRINDING.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000047_000001|The art practiced by those who give you a cookie so they can touch you for a barrel of flour.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000047_000002|The axe grinding industry had its origin in the Garden of Eden.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000047_000003|The Serpent was extremely partial to Autumn, so he gave Eve a nice red apple, and in exchange she gave the Serpent an early Fall. (See Lord Macaulay, page thirty four.)
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000049_000000|AIRSHIP.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000049_000001|A machine invented for the purpose of flying through the newspapers.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000050_000000|See m Santos Dumont.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000050_000001|In case he isn't in when you call a part of his autobiography is printed herewith: "My first yearning," writes m Santos-see page ninety seven--"was for an opportunity to rise in the world.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000051_000000|"When but a little boy my dearest wish was to get up to the top of the ladder and then have someone remove the ladder.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000051_000001|If I stayed up I knew I was successful.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000052_000000|The reader will notice a peculiarity about this gentleman's name.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000052_000001|It starts off with "M" and then there is eight bars rest until it comes to Santos.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000052_000002|This is a French custom.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000052_000003|Every man in France begins his first name with "M" and then refuses to tell the rest of it.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000052_000004|It seems such a stingy habit.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000053_000000|Let us quote more from m Dumont's own story:
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000054_000000|"My first desire to get off the earth happened while I was extremely young.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000055_000000|"One day while out in the Brazilian diamond fields picking the luscious white stones from the trees it suddenly occurred to me what a frivolous life I was leading.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000056_000000|"Diamonds, diamonds everywhere and not a place to pawn.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000057_000000|"I became restless.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000058_000000|"My father owned the diamond plantation so I went to him and explained what a tired feeling I had, and how I longed to rise in the world.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000059_000000|"Father at once turned about fifteen volts into his right shoe and I rose for a distance of four feet.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000060_000000|"I returned almost immediately, but this short flying trip made a deep impression upon my mind, and otherwise.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000061_000000|"Ten years later I left home just to convince my father that I could rise in the world without his kindly collaboration.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000062_000000|"One day while in New York I went up to the fifty ninth floor of a sky remover building.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000063_000000|"The elevator was extremely nervous that day.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000064_000000|"While coming down I was pained and surprised to observe that my stomach did not travel with me.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000066_000000|"I complained bitterly to him about such an inhuman invention which rushed through space with a man's exterior and left his interior to bump its way downstairs.
train-other-500/123/26848/123_26848_000068_000000|"That was the inspiration which drove me to build the flying machine.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000000_000001|You shall hear from me as soon as we have dined.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000000_000002|Farewell; can you endure that word?
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000002_000000|You are mistaken if you think I am in debt for both these days.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000002_000001|Saturday I confess was devoted to my Lady; but yesterday, though I ris with good intentions of going to church, my cold would not suffer me, but kept me prisoner all the day.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000002_000002|I went to your lodging to tell you that visiting the sick was part of the work of the day, but you were gone, and so I went to bed again, where your letter found me this morning.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000003_000002|Will my cousin f come, think you?
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000006_000000|Now I have got the trick of breaking my word, I shall do it every day.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000006_000001|I must go to Roehampton to day, but 'tis all one, you do not care much for seeing me.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000006_000002|Well, my master, remember last night you swaggered like a young lord.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000006_000003|I'll make your stomach come down; rise quickly, you had better, and come hither that I may give you a lesson this morning before I go.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000008_000000|I have slept as little as you, and may be allowed to talk as unreasonably, yet I find I am not quite senseless; I have a heart still that cannot resolve to refuse you anything within its power to grant. But, Lord, when shall I see you?
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000008_000001|People will think me mad if I go abroad this morning after having seen me in the condition I was in last night, and they will think it strange to see you here.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000008_000002|Could you not stay till they are all gone to Roehampton? they go this morning.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000008_000003|I do but ask, though do what you please, only believe you do a great injustice if you think me false.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000008_000004|I never resolv'd to give you an eternal farewell, but I resolv'd at the same time to part with all the comfort of my life, and whether I told it you or not I shall die yours.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000010_000000|Here comes the note again to tell you I cannot call on you to night; I cannot help it, and you must take it as patiently as you can, but I am engaged to night at the Three Rings to sup and play.
train-other-500/123/5042/123_5042_000010_000001|Poor man, I am sorry for you; in earnest, I shall be quite spoiled.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000001_000000|FLINDERS
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000002_000000|If Halsey had only taken me fully into his confidence, through the whole affair, it would have been much simpler.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000002_000002|But young people refuse to profit by the experience of their elders, and sometimes the elders are the ones to suffer.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000003_000002|Gertrude finally got a trap from the Casanova liveryman, and we went out.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000003_000003|Just as we turned from the drive into the road we passed a woman.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000004_000001|I shall dream of it to night.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000004_000002|Get up, Flinders."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000005_000001|"Is that the horse's name?"
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000006_000000|"It is." She flicked the horse's stubby mane with the whip.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000006_000001|"He didn't look like a livery horse, and the liveryman said he had bought him from the Armstrongs when they purchased a couple of motors and cut down the stable.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000008_000002|mr Jamieson promised to come out that night, and to bring another man with him.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000009_000000|"Stop here, Gertrude," I said.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000009_000001|"I am going to get out."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000010_000000|"To see Louise?" she asked.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000011_000000|"No, I want to ask this young Walker something."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000012_000002|The reception room was empty, but from the consulting room beyond came the sound of two voices, not very amicable.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000013_000001|Then the doctor's quiet tone, evidently not arguing, merely stating something.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000013_000003|The voices ceased at once: a door closed somewhere, and the doctor entered from the hall of the house.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000013_000004|He looked sufficiently surprised at seeing me.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000014_000000|"Good afternoon, Doctor," I said formally.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000014_000001|"I shall not keep you from your patient.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000014_000002|I wish merely to ask you a question."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000015_000000|"Won't you sit down?"
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000016_000000|"It will not be necessary.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000018_000001|But as it happens, it was.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000018_000002|If any such case comes to you, will it be too much trouble for you to let me know?"
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000019_000002|A fire and shooting in one night is rather lively for a quiet place like that."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000024_000000|Clever as he was, his face changed and stiffened.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000024_000001|He was on his guard again in a moment.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000025_000000|"Lucien Wallace?" he repeated.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000025_000002|There are plenty of Wallaces around, but I don't know any Lucien."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000026_000000|I was as certain as possible that he did.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000027_000000|Our reception was entirely different at Doctor Stewart's.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000027_000002|Of the more serious part of the night's experience, of course, we said nothing.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000028_000000|"Shot!" he said.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000029_000001|"Please don't mention it; we wish to make as little of it as possible."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000030_000002|There was none until six a m
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000030_000003|The next question required more diplomacy.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000031_000001|"Please try to remember: we are trying to trace a man who was seen loitering around Sunnyside last night before the fire."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000033_000000|"I was up there myself at the fire," he said volubly.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000033_000004|Rang that bell so hard I hadn't time scarcely to get 'em on."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000035_000000|"Not at the train, ma'm," he said.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000035_000005|One was a short fellow.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000037_000001|I think they came into the village.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000037_000002|I didn't get a look at their faces, but I know every chick and child in the place, and everybody knows me.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000038_000000|So all we had for our afternoon's work was this: some one had been shot by the bullet that went through the door; he had not left the village, and he had not called in a physician.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000040_000002|Annie Morton is going to Scotland next week, and you shall go right with her."
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000041_000000|To my surprise, she flushed painfully.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000044_000000|"I shan't stir a foot." She was equally decided.
train-other-500/1230/1060/1230_1060_000044_000001|Then, more lightly: "Why, you and Liddy need me to arbitrate between you every day in the week."
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000002_000000|Liddy discovered the fresh break in the trunk room wall while we were at luncheon, and ran shrieking down the stairs.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000003_000000|"What did I tell you?" she said dramatically.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000003_000004|As sure as you sit there, there's the smell of the graveyard on them.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000004_000000|mr Jamieson almost choked to death.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000004_000001|"I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were doing that very thing, Liddy," he said, when he got his breath.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000005_000001|But things went so fast there was no time to carry it into effect.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000005_000005|I left mr Jamieson and the day detective going over every inch of the circular staircase, pounding, probing and measuring.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000006_000001|There, in a gray walled room in a high iron bed, lay mrs Watson.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000006_000003|I was conscience stricken.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000008_000000|Briefly, then, the housekeeper's story was this:
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000009_000002|There was only one sister left, the baby, Lucy.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000009_000005|He was going east, after spending the summer at a celebrated ranch in Wyoming-one of those places where wealthy men send worthless and dissipated sons, for a season of temperance, fresh air and hunting.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000009_000006|The sisters, of course, knew nothing of this, and the young man's ardor rather carried them away.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000010_000001|For three months everything went fairly well.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000010_000002|Aubrey took his bride to Chicago, where they lived at a hotel.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000010_000004|He had been far from a model husband, even for the three months, and when he disappeared Anne was almost thankful.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000010_000005|It was different with the young wife, however.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000010_000006|She drooped and fretted, and on the birth of her baby boy, she had died.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000010_000007|Anne took the child, and named him Lucien.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000011_000001|On one thing she was determined, however: that was that Aubrey Wallace should educate his boy.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000011_000003|And so she came east.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000011_000004|She drifted around, doing plain sewing and keeping a home somewhere always for the boy.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000011_000006|There she found Lucien's father, this time under his own name.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000011_000007|It was Arnold Armstrong.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000002|Indeed, for a time, he did so.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000003|Then he realized that Lucien was the ruling passion in this lonely woman's life.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000004|He found out where the child was hidden, and threatened to take him away.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000006|The positions became reversed.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000008|The lower Arnold sank in the scale, the heavier his demands became.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000009|With the rupture between him and his family, things were worse.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000012_000011|There she went sometimes to see the boy, and there he had taken fever.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000013_000002|She left the big house and went down to the lodge.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000014_000004|mrs Watson tried to hide from Arnold, but he was ugly.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000014_000005|He left the lodge and went up to the house about two thirty, was admitted at the east entrance and came out again very soon.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000015_000000|Thomas and she had got Louise quiet, and a little before three, mrs Watson started up to the house.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000015_000001|Thomas had a key to the east entry, and gave it to her.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000016_000000|On the way across the lawn she was confronted by Arnold, who for some reason was determined to get into the house.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000016_000002|One hand had been badly cut, and it was that, poisoning having set in, which was killing her.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000016_000006|She picked it up and turning, ran part way down the circular staircase.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000016_000009|It was quite dark, but she could see his white shirt bosom.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000016_000010|From the fourth step she fired.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000016_000011|As he fell, somebody in the billiard room screamed and ran.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000017_000002|The money was for Lucien's board until she recovered.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000017_000008|Pursued, she had fled madly, anywhere-through the first door she came to.
train-other-500/1230/1068/1230_1068_000018_000003|I promised to look after little Lucien, and sat with her until the intervals of consciousness grew shorter and finally ceased altogether.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000001_000000|THE SAMARITAN SKIPPER
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000002_000000|I clung to that heaven sent bit of wreckage, exhausted and weary, until the light began to break in the east.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000002_000001|I was numbed and shivering with cold-but I was alive and safe.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000002_000002|That square yard of good and solid wood was as much to me as if it had been a floating island.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000002_000005|There was no sign of land in the west.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000003_000001|I never strained my eyes for anything as I did for that patch of grey against the cloudless blue!
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000003_000004|Yet there she was at last-coming bows on, straight in my direction.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000004_000000|She was a very slow going craft that-not able to do more than nine or ten knots at best-and another hour passed before she was anywhere near me.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000004_000003|She was one of the ugliest vessels that ever left a shipyard, but I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life as she looked in those moments, and I had certainly never been so thankful for anything as for her solid and dirty deck when willing and kindly hands helped me up on it.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000006_000000|"But you'll be dealing with him yourself!" said he.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000006_000001|"Man!--you'll not spare him-promise me you'll not spare him!
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000006_000006|You'll be sure to send me the newspaper?"
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000007_000001|It seemed years since I had laughed-and yet it was only a few hours, after all.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000008_000001|"Where are you going?"
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000009_000000|"Dundee," he replied.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000009_000002|We'll be in Dundee early in the afternoon, anyway.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000009_000003|And what'll you do there?
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000010_000001|"I don't want that man to know I'm alive-yet.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000010_000004|And in the meantime, let me have a sleep."
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000013_000000|He had rightly sized up the situation.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000014_000000|"You and me's about of a build," he remarked.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000014_000002|But what is it you're going to do?"
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000016_000000|"Four days," he answered.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000019_000001|"You'll be for fetching him along here, then?
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000019_000002|And for what purpose?"
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000020_000001|And-don't tell anybody here of what's happened, and pass the word for silence to your crew.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000020_000002|It'll be something in their pockets when my friend comes along."
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000021_000000|He was a cute man, and he understood that my object was to keep the news of my escape from Sir Gilbert Carstairs, and he promised to do what I asked.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000022_000000|I must let my mother and Maisie know of my safety-at once.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000022_000001|I must let mr Lindsey know, too.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000022_000003|It made me grind my teeth and long to get my hands at his lying tongue when I thought of what Maisie and my mother must have suffered after hearing his tales and excuses.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000022_000004|But I did not want him to know I was safe-I did not want the town to know.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000022_000007|And after thinking it all over I sent mr Lindsey a telegram in the following words, hoping that he would fully understand:--
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000023_000003|h m"
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000024_000001|It seemed all wrong, somehow-and all right in another way.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000025_000001|The truth was-if you want to analyse the sources-I was vastly relieved to be able to get in touch with my own people.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000025_000004|That knowledge, of course, made me in a still more light-hearted mood.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000026_000001|And that accomplished, I left him again and went sight seeing, having been wonderfully freshened up and restored by my good sleep of the morning.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000026_000002|I wandered up and down and about Dundee till I was leg weary, and it was nearly six o'clock of the afternoon.
train-other-500/1230/139216/1230_139216_000026_000004|That name was Gavin Smeaton.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000002_000000|ALL IN ORDER
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000003_000001|mr Portlethorpe had listened-so it seemed to me-with a good deal of irritation and impatience; he was clearly one of those people who do not like interference with what they regard as an established order of things, and it evidently irked him to have any questions raised as to the Carstairs affairs-which, of course, he himself had done much to settle when Sir Gilbert succeeded to the title.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000004_000001|"It conveys nothing to me!"
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000005_000000|"Take your time, Portlethorpe," remonstrated mr Lindsey, who was unlocking a drawer in his desk.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000007_000001|"Michael Carstairs!"
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000008_000000|"Just that," said mr Lindsey.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000008_000003|And-there's no need for any very close or careful looking, either!--no need for expert calligraphic evidence, or for the use of microscopes.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000008_000004|I'll stake all I'm worth that that signature and that letter are the work of the same hand!"
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000009_000000|Now that I saw the Smeaton letter and the signature of the first witness to Gilverthwaite's will, side by side, I had no hesitation in thinking as mr Lindsey did.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000009_000001|It was an exceptionally curious, not to say eccentric, handwriting-some of the letters were oddly formed, other letters were indicated rather than formed at all.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000009_000003|Anyway, there was an undeniable, an extraordinary similarity, and even mr Portlethorpe had to admit that it was-undoubtedly-there.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000010_000000|"That's very strange, and uncommonly important, Lindsey!" he said. "I-yes, I am certainly inclined to agree with you.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000011_000001|That's about it, Portlethorpe."
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000012_000000|"Then in that case-that young fellow at Dundee is Michael Carstairs' son?" exclaimed mr Portlethorpe.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000014_000000|"But-Michael Carstairs was never married!" declared mr Portlethorpe.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000015_000000|mr Lindsey picked up Gilverthwaite's will and the Smeaton letter, and carefully locked them away in his drawer.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000017_000001|"And surely he would know!"
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000018_000001|"But we'll see.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000018_000002|And talking of beds, it's time I was showing you to yours, and that we were all between the sheets, for it's one o'clock in the morning, and we'll have to be stirring again at six sharp.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000018_000004|So now come to your beds."
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000020_000001|I've set that implement for five o'clock.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000020_000006|And that's all-and get your bit of sleep."
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000021_000002|This telegram he left with his housekeeper-to be dispatched as soon as the post office was open.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000025_000000|The manager, evidently, was also surprised-by the signs of mr Lindsey's surprise.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000026_000001|"Quite well known!
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000026_000003|Perhaps," he continued, glancing from one gentleman to the other, "I had better tell you all the facts.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000026_000005|Sir Gilbert Carstairs came in here, introducing himself, some months ago.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000026_000006|He told me that he was intending to sell off a good deal of the Carstairs property, and that he wanted to reinvest his proceeds in the very best American securities.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000028_000000|"Precisely!--then you know as much as I can tell you," replied the manager.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000030_000001|"Everything is in order, you see, Lindsey!
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000030_000004|As I say, Sir Gilbert can make what disposal he pleases of his own property."
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000031_000000|"And what I say, Portlethorpe," retorted mr Lindsey, "is that I'm going to be convinced that it is his own property!
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000031_000001|I'm going to see Paley whether you do or not-and you'll be a fool if you don't come."
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000033_000000|"Then I'll ask you a question at once," said mr Lindsey.
train-other-500/1230/139225/1230_139225_000033_000002|When did you last see Sir Gilbert Carstairs?"
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000002_000000|THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DEVIATION
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000003_000000|Barbicane had now no fear of the issue of the journey, at least as far as the projectile's impulsive force was concerned; its own speed would carry it beyond the neutral line; it would certainly not return to earth; it would certainly not remain motionless on the line of attraction.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000003_000001|One single hypothesis remained to be realized, the arrival of the projectile at its destination by the action of the lunar attraction.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000004_000000|It was in reality a fall of eight thousand two hundred ninety six leagues on an orb, it is true, where weight could only be reckoned at one sixth of terrestrial weight; a formidable fall, nevertheless, and one against which every precaution must be taken without delay.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000005_000000|These precautions were of two sorts, some to deaden the shock when the projectile should touch the lunar soil, others to delay the fall, and consequently make it less violent.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000006_000000|To deaden the shock, it was a pity that Barbicane was no longer able to employ the means which had so ably weakened the shock at departure, that is to say, by water used as springs and the partition breaks.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000007_000000|The partitions still existed, but water failed, for they could not use their reserve, which was precious, in case during the first days the liquid element should be found wanting on lunar soil.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000008_000000|And indeed this reserve would have been quite insufficient for a spring.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000008_000003|Happily, Barbicane, not content with employing water, had furnished the movable disc with strong spring plugs, destined to lessen the shock against the base after the breaking of the horizontal partitions. These plugs still existed; they had only to readjust them and replace the movable disc; every piece, easy to handle, as their weight was now scarcely felt, was quickly mounted.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000010_000000|This replacing of the disc was at least an hour's work.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000010_000002|Barbicane took fresh observations on the inclination of the projectile, but to his annoyance it had not turned over sufficiently for its fall; it seemed to take a curve parallel to the lunar disc.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000010_000003|The orb of night shone splendidly into space, while opposite, the orb of day blazed with fire.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000011_000000|Their situation began to make them uneasy.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000012_000000|"Are we reaching our destination?" said Nicholl.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000013_000000|"Let us act as if we were about reaching it," replied Barbicane.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000014_000001|"We shall arrive, and that, too, quicker than we like."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000015_000000|This answer brought Barbicane back to his preparations, and he occupied himself with placing the contrivances intended to break their descent.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000016_000001|These rockets were to burn in space, it is true; but oxygen would not fail them, for they could supply themselves with it, like the lunar volcanoes, the burning of which has never yet been stopped by the want of atmosphere round the moon.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000000|Barbicane had accordingly supplied himself with these fireworks, enclosed in little steel guns, which could be screwed on to the base of the projectile.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000001|Inside, these guns were flush with the bottom; outside, they protruded about eighteen inches.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000002|There were twenty of them.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000003|An opening left in the disc allowed them to light the match with which each was provided.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000004|All the effect was felt outside.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000005|The burning mixture had already been rammed into each gun.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000017_000006|They had, then, nothing to do but raise the metallic buffers fixed in the base, and replace them by the guns, which fitted closely in their places.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000018_000000|This new work was finished about three o'clock, and after taking all these precautions there remained but to wait.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000018_000002|From these conflicting influences resulted a line which might become a tangent.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000018_000003|But it was certain that the projectile would not fall directly on the moon; for its lower part, by reason of its weight, ought to be turned toward her.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000019_000000|Barbicane's uneasiness increased as he saw his projectile resist the influence of gravitation.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000019_000001|The Unknown was opening before him, the Unknown in interplanetary space.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000019_000002|The man of science thought he had foreseen the only three hypotheses possible- the return to the earth, the return to the moon, or stagnation on the neutral line; and here a fourth hypothesis, big with all the terrors of the Infinite, surged up inopportunely.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000020_000000|Conversation was started upon this subject.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000020_000001|Other men would have considered the question from a practical point of view; they would have asked themselves whither their projectile carriage was carrying them.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000020_000002|Not so with these; they sought for the cause which produced this effect.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000022_000000|"I very much fear," answered Nicholl, "that, in spite of all precautions taken, the Columbiad was not fairly pointed. An error, however small, would be enough to throw us out of the moon's attraction."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000024_000000|"I do not think so," replied Barbicane.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000024_000001|"The perpendicularity of the gun was exact, its direction to the zenith of the spot incontestible; and the moon passing to the zenith of the spot, we ought to reach it at the full.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000024_000002|There is another reason, but it escapes me."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000026_000000|"Too late?" said Barbicane.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000027_000000|"Yes," continued Nicholl.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000028_000000|"True," replied Barbicane.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000029_000000|"Might it not be an excess of speed?" answered Nicholl; "for we know now that its initial velocity was greater than they supposed."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000030_000000|"No! a hundred times, no!" replied Barbicane.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000030_000001|"An excess of speed, if the direction of the projectile had been right, would not have prevented us reaching the moon.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000030_000002|No, there has been a deviation.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000030_000003|We have been turned out of our course."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000031_000000|"By whom? by what?" asked Nicholl.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000032_000000|"I cannot say," replied Barbicane.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000034_000000|"Speak."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000035_000000|"I would not give half a dollar to know it.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000035_000001|That we have deviated is a fact.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000035_000002|Where we are going matters little; we shall soon see.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000037_000000|But the projectile continued its course sideways to the moon, and with it the mass of things thrown out.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000038_000000|The three friends, having nothing better to do, continued their observations; but they could not yet determine the topographical position of the satellite; every relief was leveled under the reflection of the solar rays.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000039_000000|They watched thus through the side windows until eight o'clock at night.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000039_000001|The moon had grown so large in their eyes that it filled half of the firmament.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000039_000002|The sun on one side, and the orb of night on the other, flooded the projectile with light.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000040_000000|At that moment Barbicane thought he could estimate the distance which separated them from their aim at no more than seven hundred leagues. The speed of the projectile seemed to him to be more than two hundred yards, or about one hundred seventy leagues a second.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000040_000001|Under the centripetal force, the base of the projectile tended toward the moon; but the centrifugal still prevailed; and it was probable that its rectilineal course would be changed to a curve of some sort, the nature of which they could not at present determine.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000041_000000|Barbicane was still seeking the solution of his insoluble problem. Hours passed without any result.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000041_000001|The projectile was evidently nearing the moon, but it was also evident that it would never reach her.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000041_000002|As to the nearest distance at which it would pass her, that must be the result of two forces, attraction and repulsion, affecting its motion.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000044_000000|And, as if a light had suddenly broken in upon his mind, Barbicane answered, "Then cursed be the meteor which crossed our path."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000046_000000|"What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicholl.
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000049_000000|"What does that matter?
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000049_000001|Its mass, compared to that of our projectile, was enormous, and its attraction was enough to influence our course."
train-other-500/1239/138254/1239_138254_000050_000000|"So little?" cried Nicholl.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000004_000000|Long, long ago there was a large plain called Adachigahara, in the province of Mutsu in Japan.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000004_000001|This place was said to be haunted by a cannibal goblin who took the form of an old woman.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000004_000002|From time to time many travelers disappeared and were never heard of more, and the old women round the charcoal braziers in the evenings, and the girls washing the household rice at the wells in the mornings, whispered dreadful stories of how the missing folk had been lured to the goblin's cottage and devoured, for the goblin lived only on human flesh.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000004_000003|No one dared to venture near the haunted spot after sunset, and all those who could, avoided it in the daytime, and travelers were warned of the dreaded place.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000005_000000|One day as the sun was setting, a priest came to the plain.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000005_000001|He was a belated traveler, and his robe showed that he was a Buddhist pilgrim walking from shrine to shrine to pray for some blessing or to crave for forgiveness of sins.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000005_000002|He had apparently lost his way, and as it was late he met no one who could show him the road or warn him of the haunted spot.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000006_000000|He had walked the whole day and was now tired and hungry, and the evenings were chilly, for it was late autumn, and he began to be very anxious to find some house where he could obtain a night's lodging.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000006_000001|He found himself lost in the midst of the large plain, and looked about in vain for some sign of human habitation.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000007_000000|At last, after wandering about for some hours, he saw a clump of trees in the distance, and through the trees he caught sight of the glimmer of a single ray of light.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000007_000001|He exclaimed with joy:
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000008_000000|"Oh. surely that is some cottage where I can get a night's lodging!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000009_000000|Keeping the light before his eyes he dragged his weary, aching feet as quickly as he could towards the spot, and soon came to a miserable looking little cottage.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000009_000001|As he drew near he saw that it was in a tumble down condition, the bamboo fence was broken and weeds and grass pushed their way through the gaps.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000009_000002|The paper screens which serve as windows and doors in Japan were full of holes, and the posts of the house were bent with age and seemed scarcely able to support the old thatched roof.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000009_000003|The hut was open, and by the light of an old lantern an old woman sat industriously spinning.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000010_000000|The pilgrim called to her across the bamboo fence and said:
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000011_000001|I am a traveler!
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000011_000002|Please excuse me, but I have lost my way and do not know what to do, for I have nowhere to rest to night.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000011_000003|I beg you to be good enough to let me spend the night under your roof."
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000012_000000|The old woman as soon as she heard herself spoken to stopped spinning, rose from her seat and approached the intruder.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000013_000000|"I am very sorry for you.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000013_000001|You must indeed be distressed to have lost your way in such a lonely spot so late at night.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000013_000002|Unfortunately I cannot put you up, for I have no bed to offer you, and no accommodation whatsoever for a guest in this poor place!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000014_000000|"Oh, that does not matter," said the priest; "all I want is a shelter under some roof for the night, and if you will be good enough just to let me lie on the kitchen floor I shall be grateful.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000014_000001|I am too tired to walk further to night, so I hope you will not refuse me, otherwise I shall have to sleep out on the cold plain." And in this way he pressed the old woman to let him stay.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000015_000000|She seemed very reluctant, but at last she said:
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000016_000000|"Very well, I will let you stay here.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000016_000001|I can offer you a very poor welcome only, but come in now and I will make a fire, for the night is cold."
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000017_000000|The pilgrim was only too glad to do as he was told.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000017_000001|He took off his sandals and entered the hut.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000017_000002|The old woman then brought some sticks of wood and lit the fire, and bade her guest draw near and warm himself.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000018_000001|"I will go and cook some supper for you." She then went to the kitchen to cook some rice.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000019_000000|After the priest had finished his supper the old woman sat down by the fire place, and they talked together for a long time.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000019_000001|The pilgrim thought to himself that he had been very lucky to come across such a kind, hospitable old woman.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000019_000002|At last the wood gave out, and as the fire died slowly down he began to shiver with cold just as he had done when he arrived.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000020_000000|"I see you are cold," said the old woman; "I will go out and gather some wood, for we have used it all.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000020_000001|You must stay and take care of the house while I am gone."
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000021_000000|"No, no," said the pilgrim, "let me go instead, for you are old, and I cannot think of letting you go out to get wood for me this cold night!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000022_000000|The old woman shook her head and said:
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000023_000000|"You must stay quietly here, for you are my guest." Then she left him and went out.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000024_000000|In a minute she came back and said:
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000025_000000|"You must sit where you are and not move, and whatever happens don't go near or look into the inner room.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000025_000001|Now mind what I tell you!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000026_000000|"If you tell me not to go near the back room, of course I won't," said the priest, rather bewildered.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000027_000000|The old woman then went out again, and the priest was left alone.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000027_000001|The fire had died out, and the only light in the hut was that of a dim lantern.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000027_000002|For the first time that night he began to feel that he was in a weird place, and the old woman's words, "Whatever you do don't peep into the back room," aroused his curiosity and his fear.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000028_000000|What hidden thing could be in that room that she did not wish him to see?
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000028_000001|For some time the remembrance of his promise to the old woman kept him still, but at last he could no longer resist his curiosity to peep into the forbidden place.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000029_000000|He got up and began to move slowly towards the back room.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000030_000000|As the minutes went slowly by and the old woman did not return, he began to feel more and more frightened, and to wonder what dreadful secret was in the room behind him.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000030_000001|He must find out.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000031_000000|"She will not know that I have looked unless I tell her.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000000|With these words he got up on his feet (for he had been sitting all this time in Japanese fashion with his feet under him) and stealthily crept towards the forbidden spot.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000001|With trembling hands he pushed back the sliding door and looked in.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000002|What he saw froze the blood in his veins.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000003|The room was full of dead men's bones and the walls were splashed and the floor was covered with human blood.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000004|In one corner skull upon skull rose to the ceiling, in another was a heap of arm bones, in another a heap of leg bones.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000005|The sickening smell made him faint.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000032_000007|He trembled all over and his teeth chattered, and he could hardly crawl away from the dreadful spot.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000033_000000|"How horrible!" he cried out.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000033_000001|"What awful den have I come to in my travels?
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000033_000002|May Buddha help me or I am lost.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000033_000003|Is it possible that that kind old woman is really the cannibal goblin?
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000033_000004|When she comes back she will show herself in her true character and eat me up at one mouthful!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000034_000000|With these words his strength came back to him and, snatching up his hat and staff, he rushed out of the house as fast as his legs could carry him.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000034_000001|Out into the night he ran, his one thought to get as far as he could from the goblin's haunt.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000034_000002|He had not gone far when he heard steps behind him and a voice crying: "Stop! stop!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000035_000000|He ran on, redoubling his speed, pretending not to hear.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000036_000000|"Stop! stop, you wicked man, why did you look into the forbidden room?"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000037_000000|The priest quite forgot how tired he was and his feet flew over the ground faster than ever.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000037_000001|Fear gave him strength, for he knew that if the goblin caught him he would soon be one of her victims.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000037_000002|With all his heart he repeated the prayer to Buddha:
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000038_000000|"Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu."
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000039_000000|And after him rushed the dreadful old hag, her hair flying in the wind, and her face changing with rage into the demon that she was.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000039_000001|In her hand she carried a large blood stained knife, and she still shrieked after him, "Stop! stop!"
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000040_000000|At last, when the priest felt he could run no more, the dawn broke, and with the darkness of night the goblin vanished and he was safe.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000040_000001|The priest now knew that he had met the Goblin of Adachigahara, the story of whom he had often heard but never believed to be true.
train-other-500/1239/139609/1239_139609_000040_000002|He felt that he owed his wonderful escape to the protection of Buddha to whom he had prayed for help, so he took out his rosary and bowing his head as the sun rose he said his prayers and made his thanksgiving earnestly.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000000_000001|THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000001_000001|At length she succeeded.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000003_000000|"Who speaks?" answered the minister.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000003_000001|Gathering himself quickly up, he stood more erect, like a man taken by surprise in a mood to which he was reluctant to have witnesses.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000003_000003|It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000004_000000|He made a step nigher, and discovered the scarlet letter.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000006_000000|"Even so." she answered.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000006_000001|"In such life as has been mine these seven years past!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000000|It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000002|Each a ghost, and awe stricken at the other ghost.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000003|They were awe stricken likewise at themselves, because the crisis flung back to them their consciousness, and revealed to each heart its history and experience, as life never does, except at such breathless epochs.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000004|The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000005|It was with fear, and tremulously, and, as it were, by a slow, reluctant necessity, that Arthur Dimmesdale put forth his hand, chill as death, and touched the chill hand of Hester Prynne.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000006|The grasp, cold as it was, took away what was dreariest in the interview.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000007_000007|They now felt themselves, at least, inhabitants of the same sphere.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000008_000001|Thus they went onward, not boldly, but step by step, into the themes that were brooding deepest in their hearts.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000009_000000|After awhile, the minister fixed his eyes on Hester Prynne's.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000011_000000|She smiled drearily, looking down upon her bosom.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000013_000000|"None-nothing but despair!" he answered.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000013_000003|But, as matters stand with my soul, whatever of good capacity there originally was in me, all of God's gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000014_000001|"And surely thou workest good among them!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000015_000000|"More misery, Hester!--Only the more misery!" answered the clergyman with a bitter smile.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000015_000001|"As concerns the good which I may appear to do, I have no faith in it.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000015_000007|And Satan laughs at it!"
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000016_000000|"You wrong yourself in this," said Hester gently.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000016_000001|"You have deeply and sorely repented.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000016_000003|Your present life is not less holy, in very truth, than it seems in people's eyes.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000016_000004|Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000016_000005|And wherefore should it not bring you peace?"
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000017_000004|Of penitence, there has been none! Else, I should long ago have thrown off these garments of mock holiness, and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment seat.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000017_000005|Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000017_000006|Mine burns in secret! Thou little knowest what a relief it is, after the torment of a seven years' cheat, to look into an eye that recognises me for what I am!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000017_000008|Even thus much of truth would save me!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000018_000000|Hester Prynne looked into his face, but hesitated to speak. Yet, uttering his long restrained emotions so vehemently as he did, his words here offered her the very point of circumstances in which to interpose what she came to say.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000018_000001|She conquered her fears, and spoke:
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000020_000000|The minister started to his feet, gasping for breath, and clutching at his heart, as if he would have torn it out of his bosom.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000021_000001|What sayest thou?" cried he.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000022_000000|Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one whose purposes could not be other than malevolent.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000022_000003|She now read his heart more accurately.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000022_000005|By means of them, the sufferer's conscience had been kept in an irritated state, the tendency of which was, not to cure by wholesome pain, but to disorganize and corrupt his spiritual being.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000022_000006|Its result, on earth, could hardly fail to be insanity, and hereafter, that eternal alienation from the Good and True, of which madness is perhaps the earthly type.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000024_000000|"Oh, Arthur!" cried she, "forgive me!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000024_000003|Then I consented to a deception.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000025_000002|For the brief space that it lasted, it was a dark transfiguration.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000025_000004|He sank down on the ground, and buried his face in his hands.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000027_000000|"Thou shalt forgive me!" cried Hester, flinging herself on the fallen leaves beside him.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000028_000000|With sudden and desperate tenderness she threw her arms around him, and pressed his head against her bosom, little caring though his cheek rested on the scarlet letter.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000028_000002|Hester would not set him free, lest he should look her sternly in the face.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000028_000004|Heaven, likewise, had frowned upon her, and she had not died.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000028_000005|But the frown of this pale, weak, sinful, and sorrow stricken man was what Hester could not bear, and live!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000030_000000|"I do forgive you, Hester," replied the minister at length, with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000030_000001|"I freely forgive you now.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000031_000002|We felt it so!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000031_000003|We said so to each other.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000031_000004|Hast thou forgotten it?"
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000033_000002|The forest was obscure around them, and creaked with a blast that was passing through it.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000034_000000|And yet they lingered.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000034_000001|How dreary looked the forest track that led backward to the settlement, where Hester Prynne must take up again the burden of her ignominy and the minister the hollow mockery of his good name!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000035_000000|He started at a thought that suddenly occurred to him.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000036_000000|"Hester!" cried he, "here is a new horror!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000036_000002|Will he continue, then, to keep our secret?
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000036_000003|What will now be the course of his revenge?"
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000037_000000|"There is a strange secrecy in his nature," replied Hester, thoughtfully; "and it has grown upon him by the hidden practices of his revenge.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000037_000001|I deem it not likely that he will betray the secret.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000037_000002|He will doubtless seek other means of satiating his dark passion."
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000038_000003|Resolve for me!"
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000039_000000|"Thou must dwell no longer with this man," said Hester, slowly and firmly.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000040_000000|"It were far worse than death!" replied the minister.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000041_000000|"Alas! what a ruin has befallen thee!" said Hester, with the tears gushing into her eyes.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000042_000000|"The judgment of God is on me," answered the conscience stricken priest.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000045_000004|Deeper it goes, and deeper into the wilderness, less plainly to be seen at every step; until some few miles hence the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man's tread.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000046_000000|"Yes, Hester; but only under the fallen leaves!" replied the minister, with a sad smile.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000047_000001|If thou so choose, it will bear thee back again.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000048_000000|"It cannot be!" answered the minister, listening as if he were called upon to realise a dream.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000048_000001|"I am powerless to go.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000002|It shall not cumber thy steps, as thou treadest along the forest path: neither shalt thou freight the ship with it, if thou prefer to cross the sea.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000007|Not so! The future is yet full of trial and success.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000008|There is happiness to be enjoyed!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000009|There is good to be done!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000010|Exchange this false life of thine for a true one.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000011|Be, if thy spirit summon thee to such a mission, the teacher and apostle of the red men.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000013|Preach!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000049_000020|Up, and away!"
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000050_000000|"Oh, Hester!" cried Arthur Dimmesdale, in whose eyes a fitful light, kindled by her enthusiasm, flashed up and died away, "thou tellest of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering beneath him!
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000051_000001|He lacked energy to grasp the better fortune that seemed within his reach.
train-other-500/1250/135777/1250_135777_000053_000000|"Thou shall not go alone!" answered she, in a deep whisper. Then, all was spoken!
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000002_000000|twenty two.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000003_000000|Before Hester Prynne could call together her thoughts, and consider what was practicable to be done in this new and startling aspect of affairs, the sound of military music was heard approaching along a contiguous street.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000004_000001|First came the music.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000004_000003|Little Pearl at first clapped her hands, but then lost for an instant the restless agitation that had kept her in a continual effervescence throughout the morning; she gazed silently, and seemed to be borne upward like a floating sea bird on the long heaves and swells of sound.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000004_000004|But she was brought back to her former mood by the shimmer of the sunshine on the weapons and bright armour of the military company, which followed after the music, and formed the honorary escort of the procession.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000004_000005|This body of soldiery-which still sustains a corporate existence, and marches down from past ages with an ancient and honourable fame-was composed of no mercenary materials.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000004_000007|The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000004_000009|The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000005_000000|And yet the men of civil eminence, who came immediately behind the military escort, were better worth a thoughtful observer's eye.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000005_000001|Even in outward demeanour they showed a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar, if not absurd.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000005_000003|The people possessed by hereditary right the quality of reverence, which, in their descendants, if it survive at all, exists in smaller proportion, and with a vastly diminished force in the selection and estimate of public men.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000005_000004|The change may be for good or ill, and is partly, perhaps, for both.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000005_000007|They had fortitude and self reliance, and in time of difficulty or peril stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000005_000008|The traits of character here indicated were well represented in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000006_000000|Next in order to the magistrates came the young and eminently distinguished divine, from whose lips the religious discourse of the anniversary was expected.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000006_000001|His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for-leaving a higher motive out of the question it offered inducements powerful enough in the almost worshipping respect of the community, to win the most aspiring ambition into its service.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000006_000002|Even political power-as in the case of Increase Mather-was within the grasp of a successful priest.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000000|It was the observation of those who beheld him now, that never, since mr Dimmesdale first set his foot on the New England shore, had he exhibited such energy as was seen in the gait and air with which he kept his pace in the procession.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000001|There was no feebleness of step as at other times; his frame was not bent, nor did his hand rest ominously upon his heart.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000002|Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000006|There was his body, moving onward, and with an unaccustomed force.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000007|But where was his mind?
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000008|Far and deep in its own region, busying itself, with preternatural activity, to marshal a procession of stately thoughts that were soon to issue thence; and so he saw nothing, heard nothing, knew nothing of what was around him; but the spiritual element took up the feeble frame and carried it along, unconscious of the burden, and converting it to spirit like itself.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000007_000009|Men of uncommon intellect, who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days and then are lifeless for as many more.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000000|Hester Prynne, gazing steadfastly at the clergyman, felt a dreary influence come over her, but wherefore or whence she knew not, unless that he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000001|One glance of recognition she had imagined must needs pass between them.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000003|How deeply had they known each other then!
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000004|And was this the man?
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000005|She hardly knew him now!
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000006|He, moving proudly past, enveloped as it were, in the rich music, with the procession of majestic and venerable fathers; he, so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far vista of his unsympathizing thoughts, through which she now beheld him!
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000008_000007|Her spirit sank with the idea that all must have been a delusion, and that, vividly as she had dreamed it, there could be no real bond betwixt the clergyman and herself.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000009_000001|While the procession passed, the child was uneasy, fluttering up and down, like a bird on the point of taking flight.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000009_000002|When the whole had gone by, she looked up into Hester's face-
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000010_000000|"Mother," said she, "was that the same minister that kissed me by the brook?"
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000012_000000|"I could not be sure that it was he-so strange he looked," continued the child.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000014_000001|It was Mistress Hibbins, who, arrayed in great magnificence, with a triple ruff, a broidered stomacher, a gown of rich velvet, and a gold headed cane, had come forth to see the procession.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000015_000005|But truly, forsooth, I find it hard to believe him the same man.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000015_000006|Many a church member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me, when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian powwow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us!
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000015_000007|That is but a trifle, when a woman knows the world.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000015_000008|But this minister.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000016_000001|"It is not for me to talk lightly of a learned and pious minister of the Word, like the Reverend mr Dimmesdale."
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000017_000002|I know thee, Hester, for I behold the token.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000017_000004|Thou wearest it openly, so there need be no question about that.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000019_000000|"No matter, darling!" responded Mistress Hibbins, making Pearl a profound reverence.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000019_000003|Wilt thou ride with me some fine night to see thy father?
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000019_000004|Then thou shalt know wherefore the minister keeps his hand over his heart!"
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000020_000000|Laughing so shrilly that all the market place could hear her, the weird old gentlewoman took her departure.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000021_000000|By this time the preliminary prayer had been offered in the meeting house, and the accents of the Reverend mr Dimmesdale were heard commencing his discourse.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000021_000001|An irresistible feeling kept Hester near the spot.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000021_000002|As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000021_000003|It was in sufficient proximity to bring the whole sermon to her ears, in the shape of an indistinct but varied murmur and flow of the minister's very peculiar voice.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000022_000002|Muffled as the sound was by its passage through the church walls, Hester Prynne listened with such intenseness, and sympathized so intimately, that the sermon had throughout a meaning for her, entirely apart from its indistinguishable words.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000022_000003|These, perhaps, if more distinctly heard, might have been only a grosser medium, and have clogged the spiritual sense.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000022_000005|And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was for ever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000022_000008|But even when the minister's voice grew high and commanding-when it gushed irrepressibly upward-when it assumed its utmost breadth and power, so overfilling the church as to burst its way through the solid walls, and diffuse itself in the open air-still, if the auditor listened intently, and for the purpose, he could detect the same cry of pain.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000022_000009|What was it?
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000022_000011|It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000023_000000|During all this time, Hester stood, statue like, at the foot of the scaffold.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000023_000001|If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would, nevertheless, have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000024_000001|She made the sombre crowd cheerful by her erratic and glistening ray, even as a bird of bright plumage illuminates a whole tree of dusky foliage by darting to and fro, half seen and half concealed amid the twilight of the clustering leaves.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000024_000002|She had an undulating, but oftentimes a sharp and irregular movement.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000024_000003|It indicated the restless vivacity of her spirit, which to day was doubly indefatigable in its tip toe dance, because it was played upon and vibrated with her mother's disquietude.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000024_000006|She ran and looked the wild Indian in the face, and he grew conscious of a nature wilder than his own.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000026_000000|"Thy mother is yonder woman with the scarlet letter," said the seaman, "Wilt thou carry her a message from me?"
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000027_000000|"If the message pleases me, I will," answered Pearl.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000029_000000|"Mistress Hibbins says my father is the Prince of the Air!" cried Pearl, with a naughty smile.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000030_000000|Pursuing a zigzag course across the marketplace, the child returned to her mother, and communicated what the mariner had said.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000031_000000|With her mind harassed by the terrible perplexity in which the shipmaster's intelligence involved her, she was also subjected to another trial.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000031_000002|These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000031_000003|Unscrupulous as it was, however, it could not bring them nearer than a circuit of several yards.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000031_000005|The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning the purport of the scarlet letter, came and thrust their sunburnt and desperado looking faces into the ring.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000031_000007|Lastly, the inhabitants of the town (their own interest in this worn out subject languidly reviving itself, by sympathy with what they saw others feel) lounged idly to the same quarter, and tormented Hester Prynne, perhaps more than all the rest, with their cool, well acquainted gaze at her familiar shame.
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000032_000001|The sainted minister in the church!
train-other-500/1250/135782/1250_135782_000032_000002|The woman of the scarlet letter in the marketplace!
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000002_000001|The King stroked it gently, and said to it:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000003_000000|"Well, bunny, as you have come to me for protection I will see that nobody hurts you."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000004_000000|And he took it home to his palace and had it put in a pretty little house, with all sorts of nice things to eat.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000005_000000|That night, when he was alone in his room, a beautiful lady suddenly appeared before him; her long dress was as white as snow, and she had a crown of white roses upon her head.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000005_000001|The good King was very much surprised to see her, for he knew his door had been tightly shut, and he could not think how she had got in.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000005_000002|But she said to him:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000006_000000|"I am the Fairy Truth.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000006_000003|I thank you for the kindness you have shown me, which has made me your friend for ever.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000007_000000|"Madam," said the good King, "since you are a fairy you no doubt know all my wishes.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000007_000002|If you are really good enough to wish to do me a favor, I beg that you will become his friend."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000008_000000|"With all my heart," answered the Fairy.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000008_000001|"I can make your son the handsomest prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose whichever you like for him."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000009_000000|"I do not ask either of these things for my son," replied the good King; "but if you will make him the best of princes, I shall indeed be grateful to you.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000009_000002|You know well he would still be unhappy.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000009_000003|Only a good man can be really contented."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000011_000000|The good King was quite satisfied with this promise; and very soon afterward he died.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000013_000000|Two days afterward, when the Prince had gone to bed, the Fairy suddenly appeared to him and said:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000014_000000|"I promised your father that I would be your friend, and to keep my word I have come to bring you a present." At the same time she put a little gold ring upon his finger.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000016_000000|So saying, the Fairy disappeared, leaving Prince Darling very much astonished.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000018_000001|When he got home and went to his own room, his little dog Bibi ran to meet him, jumping round him with pleasure.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000018_000003|"I don't want you, you are in the way."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000019_000000|The poor little dog, who didn't understand this at all, pulled at his coat to make him at least look at her, and this made Prince Darling so cross that he gave her quite a hard kick.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000020_000001|He was very much surprised, and sat down in a corner of his room feeling quite ashamed of himself.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000021_000000|"I believe the Fairy is laughing at me," he thought.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000021_000002|What is the good of my being ruler of a great kingdom if I am not even allowed to beat my own dog?"
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000022_000000|"I am not making fun of you," said a voice, answering Prince Darling's thoughts.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000022_000001|"You have committed three faults.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000023_000001|The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000024_000000|The Prince saw how naughty he had been, and promised to try and do better in future, but he did not keep his word.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000025_000000|When the Prince grew old enough to understand, he soon learned that there could be nothing worse than to be proud, obstinate, and conceited, and he had really tried to cure himself of these defects, but by that time all his faults had become habits; and a bad habit is very hard to get rid of.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000025_000001|Not that he was naturally of a bad disposition; he was truly sorry when he had been naughty, and said:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000026_000000|"I am very unhappy to have to struggle against my anger and pride every day; if I had been punished for them when I was little they would not be such a trouble to me now."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000028_000000|One day, when the Prince was walking about, he saw a young girl who was so very pretty that he made up his mind at once that he would marry her. Her name was Celia, and she was as good as she was beautiful.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000029_000000|Prince Darling fancied that Celia would think herself only too happy if he offered to make her a great queen, but she said fearlessly:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000030_000000|"Sire, I am only a shepherdess, and a poor girl, but, nevertheless, I will not marry you."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000031_000000|"Do you dislike me?" asked the Prince, who was very much vexed at this answer.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000033_000000|The Prince was very angry at this speech, and commanded his officers to make Celia a prisoner and carry her off to his palace.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000034_000000|One of the Prince's favorite companions was his foster brother, whom he trusted entirely; but he was not at all a good man, and gave Prince Darling very bad advice, and encouraged him in all his evil ways.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000035_000000|"You are very kind to trouble yourself about this little girl; if I were you I would soon make her obey me.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000036_000000|"But," said Prince Darling, "would it not be a shame if I had an innocent girl put to death?
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000036_000001|For Celia has done nothing to deserve punishment."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000040_000002|His bad friends, when they heard him, resolved to turn his wrath upon an old nobleman who had formerly been his tutor; and who still dared sometimes to tell the Prince of his faults, for he loved him as if he had been his own son.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000040_000003|At first Prince Darling had thanked him, but after a time he grew impatient and thought it must be just mere love of fault finding that made his old tutor blame him when everyone else was praising and flattering him.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000040_000004|So he ordered him to retire from his Court, though he still, from time to time, spoke of him as a worthy man whom he respected, even if he no longer loved him.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000041_000001|The Prince, in great anger, sent his foster brother with a number of soldiers to bring his tutor before him, in chains, like a criminal.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000041_000002|After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely got into it when there was a clap of thunder which made the ground shake, and the Fairy Truth appeared suddenly before him.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000042_000002|It is time that I should fulfil my promise, and begin your punishment.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000042_000003|I condemn you to resemble the animals whose ways you have imitated.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000042_000004|You have made yourself like the lion by your anger, and like the wolf by your greediness.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000043_000001|He had a lion's head, a bull's horns, a wolf's feet, and a snake's body.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000043_000002|At the same instant he found himself in a great forest, beside a clear lake, in which he could see plainly the horrible creature he had become, and a voice said to him:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000044_000000|"Look carefully at the state to which your wickedness has brought you; believe me, your soul is a thousand times more hideous than your body."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000046_000000|"I laugh at your powerlessness and anger, and I intend to punish your pride by letting you fall into the hands of your own subjects."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000047_000000|The Prince began to think that the best thing he could do would be to get as far away from the lake as he could, then at least he would not be continually reminded of his terrible ugliness.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000047_000001|So he ran toward the wood, but before he had gone many yards he fell into a deep pit which had been made to trap bears, and the hunters, who were hiding in a tree, leaped down, and secured him with several chains, and led him into the chief city of his own kingdom.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000050_000000|Prince Darling roared with anger when he heard this; but it was still worse for him when he reached the great square before his own palace.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000052_000001|He left off tearing at the iron bars of the cage in which he was shut up, and became as gentle as a lamb.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000053_000001|Unfortunately, this man was very rough and unkind, and though the poor monster was quite quiet, he often beat him without rhyme or reason when he happened to be in a bad temper. One day when this keeper was asleep a tiger broke its chain, and flew at him to eat him up.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000054_000000|"I would return good for evil," he said to himself, "and save the unhappy man's life." He had hardly wished this when his iron cage flew open, and he rushed to the side of the keeper, who was awake and was defending himself against the tiger.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000058_000001|The Queen petted and took care of him, but she was so afraid that he would get too fat that she consulted the court physician, who said that he was to be fed only upon bread, and was not to have much even of that.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000058_000002|So poor Prince Darling was terribly hungry all day long, but he was very patient about it.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000059_000001|But he was surprised to find that the brook was gone, and where it had been stood a great house that seemed to be built of gold and precious stones.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000060_000000|But what seemed very strange was that those people who came out of the house were pale and thin, and their clothes were torn, and hanging in rags about them.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000061_000000|Prince Darling went up to a young girl who was trying to eat a few blades of grass, she was so hungry.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000061_000001|Touched with compassion, he said to himself:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000064_000000|She soon seemed to be quite well again, and the Prince, delighted to have been able to help her, was thinking of going home to the palace, when he heard a great outcry, and, turning round, saw Celia, who was being carried against her will into the great house.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000069_000000|"Don't touch it, my poor little dog-that house is the palace of pleasure, and everything that comes out of it is poisoned!"
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000070_000000|At the same moment a voice said:
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000071_000000|"You see a good action always brings its reward," and the Prince found himself changed into a beautiful white dove.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000071_000001|He remembered that white was the favorite color of the Fairy Truth, and began to hope that he might at last win back her favor.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000071_000002|But just now his first care was for Celia, and rising into the air he flew round and round the house, until he saw an open window; but he searched through every room in vain.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000071_000003|No trace of Celia was to be seen, and the Prince, in despair, determined to search through the world till he found her.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000071_000004|He flew on and on for several days, till he came to a great desert, where he saw a cavern, and, to his delight, there sat Celia, sharing the simple breakfast of an old hermit.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000074_000000|"Take care what you are saying, Celia," said the old hermit; "are you prepared to keep that promise?"
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000075_000001|"You promised to love me always; tell me that you really mean what you said, or I shall have to ask the Fairy to give me back the form of the dove which pleased you so much."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000077_000000|"Celia has loved you ever since she first saw you, only she would not tell you while you were so obstinate and naughty.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000078_000000|Celia and Prince Darling threw themselves at the Fairy's feet, and the Prince was never tired of thanking her for her kindness.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000078_000001|Celia was delighted to hear how sorry he was for all his past follies and misdeeds, and promised to love him as long as she lived.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000079_000000|"Rise, my children," said the Fairy, "and I will transport you to the palace, and Prince Darling shall have back again the crown he forfeited by his bad behavior."
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000080_000000|While she was speaking, they found themselves in Suliman's hall, and his delight was great at seeing his dear master once more.
train-other-500/1252/134983/1252_134983_000080_000001|He gave up the throne joyfully to the Prince, and remained always the most faithful of his subjects.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty five
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000003_000000|'These things happened last winter, sir,' said mrs Dean; 'hardly more than a year ago.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000003_000002|You're too young to rest always contented, living by yourself; and I some way fancy no one could see Catherine Linton and not love her.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000004_000000|'Stop, my good friend!' I cried.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000004_000002|I doubt it too much to venture my tranquillity by running into temptation: and then my home is not here. I'm of the busy world, and to its arms I must return.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000004_000003|Go on.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000005_000000|'She was,' continued the housekeeper.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000005_000001|'Her affection for him was still the chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000005_000002|He said to me, a few days afterwards, "I wish my nephew would write, Ellen, or call.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000006_000000|'"He's very delicate, sir," I replied; "and scarcely likely to reach manhood: but this I can say, he does not resemble his father; and if Miss Catherine had the misfortune to marry him, he would not be beyond her control: unless she were extremely and foolishly indulgent.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000006_000001|However, master, you'll have plenty of time to get acquainted with him and see whether he would suit her: it wants four years and more to his being of age."'
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000007_000000|Edgar sighed; and, walking to the window, looked out towards Gimmerton Kirk.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000007_000001|It was a misty afternoon, but the February sun shone dimly, and we could just distinguish the two fir trees in the yard, and the sparely scattered gravestones.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000000|'I've prayed often,' he half soliloquised, 'for the approach of what is coming; and now I begin to shrink, and fear it.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000001|I thought the memory of the hour I came down that glen a bridegroom would be less sweet than the anticipation that I was soon, in a few months, or, possibly, weeks, to be carried up, and laid in its lonely hollow!
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000002|Ellen, I've been very happy with my little Cathy: through winter nights and summer days she was a living hope at my side.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000003|But I've been as happy musing by myself among those stones, under that old church: lying, through the long June evenings, on the green mound of her mother's grave, and wishing-yearning for the time when I might lie beneath it.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000004|What can I do for Cathy?
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000007|But should Linton be unworthy-only a feeble tool to his father-I cannot abandon her to him!
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000009|Darling!
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000008_000010|I'd rather resign her to God, and lay her in the earth before me.'
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000009_000001|Miss Catherine is a good girl: I don't fear that she will go wilfully wrong; and people who do their duty are always finally rewarded.'
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000010_000000|Spring advanced; yet my master gathered no real strength, though he resumed his walks in the grounds with his daughter.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000010_000001|To her inexperienced notions, this itself was a sign of convalescence; and then his cheek was often flushed, and his eyes were bright; she felt sure of his recovering. On her seventeenth birthday, he did not visit the churchyard: it was raining, and I observed-'You'll surely not go out to night, sir?'
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000012_000000|That part of his letter was simple, and probably his own.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000012_000001|Heathcliff knew he could plead eloquently for Catherine's company, then.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000013_000000|'I do not ask,' he said, 'that she may visit here; but am I never to see her, because my father forbids me to go to her home, and you forbid her to come to mine?
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000013_000001|Do, now and then, ride with her towards the Heights; and let us exchange a few words, in your presence!
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000013_000002|We have done nothing to deserve this separation; and you are not angry with me: you have no reason to dislike me, you allow, yourself.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000013_000003|Dear uncle! send me a kind note to morrow, and leave to join you anywhere you please, except at Thrushcross Grange.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000013_000004|I believe an interview would convince you that my father's character is not mine: he affirms I am more your nephew than his son; and though I have faults which render me unworthy of Catherine, she has excused them, and for her sake, you should also.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000013_000005|You inquire after my health-it is better; but while I remain cut off from all hope, and doomed to solitude, or the society of those who never did and never will like me, how can I be cheerful and well?'
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000014_000000|Edgar, though he felt for the boy, could not consent to grant his request; because he could not accompany Catherine.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000014_000001|He said, in summer, perhaps, they might meet: meantime, he wished him to continue writing at intervals, and engaged to give him what advice and comfort he was able by letter; being well aware of his hard position in his family.
train-other-500/1258/135062/1258_135062_000015_000002|I, for my part, began to fancy my forebodings were false, and that he must be actually rallying, when he mentioned riding and walking on the moors, and seemed so earnest in pursuing his object.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000001_000000|Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride to join her cousin.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000001_000001|It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide stone, by the cross roads.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000004_000002|Then he walked so feebly, and looked so pale, that I immediately exclaimed,--'Why, Master Heathcliff, you are not fit for enjoying a ramble this morning.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000005_000000|Catherine surveyed him with grief and astonishment: she changed the ejaculation of joy on her lips to one of alarm; and the congratulation on their long postponed meeting to an anxious inquiry, whether he were worse than usual?
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000007_000000|'But you have been worse,' persisted his cousin; 'worse than when I saw you last; you are thinner, and-'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000008_000000|'I'm tired,' he interrupted, hurriedly.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000008_000001|'It is too hot for walking, let us rest here.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000008_000002|And, in the morning, I often feel sick-papa says I grow so fast.'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000009_000000|Badly satisfied, Cathy sat down, and he reclined beside her.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000010_000001|'You recollect the two days we agreed to spend in the place and way each thought pleasantest?
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000010_000002|This is nearly yours, only there are clouds; but then they are so soft and mellow: it is nicer than sunshine.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000010_000003|Next week, if you can, we'll ride down to the Grange Park, and try mine.'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000011_000001|His lack of interest in the subjects she started, and his equal incapacity to contribute to her entertainment, were so obvious that she could not conceal her disappointment.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000011_000002|An indefinite alteration had come over his whole person and manner.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000011_000005|That proposal, unexpectedly, roused Linton from his lethargy, and threw him into a strange state of agitation.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000011_000006|He glanced fearfully towards the Heights, begging she would remain another half hour, at least.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000013_000000|'Stay to rest yourself,' he replied.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000014_000001|I couldn't affirm that you are,' observed my young lady, wondering at his pertinacious assertion of what was evidently an untruth.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000015_000000|'And be here again next Thursday,' continued he, shunning her puzzled gaze.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000015_000001|'And give him my thanks for permitting you to come-my best thanks, Catherine.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000016_000000|'I care nothing for his anger,' exclaimed Cathy, imagining she would be its object.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000017_000000|'But I do,' said her cousin, shuddering.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000018_000001|'Has he grown weary of indulgence, and passed from passive to active hatred?'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000020_000000|'Is it half an hour now, Ellen?' she whispered in my ear, at last.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000020_000001|'I can't tell why we should stay.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000020_000002|He's asleep, and papa will be wanting us back.'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000021_000000|'Well, we must not leave him asleep,' I answered; 'wait till he wakes, and be patient.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000021_000001|You were mighty eager to set off, but your longing to see poor Linton has soon evaporated!'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000022_000002|It's just as if it were a task he was compelled to perform-this interview-for fear his father should scold him.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000022_000003|But I'm hardly going to come to give mr Heathcliff pleasure; whatever reason he may have for ordering Linton to undergo this penance.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000022_000004|And, though I'm glad he's better in health, I'm sorry he's so much less pleasant, and so much less affectionate to me.'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000026_000000|Linton here started from his slumber in bewildered terror, and asked if any one had called his name.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000027_000000|'No,' said Catherine; 'unless in dreams.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000027_000001|I cannot conceive how you manage to doze out of doors, in the morning.'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000028_000000|'I thought I heard my father,' he gasped, glancing up to the frowning nab above us.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000028_000001|'You are sure nobody spoke?'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000029_000000|'Quite sure,' replied his cousin.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000029_000001|'Only Ellen and I were disputing concerning your health.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000029_000002|Are you truly stronger, Linton, than when we separated in winter?
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000031_000000|Cathy rose.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000031_000001|'For to day we must part,' she said.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000032_000000|'Hush,' murmured Linton; 'for God's sake, hush!
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000032_000001|He's coming.' And he clung to Catherine's arm, striving to detain her; but at that announcement she hastily disengaged herself, and whistled to Minny, who obeyed her like a dog.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000033_000000|'I'll be here next Thursday,' she cried, springing to the saddle. 'Good bye.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000033_000001|Quick, Ellen!'
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000035_000000|Before we reached home, Catherine's displeasure softened into a perplexed sensation of pity and regret, largely blended with vague, uneasy doubts about Linton's actual circumstances, physical and social: in which I partook, though I counselled her not to say much; for a second journey would make us better judges.
train-other-500/1258/135063/1258_135063_000035_000001|My master requested an account of our ongoings.
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000002_000000|thirty one
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000006_000000|thirty three
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000010_000000|thirty five
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000012_000000|thirty six
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000014_000000|thirty seven
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000016_000000|thirty eight
train-other-500/1260/139266/1260_139266_000018_000000|thirty nine
train-other-500/1260/139272/1260_139272_000019_000000|The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath?
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000001_000001|On the moon's edge beneath the shadow of Mount Angises he shall rest awhile and then shall climb the crystal steps again.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000001_000002|Then a great journey lies before him before he may rest again till he come to that star that is called the left eye of Gundo.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000001_000003|Then a journey of many crystal steps lieth before him again with nought to guide him but the light of Omrazu.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000001_000007|And from star to star along the Track of Stars the soul of a man may travel with more ease, and there the journey lies no more straight forward, but curves to the right."
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000002_000000|Then said King Ebalon:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000003_000000|"Of this beggar whom my horse smote down thou hast spoken much, but I sought to know by what road a King should go when he taketh his last royal journey, and what princes and what people should meet him upon another shore."
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000004_000000|Then answered Monith:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000005_000000|"All knowledge is with the King.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000007_000000|Then said the King:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000008_000000|"The gods have spoken hard above the snowy peak of this mountain Ahmoon."
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000009_000000|And Monith said:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000012_000000|"If this hard tale be true, how shall I find the beggar that I must follow when I come again to the earth?"
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000013_000000|And the Prophet answered:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000015_000000|And the King answered:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000017_000000|And the Prophet answered:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000019_000000|Then said the King:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000021_000000|And Monith said:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000022_000000|"He too hath offended, for he was angry as thy horse struck him, and the gods smite anger.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000023_000000|Then said the King:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000025_000000|And Monith answered:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000026_000000|"As a man looks across great lakes I have gazed into the days to be, and as the great flies come upon four wings of gauze to skim over blue waters, so have my dreams come sailing two by two out of the days to be.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000026_000002|And it was on the morning of a festival and the King came robed in white, with all his prophets and his seers and magicians, all down the marble steps to bless the land and all that stood therein as far as the purple hills, because it was the morning of festival.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000026_000003|And as the King raised up his hand over the beggars' heads to bless the fields and rivers and all that stood therein, I dreamed that the quest was ended.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000027_000000|"All knowledge is with the King."
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000029_000000|Evening darkened and above the palace domes gleamed out the stars whereon haply others missed the secret too.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000030_000000|And outside the palace in the dark they that had borne the wine in jewelled cups mocked in low voices at the King and at the wisdom of his prophets.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000034_000002|Pestilence, heat and cold, ignorance, famine and anger, these things shall grip their claws upon all men as heretofore in fields and roads and cities but shall not hold thee.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000038_000000|Then said the King:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000039_000000|"I like not this grey doom, for dreams are empty.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000041_000000|"Victory, jewels and dancing but please thy fancy.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000041_000001|What is the sparkle of the gem to thee without thy fancy which it allures, and thy fancy is all a dream.
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000042_000000|And the King answered:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000043_000000|"A mad prophet."
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000045_000001|Until a knowledge come to us that either is wrong I have wider realms, I King, than thee and hold them beneath no overlords."
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000046_000000|Then said the King:
train-other-500/1261/127742/1261_127742_000048_000001|And the King shouted:
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000009_000001|It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Theraputae, or Essenians, of the Lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect which had abated much of its reverence for the Mosaic ceremonies.
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000015_000001|Whatever was strange or odious, whoever was guilty or suspected, might hope, in the obscurity of that immense capital, to elude the vigilance of the law.
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000015_000006|The church of Rome was undoubtedly the first and most populous of the empire; and we are possessed of an authentic record which attests the state of religion in that city about the middle of the third century, and after a peace of thirty eight years.
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000015_000007|The clergy, at that time, consisted of a bishop, forty six presbyters, seven deacons, as many sub deacons, forty two acolythes, and fifty readers, exorcists, and porters.
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000015_000008|The number of widows, of the infirm, and of the poor, who were maintained by the oblations of the faithful, amounted to fifteen hundred.
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000021_000000|In this more important circumstance, Africa, as well as Gaul, was gradually fashioned to the imitation of the capital.
train-other-500/1261/131411/1261_131411_000021_000002|The African Christians soon formed one of the principal members of the primitive church.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000004_000000|WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000005_000000|By William Makepeace Thackeray
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000008_000000|WILLIAM BINGHAM, LORD ASHBURTON.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000009_000000|MY DEAR LORD,
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000011_000001|Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am,
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000012_000000|Your obliged friend and servant,
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000014_000000|LONDON, october eighteenth eighteen fifty two.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000015_000000|PREFACE.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000017_000000|The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty's cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great as an English Principality, though in the early times its revenues were but small.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000019_000000|My dear mother died in seventeen thirty six, soon after our return from England, whither my parents took me for my education; and where I made the acquaintance of mr Warrington, whom my children never saw.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000020_000001|My father was of a dark complexion, with a very great forehead and dark hazel eyes, overhung by eyebrows which remained black long after his hair was white.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000020_000002|His nose was aquiline, his smile extraordinary sweet.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000020_000003|How well I remember it, and how little any description I can write can recall his image!
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000021_000000|In all bodily exercises he excelled, and showed an extraordinary quickness and agility.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000022_000002|At sixty years of age she still looked young, and was quite agile.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000023_000002|With a clear conscience, and a heart inexpressibly thankful, I think I can say that I fulfilled those dying commands, and that until his last hour my dearest father never had to complain that his daughter's love and fidelity failed him.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000024_000000|And it is since I knew him entirely-for during my mother's life he never quite opened himself to me-since I knew the value and splendor of that affection which he bestowed upon me, that I have come to understand and pardon what, I own, used to anger me in my mother's lifetime, her jealousy respecting her husband's love.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000024_000001|'twas a gift so precious, that no wonder she who had it was for keeping it all, and could part with none of it, even to her daughter.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000025_000002|No one ever thought of taking a liberty with him (except once a tipsy gentleman from York, and I am bound to own that my papa never forgave him): he set the humblest people at once on their ease with him, and brought down the most arrogant by a grave satiric way, which made persons exceedingly afraid of him.
train-other-500/1261/136350/1261_136350_000026_000000|I did not see our other relative, Bishop Tusher's lady, of whom so much is said in my papa's memoirs-although my mamma went to visit her in the country.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000002_000000|Jumper the Hare arrived at school a little late and quite out of breath from hurrying.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000002_000001|His big soft eyes were shining with excitement.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000003_000000|"I have," replied Jumper.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000003_000002|I guess if I hadn't been thinking about him, he would have caught me."
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000004_000000|"Tell us all about it," demanded Old Mother Nature.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000005_000000|"Seeing Black Pussy over here yesterday, and knowing that to day's lesson was to be about Yowler, I couldn't get cats out of my mind all day yesterday," began Jumper.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000005_000001|"Black Pussy doesn't worry me, but I must confess that if there is any one I fear, it is Yowler the Bob Cat.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000005_000003|The more I tried not to think about him, the more I did think about him, and the more I thought about him, the more nervous I got.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000005_000004|Then just before dark, on the bank of the Laughing Brook, I found some tracks in the mud.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000005_000005|Those tracks were almost round, and that fact was enough to tell me who had made them.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000005_000006|They were Yowler's footprints, and they hadn't been made very long.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000000|"Of course, seeing those footprints made me more nervous than ever, and every time I saw a leaf move I jumped inside.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000001|My heart felt as if it were up in my throat most of the time.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000002|I had a feeling that Yowler wasn't far away.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000003|I hate that Cat!
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000004|I hate the way he hunts!
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000005|He goes sneaking about, without making a sound, or else he lies in wait, ready to spring without warning on the first one who happens along.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000006_000006|A fellow never knows where to watch out for Yowler.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000007_000001|I sat there because I didn't dare do anything else.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000007_000002|As long as I stayed there I felt reasonably safe, because Yowler would have to find me, and to do that he would have to cross an open place where I could see him.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000007_000003|I knew that if I went roaming about I might walk right into his clutches.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000001|You know the moon was very bright last night.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000002|It made that open place in front of where I was hiding almost as light as day.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000003|Once I closed my eyes for just a minute.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000004|When I opened them, there was Yowler sneaking across that open place.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000005|Where he had come from, I don't know.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000006|He hadn't made a sound.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000007|Not a leaf rustled under his big feet.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000008_000008|Right in the middle of that open place, where the moonlight was brightest, he stopped to listen, and I simply held my breath."
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000009_000000|"Tell us how he looked," prompted Old Mother Nature.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000000|"He looked just like what he is-a big Cat with a short tail," replied Jumper.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000001|"Just to look at him any one would know he was own cousin to Black Pussy.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000002|He had a round head, rather long legs, and was about twice as big as Black Pussy.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000003|His feet looked big, even for him.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000004|On the tips of his ears were a few long black hairs. His coat was yellowish to reddish brown, with dark spots on it. His chin and throat were white, and underneath he was white spotted with black.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000005|There were spots all down his legs.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000006|He didn't have enough of a tail to call it a tail.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000007|It was whitish on the under side and had black stripes on the upper side, and all the time he kept twitching it just the way Black Pussy twitches her tail when she is out hunting.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000008|All of a sudden he opened his mouth and gave such a yell that it is a wonder I didn't jump out of my skin.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000009|It frightened me so that I couldn't have moved if I had wanted to, which was a lucky thing for me.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000010|The instant he yelled he cocked his head on one side and listened.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000011|That yell must have wakened somebody and caused them to move, for Yowler turned suddenly and crept swiftly and without a sound out of sight.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000012|A minute later I heard a jump, and then I heard a fluttering.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000010_000013|I think he caught one of the Grouse family."
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000011_000000|"Yelling that way is one of Yowler's tricks," explained Old Mother Nature.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000011_000002|He hopes that it will startle some sleeper so that they will move. If they do, his keen ears are sure to hear it.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000011_000003|Was that all of your adventure, Jumper?"
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000000|"No," replied Jumper.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000001|"I remained right where I was for the rest of the night.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000002|Just as daylight was beginning to steal through the Green Forest, I decided that it was safe to leave my hiding place and come over here.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000004|I was just about to start on again when I caught sight of something moving just back of an old stump.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000005|It was that foolish looking tail of Yowler's.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000006|Had he kept it still I wouldn't have seen him at all; but he was twitching it back and forth.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000007|He was crouched down close to the ground with all four feet drawn close together under him.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000008|There he crouched, and there I sat for the longest time.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000009|I didn't move, and he didn't move, save that foolish looking tail of his.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000010|I had begun to think that I would have to stay in that clump of ferns all day when suddenly Yowler sprang like a flash.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000013|As soon as Yowler disappeared I hurried over here.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000012_000014|That's all."
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000013_000000|"That was a splendid account of Yowler and his way of hunting," said Old Mother Nature.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000013_000001|"He does most of his hunting in just that way, sneaking about on the chance of surprising a Rabbit, Bird or Mouse, or else patiently watching and waiting beside a hole in which he knows some one has taken refuge.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000013_000002|He hunts in the Green Forest exactly as Black Pussy, Farmer Brown's Cat, hunts Mice in the barn or Birds in the Old Orchard.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000013_000003|In the spring Yowler destroys many eggs and young birds, not only those found in nests on the ground, but also those in nests in trees, for he is a splendid climber.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000000|"Yowler is found in nearly all of the swampy, brushy and wooded parts of the whole country, excepting in the great forests of the Far North, where his cousin Tufty the Lynx lives.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000001|Yowler is himself a Lynx, the Bay Lynx.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000002|In some places he is called simply Wild Cat.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000003|In others he is called the Catamount.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000004|He is not so fond of the thick forests as he is of swamps, brush grown hillsides, old pastures and places where there are great masses of briars. Rocky ledges where there are caves in which to hide and plenty of brush also suit him.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000005|He is a coward, but when cornered will fight, though he will run from a little Dog half his size and take to a tree.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000006|In the South he is quite common and there often steals Chickens and Turkeys, even young Pigs.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000007|He prefers to hunt at night, but sometimes is seen in broad daylight.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000014_000008|mrs Yowler's kittens are born in a cave or in a hollow tree.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000000|"In the great forests of the Far North lives Yowler's cousin, Tufty the Canada Lynx, also called Loup Cervier and Lucivee.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000001|He is nearly a third larger than Yowler.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000002|From the tip of each ear long tufts of black hair stand up.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000003|On each side of his face is a ruff of long hair.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000004|His tail is even shorter than Yowler's, and the tip of it is always wholly black.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000005|His general color is gray, mottled with brown. His face ruff is white with black border.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000006|Yowler's feet are large, but Tufty's are immense for his size.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000008|He can travel with ease where Reddy Fox, not half his size and weight, would break through at every step.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000009|Tufty's ways are much like those of his cousin, Yowler, save that he is a dweller in the deep woods. Anything he can catch is food for Tufty, but his principal food is the Northern Hare.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000010|The color of his coat blends with the shadows so that he seems like a living shadow himself.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000012|Like Howler he can go a surprising length of time without food and still retain his strength.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000013|At that time of year he is a great traveler.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000015_000014|He has to be, in order to live.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000016_000002|The fur of his coat is very long and handsome, and he is hunted and trapped for this.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000016_000003|As he lives for the most part far from the homes of men, he does less damage to man than does his cousin, Yowler the Bob Cat.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000016_000004|Tufty must depend wholly for his living on the little people of the Green Forest.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000016_000005|Sometimes he will attack a Fox.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000016_000006|The pretty little spotted babies of Lightfoot the Deer are victims whenever he can find them.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000017_000000|"The darker and deeper the Green Forest, the better Tufty likes it.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000017_000001|He makes his den under great tangles of fallen trees or similar places.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000017_000002|mr And mrs Tufty often hunt together, and in early winter the whole family often join in the hunt.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000018_000000|"Yowler and Tufty are the only members of the Cat family now found in the eastern part of the country.
train-other-500/1266/135837/1266_135837_000018_000001|Formerly, their big cousin, Puma the Panther, lived in the East, but he has been so hunted by man that now he is found only in the mountains of the Far West and in a few of the wildest places in the South.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000004_000000|"Agriculture is that which is so universally understood among them that no person, either man or woman, is ignorant of it; they are instructed in it from their childhood, partly by what they learn at school, and partly by practice, they being led out often into the fields about the town, where they not only see others at work but are likewise exercised in it themselves.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000004_000002|The fashion never alters, and as it is neither disagreeable nor uneasy, so it is suited to the climate, and calculated both for their summers and winters.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000004_000003|Every family makes their own clothes; but all among them, women as well as men, learn one or other of the trades formerly mentioned.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000004_000004|Women, for the most part, deal in wool and flax, which suit best with their weakness, leaving the ruder trades to the men.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000004_000006|When he has learned both, he follows that which he likes best, unless the public has more occasion for the other.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000005_000002|After supper they spend an hour in some diversion, in summer in their gardens, and in winter in the halls where they eat, where they entertain each other either with music or discourse.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000005_000003|They do not so much as know dice, or any such foolish and mischievous games.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000006_000000|"And thus from the great numbers among them that are neither suffered to be idle nor to be employed in any fruitless labour, you may easily make the estimate how much may be done in those few hours in which they are obliged to labour.
train-other-500/1266/136523/1266_136523_000006_000005|As they need less woollen cloth than is used anywhere else, so that which they make use of is much less costly; they use linen cloth more, but that is prepared with less labour, and they value cloth only by the whiteness of the linen or the cleanness of the wool, without much regard to the fineness of the thread.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000001_000000|"But it is now time to explain to you the mutual intercourse of this people, their commerce, and the rules by which all things are distributed among them.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000002_000000|"As their cities are composed of families, so their families are made up of those that are nearly related to one another.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000002_000002|No family may have less than ten and more than sixteen persons in it, but there can be no determined number for the children under age; this rule is easily observed by removing some of the children of a more fruitful couple to any other family that does not abound so much in them.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000003_000000|"But to return to their manner of living in society: the oldest man of every family, as has been already said, is its governor; wives serve their husbands, and children their parents, and always the younger serves the elder.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000003_000001|Every city is divided into four equal parts, and in the middle of each there is a market place.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000003_000006|In every street there are great halls, that lie at an equal distance from each other, distinguished by particular names.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000003_000008|In these halls they all meet and have their repasts; the stewards of every one of them come to the market place at an appointed hour, and according to the number of those that belong to the hall they carry home provisions.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000003_000009|But they take more care of their sick than of any others; these are lodged and provided for in public hospitals.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000004_000001|At the hours of dinner and supper the whole Syphogranty being called together by sound of trumpet, they meet and eat together, except only such as are in the hospitals or lie sick at home.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000004_000003|All the uneasy and sordid services about these halls are performed by their slaves; but the dressing and cooking their meat, and the ordering their tables, belong only to the women, all those of every family taking it by turns.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000004_000006|All the children under five years old sit among the nurses; the rest of the younger sort of both sexes, till they are fit for marriage, either serve those that sit at table, or, if they are not strong enough for that, stand by them in great silence and eat what is given them; nor have they any other formality of dining.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000004_000007|In the middle of the first table, which stands across the upper end of the hall, sit the Syphogrant and his wife, for that is the chief and most conspicuous place; next to him sit two of the most ancient, for there go always four to a mess.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000004_000009|Dishes are not served up to the whole table at first, but the best are first set before the old, whose seats are distinguished from the young, and, after them, all the rest are served alike.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000004_000010|The old men distribute to the younger any curious meats that happen to be set before them, if there is not such an abundance of them that the whole company may be served alike.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000005_000000|"Thus old men are honoured with a particular respect, yet all the rest fare as well as they.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000005_000001|Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000005_000004|They never sup without music, and there is always fruit served up after meat; while they are at table some burn perfumes and sprinkle about fragrant ointments and sweet waters-in short, they want nothing that may cheer up their spirits; they give themselves a large allowance that way, and indulge themselves in all such pleasures as are attended with no inconvenience.
train-other-500/1266/136524/1266_136524_000005_000005|Thus do those that are in the towns live together; but in the country, where they live at a great distance, every one eats at home, and no family wants any necessary sort of provision, for it is from them that provisions are sent unto those that live in the towns.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000000_000001|Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000005_000001|An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000007_000001|The seat of misgovernment.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000014_000000|g j
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000017_000001|A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000019_000000|Elevenson
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000023_000000|Thomas m and Mary Frazer
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000025_000002|The scripture story of the head of john the Baptist on a charger shows that pagan myths have somewhat sophisticated sacred history.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000027_000001|The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth-two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000029_000003|No, indeed!
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000030_000000|g j
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000033_000002|There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet-two clarionets.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000035_000001|One of the nine Muses.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000035_000002|Clio's function was to preside over history-which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000039_000001|Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000041_000000|Anita m Bobe
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000042_000001|A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000044_000000|Quincy Giles
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000046_000001|The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000050_000000|k q
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000056_000001|A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000062_000001|To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000072_000000|Giacomo Smith
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000074_000001|A politician of the seas.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000075_000001|The plaintiff.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000076_000001|One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000077_000001|A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000079_000000|Sir james Merivale
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000080_000001|One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000081_000000|CREMONA, n.
train-other-500/127/129385/127_129385_000082_000001|A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000006_000001|An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000010_000000|HASH, x.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000011_000001|A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000013_000000|john Lukkus
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000014_000001|A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000015_000001|A capitation tax, or poll tax.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000016_000001|So The tax collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000016_000002|"So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000017_000000|g j
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000018_000001|Death's baby carriage.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000022_000000|Gorton Swope
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000024_000001|He's A Christian philosopher.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000034_000000|Marley Wottel
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000036_000001|A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000038_000002|Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000038_000005|They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000038_000006|Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000039_000001|An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000040_000001|A broad gauge gossip.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000042_000000|Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown 'tis nine tenths lying.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000042_000001|Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000045_000001|The humorist of the medical profession.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000047_000001|The slaying of one human being by another.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000048_000001|The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000051_000001|Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000052_000001|Desire and expectation rolled into one.
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000054_000000|Fogarty Weffing
train-other-500/127/129390/127_129390_000056_000001|A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000000_000000|A Solitary Chapter
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000000|During all that winter I attended the evening school and assisted the master.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000001|I confess, however, it was not by any means so much for the master as to be near Elsie Duff, of whom I now thought many times an hour.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000002|Her sweet face grew more and more dear to me.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000003|When I pointed out an error in her work, or suggested a better mode of working, it would flush like the heart of a white rose, and eagerly she would set herself to rectification or improvement, her whole manner a dumb apology for what could be a fault in no eyes but her own.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000004|It was this sweetness that gained upon me: at length her face was almost a part of my consciousness.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000005|I suppose my condition was what people would call being in love with her; but I never thought of that; I only thought of her.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000006|Nor did I ever dream of saying a word to her on the subject.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000001_000007|I wished nothing other than as it was.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000002_000000|When school was over, I walked home with her-not alone, for Turkey was always on the other side.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000002_000001|I had not a suspicion that Turkey's admiration of Elsie could ever come into collision with mine.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000002_000002|We joined in praising her, but my admiration ever found more words than Turkey's, and I thought my love to her was greater than his.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000003_000000|We seldom went into her grandmother's cottage, for she did not make us welcome.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000003_000001|After we had taken her home we generally repaired to Turkey's mother, with whom we were sure of a kind reception.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000003_000002|She was a patient diligent woman, who looked as if she had nearly done with life, and had only to gather up the crumbs of it.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000003_000003|I have often wondered since, what was her deepest thought-whether she was content to be unhappy, or whether she lived in hope of some blessedness beyond.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000003_000004|It is marvellous with how little happiness some people can get through the world.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000004_000000|"Did you ever hear my mother sing?" asked Turkey, as we sat together over her little fire, on one of these occasions.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000005_000000|"no
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000005_000001|I should like very much," I answered.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000006_000000|The room was lighted only by a little oil lamp, for there was no flame to the fire of peats and dried oak bark.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000007_000000|"She sings such queer ballads as you never heard," said Turkey.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000007_000001|"Give us one, mother; do."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000014_000000|O merry their laugh when they felt the land Under their light cool feet! Each laid her comb on the yellow sand, And the gladsome dance grew fleet.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000016_000000|And he watched the dance till the clouds did gloom, And the wind blew an angry tune: One after one she caught up her comb, To the sea went dancin' doon.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000020_000000|The king's son knelt beside her bed: She was his ere a month had passed; And the cold sea maiden he had wed Grew a tender wife at last.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000023_000000|She twisted her hair with eager hands, She put in the comb with glee: She's out and she's over the glittering sands, And away to the moaning sea.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000024_000000|One cry came back from far away: He woke, and was all alone. Her night robe lay on the marble grey, And the cold sea maiden was gone.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000026_000000|But never more came the maidens to play From the merry cold hearted sea; He heard their laughter far out and away, But heavy at heart paced he.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000027_000000|I have modernized the ballad-indeed spoiled it altogether, for I have made up this version from the memory of it-with only, I fear, just a touch here and there of the original expression.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000029_000000|As we walked home together I resumed the subject.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000030_000000|"I think you're too hard on the king's son," I said.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000030_000001|"He couldn't help falling in love with the mermaid."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000031_000000|"He had no business to steal her comb, and then run away with herself," said Turkey.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000032_000000|"She was none the worse for it," said i
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000033_000000|"Who told you that?" he retorted.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000033_000001|"I don't think the girl herself would have said so.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000033_000002|It's not every girl that would care to marry a king's son.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000033_000003|She might have had a lover of her own down in the sea.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000034_000000|"But the song says she made a tender wife," I objected.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000035_000000|"She couldn't help herself.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000035_000001|She made the best of it.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000036_000000|"Turkey!" I exclaimed.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000036_000001|"He was a prince!"
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000037_000000|"I know that."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000039_000000|"I don't know that.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000039_000001|I've read of a good many princes who did things I should be ashamed to do."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000040_000000|"But you're not a prince, Turkey," I returned, in the low endeavour to bolster up the wrong with my silly logic.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000041_000000|"no
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000041_000001|Therefore if I were to do what was rude and dishonest, people would say: 'What could you expect of a ploughboy?' A prince ought to be just so much better bred than a ploughboy.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000041_000003|What's wrong in a ploughboy can't be right in a prince, Ranald.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000042_000000|"Well, Turkey, you know best.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000043_000000|"You see what came of it-misery."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000044_000000|"Perhaps he would rather have had the misery and all together than none of it."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000045_000000|"That's for him to settle.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000045_000001|But he must have seen he was wrong, before he had done wandering by the sea like that."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000047_000000|Turkey thought for a moment before answering.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000048_000000|"I'm supposing you fell in love with her at first sight, you know," I added.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000049_000000|"Well, I'm sure I should not have kept the comb, even if I had taken it just to get a chance of speaking to her.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000049_000001|And I can't help fancying if he had behaved like a gentleman, and let her go without touching her the first time, she might have come again; and if he had married her at last of her own free will, she would not have run away from him, let the sea have kept calling her ever so much."
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000000|The next evening, I looked for Elsie as usual, but did not see her. How blank and dull the schoolroom seemed!
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000001|Still she might arrive any moment.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000002|But she did not come.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000003|I went through my duties wearily, hoping ever for the hour of release.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000005|The moment school was over, we hurried away, almost without a word, to the cottage.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000006|There we found her weeping.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000007|Her grandmother had died suddenly.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000008|She clung to Turkey, and seemed almost to forget my presence.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000009|But I thought nothing of that.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000051_000010|Had the case been mine, I too should have clung to Turkey from faith in his help and superior wisdom.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000052_000000|There were two or three old women in the place.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000052_000001|Turkey went and spoke to them, and then took Elsie home to his mother.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000052_000002|Jamie was asleep, and they would not wake him.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000053_000000|How it was arranged, I forget, but both Elsie and Jamie lived for the rest of the winter with Turkey's mother.
train-other-500/1274/121770/1274_121770_000053_000001|The cottage was let, and the cow taken home by their father.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty four
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000000|I now saw much less of Elsie; but I went with Turkey, as often as I could, to visit her at her father's cottage.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000001|The evenings we spent there are amongst the happiest hours in my memory.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000002|One evening in particular appears to stand out as a type of the whole.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000003|I remember every point in the visit.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000004|I think it must have been almost the last. We set out as the sun was going down on an evening in the end of April, when the nightly frosts had not yet vanished.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000005|The hail was dancing about us as we started; the sun was disappearing in a bank of tawny orange cloud; the night would be cold and dark and stormy; but we cared nothing for that: a conflict with the elements always added to the pleasure of any undertaking then.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000006|It was in the midst of another shower of hail, driven on the blasts of a keen wind, that we arrived at the little cottage.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000007|It had been built by Duff himself to receive his bride, and although since enlarged, was still a very little house.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000008|It had a foundation of stone, but the walls were of turf.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000010|When we entered, a glowing fire of peat was on the hearth, and the pot with the supper hung over it.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000011|mrs Duff was spinning, and Elsie, by the light of a little oil lamp suspended against the wall, was teaching her youngest brother to read.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000002_000012|Whatever she did, she always seemed in my eyes to do it better than anyone else; and to see her under the lamp, with one arm round the little fellow who stood leaning against her, while the other hand pointed with a knitting needle to the letters of the spelling book which lay on her knee, was to see a lovely picture.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000003_000000|"It's a cold night," said mrs Duff.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000003_000001|"The wind seems to blow through me as I sit at my wheel.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000003_000002|I wish my husband would come home."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000004_000000|"He'll be suppering his horses," said Turkey.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000004_000001|"I'll just run across and give him a hand, and that'll bring him in the sooner."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000005_000000|"Thank you, Turkey," said mrs Duff as he vanished.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000006_000000|"He's a fine lad," she remarked, much in the same phrase my father used when speaking of him.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000007_000000|"There's nobody like Turkey," I said.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000008_000000|"Indeed, I think you're right there, Ranald.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000008_000001|A better behaved lad doesn't step.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000008_000002|He'll do something to distinguish himself some day.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000008_000003|I shouldn't wonder if he went to college, and wagged his head in a pulpit yet."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000009_000000|The idea of Turkey wagging his head in a pulpit made me laugh.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000010_000000|"Wait till you see," resumed mrs Duff, somewhat offended at my reception of her prophecy.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000010_000001|"Folk will hear of him yet."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000011_000000|"I didn't mean he couldn't be a minister, mrs Duff.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000011_000001|But I don't think he will take to that."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000012_000000|Here Elsie came back, and lifting the lid of the pot, examined the state of its contents.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000012_000001|I got hold of her hand, but for the first time she withdrew it.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000012_000005|james Duff said grace, and we sat down to our supper.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000013_000000|After supper, which was enlivened by simple chat about the crops and the doings on the farm, james turned to me, and said:
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000014_000001|I know you're always getting hold of such things."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000000|I had expected this; for, every time I went, I tried to have something to repeat to them.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000001|As I could not sing, this was the nearest way in which I might contribute to the evening's entertainment.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000002|Elsie was very fond of ballads, and I could hardly please her better than by bringing a new one with me.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000004|My reader must remember that there were very few books to be had then in that part of the country, and therefore any mode of literature was precious.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000005|The schoolmaster was the chief source from which I derived my provision of this sort.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000006|On the present occasion, I was prepared with a ballad of his.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000015_000007|I remember every word of it now, and will give it to my readers, reminding them once more how easy it is to skip it, if they do not care for that kind of thing.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000017_000000|Johnnie said it, Johnnie luikin' Into Jeannie's face; Seekin' in the garden hedge For an open place.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000030_000000|His crutch he flang it frae him, Forgetful o' war's harms; But couldna stan' withoot it, And fell in Jeannie's arms.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000031_000000|"That's not a bad ballad," said james Duff.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000031_000001|"Have you a tune it would go to, Elsie?"
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000032_000000|Elsie thought a little, and asked me to repeat the first verse.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000032_000001|Then she sung it out clear and fair to a tune I had never heard before.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000033_000000|"That will do splendidly, Elsie," I said.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000033_000001|"I will write it out for you, and then you will be able to sing it all the next time I come."
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000000|She made me no answer.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000001|She and Turkey were looking at each other, and did not hear me.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000002|james Duff began to talk to me.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000003|Elsie was putting away the supper things.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000004|In a few minutes I missed her and Turkey, and they were absent for some time.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000005|They did not return together, but first Turkey, and Elsie some minutes after.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000006|As the night was now getting quite stormy, james Duff counselled our return, and we obeyed.
train-other-500/1274/121771/1274_121771_000034_000007|But little either Turkey or I cared for wind or hail.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000005_000000|Then said she: 'This debate about providence is an old one, and is vigorously discussed by Cicero in his "Divination"; thou also hast long and earnestly pondered the problem, yet no one has had diligence and perseverance enough to find a solution.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000005_000006|Suppose, for the sake of argument, and to see what follows, we assume that there is no foreknowledge.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000006_000000|'Certainly not.'
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000007_000000|'Let us assume foreknowledge again, but without its involving any actual necessity; the freedom of the will, I imagine, will remain in complete integrity.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000007_000002|Granted; but in this case it is plain that, even if there had been no foreknowledge, the issues would have been inevitably certain.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000007_000003|For a sign only indicates something which is, does not bring to pass that of which it is the sign.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000007_000005|Otherwise, if there is no such universal necessity, neither can any preconception be a sign of a necessity which exists not.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000007_000010|There are many things which we see taking place before our eyes-the movements of charioteers, for instance, in guiding and turning their cars, and so on.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000007_000011|Now, is any one of these movements compelled by any necessity?'
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000008_000000|'No; certainly not.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000009_000000|'Then, things which in taking place are free from any necessity as to their being in the present must also, before they take place, be about to happen without necessity.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000009_000001|Wherefore there are things which will come to pass, the occurrence of which is perfectly free from necessity.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000009_000004|For even as knowledge of things present imports no necessity into things that are taking place, so foreknowledge of the future imports none into things that are about to come.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000010_000001|Whereas the case is the very reverse: all that is known is grasped not conformably to its own efficacy, but rather conformably to the faculty of the knower.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000010_000003|Sight looks upon it from a distance as a whole by a simultaneous reflection of rays; touch grasps the roundness piecemeal, by contact and attachment to the surface, and by actual movement round the periphery itself.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000010_000004|Man himself, likewise, is viewed in one way by Sense, in another by Imagination, in another way, again, by Thought, in another by pure Intelligence.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000010_000005|Sense judges figure clothed in material substance, Imagination figure alone without matter.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000010_000011|Thought also, in considering the universal, embraces images and sense impressions without resorting to Imagination or Sense. For it is Thought which has thus defined the universal from its conceptual point of view: "Man is a two legged animal endowed with reason."
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000010_000015|Nor is this strange; for since every judgment is the act of the judge, it is necessary that each should accomplish its task by its own, not by another's power.'
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000013_000000|From the Porch's murky depths Comes a doctrine sage, That doth liken living mind To a written page; Since all knowledge comes through Sense, Graven by Experience.
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000015_000000|But if verily the mind Thus all passive lies; If no living power within Its own force supplies; If it but reflect again, Like a glass, things false and vain-
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000017_000000|So divides and recombines, And in changeful wise Now to low descends, and now To the height doth rise; Last in inward swift review Strictly sifts the false and true?
train-other-500/128/121911/128_121911_000018_000000|Of these ample potencies Fitter cause, I ween, Were Mind's self than marks impressed By the outer scene. Yet the body through the sense Stirs the soul's intelligence.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000004_000000|My dear Sir,
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000007_000000|This important inquiry extends also to the constituents of the food of carnivorous animals in the earliest periods of life; for this food also contains substances, which are not necessary for their support in the adult state.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000007_000001|The nutrition of the young of carnivora is obviously accomplished by means similar to those by which the graminivora are nourished; their development is dependent on the supply of a fluid, which the body of the mother secretes in the shape of milk.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000008_000001|The blood of the young animal, its muscular fibre, cellular tissue, nervous matter, and bones, must have derived their origin from the nitrogenised constituent of milk-the caseine; for butter and sugar of milk contain no nitrogen.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000009_000000|Now, the analysis of caseine has led to the result, which, after the details I have given, can hardly excite your surprise, that this substance also is identical in composition with the chief constituents of blood, fibrine and albumen.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000009_000001|Nay more-a comparison of its properties with those of vegetable caseine has shown-that these two substances are identical in all their properties; insomuch, that certain plants, such as peas, beans, and lentils, are capable of producing the same substance which is formed from the blood of the mother, and employed in yielding the blood of the young animal.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000010_000002|When chemically examined, caseine is found to contain a much larger proportion of the earth of bones than blood does, and that in a very soluble form, capable of reaching every part of the body.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000010_000003|Thus, even in the earliest period of its life, the development of the organs, in which vitality resides, is, in the carnivorous animal, dependent on the supply of a substance, identical in organic composition with the chief constituents of its blood.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000011_000000|What, then, is the use of the butter and the sugar of milk?
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000011_000001|How does it happen that these substances are indispensable to life?
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000015_000001|Were this not the case, the weight of the animal could not possibly remain unchanged.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000017_000000|This fact presupposes, that the assimilative process in the young animal is more energetic, more intense, than the process of transformation in the existing tissues.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000017_000001|If both processes were equally active, the weight of the body could not increase; and were the waste by transformation greater, the weight of the body would decrease.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000020_000000|The young animal receives the constituents of its blood in the caseine of the milk.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000021_000000|The butter and sugar of milk are given out in the form of carbonic acid and water, and their conversion into oxidised products furnishes the clearest proof that far more oxygen is absorbed than is required to convert the carbon and hydrogen of the metamorphosed tissues into carbonic acid and water.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000023_000001|The elements of these substances unite with the oxygen; the organs themselves could not do so without being consumed; that is, growth, or increase of mass in the body,--the consumption of oxygen remaining the same,--would be utterly impossible.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000026_000001|Everything that they consume as food contains a certain quantity of starch, gum, or sugar, mixed with other matters.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000028_000000|A horse, for example, can be kept in perfectly good condition, if he obtain as food fifteen pounds. of hay and four and a half pounds. of oats daily.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000029_000000|Without going further into the calculation, it will readily be admitted, that the volume of air inspired and expired by a horse, the quantity of oxygen consumed, and, as a necessary consequence, the amount of carbonic acid given out by the animal, are much greater than in the respiratory process in man.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000029_000002|daily, cannot be very far from the truth.
train-other-500/128/134883/128_134883_000031_000000|It is obvious, that in the system of the graminivora, whose food contains so small a portion, relatively, of the constituents of the blood, the process of metamorphosis in existing tissues, and consequently their restoration or reproduction, must go on far less rapidly than in the carnivora.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000003_000001|Man, when confined to animal food, requires for his support and nourishment extensive sources of food, even more widely extended than the lion and tiger, because, when he has the opportunity, he kills without eating.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000004_000001|The carbon necessary for respiration must be obtained from the animals, of which only a limited number can live on the space supposed.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000004_000003|They, again, receive this food unaccompanied by those compounds, destitute of nitrogen, which, during the life of the animals, served to support the respiratory process.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000006_000000|It is easy to see, from these considerations, how close the connection is between agriculture and the multiplication of the human species.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000006_000001|The cultivation of our crops has ultimately no other object than the production of a maximum of those substances which are adapted for assimilation and respiration, in the smallest possible space.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000006_000002|Grain and other nutritious vegetables yield us, not only in starch, sugar, and gum, the carbon which protects our organs from the action of oxygen, and produces in the organism the heat which is essential to life, but also in the form of vegetable fibrine, albumen, and caseine, our blood, from which the other parts of our body are developed.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000007_000001|He is compelled to consume force merely in order to supply matter for respiration.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000010_000002|The former may be called the plastic elements of nutrition; the latter, elements of respiration.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000011_000000|Among the former we reckon-
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000012_000000|Vegetable fibrine. Vegetable albumen. Vegetable caseine. Animal flesh. Animal blood.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000014_000001|Bassorine. Gum.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000014_000002|Wine. Cane sugar.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000014_000003|Beer. Grape sugar.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000014_000004|Spirits. Sugar of milk.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000017_000001|But the blood must be supplied to it perfect in everything but its form-that is, in its chemical composition.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000017_000002|If this be not done, a period is rapidly put to the formation of blood, and consequently to life.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000019_000000|While, in the body of a starving or sick individual, the fat disappears and the muscular tissue takes once more the form of blood, we find that the tendons and membranes retain their natural condition, and the limbs of the dead body their connections, which depend on the gelatinous tissues.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000020_000001|The same is true of man, when fed on food rich in gelatine, as, for example, strong soup.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000020_000002|The gelatine is not to be found either in the urine or in the faeces, and consequently must have undergone a change, and must have served some purpose in the animal economy.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000021_000000|When we consider the transformation of the albumen of the blood into a part of an organ composed of fibrine, the identity in composition of the two substances renders the change easily conceivable.
train-other-500/128/134884/128_134884_000022_000000|And when the powers of nutrition in the whole body are affected by a change of the health, then, even should the power of forming blood remain the same, the organic force by which the constituents of the blood are transformed into cellular tissue and membranes must necessarily be enfeebled by sickness.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000000|Liberated from the embarrassments of the city, and issuing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern suburbs, we begin to enter upon our natural pace of ten miles an hour.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000001|In the broad light of the summer evening, the sun, perhaps, only just at the point of setting, we are seen from every story of every house.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000004|The victory has healed him, and says-Be thou whole!
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000006|On the London side of Barnet, to which we draw near within a few minutes after nine, observe that private carriage which is approaching us.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000007|The weather being so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within the carriage.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000009|What lovely animation, what beautiful unpremeditated pantomime, explaining to us every syllable that passes, in these ingenuous girls!
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000010|By the sudden start and raising of the hands, on first discovering our laurelled equipage-by the sudden movement and appeal to the elder lady from both of them-and by the heightened color on their animated countenances, we can almost hear them saying-"See, see!
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000011|Look at their laurels.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000015|The ladies move to us, in return, with a winning graciousness of gesture: all smile on each side in a way that nobody could misunderstand, and that nothing short of a grand national sympathy could so instantaneously prompt.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000018|They cannot deny-they do not deny-that for this night they are our sisters: gentle or simple, scholar or illiterate servant, for twelve hours to come-we on the outside have the honor to be their brothers.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000019|Those poor women again, who stop to gaze upon us with delight at the entrance of Barnet, and seem, by their air of weariness, to be returning from labor-do you mean to say that they are washerwomen and char women?
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000020|Oh, my poor friend, you are quite mistaken; they are nothing of the kind.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000004_000021|I assure you they stand in a higher rank; for this one night they feel themselves by birthright to be daughters of England, and answer to no humbler title.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000005_000001|Three miles beyond Barnet, we see approaching us another private carriage, nearly repeating the circumstances of the former case.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000005_000007|To see the paper, however, at all, interpreted as it was by our ensigns of triumph, explained everything; and, if the guard were right in thinking the lady to have received it with a gesture of horror, it could not be doubtful that she had suffered some deep personal affliction in connection with this Spanish war.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000001|That same night, and hardly three hours later, occurred the reverse case.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000003|This was at some little town, I forget what, where we happened to change horses near midnight.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000006|The flashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a showery and ghostly illumination falling upon flowers and glittering laurels, whilst all around the massy darkness seemed to invest us with walls of impenetrable blackness, together with the prodigious enthusiasm of the people, composed a picture at once scenical and affecting.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000007|As we staid for three or four minutes, I alighted.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000009|The sight of my newspaper it was that had drawn her attention upon myself.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000011|I told her the main outline of the battle.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000013|Oh! yes: her only son was there.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000014|In what regiment?
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000015|He was a trooper in the twenty three d Dragoons.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000016|My heart sank within me as she made that answer.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000017|This sublime regiment, which an Englishman should never mention without raising his hat to their memory, had made the most memorable and effective charge recorded in military annals.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000019|What proportion cleared the trench is nowhere stated.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000021|As regarded the enemy, this twenty three d Dragoons, not, I believe, originally three hundred and fifty strong, paralyzed a French column, six thousand strong, then ascending the hill, and fixed the gaze of the whole French army.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000024|Had I the heart to break up her dreams?
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000025|no
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000026|I said to myself, to morrow, or the next day, she will hear the worst.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000027|For this night, wherefore should she not sleep in peace?
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000030|But, if I told her not of the bloody price that had been paid, there was no reason for suppressing the contributions from her son's regiment to the service and glory of the day.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000031|For the very few words that I had time for speaking, I governed myself accordingly.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000032|I showed her not the funeral banners under which the noble regiment was sleeping.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000033|I lifted not the overshadowing laurels from the bloody trench in which horse and rider lay mangled together.
train-other-500/1280/135136/1280_135136_000006_000034|But I told her how these dear children of England, privates and officers, had leaped their horses over all obstacles as gaily as hunters to the morning's chase.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000002_000000|We waited for some minutes crouched there among the bushes listening to the coming of those who forced their way through the trees, while moment by moment the morning light grew clearer, the small birds twittered, and the parrots screamed.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000003_000000|The sounds came nearer, and it was now so light that as we watched we could see the bushes moving, and it seemed to me that more of this horrible bloodshed must ensue.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000003_000001|We were crouching close, but the wounded man was moaning, and his companions might at any moment hear him and then discovery must follow; while if, on the other hand, we did not resist, all hope of rescuing my poor father would be gone.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000004_000001|At the same time I tried to find where Jack Penny was hiding, but he was out of sight.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000007_000000|"What shall I do?" I said to myself as I realised in a small way what must be the feelings of a general who finds that the battle is going against him.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000007_000001|"I must call to Jack Penny."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000009_000000|"Is Carstairs there?" cried the familiar voice of the doctor, and as with beating heart I sprang up, he came staggering wearily towards me through the clinging bushes.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000010_000000|"My dear boy," he cried, with his voice trembling, "what I have suffered on your account!
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000010_000001|I thought you were a prisoner."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000011_000000|"No!" I exclaimed, delighted at this turn in our affairs.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000011_000001|"Jimmy helped me to escape.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000011_000002|I say, you don't think I ran away and deserted you?"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000012_000000|"My dear boy," he cried, "I was afraid that you would think this of me. But there, thank Heaven you are safe! and though we have not rescued your father we know enough to make success certain."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000013_000000|"I'm afraid not," I said hastily.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000014_000000|"No!"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000015_000000|"Yes; and one of them was approaching it just now when Jack Penny shot him down."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000016_000000|"This is very unfortunate!
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000016_000001|Where?
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000016_000002|What! close here?"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000017_000000|I had taken his hand to lead him to the clump of bushes where the poor wretch lay, and on parting the boughs and twigs we both started back in horror.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000018_000000|"My boy, what have you done?" cried the doctor, as I stood speechless there by his side.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000018_000001|"We have not so many friends that we could afford to kill them."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000019_000000|But already he was busy, feeling the folly of wasting words, and down upon his knees, to place the head of our friend, the prisoner of the savages, in a more comfortable position before beginning to examine him for his wound.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000021_000001|Jimmy! help me carry him to the cave."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000022_000000|"Jimmy carry um all 'long right way; put um on Jimmy's back!" cried my black companion; and this seeming to be no bad way of carrying the wounded man in such a time of emergency, Jimmy stooped down, exasperating me the while by grinning, as if it was good fun, till the sufferer from our mistake was placed upon his back, when he exclaimed:
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000023_000000|"Lot much heavy heavy!
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000023_000001|Twice two sheep heavy.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000023_000002|Clear de bush!"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000024_000000|We hastily drew the boughs aside, and Jimmy steadily descended the steep slope, entered the rivulet, crossed, and then stopped for a moment beneath the overhanging boughs before climbing to the cabin.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000027_000000|Then, seizing the boughs, he balanced the wounded man carefully, and drew himself steadily up step by step, exhibiting wonderful strength of muscle, till he had climbed to the entrance of the cave, where he bent down and crawled in on hands and knees, waiting till his burden was removed from his back, and then getting up once more to look round smiling.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000028_000000|"Jimmy carry lot o' men like that way!"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000029_000000|We laid the sufferer on one of the beds of twigs that the savages had made for us, and here the doctor set himself to work to more securely bandage his patient's shoulder; Jack Penny looking on, resting upon his gun, and wearing a countenance full of misery.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000030_000000|"There!" said the doctor when he had finished.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000030_000001|"I think he will do now. Two inches lower, Master Penny, and he would have been a dead man."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000031_000001|"I thought he was a savage coming to kill us.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000031_000002|I'm always doing something.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000032_000000|"Oh, you meant what you did for the best!" said the doctor, laying his hand on Jack Penny's shoulder.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000033_000000|"What did he want to look like a savage for?" grumbled Jack.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000033_000001|"Who was going to know that any one dressed up-no, I mean dressed down-like that was an Englishman?"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000034_000000|"It was an unfortunate mistake, Penny; you must be more careful if you mean to handle a gun."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000035_000000|"Here, take it away!" said Jack Penny bitterly.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000035_000001|"I won't fire it off again."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000036_000000|"I was very nearly making the same mistake," I said, out of compassion for Jack Penny-he seemed so much distressed.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000037_000000|"Then I'm glad you did not fire!" he said.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000037_000001|"There, keep your piece, Penny; we may want its help.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000037_000003|Hist, he is coming to!"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000039_000000|"Am I much hurt?" he said, in a low calm voice.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000040_000001|"A bullet wound-not a dangerous one at all."
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000041_000000|To my astonishment he went on talking quite calmly, and without any of the dazed look and the strange habit of forgetting his own tongue to continue in that of the people among whom he had been a prisoner for so long.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000043_000000|"Help us!
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000043_000001|yes, of course you can!
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000043_000002|You shall help us to get Mr Carstairs away!"
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000044_000000|"Poor fellow; yes!" he said softly, and in so kindly a way that I crept closer and took his hand.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000045_000000|I exchanged glances with the doctor, who signed to me to be silent.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000046_000000|"It was a very hard one-very hard!" the wounded man continued, and then he stopped short, looking straight before him at the forest, seen through the opening of the cave.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000047_000000|By degrees his eyelids dropped, were raised again, and then fell, and he seemed to glide into a heavy sleep.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000048_000000|The doctor motioned us to keep away, and we all went to the mouth of the cave, to sit down and talk over the night's adventure, the conversation changing at times to a discussion of our friend's mental affection.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000049_000000|"The shock of the wound has affected his head beneficially, it seems," the doctor said at last.
train-other-500/1280/143268/1280_143268_000049_000001|"Whether it will last I cannot say."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000000_000000|"Henry dear-" was her greeting.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000001_000000|He had finished his breakfast, and was beginning the TIMES.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000001_000001|His sister in law was packing.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000001_000002|She knelt by him and took the paper from him, feeling that it was unusually heavy and thick.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000002_000000|"Henry dear, look at me.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000002_000001|No, I won't have you shirking.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000002_000002|Look at me.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000002_000003|There.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000002_000004|That's all."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000003_000000|"You're referring to last evening," he said huskily.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000003_000001|"I have released you from your engagement.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000003_000002|I could find excuses, but I won't.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000003_000003|No, I won't.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000004_000000|Expelled from his old fortress, mr Wilcox was building a new one.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000004_000001|He could no longer appear respectable to her, so he defended himself instead in a lurid past.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000004_000002|It was not true repentance.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000005_000000|"Leave it where you will, boy.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000005_000001|It's not going to trouble us: I know what I'm talking about, and it will make no difference."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000006_000000|"No difference?" he inquired.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000006_000002|He would have preferred her to be prostrated by the blow, or even to rage.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000006_000004|Her eyes gazed too straight; they had read books that are suitable for men only.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000006_000005|And though he had dreaded a scene, and though she had determined against one, there was a scene, all the same.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000007_000000|"I am unworthy of you," he began.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000007_000003|I can't bear to talk of such things.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000007_000004|We had better leave it.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000008_000000|She kissed his hand.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000009_000000|"It is difficult for us," said Margaret; "but if we are worth marrying, we do guess."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000010_000000|"Cut off from decent society and family ties, what do you suppose happens to thousands of young fellows overseas?
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000010_000001|Isolated.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000010_000002|No one near.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000010_000003|I know by bitter experience, and yet you say it makes 'no difference.'"
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000011_000000|"Not to me."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000012_000000|He laughed bitterly.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000012_000001|Margaret went to the side board and helped herself to one of the breakfast dishes.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000012_000002|Being the last down, she turned out the spirit lamp that kept them warm.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000012_000003|She was tender, but grave.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000013_000000|"Did Helen come?" she asked.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000014_000000|He shook his head.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000015_000001|We don't want her gossiping with mrs Bast."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000016_000000|"Good God!
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000016_000003|"Let them gossip.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000016_000004|My game's up, though I thank you for your unselfishness-little as my thanks are worth."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000018_000000|"I heard of none."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000020_000000|"What to do?"
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000021_000000|"Why, to inquire."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000022_000000|He swaggered up to it tragically, and sounded a peal.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000022_000001|Margaret poured herself out some coffee.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000022_000002|The butler came, and said that Miss Schlegel had slept at the George, so far as he had heard.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000023_000000|"I'll go, thank you," said Margaret, and dismissed him.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000001|"Those things leak out; you cannot stop a story once it has started.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000002|I have known cases of other men-I despised them once, I thought that I'M different, I shall never be tempted.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000003|Oh, Margaret-" He came and sat down near her, improvising emotion.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000004|She could not bear to listen to him.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000006|Will you believe that?
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000007|There are moments when the strongest man-'Let him who standeth, take heed lest he fall.' That's true, isn't it?
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000008|If you knew all, you would excuse me.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000009|I was far from good influences-far even from England.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000011|That's enough.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000024_000012|I have told you too much already for you to forgive me now."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000025_000000|"Yes, that's enough, dear."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000026_000000|"I have"--he lowered his voice-"I have been through hell."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000000|Gravely she considered this claim.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000001|Had he?
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000002|Had he suffered tortures of remorse, or had it been, "There! that's over.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000004|The latter, if she read him rightly.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000005|A man who has been through hell does not boast of his virility.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000006|He is humble and hides it, if, indeed, it still exists.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000007|Only in legend does the sinner come forth penitent, but terrible, to conquer pure woman by his resistless power.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000009|He was a good average Englishman, who had slipped.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000010|The really culpable point-his faithlessness to mrs Wilcox-never seemed to strike him.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000027_000011|She longed to mention mrs Wilcox.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000028_000001|It was a very simple story.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000028_000002|Ten years ago was the time, a garrison town in Cyprus the place.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000028_000003|Now and then he asked her whether she could possibly forgive him, and she answered, "I have already forgiven you, Henry." She chose her words carefully, and so saved him from panic.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000028_000004|She played the girl, until he could rebuild his fortress and hide his soul from the world.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000028_000005|When the butler came to clear away, Henry was in a very different mood-asked the fellow what he was in such a hurry for, complained of the noise last night in the servants' hall.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000028_000006|Margaret looked intently at the butler.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000029_000000|On her return from the George the building operations were complete, and the old Henry fronted her, competent, cynical, and kind.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000029_000001|He had made a clean breast, had been forgiven, and the great thing now was to forget his failure, and to send it the way of other unsuccessful investments.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000029_000003|Their memory hampered him.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000029_000004|He could scarcely attend to Margaret who brought back disquieting news from the George.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000029_000005|Helen and her clients had gone.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000031_000000|"But they have gone separately-Helen very early, the Basts just before I arrived.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000031_000002|They have answered neither of my notes.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000031_000003|I don't like to think what it all means."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000032_000000|"What did you say in the notes?"
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000033_000000|"I told you last night."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000034_000001|Dear, would you like one turn in the garden?"
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000035_000000|Margaret took his arm.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000035_000001|The beautiful weather soothed her.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000035_000002|But the wheels of Evie's wedding were still at work, tossing the guests outwards as deftly as they had drawn them in, and she could not be with him long.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000035_000004|For a fraction of time she was happy.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000036_000000|"I am afraid there has been gossiping of some kind at the George.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000036_000001|Helen would not have left unless she had heard something.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000036_000002|I mismanaged that.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000036_000003|It is wretched.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000036_000004|I ought to-have parted her from that woman at once.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000038_000000|"Yes-yes, Henry?"
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000039_000000|"I am far from a saint-in fact, the reverse-but you have taken me, for better or worse.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000039_000001|Bygones must be bygones.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000039_000003|Margaret, a promise is a promise.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000039_000004|Never mention that woman again."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000040_000000|"Except for some practical reason-never."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000041_000000|"Practical!
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000041_000001|You practical!"
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000042_000000|"Yes, I'm practical," she murmured, stooping over the mowing machine and playing with the grass which trickled through her fingers like sand.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000043_000000|He had silenced her, but her fears made him uneasy.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000044_000000|"At all events, you mustn't worry," he said.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000044_000001|"This is a man's business." He thought intently.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000044_000002|"On no account mention it to anybody."
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000045_000000|Margaret flushed at advice so elementary, but he was really paving the way for a lie.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000045_000002|Perhaps he never had known her.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000045_000004|There the house.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000046_000000|Glancing at these, he saw that the car would be round during the next five, and plunged into action.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000046_000001|Gongs were tapped, orders issued, Margaret was sent to dress, and the housemaid to sweep up the long trickle of grass that she had left across the hall.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000046_000002|As is Man to the Universe, so was the mind of mr Wilcox to the minds of some men-a concentrated light upon a tiny spot, a little Ten Minutes moving self-contained through its appointed years.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000046_000003|No Pagan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000047_000001|Margaret had heard a certain rumour, but was all right.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000047_000003|Charles and Evie had not heard it, and never must hear.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000047_000004|No more must Paul.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000047_000005|Over his children he felt great tenderness, which he did not try to track to a cause: mrs Wilcox was too far back in his life.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000047_000006|He did not connect her with the sudden aching love that he felt for Evie.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000047_000007|Poor little Evie! he trusted that Cahill would make her a decent husband.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000048_000000|And Margaret?
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000048_000001|How did she stand?
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000000|She had several minor worries.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000001|Clearly her sister had heard something.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000002|She dreaded meeting her in town.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000004|Nor ought mrs Bast to starve.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000005|But the main situation had not altered.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000006|She still loved Henry.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000007|His actions, not his disposition, had disappointed her, and she could bear that.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000010|There was the bridge, and the river nibbling its green peninsula.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000049_000011|She could even see the bathing shed, but while she was looking for Charles's new springboard, the forehead of the hill rose up and hid the whole scene.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000050_000000|She never saw it again.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000050_000001|Day and night the river flows down into England, day after day the sun retreats into the Welsh mountains, and the tower chimes, "See the Conquering Hero." But the Wilcoxes have no part in the place, nor in any place.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000050_000002|It is not their names that recur in the parish register.
train-other-500/1291/138096/1291_138096_000050_000003|It is not their ghosts that sigh among the alders at evening.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000002_000000|Chapter forty two
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000003_000000|When Charles left Ducie Street he had caught the first train home, but had no inkling of the newest development until late at night.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000004_000000|"I don't know where she is, pater," said Charles. "Dolly kept back dinner nearly an hour for her."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000005_000000|"Tell me when she comes in-."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000006_000000|Another hour passed.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000006_000001|The servants went to bed, and Charles visited his father again, to receive further instructions.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000006_000002|mrs Wilcox had still not returned.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000007_000000|"I'll sit up for her as late as you like, but she can hardly be coming.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000007_000001|Isn't she stopping with her sister at the hotel?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000008_000000|"Perhaps," said mr Wilcox thoughtfully-"perhaps."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000009_000000|"Can I do anything for you, sir?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000010_000000|"Not tonight, my boy."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000011_000000|mr Wilcox liked being called sir.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000011_000001|He raised his eyes and gave his son more open a look of tenderness than he usually ventured.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000011_000002|He saw Charles as little boy and strong man in one.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000011_000003|Though his wife had proved unstable his children were left to him.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000012_000000|After midnight he tapped on Charles's door.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000012_000001|"I can't sleep," he said.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000012_000002|"I had better have a talk with you and get it over."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000013_000000|He complained of the heat.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000013_000001|Charles took him out into the garden, and they paced up and down in their dressing gowns.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000013_000002|Charles became very quiet as the story unrolled; he had known all along that Margaret was as bad as her sister.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000014_000000|"She will feel differently in the morning," said mr Wilcox, who had of course said nothing about mrs Bast. "But I cannot let this kind of thing continue without comment.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000014_000001|I am morally certain that she is with her sister at Howards End.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000014_000002|The house is mine-and, Charles, it will be yours-and when I say that no one is to live there, I mean that no one is to live there.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000014_000003|I won't have it." He looked angrily at the moon.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000014_000004|"To my mind this question is connected with something far greater, the rights of property itself."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000015_000000|"Undoubtedly," said Charles.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000016_000000|mr Wilcox linked his arm in his son's, but somehow liked him less as he told him more.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000016_000001|"I don't want you to conclude that my wife and I had anything of the nature of a quarrel.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000016_000002|She was only over wrought, as who would not be?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000016_000004|Do you see?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000018_000000|"Eight or earlier.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000018_000001|Say that you are acting as my representative, and, of course, use no violence, Charles."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000019_000000|On the morrow, as Charles returned, leaving Leonard dead upon the gravel, it did not seem to him that he had used violence.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000019_000001|Death was due to heart disease.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000019_000002|His stepmother herself had said so, and even Miss Avery had acknowledged that he only used the flat of the sword.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000019_000003|On his way through the village he informed the police, who thanked him, and said there must be an inquest.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000020_000000|"It has been pretty horrible," said Charles gravely.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000020_000001|"They were there, and they had the man up there with them too."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000021_000000|"What-what man?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000022_000000|"I told you last night.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000022_000001|His name was Bast."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000023_000000|"My God, is it possible?" said mr Wilcox.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000023_000001|"In your mother's house!
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000023_000002|Charles, in your mother's house!"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000024_000001|That was what I felt.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000024_000002|As a matter of fact, there is no need to trouble about the man.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000024_000003|He was in the last stages of heart disease, and just before I could show him what I thought of him he went off.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000024_000004|The police are seeing about it at this moment."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000025_000000|mr Wilcox listened attentively.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000026_000000|"I got up there-oh, it couldn't have been more than half past seven.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000026_000002|They were still upstairs.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000026_000003|I waited in the drawing room.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000026_000004|We were all moderately civil and collected, though I had my suspicions.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000027_000000|"Nothing else?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000028_000000|"I promised to tell you, 'with her love,' that she was going to Germany with her sister this evening.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000028_000001|That was all we had time for."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000029_000000|mr Wilcox seemed relieved.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000030_000000|"Because by then I suppose the man got tired of hiding, for suddenly mrs Wilcox screamed out his name.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000030_000001|I recognized it, and I went for him in the hall.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000030_000002|Was I right, pater?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000030_000003|I thought things were going a little too far."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000031_000000|"Right, my dear boy?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000031_000001|I don't know.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000031_000002|But you would have been no son of mine if you hadn't.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000031_000003|Then did he just-just-crumple up as you said?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000031_000004|He shrunk from the simple word.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000032_000001|So I merely put the sword down and carried him into the garden.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000032_000002|We all thought he was shamming.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000032_000003|However, he's dead right enough.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000032_000004|Awful business!"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000033_000001|"What sword?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000033_000002|Whose sword?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000034_000000|"A sword of theirs."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000035_000000|"What were you doing with it?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000036_000000|"Well, didn't you see, pater, I had to snatch up the first thing handy I hadn't a riding whip or stick.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000038_000000|"He pulled over the bookcase, as I said, and fell," said Charles, with a sigh.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000039_000000|"But the real cause was heart disease?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000040_000000|"That or a fit.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000041_000002|He was also anxious about the future, reflecting that the police must detain Helen and Margaret for the inquest and ferret the whole thing out.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000041_000004|His comfort was that the pater's eyes were opened at last.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000043_000000|"What for?" cried Dolly, who had still not been "told."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000044_000000|"Very well, sir.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000044_000001|Which car will you have?"
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000045_000000|"I think I'll walk."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000046_000000|"It's a good half mile," said Charles, stepping into the garden.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000046_000001|"The sun's very hot for April.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000047_000000|"You go on as if I didn't know my own mind," said mr Wilcox fretfully.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000047_000001|Charles hardened his mouth.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000047_000002|"You young fellows' one idea is to get into a motor.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000047_000003|I tell you, I want to walk: I'm very fond of walking."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000048_000000|"Oh, all right; I'm about the house if you want me for anything.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000048_000001|I thought of not going up to the office today, if that is your wish."
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000049_000000|"It is, indeed, my boy," said mr Wilcox, and laid a hand on his sleeve.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000050_000000|Charles did not like it; he was uneasy about his father, who did not seem himself this morning.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000050_000001|There was a petulant touch about him-more like a woman.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000050_000002|Could it be that he was growing old?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000050_000006|He meant to make up for Margaret's defection, but knew that his father had been very happy with her until yesterday.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000050_000007|How had she done it?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000050_000008|By some dishonest trick, no doubt-but how?
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000051_000000|mr Wilcox reappeared at eleven, looking very tired.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000051_000001|There was to be an inquest on Leonard's' body tomorrow, and the police required his son to attend.
train-other-500/1291/138109/1291_138109_000052_000000|"I expected that," said Charles.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000003_000000|DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA-A PASTORAL TRAGEDY
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000004_000000|The news which one day reached Gabriel, that Bathsheba Everdene had left the neighbourhood, had an influence upon him which might have surprised any who never suspected that the more emphatic the renunciation the less absolute its character.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000005_000000|It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000005_000002|Oak belonged to the even tempered order of humanity, and felt the secret fusion of himself in Bathsheba to be burning with a finer flame now that she was gone-that was all.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000006_000001|It appeared that she had gone to a place called Weatherbury, more than twenty miles off, but in what capacity-whether as a visitor, or permanently, he could not discover.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000007_000000|Gabriel had two dogs.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000007_000002|In substance it had originally been hair, but long contact with sheep seemed to be turning it by degrees into wool of a poor quality and staple.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000008_000001|Though old, he was clever and trustworthy still.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000009_000000|The young dog, George's son, might possibly have been the image of his mother, for there was not much resemblance between him and George.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000009_000001|He was learning the sheep keeping business, so as to follow on at the flock when the other should die, but had got no further than the rudiments as yet-still finding an insuperable difficulty in distinguishing between doing a thing well enough and doing it too well.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000009_000002|So earnest and yet so wrong headed was this young dog (he had no name in particular, and answered with perfect readiness to any pleasant interjection), that if sent behind the flock to help them on, he did it so thoroughly that he would have chased them across the whole county with the greatest pleasure if not called off or reminded when to stop by the example of old George.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000010_000000|Thus much for the dogs.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000010_000001|On the further side of Norcombe Hill was a chalk pit, from which chalk had been drawn for generations, and spread over adjacent farms.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000010_000002|Two hedges converged upon it in the form of a V, but without quite meeting.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000012_000000|It was a still, moist night.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000012_000001|Just before dawn he was assisted in waking by the abnormal reverberation of familiar music.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000012_000003|In the solemn calm of the awakening morn that note was heard by Gabriel, beating with unusual violence and rapidity.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000013_000001|The forward ewes were kept apart from those among which the fall of lambs would be later, there being two hundred of the latter class in Gabriel's flock.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000013_000002|These two hundred seemed to have absolutely vanished from the hill.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000015_000000|Not a single bleat.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000015_000001|He went to the hedge; a gap had been broken through it, and in the gap were the footprints of the sheep.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000015_000005|He passed through the trees and along the ridge of the hill.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000015_000006|On the extreme summit, where the ends of the two converging hedges of which we have spoken were stopped short by meeting the brow of the chalk pit, he saw the younger dog standing against the sky-dark and motionless as Napoleon at saint Helena.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000016_000001|With a sensation of bodily faintness he advanced: at one point the rails were broken through, and there he saw the footprints of his ewes.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000016_000002|The dog came up, licked his hand, and made signs implying that he expected some great reward for signal services rendered.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000016_000003|Oak looked over the precipice.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000017_000000|Oak was an intensely humane man: indeed, his humanity often tore in pieces any politic intentions of his which bordered on strategy, and carried him on as by gravitation.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000017_000001|A shadow in his life had always been that his flock ended in mutton-that a day came and found every shepherd an arrant traitor to his defenseless sheep.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000018_000000|It was a second to remember another phase of the matter.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000018_000001|The sheep were not insured.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000018_000002|All the savings of a frugal life had been dispersed at a blow; his hopes of being an independent farmer were laid low-possibly for ever.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000018_000004|He leant down upon a rail, and covered his face with his hands.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000019_000000|Stupors, however, do not last for ever, and Farmer Oak recovered from his.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000019_000001|It was as remarkable as it was characteristic that the one sentence he uttered was in thankfulness:--
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000020_000000|"Thank God I am not married: what would SHE have done in the poverty now coming upon me!"
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000021_000000|Oak raised his head, and wondering what he could do, listlessly surveyed the scene.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000021_000002|The pool glittered like a dead man's eye, and as the world awoke a breeze blew, shaking and elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000021_000003|All this Oak saw and remembered.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000023_000000|George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day-another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
train-other-500/1291/138273/1291_138273_000024_000000|Gabriel's farm had been stocked by a dealer-on the strength of Oak's promising look and character-who was receiving a percentage from the farmer till such time as the advance should be cleared off.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000001_000000|A HOLE IN THE WALL
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000002_000000|My taking the detective out to Sunnyside raised an unexpected storm of protest from Gertrude and Halsey.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000002_000001|I was not prepared for it, and I scarcely knew how to account for it.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000004_000000|From the day mr Jamieson came to Sunnyside there was a subtle change in Gertrude's manner to me.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000004_000001|It was elusive, difficult to analyze, but it was there.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000004_000002|She was no longer frank with me, although I think her affection never wavered.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000005_000000|The night the detective arrived, Saturday, I had a talk with him.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000006_000000|I told him of the experience Louise Armstrong had had the night before, on the circular staircase, and about the man who had so frightened Rosie on the drive.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000006_000001|I saw that he thought the information was important, and to my suggestion that we put an additional lock on the east wing door he opposed a strong negative.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000007_000000|"I think it probable," he said, "that our visitor will be back again, and the thing to do is to leave things exactly as they are, to avoid rousing suspicion.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000007_000001|Then I can watch for at least a part of each night and probably mr Innes will help us out.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000007_000002|I would say as little to Thomas as possible.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000007_000003|The old man knows more than he is willing to admit."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000008_000000|I suggested that Alex, the gardener, would probably be willing to help, and mr Jamieson undertook to make the arrangement.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000008_000002|Apparently nothing occurred.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000009_000000|Liddy came to my room on Sunday morning with a face as long as the moral law.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000009_000001|She laid out my things as usual, but I missed her customary garrulousness.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000010_000001|"Didn't you sleep last night?"
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000011_000000|"No, ma'm," she said stiffly.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000012_000000|"Did you have two cups of coffee at your dinner?" I inquired.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000013_000000|"No, ma'm," indignantly.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000014_000001|It tones the stomach.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000015_000000|"Liddy Allen," I said, "stop combing that switch and tell me what is wrong with you."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000016_000000|Liddy heaved a sigh.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000017_000001|My trunk's packed."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000018_000000|"Who packed it?" I asked, expecting from her tone to be told she had wakened to find it done by some ghostly hand.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000019_000000|"I did; Miss Rachel, you won't believe me when I tell you this house is haunted.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000019_000002|Who was it scared Miss Louise almost into her grave?"
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000020_000000|"I'm doing my best to find out," I said.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000020_000001|"What in the world are you driving at?" She drew a long breath.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000021_000000|"There is a hole in the trunk room wall, dug out since last night. It's big enough to put your head in, and the plaster's all over the place."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000022_000000|"Nonsense!" I said.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000022_000001|"Plaster is always falling."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000023_000000|But Liddy clenched that.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000024_000000|"Just ask Alex," she said.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000024_000001|"When he put the new cook's trunk there last night the wall was as smooth as this.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000024_000002|This morning it's dug out, and there's plaster on the cook's trunk.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000024_000004|There's some things you can't handcuff."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000025_000000|Liddy was right.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000025_000002|The plan of the upper story of the house was like that of the second floor, in the main.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000025_000003|One end, however, over the east wing, had been left only roughly finished, the intention having been to convert it into a ball room at some future time.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000025_000004|The maids' rooms, trunk room, and various store rooms, including a large airy linen room, opened from a long corridor, like that on the second floor.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000026_000000|Not only in the plaster, but through the lathing, the aperture extended.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000026_000002|For some reason, the architect, in building the house, had left a space there that struck me, even in the surprise of the discovery, as an excellent place for a conflagration to gain headway.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000027_000001|In answer she pointed to the new cook's trunk-that necessary adjunct of the migratory domestic.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000027_000002|The top was covered with fine white plaster, as was the floor.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000027_000003|But there were no large pieces of mortar lying around-no bits of lathing.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000027_000004|When I mentioned this to Liddy she merely raised her eyebrows.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000027_000006|No doubt they were even then heaped neatly on a gravestone in the Casanova churchyard!
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000000|I brought mr Jamieson up to see the hole in the wall, directly after breakfast.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000001|His expression was very odd when he looked at it, and the first thing he did was to try to discover what object, if any, such a hole could have.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000002|He got a piece of candle, and by enlarging the aperture a little was able to examine what lay beyond.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000003|The result was nil.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000004|The trunk room, although heated by steam heat, like the rest of the house, boasted of a fireplace and mantel as well.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000005|The opening had been made between the flue and the outer wall of the house.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000006|There was revealed, however, on inspection, only the brick of the chimney on one side and the outer wall of the house on the other; in depth the space extended only to the flooring.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000028_000007|The breach had been made about four feet from the floor, and inside were all the missing bits of plaster. It had been a methodical ghost.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000030_000000|Halsey was inclined to pooh pooh the whole affair.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000030_000002|After all, we had to let it go at that, but we put in an uncomfortable Sunday. Gertrude went to church, and Halsey took a long walk in the morning. Louise was able to sit up, and she allowed Halsey and Liddy to assist her down stairs late in the afternoon.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000031_000000|We were very silent.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000031_000003|He was like his father just then.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000032_000000|We sat until late afternoon, Halsey growing more and more moody. Shortly before six, he got up and went into the house, and in a few minutes he came out and called me to the telephone.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000032_000001|It was Anna Whitcomb, in town, and she kept me for twenty minutes, telling me the children had had the measles, and how Madame Sweeny had botched her new gown.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000033_000000|When I finished, Liddy was behind me, her mouth a thin line.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000034_000000|"I wish you would try to look cheerful, Liddy," I groaned, "your face would sour milk." But Liddy seldom replied to my gibes.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000034_000001|She folded her lips a little tighter.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000035_000001|A THANKLESS CHILD IS SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH."
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000036_000000|"Nonsense!" I said bruskly.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000037_000000|Liddy sniffed.
train-other-500/1298/1054/1298_1054_000038_000000|"No man ever made a fool of me," she replied virtuously.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000002_000001|I believe that the Ladley case was unusual, in several ways.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000002_000002|mr Ladley had once been well known in New York among the people who frequent the theaters, and Jennie Brice was even better known.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000002_000004|And I believe that the district attorney, in taking him before the grand jury, hardly hoped to make a case.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000003_000001|But in the meantime, many curious things happened.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000004_000001|Three men, I think, and the rest girls.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000005_000000|From the moment he learned that, mr Holcombe hardly left him.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000005_000001|He walked to the theater with him and waited to walk home again.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000005_000002|He took him out to restaurants and for long street car rides in the mornings, and on the last night of their stay, Saturday, they got gloriously drunk together-mr
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000005_000003|Holcombe, no doubt, in his character of Ladley-and came reeling in at three in the morning, singing.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000005_000004|mr Holcombe was very sick the next day, but by Monday he was all right, and he called me into the room.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000006_000001|It seemed he was going to New York, and might be gone for a month.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000006_000002|"I've no family," he said, "and enough money to keep me.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000006_000003|If I find my relaxation in hunting down criminals, it's a harmless and cheap amusement, and-it's my own business."
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000007_000000|He went away that night, and I must admit I missed him.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000007_000004|The women are always lighting alcohol lamps on the bureau, and wanting the bed turned into a cozy corner so they can see their gentlemen friends in their rooms.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000008_000003|I used to read it over, "rope, knife, shoe, towel, Horn-" and get more and more bewildered.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000009_000001|Perhaps it had been Horner, and possibly this very Eliza Shaeffer-
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000010_000000|I suppose my lack of experience was in my favor, for, after all, Eliza Shaeffer is a common enough name, and the "Horn" might have stood for "hornswoggle," for all I knew.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000010_000001|The story of the man who thought of what he would do if he were a horse, came back to me, and for an hour or so I tried to think I was Jennie Brice, trying to get away and hide from my rascal of a husband.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000010_000002|But I made no headway.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000010_000003|I would never have gone to Horner, or to any small town, if I had wanted to hide.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000010_000004|I think I should have gone around the corner and taken a room in my own neighborhood, or have lost myself in some large city.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000011_000000|It was that same day that, since I did not go to Horner, Horner came to me.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000013_000000|"Are you mrs Pitman?" she asked.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000014_000000|"I don't need anything to day," I said, trying to shut the door.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000014_000002|Young women selling poultry are not common in our neighborhood.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000014_000003|"What have you there?" I asked more agreeably.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000015_000000|"Chicks, day old chicks, but I'm not trying to sell you any.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000016_000000|It was dawning on me then that perhaps this was Eliza Shaeffer.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000016_000001|I led her back to the dining room, with peter sniffing at the basket.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000017_000000|"My name is Shaeffer," she said.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000017_000001|"I've seen your name in the papers, and I believe I know something about Jennie Brice."
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000018_000000|Eliza Shaeffer's story was curious.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000019_000001|She told the clerk she was on the road, selling corsets, and was much disappointed to find no store of any size in the town.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000019_000002|The woman, who had registered as mrs Jane Bellows, said she was tired and would like to rest for a day or two on a farm.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000020_000000|Asked to describe her-she was over medium height, light haired, quick in her movements, and wore a black and white striped dress with a red collar, and a hat to match.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000020_000001|She carried a small brown valise that Miss Shaeffer presumed contained her samples.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000021_000000|mrs Shaeffer had made her welcome, although they did not usually take boarders until June.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000021_000002|The letter was not mailed until Wednesday.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000021_000003|All of Tuesday mrs Bellows had spent in her room, and mrs Shaeffer had driven to the village in the afternoon with word that she had been crying all day, and bought some headache medicine for her.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000022_000001|It was addressed to mr Ellis Howell, in care of a Pittsburgh newspaper!
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000023_000002|On account of the disappearance of Jennie Brice being published shortly after that, she and her mother had driven to Thornville, but the station agent there was surly as well as stupid.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000024_000000|Since that time, three men had made inquiries about the woman in question.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000024_000001|One had a pointed Vandyke beard; the second, from the description, I fancied must have been mr Graves.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000024_000003|Eliza Shaeffer said that this last man had seemed half frantic.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000024_000005|She said there was a resemblance, but that it ended there.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000024_000006|But of course, as mr Graves had said, by the time an actress gets her photograph retouched to suit her, it doesn't particularly resemble her.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000025_000002|Why had he not told the police of the letter from Horner?
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000025_000003|Or about the woman on the bridge?
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000026_000000|I did as I thought mr Holcombe would have wished me to do.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000027_000000|The young man was interested, but not convinced.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000027_000001|He had her story taken down, and she signed it.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000027_000002|He was smiling as he bowed us out.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000027_000003|I turned in the doorway.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000028_000000|"This will free mr Ladley, I suppose?" I asked.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000029_000000|"Not just yet," he said pleasantly.
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000029_000001|"This makes just eleven places where Jennie Brice spent the first three days after her death."
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000030_000000|"But I can positively identify the dress."
train-other-500/1298/142233/1298_142233_000031_000000|"My good woman, that dress has been described, to the last stilted arch and Colonial volute, in every newspaper in the United States!"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000002_000000|The prosecution produced many witnesses during the next two days: Shanty boat Tim's story withstood the most vigorous cross examination. After him, mr Bronson from the theater corroborated Miss Hope's story of Jennie Brice's attack of hysteria in the dressing room, and told of taking her home that night.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000003_000000|He was a poor witness, nervous and halting.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000003_000001|He weighed each word before he said it, and he made a general unfavorable impression.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000004_000000|So far, the prosecution had touched but lightly on the possible motive for a crime-the woman.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000004_000001|But on the third day, to my surprise, a mrs Agnes Murray was called.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000006_000000|She was a widow, living above a small millinery shop on Federal Street, Allegheny.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000006_000001|She had one daughter, Alice, who did stenography and typing as a means of livelihood.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000006_000002|She had no office, and worked at home.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000006_000003|Many of the small stores in the neighborhood employed her to send out their bills.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000006_000004|There was a card at the street entrance beside the shop, and now and then strangers brought her work.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000007_000000|Early in December the prisoner had brought her the manuscript of a play to type, and from that time on he came frequently, sometimes every day, bringing a few sheets of manuscript at a time.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000008_000000|On Wednesday, February twenty eighth, Alice Murray had disappeared. She had taken some of her clothing-not all, and had left a note.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000009_000000|"DEAR MOTHER: When you get this I shall be married to mr Ladley. Don't worry.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000009_000002|Lovingly,
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000010_000000|"ALICE."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000011_000000|From that time until a week before, she had not heard from her daughter.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000011_000001|Then she had a card, mailed from Madison Square Station, New York City.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000011_000002|The card merely said:
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000012_000000|"Am well and working.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000012_000001|ALICE."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000014_000000|So far, all had gone well for the prosecution.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000014_000002|But in the identification of the body, so far they had failed.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000014_000003|The prosecution "rested," as they say, although they didn't rest much, on the afternoon of the third day.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000015_000001|She told of a woman answering the general description of Jennie Brice having spent two days at the Shaeffer farm at Horner.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000015_000002|Being shown photographs of Jennie Brice, she said she thought it was the same woman, but was not certain.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000015_000003|She told further of the woman leaving unexpectedly on Wednesday of that week from Thornville.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000015_000004|On cross examination, being shown the small photograph which mr Graves had shown me, she identified the woman in the group as being the woman in question. As the face was in shadow, knew it more by the dress and hat: she described the black and white dress and the hat with red trimming.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000016_000000|The defense then called me.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000016_000001|I had to admit that the dress and hat as described were almost certainly the ones I had seen on the bed in Jennie Brice's room the day before she disappeared.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000016_000002|I could not say definitely whether the woman in the photograph was Jennie Brice or not; under a magnifying glass thought it might be.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000017_000001|His identification was absolute.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000018_000000|The defense called Jennie Brice's sister, and endeavored to prove that Jennie Brice had had no such scar.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000018_000001|It was shown that she was on intimate terms with her family and would hardly have concealed an operation of any gravity from them.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000019_000002|And they had shown that this woman was attired as Jennie Brice had been.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000020_000000|That was the way things stood on the afternoon of the fourth day, when court adjourned.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000021_000000|mr Reynolds was at home when I got there.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000021_000002|He had the kettle boiling when I got home.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000022_000001|"Our young friend Howell has been here, and mr Holcombe has arrived and has a man in his room."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000023_000000|mr Holcombe came down a moment after, with his face beaming.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000024_000001|"The jury won't even go out of the box."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000025_000000|But further than that he would not explain.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000025_000002|And he went out and bought some oysters and a bottle or two of beer.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000025_000004|I don't think the man knew he was a prisoner.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000026_000000|mr Holcombe slept on the upper landing of the hall that night, rolled in a blanket-not that I think his witness even thought of escaping, but the little man was taking no chances.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000027_000001|It was mr Howell.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000027_000004|He was dressed carefully, but his eyes were sunken in his head, and he looked as if he had not slept for days.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000028_000000|mr Reynolds had gone up stairs, not finding me socially inclined.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000029_000000|"You haven't been sick, mr Howell, have you?" I asked.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000030_000000|"Oh, no, I'm well enough, I've been traveling about.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000030_000001|Those infernal sleeping cars-"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000031_000000|His voice trailed off, and I saw him looking at my mother's picture, with the jonquils beneath.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000032_000000|"That's curious!" he said, going closer.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000032_000001|"It-it looks almost like Lida Harvey."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000033_000000|"My mother," I said simply.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000034_000000|"Have you seen her lately?"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000035_000000|"My mother?" I asked, startled.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000036_000000|"No, Lida."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000037_000000|"I saw her a few days ago."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000038_000000|"Here?"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000039_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000039_000001|She came here, mr Howell, two weeks ago.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000039_000002|She looks badly-as if she is worrying."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000040_000000|"Not-about me?" he asked eagerly.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000041_000000|"Yes, about you.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000041_000001|What possessed you to go away as you did?
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000041_000002|When my-bro-when her uncle accused you of something, you ran away, instead of facing things like a man."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000042_000000|"I was trying to find the one person who could clear me, mrs Pitman." He sat back, with his eyes closed; he looked ill enough to be in bed.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000043_000000|"And you succeeded?"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000044_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000045_000001|But he refused it, with the ghost of his boyish smile.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000046_000000|"I'm hungry, but it's not food I want.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000048_000000|"Perhaps," I said finally, "if you want it very much-"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000049_000000|"Very much!"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000050_000000|"And if you will sit quiet, and stop tapping your fingers together until you drive me crazy, I might contrive it for you.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000050_000001|For five minutes," I said.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000050_000002|"Not a second longer."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000051_000000|He came right over and put his arms around me.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000052_000000|"Who are you, anyhow?" he said.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000052_000002|Who are you?"
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000053_000000|"I'll tell you what I am," I said.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000053_000001|"I'm a romantic old fool, and you'd better let me do this quickly, before I change my mind."
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000056_000002|Then:
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000057_000000|"Ell!" she cried, and ran around the table to him, as he held out his arms.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000058_000001|I went into the parlor bedroom and sat in the cozy corner in the dark.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000058_000003|And sitting there in the darkness, I went over my own life again.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000058_000004|After all, it had been my own life; I had lived it; no one else had shaped it for me.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000058_000005|And if it was cheerless and colorless now, it had had its big moments.
train-other-500/1298/142236/1298_142236_000058_000006|Life is measured by big moments.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000000_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000001_000000|peter Rabbit's intentions were of the best.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000001_000003|It was a sound very like distant thunder.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000001_000004|It began slowly at first and then went faster and faster.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000001_000006|It was like the long roll on a bass drum.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000002_000000|peter laughed right out.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000002_000002|"I had forgotten all about him.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000002_000003|I certainly must go over and pay him a call and find out where mrs Grouse is.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000002_000004|My, how Strutter can drum!"
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000003_000001|As he drew nearer to it, it sounded louder and louder.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000000|Very, very carefully peter stole forward, making no sound at all.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000001|At last he reached a place where he could peep out and see that big, mossy, hollow log.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000003|When peter first saw him he was crouched on one end of the log, a fluffy ball of reddish brown, black and gray feathers.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000004|He was resting.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000006|The outer edge was gray, then came a broad band of black, followed by bands of gray, brown and black. Around his neck was a wonderful ruff of black.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000007|His reddish brown wings were dropped until the tips nearly touched the log.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000004_000009|He was of about the size of the little Bantam hens peter had seen in Farmer Brown's henyard.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000005_000004|It was those fast moving wings that made the thunder.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000005_000005|It was so loud that peter almost wanted to stop his ears.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000005_000006|When it ended Strutter settled down to rest and once more appeared like a ball of fluffy feathers.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000005_000007|His ruff was laid flat.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000006_000000|peter watched him thunder several times and then ventured to show himself.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000007_000000|Strutter threw out his chest proudly.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000007_000001|"That is just what mrs Grouse says," he replied.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000007_000002|"I don't know of any better thunderer if I do say it myself."
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000008_000000|"Speaking of mrs Grouse, where is she?" asked peter eagerly.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000009_000000|"Attending to her household affairs, as a good housewife should," retorted Strutter promptly.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000010_000000|"Do you mean she has a nest and eggs?" asked peter.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000011_000000|Strutter nodded.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000011_000001|"She has twelve eggs," he added proudly.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000012_000000|"I suppose," said peter artfully, "her nest is somewhere near here on the ground."
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000013_000000|"It's on the ground, peter, but as to where it is I am not saying a word.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000013_000001|It may or it may not be near here.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000013_000002|Do you want to hear me thunder again?"
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000014_000000|Of course peter said he did, and that was sufficient excuse for Strutter to show off.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000015_000000|"I really would like to know where that nest is," said he to himself as he scampered along.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000016_000006|Those eyes twinkled as they watched peter out of sight.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000017_000001|"That is what comes of having a cloak so like the color of these nice brown leaves.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000017_000003|It is better than trying to hide a nest, and I certainly am thankful to Old Mother Nature for the cloak she gave me. I wonder if every one of these twelve eggs will hatch.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000017_000004|If they do, I certainly will have a family to be proud of."
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000018_000000|Meanwhile peter hurried on in his usual happy go lucky fashion until he came to the edge of the Green Forest.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000018_000002|It reminded him of Blacky the Crow, but he knew right away that it wasn't Blacky, because it was so much smaller, being not more than half as big.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000019_000000|"It's Creaker the Grackle.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000019_000002|I believe Jenny Wren told me that he belongs to the Blackbird family.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000019_000003|He looks so much like Blacky the Crow that I suppose this is why they call him Crow Blackbird."
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000020_000001|"Why!
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000021_000001|Creaker the Grackle with the sun shining on him was truly beautiful.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000021_000004|This changing of colors is called iridescence.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000021_000005|One other thing peter noticed and this was that Creaker's eyes were yellow.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000023_000000|"I'm glad you think so," replied Creaker.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000023_000001|"I'm not at all vain, but there are mighty few birds I would change coats with."
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000026_000000|"Where is she now?" asked peter.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000027_000000|"Over home," replied Creaker, pulling a white grub out of the roots of the grass.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000027_000003|You know I am one of those who believe that every father should do his full share in taking care of his family."
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000028_000000|"I'm glad to hear you say it," declared peter, nodding his head with approval quite as if he was himself the best of fathers, which he isn't at all.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000030_000000|"Ask as many questions as you like.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000030_000001|I don't have to answer them unless I want to," retorted Creaker.
train-other-500/133/142924/133_142924_000032_000001|"That is a very personal question," said he.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000002_000000|CHAPTER EIGHT.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000003_000000|HOW I RAN FROM THE WHITEBIRD CATCHERS.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000004_000000|Yes, I may as well own to it: I was terribly frightened, but my first thoughts were as to what had become of my companions.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000004_000001|Jack Penny and the doctor must have been seized at the same time as i Jimmy might have managed to escape.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000004_000002|Perhaps his black skin would make him be looked upon as a friend.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000004_000003|But the old captain, what about him?
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000004_000004|He would return to the schooner with his men and be seized, and knocked on the head for certain.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000004_000005|The fierce resistance he would make certainly would cause his death, and I shuddered at the thought.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000008_000001|Then I began thinking of my own friends, and then, very selfishly no doubt, about myself.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000010_000000|"Well," I thought to myself, "it is enough to scare anybody; but I'll try and let them see that I belong to a superior race, and will not show what I feel."
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000011_000000|My eyes kept wandering about eagerly, first to look where my companions were placed, but as I saw no sign of them I began to hope that they might have escaped; secondly, to see which would be the best course to take if I ran for my life.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000012_000000|But for some little time I saw not the slightest chance of escape. There were too many savages close about me, and they must have divined my ideas, for they kept a watchful eye upon every act.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000013_000000|At first I had felt numbed and cold.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000014_000000|At last, after a great deal of incomprehensible chatter, it seemed that a decision had been come to about me, and a tall black armed with a war club came dancing up to me, swinging his weapon about, chattering wildly, and after a few feints he made a blow at my head.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000015_000000|If that blow had taken effect I should not have been able to tell this story.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000015_000001|But I had been too much with my friend Jimmy not to be well upon the alert.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000015_000003|Jimmy's lessons were not thrown away.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000018_000000|I was panting heavily, and a choking sensation came upon me, but I raced on, since it was for life.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000019_000000|How long the pursuit lasted I cannot tell.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000019_000001|Perhaps a minute.
train-other-500/133/143240/133_143240_000019_000002|It seemed half an hour.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000003_000000|Tess went down the hill to Trantridge Cross, and inattentively waited to take her seat in the van returning from Chaseborough to Shaston. She did not know what the other occupants said to her as she entered, though she answered them; and when they had started anew she rode along with an inward and not an outward eye.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000004_000000|One among her fellow travellers addressed her more pointedly than any had spoken before: "Why, you be quite a posy!
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000004_000001|And such roses in early June!"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000005_000000|Then she became aware of the spectacle she presented to their surprised vision: roses at her breasts; roses in her hat; roses and strawberries in her basket to the brim.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000005_000001|She blushed, and said confusedly that the flowers had been given to her.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000005_000002|When the passengers were not looking she stealthily removed the more prominent blooms from her hat and placed them in the basket, where she covered them with her handkerchief.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000005_000003|Then she fell to reflecting again, and in looking downwards a thorn of the rose remaining in her breast accidentally pricked her chin.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000006_000000|The van travelled only so far as Shaston, and there were several miles of pedestrian descent from that mountain town into the vale to Marlott.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000007_000000|When she entered the house she perceived in a moment from her mother's triumphant manner that something had occurred in the interim.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000008_000000|"Oh yes; I know all about it!
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000009_000000|"Since I've been away?
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000009_000001|What has?" said Tess rather wearily.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000011_000000|"How do you know, mother?"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000012_000000|"I've had a letter."
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000013_000000|Tess then remembered that there would have been time for this.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000014_000001|But this is only her artful way of getting 'ee there without raising your hopes.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000015_000000|"But I didn't see her."
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000016_000000|"You zid somebody, I suppose?"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000017_000000|"I saw her son."
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000018_000000|"And did he own 'ee?"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000020_000001|Jacky-he called her Coz!" cried Joan to her husband.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000022_000002|They that be born in a business always know more about it than any 'prentice.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000022_000003|Besides, that's only just a show of something for you to do, that you midn't feel beholden."
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000023_000000|"I don't altogether think I ought to go," said Tess thoughtfully. "Who wrote the letter?
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000025_000000|The letter was in the third person, and briefly informed Mrs Durbeyfield that her daughter's services would be useful to that lady in the management of her poultry farm, that a comfortable room would be provided for her if she could come, and that the wages would be on a liberal scale if they liked her.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000026_000000|"Oh-that's all!" said Tess.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000028_000000|Tess looked out of the window.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000029_000000|"I would rather stay here with father and you," she said.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000031_000000|"I'd rather not tell you why, mother; indeed, I don't quite know why."
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000032_000000|A week afterwards she came in one evening from an unavailing search for some light occupation in the immediate neighbourhood.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000032_000001|Her idea had been to get together sufficient money during the summer to purchase another horse.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000032_000002|Hardly had she crossed the threshold before one of the children danced across the room, saying, "The gentleman's been here!"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000033_000000|Her mother hastened to explain, smiles breaking from every inch of her person.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000033_000003|"Mr d'Urberville says you must be a good girl if you are at all as you appear; he knows you must be worth your weight in gold.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000034_000000|Tess seemed for the moment really pleased to hear that she had won such high opinion from a stranger when, in her own esteem, she had sunk so low.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000035_000000|"It is very good of him to think that," she murmured; "and if I was quite sure how it would be living there, I would go any when."
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000037_000000|"I don't think so," said Tess coldly.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000038_000000|"Well, there's your chance, whether or no; and I'm sure he wears a beautiful diamond ring!"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000039_000000|"Yes," said little Abraham, brightly, from the window bench; "and I seed it! and it did twinkle when he put his hand up to his mistarshers.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000040_000000|"Hark at that child!" cried Mrs Durbeyfield, with parenthetic admiration.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000041_000000|"Perhaps to show his diamond ring," murmured Sir john, dreamily, from his chair.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000042_000000|"I'll think it over," said Tess, leaving the room.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000044_000000|"I don't quite like my children going away from home," said the haggler.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000045_000000|"But do let her go, Jacky," coaxed his poor witless wife.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000045_000002|He called her Coz!
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000046_000000|john Durbeyfield had more conceit than energy or health, and this supposition was pleasant to him.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000047_000000|"Well, perhaps that's what young Mr d'Urberville means," he admitted; "and sure enough he mid have serious thoughts about improving his blood by linking on to the old line.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000047_000002|And have she really paid 'em a visit to such an end as this?"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000048_000000|Meanwhile Tess was walking thoughtfully among the gooseberry bushes in the garden, and over Prince's grave.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000048_000001|When she came in her mother pursued her advantage.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000050_000000|"I wish I had seen Mrs d'Urberville," said Tess.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000052_000000|Her father coughed in his chair.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000053_000000|"I don't know what to say!" answered the girl restlessly.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000053_000001|"It is for you to decide.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000055_000001|"And we shan't have a nice new horse, and lots o' golden money to buy fairlings!
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000056_000000|Her mother chimed in to the same tune: a certain way she had of making her labours in the house seem heavier than they were by prolonging them indefinitely, also weighed in the argument.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000056_000001|Her father alone preserved an attitude of neutrality.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000057_000000|"I will go," said Tess at last.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000058_000000|Her mother could not repress her consciousness of the nuptial vision conjured up by the girl's consent.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000059_000000|"That's right!
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000059_000001|For such a pretty maid as 'tis, this is a fine chance!"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000060_000000|Tess smiled crossly.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000061_000000|"I hope it is a chance for earning money.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000061_000001|It is no other kind of chance.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000062_000000|Mrs Durbeyfield did not promise.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000062_000001|She was not quite sure that she did not feel proud enough, after the visitor's remarks, to say a good deal.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000063_000000|Thus it was arranged; and the young girl wrote, agreeing to be ready to set out on any day on which she might be required.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000063_000001|She was duly informed that Mrs d'Urberville was glad of her decision, and that a spring cart should be sent to meet her and her luggage at the top of the Vale on the day after the morrow, when she must hold herself prepared to start.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000063_000002|Mrs d'Urberville's handwriting seemed rather masculine.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000064_000001|"It might have been a carriage for her own kin!"
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000065_000000|Having at last taken her course Tess was less restless and abstracted, going about her business with some self assurance in the thought of acquiring another horse for her father by an occupation which would not be onerous.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000065_000001|She had hoped to be a teacher at the school, but the fates seemed to decide otherwise.
train-other-500/1331/155890/1331_155890_000065_000002|Being mentally older than her mother she did not regard Mrs Durbeyfield's matrimonial hopes for her in a serious aspect for a moment.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000000_000000|seven
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000001_000000|On the morning appointed for her departure Tess was awake before dawn-at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000001_000001|She remained upstairs packing till breakfast time, and then came down in her ordinary week day clothes, her Sunday apparel being carefully folded in her box.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000002_000000|Her mother expostulated.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000002_000001|"You will never set out to see your folks without dressing up more the dand than that?"
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000003_000000|"But I am going to work!" said Tess.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000005_000000|"Very well; I suppose you know best," replied Tess with calm abandonment.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000007_000000|Mrs Durbeyfield was only too delighted at this tractability. First she fetched a great basin, and washed Tess's hair with such thoroughness that when dried and brushed it looked twice as much as at other times.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000008_000000|"I declare there's a hole in my stocking heel!" said Tess.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000009_000000|"Never mind holes in your stockings-they don't speak!
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000010_000000|Her mother's pride in the girl's appearance led her to step back, like a painter from his easel, and survey her work as a whole.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000011_000000|"You must zee yourself!" she cried.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000012_000001|After this she went downstairs to her husband, who was sitting in the lower room.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000014_000000|However, as the moment for the girl's setting out drew nigh, when the first excitement of the dressing had passed off, a slight misgiving found place in Joan Durbeyfield's mind.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000015_000000|Seeing their mother put on her bonnet, the younger children clamoured to go with her.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000017_000001|Mother, how could you ever put such stuff into their heads?"
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000019_000000|"Goodbye, father," said Tess, with a lumpy throat.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000020_000000|"Goodbye, my maid," said Sir john, raising his head from his breast as he suspended his nap, induced by a slight excess this morning in honour of the occasion.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000020_000001|"Well, I hope my young friend will like such a comely sample of his own blood.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000021_000000|"Not for less than a thousand pound!" cried Lady Durbeyfield.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000022_000000|"Tell'n-I'll take a thousand pound.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000022_000002|He'll adorn it better than a poor lammicken feller like myself can.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000022_000004|But I won't stand upon trifles-tell'n he shall hae it for fifty-for twenty pound!
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000022_000005|Yes, twenty pound-that's the lowest.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000023_000001|She turned quickly, and went out.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000024_000001|Far away behind the first hills the cliff like dwellings of Shaston broke the line of the ridge.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000024_000002|Nobody was visible in the elevated road which skirted the ascent save the lad whom they had sent on before them, sitting on the handle of the barrow that contained all Tess's worldly possessions.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000026_000000|It had come-appearing suddenly from behind the forehead of the nearest upland, and stopping beside the boy with the barrow.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000026_000001|Her mother and the children thereupon decided to go no farther, and bidding them a hasty goodbye, Tess bent her steps up the hill.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000027_000000|They saw her white shape draw near to the spring cart, on which her box was already placed.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000027_000001|But before she had quite reached it another vehicle shot out from a clump of trees on the summit, came round the bend of the road there, passed the luggage cart, and halted beside Tess, who looked up as if in great surprise.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000028_000000|Her mother perceived, for the first time, that the second vehicle was not a humble conveyance like the first, but a spick and span gig or dog cart, highly varnished and equipped.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000028_000001|The driver was a young man of three or four and twenty, with a cigar between his teeth; wearing a dandy cap, drab jacket, breeches of the same hue, white neckcloth, stick up collar, and brown driving gloves-in short, he was the handsome, horsey young buck who had visited Joan a week or two before to get her answer about Tess.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000029_000000|Mrs Durbeyfield clapped her hands like a child.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000031_000000|Meanwhile the muslined form of Tess could be seen standing still, undecided, beside this turn out, whose owner was talking to her. Her seeming indecision was, in fact, more than indecision: it was misgiving.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000031_000001|She would have preferred the humble cart.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000031_000002|The young man dismounted, and appeared to urge her to ascend.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000031_000003|She turned her face down the hill to her relatives, and regarded the little group. Something seemed to quicken her to a determination; possibly the thought that she had killed Prince.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000031_000004|She suddenly stepped up; he mounted beside her, and immediately whipped on the horse.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000031_000005|In a moment they had passed the slow cart with the box, and disappeared behind the shoulder of the hill.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000032_000001|The youngest child said, "I wish poor, poor Tess wasn't gone away to be a lady!" and, lowering the corners of his lips, burst out crying.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000032_000002|The new point of view was infectious, and the next child did likewise, and then the next, till the whole three of them wailed loud.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000033_000000|There were tears also in Joan Durbeyfield's eyes as she turned to go home.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000033_000001|But by the time she had got back to the village she was passively trusting to the favour of accident.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000033_000002|However, in bed that night she sighed, and her husband asked her what was the matter.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000034_000000|"Oh, I don't know exactly," she said.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000038_000001|And if he don't marry her afore he will after.
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000039_000000|"What's her trump card?
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000039_000001|Her d'Urberville blood, you mean?"
train-other-500/1331/155891/1331_155891_000040_000000|"No, stupid; her face-as 'twas mine."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000004_000000|eight
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000005_000001|Rising still, an immense landscape stretched around them on every side; behind, the green valley of her birth, before, a gray country of which she knew nothing except from her first brief visit to Trantridge.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000005_000002|Thus they reached the verge of an incline down which the road stretched in a long straight descent of nearly a mile.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000006_000000|Ever since the accident with her father's horse Tess Durbeyfield, courageous as she naturally was, had been exceedingly timid on wheels; the least irregularity of motion startled her.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000006_000001|She began to get uneasy at a certain recklessness in her conductor's driving.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000008_000000|D'Urberville looked round upon her, nipped his cigar with the tips of his large white centre teeth, and allowed his lips to smile slowly of themselves.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000009_000000|"Why, Tess," he answered, after another whiff or two, "it isn't a brave bouncing girl like you who asks that?
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000009_000001|Why, I always go down at full gallop.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000009_000002|There's nothing like it for raising your spirits."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000010_000000|"But perhaps you need not now?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000011_000001|Tib has to be considered, and she has a very queer temper."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000012_000000|"Who?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000013_000000|"Why, this mare.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000013_000001|I fancy she looked round at me in a very grim way just then.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000013_000002|Didn't you notice it?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000014_000000|"Don't try to frighten me, sir," said Tess stiffly.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000015_000000|"Well, I don't.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000015_000001|If any living man can manage this horse I can: I won't say any living man can do it-but if such has the power, I am he."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000016_000000|"Why do you have such a horse?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000017_000000|"Ah, well may you ask it!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000017_000001|It was my fate, I suppose.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000017_000002|Tib has killed one chap; and just after I bought her she nearly killed me.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000017_000003|And then, take my word for it, I nearly killed her.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000017_000004|But she's touchy still, very touchy; and one's life is hardly safe behind her sometimes."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000019_000000|Down, down, they sped, the wheels humming like a top, the dog cart rocking right and left, its axis acquiring a slightly oblique set in relation to the line of progress; the figure of the horse rising and falling in undulations before them.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000019_000002|The aspect of the straight road enlarged with their advance, the two banks dividing like a splitting stick; one rushing past at each shoulder.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000020_000000|The wind blew through Tess's white muslin to her very skin, and her washed hair flew out behind.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000020_000001|She was determined to show no open fear, but she clutched d'Urberville's rein arm.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000021_000000|"Don't touch my arm!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000021_000001|We shall be thrown out if you do!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000021_000002|Hold on round my waist!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000022_000000|She grasped his waist, and so they reached the bottom.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000023_000000|"Safe, thank God, in spite of your fooling!" said she, her face on fire.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000024_000000|"Tess-fie! that's temper!" said d'Urberville.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000025_000000|"'tis truth."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000027_000000|She had not considered what she had been doing; whether he were man or woman, stick or stone, in her involuntary hold on him.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000027_000001|Recovering her reserve, she sat without replying, and thus they reached the summit of another declivity.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000028_000000|"Now then, again!" said d'Urberville.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000029_000000|"No, no!" said Tess.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000029_000001|"Show more sense, do, please."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000031_000000|He loosened rein, and away they went a second time.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000031_000001|D'Urberville turned his face to her as they rocked, and said, in playful raillery: "Now then, put your arms round my waist again, as you did before, my Beauty."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000032_000000|"Never!" said Tess independently, holding on as well as she could without touching him.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000033_000000|"Let me put one little kiss on those holmberry lips, Tess, or even on that warmed cheek, and I'll stop-on my honour, I will!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000034_000000|Tess, surprised beyond measure, slid farther back still on her seat, at which he urged the horse anew, and rocked her the more.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000035_000000|"Will nothing else do?" she cried at length, in desperation, her large eyes staring at him like those of a wild animal.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000035_000001|This dressing her up so prettily by her mother had apparently been to lamentable purpose.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000036_000000|"Nothing, dear Tess," he replied.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000037_000000|"Oh, I don't know-very well; I don't mind!" she panted miserably.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000038_000001|His arms being occupied with the reins there was left him no power to prevent her manoeuvre.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000039_000000|"Now, damn it-I'll break both our necks!" swore her capriciously passionate companion.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000039_000001|"So you can go from your word like that, you young witch, can you?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000041_000001|Now!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000043_000000|He was inexorable, and she sat still, and d'Urberville gave her the kiss of mastery.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000043_000001|No sooner had he done so than she flushed with shame, took out her handkerchief, and wiped the spot on her cheek that had been touched by his lips.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000043_000002|His ardour was nettled at the sight, for the act on her part had been unconsciously done.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000045_000000|Tess made no reply to this remark, of which, indeed, she did not quite comprehend the drift, unheeding the snub she had administered by her instinctive rub upon her cheek.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000045_000001|She had, in fact, undone the kiss, as far as such a thing was physically possible.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000045_000002|With a dim sense that he was vexed she looked steadily ahead as they trotted on near Melbury Down and Wingreen, till she saw, to her consternation, that there was yet another descent to be undergone.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000046_000000|"You shall be made sorry for that!" he resumed, his injured tone still remaining, as he flourished the whip anew.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000046_000001|"Unless, that is, you agree willingly to let me do it again, and no handkerchief."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000047_000000|She sighed.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000047_000001|"Very well, sir!" she said.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000047_000002|"Oh-let me get my hat!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000048_000000|At the moment of speaking her hat had blown off into the road, their present speed on the upland being by no means slow.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000048_000001|D'Urberville pulled up, and said he would get it for her, but Tess was down on the other side.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000049_000000|She turned back and picked up the article.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000050_000000|"You look prettier with it off, upon my soul, if that's possible," he said, contemplating her over the back of the vehicle.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000050_000001|"Now then, up again!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000050_000002|What's the matter?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000051_000000|The hat was in place and tied, but Tess had not stepped forward.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000052_000000|"No, sir," she said, revealing the red and ivory of her mouth as her eye lit in defiant triumph; "not again, if I know it!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000053_000000|"What-you won't get up beside me?"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000054_000000|"No; I shall walk."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000056_000000|"I don't care if 'tis dozens.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000056_000001|Besides, the cart is behind."
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000057_000000|"You artful hussy!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000057_000001|Now, tell me-didn't you make that hat blow off on purpose?
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000057_000002|I'll swear you did!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000058_000000|Her strategic silence confirmed his suspicion.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000059_000000|Then d'Urberville cursed and swore at her, and called her everything he could think of for the trick.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000059_000002|But he could not do this short of injuring her.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000060_000000|"You ought to be ashamed of yourself for using such wicked words!" cried Tess with spirit, from the top of the hedge into which she had scrambled.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000060_000001|"I don't like 'ee at all!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000060_000002|I hate and detest you!
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000060_000003|I'll go back to mother, I will!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000062_000000|"Well, I like you all the better," he said.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000062_000001|"Come, let there be peace.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000062_000002|I'll never do it any more against your will.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000062_000003|My life upon it now!"
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000063_000000|Still Tess could not be induced to remount.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000063_000002|From time to time d'Urberville exhibited a sort of fierce distress at the sight of the tramping he had driven her to undertake by his misdemeanour.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000063_000003|She might in truth have safely trusted him now; but he had forfeited her confidence for the time, and she kept on the ground progressing thoughtfully, as if wondering whether it would be wiser to return home.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000063_000004|Her resolve, however, had been taken, and it seemed vacillating even to childishness to abandon it now, unless for graver reasons.
train-other-500/1331/155892/1331_155892_000063_000005|How could she face her parents, get back her box, and disconcert the whole scheme for the rehabilitation of her family on such sentimental grounds?
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000003_000000|The warm mineral waters of Spinbronn, situated in the Hundsrueck, several leagues from Pirmesens, formerly enjoyed a magnificent reputation.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000007_000001|As for the cavern, entirely covered without with moss, ivy, and brushwood, its depth is unknown because the hot exhalations prevent all entrance.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000008_000000|Nevertheless, strangely enough, it was noticed early in the last century that birds of the neighborhood-thrushes, doves, hawks-were engulfed in it in full flight, and it was never known to what mysterious influence to attribute this particular.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000009_000000|In eighteen o one, at the height of the season, owing to some circumstance which is still unexplained, the spring became more abundant, and the bathers, walking below on the greensward, saw a human skeleton as white as snow fall from the cascade.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000011_000000|This very plausible reasoning did not prevent a crowd of patrons, wild at the idea of having drunk the saline water, from leaving before the end of the day; those worst afflicted with gout and gravel consoled themselves.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000012_000000|Haselnoss issued a pamphlet demonstrating that all these bones were derived from an antediluvian world: that they were fossil bones, accumulated there in a sort of funnel during the universal flood-that is to say, four thousand years before Christ, and that, consequently, one might consider them as nothing but stones, and that it was needless to be disgusted.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000013_000000|It was impossible to establish that these remains antedated the Flood. Anyway, the disgust was so great that everybody tied up his bundle and went to take the waters elsewhere.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000014_000000|"How infamous!" cried the beautiful ladies-"how horrible!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000014_000001|So that's what the virtue of these mineral waters came from!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000015_000000|At the end of a week there remained at Spinbronn only a big Englishman who had gout in his hands as well as in his feet, who had himself addressed as Sir Thomas Hawerburch, Commodore; and he brought a large retinue, according to the usage of a British subject in a foreign land.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000019_000000|I need not recall to you the barbarous treatment to which our unfortunate fellow countrymen were subjected at Haiti.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000019_000001|dr Weber had the good luck to escape the massacre and to save part of his fortune. Then he traveled in South America, and especially in French Guiana.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000019_000002|In eighteen o one he returned to Pirmesens, and established himself at Spinbronn, where dr Haselnoss made over his house and defunct practice.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000020_000000|Christian Weber brought with him an old negress called Agatha: a frightful creature, with a flat nose and lips as large as your fist, and her head tied up in three bandanas of razor edged colors.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000020_000001|This poor old woman adored red; she had earrings which hung down to her shoulders, and the mountaineers of Hundsrueck came from six leagues around to stare at her.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000021_000000|As for dr Weber, he was a tall, lean man, invariably dressed in a sky blue coat with codfish tails and deerskin breeches.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000021_000001|He wore a hat of flexible straw and boots with bright yellow tops, on the front of which hung two silver tassels.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000021_000002|He talked little; his laugh was like a nervous attack, and his gray eyes, usually calm and meditative, shone with singular brilliance at the least sign of contradiction.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000021_000003|Every morning he fetched a turn round about the mountain, letting his horse ramble at a venture, whistling forever the same tune, some negro melody or other.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000021_000004|Lastly, this rum chap had brought from Haiti a lot of bandboxes filled with queer insects-some black and reddish brown, big as eggs; others little and shimmering like sparks.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000021_000005|He seemed to set greater store by them than by his patients, and, from time to time, on coming back from his rides, he brought a quantity of butterflies pinned to his hat brim.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000022_000000|Scarcely was he settled in Haselnoss's vast house when he peopled the back yard with outlandish birds-Barbary geese with scarlet cheeks, Guinea hens, and a white peacock, which perched habitually on the garden wall, and which divided with the negress the admiration of the mountaineers.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000023_000001|The black Agatha at first sight inspired me with some fright, and I only got seasoned to that fantastic visage with considerable difficulty; but she was such a good woman-she knew so well how to make spiced patties, she hummed such strange songs in a guttural voice, snapping her fingers and keeping time with a heavy shuffle, that I ended by taking her in fast friendship.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000024_000000|dr Weber was naturally thick with Sir Thomas Hawerburch, as representing the only one of his clientele then in evidence, and I was not slow in perceiving that these two eccentrics held long conventicles together.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000024_000001|They conversed on mysterious matters, on the transmission of fluids, and indulged in certain odd signs which one or the other had picked up in his voyages-Sir Thomas in the Orient, and my tutor in America.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000024_000002|This puzzled me greatly.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000024_000003|As children will, I was always lying in wait for what they seemed to want to conceal from me; but despairing in the end of discovering anything, I took the course of questioning Agatha, and the poor old woman, after making me promise to say nothing about it, admitted that my tutor was a sorcerer.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000025_000000|For the rest, dr Weber exercised a singular influence over the mind of this negress, and this woman, habitually so gay and forever ready to be amused by nothing, trembled like a leaf when her master's gray eyes chanced to alight on her.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000026_000000|All this, Master Frantz, seems to have no bearing on the springs of Spinbronn.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000026_000001|But wait, wait-you shall see by what a singular concourse of circumstances my story is connected with it.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000027_000000|I told you that birds darted into the cavern, and even other and larger creatures.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000028_000001|The poor girl had doubtless been drawn into the gulf by the mysterious influence which almost daily overcame weaker beings!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000029_000000|What could this influence be?
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000029_000001|None knew.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000029_000002|But the inhabitants of Spinbronn, superstitious like all mountaineers, maintained that the devil lived in the cavern, and terror spread in the whole region.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000030_000000|Now one afternoon in the middle of the month of July, eighteen o two, my cousin undertook a new classification of the insects in his bandboxes.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000030_000001|He had secured several rather curious ones the preceding afternoon.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000030_000002|I was with him, holding the lighted candle with one hand and with the other a needle which I heated red hot.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000031_000000|Sir Thomas, seated, his chair tipped back against the sill of a window, his feet on a stool, watched us work, and smoked his cigar with a dreamy air.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000032_000000|I stood in with Sir Thomas Hawerburch, and I accompanied him every day to the woods in his carriage.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000033_000000|The butterflies labeled, dr Weber at last opened the box of the largest insects, and said:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000034_000001|It has this peculiarity-the right claw divides in five branches.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000034_000002|It's a rare specimen."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000035_000000|At the same time I offered him the needle, and as he pierced the insect before fixing it on the cork, Sir Thomas, until then impassive, got up, and, drawing near a bandbox, he began to examine the spider crab of Guiana with a feeling of horror which was strikingly portrayed on his fat vermilion face.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000036_000000|"That is certainly," he cried, "the most frightful work of the creation.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000037_000000|In truth, a sudden pallor overspread his face.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000038_000001|But if you should consider the spider with a strong microscope, you would be astonished at the finish of his members, at their admirable arrangement, and even at their elegance."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000039_000000|"It disgusts me," interrupted the commodore brusquely.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000040_000000|It had turned over in his fingers.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000041_000001|I don't know why," he declared, "spiders have always frozen my blood!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000042_000000|dr Weber began to laugh, and I, who shared the feelings of Sir Thomas, exclaimed:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000043_000000|"Yes, cousin, you ought to take this villainous beast out of the box-it is disgusting-it spoils all the rest."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000044_000000|"Little chump," he said, his eyes sparkling, "what makes you look at it?
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000044_000001|If you don't like it, go take yourself off somewhere."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000045_000000|Evidently he had taken offense; and Sir Thomas, who was then before the window contemplating the mountain, turned suddenly, took me by the hand, and said to me in a manner full of good will:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000046_000000|"Your tutor, Frantz, sets great store by his spider; we like the trees better-the verdure.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000046_000001|Come, let's go for a walk."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000047_000000|"Yes, go," cried the doctor, "and come back for supper at six o'clock."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000048_000000|Then raising his voice:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000049_000000|"No hard feelings, Sir Hawerburch."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000051_000000|Sir Thomas wanted to drive himself and dismissed his servant.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000051_000001|He made me sit beside him on the same seat and we started off for Rothalps.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000052_000000|While the carriage was slowly ascending the sandy path, an invincible sadness possessed itself of my spirit.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000052_000001|Sir Thomas, on his part, was grave.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000052_000002|He perceived my sadness and said:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000000|"You don't like spiders, Frantz, nor do I either.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000001|But thank Heaven, there aren't any dangerous ones in this country.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000002|The spider crab which your tutor has in his box comes from French Guiana.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000003|It inhabits the great, swampy forests filled with warm vapors, with scalding exhalations; this temperature is necessary to its life.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000004|Its web, or rather its vast snare, envelops an entire thicket.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000005|In it it takes birds as our spiders take flies.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000053_000006|But drive these disgusting images from your mind, and drink a swallow of my old Burgundy."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000056_000000|The carriage was drawn by a little Ardennes horse, thin and nervous as a goat, which clambered up the nearly perpendicular path.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000056_000001|Thousands of insects hummed in the bushes.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000057_000000|I was captivated by this spectacle.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000057_000001|Sir Thomas, leaning back in the seat, his knees as high as his chin, abandoned himself to his habitual reveries, while the horse, laboring with his feet and hanging his head on his chest as a counter weight to the carriage, held on as if suspended on the flank of the rock.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000057_000002|Soon, however, we reached a pitch less steep: the haunt of the roebuck, surrounded by tremulous shadows. I always lost my head, and my eyes too, in an immense perspective.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000057_000003|At the apparition of the shadows I turned my head and saw the cavern of Spinbronn close at hand.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000057_000004|The encompassing mists were a magnificent green, and the stream which, before falling, extends over a bed of black sand and pebbles, was so clear that one would have thought it frozen if pale vapors did not follow its surface.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000060_000000|Then, after an instant of silence:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000061_000000|"If you weren't here, Frantz, I should certainly bathe in the basin."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000062_000000|"But, Commodore," said I, "why not bathe?
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000062_000001|I would do well to stroll around in the neighborhood.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000062_000002|On the next hill is a great glade filled with wild strawberries.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000062_000003|I'll go and pick some.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000062_000004|I'll be back in an hour."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000063_000001|I should like to, Frantz; it's a good idea.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000063_000002|dr Weber contends that I drink too much Burgundy.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000063_000003|It's necessary to offset wine with mineral water.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000063_000004|This little bed of sand pleases me."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000064_000000|Then, having set both feet on the ground, he hitched the horse to the trunk of a little birch and waved his hand as if to say:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000065_000000|"You may go."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000066_000000|I saw him sit down on the moss and draw off his boots.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000066_000001|As I moved away he turned and called out:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000068_000000|They were his last words.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000000|An hour later I returned to the spring.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000001|The horse, the carriage, and the clothes of Sir Thomas alone met my eyes.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000002|The sun was setting.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000004|Not a bird's song under the foliage, not the hum of an insect in the tall grass.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000007|I climbed up on the rock which overlooks the cavern; I looked to the right and to the left.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000008|Nobody!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000009|I called.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000010|No answer!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000012|Night settled down slowly.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000013|A vague sense of horror oppressed me.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000014|Suddenly the story of the young girl who had disappeared occurred to me; and I began to descend on the run; but, arriving before the cavern, I stopped, seized with unaccountable terror: in casting a glance in the deep shadows of the spring I had caught sight of two motionless red points.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000016|Fear lent my sight, and all my senses, an unheard of subtlety of perception.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000069_000017|For several seconds I heard very distinctly the evening plaint of a cricket down at the edge of the wood, a dog barking far away, very far in the valley.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000070_000000|Then uttering a horrible cry, I fled, abandoning the horse, the carriage.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000070_000001|In less than twenty minutes, bounding over the rocks and brush, I reached the threshold of our house, and cried in a stifled voice:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000071_000000|"Run!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000071_000002|Sir Hawerburch is in the cavern-!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000072_000000|After these words, spoken in the presence of my tutor, of the old woman Agatha, and of two or three people invited in that evening by the doctor, I fainted.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000072_000001|I have learned since that during a whole hour I raved deliriously.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000073_000000|The whole village had gone in search of the commodore.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000073_000001|Christian Weber hurried them off.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000073_000002|At ten o'clock in the evening all the crowd came back, bringing the carriage, and in the carriage the clothes of Sir Hawerburch.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000073_000003|They had discovered nothing.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000073_000004|It was impossible to take ten steps in the cavern without being suffocated.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000074_000000|During their absence Agatha and I waited, sitting in the chimney corner.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000074_000002|One could hear hoarse voices, in the distance, calling to each other in the night.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000075_000000|At the approach of her master, Agatha began to tremble.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000075_000001|The doctor entered brusquely, pale, his lips compressed, despair written on his face.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000075_000002|A score of woodcutters followed him tumultuously, in great felt hats with wide brims-swarthy visaged-shaking the ash from their torches.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000075_000003|Scarcely was he in the hall when my tutor's glittering eyes seemed to look for something.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000075_000004|He caught sight of the negress, and without a word having passed between them, the poor woman began to cry:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000076_000000|"No! no! I don't want to!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000077_000000|"And I wish it," replied the doctor in a hard tone.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000078_000000|One would have said that the negress had been seized by an invincible power.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000078_000001|She shuddered from head to foot, and Christian Weber showing her a bench, she sat down with a corpse like stiffness.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000079_000000|All the bystanders, witnesses of this shocking spectacle, good folk with primitive and crude manners, but full of pious sentiments, made the sign of the cross, and I who knew not then, even by name, of the terrible magnetic power of the will, began to tremble, believing that Agatha was dead.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000080_000000|Christian Weber approached the negress, and making a rapid pass over her forehead:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000081_000000|"Are you there?" said he.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000083_000000|"Sir Thomas Hawerburch?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000085_000000|"Do you see him?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000086_000000|"Yes-yes," she gasped in a strangling voice, "I see him."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000087_000000|"Where is he?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000088_000000|"Up there-in the back of the cavern-dead!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000089_000000|"Dead!" said the doctor, "how?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000091_000000|"Control your agitation," said the doctor, who was quite pale, "tell us plainly-"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000093_000000|Christian Weber cast a cold glance toward his assistants, who, crowding around, with their eyes sticking out of their heads, were listening intently, and I heard him murmur:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000094_000001|horrible!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000096_000000|"You see him?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000098_000000|"And the spider-is it big?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000099_000001|It is as large as my head-!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000100_000000|There was a long silence.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000100_000001|All the assistants looked at each other, their faces livid, their hair standing up.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000100_000002|Christian Weber alone seemed calm; having passed his hand several times over the negress's forehead, he continued:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000101_000000|"Agatha, tell us how death befell Sir Hawerburch."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000102_000000|"He was bathing in the basin of the spring-the spider saw him from behind, with his bare back.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000102_000005|It drew in on the web.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000102_000006|Now he is all black."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000103_000000|The doctor, turning to me, who no longer felt the shock, asked:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000105_000000|"Yes, Cousin Christian."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000106_000000|"At what time?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000107_000000|"At four o'clock."
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000108_000000|"At four o'clock-it was very warm, wasn't it?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000109_000000|"Oh, yes!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000110_000000|"It's certainly so," said he, striking his forehead.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000110_000001|"The monster could come out without fear-"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000111_000000|He pronounced a few unintelligible words, and then, looking toward the mountaineers:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000112_000000|"My friends," he cried, "that is where this mass of debris came from-of skeletons-which spread terror among the bathers.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000112_000001|That is what has ruined you all-it is the spider crab!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000112_000002|It is there-hidden in its web-awaiting its prey in the back of the cavern!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000112_000003|Who can tell the number of its victims?"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000113_000000|And full of fury, he led the way, shouting:
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000114_000000|"Fagots!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000114_000001|Fagots!"
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000115_000000|The woodcutters followed him, vociferating.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000116_000000|Ten minutes later two large wagons laden with fagots were slowly mounting the slope.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000116_000001|A long file of woodcutters, their backs bent double, followed, enveloped in the somber night.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000116_000002|My tutor and I walked ahead, leading the horses by their bridles, and the melancholy moon vaguely lighted this funereal march.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000116_000003|From time to time the wheels grated.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000116_000004|Then the carts, raised by the irregularities of the rocky road, fell again in the track with a heavy jolt.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000117_000000|As we drew near the cavern, on the playground of the roebucks, our cortege halted.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000117_000001|The torches were lit, and the crowd advanced toward the gulf.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000117_000002|The limpid water, running over the sand, reflected the bluish flame of the resinous torches, the rays of which revealed the tops of the black firs leaning over the rock.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000118_000000|"This is the place to unload," the doctor then said.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000119_000000|And it was not without a feeling of terror that each undertook the duty of executing his orders.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000119_000001|The fagots fell from the top of the loads.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000119_000002|A few stakes driven down before the opening of the spring prevented the water from carrying them away.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000120_000000|Toward midnight the mouth of the cavern was completely closed.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000120_000001|The water running over spread to both sides on the moss.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000121_000000|It was a strange and savage spectacle, the great pile with trembling shadows lit up in this way.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000122_000001|All around stood the woodcutters, somber, motionless, expectant, their eyes fixed on the opening; and I, although trembling from head to foot in fear, could not tear away my gaze.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000123_000000|It was a good quarter of an hour that we waited, and dr Weber was beginning to grow impatient, when a black object, with long hooked claws, appeared suddenly in the shadow and precipitated itself toward the opening.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000124_000000|A cry resounded about the pyre.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000125_000000|The spider, driven back by the live coals, reentered its cave.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000125_000001|Then, smothered doubtless by the smoke, it returned to the charge and leaped out into the midst of the flames.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000125_000002|Its long legs curled up.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000125_000003|It was as large as my head, and of a violet red.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000126_000000|One of the woodcutters, fearing lest it leap clear of the fire, threw his hatchet at it, and with such good aim that on the instant the fire around it was covered with blood.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000127_000000|Such, Master Frantz, was the strange event which destroyed the fine reputation which the waters of Spinbronn formerly enjoyed.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000127_000001|I can certify the scrupulous precision of my account.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000127_000002|But as for giving you an explanation, that would be impossible for me to do.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000127_000003|At the same time, allow me to tell you that it does not seem to me absurd to admit that a spider, under the influence of a temperature raised by thermal waters, which affords the same conditions of life and development as the scorching climates of Africa and South America, should attain a fabulous size.
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000127_000004|It was this same extreme heat which explains the prodigious exuberance of the antediluvian creation!
train-other-500/1341/9206/1341_9206_000128_000001|I was sent to board in Strasbourg, where I remained until eighteen o nine.
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000001_000000|STRIKING SIMILES
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000002_000000|A
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000004_000000|A book that rends and tears like a broken saw
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000005_000000|A breath of melancholy made itself felt like a chill and sudden gust from some unknown sea
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000006_000000|A cloud in the west like a pall creeps upward
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000007_000000|A cloud like a flag from the sky
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000008_000000|A cluster of stars hangs like fruit in the tree
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000009_000000|A confused mass of impressions, like an old rubbish heap
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000010_000000|A cry as of a sea bird in the wind
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000011_000000|A dead leaf might as reasonably demand to return to the tree
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000014_000000|A face as pale as wax
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000015_000000|A face tempered like steel
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000016_000000|A fatigued, faded, lusterless air, as of a caged creature
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000017_000000|A few pens parched by long disuse
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000018_000000|A figure like a carving on a spire
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000020_000000|A giant galleon overhead, looked like some misty monster of the deep
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000021_000000|A glacial pang of pain like the stab of a dagger of ice frozen from a poisoned well
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000022_000000|A glance that flitted like a bird
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000023_000000|A great moon like a red lamp in the sycamore
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000024_000000|A grim face like a carved mask
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000025_000000|A hand icily cold and clammy as death
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000026_000000|A heart from which noble sentiments sprang like sparks from an anvil
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000027_000000|A jeweler that glittered like his shop
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000028_000000|A lady that lean'd on his arm like a queen in a fable of old fairy days
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000029_000000|A life, a Presence, like the air
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000030_000000|A life as common and brown and bare as the box of earth in the window there
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000031_000000|A light wind outside the lattice swayed a branch of roses to and fro,
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000032_000000|shaking out their perfume as from a swung censer
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000033_000000|A lightning phrase, as if shot from the quiver of infallible wisdom
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000034_000000|A list of our unread books torments some of us like a list of murders
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000035_000000|A little breeze ran through the corn like a swift serpent
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000036_000000|A little weed clogged ship, gray as a ghost
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000037_000000|A long slit of daylight like a pointing finger
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000038_000000|A memory like a well ordered cupboard
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000040_000000|A mind very like a bookcase
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000041_000000|A mystery, soft, soothing and gentle, like the whisper of a child murmuring its happiness in its sleep
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000042_000000|A name which sounds even now like the call of a trumpet
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000043_000000|A note of despairing appeal which fell like a cold hand upon one's living soul
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000044_000000|A purpose as the steady flame
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000045_000000|A question deep almost as the mystery of life
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000046_000000|A quibbling mouth that snapped at verbal errors like a lizard catching flies
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000047_000000|A radiant look came over her face, like a sudden burst of sunshine on a cloudy day
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000048_000000|A reputation that swelled like a sponge
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000049_000000|A ruby like a drop of blood
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000050_000000|A shadow of melancholy touched her lithe fancies, as a cloud dims the waving of golden grain
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000051_000000|A silver moon, like a new stamped coin, rode triumphant in the sky
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000052_000000|A slow thought that crept like a cold worm through all his brain
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000053_000000|A smile flashed over her face, like sunshine over a flower
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000054_000000|A soft and purple mist like a vaporous amethyst
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000055_000000|A soft haze, like a fairy dream, is floating over wood and stream
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000056_000000|A soul as white as heaven
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000057_000000|A sound like the throb of a bell
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000058_000000|A stooping girl as pale as a pearl
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000059_000000|A sudden sense of fear ran through her nerves like the chill of an icy wind
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000060_000000|A sweet voice caroling like a gold caged nightingale
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000061_000000|A thin shrill voice like the cry of an expiring mouse
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000062_000000|A thing of as frail enchantment as the gleam of stars upon snow
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000063_000000|A vague thought, as elusive as the smell of a primrose
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000064_000000|A vanishing loveliness as tender as the flush of the rose leaf and as ethereal as the light of a solitary star
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000065_000000|A voice as low as the sea
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000066_000000|A voice soft and sweet as a tune that one knows
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000067_000000|A white bird floats there, like a drifting leaf
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000069_000000|Age, like winter weather
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000070_000000|Agile as a leopard
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000071_000000|Agitated like a storm tossed ship
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000072_000000|Air like wine
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000073_000000|All around them like a forest swept the deep and empurpled masses of her tangled hair
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000074_000000|All like an icicle it seemed, so tapering and cold
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000075_000000|All my life broke up, like some great river's ice at touch of spring
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000077_000000|All sounds were lost in the whistle of air humming by like the flight of a million arrows
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000078_000000|All that's beautiful drifts away like the waters
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000079_000000|All the world lay stretched before him like the open palm of his hand
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000080_000000|All unconscious as a flower
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000081_000000|Alone, like a storm tossed wreck, on this night of the glad New Year
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000082_000000|An anxiety hung like a dark impenetrable cloud
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000085_000000|An envious wind crept by like an unwelcome thought
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000087_000000|An immortal spirit dwelt in that frail body, like a bird in an outworn cage
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000088_000000|An impudent trick as hackneyed as conjuring rabbits out of a hat
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000090_000000|An isle of Paradise, fair as a gem
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000091_000000|An old nodding negress whose sable head shined in the sun like a polished cocoanut
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000092_000000|An omnibus across the bridge crawls like a yellow butterfly
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000093_000000|An undefined sadness seemed to have fallen about her like a cloud
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000095_000000|An unpleasing strain, like the vibration of a rope drawn out too fast
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000097_000000|And a tear like silver, glistened in the corner of her eye
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000098_000000|And all our thoughts ran into tears like sunshine into rain
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000099_000000|And at first the road comes moving toward me, like a bride waving palms
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000100_000000|And Dusk, with breast as of a dove, brooded
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000101_000000|And eyes as bright as the day
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000102_000000|And fell as cold as a lump of clay
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000103_000000|And her cheek was like a rose
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000104_000000|And here were forests ancient as the hills
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000105_000000|And many a fountain, rivulet, and pond, as clear as elemental diamond, or serene morning air
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000106_000000|And melting like the stars in June
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000107_000000|And night, as welcome as a friend
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000108_000000|And silence like a poultice comes to heal the blows of sound
train-other-500/1342/130497/1342_130497_000109_000000|And spangled o'er with twinkling points, like stars
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000011_000000|RECIPES, TRADE SECRETS etc
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000013_000000|Toothache Tincture.--Mix tannin, one scruple; mastic, three grains; ether, two drams.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000013_000001|Apply on cotton wool, to the tooth, previously dried.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000014_000000|Charcoal Tooth Paste.--Chlorate of potash, one half dram; mint water, one ounce.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000014_000001|Dissolve and add powdered charcoal, two ounces; honey, one ounce.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000015_000001|Dissolve the soap in alcohol and add honey and extract.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000016_000000|Removing Tartar from the Teeth.--This preparation is used by dentists. Pure muriatic acid, one ounce; water, one ounce; honey, two ounces; mix thoroughly.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000016_000001|Take a toothbrush, and wet it freely with this preparation, and briskly rub the black teeth, and in a moment's time they will be perfectly white; then immediately wash out the mouth well with water, that the acid may not act on the enamel of the teeth.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000016_000002|This should be done only occasionally.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000017_000000|Test for Glue.--The following simple and easy test for glue is given: A weighed piece of glue (say one third of an ounce) is suspended in water for twenty four hours, the temperature of which is not above fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000017_000001|The coloring material sinks, and the glue swells from the absorption of the water.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000017_000002|The glue is then taken out and weighed; the greater the increase in weight the better the glue.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000017_000003|If it then be dried perfectly and weighed again, the weight of the coloring matter can be learned from the difference between this and the original weight.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000018_000000|Bad Breath.--Bad breath from catarrh, foul stomach or bad teeth may be temporarily relieved by diluting a little bromo chloralum with eight or ten parts of water, and using it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops before going out.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000018_000001|A pint of bromo chloralum costs fifty cents, but a small vial will last a long time.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000019_000000|Good Tooth Powder.--Procure, at a druggist's, half an ounce of powdered orris root, half an ounce of prepared chalk finely pulverized, and two or three small lumps of Dutch pink.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000019_000001|Let them all be mixed in a mortar, and pounded together.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000019_000002|The Dutch pink is to impart a pale reddish color. Keep it in a close box.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000020_000000|Another Tooth Powder.--Mix together, in a mortar, half an ounce of red Peruvian bark, finely powdered, a quarter of an ounce of powdered myrrh, and a quarter of an ounce of prepared chalk.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000021_000000|A Safe Depilatory.--Take a strong solution of sulphuret of barium, and add enough finely powdered starch to make a paste.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000021_000001|Apply to the roots of the hair and allow it to remain on a few minutes, then scrape off with the back edge of a knife blade, and rub with sweet oil.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000022_000000|Quick Depilatory for Removing Hair.--Best slaked lime, six ounces; orpiment, fine powder, one ounce.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000022_000001|Mix with a covered sieve and preserve in a dry place in closely stoppered bottles.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000022_000002|In using mix the powder with enough water to form a paste, and apply to the hair to be removed.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000023_000001|Mix and let it stand forty eight hours, with occasional shaking, and then filter.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000024_000000|Liquid Shampoo.--Take bay rum.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000024_000004|carbonate, two drams; borax, one half ounce; the salts to be dissolved in water and the other ingredients to be added gradually.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000025_000000|Cleaning Hair Brushes.--Put a teaspoonful or dessertspoonful of aqua ammonia into a basin half full of water, comb the loose hairs out of the brush, then agitate the water briskly with the brush, and rinse it well with clear water.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000027_000001|Mix and apply once a day, and rub well into the scalp.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000028_000001|Rub them together thoroughly, or melt the cerate and stir in the tincture while hot, and the oil as soon as it is nearly cold, then run into molds or rolls.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000028_000002|To be applied as a pomade, rubbing in at the roots of the hair.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000028_000003|Care must be used not to inflame the skin by too frequent application.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000029_000000|Razor strop Paste.--Wet the strop with a little sweet oil, and apply a little flour of emery evenly over the surface.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000030_000001|Shave the soap and put it in a small tin basin or cup; place it on the fire in a dish of boiling water; when melted, add the alcohol, and remove from the fire; stir in oil of bergamot sufficient to perfume it.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000031_000000|Cure for Prickly Heat.--Mix a large portion of wheat bran with either cold or lukewarm water, and use it as a bath twice or thrice a day. Children who are covered with prickly heat in warm weather will be thus effectually relieved from that tormenting eruption.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000031_000001|As soon as it begins to appear on the neck, face or arms, commence using the bran water on these parts repeatedly through the day, and it may probably spread no farther.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000031_000002|If it does, the bran water bath will certainly cure it, if persisted in.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000032_000000|To Remove Corns from Between the Toes.--These corns are generally more painful than any others, and are frequently situated as to be almost inaccessible to the usual remedies.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000032_000001|Wetting them several times a day with hartshorn will in most cases cure them.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000032_000002|Try it.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000033_000000|Superior Cologne Water.--Oil of lavender, two drams; oil of rosemary, one dram and a half; orange, lemon and bergamot, one dram each of the oil; also two drams of the essence of musk, attar of rose, ten drops, and a pint of proof spirit.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000033_000001|Shake all together thoroughly three times a day for a week.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000035_000001|Mix thoroughly and fill pungents or keep in well stoppered bottle.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000035_000003|ammonia, five ounces.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000036_000000|Paste for Papering Boxes.--Boil water and stir in batter of wheat or rye flour.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000036_000001|Let it boil one minute, take off and strain through a colander. Add, while boiling, a little glue or powdered alum.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000036_000002|Do plenty of stirring while the paste is cooking, and make of consistency that will spread nicely.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000037_000001|pure, eight ounces; camphor, one half ounce.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000037_000003|Thoroughly mix and keep in well stoppered bottle.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000038_000000|Rose Water.--Preferable to the distilled for a perfume, or for ordinary purposes.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000038_000001|Attar of rose, twelve drops; rub it up with half an ounce of white sugar and two drams carbonate magnesia, then add gradually one quart of water and two ounces of proof spirit, and filter through paper.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000039_000001|Mix and color with caramel; needs no filtering.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000041_000000|The Virtues of Turpentine.--After a housekeeper fully realizes the worth of turpentine in the household, she is never willing to be without a supply of it.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000041_000001|It gives quick relief to burns, it is an excellent application for corns, it is good for rheumatism and sore throat, and it is the quickest remedy for convulsions or fits.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000041_000004|A spoonful of it added to a pail of warm water is excellent for cleaning paint.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000041_000005|A little in suds washing days lightens laundry labor.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000042_000002|Boil it to a consistency of mush, stirring all the time.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000042_000003|It will keep for twelve months, and when dry may be softened with warm water.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000043_000000|Paste for Scrap Books.--Take half a teaspoonful of starch, same of flour, pour on a little boiling water, let it stand a minute, add more water, stir and cook it until it is thick enough to starch a shirt bosom.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000043_000001|It spreads smooth, sticks well and will not mold or discolor paper.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000043_000002|Starch alone will make a very good paste.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000044_000000|A Strong Paste.--A paste that will neither decay nor become moldy.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000045_000000|A Brilliant Paste.--A brilliant and adhesive paste, adapted to fancy articles, may be made by dissolving caseine precipitated from milk by acetic acid and washed with pure water in a saturated solution of borax.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000046_000000|A Sugar Paste.--In order to prevent the gum from cracking, to ten parts by weight of gum arabic and three parts of sugar add water until the desired consistency is obtained.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000046_000001|If a very strong paste is required, add a quantity of flour equal in weight to the gum, without boiling the mixture.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000046_000002|The paste improves in strength when it begins to ferment.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000047_000001|Soften good glue in water, then boil it in strong vinegar, and thicken the liquid while boiling with fine wheat flour, so that a paste results.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000047_000003|Starch paste, with which a little Venice turpentine has been incorporated while warm.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000049_000001|Some of the cheaper preparations offered for sale are merely boiled starch or flour, mixed with nitric acid to prevent their gelatinizing.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000050_000000|Acid Proof Paste.--A paste formed by mixing powdered glass with a concentrated solution of silicate of soda makes an excellent acid proof cement.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000051_000001|As soon as the mass has become so stiff that the stirrer remains upright in it, transfer it to another vessel and cover it up so that no skin may form on its surface.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000051_000002|This paste is applied in a very thin layer to the surface of the table; the cloth, or leather, is then laid and pressed upon it, and smoothed with a roller.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000051_000004|The paste is then applied, and the leather rubbed smooth with a cloth.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000052_000000|Paste for Printing Office.--Take two gallons of cold water and one quart wheat flour, rub out all the lumps, then add one fourth pound of finely pulverized alum and boil the mixture for ten minutes, or until a thick consistency is reached.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000052_000001|Now add one quart of hot water and, boil again, until the paste becomes a pale brown color, and thick.
train-other-500/1342/133247/1342_133247_000052_000002|The paste should be well stirred during both processes of cooking.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000001_000000|To Take Smoke Stains from Walls.--An easy and sure way to remove smoke stains from common plain ceilings is to mix wood ashes with the whitewash just before applying.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000001_000001|A pint of ashes to a small pail of whitewash is sufficient, but a little more or less will do no harm.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000002_000001|Whenever you wish to remove any stains from cloth, moisten a little of this mixture with alcohol and rub it on the spots.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000003_000000|To Remove Red Stains of Fruit from Linen.--Moisten the cloth and hold it over a piece of burning sulphur; then wash thoroughly, or else the spots may reappear.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000004_000000|To Remove Oil Stains.--Take three ounces of spirits of turpentine and one ounce of essence of lemon, mix well, and apply it as you would any other scouring drops.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000004_000001|It will take out all the grease.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000005_000000|Iron Stains may be removed by the salt of lemons.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000005_000001|Many stains may be removed by dipping the linen in some buttermilk, and then drying it in a hot sun; wash it in cold water; repeat this three or four times.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000006_000000|To Remove Oil Stains from Wood.--Mix together fuller's earth and soap lees, and rub it into the boards.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000006_000002|It should be put on hot, which may easily be done by heating the lees.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000007_000000|To Remove Tea Stains.--Mix thoroughly soft soap and salt-say a tablespoonful of salt to a teacupful of soap, rub on the spots, and spread the cloth on the grass where the sun will shine on it.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000007_000001|Let it lie two or three days, then wash.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000007_000002|If the spots are wet occasionally while lying on the grass, it will hasten the bleaching.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000008_000000|To Remove Stains from Muslin.--If you have stained your muslin or gingham dress, or similar articles, with berries, before wetting with anything else, pour boiling water through the stains and they will disappear.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000008_000001|Before fruit juice dries it can often be removed by cold water, using a sponge and towel if necessary.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000011_000000|A preparation may be made at home which will answer about as well as the chloride of lime.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000011_000001|Dissolve a bushel of salt in a barrel of water, and with the salt water slake a barrel of lime, which should be made wet enough to form a thin paste or wash.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000012_000000|To Disinfect a Cellar.--A damp, musty cellar may be sweetened by sprinkling upon the floor pulverized copperas, chloride of lime, or even common lime.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000012_000002|One pound may be dissolved in two gallons of water.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000012_000003|Plaster of Paris has also been found an excellent absorbent of noxious odors.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000012_000004|If used one part with three parts of charcoal, it will be found still better.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000013_000000|How to Thaw Out a Water Pipe.--Water pipes usually freeze up when exposed, for inside the walls, where they cannot be reached, they are or should be packed to prevent freezing.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000014_000000|To Prevent Mold.--A small quantity of carbolic acid added to paste, mucilage and ink, will prevent mold.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000014_000001|An ounce of the acid to a gallon of whitewash will keep cellars and dairies from the disagreeable odor which often taints milk and meat kept in such places.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000015_000000|Thawing Frozen Gas Pipe.--mr
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000015_000001|f h Shelton says: "I took off from over the pipe, some four or five inches, just a crust of earth, and then put a couple of bushels of lime in the space, poured water over it, and slaked it, and then put canvas over that, and rocks on the canvas, so as to keep the wind from getting underneath.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000015_000002|Next morning, on returning there, I found that the frost had been drawn out from the ground for nearly three feet.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000015_000003|You can appreciate what an advantage that was, for picking through frozen ground, with the thermometer below zero, is no joke.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000015_000004|Since then we have tried it several times.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000016_000000|How to Test a Thermometer.--The common thermometer in a japanned iron case is usually inaccurate.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000016_000001|To test the thermometer, bring water into the condition of active boiling, warm the thermometer gradually in the steam and then plunge it into the water.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000016_000002|If it indicates a fixed temperature of two hundred and twelve degrees, the instrument is a good one.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000017_000001|This will form a writing fluid which cannot be erased without destruction of the paper. The ink will write greenish blue, but afterward will turn black.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000018_000001|Catch it in the loop, so as to hold it stationary.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000018_000002|You can then easily extract it with a corkscrew.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000019_000001|Then transfer the mixture to clean bottles and cork them closely.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000019_000002|Before using it, shake the bottles well.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000019_000004|Let it stand about ten minutes, and then rub it dry with a buckskin.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000019_000005|It will make the silver look like new.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000020_000000|To Remove the Odor from a Vial.--The odor of its last contents may be removed from a vial by filling it with cold water, and letting it stand in any airy place uncorked for three days, changing the water every day.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000021_000000|To Loosen a Glass Stopper.--The manner in which apothecaries loosen glass stoppers when there is difficulty in getting them out is to press the thumb of the right hand very hard against the lower part of the stopper, and then give the stopper a twist the other way, with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, keeping the bottle stiff in a steady position.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000022_000000|To Soften Boots and Shoes.--Kerosene will soften boots and shoes which have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000023_000000|To Remove Stains, Spots, and Mildew from Furniture.--Take half a pint of ninety eight per cent alcohol, a quarter of an ounce each of pulverized resin and gum shellac, add half a pint of linseed oil, shake well and apply with a brush or sponge.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000024_000000|To Freshen Gilt Frames.--Gilt frames may be revived by carefully dusting them, and then washing with one ounce of soda beaten up with the whites of three eggs.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000024_000001|Scraped patches should be touched up with gold paint. Castile soap and water, with proper care, may be used to clean oil paintings.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000024_000002|Other methods should not be employed without some skill.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000025_000000|To Fill Cracks in Plaster.--Use vinegar instead of water to mix your plaster of Paris.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000025_000001|The resultant mass will be like putty, and will not "set" for twenty or thirty minutes, whereas if you use water the plaster will become hard almost immediately, before you have time to use it. Push it into the cracks and smooth it off nicely with a table knife.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000026_000000|To Toughen Lamp Chimneys and Glassware.--Immerse the article in a pot filled with cold water, to which some common salt has been added.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000027_000000|To Remove Paint from Window Glass.--Rub it well with hot, sharp vinegar.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000028_000000|To Clean Stovepipe.--A piece of zinc put on the live coals in the stove will clean out the stovepipe.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000029_000001|Mix salt and meal in equal proportions.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000029_000002|Carpets should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong side first and then on the right side, after which spots may be removed by the use of ox gall or ammonia and water.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000030_000000|To Keep Flowers Fresh exclude them from the air.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000030_000002|To preserve bouquets, put a little saltpetre in the water you use for your bouquets, and the flowers will live for a fortnight.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000031_000000|To Preserve Brooms.--Dip them for a minute or two in a kettle of boiling suds once a week and they will last much longer, making them tough and pliable.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000031_000001|A carpet wears much longer swept with a broom cared for in this manner.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000032_000000|To Clean Brassware.--Mix one ounce of oxalic acid, six ounces of rotten stone, all in powder, one ounce of sweet oil, and sufficient water to make a paste.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000032_000001|Apply a small proportion, and rub dry with a flannel or leather.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000032_000002|The liquid dip most generally used consists of nitric and sulphuric acids, but this is more corrosive.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000033_000000|To Keep Out Mosquitoes.--If a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal is left uncorked in a room at night, not a mosquito, nor any other blood sucker, will be found there in the morning.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000034_000000|To Kill Cockroaches.--A teacupful of well bruised plaster of Paris, mixed with double the quantity of oatmeal, to which a little sugar may be added, although this last named ingredient is not essential.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000034_000001|Strew it on the floor, or into the chinks where they frequent.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000035_000002|Camphor, or a sponge saturated with creosote, will prevent their infesting a cupboard.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000036_000001|If the fur has long hair, as bear or fox, add to the camphor an equal quantity of black pepper in powder.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000037_000000|To Get Rid of Moths- one.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000037_000001|Procure shavings of cedar wood, and inclose in muslin bags, which can be distributed freely among the clothes.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000038_000001|Procure shavings of camphor wood, and inclose in bags.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000039_000000|three.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000039_000001|Sprinkle pimento (allspice) berries among the clothes.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000041_000000|five.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000042_000000|Bed Bugs.--Spirits of naphtha rubbed with a small painter's brush into every part of the bedstead is a certain way of getting rid of bugs.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000042_000001|The mattress and binding of the bed should be examined, and the same process attended to, as they generally harbor more in these parts than in the bedstead.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000042_000002|Ten cents' worth of naphtha is sufficient for one bed.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000043_000000|Bug Poison.--Proof spirit, one pint; camphor, two ounces; oil of turpentine, four ounces; corrosive sublimate, one ounce.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000043_000002|A correspondent says: "I have been for a long time troubled with bugs, and never could get rid of them by any clean and expeditious method, until a friend told me to suspend a small bag of camphor to the bed, just in the center, overhead.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000043_000003|I did so, and the enemy was most effectually repulsed, and has not made his appearance since-not even for a reconnoissance!" This is a simple method of getting rid of these pests, and is worth a trial to see if it be effectual in other cases.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000044_000000|Mixture for Destroying Flies-Infusion of quassia, one pint; brown sugar, four ounces; ground pepper, two ounces.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000044_000001|To be well mixed together, and put in small, shallow dishes when required.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000046_000001|The flies will soon leave.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000047_000001|Place the piece to be fumed, with an evaporating dish containing concentrated ammonia, in a box, and close it airtight.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000047_000002|Leave for twelve hours and finish with a wax polish, applying first a thin coat of paraffine oil and then rubbing with a pomade of prepared wax made as follows: Two ounces each of yellow and white beeswax heated over a slow fire in a clean vessel (agate ware is good) until melted.
train-other-500/1342/133248/1342_133248_000047_000004|Keep the turpentine away from the fire.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000001_000000|The Story of the Second old Man and the Two Black Dogs.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000002_000000|Great prince of genies, you must know that we are three brothers, the two black dogs and myself.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000002_000001|Our father, when he died, left each of us one thousand sequins.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000002_000002|With that sum, we all became merchants.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000002_000004|With this view, he sold his estate, and bought goods suited to the trade intended to follow.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000004_000000|I immediately shut up my shop, and taking him to a bath, gave him the best clothes I had.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000004_000001|Finding on examining my books, that I had doubled my stock, that is to say, that I was worth two thousand sequins, I gave him one half; "With that," said I, "brother, you may make up your loss." He joyfully accepted the present, and having repaired his fortunes, we lived together, as before.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000005_000000|Some time after, my second brother, who is the other of these two dogs, would also sell his estate.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000005_000001|His elder brother and myself did all we could to divert him from his purpose, but without effect.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000005_000002|He disposed of it, and with the money bought such goods as were suitable to the trade which he designed to follow.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000005_000003|He joined a caravan, and departed.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000005_000004|At the end of the year he returned in the same condition as my other brother.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000005_000005|Having myself by this time gained another thousand sequins, I made him a present of them.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000006_000001|When, however, the time arrived that we were to make preparations for our voyage, to buy the goods necessary to the undertaking, I found they had spent all, and had not one dirrim left of the thousand sequins I had given to each of them.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000007_000002|With the produce we bought commodities of that country, to carry back with us for sale.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000008_000000|When we were ready to embark on our return, I met on the sea shore a lady, handsome enough, but poorly clad.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000008_000002|I ordered proper apparel to be made for her; and after having married her, according to form, I took her on board, and we set sail.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000008_000003|I found my wife possessed so many good qualities, that my love to her every day increased.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000008_000004|In the mean time my two brothers, who had not managed their affairs as successfully as I had mine, envied my prosperity; and suffered their feelings to carry them so far, that they conspired against my life; and one night, when my wife and I were asleep, threw us both into the sea.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000009_000001|I had scarcely fallen into the water, when she took me up, and carried me to an island.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000001|I descended, opened the doors, and dug up the three thousand sequins I had formerly secreted.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000002|I went afterwards to my shop, which I also opened; and was complimented by the merchants, my neighbours, upon my return.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000003|When I went back to my house, I perceived there two black dogs, which came up to me in a very submissive manner: I could not divine the meaning of this circumstance, which greatly astonished me.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000004|But the fairy, who immediately appeared, said, "Husband, be not surprised to see these dogs, they are your brothers." I was troubled at this declaration, and asked her by what power they were so transformed.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000005|"I did it," said she, "or at least authorised one of my sisters to do it, who at the same time sunk their ship.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000006|You have lost the goods you had on board, but I will compensate you another way.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000011_000007|As to your two brothers, I have condemned them to remain five years in that shape.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000012_000000|The five years being now nearly expired, I am travelling in quest of her; and as I passed this way, I met this merchant, and the good old man who led the hind, and sat down by them.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000012_000002|"I own it is," replied the genie, "and on that account I remit the merchant the second third of the crime which he has committed against me."
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000013_000001|The genie made him the same promise as he had given the others.
train-other-500/1347/135885/1347_135885_000015_000001|They rejoiced to see him out of danger; and bidding him adieu, each of them proceeded on his way.
train-other-500/1347/164338/1347_164338_000005_000004|I wanted to oblige him; I did not wish him to think me a coward; I was filled with curiosity; and it was too late for me to draw back, even had I determined to do so.
train-other-500/1347/164338/1347_164338_000005_000005|That I had not had these scruples sooner was because my curiosity had quite got the better of me.
train-other-500/1347/164338/1347_164338_000006_000000|We returned along the gallery.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000001_000000|twenty seven.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000001_000001|The four old Friends prepare to meet again.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000002_000000|Well," said Porthos, seated in the courtyard of the Hotel de la Chevrette, to D'Artagnan, who, with a long and melancholy face, had returned from the Palais Royal; "did he receive you ungraciously, my dear friend?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000003_000000|"I'faith, yes! a brute, that cardinal.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000003_000001|What are you eating there, Porthos?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000005_000000|"You are right.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000005_000001|Gimblou, a glass of wine."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000006_000000|"Well, how has all gone off?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000007_000000|"Zounds! you know there's only one way of saying things, so I went in and said, 'My lord, we were not the strongest party.'
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000008_000000|"'Yes, I know that,' he said, 'but give me the particulars.'
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000009_000000|"You know, Porthos, I could not give him the particulars without naming our friends; to name them would be to commit them to ruin, so I merely said they were fifty and we were two.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000010_000000|"'There was firing, nevertheless, I heard,' he said; 'and your swords-they saw the light of day, I presume?'
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000011_000000|"'That is, the night, my lord,' I answered.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000013_000000|"'I am a Gascon,' said I, 'only when I succeed.' The answer pleased him and he laughed.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000014_000000|"'That will teach me,' he said, 'to have my guards provided with better horses; for if they had been able to keep up with you and if each one of them had done as much as you and your friend, you would have kept your word and would have brought him back to me dead or alive.'"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000015_000000|"Well, there's nothing bad in that, it seems to me," said Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000016_000000|"Oh, mon Dieu! no, nothing at all.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000016_000001|It was the way in which he spoke.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000016_000002|It is incredible how these biscuit soak up wine!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000016_000003|They are veritable sponges!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000016_000004|Gimblou, another bottle."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000017_000000|The bottle was brought with a promptness which showed the degree of consideration D'Artagnan enjoyed in the establishment.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000017_000001|He continued:
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000018_000000|"So I was going away, but he called me back.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000020_000000|"'Yes, my lord.'
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000021_000000|"'How much were they worth?'"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000022_000000|"Why," said Porthos, "that was very good of him, it seems to me."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000023_000000|"'A thousand pistoles,' I said."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000025_000000|"Faith! he was very much inclined to do so, the contemptible fellow.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000025_000001|He made a great start and looked at me.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000026_000000|"For a thousand pistoles?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000027_000000|"For a thousand pistoles-just that amount, the beggar; not one too many."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000028_000000|"And you have them?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000029_000000|"They are here."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000030_000000|"Upon my word, I think he acted very generously."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000031_000000|"Generously! to men who had risked their lives for him, and besides had done him a great service?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000032_000000|"A great service-what was that?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000033_000000|"Why, it seems that I crushed for him a parliament councillor."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000035_000000|"That's the man, my dear fellow; he was an annoyance to the cardinal. Unfortunately, I didn't crush him flat.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000035_000001|It seems that he came to himself and that he will continue to be an annoyance."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000036_000000|"See that, now!" said Porthos; "and I turned my horse aside from going plump on to him!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000036_000001|That will be for another time."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000037_000000|"He owed me for the councillor, the pettifogger!"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000038_000000|"But," said Porthos, "if he was not crushed completely----"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000039_000001|How much were your animals worth, Porthos?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000042_000000|"Why, Vulcan and Bayard cost me each about two hundred pistoles, and putting Phoebus at a hundred and fifty, we should be pretty near the amount."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000043_000000|"There will remain, then, four hundred and fifty pistoles," said D'Artagnan, contentedly.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000045_000000|"That is very true.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000045_000001|Well, how much for the equipments?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000046_000000|"If we say one hundred pistoles for the three----"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000047_000000|"Good for the hundred pistoles; there remains, then, three hundred and fifty."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000048_000000|Porthos made a sign of assent.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000049_000000|"We will give the fifty pistoles to the hostess for our expenses," said D'Artagnan, "and share the three hundred."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000050_000000|"We will share," said Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000051_000000|"A paltry piece of business!" murmured D'Artagnan crumpling his note.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000052_000001|But tell me----"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000053_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000054_000000|"Didn't he speak of me in any way?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000056_000000|"He said?" resumed Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000057_000000|"Stop, I want to remember his exact words.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000058_000000|"Good, very good," said Porthos; "that signified as clear as daylight that he still intends to make me a baron."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000059_000000|At this moment nine o'clock struck.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000059_000001|D'Artagnan started.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000060_000000|"Ah, yes," said Porthos, "there is nine o'clock.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000060_000001|We have a rendezvous, you remember, at the Place Royale."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000061_000000|"Ah! stop! hold your peace, Porthos, don't remind me of it; 'tis that which has made me so cross since yesterday.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000061_000001|I shall not go."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000062_000000|"Why?" asked Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000063_000000|"Because it is a grievous thing for me to meet again those two men who caused the failure of our enterprise."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000064_000000|"And yet," said Porthos, "neither of them had any advantage over us.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000064_000001|I still had a loaded pistol and you were in full fight, sword in hand."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000065_000000|"Yes," said D'Artagnan; "but what if this rendezvous had some hidden purpose?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000067_000000|D'Artagnan did not believe Athos to be capable of a deception, but he sought an excuse for not going to the rendezvous.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000068_000001|We who have faced fifty foes on the high road can well meet two in the Place Royale."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000069_000000|"Yes, yes, but they took part with the princes without apprising us of it.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000069_000001|Athos and Aramis have played a game with me which alarms me.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000069_000002|We discovered yesterday the truth; what is the use of going to day to learn something else?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000070_000000|"You really have some distrust, then?" said Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000071_000001|You can't imagine, my dear fellow, the sort of man he is.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000071_000002|He sees us on the road which leads him to a bishopric, and perhaps will not be sorry to get us out of his way."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000074_000000|"Nonsense!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000074_000001|He had us in his power and he let us go.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000076_000000|"Devil take these civil wars! one can no more now reckon on one's friends than on one's footmen," said Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000076_000002|there's a fellow who will never desert me!"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000077_000000|"So long as you are rich!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000077_000003|It is that we are each of us twenty years older; it is that the honest emotions of youth have given place to suggestions of interest, whispers of ambition, counsels of selfishness.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000077_000004|Yes, you are right; let us go, Porthos, but let us go well armed; were we not to keep the rendezvous, they would declare we were afraid.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000078_000000|"Whom are we going to attack, sir?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000079_000000|"No one; a mere matter of precaution," answered the Gascon.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000080_000000|"You know, sir, that they wished to murder that good councillor, Broussel, the father of the people?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000081_000000|"Really, did they?" said D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000082_000000|"Yes, but he has been avenged.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000082_000002|His house has been full ever since.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000082_000004|And now, whenever he wishes----"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000083_000000|"Well, whenever he wishes?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000086_000000|"It doesn't surprise me," said D'Artagnan, in a low tone to Porthos, "that Mazarin would have been much better satisfied had I crushed the life out of his councillor."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000091_000000|"A son of Monsieur de Broussel's servant, and a lad that, I promise you, in a revolt will not give away his share to the dogs."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000096_000000|"Gad!" replied D'Artagnan; "he has already given me good information and he may do the same again."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000097_000000|Whilst all this was going on, Athos and Aramis were entering Paris by the Faubourg saint Antoine.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000097_000001|They had taken some refreshment on the road and hastened on, that they might not fail at the appointed place.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000097_000003|As they were passing onward, Athos proposed that they should lay aside their arms and military costume, and assume a dress more suited to the city.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000098_000000|"Oh, no, dear count!" cried Aramis, "is it not a warlike encounter that we are going to?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000099_000000|"What do you mean, Aramis?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000100_000000|"That the Place Royale is the termination to the main road to Vendomois, and nothing else."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000101_000000|"What! our friends?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000102_000000|"Are become our most dangerous enemies, Athos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000102_000001|Let us be on our guard."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000103_000000|"Oh! my dear D'Herblay!"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000104_000000|"Who can say whether D'Artagnan may not have betrayed us to the cardinal?
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000104_000001|who can tell whether Mazarin may not take advantage of this rendezvous to seize us?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000105_000000|"What!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000105_000001|Aramis, you think that D'Artagnan, that Porthos, would lend their hands to such an infamy?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000107_000000|Athos crossed his arms and bowed his noble head.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000000|"What can you expect, Athos?
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000001|Men are so made; and we are not always twenty years old.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000002|We have cruelly wounded, as you know, that personal pride by which D'Artagnan is blindly governed.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000003|He has been beaten.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000004|Did you not observe his despair on the journey?
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000005|As to Porthos, his barony was perhaps dependent on that affair.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000006|Well, he found us on his road and will not be baron this time.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000007|Perhaps that famous barony will have something to do with our interview this evening.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000108_000008|Let us take our precautions, Athos."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000109_000000|"But suppose they come unarmed?
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000109_000001|What a disgrace to us."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000110_000000|"Oh, never fear!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000110_000001|besides, if they do, we can easily make an excuse; we came straight off a journey and are insurgents, too."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000111_000000|"An excuse for us! to meet D'Artagnan with a false excuse! to have to make a false excuse to Porthos!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000111_000001|Oh, Aramis!" continued Athos, shaking his head mournfully, "upon my soul, you make me the most miserable of men; you disenchant a heart not wholly dead to friendship.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000111_000002|Go in whatever guise you choose; for my part, I shall go unarmed."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000112_000000|"No, for I will not allow you to do so.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000113_000000|"Be it so then," replied Athos, sorrowfully.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000114_000000|And they pursued their road in mournful silence.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000117_000000|"Now where will it be agreeable to you that we hold our conference?" inquired Aramis, perceiving that people were stopping to look at them, supposing that they were going to engage in one of those far famed duels still extant in the memory of the Parisians, and especially the inhabitants of the Place Royale.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000118_000000|"The gate is shut," said Aramis, "but if these gentlemen like a cool retreat under the trees, and perfect seclusion, I will get the key from the Hotel de Rohan and we shall be well suited."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000119_000000|D'Artagnan darted a look into the obscurity of the Place.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000119_000001|Porthos ventured to put his head between the railings, to try if his glance could penetrate the gloom.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000120_000000|"If you prefer any other place," said Athos, in his persuasive voice, "choose for yourselves."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000121_000000|"This place, if Monsieur d'Herblay can procure the key, is the best that we can have," was the answer.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000122_000000|Aramis went off at once, begging Athos not to remain alone within reach of D'Artagnan and Porthos; a piece of advice which was received with a contemptuous smile.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000123_000000|Aramis returned soon with a man from the Hotel de Rohan, who was saying to him:
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000125_000000|"Stop," and Aramis gave him a louis d'or.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000128_000000|"Yes, certainly," added Athos and the other two.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000130_000000|"You see?" he said to Porthos.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000131_000000|"What do I see?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000132_000000|"That he wouldn't swear."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000133_000000|"Swear what?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000134_000000|"That man wanted Aramis to swear that we are not going to the Place Royale to fight."
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000135_000000|"And Aramis wouldn't swear?"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000136_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000137_000000|"Attention, then!"
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000138_000000|Athos did not lose sight of the two speakers.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000138_000001|Aramis opened the gate and faced around in order that D'Artagnan and Porthos might enter.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000138_000002|In passing through the gate, the hilt of the lieutenant's sword was caught in the grating and he was obliged to pull off his cloak; in doing so he showed the butt end of his pistols and a ray of the moon was reflected on the shining metal.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000139_000000|"Do you see?" whispered Aramis to Athos, touching his shoulder with one hand and pointing with the other to the arms which the Gascon wore under his belt.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000140_000000|"Alas!
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000140_000001|I do!" replied Athos, with a deep sigh.
train-other-500/1353/121397/1353_121397_000141_000000|He entered third, and Aramis, who shut the gate after him, last.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000003_000000|thirty seven MILADY'S SECRET
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000004_000000|D'Artagnan left the hotel instead of going up at once to Kitty's chamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do-and that for two reasons: the first, because by this means he should escape reproaches, recriminations, and prayers; the second, because he was not sorry to have an opportunity of reading his own thoughts and endeavoring, if possible, to fathom those of this woman.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000005_000000|What was most clear in the matter was that d'Artagnan loved Milady like a madman, and that she did not love him at all.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000005_000002|But he also was spurred on by a ferocious desire of vengeance.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000005_000003|He wished to subdue this woman in his own name; and as this vengeance appeared to him to have a certain sweetness in it, he could not make up his mind to renounce it.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000006_000000|He walked six or seven times round the Place Royale, turning at every ten steps to look at the light in Milady's apartment, which was to be seen through the blinds.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000006_000001|It was evident that this time the young woman was not in such haste to retire to her apartment as she had been the first.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000007_000000|At length the light disappeared.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000007_000001|With this light was extinguished the last irresolution in the heart of d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000007_000002|He recalled to his mind the details of the first night, and with a beating heart and a brain on fire he re-entered the hotel and flew toward Kitty's chamber.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000008_000000|The poor girl, pale as death and trembling in all her limbs, wished to delay her lover; but Milady, with her ear on the watch, had heard the noise d'Artagnan had made, and opening the door, said, "Come in."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000009_000000|All this was of such incredible immodesty, of such monstrous effrontery, that d'Artagnan could scarcely believe what he saw or what he heard.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000009_000001|He imagined himself to be drawn into one of those fantastic intrigues one meets in dreams.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000009_000002|He, however, darted not the less quickly toward Milady, yielding to that magnetic attraction which the loadstone exercises over iron.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000010_000000|As the door closed after them Kitty rushed toward it.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000010_000002|This last thought of love counseled her to make this last sacrifice.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000011_000000|D'Artagnan, on his part, had gained the summit of all his wishes.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000011_000001|It was no longer a rival who was beloved; it was himself who was apparently beloved.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000011_000002|A secret voice whispered to him, at the bottom of his heart, that he was but an instrument of vengeance, that he was only caressed till he had given death; but pride, but self love, but madness silenced this voice and stifled its murmurs.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000012_000000|He was absorbed entirely by the sensations of the moment.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000012_000001|Milady was no longer for him that woman of fatal intentions who had for a moment terrified him; she was an ardent, passionate mistress, abandoning herself to love which she also seemed to feel.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000012_000002|Two hours thus glided away.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000012_000003|When the transports of the two lovers were calmer, Milady, who had not the same motives for forgetfulness that d'Artagnan had, was the first to return to reality, and asked the young man if the means which were on the morrow to bring on the encounter between him and de Wardes were already arranged in his mind.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000013_000000|But d'Artagnan, whose ideas had taken quite another course, forgot himself like a fool, and answered gallantly that it was too late to think about duels and sword thrusts.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000014_000000|This coldness toward the only interests that occupied her mind terrified Milady, whose questions became more pressing.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000015_000000|Then d'Artagnan, who had never seriously thought of this impossible duel, endeavored to turn the conversation; but he could not succeed. Milady kept him within the limits she had traced beforehand with her irresistible spirit and her iron will.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000016_000000|D'Artagnan fancied himself very cunning when advising Milady to renounce, by pardoning de Wardes, the furious projects she had formed.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000018_000000|"You cannot think so, dear love!" replied d'Artagnan; "but now, suppose this poor Comte de Wardes were less guilty than you think him?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000019_000000|"At all events," said Milady, seriously, "he has deceived me, and from the moment he deceived me, he merited death."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000020_000000|"He shall die, then, since you condemn him!" said d'Artagnan, in so firm a tone that it appeared to Milady an undoubted proof of devotion.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000020_000001|This reassured her.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000021_000000|We cannot say how long the night seemed to Milady, but d'Artagnan believed it to be hardly two hours before the daylight peeped through the window blinds, and invaded the chamber with its paleness.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000021_000001|Seeing d'Artagnan about to leave her, Milady recalled his promise to avenge her on the Comte de Wardes.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000022_000000|"I am quite ready," said d'Artagnan; "but in the first place I should like to be certain of one thing."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000023_000000|"And what is that?" asked Milady.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000024_000000|"That is, whether you really love me?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000025_000000|"I have given you proof of that, it seems to me."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000026_000000|"And I am yours, body and soul!"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000027_000000|"Thanks, my brave lover; but as you are satisfied of my love, you must, in your turn, satisfy me of yours.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000028_000000|"Certainly; but if you love me as much as you say," replied d'Artagnan, "do you not entertain a little fear on my account?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000029_000000|"What have I to fear?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000031_000000|"Impossible!" cried Milady, "you are such a valiant man, and such an expert swordsman."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000032_000000|"You would not, then, prefer a method," resumed d'Artagnan, "which would equally avenge you while rendering the combat useless?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000033_000000|Milady looked at her lover in silence.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000033_000001|The pale light of the first rays of day gave to her clear eyes a strangely frightful expression.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000034_000000|"Really," said she, "I believe you now begin to hesitate."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000035_000000|"No, I do not hesitate; but I really pity this poor Comte de Wardes, since you have ceased to love him.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000035_000001|I think that a man must be so severely punished by the loss of your love that he stands in need of no other chastisement."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000036_000000|"Who told you that I loved him?" asked Milady, sharply.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000037_000000|"At least, I am now at liberty to believe, without too much fatuity, that you love another," said the young man, in a caressing tone, "and I repeat that I am really interested for the count."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000038_000000|"You?" asked Milady.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000039_000000|"Yes, i"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000040_000000|"And why YOU?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000041_000000|"Because I alone know-"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000042_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000044_000000|"Indeed!" said Milady, in an anxious tone; "explain yourself, for I really cannot tell what you mean."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000046_000000|"Yes; I am a man of honor," said d'Artagnan, determined to come to an end, "and since your love is mine, and I am satisfied I possess it-for I do possess it, do I not?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000047_000000|"Entirely; go on."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000048_000000|"Well, I feel as if transformed-a confession weighs on my mind."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000049_000000|"A confession!"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000050_000000|"If I had the least doubt of your love I would not make it, but you love me, my beautiful mistress, do you not?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000051_000000|"Without doubt."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000052_000000|"Then if through excess of love I have rendered myself culpable toward you, you will pardon me?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000053_000000|"Perhaps."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000054_000000|D'Artagnan tried with his sweetest smile to touch his lips to Milady's, but she evaded him.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000055_000000|"This confession," said she, growing paler, "what is this confession?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000056_000000|"You gave de Wardes a meeting on Thursday last in this very room, did you not?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000057_000000|"No, no!
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000057_000001|It is not true," said Milady, in a tone of voice so firm, and with a countenance so unchanged, that if d'Artagnan had not been in such perfect possession of the fact, he would have doubted.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000058_000000|"Do not lie, my angel," said d'Artagnan, smiling; "that would be useless."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000059_000000|"What do you mean?
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000059_000001|Speak! you kill me."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000060_000000|"Be satisfied; you are not guilty toward me, and I have already pardoned you."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000061_000000|"What next?
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000061_000001|what next?"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000062_000000|"De Wardes cannot boast of anything."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000063_000000|"How is that?
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000063_000001|You told me yourself that that ring-"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000064_000000|"That ring I have!
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000065_000000|The imprudent young man expected a surprise, mixed with shame-a slight storm which would resolve itself into tears; but he was strangely deceived, and his error was not of long duration.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000067_000000|It was almost broad daylight.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000069_000000|"Great God!" cried d'Artagnan, loosing his hold of her dress, and remaining mute, motionless, and frozen.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000070_000000|But Milady felt herself denounced even by his terror.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000070_000001|He had doubtless seen all.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000070_000002|The young man now knew her secret, her terrible secret-the secret she concealed even from her maid with such care, the secret of which all the world was ignorant, except himself.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000071_000000|She turned upon him, no longer like a furious woman, but like a wounded panther.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000072_000001|You shall die."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000073_000000|And she flew to a little inlaid casket which stood upon the dressing table, opened it with a feverish and trembling hand, drew from it a small poniard, with a golden haft and a sharp thin blade, and then threw herself with a bound upon d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000074_000000|Although the young man was brave, as we know, he was terrified at that wild countenance, those terribly dilated pupils, those pale cheeks, and those bleeding lips.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000074_000001|He recoiled to the other side of the room as he would have done from a serpent which was crawling toward him, and his sword coming in contact with his nervous hand, he drew it almost unconsciously from the scabbard.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000074_000002|But without taking any heed of the sword, Milady endeavored to get near enough to him to stab him, and did not stop till she felt the sharp point at her throat.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000075_000000|She then tried to seize the sword with her hands; but d'Artagnan kept it free from her grasp, and presenting the point, sometimes at her eyes, sometimes at her breast, compelled her to glide behind the bedstead, while he aimed at making his retreat by the door which led to Kitty's apartment.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000076_000000|Milady during this time continued to strike at him with horrible fury, screaming in a formidable way.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000077_000000|As all this, however, bore some resemblance to a duel, d'Artagnan began to recover himself little by little.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000079_000000|"Scoundrel, infamous scoundrel!" howled Milady.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000080_000000|But d'Artagnan, still keeping on the defensive, drew near to Kitty's door.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000080_000001|At the noise they made, she in overturning the furniture in her efforts to get at him, he in screening himself behind the furniture to keep out of her reach, Kitty opened the door.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000080_000002|D'Artagnan, who had unceasingly maneuvered to gain this point, was not at more than three paces from it.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000080_000003|With one spring he flew from the chamber of Milady into that of the maid, and quick as lightning, he slammed to the door, and placed all his weight against it, while Kitty pushed the bolts.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000081_000001|Every blow was accompanied with terrible imprecations.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000083_000000|"But you can't go out so," said Kitty; "you are naked."
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000084_000000|"That's true," said d'Artagnan, then first thinking of the costume he found himself in, "that's true.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000085_000000|Kitty was but too well aware of that.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000085_000001|In a turn of the hand she muffled him up in a flowered robe, a large hood, and a cloak.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000085_000002|She gave him some slippers, in which he placed his naked feet, and then conducted him down the stairs.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000085_000003|It was time.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000085_000004|Milady had already rung her bell, and roused the whole hotel.
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000085_000005|The porter was drawing the cord at the moment Milady cried from her window, "Don't open!"
train-other-500/1353/122456/1353_122456_000086_000000|The young man fled while she was still threatening him with an impotent gesture.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000003_000000|She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of doubt, that he found not a word of reply.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000003_000001|She continued:--
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000004_000001|I was asleep, but I saw you.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000004_000002|I have seen you for a long, long time.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000004_000003|I have been following you with my eyes all night long.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000004_000004|You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of celestial forms."
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000005_000000|He raised his glance to the crucifix.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000006_000000|"But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000006_000001|Why did not you place her on my bed against the moment of my waking?"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000007_000000|He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to recall.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000010_000001|She clasped her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to prayer in the way of violence and tenderness.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000011_000000|"Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000012_000000|Touching illusion of a mother!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000012_000001|Cosette was, for her, still the little child who is carried.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000013_000000|"Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000013_000002|You must be cured first."
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000014_000000|She interrupted him impetuously:--
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000015_000000|"But I am cured!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000015_000001|Oh, I tell you that I am cured!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000015_000003|The idea!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000015_000004|I want to see my child!"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000016_000000|"You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000016_000003|When you are reasonable, I will bring her to you myself."
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000017_000000|The poor mother bowed her head.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000001|Formerly I should never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000002|I understand you; you fear the emotion.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000003|I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000004|I have been seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. Do you know?
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000006|That is all.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000008|I am not angry.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000009|I know well that I am about to be happy.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000010|All night long I have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000011|When Monsieur le Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000012|I have no longer any fever; I am well.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000018_000013|I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not stir, to please these ladies here.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000019_000001|She turned towards him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about bringing Cosette to her.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000001|Oh! how good you were to go and get her for me!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000002|Only tell me how she is.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000003|Did she stand the journey well?
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000004|Alas! she will not recognize me.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000005|She must have forgotten me by this time, poor darling!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000006|Children have no memories.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000007|They are like birds.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000008|A child sees one thing to day and another thing to morrow, and thinks of nothing any longer.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000011|How have they fed her?
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000012|Oh! if you only knew how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all the time of my wretchedness.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000014|I am happy.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000015|Oh, how I should like to see her!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000016|Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? Is not my daughter beautiful?
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000017|You must have been very cold in that diligence!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000018|Could she not be brought for just one little instant?
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000019|She might be taken away directly afterwards.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000020_000020|Tell me; you are the master; it could be so if you chose!"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000021_000000|He took her hand.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000022_000000|In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000024_000001|People go there on pleasure parties in summer.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000025_000001|The doctor, having finished his visit, retired.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000026_000000|But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:--
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000027_000000|"I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000028_000000|She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, and began to listen with rapture.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000029_000000|There was a child playing in the yard-the child of the portress or of some work woman.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000029_000001|It was one of those accidents which are always occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage setting of mournful scenes.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000029_000003|It was this little girl whom Fantine heard singing.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000030_000001|I recognize her voice."
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000031_000002|That man has an evil countenance, that he has."
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000000|But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000001|She continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How happy we are going to be!
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000003|My daughter will play in the garden.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000004|She must know her letters by this time.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000005|I will make her spell. She will run over the grass after butterflies.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000006|I will watch her.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000032_000008|Ah! when will she take her first communion?"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000033_000000|She began to reckon on her fingers.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000034_000002|O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I think of my daughter's first communion!"
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000035_000000|She began to laugh.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000036_000001|He listened to her words as one listens to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind absorbed in reflection which had no bottom.
train-other-500/1353/134827/1353_134827_000039_000000|She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which she seemed to see.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000002_000000|PREFACE.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000003_000001|For those who take up the book in a serious and scholarly spirit, the following remarks on the plan and the execution are added.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000004_000000|The Editor is acquainted with no strict and exhaustive definition of Lyrical Poetry; but he has found the task of practical decision increase in clearness and in facility as he advanced with the work, whilst keeping in view a few simple principles.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000004_000001|Lyrical has been here held essentially to imply that each Poem shall turn on some single thought, feeling, or situation.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000004_000002|In accordance with this, narrative, descriptive, and didactic poems,--unless accompanied by rapidity of movement, brevity, and the colouring of human passion,--have been excluded. Humorous poetry, except in the very unfrequent instances where a truly poetical tone pervades the whole, with what is strictly personal, occasional, and religious, has been considered foreign to the idea of the book.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000004_000003|Blank verse and the ten syllable couplet, with all pieces markedly dramatic, have been rejected as alien from what is commonly understood by Song, and rarely conforming to Lyrical conditions in treatment.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000004_000004|But it is not anticipated, nor is it possible, that all readers shall think the line accurately drawn.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000005_000000|This also is all he can plead in regard to a point even more liable to question;--what degree of merit should give rank among the Best.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000006_000000|Chalmers' vast collection, with the whole works of all accessible poets not contained in it, and the best Anthologies of different periods, have been twice systematically read through: and it is hence improbable that any omissions which may be regretted are due to oversight.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000006_000001|The poems are printed entire, except in a very few instances (specified in the notes) where a stanza has been omitted.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000006_000002|The omissions have been risked only when the piece could be thus brought to a closer lyrical unity: and, as essentially opposed to this unity, extracts, obviously such, are excluded.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000006_000003|In regard to the text, the purpose of the book has appeared to justify the choice of the most poetical version, wherever more than one exists: and much labour has been given to present each poem, in disposition, spelling, and punctuation, to the greatest advantage.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000007_000000|In the arrangement, the most poetically effective order has been attempted.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000007_000003|Or, looking at the Poets who more or less give each portion its distinctive character, they might be called the Books of Shakespeare, Milton, Gray, and Wordsworth.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000007_000004|The volume, in this respect, so far as the limitations of its range allow, accurately reflects the natural growth and evolution of our Poetry.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000007_000005|A rigidly chronological sequence, however, rather fits a collection aiming at instruction than at pleasure, and the Wisdom which comes through Pleasure:--within each book the pieces have therefore been arranged in gradations of feeling or subject.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000007_000006|The development of the symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven has been here thought of as a model, and nothing placed without careful consideration.
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000009_000000|And if this be true of even mediocre poetry, for how much more are we indebted to the best!
train-other-500/1367/291931/1367_291931_000009_000003|But she speaks best for herself.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000002_000001|THE FLIGHT OF LOVE.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000003_000000|When the lamp is shatter'd, The light in the dust lies dead- When the cloud is scatter'd, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remember'd not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000007_000000|p b SHELLEY.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000008_000000|one hundred ninety six.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000008_000001|THE MAID OF NEIDPATH.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000010_000000|All sunk and dim her eyes so bright, Her form decay'd by pining, Till through her wasted hand, at night, You saw the taper shining. By fits a sultry hectic hue Across her cheek was flying; By fits so ashy pale she grew Her maidens thought her dying.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000011_000000|Yet keenest powers to see and hear Seem'd in her frame residing; Before the watch dog prick'd his ear She heard her lover's riding; Ere scarce a distant form was kenn'd She knew and waved to greet him, And o'er the battlement did bend As on the wing to meet him.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000013_000000|The castle arch, whose hollow tone Returns each whisper spoken, Could scarcely catch the feeble moan Which told her heart was broken.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000014_000000|SIR w SCOTT
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000015_000000|one hundred ninety seven.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000015_000001|THE MAID OF NEIDPATH.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000016_000000|Earl March look'd on his dying child, And smit with grief to view her- The youth, he cried, whom I exiled Shall be restored to woo her.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000017_000000|She's at the window many an hour His coming to discover: And he look'd up to Ellen's bower And she look'd on her lover-
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000019_000000|In vain he weeps, in vain he sighs, Her cheek is cold as ashes; Nor love's own kiss shall wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000020_000000|T. CAMPBELL
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000021_000000|one hundred ninety eight.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000022_000000|Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000023_000000|The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors:--
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000024_000000|No-yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest;
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000025_000000|Still, still to hear her tender taken breath, And so live ever,--or else swoon to death.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000026_000000|J. KEATS.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000027_000000|one hundred ninety nine.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000027_000001|THE TERROR OF DEATH.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000029_000000|When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000030_000000|And when I feel, fair Creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the fairy power Of unreflecting love-then on the shore
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000032_000000|J. KEATS.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000033_000001|DESIDERIA.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000034_000000|Surprized by joy-impatient as the wind- I turn'd to share the transport-Oh, with whom But Thee-deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find?
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000035_000001|Through what power Even for the least division of an hour Have I been so beguiled as to be blind
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000036_000000|To my most grievous loss?--That thought's return Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore Save one, one only, when I stood forlorn,
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000037_000000|Knowing my heart's best treasure was no more; That neither present time, nor years unborn Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000038_000000|W. WORDSWORTH.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000041_000001|'tis thy voice, from the Kingdom of Souls Faintly answering still the notes that once were so dear.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000042_000000|T. MOORE.
train-other-500/1367/291967/1367_291967_000052_000000|LORD BYRON.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000002_000001|GATHERING SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000004_000000|Come from deep glen, and From mountain so rocky; The war pipe and pennon Are at Inverlochy. Come every hill plaid, and True heart that wears one, Come every steel blade, and Strong hand that bears one.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000006_000000|Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded: Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000008_000000|SIR w SCOTT.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000010_000000|A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000011_000000|O for a soft and gentle wind! I heard a fair one cry; But give to me the snoring breeze And white waves heaving high; And white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship tight and free- The world of waters is our home, And merry men are we.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000013_000000|A. CUNNINGHAM.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000015_000000|Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas! Whose flag has braved, a thousand years The battle and the breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe: And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000016_000000|The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave- For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000017_000000|Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below- As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000018_000000|The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn; Till danger's troubled night depart And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye ocean warriors! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000019_000000|T. CAMPBELL.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000020_000001|BATTLE OF THE BALTIC.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000021_000000|Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000022_000000|Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line: It was ten of April morn by the chime: As they drifted on their path There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath For a time.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000023_000000|But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the scene; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!" our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000024_000000|Again! again!
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000025_000000|Out spoke the victor then As he hail'd them o'er the wave, "Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save:-- So peace instead of death let us bring: But yield, proud foe, thy fleet With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King."
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000027_000000|Now joy, old England, raise! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine cup shines in light; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that sleep Full many a fathom deep By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore!
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000028_000000|Brave hearts! to Britain's pride Once so faithful and so true, On the deck of fame that died With the gallant good Riou: Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave! While the billow mournful rolls And the mermaid's song condoles Singing glory to the souls Of the brave!
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000029_000000|T. CAMPBELL.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000030_000001|ODE TO DUTY
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000036_000000|Stern lawgiver!
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000038_000000|W. WORDSWORTH.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000039_000001|ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000041_000000|And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000043_000000|Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard!
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000043_000001|May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000044_000000|LORD BYRON.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000045_000001|ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND.
train-other-500/1367/291968/1367_291968_000049_000000|--Of one deep bliss thine ear hath been bereft; Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left- For, high soul'd Maid, what sorrow would it be
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000001_000002|One of them had just unshipped the little sail, and-not seeming to know what else to do with it-had cut it loose from the oar that served as a mast and wrapped it round and round his body, tying himself tightly with a piece of string.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000002_000002|Then, after a few, rapid, nervous strokes at the oars, one or the other of them would pull his blade out of the water and polish it anxiously with his handkerchief, as if the important thing was to keep it dry.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000002_000003|They would probably never have reached land that day if this had depended on their own efforts, but luckily the breeze was blowing them in the right direction.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000003_000001|Hurrah, my fine Jack Tars!
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000003_000002|You're a pair of swell old sea dogs, you are.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000004_000000|It seemed as if the white mice knew the False Hare and the value of his remarks, for they made no attempt to answer him, but only looked more and more frightened and uncomfortable.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000004_000001|When their boat was at last beached, they jumped out of it, turned their backs to the rest of the party, and standing as close together as they could get, gazed anxiously out over the water.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000004_000004|He walked around in front of the two mice, who tried vainly not to meet his eye, looked at them long and earnestly, and said:
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000005_000000|"I say, mr Mouses, was you always white?"
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000006_000000|The mice turned a pale greenish color in their embarrassment and looked nervously at each other, but answered never a word.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000007_000001|Did you wash it off-on purpose?" he added sternly.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000008_000000|"Excuse me, sir, we don't believe in washing," muttered one of the poor things hastily.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000009_000001|"Hush!" she whispered.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000009_000003|Will you, mr False Hare?"
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000010_000000|"Why certainly, dearie, I adore rowing," said the False Hare sweetly.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000011_000001|I dare say the mice will be glad of a rest."
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000012_000001|He wanted to pet them a little, so he said, but from the strained expressions on their faces and the startled squeaks they gave from time to time, it seemed as if they were hardly enjoying his attentions.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000012_000002|The children loved being on the water better than anything else, and they would have been perfectly happy now, if the False Hare had not had quite so many nice compliments to make to Rudolf on his rowing, and if the white mice had not complained so bitterly of them all for "sitting all over the boat cushions," and "wetting the nice dry oars!"
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000012_000003|They were enjoying themselves very much, in spite of this, when suddenly Ann, who had very sharp eyes, called out:
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000013_000000|"Sail ahead!"
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000014_000000|At first Rudolf thought she had said this just because it sounded well, but on turning his head he saw for himself a small boat heading toward them as fast as it could come.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000015_000001|It's a pirate ship!"
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000016_000001|"How awfully jolly!
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000016_000002|Just like a book."
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000017_000000|"Dee lightful!" the False Hare exclaimed, shuddering all over to the tips of his whiskers.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000018_000000|As for the two white mice, after one glance at the ship, they gave two little shrieks and hid their faces in their paws.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000019_000000|Rudolf shipped his oars while he loosened his sword.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000019_000001|"I shall be prepared to fight," said he, "though I am afraid we must make up our minds to being captured.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000020_000000|The False Hare smiled a sickly sort of smile.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000020_000001|"And such nice ones," he murmured.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000021_000001|"I'm nine years old and I've never seen a real live pirate, and goodness knows when I ever will again-I wouldn't miss this for anything." Then, as he saw how really worried his little sister looked, he added cheerfully.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000021_000002|"They may sail right past without speaking to us, you know."
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000022_000000|But this was not to be the case.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000022_000002|A group of pirates was gathered at the rail, staring at the rowboat through their glasses. There was no mistake about these fellows being pirates-that was easy enough to see from their queer bright colored clothes and the number of weapons they carried, even if the ugly black flag had not been floating over their heads.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000022_000003|At the bow stood he who was evidently the Pirate Chief.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000022_000004|He was dressed in some kind of tight gray and white striped suit with a red sash tied round his waist stuck full of shiny barreled pistols and long bright bladed knives.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000022_000006|His arms were folded on his breast.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000022_000007|As Rudolf looked at this fellow, he began to have the queerest feeling that somewhere- somehow-under very different conditions-he had seen the Pirate Chief before!
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000023_000000|Just at that instant he heard the sound of a struggle behind him, and turning round he saw that peter had become terribly excited.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000023_000001|"Mittens! Mittens!" he screamed, and breaking loose from Ann's hold, he stood up and leaned so far over the side of the boat that he lost his balance and fell into the water.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000023_000003|Rudolf had kicked off his shoes and was ready to jump in after peter, when he saw that quick as a flash, on an order from their Chief, the pirates had lowered a long rope with something bobbing at the end of it.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000023_000004|peter when he came to the surface, seized this rope and was rapidly hauled on board the pirate ship.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000024_000002|We can't leave poor darling peter to be carried off by those terrible cats."
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000025_000001|"Why so they are cats, Ann!
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000025_000002|Somehow I hadn't noticed that before.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000025_000003|But, look, they are sending a boat to us now."
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000026_000000|In a small boat which had been towed behind the catboat, a couple of pirates-big, rough looking fellows-were sculling rapidly toward the children.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000026_000002|One had a red sash and one a green, and each carried knives and pistols enough to set up a shop.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000028_000001|Much against his will, Rudolf was now forced to surrender his beloved sword.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000028_000003|The prisoners were quickly transferred to the other boat, and the pirate with the green sash took the oars.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000028_000004|Just as all was ready for the start the cat in red cried:
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000029_000000|"Hold on a minute, Growler!
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000030_000000|"All right, Prowler."
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000031_000001|The last time they had noticed them was at the moment of Peter's ducking when in their excitement, the foolish creatures had hidden their faces on each other's shoulders, rolled themselves into a kind of ball, and stowed themselves under a seat.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000031_000002|Prowler leaped into the little boat which the pirates had fastened by a tow rope to their own, and during his search he kept his back turned to his companions.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000031_000003|He was gone but a moment, and when he returned his whiskers were very shiny, and he was looking extremely jolly as he hummed a snatch of a pirate song.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000032_000000|"Find anything?" asked Growler, eying him suspiciously.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000033_000000|"Oh, 'twas nothing-nothing of any importance," answered Prowler airily.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000034_000002|As they drew alongside, Growler muttered in a not unfriendly whisper:
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000035_000000|"Look here, youngsters, here's a word of advice that may save you your skins.
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000035_000001|Don't show any cheek-not to me or Prowler, we're the mates-and above all, not to the Chief!"
train-other-500/1370/138531/1370_138531_000036_000000|"What is your Chief's name, mr Growler, dear sir?" asked Ann timidly.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000002_000000|Chapter twelve
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000003_000000|mr Briggerland, it seemed, had some other object in life than the regeneration of the criminal classes.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000003_000001|He was a sociologist-a loose title which covers a great deal of inquisitive investigation into other people's affairs.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000003_000002|Moreover, he had published a book on the subject.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000004_000000|On a morning when pale yellow sunlight brightened his dining room, mr Briggerland put down his newspaper and looked across the table at his daughter.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000004_000001|He had a club in the East End of London and his manager had telephoned that morning sending a somewhat unhappy report.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000005_000000|"Do you remember that man Talmot, my dear?" he asked.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000006_000000|She nodded, and looked up quickly.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000007_000000|"Yes, what about him?"
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000008_000000|"He's in hospital," said mr Briggerland.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000008_000001|"I fear that he and Hoggins were engaged in some nefarious plan and that in making an attempt to enter-as, of course, they had no right to enter-a block of flats in Cavendish Place, poor Talmot slipped and fell from the fourth floor window sill, breaking his leg.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000009_000000|The girl reached for bacon from the hot plate.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000010_000000|"He should have broken his neck," she said calmly.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000010_000001|"I suppose now the police are making tender inquiries?"
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000011_000000|"No, no," mr Briggerland hastened to assure her.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000011_000001|"Nobody knows anything about it, not even the-er-fortunate occupant of the flat they were evidently trying to burgle.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000011_000002|I only learnt of it because the manager of the club, who gets information of this character, thought I would be interested."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000012_000000|"Anyway I'm glad they didn't succeed," said Jean after a while.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000012_000001|"The possibility of their trying rather worried me.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000012_000002|The Hoggins type is such a bungler that it was almost certain they would fail."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000013_000000|It was a curious fact that whilst her father made the most guarded references to all their exploits and clothed them with garments of euphemism, his daughter never attempted any such disguise.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000013_000001|The psychologist would find in mr Briggerland's reticence the embryo of a once dominant rectitude, no trace of which remained in his daughter's moral equipment.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000015_000000|"Do you think he is a detective?"
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000016_000000|"I don't know," she said thoughtfully.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000016_000001|"If he is, he has been imported from the provinces.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000016_000002|He is not a Scotland Yard man.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000016_000003|He may, of course, be an old police pensioner, and I have been trying to trace him from that source."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000017_000000|"It should not be difficult to find out all about him," said mr Briggerland easily.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000017_000001|"A man with his afflictions should be pretty well-known."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000018_000000|He looked at his watch.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000019_000000|"My appointment at Norwood is at eleven o'clock," he said.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000019_000001|He made a little grimace of disgust.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000020_000000|"Would you rather I went?" asked the girl.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000021_000000|mr Briggerland would much rather that she had undertaken the disagreeable experience which lay before him, but he dare not confess as much.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000022_000000|"You, my dear?
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000022_000001|Of course not!
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000022_000002|I would not allow you to have such an experience.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000022_000003|No, no, I don't mind it a bit."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000023_000000|Nevertheless, he tossed down two long glasses of brandy before he left.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000024_000000|His car set him down before the iron gates of a squat and ugly stucco building, surrounded by high walls, and the uniformed attendant, having examined his credentials, admitted him.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000025_000000|"I'm sorry I shan't be able to show you round, mr Briggerland," he said.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000025_000001|"I have an engagement in town, but my assistant, dr Carew, will conduct you over the asylum and give you all the information you require.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000025_000002|This, of course, as you know, is a private institution.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000025_000003|I should have thought you would have got more material for your book in one of the big public asylums.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000025_000004|The people who are sent to Norwood, you know, are not the mild cases, and you will see some rather terrible sights.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000025_000005|You are prepared for that?"
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000026_000000|mr Briggerland nodded.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000026_000001|He was prepared to the extent of two full noggins of brandy.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000026_000002|Moreover, he was well aware that Norwood was the asylum to which the more dangerous of lunatics were transferred.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000027_000000|dr Carew proved to be a young and enthusiastic alienist whose heart and soul was in his work.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000028_000000|"I suppose you are prepared to see jumpy things," he said with a smile, as he conducted mr Briggerland along a stone vaulted corridor.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000030_000000|It was a harrowing, heart breaking, and to some extent, a disappointing experience for mr Briggerland.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000030_000001|True, his heart did not break, because it was made of infrangible material, and his disappointment was counter balanced by a certain vague relief.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000031_000001|Except one, they were unattended by keepers, but in the case of this one man, two stalwart uniformed men walked on either side of him.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000032_000000|"Who is he?" asked Briggerland.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000033_000000|"That is rather a sad case," said the alienist cheerfully.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000033_000001|He had pointed out many "sad cases" in the same bright manner.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000033_000002|"He's a doctor and a genuine homicide.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000033_000003|Luckily they detected him before he did any mischief or he would have been in Broadmoor."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000034_000000|"Aren't you ever afraid of these men escaping?" asked mr Briggerland.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000035_000000|"You asked that before," said the doctor in surprise.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000035_000001|"no
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000035_000002|You see, an insane asylum is not like a prison; to make a good get away from prison you have to have outside assistance.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000035_000004|Would you like to talk to dr Thun?"
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000036_000000|mr Briggerland hesitated only for a second.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000037_000000|"Yes," he said huskily.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000038_000000|There was nothing in the appearance of the patient to suggest that he was in any way dangerous.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000038_000001|A fair, bearded man, with pale blue eyes, he held out his hand impulsively to the visitor, and after a momentary hesitation, mr Briggerland took it and found his hand in a grip like a vice.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000038_000002|The two attendants exchanged glances with the asylum doctor and strolled off.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000040_000000|"Without fear, favour or prejudice, eh?
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000040_000001|Yes, that was how they swore the officers at my court martial."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000041_000000|"The doctor was the general who was responsible for the losses at Caperetto," explained dr Carew.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000041_000001|"That was where the Italians lost so heavily."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000042_000000|Thun nodded.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000043_000001|mr Briggerland breathed a little more quickly as he felt the strength of the patient's biceps.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000044_000000|"My conviction," said dr Thun seriously, "was due to the fact that women were sitting on the court martial, which is, of course, against all regulations."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000045_000000|"Certainly," murmured mr Briggerland.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000046_000000|"Keeping me here," Thun went on, "is part of the plot of the Italian government.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000046_000001|Naturally, they do not wish me to get at my enemies, who I have every reason to believe are in London."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000047_000000|mr Briggerland drew a long breath.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000048_000000|"They are in London," he said a little hoarsely.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000048_000001|"I happen to know where they are."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000049_000000|"Really?" said the other easily, and then a cloud passed over his face and he shook his head.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000050_000000|"They are safe from my vengeance," he said a little sadly.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000050_000001|"As long as they keep me in this place pretending that I am mad, there is no possible chance for me."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000051_000000|The visitor looked round and saw that the three men who were following were out of ear shot.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000052_000000|"Suppose I came to morrow night," he said, lowering his voice, "and helped you to get away?
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000052_000001|What is your ward?"
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000053_000001|His eyes were blazing.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000054_000000|"Do you think you will remember?" asked Briggerland.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000055_000000|Thun nodded.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000056_000001|six, the first cubicle on the left," he whispered, "you will not fail me?
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000056_000002|If I thought you'd fail me----" His eyes lit up again.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000057_000000|"I shall not fail you," said mr Briggerland hastily.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000057_000001|"When the clock strikes twelve you may expect me."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000060_000000|Jean had said he might have to visit a dozen asylums before he found his opportunity and the right man, and he had succeeded at the first attempt.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000060_000001|Yet-he shuddered at the picture he conjured-that climb over the high wall (he had already located the ward, for he had followed the General and the attendants and had seen him safely put away), the midnight association with a madman....
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000061_000000|He burst in upon Jean with his news.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000062_000000|"At the first attempt, my dear, what do you think of that?" His dark face glowed with almost childish pride, and she looked at him with a half smile.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000063_000000|"I thought you would," she said quietly.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000063_000001|"That's the rough work done, at any rate."
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000064_000000|"The rough work!" he said indignantly.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000065_000000|She nodded.
train-other-500/1370/140972/1370_140972_000066_000000|"Half the difficulty is going to be to cover up your visit to the asylum, because this man is certain to mention your name, and it will not all be dismissed as the imagination of a madman.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000000_000000|It was about six weeks after this, that one day, Clover and Elsie were busy down stairs, they were startled by the sound of Katy's bell ringing in a sudden and agitated manner.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000000_000001|Both ran up two steps at a time, to see what was wanted.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000002_000000|"Oh, girls!" she exclaimed, "what do you think?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000002_000001|I stood up!"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000003_000000|"What?" cried Clover and Elsie.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000004_000000|"I really did!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000005_000000|The others were too much astonished to speak, so Katy went on explaining.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000006_000000|"It was all at once, you see.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000007_000000|"Do you think I shall ever be able to do it again?" she asked, looking up with wet eyes.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000009_000000|Katy tried, but the spring was gone.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000009_000001|She could not move out of the chair at all.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000009_000002|She began to wonder if she had dreamed the whole thing.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000010_000000|But next day, when Clover happened to be in the room, she heard a sudden exclamation, and turning, there stood Katy, absolutely on her feet.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000011_000000|"Papa! papa!" shrieked Clover, rushing down stairs.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000011_000001|"Dorry, john, Elsie-come!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000011_000002|Come and see!"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000012_000000|Papa was out, but all the rest crowded up at once.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000012_000001|This time Katy found no trouble in "doing it again." It seemed as if her will had been asleep; and now that it had waked up, the limbs recognized its orders and obeyed them.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000013_000000|When Papa came in, he was as much excited as any of the children.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000013_000001|He walked round and round the chair, questioning Katy and making her stand up and sit down.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000014_000000|"Am I really going to get well?" she asked, almost in a whisper.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000015_000000|"Yes, my love, I think you are," replied dr Carr, seizing Phil and giving him a toss into the air.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000015_000001|None of the children had ever before seen Papa behave so like a boy.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000015_000002|But pretty soon, noticing Katy's burning cheeks and excited eyes, he calmed himself, sent the others all away, and sat down to soothe and quiet her with gentle words.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000016_000001|After being such a good child all the years, I am sure you won't fail now.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000016_000002|Remember, any imprudence will put you back.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000016_000003|You must be content to gain a very little at a time. There is no royal road to walking any more than there is to learning. Every baby finds that out."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000018_000000|How happy she was that night-too happy to sleep.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000019_000000|"You must be careful," he told her, "or you'll be laid up again.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000000|Katy knew Papa was right, and she was careful, though it was by no means easy to be so with that new life tingling in every limb.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000001|Her progress was slow, as dr Carr had predicted.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000002|At first she only stood on her feet a few seconds, then a minute, then five minutes, holding tightly all the while by the chair.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000003|Next she ventured to let go the chair, and stand alone.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000004|After that she began to walk a step at a time, pushing a chair before her, as children do when they are learning the use of their feet.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000005|Clover and Elsie hovered about her as she moved, like anxious mammas.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000006|It was droll, and a little pitiful, to see tall Katy with her feeble, unsteady progress, and the active figures of the little sisters following her protectingly.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000007|But Katy did not consider it either droll or pitiful; to her it was simply delightful-the most delightful thing possible.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000020_000008|No baby of a year old was ever prouder of his first steps than she.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000021_000000|Gradually she grew adventurous, and ventured on a bolder flight. Clover, running up stairs one day to her own room, stood transfixed at the sight of Katy sitting there, flushed, panting, but enjoying the surprise she caused.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000022_000001|It is such a time since I saw any room but my own! But oh dear, how long that hall is!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000022_000002|I had forgotten it could be so long. I shall have to take a good rest before I go back."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000023_000000|Katy did take a good rest, but she was very tired next day.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000023_000001|The experiment, however, did no harm.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000023_000002|In the course of two or three weeks, she was able to walk all over the second story.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000024_000000|This was a great enjoyment.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000024_000001|It was like reading an interesting book to see all the new things, and the little changes.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000024_000002|She was forever wondering over something.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000025_000000|"Why, Dorry," she would say, "what a pretty book shelf!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000026_000002|Didn't I ever tell you about it?"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000027_000000|"Perhaps you did," Katy would reply, "but you see I never saw it before, so it made no impression."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000028_000000|By the end of August she was grown so strong, that she began to talk about going down stairs.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000028_000001|But Papa said, "Wait."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000030_000001|Oh, I'll tell you!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000030_000002|Such a beautiful idea has come into my head!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000030_000003|You shall fix a day to come down, Katy, and we'll be all ready for you, and have a 'celebration' among ourselves.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000030_000005|How soon may she, Papa?"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000031_000000|"Well-in ten days, I should say, it might be safe."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000032_000002|It was Mamma's birthday, you know," she added in a lower voice.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000033_000000|So it was settled.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000033_000002|Papa, when are you coming down stairs?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000034_000000|"Right away-rather than have my coat tails pulled off," answered dr Carr, laughing, and they went away together.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000034_000001|Katy sat looking out of the window in a peaceful, happy mood.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000035_000000|"Oh!" she thought, "can it really be?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000035_000002|Am I going to 'Bid a sweet good bye to Pain?' But there was Love in the Pain.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000035_000003|I see it now.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000035_000004|How good the dear Teacher has been to me!"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000036_000000|Clover seemed to be very busy all the rest of that week.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000036_000001|She was "having windows washed," she said, but this explanation hardly accounted for her long absences, and the mysterious exultation on her face, not to mention certain sounds of hammering and sawing which came from down stairs.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000036_000002|The other children had evidently been warned to say nothing; for once or twice Philly broke out with, "Oh, Katy!" and then hushed himself up, saying, "I 'most forgot!" Katy grew very curious.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000036_000003|But she saw that the secret, whatever it was, gave immense satisfaction to everybody except herself; so, though she longed to know, she concluded not to spoil the fun by asking any questions.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000037_000000|At last it wanted but one day of the important occasion.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000038_000000|"See," said Katy, as Clover came into the room a little before tea time. "Miss Petingill has brought home my new dress.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000039_000000|"How pretty!" said Clover, examining the dress, which was a soft, dove colored cashmere, trimmed with ribbon of the same shade.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000039_000001|"But Katy, I came up to shut your door.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000040_000001|"Why don't you make her wait till morning?"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000041_000000|"Oh, she can't!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000041_000002|It's a great deal more convenient that she should do it now.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000041_000003|Don't worry, Katy, darling, but just keep your door shut.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000041_000004|You will, won't you?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000041_000005|Promise me!"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000042_000000|"Very well," said Katy, more and more amazed, but yielding to Clover's eagerness, "I'll keep it shut." Her curiosity was excited.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000042_000001|She took a book and tried to read, but the letters danced up and down before her eyes, and she couldn't help listening.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000042_000002|Bridget was making a most ostentatious noise with her broom, but through it all, Katy seemed to hear other sounds-feet on the stairs, doors opening and shutting-once, a stifled giggle.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000042_000003|How queer it all was!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000043_000000|"Never mind," she said, resolutely stopping her ears, "I shall know all about it to morrow."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000044_000000|To morrow dawned fresh and fair-the very ideal of a September day.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000046_000000|"There!" she said, "now you're adorned.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000046_000001|Papa is coming up in a few minutes to take you down."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000047_000000|Just then Elsie and Johnnie came in.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000047_000001|They had on their best frocks.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000047_000002|So had Clover.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000047_000003|It was evidently a festival day to all the house.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000047_000004|Cecy followed, invited over for the special purpose of seeing Katy walk down stairs.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000047_000005|She, too, had on a new frock.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000048_000000|"How fine we are!" said Clover, as she remarked this magnificence.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000048_000001|"Turn round, Cecy-a panier, I do declare-and a sash!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000049_000000|"None of us will ever be so 'grown up' as Katy," said Cecy, laughing.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000050_000000|And now Papa appeared.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000050_000001|Very slowly they all went down stairs, Katy leaning on Papa, with Dorry on her other side, and the girls behind, while Philly clattered ahead.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000050_000002|And there were Debby and Bridget and Alexander, peeping out of the kitchen door to watch her, and dear old Mary with her apron at her eyes crying for joy.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000051_000000|"Oh, the front door is open!" said Katy, in a delighted tone.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000051_000001|"How nice! And what a pretty oil cloth.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000051_000002|That's new since I was here."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000052_000001|"It isn't new.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000052_000002|It's been there ever and ever so long!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000052_000003|Come into the parlor instead."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000053_000000|"Yes!" said Papa, "dinner isn't quite ready yet, you'll have time to rest a little after your walk down stairs.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000053_000001|You have borne it admirably, Katy.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000053_000002|Are you very tired?"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000054_000000|"Not a bit!" replied Katy, cheerfully.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000054_000001|"I could do it alone, I think. Oh! the bookcase door has been mended!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000054_000002|How nice it looks."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000055_000000|"Don't wait, oh, don't wait!" repeated Phil, in an agony of impatience.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000056_000001|Papa opened the parlor door.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000056_000002|Katy took one step into the room-then stopped.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000056_000004|What was it that she saw?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000057_000000|Not merely the room itself, with its fresh muslin curtains and vases of flowers.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000057_000001|Nor even the wide, beautiful window which had been cut toward the sun, or the inviting little couch and table which stood there, evidently for her.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000057_000002|No, there was something else!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000057_000003|The sofa was pulled out and there upon it, supported by pillows, her bright eyes turned to the door, lay-Cousin Helen!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000058_000002|Then she tumbled down by the sofa somehow, the two pairs of arms and the two faces met, and for a moment or two not a word more was heard from anybody.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000060_000000|Phil's voice seemed to break the spell of silence, and a perfect hubbub of questions and exclamations began.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000061_000000|It appeared that this happy thought of getting Cousin Helen to the "Celebration," was Clover's.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000061_000001|She it was who had proposed it to Papa, and made all the arrangements.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000061_000002|And, artful puss! she had set Bridget to sweep the hall, on purpose that Katy might not hear the noise of the arrival.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000062_000000|"Cousin Helen's going to stay three weeks this time-isn't that nice?" asked Elsie, while Clover anxiously questioned: "Are you sure that you didn't suspect?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000062_000001|Not one bit?
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000062_000002|Not the least tiny, weeny mite?"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000063_000000|"No, indeed-not the least.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000063_000001|How could I suspect anything so perfectly delightful?" And Katy gave Cousin Helen another rapturous kiss.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000064_000000|Such a short day as that seemed!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000064_000001|There was so much to see, to ask about, to talk over, that the hours flew, and evening dropped upon them all like another great surprise.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000065_000000|Cousin Helen was perhaps the happiest of the party.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000065_000001|Beside the pleasure of knowing Katy to be almost well again, she had the additional enjoyment of seeing for herself how many changes for the better had taken place, during the four years, among the little cousins she loved so much.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000000|It was very interesting to watch them all.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000001|Elsie and Dorry seemed to her the most improved of the family.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000003|Dorry's moody face had grown open and sensible, and his manners were good humored and obliging.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000004|He was still a sober boy, and not specially quick in catching an idea, but he promised to turn out a valuable man.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000005|And to him, as to all the other children, Katy was evidently the centre and the sun
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000007|Cousin Helen looked on as Phil came in crying, after a hard tumble, and was consoled; as Johnnie whispered an important secret, and Elsie begged for help in her work. She saw Katy meet them all pleasantly and sweetly, without a bit of the dictatorial elder sister in her manner, and with none of her old, impetuous tone.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000066_000008|And best of all, she saw the change in Katy's own face: the gentle expression of her eyes, the womanly look, the pleasant voice, the politeness, the tact in advising the others, without seeming to advise.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000067_000000|"Dear Katy," she said a day or two after her arrival, "this visit is a great pleasure to me-you can't think how great.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000067_000002|Do you remember?"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000068_000000|"Indeed I do!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000068_000001|And how good you were, and how you helped me!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000068_000002|I shall never forget that."
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000069_000000|"I'm glad!
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000069_000002|You have been learning by yourself all this time.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000069_000005|You have won the place, which, you recollect, I once told you an invalid should try to gain, of being to everybody 'The Heart of the House.'"
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000070_000000|"Oh, Cousin Helen, don't!" said Katy, her eyes filling with sudden tears.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000070_000001|"I haven't been brave.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000070_000002|You can't think how badly I sometimes have behaved-how cross and ungrateful I am, and how stupid and slow.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000070_000003|Every day I see things which ought to be done, and I don't do them.
train-other-500/1373/132103/1373_132103_000070_000004|It's too delightful to have you praise me-but you mustn't.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000003_000000|"Do you suppose they are likely to fail?" asked the Rose Princess.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000004_000000|"I do, indeed," replied Shaggy.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000004_000001|"This Nome King is really a powerful fellow and has a legion of nomes to assist him, whereas our bold Queen commands a Clockwork Man and a band of faint hearted officers."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000005_000001|"But perhaps the dragon was wise to let her go first, for when she fails to conquer Ruggedo she may become more modest in her ambitions."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000006_000000|"Where is the dragon now?" inquired Ozga.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000007_000000|"Up there on the rocks," replied Files.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000007_000001|"Look, my dear; you may see him from here.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000007_000002|He said he would take a little nap while we were mixing up with Ruggedo, and he added that after we had gotten into trouble he would wake up and conquer the Nome King in a jiffy, as his master the Jinjin has ordered him to do."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000008_000001|That he cannot resist; therefore the conquest will be made with ease."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000010_000000|The Hearer was still angry at Ruggedo for breaking his ear, but he acknowledged the Nome King to be his master and was ready to obey his commands.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000010_000001|Therefore he repeated Shaggy's speech to the King, who at once realized that his Kingdom was in grave danger.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000010_000003|Ruggedo was proud of his hatred and abhorred love of any sort.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000011_000001|What can I do to prevent the Shaggy Man from taking it out of his pocket?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000012_000000|Kaliko returned to the cavern in time to overhear this question, and being a loyal nome and eager to serve his King, he answered by saying:
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000014_000000|"True!" cried the King in delight at this easy solution of the problem. "Get at once a dozen nomes, with ropes, and place them in the passage where they can seize and bind Shaggy as soon as he enters."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000015_000000|This Kaliko did, and meanwhile the watchers outside the entrance were growing more and more uneasy about their friends.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000016_000000|"I don't worry so much about the Oogaboo people," said Polychrome, who had grown sober with waiting, and perhaps a little nervous, "for they could not be killed, even though Ruggedo might cause them much suffering and perhaps destroy them utterly.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000016_000001|But we should not have allowed Betsy and Hank to go alone into the caverns.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000017_000000|"That is indeed true," replied Shaggy.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000018_000000|"We may as well go with you," asserted Files, "for by means of the Love Magnet, you can soon bring the Nome King to reason."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000019_000000|So it was decided to wait no longer.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000019_000001|Shaggy walked through the entrance first, and after him came the others.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000020_000000|As for Polychrome, as soon as she saw that trouble had overtaken Shaggy she turned and ran lightly back through the passage and out of the entrance.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000021_000000|"Wake up, Quox!" she cried.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000021_000001|"It is time for you to act."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000022_000000|But Quox did not wake up.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000022_000001|He lay as one in a trance, absolutely motionless, with his enormous eyes tight closed.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000022_000002|The eyelids had big silver scales on them, like all the rest of his body.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000023_000000|Polychrome might have thought Quox was dead had she not known that dragons do not die easily or had she not observed his huge body swelling as he breathed.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000023_000001|She picked up a piece of rock and pounded against his eyelids with it, saying:
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000025_000000|"Dear me, how unfortunate!" sighed the lovely Rainbow's Daughter.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000025_000002|All our friends may be captured and destroyed while this great beast lies asleep."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000026_000000|She walked around Quox two or three times, trying to discover some tender place on his body where a thump or a punch might be felt; but he lay extended along the rocks with his chin flat upon the ground and his legs drawn underneath his body, and all that one could see was his thick sky blue skin-thicker than that of a rhinoceros-and his silver scales.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000027_000000|Then, despairing at last of wakening the beast, and worried over the fate of her friends, Polychrome again ran down to the entrance and hurried along the passage into the Nome King's cavern.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000029_000000|Ruggedo was now in a more contented frame of mind.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000029_000001|One by one he had met the invaders and easily captured them.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000029_000002|The dreaded Love Magnet was indeed in Shaggy's pocket, only a few feet away from the King, but Shaggy was powerless to show it and unless Ruggedo's eyes beheld the talisman it could not affect him.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000029_000003|As for Betsy Bobbin and her mule, he believed Kaliko had placed them in the Slimy Cave, while Ann and her officers he thought safely imprisoned in the pit.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000029_000004|Ruggedo had no fear of Files or Ozga, but to be on the safe side he had ordered golden handcuffs placed upon their wrists.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000029_000005|These did not cause them any great annoyance but prevented them from making an attack, had they been inclined to do so.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000030_000000|The Nome King, thinking himself wholly master of the situation, was laughing and jeering at his prisoners when Polychrome, exquisitely beautiful and dancing like a ray of light, entered the cavern.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000031_000001|"On my word," said he, "you are a very captivating creature; moreover, I perceive you are a fairy."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000032_000000|"I am Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter," she said proudly.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000033_000000|"Well," replied Ruggedo, "I like you.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000033_000001|The others I hate.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000033_000002|I hate everybody-but you!
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000033_000004|See! the jewels that stud the walls have every tint and color of your Rainbow-and they are not so elusive.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000034_000000|"No, thank you," laughed Polychrome.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000034_000001|"My home is in the sky, and I'm only on a visit to this solid, sordid earth.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000034_000002|But tell me, Ruggedo, why my friends have been wound with cords and bound with chains?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000036_000000|"Then, since they are now helpless, why not release them and send them back to the earth's surface?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000037_000000|"Because I hate 'em and mean to make 'em suffer for their invasion.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000037_000001|But I'll make a bargain with you, sweet Polly.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000037_000003|You shall be my daughter or my wife or my aunt or grandmother-whichever you like-only stay here to brighten my gloomy kingdom and make me happy!"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000038_000000|Polychrome looked at him wonderingly.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000038_000001|Then she turned to Shaggy and asked:
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000039_000000|"Are you sure he hasn't seen the Love Magnet?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000040_000000|"I'm positive," answered Shaggy.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000040_000001|"But you seem to be something of a Love Magnet yourself, Polychrome."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000041_000000|She laughed again and said to Ruggedo: "Not even to rescue my friends would I live in your kingdom.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000042_000000|"You forget," retorted the King, scowling darkly, "that you also are in my power."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000043_000000|"Not so, Ruggedo.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000043_000001|The Rainbow's Daughter is beyond the reach of your spite or malice."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000044_000001|Polychrome stood quite still, yet when Guph attempted to clutch her his hands met in air, and now the Rainbow's Daughter was in another part of the room, as smiling and composed as before.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000045_000000|Several times Guph endeavored to capture her and Ruggedo even came down from his throne to assist his General; but never could they lay hands upon the lovely sky fairy, who flitted here and there with the swiftness of light and constantly defied them with her merry laughter as she evaded their efforts.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000047_000000|"Well," said Polychrome, "what do you intend to do now?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000048_000000|"I'm going to have some fun, to repay me for all my bother," replied the Nome King.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000048_000001|Then he said to Kaliko: "Summon the executioners."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000049_000000|Kaliko at once withdrew and presently returned with a score of nomes, all of whom were nearly as evil looking as their hated master.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000049_000001|They bore great golden pincers, and prods of silver, and clamps and chains and various wicked looking instruments, all made of precious metals and set with diamonds and rubies.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000050_000000|"Now, Pang," said Ruggedo, addressing the leader of the executioners, "fetch the Army of Oogaboo and their Queen from the pit and torture them here in my presence-as well as in the presence of their friends. It will be great sport."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000051_000000|"I hear Your Majesty, and I obey Your Majesty," answered Pang, and went with his nomes into the passage.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000051_000001|In a few minutes he returned and bowed to Ruggedo.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000052_000000|"They're all gone," said he.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000053_000001|"Gone where?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000054_000000|"They left no address, Your Majesty; but they are not in the pit."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000055_000000|"Picks and puddles!" roared the King; "who took the cover off?"
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000056_000001|"The cover was there, but the prisoners were not under it."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000057_000000|"In that case," snarled the King, trying to control his disappointment, "go to the Slimy Cave and fetch hither the girl and the donkey.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000057_000001|And while we are torturing them Kaliko must take a hundred nomes and search for the escaped prisoners-the Queen of Oogaboo and her officers.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000059_000000|"There is no one in the Slimy Cave, Your Majesty," reported Pang.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000060_000000|"Jumping jellycakes!" screamed the King.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000060_000001|"Another escape?
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000061_000000|"There is but one Slimy Cave, and there is no one in it," returned Pang positively.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000062_000000|Ruggedo was beginning to be alarmed as well as angry.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000062_000001|However, these disappointments but made him the more vindictive and he cast an evil look at the other prisoners and said:
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000063_000000|"Never mind the girl and the donkey.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000063_000001|Here are four, at least, who cannot escape my vengeance.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000063_000002|Let me see; I believe I'll change my mind about Tik Tok.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000063_000003|Have the gold crucible heated to a white, seething heat, and then we'll dump the copper man into it and melt him up."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000064_000000|"But, Your Majesty," protested Kaliko, who had returned to the room after sending a hundred nomes to search for the Oogaboo people, "you must remember that Tik Tok is a very curious and interesting machine. It would be a shame to deprive the world of such a clever contrivance."
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000065_000000|"Say another word, and you'll go into the furnace with him!" roared the King.
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000065_000001|"I'm getting tired of you, Kaliko, and the first thing you know I'll turn you into a potato and make Saratoga chips of you!
train-other-500/1373/135029/1373_135029_000065_000003|As he owns the Love Magnet, I think I'll transform him into a dove, and then we can practice shooting at him with Tik Tok's gun.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000003_000000|DAY and night again, day and night again.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000003_000001|No Stephen Blackpool.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000003_000002|Where was the man, and why did he not come back?
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000004_000000|Every night, Sissy went to Rachael's lodging, and sat with her in her small neat room.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000004_000001|All day, Rachael toiled as such people must toil, whatever their anxieties.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000004_000002|The smoke serpents were indifferent who was lost or found, who turned out bad or good; the melancholy mad elephants, like the Hard Fact men, abated nothing of their set routine, whatever happened.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000004_000003|Day and night again, day and night again.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000004_000004|The monotony was unbroken.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000005_000000|'I misdoubt,' said Rachael, 'if there is as many as twenty left in all this place, who have any trust in the poor dear lad now.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000007_000000|'If it hadn't been mercifully brought about, that I was to have you to speak to,' pursued Rachael, 'times are, when I think my mind would not have kept right.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000007_000001|But I get hope and strength through you; and you believe that though appearances may rise against him, he will be proved clear?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000008_000000|'I do believe so,' returned Sissy, 'with my whole heart.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000008_000001|I feel so certain, Rachael, that the confidence you hold in yours against all discouragement, is not like to be wrong, that I have no more doubt of him than if I had known him through as many years of trial as you have.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000009_000000|'And I, my dear,' said Rachel, with a tremble in her voice, 'have known him through them all, to be, according to his quiet ways, so faithful to everything honest and good, that if he was never to be heard of more, and I was to live to be a hundred years old, I could say with my last breath, God knows my heart.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000009_000001|I have never once left trusting Stephen Blackpool!'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000010_000000|'We all believe, up at the Lodge, Rachael, that he will be freed from suspicion, sooner or later.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000012_000000|'You don't mistrust her now, Rachael?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000014_000000|Her voice so sunk into a low and slow communing with herself, that Sissy, sitting by her side, was obliged to listen with attention.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000015_000000|'I can't at all times keep out of my mind, mistrustings of some one.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000015_000001|I can't think who 'tis, I can't think how or why it may be done, but I mistrust that some one has put Stephen out of the way.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000015_000002|I mistrust that by his coming back of his own accord, and showing himself innocent before them all, some one would be confounded, who—to prevent that—has stopped him, and put him out of the way.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000016_000000|'That is a dreadful thought,' said Sissy, turning pale.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000018_000000|Sissy shuddered, and turned paler yet.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000019_000001|I must get the better of this before bed time.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000020_000000|'He might fall ill upon the journey back,' said Sissy, faintly offering a worn out scrap of hope; 'and in such a case, there are many places on the road where he might stop.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000021_000000|'But he is in none of them.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000021_000001|He has been sought for in all, and he's not there.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000022_000000|'True,' was Sissy's reluctant admission.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000023_000001|If he was footsore and couldn't walk, I sent him, in the letter he got, the money to ride, lest he should have none of his own to spare.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000024_000000|'Let us hope that to morrow will bring something better, Rachael.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000024_000001|Come into the air!'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000025_000000|Her gentle hand adjusted Rachael's shawl upon her shining black hair in the usual manner of her wearing it, and they went out.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000025_000001|The night being fine, little knots of Hands were here and there lingering at street corners; but it was supper time with the greater part of them, and there were but few people in the streets.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000026_000000|'You're not so hurried now, Rachael, and your hand is cooler.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000027_000000|'I get better, dear, if I can only walk, and breathe a little fresh. 'Times when I can't, I turn weak and confused.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000028_000001|To morrow is Saturday.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000028_000002|If no news comes to morrow, let us walk in the country on Sunday morning, and strengthen you for another week.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000028_000003|Will you go?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000029_000000|'Yes, dear.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000030_000000|They were by this time in the street where mr Bounderby's house stood. The way to Sissy's destination led them past the door, and they were going straight towards it.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000030_000001|Some train had newly arrived in Coketown, which had put a number of vehicles in motion, and scattered a considerable bustle about the town.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000030_000002|Several coaches were rattling before them and behind them as they approached mr Bounderby's, and one of the latter drew up with such briskness as they were in the act of passing the house, that they looked round involuntarily.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000031_000000|'It's a coincidence,' exclaimed mrs Sparsit, as she was released by the coachman.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000031_000001|'It's a Providence!
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000031_000002|Come out, ma'am!' then said mrs Sparsit, to some one inside, 'come out, or we'll have you dragged out!'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000032_000000|Hereupon, no other than the mysterious old woman descended.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000033_000000|'Leave her alone, everybody!' cried mrs Sparsit, with great energy. 'Let nobody touch her.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000033_000001|She belongs to me.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000033_000002|Come in, ma'am!' then said mrs Sparsit, reversing her former word of command.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000033_000003|'Come in, ma'am, or we'll have you dragged in!'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000034_000000|The spectacle of a matron of classical deportment, seizing an ancient woman by the throat, and hauling her into a dwelling house, would have been under any circumstances, sufficient temptation to all true English stragglers so blest as to witness it, to force a way into that dwelling house and see the matter out.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000035_000000|'Fetch mr Bounderby down!' cried mrs Sparsit.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000035_000001|'Rachael, young woman; you know who this is?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000036_000000|'It's mrs Pegler,' said Rachael.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000037_000000|'I should think it is!' cried mrs Sparsit, exulting.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000037_000002|Stand away, everybody!' Here old mrs Pegler, muffling herself up, and shrinking from observation, whispered a word of entreaty. 'Don't tell me,' said mrs Sparsit, aloud.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000038_000000|mr Bounderby now appeared, accompanied by mr Gradgrind and the whelp, with whom he had been holding conference up stairs.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000038_000001|mr Bounderby looked more astonished than hospitable, at sight of this uninvited party in his dining room.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000039_000000|'Why, what's the matter now!' said he.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000039_000001|'mrs
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000039_000002|Sparsit, ma'am?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000040_000000|'Sir,' explained that worthy woman, 'I trust it is my good fortune to produce a person you have much desired to find.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000040_000001|Stimulated by my wish to relieve your mind, sir, and connecting together such imperfect clues to the part of the country in which that person might be supposed to reside, as have been afforded by the young woman, Rachael, fortunately now present to identify, I have had the happiness to succeed, and to bring that person with me—I need not say most unwillingly on her part.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000042_000000|'Why, what do you mean by this?' was his highly unexpected demand, in great warmth.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000042_000001|'I ask you, what do you mean by this, mrs Sparsit, ma'am?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000043_000000|'Sir!' exclaimed mrs Sparsit, faintly.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000044_000000|'Why don't you mind your own business, ma'am?' roared Bounderby.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000044_000001|'How dare you go and poke your officious nose into my family affairs?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000045_000000|This allusion to her favourite feature overpowered mrs Sparsit.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000046_000000|'My dear Josiah!' cried mrs Pegler, trembling.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000046_000001|'My darling boy!
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000046_000003|It's not my fault, Josiah.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000047_000000|'What did you let her bring you for?
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000048_000002|Pegler glanced timidly but proudly round the walls—'such a fine house as this.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000048_000003|Indeed, indeed, it is not my fault! My dear, noble, stately boy!
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000048_000005|I have never broken the condition once.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000049_000000|mr Bounderby, with his hands in his pockets, walked in impatient mortification up and down at the side of the long dining table, while the spectators greedily took in every syllable of mrs Pegler's appeal, and at each succeeding syllable became more and more round eyed.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000050_000000|'I am surprised, madam,' he observed with severity, 'that in your old age you have the face to claim mr Bounderby for your son, after your unnatural and inhuman treatment of him.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000051_000001|To my dear boy?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000052_000000|'Dear!' repeated mr Gradgrind.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000052_000001|'Yes; dear in his self made prosperity, madam, I dare say.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000052_000002|Not very dear, however, when you deserted him in his infancy, and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother.'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000053_000001|'Now, Lord forgive you, sir, for your wicked imaginations, and for your scandal against the memory of my poor mother, who died in my arms before Josiah was born.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000053_000002|May you repent of it, sir, and live to know better!'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000054_000000|She was so very earnest and injured, that mr Gradgrind, shocked by the possibility which dawned upon him, said in a gentler tone:
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000055_000000|'Do you deny, then, madam, that you left your son to—to be brought up in the gutter?'
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000056_000000|'Josiah in the gutter!' exclaimed mrs Pegler.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000056_000002|For shame on you!
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000056_000008|And I never have, except with looking at him once a year, when he has never knowed it.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000058_000000|'I don't exactly know,' said mr Bounderby, 'how I come to be favoured with the attendance of the present company, but I don't inquire.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000058_000001|When they're quite satisfied, perhaps they'll be so good as to disperse; whether they're satisfied or not, perhaps they'll be so good as to disperse.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000058_000002|I'm not bound to deliver a lecture on my family affairs, I have not undertaken to do it, and I'm not a going to do it.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000058_000003|Therefore those who expect any explanation whatever upon that branch of the subject, will be disappointed—particularly Tom Gradgrind, and he can't know it too soon.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000058_000004|In reference to the Bank robbery, there has been a mistake made, concerning my mother.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000059_000000|Although mr Bounderby carried it off in these terms, holding the door open for the company to depart, there was a blustering sheepishness upon him, at once extremely crestfallen and superlatively absurd.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000059_000001|Detected as the Bully of humility, who had built his windy reputation upon lies, and in his boastfulness had put the honest truth as far away from him as if he had advanced the mean claim (there is no meaner) to tack himself on to a pedigree, he cut a most ridiculous figure.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000059_000003|Even that unlucky female, mrs Sparsit, fallen from her pinnacle of exultation into the Slough of Despond, was not in so bad a plight as that remarkable man and self made Humbug, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000060_000000|Rachael and Sissy, leaving mrs Pegler to occupy a bed at her son's for that night, walked together to the gate of Stone Lodge and there parted. mr Gradgrind joined them before they had gone very far, and spoke with much interest of Stephen Blackpool; for whom he thought this signal failure of the suspicions against mrs Pegler was likely to work well.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000061_000000|As to the whelp; throughout this scene as on all other late occasions, he had stuck close to Bounderby.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000061_000001|He seemed to feel that as long as Bounderby could make no discovery without his knowledge, he was so far safe.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000061_000002|He never visited his sister, and had only seen her once since she went home: that is to say on the night when he still stuck close to Bounderby, as already related.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000062_000000|There was one dim unformed fear lingering about his sister's mind, to which she never gave utterance, which surrounded the graceless and ungrateful boy with a dreadful mystery.
train-other-500/1374/133833/1374_133833_000062_000001|The same dark possibility had presented itself in the same shapeless guise, this very day, to Sissy, when Rachael spoke of some one who would be confounded by Stephen's return, having put him out of the way.
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train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000001_000000|I insist upon it
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000002_000000|I intend to propose
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000003_000000|I know from experience how
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000004_000000|I know full well
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000005_000000|I know I am treading on thin ice
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000006_000000|I know it has been questioned
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000007_000000|I know it is said
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000008_000000|I know it will be said
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000009_000000|I know many reasons why
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000010_000000|I know not how else to express
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000011_000000|I know not in what direction to look
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000012_000000|I know not of my own knowledge
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000013_000000|I know not where else to find
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000014_000000|I know perfectly well
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000015_000000|I know that it is impossible for me to
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000016_000000|I know that this is the feeling
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000017_000000|I know that what I may say is true
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000018_000000|I know there are some who think
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000019_000000|I know there is a theory among us
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000020_000000|I know too well
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000021_000000|I know very well the difference between
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000022_000000|I know well it is not for me
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000023_000000|I know well the sentiments
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000024_000000|I know you are all impatient to hear
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000025_000000|I know you will do all in your power
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000026_000000|I know you will interpret what I say
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000029_000000|I lay it down as a principle
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000030_000000|I leave history to judge
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000031_000000|I leave it to you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000032_000000|I leave the arduous task
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000033_000000|I leave to others to speak
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000034_000000|I long to speak a word or two
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000035_000000|I look hopefully to
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000036_000000|I look in vain
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000037_000000|I look with encouragement
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000038_000000|I look with inexpressible dread
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000039_000000|I look with mingled hope and terror
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000040_000000|I make my appeal to
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000041_000000|I make no extravagant claim
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000042_000000|I make this abrupt acknowledgment
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000043_000000|I marvel that
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000044_000000|I may add, speaking for my own part
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000045_000000|I may be allowed to make one remark
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000046_000000|I may be permitted to add
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000047_000000|I may confess to you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000048_000000|I may safely appeal
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000049_000000|I may say to you calmly
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000050_000000|I may seem to have been diffuse
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000051_000000|I may take as an instance
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000052_000000|I may venture upon a review
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000053_000000|I mean by this
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000054_000000|I mean, moreover
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000056_000000|I mention it to you to justify
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000057_000000|I mention these facts because
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000058_000000|I mention this, not by way of complaint
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000059_000000|I might bring you another such case
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000060_000000|I might deny that
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000061_000000|I might enter into such detail
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000062_000000|I might go further
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000063_000000|I might go on indefinitely
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000064_000000|I might go on to illustrate
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000065_000000|I might of course point first
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000066_000000|I might reasonably question the justice
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000067_000000|I might try to explain
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000068_000000|I might venture to claim
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000069_000000|I might well have desired
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000070_000000|I might well think
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000071_000000|I must ask an abrupt question
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000072_000000|I must be careful about what I say
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000073_000000|I must be contented with
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000074_000000|I must be excused if I say
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000076_000000|I must call your attention for a moment
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000077_000000|I must conclude abruptly
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000078_000000|I must confess that I became rather alarmed
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000080_000000|I must crave your indulgence
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000082_000000|I must fairly tell you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000083_000000|I must find some fault with
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000084_000000|I must for want of time omit
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000085_000000|I must here admit
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000086_000000|I must lament
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000087_000000|I must leave any detailed development
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000088_000000|I must mention with praise
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000089_000000|I must not allow myself to indulge
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000090_000000|I must not for an instant be supposed
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000091_000000|I must not overlook
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000092_000000|I must now beg to ask
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000093_000000|I must pause a moment to
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000094_000000|I must proceed
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000095_000000|I must qualify the statement
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000096_000000|I must remind my hearers of
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000097_000000|I must reply to some observations
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000098_000000|I must return to the subject
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000100_000000|I must speak plainly
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000101_000000|I must suppose, however
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000102_000000|I must take occasion to say
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000103_000000|I must thank you once more
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000104_000000|I must try to describe to you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000105_000000|I myself have boundless faith
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000106_000000|I need not assure this brilliant company
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000107_000000|I need not dwell
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000108_000000|I need not enter into
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000109_000000|I need not follow out the application
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000110_000000|I need not, I am certain, assure you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000111_000000|I need not say how much I thank you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000112_000000|I need not show how inconsistent
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000113_000000|I need not specially recommend to you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000114_000000|I need not wander far in search
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000115_000000|I need only to observe
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000116_000000|I need say nothing in praise
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000117_000000|I need scarcely observe
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000118_000000|I need to guard myself right here
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000119_000000|I neither affirm nor deny
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000120_000000|I next come to the implicit assumption
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000121_000000|I note with particular pleasure
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000122_000000|I notice it as affording an instance
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000123_000000|I noticed incidentally the fact
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000124_000000|I now address you on a question
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000125_000000|I now come, sir, to the second head
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000126_000000|I now have the pleasure of presenting to you
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000127_000000|I now pass to the question of
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000128_000000|I now proceed to inquire
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000129_000000|I now reiterate
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000131_000000|I observe, then, in the first place
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000132_000000|I only ask a favorable construction of
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000133_000000|I only marvel
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000134_000000|I only wish you to recognize
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000135_000000|I open the all important question
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000136_000000|I ought to give an illustration
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000137_000000|I own I can not help feeling
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000138_000000|I particularly allude to
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000140_000000|I pass then to our second division
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000141_000000|I pause for a moment to say
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000142_000000|I pause to confess once more
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000143_000000|I pay tribute to
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000144_000000|I personally know that it is so
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000145_000000|I pray God I may never
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000146_000000|I predict that you will
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000147_000000|I prefer a practical view
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000148_000000|I presume I shall have to admit
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000149_000000|I presume that I shall not be disbelieved
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000150_000000|I proceed to another important phase
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000151_000000|I profess
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000152_000000|I propose briefly to glance at
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000153_000000|I propose, therefore to consider
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000155_000000|I purposely have avoided
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000156_000000|I question whether
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000157_000000|I quite endorse what has been said
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000158_000000|I rather look forward to a time
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000159_000000|I readily grant
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000161_000000|I really do not know
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000162_000000|I really thought that you would excuse me
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000163_000000|I recall another historical fact
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000164_000000|I recognize the high compliment conveyed
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000166_000000|I refer especially
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000167_000000|I refuse to believe
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000168_000000|I regard as an erroneous view
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000169_000000|I regard it as a tribute
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000170_000000|I regard it as a very great honor
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000171_000000|I regret that I am not able to remember
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000172_000000|I regret that it is not possible for me
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000173_000000|I regret the time limits me
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000174_000000|I regret this the less
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000175_000000|I rejoice in an occasion like this
train-other-500/1384/130531/1384_130531_000176_000000|I rejoice that events have occurred
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000000_000001|One day a tiger spied them out as they were roasting tubers and came up to them suddenly and said.
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000000_000002|"What are you cooking?
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000000_000007|Kara wanted to eat it but Guja would not let him, so Kara carried it away on his shoulder.
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000001_000000|Presently they sat down in the shade of a banyan tree by the side of a road and along the road came a Raja's wedding procession; when Kara and Guja saw this they climbed into the tree and took the tiger's paunch up with them.
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000001_000001|The wedding party came to a halt at the foot of the tree and some of them lay down to eat and the Raja got out of his palki and lay down to sleep in the shade.
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000002_000002|When the Raja's attendants came back and saw that there were two men in the tree, they called out: "Why have you dishonoured our Raja?
train-other-500/1403/130575/1403_130575_000002_000003|We will kill you." Kara and Guja answered "Come and see who will do the killing." So they began to fight and the Raja's men fired their guns at Kara and Guja till they were tired of shooting, and had used up all their powder and shot, but they never hit them.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000002_000001|"Vizier," said he, "I will take a walk round the town, to inform myself what people say, and particularly how they are pleased with my officers of justice.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000003_000000|They passed through several places, and by several markets.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000003_000001|As they entered a small street, they perceived by the light of the moon, a tall man, with a white beard, who carried nets on his head, and a staff in his hand.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000003_000003|The old man replied, "Sir, I am a fisher, but one of the poorest and most miserable of the trade.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000004_000000|The caliph, moved with compassion, said to the fisherman, "Hast thou the courage to go back and cast thy net once more?
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000005_000000|They came to the bank of the river, and the fisherman, having thrown in his net, when he drew it again, brought up a trunk close shut, and very heavy.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000005_000001|The caliph made the grand vizier pay him one hundred sequins immediately, and sent him away.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000005_000003|When the trunk was opened, they found in it a large basket made of palm leaves, shut up, and the covering of it sewed with red thread.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000006_000000|The astonishment of the caliph was great at this dreadful spectacle.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000006_000001|His surprise was instantly changed into passion, and darting an angry look at the vizier, "Thou wretch," said he, "is this your inspection into the actions of my people?
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000008_000000|He ordered the officers of the police and justice to make strict search for the criminal.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000008_000001|They sent their servants about, and they were not idle themselves, for they were no less concerned in this matter than the vizier.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000008_000002|But all their endeavours were to no purpose; what pains soever they took they could not discover the murderer; so that the vizier concluded his life to be lost.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000009_000000|The third day being arrived, an officer came to the unfortunate minister, with a summons to follow him, which the vizier obeyed. The caliph asked him for the murderer.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000011_000000|When all things were ready, the criminal judge, and many officers belonging to the palace, having brought out the grand vizier with the forty Bermukkees, set each by the stake designed for him.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000012_000001|Withdraw, and let me expiate the death of the lady that was thrown into the Tigris.
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000012_000002|It is I who murdered her, and I deserve to be punished for my offence."
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000014_000001|When he came before the prince, he kissed the ground seven times, and spake after this manner: "Commander of the faithful, I have brought here before your majesty this old and this young man, each of whom declares himself to be the sole murderer of the lady." The caliph asked the criminals which of them it was that so cruelly murdered the lady, and threw her into the Tigris?
train-other-500/1403/135907/1403_135907_000014_000002|The young man assured him it was he, but the old man maintained the contrary.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000002_000000|THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000003_000001|The imperative call to common defense, the habit of sharing common burdens, the fusing force of common service-these things, induced by the necessity of resisting outside interference, act as an amalgam drawing together all elements, except, perhaps, the most discordant.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000003_000002|The presence of the enemy allays the most virulent of quarrels, temporarily at least.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000003_000003|"Politics," runs an old saying, "stops at the water's edge."
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000004_000001|The necessity for common defense, if not equally great, was certainly always pressing.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000004_000002|Though it has long been the practice to speak of the early settlements as founded in "a wilderness," this was not actually the case.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000004_000003|From the earliest days of Jamestown on through the years, the American people were confronted by dangers from without.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000004_000004|All about their tiny settlements were Indians, growing more and more hostile as the frontier advanced and as sharp conflicts over land aroused angry passions.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000004_000005|To the south and west was the power of Spain, humiliated, it is true, by the disaster to the Armada, but still presenting an imposing front to the British empire.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000004_000006|To the north and west were the French, ambitious, energetic, imperial in temper, and prepared to contest on land and water the advance of British dominion in America.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000006_000001|The problem was presented in different shape in different sections of America.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000006_000002|It was not handled according to any coherent or uniform plan by the British government, which alone could speak for all the provinces at the same time.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000006_000004|As the difficulties arose mainly on the frontiers, where the restless and pushing pioneers were making their way with gun and ax, nearly everything that happened was the result of chance rather than of calculation.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000007_000001|On the other side of the ledger must be recorded many a cruel and bloody conflict as the frontier rolled westward with deadly precision.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000007_000002|The Pequots on the Connecticut border, sensing their doom, fell upon the tiny settlements with awful fury in sixteen thirty seven only to meet with equally terrible punishment.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000007_000003|A generation later, King Philip, son of Massasoit, the friend of the Pilgrims, called his tribesmen to a war of extermination which brought the strength of all New England to the field and ended in his own destruction.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000007_000006|In sixteen twenty two Opecacano, a brother of Powhatan, the friend of the Jamestown settlers, launched a general massacre; and in sixteen forty four he attempted a war of extermination.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000007_000007|In sixteen seventy five the whole frontier was ablaze. Nathaniel Bacon vainly attempted to stir the colonial governor to put up an adequate defense and, failing in that plea, himself headed a revolt and a successful expedition against the Indians.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000010_000001|Pennsylvania, consistently following a policy of conciliation, was likewise spared until her western vanguard came into full conflict with the allied French and Indians.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000010_000002|Georgia, by clever negotiations and treaties of alliance, managed to keep on fair terms with her belligerent Cherokees and Creeks.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000010_000003|But neither diplomacy nor generosity could stay the inevitable conflict as the frontier advanced, especially after the French soldiers enlisted the Indians in their imperial enterprises.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000010_000004|It was then that desultory fighting became general warfare.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000012_000003|It was the ambition of Louis the fourteenth of France, rather than the labors of Jesuit missionaries and French rangers, that sounded the first note of colonial alarm.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000014_000002|In seventeen eighteen, the French founded New Orleans, thus taking possession of the gateway to the Mississippi as well as the saint Lawrence.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000014_000005|Though they were warned by George Washington, in the name of the governor of Virginia, to keep out of territory "so notoriously known to be property of the crown of Great Britain," the French showed no signs of relinquishing their pretensions.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000017_000003|On the continent of Europe, England subsidized Prussian arms to hold France at bay.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000017_000004|In India, on the banks of the Ganges, as on the banks of the saint Lawrence, British arms were triumphant.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000017_000005|Well could the historian write: "Conquests equaling in rapidity and far surpassing in magnitude those of Cortes and Pizarro had been achieved in the East." Well could the merchants of London declare that under the administration of William Pitt, the imperial genius of this world-wide conflict, commerce had been "united with and made to flourish by war."
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000018_000000|From the point of view of the British empire, the results of the war were momentous.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000018_000002|The remainder of the Louisiana territory was transferred to Spain and French imperial ambitions on the American continent were laid to rest.
train-other-500/1403/138552/1403_138552_000018_000003|In exchange for Havana, which the British had seized during the war, Spain ceded to King George the colony of Florida.
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000003_000000|L
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000004_000000|Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000005_000000|Lastly, I do not understand
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000006_000000|Lastly, it can not be denied
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000007_000000|Less than this could not be said
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000008_000000|Lest I should be accused of quibbling
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000009_000000|Let all of us labor in this work
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000010_000000|Let anyone imagine to himself
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000011_000000|Let anyone who doubts
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000012_000000|Let everyone consider
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000013_000000|Let it be clearly understood, I repeat it
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000014_000000|Let it be remembered
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000015_000000|Let it not be objected
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000017_000000|Let me add another thing
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000018_000000|Let me add my final word
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000019_000000|Let me add one other hint
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000020_000000|Let me also say a word in regard
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000021_000000|Let me answer these questions
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000022_000000|Let me ask you to imagine
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000023_000000|Let me ask your leave to propose
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000024_000000|Let me be allowed to devote a few words
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000025_000000|Let me call attention to another fact
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000026_000000|Let me commend to you
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000027_000000|Let me direct your attention now to
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000028_000000|Let me entreat you to examine
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000029_000000|Let me give one more instance
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000030_000000|Let me give one parting word
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000031_000000|Let me give you an illustration
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000032_000000|Let me here make one remark
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000033_000000|Let me here say
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000034_000000|Let me hope that I have said enough
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000035_000000|Let me illustrate again
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000036_000000|Let me make myself distinctly understood
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000037_000000|Let me make use of an illustration
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000039_000000|Let me now conclude with
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000040_000000|Let me once more urge upon you
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000041_000000|Let me protest against the manner
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000042_000000|Let me quite temperately defend
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000043_000000|Let me rather make the supposition
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000044_000000|Let me say a practical word
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000045_000000|Let me simply declare
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000046_000000|Let me tell you an interesting reminiscence
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000047_000000|Let me thank you once more
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000048_000000|Let me urge you earnestly
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000049_000000|Let no man congratulate himself
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000050_000000|Let our conception be enlarged
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000051_000000|Let our object be
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000052_000000|Let that question be answered by
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000053_000000|Let the facts be granted
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000054_000000|Let these instances suffice
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000055_000000|Let this be the record made
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000056_000000|Let this inspire us with abhorrence of
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000057_000000|Let us approach the subject from another side
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000058_000000|Let us attempt a survey
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000059_000000|Let us be perfectly just
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000060_000000|Let us be quite practical
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000061_000000|Let us bear perpetually in mind
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000062_000000|Let us begin at the beginning
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000063_000000|Let us begin by examining
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000064_000000|Let us briefly review
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000065_000000|Let us brush aside once for all
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000066_000000|Let us cherish
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000067_000000|Let us confirm our opinion
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000068_000000|Let us consider for a moment
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000069_000000|Let us devote ourselves
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000070_000000|Let us discard all prejudice
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000071_000000|Let us do all we can
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000072_000000|Let us draw an illustration
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000073_000000|Let us endeavor to understand
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000074_000000|Let us enumerate
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000075_000000|Let us figure to ourselves
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000076_000000|Let us for the moment put aside
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000077_000000|Let us get a clear understanding
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000078_000000|Let us heed the voice
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000079_000000|Let us hope and believe
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000080_000000|Let us hope that future generations
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000081_000000|Let us imitate
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000082_000000|Let us inquire also
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000083_000000|Let us labor and pray
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000084_000000|Let us likewise remember
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000085_000000|Let us look briefly at a few particulars
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000086_000000|Let us look nearer home
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000087_000000|Let us not be fearful
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000088_000000|Let us not be misled
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000089_000000|Let us not be misunderstood
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000090_000000|Let us not flatter ourselves
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000091_000000|Let us not for a moment forget
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000092_000000|Let us not limit our view
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000093_000000|Let us now apply the views presented
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000094_000000|Let us now consider the characteristics
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000095_000000|Let us now see the results
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000096_000000|Let us now turn our consideration
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000097_000000|Let us observe this analogy
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000098_000000|Let us pass on to another fact
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000099_000000|Let us pause a moment
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000100_000000|Let us push the inquiry yet further
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000101_000000|Let us rather listen to
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000102_000000|Let us reflect how vain
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000103_000000|Let us remember this
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000104_000000|Let us remind ourselves
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000105_000000|Let us resolve
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000106_000000|Let us scrutinize the facts
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000107_000000|Let us suppose, for argument's sake
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000108_000000|Let us suppose the case to be
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000109_000000|Let us take, for instance
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000110_000000|Let us, then, be assured
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000111_000000|Let us, then, be worthy of
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000112_000000|Let us, therefore, say once for all
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000113_000000|Let us try to form a mental picture
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000114_000000|Let us turn to the contemplation of
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000115_000000|Let your imagination realize
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000116_000000|Like all citizens of high ideals
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000117_000000|Likely enough
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000118_000000|Little wonder therefore
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000119_000000|Long have I been convinced
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000120_000000|Look at it in another way
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000121_000000|Look at some of these questions
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000122_000000|Look at the situation
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000123_000000|M
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000124_000000|Mainly, I believe
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000125_000000|Making allowances for differences of opinion
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000126_000000|Many of us have had the good fortune
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000127_000000|Many of you, perhaps, recollect
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000128_000000|May I ask you to believe
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000129_000000|May I not speak here
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000130_000000|May I try to show that every effort
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000131_000000|May I venture to suggest
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000132_000000|May it not also be advanced
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000133_000000|May the day come quickly
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000134_000000|Meantime it is encouraging to think
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000135_000000|Meanwhile let us freely recognize
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000136_000000|Men are in the habit of saying
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000137_000000|Men are telling us nowadays
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000138_000000|Men everywhere testify
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000139_000000|More and more it is felt
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000140_000000|More than once have I had to express
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000141_000000|More than this need not be said
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000142_000000|Moreover, I have insisted
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000143_000000|Moreover, I would counsel you
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000144_000000|Moreover, when we pass judgment
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000145_000000|Much has been said and written about
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000146_000000|My appreciation has been quickened
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000147_000000|My belief, therefore, is
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000148_000000|My duty is to endeavor to show
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000149_000000|My experience tells me
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000150_000000|My first duty is to express to you
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000151_000000|My friends, do you really believe
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000152_000000|My friends, I propose
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000153_000000|My heart tells me
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000154_000000|My idea, therefore, is
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000155_000000|My last criticism upon
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000156_000000|My mind is not moved by
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000157_000000|My mind most perfectly acquiesces
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000158_000000|My next objection is
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000159_000000|My own private opinion is
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000160_000000|My present business is
train-other-500/1414/130538/1414_130538_000161_000000|My regret is intensified by the thought
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000002_000000|Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much serious consideration.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000002_000002|She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good breeding.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000002_000003|She had a cultivated mind, and was, generally speaking, rational and consistent; but she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000002_000004|Herself the widow of only a knight, she gave the dignity of a baronet all its due; and Sir Walter, independent of his claims as an old acquaintance, an attentive neighbour, an obliging landlord, the husband of her very dear friend, the father of Anne and her sisters, was, as being Sir Walter, in her apprehension, entitled to a great deal of compassion and consideration under his present difficulties.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000003_000000|They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000003_000001|But she was very anxious to have it done with the least possible pain to him and Elizabeth.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000003_000002|She drew up plans of economy, she made exact calculations, and she did what nobody else thought of doing: she consulted Anne, who never seemed considered by the others as having any interest in the question.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000003_000004|Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000003_000005|She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000004_000000|"If we can persuade your father to all this," said Lady Russell, looking over her paper, "much may be done.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000004_000002|What will he be doing, in fact, but what very many of our first families have done, or ought to do?
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000004_000004|I have great hope of prevailing.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000005_000000|This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be proceeding, his friends to be urging him.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000005_000001|She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000005_000003|She rated Lady Russell's influence highly; and as to the severe degree of self denial which her own conscience prompted, she believed there might be little more difficulty in persuading them to a complete, than to half a reformation.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000005_000004|Her knowledge of her father and Elizabeth inclined her to think that the sacrifice of one pair of horses would be hardly less painful than of both, and so on, through the whole list of Lady Russell's too gentle reductions.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000006_000001|Lady Russell's had no success at all: could not be put up with, were not to be borne.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000006_000002|"What! every comfort of life knocked off! Journeys, London, servants, horses, table-contractions and restrictions every where!
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000006_000003|To live no longer with the decencies even of a private gentleman!
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000007_000001|"Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000007_000002|It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000007_000003|In any other place Sir Walter might judge for himself; and would be looked up to, as regulating the modes of life in whatever way he might choose to model his household."
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000008_000000|Sir Walter would quit Kellynch Hall; and after a very few days more of doubt and indecision, the great question of whither he should go was settled, and the first outline of this important change made out.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000009_000000|There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in the country.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000009_000001|All Anne's wishes had been for the latter.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000009_000002|A small house in their own neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell's society, still be near Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes seeing the lawns and groves of Kellynch, was the object of her ambition.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000009_000004|She disliked Bath, and did not think it agreed with her; and Bath was to be her home.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000011_000001|It would be too much to expect Sir Walter to descend into a small house in his own neighbourhood.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000012_000000|Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must suit them all; and as to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided; and it was in fact, a change which must do both health and spirits good.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000012_000002|Her spirits were not high.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000012_000003|A larger society would improve them.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000012_000004|She wanted her to be more known.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000013_000000|The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000013_000001|He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000013_000002|Kellynch Hall was to be let.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000013_000003|This, however, was a profound secret, not to be breathed beyond their own circle.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000014_000000|Sir Walter could not have borne the degradation of being known to design letting his house.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000014_000001|Mr Shepherd had once mentioned the word "advertise," but never dared approach it again.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000014_000002|Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000015_000000|How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000015_000001|Lady Russell had another excellent one at hand, for being extremely glad that Sir Walter and his family were to remove from the country.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000015_000002|Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted. It was with the daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burden of two children.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000016_000000|Lady Russell, indeed, had scarcely any influence with Elizabeth, and seemed to love her, rather because she would love her, than because Elizabeth deserved it.
train-other-500/1421/8522/1421_8522_000016_000001|She had never received from her more than outward attention, nothing beyond the observances of complaisance; had never succeeded in any point which she wanted to carry, against previous inclination.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000000_000000|Chapter fourteen
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000001_000000|Though Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and Mrs Musgrove's going than Anne conceived they could have been at all wanted, they were yet the first of the family to be at home again; and as soon as possible after their return to Uppercross they drove over to the Lodge.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000002_000000|They had been all in lodgings together.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000003_000000|Mary had had her evils; but upon the whole, as was evident by her staying so long, she had found more to enjoy than to suffer.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000004_000000|Anne enquired after Captain Benwick, Mary's face was clouded directly. Charles laughed.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000005_000001|I do not know what he would be at.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000006_000000|Charles laughed again and said, "Now Mary, you know very well how it really was.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000006_000001|It was all your doing," (turning to Anne.) "He fancied that if he went with us, he should find you close by: he fancied everybody to be living in Uppercross; and when he discovered that Lady Russell lived three miles off, his heart failed him, and he had not courage to come.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000006_000002|That is the fact, upon my honour, Mary knows it is."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000007_000000|But Mary did not give into it very graciously, whether from not considering Captain Benwick entitled by birth and situation to be in love with an Elliot, or from not wanting to believe Anne a greater attraction to Uppercross than herself, must be left to be guessed. Anne's good will, however, was not to be lessened by what she heard. She boldly acknowledged herself flattered, and continued her enquiries.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000008_000002|I declare, Anne, he never talks of you at all."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000009_000000|"No," admitted Charles, "I do not know that he ever does, in a general way; but however, it is a very clear thing that he admires you exceedingly.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000009_000001|His head is full of some books that he is reading upon your recommendation, and he wants to talk to you about them; he has found out something or other in one of them which he thinks-oh!
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000009_000002|I cannot pretend to remember it, but it was something very fine-I overheard him telling Henrietta all about it; and then 'Miss Elliot' was spoken of in the highest terms!
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000009_000003|Now Mary, I declare it was so, I heard it myself, and you were in the other room.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000010_000001|Miss Harville only died last June.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000010_000002|Such a heart is very little worth having; is it, Lady Russell?
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000010_000003|I am sure you will agree with me."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000011_000000|"I must see Captain Benwick before I decide," said Lady Russell, smiling.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000012_000001|"Though he had not nerves for coming away with us, and setting off again afterwards to pay a formal visit here, he will make his way over to Kellynch one day by himself, you may depend on it.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000012_000003|So, I give you notice, Lady Russell."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000013_000000|"Any acquaintance of Anne's will always be welcome to me," was Lady Russell's kind answer.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000015_000000|"Well, as your joint acquaintance, then, I shall be very happy to see Captain Benwick."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000016_000000|"You will not find anything very agreeable in him, I assure you, ma'am. He is one of the dullest young men that ever lived.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000016_000001|He has walked with me, sometimes, from one end of the sands to the other, without saying a word.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000016_000002|He is not at all a well bred young man.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000016_000003|I am sure you will not like him."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000017_000000|"There we differ, Mary," said Anne.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000017_000001|"I think Lady Russell would like him.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000017_000002|I think she would be so much pleased with his mind, that she would very soon see no deficiency in his manner."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000018_000002|Give him a book, and he will read all day long."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000019_000000|"Yes, that he will!" exclaimed Mary, tauntingly.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000019_000002|Do you think Lady Russell would like that?"
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000020_000000|Lady Russell could not help laughing.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000020_000001|"Upon my word," said she, "I should not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted of such difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may call myself.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000020_000002|I have really a curiosity to see the person who can give occasion to such directly opposite notions.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000020_000003|I wish he may be induced to call here.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000020_000004|And when he does, Mary, you may depend upon hearing my opinion; but I am determined not to judge him beforehand."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000021_000000|"You will not like him, I will answer for it."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000022_000000|Lady Russell began talking of something else.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000022_000001|Mary spoke with animation of their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000023_000000|"He is a man," said Lady Russell, "whom I have no wish to see.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000023_000001|His declining to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left a very strong impression in his disfavour with me."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000025_000000|With regard to Captain Wentworth, though Anne hazarded no enquiries, there was voluntary communication sufficient.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000025_000001|His spirits had been greatly recovering lately as might be expected.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000025_000002|As Louisa improved, he had improved, and he was now quite a different creature from what he had been the first week.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000026_000000|There can be no doubt that Lady Russell and Anne were both occasionally thinking of Captain Benwick, from this time.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000026_000002|Captain Benwick came not, however.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000026_000003|He was either less disposed for it than Charles had imagined, or he was too shy; and after giving him a week's indulgence, Lady Russell determined him to be unworthy of the interest which he had been beginning to excite.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000027_000000|The Musgroves came back to receive their happy boys and girls from school, bringing with them Mrs Harville's little children, to improve the noise of Uppercross, and lessen that of Lyme.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000027_000001|Henrietta remained with Louisa; but all the rest of the family were again in their usual quarters.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000028_000000|Lady Russell and Anne paid their compliments to them once, when Anne could not but feel that Uppercross was already quite alive again. Though neither Henrietta, nor Louisa, nor Charles Hayter, nor Captain Wentworth were there, the room presented as strong a contrast as could be wished to the last state she had seen it in.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000029_000001|On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000029_000002|Charles and Mary also came in, of course, during their visit, and Mr Musgrove made a point of paying his respects to Lady Russell, and sat down close to her for ten minutes, talking with a very raised voice, but from the clamour of the children on his knees, generally in vain.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000029_000003|It was a fine family piece.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000031_000000|Louisa was now recovering apace.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000031_000001|Her mother could even think of her being able to join their party at home, before her brothers and sisters went to school again.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000031_000002|The Harvilles had promised to come with her and stay at Uppercross, whenever she returned.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000031_000003|Captain Wentworth was gone, for the present, to see his brother in Shropshire.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000032_000000|"I hope I shall remember, in future," said Lady Russell, as soon as they were reseated in the carriage, "not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000033_000000|Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000033_000002|No, these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long in the country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000034_000000|Anne did not share these feelings.
train-other-500/1421/8534/1421_8534_000034_000001|She persisted in a very determined, though very silent disinclination for Bath; caught the first dim view of the extensive buildings, smoking in rain, without any wish of seeing them better; felt their progress through the streets to be, however disagreeable, yet too rapid; for who would be glad to see her when she arrived?
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000000_000001|Before Mrs Croft had written, he was arrived, and the very next time Anne walked out, she saw him.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000001_000000|Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and Mrs Clay.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000001_000001|They were in Milsom Street.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000001_000003|He soon joined them again, successful, of course; Lady Dalrymple would be most happy to take them home, and would call for them in a few minutes.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000002_000000|Her ladyship's carriage was a barouche, and did not hold more than four with any comfort.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000002_000001|Miss Carteret was with her mother; consequently it was not reasonable to expect accommodation for all the three Camden Place ladies.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000002_000004|The rain was a mere trifle, and Anne was most sincere in preferring a walk with Mr Elliot.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000002_000005|But the rain was also a mere trifle to Mrs Clay; she would hardly allow it even to drop at all, and her boots were so thick!
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000004_000002|She was lost, and when she had scolded back her senses, she found the others still waiting for the carriage, and Mr Elliot (always obliging) just setting off for Union Street on a commission of Mrs Clay's.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000005_000001|Why was she to suspect herself of another motive? Captain Wentworth must be out of sight.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000005_000003|She would see if it rained.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000005_000007|She had the advantage of him in the preparation of the last few moments.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000005_000008|All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000005_000009|Still, however, she had enough to feel!
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000005_000010|It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000006_000000|He spoke to her, and then turned away.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000006_000001|The character of his manner was embarrassment.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000006_000002|She could not have called it either cold or friendly, or anything so certainly as embarrassed.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000007_000000|After a short interval, however, he came towards her, and spoke again. Mutual enquiries on common subjects passed: neither of them, probably, much the wiser for what they heard, and Anne continuing fully sensible of his being less at ease than formerly.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000007_000001|They had by dint of being so very much together, got to speak to each other with a considerable portion of apparent indifference and calmness; but he could not do it now.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000007_000002|Time had changed him, or Louisa had changed him.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000007_000003|There was consciousness of some sort or other.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000007_000004|He looked very well, not as if he had been suffering in health or spirits, and he talked of Uppercross, of the Musgroves, nay, even of Louisa, and had even a momentary look of his own arch significance as he named her; but yet it was Captain Wentworth not comfortable, not easy, not able to feign that he was.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000008_000000|It did not surprise, but it grieved Anne to observe that Elizabeth would not know him.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000008_000001|She saw that he saw Elizabeth, that Elizabeth saw him, that there was complete internal recognition on each side; she was convinced that he was ready to be acknowledged as an acquaintance, expecting it, and she had the pain of seeing her sister turn away with unalterable coldness.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000009_000000|Lady Dalrymple's carriage, for which Miss Elliot was growing very impatient, now drew up; the servant came in to announce it.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000010_000000|"I am much obliged to you," was her answer, "but I am not going with them.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000010_000001|The carriage would not accommodate so many.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000010_000002|I walk: I prefer walking."
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000011_000000|"But it rains."
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000012_000000|"Oh! very little, Nothing that I regard."
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000014_000000|She was very much obliged to him, but declined it all, repeating her conviction, that the rain would come to nothing at present, and adding, "I am only waiting for Mr Elliot.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000014_000001|He will be here in a moment, I am sure."
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000015_000000|She had hardly spoken the words when Mr Elliot walked in.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000015_000001|Captain Wentworth recollected him perfectly.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000016_000000|As soon as they were out of sight, the ladies of Captain Wentworth's party began talking of them.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000017_000000|"Mr Elliot does not dislike his cousin, I fancy?"
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000018_000001|One can guess what will happen there. He is always with them; half lives in the family, I believe.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000018_000002|What a very good looking man!"
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000019_000000|"Yes, and Miss Atkinson, who dined with him once at the Wallises, says he is the most agreeable man she ever was in company with."
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000020_000000|"She is pretty, I think; Anne Elliot; very pretty, when one comes to look at her.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000020_000001|It is not the fashion to say so, but I confess I admire her more than her sister."
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000022_000000|"And so do i No comparison.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000022_000001|But the men are all wild after Miss Elliot.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000023_000002|But just now she could think only of Captain Wentworth.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000023_000003|She could not understand his present feelings, whether he were really suffering much from disappointment or not; and till that point were settled, she could not be quite herself.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000024_000000|She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas!
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000025_000001|He might be only passing through.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000025_000002|But it was more probable that he should be come to stay.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000025_000004|Would she recollect him?
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000025_000005|How would it all be?
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000026_000000|She had already been obliged to tell Lady Russell that Louisa Musgrove was to marry Captain Benwick.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000026_000001|It had cost her something to encounter Lady Russell's surprise; and now, if she were by any chance to be thrown into company with Captain Wentworth, her imperfect knowledge of the matter might add another shade of prejudice against him.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000027_000000|The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first hour, in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at last, in returning down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him on the right hand pavement at such a distance as to have him in view the greater part of the street.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000027_000001|There were many other men about him, many groups walking the same way, but there was no mistaking him.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000027_000003|No, it was not to be supposed that Lady Russell would perceive him till they were nearly opposite.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000027_000004|She looked at her however, from time to time, anxiously; and when the moment approached which must point him out, though not daring to look again (for her own countenance she knew was unfit to be seen), she was yet perfectly conscious of Lady Russell's eyes being turned exactly in the direction for him-of her being, in short, intently observing him.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000028_000000|At last, Lady Russell drew back her head.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000028_000001|"Now, how would she speak of him?"
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000030_000001|The part which provoked her most, was that in all this waste of foresight and caution, she should have lost the right moment for seeing whether he saw them.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000031_000000|A day or two passed without producing anything.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000031_000001|The theatre or the rooms, where he was most likely to be, were not fashionable enough for the Elliots, whose evening amusements were solely in the elegant stupidity of private parties, in which they were getting more and more engaged; and Anne, wearied of such a state of stagnation, sick of knowing nothing, and fancying herself stronger because her strength was not tried, was quite impatient for the concert evening.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000031_000002|It was a concert for the benefit of a person patronised by Lady Dalrymple.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000031_000003|Of course they must attend.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000031_000004|It was really expected to be a good one, and Captain Wentworth was very fond of music.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000031_000006|Elizabeth had turned from him, Lady Russell overlooked him; her nerves were strengthened by these circumstances; she felt that she owed him attention.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000032_000001|Mrs Smith gave a most good humoured acquiescence.
train-other-500/1421/8539/1421_8539_000033_000000|"By all means," said she; "only tell me all about it, when you do come. Who is your party?"
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000002_000000|That day was destined to be an eventful one, for when I entered the house and found Eliza ensconced in the upper hall on a chair, with Mary Anne doing her best to stifle her with household ammonia, and Liddy rubbing her wrists-whatever good that is supposed to do-I knew that the ghost had been walking again, and this time in daylight.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000003_000000|Eliza was in a frenzy of fear.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000004_000001|"But she was so excited, I was afraid she would do as she said-drag it down herself, and scratch the staircase."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000005_000000|I was trying to get my bonnet off and to keep the maids quiet at the same time.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000005_000001|"Now, Eliza, when you have washed your face and stopped bawling," I said, "come into my sitting room and tell me what has happened."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000006_000000|Liddy put away my things without speaking.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000007_000000|"Well," I said, when the silence became uncomfortable, "things seem to be warming up."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000008_000000|Silence from Liddy, and a long sigh.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000009_000000|"If Eliza goes, I don't know where to look for another cook." More silence.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000010_000000|"Rosie is probably a good cook." Sniff.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000011_000001|You positively gloat in this excitement.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000011_000002|You never looked better.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000012_000000|"It's not myself I'm thinking about," she said, goaded into speech. "Maybe my liver was torpid, and maybe it wasn't; but I know this: I've got some feelings left, and to see you standing at the foot of that staircase shootin' through the door-I'll never be the same woman again."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000013_000000|"Well, I'm glad of that-anything for a change," I said.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000013_000001|And in came Eliza, flanked by Rosie and Mary Anne.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000014_000001|She heard a sound as she went down the corridor, like some one moving furniture, but she was not nervous.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000015_000000|She went into her room quietly.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000015_000001|The noise had ceased, and everything was quiet.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000016_000001|All right!" I said.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000016_000002|"Go on."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000017_000002|And then I seen the plaster drop, droppin' from a little hole in the wall.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000018_000001|"And her face as white as a pillow slip when she tumbled down the stairs."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000020_000000|Eliza looked a little bit sheepish.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000021_000001|"But the bar was gone when Mary Anne and Rosie went up to pack my trunk."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000022_000001|"Eliza said that from the hole in the wall a burning eye looked down at her!"
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000023_000000|"The wall must be at least six inches thick," I said with asperity. "Unless the person who drilled the hole carried his eyes on the ends of a stick, Eliza couldn't possibly have seen them."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000024_000000|But the fact remained, and a visit to Eliza's room proved it.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000024_000002|I had gone up stairs alone, and I confess the thing puzzled me: in two or three places in the wall small apertures had been made, none of them of any depth.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000024_000003|Not the least mysterious thing was the disappearance of the iron implement that had been used.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000025_000000|I remembered a story I read once about an impish dwarf that lived in the spaces between the double walls of an ancient castle.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000025_000001|I wondered vaguely if my original idea of a secret entrance to a hidden chamber could be right, after all, and if we were housing some erratic guest, who played pranks on us in the dark, and destroyed the walls that he might listen, hidden safely away, to our amazed investigations.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000026_000000|Mary Anne and Eliza left that afternoon, but Rosie decided to stay.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000026_000001|It was about five o'clock when the hack came from the station to get them, and, to my amazement, it had an occupant.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000027_000001|"When the message came to come up for two girls and their trunks, I supposed there was something doing, and as this here woman had been looking for work in the village, I thought I'd bring her along."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000028_000002|When she came, however, I could hardly restrain a gasp of surprise.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000028_000003|It was the woman with the pitted face.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000029_000000|She stood somewhat awkwardly just inside the door, and she had an air of self confidence that was inspiring.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000029_000001|Yes, she could cook; was not a fancy cook, but could make good soups and desserts if there was any one to take charge of the salads.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000029_000002|And so, in the end, I took her.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000029_000003|As Halsey said, when we told him, it didn't matter much about the cook's face, if it was clean.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000030_000001|On that day it seemed to be more than ever a resistless impulse that kept him out until after luncheon.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000030_000002|I think he hoped constantly that he might meet Louise driving over the hills in her runabout: possibly he did meet her occasionally, but from his continued gloom I felt sure the situation between them was unchanged.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000031_000000|Part of the afternoon I believe he read-Gertrude and I were out, as I have said, and at dinner we both noticed that something had occurred to distract him.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000031_000001|He was disagreeable, which is unlike him, nervous, looking at his watch every few minutes, and he ate almost nothing.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000031_000003|He refused dessert, and left the table early, excusing himself on the ground that he wanted to see Alex.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000032_000000|Alex, however, was not to be found.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000033_000001|It came to a stop in front of the house, and immediately after there were hurried steps on the veranda.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000033_000003|A moment later Louise had burst into the room and stood there bareheaded and breathing hard!
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000034_000002|I got up and drew forward a chair.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000035_000000|"He has not come back," I said quietly.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000035_000001|"Sit down, child; you are not strong enough for this kind of thing."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000036_000000|I don't think she even heard me.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000037_000000|"He has not come back?" she asked, looking from me to Gertrude.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000038_000001|Halsey is not here.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000038_000002|He has gone to the station for mr Jamieson.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000038_000003|What has happened?"
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000039_000000|"To the station, Gertrude?
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000040_000000|"Yes," I said.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000040_000001|"Listen.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000040_000002|There is the whistle of the train now."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000041_000000|She relaxed a little at our matter of fact tone, and allowed herself to sink into a chair.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000042_000000|"Perhaps I was wrong," she said heavily.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000042_000001|"He-will be here in a few moments if-everything is right."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000043_000000|We sat there, the three of us, without attempt at conversation.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000043_000001|Both Gertrude and I recognized the futility of asking Louise any questions: her reticence was a part of a role she had assumed.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000043_000003|Ten minutes passed, fifteen, twenty.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000043_000005|I watched Gertrude's bright color slowly ebbing away, and around my own heart I seemed to feel the grasp of a giant hand.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000044_000000|Twenty five minutes, and then a sound.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000044_000002|Gertrude drew aside the curtain and peered into the darkness.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000045_000000|"It's the hack, I am sure," she said, evidently relieved.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000045_000001|"Something has gone wrong with the car, and no wonder-the way Halsey went down the hill."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000046_000000|It seemed a long time before the creaking vehicle came to a stop at the door.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000046_000001|Louise rose and stood watching, her hand to her throat.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000046_000002|And then Gertrude opened the door, admitting mr Jamieson and a stocky, middle aged man.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000046_000003|Halsey was not with them.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000046_000004|When the door had closed and Louise realized that Halsey had not come, her expression changed. From tense watchfulness to relief, and now again to absolute despair, her face was an open page.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000050_000000|mr Jamieson knew her at once, although he had not seen her before. She had kept to her rooms until the morning she left.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000051_000000|"No, Miss Armstrong," he said.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000051_000001|"I saw nothing of him.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000051_000002|What is wrong?"
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000052_000001|"Every instant is precious.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000052_000002|mr Jamieson, I have reason for believing that he is in danger, but I don't know what it is.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000052_000003|Only-he must be found."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000053_000001|Now, however, he went quickly toward the door.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000054_000000|"I'll catch the hack down the road and hold it," he said.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000054_000001|"Is the gentleman down in the town?"
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000055_000000|"mr Jamieson," Louise said impulsively, "I can use the hack.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000055_000002|Try to find the Dragon Fly-it ought to be easy to trace.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000055_000003|I can think of no other way.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000055_000004|Only, don't lose a moment."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000056_000000|The new detective had gone, and a moment later Jamieson went rapidly down the drive, the cob's feet striking fire at every step.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000057_000000|"You KNOW what threatens Halsey, Louise," she said accusingly.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000057_000001|"I believe you know this whole horrible thing, this mystery that we are struggling with.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000057_000002|If anything happens to Halsey, I shall never forgive you."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000058_000000|Louise only raised her hands despairingly and dropped them again.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000059_000001|"I tried to warn him."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000060_000000|"Nonsense!" I said, as briskly as I could.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000060_000002|Halsey was probably late-he is always late.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000060_000003|Any moment we may hear the car coming up the road."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000061_000000|But it did not come.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000061_000001|After a half hour of suspense, Louise went out quietly, and did not come back.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000061_000003|At eleven o'clock the telephone rang.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000061_000004|It was mr Jamieson.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000062_000001|"It has collided with a freight car on the siding above the station.
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000062_000003|Send Warner for the car."
train-other-500/1430/1061/1430_1061_000063_000000|But they did not find him.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty five
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000001_000000|THE SWAG
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000003_000000|"mr Hollins!" I cried.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000003_000001|"mr Hollins!"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000004_000001|At that I lost what nerve I had left, and let out a cry, and turned to run back into the room where we had talked.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000005_000000|"Hullo, up there!" he was demanding.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000005_000001|"Is there anybody above?"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000006_000000|It seemed as if I was bursting my chest when I got an answer out to him.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000007_000000|"Oh, man!" I shouted, "come up!
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000007_000001|There's me here-and there's murder!"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000008_000000|I heard him exclaim in a dismayed and surprised fashion, and mutter some words to somebody that was evidently with him, and then there was heavy tramping below, and presently Chisholm's face appeared round the corner; and as he held his bull's eye before him, its light fell full on Hollins, and he jumped back a step or two.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000009_000000|"Mercy on us!" he let out.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000009_000001|"What's all this?
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000009_000002|The man's lying dead!"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000010_000000|"Dead enough, Chisholm!" said I, gradually getting the better of my fright.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000010_000001|"And murdered, too!
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000010_000002|But who murdered him, God knows-I don't!
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000010_000004|And somebody was off and away-have you seen nobody outside there?"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000011_000000|"You can't see an inch before your eyes-the night's that black," he answered, bending over the dead man.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000011_000001|"We've only just come-round from the house.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000011_000002|But whatever were you doing here, yourself?"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000013_000000|There was another policeman with him, and they stepped past the body and followed me into the little room and looked round curiously.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000013_000001|I left them whispering, and opened the door that Hollins had pointed out.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000013_000003|And in a moment I had it turned, and there was Maisie, and I had her in my arms and was flooding her with questions and holding the light to her face to see if she was safe, all at once.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000016_000001|But oh, it's seemed like it was ages since then!"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000017_000000|"They?
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000017_000001|Who?" I demanded.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000017_000002|"Who locked you in?"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000019_000000|"Sir Gilbert!" I exclaimed.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000020_000000|"Of course I'm sure!" she replied.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000020_000001|"Who else?
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000020_000002|And I made out they were afraid of my letting out that I'd seen them-it was Sir Gilbert himself said they could run no risks."
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000021_000000|"You've seen him since?" I asked.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000022_000000|"No-not since last night," she answered.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000023_000000|"Aye!" I said, shaking my head.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000023_000002|For there's more dreadfulness below-where Sir Gilbert may be, Heaven knows, but Hollins is lying murdered on the stair; and if I didn't see him murdered, I saw him take his last breath!"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000024_000000|She, too, shook a bit at that, and she gripped me tighter.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000025_000000|"You're not by yourself, Hugh?" she asked anxiously.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000027_000000|"That's good news!" said he.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000027_000002|Have you no idea at all who did this?" he asked, as I went down to him.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000027_000003|"You were with him?"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000028_000001|"He was making off somewhere in yon car that's below-he threatened me with the loss of my life if I didn't agree to let him get away in peace, and he was going down the stairs to the car when it happened.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000029_000000|"Then the Glasgow tale was all lies?" he exclaimed.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000030_000000|"It's all part of a put up thing, Chisholm," said i "Hadn't we better get the man in here, and see what's on him?
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000030_000001|And what made you come here yourselves?--and are there any more of you about?"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000031_000001|And that's a good idea of yours, and we'll bring him into this place and see if there's aught to give us a clue.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000031_000002|Slip down," he went on, turning to the other man, "and bring the headlights off the car, so that we can see what we're doing.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000032_000000|"Oh, don't ask me!" I exclaimed.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000032_000002|And whoever did this can't be far away-only the night's that black, and there's so many holes and corners hereabouts that it would be like searching a rabbit warren-you'll have to get help from the town."
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000033_000001|"But we'll take a view of things ourselves, first.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000033_000002|There may be effects on him that'll suggest something."
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000036_000002|What's more, there's tools lying in the car that looks like they'd been used to fasten them up."
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000038_000002|There were four of them-stout, new made wooden cases, clamped with iron at the corners, and securely screwed down; and when the policemen invited me to feel the weight, I was put in mind, in a lesser degree, of Gilverthwaite's oak chest.
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000039_000002|And look you at that!"
train-other-500/1430/139231/1430_139231_000040_000000|He pointed to some neatly addressed labels tacked strongly to each lid-the writing done in firm, bold, print like characters:
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000001_000000|I do not think that it is possible to combine several principles in the same government, so as at the same time to maintain freedom, and really to oppose them to one another.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000001_000001|The form of government which is usually termed mixed has always appeared to me to be a mere chimera.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000001_000004|The error arose from too much attention being paid to the actual struggle which was going on between the nobles and the people, without considering the probable issue of the contest, which was in reality the important point.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000003_000000|Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing; human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion, and God alone can be omnipotent, because His wisdom and His justice are always equal to His power.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000003_000001|But no power upon earth is so worthy of honor for itself, or of reverential obedience to the rights which it represents, that I would consent to admit its uncontrolled and all predominant authority.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000004_000000|In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their overpowering strength; and I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the very inadequate securities which exist against tyranny.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000007_000000|I said one day to an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, "Be so good as to explain to me how it happens that in a State founded by Quakers, and celebrated for its toleration, freed blacks are not allowed to exercise civil rights.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000008_000000|"You insult us," replied my informant, "if you imagine that our legislators could have committed so gross an act of injustice and intolerance."
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000010_000000|"Without the smallest doubt."
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000011_000000|"How comes it, then, that at the polling booth this morning I did not perceive a single negro in the whole meeting?"
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000012_000000|"This is not the fault of the law: the negroes have an undisputed right of voting, but they voluntarily abstain from making their appearance."
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000014_000001|But in this case the majority entertains very strong prejudices against the blacks, and the magistrates are unable to protect them in the exercise of their legal privileges."
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000020_000001|Tyranny usually employs arbitrary means, but, if necessary, it can rule without them.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000021_000000|In the United States the unbounded power of the majority, which is favorable to the legal despotism of the legislature, is likewise favorable to the arbitrary authority of the magistrate.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000023_000000|Power Exercised By The Majority In America Upon Opinion
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000026_000002|In any constitutional state in Europe every sort of religious and political theory may be advocated and propagated abroad; for there is no country in Europe so subdued by any single authority as not to contain citizens who are ready to protect the man who raises his voice in the cause of truth from the consequences of his hardihood.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000027_000002|His political career is closed forever, since he has offended the only authority which is able to promote his success.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000027_000003|Every sort of compensation, even that of celebrity, is refused to him.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000028_000000|Fetters and headsmen were the coarse instruments which tyranny formerly employed; but the civilization of our age has refined the arts of despotism which seemed, however, to have been sufficiently perfected before.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000028_000006|Go in peace!
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000028_000007|I have given you your life, but it is an existence in comparably worse than death."
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000031_000000|If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply given in these facts; there can be no literary genius without freedom of opinion, and freedom of opinion does not exist in America.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000031_000001|The Inquisition has never been able to prevent a vast number of anti religious books from circulating in Spain.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000031_000002|The empire of the majority succeeds much better in the United States, since it actually removes the wish of publishing them.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000031_000003|Unbelievers are to be met with in America, but, to say the truth, there is no public organ of infidelity. Attempts have been made by some governments to protect the morality of nations by prohibiting licentious books.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000031_000004|In the United States no one is punished for this sort of works, but no one is induced to write them; not because all the citizens are immaculate in their manners, but because the majority of the community is decent and orderly.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000032_000000|In these cases the advantages derived from the exercise of this power are unquestionable, and I am simply discussing the nature of the power itself.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000032_000001|This irresistible authority is a constant fact, and its judicious exercise is an accidental occurrence.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000035_000001|I am inclined to attribute the singular paucity of distinguished political characters to the ever increasing activity of the despotism of the majority in the United States.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000036_000001|But the mass of the nation does not degrade itself by servitude: it often submits from weakness, from habit, or from ignorance, and sometimes from loyalty.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000036_000003|These peoples are miserable, but they are not degraded. There is a great difference between doing what one does not approve and feigning to approve what one does; the one is the necessary case of a weak person, the other befits the temper of a lackey.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000039_000001|It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000039_000003|They are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000041_000002|It is true that the American courtiers do not say "Sire," or "Your Majesty"--a distinction without a difference.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000042_000000|The Greatest Dangers Of The American Republics Proceed From The Unlimited Power Of The Majority
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000044_000001|In the former case their power escapes from them; it is wrested from their grasp in the latter.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000044_000005|Anarchy is almost always produced by its tyranny or its mistakes, but not by its want of strength.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000045_000000|It is important not to confound stability with force, or the greatness of a thing with its duration.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000048_000001|Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000049_000001|Justice is the end of government.
train-other-500/1444/133287/1444_133287_000049_000002|It is the end of civil society.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty six.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000003_000000|AS soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the lightning rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean to, and got out our pile of fox fire, and went to work.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000003_000001|We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five foot along the middle of the bottom log.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000003_000003|At last I says:
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000005_000000|He never said nothing.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000006_000001|If we was prisoners it would, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry; and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up right along, year in and year out, and do it right, and the way it ought to be done.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000006_000003|If we was to put in another night this way we'd have to knock off for a week to let our hands get well  couldn't touch a case knife with them sooner."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000007_000000|"Well, then, what we going to do, Tom?"
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000008_000000|"I'll tell you.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000010_000002|Gimme a case knife."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000011_000000|He had his own by him, but I handed him mine.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000011_000001|He flung it down, and says:
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000013_000000|I didn't know just what to do  but then I thought.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000013_000001|I scratched around amongst the old tools, and got a pickaxe and give it to him, and he took it and went to work, and never said a word.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000014_000000|He was always just that particular.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000014_000001|Full of principle.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000015_000002|When I got up stairs I looked out at the window and see Tom doing his level best with the lightning rod, but he couldn't come it, his hands was so sore.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000015_000003|At last he says:
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000016_000001|What you reckon I better do?
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000016_000002|Can't you think of no way?"
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000017_000000|"Yes," I says, "but I reckon it ain't regular.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000017_000001|Come up the stairs, and let on it's a lightning rod."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000018_000000|So he done it.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000019_000000|Next day Tom stole a pewter spoon and a brass candlestick in the house, for to make some pens for Jim out of, and six tallow candles; and I hung around the nigger cabins and laid for a chance, and stole three tin plates.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000019_000002|So Tom was satisfied.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000019_000003|Then he says:
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000020_000000|"Now, the thing to study out is, how to get the things to Jim."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000021_000000|"Take them in through the hole," I says, "when we get it done."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000022_000000|He only just looked scornful, and said something about nobody ever heard of such an idiotic idea, and then he went to studying.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000022_000001|By and by he said he had ciphered out two or three ways, but there warn't no need to decide on any of them yet.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000022_000002|Said we'd got to post Jim first.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000023_000000|That night we went down the lightning rod a little after ten, and took one of the candles along, and listened under the window hole, and heard Jim snoring; so we pitched it in, and it didn't wake him.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000023_000001|Then we whirled in with the pick and shovel, and in about two hours and a half the job was done.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000023_000002|We crept in under Jim's bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000024_000001|We'll send you some things by them."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000025_000000|I said, "Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;" but he never paid no attention to me; went right on.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000026_000001|And told him how to keep a journal on the shirt with his blood, and all that.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000026_000002|He told him everything.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000027_000000|Jim had plenty corn cob pipes and tobacco; so we had a right down good sociable time; then we crawled out through the hole, and so home to bed, with hands that looked like they'd been chawed.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000027_000001|Tom was in high spirits.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000027_000003|He said that in that way it could be strung out to as much as eighty year, and would be the best time on record.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000027_000004|And he said it would make us all celebrated that had a hand in it.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000028_000000|In the morning we went out to the woodpile and chopped up the brass candlestick into handy sizes, and Tom put them and the pewter spoon in his pocket.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000028_000001|Then we went to the nigger cabins, and while I got Nat's notice off, Tom shoved a piece of candlestick into the middle of a corn pone that was in Jim's pan, and we went along with Nat to see how it would work, and it just worked noble; when Jim bit into it it most mashed all his teeth out; and there warn't ever anything could a worked better.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000028_000002|Tom said so himself.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000028_000003|Jim he never let on but what it was only just a piece of rock or something like that that's always getting into bread, you know; but after that he never bit into nothing but what he jabbed his fork into it in three or four places first.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000029_000000|And whilst we was a standing there in the dimmish light, here comes a couple of the hounds bulging in from under Jim's bed; and they kept on piling in till there was eleven of them, and there warn't hardly room in there to get your breath.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000029_000001|By jings, we forgot to fasten that lean to door!
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000029_000003|Tom jerked the door open and flung out a slab of Jim's meat, and the dogs went for it, and in two seconds he was out himself and back again and shut the door, and I knowed he'd fixed the other door too. Then he went to work on the nigger, coaxing him and petting him, and asking him if he'd been imagining he saw something again.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000029_000004|He raised up, and blinked his eyes around, and says:
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000031_000000|Tom says:
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000032_000000|"Well, I tell you what I think.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000032_000002|It's because they're hungry; that's the reason.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000034_000000|"Well, then, I'll have to make it myself."
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000035_000000|"Will you do it, honey?  will you?
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000036_000000|"All right, I'll do it, seeing it's you, and you've been good to us and showed us the runaway nigger.
train-other-500/1469/163403/1469_163403_000036_000001|But you got to be mighty careful.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine-THE UNEXPECTED
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000001_000000|There were three thousand five hundred of them.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000001_000001|They formed a front a quarter of a league in extent.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000001_000003|They wore casques without horse tails, and cuirasses of beaten iron, with horse pistols in their holsters, and long sabre swords.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000002_000001|Ney drew his sword and placed himself at their head.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000002_000002|The enormous squadrons were set in motion.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000003_000000|Then a formidable spectacle was seen.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000004_000002|It seemed as though two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest of the table land.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000004_000003|It traversed the battle like a prodigy.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000005_000001|It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and had but one soul.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000005_000002|Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a polyp.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000005_000003|They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent here and there.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000005_000004|A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000006_000000|These narrations seemed to belong to another age.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000006_000001|Something parallel to this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, invulnerable, sublime-gods and beasts.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000007_000000|Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty six battalions rode to meet twenty six battalions.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000007_000001|Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, mute, motionless.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000007_000003|They listened to the rise of this flood of men.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000007_000005|There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an earthquake.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000008_000000|All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000009_000000|It was a terrible moment.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000009_000002|Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000010_000000|This began the loss of the battle.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000011_000001|This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which were flung into this ravine the day after the combat.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000013_000001|Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an obstacle, to the guide Lacoste.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000013_000002|The guide had answered no
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000013_000003|We might almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a peasant's head.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000014_000000|Other fatalities were destined to arise.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000015_000000|Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle?
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000015_000001|We answer no Why?
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000015_000002|Because of Wellington?
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000015_000003|Because of Blucher?
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000015_000004|no
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000015_000005|Because of God.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000016_000000|Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the nineteenth century.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000016_000001|Another series of facts was in preparation, in which there was no longer any room for Napoleon.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000016_000002|The ill will of events had declared itself long before.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000017_000000|It was time that this vast man should fall.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000018_000000|The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000018_000001|These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000018_000002|The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and supreme equity to alter its plan.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000018_000003|Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000018_000004|Smoking blood, over filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000018_000005|When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.
train-other-500/1469/168608/1469_168608_000019_000000|Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been decided on.
train-other-500/147/125761/147_125761_000008_000000|THE MANCIPLE'S TALE.
train-other-500/147/125761/147_125761_000009_000000|THE PROLOGUE.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000005_000000|one.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000006_000001|And how much honey of hope did I carry hence into my beehives!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000007_000000|Those young hearts have already all become old-and not old even! only weary, ordinary, comfortable:--they declare it: "We have again become pious."
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000008_000000|Of late did I see them run forth at early morn with valorous steps: but the feet of their knowledge became weary, and now do they malign even their morning valour!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000010_000000|Around light and liberty did they once flutter like gnats and young poets.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000010_000001|A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000012_000000|--Ah!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000013_000000|The rest: these are always the great majority, the common place, the superfluous, the far too many-those all are cowardly!--
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000014_000000|Him who is of my type, will also the experiences of my type meet on the way: so that his first companions must be corpses and buffoons.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000015_000000|His second companions, however-they will call themselves his BELIEVERS,--will be a living host, with much love, much folly, much unbearded veneration.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000016_000000|To those believers shall he who is of my type among men not bind his heart; in those spring times and many hued meadows shall he not believe, who knoweth the fickly faint hearted human species!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000017_000000|COULD they do otherwise, then would they also WILL otherwise.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000017_000001|The half and half spoil every whole.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000017_000002|That leaves become withered,--what is there to lament about that!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000018_000000|Let them go and fall away, O Zarathustra, and do not lament!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000021_000000|"We have again become pious"--so do those apostates confess; and some of them are still too pusillanimous thus to confess.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000022_000000|Unto them I look into the eye,--before them I say it unto their face and unto the blush on their cheeks: Ye are those who again PRAY!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000023_000000|It is however a shame to pray!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000023_000002|For THEE it is a shame to pray!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000024_000000|Thou knowest it well: the faint hearted devil in thee, which would fain fold its arms, and place its hands in its bosom, and take it easier:--this faint hearted devil persuadeth thee that "there IS a God!"
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000027_000000|I hear it and smell it: it hath come-their hour for hunt and procession, not indeed for a wild hunt, but for a tame, lame, snuffling, soft treaders', soft prayers' hunt,--
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000028_000000|--For a hunt after susceptible simpletons: all mouse traps for the heart have again been set!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000028_000001|And whenever I lift a curtain, a night moth rusheth out of it.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000029_000000|Did it perhaps squat there along with another night moth?
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000031_000000|Or they look for long evenings at a crafty, lurking cross spider, that preacheth prudence to the spiders themselves, and teacheth that "under crosses it is good for cobweb spinning!"
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000036_000000|And some of them have even become night watchmen: they know now how to blow horns, and go about at night and awaken old things which have long fallen asleep.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000038_000000|"For a father he careth not sufficiently for his children: human fathers do this better!"--
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000039_000000|"He is too old!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000040_000001|No one can prove it unless he himself prove it! I have long wished that he would for once prove it thoroughly."
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000041_000000|"Prove?
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000042_000002|Belief saveth him; belief in him.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000042_000003|That is the way with old people!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000042_000004|So it is with us also!"--
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000043_000000|--Thus spake to each other the two old night watchmen and light scarers, and tooted thereupon sorrowfully on their horns: so did it happen yester night at the garden wall.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000045_000000|Verily, it will be my death yet-to choke with laughter when I see asses drunken, and hear night watchmen thus doubt about God.
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000046_000001|Who may nowadays awaken such old slumbering, light shunning things!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000048_000000|They did not "begloom" themselves to death-that do people fabricate!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000048_000001|On the contrary, they-LAUGHED themselves to death once on a time!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000049_000000|That took place when the unGodliest utterance came from a God himself-the utterance: "There is but one God!
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000049_000001|Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!"--
train-other-500/1474/128275/1474_128275_000050_000000|--An old grim beard of a God, a jealous one, forgot himself in such wise:--
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000000_000001|THE RETURN HOME.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000001_000000|O lonesomeness!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000001_000001|My HOME, lonesomeness!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000001_000002|Too long have I lived wildly in wild remoteness, to return to thee without tears!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000002_000000|Now threaten me with the finger as mothers threaten; now smile upon me as mothers smile; now say just: "Who was it that like a whirlwind once rushed away from me?--
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000005_000001|And that amongst men thou wilt ever be wild and strange:
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000007_000000|Here, however, art thou at home and house with thyself; here canst thou utter everything, and unbosom all motives; nothing is here ashamed of concealed, congealed feelings.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000009_000000|Uprightly and openly mayest thou here talk to all things: and verily, it soundeth as praise in their ears, for one to talk to all things-directly!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000010_000001|For, dost thou remember, O Zarathustra?
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000016_000000|O lonesomeness!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000016_000001|My home, lonesomeness!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000017_000000|We do not question each other, we do not complain to each other; we go together openly through open doors.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000018_000000|For all is open with thee and clear; and even the hours run here on lighter feet.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000018_000001|For in the dark, time weigheth heavier upon one than in the light.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000019_000000|Here fly open unto me all being's words and word cabinets: here all being wanteth to become words, here all becoming wanteth to learn of me how to talk.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000020_000000|Down there, however-all talking is in vain!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000020_000001|There, forgetting and passing by are the best wisdom: THAT have I learned now!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000021_000000|He who would understand everything in man must handle everything.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000021_000001|But for that I have too clean hands.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000023_000000|O blessed stillness around me!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000023_000001|O pure odours around me!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000023_000002|How from a deep breast this stillness fetcheth pure breath!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000023_000003|How it hearkeneth, this blessed stillness!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000024_000000|But down there-there speaketh everything, there is everything misheard. If one announce one's wisdom with bells, the shopmen in the market place will out jingle it with pennies!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000025_000000|Everything among them talketh; no one knoweth any longer how to understand.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000026_000000|Everything among them talketh, nothing succeedeth any longer and accomplisheth itself.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000027_000000|Everything among them talketh, everything is out talked.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000028_000000|Everything among them talketh, everything is betrayed.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000029_000000|O human hubbub, thou wonderful thing!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000030_000000|In indulging and pitying lay ever my greatest danger; and all human hubbub wisheth to be indulged and tolerated.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000033_000000|One unlearneth men when one liveth amongst them: there is too much foreground in all men-what can far seeing, far longing eyes do THERE!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000035_000000|Stung all over by poisonous flies, and hollowed like the stone by many drops of wickedness: thus did I sit among them, and still said to myself: "Innocent is everything petty of its pettiness!"
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000036_000000|Especially did I find those who call themselves "the good," the most poisonous flies; they sting in all innocence, they lie in all innocence; how COULD they-be just towards me!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000037_000000|He who liveth amongst the good-pity teacheth him to lie.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000037_000001|Pity maketh stifling air for all free souls.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000037_000002|For the stupidity of the good is unfathomable.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000038_000000|To conceal myself and my riches-THAT did I learn down there: for every one did I still find poor in spirit.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000039_000000|--That I saw and scented in every one, what was ENOUGH of spirit for him, and what was TOO MUCH!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000040_000000|Their stiff wise men: I call them wise, not stiff-thus did I learn to slur over words.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000041_000000|The grave diggers dig for themselves diseases.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000041_000001|Under old rubbish rest bad vapours.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000041_000002|One should not stir up the marsh.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000041_000003|One should live on mountains.
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000042_000001|Freed at last is my nose from the smell of all human hubbub!
train-other-500/1474/128276/1474_128276_000044_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000001_000000|WHEN we had finished drinking tea, she told us to go with her into the next room, where the tables had been prepared for lunch, and I wondered if she had any room for lunch, after all that she had just eaten, but I soon found out.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000001_000001|As soon as she was inside the room, she ordered the covers to be removed and they were all taken off at one time.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000001_000002|Then she took her seat at the head of the table and told us to stand at the foot. She then said: "generally the Emperor takes lunch with me when we have the theatre, but he is shy to day, as you are all new to him.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000001_000005|This kowtowing, or bowing our heads to the ground, was very tiring at first and made us dizzy, until we got used to it.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000002_000000|When we commenced to eat, Her Majesty ordered the eunuchs to place plates for us and give us silver chopsticks, spoons, etc, and said:
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000003_000000|"I am sorry you have to eat standing, but I cannot break the law of our great ancestors.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000003_000001|Even the Young Empress cannot sit in my presence.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000003_000002|I am sure the foreigners must think we are barbarians to treat our Court ladies in this way and I don't wish them to know anything about our customs.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000003_000003|You will see how differently I act in their presence, so that they cannot see my true self."
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000004_000000|I was watching her while she was talking to my mother and marvelled to see how she could eat, after having eaten such a quantity of candy, walnuts, etc, while in her bedroom.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000001|The food consisted mostly of pork, mutton and game, fowls and vegetables.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000002|This day we had pork cooked in ten different ways, such as meat balls, sliced cold in two different ways, red and white, the red being cooked with a special kind of sauce made of beans which gives it the red color and has a delicious taste.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000004|This last dish was Her Majesty's favorite and I must say it was good.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000005|Then there was a sort of pancake made of eggs, pork and mushrooms chopped fine and fried, also pork cooked with cabbage and another dish cooked with turnips.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000006|The fowl and mutton was cooked in several different ways.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000007|In the center of the table was a very large bowl about two feet in diameter of the same yellow porcelain, in which there was a chicken, a duck and some shark fins in a clear soup.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000008|Shark fins are considered a great delicacy in China.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000009|Besides this there was roast chicken, boneless chicken and roast duck.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000005_000010|Ducks and chickens are stuffed with little pine needles to give them a fine flavor and roasted in open air ovens.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000006_000000|There was another dish that Her Majesty was very fond of and that was the skin of roast pork cut into very small slices and fried until it curls up like a rasher of bacon.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000007_000001|Then there was beans and green peas, and peanuts made into cakes and served with sugarcane syrup.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000008_000000|I did not eat very much, as I was too busy watching Her Majesty and listening to what she said, although she told us to eat all we could. In addition to all I have mentioned, we had many different kinds of porridge, some made of sweet corn and some with tiny yellow rice (like bird seed), and Her Majesty said that we must all eat porridge after our meat.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000009_000000|After we had finally finished eating, Her Majesty rose from the table and said: "Come into my bedroom and you will see the Young Empress and the Court ladies eat; they always eat after I am finished." We went with her and I stood near the door between the two rooms and saw the Young Empress and Court ladies come in and stand around the table eating very quietly.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000009_000001|They were never allowed to sit down and eat their food.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000010_000002|My reader can imagine how delighted I was to be treated in this way.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000010_000004|One must never raise their eyes when talking to her.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000010_000005|This is a sign of great respect.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000010_000006|I thought these extreme favors must be most unusual.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000010_000007|I had been told that Her Majesty had a very fierce temper, but seeing her so kind and gracious to us and talking to us in such a motherly way, I thought my informant must be wrong and that she was the sweetest woman in the world.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000011_000003|Also give him these eight boxes of fruit and cakes." I thought my father, who had been quite ill since we returned from Paris, would not be much benefited if he ate all those cakes.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000011_000004|However, I knew he would appreciate her kind thoughtfulness even if it were detrimental to his health.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000013_000000|Just as we were leaving, Her Majesty said to my mother that she liked us very much and wanted us to come and be her Court ladies and stay at the Palace.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000013_000001|We thought this was another great favor and again thanked her, and she asked us when we could come and told us to bring our clothes and things only, as she would fix everything for us and showed us the house we would live in when we came and told us to come back inside of two days.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000013_000002|This house contained three very large rooms and was situated on the right side of her own or private Palace.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000013_000004|In this Palace she had quite a number of bedrooms and made use of them all.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000014_000001|When we got into the house, we were surprised to find several eunuchs waiting our return.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000014_000003|Once more we had to bend to custom in thanking her for these gifts.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000015_000000|There is another thing that had to be done according to the custom, and that was to give the eunuchs a present or tip, and we had to give each of the eunuchs ten taels for their trouble.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000015_000001|We afterwards found out that when eunuchs went anywhere to take presents for Her Majesty, they were required to report to her when they returned how the recipient had thanked her and what had been given them, which she allowed them to keep.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000015_000002|She also asked them numerous questions about our house, whether we were pleased with her, etc
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000015_000003|These people are extremely fond of talking and after we had returned to the Palace again, they told us what Her Majesty had said about us the first day we were there.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000016_000000|My mother felt very much worried to go to the Palace and leave my father all alone owing to his being in poor health, but we could not disobey Her Majesty's order, so we returned to the Palace three days later.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000000|Our first day there was a busy one for us.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000001|When we first arrived we went and thanked Her Majesty for the present that she had sent us.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000003|She asked me if I could speak Russian.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000004|I told her that I could not, but that most Russians spoke French, which seemed to satisfy her.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000005|She, however, said: "Why don't you tell me you speak Russian, I won't know or be able to find out," and at the same time was looking at one of the Court ladies.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000006|I concluded that someone must be fooling her, for she seemed to appreciate the fact that I had told her the truth.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000017_000007|This afterwards proved to be true and one of the Court ladies was dismissed for pretending she could talk foreign languages when she could not speak a word.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000018_000001|The engagement ceremony, according to the Manchu custom, is performed by two of the Princesses of the Royal family going to the house of the prospective bride, who sits on her bed cross legged, her eyes closed and awaits their coming.
train-other-500/1474/172821/1474_172821_000019_000000|During this entire ceremony absolute silence is maintained and immediately they have finished, they return to the Palace and inform Her Majesty that the ceremony has been completed.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000001_000000|fifteen.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000001_000001|Athos as a Diplomatist.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000002_000000|D'Artagnan retired to bed-not to sleep, but to think over all he had heard that evening.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000002_000001|Being naturally goodhearted, and having had once a liking for Athos, which had grown into a sincere friendship, he was delighted at thus meeting a man full of intelligence and moral strength, instead of a drunkard.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000002_000002|He admitted without annoyance the continued superiority of Athos over himself, devoid as he was of that jealousy which might have saddened a less generous disposition; he was delighted also that the high qualities of Athos appeared to promise favorably for his mission.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000002_000003|Nevertheless, it seemed to him that Athos was not in all respects sincere and frank.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000002_000004|Who was the youth he had adopted and who bore so striking a resemblance to him?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000002_000006|It was evident either that he no longer possessed the confidence of his friend, or that Athos was bound by some invisible chain, or that he had been forewarned of the lieutenant's visit.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000003_000001|Again, the moderate fortune which Athos possessed, concealed as it was, so skillfully, seemed to show a regard for appearances and to betray a latent ambition which might be easily aroused.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000003_000002|The clear and vigorous intellect of Athos would render him more open to conviction than a less able man would be.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000003_000003|He would enter into the minister's schemes with the more ardor, because his natural activity would be doubled by necessity.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000004_000003|Besides, to tell truth, whilst D'Artagnan was quite disposed to adopt a subtle course against the cunning of Aramis or the vanity of Porthos, he was ashamed to equivocate with Athos, true hearted, open Athos.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000004_000004|It seemed to him that if Porthos and Aramis deemed him superior to them in the arts of diplomacy, they would like him all the better for it; but that Athos, on the contrary, would despise him.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000006_000000|There reigned a perfect stillness in the house.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000006_000001|D'Artagnan had heard the door shut and the shutters barred; the dogs became in their turn silent. At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000006_000002|Not a sound was heard in the castle, except of a footstep up and down, in the chamber above-as he supposed, the bedroom of Athos.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000007_000000|"He is walking about and thinking," thought D'Artagnan; "but of what?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000007_000001|It is impossible to know; everything else might be guessed, but not that."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000008_000000|At length Athos went to bed, apparently, for the noise ceased.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000009_000000|Silence and fatigue together overcame D'Artagnan and sleep overtook him also.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000009_000001|He was not, however, a good sleeper.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000009_000002|Scarcely had dawn gilded his window curtains when he sprang out of bed and opened the windows. Somebody, he perceived, was in the courtyard, moving stealthily.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000010_000000|The young man was opening the door of the stable.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000011_000001|He's not going to hunt, for he has neither dogs nor arms; he's not going on a message, for he goes secretly.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000011_000002|Why does he go in secret?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000011_000003|Is he afraid of me or of his father? for I am sure the count is his father. By Jove!
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000011_000004|I shall know about that soon, for I shall soon speak out to Athos."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000012_000000|Day was now advanced; all the noises that had ceased the night before reawakened, one after the other.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000012_000001|The bird on the branch, the dog in his kennel, the sheep in the field, the boats moored in the Loire, even, became alive and vocal.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000012_000002|The latter, leaving the shore, abandoned themselves gaily to the current.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000012_000003|The Gascon gave a last twirl to his mustache, a last turn to his hair, brushed, from habit, the brim of his hat with the sleeve of his doublet, and went downstairs.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000013_000000|"Good morning, my dear host," cried D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000014_000000|"Good day to you; have you slept well?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000015_000000|"Excellently, Athos, but what are you looking for?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000015_000001|You are perhaps a tulip fancier?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000016_000000|"My dear friend, if I am, you must not laugh at me for being so.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000016_000001|In the country people alter; one gets to like, without knowing it, all those beautiful objects that God causes to spring from the earth, which are despised in cities.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000016_000002|I was looking anxiously for some iris roots I planted here, close to this reservoir, and which some one has trampled upon this morning.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000016_000003|These gardeners are the most careless people in the world; in bringing the horse out to the water they've allowed him to walk over the border."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000017_000000|D'Artagnan began to smile.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000018_000000|"Ah! you think so, do you?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000019_000000|And he took his friend along the alley, where a number of tracks like those which had trampled down the flowerbeds, were visible.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000020_000000|"Here are the horse's hoofs again, it seems, Athos," he said carelessly.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000021_000000|"Yes, indeed, the marks are recent."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000022_000000|"Quite so," replied the lieutenant.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000023_000000|"Who went out this morning?" Athos asked, uneasily.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000023_000001|"Has any horse got loose?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000024_000000|"Not likely," answered the Gascon; "these marks are regular."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000025_000000|"Where is Raoul?" asked Athos; "how is it that I have not seen him?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000027_000000|"Ah, he's gone to Blois; the poor boy----"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000028_000000|"Wherefore?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000029_000000|"Ah, to inquire after the little La Valliere; she has sprained her foot, you know."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000030_000000|"You think he has?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000031_000000|"I am sure of it," said Athos; "don't you see that Raoul is in love?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000032_000000|"Indeed! with whom-with a child seven years old?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000033_000000|"Dear friend, at Raoul's age the heart is so expansive that it must encircle one object or another, fancied or real.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000033_000001|Well, his love is half real, half fanciful.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000033_000002|She is the prettiest little creature in the world, with flaxen hair, blue eyes,--at once saucy and languishing."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000034_000000|"But what say you to Raoul's fancy?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000035_000000|"Nothing-I laugh at Raoul; but this first desire of the heart is imperious.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000036_000000|"It is mere want of occupation.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000036_000001|You do not make Raoul work, so he takes his own way of employing himself."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000037_000000|"Exactly; therefore I think of sending him away from here."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000038_000000|"You will be wise to do so."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000039_000000|"No doubt of it; but it will break his heart.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000039_000001|So long as three or four years ago he used to adorn and adore his little idol, whom he will some day fall in love with in right earnest if he remains here.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000039_000002|The parents of little La Valliere have for a long time perceived and been amused at it; now they begin to look concerned."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000040_000000|"Nonsense!
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000040_000001|However, Raoul must be diverted from this fancy.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000040_000002|Send him away or you will never make a man of him."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000041_000000|"I think I shall send him to Paris."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000042_000000|"So!" thought D'Artagnan, and it seemed to him that the moment for attack had arrived.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000043_000000|"Suppose," he said, "we roughly chalk out a career for this young man.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000044_000000|"Do so."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000045_000000|"Do you think it is time for us to enter the service?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000046_000000|"But are you not still in the service-you, D'Artagnan?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000047_000000|"I mean active service.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000048_000000|"Do you propose to me to do so, D'Artagnan?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000049_000000|"Decidedly and honestly."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000051_000000|"Ah, devil take it, you speak in earnest----"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000052_000000|"And must have a definite answer.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000052_000001|Listen, D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000052_000002|There is but one person, or rather, one cause, to whom a man like me can be useful-that of the king."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000053_000000|"Exactly," answered the musketeer.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000054_000000|"Yes, but let us understand each other," returned Athos, seriously.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000054_000001|"If by the cause of the king you mean that of Monsieur de Mazarin, we do not understand each other."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000055_000000|"I don't say exactly," answered the Gascon, confused.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000056_000000|"Come, D'Artagnan, don't let us play a sidelong game; your hesitation, your evasion, tells me at once on whose side you are; for that party no one dares openly to recruit, and when people recruit for it, it is with averted eyes and humble voice."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000057_000000|"Ah! my dear Athos!"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000058_000000|"You know that I am not alluding to you; you are the pearl of brave, bold men.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000058_000002|I thank you, D'Artagnan."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000059_000000|"You are more impetuous than you were," returned D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000059_000001|"Age has warmed, not chilled your blood.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000059_000002|Who informed you this was the master I propose to you?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000059_000003|Devil take it," he muttered to himself, "don't let me betray my secrets to a man not inclined to entertain them."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000060_000000|"Well, then," said Athos, "what are your schemes?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000060_000001|what do you propose?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000061_000003|In fact, I am dead.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000061_000004|Well! when there is some idea of being resuscitated, you say he's a scoundrel, an impudent fellow, a miser, a bad master!
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000061_000006|I am of your opinion, but find me a better one or give me the means of living."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000062_000000|Athos was for a few moments thoughtful.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000063_000000|"Good!
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000063_000001|D'Artagnan is for Mazarin," he said to himself.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000064_000000|From that moment he grew very guarded.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000065_000000|On his side D'Artagnan became more cautious also.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000066_000000|"You spoke to me," Athos resumed, "of Porthos; have you persuaded him to seek his fortune?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000066_000001|But he has wealth, I believe, already."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000067_000000|"Doubtless he has.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000068_000000|"What does Porthos wish for?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000069_000000|"To be a baron."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000070_000000|"Ah, true!
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000070_000001|I forgot," said Athos, laughing.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000071_000000|"'tis true!" thought the Gascon, "where has he heard it?
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000071_000002|Ah! if I knew that he did I should know all."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000073_000000|"Is our little neighbor worse?" asked D'Artagnan, seeing a look of vexation on the face of the youth.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000075_000000|"This is terrible," said Athos.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000076_000000|"And what makes me all the more wretched, sir, is, that I was the cause of this misfortune."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000077_000000|"How so?" asked Athos.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000078_000000|"It was to run to meet me that she leaped from that pile of wood."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000081_000000|The good understanding between the two friends was not in the least altered by the morning's skirmish.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000082_000000|After breakfast two letters arrived for Athos, who read them with profound attention, whilst D'Artagnan could not restrain himself from jumping up several times on seeing him read these epistles, in one of which, there being at the time a very strong light, he perceived the fine writing of Aramis.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000082_000001|The other was in a feminine hand, long, and crossed.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000083_000000|"Come," said D'Artagnan to Raoul, seeing that Athos wished to be alone, "come, let us take a turn in the fencing gallery; that will amuse you."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000085_000000|In a quarter of an hour Athos joined them and at the same moment Charles brought in a letter for D'Artagnan, which a messenger had just desired might be instantly delivered.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000086_000000|It was now Athos's turn to take a sly look.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000087_000000|D'Artagnan read the letter with apparent calmness and said, shaking his head:
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000088_000000|"See, dear friend, what it is to belong to the army.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000088_000001|Faith, you are indeed right not to return to it.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000088_000002|Monsieur de Treville is ill, so my company can't do without me; there! my leave is at an end!"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000091_000000|Athos colored a little and answered:
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000092_000000|"Should I go, I shall be delighted to see you there."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000093_000000|"Halloo, Planchet!" cried the Gascon from the door, "we must set out in ten minutes; give the horses some hay."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000094_000000|Then turning to Athos he added:
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000095_000000|"I seem to miss something here.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000096_000001|"I'm surprised you have never so much as asked after him.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000096_000002|I have lent him to a friend----"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000097_000000|"Who will understand the signs he makes?" returned D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000098_000000|"I hope so."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000099_000000|The friends embraced cordially; D'Artagnan pressed Raoul's hand.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000100_000000|"Will you not come with me?" he said; "I shall pass by Blois."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000101_000000|Raoul turned toward Athos, who showed him by a secret sign that he did not wish him to go.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000104_000000|Athos waved his hand, Raoul bowed, and D'Artagnan and Planchet set out.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000106_000000|"Raoul, we set out to night for Paris."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000108_000001|I shall wait for you here till seven."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000109_000000|The young man bent low, with an expression of sorrow and gratitude mingled, and retired in order to saddle his horse.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000111_000000|"Return immediately to Paris.--J.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000111_000001|M----."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000112_000000|"The epistle is laconic," said D'Artagnan; "and if there had not been a postscript, probably I should not have understood it; but happily there is a postscript."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000113_000000|And he read that welcome postscript, which made him forget the abruptness of the letter.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000114_000000|"P.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000114_000001|S.--Go to the king's treasurer, at Blois; tell him your name and show him this letter; you will receive two hundred pistoles."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000115_000000|"Assuredly," said D'Artagnan, "I admire this piece of prose.
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000115_000002|Come, Planchet, let us pay a visit to the king's treasurer and then set off."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000116_000000|"Toward Paris, sir?"
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000117_000000|"Toward Paris."
train-other-500/1485/121385/1485_121385_000118_000000|And they set out at as hard a canter as their horses could maintain.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000001_000000|THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000002_000000|So far as Graham was able to judge, it was near midday when the white banner of the Council fell.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000002_000001|But some hours had to elapse before it was possible to effect the formal capitulation, and so after he had spoken his "Word" he retired to his new apartments in the wind vane offices.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000002_000002|The continuous excitement of the last twelve hours had left him inordinately fatigued, even his curiosity was exhausted; for a space he sat inert and passive with open eyes, and for a space he slept.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000002_000003|He was roused by two medical attendants, come prepared with stimulants to sustain him through the next occasion.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000002_000004|After he had taken their drugs and bathed by their advice in cold water, he felt a rapid return of interest and energy, and was presently able and willing to accompany Ostrog through several miles (as it seemed) of passages, lifts, and slides to the closing scene of the White Council's rule.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000003_000000|The way ran deviously through a maze of buildings.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000003_000001|They came at last to a passage that curved about, and showed broadening before him an oblong opening, clouds hot with sunset, and the ragged skyline of the ruinous Council House.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000003_000002|A tumult of shouts came drifting up to him.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000003_000003|In another moment they had come out high up on the brow of the cliff of torn buildings that overhung the wreckage.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000003_000004|The vast area opened to Graham's eyes, none the less strange and wonderful for the remote view he had had of it in the oval mirror.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000004_000001|It was gold lit on the left hand, catching the sunlight, and below and to the right clear and cold in the shadow.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000004_000002|Above the shadowy grey Council House that stood in the midst of it, the great black banner of the surrender still hung in sluggish folds against the blazing sunset.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000004_000003|Severed rooms, halls and passages gaped strangely, broken masses of metal projected dismally from the complex wreckage, vast masses of twisted cable dropped like tangled seaweed, and from its base came a tumult of innumerable voices, violent concussions, and the sound of trumpets.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000004_000004|All about this great white pile was a ring of desolation; the smashed and blackened masses, the gaunt foundations and ruinous lumber of the fabric that had been destroyed by the Council's orders, skeletons of girders, Titanic masses of wall, forests of stout pillars.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000004_000006|And everywhere great multitudes of people.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000005_000000|Wherever there was space and foothold, people swarmed, little people, small and minutely clear, except where the sunset touched them to indistinguishable gold.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000005_000001|They clambered up the tottering walls, they clung in wreaths and groups about the high standing pillars.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000005_000002|They swarmed along the edges of the circle of ruins.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000005_000003|The air was full of their shouting, and they were pressing and swaying towards the central space.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000006_000000|The upper storeys of the Council House seemed deserted, not a human being was visible.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000006_000001|Only the drooping banner of the surrender hung heavily against the light.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000006_000002|The dead were within the Council House, or hidden by the swarming people, or carried away.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000006_000003|Graham could see only a few neglected bodies in gaps and corners of the ruins, and amidst the flowing water.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000007_000000|"Will you let them see you, Sire?" said Ostrog.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000007_000001|"They are very anxious to see you."
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000008_000000|Graham hesitated, and then walked forward to where the broken verge of wall dropped sheer.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000008_000001|He stood looking down, a lonely, tall, black figure against the sky.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000009_000000|Very slowly the swarming ruins became aware of him.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000009_000001|And as they did so little bands of black uniformed men appeared remotely, thrusting through the crowds towards the Council House.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000009_000002|He saw little black heads become pink, looking at him, saw by that means a wave of recognition sweep across the space.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000009_000003|It occurred to him that he should accord them some recognition.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000009_000004|He held up his arm, then pointed to the Council House and dropped his hand.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000010_000000|The western sky was a pallid bluish green, and Jupiter shone high in the south, before the capitulation was accomplished.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000010_000001|Above was a slow insensible change, the advance of night serene and beautiful; below was hurry, excitement, conflicting orders, pauses, spasmodic developments of organisation, a vast ascending clamour and confusion.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000010_000002|Before the Council came out, toiling perspiring men, directed by a conflict of shouts, carried forth hundreds of those who had perished in the hand to hand conflict within those long passages and chambers....
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000011_000000|Guards in black lined the way that the Council would come, and as far as the eye could reach into the hazy blue twilight of the ruins, and swarming now at every possible point in the captured Council House and along the shattered cliff of its circumadjacent buildings, were innumerable people, and their voices, even when they were not cheering, were as the soughing of the sea upon a pebble beach.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000011_000001|Ostrog had chosen a huge commanding pile of crushed and overthrown masonry, and on this a stage of timbers and metal girders was being hastily constructed.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000012_000000|The stage had a small higher portion on which Graham stood with Ostrog and Lincoln close beside him, a little in advance of a group of minor officers.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000012_000001|A broader lower stage surrounded this quarter deck, and on this were the black uniformed guards of the revolt armed with the little green weapons whose very names Graham still did not know.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000000|He saw the Councillors first afar off in the glare of one of the temporary lights that marked their path, a little group of white figures in a black archway.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000001|In the Council House they had been in darkness.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000002|He watched them approaching, drawing nearer past first this blazing electric star and then that; the minatory roar of the crowd over whom their power had lasted for a hundred and fifty years marched along beside them.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000003|As they drew still nearer their faces came out weary, white, and anxious.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000005|Presently he could recognise several of them; the man who had rapped the table at Howard, a burly man with a red beard, and one delicate featured, short, dark man with a peculiarly long skull.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000006|He noted that two were whispering together and looking behind him at Ostrog.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000013_000008|Abruptly he glanced up, his eyes touched Graham for a moment, and passed beyond him to Ostrog.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000014_000000|"The Master, the Master!
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000014_000003|His eye went again to the little group of White Councillors.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000014_000004|And then he looked up at the familiar quiet stars overhead.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000014_000005|The marvellous element in his fate was suddenly vivid.
train-other-500/1485/139314/1485_139314_000014_000006|Could that be his indeed, that little life in his memory two hundred years gone by-and this as well?
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000005_000000|CHAPTER five-WHAT SNOBS ADMIRE
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000006_000000|Now let us consider how difficult it is even for great men to escape from being Snobs.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000006_000001|It is very well for the reader, whose fine feelings are disgusted by the assertion that Kings, Princes, Lords, are Snobs, to say 'You are confessedly a Snob yourself.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000006_000003|It is impossible for ANY Briton, perhaps, not to be a Snob in some degree.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000006_000005|If I have pointed out the disease, let us hope that other scientific characters may discover the remedy.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000008_000000|As I was discoursing with my friend Eugenio in this impressive way, Lord Buckram passed us, the son of the Marquis of Bagwig, and knocked at the door of the family mansion in Red Lion Square.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000008_000001|His noble father and mother occupied, as everybody knows, distinguished posts in the Courts of late Sovereigns.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000008_000002|The Marquis was Lord of the Pantry, and her Ladyship, Lady of the Powder Closet to Queen Charlotte.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000008_000003|Buck (as I call him, for we are very familiar) gave me a nod as he passed, and I proceeded to show Eugenio how it was impossible that this nobleman should not be one of ourselves, having been practised upon by Snobs all his life.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000009_000000|His parents resolved to give him a public education, and sent him to school at the earliest possible period.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000009_000001|The Reverend Otto Rose, d d, Principal of the Preparatory Academy for young noblemen and gentlemen, Richmond Lodge, took this little Lord in hand, and fell down and worshipped him.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000009_000004|He made Lord Buckram a bait for such a multiplicity of pupils, that a new wing was built to Richmond Lodge, and thirty five new little white dimity beds were added to the establishment.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000009_000006|Rose used to take out the little Lord in the one horse chaise with her when she paid visits, until the Rector's lady and the Surgeon's wife almost died with envy.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000009_000007|His own son and Lord Buckram having been discovered robbing an orchard together, the Doctor flogged his own flesh and blood most unmercifully for leading the young Lord astray.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000009_000008|He parted from him with tears.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000010_000000|At Eton, a great deal of Snobbishness was thrashed out of Lord Buckram, and he was birched with perfect impartiality.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000010_000001|Even there, however, a select band of sucking tuft hunters followed him.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000010_000002|Young Croesus lent him three and twenty bran new sovereigns out of his father's bank.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000010_000003|Young Snaily did his exercises for him, and tried 'to know him at home;' but Young Bull licked him in a fight of fifty five minutes, and he was caned several times with great advantage for not sufficiently polishing his master Smith's shoes.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000010_000004|Boys are not ALL toadies in the morning of life.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000000|But when he went to the University, crowds of toadies sprawled over him.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000001|The tutors toadied him.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000002|The fellows in hall paid him great clumsy compliments.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000003|The Dean never remarked his absence from Chapel, or heard any noise issuing from his rooms.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000004|A number of respectable young fellows, (it is among the respectable, the Baker Street class, that Snobbishness flourishes, more than among any set of people in England)--a number of these clung to him like leeches.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000005|There was no end now to Croesus's loans of money; and Buckram couldn't ride out with the hounds, but Snaily (a timid creature by nature) was in the field, and would take any leap at which his friend chose to ride.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000006|Young Rose came up to the same College, having been kept back for that express purpose by his father.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000007|He spent a quarter's allowance in giving Buckram a single dinner; but he knew there was always pardon for him for extravagance in such a cause; and a ten pound note always came to him from home when he mentioned Buckram's name in a letter.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000008|What wild visions entered the brains of mrs Podge and Miss Podge, the wife and daughter of the Principal of Lord Buckram's College, I don't know, but that reverend old gentleman was too profound a flunkey by nature ever for one minute to think that a child of his could marry a nobleman.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000011_000009|He therefore hastened on his daughter's union with Professor Crab.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000012_000000|When Lord Buckram, after taking his honorary degree, (for Alma Mater is a Snob, too, and truckles to a Lord like the rest,)--when Lord Buckram went abroad to finish his education, you all know what dangers he ran, and what numbers of caps were set at him.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000012_000002|If perseverance and forty thousand pounds down could have tempted him, Miss Lydia Croesus would certainly have been Lady Buckram.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000013_000001|If we were to describe him it would be personal.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000014_000003|Suppose he is an honest, highminded gentleman; so much the better for himself.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000014_000004|But he may be an ass, and yet respected; or a ruffian, and yet be exceedingly popular; or a rogue, and yet excuses will be found for him.
train-other-500/1492/11251/1492_11251_000014_000005|Snobs will still worship him.
train-other-500/1492/174461/1492_174461_000003_000018|Such an origin as our little visitor's affected him visibly as dazzling, and I felt justified after a while, in stealing away into the shade.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000000_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000002_000000|The transaction concluded, the two still remained seated, falling into familiar conversation, by degrees verging into that confidential sort of sympathetic silence, the last refinement and luxury of unaffected good feeling.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000002_000001|A kind of social superstition, to suppose that to be truly friendly one must be saying friendly words all the time, any more than be doing friendly deeds continually.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000002_000002|True friendliness, like true religion, being in a sort independent of works.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000003_000000|At length, the good merchant, whose eyes were pensively resting upon the gay tables in the distance, broke the spell by saying that, from the spectacle before them, one would little divine what other quarters of the boat might reveal.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000003_000002|To such a degree, indeed, that he had no trust in anything, not even in his parchment bonds, which, the better to preserve from the tooth of time, he had packed down and sealed up, like brandy peaches, in a tin case of spirits.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000004_000000|The worthy man proceeded at some length with these dispiriting particulars.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000004_000001|Nor would his cheery companion wholly deny that there might be a point of view from which such a case of extreme want of confidence might, to the humane mind, present features not altogether welcome as wine and olives after dinner.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000004_000002|Still, he was not without compensatory considerations, and, upon the whole, took his companion to task for evincing what, in a good-natured, round about way, he hinted to be a somewhat jaundiced sentimentality.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000004_000003|Nature, he added, in Shakespeare's words, had meal and bran; and, rightly regarded, the bran in its way was not to be condemned.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000005_000000|The other was not disposed to question the justice of Shakespeare's thought, but would hardly admit the propriety of the application in this instance, much less of the comment.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000005_000002|He knew nothing about the cripple, nor had seen him, but ventured to surmise that, could one but get at the real state of his heart, he would be found about as happy as most men, if not, in fact, full as happy as the speaker himself.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000005_000003|He added that negroes were by nature a singularly cheerful race; no one ever heard of a native born African Zimmermann or Torquemada; that even from religion they dismissed all gloom; in their hilarious rituals they danced, so to speak, and, as it were, cut pigeon wings.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000005_000004|It was improbable, therefore, that a negro, however reduced to his stumps by fortune, could be ever thrown off the legs of a laughing philosophy.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000008_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000011_000000|Goneril was young, in person lithe and straight, too straight, indeed, for a woman, a complexion naturally rosy, and which would have been charmingly so, but for a certain hardness and bakedness, like that of the glazed colors on stone ware.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000011_000001|Her hair was of a deep, rich chestnut, but worn in close, short curls all round her head.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000011_000002|Her Indian figure was not without its impairing effect on her bust, while her mouth would have been pretty but for a trace of moustache.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000000|It was happy for Goneril that her more striking peculiarities were less of the person than of temper and taste.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000002|She liked lemons, and the only kind of candy she loved were little dried sticks of blue clay, secretly carried in her pocket.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000003|Withal she had hard, steady health like a squaw's, with as firm a spirit and resolution.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000005|Lithe though she was, she loved supineness, but upon occasion could endure like a stoic.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000006|She was taciturn, too.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000007|From early morning till about three o'clock in the afternoon she would seldom speak-it taking that time to thaw her, by all accounts, into but talking terms with humanity.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000009|Those who thought they best knew her, often wondered what happiness such a being could take in life, not considering the happiness which is to be had by some natures in the very easy way of simply causing pain to those around them.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000011|In a large sense she possessed the virtue of independence of mind.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000014|Passion is human.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000015|Like an icicle dagger, Goneril at once stabbed and froze; so at least they said; and when she saw frankness and innocence tyrannized into sad nervousness under her spell, according to the same authority, inly she chewed her blue clay, and you could mark that she chuckled.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000016|These peculiarities were strange and unpleasing; but another was alleged, one really incomprehensible.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000012_000017|In company she had a strange way of touching, as by accident, the arm or hand of comely young men, and seemed to reap a secret delight from it, but whether from the humane satisfaction of having given the evil touch, as it is called, or whether it was something else in her, not equally wonderful, but quite as deplorable, remained an enigma.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000002|He would shudderingly shun the young gentleman.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000003|So that here, to the husband, Goneril's touch had the dread operation of the heathen taboo.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000004|Now Goneril brooked no chiding.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000005|So, at favorable times, he, in a wary manner, and not indelicately, would venture in private interviews gently to make distant allusions to this questionable propensity.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000006|She divined him.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000014|In vain did his counsel, striving to make out the derangement to be where, in fact, if anywhere, it was, urge that, to hold otherwise, to hold that such a being as Goneril was sane, this was constructively a libel upon womankind.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000015|Libel be it.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000016|And all ended by the unfortunate man's subsequently getting wind of Goneril's intention to procure him to be permanently committed for a lunatic.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000017|Upon which he fled, and was now an innocent outcast, wandering forlorn in the great valley of the Mississippi, with a weed on his hat for the loss of his Goneril; for he had lately seen by the papers that she was dead, and thought it but proper to comply with the prescribed form of mourning in such cases.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000013_000018|For some days past he had been trying to get money enough to return to his child, and was but now started with inadequate funds.
train-other-500/1492/55449/1492_55449_000014_000000|Now all of this, from the beginning, the good merchant could not but consider rather hard for the unfortunate man.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000001_000000|CHAPTER forty seven
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000002_000000|ADVENTURES BY THE SHORE
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000003_000000|Troy wandered along towards the south.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000003_000002|The sad accessories of Fanny's end confronted him as vivid pictures which threatened to be indelible, and made life in Bathsheba's house intolerable.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000003_000003|At three in the afternoon he found himself at the foot of a slope more than a mile in length, which ran to the ridge of a range of hills lying parallel with the shore, and forming a monotonous barrier between the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000003_000005|Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000003_000007|The air was warm and muggy, and the top seemed to recede as he approached.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000004_000000|At last he reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Pacific upon Balboa's gaze.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000004_000002|Nothing moved in sky, land, or sea, except a frill of milkwhite foam along the nearer angles of the shore, shreds of which licked the contiguous stones like tongues.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000005_000000|He descended and came to a small basin of sea enclosed by the cliffs. Troy's nature freshened within him; he thought he would rest and bathe here before going farther.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000005_000002|Troy found himself carried to the left and then round in a swoop out to sea.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000006_000000|He now recollected the place and its sinister character.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000006_000002|Not a boat of any kind was at present within sight, but far in the distance Budmouth lay upon the sea, as it were quietly regarding his efforts, and beside the town the harbour showed its position by a dim meshwork of ropes and spars.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000007_000000|All Troy's vigour spasmodically revived to prolong the struggle yet a little further.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000007_000001|Swimming with his right arm, he held up his left to hail them, splashing upon the waves, and shouting with all his might. From the position of the setting sun his white form was distinctly visible upon the now deep hued bosom of the sea to the east of the boat, and the men saw him at once.
train-other-500/1494/138315/1494_138315_000007_000002|Backing their oars and putting the boat about, they pulled towards him with a will, and in five or six minutes from the time of his first halloo, two of the sailors hauled him in over the stern.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000000_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000005_000000|"That is not where the mistake is," replied Samson; "it is, that before the ass has turned up, the author speaks of Sancho as being mounted on it."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000006_000000|"I don't know what to say to that," said Sancho, "unless that the historian made a mistake, or perhaps it might be a blunder of the printer's."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000007_000000|"No doubt that's it," said Samson; "but what became of the hundred crowns?
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000007_000001|Did they vanish?"
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000008_000001|Let each look to himself and not try to make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him, aye, and often worse."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000009_000000|"I will take care," said Carrasco, "to impress upon the author of the history that, if he prints it again, he must not forget what worthy Sancho has said, for it will raise it a good span higher."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000016_000000|Whereat Sancho observed, "The author looks for money and profit, does he? It will be a wonder if he succeeds, for it will be only hurry, hurry, with him, like the tailor on Easter Eve; and works done in a hurry are never finished as perfectly as they ought to be.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000016_000001|Let master Moor, or whatever he is, pay attention to what he is doing, and I and my master will give him as much grouting ready to his hand, in the way of adventures and accidents of all sorts, as would make up not only one second part, but a hundred.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000016_000002|The good man fancies, no doubt, that we are fast asleep in the straw here, but let him hold up our feet to be shod and he will see which foot it is we go lame on.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000017_000001|He commended his very praiseworthy and gallant resolution, but admonished him to proceed with greater caution in encountering dangers, because his life did not belong to him, but to all those who had need of him to protect and aid them in their misfortunes.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000018_000000|"There's where it is, what I abominate, Senor Samson," said Sancho here; "my master will attack a hundred armed men as a greedy boy would half a dozen melons.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000018_000001|Body of the world, senor bachelor!
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000019_000000|"Brother Sancho," said Carrasco, "you have spoken like a professor; but, for all that, put your trust in God and in Senor Don Quixote, for he will give you a kingdom, not to say an island."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000022_000001|Nay, only look at my disposition, is that likely to show ingratitude to anyone?"
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000023_000000|"God grant it," said Don Quixote; "we shall see when the government comes; and I seem to see it already."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000026_000002|Carrasco promised all, and then took his leave, charging Don Quixote to inform him of his good or evil fortunes whenever he had an opportunity; and thus they bade each other farewell, and Sancho went away to make the necessary preparations for their expedition.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000027_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000028_000000|OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000030_000000|Sancho came home in such glee and spirits that his wife noticed his happiness a bowshot off, so much so that it made her ask him, "What have you got, Sancho friend, that you are so glad?"
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000031_000000|To which he replied, "Wife, if it were God's will, I should be very glad not to be so well pleased as I show myself."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000032_000000|"I don't understand you, husband," said she, "and I don't know what you mean by saying you would be glad, if it were God's will, not to be well pleased; for, fool as I am, I don't know how one can find pleasure in not having it."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000037_000000|"I can tell you, wife," said Sancho, "if I did not expect to see myself governor of an island before long, I would drop down dead on the spot."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000038_000001|How many there are in the world who live without a government, and continue to live all the same, and are reckoned in the number of the people.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000038_000002|The best sauce in the world is hunger, and as the poor are never without that, they always eat with a relish.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000038_000003|But mind, Sancho, if by good luck you should find yourself with some government, don't forget me and your children.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000041_000000|"Tut, you fool," said Sancho; "it will be only to practise it for two or three years; and then dignity and decorum will fit her as easily as a glove; and if not, what matter?
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000044_000000|It is this sort of talk, and what Sancho says lower down, that made the translator of the history say he considered this chapter apocryphal.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000045_000001|No, stay as you are, growing neither greater nor less, like a tapestry figure-Let us say no more about it, for Sanchica shall be a countess, say what you will."
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000046_000002|I was always a lover of equality, brother, and I can't bear to see people give themselves airs without any right.
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000047_000002|What have Cascajo, and the broaches and the proverbs and the airs, to do with what I say?
train-other-500/1495/138027/1495_138027_000053_000000|"Resolved, you should say, woman," said Sancho, "not revolved."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000000_000001|SHERLOCK HOLMES.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000001_000001|Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000001_000002|The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000001_000003|On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000001_000004|I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000002_000000|The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000002_000001|I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000002_000002|There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000002_000003|I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000003_000001|Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000003_000003|I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship "Orontes," and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000004_000002|There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000004_000003|So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000004_000004|Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000005_000000|On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000005_000002|In old days Stamford had never been a particular crony of mine, but now I hailed him with enthusiasm, and he, in his turn, appeared to be delighted to see me.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000005_000003|In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off together in a hansom.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000007_000000|I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded it by the time that we reached our destination.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000008_000000|"Poor devil!" he said, commiseratingly, after he had listened to my misfortunes.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000009_000001|"Trying to solve the problem as to whether it is possible to get comfortable rooms at a reasonable price."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000010_000000|"That's a strange thing," remarked my companion; "you are the second man to day that has used that expression to me."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000011_000000|"And who was the first?" I asked.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000013_000000|"By Jove!" I cried, "if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000013_000001|I should prefer having a partner to being alone."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000014_000000|Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wine glass.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000015_000000|"Why, what is there against him?"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000016_000000|"Oh, I didn't say there was anything against him.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000016_000001|He is a little queer in his ideas-an enthusiast in some branches of science.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000016_000002|As far as I know he is a decent fellow enough."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000017_000000|"A medical student, I suppose?" said i
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000018_000001|I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000019_000000|"Did you never ask him what he was going in for?" I asked.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000021_000000|"I should like to meet him," I said.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000021_000001|"If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000021_000003|I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000021_000004|How could I meet this friend of yours?"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000022_000001|"He either avoids the place for weeks, or else he works there from morning to night.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000023_000000|"Certainly," I answered, and the conversation drifted away into other channels.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000024_000000|As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn, Stamford gave me a few more particulars about the gentleman whom I proposed to take as a fellow lodger.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000025_000000|"You mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him," he said; "I know nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in the laboratory.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000025_000001|You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000026_000000|"If we don't get on it will be easy to part company," I answered.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000026_000001|"It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000026_000002|Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it?
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000026_000003|Don't be mealy mouthed about it."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000027_000000|"It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh. "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes-it approaches to cold bloodedness.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000027_000001|I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000028_000000|"Very right too."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000029_000000|"Yes, but it may be pushed to excess.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000030_000000|"Beating the subjects!"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000031_000000|"Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000031_000001|I saw him at it with my own eyes."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000032_000000|"And yet you say he is not a medical student?"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000033_000000|"no
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000033_000001|Heaven knows what the objects of his studies are.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000033_000002|But here we are, and you must form your own impressions about him." As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side door, which opened into a wing of the great hospital.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000033_000003|It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun coloured doors.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000033_000004|Near the further end a low arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000034_000000|This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames. There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000034_000001|At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000035_000000|"dr Watson, mr Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000036_000000|"How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000036_000001|"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000038_000000|"Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000038_000002|No doubt you see the significance of this discovery of mine?"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000039_000000|"It is interesting, chemically, no doubt," I answered, "but practically----"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000000|"Why, man, it is the most practical medico legal discovery for years. Don't you see that it gives us an infallible test for blood stains.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000001|Come over here now!" He seized me by the coat sleeve in his eagerness, and drew me over to the table at which he had been working.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000002|"Let us have some fresh blood," he said, digging a long bodkin into his finger, and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chemical pipette.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000003|"Now, I add this small quantity of blood to a litre of water.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000004|You perceive that the resulting mixture has the appearance of pure water.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000005|The proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a million.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000006|I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction." As he spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added some drops of a transparent fluid.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000040_000007|In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000041_000000|"Ha! ha!" he cried, clapping his hands, and looking as delighted as a child with a new toy.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000041_000001|"What do you think of that?"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000042_000000|"It seems to be a very delicate test," I remarked.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000043_000000|"Beautiful! beautiful!
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000043_000001|The old Guiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000043_000002|So is the microscopic examination for blood corpuscles.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000043_000003|The latter is valueless if the stains are a few hours old.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000043_000004|Now, this appears to act as well whether the blood is old or new.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000043_000005|Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000044_000000|"Indeed!" I murmured.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000045_000000|"Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000045_000001|A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000045_000004|Because there was no reliable test.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000045_000005|Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000047_000000|"You are to be congratulated," I remarked, considerably surprised at his enthusiasm.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000048_000000|"There was the case of Von Bischoff at Frankfort last year.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000048_000001|He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000048_000002|Then there was Mason of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre of Montpellier, and Samson of New Orleans.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000048_000003|I could name a score of cases in which it would have been decisive."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000049_000000|"You seem to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford with a laugh.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000049_000001|"You might start a paper on those lines.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000049_000002|Call it the 'Police News of the Past.'"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000051_000000|"We came here on business," said Stamford, sitting down on a high three legged stool, and pushing another one in my direction with his foot.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000052_000000|Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000052_000001|"I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street," he said, "which would suit us down to the ground.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000052_000002|You don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, I hope?"
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000054_000000|"That's good enough.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000054_000001|I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000055_000000|"By no means."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000056_000001|I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000056_000002|You must not think I am sulky when I do that.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000056_000004|What have you to confess now?
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000056_000005|It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000057_000000|I laughed at this cross examination.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000057_000001|"I keep a bull pup," I said, "and I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000057_000002|I have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present."
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000058_000000|"Do you include violin playing in your category of rows?" he asked, anxiously.
train-other-500/1505/1303/1505_1303_000059_000000|"It depends on the player," I answered.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000001_000001|THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000002_000001|They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed rooms and a single large airy sitting room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000002_000003|For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000002_000004|That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000003_000000|Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000003_000001|He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regular.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000003_000002|It was rare for him to be up after ten at night, and he had invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the morning.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000003_000004|On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000004_000000|As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life, gradually deepened and increased.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000004_000001|His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000004_000002|In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000004_000003|His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000004_000004|His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000004_000005|His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000005_000000|The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000005_000001|Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered, how objectless was my life, and how little there was to engage my attention. My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000005_000002|Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000006_000000|He was not studying medicine.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000006_000002|Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance into the learned world.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000006_000004|Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000006_000006|No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000007_000000|His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000007_000001|Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000007_000002|My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000007_000003|That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000008_000001|"Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000009_000000|"To forget it!"
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000010_000000|"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000010_000001|A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000010_000002|Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000010_000003|He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000010_000005|Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000010_000006|It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000011_000000|"But the Solar System!" I protested.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000012_000000|"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000012_000001|If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000013_000000|I was on the point of asking him what that work might be, but something in his manner showed me that the question would be an unwelcome one.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000013_000001|I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavoured to draw my deductions from it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000013_000002|He said that he would acquire no knowledge which did not bear upon his object.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000013_000003|Therefore all the knowledge which he possessed was such as would be useful to him.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000013_000005|I even took a pencil and jotted them down. I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000014_000000|SHERLOCK HOLMES-his limits.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000000|one.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000001|Knowledge of Literature.--Nil. two.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000002|Philosophy.--Nil. three.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000005|Botany.--Variable.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000006|Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. six.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000007|Geology.--Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000008|After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them. seven.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000010|Anatomy.--Accurate, but unsystematic. nine.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000011|Sensational Literature.--Immense.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000012|He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. ten.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000013|Plays the violin well. eleven.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000014|Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. twelve.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000015_000015|Has a good practical knowledge of British law.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000000|I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000002|When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognized air.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000003|Leaning back in his arm chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000004|Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000005|Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000006|Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him, but whether the music aided those thoughts, or whether the playing was simply the result of a whim or fancy was more than I could determine.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000017_000007|I might have rebelled against these exasperating solos had it not been that he usually terminated them by playing in quick succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a slight compensation for the trial upon my patience.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000000|During the first week or so we had no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000001|Presently, however, I found that he had many acquaintances, and those in the most different classes of society.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000003|One morning a young girl called, fashionably dressed, and stayed for half an hour or more.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000005|On another occasion an old white haired gentleman had an interview with my companion; and on another a railway porter in his velveteen uniform.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000006|When any of these nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes used to beg for the use of the sitting room, and I would retire to my bed room. He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconvenience.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000007|"I have to use this room as a place of business," he said, "and these people are my clients." Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000018_000008|I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000019_000000|It was upon the fourth of March, as I have good reason to remember, that I rose somewhat earlier than usual, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet finished his breakfast.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000019_000001|The landlady had become so accustomed to my late habits that my place had not been laid nor my coffee prepared.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000019_000002|With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000019_000003|Then I picked up a magazine from the table and attempted to while away the time with it, while my companion munched silently at his toast.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000019_000004|One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000020_000000|Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life," and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000020_000001|It struck me as being a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurdity.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000020_000002|The reasoning was close and intense, but the deductions appeared to me to be far fetched and exaggerated.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000020_000003|The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man's inmost thoughts. Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000020_000004|His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000020_000005|So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000000|"From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000001|So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000002|Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000003|Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000004|Let him, on meeting a fellow mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000005|Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000006|By a man's finger nails, by his coat sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs-by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000021_000007|That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000022_000000|"What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000023_000000|"What is it?" asked Sherlock Holmes.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000001|"I see that you have read it since you have marked it.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000002|I don't deny that it is smartly written.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000003|It irritates me though.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000004|It is evidently the theory of some arm chair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000005|It is not practical.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000006|I should like to see him clapped down in a third class carriage on the Underground, and asked to give the trades of all his fellow travellers.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000024_000007|I would lay a thousand to one against him."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000025_000000|"You would lose your money," Sherlock Holmes remarked calmly.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000026_000000|"You!"
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000027_000000|"Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000027_000001|The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical-so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000028_000000|"And how?" I asked involuntarily.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000000|"Well, I have a trade of my own.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000001|I suppose I am the only one in the world.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000002|I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000003|When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000004|They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000005|There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000006|Lestrade is a well-known detective.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000029_000007|He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000030_000000|"And these other people?"
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000031_000000|"They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000031_000001|They are all people who are in trouble about something, and want a little enlightening.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000031_000002|I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000032_000000|"But do you mean to say," I said, "that without leaving your room you can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they have seen every detail for themselves?"
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000000|"Quite so.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000001|I have a kind of intuition that way.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000002|Now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000003|Then I have to bustle about and see things with my own eyes.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000004|You see I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully. Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000005|Observation with me is second nature.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000033_000006|You appeared to be surprised when I told you, on our first meeting, that you had come from Afghanistan."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000034_000000|"You were told, no doubt."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000000|"Nothing of the sort.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000002|From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps. There were such steps, however.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000004|Clearly an army doctor, then.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000005|He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000006|He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000007|His left arm has been injured.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000008|He holds it in a stiff and unnatural manner.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000009|Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded?
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000010|Clearly in Afghanistan.' The whole train of thought did not occupy a second.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000035_000011|I then remarked that you came from Afghanistan, and you were astonished."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000036_000000|"It is simple enough as you explain it," I said, smiling.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000036_000002|I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000037_000000|Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000037_000003|That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000037_000004|He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000038_000000|"Have you read Gaboriau's works?" I asked.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000038_000001|"Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective?"
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000039_000000|Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000039_000001|"Lecoq was a miserable bungler," he said, in an angry voice; "he had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000039_000002|That book made me positively ill.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000039_000003|The question was how to identify an unknown prisoner.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000039_000004|I could have done it in twenty four hours.
train-other-500/1505/1304/1505_1304_000039_000005|Lecoq took six months or so.
train-other-500/151/125753/151_125753_000019_000000|This wife was not afeared nor afraid, But boldely she said, and that anon; "Mary!
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000000|As soon as the news that the Queen of England was on the French coast had been brought to Versailles, a palace was prepared for her reception. Carriages and troops of guards were despatched to await her orders, workmen were employed to mend the Calais road that her journey might be easy.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000003|Persons of high rank were instantly despatched from Versailles to greet and escort him.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000004|Meanwhile Lewis, attended by his family and his nobility, went forth in state to receive the exiled Queen.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000005|Before his gorgeous coach went the Swiss halberdiers.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000006|On each side of it and behind it rode the body guards with cymbals clashing and trumpets pealing.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000008|Before the procession had gone far it was announced that Mary was approaching.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000009|Lewis alighted and advanced on foot to meet her.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000010|She broke forth into passionate expressions of gratitude.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000000_000012|I hope that I may be able hereafter to render you services greater and more pleasing." He embraced the little Prince of Wales, and made the Queen seat herself in the royal state coach on the right hand.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000001_000001|Of the residences of the French kings none stood in a more salubrious air or commanded a fairer prospect.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000001_000002|The huge size and venerable age of the trees, the beauty of the gardens, the abundance of the springs, were widely famed.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000001_000003|Lewis the Fourteenth had been born there, had, when a young man, held his court there, had added several stately pavilions to the mansion of Francis, and had completed the terrace of Henry.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000001_000004|Soon, however, the magnificent King conceived an inexplicable disgust for his birthplace.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000001_000005|He quitted Saint Germains for Versailles, and expended sums almost fabulous in the vain attempt to create a paradise on a spot singularly sterile and unwholesome, all sand or mud, without wood, without water, and without game.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000001_000007|The nursery of the Prince of Wales had been carefully furnished with everything that an infant could require.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000002_000002|The unfortunate exile bowed so low that it seemed as if he was about to embrace the knees of his protector.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000002_000004|The two Kings then entered the Queen's room.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000002_000005|"Here is a gentleman," said Lewis to Mary, "whom you will be glad to see." Then, after entreating his guests to visit him next day at Versailles, and to let him have the pleasure of showing them his buildings, pictures, and plantations, he took the unceremonious leave of an old friend.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000003_000001|Ten thousand pounds sterling were sent for outfit.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000000|The liberality of Lewis, however, was much less rare and admirable than the exquisite delicacy with which he laboured to soothe the feelings of his guests and to lighten the almost intolerable weight of the obligations which he laid upon them.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000001|He who had hitherto, on all questions of precedence, been sensitive, litigious, insolent, who had been more than once ready to plunge Europe into war rather than concede the most frivolous point of etiquette, was now punctilious indeed, but punctilious for his unfortunate friends against himself.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000002|He gave orders that Mary should receive all the marks of respect that had ever been paid to his own deceased wife.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000003|A question was raised whether the Princes of the House of Bourbon were entitled to be indulged with chairs in the presence of the Queen.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000004|Such trifles were serious matters at the old court of France.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000005|There were precedents on both sides: but Lewis decided the point against his own blood.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000006|Some ladies of illustrious rank omitted the ceremony of kissing the hem of Mary's robe.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000007|Lewis remarked the omission, and noticed it in such a voice and with such a look that the whole peerage was ever after ready to kiss her shoe.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000004_000009|Lewis modestly placed himself on the left. Nay, he was well pleased that, in his own palace, an outcast living on his bounty should assume the title of King of France, should, as King of France, quarter the lilies with the English lions, and should, as King of France, dress in violet on days of court mourning.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000005_000001|Their opinion of Mary was favourable.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000005_000002|They found her person agreeable and her deportment dignified.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000005_000003|They respected her courage and her maternal affection; and they pitied her ill fortune.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000005_000004|But james they regarded with extreme contempt.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000005_000005|They were disgusted by his insensibility, by the cool way in which he talked to every body of his ruin, and by the childish pleasure which he took in the pomp and luxury of Versailles.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000000|In the United Provinces the excitement produced by the tidings from England was even greater than in France.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000001|This was the moment at which the Batavian federation reached the highest point of power and glory. From the day on which the expedition sailed, the anxiety of the whole Dutch nation had been intense.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000002|Never had there been such crowds in the churches.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000003|Never had the enthusiasm of the preachers been so ardent. The inhabitants of the Hague could not be restrained from insulting Albeville.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000004|His house was so closely beset by the populace, day and night, that scarcely any person ventured to visit him; and he was afraid that his chapel would be burned to the ground.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000006|An extraordinary mission was, with great speed, despatched to congratulate him.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000007|Dykvelt, whose adroitness and intimate knowledge of English politics made his assistance, at such a conjuncture, peculiarly valuable, was one of the Ambassadors; and with him was joined Nicholas Witsen, a Burgomaster of Amsterdam, who seems to have been selected for the purpose of proving to all Europe that the long feud between the House of Orange and the chief city of Holland was at an end.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000008|On the eighth of January Dykvelt and Witsen made their appearance at Westminster.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000009|William talked to them with a frankness and an effusion of heart which seldom appeared in his conversations with Englishmen.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000010|His first words were, "Well, and what do our friends at home say now?"
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000006_000011|In truth, the only applause by which his stoical nature seems to have been strongly moved was the applause of his dear native country.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000007_000000|On the following day the first members of the Convention were chosen. The City of London led the way, and elected, without any contest, four great merchants who were zealous Whigs.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000007_000001|The King and his adherents had hoped that many returning officers would treat the Prince's letter as a nullity; but the hope was disappointed.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000007_000002|The elections went on rapidly and smoothly.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000007_000004|For the nation had, during more than a year, been kept in constant expectation of a Parliament.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000007_000005|Writs, indeed, had been twice issued, and twice recalled. Some constituent bodies had, under those writs, actually proceeded to the choice of representatives.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000008_000000|The Prince gave strict orders that no person in the public service should, on this occasion, practise those arts which had brought so much obloquy on the late government.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000008_000002|It is true that he risked little.
train-other-500/152/132799/152_132799_000008_000003|The party which was attached to him was triumphant, enthusiastic, full of life and energy.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000002_000000|The Goblins in the King's House
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000003_000000|When Curdie fell asleep he began at once to dream.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000003_000002|And now he thought he was lying wide awake where they had laid him, when suddenly he heard a great thundering sound.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000004_000000|'The cobs are coming!' he said.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000004_000003|But they shan't! that they shan't!'
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000006_000000|'Now then, I will!' he said.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000006_000001|'Here goes!
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000007_000000|But yet again he found himself snug in bed.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000007_000001|Twenty times he tried, and twenty times he failed; for in fact he was not awake, only dreaming that he was.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000007_000002|At length in an agony of despair, fancying he heard the goblins all over the house, he gave a great cry.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000007_000003|Then there came, as he thought, a hand upon the lock of his door.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000007_000006|At the last wave of her hands everything vanished, he felt himself sinking into the profoundest slumber, and remembered nothing more until he awoke in earnest.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000008_000001|There was soft heavy multitudinous stamping, a clashing and clanging of weapons, the voices of men and the cries of women, mixed with a hideous bellowing, which sounded victorious.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000008_000002|The cobs were in the house!
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000008_000003|He sprang from his bed, hurried on some of his clothes, not forgetting his shoes, which were armed with nails; then spying an old hunting knife, or short sword, hanging on the wall, he caught it, and rushed down the stairs, guided by the sounds of strife, which grew louder and louder.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000009_000000|When he reached the ground floor he found the whole place swarming.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000010_000000|All the goblins of the mountain seemed gathered there.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000010_000001|He rushed amongst them, shouting:
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000011_000000|'One, two, Hit and hew! Three, four, Blast and bore!'
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000012_000000|and with every rhyme he came down a great stamp upon a foot, cutting at the same time their faces-executing, indeed, a sword dance of the wildest description.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000012_000001|Away scattered the goblins in every direction-into closets, up stairs, into chimneys, up on rafters, and down to the cellars.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000012_000002|Curdie went on stamping and slashing and singing, but saw nothing of the people of the house until he came to the great hall, in which, the moment he entered it, arose a great goblin shout. The last of the men at arms, the captain himself, was on the floor, buried beneath a wallowing crowd of goblins.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000012_000004|The goblins would have torn them all to pieces, but the king had given orders to carry them away alive, and over each of them, in twelve groups, was standing a knot of goblins, while as many as could find room were sitting upon their prostrate bodies.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000013_000000|Curdie burst in dancing and gyrating and stamping and singing like a small incarnate whirlwind.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000015_000000|'But she upon her foot, sir, Has a granite shoe: The strongest leather boot, sir, Six would soon be through.'
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000016_000000|The queen gave a howl of rage and dismay; and before she recovered her presence of mind, Curdie, having begun with the group nearest him, had eleven of the knights on their legs again.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000017_000000|'Stamp on their feet!' he cried as each man rose, and in a few minutes the hall was nearly empty, the goblins running from it as fast as they could, howling and shrieking and limping, and cowering every now and then as they ran to cuddle their wounded feet in their hard hands, or to protect them from the frightful stamp stamp of the armed men.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000018_000000|And now Curdie approached the group which, in trusting in the queen and her shoe, kept their guard over the prostrate captain.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000018_000005|Meanwhile the rest rushed on the king and the bodyguard, sent them flying, and lifted the prostrate captain, who was all but pressed to death.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000018_000006|It was some moments before he recovered breath and consciousness.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000019_000000|'Where's the princess?' cried Curdie, again and again.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000020_000000|No one knew, and off they all rushed in search of her.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000021_000000|Through every room in the house they went, but nowhere was she to be found.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000021_000001|Neither was one of the servants to be seen.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000021_000003|The noise grew as his sharp ears guided him to a stair and so to the wine cellar.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000021_000004|It was full of goblins, whom the butler was supplying with wine as fast as he could draw it.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000022_000001|They captured every one they met, and when they could find no more, they hurried away to carry them safe to the caverns below.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000022_000002|But when the butler, who was amongst them, found that their path lay through the wine cellar, he bethought himself of persuading them to taste the wine, and, as he had hoped, they no sooner tasted than they wanted more.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000022_000003|The routed goblins, on their way below, joined them, and when Curdie entered they were all, with outstretched hands, in which were vessels of every description from sauce pan to silver cup, pressing around the butler, who sat at the tap of a huge cask, filling and filling.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000022_000005|Amongst them was the terror stricken face of Lootie; but nowhere could he see the princess. Seized with the horrible conviction that Harelip had already carried her off, he rushed amongst them, unable for wrath to sing any more, but stamping and cutting with greater fury than ever.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000024_000000|They could not vanish so fast, however, but that many more goblin feet had to go limping back over the underground ways of the mountain that morning.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000025_000000|Presently, however, they were reinforced from above by the king and his party, with the redoubtable queen at their head.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000025_000002|But the queen was more wary as well as more agile than hitherto.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000026_000000|The rest meantime, finding their adversary thus matched for the moment, paused in their headlong hurry, and turned to the shivering group of women in the corner.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000026_000001|As if determined to emulate his father and have a sun woman of some sort to share his future throne, Harelip rushed at them, caught up Lootie, and sped with her to the hole.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000026_000002|She gave a great shriek, and Curdie heard her, and saw the plight she was in. Gathering all his strength, he gave the queen a sudden cut across the face with his weapon, came down, as she started back, with all his weight on the proper foot, and sprung to Lootie's rescue.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000026_000004|He dropped his burden and rolled shrieking into the earth.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000026_000005|Curdie made one stab at him as he disappeared, caught hold of the senseless Lootie, and having dragged her back to the corner, there mounted guard over her, preparing once more to encounter the queen.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000027_000000|Her face streaming with blood, and her eyes flashing green lightning through it, she came on with her mouth open and her teeth grinning like a tiger's, followed by the king and her bodyguard of the thickest goblins.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000027_000001|But the same moment in rushed the captain and his men, and ran at them stamping furiously.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000027_000002|They dared not encounter such an onset.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000027_000003|Away they scurried, the queen foremost.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000027_000004|Of course, the right thing would have been to take the king and queen prisoners, and hold them hostages for the princess, but they were so anxious to find her that no one thought of detaining them until it was too late.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000028_000000|Having thus rescued the servants, they set about searching the house once more.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000028_000001|None of them could give the least information concerning the princess.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000028_000002|Lootie was almost silly with terror, and, although scarcely able to walk would not leave Curdie's side for a single moment.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000028_000003|Again he allowed the others to search the rest of the house-where, except a dismayed goblin lurking here and there, they found no one-while he requested Lootie to take him to the princess's room.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000028_000004|She was as submissive and obedient as if he had been the king.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000029_000000|He found the bedclothes tossed about, and most of them on the floor, while the princess's garments were scattered all over the room, which was in the greatest confusion.
train-other-500/152/183930/152_183930_000029_000001|It was only too evident that the goblins had been there, and Curdie had no longer any doubt that she had been carried off at the very first of the inroad.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000003_000000|"Great mercy!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000003_000001|Only another week and I shall almost cease to be a free thinker!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000003_000002|Just seven days more and what!--I shall openly have to confess to the world an untruth!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000003_000004|Could anything possible be done to save myself from false alliance?
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000003_000005|Too late!--too late!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000004_000000|"Only seven days and this beautiful boudoir shall own me no more, with its walls of purest white and gilded borders!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000005_000000|"Just seven days and I shall be fettered with chains of dragging dislike and disappointment!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000007_000000|Preparations were at last almost completed for such an auspicious event. Invitations were issued numerously for the reception to be held at Dilworth Castle after Irene's marriage, but sparingly during the ceremony; all of which were mostly accepted.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000007_000001|Costly, multiplying, and varied were the gifts received by Irene; enough to make a princess stare with startling bewilderment.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000008_000000|Amongst the many, none came from Irene's tutor, Oscar Otwell!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000009_000000|But future facts had to be solved, which undoubtedly would be treated with more comparative reverence than heretofore, by him who suffered severely-yea, acutely-from the blow struck him on the eve of aspiration and achievement.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000009_000001|Love, alas! when smitten with the sword of indifference, dieth soon, but once struck on the tunnelled cheek of secrecy with the hand of pity there leaves a scar of indelible intolerance, until wiped out for ever with the curative balsam of battled freedom.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000010_000001|It commenced with the ringing of the village bells; the sun shone forth in all his universal glory; emblems of the approaching festivity did not fail to appear on the housetops of the humblest village peasant; gladness reigned throughout the household, and all hearts, save two, rejoiced with unabated activity.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000011_000003|As before stated few were those invited to be present at the wedding ceremony, which was to take place about twelve o'clock noon.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000012_000000|Sir john arrived at the Castle shortly before that time, looking charming indeed, whilst Irene, though departing from the rules laid down by Lady Dilworth, demanded from all present remarks bordering on similarity.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000012_000001|She looked nervously pale, but queenly, and mastered thoroughly the exposure of the painful agony through which she was passing, knowing as she did and fully believed that "all is not gold that glitters."
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000015_000000|So thunderstruck and grievously horrified did Lady Dilworth seem at the vague departure of Irene from her orders, that she dare not trust herself to offer her the first motherly embrace!
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000015_000001|Irene, perceiving the great embarrassment of her beloved Lady Dilworth, glided across the room, and sitting down to the right of her upon whom she had that day flung, in the face of devotion, the last dregs of defiance, "begged to offer an apology for such unruly conduct," and added "that all would be revealed at a future date when least expected."
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000016_000000|In the very room where Sir john was first puzzled concerning the beautiful portrait, was he now made the recipient of the original.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000016_000002|Thus were joined two hearts of widely different beat-one of intense love, which hearsay never could shake; the other of dire dislike, which reason could never alter.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000017_000000|"Born under a lucky star," was the whispered echo throughout the distinguished guests who sat down to breakfast after the junction of opposites.
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000019_000000|Did she imagine for a moment that she, to whom she owed anything but disobedience, even in its simplest form, should be wrested from her arms of companionship ere her return to Dunfern Mansion?
train-other-500/152/87733/152_87733_000019_000001|Did the thought ever flash through her mind that never again would she be able to pour into the ear of her trusted helper the secrets of the heart of deception, which, for the past seven months, had raged so furiously within her?
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000007_000000|BOOK TWO -- THE ARRIVAL
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000008_000000|one--Tidings of the Comer
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000009_000001|They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the flesh of somnolence.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000009_000002|But here, away from comparisons, shut in by the stable hills, among which mere walking had the novelty of pageantry, and where any man could imagine himself to be Adam without the least difficulty, they attracted the attention of every bird within eyeshot, every reptile not yet asleep, and set the surrounding rabbits curiously watching from hillocks at a safe distance.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000010_000000|The performance was that of bringing together and building into a stack the furze faggots which Humphrey had been cutting for the captain's use during the foregoing fine days.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000010_000001|The stack was at the end of the dwelling, and the men engaged in building it were Humphrey and Sam, the old man looking on.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000011_000001|In the course of many days and weeks sunrise had advanced its quarters from northeast to southeast, sunset had receded from northwest to southwest; but Egdon had hardly heeded the change.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000012_000000|Eustacia was indoors in the dining room, which was really more like a kitchen, having a stone floor and a gaping chimney corner.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000012_000001|The air was still, and while she lingered a moment here alone sounds of voices in conversation came to her ears directly down the chimney.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000012_000002|She entered the recess, and, listening, looked up the old irregular shaft, with its cavernous hollows, where the smoke blundered about on its way to the square bit of sky at the top, from which the daylight struck down with a pallid glare upon the tatters of soot draping the flue as seaweed drapes a rocky fissure.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000014_000000|Her grandfather joined in the conversation.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000014_000001|"That lad ought never to have left home.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000014_000002|His father's occupation would have suited him best, and the boy should have followed on.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000014_000004|My father was a sailor, so was I, and so should my son have been if I had had one."
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000015_000001|My poor mother used to tell me about that business.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000016_000001|"I lived seven years under water on account of it in my boyhood-in that damned surgery of the Triumph, seeing men brought down to the cockpit with their legs and arms blown to Jericho....And so the young man has settled in Paris.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000016_000002|Manager to a diamond merchant, or some such thing, is he not?"
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000017_000000|"Yes, sir, that's it.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000018_000000|"I can well mind when he left home," said Sam.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000019_000000|"'tis a good thing for the feller," said Humphrey.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000021_000001|"Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton."
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000022_000001|There, that's because he went to school early, such as the school was."
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000023_000002|It only does harm.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000026_000000|"I say, Sam," observed Humphrey when the old man was gone, "she and Clym Yeobright would make a very pretty pigeon pair-hey?
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000026_000001|If they wouldn't I'll be dazed!
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000028_000000|"They would, Humphrey.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000028_000001|Well, I should like to see the chap terrible much after so many years.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000030_000000|"Yes; but how he's coming from Budmouth I don't know."
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000031_000000|"That's a bad trouble about his cousin Thomasin.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000031_000003|Be dazed if I should like a relation of mine to have been made such a fool of by a man.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000032_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000032_000001|Poor maid, her heart has ached enough about it.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000032_000002|Her health is suffering from it, I hear, for she will bide entirely indoors.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000034_000000|"You have?
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000034_000001|'tis news to me."
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000036_000001|A young and clever man was coming into that lonely heath from, of all contrasting places in the world, Paris.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000036_000002|It was like a man coming from heaven.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000036_000003|More singular still, the heathmen had instinctively coupled her and this man together in their minds as a pair born for each other.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000037_000000|That five minutes of overhearing furnished Eustacia with visions enough to fill the whole blank afternoon.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000037_000001|Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000037_000003|The words of Sam and Humphrey on the harmony between the unknown and herself had on her mind the effect of the invading Bard's prelude in the Castle of Indolence, at which myriads of imprisoned shapes arose where had previously appeared the stillness of a void.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000038_000000|Involved in these imaginings she knew nothing of time.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000038_000001|When she became conscious of externals it was dusk.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000038_000003|Eustacia went upstairs, thinking that she would take a walk at this her usual time; and she determined that her walk should be in the direction of Blooms End, the birthplace of young Yeobright and the present home of his mother.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000038_000006|To look at the palings before the Yeobrights' house had the dignity of a necessary performance. Strange that such a piece of idling should have seemed an important errand.
train-other-500/153/126651/153_126651_000039_000002|They showed upon the dusky scene that they bordered as distinctly as white lace on velvet. Behind the white palings was a little garden; behind the garden an old, irregular, thatched house, facing the heath, and commanding a full view of the valley.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000001_000000|All that afternoon the expected arrival of the subject of Eustacia's ruminations created a bustle of preparation at Blooms End.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000001_000002|At the time that Eustacia was listening to the rick makers' conversation on Clym's return, Thomasin was climbing into a loft over her aunt's fuelhouse, where the store apples were kept, to search out the best and largest of them for the coming holiday time.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000002_000000|The loft was lighted by a semicircular hole, through which the pigeons crept to their lodgings in the same high quarters of the premises; and from this hole the sun shone in a bright yellow patch upon the figure of the maiden as she knelt and plunged her naked arms into the soft brown fern, which, from its abundance, was used on Egdon in packing away stores of all kinds.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000003_000000|"Now a few russets, Tamsin.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000003_000001|He used to like them almost as well as ribstones."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000004_000000|Thomasin turned and rolled aside the fern from another nook, where more mellow fruit greeted her with its ripe smell.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000004_000001|Before picking them out she stopped a moment.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000006_000000|"If he could have been dear to you in another way," said mrs Yeobright from the ladder, "this might have been a happy meeting."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000008_000000|"Yes," said her aunt, with some warmth.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000008_000001|"To thoroughly fill the air with the past misfortune, so that other girls may take warning and keep clear of it."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000000|Thomasin lowered her face to the apples again.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000001|"I am a warning to others, just as thieves and drunkards and gamblers are," she said in a low voice.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000002|"What a class to belong to!
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000003|Do I really belong to them?
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000004|'tis absurd!
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000005|Yet why, Aunt, does everybody keep on making me think that I do, by the way they behave towards me?
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000006|Why don't people judge me by my acts? Now, look at me as I kneel here, picking up these apples-do I look like a lost woman?...
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000009_000007|I wish all good women were as good as I!" she added vehemently.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000010_000000|"Strangers don't see you as I do," said mrs Yeobright; "they judge from false report.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000010_000001|Well, it is a silly job, and I am partly to blame."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000011_000000|"How quickly a rash thing can be done!" replied the girl.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000011_000001|Her lips were quivering, and tears so crowded themselves into her eyes that she could hardly distinguish apples from fern as she continued industriously searching to hide her weakness.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000012_000001|There is nobody on the heath this afternoon, and you need not fear being stared at.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000012_000002|We must get some berries, or Clym will never believe in our preparations."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000013_000000|Thomasin came down when the apples were collected, and together they went through the white palings to the heath beyond.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000013_000001|The open hills were airy and clear, and the remote atmosphere appeared, as it often appears on a fine winter day, in distinct planes of illumination independently toned, the rays which lit the nearer tracts of landscape streaming visibly across those further off; a stratum of ensaffroned light was imposed on a stratum of deep blue, and behind these lay still remoter scenes wrapped in frigid grey.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000014_000000|They reached the place where the hollies grew, which was in a conical pit, so that the tops of the trees were not much above the general level of the ground.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000014_000001|Thomasin stepped up into a fork of one of the bushes, as she had done under happier circumstances on many similar occasions, and with a small chopper that they had brought she began to lop off the heavily berried boughs.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000015_000001|"Will you walk with me to meet him this evening?"
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000016_000000|"I should like to.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000017_000000|"I am afraid-" began mrs Yeobright.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000018_000001|He has an unfortunate manner, and doesn't try to make people like him if they don't wish to do it of their own accord."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000020_000000|"How do you mean?"
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000023_000000|"Now, I put it to you: would you at this present moment agree to be his wife if that had not happened to entangle you with him?"
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000024_000000|Thomasin looked into the tree and appeared much disturbed.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000025_000000|"Yes, you have."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000026_000000|"You may think what you choose.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000026_000001|I have never implied to you by word or deed that I have grown to think otherwise of him, and I never will.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000026_000002|And I shall marry him."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000027_000000|"Well, wait till he repeats his offer.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000027_000001|I think he may do it, now that he knows-something I told him.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000027_000002|I don't for a moment dispute that it is the most proper thing for you to marry him.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000027_000004|It is the only way out of a false position, and a very galling one."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000028_000000|"What did you tell him?"
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000029_000000|"That he was standing in the way of another lover of yours."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000030_000000|"Aunt," said Thomasin, with round eyes, "what DO you mean?"
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000031_000000|"Don't be alarmed; it was my duty.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000032_000000|Thomasin was perforce content.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000034_000000|"I have given my word to.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000034_000001|But what is the use of it?
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000034_000002|He must soon know what has happened.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000000|Thomasin turned and regarded her aunt from the tree.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000002|"Tell him nothing.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000003|If he finds out that I am not worthy to be his cousin, let him.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000004|But, since he loved me once, we will not pain him by telling him my trouble too soon.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000005|The air is full of the story, I know; but gossips will not dare to speak of it to him for the first few days.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000006|His closeness to me is the very thing that will hinder the tale from reaching him early.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000035_000007|If I am not made safe from sneers in a week or two I will tell him myself."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000036_000000|The earnestness with which Thomasin spoke prevented further objections. Her aunt simply said, "Very well.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000036_000001|He should by rights have been told at the time that the wedding was going to be.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000036_000002|He will never forgive you for your secrecy."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000037_000000|"Yes, he will, when he knows it was because I wished to spare him, and that I did not expect him home so soon.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000037_000001|And you must not let me stand in the way of your Christmas party.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000037_000002|Putting it off would only make matters worse."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000038_000000|"Of course I shall not.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000038_000002|We have enough berries now, I think, and we had better take them home.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000038_000003|By the time we have decked the house with this and hung up the mistletoe, we must think of starting to meet him."
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000039_000001|It was now nearly four o'clock, and the sunlight was leaving the vales.
train-other-500/153/126652/153_126652_000039_000002|When the west grew red the two relatives came again from the house and plunged into the heath in a different direction from the first, towards a point in the distant highway along which the expected man was to return.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000005_000000|five--The Journey across the Heath
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000008_000000|It was about eleven o'clock on this day that mrs Yeobright started across the heath towards her son's house, to do her best in getting reconciled with him and Eustacia, in conformity with her words to the reddleman.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000009_000002|So she went on, the air around her pulsating silently, and oppressing the earth with lassitude.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000009_000003|She looked at the sky overhead, and saw that the sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring and early summer had been replaced by a metallic violet.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000010_000000|Occasionally she came to a spot where independent worlds of ephemerons were passing their time in mad carousal, some in the air, some on the hot ground and vegetation, some in the tepid and stringy water of a nearly dried pool.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000010_000002|Being a woman not disinclined to philosophize she sometimes sat down under her umbrella to rest and to watch their happiness, for a certain hopefulness as to the result of her visit gave ease to her mind, and between important thoughts left it free to dwell on any infinitesimal matter which caught her eyes.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000011_000001|She tried one ascending path and another, and found that they led her astray.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000011_000002|Retracing her steps, she came again to an open level, where she perceived at a distance a man at work.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000011_000003|She went towards him and inquired the way.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000013_000000|mrs Yeobright strained her eyes, and at last said that she did perceive him.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000014_000000|"Well, if you follow him you can make no mistake.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000014_000001|He's going to the same place, ma'am."
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000015_000000|She followed the figure indicated.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000015_000001|He appeared of a russet hue, not more distinguishable from the scene around him than the green caterpillar from the leaf it feeds on.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000016_000000|The silent being who thus occupied himself seemed to be of no more account in life than an insect.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000016_000001|He appeared as a mere parasite of the heath, fretting its surface in his daily labour as a moth frets a garment, entirely engrossed with its products, having no knowledge of anything in the world but fern, furze, heath, lichens, and moss.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000017_000001|Suddenly she was attracted to his individuality by observing peculiarities in his walk.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000017_000002|It was a gait she had seen somewhere before; and the gait revealed the man to her, as the gait of Ahimaaz in the distant plain made him known to the watchman of the king.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000018_000001|Planning a dozen hasty schemes for at once preserving him and Eustacia from this mode of life, she throbbingly followed the way, and saw him enter his own door.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000019_000001|On reaching this place mrs Yeobright felt distressingly agitated, weary, and unwell.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000020_000000|The trees beneath which she sat were singularly battered, rude, and wild, and for a few minutes mrs Yeobright dismissed thoughts of her own storm broken and exhausted state to contemplate theirs.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000020_000001|Not a bough in the nine trees which composed the group but was splintered, lopped, and distorted by the fierce weather that there held them at its mercy whenever it prevailed.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000020_000002|Some were blasted and split as if by lightning, black stains as from fire marking their sides, while the ground at their feet was strewn with dead fir needles and heaps of cones blown down in the gales of past years.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000020_000003|The place was called the Devil's Bellows, and it was only necessary to come there on a March or November night to discover the forcible reasons for that name.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000020_000004|On the present heated afternoon, when no perceptible wind was blowing, the trees kept up a perpetual moan which one could hardly believe to be caused by the air.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000021_000000|Here she sat for twenty minutes or more ere she could summon resolution to go down to the door, her courage being lowered to zero by her physical lassitude.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000021_000001|To any other person than a mother it might have seemed a little humiliating that she, the elder of the two women, should be the first to make advances.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000021_000002|But mrs Yeobright had well considered all that, and she only thought how best to make her visit appear to Eustacia not abject but wise.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000022_000000|From her elevated position the exhausted woman could perceive the roof of the house below, and the garden and the whole enclosure of the little domicile.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000022_000001|And now, at the moment of rising, she saw a second man approaching the gate.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000022_000002|His manner was peculiar, hesitating, and not that of a person come on business or by invitation.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000022_000005|She came down the hill to the gate, and looked into the hot garden.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000023_000000|There lay the cat asleep on the bare gravel of the path, as if beds, rugs, and carpets were unendurable.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000023_000001|The leaves of the hollyhocks hung like half closed umbrellas, the sap almost simmered in the stems, and foliage with a smooth surface glared like metallic mirrors.
train-other-500/153/126671/153_126671_000023_000002|A small apple tree, of the sort called Ratheripe, grew just inside the gate, the only one which throve in the garden, by reason of the lightness of the soil; and among the fallen apples on the ground beneath were wasps rolling drunk with the juice, or creeping about the little caves in each fruit which they had eaten out before stupefied by its sweetness.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000002_000000|thirty two.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000002_000001|The Absolution.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000003_000000|This is what had taken place: We have seen that it was not of his own free will, but, on the contrary, very reluctantly, that the monk attended the wounded man who had been recommended to him in so strange a manner.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000003_000001|Perhaps he would have sought to escape by flight had he seen any possibility of doing so.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000003_000003|And besides, he considered it most expedient, without exhibiting too much ill will, to follow to the end his role as confessor.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000004_000000|The monk entered the chamber and approached the bed of the wounded man. The executioner searched his face with the quick glance peculiar to those who are about to die and have no time to lose.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000004_000001|He made a movement of surprise and said:
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000007_000000|"Alas, speak to me more gently, father; in my last moments I need a friend."
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000010_000000|"We will save your soul," said the young man; "but are you really the executioner of Bethune, as these people say?"
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000012_000000|"You have, then, a repugnance to your profession?"
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000014_000000|The executioner paused and shook his head with an expression of despair.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000015_000000|"Tell me about it," said the monk, who, sitting on the foot of the bed, began to be interested in a story so strangely introduced.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000016_000000|"Ah!" cried the dying man, with all the effusiveness of a grief declared after long suppression, "ah!
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000016_000003|All have forgiven me, some have even loved me; but I think that God has not pardoned me, for the memory of that execution pursues me constantly and every night I see that woman's ghost rising before me."
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000017_000000|"A woman!
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000018_000001|I am an assassin, then, and not an officer of justice!" and he closed his eyes with a groan.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000019_000000|The monk doubtless feared that he would die without saying more, for he exclaimed eagerly:
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000022_000000|"Delirium!" murmured the monk, shaking his head.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000023_000000|The executioner opened his eyes, turned toward the young man and grasped his arm.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000024_000000|"'Delirium,'" he repeated; "'delirium,' do you say?
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000024_000001|Oh, no! I remember too well.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000024_000003|After being the instrument of human justice I aspired to be that of the justice of God."
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000025_000001|Speak," said the monk.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000026_000000|"It was at night.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000026_000001|A man came to me and showed me an order and I followed him.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000026_000002|Four other noblemen awaited me.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000026_000003|They led me away masked.
train-other-500/1544/121402/1544_121402_000026_000004|I reserved the right of refusing if the office they required of me should seem unjust.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000001_000000|twenty one
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000002_000000|THE SKY LINE WIDENS
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000003_000002|While she was wondering how this could be successfully accomplished, some of the other girls were cogitating as to how they could meander through the four years and come out at the end knowing no more than at the beginning.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000003_000003|This would seem a difficult, well nigh an impossible task, but it can be achieved, and has been, at other seats of learning than modest little Wareham.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000004_000002|One book was as bad as another in her eyes, and she could have seen the libraries of the world sinking into ocean depths and have eaten her dinner cheerfully the while; but matters assumed a different complexion when she was sent to Edgewood and Rebecca to Wareham.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000005_000000|Another week passed.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000005_000002|Her color faded, and her appetite (at table) dwindled almost to nothing.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000008_000000|Wareham was a pretty village with a broad main street shaded by great maples and elms.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000008_000003|There was an opportunity for a deal of foolish and imprudent behavior, but on the whole surprisingly little advantage was taken of it.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000008_000007|She had merry eyes, a somewhat too plump figure for her years, and was popularly supposed to have a fascinating way with her.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000008_000011|It does not take much of this sort of thing to wreck an ordinary friendship, so before long Rebecca and Emma Jane sat in one end of the railway train in going to and from Riverboro, and Huldah occupied the other with her court.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000010_000001|Miss Maxwell, as the niece of one of Maine's ex governors and the daughter of one of Bowdoin's professors, was the most remarkable personality in Wareham, and that her few years of teaching happened to be in Rebecca's time was the happiest of all chances.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000012_000000|"You'll like her; she writes," whispered Huldah to Rebecca the first morning at prayers, where the faculty sat in an imposing row on the front seats.
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000012_000001|"She writes; and I call her stuck up."
train-other-500/1544/140055/1544_140055_000013_000001|This height of achievement made Rebecca somewhat shy of her, but she looked her admiration; something that most of the class could never do with the unsatisfactory organs of vision given them by Mother Nature.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000004_000000|The rooms, large and small, were full of noblemen in all sorts of uniforms.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000004_000001|Many had come only for that day.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000004_000003|There was much discussion around the governor's table under the portrait of the Tsar.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000005_000002|The old were for the most part either in old uniforms of the nobility, buttoned up closely, with spurs and hats, or in their own special naval, cavalry, infantry, or official uniforms.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000007_000003|Hliustov would not agree to go with his district to ask Snetkov to stand, while Sviazhsky was persuading him to do so, and Sergey Ivanovitch was approving of the plan.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000007_000004|Levin could not make out why the opposition was to ask the marshal to stand whom they wanted to supersede.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000008_000000|Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had just been drinking and taking some lunch, came up to them in his uniform of a gentleman of the bedchamber, wiping his lips with a perfumed handkerchief of bordered batiste.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000010_000000|And listening to the conversation, he supported Sviazhsky's contention.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000011_000000|"One district's enough, and Sviazhsky's obviously of the opposition," he said, words evidently intelligible to all except Levin.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000012_000000|"Why, Kostya, you here too!
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000012_000001|I suppose you're converted, eh?" he added, turning to Levin and drawing his arm through his.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000013_000002|That must not be.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000013_000003|Now eight districts had agreed to call upon him: if two refused to do so, Snetkov might decline to stand at all; and then the old party might choose another of their party, which would throw them completely out in their reckoning.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000013_000004|But if only one district, Sviazhsky's, did not call upon him to stand, Snetkov would let himself be balloted for.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000013_000005|They were even, some of them, going to vote for him, and purposely to let him get a good many votes, so that the enemy might be thrown off the scent, and when a candidate of the other side was put up, they too might give him some votes.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000013_000006|Levin understood to some extent, but not fully, and would have put a few more questions, when suddenly everyone began talking and making a noise and they moved towards the big room.
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000014_000000|"What is it?
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000014_000002|whom?" "No guarantee?
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000014_000003|whose?
train-other-500/1544/41167/1544_41167_000014_000005|It's a swindle!" "The law!" Levin heard exclamations on all sides, and he moved into the big room together with the others, all hurrying somewhere and afraid of missing something.
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000000_000000|"And their harp strings rung so merrily To their dancing feet so small; But oh! the words of their talking Were merrier far than all."
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000001_000000|"And what were the words, my Mary, That then you heard them say?" "I'll tell you all, my mother; But let me have my way.
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000002_000000|"Some of them played with the water, And rolled it down the hill; 'And this,' they said, 'shall speedily turn The poor old miller's mill;
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000006_000000|"'And there,' they said, 'the merry winds go Away from every horn; And they shall clear the mildew dank From the blind old widow's corn.
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000009_000000|"'Oh! the poor, lame weaver, How will he laugh outright When he sees his dwindling flax field All full of flowers by night!'
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000010_000000|"And then outspoke a brownie, With a long beard on his chin; 'I have spun up all the tow,' said he, 'And I want some more to spin.
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000014_000000|"But, coming down from the hill top, I heard afar below, How busy the jolly miller was, And how the wheel did go.
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000015_000000|"And I peeped into the widow's field, And, sure enough, were seen The yellow ears of the mildewed corn, All standing stout and green.
train-other-500/1545/160887/1545_160887_000016_000000|"And down by the weaver's croft I stole, To see if the flax were sprung; And I met the weaver at his gate, With the good news on his tongue.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000000_000001|They always set a pan of clear water for him, and now and then a bowl of bread and milk."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000001_000000|"Oh, grandmother, where did he go?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000003_000000|"How I wish a brownie would come and live with us!" cried Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000004_000000|"So do I," said Johnny.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000006_000000|"You may set out what you like, my lad, but you must go to bed now."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000007_000000|The boys brought out a pan of water.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000007_000001|Then they climbed the ladder to the loft over the kitchen.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000008_000002|"It may be the Old Owl herself.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000008_000003|When the moon rises, I'll go and find her."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000010_000001|Tommy opened his eyes and ran to the window.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000012_000001|He ran to a big tree and looked up.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000012_000002|There he saw the Old Owl, sitting on a branch and staring at him with yellow eyes.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000013_000000|"Oh, dear!" said Tommy, for he did not like the Owl very well.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000014_000000|"Come up here!
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000014_000001|Come up here!" she cried.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000015_000000|Tommy climbed the tree and sat face to face with her on the big branch.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000018_000002|I know of three brownies."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000020_000000|"In your house," said the Owl.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000021_000000|"In our house!
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000021_000001|Whereabouts?
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000023_000000|"But why don't the other two do something?" said Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000023_000001|"Nobody does any work at our house except father."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000024_000000|"They are idle, they are idle," said the Old Owl.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000025_000000|"Then we don't want them," said Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000026_000000|"Perhaps they don't know what to do."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000027_000000|"I wish you would tell me where to find them," said Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000027_000001|"I could tell them what to do."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000028_000000|"Could you, could you?
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000029_000000|"Of course I could.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000029_000001|They might get up early in the morning and sweep the house, and light the fire, and spread the table before my father comes downstairs."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000030_000000|"So they might!" said the Owl.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000030_000001|"Well, I can tell you where to find one of the brownies, and he can tell you where to find his brother.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000033_000000|Tommy knew the place very well.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000033_000002|Then he looked in and saw-himself.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000034_000000|"Why, there's no one but myself.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000034_000001|I can't think of the right word.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000034_000002|What can it be?
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000034_000004|And back he went.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000034_000005|There sat the Owl as before.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000035_000001|"Did you find out the word?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000036_000000|"No," said Tommy, "I could find no word that rhymes with 'elf' except 'myself.'"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000037_000000|"Well, that is the word!
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000040_000000|"Don't go yet," said Tommy, humbly; "I don't understand you.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000040_000001|I am not a brownie, am I?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000041_000001|"All children are brownies."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000042_000000|"But are there really any brownies except children?" inquired Tommy, in a dismal tone.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000043_000002|Little people can do only little things.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000043_000003|When they are idle and mischievous, they are called boggarts, and they are a burden to the house they live in.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000044_000000|"I'll be a brownie," said Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000044_000002|Now I'll go home and tell Johnny."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000046_000000|"How quickly we came," said Tommy to himself.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000046_000001|"But is it morning?
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000046_000002|That is very strange!
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000046_000003|I thought the moon was shining.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000046_000004|Come, Johnny, get up, I have a story to tell you."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000047_000000|three
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000051_000000|"I won't be a boggart," said Johnny, and so the two brownies crept softly down the ladder into the kitchen.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000051_000001|"I will light the fire," said Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000051_000002|"And you, Johnny, can dig some potatoes to roast for breakfast." They swept the room and laid the table.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000051_000003|Just as they were putting the potatoes in a dish they heard footsteps.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000052_000000|"There's father," said Tommy; "we must run."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000053_000000|The poor tailor came wearily down the stairs.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000053_000001|Morning after morning he had found an untidy room and an empty table.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000053_000003|He put his hand out to the fire to see if it was really warm.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000053_000004|He touched the potatoes and looked at the neat room.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000053_000005|Then he shouted, "Mother, mother!
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000053_000006|boys, boys, the brownie has come!"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000054_000000|There was great excitement in the small house, but the boys said nothing.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000054_000001|All day the tailor talked about the brownie.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000054_000003|To come and do the work for a pan of cold water!
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000054_000004|Who would have believed it?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000055_000000|The boys said nothing until they were both in bed.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000055_000001|Then Tommy said: "The Old Owl was right, and we must stick to the work if we don't want to be boggarts.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000055_000002|But I don't like to have father thinking that we are still idle.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000055_000003|I wish he knew that we are the brownies."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000056_000000|"So do I," said Johnny.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000057_000000|Day after day went by and still the boys rose early, and each day they found more and more to do.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000058_000000|One day a message came for the tailor to go to a farmhouse several miles away.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000058_000001|The farmer gave him an order for a suit of clothes, and paid him at once.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000058_000002|Full of joy at his good fortune, he hurried home.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000058_000003|As he came near the house, he saw that the garden had been weeded.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000059_000000|"If you make clothes for the brownie, he will leave the house," said the grandmother.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000060_000000|"Not if the clothes are a good fit, mother.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000061_000000|At last a fine new suit with brass buttons was finished and laid out for the brownie.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000062_000000|"Don't the clothes look fine?" said Tommy, when he came down in the morning; "I'll try them on."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000063_000001|He went softly downstairs.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000063_000002|There was Johnny sweeping the floor, and Tommy trying on the new suit.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000064_000000|"What does this mean?" shouted the father.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000065_000000|"It's the brownies," said the boys.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000066_000000|"This is no joke," cried the tailor, angrily.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000066_000001|"Where are the real brownies, I say?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000067_000000|"We are the only brownies, father," said Tommy.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000068_000000|"I can't understand this.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000068_000001|Who has been sweeping the kitchen lately, I should like to know?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000069_000000|"We have," said the boys.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000072_000000|"But when do you do it?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000074_000000|"But if you do the work, where is the brownie?"
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000075_000000|"Here," cried the boys; "we are the brownies, and we are sorry that we were boggarts so long."
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000076_000000|The father was delighted to find how helpful his boys had become.
train-other-500/1545/161007/1545_161007_000076_000001|The grandmother, however, could hardly believe that a real brownie had not been in the house.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000001_000001|A FOREST ON THE GROUND
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000003_000000|In beholding every one happy around him, Joam forgot the anxieties which appeared to trouble his life.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000003_000001|From the day his decision was taken he had been another man, and when he busied himself about the preparations for the expedition he regained his former activity.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000003_000002|His people rejoiced exceedingly at seeing him again at work.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000003_000003|His moral self reacted against his physical self, and Joam again became the active, energetic man of his earlier years, and moved about once more as though he had spent his life in the open air, under the invigorating influences of forests, fields, and running waters.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000004_000000|Moreover, the few weeks that were to precede his departure had been well employed.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000005_000000|At this period, as we have just remarked, the course of the Amazon was not yet furrowed by the numberless steam vessels, which companies were only then thinking of putting into the river.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000005_000001|The service was worked by individuals on their own account alone, and often the boats were only employed in the business of the riverside establishments.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000007_000000|These three kinds of craft formed the lesser flotilla of the Amazon, and were only suited for a moderate traffic of passengers or merchandise.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000009_000000|But neither of these vessels satisfied Joam Garral.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000009_000002|From this point of view there was no necessity to descend the river in a hurry. And the determination to which he had come pleased every one, excepting, perhaps, Manoel, who would for very good reasons have preferred some rapid steamboat.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000010_000000|But though the means of transport devised by Joam were primitive in the extreme, he was going to take with him a numerous following and abandon himself to the stream under exceptional conditions of comfort and security.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000012_000000|The settlement of Iquitos included a part of those magnificent forests which, in the central districts of South America, are practically inexhaustible.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000013_000000|Joam Garral thoroughly understood the management of these woods, which were rich in the most precious and diverse species adapted for joinery, cabinet work, ship building, and carpentry, and from them he annually drew considerable profits.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000014_000000|The river was there in front of him, and could it not be as safely and economically used as a railway if one existed?
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000014_000001|So every year Joam Garral felled some hundreds of trees from his stock and formed immense rafts of floating wood, of joists, beams, and slightly squared trunks, which were taken to Para in charge of capable pilots who were thoroughly acquainted with the depths of the river and the direction of its currents.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000019_000000|"Yes," said Yaquita, "and in that way we shall reach Belem without danger or fatigue."
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000020_000000|"And during the stoppages we can have some hunting in the forests which line the banks," added Benito.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000022_000000|It would take some time, obviously, but the interested observation of the young doctor received no attention from any one.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000023_000000|Joam Garral then called in an Indian who was the principal manager of the fazenda.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000025_000000|"We'll set to work this very day, sir."
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000026_000000|It was a heavy task.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000026_000001|There were about a hundred Indians and blacks, and during the first fortnight in May they did wonders.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000026_000002|Some people unaccustomed to these great tree massacres would perhaps have groaned to see giants many hundred years old fall in a few hours beneath the axes of the woodmen; but there was such a quantity on the banks of the river, up stream and down stream, even to the most distant points of the horizon, that the felling of this half mile of forest would scarcely leave an appreciable void.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000027_000000|The superintendent of the men, after receiving the instructions of Joam Garral, had first cleared the ground of the creepers, brushwood, weeds, and arborescent plants which obstructed it.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000028_000000|In this way the work progressed.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000028_000001|The ground was cleared in front of the woodmen.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000028_000002|The old trunks were divested of their clothing of creepers, cacti, ferns, mosses, and bromelias.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000028_000003|They were stripped naked to the bark, until such time as the bark itself was stripped from off them.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000029_000000|Then the whole of the workers, before whom fled an innumerable crowd of monkeys who were hardly their superiors in agility, slung themselves into the upper branches, sawing off the heavier boughs and cutting down the topmost limbs, which had to be cleared away on the spot.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000029_000001|Very soon there remained only a doomed forest, with long bare stems, bereft of their crowns, through which the sun luxuriantly rayed on to the humid soil which perhaps its shots had never before caressed.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000030_000000|There was not a single tree which could not be used for some work of skill, either in carpentry or cabinet work.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000031_000000|Three weeks after the work was begun not one was standing of all the trees which had covered the angle of the Amazon and the Nanay.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000031_000001|The clearance was complete.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000031_000003|Not a stick of young or old wood was left to mark the boundary of a future clearing, not even an angle to mark the limit of the denudation.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000031_000004|It was indeed a clean sweep; the trees were cut to the level of the earth, to wait the day when their roots would be got out, over which the coming spring would still spread its verdant cloak.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000034_000001|From the clearing to the bank of the fazenda he had formed a large mound on which the portions of the raft were disposed, and to this matter he had attended entirely himself.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000035_000000|Yaquita was occupied with Cybele with the preparations for the departure, though the old negress could not be made to understand why they wanted to go or what they hoped to see.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000036_000000|"But you will see things that you never saw before," Yaquita kept saying to her.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000038_000000|Minha and her favorite for their part took care of what more particularly concerned them.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000038_000002|Minha was a trifle sorrowful, but the joyous Lina was quite unaffected at leaving Iquitos.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000038_000003|Minha Valdez would be the same to her as Minha Garral, and to check her spirits she would have to be separated from her mistress, and that was never thought of.
train-other-500/1559/139347/1559_139347_000039_000000|Benito had actively assisted his father in the work, which was on the point of completion.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000000_000001|FRAGOSO AT WORK
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000001_000000|"BRAZA" (burning embers) is a word found in the Spanish language as far back as the twelfth century.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000001_000001|It has been used to make the word "brazil," as descriptive of certain woods which yield a reddish dye.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000001_000002|From this has come the name "Brazil," given to that vast district of South America which is crossed by the equator, and in which these products are so frequently met with.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000001_000003|In very early days these woods were the object of considerable trade.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000002_000000|Brazil was from the first occupied by the Portuguese.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000002_000002|It is to day the largest state of South America, and has at its head the intelligent artist king Dom Pedro.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000004_000000|"The privilege of marching first to battle!" innocently answered the Indian.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000005_000000|War, we know, was for a long time the surest and most rapid vehicle of civilization.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000005_000001|The Brazilians did what this Indian did: they fought, they defended their conquests, they enlarged them, and we see them marching in the first rank of the civilizing advance.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000007_000000|It remained only to define the frontier between the new empire and that of its neighbor, Peru.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000007_000001|This was no easy matter.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000009_000001|There was no better method of checking this trade than that of fortifying the Island of the Ronde, a little above Tabatinga, and there establishing a post.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000010_000000|This afforded the solution, and from that time the frontier of the two countries passed through the middle of this island.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000011_000001|Below, it is Brazilian, and takes the name of the Amazon.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000012_000000|It was on the evening of the twenty fifth of June that the jangada stopped before Tabatinga, the first Brazilian town situated on the left bank, at the entrance of the river of which it bears the name, and belonging to the parish of saint Paul, established on the right a little further down stream.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000013_000001|They would not start, therefore, until the morning of the twenty seventh.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000014_000000|On this occasion Yaquita and her children, less likely, perhaps, than at Iquitos to be fed upon by the native mosquitoes, had announced their intention of going on ashore and visiting the town.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000015_000000|The population of Tabatinga is estimated at four hundred, nearly all Indians, comprising, no doubt, many of those wandering families who are never settled at particular spots on the banks of the Amazon or its smaller tributaries.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000020_000001|To conclude, the place is one of the most picturesque on the Upper Amazon.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000021_000000|Tabatinga is destined to become before long a station of some importance, and will no doubt rapidly develop, for there will stop the Brazilian steamers which ascend the river, and the Peruvian steamers which descend it.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000021_000001|There they will tranship passengers and cargoes.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000021_000002|It does not require much for an English or American village to become in a few years the center of considerable commerce.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000022_000000|The river is very beautiful along this part of its course.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000022_000001|The influence of ordinary tides is not perceptible at Tabatinga, which is more than six hundred leagues from the Atlantic.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000022_000003|They say that the effects of this bore are felt up to the Brazilian frontier.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000023_000000|On the morrow, the twenty sixth of June, the Garral family prepared to go off and visit the village.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000023_000001|Though Joam, Benito, and Manoel had already set foot in a Brazilian town, it was otherwise with Yaquita and her daughter; for them it was, so to speak, a taking possession.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000024_000000|If, on his part, Fragoso, in his capacity of wandering barber, had already run through the different provinces of South America, Lina, like her young mistress, had never been on Brazilian soil.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000025_000000|But before leaving the jangada Fragoso had sought Joam Garral, and had the following conversation with him.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000026_000000|"mr Garral," said he, "from the day when you received me at the fazenda of Iquitos, lodged, clothed, fed-in a word, took me in so hospitably-I have owed you----"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000027_000000|"You owe me absolutely nothing, my friend," answered Joam, "so do not insist----"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000028_000000|"Oh, do not be alarmed!" exclaimed Fragoso, "I am not going to pay it off!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000028_000001|Let me add, that you took me on board the jangada and gave me the means of descending the river.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000031_000000|"They tell me, Fragoso," continued Joam, "that you are going to say good by, and intend to remain at Tabatinga."
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000033_000000|"Well, if that is your intention-what were you going to ask me?"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000034_000000|"I was going to ask if you saw any inconvenience in my working at my profession on our route.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000034_000002|You know, mr Garral, that a barber who is also a hairdresser-and I hardly like to say a doctor, out of respect to mr Manoel-always finds customers in these Upper Amazon villages."
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000035_000000|"Particularly among the Brazilians," answered Joam.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000035_000001|"As for the natives----"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000000|"I beg pardon," replied Fragoso, "particularly among the natives.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000003|I shall not be installed ten minutes in the square at Tabatinga, with my cup and ball in hand-the cup and ball I have brought on board, and which I can manage with pretty pleasantly-before a circle of braves and squaws will have formed around me.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000004|They will struggle for my favors.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000005|I could remain here for a month, and the whole tribe of the Ticunas would come to me to have their hair looked after!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000006|They won't hesitate to make the acquaintance of 'curling tongs'--that is what they will call me-if I revisit the walls of Tabatinga!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000010|Now it is nearly a year since I was at Tabatinga; I go to find my monuments in ruin!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000036_000011|And if it is not objectionable to you, mr Garral, I would render myself again worthy of the reputation which I have acquired in these parts, the question of reis, and not that of conceit, being, you understand, the principal."
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000038_000000|"I will not lose a minute," answered Fragoso-"just time to take the tools of my profession, and I am off."
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000039_000000|"Off you go, Fragoso," said Joam, "and may the reis rain into your pocket!"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000041_000000|And so saying Fragoso rapidly moved away.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000042_000001|A staircase, in a miserable state, cut in the cliff, allowed the visitors to arrive on the crest of the plateau.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000045_000000|The commandant did not wait for a second invitation, and an appointment was made for eleven o'clock.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000045_000001|In the meantime Yaquita, her daughter, and the young mulatto, accompanied by Manoel, went for a walk in the neighborhood, leaving Benito to settle with the commandant about the tolls-he being chief of the custom house as well as of the military establishment.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000046_000000|That done, Benito, as was his wont, strolled off with his gun into the adjoining woods.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000046_000002|He reckoned more on the native custom of Tabatinga than on that of the garrison.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000046_000003|Doubtless the soldiers' wives would not have wished better than to have been put under his hands, but the husbands scarcely cared to part with a few reis for the sake of gratifying the whims of their coquettish partners.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000047_000000|Among the natives it was quite the reverse.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000048_000000|Behold, then, Fragoso on the road, coming up the shady lane beneath the ficuses, and arriving in the central square of Tabatinga!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000049_000000|As soon as he set foot in the place the famous barber was signaled, recognized, surrounded.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000049_000001|Fragoso had no big box, nor drum, nor cornet to attract the attention of his clients-not even a carriage of shining copper, with resplendent lamps and ornamented glass panels, nor a huge parasol, no anything whatever to impress the public, as they generally have at fairs.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000049_000002|No; but Fragoso had his cup and ball, and how that cup and ball were manipulated between his fingers!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000049_000003|With what address did he receive the turtle's head, which did for the ball, on the pointed end of the stick!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000049_000004|With what grace did he make the ball describe some learned curve of which mathematicians have not yet calculated the value-even those who have determined the wondrous curve of "the dog who follows his master!"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000050_000001|The smiling entertainer, half in Portuguese, half in Ticunian, favored them with his customary oration in a tone of the most rollicking good humor.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000055_000000|"Look here!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000055_000001|look here!" said he; "how will that do, my friends-if you don't sleep on the top of it!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000055_000002|There you are, for a twelvemonth!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000055_000004|The queen's maids of honor are not more cleverly decked out; and observe, I am not stingy with the pomade!"
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000056_000000|No, he was not stingy with it.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000056_000001|True, it was only a little grease, with which he had mixed some of the juices of a few flowers, but he plastered it on like cement!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000057_000001|Nothing false; no towers, no chignons, no shams! These head were not enfeebled by cuttings nor thinned by fallings off, but were forests in all their native virginity!
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000057_000002|Fragoso, however, was not above adding a few natural flowers, two or three long fish bones, and some fine bone or copper ornaments, which were brought him by the dandies of the district.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000057_000003|Assuredly, the exquisites of the Directory would have envied the arrangement of these high art coiffures, three and four stories high, and the great Leonard himself would have bowed before his transatlantic rival.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000058_000000|And then the vatems, the handfuls of reis-the only coins for which the natives of the Amazon exchange their goods-which rained into the pocket of Fragoso, and which he collected with evident satisfaction.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000058_000001|But assuredly night would come before he could satisfy the demands of the customers, who were so constantly renewed.
train-other-500/1559/139353/1559_139353_000059_000000|A long array of anxious ones formed itself in the square.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000000_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000001_000000|THEN they rode three or four days and never met with adventure, and by hap they were lodged with a gentle man that was a rich man and well at ease.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000001_000003|Forsooth, said his host, I will tell you.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000001_000008|We will be forward to morn, said his host.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000002_000000|Soon Balin asked a knight, Is there not a knight in this court whose name is Garlon?
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifteen.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000004_000001|thou shalt die therefore or thou depart.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000005_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000006_000002|Lo, said Merlin, where she lieth dead.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000006_000003|And King Pellam lay so, many years sore wounded, and might never be whole till Galahad the haut prince healed him in the quest of the Sangreal, for in that place was part of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, that Joseph of Arimathea brought into this land, and there himself lay in that rich bed.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000006_000006|So he rode forth through the fair countries and cities, and found the people dead, slain on every side.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000007_000008|What is your name? said the knight.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000007_000014|But six mile, said the knight.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000007_000016|So they rode more than a pace, till that they came to a fair castle well walled and ditched.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000007_000018|So he went in and searched from chamber to chamber, and found her bed, but she was not there.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000008_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000010_000002|Thereof I pray you.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000010_000005|And then he looked on his armour, and understood he was well armed, and therewith blessed him and mounted upon his horse.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000011_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000013_000000|Then they went to battle again so marvellously that doubt it was to hear of that battle for the great blood shedding, and their hauberks unnailed that naked they were on every side.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000013_000001|At last Balan the younger brother withdrew him a little and laid him down.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000014_000002|And she granted them, with weeping, it should be done richly in the best manner.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000014_000003|Now, will ye send for a priest, that we may receive our sacrament, and receive the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ?
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000014_000006|And so all the ladies and gentlewomen wept for pity.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000015_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000016_000003|So Merlin bade a knight that stood afore him handle that sword, and he assayed, and he might not handle it.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000016_000004|Then Merlin laughed.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000016_000005|Why laugh ye? said the knight.
train-other-500/1563/137590/1563_137590_000016_000007|All this he let write in the pommel of the sword.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000001_000000|FREDERICK
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000002_000000|'Revenge may have her own; Roused discipline aloud proclaims their cause, And injured navies urge their broken laws.' BYRON.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000001|An involuntary comparison between mr Lennox and mr Thornton arose in her mind.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000002|She had been sorry that an expression of any other feeling than friendship had been lured out by circumstances from Henry Lennox.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000003|That regret was the predominant feeling, on the first occasion of her receiving a proposal.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000005|In Lennox's case, he seemed for a moment to have slid over the boundary between friendship and love; and the instant afterwards, to regret it nearly as much as she did, although for different reasons.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000006|In mr Thornton's case, as far as Margaret knew, there was no intervening stage of friendship.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000007|Their intercourse had been one continued series of opposition.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000008|Their opinions clashed; and indeed, she had never perceived that he had cared for her opinions, as belonging to her, the individual.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000009|As far as they defied his rock like power of character, his passion strength, he seemed to throw them off from him with contempt, until she felt the weariness of the exertion of making useless protests; and now, he had come, in this strange wild passionate way, to make known his love.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000011|And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power, repugnant to her whole previous life.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000012|She crept away, and hid from his idea.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000013|But it was of no use.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000003_000014|To parody a line out of Fairfax's Tasso-
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000004_000000|'His strong idea wandered through her thought.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000005_000000|She disliked him the more for having mastered her inner will.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000005_000001|How dared he say that he would love her still, even though she shook him off with contempt?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000005_000003|Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging into her mind, now that it was too late to utter them.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000005_000004|The deep impression made by the interview, was like that of a horror in a dream; that will not leave the room although we waken up, and rub our eyes, and force a stiff rigid smile upon our lips.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000005_000006|And we dare not; poor cowards that we are!
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000000|And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000001|What did he mean?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000002|Had she not the power to daunt him?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000003|She would see.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000004|It was more daring than became a man to threaten her so.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000005|Did he ground it upon the miserable yesterday?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000006|If need were, she would do the same to morrow,--by a crippled beggar, willingly and gladly,--but by him, she would do it, just as bravely, in spite of his deductions, and the cold slime of women's impertinence.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000006_000007|She did it because it was right, and simple, and true to save where she could save; even to try to save.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000000|Hitherto she had not stirred from where he had left her; no outward circumstances had roused her out of the trance of thought in which she had been plunged by his last words, and by the look of his deep intent passionate eyes, as their flames had made her own fall before them.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000001|She went to the window, and threw it open, to dispel the oppression which hung around her.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000002|Then she went and opened the door, with a sort of impetuous wish to shake off the recollection of the past hour in the company of others, or in active exertion.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000003|But all was profoundly hushed in the noonday stillness of a house, where an invalid catches the unrefreshing sleep that is denied to the night hours.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000004|Margaret would not be alone.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000005|What should she do?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000007_000006|'Go and see Bessy Higgins, of course,' thought she, as the recollection of the message sent the night before flashed into her mind.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000008_000000|And away she went.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000009_000000|When she got there, she found Bessy lying on the settle, moved close to the fire, though the day was sultry and oppressive.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000010_000000|'I thought I should na' ha' seen yo' again,' said she, at last, looking wistfully in Margaret's face.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000011_000000|'I'm afraid you're much worse.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000013_000000|'Shall I read you a chapter, now?'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000015_000002|If, by an effort, she attended for one moment, it seemed as though she were convulsed into double restlessness the next.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000015_000003|At last, she burst out 'Don't go on reading.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000015_000004|It's no use.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000016_000000|'Your father was not there, was he?' said Margaret, colouring deep.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000017_000000|'Not he.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000017_000003|It's no use telling him, fools will always break out o' bounds.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000018_000000|'But why?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000018_000001|'I don't understand.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000020_000000|'That's not true,' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000022_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000022_000001|Never mind.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000022_000002|Go on.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000023_000000|'He did na' speak words.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000023_000013|I'm easier in my mind for having spit it out; but I want some thoughts of the world that's far away to take the weary taste of it out o' my mouth.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000024_000000|Margaret read in her soft low voice.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000024_000001|Though Bessy's eyes were shut, she was listening for some time, for the moisture of tears gathered heavy on her eyelashes.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000024_000002|At last she slept; with many starts, and muttered pleadings.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000024_000004|mrs Hale was in the drawing room on her daughter's return.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000024_000005|It was one of her better days, and she was full of praises of the water bed.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000024_000009|mr Hale suggested, that something of the merits of the featherbeds of former days might be attributed to the activity of youth, which gave a relish to rest; but this idea was not kindly received by his wife.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000025_000002|Do they give you a feeling of perfect repose when you lie down upon them; or rather, don't you toss about, and try in vain to find an easy position, and waken in the morning as tired as when you went to bed?'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000026_000003|So I don't think I'm a competent witness.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000026_000004|But then, you know, I never had the opportunity of trying Sir john Beresford's beds.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000001|Oh, no! to be sure.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000002|It was poor darling Fred I took with me, I remember.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000006|Poor Fred! Everybody loved him.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000007|He was born with the gift of winning hearts.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000008|It makes me think very badly of Captain Reid when I know that he disliked my own dear boy.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000009|I think it a certain proof he had a bad heart.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000011|Your poor father, Margaret.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000027_000012|He has left the room.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000028_000000|'I love to hear about him, mamma.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000028_000001|Tell me all you like; you never can tell me too much.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000028_000002|Tell me what he was like as a baby.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000029_000000|'Why, Margaret, you must not be hurt, but he was much prettier than you were.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000029_000001|I remember, when I first saw you in Dixon's arms, I said, "Dear, what an ugly little thing!" And she said, "It's not every child that's like Master Fred, bless him!" Dear! how well I remember it.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000029_000002|Then I could have had Fred in my arms every minute of the day, and his cot was close by my bed; and now, now-Margaret-I don't know where my boy is, and sometimes I think I shall never see him again.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000030_000002|It will waken up all the poor springs of health left in me.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000031_000000|She paused, and seemed to try and gather strength for something more yet to be said.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000031_000001|Her voice was choked as she went on-was quavering as with the contemplation of some strange, yet closely present idea.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000032_000000|'And, Margaret, if I am to die-if I am one of those appointed to die before many weeks are over-I must see my child first.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000032_000001|I cannot think how it must be managed; but I charge you, Margaret, as you yourself hope for comfort in your last illness, bring him to me that I may bless him. Only for five minutes, Margaret.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000032_000002|There could be no danger in five minutes.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000032_000003|Oh, Margaret, let me see him before I die!'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000033_000001|But this wish of mrs Hale's was so natural, so just, so right to both parties, that Margaret felt as if, on Frederick's account as well as on her mother's, she ought to overlook all intermediate chances of danger, and pledge herself to do everything in her power for its realisation.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000033_000003|Margaret gently rose up and stood opposite to her frail mother; so that she might gather the secure fulfilment of her wish from the calm steadiness of her daughter's face.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000034_000000|'Mamma, I will write to night, and tell Frederick what you say.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000034_000001|I am as sure that he will come directly to us, as I am sure of my life.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000035_000000|'You will write to night?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000035_000001|Oh, Margaret! the post goes out at five-you will write by it, won't you?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000035_000002|I have so few hours left-I feel, dear, as if I should not recover, though sometimes your father over persuades me into hoping; you will write directly, won't you?
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000035_000003|Don't lose a single post; for just by that very post I may miss him.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000037_000002|Why, I should not be ill-be dying-if he had not taken me away from Helstone, to this unhealthy, smoky, sunless place.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000000|'Yes; it is so, indeed.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000001|He knows it himself; he has said so many a time. He would do anything for me; you don't mean he would refuse me this last wish-prayer, if you will.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000003|I cannot pray till I have this one thing; indeed, I cannot.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000004|Don't lose time, dear, dear Margaret.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000005|Write by this very next post.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000006|Then he may be here-here in twenty two days!
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000008|No cords or chains can keep him.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000039_000009|In twenty two days I shall see my boy.' She fell back, and for a short time she took no notice of the fact that Margaret sat motionless, her hand shading her eyes.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000041_000000|'Only wait till papa comes in.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000041_000001|Let us ask him how best to do it.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000042_000000|'You promised, Margaret, not a quarter of an hour ago;--you said he should come.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000043_000000|'And so he shall, mamma; don't cry, my own dear mother.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000043_000002|Oh, mamma, don't cry so pitifully,--it cuts me to the heart.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000044_000002|She was coming home when her father overtook her.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000045_000000|'And where have you been, my pretty maid?' asked he.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000046_000002|Did I do wrong?' mr Hale did not reply at first.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000046_000003|Then he said:
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000047_000000|'You should have waited till I came in, Margaret.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000048_000000|'I tried to persuade her-' and then she was silent.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000049_000000|'I don't know,' said mr Hale, after a pause.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000050_000000|'All these years since the mutiny, papa?'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000052_000001|And yet it seemed so right at the time.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000052_000002|I'm sure Frederick himself, would run the risk.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000053_000000|'So he would; so he should!
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000053_000002|I'm thankful it is as it is; I should have hesitated till, perhaps, it might have been too late to do any good.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000053_000003|Dear Margaret, you have done what is right about it; and the end is beyond our control.'
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000054_000000|It was all very well; but her father's account of the relentless manner in which mutinies were punished made Margaret shiver and creep.
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000054_000001|If she had decoyed her brother home to blot out the memory of his error by his blood!
train-other-500/1564/142299/1564_142299_000054_000002|She saw her father's anxiety lay deeper than the source of his latter cheering words.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000000_000000|Chapter seventeen: Principal Causes Maintaining The Democratic Republic-Part two
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000001_000000|Influence Of The Laws Upon The Maintenance Of The Democratic Republic In The United States
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000002_000000|Three principal causes of the maintenance of the democratic republic-Federal Constitutions-Municipal institutions-Judicial power.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000004_000000|Three circumstances seem to me to contribute most powerfully to the maintenance of the democratic republic in the United States.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000005_000000|The first is that Federal form of Government which the Americans have adopted, and which enables the Union to combine the power of a great empire with the security of a small State.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000006_000000|The second consists in those municipal institutions which limit the despotism of the majority, and at the same time impart a taste for freedom and a knowledge of the art of being free to the people.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000007_000000|The third is to be met with in the constitution of the judicial power. I have shown in what manner the courts of justice serve to repress the excesses of democracy, and how they check and direct the impulses of the majority without stopping its activity.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000008_000000|Influence Of Manners Upon The Maintenance Of The Democratic Republic In The United States
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000009_000000|I have previously remarked that the manners of the people may be considered as one of the general causes to which the maintenance of a democratic republic in the United States is attributable.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000009_000001|I here used the word manners with the meaning which the ancients attached to the word mores, for I apply it not only to manners in their proper sense of what constitutes the character of social intercourse, but I extend it to the various notions and opinions current among men, and to the mass of those ideas which constitute their character of mind.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000009_000002|I comprise, therefore, under this term the whole moral and intellectual condition of a people.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000009_000003|My intention is not to draw a picture of American manners, but simply to point out such features of them as are favorable to the maintenance of political institutions.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000010_000000|Religion Considered As A Political Institution, Which Powerfully Contributes To The Maintenance Of The Democratic Republic Amongst The Americans
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000011_000000|North America peopled by men who professed a democratic and republican Christianity-Arrival of the Catholics-For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the most republican class at the present time.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000012_000000|Every religion is to be found in juxtaposition to a political opinion which is connected with it by affinity.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000012_000001|If the human mind be left to follow its own bent, it will regulate the temporal and spiritual institutions of society upon one uniform principle; and man will endeavor, if I may use the expression, to harmonize the state in which he lives upon earth with the state which he believes to await him in heaven.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000012_000002|The greatest part of British America was peopled by men who, after having shaken off the authority of the Pope, acknowledged no other religious supremacy; they brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000012_000003|This sect contributed powerfully to the establishment of a democracy and a republic, and from the earliest settlement of the emigrants politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000013_000001|Nevertheless they constitute the most republican and the most democratic class of citizens which exists in the United States; and although this fact may surprise the observer at first, the causes by which it is occasioned may easily be discovered upon reflection.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000015_000002|In the Catholic Church, the religious community is composed of only two elements, the priest and the people.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000015_000003|The priest alone rises above the rank of his flock, and all below him are equal.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000017_000000|Catholicism is like an absolute monarchy; if the sovereign be removed, all the other classes of society are more equal than they are in republics.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000017_000001|It has not unfrequently occurred that the Catholic priest has left the service of the altar to mix with the governing powers of society, and to take his place amongst the civil gradations of men.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000017_000002|This religious influence has sometimes been used to secure the interests of that political state of things to which he belonged.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000017_000003|At other times Catholics have taken the side of aristocracy from a spirit of religion.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000018_000003|These two causes induce them, unconsciously, to adopt political doctrines, which they would perhaps support with less zeal if they were rich and preponderant.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000019_000000|The Catholic clergy of the United States has never attempted to oppose this political tendency, but it seeks rather to justify its results.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000020_000000|It may be asserted that in the United States no religious doctrine displays the slightest hostility to democratic and republican institutions.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000021_000000|I happened to be staying in one of the largest towns in the Union, when I was invited to attend a public meeting which had been called for the purpose of assisting the Poles, and of sending them supplies of arms and money.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000021_000001|I found two or three thousand persons collected in a vast hall which had been prepared to receive them.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000021_000002|In a short time a priest in his ecclesiastical robes advanced to the front of the hustings: the spectators rose, and stood uncovered, whilst he spoke in the following terms:--
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000022_000000|"Almighty God! the God of Armies!
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000022_000002|Thou, who didst create Man in the likeness of the same image, let not tyranny mar Thy work, and establish inequality upon the earth.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000022_000006|O Lord, who holdest alike the hearts of nations and of men in Thy powerful hand; raise up allies to the sacred cause of right; arouse the French nation from the apathy in which its rulers retain it, that it go forth again to fight for the liberties of the world.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000023_000001|Almighty God, hear our supplications this day.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000023_000002|Save the Poles, we beseech Thee, in the name of Thy well beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who died upon the cross for the salvation of men.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000023_000003|Amen."
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000024_000000|The whole meeting responded "Amen!" with devotion.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000025_000000|Indirect Influence Of Religious Opinions Upon Political Society In The United States
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000026_000000|Christian morality common to all sects-Influence of religion upon the manners of the Americans-Respect for the marriage tie-In what manner religion confines the imagination of the Americans within certain limits, and checks the passion of innovation-Opinion of the Americans on the political utility of religion-Their exertions to extend and secure its predominance.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000027_000000|I have just shown what the direct influence of religion upon politics is in the United States, but its indirect influence appears to me to be still more considerable, and it never instructs the Americans more fully in the art of being free than when it says nothing of freedom.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000028_000000|The sects which exist in the United States are innumerable.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000028_000001|They all differ in respect to the worship which is due from man to his Creator, but they all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000028_000002|Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner, but all the sects preach the same moral law in the name of God.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000028_000003|If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000028_000005|Moreover, almost all the sects of the United States are comprised within the great unity of Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000030_000001|They keep aloof from parties and from public affairs. In the United States religion exercises but little influence upon the laws and upon the details of public opinion, but it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life it regulates the State.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000000|I do not question that the great austerity of manners which is observable in the United States, arises, in the first instance, from religious faith.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000002|There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is so much respected as in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000003|In Europe almost all the disturbances of society arise from the irregularities of domestic life.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000004|To despise the natural bonds and legitimate pleasures of home, is to contract a taste for excesses, a restlessness of heart, and the evil of fluctuating desires.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000006|But when the American retires from the turmoil of public life to the bosom of his family, he finds in it the image of order and of peace.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000007|There his pleasures are simple and natural, his joys are innocent and calm; and as he finds that an orderly life is the surest path to happiness, he accustoms himself without difficulty to moderate his opinions as well as his tastes.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000031_000008|Whilst the European endeavors to forget his domestic troubles by agitating society, the American derives from his own home that love of order which he afterwards carries with him into public affairs.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000032_000000|In the United States the influence of religion is not confined to the manners, but it extends to the intelligence of the people.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000032_000001|Amongst the Anglo Americans, there are some who profess the doctrines of Christianity from a sincere belief in them, and others who do the same because they are afraid to be suspected of unbelief.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000032_000003|Thus the human mind is never left to wander across a boundless field; and, whatever may be its pretensions, it is checked from time to time by barriers which it cannot surmount.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000032_000004|Before it can perpetrate innovation, certain primal and immutable principles are laid down, and the boldest conceptions of human device are subjected to certain forms which retard and stop their completion.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000033_000000|The imagination of the Americans, even in its greatest flights, is circumspect and undecided; its impulses are checked, and its works unfinished.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000033_000001|These habits of restraint recur in political society, and are singularly favorable both to the tranquillity of the people and to the durability of the institutions it has established.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000033_000003|If the mind of the Americans were free from all trammels, they would very shortly become the most daring innovators and the most implacable disputants in the world.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000033_000005|Hitherto no one in the United States has dared to advance the maxim, that everything is permissible with a view to the interests of society; an impious adage which seems to have been invented in an age of freedom to shelter all the tyrants of future ages.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000033_000006|Thus whilst the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000034_000000|Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must nevertheless be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of free institutions.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000034_000001|Indeed, it is in this same point of view that the inhabitants of the United States themselves look upon religious belief.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000034_000002|I do not know whether all the Americans have a sincere faith in their religion, for who can search the human heart? but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000034_000003|This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole nation, and to every rank of society.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000035_000000|In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, everyone abandons him, and he remains alone.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000036_000001|The judge refused to admit his evidence, on the ground that the witness had destroyed beforehand all the confidence of the Court in what he was about to say.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000039_000000|I have known of societies formed by the Americans to send out ministers of the Gospel into the new Western States to found schools and churches there, lest religion should be suffered to die away in those remote settlements, and the rising States be less fitted to enjoy free institutions than the people from which they emanated.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000039_000001|I met with wealthy New Englanders who abandoned the country in which they were born in order to lay the foundations of Christianity and of freedom on the banks of the Missouri, or in the prairies of Illinois.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000039_000002|Thus religious zeal is perpetually stimulated in the United States by the duties of patriotism.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000039_000003|These men do not act from an exclusive consideration of the promises of a future life; eternity is only one motive of their devotion to the cause; and if you converse with these missionaries of Christian civilization, you will be surprised to find how much value they set upon the goods of this world, and that you meet with a politician where you expected to find a priest.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000039_000004|They will tell you that "all the American republics are collectively involved with each other; if the republics of the West were to fall into anarchy, or to be mastered by a despot, the republican institutions which now flourish upon the shores of the Atlantic Ocean would be in great peril.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000040_000001|When they return from their expedition, we shall hear what they have to say.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000041_000001|But there are others who look forward to the republican form of government as a tranquil and lasting state, towards which modern society is daily impelled by the ideas and manners of the time, and who sincerely desire to prepare men to be free.
train-other-500/1566/133291/1566_133291_000041_000002|When these men attack religious opinions, they obey the dictates of their passions to the prejudice of their interests.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000000_000000|Chapter ten: The Queen Of Navarre.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000001_000000|The sun had just risen when Maitre Bertram, accompanied by four men in the attire of peasants, went down to the port.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000001_000001|Two of them wore steel caps, and had the appearance of discharged soldiers.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000001_000002|The other two looked like fresh countrymen, and wore the low caps in use by the peasantry on their heads, carrying steel caps slung by cords from their shoulder.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000001_000003|All four had swords stuck into their leathern belts.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000004_000001|If you are too hotly chased to escape, after landing them, you had best also disembark; and make your way back by land, as best you can, leaving them to do what they will with the boat.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000005_000000|"I do not want to lose the craft, which has done me good service in her time, and is a handy little coaster; but I would rather lose it, than that you should fall into the hands of the Bordeaux boats and get into trouble.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000005_000001|The fact that you made for shore, to land passengers, would be sufficient to show that those passengers were of some importance.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000006_000000|"Now, good luck to you, Master Philip.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000006_000001|I trust to see you back here again, before long."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000007_000003|They were rowed ashore in the little boat the craft carried, and landed among some sand hills; among which they at once struck off, and walked briskly for a mile inland, so as to avoid any questionings, from persons they might meet, as to where they had come from.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000009_000001|They did not approach the town but, keeping behind it, came down upon the road running along the shore, three miles beyond it; and walked along it until about ten o'clock, by which time all were thoroughly tired with their unaccustomed exercise.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000010_000000|They were afoot again, at daylight.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000010_000001|The country was sparsely populated.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000010_000002|They passed through a few small villages, but no place of any importance until, late in the afternoon, they approached Blaye, after a long day's tramp.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000011_000000|They passed through the gates, half an hour before they were closed, and entered a small cabaret.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000011_000001|Here, calling for some bread and common wine, they sat down in a corner, and listened to the talk of the men who were drinking there.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000011_000002|It was all about the movements of troops, and the scraps of news that had come in from all quarters.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000012_000001|"The Queen of Navarre has no troops and, even if a few hundreds of Huguenots joined her, what could she do?
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000012_000003|They say they hadn't fifty men with them.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000012_000004|It seems to me they are making a great fuss about nothing."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000014_000000|An exclamation of surprise broke from his hearers.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000015_000000|"Then we shall have trouble," one exclaimed.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000015_000002|What can the Catholic lords have been about, that they managed to let them slip through their hands in that way?
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000015_000003|They must have seen, for some time, that they were making for the one place where they would be safe; unless indeed they were making down for Navarre.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000016_000000|"I expect they are watching both ways," another said.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000017_000001|That will be as good as any other way, and save much trouble.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000017_000002|It is a long chase to catch a pack of wolves, scattered all over the country; but one can make short work of them all, when you get them penned up in an inclosure."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000018_000000|Philip cast a warning glance at his companions, for he felt so inclined to retort, himself, that he feared they might give way to a similar impulse.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000019_000000|"It must be owned," another of the group said, "that these wolves bite hard.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000019_000002|We were in the Constable's troop; and though, as far as I know, we were all pretty stout men at arms, and were four to one against them at least, we had little to boast of when the fight was over.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000020_000000|"At any rate, I got a mark of the wolves' teeth, which has put a stop to my hunting, as you see," and he held out his arm.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000020_000001|"I left my right hand on the field of battle.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000020_000002|It was in the fight round Conde.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000020_000004|So there is no more wolf hunting for me; but even if I had my right hand back again, I should not care for any more such rough sport as that."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000021_000000|Philip congratulated himself that he was sitting with his back to the speaker, for he remembered the incident well, and it was his arm that had struck the blow.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000021_000001|His visor had been up; but as his face was shaded by the helmet and cheek pieces, and the man could have obtained but a passing glance at him, he felt sure, on reflection, that he would not be recognized.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000023_000000|"Well, I will have one more stoup of wine, and then I will be off, for we march at daybreak."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000024_000000|"How many ride out with you?" the man who had lost his hand asked.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000025_000000|"A hundred.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000025_000001|The town has voted the funds, and we march to join D'Escars tomorrow.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000026_000000|The frequenters of the cabaret presently dropped off.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000026_000002|As his duties were now over, he came across to them.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000028_000001|We come from near there."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000029_000000|"I thought your tongue had a smack of Gascon in it."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000030_000002|We would rather enlist under our own lord than under a stranger."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000031_000000|"Yes, that I can understand," the landlord said; "but you will find it no easy work travelling, at present; when every bridge and ford across the rivers is watched by armed men, and all who pass are questioned, sharply, as to their business."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000033_000000|"Your best plan would have been to have gone by boat to Bordeaux. There has been a strong wind from the west, for the last three days, and it would save you many a mile of weary tramping."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000035_000000|"There will be no difficulty about that.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000036_000000|"There is a cousin of mine, a farmer, who is starting in the morning, and has chartered a boat to carry his produce.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000036_000001|If I say a word to him, I have no doubt he would give the four of you a passage, for a crown."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000038_000000|"I think it would be a good plan," his brother replied; and the other two also assented.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000039_000000|"Very well then," the landlord said; "my cousin will be here in the morning, for he is going to leave two or three barrels of last year's vintage with me.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000040_000000|"I will make you up a basket for your journey.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000040_000001|Shall I say a bottle of wine each, and some bread, and a couple of dozen eggs, which I will get boiled hard for you?"
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000041_000001|What time do you think your cousin will be in?"
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000042_000001|He is not one to waste time; besides, every minute is of importance for, with this wind, he may well hope to arrive at Bordeaux in time to get his cargo discharged by nightfall."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000043_000001|"Half our difficulties will be over, when we get to Bordeaux.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000043_000002|I had begun to fear, from what we heard of the watch they are keeping at the bridges, that we should have found it a very difficult matter crossing the rivers.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000044_000000|They were downstairs by six, had a meal of bread and spiced wine; and soon after seven there was a rumble of carts outside, and two of them stopped at the cabaret.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000044_000001|They were laden principally with barrels of wine; but in one the farmer's wife was sitting, surrounded by baskets of eggs, fowls, and ducks, and several casks of butter.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000045_000000|Three of the casks of wine were taken down, and carried into the house.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000046_000001|Well, I agree to the bargain. The warehouse is not very far from the wharf, but the men there charge an extortionate price."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000048_000001|I mean no offence, but business is business, you know."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000050_000000|"Here is a crown," he said.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000050_000001|"I will hand it over to you, as earnest.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000050_000002|If we do not do your work, you can keep that to pay the hire of the men to carry your barrels."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000051_000000|"That is fair enough," the farmer said, pocketing the coin.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000052_000002|As they were as anxious as the farmer that no time should be lost, they worked hard, and in a quarter of an hour all was on board.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000053_000001|The sail was at once hoisted and, as the west wind was still blowing strongly, Blaye was soon left behind.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000054_000000|"This is better than walking, by a long way," Philip said.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000054_000001|"We are out of practice, and my feet are tender from the tramp from the coast.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000058_000001|I have had my sail, and I am going to pay for it by my share of the work."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000059_000000|The store was nearer than Philip had expected to find it.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000060_000000|Several ships lay by the wharves.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000060_000003|Several men came up to offer their services, as soon as the boat was alongside; and these, when they saw that the owner of the wines had brought men with them, who would transport the wine to the warehouses, indulged in some rough jeers before moving away.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000061_000004|It was close to the marketplace, and there she would, as soon as the market opened in the morning, dispose of them; and by nine o'clock they would be on board again.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000062_000000|"You are smart fellows," he said, "and nimble.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000063_000001|"It is better to work hard for two hours, than to walk for two days.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000066_000001|He waited, however, a quarter of a mile from the gates, and the two men then rejoined him.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000068_000002|As they approached the bridge, however, they saw a fire burning in the centre of the road.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000068_000003|Two men were sitting beside it, and several others lay round.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000069_000000|"Soldiers!" Philip said.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000069_000001|"It would not do to try to cross, at this time of night.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000069_000002|We will retire beyond the village, and wait until morning."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000073_000000|"That would waste nearly a day, and time is too precious for that. We will go straight on in the morning.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000073_000001|Our story has been good enough, thus far.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000075_000000|"You are travelling early," the landlord said.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000076_000000|"Yes, we have a long tramp before us, so we thought we had better perform part of it before breakfast."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000077_000000|"These are busy times.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000077_000002|It is not for us innkeepers to grumble, but peace and quiet are all we want, about here.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000077_000005|I suppose, by your looks, you are going to take service with some lord or other?"
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000078_000000|Jacques repeated the usual tale.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000079_000000|"Well, well, every man to his liking," the landlord said; "but for my part, I can't think what Frenchmen want to fly at each others' throats for.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000079_000001|We have got thirty soldiers quartered in the village now, though what they are doing here is more than I can imagine.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000079_000002|We shall be glad when they are gone; for they are a rough lot, and their leader gives himself as many airs as if he had conquered the place.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000079_000004|One would think that the Queen of Navarre had got a big Huguenot army together, and was marching north."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000082_000002|We will ask our host if there is any place where the river can be forded, without going too far up.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000083_000000|The landlord presently returned.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000085_000002|They killed a man who resented their rough usage, two days ago.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000086_000001|Do you know of any fords?"
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000087_000000|"Yes, there are two or three places where it can be crossed, when the water is low; and as there has been no rain, for some weeks past, you will be able to cross now, easily enough.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000087_000001|There is one four miles higher up.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000088_000001|"It is better to lose an hour, than to have trouble here."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000089_000000|An hour later, the party arrived at the ford and crossed it without difficulty, the water being little above their waists.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000089_000002|They presently came upon a wide road.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000090_000002|The only danger is from bodies of horse watching the road."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000092_000000|As he spoke, the heads and shoulders of a body of horsemen were seen, as they rode up from a dip the road made into a hollow, half a mile away.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000093_000000|Philip glanced round.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000093_000001|The country was flat, and it was too late to think of concealment.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000094_000000|"We will go quietly on," he said.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000094_000001|"We must hope they will not interfere with us."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000095_000000|The troop consisted of some twenty men, two gentlemen riding at their head; and as they came up, they checked their horses.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000097_000001|"My comrade and I served under De Brissac, when we were mere lads, and we have a fancy to try the old trade again; and our young cousins also want to try their metal."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000098_000000|"You are a Gascon, by your tongue?"
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000099_000001|We would rather fight in a company of our own people than with strangers."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000100_000000|"Whom have you been serving at Bordeaux?
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000100_000001|I am from the city, and know most of those in and round it."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000101_000000|"We have not been working there, sir.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000102_000001|Anyhow they are not Huguenot lords, but look what they say they are; but whether men at arms, or peasants, they concern us not.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000102_000002|Maybe, while we are questioning them, a party of those we are in search of may be traversing some other road.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000102_000003|Let us be riding forward."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000105_000001|I was about to question him, when you broke in.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000107_000002|I look to the pope as the head of my religion on earth, but why should I treat as a mortal enemy a man who does not recognize the pope's authority?"
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000108_000000|"That is dangerous doctrine, Louis."
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000109_000000|"Yes, but why should it be?
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000111_000001|You must remember that these people are not the ignorant scum of our towns, but that among them are a large number of our best and wisest heads.
train-other-500/1566/153036/1566_153036_000111_000002|I shall fight no less staunchly, when fighting has to be done, because I am convinced that it is all wrong.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000001_000000|It was no very unusual thing for mr Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000001_000001|In return for the news which Lestrade would bring, Holmes was always ready to listen with attention to the details of any case upon which the detective was engaged, and was able occasionally, without any active interference, to give some hint or suggestion drawn from his own vast knowledge and experience.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000002_000000|On this particular evening, Lestrade had spoken of the weather and the newspapers.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000002_000002|Holmes looked keenly at him.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000003_000000|"Anything remarkable on hand?" he asked.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000004_000000|"Oh, no, mr Holmes-nothing very particular."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000005_000000|"Then tell me about it."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000006_000000|Lestrade laughed.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000007_000000|"Well, mr Holmes, there is no use denying that there IS something on my mind.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000007_000001|And yet it is such an absurd business, that I hesitated to bother you about it.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000007_000002|On the other hand, although it is trivial, it is undoubtedly queer, and I know that you have a taste for all that is out of the common.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000007_000003|But, in my opinion, it comes more in dr Watson's line than ours."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000008_000000|"Disease?" said i
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000009_000000|"Madness, anyhow.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000009_000001|And a queer madness, too.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000009_000002|You wouldn't think there was anyone living at this time of day who had such a hatred of Napoleon the First that he would break any image of him that he could see."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000010_000000|Holmes sank back in his chair.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000011_000000|"That's no business of mine," said he.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000012_000000|"Exactly.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000012_000001|That's what I said.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000012_000002|But then, when the man commits burglary in order to break images which are not his own, that brings it away from the doctor and on to the policeman."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000013_000000|Holmes sat up again.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000014_000000|"Burglary!
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000014_000001|This is more interesting.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000014_000002|Let me hear the details."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000015_000000|Lestrade took out his official notebook and refreshed his memory from its pages.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000016_000001|"It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the Kennington Road.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000016_000002|The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000016_000003|He rushed out into the road, but, although several passers by declared that they had noticed a man run out of the shop, he could neither see anyone nor could he find any means of identifying the rascal.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000016_000004|It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000016_000005|The plaster cast was not worth more than a few shillings, and the whole affair appeared to be too childish for any particular investigation.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000017_000001|It occurred only last night.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000018_000000|"In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson's shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named dr Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames. His residence and principal consulting room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000018_000002|Some little time ago he purchased from Morse Hudson two duplicate plaster casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French sculptor, Devine.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000018_000003|One of these he placed in his hall in the house at Kennington Road, and the other on the mantelpiece of the surgery at Lower Brixton.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000018_000005|It had been carried out and had been dashed savagely against the garden wall, under which its splintered fragments were discovered."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000019_000000|Holmes rubbed his hands.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000020_000000|"This is certainly very novel," said he.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000021_000000|"I thought it would please you.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000021_000001|But I have not got to the end yet.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000021_000003|It had been smashed to atoms where it stood. In neither case were there any signs which could give us a clue as to the criminal or lunatic who had done the mischief.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000021_000004|Now, mr Holmes, you have got the facts."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000022_000000|"They are singular, not to say grotesque," said Holmes.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000022_000001|"May I ask whether the two busts smashed in dr Barnicot's rooms were the exact duplicates of the one which was destroyed in Morse Hudson's shop?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000023_000000|"They were taken from the same mould."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000024_000000|"Such a fact must tell against the theory that the man who breaks them is influenced by any general hatred of Napoleon.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000025_000000|"Well, I thought as you do," said Lestrade.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000025_000002|So, although, as you say, there are many hundreds of statues in London, it is very probable that these three were the only ones in that district. Therefore, a local fanatic would begin with them.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000025_000003|What do you think, dr Watson?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000026_000000|"There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered. "There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'IDEE FIXE,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000027_000000|"That won't do, my dear Watson," said Holmes, shaking his head, "for no amount of IDEE FIXE would enable your interesting monomaniac to find out where these busts were situated."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000028_000000|"Well, how do YOU explain it?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000029_000000|"I don't attempt to do so.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000029_000001|I would only observe that there is a certain method in the gentleman's eccentric proceedings.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000029_000002|For example, in dr Barnicot's hall, where a sound might arouse the family, the bust was taken outside before being broken, whereas in the surgery, where there was less danger of an alarm, it was smashed where it stood.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000029_000003|The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000029_000004|You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000030_000000|The development for which my friend had asked came in a quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have imagined.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000030_000002|He read it aloud:
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000031_000000|"Come instantly, one thirty one Pitt Street ,Kensington.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000033_000000|"What is it, then?" I asked.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000034_000000|"Don't know-may be anything.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000034_000001|But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000034_000002|In that case our friend the image breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000034_000003|There's coffee on the table, Watson, and I have a cab at the door."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000035_000000|In half an hour we had reached Pitt Street, a quiet little backwater just beside one of the briskest currents of London life.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000035_000002|Holmes whistled.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000036_000000|"By George!
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000036_000002|Nothing less will hold the London message boy.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000036_000005|The top steps swilled down and the other ones dry.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000036_000006|Footsteps enough, anyhow! Well, well, there's Lestrade at the front window, and we shall soon know all about it."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000037_000000|The official received us with a very grave face and showed us into a sitting room, where an exceedingly unkempt and agitated elderly man, clad in a flannel dressing gown, was pacing up and down.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000037_000001|He was introduced to us as the owner of the house-mr
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000037_000002|Horace Harker, of the Central Press Syndicate.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000038_000000|"It's the Napoleon bust business again," said Lestrade.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000038_000001|"You seemed interested last night, mr Holmes, so I thought perhaps you would be glad to be present now that the affair has taken a very much graver turn."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000039_000000|"What has it turned to, then?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000040_000000|"To murder.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000040_000001|mr Harker, will you tell these gentlemen exactly what has occurred?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000041_000000|The man in the dressing gown turned upon us with a most melancholy face.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000042_000001|If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000042_000002|As it is, I am giving away valuable copy by telling my story over and over to a string of different people, and I can make no use of it myself.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000043_000000|Holmes sat down and listened.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000000|"It all seems to centre round that bust of Napoleon which I bought for this very room about four months ago.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000001|I picked it up cheap from Harding Brothers, two doors from the High Street Station.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000002|A great deal of my journalistic work is done at night, and I often write until the early morning.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000003|So it was to day.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000004|I was sitting in my den, which is at the back of the top of the house, about three o'clock, when I was convinced that I heard some sounds downstairs.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000005|I listened, but they were not repeated, and I concluded that they came from outside.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000006|Then suddenly, about five minutes later, there came a most horrible yell-the most dreadful sound, mr Holmes, that ever I heard.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000007|It will ring in my ears as long as I live.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000008|I sat frozen with horror for a minute or two.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000009|Then I seized the poker and went downstairs.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000010|When I entered this room I found the window wide open, and I at once observed that the bust was gone from the mantelpiece.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000044_000011|Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000045_000001|This was clearly what the burglar had done, so I went round and opened the door.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000045_000002|Stepping out into the dark, I nearly fell over a dead man, who was lying there.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000045_000003|I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000045_000004|He lay on his back, his knees drawn up, and his mouth horribly open.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000045_000005|I shall see him in my dreams.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000046_000000|"Well, who was the murdered man?" asked Holmes.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000001|"You shall see the body at the mortuary, but we have made nothing of it up to now.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000002|He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000003|He is poorly dressed, and yet does not appear to be a labourer.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000004|A horn handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000005|Whether it was the weapon which did the deed, or whether it belonged to the dead man, I do not know.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000006|There was no name on his clothing, and nothing in his pockets save an apple, some string, a shilling map of London, and a photograph.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000047_000007|Here it is."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000048_000001|It represented an alert, sharp featured simian man, with thick eyebrows and a very peculiar projection of the lower part of the face, like the muzzle of a baboon.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000050_000000|"We had news of it just before you came.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000050_000001|It has been found in the front garden of an empty house in Campden House Road.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000050_000002|It was broken into fragments.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000050_000003|I am going round now to see it.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000050_000004|Will you come?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000051_000000|"Certainly.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000051_000001|I must just take one look round." He examined the carpet and the window.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000051_000002|"The fellow had either very long legs or was a most active man," said he.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000051_000003|"With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000051_000004|Getting back was comparatively simple.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000051_000005|Are you coming with us to see the remains of your bust, mr Harker?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000052_000000|The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing table.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000053_000000|"I must try and make something of it," said he, "though I have no doubt that the first editions of the evening papers are out already with full details.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000053_000001|It's like my luck!
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000053_000002|You remember when the stand fell at Doncaster?
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000053_000003|Well, I was the only journalist in the stand, and my journal the only one that had no account of it, for I was too shaken to write it.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000053_000004|And now I'll be too late with a murder done on my own doorstep."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000054_000000|As we left the room, we heard his pen travelling shrilly over the foolscap.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000055_000000|The spot where the fragments of the bust had been found was only a few hundred yards away.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000055_000002|It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000055_000003|Holmes picked up several of them and examined them carefully.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000055_000004|I was convinced, from his intent face and his purposeful manner, that at last he was upon a clue.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000057_000000|Holmes shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000058_000000|"We have a long way to go yet," said he.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000058_000001|"And yet-and yet-well, we have some suggestive facts to act upon.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000058_000002|The possession of this trifling bust was worth more, in the eyes of this strange criminal, than a human life.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000058_000003|That is one point.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000058_000004|Then there is the singular fact that he did not break it in the house, or immediately outside the house, if to break it was his sole object."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000059_000000|"He was rattled and bustled by meeting this other fellow.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000059_000001|He hardly knew what he was doing."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000060_000000|"Well, that's likely enough.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000060_000001|But I wish to call your attention very particularly to the position of this house, in the garden of which the bust was destroyed."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000061_000000|Lestrade looked about him.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000062_000000|"It was an empty house, and so he knew that he would not be disturbed in the garden."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000063_000000|"Yes, but there is another empty house farther up the street which he must have passed before he came to this one.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000063_000001|Why did he not break it there, since it is evident that every yard that he carried it increased the risk of someone meeting him?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000064_000000|"I give it up," said Lestrade.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000065_000000|Holmes pointed to the street lamp above our heads.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000066_000000|"He could see what he was doing here, and he could not there.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000066_000001|That was his reason."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000067_000000|"By Jove! that's true," said the detective.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000067_000001|"Now that I come to think of it, dr Barnicot's bust was broken not far from his red lamp.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000067_000002|Well, mr Holmes, what are we to do with that fact?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000068_000000|"To remember it-to docket it.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000068_000002|What steps do you propose to take now, Lestrade?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000069_000000|"The most practical way of getting at it, in my opinion, is to identify the dead man.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000069_000001|There should be no difficulty about that.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000069_000002|When we have found who he is and who his associates are, we should have a good start in learning what he was doing in Pitt Street last night, and who it was who met him and killed him on the doorstep of mr Horace Harker.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000069_000003|Don't you think so?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000071_000000|"What would you do then?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000072_000000|"Oh, you must not let me influence you in any way.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000072_000002|We can compare notes afterwards, and each will supplement the other."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000073_000000|"Very good," said Lestrade.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000074_000000|"If you are going back to Pitt Street, you might see mr Horace Harker. Tell him for me that I have quite made up my mind, and that it is certain that a dangerous homicidal lunatic, with Napoleonic delusions, was in his house last night.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000074_000001|It will be useful for his article."
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000075_000000|Lestrade stared.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000076_000000|"You don't seriously believe that?"
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000077_000000|Holmes smiled.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000078_000000|"Don't I? Well, perhaps I don't.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000078_000001|But I am sure that it will interest mr Horace Harker and the subscribers of the Central Press Syndicate. Now, Watson, I think that we shall find that we have a long and rather complex day's work before us.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000078_000002|I should be glad, Lestrade, if you could make it convenient to meet us at Baker Street at six o'clock this evening.
train-other-500/1569/141081/1569_141081_000078_000003|Until then I should like to keep this photograph, found in the dead man's pocket.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000000_000002|Holmes's face showed his disappointment and annoyance.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000001_000000|"Well, well, we can't expect to have it all our own way, Watson," he said, at last.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000001_000001|"We must come back in the afternoon, if mr Harding will not be here until then.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000001_000002|I am, as you have no doubt surmised, endeavouring to trace these busts to their source, in order to find if there is not something peculiar which may account for their remarkable fate.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000001_000003|Let us make for mr Morse Hudson, of the Kennington Road, and see if he can throw any light upon the problem."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000002_000000|A drive of an hour brought us to the picture dealer's establishment.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000002|"What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000004|A Nihilist plot-that's what I make it.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000005|No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000007|Who did I get the statues from?
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000008|I don't see what that has to do with it.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000011|How many had I?
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000012|Three-two and one are three-two of dr Barnicot's, and one smashed in broad daylight on my own counter.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000013|Do I know that photograph?
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000014|No, I don't.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000015|Yes, I do, though.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000016|Why, it's Beppo.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000017|He was a kind of Italian piece work man, who made himself useful in the shop.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000018|He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000020|No, I don't know where he came from nor where he went to.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000003_000022|He was gone two days before the bust was smashed."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000004_000001|"We have this Beppo as a common factor, both in Kennington and in Kensington, so that is worth a ten mile drive.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000004_000003|I shall be surprised if we don't get some help down there."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000000|In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000001|Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000002|Outside was a considerable yard full of monumental masonry. Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving or moulding. The manager, a big blond German, received us civilly and gave a clear answer to all Holmes's questions.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000003|A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine's head of Napoleon, but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before had been half of a batch of six, the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000005|He could suggest no possible cause why anyone should wish to destroy them-in fact, he laughed at the idea.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000007|The cast was taken in two moulds from each side of the face, and then these two profiles of plaster of Paris were joined together to make the complete bust.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000009|When finished, the busts were put on a table in the passage to dry, and afterwards stored.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000005_000010|That was all he could tell us.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000006_000000|But the production of the photograph had a remarkable effect upon the manager.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000006_000001|His face flushed with anger, and his brows knotted over his blue Teutonic eyes.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000007_000000|"Ah, the rascal!" he cried.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000007_000003|It was more than a year ago now.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000007_000006|Serve me right for engaging a man with such a face.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000007_000007|But he was a good workman-one of the best."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000008_000000|"What did he get?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000009_000000|"The man lived and he got off with a year.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000009_000001|I have no doubt he is out now, but he has not dared to show his nose here.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000010_000001|The matter is very important, and the farther I go with it, the more important it seems to grow.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000010_000002|When you referred in your ledger to the sale of those casts I observed that the date was june third of last year. Could you give me the date when Beppo was arrested?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000011_000000|"I could tell you roughly by the pay list," the manager answered.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000011_000001|"Yes," he continued, after some turning over of pages, "he was paid last on may twentieth."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000012_000000|"Thank you," said Holmes.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000012_000001|"I don't think that I need intrude upon your time and patience any more." With a last word of caution that he should say nothing as to our researches, we turned our faces westward once more.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000013_000000|The afternoon was far advanced before we were able to snatch a hasty luncheon at a restaurant.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000013_000001|A news bill at the entrance announced "Kensington Outrage.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000013_000002|Murder by a Madman," and the contents of the paper showed that mr Horace Harker had got his account into print after all.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000013_000003|Two columns were occupied with a highly sensational and flowery rendering of the whole incident.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000013_000004|Holmes propped it against the cruet stand and read it while he ate.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000013_000005|Once or twice he chuckled.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000014_000000|"This is all right, Watson," said he.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000014_000001|"Listen to this:
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000015_000000|"It is satisfactory to know that there can be no difference of opinion upon this case, since mr Lestrade, one of the most experienced members of the official force, and mr Sherlock Holmes, the well known consulting expert, have each come to the conclusion that the grotesque series of incidents, which have ended in so tragic a fashion, arise from lunacy rather than from deliberate crime.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000015_000001|No explanation save mental aberration can cover the facts.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000001|mr Horace Harker is a customer of ours.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000002|We supplied him with the bust some months ago.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000006|Oh, I daresay by consulting our sales book we could very easily tell you.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000007|Yes, we have the entries here. One to mr Harker you see, and one to mr Josiah Brown, of Laburnum Lodge, Laburnum Vale, Chiswick, and one to mr Sandeford, of Lower Grove Road, Reading.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000008|No, I have never seen this face which you show me in the photograph.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000009|You would hardly forget it, would you, sir, for I've seldom seen an uglier.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000011|Yes, sir, we have several among our workpeople and cleaners.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000012|I daresay they might get a peep at that sales book if they wanted to.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000018_000013|There is no particular reason for keeping a watch upon that book.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000019_000000|Holmes had taken several notes during mr Harding's evidence, and I could see that he was thoroughly satisfied by the turn which affairs were taking.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000019_000001|He made no remark, however, save that, unless we hurried, we should be late for our appointment with Lestrade.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000019_000002|Sure enough, when we reached Baker Street the detective was already there, and we found him pacing up and down in a fever of impatience.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000019_000003|His look of importance showed that his day's work had not been in vain.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000020_000000|"Well?" he asked.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000020_000001|"What luck, mr Holmes?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000021_000000|"We have had a very busy day, and not entirely a wasted one," my friend explained.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000021_000001|"We have seen both the retailers and also the wholesale manufacturers.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000021_000002|I can trace each of the busts now from the beginning."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000022_000000|"The busts," cried Lestrade.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000022_000001|"Well, well, you have your own methods, mr Sherlock Holmes, and it is not for me to say a word against them, but I think I have done a better day's work than you.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000022_000002|I have identified the dead man."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000023_000000|"You don't say so?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000025_000000|"Splendid!"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000000|"We have an inspector who makes a specialty of Saffron Hill and the Italian Quarter.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000002|Inspector Hill knew him the moment he caught sight of him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000004|He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder. Now, you see how the affair begins to clear up.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000005|The other fellow is probably an Italian also, and a member of the Mafia.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000007|Pietro is set upon his track.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000008|Probably the photograph we found in his pocket is the man himself, so that he may not knife the wrong person.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000009|He dogs the fellow, he sees him enter a house, he waits outside for him, and in the scuffle he receives his own death wound.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000026_000010|How is that, mr Sherlock Holmes?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000027_000000|Holmes clapped his hands approvingly.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000028_000000|"Excellent, Lestrade, excellent!" he cried.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000029_000000|"The busts!
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000029_000003|It is the murder that we are really investigating, and I tell you that I am gathering all the threads into my hands."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000031_000000|"Is a very simple one.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000031_000001|I shall go down with Hill to the Italian Quarter, find the man whose photograph we have got, and arrest him on the charge of murder.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000031_000002|Will you come with us?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000032_000000|"I think not.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000032_000001|I fancy we can attain our end in a simpler way.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000032_000002|I can't say for certain, because it all depends-well, it all depends upon a factor which is completely outside our control.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000033_000000|"In the Italian Quarter?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000034_000000|"No, I fancy Chiswick is an address which is more likely to find him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000034_000001|If you will come with me to Chiswick to night, Lestrade, I'll promise to go to the Italian Quarter with you to morrow, and no harm will be done by the delay.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000034_000003|You'll dine with us, Lestrade, and then you are welcome to the sofa until it is time for us to start.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000035_000000|Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber rooms was packed.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000035_000001|When at last he descended, it was with triumph in his eyes, but he said nothing to either of us as to the result of his researches.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000035_000003|No doubt the object of our journey was to catch him in the very act, and I could not but admire the cunning with which my friend had inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper, so as to give the fellow the idea that he could continue his scheme with impunity.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000035_000004|I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that I should take my revolver with me.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000035_000005|He had himself picked up the loaded hunting crop, which was his favourite weapon.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000036_000000|A four wheeler was at the door at eleven, and in it we drove to a spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000036_000001|Here the cabman was directed to wait.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000036_000002|A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000036_000005|The wooden fence which separated the grounds from the road threw a dense black shadow upon the inner side, and here it was that we crouched.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000037_000001|"We may thank our stars that it is not raining.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000037_000002|I don't think we can even venture to smoke to pass the time.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000000|It proved, however, that our vigil was not to be so long as Holmes had led us to fear, and it ended in a very sudden and singular fashion.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000001|In an instant, without the least sound to warn us of his coming, the garden gate swung open, and a lithe, dark figure, as swift and active as an ape, rushed up the garden path.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000002|We saw it whisk past the light thrown from over the door and disappear against the black shadow of the house. There was a long pause, during which we held our breath, and then a very gentle creaking sound came to our ears.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000003|The window was being opened.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000004|The noise ceased, and again there was a long silence.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000005|The fellow was making his way into the house.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000006|We saw the sudden flash of a dark lantern inside the room.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000038_000007|What he sought was evidently not there, for again we saw the flash through another blind, and then through another.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000000|But before we could move, the man had emerged again.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000001|As he came out into the glimmering patch of light, we saw that he carried something white under his arm.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000002|He looked stealthily all round him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000003|The silence of the deserted street reassured him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000004|Turning his back upon us he laid down his burden, and the next instant there was the sound of a sharp tap, followed by a clatter and rattle.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000005|The man was so intent upon what he was doing that he never heard our steps as we stole across the grass plot. With the bound of a tiger Holmes was on his back, and an instant later Lestrade and I had him by either wrist, and the handcuffs had been fastened.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000040_000006|As we turned him over I saw a hideous, sallow face, with writhing, furious features, glaring up at us, and I knew that it was indeed the man of the photograph whom we had secured.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000041_000000|But it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was giving his attention. Squatted on the doorstep, he was engaged in most carefully examining that which the man had brought from the house.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000041_000001|It was a bust of Napoleon, like the one which we had seen that morning, and it had been broken into similar fragments.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000041_000002|Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000041_000003|He had just completed his examination when the hall lights flew up, the door opened, and the owner of the house, a jovial, rotund figure in shirt and trousers, presented himself.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000042_000000|"mr Josiah Brown, I suppose?" said Holmes.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000043_000000|"Yes, sir; and you, no doubt, are mr Sherlock Holmes?
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000043_000001|I had the note which you sent by the express messenger, and I did exactly what you told me.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000043_000002|We locked every door on the inside and awaited developments.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000043_000003|Well, I'm very glad to see that you have got the rascal.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000043_000004|I hope, gentlemen, that you will come in and have some refreshment."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000044_000001|Not a word would our captive say, but he glared at us from the shadow of his matted hair, and once, when my hand seemed within his reach, he snapped at it like a hungry wolf.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000045_000000|"That's all right," said Lestrade, as we parted.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000045_000001|"Hill knows all these gentry, and he will give a name to him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000045_000002|You'll find that my theory of the Mafia will work out all right.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000045_000003|But I'm sure I am exceedingly obliged to you, mr Holmes, for the workmanlike way in which you laid hands upon him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000045_000004|I don't quite understand it all yet."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000000|When we met again next evening, Lestrade was furnished with much information concerning our prisoner.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000001|His name, it appeared, was Beppo, second name unknown.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000002|He was a well-known ne'er do well among the Italian colony.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000003|He had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in jail-once for a petty theft, and once, as we had already heard, for stabbing a fellow countryman.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000004|He could talk English perfectly well.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000007|At last he started in his chair, and his eyes brightened.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000008|There had been a ring at the bell.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000009|A minute later we heard steps upon the stairs, and an elderly red faced man with grizzled side whiskers was ushered in.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000047_000010|In his right hand he carried an old-fashioned carpet bag, which he placed upon the table.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000048_000000|"Is mr Sherlock Holmes here?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000049_000000|My friend bowed and smiled.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000049_000001|"mr Sandeford, of Reading, I suppose?" said he.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000051_000000|"Exactly."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000052_000000|"I have your letter here.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000053_000000|"Certainly."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000054_000000|"I was very much surprised at your letter, for I could not imagine how you knew that I owned such a thing."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000055_000000|"Of course you must have been surprised, but the explanation is very simple.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000055_000001|mr Harding, of Harding Brothers, said that they had sold you their last copy, and he gave me your address."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000056_000000|"Oh, that was it, was it?
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000056_000001|Did he tell you what I paid for it?"
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000057_000000|"No, he did not."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000058_000001|I only gave fifteen shillings for the bust, and I think you ought to know that before I take ten pounds from you.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000060_000000|"Well, it is very handsome of you, mr Holmes.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000060_000001|I brought the bust up with me, as you asked me to do.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000060_000002|Here it is!" He opened his bag, and at last we saw placed upon our table a complete specimen of that bust which we had already seen more than once in fragments.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000061_000000|Holmes took a paper from his pocket and laid a ten pound note upon the table.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000062_000000|"You will kindly sign that paper, mr Sandeford, in the presence of these witnesses.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000062_000002|I am a methodical man, you see, and you never know what turn events might take afterwards.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000062_000003|Thank you, mr Sandeford; here is your money, and I wish you a very good evening."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000063_000000|When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000063_000002|Then he placed his newly acquired bust in the centre of the cloth.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000063_000003|Finally, he picked up his hunting crop and struck Napoleon a sharp blow on the top of the head.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000063_000004|The figure broke into fragments, and Holmes bent eagerly over the shattered remains.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000064_000000|"Gentlemen," he cried, "let me introduce you to the famous black pearl of the Borgias."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000065_000000|Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well wrought crisis of a play.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000065_000002|The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000001|You will remember, Lestrade, the sensation caused by the disappearance of this valuable jewel and the vain efforts of the London police to recover it.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000002|I was myself consulted upon the case, but I was unable to throw any light upon it.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000003|Suspicion fell upon the maid of the Princess, who was an Italian, and it was proved that she had a brother in London, but we failed to trace any connection between them.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000006|Now you clearly see the sequence of events, though you see them, of course, in the inverse order to the way in which they presented themselves to me.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000007|Beppo had the pearl in his possession.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000008|He may have stolen it from Pietro, he may have been Pietro's confederate, he may have been the go between of Pietro and his sister.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000066_000009|It is of no consequence to us which is the correct solution.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000000|"The main fact is that he HAD the pearl, and at that moment, when it was on his person, he was pursued by the police.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000001|He made for the factory in which he worked, and he knew that he had only a few minutes in which to conceal this enormously valuable prize, which would otherwise be found on him when he was searched.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000002|Six plaster casts of Napoleon were drying in the passage.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000003|One of them was still soft.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000004|In an instant Beppo, a skilful workman, made a small hole in the wet plaster, dropped in the pearl, and with a few touches covered over the aperture once more.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000005|It was an admirable hiding place.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000006|No one could possibly find it.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000007|But Beppo was condemned to a year's imprisonment, and in the meanwhile his six busts were scattered over London.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000008|He could not tell which contained his treasure.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000009|Only by breaking them could he see.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000010|Even shaking would tell him nothing, for as the plaster was wet it was probable that the pearl would adhere to it-as, in fact, it has done.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000011|Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. Through a cousin who works with Gelder, he found out the retail firms who had bought the busts.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000012|He managed to find employment with Morse Hudson, and in that way tracked down three of them.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000013|The pearl was not there.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000014|Then, with the help of some Italian employee, he succeeded in finding out where the other three busts had gone.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000067_000015|The first was at Harker's.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000068_000000|"If he was his confederate, why should he carry his photograph?" I asked.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000001|That was the obvious reason.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000002|Well, after the murder I calculated that Beppo would probably hurry rather than delay his movements.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000003|He would fear that the police would read his secret, and so he hastened on before they should get ahead of him.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000004|Of course, I could not say that he had not found the pearl in Harker's bust.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000005|I had not even concluded for certain that it was the pearl, but it was evident to me that he was looking for something, since he carried the bust past the other houses in order to break it in the garden which had a lamp overlooking it.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000006|Since Harker's bust was one in three, the chances were exactly as I told you-two to one against the pearl being inside it. There remained two busts, and it was obvious that he would go for the London one first.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000007|I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000008|By that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000009|The name of the murdered man linked the one event with the other.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000010|There only remained a single bust-the Reading one-and the pearl must be there.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000069_000011|I bought it in your presence from the owner-and there it lies."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000070_000000|We sat in silence for a moment.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000071_000000|"Well," said Lestrade, "I've seen you handle a good many cases, mr Holmes, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000071_000001|We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000071_000002|No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to morrow, there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand."
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000072_000000|"Thank you!" said Holmes.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000072_000002|A moment later he was the cold and practical thinker once more.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000072_000003|"Put the pearl in the safe, Watson," said he, "and get out the papers of the Conk Singleton forgery case.
train-other-500/1569/141082/1569_141082_000072_000004|Good bye, Lestrade.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000002_000005|She ponder'd upon this weighty Affair very seriously; but said nothing to any one whomsoever.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000002_000007|Now the Reader shall hear with how much Benevolence and Discretion this amiable Widow behav'd on this emergent Occasion.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000003_000000|In the first Place, she made use of the most costly Perfumes; and drest herself to the utmost Advantage to render her Charms as conspicuous as possible; And thus gaily attir'd, demanded a private Audience of the High Priest of the Stars.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000003_000003|What could tempt me, in short, to a Prolongation of my Life, I can't imagine, I, who am grown a perfect Skeleton, all wrinkled and deform'd.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000003_000005|Blasted, Madam, said the luscious Pontiff; No!
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000004_000004|With all my Soul, said the amorous Pontiff, provided----you'll be kind, my dearest.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000005_000002|He put the Question to her, in short, at once, and agreed to sign upon her Compliance.
train-other-500/1572/141715/1572_141715_000006_000002|Each of the pontifical Gallants observ'd their Summons to a Moment.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000002_000001|He took the Freedom to approach one of them, and ask her, in the most courteous Manner, if he might have the Honour to assist her in her Researches.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000002_000005|And pray, if you will be so good as to inform me, with what View, are you searching after a Creature so very difficult to be met with?
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000002_000008|The Case, being thus circumstantiated, Sir, I hope you will not interrupt me any longer, lest my Rivals here in the Field should happen to circumvent me.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000003_000001|But as he came to the Banks of a Rivulet, at the remotest part of the Meadow, he perceiv'd another young Lady, reclin'd on the Grass, and entirely disengag'd.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000003_000011|He threw himself prostrate on the Ground, and kiss'd the Dust of her Feet.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000003_000013|Every now and then she wip'd her Eyes, as the Tears trickl'd down afresh her lovely Cheeks.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000003_000015|At last, she gave him a particular Detail of her own Misfortunes, and again requested to know his.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000006_000001|You know very well too, that indulgent Heav'n inspir'd, as it were, my little Dwarf, with artful Means to give me timely Notice of the rash Resolutions of the King, my cruel Husband.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000007_000004|Both, however, were disappointed, as both of us were fled.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000000|The Couriers, who flew after me, knew nothing of me.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000003|She was found alone, and in a very disconsolate Condition.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000005|Their gross Blunder at first incens'd his Majesty to the last Degree; but after he had view'd the Lady with an attentive Eye, he found she was extremely pretty, and was soon pacify'd.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000008|And in Effect, she was so: She had as much Art, however, as Caprice.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000009|For she pleas'd the King of Kings: In short, she had such an Ascendancy over him, that he didn't scruple in publick to own her as his Wife.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000014|Whereupon she gave his Post to her favourite Dwarf, and made her Fop of a Page the Keeper of his Majesty's great Seal, and Confidence.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000016|All the World deplor'd the Loss of me their former Queen. The King, who never acted the Part of a Tyrant, till the Moment he would have imprison'd me, and strangled you, seem'd to have drown'd all his good Qualities in his Dotage on that capricious Enchantress. He came to the Temple on the solemn Festival of the sacred Fire.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000018|I, with an audible and distinct, but hollow Tone, address'd my self thus, like an Oracle, to the King of Kings.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000021|In short, in a few Days he became a perfect Mad man.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000022|Her Caprice, which seem'd a Judgement from above, portended a sudden Revolution.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000024|Whereupon I was taken from my magnificent Prison, the Bowels of his God, and set up at the Head of a very powerful Party.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000030|You'll smile, doubtless, when I tell you the Prince look'd upon me as the most amiable Captive of the two; but then, I presume you will be sorry to hear, that my hard Fate doom'd me to be a Vassal in his Seraglio.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000032|Judge the dreadful Apprehensions I was under, upon his making such a peremptory Declaration.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000034|I answer'd him with all the Resentment becoming one of my high Character and unspotted Virtue.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000036|I talk'd as big as a Queen; but I was treated like the most servile Domestic.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000008_000040|What a shocking State was I in for the first Queen of the Universe!
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000010_000001|He purchas'd me at all Adventures, without enquiring what, or who I was.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000010_000002|He is a perfect Debauchee; his sole Delight lies in good Eating, Wine, and Women; and is one, who imagines, that the Almighty sent him into the World for no other Purpose but to gratify his unruly Appetites.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000010_000003|He is excessively fat, and puffs and blows every Moment, like one half choak'd.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000010_000004|When he has gorg'd himself so unmercifully that he is ready to burst, his chief Physician can persuade him to take any Thing for his Relief; tho' he laughs at him, and despises his Advice when he's well and sober.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000012_000003|May immortal Health descend from Heaven to preserve a Life, Sir, so precious as yours is.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000012_000004|I am a Physician by Profession.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000013_000000|The Proposition was readily embrac'd.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000014_000001|You must kick this Bladder, Sir, once a Day about your Hall for a whole Hour together, with all the Vigour and Activity you possibly can.
train-other-500/1572/141718/1572_141718_000014_000004|In short, our Doctor in about eight Days Time, perform'd an absolute Cure.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000005_000000|A cynical critic once remarked that no great poet is intelligible and no little poet worth understanding, but that otherwise poetry is an admirable thing.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000005_000001|This, however, seems to us a somewhat harsh view of the subject.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000005_000002|Little poets are an extremely interesting study.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000005_000004|Poor Folks' Lives, for instance, by the Rev.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000005_000008|Here is the opening of a poem called A Street Sermon, which is an interesting example of what muscular Christianity can do in the sphere of verse making:
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000006_000000|What, God fight shy of the city? He's t' other side up I guess; If you ever want to find Him, Whitechapel's the right address.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000007_000001|What a splendid leader the young lions of Fleet Street would have made out of The Prestige of England, for instance, a poem suggested by the opening of the Zulu war in eighteen seventy nine.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000009_000000|The conception of the war cry sounding 'like wild revelrie' is quite in the true Asiatic spirit, and indeed the whole poem is full of the daring English of a special correspondent.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000009_000001|Personally, we prefer mr Dalziel when he is not quite so military.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000009_000004|The Celtic element in literature is extremely valuable, but there is absolutely no excuse for shrieking 'Shillelagh!' and 'O Gorrah!'
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000010_000000|Women must Weep, by Professor Harald Williams, has the most dreadful cover of any book that we have come across for some time past.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000010_000002|However, as the cowl does not make the monk, so the binding, in the case of the Savile Club school, does not make the poet, and we open the volume without prejudice.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000010_000004|Here are some of the Professor's gravest accusations:
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000013_000000|It certainly must be admitted that to 'patch' or to 'exult in the basest blank' is a form of conduct quite unbefitting an artist, the very obscurity and incomprehensible character of such a crime adding something to its horror.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000013_000001|However, while fully recognising the wickedness of 'patching' we cannot but think that Professor Harald Williams is happier in his criticism of life than he is in his art criticism.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000013_000002|His poem Between the Banks, for instance, has a touch of sincerity and fine feeling that almost atones for its over emphasis.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000014_000001|Indeed, it may be said to possess all the fatal originality of inexperience.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000014_000002|However, mr Buchan does not leave us in any doubt about his particular method of writing.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000015_000003|I hold thy life! Love feeds on death.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000015_000004|It swallows up all life, Hugging, or killing.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000015_000005|I to woo, and thou- Unhappy me!
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000016_000001|These 'ideal spectators' seem to spend their lives in uttering those solemn platitudes that with the aged pass for wisdom.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000019_000000|It is a curious thing that when minor poets write choruses to a play they should always consider it necessary to adopt the style and language of a bad translator.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000019_000001|We fear that mr Bohn has much to answer for.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000020_000002|It is full of false analogies and dull eighteenth century didactics.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000020_000004|We must admit that we have no sympathy with this point of view, and we strongly protest against the idea that
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000021_000000|The flaming poppy, with its black core, tells Of anger's flushing face, and heart of sin.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000022_000001|However, the author of this irritating little volume is not always botanising and moralising in this reckless and improper fashion.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000022_000002|He has better moments, and those who sympathise with the Duke of Westminster's efforts to provide open spaces for the people, will no doubt join in the aspiration-
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000023_000000|God bless wise Grosvenors whose hearts incline, Workmen to fete, and grateful souls refine;
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000025_000001|However, poets have a perfect right to christen their own children, and if the wine is good no one should quarrel with the bush.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000025_000002|mr Thornton's verse is often graceful and melodious, and some of his lines, such as-
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000027_000001|The Ballad of the Old Year is rather depressing.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000027_000003|The best thing in the book is The Poet's Vision of Death, which is quite above the average.
train-other-500/1579/128131/1579_128131_000028_000000|mrs Dobell informs us that she has already published sixteen volumes of poetry and that she intends to publish two more.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000000|A few years ago some of our minor poets tried to set Science to music, to write sonnets on the survival of the fittest and odes to Natural Selection.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000001|Socialism, and the sympathy with those who are unfit, seem, if we may judge from Miss Nesbit's remarkable volume, to be the new theme of song, the fresh subject matter for poetry.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000002|The change has some advantages.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000004|At the Arts and Crafts Exhibition we find the cosmogony of Moses, not the cosmogony of Darwin.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000006|Poverty and misery, upon the other hand, are terribly concrete things.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000007|We find their incarnation everywhere and, as we are discussing a matter of art, we have no hesitation in saying that they are not devoid of picturesqueness.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000002_000009|From Miss Nesbit's book comes not merely the voice of sympathy but also the cry of revolution:
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000004_000000|The poem from which we take this stanza is remarkably vigorous, and the only consolation that we can offer to the timid and the Tories is that as long as so much strength is employed in blowing the trumpet, the sword, so far as Miss Nesbit is concerned, will probably remain sheathed. Personally, and looking at the matter from a purely artistic point of view, we prefer Miss Nesbit's gentler moments.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000004_000001|Her eye for Nature is peculiarly keen.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000004_000002|She has always an exquisite sense of colour and sometimes a most delicate ear for music.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000005_000000|From the sonnets we take this at random:
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000007_000000|These too, the opening stanzas of The Last Envoy, are charming:
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000009_000000|Dimpling the meadow's grassy green and grey, By furze that yellows all the common way, Gathering the gladness of the common broom, And too persistent fragrance of the may-
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000011_000000|But Miss Nesbit is not to be judged by mere extracts.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000012_000003|mr Foster seems to be quite popular in America.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000012_000005|We cannot, however, recommend the definitely comic poems. They are very depressing.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000013_000000|mr john Renton Denning dedicates his book to the Duke of Connaught, who is Colonel in Chief of the Rifle Brigade, in which regiment mr Denning was once himself a private soldier.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000013_000001|His poems show an ardent love of Keats and a profligate luxuriance of adjectives:
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000015_000000|this is the immature manner of Endymion with a vengeance and is not to be encouraged.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000015_000001|Still, mr Denning is not always so anxious to reproduce the faults of his master.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000015_000002|Sometimes he writes with wonderful grace and charm.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000015_000003|Sylvia, for instance, is an exceedingly pretty poem, and The Exile has many powerful and picturesque lines.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000015_000004|mr Denning should make a selection of his poems and publish them in better type and on better paper.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000015_000005|The 'get up' of his volume, to use the slang phrase of our young poets, is very bad indeed, and reflects no credit on the press of the Education Society of Bombay.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000016_000001|It is written in the spirited Macaulay style:
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000017_000000|Awake, awake, ye burghers brave!
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000017_000001|shout, shout for joy and sing! With thirty thousand at his back comes forth your hero King. Now shake for ever from your necks the servile yoke of Spain, And raise your arms and end for aye false Alva's cruel reign. Ho!
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000017_000002|Maestricht, Liege, Brussels fair!
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000017_000003|pour forth your warriors brave, And join your hands with him who comes your hearths and homes to save.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000018_000000|Some people like this style.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000020_000001|mr Kelly, it must be admitted, uses it with becoming modesty and reserve and never suffers it to trammel the white feet of his bright and buoyant muse.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000020_000004|His longer poems, on the other hand, have many good qualities.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000020_000006|It is a pity that mr Kelly has included the poems written before the age of nineteen.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000020_000007|Youth is rarely original.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000021_000001|Clarence Walworth, of albany new york
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000021_000002|It is a word borrowed from the Indians, and should, we think, be returned to them as soon as possible.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000022_000000|Jesus and Joseph at work!
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000023_000000|Poems of this kind were popular in the Middle Ages when the cathedrals of every Christian country served as its theatres.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000024_000000|(one) Lays and Legends.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000025_000001|By David Skaats Foster. (G.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000026_000001|By john Renton Denning. (Bombay: Education Society's Press.)
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000028_000000|(five) In the Watches of the Night.
train-other-500/1579/128140/1579_128140_000028_000001|Poems in eighteen volumes.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000000_000000|judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments, and it was probably in one of his happiest and, certainly, in one of his most careless moods that mr Justice Denman conceived the idea of putting the early history of Rome into doggerel verse for the benefit of a little boy of the name of Jack.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000000_000001|Poor Jack!
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000000_000002|He is still, we learn from the preface, under six years of age, and it is sad to think of the future career of a boy who is being brought up on bad history and worse poetry.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000000_000003|Here is a passage from the learned judge's account of Romulus:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000002_000000|Sole King again, this Romulus Play'd some fantastic tricks, Lictors he had, who hatchets bore Bound up with rods of sticks.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000003_000000|He treated all who thwarted him No better than a dog, Sometimes 'twas 'Heads off, Lictors, there!' Sometimes 'Ho!
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000003_000001|Lictors, flog!'
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000004_000000|Then he created Senators, And gave them rings of gold; Old soldiers all; their name deriv'd From 'Senex' which means 'old.'
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000005_000000|Knights, too, he made, good horsemen all, Who always were at hand To execute immediately Whate'er he might command.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000006_000000|But these were of Patrician rank, Plebeians all the rest; Remember this distinction, Jack! For 'tis a useful test.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000007_000000|The reign of Tullius Hostilius opens with a very wicked rhyme:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000009_000000|If Jack goes to the bad, mr Justice Denman will have much to answer for.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000010_000000|After such a terrible example from the Bench, it is pleasant to turn to the seats reserved for Queen's Counsel.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000010_000001|mr Cooper Willis's Tales and Legends, if somewhat boisterous in manner, is still very spirited and clever.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000012_000000|Not much can be said of a poet who exclaims:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000013_000000|Oh, for the power of Byron or of Moore, To glow with one, and with the latter soar.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000014_000000|And yet mr Moodie is one of the best of those South African poets whose works have been collected and arranged by mr Wilmot.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000014_000001|Pringle, the 'father of South African verse,' comes first, of course, and his best poem is, undoubtedly, Afar in the Desert:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000016_000000|It is not, however, a very remarkable production.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000017_000001|It reads like something out of The Hunting of the Snark:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000019_000000|The South African poets, as a class, are rather behind the age.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000019_000001|They seem to think that 'Aurora' is a very novel and delightful epithet for the dawn.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000019_000002|On the whole they depress us.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000020_000001|The White Queen's Knight begins a ballad and the Black King's Bishop completes it.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000020_000002|The Pawns sing in chorus and the Castles converse with each other.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000020_000003|The silliness of the form makes it an absolutely unreadable book.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000021_000000|mr Williamson's Poems of Nature and Life are as orthodox in spirit as they are commonplace in form.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000021_000001|A few harmless heresies of art and thought would do this poet no harm.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000021_000002|Nearly everything that he says has been said before and said better.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000021_000003|The only original thing in the volume is the description of mr Robert Buchanan's 'grandeur of mind.' This is decidedly new.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000022_000000|dr Cockle tells us that Mullner's Guilt and The Ancestress of Grillparzer are the masterpieces of German fate tragedy.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000022_000001|His translation of the first of these two masterpieces does not make us long for any further acquaintance with the school.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000022_000002|Here is a specimen from the fourth act of the fate tragedy.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000023_000000|SCENE eight.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000024_000000|ELVIRA.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000024_000001|HUGO.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000025_000000|ELVIRA (after long silence, leaving the harp, steps to Hugo, and seeks his gaze).
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000026_000000|HUGO (softly).
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000026_000001|Though I made sacrifice of thy sweet life.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000026_000002|The Father has forgiven.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000026_000003|Can the wife-Forgive?
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000027_000000|ELVIRA (on his breast).
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000027_000001|She can!
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000028_000000|HUGO (with all the warmth of love).
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000028_000001|Dear wife!
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000029_000000|ELVIRA (after a pause, in deep sorrow).
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000029_000001|Must it be so, beloved one?
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000030_000000|HUGO (sorry to have betrayed himself).
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000030_000001|What?
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000031_000000|In his preface to The Circle of Seasons, a series of hymns and verses for the seasons of the Church, the Rev.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000031_000001|t b Dover expresses a hope that this well meaning if somewhat tedious book 'may be of value to those many earnest people to whom the subjective aspect of truth is helpful.' The poem beginning
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000033_000000|has some merit and might be converted into a good sonnet.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000033_000001|The majority of the poems, however, are quite worthless.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000033_000002|There seems to be some curious connection between piety and poor rhymes.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000034_000002|There is nothing that is new and little that is true in verse of this kind:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000035_000000|The golden leaves are falling, Falling one by one, Their tender 'Adieux' calling To the cold autumnal sun The trees in the keen and frosty air Stand out against the sky, 'Twould seem they stretch their branches bare To Heaven in agony.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000036_000000|It can be produced in any quantity.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000036_000001|Lord Henry Somerset has too much heart and too little art to make a good poet, and such art as he does possess is devoid of almost every intellectual quality and entirely lacking in any intellectual strength.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000036_000002|He has nothing to say and says it.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000038_000000|Let's sing the beauties of this grand old earth,
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000039_000000|she cries, and proceeds to tell how
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000040_000000|Imagination paints old Egypt's former glory, Of mighty temples reaching heavenward, Of grim, colossal statues, whose barbaric story The caustic pens of erudition still record, Whose ancient cities of glittering minarets Reflect the gold of Afric's gorgeous sunsets.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000041_000000|'The caustic pens of erudition' is quite delightful and will be appreciated by all Egyptologists.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000041_000001|There is also a charming passage in the same poem on the pictures of the Old Masters:
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000043_000000|This seems to us the highest form of optimism we have ever come across in art criticism.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000044_000000|(one) The Story of the Kings of Rome in Verse.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000044_000001|By the honorable
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000044_000002|G. Denman, Judge of the High Court of Justice. (Trubner and Co.)
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000045_000000|(two) Tales and Legends in Verse.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000045_000001|By e Cooper Willis, q c (Kegan Paul.)
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000046_000000|(three) The Poetry of South Africa.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000047_000000|(four) Chess.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000047_000001|A Christmas Masque.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000047_000002|By Louis Tylor. (Fisher Unwin.)
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000048_000000|(five) Poems of Nature and Life.
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000048_000001|By David r Williamson. (Blackwood.)
train-other-500/1579/128155/1579_128155_000049_000000|(six) Guilt.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000006_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000007_000000|THE FATE OF SIR john FRANKLIN
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000008_000002|The thermometer marked thirty four degrees.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000009_000000|On Saturday they doubled Cape Felix at the northern extremity of King William's Land, one of the middle sized isles of the northern seas. The crew there experienced a strong and painful sensation, and many a sad look was turned towards the island as they sailed by the coast. This island had been the theatre of the most terrible tragedy of modern times.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000009_000003|While the doctor was following the progress of the ship on his map, several of them, Bell, Bolton, and Simpson, approached and entered into conversation with him.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000010_000000|Hatteras was marching up and down the poop with quick steps.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000010_000001|The doctor, on the deck, looked round, and saw himself surrounded by almost the whole crew.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000010_000002|He saw how powerful a recital would be in such a situation, and he continued the conversation begun with Johnson as follows:--
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000011_000003|There were a hundred and thirty eight men in all!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000011_000004|We know that Franklin's last letters were addressed from Disko Island, and were dated july twelfth eighteen forty five.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000011_000005|'I hope,' he said, 'to get under way to night for Lancaster Strait.' What happened after his departure from Disko Bay?
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000012_000000|"But how do you know all this?" asked Bell, the carpenter.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000013_000000|"By three tombs which Austin discovered on that island in eighteen fifty.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000014_000000|"And that was their ruin!" said a grave voice.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000014_000001|"Safety lay to the north."
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000015_000000|Every one turned round.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000015_000001|Hatteras, leaning on the rail of the poop, had just uttered that terrible observation.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000016_000001|"Now," he continued, "the ships were not abandoned till the twenty second of April, eighteen forty eight.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000016_000002|What happened during these nineteen months?
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000016_000003|What did the poor unfortunate men do? They, doubtless, explored the surrounding land, attempting any chance of safety, for the admiral was an energetic man, and if he did not succeed----"
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000017_000000|"Very likely his crew betrayed him," added Hatteras.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000018_000000|The sailors dared not raise their eyes; these words pricked their conscience.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000019_000000|"To end my tale, the fatal document informs us also that john Franklin succumbed to fatigue on the eleventh of June, eighteen forty seven.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000019_000001|Honour to his memory!" said the doctor, taking off his hat.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000019_000002|His audience imitated him in silence.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000000|"What became of the poor fellows for the next ten months after they had lost their chief?
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000002|Then Captain Crozier and Captain Fitz james raised a cairn on Victory Point, and there deposited their last document.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000003|See, my friends, we are passing the point now!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000004|You can still see the remains of the cairn placed on the extreme point, reached by john Ross in eighteen thirty one.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000005|There is Jane Franklin Cape.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000006|There is Franklin Point.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000007|There is Le Vesconte Point.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000009|Silver spoons, provisions in abundance, chocolate, tea, and religious books were found there too.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000010|The hundred and five survivors, under Captain Crozier, started for Great Fish River.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000011|Where did they get to?
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000012|Did they succeed in reaching Hudson's Bay?
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000013|Did any survive?
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000020_000014|What became of them after this last departure?"
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000000|"I will tell you what became of them," said john Hatteras in a firm voice.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000001|"Yes, they did try to reach Hudson's Bay, and they split up into several parties!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000002|Yes, they did make for the south!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000003|A letter from dr Rae in eighteen fifty four contained the information that in eighteen fifty the Esquimaux had met on King William's Land a detachment of forty men travelling on the ice, and dragging a boat, thin, emaciated, worn out by fatigue and suffering!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000004|Later on they discovered thirty corpses on the continent and five on a neighbouring island, some half buried, some left without burial, some under a boat turned upside down, others under the remains of a tent; here an officer with his telescope on his shoulder and a loaded gun at his side, further on a boiler with the remnants of a horrible meal!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000005|When the Admiralty received these tidings it begged the Hudson's Bay Company to send its most experienced agents to the scene.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000006|They descended Back River to its mouth.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000007|They visited the islands of Montreal, Maconochie, and Ogle Point.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000008|But they discovered nothing.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000009|All the poor wretches had died from misery, suffering, and hunger, whilst trying to prolong their existence by the dreadful resource of cannibalism.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000010|That is what became of them on the southern route.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000011|Well!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000021_000012|Do you still wish to march in their footsteps?"
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000022_000000|His trembling voice, his passionate gestures and beaming face, produced an indescribable effect.
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000022_000001|The crew, excited by its emotion before this fatal land, cried out with one voice: "To the north!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000022_000002|To the north!"
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000023_000000|"Yes, to the north!
train-other-500/1593/175346/1593_175346_000023_000002|Heaven is for us!
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000003_000000|A few months ago we visited a plain old house in Copenhagen, the boyhood home of the great Danish sculptor.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000003_000001|Here he worked with his father, a poor wood carver, who, thinking his boy would be a more skilful workman if he learned to draw, sent him to the Free Royal Academy of Fine Arts when he was twelve years old.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000003_000002|At the end of four years he took a prize, and the fact was mentioned in the newspapers.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000006_000000|Two years later, he won another prize; but he was now obliged to stay at home half the time to help support the large family.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000006_000001|Obtaining a small gold medal from the Academy, although so modest that, after the examination, he escaped from the midst of the candidates by a private staircase, he determined to try for the large gold medal.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000006_000002|If he could obtain this, he would receive a hundred and twenty dollars a year for three years, and study art in Italy.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000006_000004|He was rarely seen to smile, so hard was the struggle for daily bread.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000007_000000|What visions of fame must have come before him now, as he said good by to his poor parents, whom, alas, he was never to see again, and, taking his little dog Hector, started for far away Italy!
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000007_000001|When he arrived, he was so ill and homesick that several times he decided to give up art and go back.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000007_000003|He sent some small works of his own to Copenhagen; but nobody bought them.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000008_000000|An artist could not live on praise alone.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000008_000002|He must leave Rome, and go back to the wood carving in Copenhagen; for no one wanted beautiful things, unless the maker was famous.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000008_000003|He deferred going from week to week, till at last his humble furniture had been sold, and his trunks waited at the door.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000008_000004|As he was leaving the house, his travelling companion said to him, "We must wait till to morrow, from a mistake in our passports."
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000009_000000|A few hours later, mr Thomas Hope, an English banker, entered his studio, and, struck with the grandeur of his model of Jason, asked the cost in marble.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000010_000000|And this was the turning point in Bertel's life.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000010_000001|How often a rich man might help a struggling artist, and save a genius to the world, as did this banker!
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000010_000003|Soon a leading countess commissioned him to cut four marble statues,--Bacchus, Ganymede, Apollo, and Venus.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000010_000004|Two years later, he was made professor in the Royal Academy of Florence.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000011_000001|How much more he needed it when he was near starving, all those nine years in Rome!
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000011_000002|The bashful student had become the genial companion and interesting talker.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000011_000003|Louis of Bavaria, who made Munich one of the art centres of the world, was his admirer and friend.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000011_000004|The Danish King urged him to return to Copenhagen; but, as the Quirinal was to be decorated with great magnificence, Rome could not spare him.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000011_000005|For this, he made in three months his famous "Entry of Alexander into Babylon," and soon after his exquisite bas reliefs, "Night" and "Morning,"--the former, a goddess carrying in her arms two children, Sleep and Death; the latter, a goddess flying through the air, scattering flowers with both hands.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000012_000001|He threw away the first attempt, and devoted three years to the completion of the second.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000012_000002|Three statues were made, one of which is at Chatsworth, the elegant home of the Duke of Devonshire; and one was lost at sea.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000012_000003|A year later, he carved his exquisite Byron, now at Trinity College, Cambridge.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000013_000000|He was now made a member of three other famous academies.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000013_000001|Having been absent from Denmark twenty three years, the King urged his return for a visit, at least.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000013_000002|The Royal Palace of Charlottenburg was prepared for his reception The students of the Academy escorted him with bands of music, cannon were fired, poems read, cantatas sung; and the King created him councillor of state.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000014_000001|no
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000014_000002|The first person he met at the palace was the old man who had served as a model for the boys when Thorwaldsen was at school.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000016_000002|Sir Walter Scott came to visit the artist, and as the latter could speak scarcely a word of English, the two shook hands heartily, and clapped each other on the shoulder as they parted.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000017_000001|The enthusiasm on his arrival was unbounded. The whole city waited nearly three days for his coming.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000017_000003|The members of the Academy came in a body; and the crowd took the horses from the carriage, and drew it themselves through the streets to the Palace of Charlottenburg. In the evening there was a grand torchlight procession, followed by a constant round of parties.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000018_000000|So beset was he with invitations to dinner, that, to save a little time for himself, he told his servant Wilkins, that he would dine with him and his wife.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000019_000000|"The world-the world!
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000019_000001|Have I not told you a thousand times that I don't care in the least what the world thinks about these things?" Sometimes he refused even to dine with the King.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000020_000000|Once more he visited Rome, for a year, receiving royal attentions all through Germany.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000020_000002|She saw him bending toward the floor, and asked, "Have you dropped something?"
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000021_000000|The great man made no answer; he was dead.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000021_000001|The funeral was a grand expression of love and honor.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000021_000002|His body lay in state in the Royal Palace, laurel about his brow, the coffin ornamented with floral crowns-one made by the Queen of Denmark; his chisel laid in the midst of laurel and palm, and his great works of art placed about him.
train-other-500/1593/91064/1593_91064_000022_000000|Then it was borne to the large museum which Copenhagen had built to receive his work, and buried in the centre of the inner court, which had been prepared under his own hand.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000002_000001|Mumps isn't keeping this flag of truce very good," remarked Sam, as the seashell dropped at his feet.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000003_000000|"There is something inside of the shell," said Tom.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000003_000001|"A bit of paper.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000003_000002|Perhaps it's a message?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000005_000000|He pulled from the seashell a small, square of paper, upon which had been hastily scrawled the following in lead pencil:
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000006_000000|"I will help you all I can and hope you won't prosecute me.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000006_000001|I will see that Dora s gets something to eat, even if I give her my share.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000006_000002|They intend to go to Sand Haven if they can give you the slip."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000007_000000|"Good for Mumps!
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000007_000001|He's coming to his senses," cried Sam, and showed the others the message.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000007_000002|Dick read the words with much satisfaction.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000008_000000|"I hope he does stand by Dora," he said.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000009_000000|"If he tells the truth we may as well put into harbor and make for Sand Haven," said Martin Harris, who had now resumed the chase once more.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000010_000000|"Yes; but he may not be telling the truth," was Sergeant Brown's comment.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000010_000001|"The whole thing may be a trick to get us to go to Sand Haven while that crowd goes somewhere else."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000011_000000|"I think they are tired of carrying the girl around," said Carter.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000011_000001|"To give her up to us would have been no hardship."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000012_000000|"That's it," put in Martin Harris.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000013_000001|If, when night came on, the other craft should steer in the direction of Sand Haven, they would do likewise, and land as soon as darkness came to cover up their movements.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000014_000000|Slowly the day wore along and the two yachts kept at about the same distance.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000015_000000|"This is developing into a regular ocean trip and no mistake," remarked Tom, as he dropped into a seat near the cabin.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000015_000001|"Who would have thought it when we left Cedarville in such a hurry?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000016_000000|"I'd like to know how things are going up there," mused Dick. "It will be too bad if Josiah Crabtree succeeds in marrying mrs Stanhope while we are away."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000017_000000|"Let us hope for the best," put in Sam.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000019_000000|"What does that mean, Harris?" cried Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000020_000000|"It means that they want to make the most of this wind," responded the skipper of the yacht grimly.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000021_000000|"You can't do it any too quick," answered Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000021_000001|"When next we meet there won't be quite so much talking.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000021_000002|Instead, we'll have some acting, and pretty lively at that."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000022_000000|Sergeant Brown was questioned concerning his weapons, and said he had two pistols and Carter had the same.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000022_000001|One of the extra weapons was loaned to Dick and the second went to Tom.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000024_000000|"I'd willingly starve myself if only it would give her what she needs," he thought.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000024_000001|It made him sick at heart to think of how she might be suffering.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000025_000000|Mile after mile was passed, until the sun began to descend over to the westward.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000026_000000|"Here comes another steamer!" cried Tom presently.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000026_000001|"Look here, why can't we get some help from her?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000027_000000|"Perhaps we can!" burst out Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000027_000001|"I never thought of that."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000028_000000|"Let us signal her anyway," suggested Sergeant Brown.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000029_000000|A flag was run up as high as the topmast permitted, and they headed directly for the steamer's course.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000030_000000|As the ship came closer they made her out to be a big "tramp" from the South American trade.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000031_000000|"She sees the signal!" exclaimed Dick, after an anxious wait of several minutes.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000032_000000|Slowly the steamer came up to them, and then her ponderous engines ceased to work.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000033_000000|"What is wanted?" came in Spanish from a dark looking man on the forward deck.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000034_000000|"Can't you talk English?" cried Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000035_000000|"A leetle."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000036_000000|"We are after that other sail boat.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000036_000001|The men in her are thieves and have abducted a girl, too.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000036_000002|Will you help us catch them?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000038_000000|"You are sure they are thieves?" he asked presently.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000039_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000041_000000|"We are pretty certain they have."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000042_000000|"And the girl?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000043_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000044_000000|"And what is the reward for the girl, senor?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000045_000000|"Well, I declare!" burst out Tom.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000045_000001|"They are after a reward the first thing."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000046_000000|"No reward yet," answered Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000047_000000|At this the South American scowled.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000047_000001|"We cannot lose time on a hunt that is worth nothing," he said.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000047_000002|"We must get to Brooklyn by tomorrow morning."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000048_000000|"You won't help us bring them to justice?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000049_000000|"We cannot afford to lose the time."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000051_000000|"My, but that fellow is accommodating!" groaned Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000051_000001|"He isn't doing a single thing without pay."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000052_000000|"We might have bought some provisions from him," put in Martin Harris.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000053_000000|"I don't want his stuff," remarked Sam.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000054_000000|"I'm afraid it would choke me if I tried to eat it."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000056_000000|"I guess the note told the truth," said Harris.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000057_000000|"Is Sand Haven near here?" questioned Tom.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000059_000000|"And how far are we out?" was the police sergeant's question.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000060_000000|"Between five and six miles, as near as I can calculate."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000061_000000|"Will they be able to run in by dark?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000062_000000|"I think so.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000063_000000|Slowly the sun sank in the west.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000063_000001|It was growing cloudy and a mist was rising.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000063_000002|The mist made Martin Harris shake his head; but, not wishing to alarm the others, he said nothing.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000064_000000|But soon Dick noticed the mist and so did the rest.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000064_000001|"Gracious, supposing we get caught in a fog!" muttered Tom.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000065_000000|"I was just thinking of it," returned his elder brother.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000065_000001|"There will be no fun in it-if we are out of sight of land."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000066_000001|It was now so raw that the boys were glad enough to button their coats tightly about them.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000066_000002|Then, of a sudden, the fog came rolling over them like a huge cloud, and they were unable to see a dozen yards in any direction.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000067_000000|"This is the worst yet!" groaned Sam.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000067_000001|"What's to do now?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000068_000000|"Yes, what's to do now?" repeated Sergeant Brown.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000068_000001|"Can you make the coast, skipper?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000069_000001|You see we might stick our nose into a sandbank before we knowed it."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000070_000000|"Perhaps the fog will lift?" suggested Carter.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000071_000000|"A fog like this isn't lifting in a hurry," said Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000071_000001|"Like as not it won't move until the sun comes up tomorrow morning," and in this guess he was right.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000072_000000|A half hour went by, and from a distance came the deep note of a fog horn, sounding apparently from up the shore.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000073_000000|"We ought to have a horn," said Sam.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000073_000001|"Some big boat may come along and run us down."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000074_000000|"There is a horn in the cabin pantry," replied Martin Harris. "We might as well bring it out.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000075_000000|"Oh, don't say that!" ejaculated Carter.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000077_000000|"Yes; but if they founder, what will become of Dora?"
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000078_000000|"I don't believe any one of them would put himself out to save her."
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000079_000000|"I guess you're right there, Dick.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000079_000001|I never thought of her, poor girl," replied the brother.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000080_000001|The horn was blowing constantly, and now from a distance came the sounds of both horns and bells.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000081_000000|"We are getting close to some other ships," said Martin Harris. "I reckon we had best take a few reefs in the mainsail and stow away the jib," and these suggestions were carried out.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000082_000000|The minutes that followed were anxious ones, for all felt that a collision might occur at any moment.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000082_000001|The fog was growing thicker each instant, and this, coupled with the coming of night, seemed to shut them in as with a pall.
train-other-500/1593/94847/1593_94847_000083_000000|"A boat is dead ahead!" came suddenly from Dick, and Sergeant Brown also gave a cry of warning.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000000_000000|It is true that several remarkable conversions had recently taken place; but they were such as did little credit to the Church of Rome.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000000_000003|His figure was so bloated by sensual indulgence as to be almost incapable of moving, and this sluggish body was the abode of an equally sluggish mind.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000000_000004|He was represented in popular lampoons as a man made to be duped, as a man who had hitherto been the prey of gamesters, and who might as well be the prey of friars.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000000_000005|A pasquinade, which, about the time of Rochester's retirement, was fixed on the door of Salisbury House in the Strand, described in coarse terms the horror with which the wise Robert Cecil, if he could rise from his grave, would see to what a creature his honours had descended.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000001_000000|These were the highest in station among the proselytes of james.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000001_000007|If any credit is due to a tradition which was long preserved in the green room, Haines had the impudence to affirm that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him and called him to repentance. After the Revolution, he attempted to make his peace with the town by a penance more scandalous than his offence.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000001_000008|One night, before he acted in a farce, he appeared on the stage in a white sheet with a torch in his hand, and recited some profane and indecent doggerel, which he called his recantation.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000000|With the name of Haines was joined, in many libels the name of a more illustrious renegade, john Dryden.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000001|Dryden was now approaching the decline of life.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000002|After many successes and many failures, he had at length attained, by general consent, the first place among living English poets.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000003|His claims on the gratitude of james were superior to those of any man of letters in the kingdom.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000004|But james cared little for verses and much for money.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000005|From the day of his accession he set himself to make small economical reforms, such as bring on a government the reproach of meanness without producing any perceptible relief to the finances.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000007|Orders were given that, in the new patent which the demise of the crown made necessary, the annual butt of sack, originally granted to Jonson, and continued to Jonson's successors, should be omitted.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000009|Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000011|If any sentiment was deeply fixed in him, that sentiment was an aversion to priests of all persuasions, Levites, Augurs, Muftis, Roman Catholic divines, Presbyterian divines, divines of the Church of England.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000014|Selfrespect and a fine sense of the becoming were not to be expected from one who had led a life of mendicancy and adulation.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000002_000017|Dryden was gratified with a pension of a hundred pounds a year, and was employed to defend his new religion both in prose and verse.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000000|Two eminent men, Samuel Johnson and Walter Scott, have done their best to persuade themselves and others that this memorable conversion was sincere.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000001|It was natural that they should be desirous to remove a disgraceful stain from the memory of one whose genius they justly admired, and with whose political feelings they strongly sympathized; but the impartial historian must with regret pronounce a very different judgment.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000002|There will always be a strong presumption against the sincerity of a conversion by which the convert is directly a gainer.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000006|There would have been a marked distinction between his earlier and his later compositions.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000007|He would have looked back with remorse on a literary life of near thirty years, during which his rare powers of diction and versification had been systematically employed in spreading moral corruption.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000008|Not a line tending to make virtue contemptible, or to inflame licentious desire, would thenceforward have proceeded from his pen.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000003_000011|What was bad became worse in his versions.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000002|It seemed that it was no light thing to have secured the cooperation of the greatest living master of the English language.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000004|But the art of saying things well is useless to a man who has nothing to say; and this was Dryden's case.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000006|The veteran gladiator disarmed the novice, inflicted a few contemptuous scratches, and turned away to encounter more formidable combatants.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000007|Dryden then betook himself to a weapon at which he was not likely to find his match.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000009|The Church of Rome he represented under the similitude of a milkwhite hind, ever in peril of death, yet fated not to die.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000010|The beasts of the field were bent on her destruction.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000011|The quaking hare, indeed, observed a timorous neutrality: but the Socinian fox, the Presbyterian wolf, the Independent bear, the Anabaptist boar, glared fiercely at the spotless creature.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000012|Yet she could venture to drink with them at the common watering place under the protection of her friend, the kingly lion.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000004_000014|The hind and the panther, equally hated by the ferocious population of the forest, conferred apart on their common danger.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000005_000001|In truth the allegory could not be preserved unbroken through ten lines together.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000005_000002|No art of execution could redeem the faults of such a design.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000005_000003|Yet the Fable of the Hind and Panther is undoubtedly the most valuable addition which was made to English literature during the short and troubled reign of james the Second.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000000|The poem appeared with every advantage which royal patronage could give. A superb edition was printed for Scotland at the Roman Catholic press established in Holyrood House.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000001|But men were in no humour to be charmed by the transparent style and melodious numbers of the apostate.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000002|The disgust excited by his venality, the alarm excited by the policy of which he was the eulogist, were not to be sung to sleep.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000003|The just indignation of the public was inflamed by many who were smarting from his ridicule, and by many who were envious of his renown.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000004|In spite of all the restraints under which the press lay, attacks on his life and writings appeared daily.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000008|Of the fifty poets whose lives Johnson has written, Montague and Prior were the only two who were distinguished by an intimate knowledge of trade and finance.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000009|Soon their paths diverged widely.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000010|Their early friendship was dissolved.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000011|One of them became the chief of the Whig party, and was impeached by the Tories.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000006_000012|The other was entrusted with all the mysteries of Tory diplomacy, and was long kept close prisoner by the Whigs.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000008_000000|This change in the language of the court poet was indicative of a great change in the policy of the court.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000008_000001|The original purpose of james had been to obtain for the Church of which he was a member, not only complete immunity from all penalties and from all civil disabilities, but also an ample share of ecclesiastical and academical endowments, and at the same time to enforce with rigour the laws against the Puritan sects.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000008_000002|All the special dispensations which he had granted had been granted to Roman Catholics.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000001|That hope at one time amounted to confidence.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000002|The enthusiasm with which the Tories had hailed his accession, the elections, the dutiful language and ample grants of his Parliament, the suppression of the Western insurrection, the complete prostration of the party which had attempted to exclude him from the crown, elated him beyond the bounds of reason.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000004|His Parliament withstood him.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000006|Frowns and menaces failed.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000008|From the day of the prorogation the opposition to his designs had been growing stronger and stronger.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000013|The royalist knights and esquires who, through forty five years of war and faction, had stood so manfully by the throne, now expressed, in no measured phrase, their resolution to stand as manfully by the Church.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000014|Dull as was the intellect of james, despotic as was his temper, he felt that he must change his course.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000015|He could not safely venture to outrage all his Protestant subjects at once.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000017|But if he was determined to plunder the hierarchy, he must make up his mind to forego the luxury of persecuting the Dissenters.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000009_000019|He could overpower the Anglican Church only by forming against her an extensive coalition, including sects which, though they differed in doctrine and government far more widely from each other than from her, might yet be induced, by their common jealousy of her greatness, and by their common dread of her intolerance, to suspend their animosities till she was no longer able to oppress them.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000000|This plan seemed to him to have one strong recommendation.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000001|If he could only succeed in conciliating the Protestant Nonconformists he might flatter himself that he was secure against all chance of rebellion. According to the Anglican divines, no subject could by any provocation be justified in withstanding the Lord's anointed by force.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000002|The theory of the Puritan sectaries was very different.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000003|Those sectaries had no scruple about smiting tyrants with the sword of Gideon.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000005|They were probably even now meditating another Western insurrection, or another Rye House Plot. james, therefore, conceived that he might safely persecute the Church if he could only gain the Dissenters.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000006|The party whose principles afforded him no guarantee would be attached to him by interest.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000010_000007|The party whose interests he attacked would be restrained from insurrection by principle.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000011_000003|But it was only by slow degrees and after many struggles that the King could prevail on himself to form an alliance with all that he most abhorred.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000011_000005|Four generations of Stuarts had waged a war to the death with four generations of Puritans; and, through that long war, there had been no Stuart who had hated the Puritans so much, or who had been so much hated by them, as himself.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000011_000007|He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000011_000008|Their heads and quarters were still rotting on poles in all the market places of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire.
train-other-500/1595/132753/1595_132753_000011_000010|Such had been, even in England, the relations between the King and the Puritans; and in Scotland the tyranny of the King and the fury of the Puritans had been such as Englishmen could hardly conceive.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000002_000000|OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000006_000001|Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other personages were introduced?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000007_000000|"Yes, I have seen that," said Sancho.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000013_000001|He did not remove Rocinante's saddle, as his master's express orders were, that so long as they were in the field or not sleeping under a roof Rocinante was not to be stripped-the ancient usage established and observed by knights errant being to take off the bridle and hang it on the saddle bow, but to remove the saddle from the horse-never!
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000013_000004|This was why it was said-
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000015_000000|And some one else has sung-
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000016_000000|Friend to friend the bug, etc
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000021_000000|"Well," said Sancho, "how does your worship make out that to be an adventure?"
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000022_000000|"I do not mean to say," returned Don Quixote, "that it is a complete adventure, but that it is the beginning of one, for it is in this way adventures begin.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000025_000000|Sancho was about to reply to his master, but the Knight of the Grove's voice, which was neither very bad nor very good, stopped him, and listening attentively the pair heard him sing this
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000026_000000|SONNET
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000029_000001|But let us listen, perhaps he will tell us more about himself."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000030_000000|"That he will," returned Sancho, "for he seems in a mood to bewail himself for a month at a stretch."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000031_000000|But this was not the case, for the Knight of the Grove, hearing voices near him, instead of continuing his lamentation, stood up and exclaimed in a distinct but courteous tone, "Who goes there?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000031_000001|What are you?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000031_000002|Do you belong to the number of the happy or of the miserable?"
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000032_000000|"Of the miserable," answered Don Quixote.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000035_000001|From what you have just now sung I gather that yours spring from love, I mean from the love you bear that fair ingrate you named in your lament."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000037_000000|"Are you, sir knight, in love perchance?" asked he of the Grove of Don Quixote.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000040_000000|"I was never scorned by my lady," said Don Quixote.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000041_000000|"Certainly not," said Sancho, who stood close by, "for my lady is as a lamb, and softer than a roll of butter."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000042_000000|"Is this your squire?" asked he of the Grove.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000045_000000|"By my faith then," said Sancho, "I have spoken, and am fit to speak, in the presence of one as much, or even-but never mind-it only makes it worse to stir it."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000047_000000|"So be it by all means," said Sancho; "and I will tell your worship who I am, that you may see whether I am to be reckoned among the number of the most talkative squires."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000048_000000|With this the two squires withdrew to one side, and between them there passed a conversation as droll as that which passed between their masters was serious.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000050_000000|IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO SQUIRES
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000052_000000|"It may be said, too," added Sancho, "that we eat it in the chill of our bodies; for who gets more heat and cold than the miserable squires of knight errantry?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000052_000001|Even so it would not be so bad if we had something to eat, for woes are lighter if there's bread; but sometimes we go a day or two without breaking our fast, except with the wind that blows."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000054_000000|"I," said Sancho, "have already told my master that I shall be content with the government of some island, and he is so noble and generous that he has promised it to me ever so many times."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000055_000000|"I," said he of the Grove, "shall be satisfied with a canonry for my services, and my master has already assigned me one."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000056_000000|"Your master," said Sancho, "no doubt is a knight in the Church line, and can bestow rewards of that sort on his good squire; but mine is only a layman; though I remember some clever, but, to my mind, designing people, strove to persuade him to try and become an archbishop.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000056_000001|He, however, would not be anything but an emperor; but I was trembling all the time lest he should take a fancy to go into the Church, not finding myself fit to hold office in it; for I may tell you, though I seem a man, I am no better than a beast for the Church."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000060_000000|"I have two," said Sancho, "that might be presented before the Pope himself, especially a girl whom I am breeding up for a countess, please God, though in spite of her mother."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000065_000000|"O how little you know about compliments, sir squire," returned he of the Grove.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000065_000001|"What! don't you know that when a horseman delivers a good lance thrust at the bull in the plaza, or when anyone does anything very well, the people are wont to say, 'Ha, whoreson rip! how well he has done it!' and that what seems to be abuse in the expression is high praise?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000070_000000|"Crazy but valiant," replied he of the Grove, "and more roguish than crazy or valiant."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000072_000000|"For all that, brother and senor," said he of the Grove, "if the blind lead the blind, both are in danger of falling into the pit.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000074_000000|"Why, what are you thinking about?" said the other; "do you take me for some paltry squire?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000077_000000|"There, you see," said he of the Grove, hearing Sancho's exclamation, "how you have called this wine whoreson by way of praise."
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000078_000001|But tell me, senor, by what you love best, is this Ciudad Real wine?"
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000080_000000|"Leave me alone for that," said Sancho; "never fear but I'll hit upon the place it came from somehow.
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000080_000001|What would you say, sir squire, to my having such a great natural instinct in judging wines that you have only to let me smell one and I can tell positively its country, its kind, its flavour and soundness, the changes it will undergo, and everything that appertains to a wine?
train-other-500/1595/138031/1595_138031_000080_000003|They gave the two of them some wine out of a cask, to try, asking their opinion as to the condition, quality, goodness or badness of the wine.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000002_000000|Though Johnson was often solicited by his friends to make a complete list of his writings, and talked of doing it, I believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his own account, he put it off from year to year, and at last died without having done it perfectly.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000018_000002|He was the first English historian who had recourse to that authentick source of information, the Parliamentary Journals; and such was the power of his political pen, that, at an early period, Government thought it worth their while to keep it quiet by a pension, which he enjoyed till his death.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000022_000001|Boileau had imitated the same satire with great success, applying it to Paris; but an attentive comparison will satisfy every reader, that he is much excelled by the English Juvenal.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000022_000003|Whether Johnson had previously read Oldham's imitation, I do not know; but it is not a little remarkable, that there is scarcely any coincidence found between the two performances, though upon the very same subject.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000024_000000|OLDHAM.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000026_000000|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000027_000000|and,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000029_000000|OLDHAM.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000031_000000|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000033_000000|There are, in Oldham's imitation, many prosaick verses and bad rhymes, and his poem sets out with a strange inadvertent blunder:
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000036_000001|A young lady at once corrected this with good critical sagacity, to
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000038_000000|There is one passage in the original, better transfused by Oldham than by Johnson:
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000040_000000|which is an exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty: JOHNSON'S imitation is,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000041_000000|'Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.'
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000042_000000|OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just:
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000043_000000|'Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing men to grinning scorn.'
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000044_000000|Where, or in what manner this poem was composed, I am sorry that I neglected to ascertain with precision, from Johnson's own authority.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000044_000001|He has marked upon his corrected copy of the first edition of it, 'Written in seventeen thirty eight;' and, as it was published in the month of May in that year, it is evident that much time was not employed in preparing it for the press.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000044_000002|The history of its publication I am enabled to give in a very satisfactory manner; and judging from myself, and many of my friends, I trust that it will not be uninteresting to my readers.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000046_000000|We may be certain, though it is not expressly named in the following letters to mr Cave, in seventeen thirty eight, that they all relate to it:
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000047_000000|'To mr
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000047_000001|CAVE.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000049_000000|'SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000050_000003|I beg, therefore, that you will favour me with a letter to morrow, that I may know what you can afford to allow him, that he may either part with it to you, or find out, (which I do not expect,) some other way more to his satisfaction.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000051_000000|'I have only to add, that as I am sensible I have transcribed it very coarsely, which, after having altered it, I was obliged to do, I will, if you please to transmit the sheets from the press, correct it for you; and take the trouble of altering any stroke of satire which you may dislike.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000052_000000|'By exerting on this occasion your usual generosity, you will not only encourage learning, and relieve distress, but (though it be in comparison of the other motives of very small account) oblige in a very sensible manner, Sir,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000053_000000|'Your very humble servant,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000054_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000054_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000055_000000|'To mr
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000056_000000|SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000057_000002|As to the printing, if it can be set immediately about, I will be so much the authour's friend, as not to content myself with mere solicitations in his favour.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000057_000003|I propose, if my calculation be near the truth, to engage for the reimbursement of all that you shall lose by an impression of five hundred; provided, as you very generously propose, that the profit, if any, be set aside for the authour's use, excepting the present you made, which, if he be a gainer, it is fit he should repay.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000057_000004|I beg that you will let one of your servants write an exact account of the expense of such an impression, and send it with the poem, that I may know what I engage for.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000057_000005|I am very sensible, from your generosity on this occasion, of your regard to learning, even in its unhappiest state; and cannot but think such a temper deserving of the gratitude of those who suffer so often from a contrary disposition.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000057_000006|I am, Sir,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000058_000000|'Your most humble servant,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000059_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000061_000000|'To mr
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000061_000001|CAVE.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000063_000000|'SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000064_000001|And since the expense will be no more, I shall contentedly insure it, as I mentioned in my last.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000064_000004|Pray send me word when you will begin upon the poem, for it is a long way to walk.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000064_000006|I am, Sir,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000066_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000068_000000|'TO mr
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000068_000001|CAVE.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000069_000000|[No date.]
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000070_000000|'SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000072_000001|I knew not what answer to make till I had consulted you, nor what to demand on the authour's part, but am very willing that, if you please, he should have a part in it, as he will undoubtedly be more diligent to disperse and promote it.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000072_000002|If you can send me word to morrow what I shall say to him, I will settle matters, and bring the poem with me for the press, which, as the town empties, we cannot be too quick with.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000072_000003|I am, Sir,
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000074_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000074_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136848/1601_136848_000076_000001|If we did, we could not but feel an indignant regret; but how painful is it to see that a writer of such vigorous powers of mind was actually in such distress, that the small profit which so short a poem, however excellent, could yield, was courted as a 'relief.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000003_000003|It ends,--
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000004_000000|'Say, then, physicians of each kind, Who cure the body or the mind, What harm in drinking can there be, Since punch and life so well agree?'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000007_000000|'To THE REVEREND mr
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000007_000001|THOMAS WARTON.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000008_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000009_000000|'Your notes upon my poet were very acceptable.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000009_000001|I beg that you will be so kind as to continue your searches.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000009_000003|I wish your brother would take the same trouble.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000009_000004|A commentary must arise from the fortuitous discoveries of many men in devious walks of literature.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000010_000001|The loss is nothing, if nobody has found them; nor even then, perhaps, if the numbers be known.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000010_000002|You are not the only friend that has had the same mischance.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000012_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000012_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000013_000000|'[London] april fourteenth seventeen fifty eight.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000015_000000|'TO THE SAME.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000016_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000017_000000|'You will receive this by mr Baretti, a gentleman particularly intitled to the notice and kindness of the Professor of poesy.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000017_000001|He has time but for a short stay, and will be glad to have it filled up with as much as he can hear and see.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000018_000000|'In recommending another to your favour, I ought not to omit thanks for the kindness which you have shewn to myself.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000018_000001|Have you any more notes on Shakspeare?
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000018_000002|I shall be glad of them.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000019_000001|I am half afraid of him; but he is no less amiable than formidable.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000019_000002|He will, if the forwardness of his spring be not blasted, be a credit to you, and to the University.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000022_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000022_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000023_000000|'[London,] june first seventeen fifty eight.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000025_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000026_000000|'Though I might have expected to hear from you, upon your entrance into a new state of life at a new place, yet recollecting, (not without some degree of shame,) that I owe you a letter upon an old account, I think it my part to write first.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000026_000001|This, indeed, I do not only from complaisance but from interest; for living on in the old way, I am very glad of a correspondent so capable as yourself, to diversify the hours.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000027_000000|'I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000027_000002|You, who are very capable of anticipating futurity, and raising phantoms before your own eyes, must often have imagined to yourself an academical life, and have conceived what would be the manners, the views, and the conversation, of men devoted to letters; how they would choose their companions, how they would direct their studies, and how they would regulate their lives.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000027_000003|Let me know what you expected, and what you have found.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000027_000004|At least record it to yourself before custom has reconciled you to the scenes before you, and the disparity of your discoveries to your hopes has vanished from your mind.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000027_000005|It is a rule never to be forgotten, that whatever strikes strongly, should be described while the first impression remains fresh upon the mind.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000029_000000|'I love, dear Sir, to think on you, and therefore, should willingly write more to you, but that the post will not now give me leave to do more than send my compliments to mr Warton, and tell you that I am, dear Sir, most affectionately,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000030_000000|'Your very humble servant,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000031_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000031_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000034_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000000|'I should be sorry to think that what engrosses the attention of my friend, should have no part of mine.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000002|A violent death is never very painful; the only danger is lest it should be unprovided.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000003|But if a man can be supposed to make no provision for death in war, what can be the state that would have awakened him to the care of futurity?
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000004|When would that man have prepared himself to die, who went to seek death without preparation?
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000005|What then can be the reason why we lament more him that dies of a wound, than him that dies of a fever?
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000007|The only reason why we lament a soldier's death, is, that we think he might have lived longer; yet this cause of grief is common to many other kinds of death which are not so passionately bewailed.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000008|The truth is, that every death is violent which is the effect of accident; every death, which is not gradually brought on by the miseries of age, or when life is extinguished for any other reason than that it is burnt out.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000009|He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death; yet his death is borne with patience only because the cause of his untimely end is silent and invisible.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000010|Let us endeavour to see things as they are, and then enquire whether we ought to complain. Whether to see life as it is, will give us much consolation, I know not; but the consolation which is drawn from truth, if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from errour must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000035_000011|I am, dear, dear Sir, your most humble servant,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000036_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000036_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000043_000003|But they who think justly, and feel with strong sensibility, will listen with eagerness and admiration to its truth and wisdom.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000043_000005|Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state there is more evil than good, the intention of the writers was very different.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000043_000006|Voltaire, I am afraid, meant only by wanton profaneness to obtain a sportive victory over religion, and to discredit the belief of a superintending Providence: Johnson meant, by shewing the unsatisfactory nature of things temporal, to direct the hopes of man to things eternal.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000044_000000|The fund of thinking which this work contains is such, that almost every sentence of it may furnish a subject of long meditation.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000044_000001|I am not satisfied if a year passes without my having read it through; and at every perusal, my admiration of the mind which produced it is so highly raised, that I can scarcely believe that I had the honour of enjoying the intimacy of such a man.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000046_000000|I restrain myself from quoting passages from this excellent work, or even referring to them, because I should not know what to select, or rather, what to omit.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000047_000000|'If all your fear be of apparitions, (said the Prince,) I will promise you safety: there is no danger from the dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000048_000000|'That the dead are seen no more, (said Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000048_000001|There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000048_000003|That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000049_000002|The truth, however, is, that we judge of the happiness and misery of life differently at different times, according to the state of our changeable frame.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000051_000000|is, in many respects, more than poetically just.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000061_000000|'If you married imprudently, you miscarried at your own hazard, at an age when you had a right of choice.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000061_000001|It would be hard if the man might not choose his own wife, who has a right to plead before the judges of his country.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000000|'If your imprudence has ended in difficulties and inconveniences, you are yourself to support them; and, with the help of a little better health, you would support them and conquer them.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000001|Surely, that want which accident and sickness produces, is to be supported in every region of humanity, though there were neither friends nor fathers in the world. You have certainly from your father the highest claim of charity, though none of right; and therefore I would counsel you to omit no decent nor manly degree of importunity.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000002|Your debts in the whole are not large, and of the whole but a small part is troublesome.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000003|Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000004|You must, therefore, be enabled to discharge petty debts, that you may have leisure, with security, to struggle with the rest.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000005|Neither the great nor little debts disgrace you.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000006|I am sure you have my esteem for the courage with which you contracted them, and the spirit with which you endure them.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000007|I wish my esteem could be of more use.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000008|I have been invited, or have invited myself, to several parts of the kingdom; and will not incommode my dear Lucy by coming to Lichfield, while her present lodging is of any use to her.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000009|I hope, in a few days, to be at leisure, and to make visits.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000011|A man unconnected is at home every where; unless he may be said to be at home no where.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000012|I am sorry, dear Sir, that where you have parents, a man of your merits should not have an home.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000062_000014|I am, my dear Sir,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000063_000000|'Affectionately yours,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000064_000000|'SAM.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000064_000001|JOHNSON.'
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000065_000000|He now refreshed himself by an excursion to Oxford, of which the following short characteristical notice, in his own words, is preserved:--
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000066_000002|It was, at my first coming, quite new and handsome.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000066_000003|I have swum thrice, which I had disused for many years.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000070_000000|'Chelsea, march sixteenth seventeen fifty nine.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000071_000000|'DEAR SIR,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000072_000001|His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000072_000002|He says the boy is a sickly lad, of a delicate frame, and particularly subject to a malady in his throat, which renders him very unfit for his Majesty's service.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000072_000004|He was humble enough to desire my assistance on this occasion, though he and I were never cater cousins; and I gave him to understand that I would make application to my friend mr Wilkes, who, perhaps, by his interest with dr Hay and mr Elliot, might be able to procure the discharge of his lacquey.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000072_000005|It would be superfluous to say more on the subject, which I leave to your own consideration; but I cannot let slip this opportunity of declaring that I am, with the most inviolable esteem and attachment, dear Sir,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000073_000000|'Your affectionate, obliged, humble servant,
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000074_000000|'T.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000075_000000|mr Wilkes, who upon all occasions has acted, as a private gentleman, with most polite liberality, applied to his friend Sir George Hay, then one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; and Francis Barber was discharged, as he has told me, without any wish of his own.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000079_000000|At this time, there being a competition among the architects of London to be employed in the building of Blackfriars bridge, a question was very warmly agitated whether semicircular or elliptical arches were preferable.
train-other-500/1601/136862/1601_136862_000079_000001|In the design offered by mr Mylne the elliptical form was adopted, and therefore it was the great object of his rivals to attack it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000001_000000|No Father
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000003_000001|I had already discovered that I was getting hungry.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000003_000002|I went out at the other door into the close or farmyard, and ran across to the house.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000003_000003|No one was there.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000003_000004|Something moved me to climb on the form and look out of a little window, from which I could see the manse and the road from it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000003_000005|To my dismay, there was mrs Mitchell coming towards the farm.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000003_000006|I possessed my wits sufficiently to run first to Kirsty's press and secure a good supply of oatcake, with which I then sped like a hunted hare to her form.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000000|And as I slept I dreamed my dream.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000001|The sun was looking very grave, and the moon reflected his concern.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000002|They were not satisfied with me.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000003|At length the sun shook his head; that is, his whole self oscillated on an axis, and the moon thereupon shook herself in response.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000004|Then they nodded to each other as much as to say, "That is entirely my own opinion." At last they began to talk; not as men converse, but both at once, yet each listening while each spoke.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000005|I heard no word, but their lips moved most busily; their eyebrows went up and down; their eyelids winked and winked, and their cheeks puckered and relaxed incessantly. There was an absolute storm of expression upon their faces; their very noses twisted and curled.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000004_000008|Some of them kept darting up and down the ladder of rays, like phosphorescent sparks in the sea foam.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000001|I was in darkness, but not in my own bed.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000004|I was dreadfully frightened at first, and felt as if I were being slowly stifled.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000006|Next I thought it would be well to look abroad and reconnoitre once more.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000008|What could it mean?
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000009|Surely I had not grown blind while I lay asleep.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000012|I tumbled at one of the doors rather than ran to it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000013|I found it fast, but this one I knew was fastened on the inside by a wooden bolt or bar, which I could draw back.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000014|The open door revealed the dark night.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000016|Huge and very positive although dim, they rose betwixt me and the sky.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000017|Between their tops I saw only stars and darkness.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000018|I turned and looked back into the barn. It appeared a horrible cave filled with darkness.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000019|I remembered there were rats in it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000021|It was a relief to lay my hand on one of them, and feel that it was solid.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000024|I had never before known what the night was.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000025|The real sting of its fear lay in this-that there was nobody else in it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000026|Everybody besides me was asleep all over the world, and had abandoned me to my fate, whatever might come out of the darkness to seize me.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000027|When I got round the edge of the stone wall, which on another side bounded the corn yard, there was the moon-crescent, as I saw her in my dream, but low down towards the horizon, and lying almost upon her rounded back.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000028|She looked very disconsolate and dim.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000029|Even she would take no heed of me, abandoned child!
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000032|Yet there was a grandeur in my desolation that would have elevated my heart but for the fear.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000033|If I had had one living creature nigh me-if only the stupid calf, whose dull sleepy low startled me so dreadfully as I stood staring about me!
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000035|Away in the north was the Great Bear.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000037|Nearly under it was the light of the sun, creeping round by the north towards the spot in the east where he would rise again.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000038|But I learned only afterwards to understand this.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000039|I gazed at that pale faded light, and all at once I remembered that God was near me.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000041|I had not learned how beautiful God is; I had only learned that he is strong.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000042|I had been told that he was angry with those that did wrong; I had not understood that he loved them all the time, although he was displeased with them, and must punish them to make them good.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000005_000043|When I thought of him now in the silent starry night, a yet greater terror seized me, and I ran stumbling over the uneven field.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000006_000000|Does my reader wonder whither I fled?
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000006_000001|Whither should I fly but home? True, mrs Mitchell was there, but there was another there as well. Even Kirsty would not do in this terror.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000006_000002|Home was the only refuge, for my father was there.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000000|But as I approached it a new apprehension laid hold of my trembling heart.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000001|I was not sure, but I thought the door was always locked at night.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000002|I drew nearer.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000003|The place of possible refuge rose before me.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000004|I stood on the grass plot in front of it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000005|There was no light in its eyes.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000006|Its mouth was closed.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000007|It was silent as one of the ricks.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000008|Above it shone the speechless stars.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000009|Nothing was alive.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000010|Nothing would speak.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000014|I entered the hall.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000015|Ah! it was more silent than the night.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000016|No footsteps echoed; no voices were there.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000017|I closed the door behind me, and, almost sick with the misery of a being where no other being was to comfort it, I groped my way to my father's room.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000018|When I once had my hand on his door, the warm tide of courage began again to flow from my heart.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000007_000019|I opened this door too very quietly, for was not the dragon asleep down below?
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000008_000000|"Papa! papa!" I cried, in an eager whisper.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000000|No voice came in reply, and the place was yet more silent than the night or the hall.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000001|He must be asleep.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000002|I was afraid to call louder.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000004|I stretched out my hands to feel for him.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000006|I climbed up on the bed.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000007|I felt all across it.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000009|Should I ever awake?
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000010|My heart sank totally within me.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000011|I could bear no more.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000009_000012|I fell down on the bed weeping bitterly, and wept myself asleep.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000010_000000|Years after, when I was a young man, I read Jean Paul's terrible dream that there was no God, and the desolation of this night was my key to that dream.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000011_000000|Once more I awoke to a sense of misery, and stretched out my arms, crying, "Papa! papa!"
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000011_000001|The same moment I found my father's arms around me; he folded me close to him, and said-
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000012_000000|"Hush, Ranald, my boy!
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000012_000002|You are quite safe."
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000013_000000|I nestled as close to him as I could go, and wept for blessedness.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000014_000000|"Oh, papa!" I sobbed, "I thought I had lost you."
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000015_000000|"And I thought I had lost you, my boy.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000015_000001|Tell me all about it."
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000016_000000|Between my narrative and my replies to his questionings he had soon gathered the whole story, and I in my turn learned the dismay of the household when I did not appear.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000016_000001|Kirsty told what she knew.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000016_000002|They searched everywhere, but could not find me; and great as my misery had been, my father's had been greater than mine.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000016_000003|While I stood forsaken and desolate in the field, they had been searching along the banks of the river.
train-other-500/161/121743/161_121743_000016_000006|But sorrow is very sleepy.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000008_000000|'This much may well suffice to set forth the form of false happiness; if this is now clear to thine eyes, the next step is to show what true happiness is.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000011_000000|'I seem to have some inkling, but I should like to learn more at large from thee.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000012_000000|'Why, truly the reason is hard at hand.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000013_000000|'Certainly not.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000015_000000|'That is so.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000016_000000|'Accordingly, the nature of independence and power is one and the same.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000017_000000|'It seems so.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000018_000000|'Well, but dost think that anything of such a nature as this can be looked upon with contempt, or is it rather of all things most worthy of veneration?'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000022_000001|Just consider: can that want renown which has been agreed to be lacking in nothing, to be supreme in power, and right worthy of honour, for the reason that it cannot bestow this upon itself, and so comes to appear somewhat poor in esteem?'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000023_000000|'I cannot but acknowledge that, being what it is, this union of qualities is also right famous.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000024_000000|'It follows, then, that we must admit that renown is not different from the other three.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000027_000000|'In sooth, I cannot conceive,' said I, 'how any sadness can find entrance into such a state; wherefore I must needs acknowledge it full of joy-at least, if our former conclusions are to hold.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000028_000000|'Then, for the same reasons, this also is necessary-that independence, power, renown, reverence, and sweetness of delight, are different only in name, but in substance differ no wise one from the other.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000029_000000|'It is,' said i
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000031_000000|'How so?' said i
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000032_000003|In like manner may we cast up the reckoning in case of rank, of glory, or of pleasure.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000032_000004|For since each one of these severally is identical with the rest, whosoever seeks any one of them without the others does not even lay hold of that one which he makes his aim.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000033_000000|'Well,' said I, 'what then?'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000034_000000|'Suppose anyone desire to obtain them together, he does indeed wish for happiness as a whole; but will he find it in these things which, as we have proved, are unable to bestow what they promise?'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000037_000001|No conclusion could be more true.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000038_000000|'So, then, the form and the causes of false happiness are set before thine eyes.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000038_000001|Now turn thy gaze to the other side; there thou wilt straightway see the true happiness I promised.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000041_000000|'What is that?' said i
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000044_000000|'Well, then, these things seem to give to mortals shadows of the true good, or some kind of imperfect good; but the true and perfect good they cannot bestow.'
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000045_000000|'Even so,' said i
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000052_000000|INVOCATION.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000054_000000|Most beautiful.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000054_000001|So Thou the work didst fashion In that fair likeness, bidding it put on Perfection through the exquisite perfectness Of every part's contrivance.
train-other-500/161/121897/161_121897_000055_000004|Disperse the heavy mists of earth, And shine in Thine own splendour.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000003_000002|But it cannot be denied that such does exist, and is, as it were, the source of all things good.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000004_000000|'Most true is thy conclusion, and most sure,' said i
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000005_000000|'Next to consider where the dwelling place of this happiness may be.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000005_000002|For since nothing can be imagined better than God, how can we doubt Him to be good than whom there is nothing better?
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000005_000003|Now, reason shows God to be good in such wise as to prove that in Him is perfect good.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000005_000004|For were it not so, He would not be supreme of all things; for there would be something else more excellent, possessed of perfect good, which would seem to have the advantage in priority and dignity, since it has clearly appeared that all perfect things are prior to those less complete.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000005_000005|Wherefore, lest we fall into an infinite regression, we must acknowledge the supreme God to be full of supreme and perfect good.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000006_000000|'I accept thy reasonings,' said I; 'they cannot in any wise be disputed.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000008_000000|'In what way, pray?' said i
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000009_000002|But Him we most worthily acknowledge to be the most supremely excellent of all things.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000009_000004|Who was there to join these distinct essences?
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000009_000005|Finally, when one thing is different from another, the things so conceived as distinct cannot be identical.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000010_000000|'And most justly,' said i
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000011_000000|'But the highest good has been admitted to be happiness.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000012_000000|'Yes.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000013_000000|'Then,' said she, 'it is necessary to acknowledge that God is very happiness.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000014_000000|'Yes,' said I; 'I cannot gainsay my former admissions, and I see clearly that this is a necessary inference therefrom.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000015_000000|'Reflect, also,' said she, 'whether the same conclusion is not further confirmed by considering that there cannot be two supreme goods distinct one from the other.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000015_000001|For the goods which are different clearly cannot be severally each what the other is: wherefore neither of the two can be perfect, since to either the other is wanting; but since it is not perfect, it cannot manifestly be the supreme good.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000015_000002|By no means, then, can goods which are supreme be different one from the other.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000015_000003|But we have concluded that both happiness and God are the supreme good; wherefore that which is highest Divinity must also itself necessarily be supreme happiness.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000017_000000|'Then, further,' said she, 'just as geometricians are wont to draw inferences from their demonstrations to which they give the name "deductions," so will I add here a sort of corollary.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000017_000002|But as by the acquisition of justice men become just, and wise by the acquisition of wisdom, so by parity of reasoning by acquiring Godship they must of necessity become gods.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000017_000003|So every man who is happy is a god; and though in nature God is One only, yet there is nothing to hinder that very many should be gods by participation in that nature.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000020_000000|'Why, what?' said i
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000023_000000|'We judge happiness to be good, do we not?'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000025_000000|'And this superlative applies to all; for this same happiness is adjudged to be the completest independence, the highest power, reverence, renown, and pleasure.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000026_000000|'What then?'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000029_000000|'Well, then, listen to the determination of the matter.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000029_000001|Were all these members composing happiness, they would differ severally one from the other.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000029_000002|For this is the nature of parts-that by their difference they compose one body.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000029_000003|All these, however, have been proved to be the same; therefore they cannot possibly be members, otherwise happiness will seem to be built up out of one member, which cannot be.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000001|For the very reason why independence is sought is that it is judged good, and so power also, because it is believed to be good.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000002|The same, too, may be supposed of reverence, of renown, and of pleasant delight.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000005|Contrariwise, even things which by nature are not good are desired as if they were truly good, if they seem to be so.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000006|Whereby it comes to pass that goodness is rightly believed to be the sum and hinge and cause of all things desirable.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000007|Now, that for the sake of which anything is desired itself seems to be most wished for.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000008|For instance, if anyone wishes to ride for the sake of health, he does not so much wish for the exercise of riding as the benefit of his health.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000009|Since, then, all things are sought for the sake of the good, it is not these so much as good itself that is sought by all.
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000031_000011|From all which it is transparently clear that the essence of absolute good and of happiness is one and the same.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000032_000000|'I cannot see how anyone can dissent from these conclusions.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000034_000000|'Yes,' said i
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000035_000000|'Then we can safely conclude, also, that God's essence is seated in absolute good, and nowhere else.'
train-other-500/161/121898/161_121898_000037_000000|THE TRUE LIGHT.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000001_000000|I SANK into an arm chair in my rooms and gulped down a strong peg of brandy.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000002_000001|"Why did you make no attempt to throw the pursuers off the track, to have them intercepted?"
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000003_000000|Smith laughed.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000004_000000|"Useless, in the first place.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000004_000001|Wherever we went, HE would find us.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000004_000002|And of what use to arrest his creatures?
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000004_000003|We could prove nothing against them.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000005_000000|His square jaw grew truculently prominent, and he leapt stormily to his feet, shaking his clenched fists towards the window.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000006_000000|"The villain!" he cried.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000006_000001|"The fiendishly clever villain!
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000006_000002|I suspected that Sir Crichton was next, and I was right.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000006_000003|But I came too late, Petrie!
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000006_000004|That hits me hard, old man.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000008_000000|"Fu Manchu has made the blunder common to all men of unusual genius," he said.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000008_000002|He has not given me credit for perceiving the meaning of the scented messages.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000008_000003|He has thrown away one powerful weapon-to get such a message into my hands-and he thinks that once safe within doors, I shall sleep, unsuspecting, and die as Sir Crichton died.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000009_000000|"Smith," I broke in, "who is she?"
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000010_000000|"She is either Fu Manchu's daughter, his wife, or his slave.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000010_000001|I am inclined to believe the last, for she has no will but his will, except"--with a quizzical glance-"in a certain instance."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000011_000000|"How can you jest with some awful thing-Heaven knows what-hanging over your head?
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000011_000001|What is the meaning of these perfumed envelopes?
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000000|"He died of the Zayat Kiss.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000001|Ask me what that is and I reply 'I do not know.' The zayats are the Burmese caravanserais, or rest houses.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000002|Along a certain route-upon which I set eyes, for the first and only time, upon dr Fu Manchu-travelers who use them sometimes die as Sir Crichton died, with nothing to show the cause of death but a little mark upon the neck, face, or limb, which has earned, in those parts, the title of the 'Zayat Kiss.' The rest houses along that route are shunned now.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000003|I have my theory and I hope to prove it to night, if I live.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000005|This was my principal reason for not enlightening dr Cleeve.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000006|Even walls have ears where Fu Manchu is concerned, so I feigned ignorance of the meaning of the mark, knowing that he would be almost certain to employ the same methods upon some other victim.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000012_000007|I wanted an opportunity to study the Zayat Kiss in operation, and I shall have one."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000014_000000|"In the swampy forests of the district I have referred to a rare species of orchid, almost green, and with a peculiar scent, is sometimes met with.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000014_000001|I recognized the heavy perfume at once.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000014_000002|I take it that the thing which kills the traveler is attracted by this orchid. You will notice that the perfume clings to whatever it touches.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000014_000003|I doubt if it can be washed off in the ordinary way.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000014_000004|After at least one unsuccessful attempt to kill Sir Crichton-you recall that he thought there was something concealed in his study on a previous occasion?--Fu Manchu hit upon the perfumed envelopes.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000014_000005|He may have a supply of these green orchids in his possession-possibly to feed the creature."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000015_000000|"What creature?
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000000|"You no doubt observed that I examined the grate of the study.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000001|I found a fair quantity of fallen soot.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000003|But when I had obtained the evidence of the groom, Wills, I perceived that the cry from the lane or from the park was a signal.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000004|I noted that the movements of anyone seated at the study table were visible, in shadow, on the blind, and that the study occupied the corner of a two storied wing and, therefore, had a short chimney.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000005|What did the signal mean? That Sir Crichton had leaped up from his chair, and either had received the Zayat Kiss or had seen the thing which someone on the roof had lowered down the straight chimney.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000006|It was the signal to withdraw that deadly thing.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000016_000007|By means of the iron stairway at the rear of Major General Platt Houston's, I quite easily, gained access to the roof above Sir Crichton's study-and I found this."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000018_000000|"My theory proven," he resumed.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000018_000001|"Not anticipating a search on the roof, they had been careless.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000018_000002|This was to weight the line and to prevent the creature clinging to the walls of the chimney.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000018_000004|It might have got tangled, of course, but they reckoned on its making straight up the carved leg of the writing table for the prepared envelope.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000018_000005|From there to the hand of Sir Crichton-which, from having touched the envelope, would also be scented with the perfume-was a certain move."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000019_000000|"My God!
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000019_000002|"What is your theory respecting this creature-what shape, what color-?"
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000020_000000|"It is something that moves rapidly and silently.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000020_000002|The study was dark, remember, save for the bright patch beneath the reading lamp.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000020_000003|I have observed that the rear of this house is ivy covered right up to and above your bedroom.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000020_000004|Let us make ostentatious preparations to retire, and I think we may rely upon Fu Manchu's servants to attempt my removal, at any rate-if not yours."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000021_000000|"But, my dear fellow, it is a climb of thirty five feet at the very least."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000022_000000|"You remember the cry in the back lane?
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000022_000002|It was the cry of a dacoit.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000022_000003|Oh, dacoity, though quiescent, is by no means extinct.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000022_000004|Fu Manchu has dacoits in his train, and probably it is one who operates the Zayat Kiss, since it was a dacoit who watched the window of the study this evening.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000022_000005|To such a man an ivy covered wall is a grand staircase."
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000023_000000|The horrible events that followed are punctuated, in my mind, by the striking of a distant clock.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000023_000001|It is singular how trivialities thus assert themselves in moments of high tension.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000023_000002|I will proceed, then, by these punctuations, to the coming of the horror that it was written we should encounter.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000024_000000|The clock across the common struck two.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000025_000000|Having removed all traces of the scent of the orchid from our hands with a solution of ammonia Smith and I had followed the programme laid down.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000025_000001|It was an easy matter to reach the rear of the house, by simply climbing a fence, and we did not doubt that seeing the light go out in the front, our unseen watcher would proceed to the back.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000026_000001|The perfumed envelope lay upon a little coffee table in the center of the floor, and Smith, with an electric pocket lamp, a revolver, and a brassey beside him, sat on cushions in the shadow of the wardrobe.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000026_000002|I occupied a post between the windows.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000027_000001|The full moon had painted about the floor weird shadows of the clustering ivy, spreading the design gradually from the door, across the room, past the little table where the envelope lay, and finally to the foot of the bed.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000028_000000|The distant clock struck a quarter past two.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000029_000000|A slight breeze stirred the ivy, and a new shadow added itself to the extreme edge of the moon's design.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000030_000000|Something rose, inch by inch, above the sill of the westerly window.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000030_000001|I could see only its shadow, but a sharp, sibilant breath from Smith told me that he, from his post, could see the cause of the shadow.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000031_000000|Every nerve in my body seemed to be strung tensely.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000032_000000|The shadow became stationary.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000032_000001|The dacoit was studying the interior of the room.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000034_000000|One thin, brown hand appeared over the edge of the lowered sash, which it grasped-and then another.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000034_000001|The man made absolutely no sound whatever.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000034_000002|The second hand disappeared-and reappeared.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000036_000000|"Stand still, for your life!" came Smith's voice, high pitched.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000039_000000|It was an insect, full six inches long, and of a vivid, venomous, red color!
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000041_000001|A black shape was dropping, with incredible agility from branch to branch of the ivy, and, without once offering a mark for a revolver shot, it merged into the shadows beneath the trees of the garden.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000041_000002|As I turned and switched on the light Nayland Smith dropped limply into a chair, leaning his head upon his hands.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000041_000003|Even that grim courage had been tried sorely.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000042_000000|"Never mind the dacoit, Petrie," he said.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000042_000001|"Nemesis will know where to find him.
train-other-500/1614/13759/1614_13759_000042_000003|I understand now something that has been puzzling me since I heard of it-Sir Crichton's stifled cry.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty nine
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000004_000000|DUSK was falling when we made our way in the direction of Maple Cottage.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000004_000001|Nayland Smith appeared to be keenly interested in the character of the district.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000004_000002|A high and ancient wall bordered the road along which we walked for a considerable distance.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000004_000003|Later it gave place to a rickety fence.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000005_000000|My friend peered through a gap in the latter.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000006_000000|"There is quite an extensive estate here," he said, "not yet cut up by the builder.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000006_000001|It is well wooded on one side, and there appears to be a pool lower down."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000007_000000|The road was a quiet one, and we plainly heard the tread-quite unmistakable-of an approaching policeman.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000009_000000|Quite willing for a chat, the man stopped, and stood with his thumbs thrust in his belt.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000010_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000011_000000|"It must be a happy hunting ground for tramps?"
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000012_000000|"I've seen some suspicious looking coves about at times.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000012_000001|But after dusk an army might be inside there and nobody would ever be the wiser."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000013_000000|"Burglaries frequent in the houses backing on to it?"
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000014_000000|"Oh, no A favorite game in these parts is snatching loaves and bottles of milk from the doors, first thing, as they're delivered. There's been an extra lot of it lately.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000014_000001|My mate who relieves me has got special instructions to keep his eye open in the mornings!" The man grinned.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000014_000002|"It wouldn't be a very big case even if he caught anybody!" "No," said Smith absently; "perhaps not.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000014_000004|Good night."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000015_000000|"Good night, sir," replied the constable, richer by half a crown-"and thank you."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000016_000000|Smith stared after him for a moment, tugging reflectively at the lobe of his ear.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000017_000000|"I don't know that it wouldn't be a big case, after all," he murmured. "Come on, Petrie."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000018_000000|Not another word did he speak, until we stood at the gate of Maple Cottage.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000018_000001|There a plain clothes man was standing, evidently awaiting Smith.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000019_000000|"Have you found a suitable hiding place?" asked my companion rapidly.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000020_000000|"Yes, sir," was the reply.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000020_000001|"Kent-my mate-is there now.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000020_000002|You'll notice that he can't be seen from here."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000021_000000|"No," agreed Smith, peering all about him.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000021_000001|"He can't.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000021_000002|Where is he?"
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000022_000000|"Behind the broken wall," explained the man, pointing.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000022_000001|"Through that ivy there's a clear view of the cottage door."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000023_000000|"Good.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000023_000001|Keep your eyes open.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000023_000002|If a messenger comes for me, he is to be intercepted, you understand.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000023_000003|No one must be allowed to disturb us. You will recognize the messenger.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000023_000004|He will be one of your fellows. Should he come-hoot three times, as much like an owl as you can."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000024_000000|We walked up to the porch of the cottage.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000024_000001|In response to Smith's ringing came james Weymouth, who seemed greatly relieved by our arrival.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000025_000000|"First," said my friend briskly, "you had better run up and see the patient."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000026_000000|Accordingly, I followed Weymouth upstairs and was admitted by his wife to a neat little bedroom where the grief stricken woman lay, a wanly pathetic sight.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000028_000000|mrs james Weymouth nodded.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000028_000001|She was a kindly looking woman, with the same dread haunting her hazel eyes as that which lurked in her husband's blue ones.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000029_000000|The patient was sleeping soundly.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000029_000001|Some whispered instructions I gave to the faithful nurse and descended to the sitting room.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000029_000002|It was a warm night, and Weymouth sat by the open window, smoking.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000029_000003|The dim light from the lamp on the table lent him an almost startling likeness to his brother; and for a moment I stood at the foot of the stairs scarce able to trust my reason.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000029_000004|Then he turned his face fully towards me, and the illusion was lost.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000030_000000|"Do you think she is likely to wake, Doctor?" he asked.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000031_000000|"I think not," I replied.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000032_000001|The room was foggy with the fumes of tobacco, for he, too, was smoking.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000033_000000|At intervals of some five to ten minutes, his blackened briar (which I never knew him to clean or scrape) would go out.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000034_000000|The tobacco habit is infectious, and, seating myself in an arm chair, I lighted a cigarette.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000034_000001|For this dreary vigil I had come prepared with a bunch of rough notes, a writing block, and a fountain pen.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000035_000000|Silence fell upon Maple Cottage.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000035_000001|Save for the shuddering sigh which whispered through the over hanging cedars and Smith's eternal match striking, nothing was there to disturb me in my task.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000035_000002|Yet I could make little progress.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000035_000003|Between my mind and the chapter upon which I was at work a certain sentence persistently intruded itself.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000036_000000|"Imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat green: invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect. . ."
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000037_000000|dr Fu Manchu!
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000040_000000|I abandoned my task, replacing notes and writing block in the bag that I had with me.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000040_000001|Weymouth adjusted the lamp which had begun to smoke.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000041_000000|I tiptoed to the stairs and, stepping softly, ascended to the sick room.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000041_000001|All was quiet, and mrs Weymouth whispered to me that the patient still slept soundly.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000041_000002|I returned to find Nayland Smith pacing about the room in that state of suppressed excitement habitual with him in the approach of any crisis.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000041_000004|Plainly I could hear Weymouth's heavy breathing.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000041_000005|He sat at the window and looked out into the black shadows under the cedars.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000041_000007|I doubt not we were all listening.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000042_000000|Some faint sound broke the impressive stillness, coming from the direction of the village street.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000042_000001|It was a vague, indefinite disturbance, brief, and upon it ensued a silence more marked than ever. Some minutes before, Smith had extinguished the lamp.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000042_000002|In the darkness I heard his teeth snap sharply together.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000043_000000|The call of an owl sounded very clearly three times.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000044_000000|I knew that to mean that a messenger had come; but from whence or bearing what tidings I knew not.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000044_000001|My friend's plans were incomprehensible to me, nor had I pressed him for any explanation of their nature, knowing him to be in that high strung and somewhat irritable mood which claimed him at times of uncertainty-when he doubted the wisdom of his actions, the accuracy of his surmises.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000044_000002|He gave no sign.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000045_000000|Very faintly I heard a clock strike the half hour.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000045_000004|Yet such was the fact.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000048_000000|"My God!" groaned Weymouth-but he did not move from his position at the window.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000049_000000|"Stand by, Petrie!" said Smith.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000050_000000|He strode to the door-and threw it widely open.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000051_000001|I think I cried out as I fell back-retreated with clenched hands from before THAT which stood on the threshold.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000052_000000|It was a wild, unkempt figure, with straggling beard, hideously staring eyes.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000052_000002|No moonlight touched the features of this unearthly visitant, but scanty as was the illumination we could see the gleaming teeth-and the wildly glaring eyes.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000054_000000|Nothing so terrifying had ever smote upon my ears.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000054_000001|I was palsied by the horror of the sound.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000055_000000|Then Nayland Smith pressed the button of an electric torch which he carried.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000055_000001|He directed the disk of white light fully upon the face in the doorway.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000056_000000|"Oh, God!" cried Weymouth.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000056_000001|"It's john!"--and again and again: "Oh, God!
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000056_000002|Oh, God!"
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000057_000000|Perhaps for the first time in my life I really believed (nay, I could not doubt) that a thing of another world stood before me.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000057_000001|I am ashamed to confess the extent of the horror that came upon me.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000057_000002|james Weymouth raised his hands, as if to thrust away from him that awful thing in the door.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000057_000003|He was babbling-prayers, I think, but wholly incoherent.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000058_000000|"Hold him, Petrie!"
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000059_000000|Smith's voice was low.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000059_000001|(When we were past thought or intelligent action, he, dominant and cool, with that forced calm for which, a crisis over, he always paid so dearly, was thinking of the woman who slept above.)
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000061_000000|In a flash I realized all this and sprang to Smith's assistance.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000061_000001|There was a sound of racing footsteps and the men who had been watching outside came running into the porch.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000061_000002|A third was with them; and the five of us (for Weymouth's brother had not yet grasped the fact that a man and not a spirit shrieked and howled in our midst) clung to the infuriated madman, yet barely held our own with him.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000062_000000|"The syringe, Petrie!" gasped Smith.
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000062_000001|"Quick!
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000062_000002|You must manage to make an injection!"
train-other-500/1614/13785/1614_13785_000063_000000|I extricated myself and raced into the cottage for my bag.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000000_000000|Victory, off Cadiz, tenth of October, eighteen o five.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000003_000000|The Second in Command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of his line; to make the attack upon the Enemy, and to follow up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000004_000000|If the Enemy's Fleet should be seen to windward in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended that their van could not succour their rear.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000004_000002|My line would lead through about their centre: and the advanced squadron to cut three or four ships ahead of their centre, so as to ensure getting at their Commander in Chief, on whom every effort must be made to capture.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000005_000000|The whole impression of the British Fleet must be, to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their Commander in Chief (supposed to be in the centre) to the rear of their Fleet.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000006_000000|I will suppose twenty sail of the Enemy's line to be untouched: it must be some time before they could perform a manoeuvre to bring their force compact to attack any part of the British Fleet engaged, or to succour their own ships; which indeed would be impossible, without mixing with the ships engaged.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000008_000000|If the van of the Enemy tack, the captured ships must run to leeward of the British Fleet: if the Enemy wear, the British must place themselves between the Enemy and captured, and disabled British ships: and should the Enemy close, I have no fear for the result.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000013_000002|Some ships may not get through their exact place, but they will always be at hand to assist their friends.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000015_000000|The remainder of the Enemy's Fleet, thirty four sail, are to be left to the management of the Commander in Chief; who will endeavour to take care that the movements of the Second in Command are as little interrupted as possible.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000016_000000|NELSON AND BRONTE.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000017_000000|By Command of the Vice Admiral. j n o.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000017_000001|SCOTT.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000018_000000|MEMORANDUM BOOK
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000020_000000|saturday september fourteenth eighteen o five.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000020_000001|At six o'clock arrived at Portsmouth; and having arranged all my business, embarked at the bathing machines with mr ROSE and mr CANNING, who dined with me.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000021_000000|wednesday september twenty fifth eighteen o five.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000021_000001|Light airs southerly.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000022_000000|saturday september twenty eighth eighteen o five.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000022_000003|At nine saw the AEtna cruising.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000022_000004|At noon saw eighteen sail.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000022_000005|Nearly calm.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000022_000006|In the evening joined the Fleet under Vice Admiral COLLINGWOOD.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000022_000007|Saw the Enemy's Fleet in Cadiz, amounting to thirty five or thirty six sail of the line.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000023_000000|sunday september twenty ninth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000023_000001|Fine weather.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000023_000002|Gave out the necessary orders for the Fleet.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000023_000003|Sent Euryalus to watch the Enemy with the Hydra off Cadiz.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000024_000000|wednesday october ninth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000024_000001|Fresh breezes easterly.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000024_000002|Received an account from BLACKWOOD, that the French ships had all bent their top gallant sails. Sent the Pickle to him, with orders to keep a good look out.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000025_000000|monday october fourteenth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000025_000001|Fine weather: westerly wind.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000025_000002|Sent Amphion to Gibraltar and Algiers.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000025_000003|Enemy at the harbour's mouth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000026_000000|wednesday october sixteenth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000026_000001|Moderate breezes westerly.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000026_000002|All the forenoon employed forming the Fleet into the order of sailing.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000026_000004|In the evening fresh gales.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000026_000005|The Enemy as before, by signal from Weazle.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000027_000000|thursday october seventeenth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000027_000001|Moderate breezes north westerly.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000027_000002|Sent the Donegal to Gibraltar, to get a ground tier of casks.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000028_000000|friday october eighteenth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000028_000001|Fine weather: wind easterly.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000028_000002|The Combined Fleets cannot have finer weather to put to sea.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000029_000000|saturday october nineteenth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000029_000001|Fine weather: wind easterly.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000029_000002|At half past nine the Mars, being one of the look out ships, made the signal that the Enemy were coming out of port.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000029_000005|At three the Colossus made the signal that the Enemy's Fleet was at sea.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000030_000000|sunday october twentieth.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000030_000003|We were between Trafalgar and Cape Spartel.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000030_000007|At five telegraphed Captain BLACKWOOD, that I relied upon his keeping sight of the Enemy.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000031_000000|monday october twenty first.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000031_000002|Bore away.
train-other-500/1614/141486/1614_141486_000031_000004|The Enemy with their heads to the southward.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000000_000000|D twenty eight.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000002_000000|D twenty nine.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000003_000000|thirtieth.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000004_000002|He was a graduate of Harvard college.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000005_000000|MAY.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000006_000001|Nothing very remarkable this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000007_000001|Nothing of consequence hapened.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000008_000001|No great for news.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000009_000000|fifteen, sixteen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000009_000001|No news worth mentioning.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000010_000000|seventeen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000011_000000|eighteen, nineteen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000011_000001|Nothing very remarkable.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000012_000000|twenty.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000012_000001|Nothing strange to day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000013_000000|twenty one.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000001|They were opposed by the people who gathered on the point nearest the island.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000002|These finally got two vessels afloat, went to the island, drove the British off, burnt eighty tons of hay, and brought off many cattle.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000003|There was some severe fighting during the affair.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000004|mrs john Adams, writing to her husband, said: "You inquire who were at the engagement at Grape island.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000005|I may say with truth, all of Weymouth, Braintree, and Hingham, who were able to bear arms....
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000006|Both your brothers were there; your younger brother with his company, who gained honor by their good order that day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000014_000007|He was one of the first to venture on board a schooner, to land upon the island." mr Adams was then in the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia.]
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000015_000000|twenty two.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000015_000001|Nothing to day for news.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000016_000000|twenty three to twenty six.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000016_000001|Nothing remarkable.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000017_000000|the twenty seven.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000018_000002|They were fired on from the vessels, and quite severe skirmishing continued through the night.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000018_000004|They compelled the British to abandon their sloop, and the Americans took possession of it.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000018_000005|The British lost twenty killed and fifty wounded.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000018_000006|The Americans had none killed, and only four wounded.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000018_000007|They captured twelve swivels and four four pound cannon, besides clothing and money.]
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000019_000000|the twenty eight.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000021_000000|the twenty nine.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000021_000001|Nothing remarkable this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000022_000000|the thirty.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000024_000000|the thirty one.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000024_000001|Being election day we drank the Ladies health and success.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000025_000000|June the one.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000025_000001|Nothing remarkable hapened this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000026_000000|the two to eight.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000026_000001|Nothing remarkable hapened.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000027_000000|the nine.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000028_000001|He commanded the detachment that guarded Boston neck, for some time.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000029_000001|Their was a man Whiped for Stealing.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000030_000000|the eleven.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000032_000000|the twelve.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000032_000001|Nothing Strange this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000033_000000|the thirteen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000033_000001|Dito.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000034_000000|the fourteen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000037_000001|Nothing remarkable this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000038_000000|the sixteen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000038_000001|Nothing of consiquence this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000039_000000|the seventeen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000043_000000|the nineteen.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000043_000001|Nothing remarkable this day.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000044_000000|the twenty.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000044_000001|Dito.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000045_000000|the twenty one.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000046_000001|Dito.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000047_000000|the twenty three.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000048_000000|the twenty four.
train-other-500/1614/167305/1614_167305_000049_000001|At noon they commenced throwing bombshells into Roxbury, but the alert soldiers prevented damage from them, and saved the town.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000001_000000|twelve: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF isaiah
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000002_000001|And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000002_000004|And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000003_000000|This rod out of the stem of Jesse might be correctly applied to Christ, for Joseph was of the descendants of Jesse, the father of David; but as Christ found existence through the Spirit of God, He called Himself the Son of God.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000003_000001|If He had not done so, this description would refer to Him. Besides this, the events which he indicated as coming to pass in the days of that rod, if interpreted symbolically, were in part fulfilled in the day of Christ, but not all; and if not interpreted, then decidedly none of these signs happened.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000003_000002|For example, the leopard and the lamb, the lion and the calf, the child and the asp, are metaphors and symbols for various nations, peoples, antagonistic sects and hostile races, who are as opposite and inimical as the wolf and lamb.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000003_000003|We say that by the breath of the spirit of Christ they found concord and harmony, they were vivified, and they associated together.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000004_000001|In the same way, universal peace did not come into existence in the time of Christ-that is to say, between the antagonistic and hostile nations there was neither peace nor concord, disputes and disagreements did not cease, and reconciliation and sincerity did not appear.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000005_000003|Cooperation and union will be established, and finally war will be entirely suppressed.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000005_000005|The five continents of the world will form but one, the numerous nations will become one, the surface of the earth will become one land, and mankind will be a single community.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000005_000006|The relations between the countries-the mingling, union and friendship of the peoples and communities-will reach to such a degree that the human race will be like one family and kindred. The light of heavenly love will shine, and the darkness of enmity and hatred will be dispelled from the world.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000005_000007|Universal peace will raise its tent in the center of the earth, and the blessed Tree of Life will grow and spread to such an extent that it will overshadow the East and the West.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000005_000008|Strong and weak, rich and poor, antagonistic sects and hostile nations-which are like the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and kid, the lion and the calf-will act toward each other with the most complete love, friendship, justice and equity.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000005_000009|The world will be filled with science, with the knowledge of the reality of the mysteries of beings, and with the knowledge of God.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000006_000000|Now consider, in this great century which is the cycle of Baha'u'llah, what progress science and knowledge have made, how many secrets of existence have been discovered, how many great inventions have been brought to light and are day by day multiplying in number.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000006_000001|Before long, material science and learning, as well as the knowledge of God, will make such progress and will show forth such wonders that the beholders will be amazed.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000007_000000|Reflect also that in the short time since Baha'u'llah has appeared, people from all countries, nations and races have entered under the shadow of this Cause.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000007_000001|Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Hindus and Persians all associate together with the greatest friendship and love, as if indeed these people had been related and connected together, they and theirs, for a thousand years; for they are like father and child, mother and daughter, sister and brother.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000007_000002|This is one of the meanings of the companionship of the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and the kid, and the lion and the calf.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000008_000004|Universal peace and concord will be realized between all the nations, and that Incomparable Branch will gather together all Israel, signifying that in this cycle Israel will be gathered in the Holy Land, and that the Jewish people who are scattered to the East and West, South and North, will be assembled together.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000009_000000|Now see: these events did not take place in the Christian cycle, for the nations did not come under the One Standard which is the Divine Branch. But in this cycle of the Lord of Hosts all the nations and peoples will enter under the shadow of this Flag.
train-other-500/1618/220956/1618_220956_000009_000001|In the same way, Israel, scattered all over the world, was not reassembled in the Holy Land in the Christian cycle; but in the beginning of the cycle of Baha'u'llah this divine promise, as is clearly stated in all the Books of the Prophets, has begun to be manifest.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000002_000000|Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000002_000001|Thus write,
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000003_000000|Charles's friend
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000004_000000|Burns's poems
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000005_000000|the witch's malice
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000006_000000|This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and of the Oxford University Press.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000008_000000|the heel of Achilles
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000009_000000|the laws of Moses
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000010_000000|the temple of Isis
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000012_000001|In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000013_000000|Thus write,
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000017_000000|This is also the usage of the Government Printing Office and of the Oxford University Press.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000018_000000|In the names of business firms the last comma is omitted, as,
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000020_000000|three.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000020_000001|Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000022_000001|If the interruption to the flow of the sentence is but slight, the writer may safely omit the commas.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000022_000003|Such punctuation as
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000024_000000|or
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000026_000000|is indefensible.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000046_000000|Similar in principle to the enclosing of parenthetic expressions between commas is the setting off by commas of phrases or dependent clauses preceding or following the main clause of a sentence.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000050_000000|four.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000053_000000|Sentences of this type, isolated from their context, may seem to be in need of rewriting.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000053_000002|Used between independent clauses, it indicates only that a relation exists between them without defining that relation.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000053_000003|In the example above, the relation is that of cause and result.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000053_000004|The two sentences might be rewritten:
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000056_000000|Or the subordinate clauses might be replaced by phrases:
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000059_000000|But a writer may err by making his sentences too uniformly compact and periodic, and an occasional loose sentence prevents the style from becoming too formal and gives the reader a certain relief.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000059_000001|Consequently, loose sentences of the type first quoted are common in easy, unstudied writing.
train-other-500/1618/32399/1618_32399_000059_000002|But a writer should be careful not to construct too many of his sentences after this pattern (see Rule fourteen).
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000007_000001|Use the active voice.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000008_000000|The active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive:
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000009_000000|I shall always remember my first visit to Boston.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000010_000000|This is much better than
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000011_000000|My first visit to Boston will always be remembered by me.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000012_000000|The latter sentence is less direct, less bold, and less concise.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000012_000001|If the writer tries to make it more concise by omitting "by me,"
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000013_000000|My first visit to Boston will always be remembered,
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000014_000000|it becomes indefinite: is it the writer, or some person undisclosed, or the world at large, that will always remember this visit?
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000016_000000|The dramatists of the Restoration are little esteemed to day.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000017_000000|Modern readers have little esteem for the dramatists of the Restoration.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000018_000000|The first would be the right form in a paragraph on the dramatists of the Restoration; the second, in a paragraph on the tastes of modern readers.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000019_000000|As a rule, avoid making one passive depend directly upon another.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000020_000000|Gold was not allowed to be exported.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000021_000000|It was forbidden to export gold (The export of gold was prohibited).
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000022_000000|He has been proved to have been seen entering the building.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000023_000000|It has been proved that he was seen to enter the building.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000024_000000|In both the examples above, before correction, the word properly related to the second passive is made the subject of the first.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000025_000000|A common fault is to use as the subject of a passive construction a noun which expresses the entire action, leaving to the verb no function beyond that of completing the sentence.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000026_000000|A survey of this region was made in nineteen hundred.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000029_000000|The army was rapidly mobilized.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000030_000000|Confirmation of these reports cannot be obtained.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000031_000000|These reports cannot be confirmed.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000032_000000|Compare the sentence, "The export of gold was prohibited," in which the predicate "was prohibited" expresses something not implied in "export."
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000042_000001|Put statements in positive form.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000043_000000|Make definite assertions.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000043_000001|Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non committal language.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000044_000000|He was not very often on time.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000045_000000|He usually came late.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000046_000000|He did not think that studying Latin was much use.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000047_000000|He thought the study of Latin useless.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000048_000001|Shakespeare does not portray Katharine as a very admirable character, nor does Bianca remain long in memory as an important character in Shakespeare's works.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000049_000001|Katharine is disagreeable, Bianca insignificant.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000050_000000|The last example, before correction, is indefinite as well as negative. The corrected version, consequently, is simply a guess at the writer's intention.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000052_000000|not honest
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000054_000000|not important
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000055_000000|trifling
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000056_000000|did not remember
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000057_000000|forgot
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000058_000000|did not pay any attention to
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000059_000000|ignored
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000060_000000|did not have much confidence in
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000062_000000|The antithesis of negative and positive is strong:
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000063_000000|Not charity, but simple justice.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000064_000000|Not that I loved Caesar less, but Rome the more.
train-other-500/1618/32402/1618_32402_000066_000000|The sun never sets upon the British flag.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000000_000001|Avoid a succession of loose sentences:
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000001_000000|This rule refers especially to loose sentences of a particular type, those consisting of two co ordinate clauses, the second introduced by a conjunction or relative.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000001_000001|Although single sentences of this type may be unexceptionable (see under Rule four), a series soon becomes monotonous and tedious.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000003_000000|The third concert of the subscription series was given last evening, and a large audience was in attendance.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000003_000001|mr Edward Appleton was the soloist, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra furnished the instrumental music.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000003_000002|The former showed himself to be an artist of the first rank, while the latter proved itself fully deserving of its high reputation. The interest aroused by the series has been very gratifying to the Committee, and it is planned to give a similar series annually hereafter.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000003_000003|The fourth concert will be given on tuesday may tenth, when an equally attractive programme will be presented.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000005_000000|If the writer finds that he has written a series of sentences of the type described, he should recast enough of them to remove the monotony, replacing them by simple sentences, by sentences of two clauses joined by a semicolon, by periodic sentences of two clauses, by sentences, loose or periodic, of three clauses-whichever best represent the real relations of the thought.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000006_000000|fifteen.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000006_000001|Express co ordinate ideas in similar form.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000007_000000|This principle, that of parallel construction, requires that expressions of similar content and function should be outwardly similar.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000007_000001|The likeness of form enables the reader to recognize more readily the likeness of content and function.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000007_000002|Familiar instances from the Bible are the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the petitions of the Lord's Prayer.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000008_000000|The unskillful writer often violates this principle, from a mistaken belief that he should constantly vary the form of his expressions.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000008_000001|It is true that in repeating a statement in order to emphasize it he may have need to vary its form.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000008_000003|But apart from this, he should follow the principle of parallel construction.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000011_000000|The left hand version gives the impression that the writer is undecided or timid; he seems unable or afraid to choose one form of expression and hold to it.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000011_000001|The right-hand version shows that the writer has at least made his choice and abided by it.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000012_000000|By this principle, an article or a preposition applying to all the members of a series must either be used only before the first term or else be repeated before each term.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000018_000000|It was both a long ceremony and very tedious.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000019_000000|The ceremony was both long and tedious.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000022_000000|Either you must grant his request or incur his ill will.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000023_000000|You must either grant his request or incur his ill will.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000026_000000|See also the third example under Rule twelve and the last under Rule thirteen.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000027_000000|It may be asked, what if a writer needs to express a very large number of similar ideas, say twenty?
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000027_000001|Must he write twenty consecutive sentences of the same pattern?
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000028_000001|Keep related words together.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000029_000000|The position of the words in a sentence is the principal means of showing their relationship.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000029_000001|The writer must therefore, so far as possible, bring together the words, and groups of words, that are related in thought, and keep apart those which are not so related.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000030_000000|The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000035_000002|Nor does it hold in periodic sentences in which the interruption is a deliberately used means of creating suspense (see examples under Rule eighteen).
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000036_000000|The relative pronoun should come, as a rule, immediately after its antecedent.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000037_000000|There was a look in his eye that boded mischief.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000038_000000|In his eye was a look that boded mischief.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000042_000001|He became President in eighteen eighty nine.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000043_000000|If the antecedent consists of a group of words, the relative comes at the end of the group, unless this would cause ambiguity.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000047_000000|A proposal to amend the much debated Sherman Act.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000050_000000|A noun in apposition may come between antecedent and relative, because in such a combination no real ambiguity can arise.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000052_000000|Modifiers should come, if possible, next to the word they modify.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000052_000001|If several expressions modify the same word, they should be so arranged that no wrong relation is suggested.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000053_000000|All the members were not present.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000054_000000|Not all the members were present.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000055_000000|He only found two mistakes.
train-other-500/1618/32403/1618_32403_000056_000000|He found only two mistakes.
train-other-500/1621/141592/1621_141592_000002_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/1621/141592/1621_141592_000003_000000|EARLY OBSERVERS OF MARS.
train-other-500/1621/141592/1621_141592_000013_000000|"Scattered over the orange ochre groundwork of the continental regions of the planet, are any number of dark round spots.
train-other-500/1621/141592/1621_141592_000013_000003|What is more, there is apparently none that does not lie at the junction of several canals. Reversely, all the junctions appear to be provided with spots.
train-other-500/1621/141592/1621_141592_000015_000001|As the polar snows melt the adjacent seas appear to overflow and spread out as far as the tropics, and are often seen to assume a distinctly green colour.
train-other-500/1621/141593/1621_141593_000001_000001|This very interesting volume is fully illustrated with twenty plates, four of them coloured, and more than forty figures in the text, showing the great variety of details from which the larger general maps have been constructed.
train-other-500/1621/141593/1621_141593_000005_000000|This volume is therefore in the nature of a challenge, not so much to astronomers as to the educated world at large, to investigate the evidence for so portentous a conclusion.
train-other-500/1621/141593/1621_141593_000017_000003|Yet they all seem a little larger than the canals which enter them.
train-other-500/1621/141593/1621_141593_000018_000000|No one can read this book without admiration for the extreme perseverance in long continued and successful observation, the results of which are here recorded; and I myself accept unreservedly the substantial accuracy of the whole series.
train-other-500/1621/141593/1621_141593_000019_000000|But though I wish to do the fullest justice to mr Lowell's technical skill and long years of persevering work, which have brought to light the most complex and remarkable appearances that any of the heavenly bodies present to us, I am obliged absolutely to part company with him as regards the startling theory of artificial production which he thinks alone adequate to explain them.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000002_000001|I now proceed to discuss his more fundamental position as to the actual habitability of Mars by a highly organised and intellectual race of material organic beings.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000006_000000|In attempting to show that these essentials actually exist on Mars he is not very successful.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000006_000002|With regard to the last item-the water vapour-there are however many serious difficulties.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000006_000003|The water vapour of our atmosphere is derived from the enormous area of our seas, oceans, lakes, and rivers, as well as from the evaporation from heated lands and tropical forests of much of the moisture produced by frequent and abundant rains.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000006_000004|All these sources of supply are admittedly absent from Mars, which has no permanent bodies of water, no rain, and tropical regions which are almost entirely desert.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000009_000000|But there is a very weighty argument depending on the molecular theory of gases against the polar caps of Mars being composed of frozen water at all.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000009_000001|The mass and elastic force of the several gases is due to the greater or less rapidity of the vibratory motion of their molecules under identical conditions.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000011_000001|But the mass of Mars is only one ninth that of the earth; therefore, unless there are some special conditions that prevent its loss, this gas cannot be present in the atmosphere.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000011_000002|mr Lowell does not refer to this argument against his view, neither does he claim the evidence of spectroscopy in his favour.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000011_000005|Yet absolutely the only proof he gives that the caps are frozen water is the almost frivolous colour argument above referred to!
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000014_000000|It thus appears that spectroscopic observations are quite accordant with the calculations founded on the molecular theory of gases as to the absence of aqueous vapour, and therefore presumably of liquid water, from Mars.
train-other-500/1621/141595/1621_141595_000015_000001|mr Lowell however never takes this ground, but bases his whole theory on the fundamental identity of the substance of the bodies of living organisms wherever they may exist in the solar system.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000001_000000|SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000002_000001|It may therefore be well to sum up the main points of the arguments against his view, introducing a few other facts and considerations which greatly strengthen my argument.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000003_000002|This idea has coloured or governed all his writings on the subject.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000003_000003|The innumerable difficulties which it raises have been either ignored, or brushed aside on the flimsiest evidence.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000003_000004|As examples, he never even discusses the totally inadequate water supply for such worldwide irrigation, or the extreme irrationality of constructing so vast a canal system the waste from which, by evaporation, when exposed to such desert conditions as he himself describes, would use up ten times the probable supply.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000004_000001|But he never considers the difficulties this implies.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000004_000002|Everywhere these canals run for thousands of miles across waterless deserts, forming a system and indicating a purpose, the wonderful perfection of which he is never tired of dwelling upon (but which I myself can nowhere perceive).
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000005_000004|This view I have explained in some detail in the preceding chapter.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000007_000001|Here again is a dilemma which is hard to overcome.
train-other-500/1621/141599/1621_141599_000009_000002|This is about a degree for each four hundred feet, while the general fall for isolated mountains is about one degree in three hundred forty feet according to Humboldt, who notes the above difference between the rate of cooling for altitude of the plains-or more usually sheltered valleys in which the towns are situated-and the exposed mountain sides.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000005_000000|RAGGEDY ANN AND THE WASHING
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000006_000001|How could you!"
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000007_000000|Mamma looked out of the window and saw Marcella run up to Dinah and take something out of her hand and then put her head in her arm and commence crying.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000008_000000|"What is the trouble, Dear?" Mamma asked, as she came out the door and knelt beside the little figure shaking with sobs.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000009_000000|Marcella held out Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000010_000000|Mamma had to smile in spite of her sympathy, for Raggedy Ann looked ridiculous!
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000011_000000|Dinah's big eyes rolled out in a troubled manner, for Marcella had snatched Raggedy Ann from Dinah's hand as she cried, "Why, Dinah!
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000011_000001|How could you?"
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000012_000000|Dinah could not quite understand and, as she dearly loved Marcella, she was troubled.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000013_000000|Raggedy Ann was not in the least downhearted and while she felt she must look very funny she continued to smile, but with a more expansive smile than ever before.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000014_000000|Raggedy Ann knew just how it all happened and her remaining shoe button eye twinkled.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000015_000000|She remembered that morning when Marcella came to the nursery to take the nighties from the dolls and dress them she had been cross.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000016_000000|Raggedy Ann thought at the time "Perhaps she had climbed out of bed backwards!" For Marcella complained to each doll as she dressed them.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000017_000000|And when it came Raggedy's time to be dressed, Marcella was very cross for she had scratched her finger on a pin when dressing the French doll.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000019_000000|Now it happened Raggedy lit in the clothes hamper and there she lay all doubled up in a knot.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000021_000000|Then Dinah carried the hamper out in back of the house where she did the washing.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000022_000000|Dinah dumped all the clothes into the boiler and poured water on them.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000023_000000|The boiler was then placed upon the stove.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000024_000000|When the water began to get warm, Raggedy Ann wiggled around and climbed up amongst the clothes to the top of the boiler to peek out.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000024_000001|There was too much steam and she could see nothing.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000024_000002|For that matter, Dinah could not see Raggedy Ann, either, on account of the steam.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000025_000000|So Dinah, using an old broom handle, stirred the clothes in the boiler and the clothes and Raggedy Ann were stirred and whirled around until all were thoroughly boiled.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000026_000000|When Dinah took the clothes a piece at a time from the boiler and scrubbed them, she finally came upon Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000027_000000|Now Dinah did not know but that Marcella had placed Raggedy in the clothes hamper to be washed, so she soaped Raggedy well and scrubbed her up and down over the rough wash board.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000029_000000|Two buttons from the back of Raggedy's dress came off and one of Raggedy Ann's shoe button eyes was loosened as Dinah gave her face a final scrub.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000031_000000|Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank. It was hard work getting Raggedy through the wringer, but Dinah was very strong.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000031_000001|And of course it happened!
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000033_000000|"Why, Dinah!
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000033_000001|How could you!" Marcella had sobbed as she snatched the flattened Raggedy Ann from the bewildered Dinah's hand.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000034_000000|Mamma patted Marcella's hand and soon coaxed her to quit sobbing.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000035_000000|When Dinah explained that the first she knew of Raggedy being in the wash was when she took her from the boiler, Marcella began crying again.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000036_000000|"It was all my fault, Mamma!" she cried.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000036_000002|Oh dear!
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000036_000003|Oh dear!" and she hugged Raggedy Ann tight.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000037_000000|Mamma did not tell Marcella that she had been cross and naughty for she knew Marcella felt very sorry.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000037_000001|Instead Mamma put her arms around her and said,
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000038_000000|"Just see how Raggedy Ann takes it!
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000038_000001|She doesn't seem to be unhappy!"
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000039_000000|And when Marcella brushed her tears away and looked at Raggedy Ann, flat as a pancake and with a cheery smile upon her painted face, she had to laugh.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000039_000001|And Mamma and Dinah had to laugh, too, for Raggedy Ann's smile was almost twice as broad as it had been before.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000040_000000|"Just let me hang Miss Raggedy on the line in the bright sunshine for half an hour," said Dinah, "and you won't know her when she comes off!"
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000041_000000|So Raggedy Ann was pinned to the clothes line, out in the bright sunshine, where she swayed and twisted in the breeze and listened to the chatter of the robins in a nearby tree.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000043_000000|Every once in a while Dinah went out and rolled and patted Raggedy until her cotton stuffing was soft and dry and fluffy and her head and arms and legs were nice and round again.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000044_000000|Then she took Raggedy Ann into the house and showed Marcella and Mamma how clean and sweet she was.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000045_000000|Marcella took Raggedy Ann right up to the nursery and told all the dolls just what had happened and how sorry she was that she had been so cross and peevish when she dressed them.
train-other-500/1633/141580/1633_141580_000045_000001|And while the dolls said never a word they looked at their little mistress with love in their eyes as she sat in the little red rocking chair and held Raggedy Ann tightly in her arms.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000003_000000|RAGGEDY ANN'S TRIP ON THE RIVER
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000004_000001|Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier, the Indian doll and all the others-even the four little penny dolls in the spool box.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000004_000002|After a lovely tea party with ginger cookies and milk, of course the dolls were very sleepy, at least Marcella thought so, so she took all except Raggedy Ann into the house and put them to bed for the afternoon nap. Then Marcella told Raggedy Ann to stay there and watch the things.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000005_000000|As there was nothing else to do, Raggedy Ann waited for Marcella to return.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000005_000001|And as she watched the little ants eating cookie crumbs Marcella had thrown to them, she heard all of a sudden the patter of puppy feet behind her.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000005_000002|It was Fido.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000006_000000|The puppy dog ran up to Raggedy Ann and twisted his head about as he looked at her.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000006_000001|Then he put his front feet out and barked in Raggedy Ann's face.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000006_000002|Raggedy Ann tried to look very stern, but she could not hide the broad smile painted on her face.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000007_000000|"Oh, you want to play, do you?" the puppy dog barked, as he jumped at Raggedy Ann and then jumped back again.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000008_000000|The more Raggedy Ann smiled, the livelier Fido's antics became, until finally he caught the end of her dress and dragged her about.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000009_000000|This was great fun for the puppy dog, but Raggedy Ann did not enjoy it. She kicked and twisted as much as she could, but the puppy dog thought Raggedy was playing.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000010_000000|He ran out the garden gate and down the path across the meadow, every once in a while stopping and pretending he was very angry.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000010_000001|When he pretended this, Fido would give Raggedy Ann a great shaking, making her yarn head hit the ground "ratty tat tat." Then he would give his head a toss and send Raggedy Ann high in the air where she would turn over two or three times before she reached the ground.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000011_000000|By this time, she had lost her apron and now some of her yarn hair was coming loose.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000012_000000|As Fido neared the brook, another puppy dog came running across the foot bridge to meet him.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000012_000001|"What have you there, Fido?" said the new puppy dog as he bounced up to Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000013_000000|"This is Raggedy Ann," answered Fido.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000013_000001|"She and I are having a lovely time playing."
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000014_000001|But of course she didn't.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000014_000002|However, the game didn't last much longer.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000014_000003|As Raggedy Ann hit the ground the new puppy dog caught her dress and ran with her across the bridge, Fido barking close behind him.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000015_000001|As they pulled and tugged and flopped Raggedy Ann about, somehow she fell over the side of the bridge into the water.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000016_000000|The puppy dogs were surprised, and Fido was very sorry indeed, for he remembered how good Raggedy Ann had been to him and how she had rescued him from the dog pound.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000016_000001|But the current carried Raggedy Ann right along and all Fido could do was to run along the bank and bark.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000019_000000|Now, you would have thought Raggedy Ann would sink, but no, she floated nicely, for she was stuffed with clean white cotton and the water didn't soak through very quickly.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000020_000000|After a while, the strange puppy and Fido grew tired of running along the bank and the strange puppy scampered home over the meadow, with his tail carried gaily over his back as if he had nothing to be ashamed of. But Fido walked home very sorry indeed.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000020_000001|His little heart was broken to think that he had caused Raggedy Ann to be drowned.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000021_000000|But Raggedy Ann didn't drown-not a bit of it.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000021_000001|In fact, she even went to sleep on the brook, for the motion of the current was very soothing as it carried her along-just like being rocked by Marcella.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000022_000000|So, sleeping peacefully, Raggedy Ann drifted along with the current until she came to a pool where she lodged against a large stone.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000023_000000|Raggedy Ann tried to climb upon the stone, but by this time the water had thoroughly soaked through Raggedy Ann's nice, clean, white cotton stuffing and she was so heavy she could not climb.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000024_000000|So there she had to stay until Marcella and Daddy came along and found her.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000025_000000|You see, they had been looking for her.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000025_000001|They had found pieces of her apron all along the path and across the meadow where Fido and the strange puppy dog had shaken them from Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000025_000002|So they followed the brook until they found her.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000026_000000|When Daddy fished Raggedy Ann from the water, Marcella hugged her so tightly to her breast the water ran from Raggedy Ann and dripped all over Marcella's apron.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000026_000001|But Marcella was so glad to find Raggedy Ann again she didn't mind it a bit.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000028_000000|When Raggedy Ann was thoroughly dry, Mamma said she thought the cake must be finished and she took from the oven a lovely chocolate cake and gave Marcella a large piece to have another tea party with.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000029_000000|That night when all the house was asleep, Raggedy Ann raised up in bed and said to the dolls who were still awake, "I am so happy I do not feel a bit sleepy.
train-other-500/1633/141584/1633_141584_000029_000001|Do you know, I believe the water soaked me so thoroughly my candy heart must have melted and filled my whole body, and I do not feel the least bit angry with Fido for playing with me so roughly!"
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000000_000000|When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office and explained to them his intentions and wishes.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000000_000001|He told them that steps would be taken immediately to free his serfs-and that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000001_000000|The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre's intentions, but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000002_000000|Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him an allowance of ten thousand rubles.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000002_000001|He had a dim perception of the following budget:
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000003_000003|So the first task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or inclination-practical business.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000004_000000|He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000004_000001|But he felt that this did not forward matters at all.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000004_000002|He felt that these consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with them or make them move.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000004_000003|On the one hand, the chief steward put the state of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, to which Pierre did not agree.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000004_000004|On the other hand, Pierre demanded that steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000005_000000|The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were connected with such complicated measures-the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so on- that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied:
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000006_000000|"Yes, yes, do so."
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000007_000000|Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000007_000001|The steward for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to himself.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000008_000002|Again whole days, weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him no time for reflection, as in Petersburg.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000008_000003|Instead of the new life he had hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000009_000000|Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two-morality and the love of death.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000009_000001|He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled another of the precepts-that of reforming the human race-and had other virtues-love of his neighbor, and especially generosity.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000010_000000|In the spring of eighteen o seven he decided to return to Petersburg.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000010_000001|On the way he intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000011_000002|Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000000|The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on Pierre.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000001|The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly grateful for the benefits conferred on them.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000003|In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor of peter and Paul, his patron saints.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000004|In another place the women with infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard work.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000005|On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet him surrounded by children whom, by the count's generosity, he was instructing in reading, writing, and religion.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000006|On all his estates Pierre saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon to be opened.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000012_000007|Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full skirted blue coats.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000013_000001|He did not know that since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they did still harder work on their own land.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000013_000003|He did not know that the brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000013_000005|And so Pierre was delighted with his visit to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his "brother instructor" as he called the Grand Master.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000014_000000|"How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good," thought Pierre, "and how little attention we pay to it!"
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000015_000000|He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at receiving it.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000015_000001|This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do for these simple, kindly people.
train-other-500/1633/150458/1633_150458_000016_000000|The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly through the naive and intelligent count and played with him as with a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000000_000000|The room to which she had fled was lit only by a single candle.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000000_000001|She lay back on a great sofa, her dress undone, holding one hand on her heart, and letting the other hang by her side.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000000_000002|On the table was a basin half full of water, and the water was stained with streaks of blood.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000001_000000|Very pale, her mouth half open, Marguerite tried to recover breath.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000001_000001|Now and again her bosom was raised by a long sigh, which seemed to relieve her a little, and for a few seconds she would seem to be quite comfortable.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000002_000000|I went up to her; she made no movement, and I sat down and took the hand which was lying on the sofa.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000003_000000|"Ah! it is you," she said, with a smile.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000004_000000|I must have looked greatly agitated, for she added:
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000006_000000|"No, but you: do you still suffer?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000007_000000|"Very little;" and she wiped off with her handkerchief the tears which the coughing had brought to her eyes; "I am used to it now."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000008_000001|"I wish I were a friend, a relation of yours, that I might keep you from doing yourself harm like this."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000010_000000|Thereupon she got up, and, taking the candle, put it on the mantel piece and looked at herself in the glass.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000011_000001|"Come, let us go back to supper.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000011_000002|Are you coming?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000012_000000|I sat still and did not move.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000013_000000|She saw how deeply I had been affected by the whole scene, and, coming up to me, held out her hand, saying:
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000014_000000|"Come now, let us go."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000015_000000|I took her hand, raised it to my lips, and in spite of myself two tears fell upon it.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000016_000000|"Why, what a child you are!" she said, sitting down by my side again. "You are crying!
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000016_000001|What is the matter?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000017_000000|"I must seem very silly to you, but I am frightfully troubled by what I have just seen."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000018_000000|"You are very good!
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000018_000001|What would you have of me?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000018_000002|I can not sleep.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000018_000003|I must amuse myself a little.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000018_000004|And then, girls like me, what does it matter, one more or less?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000018_000005|The doctors tell me that the blood I spit up comes from my throat; I pretend to believe them; it is all I can do for them."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000019_000000|"Listen, Marguerite," I said, unable to contain myself any longer; "I do not know what influence you are going to have over my life, but at this present moment there is no one, not even my sister, in whom I feel the interest which I feel in you.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000019_000001|It has been just the same ever since I saw you.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000019_000002|Well, for Heaven's sake, take care of yourself, and do not live as you are living now."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000020_000000|"If I took care of myself I should die.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000020_000001|All that supports me is the feverish life I lead.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000020_000002|Then, as for taking care of oneself, that is all very well for women with families and friends; as for us, from the moment we can no longer serve the vanity or the pleasure of our lovers, they leave us, and long nights follow long days.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000020_000003|I know it.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000020_000004|I was in bed for two months, and after three weeks no one came to see me."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000021_000000|"It is true I am nothing to you," I went on, "but if you will let me, I will look after you like a brother, I will never leave your side, and I will cure you.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000021_000001|Then, when you are strong again, you can go back to the life you are leading, if you choose; but I am sure you will come to prefer a quiet life, which will make you happier and keep your beauty unspoiled."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000022_000000|"You think like that to night because the wine has made you sad, but you would never have the patience that you pretend to."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000023_000000|"Permit me to say, Marguerite, that you were ill for two months, and that for two months I came to ask after you every day."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000024_000000|"It is true, but why did you not come up?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000026_000000|"Need you have been so particular with a girl like me?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000027_000000|"One must always be particular with a woman; it is what I feel, at least."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000028_000000|"So you would look after me?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000029_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000030_000000|"You would stay by me all day?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000031_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000032_000000|"And even all night?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000033_000000|"As long as I did not weary you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000034_000000|"And what do you call that?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000035_000000|"Devotion."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000036_000000|"And what does this devotion come from?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000037_000000|"The irresistible sympathy which I have for you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000038_000000|"So you are in love with me?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000038_000001|Say it straight out, it is much more simple."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000039_000000|"It is possible; but if I am to say it to you one day, it is not to day."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000040_000000|"You will do better never to say it."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000041_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000042_000000|"Because only one of two things can come of it."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000043_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000044_000000|"Either I shall not accept: then you will have a grudge against me; or I shall accept: then you will have a sorry mistress; a woman who is nervous, ill, sad, or gay with a gaiety sadder than grief, a woman who spits blood and spends a hundred thousand francs a year.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000044_000001|That is all very well for a rich old man like the duke, but it is very bad for a young man like you, and the proof of it is that all the young lovers I have had have very soon left me." I did not answer; I listened.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000044_000002|This frankness, which was almost a kind of confession, the sad life, of which I caught some glimpse through the golden veil which covered it, and whose reality the poor girl sought to escape in dissipation, drink, and wakefulness, impressed me so deeply that I could not utter a single word.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000045_000000|"Come," continued Marguerite, "we are talking mere childishness.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000045_000001|Give me your arm and let us go back to the dining room.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000045_000002|They won't know what we mean by our absence."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000046_000000|"Go in, if you like, but allow me to stay here."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000047_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000048_000000|"Because your mirth hurts me."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000049_000000|"Well, I will be sad."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000053_000001|D., 'You must be very rich, then!' Why, you don't know that I spend six or seven thousand francs a month, and that I could not live without it; you don't know, my poor friend, that I should ruin you in no time, and that your family would cast you off if you were to live with a woman like me. Let us be friends, good friends, but no more.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000053_000002|Come and see me, we will laugh and talk, but don't exaggerate what I am worth, for I am worth very little.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000053_000003|You have a good heart, you want some one to love you, you are too young and too sensitive to live in a world like mine.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000053_000004|Take a married woman.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000053_000005|You see, I speak to you frankly, like a friend."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000054_000001|I recognised the hand of Gaston.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000056_000000|"Good, good!
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000057_000000|"Well, it is agreed," continued Marguerite, when we were alone, "you won't fall in love with me?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000058_000000|"I will go away."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000059_000000|"So much as that?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000060_000000|I had gone too far to draw back; and I was really carried away.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000060_000001|This mingling of gaiety, sadness, candour, prostitution, her very malady, which no doubt developed in her a sensitiveness to impressions, as well as an irritability of nerves, all this made it clear to me that if from the very beginning I did not completely dominate her light and forgetful nature, she was lost to me.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000061_000000|"Come, now, do you seriously mean what you say?" she said.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000062_000000|"Seriously."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000063_000000|"But why didn't you say it to me sooner?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000064_000000|"When could I have said it?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000065_000000|"The day after you had been introduced to me at the Opera Comique."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000066_000000|"I thought you would have received me very badly if I had come to see you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000067_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000068_000000|"Because I had behaved so stupidly."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000069_000000|"That's true.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000069_000001|And yet you were already in love with me."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000070_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000071_000000|"And that didn't hinder you from going to bed and sleeping quite comfortably.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000071_000001|One knows what that sort of love means."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000072_000000|"There you are mistaken.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000072_000001|Do you know what I did that evening, after the Opera Comique?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000073_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000074_000000|"I waited for you at the door of the Cafe Anglais.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000074_000001|I followed the carriage in which you and your three friends were, and when I saw you were the only one to get down, and that you went in alone, I was very happy."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000075_000000|Marguerite began to laugh.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000076_000000|"What are you laughing at?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000077_000000|"Nothing."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000078_000000|"Tell me, I beg of you, or I shall think you are still laughing at me."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000079_000000|"You won't be cross?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000080_000000|"What right have I to be cross?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000081_000000|"Well, there was a sufficient reason why I went in alone."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000082_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000083_000000|"Some one was waiting for me here."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000084_000000|If she had thrust a knife into me she would not have hurt me more.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000084_000001|I rose, and holding out my hand, "Goodbye," said i
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000085_000000|"I knew you would be cross," she said; "men are frantic to know what is certain to give them pain."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000086_000000|"But I assure you," I added coldly, as if wishing to prove how completely I was cured of my passion, "I assure you that I am not cross. It was quite natural that some one should be waiting for you, just as it is quite natural that I should go from here at three in the morning."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000087_000000|"Have you, too, some one waiting for you?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000088_000000|"No, but I must go."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000089_000000|"Good bye, then."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000090_000000|"You send me away?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000091_000000|"Not the least in the world."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000092_000000|"Why are you so unkind to me?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000093_000000|"How have I been unkind to you?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000094_000000|"In telling me that some one was waiting for you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000096_000000|"One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it alone, one can make somebody so happy."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000097_000000|"But what do you think I am?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000097_000001|I am neither maid nor duchess.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000097_000003|If you make scenes of jealousy like this before, what will it be after, if that after should ever exist?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000097_000004|I never met any one like you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000098_000000|"That is because no one has ever loved you as I love you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000100_000000|"As much as it is possible to love, I think."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000101_000000|"And that has lasted since-?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000102_000000|"Since the day I saw you go into Susse's, three years ago.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000103_000000|"Do you know, that is tremendously fine?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000104_000000|"Love me a little," I said, my heart beating so that I could hardly speak; for, in spite of the half mocking smiles with which she had accompanied the whole conversation, it seemed to me that Marguerite began to share my agitation, and that the hour so long awaited was drawing near.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000105_000000|"Well, but the duke?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000106_000000|"What duke?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000107_000000|"My jealous old duke."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000108_000000|"He will know nothing."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000109_000000|"And if he should?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000110_000000|"He would forgive you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000111_000000|"Ah, no, he would leave me, and what would become of me?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000112_000000|"You risk that for some one else."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000113_000000|"How do you know?" "By the order you gave not to admit any one to night." "It is true; but that is a serious friend."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000114_000000|"For whom you care nothing, as you have shut your door against him at such an hour."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000115_000000|"It is not for you to reproach me, since it was in order to receive you, you and your friend."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000116_000000|Little by little I had drawn nearer to Marguerite.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000116_000001|I had put my arms about her waist, and I felt her supple body weigh lightly on my clasped hands.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000117_000000|"If you knew how much I love you!" I said in a low voice.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000117_000001|"Really true?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000118_000000|"I swear it."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000119_000000|"Well, if you will promise to do everything I tell you, without a word, without an opinion, without a question, perhaps I will say yes."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000120_000000|"I will do everything that you wish!"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000121_000000|"But I forewarn you I must be free to do as I please, without giving you the slightest details what I do.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000121_000001|I have long wished for a young lover, who should be young and not self willed, loving without distrust, loved without claiming the right to it.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000121_000002|I have never found one.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000121_000003|Men, instead of being satisfied in obtaining for a long time what they scarcely hoped to obtain once, exact from their mistresses a full account of the present, the past, and even the future.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000121_000004|As they get accustomed to her, they want to rule her, and the more one gives them the more exacting they become.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000121_000005|If I decide now on taking a new lover, he must have three very rare qualities: he must be confiding, submissive, and discreet."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000122_000000|"Well, I will be all that you wish."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000123_000000|"We shall see."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000124_000000|"When shall we see?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000125_000000|"Later on."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000126_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000127_000000|"Because," said Marguerite, releasing herself from my arms, and, taking from a great bunch of red camellias a single camellia, she placed it in my buttonhole, "because one can not always carry out agreements the day they are signed."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000128_000000|"And when shall I see you again?" I said, clasping her in my arms.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000129_000000|"When this camellia changes colour."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000130_000000|"When will it change colour?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000131_000000|"To morrow night between eleven and twelve.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000131_000001|Are you satisfied?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000132_000000|"Need you ask me?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000133_000000|"Not a word of this either to your friend or to Prudence, or to anybody whatever."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000134_000000|"I promise."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000135_000000|"Now, kiss me, and we will go back to the dining room."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000136_000000|She held up her lips to me, smoothed her hair again, and we went out of the room, she singing, and I almost beside myself.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000137_000000|In the next room she stopped for a moment and said to me in a low voice:
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000138_000000|"It must seem strange to you that I am ready to take you at a moment's notice.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000138_000001|Shall I tell you why?
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000138_000002|It is," she continued, taking my hand and placing it against her heart so that I could feel how rapidly and violently it palpitated; "it is because I shall not live as long as others, and I have promised myself to live more quickly."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000139_000000|"Don't speak to me like that, I entreat you."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000140_000000|"Oh, make yourself easy," she continued, laughing; "however short a time I have to live, I shall live longer than you will love me!"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000141_000000|And she went singing into the dining room.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000144_000000|"Poor thing, I am killing her!
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000144_000001|And now gentlemen, it is time to go."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000145_000001|Marguerite shook hands with me and said good bye.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000145_000002|Prudence remained behind.
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000146_000000|"Well," said Gaston, when we were in the street, "what do you think of Marguerite?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000147_000000|"She is an angel, and I am madly in love with her." "So I guessed; did you tell her so?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000148_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000150_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000151_000000|"She is not like Prudence."
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000152_000000|"Did she promise to?"
train-other-500/1633/180292/1633_180292_000153_000000|"Better still, my dear fellow.
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000000_000000|Harnessed men, like beasts of burden, drew it to the river side
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000001_000000|Haunts you like the memory of some former happiness
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000003_000000|He bent upon the lightning page like some rapt poet o'er his rhyme
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000004_000000|He bolted down the stairs like a hare
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000005_000000|He clatters like a windmill
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000006_000000|He danced like a man in a swarm of hornets
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000007_000000|He fell as falls some forest lion, fighting well
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000008_000000|He fell down on my threshold like a wounded stag
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000010_000000|He lay as straight as a mummy
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000012_000000|He lived as modestly as a hermit
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000014_000000|He looked with the bland, expressionless stare of an overgrown baby
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000017_000000|He sat down quaking like a jelly
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000018_000000|He saw disaster like a ghostly figure following her
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000020_000000|He spoke with a uniformity of emphasis that made his words stand out like the raised type for the blind
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000022_000000|He sweeps the field of battle like a monsoon
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000023_000000|He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000024_000000|He turned on me like a thunder cloud
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000026_000000|He wandered restlessly through the house, like a prowling animal
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000027_000000|He was as splendidly serious as a reformer
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000028_000000|He was as steady as a clock
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000031_000000|He was so weak now, like a shrunk cedar white with the hoar frost
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000033_000000|Heavy was my heart as stone
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000034_000000|Heeled like an avalanche to leeward
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000035_000000|Her arms like slumber o'er my shoulders crept
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000036_000000|Her banners like a thousand sunsets glow
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000038_000000|Her beauty fervent as a fiery moon
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000039_000000|Her breath is like a cloud
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000040_000000|Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000042_000000|Her dusky cheek would burn like a poppy
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000043_000000|Her expression changed with the rapidity of a kaleidoscope
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000045_000000|Her eyes as stars of twilight fair
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000048_000000|Her face changed with each turn of their talk, like a wheat field under a summer breeze
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000049_000000|Her face collapsed as if it were a pricked balloon
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000050_000000|Her face was as solemn as a mask
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000051_000000|Her face was dull as lead
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000053_000000|Her face was passionless, like those by sculptor graved for niches in a temple
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000054_000000|Her hair dropped on her pallid cheeks, like sea weed on a clam
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000056_000000|Her hair shone like a nimbus
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000057_000000|Her hair was like a coronet
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000058_000000|Her hands are white as the virgin rose that she wore on her wedding day
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000059_000000|Her hands like moonlight brush the keys
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000060_000000|Her head dropped into her hands like a storm broken flower
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000061_000000|Her heart has grown icy as a fountain in the fall
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000062_000000|Her holy love that like a vestal flame had burned
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000063_000000|Her impulse came and went like fireflies in the dusk
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000065_000000|Her laugh is like a rainbow tinted spray
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000066_000000|Her lips are like two budded roses
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000067_000000|Her lips like a lovely song that ripples as it flows
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000068_000000|Her lips like twilight water
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000070_000000|Her long black hair danced round her like a snake
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000071_000000|Her mouth as sweet as a ripe fig
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000072_000000|Her neck is like a stately tower
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000075_000000|Her skin was as the bark of birches
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000076_000000|Her sweetness halting like a tardy May
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000077_000000|Her two white hands like swans on a frozen lake
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000078_000000|Her voice cut like a knife
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000079_000000|Her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000080_000000|Her voice was like the voice the stars had when they sang together
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000082_000000|Her words sounding like wavelets on a summer shore
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000083_000000|Herding his thoughts as a collie dog herds sheep
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000084_000000|Here and there a solitary volume greeted him like a friend in a crowd of strange faces
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000085_000000|Here in statue like repose, an old wrinkled mountain rose
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000087_000000|His bashfulness melted like a spring frost
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000088_000000|His brow bent like a cliff o'er his thoughts
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000090_000000|His eyes blazed like deep forests
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000091_000000|His eyes glowed like blue coals
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000092_000000|His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like moldy hay
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000095_000000|His face was often lit up by a smile like pale wintry sunshine
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000096_000000|His fingers were knotted like a cord
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000097_000000|His formal kiss fell chill as a flake of snow on the cheek
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000099_000000|His glorious moments were strung like pearls upon a string
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000100_000000|His indifference fell from him like a garment
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000102_000000|His mind murmurs like a harp among the trees
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000103_000000|His mind was like a lonely wild
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000104_000000|His mind was like a summer sky
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000105_000000|His nerves thrilled like throbbing violins
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000107_000000|His revenge descends perfect, sudden, like a curse from heaven
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000108_000000|His spirits sank like a stone
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000109_000000|His talk is like an incessant play of fireworks
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000110_000000|His voice is as the thin faint song when the wind wearily sighs in the grass
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000111_000000|His voice rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000112_000000|His voice was like the clap of thunder which interrupts the warbling birds among the leaves
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000113_000000|His whole soul wavered and shook like a wind swept leaf
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000115_000000|Hopeful as the break of day
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000117_000000|How like a winter hath my absence been
train-other-500/1636/130501/1636_130501_000118_000000|How like the sky she bends over her child
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000002_000000|Indeed, can anyone tell me
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000003_000000|Indeed, I am not convinced
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000004_000000|Indeed, I can not do better
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000005_000000|Indeed, I have heard it whispered
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000006_000000|Indeed, I may fairly say
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000007_000000|Indeed, it will generally be found
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000008_000000|Indeed we know
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000009_000000|Instances abound
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000010_000000|Is it logically consistent
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000011_000000|Is it not legitimate to recognize
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000012_000000|Is it not marvelous
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000014_000000|Is it not quite possible
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000016_000000|Is it not universally recognized
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000017_000000|Is it not wise to argue
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000018_000000|Is it possible, can it be believed
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000019_000000|Is it, then, any wonder
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000021_000000|Is there any evidence here
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000022_000000|Is there any language of reproach
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000023_000000|Is there any possibility of mistaking
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000024_000000|Is there any reason in the world
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000025_000000|It affords me gratification
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000026_000000|It also pleases me very much
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000027_000000|It amounts to this
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000028_000000|It appears from what has been said
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000029_000000|It appears to me, on the contrary
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000030_000000|It can rightly be said
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000031_000000|It certainly follows, then
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000032_000000|It comes to this
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000033_000000|It could not be otherwise
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000034_000000|It does not necessarily follow
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000035_000000|It exhibits a state of mind
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000036_000000|It follows as a matter of course
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000037_000000|It follows inevitably
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000038_000000|It gives us an exalted conception
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000039_000000|It grieves me to relate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000040_000000|It hardly fits the character
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000041_000000|It has at all times been a just reproach
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000042_000000|It has been a very great pleasure for me
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000043_000000|It has been generally assumed
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000044_000000|It has been justly objected
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000045_000000|It has been my privilege
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000046_000000|It has been suggested fancifully
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000047_000000|It has been well said
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000048_000000|It has ever been my ambition
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000049_000000|It has struck me very forcibly
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000051_000000|It is a common error
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000052_000000|It is a curious trait
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000053_000000|It is a fact well known
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000055_000000|It is a familiar charge against
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000057_000000|It is a great pleasure to me
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000058_000000|It is a living truth
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000059_000000|It is a matter of absorbing interest
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000060_000000|It is a matter of amusement
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000061_000000|It is a matter of fact
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000062_000000|It is a matter of just pride
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000063_000000|It is a melancholy story
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000065_000000|It is a mischievous notion
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000066_000000|It is a mistake to suppose
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000067_000000|It is a most extraordinary thing
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000068_000000|It is a most pertinent question
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000069_000000|It is a noble thing
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000070_000000|It is a peculiar pleasure to me
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000071_000000|It is a perversion of terms
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000072_000000|It is a pleasing peculiarity
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000073_000000|It is a popular idea
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000074_000000|It is a rare privilege
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000075_000000|It is a recognized principle
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000076_000000|It is a remarkable and striking fact
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000077_000000|It is a strange fact
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000079_000000|It is a theme too familiar
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000080_000000|It is a thing commonly said
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000081_000000|It is a touching reflection
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000082_000000|It is a true saying
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000083_000000|It is a very significant fact
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000084_000000|It is a vision which still inspires us
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000085_000000|It is a wholesome symptom
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000086_000000|It is, all things considered, a fact
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000087_000000|It is all very fine to think
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000088_000000|It is all very well to say
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000089_000000|It is almost proverbial
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000090_000000|It is also possible
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000091_000000|It is also probably true
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000092_000000|It is always pleasant to respond
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000093_000000|It is amazing how little
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000094_000000|It is an easy matter
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000096_000000|It is an established rule
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000097_000000|It is an incredible thing
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000098_000000|It is an interesting fact
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000099_000000|It is an unforgivable offense
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000101_000000|It is appropriate that we should celebrate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000102_000000|It is asserted
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000103_000000|It is assumed as an axiom
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000104_000000|It is at once inconsistent
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000105_000000|It is but fair to say
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000106_000000|It is but too true
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000107_000000|It is by no means my design
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000109_000000|It is certainly remarkable
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000111_000000|It is commonly assumed
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000112_000000|It is comparatively easy
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000113_000000|It is curious sophistry
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000114_000000|It is curious to observe
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000115_000000|It is desirable for us
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000116_000000|It is difficult for me to respond fitly
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000117_000000|It is difficult to avoid saying
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000118_000000|It is difficult to describe
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000119_000000|It is difficult to overstate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000120_000000|It is difficult to put a limit
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000121_000000|It is difficult to surmise
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000122_000000|It is doubtful whether
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000124_000000|It is easy to instance cases
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000125_000000|It is easy to understand
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000126_000000|It is eminently proper
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000127_000000|It is every man's duty to think
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000128_000000|It is evident that the answer to this
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000129_000000|It is evidently supposed by many people
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000130_000000|It is exceedingly gratifying to hear
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000131_000000|It is exceedingly unfortunate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000132_000000|It is fair that you should hear
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000135_000000|It is fatal to suppose
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000136_000000|It is fitting
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000137_000000|It is for me to relate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000138_000000|It is for others to illustrate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000139_000000|It is for this reason
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000140_000000|It is for us to ask
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000141_000000|It is greatly assumed
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000142_000000|It is gratifying to have the honor
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000143_000000|It is hardly for me
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000144_000000|It is hardly necessary to pass judgment
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000146_000000|It is immaterial whether
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000147_000000|It is impossible to avoid saying
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000148_000000|It is in every way appropriate
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000149_000000|It is in the highest degree worthy
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000150_000000|It is in this characteristic
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000151_000000|It is in vain
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000152_000000|It is in your power to give
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000153_000000|It is indeed a strange doctrine
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000154_000000|It is indeed not a little remarkable
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000156_000000|It is indeed very clear
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000157_000000|It is indispensable to have
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000158_000000|It is interesting and suggestive
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000159_000000|It is interesting to know
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000160_000000|It is just so far true
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000161_000000|It is likewise necessary
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000162_000000|It is made evident
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000163_000000|It is manifest
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000164_000000|It is manifestly absurd to say
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000166_000000|It is more than probable
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000167_000000|It is my agreeable duty
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000168_000000|It is my belief
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000169_000000|It is my earnest wish
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000170_000000|It is my grateful duty to address you
train-other-500/1636/130535/1636_130535_000171_000000|It is my hope
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000001|The private had only threepence a day.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000002|One half only of this pittance was ever given him in money; and that half was often in arrear.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000003|But a far more seductive bait than his miserable stipend was the prospect of boundless license.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000005|Though four fifths of the population of Ireland were Celtic and Roman Catholic, more than four fifths of the property of Ireland belonged to the Protestant Englishry.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000008|For the arming was now universal.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000010|The very women were exhorted by their spiritual directors to carry skeans.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000011|Every smith, every carpenter, every cutler, was at constant work on guns and blades.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000012|It was scarcely possible to get a horse shod.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000014|It seems probable that, at the end of February, at least a hundred thousand Irishmen were in arms.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000015|Near fifty thousand of them were soldiers.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000016|The rest were banditti, whose violence and licentiousness the Government affected to disapprove, but did not really exert itself to suppress.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000000_000017|The Protestants not only were not protected, but were not suffered to protect themselves.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000002|Whole counties, he said, were devastated by a rabble resembling the vultures and ravens which follow the march of an army.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000004|They acted under no authority known to the law.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000005|Yet it was, he owned, but too evident that they were encouraged and screened by some who were in high command.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000007|The stories which travellers told of the savage Hottentots near the Cape of Good Hope were realised in Leinster.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000008|Nothing was more common than for an honest man to lie down rich in flocks and herds acquired by the industry of a long life, and to wake a beggar.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000009|It was however to small purpose that Keating attempted, in the midst of that fearful anarchy, to uphold the supremacy of the law.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000001_000010|Priests and military chiefs appeared on the bench for the purpose of overawing the judge and countenancing the robbers.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000002_000000|When such disorder prevailed in Wicklow, it is easy to imagine what must have been the state of districts more barbarous and more remote from the seat of government.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000002_000001|Keating appears to have been the only magistrate who strenuously exerted himself to put the law in force.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000000|The destruction of property which took place within a few weeks would be incredible, if it were not attested by witnesses unconnected with each other and attached to very different interests.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000003|All this wealth disappeared.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000006|More than one gentleman possessed twenty thousand sheep and four thousand oxen.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000007|The freebooters who now overspread the country belonged to a class which was accustomed to live on potatoes and sour whey, and which had always regarded meat as a luxury reserved for the rich.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000009|The Protestants described with contemptuous disgust the strange gluttony of their newly liberated slaves.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000011|An absurd tragicomedy is still extant, which was acted in this and the following year at some low theatre for the amusement of the English populace.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000012|A crowd of half naked savages appeared on the stage, howling a Celtic song and dancing round an ox.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000014|A peasant would kill a cow merely in order to get a pair of brogues.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000003_000015|Often a whole flock of sheep, often a herd of fifty or sixty kine, was slaughtered: the beasts were flayed; the fleeces and hides were carried away; and the bodies were left to poison the air. The French ambassador reported to his master that, in six weeks, fifty thousand horned cattle had been slain in this manner, and were rotting on the ground all over the country.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000004_000000|Any estimate which can now be framed of the value of the property destroyed during this fearful conflict of races must necessarily be very inexact.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000004_000001|We are not however absolutely without materials for such an estimate.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000004_000002|The Quakers were neither a very numerous nor a very opulent class.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000004_000003|We can hardly suppose that they were more than a fiftieth part of the Protestant population of Ireland, or that they possessed more than a fiftieth part of the Protestant wealth of Ireland.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000004_000004|They were undoubtedly better treated than any other Protestant sect.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000005_000003|The colonists were suffered to embark in a small vessel scantily supplied with food and water.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000005_000008|The flower of the Protestant population of Munster and Connaught found shelter at Enniskillen.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000006_000001|At both places the tidings of what had been done by the Convention at Westminster were received with transports of joy.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000000|To reduce the Protestants of Ulster to submission before aid could arrive from England was now the chief object of Tyrconnel.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000002|His march left on the face of the country traces which the most careless eye could not during many years fail to discern.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000003|His army was accompanied by a rabble, such as Keating had well compared to the unclean birds of prey which swarm wherever the scent of carrion is strong.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000004|The general professed himself anxious to save from ruin and outrage all Protestants who remained quietly at their homes; and he most readily gave them protections tinder his hand.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000005|But these protections proved of no avail; and he was forced to own that, whatever power he might be able to exercise over his soldiers, he could not keep order among the mob of campfollowers.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000007|For at the fame of his approach the colonists burned their furniture, pulled down their houses, and retreated northward.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000009|Then the flight became wild and tumultuous.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000010|The fugitives broke down the bridges and burned the ferryboats.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000007_000016|Thirty thousand Protestants, of both sexes and of every age, were crowded behind the bulwarks of the City of Refuge.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000008_000000|Meanwhile Mountjoy and Rice had arrived in France.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000008_000004|He doubtless regarded with sincere commiseration and good will the unfortunate exiles to whom he had given so princely a welcome.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000008_000005|Yet neither commiseration nor good will could prevent him from speedily discovering that his brother of England was the dullest and most perverse of human beings.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000008_000007|It was fit that he should have a stately palace and a spacious forest, that the household troops should salute him with the highest military honours, that he should have at his command all the hounds of the Grand Huntsman and all the hawks of the Grand Falconer.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000000|An army was therefore for the present refused; but every thing else was granted.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000001|The Brest fleet was ordered to be in readiness to sail.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000002|Arms for ten thousand men and great quantities of ammunition were put on board.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000004|The chief command was held by a veteran warrior, the Count of Rosen.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000007|The cabin furniture, the camp furniture, the tents, the bedding, the plate, were luxurious and superb.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000008|Nothing, which could be agreeable or useful to the exile was too costly for the munificence, or too trifling for the attention, of his gracious and splendid host.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000010|He was conducted round the buildings and plantations with every mark of respect and kindness.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000011|The fountains played in his honour. It was the season of the Carnival; and never had the vast palace and the sumptuous gardens presented a gayer aspect.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000012|In the evening the two kings, after a long and earnest conference in private, made their appearance before a splendid circle of lords and ladies.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000013|"I hope," said Lewis, in his noblest and most winning manner, "that we are about to part, never to meet again in this world.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000014|That is the best wish that I can form for you.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000009_000016|At the moment of the parting embrace he said, with his most amiable smile: "We have forgotten one thing, a cuirass for yourself.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000010_000000|james was accompanied or speedily followed by several of his own subjects, among whom the most distinguished were his son Berwick, Cartwright Bishop of Chester, Powis, Dover, and Melfort.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000010_000002|He was therefore a favourite with his master: for to james unpopularity, obstinacy, and implacability were the greatest recommendations that a statesman could have.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000000|What Frenchman should attend the King of England in the character of ambassador had been the subject of grave deliberation at Versailles. Barillon could not be passed over without a marked slight.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000001|But his selfindulgent habits, his want of energy, and, above all, the credulity with which he had listened to the professions of Sunderland, had made an unfavourable impression on the mind of Lewis.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000003|The agent of France in that kingdom must be equal to much more than the ordinary functions of an envoy.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000005|Barillon was therefore passed over.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000006|He affected to bear his disgrace with composure.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000007|His political career, though it had brought great calamities both on the House of Stuart and on the House of Bourbon, had been by no means unprofitable to himself.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000008|He was old, he said: he was fat: he did not envy younger men the honour of living on potatoes and whiskey among the Irish bogs; he would try to console himself with partridges, with champagne, and with the society of the wittiest men and prettiest women of Paris.
train-other-500/1636/141789/1636_141789_000011_000009|It was rumoured, however that he was tortured by painful emotions which he was studious to conceal: his health and spirits failed; and he tried to find consolation in religious duties.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000001_000000|Margaret greeted her lord with peculiar tenderness on the morrow.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000001_000002|Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000001_000003|With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000001_000004|Happy the man who sees from either aspect the glory of these outspread wings.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000002_000000|It was hard going in the roads of mr Wilcox's soul.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000002_000001|From boyhood he had neglected them.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000002_000004|Religion had confirmed him.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000003_000000|It did not seem so difficult.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000003_000001|She need trouble him with no gift of her own.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000003_000003|Only connect!
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000003_000004|That was the whole of her sermon.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000003_000006|Live in fragments no longer.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000004_000000|Nor was the message difficult to give.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000005_000000|But she failed.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000005_000002|He simply did not notice things, and there was no more to be said.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000005_000003|He never noticed that Helen and Frieda were hostile, or that Tibby was not interested in currant plantations; he never noticed the lights and shades that exist in the grayest conversation, the finger posts, the milestones, the collisions, the illimitable views.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000005_000004|Once-on another occasion-she scolded him about it.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000005_000006|I've no intention of frittering away my strength on that sort of thing." "It isn't frittering away the strength," she protested.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000005_000007|"It's enlarging the space in which you may be strong." He answered: "You're a clever little woman, but my motto's Concentrate." And this morning he concentrated with a vengeance.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000006_000000|They met in the rhododendrons of yesterday.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000006_000001|In the daylight the bushes were inconsiderable and the path was bright in the morning sun
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000006_000002|She was with Helen, who had been ominously quiet since the affair was settled.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000006_000003|"Here we all are!" she cried, and took him by one hand, retaining her sister's in the other.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000007_000001|Good morning, Helen."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000008_000000|Helen replied, "Good morning, mr Wilcox."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000009_000001|He had a sad moustache, but the back of his head was young."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000011_000000|"Thanks to your hint, he's clearing out of the Porphyrion."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000013_000000|"Not a BAD-" she exclaimed, dropping his hand.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000013_000001|"Surely, on Chelsea Embankment-"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000014_000000|"Here's our hostess.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000014_000001|Good morning, mrs Munt.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000014_000002|Fine rhododendrons.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000015_000000|"Not a BAD business?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000000|"no
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000001|My letter's about Howards End.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000002|Bryce has been ordered abroad, and wants to sublet it.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000003|I am far from sure that I shall give him permission.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000004|There was no clause in the agreement.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000007|Morning, Schlegel.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000016_000008|Don't you think that's better than subletting?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000019_000000|"Do excuse me, but about the Porphyrion.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000019_000001|I don't feel easy-might I just bother you, Henry?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000020_000000|Her manner was so serious that he stopped, and asked her a little sharply what she wanted.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000021_000000|"You said on Chelsea Embankment, surely, that it was a bad concern, so we advised this clerk to clear out.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000021_000001|He writes this morning that he's taken our advice, and now you say it's not a bad concern.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000023_000000|"He has not done that.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000023_000001|He's going into a bank in Camden Town, he says.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000023_000002|The salary's much lower, but he hopes to manage-a branch of Dempster's Bank.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000023_000003|Is that all right?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000024_000000|"Dempster!
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000024_000001|My goodness me, yes."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000026_000000|"Yes, yes, yes; safe as houses-safer."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000027_000000|"Very many thanks.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000027_000001|I'm sorry-if you sublet-?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000028_000000|"If he sublets, I shan't have the same control.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000028_000001|In theory there should be no more damage done at Howards End; in practice there will be.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000028_000002|Things may be done for which no money can compensate.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000028_000004|It hangs-Margaret, we must go and see the old place some time.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000028_000005|It's pretty in its way.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000029_000000|"I should enjoy that," said Margaret bravely.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000030_000000|"What about next Wednesday?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000031_000000|"Wednesday?
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000031_000001|No, I couldn't well do that.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000032_000000|"But you can give that up now."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000034_000000|"Oh, that'll be all right.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000034_000001|I'll speak to her."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000035_000000|"This visit is a high solemnity.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000035_000001|My aunt counts on it year after year.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000035_000002|She turns the house upside down for us; she invites our special friends-she scarcely knows Frieda, and we can't leave her on her hands.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000036_000000|"But I'll say a word to her.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000036_000001|Don't you bother."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000037_000000|"Henry, I won't go.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000037_000001|Don't bully me."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000038_000000|"You want to see the house, though?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000039_000000|"Very much-I've heard so much about it, one way or the other.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000040_000000|"PIGS' TEETH?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000041_000000|"And you chew the bark for toothache."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000042_000001|Of course not!"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000044_000000|But he left her to intercept mrs Munt, whose voice could be heard in the distance: to be intercepted himself by Helen.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000046_000001|"Dempster's Bank's better."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000047_000000|"But I think you told us the Porphyrion was bad, and would smash before Christmas."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000048_000000|"Did I?
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000048_000002|Lately it came in-safe as houses now."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000049_000000|"In other words, mr Bast need never have left it."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000050_000000|"No, the fellow needn't."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000051_000000|"--and needn't have started life elsewhere at a greatly reduced salary."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000052_000000|"He only says 'reduced,'" corrected Margaret, seeing trouble ahead.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000053_000000|"With a man so poor, every reduction must be great.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000053_000001|I consider it a deplorable misfortune."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000054_000001|What's that?
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000054_000002|Do you mean that I'm responsible?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000055_000000|"You're ridiculous, Helen."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000056_000000|"You seem to think-" He looked at his watch.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000056_000001|"Let me explain the point to you.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000056_000002|It is like this.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000056_000003|You seem to assume, when a business concern is conducting a delicate negotiation, it ought to keep the public informed stage by stage.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000056_000004|The Porphyrion, according to you, was bound to say, 'I am trying all I can to get into the Tariff Ring.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000057_000000|"Is that your point?
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000057_000001|A man who had little money has less-that's mine."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000058_000000|"I am grieved for your clerk.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000058_000001|But it is all in the day's work.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000058_000002|It's part of the battle of life."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000059_000000|"A man who had little money," she repeated, "has less, owing to us.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000059_000001|Under these circumstances I do not consider 'the battle of life' a happy expression."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000060_000000|"Oh come, come!" he protested pleasantly.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000060_000001|"You're not to blame.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000060_000002|No one's to blame."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000061_000000|"Is no one to blame for anything?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000062_000001|Who is this fellow?"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000063_000000|"We have told you about the fellow twice already," said Helen.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000063_000002|He is very poor and his wife is an extravagant imbecile.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000063_000003|He is capable of better things.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000064_000000|He raised his finger.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000064_000001|"Now, a word of advice."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000065_000000|"I require no more advice."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000066_000000|"A word of advice.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000066_000001|Don't take up that sentimental attitude over the poor.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000067_000000|Helen quivered with indignation.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000068_000000|"By all means subscribe to charities-subscribe to them largely-but don't get carried away by absurd schemes of Social Reform.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000068_000003|Point me out a time when men have been equal-"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000069_000000|"I didn't say-"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000070_000000|"Point me out a time when desire for equality has made them happier.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000070_000001|No, no
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000070_000002|You can't.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000070_000004|I'm no fatalist.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000070_000005|Heaven forbid!
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000070_000007|You can't deny it" (and now it was a respectful voice)--"and you can't deny that, in spite of all, the tendency of civilization has on the whole been upward."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000071_000000|"Owing to God, I suppose," flashed Helen.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000073_000000|"You grab the dollars.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000073_000001|God does the rest."
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000075_000000|Helen looked out at the sea.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000076_000000|"Don't even discuss political economy with Henry," advised her sister.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000077_000001|"I don't like those men.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000078_000000|"He is such a man in theory.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000078_000001|But oh, Helen, in theory!"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000079_000000|"But oh, Meg, what a theory!"
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000081_000000|"Because I'm an old maid," said Helen, biting her lip.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000081_000001|"I can't think why I go on like this myself." She shook off her sister's hand and went into the house.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000081_000002|Margaret, distressed at the day's beginning, followed the Bournemouth steamer with her eyes.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000081_000003|She saw that Helen's nerves were exasperated by the unlucky Bast business beyond the bounds of politeness.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000082_000000|"Margaret!" her aunt called.
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000082_000001|"Magsy!
train-other-500/1643/138089/1643_138089_000082_000002|It isn't true, surely, what mr Wilcox says, that you want to go away early next week?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000002_000000|thirty six.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000002_000001|A Letter from Charles the First.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000003_000000|The reader must now cross the Seine with us and follow us to the door of the Carmelite Convent in the Rue Saint Jacques.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000003_000001|It is eleven o'clock in the morning and the pious sisters have just finished saying mass for the success of the armies of King Charles the first Leaving the church, a woman and a young girl dressed in black, the one as a widow and the other as an orphan, have re-entered their cell.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000005_000000|The woman must have once been handsome, but traces of sorrow have aged her.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000005_000001|The young girl is lovely and her tears only embellish her; the lady appears to be about forty years of age, the girl about fourteen.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000008_000000|"Your mother can be of no use to you in this world, Henrietta," said the lady, turning around.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000008_000001|"Your mother has no longer either throne or husband; she has neither son, money nor friends; the whole world, my poor child, has abandoned your mother!" And she fell back, weeping, into her daughter's arms.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000010_000001|"And no one thinks of us in this country, for each must think about his own affairs. As long as your brother was with me he kept me up; but he is gone and can no longer send us news of himself, either to me or to your father.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000010_000002|I have pledged my last jewels, sold your clothes and my own to pay his servants, who refused to accompany him unless I made this sacrifice.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000010_000003|We are now reduced to live at the expense of these daughters of Heaven; we are the poor, succored by God."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000011_000000|"But why not address yourself to your sister, the queen?" asked the girl.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000012_000000|"Alas! the queen, my sister, is no longer queen, my child.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000012_000001|Another reigns in her name.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000012_000002|One day you will be able to understand how all this is."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000013_000000|"Well, then, to the king, your nephew.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000013_000001|Shall I speak to him?
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000013_000002|You know how much he loves me, my mother.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000014_000000|"Alas! my nephew is not yet king, and you know Laporte has told us twenty times that he himself is in need of almost everything."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000016_000000|The two women who thus knelt in united prayer were the daughter and grand daughter of Henry the fourth., the wife and daughter of Charles the first
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000017_000000|They had just finished their double prayer, when a nun softly tapped at the door of the cell.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000018_000000|"Enter, my sister," said the queen.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000019_000000|"I trust your majesty will pardon this intrusion on her meditations, but a foreign lord has arrived from England and waits in the parlor, demanding the honor of presenting a letter to your majesty."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000020_000000|"Oh, a letter! a letter from the king, perhaps.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000020_000001|News from your father, do you hear, Henrietta?
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000020_000002|And the name of this lord?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000021_000000|"Lord de Winter."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000022_000000|"Lord de Winter!" exclaimed the queen, "the friend of my husband.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000022_000001|Oh, bid him enter!"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000023_000000|And the queen advanced to meet the messenger, whose hand she seized affectionately, whilst he knelt down and presented a letter to her, contained in a case of gold.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000024_000001|Gold, a devoted friend, and a letter from the king, our husband and master."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000025_000000|De Winter bowed again, unable to reply from excess of emotion.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000026_000000|On their side the mother and daughter retired into the embrasure of a window to read eagerly the following letter:
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000000|"Dear Wife,--We have now reached the moment of decision.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000001|I have concentrated here at Naseby camp all the resources Heaven has left me, and I write to you in haste from thence.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000002|Here I await the army of my rebellious subjects.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000003|I am about to struggle for the last time with them. If victorious, I shall continue the struggle; if beaten, I am lost.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000004|I shall try, in the latter case (alas! in our position, one must provide for everything), I shall try to gain the coast of France.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000005|But can they, will they receive an unhappy king, who will bring such a sad story into a country already agitated by civil discord?
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000006|Your wisdom and your affection must serve me as guides.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000007|The bearer of this letter will tell you, madame, what I dare not trust to pen and paper and the risks of transit.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000027_000008|He will explain to you the steps that I expect you to pursue.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000028_000000|The letter bore the signature, not of "Charles, King," but of "Charles-still king."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000029_000000|"And let him be no longer king," cried the queen.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000029_000001|"Let him be conquered, exiled, proscribed, provided he still lives.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000029_000002|Alas! in these days the throne is too dangerous a place for me to wish him to retain it.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000029_000003|But my lord, tell me," she continued, "hide nothing from me-what is, in truth, the king's position?
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000029_000004|Is it as hopeless as he thinks?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000030_000000|"Alas! madame, more hopeless than he thinks.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000030_000001|His majesty has so good a heart that he cannot understand hatred; is so loyal that he does not suspect treason!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000030_000002|England is torn in twain by a spirit of disturbance which, I greatly fear, blood alone can exorcise."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000031_000000|"But Lord Montrose," replied the queen, "I have heard of his great and rapid successes of battles gained.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000031_000001|I heard it said that he was marching to the frontier to join the king."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000032_000000|"Yes, madame; but on the frontier he was met by Lesly; he had tried victory by means of superhuman undertakings.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000032_000001|Now victory has abandoned him.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000032_000002|Montrose, beaten at Philiphaugh, was obliged to disperse the remains of his army and to fly, disguised as a servant.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000032_000003|He is at Bergen, in Norway."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000033_000000|"Heaven preserve him!" said the queen.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000033_000001|"It is at least a consolation to know that some who have so often risked their lives for us are safe.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000033_000002|And now, my lord, that I see how hopeless the position of the king is, tell me with what you are charged on the part of my royal husband."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000035_000000|"Alas! you know that even now the king is but a child and the queen a woman weak enough.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000035_000001|Here, Monsieur Mazarin is everything."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000036_000000|"Does he desire to play the part in France that Cromwell plays in England?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000037_000000|"Oh, no!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000037_000001|He is a subtle, conscienceless Italian, who though he very likely dreams of crime, dares not commit it; and unlike Cromwell, who disposes of both Houses, Mazarin has had the queen to support him in his struggle with the parliament."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000038_000000|"More reason, then, he should protect a king pursued by parliament."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000039_000000|The queen shook her head despairingly.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000040_000000|"If I judge for myself, my lord," she said, "the cardinal will do nothing, and will even, perhaps, act against us.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000040_000002|My lord," added Henrietta, with a melancholy smile, "it is sad and almost shameful to be obliged to say that we have passed the winter in the Louvre without money, without linen, almost without bread, and often not rising from bed because we wanted fire."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000041_000000|"Horrible!" cried De Winter; "the daughter of Henry the fourth., and the wife of King Charles!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000041_000001|Wherefore did you not apply, then, madame, to the first person you saw from us?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000043_000000|"But I heard that a marriage between the Prince of Wales and Mademoiselle d'Orleans was spoken of," said De Winter.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000044_000000|"Yes, for an instant I hoped it was so.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000044_000001|The young people felt a mutual esteem; but the queen, who at first sanctioned their affection, changed her mind, and Monsieur, the Duc d'Orleans, who had encouraged the familiarity between them, has forbidden his daughter to think any more about the union.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000044_000002|Oh, my lord!" continued the queen, without restraining her tears, "it is better to fight as the king has done, and to die, as perhaps he will, than live in beggary like me."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000045_000000|"Courage, madame!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000045_000001|courage!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000045_000002|Do not despair!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000045_000003|The interests of the French crown, endangered at this moment, are to discountenance rebellion in a neighboring nation.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000045_000004|Mazarin, as a statesman, will understand the politic necessity."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000046_000000|"Are you sure," said the queen doubtfully, "that you have not been forestalled?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000047_000000|"By whom?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000049_000000|"By a tailor, a coachmaker, a brewer!
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000049_000002|I hope, madame, that the cardinal will not enter into negotiations with such men!"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000050_000000|"Ah! what is he himself?" asked Madame Henrietta.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000051_000000|"But for the honor of the king-of the queen."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000052_000000|"Well, let us hope he will do something for the sake of their honor," said the queen.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000052_000001|"A true friend's eloquence is so powerful, my lord, that you have reassured me.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000052_000002|Give me your hand and let us go to the minister; and yet," she added, "suppose he should refuse and that the king loses the battle?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000053_000000|"His majesty will then take refuge in Holland, where I hear his highness the Prince of Wales now is."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000054_000000|"And can his majesty count upon many such subjects as yourself for his flight?"
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000056_000000|"Allies!" said the queen, shaking her head.
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000057_000000|"Madame," replied De Winter, "provided I can find some of my good old friends of former times I will answer for anything."
train-other-500/1646/121406/1646_121406_000058_000000|"Come then, my lord," said the queen, with the painful doubt that is felt by those who have suffered much; "come, and may Heaven hear you."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000002_000000|thirty eight.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000002_000001|Henrietta Maria and Mazarin.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000003_000000|The cardinal rose, and advanced in haste to receive the queen of England.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000003_000001|He showed the more respect to this queen, deprived of every mark of pomp and stripped of followers, as he felt some self reproach for his own want of heart and his avarice.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000003_000002|But supplicants for favor know how to accommodate the expression of their features, and the daughter of Henry the fourth. smiled as she advanced to meet a man she hated and despised.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000004_000000|"Ah!" said Mazarin to himself, "what a sweet face; does she come to borrow money of me?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000006_000000|"Your eminence," said the august visitor, "it was my first intention to speak of the matters that have brought me here to the queen, my sister, but I have reflected that political affairs are more especially the concern of men."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000007_000000|"Madame," said Mazarin, "your majesty overwhelms me with flattering distinction."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000008_000000|"He is very gracious," thought the queen; "can he have guessed my errand?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000009_000000|"Give," continued the cardinal, "your commands to the most respectful of your servants."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000010_000000|"Alas, sir," replied the queen, "I have lost the habit of commanding and have adopted instead that of making petitions.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000010_000001|I am here to petition you, too happy should my prayer be favorably heard."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000012_000000|"Your eminence, it concerns the war which the king, my husband, is now sustaining against his rebellious subjects.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000012_000001|You are perhaps ignorant that they are fighting in England," added she, with a melancholy smile, "and that in a short time they will fight in a much more decided fashion than they have done hitherto."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000013_000000|"I am completely ignorant of it, madame," said the cardinal, accompanying his words with a slight shrug of the shoulders; "alas, our own wars quite absorb the time and the mind of a poor, incapable, infirm old minister like me."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000014_000001|In case of a check" (Mazarin made a slight movement), "one must foresee everything; in the case of a check, he desires to retire into France and to live here as a private individual.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000014_000002|What do you say to this project?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000015_000000|The cardinal had listened without permitting a single fibre of his face to betray what he felt, and his smile remained as it ever was-false and flattering; and when the queen finished speaking, he said:
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000016_000000|"Do you think, madame, that France, agitated and disturbed as it is, would be a safe retreat for a dethroned king?
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000016_000001|How will the crown, which is scarce firmly set on the head of Louis the fourteenth., support a double weight?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000018_000000|"Oh, you, madame," the cardinal hastened to say, in order to cut short the explanation he foresaw was coming, "with regard to you, that is another thing.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000018_000001|A daughter of Henry the fourth., of that great, that sublime sovereign----"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000019_000000|"All which does not prevent you refusing hospitality to his son in law, sir!
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000019_000001|Nevertheless, you ought to remember that that great, that sublime monarch, when proscribed at one time, as my husband may be, demanded aid from England and England accorded it to him; and it is but just to say that Queen Elizabeth was not his niece."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000021_000000|"Speak Italian, sir.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000022_000000|The perspiration stood in large drops on Mazarin's brow.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000023_000000|"That admiration is, on the contrary, so great, so real, madame," returned Mazarin, without noticing the change of language offered to him by the queen, "that if the king, Charles the first--whom Heaven protect from evil!--came into France, I would offer him my house-my own house; but, alas! it would be but an unsafe retreat.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000023_000001|Some day the people will burn that house, as they burned that of the Marechal d'Ancre.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000023_000002|Poor Concino Concini!
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000023_000003|And yet he but desired the good of the people."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000024_000000|"Yes, my lord, like yourself!" said the queen, ironically.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000025_000000|Mazarin pretended not to understand the double meaning of his own sentence, but continued to compassionate the fate of Concino Concini.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000026_000000|"Well then, your eminence," said the queen, becoming impatient, "what is your answer?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000027_000000|"Madame," cried Mazarin, more and more moved, "will your majesty permit me to give you counsel?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000028_000000|"Speak, sir," replied the queen; "the counsels of so prudent a man as yourself ought certainly to be available."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000029_000000|"Madame, believe me, the king ought to defend himself to the last."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000030_000000|"He has done so, sir, and this last battle, which he encounters with resources much inferior to those of the enemy, proves that he will not yield without a struggle; but in case he is beaten?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000031_000001|Absent kings are very soon forgotten; if he passes over into France his cause is lost."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000032_000000|"But," persisted the queen, "if such be your advice and you have his interest at heart, send him help of men and money, for I can do nothing for him; I have sold even to my last diamond to aid him.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000032_000001|If I had had a single ornament left, I should have bought wood this winter to make a fire for my daughter and myself."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000033_000000|"Oh, madame," said Mazarin, "your majesty knows not what you ask.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000033_000001|On the day when foreign succor follows in the train of a king to replace him on his throne, it is an avowal that he no longer possesses the help and love of his own subjects."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000034_000000|"To the point, sir," said the queen, "to the point, and answer me, yes or no; if the king persists in remaining in England will you send him succor?
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000034_000001|If he comes to France will you accord him hospitality?
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000034_000002|What do you intend to do?
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000034_000003|Speak."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000035_000001|After which your majesty will, I think, no longer doubt my zeal in your behalf."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000036_000000|The queen bit her lips and moved impatiently on her chair.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000037_000000|"Well, what do you propose to do?" she, said at length; "come, speak."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000039_000001|You will charge Broussel to report it.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000039_000002|Enough, sir, enough.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000041_000000|But Queen Henrietta, without even turning toward him who made these hypocritical pretensions, crossed the cabinet, opened the door for herself and passing through the midst of the cardinal's numerous guards, courtiers eager to pay homage, the luxurious show of a competing royalty, she went and took the hand of De Winter, who stood apart in isolation.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000041_000001|Poor queen, already fallen!
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000041_000002|Though all bowed before her, as etiquette required, she had now but a single arm on which she could lean.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000042_000000|"It signifies little," said Mazarin, when he was alone.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000044_000000|"See if the young man with the black doublet and the short hair, who was with me just now, is still in the palace."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000046_000001|He reflected for a second and then descended the stairs.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000046_000002|I believe I saw him mount a gray horse and leave the palace court.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000046_000003|But is not your eminence going to the queen?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000047_000000|"For what purpose?"
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000048_000000|"Monsieur de Guitant, my uncle, has just told me that her majesty had received news of the army."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000049_000000|"It is well; I will go."
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000050_000001|In crossing the gallery parallel to the large glass gallery, he perceived De Winter, who was waiting until the queen had finished her negotiation.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000051_000000|At this sight the young man stopped short, not in admiration of Raphael's picture, but as if fascinated at the sight of some terrible object.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000051_000001|His eyes dilated and a shudder ran through his body.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000052_000000|But he stopped, doubtless to reflect; for instead of allowing his first impulse, which had been to go straight to Lord de Winter, to carry him away, he leisurely descended the staircase, left the palace with his head down, mounted his horse, which he reined in at the corner of the Rue Richelieu, and with his eyes fixed on the gate, waited until the queen's carriage had left the court.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000053_000000|He had not long to wait, for the queen scarcely remained a quarter of an hour with Mazarin, but this quarter of an hour of expectation appeared a century to him.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000053_000001|At last the heavy machine, which was called a chariot in those days, came out, rumbling against the gates, and De Winter, still on horseback, bent again to the door to converse with her majesty.
train-other-500/1646/121408/1646_121408_000054_000000|The horses started on a trot and took the road to the Louvre, which they entered.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000001_000000|thirty nine.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000001_000001|How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000002_000000|Well, madame," said De Winter, when the queen had dismissed her attendants.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000003_000000|"Well, my lord, what I foresaw has come to pass."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000004_000000|"What? does the cardinal refuse to receive the king?
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000004_000001|France refuse hospitality to an unfortunate prince?
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000005_000000|"I did not say France, my lord; I said the cardinal, and the cardinal is not even a Frenchman."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000006_000000|"But did you see the queen?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000007_000000|"It is useless," replied Henrietta, "the queen will not say yes when the cardinal says no Are you not aware that this Italian directs everything, both indoors and out?
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000007_000001|And moreover, I should not be surprised had we been forestalled by Cromwell.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000007_000002|He was embarrassed whilst speaking to me and yet quite firm in his determination to refuse.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000007_000003|Then did you not observe the agitation in the Palais Royal, the passing to and fro of busy people?
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000007_000004|Can they have received any news, my lord?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000008_000000|"Not from England, madame.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000008_000001|I made such haste that I am certain of not having been forestalled.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000008_000002|I set out three days ago, passing miraculously through the Puritan army, and I took post horses with my servant Tony; the horses upon which we were mounted were bought in Paris.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000008_000003|Besides, the king, I am certain, awaits your majesty's reply before risking anything."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000009_000001|I shall go and die by his side."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000010_000000|"Madame, madame," exclaimed De Winter, "your majesty abandons yourself to despair; and yet, perhaps, there still remains some hope."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000011_000000|"No friends left, my lord; no other friends left in the wide world but yourself!
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000011_000001|Oh, God!" exclaimed the poor queen, raising her eyes to Heaven, "have You indeed taken back all the generous hearts that once existed in the world?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000013_000000|"What can be done with four?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000014_000000|"Four devoted, resolute men can do much, assure yourself, madame; and those of whom I speak performed great things at one time."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000015_000000|"And where are these four men?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000016_000000|"Ah, that is what I do not know.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000016_000001|It is twenty years since I saw them, and yet whenever I have seen the king in danger I have thought of them."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000017_000000|"And these men were your friends?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000018_000000|"One of them held my life in his hands and gave it to me.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000018_000001|I know not whether he is still my friend, but since that time I have remained his."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000019_000000|"And these men are in France, my lord?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000020_000000|"I believe so."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000021_000000|"Tell me their names; perhaps I may have heard them mentioned and might be able to aid you in finding them."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000022_000000|"One of them was called the Chevalier d'Artagnan."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000025_000000|"But the others," said the queen, who clung to this last hope as a shipwrecked man clings to the hull of his vessel.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000025_000001|"The others, my lord!"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000027_000000|"Oh, mon Dieu, it is a matter of the greatest urgency to find them out," said the queen, "since you think these worthy gentlemen might be so useful to the king."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000028_000000|"Oh, yes," said De Winter, "for they are the same men.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000028_000001|Listen, madame, and recall your remembrances.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000028_000002|Have you never heard that Queen Anne of Austria was once saved from the greatest danger ever incurred by a queen?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000029_000000|"Yes, at the time of her relations with Monsieur de Buckingham; it had to do in some way with certain studs and diamonds."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000030_000000|"Well, it was that affair, madame; these men are the ones who saved her; and I smile with pity when I reflect that if the names of those gentlemen are unknown to you it is because the queen has forgotten them, who ought to have made them the first noblemen of the realm."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000031_000000|"Well, then, my lord, they must be found; but what can four men, or rather three men do-for I tell you, you must not count on Monsieur d'Artagnan."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000033_000000|"Seek, then, my lord, seek these gentlemen; and if they will consent to go with you to England, I will give to each a duchy the day that we reascend the throne, besides as much gold as would pave Whitehall.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000033_000001|Seek them, my lord, and find them, I conjure you."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000034_000001|Has your majesty forgotten that the king expects your reply and awaits it in agony?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000035_000000|"Then indeed we are lost!" cried the queen, in the fullness of a broken heart.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000036_000000|At this moment the door opened and the young Henrietta appeared; then the queen, with that wonderful strength which is the privilege of parents, repressed her tears and motioned to De Winter to change the subject.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000037_000000|But that act of self control, effective as it was, did not escape the eyes of the young princess.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000037_000001|She stopped on the threshold, breathed a sigh, and addressing the queen:
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000038_000000|"Why, then, do you always weep, mother, when I am away from you?" she said.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000039_000000|The queen smiled, but instead of answering:
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000040_000000|"See, De Winter," she said, "I have at least gained one thing in being only half a queen; and that is that my children call me 'mother' instead of 'madame.'"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000041_000000|Then turning toward her daughter:
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000042_000000|"What do you want, Henrietta?" she demanded.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000044_000000|"Ah!" said the queen to De Winter, "he is one of my faithful adherents; but do you not observe, my dear lord, that we are so poorly served that it is left to my daughter to fill the office of doorkeeper?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000045_000000|"Madame, have pity on me," exclaimed De Winter; "you wring my heart!"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000046_000000|"And who is this cavalier, Henrietta?" asked the queen.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000047_000000|"I saw him from the window, madame; he is a young man that appears scarce sixteen years of age, and is called the Viscount de Bragelonne."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000048_000000|The queen, smiling, made a sign with her head; the young princess opened the door and Raoul appeared on the threshold.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000049_000000|Advancing a few steps toward the queen, he knelt down.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000050_000000|"Madame," said he, "I bear to your majesty a letter from my friend the Count de Guiche, who told me he had the honor of being your servant; this letter contains important news and the expression of his respect."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000051_000000|At the name of the Count de Guiche a blush spread over the cheeks of the young princess and the queen glanced at her with some degree of severity.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000052_000000|"You told me that the letter was from the Marechal de Grammont, Henrietta!" said the queen.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000053_000000|"I thought so, madame," stammered the young girl.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000054_000000|"It is my fault, madame," said Raoul.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000054_000001|"I did announce myself, in truth, as coming on the part of the Marechal de Grammont; but being wounded in the right arm he was unable to write and therefore the Count de Guiche acted as his secretary."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000055_000000|"There has been fighting, then?" asked the queen, motioning to Raoul to rise.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000056_000000|"Yes, madame," said the young man.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000058_000000|The queen saw this, and doubtless her maternal heart translated the emotion, for addressing Raoul again:
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000059_000000|"And no evil has happened to the young Count de Guiche?" she asked; "for not only is he our servant, as you say, sir, but more-he is one of our friends."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000062_000000|"Let us see," said the queen, "what the count says." And she opened the letter and read:
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000063_000001|If her majesty will have faith in my counsels she ought to profit by this event to address at this moment, in favor of her august husband, the court of France.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000063_000002|The Vicomte de Bragelonne, who will have the honor of remitting this letter to your majesty, is the friend of my son, who owes to him his life; he is a gentleman in whom your majesty may confide entirely, in case your majesty may have some verbal or written order to remit to me.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000064_000000|"I have the honor to be, with respect, etc,
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000065_000000|"Marechal de Grammont."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000067_000000|"The battle of Lens gained!" said the queen; "they are lucky here indeed; they can gain battles!
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000068_000000|"Madame," said Raoul, "the Louvre is but the second palace this news has reached; it is as yet unknown to all, and I had sworn to the Count de Guiche to remit this letter to your majesty before even I should embrace my guardian."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000069_000000|"Your guardian! is he, too, a Bragelonne?" asked Lord de Winter.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000069_000001|"I once knew a Bragelonne-is he still alive?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000070_000000|"No, sir, he is dead; and I believe it is from him my guardian, whose near relation he was, inherited the estate from which I take my name."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000071_000000|"And your guardian, sir," asked the queen, who could not help feeling some interest in the handsome young man before her, "what is his name?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000073_000000|De Winter made a gesture of surprise and the queen turned to him with a start of joy.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000074_000000|"The Comte de la Fere!" she cried.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000074_000001|"Have you not mentioned that name to me?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000077_000000|"And who served under an assumed name?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000078_000000|"Under the name of Athos.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000078_000001|Latterly I heard his friend, Monsieur d'Artagnan, give him that name."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000079_000000|"That is it, madame, that is the same.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000079_000001|God be praised!
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000079_000002|And he is in Paris?" continued he, addressing Raoul; then turning to the queen: "We may still hope.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000079_000003|Providence has declared for us, since I have found this brave man again in so miraculous a manner.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000079_000004|And, sir, where does he reside, pray?"
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000081_000001|Inform this dear friend that he may remain within, that I shall go and see him immediately."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000082_000000|"Sir, I obey with pleasure, if her majesty will permit me to depart."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000083_000000|"Go, Monsieur de Bragelonne," said the queen, "and rest assured of our affection."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000084_000000|Raoul bent respectfully before the two princesses, and bowing to De Winter, departed.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000085_000000|The queen and De Winter continued to converse for some time in low voices, in order that the young princess should not overhear them; but the precaution was needless: she was in deep converse with her own thoughts.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000086_000000|Then, when De Winter rose to take leave:
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000087_000001|They are worth about fifty thousand pounds.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000087_000002|I had sworn to die of hunger rather than part with these precious pledges; but now that this ornament may be useful to him or his defenders, everything must be sacrificed.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000087_000003|Take them, and if you need money for your expedition, sell them fearlessly, my lord.
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000087_000004|But should you find the means of retaining them, remember, my lord, that I shall esteem you as having rendered the greatest service that a gentleman can render to a queen; and in the day of my prosperity he who brings me this order and this cross shall be blessed by me and my children."
train-other-500/1646/121409/1646_121409_000088_000000|"Madame," replied De Winter, "your majesty will be served by a man devoted to you.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000002_000000|STARTING NEWSPAPERS
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000003_000001|As I sat taking my evening sail across the Delaware in the staunch ferry boat "Beverly," a night or two ago, I was join'd by two young reporter friends.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000003_000002|"I have a message for you," said one of them; "the c folks told me to say they would like a piece sign'd by your name, to go in their first number.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000003_000003|Can you do it for them?"
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000003_000004|"I guess so," said I; "what might it be about?" "Well, anything on newspapers, or perhaps what you've done yourself, starting them." And off the boys went, for we had reach'd the Philadelphia side. The hour was fine and mild, the bright half moon shining; Venus, with excess of splendor, just setting in the west, and the great Scorpion rearing its length more than half up in the southeast.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000003_000005|As I cross'd leisurely for an hour in the pleasant night scene, my young friend's words brought up quite a string of reminiscences.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000004_000000|I commenced when I was but a boy of eleven or twelve writing sentimental bits for the old "Long Island Patriot," in Brooklyn; this was about eighteen thirty two.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000004_000001|Soon after, I had a piece or two in George p Morris's then celebrated and fashionable "Mirror," of New York city.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000004_000002|I remember with what half suppress'd excitement I used to watch for the big, fat, red faced, slow moving, very old English carrier who distributed the "Mirror" in Brooklyn; and when I got one, opening and cutting the leaves with trembling fingers.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000005_000000|My first real venture was the "Long Islander," in my own beautiful town of Huntington, in eighteen thirty nine.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000005_000001|I was about twenty years old.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000005_000002|I had been teaching country school for two or three years in various parts of Suffolk and Queens counties, but liked printing; had been at it while a lad, learn'd the trade of compositor, and was encouraged to start a paper in the region where I was born.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000005_000003|I went to New York, bought a press and types, hired some little help, but did most of the work myself, including the press work.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000005_000004|Everything seem'd turning out well; (only my own restlessness prevented me gradually establishing a permanent property there.) I bought a good horse, and every week went all round the country serving my papers, devoting one day and night to it.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000005_000006|The experiences of those jaunts, the dear old fashion'd farmers and their wives, the stops by the hay fields, the hospitality, nice dinners, occasional evenings, the girls, the rides through the brush, come up in my memory to this day.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000006_000000|I next went to the "Aurora" daily in New York city-a sort of free lance.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000006_000001|Also wrote regularly for the "Tattler," an evening paper.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000006_000002|With these and a little outside work I was occupied off and on, until I went to edit the "Brooklyn Eagle," where for two years I had one of the pleasantest sits of my life-a good owner, good pay, and easy work and hours.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000006_000003|The troubles in the Democratic party broke forth about those times (eighteen forty eight-'forty nine) and I split off with the radicals, which led to rows with the boss and "the party," and I lost my place.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000007_000000|Being now out of a job, I was offer'd impromptu, (it happen'd between the acts one night in the lobby of the old Broadway theatre near Pearl street, New York city,) a good chance to go down to New Orleans on the staff of the "Crescent," a daily to be started there with plenty of capital behind it.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000007_000001|One of the owners, who was north buying material, met me walking in the lobby, and though that was our first acquaintance, after fifteen minutes' talk (and a drink) we made a formal bargain, and he paid me two hundred dollars down to bind the contract and bear my expenses to New Orleans.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000007_000002|I started two days afterwards; had a good leisurely time, as the paper wasn't to be out in three weeks.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000007_000003|I enjoy'd my journey and Louisiana life much.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000007_000004|Returning to Brooklyn a year or two afterward I started the "Freeman," first as a weekly, then daily.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000007_000005|Pretty soon the secession war broke out, and I, too, got drawn in the current southward, and spent the following three years there, (as memorandized preceding.)
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000008_000001|During the war, the hospitals at Washington, among other means of amusement, printed a little sheet among themselves, surrounded by wounds and death, the "Armory Square Gazette," to which I contributed.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000008_000002|The same long afterward, casually, to a paper-I think it was call'd the "Jimplecute"--out in Colorado where I stopp'd at the time.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000008_000003|When I was in Quebec province, in Canada, in eighteen eighty, I went into the queerest little old French printing office near Tadousac.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000008_000004|It was far more primitive and ancient than my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000008_000005|I remember, as a youngster, several characteristic old printers of a kind hard to be seen these days.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000009_000000|THE GREAT UNREST OF WHICH WE ARE PART
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000011_000000|Note:
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000012_000002|Every molecule of matter in the whole universe is swinging to and fro; every particle of ether which fills space is in jelly like vibration.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000012_000003|Light is one kind of motion, heat another, electricity another, magnetism another, sound another.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000012_000004|Every human sense is the result of motion; every perception, every thought is but motion of the molecules of the brain translated by that incomprehensible thing we call mind.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000012_000005|The processes of growth, of existence, of decay, whether in worlds, or in the minutest organisms, are but motion."
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000013_000000|BY EMERSON'S GRAVE
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000015_000000|"Warrior, rest, thy task is done,"
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000016_000000|for one beyond the warriors of the world lies surely symboll'd here. A just man, poised on himself, all loving, all inclosing, and sane and clear as the sun
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000016_000001|Nor does it seem so much Emerson himself we are here to honor-it is conscience, simplicity, culture, humanity's attributes at their best, yet applicable if need be to average affairs, and eligible to all.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000018_000000|Perhaps the life now rounded and completed in its mortal development, and which nothing can change or harm more, has its most illustrious halo, not in its splendid intellectual or esthetic products, but as forming in its entirety one of the few (alas! how few!) perfect and flawless excuses for being, of the entire literary class.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000019_000000|We can say, as Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, It is not we who come to consecrate the dead-we reverently come to receive, if so it may be, some consecration to ourselves and daily work from him.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000020_000000|AT PRESENT WRITING-PERSONAL
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000022_000001|The paralysis that first affected me nearly ten years ago, has since remain'd, with varying course-seems to have settled quietly down, and will probably continue.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000022_000002|I easily tire, am very clumsy, cannot walk far; but my spirits are first rate.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000022_000004|What mentality I ever had remains entirely unaffected; though physically I am a half paralytic, and likely to be so, long as I live.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000022_000005|But the principal object of my life seems to have been accomplish'd-I have the most devoted and ardent of friends, and affectionate relatives-and of enemies I really make no account."
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000023_000000|AFTER TRYING A CERTAIN BOOK
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000024_000000|I tried to read a beautifully printed and scholarly volume on "the Theory of Poetry," received by mail this morning from England-but gave it up at last for a bad job.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000024_000001|Here are some capricious pencillings that follow'd, as I find them in my notes:
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000025_000000|In youth and maturity Poems are charged with sunshine and varied pomp of day; but as the soul more and more takes precedence, (the sensuous still included,) the Dusk becomes the poet's atmosphere.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000025_000001|I too have sought, and ever seek, the brilliant sun, and make my songs according.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000025_000002|But as I grow old, the half lights of evening are far more to me.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000026_000000|The play of Imagination, with the sensuous objects of Nature for symbols and Faith-with Love and Pride as the unseen impetus and moving power of all, make up the curious chess game of a poem.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000027_000000|Common teachers or critics are always asking "What does it mean?" Symphony of fine musician, or sunset, or sea waves rolling up the beach-what do they mean?
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000027_000001|Undoubtedly in the most subtle elusive sense they mean something-as love does, and religion does, and the best poem;--but who shall fathom and define those meanings?
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000027_000002|(I do not intend this as a warrant for wildness and frantic escapades-but to justify the soul's frequent joy in what cannot be defined to the intellectual part, or to calculation.)
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000028_000000|At its best, poetic lore is like what may be heard of conversation in the dusk, from speakers far or hid, of which we get only a few broken murmurs.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000029_000000|Grandest poetic passages are only to be taken at free removes, as we sometimes look for stars at night, not by gazing directly toward them, but off one side.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000031_000000|FINAL CONFESSIONS-LITERARY TESTS
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000032_000000|So draw near their end these garrulous notes.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000033_000003|Nature seems to look on all fixed up poetry and art as something almost impertinent.)
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000035_000001|(Has it never occur'd to any one how the last deciding tests applicable to a book are entirely outside of technical and grammatical ones, and that any truly first-class production has little or nothing to do with the rules and calibres of ordinary critics? or the bloodless chalk of Allibone's Dictionary?
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000035_000002|I have fancied the ocean and the daylight, the mountain and the forest, putting their spirit in a judgment on our books.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000035_000003|I have fancied some disembodied human soul giving its verdict.)
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000036_000000|NATURE AND DEMOCRACY-MORALITY
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000037_000000|Democracy most of all affiliates with the open air, is sunny and hardy and sane only with Nature-just as much as Art is.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000037_000001|Something is required to temper both-to check them, restrain them from excess, morbidity.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000037_000002|I have wanted, before departure, to bear special testimony to a very old lesson and requisite.
train-other-500/1647/140649/1647_140649_000037_000003|American Democracy, in its myriad personalities, in factories, work shops, stores, offices-through the dense streets and houses of cities, and all their manifold sophisticated life-must either be fibred, vitalized, by regular contact with out door light and air and growths, farm scenes, animals, fields, trees, birds, sun warmth and free skies, or it will certainly dwindle and pale.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000000_000001|IDEALISM
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000001_000000|The word 'idealism' is used by different philosophers in somewhat different senses.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000001_000001|We shall understand by it the doctrine that whatever exists, or at any rate whatever can be known to exist, must be in some sense mental.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000001_000002|This doctrine, which is very widely held among philosophers, has several forms, and is advocated on several different grounds.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000001_000003|The doctrine is so widely held, and so interesting in itself, that even the briefest survey of philosophy must give some account of it.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000002_000000|Those who are unaccustomed to philosophical speculation may be inclined to dismiss such a doctrine as obviously absurd.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000002_000001|There is no doubt that common sense regards tables and chairs and the sun and moon and material objects generally as something radically different from minds and the contents of minds, and as having an existence which might continue if minds ceased.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000002_000002|We think of matter as having existed long before there were any minds, and it is hard to think of it as a mere product of mental activity.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000002_000003|But whether true or false, idealism is not to be dismissed as obviously absurd.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000003_000001|Hence common sense leaves us completely in the dark as to the true intrinsic nature of physical objects, and if there were good reason to regard them as mental, we could not legitimately reject this opinion merely because it strikes us as strange.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000003_000003|It may be unattainable, but if any philosopher believes that he has attained it, the fact that what he offers as the truth is strange ought not to be made a ground of objection to his opinion.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000004_000000|The grounds on which idealism is advocated are generally grounds derived from the theory of knowledge, that is to say, from a discussion of the conditions which things must satisfy in order that we may be able to know them.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000004_000001|The first serious attempt to establish idealism on such grounds was that of Bishop Berkeley.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000004_000002|He proved first, by arguments which were largely valid, that our sense data cannot be supposed to have an existence independent of us, but must be, in part at least, 'in' the mind, in the sense that their existence would not continue if there were no seeing or hearing or touching or smelling or tasting.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000004_000003|So far, his contention was almost certainly valid, even if some of his arguments were not so.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000004_000004|But he went on to argue that sense data were the only things of whose existence our perceptions could assure us; and that to be known is to be 'in' a mind, and therefore to be mental.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000004_000005|Hence he concluded that nothing can ever be known except what is in some mind, and that whatever is known without being in my mind must be in some other mind.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000005_000000|In order to understand his argument, it is necessary to understand his use of the word 'idea'.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000005_000002|Thus a particular colour which we see is an idea; so is a voice which we hear, and so on.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000005_000003|But the term is not wholly confined to sense data.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000005_000005|All such immediate data he calls 'ideas'.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000006_000000|He then proceeds to consider common objects, such as a tree, for instance.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000006_000001|He shows that all we know immediately when we 'perceive' the tree consists of ideas in his sense of the word, and he argues that there is not the slightest ground for supposing that there is anything real about the tree except what is perceived.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000006_000003|He fully admits that the tree must continue to exist even when we shut our eyes or when no human being is near it.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000006_000004|But this continued existence, he says, is due to the fact that God continues to perceive it; the 'real' tree, which corresponds to what we called the physical object, consists of ideas in the mind of God, ideas more or less like those we have when we see the tree, but differing in the fact that they are permanent in God's mind so long as the tree continues to exist.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000006_000006|Thus apart from minds and their ideas there is nothing in the world, nor is it possible that anything else should ever be known, since whatever is known is necessarily an idea.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000000|There are in this argument a good many fallacies which have been important in the history of philosophy, and which it will be as well to bring to light.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000001|In the first place, there is a confusion engendered by the use of the word 'idea'.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000003|But the notion of being 'in' the mind is ambiguous.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000004|We speak of bearing a person in mind, not meaning that the person is in our minds, but that a thought of him is in our minds.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000005|When a man says that some business he had to arrange went clean out of his mind, he does not mean to imply that the business itself was ever in his mind, but only that a thought of the business was formerly in his mind, but afterwards ceased to be in his mind.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000007|To argue that the tree itself must be in our minds is like arguing that a person whom we bear in mind is himself in our minds.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000007_000008|This confusion may seem too gross to have been really committed by any competent philosopher, but various attendant circumstances rendered it possible. In order to see how it was possible, we must go more deeply into the question as to the nature of ideas.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000000|Before taking up the general question of the nature of ideas, we must disentangle two entirely separate questions which arise concerning sense data and physical objects.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000001|We saw that, for various reasons of detail, Berkeley was right in treating the sense data which constitute our perception of the tree as more or less subjective, in the sense that they depend upon us as much as upon the tree, and would not exist if the tree were not being perceived.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000002|But this is an entirely different point from the one by which Berkeley seeks to prove that whatever can be immediately known must be in a mind.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000003|For this purpose arguments of detail as to the dependence of sense data upon us are useless.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000004|It is necessary to prove, generally, that by being known, things are shown to be mental.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000005|This is what Berkeley believes himself to have done.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000008_000006|It is this question, and not our previous question as to the difference between sense data and the physical object, that must now concern us.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000009_000001|There is on the one hand the thing of which we are aware-say the colour of my table-and on the other hand the actual awareness itself, the mental act of apprehending the thing.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000009_000002|The mental act is undoubtedly mental, but is there any reason to suppose that the thing apprehended is in any sense mental?
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000009_000003|Our previous arguments concerning the colour did not prove it to be mental; they only proved that its existence depends upon the relation of our sense organs to the physical object-in our case, the table.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000009_000004|That is to say, they proved that a certain colour will exist, in a certain light, if a normal eye is placed at a certain point relatively to the table.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000009_000005|They did not prove that the colour is in the mind of the percipient.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000010_000000|Berkeley's view, that obviously the colour must be in the mind, seems to depend for its plausibility upon confusing the thing apprehended with the act of apprehension.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000010_000002|The act is undoubtedly in the mind; hence, when we are thinking of the act, we readily assent to the view that ideas must be in the mind.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000010_000003|Then, forgetting that this was only true when ideas were taken as acts of apprehension, we transfer the proposition that 'ideas are in the mind' to ideas in the other sense, i e to the things apprehended by our acts of apprehension.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000010_000004|Thus, by an unconscious equivocation, we arrive at the conclusion that whatever we can apprehend must be in our minds.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000010_000005|This seems to be the true analysis of Berkeley's argument, and the ultimate fallacy upon which it rests.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000011_000000|This question of the distinction between act and object in our apprehending of things is vitally important, since our whole power of acquiring knowledge is bound up with it.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000011_000001|The faculty of being acquainted with things other than itself is the main characteristic of a mind. Acquaintance with objects essentially consists in a relation between the mind and something other than the mind; it is this that constitutes the mind's power of knowing things.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000011_000002|If we say that the things known must be in the mind, we are either unduly limiting the mind's power of knowing, or we are uttering a mere tautology.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000011_000006|It remains to see whether there are any other grounds.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000012_000000|It is often said, as though it were a self evident truism, that we cannot know that anything exists which we do not know.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000012_000001|It is inferred that whatever can in any way be relevant to our experience must be at least capable of being known by us; whence it follows that if matter were essentially something with which we could not become acquainted, matter would be something which we could not know to exist, and which could have for us no importance whatever.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000013_000000|To go into this argument fully at our present stage would be impossible, since it raises points requiring a considerable preliminary discussion; but certain reasons for rejecting the argument may be noticed at once.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000013_000003|But if this sort of interest is included, it is not the case that matter has no importance for us, provided it exists even if we cannot know that it exists.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000013_000004|We can, obviously, suspect that it may exist, and wonder whether it does; hence it is connected with our desire for knowledge, and has the importance of either satisfying or thwarting this desire.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000014_000000|Again, it is by no means a truism, and is in fact false, that we cannot know that anything exists which we do not know.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000015_000000|Thus the statement which seemed like a truism becomes, when re stated, the following: 'We can never truly judge that something with which we are not acquainted exists.' This is by no means a truism, but on the contrary a palpable falsehood.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000015_000001|I have not the honour to be acquainted with the Emperor of China, but I truly judge that he exists.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000015_000002|It may be said, of course, that I judge this because of other people's acquaintance with him.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000015_000003|This, however, would be an irrelevant retort, since, if the principle were true, I could not know that any one else is acquainted with him.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000015_000004|But further: there is no reason why I should not know of the existence of something with which nobody is acquainted.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000015_000005|This point is important, and demands elucidation.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000016_000001|But it is not true that, conversely, whenever I can know that a thing of a certain sort exists, I or some one else must be acquainted with the thing.
train-other-500/1647/142742/1647_142742_000016_000003|In order to understand this point fully, it will be well first to deal with the difference between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description, and then to consider what knowledge of general principles, if any, has the same kind of certainty as our knowledge of the existence of our own experiences.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000000_000001|It is level, sandy, poorly planted by nature, and barren of all things likely to enlist the attention of predatory man.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000000_000002|To the harassed birds of mid ocean, it seemed like a secure haven, and for ages past it has been inhabited only by them.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000000_000003|There several species of sea birds, large and small, have found homes and breeding places.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000001_000000|Laysan Island is two miles long by one and one half miles broad, and at times it has been literally covered with birds.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000002_000002|They stand there on the level sand, serene, bulky and immaculate.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000002_000003|Thousands of birds appear in one view-a very remarkable sight.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000003_000001|At first guano and eggs were collected.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000003_000002|A tramway was laid down and small box cars were introduced, in which the collected material was piled and pushed down to the packing place.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000004_000000|For several years this went on, and the birds themselves were not molested.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000004_000001|At last, however, a tentacle of the feather trade octopus reached out to Laysan.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000007_000000|Schlemmer the Slaughterer bought a cheap vessel, hired twenty three phlegmatic and cold blooded Japanese laborers, and organized a raid on Laysan.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000007_000001|With the utmost secrecy he sailed from Honolulu, landed his bird killers upon the sea bird wonderland, and turned them loose upon the birds.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000008_000000|For several months they slaughtered diligently and without mercy. Apparently it was the ambition of Schlemmer to kill every bird on the island.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000013_000000|Three hundred thousand albatrosses, gulls, terns and other birds were butchered to make a Schlemmer holiday!
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000014_000001|Homer r Dill.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000014_000003|Department of Agriculture) is consumedly interesting to the friends of birds.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000014_000004|Here is what he has said regarding the evidences of bird slaughter:
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000015_000000|"Our first impression of Laysan was that the poachers had stripped the place of bird life.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000015_000001|An area of over three hundred acres on each side of the buildings was apparently abandoned.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000015_000004|Nutting calls the survival of the inconspicuous.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000016_000000|"Here on every side are bones bleaching in the sun, showing where the poachers had piled the bodies of the birds as they stripped them of wings and feathers.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000018_000001|In this dry cistern the living birds were kept by hundreds to slowly starve to death.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000018_000002|In this way the fatty tissue lying next to the skin was used up, and the skin was left quite free from grease, so that it required little or no cleaning during preparation.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000019_000000|"Many other revolting sights, such as the remains of young birds that had been left to starve, and birds with broken legs and deformed beaks were to be seen.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000019_000001|Killing clubs, nets and other implements used by these marauders were lying all about.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000019_000002|Hundreds of boxes to be used in shipping the bird skins were packed in an old building.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000019_000003|It was very evident they intended to carry on their slaughter as long as the birds lasted.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000020_000001|Cages and material for making them were found."--(Report of an Expedition to Laysan Island in nineteen eleven.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000020_000002|By Homer r Dill, page twelve.)
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000021_000000|The report of Professor Bryan contains the following pertinent paragraphs:
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000022_000000|"This wholesale killing has had an appalling effect on the colony....
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000022_000002|The colonies that remain are in a sadly decimated condition.... Over a large part of the island, in some sections a hundred acres in a place, that ten years ago were thickly inhabited by albatrosses not a single bird remains, while heaps of the slain lie as mute testimony of the awful slaughter of these beautiful, harmless, and without doubt beneficial inhabitants of the high seas.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000023_000000|"While the main activity of the plume hunters was directed against the albatrosses, they were by no means averse to killing anything in the bird line that came in their way....
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000023_000001|Fortunately, serious as were the depredations of the poachers, their operations were interrupted before any of the species had been completely exterminated."
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000024_000000|But the work of the Evil Genius of Laysan did not stop with the slaughter of three hundred thousand birds.
train-other-500/1648/144971/1648_144971_000024_000001|mr Schlemmer introduced rabbits and guinea pigs; and these rapidly multiplying rodents now are threatening to consume every plant on the island.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000000_000000|In the mean time the war with Sweden went on.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000001_000000|But, while the Czar was thus rapidly increasing his power at sea, the King of Sweden proved himself the strongest on land.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000001_000002|He accordingly pushed his forces forward until he approached the bank of the river.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000001_000004|peter assembled all his troops on the opposite side of the river at that point in order to oppose him.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000001_000006|He left a sufficient number of men there to make a show, and secretly marched away the great body of his troops in the night to a point about three miles farther up the river, where he succeeded in crossing with them before the emperor's forces had any suspicion of his real design.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000001_000007|The Russians, who were not strong enough to oppose him in the open field, were obliged immediately to retreat, and leave him in full possession of the ground.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000002_000000|peter was now much alarmed.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000002_000001|He sent an officer to the camp of the King of Sweden with a flag of truce, to ask on what terms the king would make peace with him.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000002_000003|So he declined entering into any negotiation, saying only in a haughty tone "that he would treat with his brother peter at Moscow."
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000004_000000|There was one secret reason which induced the King of Sweden to move thus to the southward which peter did not for a time understand.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000005_000000|The cause of Mazeppa's quarrel with the Czar was this: He was one day paying a visit to his majesty, and, while seated at table, peter began to complain of the lawless and ungovernable character of the Cossacks, and to propose that Mazeppa should introduce certain reforms in the organization and discipline of the tribe, with a view of bringing them under more effectual control.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000005_000001|It is probable that the reforms which he proposed were somewhat analogous to those which he had introduced so successfully into the armies under his own more immediate command.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000006_000000|Mazeppa opposed this suggestion.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000006_000001|He said that the attempt to adopt such measures with the Cossacks would never succeed; that the men were so wild and savage by nature, and so fixed in the rude and irregular habits of warfare to which they and their fathers had been so long accustomed, that they could never be made to submit to such restrictions as a regular military discipline would impose.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000007_000001|He called Mazeppa an enemy and a traitor, and threatened to have him impaled alive.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000007_000002|It is true he did not really mean what he said, his words being only empty threats dictated by the brutal violence of his anger.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000007_000003|Still, Mazeppa was very much offended. He went away from the Czar's tent muttering his displeasure, and resolving secretly on revenge.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000008_000001|By this means the Czar's army was sure, they thought, to be defeated; and in this case the King of Sweden was to remain in possession of the Russian territory, while the Cossacks were to retire to their own fortresses, and live thenceforth as an independent tribe.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000009_000000|The plot seemed to be very well laid; but, unfortunately for the contrivers of it, it was not destined to succeed.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000009_000001|In the first place, Mazeppa's scheme of revolting with the Cossacks to the enemy was discovered by the Czar, and almost entirely defeated, before the time arrived for putting it into execution.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000009_000002|peter had his secret agents every where, and through them he received such information in respect to Mazeppa's movements as led him to suspect his designs.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000009_000004|He ordered the officers of these troops to watch Mazeppa's movements closely, and to be ready to act against him at a moment's notice, should occasion require. Mazeppa was somewhat disconcerted in his plans by this state of things; but he could not make any objection, for the troops thus stationed near him seemed to be placed there for the purpose of co operating with him against the enemy.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000010_000000|In the mean time, Mazeppa cautiously made known his plans to the leading men among the Cossacks as fast as he thought it prudent to do so.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000010_000002|He also enumerated the various grievances which they suffered under Russian rule, and endeavored to excite the animosity of his hearers as much as possible against Peter's government.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000011_000000|He found that the chief officers of the Cossacks seemed quite disposed to listen to what he said, and to adopt his views.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000012_000000|Mazeppa accordingly made out a statement of his complaints, and appointed his nephew a commissioner to proceed to head quarters and lay them before the Czar.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000012_000001|The name of the nephew was Warnarowski.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000013_000001|He accordingly immediately put his whole force in motion to march toward the place where the Swedish army was then posted, ostensibly for the purpose of attacking them.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000014_000000|The men were filled with indignation at this proposal, which, being wholly unexpected, came upon them by surprise.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000014_000001|They refused to join in the revolt.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000014_000002|A scene of great excitement and confusion followed.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000014_000003|A portion of the Cossacks, those with whom Mazeppa had come to an understanding beforehand, were disposed to go with him, but the rest were filled with vexation and rage.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000015_000000|A council of war was soon after called in the Russian camp for the purpose of bringing Mazeppa to trial.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000015_000001|He was, of course, found guilty, and sentence of death-with a great many indignities to accompany the execution-was passed upon him.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000015_000002|The sentence, however, could not be executed upon Mazeppa himself, for he was out of the reach of his accusers, being safe in the Swedish camp.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000015_000003|So they made a wooden image or effigy to represent him, and inflicted the penalties upon the substitute instead.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000016_000000|In the first place, they dressed the effigy to imitate the appearance of Mazeppa, and put upon it representations of the medals, ribbons, and other decorations which he was accustomed to wear.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000016_000001|They brought this figure out before the camp, in presence of the general and of all the leading officers, the soldiers being also drawn up around the spot.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000016_000002|A herald appeared and read the sentence of condemnation, and then proceeded to carry it into execution, as follows.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000016_000003|First, he tore Mazeppa's patent of knighthood in pieces, and threw the fragments into the air.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000016_000004|Then he tore off the medals and decorations from the image, and, throwing them upon the ground, he trampled them under his feet. Then he struck the effigy itself a blow by which it was overturned and left prostrate in the dust.
train-other-500/1653/141272/1653_141272_000018_000000|Immediately after this ceremony, the Cossacks, according to their custom, proceeded to elect a new chieftain in the place of Mazeppa. The chieftain thus chosen came forward before the Czar to take the oath of allegiance to him, and to offer him his homage.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000000_000000|Chapter thirteen
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000001_000000|Evening in the Wood
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000002_000002|Would he come?
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000002_000003|Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000002_000004|At last the minute hand of the old-fashioned brazen faced timepiece was on the last quarter to eight, and there was every reason for its being time to get ready for departure.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000002_000005|Even mrs Pomfret's preoccupied mind did not prevent her from noticing what looked like a new flush of beauty in the little thing as she tied on her hat before the looking glass.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000003_000000|"That child gets prettier and prettier every day, I do believe," was her inward comment.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000003_000001|"The more's the pity.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000003_000003|Sober well to do men don't like such pretty wives.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000003_000004|When I was a girl, I was more admired than if I had been so very pretty.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000003_000005|However, she's reason to be grateful to me for teaching her something to get her bread with, better than farm house work.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000004_000000|Hetty walked hastily across the short space of pleasure ground which she had to traverse, dreading to meet mr Craig, to whom she could hardly have spoken civilly.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000004_000001|How relieved she was when she had got safely under the oaks and among the fern of the Chase!
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000004_000002|Even then she was as ready to be startled as the deer that leaped away at her approach.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000004_000003|She thought nothing of the evening light that lay gently in the grassy alleys between the fern, and made the beauty of their living green more visible than it had been in the overpowering flood of noon: she thought of nothing that was present.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000004_000005|It was as if she had been wooed by a river god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000004_000008|They were as formless as the sweet languid odours of the garden at the Chase, which had floated past her as she walked by the gate.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000000|She is at another gate now-that leading into Fir tree Grove.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000001|She enters the wood, where it is already twilight, and at every step she takes, the fear at her heart becomes colder.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000003|Oh, how dreary it was-the thought of going out at the other end of the wood, into the unsheltered road, without having seen him.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000004|She reaches the first turning towards the Hermitage, walking slowly-he is not there.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000005|She hates the leveret that runs across the path; she hates everything that is not what she longs for.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000006|She walks on, happy whenever she is coming to a bend in the road, for perhaps he is behind it.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000007|no
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000005_000008|She is beginning to cry: her heart has swelled so, the tears stand in her eyes; she gives one great sob, while the corners of her mouth quiver, and the tears roll down.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000006_000000|She doesn't know that there is another turning to the Hermitage, that she is close against it, and that Arthur Donnithorne is only a few yards from her, full of one thought, and a thought of which she only is the object.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000006_000001|He is going to see Hetty again: that is the longing which has been growing through the last three hours to a feverish thirst.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000006_000002|Not, of course, to speak in the caressing way into which he had unguardedly fallen before dinner, but to set things right with her by a kindness which would have the air of friendly civility, and prevent her from running away with wrong notions about their mutual relation.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000007_000000|If Hetty had known he was there, she would not have cried; and it would have been better, for then Arthur would perhaps have behaved as wisely as he had intended.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000007_000001|As it was, she started when he appeared at the end of the side alley, and looked up at him with two great drops rolling down her cheeks.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000008_000001|Have you seen anything in the wood?
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000008_000002|Don't be frightened-I'll take care of you now."
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000009_000000|Hetty was blushing so, she didn't know whether she was happy or miserable.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000009_000001|To be crying again-what did gentlemen think of girls who cried in that way?
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000009_000002|She felt unable even to say "no," but could only look away from him and wipe the tears from her cheek.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000009_000003|Not before a great drop had fallen on her rose coloured strings-she knew that quite well.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000010_000000|"Come, be cheerful again.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000010_000001|Smile at me, and tell me what's the matter. Come, tell me."
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000011_000000|Hetty turned her head towards him, whispered, "I thought you wouldn't come," and slowly got courage to lift her eyes to him.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000011_000001|That look was too much: he must have had eyes of Egyptian granite not to look too lovingly in return.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000012_000001|Little tearful rose!
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000012_000002|Silly pet!
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000012_000003|You won't cry again, now I'm with you, will you?"
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000013_000001|This is not what he meant to say.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000013_000002|His arm is stealing round the waist again; it is tightening its clasp; he is bending his face nearer and nearer to the round cheek; his lips are meeting those pouting child lips, and for a long moment time has vanished.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000013_000003|He may be a shepherd in Arcadia for aught he knows, he may be the first youth kissing the first maiden, he may be Eros himself, sipping the lips of Psyche-it is all one.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000014_000000|There was no speaking for minutes after.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000014_000001|They walked along with beating hearts till they came within sight of the gate at the end of the wood. Then they looked at each other, not quite as they had looked before, for in their eyes there was the memory of a kiss.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000015_000000|But already something bitter had begun to mingle itself with the fountain of sweets: already Arthur was uncomfortable.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000015_000001|He took his arm from Hetty's waist, and said, "Here we are, almost at the end of the Grove.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000015_000003|However, I'd better not go any further now.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000015_000004|Trot along quickly with your little feet, and get home safely.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000016_000000|He took her hand, and looked at her half sadly, half with a constrained smile.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000016_000001|Hetty's eyes seemed to beseech him not to go away yet; but he patted her cheek and said "Good bye" again.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000016_000002|She was obliged to turn away from him and go on.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000017_000000|As for Arthur, he rushed back through the wood, as if he wanted to put a wide space between himself and Hetty.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000017_000002|He walked right on into the Chase, glad to get out of the Grove, which surely was haunted by his evil genius.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000017_000003|Those beeches and smooth limes-there was something enervating in the very sight of them; but the strong knotted old oaks had no bending languor in them-the sight of them would give a man some energy.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000018_000000|He was feeling much more strongly than he had done in the morning: it was as if his horse had wheeled round from a leap and dared to dispute his mastery.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000018_000001|He was dissatisfied with himself, irritated, mortified.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000018_000002|He no sooner fixed his mind on the probable consequences of giving way to the emotions which had stolen over him to day-of continuing to notice Hetty, of allowing himself any opportunity for such slight caresses as he had been betrayed into already-than he refused to believe such a future possible for himself.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000018_000003|To flirt with Hetty was a very different affair from flirting with a pretty girl of his own station: that was understood to be an amusement on both sides, or, if it became serious, there was no obstacle to marriage.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000018_000005|He could no more believe that he should so fall in his own esteem than that he should break both his legs and go on crutches all the rest of his life.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000019_000000|And even if no one knew anything about it, they might get too fond of each other, and then there could be nothing but the misery of parting, after all.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000019_000001|No gentleman, out of a ballad, could marry a farmer's niece. There must be an end to the whole thing at once.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000019_000002|It was too foolish.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000020_000000|And yet he had been so determined this morning, before he went to Gawaine's; and while he was there something had taken hold of him and made him gallop back.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000020_000001|It seemed he couldn't quite depend on his own resolution, as he had thought he could; he almost wished his arm would get painful again, and then he should think of nothing but the comfort it would be to get rid of the pain.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000020_000003|What could he do to secure himself from any more of this folly?
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000021_000000|There was but one resource.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000021_000001|He would go and tell Irwine-tell him everything.
train-other-500/1653/142352/1653_142352_000021_000002|The mere act of telling it would make it seem trivial; the temptation would vanish, as the charm of fond words vanishes when one repeats them to the indifferent.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000000_000000|Chapter thirty five
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000001_000000|The Hidden Dread
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000002_000001|But a happy time, nevertheless, for it was taking him nearer and nearer to March, when they were to be married, and all the little preparations for their new housekeeping marked the progress towards the longed for day.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000002_000003|Lisbeth had cried so piteously at the thought of leaving Adam that he had gone to Hetty and asked her if, for the love of him, she would put up with his mother's ways and consent to live with her.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000002_000004|To his great delight, Hetty said, "Yes; I'd as soon she lived with us as not." Hetty's mind was oppressed at that moment with a worse difficulty than poor Lisbeth's ways; she could not care about them.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000003_000000|There was only one cloud that now and then came across Adam's sunshine: Hetty seemed unhappy sometimes.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000003_000001|But to all his anxious, tender questions, she replied with an assurance that she was quite contented and wished nothing different; and the next time he saw her she was more lively than usual.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000005_000000|It was about ten o'clock when Hetty set off, and the slight hoar frost that had whitened the hedges in the early morning had disappeared as the sun mounted the cloudless sky.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000005_000001|Bright February days have a stronger charm of hope about them than any other days in the year.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000005_000002|One likes to pause in the mild rays of the sun, and look over the gates at the patient plough horses turning at the end of the furrow, and think that the beautiful year is all before one.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000005_000003|The birds seem to feel just the same: their notes are as clear as the clear air.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000005_000006|What a glad world this looks like, as one drives or rides along the valleys and over the hills!
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000005_000007|I have often thought so when, in foreign countries, where the fields and woods have looked to me like our English Loamshire-the rich land tilled with just as much care, the woods rolling down the gentle slopes to the green meadows-I have come on something by the roadside which has reminded me that I am not in Loamshire: an image of a great agony-the agony of the Cross.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000006_000000|Such things are sometimes hidden among the sunny fields and behind the blossoming orchards; and the sound of the gurgling brook, if you came close to one spot behind a small bush, would be mingled for your ear with a despairing human sob.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000006_000001|No wonder man's religion has much sorrow in it: no wonder he needs a suffering God.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000001|She hardly knows that the sun is shining; and for weeks, now, when she has hoped at all, it has been for something at which she herself trembles and shudders.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000002|She only wants to be out of the high road, that she may walk slowly and not care how her face looks, as she dwells on wretched thoughts; and through this gate she can get into a field path behind the wide thick hedgerows.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000003|Her great dark eyes wander blankly over the fields like the eyes of one who is desolate, homeless, unloved, not the promised bride of a brave tender man.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000004|But there are no tears in them: her tears were all wept away in the weary night, before she went to sleep.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000005|At the next stile the pathway branches off: there are two roads before her-one along by the hedgerow, which will by and by lead her into the road again, the other across the fields, which will take her much farther out of the way into the Scantlands, low shrouded pastures where she will see nobody.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000006|She chooses this and begins to walk a little faster, as if she had suddenly thought of an object towards which it was worth while to hasten.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000007|Soon she is in the Scantlands, where the grassy land slopes gradually downwards, and she leaves the level ground to follow the slope.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000009|She sits down on the grassy bank, against the stooping stem of the great oak that hangs over the dark pool.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000007_000010|She has thought of this pool often in the nights of the month that has just gone by, and now at last she is come to see it.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000008_000000|No, she has not courage to jump into that cold watery bed, and if she had, they might find her-they might find out why she had drowned herself.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000009_000002|Whenever the thought of writing to Arthur had occurred to her, she had rejected it.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000009_000003|He could do nothing for her that would shelter her from discovery and scorn among the relatives and neighbours who once more made all her world, now her airy dream had vanished.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000009_000004|Her imagination no longer saw happiness with Arthur, for he could do nothing that would satisfy or soothe her pride.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000009_000005|No, something else would happen-something must happen-to set her free from this dread.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000009_000006|In young, childish, ignorant souls there is constantly this blind trust in some unshapen chance: it is as hard to a boy or girl to believe that a great wretchedness will actually befall them as to believe that they will die.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000010_000000|But now necessity was pressing hard upon her-now the time of her marriage was close at hand-she could no longer rest in this blind trust.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000010_000002|She felt so helpless now, so unable to fashion the future for herself, that the prospect of throwing herself on him had a relief in it which was stronger than her pride.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000011_000003|She would tell her aunt when she got home again that she should like the change of going to Snowfield for a week or ten days.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000011_000004|And then, when she got to Stoniton, where nobody knew her, she would ask for the coach that would take her on the way to Windsor.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000012_000000|As soon as Hetty had determined on this scheme, she rose from the grassy bank of the pool, took up her basket, and went on her way to Treddleston, for she must buy the wedding things she had come out for, though she would never want them.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000012_000001|She must be careful not to raise any suspicion that she was going to run away.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000013_000000|mrs Poyser was quite agreeably surprised that Hetty wished to go and see Dinah and try to bring her back to stay over the wedding.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000013_000001|The sooner she went the better, since the weather was pleasant now; and Adam, when he came in the evening, said, if Hetty could set off to morrow, he would make time to go with her to Treddleston and see her safe into the Stoniton coach.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000015_000000|He was looking at her fondly, and his strong hand held hers in its grasp.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000015_000001|Hetty felt a sense of protection in his presence-she was used to it now: if she could have had the past undone and known no other love than her quiet liking for Adam!
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000015_000002|The tears rose as she gave him the last look.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000017_000000|But Hetty's tears were not for Adam-not for the anguish that would come upon him when he found she was gone from him for ever.
train-other-500/1653/142374/1653_142374_000019_000000|Yet Arthur was at Windsor; he would surely not be angry with her.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirty two
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000003_000000|"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black eyed maid." --Pope.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000004_000001|The eye could range, in every direction, through the long and shadowed vistas of the trees; but nowhere was any object to be seen that did not properly belong to the peaceful and slumbering scenery.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000006_000000|When he saw his little band collected, the scout threw "killdeer" into the hollow of his arm, and making a silent signal that he would be followed, he led them many rods toward the rear, into the bed of a little brook which they had crossed in advancing.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000006_000001|Here he halted, and after waiting for the whole of his grave and attentive warriors to close about him, he spoke in Delaware, demanding:
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000007_000000|"Do any of my young men know whither this run will lead us?"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000008_000000|A Delaware stretched forth a hand, with the two fingers separated, and indicating the manner in which they were joined at the root, he answered:
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000009_000000|"Before the sun could go his own length, the little water will be in the big." Then he added, pointing in the direction of the place he mentioned, "the two make enough for the beavers."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000011_000000|His companions gave the usual brief exclamation of assent, but, perceiving that their leader was about to lead the way in person, one or two made signs that all was not as it should be.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000011_000001|Hawkeye, who comprehended their meaning glances, turned and perceived that his party had been followed thus far by the singing master.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000013_000000|"Though not admonished of your intentions in words," returned David, whose face was a little flushed, and whose ordinarily quiet and unmeaning eyes glimmered with an expression of unusual fire, "your men have reminded me of the children of Jacob going out to battle against the Shechemites, for wickedly aspiring to wedlock with a woman of a race that was favored of the Lord.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000013_000001|Now, I have journeyed far, and sojourned much in good and evil with the maiden ye seek; and, though not a man of war, with my loins girded and my sword sharpened, yet would I gladly strike a blow in her behalf."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000014_000000|The scout hesitated, as if weighing the chances of such a strange enlistment in his mind before he answered:
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000015_000001|You carry no rifle; and believe me, what the Mingoes take they will freely give again."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000016_000000|"Though not a vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath," returned David, drawing a sling from beneath his parti colored and uncouth attire, "I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000017_000001|However, it seems to be your gift to go unharmed amid fire; and as you have hitherto been favored-major, you have left your rifle at a cock; a single shot before the time would be just twenty scalps lost to no purpose-singer, you can follow; we may find use for you in the shoutings."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000018_000000|"I thank you, friend," returned David, supplying himself, like his royal namesake, from among the pebbles of the brook; "though not given to the desire to kill, had you sent me away my spirit would have been troubled."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000019_000000|"Remember," added the scout, tapping his own head significantly on that spot where Gamut was yet sore, "we come to fight, and not to musickate. Until the general whoop is given, nothing speaks but the rifle."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000020_000000|David nodded, as much to signify his acquiescence with the terms; and then Hawkeye, casting another observant glance over his followers made the signal to proceed.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000021_000001|Though protected from any great danger of observation by the precipitous banks, and the thick shrubbery which skirted the stream, no precaution known to an Indian attack was neglected.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000021_000002|A warrior rather crawled than walked on each flank so as to catch occasional glimpses into the forest; and every few minutes the band came to a halt, and listened for hostile sounds, with an acuteness of organs that would be scarcely conceivable to a man in a less natural state.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000021_000004|Here the scout again halted, to consult the signs of the forest.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000022_000001|Everything is favorable; they have the wind, which will bring down their noises and their smoke, too, no little matter in itself; whereas, with us it will be first a shot, and then a clear view.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000023_000000|Hawkeye had, in truth, in these few words, given no bad description of the prospect that now lay in their front.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000024_000001|He knew that the Huron encampment lay a short half mile up the brook; and, with the characteristic anxiety of one who dreaded a hidden danger, he was greatly troubled at not finding the smallest trace of the presence of his enemy.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000024_000002|Once or twice he felt induced to give the order for a rush, and to attempt the village by surprise; but his experience quickly admonished him of the danger of so useless an experiment.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000024_000004|At length, yielding rather to his unusual impatience than taking counsel from his knowledge, he determined to bring matters to an issue, by unmasking his force, and proceeding cautiously, but steadily, up the stream.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000028_000000|The band dispersed at the word, and before Heyward had well recovered from his surprise, he found himself standing alone with David.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000000|It would seem that the assault had been made by a very small party of the Hurons, which, however, continued to increase in numbers, as it retired on its friends, until the return fire was very nearly, if not quite, equal to that maintained by the advancing Delawares.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000001|Heyward threw himself among the combatants, and imitating the necessary caution of his companions, he made quick discharges with his own rifle.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000002|The contest now grew warm and stationary.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000003|Few were injured, as both parties kept their bodies as much protected as possible by the trees; never, indeed, exposing any part of their persons except in the act of taking aim.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000004|But the chances were gradually growing unfavorable to Hawkeye and his band.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000005|The quick sighted scout perceived his danger without knowing how to remedy it.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000029_000006|He saw it was more dangerous to retreat than to maintain his ground: while he found his enemy throwing out men on his flank; which rendered the task of keeping themselves covered so very difficult to the Delawares, as nearly to silence their fire.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000031_000000|Animating his followers by his voice, and his own example, Hawkeye then gave the word to bear down upon their foes.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000031_000003|Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000032_000000|In this crisis, Hawkeye found means to get behind the same tree as that which served for a cover to Heyward; most of his own combatants being within call, a little on his right, where they maintained rapid, though fruitless, discharges on their sheltered enemies.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000033_000001|You may here see the philosophy of an Indian fight.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000033_000003|Now, if you had a company of the Royal Americans here, in what manner would you set them to work in this business?"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000034_000000|"The bayonet would make a road."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000036_000003|One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the battle of Miami assured the writer, that the red men could not fight the warriors with "long knives and leather stockings"; meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000037_000000|"This is a subject that might better be discussed at another time," returned Heyward; "shall we charge?"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000038_000000|"I see no contradiction to the gifts of any man in passing his breathing spells in useful reflections," the scout replied.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000038_000001|"As to rush, I little relish such a measure; for a scalp or two must be thrown away in the attempt.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000038_000002|And yet," he added, bending his head aside, to catch the sounds of the distant combat, "if we are to be of use to Uncas, these knaves in our front must be got rid of."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000039_000000|Then, turning with a prompt and decided air, he called aloud to his Indians, in their own language.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000039_000002|The sight of so many dark bodies, glancing before their eyes at the same instant, drew a hasty and consequently an ineffectual fire from the Hurons.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000039_000003|Without stopping to breathe, the Delawares leaped in long bounds toward the wood, like so many panthers springing upon their prey.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000039_000004|Hawkeye was in front, brandishing his terrible rifle and animating his followers by his example.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000039_000006|But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000039_000007|The Delawares broke into the cover with the ferocity of their natures and swept away every trace of resistance by the fury of the onset.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000041_000000|"There speaks the Sagamore!" shouted Hawkeye, answering the cry with his own stentorian voice; "we have them now in face and back!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000042_000000|The effect on the Hurons was instantaneous.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000043_000002|Chingachgook assumed the station to which his birth and experience gave him so distinguished a claim, with the grave dignity that always gives force to the mandates of a native warrior.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000043_000003|Following the footsteps of the scout, he led the party back through the thicket, his men scalping the fallen Hurons and secreting the bodies of their own dead as they proceeded, until they gained a point where the former was content to make a halt.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000044_000000|The warriors, who had breathed themselves freely in the preceding struggle, were now posted on a bit of level ground, sprinkled with trees in sufficient numbers to conceal them.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000044_000001|The land fell away rather precipitately in front, and beneath their eyes stretched, for several miles, a narrow, dark, and wooded vale.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000046_000000|"The fight is coming up the ascent," said Duncan, pointing in the direction of a new explosion of firearms; "we are too much in the center of their line to be effective."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000049_000000|It was not long before the reports of the rifles began to lose the echoes of the woods, and to sound like weapons discharged in the open air.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000049_000001|Then a warrior appeared, here and there, driven to the skirts of the forest, and rallying as he entered the clearing, as at the place where the final stand was to be made.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000049_000002|These were soon joined by others, until a long line of swarthy figures was to be seen clinging to the cover with the obstinacy of desperation.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000049_000004|The chief was seated on a rock, with nothing visible but his calm visage, considering the spectacle with an eye as deliberate as if he were posted there merely to view the struggle.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000050_000000|"The time has come for the Delaware to strike!" said Duncan.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000051_000000|"Not so, not so," returned the scout; "when he scents his friends, he will let them know that he is here.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000051_000002|By the Lord, a squaw might put a bullet into the center of such a knot of dark skins!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000053_000002|A minute might have passed, but the sounds were already receding in different directions, and gradually losing their distinctness beneath the echoing arches of the woods.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000053_000004|Magua was conspicuous in this party, both by his fierce and savage mien, and by the air of haughty authority he yet maintained.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000054_000003|But at the moment when he thought the rashness of his impetuous young assailant had left him at his mercy, another shout was given, and La Longue Carabine was seen rushing to the rescue, attended by all his white associates.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000055_000000|There was no time for greetings or congratulations; for Uncas, though unconscious of the presence of his friends, continued the pursuit with the velocity of the wind.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000055_000001|In vain Hawkeye called to him to respect the covers; the young Mohican braved the dangerous fire of his enemies, and soon compelled them to a flight as swift as his own headlong speed.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000056_000000|Excited by the presence of their dwellings, and tired of the chase, the Hurons now made a stand, and fought around their council lodge with the fury of despair.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000056_000001|The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirlwind.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000056_000002|The tomahawk of Uncas, the blows of Hawkeye, and even the still nervous arm of Munro were all busy for that passing moment, and the ground was quickly strewed with their enemies.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000056_000004|Raising a yell that spoke volumes of anger and disappointment, the subtle chief, when he saw his comrades fallen, darted away from the place, attended by his two only surviving friends, leaving the Delawares engaged in stripping the dead of the bloody trophies of their victory.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000057_000001|The utmost that the scout could effect, was to keep the muzzle of his rifle a little in advance of his friend, to whom, however, it answered every purpose of a charmed shield.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000057_000003|Hawkeye, who had only forborne to fire in tenderness to Uncas, raised a shout of success, and proclaimed aloud that now they were certain of their game.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000057_000006|The place, seen by its dim and uncertain light, appeared like the shades of the infernal regions, across which unhappy ghosts and savage demons were flitting in multitudes.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000058_000000|Still Uncas kept his eye on Magua, as if life to him possessed but a single object.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000059_000000|"'tis Cora!" exclaimed Heyward, in a voice in which horror and delight were wildly mingled.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000061_000000|"'tis the maiden!" shouted the scout.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000061_000001|"Courage, lady; we come! we come!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000062_000001|But the way was rugged, broken, and in spots nearly impassable.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000062_000002|Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000064_000000|Though his words were unheeded, or rather unheard, his example was followed by his companions, who, by incredible exertions, got near enough to the fugitives to perceive that Cora was borne along between the two warriors while Magua prescribed the direction and manner of their flight.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000064_000001|At this moment the forms of all four were strongly drawn against an opening in the sky, and they disappeared.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000064_000003|The course lay up the ascent, and still continued hazardous and laborious.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000065_000000|Encumbered by his rifle, and, perhaps, not sustained by so deep an interest in the captive as his companions, the scout suffered the latter to precede him a little, Uncas, in his turn, taking the lead of Heyward. In this manner, rocks, precipices and difficulties were surmounted in an incredibly short space, that at another time, and under other circumstances, would have been deemed almost insuperable.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000065_000001|But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000066_000000|"Stay, dog of the Wyandots!" exclaimed Uncas, shaking his bright tomahawk at Magua; "a Delaware girl calls stay!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000067_000000|"I will go no further!" cried Cora, stopping unexpectedly on a ledge of rock, that overhung a deep precipice, at no great distance from the summit of the mountain.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000067_000001|"Kill me if thou wilt, detestable Huron; I will go no further."
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000068_000000|The supporters of the maiden raised their ready tomahawks with the impious joy that fiends are thought to take in mischief, but Magua stayed the uplifted arms.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000070_000000|Cora regarded him not, but dropping on her knees, she raised her eyes and stretched her arms toward heaven, saying in a meek and yet confiding voice:
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000071_000000|"I am thine; do with me as thou seest best!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000072_000000|"Woman," repeated Magua, hoarsely, and endeavoring in vain to catch a glance from her serene and beaming eye, "choose!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000073_000000|But Cora neither heard nor heeded his demand.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000074_000001|Diverted from his object by this interruption, and maddened by the murder he had just witnessed, Magua buried his weapon in the back of the prostrate Delaware, uttering an unearthly shout as he committed the dastardly deed.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000075_000000|"Mercy! mercy!
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000076_000000|Whirling the bloody knife up at the imploring youth, the victorious Magua uttered a cry so fierce, so wild, and yet so joyous, that it conveyed the sounds of savage triumph to the ears of those who fought in the valley, a thousand feet below.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000076_000001|He was answered by a burst from the lips of the scout, whose tall person was just then seen moving swiftly toward him, along those dangerous crags, with steps as bold and reckless as if he possessed the power to move in air.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000077_000000|His keen eye took a single look at the victims, and then shot its glances over the difficulties of the ascent in his front.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000077_000001|A form stood at the brow of the mountain, on the very edge of the giddy height, with uplifted arms, in an awful attitude of menace.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000077_000002|Without stopping to consider his person, the rifle of Hawkeye was raised; but a rock, which fell on the head of one of the fugitives below, exposed the indignant and glowing countenance of the honest Gamut.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000077_000004|A single bound would carry him to the brow of the precipice, and assure his safety.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000078_000000|"The pale faces are dogs! the Delawares women!
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000078_000001|Magua leaves them on the rocks, for the crows!"
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000079_000002|Without exhausting himself with fruitless efforts, the cunning Magua suffered his body to drop to the length of his arms, and found a fragment for his feet to rest on.
train-other-500/1664/122623/1664_122623_000079_000006|Turning a relentless look on his enemy, he shook a hand in grim defiance.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000002|Then groaned that knight, and addressed him to Sir Gawaine, and with an awk stroke gave him a great wound and cut a vein, which grieved Gawaine sore, and he bled sore.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000004|Then answered Gawaine, it grieveth me but little, thy great words shall not fear me nor lessen my courage, but thou shalt suffer teen and sorrow or we depart, but tell me in haste who may staunch my bleeding.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000008|My father is lineally descended of Alexander and of Hector by right line.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000009|And Duke joshua and Maccabaeus were of our lineage.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000011|I was so elate and hauteyn in my heart that I thought no man my peer, nor to me semblable.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000012|I was sent into this war with seven score knights, and now I have encountered with thee, which hast given to me of fighting my fill, wherefore sir knight, I pray thee to tell me what thou art.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000001_000017|Therefore grudge not if this grace is to me fortuned, it is the goodness of God that lent to me my strength.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000003_000004|And Sir Florence shall abide still in this field to keep the stale as a noble knight, and we shall not forsake yonder fellows.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000003_000005|Now, said Priamus, cease your words, for I warn you ye shall find in yonder woods many perilous knights; they will put forth beasts to call you on, they be out of number, and ye are not past seven hundred, which be over few to fight with so many.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000003_000006|Nevertheless, said Sir Gawaine, we shall once encounter them, and see what they can do, and the best shall have the victory.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000004_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000007_000000|And with that he saw an earl called Sir Ethelwold and the duke of Dutchmen, came leaping out of a wood with many thousands, and Priamus' knights, and came straight unto the battle.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000007_000004|Then entered into the battle Jubance a giant, and fought and slew down right, and distressed many of our knights, among whom was slain Sir Gherard, a knight of Wales.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000007_000005|Then our knights took heart to them, and slew many Saracens.
train-other-500/1664/137600/1664_137600_000010_000000|NOW thanked be God, said the noble King Arthur.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000003_000000|A little back from the high road there stands a house which is called 'Hemgard.' Perhaps you remember the two beautiful mountain ash trees by the reddish brown palings, and the high gate, and the garden with the beautiful barberry bushes which are always the first to become grown in spring, and which in summer are weighed down with their beautiful berries.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000005_000000|But on the other side of the garden there is a lake, and beyond the lake is a village, and all around stretch meadows and fields, now yellow, now green.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000006_000000|In the pretty house, which has white window frames, a neat porch and clean steps, which are always strewn with finely cut juniper leaves, Walter's parents live.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000008_000000|Walter is six years old, and he must soon begin to go to school. He cannot read yet, but he can do many other things.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000008_000001|He can turn cartwheels, stand on his head, ride see saw, throw snowballs, play ball, crow like a cock, eat bread and butter and drink sour milk, tear his trousers, wear holes in his elbows, break the crockery in pieces, throw balls through the windowpanes, draw old men on important papers, walk over the flower beds, eat himself sick with gooseberries, and be well after a whipping.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000009_000000|Once in the spring, a little before Midsummer, Walter heard that there were a great many wolves in the wood, and that pleased him.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000011_000000|Indeed, some thought that the brave boy boasted a little; but one must indeed believe him since he said so himself.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000011_000001|So Jonas and Lena used to say of him 'Look, there goes Walter, who shoots the wolves.' And other boys and girls would say 'Look, there goes brave Walter, who is brave enough to fight with four.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000012_000000|There was no one so fully convinced of this as Walter himself, and one day he prepared himself for a real wolf hunt.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000012_000001|He took with him his drum, which had holes in one end since the time he had climbed up on it to reach a cluster of rowan berries, and his tin sabre, which was a little broken, because he had with incredible courage fought his way through a whole unfriendly army of gooseberry bushes.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000013_000000|He did not forget to arm himself quite to the teeth with his pop gun, his bow, and his air pistol.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000013_000001|He had a burnt cork in his pocket to blacken his moustache, and a red cock's feather to put in his cap to make himself look fierce.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000013_000002|He had besides in his trouser pocket a clasp knife with a bone handle, to cut off the ears of the wolves as soon as he had killed them, for he thought it would be cruel to do that while they were still living.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000014_000000|It was such a good thing that Jonas was going with corn to the mill, for Walter got a seat on the load, while Caro ran barking beside them.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000014_000001|As soon as they came to the wood Walter looked cautiously around him to see perchance there was a wolf in the bushes, and he did not omit to ask Jonas if wolves were afraid of a drum.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000014_000002|'Of course they are' (that is understood) said Jonas.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000014_000003|Thereupon Walter began to beat his drum with all his might while they were going through the wood.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000015_000000|When they came to the mill Walter immediately asked if there had been any wolves in the neighbourhood lately.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000016_000000|'Alas! yes,' said the miller, 'last night the wolves have eaten our fattest ram there by the kiln not far from here.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000017_000000|'Ah!' said Walter, 'do you think that there were many?'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000018_000000|'We don't know,' answered the miller.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000020_000000|'I could manage very well alone with three, but if there were more, I might not have time to kill them all before they ran away.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000021_000000|'In Walter's place I should go quite alone, it is more manly,' said Jonas.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000022_000000|'No, it is better for you to come too,' said Walter. 'Perhaps there are many.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000023_000000|'No, I have not time,' said Jonas, 'and besides, there are sure not to be more than three.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000023_000001|Walter can manage them very well alone.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000024_000000|'Yes,' said Walter, 'certainly I could; but, you see, Jonas, it might happen that one of them might bite me in the back, and I should have more trouble in killing them.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000024_000001|If I only knew that there were not more than two I should not mind, for them I should take one in each hand and give them a good shaking, like Susanna once shook me.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000025_000000|'I certainly think that there will not be more than two,' said Jonas, 'there are never more than two when they slay children and rams; Walter can very well shake them without me.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000026_000000|'But, you see, Jonas,' said Walter, 'if there are two, it might still happen that one of them escapes and bites me in the leg, for you see I am not so strong in the left hand as in the right.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000027_000000|'Now, when I really think over the thing,' said Jonas, 'I am almost sure there will not be more than one.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000027_000001|What would two do with one ram?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000027_000002|There will certainly not be more than one.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000028_000000|'But you should come with me all the same, Jonas,' said Walter. 'You see I can very well manage one, but I am not quite accustomed to wolves yet, and he might tear holes in my new trousers.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000029_000000|'Well, just listen,' said Jonas, 'I am beginning to think that Walter is not so brave as people say.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000029_000001|First of all Walter would fight against four, and then against three, then two, and then one, and now Walter wants help with one.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000029_000002|Such a thing must never be; what would people say? Perhaps they would think that Walter is a coward?'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000030_000001|I only want someone who will see how I strike the wolf and how the dust flies out of his skin.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000031_000000|'Well, then, Walter can take the miller's little Lisa with him.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000031_000001|She can sit on a stone and look on,' said Jonas.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000032_000000|'No, she would certainly be frightened,' said Walter, 'and how would it do for a girl to go wolf hunting?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000032_000001|Come with me, Jonas, and you shall have the skin, and I will be content with the ears and the tail.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000033_000000|'No, thank you,' said Jonas, 'Walter can keep the skin for himself.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000033_000001|Now I see quite well that he is frightened.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000033_000002|Fie, shame on him!'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000034_000000|This touched Walter's pride very near.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000034_000001|'I shall show that I am not frightened,' he said; and so he took his drum, sabre, cock's feather, clasp knife, pop gun and air pistol, and went off quite alone to the wood to hunt wolves.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000035_000000|It was a beautiful evening, and the birds were singing in all the branches.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000035_000002|At every step he looked all round him to see if perchance there was anything lurking behind the stones.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000035_000003|He quite thought something moved away there in the ditch.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000035_000004|Perhaps it was a wolf.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000035_000005|'It is better for me to beat the drum a little before I go there,' thought Walter.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000001|Then something moved again.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000003|Walter immediately regained courage. 'It was well I took my drum with me,' he thought, and went straight on with courageous steps.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000004|Very soon he came quite close to the kiln, where the wolves had killed the ram.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000005|But the nearer he came the more dreadful he thought the kiln looked.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000006|It was so gray and old.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000007|Who knew how many wolves there might be hidden there?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000008|Perhaps the very ones which killed the ram were still sitting there in a corner.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000009|Yes, it was not at all safe here, and there were no other people to be seen in the neighbourhood.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000036_000010|It would be horrible to be eaten up here in the daylight, thought Walter to himself; and the more he thought about it the uglier and grayer the old kiln looked, and the more horrible and dreadful it seemed to become the food of wolves.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000037_000001|If you tell a lie to day and say you struck a wolf, to morrow surely it will eat you up.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000038_000000|'No, I will go to the kiln,' thought Walter, and so he went.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000038_000001|But he did not go quite near.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000038_000002|He went only so near that he could see the ram's blood which coloured the grass red, and some tufts of wool which the wolves had torn from the back of the poor animal.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000039_000000|It looked so dreadful.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000040_000000|'I wonder what the ram thought when they ate him up,' thought Walter to himself; and just then a cold shiver ran through him from his collar right down to his boots.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000041_000000|'It is better for me to beat the drum,' he thought to himself again, and so he began to beat it.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000041_000001|But it sounded horrid, and an echo came out from the kiln that seemed almost like the howl of a wolf.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000041_000002|The drumsticks stiffened in Walter's hands, and he thought now they are coming...!
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000042_000000|Yes, sure enough, just then a shaggy, reddish brown wolf's head looked out from under the kiln!
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000043_000000|What did Walter do now?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000043_000001|Yes, the brave Walter who alone could manage four, threw his drum far away, took to his heels and ran, and ran as fast as he could back to the mill.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000044_000000|But, alas! the wolf ran after him.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000044_000001|Walter looked back; the wolf was quicker than he and only a few steps behind him.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000044_000002|Then Walter ran faster. But fear got the better of him, he neither heard nor saw anything more. He ran over sticks, stones and ditches; he lost drum sticks, sabre, bow, and air pistol, and in his terrible hurry he tripped over a tuft of grass.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000044_000003|There he lay, and the wolf jumped on to him....
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000045_000000|It was a gruesome tale!
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000045_000001|Now you may well believe that it was all over with Walter and all his adventures.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000045_000002|That would have been a pity.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000045_000003|But do not be surprised if it was not quite so bad as that, for the wolf was quite a friendly one.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000045_000004|He certainly jumped on to Walter, but he only shook his coat and rubbed his nose against his face; and Walter shrieked.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000045_000005|Yes, he shrieked terribly!
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000046_000000|Happily Jonas heard his cry of distress, for Walter was quite near the mill now, and he ran and helped him up.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000047_000000|'What has happened?' he asked.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000047_000001|'Why did Walter scream so terribly?'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000048_000000|'A wolf!
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000048_000001|A wolf!' cried Walter, and that was all he could say.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000049_000000|'Where is the wolf?' said Jonas.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000049_000001|'I don't see any wolf.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000051_000000|Then Jonas began to laugh; yes, he laughed so that he nearly burst his skin belt.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000052_000000|Well, well, was that the wolf?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000052_000001|Was that the wolf which Walter was to take by the neck and shake and throw down on its back, no matter how much it struggled?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000052_000002|Just look a little closer at him: he is your old friend, your own good old Caro.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000052_000003|I quite expect he found a leg of the ram in the kiln.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000052_000004|When Walter beat his drum, Caro crept out, and when Walter ran away, Caro ran after him, as he so often does when Walter wants to romp and play.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000053_000000|'Down, Caro! you ought to be rather ashamed to have put such a great hero to flight!'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000055_000000|'Down, Caro!' he said, both relieved and annoyed.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000056_000000|'It was only a dog, then if it had been a wolf I certainly should have killed him....'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000057_000000|'If Walter would listen to my advice, and boast a little less, and do a little more,' said Jonas, consolingly.
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000057_000001|'Walter is not a coward, is he?'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000058_000002|You see I like so much better to fight with bears.'
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000059_000000|'Indeed!' laughed Jonas. 'Are you at it again?
train-other-500/1665/132826/1665_132826_000060_000000|'Dear Walter, remember that it is only cowards who boast; a really brave man never talks of his bravery.'
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000002_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000003_000000|That same evening there was an animated discussion among the squadron's officers in Denisov's quarters.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000004_000000|"And I tell you, Rostov, that you must apologize to the colonel!" said a tall, grizzly haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostov who was crimson with excitement.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000005_000000|The staff captain, Kirsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000006_000000|"I will allow no one to call me a liar!" cried Rostov.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000006_000001|"He told me I lied, and I told him he lied.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000006_000002|And there it rests.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000006_000003|He may keep me on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then..."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000007_000000|"You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen," interrupted the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000008_000000|"I'm not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of other officers.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000008_000001|Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am not a diplomatist.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000008_000002|That's why I joined the hussars, thinking that here one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying-so let him give me satisfaction..."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000009_000000|"That's all right.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000009_000001|No one thinks you a coward, but that's not the point.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000009_000002|Ask Denisov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000010_000000|Denisov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000010_000001|He answered the staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000011_000000|"You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other officers," continued the staff captain, "and Bogdanich" (the colonel was called Bogdanich) "shuts you up."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000012_000000|"He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000013_000000|"Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must apologize."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000014_000000|"Not on any account!" exclaimed Rostov.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000000|"I did not expect this of you," said the staff captain seriously and severely.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000001|"You don't wish to apologize, but, man, it's not only to him but to the whole regiment-all of us-you're to blame all round.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000002|The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the officers.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000003|Now what was the colonel to do?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000004|Have the officer tried and disgrace the whole regiment?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000005|Disgrace the whole regiment because of one scoundrel?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000006|Is that how you look at it?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000007|We don't see it like that.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000008|And Bogdanich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000009|It's not pleasant, but what's to be done, my dear fellow?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000010|You landed yourself in it.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000011|And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole affair public.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000012|You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not apologize to an old and honorable officer?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000013|Whatever Bogdanich may be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000014|You're quick at taking offense, but you don't mind disgracing the whole regiment!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000015|The staff captain's voice began to tremble.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000016|"You have been in the regiment next to no time, my lad, you're here today and tomorrow you'll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when it is said 'There are thieves among the Pavlograd officers!' But it's not all the same to us!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000017|Am I not right, Denisov?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000015_000018|It's not the same!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000016_000000|Denisov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with his glittering black eyes at Rostov.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000017_000000|"You value your own pride and don't wish to apologize," continued the staff captain, "but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the regiment, and Bogdanich knows it.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000017_000001|Oh, we do prize it, old fellow!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000017_000002|And all this is not right, it's not right!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000017_000003|You may take offense or not but I always stick to mother truth.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000017_000004|It's not right!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000018_000000|And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostov.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000019_000000|"That's twue, devil take it!" shouted Denisov, jumping up.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000019_000001|"Now then, Wostov, now then!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000020_000000|Rostov, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer and then at the other.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000000|"No, gentlemen, no.. you mustn't think...
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000001|I quite understand.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000002|You're wrong to think that of me...
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000003|I... for me... for the honor of the regiment I'd...
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000004|Ah well, I'll show that in action, and for me the honor of the flag...
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000005|Well, never mind, it's true I'm to blame, to blame all round.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000021_000006|Well, what else do you want?..."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000022_000000|"Come, that's right, Count!" cried the staff captain, turning round and clapping Rostov on the shoulder with his big hand.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000023_000000|"I tell you," shouted Denisov, "he's a fine fellow."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000024_000000|"That's better, Count," said the staff captain, beginning to address Rostov by his title, as if in recognition of his confession.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000024_000001|"Go and apologize, your excellency.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000024_000002|Yes, go!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000025_000000|"Gentlemen, I'll do anything.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000025_000001|No one shall hear a word from me," said Rostov in an imploring voice, "but I can't apologize, by God I can't, do what you will!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000025_000002|How can I go and apologize like a little boy asking forgiveness?"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000026_000000|Denisov began to laugh.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000027_000000|"It'll be worse for you.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000027_000001|Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay for your obstinacy," said Kirsten.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000028_000000|"No, on my word it's not obstinacy!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000028_000001|I can't describe the feeling.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000028_000002|I can't..."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000029_000000|"Well, it's as you like," said the staff captain.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000029_000001|"And what has become of that scoundrel?" he asked Denisov.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000031_000000|"It is an illness, there's no other way of explaining it," said the staff captain.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000032_000001|I'd kill him!" shouted Denisov in a bloodthirsty tone.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000033_000000|Just then Zherkov entered the room.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000034_000000|"What brings you here?" cried the officers turning to the newcomer.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000035_000000|"We're to go into action, gentlemen!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000036_000000|"It's not true!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000037_000000|"I've seen him myself!"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000038_000000|"What?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000038_000001|Saw the real Mack?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000038_000002|With hands and feet?"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000039_000000|"Into action!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000039_000001|Into action!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000039_000002|Bring him a bottle for such news!
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000039_000003|But how did you come here?"
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000040_000000|"I've been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, Mack.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000040_000002|I congratulated him on Mack's arrival...
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000040_000003|What's the matter, Rostov?
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000041_000000|"Oh, my dear fellow, we're in such a stew here these last two days."
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000042_000000|The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by Zherkov.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000042_000001|They were under orders to advance next day.
train-other-500/1665/136991/1665_136991_000043_000000|"We're going into action, gentlemen!"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000001_000000|They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000002_000000|"Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind-yes, kind, that is the chief thing," thought Princess Mary; and fear, which she had seldom experienced, came upon her.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000002_000001|She feared to look round, it seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the dark corner.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000002_000002|And this someone was he-the devil-and he was also this man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000003_000000|She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000005_000000|The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000005_000001|She could not lie either on her face or on her side.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000005_000002|Every position was awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than ever because Anatole's presence had vividly recalled to her the time when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000005_000003|She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000006_000000|"I told you it was all lumps and holes!" the little princess repeated.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000006_000001|"I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it's not my fault!" and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000007_000000|The old prince did not sleep either.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000007_000001|Tikhon, half asleep, heard him pacing angrily about and snorting.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000007_000002|The old prince felt as though he had been insulted through his daughter.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000007_000003|The insult was the more pointed because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he loved more than himself.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000007_000004|He kept telling himself that he would consider the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but instead of that he only excited himself more and more.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000008_000000|"The first man that turns up-she forgets her father and everything else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike herself!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000008_000001|Glad to throw her father over!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000008_000002|And she knew I should notice it.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000008_000005|And how is it she has not pride enough to see it?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000008_000006|If she has no pride for herself she might at least have some for my sake!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000008_000008|No, she has no pride... but I'll let her see...."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000010_000000|"What devil brought them here?" thought he, while Tikhon was putting the nightshirt over his dried up old body and gray haired chest.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000010_000001|"I never invited them.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000010_000002|They came to disturb my life-and there is not much of it left."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000011_000000|"Devil take 'em!" he muttered, while his head was still covered by the shirt.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000012_000000|Tikhon knew his master's habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of the face that emerged from the shirt.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000013_000000|"Gone to bed?" asked the prince.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000015_000000|"They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000016_000000|"No good... no good..." said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing gown, he went to the couch on which he slept.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000018_000000|Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000018_000001|It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000018_000002|She read this in Tikhon's face and in that of Prince Vasili's valet, who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot water.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000019_000000|The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of his daughter that morning.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000019_000001|Princess Mary well knew this painstaking expression of her father's.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000019_000002|His face wore that expression when his dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, repeating in a low voice the same words several times over.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000020_000000|He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000021_000000|"I have had a proposition made me concerning you," he said with an unnatural smile.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000021_000001|"I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasili has not come and brought his pupil with him" (for some reason Prince Bolkonski referred to Anatole as a "pupil") "for the sake of my beautiful eyes.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000022_000000|"How am I to understand you, mon pere?" said the princess, growing pale and then blushing.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000023_000000|"How understand me!" cried her father angrily.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000023_000001|"Prince Vasili finds you to his taste as a daughter in law and makes a proposal to you on his pupil's behalf.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000023_000002|That's how it's to be understood!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000023_000003|'How understand it'!...
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000023_000004|And I ask you!"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000024_000000|"I do not know what you think, Father," whispered the princess.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000025_000002|What of me?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000025_000003|Leave me out of the question.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000025_000004|I'm not going to get married.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000025_000005|What about you?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000025_000006|That's what I want to know."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000026_000001|She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to submit from habit, and she said: "I wish only to do your will, but if I had to express my own desire..." She had no time to finish.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000026_000002|The old prince interrupted her.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000027_000000|"That's admirable!" he shouted.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000027_000001|"He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000027_000002|She'll be the wife, while you..."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000028_000000|The prince stopped.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000028_000001|He saw the effect these words had produced on his daughter.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000028_000002|She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000029_000000|"Now then, now then, I'm only joking!" he said.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000029_000001|"Remember this, Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to choose.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000029_000002|I give you freedom.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000029_000003|Only remember that your life's happiness depends on your decision.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000029_000004|Never mind me!"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000030_000000|"But I do not know, Father!"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000031_000000|"There's no need to talk!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000031_000001|He receives his orders and will marry you or anybody; but you are free to choose....
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000031_000002|Go to your room, think it over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no I know you will pray over it.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000031_000003|Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000031_000004|Go!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000031_000005|Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!" he still shouted when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the study.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000032_000000|Her fate was decided and happily decided.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000032_000001|But what her father had said about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000032_000002|It was untrue to be sure, but still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000032_000003|She was going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle Bourienne aroused her.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000032_000004|She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000032_000005|With a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle Bourienne who had not yet seen her.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000033_000000|"Who's that?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000033_000001|Why?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000033_000003|Princess Mary looked at them in silence.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000033_000004|She could not understand it.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000036_000001|I love you more than ever," said Princess Mary, "and I will try to do all I can for your happiness."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000037_000000|"But you despise me.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000037_000001|You who are so pure can never understand being so carried away by passion.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000038_000000|"I quite understand," answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000038_000001|"Calm yourself, my dear.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000038_000002|I will go to my father," she said, and went out.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000039_000001|He hurriedly took a pinch of snuff.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000040_000001|Then, sighing, he added: "My son's fate is in your hands.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000040_000002|Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a daughter!"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000041_000000|He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000042_000001|"The prince is making a proposition to you in his pupil's-I mean, his son's-name.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000042_000002|Do you wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kuragin's wife?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000042_000003|Reply: yes or no," he shouted, "and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion also.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000042_000004|Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion," added Prince Bolkonski, turning to Prince Vasili and answering his imploring look.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000042_000005|"Yes, or no?"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000043_000000|"My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my life from yours.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000044_000000|"Humbug!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000044_000001|Nonsense!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000044_000002|Humbug, humbug, humbug!" cried Prince Bolkonski, frowning and taking his daughter's hand; he did not kiss her, but only bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so that she winced and uttered a cry.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000045_000000|Prince Vasili rose.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000046_000000|"My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never forget.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000046_000001|But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching this heart, so kind and generous?
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000046_000002|Say 'perhaps'...
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000046_000003|The future is so long.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000046_000004|Say 'perhaps.'"
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000047_000000|"Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000047_000001|I thank you for the honor, but I shall never be your son's wife."
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000048_000000|"Well, so that's finished, my dear fellow!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000048_000001|I am very glad to have seen you.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000048_000002|Very glad!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000048_000003|Go back to your rooms, Princess.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000048_000004|Go!" said the old prince.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000000|"My vocation is a different one," thought Princess Mary.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000001|"My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self sacrifice.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000002|And cost what it may, I will arrange poor Amelie's happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so passionately repents.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000003|I will do all I can to arrange the match between them.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000004|If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my father and Andrew.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000005|I shall be so happy when she is his wife.
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000006|She is so unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless!
train-other-500/1665/141758/1665_141758_000049_000008|Perhaps I might have done the same!..." thought Princess Mary.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000001_000001|It was night-time, and they were all workmen of the better class.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000001_000002|They had surrounded one of their number, a pleasant faced man of thirty, and were giving it to him rather heatedly.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000002_000000|"But 'ow about this 'ere cheap immigration?" one of them demanded.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000002_000001|"The Jews of Whitechapel, say, a cutting our throats right along?"
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000003_000000|"You can't blame them," was the answer.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000003_000002|Don't blame the man who offers to work cheaper than you and gets your job."
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000000|"There you are," came the answer.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000003|How about his wife and kiddies?
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000004|He's more interested in them than in yours, and he can't see them starve.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000005|So he cuts the price of labour and out you go. But you mustn't blame him, poor devil.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000006|He can't help it.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000007|Wages always come down when two men are after the same job.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000005_000008|That's the fault of competition, not of the man who cuts the price."
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000006_000000|"But wyges don't come down where there's a union," the objection was made.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000007_000000|"And there you are again, right on the head.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000007_000001|The union cheeks competition among the labourers, but makes it harder where there are no unions.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000007_000002|There's where your cheap labour of Whitechapel comes in.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000007_000003|They're unskilled, and have no unions, and cut each other's throats, and ours in the bargain, if we don't belong to a strong union."
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000008_000000|Without going further into the argument, this man on the Mile End Waste pointed the moral that when two men were after the one job wages were bound to fall.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000008_000001|Had he gone deeper into the matter, he would have found that even the union, say twenty thousand strong, could not hold up wages if twenty thousand idle men were trying to displace the union men.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000008_000002|This is admirably instanced, just now, by the return and disbandment of the soldiers from South Africa.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000008_000003|They find themselves, by tens of thousands, in desperate straits in the army of the unemployed.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000008_000004|There is a general decline in wages throughout the land, which, giving rise to labour disputes and strikes, is taken advantage of by the unemployed, who gladly pick up the tools thrown down by the strikers.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000009_000000|Sweating, starvation wages, armies of unemployed, and great numbers of the homeless and shelterless are inevitable when there are more men to do work than there is work for men to do.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000009_000001|The men and women I have met upon the streets, and in the spikes and pegs, are not there because as a mode of life it may be considered a "soft snap." I have sufficiently outlined the hardships they undergo to demonstrate that their existence is anything but "soft."
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000010_000001|The man who walks the streets suffers more, and works harder, for far less return.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000010_000002|I have depicted the nights they spend, and how, driven in by physical exhaustion, they go to the casual ward for a "rest up." Nor is the casual ward a soft snap.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000010_000003|To pick four pounds of oakum, break twelve hundredweight of stones, or perform the most revolting tasks, in return for the miserable food and shelter they receive, is an unqualified extravagance on the part of the men who are guilty of it.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000010_000004|On the part of the authorities it is sheer robbery.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000010_000005|They give the men far less for their labour than do the capitalistic employers.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000010_000006|The wage for the same amount of labour, performed for a private employer, would buy them better beds, better food, more good cheer, and, above all, greater freedom.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000000|As I say, it is an extravagance for a man to patronise a casual ward.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000001|And that they know it themselves is shown by the way these men shun it till driven in by physical exhaustion.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000002|Then why do they do it?
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000003|Not because they are discouraged workers.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000004|The very opposite is true; they are discouraged vagabonds.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000005|In the United States the tramp is almost invariably a discouraged worker.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000006|He finds tramping a softer mode of life than working.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000007|But this is not true in England.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000008|Here the powers that be do their utmost to discourage the tramp and vagabond, and he is, in all truth, a mightily discouraged creature.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000009|He knows that two shillings a day, which is only fifty cents, will buy him three fair meals, a bed at night, and leave him a couple of pennies for pocket money.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000011_000011|He does not do so, however, because there are more men to do work than there is work for men to do.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000012_000000|When there are more men than there is work to be done, a sifting out process must obtain.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000012_000001|In every branch of industry the less efficient are crowded out.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000012_000002|Being crowded out because of inefficiency, they cannot go up, but must descend, and continue to descend, until they reach their proper level, a place in the industrial fabric where they are efficient. It follows, therefore, and it is inexorable, that the least efficient must descend to the very bottom, which is the shambles wherein they perish miserably.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000013_000000|A glance at the confirmed inefficients at the bottom demonstrates that they are, as a rule, mental, physical, and moral wrecks.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000013_000001|The exceptions to the rule are the late arrivals, who are merely very inefficient, and upon whom the wrecking process is just beginning to operate.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000013_000002|All the forces here, it must be remembered, are destructive.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000013_000003|The good body (which is there because its brain is not quick and capable) is speedily wrenched and twisted out of shape; the clean mind (which is there because of its weak body) is speedily fouled and contaminated.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000014_000000|The mortality is excessive, but, even then, they die far too lingering deaths.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000000|Here, then, we have the construction of the Abyss and the shambles. Throughout the whole industrial fabric a constant elimination is going on.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000001|The inefficient are weeded out and flung downward.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000002|Various things constitute inefficiency.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000003|The engineer who is irregular or irresponsible will sink down until he finds his place, say as a casual labourer, an occupation irregular in its very nature and in which there is little or no responsibility.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000004|Those who are slow and clumsy, who suffer from weakness of body or mind, or who lack nervous, mental, and physical stamina, must sink down, sometimes rapidly, sometimes step by step, to the bottom.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000005|Accident, by disabling an efficient worker, will make him inefficient, and down he must go.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000015_000006|And the worker who becomes aged, with failing energy and numbing brain, must begin the frightful descent which knows no stopping place short of the bottom and death.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000016_000000|In this last instance, the statistics of London tell a terrible tale.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000016_000001|The population of London is one seventh of the total population of the United Kingdom, and in London, year in and year out, one adult in every four dies on public charity, either in the workhouse, the hospital, or the asylum.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000016_000002|When the fact that the well to do do not end thus is taken into consideration, it becomes manifest that it is the fate of at least one in every three adult workers to die on public charity.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000017_000000|As an illustration of how a good worker may suddenly become inefficient, and what then happens to him, I am tempted to give the case of M'Garry, a man thirty two years of age, and an inmate of the workhouse.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000017_000001|The extracts are quoted from the annual report of the trade union.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000018_000001|I was working in a shed, and I had to cross the yard.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000018_000002|It was ten o'clock at night, and there was no light about. While crossing the yard I felt something take hold of my leg and screw it off.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000018_000003|I became unconscious; I didn't know what became of me for a day or two.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000018_000004|On the following Sunday night I came to my senses, and found myself in the hospital.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000000|There was a stationary crank in the yard, let into the ground; the hole was eighteen inches long, fifteen inches deep, and fifteen inches wide.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000001|The crank revolved in the hole three revolutions a minute.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000002|There was no fence or covering over the hole.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000003|Since my accident they have stopped it altogether, and have covered the hole up with a piece of sheet iron. . . .
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000004|They gave me twenty five pounds.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000005|They didn't reckon that as compensation; they said it was only for charity's sake.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000019_000006|Out of that I paid nine pounds for a machine by which to wheel myself about.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000001|I got twenty four shillings a week, rather better pay than the other men, because I used to take shifts.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000002|When there was heavy work to be done I used to be picked out to do it.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000003|mr Manton, the manager, visited me at the hospital several times.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000004|When I was getting better, I asked him if he would be able to find me a job.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000005|He told me not to trouble myself, as the firm was not cold hearted.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000006|I would be right enough in any case . . .
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000020_000007|mr Manton stopped coming to see me; and the last time, he said he thought of asking the directors to give me a fifty pound note, so I could go home to my friends in Ireland.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000021_000000|Poor M'Garry!
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000021_000001|He received rather better pay than the other men because he was ambitious and took shifts, and when heavy work was to be done he was the man picked out to do it.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000021_000002|And then the thing happened, and he went into the workhouse.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000021_000003|The alternative to the workhouse is to go home to Ireland and burden his friends for the rest of his life.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000021_000004|Comment is superfluous.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000022_000000|It must be understood that efficiency is not determined by the workers themselves, but is determined by the demand for labour.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000022_000001|If three men seek one position, the most efficient man will get it.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000022_000002|The other two, no matter how capable they may be, will none the less be inefficients.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000022_000003|If Germany, Japan, and the United States should capture the entire world market for iron, coal, and textiles, at once the English workers would be thrown idle by hundreds of thousands.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000022_000004|Some would emigrate, but the rest would rush their labour into the remaining industries.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000022_000005|A general shaking up of the workers from top to bottom would result; and when equilibrium had been restored, the number of the inefficients at the bottom of the Abyss would have been increased by hundreds of thousands.
train-other-500/167/15255/167_15255_000023_000000|When there are more men to work than there is work for men to do, just as many men as are in excess of work will be inefficients, and as inefficients they are doomed to lingering and painful destruction.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000003_000000|ATTITUDE OF THE CRIMINAL
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000000|Probably the chief barrier to the commission of crime is the feeling of right and wrong connected with the doing or not doing of particular acts.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000001|All men have a more or less binding conscience.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000002|This is the result of long teaching and habit in matters of conduct.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000003|Most people are taught at home and in school that certain things are right and that others are wrong.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000004|This constant instruction builds up habits and rules of conduct, and it is mainly upon these that society depends for the behavior of its citizens.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000005|To most men conscience is the monitor, rather than law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000006|It acts more automatically, and a shock to the conscience is far more effective than the knowledge that a law is broken.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000007|For the most part the promptings of conscience follow pretty closely the inhibitions of the criminal code, although they may or may not follow the spirit of the law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000008|Each person has his own idea of the relative values attached to human actions.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000004_000010|No two ethical commands have the same importance to all people or to any two people.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000000|Ordinarily unless the response of conscience is quick and plain, men are not bothered by the infraction of the law except, perchance, by the fear of discovery.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000001|This is quite apart from the teaching that it is the duty of all men to obey all laws, a proposition so general that it has no effect.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000003|No one believes in the enforcement of all laws or the duty to obey all laws, and no one, in fact, does obey them all.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000004|Those who proclaim the loudest the duty of obedience to all laws never obey, for example, the revenue laws.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000005|These are clear and explicit, and yet men take every means possible to have their property exempted from taxation-in other words, to defraud the State.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000006|This is done on the excuse that everyone else does it, and the man who makes a strict return according to law would pay the taxes of the shirkers.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000007|While this is true, it simply shows that all men violate the law when the justification seems sufficient to them.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000008|The laws against blasphemy, against Sunday work and Sunday play, against buying and transporting intoxicating liquors and smuggling goods are freely violated.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000009|Many laws are so recent that they have not grown to be folk ways or fixed new habits, and their violation brings no moral shock.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000005_000010|In spite of the professions often made, most men have a poor opinion of congressmen and legislators, and feel that their own conscience is a much higher guide for them than the law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000006_000000|Religions have always taught obedience to God or to what takes His place.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000006_000001|Religious commands and feelings, are higher and more binding on man than human law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000006_000002|The captains of industry are forever belittling and criticising all those laws made by legislatures and courts which interfere with the unrestricted use of property.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000006_000003|None of this sort of legislation has their approval and the courts are regarded as meddlesome when they enforce it.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000006_000005|On the other hand, so much has been written and said in reference to the creation of the fundamental rights to own property, and these rights depend so absolutely upon social arrangements and work out such manifest injustice and inequality, that there is always a deep seated feeling of protest against many of our so-called property laws.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000006_000006|From those who advocate a new distribution of wealth and condemn the injustice of present property rights, the step is quite short to those who feel the injustice and put their ideas in force by taking property when and where they are able to get it.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000007_000000|For instance, a miner may believe that the corporation for which he works really has no right to the gold down in the mine.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000007_000001|As he is digging he strikes a particularly rich pocket of high grade ore.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000007_000002|He feels that he does no wrong if he appropriates the ore.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000007_000003|Elaborate means are taken to prevent this, even compelling the absolute stripping of the workman, and a complete change of clothes on going in and coming out of the mine.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000008_000000|Many laws are put on the books which are of a purely sumptuary nature; these attempt to control what one shall do in his own personal affairs. Such laws are brought about by organizations with a "purpose".
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000008_000001|The members are anxious to make everyone else conform to their ideas and habits.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000008_000002|Such laws as Sunday laws, liquor laws and the like are examples. Then, too, every state or nation carries a large list of laws that men have so long violated and ignored, that they virtually are dead.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000008_000003|To violate these brings no feeling of wrong, but only serves to make men doubt the evil of violating any law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000000|It is never easy to get a Legislature to repeal a law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000001|Generally some organization or committee of people is interested in keeping it alive, and the members of the Legislature fear losing their votes.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000002|Social ideas are always changing.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000003|No laws or customs are eternal.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000004|The ordinary man, and especially the man under the normal, cannot keep up with all the shifting of a changing world.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000005|There is always a fraction of a community agitating for something new and gradually forcing the Legislature to put it into law, even against the will of the majority and against the sentiment of a large class of the community.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000006|The organization that wants something done is always aggressive.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000007|The man who wants to prevent it from being done is seldom unduly active or even alarmed.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000008|Many organizations are eager to get statutes on the books.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000009|One seldom hears of a society or club that is active in getting laws repealed.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000010|The constant change of law, the constant fixing of new values in place of old ones, is necessary to social life.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000009_000011|This means putting new wine into old bottles, and wine that is much too strong for the bottles.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000010_000003|And still the unsuccessful revolutionist meets with the severest penalties.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000010_000004|To him failure generally means death.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000010_000005|Men who are fired with zeal for all new causes are forever running foul of the law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000010_000006|Social organization, like biological organization, is conservative.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000010_000007|All things that live are imbued with the will to live and they take all means in their power to go on living.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000010_000008|The philosopher can neither quarrel with the idealist who makes the sacrifice nor the organization that preserves itself while it can; he only recognizes what is true.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000000|Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000001|Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000002|It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000003|Emerson said that the good citizen must not be over obedient to law.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000004|Freedom is always trampled on in times of stress.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000005|The United States suffered serious encroachments on liberty during the Civil War.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000006|During the last war, these encroachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immediate chance for change. Still the philosopher does not complain.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000007|He sees human passion for what it is, a great emotion that holds men in its grasp, a feeling that nothing can stand against.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000008|Opposition is destroyed by force, and often blind, cruel, unreasoning force.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000009|Sometimes even worse, this force is created for selfish ends.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000010|There are always those who will use the strongest and highest emotions of men to serve their private, sordid ends.
train-other-500/167/68704/167_68704_000011_000012|It is easy to distinguish this sort of action from the things done by those who are known as criminals. Their acts are done to serve personal ends.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000000_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000000_000001|Henry Lennox.' Margaret had been thinking of him only a moment before, and remembering his inquiry into her probable occupations at home.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000000_000003|'Tell mamma, Sarah,' said she.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000003_000000|'Oh!' said he, more lightly, 'our young couple were playing such foolish pranks, running all sorts of risks, climbing this mountain, sailing on that lake, that I really thought they needed a Mentor to take care of them.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000003_000001|And indeed they did; they were quite beyond my uncle's management, and kept the old gentleman in a panic for sixteen hours out of the twenty four.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000004_000000|'Have you been at Plymouth?
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000004_000003|To be sure, she has written in such a hurry lately.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000004_000004|Did they really sail on Tuesday?'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000005_000000|'Really sailed, and relieved me from many responsibilities.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000005_000002|I believe I have a little diminutive note somewhere; yes, here it is.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000006_000000|'Oh! thank you,' exclaimed Margaret; and then, half wishing to read it alone and unwatched, she made the excuse of going to tell her mother again (Sarah surely had made some mistake) that mr Lennox was there.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000000|When she had left the room, he began in his scrutinising way to look about him.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000002|The middle window in the bow was opened, and clustering roses and the scarlet honeysuckle came peeping round the corner; the small lawn was gorgeous with verbenas and geraniums of all bright colours.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000003|But the very brightness outside made the colours within seem poor and faded.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000004|The carpet was far from new; the chintz had been often washed; the whole apartment was smaller and shabbier than he had expected, as back ground and frame work for Margaret, herself so queenly.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000005|He took up one of the books lying on the table; it was the Paradiso of Dante, in the proper old Italian binding of white vellum and gold; by it lay a dictionary, and some words copied out in Margaret's hand writing.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000006|They were a dull list of words, but somehow he liked looking at them.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000007_000007|He put them down with a sigh.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000008_000000|'The living is evidently as small as she said.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000008_000001|It seems strange, for the Beresfords belong to a good family.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000009_000000|Margaret meanwhile had found her mother.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000010_000000|'It is most unfortunate!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000010_000002|And your papa is in such low spirits this morning about something-I don't know what.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000010_000003|I went into the study just now, and he had his face on the table, covering it with his hands.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000010_000004|I told him I was sure Helstone air did not agree with him any more than with me, and he suddenly lifted up his head, and begged me not to speak a word more against Helstone, he could not bear it; if there was one place he loved on earth it was Helstone.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000010_000005|But I am sure, for all that, it is the damp and relaxing air.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000012_000001|I dare say his coming will do papa good.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000012_000003|Cold meat will do capitally for a lunch, which is the light in which mr Lennox will most likely look upon a two o'clock dinner.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000013_000000|'But what are we to do with him till then?
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000014_000000|'I'll ask him to go out sketching with me.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000014_000001|I know he draws, and that will take him out of your way, mamma.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000014_000002|Only do come in now; he will think it so strange if you don't.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000015_000000|mrs Hale took off her black silk apron, and smoothed her face.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000015_000001|She looked a very pretty lady like woman, as she greeted mr Lennox with the cordiality due to one who was almost a relation.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000015_000002|He evidently expected to be asked to spend the day, and accepted the invitation with a glad readiness that made mrs Hale wish she could add something to the cold beef.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000015_000003|He was pleased with everything; delighted with Margaret's idea of going out sketching together; would not have mr Hale disturbed for the world, with the prospect of so soon meeting him at dinner.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000015_000004|Margaret brought out her drawing materials for him to choose from; and after the paper and brushes had been duly selected, the two set out in the merriest spirits in the world.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000016_000000|'Now, please, just stop here for a minute or two, said Margaret. 'These are the cottages that haunted me so during the rainy fortnight, reproaching me for not having sketched them.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000017_000001|Truly, if they are to be sketched-and they are very picturesque-we had better not put it off till next year.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000018_000000|'Oh!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000018_000002|Look at this beautiful trunk of a tree, which the wood cutters have left just in the right place for the light.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000018_000003|I will put my plaid over it, and it will be a regular forest throne.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000019_000000|'With your feet in that puddle for a regal footstool!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000019_000001|Stay, I will move, and then you can come nearer this way.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000019_000002|Who lives in these cottages?'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000020_000000|'They were built by squatters fifty or sixty years ago.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000020_000001|One is uninhabited; the foresters are going to take it down, as soon as the old man who lives in the other is dead, poor old fellow!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000020_000002|Look-there he is-I must go and speak to him.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000020_000003|He is so deaf you will hear all our secrets.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000021_000000|The old man stood bareheaded in the sun, leaning on his stick at the front of his cottage.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000021_000001|His stiff features relaxed into a slow smile as Margaret went up and spoke to him.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000021_000002|mr Lennox hastily introduced the two figures into his sketch, and finished up the landscape with a subordinate reference to them-as Margaret perceived, when the time came for getting up, putting away water, and scraps of paper, and exhibiting to each other their sketches.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000021_000003|She laughed and blushed: mr Lennox watched her countenance.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000022_000000|'Now, I call that treacherous,' said she.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000023_000000|'It was irresistible.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000023_000001|You can't know how strong a temptation it was.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000023_000002|I hardly dare tell you how much I shall like this sketch.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000024_000001|She came back rather flushed, but looking perfectly innocent and unconscious.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000024_000002|He was glad of it, for the speech had slipped from him unawares-a rare thing in the case of a man who premeditated his actions so much as Henry Lennox.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000025_000000|The aspect of home was all right and bright when they reached it.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000025_000001|The clouds on her mother's brow had cleared off under the propitious influence of a brace of carp, most opportunely presented by a neighbour. mr Hale had returned from his morning's round, and was awaiting his visitor just outside the wicket gate that led into the garden.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000025_000002|He looked a complete gentleman in his rather threadbare coat and well worn hat.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000027_000000|mr Hale asked to look at their sketches.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000028_000000|'I think you have made the tints on the thatch too dark, have you not?' as he returned Margaret's to her, and held out his hand for mr Lennox's, which was withheld from him one moment, no more.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000029_000000|'No, papa!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000029_000001|I don't think I have.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000029_000002|The house leek and stone crop have grown so much darker in the rain.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000030_000000|'Yes, very like.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000030_000001|Your figure and way of holding yourself is capital.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000030_000002|And it is just poor old Isaac's stiff way of stooping his long rheumatic back.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000030_000003|What is this hanging from the branch of the tree?
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000030_000004|Not a bird's nest, surely.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000031_000000|'Oh no! that is my bonnet.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000031_000002|I wonder if I could manage figures.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000032_000000|'I should say that a likeness you very much wish to take you would always succeed in,' said mr Lennox. 'I have great faith in the power of will.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000032_000001|I think myself I have succeeded pretty well in yours.' mr Hale had preceded them into the house, while Margaret was lingering to pluck some roses, with which to adorn her morning gown for dinner.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000034_000000|The conversation at dinner flowed on quietly and agreeably.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000035_000000|'Margaret, my child, you might have gathered us some pears for our dessert,' said mr Hale, as the hospitable luxury of a freshly decanted bottle of wine was placed on the table.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000036_000000|mrs Hale was hurried.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000036_000001|It seemed as if desserts were impromptu and unusual things at the parsonage; whereas, if mr Hale would only have looked behind him, he would have seen biscuits and marmalade, and what not, all arranged in formal order on the sideboard.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000036_000002|But the idea of pears had taken possession of mr Hale's mind, and was not to be got rid of.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000038_000000|'I propose that we adjourn into the garden, and eat them there' said mr Lennox.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000039_000000|'Nothing is so delicious as to set one's teeth into the crisp, juicy fruit, warm and scented by the sun
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000039_000001|The worst is, the wasps are impudent enough to dispute it with one, even at the very crisis and summit of enjoyment.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000040_000000|He rose, as if to follow Margaret, who had disappeared through the window he only awaited mrs Hale's permission.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000041_000001|I must pare it and quarter it before I can enjoy it.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000042_000001|mr Lennox looked more at her than at the pears; but her father, inclined to cull fastidiously the very zest and perfection of the hour he had stolen from his anxiety, chose daintily the ripest fruit, and sat down on the garden bench to enjoy it at his leisure.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000042_000002|Margaret and mr Lennox strolled along the little terrace walk under the south wall, where the bees still hummed and worked busily in their hives.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000043_000000|'What a perfect life you seem to live here!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000043_000002|Just now I feel as if twenty years' hard study of law would be amply rewarded by one year of such an exquisite serene life as this-such skies!' looking up-'such crimson and amber foliage, so perfectly motionless as that!' pointing to some of the great forest trees which shut in the garden as if it were a nest.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000044_000002|Recollect how you rather scorned my description of it one evening in Harley Street: "a village in a tale."'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000045_000000|'Scorned, Margaret!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000046_000000|'Perhaps it is.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000046_000001|Only I know I should have liked to have talked to you of what I was very full at the time, and you-what must I call it, then?--spoke disrespectfully of Helstone as a mere village in a tale.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000047_000000|'I will never do so again,' said he, warmly.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000047_000001|They turned the corner of the walk.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000048_000000|'I could almost wish, Margaret---- ' he stopped and hesitated.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000048_000001|It was so unusual for the fluent lawyer to hesitate that Margaret looked up at him, in a little state of questioning wonder; but in an instant-from what about him she could not tell-she wished herself back with her mother-her father-anywhere away from him, for she was sure he was going to say something to which she should not know what to reply.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000048_000002|In another moment the strong pride that was in her came to conquer her sudden agitation, which she hoped he had not perceived.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000049_000000|'Margaret,' said he, taking her by surprise, and getting sudden possession of her hand, so that she was forced to stand still and listen, despising herself for the fluttering at her heart all the time; 'Margaret, I wish you did not like Helstone so much-did not seem so perfectly calm and happy here.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000049_000002|Margaret, have I startled you too much?
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000049_000003|Speak!' For he saw her lips quivering almost as if she were going to cry.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000049_000004|She made a strong effort to be calm; she would not speak till she had succeeded in mastering her voice, and then she said:
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000050_000000|'I was startled.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000050_000001|I did not know that you cared for me in that way.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000050_000003|I don't like to be spoken to as you have been doing.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000050_000004|I cannot answer you as you want me to do, and yet I should feel so sorry if I vexed you.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000052_000000|'Do you'--he was going to say-'love any one else?' But it seemed as if this question would be an insult to the pure serenity of those eyes. 'Forgive me I have been too abrupt.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000052_000001|I am punished.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000052_000003|He could not end his sentence.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000052_000004|Margaret reproached herself acutely as the cause of his distress.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000053_000000|'Ah! if you had but never got this fancy into your head!
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000053_000001|It was such a pleasure to think of you as a friend.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000054_000000|'But I may hope, may I not, Margaret, that some time you will think of me as a lover?
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000054_000001|Not yet, I see-there is no hurry-but some time---- ' She was silent for a minute or two, trying to discover the truth as it was in her own heart, before replying; then she said:
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000055_000000|'I have never thought of-you, but as a friend.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000055_000001|I like to think of you so; but I am sure I could never think of you as anything else.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000056_000000|He paused before he replied.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000056_000001|Then, in his habitual coldness of tone, he answered:
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000057_000000|'Of course, as your feelings are so decided, and as this conversation has been so evidently unpleasant to you, it had better not be remembered.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000057_000001|That is all very fine in theory, that plan of forgetting whatever is painful, but it will be somewhat difficult for me, at least, to carry it into execution.'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000058_000000|'You are vexed,' said she, sadly; 'yet how can I help it?'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000059_000000|She looked so truly grieved as she said this, that he struggled for a moment with his real disappointment, and then answered more cheerfully, but still with a little hardness in his tone:
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000060_000001|I shall have to console myself with scorning my own folly.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000060_000002|A struggling barrister to think of matrimony!'
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000000|Margaret could not answer this.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000001|The whole tone of it annoyed her.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000002|It seemed to touch on and call out all the points of difference which had often repelled her in him; while yet he was the pleasantest man, the most sympathising friend, the person of all others who understood her best in Harley Street.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000003|She felt a tinge of contempt mingle itself with her pain at having refused him.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000004|Her beautiful lip curled in a slight disdain.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000005|It was well that, having made the round of the garden, they came suddenly upon mr Hale, whose whereabouts had been quite forgotten by them.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000006|He had not yet finished the pear, which he had delicately peeled in one long strip of silver paper thinness, and which he was enjoying in a deliberate manner.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000007|It was like the story of the eastern king, who dipped his head into a basin of water, at the magician's command, and ere he instantly took it out went through the experience of a lifetime.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000009|She was grave, and little disposed to speak; full of wonder when mr Lennox would go, and allow her to relax into thought on the events of the last quarter of an hour.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000010|He was almost as anxious to take his departure as she was for him to leave; but a few minutes light and careless talking, carried on at whatever effort, was a sacrifice which he owed to his mortified vanity, or his self respect.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000061_000011|He glanced from time to time at her sad and pensive face.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000063_000001|mr Hale was puzzled.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000063_000004|They proceeded to the house to find mrs Hale, and wish her good bye.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000063_000005|At the last moment, Henry Lennox's real self broke through the crust.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000064_000000|'Margaret, don't despise me; I have a heart, notwithstanding all this good for nothing way of talking.
train-other-500/1674/142277/1674_142277_000064_000001|As a proof of it, I believe I love you more than ever-if I do not hate you-for the disdain with which you have listened to me during this last half hour.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000001_000000|MISTAKES CLEARED UP
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000003_000000|The next morning, Margaret dragged herself up, thankful that the night was over,--unrefreshed, yet rested.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000003_000001|All had gone well through the house; her mother had only wakened once.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000003_000002|A little breeze was stirring in the hot air, and though there were no trees to show the playful tossing movement caused by the wind among the leaves, Margaret knew how, somewhere or another, by way side, in copses, or in thick green woods, there was a pleasant, murmuring, dancing sound,--a rushing and falling noise, the very thought of which was an echo of distant gladness in her heart.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000004_000001|As soon as that forenoon slumber was over, she would help her mother to dress after dinner, she would go and see Bessy Higgins.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000004_000002|She would banish all recollection of the Thornton family,--no need to think of them till they absolutely stood before her in flesh and blood.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000004_000003|But, of course, the effort not to think of them brought them only the more strongly before her; and from time to time, the hot flush came over her pale face sweeping it into colour, as a sunbeam from between watery clouds comes swiftly moving over the sea.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000005_000000|Dixon opened the door very softly, and stole on tiptoe up to Margaret, sitting by the shaded window.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000006_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000006_000001|Thornton, Miss Margaret.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000006_000002|He is in the drawing room.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000007_000000|Margaret dropped her sewing.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000008_000000|'Did he ask for me?
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000009_000000|'He asked for you, miss; and master is out.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000000|'Very well, I will come,' said Margaret, quietly.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000001|But she lingered strangely.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000002|mr Thornton stood by one of the windows, with his back to the door, apparently absorbed in watching something in the street.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000003|But, in truth, he was afraid of himself.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000004|His heart beat thick at the thought of her coming.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000005|He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,--to melt away every resolution, all power of self control, as if it were wax before a fire.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000006|He dreaded lest he should go forwards to meet her, with his arms held out in mute entreaty that she would come and nestle there, as she had done, all unheeded, the day before, but never unheeded again.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000007|His heart throbbed loud and quick. Strong man as he was, he trembled at the anticipation of what he had to say, and how it might be received.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000008|She might droop, and flush, and flutter to his arms, as to her natural home and resting place.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000009|One moment, he glowed with impatience at the thought that she might do this, the next, he feared a passionate rejection, the very idea of which withered up his future with so deadly a blight that he refused to think of it.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000010|He was startled by the sense of the presence of some one else in the room.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000010_000012|She had come in so gently, that he had never heard her; the street noises had been more distinct to his inattentive ear than her slow movements, in her soft muslin gown.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000011_000000|She stood by the table, not offering to sit down.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000011_000001|Her eyelids were dropped half over her eyes; her teeth were shut, not compressed; her lips were just parted over them, allowing the white line to be seen between their curve.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000011_000003|Her head, for all its drooping eyes, was thrown a little back, in the old proud attitude.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000011_000005|Altogether she looked like some prisoner, falsely accused of a crime that she loathed and despised, and from which she was too indignant to justify herself.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000012_000000|mr Thornton made a hasty step or two forwards; recovered himself, and went with quiet firmness to the door (which she had left open), and shut it.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000012_000001|Then he came back, and stood opposite to her for a moment, receiving the general impression of her beautiful presence, before he dared to disturb it, perhaps to repel it, by what he had to say.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000013_000000|'Miss Hale, I was very ungrateful yesterday-'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000014_000000|'You had nothing to be grateful for,' said she, raising her eyes, and looking full and straight at him.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000014_000001|'You mean, I suppose, that you believe you ought to thank me for what I did.' In spite of herself-in defiance of her anger-the thick blushes came all over her face, and burnt into her very eyes; which fell not nevertheless from their grave and steady look.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000014_000002|'It was only a natural instinct; any woman would have done just the same.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000014_000003|We all feel the sanctity of our sex as a high privilege when we see danger.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000015_000000|'It was not your words; it was the truth they conveyed, pungently as it was expressed.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000015_000001|But you shall not drive me off upon that, and so escape the expression of my deep gratitude, my-' he was on the verge now; he would not speak in the haste of his hot passion; he would weigh each word.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000015_000002|He would; and his will was triumphant.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000015_000003|He stopped in mid career.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000016_000000|'I do not try to escape from anything,' said she.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000016_000001|'I simply say, that you owe me no gratitude; and I may add, that any expression of it will be painful to me, because I do not feel that I deserve it.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000016_000002|Still, if it will relieve you from even a fancied obligation, speak on.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000017_000003|He panted as he listened for what should come.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000017_000004|He threw the hand away with indignation, as he heard her icy tone; for icy it was, though the words came faltering out, as if she knew not where to find them.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000018_000000|'Your way of speaking shocks me.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000018_000001|It is blasphemous.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000018_000002|I cannot help it, if that is my first feeling.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000018_000003|It might not be so, I dare say, if I understood the kind of feeling you describe.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000018_000004|I do not want to vex you; and besides, we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me-'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000019_000000|'How!' exclaimed he.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000019_000001|'Offends you!
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000019_000002|I am indeed most unfortunate.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000020_000000|'Yes!' said she, with recovered dignity.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000020_000001|'I do feel offended; and, I think, justly.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000021_000000|'And the gentleman thus rescued is forbidden the relief of thanks!' he broke in contemptuously.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000021_000002|I claim the right of expressing my feelings.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000022_000000|'And I yielded to the right; simply saying that you gave me pain by insisting upon it,' she replied, proudly.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000022_000001|'But you seem to have imagined, that I was not merely guided by womanly instinct, but'--and here the passionate tears (kept down for long-struggled with vehemently) came up into her eyes, and choked her voice-'but that I was prompted by some particular feeling for you-you!
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000023_000000|'You may speak on, Miss Hale.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000023_000001|I am aware of all these misplaced sympathies of yours.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000023_000002|I now believe that it was only your innate sense of oppression-(yes; I, though a master, may be oppressed)--that made you act so nobly as you did.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000023_000003|I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000024_000000|'I do not care to understand,' she replied, taking hold of the table to steady herself; for she thought him cruel-as, indeed, he was-and she was weak with her indignation.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000025_000000|'No, I see you do not.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000000|Margaret compressed her lips.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000001|She would not speak in answer to such accusations.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000002|But, for all that-for all his savage words, he could have thrown himself at her feet, and kissed the hem of her garment.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000003|She did not speak; she did not move.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000004|The tears of wounded pride fell hot and fast.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000006|But she was silent.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000026_000007|He took up his hat.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000027_000001|You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000027_000002|You cannot avoid it.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000027_000003|Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000027_000004|I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000027_000005|But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.'
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000028_000000|'I am not afraid,' she replied, lifting herself straight up.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000028_000001|'No one yet has ever dared to be impertinent to me, and no one ever shall.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000028_000002|But, mr Thornton, you have been very kind to my father,' said she, changing her whole tone and bearing to a most womanly softness.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000028_000003|'Don't let us go on making each other angry.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000028_000004|Pray don't!' He took no notice of her words: he occupied himself in smoothing the nap of his hat with his coat sleeve, for half a minute or so; and then, rejecting her offered hand, and making as if he did not see her grave look of regret, he turned abruptly away, and left the room.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000028_000005|Margaret caught one glance at his face before he went.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000029_000000|When he was gone, she thought she had seen the gleam of unshed tears in his eyes; and that turned her proud dislike into something different and kinder, if nearly as painful-self reproach for having caused such mortification to any one.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000030_000000|'But how could I help it?' asked she of herself.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000030_000001|'I never liked him.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000030_000002|I was civil; but I took no trouble to conceal my indifference.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000030_000003|Indeed, I never thought about myself or him, so my manners must have shown the truth.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000030_000004|All that yesterday, he might mistake.
train-other-500/1674/142298/1674_142298_000030_000005|But that is his fault, not mine.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000001_000000|FAREWELL
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000001|Even the pretty lawn at the side of the house was made unsightly and untidy by the straw that had been wafted upon it through the open door and windows.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000002|The rooms had a strange echoing sound in them,--and the light came harshly and strongly in through the uncurtained windows,--seeming already unfamiliar and strange.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000003|mrs Hale's dressing room was left untouched to the last; and there she and Dixon were packing up clothes, and interrupting each other every now and then to exclaim at, and turn over with fond regard, some forgotten treasure, in the shape of some relic of the children while they were yet little.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000004|They did not make much progress with their work.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000005|Down stairs, Margaret stood calm and collected, ready to counsel or advise the men who had been called in to help the cook and Charlotte.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000006|These two last, crying between whiles, wondered how the young lady could keep up so this last day, and settled it between them that she was not likely to care much for Helstone, having been so long in London.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000007|There she stood, very pale and quiet, with her large grave eyes observing everything,--up to every present circumstance, however small.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000009|Moreover, if she gave way, who was to act?
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000011|Besides, was Margaret one to give way before strange men, or even household friends like the cook and Charlotte!
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000012|Not she.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000013|But at last the four packers went into the kitchen to their tea; and Margaret moved stiffly and slowly away from the place in the hall where she had been standing so long, out through the bare echoing drawing room, into the twilight of an early November evening.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000006_000015|The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low on the ground.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000000|Margaret went along the walk under the pear tree wall.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000001|She had never been along it since she paced it at Henry Lennox's side.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000002|Here, at this bed of thyme, he began to speak of what she must not think of now.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000003|Her eyes were on that late blowing rose as she was trying to answer; and she had caught the idea of the vivid beauty of the feathery leaves of the carrots in the very middle of his last sentence.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000004|Only a fortnight ago! And all so changed!
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000005|Where was he now?
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000006|In London,--going through the old round; dining with the old Harley Street set, or with gayer young friends of his own.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000008|He had often spoken to Margaret of these hasty walks, snatched in the intervals between study and dinner.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000010|Here there was no sound.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000012|Now and then, a cottage door in the distance was opened and shut, as if to admit the tired labourer to his home; but that sounded very far away.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000013|A stealthy, creeping, cranching sound among the crisp fallen leaves of the forest, beyond the garden, seemed almost close at hand.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000014|Margaret knew it was some poacher.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000016|The wild adventurous freedom of their life had taken her fancy; she felt inclined to wish them success; she had no fear of them.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000018|She heard Charlotte shutting the windows, and fastening up for the night, unconscious that any one had gone out into the garden.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000007_000019|A small branch-it might be of rotten wood, or it might be broken by force-came heavily down in the nearest part of the forest, Margaret ran, swift as Camilla, down to the window, and rapped at it with a hurried tremulousness which startled Charlotte within.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000008_000001|Let me in!
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000010_000000|'Oh, miss, I should have been sure to have missed you soon.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000010_000001|The men would have wanted you to tell them how to go on.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000011_000000|'Thank you, Charlotte.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000011_000001|You are a kind girl.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000011_000002|I shall be sorry to leave you.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000011_000003|You must try and write to me, if I can ever give you any little help or good advice.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000011_000004|I shall always be glad to get a letter from Helstone, you know.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000011_000005|I shall be sure and send you my address when I know it.'
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000012_000000|The study was all ready for tea.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000012_000001|There was a good blazing fire, and unlighted candles on the table.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000012_000004|But when she heard her father's step on the gravel outside, she started up, and hastily shaking her heavy black hair back, and wiping a few tears away that had come on her cheeks she knew not how, she went out to open the door for him.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000012_000005|He showed far more depression than she did.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000012_000006|She could hardly get him to talk, although she tried to speak on subjects that would interest him, at the cost of an effort every time which she thought would be her last.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000013_000000|'Have you been a very long walk to day?' asked she, on seeing his refusal to touch food of any kind.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000014_000000|'As far as Fordham Beeches.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000014_000002|She says little Susan has kept watch down the lane for days past.--Nay, Margaret, what is the matter, dear?' The thought of the little child watching for her, and continually disappointed-from no forgetfulness on her part, but from sheer inability to leave home-was the last drop in poor Margaret's cup, and she was sobbing away as if her heart would break.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000014_000003|mr Hale was distressingly perplexed.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000014_000004|He rose, and walked nervously up and down the room.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000014_000005|Margaret tried to check herself, but would not speak until she could do so with firmness.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000014_000006|She heard him talking, as if to himself.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000015_000000|'I cannot bear it.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000015_000001|I cannot bear to see the sufferings of others.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000015_000002|I think I could go through my own with patience.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000015_000003|Oh, is there no going back?'
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000016_000000|'No, father,' said Margaret, looking straight at him, and speaking low and steadily.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000016_000001|'It is bad to believe you in error.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000016_000002|It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.' She dropped her voice at the last few words, as if entertaining the idea of hypocrisy for a moment in connection with her father savoured of irreverence.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000017_000001|We can't either of us talk about it to night, I believe,' said she, finding that tears and sobs would come in spite of herself.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000017_000002|'I had better go and take mamma up this cup of tea.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000018_000000|Railroad time inexorably wrenched them away from lovely, beloved Helstone, the next morning.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000018_000002|Almost before they had settled themselves into the car, sent from Southampton to fetch them to the station, they were gone away to return no more.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000018_000004|She leant back and shut her eyes, and the tears welled forth, and hung glittering for an instant on the shadowing eye lashes before rolling slowly down her cheeks, and dropping, unheeded, on her dress.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000019_000000|They were to stop in London all night at some quiet hotel.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000019_000001|Poor mrs Hale had cried in her way nearly all day long; and Dixon showed her sorrow by extreme crossness, and a continual irritable attempt to keep her petticoats from even touching the unconscious mr Hale, whom she regarded as the origin of all this suffering.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000021_000000|'Oh, there's Harrison's, where I bought so many of my wedding things. Dear! how altered!
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000021_000001|They've got immense plate glass windows, larger than Crawford's in Southampton.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000022_000000|Margaret started forwards, and as quickly fell back, half smiling at herself for the sudden motion.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000023_000000|The evening, without employment, passed in a room high up in an hotel, was long and heavy.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000023_000001|mr Hale went out to his bookseller's, and to call on a friend or two.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000023_000002|Every one they saw, either in the house or out in the streets, appeared hurrying to some appointment, expected by, or expecting somebody.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000023_000003|They alone seemed strange and friendless, and desolate.
train-other-500/1679/142280/1679_142280_000023_000004|Yet within a mile, Margaret knew of house after house, where she for her own sake, and her mother for her aunt Shaw's, would be welcomed, if they came in gladness, or even in peace of mind.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000002_000000|A SOFT BREEZE IN A SULTRY PLACE
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000003_000000|'That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, And anguish, all, are shadows vain, That death itself shall not remain;
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000005_000000|Yet, if we will one Guide obey, The dreariest path, the darkest way Shall issue out in heavenly day;
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000006_000000|And we, on divers shores now cast, Shall meet, our perilous voyage past, All in our Father's house at last!' r c TRENCH.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000007_000001|As she went along the crowded narrow streets, she felt how much of interest they had gained by the simple fact of her having learnt to care for a dweller in them.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000008_000000|Mary Higgins, the slatternly younger sister, had endeavoured as well as she could to tidy up the house for the expected visit.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000008_000001|There had been rough stoning done in the middle of the floor, while the flags under the chairs and table and round the walls retained their dark unwashed appearance.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000008_000002|Although the day was hot, there burnt a large fire in the grate, making the whole place feel like an oven.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000008_000004|Bessy herself lay on a squab, or short sofa, placed under the window.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000008_000005|She was very much more feeble than on the previous day, and tired with raising herself at every step to look out and see if it was Margaret coming.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000008_000006|And now that Margaret was there, and had taken a chair by her, Bessy lay back silent, and content to look at Margaret's face, and touch her articles of dress, with a childish admiration of their fineness of texture.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000009_000000|'I never knew why folk in the Bible cared for soft raiment afore.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000010_000000|'In London,' said Margaret, much amused.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000011_000000|'London!
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000012_000000|'Yes!
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000012_000001|I lived there for some years.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000012_000002|But my home was in a forest; in the country.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000014_000000|Margaret had never spoken of Helstone since she left it, except just naming the place incidentally.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000014_000001|She saw it in dreams more vivid than life, and as she fell away to slumber at nights her memory wandered in all its pleasant places.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000014_000003|I wish you could see it. I cannot tell you half its beauty.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000014_000004|There are great trees standing all about it, with their branches stretching long and level, and making a deep shade of rest even at noonday.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000014_000005|And yet, though every leaf may seem still, there is a continual rushing sound of movement all around-not close at hand.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000016_000000|'Then, here and there, there are wide commons, high up as if above the very tops of the trees-'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000017_000000|'I'm glad of that.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000017_000001|I felt smothered like down below.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000017_000004|Now on these commons I reckon there is but little noise?'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000019_000002|Sometimes I'm so tired out I think I cannot enjoy heaven without a piece of rest first.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000020_000000|'Don't be afraid, Bessy,' said Margaret, laying her hand on the girl's; 'God can give you more perfect rest than even idleness on earth, or the dead sleep of the grave can do.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000021_000000|Bessy moved uneasily; then she said:
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000022_000000|'I wish father would not speak as he does.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000023_000000|'Bessy-we have a Father in Heaven.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000024_000000|'I know it!
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000024_000001|I know it,' moaned she, turning her head uneasily from side to side.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000025_000000|'I'm very wicked.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000025_000001|I've spoken very wickedly.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000025_000003|I would not harm a hair of your head.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000026_000000|'Don't let us talk of what fancies come into your head when you are feverish.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000027_000001|I began to work in a carding room soon after, and the fluff got into my lungs and poisoned me.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000028_000000|'Fluff?' said Margaret, inquiringly.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000031_000000|'I dunno.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000032_000000|'Did not your father know about it?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000033_000000|'Yes!
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000033_000004|That's all.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000034_000000|'How old are you?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000035_000000|'Nineteen, come July.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000036_000000|'And I too am nineteen.' She thought, more sorrowfully than Bessy did, of the contrast between them.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000036_000001|She could not speak for a moment or two for the emotion she was trying to keep down.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000037_000000|'About Mary,' said Bessy.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000038_000001|We have an old faithful servant, almost a friend, who wants help, but who is very particular; and it would not be right to plague her with giving her any assistance that would really be an annoyance and an irritation.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000039_000000|'No, I see.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000039_000001|I reckon yo're right.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000040_000001|And now I must go.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000040_000002|I will come again as soon as I can; but if it should not be to morrow, or the next day, or even a week or a fortnight hence, don't think I've forgotten you.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000040_000003|I may be busy.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000041_000001|I'll not mistrust yo' no more.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000043_000000|'But you'll let me know if you are worse.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000045_000000|From that day forwards mrs Hale became more and more of a suffering invalid.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000045_000005|But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her mother's mind.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000046_000000|'Indeed, Margaret, you are growing fanciful!
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000046_000001|God knows I should be the first to take the alarm if your mother were really ill; we always saw when she had her headaches at Helstone, even without her telling us.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000047_000000|'But, papa,' said Margaret, with hesitation, 'do you know, I think that is the flush of pain.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000048_000000|'Nonsense, Margaret.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000048_000001|I tell you, you are too fanciful.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000048_000002|You are the person not well, I think.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000048_000003|Send for the doctor to morrow for yourself; and then, if it will make your mind easier, he can see your mother.'
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000049_000000|'Thank you, dear papa.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000049_000001|It will make me happier, indeed.' And she went up to him to kiss him.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000049_000003|He walked uneasily up and down the room.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000051_000000|'No, papa,' said Margaret, sadly.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000052_000000|'Then, you see, she can't be fretting after them, eh?
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000052_000002|She never would conceal anything seriously affecting her health from me: would she, eh, Margaret?
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000052_000003|I am quite sure she would not.
train-other-500/1679/142287/1679_142287_000052_000004|So don't let me hear of these foolish morbid ideas.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000001_000000|As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000002_000000|'What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000003_000000|'Nothing,' said Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000004_000000|'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000005_000000|'Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000006_000000|'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000006_000001|They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White Rabbit interrupted: 'UNimportant, your Majesty means, of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as he spoke.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000007_000000|'UNimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone,
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000010_000000|At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note book, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out from his book, 'Rule Forty two.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000010_000001|ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE HIGH TO LEAVE THE COURT.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000011_000000|Everybody looked at Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000012_000000|'I'M not a mile high,' said Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000013_000000|'You are,' said the King.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000014_000000|'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000015_000000|'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000016_000000|'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000018_000000|The King turned pale, and shut his note book hastily.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000018_000001|'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000019_000000|'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; 'this paper has just been picked up.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000020_000000|'What's in it?' said the Queen.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000021_000000|'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to-to somebody.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000022_000000|'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000023_000000|'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000026_000000|'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000028_000000|'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, and they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000029_000000|'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes the matter worse.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000029_000001|You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like an honest man.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000030_000000|There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000031_000000|'That PROVES his guilt,' said the Queen.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000032_000000|'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you don't even know what they're about!'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000033_000000|'Read them,' said the King.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000034_000000|The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000034_000001|'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000035_000000|'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000036_000000|These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000037_000000|'They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000039_000000|I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000040_000000|If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000041_000000|My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000042_000000|Don't let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000046_000000|'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000046_000002|"--SAID I COULD NOT SWIM-" you can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000047_000000|The Knave shook his head sadly.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000047_000001|'Do I look like it?' he said. (Which he certainly did NOT, being made entirely of cardboard.)
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000049_000000|'But, it goes on "THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,"' said Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000050_000000|'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000050_000002|Then again-"BEFORE SHE HAD THIS FIT-" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said to the Queen.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000051_000000|'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000052_000000|'Then the words don't FIT you,' said the King, looking round the court with a smile.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000052_000001|There was a dead silence.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000054_000000|'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first-verdict afterwards.'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000055_000001|'The idea of having the sentence first!'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000056_000000|'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000057_000000|'I won't!' said Alice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000058_000000|'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000058_000001|Nobody moved.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000059_000000|'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000060_000000|At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
train-other-500/168/123450/168_123450_000061_000000|'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!'
train-other-500/168/129245/168_129245_000007_000001|SYM, THE SON OF JOI
train-other-500/168/129245/168_129245_000016_000000|New interest came to the mind of Sym, As 'midst his fellows he lived and toiled. But the ways of the Glug folk puzzled him; For some won honour, while some were foiled; Yet all were filled with a vague unrest As they climbed their trees in an endless search. But joi, the father, he mocked their quest, When he marked a Glug on his hard won perch.
train-other-500/168/129245/168_129245_000019_000000|Said he: "Whenever there springs from earth A plant all crooked and marred at birth, Shall we, unlearned in the Gardener's scheme, Blame plant or earth for the faults that seem?" Said he: "Whenever your wondering eyes Look out on the glory of earth and skies, Shall you, 'mid the blessing of fields a bloom, Fling blame at the blind man, prisoned in gloom?"
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000001_000000|When the deep shades creep and the wind is high The trees bow low as the gods ride by: Gods of the gloaming, who ride on the breeze, Stooping to heaften the birds and the trees. But each dull Glug sits down by his door, And mutters, " 'tis windy!" and nothing more, Like the long dead Glugs in the days of yore.
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000005_000000|But the practical aunt said, "Fudge!
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000005_000001|You fool! We'll pack up his dinner and send him to school. He shall learn about two times and parsing and capes, And how to make money with inches on tapes. We'll apprentice him then to the drapery trade, Where, I've heard it reported, large profits are made; Besides, he can sell us cheap buttons and braid."
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000007_000000|"And now," said the teacher, "the day's task brings Consideration of practical things. If a man makes a profit of fifteen pounds On one week's takings from two milk rounds, How many . . ." And Sym went dreaming away To the sunlit lands where the field mice play, And wrens hold revel the livelong day.
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000008_000000|He walked in the welcoming fields alone, While from far, far away came the pedagogue's drone: "If a man makes . . .Multiply . . .
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000008_000001|Abstract nouns . . . From B take . . .Population of towns . . . Rods, poles or perches . . .
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000008_000002|Derived from Greek Oh, the hawthorn buds came out this week, And robins are nesting down by the creek.
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000011_000000|"There is wisdom in that," laughed the father, Joi. But the aunt said, "Toity!" and, "Drat the boy!" "He shall play," said the father, "some noble part. Who knows but it may be in letters or art? 'tis a dignified business to make folk think." But the aunt cried, "What!
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000011_000001|Go messing with ink? And smear all his fingers, and take to drink? Paint hussies and cows, and end in the clink?"
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000014_000001|He's our one disgrace! And he's probably sneaking around some place With fuzzy black whiskers all over his face."
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000017_000001|THE END OF JOI
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000018_000000|They climbed the trees . . .
train-other-500/168/129246/168_129246_000020_000000|They climbed the trees.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000003_000000|It needed the pretty light papering of the rooms to reconcile them to Milton.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000003_000001|It needed more-more that could not be had.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000004_000000|Margaret and Dixon had been at work for two days, unpacking and arranging, but everything inside the house still looked in disorder; and outside a thick fog crept up to the very windows, and was driven in to every open door in choking white wreaths of unwholesome mist.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000007_000001|Miss Hale, that's far too heavy for you to lift.'
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000008_000000|'Not at all, thank you, Dixon,' replied Margaret, coldly.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000010_000001|Only suppose that your mother's health or yours should suffer.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000010_000003|There was no comfort to be given.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000011_000003|It loomed through the fog like a great barrier to hope.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000011_000004|Inside the room everything was in confusion.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000011_000009|Edith wrote fluently and well, if not graphically.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000000|Yes! Margaret remembered it well.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000002|Margaret had joined the party in the evening.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000006|She doubted if any one of that old set ever thought of her, except Henry Lennox.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000008|She had heard him often boast of his power of putting any disagreeable thought far away from him.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000009|Then she penetrated farther into what might have been.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000014|They were at the lowest now; they could not be worse.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000015|Edith's astonishment and her aunt Shaw's dismay would have to be met bravely, when their letters came.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000016|So Margaret rose up and began slowly to undress herself, feeling the full luxury of acting leisurely, late as it was, after all the past hurry of the day.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000018|But if she had known how long it would be before the brightness came, her heart would have sunk low down.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000012_000022|So they had to keep a charwoman in almost constant employ.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000013_000002|If he were sent to even the Scotch Universities, he came back unsettled for commercial pursuits; how much more so if he went to Oxford or Cambridge, where he could not be entered till he was eighteen?
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000013_000006|mr Thornton was perhaps the oldest of mr Hale's pupils. He was certainly the favourite.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000014_000000|Margaret rather encouraged this light, merry way of viewing her father's acquaintance with mr Thornton, because she felt that her mother was inclined to look upon this new friendship of her husband's with jealous eyes.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000014_000001|As long as his time had been solely occupied with his books and his parishioners, as at Helstone, she had appeared to care little whether she saw much of him or not; but now that he looked eagerly forward to each renewal of his intercourse with mr Thornton, she seemed hurt and annoyed, as if he were slighting her companionship for the first time.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000015_000002|The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000017_000003|The limits by which this rule of her aunt's had circumscribed Margaret's independence had been silently rebelled against at the time: and she had doubly enjoyed the free walks and rambles of her forest life, from the contrast which they presented.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000018_000001|He seemed to understand her acknowledging glance, and a silent recognition was established between them whenever the chances of the day brought them across each other's paths.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000020_000000|'Thank yo, Miss.
train-other-500/1680/142282/1680_142282_000022_000000|'That's beyond London, I reckon?
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000000_000000|FRUIT PIECE
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000001_000000|'For never any thing can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it.' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000000|mr Thornton went straight and clear into all the interests of the following day.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000001|There was a slight demand for finished goods; and as it affected his branch of the trade, he took advantage of it, and drove hard bargains.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000002|He was sharp to the hour at the meeting of his brother magistrates,--giving them the best assistance of his strong sense, and his power of seeing consequences at a glance, and so coming to a rapid decision.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000003|Older men, men of long standing in the town, men of far greater wealth-realised and turned into land, while his was all floating capital, engaged in his trade-looked to him for prompt, ready wisdom.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000004|He was the one deputed to see and arrange with the police-to lead in all the requisite steps.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000005|And he cared for their unconscious deference no more than for the soft west wind, that scarcely made the smoke from the great tall chimneys swerve in its straight upward course. He was not aware of the silent respect paid to him.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000006|If it had been otherwise, he would have felt it as an obstacle in his progress to the object he had in view.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000007|As it was, he looked to the speedy accomplishment of that alone.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000008|It was his mother's greedy ears that sucked in, from the women kind of these magistrates and wealthy men, how highly mr This or mr That thought of mr Thornton; that if he had not been there, things would have gone on very differently,--very badly, indeed.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000009|He swept off his business right and left that day.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000010|It seemed as though his deep mortification of yesterday, and the stunned purposeless course of the hours afterwards, had cleared away all the mists from his intellect.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000011|He felt his power and revelled in it.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000012|He could almost defy his heart.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000002_000013|If he had known it, he could have sang the song of the miller who lived by the river Dee:--
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000003_000000|'I care for nobody- Nobody cares for me.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000004_000002|He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them,--almost sick with longing for that one half hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000005_000000|'Why, mr Thornton you're cutting me very coolly, I must say.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000005_000002|Brave weather this!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000005_000003|We doctors don't like it, I can tell you!'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000006_000000|'I beg your pardon, dr Donaldson.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000006_000001|I really didn't see you.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000006_000002|My mother's quite well, thank you.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000006_000003|It is a fine day, and good for the harvest, I hope.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000006_000004|If the wheat is well got in, we shall have a brisk trade next year, whatever you doctors have.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000007_000001|Each man for himself.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000007_000002|Your bad weather, and your bad times, are my good ones.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000007_000003|When trade is bad, there's more undermining of health, and preparation for death, going on among you Milton men than you're aware of.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000008_000000|'Not with me, Doctor.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000008_000002|The news of the worst bad debt I ever had, never made my pulse vary.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000008_000003|This strike, which affects me more than any one else in Milton,--more than Hamper,--never comes near my appetite.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000008_000004|You must go elsewhere for a patient, Doctor.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000009_000000|'By the way, you've recommended me a good patient, poor lady!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000009_000001|Not to go on talking in this heartless way, I seriously believe that mrs Hale-that lady in Crampton, you know-hasn't many weeks to live.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000010_000000|mr Thornton was silent.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000010_000001|The vaunted steadiness of pulse failed him for an instant.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000011_000000|'Can I do anything, Doctor?' he asked, in an altered voice.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000012_000000|'No,' replied the Doctor, shaking his head.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000012_000001|'She craves for fruit,--she has a constant fever on her; but jargonelle pears will do as well as anything, and there are quantities of them in the market.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000013_000000|'You will tell me, if there is anything I can do, I'm sure,' replied mr Thornton. 'I rely upon you.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000014_000000|'Oh! never fear!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000014_000001|I'll not spare your purse,--I know it's deep enough.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000014_000002|I wish you'd give me carte blanche for all my patients, and all their wants.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000015_000000|But mr Thornton had no general benevolence,--no universal philanthropy; few even would have given him credit for strong affections.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000015_000001|But he went straight to the first fruit shop in Milton, and chose out the bunch of purple grapes with the most delicate bloom upon them,--the richest coloured peaches,--the freshest vine leaves.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000015_000002|They were packed into a basket, and the shopman awaited the answer to his inquiry, 'Where shall we send them to, sir?'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000016_000000|There was no reply.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000016_000001|'To Marlborough Mills, I suppose, sir?'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000017_000000|'No!' mr Thornton said.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000017_000001|'Give the basket to me,--I'll take it.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000018_000000|It took up both his hands to carry it; and he had to pass through the busiest part of the town for feminine shopping.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000019_000000|He was thinking, 'I will not be daunted from doing as I choose by the thought of her.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000019_000002|She shall never scorn me out of doing what I please.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000019_000003|A pretty joke, indeed, if, for fear of a haughty girl, I failed in doing a kindness to a man I liked!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000019_000004|I do it for mr Hale; I do it in defiance of her.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000020_000000|He went at an unusual pace, and was soon at Crampton.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000020_000001|He went upstairs two steps at a time, and entered the drawing room before Dixon could announce him,--his face flushed, his eyes shining with kindly earnestness.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000020_000002|mrs Hale lay on the sofa, heated with fever.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000020_000003|mr Hale was reading aloud.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000020_000004|Margaret was working on a low stool by her mother's side. Her heart fluttered, if his did not, at this interview.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000020_000005|But he took no notice of her, hardly of mr Hale himself; he went up straight with his basket to mrs Hale, and said, in that subdued and gentle tone, which is so touching when used by a robust man in full health, speaking to a feeble invalid-
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000021_000000|'I met dr Donaldson, ma'am, and as he said fruit would be good for you, I have taken the liberty-the great liberty of bringing you some that seemed to me fine.' mrs Hale was excessively surprised; excessively pleased; quite in a tremble of eagerness.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000021_000001|mr Hale with fewer words expressed a deeper gratitude.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000022_000001|She thought it would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000022_000002|As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000023_000000|'I must go,' said he, 'I cannot stay.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000023_000001|If you will forgive this liberty,--my rough ways,--too abrupt, I fear-but I will be more gentle next time.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000023_000002|You will allow me the pleasure of bringing you some fruit again, if I should see any that is tempting.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000023_000003|Good afternoon, mr Hale. Good bye, ma'am.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000024_000000|He was gone.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000024_000001|Not one word: not one look to Margaret.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000024_000002|She believed that he had not seen her.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000024_000003|She went for a plate in silence, and lifted the fruit out tenderly, with the points of her delicate taper fingers.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000024_000004|It was good of him to bring it; and after yesterday too!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000025_000001|'How kind of him to think of me!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000025_000002|Margaret love, only taste these grapes!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000025_000003|Was it not good of him?'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000026_000000|'Yes!' said Margaret, quietly.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000027_000000|'Margaret!' said mrs Hale, rather querulously, 'you won't like anything mr Thornton does.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000027_000001|I never saw anybody so prejudiced.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000028_000000|mr Hale had been peeling a peach for his wife; and, cutting off a small piece for himself, he said:
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000029_000000|'If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000029_000001|I have not tasted such fruit-no! not even in Hampshire-since I was a boy; and to boys, I fancy, all fruit is good.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000029_000002|I remember eating sloes and crabs with a relish.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000030_000000|Did she not?
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000030_000001|Did she not remember every weather stain on the old stone wall; the gray and yellow lichens that marked it like a map; the little crane's bill that grew in the crevices?
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000030_000003|She had hardly given way to the first choking sob, when she became aware of Dixon standing at her drawers, and evidently searching for something.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000031_000000|'Bless me, miss!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000031_000001|How you startled me!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000031_000002|Missus is not worse, is she?
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000031_000003|Is anything the matter?'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000032_000000|'No, nothing.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000032_000001|Only I'm silly, Dixon, and want a glass of water.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000032_000002|What are you looking for?
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000032_000003|I keep my muslins in that drawer.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000033_000000|Dixon did not speak, but went on rummaging.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000033_000001|The scent of lavender came out and perfumed the room.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000034_000000|At last Dixon found what she wanted; what it was Margaret could not see. Dixon faced round, and spoke to her:
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000035_000000|'Now I don't like telling you what I wanted, because you've fretting enough to go through, and I know you'll fret about this.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000036_000000|'What is the matter?
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000036_000001|Pray, tell me, Dixon, at once.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000037_000000|'That young woman you go to see-Higgins, I mean.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000038_000000|'Well?'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000039_000000|'Well! she died this morning, and her sister is here-come to beg a strange thing.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000039_000001|It seems, the young woman who died had a fancy for being buried in something of yours, and so the sister's come to ask for it,--and I was looking for a night cap that wasn't too good to give away.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000040_000000|'Oh! let me find one,' said Margaret, in the midst of her tears.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000040_000001|'Poor Bessy!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000040_000002|I never thought I should not see her again.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000041_000000|'Why, that's another thing.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000041_000001|This girl down stairs wanted me to ask you, if you would like to see her.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000042_000000|'But she's dead!' said Margaret, turning a little pale.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000042_000001|'I never saw a dead person.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000042_000002|No!
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000042_000003|I would rather not.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000043_000000|'I should never have asked you, if you hadn't come in.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000044_000000|'I will go down and speak to her,' said Margaret, afraid lest Dixon's harshness of manner might wound the poor girl.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000044_000001|So, taking the cap in her hand, she went to the kitchen.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000044_000002|Mary's face was all swollen with crying, and she burst out afresh when she saw Margaret.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000045_000001|At last, her sympathy, and Dixon's scolding, forced out a few facts. Nicholas Higgins had gone out in the morning, leaving Bessy as well as on the day before.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000045_000002|But in an hour she was taken worse; some neighbour ran to the room where Mary was working; they did not know where to find her father; Mary had only come in a few minutes before she died.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000046_000002|She loved yo' dearly.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000046_000004|She would ha' thought it a great compliment, I know.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000047_000000|Margaret shrank a little from answering.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000048_000000|'Yes, perhaps I may.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000048_000002|I'll come before tea.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000048_000003|But where's your father, Mary?'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000049_000000|Mary shook her head, and stood up to be going.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000050_000002|They've just a notion, these common folks, of its being a respect to the departed.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000050_000003|Here,' said she, turning sharply round, 'I'll come and see your sister.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000050_000004|Miss Hale is busy, and she can't come, or else she would.'
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000051_000000|The girl looked wistfully at Margaret.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000052_000000|'No, Dixon!' said Margaret with decision.
train-other-500/1681/142301/1681_142301_000052_000001|'I will go.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000011_000000|CHAPTER thirty nine
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000012_000000|MAKING FRIENDS
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000013_000000|'Nay, I have done; you get no more of me: And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so clearly I myself am free.' DRAYTON.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000014_000000|Margaret shut herself up in her own room, after she had quitted mrs Thornton.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000014_000001|She began to walk backwards and forwards, in her old habitual way of showing agitation; but, then, remembering that in that slightly built house every step was heard from one room to another, she sate down until she heard mrs Thornton go safely out of the house.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000014_000002|She forced herself to recollect all the conversation that had passed between them; speech by speech, she compelled her memory to go through with it. At the end, she rose up, and said to herself, in a melancholy tone:
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000015_000000|'At any rate, her words do not touch me; they fall off from me; for I am innocent of all the motives she attributes to me.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000015_000001|But still, it is hard to think that any one-any woman-can believe all this of another so easily.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000015_000002|It is hard and sad.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000015_000003|Where I have done wrong, she does not accuse me-she does not know.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000015_000004|He never told her: I might have known he would not!'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000016_000000|She lifted up her head, as if she took pride in any delicacy of feeling which mr Thornton had shown.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000016_000001|Then, as a new thought came across her, she pressed her hands tightly together.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000000|'He, too, must take poor Frederick for some lover.' (She blushed as the word passed through her mind.) 'I see it now.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000001|It is not merely that he knows of my falsehood, but he believes that some one else cares for me; and that I---- Oh dear!--oh dear!
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000002|What shall I do?
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000003|What do I mean?
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000004|Why do I care what he thinks, beyond the mere loss of his good opinion as regards my telling the truth or not?
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000005|I cannot tell.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000006|But I am very miserable!
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000007|Oh, how unhappy this last year has been!
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000008|I have passed out of childhood into old age.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000010|I am weary of this continual call upon me for strength. I could bear up for papa; because that is a natural, pious duty.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000011|And I think I could bear up against-at any rate, I could have the energy to resent, mrs Thornton's unjust, impertinent suspicions.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000012|But it is hard to feel how completely he must misunderstand me.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000013|What has happened to make me so morbid to day?
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000014|I do not know.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000015|I only know I cannot help it.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000016|I must give way sometimes.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000017|No, I will not, though,' said she, springing to her feet.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000017_000019|It would be of no use now.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000018_000000|All this time, she was hastily putting on her things to go out, only stopping from time to time to wipe her eyes, with an impatience of gesture at the tears that would come, in spite of all her bravery.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000000|'I dare say, there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000001|And how proudly and impertinently I spoke to him that day!
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000002|But I did not know then.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000003|It has come upon me little by little, and I don't know where it began.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000004|Now I won't give way. I shall find it difficult to behave in the same way to him, with this miserable consciousness upon me; but I will be very calm and very quiet, and say very little.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000005|But, to be sure, I may not see him; he keeps out of our way evidently.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000006|That would be worse than all.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000019_000007|And yet no wonder that he avoids me, believing what he must about me.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000020_000000|She went out, going rapidly towards the country, and trying to drown reflection by swiftness of motion.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000021_000000|As she stood on the door step, at her return, her father came up:
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000022_000000|'Good girl!' said he.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000022_000002|I was just meaning to go there, if I had time, before dinner.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000023_000000|'No, papa; I have not,' said Margaret, reddening.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000023_000001|'I never thought about her.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000023_000002|But I will go directly after dinner; I will go while you are taking your nap.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000000|Accordingly Margaret went.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000001|mrs Boucher was very ill; really ill-not merely ailing.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000002|The kind and sensible neighbour, who had come in the other day, seemed to have taken charge of everything.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000003|Some of the children were gone to the neighbours.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000004|Mary Higgins had come for the three youngest at dinner time; and since then Nicholas had gone for the doctor.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000005|He had not come as yet; mrs Boucher was dying; and there was nothing to do but to wait.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000006|Margaret thought that she should like to know his opinion, and that she could not do better than go and see the Higginses in the meantime.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000024_000007|She might then possibly hear whether Nicholas had been able to make his application to mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000025_000000|She found Nicholas busily engaged in making a penny spin on the dresser, for the amusement of three little children, who were clinging to him in a fearless manner.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000025_000001|He, as well as they, was smiling at a good long spin; and Margaret thought, that the happy look of interest in his occupation was a good sign.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000025_000002|When the penny stopped spinning, 'lile Johnnie' began to cry.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000028_000001|'I've seen and heerd too much on him.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000029_000000|'He refused you, then?' said Margaret, sorrowfully.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000030_000000|'To be sure.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000030_000001|I knew he'd do it all long.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000031_000001|Was he angry?
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000031_000002|He did not speak to you as Hamper did, did he?'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000032_000000|'He weren't o'er civil!' said Nicholas, spinning the penny again, as much for his own amusement as for that of the children.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000032_000002|I'll go on tramp to morrow.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000032_000003|I gave him as good as I got.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000033_000000|'You told him I sent you?'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000034_000002|I said, a woman who knew no better had advised me for to come and see if there was a soft place in his heart.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000035_000000|'And he-?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000037_000000|Margaret put the struggling Johnnie out of her arms, back into his former place on the dresser.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000038_000000|'I am sorry I asked you to go to mr Thornton's.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000038_000001|I am disappointed in him.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000000|There was a slight noise behind her.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000001|Both she and Nicholas turned round at the same moment, and there stood mr Thornton, with a look of displeased surprise upon his face.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000003|He bent equally low in return, and then closed the door after her.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000006|He had tenderness in his heart-'a soft place,' as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000007|But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognise his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to any one who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000008|That the man had spoken saucily to him when he had the opportunity, was nothing to mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000009|He rather liked him for it; and he was conscious of his own irritability of temper at the time, which probably made them both quits.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000010|It was the five hours of waiting that struck mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000011|He had not five hours to spare himself; but one hour-two hours, of his hard penetrating intellectual, as well as bodily labour, did he give up to going about collecting evidence as to the truth of Higgins's story, the nature of his character, the tenor of his life.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000012|He tried not to be, but was convinced that all that Higgins had said was true.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000039_000014|He came to tell Higgins he would give him work; and he was more annoyed to find Margaret there than by hearing her last words, for then he understood that she was the woman who had urged Higgins to come to him; and he dreaded the admission of any thought of her, as a motive to what he was doing solely because it was right.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000040_000000|'So that was the lady you spoke of as a woman?' said he indignantly to Higgins. 'You might have told me who she was.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000042_000000|'Of course you told that to Miss Hale?'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000044_000000|'Whose children are those-yours?' mr Thornton had a pretty good notion whose they were, from what he had heard; but he felt awkward in turning the conversation round from this unpromising beginning.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000048_000000|mr Thornton was silent for a moment; then he said: 'No more have i I remember what I said.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000048_000001|I spoke to you about those children in a way I had no business to do.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000048_000002|I did not believe you.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000048_000004|But I know now that you spoke truth.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000048_000005|I beg your pardon.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000049_000000|Higgins did not turn round, or immediately respond to this.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000049_000001|But when he did speak, it was in a softened tone, although the words were gruff enough.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000050_000001|He's dead, and I'm sorry.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000050_000002|That's enough.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000051_000000|'So it is.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000051_000001|Will you take work with me?
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000051_000002|That's what I came to ask.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000052_000001|He would not speak.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000052_000002|mr Thornton would not ask again.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000052_000003|Higgins's eye fell on the children.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000054_000000|'Well!' said mr Thornton, half laughing, 'it was not my proposal that we should go together.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000054_000001|But there's one comfort, on your own showing.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000055_000000|'That's true,' said Higgins, reflectively.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000055_000002|But that's maybe been a hasty judgment; and work's work to such as me.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000056_000000|'And this is a deal from me,' said mr Thornton, giving Higgins's hand a good grip.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000056_000001|'Now mind you come sharp to your time,' continued he, resuming the master.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000056_000002|'I'll have no laggards at my mill.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000056_000003|What fines we have, we keep pretty sharply.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000056_000004|And the first time I catch you making mischief, off you go.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000056_000005|So now you know where you are.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000059_000000|'I shall need a deal o' brains to settle where my business ends and yo'rs begins.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000060_000001|So good afternoon.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000000|Just before mr Thornton came up to mrs Boucher's door, Margaret came out of it.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000001|She did not see him; and he followed her for several yards, admiring her light and easy walk, and her tall and graceful figure.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000002|But, suddenly, this simple emotion of pleasure was tainted, poisoned by jealousy.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000003|He wished to overtake her, and speak to her, to see how she would receive him, now she must know he was aware of some other attachment.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000004|He wished too, but of this wish he was rather ashamed, that she should know that he had justified her wisdom in sending Higgins to him to ask for work; and had repented him of his morning's decision.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000005|He came up to her.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000061_000006|She started.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000062_000000|'Allow me to say, Miss Hale, that you were rather premature in expressing your disappointment.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000062_000001|I have taken Higgins on.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000063_000000|'I am glad of it,' said she, coldly.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000064_000000|'He tells me, he repeated to you, what I said this morning about-' mr Thornton hesitated.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000064_000001|Margaret took it up:
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000065_000000|'About women not meddling.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000065_000001|You had a perfect right to express your opinion, which was a very correct one, I have no doubt.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000065_000002|But,' she went on a little more eagerly, 'Higgins did not quite tell you the exact truth.' The word 'truth,' reminded her of her own untruth, and she stopped short, feeling exceedingly uncomfortable.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000066_000000|mr Thornton at first was puzzled to account for her silence; and then he remembered the lie she had told, and all that was foregone.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000066_000001|'The exact truth!' said he.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000066_000002|'Very few people do speak the exact truth.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000066_000003|I have given up hoping for it.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000066_000004|Miss Hale, have you no explanation to give me? You must perceive what I cannot but think.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000067_000000|Margaret was silent.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000067_000001|She was wondering whether an explanation of any kind would be consistent with her loyalty to Frederick.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000068_000000|'Nay,' said he, 'I will ask no farther.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000068_000001|I may be putting temptation in your way.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000068_000002|At present, believe me, your secret is safe with me.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000068_000003|But you run great risks, allow me to say, in being so indiscreet.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000068_000004|I am now only speaking as a friend of your father's: if I had any other thought or hope, of course that is at an end.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000068_000005|I am quite disinterested.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000069_000001|'I am aware of what I must appear to you, but the secret is another person's, and I cannot explain it without doing him harm.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000070_000001|'My own interest in you is-simply that of a friend.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000070_000002|You may not believe me, Miss Hale, but it is-in spite of the persecution I'm afraid I threatened you with at one time-but that is all given up; all passed away.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000070_000003|You believe me, Miss Hale?'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000071_000000|'Yes,' said Margaret, quietly and sadly.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000072_000000|'Then, really, I don't see any occasion for us to go on walking together.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000072_000001|I thought, perhaps you might have had something to say, but I see we are nothing to each other.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000072_000002|If you're quite convinced, that any foolish passion on my part is entirely over, I will wish you good afternoon.' He walked off very hastily.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000073_000000|'What can he mean?' thought Margaret,--'what could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000073_000001|His mother will have said all those cruel things about me to him.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000073_000002|But I won't care for him.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000073_000003|I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling, which tempted me even to betray my own dear Frederick, so that I might but regain his good opinion-the good opinion of a man who takes such pains to tell me that I am nothing to him.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000073_000004|Come poor little heart! be cheery and brave.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000073_000005|We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.'
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000000|Her father was almost startled by her merriment this afternoon.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000002|In the middle of the evening, she was called down to speak to Mary Higgins; and when she came back, mr Hale imagined that he saw traces of tears on her cheeks. But that could not be, for she brought good news-that Higgins had got work at mr Thornton's mill.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000003|Her spirits were damped, at any rate, and she found it very difficult to go on talking at all, much more in the wild way that she had done.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000005|Margaret tried to take an interest in what pleased her father; but she was too languid to care about any mr Bell, even though he were twenty times her godfather.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000007|Margaret yearned after that old house, and the placid tranquillity of that old well ordered, monotonous life.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000008|She had found it occasionally tiresome while it lasted; but since then she had been buffeted about, and felt so exhausted by this recent struggle with herself, that she thought that even stagnation would be a rest and a refreshment.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000009|So she began to look towards a long visit to the Lennoxes, on their return to England, as to a point-no, not of hope-but of leisure, in which she could regain her power and command over herself.
train-other-500/1681/142313/1681_142313_000074_000010|At present it seemed to her as if all subjects tended towards mr Thornton; as if she could not forget him with all her endeavours.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000002_000000|CORN, BARLEY, PEARL BARLEY, OATS, RYE, POTATOES, TEA, COFFEE, AND CHOCOLATE.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000003_000000|What is Corn?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000004_000000|Corn signifies a race of plants which produce grain in an ear or head, fit for bread, the food of man; or the grain or seed of the plant, separated from the ear.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000005_000000|What is generally meant by Corn?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000007_000000|Where was Corn first used?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000008_000000|It is uncertain.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000008_000002|From the accounts in the Bible, we find that its culture engaged a large share of the attention of the ancient hebrews.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000010_000000|Who were the Athenians?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000011_000000|Inhabitants of Athens, the capital city of Greece.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000012_000000|Who were the Cretans?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000013_000000|The inhabitants of Crete, an island of the Archipelago.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000014_000000|Who were the Sicilians?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000015_000000|Inhabitants of Sicily, the largest island of the Mediterranean Sea, now a part of Italy, and separated from the mainland by the Strait of Messina.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000017_000000|In Egypt, a country of Africa.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000017_000001|It is extremely fertile, producing great quantities of corn.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000017_000003|The corn of Syria has always been very superior, and by many classed above that of Egypt.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000018_000000|For what is Barley generally used?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000021_000000|What is Pearl Barley?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000022_000000|Barley freed from the husk by a mill.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000023_000000|What are Oats?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000024_000001|Oats are also eaten by the inhabitants of many countries, after being ground into meal and made into oat cakes.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000024_000002|Oatmeal also forms a wholesome drink for invalids, by steeping it in boiling water.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000025_000000|What are the uses of Rye?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000028_000000|Of what country is the Potato a native?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000029_000000|Potatoes grew wild in Peru, a country of South America; whence they were transplanted to other parts of the American continent, and afterwards to Europe.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000029_000001|The honor of introducing this useful vegetable into England is divided between Sir Francis Drake, in fifteen eighty, and Sir Walter Raleigh, in fifteen eighty six, some ascribing it to the former, and others to the latter.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000029_000003|They now constitute a principal article of food in most of the countries of Europe and America; in Ireland, they have long furnished nearly four fifths of the entire food of the people.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000030_000000|What part of the plant is eaten?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000031_000000|The root, which, when roasted or boiled, affords a wholesome and agreeable meal.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000032_000000|What is Tea?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000033_000000|The leaves of an evergreen shrub, a native of China and Japan, in which countries alone it is extensively cultivated for use.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000033_000001|The tea plant was at one time introduced into South Carolina, where its culture appears to have been attended with but little success.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000033_000002|It may yet become a staple production of some portions of the United States.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000035_000000|How is it prepared for use?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000036_000000|By carefully gathering the leaves, one by one, while they are yet small, young, and juicy.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000037_000000|What is next done?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000038_000000|They are then removed with a kind of shovel resembling a fan, and poured on mats, whence they are taken in small quantities, and rolled in the palm of the hand always in one direction, until they cool and retain the curl.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000039_000000|How often is this operation repeated?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000040_000000|Two or three times, the furnace each time being made less hot.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000040_000001|The tea is then placed in the store houses, or packed in chests, and sent to most of the countries in Europe and America.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000041_000000|Describe the appearance of the Tea tree.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000043_000000|What produces the difference between Green and Bohea, or Black?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000045_000000|What nation first introduced it into Europe?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000046_000000|The Dutch in sixteen ten; it was introduced into England in sixteen fifty
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000047_000000|What is Coffee?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000048_000000|The berry of the coffee tree, a native of Arabia.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000048_000001|The coffee tree is an evergreen, and makes a beautiful appearance at all times of the year, but especially when in flower, and when the berries are red, which is usually during the winter.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000048_000002|It is also cultivated in Persia, the East Indies, Liberia on the coast of Africa, the West Indies, Brazil and other parts of South America, as well as in most tropical climates.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000050_000000|Who was the original discoverer of Coffee, for the drink of man?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000051_000001|Its use gradually extended to other cities, and to those on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000054_000000|How is it prepared?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000057_000000|What is Chocolate?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000058_000000|A kind of cake or paste, made of the kernel of the cacao nut.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000059_000000|Describe the Cacao nut Tree.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000060_000000|It resembles the cherry tree, and grows to the height of fifteen or sixteen feet.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000060_000001|The cacao nut tree bears leaves, flowers, and fruit, all the year through.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000061_000000|Where does it grow?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000062_000000|In tropical regions, where it is largely cultivated.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000063_000000|Of what form is the fruit?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000064_000000|It is somewhat like a cucumber, about three inches round, and of a yellowish red color.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000064_000001|It contains from ten to forty seeds, each covered with a little rind, of a violet color; when this is stripped off, the kernel, of which they make the chocolate, is visible.
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000065_000000|How do they make it into a drink?
train-other-500/1685/146845/1685_146845_000066_000000|By boiling it with water or milk.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000006_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000007_000000|COCOA, TODDY, CHERRIES, BARK, CORK, COCHINEAL, CLOVES, CINNAMON, AND CASSIA.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000008_000000|Of what form is the tree which bears those large nuts, called Cocoa nuts?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000009_000000|It is tall and straight, without branches, and generally about thirty or forty feet high; at the top are twelve leaves, ten feet long, and half a foot broad; above the leaves, grows a large excrescence in the form of a cabbage, excellent to eat, but taking it off kills the tree. The cocoa is a species of Palm.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000010_000000|Is not the Indian liquor called Toddy, produced from the Cocoa Tree?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000011_000000|Yes, between the leaves and the top arise several shoots about the thickness of a man's arm, which, when cut, distil a white, sweet, and agreeable liquor; while this liquor exudes, the tree yields no fruit; but when the shoots are allowed to grow, it puts out a large cluster or branch, on which the cocoa nuts hang, to the number of ten or twelve.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000015_000000|How often does this tree produce nuts?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000016_000000|Three times a year, the nuts being about the size of a man's head, and of an oval form.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000018_000000|Of Asia, the Indies, Africa, Arabia, the Islands of the Southern Pacific, and the hottest parts of America.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000019_000000|What are the uses of this Tree?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000021_000000|From what country was the Cherry Tree first brought?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000023_000000|What is the meaning of a d?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000026_000000|A renowned Roman general.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000028_000000|It is used in cabinet making, for boxes, and other articles.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000029_000000|What is Bark?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000030_000000|The exterior part of trees, which serves them as a skin or covering.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000032_000000|Does it not undergo some change during the year?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000033_000000|Each year the bark of a tree divides, and distributes itself two contrary ways, the outer part gives towards the skin, till it becomes skin itself, and at length falls off; the inner part is added to the wood.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000034_000000|Of what use is Bark?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000035_000000|Bark is useful for many things: of the bark of willows and linden trees, ropes are sometimes made.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000038_000000|How do the savages guide them?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000039_000000|With paddles, or oars; they seldom carry sails, and the loading is laid in the bottom.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000040_000000|Are not the savages very dexterous in the management of them?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000043_000000|Do they leave their canoes in the water on their return from a voyage?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000045_000000|Were not books once made of Bark?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000047_000000|Which part did they use?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000050_000000|Yes, especially that of the oak; but the best oak bark is used in tanning.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000051_000000|What is Cork?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000052_000001|The Cork Tree attains to a very great age.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000053_000000|Where is the Tree found?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000054_000000|In Spain, Italy, France, and many other countries.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000056_000000|Cork is employed in various ways, but especially for stopping vessels containing liquids, and, on account of its buoyancy in water, in the construction of life boats.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000056_000001|It is also used in the manufacture of life preservers and cork jackets.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000056_000002|The greatest quantities are brought from Catalonia, in Spain.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000057_000000|To what particular use did the Egyptians put it?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000058_000000|They made coffins of it, lined with a resinous composition, which preserved the bodies of the dead uncorrupted.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000059_000000|What is Cochineal?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000060_000000|A drug used by the dyers, for dyeing crimsons and scarlets; and for making carmine, a brilliant red used in painting, and several of the arts.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000061_000000|Is it a plant?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000062_000000|No, it is an insect.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000062_000001|The form of the Cochineal is oval; it is about the size of a small pea, and has six legs armed with claws, and a trunk by which it sucks its nourishment.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000063_000000|What is its habitation?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000064_000000|It breeds in a fruit resembling a pear; the plant which bears it is about five or six feet high; at the top of the fruit grows a red flower, which when full blown, falls upon it; the fruit then appears full of little red insects, having very small wings.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000064_000001|These are the Cochineals.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000066_000000|By spreading a cloth under the plant, and shaking it with poles, till the insects quit it and fly about, which they cannot do many minutes, but soon tumble down dead into the cloth; where they are left till quite dry.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000069_000000|From what countries is the Cochineal brought?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000070_000000|From the West Indies, Jamaica, Mexico, and other parts of America.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000072_000000|The dried flower buds of the Clove Tree, anciently a native of the Moluccas; but afterwards transplanted by the Dutch (who traded in them,) to other islands, particularly that of Ternate.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000072_000001|It is now found in most of the East Indian Islands.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000073_000000|Describe the Clove Tree.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000074_000000|It is a large handsome tree of the myrtle kind; its leaves resemble those of the laurel.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000074_000002|The clove when it first begins to appear is white, then green, and at last hard and red; when dried, it turns yellow, and then dark brown.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000076_000000|The Clove is the hottest, and most acrid of aromatic substances; one of our most wholesome spices, and of great use in medicine; it also yields an abundance of oil, which is much used by perfumers, and in medicine.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000079_000000|What is Cinnamon?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000080_000001|The tree sends up numerous shoots the third or fourth year after it has been planted; these shoots are planted out, when nearly an inch in thickness.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000081_000000|How is the bark procured?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000083_000000|How is the Cinnamon Tree cultivated?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000084_000001|The cinnamon tree, in its wild state, is said to be propagated by means of a kind of pigeons, that feed on its fruit; in carrying which to their nests, the seeds fall out, and, dropping in various places, take root, spring up, and become trees.
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000086_000000|What else is obtained from this tree?
train-other-500/1685/146847/1685_146847_000087_000001|Camphor is extracted from the root.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000001_000000|A kind of small raisins or dried grapes.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000002_000000|Whence are they brought?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000003_000000|From several islands of the Archipelago, particularly Zante and Cephalonia; and from the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000004_000000|Do they grow on bushes like our Currants?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000005_000000|No, on vines like other grapes, except that the leaves are somewhat thicker, and the grapes much smaller: they have no pips, and are of a deep red, or rather black color.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000006_000000|When are they gathered, and how are they dried?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000008_000000|What do you mean by Exportation?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000009_000000|The act of conveying goods for sale from one country to another.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000011_000000|Grapes prepared by drying them in the sun, or by the heat of an oven. Raisins of Damascus, so called from the capital city of Syria, near which they are cultivated, are very large, flat, and wrinkled on the surface; soft and juicy inside, and nearly an inch long.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000012_000000|In what manner are they dried?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000013_000001|This makes them shrink and wrinkle: after this they are cut from the branches which supported them, but left on the vine for three or four days, separated on sticks, in an upright position, to dry at leisure. Different modes, however, are adopted, according to the quality of the grape.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000013_000002|The commonest kinds are dried in hot ovens, but the best way is that in which the grapes are cut when fully ripe, and dried by the heat of the sun, on a floor of hard earth or stone.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000016_000000|A soft, luscious fruit, the produce of the fig tree.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000016_000001|The best figs are brought from Turkey, but they are also imported from Italy, Spain, and the southern part of France.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000016_000002|The islands of the Archipelago yield an inferior sort in great abundance.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000016_000003|In this country they are sometimes planted in a warm situation in gardens, but, being difficult to ripen, they do not arrive at perfection.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000016_000004|The figs sent from abroad are dried by the heat of the sun, or in furnaces for the purpose.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000018_000000|What is Rice?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000019_000000|A useful and nutritious grain, cultivated in immense quantities in India, China, and most eastern countries; in the West Indies, Central America, and the United States; and in southern Europe.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000021_000000|Does it not require a great deal of moisture?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000022_000000|Yes, it is usually planted in moist soils, and near rivers, where the ground can be overflowed after it is come up.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000022_000001|The Chinese water their rice fields by means of movable mills, placed as occasion requires, upon any part of the banks of a river; the water is raised in buckets to a proper height, and afterwards conveyed in channels to the destined places.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000023_000000|What is Sugar?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000029_000000|How is it prepared?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000031_000000|Is the Sugar Cane the only vegetable that produces Sugar?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000032_000000|All vegetables contain more or less sugar, but the plant in which it most abounds is the sugar cane.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000032_000001|In the United States, a large quantity of sugar is prepared from the sap of the Sugar Maple Tree.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000033_000000|What is Sugar Candy?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000034_000000|Sugar purified and crystallized.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000037_000000|What is Sago?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000038_000001|The pith, which is even eatable in its natural state, is taken from the trunk of the tree, and thrown into a vessel placed over a horse hair sieve; water is then thrown over the mass, and the finer parts of the pith pass through the sieve; the liquor thus obtained is left to settle.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000038_000002|The clear liquor is then drawn off, and what remains is formed into grains by being passed through metal dishes, with numerous small holes; it is next dried by the action of heat, and in this state it is exported.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000038_000003|The Sago Palm also produces sugar.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000039_000000|What is Millet, and in what countries does it grow?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000042_000000|For what is Millet used?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000043_000000|It is in great request amongst the Germans for puddings; for which it is sometimes used amongst us.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000044_000000|What is Ginger?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000045_000000|The root of a plant cultivated in the East and West Indies, and in America; it is a native of south-eastern Asia and the adjoining islands.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000047_000001|The Indians eat the root when green as a salad, chopping it small with other herbs; they also make a candy of it with sugar.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000047_000002|The ginger sold in the shops here is dried, which is done by placing the roots in the heat of the sun or in ovens, after being dug out of the ground.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000048_000000|What are Nutmegs?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000049_000000|A delicate aromatic fruit or spice, brought from the East Indies.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000049_000001|The nutmeg tree greatly resembles our pear tree, and produces a kind of nut, which bears the same name as the tree.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000051_000000|What is the appearance of the Nutmeg?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000052_000000|Its form is round, and its smell agreeable.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000052_000002|The shell is the third cover, which is hard, thin, and blackish; under this is a greenish film of no use; and in the last you find the nutmeg, which is the kernel of the fruit.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000054_000000|The nutmeg is much used in our food, and is of excellent virtue as a medicine.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000054_000001|It also yields an oil of great fragrance.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000055_000000|Is the Mace used as a spice?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000056_000000|Yes, it is separated from the shell of the nutmeg, and dried in the sun
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000056_000001|It is brought over in flakes of a yellow color, smooth and net like, as you see it in the shops.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000056_000003|It is used both in food and medicine, as the nutmeg, and also yields an oil.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000058_000000|What is Pimento or Allspice?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000059_000000|The dried unripe berry or fruit of a tree growing in great abundance in Jamaica, particularly on the northern side of that island, on hilly spots, near the coast; it is also a native of both Indies.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000060_000000|When is the time to gather the spice?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000061_000000|About the month of September, not long after the blossoms are fallen, the berries are gathered by the hand; one laborer on the tree, employed in gathering the small branches, will give employment to three below (who are generally women and children) in picking the berries.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000061_000002|Great quantities are annually imported.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000063_000000|It forms a pleasant addition to flavor food; it also yields an agreeable essential oil, and is accounted the best and mildest of common spices.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000065_000000|Why is it called Allspice?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000067_000000|What is Pepper?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000068_000000|The product of a creeping shrub, growing in several parts of the East Indies, Asia, and America.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000069_000000|In what manner does Pepper grow, and what part of the shrub is used?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000070_000000|Pepper is the fruit of this shrub, and grows in bunches or clusters, at first green; as it ripens it becomes reddish, until having been exposed for some time to the heat of the sun, (or probably gathered before perfectly ripe,) it becomes black, as in the condition we have it.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000070_000001|There are two sorts, the black and the white.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000071_000000|What is the White Pepper?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000072_000000|The white pepper is merely the black deprived of its outside skin.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000072_000001|For this purpose the finest red berries are selected, and put in baskets to steep, either in running water, or in pits dug for the purpose, near the banks of rivers.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000072_000002|Sometimes they are only buried in the ground.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000072_000003|In any of these situations, they swell and burst their skins, from which, when dry, they are carefully separated by rubbing between the hands, or fanning.
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000073_000000|What is Cayenne Pepper?
train-other-500/1685/146849/1685_146849_000074_000000|The dried fruit of a plant called bird pepper, a native of both Indies.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000002_000000|ANGEL VISITS
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000004_000000|mrs Hale was curiously amused and interested by the idea of the Thornton dinner party.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000004_000001|She kept wondering about the details, with something of the simplicity of a little child, who wants to have all its anticipated pleasures described beforehand.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000005_000000|'Then you think you shall wear your white silk.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000005_000001|Are you sure it will fit?
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000005_000002|It's nearly a year since Edith was married!'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000006_000000|'Oh yes, mamma!
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000006_000001|mrs Murray made it, and it's sure to be right; it may be a straw's breadth shorter or longer waisted, according to my having grown fat or thin.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000006_000002|But I don't think I've altered in the least.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000007_000000|'Hadn't you better let Dixon see it?
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000008_000000|'If you like, mamma.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000008_000001|But if the worst comes to the worst, I've a very nice pink gauze which aunt Shaw gave me, only two or three months before Edith was married.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000008_000002|That can't have gone yellow.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000009_000000|'No! but it may have faded.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000010_000000|'Well! then I've a green silk.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000010_000001|I feel more as if it was the embarrassment of riches.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000011_000000|'I wish I knew what you ought to wear,' said mrs Hale, nervously. Margaret's manner changed instantly.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000011_000001|'Shall I go and put them on one after another, mamma, and then you could see which you liked best?'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000012_000000|'But-yes! perhaps that will be best.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000013_000000|So off Margaret went.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000015_000000|'Yes, Bessy.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000017_000000|'And you don't think we're quite the first folk in Milton, eh, Bessy?' Bessy's cheeks flushed a little at her thought being thus easily read.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000019_000000|'No,' said Margaret, 'that's very true.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000019_000001|But we are educated people, and have lived amongst educated people.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000019_000003|I don't mean to blame mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000019_000004|Few drapers' assistants, as he was once, could have made themselves what he is.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000020_000001|Thornton's house is three times as big.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000021_000000|'Well, I think we could manage to give mr Thornton a dinner back, as you call it.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000023_000000|'I think I could support the honour of meeting the mayor of Milton.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000024_000002|'Thank You, Bessy, for thinking so kindly about my looking nice among all the smart people. But I've plenty of grand gowns,--a week ago, I should have said they were far too grand for anything I should ever want again.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000025_000000|'What win yo' wear?' asked Bessy, somewhat relieved.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000026_000000|'White silk,' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000026_000001|'A gown I had for a cousin's wedding, a year ago.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000027_000000|'That'll do!' said Bessy, falling back in her chair.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000027_000001|'I should be loth to have yo' looked down upon.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000028_000001|I'll be fine enough, if that will save me from being looked down upon in Milton.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000030_000000|'Nonsense, Bessy!'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000032_000000|'Nay, Bessy,' said Margaret, gently, 'it was but a dream.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000033_000002|Why, even my father thinks a deal o' dreams!
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000034_000000|'My dear Bessy, it is quite a fancy of yours.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000036_000000|'Oh Bessy! you may come and welcome; but don't talk so-it really makes me sorry.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000036_000001|It does indeed.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000037_000001|Not but what it's true for all that.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000038_000000|Margaret was silent.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000038_000001|At last she said,
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000039_000000|'Let us talk about it sometimes, if you think it true.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000039_000001|But not now.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000039_000002|Tell me, has your father turned out?'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000041_000000|'Don't speak so!' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000041_000001|'You'll make me feel wicked and guilty in going to this dinner.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000043_000000|'Bessy! you're very feverish!
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000043_000001|I can tell it in the touch of your hand, as well as in what you're saying.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000043_000002|It won't be division enough, in that awful day, that some of us have been beggars here, and some of us have been rich,--we shall not be judged by that poor accident, but by our faithful following of Christ.' Margaret got up, and found some water and soaking her pocket handkerchief in it, she laid the cool wetness on Bessy's forehead, and began to chafe the stone cold feet.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000043_000004|At last she said,
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000045_000000|'And do they think the strike will mend this?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000046_000004|He caught his daughter's last words.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000048_000001|Bessy said to her,--
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000049_000000|'The twenty first-that's Thursday week.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000050_000000|Before Margaret could answer, Higgins broke out,
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000051_000000|'Thornton's!
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000051_000004|Tell him, there's seven hundred'll come marching into Marlborough Mills, the morning after he gives the five per cent, and will help him through his contract in no time.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000051_000006|My master, Hamper.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000052_000000|'Good bye!' said Margaret, hastily.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000052_000001|'Good bye, Bessy!
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000052_000002|I shall look to see you on the twenty first, if you're well enough.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000053_000000|The medicines and treatment which dr Donaldson had ordered for mrs Hale, did her so much good at first that not only she herself, but Margaret, began to hope that he might have been mistaken, and that she could recover permanently.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000053_000001|As for mr Hale, although he had never had an idea of the serious nature of their apprehensions, he triumphed over their fears with an evident relief, which proved how much his glimpse into the nature of them had affected him.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000053_000002|Only Dixon croaked for ever into Margaret's ear.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000053_000003|However, Margaret defied the raven, and would hope.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000000|They needed this gleam of brightness in doors, for out of doors, even to their uninstructed eyes, there was a gloomy brooding appearance of discontent.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000001|mr Hale had his own acquaintances among the working men, and was depressed with their earnestly told tales of suffering and long endurance.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000002|They would have scorned to speak of what they had to bear to any one who might, from his position, have understood it without their words.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000007|Margaret's whole soul rose up against him while he reasoned in this way-as if commerce were everything and humanity nothing.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000008|She could hardly, thank him for the individual kindness, which brought him that very evening to offer her-for the delicacy which made him understand that he must offer her privately-every convenience for illness that his own wealth or his mother's foresight had caused them to accumulate in their household, and which, as he learnt from dr Donaldson, mrs Hale might possibly require.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000011|Yet he knew all.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000013|She heard it in his grave and tremulous voice.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000014|How reconcile those eyes, that voice, with the hard reasoning, dry, merciless way in which he laid down axioms of trade, and serenely followed them out to their full consequences?
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000015|The discord jarred upon her inexpressibly.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000017|To be sure, Nicholas Higgins, the father, spoke differently.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000018|He had been appointed a committee man, and said that he knew secrets of which the exoteric knew nothing.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000023|Her sister Mary was tying on her bonnet (in great clumsy bows, as suited her great clumsy fingers), to go to her fustian cutting, blubbering out loud the while, and evidently longing to be away from a scene that distressed her.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000024|Margaret came in upon this scene.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000025|She stood for a moment at the door-then, her finger on her lips, she stole to a seat on the squab near Bessy.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000026|Nicholas saw her come in, and greeted her with a gruff, but not unfriendly nod.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000054_000027|Mary hurried out of the house catching gladly at the open door, and crying aloud when she got away from her father's presence.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000060_000001|They had hardly uttered the sighing, that the eyes of each called to the other to bring up from the depths of her heart.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000060_000002|At last Bessy said,
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000061_000000|'I never thought to hear father call on God again.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000062_000000|'Yes!' said Margaret. 'Let me bring you what money I can spare,--let me bring you a little food for that poor man's children.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000062_000001|Don't let them know it comes from any one but your father.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000062_000002|It will be but little.'
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000063_000000|Bessy lay back without taking any notice of what Margaret said.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000063_000001|She did not cry-she only quivered up her breath,
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000064_000004|I can't make it out.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000065_000000|Margaret sat utterly silent.
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000065_000001|How was she ever to go away into comfort and forget that man's voice, with the tone of unutterable agony, telling more by far than his words of what he had to suffer?
train-other-500/1690/142293/1690_142293_000065_000002|She took out her purse; she had not much in it of what she could call her own, but what she had she put into Bessy's hand without speaking.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000001_000000|A BLOW AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000002_000000|'But work grew scarce, while bread grew dear, And wages lessened, too; For Irish hordes were bidders here, Our half paid work to do.' CORN LAW RHYMES.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000003_000000|Margaret was shown into the drawing room.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000003_000004|Every now and then, the wind seemed to bear the distant multitudinous sound nearer; and yet there was no wind!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000003_000005|It died away into profound stillness between whiles.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000004_000000|Fanny came in at last.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000005_000001|She desired me to apologise to you as it is.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000006_000000|mrs Thornton came in with a look of black sternness on her face, which made Margaret feel she had arrived at a bad time to trouble her with her request.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000006_000002|mrs Thornton's brow contracted, and her mouth grew set, while Margaret spoke with gentle modesty of her mother's restlessness, and dr Donaldson's wish that she should have the relief of a water bed.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000006_000003|She ceased.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000006_000004|mrs Thornton did not reply immediately.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000006_000005|Then she started up and exclaimed-
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000007_000000|'They're at the gates!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000007_000001|Call john, Fanny,--call him in from the mill! They're at the gates!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000007_000003|Call john, I say!'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000001|The women gathered round the windows, fascinated to look on the scene which terrified them. mrs Thornton, the women servants, Margaret,--all were there.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000002|Fanny had returned, screaming up stairs as if pursued at every step, and had thrown herself in hysterical sobbing on the sofa.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000003|mrs Thornton watched for her son, who was still in the mill.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000004|He came out, looked up at them-the pale cluster of faces-and smiled good courage to them, before he locked the factory door.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000005|Then he called to one of the women to come down and undo his own door, which Fanny had fastened behind her in her mad flight.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000006|mrs Thornton herself went.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000009|But now, hearing him speak inside, they set up such a fierce unearthly groan, that even mrs Thornton was white with fear as she preceded him into the room.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000008_000010|He came in a little flushed, but his eyes gleaming, as in answer to the trumpet call of danger, and with a proud look of defiance on his face, that made him a noble, if not a handsome man.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000010_000000|'I'm sorry, Miss Hale, you have visited us at this unfortunate moment, when, I fear, you may be involved in whatever risk we have to bear. Mother! hadn't you better go into the back rooms?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000010_000002|Go Jane!' continued he, addressing the upper servant.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000010_000003|And she went, followed by the others.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000011_000000|'I stop here!' said his mother.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000011_000003|mr Thornton smiled scornfully as he heard them.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000011_000004|He glanced at Margaret, standing all by herself at the window nearest the factory.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000011_000006|As if she felt his look, she turned to him and asked a question that had been for some time in her mind:
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000012_000000|'Where are the poor imported work people?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000012_000001|In the factory there?'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000013_000000|'Yes!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000013_000001|I left them cowered up in a small room, at the head of a back flight of stairs; bidding them run all risks, and escape down there, if they heard any attack made on the mill doors.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000013_000002|But it is not them-it is me they want.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000014_000000|'When can the soldiers be here?' asked his mother, in a low but not unsteady voice.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000015_000001|He made some little calculation:
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000017_000000|'Twenty minutes!' said his mother, for the first time showing her terror in the tones of her voice.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000018_000000|'Shut down the windows instantly, mother,' exclaimed he: 'the gates won't bear such another shock.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000018_000001|Shut down that window, Miss Hale.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000020_000001|mrs Thornton looked with wild anxiety at her son's countenance, as if to gain the interpretation of the sudden stillness from him.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000020_000002|His face was set into rigid lines of contemptuous defiance; neither hope nor fear could be read there.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000021_000000|Fanny raised herself up:
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000023_000000|'Gone!' replied he.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000024_000000|She did listen; they all could hear the one great straining breath; the creak of wood slowly yielding; the wrench of iron; the mighty fall of the ponderous gates.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000025_000000|'Thank God!' said mr Thornton, as he watched her out.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000025_000001|'Had you not better go upstairs, Miss Hale?'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000027_000000|'Never mind!' said he, thinking to encourage her.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000028_000001|I know his face, though he is livid with rage,--he is fighting to get to the front-look! look!'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000029_000001|As soon as they saw mr Thornton, they set up a yell,--to call it not human is nothing,--it was as the demoniac desire of some terrible wild beast for the food that is withheld from his ravening.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000030_000000|'Let them yell!' said he.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000030_000001|'In five minutes more-.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000031_000000|'Don't be afraid for me,' she said hastily.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000031_000001|'But what in five minutes? Can you do nothing to soothe these poor creatures?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000031_000002|It is awful to see them.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000032_000000|'The soldiers will be here directly, and that will bring them to reason.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000033_000000|'To reason!' said Margaret, quickly.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000033_000001|'What kind of reason?'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000034_000000|'The only reason that does with men that make themselves into wild beasts.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000034_000001|By heaven!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000034_000002|they've turned to the mill door!'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000035_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000035_000002|Go down and face them like a man.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000035_000003|Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000035_000004|Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000035_000005|Speak to them kindly.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000035_000006|Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000036_000000|He turned and looked at her while she spoke.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000036_000001|A dark cloud came over his face while he listened.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000036_000002|He set his teeth as he heard her words.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000037_000000|'I will go.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000037_000001|Perhaps I may ask you to accompany me downstairs, and bar the door behind me; my mother and sister will need that protection.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000038_000000|'Oh!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000038_000001|mr Thornton!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000001|Again she took her place by the farthest window.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000003|She threw the window wide open.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000004|Many in the crowd were mere boys; cruel and thoughtless,--cruel because they were thoughtless; some were men, gaunt as wolves, and mad for prey.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000008|But perhaps he was speaking now; there was a momentary hush of their noise, inarticulate as that of a troop of animals.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000009|She tore her bonnet off; and bent forwards to hear.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000010|She could only see; for if mr Thornton had indeed made the attempt to speak, the momentary instinct to listen to him was past and gone, and the people were raging worse than ever.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000012|They were trying to intimidate him-to make him flinch; each was urging the other on to some immediate act of personal violence.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000015|The clogs were arrested in the hands that held them-the countenances, so fell not a moment before, now looked irresolute, and as if asking what this meant.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000016|For she stood between them and their enemy.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000039_000017|She could not speak, but held out her arms towards them till she could recover breath.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000040_000000|'Oh, do not use violence!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000040_000001|He is one man, and you are many; but her words died away, for there was no tone in her voice; it was but a hoarse whisper.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000040_000002|mr Thornton stood a little on one side; he had moved away from behind her, as if jealous of anything that should come between him and danger.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000041_000001|Go peaceably.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000041_000002|Go away.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000041_000003|You shall have relief from your complaints, whatever they are.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000043_000000|'Never, for your bidding!' exclaimed mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000043_000001|And instantly the storm broke.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000043_000002|The hootings rose and filled the air,--but Margaret did not hear them.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000043_000004|She saw their gesture-she knew its meaning,--she read their aim.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000043_000006|She only thought how she could save him.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000043_000008|Still, with his arms folded, he shook her off.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000044_000001|'This is no place for you.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000045_000001|'You did not see what I saw.' If she thought her sex would be a protection,--if, with shrinking eyes she had turned away from the terrible anger of these men, in any hope that ere she looked again they would have paused and reflected, and slunk away, and vanished,--she was wrong.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000046_000000|'For God's sake! do not damage your cause by this violence.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000046_000001|You do not know what you are doing.' She strove to make her words distinct.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000047_000000|A sharp pebble flew by her, grazing forehead and cheek, and drawing a blinding sheet of light before her eyes.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000047_000001|She lay like one dead on mr Thornton's shoulder.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000047_000002|Then he unfolded his arms, and held her encircled in one for an instant:
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000048_000001|'You come to oust the innocent stranger.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000048_000002|You fall-you hundreds-on one man; and when a woman comes before you, to ask you for your own sakes to be reasonable creatures, your cowardly wrath falls upon her!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000048_000004|Those nearest the gate stole out ashamed; there was a movement through all the crowd-a retreating movement.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000048_000005|Only one voice cried out:
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000050_000000|mr Thornton quivered with rage.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000050_000001|The blood flowing had made Margaret conscious-dimly, vaguely conscious.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000050_000002|He placed her gently on the door step, her head leaning against the frame.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000051_000000|'Can you rest there?' he asked.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000051_000001|But without waiting for her answer, he went slowly down the steps right into the middle of the crowd.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000051_000002|'Now kill me, if it is your brutal will.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000051_000003|There is no woman to shield me here.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000051_000004|You may beat me to death-you will never move me from what I have determined upon-not you!' He stood amongst them, with his arms folded, in precisely the same attitude as he had been in on the steps.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000052_000000|But the retrograde movement towards the gate had begun-as unreasoningly, perhaps as blindly, as the simultaneous anger.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000052_000003|The moment that retreat had changed into a flight (as it was sure from its very character to do), he darted up the steps to Margaret.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000052_000004|She tried to rise without his help.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000053_000000|'It is nothing,' she said, with a sickly smile.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000053_000001|'The skin is grazed, and I was stunned at the moment.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000053_000002|Oh, I am so thankful they are gone!' And she cried without restraint.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000054_000000|He could not sympathise with her.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000054_000001|His anger had not abated; it was rather rising the more as his sense of immediate danger was passing away.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000054_000002|The distant clank of the soldiers was heard just five minutes too late to make this vanished mob feel the power of authority and order.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000054_000003|He hoped they would see the troops, and be quelled by the thought of their narrow escape.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000054_000004|While these thoughts crossed his mind, Margaret clung to the doorpost to steady herself: but a film came over her eyes-he was only just in time to catch her.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000055_000000|'Oh, my Margaret-my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead-cold as you lie there, you are the only woman I ever loved!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000055_000001|Oh, Margaret-Margaret!' Inarticulately as he spoke, kneeling by her, and rather moaning than saying the words, he started up, ashamed of himself, as his mother came in.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000055_000002|She saw nothing, but her son a little paler, a little sterner than usual.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000056_000000|'Miss Hale is hurt, mother.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000056_000001|A stone has grazed her temple.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000056_000002|She has lost a good deal of blood, I'm afraid.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000057_000000|'She looks very seriously hurt,--I could almost fancy her dead,' said mrs Thornton, a good deal alarmed.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000058_000000|'It is only a fainting fit.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000058_000001|She has spoken to me since.' But all the blood in his body seemed to rush inwards to his heart as he spoke, and he absolutely trembled.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000000|'Go and call Jane,--she can find me the things I want; and do you go to your Irish people, who are crying and shouting as if they were mad with fright.' He went.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000001|He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000002|He called Jane; he called his sister.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000003|She should have all womanly care, all gentle tendance.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000004|But every pulse beat in him as he remembered how she had come down and placed herself in foremost danger,--could it be to save him?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000007|There, they declared, they would not stop; they claimed to be sent back.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000059_000008|And so he had to think, and talk, and reason.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000060_000000|mrs Thornton bathed Margaret's temples with eau de Cologne.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000060_000002|The dark circles deepened, the lips quivered and contracted, and she became insensible once more.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000061_000000|'She has had a terrible blow,' said mrs Thornton.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000062_000000|'Not me, ma'am, if you please,' said Jane, shrinking back.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000062_000001|'Them rabble may be all about; I don't think the cut is so deep, ma'am, as it looks.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000063_000000|'I will not run the chance.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000063_000001|She was hurt in our house.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000063_000003|I will go.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000064_000001|There's ever so many come up, and soldiers too.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000065_000000|'And yet you're afraid to go!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000065_000001|I will not have their time taken up with our errands.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000065_000002|They'll have enough to do to catch some of the mob.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000065_000003|You will not be afraid to stop in this house,' she asked contemptuously, 'and go on bathing Miss Hale's forehead, shall you?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000067_000000|'Why Hannah?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000067_000001|Why any but you?
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000067_000002|No, Jane, if you don't go, I do.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000068_000000|mrs Thornton went first to the room in which she had left Fanny stretched on the bed.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000069_000000|'Oh, mamma, how you terrified me!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000069_000001|I thought you were a man that had got into the house.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000070_000000|'Nonsense!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000070_000001|The men are all gone away.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000070_000002|There are soldiers all round the place, seeking for their work now it is too late.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000070_000003|Miss Hale is lying on the dining room sofa badly hurt.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000070_000004|I am going for the doctor.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000071_000001|they'll murder you.' She clung to her mother's gown. mrs Thornton wrenched it away with no gentle hand.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000072_000000|'Find me some one else to go but that girl must not bleed to death.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000074_000000|'I don't know,--I have no time to ask.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000074_000002|Jane is with her; and I trust it looks worse than it is.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000074_000003|Jane has refused to leave the house, cowardly woman!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000074_000004|And I won't put myself in the way of any more refusals from my servants, so I am going myself.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000075_000000|'Oh, dear, dear!' said Fanny, crying, and preparing to go down rather than be left alone, with the thought of wounds and bloodshed in the very house.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000076_000003|Did they throw stones into the drawing room?'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000077_000000|Margaret did indeed look white and wan, although her senses were beginning to return to her.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000077_000001|But the sickly daze of the swoon made her still miserably faint.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000079_000000|'She'd have been safe enough, miss, if she'd stayed in the drawing room, or come up to us; we were in the front garret, and could see it all, out of harm's way.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000080_000000|'Where was she, then?' said Fanny, drawing nearer by slow degrees, as she became accustomed to the sight of Margaret's pale face.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000081_000000|'Just before the front door-with master!' said Jane, significantly.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000082_000000|'With john! with my brother!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000083_000000|'Nay, miss, that's not for me to say,' answered Jane, with a slight toss of her head.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000083_000001|'Sarah did'----
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000084_000000|'Sarah what?' said Fanny, with impatient curiosity.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000085_000000|Jane resumed her bathing, as if what Sarah did or said was not exactly the thing she liked to repeat.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000086_000000|'Sarah what?' asked Fanny, sharply.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000086_000001|'Don't speak in these half sentences, or I can't understand you.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000087_000000|'Well, miss, since you will have it-Sarah, you see, was in the best place for seeing, being at the right-hand window; and she says, and said at the very time too, that she saw Miss Hale with her arms about master's neck, hugging him before all the people.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000088_000000|'I don't believe it,' said Fanny. 'I know she cares for my brother; any one can see that; and I dare say, she'd give her eyes if he'd marry her,--which he never will, I can tell her.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000088_000001|But I don't believe she'd be so bold and forward as to put her arms round his neck.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000089_000000|'Poor young lady!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000089_000001|she's paid for it dearly if she did.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000089_000002|It's my belief, that the blow has given her such an ascendency of blood to the head as she'll never get the better from.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000089_000003|She looks like a corpse now.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000090_000001|'I never was in the room with a dead person before.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000091_000000|'Stay, miss!
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000091_000002|Speak to her, Miss Fanny!'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000092_000000|'Are you better now?' asked Fanny, in a quavering voice.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000093_000000|No answer; no sign of recognition; but a faint pink colour returned to her lips, although the rest of her face was ashen pale.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000094_000000|mrs Thornton came hurriedly in, with the nearest surgeon she could find.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000094_000003|'Here is mr Lowe come to see you.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000095_000001|Margaret tried to rise, and drew her ruffled, luxuriant hair instinctly over the cut.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000095_000003|I was a little sick.' She let him take her hand and feel her pulse.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000095_000004|The bright colour came for a moment into her face, when he asked to examine the wound in her forehead; and she glanced up at Jane, as if shrinking from her inspection more than from the doctor's.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000096_000000|'It is not much, I think.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000096_000001|I am better now.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000096_000002|I must go home.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000097_000000|'Not until I have applied some strips of plaster; and you have rested a little.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000099_000000|'Now, if you please,' said she, 'I must go.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000099_000002|It is under the hair, is it not?'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000100_000000|'Quite; no one could tell.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000101_000000|'But you must not go,' said mrs Thornton, impatiently.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000101_000001|'You are not fit to go.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000102_000000|'I must,' said Margaret, decidedly.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000102_000003|'I cannot stay here. May I ask for a cab?'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000104_000000|'It is only with being here, when I do so want to go.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000105_000001|'If her mother is so ill as you told me on the way here, it may be very serious if she hears of this riot, and does not see her daughter back at the time she expects.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000105_000002|The injury is not deep.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000105_000003|I will fetch a cab, if your servants are still afraid to go out.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000106_000000|'Oh, thank you!' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000107_000000|She leant back on the sofa, and closed her eyes.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000107_000001|Fanny beckoned her mother out of the room, and told her something that made her equally anxious with Margaret for the departure of the latter.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000107_000002|Not that she fully believed Fanny's statement; but she credited enough to make her manner to Margaret appear very much constrained, at wishing her good bye.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000108_000000|mr Lowe returned in the cab.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000109_000000|'If you will allow me, I will see you home, Miss Hale.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000109_000001|The streets are not very quiet yet.'
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000110_000000|Margaret's thoughts were quite alive enough to the present to make her desirous of getting rid of both mr Lowe and the cab before she reached Crampton Crescent, for fear of alarming her father and mother.
train-other-500/1691/142296/1691_142296_000110_000001|Beyond that one aim she would not look.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000000_000001|BROWNING.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000000|That afternoon she walked swiftly to the Higgins's house.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000001|Mary was looking out for her, with a half distrustful face.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000002|Margaret smiled into her eyes to re assure her.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000003|They passed quickly through the house place, upstairs, and into the quiet presence of the dead.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000004|Then Margaret was glad that she had come.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000005|The face, often so weary with pain, so restless with troublous thoughts, had now the faint soft smile of eternal rest upon it.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000007|And that was death!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000001_000009|All beautiful scriptures came into her mind.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000002_000000|Slowly, slowly Margaret turned away from the bed.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000002_000002|They went down stairs without a word.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000003_000000|Resting his hand upon the house table, Nicholas Higgins stood in the midst of the floor; his great eyes startled open by the news he had heard, as he came along the court, from many busy tongues.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000003_000001|His eyes were dry and fierce; studying the reality of her death; bringing himself to understand that her place should know her no more.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000003_000002|For she had been sickly, dying so long, that he had persuaded himself she would not die; that she would 'pull through.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000004_000001|There had been a pause of an instant on the steep crooked stair, when she first saw him; but now she tried to steal past his abstracted gaze, and to leave him in the solemn circle of his household misery.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000006_000000|The noise appeared to rouse him.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000008_000000|'No!' replied Margaret, standing still with the utmost patience, now she found herself perceived.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000008_000001|It was some time before he spoke again, but he kept his hold on her arm.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000009_000000|'All men must die,' said he at last, with a strange sort of gravity, which first suggested to Margaret the idea that he had been drinking-not enough to intoxicate himself, but enough to make his thoughts bewildered.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000010_000000|'She is dead,' replied Margaret.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000013_000001|'What do I care for thee?' Margaret took her hand, and held it softly in hers.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000013_000002|He tore his hair, he beat his head against the hard wood, then he lay exhausted and stupid.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000013_000003|Still his daughter and Margaret did not move.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000014_000001|His eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and he seemed to have forgotten that any one was by; he scowled at the watchers when he saw them.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000015_000000|'Oh, father, father!' said Mary, throwing herself upon his arm,--'not to night!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000015_000001|Any night but to night.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000015_000002|Oh, help me!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000016_000001|He looked up at her defyingly.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000018_000002|It's very hard upon a man that he can't go to the only comfort left.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000019_000000|Margaret felt that he acknowledged her power.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000019_000003|Margaret laid her hand on his arm.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000020_000000|'Come with me,' she said.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000021_000001|He sullenly rose up.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000021_000002|He stood uncertain, with dogged irresolution upon his face.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000022_000000|She and he stood by the corpse.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000025_000000|'No,' said Margaret, softening with his softened manner.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000025_000002|Oh, you should have heard her speak of the life to come-the life hidden with God, that she is now gone to.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000026_000000|He shook his head, glancing sideways up at Margaret as he did so.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000027_000001|Where have you been all day-not at work?'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000028_000000|'Not at work, sure enough,' said he, with a short, grim laugh.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000029_000002|You will not go?'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000030_000000|No answer.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000031_000001|'At least you shall have some comfortable food, which I'm sure you need.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000035_000000|Margaret was perplexed; his drinking tea with her father, who would be totally unprepared for his visitor-her mother so ill-seemed utterly out of the question; and yet if she drew back now, it would be worse than ever-sure to drive him to the gin shop.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000035_000001|She thought that if she could only get him to their own house, it was so great a step gained that she would trust to the chapter of accidents for the next.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000036_000000|'Goodbye, ou'd wench!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000037_000000|He stooped down and fondly kissed his daughter; covered up her face, and turned to follow Margaret.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000038_000000|He was there by them as she would have spoken more.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000040_000000|But he slouched his cap low down over his brow as he went out into the street, and looked neither to the right nor to the left, while he tramped along by Margaret's side; he feared being upset by the words, still more the looks, of sympathising neighbours.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000040_000001|So he and Margaret walked in silence.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000041_000000|As he got near the street in which he knew she lived, he looked down at his clothes, his hands, and shoes.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000044_000000|While he followed the house servant along the passage, and through the kitchen, stepping cautiously on every dark mark in the pattern of the oil cloth, in order to conceal his dirty foot prints, Margaret ran upstairs.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000044_000001|She met Dixon on the landing.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000047_000000|So far, so good.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000047_000002|In the drawing room.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000047_000003|Margaret went in half breathless with the hurried story she had to tell.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000049_000000|'But, Margaret, to bring a drunken man home-and your mother so ill!'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000050_000000|Margaret's countenance fell.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000050_000001|'I am sorry, papa.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000050_000002|He is very quiet-he is not tipsy at all.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000050_000004|mr Hale took hold of her sweet pleading face in both his hands, and kissed her forehead.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000051_000001|I'll go and make him as comfortable as I can, and do you attend to your mother.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000051_000002|Only, if you can come in and make a third in the study, I shall be glad.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000052_000000|'Oh, yes-thank you.' But as mr Hale was leaving the room, she ran after him:
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000054_000000|'Oh dear! a drunken infidel weaver!' said mr Hale to himself, in dismay.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000054_000001|But to Margaret he only said, 'If your mother goes to sleep, be sure you come directly.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000055_000000|Margaret went into her mother's room.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000056_000000|'When did you write to Frederick, Margaret?
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000057_000000|'Yesterday, mamma.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000058_000000|'Yesterday.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000058_000001|And the letter went?'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000059_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000059_000001|I took it myself'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000060_000000|'Oh, Margaret, I'm so afraid of his coming!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000060_000001|If he should be recognised! If he should be taken!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000060_000002|If he should be executed, after all these years that he has kept away and lived in safety!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000060_000003|I keep falling asleep and dreaming that he is caught and being tried.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000061_000002|And it is so little!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000062_000000|'They'll be clever if they come in past me!' said Dixon, showing her teeth at the bare idea.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000063_000000|'And he need not go out, except in the dusk, poor fellow!'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000064_000000|'Poor fellow!' echoed mrs Hale.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000064_000001|'But I almost wish you had not written. Would it be too late to stop him if you wrote again, Margaret?'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000066_000000|'I always dislike that doing things in such a hurry,' said mrs Hale.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000067_000000|Margaret was silent.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000068_000000|'Come now, ma'am,' said Dixon, with a kind of cheerful authority, 'you know seeing Master Frederick is just the very thing of all others you're longing for.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000068_000001|And I'm glad Miss Margaret wrote off straight, without shilly shallying.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000068_000003|And we'll keep him snug, depend upon it.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000068_000007|So take your tea, ma'am, in comfort, and trust to me.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000069_000000|mrs Hale did trust in Dixon more than in Margaret.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000069_000001|Dixon's words quieted her for the time.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000069_000002|Margaret poured out the tea in silence, trying to think of something agreeable to say; but her thoughts made answer something like Daniel O'Rourke, when the man in the moon asked him to get off his reaping hook.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000069_000006|Margaret was glad when, her filial duties gently and carefully performed, she could go down into the study.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000071_000000|mr Hale treated all his fellow creatures alike: it never entered into his head to make any difference because of their rank.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000071_000001|He placed a chair for Nicholas stood up till he, at mr Hale's request, took a seat; and called him, invariably, 'mr
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000071_000002|Higgins,' instead of the curt 'Nicholas' or 'Higgins,' to which the 'drunken infidel weaver' had been accustomed. But Nicholas was neither an habitual drunkard nor a thorough infidel.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000072_000004|Higgins nodded to her as a sign of greeting; and she softly adjusted her working materials on the table, and prepared to listen.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000073_000003|I just say, where's the proof?
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000073_000006|Their lives is pretty much open to me.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000073_000010|Where shall I go?
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000074_000000|'But the masters have nothing to do with your religion.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000076_000002|I don't expect to convince you in a day,--not in one conversation; but let us know each other, and speak freely to each other about these things, and the truth will prevail.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000076_000003|I should not believe in God if I did not believe that.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000076_000004|mr Higgins, I trust, whatever else you have given up, you believe'--(mr
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000076_000005|Hale's voice dropped low in reverence)--'you believe in Him.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000077_000000|Nicholas Higgins suddenly stood straight, stiff up.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000077_000001|Margaret started to her feet,--for she thought, by the working of his face, he was going into convulsions.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000077_000002|mr Hale looked at her dismayed.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000078_000000|'Man!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000079_000000|Margaret touched his arm very softly.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000079_000001|She had not spoken before, nor had he heard her rise.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000080_000001|We do not reason-we believe; and so do you.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000081_000000|He turned round and caught her hand.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000082_000000|mr Hale blew his nose, and got up to snuff the candles in order to conceal his emotion.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000083_000001|Perhaps not at all.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000084_000000|So they questioned and listened.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000086_000001|It's save as save can.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000089_000001|I should like to read you some remarks in a book I have.' He got up and went to his book shelves.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000095_000000|'Thornton!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000095_000008|Not he!'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000096_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000097_000001|I like him for it.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000099_000000|'You forget!' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000100_000002|He were not one to bear.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000101_000001|'You don't seem to have much respect for him; nor gained much good from having him in.'
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000106_000000|He looked up at her, as if on' the point of dogged resistance to her wish for information.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000106_000001|But her calm face, fixed on his, patient and trustful, compelled him to answer.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000107_000000|'Well!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000108_000001|Nay, Higgins, I don't care one straw for your anger.
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000109_000004|Not this generation maybe, but their fathers. Their fathers ground our fathers to the very dust; ground us to powder! Parson!
train-other-500/1693/142302/1693_142302_000109_000007|It's a necessity now, according to me.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000001_000000|PROMISES FULFILLED
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000001|He could not forget the fond and earnest look that had passed between her and some other man-the attitude of familiar confidence, if not of positive endearment.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000002|The thought of this perpetually stung him; it was a picture before his eyes, wherever he went and whatever he was doing.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000003|In addition to this (and he ground his teeth as he remembered it), was the hour, dusky twilight; the place, so far away from home, and comparatively unfrequented.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000004|His nobler self had said at first, that all this last might be accidental, innocent, justifiable; but once allow her right to love and be beloved (and had he any reason to deny her right?--had not her words been severely explicit when she cast his love away from her?), she might easily have been beguiled into a longer walk, on to a later hour than she had anticipated.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000005|But that falsehood! which showed a fatal consciousness of something wrong, and to be concealed, which was unlike her.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000006|He did her that justice, though all the time it would have been a relief to believe her utterly unworthy of his esteem.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000007|It was this that made the misery-that he passionately loved her, and thought her, even with all her faults, more lovely and more excellent than any other woman; yet he deemed her so attached to some other man, so led away by her affection for him as to violate her truthful nature.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000009|He lashed himself into an agony of fierce jealousy.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000010|He thought of that look, that attitude!--how he would have laid his life at her feet for such tender glances, such fond detention!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000011|He mocked at himself, for having valued the mechanical way in which she had protected him from the fury of the mob; now he had seen how soft and bewitching she looked when with a man she really loved.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000003_000012|He remembered, point by point, the sharpness of her words-'There was not a man in all that crowd for whom she would not have done as much, far more readily than for him.' He shared with the mob, in her desire of averting bloodshed from them; but this man, this hidden lover, shared with nobody; he had looks, words, hand cleavings, lies, concealment, all to himself.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000004_000000|mr Thornton was conscious that he had never been so irritable as he was now, in all his life long; he felt inclined to give a short abrupt answer, more like a bark than a speech, to every one that asked him a question; and this consciousness hurt his pride he had always piqued himself on his self control, and control himself he would.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000004_000001|So the manner was subdued to a quiet deliberation, but the matter was even harder and sterner than common.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000004_000002|He was more than usually silent at home; employing his evenings in a continual pace backwards and forwards, which would have annoyed his mother exceedingly if it had been practised by any one else; and did not tend to promote any forbearance on her part even to this beloved son.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000005_000000|'Can you stop-can you sit down for a moment?
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000005_000001|I have something to say to you, if you would give up that everlasting walk, walk, walk.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000006_000000|He sat down instantly, on a chair against the wall.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000007_000000|'I want to speak to you about Betsy.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000007_000001|She says she must leave us; that her lover's death has so affected her spirits she can't give her heart to her work.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000008_000000|'Very well.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000008_000001|I suppose other cooks are to be met with.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000009_000001|It's not merely the cooking, it is that she knows all the ways of the house.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000009_000002|Besides, she tells me something about your friend Miss Hale.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000010_000000|'Miss Hale is no friend of mine.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000010_000001|mr Hale is my friend.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000011_000000|'I am glad to hear you say so, for if she had been your friend, what Betsy says would have annoyed you.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000012_000000|'Let me hear it,' said he, with the extreme quietness of manner he had been assuming for the last few days.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000013_000000|'Betsy says, that the night on which her lover-I forget his name-for she always calls him "he"---- '
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000014_000000|'Leonards.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000015_000000|'The night on which Leonards was last seen at the station-when he was last seen on duty, in fact-Miss Hale was there, walking about with a young man who, Betsy believes, killed Leonards by some blow or push.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000016_000000|'Leonards was not killed by any blow or push.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000017_000000|'How do you know?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000018_000000|'Because I distinctly put the question to the surgeon of the Infirmary. He told me there was an internal disease of long standing, caused by Leonards' habit of drinking to excess; that the fact of his becoming rapidly worse while in a state of intoxication, settled the question as to whether the last fatal attack was caused by excess of drinking, or the fall.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000020_000000|'Caused by the blow or push of which Betsy speaks.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000021_000000|'Then there was a blow or push?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000022_000000|'I believe so.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000023_000000|'And who did it?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000024_000000|'As there was no inquest, in consequence of the doctor's opinion, I cannot tell you.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000025_000000|'But Miss Hale was there?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000026_000000|No answer.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000027_000000|'And with a young man?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000028_000000|Still no answer.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000028_000001|At last he said: 'I tell you, mother, that there was no inquest-no inquiry.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000028_000002|No judicial inquiry, I mean.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000030_000000|'I don't see what we have to do with that.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000030_000001|Miss Hale is at liberty to please herself.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000031_000000|'I'm glad to hear you say so,' said mrs Thornton, eagerly.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000031_000002|I shall certainly let her know my opinion of such conduct.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000032_000000|'I do not see any harm in what she did that evening,' said mr Thornton, getting up, and coming near to his mother; he stood by the chimney piece with his face turned away from the room.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000034_000000|'In the first place, as it is not many years since I myself was a draper's assistant, the mere circumstance of a grocer's assistant noticing any act does not alter the character of the act to me.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000034_000001|And in the next place, I see a great deal of difference between Miss Hale and Fanny.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000034_000002|I can imagine that the one may have weighty reasons, which may and ought to make her overlook any seeming Impropriety in her conduct.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000034_000003|I never knew Fanny have weighty reasons for anything.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000034_000004|Other people must guard her.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000034_000005|I believe Miss Hale is a guardian to herself.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000035_000000|'A pretty character of your sister, indeed!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000035_000001|Really, john, one would have thought Miss Hale had done enough to make you clear sighted.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000035_000002|She drew you on to an offer, by a bold display of pretended regard for you,--to play you off against this very young man, I've no doubt.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000035_000004|You believe he is her lover, I suppose-you agree to that.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000036_000000|He turned round to his mother; his face was very gray and grim.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000036_000001|'Yes, mother.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000036_000002|I do believe he is her lover.' When he had spoken, he turned round again; he writhed himself about, like one in bodily pain.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000036_000003|He leant his face against his hand.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000036_000004|Then before she could speak, he turned sharp again:
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000037_000000|'Mother.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000037_000001|He is her lover, whoever he is; but she may need help and womanly counsel;--there may be difficulties or temptations which I don't know.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000037_000002|I fear there are.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000037_000004|I know that something is wrong; some dread, must be a terrible torture to her.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000038_000000|'For God's sake, john!' said his mother, now really shocked, 'what do you mean?
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000038_000001|What do you mean?
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000038_000002|What do you know?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000039_000000|He did not reply to her.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000040_000000|'john!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000040_000001|I don't know what I shan't think unless you speak.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000040_000002|You have no right to say what you have done against her.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000041_000000|'Not against her, mother!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000042_000000|'Well! you have no right to say what you have done, unless you say more. These half expressions are what ruin a woman's character.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000043_000000|'Her character!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000043_000002|Then, drawing himself up into determined composure and dignity, he said, 'I will not say any more than this, which is neither more nor less than the simple truth, and I am sure you believe me,--I have good reason to believe, that Miss Hale is in some strait and difficulty connected with an attachment which, of itself, from my knowledge of Miss Hale's character, is perfectly innocent and right.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000043_000003|What my reason is, I refuse to tell.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000043_000004|But never let me hear any one say a word against her, implying any more serious imputation than that she now needs the counsel of some kind and gentle woman.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000043_000005|You promised mrs Hale to be that woman!'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000044_000000|'No!' said mrs Thornton.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000044_000004|Then I shall have fulfilled my promise, and done my duty.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000045_000000|'She will never bear it,' said he passionately.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000047_000000|'Well!' said he, breaking away, 'don't tell me any more about it.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000047_000001|I cannot endure to think of it.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000047_000004|Oh, Margaret, Margaret!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000047_000005|Mother, how you have tortured me!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000047_000007|Margaret, could you not have loved me?
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000047_000008|I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000048_000000|The more mrs Thornton thought over what her son had said, in pleading for a merciful judgment for Margaret's indiscretion, the more bitterly she felt inclined towards her.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000048_000001|She took a savage pleasure in the idea of 'speaking her mind' to her, in the guise of fulfilment of a duty.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000050_000000|Margaret was sitting alone, writing to Edith, and giving her many particulars of her mother's last days.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000050_000001|It was a softening employment, and she had to brush away the unbidden tears as mrs Thornton was announced.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000051_000000|She was so gentle and ladylike in her mode of reception that her visitor was somewhat daunted; and it became impossible to utter the speech, so easy of arrangement with no one to address it to.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000051_000001|Margaret's low rich voice was softer than usual; her manner more gracious, because in her heart she was feeling very grateful to mrs Thornton for the courteous attention of her call.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000051_000002|She exerted herself to find subjects of interest for conversation; praised Martha, the servant whom mrs Thornton had found for them; had asked Edith for a little Greek air, about which she had spoken to Miss Thornton.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000051_000003|mrs Thornton was fairly discomfited.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000051_000006|mrs Thornton stood up to go, but yet she seemed to have something more to say.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000052_000000|'Miss Hale, I have a duty to perform.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000053_000000|Margaret stood before her, blushing like any culprit, with her eyes dilating as she gazed at mrs Thornton.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000054_000000|mrs Thornton went on:
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000055_000001|But my son, I am sorry to say, confirmed her story.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000055_000002|It was indiscreet, to say the least; many a young woman has lost her character before now---- '
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000056_000000|Margaret's eyes flashed fire.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000056_000001|This was a new idea-this was too insulting.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000056_000002|If mrs Thornton had spoken to her about the lie she had told, well and good-she would have owned it, and humiliated herself. But to interfere with her conduct-to speak of her character!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000056_000003|she-mrs Thornton, a mere stranger-it was too impertinent!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000056_000004|She would not answer her-not one word.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000056_000005|mrs Thornton saw the battle spirit in Margaret's eyes, and it called up her combativeness also.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000057_000000|'For your mother's sake, I have thought it right to warn you against such improprieties; they must degrade you in the long run in the estimation of the world, even if in fact they do not lead you to positive harm.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000058_000000|'For my mother's sake,' said Margaret, in a tearful voice, 'I will bear much; but I cannot bear everything.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000058_000001|She never meant me to be exposed to insult, I am sure.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000059_000000|'Insult, Miss Hale!'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000060_000000|'Yes, madam,' said Margaret more steadily, 'it is insult.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000060_000001|What do you know of me that should lead you to suspect-Oh!' said she, breaking down, and covering her face with her hands-'I know now, mr Thornton has told you---- '
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000000|'No, Miss Hale,' said mrs Thornton, her truthfulness causing her to arrest the confession Margaret was on the point of making, though her curiosity was itching to hear it.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000001|'Stop.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000002|mr Thornton has told me nothing.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000003|You do not know my son.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000004|You are not worthy to know him.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000005|He said this.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000006|Listen, young lady, that you may understand, if you can, what sort of a man you rejected.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000007|This Milton manufacturer, his great tender heart scorned as it was scorned, said to me only last night, "Go to her.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000009|Farther than that-beyond admitting the fact of your being at the Outwood station with a gentleman, on the evening of the twenty sixth-he has said nothing-not one word against you.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000061_000010|If he has knowledge of anything which should make you sob so, he keeps it to himself.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000063_000000|'Come, Miss Hale.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000063_000001|There may be circumstances, I'll allow, that, if explained, may take off from the seeming impropriety.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000064_000000|Still no answer.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000064_000001|Margaret was considering what to say; she wished to stand well with mrs Thornton; and yet she could not, might not, give any explanation.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000064_000002|mrs Thornton grew impatient.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000065_000000|'I shall be sorry to break off an acquaintance; but for Fanny's sake-as I told my son, if Fanny had done so we should consider it a great disgrace-and Fanny might be led away---- '
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000066_000000|'I can give you no explanation,' said Margaret, in a low voice.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000066_000001|'I have done wrong, but not in the way you think or know about.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000067_000000|'Thank you,' said mrs Thornton, drawing herself up; 'I was not aware that my meaning was doubted.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000067_000001|It is the last time I shall interfere.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000067_000002|I was unwilling to consent to do it, when your mother asked me.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000067_000004|You did not appear to me worthy of him.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000067_000006|'He came; you had apparently changed your mind.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000068_000000|'What must you think of me, madam?' asked Margaret, throwing her head back with proud disdain, till her throat curved outwards like a swan's. 'You can say nothing more, mrs Thornton.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000068_000001|I decline every attempt to justify myself for anything.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000068_000002|You must allow me to leave the room.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000000|And she swept out of it with the noiseless grace of an offended princess.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000002|There was nothing for it but to show herself out.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000003|She was not particularly annoyed at Margaret's way of behaving.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000004|She did not care enough for her for that. She had taken mrs Thornton's remonstrance to the full as keenly to heart as that lady expected; and Margaret's passion at once mollified her visitor, far more than any silence or reserve could have done.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000005|It showed the effect of her words.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000006|'My young lady,' thought mrs Thornton to herself; 'you've a pretty good temper of your own.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000008|But I don't think you will go a walking again with your beau, at such an hour of the day, in a hurry.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000009|You've too much pride and spirit in you for that.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000010|I like to see a girl fly out at the notion of being talked about.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000011|It shows they're neither giddy, nor bold by nature.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000012|As for that girl, she might be bold, but she'd never be giddy.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000013|I'll do her that justice.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000014|Now as to Fanny, she'd be giddy, and not bold.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000069_000015|She's no courage in her, poor thing!'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000070_000000|mr Thornton was not spending the morning so satisfactorily as his mother.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000070_000001|She, at any rate, was fulfilling her determined purpose.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000070_000002|He was trying to understand where he stood; what damage the strike had done him.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000070_000004|The strike had thrown him terribly behindhand, as to the completion of these orders.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000070_000005|Even with his own accustomed and skilled workpeople, he would have had some difficulty in fulfilling his engagements; as it was, the incompetence of the Irish hands, who had to be trained to their work, at a time requiring unusual activity, was a daily annoyance.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000071_000000|It was not a favourable hour for Higgins to make his request.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000071_000002|So, though every moment added to his repugnance, his pride, and his sullenness of temper, he stood leaning against the dead wall, hour after hour, first on one leg, then on the other.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000073_000000|'Can't stay now, my man.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000074_000000|'Well, sir, I reckon I can wait till yo' come back.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000075_000000|mr Thornton was half way down the street.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000075_000002|But it was no use.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000075_000003|To catch him in the street was his only chance of seeing 'the measter;' if he had rung the lodge bell, or even gone up to the house to ask for him, he would have been referred to the overlooker.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000075_000005|At last mr Thornton returned.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000076_000000|'What! you there still!'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000078_000000|'Come in here, then.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000078_000001|Stay, we'll go across the yard; the men are not come back, and we shall have it to ourselves.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000078_000002|These good people, I see, are at dinner;' said he, closing the door of the porter's lodge.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000079_000000|He stopped to speak to the overlooker.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000079_000001|The latter said in a low tone:
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000081_000000|'No, I didn't,' said mr Thornton, looking round sharply at his follower.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000081_000001|Higgins was known to him by name as a turbulent spirit.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000082_000000|'Come along,' said he, and his tone was rougher than before.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000082_000001|'It is men such as this,' thought he, 'who interrupt commerce and injure the very town they live in: mere demagogues, lovers of power, at whatever cost to others.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000083_000000|'Well, sir! what do you want with me?' said mr Thornton, facing round at him, as soon as they were in the counting house of the mill.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000084_000000|'My name is Higgins'--
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000085_000000|'I know that,' broke in mr Thornton. 'What do you want, mr Higgins? That's the question.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000087_000000|'Work!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000087_000002|You don't want impudence, that's very clear.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000089_000000|mr Thornton saw a letter addressed to himself on the table.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000089_000001|He took it up and read it through.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000089_000002|At the end, he looked up and said, 'What are you waiting for?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000091_000000|'I gave it you before.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000095_000000|'You'd better go and try them, then, and see whether they'll give you work.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000098_000000|'Upon my word, you don't think small beer of yourself!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000098_000001|Hamper has had a loss of you.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000098_000002|How came he to let you and your wisdom go?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000100_000000|'That you may have more money laid up for another strike, I suppose?'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000101_000000|'No!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000102_000000|'Well! you'd better turn to something else, if you've any such good intention in your head.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000104_000000|'A pretty navvy you'd make!
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000104_000001|why, you couldn't do half a day's work at digging against an Irishman.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000000|'Don't you see what you would be?
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000002|You'd be taking less wages than the other labourers-all for the sake of another man's children.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000003|Think how you'd abuse any poor fellow who was willing to take what he could get to keep his own children.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000004|You and your Union would soon be down upon him.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000005|No! no! if it's only for the recollection of the way in which you've used the poor knobsticks before now, I say No! to your question.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000006|I'll not give you work.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000007|I won't say, I don't believe your pretext for coming and asking for work; I know nothing about it.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000009|It's a very unlikely story, at any rate.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000010|Let me pass.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000011|I'll not give you work.
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000106_000012|There's your answer.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000107_000002|But I'm not the first man as is misled by a woman.'
train-other-500/1695/142312/1695_142312_000108_000001|I believe women are at the bottom of every plague in this world.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000001_000000|OUT OF TUNE
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000003_000000|Margaret had not expected much pleasure to herself from mr Bell's visit-she had only looked forward to it on her father's account, but when her godfather came, she at once fell into the most natural position of friendship in the world.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000004_000000|'Fresh and young in warmth and kindness, I mean.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000004_000001|I'm afraid I must own, that I think your opinions are the oldest and mustiest I have met with this long time.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000005_000000|'Hear this daughter of yours, Hale.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000005_000001|Her residence in Milton has quite corrupted her.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000005_000002|She's a democrat, a red republican, a member of the Peace Society, a socialist-'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000006_000000|'Papa, it's all because I'm standing up for the progress of commerce. mr Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild beast skins for acorns.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000007_000001|And I'd shave the wild beast skins and make the wool into broad cloth.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000007_000002|Don't exaggerate, missy.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000007_000004|Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000008_000000|'It is not every one who can sit comfortably in a set of college rooms, and let his riches grow without any exertion of his own.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000009_000000|'I don't believe they would.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000009_000001|It's the bustle and the struggle they like. As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit-Why!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000009_000002|Pooh!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000009_000003|I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000010_000000|'Milton people, I suspect, think Oxford men don't know how to move.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000010_000001|It would be a very good thing if they mixed a little more.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000011_000000|'It might be good for the Miltoners.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000011_000001|Many things might be good for them which would be very disagreeable for other people.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000012_000000|'Are you not a Milton man yourself?' asked Margaret. 'I should have thought you would have been proud of your town.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000013_000000|'I confess, I don't see what there is to be proud of.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000014_000000|'Well!' said mr Hale, 'mr
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000014_000001|Thornton is coming to drink tea with us to night, and he is as proud of Milton as you of Oxford.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000014_000002|You two must try and make each other a little more liberal minded.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000015_000000|'I don't want to be more liberal minded, thank you,' said mr Bell.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000017_000000|'Either to tea or soon after.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000017_000001|He could not tell.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000017_000002|He told us not to wait.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000018_000000|mr Thornton had determined that he would make no inquiry of his mother as to how far she had put her project into execution of speaking to Margaret about the impropriety of her conduct.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000018_000001|He felt pretty sure that, if this interview took place, his mother's account of what passed at it would only annoy and chagrin him, though he would all the time be aware of the colouring which it received by passing through her mind.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000018_000002|He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her-while he was jealous of her-while he renounced her-he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000018_000003|He dreamt of her; he dreamt she came dancing towards him with outspread arms, and with a lightness and gaiety which made him loathe her, even while it allured him.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000018_000010|They found Margaret with a letter open before her, eagerly discussing its contents with her father.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000018_000011|On the entrance of the gentlemen, it was immediately put aside; but mr Thornton's eager senses caught some few words of mr Hale's to mr Bell.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000019_000000|'A letter from Henry Lennox.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000019_000001|It makes Margaret very hopeful.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000020_000000|mr Bell nodded.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000020_000001|Margaret was red as a rose when mr Thornton looked at her.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000021_000000|'We were thinking,' said mr Hale, 'that you and mr Thornton had taken Margaret's advice, and were each trying to convert the other, you were so long in the study.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000022_000001|Pray whose opinion did you think would have the most obstinate vitality?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000023_000000|mr Thornton had not a notion what they were talking about, and disdained to inquire.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000023_000001|mr Hale politely enlightened him.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000024_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000025_000000|'I beg your pardon.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000025_000001|Margaret thought it would do the Milton manufacturers good to associate a little more with Oxford men.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000025_000002|Now wasn't it so, Margaret?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000027_000000|'And so you see, mr Thornton, we ought to have been improving each other down stairs, instead of talking over vanished families of Smiths and Harrisons.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000027_000001|However, I am willing to do my part now.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000027_000002|I wonder when you Milton men intend to live.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000027_000003|All your lives seem to be spent in gathering together the materials for life.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000028_000000|'By living, I suppose you mean enjoyment.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000029_000000|'Yes, enjoyment,--I don't specify of what, because I trust we should both consider mere pleasure as very poor enjoyment.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000030_000000|'I would rather have the nature of the enjoyment defined.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000031_000000|'Well! enjoyment of leisure-enjoyment of the power and influence which money gives.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000031_000001|You are all striving for money.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000031_000002|What do you want it for?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000032_000000|mr Thornton was silent.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000032_000001|Then he said, 'I really don't know.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000033_000000|'What then?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000034_000000|'It is a home question.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000034_000001|I shall have to lay myself open to such a catechist, and I am not sure that I am prepared to do it.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000035_000000|'No!' said mr Hale; 'don't let us be personal in our catechism.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000035_000001|You are neither of you representative men; you are each of you too individual for that.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000036_000000|'I am not sure whether to consider that as a compliment or not.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000036_000001|I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000037_000000|'I don't know Oxford.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000037_000001|But there is a difference between being the representative of a city and the representative man of its inhabitants.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000038_000000|'Very true, Miss Margaret.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000038_000002|mr Bell went on-
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000039_000000|'Ah!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000039_000001|I wish I could show you our High Street-our Radcliffe Square.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000039_000002|I am leaving out our colleges, just as I give mr Thornton leave to omit his factories in speaking of the charms of Milton.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000039_000003|I have a right to abuse my birth place.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000039_000004|Remember I am a Milton man.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000040_000000|mr Thornton was annoyed more than he ought to have been at all that mr Bell was saying.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000040_000001|He was not in a mood for joking.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000041_000000|'I don't set up Milton as a model of a town.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000042_000000|'Not in architecture?' slyly asked mr Bell.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000043_000000|'No!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000043_000001|We've been too busy to attend to mere outward appearances.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000044_000001|'They impress us all, from childhood upward-every day of our life.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000000|'Wait a little while,' said mr Thornton. 'Remember, we are of a different race from the Greeks, to whom beauty was everything, and to whom mr Bell might speak of a life of leisure and serene enjoyment, much of which entered in through their outward senses.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000001|I don't mean to despise them, any more than I would ape them.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000002|But I belong to Teutonic blood; it is little mingled in this part of England to what it is in others; we retain much of their language; we retain more of their spirit; we do not look upon life as a time for enjoyment, but as a time for action and exertion.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000003|Our glory and our beauty arise out of our inward strength, which makes us victorious over material resistance, and over greater difficulties still.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000004|We are Teutonic up here in Darkshire in another way.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000005|We hate to have laws made for us at a distance.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000006|We wish people would allow us to right ourselves, instead of continually meddling, with their imperfect legislation.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000045_000007|We stand up for self government, and oppose centralisation.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000046_000000|'In short, you would like the Heptarchy back again.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000047_000000|'If we do not reverence the past as you do in Oxford, it is because we want something which can apply to the present more directly.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000048_000001|Would you Milton men condescend to send up your to day's difficulty to Oxford?
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000048_000002|You have not tried us yet.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000049_000000|mr Thornton laughed outright at this.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000049_000001|'I believe I was talking with reference to a good deal that has been troubling us of late; I was thinking of the strikes we have gone through, which are troublesome and injurious things enough, as I am finding to my cost.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000049_000002|And yet this last strike, under which I am smarting, has been respectable.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000050_000000|'A respectable strike!' said mr Bell. 'That sounds as if you were far gone in the worship of Thor.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000051_000000|Margaret felt, rather than saw, that mr Thornton was chagrined by the repeated turning into jest of what he was feeling as very serious.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000051_000001|She tried to change the conversation from a subject about which one party cared little, while, to the other, it was deeply, because personally, interesting.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000051_000002|She forced herself to say something.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000052_000000|'Edith says she finds the printed calicoes in Corfu better and cheaper than in London.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000053_000000|'Does she?' said her father.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000053_000001|'I think that must be one of Edith's exaggerations.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000053_000002|Are you sure of it, Margaret?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000054_000000|'I am sure she says so, papa.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000055_000001|I don't believe a cousin of yours could exaggerate.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000000|'Is Miss Hale so remarkable for truth?' said mr Thornton, bitterly.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000001|The moment he had done so, he could have bitten his tongue out.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000002|What was he? And why should he stab her with her shame in this way?
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000004|And then to speak to Margaret as he had done!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000005|She did not get up and leave the room, as she had done in former days, when his abruptness or his temper had annoyed her.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000007|But he could not help looking at her, and he saw a sigh tremble over her body, as if she quivered in some unwonted chill.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000008|He felt as the mother would have done, in the midst of 'her rocking it, and rating it,' had she been called away before her slow confiding smile, implying perfect trust in mother's love, had proved the renewing of its love.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000009|He gave short sharp answers; he was uneasy and cross, unable to discern between jest and earnest; anxious only for a look, a word of hers, before which to prostrate himself in penitent humility.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000010|But she neither looked nor spoke.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000012|She could not care for him, he thought, or else the passionate fervour of his wish would have forced her to raise those eyes, if but for an instant, to read the late repentance in his.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000016|Well!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000017|He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000056_000018|but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,--all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000057_000000|When he had somewhat abruptly left the room, Margaret rose from her seat, and began silently to fold up her work; the long seams were heavy, and had an unusual weight for her languid arms.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000057_000001|The round lines in her face took a lengthened, straighter form, and her whole appearance was that of one who had gone through a day of great fatigue.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000057_000002|As the three prepared for bed, mr Bell muttered forth a little condemnation of mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000058_000000|'I never saw a fellow so spoiled by success.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000058_000001|He can't bear a word; a jest of any kind.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000058_000002|Everything seems to touch on the soreness of his high dignity.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000059_000000|'He is not vain now,' said Margaret, turning round from the table, and speaking with quiet distinctness.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000059_000001|'To night he has not been like himself.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000059_000002|Something must have annoyed him before he came here.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000061_000000|'Hale! did it ever strike you that Thornton and your daughter have what the French call a tendresse for each other?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000062_000001|'No, I am sure you are wrong.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000062_000002|I am almost certain you are mistaken.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000062_000004|Poor fellow!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000062_000005|I hope and trust he is not thinking of her, for I am sure she would not have him.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000063_000000|'Well!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000063_000001|I'm a bachelor, and have steered clear of love affairs all my life; so perhaps my opinion is not worth having.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000063_000002|Or else I should say there were very pretty symptoms about her!'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000064_000001|But she!--why, Margaret would never think of him, I'm sure!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000064_000002|Such a thing has never entered her head.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000065_000000|'Entering her heart would do.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000065_000002|I dare say I was wrong.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000066_000000|But mr Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000067_000001|To mr Hale he said,--
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000068_000000|'That Margaret of yours has gone deep into my heart.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000068_000001|Take care of her, for she is a very precious creature,--a great deal too good for Milton,--only fit for Oxford, in fact.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000068_000002|The town, I mean; not the men.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000068_000003|I can't match her yet.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000068_000004|When I can, I shall bring my young man to stand side by side with your young woman, just as the genie in the Arabian Nights brought Prince Caralmazan to match with the fairy's Princess Badoura.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000069_000000|'I beg you'll do no such thing.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000069_000001|Remember the misfortunes that ensued; and besides, I can't spare Margaret.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000070_000000|'No; on second thoughts, we'll have her to nurse us ten years hence, when we shall be two cross old invalids.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000070_000001|Seriously, Hale!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000070_000002|I wish you'd leave Milton; which is a most unsuitable place for you, though it was my recommendation in the first instance.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000070_000004|I could be very happy in such a life.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000070_000005|What do you think of it?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000071_000000|'Never!' said mr Hale, decidedly.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000071_000002|Here I stay out my life; and here will I be buried, and lost in the crowd.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000072_000000|'I don't give up my plan yet.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000072_000001|Only I won't bait you with it any more just now.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000072_000002|Where's the Pearl?
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000072_000003|Come, Margaret, give me a farewell kiss; and remember, my dear, where you may find a true friend, as far as his capability goes.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000072_000004|You are my child, Margaret.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000072_000005|Remember that, and 'God bless you!'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000073_000000|So they fell back into the monotony of the quiet life they would henceforth lead.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000073_000005|He did not speak easily of mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000074_000000|'To tell the truth,' said he, 'he fairly bamboozles me.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000074_000002|T'other chap hasn't an ounce of measter's flesh about him.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000074_000003|How them two chaps is bound up in one body, is a craddy for me to find out.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000074_000004|I'll not be beat by it, though.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000074_000006|And I reckon he's taken aback by me pretty much as I am by him; for he sits and listens and stares, as if I were some strange beast newly caught in some of the zones.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000074_000007|But I'm none daunted.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000075_000000|'And does he not answer you?' asked mr Hale.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000076_000000|'Well!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000076_000003|He'll be coming to night, I reckon, about them childer's schooling.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000077_000000|'What are they'--began mr Hale; but Margaret, touching his arm, showed him her watch.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000078_000000|'It is nearly seven,' she said.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000078_000001|'The evenings are getting longer now. Come, papa.' She did not breathe freely till they were some distance from the house.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000079_000000|Yes! he came very seldom, even for the dull cold purpose of lessons.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000079_000003|He was depressed and sad at this partial cessation of an intercourse which had become dear to him; and he used to sit pondering over the reason that could have occasioned this change.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000080_000000|He startled Margaret, one evening as she sate at her work, by suddenly asking:
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000081_000000|'Margaret! had you ever any reason for thinking that mr Thornton cared for you?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000082_000000|He almost blushed as he put this question; but mr Bell's scouted idea recurred to him, and the words were out of his mouth before he well knew what he was about.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000083_000000|Margaret did not answer immediately; but by the bent drooping of her head, he guessed what her reply would be.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000084_000000|'Yes; I believe-oh papa, I should have told you.' And she dropped her work, and hid her face in her hands.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000085_000001|I am sure you would have told me if you had felt that you could return his regard.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000085_000002|Did he speak to you about it?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000086_000000|No answer at first; but by and by a little gentle reluctant 'Yes.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000087_000000|'And you refused him?'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000088_000000|A long sigh; a more helpless, nerveless attitude, and another 'Yes.' But before her father could speak, Margaret lifted up her face, rosy with some beautiful shame, and, fixing her eyes upon him, said:
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000089_000002|I am very sorry.' She sate down on the ground, and laid her head on his knees.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000090_000000|'I too, am sorry, my dear.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000091_000000|'mr Bell!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000092_000000|'A little; but he took it into his head that you-how shall I say it?--that you were not ungraciously disposed towards mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000092_000001|I knew that could never be.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000092_000002|I hoped the whole thing was but an imagination; but I knew too well what your real feelings were to suppose that you could ever like mr Thornton in that way.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000092_000003|But I am very sorry.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000093_000000|They were very quiet and still for some minutes.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000093_000002|As he touched her, she sprang up, and smiling with forced brightness, began to talk of the Lennoxes with such a vehement desire to turn the conversation, that mr Hale was too tender hearted to try to force it back into the old channel.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000094_000000|'To morrow-yes, to morrow they will be back in Harley Street.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000094_000001|Oh, how strange it will be!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000094_000003|Fancy Edith a mamma!
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000094_000004|And Captain Lennox-I wonder what he will do with himself now he has sold out!'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000095_000000|'I'll tell you what,' said her father, anxious to indulge her in this fresh subject of interest, 'I think I must spare you for a fortnight just to run up to town and see the travellers.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000095_000001|You could learn more, by half an hour's conversation with mr Henry Lennox, about Frederick's chances, than in a dozen of these letters of his; so it would, in fact, be uniting business with pleasure.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000096_000000|'No, papa, you cannot spare me, and what's more, I won't be spared.' Then after a pause, she added: 'I am losing hope sadly about Frederick; he is letting us down gently, but I can see that mr Lennox himself has no hope of hunting up the witnesses under years and years of time.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000096_000002|So don't offend me by talking of being able to spare me, papa, for I assure you you can't.'
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000097_000000|But the idea of a change took root and germinated in Margaret's heart, although not in the way in which her father proposed it at first.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000097_000001|She began to consider how desirable something of the kind would be to her father, whose spirits, always feeble, now became too frequently depressed, and whose health, though he never complained, had been seriously affected by his wife's illness and death.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000097_000002|There were the regular hours of reading with his pupils, but that all giving and no receiving could no longer be called companion ship, as in the old days when mr Thornton came to study under him.
train-other-500/1696/142314/1696_142314_000097_000003|Margaret was conscious of the want under which he was suffering, unknown to himself; the want of a man's intercourse with men.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000002_000000|PASSAGE OF THE CORDILLERA
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000004_000000|march seventh eighteen thirty five.--We stayed three days at Concepcion, and then sailed for Valparaiso.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000004_000001|The wind being northerly, we only reached the mouth of the harbour of Concepcion before it was dark.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000004_000003|Presently a large American whaler appeared alongside of us; and we heard the Yankee swearing at his men to keep quiet, whilst he listened for the breakers. Captain Fitz Roy hailed him, in a loud clear voice, to anchor where he then was.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000004_000004|The poor man must have thought the voice came from the shore: such a Babel of cries issued at once from the ship-every one hallooing out, "Let go the anchor! veer cable! shorten sail!"
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000004_000005|It was the most laughable thing I ever heard.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000004_000007|We afterwards found that the mate stuttered: I suppose all hands were assisting him in giving his orders.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000005_000000|On the eleventh we anchored at Valparaiso, and two days afterwards I set out to cross the Cordillera.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000005_000001|I proceeded to Santiago, where mr Caldcleugh most kindly assisted me in every possible way in making the little preparations which were necessary.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000005_000002|In this part of Chile there are two passes across the Andes to Mendoza: the one most commonly used, namely, that of Aconcagua or Uspallata-is situated some way to the north; the other, called the Portillo, is to the south, and nearer, but more lofty and dangerous.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000000|march eighteenth.--We set out for the Portillo pass.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000001|Leaving Santiago we crossed the wide burnt up plain on which that city stands, and in the afternoon arrived at the Maypu, one of the principal rivers in Chile. The valley, at the point where it enters the first Cordillera, is bounded on each side by lofty barren mountains; and although not broad, it is very fertile.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000002|Numerous cottages were surrounded by vines, and by orchards of apple, nectarine, and peach trees-their boughs breaking with the weight of the beautiful ripe fruit.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000004|The frontier of Chile is better guarded by the Cordillera, than by the waters of the sea.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000005|There are very few valleys which lead to the central ranges, and the mountains are quite impassable in other parts by beasts of burden. The custom house officers were very civil, which was perhaps partly owing to the passport which the President of the Republic had given me; but I must express my admiration at the natural politeness of almost every Chileno.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000006|In this instance, the contrast with the same class of men in most other countries was strongly marked.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000006_000009|Where would one of the lower or higher classes in Europe, have shown such feeling politeness to a poor and miserable object of a degraded race?
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000007_000000|At night we slept at a cottage.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000007_000002|In the inhabited parts we bought a little firewood, hired pasture for the animals, and bivouacked in the corner of the same field with them.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000007_000003|Carrying an iron pot, we cooked and ate our supper under a cloudless sky, and knew no trouble.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000007_000004|My companions were Mariano Gonzales, who had formerly accompanied me in Chile, and an "arriero," with his ten mules and a "madrina." The madrina (or godmother) is a most important personage:
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000001|The affection of these animals for their madrinas saves infinite trouble. If several large troops are turned into one field to graze, in the morning the muleteers have only to lead the madrinas a little apart, and tinkle their bells; although there may be two or three hundred together, each mule immediately knows the bell of its own madrina, and comes to her.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000002|It is nearly impossible to lose an old mule; for if detained for several hours by force, she will, by the power of smell, like a dog, track out her companions, or rather the madrina, for, according to the muleteer, she is the chief object of affection.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000003|The feeling, however, is not of an individual nature; for I believe I am right in saying that any animal with a bell will serve as a madrina.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000004|In a troop each animal carries on a level road, a cargo weighing four hundred sixteen pounds (more than twenty nine stone), but in a mountainous country one hundred pounds less; yet with what delicate slim limbs, without any proportional bulk of muscle, these animals support so great a burden!
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000005|The mule always appears to me a most surprising animal.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000006|That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection, powers of muscular endurance, and length of life, than either of its parents, seems to indicate that art has here outdone nature.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000007|Of our ten animals, six were intended for riding, and four for carrying cargoes, each taking turn about.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000008_000008|We carried a good deal of food in case we should be snowed up, as the season was rather late for passing the Portillo.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000009_000002|All the main valleys in the Cordillera are characterized by having, on both sides, a fringe or terrace of shingle and sand, rudely stratified, and generally of considerable thickness.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000009_000003|These fringes evidently once extended across the valleys and were united; and the bottoms of the valleys in northern Chile, where there are no streams, are thus smoothly filled up.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000009_000004|On these fringes the roads are generally carried, for their surfaces are even, and they rise, with a very gentle slope up the valleys: hence, also, they are easily cultivated by irrigation.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000009_000005|They may be traced up to a height of between seven thousand and nine thousand feet, where they become hidden by the irregular piles of debris.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000009_000010|A multitude of facts in the structure of the Cordillera, on this view receive a simple explanation.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000010_000001|Their inclination is very great, and their water the colour of mud.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000010_000004|This rattling noise, night and day, may be heard along the whole course of the torrent.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000010_000006|It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrevocable.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000011_000000|It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any effect which is produced by a cause repeated so often, that the multiplier itself conveys an idea, not more definite than the savage implies when he points to the hairs of his head.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000012_000001|If the scenery was not beautiful, it was remarkable and grand.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000012_000002|We met during the day several herds of cattle, which men were driving down from the higher valleys in the Cordillera. This sign of the approaching winter hurried our steps, more than was convenient for geologizing.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000012_000005|In the first place, metallic veins in this country are generally harder than the surrounding strata: hence, during the gradual wear of the hills, they project above the surface of the ground.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000012_000006|Secondly, almost every labourer, especially in the northern parts of Chile, understands something about the appearance of ores.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000012_000008|The miners, also, taking a crowbar with them, often wander on Sundays over the mountains.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000012_000009|In this south part of Chile, the men who drive cattle into the Cordillera, and who frequent every ravine where there is a little pasture, are the usual discoverers.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000013_000000|twentieth.--As we ascended the valley, the vegetation, with the exception of a few pretty alpine flowers, became exceedingly scanty, and of quadrupeds, birds, or insects, scarcely one could be seen.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000013_000001|The lofty mountains, their summits marked with a few patches of snow, stood well separated from each other, the valleys being filled up with an immense thickness of stratified alluvium.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000014_000004|Whatever the cause may be, the quantity of crumbling stone on the Cordillera is very great.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000014_000005|Occasionally in the spring, great masses of this detritus slide down the mountains, and cover the snow drifts in the valleys, thus forming natural ice houses. We rode over one, the height of which was far below the limit of perpetual snow.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000015_000000|As the evening drew to a close, we reached a singular basin like plain, called the Valle del Yeso.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000015_000001|It was covered by a little dry pasture, and we had the pleasant sight of a herd of cattle amidst the surrounding rocky deserts.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000015_000003|We slept with a party of men, who were employed in loading mules with this substance, which is used in the manufacture of wine.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000015_000004|We set out early in the morning (twenty first), and continued to follow the course of the river, which had become very small, till we arrived at the foot of the ridge, that separates the waters flowing into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000016_000000|I will here give a very brief sketch of the geology of the several parallel lines forming the Cordillera.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000016_000001|Of these lines, there are two considerably higher than the others; namely, on the Chilian side, the Peuquenes ridge, which, where the road crosses it, is thirteen thousand two hundred ten feet above the sea; and the Portillo ridge, on the Mendoza side, which is fourteen thousand three hundred five feet.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000016_000003|These alternating masses are covered in the central parts, by a great thickness of red sandstone, conglomerate, and calcareous clay slate, associated with, and passing into, prodigious beds of gypsum.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000016_000005|It is an old story, but not the less wonderful, to hear of shells which were once crawling on the bottom of the sea, now standing nearly fourteen thousand feet above its level.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000016_000006|The lower beds in this great pile of strata, have been dislocated, baked, crystallized and almost blended together, through the agency of mountain masses of a peculiar white soda granitic rock.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000017_000000|The other main line, namely, that of the Portillo, is of a totally different formation: it consists chiefly of grand bare pinnacles of a red potash granite, which low down on the western flank are covered by a sandstone, converted by the former heat into a quartz rock.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000017_000006|Looking to its earliest origin, the red granite seems to have been injected on an ancient pre-existing line of white granite and mica slate.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000017_000008|Only thus can we gain time, at all sufficient to explain the truly astonishing amount of denudation, which these great, though comparatively with most other ranges recent, mountains have suffered.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000018_000002|Daily it is forced home on the mind of the geologist, that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000019_000001|The same fact, on a grander scale, has been remarked in the eastern and loftiest line of the Bolivian Cordillera, through which the rivers pass: analogous facts have also been observed in other quarters of the world.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000019_000002|On the supposition of the subsequent and gradual elevation of the Portillo line, this can be understood; for a chain of islets would at first appear, and, as these were lifted up, the tides would be always wearing deeper and broader channels between them.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000020_000000|About noon we began the tedious ascent of the Peuquenes ridge, and then for the first time experienced some little difficulty in our respiration.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000020_000001|The mules would halt every fifty yards, and after resting for a few seconds the poor willing animals started of their own accord again.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000020_000003|Some say "all the waters here have puna;" others that "where there is snow there is puna;"--and this no doubt is true.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000020_000004|The only sensation I experienced was a slight tightness across the head and chest, like that felt on leaving a warm room and running quickly in frosty weather.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000020_000006|Certainly the exertion of walking was extremely great, and the respiration became deep and laborious: I am told that in Potosi (about thirteen thousand feet above the sea) strangers do not become thoroughly accustomed to the atmosphere for an entire year.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000021_000001|When near the summit, the wind, as generally happens, was impetuous and extremely cold.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000021_000002|On each side of the ridge, we had to pass over broad bands of perpetual snow, which were now soon to be covered by a fresh layer.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000021_000003|When we reached the crest and looked backwards, a glorious view was presented.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000021_000005|Neither plant nor bird, excepting a few condors wheeling around the higher pinnacles, distracted my attention from the inanimate mass.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000021_000006|I felt glad that I was alone: it was like watching a thunderstorm, or hearing in full orchestra a chorus of the Messiah.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000022_000000|On several patches of the snow I found the Protococcus nivalis, or red snow, so well known from the accounts of Arctic navigators.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000022_000001|My attention was called to it, by observing the footsteps of the mules stained a pale red, as if their hoofs had been slightly bloody.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000022_000003|The snow was coloured only where it had thawed very rapidly, or had been accidentally crushed.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000022_000004|A little rubbed on paper gave it a faint rose tinge mingled with a little brick red.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000023_000001|As the observations have been chiefly made in summer, this wind must be an upper and return current.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000001|We were now in the republic of Mendoza.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000002|The elevation was probably not under eleven thousand feet, and the vegetation in consequence exceedingly scanty.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000003|The root of a small scrubby plant served as fuel, but it made a miserable fire, and the wind was piercingly cold.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000004|Being quite tired with my days work, I made up my bed as quickly as I could, and went to sleep.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000006|The peril is imminent, and the difficulty of subsequent escape great, to any one overtaken by bad weather between the two ranges.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000007|A certain cave offers the only place of refuge: mr Caldcleugh, who crossed on this same day of the month, was detained there for some time by a heavy fall of snow.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000024_000009|I may here remark that within the main Cordillera rain never falls, for during the summer the sky is cloudless, and in winter snow storms alone occur.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000025_000000|At the place where we slept water necessarily boiled, from the diminished pressure of the atmosphere, at a lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country; the case being the converse of that of a Papin's digester.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000025_000001|Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard as ever.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000025_000002|The pot was left on the fire all night, and next morning it was boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked.
train-other-500/1699/141159/1699_141159_000025_000003|I found out this, by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause, they had come to the simple conclusion, "that the cursed pot [which was a new one] did not choose to boil potatoes."
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000001_000000|march twenty second.--After eating our potatoless breakfast, we travelled across the intermediate tract to the foot of the Portillo range.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000001_000001|In the middle of summer cattle are brought up here to graze; but they had now all been removed: even the greater number of the Guanacos had decamped, knowing well that if overtaken here by a snow storm, they would be caught in a trap.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000001_000004|Bold conical hills of red granite rose on each hand; in the valleys there were several broad fields of perpetual snow.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000001_000007|The animal, I suppose, must have fallen with its head downward into a hole, when the snow was continuous, and afterwards the surrounding parts must have been removed by the thaw.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000001|This was very unfortunate, as it continued the whole day, and quite intercepted our view.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000003|From this point, on a clear day, those vast plains which uninterruptedly extend to the Atlantic Ocean can be seen.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000004|We descended to the upper limit of vegetation, and found good quarters for the night under the shelter of some large fragments of rock.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000005|We met here some passengers, who made anxious inquiries about the state of the road.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000006|Shortly after it was dark the clouds suddenly cleared away, and the effect was quite magical.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000007|The great mountains, bright with the full moon, seemed impending over us on all sides, as over a deep crevice: one morning, very early, I witnessed the same striking effect.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000002_000008|As soon as the clouds were dispersed it froze severely; but as there was no wind, we slept very comfortably.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000003_000000|The increased brilliancy of the moon and stars at this elevation, owing to the perfect transparency of the atmosphere, was very remarkable. Travelers having observed the difficulty of judging heights and distances amidst lofty mountains, have generally attributed it to the absence of objects of comparison.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000003_000002|I am sure that this extreme clearness of the air gives a peculiar character to the landscape, all objects appearing to be brought nearly into one plane, as in a drawing or panorama.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000003_000003|The transparency is, I presume, owing to the equable and high state of atmospheric dryness.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000003_000005|To the same cause we must attribute the singular facility with which electricity is excited.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000003_000006|My flannel waistcoat, when rubbed in the dark, appeared as if it had been washed with phosphorus,--every hair on a dog's back crackled;--even the linen sheets, and leathern straps of the saddle, when handled, emitted sparks.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000004_000000|march twenty third.--The descent on the eastern side of the Cordillera is much shorter or steeper than on the Pacific side; in other words, the mountains rise more abruptly from the plains than from the alpine country of Chile.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000004_000001|A level and brilliantly white sea of clouds was stretched out beneath our feet, shutting out the view of the equally level Pampas.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000004_000002|We soon entered the band of clouds, and did not again emerge from it that day.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000004_000003|About noon, finding pasture for the animals and bushes for firewood at Los Arenales, we stopped for the night.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000004_000004|This was near the uppermost limit of bushes, and the elevation, I suppose, was between seven and eight thousand feet.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000005_000000|I was much struck with the marked difference between the vegetation of these eastern valleys and those on the Chilian side: yet the climate, as well as the kind of soil, is nearly the same, and the difference of longitude very trifling.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000005_000001|The same remark holds good with the quadrupeds, and in a lesser degree with the birds and insects.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000005_000002|I may instance the mice, of which I obtained thirteen species on the shores of the Atlantic, and five on the Pacific, and not one of them is identical.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000005_000003|We must except all those species, which habitually or occasionally frequent elevated mountains; and certain birds, which range as far south as the Strait of Magellan.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000006_000000|A great number of the plants and animals were absolutely the same as, or most closely allied to, those of Patagonia.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000006_000003|Even the black slowly crawling beetles are closely similar, and some, I believe, on rigorous examination, absolutely identical.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000000|march twenty fourth.--Early in the morning I climbed up a mountain on one side of the valley, and enjoyed a far extended view over the Pampas.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000001|This was a spectacle to which I had always looked forward with interest, but I was disappointed: at the first glance it much resembled a distant view of the ocean, but in the northern parts many irregularities were soon distinguishable.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000002|The most striking feature consisted in the rivers, which, facing the rising sun, glittered like silver threads, till lost in the immensity of the distance.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000003|At midday we descended the valley, and reached a hovel, where an officer and three soldiers were posted to examine passports.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000005|The valley from this point gradually opened, and the hills became mere water worn hillocks compared to the giants behind: it then expanded into a gently sloping plain of shingle, covered with low trees and bushes.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000006|This talus, although appearing narrow, must be nearly ten miles wide before it blends into the apparently dead level Pampas.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000007_000007|We passed the only house in this neighbourhood, the Estancia of Chaquaio: and at sunset we pulled up in the first snug corner, and there bivouacked.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000000|march twenty fifth.--I was reminded of the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, by seeing the disk of the rising sun, intersected by an horizon level as that of the ocean.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000001|During the night a heavy dew fell, a circumstance which we did not experience within the Cordillera.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000002|The road proceeded for some distance due east across a low swamp; then meeting the dry plain, it turned to the north towards Mendoza.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000005|The whole distance is over a level desert plain, with not more than two or three houses.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000006|The sun was exceedingly powerful, and the ride devoid of all interest.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000007|There is very little water in this "traversia," and in our second day's journey we found only one little pool.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000009|In many parts the ground was incrusted with a saline efflorescence; hence we had the same salt loving plants which are common near Bahia Blanca.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000008_000010|The landscape has a uniform character from the Strait of Magellan, along the whole eastern coast of Patagonia, to the Rio Colorado; and it appears that the same kind of country extends inland from this river, in a sweeping line as far as San Luis and perhaps even further north.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000009_000002|At first we thought that it was smoke from some great fire on the plains; but we soon found that it was a swarm of locusts.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000009_000003|They were flying northward; and with the aid of a light breeze, they overtook us at a rate of ten or fifteen miles an hour.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000009_000004|The main body filled the air from a height of twenty feet, to that, as it appeared, of two or three thousand above the ground; "and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle:" or rather, I should say, like a strong breeze passing through the rigging of a ship.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000009_000005|The sky, seen through the advanced guard, appeared like a mezzotinto engraving, but the main body was impervious to sight; they were not, however, so thick together, but that they could escape a stick waved backwards and forwards.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000009_000007|Locusts are not an uncommon pest in this country: already during the season, several smaller swarms had come up from the south, where, as apparently in all other parts of the world, they are bred in the deserts.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000009_000008|The poor cottagers in vain attempted by lighting fires, by shouts, and by waving branches to avert the attack.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000010_000003|Before sucking they are quite thin, but afterwards they become round and bloated with blood, and in this state are easily crushed.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000010_000005|When placed on a table, and though surrounded by people, if a finger was presented, the bold insect would immediately protrude its sucker, make a charge, and if allowed, draw blood.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000010_000008|This one feast, for which the benchuca was indebted to one of the officers, kept it fat during four whole months; but, after the first fortnight, it was quite ready to have another suck.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000011_000000|march twenty seventh.--We rode on to Mendoza.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000011_000001|The country was beautifully cultivated, and resembled Chile.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000011_000002|This neighbourhood is celebrated for its fruit; and certainly nothing could appear more flourishing than the vineyards and the orchards of figs, peaches, and olives.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000011_000003|We bought water melons nearly twice as large as a man's head, most deliciously cool and well flavoured, for a halfpenny apiece; and for the value of threepence, half a wheelbarrowful of peaches.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000011_000004|The cultivated and enclosed part of this province is very small; there is little more than that which we passed through between Luxan and the capital.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000011_000005|The land, as in Chile, owes its fertility entirely to artificial irrigation; and it is really wonderful to observe how extraordinarily productive a barren traversia is thus rendered.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000012_000000|We stayed the ensuing day in Mendoza.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000012_000001|The prosperity of the place has much declined of late years.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000013_000000|march twenty ninth.--We set out on our return to Chile, by the Uspallata pass situated north of Mendoza.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000013_000001|We had to cross a long and most sterile traversia of fifteen leagues.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000013_000003|Although the plain is nearly three thousand feet above the sea, the sun was very powerful; and the heat as well as the clouds of impalpable dust, rendered the travelling extremely irksome. Our course during the day lay nearly parallel to the Cordillera, but gradually approaching them.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000013_000004|Before sunset we entered one of the wide valleys, or rather bays, which open on the plain: this soon narrowed into a ravine, where a little higher up the house of Villa Vicencio is situated.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000013_000005|As we had ridden all day without a drop of water, both our mules and selves were very thirsty, and we looked out anxiously for the stream which flows down this valley.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000013_000006|It was curious to observe how gradually the water made its appearance: on the plain the course was quite dry; by degrees it became a little damper; then puddles of water appeared; these soon became connected; and at Villa Vicencio there was a nice little rivulet.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000000|thirtieth.--The solitary hovel which bears the imposing name of Villa Vicencio, has been mentioned by every traveller who has crossed the Andes.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000002|The geology of the surrounding country is very curious.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000003|The Uspallata range is separated from the main Cordillera by a long narrow plain or basin, like those so often mentioned in Chile, but higher, being six thousand feet above the sea.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000006|In the central part of the range, at an elevation of about seven thousand feet, I observed on a bare slope some snow white projecting columns.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000007|These were petrified trees, eleven being silicified, and from thirty to forty converted into coarsely crystallized white calcareous spar.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000008|They were abruptly broken off, the upright stumps projecting a few feet above the ground.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000009|The trunks measured from three to five feet each in circumference.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000011|mr Robert Brown has been kind enough to examine the wood: he says it belongs to the fir tribe, partaking of the character of the Araucarian family, but with some curious points of affinity with the yew.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000014_000012|The volcanic sandstone in which the trees were embedded, and from the lower part of which they must have sprung, had accumulated in successive thin layers around their trunks; and the stone yet retained the impression of the bark.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000015_000000|It required little geological practice to interpret the marvellous story which this scene at once unfolded; though I confess I was at first so much astonished that I could scarcely believe the plainest evidence.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000015_000001|I saw the spot where a cluster of fine trees once waved their branches on the shores of the Atlantic, when that ocean (now driven back seven hundred miles) came to the foot of the Andes.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000015_000002|I saw that they had sprung from a volcanic soil which had been raised above the level of the sea, and that subsequently this dry land, with its upright trees, had been let down into the depths of the ocean.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000015_000004|Nor had those antagonistic forces been dormant, which are always at work wearing down the surface of the land; the great piles of strata had been intersected by many wide valleys, and the trees now changed into silex, were exposed projecting from the volcanic soil, now changed into rock, whence formerly, in a green and budding state, they had raised their lofty heads.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000015_000005|Now, all is utterly irreclaimable and desert; even the lichen cannot adhere to the stony casts of former trees.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000015_000006|Vast, and scarcely comprehensible as such changes must ever appear, yet they have all occurred within a period, recent when compared with the history of the Cordillera; and the Cordillera itself is absolutely modern as compared with many of the fossiliferous strata of Europe and America.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000016_000001|Shortly before leaving the mountains, there was a very extraordinary view; red, purple, green, and quite white sedimentary rocks, alternating with black lavas, were broken up and thrown into all kinds of disorder by masses of porphyry of every shade of colour, from dark brown to the brightest lilac.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000016_000002|It was the first view I ever saw, which really resembled those pretty sections which geologists make of the inside of the earth.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000017_000001|Here it was a furious torrent, quite impassable, and appeared larger than in the low country, as was the case with the rivulet of Villa Vicencio.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000017_000003|As all these rivers have a rapid and short course, and are formed by the melting of the snow, the hour of the day makes a considerable difference in their volume.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000017_000004|In the evening the stream is muddy and full, but about daybreak it becomes clearer, and much less impetuous.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000002|The valley and the huge rocky mountains are extremely barren: during the two previous nights the poor mules had absolutely nothing to eat, for excepting a few low resinous bushes, scarcely a plant can be seen.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000003|In the course of this day we crossed some of the worst passes in the Cordillera, but their danger has been much exaggerated.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000004|I was told that if I attempted to pass on foot, my head would turn giddy, and that there was no room to dismount; but I did not see a place where any one might not have walked over backwards, or got off his mule on either side.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000006|No doubt there are many parts in which, if the mule should stumble, the rider would be hurled down a great precipice; but of this there is little chance.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000007|I dare say, in the spring, the "laderas," or roads, which each year are formed anew across the piles of fallen detritus, are very bad; but from what I saw, I suspect the real danger is nothing.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000008|With cargo mules the case is rather different, for the loads project so far, that the animals, occasionally running against each other, or against a point of rock, lose their balance, and are thrown down the precipices.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000018_000009|In crossing the rivers I can well believe that the difficulty may be very great: at this season there was little trouble, but in the summer they must be very hazardous.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000019_000001|As there was pasture for the mules, and geology for me, we bivouacked here for the night.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000019_000002|When one hears of a natural Bridge, one pictures to one's self some deep and narrow ravine, across which a bold mass of rock has fallen; or a great arch hollowed out like the vault of a cavern.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000019_000003|Instead of this, the Incas Bridge consists of a crust of stratified shingle cemented together by the deposits of the neighbouring hot springs.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000019_000004|It appears, as if the stream had scooped out a channel on one side, leaving an overhanging ledge, which was met by earth and stones falling down from the opposite cliff.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000019_000005|Certainly an oblique junction, as would happen in such a case, was very distinct on one side.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000019_000006|The Bridge of the Incas is by no means worthy of the great monarchs whose name it bears.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000001|These casuchas are round little towers, with steps outside to reach the floor, which is raised some feet above the ground on account of the snow drifts.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000003|Now they only answer the purpose of caves, or rather dungeons.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000004|Seated on some little eminence, they are not, however, ill suited to the surrounding scene of desolation.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000005|The zigzag ascent of the Cumbre, or the partition of the waters, was very steep and tedious; its height, according to mr Pentland, is twelve thousand four hundred fifty four feet.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000006|The road did not pass over any perpetual snow, although there were patches of it on both hands. The wind on the summit was exceedingly cold, but it was impossible not to stop for a few minutes to admire, again and again, the colour of the heavens, and the brilliant transparency of the atmosphere.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000007|The scenery was grand: to the westward there was a fine chaos of mountains, divided by profound ravines.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000009|But we were most fortunate.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000010|The sky, by night and by day, was cloudless, excepting a few round little masses of vapour, that floated over the highest pinnacles.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000020_000011|I have often seen these islets in the sky, marking the position of the Cordillera, when the far distant mountains have been hidden beneath the horizon.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000021_000001|We therefore rode only two or three miles down the valley, and stayed there the ensuing day in hopes of recovering the mule, which the arriero thought had been hidden in some ravine.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000021_000003|The extreme pleasure, I suspect, is chiefly owing to the prospect of a good fire and of a good supper, after escaping from the cold regions above: and I am sure I most heartily participated in these feelings.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000022_000002|It was a pretty scene; but I missed that pensive stillness which makes the autumn in England indeed the evening of the year.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000022_000003|On the tenth we reached Santiago, where I received a very kind and hospitable reception from mr Caldcleugh.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000022_000004|My excursion only cost me twenty four days, and never did I more deeply enjoy an equal space of time.
train-other-500/1699/141160/1699_141160_000022_000005|A few days afterwards I returned to mr Corfield's house at Valparaiso.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000001_000000|UNION NOT ALWAYS STRENGTH
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000002_000000|'The steps of the bearers, heavy and slow, The sobs of the mourners, deep and low.' SHELLEY.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000003_000000|At the time arranged the previous day, they set out on their walk to see Nicholas Higgins and his daughter.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000003_000002|They drew very close to each other in unspoken sympathy.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000004_000000|Nicholas was sitting by the fire side in his accustomed corner: but he had not his accustomed pipe.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000004_000001|He was leaning his head upon his hand, his arm resting on his knee.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000004_000002|He did not get up when he saw them, though Margaret could read the welcome in his eye.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000005_000000|'Sit ye down, sit ye down.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000005_000001|Fire's welly out,' said he, giving it a vigorous poke, as if to turn attention away from himself.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000005_000002|He was rather disorderly, to be sure, with a black unshaven beard of several days' growth, making his pale face look yet paler, and a jacket which would have been all the better for patching.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000006_000000|'We thought we should have a good chance of finding you, just after dinner time,' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000007_000000|'We have had our sorrow too, since we saw you,' said mr Hale.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000009_000000|'Are you out of work?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000010_000001|Then, after a moment's silence, he added, looking up for the first time: 'I'm not wanting brass.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000011_000000|'We owe Mary some money,' said mr Hale, before Margaret's sharp pressure on his arm could arrest the words.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000012_000000|'If hoo takes it, I'll turn her out o' doors.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000012_000001|I'll bide inside these four walls, and she'll bide out.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000013_000000|'But we owe her many thanks for her kind service,' began mr Hale again.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000015_000000|'Is it because of the strike you're out of work?' asked Margaret gently.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000016_000000|'Strike's ended.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000016_000002|I'm out o' work because I ne'er asked for it.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000017_000000|He was in a mood to take a surly pleasure in giving answers that were like riddles.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000017_000001|But Margaret saw that he would like to be asked for the explanation.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000018_000000|'And good words are-?'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000019_000000|'Asking for work.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000020_000000|'And bad words are refusing you work when you ask for it.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000022_000000|'Would it not be worth while,' said mr Hale, 'to ask your old master if he would take you back again?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000022_000001|It might be a poor chance, but it would be a chance.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000023_000000|He looked up again, with a sharp glance at the questioner; and then tittered a low and bitter laugh.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000025_000000|'You're quite welcome,' said mr Hale.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000026_000000|'I reckon yo'n some way of earning your bread.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000027_000000|'You are quite right.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000027_000001|I have some independent property, but my intention in settling in Milton was to become a private tutor.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000028_000000|'To teach folk.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000028_000001|Well!
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000029_000000|'Yes,' replied mr Hale, smiling.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000029_000001|'I teach in order to get paid.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000031_000000|'No; to be sure not!'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000033_000000|'No: to be sure not!'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000035_000000|'It would be some very hard pressure that would make me even think of submitting to such dictation.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000038_000000|'I cannot say.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000038_000002|But it's in force now.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000039_000000|There was a little pause.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000039_000001|Margaret was hesitating whether she should say what was in her mind; she was unwilling to irritate one who was already gloomy and despondent enough.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000039_000002|At last out it came.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000040_000001|I think he said it was the worst tyrant of all.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000040_000002|And I remember at the time I agreed with him.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000041_000000|It was a long while before he spoke.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000041_000001|He was resting his head on his two hands, and looking down into the fire, so she could not read the expression on his face.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000042_000001|I'll speak truth.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000042_000004|It's the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000043_000000|'He did you harm?' asked Margaret.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000045_000000|'Then would it not have been far better to have left him alone, and not forced him to join the Union?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000045_000001|He did you no good; and you drove him mad.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000046_000000|'Margaret,' said her father, in a low and warning tone, for he saw the cloud gathering on Higgins's face.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000047_000001|'Hoo speaks plain out what's in her mind.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000047_000003|It's a great power: it's our only power.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000048_000000|'Why?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000048_000001|What has he been doing?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000048_000002|Anything fresh?'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000049_000007|He had that grace.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000049_000009|Why, to Hamper's.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000050_000002|You have made him what he is!'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000051_000000|Made him what he is!
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000051_000001|What was he?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000052_000000|Gathering, gathering along the narrow street, came a hollow, measured sound; now forcing itself on their attention.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000052_000001|Many voices were hushed and low: many steps were heard not moving onwards, at least not with any rapidity or steadiness of motion, but as if circling round one spot. Yes, there was one distinct, slow tramp of feet, which made itself a clear path through the air, and reached their ears; the measured laboured walk of men carrying a heavy burden.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000052_000002|They were all drawn towards the house door by some irresistible impulse; impelled thither-not by a poor curiosity, but as if by some solemn blast.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000053_000000|Six men walked in the middle of the road, three of them being policemen. They carried a door, taken off its hinges, upon their shoulders, on which lay some dead human creature; and from each side of the door there were constant droppings.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000053_000001|All the street turned out to see, and, seeing, to accompany the procession, each one questioning the bearers, who answered almost reluctantly at last, so often had they told the tale.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000056_000001|He lay with his face downwards.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000057_000002|Sure!
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000057_000005|Listen!
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000058_000000|They put the door down carefully upon the stones, and all might see the poor drowned wretch-his glassy eyes, one half open, staring right upwards to the sky.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000058_000002|The fore part of his head was bald; but the hair grew thin and long behind, and every separate lock was a conduit for water.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000058_000006|The men spoke together, and then one of them came up to Higgins, who would have fain shrunk back into his house.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000061_000001|'We'n done a deal in bringing him here-thou take thy share.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000062_000000|'I canna do it,' said Higgins.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000062_000002|We wasn't friends; and now he's dead.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000063_000001|Some one mun, though.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000065_000000|'If I could-if I had time to think of what I had better say; but all at once---- ' Margaret saw that her father was indeed unable.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000065_000001|He was trembling from head to foot.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000066_000000|'I will go,' said she.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000070_000000|Margaret said something, she hardly knew what, her throat and mouth were so dry, and the children's noise completely prevented her from being heard.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000070_000001|She tried again.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000071_000001|But very poorly, I'm afraid.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000073_000000|'How long is it since he went away?'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000074_000001|No one would give him work here, and he'd to go on tramp toward Greenfield.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000074_000003|He might---- '
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000075_000000|'Oh, don't blame him,' said Margaret. 'He felt it deeply, I'm sure---- '
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000077_000000|Margaret laid her hand on the woman's arm to arrest her attention.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000077_000001|Their eyes met.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000079_000001|Neither of them spoke for a moment or two.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000079_000006|Where's john?' Weak as she was, she shook Margaret to force out an answer.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000079_000007|'Oh, my God!' said she, understanding the meaning of that tearful look.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000079_000008|She sank back into the chair.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000079_000009|Margaret took up the child and put him into her arms.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000080_000000|'He loved him,' said she.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000081_000002|It's a long time ago; but when he were in life and with us, he did love us, he did.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000081_000006|I'm but an ailing creature mysel'--I've been ailing this long time.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000082_000000|'But he is dead-he is drowned!'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000083_000004|Oh, where is my strength gone to?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000084_000000|Margaret saved her from falling by catching her in her arms.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000084_000001|She sate down in the rocking chair, and held the woman upon her knees, her head lying on Margaret's shoulder.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000084_000002|The other children, clustered together in affright, began to understand the mystery of the scene; but the ideas came slowly, for their brains were dull and languid of perception.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000084_000003|They set up such a cry of despair as they guessed the truth, that Margaret knew not how to bear it.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000084_000004|Johnny's cry was loudest of them all, though he knew not why he cried, poor little fellow.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000085_000001|Margaret heard a noise at the door.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000086_000000|'Open it.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000086_000001|Open it quick,' said she to the eldest child.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000088_000000|This helpful neighbour was a great relief to Margaret; she was evidently a stranger to the house, a new comer in the district, indeed; but she was so kind and thoughtful that Margaret felt she was no longer needed; and that it would be better, perhaps, to set an example of clearing the house, which was filled with idle, if sympathising gazers.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000089_000000|She looked round for Nicholas Higgins.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000089_000001|He was not there.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000090_000003|She cannot breathe, poor thing, with this crowd about her.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000091_000001|She looked round, and saw a smile pass between her father and the woman.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000092_000000|'What is it?' asked she.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000093_000000|'Only our good friend here,' replied her father, 'hit on a capital expedient for clearing the place.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000095_000000|'No,' said Margaret; 'I could not tell her all at once.'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000097_000000|'No; you, you,' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000098_000000|They awaited her perfect recovery in silence.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000099_000000|'Neighbour,' said she, 'your man is dead.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000099_000001|Guess yo' how he died?'
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000101_000000|'He were found drowned.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000103_000000|'Not alone,' said mr Hale, solemnly.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000103_000001|'Who is with you?
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000103_000002|Who will take up your cause?' The widow opened her eyes wide, and looked at the new speaker, of whose presence she had not been aware till then.
train-other-500/1704/142310/1704_142310_000105_000000|'But I've getten six children, sir, and the eldest not eight years of age.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000000_000000|thirty five
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000004_000000|Far the calling bugles hollo, High the screaming fife replies, Gay the files of scarlet follow: Woman bore me, I will rise.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000005_000000|thirty six
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000006_000000|White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000007_000000|Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000010_000000|thirty seven
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000012_000000|thirty eight
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000013_000000|The winds out of the west land blow, My friends have breathed them there; Warm with the blood of lads I know Comes east the sighing air.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000014_000000|It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, Scattered their forelocks free; My friends made words of it with tongues That talk no more to me.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000016_000000|Oh lads, at home I heard you plain, But here your speech is still, And down the sighing wind in vain You hollo from the hill.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000017_000000|The wind and I, we both were there, But neither long abode; Now through the friendless world we fare And sigh upon the road.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000018_000000|thirty nine
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000019_000000|'tis time, I think by Wenlock town The golden broom should blow; The hawthorn sprinkled up and down Should charge the land with snow.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000020_000000|Spring will not wait the loiterer's time Who keeps so long away; So others wear the broom and climb The hedgerows heaped with may.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000021_000000|Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge, Gold that I never see; Lie long, high snowdrifts in the hedge That will not shower on me.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000023_000000|Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000024_000000|That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000029_000000|THE MERRY GUIDE
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000034_000000|And with kind looks and laughter And nought to say beside We two went on together, I and my happy guide.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000035_000000|Across the glittering pastures And empty upland still And solitude of shepherds High in the folded hill,
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000036_000000|By hanging woods and hamlets That gaze through orchards down On many a windmill turning And far discovered town,
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000038_000000|By blowing realms of woodland With sunstruck vanes afield And cloud led shadows sailing About the windy weald,
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000039_000000|By valley guarded granges And silver waters wide, Content at heart I followed With my delightful guide.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000040_000000|And like the cloudy shadows Across the country blown We two face on for ever, But not we two alone.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000041_000000|With the great gale we journey That breathes from gardens thinned, Borne in the drift of blossoms Whose petals throng the wind;
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000042_000000|Buoyed on the heaven heard whisper Of dancing leaflets whirled From all the woods that autumn Bereaves in all the world.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000043_000000|And midst the fluttering legion Of all that ever died I follow, and before us Goes the delightful guide,
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000046_000000|THE IMMORTAL PART
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000047_000000|When I meet the morning beam, Or lay me down at night to dream, I hear my bones within me say, "Another night, another day."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000048_000000|"When shall this slough of sense be cast, This dust of thoughts be laid at last, The man of flesh and soul be slain And the man of bone remain?"
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000049_000000|"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout, These thews that hustle us about, This brain that fills the skull with schemes, And its humming hive of dreams,-"
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000055_000000|"Empty vessel, garment cast, We that wore you long shall last. -Another night, another day." So my bones within me say.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000056_000000|Therefore they shall do my will To day while I am master still, And flesh and soul, now both are strong, Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000060_000000|Oh you had forethought, you could reason, And saw your road and where it led, And early wise and brave in season Put the pistol to your head.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000061_000000|Oh soon, and better so than later After long disgrace and scorn, You shot dead the household traitor, The soul that should not have been born.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000062_000000|Right you guessed the rising morrow And scorned to tread the mire you must: Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, But men may come to worse than dust.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000063_000000|Souls undone, undoing others,- Long time since the tale began. You would not live to wrong your brothers: Oh lad, you died as fits a man.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000064_000000|Now to your grave shall friend and stranger With ruth and some with envy come: Undishonoured, clear of danger, Clean of guilt, pass hence and home.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000065_000000|Turn safe to rest, no dreams, no waking; And here, man, here's the wreath I've made: 'tis not a gift that's worth the taking, But wear it and it will not fade.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000067_000000|If it chance your eye offend you, Pluck it out, lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And many a balsam grows on ground.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000073_000000|THE CARPENTER'S SON
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000076_000000|"Then I might have built perhaps Gallows trees for other chaps, Never dangled on my own, Had I but left ill alone."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000077_000000|"Now, you see, they hang me high, And the people passing by Stop to shake their fists and curse; So 'tis come from ill to worse."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000079_000000|"Comrades all, that stand and gaze, Walk henceforth in other ways; See my neck and save your own: Comrades all, leave ill alone."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000084_000000|Now, and I muse for why and never find the reason, I pace the earth, and drink the air, and feel the sun Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season: Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000085_000001|when shall I sleep again?
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000088_000000|Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around. If young hearts were not so clever, Oh, they would be young for ever: Think no more; 'tis only thinking Lays lads underground.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000094_000000|And if as a lad grows older The troubles he bears are more, He carries his griefs on a shoulder That handselled them long before.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000101_000000|Far in a western brookland That bred me long ago The poplars stand and tremble By pools I used to know.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000106_000000|THE TRUE LOVER
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000107_000000|The lad came to the door at night, When lovers crown their vows, And whistled soft and out of sight In shadow of the boughs.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000109_000000|"When I from hence away am past I shall not find a bride, And you shall be the first and last I ever lay beside."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000111_000000|"Oh do you breathe, lad, that your breast Seems not to rise and fall, And here upon my bosom prest There beats no heart at all?"
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000114_000000|"Oh like enough 'tis blood, my dear, For when the knife has slit The throat across from ear to ear 'Twill bleed because of it."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000120_000000|Westward on the high hilled plains Where for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veins Frets the changeless blood of man.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000121_000000|Now that other lads than I Strip to bathe on Severn shore, They, no help, for all they try, Tread the mill I trod before.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000122_000000|There, when hueless is the west And the darkness hushes wide, Where the lad lies down to rest Stands the troubled dream beside.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000123_000000|There, on thoughts that once were mine, Day looks down the eastern steep, And the youth at morning shine Makes the vow he will not keep.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000126_000000|"Far I hear the bugle blow To call me where I would not go, And the guns begin the song, 'Soldier, fly or stay for long.'"
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000128_000000|"But since the man that runs away Lives to die another day, And cowards' funerals, when they come Are not wept so well at home."
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000134_000000|When I came last to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale, Two friends kept step beside me, Two honest lads and hale.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000135_000000|Now Dick lies long in the churchyard, And Ned lies long in jail, And I come home to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000137_000000|THE ISLE OF PORTLAND
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000138_000000|The star filled seas are smooth to night From France to England strown; Black towers above the Portland light The felon quarried stone.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000139_000000|On yonder island, not to rise, Never to stir forth free, Far from his folk a dead lad lies That once was friends with me.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000140_000000|Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the night Than ever you found the day.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000142_000000|Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000143_000000|Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000145_000000|HUGHLEY STEEPLE
train-other-500/1708/142415/1708_142415_000147_000000|To south the headstones cluster, The sunny mounds lie thick; The dead are more in muster At Hughley than the quick. North, for a soon told number, Chill graves the sexton delves, And steeple shadowed slumber The slayers of themselves.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000002_000000|Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000004_000000|And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted-"Open then the Door. You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000010_000000|And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Pelevi, with "Wine!
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000012_000000|Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000014_000000|And look-a thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke-and a thousand scatter'd into Clay: And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000018_000000|With me along some Strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known, And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000022_000000|"How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"--think some: Others-"How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000024_000000|Look to the Rose that blows about us-"Lo, Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow: At once the silken Tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000028_000000|And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000032_000000|They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter-the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000036_000000|And this delightful Herb whose tender Green Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean- Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000042_000000|And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend, ourselves to make a Couch-for whom?
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000048_000000|Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000050_000000|Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000052_000000|Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000058_000000|What, without asking, hither hurried whence? And, without asking, whither hurried hence! Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence!
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000060_000000|Up from Earth's Centre through the seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many Knots unravel'd by the Road; But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000064_000000|Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried, Asking, "What Lamp had Destiny to guide Her little Children stumbling in the Dark?" And-"A blind understanding!" Heav'n replied.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000066_000000|Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd-"While you live, Drink!--for once dead you never shall return."
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000068_000000|I think the Vessel, that with fugitive Articulation answer'd, once did live, And merry make; and the cold Lip I kiss'd How many Kisses might it take-and give.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000070_000000|For in the Market place, one Dusk of Day, I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all obliterated Tongue It murmur'd-"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!"
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000076_000000|How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute? Better be merry with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000078_000000|You know, my Friends, how long since in my House For a new Marriage I did make Carouse: Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000086_000000|The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord, That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000090_000000|For in and out, above, about, below, 'tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000100_000000|The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000108_000000|The Vine had struck a Fibre; which about It clings my Being-let the Sufi flout; Of my Base Metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000112_000000|Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestination round Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000115_000000|KUZA-NAMA. ("Book of Pots")
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000117_000000|Listen again.
train-other-500/1708/142417/1708_142417_000123_000000|Another said-"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy; Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love And Fansy, in an after Rage destroy!"
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000001_000000|The Present And Probable Future Condition Of The Three Races Which Inhabit The Territory Of The United States
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000002_000000|The principal part of the task which I had imposed upon myself is now performed.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000002_000002|Here I might stop; but the reader would perhaps feel that I had not satisfied his expectations.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000003_000000|The absolute supremacy of democracy is not all that we meet with in America; the inhabitants of the New World may be considered from more than one point of view.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000003_000002|I have mentioned in what spirit, and according to what laws, the Anglo American Union was formed; but I could only glance at the dangers which menace that confederation, whilst it was equally impossible for me to give a detailed account of its chances of duration, independently of its laws and manners.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000005_000000|The territory now occupied or claimed by the American Union spreads from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific Ocean.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000005_000001|On the east and west its limits are those of the continent itself.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000006_000001|These two unhappy races have nothing in common; neither birth, nor features, nor language, nor habits.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000006_000002|Their only resemblance lies in their misfortunes.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000007_000002|But he remains half way between the two communities; sold by the one, repulsed by the other; finding not a spot in the universe to call by the name of country, except the faint image of a home which the shelter of his master's roof affords.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000009_000002|If he becomes free, independence is often felt by him to be a heavier burden than slavery; for having learned, in the course of his life, to submit to everything except reason, he is too much unacquainted with her dictates to obey them.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000009_000004|In short, he sinks to such a depth of wretchedness, that while servitude brutalizes, liberty destroys him.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000010_000002|The Europeans, having dispersed the Indian tribes and driven them into the deserts, condemned them to a wandering life full of inexpressible sufferings.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000011_000000|Savage nations are only controlled by opinion and by custom.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000012_000002|To be free, with him, signifies to escape from all the shackles of society.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000013_000000|The negro makes a thousand fruitless efforts to insinuate himself amongst men who repulse him; he conforms to the tastes of his oppressors, adopts their opinions, and hopes by imitating them to form a part of their community.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000013_000001|Having been told from infancy that his race is naturally inferior to that of the whites, he assents to the proposition and is ashamed of his own nature.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000014_000000|The Indian, on the contrary, has his imagination inflated with the pretended nobility of his origin, and lives and dies in the midst of these dreams of pride.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000017_000000|I remember that while I was travelling through the forests which still cover the State of Alabama, I arrived one day at the log house of a pioneer.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000019_000000|The Present And Probable Future Condition Of The Indian Tribes Which Inhabit The Territory Possessed By The Union
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000021_000000|None of the Indian tribes which formerly inhabited the territory of New England-the Naragansetts, the Mohicans, the Pecots-have any existence but in the recollection of man.
train-other-500/1710/133294/1710_133294_000021_000004|There is no instance upon record of so prodigious a growth, or so rapid a destruction: the manner in which the latter change takes place is not difficult to describe.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000001_000000|These are great evils; and it must be added that they appear to me to be irremediable.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000005_000000|It is easy to foresee that the Indians will never conform to civilization; or that it will be too late, whenever they may be inclined to make the experiment.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000006_000000|Civilization is the result of a long social process which takes place in the same spot, and is handed down from one generation to another, each one profiting by the experience of the last.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000007_000001|Civilization began in the cabin, but it soon retired to expire in the woods.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000007_000003|But not only are they destitute of this indispensable preliminary to civilization, they would even have great difficulty in acquiring it.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000015_000002|These tribes have not been driven from place to place, like their Northern brethren; but they have been gradually enclosed within narrow limits, like the game within the thicket, before the huntsmen plunge into the interior.
train-other-500/1710/133295/1710_133295_000019_000002|Wherever this race has multiplied the savage state has become modified, and a great change has taken place in the manners of the people.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000001_000000|WHAT IS A STRIKE?
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000000|Margaret went out heavily and unwillingly enough.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000001|But the length of a street-yes, the air of a Milton Street-cheered her young blood before she reached her first turning.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000002|Her step grew lighter, her lip redder. She began to take notice, instead of having her thoughts turned so exclusively inward.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000003|She saw unusual loiterers in the streets: men with their hands in their pockets sauntering along; loud laughing and loud spoken girls clustered together, apparently excited to high spirits, and a boisterous independence of temper and behaviour.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000004|The more ill looking of the men-the discreditable minority-hung about on the steps of the beer houses and gin shops, smoking, and commenting pretty freely on every passer by.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000005|Margaret disliked the prospect of the long walk through these streets, before she came to the fields which she had planned to reach.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000006|Instead, she would go and see Bessy Higgins.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000003_000007|It would not be so refreshing as a quiet country walk, but still it would perhaps be doing the kinder thing.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000004_000000|Nicholas Higgins was sitting by the fire smoking, as she went in.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000004_000001|Bessy was rocking herself on the other side.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000005_000000|Nicholas took the pipe out of his mouth, and standing up, pushed his chair towards Margaret; he leant against the chimney piece in a lounging attitude, while she asked Bessy how she was.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000006_000001|Hoo doesn't like this strike.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000008_000000|'Well, third time pays for all.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000008_000002|See if they don't come, and beg us to come back at our own price. That's all.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000009_000001|You must not wonder at my ignorance; where I come from I never heard of a strike.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000010_000000|'I wish I were there,' said Bessy, wearily.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000010_000002|This is the last I'll see.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000010_000003|Before it's ended I shall be in the Great City-the Holy Jerusalem.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000012_000000|'But,' said Margaret, 'if the people struck, as you call it, where I come from, as they are mostly all field labourers, the seed would not be sown, the hay got in, the corn reaped.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000013_000000|'Well?' said he.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000013_000001|He had resumed his pipe, and put his 'well' in the form of an interrogation.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000014_000000|'Why,' she went on, 'what would become of the farmers.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000015_000000|He puffed away.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000015_000001|'I reckon they'd have either to give up their farms, or to give fair rate of wage.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000017_000000|Still puffing away.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000017_000001|At last he said:
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000018_000000|'I know nought of your ways down South.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000018_000002|Now, it's not so here.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000019_000000|'I wish I lived down South,' said Bessy.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000020_000000|'There's a deal to bear there,' said Margaret. 'There are sorrows to bear everywhere.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000020_000001|There is very hard bodily labour to be gone through, with very little food to give strength.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000021_000000|'But it's out of doors,' said Bessy. 'And away from the endless, endless noise, and sickening heat.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000022_000000|'It's sometimes in heavy rain, and sometimes in bitter cold.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000022_000001|A young person can stand it; but an old man gets racked with rheumatism, and bent and withered before his time; yet he must just work on the same, or else go to the workhouse.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000024_000000|'So I am,' said Margaret, smiling a little, as she found herself thus caught.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000026_000000|'No!' said Margaret; 'I think they have too much sense.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000028_000000|'O, father!' said Bessy, 'what have ye gained by striking?
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000029_000001|'That there strike was badly managed.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000030_000000|'But all this time you've not told me what you're striking for,' said Margaret, again.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000031_000001|And now they come to us, and say we're to take less.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000031_000002|And we won't.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000031_000003|We'll just clem them to death first; and see who'll work for 'em then.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000031_000004|They'll have killed the goose that laid 'em the golden eggs, I reckon.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000032_000000|'And so you plan dying, in order to be revenged upon them!'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000033_000002|That's what folk call fine and honourable in a soldier, and why not in a poor weaver chap?'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000034_000000|'But,' said Margaret, 'a soldier dies in the cause of the Nation-in the cause of others.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000035_000000|He laughed grimly.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000035_000004|Why are we to have less wage now, I ask, than two year ago?'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000036_000000|'Don't ask me,' said Margaret; 'I am very ignorant.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000036_000002|Surely they will give you a reason for it.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000036_000003|It is not merely an arbitrary decision of theirs, come to without reason.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000037_000002|They'd tell us to mind our own business, and they'd mind theirs.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000037_000004|That's what it is.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000038_000000|'But said Margaret, determined not to give way, although she saw she was irritating him, 'the state of trade may be such as not to enable them to give you the same remuneration.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000039_000000|'State o' trade!
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000039_000005|It's not that we want their brass so much this time, as we've done many a time afore.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000039_000007|So I say, "hooray for the strike," and let Thornton, and Slickson, and Hamper, and their set look to it!'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000040_000001|'mr
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000040_000002|Thornton of Marlborough Street?'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000042_000000|'He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not?
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000044_000000|'Nay,' said Margaret, laughing, 'I deny that.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000045_000000|'No! not in look, I grant yo'.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000045_000006|He's like a cat,--as sleek, and cunning, and fierce.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000046_000000|'Poor Bessy!' said Margaret, turning round to her.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000046_000001|'You sigh over it all.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000046_000002|You don't like struggling and fighting as your father does, do you?'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000047_000000|'No!' said she, heavily.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000047_000001|'I'm sick on it.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000049_000000|'Tobacco smoke chokes me!' said she, querulously.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000050_000001|'But why didst thou not tell me afore, thou foolish wench?'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000051_000000|She did not speak for a while, and then so low that only Margaret heard her:
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000053_000000|Her father went out of doors, evidently to finish his pipe.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000054_000000|Bessy said passionately,
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000057_000007|But father never was a drunkard, though maybe, he's got worse for drink, now and then.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000058_000000|'Come, Bessy,' said Margaret, 'I won't say you're exaggerating, because I don't know enough about it: but, perhaps, as you're not well, you're only looking on one side, and there is another and a brighter to be looked to.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000000|'Take care,' said Margaret, her cheek flushing, and her eye lightening, 'how you judge, Bessy.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000002|The only person-the only one who could sympathise with me and help me-whose presence could comfort my mother more than any other earthly thing-is falsely accused-would run the risk of death if he came to see his dying mother.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000003|This I tell you-only you, Bessy.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000004|You must not mention it.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000005|No other person in Milton-hardly any other person in England knows.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000006|Have I not care?
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000007|Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well dressed, and have food enough?
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000060_000008|Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000061_000000|'I ask your pardon,' replied Bessy, humbly.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000062_000000|'Nay, Bessy-think!' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000062_000001|'God does not willingly afflict. Don't dwell so much on the prophecies, but read the clearer parts of the Bible.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000063_000001|Many's the time I've repeated the verses in the seventh chapter to myself, just for the sound.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000063_000002|It's as good as an organ, and as different from every day, too. No, I cannot give up Revelations.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000064_000000|'Let me come and read you some of my favourite chapters.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000066_000000|'Where is your sister?'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000067_000000|'Gone fustian cutting.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000068_000000|'Now I must go.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000068_000001|You have done me good, Bessy.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000069_000000|'I done you good!'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000070_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000070_000001|I came here very sad, and rather too apt to think my own cause for grief was the only one in the world.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000070_000002|And now I hear how you have had to bear for years, and that makes me stronger.'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000072_000000|'You won't do it if you think about it.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000074_000000|'Nor I of myself.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000074_000001|Good bye!'
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000075_000000|Bessy stilled her rocking to gaze after her.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000076_000000|'I wonder if there are many folk like her down South.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000076_000001|She's like a breath of country air, somehow.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000076_000002|She freshens me up above a bit.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000076_000004|I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sin.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000076_000005|I think a deal on her, for sure.
train-other-500/1714/142291/1714_142291_000076_000007|And Mary even.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000001_000000|'SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT?'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000003_000003|Even the necessary arrangements for the funeral seemed to devolve upon her.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000004_000000|When the fire was bright and crackling-when everything was ready for breakfast, and the tea kettle was singing away, Margaret gave a last look round the room before going to summon mr Hale and Frederick.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000004_000002|She was kneeling by the sofa, hiding her face in the cushions that no one might hear her cry, when she was touched on the shoulder by Dixon.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000005_000001|You must not give way, or where shall we all be?
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000005_000002|There is not another person in the house fit to give a direction of any kind, and there is so much to be done.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000006_000002|She had to try and think of little nothings to say all breakfast time, in order to prevent the recurrence of her companions' thoughts too strongly to the last meal they had taken together, when there had been a continual strained listening for some sound or signal from the sick room.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000007_000000|After breakfast, she resolved to speak to her father, about the funeral. He shook his head, and assented to all she proposed, though many of her propositions absolutely contradicted one another.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000008_000000|'Ask mr Bell,' said he in a hollow voice.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000009_000000|'mr Bell!' said she, a little surprised.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000009_000001|'mr Bell of Oxford?'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000010_000000|'mr Bell,' he repeated.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000010_000001|'Yes.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000010_000002|He was my groom's man.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000011_000000|Margaret understood the association.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000012_000000|'I will write to day,' said she.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000012_000001|He sank again into listlessness.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000014_000000|'I've done it, miss.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000014_000001|I was really afraid for master, that he'd have a stroke with grief.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000014_000003|When I went in he would be quite quiet, but all in a maze like.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000014_000004|So I thought to myself, he ought to be roused; and if it gives him a shock at first, it will, maybe, be the better afterwards.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000014_000006|And I don't.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000014_000008|Well, it was young Leonards, old Leonards the draper's son, as great a scamp as ever lived-who plagued his father almost to death, and then ran off to sea. I never could abide him.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000015_000000|'Did he know you?' said Margaret, eagerly.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000016_000000|'Why, that's the worst of it.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000016_000010|Why, he'd corrupt a saint.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000017_000000|'But you did not tell him anything about us-about Frederick?'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000018_000001|Nor did I ask him what his precious situation was.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000018_000004|I know you'd like to be my partner, now wouldn't you?
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000019_000000|Margaret was made very uncomfortable by this account of Dixon's.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000020_000000|'Have you told Frederick?' asked she.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000022_000000|'Oh, I'm not afraid of mr Bell; but I am afraid of this Leonards.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000022_000002|What did Leonards look like?'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000024_000000|It was evident that Frederick must go.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000024_000001|Go, too, when he had so completely vaulted into his place in the family, and promised to be such a stay and staff to his father and sister.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000024_000002|Go, when his cares for the living mother, and sorrow for the dead, seemed to make him one of those peculiar people who are bound to us by a fellow love for them that are taken away.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000024_000003|Just as Margaret was thinking all this, sitting over the drawing room fire-her father restless and uneasy under the pressure of this newly aroused fear, of which he had not as yet spoken-Frederick came in, his brightness dimmed, but the extreme violence of his grief passed away.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000024_000004|He came up to Margaret, and kissed her forehead.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000025_000000|'How wan you look, Margaret!' said he in a low voice.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000025_000001|'You have been thinking of everybody, and no one has thought of you.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000025_000002|Lie on this sofa-there is nothing for you to do.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000026_000000|'That is the worst,' said Margaret, in a sad whisper.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000029_000000|'Yes, mamma told me.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000030_000001|And to think of his being here!
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000030_000004|What a pity poor old Dixon could not be persuaded to give me up, and make a provision for her old age!'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000031_000001|Don't talk so.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000032_000001|He had overheard what they were saying.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000032_000002|He took Frederick's hand in both of his:
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000033_000000|'My boy, you must go.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000033_000001|It is very bad-but I see you must.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000035_000001|If I could only pick up my evidence!
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000035_000003|I could almost have enjoyed-in other circumstances-this stolen visit: it has had all the charm which the French woman attributed to forbidden pleasures.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000036_000000|'One of the earliest things I can remember,' said Margaret, 'was your being in some great disgrace, Fred, for stealing apples.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000036_000002|You have not changed your feelings much since then.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000038_000000|Margaret and Frederick looked at each other.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000038_000001|That quick momentary sympathy would be theirs no longer if he went away.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000038_000002|So much was understood through eyes that could not be put into words.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000038_000003|Both coursed the same thought till it was lost in sadness.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000038_000004|Frederick shook it off first:
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000039_000000|'Do you know, Margaret, I was very nearly giving both Dixon and myself a good fright this afternoon.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000039_000002|I kept the door open, and heard a message given to some man that was in my father's study, and that then went away.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000039_000004|Some of the shopmen?'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000040_000000|'Very likely,' said Margaret, indifferently.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000042_000001|They were glad to have drawn him into the conversation.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000043_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000043_000001|Thornton!' said Margaret, a little surprised.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000043_000002|'I thought---- '
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000044_000000|'Well, little one, what did you think?' asked Frederick, as she did not finish her sentence.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000047_000000|Margaret was silent.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000047_000001|She remembered how at first, before she knew his character, she had spoken and thought of him just as Frederick was doing.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000047_000003|She was unwilling to speak; she wanted to make Frederick understand what kind of person mr Thornton was-but she was tongue tied.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000048_000000|mr Hale went on.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000048_000001|'He came to offer any assistance in his power, I believe.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000048_000002|But I could not see him.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000048_000004|I don't know what I said.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000049_000000|'He has been a very agreeable acquaintance, has he not?' asked Frederick, throwing the question like a ball for any one to catch who chose.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000050_000000|'A very kind friend,' said Margaret, when her father did not answer.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000051_000000|Frederick was silent for a time.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000000|'Margaret, it is painful to think I can never thank those who have shown you kindness.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000001|Your acquaintances and mine must be separate.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000003|'You don't know how I wish you would.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000004|I have a good position-the chance of a better,' continued he, reddening like a girl.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000006|She is not eighteen; but if she is in the same mind another year, she is to be my wife.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000007|mr Barbour won't let us call it an engagement.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000008|But if you would come, you would find friends everywhere, besides Dolores.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000009|Think of it, father.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000052_000010|Margaret, be on my side.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000053_000000|'No-no more removals for me,' said mr Hale. 'One removal has cost me my wife.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000054_000001|I never thought of this; but I am so glad.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000054_000002|You will have some one to love and care for you out there.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000054_000003|Tell us all about it.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000055_000000|'In the first place, she is a Roman Catholic.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000056_000001|This was, then, the reason why his sympathy in her extreme distress at her father's leaving the Church had been so faintly expressed in his letters.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000056_000003|How much love had to do with this change not even Frederick himself could have told.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000056_000004|Margaret gave up talking about this branch of the subject at last; and, returning to the fact of the engagement, she began to consider it in some fresh light:
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000059_000001|All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000059_000002|In the next place, allow me to tell you, you don't know what a court martial is, and consider it as an assembly where justice is administered, instead of what it really is-a court where authority weighs nine tenths in the balance, and evidence forms only the other tenth.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000060_000000|'But is it not worth trying, to see how much evidence might be discovered and arrayed on your behalf?
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000060_000002|You have never tried to justify yourself, and we have never known where to seek for proofs of your justification.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000060_000005|You disobeyed authority-that was bad; but to have stood by, without word or act, while the authority was brutally used, would have been infinitely worse.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000061_000000|'But how must I make them know?
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000061_000003|No one would read a pamphlet of self justification so long after the deed, even if I put one out.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000062_000000|'Will you consult a lawyer as to your chances of exculpation?' asked Margaret, looking up, and turning very red.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000063_000001|Many a briefless barrister might twist his conscience into thinking that he could earn a hundred pounds very easily by doing a good action-in giving me, a criminal, up to justice.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000065_000001|Don't, for your mother's sake.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000066_000001|'He must go to morrow, I'm afraid, papa,' said she, tenderly; 'we fixed that, because of mr Bell, and Dixon's disagreeable acquaintance.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000067_000000|'Yes; I must go to morrow,' said Frederick decidedly.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000068_000001|'I can't bear to part with you, and yet I am miserable with anxiety as long as you stop here.'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000069_000000|'Well then,' said Margaret, 'listen to my plan.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000069_000001|He gets to London on Friday morning.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000069_000002|I will-you might-no! it would be better for me to give him a note to mr Lennox.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000070_000001|I could leave it with him to ferret them out.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000070_000002|He is Edith's husband's brother, isn't he?
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000070_000003|I remember your naming him in your letters. I have money in Barbour's hands.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000071_000000|'Don't do that,' said Margaret.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000071_000001|'You won't risk it if you do.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000071_000002|And it will be a risk only it is worth trying.
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000071_000003|You can sail from London as well as from Liverpool?'
train-other-500/1717/142305/1717_142305_000072_000000|'To be sure, little goose.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000003_000001|It was noisy, and smoky, and the poor people whom she saw in the streets were dirty, and the rich ladies over dressed, and not a man that she saw, high or low, had his clothes made to fit him.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000003_000002|She was sure Margaret would never regain her lost strength while she stayed in Milton; and she herself was afraid of one of her old attacks of the nerves.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000003_000003|Margaret must return with her, and that quickly.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000001|Captain Lennox and mr Thornton are here.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000004|However, that Dixon of yours is trusty; and can hold her, or your own, till I come.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000007|Or you can send a list afterwards.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000008|Now two things more, and I have done.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000009|You know, or if you don't, your poor father did, that you are to have my money and goods when I die.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000011|These Lennoxes seem very fond of you now; and perhaps may continue to be; perhaps not.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000015|I make no doubt you have.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000016|Yet the old man has a right.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000004_000018|Write by return, if only two lines, to tell me your answer.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000005_000000|Margaret took up a pen and scrawled with trembling hand, 'Margaret Hale is not the girl to say him nay.' In her weak state she could not think of any other words, and yet she was vexed to use these.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000005_000002|She was obliged to lie down again, and try not to think.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000006_000001|Has that letter vexed or troubled you?'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000007_000001|'I shall be better when to morrow is over.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000008_000000|'I feel sure, darling, you won't be better till I get you out of this horrid air.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000008_000001|How you can have borne it this two years I can't imagine.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000009_000000|'Where could I go to?
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000010_000000|'Well! don't distress yourself, my dear.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000010_000001|I dare say it was all for the best, only I had no conception of how you were living.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000010_000002|Our butler's wife lives in a better house than this.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000011_000000|'It is sometimes very pretty-in summer; you can't judge by what it is now.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000011_000001|I have been very happy here,' and Margaret closed her eyes by way of stopping the conversation.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000012_000000|The house teemed with comfort now, compared to what it had done.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000012_000001|The evenings were chilly, and by mrs Shaw's directions fires were lighted in every bedroom.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000012_000004|She was restless, though so weak.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000012_000005|All the day long, she kept herself from thinking of the ceremony which was going on at Oxford, by wandering from room to room, and languidly setting aside such articles as she wished to retain.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000012_000006|Dixon followed her by mrs Shaw's desire, ostensibly to receive instructions, but with a private injunction to soothe her into repose as soon as might be.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000013_000000|'These books, Dixon, I will keep.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000013_000001|All the rest will you send to mr Bell?
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000013_000003|This---- I should like you to take this to mr Thornton, after I am gone.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000014_000000|'DEAR SIR,--The accompanying book I am sure will be valued by you for the sake of my father, to whom it belonged.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000018_000001|mrs Shaw objected:
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000020_000000|'But to day is my only day; if Captain Lennox comes this afternoon, and if we must-if I must really go to morrow---- '
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000021_000002|No; if you must pay these calls, I will go with you. Dixon can get us a coach, I suppose?'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000022_000001|Margaret's face was too sad to lighten up into a smile at all this preparation for paying two visits, that she had often made by herself at all hours of the day.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000024_000001|Margaret was vexed with herself for not having timed her visit better.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000026_000000|'I should like to have some little thing to remind me of Bessy.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000027_000000|Instantly Mary's generosity was keenly alive.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000027_000001|What could they give?
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000029_000000|'That will do, thank you,' said Margaret; and she went quickly away, while the light caused by the pleasure of having something to give yet lingered on Mary's face.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000032_000000|'What an icy room!' she said.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000033_000000|They had to wait for some time before mrs Thornton entered.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000033_000002|She remembered her spirit, as shown at various times and places even more than the patience with which she had endured long and wearing cares.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000033_000003|Her countenance was blander than usual, as she greeted her; there was even a shade of tenderness in her manner, as she noticed the white, tear swollen face, and the quiver in the voice which Margaret tried to make so steady.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000035_000001|Thanks for kindness! and apologies for failure in good manners!
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000035_000002|But mrs Thornton replied:
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000036_000000|'Miss Hale, I am glad you do me justice.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000036_000002|I have always desired to act the part of a friend to you.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000036_000003|I am glad you do me justice.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000037_000000|'And,' said Margaret, blushing excessively as she spoke, 'will you do me justice, and believe that though I cannot-I do not choose-to give explanations of my conduct, I have not acted in the unbecoming way you apprehended?'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000039_000000|'Yes, I do believe you.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000039_000001|Let us say no more about it.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000039_000002|Where are you going to reside, Miss Hale?
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000039_000003|I understood from mr Bell that you were going to leave Milton.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000039_000004|You never liked Milton, you know,' said mrs Thornton, with a sort of grim smile; 'but for all that, you must not expect me to congratulate you on quitting it.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000039_000005|Where shall you live?'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000041_000000|'My niece will reside with me in Harley Street.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000041_000002|If you and your husband ever come to town, my son and daughter, Captain and mrs Lennox, will, I am sure, join with me in wishing to do anything in our power to show you attention.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000042_000000|mrs Thornton thought in her own mind, that Margaret had not taken much care to enlighten her aunt as to the relationship between the mr and mrs Thornton, towards whom the fine lady aunt was extending her soft patronage; so she answered shortly,
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000043_000000|'My husband is dead.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000043_000001|mr Thornton is my son.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000043_000002|I never go to London; so I am not likely to be able to avail myself of your polite offers.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000044_000000|At this instant mr Thornton entered the room; he had only just returned from Oxford.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000044_000001|His mourning suit spoke of the reason that had called him there.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000046_000000|'You are going then!' said he, in a low voice.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000047_000000|'Yes,' said Margaret. 'We leave to morrow.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000048_000000|'My son in law comes this evening to escort us,' said mrs Shaw.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000000|mr Thornton turned away.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000001|He had not sat down, and now he seemed to be examining something on the table, almost as if he had discovered an unopened letter, which had made him forget the present company.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000002|He did not even seem to be aware when they got up to take leave.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000003|He started forwards, however, to hand mrs Shaw down to the carriage.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000004|As it drove up, he and Margaret stood close together on the door step, and it was impossible but that the recollection of the day of the riot should force itself into both their minds.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000006|And at the remembrance of her taunting words, his brow grew stern, though his heart beat thick with longing love. 'No!' said he, 'I put it to the touch once, and I lost it all.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000007|Let her go,--with her stony heart, and her beauty;--how set and terrible her look is now, for all her loveliness of feature!
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000010|Beauty and heiress as she may be, she will find it hard to meet with a truer heart than mine.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000049_000011|Let her go!'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000050_000001|But none in his household saw mr Thornton again that day.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000050_000002|He was busily engaged; or so he said.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000052_000000|'Oh! let us go.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000052_000001|I cannot be patient here.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000052_000002|I shall not get well here.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000052_000003|I want to forget.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000055_000000|'Not a grand lady,' said Margaret, half smiling.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000056_000006|It were only for to humour the measter, I let on as if I thought yo'd mappen leave Milton without seeing me.'
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000057_000001|'You only do me justice.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000057_000002|And you'll not forget me, I'm sure.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000057_000005|I have kept it for you.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000058_000000|'Yo' may say that.
train-other-500/1721/142317/1721_142317_000059_000001|You've no right to refuse it for them.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000001|Margaret fell into a state of prostration, which did not show itself in sobs and tears, or even find the relief of words.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000002|She lay on the sofa, with her eyes shut, never speaking but when spoken to, and then replying in whispers.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000003|mr Bell was perplexed.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000004|He dared not leave her; he dared not ask her to accompany him back to Oxford, which had been one of the plans he had formed on the journey to Milton, her physical exhaustion was evidently too complete for her to undertake any such fatigue-putting the sight that she would have to encounter out of the question.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000005|mr Bell sate over the fire, considering what he had better do.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000006|Margaret lay motionless, and almost breathless by him.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000007|He would not leave her, even for the dinner which Dixon had prepared for him down stairs, and, with sobbing hospitality, would fain have tempted him to eat.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000008|He had a plateful of something brought up to him.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000009|In general, he was particular and dainty enough, and knew well each shade of flavour in his food, but now the devilled chicken tasted like sawdust.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000000_000010|He minced up some of the fowl for Margaret, and peppered and salted it well; but when Dixon, following his directions, tried to feed her, the languid shake of head proved that in such a state as Margaret was in, food would only choke, not nourish her.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000002_000000|'I can't leave her.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000002_000001|I must write to them at Oxford, to see that the preparations are made: they can be getting on with these till I arrive. Can't mrs Lennox come to her?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000002_000002|I'll write and tell her she must.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000002_000003|The girl must have some woman friend about her, if only to talk her into a good fit of crying.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000003_000000|Dixon was crying-enough for two; but, after wiping her eyes and steadying her voice, she managed to tell mr Bell, that mrs Lennox was too near her confinement to be able to undertake any journey at present.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000004_000000|'Well!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000004_000001|I suppose we must have mrs Shaw; she's come back to England, isn't she?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000005_000000|'Yes, sir, she's come back; but I don't think she will like to leave mrs Lennox at such an interesting time,' said Dixon, who did not much approve of a stranger entering the household, to share with her in her ruling care of Margaret.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000006_000000|'Interesting time be-' mr Bell restricted himself to coughing over the end of his sentence.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000006_000001|'She could be content to be at Venice or Naples, or some of those Popish places, at the last "interesting time," which took place in Corfu, I think.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000006_000003|I tell you, mrs Shaw shall come.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000006_000004|See that a room, or whatever she wants, is got ready for her by to morrow night.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000006_000005|I'll take care she comes.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000007_000000|Accordingly mr Bell wrote a letter, which mrs Shaw declared, with many tears, to be so like one of the dear general's when he was going to have a fit of the gout, that she should always value and preserve it.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000007_000003|Edith, all cap, shawls, and tears, came out to the top of the stairs, as Captain Lennox was taking her mother down to the carriage:
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000008_000003|Don't forget, mamma; you are to bring back Margaret.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000009_000000|Edith re-entered the drawing room.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000009_000001|mr Henry Lennox was there, cutting open the pages of a new Review.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000010_000000|'Oh, thank you,' said Edith, 'I dare say old mr Bell will do everything he can, and more help may not be needed.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000010_000001|Only one does not look for much savoir faire from a resident Fellow.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000010_000003|You were both great allies, years ago.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000012_000000|'Well, perhaps not-I forget.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000012_000001|I was so full of Sholto.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000012_000002|But doesn't it fall out well, that if my uncle was to die, it should be just now, when we are come home, and settled in the old house, and quite ready to receive Margaret?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000012_000003|Poor thing! what a change it will be to her from Milton!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000013_000000|In the same spirit of kindness, mrs Shaw journeyed to Milton, occasionally dreading the first meeting, and wondering how it would be got over; but more frequently planning how soon she could get Margaret away from 'that horrid place,' and back into the pleasant comforts of Harley Street.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000014_000000|'Oh dear!' she said to her maid; 'look at those chimneys!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000014_000001|My poor sister Hale!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000014_000003|I must have come and fetched her and Margaret away.' And to herself she acknowledged, that she had always thought her brother in law rather a weak man, but never so weak as now, when she saw for what a place he had exchanged the lovely Helstone home.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000015_000000|Margaret had remained in the same state; white, motionless, speechless, tearless.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000015_000003|But Margaret was the first to hear the stopping of the cab that brought her aunt from the railway station.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000015_000005|All thoughts of quiet habitual love, of tenderness for years, of relationship to the dead,--all that inexplicable likeness in look, tone, and gesture, that seem to belong to one family, and which reminded Margaret so forcibly at this moment of her mother,--came in to melt and soften her numbed heart into the overflow of warm tears.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000016_000000|mr Bell stole out of the room, and went down into the study, where he ordered a fire, and tried to divert his thoughts by taking down and examining the different books.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000016_000001|Each volume brought a remembrance or a suggestion of his dead friend.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000016_000002|It might be a change of employment from his two days' work of watching Margaret, but it was no change of thought.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000016_000003|He was glad to catch the sound of mr Thornton's voice, making enquiry at the door.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000016_000004|Dixon was rather cavalierly dismissing him; for with the appearance of mrs Shaw's maid, came visions of former grandeur, of the Beresford blood, of the 'station' (so she was pleased to term it) from which her young lady had been ousted, and to which she was now, please God, to be restored.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000016_000006|It was rather uncomfortable to be contradicted in her statement by mr Bell's opening the study door, and calling out:
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000017_000000|'Thornton! is that you?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000017_000001|Come in for a minute or two; I want to speak to you.' So mr Thornton went into the study, and Dixon had to retreat into the kitchen, and reinstate herself in her own esteem by a prodigious story of Sir john Beresford's coach and six, when he was high sheriff.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000019_000000|'Is mrs--is her aunt come?' asked mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000020_000002|One would have thought she might have come by herself at such a time!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000020_000003|And now I shall have to turn out and find my way to the Clarendon.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000021_000000|'You must not go to the Clarendon.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000021_000001|We have five or six empty bed rooms at home.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000022_000000|'Well aired?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000023_000000|'I think you may trust my mother for that.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000025_000000|mr Bell was some time up stairs.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000025_000001|mr Thornton began to think it long, for he was full of business, and had hardly been able to spare the time for running up to Crampton, and enquiring how Miss Hale was.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000026_000000|When they had set out upon their walk, mr Bell said:
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000027_000000|'I was kept by those women in the drawing room.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000027_000001|mrs Shaw is anxious to get home-on account of her daughter, she says-and wants Margaret to go off with her at once.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000027_000002|Now she is no more fit for travelling than I am for flying.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000027_000004|Now I must return to Oxford to morrow, and I don't know on which side of the scale to throw in my voice.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000028_000000|He paused, as if asking a question; but he received no answer from his companion, the echo of whose thoughts kept repeating-
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000029_000002|It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000030_000001|Her mother really tried to sympathise with her, but could not.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000030_000003|mr Thornton was only too glad to mark his grateful approbation of any sensible man, who could be captivated by Fanny's second rate airs and graces, by giving her ample means for providing herself with the finery, which certainly rivalled, if it did not exceed, the lover in her estimation.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000030_000005|For, when mr Bell had first gone up stairs, mrs Shaw lay asleep on the sofa; and no sound broke the silence.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000031_000000|mrs Thornton gave mr Bell her formal, hospitable welcome.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000031_000001|She was never so gracious as when receiving her son's friends in her son's house; and the more unexpected they were, the more honour to her admirable housekeeping preparations for comfort.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000032_000000|'How is Miss Hale?' she asked.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000033_000000|'About as broken down by this last stroke as she can be.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000034_000000|'I am sure it is very well for her that she has such a friend as you.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000035_000000|'I wish I were her only friend, madam.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000035_000001|I daresay it sounds very brutal; but here have I been displaced, and turned out of my post of comforter and adviser by a fine lady aunt; and there are cousins and what not claiming her in London, as if she were a lap dog belonging to them.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000035_000002|And she is too weak and miserable to have a will of her own.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000036_000000|'She must indeed be weak,' said mrs Thornton, with an implied meaning which her son understood well.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000036_000002|She left the room to make her household arrangements.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000037_000000|'They have been living abroad.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000037_000002|I will do them that justice.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000037_000005|Now it would be different if Frederick claimed her.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000038_000000|'Frederick!' exclaimed mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000038_000001|'Who is he?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000038_000002|What right-?' He stopped short in his vehement question.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000039_000000|'Frederick,' said mr Bell in surprise.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000039_000001|'Why don't you know?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000039_000002|He's her brother.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000039_000003|Have you not heard-'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000040_000000|'I never heard his name before.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000040_000001|Where is he?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000040_000002|Who is he?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000041_000000|'Surely I told you about him, when the family first came to Milton-the son who was concerned in that mutiny.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000042_000000|'I never heard of him till this moment.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000042_000001|Where does he live?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000043_000000|'In Spain.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000043_000001|He's liable to be arrested the moment he sets foot on English ground.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000043_000002|Poor fellow! he will grieve at not being able to attend his father's funeral.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000043_000003|We must be content with Captain Lennox; for I don't know of any other relation to summon.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000044_000000|'I hope I may be allowed to go?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000045_000000|'Certainly; thankfully.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000045_000003|He spoke to me, only the other day, about you at Oxford.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000045_000004|He regretted he had seen so little of you lately.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000045_000005|I am obliged to you for wishing to show him respect.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000046_000000|'But about Frederick.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000046_000001|Does he never come to England?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000047_000000|'Never.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000049_000000|'no
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000049_000001|Why, I was here then.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000050_000000|'I saw a young man walking with Miss Hale one day,' replied mr Thornton, 'and I think it was about that time.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000051_000000|'Oh, that would be this young Lennox, the Captain's brother.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000051_000001|He's a lawyer, and they were in pretty constant correspondence with him; and I remember mr Hale told me he thought he would come down.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000052_000000|No answer.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000052_000001|No change of countenance.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000053_000000|'And so did poor Hale.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000053_000001|Not at first, and not till I had put it into his head.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000054_000001|Every one must do so.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000054_000002|She is a beautiful creature,' said mr Thornton, driven to bay by mr Bell's pertinacious questioning.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000055_000000|'Is that all!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000055_000001|You can speak of her in that measured way, as simply a "beautiful creature"--only something to catch the eye.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000056_000000|mr Thornton's eyes glowed like red embers.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000057_000001|Let us talk of something else.' For though his heart leaped up, as at a trumpet call, to every word that mr Bell had said, and though he knew that what he had said would henceforward bind the thought of the old Oxford Fellow closely up with the most precious things of his heart, yet he would not be forced into any expression of what he felt towards Margaret.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000057_000002|He was no mocking bird of praise, to try because another extolled what he reverenced and passionately loved, to outdo him in laudation.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000057_000003|So he turned to some of the dry matters of business that lay between mr Bell and him, as landlord and tenant.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000058_000000|'What is that heap of brick and mortar we came against in the yard?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000058_000001|Any repairs wanted?'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000059_000000|'No, none, thank you.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000060_000000|'Are you building on your own account?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000060_000001|If you are, I'm very much obliged to you.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000061_000000|'I'm building a dining room-for the men I mean-the hands.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000062_000000|'I thought you were hard to please, if this room wasn't good enough to satisfy you, a bachelor.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000063_000000|'I've got acquainted with a strange kind of chap, and I put one or two children in whom he is interested to school.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000063_000001|So, as I happened to be passing near his house one day, I just went there about some trifling payment to be made; and I saw such a miserable black frizzle of a dinner-a greasy cinder of meat, as first set me a thinking.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000063_000002|But it was not till provisions grew so high this winter that I bethought me how, by buying things wholesale, and cooking a good quantity of provisions together, much money might be saved, and much comfort gained.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000063_000004|I was a little "riled," I confess, by his manner, and thought of throwing the whole thing overboard to sink or swim.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000063_000006|So I coolly took the part assigned to me, which is something like that of steward to a club.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000063_000007|I buy in the provisions wholesale, and provide a fitting matron or cook.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000064_000000|'I hope you give satisfaction in your new capacity.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000064_000001|Are you a good judge of potatoes and onions?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000064_000002|But I suppose mrs Thornton assists you in your marketing.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000065_000000|'Not a bit,' replied mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000065_000001|'She disapproves of the whole plan, and now we never mention it to each other.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000065_000002|But I manage pretty well, getting in great stocks from Liverpool, and being served in butcher's meat by our own family butcher.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000066_000000|'Do you taste each dish as it goes in, in virtue of your office?
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000066_000001|I hope you have a white wand.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000067_000000|'I was very scrupulous, at first, in confining myself to the mere purchasing part, and even in that I rather obeyed the men's orders conveyed through the housekeeper, than went by my own judgment.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000067_000001|At one time, the beef was too large, at another the mutton was not fat enough. I think they saw how careful I was to leave them free, and not to intrude my own ideas upon them; so, one day, two or three of the men-my friend Higgins among them-asked me if I would not come in and take a snack.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000067_000002|It was a very busy day, but I saw that the men would be hurt if, after making the advance, I didn't meet them half-way, so I went in, and I never made a better dinner in my life.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000068_000000|'I should think you were rather a restraint on your hosts' conversation. They can't abuse the masters while you're there.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000068_000001|I suspect they take it out on non hot pot days.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000069_000000|'Well! hitherto we've steered clear of all vexed questions.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000069_000002|But you are hardly acquainted with our Darkshire fellows, for all you're a Darkshire man yourself.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000069_000003|They have such a sense of humour, and such a racy mode of expression!
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000069_000004|I am getting really to know some of them now, and they talk pretty freely before me.'
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000070_000000|'Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000070_000001|Dying is nothing to it.
train-other-500/1726/142316/1726_142316_000070_000002|The philosopher dies sententiously-the pharisee ostentatiously-the simple hearted humbly-the poor idiot blindly, as the sparrow falls to the ground; the philosopher and idiot, publican and pharisee, all eat after the same fashion-given an equally good digestion.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000001_000000|Every morning now brought its regular duties-shops were to be visited; some new part of the town to be looked at; and the pump room to be attended, where they paraded up and down for an hour, looking at everybody and speaking to no one.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000001_000001|The wish of a numerous acquaintance in Bath was still uppermost with mrs Allen, and she repeated it after every fresh proof, which every morning brought, of her knowing nobody at all.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000002_000000|They made their appearance in the Lower Rooms; and here fortune was more favourable to our heroine.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000002_000002|His address was good, and Catherine felt herself in high luck.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000002_000003|There was little leisure for speaking while they danced; but when they were seated at tea, she found him as agreeable as she had already given him credit for being.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000002_000004|He talked with fluency and spirit-and there was an archness and pleasantry in his manner which interested, though it was hardly understood by her.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000002_000006|I have been very negligent-but are you now at leisure to satisfy me in these particulars?
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000002_000007|If you are I will begin directly."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000003_000000|"You need not give yourself that trouble, sir."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000005_000000|"About a week, sir," replied Catherine, trying not to laugh.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000006_000000|"Really!" with affected astonishment.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000007_000000|"Why should you be surprised, sir?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000008_000000|"Why, indeed!" said he, in his natural tone.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000008_000001|"But some emotion must appear to be raised by your reply, and surprise is more easily assumed, and not less reasonable than any other.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000008_000002|Now let us go on.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000010_000000|"Indeed!
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000011_000000|"Yes, sir, I was there last Monday."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000012_000000|"Have you been to the theatre?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000013_000000|"Yes, sir, I was at the play on Tuesday."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000014_000000|"To the concert?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000015_000000|"Yes, sir, on Wednesday."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000016_000000|"And are you altogether pleased with Bath?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000017_000000|"Yes-I like it very well."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000018_000000|"Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Catherine turned away her head, not knowing whether she might venture to laugh.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000018_000001|"I see what you think of me," said he gravely-"I shall make but a poor figure in your journal tomorrow."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000021_000000|"Indeed I shall say no such thing."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000022_000000|"Shall I tell you what you ought to say?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000023_000000|"If you please."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000024_000001|That, madam, is what I wish you to say."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000025_000000|"But, perhaps, I keep no journal."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000000|"Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000002|Not keep a journal!
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000004|How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal?
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000005|How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000006|My dear madam, I am not so ignorant of young ladies' ways as you wish to believe me; it is this delightful habit of journaling which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000007|Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000026_000008|Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000027_000000|"I have sometimes thought," said Catherine, doubtingly, "whether ladies do write so much better letters than gentlemen!
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000027_000001|That is-I should not think the superiority was always on our side."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000029_000000|"And what are they?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000030_000000|"A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000031_000000|"Upon my word!
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000031_000001|I need not have been afraid of disclaiming the compliment.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000031_000002|You do not think too highly of us in that way."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000032_000000|"I should no more lay it down as a general rule that women write better letters than men, than that they sing better duets, or draw better landscapes.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000032_000001|In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000033_000000|They were interrupted by mrs Allen: "My dear Catherine," said she, "do take this pin out of my sleeve; I am afraid it has torn a hole already; I shall be quite sorry if it has, for this is a favourite gown, though it cost but nine shillings a yard."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000034_000000|"That is exactly what I should have guessed it, madam," said mr Tilney, looking at the muslin.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000035_000000|"Do you understand muslins, sir?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000036_000000|"Particularly well; I always buy my own cravats, and am allowed to be an excellent judge; and my sister has often trusted me in the choice of a gown.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000036_000001|I bought one for her the other day, and it was pronounced to be a prodigious bargain by every lady who saw it.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000036_000002|I gave but five shillings a yard for it, and a true Indian muslin."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000037_000000|mrs Allen was quite struck by his genius.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000037_000001|"Men commonly take so little notice of those things," said she; "I can never get mr Allen to know one of my gowns from another.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000037_000002|You must be a great comfort to your sister, sir."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000038_000000|"I hope I am, madam."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000039_000000|"And pray, sir, what do you think of Miss Morland's gown?"
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000040_000000|"It is very pretty, madam," said he, gravely examining it; "but I do not think it will wash well; I am afraid it will fray."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000041_000000|"How can you," said Catherine, laughing, "be so-" She had almost said "strange."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000042_000000|"I am quite of your opinion, sir," replied mrs Allen; "and so I told Miss Morland when she bought it."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000043_000000|"But then you know, madam, muslin always turns to some account or other; Miss Morland will get enough out of it for a handkerchief, or a cap, or a cloak.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000043_000001|Muslin can never be said to be wasted.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000043_000002|I have heard my sister say so forty times, when she has been extravagant in buying more than she wanted, or careless in cutting it to pieces."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000044_000000|"Bath is a charming place, sir; there are so many good shops here.
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000044_000002|Now, here one can step out of doors and get a thing in five minutes."
train-other-500/173/200/173_200_000045_000000|mr Tilney was polite enough to seem interested in what she said; and she kept him on the subject of muslins till the dancing recommenced. Catherine feared, as she listened to their discourse, that he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000001_000000|nineteen. Tabooed Acts
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000002_000000|one.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000002_000001|Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000003_000000|SO much for the primitive conceptions of the soul and the dangers to which it is exposed.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000003_000001|These conceptions are not limited to one people or country; with variations of detail they are found all over the world, and survive, as we have seen, in modern Europe.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000003_000006|May we not then conjecture that these rules are in fact the very safeguards which we should expect to find adopted for the protection of the king's life? An examination of the rules themselves confirms this conjecture.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000003_000008|I will now enumerate some of these royal rules or taboos, offering on each of them such comments and explanations as may serve to set the original intention of the rule in its proper light.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000004_000002|To guard against the baneful influence exerted voluntarily or involuntarily by strangers is therefore an elementary dictate of savage prudence.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000004_000004|Afterwards they purified the ambassadors themselves by leading them through the flames.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000004_000005|In the island of Nanumea (South Pacific) strangers from ships or from other islands were not allowed to communicate with the people until they all, or a few as representatives of the rest, had been taken to each of the four temples in the island, and prayers offered that the god would avert any disease or treachery which these strangers might have brought with them.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000004_000007|While these ceremonies were going on, all the people except the priests and their attendants kept out of sight.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000004_000010|"More dreaded," says a traveller in Central Borneo, "than the evil spirits of the neighbourhood are the evil spirits from a distance which accompany travellers.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000005_000000|When Crevaux was travelling in South America he entered a village of the Apalai Indians.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000005_000002|Then all the people of the village, without distinction of age or sex, presented themselves to him, and he had to sting them all with the ants on their faces, thighs, and other parts of their bodies.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000005_000004|In Java a popular cure for gout or rheumatism is to rub Spanish pepper into the nails of the fingers and toes of the sufferer; the pungency of the pepper is supposed to be too much for the gout or rheumatism, who accordingly departs in haste.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000005_000006|The poor child naturally screams with pain, but the mother hardens her heart in the belief that the demon is suffering equally.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000000|It is probable that the same dread of strangers, rather than any desire to do them honour, is the motive of certain ceremonies which are sometimes observed at their reception, but of which the intention is not directly stated.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000002|Their main business is to summon or exorcise spirits for the purpose of averting or dispelling sickness, and of procuring favourable winds, a good catch of fish, and so on.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000003|When strangers land on the islands, they are first of all received by the sorcerers, sprinkled with water, anointed with oil, and girt with dried pandanus leaves.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000004|At the same time sand and water are freely thrown about in all directions, and the newcomer and his boat are wiped with green leaves.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000005|After this ceremony the strangers are introduced by the sorcerers to the chief.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000008|Sometimes the dread of strangers and their magic is too great to allow of their reception on any terms.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000006_000010|You cannot be admitted.' No persuasion could avail with them, and the party had to proceed to the next village."
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000007_000000|The fear thus entertained of alien visitors is often mutual. Entering a strange land the savage feels that he is treading enchanted ground, and he takes steps to guard against the demons that haunt it and the magical arts of its inhabitants.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000007_000002|Lastly, he went into the forest and buried the branch under withered leaves in the thickest part of the jungle.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000007_000003|This ceremony was believed to protect the party against all treachery and danger in the village they were approaching.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000007_000004|The idea probably was that the malignant influences were drawn off from the persons into the branch and buried with it in the depths of the forest.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000008_000000|Again, it is believed that a man who has been on a journey may have contracted some magic evil from the strangers with whom he has associated.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000008_000001|Hence, on returning home, before he is readmitted to the society of his tribe and friends, he has to undergo certain purificatory ceremonies.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000008_000003|Two Hindoo ambassadors, who had been sent to England by a native prince and had returned to India, were considered to have so polluted themselves by contact with strangers that nothing but being born again could restore them to purity.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000009_000003|After the second bath they proceed, entirely naked, to the house of Kalamba, who makes a long white mark on the breast and forehead of each of them.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000009_000004|Then they return to the market place and dress, after which they undergo the pepper ordeal.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000009_000005|Pepper is dropped into the eyes of each of them, and while this is being done the sufferer has to make a confession of all his sins, to answer all questions that may be put to him, and to take certain vows.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000010_000001|Taboos on Eating and Drinking
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000011_000002|This, it appears, is considered most likely to take place while the man is eating." Precautions are therefore adopted to guard against these dangers.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000011_000004|But it is only possible to prevent the soul from straying when one is in the house.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000011_000005|At feasts one may find the whole house shut up, in order that the soul may stay and enjoy the good things set before it." The Zafimanelo in Madagascar lock their doors when they eat, and hardly any one ever sees them eating.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000000|If these are the ordinary precautions taken by common people, the precautions taken by kings are extraordinary.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000001|The king of Loango may not be seen eating or drinking by man or beast under pain of death. A favourite dog having broken into the room where the king was dining, the king ordered it to be killed on the spot.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000002|Once the king's own son, a boy of twelve years old, inadvertently saw the king drink.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000003|Immediately the king ordered him to be finely apparelled and feasted, after which he commanded him to be cut in quarters, and carried about the city with a proclamation that he had seen the king drink.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000006|So that none ever see the king eat or drink.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000009|It is a capital offence to see the king of Dahomey at his meals.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000010|When he drinks in public, as he does on extraordinary occasions, he hides himself behind a curtain, or handkerchiefs are held up round his head, and all the people throw themselves with their faces to the earth.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000012_000012|No one might see him drink.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000013_000000|three.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000013_000001|Taboos on Showing the Face
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000014_000002|One of them rings a bell all the time he is drinking; another crouches down and places his left hand on the earth; another veils his head; another puts a stalk of grass or a leaf in his hair, or marks his forehead with a line of clay.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000014_000003|This fetish custom assumes very varied forms.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000014_000005|The Sultan of Darfur wraps up his face with a piece of white muslin, which goes round his head several times, covering his mouth and nose first, and then his forehead, so that only his eyes are visible.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000014_000007|The Sultan of Wadai always speaks from behind a curtain; no one sees his face except his intimates and a few favoured persons.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000015_000001|Taboos on Quitting the House
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000000|BY AN EXTENSION of the like precaution kings are sometimes forbidden ever to leave their palaces; or, if they are allowed to do so, their subjects are forbidden to see them abroad.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000001|The fetish king of Benin, who was worshipped as a deity by his subjects, might not quit his palace.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000004|As the wealth of the country is measured in slaves, the king takes good care not to infringe the law.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000007|Were he unable to discharge this duty, he would be immediately deposed and perhaps stoned.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000008|The kings of Ethiopia were worshipped as gods, but were mostly kept shut up in their palaces.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000010|These barbarians kept their king in close custody at the top of a high tower, from which after his election he was never more allowed to descend.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000011|Here he dispensed justice to his people; but if he offended them, they punished him by stopping his rations for a whole day, or even starving him to death.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000016_000012|The kings of Sabaea or Sheba, the spice country of Arabia, were not allowed to go out of their palaces; if they did so, the mob stoned them to death.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000017_000000|five.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000017_000001|Taboos on Leaving Food over
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000000|AGAIN, magic mischief may be wrought upon a man through the remains of the food he has partaken of, or the dishes out of which he has eaten.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000001|On the principles of sympathetic magic a real connexion continues to subsist between the food which a man has in his stomach and the refuse of it which he has left untouched, and hence by injuring the refuse you can simultaneously injure the eater.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000002|Among the Narrinyeri of South Australia every adult is constantly on the look out for bones of beasts, birds, or fish, of which the flesh has been eaten by somebody, in order to construct a deadly charm out of them.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000003|Every one is therefore careful to burn the bones of the animals which he has eaten, lest they should fall into the hands of a sorcerer.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000007|When the bewitched man learns of the spell that is being cast upon him, he endeavours to buy the bone from the sorcerer, and if he obtains it he breaks the charm by throwing the bone into a river or lake.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000008|In Tana, one of the New Hebrides, people bury or throw into the sea the leavings of their food, lest these should fall into the hands of the disease makers.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000009|For if a disease maker finds the remnants of a meal, say the skin of a banana, he picks it up and burns it slowly in the fire.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000010|As it burns, the person who ate the banana falls ill and sends to the disease maker, offering him presents if he will stop burning the banana skin.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000011|In New Guinea the natives take the utmost care to destroy or conceal the husks and other remains of their food, lest these should be found by their enemies and used by them for the injury or destruction of the eaters.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000018_000012|Hence they burn their leavings, throw them into the sea, or otherwise put them out of harm's way.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000019_000000|From a like fear, no doubt, of sorcery, no one may touch the food which the king of Loango leaves upon his plate; it is buried in a hole in the ground.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000019_000001|And no one may drink out of the king's vessel. In antiquity the romans used immediately to break the shells of eggs and of snails which they had eaten, in order to prevent enemies from making magic with them.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000019_000002|The common practice, still observed among us, of breaking egg shells after the eggs have been eaten may very well have originated in the same superstition.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000020_000001|Nor is it only the sanitary condition of a tribe which has benefited by this superstition; curiously enough the same baseless dread, the same false notion of causation, has indirectly strengthened the moral bonds of hospitality, honour, and good faith among men who entertain it.
train-other-500/1733/139046/1733_139046_000020_000004|In strict logic, however, the sympathetic bond lasts only so long as the food is in the stomach of each of the parties.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000001_000000|NEW SCENES AND FACES
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000002_000000|'Mist clogs the sunshine, Smoky dwarf houses Have we round on every side.' matthew ARNOLD.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000003_000000|The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000003_000001|Heston itself was one long straggling street, running parallel to the seashore.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000003_000003|To use a Scotch word, every thing looked more 'purposelike.' The country carts had more iron, and less wood and leather about the horse gear; the people in the streets, although on pleasure bent, had yet a busy mind. The colours looked grayer-more enduring, not so gay and pretty.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000004_000000|Their two nights at hotels had cost more than mr Hale had anticipated, and they were glad to take the first clean, cheerful rooms they met with that were at liberty to receive them.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000004_000001|There, for the first time for many days, did Margaret feel at rest.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000004_000002|There was a dreaminess in the rest, too, which made it still more perfect and luxurious to repose in.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000005_000000|But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000005_000001|One evening it was arranged that Margaret and her father should go the next day to Milton Northern, and look out for a house.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000005_000002|mr Hale had received several letters from mr Bell, and one or two from mr Thornton, and he was anxious to ascertain at once a good many particulars respecting his position and chances of success there, which he could only do by an interview with the latter gentleman.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000005_000003|Margaret knew that they ought to be removing; but she had a repugnance to the idea of a manufacturing town, and believed that her mother was receiving benefit from Heston air, so she would willingly have deferred the expedition to Milton.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000006_000000|For several miles before they reached Milton, they saw a deep lead coloured cloud hanging over the horizon in the direction in which it lay.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000006_000002|Nearer to the town, the air had a faint taste and smell of smoke; perhaps, after all, more a loss of the fragrance of grass and herbage than any positive taste or smell.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000006_000003|Quick they were whirled over long, straight, hopeless streets of regularly built houses, all small and of brick.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000006_000007|People thronged the footpaths, most of them well dressed as regarded the material, but with a slovenly looseness which struck Margaret as different from the shabby, threadbare smartness of a similar class in London.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000007_000000|'New Street,' said mr Hale. 'This, I believe, is the principal street in Milton.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000007_000001|Bell has often spoken to me about it.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000007_000003|mr Thornton's mill must be somewhere not very far off, for he is mr Bell's tenant. But I fancy he dates from his warehouse.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000009_000000|'Close to the end of this street, I believe.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000010_000000|'Oh, let us get our work done first.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000011_000000|'Very well.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000011_000001|Then I will only see if there is any note or letter for me from mr Thornton, who said he would let me know anything he might hear about these houses, and then we will set off.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000011_000002|We will keep the cab; it will be safer than losing ourselves, and being too late for the train this afternoon.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000012_000000|There were no letters awaiting him.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000012_000001|They set out on their house hunting. Thirty pounds a year was all they could afford to give, but in Hampshire they could have met with a roomy house and pleasant garden for the money.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000012_000002|Here, even the necessary accommodation of two sitting rooms and four bed rooms seemed unattainable.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000013_000000|'We must go back to the second, I think.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000013_000001|That one,--in Crampton, don't they call the suburb?
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000013_000002|There were three sitting rooms; don't you remember how we laughed at the number compared with the three bed rooms?
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000014_000000|'But Dixon, and the girl we are to have to help?'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000015_000000|'Oh, wait a minute.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000015_000001|I am overpowered by the discovery of my own genius for management.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000015_000004|She grumbles so much about the stairs at Heston; and the girl is to have that sloping attic over your room and mamma's.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000015_000005|Won't that do?'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000016_000003|And the overloading such a house with colour and such heavy cornices!'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000018_000001|If so, I had better go at once and call on this mr Donkin, to whom the advertisement refers me.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000018_000003|I hope I shall be able to get new papers.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000019_000000|Margaret hoped so too, though she said nothing.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000020_000000|'I beg your pardon, ma'am.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000020_000003|He is in your room now, ma'am.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000021_000000|'Thank you.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000021_000004|mr Thornton was a good deal more surprised and discomfited than she.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000021_000005|Instead of a quiet, middle aged clergyman, a young lady came forward with frank dignity,--a young lady of a different type to most of those he was in the habit of seeing.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000022_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000022_000003|My father brought me to the door, not a minute ago, but unfortunately he was not told that you were here, and he has gone away on some business. But he will come back almost directly.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000023_000000|mr Thornton was in habits of authority himself, but she seemed to assume some kind of rule over him at once.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000024_000001|Perhaps I might be able to find him.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000025_000000|'He has gone to a mr Donkin's in Canute Street.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000026_000000|mr Thornton knew the house.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000027_000000|Margaret could not help her looks; but the short curled upper lip, the round, massive up turned chin, the manner of carrying her head, her movements, full of a soft feminine defiance, always gave strangers the impression of haughtiness.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000027_000002|She wished that he would go, as he had once spoken of doing, instead of sitting there, answering with curt sentences all the remarks she made.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000027_000003|She had taken off her shawl, and hung it over the back of her chair.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000027_000004|She sat facing him and facing the light; her full beauty met his eye; her round white flexile throat rising out of the full, yet lithe figure; her lips, moving so slightly as she spoke, not breaking the cold serene look of her face with any variation from the one lovely haughty curve; her eyes, with their soft gloom, meeting his with quiet maiden freedom.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000028_000000|Just as Margaret had exhausted her last subject of conversation-and yet conversation that could hardly be called which consisted of so few and such short speeches-her father came in, and with his pleasant gentlemanly courteousness of apology, reinstated his name and family in mr Thornton's good opinion.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000029_000001|She got so much absorbed in watching what was going on outside that she hardly heard her father when he spoke to her, and he had to repeat what he said:
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000031_000001|I am sorry!' she replied, and began to turn over in her mind the possibility of hiding part of it, at least, by some of her sketches, but gave up the idea at last, as likely only to make bad worse.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000031_000002|Her father, meanwhile, with his kindly country hospitality, was pressing mr Thornton to stay to luncheon with them.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000031_000003|It would have been very inconvenient to him to do so, yet he felt that he should have yielded, if Margaret by word or look had seconded her father's invitation; he was glad she did not, and yet he was irritated at her for not doing it.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000032_000001|Have you ordered it?'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000035_000000|'It seemed exceedingly long to me.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000035_000001|I was just at the last gasp when you came in.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000036_000000|'Very much to the point though, I should think.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000036_000001|He is a clearheaded fellow.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000037_000000|When they returned to Heston, there was the day's account to be given to mrs Hale, who was full of questions which they answered in the intervals of tea drinking.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000039_000000|'Ask Margaret,' said her husband.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000039_000001|'She and he had a long attempt at conversation, while I was away speaking to the landlord.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000041_000000|'I should guess about thirty.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000042_000000|'About thirty-with a face that is neither exactly plain, nor yet handsome, nothing remarkable-not quite a gentleman; but that was hardly to be expected.'
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000043_000000|'Not vulgar, or common though,' put in her father, rather jealous of any disparagement of the sole friend he had in Milton.
train-other-500/1736/142281/1736_142281_000044_000001|I should not like to have to bargain with him; he looks very inflexible.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000001_000000|Waking
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000002_000000|When Maggie was gone to sleep, Stephen, weary too with his unaccustomed amount of rowing, and with the intense inward life of the last twelve hours, but too restless to sleep, walked and lounged about the deck with his cigar far on into midnight, not seeing the dark water, hardly conscious there were stars, living only in the near and distant future.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000000|She had fallen asleep before nine, and had been sleeping for six hours before the faintest hint of a midsummer daybreak was discernible.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000001|She awoke from that vivid dreaming which makes the margin of our deeper rest.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000003|From the soothed sense of that false waking she passed to the real waking,--to the plash of water against the vessel, and the sound of a footstep on the deck, and the awful starlit sky.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000004|There was a moment of utter bewilderment before her mind could get disentangled from the confused web of dreams; but soon the whole terrible truth urged itself upon her.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000005|Stephen was not by her now; she was alone with her own memory and her own dread.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000007|And where would that lead her?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000008|Where had it led her now? She had said she would rather die than fall into that temptation.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000009|She felt it now,--now that the consequences of such a fall had come before the outward act was completed.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000011|And a choice of what?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000012|O God! not a choice of joy, but of conscious cruelty and hardness; for could she ever cease to see before her Lucy and Philip, with their murdered trust and hopes?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000013|Her life with Stephen could have no sacredness; she must forever sink and wander vaguely, driven by uncertain impulse; for she had let go the clue of life,--that clue which once in the far off years her young need had clutched so strongly.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000003_000016|The yesterday, which could never be revoked,--if she could have changed it now for any length of inward silent endurance, she would have bowed beneath that cross with a sense of rest.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000004_000000|Day break came and the reddening eastern light, while her past life was grasping her in this way, with that tightening clutch which comes in the last moments of possible rescue.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000004_000002|But surmounting everything was the horror at her own possible failure, the dread lest her conscience should be benumbed again, and not rise to energy till it was too late.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000004_000003|Too late! it was too late already not to have caused misery; too late for everything, perhaps, but to rush away from the last act of baseness,--the tasting of joys that were wrung from crushed hearts.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000005_000000|The sun was rising now, and Maggie started up with the sense that a day of resistance was beginning for her.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000005_000001|Her eyelashes were still wet with tears, as, with her shawl over her head, she sat looking at the slowly rounding sun
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000005_000002|Something roused Stephen too, and getting up from his hard bed, he came to sit beside her.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000005_000003|The sharp instinct of anxious love saw something to give him alarm in the very first glance.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000005_000005|He had the uneasy consciousness that he had robbed her of perfect freedom yesterday; there was too much native honor in him, for him not to feel that, if her will should recoil, his conduct would have been odious, and she would have a right to reproach him.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000002|And so they drank their cup of coffee together, and walked about the deck, and heard the captain's assurance that they should be in at Mudport by five o'clock, each with an inward burthen; but in him it was an undefined fear, which he trusted to the coming hours to dissipate; in her it was a definite resolve on which she was trying silently to tighten her hold.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000003|Stephen was continually, through the morning, expressing his anxiety at the fatigue and discomfort she was suffering, and alluded to landing and to the change of motion and repose she would have in a carriage, wanting to assure himself more completely by presupposing that everything would be as he had arranged it.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000004|For a long while Maggie contented herself with assuring him that she had had a good night's rest, and that she didn't mind about being on the vessel,--it was not like being on the open sea, it was only a little less pleasant than being in a boat on the Floss.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000005|But a suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes, and Stephen became more and more uneasy as the day advanced, under the sense that Maggie had entirely lost her passiveness.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000007|He longed to assure himself of a tacit assent from her.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000008|But each time he looked at her, he gathered a stronger dread of the new, quiet sadness with which she met his eyes.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000006_000009|And they were more and more silent.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000007_000000|"Here we are in sight of Mudport," he said at last.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000007_000001|"Now, dearest," he added, turning toward her with a look that was half beseeching, "the worst part of your fatigue is over.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000007_000002|On the land we can command swiftness.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000010_000000|The blood rushed to Stephen's face.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000011_000000|"We shall not," he said.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000011_000001|"I'll die first."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000012_000000|It was as he had dreaded-there was a struggle coming.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000012_000003|But she was hurried along, and was indifferent to everything but the coming trial.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000014_000000|When they entered, Maggie did not sit down, and Stephen, whose face had a desperate determination in it, was about to ring the bell, when she said, in a firm voice,--
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000015_000000|"I'm not going; we must part here."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000016_000000|"Maggie," he said, turning round toward her, and speaking in the tones of a man who feels a process of torture beginning, "do you mean to kill me?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000016_000001|What is the use of it now?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000016_000002|The whole thing is done."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000017_000000|"No, it is not done," said Maggie.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000017_000001|"Too much is done,--more than we can ever remove the trace of.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000017_000002|But I will go no farther.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000017_000003|Don't try to prevail with me again.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000017_000004|I couldn't choose yesterday."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000018_000000|What was he to do?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000018_000001|He dared not go near her; her anger might leap out, and make a new barrier.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000018_000002|He walked backward and forward in maddening perplexity.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000019_000001|I will obey you now; I will do nothing without your full consent.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000019_000002|But don't blight our lives forever by a rash perversity that can answer no good purpose to any one, that can only create new evils.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000019_000003|Sit down, dearest; wait-think what you are going to do.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000019_000004|Don't treat me as if you couldn't trust me."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000020_000000|He had chosen the most effective appeal; but Maggie's will was fixed unswervingly on the coming wrench.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000020_000001|She had made up her mind to suffer.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000021_000000|"We must not wait," she said, in a low but distinct voice; "we must part at once."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000022_000001|"I can't bear it.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000022_000002|What is the use of inflicting that misery on me?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000022_000003|The blow-whatever it may have been-has been struck now.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000022_000004|Will it help any one else that you should drive me mad?"
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000023_000001|What I told you at Basset I feel now; I would rather have died than fall into this temptation.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000023_000002|It would have been better if we had parted forever then. But we must part now."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000024_000001|You'll make me desperate; I sha'n't know what I do."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000000|Maggie trembled.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000001|She felt that the parting could not be effected suddenly.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000002|She must rely on a slower appeal to Stephen's better self; she must be prepared for a harder task than that of rushing away while resolution was fresh.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000003|She sat down.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000004|Stephen, watching her with that look of desperation which had come over him like a lurid light, approached slowly from the door, seated himself close beside her, and grasped her hand.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000005|Her heart beat like the heart of a frightened bird; but this direct opposition helped her.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000025_000006|She felt her determination growing stronger.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000026_000000|"Remember what you felt weeks ago," she began, with beseeching earnestness; "remember what we both felt,--that we owed ourselves to others, and must conquer every inclination which could make us false to that debt.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000026_000001|We have failed to keep our resolutions; but the wrong remains the same."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000027_000001|"We have proved that it was impossible to keep our resolutions.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000027_000002|We have proved that the feeling which draws us toward each other is too strong to be overcome.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000027_000003|That natural law surmounts every other; we can't help what it clashes with."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000028_000000|"It is not so, Stephen; I'm quite sure that is wrong.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000028_000002|If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000028_000003|We should have no law but the inclination of the moment."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000029_000000|"But there are ties that can't be kept by mere resolution," said Stephen, starting up and walking about again.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000029_000001|"What is outward faithfulness?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000030_000000|Maggie did not answer immediately.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000030_000001|She was undergoing an inward as well as an outward contest.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000031_000004|I feel no excuse for myself, none.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000031_000007|She believed in me-she loved me-she was so good to me.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000031_000008|Think of her----"
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000032_000000|Maggie's voice was getting choked as she uttered these last words.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000033_000002|You demand of a man what is impossible.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000033_000005|You can't save them from pain now; you can only tear yourself from me, and make my life worthless to me.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000033_000006|And even if we could go back, and both fulfil our engagements,--if that were possible now,--it would be hateful, horrible, to think of your ever being Philip's wife,--of your ever being the wife of a man you didn't love.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000033_000007|We have both been rescued from a mistake."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000034_000000|A deep flush came over Maggie's face, and she couldn't speak.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000034_000001|Stephen saw this.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000034_000002|He sat down again, taking her hand in his, and looking at her with passionate entreaty.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000035_000000|"Maggie!
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000035_000001|Dearest!
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000035_000002|If you love me, you are mine.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000035_000003|Who can have so great a claim on you as I have?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000035_000004|My life is bound up in your love.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000036_000000|Maggie was still silent for a little while, looking down.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000036_000001|Stephen was in a flutter of new hope; he was going to triumph.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000037_000000|"No, not with my whole heart and soul, Stephen," she said with timid resolution.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000037_000001|"I have never consented to it with my whole mind.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000037_000002|There are memories, and affections, and longings after perfect goodness, that have such a strong hold on me; they would never quit me for long; they would come back and be pain to me-repentance.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000037_000003|I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000037_000004|I have caused sorrow already-I know-I feel it; but I have never deliberately consented to it; I have never said, 'They shall suffer, that I may have joy.' It has never been my will to marry you; if you were to win consent from the momentary triumph of my feeling for you, you would not have my whole soul.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000037_000005|If I could wake back again into the time before yesterday, I would choose to be true to my calmer affections, and live without the joy of love."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000038_000000|Stephen loosed her hand, and rising impatiently, walked up and down the room in suppressed rage.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000039_000000|"Good God!" he burst out at last, "what a miserable thing a woman's love is to a man's!
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000039_000001|I could commit crimes for you,--and you can balance and choose in that way.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000040_000000|Maggie pressed her fingers together almost convulsively as she held them clasped on her lap.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000040_000001|A great terror was upon her, as if she were ever and anon seeing where she stood by great flashes of lightning, and then again stretched forth her hands in the darkness.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000041_000000|"No, I don't sacrifice you-I couldn't sacrifice you," she said, as soon as she could speak again; "but I can't believe in a good for you, that I feel, that we both feel, is a wrong toward others.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000041_000001|We can't choose happiness either for ourselves or for another; we can't tell where that will lie.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000041_000002|We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the divine voice within us,--for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000000|"But, Maggie," said Stephen, seating himself by her again, "is it possible you don't see that what happened yesterday has altered the whole position of things?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000001|What infatuation is it, what obstinate prepossession, that blinds you to that?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000002|It is too late to say what we might have done or what we ought to have done.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000003|Admitting the very worst view of what has been done, it is a fact we must act on now; our position is altered; the right course is no longer what it was before. We must accept our own actions and start afresh from them.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000004|Suppose we had been married yesterday?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000005|It is nearly the same thing.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000042_000006|The effect on others would not have been different.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000046_000000|Maggie's eyes opened wide in one terrified look at the face that was close to hers, and she started up, pale again.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000001|I can't argue any longer,--I don't know what is wise; but my heart will not let me do it.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000002|I see,--I feel their trouble now; it is as if it were branded on my mind.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000004|It would never leave me; it would embitter your love to me.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000006|He was given to me that I might make his lot less hard; and I have forsaken him.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000007|And Lucy-she has been deceived; she who trusted me more than any one.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000008|I cannot marry you; I cannot take a good for myself that has been wrung out of their misery.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000009|It is not the force that ought to rule us,--this that we feel for each other; it would rend me away from all that my past life has made dear and holy to me.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000047_000010|I can't set out on a fresh life, and forget that; I must go back to it, and cling to it, else I shall feel as if there were nothing firm beneath my feet."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000048_000001|How can you go back without marrying me?
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000048_000003|You see nothing as it really is."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000049_000000|"Yes, I do.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000049_000001|But they will believe me.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000049_000002|I will confess everything.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000049_000004|Dear, dear Stephen, let me go!--don't drag me into deeper remorse.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000049_000005|My whole soul has never consented; it does not consent now."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000050_000002|At last he said, still without looking at her,--
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000051_000000|"Go, then,--leave me; don't torture me any longer,--I can't bear it."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000052_000000|Involuntarily she leaned toward him and put out her hand to touch his. But he shrank from it as if it had been burning iron, and said again,--
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000053_000000|"Leave me."
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000054_000000|Maggie was not conscious of a decision as she turned away from that gloomy averted face, and walked out of the room; it was like an automatic action that fulfils a forgotten intention.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000054_000002|But she could ask nothing yet; she only got into the coach.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000055_000000|Home-where her mother and brother were, Philip, Lucy, the scene of her very cares and trials-was the haven toward which her mind tended; the sanctuary where sacred relics lay, where she would be rescued from more falling.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000055_000001|The thought of Stephen was like a horrible throbbing pain, which yet, as such pains do, seemed to urge all other thoughts into activity.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000055_000002|But among her thoughts, what others would say and think of her conduct was hardly present.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000055_000003|Love and deep pity and remorseful anguish left no room for that.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000056_000000|The coach was taking her to York, farther away from home; but she did not learn that until she was set down in the old city at midnight.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000056_000001|It was no matter; she could sleep there, and start home the next day.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000056_000002|She had her purse in her pocket, with all her money in it,--a bank note and a sovereign; she had kept it in her pocket from forgetfulness, after going out to make purchases the day before yesterday.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000057_000001|The great struggles of life are not so easy as that; the great problems of life are not so clear.
train-other-500/1736/152007/1736_152007_000057_000002|In the darkness of that night she saw Stephen's face turned toward her in passionate, reproachful misery; she lived through again all the tremulous delights of his presence with her that made existence an easy floating in a stream of joy, instead of a quiet resolved endurance and effort.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000000_000000|Perhaps the less said of her the better.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000000_000001|She was a coarse and, it is to be feared, a very sinful woman.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000000_000004|The primal curse had come to her in that original isolation which must have made the punishment of the first transgression so dreadful.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000000_000006|Yet a few of the spectators were, I think, touched by her sufferings.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000001_000000|It will be seen also that the situation was novel.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000001_000001|Deaths were by no means uncommon in Roaring Camp, but a birth was a new thing.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000001_000003|Hence the excitement.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000002_000000|"You go in there, Stumpy," said a prominent citizen known as "Kentuck," addressing one of the loungers.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000002_000001|"Go in there, and see what you kin do. You've had experience in them things."
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000003_000000|Perhaps there was a fitness in the selection.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000003_000001|Stumpy, in other climes, had been the putative head of two families; in fact, it was owing to some legal informality in these proceedings that Roaring Camp-a city of refuge-was indebted to his company.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000003_000002|The crowd approved the choice, and Stumpy was wise enough to bow to the majority.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000004_000001|One or two of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were criminal, and all were reckless.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000004_000006|The strongest man had but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one eye.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000005_000002|The only outlet was a steep trail over the summit of a hill that faced the cabin, now illuminated by the rising moon.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000006_000002|Bets were freely offered and taken regarding the result.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000006_000005|Above the swaying and moaning of the pines, the swift rush of the river, and the crackling of the fire rose a sharp, querulous cry,--a cry unlike anything heard before in the camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000006_000007|It seemed as if Nature had stopped to listen too.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000000|The camp rose to its feet as one man!
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000001|It was proposed to explode a barrel of gunpowder; but in consideration of the situation of the mother, better counsels prevailed, and only a few revolvers were discharged; for whether owing to the rude surgery of the camp, or some other reason, Cherokee Sal was sinking fast.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000003|I do not think that the announcement disturbed them much, except in speculation as to the fate of the child.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000004|"Can he live now?" was asked of Stumpy.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000005|The answer was doubtful.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000007|There was some conjecture as to fitness, but the experiment was tried.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000007_000008|It was less problematical than the ancient treatment of Romulus and Remus, and apparently as successful.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000008_000000|When these details were completed, which exhausted another hour, the door was opened, and the anxious crowd of men, who had already formed themselves into a queue, entered in single file.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000008_000003|Beside the candle box was placed a hat.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000008_000004|Its use was soon indicated.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000008_000010|Only one incident occurred to break the monotony of the curious procession.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000008_000012|Kentuck looked foolish and embarrassed. Something like a blush tried to assert itself in his weather beaten cheek.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000008_000017|"He rastled with my finger," he remarked to Tipton, holding up the member, "the damned little cuss!"
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000000|It was four o'clock before the camp sought repose.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000002|He drank quite freely, and related with great gusto his experience, invariably ending with his characteristic condemnation of the newcomer.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000005|Then he walked up the gulch past the cabin, still whistling with demonstrative unconcern.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000007|Halfway down to the river's bank he again paused, and then returned and knocked at the door.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000008|It was opened by Stumpy.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000009|"How goes it?" said Kentuck, looking past Stumpy toward the candle box.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000010|"All serene!" replied Stumpy. "Anything up?" "Nothing." There was a pause-an embarrassing one-Stumpy still holding the door.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000011|Then Kentuck had recourse to his finger, which he held up to Stumpy.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000009_000012|"Rastled with it,--the damned little cuss," he said, and retired.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000010_000000|The next day Cherokee Sal had such rude sepulture as Roaring Camp afforded.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000010_000003|But an animated discussion in regard to the manner and feasibility of providing for its wants at once sprang up.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000010_000004|It was remarkable that the argument partook of none of those fierce personalities with which discussions were usually conducted at Roaring Camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000010_000005|Tipton proposed that they should send the child to Red Dog,--a distance of forty miles,--where female attention could be procured.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000010_000006|But the unlucky suggestion met with fierce and unanimous opposition.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000011_000001|Stumpy advanced nothing.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000011_000005|Stumpy was retained.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000011_000007|"Mind," said the treasurer, as he pressed a bag of gold dust into the expressman's hand, "the best that can be got,--lace, you know, and filigree work and frills,--damn the cost!"
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000012_000000|Strange to say, the child thrived.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000012_000001|Perhaps the invigorating climate of the mountain camp was compensation for material deficiencies.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000012_000002|Nature took the foundling to her broader breast.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000012_000005|"Me and that ass," he would say, "has been father and mother to him!
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000012_000006|Don't you," he would add, apostrophizing the helpless bundle before him, "never go back on us."
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000002|Gamblers and adventurers are generally superstitious, and Oakhurst one day declared that the baby had brought "the luck" to Roaring Camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000004|No allusion was made to the mother, and the father was unknown.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000006|Call him Luck, and start him fair." A day was accordingly set apart for the christening.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000008|The master of ceremonies was one "Boston," a noted wag, and the occasion seemed to promise the greatest facetiousness.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000009|This ingenious satirist had spent two days in preparing a burlesque of the Church service, with pointed local allusions.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000010|The choir was properly trained, and Sandy Tipton was to stand godfather.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000013|It's playing it pretty low down on this yer baby to ring in fun on him that he ain't goin' to understand.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000013_000018|The form of christening was perhaps even more ludicrous than the satirist had conceived; but strangely enough, nobody saw it and nobody laughed. "Tommy" was christened as seriously as he would have been under a Christian roof and cried and was comforted in as orthodox fashion.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000000|And so the work of regeneration began in Roaring Camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000001|Almost imperceptibly a change came over the settlement.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000002|The cabin assigned to "Tommy Luck"--or "The Luck," as he was more frequently called-first showed signs of improvement.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000003|It was kept scrupulously clean and whitewashed.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000007|The reflections of the latter on the appearance of Roaring Camp tended to produce stricter habits of personal cleanliness.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000008|Again Stumpy imposed a kind of quarantine upon those who aspired to the honor and privilege of holding The Luck.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000011|Nor were moral and social sanitary laws neglected.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000012|"Tommy," who was supposed to spend his whole existence in a persistent attempt to repose, must not be disturbed by noise.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000014_000018|An indistinct idea that this was pastoral happiness pervaded the camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000015_000005|It was wonderful how many treasures the woods and hillsides yielded that "would do for Tommy." Surrounded by playthings such as never child out of fairyland had before, it is to be hoped that Tommy was content.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000015_000008|He was extricated without a murmur.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000015_000009|I hesitate to record the many other instances of his sagacity, which rest, unfortunately, upon the statements of prejudiced friends.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000016_000000|Such was the golden summer of Roaring Camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000016_000001|They were "flush times," and the luck was with them.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000016_000003|The camp was jealous of its privileges and looked suspiciously on strangers.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000016_000006|The expressman-their only connecting link with the surrounding world-sometimes told wonderful stories of the camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000016_000008|They've got vines and flowers round their houses, and they wash themselves twice a day.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000016_000009|But they're mighty rough on strangers, and they worship an Ingin baby."
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000017_000000|With the prosperity of the camp came a desire for further improvement. It was proposed to build a hotel in the following spring, and to invite one or two decent families to reside there for the sake of The Luck, who might perhaps profit by female companionship.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000018_000000|The winter of eighteen fifty one will long be remembered in the foothills.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000018_000003|Red Dog had been twice under water, and Roaring Camp had been forewarned.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000018_000005|"It been here once and will be here again!" And that night the North Fork suddenly leaped over its banks and swept up the triangular valley of Roaring Camp.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000019_000000|In the confusion of rushing water, crashing trees, and crackling timber, and the darkness which seemed to flow with the water and blot out the fair valley, but little could be done to collect the scattered camp. When the morning broke, the cabin of Stumpy, nearest the river bank, was gone.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000019_000001|Higher up the gulch they found the body of its unlucky owner; but the pride, the hope, the joy, The Luck, of Roaring Camp had disappeared. They were returning with sad hearts when a shout from the bank recalled them.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000020_000000|It was a relief boat from down the river.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000020_000001|They had picked up, they said, a man and an infant, nearly exhausted, about two miles below.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000021_000000|It needed but a glance to show them Kentuck lying there, cruelly crushed and bruised, but still holding The Luck of Roaring Camp in his arms.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000021_000001|As they bent over the strangely assorted pair, they saw that the child was cold and pulseless.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000021_000004|"Yes, my man, and you are dying too." A smile lit the eyes of the expiring Kentuck.
train-other-500/1746/143015/1746_143015_000021_000005|"Dying!" he repeated; "he's a taking me with him.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000001_000000|'But surely, my dear sir,' said little Perker, as he stood in mr Pickwick's apartment on the morning after the trial, 'surely you don't really mean-really and seriously now, and irritation apart-that you won't pay these costs and damages?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000002_000000|'Not one halfpenny,' said mr Pickwick firmly; 'not one halfpenny.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000004_000000|'Sam,' said mr Pickwick, 'have the goodness to step downstairs.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000005_000000|'Cert'nly, sir,' replied mr Weller; and acting on mr Pickwick's gentle hint, Sam retired.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000006_000000|'No, Perker,' said mr Pickwick, with great seriousness of manner, 'my friends here have endeavoured to dissuade me from this determination, but without avail.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000006_000001|I shall employ myself as usual, until the opposite party have the power of issuing a legal process of execution against me; and if they are vile enough to avail themselves of it, and to arrest my person, I shall yield myself up with perfect cheerfulness and content of heart.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000006_000002|When can they do this?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000007_000000|'They can issue execution, my dear Sir, for the amount of the damages and taxed costs, next term,' replied Perker, 'just two months hence, my dear sir.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000008_000000|'Very good,' said mr Pickwick. 'Until that time, my dear fellow, let me hear no more of the matter.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000008_000001|And now,' continued mr Pickwick, looking round on his friends with a good humoured smile, and a sparkle in the eye which no spectacles could dim or conceal, 'the only question is, Where shall we go next?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000009_000000|mr Tupman and mr Snodgrass were too much affected by their friend's heroism to offer any reply.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000009_000001|mr Winkle had not yet sufficiently recovered the recollection of his evidence at the trial, to make any observation on any subject, so mr Pickwick paused in vain.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000010_000001|I think none of us have ever been there.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000013_000001|The horses in the stages that were going out, and had come through the city, were smoking so, that the outside passengers were invisible.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000013_000003|Watch guards and toasting forks were alike at a discount, and pencil cases and sponges were a drug in the market.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000014_000000|Leaving Sam Weller to rescue the luggage from the seven or eight porters who flung themselves savagely upon it, the moment the coach stopped, and finding that they were about twenty minutes too early, mr Pickwick and his friends went for shelter into the travellers' room-the last resource of human dejection.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000015_000000|The travellers' room at the White Horse Cellar is of course uncomfortable; it would be no travellers' room if it were not.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000015_000001|It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000015_000002|It is divided into boxes, for the solitary confinement of travellers, and is furnished with a clock, a looking glass, and a live waiter, which latter article is kept in a small kennel for washing glasses, in a corner of the apartment.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000016_000000|One of these boxes was occupied, on this particular occasion, by a stern eyed man of about five and forty, who had a bald and glossy forehead, with a good deal of black hair at the sides and back of his head, and large black whiskers.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000016_000001|He was buttoned up to the chin in a brown coat; and had a large sealskin travelling cap, and a greatcoat and cloak, lying on the seat beside him.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000017_000000|'Waiter,' said the gentleman with the whiskers.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000018_000000|'Sir?' replied a man with a dirty complexion, and a towel of the same, emerging from the kennel before mentioned.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000019_000000|'Some more toast.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000020_000000|'Yes, sir.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000021_000000|'Buttered toast, mind,' said the gentleman fiercely.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000022_000000|'Directly, sir,' replied the waiter.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000023_000000|The gentleman with the whiskers hummed a tune in the same manner as before, and pending the arrival of the toast, advanced to the front of the fire, and, taking his coat tails under his arms, looked at his boots and ruminated.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000024_000000|'I wonder whereabouts in Bath this coach puts up,' said mr Pickwick, mildly addressing mr Winkle.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000026_000000|'I made an observation to my friend, sir,' replied mr Pickwick, always ready to enter into conversation.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000026_000001|'I wondered at what house the Bath coach put up.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000027_000000|'I am, sir,' replied mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000028_000000|'And those other gentlemen?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000029_000000|'They are going also,' said mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000030_000000|'Not inside-I'll be damned if you're going inside,' said the strange man.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000031_000000|'Not all of us,' said mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000032_000000|'No, not all of you,' said the strange man emphatically.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000032_000003|I've paid my fare.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000032_000005|I know these things have been done.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000032_000007|Those who know me best, best know it; crush me!' Here the fierce gentleman rang the bell with great violence, and told the waiter he'd better bring the toast in five seconds, or he'd know the reason why.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000033_000000|'My good sir,' said mr Pickwick, 'you will allow me to observe that this is a very unnecessary display of excitement.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000033_000001|I have only taken places inside for two.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000034_000000|'I am glad to hear it,' said the fierce man.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000034_000002|There's my card.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000034_000003|Give me your acquaintance.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000035_000000|'With great pleasure, Sir,' replied mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000035_000001|'We are to be fellow travellers, and I hope we shall find each other's society mutually agreeable.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000036_000000|'I hope we shall,' said the fierce gentleman.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000036_000001|'I know we shall.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000036_000002|I like your looks; they please me.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000036_000003|Gentlemen, your hands and names.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000036_000004|Know me.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000038_000000|'She's a fine woman,' said mr Dowler. 'I am proud of her.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000038_000001|I have reason.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000039_000001|'You shall,' replied Dowler.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000039_000002|'She shall know you.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000039_000003|She shall esteem you.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000039_000004|I courted her under singular circumstances.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000039_000005|I won her through a rash vow.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000039_000007|I saw her; I loved her; I proposed; she refused me.--"You love another?"--"Spare my blushes."--"I know him."--"You do."--"Very good; if he remains here, I'll skin him."'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000040_000000|'Lord bless me!' exclaimed mr Pickwick involuntarily.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000041_000000|'Did you skin the gentleman, Sir?' inquired mr Winkle, with a very pale face.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000042_000000|'I wrote him a note, I said it was a painful thing.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000042_000001|And so it was.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000043_000000|'Certainly,' interposed mr Winkle.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000000|'I said I had pledged my word as a gentleman to skin him.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000001|My character was at stake.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000002|I had no alternative.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000003|As an officer in His Majesty's service, I was bound to skin him.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000004|I regretted the necessity, but it must be done.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000005|He was open to conviction.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000006|He saw that the rules of the service were imperative.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000007|He fled.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000008|I married her.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000009|Here's the coach.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000044_000010|That's her head.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000045_000001|mr Dowler paid his bill, and hurried out with his travelling cap, coat, and cloak; and mr Pickwick and his friends followed to secure their places.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000046_000000|'Well, Sam,' said mr Pickwick, 'what's the matter now?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000048_000000|'What?' inquired mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000049_000000|'This here, Sir,' rejoined Sam.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000050_000000|'How is that, Sam?' said mr Pickwick; 'aren't the names down on the way bill?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000052_000000|'Dear me,' exclaimed mr Pickwick, quite staggered by the coincidence; 'what a very extraordinary thing!'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000054_000000|'It's odd enough, certainly, Sam,' said mr Pickwick; 'but if we stand talking here, we shall lose our places.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000056_000000|'Done!' said mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000057_000000|'Certainly not,' replied mr Pickwick eagerly; 'not on any account.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000057_000001|Jump up to your seat directly.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000058_000002|Which was so long a time for him to remain taciturn, that the fact may be considered wholly unprecedented.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000000|Nothing worthy of special mention occurred during the journey.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000002|mr Pickwick and mr Winkle listened with great admiration, and at intervals conversed with mrs Dowler, who was a very agreeable and fascinating person.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000004|The outsides did as outsides always do.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000007|There was a third young man on the box who wished to be learned in cattle; and an old one behind, who was familiar with farming.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000009|And at seven o'clock p m.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000010|mr Pickwick and his friends, and mr Dowler and his wife, respectively retired to their private sitting rooms at the White Hart Hotel, opposite the Great Pump Room, Bath, where the waiters, from their costume, might be mistaken for Westminster boys, only they destroy the illusion by behaving themselves much better.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000011|Breakfast had scarcely been cleared away on the succeeding morning, when a waiter brought in mr Dowler's card, with a request to be allowed permission to introduce a friend.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000059_000012|mr Dowler at once followed up the delivery of the card, by bringing himself and the friend also.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000060_000000|The friend was a charming young man of not much more than fifty, dressed in a very bright blue coat with resplendent buttons, black trousers, and the thinnest possible pair of highly polished boots.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000060_000001|A gold eye glass was suspended from his neck by a short, broad, black ribbon; a gold snuff box was lightly clasped in his left hand; gold rings innumerable glittered on his fingers; and a large diamond pin set in gold glistened in his shirt frill.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000060_000002|He had a gold watch, and a gold curb chain with large gold seals; and he carried a pliant ebony cane with a gold top. His linen was of the very whitest, finest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curliest.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000060_000004|His features were contracted into a perpetual smile; and his teeth were in such perfect order that it was difficult at a small distance to tell the real from the false.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000061_000000|'mr Pickwick,' said mr Dowler; 'my friend, Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, m c; Bantam; mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000061_000001|Know each other.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000062_000001|This is indeed an acquisition.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000062_000003|It is long-very long, mr Pickwick, since you drank the waters.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000062_000004|It appears an age, mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000064_000000|'It is a very long time since I drank the waters, certainly,' replied mr Pickwick; 'for, to the best of my knowledge, I was never here before.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000065_000002|He! he!
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000065_000003|mr Pickwick, you are a wag.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000065_000004|Not bad, not bad.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000065_000005|Good, good.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000067_000000|'Oh, I see,' exclaimed the Grand Master, looking extremely pleased; 'yes, yes-good, good-better and better.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000067_000002|Yes; we know you, mr Pickwick; we know you.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000068_000001|Very remarkable!'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000069_000000|mr Pickwick acknowledged the compliment which the supposition implied, but had the self denial to repudiate it, notwithstanding; and taking advantage of a moment's silence on the part of the m c, begged to introduce his friends, mr Tupman, mr Winkle, and mr Snodgrass.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000069_000001|An introduction which overwhelmed the m c with delight and honour.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000070_000000|'Bantam,' said mr Dowler, 'mr
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000070_000001|Pickwick and his friends are strangers. They must put their names down.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000070_000002|Where's the book?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000072_000000|'I will,' rejoined Dowler.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000072_000001|'This is a long call.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000072_000002|It's time to go.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000072_000003|I shall be here again in an hour.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000072_000004|Come.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000073_000002|Good bye, good bye!' and protesting all the way downstairs that he was most satisfied, and most delighted, and most overpowered, and most flattered, Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, m c, stepped into a very elegant chariot that waited at the door, and rattled off.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000074_000000|At the appointed hour, mr Pickwick and his friends, escorted by Dowler, repaired to the Assembly Rooms, and wrote their names down in the book-an instance of condescension at which Angelo Bantam was even more overpowered than before.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000074_000001|Tickets of admission to that evening's assembly were to have been prepared for the whole party, but as they were not ready, mr Pickwick undertook, despite all the protestations to the contrary of Angelo Bantam, to send Sam for them at four o'clock in the afternoon, to the m c's house in Queen Square.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000074_000002|Having taken a short walk through the city, and arrived at the unanimous conclusion that Park Street was very much like the perpendicular streets a man sees in a dream, which he cannot get up for the life of him, they returned to the White Hart, and despatched Sam on the errand to which his master had pledged him.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000075_000001|Arriving at the number in Queen Square to which he had been directed, he left off whistling and gave a cheerful knock, which was instantaneously answered by a powdered headed footman in gorgeous livery, and of symmetrical stature.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000076_000000|'Is this here mr Bantam's, old feller?' inquired Sam Weller, nothing abashed by the blaze of splendour which burst upon his sight in the person of the powdered headed footman with the gorgeous livery.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000077_000000|'Why, young man?' was the haughty inquiry of the powdered headed footman.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000078_000001|And saying it, he very coolly walked into the hall, and sat down.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000079_000000|The powdered headed footman slammed the door very hard, and scowled very grandly; but both the slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam, who was regarding a mahogany umbrella stand with every outward token of critical approval.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000080_000000|Apparently his master's reception of the card had impressed the powdered headed footman in Sam's favour, for when he came back from delivering it, he smiled in a friendly manner, and said that the answer would be ready directly.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000081_000002|No hurry, six foot.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000081_000003|I've had my dinner.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000082_000000|'You dine early, sir,' said the powdered headed footman.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000083_000000|'I find I gets on better at supper when I does,' replied Sam.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000084_000000|'Have you been long in Bath, sir?' inquired the powdered headed footman. 'I have not had the pleasure of hearing of you before.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000086_000000|'Nice place, Sir,' said the powdered headed footman.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000087_000000|'Seems so,' observed Sam.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000088_000000|'Pleasant society, sir,' remarked the powdered headed footman.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000088_000001|'Very agreeable servants, sir.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000090_000001|'Very much so indeed.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000091_000000|'Not without sneezing,' replied Sam.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000092_000001|'It may be done by degrees, Sir.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000092_000002|Coffee is the best practice.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000092_000003|I carried coffee, Sir, for a long time.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000092_000004|It looks very like rappee, sir.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000094_000000|'There is the answer, sir,' said the powdered headed footman.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000094_000001|'I'm afraid you'll find it inconveniently large.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000095_000000|'Don't mention it,' said Sam, taking a letter with a small enclosure. 'It's just possible as exhausted natur' may manage to surwive it.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000096_000000|'I hope we shall meet again, Sir,' said the powdered headed footman, rubbing his hands, and following Sam out to the door step.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000097_000001|Consider what you owe to society, and don't let yourself be injured by too much work. For the sake o' your feller creeturs, keep yourself as quiet as you can; only think what a loss you would be!' With these pathetic words, Sam Weller departed.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000099_000000|Sam said nothing at all.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000099_000001|He winked, shook his head, smiled, winked again; and, with an expression of countenance which seemed to denote that he was greatly amused with something or other, walked merrily away.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000102_000000|Bath being full, the company, and the sixpences for tea, poured in, in shoals.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000103_000000|In the tea room, and hovering round the card tables, were a vast number of queer old ladies, and decrepit old gentlemen, discussing all the small talk and scandal of the day, with a relish and gusto which sufficiently bespoke the intensity of the pleasure they derived from the occupation.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000106_000000|'Stop in the tea room.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000106_000001|Take your sixpenn'orth.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000106_000002|Then lay on hot water, and call it tea.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000106_000003|Drink it,' said mr Dowler, in a loud voice, directing mr Pickwick, who advanced at the head of the little party, with mrs Dowler on his arm.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000107_000000|'My dear Sir, I am highly honoured.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000107_000002|mrs Dowler, you embellish the rooms.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000107_000003|I congratulate you on your feathers.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000108_000000|'Anybody here?' inquired Dowler suspiciously.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000109_000000|'Anybody!
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000109_000002|mr Pickwick, do you see the old lady in the gauze turban?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000110_000000|'The fat old lady?' inquired mr Pickwick innocently.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000112_000000|'Is it, indeed?' said mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000113_000000|'No less a person, I assure you,' said the Master of the Ceremonies. 'Hush.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000113_000001|Draw a little nearer, mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000114_000000|'The one with the long hair, and the particularly small forehead?' inquired mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000115_000000|'The same.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000116_000000|'You don't say so?' said mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000117_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000117_000001|You'll hear his voice in a moment, mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000117_000002|He'll speak to me.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000117_000003|The other gentleman with him, in the red under waistcoat and dark moustache, is the Honourable mr Crushton, his bosom friend.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000117_000004|How do you do, my Lord?'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000119_000000|'It IS very warm, my Lord,' replied the m c
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000120_000000|'Confounded,' assented the Honourable mr Crushton.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000125_000001|Glorwious-glorwious!'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000126_000000|At this anecdote his Lordship laughed very heartily, as did the listeners, of course.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000126_000001|Then, drawing his arm through that of the obsequious mr Crushton, Lord Mutanhed walked away.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000128_000000|'So I should think,' rejoined mr Pickwick drily.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000132_000000|'My friend mr Pickwick, my Lady, will be most happy, I am sure, remarkably so,' said the m c, taking the hint.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000132_000002|Colonel Wugsby-Miss Bolo.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000133_000000|mr Pickwick bowed to each of the ladies, and, finding escape impossible, cut.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000133_000001|mr Pickwick and Miss Bolo against Lady Snuphanuph and mrs Colonel Wugsby.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000133_000002|As the trump card was turned up, at the commencement of the second deal, two young ladies hurried into the room, and took their stations on either side of mrs Colonel Wugsby's chair, where they waited patiently until the hand was over.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000135_000000|'Good God, Jane, how can you think of such things?' replied the mamma indignantly.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000135_000001|'Haven't you repeatedly heard that his father has eight hundred a year, which dies with him?
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000135_000002|I am ashamed of you.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000135_000003|Not on any account.'
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000136_000000|'Ma,' whispered the other, who was much older than her sister, and very insipid and artificial, 'Lord Mutanhed has been introduced to me.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000137_000000|'You're a sweet pet, my love,' replied mrs Colonel Wugsby, tapping her daughter's cheek with her fan, 'and are always to be trusted.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000137_000001|He's immensely rich, my dear.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000138_000001|They were so desperately sharp, that they quite frightened him.
train-other-500/1750/135624/1750_135624_000138_000004|People came and looked on, too, which made mr Pickwick nervous.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000002_000000|THE next Sunday Adam joined the Poysers on their way out of church, hoping for an invitation to go home with them.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000002_000001|He had the letter in his pocket, and was anxious to have an opportunity of talking to Hetty alone.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000003_000000|"Come, you'll go on with us, Adam," mr Poyser said when they reached the turning; and as soon as they were in the fields Adam ventured to offer his arm to Hetty.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000004_000000|"Will you contrive for me to walk out in the garden a bit with you this evening, if it keeps fine, Hetty?
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000004_000001|I've something partic'lar to talk to you about."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000005_000000|Hetty said, "Very well." She was really as anxious as Adam was that she should have some private talk with him.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000005_000004|She felt a certain confidence that she could persuade him not to do anything she did not want him to do; she could perhaps even make him believe that she didn't care for Arthur; and as long as Adam thought there was any hope of her having him, he would do just what she liked, she knew.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000005_000005|Besides, she MUST go on seeming to encourage Adam, lest her uncle and aunt should be angry and suspect her of having some secret lover.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000006_000003|For if a country beauty in clumsy shoes be only shallow hearted enough, it is astonishing how closely her mental processes may resemble those of a lady in society and crinoline, who applies her refined intellect to the problem of committing indiscretions without compromising herself.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000006_000004|Perhaps the resemblance was not much the less because Hetty felt very unhappy all the while.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000006_000006|But the uncertainty of the future, the possibilities to which she could give no shape, began to press upon her like the invisible weight of air; she was alone on her little island of dreams, and all around her was the dark unknown water where Arthur was gone.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000006_000008|But occasionally, since Thursday evening, her dim anxieties had been almost lost behind the more definite fear that Adam might betray what he knew to her uncle and aunt, and his sudden proposition to talk with her alone had set her thoughts to work in a new way.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000007_000002|The remembrance of that scene had often been with him since Thursday evening: the sunlight through the apple tree boughs, the red bunches, Hetty's sweet blush.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000007_000003|It came importunately now, on this sad evening, with the low hanging clouds, but he tried to suppress it, lest some emotion should impel him to say more than was needful for Hetty's sake.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000009_000000|Adam's words relieved one of Hetty's fears, but they also carried a meaning which sickened her with a strengthened foreboding.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000009_000001|She was pale and trembling, and yet she would have angrily contradicted Adam, if she had dared to betray her feelings.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000009_000002|But she was silent.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000010_000002|If anybody besides me knew what I know about your meeting a gentleman and having fine presents from him, they'd speak light on you, and you'd lose your character.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000011_000000|Adam paused and looked at Hetty, who was plucking the leaves from the filbert trees and tearing them up in her hand.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000011_000001|Her little plans and preconcerted speeches had all forsaken her, like an ill learnt lesson, under the terrible agitation produced by Adam's words.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000011_000002|There was a cruel force in their calm certainty which threatened to grapple and crush her flimsy hopes and fancies.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000011_000003|She wanted to resist them-she wanted to throw them off with angry contradiction-but the determination to conceal what she felt still governed her.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000011_000004|It was nothing more than a blind prompting now, for she was unable to calculate the effect of her words.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000012_000000|"You've no right to say as I love him," she said, faintly, but impetuously, plucking another rough leaf and tearing it up.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000012_000002|Adam's heart yearned over her as he looked at her.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000013_000003|He's been trifling with you, and making a plaything of you, and caring nothing about you as a man ought to care."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000015_000002|But I know better nor that.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000015_000003|I can't help thinking as you've been trusting to his loving you well enough to marry you, for all he's a gentleman.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000015_000004|And that's why I must speak to you about it, Hetty, for fear you should be deceiving yourself.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000016_000000|"How do you know?
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000016_000001|How durst you say so?" said Hetty, pausing in her walk and trembling.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000016_000003|Her words and look were enough to determine Adam: he must give her the letter.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000017_000000|"Perhaps you can't believe me, Hetty, because you think too well of him-because you think he loves you better than he does.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000017_000002|I've not read the letter, but he says he's told you the truth in it.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000017_000003|But before I give you the letter, consider, Hetty, and don't let it take too much hold on you.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000018_000000|Hetty said nothing; she felt a revival of hope at the mention of a letter which Adam had not read.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000018_000001|There would be something quite different in it from what he thought.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000019_000000|Adam took out the letter, but he held it in his hand still, while he said, in a tone of tender entreaty, "Don't you bear me ill will, Hetty, because I'm the means o' bringing you this pain.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000019_000003|You're the same as ever to me, for I don't believe you've done any wrong knowingly."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000020_000000|Hetty had laid her hand on the letter, but Adam did not loose it till he had done speaking.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000021_000000|"You're in the right not to read it just yet," said Adam.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000021_000001|"Read it when you're by yourself.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000021_000002|But stay out a little bit longer, and let us call the children: you look so white and ill, your aunt may take notice of it."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000022_000000|Hetty heard the warning.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000022_000002|And she had the letter in her pocket: she was sure there was comfort in that letter in spite of Adam.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000022_000003|She ran to find Totty, and soon reappeared with recovered colour, leading Totty, who was making a sour face because she had been obliged to throw away an unripe apple that she had set her small teeth in.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000024_000000|What little child ever refused to be comforted by that glorious sense of being seized strongly and swung upward?
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000024_000001|I don't believe Ganymede cried when the eagle carried him away, and perhaps deposited him on Jove's shoulder at the end.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000025_000000|"Bless your sweet face, my pet," she said, the mother's strong love filling her keen eyes with mildness, as Totty leaned forward and put out her arms.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000000|After the ale had been drawn and her uncle's pipe lighted, there was Totty to be taken to bed, and brought down again in her night gown because she would cry instead of going to sleep.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000002|He lingered, because he wanted to see her safely through that evening, and he was delighted to find how much self command she showed.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000004|It was hard work for him to leave her-hard to think that he should not know for days how she was bearing her trouble.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000007|His exasperation at Hetty's suffering-and also at the sense that she was possibly thrust for ever out of his own reach-deafened him to any plea for the miscalled friend who had wrought this misery.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000008|Adam was a clear sighted, fair minded man-a fine fellow, indeed, morally as well as physically.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000009|But if Aristides the Just was ever in love and jealous, he was at that moment not perfectly magnanimous.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000026_000010|And I cannot pretend that Adam, in these painful days, felt nothing but righteous indignation and loving pity.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000027_000004|And yet there's no telling-she may turn round the other way, when she finds he's made light of her all the while.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000027_000006|But I must put up with it whichever way it is-I've only to be thankful it's been no worse.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000027_000008|There's many a good bit o' work done with a bad heart.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000027_000011|Since I've been spared that, I've no right to grumble.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000027_000012|When a man's got his limbs whole, he can bear a smart cut or two."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000028_000000|As Adam was getting over a stile at this point in his reflections, he perceived a man walking along the field before him.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000028_000001|He knew it was Seth, returning from an evening preaching, and made haste to overtake him.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000031_000000|They walked along together in silence two or three minutes.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000031_000002|That was a rare impulse in him, much as the brothers loved each other.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000031_000003|They hardly ever spoke of personal matters, or uttered more than an allusion to their family troubles.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000032_000000|"Seth, lad," Adam said, putting his arm on his brother's shoulder, "hast heard anything from Dinah Morris since she went away?"
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000033_000000|"Yes," said Seth.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000034_000002|I know we shall stick together to the last."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000036_000002|Well, Gyp, well, art glad to see me?"
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000038_000000|"Eh, my lads!
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000042_000000|"I've had my supper," said Adam.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000042_000001|"Here, Gyp," he added, taking some cold potato from the table and rubbing the rough grey head that looked up towards him.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000043_000001|I'm not like to forget him, I reckon, when he's all o' thee I can get sight on."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000044_000000|"Come, then, Gyp," said Adam, "we'll go to bed.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000044_000001|Good night, Mother; I'm very tired."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000045_000000|"What ails him, dost know?" Lisbeth said to Seth, when Adam was gone upstairs.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000045_000001|"He's like as if he was struck for death this day or two-he's so cast down.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000046_000001|Don't you take notice of it, because it hurts him when you do.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000048_000000|Adam, meanwhile, was reading Dinah's letter by the light of his dip candle.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000049_000001|I speak of this, because I would not have you think me slow to answer, or that I had small joy in your rejoicing at the worldly good that has befallen your brother Adam.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000050_000000|"My heart is knit to your aged mother since it was granted me to be near her in the day of trouble.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000050_000007|It is not the spirit only that tells me this-I see it in the whole work and word of the Gospel.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000050_000009|Is not the Man of Sorrows there in that crucified body wherewith he ascended?
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000050_000010|And is He not one with the Infinite Love itself-as our love is one with our sorrow?
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000051_000001|But surely that is a narrow thought.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000052_000000|"In my outward lot, which you ask about, I have all things and abound.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000053_000000|"I was thankful for your tidings about the dear friends at the Hall Farm, for though I sent them a letter, by my aunt's desire, after I came back from my sojourn among them, I have had no word from them.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000053_000004|There may be some leading here; but I wait to be taught.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000055_000000|"Farewell, dear brother-and yet not farewell.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000055_000001|For those children of God whom it has been granted to see each other face to face, and to hold communion together, and to feel the same spirit working in both can never more be sundered though the hills may lie between.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000056_000000|"DINAH MORRIS."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000057_000002|She asked me to kiss her twice when we parted."
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000058_000000|Adam had refolded the letter, and was sitting meditatively with his head resting on his arm at the head of the bed, when Seth came upstairs.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000059_000000|"Hast read the letter?" said Seth.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000060_000000|"Yes," said Adam.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000060_000003|It's wonderful how I remember her looks and her voice.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000062_000000|"Nay, but her feelings may grow different.
train-other-500/1750/142369/1750_142369_000064_000000|"She'll be none displeased," said Adam emphatically, getting up and throwing off his coat.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000005_000000|CHAPTER five-HINDRANCES
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000006_000001|These mail wagons were two wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn colored leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, the other for the traveller.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000006_000003|The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000007_000000|These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with but little corselet, drag a great train behind them.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000007_000001|But they travelled at a very rapid rate.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000008_000001|The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent shock.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000008_000002|The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no heed and pursued his road at full gallop.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000010_000000|The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000001|He could not have told.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000002|Why was he hastening? He did not know.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000003|He was driving at random, straight ahead.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000004|Whither? To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000005|He plunged into the night as into a gulf.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000006|Something urged him forward; something drew him on.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000007|No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one will understand it.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000011_000008|What man is there who has not entered, at least once in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000012_000000|However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, done nothing.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000012_000001|None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000013_000000|Why was he going to Arras?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000015_000000|That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000015_000001|He clung to this thought.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000016_000000|At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to Arras.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000017_000000|Nevertheless, he was going thither.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000018_000000|As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half an hour.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000019_000000|In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him draw back.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000020_000001|He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, but without seeing them.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000020_000002|The morning has its spectres as well as the evening.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000020_000003|He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality to the violent state of his soul.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000021_000000|Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people there within who are sleeping!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000022_000000|The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, produced a gentle, monotonous noise.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000022_000001|These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000023_000000|It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000023_000001|He halted in front of the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given some oats.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000024_000000|The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine legs, and solid hoofs-a homely, but a robust and healthy race.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000024_000001|The excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a drop of sweat on his loins.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000025_000000|He did not get out of the tilbury.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000025_000001|The stableman who brought the oats suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000026_000000|"Are you going far in this condition?" said the man.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000027_000000|He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:--
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000028_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000029_000000|"Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000030_000000|"Five leagues."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000031_000000|"Ah!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000032_000000|"Why do you say, 'Ah?'"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000033_000000|The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:--
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000034_000000|"Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly will not travel another quarter of a league."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000035_000000|He sprang out of the tilbury.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000036_000000|"What is that you say, my friend?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000037_000000|"I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000037_000001|Just see here!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000038_000000|The wheel really had suffered serious damage.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000038_000001|The shock administered by the mail wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the nut no longer held firm.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000039_000000|"My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000040_000000|"Certainly, sir."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000041_000000|"Do me the service to go and fetch him."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000042_000001|Hey! Master Bourgaillard!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000043_000000|Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the latter thinks a limb is broken.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000044_000000|"Can you repair this wheel immediately?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000045_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000046_000000|"When can I set out again?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000047_000000|"To morrow."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000048_000000|"To morrow!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000049_000000|"There is a long day's work on it.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000049_000001|Are you in a hurry, sir?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000050_000000|"In a very great hurry.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000050_000001|I must set out again in an hour at the latest."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000051_000000|"Impossible, sir."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000052_000000|"I will pay whatever you ask."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000053_000000|"Impossible."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000054_000000|"Well, in two hours, then."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000055_000000|"Impossible to day.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000055_000001|Two new spokes and a hub must be made.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000055_000002|Monsieur will not be able to start before to morrow morning."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000056_000000|"The matter cannot wait until to morrow.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000056_000001|What if you were to replace this wheel instead of repairing it?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000057_000000|"How so?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000058_000000|"You are a wheelwright?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000059_000000|"Certainly, sir."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000060_000000|"Have you not a wheel that you can sell me?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000060_000001|Then I could start again at once."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000061_000000|"A spare wheel?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000062_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000063_000000|"I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000063_000001|Two wheels make a pair.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000064_000000|"In that case, sell me a pair of wheels."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000065_000000|"Not all wheels fit all axles, sir."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000066_000000|"Try, nevertheless."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000067_000000|"It is useless, sir.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000067_000001|I have nothing to sell but cart wheels.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000068_000000|"Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000069_000000|The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a hired vehicle.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000069_000001|He shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000070_000000|"You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well!
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000070_000001|If I had one, I would not let it to you!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000071_000000|"Well, sell it to me, then."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000072_000000|"I have none."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000073_000000|"What! not even a spring cart?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000073_000001|I am not hard to please, as you see."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000074_000000|"We live in a poor country.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000074_000001|There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the thirty sixth of the month-never, that is to say.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000074_000002|I might let that to you, for what matters it to me?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000074_000003|But the bourgeois must not see it pass-and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000075_000000|"I will take two post horses."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000076_000000|"Where is Monsieur going?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000077_000000|"To Arras."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000078_000000|"And Monsieur wishes to reach there to day?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000079_000000|"Yes, of course."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000080_000000|"By taking two post horses?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000081_000000|"Why not?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000082_000000|"Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock to morrow morning?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000083_000000|"Certainly not."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000084_000000|"There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking post horses-Monsieur has his passport?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000085_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000086_000000|"Well, by taking post horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before to morrow.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000086_000001|We are on a cross road.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000086_000002|The relays are badly served, the horses are in the fields.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000086_000003|The season for ploughing is just beginning; heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from the post as well as elsewhere.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000086_000005|And, then, they drive at a walk. There are many hills to ascend."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000087_000000|"Come then, I will go on horseback.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000087_000001|Unharness the cabriolet.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000087_000002|Some one can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000088_000000|"Without doubt.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000088_000001|But will this horse bear the saddle?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000090_000000|"Then-"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000091_000000|"But I can surely hire a horse in the village?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000093_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000094_000000|"That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000094_000001|You would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000094_000002|But you will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a thousand."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000095_000000|"What am I to do?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000096_000000|"The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and set out on your journey to morrow."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000097_000000|"To morrow will be too late."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000098_000000|"The deuce!"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000099_000000|"Is there not a mail wagon which runs to Arras?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000099_000001|When will it pass?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000100_000001|Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the one coming."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000101_000000|"What!
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000101_000001|It will take you a day to mend this wheel?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000102_000000|"A day, and a good long one."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000103_000000|"If you set two men to work?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000104_000000|"If I set ten men to work."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000105_000000|"What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000106_000000|"That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is in a bad state, too."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000107_000000|"Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000108_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000109_000000|"Is there another wheelwright?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000110_000000|The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the head.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000111_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000112_000000|He felt an immense joy.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000113_000000|It was evident that Providence was intervening.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000113_000001|That it was it who had broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach himself.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000113_000003|It did not concern him further.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000113_000004|It was no longer his fault.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000113_000005|It was not the act of his own conscience, but the act of Providence.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000114_000000|He breathed again.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000114_000001|He breathed freely and to the full extent of his lungs for the first time since Javert's visit.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000115_000000|It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000116_000000|He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000117_000000|If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000117_000001|Any colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000117_000002|There are always people who ask nothing better than to become spectators.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000117_000003|While he was questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth halted around them.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000117_000004|After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran off.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000118_000000|At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. He was accompanied by an old woman.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000119_000000|"Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a cabriolet."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000120_000000|These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the perspiration trickle down his limbs.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000120_000001|He thought that he beheld the hand which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready to seize him once more.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000122_000000|"Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000123_000000|And he hastened to add:--
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000125_000000|"Certainly there is," said the old woman.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000126_000000|"Where?" interpolated the wheelwright.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000127_000000|"At my house," replied the old woman.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000128_000000|He shuddered.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000128_000001|The fatal hand had grasped him again.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000130_000000|"It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old stage wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted himself to it," etc, etc
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000131_000000|All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000132_000000|He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been travelling since morning.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000133_000000|At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not go whither he was now proceeding.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000133_000002|Why should he feel joy at turning back? After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000133_000003|No one was forcing him to it.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000134_000000|And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000135_000000|As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop!
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000135_000001|Stop!" He halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and convulsive element resembling hope.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000136_000000|It was the old woman's little boy.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000137_000000|"Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000138_000000|"Well?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000139_000000|"You have not given me anything."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000140_000000|He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost odious.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000141_000000|"Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000142_000000|He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000143_000000|He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000143_000001|He wanted to make it good. The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000143_000002|And then, it was no longer the tilbury.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000143_000003|The cart was very heavy, and in addition, there were many ascents.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000144_000000|He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint Pol; four hours for five leagues.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000146_000000|The inn keeper's wife came to the stable.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000147_000000|"Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000148_000000|"Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000149_000000|He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000150_000000|"Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000151_000000|A big Flemish servant maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000152_000000|"That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000153_000000|His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000155_000000|"Why is their bread so bitter here?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000156_000000|The carter was a German and did not understand him.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000157_000000|He returned to the stable and remained near the horse.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000159_000000|What did he do during this journey?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000159_000001|Of what was he thinking?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000159_000002|As in the morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000161_000000|"That horse is very much fatigued."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000162_000000|The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000163_000000|"Are you going to Arras?" added the road mender.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000164_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000166_000000|He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:--
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000168_000000|"Nearly seven good leagues."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000169_000000|"How is that?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000169_000001|the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000170_000000|"Ah!" returned the road mender, "so you don't know that the road is under repair?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000170_000001|You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; there is no way to proceed further."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000171_000000|"Really?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000172_000000|"You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is the road to Mont Saint Eloy which leads to Arras."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000173_000000|"But it is night, and I shall lose my way."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000174_000000|"You do not belong in these parts?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000175_000000|"no"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000176_000000|"And, besides, it is all cross roads; stop!
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000176_000001|sir," resumed the road mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice?
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000177_000000|"I must be there this evening."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000179_000000|He followed the road mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, with a good horse to aid; a stable boy, who called himself a postilion, was seated on the shaft of the cariole.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000180_000000|Still, he felt that he had lost time.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000181_000000|Night had fully come.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000182_000000|They turned into the cross road; the way became frightfully bad; the cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:--
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000184_000000|In one of the jolts, the whiffle tree broke.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000185_000000|"There's the whiffle tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early to morrow morning."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000186_000000|He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000187_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000188_000000|He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle tree of it.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000189_000000|This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a gallop.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000190_000000|The plain was gloomy; low hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror.
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000190_000001|How many things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night!
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000192_000000|The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:--
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000193_000000|"What time is it?"
train-other-500/1756/134819/1756_134819_000194_000000|"Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three leagues still to go."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000003_000000|But at that moment Fantine was joyous.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000005_000000|All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations which seemed to be calculations of distances.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000005_000001|Her eyes were hollow and staring.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000005_000002|They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up again and shone like stars.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000005_000003|It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the light of earth.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000006_000000|Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied invariably, "Well.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000007_000001|Physical suffering had completed the work of moral suffering.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000007_000002|This creature of five and twenty had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent shoulder blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was growing out sprinkled with gray.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000007_000003|Alas! how illness improvises old age!
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000008_000000|At mid day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook his head.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000009_000001|As exactness is kindness, he was exact.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000010_000000|About half past two, Fantine began to be restless.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000010_000001|In the course of twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, sister?"
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000011_000000|Three o'clock struck.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000011_000002|Then Fantine turned and looked at the door.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000012_000000|No one entered; the door did not open.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000013_000000|She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the door, motionless and apparently holding her breath.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000013_000001|The sister dared not speak to her.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000013_000002|The clock struck a quarter past three.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000013_000003|Fantine fell back on her pillow.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000014_000000|She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000015_000000|Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back again.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000016_000000|Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made no complaint, she blamed no one.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000016_000001|But she coughed in a melancholy way. One would have said that something dark was descending upon her.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000016_000002|She was livid and her lips were blue.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000016_000003|She smiled now and then.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000017_000000|Five o'clock struck.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000019_000000|In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000019_000001|She seemed to be endeavoring to recall something.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000019_000002|All at once she began to sing in a voice as feeble as a breath.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000019_000003|The nun listened.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000019_000004|This is what Fantine was singing:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000020_000000|"Lovely things we will buy As we stroll the faubourgs through. Roses are pink, corn flowers are blue, I love my love, corn flowers are blue.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000022_000000|"Lovely things we will buy As we stroll the faubourgs through.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000023_000000|"Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons decked.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000023_000002|'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it clothes for thy new born babe.'
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000024_000000|"Roses are pink and corn flowers are blue, I love my love, and corn flowers are blue.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000025_000000|"'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000025_000001|Make of it, soiling not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding sheet in which to bury me.'
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000026_000000|"Lovely things we will buy As we stroll the faubourgs through, Roses are pink, corn flowers are blue, I love my love, corn flowers are blue."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000027_000000|This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her child.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000027_000001|She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000027_000002|The sister, accustomed as she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000028_000000|The clock struck six.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000028_000001|Fantine did not seem to hear it.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000028_000002|She no longer seemed to pay attention to anything about her.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000029_000001|The girl returned in a few minutes.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000030_000000|Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000031_000001|That when he went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told the portress not to expect him that night.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000032_000001|All at once she cried:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000033_000001|Why are you talking so low?
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000033_000002|What is he doing?
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000033_000003|Why does he not come?"
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000034_000000|Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000035_000000|"Answer me!" cried Fantine.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000036_000000|The servant stammered:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000037_000000|"The portress told me that he could not come to day."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000038_000000|"Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000039_000000|Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and with an accent that was both imperious and heart rending:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000040_000000|"He cannot come?
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000040_000001|Why not?
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000040_000002|You know the reason.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000040_000003|You are whispering it to each other there.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000040_000004|I want to know it."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000041_000000|The servant maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy with the city council."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000042_000000|Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had proposed to her.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000043_000000|On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000043_000001|Her flush did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000044_000000|Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000045_000000|"Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000046_000000|Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000048_000000|She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000049_000000|"My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any more."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000050_000000|Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was pained to feel that perspiration.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000000|"He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000001|Do you remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, Soon, soon?
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000003|they will give back Cosette, for they have been paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they have received their pay.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000004|Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, sister!
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000005|I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will see!
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000006|If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had!
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000008|Stop! this morning I was looking at the dust on the chimney piece, and I had a sort of idea come across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000012|it is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least?
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000014|to morrow will be a festival day; to morrow morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has lace on it.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000051_000015|What a place that Montfermeil is!
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000052_000000|The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he will be here to morrow."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000053_000000|"To morrow!
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000053_000001|to morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to morrow! you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; I could dance if any one wished it."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000054_000000|A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000055_000000|"Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not talk any more."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000057_000000|And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to stare all about her with wide open eyes and a joyous air, and she said nothing more.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000058_000000|The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would fall into a doze.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000058_000001|Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000059_000000|She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little bed, will she not, sir?"
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000060_000000|The doctor thought that she was delirious.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000060_000001|She added:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000061_000000|"See! there is just room."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000063_000000|He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000064_000000|"You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good."
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000065_000000|"Give me your hand," said the doctor.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000066_000000|She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:--
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000068_000000|The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn out creature.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000070_000000|The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion.
train-other-500/1756/134820/1756_134820_000070_000001|As he took his departure, he said to the sister:--
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000001_000000|mr
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000001_000001|SYMONDS' HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000002_000000|(Pall Mall Gazette, november tenth eighteen eighty six.)
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000001|In his previous volumes mr Symonds had regarded the past rather as a picture to be painted than as a problem to be solved.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000002|In these two last volumes, however, he shows a clearer appreciation of the office of history.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000003|The art of the picturesque chronicler is completed by something like the science of the true historian, the critical spirit begins to manifest itself, and life is not treated as a mere spectacle, but the laws of its evolution and progress are investigated also.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000004|We admit that the desire to represent life at all costs under dramatic conditions still accompanies mr Symonds, and that he hardly realises that what seems romance to us was harsh reality to those who were engaged in it.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000005|Like most dramatists, also, he is more interested in the psychological exceptions than in the general rule.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000006|He has something of Shakespeare's sovereign contempt of the masses.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000008|Yet it is only fair to remember that the age itself was one of exaggerated individualism and that literature had not yet become a mouthpiece for the utterances of humanity.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000009|Men appreciated the aristocracy of intellect, but with the democracy of suffering they had no sympathy.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000003_000010|The cry from the brickfields had still to be heard.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000004_000000|Amongst the most interesting chapters of the book are those on the Inquisition, on Sarpi, the great champion of the severance of Church from State, and on Giordano Bruno.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000000|On the poetry of the sixteenth century mr Symonds has, of course, a great deal to say, and on such subjects he always writes with ease, grace, and delicacy of perception.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000001|We admit that we weary sometimes of the continual application to literature of epithets appropriate to plastic and pictorial art.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000002|The conception of the unity of the arts is certainly of great value, but in the present condition of criticism it seems to us that it would be more useful to emphasise the fact that each art has its separate method of expression.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000003|The essay on Tasso, however, is delightful reading, and the position the poet holds towards modern music and modern sentiment is analysed with much subtlety.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000004|The essay on Marino also is full of interest.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000005|We have often wondered whether those who talk so glibly of Euphuism and Marinism in literature have ever read either Euphues or the Adone.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000005_000007|Even those conceits that mr Symonds feels bound to censure have something charming about them.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000006_000000|From the poets mr Symonds passes to the painters: not those great artists of Florence and Venice of whom he has already written, but the Eclectics of Bologna, the Naturalists of Naples and Rome.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000006_000002|The one on music is much better, and mr Symonds gives us a most interesting description of the gradual steps by which the Italian genius passed from poetry and painting to melody and song, till the whole of Europe thrilled with the marvel and mystery of this new language of the soul.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000006_000003|Some small details should perhaps be noticed.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000007_000000|These, however, are minor points.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000007_000001|mr Symonds is to be warmly congratulated on the completion of his history of the Renaissance in Italy.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000007_000002|It is a most wonderful monument of literary labour, and its value to the student of Humanism cannot be doubted.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000007_000003|We have often had occasion to differ from mr Symonds on questions of detail, and we have more than once felt it our duty to protest against the rhetoric and over emphasis of his style, but we fully recognise the importance of his work and the impetus he has given to the study of one of the vital periods of the world's history.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000008_000000|Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction.
train-other-500/1757/128103/1757_128103_000008_000001|In Two Parts.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000000_000000|Lady Bellairs's Gossips with Girls and Maidens contains some very interesting essays, and a quite extraordinary amount of useful information on all matters connected with the mental and physical training of women.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000000_000002|Nor does she confine herself to those broad generalisations on morals, which are so easy to make, so difficult to apply.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000001_000000|Here are some specimens of 'What to Avoid':--
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000003_000001|The exclamation 'Bother!' also, though certainly lacking in beauty, might, I think, be permitted under circumstances of extreme aggravation, such as, for instance, the rejection of a manuscript by the editor of a magazine; but in all other respects the list seems to be quite excellent.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000003_000002|As for 'What to Cultivate,' nothing could be better than the following:
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000005_000000|I cannot help thinking that the last aphorism aims at too high a standard.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000005_000002|However, it is only fair to add that Lady Bellairs recognises the importance of self development quite as much as the importance of self denial; and there is a great deal of sound sense in everything that she says about the gradual growth and formation of character.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000005_000003|Indeed, those who have not read Aristotle upon this point might with advantage read Lady Bellairs.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000000|Miss Constance Naden's little volume, A Modern Apostle and Other Poems, shows both culture and courage-culture in its use of language, courage in its selection of subject matter.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000001|The modern apostle of whom Miss Naden sings is a young clergyman who preaches Pantheistic Socialism in the Free Church of some provincial manufacturing town, converts everybody, except the woman whom he loves, and is killed in a street riot.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000002|The story is exceedingly powerful, but seems more suitable for prose than for verse.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000003|It is right that a poet should be full of the spirit of his age, but the external forms of modern life are hardly, as yet, expressive of that spirit.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000004|They are truths of fact, not truths of the imagination, and though they may give the poet an opportunity for realism, they often rob the poem of the reality that is so essential to it.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000005|Art, however, is a matter of result, not of theory, and if the fruit is pleasant, we should not quarrel about the tree.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000006|Miss Naden's work is distinguished by rich imagery, fine colour, and sweet music, and these are things for which we should be grateful, wherever we find them.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000007|In point of mere technical skill, her longer poems are the best; but some of the shorter poems are very fascinating.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000006_000008|This, for instance, is pretty:
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000007_000000|The copyist group was gathered round A time worn fresco, world renowned, Whose central glory once had been The face of Christ, the Nazarene.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000008_000000|And every copyist of the crowd With his own soul that face endowed, Gentle, severe, majestic, mean; But which was Christ, the Nazarene?
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000010_000000|And this sonnet is full of suggestion:
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000011_000000|The wine flushed monarch slept, but in his ear An angel breathed-'Repent, or choose the flame Quenchless.' In dread he woke, but not in shame, Deep musing-'Sin I love, yet hell I fear.'
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000013_000001|My heaven shall be thy hell.'
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000014_000000|Miss Constance Naden deserves a high place among our living poetesses, and this, as mrs Sharp has shown lately in her volume, entitled Women's Voices, is no mean distinction.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000015_000000|Phyllis Browne's Life of mrs Somerville forms part of a very interesting little series, called 'The World's Workers'--a collection of short biographies catholic enough to include personalities so widely different as Turner and Richard Cobden, Handel and Sir titus Salt, Robert Stephenson and Florence Nightingale, and yet possessing a certain definite aim.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000016_000000|Nor did her scientific knowledge ever warp or dull the tenderness and humanity of her nature.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000016_000001|For birds and animals she had always a great love.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000017_000000|On the whole, Phyllis Browne's book is very pleasant reading.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000017_000001|Its only fault is that it is far too short, and this is a fault so rare in modern literature that it almost amounts to a distinction.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000017_000002|However, Phyllis Browne has managed to crowd into the narrow limits at her disposal a great many interesting anecdotes.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000017_000004|And this story about the Waverley Novels may possibly be new to some of my readers:
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000019_000000|During the time mrs Somerville was visiting Abbotsford the Waverley Novels were appearing, and were creating a great sensation; yet even Scott's intimate friends did not know that he was the author; he enjoyed keeping the affair a mystery.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000019_000001|But little Woronzow discovered what he was about.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000020_000000|Phyllis Browne remarks that this incident shows 'that persons who want to keep a secret ought to be very careful when children are about'; but the story seems to me to be far too charming to require any moral of the kind.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000000|Bound up in the same volume is a Life of Miss Mary Carpenter, also written by Phyllis Browne.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000001|Miss Carpenter does not seem to me to have the charm and fascination of mrs Somerville.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000002|There is always something about her that is formal, limited, and precise.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000003|When she was about two years old she insisted on being called 'Doctor Carpenter' in the nursery; at the age of twelve she is described by a friend as a sedate little girl, who always spoke like a book; and before she entered on her educational schemes she wrote down a solemn dedication of herself to the service of humanity.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000004|However, she was one of the practical, hardworking saints of the nineteenth century, and it is no doubt quite right that the saints should take themselves very seriously.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000005|It is only fair also to remember that her work of rescue and reformation was carried on under great difficulties.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000021_000006|Here, for instance, is the picture Miss Cobbe gives us of one of the Bristol night schools:
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000023_000000|Her own account is somewhat pleasanter, and shows that 'the troop of bisons in hob nailed shoes' was not always so barbarous.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000024_000000|I had taken to my class on the preceding week some specimens of ferns neatly gummed on white paper. . . .
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000024_000001|This time I took a piece of coal shale, with impressions of ferns, to show them. . . .
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000024_000002|I told each to examine the specimen, and tell me what he thought it was.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000024_000003|W. gave so bright a smile that I saw he knew; none of the others could tell; he said they were ferns, like what I showed them last week, but he thought they were chiselled on the stone.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000024_000004|Their surprise and pleasure were great when I explained the matter to them.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000025_000001|One asked if Egypt existed now, and if people lived in it.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000025_000002|When I told them that buildings now stood which had been erected about the time of Joseph, one said that it was impossible, as they must have fallen down ere this.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000025_000003|I showed them the form of a pyramid, and they were satisfied.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000026_000000|The story of Macbeth impressed them very much.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000026_000001|They knew the name of Shakespeare, having seen his name over a public house.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000028_000000|Another boy was asked, after a Sunday evening lecture on 'Thankfulness,' what pleasure he enjoyed most in the course of a year.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000028_000001|He replied candidly, 'Cock fightin', ma'am; there's a pit up by the "Black Boy" as is worth anythink in Brissel.'
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000029_000000|There is something a little pathetic in the attempt to civilise the rough street boy by means of the refining influence of ferns and fossils, and it is difficult to help feeling that Miss Carpenter rather overestimated the value of elementary education.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000029_000001|The poor are not to be fed upon facts.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000029_000002|Even Shakespeare and the Pyramids are not sufficient; nor is there much use in giving them the results of culture, unless we also give them those conditions under which culture can be realised.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000029_000003|In these cold, crowded cities of the North, the proper basis for morals, using the word in its wide Hellenic signification, is to be found in architecture, not in books.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000030_000000|Still, it would be ungenerous not to recognise that Mary Carpenter gave to the children of the poor not merely her learning, but her love.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000030_000002|Indeed, she rather inclined to Bacon's opinion, that unmarried people do the best public work.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000030_000003|'It is quite striking,' she says in one of her letters, 'to observe how much the useful power and influence of woman has developed of late years.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000030_000004|Unattached ladies, such as widows and unmarried women, have quite ample work to do in the world for the good of others to absorb all their powers.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000030_000005|Wives and mothers have a very noble work given them by God, and want no more.' The whole passage is extremely interesting, and the phrase 'unattached ladies' is quite delightful, and reminds one of Charles Lamb.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000000|Ismay's Children is by the clever authoress of that wonderful little story Flitters, Tatters, and the Counsellor, a story which delighted the realists by its truth, fascinated mr Ruskin by its beauty, and remains to the present day the most perfect picture of street arab life in all English prose fiction.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000001|The scene of the novel is laid in the south of Ireland, and the plot is extremely dramatic and ingenious.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000002|Godfrey Mauleverer, a reckless young Irishman, runs away with Ismay D'Arcy, a pretty, penniless governess, and is privately married to her in Scotland. Some time after the birth of her third child, Ismay died, and her husband, who had never made his marriage public, nor taken any pains to establish the legitimacy of his children, is drowned while yachting off the coast of France.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000004|But a sudden stroke of paralysis deprives her of her memory, and she forgets the name of the little Scotch village in which Ismay's informal marriage took place.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000005|So Tighe O'Malley holds Barrettstown, and Ismay's children live in an old mill close to the great park of which they are the rightful heirs.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000006|The boy, who is called Godfrey after his father, is a fascinating study, with his swarthy foreign beauty, his fierce moods of love and hate, his passionate pride, and his passionate tenderness.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000007|The account of his midnight ride to warn his enemy of an impending attack of Moonlighters is most powerful and spirited; and it is pleasant to meet in modern fiction a character that has all the fine inconsistencies of life, and is neither too fantastic an exception to be true, nor too ordinary a type to be common.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000008|Excellent also, in its direct simplicity of rendering, is the picture of Miss Juliet D'Arcy; and the scene in which, at the moment of her death, the old woman's memory returns to her is quite admirable, both in conception and in treatment.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000011|There is a whole pell mell of men and women, a complete panorama of provincial life, an absolutely faithful picture of the peasant in his own home.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000031_000013|I fear, however, that few people read Miss Edgeworth nowadays, though both Scott and Tourgenieff acknowledged their indebtedness to her novels, and her style is always admirable in its clearness and precision.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000032_000005|Indeed, instances of absolute mutilation and misery are so common in the past that it is unnecessary to multiply them; but it is really sad to think that in our own day a civilised woman can hang on to a cross bar while her maid laces her waist into a fifteen inch circle.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000032_000006|To begin with, the waist is not a circle at all, but an oval; nor can there be any greater error than to imagine that an unnaturally small waist gives an air of grace, or even of slightness; to the whole figure.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000032_000010|This style is not by any means perfect, but at least it has the merit of indicating the proper position of the waist.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000032_000011|I feel quite sure that all English women of culture and position will set their faces against such stupid and dangerous practices as are related by Miss Leffler Arnim.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000033_000001|Fashion is such an essential part of the mundus muliebris of our day, that it seems to me absolutely necessary that its growth, development, and phases should be duly chronicled; and the historical and practical value of such a record depends entirely upon its perfect fidelity to fact.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000033_000002|Besides, it is quite easy for the children of light to adapt almost any fashionable form of dress to the requirements of utility and the demands of good taste.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000033_000003|The Sarah Bernhardt tea gown, for instance, figured in the present issue, has many good points about it, and the gigantic dress improver does not appear to me to be really essential to the mode; and though the Postillion costume of the fancy dress ball is absolutely detestable in its silliness and vulgarity, the so-called Late Georgian costume in the same plate is rather pleasing.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000033_000004|I must, however, protest against the idea that to chronicle the development of Fashion implies any approval of the particular forms that Fashion may adopt.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000034_000000|mrs Craik's article on the condition of the English stage will, I feel sure, be read with great interest by all who are watching the development of dramatic art in this country.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000034_000001|It was the last thing written by the author of john Halifax, Gentleman, and reached me only a few days before her lamented death.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000034_000002|That the state of things is such as mrs Craik describes, few will be inclined to deny; though, for my own part, I must acknowledge that I see more vulgarity than vice in the tendencies of the modern stage; nor do I think it possible to elevate dramatic art by limiting its subject matter.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000034_000005|It may be questioned, also, whether the consistent reward of virtue and punishment of wickedness be really the healthiest ideal for an art that claims to mirror nature.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000034_000006|However, it is impossible not to recognise the fine feeling that actuates every line of mrs Craik's article; and though one may venture to disagree with the proposed method, one cannot but sympathise with the purity and delicacy of the thought, and the high nobility of the aim.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000036_000000|I am glad to see that Miss Ramsay's brilliant success at Cambridge is not destined to remain an isolated instance of what women can do in intellectual competitions with men.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000036_000002|It is pleasant to be able to chronicle an item of Irish news that has nothing to do with the violence of party politics or party feeling, and that shows how worthy women are of that higher culture and education which has been so tardily and, in some instances, so grudgingly granted to them.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000037_000000|The Empress of Japan has been ordering a whole wardrobe of fashionable dresses in Paris for her own use and the use of her ladies in waiting. The chrysanthemum (the imperial flower of Japan) has suggested the tints of most of the Empress's own gowns, and in accordance with the colour schemes of other flowers the rest of the costumes have been designed.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000037_000002|I trust that, even if the Empress rejects the sensible arguments of this important Society, her own artistic feeling may induce her to reconsider her resolution to abandon Eastern for Western costume.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000039_000000|(one) Gossips with Girls and Maidens Betrothed and Free.
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000039_000001|By Lady Bellairs. (Blackwood and Sons.)
train-other-500/1757/128127/1757_128127_000041_000000|(three) mrs Somerville and Mary Carpenter.
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train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000005_000000|"Whatever it was," said Eustace to Saunders on the following morning, "I propose that we drop the subject.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000005_000001|There's nothing to keep us here for the next ten days.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000005_000002|We'll motor up to the Lakes and get some climbing."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000006_000000|"And see nobody all day, and sit bored to death with each other every night.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000006_000001|Not for me thanks.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000006_000002|Why not run up to town?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000006_000003|Run's the exact word in this case, isn't it?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000006_000004|We're both in such a blessed funk.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000006_000005|Pull yourself together Eustace, and let's have another look at the hand."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000007_000000|"As you like," said Eustace; "there's the key." They went into the library and opened the desk.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000007_000001|The box was as they had left it on the previous night.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000008_000000|"What are you waiting for?" asked Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000009_000000|"I am waiting for you to volunteer to open the lid.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000009_000001|However, since you seem to funk it, allow me.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000010_000000|"Cold?" asked Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000011_000000|"Tepid.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000011_000001|A bit below blood heat by the feel.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000011_000002|Soft and supple too.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000011_000003|If it's the embalming, it's a sort of embalming I've never seen before.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000011_000004|Is it your uncle's hand?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000000|"Oh, yes, it's his all right," said Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000001|"I should know those long thin fingers anywhere.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000002|Put it back in the box, Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000003|Never mind about the screws.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000004|I'll lock the desk, so that there'll be no chance of its getting out.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000005|We'll compromise by motoring up to town for a week.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000012_000006|If we get off soon after lunch we ought to be at Grantham or Stamford by night."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000013_000000|"Right," said Saunders; "and to morrow-Oh, well, by to morrow we shall have forgotten all about this beastly thing."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000014_000000|If when the morrow came they had not forgotten, it was certainly true that at the end of the week they were able to tell a very vivid ghost story at the little supper Eustace gave on Hallow E'en.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000015_000001|How perfectly awful!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000017_000001|"It was a long thin hand, you know, and it gripped me just like that."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000018_000001|Don't!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000018_000002|How perfectly horrid!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000018_000003|Now tell us another one, do.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000018_000004|Only a really creepy one, please!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000019_000000|"Here's a pretty mess!" said Eustace on the following day as he threw a letter across the table to Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000019_000001|"It's your affair, though.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000019_000002|mrs Merrit, if I understand it, gives a month's notice."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000020_000000|"Oh, that's quite absurd on mrs Merrit's part," Saunders replied.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000020_000001|"She doesn't know what she's talking about.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000020_000002|Let's see what she says."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000021_000000|"DEAR SIR," he read, "this is to let you know that I must give you a month's notice as from Tuesday the thirteenth.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000022_000000|"Yours faithfully, ELIZABETH MERRIT.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000023_000000|"p s--I should be obliged if you would give my respects to mr Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000023_000001|I hope that he won't run no risks with his cold."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000024_000000|"Saunders," said Eustace, "you've always had a wonderful way with you in dealing with servants.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000024_000001|You mustn't let poor old Merrit go."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000025_000000|"Of course she shan't go," said Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000025_000001|"She's probably only angling for a rise in salary.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000025_000002|I'll write to her this morning."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000026_000000|"No; there's nothing like a personal interview.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000026_000001|We've had enough of town.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000026_000003|Don't forget that it's got on to the chest, and will require weeks of feeding up and nursing."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000027_000000|"All right.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000027_000001|I think I can manage mrs Merrit."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000028_000000|But mrs Merrit was more obstinate than he had thought.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000028_000001|She was very sorry to hear of mr Saunders's cold, and how he lay awake all night in London coughing; very sorry indeed.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000028_000002|She'd change his room for him gladly, and get the south room aired.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000028_000003|And wouldn't he have a basin of hot bread and milk last thing at night?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000028_000004|But she was afraid that she would have to leave at the end of the month.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000029_000000|"Try her with an increase of salary," was the advice of Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000030_000000|It was no use.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000030_000001|mrs Merrit was obdurate, though she knew of a mrs Handyside who had been housekeeper to Lord Gargrave, who might be glad to come at the salary mentioned.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000031_000000|"What's the matter with the servants, Morton?" asked Eustace that evening when he brought the coffee into the library.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000032_000000|"If you please, sir, I was going to mention it myself.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000032_000001|I have a confession to make, sir.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000032_000002|When I found your note asking me to open that desk and take out the box with the rat, I broke the lock as you told me, and was glad to do it, because I could hear the animal in the box making a great noise, and I thought it wanted food.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000032_000003|So I took out the box, sir, and got a cage, and was going to transfer it, when the animal got away."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000033_000000|"What in the world are you talking about?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000033_000001|I never wrote any such note."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000034_000001|I have it in my pocket now."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000035_000001|It was written in pencil, and began somewhat abruptly.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000036_000000|"Get a hammer, Morton," he read, "or some other tool, and break open the lock in the old desk in the library.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000036_000001|Take out the box that is inside. You need not do anything else.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000036_000002|The lid is already open.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000036_000003|Eustace Borlsover."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000037_000000|"And you opened the desk?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000038_000000|"Yes, sir; and as I was getting the cage ready the animal hopped out."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000039_000000|"What animal?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000040_000000|"The animal inside the box, sir."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000041_000000|"What did it look like?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000042_000000|"Well, sir, I couldn't tell you," said Morton nervously; "my back was turned, and it was halfway down the room when I looked up."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000043_000000|"What was its color?" asked Saunders; "black?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000044_000000|"Oh, no, sir, a grayish white.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000045_000000|"What did you do then?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000046_000000|"I tried to catch it, but it was no use.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000046_000001|So I set the rat traps and kept the library shut.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000046_000002|Then that girl Emma Laidlaw left the door open when she was cleaning, and I think it must have escaped."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000047_000000|"And you think it was the animal that's been frightening the maids?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000048_000003|And then Parfit was washing up the dishes in the scullery.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000048_000004|She wasn't thinking about anything in particular.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000048_000005|It was close on dusk.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000048_000006|She took her hands out of the water and was drying them absent minded like on the roller towel, when she found that she was drying someone else's hand as well, only colder than hers."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000051_000000|"You don't believe all this?" said Eustace, turning suddenly towards the butler.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000052_000001|Oh, no, sir!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000052_000002|I've not seen anything."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000053_000000|"Nor heard anything?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000054_000000|"Well, sir, if you must know, the bells do ring at odd times, and there's nobody there when we go; and when we go round to draw the blinds of a night, as often as not somebody's been there before us.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000054_000001|But as I says to mrs Merrit, a young monkey might do wonderful things, and we all know that mr Borlsover has had some strange animals about the place."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000055_000000|"Very well, Morton, that will do."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000056_000000|"What do you make of it?" asked Saunders when they were alone.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000056_000001|"I mean of the letter he said you wrote."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000057_000000|"Oh, that's simple enough," said Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000057_000002|I stopped using that years ago, but there were a few odd sheets and envelopes left in the old desk.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000057_000003|We never fastened up the lid of the box before locking it in.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000057_000004|The hand got out, found a pencil, wrote this note, and shoved it through a crack on to the floor where Morton found it. That's plain as daylight."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000058_000000|"But the hand couldn't write?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000059_000000|"Couldn't it?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000059_000001|You've not seen it do the things I've seen," and he told Saunders more of what had happened at Eastbourne.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000060_000000|"Well," said Saunders, "in that case we have at least an explanation of the legacy.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000060_000001|It was the hand which wrote unknown to your uncle that letter to your solicitor, bequeathing itself to you.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000061_000000|"Then if it's not my uncle, what is it?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000062_000000|"I suppose some people might say that a disembodied spirit had got your uncle to educate and prepare a little body for it.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000063_000000|"Well, what are we to do?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000064_000001|If we can't do that, we shall have to wait till the bally clockwork runs down.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000064_000002|After all, if it's flesh and blood, it can't live for ever."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000065_000000|For two days nothing happened.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000065_000001|Then Saunders saw it sliding down the banister in the hall.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000065_000002|He was taken unawares, and lost a full second before he started in pursuit, only to find that the thing had escaped him.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000065_000004|The fingers crept over the page, feeling the print as if it were reading; but before he had time to get up from his seat, it had taken the alarm and was pulling itself up the curtains.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000066_000000|"I know what I'll do," he said.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000066_000001|"If I only get it into the open I'll set the dogs on to it."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000067_000000|He spoke to Saunders of the suggestion.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000068_000000|"It's jolly good idea," he said; "only we won't wait till we find it out of doors.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000068_000001|We'll get the dogs.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000068_000002|There are the two terriers and the under keeper's Irish mongrel that's on to rats like a flash.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000068_000004|Even false security is better than no security at all.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000069_000000|For a fortnight nothing happened.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000069_000001|Then the hand was caught, not by the dogs, but by mrs Merrit's gray parrot.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000069_000003|When once at liberty peter would show no inclination to return, and would often be about the house for days.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000069_000004|Now, after six consecutive weeks of captivity, peter had again discovered a new means of unloosing his bolts and was at large, exploring the tapestried forests of the curtains and singing songs in praise of liberty from cornice and picture rail.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000070_000000|"It's no use your trying to catch him," said Eustace to mrs Merrit, as she came into the study one afternoon towards dusk with a step ladder. "You'd much better leave peter alone.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000070_000001|Starve him into surrender, mrs Merrit, and don't leave bananas and seed about for him to peck at when he fancies he's hungry.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000070_000002|You're far too softhearted."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000071_000000|"Well, sir, I see he's right out of reach now on that picture rail, so if you wouldn't mind closing the door, sir, when you leave the room, I'll bring his cage in to night and put some meat inside it.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000071_000001|He's that fond of meat, though it does make him pull out his feathers to suck the quills.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000072_000000|"Never mind, mrs Merrit," said Eustace, who was busy writing.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000072_000001|"That will do; I'll keep an eye on the bird."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000073_000000|There was silence in the room, unbroken but for the continuous whisper of his pen.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000074_000000|"Scratch poor peter," said the bird.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000075_000000|"Be quiet, you beastly bird!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000077_000001|Eustace ran to the bell and pressed it hard; then across to the window, which he closed with a bang.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000077_000003|There was a shrill scream from peter as he fluttered across the room, wheeling round in circles that ever descended, borne down under the weight that clung to him.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000077_000004|The bird dropped at last quite suddenly, and Eustace saw fingers and feathers rolled into an inextricable mass on the floor.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000077_000005|The struggle abruptly ceased as finger and thumb squeezed the neck; the bird's eyes rolled up to show the whites, and there was a faint, half choked gurgle.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000078_000001|"Tell him I want him immediately."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000079_000000|Then he went with the hand to the fire.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000079_000002|He noticed with disgust that the nails had grown long and discolored.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000080_000000|"I'll burn the beastly thing," he said.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000080_000001|But he could not burn it.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000080_000002|He tried to throw it into the flames, but his own hands, as if restrained by some old primitive feeling, would not let him.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000080_000003|And so Saunders found him pale and irresolute, with the hand still clasped tightly in his fingers.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000081_000000|"I've got it at last," he said in a tone of triumph.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000082_000000|"Good; let's have a look at it."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000083_000000|"Not when it's loose.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000083_000001|Get me some nails and a hammer and a board of some sort."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000084_000000|"Can you hold it all right?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000085_000000|"Yes, the thing's quite limp; tired out with throttling poor old peter, I should say."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000087_000000|"Drive a nail through it first, so that it can't get away; then we can take our time over examining it."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000088_000000|"Do it yourself," said Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000088_000001|"I don't mind helping you with guinea pigs occasionally when there's something to be learned; partly because I don't fear a guinea pig's revenge.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000088_000002|This thing's different."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000089_000000|"All right, you miserable skunk.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000089_000001|I won't forget the way you've stood by me."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000092_000000|"Well," said Saunders, "you've done it now.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000092_000001|I'll leave you to examine it."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000093_000000|"Don't go, in heaven's name.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000093_000002|Shove a cloth over it!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000093_000005|Chuck the other things out.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000094_000000|"We'll keep it there till it dies," he said.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000095_000000|mrs Merrit departed at the end of the month.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000095_000001|Her successor certainly was more successful in the management of the servants.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000095_000002|Early in her rule she declared that she would stand no nonsense, and gossip soon withered and died.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000095_000003|Eustace Borlsover went back to his old way of life.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000095_000004|Old habits crept over and covered his new experience.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000095_000005|He was, if anything, less morose, and showed a greater inclination to take his natural part in country society.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000096_000001|"Well, I'm in no hurry for such an event.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000096_000002|I know Eustace far too well for the future mrs Borlsover to like me It will be the same old story again: a long friendship slowly made-marriage-and a long friendship quickly forgotten."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000098_000000|But Eustace Borlsover did not follow the advice of his uncle and marry. He was too fond of old slippers and tobacco.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000098_000001|The cooking, too, under mrs Handyside's management was excellent, and she seemed, too, to have a heaven sent faculty in knowing when to stop dusting.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000099_000000|Little by little the old life resumed its old power.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000099_000001|Then came the burglary.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000099_000003|It was really little more than an attempt, for they only succeeded in carrying away a few pieces of plate from the pantry.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000099_000004|The safe in the study was certainly found open and empty, but, as mr Borlsover informed the police inspector, he had kept nothing of value in it during the last six months.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000100_000000|"Then you're lucky in getting off so easily, sir," the man replied.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000100_000001|"By the way they have gone about their business, I should say they were experienced cracksmen.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000100_000002|They must have caught the alarm when they were just beginning their evening's work."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000101_000000|"Yes," said Eustace, "I suppose I am lucky."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000102_000000|"I've no doubt," said the inspector, "that we shall be able to trace the men.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000102_000001|I've said that they must have been old hands at the game.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000102_000002|The way they got in and opened the safe shows that.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000102_000003|But there's one little thing that puzzles me.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000102_000004|One of them was careless enough not to wear gloves, and I'm bothered if I know what he was trying to do.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000102_000005|I've traced his finger marks on the new varnish on the window sashes in every one of the downstairs rooms.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000103_000000|"Right hand or left, or both?" asked Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000104_000000|"Oh, right every time.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000104_000001|That's the funny thing.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000104_000003|"That's what he wrote, sir. 'I've got out, Eustace Borlsover, but I'll be back before long.' Some gaol bird just escaped, I suppose.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000104_000004|It will make it all the easier for us to trace him.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000104_000005|Do you know the writing, sir?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000105_000000|"No," said Eustace; "it's not the writing of anyone I know."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000106_000000|"I'm not going to stay here any longer," said Eustace to Saunders at luncheon.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000106_000001|"I've got on far better during the last six months than ever I expected, but I'm not going to run the risk of seeing that thing again. I shall go up to town this afternoon.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000106_000002|Get Morton to put my things together, and join me with the car at Brighton on the day after to morrow.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000106_000003|And bring the proofs of those two papers with you.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000106_000004|We'll run over them together."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000107_000000|"How long are you going to be away?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000108_000000|"I can't say for certain, but be prepared to stay for some time.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000108_000002|I'll engage the rooms at Brighton.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000108_000003|You'll find it best to break the journey at Hitchin.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000108_000004|I'll wire to you there at the Crown to tell you the Brighton address."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000000|The house he chose at Brighton was in a terrace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000001|He had been there before.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000002|It was kept by his old college gyp, a man of discreet silence, who was admirably partnered by an excellent cook.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000003|The rooms were on the first floor.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000004|The two bedrooms were at the back, and opened out of each other.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000005|"Saunders can have the smaller one, though it is the only one with a fireplace," he said.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000006|"I'll stick to the larger of the two, since it's got a bathroom adjoining.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000109_000007|I wonder what time he'll arrive with the car."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000110_000000|Saunders came about seven, cold and cross and dirty.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000111_000000|"Rotten; swimming with mud, and a beastly cold wind against us all day. And this is July.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000111_000001|Dear old England!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000112_000000|"Yes," said Eustace, "I think we might do worse than leave dear old England for a few months."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000113_000000|They turned in soon after twelve.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000114_000000|"You oughtn't to feel cold, Saunders," said Eustace, "when you can afford to sport a great cat skin lined coat like this.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000114_000001|You do yourself very well, all things considered.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000114_000002|Look at those gloves, for instance. Who could possibly feel cold when wearing them?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000115_000002|A minute later he heard a shrill cry of terror.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000115_000004|Quick, Saunders, quick!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000115_000005|Then came a smacking thud.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000115_000006|Eustace had thrown it from him.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000115_000008|There it was, old and maimed, dumb and blind, with a ragged hole in the middle, crawling, staggering, trying to creep up the slippery sides, only to fall back helpless.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000116_000000|"Stay there," said Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000116_000001|"I'll empty a collar box or something, and we'll jam it in.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000116_000002|It can't get out while I'm away."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000000|"Yes, it can," shouted Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000001|"It's getting out now.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000002|It's climbing up the plug chain.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000003|No, you brute, you filthy brute, you don't!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000004|Come back, Saunders, it's getting away from me.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000005|I can't hold it; it's all slippery. Curse its claw!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000006|Shut the window, you idiot!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000007|The top too, as well as the bottom.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000117_000008|You utter idiot!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000118_000000|For a fortnight he was ill.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000119_000000|"I don't know what to make of it," the doctor said to Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000119_000001|"I can only suppose that mr Borlsover has suffered some great emotional shock. You had better let me send someone to help you nurse him.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000119_000002|And by all means indulge that whim of his never to be left alone in the dark.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000119_000003|I would keep a light burning all night if I were you.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000119_000005|It's perfectly absurd this hatred of open windows."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000120_000000|Eustace, however, would have no one with him but Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000120_000001|"I don't want the other men," he said.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000120_000002|"They'd smuggle it in somehow.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000120_000003|I know they would."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000000|"Don't worry about it, old chap.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000001|This sort of thing can't go on indefinitely.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000002|You know I saw it this time as well as you.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000003|It wasn't half so active.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000004|It won't go on living much longer, especially after that fall.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000005|I heard it hit the flags myself.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000007|We'll escape it that way.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000008|We won't give any address, and we won't have any parcels sent after us.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000009|Cheer up, Eustace!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000010|You'll be well enough to leave in a day or two.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000121_000011|The doctor says I can take you out in a chair to morrow."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000122_000000|"What have I done?" asked Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000122_000001|"Why does it come after me?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000123_000001|"We are in the twentieth century, and even the parsons have dropped the idea of your old sins finding you out.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000123_000004|It was shut up in the safe, you know, for nearly six months.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000123_000005|That gives plenty of time for thinking of revenge."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000124_000001|He began rapidly to regain his strength.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000125_000000|"We'll go on the first of September," he said.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000126_000000|The evening of august thirty first was oppressively warm.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000126_000001|Though at midday the windows had been wide open, they had been shut an hour or so before dusk.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000126_000002|mrs Prince had long since ceased to wonder at the strange habits of the gentlemen on the first floor.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000126_000004|Nothing was left lying about.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000127_000000|"mr Borlsover doesn't like to have any place where dirt can collect," Saunders had said as an excuse.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000127_000001|"He likes to see into all the corners of the room."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000128_000001|"We're simply roasting in here, you know."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000129_000000|"No, leave well alone.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000129_000002|Get the chessboard out."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000130_000000|They sat down and played.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000130_000001|At ten o'clock mrs Prince came to the door with a note.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000130_000002|"I am sorry I didn't bring it before," she said, "but it was left in the letter box."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000131_000000|"Open it, Saunders, and see if it wants answering."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000132_000000|It was very brief.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000132_000001|There was neither address nor signature.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000133_000000|"Will eleven o'clock to night be suitable for our last appointment?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000134_000000|"Who is it from?" asked Borlsover.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000135_000000|"It was meant for me," said Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000135_000001|"There's no answer, mrs Prince," and he put the paper into his pocket.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000135_000002|"A dunning letter from a tailor; I suppose he must have got wind of our leaving."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000136_000001|They went on with their game.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000138_000000|"Check!" said Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000138_000001|The clock struck eleven.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000140_000000|There was no answer.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000141_000000|"mrs Prince, is that you?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000142_000000|"She is up above," said Saunders; "I can hear her walking about the room."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000143_000000|"Then lock the door; bolt it too.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000143_000001|Your move, Saunders."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000144_000000|While Saunders sat with his eyes on the chessboard, Eustace walked over to the window and examined the fastenings.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000144_000002|There were no doors between the three rooms, or he would have shut and locked them too.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000145_000000|"Now, Saunders," he said, "don't stay all night over your move.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000145_000001|I've had time to smoke one cigarette already.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000145_000002|It's bad to keep an invalid waiting.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000145_000003|There's only one possible thing for you to do.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000145_000004|What was that?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000146_000000|"The ivy blowing against the window.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000146_000001|There, it's your move now, Eustace."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000147_000000|"It wasn't the ivy, you idiot.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000147_000001|It was someone tapping at the window," and he pulled up the blind.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000147_000002|On the outer side of the window, clinging to the sash, was the hand.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000148_000000|"What is it that it's holding?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000149_000000|"It's a pocket knife.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000149_000001|It's going to try to open the window by pushing back the fastener with the blade."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000150_000000|"Well, let it try," said Eustace.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000150_000001|"Those fasteners screw down; they can't be opened that way.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000150_000002|Anyhow, we'll close the shutters.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000150_000003|It's your move, Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000150_000004|I've played."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000151_000001|He could not understand Eustace, who seemed all at once to have lost his fear.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000151_000002|"What do you say to some wine?" he asked.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000000|"You've no need to be.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000001|There's nothing supernatural about that hand, Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000002|I mean it seems to be governed by the laws of time and space. It's not the sort of thing that vanishes into thin air or slides through oaken doors.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000003|And since that's so, I defy it to get in here.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000004|We'll leave the place in the morning.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000005|I for one have bottomed the depths of fear. Fill your glass, man!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000006|The windows are all shuttered, the door is locked and bolted.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000007|Pledge me my uncle Adrian!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000008|Drink, man!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000152_000009|What are you waiting for?"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000153_000000|Saunders was standing with his glass half raised.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000153_000001|"It can get in," he said hoarsely; "it can get in!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000153_000002|We've forgotten.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000153_000003|There's the fireplace in my bedroom.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000153_000004|It will come down the chimney."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000154_000000|"Quick!" said Eustace, as he rushed into the other room; "we haven't a minute to lose.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000154_000001|What can we do?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000154_000002|Light the fire, Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000154_000003|Give me a match, quick!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000155_000000|"They must be all in the other room.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000155_000001|I'll get them."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000156_000000|"Hurry, man, for goodness' sake!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000156_000001|Look in the bookcase!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000156_000002|Look in the bathroom!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000156_000003|Here, come and stand here; I'll look."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000157_000000|"Be quick!" shouted Saunders.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000157_000001|"I can hear something!"
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000158_000000|"Then plug a sheet from your bed up the chimney.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000158_000001|No, here's a match." He had found one at last that had slipped into a crack in the floor.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000159_000000|"Is the fire laid?
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000159_000001|Good, but it may not burn.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000159_000002|I know-the oil from that old reading lamp and this cotton wool.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000159_000003|Now the match, quick!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000159_000005|We don't want it now."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000160_000001|Saunders had been a fraction of a second too late with the sheet.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000160_000002|The oil had fallen on to it.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000161_000001|"It's no good!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000161_000002|I can't manage it.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000161_000003|You must open the door, Saunders, and get help."
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000162_000000|Saunders ran to the door and fumbled with the bolts.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000162_000001|The key was stiff in the lock.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000164_000000|The key turned in the lock at last.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000164_000001|For half a second Saunders stopped to look back.
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000164_000003|For a moment he thought of returning to his friend, but the noise and the smell of the burning sent him running down the passage crying, "Fire!
train-other-500/1760/143006/1760_143006_000164_000004|Fire!" He rushed to the telephone to summon help, and then back to the bathroom-he should have thought of that before-for water.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000005_000000|It was intolerably unchanged, the dim, dark toned room.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000005_000001|In an agony of recognition my glance ran from one to another of the comfortable, familiar things that my earthly life had been passed among.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000005_000002|Incredibly distant from it all as I essentially was.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000006_000000|Unchanged-or so it seemed at first.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000006_000001|But there were certain trivial differences that shortly smote me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000006_000002|The windows were closed too tightly; for I had always kept the house very cool, although I had known that Theresa preferred warm rooms.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000006_000003|And my work basket was in disorder; it was preposterous that so small a thing should hurt me so.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000006_000004|Then, for this was my first experience of the shadow folded transition, the odd alteration of my emotions bewildered me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000006_000006|How could they be endured-and had I ever endured them?--those harsh influences that I now perceived at the window; light and color so blinding that they obscured the form of the wind, tumult so discordant that one could scarcely hear the roses open in the garden below?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000000|But Theresa did not seem to mind any of these things.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000001|Disorder, it is true, the dear child had never minded.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000004|She finished the last one as I watched her, and added it to the heap of black bordered envelopes that lay on the desk.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000005|Poor girl!
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000006|I saw now that they had cost her tears.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000007|Yet, living beside her day after day, year after year, I had never discovered what deep tenderness my sister possessed.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000008|Toward each other it had been our habit to display only a temperate affection, and I remember having always thought it distinctly fortunate for Theresa, since she was denied my happiness, that she could live so easily and pleasantly without emotions of the devastating sort....
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000009|And now, for the first time, I was really to behold her....
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000010|Could it be Theresa, after all, this tangle of subdued turbulences?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000007_000011|Let no one suppose that it is an easy thing to bear, the relentlessly lucid understanding that I then first exercised; or that, in its first enfranchisement, the timid vision does not yearn for its old screens and mists.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000000|Suddenly, as Theresa sat there, her head, filled with its tender thoughts of me, held in her gentle hands, I felt Allan's step on the carpeted stair outside.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000001|Theresa felt it, too,--but how? for it was not audible.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000002|She gave a start, swept the black envelopes out of sight, and pretended to be writing in a little book.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000003|Then I forgot to watch her any longer in my absorption in Allan's coming.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000004|It was he, of course, that I was awaiting.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000005|It was for him that I had made this first lonely, frightened effort to return, to recover....
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000007|He was so reasonable always, so sane-so blindfolded.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000008_000010|It was so manifestly I who had drawn him, I whom he had come to seek.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000009_000000|The door was ajar.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000009_000002|He expected to find her, then, there in my room?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000010_000000|"I shall have finished in a moment," Theresa told him, and he sat down to wait for her.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000000|No spirit still unreleased can understand the pang that I felt with Allan sitting almost within my touch.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000001|Almost irresistibly the wish beset me to let him for an instant feel my nearness.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000002|Then I checked myself, remembering-oh, absurd, piteous human fears!--that my too unguarded closeness might alarm him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000003|It was not so remote a time that I myself had known them, those blind, uncouth timidities.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000004|I came, therefore, somewhat nearer-but I did not touch him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000005|I merely leaned toward him and with incredible softness whispered his name.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000011_000006|That much I could not have forborne; the spell of life was still too strong in me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000012_000000|But it gave him no comfort, no delight.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000012_000001|"Theresa!" he called, in a voice dreadful with alarm-and in that instant the last veil fell, and desperately, scarce believingly, I beheld how it stood between them, those two.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000013_000000|She turned to him that gentle look of hers.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000014_000000|"Forgive me," came from him hoarsely.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000014_000002|Can there be too many windows open?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000014_000003|There is such a-chill-about."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000015_000000|"There are no windows open," Theresa assured him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000015_000001|"I took care to shut out the chill.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000015_000002|You are not well, Allan!"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000016_000001|"And yet I feel no illness apart from this abominable sensation that persists-persists.... Theresa, you must tell me: do I fancy it, or do you, too, feel-something-strange here?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000017_000000|"Oh, there is something very strange here," she half sobbed.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000017_000001|"There always will be."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000018_000000|"Good heavens, child, I didn't mean that!" He rose and stood looking about him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000018_000001|"I know, of course, that you have your beliefs, and I respect them, but you know equally well that I have nothing of the sort! So-don't let us conjure up anything inexplicable."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000019_000000|I stayed impalpably, imponderably near him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000019_000001|Wretched and bereft though I was, I could not have left him while he stood denying me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000021_000000|He spoke the last word very faintly, but Theresa shrank from it nevertheless.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000022_000002|You know it is only perturbed, uneasy spirits that wander.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000022_000003|With her it is quite different.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000022_000004|She has always been so happy-she must still be."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000023_000000|I listened, stunned, to Theresa's sweet dogmatism.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000023_000001|From what blind distances came her confident misapprehensions, how dense, both for her and for Allan, was the separating vapor!
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000000|Allan frowned.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000001|"Don't take me literally, Theresa," he explained; and I, who a moment before had almost touched him, now held myself aloof and heard him with a strange untried pity, new born in me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000003|It's something much more terrible." He allowed his head to sink heavily on his chest.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000004|"If I did not positively know that I had never done her any harm, I should suppose myself to be suffering from guilt, from remorse....
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000005|Theresa, you know better than I, perhaps.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000006|Was she content, always?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000024_000007|Did she believe in me?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000025_000000|"Believe in you?--when she knew you to be so good!--when you adored her!"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000026_000000|"She thought that?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000026_000001|She said it?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000027_000000|"Minds what?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000027_000001|What do you mean, Allan?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000001|If I had not tortured him so by clinging near him, he would not have told her.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000002|But the moment came, and overflowed, and he did tell her-passionate, tumultuous story that it was.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000003|During all our life together, Allan's and mine, he had spared me, had kept me wrapped in the white cloak of an unblemished loyalty.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000004|But it would have been kinder, I now bitterly thought, if, like many husbands, he had years ago found for the story he now poured forth some clandestine listener; I should not have known.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000005|But he was faithful and good, and so he waited till I, mute and chained, was there to hear him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000006|So well did I know him, as I thought, so thoroughly had he once been mine, that I saw it in his eyes, heard it in his voice, before the words came.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000007|And yet, when it came, it lashed me with the whips of an unbearable humiliation.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000028_000008|For I, his wife, had not known how greatly he could love.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000029_000000|And that Theresa, soft little traitor, should, in her still way, have cared too!
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000029_000002|From the moment he bade her, she turned her soft little petals up to him-and my last delusion was spent.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000029_000003|It was intolerable; and none the less so that in another moment she had, prompted by some belated thought of me, renounced him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000030_000000|Then in the anguish of it all I remembered, awkward, untutored spirit that I was, that I now had the Great Recourse.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000030_000001|Whatever human things were unbearable, I had no need to bear.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000030_000002|I ceased, therefore, to make the effort that kept me with them.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000030_000003|The pitiless poignancy was dulled, the sounds and the light ceased, the lovers faded from me, and again I was mercifully drawn into the dim, infinite spaces.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000000|There followed a period whose length I cannot measure and during which I was able to make no progress in the difficult, dizzying experience of release.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000001|"Earth bound" my jealousy relentlessly kept me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000002|Though my two dear ones had forsworn each other, I could not trust them, for theirs seemed to me an affectation of a more than mortal magnanimity.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000003|Without a ghostly sentinel to prick them with sharp fears and recollections, who could believe that they would keep to it?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000004|Of the efficacy of my own vigilance, so long as I might choose to exercise it, I could have no doubt, for I had by this time come to have a dreadful exultation in the new power that lived in me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000005|Repeated delicate experiment had taught me how a touch or a breath, a wish or a whisper, could control Allan's acts, could keep him from Theresa.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000006|I could manifest myself as palely, as transiently, as a thought.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000007|I could produce the merest necessary flicker, like the shadow of a just opened leaf, on his trembling, tortured consciousness.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000008|And these unrealized perceptions of me he interpreted, as I had known that he would, as his soul's inevitable penance.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000031_000009|He had come to believe that he had done evil in silently loving Theresa all these years, and it was my vengeance to allow him to believe this, to prod him ever to believe it afresh.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000000|I am conscious that this frame of mind was not continuous in me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000001|For I remember, too, that when Allan and Theresa were safely apart and sufficiently miserable I loved them as dearly as I ever had, more dearly perhaps.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000002|For it was impossible that I should not perceive, in my new emancipation, that they were, each of them, something more and greater than the two beings I had once ignorantly pictured them.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000003|For years they had practiced a selflessness of which I could once scarcely have conceived, and which even now I could only admire without entering into its mystery.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000005|They had granted me everything, themselves nothing.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000006|For my undeserving sake their lives had been a constant torment of renunciation-a torment they had not sought to alleviate by the exchange of a single glance of understanding.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000032_000007|There were even marvelous moments when, from the depths of my newly informed heart, I pitied them-poor creatures, who, withheld from the infinite solaces that I had come to know, were still utterly within that
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000033_000000|Shell of sense So frail, so piteously contrived for pain.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000034_000000|Within it, yes; yet exercising qualities that so sublimely transcended it.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000034_000001|Yet the shy, hesitating compassion that thus had birth in me was far from being able to defeat the earlier, earthlier emotion.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000034_000002|The two, I recognized, were in a sort of conflict; and I, regarding it, assumed that the conflict would never end; that for years, as Allan and Theresa reckoned time, I should be obliged to withhold myself from the great spaces and linger suffering, grudging, shamed, where they lingered.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000000|It can never have been explained, I suppose, what, to devitalized perception such as mine, the contact of mortal beings with each other appears to be.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000001|Once to have exercised this sense freed perception is to realize that the gift of prophecy, although the subject of such frequent marvel, is no longer mysterious.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000002|The merest glance of our sensitive and uncloyed vision can detect the strength of the relation between two beings, and therefore instantly calculate its duration.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000004|And it was thus that I saw it with Theresa and Allan.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000006|It was my sister, perhaps the more sensitive, who first realized this.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000008|I saw each reluctant movement that she made.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000009|I saw her eyes, worn from self searching; I heard her step grown timid from inexplicable fears; I entered her very heart and heard its pitiful, wild beating.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000035_000010|And still I did not interfere.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000036_000001|At any moment I could have checked their miseries, could have restored happiness and peace.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000036_000002|Yet it gave me, and I could weep to admit it, a monstrous joy to know that Theresa thought she was leaving Allan of her own free intention, when it was I who was contriving, arranging, insisting....
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000037_000000|A few days before the time of her intended departure my sister told Allan that she must speak with him after dinner.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000037_000002|As usual, therefore, when the hour came, Theresa led the way.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000037_000003|That dreadful daytime brilliance that in my present state I found so hard to endure was now becoming softer.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000038_000000|For a little they walked about together, speaking of common, daily things.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000038_000001|Then suddenly Theresa burst out:
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000039_000000|"I am going away, Allan.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000039_000001|I have stayed to do everything that needed to be done.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000039_000002|Now your mother will be here to care for you, and it is time for me to go."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000040_000000|He stared at her and stood still.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000040_000001|Theresa had been there so long, she so definitely, to his mind, belonged there.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000040_000002|And she was, as I also had jealously known, so lovely there, the small, dark, dainty creature, in the old hall, on the wide staircases, in the garden....
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000040_000003|Life there without Theresa, even the intentionally remote, the perpetually renounced Theresa-he had not dreamed of it, he could not, so suddenly, conceive of it.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000041_000000|"Sit here," he said, and drew her down beside him on a bench, "and tell me what it means, why you are going.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000042_000000|She hesitated.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000042_000001|I wondered if she would dare tell him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000042_000002|She looked out and away from him, and he waited long for her to speak.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000043_000000|The pale stars were sliding into their places.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000043_000001|The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000043_000002|All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000043_000003|It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater-a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000043_000004|To me, watching, listening, hovering, there came a dreadful purpose and a dreadful courage.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000044_000000|There came a brief space of terrible effort, all my fluttering, uncertain forces strained to the utmost.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000045_000000|She gave a cry.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000045_000001|And then, thing of silly, cruel impulses that I was, I saw what I had done.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000045_000002|The very thing that I wished to avert I had precipitated.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000045_000003|For Allan, in his sudden terror and pity, had bent and caught her in his arms.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000046_000000|Then, to his whispered urging to tell the reason of her cry, Theresa said:
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000047_000000|"Frances was here.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000047_000001|You did not see her, standing there, under the lilacs, with no smile on her face?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000048_000000|"My dear, my dear!" was all that Allan said.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000049_000000|"I suppose you know what it means?" she asked him, calmly.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000050_000000|"Dear Theresa," Allan said, slowly, "if you and I should go away somewhere, could we not evade all this ghostliness?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000051_000000|"Distance would not banish her," my sister confidently asserted.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000051_000001|And then she said, softly: "Have you thought what a lonely, awesome thing it must be to be so newly dead?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000051_000002|Pity her, Allan.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000051_000003|We who are warm and alive should pity her.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000051_000004|She loves you still,--that is the meaning of it all, you know-and she wants us to understand that for that reason we must keep apart.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000051_000005|Oh, it was so plain in her white face as she stood there. And you did not see her?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000000|She sprang from him.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000001|"You are defying her, Allan!" she cried.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000002|"And you must not.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000003|It is her right to keep us apart, if she wishes.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000004|It must be as she insists.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000005|I shall go, as I told you.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000053_000006|And, Allan, I beg of you, leave me the courage to do as she demands!"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000054_000000|They stood facing each other in the deep dusk, and the wounds that I had dealt them gaped red and accusing.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000054_000001|"We must pity her," Theresa had said. And as I remembered that extraordinary speech, and saw the agony in her face, and the greater agony in Allan's, there came the great irreparable cleavage between mortality and me.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000054_000002|In a swift, merciful flame the last of my mortal emotions-gross and tenacious they must have been-was consumed.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000054_000003|My cold grasp of Allan loosened and a new unearthly love of him bloomed in my heart.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000055_000000|I was now, however, in a difficulty with which my experience in the newer state was scarcely sufficient to deal.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000055_000001|How could I make it plain to Allan and Theresa that I wished to bring them together, to heal the wounds that I had made?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000056_000000|Pityingly, remorsefully, I lingered near them all that night and the next day.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000056_000001|And by that time had brought myself to the point of a great determination.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000056_000002|In the little time that was left, before Theresa should be gone and Allan bereft and desolate, I saw the one way that lay open to me to convince them of my acquiescence in their destiny.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000057_000000|In the deepest darkness and silence of the next night I made a greater effort than it will ever be necessary for me to make again.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000057_000001|When they think of me, Allan and Theresa, I pray now that they will recall what I did that night, and that my thousand frustrations and selfishnesses may shrivel and be blown from their indulgent memories.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000058_000000|Yet the following morning, as she had planned, Theresa appeared at breakfast dressed for her journey.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000058_000001|Above in her room there were the sounds of departure.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000058_000002|They spoke little during the brief meal, but when it was ended Allan said:
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000059_000001|Will you come upstairs with me?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000000|"Did I say it was a dream?
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000001|But I was awake-thoroughly awake.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000002|I had not been sleeping well, and I heard, twice, the striking of the clock.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000004|It was no sheeted specter, you understand; it was Frances, literally she.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000006|After a few moments it came.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000007|She did not speak, precisely.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000009|She said: 'Don't let Theresa leave you.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000061_000011|Was that a dream?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000062_000000|"I had not meant to tell you," Theresa eagerly answered, "but now I must.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000062_000001|It is too wonderful.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000062_000002|What time did your clock strike, Allan?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000063_000000|"One, the last time."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000064_000000|"Yes; it was then that I awoke.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000064_000002|I had not seen her, but her arm had been about me and her kiss was on my cheek.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000064_000003|Oh.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000064_000004|I knew; it was unmistakable.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000064_000005|And the sound of her voice was with me."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000065_000000|"Then she bade you, too----"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000066_000000|"Yes, to stay with you.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000066_000001|I am glad we told each other." She smiled tearfully and began to fasten her wrap.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000067_000001|"You know that you cannot, now that she has asked you to stay."
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000069_000000|"I can never understand, but I know," he answered her.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000069_000001|"And now you will not go?"
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000070_000000|I am freed.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000070_000001|There will be no further semblance of me in my old home, no sound of my voice, no dimmest echo of my earthly self.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000070_000002|They have no further need of me, the two that I have brought together.
train-other-500/1765/143010/1765_143010_000070_000003|Theirs is the fullest joy that the dwellers in the shell of sense can know.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000002_000001|He had come up to the Old Orchard for his usual morning visit and just as he hopped over the old stone wall he heard a beautiful clear, loud whistle which drew his eyes to the top of an apple tree.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000002_000002|peter stopped short with a little gasp of sheer astonishment and delight.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000002_000003|Then he rubbed his eyes and looked again.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000002_000004|He couldn't quite believe that he saw what he thought he saw.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000003_000001|Even his bill was red.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000003_000002|He wore a beautiful red crest which made him still more distinguished looking, and how he could sing! peter had noticed that quite often the most beautifully dressed birds have the poorest songs.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000003_000004|Of course he lost no time in hunting up Jenny Wren.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000003_000005|"Who is it, Jenny?
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000003_000006|Who is that beautiful stranger with such a lovely song?" cried peter, as soon as he caught sight of Jenny.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000004_000000|"It's Glory the Cardinal," replied Jenny Wren promptly.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000004_000001|"Isn't he the loveliest thing you've ever seen?
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000004_000002|I do hope he is going to stay here.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000004_000003|As I said before, I don't often envy any one's fine clothes, but when I see Glory I'm sometimes tempted to be envious.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000004_000005|There she is in the very same tree with him. Did you ever see such a difference?"
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000000|peter looked eagerly.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000001|Instead of the glorious red of Glory, mrs Cardinal wore a very dull dress.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000003|Her throat was a grayish black.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000004|Her breast was a dull buff with a faint tinge of red.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000005|Her wings and tail were tinged with dull red.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000006|Altogether she was very soberly dressed, but a trim, neat looking little person. But if she wasn't handsomely dressed she could sing.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000005_000007|In fact she was almost as good a singer as her handsome husband.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000000|"Well, you needn't think that of Glory," declared Jenny in her vigorous way.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000001|"He's just as fine as he is handsome.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000002|He's a model husband.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000003|If they make their home around here you'll find him doing his full share in the care of their babies.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000004|Sometimes they raise two families.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000005|When they do that, Glory takes charge of the first lot of youngsters as soon as they are able to leave the nest so that mrs Cardinal has nothing to worry about while she is sitting on the second lot of eggs.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000006|He fusses over them as if they were the only children in the world.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000007|Everybody loves Glory.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000007_000008|Excuse me, peter, I'm going over to find out if they are really going to stay."
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000008_000000|When Jenny returned she was so excited she couldn't keep still a minute. "They like here, peter!" she cried.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000008_000001|"They like here so much that if they can find a place to suit them for a nest they're going to stay.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000008_000002|I told them that it is the very best place in the world.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000008_000003|They like an evergreen tree to build in, and I think they've got their eyes on those evergreens up near Farmer Brown's house.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000009_000001|Probably he would have sat there the rest of the morning had he not caught sight of an old friend of whom he is very fond, Kitty the Catbird.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000009_000002|In contrast with Glory, Kitty seemed a regular little Quaker, for he was dressed almost wholly in gray, a rather dark, slaty gray.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000009_000004|He was a little smaller than Welcome Robin.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000009_000005|There was no danger of mistaking him for anybody else, for there is no one dressed at all like him.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000000|peter forgot all about Glory in his pleasure at discovering the returned Kitty and hurried over to welcome him.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000001|Kitty had disappeared among the bushes along the old stone wall, but peter had no trouble in finding him by the queer cries he was uttering, which were very like the meow of Black Pussy the Cat.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000002|They were very harsh and unpleasant and peter understood perfectly why their maker is called the Catbird.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000003|He did not hurry in among the bushes at once but waited expectantly.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000005|It was not loud, but it was charming.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000006|It contained the clear whistle of Glory, and there was even the tinkle of Little Friend the Song Sparrow.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000007|The notes of other friends were in that song, and with them were notes of southern birds whose songs Kitty had learned while spending the winter in the South.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000010_000008|Then there were notes all his own.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000011_000000|peter listened until the song ended, then scampered in among the bushes. At once those harsh cries broke out again.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000011_000001|You would have thought that Kitty was scolding peter for coming to see him instead of being glad. But that was just Kitty's way.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000012_000001|He looked positively sleepy.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000012_000003|Then he dropped his tail as if he hadn't strength enough to hold it up at all. It hung straight down.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000012_000004|He dropped his wings and all in a second made himself look fairly disreputable.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000012_000005|But all the time his eyes were twinkling and snapping, and peter knew that these changes in appearance were made out of pure fun and mischief.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000013_000001|"I don't know of any one of my feathered friends I would miss so much as you."
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000014_000000|"Thank you," responded Kitty.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000014_000001|"It's very nice of you to say that, peter. If you are glad to see me I am still more glad to get back."
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000015_000000|"Did you pass a pleasant winter down South?" asked peter.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000016_000000|"Fairly so.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000016_000001|Fairly so," replied Kitty.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000016_000002|"By the way, peter, I picked up some new songs down there.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000016_000003|Would you like to hear them?"
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000018_000000|At the mention of Mocker a little cloud crossed Kitty's face for just an instant.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000018_000001|"There's a fellow I really envy," said he.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000018_000002|"I'm pretty good at imitating others, but Mocker is better.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000018_000003|I'm hoping that, if I practice enough, some day I can be as good.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000018_000004|I saw a lot of him in the South and he certainly is clever."
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000019_000000|"Huh!
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000019_000001|You don't need to envy him," retorted peter.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000019_000002|"You are some imitator yourself.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000019_000003|How about those new notes you got when you were in the South?"
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000020_000000|Kitty's face cleared, his throat swelled and he began to sing.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000020_000003|When it ended peter had a question all ready.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000021_000000|"Are you going to build somewhere near here?" he asked.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000022_000000|"I certainly am," replied Kitty.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000022_000001|"mrs Catbird was delayed a day or two. I hope she'll get here to day and then we'll get busy at once.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000022_000002|I think we shall build in these bushes here somewhere.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000022_000005|They are near enough to Farmer Brown's garden, and the Old Orchard is right here.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000022_000006|That's just the kind of a combination that suits me."
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000023_000000|peter looked somewhat uncertain.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000023_000001|"Why do you want to be near Farmer Brown's garden?" he asked.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000024_000001|"He ought to be glad to have me about.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000024_000002|Once in a while I take a little fruit, but I pay for it ten times over by the number of bugs and worms I get in his garden and the Old Orchard.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000024_000003|I pride myself on being useful.
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000024_000004|There's nothing like being useful in this world, peter."
train-other-500/1767/142932/1767_142932_000025_000000|peter nodded as if he quite agreed.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000003_000000|CHAPTER thirty six.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000004_000000|Butcher the Shrike was not the only newcomer in the Old Orchard.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000004_000001|There was another stranger who, peter Rabbit soon discovered, was looked on with some suspicion by all the other birds of the Old Orchard.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000004_000002|The first time peter saw him, he was walking about on the ground some distance off.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000004_000004|In fact, peter mistook him for Creaker. That was because he didn't really look at him.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000005_000001|At once it came over peter that this was a stranger to him, and of course his curiosity was aroused.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000005_000002|He didn't have any doubt whatever that this was a member of the Blackbird family, but which one it could be he hadn't the least idea. "Jenny Wren will know," thought peter and scampered off to hunt her up.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000007_000000|"There isn't any new member of the Blackbird family living in the Old Orchard," retorted Jenny Wren tartly.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000008_000000|"There is too," contradicted peter.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000008_000001|"I saw him with my own eyes.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000008_000002|I can see him now.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000008_000003|He's sitting in that tree over yonder this very minute. He's all black, so of course he must be a member of the Blackbird family."
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000009_000002|Go over there and take a good look at him; then come back and tell me if you still think he is black."
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000000|Jenny turned her back on peter and went to hunting worms.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000003|Jenny Wren was right.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000005|At least, that is what peter thought at first glance.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000007|In short he changed color as he turned.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000008|His feathers were like those of Creaker the Grackle-iridescent.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000009|All over he was speckled with tiny light spots. Underneath he was dark brownish gray.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000010|His wings and tail were of the same color, with little touches of buff.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000010_000011|His rather large bill was yellow.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000000|peter hurried back to Jenny Wren and it must be confessed he looked sheepish.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000001|"You were right, Jenny Wren; he isn't black at all," confessed peter.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000002|"Of course I was right.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000004|"He isn't black, he isn't even related to the Blackbird family, and he hasn't any business in the Old Orchard.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000005|In fact, if you ask me, he hasn't any business in this country anyway.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000006|He's a foreigner.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000011_000007|That's what he is-a foreigner."
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000012_000000|"But you haven't told me who he is," protested peter.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000013_000000|"He is Speckles the Starling, and he isn't really an American at all," replied Jenny.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000013_000001|"He comes from across the ocean the same as Bully the English Sparrow.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000013_000002|Thank goodness he hasn't such a quarrelsome disposition as Bully.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000013_000003|Just the same, the rest of us would be better satisfied if he were not here.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000013_000004|He has taken possession of one of the old homes of Yellow Wing the Flicker, and that means one less house for birds who really belong here.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000013_000006|Did you notice that yellow bill of his?"
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000014_000002|"I couldn't very well help noticing it."
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000015_000000|"Well, there's a funny thing about that bill," replied Jenny.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000015_000001|"In winter it turns almost black.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000016_000000|"Well, he seems to be pretty well fixed here, and I don't see but what the thing for the rest of you birds to do is to make the best of the matter," said peter.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000017_000001|Hello!
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000017_000002|There's Dandy the Waxwing and his friends."
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000018_000000|A flock of modestly dressed yet rather distinguished looking feathered folks had alighted in a cherry tree and promptly began to help themselves to Farmer Brown's cherries.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000018_000002|Across the end of each tail was a yellow band.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000018_000003|On each, the forehead, chin and a line through each eye was velvety black.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000018_000004|Each wore a very stylish pointed cap, and on the wings of most of them were little spots of red which looked like sealing wax, and from which they get the name of Waxwings.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000018_000005|They were slim and trim and quite dandified, and in a quiet way were really beautiful.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000019_000000|As peter watched them he began to wonder if Farmer Brown would have any cherries left.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000019_000002|It was quite clear to him why they are often called Cherrybirds.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000020_000000|"If they stay long, Farmer Brown won't have any cherries left," remarked peter.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000021_000000|"Don't worry," replied Jenny Wren.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000021_000001|"They won't stay long.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000021_000002|I don't know anybody equal to them for roaming about.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000023_000002|Now just look at that performance, will you?"
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000024_000000|There were five of the Waxwings and they were now seated side by side on a branch of the cherry tree.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000024_000001|One of them had a plump cherry which he passed to the next one.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000024_000003|"Never in my life have I seen such politeness," said he.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000025_000000|"Huh!" exclaimed Jenny Wren.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000025_000001|"I don't believe it was politeness at all. I guess if you got at the truth of the matter you would find that each one was stuffed so full that he thought he didn't have room for that cherry and so passed it along."
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000026_000000|"Well, I think that was politeness just the same," retorted peter.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000026_000001|"The first one might have dropped the cherry if he couldn't eat it instead of passing it along." Just then the Waxwings flew away.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000000|It was the very middle of the summer before peter Rabbit again saw Dandy the Waxwing.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000001|Quite by chance he discovered Dandy sitting on the tiptop of an evergreen tree, as if on guard.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000002|He was on guard, for in that tree was his nest, though peter didn't know it at the time.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000003|In fact, it was so late in the summer that most of Peter's friends were through nesting and he had quite lost interest in nests.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000004|Presently Dandy flew down to a lower branch and there he was joined by mrs Waxwing.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000006|They rubbed their bills together as if kissing.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000007|They smoothed each other's feathers and altogether were a perfect picture of two little lovebirds.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000027_000008|peter couldn't think of another couple who appeared quite so gentle and loving.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000028_000000|Late in the fall peter saw mr and mrs Waxwing and their family together.
train-other-500/1767/142941/1767_142941_000028_000001|They were in a cedar tree and were picking off and eating the cedar berries as busily as the five Waxwings had picked Farmer Brown's cherries in the early summer.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty seven.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000002_000001|As he saw them keeping the trees of the Old Orchard free of insect pests working in Farmer Brown's garden, and picking up the countless seeds of weeds everywhere, he began to understand something of the wonderful part these feathered folks have in keeping the Great World beautiful and worth while living in.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000003_000001|All summer long they were going to school all about him, learning how to watch out for danger, to use their eyes and ears, and all the things a bird must know who would live to grow up.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000004_000000|As autumn drew near peter discovered that his friends were gathering in flocks, roaming here and there.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000004_000001|It was one of the first signs that summer was nearly over, and it gave him just a little feeling of sadness.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000004_000002|He heard few songs now, for the singing season was over.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000004_000003|Also he discovered that many of the most beautifully dressed of his feathered friends had changed their finery for sober traveling suits in preparation for the long journey to the far South where they would spend the winter.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000004_000004|In fact he actually failed to recognize some of them at first.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000005_000000|September came, and as the days grew shorter, some of Peter's friends bade him good by.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000005_000001|They were starting on the long journey, planning to take it in easy stages for the most part.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000005_000002|Each day saw some slip away. As peter thought of the dangers of the long trip before them he wondered if he would ever see them again.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000005_000003|But some there were who lingered even after Jack Frost's first visit.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000005_000004|Welcome and mrs Robin, Winsome and mrs Bluebird.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000006_000000|Sad indeed and lonely would these days have been for peter had it not been that with the departure of the friends he had spent so many happy hours with came the arrival of certain other friends from the Far North where they had made their summer homes.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000006_000001|Some of these stopped for a few days in passing.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000006_000002|Others came to stay, and peter was kept busy looking for and welcoming them.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000007_000000|A few old friends there were who would stay the year through.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000007_000001|Sammy Jay was one.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000007_000002|Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers were others.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000007_000003|And one there was whom peter loves dearly.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000007_000004|It was Tommy Tit the Chickadee.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000008_000000|Now Tommy Tit had not gone north in the spring.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000008_000004|Every time peter visited the Old Orchard he found him there, and as Tommy was always ready for a bit of merry gossip, peter soon ceased to miss Jenny Wren.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000009_000000|"Don't you dread the winter, Tommy Tit?" asked peter one day, as he watched Tommy clinging head down to a twig as he picked some tiny insect eggs from the under side.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000010_000000|"Not a bit," replied Tommy.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000010_000001|"I like winter.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000010_000002|I like cold weather.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000010_000003|It makes a fellow feel good from the tips of his claws to the tip of his bill.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000010_000004|I'm thankful I don't have to take that long journey most of the birds have to.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000010_000005|I discovered a secret a long time ago, peter; shall I tell it to you?"
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000011_000000|"Please, Tommy," cried peter.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000013_000000|peter looked a little puzzled.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000000|Tommy Tit chuckled.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000001|It was a lovely throaty little chuckle.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000003|"What I mean is, if a fellow has plenty to eat he will keep the cold out, and I've found that if a fellow uses his eyes and isn't afraid of a little work, he can find plenty to eat.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000004|At least I can.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000005|The only time I ever get really worried is when the trees are covered with ice.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000006|If it were not that Farmer Brown's boy is thoughtful enough to hang a piece of suet in a tree for me, I should dread those ice storms more than I do.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000014_000007|As I said before, plenty of food keeps a fellow warm."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000015_000000|"I thought it was your coat of feathers that kept you warm," said peter.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000016_000001|"Food makes heat and a warm coat keeps the heat in the body.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000016_000002|But the heat has got to be there first, or the feathers will do no good.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000016_000003|It's just the same way with your own self, peter.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000016_000004|You know you are never really warm in winter unless you have plenty to eat..."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000017_000000|"That's so," replied peter thoughtfully.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000017_000001|"I never happened to think of it before.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000017_000002|Just the same, I don't see how you find food enough on the trees when they are all bare in winter."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000018_000000|"Dee, Dee, Chickadee! Leave that matter just to me,"
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000000|Chuckled Tommy Tit.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000002|Those eggs would stay there all winter and in the spring hatch out into lice and worms if it were not for me.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000003|Why, sometimes in a single day I find and eat almost five hundred eggs of those little green plant lice that do so much damage in the spring and summer.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000004|Then there are little worms that bore in just under the bark, and there are other creatures who sleep the winter away in little cracks in the bark.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000005|Oh, there is plenty for me to do in the winter.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000006|I am one of the policemen of the trees.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000007|Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers, Seep Seep the Brown Creeper and Yank Yank the Nuthatch are others.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000019_000008|If we didn't stay right here on the job all winter, I don't know what would become of the Old Orchard."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000000|Tommy Tit hung head downward from a twig while he picked some tiny insect eggs from the under side of it.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000001|It didn't seem to make the least difference to Tommy whether he was right side up or upside down.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000003|The top of his head, back of his neck and coat were shining black.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000005|His back was ashy.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000006|His sides were a soft cream buff, and his wing and tail feathers were edged with white.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000007|His tiny bill was black, and his little black eyes snapped and twinkled in a way good to see.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000008|Not one among all Peter's friends is such a merry hearted little fellow as Tommy Tit the Chickadee.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000009|Merriment and happiness bubble out of him all the time, no matter what the weather is.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000020_000010|He is the friend of everyone and seems to feel that everyone is his friend.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000021_000000|"I've noticed," said peter, "that birds who do not sing at any other time of year sing in the spring.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000021_000001|Do you have a spring song, Tommy Tit?"
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000022_000000|"Well, I don't know as you would call it a song, peter," chuckled Tommy. "No, I hardly think you would call it a song.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000023_000000|It was the softest, sweetest little whistle, and Tommy had rightly called it a love call.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000023_000003|I guess that is because you whistle it."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000024_000000|"I guess you guess right," replied Tommy Tit.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000024_000001|"Now I can't stop to talk any longer.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000024_000003|I want Farmer Brown's boy to feel that I have earned that suet I am sure he will put out for me as soon as the snow and ice come.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000024_000004|I'm not the least bit afraid of Farmer Brown's boy.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000024_000005|I had just as soon take food from his hand as from anywhere else.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000024_000006|He knows I like chopped up nut meats, and last winter I used to feed from his hand every day." Peter's eyes opened very wide with surprise.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000025_000000|Tommy Tit nodded his little black capped head vigorously.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000025_000001|"Certainly," said he.
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000025_000002|"Why not?
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000025_000003|What's the good of having friends if you can't trust them?
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000025_000004|The more you trust them the better friends they'll be."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000026_000001|"I know Farmer Brown's boy is the friend of all the little people, and I'm not much afraid of him myself, but just the same I wouldn't dare go near enough for him to touch me."
train-other-500/1767/142942/1767_142942_000027_000001|"That's no way of showing true friendship. You've no idea, peter, what a comfortable feeling it is to know that you can trust a friend, and I feel that Farmer Brown's boy is one of the best friends I've got.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty nine.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000000|Rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost were not far behind Honker the Goose.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000001|In a night peter Rabbit's world was transformed.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000002|It had become a new world, a world of pure white.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000003|The last laggard among Peter's feathered friends who spend the winter in the far away South had hurried away.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000004|Still peter was not lonely.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000005|Tommy Tit's cheery voice greeted peter the very first thing that morning after the storm.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000002_000006|Tommy seemed to be in just as good spirits as ever he had been in summer.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000003_000000|Now peter rather likes the snow.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000003_000001|He likes to run about in it, and so he followed Tommy Tit up to the Old Orchard.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000003_000002|He felt sure that he would find company there besides Tommy Tit, and he was not disappointed.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000003_000003|Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers were getting their breakfast from a piece of suet Farmer Brown's boy had thoughtfully fastened in one of the apple trees for them.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000003_000004|Sammy Jay was there also, and his blue coat never had looked better than it did against the pure white of the snow.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000004_000001|It was the voice of Yank Yank the Nuthatch, and while it was far from being sweet there was in it something of good cheer and contentment.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000004_000002|At once peter hurried in the direction from which it came.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000005_000000|On the trunk of an apple tree he caught sight of a gray and black and white bird about the size of Downy the Woodpecker.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000005_000001|The top of his head and upper part of his back were shining black.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000005_000002|The rest of his back was bluish gray.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000005_000003|The sides of his head and his breast were white.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000005_000004|The outer feathers of his tail were black with white patches near their tips.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000006_000000|But peter didn't need to see how Yank Yank was dressed in order to recognize him.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000006_000003|He was walking head first down the trunk of that tree, picking tiny eggs of insects from the bark and seemingly quite as much at home and quite as unconcerned in that queer position as if he were right side up.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000007_000000|As peter approached, Yank Yank lifted his head and called a greeting which sounded very much like the repetition of his own name.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000008_000000|"Welcome home, Yank Yank!" cried peter, hurrying up quite out of breath.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000009_000001|"You're mistaken peter," said he. "This isn't home.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000009_000002|I've simply come down here for the winter.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000009_000003|You know home is where you raise your children, and my home is in the Great Woods farther north.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000009_000004|There is too much ice and snow up there, so I have come down here to spend the winter."
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000010_000001|The Old Orchard wouldn't be quite the same without you.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000010_000002|Did you have a pleasant summer? And if you please, Yank Yank, tell me where you built your home and what it was like."
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000012_000000|"Yes," retorted peter promptly.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000012_000001|"I want to know how it is that you can walk head first down the trunk of a tree without losing your balance and tumbling off."
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000013_000000|Yank Yank chuckled happily.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000013_000001|"I discovered a long time ago, peter," said he, "that the people who get on best in this world are those who make the most of what they have and waste no time wishing they could have what other people have.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000013_000003|They have become so dependent on them that they don't dare move about on the trunk of a tree without using them.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000013_000004|If they want to come down a tree they have to back down.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000014_000001|Each toe has a sharp claw.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000014_000002|When I go up a tree the three front claws on each foot hook into the bark.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000014_000005|When he reappeared peter had another question ready.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000016_000000|"I should say not!" exclaimed Yank Yank.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000016_000001|"I like acorns and beechnuts and certain kinds of seeds."
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000017_000000|"I don't see how such a little fellow as you can eat such hard things as acorns and beechnuts," protested peter a little doubtfully.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000018_000000|Yank Yank laughed right out.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000018_000003|It really is quite easy when you know how.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000018_000005|Hello!
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000018_000007|I haven't seen him since we were together up North.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000018_000008|His home was not far from mine."
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000019_000000|As Yank Yank spoke, a little brown bird alighted at the very foot of the next tree.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000019_000001|He was just a trifle bigger than Jenny Wren but not at all like Jenny, for while Jenny's tail usually is cocked up in the sauciest way, Seep Seep's tail is never cocked up at all.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000019_000002|In fact, it bends down, for Seep Seep uses his tail just as the members of the Woodpecker family use theirs.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000019_000003|He was dressed in grayish brown above and grayish white beneath.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000019_000004|Across each wing was a little band of buffy white, and his bill was curved just a little.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000020_000001|His way of climbing that tree was very like creeping, and peter thought to himself that Seep Seep was well named the Brown Creeper.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000020_000002|He knew it was quite useless to try to get Seep Seep to talk, He knew that Seep Seep wouldn't waste any time that way.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000021_000001|He wasted no time exploring the branches, but stuck to the trunk.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000021_000002|Once in a while he would cry in a thin little voice, "Seep!
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000022_000001|"No," he replied.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000022_000003|In behind this he tucks his nest made of twigs, strips of bark and moss.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000022_000005|By the way, peter, have you seen anything of Dotty the Tree Sparrow?"
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000023_000000|"Not yet," replied peter, "but I think he must be here.
train-other-500/1767/142944/1767_142944_000023_000001|I'm glad you reminded me of him.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000003_000000|twenty nine
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000004_000000|Poetry and Prose
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000005_000000|For the next month Anne lived in what, for Avonlea, might be called a whirl of excitement.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000005_000001|The preparation of her own modest outfit for Redmond was of secondary importance.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000005_000002|Miss Lavendar was getting ready to be married and the stone house was the scene of endless consultations and plannings and discussions, with Charlotta the Fourth hovering on the outskirts of things in agitated delight and wonder.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000005_000003|Then the dressmaker came, and there was the rapture and wretchedness of choosing fashions and being fitted.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000006_000000|Everybody concerned in Miss Lavendar's story was very happy.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000006_000001|Paul Irving rushed to Green Gables to talk the news over with Anne as soon as his father had told him.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000007_000000|"I knew I could trust father to pick me out a nice little second mother," he said proudly.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000007_000001|"It's a fine thing to have a father you can depend on, teacher.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000007_000002|I just love Miss Lavendar.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000007_000005|But I hope she won't give her queer notions up, teacher, because I like them.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000007_000006|And I don't want her to be like other people.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000007_000008|YOU know, teacher."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000008_000000|Charlotta the Fourth was another radiant person.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000009_000000|"Oh, Miss Shirley, ma'am, it has all turned out so beautiful.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000009_000003|He just worships the ground she treads on and it makes me feel so queer sometimes to see the look in his eyes when he's watching her.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000009_000004|It beggars description, Miss Shirley, ma'am.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000009_000005|I'm awful thankful they're so fond of each other.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000009_000008|But I think she took a resk, Miss Shirley, ma'am."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000000|"Oh, it's all so romantic," breathed Anne to Marilla that night.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000002|mr Irving says whenever he got that letter he made up his mind to send his partner to San Francisco and come here instead.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000003|He hadn't heard anything of Miss Lavendar for fifteen years.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000005|And now everything has come right.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000006|And I had a hand in bringing it about.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000008|But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000010_000009|Yes indeed, it's very romantic."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000011_000000|"I can't see that it's so terribly romantic at all," said Marilla rather crisply.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000011_000001|Marilla thought Anne was too worked up about it and had plenty to do with getting ready for college without "traipsing" to Echo Lodge two days out of three helping Miss Lavendar.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000011_000002|"In the first place two young fools quarrel and turn sulky; then Steve Irving goes to the States and after a spell gets married up there and is perfectly happy from all accounts.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000011_000005|Now, where is the romance in all that?"
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000012_000000|"Oh, there isn't any, when you put it that way," gasped Anne, rather as if somebody had thrown cold water over her.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000012_000001|"I suppose that's how it looks in prose.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000012_000003|"to look at it through poetry."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000013_000000|Marilla glanced at the radiant young face and refrained from further sarcastic comments.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000014_000000|"When's the wedding to be?" she asked after a pause.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000000|"The last Wednesday in August.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000002|Marilla, that IS romantic, even in prose.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000003|There's to be nobody there except mrs Irving and Paul and Gilbert and Diana and I, and Miss Lavendar's cousins.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000004|And they will leave on the six o'clock train for a trip to the Pacific coast.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000005|When they come back in the fall Paul and Charlotta the Fourth are to go up to Boston to live with them.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000006|But Echo Lodge is to be left just as it is. . . only of course they'll sell the hens and cow, and board up the windows . . . and every summer they're coming down to live in it.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000007|I'm so glad.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000008|It would have hurt me dreadfully next winter at Redmond to think of that dear stone house all stripped and deserted, with empty rooms . . . or far worse still, with other people living in it.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000015_000009|But I can think of it now, just as I've always seen it, waiting happily for the summer to bring life and laughter back to it again."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000016_000000|There was more romance in the world than that which had fallen to the share of the middle aged lovers of the stone house.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000016_000002|Diana Barry and Fred Wright were standing together under the big willow.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000016_000003|Diana was leaning against the gray trunk, her lashes cast down on very crimson cheeks.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000016_000004|One hand was held by Fred, who stood with his face bent toward her, stammering something in low earnest tones.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000016_000005|There were no other people in the world except their two selves at that magic moment; so neither of them saw Anne, who, after one dazed glance of comprehension, turned and sped noiselessly back through the spruce wood, never stopping till she gained her own gable room, where she sat breathlessly down by her window and tried to collect her scattered wits.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000017_000000|"Diana and Fred are in love with each other," she gasped.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000017_000001|"Oh, it does seem so . . . so . . . so HOPELESSLY grown up."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000018_000002|This was succeeded by a queer, little lonely feeling . . . as if, somehow, Diana had gone forward into a new world, shutting a gate behind her, leaving Anne on the outside.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000019_000001|"And I'm afraid that this can't help making some difference between Diana and me.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000019_000002|I'm sure I can't tell her all my secrets after this . . . she might tell Fred.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000019_000003|And what CAN she see in Fred?
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000019_000004|He's very nice and jolly . . . but he's just Fred Wright."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000020_000002|Diana came to Green Gables the next evening, a pensive, shy young lady, and told Anne the whole story in the dusky seclusion of the east gable.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000020_000003|Both girls cried and kissed and laughed.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000021_000000|"I'm so happy," said Diana, "but it does seem ridiculous to think of me being engaged."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000022_000000|"What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000025_000000|"Oh, Anne, you don't understand," said Diana in vexation.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000025_000002|Never mind, you'll understand sometime, when your own turn comes."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000026_000000|"Bless you, dearest of Dianas, I understand now.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000026_000001|What is an imagination for if not to enable you to peep at life through other people's eyes?"
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000027_000001|Promise me that . . . wherever you may be when I'm married."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000028_000000|"I'll come from the ends of the earth if necessary," promised Anne solemnly.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000029_000000|"Of course, it won't be for ever so long yet," said Diana, blushing. "Three years at the very least . . . for I'm only eighteen and mother says no daughter of hers shall be married before she's twenty one.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000029_000002|But three years isn't any too much time to get ready for housekeeping, for I haven't a speck of fancy work made yet.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000029_000003|But I'm going to begin crocheting doilies tomorrow.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000029_000004|Myra Gillis had thirty seven doilies when she was married and I'm determined I shall have as many as she had."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000030_000000|"I suppose it would be perfectly impossible to keep house with only thirty six doilies," conceded Anne, with a solemn face but dancing eyes.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000031_000000|Diana looked hurt.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000032_000000|"I didn't think you'd make fun of me, Anne," she said reproachfully.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000033_000000|"Dearest, I wasn't making fun of you," cried Anne repentantly.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000033_000001|"I was only teasing you a bit.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000033_000002|I think you'll make the sweetest little housekeeper in the world.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000033_000003|And I think it's perfectly lovely of you to be planning already for your home o'dreams."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000034_000001|It was, of course, tenanted by an ideal master, dark, proud, and melancholy; but oddly enough, Gilbert Blythe persisted in hanging about too, helping her arrange pictures, lay out gardens, and accomplish sundry other tasks which a proud and melancholy hero evidently considered beneath his dignity.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000035_000001|But somehow I wouldn't want Fred to be tall and slender . . . because, don't you see, he wouldn't be Fred then. Of course," added Diana rather dolefully, "we will be a dreadfully pudgy couple.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000035_000002|But after all that's better than one of us being short and fat and the other tall and lean, like Morgan Sloane and his wife.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000035_000003|mrs Lynde says it always makes her think of the long and short of it when she sees them together."
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000036_000000|"Well," said Anne to herself that night, as she brushed her hair before her gilt framed mirror, "I am glad Diana is so happy and satisfied. But when my turn comes . . . if it ever does . . .
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000036_000001|I do hope there'll be something a little more thrilling about it.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000036_000002|But then Diana thought so too, once.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000036_000003|I've heard her say time and again she'd never get engaged any poky commonplace way . . . he'd HAVE to do something splendid to win her. But she has changed.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000036_000004|Perhaps I'll change too.
train-other-500/177/122839/177_122839_000036_000005|But I won't . . . and I'm determined I won't.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000002_000000|FROM JOY TO DEATH
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000003_000001|The jed of lesser Helium with a small party of nobles accompanied them all the way to Thark to cement more closely the new bonds of peace and friendship.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000004_000000|Sola also accompanied Tars Tarkas, her father, who before all his chieftains had acknowledged her as his daughter.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000006_000000|For nine years I served in the councils and fought in the armies of Helium as a prince of the house of Tardos Mors.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000006_000001|The people seemed never to tire of heaping honors upon me, and no day passed that did not bring some new proof of their love for my princess, the incomparable Dejah Thoris.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000012_000000|On the raised platform of the throne was Tardos Mors, pacing back and forth with tense drawn face.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000012_000001|When all were in their seats he turned toward us.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000013_000000|"This morning," he said, "word reached the several governments of Barsoom that the keeper of the atmosphere plant had made no wireless report for two days, nor had almost ceaseless calls upon him from a score of capitals elicited a sign of response.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000014_000000|"The ambassadors of the other nations asked us to take the matter in hand and hasten the assistant keeper to the plant.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000015_000000|"I do not need to tell you what this means to Barsoom.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000015_000002|The instruments show a rapidly decreasing air pressure on all parts of Barsoom-the engine has stopped."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000017_000000|There was absolute silence for several minutes, and then a young noble arose, and with his drawn sword held high above his head addressed Tardos Mors.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000018_000000|"The men of Helium have prided themselves that they have ever shown Barsoom how a nation of red men should live, now is our opportunity to show them how they should die.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000018_000001|Let us go about our duties as though a thousand useful years still lay before us."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000021_000000|"We have been very happy, john Carter," she said, "and I thank whatever fate overtakes us that it permits us to die together."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000022_000000|The next two days brought no noticeable change in the supply of air, but on the morning of the third day breathing became difficult at the higher altitudes of the rooftops.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000022_000001|The avenues and plazas of Helium were filled with people.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000022_000002|All business had ceased.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000023_000000|Toward the middle of the day many of the weaker commenced to succumb and within an hour the people of Barsoom were sinking by thousands into the unconsciousness which precedes death by asphyxiation.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000026_000000|As it was becoming perceptibly difficult to breathe Tardos Mors arose, saying,
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000027_000000|"Let us bid each other farewell.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000027_000001|The days of the greatness of Barsoom are over.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000027_000003|It is the end."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000028_000000|He stooped and kissed the women of his family, and laid his strong hand upon the shoulders of the men.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000029_000000|As I turned sadly from him my eyes fell upon Dejah Thoris.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000030_000000|Her eyes opened and looked into mine.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000031_000000|"Kiss me, john Carter," she murmured.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000031_000001|"I love you!
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000031_000002|I love you!
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000031_000003|It is cruel that we must be torn apart who were just starting upon a life of love and happiness."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000032_000000|As I pressed her dear lips to mine the old feeling of unconquerable power and authority rose in me.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000033_000000|"It shall not be, my princess," I cried.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000033_000001|"There is, there must be some way, and john Carter, who has fought his way through a strange world for love of you, will find it."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000034_000000|And with my words there crept above the threshold of my conscious mind a series of nine long forgotten sounds.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000034_000001|Like a flash of lightning in the darkness their full purport dawned upon me-the key to the three great doors of the atmosphere plant!
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000035_000000|Turning suddenly toward Tardos Mors as I still clasped my dying love to my breast I cried.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000036_000000|"A flier, Jeddak!
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000036_000001|Quick!
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000038_000000|Kissing Dejah Thoris a dozen times and commanding Woola, who would have followed me, to remain and guard her, I bounded with my old agility and strength to the high ramparts of the palace, and in another moment I was headed toward the goal of the hopes of all Barsoom.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000039_000000|I had to fly low to get sufficient air to breathe, but I took a straight course across an old sea bottom and so had to rise only a few feet above the ground.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000040_000000|I traveled with awful velocity for my errand was a race against time with death.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000040_000001|The face of Dejah Thoris hung always before me.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000043_000000|Conditions seemed much worse here than at Helium, and it was with difficulty that I breathed at all.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000044_000000|"If I can open these doors is there a man who can start the engines?" I asked.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000045_000000|"I can," he replied, "if you open quickly.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000045_000001|I can last but a few moments more.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000045_000002|But it is useless, they are both dead and no one else upon Barsoom knew the secret of these awful locks.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000045_000003|For three days men crazed with fear have surged about this portal in vain attempts to solve its mystery."
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000046_000000|I had no time to talk, I was becoming very weak and it was with difficulty that I controlled my mind at all.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000047_000000|But, with a final effort, as I sank weakly to my knees I hurled the nine thought waves at that awful thing before me.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000047_000001|The Martian had crawled to my side and with staring eyes fixed on the single panel before us we waited in the silence of death.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000048_000000|Slowly the mighty door receded before us.
train-other-500/177/123525/177_123525_000049_000000|"After it," I cried to my companion, "and if you reach the pump room turn loose all the pumps.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty three.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000001_000001|THE CAUSE AND BERTRAM
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000002_000000|February came The operetta, for which Billy was working so hard, was to be given the twentieth.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000002_000001|The Art Exhibition, for which Bertram was preparing his four pictures, was to open the sixteenth, with a private view for specially invited friends the evening before.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000003_000000|On the eleventh day of February mrs Greggory and her daughter arrived at Hillside for a ten days' visit.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000003_000001|Not until after a great deal of pleading and argument, however, had Billy been able to bring this about.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000004_000000|"But, my dears, both of you," Billy had at last said to them; "just listen.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000004_000001|We shall have numberless rehearsals during those last ten days before the thing comes off.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000004_000002|They will be at all hours, and of all lengths.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000004_000003|You, Miss Greggory, will have to be on hand for them all, of course, and will have to stay all night several times, probably.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000004_000005|There is no sensible, valid reason why you should not both come out to the house for those ten days; and I shall feel seriously hurt and offended if you do not consent to do it."
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000005_000000|"But-my pupils," Alice Greggory had demurred.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000006_000001|Meanwhile your mother will be having a lovely time teaching Aunt Hannah how to knit a new shawl; so you won't have to be worrying about her."
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000007_000000|After all, it had been the great good and pleasure which the visit would bring to mrs Greggory that had been the final straw to tip the scales. On the eleventh of February, therefore, in the company of the once scorned "Peggy and Mary Jane," Alice Greggory and her mother had arrived at Hillside.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000008_000000|Ever since the first meeting of Alice Greggory and Arkwright, Billy had been sorely troubled by the conduct of the two young people.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000008_000001|She had, as she mournfully told herself, been able to make nothing of it.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000008_000002|The two were civility itself to each other, but very plainly they were not at ease in each other's company; and Billy, much to her surprise, had to admit that Arkwright did not appear to appreciate the "circumstances" now that he had them.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000008_000003|The pair called each other, ceremoniously, "mr Arkwright," and "Miss Greggory"--but then, that, of course, did not "signify," Billy declared to herself.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000009_000000|"I suppose you don't ever call him 'Mary Jane,'" she said to the girl, a little mischievously, one day.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000010_000000|"'Mary Jane'?
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000010_000001|mr Arkwright?
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000010_000002|No, I don't," rejoined Miss Greggory, with an odd smile.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000010_000003|Then, after a moment, she added: "I believe his brothers and sisters used to, however."
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000011_000000|"Yes, I know," laughed Billy.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000011_000001|"We thought he was a real Mary Jane, once." And she told the story of his arrival.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000011_000003|By the way, what is his name?"
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000012_000000|Miss Greggory looked up in surprise.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000013_000000|"Why, it's-"
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000013_000001|She stopped short, her eyes questioning.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000013_000002|"Why, hasn't he ever told you?" she queried.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000014_000000|Billy lifted her chin.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000015_000000|"no
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000016_000000|"'Methuselah john,' indeed!" laughed the other, merrily.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000017_000000|"Well, I'm sure that's a nice, solid name," defended Billy, her chin still at a challenging tilt.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000017_000001|"If it isn't 'Methuselah john,' what is it, then?"
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000018_000000|But Alice Greggory shook her head.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000018_000001|She, too, it seemed, could be firm, on occasion.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000018_000002|And though she smiled brightly, all she would say, was:
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000020_000000|"Oh, well, I can still call him 'Mary Jane,'" retorted Billy, with airy disdain.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000021_000000|All this, however, so far as Billy could see, was not in the least helping along the cause that had become so dear to her-the reuniting of a pair of lovers.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000021_000001|It occurred to her then, one day, that perhaps, after all, they were not lovers, and did not wish to be reunited.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000021_000002|At this disquieting thought Billy decided, suddenly, to go almost to headquarters.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000021_000004|Great was her joy, therefore, when, a day or two after the Greggorys arrived at the house, mrs Greggory's chance reference to Arkwright and her daughter gave Billy the opportunity she sought.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000022_000000|"They used to know each other long ago, mr Arkwright tells me," Billy began warily.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000023_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000024_000000|The quietly polite monosyllable was not very encouraging, to be sure; but Billy, secure in her conviction that her cause was a righteous one, refused to be daunted.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000025_000000|"I think it was so romantic-their running across each other like this, mrs Greggory," she murmured.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000026_000000|Billy held her breath.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000026_000001|It was what she had meant to say, but now that she had said it, the words seemed very fearsome indeed-to say to mrs Greggory.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000026_000002|Then Billy remembered her Cause, and took heart-Billy was spelling it now with a capital c
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000027_000000|For a long minute mrs Greggory did not answer-for so long a minute that Billy's breath dropped into a fluttering sigh, and her Cause became suddenly "IMPERTINENCE" spelled in black capitals.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000027_000001|Then mrs Greggory spoke slowly, a little sadly.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000028_000000|"I don't mind saying to you that I did hope, once, that there would be a romance there.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000028_000001|They were the best of friends, and they were well suited to each other in tastes and temperament.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000028_000003|Her voice, when she resumed, carried the stern note so familiar to Billy in her first acquaintance with this woman and her daughter.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000028_000004|"As I presume mr Arkwright has told you, we have met with many changes in our life-changes which necessitated a new home and a new mode of living.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000028_000005|Naturally, under those circumstances, old friends-and old romances-must change, too."
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000029_000000|"But, mrs Greggory," stammered Billy, "I'm sure mr Arkwright would want-" An up lifted hand silenced her peremptorily.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000031_000000|"No, indeed, of course not!" cried Billy; but her heart rejoiced.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000032_000000|She understood it all now.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000032_000001|Arkwright and Alice Greggory had been almost lovers when the charges against the Judge's honor had plunged the family into despairing humiliation.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000032_000002|Then had come the time when, according to Arkwright's own story, the two women had shut themselves indoors, refused to see their friends, and left town as soon as possible.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000032_000003|Thus had come the breaking of whatever tie there was between Alice Greggory and Arkwright.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000032_000004|Not to have broken it would have meant, for Alice, the placing of herself in a position where, sometime, apologies must be made for her father.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000033_000001|Did she not have it in her power, possibly-even probably-to bring happiness where only sadness was before?
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000034_000001|It was, instead, a shining beacon in letters of flame guiding straight to victory.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000035_000000|Billy went to sleep that night making plans for Alice Greggory and Arkwright to be thrown together naturally-"just as a matter of course, you know," she said drowsily to herself, all in the dark.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000036_000000|Some three or four miles away down Beacon Street at that moment Bertram Henshaw, in the Strata, was, as it happened, not falling asleep.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000036_000001|He was lying broadly and unhappily awake Bertram very frequently lay broadly and unhappily awake these days-or rather nights.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000036_000003|At the same time, deep within his fearful soul was the consciousness that Arkwright, the Greggorys, and the operetta were but Music-Music, the spectre that from the first had dogged his footsteps.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000037_000000|With Billy's behavior toward himself, Bertram could find no fault.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000039_000002|I loathe that operetta!"
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000040_000000|Billy laughed, but she frowned, too.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000041_000000|"I know, dear; I don't like that part.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000041_000002|But as for the operetta, it is really a good thing, dear, and you'll say so when you see it.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000041_000003|It's going to be a great success-I can say that because my part is only a small one, you know. We shall make lots of money for the Home, too, I'm sure."
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000042_000000|"But you're wearing yourself all out with it, dear," scowled Bertram.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000043_000000|"Nonsense!
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000043_000001|I like it; besides, when I'm doing this I'm not telephoning you to come and amuse me.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000043_000002|Just think what a lot of extra time you have for your work!"
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000044_000000|"Don't want it," avowed Bertram.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000046_000000|"Thank heaven for that!" Bertram had breathed fervently.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000046_000001|But even as he said the words he grew sick with fear.
train-other-500/177/55218/177_55218_000047_000000|Bertram knew that however secure might seem Billy's affection for himself, there was still in his own mind a horrid fear lest underneath that security were an unconscious, growing fondness for something he could not give, for some one that he was not-a fondness that would one day cause Billy to awake.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000000_000001|The majority of the inhabitants either direct their energies to the letting of furnished apartments, or devote themselves to the healthful and invigorating pursuit of mangling.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000000_000002|The chief features in the still life of the street are green shutters, lodging bills, brass door plates, and bell handles; the principal specimens of animated nature, the pot boy, the muffin youth, and the baked potato man.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000000_000003|The population is migratory, usually disappearing on the verge of quarter day, and generally by night.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000000_000004|His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000001_000000|mr Bob Sawyer embellished one side of the fire, in his first floor front, early on the evening for which he had invited mr Pickwick, and mr Ben Allen the other.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000001_000001|The preparations for the reception of visitors appeared to be completed.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000001_000003|mr Bob Sawyer had himself purchased the spirits at a wine vaults in High Street, and had returned home preceding the bearer thereof, to preclude the possibility of their delivery at the wrong house.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000002_000000|Notwithstanding the highly satisfactory nature of all these arrangements, there was a cloud on the countenance of mr Bob Sawyer, as he sat by the fireside.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000002_000002|She might at least have waited till to morrow.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000003_000000|'That's her malevolence-that's her malevolence,' returned mr Bob Sawyer vehemently.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000004_000000|'Only a quarter, and a month or so,' replied mr Bob Sawyer.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000006_000000|'It'll be a deuced unpleasant thing if she takes it into her head to let out, when those fellows are here, won't it?' said mr Ben Allen at length.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000007_000001|mr Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in; whereupon a dirty, slipshod girl in black cotton stockings, who might have passed for the neglected daughter of a superannuated dustman in very reduced circumstances, thrust in her head, and said-
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000008_000000|'Please, Mister Sawyer, Missis Raddle wants to speak to you.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000014_000001|'I didn't want it particular before to day; leastways, as it has to go to my landlord directly, it was as well for you to keep it as me.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000014_000002|You promised me this afternoon, mr Sawyer, and every gentleman as has ever lived here, has kept his word, Sir, as of course anybody as calls himself a gentleman does.' mrs Raddle tossed her head, bit her lips, rubbed her hands harder, and looked at the wall more steadily than ever.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000014_000003|It was plain to see, as mr Bob Sawyer remarked in a style of Eastern allegory on a subsequent occasion, that she was 'getting the steam up.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000015_000000|'I am very sorry, mrs Raddle,' said Bob Sawyer, with all imaginable humility, 'but the fact is, that I have been disappointed in the City to day.'--Extraordinary place that City.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000015_000001|An astonishing number of men always ARE getting disappointed there.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000016_000000|'Well, mr Sawyer,' said mrs Raddle, planting herself firmly on a purple cauliflower in the Kidderminster carpet, 'and what's that to me, Sir?'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000018_000000|This was all mrs Raddle wanted.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000018_000001|She had bustled up to the apartment of the unlucky Bob Sawyer, so bent upon going into a passion, that, in all probability, payment would have rather disappointed her than otherwise. She was in excellent order for a little relaxation of the kind, having just exchanged a few introductory compliments with mr r in the front kitchen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000019_000000|'Do you suppose, mr Sawyer,' said mrs Raddle, elevating her voice for the information of the neighbours-'do you suppose that I'm a going day after day to let a fellar occupy my lodgings as never thinks of paying his rent, nor even the very money laid out for the fresh butter and lump sugar that's bought for his breakfast, and the very milk that's took in, at the street door?
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000019_000002|Do you-'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000020_000000|'My good soul,' interposed mr Benjamin Allen soothingly.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000021_000001|I don't think I let these apartments to you, Sir.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000023_000000|'Very good, Sir,' responded mrs Raddle, with lofty politeness.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000027_000000|'I beg your parding, young man,' demanded mrs Raddle, in a louder and more imperative tone.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000027_000001|'But who do you call a woman?
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000027_000002|Did you make that remark to me, sir?'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000028_000000|'Why, bless my heart!' said mr Benjamin Allen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000029_000000|'Did you apply that name to me, I ask of you, sir?' interrupted mrs Raddle, with intense fierceness, throwing the door wide open.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000030_000000|'Why, of course I did,' replied mr Benjamin Allen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000031_000000|'Yes, of course you did,' said mrs Raddle, backing gradually to the door, and raising her voice to its loudest pitch, for the special behoof of mr Raddle in the kitchen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000031_000001|'Yes, of course you did!
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000033_000000|'Yes,' said the girl, 'first floor.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000034_000000|mr Snodgrass, who entered last, secured the street door, after several ineffectual efforts, by putting up the chain; and the friends stumbled upstairs, where they were received by mr Bob Sawyer, who had been afraid to go down, lest he should be waylaid by mrs Raddle.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000035_000000|'How are you?' said the discomfited student.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000037_000000|'Don't mention it, don't mention it,' said Bob Sawyer. 'I'm rather confined for room here, but you must put up with all that, when you come to see a young bachelor.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000037_000001|Walk in.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000037_000002|You've seen this gentleman before, I think?' mr Pickwick shook hands with mr Benjamin Allen, and his friends followed his example.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000037_000003|They had scarcely taken their seats when there was another double knock.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000038_000000|'I hope that's Jack Hopkins!' said mr Bob Sawyer. 'Hush.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000038_000001|Yes, it is. Come up, Jack; come up.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000039_000000|A heavy footstep was heard upon the stairs, and Jack Hopkins presented himself.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000040_000000|'You're late, Jack?' said mr Benjamin Allen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000041_000000|'Been detained at Bartholomew's,' replied Hopkins.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000042_000000|'Anything new?'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000043_000000|'No, nothing particular.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000043_000001|Rather a good accident brought into the casualty ward.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000044_000000|'What was that, sir?' inquired mr Pickwick.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000045_000000|'Only a man fallen out of a four pair of stairs' window; but it's a very fair case indeed.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000046_000000|'Do you mean that the patient is in a fair way to recover?' inquired mr Pickwick. 'No,' replied mr Hopkins carelessly.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000046_000001|'No, I should rather say he wouldn't.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000046_000002|There must be a splendid operation, though, to morrow-magnificent sight if Slasher does it.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000048_000000|'Dear me!' said mr Pickwick, astonished.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000050_000000|'Nothing at all,' replied mr Bob Sawyer.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000051_000000|'By the bye, Bob,' said Hopkins, with a scarcely perceptible glance at mr Pickwick's attentive face, 'we had a curious accident last night.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000052_000000|'Swallowed what, Sir?' interrupted mr Pickwick. 'A necklace,' replied Jack Hopkins. 'Not all at once, you know, that would be too much-you couldn't swallow that, if the child did-eh, mr Pickwick?
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000052_000001|ha, ha!' mr Hopkins appeared highly gratified with his own pleasantry, and continued-'No, the way was this.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000052_000002|Child's parents were poor people who lived in a court.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000052_000003|Child's eldest sister bought a necklace-common necklace, made of large black wooden beads.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000053_000000|'Bless my heart,' said mr Pickwick, 'what a dreadful thing!
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000053_000001|I beg your pardon, Sir.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000053_000002|Go on.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000054_000003|"Don't do that, my boy," said the father.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000054_000005|"Well, don't do it again," said the father.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000054_000006|There was a short silence, and then the noise began again, worse than ever.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000054_000007|"If you don't mind what I say, my boy," said the father, "you'll find yourself in bed, in something less than a pig's whisper." He gave the child a shake to make him obedient, and such a rattling ensued as nobody ever heard before.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000054_000009|He's in the hospital now,' said Jack Hopkins, 'and he makes such a devil of a noise when he walks about, that they're obliged to muffle him in a watchman's coat, for fear he should wake the patients.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000055_000000|'That's the most extraordinary case I ever heard of,' said mr Pickwick, with an emphatic blow on the table.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000056_000000|'Oh, that's nothing,' said Jack Hopkins.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000056_000001|'Is it, Bob?'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000057_000000|'Certainly not,' replied Bob Sawyer.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000058_000000|'Very singular things occur in our profession, I can assure you, Sir,' said Hopkins.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000060_000000|Another knock at the door announced a large headed young man in a black wig, who brought with him a scorbutic youth in a long stock.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000061_000000|When the last 'natural' had been declared, and the profit and loss account of fish and sixpences adjusted, to the satisfaction of all parties, mr Bob Sawyer rang for supper, and the visitors squeezed themselves into corners while it was getting ready.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000062_000000|it was not so easily got ready as some people may imagine.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000062_000002|However, there was plenty of porter in a tin can; and the cheese went a great way, for it was very strong.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000062_000003|So upon the whole, perhaps, the supper was quite as good as such matters usually are.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000063_000000|After supper, another jug of punch was put upon the table, together with a paper of cigars, and a couple of bottles of spirits.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000065_000000|It is a very ill wind that blows nobody any good.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000065_000003|He enlarged at some length and with great minuteness upon divers collateral circumstances, distantly connected with the anecdote in hand, but for the life of him he couldn't recollect at that precise moment what the anecdote was, although he had been in the habit of telling the story with great applause for the last ten years.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000066_000000|'Dear me,' said the prim man in the cloth boots, 'it is a very extraordinary circumstance.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000067_000000|'I am sorry you have forgotten it,' said mr Bob Sawyer, glancing eagerly at the door, as he thought he heard the noise of glasses jingling; 'very sorry.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000068_000001|Never mind; I dare say I shall manage to recollect it, in the course of half an hour or so.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000069_000000|The prim man arrived at this point just as the glasses came back, when mr Bob Sawyer, who had been absorbed in attention during the whole time, said he should very much like to hear the end of it, for, so far as it went, it was, without exception, the very best story he had ever heard.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000071_000000|'You can't have no warm water,' replied Betsy.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000072_000000|'No warm water!' exclaimed mr Bob Sawyer.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000074_000000|The surprise depicted on the countenances of his guests imparted new courage to the host.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000075_000000|'Bring up the warm water instantly-instantly!' said mr Bob Sawyer, with desperate sternness.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000076_000000|'no
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000076_000001|I can't,' replied the girl; 'Missis Raddle raked out the kitchen fire afore she went to bed, and locked up the kittle.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000077_000001|Pray don't disturb yourself about such a trifle,' said mr Pickwick, observing the conflict of Bob Sawyer's passions, as depicted in his countenance, 'cold water will do very well.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000078_000000|'Oh, admirably,' said mr Benjamin Allen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000079_000000|'My landlady is subject to some slight attacks of mental derangement,' remarked Bob Sawyer, with a ghastly smile; 'I fear I must give her warning.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000080_000000|'No, don't,' said Ben Allen.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000081_000000|'I fear I must,' said Bob, with heroic firmness.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000081_000001|'I'll pay her what I owe her, and give her warning to morrow morning.' Poor fellow!
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000082_000002|'Sawyer,' said the scorbutic youth, in a loud voice.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000083_000000|'Well, Noddy,' replied mr Bob Sawyer.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000084_000000|'I should be very sorry, Sawyer,' said mr Noddy, 'to create any unpleasantness at any friend's table, and much less at yours, Sawyer-very; but I must take this opportunity of informing mr Gunter that he is no gentleman.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000085_000000|'And I should be very sorry, Sawyer, to create any disturbance in the street in which you reside,' said mr Gunter, 'but I'm afraid I shall be under the necessity of alarming the neighbours by throwing the person who has just spoken, out o' window.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000087_000000|'What I say, Sir,' replied mr Gunter.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000088_000000|'I should like to see you do it, Sir,' said mr Noddy.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000090_000000|'I request that you'll favour me with your card, Sir,' said mr Noddy.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000091_000000|'I'll do nothing of the kind, Sir,' replied mr Gunter.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000092_000000|'Why not, Sir?' inquired mr Noddy.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000093_000000|'Because you'll stick it up over your chimney piece, and delude your visitors into the false belief that a gentleman has been to see you, Sir,' replied mr Gunter.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000094_000000|'Sir, a friend of mine shall wait on you in the morning,' said mr Noddy.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000095_000000|'Sir, I'm very much obliged to you for the caution, and I'll leave particular directions with the servant to lock up the spoons,' replied mr Gunter.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000096_000001|As this announcement seemed the prelude to a recommencement of the dispute, there was another interference on the part of the company; and a vast quantity of talking and clamouring ensued, in the course of which mr Noddy gradually allowed his feelings to overpower him, and professed that he had ever entertained a devoted personal attachment towards mr Gunter.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000096_000002|To this mr Gunter replied that, upon the whole, he rather preferred mr Noddy to his own brother; on hearing which admission, mr Noddy magnanimously rose from his seat, and proffered his hand to mr Gunter.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000098_000000|It was at the end of the chorus to the first verse, that mr Pickwick held up his hand in a listening attitude, and said, as soon as silence was restored-
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000099_000000|'Hush!
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000099_000001|I beg your pardon.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000099_000002|I thought I heard somebody calling from upstairs.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000100_000000|A profound silence immediately ensued; and mr Bob Sawyer was observed to turn pale.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000101_000000|'I think I hear it now,' said mr Pickwick. 'Have the goodness to open the door.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000102_000000|The door was no sooner opened than all doubt on the subject was removed.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000103_000000|'mr Sawyer!
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000103_000001|mr Sawyer!' screamed a voice from the two pair landing.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000104_000000|'It's my landlady,' said Bob Sawyer, looking round him with great dismay.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000104_000001|'Yes, mrs Raddle.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000105_000000|'What do you mean by this, mr Sawyer?' replied the voice, with great shrillness and rapidity of utterance.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000106_000000|'You ought to be ashamed of yourselves,' said the voice of mr Raddle, which appeared to proceed from beneath some distant bed clothes.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000107_000000|'Ashamed of themselves!' said mrs Raddle. 'Why don't you go down and knock 'em every one downstairs?
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000108_000001|'DO you mean to turn them wretches out, or not, mr Sawyer?'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000109_000001|'I thought you were making too much noise.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000110_000000|'It's a very unfortunate thing,' said the prim man.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000111_000000|'It's hardly to be borne,' said the prim man, looking round.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000112_000001|Come, here goes!'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000113_000001|They are very violent people, the people of the house.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000114_000001|You may command me, Bob.'
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000119_000000|'My dear ma'am,' remonstrated mr Pickwick, looking up.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000120_000000|'Get along with you, old wretch!' replied mrs Raddle, hastily withdrawing the nightcap.
train-other-500/1772/135621/1772_135621_000121_000001|mr Ben Allen, who was dismally depressed with spirits and agitation, accompanied them as far as London Bridge, and in the course of the walk confided to mr Winkle, as an especially eligible person to intrust the secret to, that he was resolved to cut the throat of any gentleman, except mr Bob Sawyer, who should aspire to the affections of his sister Arabella.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000001_000000|THE FARMER AND THE BADGER
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000002_000001|Their only neighbor was a bad and malicious badger.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000002_000005|Then he laid traps for the wicked animal.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000003_000000|The farmer's trouble and patience was rewarded, for one fine day on going his rounds he found the badger caught in a hole he had dug for that purpose.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000003_000002|When he reached the house the farmer said to his wife:
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000004_000000|"I have at last caught the bad badger.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000005_000002|It was hard to think clearly in his uncomfortable position, for he had been hung upside down.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000005_000004|She looked tired and old.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000005_000005|Her face was seamed with many wrinkles, and was as brown as leather, and every now and then she stopped to wipe the perspiration which rolled down her face.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000006_000001|Won't you let me do that for you?
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000008_000000|Now, the badger is one of the most cunning of animals, and he said again in a very sad, gentle, voice:
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000009_000000|"You are very unkind.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000009_000001|You might untie me, for I promise not to try to escape.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000009_000002|If you are afraid of your husband, I will let you bind me again before his return when I have finished pounding the barley.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000009_000003|I am so tired and sore tied up like this.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000010_000001|Much less did she think that the badger was only deceiving her in order to get away.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000010_000002|She felt sorry, too, for the animal as she turned to look at him.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000010_000003|He looked in such a sad plight hanging downwards from the ceiling by his legs, which were all tied together so tightly that the rope and the knots were cutting into the skin.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000011_000000|The old woman then gave him the wooden pestle and told him to do the work for a short time while she rested.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000011_000001|He took the pestle, but instead of doing the work as he was told, the badger at once sprang upon the old woman and knocked her down with the heavy piece of wood.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000011_000002|He then killed her and cut her up and made soup of her, and waited for the return of the old farmer.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000012_000000|Towards sunset he left his work and turned to go home.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000012_000001|He was very tired, but the thought of the nice supper of hot badger soup awaiting his return cheered him.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000013_000000|The badger meanwhile assumed the old woman's form, and as soon as he saw the old farmer approaching came out to greet him on the veranda of the little house, saying:
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000014_000000|"So you have come back at last.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000014_000001|I have made the badger soup and have been waiting for you for a long time."
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000015_000000|The old farmer quickly took off his straw sandals and sat down before his tiny dinner tray.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000015_000001|The innocent man never even dreamed that it was not his wife but the badger who was waiting upon him, and asked at once for the soup.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000016_000001|Look out for the bones in the kitchen!"
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000001|The old man was left behind alone.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000002|He could hardly believe what he had seen and heard.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000003|Then when he understood the whole truth he was so scared and horrified that he fainted right away. After a while he came round and burst into tears.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000004|He cried loudly and bitterly.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000005|He rocked himself to and fro in his hopeless grief.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000011|The old man told him all that had happened.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000017_000012|When the rabbit heard the story he was very angry at the wicked and deceitful badger, and told the old man to leave everything to him and he would avenge his wife's death.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000019_000000|The next day the weather was fine, and the rabbit went out to find the badger.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000020_000000|The rabbit called out:
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000021_000000|"Why are you not out on such a beautiful day?
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000021_000001|Come out with me, and we will go and cut grass on the hills together."
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000022_000001|The rabbit led the way miles away from their homes, out on the hills where the grass grew tall and thick and sweet.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000022_000003|When they had each cut down all they wanted they tied it in bundles and then started homewards, each carrying his bundle of grass on his back.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000022_000004|This time the rabbit made the badger go first.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000023_000001|The badger heard the flint striking, and asked:
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000024_000000|"What is that noise.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000024_000001|'Crack, crack'?"
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000025_000000|"Oh, that is nothing." replied the rabbit; "I only said 'Crack, crack' because this mountain is called Crackling Mountain."
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000026_000000|The fire soon spread in the bundle of dry grass on the badger's back. The badger, hearing the crackle of the burning grass, asked, "What is that?"
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000027_000000|"Now we have come to the 'Burning Mountain,'" answered the rabbit.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000028_000000|By this time the bundle was nearly burned out and all the hair had been burned off the badger's back.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000028_000001|He now knew what had happened by the smell of the smoke of the burning grass.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000028_000002|Screaming with pain the badger ran as fast as he could to his hole.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000028_000003|The rabbit followed and found him lying on his bed groaning with pain.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000029_000000|"What an unlucky fellow you are!" said the rabbit.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000029_000001|"I can't imagine how this happened!
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000029_000002|I will bring you some medicine which will heal your back quickly!"
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000030_000000|The rabbit went away glad and smiling to think that the punishment upon the badger had already begun.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000031_000000|He carried this to the badger, but before putting it on he told him that it would cause him great pain, but that he must bear it patiently, because it was a very wonderful medicine for burns and scalds and such wounds.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000031_000001|The badger thanked him and begged him to apply it at once.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000031_000003|He rolled over and over and howled loudly.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000031_000004|The rabbit, looking on, felt that the farmer's wife was beginning to be avenged.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000032_000002|So he went one day to pay the badger a visit and to congratulate him on his recovery.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000034_000000|The badger listened with pleasure to the rabbit's account of the way he passed his time now, and forgot all his pains and his month's illness, and thought what fun it would be if he could go fishing too; so he asked the rabbit if he would take him the next time he went out to fish.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000034_000001|This was just what the rabbit wanted, so he agreed.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000035_000000|Then he went home and built two boats, one of wood and the other of clay.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000035_000001|At last they were both finished, and as the rabbit stood and looked at his work he felt that all his trouble would be well rewarded if his plan succeeded, and he could manage to kill the wicked badger now.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000036_000000|The day came when the rabbit had arranged to take the badger fishing. He kept the wooden boat himself and gave the badger the clay boat.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000036_000001|The badger, who knew nothing about boats, was delighted with his new boat and thought how kind it was of the rabbit to give it to him.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000036_000002|They both got into their boats and set out.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000036_000003|After going some distance from the shore the rabbit proposed that they should try their boats and see which one could go the quickest.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000036_000004|The badger fell in with the proposal, and they both set to work to row as fast as they could for some time. In the middle of the race the badger found his boat going to pieces, for the water now began to soften the clay.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000036_000005|He cried out in great fear to the rabbit to help him.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000037_000000|Thus at last he kept his promise to the old farmer.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000037_000001|The rabbit now turned and rowed shorewards, and having landed and pulled his boat upon the beach, hurried back to tell the old farmer everything, and how the badger, his enemy, had been killed.
train-other-500/1773/139602/1773_139602_000038_000000|The old farmer thanked him with tears in his eyes.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000005_000000|There was once upon a time a miller who was very well off, and had as much money and as many goods as he knew what to do with.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000005_000002|He wandered about all day full of despair and misery, and when he lay down at night he could get no rest, but lay awake all night sunk in sorrowful thoughts.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000006_000000|One morning he rose up before dawn and went outside, for he thought his heart would be lighter in the open air.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000009_000000|Then the nixy spoke comforting words to him, and promised that she would make him richer and more prosperous than he had ever been in his life before, if he would give her in return the youngest thing in his house.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000010_000001|On the threshold he was greeted by a servant with the news that his wife had just given birth to a boy.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000011_000000|The poor miller was much horrified by these tidings, and went in to his wife with a heavy heart to tell her and his relations of the fatal bargain he had just struck with the nixy.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000011_000001|'I would gladly give up all the good fortune she promised me,' he said, 'if I could only save my child.' But no one could think of any advice to give him, beyond taking care that the child never went near the mill pond.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000012_000000|So the boy throve and grew big, and in the meantime all prospered with the miller, and in a few years he was richer than he had ever been before.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000012_000001|But all the same he did not enjoy his good fortune, for he could not forget his compact with the nixy, and he knew that sooner or later she would demand his fulfilment of it.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000012_000003|In a short time he married a pretty young wife, and lived with her in great peace and happiness.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000013_000001|The hunter pursued it hotly for some time, and at last shot it dead.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000014_000002|At last, worn out with sorrow and fatigue, she fell asleep and dreamt that she was wandering along a flowery meadow, when she came to a hut where she found an old witch, who promised to restore her husband to her.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000015_000001|The poor wife told her all that had happened and how she had been told in a dream of the witch's power to help her.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000016_000001|The hunter's wife gave the witch a handsome present, thanked her heartily, and returned home.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000017_000000|Time dragged heavily till the time of the full moon, but it passed at last, and as soon as it rose the young wife went to the pond, combed her black hair with a golden comb, and when she had finished, placed the comb on the bank; then she watched the water impatiently.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000017_000001|Soon she heard a rushing sound, and a big wave rose suddenly and swept the comb off the bank, and a minute after the head of her husband rose from the pond and gazed sadly at her.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000017_000002|But immediately another wave came, and the head sank back into the water without having said a word.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000017_000003|The pond lay still and motionless, glittering in the moonshine, and the hunter's wife was not a bit better off than she had been before.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000018_000001|So next morning she went again to the flowery meadow and sought the witch in her hut, and told her of her grief.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000019_000000|As soon as the next moon was full the hunter's wife went to the mill pond, played on a golden flute, and when she had finished placed it on the bank.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000019_000003|But another rushing wave arose and dragged him under once more.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000021_000000|The hunter's wife did as she was advised, and the first night the moon was full she sat and spun with a golden spinning wheel, and then left the wheel on the bank.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000021_000001|In a few minutes a rushing sound was heard in the waters, and a wave swept the spinning wheel from the bank.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000023_000000|The hunter determined to become a shepherd, and his wife too became a shepherdess.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000023_000001|So they herded their sheep for many years in solitude and sadness.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000024_000000|Now it happened once that the shepherd came to the country where the shepherdess lived.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000024_000002|So he brought his sheep there, and herded them as before.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000025_000000|But one evening when the moon was full they sat together watching their flocks, and the shepherd played upon his flute.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000025_000001|Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the full moon by the mill pond and had played on the golden flute; the recollection was too much for her, and she burst into tears.
train-other-500/1773/145712/1773_145712_000025_000003|Then the scales fell from the shepherd's eyes, and he recognised his wife, and she him.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000004_000000|There was once upon a time a witch, who in the shape of a hawk used every night to break the windows of a certain village church.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000004_000001|In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000007_000000|His eyelids closed, and his head sank on his shoulders, but the thorns ran into him and were so painful that he awoke at once.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000007_000001|He saw the hawk swooping down upon the church, and in a moment he had seized his gun and shot at the bird.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000007_000002|The hawk fell heavily under a big stone, severely wounded in its right wing.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000007_000005|They fastened some of the burning pine wood to the end of the rope, and let it slowly down to the bottom of the abyss.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000007_000007|Here he found a lovely meadow full of green trees and exquisite flowers.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000008_000000|In the middle of the meadow stood a huge stone castle, with an iron gate leading to it, which was wide open.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000010_000000|Then the youth went into a room in the castle where everything was made of silver, and here he found another beautiful girl, the sister of his bride.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000010_000002|The second girl handed him the sword, but though he tried with all his strength he could not lift it.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000010_000003|At last a third sister came to him and gave him a drop of something to drink, which she said would give him the needful strength.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000011_000001|She swooped down upon a big apple tree, and after shaking some golden apples from it, she pounced down upon the earth.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000012_000001|First the treasures were attached to the rope and then the three lovely girls.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000012_000002|And now everything was up above and only he himself remained below.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000012_000003|But as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavy stone on to the rope and let them pull it up.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000013_000000|'So that's what would have happened to my bones had I trusted myself to them,' said the youth sadly; and he began to cry bitterly, not because of the treasures, but because of the lovely girl with her swanlike neck and golden hair.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000014_000000|For a long time he wandered sadly all through the beautiful underworld, and one day he met a magician who asked him the cause of his tears.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000014_000001|The youth told him all that had befallen him, and the magician said:
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000015_000000|'Do not grieve, young man!
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000015_000001|If you will guard the children who are hidden in the golden apple tree, I will bring you at once up to the earth. Another magician who lives in this land always eats my children up.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000015_000002|It is in vain that I have hidden them under the earth and locked them into the castle.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000015_000003|Now I have hidden them in the apple tree; hide yourself there too, and at midnight you will see my enemy.'
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000016_000000|The youth climbed up the tree, and picked some of the beautiful golden apples, which he ate for his supper.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000017_000000|At midnight the wind began to rise, and a rustling sound was heard at the foot of the tree.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000017_000001|The youth looked down and beheld a long thick serpent beginning to crawl up the tree.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000017_000002|It wound itself round the stem and gradually got higher and higher.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000017_000004|They trembled with terror when they saw the hideous creature, and hid themselves beneath the leaves.
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000020_000000|With what joy did he hurry now to his brothers' house!
train-other-500/1773/145716/1773_145716_000021_000000|His brothers, who had quite believed he was dead, yielded him up his treasures at once, and flew into the woods in terror.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000002_000002|So he married, and in the following years several children were born to him; but peace and order did not come to the household.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000002_000003|For the step mother was very cruel to the twins, and beat them, and half starved them, and constantly drove them out of the house; for her one idea was to get them out of the way.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000002_000005|And so one morning she spoke to them, saying:
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000003_000000|'You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000006_000000|And when the grandmother heard where they were going, she cried and said:
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000007_000000|'You poor motherless children!
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000007_000001|How I pity you; and yet I can do nothing to help you!
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000007_000003|Now listen to me, children.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000007_000004|You must be civil and kind to everyone, and never say a cross word to anyone, and never touch a crumb belonging to anyone else.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000007_000005|Who knows if, after all, help may not be sent to you?'
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000008_000000|And she gave her grandchildren a bottle of milk and a piece of ham and a loaf of bread, and they set out for the great gloomy wood.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000008_000001|When they reached it they saw in front of them, in the thickest of the trees, a queer little hut, and when they looked into it, there lay the witch, with her head on the threshold of the door, with one foot in one corner and the other in the other corner, and her knees cocked up, almost touching the ceiling.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000009_000000|'Who's there?' she snarled, in an awful voice, when she saw the children.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000011_000000|'Good morning, granny; our step mother has sent us to wait upon you, and serve you.'
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000012_000000|'See that you do it well, then,' growled the witch.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000012_000002|You have been gently reared, but you'll find my work hard enough.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000012_000003|See if you don't.'
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000015_000001|So the girl set out to look for the cat, and, as she was hunting about, she met her brother, in great trouble because he could not carry water from the well in a sieve, as it came pouring out as fast as he put it in.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000015_000002|And as she was trying to comfort him they heard a rustling of wings, and a flight of wrens alighted on the ground beside them.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000015_000003|And the wrens said:
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000018_000000|Then the twins crumbled their bread on the ground, and the wrens pecked it, and chirruped and chirped.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000018_000003|When they entered the hut the cat was curled up on the floor.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000018_000004|So they stroked her, and fed her with ham, and said to her:
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000020_000001|As soon as the handkerchief touched the ground a deep, broad river would spring up, which would hinder the witch's progress.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000023_000001|In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave before night, and the boy a pile of wood to cut into chips.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000023_000004|Then they were hindered by the birch trees, whose branches almost put their eyes out.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000023_000005|But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon, and they got past safely, and, after running through the wood, came out on to the open fields.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000024_000000|In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and tangling the threads as it wove.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000025_000000|'Are you weaving, my little dear?'
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000027_000001|Why did you not scratch their eyes out?'
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000029_000001|But the dog answered:
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000032_000001|And as the children ran they heard the sound of the broom sweeping the ground close behind them, so instantly they threw the handkerchief down over their shoulder, and in a moment a deep, broad river flowed behind them.
train-other-500/1773/145729/1773_145729_000033_000000|When the witch came up to it, it took her a long time before she found a place which she could ford over on her broom stick; but at last she got across, and continued the chase faster than before.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000000|The young girl walked on a few steps, laughing still.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000001|"You needn't be afraid," she repeated.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000002|"Why should she want to know me?"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000003|Then she paused again; she was close to the parapet of the garden, and in front of her was the starlit lake.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000004|There was a vague sheen upon its surface, and in the distance were dimly seen mountain forms.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000005|Daisy Miller looked out upon the mysterious prospect and then she gave another little laugh. "Gracious! she IS exclusive!" she said.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000006|Winterbourne wondered whether she was seriously wounded, and for a moment almost wished that her sense of injury might be such as to make it becoming in him to attempt to reassure and comfort her.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000007|He had a pleasant sense that she would be very approachable for consolatory purposes.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000009|"Well, here's Mother!
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000010|I guess she hasn't got Randolph to go to bed." The figure of a lady appeared at a distance, very indistinct in the darkness, and advancing with a slow and wavering movement.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000003_000011|Suddenly it seemed to pause.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000004_000000|"Are you sure it is your mother?
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000004_000001|Can you distinguish her in this thick dusk?" Winterbourne asked.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000005_000000|"Well!" cried Miss Daisy Miller with a laugh; "I guess I know my own mother.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000005_000001|And when she has got on my shawl, too!
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000005_000002|She is always wearing my things."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000006_000000|The lady in question, ceasing to advance, hovered vaguely about the spot at which she had checked her steps.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000008_000000|"Oh, it's a fearful old thing!" the young girl replied serenely.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000008_000001|"I told her she could wear it.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000008_000002|She won't come here because she sees you."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000009_000000|"Ah, then," said Winterbourne, "I had better leave you."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000010_000000|"Oh, no; come on!" urged Miss Daisy Miller.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000011_000000|"I'm afraid your mother doesn't approve of my walking with you."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000000|Miss Miller gave him a serious glance.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000001|"It isn't for me; it's for you-that is, it's for HER.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000002|Well, I don't know who it's for!
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000003|But mother doesn't like any of my gentlemen friends.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000004|She's right down timid.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000005|She always makes a fuss if I introduce a gentleman.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000006|But I DO introduce them-almost always.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000012_000007|If I didn't introduce my gentlemen friends to Mother," the young girl added in her little soft, flat monotone, "I shouldn't think I was natural."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000013_000000|"To introduce me," said Winterbourne, "you must know my name." And he proceeded to pronounce it.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000014_000000|"Oh, dear, I can't say all that!" said his companion with a laugh.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000014_000001|But by this time they had come up to mrs Miller, who, as they drew near, walked to the parapet of the garden and leaned upon it, looking intently at the lake and turning her back to them.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000014_000002|"Mother!" said the young girl in a tone of decision.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000014_000004|"mr Winterbourne," said Miss Daisy Miller, introducing the young man very frankly and prettily.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000014_000005|"Common," she was, as mrs Costello had pronounced her; yet it was a wonder to Winterbourne that, with her commonness, she had a singularly delicate grace.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000015_000000|Her mother was a small, spare, light person, with a wandering eye, a very exiguous nose, and a large forehead, decorated with a certain amount of thin, much frizzled hair.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000015_000001|Like her daughter, mrs Miller was dressed with extreme elegance; she had enormous diamonds in her ears. So far as Winterbourne could observe, she gave him no greeting-she certainly was not looking at him.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000015_000002|Daisy was near her, pulling her shawl straight.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000016_000000|"I don't know," said her mother, turning toward the lake again.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000018_000000|"Well I do!" her mother answered with a little laugh.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000019_000000|"Did you get Randolph to go to bed?" asked the young girl.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000020_000000|"No; I couldn't induce him," said mrs Miller very gently.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000020_000001|"He wants to talk to the waiter.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000022_000000|"Oh, yes!" said Winterbourne; "I have the pleasure of knowing your son."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000023_000000|Randolph's mamma was silent; she turned her attention to the lake.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000023_000001|But at last she spoke.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000023_000002|"Well, I don't see how he lives!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000024_000000|"Anyhow, it isn't so bad as it was at Dover," said Daisy Miller.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000025_000000|"And what occurred at Dover?" Winterbourne asked.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000026_000000|"He wouldn't go to bed at all.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000026_000001|I guess he sat up all night in the public parlor.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000026_000002|He wasn't in bed at twelve o'clock: I know that."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000027_000000|"It was half past twelve," declared mrs Miller with mild emphasis.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000028_000000|"Does he sleep much during the day?" Winterbourne demanded.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000029_000000|"I guess he doesn't sleep much," Daisy rejoined.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000030_000000|"I wish he would!" said her mother.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000030_000001|"It seems as if he couldn't."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000031_000000|"I think he's real tiresome," Daisy pursued.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000032_000000|Then, for some moments, there was silence.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000032_000001|"Well, Daisy Miller," said the elder lady, presently, "I shouldn't think you'd want to talk against your own brother!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000033_000000|"Well, he IS tiresome, Mother," said Daisy, quite without the asperity of a retort.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000034_000000|"He's only nine," urged mrs Miller.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000035_000000|"Well, he wouldn't go to that castle," said the young girl.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000036_000000|To this announcement, very placidly made, Daisy's mamma offered no response.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000036_000001|Winterbourne took for granted that she deeply disapproved of the projected excursion; but he said to himself that she was a simple, easily managed person, and that a few deferential protestations would take the edge from her displeasure.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000036_000002|"Yes," he began; "your daughter has kindly allowed me the honor of being her guide."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000037_000000|mrs Miller's wandering eyes attached themselves, with a sort of appealing air, to Daisy, who, however, strolled a few steps farther, gently humming to herself.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000037_000001|"I presume you will go in the cars," said her mother.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000038_000000|"Yes, or in the boat," said Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000039_000000|"Well, of course, I don't know," mrs Miller rejoined.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000039_000001|"I have never been to that castle."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000040_000000|"It is a pity you shouldn't go," said Winterbourne, beginning to feel reassured as to her opposition.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000040_000001|And yet he was quite prepared to find that, as a matter of course, she meant to accompany her daughter.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000041_000000|"We've been thinking ever so much about going," she pursued; "but it seems as if we couldn't.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000041_000001|Of course Daisy-she wants to go round.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000041_000002|But there's a lady here-I don't know her name-she says she shouldn't think we'd want to go to see castles HERE; she should think we'd want to wait till we got to Italy.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000041_000003|It seems as if there would be so many there," continued mrs Miller with an air of increasing confidence.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000041_000004|"Of course we only want to see the principal ones.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000041_000005|We visited several in England," she presently added.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000043_000000|"Well, if Daisy feels up to it-" said mrs Miller, in a tone impregnated with a sense of the magnitude of the enterprise.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000043_000001|"It seems as if there was nothing she wouldn't undertake."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000044_000000|"Oh, I think she'll enjoy it!" Winterbourne declared.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000044_000002|"You are not disposed, madam," he inquired, "to undertake it yourself?"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000045_000000|Daisy's mother looked at him an instant askance, and then walked forward in silence.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000045_000001|Then-"I guess she had better go alone," she said simply. Winterbourne observed to himself that this was a very different type of maternity from that of the vigilant matrons who massed themselves in the forefront of social intercourse in the dark old city at the other end of the lake.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000046_000000|"mr Winterbourne!" murmured Daisy.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000047_000000|"Mademoiselle!" said the young man.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000048_000000|"Don't you want to take me out in a boat?"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000049_000000|"At present?" he asked.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000050_000000|"Of course!" said Daisy.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000051_000000|"Well, Annie Miller!" exclaimed her mother.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000052_000000|"I beg you, madam, to let her go," said Winterbourne ardently; for he had never yet enjoyed the sensation of guiding through the summer starlight a skiff freighted with a fresh and beautiful young girl.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000053_000000|"I shouldn't think she'd want to," said her mother.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000053_000001|"I should think she'd rather go indoors."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000054_000000|"I'm sure mr Winterbourne wants to take me," Daisy declared.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000054_000001|"He's so awfully devoted!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000055_000000|"I will row you over to Chillon in the starlight."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000056_000000|"I don't believe it!" said Daisy.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000057_000000|"Well!" ejaculated the elder lady again.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000058_000000|"You haven't spoken to me for half an hour," her daughter went on.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000059_000000|"I have been having some very pleasant conversation with your mother," said Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000060_000000|"Well, I want you to take me out in a boat!" Daisy repeated.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000060_000001|They had all stopped, and she had turned round and was looking at Winterbourne. Her face wore a charming smile, her pretty eyes were gleaming, she was swinging her great fan about.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000060_000002|No; it's impossible to be prettier than that, thought Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000061_000000|"There are half a dozen boats moored at that landing place," he said, pointing to certain steps which descended from the garden to the lake. "If you will do me the honor to accept my arm, we will go and select one of them."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000062_000000|Daisy stood there smiling; she threw back her head and gave a little, light laugh.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000062_000001|"I like a gentleman to be formal!" she declared.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000063_000000|"I assure you it's a formal offer."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000064_000000|"I was bound I would make you say something," Daisy went on.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000065_000000|"You see, it's not very difficult," said Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000065_000001|"But I am afraid you are chaffing me."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000066_000000|"I think not, sir," remarked mrs Miller very gently.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000067_000000|"Do, then, let me give you a row," he said to the young girl.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000068_000000|"It's quite lovely, the way you say that!" cried Daisy.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000069_000000|"It will be still more lovely to do it."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000070_000001|But she made no movement to accompany him; she only stood there laughing.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000071_000000|"I should think you had better find out what time it is," interposed her mother.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000072_000001|He had apparently just approached.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000073_000000|"Oh, Eugenio," said Daisy, "I am going out in a boat!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000074_000000|Eugenio bowed.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000074_000001|"At eleven o'clock, mademoiselle?"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000075_000000|"I am going with mr Winterbourne-this very minute."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000076_000000|"Do tell her she can't," said mrs Miller to the courier.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000077_000000|"I think you had better not go out in a boat, mademoiselle," Eugenio declared.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000078_000000|Winterbourne wished to Heaven this pretty girl were not so familiar with her courier; but he said nothing.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000079_000000|"I suppose you don't think it's proper!" Daisy exclaimed.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000079_000001|"Eugenio doesn't think anything's proper."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000081_000000|"Does mademoiselle propose to go alone?" asked Eugenio of mrs Miller.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000082_000000|"Oh, no; with this gentleman!" answered Daisy's mamma.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000083_000000|The courier looked for a moment at Winterbourne-the latter thought he was smiling-and then, solemnly, with a bow, "As mademoiselle pleases!" he said.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000084_000000|"Oh, I hoped you would make a fuss!" said Daisy.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000084_000001|"I don't care to go now."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000085_000000|"I myself shall make a fuss if you don't go," said Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000086_000000|"That's all I want-a little fuss!" And the young girl began to laugh again.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000087_000000|"mr Randolph has gone to bed!" the courier announced frigidly.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000088_000000|"Oh, Daisy; now we can go!" said mrs Miller.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000089_000000|Daisy turned away from Winterbourne, looking at him, smiling and fanning herself.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000089_000001|"Good night," she said; "I hope you are disappointed, or disgusted, or something!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000090_000000|He looked at her, taking the hand she offered him.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000090_000001|"I am puzzled," he answered.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000091_000000|"Well, I hope it won't keep you awake!" she said very smartly; and, under the escort of the privileged Eugenio, the two ladies passed toward the house.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000092_000000|Winterbourne stood looking after them; he was indeed puzzled.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000092_000002|But the only very definite conclusion he came to was that he should enjoy deucedly "going off" with her somewhere.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000001|He waited for her in the large hall of the hotel, where the couriers, the servants, the foreign tourists, were lounging about and staring.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000002|It was not the place he should have chosen, but she had appointed it.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000003|She came tripping downstairs, buttoning her long gloves, squeezing her folded parasol against her pretty figure, dressed in the perfection of a soberly elegant traveling costume.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000004|Winterbourne was a man of imagination and, as our ancestors used to say, sensibility; as he looked at her dress and, on the great staircase, her little rapid, confiding step, he felt as if there were something romantic going forward.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000005|He could have believed he was going to elope with her.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000009|But it must be confessed that, in this particular, he was disappointed.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000010|Daisy Miller was extremely animated, she was in charming spirits; but she was apparently not at all excited; she was not fluttered; she avoided neither his eyes nor those of anyone else; she blushed neither when she looked at him nor when she felt that people were looking at her.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000012|He had been a little afraid that she would talk loud, laugh overmuch, and even, perhaps, desire to move about the boat a good deal.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000013|But he quite forgot his fears; he sat smiling, with his eyes upon her face, while, without moving from her place, she delivered herself of a great number of original reflections.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000014|It was the most charming garrulity he had ever heard.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000015|He had assented to the idea that she was "common"; but was she so, after all, or was he simply getting used to her commonness?
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000093_000016|Her conversation was chiefly of what metaphysicians term the objective cast, but every now and then it took a subjective turn.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000094_000000|"What on EARTH are you so grave about?" she suddenly demanded, fixing her agreeable eyes upon Winterbourne's.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000095_000000|"Am I grave?" he asked.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000095_000001|"I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000096_000001|If that's a grin, your ears are very near together."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000098_000000|"Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000098_000001|It will pay the expenses of our journey."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000099_000000|"I never was better pleased in my life," murmured Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000100_000000|She looked at him a moment and then burst into a little laugh.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000100_000001|"I like to make you say those things!
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000100_000002|You're a queer mixture!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000000|In the castle, after they had landed, the subjective element decidedly prevailed.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000001|Daisy tripped about the vaulted chambers, rustled her skirts in the corkscrew staircases, flirted back with a pretty little cry and a shudder from the edge of the oubliettes, and turned a singularly well shaped ear to everything that Winterbourne told her about the place.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000002|But he saw that she cared very little for feudal antiquities and that the dusky traditions of Chillon made but a slight impression upon her.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000003|They had the good fortune to have been able to walk about without other companionship than that of the custodian; and Winterbourne arranged with this functionary that they should not be hurried-that they should linger and pause wherever they chose.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000004|The custodian interpreted the bargain generously-Winterbourne, on his side, had been generous-and ended by leaving them quite to themselves.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000005|Miss Miller's observations were not remarkable for logical consistency; for anything she wanted to say she was sure to find a pretext.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000006|She found a great many pretexts in the rugged embrasures of Chillon for asking Winterbourne sudden questions about himself-his family, his previous history, his tastes, his habits, his intentions-and for supplying information upon corresponding points in her own personality.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000101_000007|Of her own tastes, habits, and intentions Miss Miller was prepared to give the most definite, and indeed the most favorable account.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000001|"I never saw a man that knew so much!"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000002|The history of Bonivard had evidently, as they say, gone into one ear and out of the other.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000003|But Daisy went on to say that she wished Winterbourne would travel with them and "go round" with them; they might know something, in that case.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000004|"Don't you want to come and teach Randolph?" she asked.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000005|Winterbourne said that nothing could possibly please him so much, but that he had unfortunately other occupations.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000006|"Other occupations?
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000007|I don't believe it!" said Miss Daisy. "What do you mean?
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000008|You are not in business." The young man admitted that he was not in business; but he had engagements which, even within a day or two, would force him to go back to Geneva.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000009|"Oh, bother!" she said; "I don't believe it!" and she began to talk about something else.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000102_000010|But a few moments later, when he was pointing out to her the pretty design of an antique fireplace, she broke out irrelevantly, "You don't mean to say you are going back to Geneva?"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000103_000000|"It is a melancholy fact that I shall have to return to Geneva tomorrow."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000000|"The last!" cried the young girl; "I call it the first.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000001|I have half a mind to leave you here and go straight back to the hotel alone." And for the next ten minutes she did nothing but call him horrid.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000002|Poor Winterbourne was fairly bewildered; no young lady had as yet done him the honor to be so agitated by the announcement of his movements.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000004|How did Miss Daisy Miller know that there was a charmer in Geneva?
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000005|Winterbourne, who denied the existence of such a person, was quite unable to discover, and he was divided between amazement at the rapidity of her induction and amusement at the frankness of her persiflage.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000006|She seemed to him, in all this, an extraordinary mixture of innocence and crudity.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000008|"Doesn't she give you a vacation in summer?
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000009|There's no one so hard worked but they can get leave to go off somewhere at this season.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000010|I suppose, if you stay another day, she'll come after you in the boat.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000011|Do wait over till Friday, and I will go down to the landing to see her arrive!" Winterbourne began to think he had been wrong to feel disappointed in the temper in which the young lady had embarked.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000106_000012|If he had missed the personal accent, the personal accent was now making its appearance. It sounded very distinctly, at last, in her telling him she would stop "teasing" him if he would promise her solemnly to come down to Rome in the winter.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000107_000000|"That's not a difficult promise to make," said Winterbourne.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000107_000001|"My aunt has taken an apartment in Rome for the winter and has already asked me to come and see her."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000108_000000|"I don't want you to come for your aunt," said Daisy; "I want you to come for me." And this was the only allusion that the young man was ever to hear her make to his invidious kinswoman.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000108_000001|He declared that, at any rate, he would certainly come.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000108_000002|After this Daisy stopped teasing. Winterbourne took a carriage, and they drove back to Vevey in the dusk; the young girl was very quiet.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000109_000000|In the evening Winterbourne mentioned to mrs Costello that he had spent the afternoon at Chillon with Miss Daisy Miller.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000110_000000|"The Americans-of the courier?" asked this lady.
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000111_000000|"Ah, happily," said Winterbourne, "the courier stayed at home."
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000112_000000|"She went with you all alone?"
train-other-500/1780/143478/1780_143478_000114_000000|mrs Costello sniffed a little at her smelling bottle.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000001_000000|MEN AND GENTLEMEN
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000003_000000|Margaret went home so painfully occupied with what she had heard and seen that she hardly knew how to rouse herself up to the duties which awaited her; the necessity for keeping up a constant flow of cheerful conversation for her mother, who, now that she was unable to go out, always looked to Margaret's return from the shortest walk as bringing in some news.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000004_000000|'And can your factory friend come on Thursday to see you dressed?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000005_000000|'She was so ill I never thought of asking her,' said Margaret, dolefully.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000006_000000|'Dear!
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000006_000003|What could you do for her, Margaret?
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000007_000000|'No, mamma!
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000007_000001|I don't believe they are very poor,--at least, they don't speak as if they were; and, at any rate, Bessy's illness is consumption-she won't want wine.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000007_000002|Perhaps, I might take her a little preserve, made of our dear Helstone fruit.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000008_000000|It distressed mrs Hale excessively.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000008_000001|It made her restlessly irritated till she could do something.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000008_000003|mrs Hale called her unfeeling for saying this; and never gave herself breathing time till the basket was sent out of the house.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000008_000004|Then she said:
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000009_000000|'After all, we may have been doing wrong.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000010_000001|Margaret did not care if their gifts had prolonged the strike; she did not think far enough for that, in her present excited state.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000011_000000|mr Hale listened, and tried to be as calm as a judge; he recalled all that had seemed so clear not half an hour before, as it came out of mr Thornton's lips; and then he made an unsatisfactory compromise.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000011_000001|His wife and daughter had not only done quite right in this instance, but he did not see for a moment how they could have done otherwise.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000012_000000|mr Hale went the next morning, as he proposed.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000013_000000|'But I will go again, and see the man himself,' said mr Hale. 'I hardly know as yet how to compare one of these houses with our Helstone cottages.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000013_000002|One had need to learn a different language, and measure by a different standard, up here in Milton.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000014_000000|Bessy, too, was rather better this day.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000014_000001|Still she was so weak that she seemed to have entirely forgotten her wish to see Margaret dressed-if, indeed, that had not been the feverish desire of a half delirious state.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000015_000000|Margaret could not help comparing this strange dressing of hers, to go where she did not care to be-her heart heavy with various anxieties-with the old, merry, girlish toilettes that she and Edith had performed scarcely more than a year ago.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000015_000001|Her only pleasure now in decking herself out was in thinking that her mother would take delight in seeing her dressed.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000015_000002|She blushed when Dixon, throwing the drawing room door open, made an appeal for admiration.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000016_000001|mrs Shaw's coral couldn't have come in better.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000016_000002|It just gives the right touch of colour, ma'am. Otherwise, Miss Margaret, you would have been too pale.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000017_000000|Margaret's black hair was too thick to be plaited; it needed rather to be twisted round and round, and have its fine silkiness compressed into massive coils, that encircled her head like a crown, and then were gathered into a large spiral knot behind.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000017_000001|She kept its weight together by two large coral pins, like small arrows for length.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000018_000000|'Oh, Margaret! how I should like to be going with you to one of the old Barrington assemblies,--taking you as Lady Beresford used to take me.' Margaret kissed her mother for this little burst of maternal vanity; but she could hardly smile at it, she felt so much out of spirits.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000019_000000|'I would rather stay at home with you,--much rather, mamma.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000020_000000|'Nonsense, darling!
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000020_000001|Be sure you notice the dinner well.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000000|mrs Hale would have been more than interested,--she would have been astonished, if she had seen the sumptuousness of the dinner table and its appointments.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000001|Margaret, with her London cultivated taste, felt the number of delicacies to be oppressive one half of the quantity would have been enough, and the effect lighter and more elegant.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000002|But it was one of mrs Thornton's rigorous laws of hospitality, that of each separate dainty enough should be provided for all the guests to partake, if they felt inclined.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000003|Careless to abstemiousness in her daily habits, it was part of her pride to set a feast before such of her guests as cared for it.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000004|Her son shared this feeling.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000007|mr Hale was anxiously punctual to the time specified.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000008|There was no one up stairs in the drawing room but mrs Thornton and Fanny.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000009|Every cover was taken off, and the apartment blazed forth in yellow silk damask and a brilliantly flowered carpet.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000010|Every corner seemed filled up with ornament, until it became a weariness to the eye, and presented a strange contrast to the bald ugliness of the look out into the great mill yard, where wide folding gates were thrown open for the admission of carriages.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000021_000011|The mill loomed high on the left hand side of the windows, casting a shadow down from its many stories, which darkened the summer evening before its time.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000022_000000|'My son was engaged up to the last moment on business.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000022_000001|He will be here directly, mr Hale.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000022_000002|May I beg you to take a seat?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000023_000000|mr Hale was standing at one of the windows as mrs Thornton spoke.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000023_000001|He turned away, saying,
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000024_000000|'Don't you find such close neighbourhood to the mill rather unpleasant at times?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000025_000000|She drew herself up:
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000026_000000|'Never.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000026_000001|I am not become so fine as to desire to forget the source of my son's wealth and power.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000026_000002|Besides, there is not such another factory in Milton.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000026_000003|One room alone is two hundred and twenty square yards.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000027_000000|'I meant that the smoke and the noise-the constant going out and coming in of the work people, might be annoying!'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000028_000000|'I agree with you, mr Hale!' said Fanny. 'There is a continual smell of steam, and oily machinery-and the noise is perfectly deafening.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000000|'I have heard noise that was called music far more deafening.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000001|The engine room is at the street end of the factory; we hardly hear it, except in summer weather, when all the windows are open; and as for the continual murmur of the work people, it disturbs me no more than the humming of a hive of bees.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000002|If I think of it at all, I connect it with my son, and feel how all belongs to him, and that his is the head that directs it.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000003|Just now, there are no sounds to come from the mill; the hands have been ungrateful enough to turn out, as perhaps you have heard.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000004|But the very business (of which I spoke, when you entered), had reference to the steps he is going to take to make them learn their place.' The expression on her face, always stern, deepened into dark anger, as she said this.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000005|Nor did it clear away when mr Thornton entered the room; for she saw, in an instant, the weight of care and anxiety which he could not shake off, although his guests received from him a greeting that appeared both cheerful and cordial.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000006|He shook hands with Margaret.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000007|He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000009|And as he looked with this intention, he was struck anew with her great beauty.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000010|He had never seen her in such dress before and yet now it appeared as if such elegance of attire was so befitting her noble figure and lofty serenity of countenance, that she ought to go always thus apparelled.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000012|mr Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000029_000013|And then he turned his back to the young ladies, and threw himself, with an effort, but with all his heart and soul, into a conversation with mr Hale.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000000|More people came-more and more.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000001|Fanny left Margaret's side, and helped her mother to receive her guests.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000004|Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000005|Somebody took her down to dinner; she did not catch the name; nor did he seem much inclined to talk to her.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000006|There was a very animated conversation going on among the gentlemen; the ladies, for the most part, were silent, employing themselves in taking notes of the dinner and criticising each other's dresses.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000007|Margaret caught the clue to the general conversation, grew interested and listened attentively.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000008|mr Horsfall, the stranger, whose visit to the town was the original germ of the party, was asking questions relative to the trade and manufactures of the place; and the rest of the gentlemen-all Milton men,--were giving him answers and explanations.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000009|Some dispute arose, which was warmly contested; it was referred to mr Thornton, who had hardly spoken before; but who now gave an opinion, the grounds of which were so clearly stated that even the opponents yielded.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000012|But now, among his fellows, there was no uncertainty as to his position.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000013|He was regarded by them as a man of great force of character; of power in many ways.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000014|There was no need to struggle for their respect.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000030_000015|He had it, and he knew it; and the security of this gave a fine grand quietness to his voice and ways, which Margaret had missed before.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000000|He was not in the habit of talking to ladies; and what he did say was a little formal.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000001|To Margaret herself he hardly spoke at all.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000003|She knew enough now to understand many local interests-nay, even some of the technical words employed by the eager mill owners.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000004|She silently took a very decided part in the question they were discussing.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000005|At any rate, they talked in desperate earnest,--not in the used up style that wearied her so in the old London parties.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000007|She did not yet know how coolly such things were taken by the masters, as having only one possible end.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000008|To be sure, the men were cutting their own throats, as they had done many a time before; but if they would be fools, and put themselves into the hands of a rascally set of paid delegates, they must take the consequence.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000010|But it was an accident that might happen to themselves any day; and Thornton was as good to manage a strike as any one; for he was as iron a chap as any in Milton.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000011|The hands had mistaken their man in trying that dodge on him.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000012|And they chuckled inwardly at the idea of the workmen's discomfiture and defeat, in their attempt to alter one iota of what Thornton had decreed.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000015|It might be rather rampant in its display, and savour of boasting; but still they seemed to defy the old limits of possibility, in a kind of fine intoxication, caused by the recollection of what had been achieved, and what yet should be.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000016|If in her cooler moments she might not approve of their spirit in all things, still there was much to admire in their forgetfulness of themselves and the present, in their anticipated triumphs over all inanimate matter at some future time which none of them should live to see.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000031_000017|She was rather startled when mr Thornton spoke to her, close at her elbow:
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000032_000000|'I could see you were on our side in our discussion at dinner,--were you not, Miss Hale?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000033_000000|'Certainly.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000033_000001|But then I know so little about it.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000033_000002|I was surprised, however, to find from what mr Horsfall said, that there were others who thought in so diametrically opposite a manner, as the mr Morison he spoke about.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000033_000003|He cannot be a gentleman-is he?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000034_000000|'I am not quite the person to decide on another's gentlemanliness, Miss Hale.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000034_000001|I mean, I don't quite understand your application of the word.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000034_000002|But I should say that this Morison is no true man.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000034_000003|I don't know who he is; I merely judge him from mr Horsfall's account.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000035_000000|'I suspect my "gentleman" includes your "true man."'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000036_000000|'And a great deal more, you would imply.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000036_000001|I differ from you.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000036_000002|A man is to me a higher and a completer being than a gentleman.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000037_000000|'What do you mean?' asked Margaret. 'We must understand the words differently.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000038_000000|'I take it that "gentleman" is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as "a man," we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow men, but in relation to himself,--to life-to time-to eternity.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000039_000000|Margaret thought a moment,--but before she could speak her slow conviction, he was called away by some of the eager manufacturers, whose speeches she could not hear, though she could guess at their import by the short clear answers mr Thornton gave, which came steady and firm as the boom of a distant minute gun.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000039_000001|They were evidently talking of the turn out, and suggesting what course had best be pursued.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000040_000000|'That has been done.' Then came a hurried murmur, in which two or three joined.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000041_000000|'All those arrangements have been made.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000042_000000|Some doubts were implied, some difficulties named by mr Slickson, who took hold of mr Thornton's arm, the better to impress his words.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000042_000001|mr Thornton moved slightly away, lifted his eyebrows a very little, and then replied:
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000043_000000|'I take the risk.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000043_000001|You need not join in it unless you choose.' Still some more fears were urged.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000044_000000|'I'm not afraid of anything so dastardly as incendiarism.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000044_000002|They know my determination by this time, as well and as fully as you do.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000045_000000|mr Horsfall took him a little on one side, as Margaret conjectured, to ask him some other question about the strike; but, in truth, it was to inquire who she herself was-so quiet, so stately, and so beautiful.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000046_000000|'A Milton lady?' asked he, as the name was given.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000047_000000|'No! from the south of England-Hampshire, I believe,' was the cold, indifferent answer.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000048_000000|mrs Slickson was catechising Fanny on the same subject.
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000049_000000|'Who is that fine distinguished looking girl?
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000049_000001|a sister of mr Horsfall's?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000050_000000|'Oh dear, no!
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000050_000003|I believe, we have some of their prospectuses, if you would like to have one.'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000051_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000051_000001|Thornton!
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000051_000002|Does he really find time to read with a tutor, in the midst of all his business,--and this abominable strike in hand as well?'
train-other-500/1784/142294/1784_142294_000052_000000|Fanny was not sure, from mrs Slickson's manner, whether she ought to be proud or ashamed of her brother's conduct; and, like all people who try and take other people's 'ought' for the rule of their feelings, she was inclined to blush for any singularity of action.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000000_000000|"EXIT TYRANNUS"
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000001_000002|The time that remained had been taken up by the planning of practical expressions of the popular sentiment.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000002_000000|I was awakened by Harold digging me in the ribs, and "She's going to day!" was the morning hymn that scattered the clouds of sleep.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000003_000000|Strange to say, it was with no corresponding jubilation of spirits that I slowly realised the momentous fact.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000003_000002|Harold was evidently feeling it too, for after repeating "She's going to day!" in a tone more befitting the Litany, he looked hard in my face for direction as to how the situation was to be taken.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000004_000000|Down at last and out in the sun, we found Edward before us, swinging on a gate, and chanting a farm yard ditty in which all the beasts appear in due order, jargoning in their several tongues, and every verse begins with the couplet-
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000005_000000|"Now, my lads, come with me, Out in the morning early!"
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000006_000001|"She's going to day!" I said.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000006_000002|Edward's carol subsided like a water tap turned off.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000007_000000|At breakfast Miss Smedley behaved in a most mean and uncalled for manner.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000007_000001|The right divine of governesses to govern wrong includes no right to cry.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000007_000002|In thus usurping the prerogative of their victims, they ignore the rules of the ring, and hit below the belt.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000007_000003|Charlotte was crying, of course; but that counted for nothing.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000007_000007|History has not even considered the possibility.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000007_000008|Rules and precedents should be strictly observed on both sides; when they are violated, the other party is justified in feeling injured.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000008_000000|There were no lessons that morning, naturally-another grievance!
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000009_000001|It was a wrong system altogether, I thought, this going of people one had got used to.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000009_000002|Things ought always to continue as they had been.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000009_000003|Change there must be, of course; pigs, for instance, came and went with disturbing frequency-
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000010_000000|"Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged and sank at last,"--
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000011_000000|but Nature had ordered it so, and in requital had provided for rapid successors.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000013_000000|"Grand fun!" I replied, dolorously; and conversation flagged.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000016_000000|Edward gazed around him dubiously.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000016_000003|P'raps I won't run it up at all."
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000017_000000|Harold came round the corner like a bison pursued by Indians.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000018_000000|"You leave 'em alone," said Edward, severely, "or you'll be blowing yourself up" (consideration for others was not usually Edward's strong point).
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000018_000001|"Don't touch the gunpowder till you're told, or you'll get your head smacked."
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000019_000000|Harold fell behind, limp, squashed, obedient.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000019_000001|"She wants me to write to her," he began, presently.
train-other-500/1795/142410/1795_142410_000019_000003|Fancy her saying that!"
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000000_000001|If he would only make it up, she would have done the apologising part herself.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000000_000002|But that was not a boy's way.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000000_000003|Something solid, Harold felt, was due from him; and until that was achieved, making up must not be thought of, in order that the final effect might not be spoilt.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000001_000000|"I know what she wants most," said Harold.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000001_000002|But it costs five shillings!"
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000002_000001|The result worked out as follows:--
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000009_000000|The rest promised to be easy.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000009_000001|Selina had a tea party at five on the morrow, with the chipped old wooden tea things that had served her successive dolls from babyhood.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000009_000002|Harold would slip off directly after dinner, going alone, so as not to arouse suspicion, as we were not allowed to go into the town by ourselves.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000010_000001|Selina, who had been keeping her eye upon him, thought he was going down to the pond to catch frogs, a joy they had planned to share together, and made after him; but Harold, though he heard her footsteps, continued sternly on his high mission, without even looking back; and Selina was left to wander disconsolately among flower beds that had lost-for her-all scent and colour.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000011_000003|Next there was the market place, with all its clamorous joys; and when a runaway calf came down the street like a cannon ball, Harold felt that he had not lived in vain.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000014_000000|Then Harold, with the unnatural courage born of desperation, flung himself on the step, and climbing into the cart, fell in the straw at the bottom of it, sobbing out that he wanted to go back, go back!
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000015_000001|Never a word did he say of broken fences and hurdles, of trampled crops and harried flocks and herds.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000015_000003|Instead, he was deeply interested in the whole dolorous quest of the tea things, and sympathised with Harold on the disputed point in mathematics as if he had been himself at the same stage of education.
train-other-500/1795/142412/1795_142412_000015_000005|Really, those Olympians have certain good points, far down in them.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000001_000001|Now, however, the cause of that omission was explained, though not entirely to the satisfaction of Rose.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000002_000000|'But you have a servant,' said Rose; 'could you not leave him with her?'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000003_000000|'She has her own occupations to attend to; and besides, she is too old to run after a child, and he is too mercurial to be tied to an elderly woman.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000004_000000|'But you left him to come to church.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000006_000000|'Is he so mischievous?' asked my mother, considerably shocked.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000008_000000|'But, my dear, I call that doting,' said my plain spoken parent.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000008_000001|'You should try to suppress such foolish fondness, as well to save your son from ruin as yourself from ridicule.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000009_000000|'Ruin!
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000009_000001|mrs Markham!'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000010_000000|'Yes; it is spoiling the child.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000011_000000|'mrs
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000011_000001|Markham, I beg you will not say such things, in his presence, at least.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000011_000002|I trust my son will never be ashamed to love his mother!' said mrs Graham, with a serious energy that startled the company.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000012_000000|My mother attempted to appease her by an explanation; but she seemed to think enough had been said on the subject, and abruptly turned the conversation.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000013_000000|'Just as I thought,' said I to myself: 'the lady's temper is none of the mildest, notwithstanding her sweet, pale face and lofty brow, where thought and suffering seem equally to have stamped their impress.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000015_000000|In a little while, however, I was sensible that some one was approaching me, with a light, but slow and hesitating tread.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000015_000001|It was little Arthur, irresistibly attracted by my dog Sancho, that was lying at my feet.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000015_000003|A little encouragement, however, induced him to come forward.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000015_000005|In a minute he was kneeling on the carpet, with his arms round Sancho's neck, and, in a minute or two more, the little fellow was seated on my knee, surveying with eager interest the various specimens of horses, cattle, pigs, and model farms portrayed in the volume before me.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000018_000000|'No, mamma,' said the child; 'let me look at these pictures first; and then I'll come, and tell you all about them.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000020_000000|'Thank you, I never go to parties.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000022_000000|'I do know something of him-but you must excuse me this time; for the evenings, now, are dark and damp, and Arthur, I fear, is too delicate to risk exposure to their influence with impunity.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000022_000001|We must defer the enjoyment of your hospitality till the return of longer days and warmer nights.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000023_000002|Arthur, especially shrank from the ruby nectar as if in terror and disgust, and was ready to cry when urged to take it.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000024_000000|'Never mind, Arthur,' said his mamma; 'mrs
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000024_000003|I have been accustomed to make him swallow a little wine or weak spirits and water, by way of medicine, when he was sick, and, in fact, I have done what I could to make him hate them.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000025_000000|Everybody laughed, except the young widow and her son.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000026_000000|'Well, mrs Graham,' said my mother, wiping the tears of merriment from her bright blue eyes-'well, you surprise me!
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000026_000002|Only think what a man you will make of him, if you persist in-'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000027_000000|'I think it a very excellent plan,' interrupted mrs Graham, with imperturbable gravity.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000027_000002|I wish I could render the incentives to every other equally innoxious in his case.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000028_000000|'But by such means,' said I, 'you will never render him virtuous.--What is it that constitutes virtue, mrs Graham?
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000030_000000|'You are very complimentary to us all,' I observed.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000032_000000|'Yes, but the surest means will be to endeavour to fortify him against temptation, not to remove it out of his way.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000034_000001|Because you are clever in some things and well informed, you may fancy yourself equal to the task; but indeed you are not; and if you persist in the attempt, believe me you will bitterly repent it when the mischief is done.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000037_000000|'I perfectly agree with you, mrs Markham; but nothing can be further from my principles and practice than such criminal weakness as that.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000038_000001|But I'll get mr Millward to talk to you about it:--he'll tell you the consequences;--he'll set it before you as plain as the day;--and tell you what you ought to do, and all about it;--and, I don't doubt, he'll be able to convince you in a minute.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000039_000001|Markham here thinks his powers of conviction at least equal to mr Millward's.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000039_000002|If I hear not him, neither should I be convinced though one rose from the dead, he would tell you.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000040_000000|'I beg your pardon, mrs Graham-but you get on too fast.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000041_000000|'Granted;--but would you use the same argument with regard to a girl?'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000042_000000|'Certainly not.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000043_000002|Is it that you think she has no virtue?'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000044_000000|'Assuredly not.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000045_000000|'Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation;--and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000047_000001|Such experience, to him (to use a trite simile), will be like the storm to the oak, which, though it may scatter the leaves, and snap the smaller branches, serves but to rivet the roots, and to harden and condense the fibres of the tree.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000047_000004|He had already left his new companion, and been standing for some time beside his mother's knee, looking up into her face, and listening in silent wonder to her incomprehensible discourse.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000048_000000|'Well! you ladies must always have the last word, I suppose,' said I, observing her rise, and begin to take leave of my mother.
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000049_000000|'You may have as many words as you please,--only I can't stay to hear them.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000050_000000|'No; that is the way: you hear just as much of an argument as you please; and the rest may be spoken to the wind.'
train-other-500/1804/131525/1804_131525_000051_000001|I would rather be lectured by you than the vicar, because I should have less remorse in telling you, at the end of the discourse, that I preserve my own opinion precisely the same as at the beginning-as would be the case, I am persuaded, with regard to either logician.'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000002_000002|Leaning against the wall were several sketches in various stages of progression, and a few finished paintings-mostly of landscapes and figures.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000003_000000|'I must make you welcome to my studio,' said mrs Graham; 'there is no fire in the sitting room to day, and it is rather too cold to show you into a place with an empty grate.'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000004_000000|And disengaging a couple of chairs from the artistical lumber that usurped them, she bid us be seated, and resumed her place beside the easel-not facing it exactly, but now and then glancing at the picture upon it while she conversed, and giving it an occasional touch with her brush, as if she found it impossible to wean her attention entirely from her occupation to fix it upon her guests.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000007_000000|'You have almost completed your painting,' said I, approaching to observe it more closely, and surveying it with a greater degree of admiration and delight than I cared to express.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000007_000001|'A few more touches in the foreground will finish it, I should think.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000007_000002|But why have you called it Fernley Manor, Cumberland, instead of Wildfell Hall, --shire?' I asked, alluding to the name she had traced in small characters at the bottom of the canvas.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000008_000000|But immediately I was sensible of having committed an act of impertinence in so doing; for she coloured and hesitated; but after a moment's pause, with a kind of desperate frankness, she replied:--
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000011_000000|'No; I cannot afford to paint for my own amusement.'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000012_000000|'Mamma sends all her pictures to London,' said Arthur; 'and somebody sells them for her there, and sends us the money.'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000014_000001|I have been told that you have a fine view of the sea somewhere in the neighbourhood.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000014_000002|Is it true?--and is it within walking distance?'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000016_000000|'In what direction does it lie?'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000018_000001|don't tell me now: I shall forget every word of your directions before I require them.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000018_000002|I shall not think about going till next spring; and then, perhaps, I may trouble you.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000021_000000|'It's mamma's friend,' said Arthur.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000022_000000|Rose and I looked at each other.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000023_000000|'I don't know what to make of her at all,' whispered Rose.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000024_000000|The child looked at her in grave surprise.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000024_000001|She straightway began to talk to him on indifferent matters, while I amused myself with looking at the pictures.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000024_000002|There was one in an obscure corner that I had not before observed.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000024_000004|The tiny features and large blue eyes, smiling through a shock of light brown curls, shaken over the forehead as it bent above its treasure, bore sufficient resemblance to those of the young gentleman before me to proclaim it a portrait of Arthur Graham in his early infancy.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000025_000002|It was the portrait of a gentleman in the full prime of youthful manhood-handsome enough, and not badly executed; but if done by the same hand as the others, it was evidently some years before; for there was far more careful minuteness of detail, and less of that freshness of colouring and freedom of handling that delighted and surprised me in them.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000025_000003|Nevertheless, I surveyed it with considerable interest.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000026_000000|I had not had the portrait in my hands two minutes before the fair artist returned.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000027_000000|'Only some one come about the pictures,' said she, in apology for her abrupt departure: 'I told him to wait.'
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000031_000001|I carelessly turned to the window, and stood looking out upon the desolate garden, leaving her to talk to Rose for a minute or two; and then, telling my sister it was time to go, shook hands with the little gentleman, coolly bowed to the lady, and moved towards the door.
train-other-500/1804/131527/1804_131527_000031_000002|But, having bid adieu to Rose, mrs Graham presented her hand to me, saying, with a soft voice, and by no means a disagreeable smile,--'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, mr Markham.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000003_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000004_000001|The number of inhabitants and the importance of Keighley have been very greatly increased during the last twenty years, owing to the rapidly extended market for worsted manufactures, a branch of industry that mainly employs the factory population of this part of Yorkshire, which has Bradford for its centre and metropolis.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000001|It is evident to the stranger, that as the gable ended houses, which obtrude themselves corner wise on the widening street, fall vacant, they are pulled down to allow of greater space for traffic, and a more modern style of architecture.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000002|The quaint and narrow shop windows of fifty years ago, are giving way to large panes and plate glass.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000003|Nearly every dwelling seems devoted to some branch of commerce.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000004|In passing hastily through the town, one hardly perceives where the necessary lawyer and doctor can live, so little appearance is there of any dwellings of the professional middle class, such as abound in our old cathedral towns.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000005|In fact, nothing can be more opposed than the state of society, the modes of thinking, the standards of reference on all points of morality, manners, and even politics and religion, in such a new manufacturing place as Keighley in the north, and any stately, sleepy, picturesque cathedral town in the south.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000006|Yet the aspect of Keighley promises well for future stateliness, if not picturesqueness.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000007|Grey stone abounds; and the rows of houses built of it have a kind of solid grandeur connected with their uniform and enduring lines.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000009|Such glimpses into the interior as a passer by obtains, reveal a rough abundance of the means of living, and diligent and active habits in the women.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000005_000010|But the voices of the people are hard, and their tones discordant, promising little of the musical taste that distinguishes the district, and which has already furnished a Carrodus to the musical world.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000006_000000|The town of Keighley never quite melts into country on the road to Haworth, although the houses become more sparse as the traveller journeys upwards to the grey round hills that seem to bound his journey in a westerly direction.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000007_000001|The distance is about four miles; and, as I have said, what with villas, great worsted factories, rows of workmen's houses, with here and there an old-fashioned farmhouse and out buildings, it can hardly be called "country" any part of the way.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000007_000002|For two miles the road passes over tolerably level ground, distant hills on the left, a "beck" flowing through meadows on the right, and furnishing water power, at certain points, to the factories built on its banks.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000007_000003|The air is dim and lightless with the smoke from all these habitations and places of business.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000007_000005|Right before the traveller on this road rises Haworth village; he can see it for two miles before he arrives, for it is situated on the side of a pretty steep hill, with a back ground of dun and purple moors, rising and sweeping away yet higher than the church, which is built at the very summit of the long narrow street.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000008_000001|The flag stones with which it is paved are placed end ways, in order to give a better hold to the horses' feet; and, even with this help, they seem to be in constant danger of slipping backwards.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000008_000002|The old stone houses are high compared to the width of the street, which makes an abrupt turn before reaching the more level ground at the head of the village, so that the steep aspect of the place, in one part, is almost like that of a wall.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000009_000000|The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000009_000001|The area of this oblong is filled up by a crowded churchyard, and a small garden or court in front of the clergyman's house.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000009_000005|The house is of grey stone, two stories high, heavily roofed with flags, in order to resist the winds that might strip off a lighter covering.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000009_000006|It appears to have been built about a hundred years ago, and to consist of four rooms on each story; the two windows on the right (as the visitor stands with his back to the church, ready to enter in at the front door) belonging to mr Bronte's study, the two on the left to the family sitting room.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000009_000008|The door steps are spotless; the small old-fashioned window panes glitter like looking glass.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000009_000009|Inside and outside of that house cleanliness goes up into its essence, purity.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000010_000001|The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000010_000002|Inside, the character of the pillars shows that they were constructed before the reign of Henry the seventh.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000010_000004|The inhabitants refer inquirers concerning the date to the following inscription on a stone in the church tower:--
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000014_000000|"Now every antiquary knows that the formula of prayer 'bono statu' always refers to the living.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000016_000000|The interior of the church is commonplace; it is neither old enough nor modern enough to compel notice.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000016_000001|The pews are of black oak, with high divisions; and the names of those to whom they belong are painted in white letters on the doors.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000017_000000|HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF MARIA BRONTE, WIFE OF THE REV.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000017_000001|P. BRONTE, a b, MINISTER OF HAWORTH. HER SOUL DEPARTED TO THE SAVIOUR, september fifteenth eighteen twenty one, IN THE thirty ninth YEAR OF HER AGE.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000018_000001|forty four.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000021_000001|P. BRONTE, INCUMBENT.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000022_000001|P. BRONTE, a b SHE DIED, AGED twenty seven YEARS ,may twenty eighth eighteen forty nine, AND WAS BURIED AT THE OLD CHURCH, SCARBORO.'
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000023_000002|After the record of Anne's death, there is room for no other.
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000024_000001|On another tablet, below the first, the following record has been added to that mournful list:--
train-other-500/1804/170447/1804_170447_000025_000001|ARTHUR BELL NICHOLLS, a b, AND DAUGHTER OF THE REV.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000001_000001|Perhaps the jealous element was not entirely lulled in her passionate little breast.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000001_000002|Perhaps it was only that the round curves and plump outline offered more extended pinching surface.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000001_000003|But while such ebullitions were under the master's control, her enmity occasionally took a new and irrepressible form.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000000|The master in his first estimate of the child's character could not conceive that she had ever possessed a doll.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000001|But the master, like many other professed readers of character, was safer in a posteriori than a priori reasoning.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000002|Mliss had a doll, but then it was emphatically Mliss's doll-a smaller copy of herself.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000003|Its unhappy existence had been a secret discovered accidentally by mrs Morpher.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000004|It had been the old time companion of Mliss's wanderings, and bore evident marks of suffering. Its original complexion was long since washed away by the weather and anointed by the slime of ditches.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000006|Its one gown of faded stuff was dirty and ragged, as hers had been.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000007|Mliss had never been known to apply to it any childish term of endearment.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000008|She never exhibited it in the presence of other children.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000009|It was put severely to bed in a hollow tree near the schoolhouse, and only allowed exercise during Mliss's rambles.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000002_000010|Fulfilling a stern duty to her doll, as she would to herself, it knew no luxuries.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000003_000000|Now mrs Morpher, obeying a commendable impulse, bought another doll and gave it to Mliss.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000003_000001|The child received it gravely and curiously.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000003_000002|The master on looking at it one day fancied he saw a slight resemblance in its round red cheeks and mild blue eyes to Clytemnestra.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000003_000003|It became evident before long that Mliss had also noticed the same resemblance. Accordingly she hammered its waxen head on the rocks when she was alone, and sometimes dragged it with a string round its neck to and from school.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000003_000004|At other times, setting it up on her desk, she made a pincushion of its patient and inoffensive body.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000003_000005|Whether this was done in revenge of what she considered a second figurative obtrusion of Clytie's excellences upon her, or whether she had an intuitive appreciation of the rites of certain other heathens, and, indulging in that "fetish" ceremony, imagined that the original of her wax model would pine away and finally die, is a metaphysical question I shall not now consider.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000004_000000|In spite of these moral vagaries, the master could not help noticing in her different tasks the working of a quick, restless, and vigorous perception.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000004_000001|She knew neither the hesitancy nor the doubts of childhood. Her answers in class were always slightly dashed with audacity.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000004_000002|Of course she was not infallible.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000004_000004|Children are not better than grown people in this respect, I fancy; and whenever the little red hand flashed above her desk, there was a wondering silence, and even the master was sometimes oppressed with a doubt of his own experience and judgment.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000005_000000|Nevertheless, certain attributes which at first amused and entertained his fancy began to afflict him with grave doubts.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000005_000001|He could not but see that Mliss was revengeful, irreverent, and willful.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000005_000003|Mliss was both fearless and sincere; perhaps in such a character the adjectives were synonymous.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000006_000000|The master had been doing some hard thinking on this subject, and had arrived at that conclusion quite common to all who think sincerely, that he was generally the slave of his own prejudices, when he determined to call on the Rev.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000006_000001|McSnagley for advice.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000006_000003|But he thought of Mliss, and the evening of their first meeting; and perhaps with a pardonable superstition that it was not chance alone that had guided her willful feet to the schoolhouse, and perhaps with a complacent consciousness of the rare magnanimity of the act, he choked back his dislike and went to McSnagley.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000007_000000|The reverend gentleman was glad to see him.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000007_000001|Moreover, he observed that the master was looking "peartish," and hoped he had got over the "neuralgy" and "rheumatiz." He himself had been troubled with a dumb "ager" since last conference.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000000|Pausing a moment to enable the master to write his certain method of curing the dumb "ager" upon the book and volume of his brain, mr McSnagley proceeded to inquire after Sister Morpher.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000001|"She is an adornment to ChrisTEWanity, and has a likely growin' young family," added mr McSnagley; "and there's that mannerly young gal-so well behaved-Miss Clytie." In fact, Clytie's perfections seemed to affect him to such an extent that he dwelt for several minutes upon them.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000002|The master was doubly embarrassed.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000003|In the first place, there was an enforced contrast with poor Mliss in all this praise of Clytie.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000004|Secondly, there was something unpleasantly confidential in his tone of speaking of mrs Morpher's earliest born.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000005|So that the master, after a few futile efforts to say something natural, found it convenient to recall another engagement, and left without asking the information required, but in his after reflections somewhat unjustly giving the Rev.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000008_000006|mr McSnagley the full benefit of having refused it.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000009_000000|Perhaps this rebuff placed the master and pupil once more in the close communion of old.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000009_000001|The child seemed to notice the change in the master's manner, which had of late been constrained, and in one of their long postprandial walks she stopped suddenly, and mounting a stump, looked full in his face with big, searching eyes.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000009_000002|"You ain't mad?" said she, with an interrogative shake of the black braids.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000009_000004|For two or three days after that she condescended to appear more like other children, and be, as she expressed it, "good."
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000010_000003|His reticence was partly the result of a constitutional indisposition to fuss, partly a desire to be spared the questions and surmises of vulgar curiosity, and partly that he never really believed he was going to do anything before it was done.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000000|He did not like to think of Mliss.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000001|It was a selfish instinct, perhaps, which made him try to fancy his feeling for the child was foolish, romantic, and unpractical.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000002|He even tried to imagine that she would do better under the control of an older and sterner teacher.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000003|Then she was nearly eleven, and in a few years, by the rules of Red Mountain, would be a woman.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000004|He had done his duty.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000005|After Smith's death he addressed letters to Smith's relatives, and received one answer from a sister of Melissa's mother.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000006|Thanking the master, she stated her intention of leaving the Atlantic States for California with her husband in a few months.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000011_000008|Yet, when the master had read the letter, Mliss listened to it carelessly, received it submissively, and afterward cut figures out of it with her scissors, supposed to represent Clytemnestra, labeled "the white girl," to prevent mistakes, and impaled them upon the outer walls of the schoolhouse.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000012_000000|When the summer was about spent, and the last harvest had been gathered in the valleys, the master bethought him of gathering in a few ripened shoots of the young idea, and of having his Harvest Home, or Examination.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000012_000001|So the savants and professionals of Smith's Pocket were gathered to witness that time honored custom of placing timid children in a constrained positions and bullying them as in a witness box.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000012_000002|As usual in such cases, the most audacious and self possessed were the lucky recipients of the honors.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000012_000004|The other little ones were timid and blundering.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000012_000005|Mliss's readiness and brilliancy, of course, captivated the greatest number and provoked the greatest applause.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000012_000007|But Mliss's popularity was overthrown by an unexpected circumstance.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000002|"Well, war that the truth?" said McSnagley, folding his arms.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000003|"Yes," said Mliss, shutting up her little red lips tightly.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000005|The reverend gentleman heaved a deep sigh, and cast a compassionate glance at the master, then at the children, and then rested his look on Clytie.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000007|Its seductive curves were enhanced by a gorgeous and massive specimen bracelet, the gift of one of her humblest worshipers, worn in honor of the occasion.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000008|There was a momentary silence.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000009|Clytie's round cheeks were very pink and soft.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000012|Clytie looked at the master, and the master nodded.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000013_000013|Then Clytie spoke softly:
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000014_000000|"joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and it obeyed him!" There was a low hum of applause in the schoolroom, a triumphant expression on McSnagley's face, a grave shadow on the master's, and a comical look of disappointment reflected from the windows.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000014_000002|A groan burst from McSnagley, an expression of astonishment from the schoolroom, a yell from the windows, as Mliss brought her red fist down on the desk, with the emphatic declaration:
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000015_000000|"It's a damn lie.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000015_000001|I don't believe it!"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000017_000001|Signs of spring were visible in the swelling buds and rushing torrents.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000017_000002|The pine forests exhaled the fresher spicery.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000017_000003|The azaleas were already budding, the ceanothus getting ready its lilac livery for spring.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000017_000004|On the green upland which climbed Red Mountain at its southern aspect the long spike of the monkshood shot up from its broad leaved stool, and once more shook its dark blue bells.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000017_000006|General superstition had shunned it, and the plot beside Smith was vacant.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000019_000000|The performance was the prevalent style of heavy mediocrity; the melodrama was not bad enough to laugh at nor good enough to excite. But the master, turning wearily to the child, was astonished and felt something like self accusation in noticing the peculiar effect upon her excitable nature.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000019_000003|Her widely opened lids threw up and arched her black eyebrows.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000019_000007|Then she said, "Now take me home!" and dropped the lids of her black eyes, as if to dwell once more in fancy on the mimic stage.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000020_000000|On their way to mrs Morpher's the master thought proper to ridicule the whole performance.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000020_000003|"Why?" said Mliss, with an upward sweep of the drooping lid.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000021_000001|Mliss had a faint idea of irony, indulging herself sometimes in a species of sardonic humor, which was equally visible in her actions and her speech.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000021_000003|Waiving the invitation of mrs Morpher to refreshment and rest, and shading his eyes with his hand to keep out the blue eyed Clytemnestra's siren glances, he excused himself, and went home.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000022_000000|For two or three days after the advent of the dramatic company, Mliss was late at school, and the master's usual Friday afternoon ramble was for once omitted, owing to the absence of his trustworthy guide.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000023_000000|"Well, my little man," said the master, impatiently, "what is it? quick!"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000025_000000|"What's that, sir?" said the master, with that unjust testiness with which we always receive disagreeable news.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000028_000001|And hair.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000028_000002|And gold pin.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000028_000003|And gold chain," said the just Aristides, putting periods for commas to eke out his breath.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000029_000002|"Where were they talking?" asked the master, as if continuing the conversation.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000030_000000|"At the Arcade," said Aristides.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000031_000000|When they reached the main street the master paused.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000031_000001|"Run down home," said he to the boy.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000031_000002|"If Mliss is there, come to the Arcade and tell me. If she isn't there, stay home; run!" And off trotted the short legged Aristides.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000032_000000|The Arcade was just across the way-a long, rambling building containing a barroom, billiard room, and restaurant.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000032_000001|As the young man crossed the plaza he noticed that two or three of the passers by turned and looked after him.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000032_000002|He looked at his clothes, took out his handkerchief, and wiped his face before he entered the barroom.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000032_000003|It contained the usual number of loungers, who stared at him as he entered.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000032_000004|One of them looked at him so fixedly and with such a strange expression that the master stopped and looked again, and then saw it was only his own reflection in a large mirror.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000032_000005|This made the master think that perhaps he was a little excited, and so he took up a copy of the RED MOUNTAIN BANNER from one of the tables, and tried to recover his composure by reading the column of advertisements.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000033_000000|He then walked through the barroom, through the restaurant, and into the billiard room.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000033_000001|The child was not there.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000033_000002|In the latter apartment a person was standing by one of the tables with a broad brimmed glazed hat on his head.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000033_000005|He had noticed the master, but tried that common trick of unconsciousness in which vulgar natures always fail.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000033_000006|Balancing a billiard cue in his hand, he pretended to play with a ball in the center of the table.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000033_000007|The master stood opposite to him until he raised his eyes; when their glances met, the master walked up to him.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000034_000000|He had intended to avoid a scene or quarrel, but when he began to speak, something kept rising in his throat and retarded his utterance, and his own voice frightened him, it sounded so distant, low, and resonant.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000034_000001|"I understand," he began, "that Melissa Smith, an orphan, and one of my scholars, has talked with you about adopting your profession.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000034_000002|Is that so?"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000035_000000|The man with the glazed hat leaned over the table and made an imaginary shot that sent the ball spinning round the cushions.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000035_000001|Then, walking round the table, he recovered the ball and placed it upon the spot.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000035_000002|This duty discharged, getting ready for another shot, he said:
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000036_000000|"S'pose she has?"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000037_000000|The master choked up again, but, squeezing the cushion of the table in his gloved hand, he went on:
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000038_000000|"If you are a gentleman, I have only to tell you that I am her guardian, and responsible for her career.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000038_000001|You know as well as I do the kind of life you offer her.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000038_000003|I am trying to do so again.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000038_000004|Let us talk like men.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000038_000005|She has neither father, mother, sister, or brother.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000038_000006|Are you seeking to give her an equivalent for these?"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000039_000000|The man with the glazed hat examined the point of his cue, and then looked around for somebody to enjoy the joke with him.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000040_000000|"I know that she is a strange, willful girl," continued the master, "but she is better than she was.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000040_000001|I believe that I have some influence over her still.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000040_000002|I beg and hope, therefore, that you will take no further steps in this matter, but as a man, as a gentleman, leave her to me.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000041_000000|The man with the glazed hat, mistaking the master's silence, raised his head with a coarse, brutal laugh, and said in a loud voice:
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000042_000001|That cock won't fight here, young man!"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000043_000001|The best appreciable rhetoric to this kind of animal is a blow.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000043_000002|The master felt this, and, with his pent up, nervous energy finding expression in the one act, he struck the brute full in his grinning face.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000043_000004|It opened up the corners of the fellow's mouth, and spoilt the peculiar shape of his beard for some time to come.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000000|There was a shout, an imprecation, a scuffle, and the trampling of many feet.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000001|Then the crowd parted right and left, and two sharp quick reports followed each other in rapid succession.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000002|Then they closed again about his opponent, and the master was standing alone.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000003|He remembered picking bits of burning wadding from his coat sleeve with his left hand.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000004|Someone was holding his other hand.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000005|Looking at it, he saw it was still bleeding from the blow, but his fingers were clenched around the handle of a glittering knife.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000044_000006|He could not remember when or how he got it.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000045_000000|The man who was holding his hand was mr Morpher.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000045_000002|"She's home!" And they passed out into the street together.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000045_000003|As they walked along mr Morpher said that Mliss had come running into the house a few moments before, and had dragged him out, saying that somebody was trying to kill the master at the Arcade. Wishing to be alone, the master promised mr Morpher that he would not seek the agent again that night, and parted from him, taking the road toward the schoolhouse.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000045_000004|He was surprised in nearing it to find the door open-still more surprised to find Mliss sitting there.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000000|The master's nature, as I have hinted before, had, like most sensitive organizations, a selfish basis.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000002|It was possible, he thought, that such a construction might be put upon his affection for the child, which at best was foolish and Quixotic.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000003|Besides, had she not voluntarily abnegated his authority and affection?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000004|And what had everybody else said about her?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000005|Why should he alone combat the opinion of all, and be at last obliged tacitly to confess the truth of all they predicted?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000008|Nothing?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000009|What would the people say?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000010|What would his friends say?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000046_000011|What would McSnagley say?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000047_000000|In his self accusation the last person he should have wished to meet was Mliss.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000047_000001|He entered the door, and going up to his desk, told the child, in a few cold words, that he was busy, and wished to be alone.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000047_000002|As she rose he took her vacant seat, and, sitting down, buried his head in his hands.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000047_000003|When he looked up again she was still standing there.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000047_000004|She was looking at his face with an anxious expression.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000048_000000|"Did you kill him?" she asked.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000049_000000|"No!" said the master.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000051_000000|"Gave me the knife?" repeated the master, in bewilderment.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000052_000000|"Yes, gave you the knife.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000052_000001|I was there under the bar.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000052_000003|He dropped his old knife.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000052_000004|I gave it to you.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000052_000005|Why didn't you stick him?" said Mliss rapidly, with an expressive twinkle of the black eyes and a gesture of the little red hand.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000053_000000|The master could only look his astonishment.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000054_000000|"Yes," said Mliss.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000054_000004|I knew it.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000054_000006|I'd rather die first."
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000056_000000|"That's the poison plant you said would kill me.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000056_000001|I'll go with the play actors, or I'll eat this and die here.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000056_000002|I don't care which.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000056_000003|I won't stay here, where they hate and despise me!
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000057_000000|The passionate little breast heaved, and two big tears peeped over the edge of Mliss's eyelids, but she whisked them away with the corner of her apron as if they had been wasps.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000058_000001|Father killed himself-why shouldn't I?
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000059_000000|The master thought of the vacant plot beside Smith's grave, and of the passionate little figure before him.
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000059_000001|Seizing her hands in his and looking full into her truthful eyes, he said:
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000061_000000|The child put her arms around his neck, and said joyfully, "Yes."
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000062_000000|"But now-tonight?"
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000063_000000|"Tonight."
train-other-500/1809/143025/1809_143025_000064_000001|The stars glittered brightly above them.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000000_000002|No more variety of light and shade for her in that darkened room; no power of action, scarcely change of movement; faint alternations of whispered sound and studious silence; and yet that monotonous life seemed almost too much!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000000_000003|When mrs Thornton, strong and prosperous with life, came in, mrs Hale lay still, although from the look on her face she was evidently conscious of who it was.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000000_000004|But she did not even open her eyes for a minute or two.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000002_000000|And her filmy wandering eyes fixed themselves with an intensity of wistfulness on mrs Thornton's face.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000002_000002|And it was no thought of her son, or of her living daughter Fanny, that stirred her heart at last; but a sudden remembrance, suggested by something in the arrangement of the room,--of a little daughter-dead in infancy-long years ago-that, like a sudden sunbeam, melted the icy crust, behind which there was a real tender woman.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000004_000001|She could not speak.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000004_000002|mrs Thornton sighed, 'I will be a true friend, if circumstances require it. Not a tender friend.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000005_000000|'I promise,' said she, with grave severity; which, after all, inspired the dying woman with faith as in something more stable than life itself,--flickering, flitting, wavering life!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000005_000001|'I promise that in any difficulty in which Miss Hale'----
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000010_000003|mrs Thornton was reviewing all the probable cases in which she had pledged herself to act.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000010_000004|She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000010_000005|mrs Hale began to speak:
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000012_000001|But having eased her conscience by saying these words, she was not sorry that they were not heard.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000013_000001|A letter from him might now be expected any day; and he would assuredly follow quickly on its heels.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000013_000002|Martha must be sent away on her holiday; Dixon must keep stern guard on the front door, only admitting the few visitors that ever came to the house into mr Hale's room down stairs-mrs
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000013_000003|Hale's extreme illness giving her a good excuse for this.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000013_000004|If Mary Higgins was required as a help to Dixon in the kitchen she was to hear and see as little of Frederick as possible; and he was, if necessary to be spoken of to her under the name of mr Dickinson.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000013_000005|But her sluggish and incurious nature was the greatest safeguard of all.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000000|Poor Margaret!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000001|All that afternoon she had to act the part of a Roman daughter, and give strength out of her own scanty stock to her father. mr Hale would hope, would not despair, between the attacks of his wife's malady; he buoyed himself up in every respite from her pain, and believed that it was the beginning of ultimate recovery.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000002|And so, when the paroxysms came on, each more severe than the last, they were fresh agonies, and greater disappointments to him.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000003|This afternoon, he sat in the drawing room, unable to bear the solitude of his study, or to employ himself in any way.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000004|He buried his head in his arms, which lay folded on the table.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000006|Martha was gone. Dixon sat with mrs Hale while she slept.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000010|She started up, passed her father, who had never moved at the veiled, dull sound,--returned, and kissed him tenderly.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000011|And still he never moved, nor took any notice of her fond embrace.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000013|Dixon would have put the chain on before she opened it, but Margaret had not a thought of fear in her pre occupied mind.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000015_000015|He was looking away; but at the sound of the latch he turned quickly round.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000017_000001|In a moment she sighed out,
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000018_000000|'Frederick!' and stretched out both her hands to catch his, and draw him in.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000019_000000|'Oh, Margaret!' said he, holding her off by her shoulders, after they had kissed each other, as if even in that darkness he could see her face, and read in its expression a quicker answer to his question than words could give,--
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000021_000000|'Yes, she is alive, dear, dear brother!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000021_000002|She is alive!'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000022_000000|'Thank God!' said he.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000024_000000|'You expect me, don't you?'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000026_000001|But my mother knows I am coming?'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000027_000000|'Oh! we all knew you would come.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000027_000003|Give me your hand.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000027_000004|What is this?
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000027_000005|Oh! your carpet bag.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000028_000000|She groped her way to the taper and the lucifer matches.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000028_000001|She suddenly felt shy, when the little feeble light made them visible.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000028_000004|Her heart was wonderfully lighter as she went up stairs; the sorrow was no less in reality, but it became less oppressive from having some one in precisely the same relation to it as that in which she stood.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000028_000006|She used it perhaps too violently in her own great relief.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000031_000000|He looked at her; she saw the idea of the truth glimmer into their filmy sadness, and be dismissed thence as a wild imagination.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000032_000000|He threw himself forward, and hid his face once more in his stretched out arms, resting upon the table as heretofore.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000032_000001|She heard him whisper; she bent tenderly down to listen.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000032_000003|Don't tell me it is Frederick-not Frederick.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000032_000005|And his mother is dying!' He began to cry and wail like a child.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000032_000007|Then she spoke again-very differently-not so exultingly, far more tenderly and carefully.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000033_000001|Think of mamma, how glad she will be!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000034_000000|Her father did not change his attitude, but he seemed to be trying to understand the fact.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000036_000000|'In your study, quite alone.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000036_000001|I lighted the taper, and ran up to tell you.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000037_000000|'I will go to him,' broke in her father; and he lifted himself up and leant on her arm as on that of a guide.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000001|She turned away, and ran up stairs, and cried most heartily.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000002|It was the first time she had dared to allow herself this relief for days.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000004|But Frederick was come!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000005|He, the one precious brother, was there, safe, amongst them again!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000006|She could hardly believe it.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000007|She stopped her crying, and opened her bedroom door.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000008|She heard no sound of voices, and almost feared she might have dreamt.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000009|She went down stairs, and listened at the study door.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000038_000010|She heard the buzz of voices; and that was enough.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000039_000001|She was proud of serving Frederick.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000039_000003|It was a type, a sign, of all the coming relief which his presence would bring.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000042_000000|'Dear old Dixon!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000042_000001|How we shall kiss each other!' said Frederick. 'She used to kiss me, and then look in my face to be sure I was the right person, and then set to again!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000042_000002|But, Margaret, what a bungler you are!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000042_000003|I never saw such a little awkward, good for nothing pair of hands.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000042_000005|I'll manage it.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000042_000006|Lighting fires is one of my natural accomplishments.'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000043_000000|So Margaret went away; and returned; and passed in and out of the room, in a glad restlessness that could not be satisfied with sitting still. The more wants Frederick had, the better she was pleased; and he understood all this by instinct.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000043_000001|It was a joy snatched in the house of mourning, and the zest of it was all the more pungent, because they knew in the depths of their hearts what irremediable sorrow awaited them.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000044_000000|In the middle, they heard Dixon's foot on the stairs.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000044_000002|He stood up, and faced the door, showing such a strange, sudden anxiety to conceal Frederick from the sight of any person entering, even though it were the faithful Dixon, that a shiver came over Margaret's heart: it reminded her of the new fear in their lives.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000044_000004|And yet they knew it was only Dixon's measured tread.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000044_000006|Margaret rose up.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000045_000000|'I will go to her, and tell her.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000045_000002|She rambled at first; but after they had given her some tea she was refreshed, though not disposed to talk.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000045_000005|He was there, in the house; could be summoned at any moment.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000000|Margaret could not sit still.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000002|Each glimpse into the room where he sate by his father, conversing with him, about, she knew not what, nor cared to know,--was increase of strength to her.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000004|She took in his appearance and liked it.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000005|He had delicate features, redeemed from effeminacy by the swarthiness of his complexion, and his quick intensity of expression.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000006|His eyes were generally merry looking, but at times they and his mouth so suddenly changed, and gave her such an idea of latent passion, that it almost made her afraid.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000009|On the contrary, all their intercourse was peculiarly charming to her from the very first.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000011|He understood his father and mother-their characters and their weaknesses, and went along with a careless freedom, which was yet most delicately careful not to hurt or wound any of their feelings.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000012|He seemed to know instinctively when a little of the natural brilliancy of his manner and conversation would not jar on the deep depression of his father, or might relieve his mother's pain.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000015|She might talk to him of the old spot, and never fear tiring him.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000017|But in their absence they had grown nearer to each other in age, as well as in many other things.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000019|Other light than that of Frederick's presence she had none.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000020|For a few hours, the mother rallied on seeing her son.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000046_000021|She sate with his hand in hers; she would not part with it even while she slept; and Margaret had to feed him like a baby, rather than that he should disturb her mother by removing a finger.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000048_000000|This state of tranquillity could not endure for many days, nor perhaps for many hours; so dr Donaldson assured Margaret.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000048_000001|After the kind doctor had gone away, she stole down to Frederick, who, during the visit, had been adjured to remain quietly concealed in the back parlour, usually Dixon's bedroom, but now given up to him.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000050_000000|'I don't believe it,' he exclaimed.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000050_000002|Margaret!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000050_000003|she should have some other advice-some London doctor.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000050_000004|Have you never thought of that?'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000051_000000|'Yes,' said Margaret, 'more than once.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000052_000000|Frederick began to walk up and down the room impatiently.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000053_000000|'I have credit in Cadiz,' said he, 'but none here, owing to this wretched change of name.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000053_000001|Why did my father leave Helstone?
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000053_000002|That was the blunder.'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000054_000001|'And above all possible chances, avoid letting papa hear anything like what you have just been saying.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000000|'My little Margaret!' said he, caressing her.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000001|'Let us hope as long as we can.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000002|Poor little woman!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000003|what! is this face all wet with tears?
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000004|I will hope.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000005|I will, in spite of a thousand doctors.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000056_000006|Bear up, Margaret, and be brave enough to hope!'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000058_000003|And now comes death to snap us asunder!'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000059_000000|'Come, come, come!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000059_000001|Let us go up stairs, and do something, rather than waste time that may be so precious.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000059_000002|Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000059_000003|My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of "Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money." My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something."'
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000061_000000|'By no means.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000061_000001|What I do exclude is the remorse afterwards.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000063_000001|Convulsions came on; and when they ceased, mrs Hale was unconscious.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000063_000003|She would never recognise them again, till they met in Heaven.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000064_000000|Before the morning came all was over.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000065_000001|For Frederick had broken down now, and all his theories were of no use to him.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000066_000000|Margaret sate with her father in the room with the dead.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000066_000003|He took no notice of Margaret's presence.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000066_000005|He started when he heard Frederick's cries, and shook his head:--'Poor boy!
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000066_000006|poor boy!' he said, and took no more notice.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000066_000007|Margaret's heart ached within her.
train-other-500/1813/142304/1813_142304_000066_000008|She could not think of her own loss in thinking of her father's case.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000000_000012|four.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000002_000008|A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000010_000003|The insolvent debtor consulted the wishes of his creditor; the client would have blushed to oppose the views of his patron; the general was followed by his veterans, and the aspect of a grave magistrate was a living lesson to the multitude.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000010_000004|A new method of secret ballot abolished the influence of fear and shame, of honor and interest, and the abuse of freedom accelerated the progress of anarchy and despotism.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000010_000006|Once, and once only, he experienced a sincere and strenuous opposition.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000010_000007|His subjects had resigned all political liberty; they defended the freedom of domestic life.
train-other-500/1815/143382/1815_143382_000010_000011|The loss of executive power was alleviated by the gift of legislative authority; and Ulpian might assert, after the practice of two hundred years, that the decrees of the senate obtained the force and validity of laws.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000004_000000|The free citizens of Athens and Rome enjoyed, in all criminal cases, the invaluable privilege of being tried by their country.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000004_000003|The first consuls succeeded to this regal prerogative; but the sacred right of appeal soon abolished the jurisdiction of the magistrates, and all public causes were decided by the supreme tribunal of the people.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000004_000004|But a wild democracy, superior to the forms, too often disdains the essential principles, of justice: the pride of despotism was envenomed by plebeian envy, and the heroes of Athens might sometimes applaud the happiness of the Persian, whose fate depended on the caprice of a single tyrant.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000004_000006|The right of accusation was confined to the magistrates.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000005_000001|Repeated proclamations and adjournments were interposed, to allow time for prejudice and resentment to subside: the whole proceeding might be annulled by a seasonable omen, or the opposition of a tribune; and such popular trials were commonly less formidable to innocence than they were favorable to guilt.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000005_000003|The task of convening the citizens for the trial of each offender became more difficult, as the citizens and the offenders continually multiplied; and the ready expedient was adopted of delegating the jurisdiction of the people to the ordinary magistrates, or to extraordinary inquisitors.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000005_000004|In the first ages these questions were rare and occasional.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000005_000005|In the beginning of the seventh century of Rome they were made perpetual: four praetors were annually empowered to sit in judgment on the state offences of treason, extortion, peculation, and bribery; and Sylla added new praetors and new questions for those crimes which more directly injure the safety of individuals.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000005_000006|By these inquisitors the trial was prepared and directed; but they could only pronounce the sentence of the majority of judges, who with some truth, and more prejudice, have been compared to the English juries.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000005_000014|The rules and precautions of freedom have required some explanation; the order of despotism is simple and inanimate.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000008_000002|A bolder effort was required to escape from the tyranny of the Caesars; but this effort was rendered familiar by the maxims of the stoics, the example of the bravest romans, and the legal encouragements of suicide.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000008_000004|But, if the victims of Tiberius and Nero anticipated the decree of the prince or senate, their courage and despatch were recompensed by the applause of the public, the decent honors of burial, and the validity of their testaments.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000008_000009|But the precepts of the gospel, or the church, have at length imposed a pious servitude on the minds of Christians, and condemn them to expect, without a murmur, the last stroke of disease or the executioner.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000001|This singular distinction, though something may be allowed for the urgent necessity of defending the peace of society, is derived from the nature of criminal and civil jurisprudence.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000002|Our duties to the state are simple and uniform: the law by which he is condemned is inscribed not only on brass or marble, but on the conscience of the offender, and his guilt is commonly proved by the testimony of a single fact.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000003|But our relations to each other are various and infinite; our obligations are created, annulled, and modified, by injuries, benefits, and promises; and the interpretation of voluntary contracts and testaments, which are often dictated by fraud or ignorance, affords a long and laborious exercise to the sagacity of the judge.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000005|Justinian, the Greek emperor of Constantinople and the East, was the legal successor of the Latin shepherd who had planted a colony on the banks of the Tyber.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000006|In a period of thirteen hundred years, the laws had reluctantly followed the changes of government and manners; and the laudable desire of conciliating ancient names with recent institutions destroyed the harmony, and swelled the magnitude, of the obscure and irregular system.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000009|Such costly justice might tend to abate the spirit of litigation, but the unequal pressure serves only to increase the influence of the rich, and to aggravate the misery of the poor.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000010|By these dilatory and expensive proceedings, the wealthy pleader obtains a more certain advantage than he could hope from the accidental corruption of his judge.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000011|The experience of an abuse, from which our own age and country are not perfectly exempt, may sometimes provoke a generous indignation, and extort the hasty wish of exchanging our elaborate jurisprudence for the simple and summary decrees of a Turkish cadhi.
train-other-500/1815/143388/1815_143388_000013_000012|Our calmer reflection will suggest, that such forms and delays are necessary to guard the person and property of the citizen; that the discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny; and that the laws of a free people should foresee and determine every question that may probably arise in the exercise of power and the transactions of industry.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000000_000000|CHAPTER twelve-THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000000|As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000002|There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Rapee to the knacker of Montfaucon.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000003|Fex urbis, exclaims Cicero; mob, adds Burke, indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000004|These are words and quickly uttered.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000005|But so be it.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000006|What does it matter?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000007|What is it to me if they do go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000008|Would you abandon them for that?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000009|Would you turn their distress into a malediction?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000010|Cannot the light penetrate these masses?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000011|Let us return to that cry: Light! and let us obstinately persist therein!
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000012|Light!
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000013|Light!
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000014|Who knows whether these opacities will not become transparent?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000015|Are not revolutions transfigurations?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000017|Make a whirlwind of the idea.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000018|This crowd may be rendered sublime.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000019|Let us learn how to make use of that vast conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth and quivers at certain hours.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000020|These bare feet, these bare arms, these rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be employed in the conquest of the ideal.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000021|Gaze past the people, and you will perceive truth.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000001_000022|Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirteen-LITTLE GAVROCHE
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000004_000002|Some people or other had clothed him in rags out of charity.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000004_000003|Still, he had a father and a mother.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000004_000004|But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not love him.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000005_000000|He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000006_000000|This child never felt so well as when he was in the street.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000006_000001|The pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000007_000000|His parents had despatched him into life with a kick.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000008_000000|He simply took flight.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000009_000000|He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide awake, jeering, lad, with a vivacious but sickly air.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000009_000001|He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because he was free.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000010_000000|When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000010_000001|The tiniest hole saves them.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000011_000000|Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint Martin, descended to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the Salpetriere, and came to a halt, where?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000013_000001|I know not what philosopher has said: "Old women are never lacking."
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000017_000000|This family was that of the merry barefoot boy.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000017_000001|He arrived there and found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth and cold hearts.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000017_000002|When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: "What did you come here for?"
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000018_000000|This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants which spring up in cellars.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000018_000002|He did not know exactly how a father and mother should be.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000019_000000|Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000020_000001|Why was he called Little Gavroche?
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000021_000000|Probably because his father's name was Jondrette.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000022_000000|It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the thread.
train-other-500/1815/9918/1815_9918_000023_000000|The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the last at the end of the corridor.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000003_000000|RAGGEDY ANN LEARNS A LESSON
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000004_000000|One day the dolls were left all to themselves.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000005_000000|Their little mistress had placed them all around the room and told them to be nice children while she was away.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000006_000000|And there they sat and never even so much as wiggled a finger, until their mistress had left the room.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000007_000000|Then the soldier dolly turned his head and solemnly winked at Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000008_000000|And when the front gate clicked and the dollies knew they were alone in the house, they all scrambled to their feet.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000009_000001|"Let's all go in search of something to eat!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000010_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000010_000001|Let's all go in search of something to eat!" cried all the other dollies.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000011_000000|"When Mistress had me out playing with her this morning," said Raggedy Ann, "she carried me by a door near the back of the house and I smelled something which smelled as if it would taste delicious!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000012_000000|"Then you lead the way, Raggedy Ann!" cried the French dolly.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000013_000000|"I think it would be a good plan to elect Raggedy Ann as our leader on this expedition!" said the Indian doll.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000015_000000|So Raggedy Ann, very proud indeed to have the confidence and love of all the other dollies, said that she would be very glad to be their leader.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000016_000000|"Follow me!" she cried as her wobbly legs carried her across the floor at a lively pace.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000017_000000|The other dollies followed, racing about the house until they came to the pantry door.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000017_000001|"This is the place!" cried Raggedy Ann, and sure enough, all the dollies smelled something which they knew must be very good to eat.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000018_000000|But none of the dollies was tall enough to open the door and, although they pushed and pulled with all their might, the door remained tightly closed.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000019_000000|The dollies were talking and pulling and pushing and every once in a while one would fall over and the others would step on her in their efforts to open the door.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000019_000001|Finally Raggedy Ann drew away from the others and sat down on the floor.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000020_000000|When the other dollies discovered Raggedy Ann sitting there, running her rag hands through her yarn hair, they knew she was thinking.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000022_000000|"There must be a way to get inside," said Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000023_000000|"Raggedy says there must be a way to get inside!" cried all the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000024_000000|"I can't seem to think clearly to day," said Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000024_000001|"It feels as if my head were ripped."
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000025_000000|At this the French doll ran to Raggedy Ann and took off her bonnet. "Yes, there is a rip in your head, Raggedy!" she said and pulled a pin from her skirt and pinned up Raggedy's head.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000025_000001|"It's not a very neat job, for I got some puckers in it!" she said.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000026_000000|"Oh that is ever so much better!" cried Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000026_000001|"Now I can think quite clearly."
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000027_000000|"Now Raggedy can think quite clearly!" cried all the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000031_000000|"They must have leaked out before, dear Raggedy!" cried all the other dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000032_000000|"Now that I can think so clearly," said Raggedy Ann, "I think the door must be locked and to get in we must unlock it!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000034_000000|"I can easily do that!" cried the tin soldier, as he raised his gun.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000035_000000|"Oh, Raggedy Ann!" cried the French dolly.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000035_000001|"Please do not let him shoot!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000036_000000|"No!" said Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000036_000001|"We must think of a quieter way!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000037_000000|After thinking quite hard for a moment, Raggedy Ann jumped up and said: "I have it!" And she caught up the Jumping Jack and held him up to the door; then Jack slid up his stick and unlocked the door.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000038_000000|Then the dollies all pushed and the door swung open.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000039_000000|My!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000039_000001|Such a scramble!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000039_000002|The dolls piled over one another in their desire to be the first at the goodies.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000040_000000|They swarmed upon the pantry shelves and in their eagerness spilled a pitcher of cream which ran all over the French dolly's dress.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000041_000000|The Indian doll found some corn bread and dipping it in the molasses he sat down for a good feast.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000042_000000|A jar of raspberry jam was overturned and the dollies ate of this until their faces were all purple.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000043_000000|The tin soldier fell from the shelf three times and bent one of his tin legs, but he scrambled right back up again.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000047_000000|Just as their mistress came into the room the dolls dropped in whatever positions they happened to be in.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000000|"This is funny!" cried Mistress.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000001|"They were all left sitting in their places around the room!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000003|"Why Raggedy Ann, you are all sticky!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000004|I do believe you are covered with jam!" and Mistress tasted Raggedy Ann's hand.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000005|"Yes!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000006|It's JAM!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000007|Shame on you, Raggedy Ann!
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000048_000008|You've been in the pantry and all the others, too!" and with this the dolls' mistress dropped Raggedy Ann on the floor and left the room.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000049_000000|When she came back she had on an apron and her sleeves were rolled up.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000050_000000|She picked up all the sticky dolls and putting them in a basket she carried them out under the apple tree in the garden.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000057_000001|"But I do believe my arms will never work without squeaking, they feel so rusted," he added.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000058_000000|Just then the wind twisted the little Dutch doll and loosened his clothes pin, so that he fell to the grass below with a sawdusty bump and as he rolled over he said, "Mamma!" in a squeaky voice.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000059_000001|After setting the table she took all the dolls from the line and placed them about the table.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000060_000000|They had lemonade with grape jelly in it, which made it a beautiful lavender color, and little "Baby teeny weeny cookies" with powdered sugar on them.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000062_000000|Then they were placed in their beds and Mistress kissed each one good night and tiptoed from the room.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000063_000000|All the dolls lay as still as mice for a few minutes, then Raggedy Ann raised up on her cotton stuffed elbows and said: "I have been thinking!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000064_000000|"Sh!" said all the other dollies, "Raggedy has been thinking!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000065_000000|"Yes," said Raggedy Ann, "I have been thinking; our mistress gave us the nice dinner out under the trees to teach us a lesson.
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000065_000003|So let us all remember and try never again to do anything which might cause those who love us any unhappiness!"
train-other-500/1819/144391/1819_144391_000066_000000|"Let us all remember," chimed all the other dollies.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000003_000000|RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITTENS
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000004_000000|Raggedy Ann had been away all day.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000005_000000|Marcella had come early in the morning and dressed all the dolls and placed them about the nursery.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000006_000000|Some of the dolls had been put in the little red chairs around the little doll table.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000006_000002|The little teapot and other doll dishes were empty, but Marcella had told them to enjoy their dinner while she was away.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000007_000000|The French dolly had been given a seat upon the doll sofa and Uncle Clem had been placed at the piano.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000009_000000|When the door closed, the tin soldier winked at the Dutch boy doll and handed the imitation turkey to the penny dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000009_000001|"Have some nice turkey?" he asked.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000012_000000|At this all the dolls laughed, for Uncle Clem could not begin to play any tune.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000012_000001|Raggedy Ann was the only doll who had ever taken lessons, and she could play Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater with one hand.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000013_000000|In fact, Marcella had almost worn out Raggedy Ann's right hand teaching it to her.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000015_000000|Quick as a wink, all the dolls took the same positions in which they had been placed by Marcella, for they did not wish really truly people to know that they could move about.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000016_000000|But it was only Fido.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000016_000001|He put his nose in the door and looked around.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000018_000000|Then Fido pushed the door open and came into the nursery wagging his tail.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000019_000000|He walked over to the table and sniffed, in hopes Marcella had given the dolls real food and that some would still be left.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000020_000000|"Where's Raggedy Ann?" Fido asked, when he had satisfied himself that there was no food.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000021_000000|"Mistress took Raggedy Ann and went somewhere!" all the dolls answered in chorus.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000022_000000|"I've found something I must tell Raggedy Ann about!" said Fido, as he scratched his ear.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000023_000000|"Is it a secret?" asked the penny dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000024_000000|"Secret nothing," replied Fido, "It's kittens!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000025_000000|"How lovely!" cried all the dolls, "Really live kittens?"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000026_000000|"Really live kittens!" replied Fido, "Three little tiny ones, out in the barn!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000027_000001|"She would know what to do about it!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000029_000001|I tell you I hurried out of there!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000032_000000|"I waited around the barn until Mamma Cat went up to the house and then I slipped into the barn again, for I knew there must be something inside or she would not have jumped at me that way!
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000032_000001|We are always very friendly, you know." Fido continued.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000032_000002|"And what was my surprise to find three tiny little kittens in an old basket, 'way back in a dark corner!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000033_000000|"Go get them, Fido, and bring them up so we can see them!" said the tin soldier.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000034_000000|"Not me!" said Fido, "If I had a suit of tin clothes on like you have I might do it, but you know cats can scratch very hard if they want to!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000035_000000|"We will tell Raggedy when she comes in!" said the French doll, and then Fido went out to play with a neighbor dog.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000036_000000|So when Raggedy Ann had been returned to the nursery the dolls could hardly wait until Marcella had put on their nighties and left them for the night.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000037_000000|Then they told Raggedy Ann all about the kittens.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000038_000000|Raggedy Ann jumped from her bed and ran over to Fido's basket; he wasn't there.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000039_000001|This they did easily, for the window was open and it was but a short jump to the ground.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000040_000000|They found Fido out near the barn watching a hole.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000042_000000|All the dolls, with Raggedy Ann in the lead, crawled through the hole and ran to the basket.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000044_000001|When Mamma Cat caught up with Fido he would yelp.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000045_000000|When Fido and Mamma Cat had circled the barn two or three times Fido managed to find the hole and escape to the yard; then Mamma Cat came over to the basket and saw all the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000048_000000|"You must trust Fido, Mamma Cat!" said Raggedy Ann, "because he loves you and anyone who loves you can be trusted!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000049_000001|"Cats love mice, too, and I wish the mice trusted us more!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000050_000000|The dolls all laughed at this joke.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000051_000000|"Have you told the folks up at the house about your dear little kittens?" Raggedy Ann asked.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000052_000000|"Oh, my, no!" exclaimed Mamma Cat.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000054_000000|"Let's take them right up to the nursery!" said Raggedy Ann, "And Mistress can find them there in the morning!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000055_000000|"How lovely!" said all the dolls in chorus.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000055_000001|"Do, Mamma Cat!
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000055_000002|Raggedy Ann knows, for she is stuffed with nice clean white cotton and is very wise!"
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000056_000000|So after a great deal of persuasion, Mamma Cat finally consented. Raggedy Ann took two of the kittens and carried them to the house while Mamma Cat carried the other.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000060_000000|Raggedy Ann did not sleep a wink, for she shared her bed with Fido and he kept her awake whispering to her.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000061_000000|In the morning when Marcella came to the nursery, the first thing she saw was the three little kittens.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000062_000001|Mamma Cat went trailing along, arching her back and purring with pride as she rubbed against all the chairs and doors.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000063_000000|Mamma and Daddy said the kittens could stay in the nursery and belong to Marcella, so Marcella took them back to Fido's basket while she hunted names for them out of a fairy tale book.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000064_000000|Marcella finally decided upon three names; Prince Charming for the white kitty, Cinderella for the Maltese and Princess Golden for the kitty with the yellow stripes.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000065_000000|So that is how the three little kittens came to live in the nursery.
train-other-500/1819/144398/1819_144398_000067_000000|And Mamma Cat found out that Fido was a very good friend, too.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000001_000000|RAGGEDY ANN AND THE MOUSE
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000002_000000|Jeanette was a new wax doll, and like Henny, the Dutch doll, she could say "Mamma" when anyone tipped her backward or forward.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000002_000001|She had lovely golden brown curls of real hair.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000002_000002|It could be combed and braided, or curled or fluffed without tangling, and Raggedy Ann was very proud when Jeanette came to live with the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000008_000000|"If I catch the culprit, I will-well, I don't know what I will do with him!" said the tin soldier, who could be very fierce at times, although he was seldom cross.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000009_000000|"Here is the hole he came from!" cried Uncle Clem from the other end of the nursery.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000009_000001|"Come, see!"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000010_000000|All the dolls ran to where Uncle Clem was, down on his hands and knees.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000011_000000|"This must be the place!" said Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000011_000001|"We will plug up the hole with something, so he will not come out again!"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000012_000000|The dolls hunted around and brought rags and pieces of paper and pushed them into the mouse's doorway.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000013_000000|"I thought I heard nibbling last night," one of the penny dolls said. "You know I begged for an extra piece of pie last evening, when Mistress had me at the table and it kept me awake!"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000014_000000|While the dolls were talking, Marcella ran down stairs with Jeanette and told Daddy and Mamma, who came up stairs with Marcella and hunted around until they discovered the mouse's doorway.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000015_000000|"Oh, why couldn't it have chewed on me?" Raggedy Ann asked herself when she saw Marcella's sorrowful face, for Raggedy Ann was never selfish.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000016_000000|"Daddy will take Jeanette down town with him and have her fixed up as good as new," said Mamma, so Jeanette was wrapped in soft tissue paper and taken away.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000017_000000|Later in the day Marcella came bouncing into the nursery with a surprise for the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000017_000001|It was a dear fuzzy little kitten.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000018_000000|Marcella introduced the kitten to all the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000019_000000|"Her name is Boots, because she has four little white feet!" said Marcella.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000020_000000|When Marcella was not in the nursery, Raggedy Ann wrestled with Boots and they would roll over and over upon the floor, Boots with her front feet around Raggedy Ann's neck and kicking with her hind feet.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000022_000001|Then she would jump at her and over and over they would roll, their heads hitting the floor bumpity bump.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000023_000000|Boots slept in the nursery that night and was lonely for her Mamma, for it was the first time she had been away from home.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000024_000000|Even though her bed was right on top of Raggedy Ann, she could not sleep.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000025_000000|One day Jeanette came home.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000025_000001|She had a new coating of wax on her face and she was as beautiful as ever.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000026_000000|Now, by this time Boots was one of the family and did not cry at night. Besides Boots was told of the mouse in the corner and how he had eaten Jeanette's wax, so she promised to sleep with one eye open.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000027_000000|Late that night when Boots was the only one awake, out popped a tiny mouse from the hole.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000027_000001|Boots jumped after the mouse, and hit against the toy piano and made the keys tinkle so loudly it awakened the dolls.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000028_000000|They ran over to where Boots sat growling with the tiny mouse in her mouth.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000029_000000|My! how the mouse was squeaking!
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000031_000000|So, Raggedy Ann said to the tiny little mouse, "You should have known better than to come here when Boots is with us.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000031_000001|Why don't you go out in the barn and live where you will not destroy anything of value?"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000032_000000|"I did not know!" squeaked the little mouse, "This is the first time I have ever been here!"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000033_000000|"Aren't you the little mouse who nibbled Jeanette's wax face?" Raggedy Ann asked.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000034_000001|"I was visiting the mice inside the walls and wandered out here to pick up cake crumbs!
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000034_000002|I have three little baby mice at home down in the barn.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000035_000000|"Are you a Mamma mouse?" Uncle Clem asked.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000036_000000|"Yes!" the little mouse squeaked, "and if the kitten will let me go I will run right home to my children and never return again!"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000037_000000|"Let her go, Boots!" the dolls all cried, "She has three little baby mice at home!
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000037_000001|Please let her go!"
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000039_000000|"If you do not let the Mamma mouse go, Boots, I shall not play with you again!" said Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000040_000001|Not to have Raggedy play with them would have been sad, indeed.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000042_000000|The dolls drew to one side, where Raggedy Ann and Uncle Clem whispered together.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000043_000000|And while they whispered Boots would let the little Mamma mouse run a piece, then she would catch it again and box it about between her paws.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000046_000000|As she watched the little mouse crawling towards the hole scarcely able to move, Raggedy Ann could not keep the tears from her shoe button eyes.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000047_000000|Finally as Boots started to spring after the little mouse again, Raggedy Ann threw her rag arms around the kitten's neck.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000047_000001|"Run, Mamma mouse!" Raggedy Ann cried, as Boots whirled her over and over.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000049_000000|When Raggedy Ann took her arms from around Boots, the kitten was very angry.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000049_000001|She laid her ears back and scratched Raggedy Ann with her claws.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000050_000001|Finally Boots felt ashamed of herself and went over and lay down by the hole in the wall in hopes the mouse would return, but the mouse never returned.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000050_000002|Even then Mamma mouse was out in the barn with her children, warning them to beware of kittens and cats.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000051_000000|Raggedy Ann and all the dolls then went to bed and Raggedy had just dozed off to sleep when she felt something jump upon her bed.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000051_000001|It was Boots.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000051_000002|She felt a warm little pink tongue caress her rag cheek.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000051_000003|Raggedy Ann smiled happily to herself, for Boots had curled up on top of Raggedy Ann and was purring herself to sleep.
train-other-500/1819/144401/1819_144401_000052_000000|Then Raggedy Ann knew she had been forgiven for rescuing the Mamma mouse and she smiled herself to sleep and dreamed happily of tomorrow.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000003_000000|RAGGEDY ANN'S NEW SISTERS
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000004_000000|Marcella was having a tea party up in the nursery when Daddy called to her, so she left the dollies sitting around the tiny table and ran down stairs carrying Raggedy Ann with her.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000005_000000|Mama, Daddy and a strange man were talking in the living room and Daddy introduced Marcella to the stranger.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000006_000000|The stranger was a large man with kindly eyes and a cheery smile, as pleasant as Raggedy Ann's.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000007_000000|He took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as he talked to Daddy and Mamma, so, of course, Raggedy Ann liked him from the beginning.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000007_000001|"I have two little girls," he told Marcella.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000007_000003|They were playing that Freddy was in bathing and that he wanted to be covered with the clean white sand, just as the other bathers did.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000009_000000|"It was too bad they forgot Freddy," said Marcella.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000010_000001|"But it turned out all right after all, for do you know what happened to Freddy?"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000012_000000|"Well, first of all, when Freddy was covered with the sand, he enjoyed it immensely.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000013_000002|The Tide Fairies were uncovering Freddy!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000014_000000|"When he was completely uncovered, the Tide Fairies swam with Freddy 'way out to the Undertow Fairies.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000014_000002|The Roller Fairies carried Freddy up to the surface and tossed him up to the Spray Fairies who carried him to the Wind Fairies."
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000017_000000|"Freddy must have enjoyed it and your little girls must have been very glad to get Freddy back again!" said Marcella.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000017_000001|"Raggedy Ann went up in the air on the tail of a kite one day and fell and was lost, so now I am very careful with her!"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000018_000000|"Would you let me take Raggedy Ann for a few days?" asked the new friend.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000019_000000|Marcella was silent.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000019_000001|She liked the stranger friend, but she did not wish to lose Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000021_000001|Will you let her go with me, Marcella?"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000024_000000|"We miss her happy painted smile and her cheery ways!" they said.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000025_000000|And so the week dragged by....
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000026_000000|But, my!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000026_000001|What a chatter there was in the nursery the first night after Raggedy Ann returned.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000026_000002|All the dolls were so anxious to hug Raggedy Ann they could scarcely wait until Marcella had left them alone.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000027_000000|When they had squeezed Raggedy Ann almost out of shape and she had smoothed out her yarn hair, patted her apron out and felt her shoe button eyes to see if they were still there, she said, "Well, what have you been doing?
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000027_000001|Tell me all the news!"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000028_000001|"Tell us about yourself, Raggedy dear, we have missed you so much!"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000029_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000029_000001|Tell us where you have been and what you have done, Raggedy!" all the dolls cried.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000030_000000|But Raggedy Ann just then noticed that one of the penny dolls had a hand missing.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000031_000000|"How did this happen?" she asked as she picked up the doll.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000032_000000|"I fell off the table and lit upon the tin soldier last night when we were playing.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000032_000001|But don't mind a little thing like that, Raggedy Ann," replied the penny doll.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000032_000002|"Tell us of yourself!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000032_000003|Have you had a nice time?"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000033_000000|"I shall not tell a thing until your hand is mended!" Raggedy Ann said.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000034_000000|So the Indian ran and brought a bottle of glue.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000034_000001|"Where's the hand?" Raggedy asked.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000035_000000|"In my pocket," the penny doll answered.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000038_000000|The dolls all sat upon the floor around Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier with his arm over her shoulder.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000039_000000|"Well, first when I left," said Raggedy Ann, "I was placed in the Stranger Friend's grip.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000039_000001|It was rather stuffy in there, but I did not mind it; in fact I believe I must have fallen asleep, for when I awakened I saw the Stranger Friend's hand reaching into the grip.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000039_000002|Then he lifted me from the grip and danced me upon his knee.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000039_000003|'What do you think of her?' he asked to three other men sitting nearby.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000040_000000|"I was so interested in looking out of the window I did not pay any attention to what they said, for we were on a train and the scenery was just flying by!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000042_000000|"The stranger friend showed me to another man and to the girls who took off my clothes, cut my seams and took out my cotton.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000042_000001|And what do you think!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000042_000002|They found my lovely candy heart had not melted at all as I thought.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000042_000003|Then they laid me on a table and marked all around my outside edges with a pencil on clean white cloth, and then the girls re stuffed me and dressed me.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000043_000000|"I stayed in the clean big light room for two or three days and nights and watched my Sisters grow from pieces of cloth into rag dolls just like myself!"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000044_000000|"Your SISTERS!" the dolls all exclaimed in astonishment, "What do you mean, Raggedy?"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000045_000000|"I mean," said Raggedy Ann, "that the Stranger Friend had borrowed me from Marcella so that he could have patterns made from me.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000045_000001|And before I left the big clean white room there where hundreds of rag dolls so like me you would not have been able to tell us apart."
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000047_000000|"But all of my sister dolls have smiles just like mine!" replied Raggedy Ann.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000048_000000|"And shoe button eyes?" the dolls all asked.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000049_000000|"Yes, shoe button eyes!" Raggedy Ann replied.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000050_000000|"I would tell you from the others by your dress, Raggedy Ann," said the French doll, "Your dress is fifty years old!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000050_000001|I could tell you by that!"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000053_000000|"How?" asked Raggedy Ann with a laugh.
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000054_000000|"By feeling your candy heart!
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000054_000001|If the doll has a candy heart then it is you, Raggedy Ann!"
train-other-500/1819/144402/1819_144402_000057_000000|"Hundreds and hundreds of them, all named Raggedy Ann," replied Raggedy.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000001_000000|"If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious, and profitable will our intercourse be; if not, your time is lost, and you will only annoy me.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000001_000001|I shall seem to you stupid, and the reputation I have false.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000002_000000|I woke up early next morning with a sudden start.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000002_000001|The room was strange!
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000002_000002|It was a house, and not my tent!
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000002_000004|I recollected I had discovered Livingstone, and I was in his house.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000002_000005|I listened, that the knowledge dawning on me might be confirmed by the sound of his voice.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000002_000006|I heard nothing but the sullen roar of the surf.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000003_000000|I lay quietly in bed.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000003_000002|Yes, it was a primitive four poster, with the leaves of the palm tree spread upon it instead of down, and horsehair and my bearskin spread over this serving me in place of linen.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000003_000003|I began to put myself under rigid mental cross examination, and to an analyzation of my position.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000004_000000|"What was I sent for?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000005_000000|"To find Livingstone."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000006_000000|"Have you found him?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000007_000000|"Yes, of course; am I not in his house?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000007_000001|Whose compass is that hanging on a peg there?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000007_000002|Whose clothes, whose boots, are those?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000007_000003|Who reads those newspapers, those 'Saturday Reviews' and numbers of 'Punch' lying on the floor?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000008_000000|"Well, what are you going to do now?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000009_000000|"I shall tell him this morning who sent me, and what brought me here. I will then ask him to write a letter to mr Bennett, and to give what news he can spare.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000009_000001|I did not come here to rob him of his news. Sufficient for me is it that I have found him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000009_000002|It is a complete success so far.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000009_000003|But it will be a greater one if he gives me letters for mr Bennett, and an acknowledgment that he has seen me."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000010_000000|"Do you think he will do so?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000000|"Why not?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000001|I have come here to do him a service.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000002|He has no goods.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000003|I have. He has no men with him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000004|I have.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000005|If I do a friendly part by him, will he not do a friendly part by me?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000011_000006|What says the poet?--
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000012_000000|Nor hope to find A friend, but who has found a friend in thee. All like the purchase; few the price will pay And this makes friends such wonders here below.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000000|I have paid the purchase, by coming so far to do him a service.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000001|But I think, from what I have seen of him last night, that he is not such a niggard and misanthrope as I was led to believe.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000002|He exhibited considerable emotion, despite the monosyllabic greeting, when he shook my hand.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000003|If he were a man to feel annoyance at any person coming after him, he would not have received me as he did, nor would he ask me to live with him, but he would have surlily refused to see me, and told me to mind my own business.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000004|Neither does he mind my nationality; for 'here,' said he, 'Americans and Englishmen are the same people.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000005|We speak the same language and have the same ideas.' Just so, Doctor; I agree with you.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000013_000006|Here at least, Americans and Englishmen shall be brothers, and, whatever I can do for you, you may command me freely."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000014_000000|I dressed myself quietly, intending to take a stroll along the Tanganika before the Doctor should rise; opened the door, which creaked horribly on its hinges, and walked out to the veranda.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000015_000000|"Halloa, Doctor!--you up already?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000015_000001|I hope you have slept well?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000000|"Good morning, mr Stanley!
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000001|I am glad to see you.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000002|I hope you rested well.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000003|I sat up late reading my letters.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000004|You have brought me good and bad news.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000005|But sit down." He made a place for me by his side.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000006|"Yes, many of my friends are dead.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000007|My eldest son has met with a sad accident-that is, my boy Tom; my second son, Oswell, is at college studying medicine, and is doing well I am told.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000008|Agnes, my eldest daughter, has been enjoying herself in a yacht, with 'Sir Paraffine' Young and his family.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000016_000009|Sir Roderick, also, is well, and expresses a hope that he will soon see me. You have brought me quite a budget."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000018_000000|"Now, Doctor," said I, "you are, probably, wondering why I came here?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000020_000001|I see that the Arabs are wondering that you, an Englishman, and I, an American, understand each other.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000020_000003|But, seriously, Doctor-now don't be frightened when I tell you that I have come after-YOU!"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000021_000000|"After me?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000022_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000023_000000|"How?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000024_000000|"Well.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000024_000001|You have heard of the 'New York Herald?'"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000025_000000|"Oh-who has not heard of that newspaper?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000026_000000|"Without his father's knowledge or consent, mr james Gordon Bennett, son of mr james Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the 'Herald,' has commissioned me to find you-to get whatever news of your discoveries you like to give-and to assist you, if I can, with means."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000027_000000|"Young mr Bennett told you to come after me, to find me out, and help me!
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000027_000001|It is no wonder, then, you praised mr Bennett so much last night."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000028_000000|"I know him-I am proud to say-to be just what I say he is.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000028_000001|He is an ardent, generous, and true man."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000029_000000|"Well, indeed!
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000029_000001|I am very much obliged to him; and it makes me feel proud to think that you Americans think so much of me.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000029_000002|You have just come in the proper time; for I was beginning to think that I should have to beg from the Arabs.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000029_000003|Even they are in want of cloth, and there are but few beads in Ujiji.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000029_000004|That fellow Sherif has robbed me of all.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000029_000005|I wish I could embody my thanks to mr Bennett in suitable words; but if I fail to do so, do not, I beg of you, believe me the less grateful."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000030_000000|"And now, Doctor, having disposed of this little affair, Ferajji shall bring breakfast; if you have no objection."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000031_000000|"You have given me an appetite," he said.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000033_000000|Ferajji, the cook, was ready as usual with excellent tea, and a dish of smoking cakes; "dampers," as the Doctor called them.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000033_000003|I preferred the corn scones of Virginia, which, to my mind, were the nearest approach to palatable bread obtainable in Central Africa.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000035_000000|This was the beginning of our life at Ujiji.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000035_000001|I knew him not as a friend before my arrival.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000035_000002|He was only an object to me-a great item for a daily newspaper, as much as other subjects in which the voracious news loving public delight in.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000035_000003|I had gone over battlefields, witnessed revolutions, civil wars, rebellions, emeutes and massacres; stood close to the condemned murderer to record his last struggles and last sighs; but never had I been called to record anything that moved me so much as this man's woes and sufferings, his privations and disappointments, which now were poured into my ear.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000035_000004|Verily did I begin to perceive that "the Gods above do with just eyes survey the affairs of men." I began to recognize the hand of an overruling and kindly Providence.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000000|The following are singular facts worthy for reflection.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000001|I was, commissioned for the duty of discovering Livingstone sometime in October, eighteen sixty nine.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000002|mr Bennett was ready with the money, and I was ready for the journey.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000003|But, observe, reader, that I did not proceed directly upon the search mission.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000004|I had many tasks to fulfil before proceeding with it, and many thousand miles to travel over.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000005|Supposing that I had gone direct to Zanzibar from Paris, seven or eight months afterwards, perhaps, I should have found myself at Ujiji, but Livingstone would not have been found there then; he was on the Lualaba; and I should have had to follow him on his devious tracks through the primeval forests of Manyuema, and up along the crooked course of the Lualaba for hundreds of miles.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000008|But while I was thus fretting myself, and being delayed by a series of accidents, Livingstone was being forced back to Ujiji in the same month.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000036_000009|It took him from June to October to march to Ujiji.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000037_000000|The days came and went peacefully and happily, under the palms of Ujiji. My companion was improving in health and spirits.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000037_000001|Life had been brought back to him; his fading vitality was restored, his enthusiasm for his work was growing up again into a height that was compelling him to desire to be up and doing.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000037_000002|But what could he do, with five men and fifteen or twenty cloths?
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000039_000000|"No; I did try to go there, but the Wajiji were doing their best to fleece me, as they did both Burton and Speke, and I had not a great deal of cloth.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000039_000001|If I had gone to the head of the Tanganika, I could not have gone, to Manyuema.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000039_000002|The central line of drainage was the most important, and that is the Lualaba.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000039_000004|The great line of drainage is the river flowing from latitude eleven degrees south, which I followed for over seven degrees northward.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000039_000005|The Chambezi, the name given to its most southern extremity, drains a large tract of country south of the southernmost source of the Tanganika; it must, therefore, be the most important.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000039_000006|I have not the least doubt, myself, but that this lake is the Upper Tanganika, and the Albert N'Yanza of Baker is the Lower Tanganika, which are connected by a river flowing from the upper to the lower.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000040_000000|"Well, if I were you, Doctor, before leaving Ujiji, I should explore it, and resolve the doubts upon the subject; lest, after you leave here, you should not return by this way.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000040_000001|The Royal Geographical Society attach much importance to this supposed connection, and declare you are the only man who can settle it.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000040_000002|If I can be of any service to you, you may command me.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000040_000003|Though I did not come to Africa as an explorer, I have a good deal of curiosity upon the subject, and should be willing to accompany you.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000040_000004|I have with me about twenty men who understand rowing we have plenty of guns, cloth, and beads; and if we can get a canoe from the Arabs we can manage the thing easily."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000041_000000|"Oh, we can get a canoe from Sayd bin Majid.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000041_000001|This man has been very kind to me, and if ever there was an Arab gentleman, he is one."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000042_000000|"Then it is settled, is it, that we go?"
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000043_000000|"I am ready, whenever you are."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000044_000000|"I am at your command.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000044_000001|Don't you hear my men call you the 'Great Master,' and me the 'Little Master?' It would never do for the 'Little Master' to command."
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000000|By this time Livingstone was becoming known to me.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000001|I defy any one to be in his society long without thoroughly fathoming him, for in him there is no guile, and what is apparent on the surface is the thing that is in him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000002|I simply write down my own opinion of the man as I have seen him, not as he represents himself; as I know him to be, not as I have heard of him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000005|I think it possible, however, that Livingstone, with an unsuitable companion, might feel annoyance.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000006|I know I should do so very readily, if a man's character was of that oblique nature that it was an impossibility to travel in his company.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000007|I have seen men, in whose company I felt nothing but a thraldom, which it was a duty to my own self respect to cast off as soon as possible; a feeling of utter incompatibility, with whose nature mine could never assimilate.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000045_000008|But Livingstone was a character that I venerated, that called forth all my enthusiasm, that evoked nothing but sincerest admiration.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000000|dr Livingstone is about sixty years old, though after he was restored to health he appeared more like a man who had not passed his fiftieth year.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000001|His hair has a brownish colour yet, but is here and there streaked with grey lines over the temples; his whiskers and moustache are very grey.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000002|He shaves his chin daily.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000003|His eyes, which are hazel, are remarkably bright; he has a sight keen as a hawk's.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000004|His teeth alone indicate the weakness of age; the hard fare of Lunda has made havoc in their lines.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000005|His form, which soon assumed a stoutish appearance, is a little over the ordinary height with the slightest possible bow in the shoulders.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000006|When walking he has a firm but heavy tread, like that of an overworked or fatigued man.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000046_000007|He is accustomed to wear a naval cap with a semicircular peak, by which he has been identified throughout Africa. His dress, when first I saw him, exhibited traces of patching and repairing, but was scrupulously clean.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000000|I respectfully beg to differ with all and each of the above statements. I grant he is not an angel, but he approaches to that being as near as the nature of a living man will allow.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000001|I never saw any spleen or misanthropy in him-as for being garrulous, dr Livingstone is quite the reverse: he is reserved, if anything; and to the man who says dr Livingstone is changed, all I can say is, that he never could have known him, for it is notorious that the Doctor has a fund of quiet humour, which he exhibits at all times whenever he is among friends.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000002|I must also beg leave to correct the gentleman who informed me that Livingstone takes no notes or observations.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000003|The huge Letts's Diary which I carried home to his daughter is full of notes, and there are no less than a score of sheets within it filled with observations which he took during the last trip he made to Manyuema alone; and in the middle of the book there is sheet after sheet, column after column, carefully written, of figures alone.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000004|A large letter which I received from him has been sent to Sir Thomas MacLear, and this contains nothing but observations.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000005|During the four months I was with him, I noticed him every evening making most careful notes; and a large tin box that he has with him contains numbers of field note books, the contents of which I dare say will see the light some time.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000048_000006|His maps also evince great care and industry.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000049_000000|There is a good-natured abandon about Livingstone which was not lost on me.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000049_000001|Whenever he began to laugh, there was a contagion about it, that compelled me to imitate him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000049_000002|It was such a laugh as Herr Teufelsdrockh's-a laugh of the whole man from head to heel.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000049_000003|If he told a story, he related it in such a way as to convince one of its truthfulness; his face was so lit up by the sly fun it contained, that I was sure the story was worth relating, and worth listening to.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000050_000001|Underneath that well worn exterior lay an endless fund of high spirits and inexhaustible humour; that rugged frame of his enclosed a young and most exuberant soul.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000050_000002|Every day I heard innumerable jokes and pleasant anecdotes; interesting hunting stories, in which his friends Oswell, Webb, Vardon, and Gorden Cumming were almost always the chief actors.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000050_000003|I was not sure, at first, but this joviality, humour, and abundant animal spirits were the result of a joyous hysteria; but as I found they continued while I was with him, I am obliged to think them natural.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000051_000000|Another thing which specially attracted my attention was his wonderfully retentive memory.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000051_000001|If we remember the many years he has spent in Africa, deprived of books, we may well think it an uncommon memory that can recite whole poems from Byron, Burns, Tennyson, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000051_000003|Zimmerman, a great student of human nature, says on this subject "The unencumbered mind recalls all that it has read, all that pleased the eye, and delighted the ear; and reflecting on every idea which either observation, or experience, or discourse has produced, gains new information by every reflection.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000000|The study of dr Livingstone would not be complete if we did not take the religious side of his character into consideration.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000001|His religion is not of the theoretical kind, but it is a constant, earnest, sincere practice.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000002|It is neither demonstrative nor loud, but manifests itself in a quiet, practical way, and is always at work.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000003|It is not aggressive, which sometimes is troublesome, if not impertinent.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000004|In him, religion exhibits its loveliest features; it governs his conduct not only towards his servants, but towards the natives, the bigoted Mohammedans, and all who come in contact with him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000005|Without it, Livingstone, with his ardent temperament, his enthusiasm, his high spirit and courage, must have become uncompanionable, and a hard master.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000052_000006|Religion has tamed him, and made him a Christian gentleman: the crude and wilful have been refined and subdued; religion has made him the most companionable of men and indulgent of masters-a man whose society is pleasurable.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000000|In Livingstone I have seen many amiable traits.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000001|His gentleness never forsakes him; his hopefulness never deserts him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000002|No harassing anxieties, distraction of mind, long separation from home and kindred, can make him complain.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000003|He thinks "all will come out right at last;" he has such faith in the goodness of Providence.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000004|The sport of adverse circumstances, the plaything of the miserable beings sent to him from Zanzibar-he has been baffled and worried, even almost to the grave, yet he will not desert the charge imposed upon him by his friend, Sir Roderick Murchison.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000005|To the stern dictates of duty, alone, has he sacrificed his home and ease, the pleasures, refinements, and luxuries of civilized life.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000053_000006|His is the Spartan heroism, the inflexibility of the Roman, the enduring resolution of the Anglo Saxon-never to relinquish his work, though his heart yearns for home; never to surrender his obligations until he can write Finis to his work.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000054_000000|But you may take any point in dr Livingstone's character, and analyse it carefully, and I would challenge any man to find a fault in it.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000054_000001|He is sensitive, I know; but so is any man of a high mind and generous nature. He is sensitive on the point of being doubted or being criticised.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000054_000002|An extreme love of truth is one of his strongest characteristics, which proves him to be a man of strictest principles, and conscientious scruples; being such, he is naturally sensitive, and shrinks from any attacks on the integrity of his observations, and the accuracy of his reports.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000054_000003|He is conscious of having laboured in the course of geography and science with zeal and industry, to have been painstaking, and as exact as circumstances would allow.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000054_000004|Ordinary critics seldom take into consideration circumstances, but, utterly regardless of the labor expended in obtaining the least amount of geographical information in a new land, environed by inconceivable dangers and difficulties, such as Central Africa presents, they seem to take delight in rending to tatters, and reducing to nil, the fruits of long years of labor, by sharply pointed shafts of ridicule and sneers.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000055_000000|Livingstone no doubt may be mistaken in some of his conclusions about certain points in the geography of Central Africa, but he is not so dogmatic and positive a man as to refuse conviction.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000055_000001|He certainly demands, when arguments in contra are used in opposition to him, higher authority than abstract theory.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000055_000002|His whole life is a testimony against its unreliability, and his entire labor of years were in vain if theory can be taken in evidence against personal observation and patient investigation.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000056_000000|The reluctance he manifests to entertain suppositions, possibilities regarding the nature, form, configuration of concrete immutable matter like the earth, arises from the fact, that a man who commits himself to theories about such an untheoretical subject as Central Africa is deterred from bestirring himself to prove them by the test of exploration.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000056_000001|His opinion of such a man is, that he unfits himself for his duty, that he is very likely to become a slave to theory-a voluptuous fancy, which would master him.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000057_000000|It is his firm belief, that a man who rests his sole knowledge of the geography of Africa on theory, deserves to be discredited.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000058_000000|This main theory is his belief that in the broad and mighty Lualaba he has discovered the head waters of the Nile.
train-other-500/1828/141203/1828_141203_000058_000002|He believes his speculations on this point will be verified; he believes he is strong enough to pursue his explorations until he can return to his country, with the announcement that the Lualaba is none other than the Nile.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000001_000000|My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than ever in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis required.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000001_000003|I made a perfect victim of myself.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000001_000004|I even entertained some idea of putting myself on a vegetable diet, vaguely conceiving that, in becoming a graminivorous animal, I should sacrifice to Dora.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000002_000000|As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000003_000002|These vigorous measures struck such terror to the breast of mrs Crupp, that she subsided into her own kitchen, under the impression that my aunt was mad.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000003_000004|This gave my aunt such unspeakable satisfaction, that I believe she took a delight in prowling up and down, with her bonnet insanely perched on the top of her head, at times when mrs Crupp was likely to be in the way.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000005_000002|I am sure I never thought I could be sorry to lose you!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000006_000001|She cried at parting, and confided her brother to my friendship as Ham had done.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000006_000002|We had heard nothing of him since he went away, that sunny afternoon.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000009_000000|'And, my dear!' whispered Peggotty, 'tell the pretty little angel that I should so have liked to see her, only for a minute!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000010_000000|I declared that nobody else should touch it; and this gave Peggotty such delight that she went away in good spirits.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000011_000000|I fatigued myself as much as I possibly could in the Commons all day, by a variety of devices, and at the appointed time in the evening repaired to mr Mills's street.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000014_000000|My pretty, little, startled Dora!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000014_000001|Her only association with the word was a yellow face and a nightcap, or a pair of crutches, or a wooden leg, or a dog with a decanter stand in his mouth, or something of that kind; and she stared at me with the most delightful wonder.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000015_000000|'How can you ask me anything so foolish?' pouted Dora. 'Love a beggar!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000016_000000|'Dora, my own dearest!' said i 'I am a beggar!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000018_000000|Her childish way was the most delicious way in the world to me, but it was necessary to be explicit, and I solemnly repeated:
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000019_000000|'Dora, my own life, I am your ruined David!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000021_000000|But I looked so serious, that Dora left off shaking her curls, and laid her trembling little hand upon my shoulder, and first looked scared and anxious, then began to cry.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000021_000001|That was dreadful.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000021_000004|And oh, she was so frightened!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000021_000006|And oh, take her to Julia Mills, and go away, please! until I was almost beside myself.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000023_000000|'Is your heart mine still, dear Dora?' said I, rapturously, for I knew by her clinging to me that it was.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000024_000000|'Oh, yes!' cried Dora.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000024_000002|Oh, don't be dreadful!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000025_000001|To Dora!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000026_000000|'Don't talk about being poor, and working hard!' said Dora, nestling closer to me.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000026_000001|'Oh, don't, don't!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000029_000000|I was charmed with her childish, winning way.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000030_000000|'I am not dreadful now, Dora?' said I, tenderly.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000031_000000|'Oh, no, no!' cried Dora.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000031_000002|And I hope she's not a scolding old thing!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000032_000000|If it were possible for me to love Dora more than ever, I am sure I did. But I felt she was a little impracticable.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000032_000001|It damped my new born ardour, to find that ardour so difficult of communication to her.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000032_000002|I made another trial.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000032_000003|When she was quite herself again, and was curling Jip's ears, as he lay upon her lap, I became grave, and said:
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000033_000000|'My own!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000033_000001|May I mention something?'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000034_000000|'Oh, please don't be practical!' said Dora, coaxingly.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000034_000001|'Because it frightens me so!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000035_000000|'Sweetheart!' I returned; 'there is nothing to alarm you in all this.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000035_000001|I want you to think of it quite differently.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000037_000000|'My love, no Perseverance and strength of character will enable us to bear much worse things.' 'But I haven't got any strength at all,' said Dora, shaking her curls.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000037_000001|'Have I, Jip?
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000037_000002|Oh, do kiss Jip, and be agreeable!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000038_000000|It was impossible to resist kissing Jip, when she held him up to me for that purpose, putting her own bright, rosy little mouth into kissing form, as she directed the operation, which she insisted should be performed symmetrically, on the centre of his nose.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000038_000001|I did as she bade me-rewarding myself afterwards for my obedience-and she charmed me out of my graver character for I don't know how long.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000041_000000|'Indeed I am not going to be, my darling!' I assured her.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000041_000001|'But, Dora, my love, if you will sometimes think,--not despondingly, you know; far from that!--but if you will sometimes think-just to encourage yourself-that you are engaged to a poor man-'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000042_000000|'Don't, don't!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000042_000001|Pray don't!' cried Dora. 'It's so very dreadful!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000043_000000|'My soul, not at all!' said I, cheerfully.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000045_000000|'--It would be so useful to us afterwards,' I went on.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000045_000002|For our path in life, my Dora,' said I, warming with the subject, 'is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000045_000004|We must be brave.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000045_000005|There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!'
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000046_000001|I had said enough.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000046_000002|I had done it again.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000046_000003|Oh, she was so frightened!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000046_000004|Oh, where was Julia Mills!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000046_000005|Oh, take her to Julia Mills, and go away, please! So that, in short, I was quite distracted, and raved about the drawing room.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000047_000000|I thought I had killed her, this time.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000047_000001|I sprinkled water on her face. I went down on my knees.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000047_000002|I plucked at my hair.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000047_000004|I implored her forgiveness. I besought her to look up.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000047_000005|I ravaged Miss Mills's work box for a smelling bottle, and in my agony of mind applied an ivory needle case instead, and dropped all the needles over Dora.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000047_000007|I did every wild extravagance that could be done, and was a long way beyond the end of my wits when Miss Mills came into the room.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000048_000000|'Who has done this?' exclaimed Miss Mills, succouring her friend.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000049_000000|I replied, 'I, Miss Mills!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000049_000001|I have done it!
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000049_000002|Behold the destroyer!'--or words to that effect-and hid my face from the light, in the sofa cushion.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000051_000000|Miss Mills must have been born to be a blessing to us.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000051_000002|When we were quite composed, and Dora had gone up stairs to put some rose water to her eyes, Miss Mills rang for tea.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000052_000001|Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000053_000000|I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet?
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000055_000000|Miss Mills, after some consideration, thus replied:
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000056_000000|'mr
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000056_000001|Copperfield, I will be plain with you.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000056_000002|Mental suffering and trial supply, in some natures, the place of years, and I will be as plain with you as if I were a Lady Abbess.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000056_000003|no
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000056_000005|Our dearest Dora is a favourite child of nature.
train-other-500/1844/144486/1844_144486_000056_000007|I am free to confess that if it could be done, it might be well, but-' And Miss Mills shook her head.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000002_000000|Once upon a time there was a Glass Mountain at the top of which stood a castle made of pure gold, and in front of the castle there grew an apple tree on which there were golden apples.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000004_000000|Many knights had come from afar to try their luck, but it was in vain they attempted to climb the mountain.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000004_000002|Sometimes they broke an arm, sometimes a leg, and many a brave man had broken his neck even.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000005_000000|The beautiful Princess sat at her window and watched the bold knights trying to reach her on their splendid horses.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000005_000001|The sight of her always gave men fresh courage, and they flocked from the four quarters of the globe to attempt the work of rescuing her.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000005_000002|But all in vain, and for seven years the Princess had sat now and waited for some one to scale the Glass Mountain.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000006_000000|A heap of corpses both of riders and horses lay round the mountain, and many dying men lay groaning there unable to go any farther with their wounded limbs.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000006_000002|In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight in golden armour and mounted on a spirited steed was seen making his way towards the fatal hill.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000007_000002|All the other knights gazed in astonishment, for he had almost gained the summit, and in another moment he would have reached the apple tree; but of a sudden a huge eagle rose up and spread its mighty wings, hitting as it did so the knight's horse in the eye.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000008_000000|The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000010_000000|For long he had heard his parents speak of the beautiful Princess who sat in the golden castle at the top of the Glass Mountain.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000012_000000|The sun was nearly going down, and the youth had not got more than half-way up.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000012_000001|He could hardly draw breath he was so worn out, and his mouth was parched by thirst.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000012_000003|He opened his mouth, but the black cloud sailed past and not as much as a drop of dew moistened his dry lips.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000013_000000|His feet were torn and bleeding, and he could only hold on now with his hands.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000013_000002|Then he gazed beneath him, and what a sight met his eyes!
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000013_000003|A yawning abyss, with certain and terrible death at the bottom, reeking with half decayed bodies of horses and riders!
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000013_000004|And this had been the end of all the other brave men who like himself had attempted the ascent.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000014_000000|It was almost pitch dark now, and only the stars lit up the Glass Mountain.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000014_000001|The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood stained hands.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000014_000003|But all the same, although he slept, he had stuck his sharp claws so firmly into the glass that he was quite safe not to fall.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000015_000001|Every night it flew round the Glass Mountain keeping a careful look out, and no sooner had the moon emerged from the clouds than the bird rose up from the apple tree, and circling round in the air, caught sight of the sleeping youth.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000017_000000|The eagle dug its sharp claws into the tender flesh of the youth, but he bore the pain without a sound, and seized the bird's two feet with his hands.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000017_000001|The creature in terror lifted him high up into the air and began to circle round the tower of the castle.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000017_000002|The youth held on bravely.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000017_000003|He saw the glittering palace, which by the pale rays of the moon looked like a dim lamp; and he saw the high windows, and round one of them a balcony in which the beautiful Princess sat lost in sad thoughts.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000017_000004|Then the boy saw that he was close to the apple tree, and drawing a small knife from his belt, he cut off both the eagle's feet.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000017_000005|The bird rose up in the air in its agony and vanished into the clouds, and the youth fell on to the broad branches of the apple tree.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000018_000000|Then he drew out the claws of the eagle's feet that had remained in his flesh, and put the peel of one of the golden apples on the wound, and in one moment it was healed and well again.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000018_000001|He pulled several of the beautiful apples and put them in his pocket; then he entered the castle. The door was guarded by a great dragon, but as soon as he threw an apple at it, the beast vanished.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000020_000002|But he never returned to the earth, for only the mighty eagle, who had been the guardian of the Princess and of the castle, could have carried on his wings the enormous treasure down to the world.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000020_000003|But as the eagle had lost its feet it died, and its body was found in a wood on the Glass Mountain.
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000023_000000|'Fly down and ask what the matter is,' he said to the little bird, who sped off like lightning and soon returned saying:
train-other-500/1844/145713/1844_145713_000024_000001|All those who have perished on this mountain are awakening up to day, as it were from a sleep, and are mounting their horses, and the whole population are gazing on this unheard of wonder with joy and amazement.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000002_000000|'Here's my Am!' screamed Peggotty, 'growed out of knowledge!'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000003_000000|He was waiting for us, in fact, at the public house; and asked me how I found myself, like an old acquaintance.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000003_000002|He was, now, a huge, strong fellow of six feet high, broad in proportion, and round shouldered; but with a simpering boy's face and curly light hair that gave him quite a sheepish look.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000003_000003|He was dressed in a canvas jacket, and a pair of such very stiff trousers that they would have stood quite as well alone, without any legs in them.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000006_000001|There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000007_000000|'That's not it?' said i 'That ship looking thing?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000010_000000|It was beautifully clean inside, and as tidy as possible.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000010_000001|There was a table, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chest of drawers there was a tea tray with a painting on it of a lady with a parasol, taking a walk with a military looking child who was trundling a hoop.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000010_000002|The tray was kept from tumbling down, by a bible; and the tray, if it had tumbled down, would have smashed a quantity of cups and saucers and a teapot that were grouped around the book.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000010_000004|Over the little mantelshelf, was a picture of the 'Sarah Jane' lugger, built at Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a work of art, combining composition with carpentry, which I considered to be one of the most enviable possessions that the world could afford.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000011_000002|The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000011_000003|One thing I particularly noticed in this delightful house, was the smell of fish; which was so searching, that when I took out my pocket handkerchief to wipe my nose, I found it smelt exactly as if it had wrapped up a lobster.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000013_000000|'Glad to see you, sir,' said mr Peggotty. 'You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000015_000000|'How's your Ma, sir?' said mr Peggotty. 'Did you leave her pretty jolly?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000016_000000|I gave mr Peggotty to understand that she was as jolly as I could wish, and that she desired her compliments-which was a polite fiction on my part.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000019_000001|To hear the wind getting up out at sea, to know that the fog was creeping over the desolate flat outside, and to look at the fire, and think that there was no house near but this one, and this one a boat, was like enchantment.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000019_000003|mrs Peggotty with the white apron, was knitting on the opposite side of the fire.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000019_000006|mr Peggotty was smoking his pipe. I felt it was a time for conversation and confidence.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000022_000000|'Did you give your son the name of Ham, because you lived in a sort of ark?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000023_000000|mr Peggotty seemed to think it a deep idea, but answered:
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000025_000000|'Who gave him that name, then?' said I, putting question number two of the catechism to mr Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000030_000000|'Drowndead,' said mr Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000031_000000|I was very much surprised that mr Peggotty was not Ham's father, and began to wonder whether I was mistaken about his relationship to anybody else there.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000032_000001|'She is your daughter, isn't she, mr Peggotty?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000033_000000|'No, sir.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000033_000001|My brother in law, Tom, was her father.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000034_000000|I couldn't help it.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000034_000001|'--Dead, mr Peggotty?' I hinted, after another respectful silence.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000035_000000|'Drowndead,' said mr Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000036_000000|I felt the difficulty of resuming the subject, but had not got to the bottom of it yet, and must get to the bottom somehow.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000036_000001|So I said:
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000037_000000|'Haven't you ANY children, mr Peggotty?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000038_000000|'No, master,' he answered with a short laugh.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000038_000001|'I'm a bacheldore.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000039_000000|'A bachelor!' I said, astonished.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000040_000000|'That's Missis Gummidge,' said mr Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000041_000000|'Gummidge, mr Peggotty?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000042_000000|But at this point Peggotty-I mean my own peculiar Peggotty-made such impressive motions to me not to ask any more questions, that I could only sit and look at all the silent company, until it was time to go to bed.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000042_000002|He was but a poor man himself, said Peggotty, but as good as gold and as true as steel-those were her similes.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000043_000002|But I bethought myself that I was in a boat, after all; and that a man like mr Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000044_000000|Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000044_000001|Almost as soon as it shone upon the oyster shell frame of my mirror I was out of bed, and out with little Em'ly, picking up stones upon the beach.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000045_000001|I don't know that I supposed anything of the kind, but I felt it an act of gallantry to say something; and a shining sail close to us made such a pretty little image of itself, at the moment, in her bright eye, that it came into my head to say this.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000047_000000|'Afraid!' I said, with a becoming air of boldness, and looking very big at the mighty ocean.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000048_000001|I have seen it tear a boat as big as our house, all to pieces.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000049_000000|'I hope it wasn't the boat that-'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000051_000000|'Nor him?' I asked her.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000052_000000|Little Em'ly shook her head.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000052_000001|'Not to remember!'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000057_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000057_000001|I mean him.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000057_000002|He must be very good, I should think?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000060_000000|Little Em'ly had stopped and looked up at the sky in her enumeration of these articles, as if they were a glorious vision.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000060_000001|We went on again, picking up shells and pebbles.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000061_000000|'You would like to be a lady?' I said.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000063_000000|'I should like it very much.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000064_000000|'Don't you think you are afraid of the sea, now?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000065_000000|It was quiet enough to reassure me, but I have no doubt if I had seen a moderately large wave come tumbling in, I should have taken to my heels, with an awful recollection of her drowned relations.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000066_000000|'I'm not afraid in this way,' said little Em'ly.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000066_000001|'But I wake when it blows, and tremble to think of Uncle Dan and Ham and believe I hear 'em crying out for help.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000066_000002|That's why I should like so much to be a lady.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000066_000003|But I'm not afraid in this way.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000066_000004|Not a bit.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000066_000005|Look here!'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000067_000000|She started from my side, and ran along a jagged timber which protruded from the place we stood upon, and overhung the deep water at some height, without the least defence.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000069_000000|This may be premature.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000069_000001|I have set it down too soon, perhaps.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000069_000002|But let it stand.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000070_000000|We strolled a long way, and loaded ourselves with things that we thought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back into the water-I hardly know enough of the race at this moment to be quite certain whether they had reason to feel obliged to us for doing so, or the reverse-and then made our way home to mr Peggotty's dwelling.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000070_000001|We stopped under the lee of the lobster outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000071_000000|'Like two young mavishes,' mr Peggotty said.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000072_000000|Of course I was in love with little Em'ly.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000073_000000|We used to walk about that dim old flat at Yarmouth in a loving manner, hours and hours.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000073_000003|She said she did, and I have no doubt she did.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000074_000001|We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000074_000002|We were the admiration of mrs Gummidge and Peggotty, who used to whisper of an evening when we sat, lovingly, on our little locker side by side, 'Lor! wasn't it beautiful!' mr Peggotty smiled at us from behind his pipe, and Ham grinned all the evening and did nothing else.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000075_000001|mrs Gummidge's was rather a fretful disposition, and she whimpered more sometimes than was comfortable for other parties in so small an establishment.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000075_000002|I was very sorry for her; but there were moments when it would have been more agreeable, I thought, if mrs Gummidge had had a convenient apartment of her own to retire to, and had stopped there until her spirits revived.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000076_000000|mr Peggotty went occasionally to a public house called The Willing Mind.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000076_000001|I discovered this, by his being out on the second or third evening of our visit, and by mrs Gummidge's looking up at the Dutch clock, between eight and nine, and saying he was there, and that, what was more, she had known in the morning he would go there.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000079_000000|'I feel it more,' said mrs Gummidge.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000080_000000|It was a very cold day, with cutting blasts of wind.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000081_000000|'It is certainly very cold,' said Peggotty. 'Everybody must feel it so.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000082_000000|'I feel it more than other people,' said mrs Gummidge.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000083_000002|We all acknowledged that we felt this something of a disappointment; but mrs Gummidge said she felt it more than we did, and shed tears again, and made that former declaration with great bitterness.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000084_000000|Accordingly, when mr Peggotty came home about nine o'clock, this unfortunate mrs Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in a very wretched and miserable condition.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000084_000001|Peggotty had been working cheerfully.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000085_000000|'Well, Mates,' said mr Peggotty, taking his seat, 'and how are you?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000086_000000|We all said something, or looked something, to welcome him, except mrs Gummidge, who only shook her head over her knitting.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000087_000002|Peggotty meant old girl.)
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000088_000000|mrs Gummidge did not appear to be able to cheer up.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000088_000001|She took out an old black silk handkerchief and wiped her eyes; but instead of putting it in her pocket, kept it out, and wiped them again, and still kept it out, ready for use.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000089_000000|'What's amiss, dame?' said mr Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000090_000000|'Nothing,' returned mrs Gummidge.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000091_000000|'Why yes, I've took a short spell at The Willing Mind tonight,' said mr Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000092_000000|'I'm sorry I should drive you there,' said mrs Gummidge.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000093_000000|'Drive!
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000093_000001|I don't want no driving,' returned mr Peggotty with an honest laugh.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000093_000002|'I only go too ready.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000094_000000|'Very ready,' said mrs Gummidge, shaking her head, and wiping her eyes. 'Yes, yes, very ready.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000094_000001|I am sorry it should be along of me that you're so ready.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000095_000000|'Along o' you!
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000096_000000|'Yes, yes, it is,' cried mrs Gummidge. 'I know what I am.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000096_000002|Yes, yes.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000096_000004|It's my misfortun'.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000097_000000|I really couldn't help thinking, as I sat taking in all this, that the misfortune extended to some other members of that family besides mrs Gummidge.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000097_000001|But mr Peggotty made no such retort, only answering with another entreaty to mrs Gummidge to cheer up.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000098_000000|'I an't what I could wish myself to be,' said mrs Gummidge. 'I am far from it.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000098_000001|I know what I am.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000098_000002|My troubles has made me contrary.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000098_000003|I feel my troubles, and they make me contrary.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000098_000006|I make the house uncomfortable.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000098_000007|I don't wonder at it.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000100_000001|I had better go into the house and die.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000100_000003|If thinks must go contrary with me, and I must go contrary myself, let me go contrary in my parish.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000104_000000|So the fortnight slipped away, varied by nothing but the variation of the tide, which altered mr Peggotty's times of going out and coming in, and altered Ham's engagements also.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000104_000002|I don't know why one slight set of impressions should be more particularly associated with a place than another, though I believe this obtains with most people, in reference especially to the associations of their childhood.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000104_000003|I never hear the name, or read the name, of Yarmouth, but I am reminded of a certain Sunday morning on the beach, the bells ringing for church, little Em'ly leaning on my shoulder, Ham lazily dropping stones into the water, and the sun, away at sea, just breaking through the heavy mist, and showing us the ships, like their own shadows.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000105_000000|At last the day came for going home.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000107_000000|This gained upon me as we went along; so that the nearer we drew, the more familiar the objects became that we passed, the more excited I was to get there, and to run into her arms.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000107_000001|But Peggotty, instead of sharing in those transports, tried to check them (though very kindly), and looked confused and out of sorts.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000108_000000|Blunderstone Rookery would come, however, in spite of her, when the carrier's horse pleased-and did.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000108_000001|How well I recollect it, on a cold grey afternoon, with a dull sky, threatening rain!
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000109_000000|The door opened, and I looked, half laughing and half crying in my pleasant agitation, for my mother.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000109_000001|It was not she, but a strange servant.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000110_000000|'Why, Peggotty!' I said, ruefully, 'isn't she come home?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000112_000000|Between her agitation, and her natural awkwardness in getting out of the cart, Peggotty was making a most extraordinary festoon of herself, but I felt too blank and strange to tell her so.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000112_000001|When she had got down, she took me by the hand; led me, wondering, into the kitchen; and shut the door.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000113_000000|'Peggotty!' said I, quite frightened.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000113_000001|'What's the matter?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000114_000000|'Nothing's the matter, bless you, Master Davy dear!' she answered, assuming an air of sprightliness.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000115_000000|'Something's the matter, I'm sure.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000115_000001|Where's mama?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000117_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000117_000001|Why hasn't she come out to the gate, and what have we come in here for?
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000118_000000|'Bless the precious boy!' cried Peggotty, taking hold of me.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000118_000001|'What is it?
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000118_000002|Speak, my pet!'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000122_000000|'You see, dear, I should have told you before now,' said Peggotty, 'but I hadn't an opportunity.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000123_000000|'Go on, Peggotty,' said I, more frightened than before.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000124_000000|'Master Davy,' said Peggotty, untying her bonnet with a shaking hand, and speaking in a breathless sort of way.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000124_000001|'What do you think?
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000125_000000|I trembled, and turned white.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000126_000000|'A new one,' said Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000127_000000|'A new one?' I repeated.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000128_000000|Peggotty gave a gasp, as if she were swallowing something that was very hard, and, putting out her hand, said:
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000129_000000|'Come and see him.'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000130_000000|'I don't want to see him.' --'And your mama,' said Peggotty.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000131_000000|I ceased to draw back, and we went straight to the best parlour, where she left me.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000131_000001|On one side of the fire, sat my mother; on the other, mr Murdstone.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000131_000002|My mother dropped her work, and arose hurriedly, but timidly I thought.
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000132_000000|'Now, Clara my dear,' said mr Murdstone. 'Recollect! control yourself, always control yourself!
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000132_000001|Davy boy, how do you do?'
train-other-500/1846/144452/1846_144452_000133_000000|I gave him my hand.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000001_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000001_000001|I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000002_000000|I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000002_000003|The great remembrance by which that time is marked in my mind, seems to have swallowed up all lesser recollections, and to exist alone.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000003_000000|It is even difficult for me to believe that there was a gap of full two months between my return to Salem House and the arrival of that birthday.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000003_000001|I can only understand that the fact was so, because I know it must have been so; otherwise I should feel convinced that there was no interval, and that the one occasion trod upon the other's heels.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000004_000000|How well I recollect the kind of day it was!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000005_000000|'David Copperfield is to go into the parlour.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000007_000000|'Don't hurry, David,' said mr Sharp. 'There's time enough, my boy, don't hurry.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000008_000002|But no hamper.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000009_000001|'I want to speak to you very particularly.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000009_000002|I have something to tell you, my child.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000011_000000|'You are too young to know how the world changes every day,' said mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000011_000001|But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times of our lives.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000012_000000|I looked at her earnestly.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000013_000000|'When you came away from home at the end of the vacation,' said mrs Creakle, after a pause, 'were they all well?' After another pause, 'Was your mama well?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000015_000000|'Because,' said she, 'I grieve to tell you that I hear this morning your mama is very ill.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000017_000000|'She is very dangerously ill,' she added.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000019_000000|'She is dead.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000020_000000|There was no need to tell me so.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000020_000001|I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000021_000000|She was very kind to me.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000021_000001|She kept me there all day, and left me alone sometimes; and I cried, and wore myself to sleep, and awoke and cried again.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000022_000000|And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000022_000001|I thought of our house shut up and hushed.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000022_000002|I thought of the little baby, who, mrs Creakle said, had been pining away for some time, and who, they believed, would die too.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000022_000003|I thought of my father's grave in the churchyard, by our house, and of my mother lying there beneath the tree I knew so well.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000023_000000|If ever child were stricken with sincere grief, I was.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000023_000003|When school was over, and they came out and spoke to me, I felt it rather good in myself not to be proud to any of them, and to take exactly the same notice of them all, as before.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000024_000000|I was to go home next night; not by the mail, but by the heavy night coach, which was called the Farmer, and was principally used by country people travelling short intermediate distances upon the road.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000025_000000|I left Salem House upon the morrow afternoon.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000026_000000|'Master Copperfield?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000028_000000|'Will you come with me, young sir, if you please,' he said, opening the door, 'and I shall have the pleasure of taking you home.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000029_000001|It was a close and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made and unmade, including one window full of beaver hats and bonnets.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000030_000001|Stitch, stitch, stitch.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000031_000000|'Well,' said my conductor to one of the three young women.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000031_000001|'How do you get on, Minnie?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000032_000001|'Don't you be afraid, father.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000033_000000|mr Omer took off his broad brimmed hat, and sat down and panted.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000034_000000|'That's right.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000035_000000|'Father!' said Minnie, playfully.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000035_000001|'What a porpoise you do grow!'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000036_000000|'Well, I don't know how it is, my dear,' he replied, considering about it.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000036_000001|'I am rather so.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000037_000000|'You are such a comfortable man, you see,' said Minnie. 'You take things so easy.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000039_000000|'No, indeed,' returned his daughter.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000039_000001|'We are all pretty gay here, thank Heaven!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000039_000002|Ain't we, father?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000040_000000|'I hope so, my dear,' said mr Omer. 'As I have got my breath now, I think I'll measure this young scholar.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000040_000001|Would you walk into the shop, Master Copperfield?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000041_000001|While he was recording them he called my attention to his stock in trade, and to certain fashions which he said had 'just come up', and to certain other fashions which he said had 'just gone out'.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000042_000001|They come in, nobody knows when, why, or how; and they go out, nobody knows when, why, or how.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000042_000002|Everything is like life, in my opinion, if you look at it in that point of view.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000043_000000|I was too sorrowful to discuss the question, which would possibly have been beyond me under any circumstances; and mr Omer took me back into the parlour, breathing with some difficulty on the way.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000046_000000|'Have you, sir?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000047_000000|'All your life,' said mr Omer.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000047_000002|I knew your father before you.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000048_000000|'RAT-tat tat, RAT-tat tat, RAT-tat tat,' across the yard.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000049_000000|'He lays in five and twen ty foot of ground, if he lays in a fraction,' said mr Omer, pleasantly.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000049_000001|'It was either his request or her direction, I forget which.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000050_000000|'Do you know how my little brother is, sir?' I inquired.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000051_000000|mr Omer shook his head.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000052_000000|'RAT-tat tat, RAT-tat tat, RAT-tat tat.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000053_000000|'He is in his mother's arms,' said he.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000054_000000|'Oh, poor little fellow!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000054_000001|Is he dead?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000055_000001|The baby's dead.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000056_000000|My wounds broke out afresh at this intelligence.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000056_000002|She was a pretty, good-natured girl, and put my hair away from my eyes with a soft, kind touch; but she was very cheerful at having nearly finished her work and being in good time, and was so different from me!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000057_000000|Presently the tune left off, and a good looking young fellow came across the yard into the room.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000058_000001|'How do you get on?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000061_000001|Were you?' said mr Omer, shutting up one eye.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000062_000000|'Yes,' said Joram. 'As you said we could make a little trip of it, and go over together, if it was done, Minnie and me-and you.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000063_000000|'Oh!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000063_000001|I thought you were going to leave me out altogether,' said mr Omer, laughing till he coughed.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000064_000001|Will you give me your opinion of it?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000065_000000|'I will,' said mr Omer, rising.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000065_000001|'My dear'; and he stopped and turned to me: 'would you like to see your-'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000066_000000|'No, father,' Minnie interposed.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000067_000000|'I thought it might be agreeable, my dear,' said mr Omer. 'But perhaps you're right.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000068_000000|I can't say how I knew it was my dear, dear mother's coffin that they went to look at.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000069_000001|Minnie stayed behind to fold up what they had made, and pack it in two baskets.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000069_000002|This she did upon her knees, humming a lively little tune the while.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000070_000000|All this I observed, sitting at the table in the corner with my head leaning on my hand, and my thoughts running on very different things. The chaise soon came round to the front of the shop, and the baskets being put in first, I was put in next, and those three followed.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000070_000002|There was plenty of room for us all.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000071_000000|I do not think I have ever experienced so strange a feeling in my life (I am wiser now, perhaps) as that of being with them, remembering how they had been employed, and seeing them enjoy the ride.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000071_000002|They were very cheerful.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000071_000003|The old man sat in front to drive, and the two young people sat behind him, and whenever he spoke to them leaned forward, the one on one side of his chubby face and the other on the other, and made a great deal of him.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000072_000000|So, when they stopped to bait the horse, and ate and drank and enjoyed themselves, I could touch nothing that they touched, but kept my fast unbroken.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000072_000001|So, when we reached home, I dropped out of the chaise behind, as quickly as possible, that I might not be in their company before those solemn windows, looking blindly on me like closed eyes once bright.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000073_000000|I was in Peggotty's arms before I got to the door, and she took me into the house.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000073_000003|She sat up at night still, and watched.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000074_000000|mr Murdstone took no heed of me when I went into the parlour where he was, but sat by the fireside, weeping silently, and pondering in his elbow chair.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000075_000000|I said: 'Yes.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000076_000000|'And your shirts,' said Miss Murdstone; 'have you brought 'em home?'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000077_000000|'Yes, ma'am.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000077_000001|I have brought home all my clothes.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000078_000000|This was all the consolation that her firmness administered to me.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000081_000000|If the funeral had been yesterday, I could not recollect it better.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000081_000002|mr Chillip is in the room, and comes to speak to me.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000082_000000|'And how is Master David?' he says, kindly.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000083_000000|I cannot tell him very well.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000083_000001|I give him my hand, which he holds in his.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000084_000002|They grow out of our knowledge, ma'am?' This is to Miss Murdstone, who makes no reply.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000085_000000|'There is a great improvement here, ma'am?' says mr Chillip.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000086_000000|Miss Murdstone merely answers with a frown and a formal bend: mr Chillip, discomfited, goes into a corner, keeping me with him, and opens his mouth no more.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000087_000000|I remark this, because I remark everything that happens, not because I care about myself, or have done since I came home.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000087_000002|As Peggotty was wont to tell me, long ago, the followers of my father to the same grave were made ready in the same room.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000089_000000|We stand around the grave.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000090_000000|There are many faces that I know, among the little crowd; faces that I knew in church, when mine was always wondering there; faces that first saw my mother, when she came to the village in her youthful bloom.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000090_000001|I do not mind them-I mind nothing but my grief-and yet I see and know them all; and even in the background, far away, see Minnie looking on, and her eye glancing on her sweetheart, who is near me.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000091_000002|But they take me on; and mr Chillip talks to me; and when we get home, puts some water to my lips; and when I ask his leave to go up to my room, dismisses me with the gentleness of a woman.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000092_000000|All this, I say, is yesterday's event.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000093_000000|I knew that Peggotty would come to me in my room.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000093_000001|The Sabbath stillness of the time (the day was so like Sunday!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000093_000003|She sat down by my side upon my little bed; and holding my hand, and sometimes putting it to her lips, and sometimes smoothing it with hers, as she might have comforted my little brother, told me, in her way, all that she had to tell concerning what had happened.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000094_000000|'She was never well,' said Peggotty, 'for a long time.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000094_000001|She was uncertain in her mind, and not happy.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000094_000002|When her baby was born, I thought at first she would get better, but she was more delicate, and sunk a little every day.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000095_000001|But she was always the same to me.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000095_000002|She never changed to her foolish Peggotty, didn't my sweet girl.'
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000096_000000|Here Peggotty stopped, and softly beat upon my hand a little while.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000097_000000|'The last time that I saw her like her own old self, was the night when you came home, my dear.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000097_000002|Something tells me so, that tells the truth, I know."
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000098_000000|'She tried to hold up after that; and many a time, when they told her she was thoughtless and light-hearted, made believe to be so; but it was all a bygone then.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000099_000000|'"It's off my mind now, Peggotty," she told me, when I laid her in her bed that night.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000099_000002|I am very tired. If this is sleep, sit by me while I sleep: don't leave me.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000099_000003|God bless both my children!
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000099_000004|God protect and keep my fatherless boy!"
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000100_000000|'I never left her afterwards,' said Peggotty. 'She often talked to them two downstairs-for she loved them; she couldn't bear not to love anyone who was about her-but when they went away from her bed side, she always turned to me, as if there was rest where Peggotty was, and never fell asleep in any other way.
train-other-500/1846/144458/1846_144458_000104_000001|"Peggotty, my dear," she said then, "put me nearer to you," for she was very weak.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000001_000000|CHANGES AT MILTON
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000002_000000|'Here we go up, up, up; And here we go down, down, downee!' NURSERY SONG.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000003_000002|Few came to buy, and those who did were looked at suspiciously by the sellers; for credit was insecure, and the most stable might have their fortunes affected by the sweep in the great neighbouring port among the shipping houses.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000003_000004|Who is gone?
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000004_000000|But the truth was, mr Thornton was hard pressed.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000004_000001|He felt it acutely in his vulnerable point-his pride in the commercial character which he had established for himself.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000004_000002|Architect of his own fortunes, he attributed this to no special merit or qualities of his own, but to the power, which he believed that commerce gave to every brave, honest, and persevering man, to raise himself to a level from which he might see and read the great game of worldly success, and honestly, by such far sightedness, command more power and influence than in any other mode of life.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000004_000003|Far away, in the East and in the West, where his person would never be known, his name was to be regarded, and his wishes to be fulfilled, and his word pass like gold.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000004_000004|That was the idea of merchant life with which mr Thornton had started.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000004_000005|'Her merchants be like princes,' said his mother, reading the text aloud, as if it were a trumpet call to invite her boy to the struggle.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000005_000000|He reviewed his position as a Milton manufacturer.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000005_000003|For many months, the embarrassment caused by the strike had been an obstacle in mr Thornton's way; and often, when his eye fell on Higgins, he could have spoken angrily to him without any present cause, just from feeling how serious was the injury that had arisen from this affair in which he was implicated.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000005_000004|But when he became conscious of this sudden, quick resentment, he resolved to curb it.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000005_000005|It would not satisfy him to avoid Higgins; he must convince himself that he was master over his own anger, by being particularly careful to allow Higgins access to him, whenever the strict rules of business, or mr Thornton's leisure permitted.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000006_000000|But now had come one of those periods of bad trade, when the market falling brought down the value of all large stocks; mr Thornton's fell to nearly half.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000006_000001|No orders were coming in; so he lost the interest of the capital he had locked up in machinery; indeed, it was difficult to get payment for the orders completed; yet there was the constant drain of expenses for working the business.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000012_000000|'Oh yes!' and suddenly, the wintry frost bound look of care had left mr Thornton's face, as if some soft summer gale had blown all anxiety away from his mind; and though his mouth was as much compressed as before, his eyes smiled out benignly on his questioner.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000013_000001|I hear of her through her agent here, every now and then.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000015_000000|'Not yet.' The face was cloudy once more.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000015_000001|'There is some talk of it, as I understand, with a connection of the family.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000016_000000|'Then she'll not be for coming to Milton again, I reckon.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000017_000000|'No!'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000020_000000|'Over here.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000022_000001|It was her brother!'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000024_000000|'Yes, I know all about him.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000024_000001|And he was over at mrs Hale's death?'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000025_000001|I'm not going for to tell more.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000025_000002|I've maybe getten them into mischief already, for they kept it very close.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000026_000001|I know nothing.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000028_000000|'It was her brother,' said mr Thornton to himself.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000028_000001|'I am glad.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000028_000002|I may never see her again; but it is a comfort-a relief-to know that much.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000028_000004|Now I am glad!'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000029_000000|It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000029_000001|His agent had largely trusted a house in the American trade, which went down, along with several others, just at this time, like a pack of cards, the fall of one compelling other failures.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000029_000002|What were mr Thornton's engagements?
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000029_000003|Could he stand?
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000030_000001|He thought that no one knew of this occupation of the hours he should have spent in sleep.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000030_000003|She had never laid herself down to slumber any more than he.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000032_000001|You have not told me what your trouble is; but sore trouble you have had these many days past.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000033_000000|'Trade is bad.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000034_000000|'And you dread-'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000035_000000|'I dread nothing,' replied he, drawing up his head, and holding it erect.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000035_000001|'I know now that no man will suffer by me.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000035_000002|That was my anxiety.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000036_000000|'But how do you stand?
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000037_000000|'Not a failure.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000037_000001|I must give up business, but I pay all men.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000037_000002|I might redeem myself-I am sorely tempted-'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000038_000000|'How?
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000038_000001|Oh, john! keep up your name-try all risks for that.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000038_000002|How redeem it?'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000039_000001|Still, if it fails-'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000040_000000|'And if it fails,' said she, advancing, and laying her hand on his arm, her eyes full of eager light.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000041_000000|'Honest men are ruined by a rogue,' said he gloomily.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000041_000002|Therefore, it is my creditors' money that I should risk.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000042_000000|'But if it succeeded, they need never know.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000042_000001|Is it so desperate a speculation?
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000044_000000|'Why!
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000044_000001|You would have injured no one.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000045_000001|Mother, I have decided!
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000046_000000|'No! but to have you other than what you are will break my heart.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000046_000001|What can you do?'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000047_000000|'Be always the same john Thornton in whatever circumstances; endeavouring to do right, and making great blunders; and then trying to be brave in setting to afresh.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000047_000001|But it is hard, mother.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000047_000002|I have so worked and planned.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000047_000003|I have discovered new powers in my situation too late-and now all is over.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000047_000004|I am too old to begin again with the same heart.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000047_000005|It is hard, mother.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000048_000000|He turned away from her, and covered his face with his hands.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000049_000000|'I can't think,' said she, with gloomy defiance in her tone, 'how it comes about.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000049_000002|Other people prosper and grow rich, and hold their paltry names high and dry above shame.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000050_000000|'Shame never touched me,' said he, in a low tone: but she went on.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000052_000000|She fell upon his neck, and kissed him through her tears.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000053_000000|'Mother!' said he, holding her gently in his arms, 'who has sent me my lot in life, both of good and of evil?'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000054_000000|She shook her head.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000054_000001|She would have nothing to do with religion just then.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000055_000000|'Mother,' he went on, seeing that she would not speak, 'I, too, have been rebellious; but I am striving to be so no longer.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000055_000001|Help me, as you helped me when I was a child.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000055_000003|Speak to me again in the old way, mother.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000055_000004|Do not let us have to think that the world has too much hardened our hearts.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000055_000005|If you would say the old good words, it would make me feel something of the pious simplicity of my childhood.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000055_000006|I say them to myself, but they would come differently from you, remembering all the cares and trials you have had to bear.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000056_000000|'I have had a many,' said she, sobbing, 'but none so sore as this.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000056_000001|To see you cast down from your rightful place!
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000056_000002|I could say it for myself, john, but not for you.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000056_000003|Not for you!
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000056_000004|God has seen fit to be very hard on you, very.'
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000057_000000|She shook with the sobs that come so convulsively when an old person weeps.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000057_000001|The silence around her struck her at last; and she quieted herself to listen.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000057_000002|No sound.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000057_000003|She looked.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000058_000000|'Oh, john!' she said, and she lifted his face up.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000058_000001|Such a strange, pallid look of gloom was on it, that for a moment it struck her that this look was the forerunner of death; but, as the rigidity melted out of the countenance and the natural colour returned, and she saw that he was himself once again, all worldly mortification sank to nothing before the consciousness of the great blessing that he himself by his simple existence was to her.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000058_000002|She thanked God for this, and this alone, with a fervour that swept away all rebellious feelings from her mind.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000059_000000|He did not speak readily; but he went and opened the shutters, and let the ruddy light of dawn flood the room.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000059_000001|But the wind was in the east; the weather was piercing cold, as it had been for weeks; there would be no demand for light summer goods this year.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000061_000002|There was an immediate choice of situations offered to mr Thornton.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000061_000003|mr Hamper would have been only too glad to have secured him as a steady and experienced partner for his son, whom he was setting up with a large capital in a neighbouring town; but the young man was half educated as regarded information, and wholly uneducated as regarded any other responsibility than that of getting money, and brutalised both as to his pleasures and his pains.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000062_000000|So he waited, and stood on one side with profound humility, as the news swept through the Exchange, of the enormous fortune which his brother in law had made by his daring speculation.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000062_000001|It was a nine days' wonder.
train-other-500/1863/142324/1863_142324_000062_000002|Success brought with it its worldly consequence of extreme admiration.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000000_000000|ESME
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000001_000000|"All hunting stories are the same," said Clovis; "just as all Turf stories are the same, and all-"
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000002_000000|"My hunting story isn't a bit like any you've ever heard," said the Baroness.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000002_000001|"It happened quite a while ago, when I was about twenty three.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000002_000002|I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate allowance.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000002_000003|In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000002_000004|But we always hunted with different packs. All this has nothing to do with the story."
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000003_000000|"We haven't arrived at the meet yet.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000003_000001|I suppose there was a meet," said Clovis.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000004_000000|"Of course there was a meet," said the Baroness; all the usual crowd were there, especially Constance Broddle.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000004_000001|Constance is one of those strapping florid girls that go so well with autumn scenery or Christmas decorations in church.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000004_000002|'I feel a presentiment that something dreadful is going to happen,' she said to me; 'am I looking pale?'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000006_000000|"'You're looking nicer than usual,' I said, 'but that's so easy for you.' Before she had got the right bearings of this remark we had settled down to business; hounds had found a fox lying out in some gorse bushes."
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000007_000000|"I knew it," said Clovis, "in every fox hunting story that I've ever heard there's been a fox and some gorse bushes."
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000008_000000|"Constance and I were well mounted," continued the Baroness serenely, "and we had no difficulty in keeping ourselves in the first flight, though it was a fairly stiff run.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000008_000001|Towards the finish, however, we must have held rather too independent a line, for we lost the hounds, and found ourselves plodding aimlessly along miles away from anywhere.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000009_000000|"'There they go,' cried Constance, and then added in a gasp, 'In Heaven's name, what are they hunting?'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000010_000000|"It was certainly no mortal fox.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000010_000001|It stood more than twice as high, had a short, ugly head, and an enormous thick neck.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000012_000000|"At that moment the hunted beast turned and faced its pursuers, and the hounds (there were only about six couple of them) stood round in a half circle and looked foolish.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000012_000001|Evidently they had broken away from the rest of the pack on the trail of this alien scent, and were not quite sure how to treat their quarry now they had got him.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000013_000000|"The hyaena hailed our approach with unmistakable relief and demonstrations of friendliness.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000013_000001|It had probably been accustomed to uniform kindness from humans, while its first experience of a pack of hounds had left a bad impression.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000013_000002|The hounds looked more than ever embarrassed as their quarry paraded its sudden intimacy with us, and the faint toot of a horn in the distance was seized on as a welcome signal for unobtrusive departure.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000013_000003|Constance and I and the hyaena were left alone in the gathering twilight.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000014_000000|"'What are we to do?' asked Constance.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000015_000000|"'What a person you are for questions,' I said.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000016_000000|"'Well, we can't stay here all night with a hyaena,' she retorted.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000017_000000|"'I don't know what your ideas of comfort are,' I said; 'but I shouldn't think of staying here all night even without a hyaena.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000017_000001|My home may be an unhappy one, but at least it has hot and cold water laid on, and domestic service, and other conveniences which we shouldn't find here.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000017_000002|We had better make for that ridge of trees to the right; I imagine the Crowley road is just beyond.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000018_000000|"We trotted off slowly along a faintly marked cart track, with the beast following cheerfully at our heels.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000019_000000|"'What on earth are we to do with the hyaena?' came the inevitable question.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000020_000000|"'What does one generally do with hyaenas?' I asked crossly.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000021_000000|"'I've never had anything to do with one before,' said Constance.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000022_000001|Perhaps we might call it Esme.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000022_000002|That would do in either case.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000023_000000|"There was still sufficient daylight for us to distinguish wayside objects, and our listless spirits gave an upward perk as we came upon a small half naked gipsy brat picking blackberries from a low growing bush.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000023_000001|The sudden apparition of two horsewomen and a hyaena set it off crying, and in any case we should scarcely have gleaned any useful geographical information from that source; but there was a probability that we might strike a gipsy encampment somewhere along our route.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000023_000002|We rode on hopefully but uneventfully for another mile or so.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000025_000000|"'Picking blackberries.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000025_000001|Obviously.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000026_000000|"'I don't like the way it cried,' pursued Constance; 'somehow its wail keeps ringing in my ears.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000027_000000|"I did not chide Constance for her morbid fancies; as a matter of fact the same sensation, of being pursued by a persistent fretful wail, had been forcing itself on my rather over tired nerves.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000027_000001|For company's sake I hulloed to Esme, who had lagged somewhat behind.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000027_000002|With a few springy bounds he drew up level, and then shot past us.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000028_000000|"The wailing accompaniment was explained.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000028_000001|The gipsy child was firmly, and I expect painfully, held in his jaws.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000030_000000|"I am perfectly certain that at the Last Judgment Constance will ask more questions than any of the examining Seraphs.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000031_000000|"'Can't we do something?' she persisted tearfully, as Esme cantered easily along in front of our tired horses.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000032_000002|This part of the story I always hurry over, because it is really rather horrible.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000033_000000|"'How can you let that ravening beast trot by your side?' asked Constance.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000033_000001|She was looking more than ever like an albino beetroot.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000034_000000|"'In the first place, I can't prevent it,' I said; 'and in the second place, whatever else he may be, I doubt if he's ravening at the present moment.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000035_000000|"Constance shuddered.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000035_000001|'Do you think the poor little thing suffered much?' came another of her futile questions.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000036_000000|"'The indications were all that way,' I said; 'on the other hand, of course, it may have been crying from sheer temper.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000036_000001|Children sometimes do.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000037_000001|A thud and a sharp screeching yell followed a second later.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000037_000002|The car drew up, and when I had ridden back to the spot I found a young man bending over a dark motionless mass lying by the roadside.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000038_000000|"'You have killed my Esme,' I exclaimed bitterly.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000039_000000|"'I'm so awfully sorry,' said the young man; I keep dogs myself, so I know what you must feel about it.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000039_000001|I'll do anything I can in reparation.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000040_000000|"'Please bury him at once,' I said; 'that much I think I may ask of you.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000041_000000|"'Bring the spade, William,' he called to the chauffeur.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000041_000001|Evidently hasty roadside interments were contingencies that had been provided against.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000042_000000|"The digging of a sufficiently large grave took some little time.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000042_000001|'I say, what a magnificent fellow,' said the motorist as the corpse was rolled over into the trench.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000042_000002|'I'm afraid he must have been rather a valuable animal.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000043_000000|"'He took second in the puppy class at Birmingham last year,' I said resolutely.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000044_000000|"Constance snorted loudly.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000045_000000|"'Don't cry, dear,' I said brokenly; 'it was all over in a moment.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000045_000001|He couldn't have suffered much.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000046_000000|"'Look here,' said the young fellow desperately, 'you simply must let me do something by way of reparation.'
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000047_000000|"I refused sweetly, but as he persisted I let him have my address.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000048_000000|"Of course, we kept our own counsel as to the earlier episodes of the evening.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000048_000001|Lord Pabham never advertised the loss of his hyaena; when a strictly fruit eating animal strayed from his park a year or two previously he was called upon to give compensation in eleven cases of sheep worrying and practically to re stock his neighbours' poultry yards, and an escaped hyaena would have mounted up to something on the scale of a Government grant.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000048_000002|The gipsies were equally unobtrusive over their missing offspring; I don't suppose in large encampments they really know to a child or two how many they've got."
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000049_000000|The Baroness paused reflectively, and then continued:
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000050_000000|"There was a sequel to the adventure, though.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000050_000001|I got through the post a charming little diamond brooch, with the name Esme set in a sprig of rosemary.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000050_000002|Incidentally, too, I lost the friendship of Constance Broddle.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000050_000003|You see, when I sold the brooch I quite properly refused to give her any share of the proceeds.
train-other-500/1868/145459/1868_145459_000050_000004|I pointed out that the Esme part of the affair was my own invention, and the hyaena part of it belonged to Lord Pabham, if it really was his hyaena, of which, of course, I've no proof."
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000007_000000|THE EASTER EGG
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000008_000000|It was distinctly hard lines for Lady Barbara, who came of good fighting stock, and was one of the bravest women of her generation, that her son should be so undisguisedly a coward.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000008_000001|Whatever good qualities Lester Slaggby may have possessed, and he was in some respects charming, courage could certainly never be imputed to him.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000008_000002|As a child he had suffered from childish timidity, as a boy from unboyish funk, and as a youth he had exchanged unreasoning fears for others which were more formidable from the fact of having a carefully thought out basis.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000008_000003|He was frankly afraid of animals, nervous with firearms, and never crossed the Channel without mentally comparing the numerical proportion of lifebelts to passengers.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000008_000004|On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000008_000005|Lady Barbara no longer pretended not to see her son's prevailing weakness, with her usual courage she faced the knowledge of it squarely, and, mother like, loved him none the less.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000009_000000|Continental travel, anywhere away from the great tourist tracks, was a favoured hobby with Lady Barbara, and Lester joined her as often as possible.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000009_000001|Eastertide usually found her at Knobaltheim, an upland township in one of those small princedoms that make inconspicuous freckles on the map of Central Europe.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000010_000000|A long-standing acquaintanceship with the reigning family made her a personage of due importance in the eyes of her old friend the Burgomaster, and she was anxiously consulted by that worthy on the momentous occasion when the Prince made known his intention of coming in person to open a sanatorium outside the town.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000010_000001|All the usual items in a programme of welcome, some of them fatuous and commonplace, others quaint and charming, had been arranged for, but the Burgomaster hoped that the resourceful English lady might have something new and tasteful to suggest in the way of loyal greeting.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000010_000002|The Prince was known to the outside world, if at all, as an old-fashioned reactionary, combating modern progress, as it were, with a wooden sword; to his own people he was known as a kindly old gentleman with a certain endearing stateliness which had nothing of standoffishness about it.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000010_000003|Knobaltheim was anxious to do its best.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000011_000000|"Might I suggest something to the Gnaedige Frau?" asked a sallow high cheek boned lady to whom the Englishwoman had spoken once or twice, and whom she had set down in her mind as probably a Southern Slav.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000012_000000|"Might I suggest something for the Reception Fest?" she went on, with a certain shy eagerness.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000013_000000|Lady Barbara looked dubiously at the proposed Easter angel, a fair, wooden faced child of about four years old.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000013_000001|She had noticed it the day before in the hotel, and wondered rather how such a towheaded child could belong to such a dark visaged couple as the woman and her husband; probably, she thought, an adopted baby, especially as the couple were not young.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000016_000000|The small child and Lady Barbara seemed equally unenthusiastic about the pretty idea; Lester was openly discouraging, but when the Burgomaster heard of it he was enchanted.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000016_000001|The combination of sentiment and plovers' eggs appealed strongly to his Teutonic mind.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000000|On the eventful day the Easter angel, really quite prettily and quaintly dressed, was a centre of kindly interest to the gala crowd marshalled to receive his Highness.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000001|The mother was unobtrusive and less fussy than most parents would have been under the circumstances, merely stipulating that she should place the Easter egg herself in the arms that had been carefully schooled how to hold the precious burden. Then Lady Barbara moved forward, the child marching stolidly and with grim determination at her side.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000002|It had been promised cakes and sweeties galore if it gave the egg well and truly to the kind old gentleman who was waiting to receive it.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000003|Lester had tried to convey to it privately that horrible smackings would attend any failure in its share of the proceedings, but it is doubtful if his German caused more than an immediate distress.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000004|Lady Barbara had thoughtfully provided herself with an emergency supply of chocolate sweetmeats; children may sometimes be time servers, but they do not encourage long accounts.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000005|As they approached nearer to the princely dais Lady Barbara stood discreetly aside, and the stolid faced infant walked forward alone, with staggering but steadfast gait, encouraged by a murmur of elderly approval.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000006|Lester, standing in the front row of the onlookers, turned to scan the crowd for the beaming faces of the happy parents.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000008|He saw nothing but a blur around him.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000017_000010|A fascinated curiosity compelled Lester to turn his head towards the fugitives; the cab had started at hot pace in the direction of the station.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000003|What he meant to do with it he had not considered, the thing was to get it.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000004|But the child had been promised cakes and sweetmeats if it safely gave the egg into the hands of the kindly old gentleman; it uttered no scream, but it held to its charge with limpet grip.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000005|Lester sank to his knees, tugging savagely at the tightly clasped burden, and angry cries rose from the scandalized onlookers.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000006|A questioning, threatening ring formed round him, then shrank back in recoil as he shrieked out one hideous word.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000008|In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000009|It was only for the fraction of a minute that she stood watching the two entangled figures, the infant with its woodenly obstinate face and body tense with dogged resistance, and the boy limp and already nearly dead with a terror that almost stifled his screams; and over them the long gala streamers flapping gaily in the sunshine.
train-other-500/1868/145473/1868_145473_000018_000010|She never forgot the scene; but then, it was the last she ever saw.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000000_000000|TEA
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000001_000000|james Cushat Prinkly was a young man who had always had a settled conviction that one of these days he would marry; up to the age of thirty four he had done nothing to justify that conviction.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000001_000001|He liked and admired a great many women collectively and dispassionately without singling out one for especial matrimonial consideration, just as one might admire the Alps without feeling that one wanted any particular peak as one's own private property.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000001_000002|His lack of initiative in this matter aroused a certain amount of impatience among the sentimentally minded women folk of his home circle; his mother, his sisters, an aunt in residence, and two or three intimate matronly friends regarded his dilatory approach to the married state with a disapproval that was far from being inarticulate.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000001_000003|His most innocent flirtations were watched with the straining eagerness which a group of unexercised terriers concentrates on the slightest movements of a human being who may be reasonably considered likely to take them for a walk.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000001_000006|It was necessary, however to ask the lady what she thought about the matter; the family had so far conducted and directed the flirtation with ability and discretion, but the actual proposal would have to be an individual effort.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000002_000000|Cushat Prinkly walked across the Park towards the Sebastable residence in a frame of mind that was moderately complacent.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000002_000001|As the thing was going to be done he was glad to feel that he was going to get it settled and off his mind that afternoon.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000002_000002|Proposing marriage, even to a nice girl like Joan, was a rather irksome business, but one could not have a honeymoon in Minorca and a subsequent life of married happiness without such preliminary.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000002_000003|He wondered what Minorca was really like as a place to stop in; in his mind's eye it was an island in perpetual half mourning, with black or white Minorca hens running all over it.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000002_000004|Probably it would not be a bit like that when one came to examine it.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000002_000005|People who had been in Russia had told him that they did not remember having seen any Muscovy ducks there, so it was possible that there would be no Minorca fowls on the island.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000000|His Mediterranean musings were interrupted by the sound of a clock striking the half hour.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000001|Half past four.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000002|A frown of dissatisfaction settled on his face.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000003|He would arrive at the Sebastable mansion just at the hour of afternoon tea.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000004|Joan would be seated at a low table, spread with an array of silver kettles and cream jugs and delicate porcelain tea cups, behind which her voice would tinkle pleasantly in a series of little friendly questions about weak or strong tea, how much, if any, sugar, milk, cream, and so forth.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000005|"Is it one lump?
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000006|I forgot.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000007|You do take milk, don't you?
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000003_000008|Would you like some more hot water, if it's too strong?"
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000004_000000|Cushat Prinkly had read of such things in scores of novels, and hundreds of actual experiences had told him that they were true to life.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000004_000002|Cushat Prinkly detested the whole system of afternoon tea.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000004_000006|Now, as he passed through a tangle of small streets that led indirectly to the elegant Mayfair terrace for which he was bound, a horror at the idea of confronting Joan Sebastable at her tea table seized on him.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000004_000008|The hats really looked as if they had come from Paris; the cheques she got for them unfortunately never looked as if they were going to Paris. However, Rhoda appeared to find life amusing and to have a fairly good time in spite of her straitened circumstances.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000005_000000|Rhoda welcomed him into a room that seemed to do duty as workshop, sitting room, and kitchen combined, and to be wonderfully clean and comfortable at the same time.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000006_000000|"I'm having a picnic meal," she announced.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000006_000001|"There's caviare in that jar at your elbow.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000006_000002|Begin on that brown bread and butter while I cut some more.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000006_000003|Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000006_000004|Now tell me about hundreds of things."
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000007_000000|She made no other allusion to food, but talked amusingly and made her visitor talk amusingly too.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000007_000001|At the same time she cut the bread and butter with a masterly skill and produced red pepper and sliced lemon, where so many women would merely have produced reasons and regrets for not having any.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000007_000002|Cushat Prinkly found that he was enjoying an excellent tea without having to answer as many questions about it as a Minister for Agriculture might be called on to reply to during an outbreak of cattle plague.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000008_000001|"You arouse not merely my curiosity but my business instincts.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000008_000002|I hope you've come about hats.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000008_000003|I heard that you had come into a legacy the other day, and, of course, it struck me that it would be a beautiful and desirable thing for you to celebrate the event by buying brilliantly expensive hats for all your sisters.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000008_000004|They may not have said anything about it, but I feel sure the same idea has occurred to them.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000008_000005|Of course, with Goodwood on us, I am rather rushed just now, but in my business we're accustomed to that; we live in a series of rushes-like the infant Moses."
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000009_000000|"I didn't come about hats," said her visitor.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000009_000001|"In fact, I don't think I really came about anything.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000009_000002|I was passing and I just thought I'd look in and see you.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000009_000004|If you'll forget Goodwood for a moment and listen to me, I'll tell you what it is."
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000010_000000|Some forty minutes later james Cushat Prinkly returned to the bosom of his family, bearing an important piece of news.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000011_000000|"I'm engaged to be married," he announced.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000012_000000|A rapturous outbreak of congratulation and self applause broke out.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000013_000000|"Ah, we knew!
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000013_000001|We saw it coming!
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000013_000002|We foretold it weeks ago!"
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000014_000000|"I'll bet you didn't," said Cushat Prinkly.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000014_000001|"If any one had told me at lunch time to day that I was going to ask Rhoda Ellam to marry me and that she was going to accept me I would have laughed at the idea."
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000015_000000|The romantic suddenness of the affair in some measure compensated James's women folk for the ruthless negation of all their patient effort and skilled diplomacy.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000015_000001|It was rather trying to have to deflect their enthusiasm at a moment's notice from Joan Sebastable to Rhoda Ellam; but, after all, it was James's wife who was in question, and his tastes had some claim to be considered.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000016_000000|On a September afternoon of the same year, after the honeymoon in Minorca had ended, Cushat Prinkly came into the drawing room of his new house in Granchester Square.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000016_000001|Rhoda was seated at a low table, behind a service of dainty porcelain and gleaming silver.
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000017_000000|"You like it weaker than that, don't you?
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000017_000001|Shall I put some more hot water to it?
train-other-500/1868/2318/1868_2318_000017_000002|No?"
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000002_000000|A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000003_000000|Hermia and Lysander were lovers; but Hermia's father wished her to marry another man, named Demetrius.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000004_000000|Now, in Athens, where they lived, there was a wicked law, by which any girl who refused to marry according to her father's wishes, might be put to death.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000004_000001|Hermia's father was so angry with her for refusing to do as he wished, that he actually brought her before the Duke of Athens to ask that she might be killed, if she still refused to obey him.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000004_000002|The Duke gave her four days to think about it, and, at the end of that time, if she still refused to marry Demetrius, she would have to die.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000005_000001|But before she started, she told her friend, Helena, what she was going to do.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000006_000001|She knew that if she told Demetrius that Hermia was going, as she was, to the wood outside Athens, he would follow her, "and I can follow him, and at least I shall see him," she said to herself.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000006_000002|So she went to him, and betrayed her friend's secret.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000007_000000|Now this wood where Lysander was to meet Hermia, and where the other two had decided to follow them, was full of fairies, as most woods are, if one only had the eyes to see them, and in this wood on this night were the King and Queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000007_000001|Now fairies are very wise people, but now and then they can be quite as foolish as mortal folk.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000007_000002|Oberon and Titania, who might have been as happy as the days were long, had thrown away all their joy in a foolish quarrel.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000007_000003|They never met without saying disagreeable things to each other, and scolded each other so dreadfully that all their little fairy followers, for fear, would creep into acorn cups and hide them there.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000008_000000|So, instead of keeping one happy Court and dancing all night through in the moonlight as is fairies' use, the King with his attendants wandered through one part of the wood, while the Queen with hers kept state in another.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000008_000002|Oberon wanted the child to follow him and be one of his fairy knights; but the Queen would not give him up.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000009_000000|On this night, in a mossy moonlit glade, the King and Queen of the fairies met.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000010_000000|"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania," said the King.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000011_000000|"What! jealous, Oberon?" answered the Queen.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000011_000001|"You spoil everything with your quarreling.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000011_000002|Come, fairies, let us leave him.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000011_000003|I am not friends with him now."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000012_000000|"It rests with you to make up the quarrel," said the King.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000013_000000|"Give me that little Indian boy, and I will again be your humble servant and suitor."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000014_000001|"Your whole fairy kingdom buys not that boy from me.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000014_000002|Come, fairies."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000015_000000|And she and her train rode off down the moonbeams.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000016_000000|"Well, go your ways," said Oberon.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000016_000001|"But I'll be even with you before you leave this wood."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000017_000000|Then Oberon called his favorite fairy, Puck.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000017_000001|Puck was the spirit of mischief.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000018_000000|"Now," said Oberon to this little sprite, "fetch me the flower called Love in idleness.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000018_000001|The juice of that little purple flower laid on the eyes of those who sleep will make them, when they wake, to love the first thing they see.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000018_000002|I will put some of the juice of that flower on my Titania's eyes, and when she wakes she will love the first thing she sees, were it lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, or meddling monkey, or a busy ape."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000019_000000|While Puck was gone, Demetrius passed through the glade followed by poor Helena, and still she told him how she loved him and reminded him of all his promises, and still he told her that he did not and could not love her, and that his promises were nothing.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000019_000001|Oberon was sorry for poor Helena, and when Puck returned with the flower, he bade him follow Demetrius and put some of the juice on his eyes, so that he might love Helena when he woke and looked on her, as much as she loved him.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000020_000000|When Hermia woke she found Lysander gone, and wandered about the wood trying to find him.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000020_000003|The end of it was that Helena and Hermia began to quarrel, and Demetrius and Lysander went off to fight.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000020_000004|Oberon was very sorry to see his kind scheme to help these lovers turn out so badly.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000020_000005|So he said to Puck-
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000021_000000|"These two young men are going to fight.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000021_000001|You must overhang the night with drooping fog, and lead them so astray, that one will never find the other.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000021_000002|When they are tired out, they will fall asleep.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000021_000003|Then drop this other herb on Lysander's eyes.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000021_000004|That will give him his old sight and his old love.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000021_000006|Then when this is done, all will be well with them."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000022_000000|So Puck went and did as he was told, and when the two had fallen asleep without meeting each other, Puck poured the juice on Lysander's eyes, and said:--
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000024_000000|Meanwhile Oberon found Titania asleep on a bank where grew wild thyme, oxlips, and violets, and woodbine, musk roses and eglantine.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000024_000001|There Titania always slept a part of the night, wrapped in the enameled skin of a snake.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000024_000002|Oberon stooped over her and laid the juice on her eyes, saying:--
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000025_000000|"What thou seest when thou wake, Do it for thy true love take."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000026_000000|Now, it happened that when Titania woke the first thing she saw was a stupid clown, one of a party of players who had come out into the wood to rehearse their play.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000026_000001|This clown had met with Puck, who had clapped an ass's head on his shoulders so that it looked as if it grew there. Directly Titania woke and saw this dreadful monster, she said, "What angel is this?
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000026_000002|Are you as wise as you are beautiful?"
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000027_000000|"If I am wise enough to find my way out of this wood, that's enough for me," said the foolish clown.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000028_000000|"Do not desire to go out of the wood," said Titania.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000028_000001|The spell of the love juice was on her, and to her the clown seemed the most beautiful and delightful creature on all the earth.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000028_000002|"I love you," she went on. "Come with me, and I will give you fairies to attend on you."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000029_000000|So she called four fairies, whose names were Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000030_000000|"You must attend this gentleman," said the Queen.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000030_000001|"Feed him with apricots and dewberries, purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. Steal honey bags for him from the bumble bees, and with the wings of painted butterflies fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000033_000000|"Where's Peaseblossom?" asked the clown with the ass's head.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000033_000001|He did not care much about the Queen's affection, but he was very proud of having fairies to wait on him.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000033_000002|"Ready," said Peaseblossom.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000034_000001|"Where's Cobweb?" "Ready," said Cobweb.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000035_000000|"Kill me," said the clown, "the red bumble bee on the top of the thistle yonder, and bring me the honey bag.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000036_000000|"Ready," said Mustardseed.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000037_000000|"Oh, I want nothing," said the clown.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000037_000001|"Only just help Cobweb to scratch. I must go to the barber's, for methinks I am marvelous hairy about the face."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000038_000000|"Would you like anything to eat?" said the fairy Queen.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000040_000000|"Shall some of my fairies fetch you new nuts from the squirrel's house?" asked the Queen.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000041_000000|"I'd rather have a handful or two of good dried peas," said the clown. "But please don't let any of your people disturb me; I am going to sleep."
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000043_000000|And so when Oberon came along he found his beautiful Queen lavishing kisses and endearments on a clown with a donkey's head.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000044_000000|And before he released her from the enchantment, he persuaded her to give him the little Indian boy he so much desired to have.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000044_000001|Then he took pity on her, and threw some juice of the disenchanting flower on her pretty eyes; and then in a moment she saw plainly the donkey headed clown she had been loving, and knew how foolish she had been.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000045_000000|Oberon took off the ass's head from the clown, and left him to finish his sleep with his own silly head lying on the thyme and violets.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000046_000000|Thus all was made plain and straight again.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000046_000001|Oberon and Titania loved each other more than ever.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000046_000002|Demetrius thought of no one but Helena, and Helena had never had any thought of anyone but Demetrius.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000047_000000|As for Hermia and Lysander, they were as loving a couple as you could meet in a day's march, even through a fairy wood.
train-other-500/1870/148296/1870_148296_000048_000000|So the four mortal lovers went back to Athens and were married; and the fairy King and Queen live happily together in that very wood at this very day.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000001_000000|CHAPTER five In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000002_000000|Rouletabille and I had been walking for several minutes, by the side of a long wall bounding the vast property of Monsieur Stangerson and had already come within sight of the entrance gate, when our attention was drawn to an individual who, half bent to the ground, seemed to be so completely absorbed in what he was doing as not to have seen us coming towards him.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000002_000003|Rouletabille had brought me to a standstill by a gesture.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000003_000000|"Hush!
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000003_000001|Frederic Larsan is at work!
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000003_000002|Don't let us disturb him!"
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000004_000000|Rouletabille had a great admiration for the celebrated detective.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000004_000001|I had never before seen him, but I knew him well by reputation.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000004_000002|At that time, before Rouletabille had given proof of his unique talent, Larsan was reputed as the most skilful unraveller of the most mysterious and complicated crimes.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000004_000003|His reputation was world-wide, and the police of London, and even of America, often called him in to their aid when their own national inspectors and detectives found themselves at the end of their wits and resources.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000006_000002|He pushed open the park gate, reclosed and locked it, raised his head and, through the bars, perceived us.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000006_000003|Rouletabille rushed after him, and I followed.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000006_000004|Frederic Larsan waited for us.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000007_000000|"Monsieur Fred," said Rouletabille, raising his hat and showing the profound respect, based on admiration, which the young reporter felt for the celebrated detective, "can you tell me whether Monsieur Robert Darzac is at the chateau at this moment?
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000007_000001|Here is one of his friends, of the Paris Bar, who desires to speak with him."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000008_000001|"I have not seen him."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000009_000000|"The concierges will be able to inform us no doubt?" said Rouletabille, pointing to the lodge the door and windows of which were close shut.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000010_000000|"The concierges will not be able to give you any information, Monsieur Rouletabille."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000012_000000|"Because they were arrested half an hour ago."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000013_000000|"Arrested!" cried Rouletabille; "then they are the murderers!"
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000014_000000|Frederic Larsan shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000015_000000|"When you can't arrest the real murderer," he said with an air of supreme irony, "you can always indulge in the luxury of discovering accomplices."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000016_000000|"Did you have them arrested, Monsieur Fred?"
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000017_000000|"Not I!--I haven't had them arrested.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000017_000001|In the first place, I am pretty sure that they have not had anything to do with the affair, and then because-"
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000018_000000|"Because of what?" asked Rouletabille eagerly.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000019_000000|"Because of nothing," said Larsan, shaking his head.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000020_000000|"Because there were no accomplices!" said Rouletabille.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000022_000000|"I shall get admission."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000023_000000|"I doubt it.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000023_000001|The orders are strict."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000024_000000|"I shall gain admission, if you let me see Monsieur Robert Darzac.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000024_000001|Do that for me.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000024_000002|You know we are old friends.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000025_000000|The face of Rouletabille at the moment was really funny to look at.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000025_000001|It showed such an irresistible desire to cross the threshold beyond which some prodigious mystery had occurred; it appealed with so much eloquence, not only of the mouth and eyes, but with all its features, that I could not refrain from bursting into laughter.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000025_000002|Frederic Larsan, no more than myself, could retain his gravity.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000025_000003|Meanwhile, standing on the other side of the gate, he calmly put the key in his pocket.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000025_000004|I closely scrutinised him.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000000|He might be about fifty years of age.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000002|His forehead was prominent, his chin and cheeks clean shaven.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000003|His upper lip, without moustache, was finely chiselled.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000005|He was of middle height and well built, with a general bearing elegant and gentlemanly.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000006|There was nothing about him of the vulgar policeman.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000008|The sceptical tone of his conversation was that of a man who had been taught by experience.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000026_000009|His strange profession had brought him into contact with so many crimes and villanies that it would have been remarkable if his nature had not been a little hardened.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000027_000000|Larsan turned his head at the sound of a vehicle which had come from the chateau and reached the gate behind him.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000028_000000|"Ah!" said Frederic Larsan, "if you want to speak with Monsieur Robert Darzac, he is here."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000029_000000|The cab was already at the park gate and Robert Darzac was begging Frederic Larsan to open it for him, explaining that he was pressed for time to catch the next train leaving Epinay for Paris.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000029_000001|Then he recognised me.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000029_000003|I noticed that he was frightfully pale, and that his face was lined as if from the effects of some terrible suffering.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000031_000000|"Yes," he said.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000031_000001|"She will be saved perhaps.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000031_000002|She must be saved!"
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000032_000000|He did not add "or it will be my death"; but I felt that the phrase trembled on his pale lips.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000034_000000|"You are in a hurry, Monsieur; but I must speak with you.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000035_000000|Frederic Larsan interrupted:
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000036_000000|"May I leave you?" he asked of Robert Darzac.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000036_000001|"Have you a key, or do you wish me to give you this one."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000037_000000|"Thank you.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000037_000001|I have a key and will lock the gate."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000038_000000|Larsan hurried off in the direction of the chateau, the imposing pile of which could be perceived a few hundred yards away.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000039_000000|Robert Darzac, with knit brow, was beginning to show impatience.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000039_000001|I presented Rouletabille as a good friend of mine, but, as soon as he learnt that the young man was a journalist, he looked at me very reproachfully, excused himself, under the necessity of having to reach Epinay in twenty minutes, bowed, and whipped up his horse.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000039_000002|But Rouletabille had seized the bridle and, to my utter astonishment, stopped the carriage with a vigorous hand.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000039_000003|Then he gave utterance to a sentence which was utterly meaningless to me.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000040_000000|"The presbytery has lost nothing of its charm, nor the garden its brightness."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000041_000000|The words had no sooner left the lips of Rouletabille than I saw Robert Darzac quail.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000041_000001|Pale as he was, he became paler.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000042_000000|"Come!--come in!" he stammered.
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000043_000000|Then, suddenly, and with a sort of fury, he repeated:
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000044_000000|"Let us go, monsieur."
train-other-500/1870/164323/1870_164323_000045_000001|I addressed a few words to Monsieur Darzac, but he made no answer.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000004_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000004_000001|Frederic Larsan's Cane
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000005_000002|In crossing the park, he said to me:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000006_000000|"Frederic is really very clever and has not belied his reputation.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000006_000001|Do you know how he came to find Daddy Jacques's boots?--Near the spot where we noticed the traces of the neat boots and the disappearance of the rough ones, there was a square hole, freshly made in the moist ground, where a stone had evidently been removed.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000006_000004|That escaped me; but my mind was turned in another direction by the large number of false indications of his track which the murderer left, and by the measure of the black foot marks corresponding with that of Daddy Jacques's boots, which I had established without his suspecting it, on the floor of The Yellow Room.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000006_000005|All which was a proof, in my eyes, that the murderer had sought to turn suspicion on to the old servant.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000006_000006|Up to that point, Larsan and I are in accord; but no further.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000006_000007|It is going to be a terrible matter; for I tell you he is working on wrong lines, and I-I, must fight him with nothing!"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000007_000000|I was surprised at the profoundly grave accent with which my young friend pronounced the last words.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000009_000000|"Yes terrible!--terrible!
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000000|At that moment we passed by the back of the chateau.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000001|Night had come.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000002|A window on the first floor was partly open.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000003|A feeble light came from it as well as some sounds which drew our attention.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000004|We approached until we had reached the side of a door that was situated just under the window. Rouletabille, in a low tone, made me understand, that this was the window of Mademoiselle Stangerson's chamber.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000005|The sounds which had attracted our attention ceased, then were renewed for a moment, and then we heard stifled sobs.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000010_000006|We were only able to catch these words, which reached us distinctly: "My poor Robert!"--Rouletabille whispered in my ear:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000012_000000|He looked about him.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000012_000002|The sobs had ceased.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000013_000000|"If we can't hear we may at least try to see," said Rouletabille.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000014_000000|And, making a sign to me to deaden the sound of my steps, he led me across the path to the trunk of a tall beech tree, the white bole of which was visible in the darkness.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000014_000001|This tree grew exactly in front of the window in which we were so much interested, its lower branches being on a level with the first floor of the chateau.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000014_000003|Evidently that was what Rouletabille thought, for, enjoining me to remain hidden, he clasped the trunk with his vigorous arms and climbed up.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000014_000004|I soon lost sight of him amid the branches, and then followed a deep silence.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000014_000005|In front of me, the open window remained lighted, and I saw no shadow move across it.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000014_000006|I listened, and presently from above me these words reached my ears:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000015_000000|"After you!"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000016_000000|"After you, pray!"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000017_000000|Somebody was overhead, speaking,--exchanging courtesies.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000017_000001|What was my astonishment to see on the slippery column of the tree two human forms appear and quietly slip down to the ground.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000017_000002|Rouletabille had mounted alone, and had returned with another.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000019_000000|It was Frederic Larsan.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000019_000001|The detective had already occupied the post of observation when my young friend had thought to reach it alone.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000019_000002|Neither noticed my astonishment.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000019_000003|I explained that to myself by the fact that they must have been witnesses of some tender and despairing scene between Mademoiselle Stangerson, lying in her bed, and Monsieur Darzac on his knees by her pillow.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000019_000004|I guessed that each had drawn different conclusions from what they had seen.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000019_000005|It was easy to see that the scene had strongly impressed Rouletabille in favour of Monsieur Robert Darzac; while, to Larsan, it showed nothing but consummate hypocrisy, acted with finished art by Mademoiselle Stangerson's fiance.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000020_000000|As we reached the park gate, Larsan stopped us.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000021_000001|"I left it near the tree."
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000022_000000|He left us, saying he would rejoin us presently.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000023_000001|"It is quite a new one, which I have never seen him use before.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000023_000002|He seems to take great care of it-it never leaves him. One would think he was afraid it might fall into the hands of strangers. I never saw it before to day.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000023_000003|Where did he find it?
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000024_000000|We were now out of the park.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000024_000001|Rouletabille had dropped into silence.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000024_000002|His thoughts were certainly still occupied with Frederic Larsan's new cane. I had proof of that when, as we came near to Epinay, he said:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000025_000000|"Frederic Larsan arrived at the Glandier before me; he began his inquiry before me; he has had time to find out things about which I know nothing.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000025_000001|Where did he find that cane?"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000026_000000|As I had to wait twenty minutes for the train at Epinay, we entered a wine shop.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000026_000001|Almost immediately the door opened and Frederic Larsan made his appearance, brandishing his famous cane.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000027_000000|"I found it!" he said laughingly.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000028_000000|The three of us seated ourselves at a table.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000028_000002|On the sign he rose, paid for his drink, bowed, and went out.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000028_000004|I then learned that the youth was one of Larsan's assistants and had been charged by him to watch the going and coming of travellers at the station of Epinay sur Orge.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000028_000005|Larsan neglected nothing in any case on which he was engaged.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000029_000000|I turned my eyes again on Rouletabille.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000030_000000|"Ah,--Monsieur Fred!" he said, "when did you begin to use a walking stick?
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000030_000001|I have always seen you walking with your hands in your pockets!"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000031_000000|"It is a present," replied the detective.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000032_000000|"Recent?" insisted Rouletabille.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000033_000000|"No, it was given to me in London."
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000034_000000|"Ah, yes, I remember-you have just come from London.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000036_000000|Fred passed the cane to Rouletabille.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000036_000001|It was a large yellow bamboo with a crutch handle and ornamented with a gold ring.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000036_000002|Rouletabille, after examining it minutely, returned it to Larsan, with a bantering expression on his face, saying:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000037_000000|"You were given a French cane in London!"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000038_000000|"Possibly," said Fred, imperturbably.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000039_000000|"Read the mark there, in tiny letters: Cassette, six a, Opera."
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000040_000000|"Cannot English people buy canes in Paris?"
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000041_000000|When Rouletabille had seen me into the train, he said:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000043_000000|"Yes,--Cassette, six a, Opera.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000043_000001|Rely on me; you shall have word tomorrow morning."
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000044_000000|That evening, on reaching Paris, I saw Monsieur Cassette, dealer in walking sticks and umbrellas, and wrote to my friend:
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000045_000000|"A man unmistakably answering to the description of Monsieur Robert Darzac-same height, slightly stooping, putty coloured overcoat, bowler hat-purchased a cane similar to the one in which we are interested, on the evening of the crime, about eight o'clock.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000045_000001|Monsieur Cassette had not sold another such cane during the last two years.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000045_000002|Fred's cane is new. It is quite clear that it's the same cane.
train-other-500/1870/164330/1870_164330_000045_000004|Like you, I think that he found it somewhere near Monsieur Robert Darzac.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000007_000000|thirty three SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000008_000001|Thus he never failed to pay his diurnal court to her; and the self satisfied Gascon was convinced that sooner or later she could not fail to respond.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000010_000000|"Good!" thought d'Artagnan, "She is charged with some message for me from her mistress; she is about to appoint some rendezvous of which she had not courage to speak." And he looked down at the pretty girl with the most triumphant air imaginable.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000011_000000|"I wish to say three words to you, Monsieur Chevalier," stammered the SOUBRETTE.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000012_000000|"Speak, my child, speak," said d'Artagnan; "I listen."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000013_000000|"Here?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000013_000001|Impossible!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000013_000002|That which I have to say is too long, and above all, too secret."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000014_000000|"Well, what is to be done?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000016_000000|"Where you please, my dear child."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000017_000000|"Come, then."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000019_000000|"Come in here, Monsieur Chevalier," said she; "here we shall be alone, and can talk."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000020_000000|"And whose room is this, my dear child?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000021_000001|But you need not fear.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000021_000002|She will not hear what we say; she never goes to bed before midnight."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000022_000000|D'Artagnan cast a glance around him.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000022_000001|The little apartment was charming for its taste and neatness; but in spite of himself, his eyes were directed to that door which Kitty said led to Milady's chamber.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000023_000000|Kitty guessed what was passing in the mind of the young man, and heaved a deep sigh.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000024_000000|"You love my mistress, then, very dearly, Monsieur Chevalier?" said she.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000025_000000|"Oh, more than I can say, Kitty!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000025_000001|I am mad for her!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000026_000000|Kitty breathed a second sigh.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000028_000000|"What the devil do you see so bad in it?" said d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000029_000000|"Because, monsieur," replied Kitty, "my mistress loves you not at all."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000030_000000|"HEIN!" said d'Artagnan, "can she have charged you to tell me so?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000031_000000|"Oh, no, monsieur; but out of the regard I have for you, I have taken the resolution to tell you so."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000032_000000|"Much obliged, my dear Kitty; but for the intention only-for the information, you must agree, is not likely to be at all agreeable."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000033_000000|"That is to say, you don't believe what I have told you; is it not so?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000034_000000|"We have always some difficulty in believing such things, my pretty dear, were it only from self love."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000035_000000|"Then you don't believe me?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000036_000000|"I confess that unless you deign to give me some proof of what you advance-"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000037_000000|"What do you think of this?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000038_000000|Kitty drew a little note from her bosom.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000039_000000|"For me?" said d'Artagnan, seizing the letter.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000040_000000|"No; for another."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000041_000000|"For another?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000042_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000043_000000|"His name; his name!" cried d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000044_000000|"Read the address."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000046_000001|As quick as thought, he tore open the letter, in spite of the cry which Kitty uttered on seeing what he was going to do, or rather, what he was doing.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000047_000000|"Oh, good Lord, Monsieur Chevalier," said she, "what are you doing?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000048_000000|"I?" said d'Artagnan; "nothing," and he read,
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000049_000000|"You have not answered my first note.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000050_000000|d'Artagnan became very pale; he was wounded in his SELF love: he thought that it was in his LOVE.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000051_000000|"Poor dear Monsieur d'Artagnan," said Kitty, in a voice full of compassion, and pressing anew the young man's hand.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000052_000000|"You pity me, little one?" said d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000053_000000|"Oh, yes, and with all my heart; for I know what it is to be in love."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000054_000000|"You know what it is to be in love?" said d'Artagnan, looking at her for the first time with much attention.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000055_000000|"Alas, yes."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000056_000000|"Well, then, instead of pitying me, you would do much better to assist me in avenging myself on your mistress."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000057_000000|"And what sort of revenge would you take?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000058_000000|"I would triumph over her, and supplant my rival."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000059_000000|"I will never help you in that, Monsieur Chevalier," said Kitty, warmly.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000060_000000|"And why not?" demanded d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000061_000000|"For two reasons."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000062_000000|"What ones?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000063_000000|"The first is that my mistress will never love you."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000064_000000|"How do you know that?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000065_000000|"You have cut her to the heart."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000066_000000|"I?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000066_000001|In what can I have offended her-I who ever since I have known her have lived at her feet like a slave?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000066_000002|Speak, I beg you!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000067_000000|"I will never confess that but to the man-who should read to the bottom of my soul!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000068_000000|D'Artagnan looked at Kitty for the second time.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000068_000001|The young girl had freshness and beauty which many duchesses would have purchased with their coronets.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000069_000000|"Kitty," said he, "I will read to the bottom of your soul when ever you like; don't let that disturb you." And he gave her a kiss at which the poor girl became as red as a cherry.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000070_000000|"Oh, no," said Kitty, "it is not me you love!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000070_000001|It is my mistress you love; you told me so just now."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000071_000000|"And does that hinder you from letting me know the second reason?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000073_000000|Then only d'Artagnan remembered the languishing glances of Kitty, her constantly meeting him in the antechamber, the corridor, or on the stairs, those touches of the hand every time she met him, and her deep sighs; but absorbed by his desire to please the great lady, he had disdained the soubrette.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000073_000001|He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000074_000001|The perfidious deceiver was, as may plainly be perceived, already sacrificing, in intention, the poor girl in order to obtain Milady, willy nilly.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000075_000000|"Well," said he to the young girl, "are you willing, my dear Kitty, that I should give you a proof of that love which you doubt?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000076_000000|"What love?" asked the young girl.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000077_000000|"Of that which I am ready to feel toward you."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000078_000000|"And what is that proof?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000079_000000|"Are you willing that I should this evening pass with you the time I generally spend with your mistress?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000080_000000|"Oh, yes," said Kitty, clapping her hands, "very willing."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000081_000000|"Well, then, come here, my dear," said d'Artagnan, establishing himself in an easy chair; "come, and let me tell you that you are the prettiest SOUBRETTE I ever saw!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000082_000000|And he did tell her so much, and so well, that the poor girl, who asked nothing better than to believe him, did believe him.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000082_000001|Nevertheless, to d'Artagnan's great astonishment, the pretty Kitty defended herself resolutely.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000083_000000|Time passes quickly when it is passed in attacks and defenses.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000083_000001|Midnight sounded, and almost at the same time the bell was rung in Milady's chamber.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000084_000000|"Good God," cried Kitty, "there is my mistress calling me!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000084_000001|Go; go directly!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000085_000000|D'Artagnan rose, took his hat, as if it had been his intention to obey, then, opening quickly the door of a large closet instead of that leading to the staircase, he buried himself amid the robes and dressing gowns of Milady.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000086_000000|"What are you doing?" cried Kitty.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000087_000000|D'Artagnan, who had secured the key, shut himself up in the closet without reply.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000088_000000|"Well," cried Milady, in a sharp voice.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000088_000001|"Are you asleep, that you don't answer when I ring?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000089_000000|And d'Artagnan heard the door of communication opened violently.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000091_000000|Both went into the bedroom, and as the door of communication remained open, d'Artagnan could hear Milady for some time scolding her maid.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000091_000001|She was at length appeased, and the conversation turned upon him while Kitty was assisting her mistress.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000093_000000|"What, Milady! has he not come?" said Kitty.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000093_000001|"Can he be inconstant before being happy?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000094_000001|I understand my game, Kitty; I have this one safe."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000095_000000|"What will you do with him, madame?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000096_000000|"What will I do with him?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000096_000001|Be easy, Kitty, there is something between that man and me that he is quite ignorant of: he nearly made me lose my credit with his Eminence.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000096_000002|Oh, I will be revenged!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000097_000000|"I believed that Madame loved him."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000098_000001|I detest him!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000099_000000|"That's true," said Kitty; "your son was the only heir of his uncle, and until his majority you would have had the enjoyment of his fortune."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000100_000000|D'Artagnan shuddered to the marrow at hearing this suave creature reproach him, with that sharp voice which she took such pains to conceal in conversation, for not having killed a man whom he had seen load her with kindnesses.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000101_000000|"For all this," continued Milady, "I should long ago have revenged myself on him if, and I don't know why, the cardinal had not requested me to conciliate him."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000102_000000|"Oh, yes; but Madame has not conciliated that little woman he was so fond of."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000103_000001|Has he not already forgotten she ever existed?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000103_000002|Fine vengeance that, on my faith!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000104_000000|A cold sweat broke from d'Artagnan's brow.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000104_000001|Why, this woman was a monster!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000104_000002|He resumed his listening, but unfortunately the toilet was finished.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000105_000000|"That will do," said Milady; "go into your own room, and tomorrow endeavor again to get me an answer to the letter I gave you."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000109_000000|"Go to bed, mademoiselle," said Milady; "I don't like comments."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000110_000000|D'Artagnan heard the door close; then the noise of two bolts by which Milady fastened herself in.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000110_000001|On her side, but as softly as possible, Kitty turned the key of the lock, and then d'Artagnan opened the closet door.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000111_000000|"Oh, good Lord!" said Kitty, in a low voice, "what is the matter with you?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000111_000001|How pale you are!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000112_000000|"The abominable creature," murmured d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000113_000000|"Silence, silence, begone!" said Kitty.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000113_000001|"There is nothing but a wainscot between my chamber and Milady's; every word that is uttered in one can be heard in the other."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000114_000000|"That's exactly the reason I won't go," said d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000115_000000|"What!" said Kitty, blushing.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000116_000000|"Or, at least, I will go-later."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000117_000000|He drew Kitty to him.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000117_000001|She had the less motive to resist, resistance would make so much noise.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000117_000002|Therefore Kitty surrendered.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000118_000001|D'Artagnan believed it right to say that vengeance is the pleasure of the gods.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000118_000002|With a little more heart, he might have been contented with this new conquest; but the principal features of his character were ambition and pride.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000119_000001|As he had seen Milady on board a vessel at the moment he was leaving England, he suspected that it was, almost without a doubt, on account of the diamond studs.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000120_000000|But what was clearest in all this was that the true hatred, the profound hatred, the inveterate hatred of Milady, was increased by his not having killed her brother in law.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000121_000001|Kitty came in, but Milady was very cross with her.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000122_000000|Toward the end of the evening, however, the beautiful lioness became milder; she smilingly listened to the soft speeches of d'Artagnan, and even gave him her hand to kiss.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000123_000000|D'Artagnan departed, scarcely knowing what to think, but as he was a youth who did not easily lose his head, while continuing to pay his court to Milady, he had framed a little plan in his mind.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000124_000000|He found Kitty at the gate, and, as on the preceding evening, went up to her chamber.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000125_000000|D'Artagnan made Kitty promise to bring him that letter on the following morning.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000125_000001|The poor girl promised all her lover desired; she was mad.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000126_000000|Things passed as on the night before.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000126_000001|D'Artagnan concealed himself in his closet; Milady called, undressed, sent away Kitty, and shut the door.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000126_000002|As the night before, d'Artagnan did not return home till five o'clock in the morning.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000127_000000|At eleven o'clock Kitty came to him.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000127_000001|She held in her hand a fresh billet from Milady.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000127_000002|This time the poor girl did not even argue with d'Artagnan; she gave it to him at once.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000128_000000|D'Artagnan opened the letter and read as follows:
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000131_000000|d'Artagnan colored and grew pale several times in reading this billet.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000132_000000|"Oh, you love her still," said Kitty, who had not taken her eyes off the young man's countenance for an instant.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000133_000000|"No, Kitty, you are mistaken.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000134_000000|"Oh, yes, I know what sort of vengeance!
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000134_000001|You told me that!"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000135_000000|"What matters it to you, Kitty?
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000135_000001|You know it is you alone whom I love."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000136_000000|"How can I know that?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000137_000000|"By the scorn I will throw upon her."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000138_000000|D'Artagnan took a pen and wrote:
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000139_000000|Madame, Until the present moment I could not believe that it was to me your first two letters were addressed, so unworthy did I feel myself of such an honor; besides, I was so seriously indisposed that I could not in any case have replied to them.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000140_000000|But now I am forced to believe in the excess of your kindness, since not only your letter but your servant assures me that I have the good fortune to be beloved by you.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000141_000000|She has no occasion to teach me the way in which a man of spirit may obtain his pardon.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000142_000000|To delay it a single day would be in my eyes now to commit a fresh offense.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000144_000000|This note was in the first place a forgery; it was likewise an indelicacy.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000144_000002|Besides, d'Artagnan from her own admission knew Milady culpable of treachery in matters more important, and could entertain no respect for her.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000144_000003|And yet, notwithstanding this want of respect, he felt an uncontrollable passion for this woman boiling in his veins-passion drunk with contempt; but passion or thirst, as the reader pleases.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000145_000001|By Kitty's chamber he could gain that of her mistress.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000145_000002|He would take advantage of the first moment of surprise, shame, and terror, to triumph over her.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000145_000003|He might fail, but something must be left to chance.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000145_000004|In eight days the campaign would open, and he would be compelled to leave Paris; d'Artagnan had no time for a prolonged love siege.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000146_000001|It is the count's reply."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000147_000000|Poor Kitty became as pale as death; she suspected what the letter contained.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000148_000000|"Listen, my dear girl," said d'Artagnan; "you cannot but perceive that all this must end, some way or other.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000150_000000|"For me, I well know, my sweet girl," said d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000150_000001|"But I am grateful, I swear to you."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000151_000000|"But what does this note contain?"
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000152_000000|"Milady will tell you."
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000154_000000|To this reproach there is always one response which deludes women. D'Artagnan replied in such a manner that Kitty remained in her great delusion.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000154_000001|Although she cried freely before deciding to transmit the letter to her mistress, she did at last so decide, which was all d'Artagnan wished.
train-other-500/1878/122452/1878_122452_000154_000002|Finally he promised that he would leave her mistress's presence at an early hour that evening, and that when he left the mistress he would ascend with the maid.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000001_000000|thirty four IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000002_000000|Since the four friends had been each in search of his equipments, there had been no fixed meeting between them.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000003_000001|Soon as Kitty left him, d'Artagnan directed his steps toward the Rue Ferou.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000004_000001|Aramis had some slight inclination to resume the cassock.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000004_000004|He never gave advice but when it was asked, and even then he required to be asked twice.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000005_000000|"People, in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000006_000000|Porthos arrived a minute after d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000006_000001|The four friends were reunited.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000008_000001|He came to request his master to return to his lodgings, where his presence was urgent, as he piteously said.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000009_000000|"Is it my equipment?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000012_000000|"Come, monsieur."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000013_000001|An instant after, Bazin made his appearance at the door.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000014_000000|"What do you want with me, my friend?" said Aramis, with that mildness of language which was observable in him every time that his ideas were directed toward the Church.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000016_000000|"A man!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000016_000001|What man?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000017_000000|"A mendicant."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000018_000000|"Give him alms, Bazin, and bid him pray for a poor sinner."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000019_000000|"This mendicant insists upon speaking to you, and pretends that you will be very glad to see him."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000020_000000|"Has he sent no particular message for me?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000021_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000021_000001|If Monsieur Aramis hesitates to come," he said, "tell him I am from Tours."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000022_000000|"From Tours!" cried Aramis.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000022_000001|"A thousand pardons, gentlemen; but no doubt this man brings me the news I expected." And rising also, he went off at a quick pace.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000023_000000|"I believe these fellows have managed their business.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000024_000000|"I know that Porthos was in a fair way," replied d'Artagnan; "and as to Aramis to tell you the truth, I have never been seriously uneasy on his account.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000025_000000|"I am satisfied with having killed that fellow, my boy, seeing that it is blessed bread to kill an Englishman; but if I had pocketed his pistoles, they would have weighed me down like a remorse."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000027_000000|"Let it pass.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000030_000000|"I gave you my reasons."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000031_000000|"Yes; you look there for your outfit, I think you said."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000032_000000|"Not at all.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000033_000000|"Yes, I understand now: to find one woman, you court another.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000033_000001|It is the longest road, but certainly the most amusing."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000034_000003|We will therefore leave the two friends, who had nothing important to say to each other, and follow Aramis.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000035_000001|On entering he found a man of short stature and intelligent eyes, but covered with rags.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000036_000000|"You have asked for me?" said the Musketeer.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000037_000001|Is that your name, monsieur?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000038_000000|"My very own.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000038_000001|You have brought me something?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000039_000000|"Yes, if you show me a certain embroidered handkerchief."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000040_000000|"Here it is," said Aramis, taking a small key from his breast and opening a little ebony box inlaid with mother of pearl, "here it is. Look."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000041_000000|"That is right," replied the mendicant; "dismiss your lackey."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000042_000000|In fact, Bazin, curious to know what the mendicant could want with his master, kept pace with him as well as he could, and arrived almost at the same time he did; but his quickness was not of much use to him.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000042_000001|At the hint from the mendicant his master made him a sign to retire, and he was obliged to obey.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000043_000000|Bazin gone, the mendicant cast a rapid glance around him in order to be sure that nobody could either see or hear him, and opening his ragged vest, badly held together by a leather strap, he began to rip the upper part of his doublet, from which he drew a letter.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000044_000000|Aramis uttered a cry of joy at the sight of the seal, kissed the superscription with an almost religious respect, and opened the epistle, which contained what follows:
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000045_000000|"My Friend, it is the will of fate that we should be still for some time separated; but the delightful days of youth are not lost beyond return. Perform your duty in camp; I will do mine elsewhere.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000045_000001|Accept that which the bearer brings you; make the campaign like a handsome true gentleman, and think of me, who kisses tenderly your black eyes.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000047_000000|The mendicant continued to rip his garments; and drew from amid his rags a hundred and fifty Spanish double pistoles, which he laid down on the table; then he opened the door, bowed, and went out before the young man, stupefied by his letter, had ventured to address a word to him.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000048_000000|Aramis then reperused the letter, and perceived a postscript:
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000049_000000|p s.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000049_000001|You may behave politely to the bearer, who is a count and a grandee of Spain!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000050_000001|"Oh, beautiful life!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000050_000002|Yes, we are young; yes, we shall yet have happy days!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000050_000003|My love, my blood, my life!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000051_000000|And he kissed the letter with passion, without even vouchsafing a look at the gold which sparkled on the table.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000052_000000|Bazin scratched at the door, and as Aramis had no longer any reason to exclude him, he bade him come in.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000054_000000|Now, as d'Artagnan used no ceremony with Aramis, seeing that Bazin forgot to announce him, he announced himself.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000055_000000|"The devil! my dear Aramis," said d'Artagnan, "if these are the prunes that are sent to you from Tours, I beg you will make my compliments to the gardener who gathers them."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000056_000000|"You are mistaken, friend d'Artagnan," said Aramis, always on his guard; "this is from my publisher, who has just sent me the price of that poem in one syllable verse which I began yonder."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000057_000000|"Ah, indeed," said d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000058_000000|"How, monsieur?" cried Bazin, "a poem sell so dear as that!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000058_000001|It is incredible!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000058_000003|I like that.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000058_000004|A poet is as good as an abbe.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000059_000000|"Bazin, my friend," said Aramis, "I believe you meddle with my conversation."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000060_000000|Bazin perceived he was wrong; he bowed and went out.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000061_000001|You are very fortunate, my friend; but take care or you will lose that letter which is peeping from your doublet, and which also comes, no doubt, from your publisher."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000062_000000|Aramis blushed to the eyes, crammed in the letter, and re buttoned his doublet.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000063_000000|"My dear d'Artagnan," said he, "if you please, we will join our friends; as I am rich, we will today begin to dine together again, expecting that you will be rich in your turn."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000064_000000|"My faith!" said d'Artagnan, with great pleasure.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000067_000001|As he was perfectly acquainted with the details of gastronomy, d'Artagnan and Aramis made no objection to abandoning this important care to him.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000069_000000|D'Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise, which was not quite free from joy.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000070_000001|"Aramis, look at that horse!"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000071_000000|"Oh, the frightful brute!" said Aramis.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000074_000000|"It is of an original color," said Aramis; "I never saw one with such a hide in my life."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000075_000001|It must have been for his hide, for, CERTES, the carcass is not worth eighteen livres.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000076_000000|"Pray," said the lackey, "say nothing about it, monsieur; it is a frightful trick of the husband of our duchess!"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000077_000000|"How is that, Mousqueton?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000078_000001|She had forced us to accept a little souvenir, a magnificent Spanish GENET and an Andalusian mule, which were beautiful to look upon.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000078_000002|The husband heard of the affair; on their way he confiscated the two magnificent beasts which were being sent to us, and substituted these horrible animals."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000079_000000|"Which you are taking back to him?" said d'Artagnan.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000080_000001|"You may well believe that we will not accept such steeds as these in exchange for those which had been promised to us."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000081_000001|That would give me an idea of how I looked when I arrived in Paris.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000081_000002|But don't let us hinder you, Mousqueton; go and perform your master's orders.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000081_000003|Is he at home?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000082_000001|Get up!"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000083_000001|He, having seen them crossing the yard, took care not to answer, and they rang in vain.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000085_000000|In a short time the two unfortunate beasts, who had not eaten anything since the morning, made such a noise in raising and letting fall the knocker that the procurator ordered his errand boy to go and inquire in the neighborhood to whom this horse and mule belonged.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000086_000002|The anger which fired the eyes of the Musketeer, in spite of his efforts to suppress it, terrified his sensitive inamorata.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000087_000001|The procurator, seeing he was going, invited him to dinner-an invitation which the Musketeer refused with a majestic air.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000089_000000|All that which a man wounded in his self love could let fall in the shape of imprecations and reproaches upon the head of a woman Porthos let fall upon the bowed head of the procurator's wife.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000090_000000|"Alas," said she, "I did all for the best!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000090_000001|One of our clients is a horsedealer; he owes money to the office, and is backward in his pay.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000090_000002|I took the mule and the horse for what he owed us; he assured me that they were two noble steeds."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000091_000000|"Well, madame," said Porthos, "if he owed you more than five crowns, your horsedealer is a thief."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000092_000000|"There is no harm in trying to buy things cheap, Monsieur Porthos," said the procurator's wife, seeking to excuse herself.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000094_000000|"Monsieur Porthos!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000094_000001|Monsieur Porthos!" cried the procurator's wife.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000094_000002|"I have been wrong; I see it.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000094_000003|I ought not to have driven a bargain when it was to equip a cavalier like you."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000095_000000|Porthos, without reply, retreated a second step.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000096_000000|"Stop, in the name of heaven, Monsieur Porthos!" cried she.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000096_000001|"Stop, and let us talk."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000097_000000|"Talking with you brings me misfortune," said Porthos.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000098_000000|"But, tell me, what do you ask?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000099_000000|"Nothing; for that amounts to the same thing as if I asked you for something."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000100_000000|The procurator's wife hung upon the arm of Porthos, and in the violence of her grief she cried out, "Monsieur Porthos, I am ignorant of all such matters!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000100_000001|How should I know what a horse is?
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000100_000002|How should I know what horse furniture is?"
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000101_000000|"You should have left it to me, then, madame, who know what they are; but you wished to be frugal, and consequently to lend at usury."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000102_000000|"It was wrong, Monsieur Porthos; but I will repair that wrong, upon my word of honor."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000103_000000|"How so?" asked the Musketeer.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000104_000000|"Listen.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000104_000002|It is for a consultation, which will last three hours at least.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000104_000003|Come!
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000104_000004|We shall be alone, and can make up our accounts."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000105_000000|"In good time.
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000105_000001|Now you talk, my dear."
train-other-500/1878/122453/1878_122453_000106_000000|"You pardon me?"
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train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000003_000000|SINKING OF THE TITANIC
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000006_000000|Edited by Logan Marshall
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000022_000000|dr Van Dyke's Spiritual Consolation to the Survivors of the Titanic
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000023_000000|The Titanic, greatest of ships, has gone to her ocean grave.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000023_000001|What has she left behind her?
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000023_000002|Think clearly.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000024_000000|She has left debts.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000024_000001|Vast sums of money have been lost.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000024_000002|Some of them are covered by insurance which will be paid.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000024_000003|The rest is gone.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000024_000004|All wealth is insecure.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000025_000000|She has left lessons.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000025_000001|The risk of running the northern course when it is menaced by icebergs is revealed.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000025_000002|The cruelty of sending a ship to sea without enough life boats and life rafts to hold her company is exhibited and underlined in black.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000026_000000|She has left sorrows.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000026_000001|Hundreds of human hearts and homes are in mourning for the loss of dear companions and friends.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000026_000003|It is an evidence of the divine in humanity.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000026_000004|Why should we care?
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000026_000005|There is no reason in the world, unless there is something in us that is different from lime and carbon and phosphorus, something that makes us mortals able to suffer together-
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000028_000000|But there is more than this harvest of debts, and lessons, and sorrows, in the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000028_000001|There is a great ideal. It is clearly outlined and set before the mind and heart of the modern world, to approve and follow, or to despise and reject.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000029_000000|It is, "Women and children first!"
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000030_000001|But why?
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000030_000002|There is no statute or enactment of any nation to enforce such an order.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000030_000003|There is no trace of such a rule to be found in the history of ancient civilizations.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000030_000004|There is no authority for it among the heathen races to day.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000030_000005|On a Chinese ship, if we may believe the report of an official representative, the rule would have been "Men First, children next, and women last."
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000031_000000|There is certainly no argument against this barbaric rule on physical or material grounds.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000031_000001|On the average, a man is stronger than a woman, he is worth more than a woman, he has a longer prospect of life than a woman. There is no reason in all the range of physical and economic science, no reason in all the philosophy of the Superman, why he should give his place in the life boat to a woman.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000032_000000|Where, then, does this rule which prevailed in the sinking Titanic come from?
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000032_000001|It comes from God, through the faith of Jesus of Nazareth.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000033_000000|It is the ideal of self sacrifice.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000035_000000|I do not say that the germ of this ideal may not be found in other religions.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000035_000001|I do not say that they are against it.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000035_000002|I do not ask any man to accept my theology (which grows shorter and simpler as I grow older), unless his heart leads him to it.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000035_000003|But this I say: The ideal that the strength of the strong is given them to protect and save the weak, the ideal which animates the rule of "Women and children first," is in essential harmony with the spirit of Christ.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000036_000000|If what He said about our Father in Heaven is true, this ideal is supremely reasonable.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000036_000001|Otherwise it is hard to find arguments for it.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000036_000002|The tragedy of facts sets the question clearly before us.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000036_000003|Think about it.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000036_000004|Is this ideal to survive and prevail in our civilization or not?
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000037_000000|Without it, no doubt, we may have riches and power and dominion.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000037_000001|But what a world to live in!
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000038_000000|Only through the belief that the strong are bound to protect and save the weak because God wills it so, can we hope to keep self sacrifice, and love, and heroism, and all the things that make us glad to live and not afraid to die.
train-other-500/1901/146686/1901_146686_000039_000000|HENRY VAN DYKE.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000001_000000|CHAPTER FOURTEEN.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000002_000000|CRUSOE'S RETURN AND HIS PRIVATE ADVENTURES AMONG THE INDIANS-DICK AT A VERY LOW EBB-CRUSOE SAVES HIM.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000003_000000|The means by which Crusoe managed to escape from his two legged captors, and rejoin his master, requires separate and special notice.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000004_000000|In the struggle with the fallen horse and Indian, which Dick had seen begun but not concluded, he was almost crushed to death; and the instant the Indian gained his feet, he sent an arrow at his head with savage violence.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000004_000002|Moreover, he uttered one of his own peculiar roars, flew at the Indian's throat, and dragged him down.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000004_000005|With the butt of this he struck Crusoe a blow on the head that sent him sprawling on the grass.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000005_000000|The rest of the savages, as we have seen, continued in pursuit of Dick until he leaped into the river; then they returned, took the saddle and bridle off his dead horse, and rejoined their comrades.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000005_000002|Some were for killing him; others, who admired his noble appearance, immense size, and courage, thought it would be well to carry him to their village and keep him.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000005_000003|There was a pretty violent dispute on the subject; but at length it was agreed that they should spare his life in the mean time, and perhaps have a dog dance round him when they got to their wigwams.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000006_000001|A band of warriors then come and dance wildly round this pole, and each one in succession goes up to the raw liver and bites a piece off it, without, however, putting his hands near it.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000007_000001|He had privately resolved in his own mind that he would escape, but the hopelessness of his ever carrying that resolution into effect would have been apparent to any one who could have seen the way in which his muzzle was secured, and his four paws were tied together in a bunch, as he hung suspended across the saddle of one of the savages!
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000008_000000|This particular party of Indians who had followed Dick Varley determined not to wait for the return of their comrades who were in pursuit of the other two hunters, but to go straight home, so for several days they galloped away over the prairie.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000008_000001|At nights, when they encamped, Crusoe was thrown on the ground like a piece of old lumber, and left to lie there with a mere scrap of food till morning, when he was again thrown across the horse of his captor and carried on.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000009_000000|Although lying in a position that was unfavourable for eating purposes, Crusoe opened his jaws and took it.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000009_000002|and it was well he didn't choke.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000009_000004|So diligent was he that he was free before morning and walked deliberately out of the tent.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000009_000005|Then he shook himself, and with a yell that one might have fancied was intended for defiance, he bounded joyfully away, and was soon out of sight.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000010_000000|To a dog with a good appetite which had been on short allowance for several days, the mouthful given to him by the old squaw was a mere nothing.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000010_000002|In less than a minute its body was gone too-feathers and bones and all-down Crusoe's ravenous throat.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000011_000000|On the identical spot Crusoe lay down and slept like a top for four hours.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000012_000000|It cost him a good deal of running about to find the trail, and it was nearly dark before he resumed his journey; then, putting his keen nose to the ground, he ran step by step over Dick's track, and at last found him, as we have shown, on the banks of the Salt Creek.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000013_000000|It is quite impossible to describe the intense joy which filled Dick's heart on again beholding his favourite.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000014_000000|This was a consummation that took Crusoe quite aback!
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000014_000001|Never having seen his master in such a state before he seemed to think at first that he was playing some trick, for he bounded round him, and barked, and wagged his tail.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000015_000000|The cry seemed to revive Dick, for he moved, and with some difficulty sat up, to the dog's evident relief.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000016_000000|"Crusoe," said Dick, in a feeble voice, "dear good pup, come here." He crawled, as he spoke, down to the water's edge where there was a level patch of dry sand.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000017_000000|"Dig," said Dick, pointing to the sand.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000018_000000|Crusoe looked at him in surprise, as well he might, for he had never heard the word "dig" in all his life before.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000020_000000|Ha!
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000020_000004|When the sand accumulated so much behind him as to impede his motions he scraped it out of his way, and set to work again with tenfold earnestness.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000021_000000|"Seek him out, pup!" repeated Dick.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000022_000000|"Oh! very good," mutely answered the dog, and went at it again, tooth and nail, harder than ever.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000023_000000|In the course of a quarter of an hour there was a deep yawning hole in the sand, into which Dick peered with intense anxiety.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000023_000002|Hope now reanimated Dick Varley, and by various devices he succeeded in getting the dog to scrape away a sort of tunnel from the hole, into which he might roll himself and put down his lips to drink when the water should rise high enough.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000023_000003|Impatiently and anxiously he lay watching the moisture slowly accumulate in the bottom of the hole, drop by drop, and while he gazed he fell into a troubled, restless slumber, and dreamed that Crusoe's return was a dream, and that he was alone again perishing for want of water.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000025_000000|"Back, pup!" he shouted, as he crept down to the hole and put his trembling lips to the water.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000025_000001|It was brackish, but drinkable, and as Dick drank deeply of it he esteemed it at that moment better than nectar.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000025_000002|Here he lay for half an hour alternately drinking and gazing in surprise at his own emaciated visage as reflected in the pool.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000028_000000|"Fetch it, pup," cried Dick eagerly as the dog came up.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000029_000000|In a few moments the hen was at his feet.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000029_000002|Ah! think not, reader, that although we have treated this subject in a slight vein of pleasantry, because it ended well, that therefore our tale is pure fiction.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000030_000000|Crusoe had finished his share of the feast before Dick returned from the pool.
train-other-500/1901/147822/1901_147822_000030_000001|Then master and dog lay down together side by side and fell into a long, deep, peaceful slumber.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000001_000001|Work in the mills did not attract him; he had no capital to invest in a stock of goods for store keeping; school teaching offered him only a pittance; there remained then only the farm, if he were to stay at home and keep his mother company.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000002_000000|"Justin don't seem to take no holt of things," said the neighbours.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000003_000000|"Good Heavens!"
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000003_000001|It seemed to him that there were no things to take hold of!
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000004_000000|The farm had somehow supported the family in the old Deacon's time, but Justin seemed unable to coax a competence from the soil.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000004_000002|The crows liked Justin's corn better than any other in Edgewood.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000004_000003|It had a richness peculiar to itself, a quality that appealed to the most jaded palate, so that it was really worth while to fly over a mile of intervening fields and pay it the delicate compliment of preference.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000006_000000|"Land of liberty! look at 'em congregate!" ejaculated Jabe Slocum, when he was called in for consultation.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000006_000003|Have you tried 'Bug Death'?"
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000007_000000|"It acts like a tonic on them," said Justin gloomily.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000008_000000|"Sho! you don't say so!
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000008_000001|Now mine can't abide the sight nor smell of it. What 'bout Paris green?"
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000009_000000|"They thrive on it; it's as good as an appetizer."
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000011_000000|Justin did just that, as a matter of fact, a year or two later; but stock that has within itself the power of being "live" has also rare qualifications for being dead when occasion suits, and it generally did suit Justin's stock.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000012_000000|These were some of the little tragedies that had sickened young Justin Peabody with life in Edgewood, and Nancy Wentworth, even then, realized some of them and sympathized without speaking, in a girl's poor, helpless way.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000013_000000|mrs Simpson had washed the floor in the right wing of the church and Nancy had cleaned all the paint.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000013_000001|Now she sat in the old Peabody pew darning the forlorn, faded cushion with grey carpet thread: thread as grey as her own life.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000014_000001|Nancy's needle was no busier than her memory.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000014_000002|Long years ago she had often sat in the Peabody pew, sometimes at first as a girl of sixteen when asked by esther, and then, on coming home from school at eighteen, "finished," she had been invited now and again by mrs Peabody herself, on those Sundays when her own invalid mother had not attended service.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000015_000000|Those were wonderful Sundays-Sundays of quiet, trembling peace and maiden joy.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000016_000000|Justin sat beside her, and she had been sure then, but had long since grown to doubt the evidence of her senses, that he, too, vibrated with pleasure at the nearness.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000016_000001|Was there not a summer morning when his hand touched her white lace mitt as they held the hymn book together, and the lines of the
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000017_000000|Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace,
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000018_000000|became blurred on the page and melted into something indistinguishable for a full minute or two afterward?
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000018_000001|Were there not looks, and looks, and looks?
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000018_000002|Or had she some misleading trick of vision in those days? Justin's dark, handsome profile rose before her: the level brows and fine lashes; the well cut nose and lovable mouth-the Peabody mouth and chin, somewhat too sweet and pliant for strength, perhaps.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000018_000003|Then the eyes turned to hers in the old way, just for a fleeting glance, as they had so often done at prayer meeting, or sociable, or Sunday service.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000018_000004|Was it not a man's heart she had seen in them?
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000018_000005|And oh, if she could only be sure that her own woman's heart had not looked out from hers, drawn from its maiden shelter in spite of all her wish to keep it hidden!
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000019_000000|Then followed two dreary years of indecision and suspense, when Justin's eyes met hers less freely; when his looks were always gloomy and anxious; when affairs at the Peabody farm grew worse and worse; when his mother followed her husband, the old Deacon, and her daughter esther to the burying ground in the churchyard.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000019_000001|Then the end of all things came, the end of the world for Nancy: Justin's departure for the West in a very frenzy of discouragement over the narrowness and limitation and injustice of his lot; over the rockiness and barrenness and unkindness of the New England soil; over the general bitterness of fate and the "bludgeonings of chance."
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000020_000000|He was a failure, born of a family of failures.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000020_000001|If the world owed him a living, he had yet to find the method by which it could be earned.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000020_000002|All this he thought and uttered, and much more of the same sort.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000020_000003|In these days of humbled pride self was paramount, though it was a self he despised.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000020_000004|There was no time for love.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000020_000005|Who was he for a girl to lean upon?--he who could not stand erect himself!
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000021_000001|A handshake, with no thrill of love in it such as might have furnished her palm, at least, some memories to dwell upon; a few stilted words of leave taking; a halting, meaningless sentence or two about his "botch" of life-then he walked away from the Wentworth doorstep.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000021_000002|But half way down the garden path, where the shrivelled hollyhocks stood like sentinels, did a wave of something different sweep over him-a wave of the boyish, irresponsible past when his heart had wings and could fly without fear to its mate-a wave of the past that was rushing through Nancy's mind, well nigh burying her in its bitter sweet waters!
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000021_000003|For he lifted his head, and suddenly retracing his steps, he came toward her, and, taking her hand again, said forlornly: "You'll see me back when my luck turns, Nancy."
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000000|Nancy knew that the words might mean little or much, according to the manner in which they were uttered, but to her hurt pride and sore, shamed woman instinct, they were a promise, simply because there was a choking sound in Justin's voice and tears in Justin's eyes.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000001|"You'll see me back when my luck turns, Nancy;" this was the phrase upon which she had lived for more than ten years.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000003|She used to wonder if her soul could be growing in the monotonous round of her dull duties and her duller pleasures.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000005|The neighbours also, lynx eyed and curious, had never suspected.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000006|If she had suffered, no one in Edgewood was any the wiser, for the maiden heart is not commonly worn on the sleeve in New England. If she had been openly pledged to Justin Peabody, she could have waited twice ten years with a decent show of self respect, for long engagements were viewed rather as a matter of course in that neighbourhood.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000007|The endless months had gone on since that grey November day when Justin had said good bye.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000008|It had been just before Thanksgiving, and she went to church with an aching and ungrateful heart.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000009|The parson read from the eighth chapter of saint Matthew, a most unexpected selection for that holiday.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000022_000010|"If you can't find anything else to be thankful for," he cried, "go home and be thankful you are not a leper!"
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000024_000000|Justin had once come back to Edgewood, and it was the bitterest drop in her cup of bitterness that she was spending that winter in Berwick (where, so the neighbours told him, she was a great favourite in society, and was receiving much attention from gentlemen), so that she had never heard of his visit until the spring had come again.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000024_000001|Parted friends did not keep up with one another's affairs by means of epistolary communication, in those days, in Edgewood; it was not the custom.
train-other-500/1901/48014/1901_48014_000024_000002|Spoken words were difficult enough to Justin Peabody, and written words were quite impossible, especially if they were to be used to define his half conscious desires and his fluctuations of will, or to recount his disappointments and discouragements and mistakes.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000000_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000001_000000|THE TWO SAILORS
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000002_000000|While Rick, his boy chums and the Scout Master were on their way to the old log cabin, there to camp all night, if need be, to wait for the sailor to come back with the dog, poor Ruddy himself was not having a very good time.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000003_000000|He had been lifted out of the junk wagon by Matt Stanton, the ragged sailor who had stolen Ruddy away "for luck," as he called it.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000003_000001|And Ruddy was half dragged along the road by a rope the sailor had tied around his neck.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000004_000001|If he could have talked man language, instead of only in dog fashion, he would have said:
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000005_000001|You are almost choking me!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000005_000002|If you won't pull so hard I'll come along just the same.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000005_000003|Of course I don't want to come with you, for I don't like you.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000005_000004|I like Rick, the boy, best.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000005_000005|But you are stronger than I am, and we dogs have to do as our masters want, even if we don't like it.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000005_000006|But, oh dear! how I wish I were back with Rick!"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000006_000000|That is what Ruddy was most likely saying or thinking to himself as the sailor half dragged him along.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000007_000001|"Where's his shack?"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000008_000000|"Only a little farther now," the junk man answered.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000008_000002|You can't of see it from here, but it isn't far."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000009_000000|And, a little later, the junk man left the road, and started down a path that led across the fields toward a clump of woods.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000009_000001|As soon as Ruddy saw this path, and smelled the clean smell of woods and leaves, he gave a little joyous bark.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000010_000000|"Here now!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000010_000001|What's the matter with you?
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000010_000002|Keep still!" growled the sailor, pulling on the rope around the dog's neck.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000011_000001|But the sailor was not quite as bad as that.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000011_000002|He rather cared for the dog, in a way, though he did not know how to be really kind to animals.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000011_000003|Some men and boys are that way, and I am sorry for them.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000011_000004|It is wonderful to know how to love animals, and have them care for you.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000013_000000|"First thing I know you'll be bringing a crowd around us, and somebody may take you away from me," grumbled the ragged man.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000013_000001|"I don't want that. I don't want to lose my luck again."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000015_000000|"Come along now!" growled the sailor, and again he jerked on the rope around Ruddy's neck.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000016_000002|He doesn't of want anybody to know he's there."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000017_000000|"Oh, I see!" exclaimed the sailor.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000017_000001|"Sort of hiding away, is he?
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000017_000002|Well, I've done that myself."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000018_000000|They walked on a little farther, the sailor still dragging Ruddy along, and at last the two men pushed their way through some bushes and came to an old, tumble down house, that did not seem a much better place to sleep in than was the old log cabin.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000019_000000|"Here we are," said Ike Stein, the junk man.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000019_000001|"Here we are!"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000022_000000|He called the dog the same name as did Rick-the name that just seemed to fit the setter.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000023_000000|"Yes, I guess we can stand it here one night," went on the ragged sailor.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000025_000000|"Oh, he is, eh?
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000025_000001|Spying like!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000025_000002|Well, I don't see him!" said the sailor glancing from one broken window to another.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000027_000000|"Hello, Ikey!"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000029_000000|"Here's a friend of mine, Sam," went on Ikey.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000029_000001|"We have come to stay all night and have supper.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000029_000002|We'll pay, of course," he added, for he saw that Sam was going to say something.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000030_000000|"Oh, sure you may stay-if you pay!" spoke the man who lived in the tumble down shack.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000030_000001|"Did you bring your horse and wagon?" he asked.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000031_000000|"I left them down the road," answered the junk man.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000031_000001|"Now we of are hungry."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000032_000000|"And so is the dog, I expect," growled the sailor.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000032_000001|"Give him a bone-Sam."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000033_000000|"A bone?
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000033_000001|A bone for the dog?
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000034_000000|"Well, give Ruddy a ten cent bone!" exclaimed the sailor.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000035_000000|The second ragged man-whose name was Sam, went into his house and came out with a bone which he threw down in front of Ruddy, who, by this time, had been tied to a post in the yard.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000036_000000|"Hum!" mumbled the sailor, as he looked at the bone.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000037_000000|"Right away!" promised Sam, and he led the way into the house.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000039_000000|The poor dog, smelling a little good meat on the bone, had lain down with it between his fore paws and was gnawing it.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000039_000001|He had no intention of running away just then.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000039_000002|He was too hungry, and this was his supper.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000039_000003|It was not like the good supper he would have had at home in his kennel, where Rick always fed him.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000039_000004|But it must answer now.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000040_000003|He was a wholesale junk dealer and the others were retailers, you might say.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000041_000000|The three men went to the kitchen of the old house, and Sam began to cook a meal.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000042_000000|Sailor Matt looked about him while waiting for his meal.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000045_000000|"You needn't call me a friend," growled the sailor.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000045_000002|Now I have him back maybe I'll get a ship, and start over again."
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000046_000000|"Maybe," muttered Sam, "and maybe we should of be friends.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000047_000001|"But I got enough for a meal.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000047_000002|Hurry it up!"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000048_000000|"Sure, it'll be ready in a minute!" promised Sam.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000049_000000|He was stirring the contents of the broken kettle when a step was heard outside.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000049_000001|Instantly the three men looked around, and Sam stopped rattling the long handled spoon.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000050_000000|"Somebody's comin'!" whispered Ike Stein.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000051_000000|Sailor Matt Stanton got up from a pile of rags and started toward the door.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000051_000001|As he reached it a man came in; a man who, it could be seen almost at first glance, was a sailor like himself.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000052_000001|"Well, well!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000052_000002|To think of finding my old sailing chum here!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000052_000003|Shake, Matt!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000052_000004|How are you and what's the matter with the dog howling out in the yard?"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000053_000000|He clapped on the back the ragged sailor who had taken Ruddy away from Rick.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000054_000000|"Hush!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000054_000001|Not so loud!" exclaimed Sailor Matt, in a hoarse whisper.
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000054_000002|"Keep still, Jed Porter!
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000054_000003|Keep still!"
train-other-500/1901/60017/1901_60017_000055_000000|"What for?" asked the sailor called Jed.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000002_000000|THE SEARCH OF MILBURGH'S COTTAGE
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000003_000000|mr Milburgh had a little house in one of the industrial streets of Camden Town.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000003_000001|It was a street made up for the most part of blank walls, pierced at intervals with great gates, through which one could procure at times a view of gaunt factories and smoky looking chimney stacks.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000004_000000|mr Milburgh's house was the only residence in the road, if one excepted the quarters of caretakers and managers, and it was agreed by all who saw his tiny demesne, that mr Milburgh had a good landlord.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000005_000000|The "house" was a detached cottage in about half an acre of ground, a one storey building, monopolising the space which might have been occupied by factory extension.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000005_000001|Both the factory to the right and the left had made generous offers to acquire the ground, but mr Milburgh's landlord had been adamant.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000005_000002|There were people who suggested that mr Milburgh's landlord was mr Milburgh himself.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000005_000003|But how could that be?
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000006_000000|Canvey Cottage, as it was called, stood back from the road, behind a lawn, innocent of flowers, and the lawn itself was protected from intrusion by high iron railings which mr Milburgh's landlord had had erected at considerable cost.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000007_000000|On the night when Tarling of Scotland Yard was the victim of a murderous assault, mr Milburgh unlocked the gate and passed through, locking and double locking the gate behind him.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000007_000001|He was alone, and, as was his wont, he was whistling a sad little refrain which had neither beginning nor end.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000000|He was in a tiny hallway, plainly but nicely furnished.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000001|The note of luxury was struck by the Zohn etchings which hung on the wall, and which mr Milburgh stopped to regard approvingly.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000002|He hung up his coat and hat, slipped off the galoshes he was wearing (for it was wet underfoot), and, passing through a door which opened from the passage, came to his living room.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000003|The same simple note of furniture and decoration was observable here.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000004|The furniture was good, the carpet under his feet thick and luxurious.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000005|He snicked down another switch and an electric radiator glowed in the fireplace.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000007|It was practically covered with orderly little piles of paper, most of them encircled with rubber bands.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000008_000008|He did not attempt to touch or read them, but sat looking moodily at his blotting pad, preoccupied and absent.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000009_000000|Presently he rose with a little grunt, and, crossing the room, unlocked a very commonplace and old-fashioned cupboard, the top of which served as a sideboard.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000009_000001|From the cupboard he took a dozen little books and carried them to the table.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000009_000002|They were of uniform size and each bore the figures of a year.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000009_000003|They appeared to be, and indeed were, diaries, but they were not mr Milburgh's diaries.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000010_000000|He had only read a few pages on that occasion, but later he had an opportunity of perusing the whole year's record, and had absorbed a great deal of information which might have been useful to him in the future, had not Thornton Lyne met his untimely end at the hands of an unknown murderer.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000013_000000|"Lunched at the London Hotel and dozed away the afternoon.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000013_000001|Weather fearfully hot.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000013_000002|Had arranged to make a call upon a distant cousin-a man named Tarling-who is in the police force at Shanghai, but too much of a fag.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000013_000003|Spent evening at Chu Han's dancing hall.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000013_000004|Got very friendly with a pretty little Chinese girl who spoke pigeon English. Am seeing her to morrow at Ling Foo's.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000013_000005|She is called 'The Little Narcissus.' I called her 'My Little Daffodil'--"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000014_000000|mr Milburgh stopped in his reading.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000015_000000|"Little Daffodil!" he repeated, then looked at the ceiling and pinched his thick lips.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000015_000001|"Little Daffodil!" he said again, and a big smile dawned on his face.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000016_000001|He rose to his feet and stood listening and the bell rang again.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000016_000002|He switched off the light, pulled aside the thick curtain which hid the window, and peered out through the fog.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000016_000003|He could just distinguish in the light of the street lamp two or three men standing at the gate.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000016_000004|He replaced the curtain, turned up the light again, took the books in his arms and disappeared with them into the corridor.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000016_000005|The room at the back was his bedroom, and into this he went, making no response to the repeated jingle of the bell for fully five minutes.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000017_000000|At the end of that time he reappeared, but now he was in his pyjamas, over which he wore a heavy dressing gown.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000018_000000|"Who's that?" he asked.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000019_000000|"Tarling.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000019_000001|You know me," said a voice.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000020_000001|"Really this is an unexpected pleasure.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000020_000002|Come in, come in, gentlemen."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000021_000000|"Open the gate," said Tarling briefly.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000022_000000|"Excuse me while I go and get the key," said Milburgh.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000022_000001|"I didn't expect visitors at this hour of the night."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000023_000000|He went into the house, took a good look round his room, and then reappeared, taking the key from the pocket of his dressing gown.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000024_000000|Tarling was accompanied by Inspector Whiteside and another man, whom Milburgh rightly supposed was a detective.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000024_000001|Only Tarling and the Inspector accepted his invitation to step inside, the third man remaining on guard at the gate.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000025_000000|Milburgh led the way to his cosy sitting room.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000026_000000|"I have been in bed some hours, and I'm sorry to have kept you so long."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000027_000000|"Your radiator is still warm," said Tarling quietly, stooping to feel the little stove.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000028_000000|mr Milburgh chuckled.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000029_000000|"Isn't that clever of you to discover that?" he said admiringly.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000029_000001|"The fact is, I was so sleepy when I went to bed, several hours ago, that I forgot to turn the radiator off, and it was only when I came down to answer the bell that I discovered I had left it switched on."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000030_000001|It was still alight.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000031_000000|"You've been smoking in your sleep, mr Milburgh," he said dryly.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000032_000000|"No, no," said the airy mr Milburgh.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000032_000001|"I was smoking that when I came downstairs to let you in.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000032_000002|I instinctively put a cigar in my mouth the moment I wake up in the morning.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000032_000003|It is a disgraceful habit, and really is one of my few vices," he admitted.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000033_000000|Tarling smiled.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000034_000000|"Won't you sit down?" said Milburgh, seating himself in the least comfortable of the chairs.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000034_000002|I am obliged to bring it home, and I can assure you, mr Tarling, that there are some nights when I work till daylight, getting things ready for the auditor."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000035_000000|"Do you ever take exercise?" asked Tarling innocently.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000035_000001|"Little night walks in the fog for the benefit of your health?"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000036_000000|A puzzled frown gathered on Milburgh's face.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000037_000001|"I don't quite understand you.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000037_000003|What an extraordinary fog for this time of the year!"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000038_000000|"Do you know Paddington at all?"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000039_000000|"No," said mr Milburgh, "except that there is a station there which I sometimes use.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000041_000000|"For what?" demanded Milburgh boldly.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000042_000000|"For a revolver or an automatic pistol and anything else I can find."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000043_000000|Milburgh rose.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000044_000000|"You're at liberty to search the house from end to end," he said. "Happily, it is a small one, as my salary does not allow of an expensive establishment."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000045_000000|"Do you live here alone?" asked Tarling.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000046_000000|"Quite," replied Milburgh.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000046_000001|"A woman comes in at eight o'clock to morrow morning to cook my breakfast and make the place tidy, but I sleep here by myself.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000046_000002|I am very much hurt," he was going on.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000047_000000|"You will be hurt much worse," said Tarling dryly and proceeded to the search.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000048_000000|It proved to be a disappointing one, for there was no trace of any weapon, and certainly no trace of the little red slips which he had expected to find in Milburgh's possession.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000049_000000|He came back to the little sitting room where Milburgh had been left with the Inspector and apparently he was unruffled by his failure.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000050_000000|"Now, mr Milburgh," he said brusquely, "I want to ask you: Have you ever seen a piece of paper like this before?"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000052_000000|"You have?" said Tarling in surprise.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000053_000001|"I should be telling an untruth if I said I had not.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000053_000002|Nothing is more repugnant to me than to deceive anybody."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000054_000000|"That I can imagine," said Tarling.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000055_000000|"I am sorry you are sarcastic, mr Tarling," said the reproachful Milburgh, "but I assure you that I hate and loathe an untruth."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000056_000000|"Where have you seen these papers?"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000057_000000|"On mr Lyne's desk," was the surprising answer
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000058_000000|"On Lyne's desk?"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000059_000000|Milburgh nodded.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000060_000001|I do not understand Chinese," he said, "because I have never had occasion to go to China.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000061_000000|"You've seen these slips on Lyne's desk?" said Tarling.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000061_000001|"Then why did you not tell the police before?
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000061_000002|You know that the police attach a great deal of importance to the discovery of one of these things in the dead man's pocket?"
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000062_000000|mr Milburgh nodded.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000063_000000|"It is perfectly true that I did not mention the fact to the police," he said, "but you understand mr Tarling that I was very much upset by the sad occurrence, which drove everything else out of my mind.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000063_000001|It would have been quite possible that you would have found one or two of these strange inscriptions in this very house." He smiled in the detective's face.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000063_000002|"mr Lyne was very fond of distributing the curios he brought from the East to his friends," he went on.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000063_000003|"He gave me that dagger you see hanging on the wall, which he bought at some outlandish place in his travels.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000064_000000|He would have continued retailing reminiscences of his late employer, but Tarling cut him short, and with a curt good night withdrew.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000065_000000|"I am certain that the man was Milburgh," said Tarling.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000066_000000|"Have you any idea why he should want to out you?" asked Whiteside.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000067_000000|"None in the world," replied Tarling.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000067_000004|He then waited for me in the fog and followed me until he got me into a quiet part of the road, where he first attempted to sandbag and then to shoot me."
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000068_000000|"But why?" asked Whiteside again.
train-other-500/1920/147026/1920_147026_000068_000001|"Suppose Milburgh knew something about this murder-which is very doubtful-what benefit would it be to him to have you put out of the way?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000001_000000|CHAPTER one THE SORCERESS
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000002_000000|The plague raged in the city of London.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000002_000001|The destroying angel had gone forth, and kindled with its fiery breath the awful pestilence, until all London became one mighty lazar house.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000002_000005|Few people, save the watchmen, armed with halberts, keeping guard over the stricken houses, appeared in the streets; and those who ventured there, shrank from each other, and passed rapidly on with averted faces.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000002_000006|Many even fell dead on the sidewalk, and lay with their ghastly, discolored faces, upturned to the mocking sunlight, until the dead cart came rattling along, and the drivers hoisted the body with their pitchforks on the top of their dreadful load.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000002_000008|The pest houses were full, so were the plague pits, where the dead were hurled in cartfuls; and no one knew who rose up in health in the morning but that they might be lying stark and dead in a few hours.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000002_000010|Cries and lamentations echoed from one end of the city to the other, and Death and Charles reigned over London together.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000003_000004|In fact, far famed London town, in the year of grace sixteen sixty five, would have given one a good idea of Pandemonium broke loose.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000004_000000|It was drawing to the close of an almost tropical June day, that the crowd who had thronged the precincts of saint Paul's since early morning, began to disperse.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000005_000000|Moving serenely through this discordant sea of his fellow creatures came a young man booted and spurred, whose rich doublet of cherry colored velvet, edged and spangled with gold, and jaunty hat set slightly on one side of his head, with its long black plume and diamond clasp, proclaimed him to be somebody.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000005_000001|A profusion of snowy shirt frill rushed impetuously out of his doublet; a black velvet cloak, lined with amber satin, fell picturesquely from his shoulders; a sword with a jeweled hilt clanked on the pavement as he walked.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000005_000004|That he was a courtier of rank, was apparent from his rich attire and rather aristocratic bearing and a crowd of hangers on followed him as he went, loudly demanding spur money.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000005_000005|A group of timbril girls, singing shrilly the songs of the day, called boldly to him as he passed; and one of them, more free and easy than the rest, danced up to him striking her timbrel, and shouting rather than singing the chorus of the then popular ditty,
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000006_000000|"What care I for pest or plague? We can die but once, God wot, Kiss me darling-stay with me: Love me-love me, leave me not!"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000007_000000|The darling in question turned his bright blue eyes on that dashing street singer with a cool glance of recognition.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000008_000000|"Very sorry, Nell," he said, in a nonchalant tone, "but I'm afraid I must.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000008_000001|How long have you been here, may I ask?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000009_000001|I thought you were dead of the plague."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000010_000000|"Not exactly.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000010_000001|Have you seen-ah! there he is.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000010_000002|The very man I want."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000011_000000|With which Sir Norman Kingsley dropped a gold piece into the girl's extended palm, and pushed on through the crowd up Paul's Walk.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000012_000000|"Good morning, Ormiston.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000012_000001|I had an idea I would find you here, and-but what's the matter with you, man?
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000012_000002|Have you got the plague? or has your mysterious inamorata jilted you? or what other annoyance has happened to make you look as woebegone as old King Lear, sent adrift by his tender daughters to take care of himself?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000013_000000|The individual addressed lifted his head, disclosing a dark and rather handsome face, settled now into a look of gloomy discontent.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000013_000001|He slightly raised his hat as he saw who his questioner was.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000014_000000|"Ah! it's you, Sir Norman!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000015_000000|"I was on duty at Whitehall.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000015_000001|Are we not in time to keep our appointment?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000016_000000|"Oh, certainly!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000016_000001|La Masque is at home to visitors at all hours, day and night.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000016_000002|I believe in my soul she doesn't know what sleep means."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000017_000000|"And you are still as much in love with her as ever, I dare swear!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000019_000000|Sir Norman favored him with a half amused, half contemptuous stare for a moment; then stopped at a huckster's stall to purchase some cigarettes; lit one, and after smoking for a few minutes, pleasantly remarked, as if the fact had just struck him:
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000021_000000|"I know it!" said Ormiston, sententiously.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000022_000000|"The idea," said Sir Norman, knocking the ashes daintily off the end of his cigar with the tip of his little finger-"the idea of falling in love with a woman whose face you have never seen!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000022_000002|Come, let us go."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000024_000001|This is a strange time, I should imagine, for bonfires."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000025_000001|The Lord Mayor of London has been inspired suddenly, with a notion, that if several thousand fires are kindled at once in the streets, it will purify the air, and check the pestilence; so when saint Paul's tolls the hour of midnight, all these piles are to be fired.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000025_000002|It will be a glorious illumination, no doubt; but as to its stopping the progress of the plague, I am afraid that it is altogether too good to be true."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000026_000000|"Why should you doubt it?
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000026_000001|The plague cannot last forever."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000027_000000|"no
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000027_000001|But Lilly, the astrologer, who predicted its coming, also foretold that it would last for many months yet; and since one prophecy has come true, I see no reason why the other should not."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000028_000000|"Except the simple one that there would be nobody left alive to take it. All London will be lying in the plague pits by that time."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000029_000000|"A pleasant prospect; but a true one, I have no doubt.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000029_000001|And, as I have no ambition to be hurled headlong into one of those horrible holes, I shall leave town altogether in a few days.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000029_000002|And, Ormiston, I would strongly recommend you to follow my example."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000030_000001|"While La Masque stays, so will i"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000031_000000|"And perhaps die of the plague in a week."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000032_000000|"So be it!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000032_000001|I don't fear the plague half as much as I do the thought of losing her!"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000034_000000|"Oh, I see!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000034_000001|It's a hopeless case!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000034_000002|Faith, I begin to feel curious to see this enchantress, who has managed so effectually to turn your brain. When did you see her last?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000035_000000|"Yesterday," said Ormiston, with a deep sigh.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000035_000001|"And if she were made of granite, she could not be harder to me than she is!"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000036_000000|"So she doesn't care about you, then?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000037_000000|"Not she!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000038_000000|"Then what an idiot you are, to keep haunting her like her shadow!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000039_000000|"Ah! that's easily said; but if you were in my place, you'd act exactly as I do."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000040_000000|"I don't believe it.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000040_000001|It's not in me to go mad about anything with a masked face and a marble heart.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000040_000002|If I loved any woman-which, thank Fortune! at this present time I do not-and she had the bad taste not to return it, I should take my hat, make her a bow, and go directly and love somebody else made of flesh and blood, instead of cast iron!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000041_000000|'If she be not fair for me What care I how fair she be!'"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000042_000000|"Kingsley, you know nothing about it!" said Ormiston, impatiently.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000042_000001|"So stop talking nonsense.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000042_000002|If you are cold blooded, I am not; and-I love her!"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000043_000000|Sir Norman slightly shrugged his shoulders, and flung his smoked out weed into a heap of fire wood.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000044_000001|"Yonder is the bridge."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000045_000000|"And yonder is the house," replied Ormiston, pointing to a large ancient building-ancient even for those times-with three stories, each projecting over the other.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000045_000001|"See! while the houses on either side are marked as pest stricken, hers alone bears no cross.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000045_000002|So it is: those who cling to life are stricken with death: and those who, like me, are desperate, even death shuns."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000046_000000|"Why, my dear Ormiston, you surely are not so far gone as that?
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000046_000001|Upon my honor, I had no idea you were in such a bad way."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000048_000001|Then he opened his lips to ask, in a subdued tone:
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000049_000000|"She has predicted the future for you-what did she foretell?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000051_000000|"Where did she learn this wonderful black art of hers?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000052_000000|"In the East, I believe.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000053_000000|"She has chosen a sprightly season for her visit.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000054_000000|"No; she fears nothing," said Ormiston, as he knocked loudly at the door.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000054_000001|"I begin to believe she is made of adamant instead of what other women are made of."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000055_000000|"Which is a rib, I believe," observed Sir Norman, thoughtfully.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000055_000002|They're a wonderful race women are; and for what Inscrutable reason it has pleased Providence to create them-"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000057_000000|"La Masque at home?" inquired Ormiston, stepping in, without ceremony.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000059_000000|"You seem pretty well acquainted with the latitude and longitude of this place," observed that young gentleman, as they passed into a room at the head of the stairs.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000060_000000|"I ought to be; I've been here often enough," said Ormiston.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000060_000001|"This is the common waiting room for all who wish to consult La Masque.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000061_000000|Sir Norman took a seat, and glanced curiously round the room.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000062_000000|"For the reception room of a sorceress," remarked Sir Norman, with an air of disappointed criticism, "there is nothing very wonderful about all this.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000062_000001|How is it she spaes fortunes any way?
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000064_000001|Ah!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000065_000000|The door opened, and the "old bag of bones," as Ormiston irreverently styled his lady love's ancient domestic, made a sign for them to follow him.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000065_000001|Leading the way down along a corridor, he flung open a pair of shining folding doors at the end, and ushered them at once into the majestic presence of the sorceress and her magic room.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000066_000001|But it had no windows-a large bronze lamp, suspended from the centre of the ceiling, shed a flickering, ghostly light.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000066_000003|It was a female figure, very tall and slight, but as beautifully symmetrical as a Venus Celestis.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000066_000007|This was doubtless La Masque, and becoming conscious of that fact Sir Norman made her a low and courtly bow.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000066_000008|She returned it by a slight bend of the head, and turning toward his companion, spoke:
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000067_000000|"You here, again, mr Ormiston!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000067_000001|To what am I indebted for the honor of two visits in two days?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000068_000000|Her voice, Sir Norman thought, was the sweetest he had ever heard, musical as a chime of silver bells, soft as the tones of an aeolian harp through which the west wind plays.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000069_000000|"Madam, I am aware my visits are undesired," said Ormiston, with a flushing cheek and, slightly tremulous voice; "but I have merely come with my friend, Sir Norman Kingsley, who wishes to know what the future has in store for him."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000072_000000|"Sir Norman Kingsley is welcome," said the sweet voice, "and shall see what he desires.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000072_000001|There is but one condition, that he will keep perfectly silent; for if he speaks, the scene he beholds will vanish.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000072_000002|Come forward!"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000000|Sir Norman compressed his lips as closely as if they were forever hermetically sealed, and came forward accordingly.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000001|Leaning over the edge of the ebony caldron, he found that it contained nothing more dreadful than water, for he labored under a vague and unpleasant idea that, like the witches' caldron in Macbeth, it might be filled with serpents' blood and childrens' brains.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000002|La Masque opened her golden casket, and took from it a portion of red powder, with which it was filled.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000004|Had Sir Norman ever read the story of Aladdin, he would probably have thought of it then; but the young courtier did not greatly affect literature of any kind, and thought of nothing now but of seeing something when the smoke cleared away.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000009|While he yet gazed in mingled astonishment and incredulity, the scene faded away, and another took its place.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000010|This time a dungeon cell, damp and dismal; walls, and floor, and ceiling covered with green and hideous slime.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000011|A small lamp stood on the floor, and by its sickly, watery gleam, he saw himself again standing, pale and dejected, near the wall.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000012|But he was not alone; the same glittering vision in purple and diamonds stood before him, and suddenly he drew his sword and plunged it up to the hilt in her heart!
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000013|The beautiful vision fell like a stone at his feet, and the sword was drawn out reeking with her life blood.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000073_000015|Instantly it all faded away and the reflection of his own excited face looked up at him from the caldron.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000074_000000|"I told you not to speak," said La Masque, quietly, "but you must look on still another scene."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000075_000000|Again she threw a portion of the contents of the casket into the caldron, and "spake aloud the words of power." Another cloud of smoke arose and filled the room, and when it cleared away, Sir Norman beheld a third and less startling sight.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000075_000002|Two men were lying on the ground, and bound fast together, it appeared to him.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000075_000003|As he looked, it faded away, and once more his own face seemed to mock him in the clear water.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000076_000000|"Do you know those two last figures!" asked the lady.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000078_000000|"Right! and one of them was dead."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000079_000000|"Dead!" exclaimed Sir Norman, with a perceptible start.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000079_000001|"Which one, madam?"
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000080_000000|"If you cannot tell that, neither can i If there is anything further you wish to see, I am quite willing to show it to you."
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000081_000000|"I'm obliged to you," said Sir Norman, stepping back; "but no more at present, thank you.
train-other-500/1920/1793/1920_1793_000084_000000|"Not so, Sir Norman.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000002_000000|My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say. I play the torturer, by small and small, To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken. RICHARD the second
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000003_000000|We now return, for a moment, to Venice, where Count Morano was suffering under an accumulation of misfortunes.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000003_000001|Soon after his arrival in that city, he had been arrested by order of the Senate, and, without knowing of what he was suspected, was conveyed to a place of confinement, whither the most strenuous enquiries of his friends had been unable to trace him.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000004_000000|In the affair of the poisoned cup, Montoni had suspected Morano; but, being unable to obtain the degree of proof, which was necessary to convict him of a guilty intention, he had recourse to means of other revenge, than he could hope to obtain by prosecution.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000004_000002|As, on these occasions, the accuser is not confronted with the accused, a man may falsely impeach his enemy, and accomplish an unjust revenge, without fear of punishment, or detection.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000006_000000|Montoni, meantime, was beset by dangers of another kind.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000006_000001|His castle was besieged by troops, who seemed willing to dare every thing, and to suffer patiently any hardships in pursuit of victory.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000006_000002|The strength of the fortress, however, withstood their attack, and this, with the vigorous defence of the garrison and the scarcity of provision on these wild mountains, soon compelled the assailants to raise the siege.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000007_000000|When Udolpho was once more left to the quiet possession of Montoni, he dispatched Ugo into Tuscany for Emily, whom he had sent from considerations of her personal safety, to a place of greater security, than a castle, which was, at that time, liable to be overrun by his enemies.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000007_000001|Tranquillity being once more restored to Udolpho, he was impatient to secure her again under his roof, and had commissioned Ugo to assist Bertrand in guarding her back to the castle.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000008_000000|It was noon, when she had left the cottage, and the evening was closed, long before she came within the neighbourhood of Udolpho.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000010_000000|'No,' answered Ugo, 'he crowed as loud as the best of them in the midst of it all.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000010_000001|There he was roaring out in the hottest fire I have seen this many a day!
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000011_000001|Its massy and gloomy walls gave her terrible ideas of imprisonment and suffering: yet, as she advanced, some degree of hope mingled with her terror; for, though this was certainly the residence of Montoni, it was possibly, also, that of Valancourt, and she could not approach a place, where he might be, without experiencing somewhat of the joy of hope.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000000|They continued to wind along the valley, and, soon after, she saw again the old walls and moon lit towers, rising over the woods: the strong rays enabled her, also, to perceive the ravages, which the siege had made,--with the broken walls, and shattered battlements, for they were now at the foot of the steep, on which Udolpho stood.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000001|Massy fragments had rolled down among the woods, through which the travellers now began to ascend, and there mingled with the loose earth, and pieces of rock they had brought with them.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000002|The woods, too, had suffered much from the batteries above, for here the enemy had endeavoured to screen themselves from the fire of the ramparts.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000003|Many noble trees were levelled with the ground, and others, to a wide extent, were entirely stripped of their upper branches.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000004|'We had better dismount,' said Ugo, 'and lead the mules up the hill, or we shall get into some of the holes, which the balls have left.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000005|Here are plenty of them.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000012_000006|Give me the torch,' continued Ugo, after they had dismounted, 'and take care you don't stumble over any thing, that lies in your way, for the ground is not yet cleared of the enemy.'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000013_000000|'How!' exclaimed Emily, 'are any of the enemy here, then?'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000014_000000|'Nay, I don't know for that, now,' he replied, 'but when I came away I saw one or two of them lying under the trees.'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000015_000000|As they proceeded, the torch threw a gloomy light upon the ground, and far among the recesses of the woods, and Emily feared to look forward, lest some object of horror should meet her eye.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000016_000002|Presently, the castle clock struck twelve, and then a trumpet sounded, of which Emily enquired the occasion.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000017_000001|We have sounded it, at midnight, ever since the place was besieged.'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000018_000001|She complained of cold, and begged to go on.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000018_000002|'Presently, lady,' said Bertrand, turning over some broken arms with the pike he usually carried.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000018_000003|'What have we here?'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000019_000000|'Hark!' cried Emily, 'what noise was that?'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000020_000000|'What noise was it?' said Ugo, starting up and listening.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000021_000000|'Hush!' repeated Emily. 'It surely came from the ramparts above:' and, on looking up, they perceived a light moving along the walls, while, in the next instant, the breeze swelling, the voice sounded louder than before.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000022_000000|'Who goes yonder?' cried a sentinel of the castle.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000022_000001|'Speak or it will be worse for you.' Bertrand uttered a shout of joy.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000022_000002|'Hah! my brave comrade, is it you?' said he, and he blew a shrill whistle, which signal was answered by another from the soldier on watch; and the party, then passing forward, soon after emerged from the woods upon the broken road, that led immediately to the castle gates, and Emily saw, with renewed terror, the whole of that stupendous structure.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000022_000003|'Alas!' said she to herself, 'I am going again into my prison!'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000028_000000|They were now arrived at the gates, where Bertrand, observing the light glimmer through a small casement of the portal chamber, called aloud; and the soldier, looking out, demanded who was there.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000029_000000|'Tell me first who it is, that demands entrance,' replied the soldier. 'What! my old comrade,' cried Ugo, 'don't you know me?
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000029_000002|I have brought home a prisoner here, bound hand and foot-a fellow, who has been drinking Tuscany wine, while we here have been fighting.'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000031_000000|Emily presently heard his steps descending the stairs within, and then the heavy chain fall, and the bolts undraw of a small postern door, which he opened to admit the party.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000031_000001|He held the lamp low, to shew the step of the gate, and she found herself once more beneath the gloomy arch, and heard the door close, that seemed to shut her from the world for ever.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000031_000006|Who is carousing at this late hour?'
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000033_000000|'Courage, my lad, courage ought to warm your heart,' said Ugo. 'Courage!' replied the soldier sharply, with a menacing air, which Ugo perceiving, prevented his saying more, by returning to the subject of the carousal.
train-other-500/1924/132574/1924_132574_000033_000001|'This is a new custom,' said he; 'when I left the castle, the Signors used to sit up counselling.'
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000002_000000|Several of her succeeding days passed in suspense, for Ludovico could only learn from the soldiers, that there was a prisoner in the apartment, described to him by Emily, and that he was a Frenchman, whom they had taken in one of their skirmishes, with a party of his countrymen.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000002_000001|During this interval, Emily escaped the persecutions of Bertolini, and Verezzi, by confining herself to her apartment; except that sometimes, in an evening, she ventured to walk in the adjoining corridor.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000002_000002|Montoni appeared to respect his last promise, though he had prophaned his first; for to his protection only could she attribute her present repose; and in this she was now so secure, that she did not wish to leave the castle, till she could obtain some certainty concerning Valancourt; for which she waited, indeed, without any sacrifice of her own comfort, since no circumstance had occurred to make her escape probable.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000003_000000|On the fourth day, Ludovico informed her, that he had hopes of being admitted to the presence of the prisoner; it being the turn of a soldier, with whom he had been for some time familiar, to attend him on the following night.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000003_000001|He was not deceived in his hope; for, under pretence of carrying in a pitcher of water, he entered the prison, though, his prudence having prevented him from telling the sentinel the real motive of his visit, he was obliged to make his conference with the prisoner a very short one.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000004_000001|Emily, having then uttered the name of Valancourt, could articulate no more, but hesitated in trembling expectation.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000005_000001|Valancourt,' said Annette, and looked impatiently at Ludovico, who understood her look, and replied to Emily: 'Yes, lady, the Chevalier does, indeed, remember you, and, I am sure, has a very great regard for you, and I made bold to say you had for him.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000005_000002|He then enquired how you came to know he was in the castle, and whether you ordered me to speak to him.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000005_000003|The first question I could not answer, but the second I did; and then he went off into his ecstasies again.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000005_000004|I was afraid his joy would have betrayed him to the sentinel at the door.'
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000006_000000|'But how does he look, Ludovico?' interrupted Emily: 'is he not melancholy and ill with this long confinement?'--'Why, as to melancholy, I saw no symptom of that, lady, while I was with him, for he seemed in the finest spirits I ever saw any body in, in all my life.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000006_000001|His countenance was all joy, and, if one may judge from that, he was very well; but I did not ask him.' 'Did he send me no message?' said Emily. 'O yes, Signora, and something besides,' replied Ludovico, who searched his pockets.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000006_000002|'Surely, I have not lost it,' added he.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000007_000000|Tears of mingled joy and tenderness flowed to her eyes, while Ludovico proceeded-'"Tell your lady," said the Chevalier, as he gave me the picture, "that this has been my companion, and only solace in all my misfortunes.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000008_000000|'How, Ludovico, shall I reward you for your zeal?' said Emily: 'but, indeed, I do not now possess the means.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000008_000001|When can you see the Chevalier again?' 'That is uncertain, Signora,' replied he.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000009_000000|'I need not bid you remember, Ludovico,' resumed Emily, 'how very much interested I am in your seeing the Chevalier soon; and, when you do so, tell him, that I have received the picture, and, with the sentiments he wished.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000009_000002|'The place, and the hour, must be regulated by his opportunities.'
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000010_000000|'As to the place, mademoiselle,' said Annette, 'there is no other place in the castle, besides this corridor, where WE can see him in safety, you know; and, as for the hour,--it must be when all the Signors are asleep, if that ever happens!' 'You may mention these circumstances to the Chevalier, Ludovico,' said she, checking the flippancy of Annette, 'and leave them to his judgment and opportunity.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000010_000001|Tell him, my heart is unchanged.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000010_000002|But, above all, let him see you again as soon as possible; and, Ludovico, I think it is needless to tell you I shall very anxiously look for you.' Having then wished her good night, Ludovico descended the staircase, and Emily retired to rest, but not to sleep, for joy now rendered her as wakeful, as she had ever been from grief.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000010_000003|Montoni and his castle had all vanished from her mind, like the frightful vision of a necromancer, and she wandered, once more, in fairy scenes of unfading happiness:
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000012_000000|A week elapsed, before Ludovico again visited the prison; for the sentinels, during that period, were men, in whom he could not confide, and he feared to awaken curiosity, by asking to see their prisoner.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000012_000002|Her name was frequently mentioned in the conversations, which Bertolini and Verezzi held together, and, at those times, they were frequently in contention.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000014_000002|Never, since her residence in the castle, had she watched, with so much pleasure, the sun set behind the mountains, and twilight shade, and darkness veil the scene, as on this evening.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000014_000005|The idea of Valancourt, and that she should see him so soon, alone occupied her heart.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000015_000000|At length the clock struck twelve; she opened the door to listen, if any noise was in the castle, and heard only distant shouts of riot and laughter, echoed feebly along the gallery.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000015_000001|She guessed, that the Signor and his guests were at the banquet.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000015_000003|Annette, whom she detained, was, in the meantime, as loquacious as usual; but Emily heard scarcely any thing she said, and having at length risen to the casement, she distinguished the chords of the lute, struck with an expressive hand, and then the voice, she had formerly listened to, accompanied it.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000017_000000|Emily wept in doubtful joy and tenderness; and, when the strain ceased, she considered it as a signal, that Valancourt was about to leave the prison.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000017_000001|Soon after, she heard steps in the corridor;--they were the light, quick steps of hope; she could scarcely support herself, as they approached, but opening the door of the apartment, she advanced to meet Valancourt, and, in the next moment, sunk in the arms of a stranger.
train-other-500/1924/132576/1924_132576_000017_000002|His voice-his countenance instantly convinced her, and she fainted away.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000001|But his good friend was unable to recognise him by his utterance; for he was prevented by his low tone and by his voice which was hoarse, weak, and broken; for his blood was all stirred up by the blows he had received.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000002|"My lord," he says, "the night comes on!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000003|I think no blame or reproach will attach to us if the night comes between us.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000007|And if I should tell you the simple truth, I think you would not be loath to hear it, for if I have lent you anything of mine, you have fully paid me back, principal and interest; for you were more ready to pay back than I was to accept the payment.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000009|Through what unhappy ignorance in not recognising each other have we waged this battle!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000010|For if I had known who you were, I should never have fought with you; but, upon my word, I should have surrendered without a blow." "How is that?" my lord Gawain inquires, "who are you, then?"
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000013|This honour shall never be claimed as mine, but it shall be yours, to whom I resign it." "Ah, fair sire, do not speak so.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000014|For that could never be.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000018|I, Gawain, who am your nephew, did not recognise this companion of mine, my lord Yvain, until he fortunately, by the will of God, asked me my name.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000021|But I would rather be defeated than killed by a friend in battle." Then my lord Yvain's blood was stirred, as he said to him in reply: "Fair dear sire, so help me God, you have no right to say so much.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000022|Let my lord, The King, well know in this battle I am surely the one who has been defeated and overcome!"
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000025|He was well pleased with what he heard and with the sight of them in each other's arms, though they had wounded and injured each other in several places.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000026|"My lords," he says, "there is deep affection between you two.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000028|Now leave it all to me!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000029|For I think I can arrange it in such a way that it will redound to your honour, and every one will give consent." Then they both promised him that they would do his will in every particular.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000030|And the King says that he will decide the quarrel fairly and faithfully.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000033|I saw plainly some time ago that you were disinheriting her.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000034|But her right shall no longer be denied; for you yourself have avowed the truth to me.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000035|You must now resign her share to her." "Sire," she says, "if I uttered a foolish and thoughtless word, you ought not to take me up in it.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000036|For God's sake, sire, do not be hard on me!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000037|You are a king, and you ought to guard against wrong and error." The King replies: "That is precisely why I wish to give your sister her rights; for I have never defended what is wrong.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000040|In his desire to honour the other, each one says that he has been defeated.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000041|But there is no need to delay further: since the matter has been left to me, either you will do in all respects what I say, without resistance, or I shall announce that my nephew has been defeated in the fight.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000043|In fear and apprehension, she replied to him: "Fair lord, I must now respect your desire, though my heart is very loath to yield.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000046|Then the King asked the valiant and brave knight who was his nephew to allow himself to be disarmed; and he requested my lord Yvain to lay aside his arms also; for now they may well dispense with them.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000047|Then the two vassals lay aside their arms and separate on equal terms.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000048|And while they are taking off their armour, they see the lion running up in search of his master.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000049|As soon as he catches sight of him, he begins to show his joy.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000050|Then you would have seen people draw aside, and the boldest among them takes to flight. My lord Yvain cries out: "Stand still, all!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000051|Why do you flee?
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000052|No one is chasing you.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000053|Have no fear that yonder lion will do you harm.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000057|I have been thinking about you for some time, and I was troubled because it was said that we were acquainted as loving friends.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000000_000060|King Arthur, who loved them well, had them both brought before him, and summoned a surgeon whose knowledge of surgery was supreme.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000001|But he had with him his lion, who never in his life wished to desert him.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000002|They travelled until they saw the spring and made the rain descend.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000003|Think not that this is a lie of mine, when I tell you that the disturbance was so violent that no one could tell the tenth part of it: for it seemed as if the whole forest must surely be engulfed.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000004|The lady fears for her town, lest it, too, will crumble away; the walls totter, and the tower rocks so that it is on the verge of falling down.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000005|The bravest Turk would rather be a captive in Persia than be shut up within those walls.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000008|In the future we shall never be secure in this town, nor dare to pass beyond the walls and gate.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000010|If it is true that you have no one to defend your spring, you will appear ridiculous and humiliated.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000011|It will redound greatly to your honour, forsooth, if he who has attacked you shall retire without a fight!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000013|"Indeed, lady, if I had any plan, I should gladly propose it to you.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000016|Say no more of the people of my household; for I cherish no further expectation that the spring and its marble brim will ever be defended by any of them.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000019|"I have no objection," the lady says. With delicate courtesy, Lunete procured at once for her a very precious relic, and the lady fell upon her knees.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000020|Thus Lunete very courteously accepted her upon her oath.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000021|In administering the oath, she forgot nothing which it might be an advantage to insert.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000023|I do not wish that the day after to morrow you should lay any charge upon me; for you are not doing anything for me, but you are acting for your own good.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000001_000025|If I have the strength and ability, I will restore to him the love and favour which with his lady he once enjoyed."
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000002|Indeed, she had thought that she would have to seek afar before discovering him.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000003|As soon as she saw him, she recognised him by the lion, and coming toward him rapidly, she dismounted upon the solid earth.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000006|He could not sufficiently show his gratitude to her who had accomplished this for him.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000007|He kisses her eyes, and then her face, saying: "Surely, my sweet friend, I can never repay you for this service.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000008|I fear that ability and time will fail me to do you the honour and service which is your due." "Sire," she replies, "have no concern, and let not that thought worry you!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000009|For you will have an abundance of strength and time to show me and others your good will.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000010|If I have paid this debt I owed, I am entitled to only so much gratitude as the man who borrows another's goods and then discharges the obligation. Even now I do not consider that I have paid you the debt I owed." "Indeed you have, as God sees me, more than five hundred thousand times. Now, when you are ready, let us go.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000011|But have you told her who I am?" "No, I have not, upon my word.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000002_000012|She knows you only by the name of 'The Knight with the Lion.'"
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000003_000001|They said not a word to any man or woman there, until they arrived where the lady was.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000003_000005|For he has no other mistress than you. This is your husband, my lord Yvain."
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000004_000001|You have caught me neatly in a trap!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000004_000002|You will make me love, in spite of myself, a man who neither loves nor esteems me.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000004_000003|This is a fine piece of work, and a charming way of serving me!
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000004_000004|I would rather endure the winds and the tempests all my life: And if it were not a mean and ugly thing to break one's word, he would never make his peace or be reconciled with me.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000004_000005|This purpose would have always lurked within me, as a fire smoulders in the ashes; but I do not wish to renew it now, nor do I care to refer to it, since I must be reconciled with him."
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000005_000002|I have had to pay, and dearly to pay, for my mad act.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000005_000003|It was madness that made me stay away, and I now admit my guilt and sin.
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000005_000005|So, if you please, I grant your request." "Lady," says he, "so truly as God in this mortal life could not otherwise restore me to happiness, so may the Holy Spirit bless me five hundred times!"
train-other-500/1931/156647/1931_156647_000006_000001|All has turned out well at last; for he is beloved and treasured by his lady, and she by him.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000001_000000|THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000002_000000|I pulled up sharply,--as if a brake had been suddenly, and even mercilessly, applied to bring me to a standstill.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000002_000001|In front of the window I stood shivering.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000002_000002|A shower had recently commenced,--the falling rain was being blown before the breeze.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000002_000003|I was in a terrible sweat,--yet tremulous as with cold; covered with mud; bruised, and cut, and bleeding,--as piteous an object as you would care to see.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000002_000004|Every limb in my body ached; every muscle was exhausted; mentally and physically I was done; had I not been held up, willy nilly, by the spell which was upon me, I should have sunk down, then and there, in a hopeless, helpless, hapless heap.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000003_000000|But my tormentor was not yet at an end with me.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000000|As I stood there, like some broken and beaten hack, waiting for the word of command, it came.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000001|It was as if some strong magnetic current had been switched on to me through the window to draw me into the room.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000002|Over the low wall I went, over the sill,--once more I stood in that chamber of my humiliation and my shame.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000003|And once again I was conscious of that awful sense of the presence of an evil thing.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000004|How much of it was fact, and how much of it was the product of imagination I cannot say; but, looking back, it seems to me that it was as if I had been taken out of the corporeal body to be plunged into the inner chambers of all nameless sin.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000005|There was the sound of something flopping from off the bed on to the ground, and I knew that the thing was coming at me across the floor.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000006|My stomach quaked, my heart melted within me,--the very anguish of my terror gave me strength to scream,--and scream!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000004_000007|Sometimes, even now, I seem to hear those screams of mine ringing through the night, and I bury my face in the pillow, and it is as though I was passing through the very Valley of the Shadow.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000005_000000|The thing went back,--I could hear it slipping and sliding across the floor.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000005_000001|There was silence.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000005_000002|And, presently, the lamp was lit, and the room was all in brightness.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000005_000003|There, on the bed, in the familiar attitude between the sheets, his head resting on his hand, his eyes blazing like living coals, was the dreadful cause of all my agonies.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000005_000004|He looked at me with his unpitying, unblinking glance.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000006_000000|'So!--Through the window again!--like a thief!--Is it always through that door that you come into a house?'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000007_000000|He paused,--as if to give me time to digest his gibe.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000009_000000|His rasping voice, with its queer foreign twang, reminded me, in some uncomfortable way, of a rusty saw,--the things he said, and the manner in which he said them, were alike intended to add to my discomfort.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000009_000001|It was solely because the feat was barely possible that he only partially succeeded.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000010_000000|'Like a thief you went into his house,--did I not tell you that you would?
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000010_000002|Since, like a thief he found you, how comes it that you have escaped,--by what robber's artifice have you saved yourself from gaol?'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000011_000000|His manner changed,--so that, all at once, he seemed to snarl at me.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000012_000001|You are small, but he is smaller,--your great Paul Lessingham!--Was there ever a man so less than nothing?'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000013_000000|With the recollection fresh upon me of Mr Lessingham as I had so lately seen him I could not but feel that there might be a modicum of truth in what, with such an intensity of bitterness, the speaker suggested.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000013_000001|The picture which, in my mental gallery, I had hung in the place of honour, seemed, to say the least, to have become a trifle smudged.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000014_000000|As usual, the man in the bed seemed to experience not the slightest difficulty in deciphering what was passing through my mind.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000015_000000|'That is so,--you and he, you are a pair,--the great Paul Lessingham is as great a thief as you,--and greater!--for, at least, than you he has more courage.'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000016_000000|For some moments he was still; then exclaimed, with sudden fierceness,
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000017_000000|'Give me what you have stolen!'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000018_000001|Perceiving my disinclination to his near neighbourhood, he set himself to play with it.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000018_000002|Ignoring my outstretched hand, he stared me straight in the face.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000019_000000|'What ails you?
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000019_000001|Are you not well?
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000019_000002|Is it not sweet to stand close at my side?
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000019_000003|You, with your white skin, if I were a woman, would you not take me for a wife?'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000020_000000|There was something about the manner in which this was said which was so essentially feminine that once more I wondered if I could possibly be mistaken in the creature's sex.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000020_000001|I would have given much to have been able to strike him across the face,--or, better, to have taken him by the neck, and thrown him through the window, and rolled him in the mud.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000021_000000|He condescended to notice what I was holding out to him.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000022_000001|Give it to me,--thief!'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000023_000000|He snatched the packet from me, scratching the back of my hand as he did so, as if his nails had been talons.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000024_000000|'You kept it in your inner drawer, Paul Lessingham, where none but you could see it,--did you?
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000024_000001|You hid it as one hides treasure.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000024_000002|There should be something here worth having, worth seeing, worth knowing,--yes, worth knowing!--since you found it worth your while to hide it up so closely.'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000025_000000|As I have said, the packet was bound about by a string of pink ribbon,--a fact on which he presently began to comment.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000026_000000|'With what a pretty string you have encircled it,--and how neatly it is tied!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000026_000001|Surely only a woman's hand could tie a knot like that,--who would have guessed yours were such agile fingers?--So!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000026_000002|An endorsement on the cover!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000026_000003|What's this?--let's see what's written!--"The letters of my dear love, Marjorie Lindon."'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000027_000000|As he read these words, which, as he said, were endorsed upon the outer sheet of paper which served as a cover for the letters which were enclosed within, his face became transfigured.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000027_000001|Never did I suppose that rage could have so possessed a human countenance.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000027_000003|I know not how long he continued speechless.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000027_000004|When his breath returned, it was with chokings and gaspings, in the midst of which he hissed out his words, as if their mere passage through his throat brought him near to strangulation.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000029_000000|Sitting up in bed he tore the packet open.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000029_000001|It contained, perhaps, eight or nine letters,--some mere notes, some long epistles.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000029_000002|But, short or long, he devoured them with equal appetite, each one over and over again, till I thought he never would have done re reading them.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000029_000003|They were on thick white paper, of a peculiar shade of whiteness, with untrimmed edges, On each sheet a crest and an address were stamped in gold, and all the sheets were of the same shape and size.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000029_000004|I told myself that if anywhere, at any time, I saw writing paper like that again, I should not fail to know it.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000029_000005|The caligraphy was, like the paper, unusual, bold, decided, and, I should have guessed, produced by a J pen.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000030_000000|All the time that he was reading he kept emitting sounds, more resembling yelps and snarls than anything more human,--like some savage beast nursing its pent up rage.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000030_000001|When he had made an end of reading,--for the season,--he let his passion have full vent.
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000031_000000|'So!--That is what his dear love has found it in her heart to write Paul Lessingham!--Paul Lessingham!'
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000033_000000|'It is enough!--it is the end!--it is his doom!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000033_000001|He shall be ground between the upper and the nether stones in the towers of anguish, and all that is left of him shall be cast on the accursed stream of the bitter waters, to stink under the blood grimed sun!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000033_000002|And for her-for Marjorie Lindon!--for his dear love!--it shall come to pass that she shall wish that she was never born,--nor he!--and the gods of the shadows shall smell the sweet incense of her suffering!--It shall be! it shall be!
train-other-500/1938/176228/1938_176228_000034_000000|In the madness of his rhapsodical frenzy I believe that he had actually forgotten I was there.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000001_000000|Chapter eight
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000002_000000|However (continued Armand after a pause), while I knew myself to be still in love with her, I felt more sure of myself, and part of my desire to speak to Marguerite again was a wish to make her see that I was stronger than she.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000003_000000|How many ways does the heart take, how many reasons does it invent for itself, in order to arrive at what it wants!
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000004_000000|I could not remain in the corridor, and I returned to my place in the stalls, looking hastily around to see what box she was in.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000004_000001|She was in a ground floor box, quite alone.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000004_000002|She had changed, as I have told you, and no longer wore an indifferent smile on her lips.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000004_000003|She had suffered; she was still suffering.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000004_000004|Though it was April, she was still wearing a winter costume, all wrapped up in furs.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000005_000000|I gazed at her so fixedly that my eyes attracted hers.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000005_000002|Supposing herself mistaken, she looked away.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000006_000000|The curtain went up.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000006_000001|I have often seen Marguerite at the theatre.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000006_000002|I never saw her pay the slightest attention to what was being acted.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000006_000003|As for me, the performance interested me equally little, and I paid no attention to anything but her, though doing my utmost to keep her from noticing it.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000007_000000|Presently I saw her glancing across at the person who was in the opposite box; on looking, I saw a woman with whom I was quite familiar. She had once been a kept woman, and had tried to go on the stage, had failed, and, relying on her acquaintance with fashionable people in Paris, had gone into business and taken a milliner's shop.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000007_000002|As I expected, she beckoned to me to come to her box.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000008_000000|Prudence Duvernoy (that was the milliner's auspicious name) was one of those fat women of forty with whom one requires very little diplomacy to make them understand what one wants to know, especially when what one wants to know is as simple as what I had to ask of her.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000009_000000|I took advantage of a moment when she was smiling across at Marguerite to ask her, "Whom are you looking at?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000010_000000|"Marguerite Gautier."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000011_000000|"You know her?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000012_000000|"Yes, I am her milliner, and she is a neighbour of mine."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000014_000001|The window of her dressing room looks on to the window of mine."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000016_000000|"Don't you know her?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000017_000000|"No, but I should like to."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000019_000000|"No, I would rather for you to introduce me to her."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000020_000000|"At her own house?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000021_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000022_000000|"That is more difficult."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000023_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000024_000000|"Because she is under the protection of a jealous old duke."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000025_000000|"'Protection' is charming."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000026_000000|"Yes, protection," replied Prudence.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000026_000001|"Poor old man, he would be greatly embarrassed to offer her anything else."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000027_000000|Prudence then told me how Marguerite had made the acquaintance of the duke at Bagneres.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000028_000000|"That, then," I continued, "is why she is alone here?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000029_000000|"Precisely."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000031_000000|"He will."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000032_000000|"He will come for her?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000033_000000|"In a moment."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000034_000000|"And you, who is seeing you home?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000035_000000|"No one."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000036_000000|"May I offer myself?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000037_000000|"But you are with a friend, are you not?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000038_000000|"May we offer, then?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000039_000000|"Who is your friend?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000040_000000|"A charming fellow, very amusing.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000040_000001|He will be delighted to make your acquaintance."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000041_000000|"Well, all right; we will go after this piece is over, for I know the last piece."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000042_000000|"With pleasure; I will go and tell my friend."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000043_000000|"Go, then.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000044_000000|I looked at him.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000044_000001|A man of about seventy had sat down behind her, and was giving her a bag of sweets, into which she dipped at once, smiling.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000044_000002|Then she held it out toward Prudence, with a gesture which seemed to say, "Will you have some?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000045_000000|"No," signalled Prudence.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000046_000000|Marguerite drew back the bag, and, turning, began to talk with the duke.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000047_000000|It may sound childish to tell you all these details, but everything relating to Marguerite is so fresh in my memory that I can not help recalling them now.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000048_000000|I went back to Gaston and told him of the arrangement I had made for him and for me.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000048_000002|We had scarcely opened the door leading into the stalls when we had to stand aside to allow Marguerite and the duke to pass. I would have given ten years of my life to have been in the old man's place.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000049_000000|When they were on the street he handed her into a phaeton, which he drove himself, and they were whirled away by two superb horses.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000050_000001|At the door, Prudence asked us to come up and see her showrooms, which we had never seen, and of which she seemed very proud.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000050_000002|You can imagine how eagerly I accepted.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000050_000003|It seemed to me as if I was coming nearer and nearer to Marguerite.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000050_000004|I soon turned the conversation in her direction.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000051_000000|"The old duke is at your neighbours," I said to Prudence.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000052_000000|"Oh, no; she is probably alone."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000053_000000|"But she must be dreadfully bored," said Gaston.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000054_000000|"We spend most of our evening together, or she calls to me when she comes in.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000054_000001|She never goes to bed before two in the morning.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000054_000002|She can't sleep before that."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000055_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000056_000000|"Because she suffers in the chest, and is almost always feverish."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000057_000000|"Hasn't she any lovers?" I asked.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000000|"I never see any one remain after I leave; I don't say no one ever comes when I am gone.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000001|Often in the evening I meet there a certain Comte de n, who thinks he is making some headway by calling on her at eleven in the evening, and by sending her jewels to any extent; but she can't stand him.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000002|She makes a mistake; he is very rich.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000003|It is in vain that I say to her from time to time, 'My dear child, there's the man for you.' She, who generally listens to me, turns her back and replies that he is too stupid.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000004|Stupid, indeed, he is; but it would be a position for her, while this old duke might die any day.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000005|Old men are egoists; his family are always reproaching him for his affection for Marguerite; there are two reasons why he is likely to leave her nothing.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000006|I give her good advice, and she only says it will be plenty of time to take on the count when the duke is dead.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000007|It isn't all fun," continued Prudence, "to live like that.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000008|I know very well it wouldn't suit me, and I should soon send the old man about his business.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000009|He is so dull; he calls her his daughter; looks after her like a child; and is always in the way.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000058_000010|I am sure at this very moment one of his servants is prowling about in the street to see who comes out, and especially who goes in."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000059_000000|"Ah, poor Marguerite!" said Gaston, sitting down to the piano and playing a waltz.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000059_000001|"I hadn't a notion of it, but I did notice she hasn't been looking so gay lately."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000060_000000|"Hush," said Prudence, listening.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000060_000001|Gaston stopped.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000061_000000|"She is calling me, I think."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000062_000000|We listened.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000062_000001|A voice was calling, "Prudence!"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000063_000001|Duvernoy.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000065_000000|"Why should we go?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000066_000000|"I am going over to Marguerite's."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000067_000000|"We will wait here."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000068_000000|"You can't."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000069_000000|"Then we will go with you."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000070_000000|"That still less."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000071_000000|"I know Marguerite," said Gaston; "I can very well pay her a call."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000073_000000|"I will introduce him."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000074_000000|"Impossible."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000075_000000|We again heard Marguerite's voice calling to Prudence, who rushed to her dressing room window.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000075_000001|I followed with Gaston as she opened the window. We hid ourselves so as not to be seen from outside.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000076_000000|"I have been calling you for ten minutes," said Marguerite from her window, in almost an imperious tone of voice.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000077_000000|"What do you want?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000078_000000|"I want you to come over at once."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000079_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000080_000000|"Because the Comte de n is still here, and he is boring me to death."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000081_000000|"I can't now."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000082_000000|"What is hindering you?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000083_000000|"There are two young fellows here who won't go."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000085_000000|"I have told them."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000086_000000|"Well, then, leave them in the house.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000086_000001|They will soon go when they see you have gone."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000087_000000|"They will turn everything upside down."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000088_000000|"But what do they want?"
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000089_000000|"They want to see you."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000092_000000|"Ah, yes, I know him.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000093_000001|Armand Duval; and you don't know him."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000094_000000|"No, but bring them along.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000094_000001|Anything is better than the count.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000094_000002|I expect you.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000094_000003|Come at once."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000095_000000|Marguerite closed her window and Prudence hers.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000095_000001|Marguerite, who had remembered my face for a moment, did not remember my name.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000095_000002|I would rather have been remembered to my disadvantage than thus forgotten.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000096_000000|"I knew," said Gaston, "that she would be delighted to see us."
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000097_000001|"She will see you in order to get rid of the count.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000098_000000|We followed Prudence downstairs.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000098_000001|I trembled; it seemed to me that this visit was to have a great influence on my life.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000098_000002|I was still more agitated than on the evening when I was introduced in the box at the Opera Comique.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000098_000003|As we reached the door that you know, my heart beat so violently that I was hardly able to think.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000000|We heard the sound of a piano.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000001|Prudence rang.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000002|The piano was silent.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000003|A woman who looked more like a companion than a servant opened the door. We went into the drawing room, and from that to the boudoir, which was then just as you have seen it since.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000004|A young man was leaning against the mantel piece.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000005|Marguerite, seated at the piano, let her fingers wander over the notes, beginning scraps of music without finishing them.
train-other-500/1938/180290/1938_180290_000099_000006|The whole scene breathed boredom, the man embarrassed by the consciousness of his nullity, the woman tired of her dismal visitor.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000004_000003|They went on a long way, until they caught sight of a hind with a gold ring on its horns.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000004_000004|The Prince was eager to catch it, if possible, so they gave chase and rode on without stopping until all the horses began to founder beneath them.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000005_000001|The Prince went up to her and saluted her politely, and she received him very graciously.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000006_000000|The Prince thought himself in a bad plight now, as he felt the barrel floating out from the land and tossing about on the waves.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000010_000000|'Choose me, Prince Ring.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000012_000001|He also thanked him for his good service, and told him to choose some one of his possessions, for he would get whatever he wanted.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000012_000003|The Giant was taken by surprise, and said:
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000013_000000|'There, you chose my old woman's right hand; but I must not break my word.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000017_000000|The Prince then forced himself to ask, 'What is your name?'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000019_000000|The Prince now began to be less afraid of the Dog.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000020_000002|The King replied that it was only a short time since he had come there.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000022_000000|Ring was now in far greater esteem with the King than before, and Red was all the more discontented.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000023_000000|'Don't you think that a desperate errand?' said the King, 'seeing they are so dangerous, and no one has ever yet ventured to go against them?'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000024_000000|Red answered that he had only one life to lose, and it would be interesting to see how brave he was; besides, the King would have good reason to ennoble him if he overcame them.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000024_000001|The King at last allowed himself, though rather unwillingly, to be won over by Red's persistency, and one day asked Ring to go and kill the oxen that were in the wood for him, and bring their horns and hides to him in the evening.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000025_000001|Ring grew terribly afraid.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000026_000000|'How do you like them?' asked Snati.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000027_000000|'Not well at all,' said the Prince.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000028_000000|'We can do nothing else,' said Snati, 'than attack them, if it is to go well; you will go against the little one, and I shall take the other.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000032_000001|One day a good idea came into his head.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000035_000000|'Don't remind me of them!' said the King.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000038_000000|'What is that?' said Ring.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000039_000001|If you can bring them to me before Christmas I will give you my daughter in marriage.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000041_000000|'That you must find out for yourself,' said the King: 'I don't know.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000044_000000|'We must go up here,' said Snati.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000045_000000|'I don't think that will be child's play,' said the Prince.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000046_000001|The Prince began to get giddy, but up went Snati on to the second shelf.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000046_000003|After a little, however, he recovered again, and they went a short distance along a level plain, until they came to a cave.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000047_000000|'Now you must empty all the salt into the porridge pot,' said Snati.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000048_000000|Ring did so, and soon the trolls wakened up.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000051_000000|'I won't go,' said she, 'unless you lend me your bright gold piece.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000056_000000|The old hag began now to long for the water, and said that the girl would be running about with the gold piece all over the plain, so she asked her son to go and get her a drop of water.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000057_000000|'I won't go,' said he, 'unless I get the gold cloak.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000059_000000|'Die, then,' said the son.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000061_000001|On reaching the river he went to take a drink like his sister, but at that moment Ring and Snati sprang upon him, took the cloak from him, and threw him into the river.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000066_000000|'Take it, then, you utter disgrace!' said the old hag, 'since you are just like these two brats.'
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000067_000002|Snati immediately sprang upon him, and Ring assisted in the attack, and after a hard struggle they mastered him a second time.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000068_000000|'Now we must go in at once,' said Snati, 'and try to master her there, for if she once gets out we shall have no chance with her.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000068_000001|She is the worst witch that ever lived, and no iron can cut her.
train-other-500/1968/145732/1968_145732_000070_000002|The most valuable of these they carried with them as far as the cliff, and left them there.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifty two.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000003_000000|"His heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." --WORDSWORTH.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000006_000001|The gladness in his face was of that active kind which seems to have energy enough not only to flash outwardly, but to light up busy vision within: one seemed to see thoughts, as well as delight, in his glances.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000007_000000|"Now, aunt," he went on, rubbing his hands and looking at Miss Noble, who was making tender little beaver like noises, "There shall be sugar candy always on the table for you to steal and give to the children, and you shall have a great many new stockings to make presents of, and you shall darn your own more than ever!"
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000008_000000|Miss Noble nodded at her nephew with a subdued half frightened laugh, conscious of having already dropped an additional lump of sugar into her basket on the strength of the new preferment.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000011_000000|"With all my heart.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000011_000001|But who is in love with me?
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000011_000002|I am a seedy old fellow," said the Vicar, rising, pushing his chair away and looking down at himself.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000011_000003|"What do you say, mother?"
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000013_000000|"I wish you would marry Miss Garth, brother," said Miss Winifred.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000013_000001|"She would make us so lively at Lowick."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000014_000000|"Very fine!
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000015_000000|"We don't want everybody," said Miss Winifred.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000016_000000|"My son's choice shall be mine," said mrs Farebrother, with majestic discretion, "and a wife would be most welcome, Camden.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000016_000002|Farebrother always called her tiny old sister by that magnificent name.)
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000018_000000|"Why so, Camden?
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000019_000000|"I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes," said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000020_000001|It is protest enough against the pluralism they want to reform if I give somebody else most of the money.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000020_000002|The stronger thing is not to give up power, but to use it well."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000021_000001|"So far as self is concerned, I think it would be easier to give up power and money than to keep them.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000022_000000|"It is I who am bound to act so that you will not regret your power," said mr Farebrother.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000024_000001|That is the well beneficed point of view, you perceive, from which difficulties are much simplified," he ended, smiling.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000025_000000|The Vicar did feel then as if his share of duties would be easy.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000025_000001|But Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly-something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000026_000000|Hardly a week later, Duty presented itself in his study under the disguise of Fred Vincy, now returned from Omnibus College with his bachelor's degree.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000028_000000|"Sit down, Fred, I'm ready to hear and do anything I can," said the Vicar, who was busy packing some small objects for removal, and went on with his work.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000029_000000|"I wanted to tell you-" Fred hesitated an instant and then went on plungingly, "I might go into the Church now; and really, look where I may, I can't see anything else to do.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000030_000000|"I did talk to your father about it, Fred, but I made little way with him.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000030_000001|He said it was too late.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000031_000001|I don't like divinity, and preaching, and feeling obliged to look serious.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000031_000002|I like riding across country, and doing as other men do.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000031_000003|I don't mean that I want to be a bad fellow in any way; but I've no taste for the sort of thing people expect of a clergyman.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000031_000005|My father can't spare me any capital, else I might go into farming.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000031_000006|And he has no room for me in his trade.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000034_000002|I think it would be rather ridiculous in me to urge scruples of that sort, as if I were a judge," said Fred, quite simply.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000035_000000|"I suppose, then, it has occurred to you that you might be a fair parish priest without being much of a divine?"
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000036_000000|"Of course, if I am obliged to be a clergyman, I shall try and do my duty, though I mayn't like it.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000037_000000|"For going into the Church under the circumstances?
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000038_000000|"But there is another hindrance," said Fred, coloring.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000039_000000|"Miss Garth, I suppose?" said the Vicar, examining some labels very closely.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000040_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000040_000001|I shouldn't mind anything if she would have me.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000042_000000|"She never will say so; and a good while ago she made me promise not to speak to her about it again.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000042_000003|I do think she cares about me.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000042_000004|I saw mrs Garth last night, and she said that Mary was staying at Lowick Rectory with Miss Farebrother."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000043_000000|"Yes, she is very kindly helping my sister.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000044_000001|I am ashamed to bother you in this way; but Mary might listen to what you said, if you mentioned the subject to her-I mean about my going into the Church."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000045_000000|"That is rather a delicate task, my dear Fred.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000045_000001|I shall have to presuppose your attachment to her; and to enter on the subject as you wish me to do, will be asking her to tell me whether she returns it."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000046_000001|"I don't know what to do, unless I can get at her feeling."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000051_000000|"Will she not be hurt at my intrusion?"
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000052_000000|"No, I feel sure she will not.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000052_000001|She respects you more than any one, and she would not put you off with fun as she does me.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000052_000004|She ought to believe that I would exert myself for her sake."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000054_000000|"Very well, my boy.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000054_000001|I will do what you wish."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000055_000000|That very day mr Farebrother went to Lowick parsonage on the nag which he had just set up.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000055_000001|"Decidedly I am an old stalk," he thought, "the young growths are pushing me aside."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000056_000000|He found Mary in the garden gathering roses and sprinkling the petals on a sheet.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000056_000001|The sun was low, and tall trees sent their shadows across the grassy walks where Mary was moving without bonnet or parasol.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000056_000002|She did not observe mr Farebrother's approach along the grass, and had just stooped down to lecture a small black and tan terrier, which would persist in walking on the sheet and smelling at the rose leaves as Mary sprinkled them.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000056_000003|She took his fore paws in one hand, and lifted up the forefinger of the other, while the dog wrinkled his brows and looked embarrassed.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000057_000000|"You are unmerciful to young gentlemen, Miss Garth," said the Vicar, within two yards of her.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000058_000000|Mary started up and blushed.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000058_000001|"It always answers to reason with Fly," she said, laughingly.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000060_000000|"Oh, with some, I suppose; since some of them turn into excellent men."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000062_000000|"Not a silly one, I hope," said Mary, beginning to pluck the roses again, and feeling her heart beat uncomfortably.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000063_000002|I hope you know by those marks what young gentleman I mean."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000064_000000|"Yes, I think I do," said Mary, bravely, her face getting more serious, and her hands cold; "it must be Fred Vincy."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000067_000000|"But before I enter on that question, let me just touch a point on which your father took me into confidence; by the way, it was that very evening on which I once before fulfilled a mission from Fred, just after he had gone to college.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000068_000000|mr Farebrother paused a moment and looked at Mary.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000068_000002|Mary's cheeks had begun to burn a little, and she was mute.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000069_000000|"I mean, that your action made no real difference to Fred's lot.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000069_000001|I find that the first will would not have been legally good after the burning of the last; it would not have stood if it had been disputed, and you may be sure it would have been disputed.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000069_000002|So, on that score, you may feel your mind free."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000070_000000|"Thank you, mr Farebrother," said Mary, earnestly.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000070_000001|"I am grateful to you for remembering my feelings."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000000|"Well, now I may go on.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000001|Fred, you know, has taken his degree.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000003|That question is so difficult that he is inclined to follow his father's wishes and enter the Church, though you know better than I do that he was quite set against that formerly.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000005|He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000006|If that condition were fulfilled I would do my utmost in helping Fred on.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000009|He has opened his heart to me, Miss Garth, and asked me to plead for him.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000071_000010|The condition lies entirely in your feeling."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000073_000001|What you say is most generous and kind; I don't mean for a moment to correct your judgment.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000074_000000|"He wishes me to report exactly what you think," said mr Farebrother.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000075_000001|"Fred has sense and knowledge enough to make him respectable, if he likes, in some good worldly business, but I can never imagine him preaching and exhorting, and pronouncing blessings, and praying by the sick, without feeling as if I were looking at a caricature.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000075_000003|I used to think that of mr Crowse, with his empty face and neat umbrella, and mincing little speeches.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000075_000005|She had been carried along as if she had been speaking to Fred instead of mr Farebrother.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000077_000000|"No, indeed, he has plenty of sense, but I think he would not show it as a clergyman.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000077_000001|He would be a piece of professional affectation."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000078_000000|"Then the answer is quite decided.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000078_000001|As a clergyman he could have no hope?"
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000079_000000|Mary shook her head.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000080_000000|"But if he braved all the difficulties of getting his bread in some other way-will you give him the support of hope?
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000081_000000|"I think Fred ought not to need telling again what I have already said to him," Mary answered, with a slight resentment in her manner.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000082_000001|Pardon me, Mary-you know I used to catechise you under that name-but when the state of a woman's affections touches the happiness of another life-of more lives than one-I think it would be the nobler course for her to be perfectly direct and open."
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000083_000000|Mary in her turn was silent, wondering not at mr Farebrother's manner but at his tone, which had a grave restrained emotion in it.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000083_000001|When the strange idea flashed across her that his words had reference to himself, she was incredulous, and ashamed of entertaining it.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000083_000002|She had never thought that any man could love her except Fred, who had espoused her with the umbrella ring, when she wore socks and little strapped shoes; still less that she could be of any importance to mr Farebrother, the cleverest man in her narrow circle.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000083_000003|She had only time to feel that all this was hazy and perhaps illusory; but one thing was clear and determined-her answer.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000084_000000|"Since you think it my duty, mr Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000084_000001|I should never be quite happy if I thought he was unhappy for the loss of me.
train-other-500/1977/133046/1977_133046_000084_000004|I should like better than anything to see him worthy of every one's respect.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000004_000000|Whither they sailed, my children, I cannot clearly tell.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000004_000002|And why they went I cannot tell: some say that it was to win gold.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000004_000004|It was not for the sake of gold that the Lord came down and died, and the Apostles went out to preach the good news in all lands.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000004_000005|The Spartans looked for no reward in money when they fought and died at Thermopylae; and Socrates the wise asked no pay from his countrymen, but lived poor and barefoot all his days, only caring to make men good.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000004_000006|And there are heroes in our days also, who do noble deeds, but not for gold.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000004_000008|No, children, there is a better thing on earth than wealth, a better thing than life itself; and that is, to have done something before you die, for which good men may honour you, and God your Father smile upon your work.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000005_000001|So we will honour these old Argonauts, and listen to their story as it stands; and we will try to be like them, each of us in our place; for each of us has a Golden Fleece to seek, and a wild sea to sail over ere we reach it, and dragons to fight ere it be ours.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000006_000000|And what was that first Golden Fleece?
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000006_000001|I do not know, nor care.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000006_000004|So the poor children were brought to the altar, and the priest stood ready with his knife, when out of the clouds came the Golden Ram, and took them on his back, and vanished.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000007_000003|So he wandered no more; but settled, and built a town, and became a king again.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000008_000000|But the ram carried the two children far away over land and sea, till he came to the Thracian Chersonese, and there Helle fell into the sea.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000008_000001|So those narrow straits are called 'Hellespont,' after her; and they bear that name until this day.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000009_000000|Then the ram flew on with Phrixus to the north-east across the sea which we call the Black Sea now; but the Hellens call it Euxine.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000010_000000|And after awhile Phrixus died, and was buried, but his spirit had no rest; for he was buried far from his native land, and the pleasant hills of Hellas.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000011_000000|And they asked, 'How shall we set your spirit free?'
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000012_000000|'You must sail over the sea to Colchis, and bring home the golden fleece; and then my spirit will come back with it, and I shall sleep with my fathers and have rest.'
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000015_000000|And AEson, when he was driven out, went sadly away out of the town, leading his little son by the hand; and he said to himself, 'I must hide the child in the mountains; or Pelias will surely kill him, because he is the heir.'
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000016_000000|So he went up from the sea across the valley, through the vineyards and the olive groves, and across the torrent of Anauros, toward Pelion the ancient mountain, whose brows are white with snow.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000018_000001|There they grew gaily in the sunshine, and the spray of the torrent from above; while from the cave came the sound of music, and a man's voice singing to the harp.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000019_000000|Then AEson put down the lad, and whispered-
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000024_000001|And he sang of the treasures of the hills, and the hidden jewels of the mine, and the veins of fire and metal, and the virtues of all healing herbs, and of the speech of birds, and of prophecy, and of hidden things to come.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000029_000000|And AEson said-
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000032_000000|'I would gladly have horse's hoofs like you, if I could sing such songs as yours.'
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000034_000000|Then he turned to AEson, and said, 'Go back in peace, and bend before the storm like a prudent man.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000036_000000|Then Cheiron put the lyre into his hands, and taught him how to play it, till the sun sank low behind the cliff, and a shout was heard outside.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000037_000000|And then in came the sons of the heroes, AEneas, and Heracles, and Peleus, and many another mighty name.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000039_000000|And Cheiron praised them all, each according to his deserts.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000043_000000|Then the lads brought in wood, and split it, and lighted a blazing fire; and others skinned the deer and quartered them, and set them to roast before the fire; and while the venison was cooking they bathed in the snow torrent, and washed away the dust and sweat.
train-other-500/1977/147187/1977_147187_000045_000000|And after a while they all went out to a plot of grass at the cave's mouth, and there they boxed, and ran, and wrestled, and laughed till the stones fell from the cliffs.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000007_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000007_000001|I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000000|I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school days drew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong's.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000001|I had been very happy there, I had a great attachment for the Doctor, and I was eminent and distinguished in that little world.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000002|For these reasons I was sorry to go; but for other reasons, unsubstantial enough, I was glad.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000004|The separation has not made the impression on me, that other separations have.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000005|I try in vain to recall how I felt about it, and what its circumstances were; but it is not momentous in my recollection.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000006|I suppose the opening prospect confused me.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000008_000007|I know that my juvenile experiences went for little or nothing then; and that life was more like a great fairy story, which I was just about to begin to read, than anything else.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000009_000000|My aunt and I had held many grave deliberations on the calling to which I should be devoted.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000009_000003|But, in the absence of any such miraculous provision, my desire was to apply myself to some pursuit that would not lie too heavily upon her purse; and to do my duty in it, whatever it might be.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000010_000000|mr Dick had regularly assisted at our councils, with a meditative and sage demeanour.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000010_000001|He never made a suggestion but once; and on that occasion (I don't know what put it in his head), he suddenly proposed that I should be 'a Brazier'.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000010_000002|My aunt received this proposal so very ungraciously, that he never ventured on a second; but ever afterwards confined himself to looking watchfully at her for her suggestions, and rattling his money.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000011_000000|'Trot, I tell you what, my dear,' said my aunt, one morning in the Christmas season when I left school: 'as this knotty point is still unsettled, and as we must not make a mistake in our decision if we can help it, I think we had better take a little breathing time.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000011_000001|In the meanwhile, you must try to look at it from a new point of view, and not as a schoolboy.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000013_000001|Suppose you were to go down into the old part of the country again, for instance, and see that-that out of the way woman with the savagest of names,' said my aunt, rubbing her nose, for she could never thoroughly forgive Peggotty for being so called.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000015_000000|'Well,' said my aunt, 'that's lucky, for I should like it too.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000015_000001|But it's natural and rational that you should like it.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000017_000000|'Your sister, Betsey Trotwood,' said my aunt, 'would have been as natural and rational a girl as ever breathed.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000018_000000|'I hope I shall be worthy of YOU, aunt.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000018_000001|That will be enough for me.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000020_000000|'Pleasantly, I hope, aunt?' said i
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000021_000000|'He's as like her, Dick,' said my aunt, emphatically, 'he's as like her, as she was that afternoon before she began to fret-bless my heart, he's as like her, as he can look at me out of his two eyes!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000022_000000|'Is he indeed?' said mr Dick.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000023_000000|'And he's like David, too,' said my aunt, decisively.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000024_000000|'He is very like David!' said mr Dick.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000025_000001|A fine firm fellow, with a will of your own.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000025_000002|With resolution,' said my aunt, shaking her cap at me, and clenching her hand.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000025_000003|'With determination.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000025_000004|With character, Trot-with strength of character that is not to be influenced, except on good reason, by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000025_000005|That's what your father and mother might both have been, Heaven knows, and been the better for it.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000026_000000|I intimated that I hoped I should be what she described.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000027_000001|I did think, once, of mr Dick's going with you; but, on second thoughts, I shall keep him to take care of me.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000029_000000|'Besides,' said my aunt, 'there's the Memorial-'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000030_000001|And then it will go in, you know-and then-' said mr Dick, after checking himself, and pausing a long time, 'there'll be a pretty kettle of fish!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000031_000000|In pursuance of my aunt's kind scheme, I was shortly afterwards fitted out with a handsome purse of money, and a portmanteau, and tenderly dismissed upon my expedition.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000031_000001|At parting, my aunt gave me some good advice, and a good many kisses; and said that as her object was that I should look about me, and should think a little, she would recommend me to stay a few days in London, if I liked it, either on my way down into Suffolk, or in coming back.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000031_000002|In a word, I was at liberty to do what I would, for three weeks or a month; and no other conditions were imposed upon my freedom than the before mentioned thinking and looking about me, and a pledge to write three times a week and faithfully report myself.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000032_000001|Agnes was very glad to see me, and told me that the house had not been like itself since I had left it.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000033_000000|'I am sure I am not like myself when I am away,' said i 'I seem to want my right hand, when I miss you.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000033_000001|Though that's not saying much; for there's no head in my right hand, and no heart.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000033_000002|Everyone who knows you, consults with you, and is guided by you, Agnes.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000034_000000|'Everyone who knows me, spoils me, I believe,' she answered, smiling.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000035_000000|'no
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000035_000001|It's because you are like no one else.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000035_000002|You are so good, and so sweet tempered.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000035_000003|You have such a gentle nature, and you are always right.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000037_000000|'Come!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000037_000001|It's not fair to abuse my confidence,' I answered, reddening at the recollection of my blue enslaver.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000037_000002|'But I shall confide in you, just the same, Agnes.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000037_000003|I can never grow out of that.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000037_000004|Whenever I fall into trouble, or fall in love, I shall always tell you, if you'll let me-even when I come to fall in love in earnest.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000038_000000|'Why, you have always been in earnest!' said Agnes, laughing again.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000039_000000|'Oh! that was as a child, or a schoolboy,' said I, laughing in my turn, not without being a little shame faced. 'Times are altering now, and I suppose I shall be in a terrible state of earnestness one day or other. My wonder is, that you are not in earnest yourself, by this time, Agnes.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000040_000000|Agnes laughed again, and shook her head.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000041_000000|'Oh, I know you are not!' said I, 'because if you had been you would have told me.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000041_000003|Someone of a nobler character, and more worthy altogether than anyone I have ever seen here, must rise up, before I give my consent.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000042_000001|But Agnes, now suddenly lifting up her eyes to mine, and speaking in a different manner, said:
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000043_000000|'Trotwood, there is something that I want to ask you, and that I may not have another opportunity of asking for a long time, perhaps-something I would ask, I think, of no one else.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000043_000001|Have you observed any gradual alteration in Papa?'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000044_000001|I must have shown as much, now, in my face; for her eyes were in a moment cast down, and I saw tears in them.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000045_000000|'Tell me what it is,' she said, in a low voice.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000046_000000|'I think-shall I be quite plain, Agnes, liking him so much?'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000047_000000|'Yes,' she said.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000048_000000|'I think he does himself no good by the habit that has increased upon him since I first came here.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000049_000000|'It is not fancy,' said Agnes, shaking her head.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000050_000000|'His hand trembles, his speech is not plain, and his eyes look wild.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000051_000000|'By Uriah,' said Agnes.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000052_000000|'Yes; and the sense of being unfit for it, or of not having understood it, or of having shown his condition in spite of himself, seems to make him so uneasy, that next day he is worse, and next day worse, and so he becomes jaded and haggard.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000052_000001|Do not be alarmed by what I say, Agnes, but in this state I saw him, only the other evening, lay down his head upon his desk, and shed tears like a child.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000053_000000|Her hand passed softly before my lips while I was yet speaking, and in a moment she had met her father at the door of the room, and was hanging on his shoulder.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000053_000001|The expression of her face, as they both looked towards me, I felt to be very touching.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000054_000000|We were to drink tea at the Doctor's.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000054_000001|We went there at the usual hour; and round the study fireside found the Doctor, and his young wife, and her mother.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000054_000002|The Doctor, who made as much of my going away as if I were going to China, received me as an honoured guest; and called for a log of wood to be thrown on the fire, that he might see the face of his old pupil reddening in the blaze.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000056_000000|'You have said so, any time these ten years, Doctor,' mr Wickfield answered.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000058_000000|'And to take care,' said mr Wickfield, 'that you're not imposed on, eh? As you certainly would be, in any contract you should make for yourself. Well!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000058_000001|I am ready.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000058_000002|There are worse tasks than that, in my calling.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000059_000000|'I shall have nothing to think of then,' said the Doctor, with a smile, 'but my Dictionary; and this other contract bargain-Annie.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000060_000000|As mr Wickfield glanced towards her, sitting at the tea table by Agnes, she seemed to me to avoid his look with such unwonted hesitation and timidity, that his attention became fixed upon her, as if something were suggested to his thoughts.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000061_000000|'There is a post come in from India, I observe,' he said, after a short silence.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000062_000000|'By the by! and letters from mr Jack Maldon!' said the Doctor.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000063_000000|'Indeed!' 'Poor dear Jack!' said mrs Markleham, shaking her head.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000063_000001|'That trying climate!--like living, they tell me, on a sand heap, underneath a burning glass!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000063_000002|He looked strong, but he wasn't.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000063_000003|My dear Doctor, it was his spirit, not his constitution, that he ventured on so boldly.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000064_000000|Annie, thus addressed, made no reply.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000066_000000|'Ill!' replied the Old Soldier.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000066_000001|'My dear sir, he's all sorts of things.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000067_000000|'Except well?' said mr Wickfield.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000068_000001|As to his liver,' said the Old Soldier resignedly, 'that, of course, he gave up altogether, when he first went out!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000070_000000|'Say?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000070_000001|My dear sir,' returned mrs Markleham, shaking her head and her fan, 'you little know my poor Jack Maldon when you ask that question. Say?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000070_000002|Not he.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000070_000003|You might drag him at the heels of four wild horses first.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000071_000000|'Mama!' said mrs Strong.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000073_000001|'That is to say, our joint plans for him.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000073_000002|I said myself, abroad or at home.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000074_000000|'And I said' added mr Wickfield gravely, 'abroad.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000074_000001|I was the means of sending him abroad.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000074_000002|It's my responsibility.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000075_000001|Responsibility!' said the Old Soldier.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000075_000003|But if the dear fellow can't live there, he can't live there.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000076_000000|'Well, well, ma'am,' said the Doctor cheerfully, 'I am not bigoted to my plans, and I can overturn them myself.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000076_000001|I can substitute some other plans.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000077_000001|After which she gently chid her daughter Annie, for not being more demonstrative when such kindnesses were showered, for her sake, on her old playfellow; and entertained us with some particulars concerning other deserving members of her family, whom it was desirable to set on their deserving legs.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000078_000000|All this time, her daughter Annie never once spoke, or lifted up her eyes.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000078_000001|All this time, mr Wickfield had his glance upon her as she sat by his own daughter's side.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000078_000002|It appeared to me that he never thought of being observed by anyone; but was so intent upon her, and upon his own thoughts in connexion with her, as to be quite absorbed.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000078_000003|He now asked what mr Jack Maldon had actually written in reference to himself, and to whom he had written?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000079_000000|'Why, here,' said mrs Markleham, taking a letter from the chimney piece above the Doctor's head, 'the dear fellow says to the Doctor himself-where is it?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000079_000001|Oh!--"I am sorry to inform you that my health is suffering severely, and that I fear I may be reduced to the necessity of returning home for a time, as the only hope of restoration." That's pretty plain, poor fellow!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000079_000002|His only hope of restoration!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000079_000003|But Annie's letter is plainer still.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000079_000004|Annie, show me that letter again.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000080_000000|'Not now, mama,' she pleaded in a low tone.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000081_000000|'My dear, you absolutely are, on some subjects, one of the most ridiculous persons in the world,' returned her mother, 'and perhaps the most unnatural to the claims of your own family.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000081_000001|We never should have heard of the letter at all, I believe, unless I had asked for it myself. Do you call that confidence, my love, towards Doctor Strong?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000081_000002|I am surprised.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000081_000003|You ought to know better.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000082_000000|The letter was reluctantly produced; and as I handed it to the old lady, I saw how the unwilling hand from which I took it, trembled.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000000|'Now let us see,' said mrs Markleham, putting her glass to her eye, 'where the passage is.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000001|"The remembrance of old times, my dearest Annie"--and so forth-it's not there.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000002|"The amiable old Proctor"--who's he?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000003|Dear me, Annie, how illegibly your cousin Maldon writes, and how stupid I am!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000004|"Doctor," of course.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000006|'Now I have found it.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000083_000007|"You may not be surprised to hear, Annie,"--no, to be sure, knowing that he never was really strong; what did I say just now?--"that I have undergone so much in this distant place, as to have decided to leave it at all hazards; on sick leave, if I can; on total resignation, if that is not to be obtained.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000084_000000|mr Wickfield said not one word, though the old lady looked to him as if for his commentary on this intelligence; but sat severely silent, with his eyes fixed on the ground.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000084_000001|Long after the subject was dismissed, and other topics occupied us, he remained so; seldom raising his eyes, unless to rest them for a moment, with a thoughtful frown, upon the Doctor, or his wife, or both.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000085_000000|The Doctor was very fond of music.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000085_000001|Agnes sang with great sweetness and expression, and so did mrs Strong.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000085_000003|But I remarked two things: first, that though Annie soon recovered her composure, and was quite herself, there was a blank between her and mr Wickfield which separated them wholly from each other; secondly, that mr Wickfield seemed to dislike the intimacy between her and Agnes, and to watch it with uneasiness.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000085_000005|The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner; and when I looked at Agnes by her side, and thought how good and true Agnes was, suspicions arose within me that it was an ill assorted friendship.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000086_000000|She was so happy in it herself, however, and the other was so happy too, that they made the evening fly away as if it were but an hour.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000086_000001|It closed in an incident which I well remember.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000086_000002|They were taking leave of each other, and Agnes was going to embrace her and kiss her, when mr Wickfield stepped between them, as if by accident, and drew Agnes quickly away.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000087_000001|It haunted me when I got home.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000087_000002|I seemed to have left the Doctor's roof with a dark cloud lowering on it.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000087_000003|The reverence that I had for his grey head, was mingled with commiseration for his faith in those who were treacherous to him, and with resentment against those who injured him.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000088_000000|But morning brought with it my parting from the old house, which Agnes had filled with her influence; and that occupied my mind sufficiently. I should be there again soon, no doubt; I might sleep again-perhaps often-in my old room; but the days of my inhabiting there were gone, and the old time was past.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000090_000000|The main object on my mind, I remember, when we got fairly on the road, was to appear as old as possible to the coachman, and to speak extremely gruff.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000091_000000|'You are going through, sir?' said the coachman.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000092_000000|'Yes, William,' I said, condescendingly (I knew him); 'I am going to London.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000092_000001|I shall go down into Suffolk afterwards.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000093_000000|'Shooting, sir?' said the coachman.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000094_000000|He knew as well as I did that it was just as likely, at that time of year, I was going down there whaling; but I felt complimented, too.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000095_000000|'I don't know,' I said, pretending to be undecided, 'whether I shall take a shot or not.' 'Birds is got wery shy, I'm told,' said William.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000097_000000|'Is Suffolk your county, sir?' asked William.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000098_000000|'Yes,' I said, with some importance.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000098_000001|'Suffolk's my county.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000099_000000|'I'm told the dumplings is uncommon fine down there,' said William.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000101_000000|'And the Punches,' said William.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000101_000001|'There's cattle!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000101_000003|Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir?'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000104_000000|The gentleman spoken of was a gentleman with a very unpromising squint, and a prominent chin, who had a tall white hat on with a narrow flat brim, and whose close fitting drab trousers seemed to button all the way up outside his legs from his boots to his hips.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000106_000000|'Ain't I what?' said the gentleman behind.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000107_000000|'Bred them Suffolk Punches by wholesale?'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000108_000000|'I should think so,' said the gentleman.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000108_000003|They're wittles and drink to me-lodging, wife, and children-reading, writing, and Arithmetic-snuff, tobacker, and sleep.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000109_000000|'That ain't a sort of man to see sitting behind a coach box, is it though?' said William in my ear, as he handled the reins.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000111_000000|'Well, if you don't mind, sir,' said William, 'I think it would be more correct.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000112_000000|I have always considered this as the first fall I had in life.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000112_000001|When I booked my place at the coach office I had had 'Box Seat' written against the entry, and had given the book keeper half a crown.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000112_000002|I was got up in a special great coat and shawl, expressly to do honour to that distinguished eminence; had glorified myself upon it a good deal; and had felt that I was a credit to the coach.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000112_000003|And here, in the very first stage, I was supplanted by a shabby man with a squint, who had no other merit than smelling like a livery stables, and being able to walk across me, more like a fly than a human being, while the horses were at a canter!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000113_000000|A distrust of myself, which has often beset me in life on small occasions, when it would have been better away, was assuredly not stopped in its growth by this little incident outside the Canterbury coach.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000113_000001|It was in vain to take refuge in gruffness of speech.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000113_000002|I spoke from the pit of my stomach for the rest of the journey, but I felt completely extinguished, and dreadfully young.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000114_000000|It was curious and interesting, nevertheless, to be sitting up there behind four horses: well educated, well dressed, and with plenty of money in my pocket; and to look out for the places where I had slept on my weary journey.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000114_000001|I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000115_000000|We went to the Golden Cross at Charing Cross, then a mouldy sort of establishment in a close neighbourhood.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000116_000000|'Well now,' said the waiter, in a tone of confidence, 'what would you like for dinner?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000116_000001|Young gentlemen likes poultry in general: have a fowl!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000117_000000|I told him, as majestically as I could, that I wasn't in the humour for a fowl.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000118_000000|'Ain't you?' said the waiter.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000119_000000|I assented to this proposal, in default of being able to suggest anything else.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000120_000001|'Young gentlemen generally has been overdosed with taters.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000122_000000|He soon came back to say that there were none (at which I was much surprised) and began to lay the cloth for my dinner in a box by the fire.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000122_000001|While he was so engaged, he asked me what I would take with it; and on my replying 'Half a pint of sherry,'thought it a favourable opportunity, I am afraid, to extract that measure of wine from the stale leavings at the bottoms of several small decanters.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000123_000000|Being then in a pleasant frame of mind (from which I infer that poisoning is not always disagreeable in some stages of the process), I resolved to go to the play.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000123_000001|It was Covent Garden Theatre that I chose; and there, from the back of a centre box, I saw Julius Caesar and the new Pantomime.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000125_000000|I was so filled with the play, and with the past-for it was, in a manner, like a shining transparency, through which I saw my earlier life moving along-that I don't know when the figure of a handsome well formed young man dressed with a tasteful easy negligence which I have reason to remember very well, became a real presence to me.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000125_000001|But I recollect being conscious of his company without having noticed his coming in-and my still sitting, musing, over the coffee room fire.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000126_000001|In going towards the door, I passed the person who had come in, and saw him plainly.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000126_000002|I turned directly, came back, and looked again.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000127_000001|But, in the then condition of my mind, where the play was still running high, his former protection of me appeared so deserving of my gratitude, and my old love for him overflowed my breast so freshly and spontaneously, that I went up to him at once, with a fast beating heart, and said:
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000128_000000|'Steerforth! won't you speak to me?'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000130_000000|'You don't remember me, I am afraid,' said i
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000131_000000|'My God!' he suddenly exclaimed.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000131_000001|'It's little Copperfield!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000132_000000|I grasped him by both hands, and could not let them go.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000132_000001|But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000133_000000|'I never, never, never was so glad!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000133_000001|My dear Steerforth, I am so overjoyed to see you!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000134_000000|'And I am rejoiced to see you, too!' he said, shaking my hands heartily. 'Why, Copperfield, old boy, don't be overpowered!' And yet he was glad, too, I thought, to see how the delight I had in meeting him affected me.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000135_000000|I brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not been able to keep back, and I made a clumsy laugh of it, and we sat down together, side by side.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000137_000000|'I came here by the Canterbury coach, today.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000137_000001|I have been adopted by an aunt down in that part of the country, and have just finished my education there.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000137_000002|How do YOU come to be here, Steerforth?'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000138_000001|You're a devilish amiable looking fellow, Copperfield.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000138_000002|Just what you used to be, now I look at you!
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000138_000003|Not altered in the least!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000139_000000|'I knew you immediately,' I said; 'but you are more easily remembered.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000140_000000|He laughed as he ran his hand through the clustering curls of his hair, and said gaily:
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000141_000000|'Yes, I am on an expedition of duty.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000141_000001|My mother lives a little way out of town; and the roads being in a beastly condition, and our house tedious enough, I remained here tonight instead of going on.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000141_000002|I have not been in town half a dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000143_000000|Steerforth laughed heartily.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000144_000001|The daisy of the field, at sunrise, is not fresher than you are.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000144_000003|Holloa, you sir!'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000145_000000|This was addressed to the waiter, who had been very attentive to our recognition, at a distance, and now came forward deferentially.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000146_000000|'Where have you put my friend, mr Copperfield?' said Steerforth.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000148_000000|'Where does he sleep?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000148_000001|What's his number?
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000148_000002|You know what I mean,' said Steerforth.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000149_000000|'Well, sir,' said the waiter, with an apologetic air.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000149_000001|'mr
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000149_000002|Copperfield is at present in forty four, sir.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000151_000001|We can give mr Copperfield seventy two, sir, if it would be preferred.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000151_000002|Next you, sir.'
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000152_000001|'And do it at once.' The waiter immediately withdrew to make the exchange.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000152_000002|Steerforth, very much amused at my having been put into forty four, laughed again, and clapped me on the shoulder again, and invited me to breakfast with him next morning at ten o'clock-an invitation I was only too proud and happy to accept.
train-other-500/1985/144468/1985_144468_000152_000003|It being now pretty late, we took our candles and went upstairs, where we parted with friendly heartiness at his door, and where I found my new room a great improvement on my old one, it not being at all musty, and having an immense four post bedstead in it, which was quite a little landed estate.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000001_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000002_000000|THE TABERNACLE UNLOCKED.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000003_000001|The cold light of early morning was in the room, and Maso was come for the travelling wallet.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000004_000001|"Here is the wallet quite ready.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000004_000003|When you get out of the gates you may go more slowly, for I shall perhaps join you before you get to Trespiano."
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000006_000001|"She would look strange among the vines and the roses now."
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000007_000004|"For Dino's sake," she said to herself.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000007_000007|The first said-
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000008_000000|"Tito, my love for you is dead; and therefore, so far as I was yours, I too am dead.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000008_000001|Do not try to put in force any laws for the sake of fetching me back: that would bring you no happiness.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000008_000002|The Romola you married can never return.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000008_000003|I need explain nothing to you after the words I uttered to you the last time we spoke long together.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000009_000000|"I think you will fulfil my wish that my bridal chest should be sent to my godfather, who gave it me.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000009_000001|It contains my wedding clothes and the portraits and other relics of my father and mother."
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000011_000001|But now I am gone. Do not ask the reason; and if you love my father, try to prevent any one from seeking me.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000011_000002|I could not bear my life at Florence.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000011_000003|I cannot bear to tell any one why.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000011_000004|Help to cover my lot in silence.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000011_000005|I have asked that my bridal chest should be sent to you: when you open it, you will know the reason.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000011_000006|Please to give all the things that were my mother's to my cousin Brigida, and ask her to forgive me for not saying any words of parting to her.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000012_000000|"Farewell, my second father.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000012_000001|The best thing I have in life is still to remember your goodness and be grateful to you.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000013_000000|"Romola."
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000014_000001|She was ready now to depart.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000017_000000|Out!
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000017_000003|The bare wintry morning, the chill air, were welcome in their severity: the leafless trees, the sombre hills, were not haunted by the gods of beauty and joy, whose worship she had forsaken for ever.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000018_000001|It seemed that the sun was going to chase away the greyness.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000018_000002|The light is perhaps never felt more strongly as a divine presence stirring all those inarticulate sensibilities which are our deepest life, than in these moments when it instantaneously awakens the shadows.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000019_000000|The cowl was dropped again immediately.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000020_000000|She wished now that she had not looked up.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000023_000000|Meanwhile she might pause a little.
train-other-500/1989/26962/1989_26962_000023_000001|She was free and alone.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000003_000000|The Same Subject Continued (The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered)
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000004_000000|For the Independent Journal.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000004_000001|wednesday december twenty sixth seventeen eighty seven
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000005_000000|HAMILTON
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000006_000000|To the People of the State of New York:
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000007_000000|THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000008_000001|The means to be employed must be proportioned to the extent of the mischief.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000008_000002|If it should be a slight commotion in a small part of a State, the militia of the residue would be adequate to its suppression; and the national presumption is that they would be ready to do their duty.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000008_000003|An insurrection, whatever may be its immediate cause, eventually endangers all government.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000008_000004|Regard to the public peace, if not to the rights of the Union, would engage the citizens to whom the contagion had not communicated itself to oppose the insurgents; and if the general government should be found in practice conducive to the prosperity and felicity of the people, it were irrational to believe that they would be disinclined to its support.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000009_000000|If, on the contrary, the insurrection should pervade a whole State, or a principal part of it, the employment of a different kind of force might become unavoidable.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000009_000004|Who would not prefer that possibility to the unceasing agitations and frequent revolutions which are the continual scourges of petty republics?
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000010_000000|Let us pursue this examination in another light.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000010_000002|Would not each of them be exposed to the same casualties; and when these happened, be obliged to have recourse to the same expedients for upholding its authority which are objected to in a government for all the States?
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000012_000000|If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000012_000003|The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000013_000000|The obstacles to usurpation and the facilities of resistance increase with the increased extent of the state, provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000013_000002|But in a confederacy the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate. Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000013_000003|The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000014_000000|It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000014_000001|Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000014_000003|They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000015_000000|The great extent of the country is a further security.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000015_000001|We have already experienced its utility against the attacks of a foreign power.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000016_000000|We should recollect that the extent of the military force must, at all events, be regulated by the resources of the country.
train-other-500/199/131001/199_131001_000016_000001|For a long time to come, it will not be possible to maintain a large army; and as the means of doing this increase, the population and natural strength of the community will proportionably increase.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000002_000002|The younger Miss Thorpes being also dancing, Catherine was left to the mercy of mrs Thorpe and mrs Allen, between whom she now remained.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000002_000004|Catherine had fortitude too; she suffered, but no murmur passed her lips.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000003_000000|From this state of humiliation, she was roused, at the end of ten minutes, to a pleasanter feeling, by seeing, not mr Thorpe, but mr Tilney, within three yards of the place where they sat; he seemed to be moving that way, but he did not see her, and therefore the smile and the blush, which his sudden reappearance raised in Catherine, passed away without sullying her heroic importance.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000004_000000|mr Tilney and his companion, who continued, though slowly, to approach, were immediately preceded by a lady, an acquaintance of mrs Thorpe; and this lady stopping to speak to her, they, as belonging to her, stopped likewise, and Catherine, catching mr Tilney's eye, instantly received from him the smiling tribute of recognition.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000004_000001|She returned it with pleasure, and then advancing still nearer, he spoke both to her and mrs Allen, by whom he was very civilly acknowledged.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000004_000002|"I am very happy to see you again, sir, indeed; I was afraid you had left Bath." He thanked her for her fears, and said that he had quitted it for a week, on the very morning after his having had the pleasure of seeing her.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000005_000001|I tell him he is quite in luck to be sent here for his health."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000006_000000|"And I hope, madam, that mr Allen will be obliged to like the place, from finding it of service to him."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000007_000000|"Thank you, sir.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000007_000001|I have no doubt that he will.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000007_000002|A neighbour of ours, dr Skinner, was here for his health last winter, and came away quite stout."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000009_000000|"Yes, sir-and dr Skinner and his family were here three months; so I tell mr Allen he must not be in a hurry to get away."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000010_000005|She was separated from all her party, and away from all her acquaintance; one mortification succeeded another, and from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000010_000008|The young ladies were introduced to each other, Miss Tilney expressing a proper sense of such goodness, Miss Morland with the real delicacy of a generous mind making light of the obligation; and mrs Hughes, satisfied with having so respectably settled her young charge, returned to her party.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000011_000001|Her manners showed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy nor affectedly open; and she seemed capable of being young, attractive, and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her, and without exaggerated feelings of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000011_000002|Catherine, interested at once by her appearance and her relationship to mr Tilney, was desirous of being acquainted with her, and readily talked therefore whenever she could think of anything to say, and had courage and leisure for saying it.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000012_000000|The two dances were scarcely concluded before Catherine found her arm gently seized by her faithful Isabella, who in great spirits exclaimed, "At last I have got you.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000012_000001|My dearest creature, I have been looking for you this hour.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000012_000003|I have been quite wretched without you."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000013_000001|I could not even see where you were."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000014_000000|"So I told your brother all the time-but he would not believe me.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000014_000002|Was not it so, mr Morland?
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000014_000003|But you men are all so immoderately lazy!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000014_000005|You know I never stand upon ceremony with such people."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000015_000000|"Look at that young lady with the white beads round her head," whispered Catherine, detaching her friend from james.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000015_000001|"It is mr Tilney's sister."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000001|Heavens!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000002|You don't say so!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000003|Let me look at her this moment.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000004|What a delightful girl!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000005|I never saw anything half so beautiful!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000006|But where is her all conquering brother?
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000007|Is he in the room?
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000009|I die to see him.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000016_000010|mr Morland, you are not to listen. We are not talking about you."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000017_000000|"But what is all this whispering about?
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000017_000001|What is going on?"
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000018_000000|"There now, I knew how it would be.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000018_000001|You men have such restless curiosity!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000018_000003|'tis nothing.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000018_000004|But be satisfied, for you are not to know anything at all of the matter."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000019_000000|"And is that likely to satisfy me, do you think?"
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000020_000000|"Well, I declare I never knew anything like you.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000020_000001|What can it signify to you, what we are talking of.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000020_000002|Perhaps we are talking about you; therefore I would advise you not to listen, or you may happen to hear something not very agreeable."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000021_000001|When the orchestra struck up a fresh dance, james would have led his fair partner away, but she resisted.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000021_000002|"I tell you, mr Morland," she cried, "I would not do such a thing for all the world. How can you be so teasing; only conceive, my dear Catherine, what your brother wants me to do.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000021_000004|It would make us the talk of the place, if we were not to change partners."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000023_000000|"Nonsense, how can you say so?
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000023_000001|But when you men have a point to carry, you never stick at anything.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000023_000002|My sweet Catherine, do support me; persuade your brother how impossible it is.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000023_000003|Tell him that it would quite shock you to see me do such a thing; now would not it?"
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000024_000000|"No, not at all; but if you think it wrong, you had much better change."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000025_000000|"There," cried Isabella, "you hear what your sister says, and yet you will not mind her.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000025_000001|Well, remember that it is not my fault, if we set all the old ladies in Bath in a bustle.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000025_000004|"Well, my dear," said mrs Thorpe, impatient for praise of her son, "I hope you have had an agreeable partner."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000026_000000|"Very agreeable, madam."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000027_000000|"I am glad of it.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000027_000001|john has charming spirits, has not he?"
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000028_000000|"Did you meet mr Tilney, my dear?" said mrs Allen.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000029_000000|"No, where is he?"
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000031_000000|"Where can he be?" said Catherine, looking round; but she had not looked round long before she saw him leading a young lady to the dance.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000032_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000032_000001|He has got a partner; I wish he had asked you," said mrs Allen; and after a short silence, she added, "he is a very agreeable young man."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000033_000000|"Indeed he is, mrs Allen," said mrs Thorpe, smiling complacently; "I must say it, though I am his mother, that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000034_000000|This inapplicable answer might have been too much for the comprehension of many; but it did not puzzle mrs Allen, for after only a moment's consideration, she said, in a whisper to Catherine, "I dare say she thought I was speaking of her son."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000035_000000|Catherine was disappointed and vexed.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000037_000000|"Do not you?
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000037_000001|Then let us walk about and quiz people.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000037_000002|Come along with me, and I will show you the four greatest quizzers in the room; my two younger sisters and their partners.
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000037_000003|I have been laughing at them this half hour."
train-other-500/20/205/20_205_000038_000000|Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000000_000001|The contrast within and without was great.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000000_000002|The warm, blazing fire, the handsome carpet on which it flickered, the exceedingly comfortable arrangement of the furniture, of the room altogether, and the light of the chandelier, which fell on all, presented a picture of home peace, though it may not have deserved the name of luxury.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000000_000003|Without, heavy flakes of snow were falling thickly, flakes as large and nearly as heavy as a crown piece, rendering the atmosphere so dense and obscure that a man could not see a yard before him.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000000_000004|mr Carlyle had driven home in the pony carriage, and the snow had so settled upon him that Lucy, who happened to see him as he entered the hall, screamed out laughingly that her papa had turned into a white man.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000001_000000|Miss Carlyle was one of your strong minded ladies, who never condescended to be ill.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000002_000000|"What's the time, I wonder?" she exclaimed.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000003_000000|mr Carlyle looked at his watch.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000003_000001|"It is just nine, Cornelia."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000004_000000|"Then I think I shall go to bed.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000004_000001|I'll have a basin of arrowroot or gruel, or some slop of that sort, after I'm in it.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000005_000000|"Do so," said mr Carlyle.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000005_000001|"It may do you good."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000006_000002|I'll try it."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000007_000000|"I would," said mr Carlyle, smothering an irreverent laugh.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000008_000000|She sat on five minutes longer, and then left, wishing mr Carlyle good night.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000008_000001|He resumed his reading; but another page or two concluded the article, upon which mr Carlyle threw the book on the table, rose and stretched himself, as if tired of sitting.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000009_000000|He stirred the fire into a brighter blaze, and stood on the hearthrug.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000009_000001|"I wonder if it snows still?" he exclaimed to himself.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000010_000000|Proceeding to the window, one of those opening to the ground, he threw aside the half of the warm crimson curtain.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000010_000001|It all looked dull and dark outside.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000010_000002|mr Carlyle could see little what the weather was, and he opened the window and stepped half out.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000012_000000|"Let me come in, mr Carlyle, for the love of life!
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000012_000001|I see you are alone.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000012_000002|I'm dead beat, and I don't know but I'm dodged also."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000013_000000|The tones struck familiarly on mr Carlyle's ear.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000013_000001|He drew back mechanically, a thousand perplexing sensations overwhelming him, and the man followed him into the room-a white man, as Lucy called her father.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000013_000002|Aye, for he had been hours and hours on foot in the snow; his hat, his clothes, his eyebrows, his large whiskers, all were white.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000014_000000|mr Carlyle fastened the window, drew the heavy curtains across, and turned rapidly to lock the two doors-for there were two to the room, one of them leading into the adjoining one.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000015_000000|"Richard," uttered mr Carlyle, "I am thunderstruck!
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000015_000001|I fear you have done wrong to come here."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000016_000001|"I'm dodged, mr Carlyle, I am indeed.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000017_000000|mr Carlyle turned to the sideboard and poured out a wineglass of brandy.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000017_000001|"Drink it, Richard, it will warm you."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000018_000000|"I'd rather have it in some hot water, sir."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000019_000000|"But how am I to get the hot water brought in?
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000019_000001|Drink this for now.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000019_000002|Why, how you tremble."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000020_000003|A gentleman and lady were passing at the time, but I had not paid any attention to them.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000020_000004|'By Jove!' I heard him exclaim to her, 'I think we're going to have pepper.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000020_000005|We had better take a cab, my dear.' With that the man I was talking to swung open the door of his cab, and she got in-such a fair young lady, she was!
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000020_000006|I turned to look at him, and you might just have knocked me down with astonishment.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000021_000000|"Indeed!"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000022_000001|I looked him full in the face, and he looked at me.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000022_000002|He turned as white as cloth.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000022_000003|Perhaps I did-I don't know."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000023_000000|"Was he well dressed?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000000|"Very.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000001|Oh, there's no mistaking his position.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000002|That he moves in the higher classes there's no doubt.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000003|The cab drove away, and I got up behind it.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000004|The driver thought boys were there, and turned his head and his whip, but I made him a sign.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000005|We didn't go much more than the length of a street.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000006|I was on the pavement before Thorn was, and looked at him again, and again he went white.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000024_000007|I marked the house, thinking it was where he lived, and-"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000025_000000|"Why did you not give him into custody, Richard?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000026_000000|Richard Hare shook his head.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000026_000001|"And my proofs of his guilt, mr Carlyle?
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000026_000002|I could bring none against him-no positive ones.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000026_000004|He would turn round upon me now and swear my life away to murder.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000026_000006|'Does Captain Thorn live here?' I asked him.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000027_000000|"'mr
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000027_000001|Westleby lives here,' said he; 'I don't know any Captain Thorn.'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000028_000001|'A youngish man, isn't he?' said I, 'very smart, with a pretty wife?'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000029_000000|"'I don't know what you call youngish,' he laughed, 'my master's turned sixty, and his wife's as old.'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000030_000000|"That checked me.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000030_000001|'Perhaps he has sons?' I asked.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000031_000000|"'Not any,' the man answered; 'there's nobody but their two selves.'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000032_000000|"So, with that, I told him what I wanted-that a lady and gentleman had alighted there in a cab that day, and I wished to know his name.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000032_000001|Well, mr Carlyle, I could get at nothing satisfactory; the fellow said that a great many had called there that day, for his master was just up from a long illness, and people came to see him."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000033_000000|"Is that all, Richard?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000034_000000|"All!
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000034_000001|I wish it had been all.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000034_000002|I kept looking about for him in all the best streets; I was half mad-"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000035_000000|"Do you not wonder, if he is in this position of life, and resides in London, that you have never dropped upon him previously?" interrupted mr Carlyle.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000036_000000|"No, sir; and I'll tell you why.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000036_000002|I had gone up to the West End this day on a matter of business."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000037_000000|"Well, go on with your story."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000038_000000|"In a week's time I came upon him again.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000038_000001|It was at night.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000038_000002|He was coming out of one of the theatres, and I went up and stood before him."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000039_000000|"'What do you want, fellow?' he asked.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000039_000001|'I have seen you watching me before this.'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000040_000000|"'I want to know your name,' I said, 'that's enough for me at present.'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000041_000000|"He flew into a passion, and swore that if ever he caught sight of me near him again he would hand me over into custody.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000041_000001|'And remember, men are not given into custody for watching others,' he significantly added.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000041_000002|'I know you, and if you have any regard for yourself, you'll keep out of my way.'
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000043_000000|"When do you say this was?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000000|"A week ago.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000001|Well, I could not rest; I was half mad, I say, and went about, still trying if I could not discover his name and who he was.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000002|I did come upon him, but he was walking quickly, arm in arm with-with another gentleman.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000003|Again I saw him, standing at the entrance to the betting rooms, talking to the same gentleman, and his face turned savage-I believe with fear as much as anger-when he discerned me.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000005|That frightened me, and I slipped away.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000006|Two hours after, when I was in quite a different part of the town, in turning my head I saw the same policeman following me.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000007|I bolted under the horses of a passing vehicle, down some turnings and passages, out into another street, and up beside a cabman who was on his box, driving a fare past.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000008|I reached my lodgings in safety, as I thought, but happening to glance into the street, there I saw the man again, standing opposite, and reconnoitering the house.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000009|I had gone home hungry, but this took all my hunger away from me.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000044_000011|I have been pretty nearly ever since on my feet reaching here; I only got a lift now and then."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000045_000001|It has come to light that you were here before, disguised as a farm laborer."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000046_000000|"Who the deuce betrayed that?" interrupted Richard.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000047_000000|"I am unable to tell; I cannot even imagine.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000048_000001|I was forced to come here first and get a little money.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000048_000003|I don't possess a penny piece," he added, drawing out his trousers pockets for the inspection of mr Carlyle.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000048_000005|I have been outside that window for more than an hour, sir."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000049_000000|"Indeed!"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000050_000000|"And as I neared West Lynne I began to think what I should do.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000050_000003|I saw her leave the room; I saw you come to the window and open it, and then I spoke.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000050_000004|mr Carlyle," he added, after a pause, "is this life to go on with me forever?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000051_000000|"I am deeply sorry for you, Richard," was the sympathizing answer.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000052_000000|Before another word was spoken the room door was tried, and then gently knocked at.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000052_000001|mr Carlyle placed his hand on Richard, who was looking scared out of his wits.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000053_000000|"Be still; be at ease, Richard; no one shall come in.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000053_000001|It is only peter."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000054_000000|Not Peter's voice, however, but Joyce's was heard, in response to mr Carlyle's demand of who was there.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000057_000000|"Who was it?" quivered Richard, as Joyce was heard going away.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000058_000000|"It was Joyce."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000059_000000|"What!
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000059_000001|Is she here still?
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000061_000000|"Was she, though?" uttered Richard, beguiled for an instant from the thought of his own danger.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000061_000001|"What is she doing?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000062_000000|"She is in service as a lady's maid.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000063_000000|"It's not true!" fired Richard.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000063_000001|"It was Thorn."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000065_000000|"I know that no man could have rushed out in that frantic manner, with those signs of guilt and fear about him, unless he had been engaged in a bad deed," was Richard Hare's answer.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000065_000001|"It could have been no one else."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000067_000001|If Thorn were not Hallijohn's murderer, why should he be persecuting me-what would he care about me?
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000067_000002|And why should his face turn livid, as it has done, each time he has seen my eyes upon him?
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000067_000003|Whether he did commit the murder, or whether he didn't, he must know that I did not, because he came upon me, waiting, as he was tearing from the cottage."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000068_000000|Dick's reasoning was not bad.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000069_000000|"Another thing," he resumed.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000069_000002|How could she have sworn she was alone, if Thorn was with her?"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000070_000001|Yet her assertion to him had been most positive and solemn.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000070_000002|There were difficulties in the matter which he could not reconcile.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000071_000001|She'd no more tell an untruth than I should stick-"
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000072_000000|A most awful thundering at the room door-loud enough to bring the very house down.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000072_000001|No officers of justice, searching for a fugitive, ever made a louder.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000072_000003|That he purposed an attempt at chimney climbing was evident, though how the fire would have agreed with his pantaloons, not to speak of what they contained, poor Dick appeared completely to ignore.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000073_000000|"Richard, be a man, put aside this weakness, this fear.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000074_000000|"It may be that officer from London; he may have brought half a dozen more with him!" gasped the unhappy Richard.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000074_000001|"I said they might have dodged me all the way here."
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000075_000000|"Nonsense.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000076_000000|"Is it?" cried the relieved Richard.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000076_000001|"Can't you make her keep out?" he continued, his teeth still chattering.
train-other-500/20/5360/20_5360_000077_000001|"You remember what she was, Richard; she is not altered."
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000003_000000|CHAPTER fifty.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000003_000001|mr PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000004_000000|By this time, some months had passed since our interview on the bank of the river with Martha.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000004_000001|I had never seen her since, but she had communicated with mr Peggotty on several occasions.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000004_000002|Nothing had come of her zealous intervention; nor could I infer, from what he told me, that any clue had been obtained, for a moment, to Emily's fate.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000004_000003|I confess that I began to despair of her recovery, and gradually to sink deeper and deeper into the belief that she was dead.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000005_000000|His conviction remained unchanged.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000005_000001|So far as I know-and I believe his honest heart was transparent to me-he never wavered again, in his solemn certainty of finding her.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000005_000002|His patience never tired.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000005_000003|And, although I trembled for the agony it might one day be to him to have his strong assurance shivered at a blow, there was something so religious in it, so affectingly expressive of its anchor being in the purest depths of his fine nature, that the respect and honour in which I held him were exalted every day.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000000|His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000001|He had been a man of sturdy action all his life, and he knew that in all things wherein he wanted help he must do his own part faithfully, and help himself.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000002|I have known him set out in the night, on a misgiving that the light might not be, by some accident, in the window of the old boat, and walk to Yarmouth.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000003|I have known him, on reading something in the newspaper that might apply to her, take up his stick, and go forth on a journey of three-or four score miles.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000004|He made his way by sea to Naples, and back, after hearing the narrative to which Miss Dartle had assisted me.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000005|All his journeys were ruggedly performed; for he was always steadfast in a purpose of saving money for Emily's sake, when she should be found.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000006_000006|In all this long pursuit, I never heard him repine; I never heard him say he was fatigued, or out of heart.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000008_000000|One evening, at this hour, he told me that he had found Martha waiting near his lodging on the preceding night when he came out, and that she had asked him not to leave London on any account, until he should have seen her again.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000009_000000|'Did she tell you why?' I inquired.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000011_000000|'Did she say when you might expect to see her again?' I demanded.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000012_000001|'I asked that too; but it was more (she said) than she could tell.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000013_000001|Such speculations as it engendered within me I kept to myself, and those were faint enough.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000014_000000|I was walking alone in the garden, one evening, about a fortnight afterwards.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000014_000001|I remember that evening well.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000014_000003|There had been rain all day, and there was a damp feeling in the air.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000014_000004|The leaves were thick upon the trees, and heavy with wet; but the rain had ceased, though the sky was still dark; and the hopeful birds were singing cheerfully.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000014_000005|As I walked to and fro in the garden, and the twilight began to close around me, their little voices were hushed; and that peculiar silence which belongs to such an evening in the country when the lightest trees are quite still, save for the occasional droppings from their boughs, prevailed.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000015_000000|There was a little green perspective of trellis work and ivy at the side of our cottage, through which I could see, from the garden where I was walking, into the road before the house.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000015_000001|I happened to turn my eyes towards this place, as I was thinking of many things; and I saw a figure beyond, dressed in a plain cloak.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000015_000002|It was bending eagerly towards me, and beckoning.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000017_000000|'Can you come with me?' she inquired, in an agitated whisper.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000017_000001|'I have been to him, and he is not at home.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000017_000002|I wrote down where he was to come, and left it on his table with my own hand.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000017_000003|They said he would not be out long.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000017_000004|I have tidings for him.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000017_000005|Can you come directly?'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000018_000000|My answer was, to pass out at the gate immediately.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000019_000000|I asked her if that were not our destination?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000019_000001|On her motioning Yes, with the same hasty gesture as before, I stopped an empty coach that was coming by, and we got into it.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000019_000002|When I asked her where the coachman was to drive, she answered, 'Anywhere near Golden Square!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000019_000003|And quick!'--then shrunk into a corner, with one trembling hand before her face, and the other making the former gesture, as if she could not bear a voice.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000020_000000|Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000020_000001|But seeing how strongly she desired to remain quiet, and feeling that it was my own natural inclination too, at such a time, I did not attempt to break the silence. We proceeded without a word being spoken.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000021_000000|We alighted at one of the entrances to the Square she had mentioned, where I directed the coach to wait, not knowing but that we might have some occasion for it.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000021_000001|She laid her hand on my arm, and hurried me on to one of the sombre streets, of which there are several in that part, where the houses were once fair dwellings in the occupation of single families, but have, and had, long degenerated into poor lodgings let off in rooms.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000021_000002|Entering at the open door of one of these, and releasing my arm, she beckoned me to follow her up the common staircase, which was like a tributary channel to the street.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000022_000001|As we went up, doors of rooms were opened and people's heads put out; and we passed other people on the stairs, who were coming down.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000022_000003|It was a broad panelled staircase, with massive balustrades of some dark wood; cornices above the doors, ornamented with carved fruit and flowers; and broad seats in the windows.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000022_000004|But all these tokens of past grandeur were miserably decayed and dirty; rot, damp, and age, had weakened the flooring, which in many places was unsound and even unsafe.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000022_000005|Some attempts had been made, I noticed, to infuse new blood into this dwindling frame, by repairing the costly old wood work here and there with common deal; but it was like the marriage of a reduced old noble to a plebeian pauper, and each party to the ill assorted union shrunk away from the other.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000022_000006|Several of the back windows on the staircase had been darkened or wholly blocked up.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000022_000007|In those that remained, there was scarcely any glass; and, through the crumbling frames by which the bad air seemed always to come in, and never to go out, I saw, through other glassless windows, into other houses in a similar condition, and looked giddily down into a wretched yard, which was the common dust heap of the mansion.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000023_000000|We proceeded to the top storey of the house.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000023_000001|Two or three times, by the way, I thought I observed in the indistinct light the skirts of a female figure going up before us.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000023_000003|Then it turned the handle, and went in.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000024_000002|I don't know her!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000025_000000|I knew her.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000025_000001|I had recognized her with amazement, for Miss Dartle.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000026_000001|Martha, with an astonished look, repeated her former action, and softly led me up the stairs; and then, by a little back door which seemed to have no lock, and which she pushed open with a touch, into a small empty garret with a low sloping roof, little better than a cupboard.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000026_000003|Here we stopped, breathless with our ascent, and she placed her hand lightly on my lips.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000026_000006|Certainly, my companion could not, for my position was the best.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000026_000007|A dead silence prevailed for some moments.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000026_000008|Martha kept one hand on my lips, and raised the other in a listening attitude.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000027_000000|'It matters little to me her not being at home,' said Rosa Dartle haughtily, 'I know nothing of her.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000027_000001|It is you I come to see.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000028_000000|'Me?' replied a soft voice.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000029_000000|At the sound of it, a thrill went through my frame.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000029_000001|For it was Emily's!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000030_000000|'Yes,' returned Miss Dartle, 'I have come to look at you.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000030_000001|What?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000030_000002|You are not ashamed of the face that has done so much?'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000031_000000|The resolute and unrelenting hatred of her tone, its cold stern sharpness, and its mastered rage, presented her before me, as if I had seen her standing in the light.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000031_000001|I saw the flashing black eyes, and the passion wasted figure; and I saw the scar, with its white track cutting through her lips, quivering and throbbing as she spoke.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000032_000000|'I have come to see,' she said, 'james Steerforth's fancy; the girl who ran away with him, and is the town talk of the commonest people of her native place; the bold, flaunting, practised companion of persons like james Steerforth.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000032_000001|I want to know what such a thing is like.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000033_000000|There was a rustle, as if the unhappy girl, on whom she heaped these taunts, ran towards the door, and the speaker swiftly interposed herself before it.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000033_000001|It was succeeded by a moment's pause.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000034_000000|When Miss Dartle spoke again, it was through her set teeth, and with a stamp upon the ground.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000035_000000|'Stay there!' she said, 'or I'll proclaim you to the house, and the whole street!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000035_000001|If you try to evade me, I'll stop you, if it's by the hair, and raise the very stones against you!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000036_000001|A silence succeeded.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000036_000002|I did not know what to do.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000036_000004|Would he never come? I thought impatiently.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000037_000000|'So!' said Rosa Dartle, with a contemptuous laugh, 'I see her at last! Why, he was a poor creature to be taken by that delicate mock modesty, and that hanging head!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000038_000000|'Oh, for Heaven's sake, spare me!' exclaimed Emily.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000038_000001|'Whoever you are, you know my pitiable story, and for Heaven's sake spare me, if you would be spared yourself!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000040_000000|'Nothing but our sex,' said Emily, with a burst of tears.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000041_000001|Our sex!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000041_000002|You are an honour to our sex!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000042_000000|'I have deserved this,' said Emily, 'but it's dreadful!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000042_000001|Dear, dear lady, think what I have suffered, and how I am fallen!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000042_000002|Oh, Martha, come back! Oh, home, home!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000044_000000|'Listen to what I say!' she said; 'and reserve your false arts for your dupes.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000044_000001|Do you hope to move me by your tears?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000044_000002|No more than you could charm me by your smiles, you purchased slave.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000046_000000|'It would be no great penance,' said Rosa Dartle, 'for your crimes.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000046_000001|Do you know what you have done?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000046_000002|Do you ever think of the home you have laid waste?'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000047_000003|I have none, none, no comfort upon earth, for all of them were always fond of me!' She dropped on her face, before the imperious figure in the chair, with an imploring effort to clasp the skirt of her dress.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000048_000000|Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000048_000001|Her lips were tightly compressed, as if she knew that she must keep a strong constraint upon herself-I write what I sincerely believe-or she would be tempted to strike the beautiful form with her foot.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000048_000002|I saw her, distinctly, and the whole power of her face and character seemed forced into that expression.---Would he never come?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000049_000000|'The miserable vanity of these earth worms!' she said, when she had so far controlled the angry heavings of her breast, that she could trust herself to speak.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000049_000001|'YOUR home!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000049_000003|YOUR home!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000050_000000|'Oh, not that!' cried Emily.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000050_000001|'Say anything of me; but don't visit my disgrace and shame, more than I have done, on folks who are as honourable as you!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000050_000002|Have some respect for them, as you are a lady, if you have no mercy for me.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000051_000000|'I speak,' she said, not deigning to take any heed of this appeal, and drawing away her dress from the contamination of Emily's touch, 'I speak of HIS home-where I live.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000051_000001|Here,' she said, stretching out her hand with her contemptuous laugh, and looking down upon the prostrate girl, 'is a worthy cause of division between lady mother and gentleman son; of grief in a house where she wouldn't have been admitted as a kitchen girl; of anger, and repining, and reproach.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000051_000002|This piece of pollution, picked up from the water side, to be made much of for an hour, and then tossed back to her original place!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000052_000000|'No! no!' cried Emily, clasping her hands together.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000052_000002|If you live in his home and know him, you know, perhaps, what his power with a weak, vain girl might be.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000053_000000|Rosa Dartle sprang up from her seat; recoiled; and in recoiling struck at her, with a face of such malignity, so darkened and disfigured by passion, that I had almost thrown myself between them.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000053_000001|The blow, which had no aim, fell upon the air.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000053_000002|As she now stood panting, looking at her with the utmost detestation that she was capable of expressing, and trembling from head to foot with rage and scorn, I thought I had never seen such a sight, and never could see such another.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000054_000000|'YOU love him?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000055_000000|Emily had shrunk out of my view.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000055_000001|There was no reply.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000056_000002|If I could order it to be done, I would have this girl whipped to death.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000057_000000|And so she would, I have no doubt.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000058_000000|'SHE love!' she said.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000058_000002|And he ever cared for her, she'd tell me.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000058_000003|Ha, ha!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000058_000004|The liars that these traders are!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000059_000000|Her mockery was worse than her undisguised rage.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000059_000001|Of the two, I would have much preferred to be the object of the latter.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000059_000002|But, when she suffered it to break loose, it was only for a moment.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000000|'I came here, you pure fountain of love,' she said, 'to see-as I began by telling you-what such a thing as you was like.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000001|I was curious.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000002|I am satisfied.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000003|Also to tell you, that you had best seek that home of yours, with all speed, and hide your head among those excellent people who are expecting you, and whom your money will console.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000004|When it's all gone, you can believe, and trust, and love again, you know!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000005|I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000006|But, finding you true gold, a very lady, and an ill used innocent, with a fresh heart full of love and trustfulness-which you look like, and is quite consistent with your story!--I have something more to say.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000007|Attend to it; for what I say I'll do.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000008|Do you hear me, you fairy spirit?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000060_000009|What I say, I mean to do!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000061_000000|Her rage got the better of her again, for a moment; but it passed over her face like a spasm, and left her smiling.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000062_000000|'Hide yourself,' she pursued, 'if not at home, somewhere.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000062_000001|Let it be somewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life-or, better still, in some obscure death.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000062_000002|I wonder, if your loving heart will not break, you have found no way of helping it to be still!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000062_000003|I have heard of such means sometimes.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000062_000004|I believe they may be easily found.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000063_000000|A low crying, on the part of Emily, interrupted her here.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000063_000001|She stopped, and listened to it as if it were music.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000000|'I am of a strange nature, perhaps,' Rosa Dartle went on; 'but I can't breathe freely in the air you breathe.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000001|I find it sickly.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000002|Therefore, I will have it cleared; I will have it purified of you.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000003|If you live here tomorrow, I'll have your story and your character proclaimed on the common stair.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000004|There are decent women in the house, I am told; and it is a pity such a light as you should be among them, and concealed.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000005|If, leaving here, you seek any refuge in this town in any character but your true one (which you are welcome to bear, without molestation from me), the same service shall be done you, if I hear of your retreat.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000064_000006|Being assisted by a gentleman who not long ago aspired to the favour of your hand, I am sanguine as to that.'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000065_000000|Would he never, never come?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000065_000001|How long was I to bear this?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000065_000002|How long could I bear it?
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000065_000003|'Oh me, oh me!' exclaimed the wretched Emily, in a tone that might have touched the hardest heart, I should have thought; but there was no relenting in Rosa Dartle's smile.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000065_000004|'What, what, shall I do!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000066_000000|'Do?' returned the other.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000066_000001|'Live happy in your own reflections! Consecrate your existence to the recollection of james Steerforth's tenderness-he would have made you his serving man's wife, would he not?---or to feeling grateful to the upright and deserving creature who would have taken you as his gift.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000066_000003|If this will not do either, die!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000066_000004|There are doorways and dust heaps for such deaths, and such despair-find one, and take your flight to Heaven!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000067_000000|I heard a distant foot upon the stairs.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000067_000001|I knew it, I was certain.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000067_000002|It was his, thank God!
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000068_000000|She moved slowly from before the door when she said this, and passed out of my sight.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000069_000000|'But mark!' she added, slowly and sternly, opening the other door to go away, 'I am resolved, for reasons that I have and hatreds that I entertain, to cast you out, unless you withdraw from my reach altogether, or drop your pretty mask.
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000069_000001|This is what I had to say; and what I say, I mean to do!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000071_000000|'Uncle!'
train-other-500/2001/144499/2001_144499_000072_000000|A fearful cry followed the word.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000001_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000002_000000|HOW HIGH THE WATER CAME.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000004_000001|The thunder pealed so that the reports of our pieces seemed feeble, more like the crack of a cart whip, and their flashes were as sparks compared with the blinding lightning, which darted and quivered in the gorge, at times seeming to lick the walls, at others plunging into the rushing, seething stream, into which the rain poured in very cataracts down the rocky sides.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000006_000001|Jimmy, too, seemed to be transformed into as brave a black warrior as ever fought; and it was the gallant resistance offered that checked the enemy and made them recoil.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000009_000000|I stared after them, wondering that they should give way just at a time when a bold attack would probably have ended in our destruction; but I could make out nothing, only that the noise of the thunder still seemed to continue and grow into a sound like a fierce rush.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000009_000001|But this was nothing new: the thunder had been going on before, and that and the blinding lightning the enemy had braved.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000009_000002|Our defence had had no effect upon them, save to make them attack more fiercely.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000009_000003|And yet they were now in full retreat, falling over each other in their haste, and we saw two thrust into the swift river.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000011_000000|I turned aghast to the doctor, and then made as if to run, expecting that the next moment we should be swept away; but he caught me by the arm with a grip like iron.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000012_000000|"Stand still," he roared, with his lips to my ear.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000013_000000|Just then there was another crashing peal of thunder, close upon a flash of lightning, and the hissing rain ceased as if by magic, while the sky began to grow lighter.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000014_000000|The noise was not so great though, now, that we could not talk, and after recovering from the appalling shock of the new danger we had time to look around.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000019_000000|"How high above the surface of the water were we, do you think, when we came here?"
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000020_000000|"I should say about twenty five feet?"
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000021_000000|"Why, we ain't four foot above it now; and-look there!
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000021_000002|I say, Joe Carstairs, if I'd known we were going to be drowned I wouldn't have come."
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000025_000000|"Here, you hold your noise," cried Jack Penny.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000025_000001|"You don't hear us holler, do you?
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000025_000002|Lie down!"
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000026_000000|The dog howled softly and crouched at his master's feet, while Jack began to take off his clothes in a very slow and leisurely way.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000026_000001|First he pulled off his boots, then his stockings, which he tucked methodically, along with his garters, inside his boots.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000030_000001|"Why, what are you going to do?"
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000031_000000|"Do!" he said.
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000031_000002|You don't suppose I'm going to try in my clothes?"
train-other-500/2003/143254/2003_143254_000032_000000|My mirth died out as swiftly as it came, for the doctor laid his hand upon my arm and pressed it silently, to call my attention to our black followers, who were laying their bows and arrows regularly in company with their waddies, each man looking very stern and grave.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000000_000000|WE AWAIT OUR FATE.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000001_000000|I glanced from the blacks to the doctor, to see that he was intently gazing up the gorge where the rushing water came seething down, and I read in his face that he could not see the slightest hope.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000005_000000|"Can we do anything, doctor?" I said at last in a low awe stricken voice.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000007_000000|"No, my lad," he said, "nothing.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000009_000001|For it seemed so hard to give up hope when so young and full of health and strength.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000012_000000|I nodded.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000013_000000|"That's right," he said.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000013_000001|"I shall do the same.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000013_000002|We might reach some ledge lower down."
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000017_000000|"No water go down," he said.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000017_000002|Top along get drown, die, and bunyip pull um down an eat um!"
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000018_000000|"I'm afraid escape is impossible, Jimmy," I said sadly.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000020_000000|"Can't get away," I said.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000021_000001|Waitum, waitum!
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000021_000002|Jimmy-Jimmy see!"
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000023_000000|It did not seem to occur to him at first that if he were able to escape no one else would be, and he tried twice with a wonderful display of activity, which resulted merely in his slipping back.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000025_000000|"Get much, too much water, Mass Joe!" he said.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000025_000001|"What um going to do?"
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000031_000000|I had gone to the extreme edge of the ledge, where the water nearly lapped my feet, and gazing straight up the gorge at the sunlit waters, kept backing slowly up the slope, driven away as the river rose, when the black came to me and touched my shoulder.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000033_000000|"But how are we to get away, Jimmy?
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000033_000001|How are we to escape?"
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000034_000000|"Black fellow hab big tink," he replied.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000034_000001|"Much big tink and find um way.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000034_000004|Mass Joe hab big swim 'long o' Jimmy.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000036_000000|"Mass Joe take off closums.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000036_000001|Put long gun up in corner; come and fetch um when no water.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000036_000002|Big swim!"
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000042_000000|"Quite right, my lad," he said; "one must never say despair.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000042_000001|There's a ledge there higher up where we will place the ammunition.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000042_000002|Let's keep that dry if we can.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000046_000000|So we worked on, with many a furtive glance at the water, which kept on encroaching till it began to lap the feet of our black companions.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000047_000000|But they did not stir; they remained with their positions unaltered, and still the water advanced, till the highest point of the ledge was covered, and Gyp began whining and paddling about, asking us, as it were, with his intelligent eyes, whether we did not mean to start.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000049_000000|The dog leaped up directly, placing himself three feet above the flood, and stood barking loudly.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000052_000001|We withstood the heavy wrench that the water seemed to give, and held on, the only one who lost his footing being Jack Penny, who was dragged back by the doctor as the wave passed on.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000053_000001|"I say, please don't do it again.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000054_000000|Higher and higher came the water, icily cold and numbing.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000055_000000|A fearful silence now ensued, and the thought came upon me that when the final struggle was at hand we should be so clasped together that swimming would be impossible and we must all be drowned.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000059_000000|The next minute Gyp was barking furiously, as he stood upon his hind legs resting his paws upon his master's shoulders, and Jimmy gave a loud shout.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000063_000000|"Big bunyip got no more water.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000063_000001|All gone dis time," said Jimmy calmly. "Poor black fellows tink go die.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000063_000002|No die Jimmy.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000063_000005|Bunyip not got 'nuff water.
train-other-500/2003/143255/2003_143255_000063_000006|Give Jimmy something eat. Ready eat half sheep and damper.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000002_000000|PROMETHEUS, THE FRIEND OF MAN
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000003_000000|Many, many centuries ago there lived two brothers, Prometheus or Forethought, and Epimetheus or Afterthought.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000004_000000|Prometheus, however, did not care for idle life among the gods on Mount Olympus.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000004_000001|Instead he preferred to spend his time on the earth, helping men to find easier and better ways of living.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000004_000003|Indeed, they were very poor and wretched and cold, without fire, without food, and with no shelter but miserable caves.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000005_000000|"With fire they could at least warm their bodies and cook their food," Prometheus thought, "and later they could make tools and build houses for themselves and enjoy some of the comforts of the gods."
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000006_000001|But Jupiter shook his head in wrath.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000007_000000|"Fire, indeed!" he exclaimed.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000007_000002|Never will I give my consent."
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000008_000001|"Some other way must be found," he thought.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000010_000000|"At last!
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000011_000000|Immediately, taking a long stalk in his hands, he set out for the dwelling of the sun in the far east.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000011_000001|He reached there in the early morning, just as Apollo's chariot was about to begin its journey across the sky.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000011_000002|Lighting his reed, he hurried back, carefully guarding the precious spark that was hidden in the hollow stalk.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000012_000000|Then he showed men how to build fires for themselves, and it was not long before they began to do all the wonderful things of which Prometheus had dreamed.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000012_000001|They learned to cook and to domesticate animals and to till the fields and to mine precious metals and melt them into tools and weapons.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000012_000002|And they came out of their dark and gloomy caves and built for themselves beautiful houses of wood and stone.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000012_000004|"Behold, the Age of Gold has come again," they said.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000013_000000|But Jupiter was not so happy.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000014_000000|"That young Titan!" he cried out, when he heard what Prometheus had done.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000014_000001|"I will punish him."
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000015_000001|When the work was done he carried it to Olympus.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000016_000000|Jupiter called the other gods together, bidding them give her each a gift.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000016_000001|One bestowed upon her beauty, another, kindness, another, skill, another, curiosity, and so on.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000016_000002|Jupiter himself gave her the gift of life, and they named her Pandora, which means "all gifted."
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000017_000000|Then Mercury, the messenger of the gods, took Pandora and led her down the mountain side to the place where Prometheus and his brother were living.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000019_000000|"Epimetheus, here is a beautiful woman that Jupiter has sent to be your wife," he said.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000020_000000|Epimetheus was delighted and soon loved Pandora very deeply, because of her beauty and her goodness.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000021_000002|Perhaps it held beautiful jewels.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000021_000003|Why should they go to waste?
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000022_000001|She opened the box just a little to take a peep inside.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000022_000003|They were diseases and troubles, and very glad they were to be free.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000023_000000|All over the earth they flew, entering into every household, and carrying sorrow and distress wherever they went.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000024_000000|How Jupiter must have laughed when he saw the result of Pandora's curiosity!
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000026_000003|Men were sorry for him, but could do nothing.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000027_000000|Then one day a beautiful white cow passed over the mountain, and stopped to look at Prometheus with sad eyes.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000028_000000|"I know you," Prometheus said.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000028_000002|Go southward and then west until you come to the great river Nile.
train-other-500/2013/147609/2013_147609_000028_000003|There you shall again become a maiden, fairer than ever before, and shall marry the king of that country.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000000_000000|THE LABORS OF HERCULES
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000001_000002|So Eurystheus became king in Mycene, and the later born Hercules remained inferior to him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000003_000000|Nevertheless the hero son of a god could not make up his mind easily to render service to a mere mortal.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000003_000002|This was the answer:
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000005_000000|Hereupon Hercules fell into deep trouble.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000005_000001|To serve a man of less importance than himself hurt his dignity and self esteem; but Jupiter would not listen to his complaints.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000006_000000|THE FIRST LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000007_000000|The first labor that Eurystheus assigned to Hercules was to bring him the skin of the Nemean lion.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000007_000001|This monster dwelt on the mountain of Peloponnesus, in the forest between Kleona and Nemea, and could be wounded by no weapons made of man.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000008_000000|Hercules set out on his journey and came to Kleona, where a poor laborer, Molorchus, received him hospitably.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000010_000001|When he at last entered the Nemean wood, he looked carefully in every direction in order that he might catch sight of the monster lion before the lion should see him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000010_000003|He met no man in the field or in the forest: fear held them all shut up in their distant dwellings.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000011_000000|At last, toward evening, the monster came through the forest, returning from his trap in a deep fissure of the earth.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000012_000000|He was saturated with blood: head, mane and breast were reeking, and his great tongue was licking his jaws.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000012_000001|The hero, who saw him coming long before he was near, took refuge in a thicket and waited until the lion approached; then with his arrow he shot him in the side.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000013_000000|Then the animal raised his bloody head; looked around in every direction, and in fierce anger showed his ugly teeth.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000014_000000|Hercules took a third arrow, while the lion, casting his eyes to the side, watched him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000014_000001|His whole neck swelled with anger; he roared, and his back was bent like a bow.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000014_000003|Before he could take another breath, Hercules was upon him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000015_000003|At last the idea occurred to him of tearing it with the animal's own claws, and this method immediately succeeded.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000017_000000|THE SECOND LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000018_000000|The second labor consisted in destroying a hydra.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000018_000001|This monster dwelt in the swamp of Lerna, but came occasionally over the country, destroying herds and laying waste the fields.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000019_000000|Hercules set out with high courage for this fight.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000020_000000|At last the hydra was visible on a hill by the springs of Amymone, where its lair was found.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000021_000000|Undismayed, Hercules approached it, seized it, and held it fast.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000021_000001|But the snake wrapped itself around one of his feet.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000021_000002|Then he began with his sword to cut off its heads.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000021_000003|But this looked like an endless task, for no sooner had he cut off one head than two grew in its place.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000021_000004|At the same time an enormous crab came to the help of the hydra and began biting the hero's foot.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000021_000005|Killing this with his club, he called to Iolaus for help.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000022_000000|The latter had lighted a torch, set fire to a portion of the nearby wood, and with brands therefrom touched the serpent's newly growing heads and prevented them from living.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000022_000002|This he buried deep in the ground and rolled a heavy stone over the place.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000022_000003|The body of the hydra he cut into half, dipping his arrows in the blood, which was poisonous.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000023_000000|From that time the wounds made by the arrows of Hercules were fatal.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000024_000000|THE THIRD LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000025_000001|This was a noble animal, with horns of gold and feet of iron.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000025_000002|She lived on a hill in Arcadia, and was one of the five hinds which the goddess Diana had caught on her first hunt.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000026_000001|But he knew of no way of becoming master of the animal without wounding her, so he lamed her with an arrow and then carried her over his shoulder through Arcadia.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000027_000000|Here he met Diana herself with Apollo, who scolded him for wishing to kill the animal that she had held sacred, and was about to take it from him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000028_000001|How otherwise could I hold my own against Eurystheus?"
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000029_000000|And thus he softened the anger of the goddess and brought the animal to Mycene.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000030_000000|THE FOURTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000031_000000|Then Hercules set out on his fourth undertaking.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000032_000000|On his wanderings in search of this adventure he came to the dwelling of Pholus, the son of Silenus.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000032_000001|Like all Centaurs, Pholus was half man and half horse.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000032_000003|But Hercules, not satisfied with this, wished also to have something good to drink.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000033_000000|"Dear guest," said Pholus, "there is a cask in my cellar; but it belongs to all the Centaurs jointly, and I hesitate to open it because I know how little they welcome guests."
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000034_000000|"Open it with good courage," answered Hercules, "I promise to defend you against all displeasure."
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000036_000000|Pholus went to the cellar and opened the wonderful cask.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000036_000001|But scarcely had he done so when the Centaurs caught the perfume of the rare old wine, and, armed with stones and pine clubs, surrounded the cave of Pholus.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000036_000002|The first who tried to force their way in Hercules drove back with brands he seized from the fire.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000037_000000|But Hercules still continued shooting, and sent an arrow through the arm of an old Centaur, which unhappily went quite through and fell on Chiron's knee, piercing the flesh.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000037_000002|But the wound, filled with the poison of the hydra, could not be healed; so the centaur was carried into his cave.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000037_000003|There he wished to die in the arms of his friend.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000037_000004|Vain wish!
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000038_000000|Then Hercules with many tears bade farewell to his old teacher and promised to send to him, no matter at what price, the great deliverer, Death.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000038_000001|And we know that he kept his word.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000039_000000|When Hercules from the pursuit of the other Centaurs returned to the dwelling of Pholus he found him also dead.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000041_000000|THE FIFTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000042_000000|Thereupon King Eurystheus sent him upon the fifth labor, which was one little worthy of a hero.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000044_000001|But he said to himself: "Necessity has driven many a brave man; perhaps this one wishes to enrich himself through me.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000044_000002|That will help him little.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000045_000000|"Listen, O stranger.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000045_000001|If you clean all of my stables in one day, I will give over to you the tenth part of all my possessions in cattle."
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000046_000002|So he accomplished the menial work without stooping to anything unworthy of an immortal.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000047_000001|When the judges were assembled, Phyleus, commanded by Hercules to appear, testified against his father, and explained how he had agreed to offer Hercules a reward.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000047_000002|Augeas did not wait for the decision; he grew angry and commanded his son as well as the stranger to leave his kingdom instantly.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000048_000000|THE SIXTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000049_000000|Hercules now returned with new adventures to Eurystheus; but the latter would not give him credit for the task because Hercules had demanded a reward for his labor.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000051_000000|After a short journey Hercules, accustomed to wandering, arrived at the lake, which was thickly shaded by a wood.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000051_000001|Into this wood a great flock of the birds had flown for fear of being robbed by wolves. The hero stood undecided when he saw the frightful crowd, not knowing how he could become master over so many enemies.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000052_000000|Hercules mounted a hill near the lake, and began frightening the birds by the noise of the rattles.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000053_000000|THE SEVENTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000054_000001|Therefore the god caused a very beautiful ox to rise out of the sea.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000054_000004|To capture this animal, master it, and bring it before Eurystheus, was the seventh labor of Hercules.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000055_000001|Hercules approached the dreadful monster without fear, and so thoroughly did he master him that he rode home on the animal the whole way to the sea.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000056_000000|With this work Eurystheus was pleased, and after he had regarded the animal for a time with pleasure, set it free.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000057_000000|THE EIGHTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000058_000001|Diomede was a son of Mars and ruler of the Bistonians, a very warlike people.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000058_000002|He had mares so wild and strong that they had to be fastened with iron chains.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000058_000003|Their fodder was chiefly hay; but strangers who had the misfortune to come into the city were thrown before them, their flesh serving the animals as food.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000059_000000|When Hercules arrived the first thing he did was to seize the inhuman king himself and after he had overpowered the keepers, throw him before his own mares.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000059_000001|With this food the animals were satisfied and Hercules was able to drive them to the sea.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000060_000000|But the Bistonians followed him with weapons, and Hercules was forced to turn and fight them.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000061_000000|Hercules, returning, was greatly grieved over this loss, and later founded a city in honor of Abderus, naming it after his lost friend. For the present he was content to master the mares and drive them without further mishap to Eurystheus.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000062_000000|The latter consecrated the horses to Juno.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000062_000001|Their descendants were very powerful, and the great king Alexander of Macedonia rode one of them.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000063_000000|THE NINTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000064_000000|Returning from a long journey, the hero undertook an expedition against the Amazons in order to finish the ninth adventure and bring to King Eurystheus the sword belt of the Amazon Hippolyta.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000065_000001|From their children they selected only such as were girls.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000066_000000|Hercules gathered his warrior companions together into a ship, sailed after many adventures into the Black Sea and at last into the mouth of the river Thermodon, and the harbor of the Amazon city Themiscira. Here the queen of the Amazons met him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000067_000001|But Juno, the relentless enemy of Hercules, assuming the form of an Amazon, mingled among the others and spread the news that a stranger was about to lead away their queen.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000068_000000|The first who began fighting with him was called, because of her swiftness, Aella, or Bride of the Wind; but she found in Hercules a swifter opponent, was forced to yield and was in her swift flight overtaken by him and vanquished.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000070_000000|THE TENTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000072_000004|For these very reasons had Eurystheus given the task to Hercules, for he hoped that his hated existence would at last be ended in a war in such a country.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000074_000000|After long wandering through desert country he came at last to a fruitful land, through which great streams flowed.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000074_000002|Then at last he reached the Atlantic Ocean and planted the two mighty pillars which bear his name.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000077_000000|As soon as the two headed dog knew of his approach he sprang toward him; but Hercules struck him with his club and killed him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000077_000001|He killed also the giant herdsman who came to the help of the dog.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000077_000002|Then he hurried away with the cattle.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000078_000000|But Geryone overtook him and there was a fierce struggle.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000078_000002|Even the threefold body of the giant which ran together in the region of the stomach, felt the might of the deadly arrows and was forced to yield.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000079_000002|Then the hero pursued his way without misfortune through Italy, Illyria and Thrace to Greece.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000081_000000|THE ELEVENTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000082_000001|So she caused to spring forth on the western borders of the great world sea a many branched tree full of golden apples.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000082_000003|Sleep came never to the eyes of this dragon and a fearful hissing sound warned one of his presence, for each of his hundred throats had a different voice.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000082_000004|From this monster, so was the command of Eurystheus, should Hercules seize the golden apples.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000085_000002|Then appeared Mars, the god of war, himself, to avenge the death of his son; and Hercules was forced to fight with him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000086_000001|To these Hercules put his question.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000087_000000|"Go to the old river god Nereus," was their answer.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000087_000001|"He is a seer and knows all things.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000087_000002|Surprise him while he sleeps and bind him; then he will be forced to tell you the right way."
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000088_000000|Hercules followed this advice and became master of the river god, although the latter, according to his custom, assumed many different forms.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000089_000000|Informed of this, he went on his way toward Libya and Egypt.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000089_000001|Over the latter land ruled Busiris, the son of Neptune and Lysianassa.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000089_000002|To him during the period of a nine year famine a prophet had borne the oracular message that the land would again bear fruit if a stranger were sacrificed once a year to Jupiter.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000089_000003|In gratitude Busiris made a beginning with the priest himself.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000089_000004|Later he found great pleasure in the custom and killed all strangers who came to Egypt.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000089_000005|So Hercules was seized and placed on the altar of Jupiter.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000090_000000|With many adventures the hero continued his way, set free, as has been told elsewhere, Prometheus, the Titan, who was bound to the Caucasus Mountains, and came at last to the place where Atlas stood carrying the weight of the heavens on his shoulders.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000091_000000|Prometheus had advised the hero not to attempt himself to make the robbery of the golden fruit, but to send Atlas on the errand.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000091_000001|The giant offered to do this if Hercules would support the heavens while he went.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000091_000002|This Hercules consented to do, and Atlas set out.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000091_000003|He put to sleep the dragon who lived beneath the tree and killed him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000091_000004|Then with a trick he got the better of the keepers, and returned happily to Hercules with the three apples which he had plucked.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000092_000000|"But," he said, "I have now found out how it feels to be relieved of the heavy burden of the heavens.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000092_000001|I will not carry them any longer." Then he threw the apples down at the feet of the hero, and left him standing with the unaccustomed, awful weight upon his shoulders.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000093_000000|Hercules had to think of a trick in order to get away.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000094_000000|Atlas found this new demand reasonable, and consented to take over the burden again for a few minutes.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000094_000001|But the deceiver was at last deceived, and Hercules picked up the apples from the ground and set out on his way back.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000095_000000|THE TWELFTH LABOR
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000096_000000|Instead of destroying his hated enemy the labors which Eurystheus had imposed upon Hercules had only strengthened the hero in the fame for which fate had selected him.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000096_000001|He had become the protector of all the wronged upon earth, and the boldest adventurer among mortals.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000099_000000|Then, with strength to meet the horrors of the underworld, Hercules traveled on to Peloponnesus, and to the Laconian city of Taenarus, which contained the opening to the lower world.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000099_000003|Only the Gorgon Medusa and the spirit of Meleager remained.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000100_000001|Still nearer to the gates of Hades Hercules caught sight of his friends Theseus and Pirithous.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000100_000002|When both saw the friendly form of Hercules they stretched beseeching hands towards him, trembling with the hope that through his strength they might again reach the upper world.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000100_000003|Hercules grasped Theseus by the hand, freed him from his chains and raised him from the ground.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000101_000003|So the hero set out, protected only with cuirass and the lion skin.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000103_000000|He held the neck of Cerberus firm, and did not let go until he was really master of the monster.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000103_000001|Then he raised it, and through another opening of Hades returned in happiness to his own country.
train-other-500/2013/147610/2013_147610_000104_000000|Now at last the king doubted whether he could ever rid himself of the hated son of Jupiter.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000000_000002|But the hope faded when she saw Diana's dejected countenance.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000001_000000|"Your mother hasn't relented?" she gasped.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000002_000000|Diana shook her head mournfully.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000003_000000|"No; and oh, Anne, she says I'm never to play with you again.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000003_000002|I had ever such a time coaxing her to let me come down and say good bye to you.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000003_000003|She said I was only to stay ten minutes and she's timing me by the clock."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000004_000000|"Ten minutes isn't very long to say an eternal farewell in," said Anne tearfully.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000004_000001|"Oh, Diana, will you promise faithfully never to forget me, the friend of your youth, no matter what dearer friends may caress thee?"
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000005_000000|"Indeed I will," sobbed Diana, "and I'll never have another bosom friend-I don't want to have.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000005_000001|I couldn't love anybody as I love you."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000007_000001|Didn't you know that?"
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000008_000000|"no" Anne drew a long breath.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000008_000001|"I thought you LIKED me of course but I never hoped you LOVED me.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000008_000002|Why, Diana, I didn't think anybody could love me.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000008_000003|Nobody ever has loved me since I can remember.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000008_000004|Oh, this is wonderful!
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000008_000006|Oh, just say it once again."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000009_000000|"I love you devotedly, Anne," said Diana stanchly, "and I always will, you may be sure of that."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000010_000001|"In the years to come thy memory will shine like a star over my lonely life, as that last story we read together says.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000010_000002|Diana, wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet black tresses in parting to treasure forevermore?"
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000012_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000012_000001|I've got my patchwork scissors in my apron pocket fortunately," said Anne.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000012_000002|She solemnly clipped one of Diana's curls.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000012_000003|"Fare thee well, my beloved friend.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000012_000004|Henceforth we must be as strangers though living side by side.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000013_000001|Then she returned to the house, not a little consoled for the time being by this romantic parting.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000014_000001|"I shall never have another friend.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000014_000004|It will be sacred in my memory forever.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000014_000006|Please see that it is buried with me, for I don't believe I'll live very long.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000015_000000|"I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000016_000000|The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000017_000002|In school I can look at her and muse over days departed."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000018_000001|"If you're going back to school I hope we'll hear no more of breaking slates over people's heads and such carryings on.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000018_000002|Behave yourself and do just what your teacher tells you."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000000|"I'll try to be a model pupil," agreed Anne dolefully.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000001|"There won't be much fun in it, I expect.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000002|mr Phillips said Minnie Andrews was a model pupil and there isn't a spark of imagination or life in her.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000003|She is just dull and poky and never seems to have a good time.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000004|But I feel so depressed that perhaps it will come easy to me now.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000005|I'm going round by the road.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000006|I couldn't bear to go by the Birch Path all alone.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000019_000007|I should weep bitter tears if I did."
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000020_000000|Anne was welcomed back to school with open arms.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000020_000003|Sophia Sloane offered to teach her a perfectly elegant new pattern of knit lace, so nice for trimming aprons.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000020_000004|Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000023_000000|The girls were not the only scholars who "appreciated" her.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000023_000003|The apple lay untouched on her desk until the next morning, when little Timothy Andrews, who swept the school and kindled the fire, annexed it as one of his perquisites.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000024_000000|But as,
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000025_000000|The Caesar's pageant shorn of Brutus' bust Did but of Rome's best son remind her more,
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000029_000000|Mother says I'm not to play with you or talk to you even in school.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000029_000001|It isn't my fault and don't be cross at me, because I love you as much as ever.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000029_000004|They are awfully fashionable now and only three girls in school know how to make them.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000029_000005|When you look at it remember
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000030_000000|Your true friend
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000031_000000|Diana Barry.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000033_000000|My own darling Diana:--
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000035_000000|Yours until death us do part
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000037_000000|p s I shall sleep with your letter under my pillow tonight.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000037_000001|A. o r c s
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000000|Marilla pessimistically expected more trouble since Anne had again begun to go to school.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000001|But none developed.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000004|She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000005|She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000007|One morning Gilbert had all his sums done correctly and had his name written on the blackboard on the roll of honor; the next morning Anne, having wrestled wildly with decimals the entire evening before, would be first.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000008|One awful day they were ties and their names were written up together.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000009|It was almost as bad as a take notice and Anne's mortification was as evident as Gilbert's satisfaction.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000010|When the written examinations at the end of each month were held the suspense was terrible.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000011|The first month Gilbert came out three marks ahead.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000013|But her triumph was marred by the fact that Gilbert congratulated her heartily before the whole school.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000038_000014|It would have been ever so much sweeter to her if he had felt the sting of his defeat.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000039_000000|mr Phillips might not be a very good teacher; but a pupil so inflexibly determined on learning as Anne was could hardly escape making progress under any kind of teacher.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000040_000000|"It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000040_000001|"I'm sure I'll never be able to make head or tail of it.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000040_000002|There is no scope for imagination in it at all.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000040_000004|It is extremely mortifying, Marilla.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000041_000000|"Even Diana gets along better than I do.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000041_000001|But I don't mind being beaten by Diana.
train-other-500/202/122857/202_122857_000041_000003|It makes me very sad at times to think about her.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000002_000001|A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000003_000001|Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000006_000001|Bumbleshook
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000007_000001|That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000008_000001|The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000009_000001|A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000011_000002|It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000012_000001|One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000013_000001|The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000013_000002|It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike dr Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000013_000003|The memory of dr Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science:
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000014_000001|This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered."
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000015_000000|Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000016_000001|A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000016_000002|The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000018_000002|It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000019_000001|An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000019_000002|This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians-may their souls be happy in Heaven!
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000022_000000|g j
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000023_000001|To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000023_000002|By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000023_000003|The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000024_000002|It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000025_000001|A special (but not particular) kind of liar.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000026_000001|The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000027_000000|The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face- 'twas pallid, for 'twas clean.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000030_000001|All there is in the world if you like it.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000032_000000|Arbely c Strunk
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000033_000001|Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000034_000001|A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off-to Missolonghi.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000035_000001|The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed gown of a love letter.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000036_000001|Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000037_000001|An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy-that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000038_000001|An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000040_000000|We know better the needs of ourselves than of others.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000040_000001|To serve oneself is economy of administration.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000042_000000|There are three sexes; males, females and girls.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000043_000001|They have less to be ashamed of.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000045_000001|An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000045_000002|Following is a touching example:
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000047_000001|Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000050_000002|It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000051_000001|The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000052_000002|In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000053_000001|Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000054_000001|A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000055_000001|Lasting forever.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000056_000002|"The exception proves the rule" is an expression constantly upon the lips of the ignorant, who parrot it from one another with never a thought of its absurdity.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000056_000004|The malefactor who drew the meaning from this excellent dictum and substituted a contrary one of his own exerted an evil power which appears to be immortal.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000063_000002|Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain. LUNARIAN: I see.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000063_000005|So how can any one know?
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000064_000001|In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut brown discomfort.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000065_000001|One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000066_000000|An English sea captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000067_000001|Made a joke on the ex Isle of Erin.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000067_000002|Coldly received.
train-other-500/202/129387/202_129387_000067_000003|War with the whole world!
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000002_000001|We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were-bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000003_000001|I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000003_000002|I had them all.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000004_000000|It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000004_000001|The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000005_000001|I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000006_000002|Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000007_000000|I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000007_000001|Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee?
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000007_000002|Why this invidious reservation?
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000007_000004|There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000008_000000|I sat and pondered.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000008_000001|I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000008_000002|I was a hospital in myself.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000000|Then I wondered how long I had to live.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000001|I tried to examine myself.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000002|I felt my pulse.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000004|Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000005|I pulled out my watch and timed it.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000006|I made it a hundred and forty seven to the minute.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000007|I tried to feel my heart.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000008|I could not feel my heart.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000009|It had stopped beating.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000010|I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000011|I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000013|I tried to look at my tongue.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000014|I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000009_000015|I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000010_000001|I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000011_000000|I went to my medical man.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000011_000001|He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000012_000000|"Well, what's the matter with you?"
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000013_000000|I said:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000014_000000|"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000014_000001|Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000014_000003|I have not got housemaid's knee.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000014_000004|Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000017_000000|I did not open it.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000018_000000|He said he didn't keep it.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000019_000000|I said:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000020_000000|"You are a chemist?"
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000021_000000|He said:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000022_000002|Being only a chemist hampers me."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000023_000000|I read the prescription.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000023_000001|It ran:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000025_000000|every six hours.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000026_000000|one ten mile walk every morning.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000027_000000|one bed at eleven sharp every night.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000029_000000|I followed the directions, with the happy result-speaking for myself-that my life was preserved, and is still going on.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000030_000000|In the present instance, going back to the liver pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000031_000000|What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000031_000002|As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000031_000003|They did not know, then, that it was my liver.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000031_000004|Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000032_000000|"Why, you skulking little devil, you," they would say, "get up and do something for your living, can't you?"--not knowing, of course, that I was ill.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000033_000000|And they didn't give me pills; they gave me clumps on the side of the head.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000033_000001|And, strange as it may appear, those clumps on the head often cured me-for the time being.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000034_000000|You know, it often is so-those simple, old-fashioned remedies are sometimes more efficacious than all the dispensary stuff.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000035_000000|We sat there for half an hour, describing to each other our maladies.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000037_000000|At this point, mrs Poppets knocked at the door to know if we were ready for supper.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000037_000001|We smiled sadly at one another, and said we supposed we had better try to swallow a bit.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000039_000000|This duty done, we refilled our glasses, lit our pipes, and resumed the discussion upon our state of health.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000040_000000|"What we want is rest," said Harris.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000041_000001|"The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000041_000002|Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000042_000000|George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat family physicianary way of putting things.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000044_000000|Harris said he thought it would be humpy.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000045_000000|"No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000046_000000|I objected to the sea trip strongly.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000046_000001|A sea trip does you good when you are going to have a couple of months of it, but, for a week, it is wicked.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000047_000000|You start on Monday with the idea implanted in your bosom that you are going to enjoy yourself.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000047_000001|You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe, and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, and Christopher Columbus all rolled into one.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000047_000002|On Tuesday, you wish you hadn't come.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000047_000005|On Sunday, you begin to walk about again, and take solid food.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000047_000006|And on Monday morning, as, with your bag and umbrella in your hand, you stand by the gunwale, waiting to step ashore, you begin to thoroughly like it.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000048_000000|I remember my brother in law going for a short sea trip once, for the benefit of his health.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000048_000001|He took a return berth from London to Liverpool; and when he got to Liverpool, the only thing he was anxious about was to sell that return ticket.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000050_000001|why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000051_000000|He himself-my brother in law-came back by train.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000051_000001|He said the north-western Railway was healthy enough for him.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000052_000000|Another fellow I knew went for a week's voyage round the coast, and, before they started, the steward came to him to ask whether he would pay for each meal as he had it, or arrange beforehand for the whole series.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000053_000001|He said they would do him for the whole week at two pounds five.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000053_000002|He said for breakfast there would be fish, followed by a grill. Lunch was at one, and consisted of four courses.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000053_000004|And a light meat supper at ten.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000054_000000|My friend thought he would close on the two pound five job (he is a hearty eater), and did so.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000055_000000|Lunch came just as they were off Sheerness.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000057_000000|At six, they came and told him dinner was ready.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000057_000002|A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000059_000001|"Get me out of this," was the feeble reply.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000060_000000|And they ran him up quick, and propped him up, over to leeward, and left him.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000061_000001|He left the ship on Tuesday, and as it steamed away from the landing stage he gazed after it regretfully.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000063_000000|He said that if they had given him another day he thought he could have put it straight.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000064_000001|Not, as I explained, upon my own account.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000064_000002|I was never queer.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000064_000003|But I was afraid for George.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000065_000001|If not he and another man, then it was he by himself.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000066_000002|Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000067_000000|If most men were like a fellow I saw on the Yarmouth boat one day, I could account for the seeming enigma easily enough.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000067_000002|I went up to him to try and save him.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000069_000000|"Oh my!
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000070_000000|Three weeks afterwards, I met him in the coffee room of a Bath hotel, talking about his voyages, and explaining, with enthusiasm, how he loved the sea.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000071_000001|It was off Cape Horn.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000071_000002|The vessel was wrecked the next morning."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000072_000000|I said:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000075_000000|"Yes; going down to Yarmouth, last Friday three weeks."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000076_000001|I did have a headache that afternoon.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000076_000002|It was the pickles, you know.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000077_000000|For myself, I have discovered an excellent preventive against sea sickness, in balancing myself.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000078_000000|George said:
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000079_000000|"Let's go up the river."
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000085_000001|There's nothing for me to do.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000085_000002|Scenery is not in my line, and I don't smoke.
train-other-500/202/130622/202_130622_000085_000003|If I see a rat, you won't stop; and if I go to sleep, you get fooling about with the boat, and slop me overboard.
train-other-500/2021/169435/2021_169435_000004_000000|This is precisely my situation.
train-other-500/2021/169435/2021_169435_000013_000000|I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:
train-other-500/2021/169435/2021_169435_000019_000000|There are others again, who will draw a man's character from no other helps in the world, but merely from his evacuations;--but this often gives a very incorrect outline,--unless, indeed, you take a sketch of his repletions too; and by correcting one drawing from the other, compound one good figure out of them both.
train-other-500/2021/169435/2021_169435_000020_000000|I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp,--and be render'd still more operose, by forcing you to have an eye to the rest of his Non naturals.--Why the most natural actions of a man's life should be called his Non naturals,--is another question.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000001_000000|Chapter two.sixteen.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000002_000000|Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000003_000000|Panurge was of a middle stature, not too high nor too low, and had somewhat an aquiline nose, made like the handle of a razor.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000005_000006|Very often, also, upon the women's French hoods would he stick in the hind part somewhat made in the shape of a man's member.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000005_000009|In another, he had a squib furnished with tinder, matches, stones to strike fire, and all other tackling necessary for it.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000006_000000|In another, he had a good deal of needles and thread, wherewith he did a thousand little devilish pranks.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000006_000004|Nay, saint Anthony's fire kiss it for us!
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000006_000009|For, according to the Legists, agitation and continual motion is cause of attraction.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000007_000001|Others, again, ran about the streets, and he would run after them.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000007_000002|To such as were in the stripping vein he would very civilly come to offer his attendance, and cover them with his cloak, like a courteous and very gracious man.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000008_000001|Madam, God give you all that your noble heart desireth!
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000009_000000|Another he had all full of euphorbium, very finely pulverized.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000009_000004|No, no, madam, said he, I do but tune my tail to the plain song of the music which you make with your nose.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000009_000005|In another he had a picklock, a pelican, a crampiron, a crook, and some other iron tools, wherewith there was no door nor coffer which he would not pick open.
train-other-500/2021/235244/2021_235244_000009_000006|He had another full of little cups, wherewith he played very artificially, for he had his fingers made to his hand, like those of Minerva or Arachne, and had heretofore cried treacle.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000003_000003|For my part, I gained no more of them, but he at all the boxes kissed the relics, and gave at everyone.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000003_000005|Unto which he answered me that he had taken it out of the basins of the pardons.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000003_000006|For in giving them the first farthing, said he, I put it in with such sleight of hand and so dexterously that it appeared to be a threepence; thus with one hand I took threepence, ninepence, or sixpence at the least, and with the other as much, and so through all the churches where we have been.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000003_000012|It was worth to me above six thousand florins, in English coin six hundred pounds.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000003_000014|They returned from whence they came, said he; they did no more but change their master.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000004_000002|By this means, to one I gave a hundred florins, to another six score, to another three hundred, according to that they were infamous, detestable, and abominable.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000004_000006|Then began the poor rogues to gape like old mules, and I caused to be provided for them a banquet, with drink of the best, and store of spiceries, to put the old women in rut and heat of lust.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000004_000007|To be short, they occupied all, like good souls; only, to those that were horribly ugly and ill favoured, I caused their head to be put within a bag, to hide their face.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000005_000009|And for this I had a fair decree, but it cost me dear.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000005_000011|And to what end? said i My friend, said he, thou hast no pastime at all in this world.
train-other-500/2021/235245/2021_235245_000005_000012|I have more than the king, and if thou wilt join thyself with me, we will do the devil together.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000001_000000|THE CURATE'S COUNSEL.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000002_000000|Not seeing yet what he had to say, but knowing that scintillation the smallest is light, the curate let the talk take its natural course, and said the next thing that came to him.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000003_000000|"How do you feel when you think that you may yet be found out?" he asked.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000004_000001|Then after that danger seemed past, I was afraid of the life to come.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000004_000002|That fear left me next, and now it is the thing itself that is always haunting me. I often wish they would come and take me, and deliver me from myself.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000004_000003|It would be a comfort to have it all known, and never need to start again.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000004_000006|I would, indeed, mr Wingfold.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000005_000000|"I do believe you," said the curate, and a silence followed.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000006_000003|And I do think, if we could find him, then we should find help.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000006_000004|All I can do for you now is only to be near you, and talk to you, and pray to God for you, that so together we may wait for what light may come.--Does anything ever look to you as if it would make you feel better?"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000009_000000|"Oh, yes, indeed I do!"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000011_000000|"I don't know.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000011_000001|It seems a sneaking kind of thing: she has got none of it.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000011_000002|My sister makes excuses for me, but the moment I begin to listen to them I only feel the more horrid."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000012_000000|"I have said nothing of that kind to you."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000015_000000|"Yes, indeed, sir," he answered, earnestly.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000017_000001|It makes me feel it worse than ever to see you sitting there, a clean, strong, innocent man, and think what I might have been."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000018_000000|"Then the comfort you get from me does you no harm, at least.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000020_000002|I have come to see-at least I think I have-that except a man has God dwelling in him, he may be, or may become, capable of any crime within the compass of human nature."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000021_000000|"I don't know anything about God," said Leopold.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000022_000000|"Ah, Leopold!" said the curate, "think, if my coming to you comforts you, what would it be to have him who made you always with you!"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000023_000000|"Where would be the good?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000024_000001|Why should you not be ashamed?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000024_000002|Why would you have the shame taken off you?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000024_000005|Let us keep our shame, and be made clean from the filth!"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000025_000002|Is it not to have done the deed that is the defilement?"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000026_000000|"Is it not rather to have that in you, a part, or all but a part of your being, that makes you capable of doing it?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000026_000001|If you had resisted and conquered, you would have been clean from it; and now, if you repent and God comes to you, you will yet be clean.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000026_000002|Again I say, let us keep our shame and be made clean!
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000026_000004|On the contrary, the man who is honestly ashamed has begun to be clean."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000027_000000|"But what good would that do to Emmeline?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000028_000000|"Emmeline is not in the dark grave."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000029_000000|"Where is she, then?" he said with a ghastly look.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000030_000000|"That I cannot tell.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000031_000002|How was such a poor passionate creature to take that for a comfort?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000031_000003|How was he to understand or prize the idea, who had his spiritual nature so all undeveloped?
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000031_000004|He would try another way.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000034_000000|"I think sometimes, if I could but see Jesus for one moment-"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000036_000000|"YOU would like to see him then, would you?"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000038_000000|"What would you say to him if you saw him?"
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000039_000000|"I don't know.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000039_000001|I would fall down on my face and hold his feet lest he should go away from me."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000041_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000041_000002|He could destroy what I have done."
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000045_000001|Don't you?" said Leopold with an amazed, half frightened look.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000046_000002|Do not waste time in asking yourself how he can do it: that is for him to understand, not you-until it is done.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000046_000003|Ask him to forgive you and make you clean and set things right for you.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000047_000000|The curate rose.
train-other-500/2021/246946/2021_246946_000047_000002|When he looked again he was gone.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000001_000000|Day after day as he bent his steps homeward, returning from some new effort to procure employment, Kit raised his eyes to the window of the little room he had so much commended to the child, and hoped to see some indication of her presence.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000001_000001|His own earnest wish, coupled with the assurance he had received from Quilp, filled him with the belief that she would yet arrive to claim the humble shelter he had offered, and from the death of each day's hope another hope sprung up to live to morrow.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000002_000001|'They have been gone a week.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000002_000002|They surely couldn't stop away more than a week, could they now?'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000003_000000|The mother shook her head, and reminded him how often he had been disappointed already.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000006_000000|Kit was for a moment disposed to be vexed by this contradiction, and not the less so from having anticipated it in his own mind and knowing how just it was.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000006_000001|But the impulse was only momentary, and the vexed look became a kind one before it had crossed the room.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000010_000000|'I am afraid they have, and that's the truth,' she said.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000011_000000|'I don't believe it,' said Kit.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000012_000001|That don't seem very far out of the way now, do it?'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000013_000000|Kit scratched his head mournfully, in reluctant admission that it did not, and clambering up to the old nail took down the cage and set himself to clean it and to feed the bird.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000013_000001|His thoughts reverting from this occupation to the little old gentleman who had given him the shilling, he suddenly recollected that that was the very day-nay, nearly the very hour-at which the little old gentleman had said he should be at the Notary's house again.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000014_000000|It was some two minutes after the time when he reached the spot, which was a considerable distance from his home, but by great good luck the little old gentleman had not yet arrived; at least there was no pony chaise to be seen, and it was not likely that he had come and gone again in so short a space.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000014_000001|Greatly relieved to find that he was not too late, Kit leant against a lamp post to take breath, and waited the advent of the pony and his charge.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000015_000000|Sure enough, before long the pony came trotting round the corner of the street, looking as obstinate as pony might, and picking his steps as if he were spying about for the cleanest places, and would by no means dirty his feet or hurry himself inconveniently.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000015_000001|Behind the pony sat the little old gentleman, and by the old gentleman's side sat the little old lady, carrying just such a nosegay as she had brought before.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000016_000000|The old gentleman, the old lady, the pony, and the chaise, came up the street in perfect unanimity, until they arrived within some half a dozen doors of the Notary's house, when the pony, deceived by a brass plate beneath a tailor's knocker, came to a halt, and maintained by a sturdy silence, that that was the house they wanted.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000018_000000|The pony looked with great attention into a fire plug which was near him, and appeared to be quite absorbed in contemplating it.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000019_000001|'After being so good too, and coming along so well!
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000019_000002|I am quite ashamed of him.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000019_000003|I don't know what we are to do with him, I really don't.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000020_000001|The old gentleman having exhausted his powers of persuasion, alighted to lead him; whereupon the pony, perhaps because he held this to be a sufficient concession, perhaps because he happened to catch sight of the other brass plate, or perhaps because he was in a spiteful humour, darted off with the old lady and stopped at the right house, leaving the old gentleman to come panting on behind.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000021_000000|It was then that Kit presented himself at the pony's head, and touched his hat with a smile.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000023_000000|'I said I'd be here, Sir,' said Kit, patting Whisker's neck.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000023_000001|'I hope you've had a pleasant ride, sir.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000023_000002|He's a very nice little pony.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000024_000000|'My dear,' said the old gentleman.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000024_000001|'This is an uncommon lad; a good lad, I'm sure.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000025_000000|'I'm sure he is,' rejoined the old lady.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000025_000001|'A very good lad, and I am sure he is a good son.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000026_000000|Kit acknowledged these expressions of confidence by touching his hat again and blushing very much.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000026_000001|The old gentleman then handed the old lady out, and after looking at him with an approving smile, they went into the house-talking about him as they went, Kit could not help feeling.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000026_000002|Presently Mr Witherden, smelling very hard at the nosegay, came to the window and looked at him, and after that Mr Abel came and looked at him, and after that the old gentleman and lady came and looked at him again, and after that they all came and looked at him together, which Kit, feeling very much embarrassed by, made a pretence of not observing.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000026_000003|Therefore he patted the pony more and more; and this liberty the pony most handsomely permitted.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000027_000000|The faces had not disappeared from the window many moments, when Mr Chuckster in his official coat, and with his hat hanging on his head just as it happened to fall from its peg, appeared upon the pavement, and telling him he was wanted inside, bade him go in and he would mind the chaise the while.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000027_000001|In giving him this direction Mr Chuckster remarked that he wished that he might be blessed if he could make out whether he (Kit) was 'precious raw' or 'precious deep,' but intimated by a distrustful shake of the head, that he inclined to the latter opinion.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000028_000000|Kit entered the office in a great tremor, for he was not used to going among strange ladies and gentlemen, and the tin boxes and bundles of dusty papers had in his eyes an awful and venerable air.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000028_000001|Mr Witherden too was a bustling gentleman who talked loud and fast, and all eyes were upon him, and he was very shabby.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000029_000000|'Well, boy,' said Mr Witherden, 'you came to work out that shilling;--not to get another, hey?'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000030_000000|'No indeed, sir,' replied Kit, taking courage to look up.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000030_000001|'I never thought of such a thing.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000032_000000|'Dead, sir.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000033_000000|'Mother?'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000035_000000|'Married again-eh?'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000036_000000|Kit made answer, not without some indignation, that she was a widow with three children, and that as to her marrying again, if the gentleman knew her he wouldn't think of such a thing.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000036_000001|At this reply Mr Witherden buried his nose in the flowers again, and whispered behind the nosegay to the old gentleman that he believed the lad was as honest a lad as need be.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000038_000000|'Thank you, sir,' Kit replied; and quite seriously too, for this announcement seemed to free him from the suspicion which the Notary had hinted.
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000039_000000|'--But,' resumed the old gentleman, 'perhaps I may want to know something more about you, so tell me where you live, and I'll put it down in my pocket book.'
train-other-500/2026/22756/2026_22756_000040_000001|He had scarcely done so, when there was a great uproar in the street, and the old lady hurrying to the window cried that Whisker had run away, upon which Kit darted out to the rescue, and the others followed.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000002_000000|CHAPTER sixty six
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000003_000000|Down in Lincolnshire
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000004_000004|But the dead and gone Dedlocks take it very calmly and have never been known to object.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000005_000000|Up from among the fern in the hollow, and winding by the bridle road among the trees, comes sometimes to this lonely spot the sound of horses' hoofs.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000005_000001|Then may be seen Sir Leicester-invalided, bent, and almost blind, but of worthy presence yet-riding with a stalwart man beside him, constant to his bridle rein.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000005_000002|When they come to a certain spot before the mausoleum door, Sir Leicester's accustomed horse stops of his own accord, and Sir Leicester, pulling off his hat, is still for a few moments before they ride away.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000006_000000|War rages yet with the audacious Boythorn, though at uncertain intervals, and now hotly, and now coolly, flickering like an unsteady fire.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000006_000002|But it is whispered that when he is most ferocious towards his old foe, he is really most considerate, and that Sir Leicester, in the dignity of being implacable, little supposes how much he is humoured.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000006_000003|As little does he think how near together he and his antagonist have suffered in the fortunes of two sisters, and his antagonist, who knows it now, is not the man to tell him.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000006_000004|So the quarrel goes on to the satisfaction of both.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000007_000000|In one of the lodges of the park-that lodge within sight of the house where, once upon a time, when the waters were out down in Lincolnshire, my Lady used to see the keeper's child-the stalwart man, the trooper formerly, is housed.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000007_000001|Some relics of his old calling hang upon the walls, and these it is the chosen recreation of a little lame man about the stable yard to keep gleaming bright.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000007_000002|A busy little man he always is, in the polishing at harness house doors, of stirrup irons, bits, curb chains, harness bosses, anything in the way of a stable yard that will take a polish, leading a life of friction. A shaggy little damaged man, withal, not unlike an old dog of some mongrel breed, who has been considerably knocked about.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000007_000003|He answers to the name of Phil.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000008_000000|A goodly sight it is to see the grand old housekeeper (harder of hearing now) going to church on the arm of her son and to observe-which few do, for the house is scant of company in these times-the relations of both towards Sir Leicester, and his towards them.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000008_000003|Discipline must be maintained."
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000009_000000|The greater part of the house is shut up, and it is a show house no longer; yet Sir Leicester holds his shrunken state in the long drawing room for all that, and reposes in his old place before my Lady's picture.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000009_000001|Closed in by night with broad screens, and illumined only in that part, the light of the drawing room seems gradually contracting and dwindling until it shall be no more.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000009_000002|A little more, in truth, and it will be all extinguished for Sir Leicester; and the damp door in the mausoleum which shuts so tight, and looks so obdurate, will have opened and received him.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000010_000000|Volumnia, growing with the flight of time pinker as to the red in her face, and yellower as to the white, reads to Sir Leicester in the long evenings and is driven to various artifices to conceal her yawns, of which the chief and most efficacious is the insertion of the pearl necklace between her rosy lips.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000010_000001|Long winded treatises on the Buffy and Boodle question, showing how Buffy is immaculate and Boodle villainous, and how the country is lost by being all Boodle and no Buffy, or saved by being all Buffy and no Boodle (it must be one of the two, and cannot be anything else), are the staple of her reading.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000010_000002|Sir Leicester is not particular what it is and does not appear to follow it very closely, further than that he always comes broad awake the moment Volumnia ventures to leave off, and sonorously repeating her last words, begs with some displeasure to know if she finds herself fatigued.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000012_000001|Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber room full of old chairs and tables upside down.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000012_000002|Then, indeed, does she captivate all hearts by her condescension, by her girlish vivacity, and by her skipping about as in the days when the hideous old general with the mouth too full of teeth had not cut one of them at two guineas each.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000012_000003|Then does she twirl and twine, a pastoral nymph of good family, through the mazes of the dance.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000012_000004|Then do the swains appear with tea, with lemonade, with sandwiches, with homage.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000012_000005|Then is she kind and cruel, stately and unassuming, various, beautifully wilful.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000012_000006|Then is there a singular kind of parallel between her and the little glass chandeliers of another age embellishing that assembly room, which, with their meagre stems, their spare little drops, their disappointing knobs where no drops are, their bare little stalks from which knobs and drops have both departed, and their little feeble prismatic twinkling, all seem Volumnias.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000013_000000|For the rest, Lincolnshire life to Volumnia is a vast blank of overgrown house looking out upon trees, sighing, wringing their hands, bowing their heads, and casting their tears upon the window panes in monotonous depressions.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000013_000001|A labyrinth of grandeur, less the property of an old family of human beings and their ghostly likenesses than of an old family of echoings and thunderings which start out of their hundred graves at every sound and go resounding through the building.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000013_000002|A waste of unused passages and staircases in which to drop a comb upon a bedroom floor at night is to send a stealthy footfall on an errand through the house.
train-other-500/2026/81608/2026_81608_000013_000003|A place where few people care to go about alone, where a maid screams if an ash drops from the fire, takes to crying at all times and seasons, becomes the victim of a low disorder of the spirits, and gives warning and departs.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000001_000000|The Close of Esther's Narrative
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000002_000000|Full seven happy years I have been the mistress of Bleak House.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000002_000002|Not without much dear remembrance on my side.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000002_000003|Not without some, I hope, on his or hers.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000003_000000|They gave my darling into my arms, and through many weeks I never left her.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000003_000002|It was a boy; and I, my husband, and my guardian gave him his father's name.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000004_000000|The help that my dear counted on did come to her, though it came, in the eternal wisdom, for another purpose.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000004_000001|Though to bless and restore his mother, not his father, was the errand of this baby, its power was mighty to do it.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000004_000002|When I saw the strength of the weak little hand and how its touch could heal my darling's heart and raised hope within her, I felt a new sense of the goodness and the tenderness of God.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000005_000000|They throve, and by degrees I saw my dear girl pass into my country garden and walk there with her infant in her arms.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000005_000001|I was married then.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000005_000002|I was the happiest of the happy.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000006_000000|It was at this time that my guardian joined us and asked Ada when she would come home.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000007_000001|When you and my boy are strong enough to do it, come and take possession of your home."
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000008_000001|He was her guardian henceforth, and the boy's; and he had an old association with the name.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000008_000002|So she called him guardian, and has called him guardian ever since.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000008_000003|The children know him by no other name.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000008_000004|I say the children; I have two little daughters.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000009_000000|It is difficult to believe that Charley (round eyed still, and not at all grammatical) is married to a miller in our neighbourhood; yet so it is; and even now, looking up from my desk as I write early in the morning at my summer window, I see the very mill beginning to go round.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000009_000002|So far as my small maid is concerned, I might suppose time to have stood for seven years as still as the mill did half an hour ago, since little Emma, Charley's sister, is exactly what Charley used to be.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000009_000004|He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000010_000001|She works very hard, her husband (an excellent one) being lame and able to do very little.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000010_000002|Still, she is more than contented and does all she has to do with all her heart.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000010_000003|mr Jellyby spends his evenings at her new house with his head against the wall as he used to do in her old one. I have heard that mrs Jellyby was understood to suffer great mortification from her daughter's ignoble marriage and pursuits, but I hope she got over it in time.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000010_000005|I had almost forgotten Caddy's poor little girl.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000010_000006|She is not such a mite now, but she is deaf and dumb.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000010_000007|I believe there never was a better mother than Caddy, who learns, in her scanty intervals of leisure, innumerable deaf and dumb arts to soften the affliction of her child.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000011_000000|As if I were never to have done with Caddy, I am reminded here of Peepy and old mr Turveydrop.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000011_000001|Peepy is in the Custom House, and doing extremely well.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000012_000000|With the first money we saved at home, we added to our pretty house by throwing out a little growlery expressly for my guardian, which we inaugurated with great splendour the next time he came down to see us.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000012_000001|I try to write all this lightly, because my heart is full in drawing to an end, but when I write of him, my tears will have their way.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000013_000000|I never look at him but I hear our poor dear Richard calling him a good man.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000013_000001|To Ada and her pretty boy, he is the fondest father; to me he is what he has ever been, and what name can I give to that?
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000013_000002|He is my husband's best and dearest friend, he is our children's darling, he is the object of our deepest love and veneration.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000013_000003|Yet while I feel towards him as if he were a superior being, I am so familiar with him and so easy with him that I almost wonder at myself.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000014_000000|I have never known the wind to be in the east for a single moment since the day when he took me to the porch to read the name.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000014_000001|I remarked to him once that the wind seemed never in the east now, and he said, no, truly; it had finally departed from that quarter on that very day.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000015_000000|I think my darling girl is more beautiful than ever.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000016_000000|I call him my Richard!
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000017_000000|We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered, and we have quite enough.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000017_000001|I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000017_000002|I never go into a house of any degree but I hear his praises or see them in grateful eyes.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000017_000003|I never lie down at night but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow creature in the time of need.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000017_000004|I know that from the beds of those who were past recovery, thanks have often, often gone up, in the last hour, for his patient ministration.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000017_000005|Is not this to be rich?
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000018_000000|The people even praise me as the doctor's wife.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000018_000001|The people even like me as I go about, and make so much of me that I am quite abashed.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000018_000003|They like me for his sake, as I do everything I do in life for his sake.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000019_000001|So he said, "My precious little woman, what are you doing here?" And I said, "The moon is shining so brightly, Allan, and the night is so delicious, that I have been sitting here thinking."
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000020_000000|"What have you been thinking about, my dear?" said Allan then.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000021_000000|"How curious you are!" said i
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000021_000002|I have been thinking about my old looks-such as they were."
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000022_000000|"And what have you been thinking about THEM, my busy bee?" said Allan.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000024_000000|"'Such as they were'?" said Allan, laughing.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000025_000000|"Such as they were, of course."
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000026_000000|"My dear Dame Durden," said Allan, drawing my arm through his, "do you ever look in the glass?"
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000028_000000|"And don't you know that you are prettier than you ever were?"
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000029_000000|"I did not know that; I am not certain that I know it now.
train-other-500/2026/81609/2026_81609_000029_000001|But I know that my dearest little pets are very pretty, and that my darling is very beautiful, and that my husband is very handsome, and that my guardian has the brightest and most benevolent face that ever was seen, and that they can very well do without much beauty in me-even supposing-."
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000000_000000|CHAPTER six-JEAN VALJEAN
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000001_000000|Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000002_000000|Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000002_000001|He had not learned to read in his childhood.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000003_000000|Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000003_000001|On the whole, however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about Jean Valjean in appearance, at least.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000003_000002|He had lost his father and mother at a very early age.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000003_000003|His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not been properly attended to.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000003_000004|His father, a tree pruner, like himself, had been killed by a fall from a tree.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000003_000005|All that remained to Jean Valjean was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and girls.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000004_000000|The husband died.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000004_000001|The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. The youngest, one.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000005_000000|Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty fifth year.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000005_000001|He took the father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought him up.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000005_000002|This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly on the part of Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000005_000003|Thus his youth had been spent in rude and ill paid toil.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000005_000005|He had not had the time to fall in love.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000006_000000|He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000006_000001|As he went on eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air of perceiving nothing and allowing it.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000006_000003|If their mother had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents severely.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000006_000004|Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie Claude for the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not punished.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000001|He did whatever he could.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000002|His sister worked also but what could she do with seven little children?
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000003|It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was being gradually annihilated.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000004|A very hard winter came.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000005|Jean had no work. The family had no bread.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000006|No bread literally.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000007_000007|Seven children!
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000008_000002|The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000008_000003|Isabeau ran out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000008_000004|Isabeau ran after him and stopped him.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000008_000005|The thief had flung away the loaf, but his arm was still bleeding.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000008_000006|It was Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000000|This took place in seventeen ninety five.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000001|Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at night.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000003|There exists a legitimate prejudice against poachers.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000004|The poacher, like the smuggler, smacks too strongly of the brigand.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000006|The poacher lives in the forest, the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000007|The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000009_000008|The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000010_000000|Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000010_000001|The terms of the Code were explicit. There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000010_000002|What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being!
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000010_000003|Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the galleys.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000011_000001|Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000011_000002|He was seated on the ground like the others.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000011_000003|He did not seem to comprehend his position, except that it was horrible.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000011_000004|It is probable that he, also, was disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of everything, something excessive.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000012_000002|At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000012_000003|All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number twenty four thousand six hundred one. What became of his sister?
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000012_000004|What became of the seven children?
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000012_000005|Who troubled himself about that?
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000012_000006|What becomes of the handful of leaves from the young tree which is sawed off at the root?
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000000|It is always the same story.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000001|These poor living beings, these creatures of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. They quitted the country.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000002|The clock tower of what had been their village forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot them.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000003|In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. That is all.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000005|This happened, I think, towards the end of the fourth year of his captivity.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000006|I know not through what channels the news reached him.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000007|Some one who had known them in their own country had seen his sister.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000008|She was in Paris.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000010|She had with her only one child, a little boy, the youngest.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000011|Where were the other six?
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000012|Perhaps she did not know herself.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000014|She was obliged to be there at six o'clock in the morning-long before daylight in winter.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000015|In the same building with the printing office there was a school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years old.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000016|But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school to open, for an hour-one hour of a winter night in the open air!
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000017|They would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he was in the way, they said.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000018|When the workmen passed in the morning, they beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and doubled up over his basket.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000019|When it rained, an old woman, the portress, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a spinning wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from cold.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000013_000020|At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000014_000000|They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those things whom he had loved; then all closed again.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000014_000001|He heard nothing more forever.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000014_000002|Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful history they will not be met with any more.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000000|Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape arrived.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000001|His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. He escaped.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000003|On the evening of the second day he was captured.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000004|He had neither eaten nor slept for thirty six hours.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000005|The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000006|He was missing at roll call.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000007|The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000008|Escape and rebellion.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000009|This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000010|Thirteen years.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000011|In the tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he succeeded no better.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000012|Three years for this fresh attempt.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000013|Sixteen years. Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four hours of absence.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000014|Three years for those four hours.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000015|Nineteen years.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000015_000016|In October, eighteen fifteen, he was released; he had entered there in seventeen ninety six, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000016_000000|Room for a brief parenthesis.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000016_000002|Claude Gueux had stolen a loaf; Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000016_000003|English statistics prove the fact that four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause.
train-other-500/2042/134780/2042_134780_000017_000000|Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000000|Partridge had no sooner left Mr Jones than Mr Nightingale, with whom he had now contracted a great intimacy, came to him, and, after a short salutation, said, "So, Tom, I hear you had company very late last night.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000003|I want to be nearer the places of diversion; so I am going to pall-mall." "And do you intend to make a secret of your going away?" said Jones.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000004|"I promise you," answered Nightingale, "I don't intend to bilk my lodgings; but I have a private reason for not taking a formal leave." "Not so private," answered Jones; "I promise you, I have seen it ever since the second day of my coming to the house.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000005|Here will be some wet eyes on your departure.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000006|Poor Nancy, I pity her, faith!
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000007|Indeed, Jack, you have played the fool with that girl.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000010|"What, the devil should she see?" "Why, see," said Jones, "that you have made her daughter distractedly in love with you.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000011|The poor girl cannot conceal it a moment; her eyes are never off from you, and she always colours every time you come into the room.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000014|all those warm professions of tenderness, and generous disinterested love?
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000015|Did you imagine she would not apply them?
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000000_000017|Thou wilt make an admirable parson.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000002_000000|"Lookee, Mr Nightingale," said Jones, "I am no canting hypocrite, nor do I pretend to the gift of chastity, more than my neighbours.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000002_000001|I have been guilty with women, I own it; but am not conscious that I have ever injured any.--Nor would I, to procure pleasure to myself, be knowingly the cause of misery to any human being."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000003_000000|"Well, well," said Nightingale, "I believe you, and I am convinced you acquit me of any such thing."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000004_000000|"I do, from my heart," answered Jones, "of having debauched the girl, but not from having gained her affections."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000005_000000|"If I have," said Nightingale, "I am sorry for it; but time and absence will soon wear off such impressions.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000005_000001|It is a receipt I must take myself; for, to confess the truth to you-I never liked any girl half so much in my whole life; but I must let you into the whole secret, Tom.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000006_000000|At these words Jones burst into a loud fit of laughter; when Nightingale cried-"Nay, prithee, don't turn me into ridicule.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000006_000001|The devil take me if I am not half mad about this matter! my poor Nancy! Oh! Jones, Jones, I wish I had a fortune in my own possession."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000007_000000|"I heartily wish you had," cries Jones; "for, if this be the case, I sincerely pity you both; but surely you don't intend to go away without taking your leave of her?"
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000008_000000|"I would not," answered Nightingale, "undergo the pain of taking leave, for ten thousand pounds; besides, I am convinced, instead of answering any good purpose, it would only serve to inflame my poor Nancy the more.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000009_000000|Jones promised he would not; and said, upon reflection, he thought, as he had determined and was obliged to leave her, he took the most prudent method.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000013_000000|A short account of the history of Mrs Miller.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000014_000000|Jones this day eat a pretty good dinner for a sick man, that is to say, the larger half of a shoulder of mutton.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000014_000001|In the afternoon he received an invitation from Mrs Miller to drink tea; for that good woman, having learnt, either by means of Partridge, or by some other means natural or supernatural, that he had a connexion with Mr Allworthy, could not endure the thoughts of parting with him in an angry manner.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000015_000000|Jones accepted the invitation; and no sooner was the tea kettle removed, and the girls sent out of the room, than the widow, without much preface, began as follows: "Well, there are very surprizing things happen in this world; but certainly it is a wonderful business that I should have a relation of Mr Allworthy in my house, and never know anything of the matter.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000015_000002|Yes, sir, I am not ashamed to own it; it is owing to his goodness that I did not long since perish for want, and leave my poor little wretches, two destitute, helpless, friendless orphans, to the care, or rather to the cruelty, of the world.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000000|"You must know, sir, though I am now reduced to get my living by letting lodgings, I was born and bred a gentlewoman.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000001|My father was an officer of the army, and died in a considerable rank: but he lived up to his pay; and, as that expired with him, his family, at his death, became beggars.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000002|We were three sisters.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000004|The mother of this lady had been a servant to my grand mother; and, having inherited a vast fortune from her father, which he had got by pawnbroking, was married to a gentleman of great estate and fashion.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000005|She used my sister so barbarously, often upbraiding her with her birth and poverty, calling her in derision a gentlewoman, that I believe she at length broke the heart of the poor girl.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000006|In short, she likewise died within a twelvemonth after my father.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000008|But my dear husband forgot all this usage, and the moment we were become fatherless he immediately renewed his addresses to me so warmly, that I, who always liked, and now more than ever esteemed him, soon complied.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000016_000011|This is the letter, sir; I must and will read it to you.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000017_000000|"'Madam,
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000018_000000|"'I heartily condole with you on your late grievous loss, which your own good sense, and the excellent lessons you must have learnt from the worthiest of men, will better enable you to bear than any advice which I am capable of giving.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000018_000001|Nor have I any doubt that you, whom I have heard to be the tenderest of mothers, will suffer any immoderate indulgence of grief to prevent you from discharging your duty to those poor infants, who now alone stand in need of your tenderness.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000020_000003|You are a young gentleman, and do not know half their artful wiles.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000020_000004|Do not be angry with me, sir, for what I said upon account of my house; you must be sensible it would be the ruin of my poor dear girls.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000020_000005|Besides, sir, you cannot but be acquainted that Mr Allworthy himself would never forgive my conniving at such matters, and particularly with you."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000021_000000|"Upon my word, madam," said Jones, "you need make no farther apology; nor do I in the least take anything ill you have said; but give me leave, as no one can have more value than myself for Mr Allworthy, to deliver you from one mistake, which, perhaps, would not be altogether for his honour; I do assure you, I am no relation of his."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000022_000001|You need not be ashamed, sir, of what you are; I promise you no good person will esteem you the less on that account.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000024_000000|There is a kind of sympathy in honest minds, by means of which they give an easy credit to each other.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000024_000001|Mrs Miller believed all which Jones told her to be true, and exprest much pity and concern for him.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000025_000000|Mrs Miller was at length prevailed on, and Jones departed to his chamber, where he sat alone till twelve o'clock, but no Lady Bellaston appeared.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000026_000000|As we have said that this lady had a great affection for Jones, and as it must have appeared that she really had so, the reader may perhaps wonder at the first failure of her appointment, as she apprehended him to be confined by sickness, a season when friendship seems most to require such visits.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000026_000001|This behaviour, therefore, in the lady, may, by some, be condemned as unnatural; but that is not our fault; for our business is only to record truth.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000028_000000|Containing a scene which we doubt not will affect all our readers.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000029_000000|Mr Jones closed not his eyes during all the former part of the night; not owing to any uneasiness which he conceived at being disappointed by Lady Bellaston; nor was Sophia herself, though most of his waking hours were justly to be charged to her account, the present cause of dispelling his slumbers.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000030_000000|Sleep, however, at length got the better of all resistance; and now, as if he had already been a deity, as the antients imagined, and an offended one too, he seemed to enjoy his dear bought conquest.--To speak simply, and without any metaphor, Mr Jones slept till eleven the next morning, and would, perhaps, have continued in the same quiet situation much longer, had not a violent uproar awakened him.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000031_000002|"Is the misery of these poor wretches a subject of mirth?
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000031_000003|Go immediately to Mrs Miller, and tell her I beg leave-Stay, you will make some blunder; I will go myself; for she desired me to breakfast with her." He then rose and dressed himself as fast as he could; and while he was dressing, Partridge, notwithstanding many severe rebukes, could not avoid throwing forth certain pieces of brutality, commonly called jests, on this occasion.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000031_000004|Jones was no sooner dressed than he walked downstairs, and knocking at the door, was presently admitted by the maid, into the outward parlour, which was as empty of company as it was of any apparatus for eating.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000032_000001|I give you a thousand thanks for your kind offer of your service; but, alas!
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000032_000002|sir, it is out of your power to preserve my poor girl.--O my child!
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000032_000003|my child! she is undone, she is ruined for ever!" "I hope, madam," said Jones, "no villain"----"O Mr Jones!" said she, "that villain who yesterday left my lodgings, hath betrayed my poor girl; hath destroyed her.--I know you are a man of honour.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000032_000004|You have a good-a noble heart, Mr Jones.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000032_000009|Mr Jones, my girl is with child by him; and in that condition he hath deserted her.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000033_000000|The letter was as follows:
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000034_000000|"DEAR NANCY,
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000035_000001|Your own good understanding will make you sensible, how entirely I am obliged to an obedience, by which I shall be for ever excluded from your dear arms.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000035_000003|I wish you may feel less on this account than I have suffered; but summon all your fortitude to your assistance, and forgive and forget the man, whom nothing but the prospect of certain ruin could have forced to write this letter.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000036_000000|"J.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000036_000001|N."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000002|She received the letter in a room full of company, and immediately swooning away upon opening it, the contents were known to every one present.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000004|The barbarous, cruel----hath destroyed us all.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000005|O my poor children!
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000006|Is this the reward of all my cares?
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000008|Mr Jones," answered she, "even you, though I know the goodness of your heart, can have no idea of what I feel.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000009|The best, the kindest, the most dutiful of children!
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000037_000010|O my poor Nancy, the darling of my soul! the delight of my eyes! the pride of my heart! too much, indeed, my pride; for to those foolish, ambitious hopes, arising from her beauty, I owe her ruin. Alas!
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000038_000000|Jones, in compliance with this request, did all he could to comfort the little girl, though he was, in reality, himself very highly affected with Mrs Miller's story.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000038_000001|He told her "Her sister would be soon very well again; that by taking on in that manner she would not only make her sister worse, but make her mother ill too." "Indeed, sir," says she, "I would not do anything to hurt them for the world.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000038_000003|Indeed, I can't part with her; indeed, I can't.--And then poor mamma too, what will become of her?--She says she will die too, and leave me: but I am resolved I won't be left behind." "And are you not afraid to die, my little Betsy?" said Jones.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000038_000004|"Yes," answered she, "I was always afraid to die; because I must have left my mamma, and my sister; but I am not afraid of going anywhere with those I love."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000039_000000|Jones was so pleased with this answer, that he eagerly kissed the child; and soon after Mrs Miller returned, saying, "She thanked heaven Nancy was now come to herself.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000040_000000|"I hope, madam," said Jones, "I shall have a more exquisite repast than any you could have provided for me.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000040_000001|This, I assure you, will be the case, if I can do any service to this little family of love.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000040_000002|But whatever success may attend my endeavours, I am resolved to attempt it.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000040_000004|If this be the case, I think the picture which I shall lay before him will affect him.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000040_000005|Endeavour, madam, to comfort yourself, and Miss Nancy, as well as you can.
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000040_000006|I will go instantly in quest of Mr Nightingale; and I hope to bring you good news."
train-other-500/2042/136442/2042_136442_000041_000000|Mrs Miller fell upon her knees and invoked all the blessings of heaven upon Mr Jones; to which she afterwards added the most passionate expressions of gratitude.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000001_000000|AS YOU LIKE IT
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000003_000000|The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remained with Celia, Frederick's daughter, and the two loved each other more than most sisters.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000003_000001|One day there was a wrestling match at Court, and Rosalind and Celia went to see it.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000003_000002|Charles, a celebrated wrestler, was there, who had killed many men in contests of this kind.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000004_000000|Orlando, like Rosalind's father, was being kept out of his inheritance by his brother, and was so sad at his brother's unkindness that, until he saw Rosalind, he did not care much whether he lived or died.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000004_000001|But now the sight of the fair Rosalind gave him strength and courage, so that he did marvelously, and at last, threw Charles to such a tune, that the wrestler had to be carried off the ground.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000004_000002|Duke Frederick was pleased with his courage, and asked his name.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000005_000000|"My name is Orlando, and I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys," said the young man.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000006_000000|Now Sir Rowland de Boys, when he was alive, had been a good friend to the banished Duke, so that Frederick heard with regret whose son Orlando was, and would not befriend him.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000006_000001|But Rosalind was delighted to hear that this handsome young stranger was the son of her father's old friend, and as they were going away, she turned back more than once to say another kind word to the brave young man.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000007_000000|"Gentleman," she said, giving him a chain from her neck, "wear this for me.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000007_000001|I could give more, but that my hand lacks means."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000008_000000|Rosalind and Celia, when they were alone, began to talk about the handsome wrestler, and Rosalind confessed that she loved him at first sight.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000009_000000|"Come, come," said Celia, "wrestle with thy affections."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000010_000000|"Oh," answered Rosalind, "they take the part of a better wrestler than myself.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000011_000000|"With his eyes full of anger," said Celia.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000012_000000|"You must leave the Court at once," he said to Rosalind.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000012_000001|"Why?" she asked.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000013_000000|"Never mind why," answered the Duke, "you are banished.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000013_000001|If within ten days you are found within twenty miles of my Court, you die."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000014_000000|So Rosalind set out to seek her father, the banished Duke, in the Forest of Arden.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000014_000002|They were very tired when at last they came to the Forest of Arden, and as they were sitting on the grass a countryman passed that way, and Ganymede asked him if he could get them food.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000014_000004|They bought these and settled down as shepherd and shepherdess in the forest.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000015_000001|Now, Orlando could think of nothing but Rosalind, and he went about the forest carving her name on trees, and writing love sonnets and hanging them on the bushes, and there Rosalind and Celia found them.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000015_000002|One day Orlando met them, but he did not know Rosalind in her boy's clothes, though he liked the pretty shepherd youth, because he fancied a likeness in him to her he loved.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000016_000000|"There is a foolish lover," said Rosalind, "who haunts these woods and hangs sonnets on the trees.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000016_000001|If I could find him, I would soon cure him of his folly."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000017_000000|Orlando confessed that he was the foolish lover, and Rosalind said-"If you will come and see me every day, I will pretend to be Rosalind, and I will take her part, and be wayward and contrary, as is the way of women, till I make you ashamed of your folly in loving her."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000018_000000|And so every day he went to her house, and took a pleasure in saying to her all the pretty things he would have said to Rosalind; and she had the fine and secret joy of knowing that all his love words came to the right ears.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000018_000001|Thus many days passed pleasantly away.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000019_000000|One morning, as Orlando was going to visit Ganymede, he saw a man asleep on the ground, and that there was a lioness crouching near, waiting for the man who was asleep to wake: for they say that lions will not prey on anything that is dead or sleeping.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000020_000000|While Orlando was fighting the lioness, Oliver woke to see his brother, whom he had treated so badly, saving him from a wild beast at the risk of his own life.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000020_000001|This made him repent of his wickedness, and he begged Orlando's pardon, and from thenceforth they were dear brothers.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000020_000002|The lioness had wounded Orlando's arm so much, that he could not go on to see the shepherd, so he sent his brother to ask Ganymede to come to him.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000021_000000|Oliver went and told the whole story to Ganymede and Aliena, and Aliena was so charmed with his manly way of confessing his faults, that she fell in love with him at once.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000021_000001|But when Ganymede heard of the danger Orlando had been in she fainted; and when she came to herself, said truly enough, "I should have been a woman by right."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000022_000000|Oliver went back to his brother and told him all this, saying, "I love Aliena so well that I will give up my estates to you and marry her, and live here as a shepherd."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000024_000000|When Orlando told Ganymede how his brother was to be married on the morrow, he added: "Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000026_000000|Now the next day the Duke and his followers, and Orlando, and Oliver, and Aliena, were all gathered together for the wedding.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000027_000000|Then Ganymede came in and said to the Duke, "If I bring in your daughter Rosalind, will you give her to Orlando here?" "That I would," said the Duke, "if I had all kingdoms to give with her."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000029_000000|Then Rosalind and Celia went out, and Rosalind put on her pretty woman's clothes again, and after a while came back.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000030_000000|She turned to her father-"I give myself to you, for I am yours." "If there be truth in sight," he said, "you are my daughter."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000032_000000|"I will have no father if you be not he," she said to the Duke, and to Orlando, "I will have no husband if you be not he."
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000033_000001|For Frederick had been shown by a holy hermit the wickedness of his ways, and so gave back the dukedom of his brother, and himself went into a monastery to pray for forgiveness.
train-other-500/2042/148298/2042_148298_000034_000000|The wedding was a merry one, in the mossy glades of the forest.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000003_000002|To all entreaties to come home, to all the glowing temptations which home and innumerable friends offer, he returns the determined answer:--
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000004_000000|"No; not until my work is ended."
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000005_000000|I have often heard our servants discuss our respective merits.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000005_000002|I observed that universal respect was paid to him.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000006_000000|There is another point in Livingstone's character about which readers of his books, and students of his travels, would like to know, and that is his ability to withstand the dreadful climate of Central Africa, and the consistent energy with which he follows up his explorations.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000006_000001|His consistent energy is native to him and to his race.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000007_000001|Said he:
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000008_000000|"I should like very much to go home and see my children once again, but I cannot bring my heart to abandon the task I have undertaken, when it is so nearly completed.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000009_000000|"And why?" I asked, "did you come so far back without finishing the task which you say you have got to do?"
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000010_000000|"Simply because I was forced.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000010_000001|My men would not budge a step forward. They mutinied, and formed a secret resolution-if I still insisted upon going on-to raise a disturbance in the country, and after they had effected it to abandon me; in which case I should have been killed.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000010_000002|It was dangerous to go any further.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000010_000004|Now, having returned seven hundred miles to get a new supply of stores, and another escort, I find myself destitute of even the means to live but for a few weeks, and sick in mind and body."
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000011_000000|Here I may pause to ask any brave man how he would have comported himself in such a crisis.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000011_000001|Many would have been in exceeding hurry to get home to tell the news of the continued explorations and discoveries, and to relieve the anxiety of the sorrowing family and friends awaiting their return.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000011_000003|It was no negative exploration, it was hard, earnest labor of years, self abnegation, enduring patience, and exalted fortitude, such as ordinary men fail to exhibit.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000012_000001|This would not be in accordance with Livingstone's character.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000012_000004|They are no few months' explorations that form the contents of his books.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000012_000005|His 'Missionary Travels' embraces a period of sixteen years; his book on the Zambezi, five years; and if the great traveller lives to come home, his third book, the grandest of all, must contain the records of eight or nine years.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000013_000002|The wonders of primeval nature, the great forests and sublime mountains, the perennial streams and sources of the great lakes, the marvels of the earth, the splendors of the tropic sky by day and by night-all terrestrial and celestial phenomena are manna to a man of such self abnegation and devoted philanthropic spirit.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000013_000003|He can be charmed with the primitive simplicity of Ethiop's dusky children, with whom he has spent so many years of his life; he has a sturdy faith in their capabilities; sees virtue in them where others see nothing but savagery; and wherever he has gone among them, he has sought to elevate a people that were apparently forgotten of God and Christian man.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000014_000000|One night I took out my note book, and prepared to take down from his own lips what he had to say about his travels; and unhesitatingly he related his experiences, of which the following is a summary:
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000000|dr David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, eighteen sixty six.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000001|On the seventh of the following month he departed from Mikindany Bay for the interior, with an expedition consisting of twelve Sepoys from Bombay, nine men from Johanna, of the Comoro Islands, seven liberated slaves, and two Zambezi men, taking them as an experiment; six camels, three buffaloes, two mules, and three donkeys.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000002|He had thus thirty men with him, twelve of whom, viz., the Sepoys, were to act as guards for the Expedition.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000003|They were mostly armed with the Enfield rifles presented to the Doctor by the Bombay Government.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000006|For miles Livingstone and his party had to cut their way with their axes through the dense and almost impenetrable jungles which lined the river's banks.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000007|The road was a mere footpath, leading in the most erratic fashion into and through the dense vegetation, seeking the easiest outlet from it without any regard to the course it ran.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000008|The pagazis were able to proceed easily enough; but the camels, on account of their enormous height, could not advance a step without the axes of the party clearing the way.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000015_000009|These tools of foresters were almost always required; but the advance of the expedition was often retarded by the unwillingness of the Sepoys and Johanna men to work.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000016_000004|One of their worst sins was the custom of giving their guns and ammunition to carry to the first woman or boy they met, whom they impressed for that purpose by such threats or promises as they were totally unable to perform, and unwarranted in making.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000016_000005|An hour's marching was sufficient to fatigue them, after which they lay down on the road to bewail their hard fate, and concoct new schemes to frustrate their leader's purposes.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000016_000006|Towards night they generally made their appearance at the camping ground with the looks of half dead men.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000016_000007|Such men naturally made but a poor escort; for, had the party been attacked by a wandering tribe of natives of any strength, the Doctor could have made no defence, and no other alternative would have been left to him but to surrender and be ruined.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000018_000001|On the road thither, two of the liberated slaves deserted him.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000018_000003|He also stated that his family lived on the east side of the Nyassa Lake.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000018_000007|The Doctor further enjoined him not to join in any of the slave raids usually made by his countrymen, the men of Nyassa, on their neighbours.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000019_000003|The traveller patiently listened to the narrative, which lost nothing of its portentous significance through Musa's relation, and then asked Musa if he believed it.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000019_000004|"Yes," answered Musa, readily; "he tell me true, true.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000020_000002|I want to see my father, my mother, my child, in Johanna.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000022_000000|Musa was not satisfied, but kept moaning and sorrowing, saying, "If we had two hundred guns with us I would go; but our small party of men they will attack by night, and kill all."
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000023_000000|The Doctor repeated his promise, "But I will not go near them; I will go west."
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000024_000000|As soon as he turned his face westward, Musa and the Johanna men ran away in a body.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000027_000000|On leaving this hospitable region in the early part of December, eighteen sixty six, the Doctor entered a country where the Mazitu had exercised their customary marauding propensities.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000000|In the country of Lunda lives the famous Cazembe, who was first made known to Europeans by dr Lacerda, the Portuguese traveller.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000001|Cazembe is a most intelligent prince; he is a tall, stalwart man, who wears a peculiar kind of dress, made of crimson print, in the form of a prodigious kilt.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000002|In this state dress, King Cazembe received dr Livingstone, surrounded by his chiefs and body guards.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000004|He had heard that the white man had come to look for waters, for rivers, and seas; though he could not understand what the white man could want with such things, he had no doubt that the object was good.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000006|The Doctor replied that he had thought of proceeding south, as he had heard of lakes and rivers being in that direction.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000007|Cazembe asked, "What can you want to go there for?
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000008|The water is close here.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000009|There is plenty of large water in this neighbourhood." Before breaking up the assembly, Cazembe gave orders to let the white man go where he would through his country undisturbed and unmolested.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000028_000010|He was the first Englishman he had seen, he said, and he liked him.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000029_000000|Shortly after his introduction to the King, the Queen entered the large house, surrounded by a body guard of Amazons with spears.
train-other-500/2046/141204/2046_141204_000030_000002|His fault was in relying too implicitly upon the correctness of Portuguese information.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000001_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000002_000002|There were the same receptions and balls, the same French theater, the same court interests and service interests and intrigues as usual.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000002_000003|Only in the very highest circles were attempts made to keep in mind the difficulties of the actual position.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000002_000004|Stories were whispered of how differently the two Empresses behaved in these difficult circumstances.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000002_000005|The Empress Marya, concerned for the welfare of the charitable and educational institutions under her patronage, had given directions that they should all be removed to Kazan, and the things belonging to these institutions had already been packed up.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000002_000006|The Empress Elisabeth, however, when asked what instructions she would be pleased to give-with her characteristic Russian patriotism had replied that she could give no directions about state institutions for that was the affair of the sovereign, but as far as she personally was concerned she would be the last to quit Petersburg.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000003_000004|That evening she expected several important personages who had to be made ashamed of their visits to the French theater and aroused to a patriotic temper.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000003_000005|A good many people had already arrived, but Anna Pavlovna, not yet seeing all those whom she wanted in her drawing room, did not let the reading begin but wound up the springs of a general conversation.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000004_000000|The news of the day in Petersburg was the illness of Countess Bezukhova.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000005_000000|They all knew very well that the enchanting countess' illness arose from an inconvenience resulting from marrying two husbands at the same time, and that the Italian's cure consisted in removing such inconvenience; but in Anna Pavlovna's presence no one dared to think of this or even appear to know it.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000006_000000|"They say the poor countess is very ill.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000006_000001|The doctor says it is angina pectoris."
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000007_000000|"Angina?
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000007_000001|Oh, that's a terrible illness!"
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000009_000000|"The count is pathetic, they say.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000009_000001|He cried like a child when the doctor told him the case was dangerous."
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000010_000000|"Oh, it would be a terrible loss, she is an enchanting woman."
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000011_000001|"I sent to ask for news, and hear that she is a little better.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000011_000002|Oh, she is certainly the most charming woman in the world," she went on, with a smile at her own enthusiasm.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000011_000003|"We belong to different camps, but that does not prevent my esteeming her as she deserves.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000011_000004|She is very unfortunate!" added Anna Pavlovna.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000014_000000|And having thus demolished the young man, Anna Pavlovna turned to another group where Bilibin was talking about the Austrians: having wrinkled up his face he was evidently preparing to smooth it out again and utter one of his mots.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000015_000000|"I think it is delightful," he said, referring to a diplomatic note that had been sent to Vienna with some Austrian banners captured from the French by Wittgenstein, "the hero of Petropol" as he was then called in Petersburg.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000016_000000|"What?
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000016_000001|What's that?" asked Anna Pavlovna, securing silence for the mot, which she had heard before.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000017_000000|And Bilibin repeated the actual words of the diplomatic dispatch, which he had himself composed.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000018_000000|"The Emperor returns these Austrian banners," said Bilibin, "friendly banners gone astray and found on a wrong path," and his brow became smooth again.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000019_000000|"Charming, charming!" observed Prince Vasili.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000000|"The path to Warsaw, perhaps," Prince Hippolyte remarked loudly and unexpectedly.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000001|Everybody looked at him, understanding what he meant.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000002|Prince Hippolyte himself glanced around with amused surprise.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000003|He knew no more than the others what his words meant.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000004|During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000005|"It may turn out very well," he thought, "but if not, they'll know how to arrange matters." And really, during the awkward silence that ensued, that insufficiently patriotic person entered whom Anna Pavlovna had been waiting for and wished to convert, and she, smiling and shaking a finger at Hippolyte, invited Prince Vasili to the table and bringing him two candles and the manuscript begged him to begin.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000020_000006|Everyone became silent.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000021_000001|But no one said anything.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000021_000002|"Moscow, our ancient capital, the New Jerusalem, receives her Christ"--he placed a sudden emphasis on the word her-"as a mother receives her zealous sons into her arms, and through the gathering mists, foreseeing the brilliant glory of thy rule, sings in exultation, 'Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh!'"
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000022_000000|Prince Vasili pronounced these last words in a tearful voice.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000023_000000|Bilibin attentively examined his nails, and many of those present appeared intimidated, as if asking in what they were to blame.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000023_000001|Anna Pavlovna whispered the next words in advance, like an old woman muttering the prayer at Communion: "Let the bold and insolent Goliath..." she whispered.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000024_000000|Prince Vasili continued.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000025_000001|This icon of the Venerable Sergius, the servant of God and zealous champion of old of our country's weal, is offered to Your Imperial Majesty.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000025_000002|I grieve that my waning strength prevents rejoicing in the sight of your most gracious presence.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000025_000003|I raise fervent prayers to Heaven that the Almighty may exalt the race of the just, and mercifully fulfill the desires of Your Majesty."
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000026_000000|"What force!
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000026_000001|What a style!" was uttered in approval both of reader and of author.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000027_000000|Animated by that address Anna Pavlovna's guests talked for a long time of the state of the fatherland and offered various conjectures as to the result of the battle to be fought in a few days.
train-other-500/2046/178027/2046_178027_000028_000001|I have a favorable presentiment!"
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000001_000000|IN SEARCH OF PEACE AND FORTUNE.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000003_000002|Fannie Hill, the barmaid, threw kisses at us until we rounded the corner of the street leading to the old Grammar School.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000003_000003|We carried blackthorn cudgels to protect us from gamekeepers, lords and dogs.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000004_000000|As we passed the modest cottage where William's parents resided, he impulsively broke away from my presence to bid a long farewell to his angelic mother, and soon again he was at my side, flushed with pride and tears, exclaiming in undertone:
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000006_000001|Gold gilds success.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000007_000000|"Here, Jack, keep two of these for yourself, and if I should ever be penniless, and you have gold, I know you will aid me in a pinch.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000007_000001|The wine nature of your soul needs no bush."
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000009_000000|"William," said I, "memory with her indelible signet shall long imprint this generous act of yours upon my soul, and when hundreds of years have passed, I shall tell of the undying friendship of two bohemians, who, day and night, set their own fashion, created a world of their own, and lived ecstatically, oscillating between the blunders of Bacchus and the vanity of Venus!"
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000010_000000|William's heart was heavy when turning his back on father, mother, brother, sister, wife and children, at the age of twenty two.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000013_000000|With this apostrophe, we took a last look at the glinting gables and sparkling spires of Stratford, disappearing over the hill, our steps and faces turned to London town, that seething whirlpool of human woe and pleasure.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000015_000000|The various birds chattered in clumps along the highway, and then would rise over our heads in flitting flocks, steering their course to the south and seemingly accompanying us on our wandering way to the great metropolis.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000016_000000|In our zigzag course we passed through the towns of Ettington, Oxhill, Wroxton, Woodstock, Eversham and Oxford.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000017_000000|It was near sunset when the lofty towers and steeples of ancient Oxford, the great site of classic lore, met our view.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000018_000000|We were near a rough wall, and it appeared to both of us that unless we stood for immediate fight the dog would tear us to pieces.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000019_000001|The gamekeeper aimed a blunderbuss at the Bard, but ere he could fire the deadly weapon, I jumped on the petty tyrant whelp, and cudgeled his face into a macerated beefsteak.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000020_000000|We then leaped the garden wall and rushed into the city crowd where the curtains of night screened us from dogs and licentious lords.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000021_000000|We found our way to the Crown Tavern, kept by Richard Devanant and his buxom black eyed wife.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000023_000000|Those were gay and roystering days and nights when the greatest yeoman, tradesman, student, or lord, was the one who "drank his comrade under the table" and went away at sunrise like a lark, fluttering with dew from his downy wing, and soaring into the sky of beauty and action.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000024_000000|It was Saturday night when we pulled up at the old tavern, and there seemed to be a great crowd of town people celebrating some local event.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000027_000000|A number of strolling players and boxers were introduced during the evening.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000028_000000|A young lord named Bob Burleigh, was president of the club, while Mat Monmouth was the spokesman, who called on the various students and actors to entertain the town roysters who dropped in to see the free and easy celebration of the football victory.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000029_000000|While drowning our grief and loneliness in pewter pots of ale at a side table, in a snug corner, who should slap William on the shoulder but Ned Sadler, our old schoolmate from Stratford.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000030_000000|At the height of the college banquet Mat Monmouth announced that the president of the Cambridge Boxing Club had just challenged the president of the Oxford Club to fight, under the King's rule, for a purse of twenty guineas.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000031_000000|A wild cheer rent the room, and instanter the chairs and tables were pushed aside, when Dick Milton and Jack Norfolk stepped into the improvised prize ring, made by the circling arms of the students.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000033_000000|Dick Milton, the Cambridge athlete, when "time" was called, rushed on Jack Norfolk, the Oxford man, with a blow that sent him over the circling arms and into the chairs.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000034_000000|Score one for Dick.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000037_000000|When time was called for the third round, the Oxford man looked bleary and tremulous, but with that bull dog courage that never deserts an Englishman, he threw himself on the Cambridge man with great force and both went down with a crash.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000039_000000|Jack Norfolk did not respond to the call.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000040_000001|Victory!
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000042_000000|Dick Milton, flushed with wine and victory, held aloft the purse of guineas, and challenged any man in the room to fight him three rounds.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000043_000000|There seemed to be no immediate response, but I noticed a flush in the face of William, who modestly rose in his six foot form and asked if the challenge included outside citizens?
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000044_000000|Dick immediately replied, "You, or anybody in England." William said he did not know much about fighting with gloves, but if the gentleman would consent to three rounds with bare knuckles he would be pleased to accommodate him at once.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000045_000000|"All right, toe the mark!"
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000046_000000|Mat Monmouth called time.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000052_000000|Apollo with his rosy footsteps lit up hill, meadow and lawn, and kissed away the sparkling dewdrops of bush and hedge, cheering us on our way through the towns of Thane, over the Chilton Hills, on to Great Marlow, Maidenhead and renowned Windsor, where forest and castle thrilled the beholder with admiration for the works of Nature and Art.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000053_000000|It was late in the afternoon when we entered the broad highway to Windsor, passing numerous yeomen and tradespeople on their way to and from the royal domain of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
train-other-500/2050/157659/2050_157659_000055_000001|He then, as if inspired with the impulse of a tiger, jumped on the back of the rushing animal, grabbed the trailing lines, and neck of the horse, and steered him into a huge box hedge row that skirted the castle walls of Windsor.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000000_000001|"I Expect the Assassin This Evening"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000001_000001|I myself believe that I have discovered what everybody else is searching for, namely, how the murderer escaped from The Yellow Room, without any accomplice, and without Mademoiselle Stangerson having had anything to do with it.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000001_000002|But so long as I am not sure of the real murderer, I cannot state the theory on which I am working.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000001_000004|As to what happened in this place three nights ago, I must say it kept me wondering for a whole day and a night.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000001_000005|It passes all belief.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000001_000006|The theory I have formed from the incident is so absurd that I would rather matters remained as yet unexplained."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000002_000000|Saying which the young reporter invited me to go and make the tour of the chateau with him.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000002_000001|The only sound to be heard was the crunching of the dead leaves beneath our feet.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000002_000002|The silence was so intense that one might have thought the chateau had been abandoned.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000002_000004|As we passed round the donjon, we met the Green Man, the forest keeper, who did not greet us, but walked by as if we had not existed.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000002_000005|He was looking just as I had formerly seen him through the window of the Donjon Inn.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000002_000006|He had still his fowling piece slung at his back, his pipe was in his mouth, and his eye glasses on his nose.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000003_000000|"An odd kind of fish!" Rouletabille said to me, in a low tone.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000004_000000|"Have you spoken to him?" I asked.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000005_000000|"Yes, but I could get nothing out of him.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000005_000001|His only answers are grunts and shrugs of the shoulders.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000005_000003|He lives like a bear, never goes out without his gun, and is only pleasant with the girls.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000005_000004|The women, for twelve miles round, are all setting their caps for him.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000006_000000|After passing the donjon, which is situated at the extreme end of the left wing, we went to the back of the chateau.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000006_000001|Rouletabille, pointing to a window which I recognised as the only one belonging to Mademoiselle Stangerson's apartment, said to me:
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000007_000000|"If you had been here, two nights ago, you would have seen your humble servant at the top of a ladder, about to enter the chateau by that window."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000008_000000|As I expressed some surprise at this piece of nocturnal gymnastics, he begged me to notice carefully the exterior disposition of the chateau. We then went back into the building.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000009_000000|"I must now show you the first floor of the chateau, where I am living," said my friend.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000014_000000|We entered the gallery to the right.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000014_000001|A narrow carpet, laid on the waxed oaken floor, which shone like glass, deadened the sound of our footsteps.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000014_000003|This consisted of a bed room, an ante room, a small bath room, a boudoir, and a drawing room.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000014_000006|At about two thirds of its length this gallery, at a right angle, joined another gallery following the course of the right wing.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000016_000001|I had not had time to glance round the place in which he had been installed, when he uttered a cry of surprise and pointed to a pair of eye glasses on a side table.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000017_000000|"What are these doing here?" he asked.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000018_000000|I should have been puzzled to answer him.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000019_000001|I wonder if these are the eye glasses from the presbytery!"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000020_000000|He seized them eagerly, his fingers caressing the glass.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000021_000000|He repeated the exclamation again and again, as if his thoughts had suddenly turned his brain.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000023_000000|"Those glasses will drive me silly!
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000024_000000|Two light knocks struck the door.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000024_000001|Rouletabille opened it.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000024_000002|A figure entered.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000024_000003|I recognised the concierge, whom I had seen when she was being taken to the pavilion for examination.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000024_000004|I was surprised, thinking she was still under lock and key.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000024_000005|This woman said in a very low tone:
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000025_000000|"In the grove of the parquet."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000026_000001|He again turned to me, his look haggard, after having carefully refastened the door, muttering some incomprehensible phrases.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000027_000000|"If the thing is mathematically possible, why should it not be humanly!--And if it is humanly possible, the matter is simply awful." I interrupted him in his soliloquy:
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000028_000000|"Have they set the concierges at liberty, then?" I asked.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000029_000000|"Yes," he replied, "I had them liberated, I needed people I could trust. The woman is thoroughly devoted to me, and her husband would lay down his life for me."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000030_000000|"Oho!" I said, "when will he have occasion to do it?"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000031_000000|"This evening,--for this evening I expect the murderer."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000032_000000|"You expect the murderer this evening?
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000032_000001|Then you know him?"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000033_000002|I hope so, with all my heart!"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000034_000000|"Five minutes ago, you did not know the murderer; how can you say that you expect him this evening?"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000035_000000|"Because I know that he must come."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000036_000000|Rouletabille very slowly filled his pipe and lit it.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000036_000001|That meant an interesting story.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000038_000000|"No," my friend answered.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000038_000002|That matter will turn out badly.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000038_000003|I expect that Monsieur Darzac will be arrested in the course of the next week.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000038_000005|Not an hour passes without bringing some new evidence against him.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000038_000006|The examining magistrate is overwhelmed by it-and blind."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000039_000000|"Frederic Larsan, however, is not a novice," I said.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000040_000001|I had, indeed, a great admiration for him, before I got to know his method of working.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000040_000002|It's deplorable.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000040_000003|He owes his reputation solely to his ability; but he lacks reasoning power,--the mathematics of his ideas are very poor."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000042_000000|"You smile," he said?
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000042_000002|I swear I will outwit him-and in a striking way!
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000042_000004|Think of it!--every time the murderer comes to the chateau, Monsieur Darzac, by a strange fatality, absents himself and refuses to give any account of how he employs his time."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000043_000000|"Every time the assassin comes to the chateau!" I cried.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000043_000001|"Has he returned then-?"
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000044_000000|"Yes, during that famous night when the strange phenomenon occurred."
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000045_000001|But I had learned never to press Rouletabille in his narratives.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000045_000002|He spoke when the fancy took him and when he judged it to be right.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000045_000003|He was less concerned about my curiosity than he was for making a complete summing up for himself of any important matter in which he was interested.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000046_000000|At last, in short rapid phrases, he acquainted me with things which plunged me into a state bordering on complete bewilderment.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000046_000001|Indeed, the results of that still unknown science known as hypnotism, for example, were not more inexplicable than the disappearance of the "matter" of the murderer at the moment when four persons were within touch of him.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000046_000002|I speak of hypnotism as I would of electricity, for of the nature of both we are ignorant and we know little of their laws.
train-other-500/2050/164332/2050_164332_000046_000003|I cite these examples because, at the time, the case appeared to me to be only explicable by the inexplicable,--that is to say, by an event outside of known natural laws.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000000_000001|The Inexplicable Gallery
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000001_000002|There are moments when one feels as if one's brain were about to burst.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000001_000003|A bullet in the head, a fracture of the skull, the seat of reason shattered-with only these can I compare the sensation which exhausted and left me void of sense.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000002_000001|I saw her, and that helped to relieve my chaotic state of mind.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000002_000002|I breathed her-I inhaled the perfume of the lady in black, whom I should never see again.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000002_000003|I would have given ten years of my life-half my life-to see once more the lady in black!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000002_000004|Alas!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000002_000007|But then, how could I have imagined otherwise when I had not been in The Yellow Room!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000003_000001|It is not my fault if, in the document which I have cited, Rouletabille thought fit to refer to his childhood.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000000|"But now, since the occurrence of the inexplicable gallery, I did not reason at all.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000001|I stood there, stupid, before the apparition-so pale and so beautiful-of Mademoiselle Stangerson.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000002|She was clad in a dressing gown of dreamy white.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000005|He drew her into the room and we followed them,--for we had to know!--The door of the boudoir was open.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000006|The terrified faces of the two nurses craned towards us.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000008|That she was not in her own room was quite easily explained-quite easily.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000009|She had a fancy not to sleep that night in her chamber, but in the boudoir with her nurses, locking the door on them.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000004_000010|Since the night of the crime she had experienced feelings of terror, and fears came over her that are easily to be comprehended.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000000|"But who could imagine that on that particular night when he was to come, she would, by a mere chance, determine to shut herself in with her women?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000001|Who would think that she would act contrary to her father's wish to sleep in the drawing room?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000002|Who could believe that the letter which had so recently been on the table in her room would no longer be there? He who could understand all this, would have to assume that Mademoiselle Stangerson knew that the murderer was coming-she could not prevent his coming again-unknown to her father, unknown to all but to Monsieur Robert Darzac.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000004|'Ah, I would kill him with my own hand!' And I replied, 'You have not answered my question.' That was the very truth.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000005|In truth, in truth, Monsieur Darzac knew the murderer so well that-while wishing to kill him himself-he was afraid I should find him.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000006|There could be but two reasons why he had assisted me in my investigation.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000005_000007|First, because I forced him to do it; and, second, because she would be the better protected.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000006_000000|"I am in the chamber-her room.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000006_000001|I look at her, also at the place where the letter had just now been.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000006_000002|She has possessed herself of it; it was evidently intended for her-evidently.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000006_000003|How she trembles!--Trembles at the strange story her father is telling her, of the presence of the murderer in her chamber, and of the pursuit.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000007_000000|"Then follows a silence.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000007_000001|What a silence!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000007_000002|We are all there-looking at her-her father, Larsan, Daddy Jacques and i What were we all thinking of in the silence?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000007_000004|'You who know of this mystery, explain it to us, and we shall perhaps be able to save you.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000000|"She is there, shedding about her the perfume of the lady in black.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000001|At last, I see her, in the silence of her chamber.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000002|Since the fatal hour of the mystery of The Yellow Room, we have hung about this invisible and silent woman to learn what she knows.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000003|Our desires, our wish to know must be a torment to her.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000004|Who can tell that, should we learn the secret of her mystery, it would not precipitate a tragedy more terrible than that which had already been enacted here?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000005|Who can tell if it might not mean her death?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000006|Yet it had brought her close to death,--and we still knew nothing.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000008|But I-if I knew who, I should know all.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000009|Who?--Who?--Not knowing who, I must remain silent, out of pity for her.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000010|For there is no doubt that she knows how he escaped from The Yellow Room, and yet she keeps the secret.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000008_000011|When I know who, I will speak to him-to him!"
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000002|He declared that, henceforth, he would no more absent himself from his daughter's apartments.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000003|She tried to oppose him in vain.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000004|He adhered firmly to his purpose.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000005|He would install himself there this very night, he said.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000008|He smiled at her and seemed not to know either what he said or what he did.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000009|The illustrious professor had lost his head.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000010|Mademoiselle Stangerson in a tone of tender distress said: 'Father!--father!' Daddy Jacques blows his nose, and Frederic Larsan himself is obliged to turn away to hide his emotion.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000011|For myself, I am able neither to think or feel.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000009_000012|I felt an infinite contempt for myself.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000010_000002|To him, as to me, the same answer had always been given: Mademoiselle Stangerson was too weak to receive us.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000010_000003|The questionings of the examining magistrate had over fatigued her.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000010_000004|It was evidently intended not to give us any assistance in our researches.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000010_000005|I was not surprised; but Frederic Larsan had always resented this conduct.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000010_000006|It is true that he and I had a totally different theory of the crime.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000011_000001|Take him and shut his mouth.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000011_000003|Have I the right to kill Mademoiselle Stangerson's murderer?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000011_000004|No, I had not.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000011_000005|But let him only give me the chance!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000011_000006|Let me find out whether he is really a creature of flesh and blood!--Let me see his dead body, since it cannot be taken alive.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000012_000000|"If I could but make this woman, who does not even look at us, understand!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000012_000001|She is absorbed by her fears and by her father's distress of mind.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000012_000002|And I can do nothing to save her.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000012_000003|Yes, I will go to work once more and accomplish wonders.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000000|"I move towards her.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000001|I would speak to her.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000003|I would, in a word, make her understand-she alone-that I know how the murderer escaped from The Yellow Room-that I have guessed the motives for her secrecy-and that I pity her with all my heart.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000004|But by her gestures she begged us to leave her alone, expressing weariness and the need for immediate rest.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000005|Monsieur Stangerson asked us to go back to our rooms and thanked us.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000006|Frederic Larsan and I bowed to him and, followed by Daddy Jacques, we regained the gallery.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000013_000008|On the threshold he turned towards Daddy Jacques.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000014_000000|"'Did you see him distinctly?' he asked.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000015_000000|"'Who?'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000016_000000|"'The man?'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000018_000000|"'That's how he appeared to me,' I said.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000019_000000|"'And to me,' said Larsan.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000020_000000|"The great Fred and I were alone in his chamber, now, to talk over this thing.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000020_000001|We talked for an hour, turning the matter over and viewing it from every side.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000021_000000|"'He knows the chateau,' he said to me; 'he knows it well.'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000024_000000|"'I understand,' I said; 'but how do you account for his red hair and beard?'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000025_000000|"'Too much beard-too much hair-false,' says Fred.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000026_000000|"'That's easily said.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000026_000001|You are always thinking of Robert Darzac.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000026_000003|I am certain that he is innocent.'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000027_000000|"'So much the better.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000027_000001|I hope so; but everything condemns him.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000027_000002|Did you notice the marks on the carpet?--Come and look at them.'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000028_000000|"'I have seen them; they are the marks of the neat boots, the same as those we saw on the border of the lake.'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000029_000000|"'Can you deny that they belong to Robert Darzac?'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000030_000000|"'Of course, one may be mistaken.'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000031_000000|"'Have you noticed that those footprints only go in one direction?--that there are no return marks?
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000031_000001|When the man came from the chamber, pursued by all of us, his footsteps left no traces behind them.'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000032_000000|"'He had, perhaps, been in the chamber for hours.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000033_000000|"I suddenly put an end to this idle chatter-void of any logic, and made a sign to Larsan to listen.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000035_000001|I lead him to the little semi-circular room under the terrace beneath the window of the 'off turning' gallery.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000035_000002|I point to the door, now closed, open a short time before, under which a shaft of light is visible.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000036_000000|"'The forest keeper!' says Fred.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000037_000000|"'Come on!' I whisper.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000038_000000|"Prepared-I know not why-to believe that the keeper is the guilty man-I go to the door and rap smartly on it.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000039_000000|"Had this criticism been made at the time, we could only have answered that the assassin had disappeared from the gallery in such a way that we thought he was no longer anywhere!
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000039_000001|He had eluded us when we all had our hands stretched out ready to seize him-when we were almost touching him.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000039_000002|We had no longer any ground for hoping that we could clear up the mystery of that night.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000040_000000|"As soon as I rapped at the door it was opened, and the keeper asked us quietly what we wanted.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000040_000001|He was undressed and preparing to go to bed.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000040_000002|The bed had not yet been disturbed.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000041_000000|"We entered and I affected surprise.
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000042_000000|"'Not gone to bed yet?'
train-other-500/2050/164335/2050_164335_000043_000000|"'No,' he replied roughly.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen: THE MUSICAL BANKS
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000002_000000|On my return to the drawing room, I found that the Mahaina current had expended itself.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000002_000001|The ladies were just putting away their work and preparing to go out.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000002_000002|I asked them where they were going.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000002_000003|They answered with a certain air of reserve that they were going to the bank to get some money.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000004_000000|As for the system itself I never understood it, neither can I do so now: they have a code in connection with it, which I have not the slightest doubt that they understand, but no foreigner can hope to do so.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000005_000003|mr Nosnibor used to go to these banks, or rather to the great mother bank of the city, sometimes but not very often.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000005_000004|He was a pillar of one of the other kind of banks, though he appeared to hold some minor office also in the musical ones.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000005_000005|The ladies generally went alone; as indeed was the case in most families, except on state occasions.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000006_000000|I had long wanted to know more of this strange system, and had the greatest desire to accompany my hostess and her daughters.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000006_000002|I had never, however, yet been asked to go with them myself.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000007_000000|It is not easy to convey a person's manner by words, and I can hardly give any idea of the peculiar feeling that came upon me when I saw the ladies on the point of starting for the bank.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000007_000001|There was a something of regret, a something as though they would wish to take me with them, but did not like to ask me, and yet as though I were hardly to ask to be taken.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000007_000002|I was determined, however, to bring matters to an issue with my hostess about my going with them, and after a little parleying, and many inquiries as to whether I was perfectly sure that I myself wished to go, it was decided that I might do so.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000008_000000|We passed through several streets of more or less considerable houses, and at last turning round a corner we came upon a large piazza, at the end of which was a magnificent building, of a strange but noble architecture and of great antiquity.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000008_000003|On either side there were beautiful old trees wherein the birds were busy by the hundred, and a number of quaint but substantial houses of singularly comfortable appearance; they were situated in the midst of orchards and gardens, and gave me an impression of great peace and plenty.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000009_000000|Indeed it had been no error to say that this building was one that appealed to the imagination; it did more-it carried both imagination and judgement by storm.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000009_000002|I felt more conscious of the existence of a remote past.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000009_000004|I felt how short a space of human life was the period of our own existence.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000010_000000|We crossed the sward and entered the building.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000010_000001|If the outside had been impressive the inside was even more so.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000010_000002|It was very lofty and divided into several parts by walls which rested upon massive pillars; the windows were filled with stained glass descriptive of the principal commercial incidents of the bank for many ages.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000010_000003|In a remote part of the building there were men and boys singing; this was the only disturbing feature, for as the gamut was still unknown, there was no music in the country which could be agreeable to a European ear.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000010_000005|To my thinking the noise was hideous, but it produced a great effect upon my companions, who professed themselves much moved.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000010_000006|As soon as the singing was over, the ladies requested me to stay where I was while they went inside the place from which it had seemed to come.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000011_000000|During their absence certain reflections forced themselves upon me.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000012_000001|I stole up to the curtain, and ventured to draw the extreme edge of it on one side.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000012_000002|No, there was hardly any one there.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000012_000005|This did not look as though the bank was doing a very large business; and yet I had always been told that every one in the city dealt with this establishment.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000013_000000|I cannot describe all that took place in these inner precincts, for a sinister looking person in a black gown came and made unpleasant gestures at me for peeping.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000013_000002|When I had done this he became civil directly.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000013_000005|They then began making towards the curtain; whereon I let it drop and retreated to a reasonable distance.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000014_000000|They soon joined me.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000014_000002|On this mrs Nosnibor said that it was indeed melancholy to see what little heed people paid to the most precious of all institutions.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000014_000003|I could say nothing in reply, but I have ever been of opinion that the greater part of mankind do approximately know where they get that which does them good.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000015_000002|Moreover these institutions never departed from the safest and most approved banking principles.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000016_000001|As to the fewness of the people, and the absence of the able bodied, she pointed out to me with some justice that this was exactly what we ought to expect.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000017_000000|Let a person's intellect (she continued) be never so sound, unless his body is in absolute health, he can form no judgement worth having on matters of this kind.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000018_000000|She might say what she pleased, but her manner carried no conviction, and later on I saw signs of general indifference to these banks that were not to be mistaken.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000018_000001|Their supporters often denied it, but the denial was generally so couched as to add another proof of its existence.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000021_000000|"It is not necessary," he rejoined; "not in the least necessary, I assure you."
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000022_000000|And yet any one could see that the money given out at these banks was not that with which people bought their bread, meat, and clothing.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000022_000002|Some were covered with tin foil, but the greater part were frankly of a cheap base metal the exact nature of which I was not able to determine.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000023_000001|Not only this, but they would stick to it that the current coin of the realm was dross in comparison with the Musical Bank coinage.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000024_000001|Even those who to my certain knowledge kept only just enough money at the Musical Banks to swear by, would call the other banks (where their securities really lay) cold, deadening, paralysing, and the like.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000025_000000|I noticed another thing, moreover, which struck me greatly.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000025_000001|I was taken to the opening of one of these banks in a neighbouring town, and saw a large assemblage of cashiers and managers.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000025_000003|They did not please me; they lacked, with few exceptions, the true Erewhonian frankness; and an equal number from any other class would have looked happier and better men.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000026_000001|I answered myself emphatically, no
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000028_000005|Not unfrequently, indeed, they were induced, by what we in England should call undue influence, concealment, and fraud.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000028_000006|Few indeed were those who had the courage to insist on seeing both sides of the question before they committed themselves to what was practically a leap in the dark.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000029_000003|I confess that there were few things in Erewhon which shocked me more than this.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000031_000000|When man had grown to the perception that in the everlasting Is and Is Not of nature, the world and all that it contains, including man, is at the same time both seen and unseen, he felt the need of two rules of life, one for the seen, and the other for the unseen side of things.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000033_000000|The saving feature of the Erewhonian Musical Bank system (as distinct from the quasi idolatrous views which coexist with it, and on which I will touch later) was that while it bore witness to the existence of a kingdom that is not of this world, it made no attempt to pierce the veil that hides it from human eyes.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000033_000001|It is here that almost all religions go wrong.
train-other-500/2051/153962/2051_153962_000034_000001|So far as I could see, fully ninety per cent. of the population of the metropolis looked upon these banks with something not far removed from contempt.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000002_000000|THE JAR OF ROSEMARY
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000003_000000|There was once a little prince whose mother, the queen, was sick.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000003_000001|All summer she lay in bed, and everything was kept quiet in the palace; but when the autumn came she grew better.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000003_000002|Every day brought color to her cheeks, and strength to her limbs, and by and by the little prince was allowed to go into her room and stand beside her bed to talk to her.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000004_000000|He was very glad of this for he wanted to ask her what she would like for a Christmas present; and as soon as he had kissed her, and laid his cheek against hers, he whispered his question in her ear.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000005_000001|"A smile and a kiss and a hug around the neck; these are the dearest gifts I know."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000006_000000|But the prince was not satisfied with this answer.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000006_000001|"Smiles and kisses and hugs you can have every day," he said, "but think, mother, think, if you could choose the thing you wanted most in all the world what would you take?"
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000007_000000|So the queen thought and thought, and at last she said:
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000008_000000|"If I might take my choice of all the world I believe a little jar of rosemary like that which bloomed in my mother's window when I was a little girl would please me better than anything else."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000009_000000|The little prince was delighted to hear this, and as soon as he had gone out of the queen's room he sent a servant to his father's greenhouses to inquire for a rosemary plant.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000010_000000|But the servant came back with disappointing news.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000010_000001|There were carnation pinks in the king's greenhouses, and roses with golden hearts, and lovely lilies; but there was no rosemary.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000010_000002|Rosemary was a common herb and grew, mostly, in country gardens, so the king's gardeners said.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000011_000000|"Then go into the country for it," said the little prince.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000011_000001|"No matter where it grows, my mother must have it for a Christmas present."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000013_000000|Two days before Christmas, however, news was brought that rosemary had been found, a lovely green plant growing in a jar, right in the very city where the prince himself lived.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000014_000001|"Why have you not brought it with you?
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000014_000002|Go and get it at once."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000015_000000|"Well, as for that," said the servant who had found the plant, "there is a little difficulty.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000015_000001|The old woman to whom the rosemary belongs did not want to sell it even though I offered her a handful of silver for it."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000016_000000|"Then give her a purse of gold," said the little prince.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000017_000000|So a purse filled so full of gold that it could not hold another piece was taken to the old woman; but presently it was brought back.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000017_000001|She would not sell her rosemary; no, not even for a purse of gold.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000019_000000|The old woman, herself, came to the door, and she was glad to see the little prince.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000019_000001|She invited him in, and bade him warm his hands by the fire, and gave him a cooky from her cupboard to eat.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000020_000000|She had a little grandson no older than the prince, but he was sick and could not run about and play like other children.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000020_000001|He lay in a little white bed in the old woman's room, and the little prince, after he had eaten the cooky, spoke to him, and took out his favorite plaything, which he always carried in his pocket, and showed it to him.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000021_000000|The prince's favorite plaything was a ball which was like no other ball that had ever been made.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000021_000001|It was woven of magic stuff as bright as the sunlight, as sparkling as the starlight, and as golden as the moon at harvest time.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000021_000002|And when the little prince threw it into the air, or bounced it on the floor or turned it in his hands it rang like a chime of silver bells.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000023_000000|But pleased though she was she would not sell the rosemary.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000023_000001|She had brought it from the home where she had lived when her little grandson's father was a boy, she said, and she hoped to keep it till she died.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000023_000002|So the prince and his servants had to go home without it.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000025_000000|"If I had such a ball to hold in my hand," he said, "I should be contented all the day."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000026_000000|"You may as well wish for the moon in the sky," said his grandmother; but she thought of what he said, and in the evening when he was asleep she put her shawl around her, and taking the jar of rosemary with her she hastened to the king's palace.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000027_000000|When she got there the servants asked her errand but she would answer nothing till they had taken her to the little prince.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000028_000000|"Silver and gold would not buy the rosemary," she said when she saw him; "but if you will give me your golden ball for my little grandchild you may have the plant."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000029_000001|I would not give it away for anything."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000030_000000|And so the old woman had to go home with her jar of rosemary under her shawl.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000031_000000|The next day was the day before Christmas and there was a great stir and bustle in the palace.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000031_000001|The queen's physician had said that she might sit up to see the Christmas Tree that night, and have her presents with the rest of the family; and every one was running to and fro to get things in readiness for her.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000032_000000|The queen had so many presents, and very fine they were, too, that the Christmas Tree could not hold them all, so they were put on a table before the throne and wreathed around with holly and with pine.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000033_000000|"She wanted a jar of rosemary," he said as he looked at the glittering heap.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000034_000000|"She will never think of it again when she sees these things.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000034_000001|You may be sure of that," said the nurse.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000035_000000|But the little prince was not sure.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000035_000001|He thought of it himself many times that day, and once, when he was playing with his ball, he said to the nurse:
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000036_000000|"If I had a rosemary plant I'd be willing to sell it for a purse full of gold.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000036_000001|Wouldn't you?"
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000037_000000|"Indeed, yes," said the nurse; "and so would any one else in his right senses.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000037_000001|You may be sure of that."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000039_000000|"I wish it were spring.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000039_000001|It is easy to get rosemary then, is it not?"
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000040_000002|You may be sure of that."
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000042_000000|He had never been out at night by himself before, and he might have felt a little afraid had it not been for the friendly stars that twinkled in the sky above him.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000043_000000|"We will show you the way," they seemed to say; and he trudged on bravely in their light, till, by and by, he came to the house and knocked at the door.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000045_000001|"Did you see how it shone, grandmother?
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000045_000002|And did you hear how the little bells rang?" he said; and it was just then that the little prince knocked at the door.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000046_000000|The old woman made haste to answer the knock and when she saw the prince she was too astonished to speak.
train-other-500/2062/109873/2062_109873_000047_000001|"Please give me the rosemary for my mother."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifty two
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000001|After this she thought (except of her journey) only of one thing.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000002|She must go and see Pansy; from her she couldn't turn away.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000003|She had not seen her yet, as Osmond had given her to understand that it was too soon to begin.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000004|She drove at five o'clock to a high floor in a narrow street in the quarter of the Piazza Navona, and was admitted by the portress of the convent, a genial and obsequious person.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000005|Isabel had been at this institution before; she had come with Pansy to see the sisters.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000007|But she disliked the place, which affronted and almost frightened her; not for the world would she have spent a night there.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000002_000009|This innocent creature had been presented to her in a new and violent light, but the secondary effect of the revelation was to make her reach out a hand.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000000|The portress left her to wait in the parlour of the convent while she went to make it known that there was a visitor for the dear young lady. The parlour was a vast, cold apartment, with new looking furniture; a large clean stove of white porcelain, unlighted, a collection of wax flowers under glass, and a series of engravings from religious pictures on the walls.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000001|On the other occasion Isabel had thought it less like Rome than like Philadelphia, but to day she made no reflexions; the apartment only seemed to her very empty and very soundless.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000003|Isabel got up, expecting to see one of the ladies of the sisterhood, but to her extreme surprise found herself confronted with Madame Merle.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000004|The effect was strange, for Madame Merle was already so present to her vision that her appearance in the flesh was like suddenly, and rather awfully, seeing a painted picture move.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000007|It made Isabel feel faint; if it had been necessary to speak on the spot she would have been quite unable.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000008|But no such necessity was distinct to her; it seemed to her indeed that she had absolutely nothing to say to Madame Merle.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000009|In one's relations with this lady, however, there were never any absolute necessities; she had a manner which carried off not only her own deficiencies but those of other people.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000010|But she was different from usual; she came in slowly, behind the portress, and Isabel instantly perceived that she was not likely to depend upon her habitual resources.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000011|For her too the occasion was exceptional, and she had undertaken to treat it by the light of the moment.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000014|It was as if she had wished to mark a distinction.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000003_000015|She had been irritated then, she was reconciled now.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000001|She wished never to look at Madame Merle again.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000002|"You're surprised to find me here, and I'm afraid you're not pleased," this lady went on.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000005|"But I've not been sitting long," Madame Merle continued; "that is I've not been long with Pansy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000007|At any rate it's a little dismal.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000008|Therefore I came-on the chance.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000009|I knew of course that you'd come, and her father as well; still, I had not been told other visitors were forbidden.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000010|The good woman-what's her name?
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000011|Madame Catherine-made no objection whatever.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000012|I stayed twenty minutes with Pansy; she has a charming little room, not in the least conventual, with a piano and flowers.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000013|She has arranged it delightfully; she has so much taste.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000014|Of course it's all none of my business, but I feel happier since I've seen her.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000015|She may even have a maid if she likes; but of course she has no occasion to dress.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000016|She wears a little black frock; she looks so charming.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000017|I went afterwards to see Mother Catherine, who has a very good room too; I assure you I don't find the poor sisters at all monastic.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000020|She's a little saint of heaven and a model to the oldest of them.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000004_000022|Of course I knew it must be you, and I asked her to let me go and receive you in her place.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000002|She had not proceeded far before Isabel noted a sudden break in her voice, a lapse in her continuity, which was in itself a complete drama.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000003|This subtle modulation marked a momentous discovery-the perception of an entirely new attitude on the part of her listener.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000005|The person who stood there was not the same one she had seen hitherto, but was a very different person-a person who knew her secret.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000006|This discovery was tremendous, and from the moment she made it the most accomplished of women faltered and lost her courage.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000007|But only for that moment.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000008|Then the conscious stream of her perfect manner gathered itself again and flowed on as smoothly as might be to the end.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000005_000009|But it was only because she had the end in view that she was able to proceed.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000000|Isabel saw it all as distinctly as if it had been reflected in a large clear glass.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000001|It might have been a great moment for her, for it might have been a moment of triumph.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000002|That Madame Merle had lost her pluck and saw before her the phantom of exposure-this in itself was a revenge, this in itself was almost the promise of a brighter day.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000003|And for a moment during which she stood apparently looking out of the window, with her back half turned, Isabel enjoyed that knowledge.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000005|All the bitterness of this knowledge surged into her soul again; it was as if she felt on her lips the taste of dishonour.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000006|There was a moment during which, if she had turned and spoken, she would have said something that would hiss like a lash.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000007|But she closed her eyes, and then the hideous vision dropped.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000008|What remained was the cleverest woman in the world standing there within a few feet of her and knowing as little what to think as the meanest.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000010|She left her there for a period that must have seemed long to this lady, who at last seated herself with a movement which was in itself a confession of helplessness.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000011|Then Isabel turned slow eyes, looking down at her.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000012|Madame Merle was very pale; her own eyes covered Isabel's face.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000006_000013|She might see what she would, but her danger was over.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000007_000001|"I go to England to night."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000008_000000|"Go to England to night!" Madame Merle repeated sitting there and looking up at her.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000009_000000|"I'm going to Gardencourt.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000009_000001|Ralph Touchett's dying."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000010_000000|"Ah, you'll feel that." Madame Merle recovered herself; she had a chance to express sympathy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000010_000001|"Do you go alone?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000011_000000|"Yes; without my husband."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000012_000000|Madame Merle gave a low vague murmur; a sort of recognition of the general sadness of things.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000012_000002|Shall you see his mother?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000013_000000|"Yes; she has returned from America."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000014_000000|"She used to be very kind to me; but she has changed.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000014_000002|She paused a moment, then added: "And you'll see dear old Gardencourt again!"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000016_000000|"Naturally-in your grief.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000016_000001|But it's on the whole, of all the houses I know, and I know many, the one I should have liked best to live in.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000016_000002|I don't venture to send a message to the people," Madame Merle added; "but I should like to give my love to the place."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000017_000000|Isabel turned away.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000017_000001|"I had better go to Pansy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000017_000002|I've not much time."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000018_000000|While she looked about her for the proper egress, the door opened and admitted one of the ladies of the house, who advanced with a discreet smile, gently rubbing, under her long loose sleeves, a pair of plump white hands.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000020_000000|"You may remain always if you like!" And the good sister gave a knowing laugh.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000021_000000|She led Isabel out of the room, through several corridors, and up a long staircase.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000021_000001|All these departments were solid and bare, light and clean; so, thought Isabel, are the great penal establishments.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000021_000002|Madame Catherine gently pushed open the door of Pansy's room and ushered in the visitor; then stood smiling with folded hands while the two others met and embraced.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000022_000001|But she made no movement to seat herself; she seemed ready to retire.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000022_000002|"How does this dear child look?" she asked of Isabel, lingering a moment.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000023_000000|"She looks pale," Isabel answered.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000024_000001|She's very happy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000025_000000|Pansy wore, as Madame Merle had said, a little black dress; it was perhaps this that made her look pale.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000025_000001|"They're very good to me-they think of everything!" she exclaimed with all her customary eagerness to accommodate.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000026_000001|It fell with a leaden weight on Isabel's ears; it seemed to represent the surrender of a personality, the authority of the Church.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000027_000000|When Madame Catherine had left them together Pansy kneeled down and hid her head in her stepmother's lap.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000027_000001|So she remained some moments, while Isabel gently stroked her hair.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000027_000002|Then she got up, averting her face and looking about the room.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000027_000003|"Don't you think I've arranged it well?
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000027_000004|I've everything I have at home."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000028_000000|"It's very pretty; you're very comfortable." Isabel scarcely knew what she could say to her.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000028_000002|So she simply added after a moment: "I've come to bid you good bye.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000028_000003|I'm going to England."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000029_000001|"To England!
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000029_000002|Not to come back?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000030_000000|"I don't know when I shall come back."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000031_000001|She spoke as if she had no right to criticise; but her tone expressed a depth of disappointment.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000032_000001|I wish to see him," Isabel said.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000033_000001|Of course you must go.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000033_000002|And will papa go?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000034_000000|"No; I shall go alone."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000035_000000|For a moment the girl said nothing.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000035_000001|Isabel had often wondered what she thought of the apparent relations of her father with his wife; but never by a glance, by an intimation, had she let it be seen that she deemed them deficient in an air of intimacy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000035_000002|She made her reflexions, Isabel was sure; and she must have had a conviction that there were husbands and wives who were more intimate than that.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000035_000003|But Pansy was not indiscreet even in thought; she would as little have ventured to judge her gentle stepmother as to criticise her magnificent father.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000035_000005|But as in this latter case she would (for very solemnity's sake) never have mentioned the awful phenomenon, so she put away all knowledge of the secrets of larger lives than her own.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000035_000006|"You'll be very far away," she presently went on.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000036_000000|"Yes; I shall be far away.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000036_000001|But it will scarcely matter," Isabel explained; "since so long as you're here I can't be called near you."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000037_000000|"Yes, but you can come and see me; though you've not come very often."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000038_000000|"I've not come because your father forbade it.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000038_000002|I can't amuse you."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000039_000000|"I'm not to be amused.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000039_000001|That's not what papa wishes."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000040_000000|"Then it hardly matters whether I'm in Rome or in England."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000041_000000|"You're not happy, mrs Osmond," said Pansy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000042_000000|"Not very.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000042_000001|But it doesn't matter."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000043_000000|"That's what I say to myself.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000043_000001|What does it matter?
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000043_000002|But I should like to come out."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000044_000000|"I wish indeed you might."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000045_000000|"Don't leave me here," Pansy went on gently.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000046_000000|Isabel said nothing for a minute; her heart beat fast.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000046_000001|"Will you come away with me now?" she asked.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000047_000000|Pansy looked at her pleadingly.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000047_000001|"Did papa tell you to bring me?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000048_000000|"No; it's my own proposal."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000049_000000|"I think I had better wait then.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000049_000001|Did papa send me no message?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000050_000000|"I don't think he knew I was coming."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000051_000000|"He thinks I've not had enough," said Pansy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000051_000001|"But I have.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000051_000002|The ladies are very kind to me and the little girls come to see me.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000051_000003|There are some very little ones-such charming children.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000051_000006|But I've had enough.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000051_000007|Papa wished me to think a little-and I've thought a great deal."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000052_000000|"What have you thought?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000053_000000|"Well, that I must never displease papa."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000054_000000|"You knew that before."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000055_000000|"Yes; but I know it better.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000055_000001|I'll do anything-I'll do anything," said Pansy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000055_000002|Then, as she heard her own words, a deep, pure blush came into her face.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000055_000003|Isabel read the meaning of it; she saw the poor girl had been vanquished.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000055_000006|She didn't presume to judge others, but she had judged herself; she had seen the reality.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000056_000000|Isabel got up; her time was rapidly shortening.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000056_000001|"Good bye then.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000056_000002|I leave Rome to night."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000057_000000|Pansy took hold of her dress; there was a sudden change in the child's face.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000057_000001|"You look strange, you frighten me."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000058_000000|"Oh, I'm very harmless," said Isabel.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000059_000000|"Perhaps you won't come back?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000060_000000|"Perhaps not.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000060_000001|I can't tell."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000061_000000|"Ah, mrs Osmond, you won't leave me!"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000062_000001|"My dear child, what can I do for you?" she asked.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000063_000000|"I don't know-but I'm happier when I think of you."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000064_000000|"You can always think of me."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000065_000000|"Not when you're so far.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000065_000001|I'm a little afraid," said Pansy.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000066_000000|"What are you afraid of?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000067_000000|"Of papa-a little.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000067_000002|She has just been to see me."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000068_000000|"You must not say that," Isabel observed.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000069_000000|"Oh, I'll do everything they want.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000069_000001|Only if you're here I shall do it more easily."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000070_000000|Isabel considered.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000070_000001|"I won't desert you," she said at last.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000070_000002|"Good bye, my child."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000072_000000|Isabel hesitated, then stopped.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000073_000000|Pansy looked at her in wonder; but wonder with Pansy had never been a reason for non compliance.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000073_000001|"I never will again," she said with exquisite gentleness.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000073_000002|At the top of the staircase they had to separate, as it appeared to be part of the mild but very definite discipline under which Pansy lived that she should not go down.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000073_000003|Isabel descended, and when she reached the bottom the girl was standing above.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000073_000004|"You'll come back?" she called out in a voice that Isabel remembered afterwards.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000074_000000|"Yes-I'll come back."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000075_000000|Madame Catherine met mrs Osmond below and conducted her to the door of the parlour, outside of which the two stood talking a minute.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000075_000001|"I won't go in," said the good sister.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000075_000002|"Madame Merle's waiting for you."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000076_000000|At this announcement Isabel stiffened; she was on the point of asking if there were no other egress from the convent.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000076_000002|Her companion grasped her arm very gently and, fixing her a moment with wise, benevolent eyes, said in French and almost familiarly: "Eh bien, chere Madame, qu'en pensez vous?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000077_000000|"About my step daughter?
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000077_000001|Oh, it would take long to tell you."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000078_000000|"We think it's enough," Madame Catherine distinctly observed.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000078_000001|And she pushed open the door of the parlour.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000079_000000|Madame Merle was sitting just as Isabel had left her, like a woman so absorbed in thought that she had not moved a little finger.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000079_000002|She had recovered her balance; she was in full possession of her resources.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000079_000003|"I found I wished to wait for you," she said urbanely.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000079_000004|"But it's not to talk about Pansy."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000081_000000|"Yes; it also seems to me enough.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000081_000002|"Have you reason to believe that he's really at his last?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000082_000000|"I've no information but a telegram.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000082_000001|Unfortunately it only confirms a probability."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000083_000000|"I'm going to ask you a strange question," said Madame Merle.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000083_000001|"Are you very fond of your cousin?" And she gave a smile as strange as her utterance.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000084_000000|"Yes, I'm very fond of him.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000084_000001|But I don't understand you."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000085_000000|She just hung fire.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000085_000001|"It's rather hard to explain.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000085_000002|Something has occurred to me which may not have occurred to you, and I give you the benefit of my idea.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000085_000003|Your cousin did you once a great service.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000085_000004|Have you never guessed it?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000086_000000|"He has done me many services."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000087_000000|"Yes; but one was much above the rest.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000087_000001|He made you a rich woman."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000088_000000|"HE made me-?"
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000089_000000|Madame Merle appearing to see herself successful, she went on more triumphantly: "He imparted to you that extra lustre which was required to make you a brilliant match.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000089_000001|At bottom it's him you've to thank." She stopped; there was something in Isabel's eyes.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000090_000000|"I don't understand you.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000090_000001|It was my uncle's money."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000091_000000|"Yes; it was your uncle's money, but it was your cousin's idea.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000091_000001|He brought his father over to it.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000092_000001|"I don't know why you say such things.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000092_000002|I don't know what you know."
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000093_000000|"I know nothing but what I've guessed.
train-other-500/2062/143900/2062_143900_000093_000001|But I've guessed that."
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000001_000000|Chapter nine: That The Americans Apply The Principle Of Interest Rightly Understood To Religious Matters
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000000|If the principle of interest rightly understood had nothing but the present world in view, it would be very insufficient; for there are many sacrifices which can only find their recompense in another; and whatever ingenuity may be put forth to demonstrate the utility of virtue, it will never be an easy task to make that man live aright who has no thoughts of dying.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000001|It is therefore necessary to ascertain whether the principle of interest rightly understood is easily compatible with religious belief.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000002|The philosophers who inculcate this system of morals tell men, that to be happy in this life they must watch their own passions and steadily control their excess; that lasting happiness can only be secured by renouncing a thousand transient gratifications; and that a man must perpetually triumph over himself, in order to secure his own advantage.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000003|The founders of almost all religions have held the same language.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000004|The track they point out to man is the same, only that the goal is more remote; instead of placing in this world the reward of the sacrifices they impose, they transport it to another.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000006|I have known zealous Christians who constantly forgot themselves, to work with greater ardor for the happiness of their fellow men; and I have heard them declare that all they did was only to earn the blessings of a future state.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000002_000007|I cannot but think that they deceive themselves; I respect them too much to believe them.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000000|Christianity indeed teaches that a man must prefer his neighbor to himself, in order to gain eternal life; but Christianity also teaches that men ought to benefit their fellow creatures for the love of God. A sublime expression!
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000002|I do not believe that interest is the sole motive of religious men: but I believe that interest is the principal means which religions themselves employ to govern men, and I do not question that this way they strike into the multitude and become popular.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000003|It is not easy clearly to perceive why the principle of interest rightly understood should keep aloof from religious opinions; and it seems to me more easy to show why it should draw men to them.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000005|If such a man believes in the religion which he professes, it will cost him but little to submit to the restrictions it may impose.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000006|Reason herself counsels him to obey, and habit has prepared him to endure them.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000007|If he should have conceived any doubts as to the object of his hopes, still he will not easily allow himself to be stopped by them; and he will decide that it is wise to risk some of the advantages of this world, in order to preserve his rights to the great inheritance promised him in another.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000003_000008|"To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true," says Pascal, "is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!"
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000004_000000|The Americans do not affect a brutal indifference to a future state; they affect no puerile pride in despising perils which they hope to escape from.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000004_000002|The Americans not only follow their religion from interest, but they often place in this world the interest which makes them follow it.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000004_000003|In the Middle Ages the clergy spoke of nothing but a future state; they hardly cared to prove that a sincere Christian may be a happy man here below.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000004_000004|But the American preachers are constantly referring to the earth; and it is only with great difficulty that they can divert their attention from it.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000005_000000|Chapter ten: Of The Taste For Physical well-being In America
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000006_000000|In America the passion for physical well-being is not always exclusive, but it is general; and if all do not feel it in the same manner, yet it is felt by all.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000006_000001|Carefully to satisfy all, even the least wants of the body, and to provide the little conveniences of life, is uppermost in every mind.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000006_000002|Something of an analogous character is more and more apparent in Europe.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000006_000003|Amongst the causes which produce these similar consequences in both hemispheres, several are so connected with my subject as to deserve notice.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000007_000000|When riches are hereditarily fixed in families, there are a great number of men who enjoy the comforts of life without feeling an exclusive taste for those comforts.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000007_000001|The heart of man is not so much caught by the undisturbed possession of anything valuable as by the desire, as yet imperfectly satisfied, of possessing it, and by the incessant dread of losing it.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000007_000002|In aristocratic communities, the wealthy, never having experienced a condition different from their own, entertain no fear of changing it; the existence of such conditions hardly occurs to them.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000007_000003|The comforts of life are not to them the end of life, but simply a way of living; they regard them as existence itself-enjoyed, but scarcely thought of.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000007_000005|Hence it is that, in the midst of physical gratifications, the members of an aristocracy often display a haughty contempt of these very enjoyments, and exhibit singular powers of endurance under the privation of them.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000007_000006|All the revolutions which have ever shaken or destroyed aristocracies, have shown how easily men accustomed to superfluous luxuries can do without the necessaries of life; whereas men who have toiled to acquire a competency can hardly live after they have lost it.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000008_000000|If I turn my observation from the upper to the lower classes, I find analogous effects produced by opposite causes.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000008_000001|Amongst a nation where aristocracy predominates in society, and keeps it stationary, the people in the end get as much accustomed to poverty as the rich to their opulence.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000008_000003|In communities of this kind, the imagination of the poor is driven to seek another world; the miseries of real life inclose it around, but it escapes from their control, and flies to seek its pleasures far beyond.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000008_000005|They never procure them without exertion, and they never indulge in them without apprehension.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000008_000006|They are therefore always straining to pursue or to retain gratifications so delightful, so imperfect, so fugitive.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000009_000001|From them it mounts into the higher orders of society, and descends into the mass of the people.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000009_000002|I never met in America with any citizen so poor as not to cast a glance of hope and envy on the enjoyments of the rich, or whose imagination did not possess itself by anticipation of those good things which fate still obstinately withheld from him.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000009_000003|On the other hand, I never perceived amongst the wealthier inhabitants of the United States that proud contempt of physical gratifications which is sometimes to be met with even in the most opulent and dissolute aristocracies.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000009_000004|Most of these wealthy persons were once poor; they have felt the sting of want; they were long a prey to adverse fortunes; and now that the victory is won, the passions which accompanied the contest have survived it: their minds are, as it were, intoxicated by the small enjoyments which they have pursued for forty years.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000009_000005|Not but that in the United States, as elsewhere, there are a certain number of wealthy persons who, having come into their property by inheritance, possess, without exertion, an opulence they have not earned.
train-other-500/2063/148525/2063_148525_000009_000006|But even these men are not less devotedly attached to the pleasures of material life.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000000_000000|Chapter eleven: Peculiar Effects Of The Love Of Physical Gratifications In Democratic Ages
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000001_000000|It may be supposed, from what has just been said, that the love of physical gratifications must constantly urge the Americans to irregularities in morals, disturb the peace of families, and threaten the security of society at large.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000001_000002|It sometimes happens that, wearied with public affairs and sated with opulence, amidst the ruin of religious belief and the decline of the State, the heart of an aristocracy may by degrees be seduced to the pursuit of sensual enjoyments only.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000001_000003|At other times the power of the monarch or the weakness of the people, without stripping the nobility of their fortune, compels them to stand aloof from the administration of affairs, and whilst the road to mighty enterprise is closed, abandons them to the inquietude of their own desires; they then fall back heavily upon themselves, and seek in the pleasures of the body oblivion of their former greatness.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000001_000004|When the members of an aristocratic body are thus exclusively devoted to the pursuit of physical gratifications, they commonly concentrate in that direction all the energy which they derive from their long experience of power.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000001_000005|Such men are not satisfied with the pursuit of comfort; they require sumptuous depravity and splendid corruption.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000002_000000|The taste for physical gratifications leads a democratic people into no such excesses.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000002_000001|The love of well-being is there displayed as a tenacious, exclusive, universal passion; but its range is confined.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000002_000003|These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world, and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000000|This, it may be said, can only be applicable to those members of the community who are in humble circumstances; wealthier individuals will display tastes akin to those which belonged to them in aristocratic ages.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000001|I contest the proposition: in point of physical gratifications, the most opulent members of a democracy will not display tastes very different from those of the people; whether it be that, springing from the people, they really share those tastes, or that they esteem it a duty to submit to them.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000002|In democratic society the sensuality of the public has taken a moderate and tranquil course, to which all are bound to conform: it is as difficult to depart from the common rule by one's vices as by one's virtues.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000004|The especial taste which the men of democratic ages entertain for physical enjoyments is not naturally opposed to the principles of public order; nay, it often stands in need of order that it may be gratified.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000005|Nor is it adverse to regularity of morals, for good morals contribute to public tranquillity and are favorable to industry.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000006|It may even be frequently combined with a species of religious morality: men wish to be as well off as they can in this world, without foregoing their chance of another.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000007|Some physical gratifications cannot be indulged in without crime; from such they strictly abstain.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000003_000009|The reproach I address to the principle of equality, is not that it leads men away in the pursuit of forbidden enjoyments, but that it absorbs them wholly in quest of those which are allowed.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000004_000000|Chapter twelve: Causes Of Fanatical Enthusiasm In Some Americans
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000005_000000|Although the desire of acquiring the good things of this world is the prevailing passion of the American people, certain momentary outbreaks occur, when their souls seem suddenly to burst the bonds of matter by which they are restrained, and to soar impetuously towards heaven.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000005_000001|In all the States of the Union, but especially in the half peopled country of the Far West, wandering preachers may be met with who hawk about the word of God from place to place.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000005_000002|Whole families-old men, women, and children-cross rough passes and untrodden wilds, coming from a great distance, to join a camp meeting, where they totally forget for several days and nights, in listening to these discourses, the cares of business and even the most urgent wants of the body.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000005_000003|Here and there, in the midst of American society, you meet with men, full of a fanatical and almost wild enthusiasm, which hardly exists in Europe.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000005_000004|From time to time strange sects arise, which endeavor to strike out extraordinary paths to eternal happiness.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000005_000005|Religious insanity is very common in the United States.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000006_000000|Nor ought these facts to surprise us.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000006_000001|It was not man who implanted in himself the taste for what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000006_000002|He may cross and distort them-destroy them he cannot.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000006_000003|The soul has wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000006_000004|If ever the faculties of the great majority of mankind were exclusively bent upon the pursuit of material objects, it might be anticipated that an amazing reaction would take place in the souls of some men.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000006_000005|They would drift at large in the world of spirits, for fear of remaining shackled by the close bondage of the body.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000007_000000|It is not then wonderful if, in the midst of a community whose thoughts tend earthward, a small number of individuals are to be found who turn their looks to heaven.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000007_000001|I should be surprised if mysticism did not soon make some advance amongst a people solely engaged in promoting its own worldly welfare.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000007_000002|It is said that the deserts of the Thebaid were peopled by the persecutions of the emperors and the massacres of the Circus; I should rather say that it was by the luxuries of Rome and the Epicurean philosophy of Greece.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000007_000004|But they feel imprisoned within bounds which they will apparently never be allowed to pass.
train-other-500/2063/148526/2063_148526_000007_000005|As soon as they have passed these bounds, their minds know not where to fix themselves, and they often rush unrestrained beyond the range of common sense.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000001_000000|fourteen
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000002_000000|A SOUL IN HELL
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000000|It was nearly ten o'clock at night when I cast myself down upon my bed, and began to gather my scattered wits, and reflect upon what I had seen and heard.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000001|But the more I reflected the less I could make of it.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000002|Was I mad, or drunk, or dreaming, or was I merely the victim of a gigantic and most elaborate hoax?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000003|How was it possible that I, a rational man, not unacquainted with the leading scientific facts of our history, and hitherto an absolute and utter disbeliever in all the hocus pocus which in Europe goes by the name of the supernatural, could believe that I had within the last few minutes been engaged in conversation with a woman two thousand and odd years old?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000004|The thing was contrary to the experience of human nature, and absolutely and utterly impossible.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000005|It must be a hoax, and yet, if it were a hoax, what was I to make of it?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000006|What, too, was to be said of the figures on the water, of the woman's extraordinary acquaintance with the remote past, and her ignorance, or apparent ignorance, of any subsequent history?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000008|This, at any rate, was a patent fact, and beyond the experience of the world.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000009|No merely mortal woman could shine with such a supernatural radiance.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000010|About that she had, at any rate, been in the right-it was not safe for any man to look upon such beauty.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000011|I was a hardened vessel in such matters, having, with the exception of one painful experience of my green and tender youth, put the softer sex (I sometimes think that this is a misnomer) almost entirely out of my thoughts.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000013|A person with the experience of two thousand years at her back, with the command of such tremendous powers, and the knowledge of a mystery that could hold off death, was certainly worth falling in love with, if ever woman was.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000014|But, alas! it was not a question of whether or no she was worth it, for so far as I could judge, not being versed in such matters, I, a fellow of my college, noted for what my acquaintances are pleased to call my misogyny, and a respectable man now well on in middle life, had fallen absolutely and hopelessly in love with this white sorceress.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000015|Nonsense; it must be nonsense!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000016|She had warned me fairly, and I had refused to take the warning.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000017|Curses on the fatal curiosity that is ever prompting man to draw the veil from woman, and curses on the natural impulse that begets it!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000019|Why cannot man be content to live alone and be happy, and let the women live alone and be happy too?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000020|But perhaps they would not be happy, and I am not sure that we should either.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000021|Here is a nice state of affairs.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000022|I, at my age, to fall a victim to this modern Circe!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000023|But then she was not modern, at least she said not.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000003_000024|She was almost as ancient as the original Circe.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000004_000000|I tore my hair, and jumped up from my couch, feeling that if I did not do something I should go off my head.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000004_000001|What did she mean about the scarabaeus too?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000004_000002|It was Leo's scarabaeus, and had come out of the old coffer that Vincey had left in my rooms nearly one and twenty years before.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000004_000005|Impossible!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000004_000006|The whole thing was gibberish!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000004_000007|Who ever heard of a man being born again?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000005_000000|But if it were possible that a woman could exist for two thousand years, this might be possible also-anything might be possible.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000005_000001|I myself might, for aught I knew, be a reincarnation of some other forgotten self, or perhaps the last of a long line of ancestral selves.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000005_000003|Only, unfortunately, I had no recollection of these previous conditions.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000000|Next I bethought me that I had not been to see how Leo was, so, taking up one of the lamps which was burning at my bedside, I slipped off my shoes and crept down the passage to the entrance of his sleeping cave. The draught of the night air was lifting his curtain to and fro gently, as though spirit hands were drawing and redrawing it.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000001|I slid into the vault like apartment, and looked round.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000002|There was a light by which I could see that Leo was lying on the couch, tossing restlessly in his fever, but asleep.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000004|She held his hand in one of hers, but she too was dozing, and the two made a pretty, or rather a pathetic, picture.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000005|Poor Leo! his cheek was burning red, there were dark shadows beneath his eyes, and his breath came heavily.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000006|He was very, very ill; and again the horrible fear seized me that he might die, and I be left alone in the world.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000006_000008|Well, thank Heaven! my sense of right was not dead.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000007_000001|My wearied body and overstrained mind awakened all my imagination into preternatural activity.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000007_000002|Ideas, visions, almost inspirations, floated before it with startling vividness.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000007_000004|But, behind and above them all, hovered the shape of that awful woman, and through them gleamed the memory of her entrancing loveliness. Up and down the cave I strode-up and down.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000000|Suddenly I observed, what I had not noticed before, that there was a narrow aperture in the rocky wall.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000001|I took up the lamp and examined it; the aperture led to a passage.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000002|Now, I was still sufficiently sensible to remember that it is not pleasant, in such a situation as ours was, to have passages running into one's bed chamber from no one knows where.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000003|If there are passages, people can come up them; they can come up when one is asleep.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000004|Partly to see where it went to, and partly from a restless desire to be doing something, I followed the passage.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000005|It led to a stone stair, which I descended; the stair ended in another passage, or rather tunnel, also hewn out of the bed rock, and running, so far as I could judge, exactly beneath the gallery that led to the entrance of our rooms, and across the great central cave.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000007|When I had traversed some fifty yards of space, I came to another passage running at right angles, and here an awful thing happened to me: the sharp draught caught my lamp and extinguished it, leaving me in utter darkness in the bowels of that mysterious place.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000008|I took a couple of strides forward so as to clear the bisecting tunnel, being terribly afraid lest I should turn up it in the dark if once I got confused as to the direction, and then paused to think.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000009|What was I to do?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000011|I peered forward into the darkness: surely, far away, I saw something like the faint glow of fire.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000012|Perhaps it was a cave where I could get a light-at any rate, it was worth investigating.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000013|Slowly and painfully I crept along the tunnel, keeping my hand against its wall, and feeling at every step with my foot before I put it down, fearing lest I should fall into some pit.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000014|Thirty paces-there was a light, a broad light that came and went, shining through curtains!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000015|Fifty paces-it was close at hand!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000008_000016|Sixty-oh, great heaven!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000009_000000|I was at the curtains, and they did not hang close, so I could see clearly into the little cavern beyond them.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000009_000001|It had all the appearance of being a tomb, and was lit up by a fire that burnt in its centre with a whitish flame and without smoke.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000009_000003|To the right was a similar shelf, on which lay some broidered coverings.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000009_000004|Over the fire bent the figure of a woman; she was sideways to me and facing the corpse, wrapped in a dark mantle that hid her like a nun's cloak.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000009_000005|She seemed to be staring at the flickering flame.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000011_000001|But her face was what caught my eye, and held me as in a vice, not this time by the force of its beauty, but by the power of fascinated terror.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000012_000000|For a moment she stood still, her hands raised high above her head, and as she did so the white robe slipped from her down to her golden girdle, baring the blinding loveliness of her form.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000012_000001|She stood there, her fingers clenched, and the awful look of malevolence gathered and deepened on her face.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000013_000000|Suddenly I thought of what would happen if she discovered me, and the reflection made me turn sick and faint.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000013_000001|But, even if I had known that I must die if I stopped, I do not believe that I could have moved, for I was absolutely fascinated.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000013_000002|But still I knew my danger.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000013_000003|Supposing she should hear me, or see me through the curtain, supposing I even sneezed, or that her magic told her that she was being watched-swift indeed would be my doom.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000016_000000|"Curse her, may she be everlastingly accursed."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000017_000000|The arms fell and the flame sank.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000017_000001|Up they went again, and the broad tongue of fire shot up after them; and then again they fell.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000018_000000|"Curse her memory-accursed be the memory of the Egyptian."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000019_000000|Up again, and again down.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000021_000000|"Curse her, because her magic hath prevailed against me.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000022_000000|"Curse her, because she held my beloved from me."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000023_000000|And again the flame dwindled and shrank.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000024_000000|She put her hands before her eyes, and abandoning the hissing tone, cried aloud:--
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000025_000000|"What is the use of cursing?--she prevailed, and she is gone."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000026_000000|Then she recommenced with an even more frightful energy:--
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000027_000000|"Curse her where she is.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000027_000001|Let my curses reach her where she is and disturb her rest.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000028_000000|"Curse her through the starry spaces.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000028_000001|Let her shadow be accursed.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000029_000000|"Let my power find her even there.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000030_000000|"Let her hear me even there.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000030_000001|Let her hide herself in the blackness.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000031_000000|"Let her go down into the pit of despair, because I shall one day find her."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000032_000000|Again the flame fell, and again she covered her eyes with her hands.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000033_000000|"It is of no use-no use," she wailed; "who can reach those who sleep? Not even I can reach them."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000034_000000|Then once more she began her unholy rites.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000035_000000|"Curse her when she shall be born again.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000035_000001|Let her be born accursed.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000037_000000|"Yea, then, let her be accursed; for then shall I overtake her with my vengeance, and utterly destroy her."
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000038_000000|And so on.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000039_000000|But at length she seemed to wear herself out and cease.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000039_000001|She sat herself down upon the rocky floor, shook the dense cloud of her beautiful hair over her face and breast, and began to sob terribly in the torture of a heartrending despair.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000040_000000|"Two thousand years," she moaned-"two thousand years have I wanted and endured; but though century doth still creep on to century, and time give place to time, the sting of memory hath not lessened, the light of hope doth not shine more bright.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000040_000001|Oh! to have lived two thousand years, with all my passion eating out my heart, and with my sin ever before me. Oh, that for me life cannot bring forgetfulness!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000040_000002|Oh, for the weary years that have been and are yet to come, and evermore to come, endless and without end!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000000|"My love! my love! my love!
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000001|Why did that stranger bring thee back to me after this sort?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000002|For five hundred years I have not suffered thus.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000005|What is there that I can do?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000006|What?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000007|What?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000008|What?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000041_000012|Alas!" and she flung herself prone upon the ground, and sobbed and wept till I thought her heart must burst.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000043_000000|"Oh Kallikrates," she cried, and I trembled at the name, "I must look upon thy face again, though it be agony.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000044_000000|"Shall I raise thee," she said, apparently addressing the corpse, "so that thou standest there before me, as of old?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000044_000003|Suddenly she withdrew her hands, and the motion of the corpse seemed to me to cease.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000045_000000|"To what purpose?" she said gloomily.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000045_000001|"Of what good is it to recall the semblance of life when I cannot recall the spirit?
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000046_000000|For a moment she stood there brooding, and then cast herself down on her knees beside the form, and began to press her lips against the sheet, and weep.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000047_000000|On I stumbled, I scarcely know how.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000047_000001|Twice I fell, once I turned up the bisecting passage, but fortunately found out my mistake in time.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000047_000003|So, utterly exhausted, and nearly frightened to death, I sank down at length there on the stone flooring, and sank into oblivion.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000048_000000|When I came to I noticed a faint ray of light in the passage just behind me.
train-other-500/2067/143535/2067_143535_000048_000001|I crept to it, and found it was the little stair down which the weak dawn was stealing.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000005_000001|This done, he got my travelling dressing case out of the Gladstone bag, and opened it ready for my use.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000005_000003|It was not satisfactory, so he shut up the bag, turned it on end, and, having rested it against the foot of the couch, placed the dressing case on it.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000005_000004|Next he looked at the pots full of water, which constituted our washing apparatus.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000005_000005|"Ah!" I heard him murmur, "no hot water in this beastly place.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000005_000006|I suppose these poor creatures only use it to boil each other in," and he sighed deeply.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000006_000000|"What is the matter, Job?" I said.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000007_000000|"Beg pardon, sir," he said, touching his hair.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000007_000002|One might think from the look of you that you had been having a night of it."
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000008_000000|I only groaned by way of answer.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000008_000001|I had, indeed, been having a night of it, such as I hope never to have again.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000009_000000|"How is mr Leo, Job?"
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000010_000000|"Much the same, sir.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000010_000002|She is always hanging round and looking after him, and if I ventures to interfere it's awful to see her; her hair seems to stand on end, and she curses and swears away in her heathen talk-at least I fancy she must be cursing, from the look of her."
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000011_000000|"And what do you do then?"
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000013_000000|Job's remarks were not of an exactly cheering order to a man who had passed such a night as I had; and, what is more, they had the weight of truth.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000013_000001|Taking one thing with another, it appeared to me to be an utter impossibility that we should escape from the place we were.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000013_000005|The very terror of the pursuit added to its fascination, and besides, as I was forced to own to myself even now in the sober light of day, she herself had attractions that I could not forget.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000014_000000|After I had dressed myself I passed into the eating, or rather embalming chamber, and had some food, which was as before brought to me by the girl mutes.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000014_000001|When I had finished I went and saw poor Leo, who was quite off his head, and did not even know me.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000014_000002|I asked Ustane how she thought he was; but she only shook her head and began to cry a little.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000014_000004|Surely she would cure him if she chose-at any rate she said she could.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000014_000005|While I was in the room, Billali entered, and also shook his head.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000015_000000|"He will die at night," he said.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000016_000000|"God forbid, my father," I answered, and turned away with a heavy heart.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000017_000003|Come on, my son; come swiftly."
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000018_000000|I turned, and followed him down the passage, and when we reached the great central cave saw that many Amahagger, some robed, and some merely clad in the sweet simplicity of a leopard skin, were hurrying along it.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000018_000001|We mingled with the throng, and walked up the enormous and, indeed, almost interminable cave.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000018_000002|All the way its walls were elaborately sculptured, and every twenty paces or so passages opened out of it at right angles, leading, Billali told me, to tombs, hollowed in the rock by "the people who were before." Nobody visited those tombs now, he said; and I must say that my heart rejoiced when I thought of the opportunities of antiquarian research which opened out before me.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000019_000000|At last we came to the head of the cave, where there was a rock dais almost exactly similar to the one on which we had been so furiously attacked, a fact that proved to me that these dais must have been used as altars, probably for the celebration of religious ceremonies, and more especially of rites connected with the interment of the dead.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000019_000001|On either side of this dais were passages leading, Billali informed me, to other caves full of dead bodies.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000019_000002|"Indeed," he added, "the whole mountain is full of dead, and nearly all of them are perfect."
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000022_000001|Forgive me if my Greek doth halt like a lame man; it is so long since I have heard the sound of it that my tongue is stiff, and will not bend rightly to the words."
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000023_000000|I bowed, and, mounting the dais, sat down at her feet.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000026_000000|"So," she said, with a little laugh; "I, too, have not slept well.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000029_000000|The captain bowed low, for the guard and her attendants did not prostrate themselves, but had remained standing, and departed with his underlings down a passage to the right.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000030_000000|Then came a silence.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000030_000002|It seemed that their Queen so rarely appeared in public that they were willing to undergo this inconvenience, and even graver risks, to have the opportunity of looking on her, or rather on her garments, for no living man there except myself had ever seen her face.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000030_000003|At last we caught sight of the waving of lights, and heard the tramp of men coming along the passage, and in filed the guard, and with them the survivors of our would be murderers, to the number of twenty or more, on whose countenances a natural expression of sullenness struggled with the terror that evidently filled their savage hearts.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000031_000000|"Nay," she said in her softest voice, "stand; I pray you stand. Perchance the time will soon be when ye shall grow weary of being stretched out," and she laughed melodiously.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000032_000000|I saw a cringe of terror run along the rank of the doomed wretches, and, wicked villains as they were, I felt sorry for them.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000032_000002|At last she spoke, addressing herself to me in a quiet and deliberate tone.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000033_000000|"Dost thou, oh my guest, recognise these men?"
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000035_000000|"Then tell to me, and this great company, the tale whereof I have heard."
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000036_000000|Thus adjured, I, in as few words as I could, related the history of the cannibal feast, and of the attempted torture of our poor servant.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000036_000003|No further evidence was taken.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000037_000001|"What have ye to say, ye rebellious children, why vengeance should not be done upon you?"
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000038_000001|As for their sudden attack upon ourselves, it was made in an access of sudden fury, and they deeply regretted it.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000039_000000|Then came a pause, and the most intense silence reigned over the whole scene, which, illuminated as it was by the flicker of the lamps striking out broad patterns of light and shadow upon the rocky walls, was as strange as any I ever saw, even in that unholy land.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000039_000001|Upon the ground before the dais were stretched scores of the corpselike forms of the spectators, till at last the long lines of them were lost in the gloomy background.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000039_000002|Before this outstretched audience were the knots of evil doers, trying to cover up their natural terrors with a brave appearance of unconcern.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000039_000003|On the right and left stood the silent guards, robed in white and armed with great spears and daggers, and men and women mutes watching with hard curious eyes.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000039_000004|Then, seated in her barbaric chair above them all, with myself at her feet, was the veiled white woman, whose loveliness and awesome power seemed to visibly shine about her like a halo, or rather like the glow from some unseen light. Never have I seen her veiled shape look more terrible than it did in that space, while she gathered herself up for vengeance.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000040_000000|At last it came.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000001|"Eaters of human flesh, two things have ye done.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000002|First, ye have attacked these strangers, being white men, and would have slain their servant, and for that alone death is your reward.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000003|But that is not all.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000004|Ye have dared to disobey me. Did I not send my word unto you by Billali, my servant, and the father of your household?
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000005|Did I not bid you to hospitably entertain these strangers, whom now ye have striven to slay, and whom, had not they been brave and strong beyond the strength of men, ye would cruelly have murdered?
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000007|And is not my lightest word a law? Have not your fathers taught you this, I say, whilst as yet ye were but children?
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000009|Well do ye know it, ye Wicked Ones.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000010|But ye are all evil-evil to the core-the wickedness bubbles up in you like a fountain in the spring time.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000041_000012|And now, because ye have done this thing, because ye have striven to put these men, my guests, to death, and yet more because ye have dared to disobey my word, this is the doom that I doom you to.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000043_000000|She ceased, and a faint murmur of horror ran round the cave.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000043_000003|But she was hard as adamant about it.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000000|"My Holly," she said, again speaking in Greek, which, to tell the truth, although I have always been considered a better scholar of the language than most men, I found it rather difficult to follow, chiefly because of the change in the fall of the accent.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000002|"My Holly, it cannot be.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000004|Thou knowest them not.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000005|They are tigers to lap blood, and even now they hunger for your lives.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000006|How thinkest thou that I rule this people?
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000008|It is by terror.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000009|My empire is of the imagination.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000010|Once in a generation mayhap I do as I have done but now, and slay a score by torture.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000012|What can it profit me to be avenged on such as these?
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000013|Those who live long, my Holly, have no passions, save where they have interests.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000014|Though I may seem to slay in wrath, or because my mood is crossed, it is not so.
train-other-500/2067/143536/2067_143536_000044_000016|My moods and changes are the little clouds, and fitfully these seem to turn; but behind them ever blows the great wind of my purpose.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000000_000007|It was dark night when he alighted at the Khan, so he spread out his prayer carpet and took down the saddle bags from the back of his mule and gave her with her furniture in charge of the door keeper that he might walk her about.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000000_000008|The man took her and did as he was bid.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000000_000009|Now it so happened that the Wazir of Bassorah, a man shot in years, was sitting at the lattice window of his palace opposite the Khan and he saw the porter walking the mule up and down.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000000_000018|Then the Wazir bade his servants take Nur al Din to the Hammam baths and sent him a suit of the best of his own especial raiment, and napkins and towelry and bowls and perfume burners and all else that was required.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000001_000000|When it was the Twenty first Night,
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000002_000002|Thereupon Shams al Din despaired of finding his brother and said, "Indeed I went beyond all bounds in what I said to him with reference to the marriage of our children. Would that I had not done so!
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000004_000000|And as another also said:--
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000007_000000|"The world's best joys long be thy lot, my lord!
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000008_000000|Then the Sultan rose up to honour them, and thanking Nur al Din for his fine compliment, asked the Wazir, "Who may be this young man?"; and the Minister answered, "This is my brother's son," and related his tale from first to last.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000010_000002|When the Divan was dismissed Nur al Din returned to his house and related what had passed to his father in law who rejoiced.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000010_000003|And thenceforward Nur al Din ceased not so to administer the Wazirate that the Sultan would not be parted from him night or day; and increased his stipend and supplies until his means were ample and he became the owner of ships that made trading voyages at his command, as well as of Mamelukes and blackamoor slaves; and he laid out many estates and set up Persian wheels and planted gardens.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000012_000001|His grandfather the old Wazir had bequeathed to him the whole of his property when he was but four years of age.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000014_000000|And they blessed him aloud as he passed and called upon Almighty Allah to bless him.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000014_000007|And he fell to weeping over his father and at parting with him, and he but a boy.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000016_000001|And I have heard a poet say:- -
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000018_000000|The THIRD BEHEST is, Learn to be silent in society and let thine own faults distract thine attention from the faults of other men: for it is said:--In silence dwelleth safety, and thereon I have heard the lines that tell us:--
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000024_000000|On this wise Nur al Din ceased not to counsel his son Badr al Din Hasan till his hour came and, sighing one sobbing sigh, his life went forth.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000030_000000|Then he wept with exceeding weeping and night came upon him; so he leant his head against his father's grave and sleep overcame him: Glory to him who sleepeth not!
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000030_000002|Now the cemetery was haunted day and night by Jinns who were of the True Believers, and presently came out a Jinniyah who, seeing Hasan asleep, marvelled at his beauty and loveliness and cried, "Glory to God!
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000030_000007|Now the cause of his departure was that one night, as we were sitting together and talking of wives and children to come, we had words on the matter and he went off in high dudgeon.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000030_000009|I have lately heard that my brother died at Bassorah, where he married the daughter of the Wazir and that she bare him a son; and I will not marry my daughter but to him in honour of my brother's memory.
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000030_000011|Now, by the life of my head I will marry her to the meanest of my men in spite of the nose of thee!
train-other-500/2068/146217/2068_146217_000030_000014|As for the Minister's daughter she sitteth among her nurses and tirewomen, weeping and wailing; for they have forbidden her father to come near her.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000002_000001|Nearly three weeks of the new year were gone, and Rosamond, awaiting an answer to her winning appeal, was every day disappointed.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000002_000004|A slice of the railway would enable him to manage the whole journey and back in four days.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000003_000001|She was full of hope.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000003_000002|Perhaps there might be a particular note to her enclosed; but Lydgate was naturally addressed on the question of money or other aid, and the fact that he was written to, nay, the very delay in writing at all, seemed to certify that the answer was thoroughly compliant.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000003_000003|She was too much excited by these thoughts to do anything but light stitching in a warm corner of the dining room, with the outside of this momentous letter lying on the table before her.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000003_000004|About twelve she heard her husband's step in the passage, and tripping to open the door, she said in her lightest tones, "Tertius, come in here-here is a letter for you."
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000004_000000|"Ah?" he said, not taking off his hat, but just turning her round within his arm to walk towards the spot where the letter lay.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000004_000001|"My uncle Godwin!" he exclaimed, while Rosamond reseated herself, and watched him as he opened the letter.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000004_000002|She had expected him to be surprised.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000005_000000|While Lydgate's eyes glanced rapidly over the brief letter, she saw his face, usually of a pale brown, taking on a dry whiteness; with nostrils and lips quivering he tossed down the letter before her, and said violently-
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000006_000000|"It will be impossible to endure life with you, if you will always be acting secretly-acting in opposition to me and hiding your actions."
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000007_000001|He was afraid of saying something irremediably cruel.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000008_000000|Rosamond too had changed color as she read.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000000|"DEAR TERTIUS,--Don't set your wife to write to me when you have anything to ask.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000001|It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000002|I never choose to write to a woman on matters of business.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000003|As to my supplying you with a thousand pounds, or only half that sum, I can do nothing of the sort.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000004|My own family drains me to the last penny.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000005|With two younger sons and three daughters, I am not likely to have cash to spare.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000006|You seem to have got through your own money pretty quickly, and to have made a mess where you are; the sooner you go somewhere else the better.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000007|But I have nothing to do with men of your profession, and can't help you there.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000008|I did the best I could for you as guardian, and let you have your own way in taking to medicine.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000009|You might have gone into the army or the Church.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000010|Your money would have held out for that, and there would have been a surer ladder before you.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000009_000011|Your uncle Charles has had a grudge against you for not going into his profession, but not i I have always wished you well, but you must consider yourself on your own legs entirely now.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000010_000000|Your affectionate uncle, GODWIN LYDGATE."
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000012_000000|"Will this be enough to convince you of the harm you may do by secret meddling?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000013_000000|The words were hard; but this was not the first time that Lydgate had been frustrated by her.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000013_000001|She did not look at him, and made no reply.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000014_000001|It would have cost me pain enough to do it, yet it might have been of some use.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000014_000002|But it has been of no use for me to think of anything.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000014_000003|You have always been counteracting me secretly.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000014_000005|If you mean to resist every wish I express, say so and defy me.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000014_000006|I shall at least know what I am doing then."
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000015_000000|It is a terrible moment in young lives when the closeness of love's bond has turned to this power of galling.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000015_000001|In spite of Rosamond's self control a tear fell silently and rolled over her lips.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000015_000003|Sir Godwin's rudeness towards her and utter want of feeling ranged him with Dover and all other creditors-disagreeable people who only thought of themselves, and did not mind how annoying they were to her.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000015_000004|Even her father was unkind, and might have done more for them.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000016_000001|He needed to recover the full sense that he was in the right by moderating his words.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000017_000000|"Can you not see, Rosamond," he began again, trying to be simply grave and not bitter, "that nothing can be so fatal as a want of openness and confidence between us?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000017_000001|It has happened again and again that I have expressed a decided wish, and you have seemed to assent, yet after that you have secretly disobeyed my wish.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000017_000002|In that way I can never know what I have to trust to.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000017_000003|There would be some hope for us if you would admit this.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000017_000004|Am I such an unreasonable, furious brute?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000017_000005|Why should you not be open with me?" Still silence.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000018_000001|She spoke with coolness.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000019_000000|"I cannot possibly make admissions or promises in answer to such words as you have used towards me.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000019_000001|I have not been accustomed to language of that kind.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000019_000002|You have spoken of my 'secret meddling,' and my 'interfering ignorance,' and my 'false assent.' I have never expressed myself in that way to you, and I think that you ought to apologize. You spoke of its being impossible to live with me.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000019_000003|Certainly you have not made my life pleasant to me of late.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000019_000004|I think it was to be expected that I should try to avert some of the hardships which our marriage has brought on me." Another tear fell as Rosamond ceased speaking, and she pressed it away as quietly as the first.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000020_000000|Lydgate flung himself into a chair, feeling checkmated.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000020_000001|What place was there in her mind for a remonstrance to lodge in?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000020_000002|He laid down his hat, flung an arm over the back of his chair, and looked down for some moments without speaking.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000021_000000|As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000021_000001|The ready fulness of his emotions made this dread alternate quickly with the first violent movements of his anger.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000021_000002|It would assuredly have been a vain boast in him to say that he was her master.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000022_000000|"You have not made my life pleasant to me of late"--"the hardships which our marriage has brought on me"--these words were stinging his imagination as a pain makes an exaggerated dream.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000022_000001|If he were not only to sink from his highest resolve, but to sink into the hideous fettering of domestic hate?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000000|"Rosamond," he said, turning his eyes on her with a melancholy look, "you should allow for a man's words when he is disappointed and provoked.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000001|You and I cannot have opposite interests.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000002|I cannot part my happiness from yours.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000003|If I am angry with you, it is that you seem not to see how any concealment divides us.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000004|How could I wish to make anything hard to you either by my words or conduct?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000005|When I hurt you, I hurt part of my own life.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000023_000006|I should never be angry with you if you would be quite open with me."
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000024_000000|"I have only wished to prevent you from hurrying us into wretchedness without any necessity," said Rosamond, the tears coming again from a softened feeling now that her husband had softened.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000024_000001|"It is so very hard to be disgraced here among all the people we know, and to live in such a miserable way.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000025_000002|He only caressed her; he did not say anything; for what was there to say?
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000025_000003|He could not promise to shield her from the dreaded wretchedness, for he could see no sure means of doing so.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000025_000004|When he left her to go out again, he told himself that it was ten times harder for her than for him: he had a life away from home, and constant appeals to his activity on behalf of others.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000025_000005|He wished to excuse everything in her if he could-but it was inevitable that in that excusing mood he should think of her as if she were an animal of another and feebler species.
train-other-500/2089/133059/2089_133059_000025_000006|Nevertheless she had mastered him.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000001_000000|Chapter eighteen.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000001_000001|CLASS DAY
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000002_000000|The clerk of the weather evidently has a regard for young people, and sends sunshine for class days as often as he can.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000002_000003|The hands that turned the pages of wise books also possessed the skill to decorate the hall with flowers; eyes tired with study shone with hospitable warmth on the assembling guests; and under the white muslins beat hearts as full of ambition, hope, and courage as those agitating the broadcloth of the ruling sex.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000003_000000|College Hill, Parnassus, and old Plum swarmed with cheery faces, as guests, students, and professors hurried to and fro in the pleasant excitement of arriving and receiving.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000003_000003|Mrs Meg, with Daisy and Jo as aides, was in demand among the girls, helping on belated toilettes, giving an eye to spreads, and directing the decorations.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000003_000004|Mrs Jo had her hands full as President's lady, and the mother of Ted; for it took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000004_000000|Not that he objected to be well arrayed; far from it; he adored good clothes, and owing to his great height already revelled in a dress suit, bequeathed him by a dandy friend.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000004_000002|He pleaded that English lads of ten wore them and were 'no end nobby'; but his mother only answered, with a consoling pat of the yellow mane:
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000005_000000|'My child, you are absurd enough now; if I let you add a tall hat, Plumfield wouldn't hold either of us, such would be the scorn and derision of all beholders.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000005_000001|Content yourself with looking like the ghost of a waiter, and don't ask for the most ridiculous head gear in the known world.'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000006_000000|Denied this noble badge of manhood, Ted soothed his wounded soul by appearing in collars of an amazing height and stiffness, and ties which were the wonder of all female eyes.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000006_000003|At last he would stalk majestically forth, imprisoned in collars compared to which those worn by Dickens's afflicted Biler were trifles not worth mentioning.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000006_000004|The dresscoat was a little loose in the shoulders, but allowed a noble expanse of glossy bosom to be seen, and with a delicate handkerchief negligently drooping at the proper angle, had a truly fine effect.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000006_000005|Boots that shone, and likewise pinched, appeared at one end of the 'long, black clothes pin'--as Josie called him---and a youthful but solemn face at the other, carried at an angle which, if long continued, would have resulted in spinal curvature.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000007_000000|'How's that for style?' he asked, appearing to his mother and cousins whom he was to escort to the hall on this particular occasion.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000008_000000|A shout of laughter greeted him, followed by exclamations of horror; for he had artfully added the little blond moustache he often wore when acting.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000008_000001|It was very becoming, and seemed the only balm to heal the wound made by the loss of the beloved hat.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000009_000000|'Take it off this moment, you audacious boy!
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000011_000001|No matter if he does, he'll enjoy the joke and introduce me as his oldest son.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000012_000002|So Ted found one ray of joy to light his gloom.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000013_000001|Mr March's fine old face shone with the serenest satisfaction, for this was the dream of his life fulfilled after patient waiting; and the love and reverence in the countenances of the eager young men and women looking up at him plainly showed that the reward he coveted was his in fullest measure.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000013_000002|Laurie always effaced himself on these occasions as much as courtesy would permit; for everyone spoke gratefully in ode, poem, and oration of the founder of the college and noble dispenser of his beneficence.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000014_000000|The music was excellent, and well it might be when Apollo waved the baton.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000014_000001|The poems were-as usual on such occasions-of varied excellence, as the youthful speakers tried to put old truths into new words, and made them forceful by the enthusiasm of their earnest faces and fresh voices.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000014_000003|It was still more significant and pleasant to watch the young men's faces when a slender white figure stood out against the background of black coated dignitaries, and with cheeks that flushed and paled, and lips that trembled till earnest purpose conquered maiden fear, spoke to them straight out of a woman's heart and brain concerning the hopes and doubts, the aspirations and rewards all must know, desire, and labour for.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000014_000004|This clear, sweet voice seemed to reach and rouse all that was noblest in the souls of these youths, and to set a seal upon the years of comradeship which made them sacred and memorable for ever.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000015_000002|A prudent sister detained him, however, and in a moment he was able to listen with composure to the President's remarks.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000016_000000|They were worth listening to, for Mr Bhaer spoke like a father to the children whom he was dismissing to the battle of life; and his tender, wise, and helpful words lingered in their hearts long after the praise was forgotten.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000016_000001|Then came other exercises peculiar to Plumfield, and the end.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000016_000002|Why the roof did not fly off when the sturdy lungs of the excited young men pealed out the closing hymn will for ever be a mystery; but it remained firm, and only the fading garlands vibrated as the waves of music rolled up and died away, leaving sweet echoes to haunt the place for another year.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000017_000000|Dinners and spreads consumed the afternoon, and at sunset came a slight lull as everyone sought some brief repose before the festivities of the evening began.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000017_000001|The President's reception was one of the enjoyable things in store, also dancing on Parnassus, and as much strolling, singing, and flirting, as could be compressed into a few hours by youths and maidens just out of school.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000018_000000|Carriages were rolling about, and gay groups on piazzas, lawns, and window seats idly speculated as to who the distinguished guests might be.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000018_000002|Then they all disappeared into the house, the luggage followed, and the watchers were left to wonder who the mysterious strangers were, till a fair collegian declared that they must be the Professor's nephews, one of whom was expected on his wedding journey.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000020_000000|'Uncle, Aunt Jo, here's another daughter!
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000020_000001|Have you room for my wife, too?'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000021_000000|There could be no doubt of that; and Mary was with difficulty rescued from the glad embraces of her new relatives, who, remembering all the young pair had suffered together, felt that this was the natural and happy ending of the long voyage so perilously begun.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000022_000000|'But why not tell us, and let us be ready for two brides instead of one?' asked Mrs Jo, looking as usual rather demoralizing in a wrapper and crimping pins, having rushed down from her chamber, where she was preparing for the labours of the evening.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000023_000001|We hoped to get in last night, but couldn't fetch it, so here we are in time for the end of the jollification, anyway.'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000025_000000|An April shower cleared the air and relieved the full hearts of the happy family; then of course everyone began to talk-Franz and Ludmilla in German with uncle, Emil and Mary with the aunts; and round this group gathered the young folk, clamouring to hear all about the wreck, and the rescue, and the homeward voyage.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000028_000000|'Only did my duty.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000029_000000|'Don't think of it, dear.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000029_000001|Tell about the happy days on the Urania, when papa grew better and we were all safe and homeward bound,' said Mary, with the trusting look and comforting touch which seemed to banish the dark and recall the bright side of that terrible experience.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000030_000000|Emil cheered up at once, and sitting with his arm about his 'dear lass', in true sailor fashion told the happy ending of the tale.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000031_000001|Uncle Hermann couldn't do enough for the captain, and while mamma took care of him, Mary looked after me.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000032_000000|'Hush! that's silly, dear,' whispered Mary, trying in her turn to stop him, with English shyness about tender topics.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000032_000001|But he took the soft hand in his, and proudly surveying the one ring it wore, went on with the air of an admiral aboard his flagship.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000033_000000|'The captain proposed waiting a spell; but I told him we weren't like to see any rougher weather than we'd pulled through together, and if we didn't know one another after such a year as this, we never should.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000034_000000|'Shall you really sail with him?' asked Daisy, admiring her courage, but shrinking with cat like horror from the water.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000035_000000|'I'm not afraid,' answered Mary, with a loyal smile.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000036_000001|You are a happy man, Emil, and I'm sure this trip will be a prosperous one,' cried Mrs Jo, delighted with the briny flavour of this courtship.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000036_000002|'Oh, my dear boy, I always felt you'd come back, and when everyone else despaired I never gave up, but insisted that you were clinging to the main top jib somewhere on that dreadful sea'; and Mrs Jo illustrated her faith by grasping Emil with a truly Pillycoddian gesture.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000037_000000|'Of course I was!' answered Emil heartily; 'and my "main top jib" in this case was the thought of what you and Uncle said to me.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000037_000001|That kept me up; and among the million thoughts that came to me during those long nights none was clearer than the idea of the red strand, you remember-English navy, and all that.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000037_000002|I liked the notion, and resolved that if a bit of my cable was left afloat, the red stripe should be there.'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000038_000000|'And it was, my dear, it was!
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000038_000001|Captain Hardy testifies to that, and here is your reward'; and Mrs Jo kissed Mary with a maternal tenderness which betrayed that she liked the English rose better than the blue eyed German Kornblumen, sweet and modest though it was.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000039_000000|Emil surveyed the little ceremony with complacency, saying, as he looked about the room which he never thought to see again: 'Odd, isn't it, how clearly trifles come back to one in times of danger?
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000039_000003|If you've got any, do give me one!'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000040_000000|A pitiful murmur broke from all the aunts and cousins, and Emil was at once borne away to feast on the desired cookies, a supply always being on hand.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000040_000001|Mrs Jo and her sister joined the other group, glad to hear what Franz was saying about Nat.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000041_000001|From them I learned the whole story of his spending more money than he ought and trying to atone for it by unnecessary work and sacrifice.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000041_000002|Baumgarten thought it would do him good, so kept his secret till I came.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000041_000003|It did him good, and he's paid his debts and earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, like an honest fellow.'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000043_000000|'I told you, Meg, that he had good stuff in him, and love for Daisy would keep him straight.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000043_000001|Dear lad, I wish I had him here this moment!' cried Mrs Jo, forgetting in delight the doubts and anxieties which had troubled her for months past.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000044_000000|'I am very glad, and suppose I shall give in as I always do, especially now that the epidemic rages so among us.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000045_000000|But her sister saw that she was touched by Nat's trials, and hastened to add the triumphs, that the victory might be complete, for success is always charming.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000047_000000|'Very fine in every way.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000047_000005|Ludmilla has a photo of it for you.'
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000048_000002|She stored up all she heard, however, and, womanlike, promised herself a delicious talk with Daisy, in which she would allow herself to melt by degrees, and perhaps change the doubtful 'We shall see' to a cordial 'He has done well; be happy, dear'.
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000049_000000|In the midst of this agreeable chat the sudden striking of a clock recalled Mrs Jo from romance to reality, and she exclaimed, with a clutch at her crimping pins:
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000050_000001|Meg, will you take Ludmilla and Mary upstairs and see to them?
train-other-500/2089/148992/2089_148992_000050_000002|Franz knows the way to the dining room.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000005_000000|Chapter twenty two.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000005_000001|POSITIVELY LAST APPEARANCE
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000006_000002|So the conspiracy succeeded finely; and Mrs Jo went home, feeling more like a traitor than ever.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000006_000003|She expected an explosion; but Dan took the news so quietly, it was plain that he cherished no hope; and Mrs Amy was sure her romantic sister had been mistaken.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000006_000004|If she had seen Dan's face when Bess went to say good bye, her maternal eye would have discovered far more than the unconscious girl did.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000006_000005|Mrs Jo trembled lest he should betray himself; but he had learned self control in a stern school, and would have got through the hard moment bravely, only, when he took both hands, saying heartily:
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000007_000000|'Good bye, Princess.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000007_000001|If we don't meet again, remember your old friend Dan sometimes,' she, touched by his late danger and the wistful look he wore, answered with unusual warmth: 'How can I help it, when you make us all so proud of you?
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000009_000000|This abrupt caress and departure rather startled Bess; for she felt with a girl's quick instinct that there was something in that kiss unknown before, and looked after him with sudden colour in her cheeks and new trouble in her eyes.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000009_000001|Mrs Jo saw it, and fearing a very natural question answered it before it was put.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000010_000000|'Forgive him, Bess.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000010_000001|He has had a great trouble, and it makes him tender at parting with old friends; for you know he may never come back from the wild world he is going to.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000012_000000|'No, dear; a greater trouble than that.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000012_000001|But I cannot tell you any more-except that he has come through it bravely; so you may trust and respect him, as I do.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000013_000000|'He has lost someone he loved.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000013_000002|We must be very kind to him.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000015_000000|But Ted was less easily satisfied, and this unusual reticence goaded him to desperation.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000015_000001|His mother had warned him not to trouble Dan with questions till he was quite well; but this prospect of approaching departure made him resolve to have a full, clear, and satisfactory account of the adventures which he felt sure must have been thrilling, from stray words Dan let fall in his fever.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000015_000002|So one day when the coast was clear, Master Ted volunteered to amuse the invalid, and did so in the following manner:
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000016_000001|The Montana business I know, but you seem to forget what went before.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000016_000002|Brace up, and let's have it,' he began, with an abruptness which roused Dan from a brown study most effectually.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000017_000000|'No, I don't forget; it isn't interesting to anyone but myself.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000018_000000|'Why?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000019_000000|'Other things to do.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000020_000000|'What?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000021_000000|'Well, brush making for one thing.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000022_000001|Tell true.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000023_000000|'I truly did.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000025_000000|'To keep out of mischief, as much as anything.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000026_000000|'Well, of all the queer things-and you've done a lot-that's the queerest,' cried Ted, taken aback at this disappointing discovery.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000026_000001|But he didn't mean to give up yet, and began again.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000027_000000|'What mischief, Dan?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000028_000000|'Never you mind.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000028_000001|Boys shouldn't bother.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000029_000000|'But I do want to know, awfully, because I'm your pal, and care for you no end.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000029_000001|Always did.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000029_000002|Come, now, tell me a good yarn.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000029_000003|I love scrapes.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000029_000004|I'll be mum as an oyster if you don't want it known.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000030_000000|'Will you?' and Dan looked at him, wondering how the boyish face would change if the truth were suddenly told him.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000031_000000|'I'll swear it on locked fists, if you like.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000031_000001|I know it was jolly, and I'm aching to hear.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000032_000000|'You are as curious as a girl.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000033_000000|'They don't care about rows and things; they liked the mine business, heroes, and that sort.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000035_000000|'Well, you used to mutter about 'em in your sleep, and Uncle Laurie wondered.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000035_000001|So did I; but don't mind, if you can't remember, or would rather not.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000036_000000|'What else did I say?
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000037_000000|'That's all I heard; but it seemed interesting, and I just mentioned it, thinking it might refresh your memory a bit,' said Teddy, very politely; for Dan's frown was heavy at that moment.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000039_000000|'Let me see; Blair was a lad I met in the cars, and Mason a poor fellow who was in a-well, a sort of hospital where I happened to be.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000039_000001|Blair ran off to his brothers, and I suppose I might say Mason was hit, because he died there.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000040_000000|'No, it doesn't.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000040_000002|I'm sure there was a fight somewhere, wasn't there?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000041_000000|'Yes!
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000042_000000|'I guess I know what it was about.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000043_000001|Let's hear you guess.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000043_000002|Must be amusing,' said Dan, affecting an ease he did not feel.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000044_000000|Charmed to be allowed to free his mind, Ted at once unfolded the boyish solution of the mystery which he had been cherishing, for he felt that there was one somewhere.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000045_000000|'You needn't say yes, if I guess right and you are under oath to keep silent.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000045_000001|I shall know by your face, and never tell.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000045_000002|Now see if I'm not right.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000046_000001|He might have confessed the crime, but not the punishment that followed, the sense of its disgrace was still so strong upon him.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000047_000000|'I knew I should get it; can't deceive me long,' began Ted, with such an air of pride Dan could not help a short laugh.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000048_000001|Now, just confide in me and it's all safe, unless you've sworn not to tell.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000049_000000|'I have.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000050_000000|'Oh, well, then don't'; and Ted's face fell, but he was himself again in a moment and said, with the air of a man of the world: 'It's all right-I understand-honour binds-silence to death, etc
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000050_000001|Glad you stood by your mate in the hospital.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000050_000002|How many did you kill?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000051_000000|'Only one.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000052_000000|'Bad lot, of course?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000054_000000|'Well, don't look so fierce; I've no objection.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000054_000001|Wouldn't mind popping at some of those bloodthirsty blackguards myself.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000054_000002|Had to dodge and keep quiet after it, I suppose.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000055_000000|'Pretty quiet for a long spell.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000056_000000|'Got off all right in the end, and headed for your mines and did that jolly brave thing.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000056_000001|Now, I call that decidedly interesting and capital. I'm glad to know it; but I won't blab.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000057_000001|Look here.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000058_000000|The lad opened his mouth to say, 'Not a bit,' but checked that answer as if something in Dan's face made him change his mind.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000058_000003|You don't mind, do you?
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000058_000004|It was a fair fight, wasn't it?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000059_000002|Makes it hard; but it don't matter.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000061_000000|'Don't intend to.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000062_000000|A few quiet weeks followed, during which Dan chafed at the delay; and when at length word came that his credentials were ready, he was eager to be off, to forget a vain love in hard work, and live for others, since he might not for himself.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000065_000000|'And meetings too, dear; for here we are, and Nat is on his way at last. Look for the silver lining, as Marmee used to say, and be comforted,' answered Mrs Amy, glad to be at home and find no wolves prowling near her sheepfold.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000066_000000|'I've been so worried lately, I can't help croaking.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000066_000001|I wonder what Dan thought at not seeing you again?
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000066_000002|It was wise; but he would have enjoyed another look at home faces before he went into the wilderness,' said Mrs Jo regretfully.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000067_000000|'Much better so.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000067_000001|We left notes and all we could think of that he might need, and slipped away before he came.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000069_000000|'A new picture has arrived; face towards the music room, good people, and tell me how you like it.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000069_000001|I call it "Only a fiddler", after Andersen's story.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000069_000002|What name will you give it?'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000070_000000|As he spoke he threw open the wide doors, and just beyond they saw a young man standing, with a beaming face, and a violin in his hand.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000070_000001|There was no doubt about the name to this picture, and with the cry 'Nat! Nat!' there was a general uprising.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000070_000002|But Daisy reached him first, and seemed to have lost her usual composure somewhere on the way, for she clung to him, sobbing with the shock of a surprise and joy too great for her to bear quietly.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000071_000001|Hail, all hail!'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000073_000000|'Now let me play something that you will all remember though you won't love it as I do'; and standing in the attitude which Ole Bull has immortalized, he played the street melody he gave them the first night he came to Plumfield.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000073_000001|They remembered it, and joined in the plaintive chorus, which fitly expressed his own emotions:
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000074_000000|'Oh my heart is sad and weary Everywhere I roam, Longing for the old plantation And for the old folks at home.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000075_000000|'Now I feel better,' said Mrs Jo, as they all trooped down the hill soon after.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000075_000001|'Some of our boys are failures, but I think this one is going to be a success, and patient Daisy a happy girl at last.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000075_000002|Nat is your work, Fritz, and I congratulate you heartily.'
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000077_000000|'I thought the seed had fallen on very stony ground with my poor Dan; but I shall not be surprised if he surpasses all the rest in the real success of life, since there is more rejoicing over one repentant sinner than many saints,' answered Mrs Jo, still clinging fast to her black sheep although a whole flock of white ones trotted happily before her.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000078_000000|It is a strong temptation to the weary historian to close the present tale with an earthquake which should engulf Plumfield and its environs so deeply in the bowels of the earth that no youthful Schliemann could ever find a vestige of it.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000078_000002|The boys prospered in their various callings; so did the girls, for Bess and Josie won honours in their artistic careers, and in the course of time found worthy mates.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000078_000003|Nan remained a busy, cheerful, independent spinster, and dedicated her life to her suffering sisters and their children, in which true woman's work she found abiding happiness.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000078_000004|Dan never married, but lived, bravely and usefully, among his chosen people till he was shot defending them, and at last lay quietly asleep in the green wilderness he loved so well, with a lock of golden hair upon his breast, and a smile on his face which seemed to say that Aslauga's Knight had fought his last fight and was at peace.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000078_000005|Stuffy became an alderman, and died suddenly of apoplexy after a public dinner. Dolly was a society man of mark till he lost his money, when he found congenial employment in a fashionable tailoring establishment.
train-other-500/2089/148996/2089_148996_000078_000006|Demi became a partner, and lived to see his name above the door, and Rob was a professor at Laurence College; but Teddy eclipsed them all by becoming an eloquent and famous clergyman, to the great delight of his astonished mother.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000000_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000001_000000|THE FINGER PRINTS
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000002_000000|Tarling, his hands thrust into his pockets, his chin dropped, his shoulders bent, slowly walked the broad pavement of the Edgware Road on his way from the girl's hotel to his flat.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000002_000001|He dismissed with good reason the not unimportant fact that he himself was suspect.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000003_000000|He knew that the whole complex machinery of Scotland Yard was working, and working at top speed, to implicate him in the tragedy.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000003_000001|Silent and invisible though that work may be, it would nevertheless be sure.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000003_000002|He smiled a little, and shrugged himself from the category of the suspected.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000004_000000|First and most important of the suspects was Odette Rider.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000004_000002|Thornton Lyne was not the kind of man who loved.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000004_000003|Rather had he desired, and very few women had thwarted him.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000005_000000|Anyway, he thought thankfully, it would not be Odette.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000005_000001|He had got into the habit of thinking of her as "Odette," a discovery which had amused him.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000005_000002|He could rule her out, because obviously she could not be in two places at once.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000005_000003|When Thornton Lyne was discovered in Hyde Park, with Odette Rider's night dress round about his wound, the girl herself was lying in a cottage hospital at Ashford fifty miles away.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000006_000001|Tarling recalled the fact that he had been sent for by his dead relative to inquire into Milburgh's mode of living and that Milburgh was under suspicion of having robbed the firm.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000006_000003|Suppose, to hide his defalcations, he had shot his employer dead?
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000006_000005|Milburgh himself was not unmindful of this argument in his favour, as was to be revealed.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000007_000000|As against this, Tarling thought, it was notorious that criminals did foolish things.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000007_000001|They took little or no account of the immediate consequences of their act, and a man like Milburgh, in his desperation, might in his very frenzy overlook the possibility of his crime coming to light through the very deed he had committed to cover himself up.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000010_000000|"I was just coming to see you," he said.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000010_000001|"I thought your interview with the young lady would be longer.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000010_000002|Just wait a moment, till I've paid the cabman-by the way, I saw your Chink servant and gather you sent him to the Yard on a spoof errand."
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000011_000000|When he returned, he met Tarling's eye and grinned sympathetically.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000012_000000|"I know what's in your mind," he said frankly, "but really the Chief thinks it no more than an extraordinary coincidence.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000012_000001|I suppose you made inquiries about your revolver?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000014_000000|"And can you discover how it came to be in the possession of----" he paused, "the murderer of Thornton Lyne?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000015_000001|"In fact, it's hardly so much a theory as an hypothesis."
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000016_000000|Whiteside grinned again.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000017_000000|"This hair splitting in the matter of logical terms never did mean much in my young life," he said, "but I take it you have a hunch."
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000020_000000|"There may be something on that side," he said at last when Tarling had finished.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000020_000001|"I've heard about your Ling Chu.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000020_000002|He's a pretty good policeman, isn't he?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000021_000000|"The best in China," said Tarling promptly, "but I'm not going to pretend that I understand his mind.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000021_000001|These are the facts.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000021_000002|The revolver, or rather the pistol, was in my cupboard and the only person who could get at it was Ling Chu.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000021_000005|He has admitted to me that he has been to Lyne's Store and in fact has been pursuing inquiries there.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000021_000006|We happened to be discussing the possibility of Miss Rider committing the murder and Ling Chu told me that Miss Rider could not drive a motor car and when I questioned him as to how he knew this, he told me that he had made several inquiries at the Store.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000021_000007|This I knew nothing about.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000022_000000|"Here is another curious fact," Tarling went on.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000022_000001|"I have always been under the impression that Ling Chu did not speak English, except a few words of 'pigeon' that Chinamen pick up through mixing with foreign devils.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000023_000000|"I'll put a couple of men on to watch him," said Whiteside, but Tarling shook his head.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000024_000002|Leave Ling Chu to me, I know the way to deal with him," he added grimly.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000025_000000|"The Little Daffodil!" said Whiteside thoughtfully, repeating the phrase which Tarling had quoted.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000027_000001|Tarling thought whimsically that this open space exercised the same attraction on him as it did upon mr Milburgh.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000029_000000|"I wanted to give you the last report about Milburgh."
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000030_000000|Milburgh again!
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000030_000001|All conversation, all thought, all clues led to that mystery man.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000031_000000|But it is out of prosaic happenings that big clues are born.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000034_000000|"Well," replied Whiteside, "he has been buying ledgers," and Tarling laughed.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000035_000000|"That doesn't seem to be a very offensive proceeding," he said good humouredly.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000035_000001|"What sort of ledgers?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000036_000000|"Those heavy things which are used in big offices.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000036_000003|Now my theory," said Whiteside earnestly, "is that this fellow is no ordinary criminal, if he is a criminal at all.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000036_000004|It may be that he has been keeping a duplicate set of books."
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000037_000000|"That is unlikely," interrupted Tarling, "and I say this with due respect for your judgment, Whiteside.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000037_000003|Anyway, it is no crime to own a ledger, or even three.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000037_000004|By the way, when did he buy these books?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000038_000000|"Yesterday," said Whiteside, "early in the morning, before Lyne's opened. How did your interview with Miss Rider go off?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000039_000000|Tarling shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000043_000000|"Who?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000044_000000|Again Tarling hesitated.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000046_000000|He put his hand in the inside of his jacket and took out a pocket case, opened it, and drew forth the two cards bearing the finger impressions he had taken of Odette Rider.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000047_000000|"Here are the impressions you wanted," he said.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000047_000001|"Will you take them?"
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000048_000000|Whiteside took the cards with a nod and examined the inky smudges, and all the time Tarling's heart stood still, for Inspector Whiteside was the recognised authority of the Police Intelligence Department on finger prints and their characteristics.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000049_000000|The survey was a long one.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000050_000000|Tarling remembered the scene for years afterwards; the sunlit path, the straggling idlers, the carriages pursuing their leisurely way along the walks, and the stiff military figure of Whiteside standing almost to attention, his keen eyes peering down at the little cards which he held in the finger tips of both hands.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000051_000000|"Interesting," he said.
train-other-500/2090/147030/2090_147030_000051_000002|Very interesting."
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000000_000000|Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon mrs Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000001_000000|Freckles was halfway to the Limberlost when he dismounted.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000001_000004|His hot, pulsing Irish blood was stirred deeply.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000001_000005|What did they mean?
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000001_000006|Why did they do it? Were they like that to everyone?
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000001_000007|Was it pity?
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000002_000001|In spite of accident and poverty, they evidently expected him to do something worth while in the world.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000002_000002|That must be his remedy.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000002_000003|He must work on his education.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000002_000004|He must get away.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000002_000009|The Angel was a mere child.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000002_000010|He must not allow her to torture him past endurance with her frank comradeship that meant to him high heaven, earth's richness, and all that lay between, and NOTHING to her.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000003_000001|He was worried to find his boots lying at the cabin door; the children playing on the woodpile told him that "mither" said they were so heavy she couldn't walk in them, and she had come back and taken them off.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000003_000003|To the west, the long, black, hard beaten trail lay clear; but far up the east side, straight across the path, he could see what was certainly a limp, brown figure.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000003_000004|Freckles spun with all his might.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000004_000000|Face down, Sarah Duncan lay across the trail.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000004_000001|When Freckles turned her over, his blood chilled at the look of horror settled on her face.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000004_000002|There was a low humming and something spatted against him.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000004_000006|He laid her in the shade, and carrying water from the swamp in the crown of his hat, he bathed her face and hands; but she lay in unbroken stillness, without a sign of life.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000005_000000|She had found Freckles' boots so large and heavy that she had gone back and taken them off, although she was mortally afraid to approach the swamp without them.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000005_000003|She was not Freckles, so not a bird of the line was going to be fooled into thinking she was.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000006_000001|Before Freckles was halfway to the town, poor mrs Duncan was hysterical, and the Limberlost had neither sung nor performed for her.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000007_000000|But there was trouble brewing.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000007_000001|It was quiet and intensely hot, with that stifling stillness that precedes a summer storm, and feathers and fur were tense and nervous.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000007_000002|The birds were singing only a few broken snatches, and flying around, seeking places of shelter.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000007_000003|One moment everything seemed devoid of life, the next there was an unexpected whir, buzz, and sharp cry.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000007_000004|Inside, a pandemonium of growling, spatting, snarling, and grunting broke loose.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000008_000000|The swale bent flat before heavy gusts of wind, and the big black chicken swept lower and lower above the swamp.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000008_000001|Patches of clouds gathered, shutting out the sun and making it very dark, and the next moment were swept away.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000008_000002|The sun poured with fierce, burning brightness, and everything was quiet.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000008_000003|It was at the first growl of thunder that Freckles really had noticed the weather, and putting his own troubles aside resolutely, raced for the swamp.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000009_000000|Sarah Duncan paused on the line.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000010_000001|"B'lieve there's going to be a big storm.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000010_000002|I do hope Freckles will hurry."
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000000|Her chin was quivering as a terrified child's.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000001|She lifted her bonnet to replace it and brushed against a bush beside her.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000003|mrs Duncan cried out and sprang down the trail, alighting on a frog that was hopping across.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000005|She screamed wildly and jumped to one side.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000007|She alighted squarely, but it was so damp and rotten that she sank straight through it to her knees.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000008|She caught at the wire as she went down, and missing, raked her wrist across a barb until she tore a bleeding gash.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000009|Her fingers closed convulsively around the second strand. She was too frightened to scream now.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000010|Her tongue stiffened.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000011|She clung frantically to the sagging wire, and finally managed to grasp it with the other hand.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000012|Then she could reach the top wire, and so she drew herself up and found solid footing.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000013|She picked up the club that she had dropped in order to extricate herself.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000014|Leaning heavily on it, she managed to return to the trail, but she was trembling so that she scarcely could walk.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000011_000015|Going a few steps farther, she came to the stump of the first tree that had been taken out.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000012_000000|She sat bolt upright and very still, trying to collect her thoughts and reason away her terror.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000012_000001|A squirrel above her dropped a nut, and as it came rattling down, bouncing from branch to branch, every nerve in her tugged wildly.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000012_000002|When the disgusted squirrel barked loudly, she sprang to the trail.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000013_000002|A heron, fishing the near by pool for Freckles' "find out" frog, fell into trouble with a muskrat and uttered a rasping note that sent mrs Duncan a rod down the line without realizing that she had moved.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000013_000003|She was too shaken to run far.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000013_000004|She stopped and looked around her fearfully.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000014_000000|Several bees struck her and were angrily buzzing before she noticed them.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000014_000001|Then the humming swelled on all sides.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000014_000002|A convulsive sob shook her, and she ran into the bushes, now into the swale, anywhere to avoid the swarming bees, ducking, dodging, fighting for her very life.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000014_000003|Presently the humming seemed to become a little fainter.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000014_000004|She found the trail again, and ran with all her might from a few of her angry pursuers.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000015_000002|Gathering her skirts higher, with hair flying around her face and her eyes almost bursting from their sockets, she ran straight toward it.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000015_000003|The sound of her feet and the humming of the bees alarmed the rattler, so it stopped across the trail, lifting its head above the grasses of the swale and rattling inquiringly-rattled until the bees were outdone.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000016_000000|Straight toward it went the panic stricken woman, running wildly and uncontrollably.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000016_000001|She took one leap, clearing its body on the path, then flew ahead with winged feet.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000016_000004|The mass of enraged bees darted angrily around, searching for it, and striking the scrub thorn, began a temporary settling there to discover whether it were a suitable place.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000016_000005|Completely exhausted, mrs Duncan staggered on a few steps farther, fell facing the path, where Freckles found her, and lay quietly.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000017_000000|Freckles worked over her until she drew a long, quivering breath and opened her eyes.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000018_000001|He helped her, and with his arm around and half carrying her, they made their way to the clearing.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000018_000002|She clung to him with all her remaining strength, but open her eyes she would not until her children came clustering around her.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000018_000003|Then, brawny, big Scotswoman though she was, she quietly keeled over again.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000018_000004|The children added their wailing to Freckles' panic.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000019_000002|They bathed and bound the bleeding wrist and coaxed her back to consciousness.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000019_000003|She lay sobbing and shuddering.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000019_000004|The first intelligent word she said was: "Freckles, look at that jar on the kitchen table and see if my yeast is no running ower."
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000020_000000|Several days passed before she could give Duncan and Freckles any detailed account of what had happened to her, even then she could not do it without crying as the least of her babies.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000020_000003|She could not rest until she sent for McLean and begged him to save Freckles from further risk, in that place of horrors.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000020_000004|The Boss went to the swamp with his mind fully determined to do so.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000021_000001|"Why, mr McLean, don't you let a woman's nervous system set you worrying about me," he said.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000021_000002|"I'm not denying how she felt, because I've been through it meself, but that's all over and gone.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000021_000003|It's the height of me glory to fight it out with the old swamp, and all that's in it, or will be coming to it, and then to turn it over to you as I promised you and meself I'd do, sir.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000021_000004|You couldn't break the heart of me entire quicker than to be taking it from me now, when I'm just on the home stretch.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000022_000000|McLean smiled.
train-other-500/2090/149737/2090_149737_000022_000001|"What about that last tree?" he said.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000002_000000|CHAPTER six-THE PARSONAGE AGAIN
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000003_000000|For a few months I remained peaceably at home, in the quiet enjoyment of liberty and rest, and genuine friendship, from all of which I had fasted so long; and in the earnest prosecution of my studies, to recover what I had lost during my stay at Wellwood House, and to lay in new stores for future use.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000003_000001|My father's health was still very infirm, but not materially worse than when I last saw him; and I was glad I had it in my power to cheer him by my return, and to amuse him with singing his favourite songs.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000004_000000|No one triumphed over my failure, or said I had better have taken his or her advice, and quietly stayed at home.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000004_000001|All were glad to have me back again, and lavished more kindness than ever upon me, to make up for the sufferings I had undergone; but not one would touch a shilling of what I had so cheerfully earned and so carefully saved, in the hope of sharing it with them.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000004_000002|By dint of pinching here, and scraping there, our debts were already nearly paid.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000004_000004|All we could spare from the supply of our humble wardrobe and our little casual expenses, he directed us to put into the savings'-bank; saying, we knew not how soon we might be dependent on that alone for support: for he felt he had not long to be with us, and what would become of our mother and us when he was gone, God only knew!
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000007_000000|My mother laughed, and so did my father: but his laugh soon perished in a dreary sigh.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000009_000000|'Why, nobody shall that isn't thankful for them.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000009_000002|But it's no matter whether they get married or not: we can devise a thousand honest ways of making a livelihood.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000010_000000|'I know, Alice, it is wrong to keep repining as I do, but I cannot help it: you must bear with me.'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000012_000001|I cannot draw like Mary, and so the best thing I could do would be to look out for another situation.'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000013_000000|'And so you would actually try again, Agnes?'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000014_000000|'Decidedly, I would.'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000016_000000|'I know,' said I, 'everybody is not like mr and mrs Bloomfield-'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000017_000000|'Some are worse,' interrupted my mother.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000022_000001|You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000023_000000|'Well, my girl, you are not easily discouraged, I see: I am glad of that. But, let me tell you, you are a good deal paler and thinner than when you first left home; and we cannot have you undermining your health to hoard up money either for yourself or others.'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000024_000000|'Mary tells me I am changed too; and I don't much wonder at it, for I was in a constant state of agitation and anxiety all day long: but next time I am determined to take things coolly.'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000026_000000|'Your talents are not such as every poor clergyman's daughter possesses, Agnes,' she would say, 'and you must not throw them away.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000028_000001|I have known several among the higher ranks who treated their governesses quite as one of the family; though some, I allow, are as insolent and exacting as any one else can be: for there are bad and good in all classes.'
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000029_000000|The advertisement was quickly written and despatched.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000029_000002|I was just to give a plain, true statement of my acquirements and qualifications, and name what stipulations I chose to make, and then await the result.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000029_000003|The only stipulation I ventured to propose, was that I might be allowed two months' holidays during the year to visit my friends, at Midsummer and Christmas.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000030_000000|My mother did not relish this at all, and now made many objections to my accepting the situation; in which my sister warmly supported her: but, unwilling to be balked again, I overruled them all; and, having first obtained the consent of my father (who had, a short time previously, been apprised of these transactions), I wrote a most obliging epistle to my unknown correspondent, and, finally, the bargain was concluded.
train-other-500/2090/151646/2090_151646_000031_000004|I must have decent clothes becoming my station; I must, it seemed, put out my washing, and also pay for my four annual journeys between Horton Lodge and home; but with strict attention to economy, surely twenty pounds, or little more, would cover those expenses, and then there would be thirty for the bank, or little less: what a valuable addition to our stock!
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000002_000001|He was then for granting a hundred years.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000003_000000|The conversation now turned upon mr David Hume's style.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000003_000003|But if you allow that the English language is established, he is wrong.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000003_000004|My name might originally have been Nicholson, as well as Johnson; but were you to call me Nicholson now, you would call me very absurdly.'
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000005_000002|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000005_000004|Now, Sir, in civilized society, external advantages make us more respected.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000000|Sir, you may analyse this, and say what is there in it?
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000001|But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000002|Pound saint Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing: but, put all these atoms together, and you have saint Paul's Church.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000003|So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shewn to be very insignificant. In civilized society, personal merit will not serve you so much as money will.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000004|Sir, you may make the experiment.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000005|Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000008|Now, Sir, all beyond this is artificial, and is desired in order to obtain a greater degree of respect from our fellow creatures.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000011|Money, to be sure, of itself is of no use; for its only use is to part with it.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000015|Why, now, there is stealing; why should it be thought a crime?
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000007_000017|Yet, Sir, the experience of mankind has discovered stealing to be so very bad a thing, that they make no scruple to hang a man for it.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000009_000000|It was suggested that Kings must be unhappy, because they are deprived of the greatest of all satisfactions, easy and unreserved society. JOHNSON. 'That is an ill founded notion.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000009_000001|Being a King does not exclude a man from such society.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000009_000002|Great Kings have always been social.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000010_000001|JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, mankind have found that this cannot be.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000010_000002|How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsick merit?
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000010_000005|But, Sir, as subordination is very necessary for society, and contensions for superiority very dangerous, mankind, that is to say, all civilized nations, have settled it upon a plain invariable principle.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000010_000006|A man is born to hereditary rank; or his being appointed to certain offices, gives him a certain rank.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000010_000007|Subordination tends greatly to human happiness.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000012_000000|I said, I considered distinction of rank to be of so much importance in civilised society, that if I were asked on the same day to dine with the first Duke in England, and with the first man in Britain for genius, I should hesitate which to prefer.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000012_000001|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000013_000000|He took care to guard himself against any possible suspicion that his settled principles of reverence for rank and respect for wealth were at all owing to mean or interested motives; for he asserted his own independence as a literary man.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000000|Next morning I found him alone, and have preserved the following fragments of his conversation.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000002|He is totally unfixed in his principles, and wants to puzzle other people.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000003|I said his principles had been poisoned by a noted infidel writer, but that he was, nevertheless, a benevolent good man.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000004|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000005|'We can have no dependance upon that instinctive, that constitutional goodness which is not founded upon principle.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000006|I grant you that such a man may be a very amiable member of society.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000007|I can conceive him placed in such a situation that he is not much tempted to deviate from what is right; and as every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts, I can conceive him doing nothing wrong.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000013|Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity had passed through my mind long before he wrote. Always remember this, that after a system is well settled upon positive evidence, a few partial objections ought not to shake it.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000015_000014|The human mind is so limited, that it cannot take in all the parts of a subject, so that there may be objections raised against any thing.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000017_000001|JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, the great difficulty of proving miracles should make us very cautious in believing them.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000017_000002|But let us consider; although GOD has made Nature to operate by certain fixed laws, yet it is not unreasonable to think that he may suspend those laws, in order to establish a system highly advantageous to mankind.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000017_000003|Now the Christian religion is a most beneficial system, as it gives us light and certainty where we were before in darkness and doubt.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000017_000004|The miracles which prove it are attested by men who had no interest in deceiving us; but who, on the contrary, were told that they should suffer persecution, and did actually lay down their lives in confirmation of the truth of the facts which they asserted.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000017_000005|Indeed, for some centuries the heathens did not pretend to deny the miracles; but said they were performed by the aid of evil spirits.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000017_000006|This is a circumstance of great weight.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000019_000000|'Sir, I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000019_000003|My judgement, to be sure, was not so good; but I had all the facts.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000021_000003|It is pleasing to consider that the old gentleman's gloomy prophecy as to the irksomeness of books to men of an advanced age, which is too often fulfilled, was so far from being verified in Johnson, that his ardour for literature never failed, and his last writings had more ease and vivacity than any of his earlier productions.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000022_000001|Against melancholy he recommended constant occupation of mind, a great deal of exercise, moderation in eating and drinking, and especially to shun drinking at night.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000022_000003|He observed, that labouring men who work hard, and live sparingly, are seldom or never troubled with low spirits.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000000|He again insisted on the duty of maintaining subordination of rank. 'Sir, I would no more deprive a nobleman of his respect, than of his money.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000003|Johnson.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000005|One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, "Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000007|She has never liked me since.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000010|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000011|'Suppose a shoemaker should claim an equality with him, as he does with a Lord; how he would stare.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000012|"Why, Sir, do you stare?
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000013|(says the shoemaker,) I do great service to society.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000025_000014|'tis true I am paid for doing it; but so are you, Sir: and I am sorry to say it, paid better than I am, for doing something not so necessary.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000029_000001|To laugh is good, as to talk is good.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000031_000002|JOHNSON.
train-other-500/2096/136868/2096_136868_000031_000003|'Sir, if he were to be acquainted with me, it might lessen both.'
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventy five.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000003_000000|Rouge et Noir.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000001|To this he made no objection, and, on reaching the inn, met mr Palliser in the hall.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000003|He was going about the house, with a nervous solicitude to do something, and was flattering himself that he was of use.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000004|As he could not be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and as, by the nature of his disposition, some employment was necessary to him, he was looking to the cording of the boxes.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000005|"Good morning! good morning!" he said to Grey, hardly looking at him, as though time were too precious with him to allow of his turning his eyes upon his friend.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000006|"I am going up to the station to see after a carriage for to morrow.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000007|Perhaps you'll come with me." To this proposition mr Grey assented.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000004_000010|"Of course she has," said Lady Glencora.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000005_000000|"I really didn't think she would," said he.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000006_000000|"That's because you don't understand things of that sort," said his wife.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000006_000001|Then the caution was repeated, the mother of the future duke was kissed, and mr Palliser went off on his mission about the carriage, its cushions, and its springs.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000006_000002|In the course of their walk mr Palliser suggested that, as things were settled so pleasantly, mr Grey might as well return with them to England, and to this suggestion mr Grey assented.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000000|Alice remained alone for nearly an hour, looking out upon the rough sides and gloomy top of Mount Pilate.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000001|No one disturbed her in the churchyard,--no steps were heard along the tombstones,--no voice sounded through the cloisters.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000003|Was she happy, now that the manner of her life to come was thus settled for her; that all further question as to the disposal of herself was taken out of her hands, and that her marriage with a man she loved was so firmly arranged that no further folly of her own could disarrange it?
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000004|She was happy, though she was slow to confess her happiness to herself.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000005|She was happy, and she was resolute in this,--that she would now do all she could to make him happy also.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000006|And there must now, she acknowledged, be an end to her pride,--to that pride which had hitherto taught her to think that she could more wisely follow her own guidance than that of any other who might claim to guide her.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000007|She knew now that she must follow his guidance.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000008|She had found her master, as we sometimes say, and laughed to herself with a little inward laughter as she confessed that it was so.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000009|She was from henceforth altogether in his hands.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000007_000013|It was well for her that he who was to be captain was one whom she respected as thoroughly as she loved him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000000|She would write to her father at once,--to her father and Lady Macleod,--and would confess everything.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000001|She felt that she owed it to them that they should be told by herself that they had been right and that she had been wrong.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000002|Hitherto she had not mentioned to either of them the fact that mr Grey was with them in Switzerland.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000004|As to Lady Midlothian, she would do nothing.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000005|Lady Midlothian, of course, would triumph;--would jump upon her, as Lady Glencora had once expressed it, with very triumphant heels,--would try to patronize her, or, which would be almost worse, would make a parade of her forgiveness.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000006|But she would have nothing to do with Lady Midlothian, unless, indeed, mr Grey should order it.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000008_000007|Then she laughed at herself again with that inward laughter, and, rising from her seat, proceeded to walk down the hill to the hotel.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000010_000000|"Yes, vanquished; if you like to call it so," said Alice.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000011_000000|"It is not what I call it, but what you feel it," said the other. "Do you think that I don't know you well enough to be sure that you regard yourself now as an unfortunate prisoner,--as a captive taken in war, to be led away in triumph, without any hope of a ransom?
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000012_000000|"Of course; I knew that was the way you would treat me."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000013_000000|"In what way would you have me treat you?
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000013_000002|Don't I know you, Alice?"
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000014_000000|"I shouldn't have said that;--not now."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000015_000000|"I believe in my heart you would;--that, or something like it.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000015_000002|He has got you in his power now, and I don't think even you can go back."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000016_000000|"No; I shall not go back again."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000017_000000|"I would join with Lady Midlothian in putting you into a madhouse, if you did.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000017_000001|But I am so glad; I am, indeed.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000017_000002|I was afraid to the last,--terribly afraid; you are so hard and so proud.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000017_000003|I don't mean hard to me, dear.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000017_000004|You have never been half hard enough to me.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000017_000005|But you are hard to yourself, and, upon my word, you have been hard to him. What a deal you will have to make up to him!"
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000018_000000|"I feel that I ought to stand before him always as a penitent,--in a white sheet."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000019_000001|And how happy you will be!
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000019_000003|As she did so her friend enjoyed it with her, and at last they had something of the comfort and excitement which such an occasion should give.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000019_000004|"I'll tell you what, Alice; you shall come and be married at Matching, in August, or perhaps September. That's the only way in which I can be present; and if we can bespeak some sun, we'll have the breakfast out in the ruins."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000000|On the following morning they all started together, a first-class compartment having been taken for the Palliser family, and a second class compartment close to them for the Palliser servants.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000001|mr Palliser, as he slowly handed his wife in, was a triumphant man; as was also mr Grey, as he handed in his lady love, though, in a manner, much less manifest.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000003|mr Palliser had come abroad with a feeling that all the world had been cut from under his feet.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000004|A great change was needed for his wife, and he had acknowledged at once that everything must be made to yield to that necessity.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000005|He certainly had his reward,--now in his triumphant return.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000006|Terrible troubles had afflicted him as he went, which seemed now to have dissipated themselves altogether.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000008|mr Finespun wanted to do something, now in the recess,--to send some political agent over to France,--to which Lord Brock would not agree; and no one knew what would be the consequence of this disagreement.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000020_000010|mr Palliser, as he took his place opposite his wife, was very triumphant.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000000|And mr Grey was triumphant, as he placed himself gently in his seat opposite to Alice.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000001|He seemed to assume no right, as he took that position apparently because it was the one which came naturally to his lot.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000002|No one would have been made aware that Alice was his own simply by seeing his arrangements for her comfort.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000003|He made no loud assertion as to his property and his rights, as some men do.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000004|He was quiet and subdued in his joy, but not the less was he triumphant. From the day on which Alice had accepted his first offer,--nay, from an earlier day than that; from the day on which he had first resolved to make it, down to the present hour, he had never been stirred from his purpose.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000005|By every word that he had said, and by every act that he had done, he had shown himself to be unmoved by that episode in their joint lives, which Alice's other friends had regarded as so fatal. When she first rejected him, he would not take his rejection.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000007|He had never given her up for a day, and now the event proved that he had been right.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000021_000008|Alice was happy, very happy; but she was still disposed to regard her lover as Fate, and her happiness as an enforced necessity.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000022_000001|"You are thinking of something, Alice," he said.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000022_000002|"What is it?"
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000023_000000|"It was here," she said-"here, on this very balcony, that I first rebelled against you, and now you have brought me here that I should confess and submit on the same spot.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000023_000001|I do confess.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000023_000002|How am I to thank you for forgiving me?"
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000025_000000|On the following morning they went on to Baden Baden, and there they stopped for a couple of days.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000025_000001|Lady Glencora had positively refused to stop a day at Basle, making so many objections to the place that her husband had at last yielded.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000026_000000|"I've a particular favour to ask of you," Lady Glencora said to her husband, as soon as they were alone together in their rooms at Baden.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000026_000001|mr Palliser declared that he would grant her any particular favour,--only premising that he was not to be supposed to have thereby committed himself to any engagement under which his wife should have authority to take any exertion upon herself.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000027_000000|"But you are not a milkmaid, my dear.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000028_000000|But what was the favour?
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000028_000001|If she would only ask for jewels,--though they were the Grand Duchess's diamond eardrops, he would endeavour to get them for her.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000028_000003|There was no expenditure that he would not willingly incur for her, nothing costly that he would grudge.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000028_000004|But when she asked for a favour, he was always afraid of an imprudence.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000028_000005|Very possibly she might want to drink beer in an open garden.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000029_000000|And her request was, at last, of this nature: "I want you to take me up to the gambling rooms!" said she.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000030_000000|"The gambling rooms!" said mr Palliser in dismay.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000031_000000|"Yes, Plantagenet; the gambling rooms.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000031_000001|If you had been with me before, I should not have made a fool of myself by putting my piece of money on the table.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000031_000002|I want to see the place; but then I saw nothing, because I was so frightened when I found that I was winning."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000032_000001|He knew how a Minister looked when he lost or gained a tax.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000032_000002|He was familiar with millions and tens of millions in a committee of the whole House.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000032_000003|He knew the excitement of a near division upon the estimates.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000032_000004|But he had never yet seen a poor man stake his last napoleon, and rake back from off the table a small hatful of gold.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000032_000005|A little exercise after an early dinner was, he had been told, good for his wife; and he agreed therefore that, on their second evening at Baden, they would all walk up and see the play.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000035_000000|"She isn't in earnest," said mr Palliser, almost fearing the result of the experiment.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000036_000000|"I don't know that," said Lady Glencora.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000037_000000|They started together, mr Palliser with his wife, and mr Grey with Alice on his arm, and found all the tables at work.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000037_000002|Each table was closely surrounded by its own crowd, made up of players, embryo players, and simple lookers on, so that they could not see much as they walked.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000037_000004|She was anxious to know what these men and women were doing,--to see whether the croupiers wore horns on their heads and were devils indeed,--to behold the faces of those who were wretched and of those who were triumphant,--to know how the thing was done, and to learn something of that lesson in life.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000037_000008|Alice and Glencora did the same at first, but as they gained courage they glanced round upon the gamblers.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000001|The corner answering to theirs at the other end was the part of the table most removed from their sight, and that on which their eyes fell last.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000003|mr Palliser, who was behind her, could not see them at all.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000004|But to Alice,--and to mr Grey, had he cared about it,--every face at the table was visible except the faces of those who were immediately close to them.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000007|He seemed to show no care, as others did, as to the special spot which they should occupy.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000008|Many were very particular in this respect, placing their ventures on the lines, so as to share the fortunes of two compartments, or sometimes of four; or they divided their coins, taking three or four numbers, selecting the numbers with almost grotesque attention to some imagined rule of their own.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000009|But this man let his gold go all together, and left it where his half stretched rake deposited it by chance.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000011|His eyes she could see were bloodshot, and his hair, when he pushed back his hat, was rough and dishevelled; but still there was that in his face which no woman could see and not regard.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000038_000013|On this occasion he had won his money, and Alice saw him drag it in as lazily as he had pushed it out.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000000|"Do you see that little Frenchman?" said Lady Glencora.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000001|"He has just made half a napoleon, and has walked off with it.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000004|After he had won his money, he had allowed the game to go on for a turn without any action on his part.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000005|The gold again went under his hand, and he lounged forward with his hat over his eyes.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000006|One of the croupiers had said a word, as though calling his attention to the game, but he had merely shaken his head.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000008|One piece had got beyond its boundary, and the croupier pushed it back with some half expressed inquiry as to his correctness.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000009|"All right," said a voice in English.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000010|Then Lady Glencora started and clutched Alice's arm with her hand.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000011|mr Palliser was explaining to mr Grey, behind them, something about German finance as connected with gambling tables, and did not hear the voice, or see his wife's motion.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000039_000012|I need hardly tell the reader that the gambler was Burgo Fitzgerald.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000040_000000|But Lady Glencora said not a word,--not as yet.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000040_000002|His hat was now pushed back, and his countenance had lost its listlessness.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000040_000003|He watched narrowly the face of the man as he told out the amount of the cards as they were dealt. He did not try to hide his anxiety, and when, after the telling of some six or seven cards, he heard a certain number named, and a certain colour called, he made some exclamation which even Glencora could not hear.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000040_000004|And then another croupier put down, close to Burgo's money, certain rolls of gold done up in paper, and also certain loose napoleons.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000041_000000|"Why doesn't he take it?" said Lady Glencora.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000042_000000|"He is taking it," said Alice, not at all knowing the cause of her cousin's anxiety.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000043_000000|Burgo had paused a moment, and then prepared to rake the money to him; but as he did so, he changed his mind, and pushed it all back again,--now, on this occasion, being very careful to place it on its former spot.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000043_000001|Both Alice and Glencora could see that a man at his elbow was dissuading him,--had even attempted to stop the arm which held the rake.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000043_000002|But Burgo shook him off, speaking to him some word roughly, and then again he steadied the rolls upon their appointed place.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000043_000003|The croupier who had paused for a moment now went on quickly with his cards, and in two minutes the fate of Burgo's wealth was decided.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000043_000004|It was all drawn back by the croupier's unimpassioned rake, and the rolls of gold were restored to the tray from whence they had been taken.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000044_000000|Burgo looked up and smiled at them all round the table.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000044_000001|By this time most of those who stood around were looking at him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000044_000003|He knew that men and women were looking at him, and therefore he smiled faintly as he turned his eyes round the table. Then he got up, and, putting his hands in his trousers pockets, whistled as he walked away.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000044_000004|His companion followed him, and laid a hand upon his shoulder; but Burgo shook him off, and would not turn round.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000044_000005|He shook him off, and walked on whistling, the length of the whole salon.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000045_000000|"Alice," said Lady Glencora, "it is Burgo Fitzgerald." mr Palliser had gone so deep into that question of German finance that he had not at all noticed the gambler.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000045_000001|"Alice, what can we do for him?
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000045_000002|It is Burgo," said Lady Glencora.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000046_000000|Many eyes were now watching him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000046_000001|Used as he was to the world and to misfortune, he was not successful in his attempt to bear his loss with a show of indifference.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000046_000004|If there is to be a tragedy at these places,--and tragedies will sometimes occur,--it is always as well that the tragic scene should be as far removed as possible from the salons, in order that the public eye should not suffer.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000047_000000|Lady Glencora and Alice had left their places, and had shrunk back, almost behind a pillar.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000048_000000|"In very truth," said Glencora.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000048_000001|"What can I do?
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000048_000002|Can I do anything? Look at him, Alice.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000048_000003|If he were to destroy himself, what should I do then?"
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000049_000000|Burgo, conscious that he was the regarded of all eyes, turned round upon his heel and again walked the length of the salon.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000049_000002|His companion, whoever he might be, had slunk away from him, not caring to share the notoriety which now attended him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000050_000000|"What shall I do, Alice?" said Lady Glencora, with her eyes still fixed on him who had been her lover.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000051_000000|"Tell mr Palliser," whispered Alice.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000052_000001|Rapidly she told her story,--with such rapidity that mr Palliser could hardly get in a word.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000052_000002|"Do something for him;--do, do. Unless I know that something is done, I shall die.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000052_000003|You needn't be afraid."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000000|Lady Glencora, as she went on quickly, got hold of her husband's hand, and caressed it.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000001|"You are so good," said she.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000002|"Don't let him out of your sight.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000003|There; he is going.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000004|I will go home with mr Grey. I will be ever so good; I will, indeed.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000005|You know what he'll want, and for my sake you'll let him have it.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000006|But don't let him gamble.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000007|If you could only get him home to England, and then do something.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000054_000008|You owe him something, Plantagenet; do you not?"
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000055_000000|"If money can do anything, he shall have it."
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000056_000000|"God bless you, dearest!
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000056_000001|I shall never see him again; but if you could save him!
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000056_000003|Go;--go." She pushed him forward, and then retreating, put her arm within mr Grey's, still keeping her eye upon her husband.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000057_000001|"Well, old Buffer, what do you want?" said he, accosting the man in English.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000057_000002|The big gendarme simply walked on through the door, and said nothing.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000057_000003|Then Burgo also passed out, and mr Palliser quickly went after him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000057_000005|Through this door Burgo went without pausing, and mr Palliser went after him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000057_000006|They both walked to the end of the row of buildings, and then Burgo, leaving the broad way, turned into a little path which led up through the trees to the hills.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000057_000007|That hillside among the trees is a popular resort at Baden, during the day; but now, at nine in the evening, it was deserted.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000058_000000|"You are in trouble, I fear, mr Fitzgerald," said mr Palliser, as soon as he was close at Burgo's feet.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000059_000000|"We will go home.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000059_000001|mr Palliser has something to do," said Lady Glencora to mr Grey, as soon as the two men had disappeared from her sight.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000060_000000|"Is that a friend of mr Palliser?" said mr Grey.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000061_000000|"Yes;--that is, he knows him, and is interested about him.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000061_000002|Oh!
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000061_000003|mr Grey, you must not ask any questions. He,--mr
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000061_000004|Palliser, will tell you everything when he sees you,--that is, if there is anything to be told." Then they all went home, and soon separated for the night.
train-other-500/2100/138911/2100_138911_000061_000005|"Of course I shall sit up for him," said Lady Glencora to Alice, "but I will do it in my own room.
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train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000023_000000|AND RECOMMENDED TO THE KIND CARE AND PATRONAGE OF
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000025_000000|BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND AND SERVANT,
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000026_000000|HENRY SALT.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000028_000000|PREFACE
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000031_000000|A well chosen library of the best European books on the art military, geography, astronomy, medicine, history, belles lettres and the fine arts has been purchased from Europe by the Viceroy and placed in the palace of Ismael Pasha, where is also a school, at the Viceroy's expense, for the instruction of the Mussulman youth in the Italian language and the sciences of the Franks.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000031_000001|To which establishments has been lately added a printing press, for printing books in the Turkish, Arabic and Persian languages, and a weekly newspaper in Arabic and Italian.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000032_000000|For several years past the inland commerce of this favored land had suffered great interruptions from the confusion and discord to which the countries on the Upper Nile have been a prey.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000033_000000|His Highness the Viceroy, in consequence, determined, as the most effectual means of putting an end to these disorders, to subject those countries to his dominion.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000034_000000|Four thousand troops were accordingly put under the command of Ismael Pasha, the youngest son of the Viceroy, with orders to conquer all the provinces on the Nile, from the Second Cataract to Sennaar inclusive.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000036_000000|This expedition has been perfectly successful; and the conquest of the extensive and fertile countries, which, in the reign of Candace, repulsed the formidable legions of Rome, has been effected at an expense not greater than the blood of about two hundred soldiers.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000037_000000|The principal cause of a success so extraordinary, at such a price, has been the humanity and good faith of the Pasha Ismael towards those provinces that submitted without fighting.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000037_000001|Perfect security of person and property was assured to the peaceable, and severe examples were made of those few of the soldiery, who, in a very few instances, presumed to violate it.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000037_000002|The good consequences of this deportment toward the people of these countries have been evident.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000037_000003|All have seen that those who have preferred peace before war have had peace without war, and that those who preferred war before peace have not had peace but at the price of ruin.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000039_000000|This expedition has laid open to the researches of the geographer and the antiquarian a river and a country highly interesting, and hitherto imperfectly known to the civilized world.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000039_000001|The Nile, on whose banks we have marched for so many hundred miles, is the most famous river in the world, for the uncertainty of its source and the obscurity of its course.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000039_000002|At present this obscurity ceases to exist, and before the return of the Pasha Ismael this uncertainty will probably be no more.
train-other-500/2104/75220/2104_75220_000040_000000|This famous land of Cush and Saba, at present overawed by the camps of the Osmanii, has presented to our observation many memorials of the power and splendor of its ancient masters.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000001_000002|He will miss his train more often than not; if he has to attend a funeral it will be when he has a cold in his head, and all his white pocket handkerchiefs will be at the wash, so that he must use a coloured one; he will attempt to take his medicine in the dark, thereby swallowing the liniment by mistake.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000002_000000|The arrival of the professor led Peppino into giving me a great deal of information about the evil eye in which he swore he did not believe.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000002_000001|It was all rather indefinite and contradictory, partly, no doubt, because those who believe in it most firmly are the analfabeti and unaccustomed to express themselves clearly.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000003_000001|The misfortunes that follow wherever he goes may be averted by the interposition of some attractive object whereby the glance from his eye is arrested, and either the misfortune does not happen at all, or the force of the evil influence is expended elsewhere.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000003_000002|Therefore, it is as well always to carry some charm against the evil eye.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000003_000003|All over Italy, but especially in the south, it is rare to meet a man who does not carry a charm, either on his watch chain or in his pocket, or on a string or a chain round his neck under his clothes, and he usually carries more than one.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000003_000004|Women, of course, always wear them, which may be because a woman likes to surround herself with pretty things, and, if she can say that they protect her, she has a reason, unconnected with vanity, which she may be apt to profess is her true reason for wearing ornaments.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000003_000005|The same applies to men who, though less in the habit of wearing ornaments, are, as has been often remarked, no less vain than women.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000004_000000|Peppino was very contemptuous about all charms and coral horns especially.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000004_000002|We can still benefit by this happy forethought if we are threatened with the evil eye when divested of all our charms-when bathing for instance.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000005_000000|Inanimate things, of course, cannot be said literally to have the evil eye, but many of them cause misfortunes.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000005_000002|Peppino says-
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000006_000001|But if the dead man shall be riding in his carriage, then certainly this time it shall not be for you and the horn it is necessary not at all.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000006_000002|This is what they believe."
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000007_000000|He did not mean that you are bound to die if you see an empty hearse, but that unless you take precautions you will certainly meet with some kind of misfortune.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000007_000001|I should say that the professor meets an empty hearse every day of his life.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000007_000002|He came up to Castellinaria, not knowing there was to be a festa, found every place full and spent the night wandering about the streets.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000007_000003|It was impossible not to be sorry for the poor man when I found him the following afternoon dozing on a chair in the kitchen and, in a fit of expansiveness, I offered him the other bed in my room. He accepted it with gratitude and said he should retire early as he was too much fatigued to care about religious festivities.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000008_000000|Peppino took the earliest opportunity of blowing me up for this, saying that it was most dangerous to sleep with a jettatore in the room.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000008_000001|I told him I did not believe in all that nonsense any more than he did and we had a long discussion which he ended by producing a coral horn from his pocket, saying the professor might have the other bed if I would wear the coral all night.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000008_000002|Of course I chaffed him about having the horn in his pocket after his protestations of disbelief, but it was like talking to a kitten that has been caught stealing fish and I had to take his charm and promise to conform on the ground that one cannot be too careful.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000009_000001|On returning to the albergo I found the professor still dozing on his chair, undisturbed by the constant chatter of all the servants and their friends.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000009_000003|I settled myself on a chair in a corner and wished for day.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000009_000004|Whereupon, almost immediately, Peppino, who, though I did not know it till afterwards, had been keeping near me and watching me all night in case I might meet the evil eye among the people, came in and the discussion rose into a tumult of dialect, as the situation was made clear to him, and then sank into complete silence which was broken by his suddenly saying to me-
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000010_000000|"You wish to sleep?
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000010_000001|All right.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000010_000002|I show you the bed.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000010_000003|Come on."
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000011_000000|He preceded me up some back stairs into a room occupied by a lady in one bed, her female attendant in another and, in various shakedowns on the floor, another woman, two men and more children than I could count by the light of one candle.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000011_000001|We picked our way among them to the farther end of the room where there was a door.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000011_000002|Peppino produced a key and opened it; to my surprise it led into my room.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000012_000001|I had some difficulty with him, but when I had hung his coral round my neck he gave way.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000000|After this I saw a great deal of the professor.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000001|He said he was forty five and he was perhaps the most simple minded, gentle creature I have ever known.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000002|Being with him was like listening to a child strumming on a worn out piano.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000003|As we sat down to dinner next day he asked if he could have a little carbonate of soda.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000005|The professor then explained to me the advantages of taking carbonate of soda before meals and said that some chemists gave one an enormous quantity for two soldi.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000006|Evidently the professor had not a good digestion.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000007|He helped me with his own fork to a piece of meat off his own plate.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000013_000008|This is a mark of very great friendliness and makes me think of Joseph entertaining his brethren when they went down to buy corn in Egypt.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000014_000000|"And he took and sent messes unto them from before him; but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs."
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000016_000000|I always accept the gift, after deprecating the honour with words and gestures, and a little later, in accordance with what I believe to be the modern practice, return the compliment.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000017_000000|The professor was pleased to have an opportunity of improving his knowledge of England and asked me many questions.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000017_000001|I am afraid he only pretended to believe some of the things I told him.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000017_000002|I said that in England a man who is the proprietor of the house he lives in is not on that account necessarily a rich man; he may or may not be, it all depends.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000018_000000|I had the professor at a disadvantage because, being a Sicilian, his natural politeness would not permit him to show that in his opinion I was drawing upon my imagination after the manner of travellers.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000018_000001|Moreover Peppino declared that all I said was quite true and added that what in Sicily is like this (holding his hand out with the palm upwards) in England is like that (holding it with the palm downwards).
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000019_000000|"My dear professor," I said, "permit me to tell you something; my poor mother had a cousin whose name was james.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000019_000001|He was perhaps the most simple minded, gentle creature I have ever known.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000019_000002|Being with him was like listening to-well, it was like listening to certain kinds of music. He lived by himself in the country, with an old woman to do for him, and was over sixty before we came to know him; then we were all very fond of him and often wondered what the dear, good old gentleman could have been like in his early days.
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000019_000003|It has just occurred to me that you, sir, are like what cousin james must have been at your age."
train-other-500/2104/78240/2104_78240_000020_000000|He was overwhelmed; his eyes filled with tears; he said he should remember for all his life the flattering words he had just heard; they constituted the most pleasing and genteel compliment he had ever received; he shook hands with me and remained silent as a sign that his emotion was too deep for more words.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000001_000000|Last time I was at Castellinaria there came to the town for a week a company of Sicilian actors.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000001_000001|I was afraid the dialect would be beyond me, but Peppino assured me that it would matter very little if it were, because I should understand the gestures, and he promised to come with me and give me any explanation I wanted.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000001_000002|So we went to the theatre the first evening.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000001_000004|He admitted that it was so, but things would improve as soon as Giovanni appeared.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000000|In the third act a haggard, hunted creature, in a peasant's dress which he had borrowed or stolen, wandered in among the actors; Peppino whispered that he had escaped from prison.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000001|I could not take my eyes off him; every movement, every attitude, every gesture was full of beauty, nobility and significance, and his voice was a halo of romance.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000002|I thought no more about leaving the theatre.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000003|The part has been played by many famous actors, but the long account of how and why he killed his man can never have been more finely delivered.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000004|I saw him do the deed.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000005|I saw him turn and gaze upon the body while he wiped the blood off the knife and wrung it from his hands.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000002_000007|And when, still sitting on his chair, he came to his escape from prison, he seemed to lift the roof off the theatre and to fill the place with freedom and fresh air.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000003_000000|Peppino, before his uncle died, thought of going on the stage and passed a year with Giovanni and his company in Catania and on tour, he therefore knew him quite well and at the end of the play took me round to his dressing room.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000003_000001|It was Carlo Magno in his palace receiving a couple of friendly sovereigns, though we were none of us dressed for our parts.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000003_000002|I told him that he was the greatest dramatic artist I had ever seen and that he had given me a new standard whereby to judge of acting.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000003_000003|I said that when he first appeared I thought he really was an escaped convict who had lost his way in the streets and come on the stage for shelter, and that he was going to interrupt the play, as the theatre cat sometimes does.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000003_000004|Suddenly, in a flash, I saw what was before me in two senses at once, and knew that it must be Giovanni acting, and the sorrow for the poor hunted wretch was turned to joy at seeing a man do something supremely well.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000003_000005|He was as pleased as a boy with a new half sovereign, particularly when I compared him to the theatre cat, and said, with charming simplicity-
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000004_000000|"Thank you.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000004_000001|Yes; that is because of the realism; that is my art."
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000000|Peppino and I sat up late that night talking about him.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000002|When he was about fourteen his father, who owned and worked the most famous marionette theatre in Catania, died suddenly, leaving the family unprovided for.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000003|He took over the business and kept his mother, his sister and his young brother.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000004|He spoke for the men figures himself, and his sister for the women.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000005|He says that in this way he learned his art, but other men have had similar training without arriving at such mastery.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000006|He has a passion for doing things thoroughly, and so thoroughly well did he manage his theatre that Catania was delighted with him.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000005_000009|Formerly, when reading was a rarer accomplishment than it is now, it would have been of little use to write the words.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000006_000000|These plays are full of violence and vendetta, jealousy, murder and the elementary passions.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000006_000001|The audience are uneducated, simple people who look for the same thing over and over again, as children love the same story and resent any radical change.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000006_000002|This makes it easier to carry one through than it would be if subtleties or much novelty were to be attempted.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000006_000003|I had seen some of these plays in Catania, and it may make matters clearer to give a short account of one; it was not until Peppino told me about them that I understood that the words were improvised.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000007_000000|In the first act Pietro Longo discovers that his sister has been betrayed, shoots her seducer and is taken by the police.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000000|The second act passes in prison.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000002|Singing is heard without.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000003|Every one in the theatre who had passed under prison walls by night had heard such music and had seen the singers crouching in the shadows; we all knew it was a signal.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000004|The two convicts go to the window and reply.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000005|A stone is thrown in, wrapped up in a letter, which tells them that Pietro Longo has killed one of their gang and will be taken to their prison; it is for them to avenge the murder.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000007|They call him from his occupation and instruct him. They tell him that a prisoner will be brought in, he is to ask his name, if he replies "Pietro Longo," he is to stab him with the knife which they give him.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000008|He is so stupid that they have to act it for him, and to make him imitate them till they think he can be trusted.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000009|They hide.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000010|A prisoner is brought in and talks to the stupid fellow.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000008_000011|The stupid fellow has been in prison for years and has talked to hundreds of prisoners.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000009_000000|"Pietro Longo."
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000010_000000|The stupid fellow remembers that this is his cue for doing something, but cannot remember what.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000010_000001|His arm accidentally hits the knife which is stuck in his belt; of course, this is the prisoner he is to kill; he takes out his knife, opens it with his teeth and attacks Pietro who, though unarmed, is able to defend himself.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000010_000002|This puts the stupid fellow out, he was told nothing about the prisoner defending himself.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000010_000003|The two convicts, who have been watching, get impatient, come from their hiding and encourage him.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000010_000004|This makes matters worse, he was told nothing about this either.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000010_000005|He is irritated, he grows wilder and, in a fury, suddenly turns from Pietro and murders the two convicts instead.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000011_000000|The two acts were of about equal length; the first existed merely to introduce the second, and the second merely to introduce the stupid fellow whose part was nearly all gesture and, as I afterwards ascertained, was taken by Giovanni's brother, Domenico.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000011_000001|He may have spoken twenty words, he was too stupid to speak more; the others spoke a good deal, but, except that they had been told beforehand, as to each act, about as much as the reader has been told about the second, all they said was impromptu, so that each repetition, like a Japanese netsuke, would be a unique work of art.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000012_000000|Remembering how continually Sicilians use gesture in ordinary life, it will be understood that in such a play the actual words are of secondary importance.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000012_000002|His fellow actors were also familiar with them, having heard the phrases over and over again, and seen the types with their appropriate gestures from their early youth as members of the marionette audience.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000013_000000|It is claimed for this kind of impromptu acting that the actors are freer than when speaking words they have learnt, and can therefore behave with more naturalness.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000013_000002|He had come a long way, he knew no one in the town, he had nothing to eat, nowhere to sleep, no money.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000013_000003|The mother gave him a penny, Giovanni gave him another, his brother, Domenico, another-every one gave something. The beggar, seeing all that wealth lying in the hollow of his hand, and knowing that he was now safe for a few days, burst into tears and turned away speechless.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000013_000005|The audience, who would probably have seen the play before, would recognize that here was an impromptu interpolation, and would applaud the actor both for the idea and for the way it was carried out.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000014_000000|Gradually Giovanni added written plays and a prompter, and was the first to take on tour a company of actors performing in a Sicilian dialect.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000014_000001|He also included plays written in Italian.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000014_000002|These written plays, though constructed with more care, did not depart far from the style with which he began.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000014_000003|Giovanni still frequently returns from prison, but as he never forfeits the sympathy of the audience, if he really committed the crime it was in self defence.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000016_000000|"Never is he alone," said Peppino.
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000016_000001|"Surely now shall he be suppering by his friends."
train-other-500/2104/78253/2104_78253_000017_000000|We thought it too late to go and look for him then, so we determined to ask ourselves to supper after the play the following evening.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000006_000000|GEOGRAPHY POINT.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000007_000000|I will fetch you a tooth picker now from the farthest inch of Asia; bring you the length of Prester John's foot; fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard; do you any embassage to the Pigmies.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000008_000000|Much Ado about Nothing.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000009_000000|The next day, after dinner, mr Arnold said to the tutor:
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000010_000000|"Well, mr Sutherland, how does Harry get on with his geography?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000011_000000|mr Arnold, be it understood, had a weakness for geography.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000012_000000|"We have not done anything at that yet, mr Arnold."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000013_000000|"Not done anything at geography!
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000013_000001|And the boy getting quite robust now!
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000013_000002|I am astonished, mr Sutherland.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000013_000003|Why, when he was a mere child, he could repeat all the counties of England."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000014_000000|"Perhaps that may be the reason for the decided distaste he shows for it now, mr Arnold.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000014_000001|But I will begin to teach him at once, if you desire it."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000015_000000|"I do desire it, mr Sutherland.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000015_000001|A thorough geographical knowledge is essential to the education of a gentleman.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000015_000002|Ask me any question you please, mr Sutherland, on the map of the world, or any of its divisions."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000016_000000|Hugh asked a few questions, which mr Arnold answered at once.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000017_000000|"Pooh! pooh!" said he, "this is mere child's play.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000017_000001|Let me ask you some, mr Sutherland."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000019_000000|"I fear I am no gentleman," said he, laughing; "but I can at least learn as well as teach.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000019_000001|We shall begin to morrow."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000020_000000|"What books have you?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000021_000000|"Oh! no books, if you please, just yet.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000021_000001|If you are satisfied with Harry's progress so far, let me have my own way in this too."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000022_000000|"But geography does not seem your strong point."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000023_000000|"No; but I may be able to teach it all the better from feeling the difficulties of a learner myself."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000025_000000|Next morning Hugh and Harry went out for a walk to the top of a hill in the neighbourhood.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000025_000001|When they reached it, Hugh took a small compass from his pocket, and set it on the ground, contemplating it and the horizon alternately.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000026_000000|"What are you doing, mr Sutherland?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000027_000000|"I am trying to find the exact line that would go through my home," said he.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000028_000000|"Is that funny little thing able to tell you?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000029_000000|"Yes; this along with other things.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000029_000001|Isn't it curious, Harry, to have in my pocket a little thing with a kind of spirit in it, that understands the spirit that is in the big world, and always points to its North Pole?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000030_000000|"Explain it to me."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000031_000000|"It is nearly as much a mystery to me as to you."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000032_000000|"Where is the North Pole?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000033_000000|"Look, the little thing points to it."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000034_000000|"But I will turn it away.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000034_000001|Oh! it won't go.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000034_000002|It goes back and back, do what I will."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000000|"Yes, it will, if you turn it away all day long.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000001|Look, Harry, if you were to go straight on in this direction, you would come to a Laplander, harnessing his broad horned reindeer to his sledge.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000002|He's at it now, I daresay.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000003|If you were to go in this line exactly, you would go through the smoke and fire of a burning mountain in a land of ice.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000004|If you were to go this way, straight on, you would find yourself in the middle of a forest with a lion glaring at your feet, for it is dark night there now, and so hot!
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000005|And over there, straight on, there is such a lovely sunset.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000006|The top of a snowy mountain is all pink with light, though the sun is down -- oh!
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000007|such colours all about, like fairyland!
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000008|And there, there is a desert of sand, and a camel dying, and all his companions just disappearing on the horizon.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000035_000009|And there, there is an awful sea, without a boat to be seen on it, dark and dismal, with huge rocks all about it, and waste borders of sand -- so dreadful!"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000036_000000|"How do you know all this, mr Sutherland?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000036_000001|You have never walked along those lines, I know, for you couldn't."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000037_000000|"Geography has taught me."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000038_000000|"No, mr Sutherland!" said Harry, incredulously.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000039_000000|"Well, shall we travel along this line, just across that crown of trees on the hill?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000040_000000|"Yes, do let us."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000041_000000|"Then," said Hugh, drawing a telescope from his pocket, "this hill is henceforth Geography Point, and all the world lies round about it.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000041_000001|Do you know we are in the very middle of the earth?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000042_000000|"Are we, indeed?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000043_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000043_000001|Don't you know any point you like to choose on a ball is the middle of it?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000044_000000|"Oh! yes -- of course."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000045_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000045_000001|What lies at the bottom of the hill down there?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000046_000000|"Arnstead, to be sure."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000047_000000|"And what beyond there?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000048_000000|"I don't know."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000049_000000|"Look through here."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000050_000000|"Oh! that must be the village we rode to yesterday -- I forget the name of it."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000051_000000|Hugh told him the name; and then made him look with the telescope all along the receding line to the trees on the opposite hill.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000051_000001|Just as he caught them, a voice beside them said:
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000052_000000|"What are you about, Harry?"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000054_000000|It was Euphra's.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000055_000000|"Oh!" replied Harry, "mr
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000055_000002|It's such fun!"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000056_000000|"He's a wonderful tutor, that of yours, Harry!"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000057_000000|"Yes, isn't he just?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000057_000001|But," Harry went on, turning to Hugh, "what are we to do now?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000057_000002|We can't get farther for that hill."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000058_000000|"Ah! we must apply to your papa now, to lend us some of his beautiful maps.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000058_000001|They will teach us what lies beyond that hill.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000058_000002|And then we can read in some of his books about the places; and so go on and on, till we reach the beautiful, wide, restless sea; over which we must sail in spite of wind and tide -- straight on and on, till we come to land again.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000058_000003|But we must make a great many such journeys before we really know what sort of a place we are living in; and we shall have ever so many things to learn that will surprise us."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000059_000000|"Oh! it will be nice!" cried Harry.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000060_000000|After a little more geographical talk, they put up their instruments, and began to descend the hill.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000060_000001|Harry was in no need of Hugh's back now, but Euphra was in need of his hand.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000061_000000|"How awkward of me!
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000061_000001|I am stumbling over the heather shamefully!"
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000062_000000|She was, in fact, stumbling over her own dress, which she would not hold up.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000062_000001|Hugh offered his hand; and her small one seemed quite content to be swallowed up in his large one.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000063_000001|"You always manage to prevent me somehow or other.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000063_000002|The last time, I just turned my head, and, behold! when I looked, you were gathering your reins."
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000065_000000|I can make no excuse for Euphra, for she had positively never heard him called Hugh: there was no one to do so.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000065_000001|But, the slip had not, therefore, the less effect; for it sounded as if she had been saying his name over and over again to herself.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000066_000000|"I beg your pardon," repeated Euphra, hastily; for, as Hugh did not reply, she feared her arrow had swerved from its mark.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000068_000000|"You punish me with forgiveness," returned she, with one of her sweetest looks.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000070_000000|Was the pressure returned?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000070_000001|So slight, so airy was the touch, that it might have been only the throb of his own pulses, all consciously vital about the wonderful woman hand that rested in his.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000070_000002|If he had claimed it, she might easily have denied it, so ethereal and uncertain was it.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000070_000003|Yet he believed in it.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000070_000004|He never dreamed that she was exercising her skill upon him.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000070_000005|What could be her object in bewitching a poor tutor?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000000|Meantime this much is certain, that she was drawing Hugh closer and closer to her side; that a soothing dream of delight had begun to steal over his spirit, soon to make it toss in feverous unrest -- as the first effects of some poisons are like a dawn of tenfold strength.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000001|The mountain wind blew from her to him, sometimes sweeping her garments about him, and bathing him in their faint sweet odours -- odours which somehow seemed to belong to her whom they had only last visited; sometimes, so kindly strong did it blow, compelling her, or at least giving her excuse enough, to leave his hand and cling closely to his arm.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000002|A fresh spring began to burst from the very bosom of what had seemed before a perfect summer.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000004|What would the following summer be?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000005|Ah! and what the autumn?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000006|And what the winter?
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000071_000007|For if the summer be tenfold summer, then must the winter be tenfold winter.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000072_000000|But though knowledge is good for man, foreknowledge is not so good.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000073_000000|And, though Love be good, a tempest of it in the brain will not ripen the fruits like a soft steady wind, or waft the ships home to their desired haven.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000074_000000|Perhaps, what enslaved Hugh most, was the feeling that the damsel stooped to him, without knowing that she stooped.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000074_000001|She seemed to him in every way above him.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000074_000003|It was true that his family was as good as hers; but he had disowned his family -- so his pride declared; and the same pride made him despise his present position, and look upon a tutor's employment as -- as -- well, as other people look upon it; as a rather contemptible one in fact, especially for a young, powerful, six foot fellow.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000075_000000|The influence of Euphrasia was not of the best upon him from the first; for it had greatly increased this feeling about his occupation.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000075_000001|It could not affect his feelings towards Harry; so the boy did not suffer as yet.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000075_000002|But it set him upon a very unprofitable kind of castle building: he would be a soldier like his father; he would leave Arnstead, to revisit it with a sword by his side, and a Sir before his name.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000075_000003|Sir Hugh Sutherland would be somebody even in the eyes of the master of Arnstead.
train-other-500/2122/149350/2122_149350_000075_000004|Yes, a six foot fellow, though he may be sensible in the main, is not, therefore, free from small vanities, especially if he be in love.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000005_000000|You have much profound information to give about God, and have for thousands of years "searched the depths of the Godhead," and looked into its heart, so that you can doubtless tell us how God himself attends to "God's cause," which we are called to serve.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000005_000001|And you do not conceal the Lord's doings, either.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000005_000002|Now, what is his cause?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000005_000003|Has he, as is demanded of us, made an alien cause, the cause of truth or love, his own?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000005_000006|But we, we are not all in all, and our cause is altogether little and contemptible; therefore we must "serve a higher cause."--Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him!
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000005_000007|He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000006_000001|Is its cause that of another, and does mankind serve a higher cause?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000006_000002|No, mankind looks only at itself, mankind will promote the interests of mankind only, mankind is its own cause.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000006_000003|That it may develop, it causes nations and individuals to wear themselves out in its service, and, when they have accomplished what mankind needs, it throws them on the dung heap of history in gratitude.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000006_000004|Is not mankind's cause-a purely egoistic cause?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000007_000001|Look at the rest for yourselves.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000007_000002|Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000008_000000|They all have an admirable time of it when they receive zealous homage. Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000008_000001|The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000008_000003|The individuals have died "for the great cause of the nation," and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and-has the profit of it.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000008_000004|I call that a paying kind of egoism.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000009_000000|But only look at that Sultan who cares so lovingly for his people.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000009_000001|Is he not pure unselfishness itself, and does he not hourly sacrifice himself for his people?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000009_000003|The Sultan has set his cause on nothing but himself; he is to himself all in all, he is to himself the only one, and tolerates nobody who would dare not to be one of "his people."
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000010_000001|I for my part take a lesson from them, and propose, instead of further unselfishly serving those great egoists, rather to be the egoist myself.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000013_000000|Away, then, with every concern that is not altogether my concern!
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000013_000001|You think at least the "good cause" must be my concern?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000013_000002|What's good, what's bad?
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000013_000003|Why, I myself am my concern, and I am neither good nor bad.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000014_000000|The divine is God's concern; the human, man's.
train-other-500/2133/2145/2133_2145_000015_000000|Nothing is more to me than myself!
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000004_000000|As it was said above, "To the ancients the world was a truth," we must say here, "To the moderns the spirit was a truth"; but here, as there, we must not omit the supplement, "a truth whose untruth they tried to get back of, and at last they really do."
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000005_000001|And the talk then was, especially in Italy and at the Roman court, "If only the heart remains Christian minded, the understanding may go right on taking its pleasure."
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000008_000000|Only so is Christianity complete, because it has become bald, withered, and void of contents.
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000009_000001|The person is repulsive to it because of being "egoistic," because of not being that abstraction, Man.
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000009_000003|To pure warm heartedness or pure theory men exist only to be criticised, scoffed at, and thoroughly despised; to it, no less than to the fanatical parson, they are only "filth" and other such nice things.
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000010_000000|Pushed to this extremity of disinterested warm heartedness, we must finally become conscious that the spirit, which alone the Christian loves, is nothing; in other words, that the spirit is-a lie.
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000011_000000|What has here been set down roughly, summarily, and doubtless as yet incomprehensibly, will, it is to be hoped, become clear as we go on.
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000012_000001|The world lies despised at our feet, far beneath us and our heaven, into which its mighty arms are no longer thrust and its stupefying breath does not come.
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000012_000004|So speaks "spiritual freedom."
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000015_000001|And what is the wisdom of the many following centuries?
train-other-500/2133/2148/2133_2148_000015_000004|If the ancients have nothing to show but wisdom of the world, the moderns never did nor do make their way further than to theology.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000004_000000|Back of the rod, mightier than it, stands our-obduracy, our obdurate courage.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000004_000004|And the more we feel ourselves, the smaller appears that which before seemed invincible.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000004_000005|And what is our trickery, shrewdness, courage, obduracy?
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000005_000001|The fairest part of childhood passes without the necessity of coming to blows with reason.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000005_000002|We care nothing at all about it, do not meddle with it, admit no reason.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000009_000001|We defer to parents as a natural power; later we say: Father and mother are to be forsaken, all natural power to be counted as riven.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000014_000000|We "run after our thoughts" now, and follow their commands just as before we followed parental, human ones.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000019_000000|But, when the spirit is recognized as the essential thing, it still makes a difference whether the spirit is poor or rich, and therefore one seeks to become rich in spirit; the spirit wants to spread out so as to found its empire-an empire that is not of this world, the world just conquered.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000021_000000|Spirit is the essential point for everything, to be sure; but then is every spirit the "right" spirit?
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000030_000000|If as spirit I had thrust away the world in the deepest contempt, so as owner I thrust spirits or ideas away into their "vanity." They have no longer any power over me, as no "earthly might" has power over the spirit.
train-other-500/2133/289460/2133_289460_000031_000001|Finally, the old man?
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000003_000001|As he went on his way, always putting one foot before the other, he met a man galloping briskly along on a fine horse.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000006_000000|"Because I must," answered he; "for I have this big lump to carry home.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000006_000001|It is real gold, you know; but, all the same, I can scarcely hold up my head, it weighs so terribly on my shoulders."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000007_000000|"I'll tell you what," said the horseman: "we'll just exchange.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000007_000001|I'll give you my horse and you give me your lump of gold."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000008_000001|"But I warn you, you'll have a job to carry it."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000012_000001|He felt very downcast, and said to the peasant: "It's a poor joke, that riding, especially when one lights upon such a brute as this, which kicks and throws one off so that one comes near to breaking one's neck.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000012_000002|You don't catch me on his back again.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000012_000003|Now, there's more sense in a cow like yours, behind which you can walk in peace and quietness, besides having your butter, milk, and cheese every morning for certain.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000015_000001|I have just to get a bit of bread (and that isn't a difficult matter) and then, as often as I like, I can eat my butter and cheese with it.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000015_000003|What more could I desire?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000016_000000|When he came to an inn, he made a stop, and in his great joy ate all the food he had with him right up, both dinner and supper.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000017_000000|With his two last farthings, he bought himself half a glass of beer. Then he drove his cow towards his mother's village.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000019_000000|Then he felt so hot that his tongue was parched with thirst.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000020_000000|He tied the cow to a withered tree, and as he had no pitcher he placed his leathern cap underneath her; but in spite of all his trouble not a drop of milk could be got.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000021_000000|And he went to work so clumsily that the impatient brute gave him such a kick with her hind leg that he was knocked over and quite dazed, and for a long time did not know where he was.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000022_000000|Luckily a butcher came by just then, wheeling a young pig in a barrow.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000024_000001|The butcher passed him his bottle and said:
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000025_000000|"There, drink and revive yourself.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000025_000001|That cow will never give any milk; she is an old animal and, at the best, is only fit for the plow or the butcher."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000026_000001|"Who would have thought it?
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000026_000002|It is all right indeed when you can slaughter such a beast in your own house.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000026_000003|But I don't think much of cow's flesh; it is not tender enough.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000026_000004|Now, if one had a young pig!
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000026_000005|That would taste far different, to say nothing of the sausages!"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000027_000001|"For your sake, I will exchange, and let you have my pig for your cow."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000029_000000|The man untied the pig from the wheelbarrow, and gave the rope with which it was bound into Hans's hand.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000030_000001|As soon as anything goes wrong, something turns up and all's right again."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000031_000001|The youth told him he was taking the goose to a christening feast.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000032_000000|"Just hold it," he continued, seizing it by the wings, "and feel how heavy it is: yet it was only fattened for eight weeks.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000032_000001|It will be a rich morsel when roasted."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000034_000000|Meanwhile the lad was looking thoughtfully around, shaking his head. "Listen," he said, "I don't think it's all right about your pig.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000034_000001|In the village I have just come through, one has lately been stolen from the magistrate's own sty.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000034_000002|I fear it is the one you have.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000034_000003|They have sent people out, and it would be a bad business if they found you with the pig.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000034_000004|The least they would do would be to throw you into jail."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000036_000000|"I shall be running great risks," said the youth, "but at least I will prevent your getting into trouble."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000038_000000|"What a lucky fellow I am!" he said to himself.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000038_000001|"First, I shall have a good roast; then there is the quantity of dripping that will fall out, which will keep me in bread and dripping for a quarter of a year; and lastly, the splendid white feathers, with which I will have my pillow stuffed; then I shall fall asleep without rocking.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000038_000002|How glad my mother will be!"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000039_000000|When he was at length come to the village, there stood in the street a scissors grinder with his truck.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000039_000001|His wheel hummed, and he sang the while:
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000042_000000|"You must be doing well since you are so merry over your grinding."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000043_000000|"Yes," said the scissors grinder; "the work has gold at the bottom of it.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000043_000002|But where have you bought that fine goose?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000044_000000|"I did not buy it, but exchanged it for my pig."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000045_000000|"And the pig?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000046_000000|"I obtained him for a cow."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000047_000000|"And the cow?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000048_000000|"I had her for a horse."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000049_000000|"And the horse?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000050_000000|"For him I gave a lump of gold as big as my head."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000051_000000|"And the gold?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000052_000000|"Why, that was my reward for seven years of service."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000053_000000|"You have certainly done well for yourself each time," said the scissors grinder.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000053_000001|"If you could only hear money rattling in your pocket every time you got up, your fortune would be made."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000055_000000|"You must become a grinder, like me.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000055_000001|All you want is a grindstone: the rest comes of itself.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000055_000002|I have one which is a little damaged indeed, but for which I would ask nothing more than your goose; would that suit you?"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000056_000001|"I shall be the luckiest fellow on earth.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000056_000002|If I have money as often as I feel in my pocket, what else shall I have to care about?" And he handed over the goose, and took the grindstone in receipt.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000057_000000|"Now," said the grinder, lifting up an ordinary heavy field stone, which lay beside him.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000057_000001|"There you have a capital stone, which will be just the thing to hammer your old nails straight upon.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000057_000002|Take it and lift it up carefully."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000059_000000|"I must have been born lucky," he cried out.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000059_000001|"All that I desire comes to me, as to a Sunday child."
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000060_000000|Meanwhile, having been on his legs since daybreak, he began to feel tired; besides which, he was tormented by hunger, for he had eaten up all his provision in his joy over the exchange of the cow.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000061_000000|At length he could only proceed with great trouble and must needs stop every minute; the stones, too, crushed him terribly.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000061_000001|Then he could not conceal the thought: "How nice it would be now to have nothing to carry!"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000062_000000|Like a snail he crept up to a well, wishing to rest himself and enjoy a refreshing drink.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000063_000000|In order not to spoil the stones in setting them down, he laid them carefully on the ground one beside the other, and bent himself down to drink, but by an accident he gave them a little push, and both stones went splashing down.
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000065_000000|"There is no man under the sun," he cried out, "so lucky as i"
train-other-500/2140/160867/2140_160867_000066_000000|With a bright heart and free from all care, he sprang upon his way, until he was home at his mother's.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000001_000000|Chapter twenty
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000002_000000|IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000003_000001|It was all very well for an Englishman like mr Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000003_000002|He acquitted his task with characteristic serenity, and invariably replied to the remonstrances of his fair companion, who was confused by his patience and generosity:
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000004_000000|"It is in the interest of my journey-a part of my programme."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000006_000000|Had he been capable of being astonished at anything, it would have been not to see his servant return at bedtime.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000006_000001|But, knowing that the steamer was not to leave for Yokohama until the next morning, he did not disturb himself about the matter.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000007_000000|It was then eight o'clock; at half past nine, it being then high tide, the Carnatic would leave the harbour.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000007_000002|mr Fogg then learned that the Carnatic had sailed the evening before.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000008_000000|At this moment a man who had been observing him attentively approached. It was Fix, who, bowing, addressed mr Fogg: "Were you not, like me, sir, a passenger by the Rangoon, which arrived yesterday?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000009_000000|"I was, sir," replied mr Fogg coldly.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000009_000001|"But I have not the honour-"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000010_000000|"Pardon me; I thought I should find your servant here."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000012_000000|"What!" responded Fix, feigning surprise.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000012_000001|"Is he not with you?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000013_000001|"He has not made his appearance since yesterday. Could he have gone on board the Carnatic without us?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000014_000000|"Without you, madam?" answered the detective.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000014_000001|"Excuse me, did you intend to sail in the Carnatic?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000015_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000016_000000|"So did I, madam, and I am excessively disappointed.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000016_000001|The Carnatic, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice being given; and we must now wait a week for another steamer."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000017_000000|As he said "a week"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000017_000001|Fix felt his heart leap for joy.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000017_000002|Fogg detained at Hong Kong for a week!
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000017_000004|His horror may be imagined when he heard mr Fogg say, in his placid voice, "But there are other vessels besides the Carnatic, it seems to me, in the harbour of Hong Kong."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000018_000001|Fix, stupefied, followed; it seemed as if he were attached to mr Fogg by an invisible thread. Chance, however, appeared really to have abandoned the man it had hitherto served so well.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000018_000002|For three hours Phileas Fogg wandered about the docks, with the determination, if necessary, to charter a vessel to carry him to Yokohama; but he could only find vessels which were loading or unloading, and which could not therefore set sail.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000018_000003|Fix began to hope again.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000019_000000|But mr Fogg, far from being discouraged, was continuing his search, resolved not to stop if he had to resort to Macao, when he was accosted by a sailor on one of the wharves.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000020_000000|"Is your honour looking for a boat?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000021_000000|"Have you a boat ready to sail?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000023_000000|"Does she go fast?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000024_000000|"Between eight and nine knots the hour.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000024_000001|Will you look at her?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000025_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000026_000000|"Your honour will be satisfied with her.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000026_000001|Is it for a sea excursion?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000027_000000|"No; for a voyage."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000028_000000|"A voyage?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000029_000000|"Yes, will you agree to take me to Yokohama?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000030_000000|The sailor leaned on the railing, opened his eyes wide, and said, "Is your honour joking?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000031_000000|"no
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000031_000001|I have missed the Carnatic, and I must get to Yokohama by the fourteenth at the latest, to take the boat for San Francisco."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000032_000000|"I am sorry," said the sailor; "but it is impossible."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000033_000000|"I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000034_000000|"Are you in earnest?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000035_000000|"Very much so."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000036_000000|The pilot walked away a little distance, and gazed out to sea, evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a large sum and the fear of venturing so far.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000036_000001|Fix was in mortal suspense.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000038_000000|"Not with you, mr Fogg," was her answer.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000039_000000|The pilot now returned, shuffling his hat in his hands.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000040_000000|"Well, pilot?" said mr Fogg.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000042_000000|"Only sixteen hundred," said mr Fogg.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000043_000000|"It's the same thing."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000044_000000|Fix breathed more freely.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000045_000000|"But," added the pilot, "it might be arranged another way."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000046_000000|Fix ceased to breathe at all.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000047_000000|"How?" asked mr Fogg.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000048_000000|"By going to Nagasaki, at the extreme south of Japan, or even to Shanghai, which is only eight hundred miles from here.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000049_000000|"Pilot," said mr Fogg, "I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000050_000000|"Why not?" returned the pilot.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000050_000001|"The San Francisco steamer does not start from Yokohama.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000050_000002|It puts in at Yokohama and Nagasaki, but it starts from Shanghai."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000051_000000|"You are sure of that?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000052_000000|"Perfectly."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000053_000000|"And when does the boat leave Shanghai?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000054_000000|"On the eleventh, at seven in the evening.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000054_000001|We have, therefore, four days before us, that is ninety six hours; and in that time, if we had good luck and a south-west wind, and the sea was calm, we could make those eight hundred miles to Shanghai."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000055_000000|"And you could go-"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000056_000000|"In an hour; as soon as provisions could be got aboard and the sails put up."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000057_000000|"It is a bargain.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000057_000001|Are you the master of the boat?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000058_000000|"Yes; john Bunsby, master of the Tankadere."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000059_000000|"Would you like some earnest money?"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000060_000000|"If it would not put your honour out-"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000061_000000|"Here are two hundred pounds on account sir," added Phileas Fogg, turning to Fix, "if you would like to take advantage-"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000062_000000|"Thanks, sir; I was about to ask the favour."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000063_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000063_000001|In half an hour we shall go on board."
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000065_000000|"I shall do all I can to find him," replied Phileas Fogg.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000066_000001|The same formalities having been gone through at the French consulate, and the palanquin having stopped at the hotel for the luggage, which had been sent back there, they returned to the wharf.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000068_000000|The Tankadere was a neat little craft of twenty tons, as gracefully built as if she were a racing yacht.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000068_000001|Her shining copper sheathing, her galvanised iron work, her deck, white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by john Bunsby in making her presentable.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000068_000002|Her two masts leaned a trifle backward; she carried brigantine, foresail, storm jib, and standing jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind; and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot boat races.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000068_000003|The crew of the Tankadere was composed of john Bunsby, the master, and four hardy mariners, who were familiar with the Chinese seas.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000068_000004|john Bunsby, himself, a man of forty five or thereabouts, vigorous, sunburnt, with a sprightly expression of the eye, and energetic and self reliant countenance, would have inspired confidence in the most timid.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000069_000001|Below deck was a square cabin, of which the walls bulged out in the form of cots, above a circular divan; in the centre was a table provided with a swinging lamp.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000069_000002|The accommodation was confined, but neat.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000070_000000|"I am sorry to have nothing better to offer you," said mr Fogg to Fix, who bowed without responding.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000071_000000|The detective had a feeling akin to humiliation in profiting by the kindness of mr Fogg.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000072_000000|"It's certain," thought he, "though rascal as he is, he is a polite one!"
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000073_000001|Fix was not without his fears lest chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant, whom he had so badly treated, in this direction; in which case an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to the detective must have ensued.
train-other-500/2140/17255/2140_17255_000073_000002|But the Frenchman did not appear, and, without doubt, was still lying under the stupefying influence of the opium.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000002_000000|Chapter seventeen The Safety Pin Again
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000006_000001|Or rather she was conjured away.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000006_000002|In accordance with the instructions received from Moncharmin a few minutes earlier, Mercier took the good lady to the acting manager's office and turned the key on her, thus making it impossible for her to communicate with her ghost.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000009_000000|Moncharmin, who had his own ideas, did not want Richard to come to him presently, when the twenty thousand francs were gone, and say:
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000010_000000|"Perhaps it was the ambassador ... or the manager of the Credit Central ... or Remy."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000012_000000|Having begun by walking backward in order to bow, Richard continued to do so from prudence, until he reached the passage leading to the offices of the management.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000012_000001|In this way, he was constantly watched by Moncharmin from behind and himself kept an eye on any one approaching from the front.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000012_000002|Once more, this novel method of walking behind the scenes, adopted by the managers of our National Academy of Music, attracted attention; but the managers themselves thought of nothing but their twenty thousand francs.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000013_000000|On reaching the half dark passage, Richard said to Moncharmin, in a low voice:
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000014_000000|"I am sure that nobody has touched me ...
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000015_000000|But Moncharmin replied.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000015_000001|"No, Richard, no!
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000015_000002|You walk ahead and I'll walk immediately behind you!
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000015_000003|I won't leave you by a step!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000016_000000|"But, in that case," exclaimed Richard, "they will never steal our twenty thousand francs!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000017_000000|"I should hope not, indeed!" declared Moncharmin.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000018_000000|"Then what we are doing is absurd!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000019_000000|"We are doing exactly what we did last time ...
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000019_000001|Last time, I joined you as you were leaving the stage and followed close behind you down this passage."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000020_000000|"That's true!" sighed Richard, shaking his head and passively obeying Moncharmin.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000021_000000|Two minutes later, the joint managers locked themselves into their office.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000021_000001|Moncharmin himself put the key in his pocket:
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000022_000000|"We remained locked up like this, last time," he said, "until you left the Opera to go home."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000023_000000|"That's so.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000023_000001|No one came and disturbed us, I suppose?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000024_000000|"No one."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000025_000000|"Then," said Richard, who was trying to collect his memory, "then I must certainly have been robbed on my way home from the Opera."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000026_000001|For I dropped you in my cab.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000027_000000|"It's incredible!" protested Richard.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000027_000001|"I am sure of my servants ... and if one of them had done it, he would have disappeared since."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000028_000000|Moncharmin shrugged his shoulders, as though to say that he did not wish to enter into details, and Richard began to think that Moncharmin was treating him in a very insupportable fashion.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000029_000000|"Moncharmin, I've had enough of this!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000030_000000|"Richard, I've had too much of it!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000031_000000|"Do you dare to suspect me?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000032_000000|"Yes, of a silly joke."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000033_000000|"One doesn't joke with twenty thousand francs."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000034_000000|"That's what I think," declared Moncharmin, unfolding a newspaper and ostentatiously studying its contents.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000035_000000|"What are you doing?" asked Richard.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000035_000001|"Are you going to read the paper next?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000036_000000|"Yes, Richard, until I take you home."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000037_000000|"Like last time?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000038_000000|"Yes, like last time."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000039_000000|Richard snatched the paper from Moncharmin's hands.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000039_000001|Moncharmin stood up, more irritated than ever, and found himself faced by an exasperated Richard, who, crossing his arms on his chest, said:
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000040_000000|"Look here, I'm thinking of this, I'M THINKING OF WHAT I MIGHT THINK if, like last time, after my spending the evening alone with you, you brought me home and if, at the moment of parting, I perceived that twenty thousand francs had disappeared from my coat pocket ... like last time."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000041_000000|"And what might you think?" asked Moncharmin, crimson with rage.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000042_000000|"I might think that, as you hadn't left me by a foot's breadth and as, by your own wish, you were the only one to approach me, like last time, I might think that, if that twenty thousand francs was no longer in my pocket, it stood a very good chance of being in yours!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000043_000000|Moncharmin leaped up at the suggestion.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000044_000000|"Oh!" he shouted.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000044_000001|"A safety pin!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000046_000000|"To fasten you up with! ...
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000046_000001|A safety pin! ...
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000046_000002|A safety pin!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000047_000000|"You want to fasten me with a safety pin?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000048_000000|"Yes, to fasten you to the twenty thousand francs!
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000048_000001|Then, whether it's here, or on the drive from here to your place, or at your place, you will feel the hand that pulls at your pocket and you will see if it's mine!
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000048_000003|A safety pin!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000049_000000|And that was the moment when Moncharmin opened the door on the passage and shouted:
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000050_000000|"A safety pin! ... somebody give me a safety pin!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000051_000000|And we also know how, at the same moment, Remy, who had no safety pin, was received by Moncharmin, while a boy procured the pin so eagerly longed for.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000051_000001|And what happened was this: Moncharmin first locked the door again.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000051_000002|Then he knelt down behind Richard's back.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000052_000000|"I hope," he said, "that the notes are still there?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000053_000000|"So do I," said Richard.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000054_000000|"The real ones?" asked Moncharmin, resolved not to be "had" this time.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000055_000000|"Look for yourself," said Richard.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000055_000001|"I refuse to touch them."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000056_000001|He felt reassured on finding that they were all there and quite genuine.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000056_000002|He put them back in the tail pocket and pinned them with great care.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000056_000003|Then he sat down behind Richard's coat tails and kept his eyes fixed on them, while Richard, sitting at his writing table, did not stir.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000057_000000|"A little patience, Richard," said Moncharmin.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000057_000001|"We have only a few minutes to wait ...
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000057_000002|The clock will soon strike twelve.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000057_000003|Last time, we left at the last stroke of twelve."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000058_000000|"Oh, I shall have all the patience necessary!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000059_000000|The time passed, slow, heavy, mysterious, stifling.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000059_000001|Richard tried to laugh.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000060_000000|"I shall end by believing in the omnipotence of the ghost," he said. "Just now, don't you find something uncomfortable, disquieting, alarming in the atmosphere of this room?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000061_000000|"You're quite right," said Moncharmin, who was really impressed.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000062_000000|"The ghost!" continued Richard, in a low voice, as though fearing lest he should be overheard by invisible ears.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000062_000001|"The ghost!
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000062_000003|For, after all, after all, after all, there is no one here except you and me, and, if the notes disappear and neither you nor I have anything to do with it, well, we shall have to believe in the ghost ... in the ghost."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000063_000000|At that moment, the clock on the mantlepiece gave its warning click and the first stroke of twelve struck.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000064_000000|The two managers shuddered.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000064_000001|The perspiration streamed from their foreheads.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000064_000002|The twelfth stroke sounded strangely in their ears.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000065_000000|When the clock stopped, they gave a sigh and rose from their chairs.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000066_000000|"I think we can go now," said Moncharmin.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000068_000000|"Before we go, do you mind if I look in your pocket?"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000069_000001|Well?" he asked, as Moncharmin was feeling at the pocket.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000070_000000|"Well, I can feel the pin."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000071_000000|"Of course, as you said, we can't be robbed without noticing it."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000072_000000|But Moncharmin, whose hands were still fumbling, bellowed:
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000073_000000|"I can feel the pin, but I can't feel the notes!"
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000074_000000|"Come, no joking, Moncharmin! ...
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000074_000001|This isn't the time for it."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000075_000000|"Well, feel for yourself."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000076_000000|Richard tore off his coat.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000076_000001|The two managers turned the pocket inside out.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000076_000002|THE POCKET WAS EMPTY.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000076_000003|And the curious thing was that the pin remained, stuck in the same place.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000077_000000|Richard and Moncharmin turned pale.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000077_000001|There was no longer any doubt about the witchcraft.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000078_000000|"The ghost!" muttered Moncharmin.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000079_000000|But Richard suddenly sprang upon his partner.
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000080_000000|"No one but you has touched my pocket!
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000080_000001|Give me back my twenty thousand francs! ... Give me back my twenty thousand francs! ..."
train-other-500/2140/39822/2140_39822_000082_000000|Then somebody knocked at the door.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000000_000001|Hurrah! how loudly Little Klaus cracked his whip over all the five horses! for they were indeed as good as his on this one day.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000002_000000|But as soon as someone else was going by Little Klaus forgot that he must not say it, and called out 'Gee up, my five horses!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000003_000000|'Now you had better stop that,' said Big Klaus, 'for if you say it once more I will give your horse such a crack on the head that it will drop down dead on the spot!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000004_000000|'I really won't say it again!' said Little Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000006_000000|'Alas!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000006_000002|Then he flayed the skin off his horse, dried it, and put it in a sack, which he threw over his shoulder, and went into the town to sell it.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000006_000003|He had a long way to go, and had to pass through a great dark forest.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000007_000000|Right in front of him was a large farm house.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000007_000001|The window shutters were closed, but the light came through the chinks.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000007_000002|'I should very much like to be allowed to spend the night there,' thought Little Klaus; and he went and knocked at the door.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000008_000000|'Well, I must lie down outside,' said Little Klaus; and the farmer's wife shut the door in his face.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000009_000001|The wooden shutters over the windows were not shut at the top, and he could just see into the room.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000010_000000|There stood a large table, spread with wine and roast meat and a beautiful fish.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000010_000001|The farmer's wife and the sexton sat at the table, but there was no one else.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000010_000002|She was filling up his glass, while he stuck his fork into the fish which was his favourite dish.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000011_000000|'If one could only get some of that!' thought Little Klaus, stretching his head towards the window.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000011_000001|Ah, what delicious cakes he saw standing there!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000011_000002|It WAS a feast!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000000|Then he heard someone riding along the road towards the house.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000001|It was the farmer coming home.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000002|He was a very worthy man; but he had one great peculiarity-namely, that he could not bear to see a sexton.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000003|If he saw one he was made quite mad.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000004|That was why the sexton had gone to say good day to the farmer's wife when he knew that her husband was not at home, and the good woman therefore put in front of him the best food she had.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000006|He did so, as he knew the poor man could not bear to see a sexton.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000012_000007|The wife hastily hid all the beautiful food and the wine in her oven; for if her husband had seen it, he would have been sure to ask what it all meant.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000013_000000|'Oh, dear!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000014_000000|'Is anybody up there?' asked the farmer, catching sight of Little Klaus. 'Why are you lying there?
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000014_000001|Come with me into the house.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000015_000000|Then Little Klaus told him how he had lost his way, and begged to be allowed to spend the night there.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000016_000000|'Yes, certainly,' said the farmer; 'but we must first have something to eat!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000017_000000|The wife received them both very kindly, spread a long table, and gave them a large plate of porridge.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000020_000001|'He says we should not eat porridge, for he has conjured the whole oven full of roast meats and fish and cakes.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000021_000001|The wife could say nothing, but she put the food at once on the table, and they ate the fish, the roast meat, and the cakes.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000024_000000|The wife had to fetch the wine which she had hidden, and the farmer drank and grew very merry.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000025_000000|'Can he conjure up the Devil?' asked the farmer.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000026_000000|'Yes,' said Little Klaus; 'my wizard can do everything that I ask.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000026_000001|Isn't that true?' he asked, treading on the sack so that it squeaked.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000026_000003|He says ''Yes;'' but that the Devil looks so ugly that we should not like to see him.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000027_000000|'Oh! I'm not at all afraid.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000027_000001|What does he look like?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000028_000000|'He will show himself in the shape of a sexton!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000029_000000|'I say!' said the farmer, 'he must be ugly!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000029_000001|You must know that I can't bear to look at a sexton!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000029_000002|But it doesn't matter.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000029_000004|I feel up to it now.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000029_000005|But he must not come too near me!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000030_000000|'I must ask my wizard,' said Little Klaus, treading on the sack and putting his ear to it.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000031_000000|'What does he say?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000034_000001|'Yes, now I have seen him; he looked just like our sexton.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000034_000002|Oh, it was horrid!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000036_000000|'You MUST sell me the wizard,' said the farmer.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000036_000001|'Ask anything you like! I will pay you down a bushelful of money on the spot.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000038_000001|I should like to have him so much!' said the farmer, begging very hard.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000039_000000|'Well!' said Little Klaus at last, 'as you have been so good as to give me shelter to night, I will sell him.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000039_000001|You shall have the wizard for a bushel of money, but I must have full measure.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000040_000000|'That you shall,' said the farmer.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000040_000001|'But you must take the chest with you.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000040_000003|Who knows that he isn't in there still?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000041_000000|Little Klaus gave the farmer his sack with the dry skin, and got instead a good bushelful of money.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000041_000001|The farmer also gave him a wheelbarrow to carry away his money and the chest.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000042_000000|On the other side of the wood was a large deep river.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000042_000001|The water flowed so rapidly that you could scarcely swim against the stream.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000043_000000|A great new bridge had been built over it, on the middle of which Little Klaus stopped, and said aloud so that the sexton might hear:
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000044_000001|It is as heavy as if it were filled with stones!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000044_000002|I shall only be tired, dragging it along; I will throw it into the river.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000044_000003|If it swims home to me, well and good; and if it doesn't, it's no matter.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000045_000000|Then he took the chest with one hand and lifted it up a little, as if he were going to throw it into the water.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000047_000001|'He is still in there!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000048_000000|'Oh! no, no!' cried the sexton.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000048_000001|'I will give you a whole bushelful of money if you will let me go!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000049_000001|One he had had already from the farmer, and now he had his wheelbarrow full of money.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000051_000000|So he sent a boy to Big Klaus to borrow a bushel measure from him.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000052_000001|And this is just what happened; for when he got his measure back, three new silver five shilling pieces were sticking to it.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000053_000000|What does this mean?' said Big Klaus, and he ran off at once to Little Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000054_000000|'Where did you get so much money from?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000055_000000|'Oh, that was from my horse skin.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000055_000001|I sold it yesterday evening.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000057_000000|'Skins! skins!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000057_000001|Who will buy skins?' he cried through the streets.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000058_000001|'A bushel of money for each,' said Big Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000059_000000|'Are you mad?' they all exclaimed.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000059_000001|'Do you think we have money by the bushel?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000060_000000|'Skins! skins!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000061_000001|'Skins! skins!' they cried mockingly; yes, we will tan YOUR skin for you!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000061_000002|Out of the town with him!' they shouted; and Big Klaus had to hurry off as quickly as he could, if he wanted to save his life.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000062_000001|I will kill him!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000063_000000|Little Klaus' grandmother had just died.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000063_000002|And in the night as he sat there the door opened, and Big Klaus came in with his axe.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000063_000004|'Now you won't get the best of me again!' And he went home.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000064_000000|'What a very wicked man!' thought Little Klaus. 'He was going to kill me!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000064_000001|It was a good thing for my grandmother that she was dead already, or else he would have killed her!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000065_000003|The host was very rich. He was a very worthy but hot tempered man.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000066_000000|'Good morning!' said he to Little Klaus. 'You are early on the road.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000067_000000|'Yes,' said Little Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000067_000001|'I am going to the town with my grandmother. She is sitting outside in the cart; I cannot bring her in.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000067_000002|Will you not give her a glass of mead?
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000069_000000|'Here is a glass of mead from your son,' said the host.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000069_000001|But the dead woman did not answer a word, and sat still.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000069_000002|'Don't you hear?' cried the host as loud as he could.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000069_000003|'Here is a glass of mead from your son!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000071_000000|'Hullo!' cried Little Klaus, running out of the door, and seizing the host by the throat.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000071_000001|'You have killed my grandmother!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000071_000002|Look! there is a great hole in her forehead!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000072_000000|'Oh, what a misfortune!' cried the host, wringing his hands.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000072_000001|'It all comes from my hot temper!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000072_000002|Dear Little Klaus!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000076_000000|So he went himself to Little Klaus with the measure.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000080_000000|'Who is it, and how did you get it?' asked the apothecary.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000081_000000|'It is my grandmother,' said Big Klaus. 'I killed her in order to get a bushel of money.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000082_000000|'You are mad!' said the apothecary.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000082_000001|'Don't mention such things, or you will lose your head!' And he began to tell him what a dreadful thing he had done, and what a wicked man he was, and that he ought to be punished; till Big Klaus was so frightened that he jumped into the cart and drove home as hard as he could.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000082_000002|The apothecary and all the people thought he must be mad, so they let him go.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000083_000000|'You shall pay for this!' said Big Klaus as he drove home.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000083_000001|'You shall pay for this dearly, Little Klaus!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000084_000001|First I killed my horses, then my grandmother!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000085_000000|He had to go a long way before he came to the river, and Little Klaus was not very light.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000085_000001|The road passed by the church; the organ was sounding, and the people were singing most beautifully.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000086_000001|Little Klaus could not get out, and everybody was in church; so he went in.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000087_000000|'Oh, dear!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000087_000001|oh, dear!' groaned Little Klaus in the sack, twisting and turning himself.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000087_000002|But he could not undo the string.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000088_000000|There came by an old, old shepherd, with snow white hair and a long staff in his hand.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000088_000001|He was driving a herd of cows and oxen.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000088_000002|These pushed against the sack so that it was overturned.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000091_000000|'Open the sack,' called out Little Klaus; 'creep in here instead of me, and you will die in a moment!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000092_000000|'I will gladly do that,' said the cattle driver; and he opened the sack, and Little Klaus struggled out at once.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000093_000001|Soon after Big Klaus came out of the church, and taking up the sack on his shoulders it seemed to him as if it had become lighter; for the old cattle driver was not half as heavy as Little Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000094_000000|'How easy he is to carry now!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000094_000001|That must be because I heard part of the service.'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000095_000000|So he went to the river, which was deep and broad, threw in the sack with the old driver, and called after it, for he thought Little Klaus was inside:
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000096_000000|'Down you go!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000096_000001|You won't mock me any more now!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000098_000001|'Haven't I drowned you?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000099_000000|'Yes,' replied Little Klaus; 'you threw me into the river a good half hour ago!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000100_000000|'But how did you get those splendid cattle?' asked Big Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000101_000000|'They are sea cattle!' said Little Klaus. 'I will tell you the whole story, and I thank you for having drowned me, because now I am on dry land and really rich!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000101_000001|How frightened I was when I was in the sack!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000101_000002|How the wind whistled in my ears as you threw me from the bridge into the cold water!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000101_000004|I fell on this, and immediately the sack opened; the loveliest maiden in snow white garments, with a green garland round her wet hair, took me by the hand, and said!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000101_000005|''Are you Little Klaus?
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000101_000006|Here are some cattle for you to begin with, and a mile farther down the road there is another herd, which I will give you as a present!'' Now I saw that the river was a great high road for the sea people.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000103_000000|'Oh!' said Little Klaus, 'that was just so politic of me.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000103_000001|You heard what I told you, that the sea maiden said to me a mile farther along the road-and by the road she meant the river, for she can go by no other way-there was another herd of cattle waiting for me.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000104_000000|'Oh, you're a lucky fellow!' said Big Klaus. 'Do you think I should also get some cattle if I went to the bottom of the river?'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000105_000000|'Oh, yes!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000105_000001|I think so,' said Little Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000105_000002|'But I can't carry you in a sack to the river; you are too heavy for me!
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000106_000000|'Thank you,' said Big Klaus; 'but if I don't get any sea cattle when I come there, you will have a good hiding, mind!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000107_000000|'Oh, no! Don't be so hard on me!' Then they went to the river.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000108_000000|'Look how they are running!' said Little Klaus. 'They want to go to the bottom again!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000109_000000|'Yes; but help me first,' said Big Klaus, 'or else you shall have a beating!'
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000110_000000|And so he crept into the large sack, which was lying on the back of one of the oxen.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000110_000001|'Put a stone in, for I am afraid I may not reach the bottom,' said Big Klaus.
train-other-500/2143/145731/2143_145731_000111_000000|'It goes all right!' said Little Klaus; but still he laid a big stone in the sack, fastened it up tight, and then pushed it in.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000002_000000|monday november nineteenth.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000002_000001|This was a black day in our calendar.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000002_000006|He was going aloft to fit a strap round the main top mast head, for ringtail halyards, and had the strap and block, a coil of halyards and a marline spike about his neck.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000000|Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000001|A man dies on shore; his body remains with his friends, and "the mourners go about the streets;" but when a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000002|A man dies on shore-you follow his body to the grave, and a stone marks the spot.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000003|You are often prepared for the event.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000005|Then, too, at sea-to use a homely but expressive phrase-you miss a man so much.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000006|A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000007|There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000003_000010|You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000004_000001|There is more kindness shown by the officers to the crew, and by the crew to one another.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000004_000002|There is more quietness and seriousness.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000004_000003|The oath and the loud laugh are gone. The officers are more watchful, and the crew go more carefully aloft. The lost man is seldom mentioned, or is dismissed with a sailor's rude eulogy-"Well, poor George is gone!
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000004_000004|His cruise is up soon!
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000007_000003|Sailors have an unwillingness to wear a dead man's clothes during the same voyage, and they seldom do so unless they are in absolute want.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000008_000000|As is usual after a death, many stories were told about George.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000008_000001|Some had heard him say that he repented never having learned to swim, and that he knew that he should meet his death by drowning.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000009_000003|From this he went on to other superstitions, the Flying Dutchman, etc, and talked rather mysteriously, having something evidently on his mind.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000011_000000|"I say! you know what countryman 'e carpenter be?"
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000013_000000|"What kind of a German?" said the cook.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000014_000000|"He belongs to Bremen," said i
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000017_000000|"I'm plaguy glad o' dat," said the cook.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000017_000001|"I was mighty 'fraid he was a Fin.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000017_000002|I tell you what, I been plaguy civil to that man all the voyage."
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000018_000000|I asked him the reason of this, and found that he was fully possessed with the notion that Fins are wizards, and especially have power over winds and storms.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000018_000001|I tried to reason with him about it, but he had the best of all arguments, that from experience, at hand, and was not to be moved.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000018_000005|The same man cut his throat in his berth, and everybody said he was possessed.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000019_000000|He had heard of ships, too, beating up the gulf of Finland against a head wind, and having a ship heave in sight astern, overhaul and pass them, with as fair a wind as could blow, and all studding sails out, and find she was from Finland.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000021_000000|As I still doubted, he said he would leave it to john, who was the oldest seaman aboard, and would know, if anybody did.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000021_000001|john, to be sure, was the oldest, and at the same time the most ignorant, man in the ship; but I consented to have him called.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000021_000003|The Fin held out for a day and a half, when he could not stand it any longer, and did something or other which brought the wind round again, and they let him up.
train-other-500/2148/6979/2148_6979_000024_000001|You think, 'cause you been to college, you know better than anybody.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000000|As we saw neither land nor sail from the time of leaving Juan Fernandez until our arrival in California, nothing of interest occurred except our own doing on board.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000001|We caught the south-east trades, and run before them for nearly three weeks, without so much as altering a sail or bracing a yard.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000002|The captain took advantage of this fine weather to get the vessel in order for coming upon the coast.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000004|In the mean time we were employed in working upon the rigging.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000005|Everything was set up taut, the lower rigging rattled down, or rather rattled up, (according to the modern fashion,) an abundance of spun yarn and seizing stuff made, and finally, the whole standing rigging, fore and aft, was tarred down.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000009|This is an important operation, and is usually done about once in six months in vessels upon a long voyage.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000013|There he "sings aloft 'twixt heaven and earth," and if the rope slips, breaks, or is let go, or if the bowline slips, he falls overboard or breaks his neck.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000003_000016|In this manner I tarred down all the head stays, but found the rigging about the jib booms, martingale, and spritsail yard, upon which I was afterwards put, the hardest.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000004_000003|This work, too, is done by the crew, and every sailor who has been long voyages is a little of a painter, in addition to his other accomplishments.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000004_000004|We painted her, both inside and out, from the truck to the water's edge.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000004_000006|This must be done, of course, on a smooth day, when the vessel does not roll much.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000004_000007|I remember very well being over the side painting in this way, one fine afternoon, our vessel going quietly along at the rate of four or five knots, and a pilot fish, the sure precursor of the shark, swimming alongside of us.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000004_000009|In the midst of our painting, on
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000005_000000|friday december nineteenth, we crossed the equator for the second time.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000006_000000|thursday december twenty fifth.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000006_000001|This day was Christmas, but it brought us no holiday.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000007_000000|Such are the trifles which produce quarrels on shipboard.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000007_000001|In fact, we had been too long from port.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000007_000002|We were getting tired of one another, and were in an irritable state, both forward and aft.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000007_000003|Our fresh provisions were, of course, gone, and the captain had stopped our rice, so that we had nothing but salt beef and salt pork throughout the week, with the exception of a very small duff on Sunday.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000007_000005|Every encroachment upon the time allowed for rest, appeared unnecessary.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000008_000002|We now began to feel like sailors, which we never fully did when we were in the steerage.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000008_000005|You hear sailor's talk, learn their ways, their peculiarities of feeling as well as speaking and acting; and moreover pick up a great deal of curious and useful information in seamanship, ship's customs, foreign countries, etc, from their long yarns and equally long disputes.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000000|But to return to the state of the crew.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000001|Upon our coming into the forecastle, there was some difficulty about the uniting of the allowances of bread, by which we thought we were to lose a few pounds. This set us into a ferment.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000005|This provoked us, and we began to give word for word.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000006|This would never answer.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000008|I'll haze you!
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000011|You've mistaken your man.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000009_000017|We were driven back discomforted.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000010_000000|We continued sailing along in the beautiful temperate climate of the Pacific.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000010_000001|The Pacific well deserves its name, for except in the southern part, at Cape Horn, and in the western parts, near the China and Indian oceans, it has few storms, and is never either extremely hot or cold.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000010_000002|Between the tropics there is a slight haziness, like a thin gauze, drawn over the sun, which, without obstructing or obscuring the light, tempers the heat which comes down with perpendicular fierceness in the Atlantic and Indian tropics.
train-other-500/2148/6981/2148_6981_000010_000004|We immediately changed our course due east, and sailed in that direction for a number of days.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000000|This night, after sundown, it looked black at the southward and eastward, and we were told to keep a bright look out.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000002|Waking up about midnight, I found a man who had just come down from his watch, striking a light.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000007|"Lay aloft and loose the topsails!" shouted the captain, as soon as the first man showed himself.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000012|It was a beautiful sight. She was like a bird which had been frightened and had spread her wings in flight.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000014|"All ready forward?" asked the captain.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000017|"Let go aft!" Instantly all was gone, and we were under weigh.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000018|As soon as she was well off from the wind, we filled away the head yards, braced all up sharp, set the foresail and trysail, and left our anchorage well astern, giving the point a good berth.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000003_000019|"Nye's off too," said the captain to the mate; and looking astern, we could just see the little hermaphrodite brig under sail standing after us.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000004_000005|When the watch came up, we wore ship, and stood on the other tack, in towards land.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000004_000006|When we came up again, which was at four in the morning, it was very dark, and there was not much wind, but it was raining as I thought I had never seen it rain before.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000004_000007|We had on oil cloth suits and south wester caps, and had nothing to do but to stand bolt upright and let it pour down upon us.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000004_000008|There are no umbrellas, and no sheds to go under, at sea.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000000|While we were standing about on deck, we saw the little brig drifting by us, hove to under her fore topsail double reefed; and she glided by like a phantom.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000001|Not a word was spoken, and we saw no one on deck but the man at the wheel.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000003|We hauled up the trysail and courses, squared the after yards, and waited for the change, which came in a few minutes, with a vengeance, from the north-west, the opposite point of the compass.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000004|Owing to our precautions, we were not taken aback, but ran before the wind with square yards.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000006|With the change of wind came a change of weather, and in two hours the wind moderated into the light steady breeze, which blows down the coast the greater part of the year, and, from its regularity, might be called a trade wind.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000007|The sun came up bright, and we set royals, skysails, and studding sails, and were under fair way for Santa Barbara.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000008|The little Loriotte was astern of us, nearly out of sight; but we saw nothing of the Ayacucho.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000009|In a short time she appeared, standing out from Santa Rosa Island, under the lee of which she had been hove to, all night.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000005_000013|He afterwards said that we sailed well enough with the wind free, but that give him a taut bowline, and he would beat us, if we had all the canvas of the Royal George.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000006_000003|Captain Wilson was remarkable, among the sailors on the coast, for his skill in doing this; and our captain never let go a second anchor during all the time that I was with him.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000006_000006|The chain is then passed through the hawse hole and round the windlass, and bitted, the slip rope taken round outside and brought into the stern port, and she is safe in her old berth.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000007_000001|At sun down we went ashore again, and found the Loriotte's boat waiting on the beach.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000007_000004|They had a good deal of baggage, which we put into the bows of the boat, and then two of us took the senora in our arms, and waded with her through the water, and put her down safely in the stern.
train-other-500/2148/6983/2148_6983_000007_000008|I also found that we were to sail the same night.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000000_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000002_000002|Any vessel does well which gets by it without a gale, especially in the winter season.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000002_000003|We were going along with studding sails set on both sides, when, as we came round the point, we had to haul our wind, and take in the lee studding sails.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000002_000008|Then it was "haul down," and "clew up," royals, flying jib, and studding sails, all at once.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000002_000009|There was what the sailors call a "mess"--everything let go, nothing hauled in, and everything flying.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000003_000004|During this interval I took a look below.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000003_000007|The top gallant sail below me was soon clewed up, which relieved the mast, and in a short time I got my sail furled, and went below; but I lost overboard a new tarpaulin hat, which troubled me more than anything else.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000003_000008|We worked for about half an hour with might and main; and in an hour from the time the squall struck us, from having all our flying kites abroad, we came down to double reefed top sails and the storm sails.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000004_000000|The wind had hauled ahead during the squall, and we were standing directly in for the point.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000004_000002|Before night it began to rain; and we had five days of rainy, stormy weather, under close sail all the time, and were blown several hundred miles off the coast.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000004_000003|In the midst of this, we discovered that our fore topmast was sprung, (which no doubt happened in the squall,) and were obliged to send down the fore top gallant mast and carry as little sail as possible forward.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000004_000010|As we drew in, and ran down the shore, we could distinguish well the face of the country, and found it better wooded than that to the southward of Point Conception.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000004_000011|In fact, as I afterwards discovered, Point Conception may be made the dividing line between two different faces of the country.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000004_000012|As you go to the northward of the point, the country becomes more wooded, has a richer appearance, and is better supplied with water.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000005_000002|Here we could lie safe from the south easters.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000006_000001|The Mexican flag was flying from the little square Presidio, and the drums and trumpets of the soldiers, who were out on parade, sounded over the water, and gave great life to the scene.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000008_000000|I also connected with our arrival here another circumstance which more nearly concerns myself; viz, my first act of what the sailors will allow to be seamanship-sending down a royal yard.
train-other-500/2148/6984/2148_6984_000008_000001|I had seen it done once or twice at sea, and an old sailor, whose favor I had taken some pains to gain, had taught me carefully everything which was necessary to be done, and in its proper order, and advised me to take the first opportunity when we were in port, and try it.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000001_000000|FIRST STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000001_000001|Which Treats of a Mirror and of the Splinters
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000002_000000|Now then, let us begin.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000002_000001|When we are at the end of the story, we shall know more than we know now: but to begin.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000003_000000|Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000003_000001|One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good for nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000003_000002|In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000001|If a good thought passed through a man's mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror, and the sprite laughed heartily at his clever discovery.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000002|All the little sprites who went to his school-for he kept a sprite school-told each other that a miracle had happened; and that now only, as they thought, it would be possible to see how the world really looked.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000003|They ran about with the mirror; and at last there was not a land or a person who was not represented distorted in the mirror.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000006|Higher and higher still they flew, nearer and nearer to the stars, when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning, that it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth, where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000008|This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000009|Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000010|Some of the broken pieces were so large that they were used for windowpanes, through which one could not see one's friends.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000011|Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000012|Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000004_000013|The fine splinters still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000005_000000|SECOND STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000005_000001|A Little Boy and a Little Girl
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000006_000001|They were not brother and sister; but they cared for each other as much as if they were.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000006_000002|Their parents lived exactly opposite.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000007_000001|They now thought of placing the boxes across the gutter, so that they nearly reached from one window to the other, and looked just like two walls of flowers.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000007_000002|The tendrils of the peas hung down over the boxes; and the rose trees shot up long branches, twined round the windows, and then bent towards each other: it was almost like a triumphant arch of foliage and flowers.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000007_000003|The boxes were very high, and the children knew that they must not creep over them; so they often obtained permission to get out of the windows to each other, and to sit on their little stools among the roses, where they could play delightfully.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000007_000006|His name was Kay, hers was Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000008_000000|"It is the white bees that are swarming," said Kay's old grandmother.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000009_000000|"Do the white bees choose a queen?" asked the little boy; for he knew that the honey bees always have one.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000010_000000|"Yes," said the grandmother, "she flies where the swarm hangs in the thickest clusters.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000010_000001|She is the largest of all; and she can never remain quietly on the earth, but goes up again into the black clouds.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000011_000000|"Yes, I have seen it," said both the children; and so they knew that it was true.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000013_000000|"Only let her come in!" said the little boy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000014_000000|And then his grandmother patted his head and told him other stories.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000015_000000|In the evening, when little Kay was at home, and half undressed, he climbed up on the chair by the window, and peeped out of the little hole.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000015_000001|A few snow flakes were falling, and one, the largest of all, remained lying on the edge of a flower pot.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000016_000002|She nodded towards the window, and beckoned with her hand.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000018_000000|That summer the roses flowered in unwonted beauty.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000020_000000|And the children held each other by the hand, kissed the roses, looked up at the clear sunshine, and spoke as though they really saw angels there.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000020_000001|What lovely summer days those were!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000021_000000|Kay and Gerda looked at the picture book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then-the clock in the church tower was just striking five-that Kay said, "Oh!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000021_000001|I feel such a sharp pain in my heart; and now something has got into my eye!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000022_000000|The little girl put her arms around his neck.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000022_000001|He winked his eyes; now there was nothing to be seen.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000023_000001|It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that had got into his eye; and poor Kay had got another piece right in his heart.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000023_000002|It will soon become like ice.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000024_000004|And look, this one is quite crooked!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000025_000000|"What are you doing?" cried the little girl; and as he perceived her fright, he pulled up another rose, got in at the window, and hastened off from dear little Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000026_000001|He was soon able to imitate the gait and manner of everyone in the street.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000027_000001|One winter's day, when the flakes of snow were flying about, he spread the skirts of his blue coat, and caught the snow as it fell.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000028_000000|"Look through this glass, Gerda," said he.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000028_000001|And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flower, or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000029_000000|"Look, how clever!" said Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000029_000001|"That's much more interesting than real flowers!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000029_000002|They are as exact as possible; there is not a fault in them, if they did not melt!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000030_000000|It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves on, and his little sledge at his back, and bawled right into Gerda's ears, "I have permission to go out into the square where the others are playing"; and off he was in a moment.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000031_000000|There, in the market place, some of the boldest of the boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as they passed by, and so they were pulled along, and got a good ride.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000031_000001|It was so capital!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000031_000007|He was quite frightened, and he tried to repeat the Lord's Prayer; but all he could do, he was only able to remember the multiplication table.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000032_000000|The snow flakes grew larger and larger, till at last they looked just like great white fowls.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000032_000001|Suddenly they flew on one side; the large sledge stopped, and the person who drove rose up.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000032_000002|It was a lady; her cloak and cap were of snow.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000032_000004|It was the Snow Queen.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000033_000000|"We have travelled fast," said she; "but it is freezingly cold.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000035_000000|"My sledge!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000035_000002|It was the first thing he thought of.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000035_000003|It was there tied to one of the white chickens, who flew along with it on his back behind the large sledge.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000036_000000|"Now you will have no more kisses," said she, "or else I should kiss you to death!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000037_000000|Kay looked at her.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000037_000002|It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he looked upwards in the large huge empty space above him, and on she flew with him; flew high over the black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though it were singing some old tune.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000038_000000|THIRD STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000038_000001|Of the Flower Garden At the Old Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000039_000001|Where could he be?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000039_000002|Nobody knew; nobody could give any intelligence.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000039_000005|Oh! those were very long and dismal winter evenings!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000041_000000|"Kay is dead and gone!" said little Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000042_000000|"That I don't believe," said the Sunshine.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000045_000000|"I'll put on my red shoes," said she, one morning; "Kay has never seen them, and then I'll go down to the river and ask there."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000046_000000|It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes, and went alone to the river.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000047_000000|"Is it true that you have taken my little playfellow?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000048_000003|She observed this, and hastened to get back; but before she could do so, the boat was more than a yard from the land, and was gliding quickly onward.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000049_000000|Little Gerda was very frightened, and began to cry; but no one heard her except the sparrows, and they could not carry her to land; but they flew along the bank, and sang as if to comfort her, "Here we are!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000049_000001|Here we are!" The boat drifted with the stream, little Gerda sat quite still without shoes, for they were swimming behind the boat, but she could not reach them, because the boat went much faster than they did.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000051_000000|"Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay," said she; and then she grew less sad.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000051_000001|She rose, and looked for many hours at the beautiful green banks.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000052_000000|Gerda called to them, for she thought they were alive; but they, of course, did not answer.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000052_000001|She came close to them, for the stream drifted the boat quite near the land.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000053_000000|Gerda called still louder, and an old woman then came out of the cottage, leaning upon a crooked stick.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000053_000001|She had a large broad brimmed hat on, painted with the most splendid flowers.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000054_000000|"Poor little child!" said the old woman.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000055_000000|And Gerda was so glad to be on dry land again; but she was rather afraid of the strange old woman.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000057_000001|She then took Gerda by the hand, led her into the little cottage, and locked the door.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000058_000000|The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts of colors.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000058_000001|On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000059_000002|The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would then think of her own, would remember little Kay, and run away from her.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000060_000000|She now led Gerda into the flower garden.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000060_000001|Oh, what odour and what loveliness was there!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000060_000002|Every flower that one could think of, and of every season, stood there in fullest bloom; no picture book could be gayer or more beautiful.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000060_000004|She fell asleep, and had as pleasant dreams as ever a queen on her wedding day.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000061_000002|One day while she was looking at the hat of the old woman painted with flowers, the most beautiful of them all seemed to her to be a rose.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000061_000003|The old woman had forgotten to take it from her hat when she made the others vanish in the earth.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000061_000004|But so it is when one's thoughts are not collected.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000061_000005|"What!" said Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000061_000006|"Are there no roses here?" and she ran about amongst the flowerbeds, and looked, and looked, but there was not one to be found.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000061_000008|Gerda kissed the roses, thought of her own dear roses at home, and with them of little Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000062_000001|"I intended to look for Kay!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000062_000002|Don't you know where he is?" she asked of the roses.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000062_000003|"Do you think he is dead and gone?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000063_000001|"We have been in the earth where all the dead are, but Kay was not there."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000064_000000|"Many thanks!" said little Gerda; and she went to the other flowers, looked into their cups, and asked, "Don't you know where little Kay is?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000067_000001|Bum!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000067_000003|Those are the only two tones. Always bum!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000067_000006|Can the heart's flame die in the flame of the funeral pile?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000068_000000|"I don't understand that at all," said little Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000069_000000|"That is my story," said the Lily.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000070_000000|What did the Convolvulus say?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000071_000000|"Projecting over a narrow mountain path there hangs an old feudal castle.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000071_000001|Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls, and around the altar, where a lovely maiden is standing: she bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000071_000002|No fresher rose hangs on the branches than she; no appleblossom carried away by the wind is more buoyant!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000071_000003|How her silken robe is rustling!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000074_000000|"I am speaking about my story-about my dream," answered the Convolvulus.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000075_000000|What did the Snowdrops say?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000000|"Between the trees a long board is hanging-it is a swing.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000001|Two little girls are sitting in it, and swing themselves backwards and forwards; their frocks are as white as snow, and long green silk ribands flutter from their bonnets.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000003|He is blowing soap bubbles.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000004|The swing moves, and the bubbles float in charming changing colors: the last is still hanging to the end of the pipe, and rocks in the breeze.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000005|The swing moves.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000006|The little black dog, as light as a soap bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing. It moves, the dog falls down, barks, and is angry.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000076_000007|They tease him; the bubble bursts!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000077_000000|"What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melancholy a manner, and do not mention Kay."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000079_000003|They were not elfin maidens, but mortal children.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000079_000006|The odour of the flowers says they are corpses; the evening bell tolls for the dead!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000080_000000|"You make me quite sad," said little Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000080_000001|"I cannot help thinking of the dead maidens.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000080_000003|The Roses have been in the earth, and they say no"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000081_000000|"Ding, dong!" sounded the Hyacinth bells.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000081_000001|"We do not toll for little Kay; we do not know him.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000081_000002|That is our way of singing, the only one we have."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000083_000000|"You are a little bright sun!" said Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000083_000001|"Tell me if you know where I can find my playfellow."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000084_000000|And the Ranunculus shone brightly, and looked again at Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000084_000001|What song could the Ranunculus sing?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000084_000002|It was one that said nothing about Kay either.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000085_000000|"In a small court the bright sun was shining in the first days of spring.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000085_000003|There was gold, pure virgin gold in that blessed kiss.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000085_000004|There, that is my little story," said the Ranunculus.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000086_000000|"My poor old grandmother!" sighed Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000086_000001|"Yes, she is longing for me, no doubt: she is sorrowing for me, as she did for little Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000086_000002|But I will soon come home, and then I will bring Kay with me.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000000|"I can see myself-I can see myself!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000001|Oh, how odorous I am!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000002|Up in the little garret there stands, half dressed, a little Dancer.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000003|She stands now on one leg, now on both; she despises the whole world; yet she lives only in imagination.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000004|She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000005|The white dress is hanging on the hook; it was washed in the teapot, and dried on the roof.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000087_000007|I can see myself-I can see myself!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000088_000000|"That's nothing to me," said little Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000088_000001|"That does not concern me." And then off she ran to the further end of the garden.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000089_000000|The gate was locked, but she shook the rusted bolt till it was loosened, and the gate opened; and little Gerda ran off barefooted into the wide world.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000089_000001|She looked round her thrice, but no one followed her.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000089_000002|At last she could run no longer; she sat down on a large stone, and when she looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed; it was late in the autumn, but that one could not remark in the beautiful garden, where there was always sunshine, and where there were flowers the whole year round.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000090_000000|"Dear me, how long I have staid!" said Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000090_000001|"Autumn is come.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000090_000002|I must not rest any longer." And she got up to go further.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000091_000000|Oh, how tender and wearied her little feet were!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000092_000000|FOURTH STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000092_000001|The Prince and Princess
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000093_000000|Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over the white snow.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000093_000003|He could not say it better; but he felt a sympathy for the little girl, and asked her where she was going all alone.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000093_000004|The word "alone" Gerda understood quite well, and felt how much was expressed by it; so she told the Raven her whole history, and asked if he had not seen Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000094_000000|The Raven nodded very gravely, and said, "It may be-it may be!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000095_000000|"What, do you really think so?" cried the little girl; and she nearly squeezed the Raven to death, so much did she kiss him.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000096_000001|"I think I know; I think that it may be little Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000098_000000|"Yes-listen," said the Raven; "but it will be difficult for me to speak your language.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000098_000001|If you understand the Raven language I can tell you better."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000099_000000|"No, I have not learnt it," said Gerda; "but my grandmother understands it, and she can speak gibberish too.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000099_000001|I wish I had learnt it."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000100_000000|"No matter," said the Raven; "I will tell you as well as I can; however, it will be bad enough." And then he told all he knew.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000103_000003|It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fallen into a trance till they came out again into the street; for then-oh, then-they could chatter enough.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000103_000004|There was a whole row of them standing from the town gates to the palace.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000103_000006|"They grew hungry and thirsty; but from the palace they got nothing whatever, not even a glass of water.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000103_000007|Some of the cleverest, it is true, had taken bread and butter with them: but none shared it with his neighbor, for each thought, 'Let him look hungry, and then the Princess won't have him.'"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000104_000000|"But Kay-little Kay," said Gerda, "when did he come?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000106_000000|"That was Kay," cried Gerda, with a voice of delight.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000106_000001|"Oh, now I've found him!" and she clapped her hands for joy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000107_000000|"He had a little knapsack at his back," said the Raven.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000109_000001|His boots creaked, too, so loudly, but still he was not at all afraid."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000110_000000|"That's Kay for certain," said Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000111_000000|"Yes, they creaked," said the Raven.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000111_000001|"And on he went boldly up to the Princess, who was sitting on a pearl as large as a spinning wheel. All the ladies of the court, with their attendants and attendants' attendants, and all the cavaliers, with their gentlemen and gentlemen's gentlemen, stood round; and the nearer they stood to the door, the prouder they looked.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000112_000000|"It must have been terrible," said little Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000112_000001|"And did Kay get the Princess?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000113_000001|It is said he spoke as well as I speak when I talk Raven language; this I learned from my tame sweetheart.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000113_000002|He was bold and nicely behaved; he had not come to woo the Princess, but only to hear her wisdom.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000113_000003|She pleased him, and he pleased her."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000114_000000|"Yes, yes; for certain that was Kay," said Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000114_000001|"He was so clever; he could reckon fractions in his head.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000114_000002|Oh, won't you take me to the palace?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000115_000000|"That is very easily said," answered the Raven.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000115_000001|"But how are we to manage it?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000116_000000|"Oh, yes I shall," said Gerda; "when Kay hears that I am here, he will come out directly to fetch me."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000118_000000|The evening was closing in when the Raven returned.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000118_000003|You are hungry, no doubt.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000118_000005|My sweetheart knows a little back stair that leads to the bedchamber, and she knows where she can get the key of it."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000120_000000|Oh, how Gerda's heart beat with anxiety and longing!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000120_000002|Yes, he must be there.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000121_000000|Oh, what a fright and a joy it was!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000122_000000|They were now on the stairs.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000123_000001|"Your tale is very affecting.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000123_000003|We will go straight on, for we shall meet no one."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000125_000000|"They are only dreams," said the Raven.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000125_000002|But let me find, when you enjoy honor and distinction, that you possess a grateful heart."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000127_000001|Here the dreams were rushing past, but they hastened by so quickly that Gerda could not see the high personages.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000127_000003|The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000127_000004|One was white, and in this lay the Princess; the other was red, and it was here that Gerda was to look for little Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000127_000005|She bent back one of the red leaves, and saw a brown neck. Oh! that was Kay!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000128_000000|The Prince was only like him about the neck; but he was young and handsome.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000128_000001|And out of the white lily leaves the Princess peeped, too, and asked what was the matter.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000128_000002|Then little Gerda cried, and told her her whole history, and all that the Ravens had done for her.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000129_000001|They praised the Ravens very much, and told them they were not at all angry with them, but they were not to do so again.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000129_000002|However, they should have a reward. "Will you fly about here at liberty," asked the Princess; "or would you like to have a fixed appointment as court ravens, with all the broken bits from the kitchen?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000131_000000|And the Prince got up and let Gerda sleep in his bed, and more than this he could not do.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000132_000000|The next day she was dressed from head to foot in silk and velvet.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000132_000001|They offered to let her stay at the palace, and lead a happy life; but she begged to have a little carriage with a horse in front, and for a small pair of shoes; then, she said, she would again go forth in the wide world and look for Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000133_000002|The Raven of the woods, who was now married, accompanied her for the first three miles.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000133_000004|The carriage was lined inside with sugar plums, and in the seats were fruits and gingerbread.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000134_000000|"Farewell!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000134_000002|Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000134_000003|He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000135_000000|FIFTH STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000135_000001|The Little Robber Maiden
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000136_000000|They drove through the dark wood; but the carriage shone like a torch, and it dazzled the eyes of the robbers, so that they could not bear to look at it.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000137_000000|"'tis gold!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000138_000001|She must have been fed on nut kernels," said the old female robber, who had a long, scrubby beard, and bushy eyebrows that hung down over her eyes.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000138_000002|"She is as good as a fatted lamb!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000139_000000|"Oh!" cried the woman at the same moment.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000139_000002|"You naughty child!" said the mother: and now she had not time to kill Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000141_000000|"I will go into the carriage," said the little robber maiden; and she would have her will, for she was very spoiled and very headstrong.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000141_000002|The little robber maiden was as tall as Gerda, but stronger, broader shouldered, and of dark complexion; her eyes were quite black; they looked almost melancholy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000141_000003|She embraced little Gerda, and said, "They shall not kill you as long as I am not displeased with you.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000141_000004|You are, doubtless, a Princess?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000142_000000|"No," said little Gerda; who then related all that had happened to her, and how much she cared about little Kay.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000143_000000|The little robber maiden looked at her with a serious air, nodded her head slightly, and said, "They shall not kill you, even if I am angry with you: then I will do it myself"; and she dried Gerda's eyes, and put both her hands in the handsome muff, which was so soft and warm.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000144_000000|At length the carriage stopped.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000145_000000|In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000145_000001|The smoke disappeared under the stones, and had to seek its own egress.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000145_000002|In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000000|"You shall sleep with me to night, with all my animals," said the little robber maiden.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000001|They had something to eat and drink; and then went into a corner, where straw and carpets were lying.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000002|Beside them, on laths and perches, sat nearly a hundred pigeons, all asleep, seemingly; but yet they moved a little when the robber maiden came.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000004|"Kiss it," cried the little girl, and flung the pigeon in Gerda's face.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000007|"We are obliged to lock this fellow in too, or he would make his escape.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000008|Every evening I tickle his neck with my sharp knife; he is so frightened at it!" and the little girl drew forth a long knife, from a crack in the wall, and let it glide over the Reindeer's neck.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000146_000009|The poor animal kicked; the girl laughed, and pulled Gerda into bed with her.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000147_000000|"Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?" asked Gerda; looking at it rather fearfully.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000148_000000|"I always sleep with the knife," said the little robber maiden.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000148_000001|"There is no knowing what may happen.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000149_000000|Then the Wood pigeons said, "Coo!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000150_000001|"Where did the Snow Queen go to?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000150_000002|Do you know anything about it?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000151_000000|"She is no doubt gone to Lapland; for there is always snow and ice there.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000151_000001|Only ask the Reindeer, who is tethered there."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000152_000000|"Ice and snow is there!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000152_000001|There it is, glorious and beautiful!" said the Reindeer.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000152_000002|"One can spring about in the large shining valleys!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000152_000003|The Snow Queen has her summer tent there; but her fixed abode is high up towards the North Pole, on the Island called Spitzbergen."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000153_000000|"Oh, Kay!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000153_000001|Poor little Kay!" sighed Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000154_000001|"If you don't, I shall make you."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000155_000000|In the morning Gerda told her all that the Wood pigeons had said; and the little maiden looked very serious, but she nodded her head, and said, "That's no matter-that's no matter.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000155_000001|Do you know where Lapland lies!" she asked of the Reindeer.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000156_000001|"I was born and bred there-there I leapt about on the fields of snow."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000157_000000|"Listen," said the robber maiden to Gerda.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000157_000001|"You see that the men are gone; but my mother is still here, and will remain.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000158_000000|When the mother had taken a sup at her flask, and was having a nap, the little robber maiden went to the Reindeer, and said, "I should very much like to give you still many a tickling with the sharp knife, for then you are so amusing; however, I will untether you, and help you out, so that you may go back to Lapland.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000158_000001|But you must make good use of your legs; and take this little girl for me to the palace of the Snow Queen, where her playfellow is.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000159_000000|The Reindeer gave a bound for joy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000159_000001|The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cushion to sit on.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000159_000004|Here is a pair of lined gloves of my mother's; they just reach up to your elbow.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000159_000005|On with them!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000159_000006|Now you look about the hands just like my ugly old mother!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000160_000000|And Gerda wept for joy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000161_000000|"I can't bear to see you fretting," said the little robber maiden.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000161_000001|"This is just the time when you ought to look pleased.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000163_000002|It was just as if somebody was sneezing.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000165_000000|SIXTH STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000165_000001|The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000166_000000|Suddenly they stopped before a little house, which looked very miserable.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000166_000002|Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000166_000004|Gerda was so chilled that she could not speak.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000167_000001|You have more than a hundred miles to go before you get to Finland; there the Snow Queen has her country house, and burns blue lights every evening.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000167_000002|I will give you a few words from me, which I will write on a dried haberdine, for paper I have none; this you can take with you to the Finland woman, and she will be able to give you more information than I can."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000168_000003|They knocked at the chimney of the Finland woman; for as to a door, she had none.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000169_000000|There was such a heat inside that the Finland woman herself went about almost naked.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000169_000001|She was diminutive and dirty.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000171_000000|"You are so clever," said the Reindeer; "you can, I know, twist all the winds of the world together in a knot.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000172_000000|"The strength of twelve men!" said the Finland woman.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000172_000001|"Much good that would be!"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000172_000002|Then she went to a cupboard, and drew out a large skin rolled up.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000172_000003|When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000174_000001|These must be got out first; otherwise he will never go back to mankind, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000175_000000|"But can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her with power over the whole?"
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000176_000000|"I can give her no more power than what she has already.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000176_000001|Don't you see how great it is?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000176_000002|Don't you see how men and animals are forced to serve her; how well she gets through the world barefooted?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000176_000003|She must not hear of her power from us; that power lies in her heart, because she is a sweet and innocent child!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000176_000004|If she cannot get to the Snow Queen by herself, and rid little Kay of the glass, we cannot help her.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000177_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000177_000001|I have not got my boots!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000178_000000|She ran on as fast as she could.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000178_000001|There then came a whole regiment of snow flakes, but they did not fall from above, and they were quite bright and shining from the Aurora Borealis.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000178_000002|The flakes ran along the ground, and the nearer they came the larger they grew.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000178_000003|Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow flakes appeared when she once saw them through a magnifying glass; but now they were large and terrific in another manner-they were all alive.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000178_000004|They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000179_000000|Little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000179_000002|It grew thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels, that grew more and more when they touched the earth.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000179_000005|The angels patted her hands and feet; and then she felt the cold less, and went on quickly towards the palace of the Snow Queen.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000180_000001|He never thought of Gerda, and least of all that she was standing before the palace.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000181_000000|SEVENTH STORY.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000181_000001|What Took Place in the Palace of the Snow Queen, and what Happened Afterward.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000182_000000|The walls of the palace were of driving snow, and the windows and doors of cutting winds.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000182_000002|The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000182_000003|Mirth never reigned there; there was never even a little bear ball, with the storm for music, while the polar bears went on their hind legs and showed off their steps.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000182_000005|The northern lights shone with such precision that one could tell exactly when they were at their highest or lowest degree of brightness.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000182_000006|In the middle of the empty, endless hall of snow, was a frozen lake; it was cracked in a thousand pieces, but each piece was so like the other, that it seemed the work of a cunning artificer.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000182_000007|In the middle of this lake sat the Snow Queen when she was at home; and then she said she was sitting in the Mirror of Understanding, and that this was the only one and the best thing in the world.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000183_000000|Little Kay was quite blue, yes nearly black with cold; but he did not observe it, for she had kissed away all feeling of cold from his body, and his heart was a lump of ice.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000183_000001|He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make something with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puzzle. Kay made all sorts of figures, the most complicated, for it was an ice puzzle for the understanding.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000183_000002|In his eyes the figures were extraordinarily beautiful, and of the utmost importance; for the bit of glass which was in his eye caused this.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000184_000000|"I am going now to warm lands," said the Snow Queen.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000184_000001|"I must have a look down into the black caldrons."
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000184_000002|It was the volcanoes Vesuvius and Etna that she meant.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000184_000004|There he sat quite benumbed and motionless; one would have imagined he was frozen to death.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000185_000000|Suddenly little Gerda stepped through the great portal into the palace. The gate was formed of cutting winds; but Gerda repeated her evening prayer, and the winds were laid as though they slept; and the little maiden entered the vast, empty, cold halls.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000185_000001|There she beheld Kay: she recognised him, flew to embrace him, and cried out, her arms firmly holding him the while, "Kay, sweet little Kay!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000186_000000|But he sat quite still, benumbed and cold.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000186_000001|Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, they penetrated to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking glass; he looked at her, and she sang the hymn:
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000188_000000|Hereupon Kay burst into tears; he wept so much that the splinter rolled out of his eye, and he recognised her, and shouted, "Gerda, sweet little Gerda!
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000188_000001|Where have you been so long?
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000188_000002|And where have I been?" He looked round him.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000188_000003|"How cold it is here!" said he.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000188_000004|"How empty and cold!" And he held fast by Gerda, who laughed and wept for joy.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000189_000000|Gerda kissed his cheeks, and they grew quite blooming; she kissed his eyes, and they shone like her own; she kissed his hands and feet, and he was again well and merry.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000189_000001|The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice.
train-other-500/215/122798/215_122798_000190_000000|They took each other by the hand, and wandered forth out of the large hall; they talked of their old grandmother, and of the roses upon the roof; and wherever they went, the winds ceased raging, and the sun burst forth.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000000_000000|The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000000_000001|Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000001_000000|She thought that in all her life she had never seen soldiers so uncertain on their feet: they were always tripping over something or other, and whenever one went down, several more always fell over him, so that the ground was soon covered with little heaps of men.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000002_000000|Then came the horses.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000002_000002|The confusion got worse every moment, and Alice was very glad to get out of the wood into an open place, where she found the White King seated on the ground, busily writing in his memorandum book.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000004_000000|'Yes, I did,' said Alice: 'several thousand, I should think.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000005_000000|'Four thousand two hundred and seven, that's the exact number,' the King said, referring to his book.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000005_000001|'I couldn't send all the horses, you know, because two of them are wanted in the game.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000005_000002|And I haven't sent the two Messengers, either.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000005_000003|They're both gone to the town.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000006_000000|'I see nobody on the road,' said Alice.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000007_000001|And at that distance, too!
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000008_000000|All this was lost on Alice, who was still looking intently along the road, shading her eyes with one hand.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000008_000001|'I see somebody now!' she exclaimed at last.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000008_000002|'But he's coming very slowly-and what curious attitudes he goes into!' (For the messenger kept skipping up and down, and wriggling like an eel, as he came along, with his great hands spread out like fans on each side.)
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000009_000000|'Not at all,' said the King.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000009_000002|He only does them when he's happy.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000009_000003|His name is Haigha.' (He pronounced it so as to rhyme with 'mayor.')
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000010_000000|'I love my love with an H,' Alice couldn't help beginning, 'because he is Happy.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000010_000001|I hate him with an H, because he is Hideous.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000010_000002|I fed him with-with-with Ham sandwiches and Hay.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000011_000001|I must have TWO, you know-to come and go.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000011_000002|One to come, and one to go.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000012_000000|'I beg your pardon?' said Alice.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000013_000000|'It isn't respectable to beg,' said the King.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000014_000000|'I only meant that I didn't understand,' said Alice.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000014_000001|'Why one to come and one to go?'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000015_000001|'I must have Two-to fetch and carry.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000015_000002|One to fetch, and one to carry.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000016_000000|At this moment the Messenger arrived: he was far too much out of breath to say a word, and could only wave his hands about, and make the most fearful faces at the poor King.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000017_000000|'This young lady loves you with an H,' the King said, introducing Alice in the hope of turning off the Messenger's attention from himself-but it was no use-the Anglo Saxon attitudes only got more extraordinary every moment, while the great eyes rolled wildly from side to side.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000018_000000|'You alarm me!' said the King. 'I feel faint-Give me a ham sandwich!'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000019_000000|On which the Messenger, to Alice's great amusement, opened a bag that hung round his neck, and handed a sandwich to the King, who devoured it greedily.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000020_000000|'Another sandwich!' said the King.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000021_000000|'There's nothing but hay left now,' the Messenger said, peeping into the bag.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000022_000000|'Hay, then,' the King murmured in a faint whisper.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000023_000000|Alice was glad to see that it revived him a good deal.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000023_000001|'There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint,' he remarked to her, as he munched away.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000025_000000|'I didn't say there was nothing BETTER,' the King replied.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000025_000001|'I said there was nothing LIKE it.' Which Alice did not venture to deny.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000026_000000|'Who did you pass on the road?' the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000027_000000|'Nobody,' said the Messenger.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000028_000000|'Quite right,' said the King: 'this young lady saw him too.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000028_000001|So of course Nobody walks slower than you.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000029_000001|'I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000030_000000|'He can't do that,' said the King, 'or else he'd have been here first. However, now you've got your breath, you may tell us what's happened in the town.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000031_000001|Alice was sorry for this, as she wanted to hear the news too. However, instead of whispering, he simply shouted at the top of his voice 'They're at it again!'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000034_000000|'Why the Lion and the Unicorn, of course,' said the King.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000035_000000|'Fighting for the crown?'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000036_000000|'Yes, to be sure,' said the King: 'and the best of the joke is, that it's MY crown all the while!
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000037_000000|'The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown; Some gave them plum cake and drummed them out of town.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000038_000000|'Does-the one-that wins-get the crown?' she asked, as well as she could, for the run was putting her quite out of breath.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000040_000000|'Would you-be good enough,' Alice panted out, after running a little further, 'to stop a minute-just to get-one's breath again?'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000041_000000|'I'm GOOD enough,' the King said, 'only I'm not strong enough.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000041_000001|You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000043_000000|They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other messenger, was standing watching the fight, with a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000050_000000|Hatta made a desperate effort, and swallowed a large piece of bread and butter. 'They're getting on very well,' he said in a choking voice: 'each of them has been down about eighty seven times.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000052_000000|'It's waiting for 'em now,' said Hatta: 'this is a bit of it as I'm eating.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000054_000000|'I don't think they'll fight any more to day,' the King said to Hatta: 'go and order the drums to begin.' And Hatta went bounding away like a grasshopper.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000055_000000|For a minute or two Alice stood silent, watching him.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000055_000002|'Look, look!' she cried, pointing eagerly.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000055_000003|'There's the White Queen running across the country!
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000056_000000|'There's some enemy after her, no doubt,' the King said, without even looking round.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000058_000000|'No use, no use!' said the King.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000058_000003|But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like-She's a dear good creature,' he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum book. 'Do you spell "creature" with a double "e"?'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000059_000000|At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his pockets.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000059_000001|'I had the best of it this time?' he said to the King, just glancing at him as he passed.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000061_000000|'It didn't hurt him,' the Unicorn said carelessly, and he was going on, when his eye happened to fall upon Alice: he turned round rather instantly, and stood for some time looking at her with an air of the deepest disgust.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000062_000000|'What-is-this?' he said at last.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000063_000002|It's as large as life, and twice as natural!'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000064_000001|'Is it alive?'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000066_000000|The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said 'Talk, child.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000067_000001|I never saw one alive before!'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000068_000000|'Well, now that we HAVE seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000068_000001|Is that a bargain?'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000069_000000|'Yes, if you like,' said Alice.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000071_000001|'Quick!
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000071_000002|Not that one-that's full of hay!'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000072_000001|How they all came out of it Alice couldn't guess.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000072_000002|It was just like a conjuring trick, she thought.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000073_000001|'What's this!' he said, blinking lazily at Alice, and speaking in a deep hollow tone that sounded like the tolling of a great bell.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000074_000000|'Ah, what IS it, now?' the Unicorn cried eagerly.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000075_000000|The Lion looked at Alice wearily.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000076_000000|'It's a fabulous monster!' the Unicorn cried out, before Alice could reply.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000080_000000|'I should win easy,' said the Lion.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000081_000000|'I'm not so sure of that,' said the Unicorn.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000083_000000|Here the King interrupted, to prevent the quarrel going on: he was very nervous, and his voice quite quivered.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000083_000002|'That's a good long way.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000083_000003|Did you go by the old bridge, or the market place?
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000083_000004|You get the best view by the old bridge.'
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000084_000000|'I'm sure I don't know,' the Lion growled out as he lay down again. 'There was too much dust to see anything.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000085_000000|Alice had seated herself on the bank of a little brook, with the great dish on her knees, and was sawing away diligently with the knife.
train-other-500/215/127369/215_127369_000085_000001|'It's very provoking!' she said, in reply to the Lion (she was getting quite used to being called 'the Monster'). 'I've cut several slices already, but they always join on again!'
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000003_000000|When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of Windsor, when the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, and mr Vincy was mayor of the old corporation in Middlemarch, mrs Casaubon, born Dorothea Brooke, had taken her wedding journey to Rome.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000003_000001|In those days the world in general was more ignorant of good and evil by forty years than it is at present.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000004_000000|One fine morning a young man whose hair was not immoderately long, but abundant and curly, and who was otherwise English in his equipment, had just turned his back on the Belvedere Torso in the Vatican and was looking out on the magnificent view of the mountains from the adjoining round vestibule.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000004_000001|He was sufficiently absorbed not to notice the approach of a dark eyed, animated German who came up to him and placing a hand on his shoulder, said with a strong accent, "Come here, quick! else she will have changed her pose."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000005_000002|She was not looking at the sculpture, probably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamily on a streak of sunlight which fell across the floor.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000006_000000|"What do you think of that for a fine bit of antithesis?" said the German, searching in his friend's face for responding admiration, but going on volubly without waiting for any other answer.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000006_000003|However, she is married; I saw her wedding ring on that wonderful left hand, otherwise I should have thought the sallow Geistlicher was her father.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000006_000004|I saw him parting from her a good while ago, and just now I found her in that magnificent pose.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000006_000005|Only think!
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000006_000008|Let us follow her home!"
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000007_000000|"No, no," said his companion, with a little frown.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000008_000000|"You are singular, Ladislaw.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000008_000001|You look struck together.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000008_000002|Do you know her?"
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000009_000000|"I know that she is married to my cousin," said Will Ladislaw, sauntering down the hall with a preoccupied air, while his German friend kept at his side and watched him eagerly.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000010_000001|He looks more like an uncle-a more useful sort of relation."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000011_000000|"He is not my uncle.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000011_000001|I tell you he is my second cousin," said Ladislaw, with some irritation.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000012_000001|Don't be snappish.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000012_000002|You are not angry with me for thinking mrs Second Cousin the most perfect young Madonna I ever saw?"
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000013_000000|"Angry?
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000013_000001|nonsense.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000013_000002|I have only seen her once before, for a couple of minutes, when my cousin introduced her to me, just before I left England.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000013_000003|They were not married then.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000013_000004|I didn't know they were coming to Rome."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000014_000000|"But you will go to see them now-you will find out what they have for an address-since you know the name.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000014_000001|Shall we go to the post?
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000014_000002|And you could speak about the portrait."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000015_000000|"Confound you, Naumann!
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000015_000001|I don't know what I shall do.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000015_000002|I am not so brazen as you."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000016_000000|"Bah! that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000017_000000|"Yes, and that your painting her was the chief outcome of her existence-the divinity passing into higher completeness and all but exhausted in the act of covering your bit of canvas.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000018_000000|"But it is, my dear!--so far as it is straining through me, Adolf Naumann: that stands firm," said the good-natured painter, putting a hand on Ladislaw's shoulder, and not in the least disturbed by the unaccountable touch of ill humor in his tone.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000018_000001|"See now!
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000019_000000|"But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it?--the case is a little less simple then."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000020_000000|"Not at all: the result of the struggle is the same thing-picture or no picture-logically."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000021_000000|Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud in his face broke into sunshiny laughter.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000022_000000|"Come now, my friend-you will help?" said Naumann, in a hopeful tone.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000023_000000|"No; nonsense, Naumann!
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000023_000001|English ladies are not at everybody's service as models.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000023_000002|And you want to express too much with your painting.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000023_000005|Your painting and Plastik are poor stuff after all.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000023_000006|They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000023_000007|Language is a finer medium."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000024_000000|"Yes, for those who can't paint," said Naumann.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000024_000001|"There you have perfect right.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000024_000002|I did not recommend you to paint, my friend."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000025_000000|The amiable artist carried his sting, but Ladislaw did not choose to appear stung.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000026_000001|After all, the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000026_000002|I feel that especially about representations of women.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000026_000003|As if a woman were a mere colored superficies!
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000026_000004|You must wait for movement and tone.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000026_000006|But her voice is much diviner than anything you have seen of her."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000027_000000|"I see, I see.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000027_000001|You are jealous.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000027_000002|No man must presume to think that he can paint your ideal.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000027_000003|This is serious, my friend!
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000028_000000|"You and I shall quarrel, Naumann, if you call that lady my aunt again."
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000029_000000|"How is she to be called then?"
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000031_000000|"Good.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000031_000001|Suppose I get acquainted with her in spite of you, and find that she very much wishes to be painted?"
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000032_000000|"Yes, suppose!" said Will Ladislaw, in a contemptuous undertone, intended to dismiss the subject.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000032_000001|He was conscious of being irritated by ridiculously small causes, which were half of his own creation.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000032_000003|And yet he felt as if something had happened to him with regard to her.
train-other-500/2152/133013/2152_133013_000032_000004|There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000001_000000|CHAPTER forty nine.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000003_000000|"I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this," said Sir james Chettam, with a little frown on his brow, and an expression of intense disgust about his mouth.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000004_000000|He was standing on the hearth rug in the library at Lowick Grange, and speaking to mr Brooke.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000004_000001|It was the day after mr Casaubon had been buried, and Dorothea was not yet able to leave her room.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000005_000000|"That would be difficult, you know, Chettam, as she is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things-property, land, that kind of thing.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000005_000001|She has her notions, you know," said mr Brooke, sticking his eye glasses on nervously, and exploring the edges of a folded paper which he held in his hand; "and she would like to act-depend upon it, as an executrix Dorothea would want to act.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000005_000002|And she was twenty one last December, you know.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000005_000003|I can hinder nothing."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000006_000000|Sir james looked at the carpet for a minute in silence, and then lifting his eyes suddenly fixed them on mr Brooke, saying, "I will tell you what we can do.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000006_000001|Until Dorothea is well, all business must be kept from her, and as soon as she is able to be moved she must come to us.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000006_000002|Being with Celia and the baby will be the best thing in the world for her, and will pass away the time.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000007_000000|mr Brooke put his hands behind him, walked to the window and straightened his back with a little shake before he replied.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000008_000000|"That is easily said, Chettam, easily said, you know."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000010_000000|"Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000010_000001|Ladislaw has been invaluable, most satisfactory.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000010_000002|I consider that I have done this part of the country a service by bringing him-by bringing him, you know." mr Brooke ended with a nod, turning round to give it.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000011_000000|"It's a pity this part of the country didn't do without him, that's all I have to say about it.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000011_000001|At any rate, as Dorothea's brother in law, I feel warranted in objecting strongly to his being kept here by any action on the part of her friends.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000011_000002|You admit, I hope, that I have a right to speak about what concerns the dignity of my wife's sister?"
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000012_000000|Sir james was getting warm.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000013_000000|"Of course, my dear Chettam, of course.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000013_000001|But you and I have different ideas-different-"
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000014_000000|"Not about this action of Casaubon's, I should hope," interrupted Sir james.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000014_000001|"I say that he has most unfairly compromised Dorothea.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000016_000000|"It's all very well for Ladislaw to put that color on it," said Sir james.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000016_000001|"But I believe Casaubon was only jealous of him on Dorothea's account, and the world will suppose that she gave him some reason; and that is what makes it so abominable-coupling her name with this young fellow's."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000017_000000|"My dear Chettam, it won't lead to anything, you know," said mr Brooke, seating himself and sticking on his eye glass again.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000017_000001|"It's all of a piece with Casaubon's oddity.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000017_000003|I suppose he meant Dorothea to publish his researches, eh? and she'll do it, you know; she has gone into his studies uncommonly."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000019_000000|"Well, no, not the urgency of the thing.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000019_000001|By and by, perhaps, it may come round.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000019_000002|As to gossip, you know, sending him away won't hinder gossip.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000019_000003|People say what they like to say, not what they have chapter and verse for," said Mr Brooke, becoming acute about the truths that lay on the side of his own wishes.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000020_000000|mr Brooke, persisting as quietly as if he were only discussing the nature of last year's weather, and nodding at the end with his usual amenity, was an exasperating form of obstinacy.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000021_000000|"Good God!" said Sir james, with as much passion as he ever showed, "let us get him a post; let us spend money on him.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000021_000002|Grampus might take him-and I could write to Fulke about it."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000022_000000|"But Ladislaw won't be shipped off like a head of cattle, my dear fellow; Ladislaw has his ideas.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000022_000001|It's my opinion that if he were to part from me to morrow, you'd only hear the more of him in the country. With his talent for speaking and drawing up documents, there are few men who could come up to him as an agitator-an agitator, you know."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000024_000000|"But be reasonable, Chettam.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000024_000001|Dorothea, now.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000024_000003|She can stay under your roof, and in the mean time things may come round quietly.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000024_000004|Don't let us be firing off our guns in a hurry, you know.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000025_000000|"Then I am to conclude that you decline to do anything?"
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000026_000000|"Decline, Chettam?--no-I didn't say decline.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000026_000001|But I really don't see what I could do.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000026_000002|Ladislaw is a gentleman."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000027_000001|"I am sure Casaubon was not."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000028_000000|"Well, it would have been worse if he had made the codicil to hinder her from marrying again at all, you know."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000029_000000|"I don't know that," said Sir james.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000029_000001|"It would have been less indelicate."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000030_000000|"One of poor Casaubon's freaks!
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000030_000001|That attack upset his brain a little. It all goes for nothing.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000031_000000|"But this codicil is framed so as to make everybody believe that she did.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000031_000002|I tell you frankly, I suspect Ladislaw."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000032_000000|"I couldn't take any immediate action on that ground, Chettam.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000032_000001|In fact, if it were possible to pack him off-send him to Norfolk Island-that sort of thing-it would look all the worse for Dorothea to those who knew about it.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000032_000002|It would seem as if we distrusted her-distrusted her, you know."
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000033_000000|That mr Brooke had hit on an undeniable argument, did not tend to soothe Sir james.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000033_000001|He put out his hand to reach his hat, implying that he did not mean to contend further, and said, still with some heat-
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000034_000000|"Well, I can only say that I think Dorothea was sacrificed once, because her friends were too careless.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000035_000000|"You can't do better than get her to Freshitt as soon as possible, Chettam.
train-other-500/2152/133043/2152_133043_000035_000001|I approve that plan altogether," said mr Brooke, well pleased that he had won the argument.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000001_000000|Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000002_000000|When Lydgate had allayed mrs Bulstrode's anxiety by telling her that her husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that he trusted soon to see him better and would call again the next day, unless she sent for him earlier, he went directly home, got on his horse, and rode three miles out of the town for the sake of being out of reach.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000003_000000|He felt himself becoming violent and unreasonable as if raging under the pain of stings: he was ready to curse the day on which he had come to Middlemarch.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000003_000002|In such moments a man can hardly escape being unloving.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000003_000003|Lydgate thought of himself as the sufferer, and of others as the agents who had injured his lot.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000003_000004|He had meant everything to turn out differently; and others had thrust themselves into his life and thwarted his purposes.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000003_000005|His marriage seemed an unmitigated calamity; and he was afraid of going to Rosamond before he had vented himself in this solitary rage, lest the mere sight of her should exasperate him and make him behave unwarrantably.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000003_000007|For he was very miserable. Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000004_000000|How was he to live on without vindicating himself among people who suspected him of baseness?
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000004_000001|How could he go silently away from Middlemarch as if he were retreating before a just condemnation?
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000004_000002|And yet how was he to set about vindicating himself?
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000002|Lydgate could now construct all the probabilities of the case.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000004|And he may have tampered with the patient-he may have disobeyed my orders.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000005|I fear he did.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000006|But whether he did or not, the world believes that he somehow or other poisoned the man and that I winked at the crime, if I didn't help in it.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000007|And yet-and yet he may not be guilty of the last offence; and it is just possible that the change towards me may have been a genuine relenting-the effect of second thoughts such as he alleged.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000008|What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000005_000009|In his last dealings with this man Bulstrode may have kept his hands pure, in spite of my suspicion to the contrary."
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000006_000000|There was a benumbing cruelty in his position.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000006_000002|It would be playing the part of a fool to offer his own testimony on behalf of himself, and say, "I did not take the money as a bribe." The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000006_000003|And besides, to come forward and tell everything about himself must include declarations about Bulstrode which would darken the suspicions of others against him.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000006_000004|He must tell that he had not known of Raffles's existence when he first mentioned his pressing need of money to Bulstrode, and that he took the money innocently as a result of that communication, not knowing that a new motive for the loan might have arisen on his being called in to this man.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000006_000005|And after all, the suspicion of Bulstrode's motives might be unjust.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000007_000000|But then came the question whether he should have acted in precisely the same way if he had not taken the money?
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000008_000000|That was the uneasy corner of Lydgate's consciousness while he was reviewing the facts and resisting all reproach.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000008_000001|If he had been independent, this matter of a patient's treatment and the distinct rule that he must do or see done that which he believed best for the life committed to him, would have been the point on which he would have been the sturdiest.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000008_000003|Whereas, again and again, in his time of freedom, he had denounced the perversion of pathological doubt into moral doubt and had said-"the purest experiment in treatment may still be conscientious: my business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000009_000001|"And yet they will all feel warranted in making a wide space between me and them, as if I were a leper!
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000009_000002|My practice and my reputation are utterly damned-I can see that.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000009_000003|Even if I could be cleared by valid evidence, it would make little difference to the blessed world here.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000009_000004|I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same."
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000011_000000|No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000011_000001|The scowl which occasionally showed itself on his square brow was not a meaningless accident.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000011_000003|He would not retreat before calumny, as if he submitted to it.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000011_000005|It belonged to the generosity as well as defiant force of his nature that he resolved not to shrink from showing to the full his sense of obligation to Bulstrode.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000011_000007|"I shall do as I think right, and explain to nobody.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000011_000008|They will try to starve me out, but-" he was going on with an obstinate resolve, but he was getting near home, and the thought of Rosamond urged itself again into that chief place from which it had been thrust by the agonized struggles of wounded honor and pride.
train-other-500/2152/133067/2152_133067_000012_000000|How would Rosamond take it all?
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000009_000000|Chapter thirteen.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000010_000000|Peggy's Visitors, And Francis' Resolution
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000012_000000|She had returned about twelve o'clock, when the girls were getting ready to join their cousin in their promised walk, and just as she got to the top of the stairs, a man's foot was heard at the bottom.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000012_000001|They were going for their bonnets, when a sharp tap was heard at the door, and Peggy opened it, and they beheld, not Francis, but mr Brandon.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000013_000000|"Well, Peggy," said he, "how are you?
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000013_000001|I thought I could not be mistaken in those elbows.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000013_000003|And how are you again, Peggy?"
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000016_000001|These are two young ladies that have taken a room off me.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000016_000002|They are no so well off as they should be, more's the pity," said Peggy, lowering her voice.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000017_000000|"I met them last night at a party.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000019_000000|"Just your elbows, Peggy.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000019_000002|You must have shifted your quarters.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000019_000003|Here is your address," said mr Brandon, taking out his pocket book-"'Peggy Walker, at mr Thomas Lowrie's, Swinton, ----shire.' I was going to see you to morrow, but you have saved me a journey to no purpose."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000021_000000|Grandfather expressed his sense of the politeness of mr Brandon in coming all that way to see Peggy.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000021_000001|Not but what she was a good lass, and worth going a long journey to have a crack with.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000022_000000|"Well, Peggy," said mr Brandon, taking a seat near the fire, "and how do you like this cold country after so many years in a hot one?"
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000023_000000|"The winters are not so bad, but the springs are worse to stand.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000028_000000|"I must go back, for I have not made my fortune yet.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000028_000001|But, by the by, it is a great pity that you left Melbourne when you did.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000028_000002|You would have been a wealthy woman if you had stayed.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000029_000001|I heard word of it in Melbourne."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000030_000000|"Well, he's as flourishing as possible; he will soon be richer than me. On his own account now.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000030_000001|Bought a flock and run, for an old song; cured the sheep; and is now on the highway to wealth.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000030_000002|Ah!
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000033_000001|And the wife?"
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000034_000001|Getting a little uppish now; but not the manager you are," said mr Brandon.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000034_000002|"More given to dress and show, and that sort of thing.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000034_000003|But I have a message for you from mr Talbot, the lawyer, you know, though I dare say he has written to you on the same subject."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000035_000000|"My man of business," said Peggy, with a little pride.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000035_000001|"I have not heard from him for a long time."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000038_000000|"Will he not?--when the place is worth two thousand five hundred pounds now; if he borrows the money, he will carry out the purchase, and thus you lose the chance of making a little fortune.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000038_000002|You cannot think how vexed I felt to hear you had let this property slip through your fingers."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000039_000000|"It is a pity," said Peggy.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000039_000001|"It would really have been a providing for the bairns; but they must just provide for themselves.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000039_000002|I am, at least, putting them in the way of doing it.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000041_000000|"Here come the bairns now," said Peggy, as the quick, noisy steps of the heavily shod children were heard clattering up the stairs.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000042_000001|Name them as they come in."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000044_000000|"A fine lot of youngsters, upon my word, and sure to make good colonists." And, as he said this, mr Brandon saw a tear stand in the eye of the devoted aunt at his praises of her orphan charge.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000045_000000|"God be praised, they have their health; and on the whole they are good bairns, though a thought noisy whiles," said she.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000046_000000|"There's a gentleman at the stairfoot," said Tom.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000049_000000|"We may go out to play then for a bit?" said Willie.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000050_000000|"If ye'll no go far, and be sure to be in time for the school."
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000000|Francis came up, to be surprised at the sight of mr Brandon, and to receive a hurried explanation of his presence at Peggy Walker's, and then they went for a walk.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000001|By daylight he was struck more with the change that had shown itself in both of his cousins, and with the poor home they had to live in.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000002|Jane's proposal on the previous night to go to mrs Dunn's had distressed him more than any other of her projects, and yet he could do nothing to prevent it, unless by making the sacrifice which my young lady readers think he should have made long ago, and given up the estate to marry his cousin.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000003|"All for love, and the world well lost," is a fascinating course of procedure in books and on the stage, but in real life there are a good many things to be considered.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000004|It was only lately that Francis had discovered how very dear Jane was to him.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000006|He would have given up all his more expensive bachelor habits-his book buying, and his public amusements, and thought domestic happiness cheaply purchased by such privations.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000007|And if Jane could have shared his brighter fortune, he would have offered his hand and heart long before.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000009|He could not even expect to take as good a position in the world as he had quitted.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000010|His place at the Bank of Scotland was filled up, and the quixotic step he thought of taking was not likely to recommend him to business people.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000011|And he must prepare not only for providing for a wife and family, but for Elsie, too; and until this day Elsie had shrunk from him, and he had rather despised her; but during their walk he saw the affectionate and sincere nature of Jane's sister.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000012|He thought that he could not only offer her a home, but that he had some prospect of making it a happy one, which is by far the most important thing in such matters, and he gradually brought himself to believe that it was right he should make the sacrifice.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000013|Other opportunities of usefulness might open themselves in some other sphere; he would give up Cross Hall to the benevolent societies if Jane would only consent to be his wife.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000016|Here was the best and dearest woman in the world suffering daily, both in herself and through her sister, and he could make her happy; he knew that he could do that.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000017|If she refused, however, it would interfere with the warm friendship that he knew to be her greatest comfort and his own most precious possession; but she could not, she would not refuse him.
train-other-500/2152/156226/2152_156226_000051_000020|He did not pay proper attention at the theatre that night.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000000_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000000_000001|DIAMOND'S FRIENDS
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000001_000001|And first of all he strolled with his hands in his pockets up to the crossing, where the girl and her broom were to be found in all weathers.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000001_000002|Just as he was going to speak to her, a tall gentleman stepped upon the crossing.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000001_000003|He was pleased to find it so clean, for the streets were muddy, and he had nice boots on; so he put his hand in his pocket, and gave the girl a penny.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000001_000004|But when she gave him a sweet smile in return, and made him a pretty courtesy, he looked at her again, and said:
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000002_000000|"Where do you live, my child?"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000006_000000|"You shouldn't call your grannie wicked," said the gentleman.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000009_000000|"Still you shouldn't say so," he insisted.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000010_000001|You should hear her swear.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000010_000004|You must put her in a passion first, you know.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000010_000006|How she do make them laugh, to be sure!"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000011_000000|Although she called her wicked, the child spoke so as plainly to indicate pride in her grannie's pre eminence in swearing.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000012_000000|The gentleman looked very grave to hear her, for he was sorry that such a nice little girl should be in such bad keeping.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000014_000000|"Is this your brother?" asked the gentleman of the girl.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000015_000000|"No, sir."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000016_000000|"How does he know your grandmother, then?
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000016_000001|He does not look like one of her sort."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000017_000001|He's a good boy-quite."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000018_000000|Here she tapped her forehead with her finger in a significant manner.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000020_000001|"He's not right in the head, you know.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000020_000002|A tile loose."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000021_000000|Still Diamond, though he heard every word, and understood it too, kept on smiling.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000021_000001|What could it matter what people called him, so long as he did nothing he ought not to do?
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000021_000002|And, besides, God's baby was surely the best of names!
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000026_000000|"Well-and what else?"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000028_000000|"You're a useful little man," said the gentleman.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000028_000001|"What else can you do?"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000029_000001|"I can't curry a horse, except somebody puts me on his back.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000030_000000|"Can you read?"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000031_000000|"no
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000032_000000|"Well, here's a penny for you."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000033_000000|"Thank you, sir."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000034_000000|"And when you have learned to read, come to me, and I'll give you sixpence and a book with fine pictures in it."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000036_000001|"There," he said, "your father will be able to read that, and tell you where to go."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000037_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000037_000001|Thank you, sir," said Diamond, and put the card in his pocket.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000038_000000|The gentleman walked away, but turning round a few paces off, saw Diamond give his penny to the girl, and, walking slower heard him say:
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000039_000001|You may have my penny."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000040_000000|The girl put it beside the other in her pocket, the only trustworthy article of dress she wore.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000040_000001|Her grandmother always took care that she had a stout pocket.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000042_000000|"Much the same.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000042_000002|It's a good thing she's so blind, though."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000043_000000|"Why?" asked Diamond.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000045_000000|"Doesn't she watch you, then?"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000046_000001|Don't she just!
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000048_000000|"She never give me no more."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000049_000000|"But you don't want it!"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000052_000000|"Give it to cripple Jim."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000060_000000|And he took his hands from his pockets, and spreading out the fingers of his left hand, began to count, beginning at the thumb.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000062_000000|"They're no friends of mine," said his father.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000063_000000|"Well, they're friends of mine," said Diamond.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000064_000000|His father laughed.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000065_000000|"Much good they'll do you!" he said.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000067_000000|"Well, go on," said his father.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000068_000000|"Then there's Jack and mr Stonecrop, and, deary me!
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000069_000000|"What's his name!"
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000070_000000|"I don't know his name."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000072_000000|"I don't know."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000079_000000|"They can't help themselves then, if they would.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000079_000001|If I choose to be their friend, you know, they can't prevent me.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000081_000000|"Surely she's a friend anyhow, father.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000086_000001|You would have to leave out baby then."
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000087_000001|Baby can laugh in your face, and crow in your ears, and make you feel so happy.
train-other-500/218/131205/218_131205_000088_000001|He made no answer to this last appeal, and Diamond ended off with saying:
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000001_000001|DIAMOND LEARNS TO READ
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000003_000000|But he had never come upon the poem he thought he had heard his mother read from it that day.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000003_000001|He had looked through and through the book several times after he knew the letters and a few words, fancying he could tell the look of it, but had always failed to find one more like it than another.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000003_000002|So he wisely gave up the search till he could really read.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000003_000003|Then he resolved to begin at the beginning, and read them all straight through.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000003_000004|This took him nearly a fortnight.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000003_000005|When he had almost reached the end, he came upon the following verses, which took his fancy much, although they were certainly not very like those he was in search of.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000004_000000|LITTLE BOY BLUE
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000005_000000|Little Boy Blue lost his way in a wood. Sing apples and cherries, roses and honey; He said, "I would not go back if I could, It's all so jolly and funny."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000006_000000|He sang, "This wood is all my own, Apples and cherries, roses and honey; So here I'll sit, like a king on my throne, All so jolly and funny."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000009_000000|The snake coiled up; and the bird flew down, And sang him the song of Birdie Brown.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000010_000000|Little Boy Blue found it tiresome to sit, And he thought he had better walk on a bit.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000011_000000|So up he got, his way to take, And he said, "Come along, little bird and snake."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000012_000000|And waves of snake o'er the damp leaves passed, And the snake went first and Birdie Brown last;
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000014_000000|He came where the apples grew red and sweet: "Tree, drop me an apple down at my feet."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000015_000000|He came where the cherries hung plump and red: "Come to my mouth, sweet kisses," he said.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000016_000000|And the boughs bow down, and the apples they dapple The grass, too many for him to grapple.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000018_000000|He met a little brook singing a song. He said, "Little brook, you are going wrong.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000019_000000|"You must follow me, follow me, follow, I say Do as I tell you, and come this way."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000021_000000|Followed him, followed.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000024_000000|Squirrels that carried their tails like a sack, Each on his own little humpy brown back;
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000025_000000|Householder snails, and slugs all tails, And butterflies, flutterbies, ships all sails;
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000027_000000|All went running, and creeping, and flowing, After the merry boy fluttering and going;
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000028_000000|The dappled fawns fawning, the fallow deer following, The swallows and flies, flying and swallowing;
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000031_000000|The gay wasp forgot his rings and his waist, He never had made such undignified haste.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000032_000000|The dragon flies melted to mist with their hurrying. The mole in his moleskins left his barrowing burrowing.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000033_000000|The bees went buzzing, so busy and beesy, And the midges in columns so upright and easy.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000034_000000|But Little Boy Blue was not content, Calling for followers still as he went,
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000035_000000|Blowing his horn, and beating his drum, And crying aloud, "Come all of you, come!"
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000036_000000|He said to the shadows, "Come after me;" And the shadows began to flicker and flee,
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000037_000000|And they flew through the wood all flattering and fluttering, Over the dead leaves flickering and muttering.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000039_000000|And the wind wound round at his desire, As if he had been the gold cock on the spire.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000040_000000|And the cock itself flew down from the church, And left the farmers all in the lurch.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000041_000000|They run and they fly, they creep and they come, Everything, everything, all and some.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000042_000000|The very trees they tugged at their roots, Only their feet were too fast in their boots,
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000043_000000|After him leaning and straining and bending, As on through their boles he kept walking and wending,
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000047_000000|And he said to the clouds, "I want you there." And down they sank through the thin blue air.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000048_000000|And he said to the sunset far in the West, "Come here; I want you; I know best."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000050_000000|Then Little Boy Blue began to ponder: "What's to be done with them all, I wonder."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000051_000000|Then Little Boy Blue, he said, quite low, "What to do with you all I am sure I don't know."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000055_000000|And for rats and bats and the world and his wife, Little Boy Blue was afraid of his life.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000056_000000|Then Birdie Brown began to sing, And what he sang was the very thing:
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000058_000000|"Go away! go away!" said Little Boy Blue; "I'm sure I don't want you-get away-do."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000060_000000|"We cannot for nothing come here, and away. Give us some work, or else we stay."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000061_000000|"Oh dear! and oh dear!" with sob and with sigh, Said Little Boy Blue, and began to cry.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000063_000000|"Why do you hustle and jostle and bother? Off with you all!
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000063_000001|Take me back to my mother."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000065_000000|"I am going that way as fast as I can," Said the brook, as it sank and turned and ran.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000066_000000|Back to the woods fled the shadows like ghosts: "If we stay, we shall all be missed from our posts."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000068_000000|"That's where I live," said the sack backed squirrel, And he turned his sack with a swing and a swirl.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000070_000000|Said the mole, "Two hundred worms-there I caught 'em Last year, and I'm going again next autumn."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000072_000001|If that you won't do,
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000075_000000|Little Boy Blue he tried to go past him; But wherever he turned, sat the snake and faced him.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000076_000000|"If you don't get out of my way," he said, "I tell you, snake, I will break your head."
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000078_000000|The snake fell down as if he were dead, And Little Boy Blue set his foot on his head.
train-other-500/218/131206/218_131206_000079_000000|And all the creatures they marched before him, And marshalled him home with a high cockolorum.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000002_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000004_000000|Such a hiding place as would have filled the heart of almost any boy with sweet delight Myles and Gascoyne found one summer afternoon.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000005_000000|Behind the north stable, a great, long, rambling building, thick walled, and black with age, lay an older part of the castle than that peopled by the better class of life-a cluster of great thick walls, rudely but strongly built, now the dwelling place of stable lads and hinds, swine and poultry.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000005_000001|From one part of these ancient walls, and fronting an inner court of the castle, arose a tall, circular, heavy buttressed tower, considerably higher than the other buildings, and so mantled with a dense growth of aged ivy as to stand a shaft of solid green.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000006_000000|Myles had more than once felt an idle curiosity about this tower, and one day, as he and Gascoyne sat together, he pointed his finger and said, "What is yon place?"
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000007_000000|"That," answered Gascoyne, looking over his shoulder-"that they call Brutus Tower, for why they do say that Brutus he built it when he came hither to Britain.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000008_000001|Who liveth there now?"
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000009_000001|He and his wife and those others dwell in the vaults beneath, like rabbits in any warren.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000010_000000|Myles stared at the tower for a while in silence.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000013_000000|"Beshrew me," said Gascoyne, "but I have never thought of such a matter." He turned and looked at the tall crown rising into the warm sunlight with a new interest, for the thought of entering it smacked pleasantly of adventure.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000013_000001|"How wouldst thou set about getting within?" said he, presently.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000017_000000|"So be it.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000018_000000|As Myles had said, the climbing from roof to roof was a matter easy enough to an active pair of lads like themselves; but when, by and by, they reached the wall of the tower itself, they found the hidden window much higher from the roof than they had judged from below-perhaps ten or twelve feet-and it was, besides, beyond the eaves and out of their reach.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000019_000000|Myles looked up and looked down.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000019_000001|Above was the bushy thickness of the ivy, the branches as thick as a woman's wrist, knotted and intertwined; below was the stone pavement of a narrow inner court between two of the stable buildings.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000020_000000|"Methinks I can climb to yon place," said he.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000022_000000|"Nay," quoth Myles, "I trust not; but break or make, we get not there without trying.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000023_000001|If thy neck is worth so little, mine is worth no more."
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000024_000000|It was indeed a perilous climb, but that special providence which guards reckless lads befriended them, as it has thousands of their kind before and since.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000024_000001|So, by climbing from one knotted, clinging stem to another, they were presently seated snugly in the ivied niche in the window.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000025_000000|At the bottom of the steps was a heavy oaken door, which stood ajar, hanging upon a single rusty hinge, and from the room within a dull, gray light glimmered faintly.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000026_000000|"The ghosts!" cried Gascoyne, in a quavering whisper, and for a moment Myles felt the chill of goose flesh creep up and down his spine.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000026_000001|But the next moment he laughed.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000027_000000|"Nay," said he, "they be rats.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000027_000001|Look at yon fellow, Francis!
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000029_000000|A straight beam of sunlight fell through a broken shutter like a bar of gold, and fell upon the floor in a long streak of dazzling light that illuminated the whole room with a yellow glow.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000030_000002|Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!"
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000032_000000|Clouds of dust rose as they rummaged among the mouldering mass, setting them coughing and sneezing.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000032_000001|Now and then a great gray rat would shoot out beneath their very feet, and disappear, like a sudden shadow, into some hole or cranny in the wall.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000033_000000|"Come," said Myles at last, brushing the dust from his jacket, "an we tarry here longer we will have chance to see no other sights; the sun is falling low."
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000034_000000|An arched stair way upon the opposite side of the room from which they had entered wound upward through the wall, the stone steps being lighted by narrow slits of windows cut through the massive masonry.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000034_000001|Above the room they had just left was another of the same shape and size, but with an oak floor, sagging and rising into hollows and hills, where the joist had rotted away beneath.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000034_000002|It was bare and empty, and not even a rat was to be seen.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000036_000001|They were in a bower of leafy green.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000037_000000|"This passeth wonder," said Gascoyne, at last breaking the silence.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000039_000000|Entering an arched door way, the two found themselves in a beautiful little vaulted chapel, about eighteen feet long and twelve or fifteen wide.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000039_000002|The boys pushed aside the trailing tendrils and looked out and down.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000039_000004|They could see the gardener, with bowed back, patiently working among the flowers in the garden, the stable boys below grooming the horses, a bevy of ladies in the privy garden playing at shuttlecock with battledoors of wood, a group of gentlemen walking up and down in front of the Earl's house.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000040_000000|It was all like a puppetshow of real life, each acting unconsciously a part in the play.
train-other-500/2185/150123/2185_150123_000040_000001|The cool wind came in through the rustling leaves and fanned their cheeks, hot with the climb up the winding stair way.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000003_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000005_000000|In the intimate talks of that time Myles imparted something of his honest solidity to Gascoyne's somewhat weathercock nature, and to Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the Countess and her ladies.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000008_000000|"I do wonder," said Myles, quaintly, "that thou couldst ever find the courage to bespeak a young maid, Francis.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000008_000001|Never did I do so, nor ever could.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000008_000002|Rather would I face three strong men than one young damsel."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000009_000000|Whereupon Gascoyne burst out laughing.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000009_000001|"Marry!" quoth he, "they be no such terrible things, but gentle and pleasant spoken, and soft and smooth as any cat."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000010_000000|"No matter for that," said Myles; "I would not face one such for worlds."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000011_000000|It was during the short time when, so to speak, the two owned the solitude of the Brutus Tower, that Myles told his friend of his father's outlawry and of the peril in which the family stood.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000012_000001|Canst thou riddle me why it is so, Myles?"
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000013_000000|The subject was a very sore one with Myles.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000013_000003|His was a brooding nature, and in the three or four weeks that passed he had meditated so much over what had been told him, that by and by it almost seemed as if a shadow of shame rested upon his father's fair fame, even though the attaint set upon him was unrighteous and unjust, as Myles knew it must be.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000013_000004|He had felt angry and resentful at the Earl's neglect, and as days passed and he was not noticed in any way, his heart was at times very bitter.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000014_000000|So now Gascoyne's innocent question touched a sore spot, and Myles spoke with a sharp, angry pain in his voice that made the other look quickly up.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000015_000000|"Why may that be, Myles?" said Gascoyne.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000017_000000|Gascoyne raised himself upon his elbow, and opened his eyes wide in wonder.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000017_000002|"Why should he be afeared to befriend thee?
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000018_000000|Myles hesitated for a moment or two; wisdom bade him remain silent upon the dangerous topic, but his heart yearned for sympathy and companionship in his trouble.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000019_000002|He was cousin to the Earl of Kent, and I do remember hearing that he had a narrow escape at that time from ruin.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000022_000000|"Then why doth he not stand forth like a man and befriend me and my father openly, even if it be to his own peril?" said Myles, reverting stubbornly to what he had first spoken.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000023_000000|Gascoyne did not answer, but lay for a long while in silence.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000023_000001|"Knowest thou," he suddenly asked, after a while, "who is this great enemy of whom Sir james speaketh, and who seeketh so to drive thy father to ruin?"
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000024_000000|"Nay," said Myles, "I know not, for my father hath never spoken of these things, and Sir james would not tell me.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000026_000000|"Not I," said Gascoyne.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000027_000000|"Nay," said Myles, briefly.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000030_000001|Perhaps his chief objective since the talk with Sir james following his fight in the dormitory had been successful resistance to the exactions of the head of the body of squires.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000030_000004|It was the formation of a secret order, calling themselves the "Knights of the Rose," their meeting place to be the chapel of the Brutus Tower, and their object to be the righting of wrongs, "as they," said Myles, "of Arthur his Round table did right wrongs."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000031_000000|"But, prithee, what wrongs are there to right in this place?" quoth Gascoyne, after listening intently to the plan which Myles set forth.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000032_000000|"Why, first of all, this," said Myles, clinching his fists, as he had a habit of doing when anything stirred him deeply, "that we set those vile bachelors to their right place; and that is, that they be no longer our masters, but our fellows."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000033_000000|Gascoyne shook his head.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000033_000001|He hated clashing and conflict above all things, and was for peace.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000033_000002|Why should they thus rush to thrust themselves into trouble?
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000033_000004|And, finally, with the hopefulness of so many of the rest of us, he advised Myles to let matters alone, and they would right themselves in time.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000035_000002|As for me, I tell thee I love it not."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000036_000000|"Why, aye," said Myles; "I ask no man to do what I will not do myself."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000037_000000|Gascoyne shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000037_000001|"So be it," said he.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000037_000003|I for one will stand thee back while thou art taking thy raps."
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000039_000000|"Out upon it!" cried he, his patience giving way.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000040_000000|Then Gascoyne yielded at once, as he always did when his friend lost his temper, and having once assented to it, entered into the scheme heart and soul.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000040_000001|Three other lads-one of them that tall thin squire Edmund Wilkes, before spoken of-were sounded upon the subject.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000043_000000|"Perchance," said he, as the five lads lay in the rustling stillness through which sounded the monotonous and ceaseless cooing of the pigeons-"perchance there may be dwarfs and giants and dragons and enchanters and evil knights and what not even nowadays.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000044_000000|Perhaps Myles, who lay silently listening to all that was said, was the only one who looked upon the scheme at all in the light of real utility, but I think that even with him the fun of the matter outweighed the serious part of the business.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000045_000000|So it was that the Sacred Order of the Twenty Knights of the Rose came to be initiated.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000045_000001|They appointed a code of secret passwords and countersigns which were very difficult to remember, and which were only used when they might excite the curiosity of the other and uninitiated boys by their mysterious sound.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000045_000002|They elected Myles as their Grand High Commander, and held secret meetings in the ancient tower, where many mysteries were soberly enacted.
train-other-500/2185/150124/2185_150124_000046_000001|The lucky twenty were the objects of envy of all not so fortunate as to be included in this number, and there was a marked air of secrecy about everything they did that appealed to every romantic notion of the youngsters looking on.
train-other-500/2195/150894/2195_150894_000000_000002|what country claims your birth? What seek you, strangers, on our Libyan earth?"
train-other-500/2195/150894/2195_150894_000007_000000|"O queen!
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000000_000000|Outside in the streets it was full day, and the color and life of Charin had subsided into listlessness again, a dim morning dullness and silence.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000000_000001|Only a few men lounged wearily in the streets, as if the sun had sapped their energy.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000000_000002|And always the pale fleecy haired children, human and furred nonhuman, played their mysterious games on the curbs and gutters and staring at us with neither curiosity nor malice.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000001_000000|Miellyn was shaking when she set her feet into the patterned stones of the street shrine.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000002_000000|"Scared, Miellyn?"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000003_000001|You don't.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000004_000000|"Cut it out," I growled, and she giggled.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000005_000000|I stooped and put my arms round her.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000005_000001|"Like this?"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000006_000000|"Like this," she whispered, pressing herself against me.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000006_000001|A staggering whirl of dizzy darkness swung round my head.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000006_000002|The street vanished.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000006_000003|After an instant the floor steadied and we stepped into the terminal room in the Mastershrine, under a skylight dim with the last red slant of sunset.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000006_000004|Distant hammering noises rang in my ears.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000007_000000|Miellyn whispered, "Evarin's not here, but he might jump through at any second." I wasn't listening.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000008_000001|Where on the planet?"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000009_000000|"No one knows but Evarin, I think.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000009_000001|There are no doors.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000009_000003|"The scanning device is in there, we'll have to go through the workroom."
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000010_000000|She was patting her crushed robes into place, smoothing her hair with fastidious fingers.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000010_000001|"I don't suppose you have a comb?
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000010_000002|I've no time to go to my own-"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000011_000000|I'd known she was a vain and pampered brat, but this passed all reason, and I said so, exploding at her.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000011_000001|She looked at me as if I wasn't quite intelligent.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000012_000002|She replaced the starred tiara on her ringlets and finally opened the door of the workroom and we walked through.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000013_000000|Not for years had I known that particular sensation-thousands of eyes, boring holes in the center of my back somewhere.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000013_000002|The workroom wasn't a hundred feet long, but it felt longer than a good many miles I've walked.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000013_000003|Here and there the dwarfs murmured an obsequious greeting to Miellyn, and she made some lighthearted answer.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000014_000001|But I was drenched with cold sweat before the farther door finally closed, safe and blessedly opaque, behind us.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000015_000000|"Steady, kid.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000015_000001|Where's the scanner?"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000016_000000|She touched the panel I'd seen.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000017_000000|This was a fine time to tell me that.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000017_000001|"How does it work?"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000018_000000|"It's an adaptation of the transmitter principle.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000018_000001|It lets you see anywhere, but without jumping.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000018_000002|It uses a tracer mechanism like the one in the Toys.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000018_000003|If Rakhal's electrical impulse pattern were on file-just a minute." She fished out the bird Toy and unwrapped it.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000018_000004|"Here's how we find out which of you this is keyed to."
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000019_000000|I looked at the fledgling bird, lying innocently in her palm, as she pushed aside the feathers, exposing a tiny crystal.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000019_000001|"If it's keyed to you, you'll see yourself in this, as if the screen were a mirror.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000020_000000|She touched the crystal to the surface of the screen.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000020_000001|Little flickers of snow wavered and danced.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000020_000003|Slowly he turned. I saw the familiar set of his shoulders, saw the back of his head come into an aquiline profile, and the profile turn slowly into a scarred, seared mask more hideously claw marked and disfigured than my own.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000021_000000|"Rakhal," I muttered.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000021_000002|Charin's a big city.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000022_000000|Rakhal was talking soundlessly, his lips moving as he spoke to someone out of sight range of the scanning device.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000022_000001|Abruptly Miellyn said, "There." She had caught a window in the sight field of the pane.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000022_000002|I could see a high pylon and two of three uprights that looked like a bridge, just outside.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000022_000003|I said, "It's the Bridge of Summer Snows.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000022_000004|I know where he is now.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000022_000005|Turn it off, Miellyn, we can find him-" I was turning away when Miellyn screamed.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000023_000000|"Look!"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000024_000000|Rakhal had turned his back on the scanner and for the first time I could see who he was talking to.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000025_000001|"That does it.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000025_000002|He knows now that I'm not Rakhal, if he didn't know it all along!
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000026_000000|This time there was no pretense of normality as we dashed through the workroom.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000026_000001|Fingers dropped from half completed Toys as they stared after us.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000026_000003|But if we hurried, we might find Rakhal.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000026_000004|And, with luck, we would find Evarin with him.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000027_000000|And then I was going to bang their heads together.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000027_000001|I'd reached a saturation point on adventure.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000027_000002|I'd had all I wanted.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000027_000003|I realized that I'd been up all night, that I was exhausted.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000027_000005|We banged the workroom door shut and I took time to shove a heavy divan against it, blockading it.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000028_000001|"The Little Ones would not harm me," she began.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000028_000002|"I am sacrosanct."
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000029_000000|I wasn't sure.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000029_000001|I had a notion her status had changed plenty, beginning when I saw her chained and drugged, and standing under the hovering horror.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000030_000000|"Maybe.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000031_000000|She was already inside the recess where the Toad God squatted.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000031_000001|"There is a street shrine just beyond the Bridge of Summer Snows.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000031_000002|We can jump directly there." Abruptly she froze in my arms, with a convulsive shudder.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000032_000001|Hold me, tight-he's jumping in!
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000032_000002|Quick!"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000033_000000|Space reeled round us, and then....
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000034_000000|Can you split instantaneousness into fragments?
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000034_000001|It didn't make sense, but so help me, that's what happened.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000034_000002|And everything that happened, occurred within less than a second.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000034_000003|We landed in the street shrine.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000035_000000|Miellyn clutched at me.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000035_000001|"Pray!
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000035_000002|Pray to the Gods of Terra, if there are any!"
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000036_000001|I hung on tight.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000037_000000|We jumped again, the sickness of disorientation forcing a moan from the girl, and darkness shivered round us.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000037_000001|I looked on an unfamiliar street of black night and dust bleared stars.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000037_000002|She whimpered, "Evarin knows what I'm doing.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000037_000003|He's jumping us all over the planet.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000037_000004|He can work the controls with his mind.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000038_000000|Then began one of the most amazing duels ever fought.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000038_000002|Halfway through the giddiness, a new direction would wrench us and we would be thrust elsewhere, and look out into a new street.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000039_000000|One instant I smelled hot coffee from the spaceport cafe near the Kharsa.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000039_000001|An instant later it was blinding noon, with crimson fronds waving above us and a dazzle of water.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000039_000002|We flicked in and out of the salty air of Shainsa, glimpsed flowers on a Daillon street, moonlight, noon, red twilight flickered and went, shot through with the terrible giddiness of hyperspace.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000040_000001|The blackness started to reel down, but my reflexes are fast and I made one swift, scrabbling step forward.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000040_000002|We lurched, sprawled, locked together, on the stones of the Bridge of Summer Snows.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000041_000001|Her eyes were dazed with pain.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000041_000002|The ground swayed and rocked under our feet as we fled along the bridge.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000041_000004|Judging from its angle, we couldn't be more than a hundred feet from the window through which I'd seen that landmark in the scanner.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000041_000006|I walked up and banged on the door.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000042_000000|Silence.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000042_000001|I knocked again and had time to wonder if we'd find ourselves explaining things to some uninvolved stranger.
train-other-500/2198/133546/2198_133546_000042_000002|Then I heard a child's high voice, and a deep familiar voice hushing it.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000000_000002|It was an evening to raise a man's heart.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000000_000003|The sun shining slantwise through the trees threw delicate traceries across the road, with bars of golden light between.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000000_000004|Away in the distance before and behind, the green boughs, now turning in places to a coppery redness, shot their broad arches across the track.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000000_000005|The still summer air was heavy with the resinous smell of the great forest.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000000_000006|Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000001_000000|And yet there was no want of life-the whole wide wood was full of it. Now it was a lithe, furtive stoat which shot across the path upon some fell errand of its own; then it was a wild cat which squatted upon the outlying branch of an oak and peeped at the traveller with a yellow and dubious eye.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000001_000001|Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000002_000001|He was the more surprised therefore when, on coming round a turn in the path, he perceived a man clad in the familiar garb of the order, and seated in a clump of heather by the roadside.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000002_000003|Once he shook both hands furiously in the air, and twice he sprang from his seat and hurried down the road.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000002_000004|When he rose, however, Alleyne observed that his robe was much too long and loose for him in every direction, trailing upon the ground and bagging about his ankles, so that even with trussed up skirts he could make little progress.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000002_000005|He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000006_000001|"I trust he has done you no wrong, that you should be so hot against him."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000007_000000|"Wrong, quotha?" cried the other, jumping out of the heather.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000009_000002|'Not I,' I answered.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000009_000004|When I heard this I prayed him on my knees that he would give me the use of his gown, which after many contentions he at last agreed to do, on my paying him three marks towards the regilding of the image of Laurence the martyr.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000011_000001|But if you, fair sir, out of your kind charity would be pleased to go a matter of two bow shots out of your way, you would do me such a service as I could scarce repay."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000012_000000|"With all my heart," said Alleyne readily.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000013_000000|"Then take this pathway on the left, I pray thee, and then the deer track which passes on the right.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000013_000002|Give him my name, good sir, the name of peter the fuller, of Lymington, and ask him for a change of raiment, that I may pursue my journey without delay.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000013_000003|There are reasons why he would be loth to refuse me."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000014_000000|Alleyne started off along the path indicated, and soon found the log hut where the burner dwelt.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000014_000001|He was away faggot cutting in the forest, but his wife, a ruddy bustling dame, found the needful garments and tied them into a bundle.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000014_000002|While she busied herself in finding and folding them, Alleyne Edricson stood by the open door looking in at her with much interest and some distrust, for he had never been so nigh to a woman before.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000015_000000|"peter the fuller!" she kept repeating.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000015_000001|"Marry come up! if I were peter the fuller's wife I would teach him better than to give his clothes to the first knave who asks for them.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000015_000003|But who are you, young sir?"
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000016_000000|"I am a clerk on my road from Beaulieu to Minstead."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000017_000002|I could read it from thy reddened cheek and downcast eye.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000017_000005|that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000020_000000|"I have indeed seen little of life, good dame."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000021_000000|"Wilt find nothing in it to pay for the loss of thy own freshness.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000021_000002|It were easy to see that there is no woman to tend to thee.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000021_000003|So!--that is better.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000021_000004|Now buss me, boy."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000022_000000|Alleyne stooped and kissed her, for the kiss was the common salutation of the age, and, as Erasmus long afterwards remarked, more used in England than in any other country.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000022_000001|Yet it sent the blood to his temples again, and he wondered, as he turned away, what the Abbot Berghersh would have answered to so frank an invitation.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000022_000002|He was still tingling from this new experience when he came out upon the high road and saw a sight which drove all other thoughts from his mind.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000023_000000|Some way down from where he had left him the unfortunate peter was stamping and raving tenfold worse than before.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000023_000001|Now, however, instead of the great white cloak, he had no clothes on at all, save a short woollen shirt and a pair of leather shoes.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000024_000000|"See him!" yelled peter.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000024_000004|See where he goes with my cloak under his arm!"
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000026_000000|"Who but that cursed brother john.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000028_000000|"It boots not.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000028_000002|Gramercy to him that he left me the shirt and the shoon.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000030_000001|For dear charity's sake give them to me.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000030_000002|Not the Pope himself shall have these from me, though he sent the whole college of cardinals to ask it.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000030_000003|How came it?
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000030_000005|He had, he said, but gone for a while that I might be the freer for my devotions.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000030_000006|On this I plucked off the gown, and he with much show of haste did begin to undo his points; but when I threw his frock down he clipped it up and ran off all untrussed, leaving me in this sorry plight.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000030_000007|He laughed so the while, like a great croaking frog, that I might have caught him had my breath not been as short as his legs were long."
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000031_000000|The young man listened to this tale of wrong with all the seriousness that he could maintain; but at the sight of the pursy red faced man and the dignity with which he bore him, the laughter came so thick upon him that he had to lean up against a tree trunk.
train-other-500/2198/151049/2198_151049_000031_000001|The fuller looked sadly and gravely at him; but finding that he still laughed, he bowed with much mock politeness and stalked onwards in his borrowed clothes.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000010_000001|HOW THE THIRD MESSENGER CAME TO COSFORD
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000011_000002|A well heaped platter flanked by a foaming tankard stands before him.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000011_000003|At his right sits the Lady Mary, her dark, plain, queenly face marked deep with those years of weary waiting, but bearing the gentle grace and dignity which only sorrow and restraint can give.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000011_000004|On his left is matthew, the old priest.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000011_000005|Long ago the golden haired beauty had passed from Cosford to Fernhurst, where the young and beautiful Lady Edith Brocas is the belle of all Sussex, a sunbeam of smiles and merriment, save perhaps when her thoughts for an instant fly back to that dread night when she was plucked from under the very talons of the foul hawk of Shalford.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000012_000000|The old knight looked up as a fresh gust of wind with a dash of rain beat against the window behind him.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000012_000003|How fares it with little Katherine the peregrine, Mary?"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000013_000000|"I have joined the wing, father, and I have imped the feathers; but I fear it will be Christmas ere she can fly again."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000014_000000|"This is a hard saying," said Sir john; "for indeed I have seen no bolder better bird.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000014_000001|Her wing was broken by a heron's beak last Sabbath sennight, holy father, and Mary has the mending of it."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000016_000001|"Shall I make confession at the head of my own table?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000016_000003|But I call to mind a charm for a wounded hawk which was taught me by the fowler of Gaston de Foix.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000016_000004|How did it run?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000017_000000|The old priest shook his head.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000017_000002|"Holy Church lends them no countenance, for they are neither good nor fair.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000018_000000|"It is half done still, holy father."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000019_000000|"How is this, my daughter?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000019_000001|Have you then so many calls?"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000020_000001|Ever since the Prince's battle-"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000022_000000|"Nay, Mary, none can hear me, save your own confessor, Father matthew. Ever since the Prince's battle, I say, when we heard that young Nigel had won such honor she is brain wode, and sits ever-well, even as you see her now."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000023_000000|An intent look had come into Mary's eyes; her gaze was fixed upon the dark rain splashed window.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000023_000001|It was a face carved from ivory, white lipped and rigid, on which the old priest looked.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000024_000000|"What is it, my daughter?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000024_000001|What do you see?"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000025_000000|"I see nothing, father."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000027_000000|"I hear, father."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000028_000000|"What do you hear?"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000030_000000|The old knight laughed.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000030_000001|"So it goes on, father.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000030_000003|So strong and steadfast she has ever been, my Mary, and now no sound too slight to shake her to the soul!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000030_000004|Nay, daughter, nay, I pray you!"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000031_000000|She had half risen from her chair, her hands clenched and her dark, startled eyes still fixed upon the window.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000031_000001|"I hear them, father!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000031_000003|Yes, yes, they are turning-they have turned!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000032_000000|"By Saint Hubert, the girl is right!" cried old Sir john, beating his fist upon the board.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000032_000001|"Ho, varlets, out with you to the yard!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000032_000002|Set the mulled wine on the blaze once more!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000032_000003|There are travelers at the gate, and it is no night to keep a dog waiting at our door.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000032_000004|Hurry, Hannekin! Hurry, I say, or I will haste you with my cudgel!"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000033_000000|Plainly to the ears of all men could be heard the stamping of the horses.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000033_000001|Mary had stood up, quivering in every limb.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000033_000004|Her eyes only carried him her message as she held out her hand.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000034_000000|"Welcome, Nigel!" said she.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000035_000000|He stooped and kissed it.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000037_000000|A merry supper it was at Cosford Manor that night, with Nigel at the head betwixt the jovial old knight and the Lady Mary, whilst at the farther end Samkin Aylward, wedged between two servant maids, kept his neighbors in alternate laughter and terror as he told his tales of the French Wars.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000037_000001|Nigel had to turn his doeskin heels and show his little golden spurs.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000037_000002|As he spoke of what was passed Sir john clapped him on the shoulder, while Mary took his strong right hand in hers, and the good old priest smiling blessed them both.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000037_000003|Nigel had drawn a little golden ring from his pocket, and it twinkled in the torchlight.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000038_000000|"Did you say that you must go on your way to morrow, father?" he asked the priest.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000039_000000|"Indeed, fair son, the matter presses."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000040_000000|"But you may bide the morning?"
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000041_000000|"It will suffice if I start at noon."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000042_000000|"Much may be done in a morning." He looked at Mary, who blushed and smiled.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000042_000001|"By Saint Paul!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000042_000002|I have waited long enough."
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000043_000001|"Even so I wooed your mother, Mary.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000043_000003|To morrow is Tuesday, and Tuesday is ever a lucky day.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000043_000004|Alas! that the good Dame Ermyntrude is no longer with us to see it done!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000043_000006|Give me your hand, Mary, and yours, Nigel.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000044_000000|There let us leave them, their hearts full of gentle joy, the golden future of hope and promise stretching out before their youthful eyes. Alas for those green spring dreaming!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000044_000001|How often do they fade and wither until they fall and rot, a dreary sight, by the wayside of life!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000044_000002|But here, by God's blessing, it was not so, for they burgeoned and they grew, ever fairer and more noble, until the whole wide world might marvel at the beauty of it.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000045_000000|It has been told elsewhere how as the years passed Nigel's name rose higher in honor; but still Mary's would keep pace with it, each helping and sustaining the other upon an ever higher path.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000045_000001|In many lands did Nigel carve his fame, and ever as he returned spent and weary from his work he drank fresh strength and fire and craving for honor from her who glorified his home.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000045_000002|At Twynham Castle they dwelled for many years, beloved and honored by all.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000045_000003|Then in the fullness of time they came back to the Tilford Manor house and spent their happy, healthy age amid those heather downs where Nigel had passed his first lusty youth, ere ever he turned his face to the wars.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000002|The fern still glows russet in November, the heather still burns red in July; but where now is the Manor of Cosford?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000003|Where is the old house of Tilford?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000004|Where, but for a few scattered gray stones, is the mighty pile of Waverley?
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000005|And yet even gnawing Time has not eaten all things away.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000006|Walk with me toward Guildford, reader, upon the busy highway.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000009|Below lies the winding river, and over yonder you still see the dark Chantry woods which mount up to the bare summit, on which, roofed and whole, stands that Chapel of the Martyr where the comrades beat off the archers of the crooked Lord of Shalford.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000010|Down yonder on the flanks of the long chalk hills one traces the road by which they made their journey to the wars.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000011|And now turn hither to the north, down this sunken winding path!
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000012|It is all unchanged since Nigel's day.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000014|Pass under the aged and crumbling arch.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000015|Before the steps of that ancient altar, unrecorded and unbrassed, lies the dust of Nigel and of Mary.
train-other-500/2198/46877/2198_46877_000046_000016|Near them is that of Maude their daughter, and of Alleyne Edricson, whose spouse she was; their children and children's children are lying by their side.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty two.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000002_000000|mr
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000002_000001|WESTERN YIELDS.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000003_000000|The fact that Lady Grant had gone to Dresden was not long in reaching the ears of mrs Western.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000003_000001|Dick Ross had heard at the club at Perth that she had gone, and had told Sir Francis.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000003_000002|Sir Francis passed on the news to Miss Altifiorla, and from her it had reached the deserted wife.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000003_000003|Miss Altifiorla had not told it direct, because at that time she and Cecilia were not supposed to be on friendly terms.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000003_000004|But the tidings had got about and mrs Western had heard them.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000004_000000|"She's a good woman," said Cecilia to her mother.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000004_000001|"I knew her to be that the first moment that she came to me.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000004_000002|She is rough as he is, and stern, and has a will of her own.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000005_000000|"I don't know about that," said mrs Holt, with the angry tone which she allowed herself to use only when speaking of mr Western.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000006_000000|"Yes; he is, mamma.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000006_000001|In your affection for me you will not allow yourself to be just to him.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000006_000002|In truth you hardly know him."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000007_000000|"I know that he has destroyed your happiness for ever, and made me very wretched."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000008_000002|The dream had been dreamed before, and was re dreamed during every hour of the day.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000009_000000|"Plead for you!
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000010_000000|"It is not necessary.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000010_000001|My own heart pleads for him.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000010_000002|It is because he has been in the wrong that an intercessor is necessary for me.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000010_000003|It is they who commit the injury that have a difficulty in forgiving.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000010_000005|In her estimation no husband could have behaved worse than had her son in law.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000011_000001|In the note she merely asked whether her "dear Cecilia" would be willing to receive her after what had passed.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000011_000002|She had news to tell of much importance, and she hoped that her "dear Cecilia" would receive her.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000011_000003|There had been no absolute quarrel, no quarrel known to the servants, and Cecilia did receive her.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000012_000000|"I will be surprised if you wish it," said Cecilia.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000013_000000|"Let me first begin by assuring you, that you must not make light of my news.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000013_000001|It is of the greatest importance, not only to me, but of some importance also to you."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000014_000000|"It shall be of importance."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000015_000000|"Because you begin with that little sneer which has become so common with you.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000015_000001|You must be aware of it.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000015_000002|Amidst the troubles of your own life, which we all admit to be very grievous, there has come upon you a way of thinking that no one else's affairs can be of any importance."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000017_000001|And pray believe me that I am not in the least angry about it.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000017_000002|I knew that it would be so when I came to you this morning; and yet I could not help coming.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000017_000003|Indeed as the thing has now been made known to the Dean's family I could not bear that you should be left any longer in ignorance."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000018_000000|"What is the thing?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000019_000001|I cannot tell you unless you will interest yourself.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000019_000002|Does nothing interest you now beyond your own misfortunes?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000021_000000|"But this shall interest you.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000021_000002|You must be shaken up. This I suppose will shake you up.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000021_000003|If not, you must be past all hope."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000022_000000|"What on earth is it?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000023_000000|"Sir Francis Geraldine-!
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000024_000000|"Well, yes; I have not as yet forgotten the name."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000025_000000|"I should think not.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000025_000001|Sir Francis Geraldine has-" And then she paused again.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000026_000000|"Cut his little finger," said Cecilia.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000026_000001|Had she dreamed of what was to come she would not have turned Sir Francis into ridicule.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000027_000000|"Cecilia Holt-"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000028_000000|"That at any rate is not my name."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000029_000000|"I dare say you wish it were."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000030_000000|"I would not change my real name for that of any woman under the sun"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000031_000000|"Perhaps not; but there are other women in a position of less grandeur.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000031_000001|I am going to change mine."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000032_000000|"No!"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000033_000001|It is not so.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000033_000002|My opinions on that great subject are not in the least changed.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000033_000003|But of course there must be some women whom the exigencies of the world will require to marry."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000034_000000|"A good many, first and last."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000035_000000|"About the good many I do not at this moment concern myself.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000035_000001|My duty is clearly before me and I mean to perform it.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000035_000002|I have been asked to ally myself-;" then there was a pause, and the speaker discovered when it was too late that she was verging on the ridiculous in declaring her purpose of forming an alliance;--"that is to say, I am going to marry Sir Francis Geraldine."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000036_000000|"Sir Francis Geraldine!"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000038_000001|And yet how am I to answer such a question?
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000039_000000|"You both saw it, I suppose?" said Miss Altifiorla, with an air of grandeur.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000039_000001|"You both supposed that you were not made for each other, and wisely determined to give up the idea.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000039_000002|You did not remain single, and I suppose we need not either."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000040_000000|"Certainly not for my sake."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000041_000000|"Our intimacy since that time has been increased by circumstances, and we have now discovered that we can both of us best suit our own interests by an-"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000042_000000|"An alliance," suggested mrs Western.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000044_000000|"I thought it proper," continued Miss Altifiorla, "as we had been so long friends, to inform you that it will be so.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000044_000001|You had your chance, and as you let it slip I trust that you will not envy me mine."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000045_000000|"Not in the least."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000046_000000|"At any rate you do not congratulate me."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000047_000000|"I have been very remiss.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000047_000003|I thought when I heard of your travelling up to London together that you were becoming very intimate."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000048_000000|"Oh, it had been ever so much before that,--the intimacy at least.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000048_000001|Of course I did not know him before he came to this house.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000048_000002|But a great many things have happened since that; have there not?
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000048_000003|Well, good bye, dear.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000048_000004|I have no doubt we shall continue as friends, especially as we shall be living almost in the neighbourhood.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000048_000005|Castle Gerald is to be at once fitted up for me, and I hope you will forget all our little tiffs, and often come and stay with me." So saying, Miss Altifiorla, having told her grand news, made her adieus and went away.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000000|"A great many things have happened since that," said Cecilia, repeating to herself her friend's words.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000002|She had won the love of the best man she had ever known, and married him, and had then lost his love!
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000003|And now she had been left as a widowed wife, with all the coming troubles of maternity on her head.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000004|She had understood well the ill natured sarcasm of Miss Altifiorla.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000005|"We shall be living almost in the same neighbourhood!" Yes; if her separation from her husband was to be continued, then undoubtedly she would live at Exeter, and, as far as the limits of the county were concerned, she would be the neighbour of the future Lady Geraldine.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000006|That she should ever willingly be found under the same roof with Sir Francis was, as she knew well, as impossible to Miss Altifiorla as to herself.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000007|The invitation contained the sneer, and was intended to contain it.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000008|But it created no anger. She, too, had sneered at Miss Altifiorla quite as bitterly.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000009|They had each learned to despise the other, and not to sneer was impossible. Miss Altifiorla had come to tell of her triumph, and to sneer in return.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000010|But it mattered nothing.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000011|What did matter was whether that threat should come true.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000012|Should she always be left living at Exeter with her mother?
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000013|Then she dreamed her dream again, that he had come back to her, and was sitting by her bedside with his hand in hers and whispering sweet words to her, while a baby was lying in her arms-his child.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000014|As she thought of the bliss of the fancied moment, the still possible bliss, her anger seemed to fade away.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000015|What would she not do to bring him back, what would she not say?
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000016|She had done amiss in keeping that secret so long, and though the punishment had been severe, it was not altogether undeserved.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000017|It had come to him as a terrible blow, and he had been unable to suppress his agony.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000018|He should not have treated her so; no, he should not have sent her away. But she could make excuses now, which but a few weeks since seemed to her to be impossible.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000019|And she understood, she told herself that she understood, the difference between herself as a woman and him as a man.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000020|He had a right to command, a right to be obeyed, a right to be master.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000021|He had a right to know all the secrets of her heart, and to be offended when one so important had been kept from him.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000022|He had lifted his hand in great wrath, and the blow he had struck had been awful.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000023|But she would bear it without a word of complaint if only he would come back to her.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000024|As she thought of it, she declared to herself that she must die if he did not come back.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000025|To live as she was living now would be impossible to her.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000026|But if he would come back, how absolutely would she disregard all that the world might say as to their short quarrel.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000027|It would indeed be known to all the world, but what could the world do to her if she once again had her husband by her side?
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000028|When the blow first fell on her she had thought much of the ignominy which had befallen her, and which must ever rest with her. Even though she should be taken back again, people would know that she had been discarded.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000029|But now she told herself that for that she cared not at all.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000030|Then she again dreamed her dream.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000031|Her child was born, and her husband was standing by her with that sweet manly smile upon his face.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000049_000032|She put out her hand as though he would touch it, and was conscious of an involuntary movement as though she were bending her face towards him for a kiss.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000050_000000|Surely he would come to her!
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000050_000001|His sister had gone to him, and would have told him the absolute truth.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000050_000002|She had never sinned against him, even by intentional silence.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000050_000005|She was aware that from cowardice her silence had been prolonged.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000050_000006|But surely now at last he would forgive her that offence. Then she thought of the words she would use as she owned her fault. He was a man, and as a man had a right to expect that she would confess it.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000051_000000|"My dear, here is a letter.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000051_000002|Lady Grant would of course write whether with good news or with bad.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000051_000003|The address told her nothing, but yet she could not tear the envelope.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000051_000005|"Why don't you open it?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000052_000000|She turned a soft supplicating painful look up to her mother's face as she begged for grace.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000052_000002|It was with difficulty that she could examine its contents, so apprehensive was she and yet so hopeful, so confident at one moment of her coming happiness, and yet so fearful at another that she should be again enveloped in the darkness of her misery.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000052_000003|But she did at last persuade herself to read the words which Lady Grant had written.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000052_000005|"He will hope to reach that place on the fifteenth by the train which leaves London at nine in the morning."
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000053_000000|That was all, but that was enough.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000053_000001|She was sure that he would not come with the purpose of telling her that he must again leave her. And she was sure also that if he would once put himself within the sphere of her personal influence it should be so used that he would never leave her again.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000054_000001|I knew he would come.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000054_000002|Why should he not come?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000054_000003|This she exclaimed to her mother, and then went on to speak of him with a wild rhapsody of joy, as though there had hardly been any breach in her happiness.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000054_000004|And she continued to sing the praises of her husband till mrs Holt hardly knew how to bear her enthusiasm in a fitting mood.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000054_000005|For she, who was not in love, still thought that this man's conduct had been scandalous, wicked, and cruel; and, if to be forgiven, only to be forgiven because of the general wickedness and cruelty of man.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000000|It had not been without great difficulty that Lady Grant induced her brother to assent to her writing the letter which has been given above.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000001|When he had agreed to return with her to England he had no doubt assented to her assertion that he was bound to take his wife back again, even without any confession.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000002|And this had been so much to gain, had been so felt to be the one only material point necessary, that he was not pressed as to his manner of doing it.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000003|But before they reached London it was essential that some arrangement should be made for bringing them together.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000004|"Could not I go down to Durton," he had said, "and could not she come to me there?" No doubt he might have gone to Durton, and no doubt she would have gone to him if asked.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000005|She would have flown to him at Dresden, or to Jerusalem, at a word spoken by him.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000006|Absence had made him so precious to her, that she would have obeyed the slightest behest with joy as long as the order given were to bring them once more together.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000055_000007|But of this Lady Grant was not aware, and, had she been so, the sense of what was becoming would have restrained her.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000056_000000|"I think, George, that you had better go to Exeter," she said.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000057_000000|"Should we not be more comfortable at Durton?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000058_000000|"I think that when at Durton you will be more happy if you shall yourself have fetched her from her mother's home.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000058_000001|I think you owe it to your wife to go to her, and make the journey with her.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000058_000002|What is your objection?"
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000059_000000|"I do not wish to be seen in Exeter," he replied.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000060_000000|"Nor did she, you may be sure, when she returned there alone.
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000060_000001|But what does it matter?
train-other-500/2208/10076/2208_10076_000060_000002|If you can be happy in once more possessing her, it cannot signify who shall see you.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000006_000000|CHAPTER seven.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000006_000001|MARIAN'S HOME
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000007_000001|It was three o'clock, and with the interval of half an hour at midday, when she went away for a cup of tea and a sandwich, she had been closely occupied since half past nine.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000007_000002|Her task at present was to collect materials for a paper on 'French Authoresses of the Seventeenth Century,' the kind of thing which her father supplied on stipulated terms for anonymous publication. Marian was by this time almost able to complete such a piece of manufacture herself and her father's share in it was limited to a few hints and corrections.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000007_000004|The result, unhappily, was not correspondent with the efforts. Alfred Yule had made a recognisable name among the critical writers of the day; seeing him in the title lists of a periodical, most people knew what to expect, but not a few forbore the cutting open of the pages he occupied.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000007_000007|A matter of business, to be sure-at all events in the first instance.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000008_000000|For a long time Marian had scarcely looked up from the desk, but at this moment she found it necessary to refer to the invaluable Larousse.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000008_000001|As so often happened, the particular volume of which she had need was not upon the shelf she turned away, and looked about her with a gaze of weary disappointment.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000008_000002|At a little distance were standing two young men, engaged, as their faces showed, in facetious colloquy; as soon as she observed them, Marian's eyes fell, but the next moment she looked again in that direction.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000008_000003|Her face had wholly changed; she wore a look of timid expectancy.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000009_000000|The men were moving towards her, still talking and laughing.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000009_000001|She turned to the shelves, and affected to search for a book.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000009_000002|The voices drew near, and one of them was well known to her; now she could hear every word; now the speakers were gone by.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000009_000003|Was it possible that Mr Milvain had not recognised her?
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000009_000004|She followed him with her eyes, and saw him take a seat not far off he must have passed without even being aware of her.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000010_000000|She went back to her place and for some minutes sat trifling with a pen. When she made a show of resuming work, it was evident that she could no longer apply herself as before.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000010_000001|Every now and then she glanced at people who were passing; there were intervals when she wholly lost herself in reverie.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000010_000002|She was tired, and had even a slight headache.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000010_000003|When the hand of the clock pointed to half past three, she closed the volume from which she had been copying extracts, and began to collect her papers.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000011_000000|A voice spoke close behind her.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000012_000000|'Where's your father, Miss Yule?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000013_000000|The speaker was a man of sixty, short, stout, tonsured by the hand of time.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000013_000001|He had a broad, flabby face, the colour of an ancient turnip, save where one of the cheeks was marked with a mulberry stain; his eyes, grey orbed in a yellow setting, glared with good humoured inquisitiveness, and his mouth was that of the confirmed gossip.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000013_000002|For eyebrows he had two little patches of reddish stubble; for moustache, what looked like a bit of discoloured tow, and scraps of similar material hanging beneath his creasy chin represented a beard.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000013_000003|His garb must have seen a great deal of Museum service; it consisted of a jacket, something between brown and blue, hanging in capacious shapelessness, a waistcoat half open for lack of buttons and with one of the pockets coming unsewn, a pair of bronze hued trousers which had all run to knee.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000013_000004|Necktie he had none, and his linen made distinct appeal to the laundress.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000014_000000|Marian shook hands with him.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000016_000000|'How annoying!
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000016_000001|I wanted particularly to see him.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000016_000002|I have been running about all day, and couldn't get here before.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000016_000003|Something important-most important.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000016_000004|At all events, I can tell you.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000017_000000|Mr Quarmby-that was his name-had taken a vacant chair and drawn it close to Marian's.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000017_000001|He was in a state of joyous excitement, and talked in thick, rather pompous tones, with a pant at the end of a sentence.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000017_000002|To emphasise the extremely confidential nature of his remarks, he brought his head almost in contact with the girl's, and one of her thin, delicate hands was covered with his red, podgy fingers.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000018_000002|No, no; how should you?
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000018_000003|He's a man of business; close friend of Rackett's-Rackett, you know, the owner of The Study.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000019_000000|Upon this he made a grave pause, and glared more excitedly than ever.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000020_000000|'I have heard of Mr Rackett,' said Marian.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000021_000000|'Of course, of course.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000022_000000|'Father told me it was probable.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000023_000000|'Rackett and he have done nothing but quarrel for months; the paper is falling off seriously.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000023_000002|"I'll tell you," he said, "but it's between you and me, you understand.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000024_000000|'It's very good news,' answered Marian.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000025_000000|'I should think so!
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000025_000001|Ho, ho!'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000026_000000|Mr Quarmby laughed in a peculiar way, which was the result of long years of mirth subdual in the Reading room.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000027_000000|'But not a breath to anyone but your father.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000027_000002|Ho, ho!'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000028_000000|His suppressed laugh ended in a fit of coughing-the Reading room cough. When he had recovered from it, he pressed Marian's hand with paternal fervour, and waddled off to chatter with someone else.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000029_000000|Marian replaced several books on the reference shelves, returned others to the central desk, and was just leaving the room, when again a voice made demand upon her attention.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000030_000001|One moment, if you please!'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000031_000001|He smiled softly and timidly with blue, rheumy eyes.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000032_000001|'Isn't he here?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000033_000000|'He has gone, Mr Hinks.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000034_000000|'Ah, then would you do me the kindness to take a book for him?
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000034_000001|In fact, it's my little "Essay on the Historical Drama," just out.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000035_000000|He spoke with nervous hesitation, and in a tone which seemed to make apology for his existence.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000037_000000|'If you will kindly wait one minute, Miss Yule.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000038_000000|He went off with long strides, and speedily came back panting, in his hand a thin new volume.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000039_000001|You are quite well, I hope?
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000039_000002|I won't detain you.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000041_000000|Marian went to the ladies' cloak room, put on her hat and jacket, and left the Museum.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000041_000001|Some one passed out through the swing door a moment before her, and as soon as she had issued beneath the portico, she saw that it was Jasper Milvain; she must have followed him through the hall, but her eyes had been cast down.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000041_000002|The young man was now alone; as he descended the steps he looked to left and right, but not behind him. Marian followed at a distance of two or three yards.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000041_000004|But he did not turn his head.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000000|He took to the right.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000001|Marian had fallen back again, but she still followed at a very little distance.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000002|His walk was slow, and she might easily have passed him in quite a natural way; in that case he could not help seeing her.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000003|But there was an uneasy suspicion in her mind that he really must have noticed her in the Reading room.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000004|This was the first time she had seen him since their parting at Finden.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000005|Had he any reason for avoiding her?
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000042_000006|Did he take it ill that her father had shown no desire to keep up his acquaintance?
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000043_000000|She allowed the interval between them to become greater.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000043_000001|In a minute or two Milvain turned up Charlotte Street, and so she lost sight of him.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000044_000002|She admitted herself with a latch key, and went straight upstairs without encountering anyone.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000045_000000|Descending again in a few moments, she entered the front room on the ground floor.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000045_000002|On the walls were a few autotypes and old engravings.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000045_000003|A recess between fireplace and window was fitted with shelves, which supported hundreds of volumes, the overflow of Yule's library.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000045_000004|The table was laid for a meal.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000045_000005|It best suited the convenience of the family to dine at five o'clock; a long evening, so necessary to most literary people, was thus assured. Marian, as always when she had spent a day at the Museum, was faint with weariness and hunger; she cut a small piece of bread from a loaf on the table, and sat down in an easy chair.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000046_000000|Presently appeared a short, slight woman of middle age, plainly dressed in serviceable grey.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000046_000001|Her face could never have been very comely, and it expressed but moderate intelligence; its lines, however, were those of gentleness and good feeling.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000046_000002|She had the look of one who is making a painful effort to understand something; this was fixed upon her features, and probably resulted from the peculiar conditions of her life.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000047_000000|'Rather early, aren't you, Marian?' she said, as she closed the door and came forward to take a seat.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000048_000000|'Yes; I have a little headache.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000049_000000|'Oh, dear!
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000049_000001|Is that beginning again?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000001|In the same degree did her bearing fall short of that which distinguishes a lady.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000002|The London work girl is rarely capable of raising herself or being raised, to a place in life above that to which she was born; she cannot learn how to stand and sit and move like a woman bred to refinement, any more than she can fashion her tongue to graceful speech.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000003|Mrs Yule's behaviour to Marian was marked with a singular diffidence; she looked and spoke affectionately, but not with a mother's freedom; one might have taken her for a trusted servant waiting upon her mistress.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000004|Whenever opportunity offered, she watched the girl in a curiously furtive way, that puzzled look on her face becoming very noticeable.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000005|Her consciousness was never able to accept as a familiar and unimportant fact the vast difference between herself and her daughter. Marian's superiority in native powers, in delicacy of feeling, in the results of education, could never be lost sight of.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000006|Under ordinary circumstances she addressed the girl as if tentatively; however sure of anything from her own point of view, she knew that Marian, as often as not, had quite a different criterion.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000050_000007|She understood that the girl frequently expressed an opinion by mere reticence, and hence the carefulness with which, when conversing, she tried to discover the real effect of her words in Marian's features.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000051_000000|'Hungry, too,' she said, seeing the crust Marian was nibbling.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000051_000001|'You really must have more lunch, dear.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000051_000002|It isn't right to go so long; you'll make yourself ill.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000052_000000|'Have you been out?' Marian asked.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000053_000000|'Yes; I went to Holloway.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000054_000000|Mrs Yule sighed and looked very unhappy.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000054_000001|By 'going to Holloway' was always meant a visit to her own relatives-a married sister with three children, and a brother who inhabited the same house.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000054_000002|To her husband she scarcely ever ventured to speak of these persons; Yule had no intercourse with them.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000055_000000|'Are things no better?' the girl inquired.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000056_000000|'Worse, as far as I can see.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000057_000000|If ever Mrs Yule lapsed into gross errors of pronunciation or phrase, it was when she spoke of her kinsfolk.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000057_000001|The subject seemed to throw her back into a former condition.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000058_000000|'He ought to go and live by himself' said Marian, referring to her mother's brother, the thirsty john.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000001|I'm always telling them so.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000003|And Susan, she only gets angry with me, and tells me not to talk in a stuck up way.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000004|I'm sure I never say a word that could offend her; I'm too careful for that.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000006|She's about the streets at all hours, and what'll be the end of it no one can say.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000009|She does all that woman can.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000010|But Tom hasn't brought home ten shillings the last month, and it seems to me as if he was getting careless.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000011|I gave her half a crown; it was all I could do.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000012|And the worst of it is, they think I could do so much more if I liked.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000013|They're always hinting that we are rich people, and it's no good my trying to persuade them.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000059_000014|They think I'm telling falsehoods, and it's very hard to be looked at in that way; it is, indeed, Marian.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000060_000000|'You can't help it, mother.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000060_000001|I suppose their suffering makes them unkind and unjust.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000061_000000|'That's just what it does, my dear; you never said anything truer. Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000061_000001|Why there's so much of it in the world, I'm sure I can't see.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000062_000000|'I suppose father will be back soon?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000063_000000|'He said dinner time.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000064_000000|'Mr Quarmby has been telling me something which is wonderfully good news if it's really true; but I can't help feeling doubtful.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000065_000000|He says that father may perhaps be made editor of The Study at the end of this year.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000067_000000|'My word!' she exclaimed.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000067_000001|'What a thing that would be for us!'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000068_000000|Marian had begun to explain her reluctance to base any hopes on Mr Quarmby's prediction, when the sound of a postman's knock at the house door caused her mother to disappear for a moment.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000069_000001|'From the country.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000070_000000|Marian took the letter and examined its address with interest.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000071_000000|'It must be one of the Miss Milvains.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000071_000001|Yes; Dora Milvain.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000072_000000|After Jasper's departure from Finden his sisters had seen Marian several times, and the mutual liking between her and them had been confirmed by opportunity of conversation.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000072_000001|The promise of correspondence had hitherto waited for fulfilment.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000072_000002|It seemed natural to Marian that the younger of the two girls should write; Maud was attractive and agreeable, and probably clever, but Dora had more spontaneity in friendship.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000073_000000|'It will amuse you to hear,' wrote Dora, 'that the literary project our brother mentioned in a letter whilst you were still here is really to come to something.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000073_000002|She and I have both set to work on English histories, and we shall be authorities before long. Jolly and Monk offer thirty pounds for the little book, if it suits them when finished, with certain possible profits in the future.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000073_000003|Trust Jasper for making a bargain!
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000073_000004|So perhaps our literary career will be something more than a joke, after all.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000073_000005|I hope it may; anything rather than a life of teaching.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000073_000006|We shall be so glad to hear from you, if you still care to trouble about country girls.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000074_000000|And so on.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000074_000001|Marian read with a pleased smile, then acquainted her mother with the contents.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000075_000000|'I am very glad,' said Mrs Yule; 'it's so seldom you get a letter.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000076_000000|'Yes.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000078_000000|'Is their brother likely to call here?' Mrs Yule asked, with misgiving.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000079_000000|'No one has invited him to,' was the girl's quiet reply.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000080_000000|'He wouldn't come without that?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000081_000000|'It's not likely that he even knows the address.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000082_000000|'Your father won't be seeing him, I suppose?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000083_000000|'By chance, perhaps.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000083_000001|I don't know.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000084_000000|It was very rare indeed for these two to touch upon any subject save those of everyday interest.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000085_000000|'I think,' said Marian, in a forced tone, 'that father hasn't much liking for Mr Milvain.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000086_000000|She wished to know if her mother had heard any private remarks on this subject, but she could not bring herself to ask directly.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000087_000001|'He hasn't said anything to me, Marian.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000088_000000|An awkward silence.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000088_000001|The mother had fixed her eyes on the mantelpiece, and was thinking hard.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000089_000000|'Otherwise,' said Marian, 'he would have said something, I should think, about meeting in London.'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000092_000000|Impossible to pursue the dialogue; Marian moved uneasily, then rose, said something about putting the letter away, and left the room.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000093_000000|Shortly after, Alfred Yule entered the house.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000093_000001|It was no uncommon thing for him to come home in a mood of silent moroseness, and this evening the first glimpse of his face was sufficient warning.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000093_000002|He entered the dining room and stood on the hearthrug reading an evening paper.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000093_000003|His wife made a pretence of straightening things upon the table.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000094_000000|'Well?' he exclaimed irritably.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000094_000001|'It's after five; why isn't dinner served?'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000096_000000|Even the average man of a certain age is an alarming creature when dinner delays itself; the literary man in such a moment goes beyond all parallel.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000096_000001|If there be added the fact that he has just returned from a very unsatisfactory interview with a publisher, wife and daughter may indeed regard the situation as appalling.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000096_000002|Marian came in, and at once observed her mother's frightened face.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000097_000000|'Father,' she said, hoping to make a diversion, 'Mr Hinks has sent you his new book, and wishes-'
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000098_000001|He needn't expect that I'm going to write a notice of it.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000098_000002|The simpleton pesters me beyond endurance.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000100_000000|At that moment the servant appeared with a smoking joint, and Mrs Yule followed carrying dishes of vegetables.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000100_000001|The man of letters seated himself and carved angrily.
train-other-500/2208/11020/2208_11020_000100_000002|He began his meal by drinking half a glass of ale; then he ate a few mouthfuls in a quick, hungry way, his head bent closely over the plate.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000001_000000|Volume Two, Chapter twenty four.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000002_000000|SUICIDE, o r MURDER.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000003_000000|Two more days have passed, and the crowd collected at Llangorren Court is larger than ever.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000003_000001|But it is not now scattered, nor are people rushing excitedly about; instead, they stand thickly packed in a close clump, which covers all the carriage sweep in front of the house.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000003_000002|For the search is over, the lost one has at length been found.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000004_000001|In a little angular embayment at the cliff's base, almost directly under the summer house was the body discovered. It came to the surface soon as touched by the grappling iron, which caught in the loose drapery around it.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000004_000002|Left alone for another day it would have risen of itself.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000005_000000|Taken out of the water, and borne away to the house, it is now lying in the entrance hall, upon a long table there set centrally.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000006_000001|These have orders to admit only the friends and intimates of the family, with those whose duty requires them to be there officially.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000006_000003|Then it was to inquire into what had become of Gwendoline Wynn, and whether she were still alive; to day, it is an inquest being held over her dead body!
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000007_000000|There lies it, just as it came out of the water.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000007_000001|But, oh! how unlike what it was before being submerged!
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000008_000000|No one would know Gwen Wynn now.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000008_000001|Seeing that form prostrate and pulseless, who could believe it the same, which but a few nights before was there moving about, erect, lissome, and majestic?
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000008_000002|Or in that face, dark and disfigured, who could recognise the once radiant countenance of Llangorren's young heiress?
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000009_000000|All is different now; her hair dishevelled, her dress disordered and dripping, the only things upon her person unchanged being the rings on her fingers, the wrist bracelets, the locket still pendant to her neck- all gemmed and gleaming as ever, the impure water affecting not their costly purity.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000009_000001|And their presence has a significance, proclaiming an important fact, soon to be considered.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000010_000000|The Coroner, summoned in haste, has got upon the ground, selected his jury, and gone through the formularies for commencing the inquest. These over, the first point to be established is the identification of the body.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000010_000002|All testify to their belief that the body before them is that of Gwendoline Wynn.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000011_000000|Miss Linton, after giving her testimony, is borne off to her room in hysterics; while Eleanor Lees is led away weeping.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000012_000000|Then succeeds inquiry as to how the death has been brought about; whether it be a case of suicide or assassination?
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000012_000001|If murder the motive cannot have been robbery.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000012_000002|The jewellery, of grand value, forbids the supposition of this, checking all conjecture.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000012_000003|And if suicide, why? That Miss Wynn should have taken her own life-made away with herself- is equally impossible of belief.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000013_000000|Some time is occupied in the investigation of facts, and drawing deductions.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000013_000001|Witnesses of all classes and kinds thought worth the calling are called and questioned.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000013_000004|The finder is not there to tell how; but Miss Linton, Miss Lees, and Mr Musgrave, vouch for the fact at second hand.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000014_000001|Neither has yet made appearance at Llangorren, nor has either been heard of.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000014_000002|The policeman sent after the last has returned to report a bootless expedition.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000014_000003|No word of the boatman at Chepstow, nor anywhere else down the river.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000015_000000|And the first is not yet expected-cannot be.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000016_000001|Still greater their astonishment when, shortly after-within a few seconds- Captain Ryecroft steps upon the same ground, as though the two had come thither in companionship!
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000016_000002|And so might it have been believed, but for two hotel hackneys seen drawn up on the drive outside the skirts of the crowd where they delivered their respective fares, after having brought them separately from the railway station.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000017_000001|For in the days just past he has been the subject of a horrid suspicion, with the usual guesses and conjectures relating to it and him.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000017_000003|All that while Gwen Wynn was but missing.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000017_000004|Now that her body is found, since its discovery, still harsher have been the terms applied to him; at length, to culminate, in calling him a murderer!
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000019_000000|Astonished, also, are those within the hall, though in a milder degree, and from different causes.
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000021_000001|From information already imparted to them they have been prepared to see a corpse, but not such as that!
train-other-500/2234/64131/2234_64131_000021_000002|Where is the beautiful woman, by both beloved, fondly, passionately?
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000001_000000|MATERNAL SOLICITUDE.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000002_000000|"The poor lad!
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000004_000000|She is alone within her cottage, the waterman being away with his boat. Captain Ryecroft has taken him down the river.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000004_000001|It is on this nocturnal exploration, when the cliff at Llangorren is inspected by lamplight.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000005_000002|She saw they went down stream-that is all.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000006_000000|She was some little surprised, though; not at the direction taken, but the time of setting out.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000006_000001|Had Llangorren been still in possession of the young lady, of whom her son has often spoken to her, she would have thought nothing strange of it.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000006_000003|Surely, not a pleasure excursion, at such an unreasonable hour-night just drawing down?
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000007_000000|She would have asked, but had no opportunity.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000007_000001|Her son, summoned out of the house, did not re-enter; his oars were in the boat, having just come off a job; and the Captain appeared to be in haste.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000007_000002|Hence, Jack's going off, without, as he usually does, telling his mother the why and the where.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000008_000000|It is not this that is now fidgeting her.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000008_000001|She is far from being of an inquisitive turn-least of all with her son-and never seeks to pry into his secrets.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000008_000002|She knows his sterling integrity, and can trust him. Besides, she is aware that he is of a nature somewhat uncommunicative, especially upon matters that concern himself, and above all when he has a trouble on his mind-in short, one who keeps his sorrows locked up in his breast, as though preferring to suffer in silence.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000009_000000|And just this it is she is now bemoaning.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000010_000000|Of course she, his mother, expected him to grieve wildly and deeply, as he did; but not deeply so long.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000010_000001|Many days have passed since that dark one; but since, she has not seen him smile-not once!
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000010_000003|She has heard of broken hearts- his may be one.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000010_000004|Not strange her solicitude.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000013_000000|But her waking vision, of a light borne up the river bottom, was a phenomenon yet more natural; since in truth was it a real light, that of a lamp, carried in the hands of a man with a coracle on his back, which accounts for its passing over the stream.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000013_000002|The priest in his peregrinations, often nocturnal, accustomed to take a lamp along, had it with him on that night, having lit it before entering the coracle.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000013_000003|But with the difficulty of balancing himself in the crank little craft he had set it down under the thwart, and at landing forgotten all about it.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000013_000004|Thence the poacher, detained beyond time in reference to an appointment he meant being present at, had taken the shortest cut up the river bottom to Rugg's Ferry.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000013_000005|This carried him twice across the stream, where it bends by the waterman's cottage; his coracle, easily launched and lifted out, enabling him to pass straight over and on, in his haste not staying to extinguish the lamp, nor even thinking of it.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000015_000000|"Yes!" she exclaims, proceeding with her soliloquy; "I knowed it would come!
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000015_000001|Ah, me! it have come.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000015_000002|Poor thing!
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000016_000000|Though right in the premises-for Mary Morgan was a good girl-Mrs Wingate is unfortunately wrong in her deductions.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000016_000002|It is some consolation to her to think that she whom her son loved, and for whom he so sorrows, was worthy of his love as his sorrow.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000018_000001|In addition to maternal solicitude, she feels anxiety of another and less emotional nature.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000018_000002|Her tea caddy is empty, the sugar all expended, and other household things deficient.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000018_000003|Jack was just about starting off for the Ferry to replace them when the Captain came.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000018_000004|Now it is a question whether he will be home in time to reach Rugg's before the shop closes.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000018_000006|In the widow Wingate's life candles seem to play an important part!
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000019_000001|Often before listening for the same, she instinctively knows them to be in the hands of her son.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000020_000000|That it is his stroke she has soon other evidence than her ears.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000020_000001|In a few seconds after hearing the oars she sees them, their wet blades glistening in the moonlight, the boat between.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000021_000000|And now she only waits for it to be pulled up and into the wash-its docking place; when Jack will tell her where they have been, and what for; perhaps, too, the Captain will come inside the cottage and speak a friendly word with her, as he has frequently done.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000022_000000|While thus pleasantly anticipating, she has a disappointment.
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000022_000001|The skiff is passing onward-proceeding up the river!
train-other-500/2234/64139/2234_64139_000022_000003|It will no doubt terminate at the Ferry, where he will get the candles and comestibles, saving him a second journey thither, and so killing two birds with one stone.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000001_000000|STILL ALIVE.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000002_000001|It is more than surprise-more than astonishment-intensely interrogative, as though some secret hope once entertained, but long gone out of his heart, had suddenly returned to it.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000003_000000|"Still alive!" he exclaims, springing to his feet, and almost upsetting the table.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000003_000001|"Alive!" he mechanically repeats.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000003_000002|"What do you mean, Wingate?
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000003_000003|And who?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000004_000000|"My poor girl, Captain.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000004_000001|You know."
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000006_000000|"I'm almost sure she be still livin'," continues the waterman, in wonder at the emotion his words have called up, though little suspecting why.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000007_000000|Controlling it, the other asks, with diminished interest, still earnestly:--
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000008_000000|"What leads you to think that way, Wingate?
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000009_000000|"Yes, have I; more'n one.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000010_000001|But proceed!"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000012_000000|"Don't curtail it in any way.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000012_000001|I wish to hear all!"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000013_000002|In addition, the details of that meeting of the lovers under the elm-their last-and the sad episode soon after succeeding.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000014_000000|Something of all this Ryecroft has heard before, and part of it suspected.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000014_000001|What he now hears new to him is the account of a scene in the farm house of Abergann, while Mary Morgan lay in the chamber of death, with a series of incidents that came under the observation of her sorrowing lover.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000014_000002|The first, his seeing a shroud being made by the girl's mother, white, with a red cross, and the initial letters of her name braided over the breast: the same soon afterwards appearing upon the corpse.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000015_000001|Quite its contrary, I should say."
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000016_000000|"Stay, Captain!
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000016_000001|There be more to come."
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000017_000000|The Captain does stay, listening on.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000017_000001|To hear the story of the planted and plucked up flower; of another and later visit made by Wingate to the cemetery in daylight, then seeing what led him to suspect, that not only had the plant been destroyed, but all the turf on the grave disturbed! He speaks of his astonishment at this, with his perplexity.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000020_000000|"On my word, I hardly know what to think of it.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000020_000001|Mystery seems the measure of the time!
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000020_000002|This you tell me of is strange-if not stranger than any!
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000020_000003|What are your own thoughts about it, Jack?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000022_000000|"I hope she is."
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000023_000000|The tone of Ryecroft's rejoinder tells of his incredulity, further manifested by his questions following.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000024_000001|Waked for two days, as I understood you; then laid in her grave?
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000024_000002|How could she have lived throughout all that?
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000024_000003|Surely she was dead!"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000026_000000|"My good fellow, I fear you are deceiving yourself.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000026_000001|I'm sorry having to think so.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000026_000002|Why the body has been taken up again is of itself a sufficient puzzle; but alive-that seems physically impossible!"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000028_000000|"What article?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000032_000000|"But then she was drowned also?
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000032_000001|Fell from a foot plank, you told me? And was in the water some time?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000034_000000|"My dear Jack, the thing cannot be possible.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000034_000001|Even if it were, you seem to forget that her mother, father-all of them-must have been cognisant of these facts-if facts?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000037_000005|There worn't on all Wyeside so good lookin' a girl!"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000038_000000|Ryecroft again looks incredulous; not smilingly, but with a sad cast of countenance.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000039_000000|Despite its improbability, however, he begins to think there may be some truth in what the waterman says-Jack's earnest convictions sympathetically impressing him.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000040_000000|"And supposing her to be alive," he asks, "where do you think she is now?
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000040_000001|Have you any idea?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000042_000000|"Where?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000043_000000|"Over the water-in France-the town o' Bolone."
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000044_000000|"Boulogne!" exclaims the Captain, with a start.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000044_000001|"What makes you suppose she is there?"
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000046_000000|"I remember it perfectly."
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000047_000000|"Well; I took them, as agreed; an' that day we went down's fur's Chepstow.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000047_000007|But I didn't see any more, as we soon passed out o' sight, goin' on down.
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000050_000000|"I too, Jack!
train-other-500/2234/64149/2234_64149_000050_000001|We shall go together!"
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000002_000000|Volume Three, Chapter twenty five.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000003_000000|CORACLE DICK ON HIS DEATH BED.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000004_000000|As next morning's sun rises over Llangorren Court, it shows a mansion without either master or mistress!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000005_000000|Not long to remain so.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000005_000001|If the old servants of the establishment had short notice of dismissal, still more brief is that given to its latest retinue.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000005_000004|This with an air and in a tone of authority, which precludes supposition that the thing is a jest.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000006_000000|Summoned from all quarters, cellar to garret, and out doors as well, their names, with other particulars, are taken down; and they are told that their services will be no longer required at Llangorren.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000006_000002|If they get either, 'twill be only as a grace.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000007_000000|Then they receive orders to pack up and be off; while Joseph Preece, ex Charon, who has crossed the river in his boat, with appointment to meet the hackney there, is authorised to take temporary charge of the place; Jack Wingate, similarly bespoke, having come down in his skiff, to stand by him in case of any opposition.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000008_000000|None arises.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000008_000002|From what they have observed for some time going on, as also something whispered about, they had no great reliance on their places being permanent.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000008_000003|So, in silence all submit, though somewhat sulkily; and prepare to vacate quarters they had found fairly snug.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000009_000000|There is one, however, who cannot be thus conveniently, or unceremoniously, dismissed-the head gamekeeper, Richard Dempsey.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000009_000002|So the parish doctor has prognosticated.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000010_000000|Without a second's delay he starts off towards the lodge in which Coracle has been of late domiciled-under the guidance of its former occupant Joseph Preece-accompanied by Captain Ryecroft and Jack Wingate.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000011_000000|The house being but a few hundred yards distant from the Court, they are soon inside it, and standing over the bed on which lies the fevered patient; not at rest, but tossing to and fro-at intervals, in such violent manner as to need restraint.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000012_000000|The superintendent at once sees it would be idle putting questions to him.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000012_000001|If asked his own name, he could not declare it.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000012_000002|For he knows not himself-far less those who are around.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000013_000000|His face is something horrible to behold.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000013_000001|It would but harrow sensitive feelings to give a portraiture of it.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000014_000000|And his speech, poured as in a torrent from his lips, is alike horrifying-admission of many and varied crimes; in the same breath denying them and accusing others; his contradictory ravings garnished with blasphemous ejaculations.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000015_000000|A specimen will suffice, omitting the blasphemy.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000016_000001|"A lie, every word o't!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000016_000003|Served her right if I had, the jade!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000016_000006|No; only fixed the plank.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000016_000008|She did-she did!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000017_000001|Then his thoughts changing to another crime, he goes on:--
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000000|"The grand girl-the lady!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000001|She arn't drowned; nor dead eyther!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000002|The priest carried her off in that French schooner.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000006|Murdock!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000008|No, I didn't.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000009|That's another lie!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000010|'twas himself upset the boat.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000011|Let me see-was it?
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000012|No! he couldn't, he was too drunk.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000014|Slap over it went.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000017|Didn't I, your Reverence?
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000018|Now for the hundred pounds.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000019|And you promised to double it-you did!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000021|She kept that fine shawl, Indian they said it wor.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000022|She's got it now.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000024|The shroud!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000018_000027|But then the devil would a' been after and burned me!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000019_000000|Again he breaks off with a peal of demoniac laughter, long continued.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000020_000000|More than an hour they remain listening to his delirious ramblings, and with interest intense.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000020_000001|For despite its incoherence, the disconnected threads joined together make up a tale they can understand; though so strange, so brimful of atrocities, as to seem incredible.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000022_000000|But no; there is another throe yet, one horrible as any that has preceded.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000022_000001|Looking up, he sees the superintendent's uniform and silver buttons; a sight which produces a change in the expression of his features, as though it had recalled him to his senses.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000022_000002|With arms flung out as in defence, he shrieks:--
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000023_000003|Curse the thing!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000024_000000|And with his fingers clutching at his throat, as if to undo a noose, he gasps out in husky voice:
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000025_000000|"Gone by God."
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000026_000000|At this he drops over dead, his last word an oath, his last thought a fancy, that there is a rope around his neck!
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000027_000000|What he has said in his unconscious confessions lays open many seeming mysteries of this romance, hitherto unrevealed.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000027_000002|Then how they had taken it down in the boat to Dempsey's house; soon after, going over to Llangorren, and seizing the young lady, as she stood in the summer house, having stifled her cries by chloroform.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000027_000003|Then, how they carried her across to Dempsey's, and substituted the corpse for the living body-the grave clothes changed for the silken dress with all its adornments-this the part assigned to Mrs Murdock, who had met them at Coracle's cottage.
train-other-500/2234/64159/2234_64159_000027_000004|Then, Dick himself hiding away the shroud, hindered by superstitious fear from committing it to the flames.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000003_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000003_000001|THE STRAIGHT SIMPLICITY OF EVE
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000004_000000|For the next three weeks Eric Marshall seemed to himself to be living two lives, as distinct from each other as if he possessed a double personality.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000004_000001|In one, he taught the Lindsay district school diligently and painstakingly; solved problems; argued on theology with Robert Williamson; called at the homes of his pupils and took tea in state with their parents; went to a rustic dance or two and played havoc, all unwittingly, with the hearts of the Lindsay maidens.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000005_000000|But this life was a dream of workaday.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000006_000000|Here every evening he met Kilmeny; in that old orchard they garnered hours of quiet happiness together; together they went wandering in the fair fields of old romance; together they read many books and talked of many things; and, when they were tired of all else, Kilmeny played to him and the old orchard echoed with her lovely, fantastic melodies.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000007_000000|At every meeting her beauty came home afresh to him with the old thrill of glad surprise.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000007_000001|In the intervals of absence it seemed to him that she could not possibly be as beautiful as he remembered her; and then when they met she seemed even more so.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000007_000002|He learned to watch for the undisguised light of welcome that always leaped into her eyes at the sound of his footsteps.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000007_000003|She was nearly always there before him and she always showed that she was glad to see him with the frank delight of a child watching for a dear comrade.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000008_000000|She was never in the same mood twice.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000008_000001|Now she was grave, now gay, now stately, now pensive.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000008_000002|But she was always charming.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000008_000003|Thrawn and twisted the old Gordon stock might be, but it had at least this one offshoot of perfect grace and symmetry.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000008_000004|Her mind and heart, utterly unspoiled of the world, were as beautiful as her face.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000008_000005|All the ugliness of existence had passed her by, shrined in her double solitude of upbringing and muteness.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000009_000000|She was naturally quick and clever.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000009_000001|Delightful little flashes of wit and humour sparkled out occasionally.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000009_000002|She could be whimsical-even charmingly capricious.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000009_000004|Sarcasm, even, was not unknown to her.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000009_000005|Now and then she punctured some harmless bubble of a young man's conceit or masculine superiority with a biting little line of daintily written script.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000010_000000|She assimilated the ideas in the books they read, speedily, eagerly, and thoroughly, always seizing on the best and truest, and rejecting the false and spurious and weak with an unfailing intuition at which Eric marvelled.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000010_000001|Hers was the spear of Ithuriel, trying out the dross of everything and leaving only the pure gold.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000011_000000|In manner and outlook she was still a child.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000011_000001|Yet now and again she was as old as Eve.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000011_000002|An expression would leap into her laughing face, a subtle meaning reveal itself in her smile, that held all the lore of womanhood and all the wisdom of the ages.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000012_000000|Her way of smiling enchanted him.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000012_000001|The smile always began far down in her eyes and flowed outward to her face like a sparkling brook stealing out of shadow into sunshine.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000013_000000|He knew everything about her life.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000013_000001|She told him her simple history freely.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000013_000003|She rarely spoke of her mother.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000013_000004|Eric came somehow to understand, less from what she said than from what she did not say, that Kilmeny, though she had loved her mother, had always been rather afraid of her.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000013_000005|There had not been between them the natural beautiful confidence of mother and child.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000014_000000|Of Neil, she wrote frequently at first, and seemed very fond of him. Later she ceased to mention him.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000014_000001|Perhaps-for she was marvellously quick to catch and interpret every fleeting change of expression in his voice and face-she discerned what Eric did not know himself-that his eyes clouded and grew moody at the mention of Neil's name.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000015_000000|Once she asked him naively,
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000016_000000|"Are there many people like you out in the world?"
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000017_000000|"Thousands of them," said Eric, laughing.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000018_000000|She looked gravely at him.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000018_000001|Then she gave her head a quick decided little shake.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000019_000000|"I do not think so," she wrote.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000019_000001|"I do not know much of the world, but I do not think there are many people like you in it."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000020_000001|It was the first thing of the kind he had ever read to her, for in the first novel he had lent her the love interest had been very slight and subordinate.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000020_000002|This was a beautiful, passionate idyl exquisitely told.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000021_000000|He read it to her, lying in the grass at her feet; she listened with her hands clasped over her knee and her eyes cast down.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000021_000001|It was not a long story; and when he had finished it he shut the book and looked up at her questioningly.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000022_000000|"Do you like it, Kilmeny?" he asked.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000023_000000|Very slowly she took her slate and wrote,
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000000|"Yes, I like it.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000001|But it hurt me, too.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000002|I did not know that a person could like anything that hurt her.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000003|I do not know why it hurt me.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000004|I felt as if I had lost something that I never had.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000005|That was a very silly feeling, was it not?
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000006|But I did not understand the book very well, you see.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000007|It is about love and I do not know anything about love.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000008|Mother told me once that love is a curse, and that I must pray that it would never enter into my life.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000009|She said it very earnestly, and so I believed her.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000010|But your book teaches that it is a blessing.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000024_000011|It says that it is the most splendid and wonderful thing in life.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000025_000000|"Love-real love-is never a curse, Kilmeny," said Eric gravely.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000025_000001|"There is a false love which IS a curse.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000025_000002|Perhaps your mother believed it was that which had entered her life and ruined it; and so she made the mistake.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000025_000003|There is nothing in the world-or in heaven either, as I believe-so truly beautiful and wonderful and blessed as love."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000026_000000|"Have you ever loved?" asked Kilmeny, with the directness of phrasing necessitated by her mode of communication which was sometimes a little terrible.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000026_000002|She knew of no reason why love might not be discussed with Eric as other matters-music and books and travel-might be.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000027_000000|"No," said Eric-honestly, as he thought, "but every one has an ideal of love whom he hopes to meet some day-'the ideal woman of a young man's dream.' I suppose I have mine, in some sealed, secret chamber of my heart."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000028_000000|"I suppose your ideal woman would be beautiful, like the woman in your book?"
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000000|"Oh, yes, I am sure I could never care for an ugly woman," said Eric, laughing a little as he sat up.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000001|"Our ideals are always beautiful, whether they so translate themselves into realities or not.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000002|But the sun is going down.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000003|Time does certainly fly in this enchanted orchard.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000004|I believe you bewitch the moments away, Kilmeny.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000005|Your namesake of the poem was a somewhat uncanny maid, if I recollect aright, and thought as little of seven years in elfland as ordinary folk do of half an hour on upper earth.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000006|Some day I shall waken from a supposed hour's lingering here and find myself an old man with white hair and ragged coat, as in that fairy tale we read the other night.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000007|Will you let me give you this book?
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000008|I should never commit the sacrilege of reading it in any other place than this.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000009|It is an old book, Kilmeny.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000010|A new book, savouring of the shop and market place, however beautiful it might be, would not do for you.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000011|This was one of my mother's books.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000029_000013|Then when you look at it you will always remember me, and the white buds opening on that rosebush beside you, and the rush and murmur of the wind in the tops of those old spruces."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000030_000000|He held out the book to her, but, to his surprise, she shook her head, with a deeper flush on her face.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000031_000000|"Won't you take the book, Kilmeny?
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000031_000001|Why not?"
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000032_000000|She took her pencil and wrote slowly, unlike her usual quick movement.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000000|"Do not be offended with me.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000001|I shall not need anything to make me remember you because I can never forget you.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000002|But I would rather not take the book.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000003|I do not want to read it again.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000004|It is about love, and there is no use in my learning about love, even if it is all you say.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000005|Nobody will ever love me.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000033_000006|I am too ugly."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000034_000000|"You!
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000034_000001|Ugly!" exclaimed Eric.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000034_000002|He was on the point of going off into a peal of laughter at the idea when a glimpse of her half averted face sobered him.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000034_000003|On it was a hurt, bitter look, such as he remembered seeing once before, when he had asked her if she would not like to see the world for herself.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000035_000000|"Kilmeny," he said in astonishment, "you don't really think yourself ugly, do you?"
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000036_000000|She nodded, without looking at him, and then wrote,
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000000|"Oh, yes, I know that I am.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000001|I have known it for a long time.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000002|Mother told me that I was very ugly and that nobody would ever like to look at me.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000003|I am sorry.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000004|It hurts me much worse to know I am ugly than it does to know I cannot speak.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000005|I suppose you will think that is very foolish of me, but it is true.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000007|I hated to think that YOU would think me ugly.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000008|And that is why I do not want to go out into the world and meet people.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000010|He stared at me so.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000037_000011|I knew it was because he thought me so ugly, and I have always hidden when he came ever since."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000038_000000|Eric's lips twitched.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000038_000001|In spite of his pity for the real suffering displayed in her eyes, he could not help feeling amused over the absurd idea of this beautiful girl believing herself in all seriousness to be ugly.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000039_000000|"But, Kilmeny, do you think yourself ugly when you look in a mirror?" he asked smiling.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000040_000000|"I have never looked in a mirror," she wrote.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000040_000001|"I never knew there was such a thing until after mother died, and I read about it in a book. Then I asked Aunt Janet and she said mother had broken all the looking glasses in the house when I was a baby.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000040_000002|But I have seen my face reflected in the spoons, and in a little silver sugar bowl Aunt Janet has.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000040_000003|And it IS ugly-very ugly."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000041_000000|Eric's face went down into the grass.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000041_000001|For his life he could not help laughing; and for his life he would not let Kilmeny see him laughing. A certain little whimsical wish took possession of him and he did not hasten to tell her the truth, as had been his first impulse.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000041_000002|Instead, when he dared to look up he said slowly,
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000042_000000|"I don't think you are ugly, Kilmeny."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000000|"Oh, but I am sure you must," she wrote protestingly.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000001|"Even Neil does. He tells me I am kind and nice, but one day I asked him if he thought me very ugly, and he looked away and would not speak, so I knew what he thought about it, too.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000002|Do not let us speak of this again.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000003|It makes me feel sorry and spoils everything.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000004|I forget it at other times.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000005|Let me play you some good bye music, and do not feel vexed because I would not take your book.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000043_000006|It would only make me unhappy to read it."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000044_000000|"I am not vexed," said Eric, "and I think you will take it some day yet-after I have shown you something I want you to see.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000044_000002|Beauty isn't everything."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000045_000000|"Oh, it is a great deal," she wrote naively.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000045_000001|"But you do like me, even though I am so ugly, don't you?
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000045_000002|You like me because of my beautiful music, don't you?"
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000046_000000|"I like you very much, Kilmeny," answered Eric, laughing a little; but there was in his voice a tender note of which he was unconscious. Kilmeny was aware of it, however, and she picked up her violin with a pleased smile.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000047_000000|He left her playing there, and all the way through the dim resinous spruce wood her music followed him like an invisible guardian spirit.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000048_000001|A girl of eighteen who has never looked in a mirror!
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000048_000002|I wonder if there is another such in any civilized country in the world. What could have possessed her mother to tell her such a falsehood?
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000048_000003|I wonder if Margaret Gordon could have been quite sane.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000048_000004|It is strange that Neil has never told her the truth.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000048_000005|Perhaps he doesn't want her to find out."
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000049_000000|Eric had met Neil Gordon a few evenings before this, at a country dance where Neil had played the violin for the dancers.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000049_000001|Influenced by curiosity he had sought the lad's acquaintance.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000049_000002|Neil was friendly and talkative at first; but at the first hint concerning the Gordons which Eric threw out skilfully his face and manner changed.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000049_000003|He looked secretive and suspicious, almost sinister.
train-other-500/2237/152229/2237_152229_000049_000004|A sullen look crept into his big black eyes and he drew his bow across the violin strings with a discordant screech, as if to terminate the conversation.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000001_000000|LORNA GROWING FORMIDABLE
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000002_000000|Having reconnoitred thus the position of the enemy, Master Huckaback, on the homeward road, cross examined me in a manner not at all desirable. For he had noted my confusion and eager gaze at something unseen by him in the valley, and thereupon he made up his mind to know everything about it.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000002_000002|Thus much however, he learned aright, that I had been in the Doone valley several years before, and might be brought upon strong inducement to venture there again.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000002_000003|But as to the mode of my getting in, the things I saw, and my thoughts upon them, he not only failed to learn the truth, but certified himself into an obstinacy of error, from which no after knowledge was able to deliver him.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000002_000004|And this he did, not only because I happened to say very little, but forasmuch as he disbelieved half of the truth I told him, through his own too great sagacity.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000003_000000|Upon one point, however, he succeeded more easily than he expected, viz. in making me promise to visit the place again, as soon as occasion offered, and to hold my own counsel about it.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000003_000001|But I could not help smiling at one thing, that according to his point of view my own counsel meant my own and Master Reuben Huckaback's.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000004_000001|Therefore I waited for nothing more than the slow arrival of new small clothes made by a good tailor at Porlock, for I was wishful to look my best; and when they were come and approved, I started, regardless of the expense, and forgetting (like a fool) how badly they would take the water.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000005_000001|And none of them more sheepish or innocent than I myself, albeit twenty one years old, and not afraid of men much, but terrified of women, at least, if they were comely.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000005_000002|And what of all things scared me most was the thought of my own size, and knowledge of my strength, which came like knots upon me daily.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000005_000004|Many a time I longed to be no bigger than john Fry was; whom now (when insolent) I took with my left hand by the waist stuff, and set him on my hat, and gave him little chance to tread it; until he spoke of his family, and requested to come down again.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000006_000000|Now taking for good omen this, that I was a seven year Valentine, though much too big for a Cupidon, I chose a seven foot staff of ash, and fixed a loach fork in it, to look as I had looked before; and leaving word upon matters of business, out of the back door I went, and so through the little orchard, and down the brawling Lynn brook.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000006_000001|Not being now so much afraid, I struck across the thicket land between the meeting waters, and came upon the Bagworthy stream near the great black whirlpool.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000006_000002|Nothing amazed me so much as to find how shallow the stream now looked to me, although the pool was still as black and greedy as it used to be.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000006_000003|And still the great rocky slide was dark and difficult to climb; though the water, which once had taken my knees, was satisfied now with my ankles.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000006_000004|After some labour, I reached the top; and halted to look about me well, before trusting to broad daylight.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000007_000000|The winter (as I said before) had been a very mild one; and now the spring was toward so that bank and bush were touched with it.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000007_000001|The valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind and taking all the sunshine.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000007_000002|The willow bushes over the stream hung as if they were angling with tasseled floats of gold and silver, bursting like a bean pod.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000007_000004|And on either bank, the meadow ruffled as the breeze came by, opening (through new tuft, of green) daisy bud or celandine, or a shy glimpse now and then of the love lorn primrose.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000008_000000|Though I am so blank of wit, or perhaps for that same reason, these little things come and dwell with me, and I am happy about them, and long for nothing better.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000009_000001|The words were of an ancient song, fit to laugh or cry at.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000013_000000|But, if so thou ever Strivest to be free, 'Twill be my endeavour To be dear to thee.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000015_000001|But all the time I kept myself in a black niche of the rock, where the fall of the water began, lest the sweet singer (espying me) should be alarmed, and flee away.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000015_000002|But presently I ventured to look forth where a bush was; and then I beheld the loveliest sight-one glimpse of which was enough to make me kneel in the coldest water.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000016_000001|The pale gleam over the western cliffs threw a shadow of light behind her, as if the sun were lingering. Never do I see that light from the closing of the west, even in these my aged days, without thinking of her.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000017_000001|To me it was a thing of terror to behold such beauty, and feel myself the while to be so very low and common.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000017_000002|But scarcely knowing what I did, as if a rope were drawing me, I came from the dark mouth of the chasm; and stood, afraid to look at her.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000019_000000|She knew me at once, from my manner and ways, and a smile broke through her trembling, as sunshine comes through aspen leaves; and being so clever, she saw, of course, that she needed not to fear me.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000021_000000|'I am john Ridd,' I answered; 'the boy who gave you those beautiful fish, when you were only a little thing, seven years ago to day.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000022_000000|'Yes, the poor boy who was frightened so, and obliged to hide here in the water.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000023_000000|'And do you remember how kind you were, and saved my life by your quickness, and went away riding upon a great man's shoulder, as if you had never seen me, and yet looked back through the willow trees?'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000024_000000|'Oh, yes, I remember everything; because it was so rare to see any except-I mean because I happen to remember.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000024_000001|But you seem not to remember, sir, how perilous this place is.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000025_000000|For she had kept her eyes upon me; large eyes of a softness, a brightness, and a dignity which made me feel as if I must for ever love and yet for ever know myself unworthy.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000025_000001|Unless themselves should fill with love, which is the spring of all things.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000025_000002|And so I could not answer her, but was overcome with thinking and feeling and confusion.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000025_000003|Neither could I look again; only waited for the melody which made every word like a poem to me, the melody of her voice.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000025_000004|But she had not the least idea of what was going on with me, any more than I myself had.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000026_000000|'I think, Master Ridd, you cannot know,' she said, with her eyes taken from me, 'what the dangers of this place are, and the nature of the people.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000027_000000|'Yes, I know enough of that; and I am frightened greatly, all the time, when I do not look at you.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000028_000001|And to tell the truth, I grew afraid; perhaps from a kind of sympathy, and because I knew that evil comes more readily than good to us.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000029_000002|For, of course, I knew what a churl I was compared to her birth and appearance; but meanwhile I might improve myself and learn a musical instrument.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000030_000000|'Mistress Lorna, I will depart'--mark you, I thought that a powerful word-'in fear of causing disquiet.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000030_000001|If any rogue shot me it would grieve you; I make bold to say it, and it would be the death of mother.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000030_000002|Few mothers have such a son as me.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000030_000003|Try to think of me now and then, and I will bring you some new laid eggs, for our young blue hen is beginning.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000031_000000|'I thank you heartily,' said Lorna; 'but you need not come to see me. You can put them in my little bower, where I am almost always-I mean whither daily I repair to read and to be away from them.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000032_000000|'Only show me where it is.
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000032_000001|Thrice a day I will come and stop-'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000033_000000|'Nay, Master Ridd, I would never show thee-never, because of peril-only that so happens it thou hast found the way already.'
train-other-500/2237/163673/2237_163673_000034_000001|But only to myself I cried for anything at all, having enough of man in me to be bashful with young maidens.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000002_000000|THE STOCK TICKER
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000003_000000|"THE letters and figures used in the language of the tape," said a well-known Boston stock speculator, "are very few, but they spell ruin in ninety nine million ways."
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000003_000001|It is not to be inferred, however, that the modern stock ticker has anything to do with the making or losing of fortunes.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000003_000002|There were regular daily stock market reports in London newspapers in eighteen twenty five, and New York soon followed the example.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000003_000003|As far back as sixteen ninety two, Houghton issued in London a weekly review of financial and commercial transactions, upon which Macaulay based the lively narrative of stock speculation in the seventeenth century, given in his famous history.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000003_000005|The existence of such facilities is to be admired rather than deplored.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000000|Edison came first to New York in eighteen sixty eight, with his early stock printer, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000001|He went back to Boston, and quite undismayed got up a duplex telegraph.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000003|The apparatus was built, and I left the Western Union employ and went to rochester new york, to test the apparatus on the lines of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph between that city and New York.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000006|No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in eighteen sixty nine.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000007|He was in debt, and his few belongings in books and instruments had to be left behind.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000008|He was not far from starving.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000011|We went inside and as soon as the waiter appeared mr Edison ordered apple dumplings and a cup of coffee for himself.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000013|As we walked to keep the appointment he gave me the following reminiscence: When he left Boston and decided to come to New York he had only money enough for the trip.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000004_000014|After leaving the boat his first thought was of breakfast; but he was without money to obtain it. However, in passing a wholesale tea house he saw a man tasting tea, so he went in and asked the 'taster' if he might have some of the tea.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000000|Doctor Laws, who afterward became President of the State University of Missouri, was an inventor of unusual ability and attainments.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000001|In his early youth he had earned his livelihood in a tool factory; and, apparently with his savings, he went to Princeton, where he studied electricity under no less a teacher than the famous Joseph Henry.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000006|Four electrical pulsations were required to move the drum the distance between the fractions.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000013|It had one main entrance from the street to a hallway, from which entrance to the offices of two prominent broker firms was obtained.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000014|Each firm had its own army of boys, numbering from twelve to fifteen, whose duties were to ascertain the latest quotations from the different exchanges.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000015|Each boy devoted his attention to some particularly active stock.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000006_000018|The conception of the stock ticker dates from this incident."
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000001|Each shaft with its dial was provided with two ratchet wheels, one the reverse of the other.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000004|The name of the "ticker" came through the casual remark of an observer to whom the noise was the most striking feature of the mechanism.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000005|mr Callahan removed the two dials, and, substituting type wheels, turned the movements face to face, so that each type wheel could imprint its characters upon a paper tape in two lines.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000009|It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000010|The ticker apparatus was placed under a neat glass shade and mounted on a shelf.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000011|Twenty five instruments were energized from one circuit, and the quotations were supplied from a "central" at eighteen New Street.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000012|The Gold and Stock Telegraph Company was promptly organized to supply to brokers the system, which was very rapidly adopted throughout the financial district of New York, at the southern tip of Manhattan Island.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000007_000014|Success with the "stock" news system was instantaneous.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000002|What happened next has been the basis of many inaccurate stories, but is dramatic enough as told in mr Edison's own version: "On the third day of my arrival and while sitting in the office, the complicated general instrument for sending on all the lines, and which made a very great noise, suddenly came to a stop with a crash.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000007|He demanded of the man the cause of the trouble, but the man was speechless.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000009|Fix it!
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000010|Be quick!' I removed the spring and set the contact wheels at zero; and the line, battery, and inspecting men all scattered through the financial district to set the instruments. In about two hours things were working again.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000011|Doctor Laws came in to ask my name and what I was doing.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000014|He asked me a great many questions about the instruments and his system, and I showed him how he could simplify things generally.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000008_000016|On arrival, he stated at once that he had decided to put me in charge of the whole plant, and that my salary would be three hundred dollars per month!
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000000|Edison, barely twenty one years old, was a keen observer of the stirring events around him.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000001|"Wall Street" is at any time an interesting study, but it was never at a more agitated and sensational period of its history than at this time.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000008|The financial and commercial interests of the country were in panic; but the pool persevered in its effort to corner gold, with a profit of many millions contingent on success.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000010|Relief was instantaneous, the corner was broken, but the harm had been done. Edison's remarks shed a vivid side light on this extraordinary episode: "On Black Friday," he says, "we had a very exciting time with the indicators.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000012|The indicator was composed of several wheels; on the circumference of each wheel were the numerals; and one wheel had fractions.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000015|The excitement was prodigious.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000009_000018|One man came to the booth, grabbed a pencil, and attempted to write a message to Boston.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000000|There is a calm sense of detachment about this description that has been possessed by the narrator even in the most anxious moments of his career.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000002|"A friend of mine was an operator who worked in the office of Belden and Company, sixty Broadway, which were headquarters for Fisk.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000003|mr Gould was up town in the Erie offices in the Grand Opera House.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000005|All were connected with wires.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000006|Gould seemed to be in charge, Fisk being the executive down town.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000007|Fisk wore a velvet corduroy coat and a very peculiar vest.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000008|He was very chipper, and seemed to be light-hearted and happy.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000009|Sitting around the room were about a dozen fine looking men.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000010|All had the complexion of cadavers.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000011|There was a basket of champagne.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000012|Hundreds of boys were rushing in paying checks, all checks being payable to Belden and Company.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000013|When james Brown, of Brown Brothers and Company, broke the corner by selling five million gold, all payments were repudiated by Smith, Gould and Martin; but they continued to receive checks at Belden and Company's for some time, until the Street got wind of the game.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000016|All night long the streets were full of people.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000017|Every broker's office was brilliantly lighted all night, and all hands were at work.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000018|The clearing house for gold had been swamped, and all was mixed up.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000010_000019|No one knew if he was bankrupt or not."
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000011_000000|Edison in those days rather liked the modest coffee shops, and mentions visiting one.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000011_000002|He was a first-class receiver and rapid sender.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000011_000006|Never having seen him, I went while in New York to call upon him.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000011_000007|I did all the talking.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000011_000008|He would listen, stroke his beard, and say nothing.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000011_000011|The night was intensely hot and close.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000005|"While with them I devised a printer to print gold quotations instead of indicating them.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000006|The lines were started, and the whole was sold out to the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000008|Every night I left for Elizabeth on the one a m train, then walked half a mile to mr Pope's house and up at six a m for breakfast to catch the seven a m train.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000013|He had arranged twenty jars with platinum electrodes held in place by hard rubber.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000015|He then disappeared for three days.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000016|On the second day we noticed a terrible smell in the shop, as if from some dead animal.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000017|The next day the doctor arrived and, noticing the smell, asked what was dead.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000018|We all thought something had got into his whiskey room and died.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000012_000019|He opened it and was nearly overcome.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000002|Messrs.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000005|The building and equipment of private telegraph lines was also entered upon.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000007|The financial organization of the company was peculiar and worthy of attention.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000008|Each subscriber for a machine paid in one hundred dollars for the privilege of securing an instrument.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000009|For the service he paid twenty five dollars weekly.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000010|In case he retired or failed, he could transfer his 'right,' and employees were constantly on the alert for purchasable rights, which could be disposed of at a profit.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000013_000013|A private line department was established, and the business taken over from Pope, Edison, and Ashley was rapidly enlarged."
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000002|This was made exceedingly simple, as they did not have the experts we had in New York to handle anything complicated.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000005|He called me into his office, and said: 'Now, young man, I want to close up the matter of your inventions.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000008|I was afraid he would hear my heart beat.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000009|I managed to say that I thought it was fair.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000010|'All right, I will have a contract drawn; come around in three days and sign it, and I will give you the money.' I arrived on time, but had been doing some considerable thinking on the subject.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000012|I thought there was something unreal about it.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000013|However, the contract was handed to me.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000014_000018|He then went to Newark and sat up all night with the money for fear it might be stolen.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000015_000003|As business increased he put on a night force, and was his own foreman on both shifts.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000015_000008|I kept no books.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000015_000011|Then I would go to New York and get an advance, or pay the note if I had the money.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000015_000013|Every store I traded with was always glad to furnish goods, perhaps in amazed admiration of my system of doing business, which was certainly new." After a while Edison got a bookkeeper, whose vagaries made him look back with regret on the earlier, primitive method.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000015_000015|He reported three thousand dollars.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000000|The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the "Universal," of which at one time twelve hundred were in use.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000001|Edison's connection with this particular device was very close while it lasted.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000003|[two] It was a crude and unsatisfactory piece of mechanism and necessitated doubling of the battery in order to bring it into action.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000004|It was short-lived.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000009|In New York the two great stock exchanges have deemed it necessary to own and operate a stock ticker service for the sole benefit of their members; and down to the present moment the process of improvement has gone on, impelled by the increasing volume of business to be reported.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000011|But the difficulties of these early days were almost insurmountable.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000012|mr r w Pope says of the "Universal" machines that they were simple and substantial and generally satisfactory, but adds: "These instruments were supposed to have been made with interchangeable parts; but as a matter of fact the instances in which these parts would fit were very few.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000016_000014|This was interpreted to mean: First, the parts will fit; second, they will almost fit; third, they do not fit, and can't be made to fit."
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000017_000000|[Footnote two: This I invented as well.--T.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000017_000001|a e]
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000018_000000|This early shop affords an illustration of the manner in which Edison has made a deep impression on the personnel of the electrical arts.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000018_000001|At a single bench there worked three men since rich or prominent.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000018_000003|The next man adjacent was john Kruesi, afterward engineer of the great General Electric Works at Schenectady.
train-other-500/2246/131710/2246_131710_000018_000008|The remark was once made that if a famous American teacher sat at one end of a log and a student at the other end, the elements of a successful university were present.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000006|She was my constant Companion; but unhappily died upon the Road.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000008|'tis a strange Thing that Nobody here will advance so small a Sum upon so valuable a Commodity.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000012|'tis very possible, that the Soul of the deceas'd Lady may have taken its Residence in that Fowl.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000013|And you wouldn't surely run the Risque of eating up your Aunt?
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000014|To boil a Fowl is, doubtless, a most shameful Outrage done to Nature.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000027|He had a numerous Issue, as is very well known, and all of them were powerful Monarchs.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000003_000031|Whereas we have Almanacks that are dated four thousand Centuries backwards.
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000004_000002|I shall lay no Stress on the Antiquity of my Country; for I imagine 'tis of much greater Importance to be the happiest People, than the most antient under the sun
train-other-500/2262/141714/2262_141714_000006_000009|Agreed, quotha! they all cried, in an angry Tone, How so, pray?
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000002_000002|When two Men defend themselves against a whole Gang, the Contest, doubtless, cannot last long.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000002_000008|He plunder'd without Mercy; but was liberal in his Benefactions.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000002_000019|I was look'd upon as a Man of Consequence, and I procur'd this Castle by my military Atchievements.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000002_000022|I executed my Trust, in every Respect, as I ought, in the Capacity of a Collector; but I never did, nor never intended to balance my Accounts.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000001|I was appriz'd of the whole Affair, and, accordingly, order'd his whole Retinue, consisting of four inferior Officers, to be strangled before his Face, after the same Manner as was intended for my Execution.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000004|He is at this very Day not only the best Officer, but the richest I have in all my Court.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000005|If my Word may be credited, I'll raise your Fortune as I have done his.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000015|At last, being gradually overcome by the Fumes of his Liquor, he fell fast asleep.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000017|What, said he, the King first became crazy, and then was murder'd.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000018|I think I have just Grounds for Complaint.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000003_000020|O Fortune!
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000004_000001|By Virtue of their Night's Excursions, they had brought in some fresh Booty, and were busy in dividing the Spoil.
train-other-500/2262/141716/2262_141716_000004_000002|All the Favour he could procure, in their Hurry and Tumult, was, to go away without the least Examination.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000002_000000|CHAP. fourteen.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000004_000002|I am, doubtless, said the poor Fisherman, the most unhappy Wretch that ever liv'd!
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000004_000004|No Man of my Profession ever had a handsomer, more compleat Housewife, than my Dame was; but I have been treacherously depriv'd of her.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000004_000005|I had still left a poor, pitiful Cottage, but that I saw plunder'd and destroy'd.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000004_000011|Is there then the Man in Being more wretched than myself?
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000004_000017|Never sink Man, under the Weight of your Burden.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000007_000001|I have since endeavour'd to get my Bread by Fishing; but the Fish, as well as all Mankind, desert me.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000010_000001|What!
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000010_000004|Your greatest Uneasiness, said he, arose from the Narrowness of your Circumstances; but mine proceeds from an internal, and much deeper Cause.
train-other-500/2262/141717/2262_141717_000010_000007|He recollected the whole Series of his Misfortunes; commencing from that of the Eunuch and the Huntsman, to his Arrival at the Free booter's Castle.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000001_000000|But Margaret's turn did not come for nearly a year.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000003_000001|Then she listened to him talk, as he strode about the platform, boyishly shaking back the hair that fell across his forehead.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000003_000002|After that he walked to the hotel with them, through dazzling seas of perfume, and of flowers, under the enchanted shifting green of great trees,--or so Margaret thought.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000003_000003|There was a plunge from the hot street into the awning cool gloom of the hotel, and then a luncheon, when the happy steady murmur from their own table seemed echoed by the murmurs clink and stir and laughter all about them, and accented by the not too close music from the band.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000005_000000|He was frankly delighted at the chance that had brought him in contact with these charming people; and as mrs Carr Bolt took an instant fancy to him, and as he was staying at their own hotel, they saw him after that every day, and several times a day.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000005_000001|Margaret would come down the great sun bathed stairway in the morning to find him patiently waiting in a porch chair.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000005_000003|There would be time for a chat over their fruit and eggs before mr Carr Bolt came down, all ready for a motor trip, or mrs Carr Bolt, swathed in cream colored coat and flying veils, joined them with an approving "Good morning."
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000007_000000|Sometimes the professor went with them on their morning drive, to be dropped at the lecture hall with Margaret and mrs Carr Bolt.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000007_000002|They would end the afternoon with coffee and little cakes in some tea room, and come home tired and merry in the long shadows of the spring sunset, with wilted flowers from the street markets in their hands.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000008_000000|There was one glorious tramp in the rain, when the professor's great laugh rang out like a boy's for sheer high spirits, and when Margaret was an enchanting vision in her long coat, with her cheeks glowing through the blown wet tendrils of her hair.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000010_000000|"Oh, good gracious!" said Margaret, laughing over her teacup.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000010_000001|"Haven't I told you yet that I'm only her secretary?
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000010_000002|I never saw mrs Carr Bolt until five years ago."
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000011_000000|"Perhaps you did tell me.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000012_000000|"People do, I think," Margaret said thoughtfully, "because we're both fair." She did not say that but for mrs Carr Bolt's invaluable maid the likeness would have been less marked, on this score at least.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000012_000001|"I taught school," she went on simply, "and mrs Carr Bolt happened to come to my school, and she asked me to come to her."
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000014_000000|"Oh, dear me, no! My father and mother are living"; and feeling, as she always did, a little claim on her loyalty, she added: "We are, or were, rather, Southern people,--but my father settled in a very small New York town-"
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000015_000000|"mrs Carr Bolt told me that-I'd forgotten-" said Professor Tenison, and he carried the matter entirely out of Margaret's hands,--much, much further indeed than she would have carried it, by continuing, "She tells me that Quincyport was named for your mother's grandfather, and that Judge Paget was your father's father."
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000016_000001|To the Quincy port claim she said nothing.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000016_000003|Margaret and Julie, browsing about among the colonial histories and genealogies of the Weston Public Library years before, had come to a jubilant certainty that mother's grandfather must have been the same man. But she did not feel quite so positive now.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000017_000000|"Your people aren't still in the South, you said?"
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000018_000001|"They're in Weston-Weston, New York."
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000019_000000|"Weston!
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000019_000001|Not near Dayton?"
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000020_000000|"Why, yes!
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000020_000001|Do you know Dayton?"
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000021_000000|"Do I know Dayton?" He was like an eager child.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000021_000001|"Why, my Aunt Pamela lives there; the only mother I ever knew!
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000021_000002|I knew Weston, too, a little.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000021_000003|Lovely homes there, some of them,--old colonial houses.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000021_000004|And your mother lives there?
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000022_000000|"She loves them," Margaret said, vaguely uncomfortable.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000023_000000|"Well, she must know Aunt Pamela," said john Tenison, enthusiastically.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000023_000001|"I expect they'd be great friends.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000023_000002|And you must know Aunt Pam.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000023_000003|She's like a dainty old piece of china, or a-I don't know, a tea rose!
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000023_000004|She's never married, and she lives in the most charming brick house, with brick walls and hollyhocks all about it, and such an atmosphere inside!
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000023_000008|You'd sort of fit into the Dayton picture, with your braids, and those ruffly things you wear!"
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000024_000000|Margaret said simply, "I would love to meet her," and began slowly to draw on her gloves.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000024_000002|We are poor people, our house is crowded, our days a severe and endless struggle with the ugly things of life.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000024_000003|We have good blood in our veins, but not more than hundreds of thousands of other American families.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000024_000004|My mother would not understand one tenth of your aunt's conversation; your aunt would find very uninteresting the things that are vital to my mother."
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000025_000000|No, she couldn't say that.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000025_000001|She picked up her dashing little hat, and pinned it over her loosened soft mass of yellow hair, and buttoned up her storm coat, and plunged her hands deep in her pockets.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000025_000003|Mother to have a simple little luncheon, and mrs Carr Boldt would let her bring dr Tenison down in the motor from New York.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000025_000004|And meantime-no need to be too explicit.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000026_000000|For just two happy weeks Margaret lived in Wonderland.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000026_000002|Life seemed to grow warmer, more rosy colored.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000026_000003|Little things became significant; every moment carried its freight of joy.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000026_000004|Her beauty, always notable, became almost startling; there was a new glow in her cheeks and lips, new fire in the dark lashed eyes that were so charming a contrast to her bright hair.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000026_000005|Like a pair of joyous and irresponsible children she and john Tenison walked through the days, too happy ever to pause and ask themselves whither they were going.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000027_000000|Then abruptly it ended.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000028_000000|Doctor Tenison accompanied them to the station, and in the five minutes' wait before their train left, a little incident occurred, the memory of which clouded Margaret's dreams for many a day to come. Arriving, as they were departing, were the saint George Allens, noisy, rich, arrogant New Yorkers, for whom Margaret had a special dislike. The Allens fell joyously upon the Carr Boldt party, with a confusion of greetings.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000028_000001|"And Jack Tenison!" shouted Lily Allen, delightedly. "Well, what fun!
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000028_000002|What are you doing here?"
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000031_000000|"I assure you I was dreading the lonely evening," john Tenison said gratefully.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000031_000001|Margaret's last glimpse of his face was between Lily's pink and cherry hat, and Maude's astonishing headgear of yellow straw, gold braid, spangled quills, and calla lilies.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000031_000002|She carried a secret heartache through the worried fortnight of Victoria's illness, and the busy days that followed; for mrs Carr Boldt had one of many nervous break downs, and took her turn at the hospital when Victoria came home.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000031_000004|If she had but her share of these things, she could hold her own against a hundred Maude and Lily Allens.
train-other-500/2270/156683/2270_156683_000032_000000|As it was, she told herself a little bitterly, she was only a secretary, one of the hundred paid dependents of a rich woman.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000000_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000001_000000|"So you're going home to your own people for the week end, Peggy?--And how many of you are there,--I always forget?" said young mrs George Crawford, negligently.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000001_000001|She tipped back in her chair, half shut her novel, half shut her eyes, and looked critically at her finger nails.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000002_000001|But deep awnings made a clear cool shade indoors, and the wide rooms were delightfully breezy.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000003_000000|Margaret, busy with a ledger and cheque book, smiled absently, finished a long column, made an orderly entry, and wiped her pen.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000004_000000|"Seven," said she, smiling.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000005_000000|"Seven!" echoed mrs Potter, lazily.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000005_000001|"My heaven-seven children! How early Victorian!"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000006_000000|"Isn't it?" said a third woman, a very beautiful woman, mrs Watts Watson, who was also idling and reading in the white and gray morning room.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000006_000001|"Well," she added, dropping her magazine, and locking her hands about her head, "my grandmother had ten.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000006_000002|Fancy trying to raise ten children!"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000007_000000|"Oh, everything's different now," the first speaker said indifferently. "Everything's more expensive, life is more complicated.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000007_000002|Nowadays we don't do that."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000008_000000|"And thank the saints we don't!" said mrs Watson, piously.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000008_000001|"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a houseful of things in law!"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000009_000000|"Of course; but I mean it made the family problem simpler," mrs Crawford pursued.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000009_000002|Everything was so simple.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000009_000003|All this business of sterilizing, and fumigating, and pasteurizing, and vaccinating, and boiling in boracic acid wasn't done in those days," she finished vaguely.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000002|Now she leaned back in her chair, glanced at the watch at her wrist, and relaxed the cramped muscles of her body.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000003|"That's exactly it, Rose," said she to mrs Crawford.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000004|"Life is more complicated.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000005|People-the very people who ought to have children-simply cannot afford it!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000006|And who's to blame?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000007|Can you blame a woman whose life is packed full of other things she simply cannot avoid, if she declines to complicate things any further?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000008|Our grandmothers didn't have telephones, or motor cars, or week end affairs, or even-for that matter-manicures and hair dressers!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000009|A good heavy silk was full dress all the year 'round.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000010|They washed their own hair.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000011|The 'up stairs girl' answered the doorbell,--why, they didn't even have talcum powder and nursery refrigerators, and sanitary rugs that have to be washed every day!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000012|Do you suppose my grandmother ever took a baby's temperature, or had its eyes and nose examined, or its adenoids cut?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000013|They had more children, and they lost more children,--without any reason or logic whatever.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000014|Poor things, they never thought of doing anything else, I suppose!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000010_000018|And even then Vic had this mastoid trouble, and Harriet got everything, almost."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000011_000000|"Exactly," said mrs Watson.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000011_000001|"That's you, Hattie, with all the money in the world.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000011_000002|Now do you wonder that some of the rest of us, who have to think of money-in short," she finished decidedly, "do you wonder that people are not having children?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000011_000003|At first, naturally, one doesn't want them,--for three or four years, I'm sure, the thought doesn't come into one's head.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000011_000004|But then, afterwards,--you see, I've been married fifteen years now!--afterwards, I think it would be awfully nice to have one or two little kiddies, if it was a possible thing. But it isn't."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000012_000001|"You don't want to have them unless you're able to do everything in the world for them.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000012_000002|If I were Hat here, I'd have a dozen."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000013_000000|"Oh, no, you wouldn't," mrs Carr Boldt assured her promptly.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000013_000001|"No, you wouldn't!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000013_000002|You can't leave everything to servants-there are clothes to think of, and dentists, and special teachers, and it's frightfully hard to get a nursery governess.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000013_000003|And then you've got to see that they know the right people-don't you know?--and give them parties-I tell you it's a strain."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000014_000001|"Look at this morning-did you sit down before you came in here twenty minutes ago?"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000015_000000|"I?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000015_000001|Indeed I didn't!" mrs Carr Boldt said.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000015_000003|Joe'll never forgive me if I've really broken the creature's knees!--then I telephoned mother, and saw Harriet's violin man, and talked to that Italian Joe sent up to clean the oils,--he's in the gallery now, and-let's see-"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000016_000000|"Italian lesson," Margaret prompted.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000017_000000|"Italian lesson," the other echoed, "and then came in here to sign my cheques."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000018_000000|"You're so executive, Harriet!" said mrs Crawford, languidly.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000019_000000|"Apropos of Swann," Margaret said, "he confided to me that he has seven children-on a little farm down on Long Island."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000020_000000|"The butler-oh, I dare say!" mrs Watson agreed.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000000|"It's too bad," said mrs Crawford.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000001|"But you've got to handle the question sanely and reasonably, like any other.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000002|Now, I love children," she went on.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000003|"I'm perfectly crazy about my sister's little girl.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000004|She's eleven now, and the cutest thing alive.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000006|Now, look at us,--there are thousands of people fixed as we are.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000007|We're in an apartment hotel, with one maid.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000010|We take a house.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000021_000011|That means three indoor maids, George's chauffeur, a man for lawn and furnace-that's five-"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000022_000000|"Doubling expenses," said mrs Carr Boldt, thoughtfully.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000000|"Doubling-!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000001|Trebling, or more.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000002|But that's not all.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000003|Baby must be out from eleven to three every day.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000004|So you've got to go sit by the carriage in the park while nurse goes home for her lunch.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000006|I know how it was with Mabel; she had to give up that wonderful old apartment of theirs on Gramercy Park.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000008|And then she lost that splendid cook of hers, Germaine.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000009|She wouldn't stand it.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000010|Up to that time she'd been cooking and waiting, too, but the baby ended that.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000011|Mabel took a house, and Sid paid studio rent beside, and they had two maids, and then three maids,--and what with their fighting, and their days off, and eternally changing, Mabel was a wreck.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000012|I've seen her trying to play a bridge hand with Dorothy bobbing about on her arm-poor girl!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000013|Finally they went to a hotel, and of course the child got older, and was less trouble.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000023_000014|But to this day Mabel doesn't dare leave her alone for one second.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000001|"You can't ever turn 'em off, as it were, or make it spades!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000002|They're always right on the job.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000003|I'll never forget Elsie Clay.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000004|She was the best friend I had,--my bridesmaid, too.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000005|She married, and after a while they took a house in Jersey because of the baby.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000006|I went out there to lunch one day.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000024_000009|And they quarrelled, you know, she and her husband-that was the beginning of the trouble. Finally the boy went to his grandmother, and now believe Elsie's married again, and living in California somewhere."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000025_000000|Margaret, hanging over the back of her chair, was an attentive listener.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000026_000000|"But people-people in town have children!" she said.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000026_000001|"The Blankenships have one, and haven't the de Normandys?"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000027_000000|"The Blankenship boy is in college," said mrs Carr Boldt; "and the little de Normandys lived with their grandmother until they were old enough for boarding school."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000028_000000|"Well, the Deanes have three!" Margaret said triumphantly.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000029_000000|"Ah, well, my dear!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000029_000001|Harry Deane's a rich man, and she was a Pell of Philadelphia," mrs Crawford supplied promptly.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000029_000002|"Now the Eastmans have three, too, with a trained nurse apiece."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000030_000000|"I see," Margaret admitted slowly.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000031_000001|And now, girls, let's stop wasting time.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000031_000002|It's half past eleven.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000031_000003|Why can't we have a game of auction right here and now?"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000032_000000|Margaret returned to her cheque book with speed.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000032_000001|The other two, glad to be aroused, heartily approved the idea.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000033_000000|"Well, what does this very businesslike aspect imply?" mrs Carr Boldt asked her secretary.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000034_000000|"It means that I can't play cards, and you oughtn't," Margaret said, laughing.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000035_000000|"Oh-?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000035_000001|Why not?"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000038_000000|"Fraulein's going to drive Vic over to the Partridges' for luncheon, and I promised Swann I'd talk to him about favors and things for tomorrow night."
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000039_000000|"Well-busy Lizzie!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000039_000001|And what have I to do?"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000040_000000|Margaret reached for a well filled date book.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000041_000001|"There are some architect's sketches around here; the man's going to be here early in the morning.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000041_000003|You wanted to write mrs Polk a note to catch the 'Kaiserin Augusta', and luncheon's early because of the Kellogg bridge." She shut the book.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000041_000004|"And call mr Carr Boldt at the club at one," she added.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000043_000000|She had swept some scattered magazines from a small table, and was now seated there, negligently shuffling a pack of cards in her fine white hands.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000044_000000|"Ring, will you, Peggy?" said she.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000045_000000|"And the boat races are to day, and you dine at Oaks in the Field," Margaret supplemented inflexibly.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000046_000000|"Yes?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000046_000001|Well, come and beat the seven of clubs," said mrs Carr Boldt, spreading the deck for the draw.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000001|Tell her that she's to go with you and Miss Victoria for a drive.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000002|Thank you.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000004|Thank you.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000006|And tell mr Mathews that mrs Carr Boldt is indisposed and he'll have to come back this afternoon.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000007|I'll talk to him before the children's races.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000008|And-one thing more!
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000009|Will you tell Swann Miss Paget will see him about to morrow's dinner when she comes back from the yacht club to day?
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000011|Thank you so much.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000012|No, shut it.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000013|Thank you.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000047_000014|Have a nice drive!"
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000049_000000|"You and I, Rose," said mrs Watson.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000049_000001|"I'm so glad you suggested this, Hattie.
train-other-500/2270/156684/2270_156684_000049_000002|I am dying to play."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000000_000000|PART TWO
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000002_000000|SOME YEARS LATER
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000003_000000|The years passed swiftly without bringing any great changes in our quiet life.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000003_000001|Our grandparents had aged a bit, and Teresa was not quite as active as formerly, while a few wrinkles had gathered on our father's forehead; but all this had come so slowly that the change was hardly noticed.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000004_000000|Rosa, who was now eighteen years old, was studying in the city.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000004_000002|Her quiet reserved manner caused some people to call her proud, but those who knew her better loved her, and knew she could be depended on in time of trouble.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000005_000000|Catalina still suffered somewhat, but now was able to walk around a bit without crutches, and in spite of her delicate health and poor twisted body she had come bravely to take her true place among us as our "big sister," so loving and solicitous for everybody's welfare that she came to be known in the neighborhood as "The little mother."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000000|Paula was now fourteen years of age.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000002|One could not possibly be jealous of Paula.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000003|All that she possessed was ours.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000004|Our joys were hers.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000005|Our sorrows were her sorrows.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000007|Always bright and happy and full of fun, she had the same simple, humble ways as when at ten years of age she had come among us.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000006_000008|Her special summer delight was to run through the fields, always returning to the house with a big bunch of wild flowers for Catalina.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000007_000000|"What are you going to do in the future if you don't know how to do these things?"
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000008_000000|"I'm sure I don't know," Paula would say sadly, and would take up the work once more with such sweet resignation that Teresa, moved with compassion, would take the work from her hands saying-"There!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000008_000001|There!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000009_000000|Then away Paula would go into the garden or under the trees that lined the village street.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000009_000001|Soon she was back with such a happy smile that Teresa forgave her completely.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000010_000001|It's not enough to tell them you love them, you must show it by your works-and the best way to do that would be to learn to be useful to them."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000011_000000|Paula sat back stiff and straight in consternation.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000011_000001|"Oh, Teresa, I never, never thought of that!" she said in a tone of greatest remorse, "Oh, please let me go on!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000011_000002|I will try to do better!"
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000012_000000|But Teresa had taken away the work, and was not inclined to be easily persuaded.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000012_000001|"No, not now!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000012_000002|Another time perhaps you may show what you can do."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000013_000000|Paula therefore had to submit; but that was the last time that Teresa had any reason to complain.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000000|Later Paula said to me, "Oh, Lisita, I'm surely bad indeed.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000001|One thing I've certainly hated to do, and that is to sit down and learn to sew, especially in fine weather like this.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000002|I seem to hear a thousand voices that call me out of doors.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000003|I never could see any earthly reason why I should have to learn how to sew, and so I never even tried to please Teresa in that way. But now she tells me that if I go on like this I shall never be able to sew for the poor.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000004|I never thought of that!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000005|I wonder what the Lord Jesus must think of me.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000006|He gave His life for me, and here I am not willing to learn something that would help me to put clothes on poor folks!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000007|Oh, I must!
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000014_000008|I must learn to sew, no matter what it costs."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000015_000000|That was it-to do something for others, that was the principal thing in all her thoughts.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000016_000000|In school Paula never did win prizes-nor did i Both of us were generally about on an equal level at the bottom of our class.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000017_000001|Teresa made a magnificent apple cake as a sign of her pleasure.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000017_000002|My father also showed his great satisfaction, and in fact everybody rejoiced to see that at last we were both making progress.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000017_000004|"You are no longer my pupils," she said, "but you are still, and will be always, my dear friends."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000018_000001|Paula always told him Bible stories, for that seemed to be his chief pleasure, and I taught him to read.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000019_000000|"If I had been able to leave my Victoria in school she would have become as wise and learned as you, Mesdemoiselles," she would say a bit sadly at times.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000020_000000|One afternoon we said good bye to Gabriel and mounted the stairs to visit the blind girl.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000020_000001|Left alone for most of the day, she passed the long hours knitting.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000020_000002|She was about the same age as our Catalina, but she appeared to be much older.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000020_000003|The first time we had visited her, she had hardly raised her head from her work, and showed but little interest in the stories that her mother had asked us to read to her.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000020_000004|It was not so much indifference as an apparent incapacity to comprehend the meaning of what she heard.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000020_000005|But on this particular afternoon Paula started singing a hymn.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000021_000002|As Paula at last stopped singing, for the time had come to go home, poor Marguerite stretched out her arms as if groping for something.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000022_000000|"Please do not be offended, Mademoiselle Paula," implored Madame Bertin; "she wants you to come nearer that she may feel your face.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000022_000001|The blind have no other eyes." Paula kneeled at Marguerite's side and the blind girl passed her hands gently over the upturned face, pausing an instant at the broad forehead, then on over the beautiful arched brows and long eyelashes and the delicately fashioned nose and lips, that smiled softly as she touched them.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000024_000000|At this Paula sprang to her feet and put her arms about the poor girl, and murmured in her ear, "We do love you so, Marguerite!"
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000025_000001|Her indifference and sadness disappeared, giving place to a quiet peace and joy that was contagious for all who came in contact with her.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000026_000000|One day Gabriel came running to tell us that Marguerite was quite ill, and we lost no time in going to see her.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000026_000001|With painful feelings of presentiment we mounted the steep stairs to her room.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000028_000000|"Dearest Marguerite," said our teacher; "Here are Paula and Lisita."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000033_000000|"One regret only I have, Mamma," Marguerite said; "and that is, that I have never seen your face.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000033_000001|Oh, that I might have seen it just once."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000034_000000|"In Heaven," interrupted our teacher, "your eyes will be open forever."
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000035_000000|"Oh, yes," said the dying girl.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000035_000001|"There perhaps I will see Mamma and Victoria.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000036_000000|"Here I am, Marguerite," and Paula came closer, taking her hand.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000037_000001|Thanks, dear Paula," she gasped.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000037_000002|"Many thanks for telling me about Jesus and His love for me.
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000037_000003|Sing-"
train-other-500/2270/3545/2270_3545_000038_000000|The sentence was never finished, but Paula's sweet voice rose, as once again she sang the sublime words:
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000001_000000|SAVED!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000002_000001|No one seems to be able to resist Paula when she begins to speak of God's love.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000002_000002|She seems truly inspired by His Holy Spirit.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000002_000003|Child though she is, she surely is His messenger to all with whom she comes in contact But there's just one thing,"--and Teresa seemed to hesitate to express herself, then finally she continued, "I cannot seem to shake off the feeling that she will not be with us much longer.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000002_000004|I believe somehow-I know it sounds absurd in one way, but I have a feeling that God will call her to His side some day soon."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000003_000000|"Oh, Teresa!" I cried, "how can you say such a thing!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000003_000001|Why, she's never sick!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000003_000002|She's much bigger and stronger and more vigorous than even I am.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000004_000000|"Hush!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000004_000002|Don't shout that way, Paula will hear you!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000004_000003|Besides it's just a foolish idea of mine, maybe.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000004_000004|But if God should wish it-But there, as you say, what would we do without the dear girl?"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000005_000000|Later when we were alone in our bedroom I said to Paula in an anxious tone,
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000006_000000|"You don't feel sick; do you, Paula?"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000007_000000|She looked at me surprised-"I should say not!" She laughed, "What put such a notion in your head?
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000008_000000|I was so relieved!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000008_000001|Teresa was quite mistaken!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000012_000000|"No," I said, confused that she should find me still seated on the edge of my bed, lost in my own reflections.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000013_000000|Paula suddenly went to the window and looked out, "Oh, Lisita!" she exclaimed, "how wonderful!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000013_000001|Come and see."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000015_000001|"Do you remember, Lisita, how only yesterday we remarked how squalid and dirty the whole village looked?
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000016_000000|"It's God that has done it!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000016_000001|It's quite a bit like when one gives their heart to Jesus Christ.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000016_000002|He takes it stained and scarred with sin, and then He makes it white like the snow.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000016_000003|Don't you see, Lisita?"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000017_000000|"Yes, I see," I said.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000018_000000|"Do you really see, dear Lisita?" And Paula drew me quite close to her. "Then why don't you give your heart to Him?
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000018_000001|I do love you so!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000019_000000|I could not bear another word.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000019_000001|The very idea of death either for Paula or myself was simply unbearable.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000019_000002|"Stop!" I cried, in such a terrible tone that Paula, I could see, was frightened.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000019_000003|"You mustn't die!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000019_000005|I know I'm not good, but if you weren't here to help me what would I do?"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000020_000000|My overwrought nerves, due to the happenings at that afternoon visit at Celestina's, combined with what Teresa had suggested, were too much for me, and here I broke down completely.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000021_000000|"Oh, Lisita!"--there was real consternation in Paula's voice, "I'm so sorry I hurt you!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000021_000001|You must get to bed, and don't let's talk any more tonight."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000022_000000|I dreamed of Paula the whole night long.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000022_000001|I saw her either dying or dead, or in heaven with the angels; but in the morning all my fears had disappeared and a few days later I even forgot the whole thing.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000023_000000|A week passed, and we had seen nothing of the Breton.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000023_000001|Paula mentioned him several times, and I know she was praying for him.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000023_000002|Teresa had gone to see Celestina, but she hadn't seen anything of him either.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000023_000003|Apparently he had gone out early each day, and had returned very late.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000023_000004|He had been the principal subject of our conversation as each night we came together in the big warm kitchen on those long winter evenings.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000024_000000|"I wonder who can be calling at this hour," said Rosa.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000025_000000|"It sounds like some child that can't knock very well," said Catalina. "Open the door, Lisita!"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000026_000000|Only too glad to abandon my towel, I ran to open the door, but hardly had I done so when I remained petrified and dumb with surprise, hardly able to believe my own eyes.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000026_000001|There stood the Breton twisting his battered cap nervously between his bony fingers.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000026_000002|The little oil lamp, which we always kept lighted at night in the passageway, illuminated his pale face and gaunt figure.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000027_000000|"Good evening, mademoiselle," he finally managed to say, and then he stopped, apparently as embarrassed as I was.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000029_000000|"It's the Breton," I said.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000030_000000|"Well, tell him to come in," said the old woman kindly.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000031_000000|As timidly as a child the Breton advanced over the threshold a few paces, looking about him in a kind of "lost" way until his eyes encountered Paula, and then he seemed to recover his ease of mind.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000032_000000|"I wish to speak with the Master," he said-directing his words to Teresa.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000033_000000|She led him into the study where my father sat, and left them together and then joined us in the kitchen once more.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000034_000000|"I declare!" said Rosa.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000034_000001|"Think of the Breton calling on us!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000035_000000|"The Breton knows very well that when your father got rid of him he well deserved it," said Teresa, as she adjusted her spectacles and settled down to her knitting.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000036_000000|My father did not keep him long.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000036_000001|From the kitchen we could hear the door open and my father's voice bidding the Breton a kindly "good night" Evidently the interview, although short, had been quite a cordial one.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000037_000000|"Go, tell the Breton to come into the kitchen, Lisita," said Teresa.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000038_000000|I wondered as I saw him enter with such a humble, frank air, and with a new look of peace that seemed almost to beautify the brutalized face.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000000|He hesitated a moment.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000001|"No," he said finally, "I think it's better to say it to you before everybody here.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000002|Do you remember how you spoke to me on the afternoon of the great snow?
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000003|I don't remember very well what you said.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000004|My head wasn't in very good condition as I'd left my wits behind at the liquor shop.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000006|I didn't dare believe such a thing, Mademoiselle-it seemed just a bit too good to believe.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000007|That night I simply couldn't sleep.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000041_000008|I seemed to feel my hands in yours and to hear your voice saying, 'I'll do what I can to help you.' At last I couldn't stand it any longer.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000042_000000|Here he stopped to wipe away the great tears that were rolling down his cheeks.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000042_000001|Then pretty soon he continued, "God did indeed have mercy on me.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000043_000000|"Yes, of course," said Paula; "What can we do for you?"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000044_000000|"Just one thing.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000044_000001|Pray for me!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000044_000002|That's what I need more than anything else.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000044_000003|I want to be faithful to Him and serve Him, but I don't know how to begin, and when one has served the devil as many years as I have it's hard to change masters."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000046_000000|"He's already done it, Mademoiselle," said the Breton.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000046_000001|"If not, how could I have endured these last days.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000046_000002|At first I had a raging thirst for more drink until I nearly went crazy.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000046_000004|Then too, I had no work, and my wife taunted me with that, and I wandered up and down looking everywhere for something to do.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000046_000005|Unfortunately everybody knew me and knew too much about me, so there was no work for such as me." Then suddenly the poor, thin face was illuminated with a smile as the Breton triumphantly said, "I came to this door tonight as the very last resort, never dreaming that my old master really would employ me, but just see the goodness of God!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000046_000006|I can face the world again, for I'm going back to my old bench at the master's factory!"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000047_000000|"My!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000048_000000|"Yes, Mademoiselle, but I have you to thank for your great kindness to me."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000050_000000|"You, Mademoiselle!
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000050_000001|You made me feel that you really loved me.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000050_000003|But if tonight in this district you find one more honorable man and one criminal less, let us first thank God, and then you, Mademoiselle!"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000051_000000|"Do you own a New Testament?" said Paula as the Breton started to leave.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000052_000000|"A New Testament; what's that?"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000053_000000|"It's a book-a part of the Bible-that tells us about the Lord Jesus, and how He saves us from the guilt and power of sin, and how we can serve Him."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000054_000000|"Well, Mademoiselle," replied the Breton, "if it's a book, it's of no use to me.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000054_000001|I don't know how to read!"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000055_000000|Paula looked at him with a mixture of surprise and pity.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000056_000000|"I might have been able to read," continued the poor fellow.
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000056_000002|The streets in those days were too attractive a playground."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000057_000000|"But you could begin to learn even now!"
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000058_000000|"No, Mademoiselle," and the Breton shook his head sadly, "It's too late now to get anything of that sort in this dull head."
train-other-500/2270/3547/2270_3547_000059_000000|Paula said nothing more at the time, but I could see that she had something in her mind relative to this new problem.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000002_000001|The sea does not close upon the water logged hull with a sunny ripple, or maybe with the angry rush of a curling wave, erasing her name from the roll of living ships.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000002_000002|no
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000002_000003|It is as if an invisible hand had been stealthily uplifted from the bottom to catch hold of her keel as it glides through the water.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000003_000000|More than any other event does stranding bring to the sailor a sense of utter and dismal failure.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000003_000001|There are strandings and strandings, but I am safe to say that ninety per cent. of them are occasions in which a sailor, without dishonour, may well wish himself dead; and I have no doubt that of those who had the experience of their ship taking the ground, ninety per cent.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000004_000000|"Taking the ground" is the professional expression for a ship that is stranded in gentle circumstances.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000004_000001|But the feeling is more as if the ground had taken hold of her.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000004_000002|It is for those on her deck a surprising sensation.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000004_000003|It is as if your feet had been caught in an imponderable snare; you feel the balance of your body threatened, and the steady poise of your mind is destroyed at once.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000004_000004|This sensation lasts only a second, for even while you stagger something seems to turn over in your head, bringing uppermost the mental exclamation, full of astonishment and dismay, "By Jove! she's on the ground!"
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000005_000000|And that is very terrible.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000005_000001|After all, the only mission of a seaman's calling is to keep ships' keels off the ground.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000005_000002|Thus the moment of her stranding takes away from him every excuse for his continued existence.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000005_000003|To keep ships afloat is his business; it is his trust; it is the effective formula of the bottom of all these vague impulses, dreams, and illusions that go to the making up of a boy's vocation.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000005_000004|The grip of the land upon the keel of your ship, even if nothing worse comes of it than the wear and tear of tackle and the loss of time, remains in a seaman's memory an indelibly fixed taste of disaster.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000006_000000|"Stranded" within the meaning of this paper stands for a more or less excusable mistake.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000006_000001|A ship may be "driven ashore" by stress of weather.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000006_000002|It is a catastrophe, a defeat.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000007_000000|twenty one.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000008_000000|That is why your "strandings" are for the most part so unexpected. In fact, they are all unexpected, except those heralded by some short glimpse of the danger, full of agitation and excitement, like an awakening from a dream of incredible folly.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000009_000001|It is a sound, for its size, far more terrific to your soul than that of a world coming violently to an end.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000009_000002|But out of that chaos your belief in your own prudence and sagacity reasserts itself.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000009_000003|You ask yourself, Where on earth did I get to?
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000009_000004|How on earth did I get there?
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000010_000000|You contemplate mentally your mischance, till little by little your mood changes, cold doubt steals into the very marrow of your bones, you see the inexplicable fact in another light.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000010_000001|That is the time when you ask yourself, How on earth could I have been fool enough to get there?
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000010_000002|And you are ready to renounce all belief in your good sense, in your knowledge, in your fidelity, in what you thought till then was the best in you, giving you the daily bread of life and the moral support of other men's confidence.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000011_000000|The ship is lost or not lost.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000011_000001|Once stranded, you have to do your best by her.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000011_000002|She may be saved by your efforts, by your resource and fortitude bearing up against the heavy weight of guilt and failure.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000011_000004|It is an acquisition, too, that feeling.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000011_000005|A man may be the better for it, but he will not be the same.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000011_000006|Damocles has seen the sword suspended by a hair over his head, and though a good man need not be made less valuable by such a knowledge, the feast shall not henceforth have the same flavour.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000012_000001|We went to work for ten hours on end, laying out anchors in readiness to heave off at high water. While I was still busy about the decks forward I heard the steward at my elbow saying: "The captain asks whether you mean to come in, sir, and have something to eat to day."
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000000|I went into the cuddy.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000001|My captain sat at the head of the table like a statue.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000002|There was a strange motionlessness of everything in that pretty little cabin.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000003|The swing table which for seventy odd days had been always on the move, if ever so little, hung quite still above the soup tureen.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000004|Nothing could have altered the rich colour of my commander's complexion, laid on generously by wind and sea; but between the two tufts of fair hair above his ears, his skull, generally suffused with the hue of blood, shone dead white, like a dome of ivory.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000005|And he looked strangely untidy.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000013_000007|I have commanded ships myself, but I don't know; I have never tried to shave in my life.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000014_000000|He did not offer to help me or himself till I had coughed markedly several times.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000014_000001|I talked to him professionally in a cheery tone, and ended with the confident assertion:
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000015_000000|"We shall get her off before midnight, sir."
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000016_000000|He smiled faintly without looking up, and muttered as if to himself:
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000017_000000|"Yes, yes; the captain put the ship ashore and we got her off."
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000018_000000|Then, raising his head, he attacked grumpily the steward, a lanky, anxious youth with a long, pale face and two big front teeth.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000019_000000|"What makes this soup so bitter?
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000019_000001|I am surprised the mate can swallow the beastly stuff.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000019_000002|I'm sure the cook's ladled some salt water into it by mistake."
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000020_000000|The charge was so outrageous that the steward for all answer only dropped his eyelids bashfully.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000021_000000|There was nothing the matter with the soup.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000021_000001|I had a second helping.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000021_000002|My heart was warm with hours of hard work at the head of a willing crew.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000021_000004|On that occasion the bitter taste of a stranding was not for my mouth.
train-other-500/2273/152357/2273_152357_000021_000005|That experience came later, and it was only then that I understood the loneliness of the man in charge.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000000|The cradle of oversea traffic and of the art of naval combats, the Mediterranean, apart from all the associations of adventure and glory, the common heritage of all mankind, makes a tender appeal to a seaman.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000001|It has sheltered the infancy of his craft.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000002|He looks upon it as a man may look at a vast nursery in an old, old mansion where innumerable generations of his own people have learned to walk.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000003|I say his own people because, in a sense, all sailors belong to one family: all are descended from that adventurous and shaggy ancestor who, bestriding a shapeless log and paddling with a crooked branch, accomplished the first coasting trip in a sheltered bay ringing with the admiring howls of his tribe.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000004|It is a matter of regret that all those brothers in craft and feeling, whose generations have learned to walk a ship's deck in that nursery, have been also more than once fiercely engaged in cutting each other's throats there.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000005|But life, apparently, has such exigencies. Without human propensity to murder and other sorts of unrighteousness there would have been no historical heroism.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000006|It is a consoling reflection.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000001_000007|And then, if one examines impartially the deeds of violence, they appear of but small consequence.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000000|Of course, it may be argued that battles have shaped the destiny of mankind.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000001|The question whether they have shaped it well would remain open, however.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000002|But it would be hardly worth discussing.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000003|It is very probable that, had the Battle of Salamis never been fought, the face of the world would have been much as we behold it now, fashioned by the mediocre inspiration and the short sighted labours of men.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000004|From a long and miserable experience of suffering, injustice, disgrace and aggression the nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear-fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and violence.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000005|Innocent, guileless fear has been the cause of many wars.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000002_000008|There is no going back; and, as bad luck would have it, our civilization, which has done so much for the comfort and adornment of our bodies and the elevation of our minds, has made lawful killing frightfully and needlessly expensive.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000003_000000|The whole question of improved armaments has been approached by the governments of the earth in a spirit of nervous and unreflecting haste, whereas the right way was lying plainly before them, and had only to be pursued with calm determination.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000003_000002|By this method the ardour of research in that direction would have been restrained without infringing the sacred privileges of science.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000003_000003|For the lack of a little cool thinking in our guides and masters this course has not been followed, and a beautiful simplicity has been sacrificed for no real advantage.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000003_000004|A frugal mind cannot defend itself from considerable bitterness when reflecting that at the Battle of Actium (which was fought for no less a stake than the dominion of the world) the fleet of Octavianus Caesar and the fleet of Antonius, including the Egyptian division and Cleopatra's galley with purple sails, probably cost less than two modern battleships, or, as the modern naval book jargon has it, two capital units.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000003_000005|But no amount of lubberly book jargon can disguise a fact well calculated to afflict the soul of every sound economist.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000004_000000|thirty eight.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000005_000000|Happy he who, like Ulysses, has made an adventurous voyage; and there is no such sea for adventurous voyages as the Mediterranean- the inland sea which the ancients looked upon as so vast and so full of wonders.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000006_000001|It called him by name, bidding him go and tell all men that the great god Pan was dead.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000006_000002|But the great legend of the Mediterranean, the legend of traditional song and grave history, lives, fascinating and immortal, in our minds.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000007_000001|Issuing thence to the west and south, as a youth leaves the shelter of his parental house, this spirit found the way to the Indies, discovered the coasts of a new continent, and traversed at last the immensity of the great Pacific, rich in groups of islands remote and mysterious like the constellations of the sky.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000008_000000|The first impulse of navigation took its visible form in that tideless basin freed from hidden shoals and treacherous currents, as if in tender regard for the infancy of the art.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000009_000000|thirty nine.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000011_000001|The monotonous and vibrating note was destined to grow into the intimacy of the heart, pass into blood and bone, accompany the thoughts and acts of two full decades, remain to haunt like a reproach the peace of the quiet fireside, and enter into the very texture of respectable dreams dreamed safely under a roof of rafters and tiles.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000011_000002|The wind was fair, but that day we ran no more.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000012_000000|The thing (I will not call her a ship twice in the same half hour) leaked.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000012_000001|She leaked fully, generously, overflowingly, all over- like a basket.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000013_000000|I remember that, exactly as in the comedy of Moliere, my uncle asked the precise question in the very words-not of my confidential valet, however, but across great distances of land, in a letter whose mocking but indulgent turn ill concealed his almost paternal anxiety.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000013_000001|I fancy I tried to convey to him my (utterly unfounded) impression that the West Indies awaited my coming.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000013_000002|I had to go there.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000013_000003|It was a sort of mystic conviction-something in the nature of a call.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000013_000004|But it was difficult to state intelligibly the grounds of this belief to that man of rigorous logic, if of infinite charity.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000014_000000|The truth must have been that, all unversed in the arts of the wily Greek, the deceiver of gods, the lover of strange women, the evoker of bloodthirsty shades, I yet longed for the beginning of my own obscure Odyssey, which, as was proper for a modern, should unroll its wonders and terrors beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000000|But no catastrophe occurred.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000001|I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm trees.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000003|The whiteness of their teeth was still more dazzling than the splendour of jewels at their ears.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000004|The shaded side of the ravine gleamed with their smiles.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000005|They were as unabashed as so many princesses, but, alas!
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000006|not one of them was the daughter of a jet black sovereign.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000008|It was a vain hope.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000009|If I did not ask myself whether, limited by such discouraging impossibilities, life were still worth living, it was only because I had then before me several other pressing questions, some of which have remained unanswered to this day.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000015_000010|The resonant, laughing voices of these gorgeous maidens scared away the multitude of humming birds, whose delicate wings wreathed with the mist of their vibration the tops of flowering bushes.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000016_000000|No, they were not princesses.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000016_000001|Their unrestrained laughter filling the hot, fern clad ravine had a soulless limpidity, as of wild, inhuman dwellers in tropical woodlands.
train-other-500/2273/152363/2273_152363_000016_000002|Following the example of certain prudent travellers, I withdrew unseen-and returned, not much wiser, to the Mediterranean, the sea of classic adventures.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000002_000000|Upon that motionless figure his sight gradually centred with every faculty of mind and soul.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000002_000001|He knew the next moment the signal would be given that was to bring him either glory or shame from that iron statue. He ground his teeth together with stern resolve to do his best in the coming encounter, and murmured a brief prayer in the hallow darkness of his huge helm.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000002_000004|He gathered himself together, and the next moment a bugle sounded loud and clear.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000002_000005|In one blinding rush he drove his spurs into the sides of his horse, and in instant answer felt the noble steed spring forward with a bound.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000003_000000|Through all the clashing of his armor reverberating in the hollow depths of his helmet, he saw the mail clad figure from the other end of the lists rushing towards him, looming larger and larger as they came together.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000004_000000|Then he realized that he had met his opponent, and had borne the meeting well.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000004_000001|As he turned his horse's head towards his own end of the lists, he saw the other trotting slowly back towards his station, also holding a broken spear shaft in his hand.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000005_000001|When he had reached his own end of the lists, he flung away his broken spear, and Gascoyne came forward with another.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000006_000000|"Oh, Myles!" he said, with sob in his voice, "it was nobly done.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000006_000001|Never did I see a better ridden course in all my life.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000006_000002|I did not believe that thou couldst do half so well.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000008_000000|When, in answer to the command of the Marshal, he took his place a second time, he found himself calmer and more collected than before, but every faculty no less intensely fixed than it had been at first.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000008_000001|Once more the Marshal raised his baton, once more the horn sounded, and once more the two rushed together with the same thunderous crash, the same splinter of broken spears, the same momentary trembling recoil of the horse, and the same onward rush past one another.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000009_000000|This time as they met midway the Sieur de la Montaigne reined in his horse.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000009_000004|Now I shall do my endeavor to unhorse thee as I would an acknowledged peer in arms.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000009_000005|Nevertheless, on account of thy youth, I give thee this warning, so that thou mayst hold thyself in readiness."
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000012_000000|Myles, with Gascoyne running beside him, rode across to his pavilion, and called to Edmund Wilkes to bring him a cup of spiced wine.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000012_000001|After Gascoyne had taken off his helmet, and as he sat wiping the perspiration from his face Sir james came up and took him by the hand.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000013_000000|"My dear boy," said he, gripping the hand he held, "never could I hope to be so overjoyed in mine old age as I am this day.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000013_000001|Thou dost bring honor to me, for I tell thee truly thou dost ride like a knight seasoned in twenty tourneys."
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000015_000000|"Did he indeed so say?" said Sir james.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000015_000001|"Then belike he meaneth to strike at thy helm.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000016_000000|"Not now," answered Myles.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000017_000000|"Then keep thy head cool and thine eye true.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000019_000000|The charge that Sir james Lee had given to Myles to strike at his adversary's helm was a piece of advice he probably would not have given to so young a knight, excepting as a last resort.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000019_000001|A blow perfectly delivered upon the helm was of all others the most difficult for the recipient to recover from, but then a blow upon the helm was not one time in fifty perfectly given.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000019_000002|The huge cylindrical tilting helm was so constructed in front as to slope at an angle in all directions to one point.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000020_000001|It was of seasoned oak, somewhat thicker than the other, a tough weapon, not easily to be broken even in such an encounter as he was like to have.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000020_000002|He balanced the weapon, and found that it fitted perfectly to his grasp. As he raised the point to rest, his opponent took his station at the farther extremity of the lists, and again there was a little space of breathless pause.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000020_000004|Before, he had been conscious of the critical multitude looking down upon him; now it was a conflict of man to man, and such a conflict had no terrors for his young heart of iron.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000021_000000|The spectators had somehow come to the knowledge that this was to be a more serious encounter than the two which had preceded it, and a breathless silence fell for the moment or two that the knights stood in place.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000023_000001|Again he saw the iron figure of his opponent rushing nearer, nearer, nearer.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000023_000005|He felt his horse stagger under him with the recoil, and hardly knowing what he did, he drove his spurs deep into its sides with a shout.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000023_000007|He heard a great shout arise from all, and thought, with a sickening, bitter disappointment, that it was because he had lost.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000024_000000|There, in a tangle of his horse's harness and of embroidered trappings, the Sieur de la Montaigne lay stretched upon the ground, with his saddle near by, and his riderless horse was trotting aimlessly about at the farther end of the lists.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000025_000000|Myles saw the two squires of the fallen knight run across to where their master lay, he saw the ladies waving their kerchiefs and veils, and the castle people swinging their hats and shouting in an ecstasy of delight. Then he rode slowly back to where the squires were now aiding the fallen knight to arise.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000025_000001|The senior squire drew his dagger, cut the leather points, and drew off the helm, disclosing the knight's face-a face white as death, and convulsed with rage, mortification, and bitter humiliation.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000027_000000|"Sir," said the Marshal calmly, and speaking in French, "surely thou knowest that the loss of helmet does not decide an encounter.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000027_000002|If he then was justified in doing so of his own choice, and wilfully suffering to be unhelmed, how then can this knight be accused of evil who suffered it by chance?"
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000028_000000|"Nevertheless," said the Sieur de la Montaigne, in the same hoarse, breathless voice, "I do affirm, and will make my affirmation good with my body, that I fell only by the breaking of my girth.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000028_000001|Who says otherwise lies!"
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000029_000000|"It is the truth he speaketh," said Myles.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000029_000001|"I myself saw the stitches were some little what burst, and warned him thereof before we ran this course.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000030_000001|Was it not right knightly for him so to do?"
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000032_000000|Gascoyne had picked up Myles's fallen helmet as the Sieur de la Montaigne moved away, and Lord George and Sir james Lee came walking across the lists to where Myles still sat
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000033_000001|Myles, his heart swelling with a passion of triumphant delight, looked up and met the gaze of Lady Alice fixed intently upon him.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000033_000002|A red spot of excitement still burned in either cheek, and it flamed to a rosier red as he bowed his head to her before turning away.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000034_000000|Gascoyne had just removed Myles's breastplate and gorget, when Sir james Lee burst into the pavilion.
train-other-500/2275/150140/2275_150140_000034_000001|All his grim coldness was gone, and he flung his arms around the young man's neck, hugging him heartily, and kissing him upon either cheek.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000001_000000|It was not until more than three weeks after the King had left Devlen Castle that Lord George and his company of knights and archers were ready for the expedition to France.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000001_000001|Two weeks of that time Myles spent at Crosbey Dale with his father and mother.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000001_000003|He had never appreciated before how low and narrow and poor the farm house was.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000001_000004|Now, with his eyes trained to the bigness of Devlen Castle, he looked around him with wonder and pity at his father's humble surroundings.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000002_000003|Prior Edward added many things to those which Myles already knew-things of which the Earl either did not know, or did not choose to speak.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000003_000002|Haply my father was Bolingbroke's enemy, but, sure, thou dost not believe he is justly and rightfully tainted with treason?"
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000004_000000|"Nay," answered the priest, "how canst thou ask me such a thing?
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000004_000002|Nay, Myles, I do know thy father well, and have known him for many years, and this of him, that few men are so honorable in heart and soul as he.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000007_000001|Meseems even an evil thing is sometimes passing good when rightfully used."
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000009_000000|So Myles went to France in Lord George's company, a soldier of fortune, as his Captain was.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000009_000001|He was there for only six months, but those six months wrought a great change in his life.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000010_000000|Then one day a courier came, bringing a packet.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000011_000000|It was a bright day in April when he and Gascoyne rode clattering out through Temple Bar, leaving behind them quaint old London town, its blank stone wall, its crooked, dirty streets, its high gabled wooden houses, over which rose the sharp spire of saint Paul's, towering high into the golden air.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000012_000000|It was the first time that Myles had seen famous London town.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000012_000002|Now he jogged along with Gascoyne, gazing about him with calm interest at open shops and booths and tall, gabled houses; at the busy throng of merchants and craftsmen, jostling and elbowing one another; at townsfolk-men and dames-picking their way along the muddy kennel of a sidewalk.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000013_000000|It was with a great deal of interest that Myles and his patron regarded one another when they met for the first time after that half year which the young soldier had spent in France.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000013_000001|To Myles it seemed somehow very strange that his Lordship's familiar face and figure should look so exactly the same.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000013_000003|The rugged exposure in camp and field during the hard winter that had passed had roughened the smooth bloom of his boyish complexion and bronzed his fair skin almost as much as a midsummer's sun could have done.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000013_000004|His beard and mustache had grown again, (now heavier and more mannish from having been shaved), and the white seam of a scar over the right temple gave, if not a stern, at least a determined look to the strong, square jawed young face.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000013_000006|Myles was the first to break the silence.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000015_000000|"When didst thou land, Sir Myles?" said the Earl.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000017_000000|The Earl of Mackworth stroked his beard softly.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000018_000000|Myles smiled somewhat grimly.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000018_000001|"I have seen such things, my Lord, in France and in Paris," said he, quietly, "as, mayhap, may make a lad a man before his time."
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000019_000000|"From which I gather," said the Earl, "that many adventures have befallen thee.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000020_000000|A little space of silence followed, during which the Earl sat musingly, half absently, regarding the tall, erect, powerful young figure standing before him, awaiting his pleasure in motionless, patient, almost dogged silence.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000020_000001|The strong, sinewy hands were clasped and rested upon the long heavy sword, around the scabbard of which the belt was loosely wrapped, and the plates of mail caught and reflected in flashing, broken pieces, the bright sunlight from the window behind.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000021_000000|"Sir Myles," said the Earl, suddenly, breaking the silence at last, "dost thou know why I sent for thee hither?"
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000022_000003|I am here."
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000023_000001|"I do hope that thy deeds be as bold as thy words."
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000024_000000|"That," said Myles, "thou must ask other men.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000024_000001|Methinks no one may justly call me coward."
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000025_000002|The time is now nearly ripe, and I will straightway send for thy father to come to London.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000026_000001|The Earl waited for a little while, as though to give him the opportunity to answer.
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000027_000001|Meseems thou takest all this with marvellous coolness."
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000028_000000|"Have I then my Lord's permission to speak my mind?"
train-other-500/2275/150141/2275_150141_000031_000000|The Earl nodded his head.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000001_000001|I looked at Lord Lowborough.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000001_000005|On raising his eyes, he beheld me, and dropped them again, confounded and dismayed.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000001_000008|I felt ill; but I did not leave the room: happily, it was getting late, and could not be long before the company dispersed.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000002_000001|In a minute or two, some one asked me if I felt unwell.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000002_000002|I did not answer; indeed, at the time, I knew not what was said; but I mechanically looked up, and saw mr Hargrave standing beside me on the rug.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000004_000000|'No, thank you,' I replied; and, turning from him, I looked round.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000004_000002|I seated myself in the nearest chair; and mr Hargrave, finding his services were not desired, judiciously withdrew.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000005_000000|'Are you very angry, Helen?' murmured he.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000009_000000|Leaving him thus employed, I took my candle, and, slipping quietly from the room, hastened up stairs as fast as I could.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000009_000001|But he soon discovered that I had left him, and, rushing up after me, caught me in his arms, just as I had entered the chamber, and was about to shut the door in his face.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000010_000001|Then, alarmed at my agitation, he begged me not to put myself in such a passion, telling me I was white in the face, and should kill myself if I did so.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000011_000002|Will you never learn,' he continued more boldly, 'that you have nothing to fear from me?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000011_000004|You little exorbitant tyrant, will not that-?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000012_000001|Feel my hand.' And I gravely extended it towards him-but closed it upon his with an energy that seemed to disprove the assertion, and made him smile.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000012_000002|'You needn't smile, sir,' said I, still tightening my grasp, and looking steadfastly on him till he almost quailed before me.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000012_000003|'You may think it all very fine, mr Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000012_000004|And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000013_000000|'Well, Helen, I won't repeat the offence.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000013_000001|But I meant nothing by it, I assure you.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000013_000002|I had taken too much wine, and I was scarcely myself at the time.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000014_000000|'You often take too much; and that is another practice I detest.' He looked up astonished at my warmth.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000018_000000|My heart felt ready to burst; but I resolutely swallowed back my emotion, and answered calmly,
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000019_000000|'You think not?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000020_000000|'No,' replied he, boldly.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000020_000001|'After all, what have I done?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000020_000002|It's nothing-except as you choose to make it a subject of accusation and distress.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000021_000001|or what would you yourself think, if he or any other had acted the same part to me, throughout, as you have to Annabella?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000022_000000|'I would blow his brains out.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000023_000001|Are the marriage vows a jest; and is it nothing to make it your sport to break them, and to tempt another to do the same?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000024_000000|'You are breaking your marriage vows yourself,' said he, indignantly rising and pacing to and fro.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000024_000001|'You promised to honour and obey me, and now you attempt to hector over me, and threaten and accuse me, and call me worse than a highwayman.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000025_000000|'What will you do then?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000025_000001|Will you go on till I hate you, and then accuse me of breaking my vows?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000027_000000|'But how can I believe that you love me, if you continue to act in this way?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000027_000001|Just imagine yourself in my place: would you think I loved you, if I did so?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000027_000002|Would you believe my protestations, and honour and trust me under such circumstances?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000028_000000|'The cases are different,' he replied.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000031_000000|'No! heaven is my witness that I think her mere dust and ashes in comparison with you, and shall continue to think so, unless you drive me from you by too much severity.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000031_000001|She is a daughter of earth; you are an angel of heaven; only be not too austere in your divinity, and remember that I am a poor, fallible mortal.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000031_000002|Come now, Helen; won't you forgive me?' he said, gently taking my hand, and looking up with an innocent smile.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000032_000000|'If I do, you will repeat the offence.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000033_000000|'I swear by-'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000034_000000|'Don't swear; I'll believe your word as well as your oath.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000034_000001|I wish I could have confidence in either.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000035_000000|'Try me, then, Helen: only trust and pardon me this once, and you shall see!
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000036_000000|I did not speak it, but I put my hand on his shoulder and kissed his forehead, and then burst into tears.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000036_000001|He embraced me tenderly; and we have been good friends ever since.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000036_000005|Next time mrs Hargrave calls I shall hail her advent as quite a relief.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000036_000006|I have a good mind to ask Arthur's leave to invite the old lady to stay with us till our guests depart.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000036_000007|I think I will.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000037_000001|We sat silent for two or three minutes.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000037_000002|She was busy with her work, and I was running over the columns of a paper from which I had extracted all the pith some twenty minutes before.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000037_000004|She was the first to speak; and, smiling with the coolest assurance, she began,--
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000038_000000|'Your husband was merry last night, Helen: is he often so?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000040_000000|'No,' replied I, 'and never will be so again, I trust.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000041_000000|'You gave him a curtain lecture, did you?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000043_000000|'I thought he looked rather subdued this morning,' she continued; 'and you, Helen?
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000043_000001|you've been weeping, I see-that's our grand resource, you know.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000043_000002|But doesn't it make your eyes smart? and do you always find it to answer?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000045_000000|'Well, I don't know: I never had occasion to try it; but I think if Lowborough were to commit such improprieties, I'd make him cry.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000045_000002|But then he never will do anything of the kind; for I keep him in too good order for that.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000046_000000|'Are you sure you don't arrogate too much of the credit to yourself. Lord Lowborough was quite as remarkable for his abstemiousness for some time before you married him, as he is now, I have heard.'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000047_000000|'Oh, about the wine you mean-yes, he's safe enough for that.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000048_000000|'Indeed! and are you sure you deserve it?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000049_000000|'Why, as to that, I can't say: you know we're all fallible creatures, Helen; we none of us deserve to be worshipped.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000049_000001|But are you sure your darling Huntingdon deserves all the love you give to him?'
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000050_000000|I knew not what to answer to this.
train-other-500/2276/131549/2276_131549_000050_000001|I was burning with anger; but I suppressed all outward manifestations of it, and only bit my lip and pretended to arrange my work.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000005_000000|CHAPTER thirty seven
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000006_000000|THE SPIRIT AWAKENS: NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000007_000000|It would be useless to explain how in due time the last fifty dollars was in sight.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000007_000001|The seven hundred, by his process of handling, had only carried them into June.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000007_000002|Before the final hundred mark was reached he began to indicate that a calamity was approaching.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000009_000000|"It doesn't seem to me," said Carrie, "that we spend very much."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000010_000000|"My money is nearly gone," he said, "and I hardly know where it's gone to."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000012_000000|"All but a hundred."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000013_000000|He looked so disconsolate that it scared her.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000013_000001|She began to see that she herself had been drifting.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000013_000002|She had felt it all the time.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000014_000000|"Well, George," she exclaimed, "why don't you get out and look for something?
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000014_000001|You could find something."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000015_000000|"I have looked," he said.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000015_000001|"You can't make people give you a place."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000016_000000|She gazed weakly at him and said: "Well, what do you think you will do? A hundred dollars won't last long."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000017_000000|"I don't know," he said.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000017_000001|"I can't do any more than look."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000018_000000|Carrie became frightened over this announcement.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000018_000001|She thought desperately upon the subject.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000018_000003|Now, as in Chicago, it came as a last resource in distress. Something must be done if he did not get work soon.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000018_000004|Perhaps she would have to go out and battle again alone.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000019_000000|She began to wonder how one would go about getting a place.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000020_000000|They were talking at the breakfast table, a morning or two later, when she brought up the dramatic subject by saying that she saw that Sarah Bernhardt was coming to this country.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000021_000000|"How do people get on the stage, George?" she finally asked, innocently.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000022_000000|"I don't know," he said.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000022_000001|"There must be dramatic agents."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000023_000000|Carrie was sipping coffee, and did not look up.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000024_000000|"Regular people who get you a place?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000025_000000|"Yes, I think so," he answered.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000026_000000|Suddenly the air with which she asked attracted his attention.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000028_000000|"No," she answered, "I was just wondering."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000029_000000|Without being clear, there was something in the thought which he objected to.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000029_000001|He did not believe any more, after three years of observation, that Carrie would ever do anything great in that line.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000029_000002|She seemed too simple, too yielding.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000029_000004|If she tried to get on the stage she would fall into the hands of some cheap manager and become like the rest of them.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000029_000006|Carrie was pretty.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000030_000001|It's a lot more difficult than you think."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000031_000000|Carrie felt this to contain, in some way, an aspersion upon her ability.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000032_000000|"You said I did real well in Chicago," she rejoined.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000034_000000|Carrie did not answer this at all.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000034_000001|It hurt her.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000035_000000|"The stage," he went on, "is all right if you can be one of the big guns, but there's nothing to the rest of it.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000035_000001|It takes a long while to get up."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000036_000000|"Oh, I don't know," said Carrie, slightly aroused.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000037_000000|In a flash, he thought he foresaw the result of this thing.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000037_000001|Now, when the worst of his situation was approaching, she would get on the stage in some cheap way and forsake him.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000037_000002|Strangely, he had not conceived well of her mental ability.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000037_000005|Avery Hall was too far away for him to look back and sharply remember.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000037_000006|He had lived with this woman too long.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000038_000000|"Well, I do," he answered.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000038_000001|"If I were you I wouldn't think of it.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000038_000002|It's not much of a profession for a woman."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000039_000000|"It's better than going hungry," said Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000040_000000|There was no answer ready for this.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000040_000001|He had got used to the suggestion.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000041_000000|"Oh, let up," he answered.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000000|The result of this was that she secretly resolved to try.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000001|It didn't matter about him.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000002|She was not going to be dragged into poverty and something worse to suit him.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000003|She could act.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000004|She could get something and then work up.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000005|What would he say then?
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000006|She pictured herself already appearing in some fine performance on Broadway; of going every evening to her dressing room and making up.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000007|Then she would come out at eleven o'clock and see the carriages ranged about, waiting for the people.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000008|It did not matter whether she was the star or not.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000042_000010|Her mind ran over this picture all the day long.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000043_000000|Curiously this idea soon took hold of Hurstwood.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000043_000001|His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000043_000002|Why could not Carrie assist him a little until he could get something?
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000044_000000|He came in one day with something of this idea in his mind.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000045_000000|"I met john b Drake to day," he said.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000045_000002|He says that he can make a place for me then."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000046_000000|"Who is he?" asked Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000047_000000|"He's the man that runs the Grand Pacific in Chicago."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000048_000000|"Oh," said Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000051_000000|"If I can only get over this summer," he added, "I think I'll be all right.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000051_000001|I'm hearing from some of my friends again."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000052_000000|Carrie swallowed this story in all its pristine beauty.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000052_000001|She sincerely wished he could get through the summer.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000052_000002|He looked so hopeless.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000053_000000|"How much money have you left?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000054_000000|"Only fifty dollars."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000055_000000|"Oh, mercy," she exclaimed, "what will we do?
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000055_000001|It's only twenty days until the rent will be due again."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000056_000000|Hurstwood rested his head on his hands and looked blankly at the floor.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000057_000000|"Maybe you could get something in the stage line?" he blandly suggested.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000058_000000|"Maybe I could," said Carrie, glad that some one approved of the idea.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000059_000000|"I'll lay my hand to whatever I can get," he said, now that he saw her brighten up.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000059_000001|"I can get something."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000060_000000|She cleaned up the things one morning after he had gone, dressed as neatly as her wardrobe permitted, and set out for Broadway.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000060_000001|She did not know that thoroughfare very well.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000060_000002|To her it was a wonderful conglomeration of everything great and mighty.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000060_000003|The theatres were there-these agencies must be somewhere about.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000061_000001|This seemed the sensible way.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000062_000001|"Dramatic agents?
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000062_000002|I don't know.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000062_000003|You'll find them in the 'Clipper,' though.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000062_000004|They all advertise in that."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000065_000000|Carrie proceeded to get the "Clipper," and tried to find the agents by looking over it as she stood beside the stand.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000065_000001|This could not be done so easily.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000066_000000|Hurstwood was already there, sitting in his place.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000067_000000|"Where were you?" he asked.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000068_000000|"I've been trying to find some dramatic agents."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000069_000000|He felt a little diffident about asking concerning her success.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000069_000001|The paper she began to scan attracted his attention.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000070_000000|"What have you got there?" he asked.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000071_000000|"The 'Clipper.' The man said I'd find their addresses in here."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000072_000000|"Have you been all the way over to Broadway to find that out?
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000072_000001|I could have told you."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000073_000000|"Why didn't you?" she asked, without looking up.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000074_000000|"You never asked me," he returned.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000075_000000|She went hunting aimlessly through the crowded columns.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000075_000001|Her mind was distracted by this man's indifference.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000075_000002|The difficulty of the situation she was facing was only added to by all he did.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000075_000003|Self commiseration brewed in her heart.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000076_000000|"Let me look."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000077_000000|To recover herself she went into the front room while he searched. Presently she returned.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000077_000001|He had a pencil, and was writing upon an envelope.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000079_000000|Carrie took it and found that one was mrs Bermudez, another Marcus Jenks, a third Percy Weil.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000079_000001|She paused only a moment, and then moved toward the door.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000080_000000|"I might as well go right away," she said, without looking back.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000081_000002|He got up and put on his hat.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000083_000000|Carrie's first call was upon mrs Bermudez, whose address was quite the nearest.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000083_000001|It was an old-fashioned residence turned into offices.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000084_000000|As Carrie entered she noticed several persons lounging about-men, who said nothing and did nothing.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000086_000000|"Now, don't forget about that," said one of the mannish women.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000087_000000|"I won't," said the portly woman.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000087_000001|"Let's see," she added, "where are you the first week in February?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000088_000000|"Pittsburg," said the woman.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000089_000000|"I'll write you there."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000090_000000|"All right," said the other, and the two passed out.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000091_000000|Instantly the portly lady's face became exceedingly sober and shrewd. She turned about and fixed on Carrie a very searching eye.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000092_000000|"Well," she said, "young woman, what can I do for you?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000093_000000|"Are you mrs Bermudez?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000094_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000095_000000|"Well," said Carrie, hesitating how to begin, "do you get places for persons upon the stage?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000096_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000097_000000|"Could you get me one?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000098_000000|"Have you ever had any experience?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000099_000000|"A very little," said Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000100_000000|"Whom did you play with?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000101_000000|"Oh, with no one," said Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000101_000001|"It was just a show gotten----"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000102_000000|"Oh, I see," said the woman, interrupting her.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000102_000001|"No, I don't know of anything now."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000103_000000|Carrie's countenance fell.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000104_000000|"You want to get some New York experience," concluded the affable mrs Bermudez.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000104_000001|"We'll take your name, though."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000105_000000|Carrie stood looking while the lady retired to her office.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000106_000000|"What is your address?" inquired a young lady behind the counter, taking up the curtailed conversation.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000107_000000|"mrs George Wheeler," said Carrie, moving over to where she was writing.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000107_000001|The woman wrote her address in full and then allowed her to depart at her leisure.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000109_000000|In the third place the individual asked:
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000110_000000|"What sort of work do you want to do?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000111_000000|"What do you mean?" said Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000112_000000|"Well, do you want to get in a comedy or on the vaudeville stage or in the chorus?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000114_000000|"Well," said the man, "it'll cost you something to do that."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000116_000000|"Well, that's for you to say," he answered shrewdly.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000117_000000|Carrie looked at him curiously.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000117_000001|She hardly knew how to continue the inquiry.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000118_000000|"Could you get me a part if I paid?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000119_000000|"If we didn't you'd get your money back."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000120_000000|"Oh," she said.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000121_000000|The agent saw he was dealing with an inexperienced soul, and continued accordingly.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000122_000000|"You'd want to deposit fifty dollars, any way.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000122_000001|No agent would trouble about you for less than that."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000124_000000|"Thank you," she said.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000124_000001|"I'll think about it."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000125_000000|She started to go, and then bethought herself.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000126_000000|"How soon would I get a place?" she asked.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000127_000000|"Well, that's hard to say," said the man.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000127_000001|"You might get one in a week, or it might be a month.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000128_000000|"I see," said Carrie, and then, half smiling to be agreeable, she walked out.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000129_000000|The agent studied a moment, and then said to himself:
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000130_000000|"It's funny how anxious these women are to get on the stage."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000131_000000|Carrie found ample food for reflection in the fifty dollar proposition. "Maybe they'd take my money and not give me anything," she thought.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000131_000001|She had some jewelry-a diamond ring and pin and several other pieces.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000131_000002|She could get fifty dollars for those if she went to a pawnbroker.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000132_000000|Hurstwood was home before her.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000132_000001|He had not thought she would be so long seeking.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000133_000000|"Well?" he said, not venturing to ask what news.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000134_000000|"I didn't find out anything to day," said Carrie, taking off her gloves. "They all want money to get you a place."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000135_000000|"How much?" asked Hurstwood.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000136_000000|"Fifty dollars."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000137_000000|"They don't want anything, do they?"
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000138_000000|"Oh, they're like everybody else.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000138_000001|You can't tell whether they'd ever get you anything after you did pay them."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000139_000000|"Well, I wouldn't put up fifty on that basis," said Hurstwood, as if he were deciding, money in hand.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000140_000000|"I don't know," said Carrie.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000140_000001|"I think I'll try some of the managers."
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000141_000000|Hurstwood heard this, dead to the horror of it.
train-other-500/2276/149909/2276_149909_000141_000002|It seemed all very natural in such extreme states.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000009_000000|Set out for Buenos Ayres-Rio Sauce-Sierra Ventana-Third Posta-Driving Horses-Bolas-Partridges and Foxes-Features of the Country-Long legged Plover-Teru tero-Hail storm-Natural Enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen-Flesh of Puma-Meat Diet-Guardia del Monte-Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation-Cardoon-Buenos Ayres-Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000010_000001|The distance to Buenos Ayres is about four hundred miles, and nearly the whole way through an uninhabited country.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000010_000002|We started early in the morning; ascending a few hundred feet from the basin of green turf on which Bahia Blanca stands, we entered on a wide desolate plain.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000010_000004|The weather was fine, but the atmosphere remarkably hazy; I thought the appearance foreboded a gale, but the Gauchos said it was owing to the plain, at some great distance in the interior, being on fire.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000010_000005|After a long gallop, having changed horses twice, we reached the Rio Sauce: it is a deep, rapid, little stream, not above twenty five feet wide.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000010_000006|The second posta on the road to Buenos Ayres stands on its banks, a little above there is a ford for horses, where the water does not reach to the horses' belly; but from that point, in its course to the sea, it is quite impassable, and hence makes a most useful barrier against the Indians.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000011_000001|With respect to its source, I do not doubt that this is the case for the Gauchos assured me, that in the middle of the dry summer, this stream, at the same time with the Colorado has periodical floods; which can only originate in the snow melting on the Andes.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000011_000003|During the winter we must look to the springs round the Sierra Ventana as the source of its pure and limpid stream.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000011_000004|I suspect the plains of Patagonia like those of Australia, are traversed by many water courses which only perform their proper parts at certain periods.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000012_000002|The distance from the posta was about six leagues over a level plain of the same character as before.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000012_000003|The ride was, however, interesting, as the mountain began to show its true form.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000012_000004|When we reached the foot of the main ridge, we had much difficulty in finding any water, and we thought we should have been obliged to have passed the night without any.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000012_000005|At last we discovered some by looking close to the mountain, for at the distance even of a few hundred yards the streamlets were buried and entirely lost in the friable calcareous stone and loose detritus.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000012_000009|Here nature shows that the last movement before the bed of the sea is changed into dry land may sometimes be one of tranquillity.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000012_000010|Under these circumstances I was curious to observe how far from the parent rock any pebbles could be found.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000001|The plain, though appearing horizontal, had insensibly sloped up to a height of between eight hundred and nine hundred feet above the sea.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000003|The climbing up such rough rocks was very fatiguing; the sides were so indented, that what was gained in one five minutes was often lost in the next.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000004|At last, when I reached the ridge, my disappointment was extreme in finding a precipitous valley as deep as the plain, which cut the chain transversely in two, and separated me from the four points.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000006|Having descended, and while crossing it, I saw two horses grazing: I immediately hid myself in the long grass, and began to reconnoitre; but as I could see no signs of Indians I proceeded cautiously on my second ascent.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000007|It was late in the day, and this part of the mountain, like the other, was steep and rugged.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000009|It was also necessary to return by another road, as it was out of the question to pass over the saddle back.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000010|I was therefore obliged to give up the two higher peaks.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000011|Their altitude was but little greater, and every purpose of geology had been answered; so that the attempt was not worth the hazard of any further exertion.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000012|I presume the cause of the cramp was the great change in the kind of muscular action, from that of hard riding to that of still harder climbing.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000013_000013|It is a lesson worth remembering, as in some cases it might cause much difficulty.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000014_000000|I have already said the mountain is composed of white quartz rock, and with it a little glossy clay slate is associated.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000014_000001|At the height of a few hundred feet above the plain patches of conglomerate adhered in several places to the solid rock.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000014_000002|They resembled in hardness, and in the nature of the cement, the masses which may be seen daily forming on some coasts.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000014_000003|I do not doubt these pebbles were in a similar manner aggregated, at a period when the great calcareous formation was depositing beneath the surrounding sea.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000014_000004|We may believe that the jagged and battered forms of the hard quartz yet show the effects of the waves of an open ocean.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000015_000000|I was, on the whole, disappointed with this ascent.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000015_000001|Even the view was insignificant;--a plain like the sea, but without its beautiful colour and defined outline.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000015_000002|The scene, however, was novel, and a little danger, like salt to meat, gave it a relish.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000015_000003|That the danger was very little was certain, for my two companions made a good fire-a thing which is never done when it is suspected that Indians are near.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000015_000004|I reached the place of our bivouac by sunset, and drinking much mate, and smoking several cigaritos, soon made up my bed for the night.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000015_000005|The wind was very strong and cold, but I never slept more comfortably.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000016_000000|september tenth.--In the morning, having fairly scudded before the gale, we arrived by the middle of the day at the Sauce posta.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000016_000001|In the road we saw great numbers of deer, and near the mountain a guanaco.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000016_000002|The plain, which abuts against the Sierra, is traversed by some curious gullies, of which one was about twenty feet wide, and at least thirty deep; we were obliged in consequence to make a considerable circuit before we could find a pass.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000016_000003|We stayed the night at the posta, the conversation, as was generally the case, being about the Indians.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000016_000005|My guide had been present when many Indians were killed: the women escaped to the top of the ridge, and fought most desperately with great stones; many thus saving themselves.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000017_000000|september eleventh.--Proceeded to the third posta in company with the lieutenant who commanded it.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000017_000001|The distance is called fifteen leagues; but it is only guess work, and is generally overstated.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000017_000002|The road was uninteresting, over a dry grassy plain; and on our left hand at a greater or less distance there were some low hills; a continuation of which we crossed close to the posta.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000017_000003|Before our arrival we met a large herd of cattle and horses, guarded by fifteen soldiers; but we were told many had been lost.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000017_000004|It is very difficult to drive animals across the plains; for if in the night a puma, or even a fox, approaches, nothing can prevent the horses dispersing in every direction; and a storm will have the same effect.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000017_000005|A short time since, an officer left Buenos Ayres with five hundred horses, and when he arrived at the army he had under twenty.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000018_000001|They turned out to be a party of Bernantio's friendly tribe, going to a salina for salt.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000018_000002|The Indians eat much salt, their children sucking it like sugar.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000018_000004|The Indians gave us good humoured nods as they passed at full gallop, driving before them a troop of horses, and followed by a train of lanky dogs.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000000|september twelfth and thirteenth.--I stayed at this posta two days, waiting for a troop of soldiers, which General Rosas had the kindness to send to inform me, would shortly travel to Buenos Ayres; and he advised me to take the opportunity of the escort.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000001|In the morning we rode to some neighbouring hills to view the country, and to examine the geology. After dinner the soldiers divided themselves into two parties for a trial of skill with the bolas.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000002|Two spears were stuck in the ground twenty five yards apart, but they were struck and entangled only once in four or five times.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000003|The balls can be thrown fifty or sixty yards, but with little certainty.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000004|This, however, does not apply to a man on horseback; for when the speed of the horse is added to the force of the arm, it is said, that they can be whirled with effect to the distance of eighty yards.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000005|As a proof of their force, I may mention, that at the Falkland Islands, when the Spaniards murdered some of their own countrymen and all the Englishmen, a young friendly Spaniard was running away, when a great tall man, by name Luciano, came at full gallop after him, shouting to him to stop, and saying that he only wanted to speak to him.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000006|Just as the Spaniard was on the point of reaching the boat, Luciano threw the balls: they struck him on the legs with such a jerk, as to throw him down and to render him for some time insensible.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000009|In the middle of the day two men arrived, who brought a parcel from the next posta to be forwarded to the general: so that besides these two, our party consisted this evening of my guide and self, the lieutenant, and his four soldiers.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000011|At night, when they were sitting round the fire, and playing at cards, I retired to view such a Salvator Rosa scene.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000012|They were seated under a low cliff, so that I could look down upon them; around the party were lying dogs, arms, remnants of deer and ostriches; and their long spears were stuck in the turf.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000019_000013|Further in the dark background, their horses were tied up, ready for any sudden danger.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000020_000000|What a life of misery these men appear to us to lead!
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000020_000001|They were at least ten leagues from the Sauce posta, and since the murder committed by the Indians, twenty from another.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000020_000002|The Indians are supposed to have made their attack in the middle of the night; for very early in the morning after the murder, they were luckily seen approaching this posta.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000021_000001|They had nothing to eat excepting what they could catch, such as ostriches, deer, armadilloes, etc, and their only fuel was the dry stalks of a small plant, somewhat resembling an aloe.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000021_000002|The sole luxury which these men enjoyed was smoking the little paper cigars, and sucking mate.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000021_000003|I used to think that the carrion vultures, man's constant attendants on these dreary plains, while seated on the little neighbouring cliffs seemed by their very patience to say, "Ah! when the Indians come we shall have a feast."
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000000|In the morning we all sallied forth to hunt, and although we had not much success, there were some animated chases.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000003|A fine male ostrich being turned by the headmost riders, tried to escape on one side.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000005|At length the foremost threw them, revolving through the air: in an instant the ostrich rolled over and over, its legs fairly lashed together by the thong.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000007|Their destroyer, a small and pretty fox, was also singularly numerous; in the course of the day we could not have seen less than forty or fifty.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000008|They were generally near their earths, but the dogs killed one.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000009|When we returned to the posta, we found two of the party returned who had been hunting by themselves.
train-other-500/2279/141140/2279_141140_000022_000010|They had killed a puma, and had found an ostrich's nest with twenty seven eggs in it.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000001_000000|Failure
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000000|It must have been now about eleven o'clock.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000002|I could see much better, and fancied I could hear better too.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000003|But neither advantage did much for me.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000005|The fear began to return.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000007|Next I thought I saw a scarcely visible form-now like a creature on all fours, now like a man, far off, but coming rapidly towards me across the nearest field.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000008|It always vanished, however, before it came close.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000010|Having discovered this, I changed my plan, and when I felt more frightened, drew rein and went slower.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000011|This was to throw a sort of defiance to the fear; and certainly as often as I did so it abated.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000002_000012|Fear is a worse thing than danger.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000003_000003|It was not that I could so easily run away with four instead, but that somehow I was lifted above the ordinary level of fear by being upon her back.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000000|At length I came in sight of the keeper's farm; and just at that moment the moon peeped from behind a hill, throwing as long shadows as the setting sun, but in the other direction.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000001|The shadows were very different too.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000004|The sunlight and its shadows are all so strong and so real and so friendly, you seem to know all about them; they belong to your house, and they sweep all fear and dismay out of honest people's hearts.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000006|The fact is, the moon is trying to do what she cannot do.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000008|She is not able for this, for her light is not her own; it is second-hand from the sun himself; and her shadows therefore also are second-hand shadows, pieces cut out of the great sun shadow, and coloured a little with the moon's yellowness.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000010|Well, at first, the moon frightened me a little-she looked so knowing, and yet all she said round about me was so strange.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000012|I climbed the ladder, and after several failures succeeded in finding how the door was fastened.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000014|I crossed the floor, knelt down by him, and tried to wake him.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000015|This was not so easy.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000016|He was far too sound asleep to be troubled by the rats; for sleep is an armour-yes, a castle-against many enemies.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000017|I got hold of one of his hands, and in lifting it to pull him up found a cord tied to his wrist.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000018|I was indignant: they had actually manacled him like a thief!
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000019|I gave the cord a great tug of anger, pulled out my knife, and cut it; then, hauling Jamie up, got him half awake at last.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000004_000020|He stared with fright first, and then began to cry.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000005_000000|"Come along, Jamie," I said.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000006_000000|"I don't want to go home," said Jamie.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000006_000001|"I want to go to sleep again."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000007_000000|"That's very ungrateful of you, Jamie," I said, full of my own importance, "when I've come so far, and all at night too, to set you free."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000008_000000|"I'm free enough," said Jamie.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000008_000002|I don't want to go before the morning."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000009_000000|And he began to whimper again.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000011_000000|"Oh!" said Jamie, "that's only-"
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000000|But ere he got farther the moonlight in the loft was darkened.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000001|I looked hurriedly towards the door.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000002|There stood the strangest figure, with the moon behind it.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000004|My heart gave a great jump up, but I swallowed it down.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000005|I would not disgrace myself before Jamie.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000006|It was not the Kelpie, however, but the keeper's sister, the great, grim, gaunt woman I had seen at the table at supper.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000007|I will not attempt to describe her appearance.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000008|It was peculiar enough, for she had just got out of bed and thrown an old shawl about her.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000012_000011|The other end had been tied to her wrist, that if anything happened he might pull her, and then she would come to him.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000014_000000|"What's the matter, Jamie Duff?" she said in a gruff voice as she advanced along the stream of moonlight.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000015_000000|I stood up as bravely as I could.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000016_000000|"It's only me, Miss Adam," I said.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000018_000000|"Ranald Bannerman," I answered.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000019_000000|"Oh!" she said in a puzzled tone.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000019_000001|"What are you doing here at this time of the night?"
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000020_000000|"I came to take Jamie home, but he won't go."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000021_000001|"You're comfortable enough, aren't you, Jamie Duff?"
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000022_000000|"Yes, thank you, ma'am, quite comfortable," said Jamie, who was now wide awake.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000022_000001|"But, please ma'am, Ranald didn't mean any harm."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000023_000001|If john Adam should come out, I don't exactly know what might happen.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000023_000002|Or perhaps he'd like to stop and keep you company."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000024_000000|"No, thank you, Miss Adam," I said.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000024_000001|"I will go home."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000025_000000|"Come along, then, and let me shut the door after you."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000026_000000|Somewhat nettled with Jamie Duff's indifference to my well meant exertions on his behalf, I followed her without even bidding him good night.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000027_000000|"Oh, you've got Missy, have you?" she said, spying her where she stood.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000027_000001|"Would you like a drink of milk or a piece of oatcake before you go?"
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000028_000000|"No, thank you," I said.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000028_000001|"I shall be glad to go to bed."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000029_000000|"I should think so," she answered.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000029_000001|"Jamie is quite comfortable, I assure you; and I'll take care he's in time for school in the morning.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000030_000001|I went home at a good gallop, took off the saddle and bridle and laid them in a cart in the shed, turned Missy loose into the stable, shut the door, and ran across the field to the manse, desiring nothing but bed.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000031_000000|When I came near the house from the back, I saw a figure entering the gate from the front.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000031_000001|It was in the full light of the moon, which was now up a good way.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000031_000002|Before it had reached the door I had got behind the next corner, and peeping round saw that my first impression was correct: it was the Kelpie.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000031_000003|She entered, and closed the door behind her very softly.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000031_000005|She gave a cry of alarm, but presently opened the door, looking pale and frightened.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000032_000000|"What are you doing out of doors this time of the night?" she asked, but without quite her usual arrogance, for, although she tried to put it on, her voice trembled too much.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000033_000000|I retorted the question.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000034_000000|"What were you doing out yourself?" I said.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000035_000000|"Looking after you, of course."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000036_000000|"That's why you locked the door, I suppose-to keep me out."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000037_000000|She had no answer ready, but looked as if she would have struck me.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000038_000000|"I shall let your father know of your goings on," she said, recovering herself a little.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000039_000000|"You need not take the trouble.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000039_000001|I shall tell him myself at breakfast to morrow morning.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000039_000002|I have nothing to hide.
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000039_000003|You had better tell him too."
train-other-500/228/121761/228_121761_000040_000001|For doors were seldom locked in the summer nights in that part of the country.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty six.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000002_000001|DIAMOND TAKES A FARE THE WRONG WAY RIGHT
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000003_000001|He had nothing to fear from his mother now, and made no secret of what he was about.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000003_000002|By the time he reached the stable, several of the men were there. They asked him a good many questions as to his luck the day before, and he told them all they wanted to know.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000003_000003|But when he proceeded to harness the old horse, they pushed him aside with rough kindness, called him a baby, and began to do it all for him.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000003_000005|But he did not really mind it.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000004_000001|There are not many people who can think about beautiful things and do common work at the same time.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000004_000002|But then there are not many people who have been to the back of the north wind.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000005_000000|There was not much business doing.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000005_000001|And Diamond felt rather cold, notwithstanding his mother had herself put on his comforter and helped him with his greatcoat.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000005_000002|But he was too well aware of his dignity to get inside his cab as some do.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000006_000000|He did not find it at all pleasant, so far east and so near the river; for the roughs were in great force.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000006_000002|But as he turned to go back, some idlers, not content with chaffing him, showed a mind to the fare the young woman had given him.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000007_000000|"Now, my little man," he said, "get on while you can.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000007_000001|Don't lose any time.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000008_000000|But Diamond was not in the habit of thinking only of himself.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000008_000001|He saw that his new friend looked weary, if not ill, and very poor.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000009_000000|"Won't you jump in, sir?" he said.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000009_000001|"I will take you wherever you like."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000010_000000|"Thank you, my man; but I have no money; so I can't."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000011_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000011_000001|I don't want any money.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000011_000002|I shall be much happier if you will get in. You have saved me all I had.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000014_000000|"Well, I am very tired.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000014_000001|If you will take me to Charing Cross, I shall be greatly obliged to you.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000014_000002|I have walked from Gravesend, and had hardly a penny left to get through the tunnel."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000016_000000|But as he drove, he could not help fancying he had seen the gentleman-for Diamond knew he was a gentleman-before.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000016_000001|Do all he could, however, he could not recall where or when.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000017_000000|"If you didn't mind taking me to Chiswick, I should be able to pay you when we got there.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000017_000001|It's a long way, but you shall have the whole fare from the Docks-and something over."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000018_000001|"I shall be most happy."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000019_000000|He was just clambering up again, when the gentleman put his head out of the window and said-
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000020_000000|"It's The Wilderness-mr
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000020_000001|Coleman's place; but I'll direct you when we come into the neighbourhood."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000021_000000|It flashed upon Diamond who he was.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000021_000001|But he got upon his box to arrange his thoughts before making any reply.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000022_000002|When a man thinks of what people will say in such a case, he may love, but his love is but a poor affair.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000022_000007|But he was not past being taught, and his troubles had done him no end of good, for they had made him doubt himself, and begin to think, so that he had come to see that he had been foolish as well as wicked.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000022_000009|Before he got home again, he had even begun to understand that no man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000022_000010|So he had come back a more humble man, and longing to ask Miss Coleman to forgive him.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000022_000011|But he had no idea what ruin had fallen upon them, for he had never made himself thoroughly acquainted with the firm's affairs.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000022_000012|Few speculative people do know their own affairs.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000023_000000|What was Diamond to do?
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000023_000001|He had heard his father and mother drop some remarks concerning mr Evans which made him doubtful of him.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000023_000003|It was, of course, of no use to drive mr Evans to Chiswick.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000024_000000|The moment he came to this conclusion, he changed his course from westward to northward, and went straight for mr Coleman's poor little house in Hoxton.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000025_000000|By this time the wind had increased almost to a hurricane, and as they had often to head it, it was no joke for either of the Diamonds.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000025_000001|The distance, however, was not great.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000026_000000|"Please, sir, my harness has given away.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000026_000001|Would you mind stepping in here for a few minutes?
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000026_000002|They're friends of mine.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000026_000003|I'll take you where you like after I've got it mended.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000026_000004|I shan't be many minutes, but you can't stand in this wind."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000027_000000|Half stupid with fatigue and want of food, mr Evans yielded to the boy's suggestion, and walked in at the door which the maid held with difficulty against the wind.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000028_000000|"Tell Miss Coleman.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000028_000001|It's Miss Coleman he wants to see."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000029_000001|"He don't look much like a gentleman."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000030_000000|"He is, though; and I know him, and so does Miss Coleman."
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000031_000001|So she believed him, and went to do what he told her.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000032_000002|There was a cry and a running to and fro in the house, and then all was quiet again.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000033_000000|Almost as soon as mr Evans went in, the wind began to cease, and was now still.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000033_000001|Diamond found that by making the breeching just a little tighter than was quite comfortable for the old horse he could do very well for the present; and, thinking it better to let him have his bag in this quiet place, he sat on the box till the old horse should have eaten his dinner.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000033_000003|Diamond obeyed, and to his delight Miss Coleman put her arms round him and kissed him, and there was payment for him!
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000033_000004|Not to mention the five precious shillings she gave him, which he could not refuse because his mother wanted them so much at home for his father.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000033_000005|He left them nearly as happy as they were themselves.
train-other-500/228/131212/228_131212_000034_000002|They asked him such a multitude of questions!
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000005_000000|In the darkness houses shine, Parents move the candles; Till on all the night divine Turns the bedroom handles.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000007_000000|In the darkness shapes of things, Houses, trees and hedges, Clearer grow; and sparrow's wings Beat on window ledges.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000011_000000|Every path and every plot, Every blush of roses, Every blue forget me not Where the dew reposes,
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000012_000000|"Up!" they cry, "the day is come On the smiling valleys: We have beat the morning drum; Playmate, join your allies!"
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000014_000000|Birds all the sunny day Flutter and quarrel Here in the arbour like Tent of the laurel.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000015_000000|Here in the fork The brown nest is seated; Four little blue eggs The mother keeps heated.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000017_000000|Soon the frail eggs they shall Chip, and upspringing Make all the April woods Merry with singing.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000019_000000|We, so much older, Taller and stronger, We shall look down on the Birdies no longer.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000020_000000|They shall go flying With musical speeches High overhead in the Tops of the beeches.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000023_000000|All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000025_000000|Tiny woods below whose boughs Shady fairies weave a house; Tiny tree tops, rose or thyme, Where the braver fairies climb!
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000032_000000|Above the hills, along the blue, Round the bright air with footing true, To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000035_000000|Under grass alone he lies, Looking up with leaden eyes, Scarlet coat and pointed gun, To the stars and to the sun
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000036_000000|When the grass is ripe like grain, When the scythe is stoned again, When the lawn is shaven clear, Then my hole shall reappear.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000037_000000|I shall find him, never fear, I shall find my grenadier; But for all that's gone and come, I shall find my soldier dumb.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000043_000000|In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail!
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000047_000000|The gardener does not love to talk. He makes me keep the gravel walk; And when he puts his tools away, He locks the door and takes the key.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000054_000000|Here we had best on tip toe tread, While I for safety march ahead, For this is that enchanted ground Where all who loiter slumber sound.
train-other-500/228/133094/228_133094_000055_000000|Here is the sea, here is the sand, Here is simple Shepherd's Land, Here are the fairy hollyhocks, And there are Ali Baba's rocks.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000001_000000|Commander of the faithful, there was formerly a sultan of Egypt, a strict observer of justice, gracious, merciful, and liberal, and his valour made him terrible to his neighbours.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000001_000003|This minister had two sons, who in every thing followed his footsteps.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000001_000004|The eldest was called Shumse ad Deen Mahummud, and the younger Noor ad Deen Ali. The latter was endowed with all the good qualities that man could possess.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000003_000001|They did not go abroad for a month, after which they repaired to court, and attended their duties.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000003_000002|When the sultan hunted, one of the brothers accompanied him, and this honour they had by turns.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000003_000003|One evening as they were conversing together after a cheerful meal, the next day being the elder brother's turn to hunt with the sultan, he said to his younger brother, "Since neither of us is yet married, and we live so affectionately together, let us both wed the same day sisters out of some family that may suit our quality.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000003_000006|Do not you and I know what is just?
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000003_000007|The male being nobler than the female, it is your part to give a large dowry with your daughter.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000003_000008|By what I perceive, you are a man that would have your business done at another's charge."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000004_000000|Although Noor ad Deen spoke these words in jest, his brother being of a hasty temper, was offended, and falling into a passion said, "A mischief upon your son, since you prefer him before my daughter.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000004_000001|I wonder you had so much confidence as to believe him worthy of her; you must needs have lost your judgment to think you are my equal, and say we are colleagues.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000005_000000|Shumse ad Deen rising early next morning, attended the sultan, who went to hunt near the pyramids.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000005_000001|As for Noor ad Deen, he was very uneasy all night, and supposing it would not be possible to live longer with a brother who had treated him with so much haughtiness, he provided a stout mule, furnished himself with money and jewels, and having told his people that he was going on a private journey for two or three days, departed.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000006_000000|When out of Cairo, he rode by way of the desert towards Arabia; but his mule happening to tire, was forced to continue his journey on foot.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000006_000001|A courier who was going to Bussorah, by good fortune overtaking him, took him up behind him.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000006_000002|As soon as the courier reached that city, Noor ad Deen alighted, and returned him thanks for his kindness.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000007_000001|Follow me; I may perhaps make you forget the misfortunes which have forced you to leave your own country."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000008_000000|Noor ad Deen followed the grand vizier, who soon discovered his good qualities, and conceived for him so great an affection, that one day he said to him in private, "My son, I am, as you see, so far gone in years, that it is not probable I shall live much longer.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000008_000001|Heaven has bestowed on me only one daughter, who is as beautiful as you are handsome, and now fit for marriage.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000008_000002|Several nobles of the highest rank at this court have sought her for their sons, but I would not grant their request.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000008_000004|If you like the proposal, I will acquaint the sultan my master that I have adopted you by this marriage, and intreat him to grant you the reversion of my dignity of grand vizier in the kingdom of Bussorah.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000008_000005|In the mean time, nothing being more requisite for me than ease in my old age, I will not only put you in possession of great part of my estate, but leave the administration of public affairs to your management."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000009_000000|When the grand vizier had concluded this kind and generous proposal, Noor ad Deen fell at his feet, and expressing himself in terms that demonstrated his joy and gratitude, assured him, that he was at his command in every way.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000009_000001|Upon this the vizier sent for his chief domestics, ordered them to adorn the great hall of his palace, and prepare a splendid feast.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000009_000003|I have a brother, who is grand vizier to the sultan of Egypt.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000009_000004|This brother has but one son, whom he would not marry in the court of Egypt, but sent him hither to wed my daughter in order that both branches of our family may be united.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000009_000005|His son, whom I knew to be my nephew as soon as I saw him, is the young man I now present to you as my son in law.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000010_000001|He had fine new linen, and rich vestments provided for him in the greatest profusion.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000010_000002|Having bathed and dressed, he was perfumed with the most odoriferous essences, and went to compliment the vizier, his father in law, who was exceedingly pleased with his noble demeanour.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000010_000003|Having made him sit down, "My son," said he, "you have declared to me who you are, and the office you held at the court of Egypt.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000010_000005|I desire you to make me your entire confidant, and to acquaint me with the cause of your quarrel; for now you have no reason either to doubt my affection, or to conceal any thing from me."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000011_000001|Is it possible, my son, that your quarrel should rise so high about an imaginary marriage?
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000011_000002|I am sorry you fell out with your elder brother upon such a frivolous matter; but he was also wrong in being angry at what you only spoke in jest, and I ought to thank heaven for that difference which has procured me such a son in law.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000011_000003|But," continued the vizier, "it is late, and time for you to retire; go to your bride, my son, she expects you: to morrow, I will present you to the sultan, and hope he will receive you in such a manner as shall satisfy us both." Noor ad Deen Ali took leave of his father in law, and retired to his bridal apartment.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000012_000000|It is remarkable that Shumse ad Deen Mahummud happened also to marry at Cairo the very same day that this marriage was solemnized at Bussorah, the particulars of which are as follow:
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000013_000002|It vexed him so much the more, because he did not doubt but the harsh words he had used had occasioned his flight. He sent a messenger in search of him, who went to Damascus, and as far as Aleppo, but Noor ad Deen was then at Bussorah.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000015_000000|The grand vizier, of Bussorah testified his joy for the birth of his grandson by gifts and public entertainments.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000015_000001|And to shew his son in law the great esteem he had for him, he went to the palace, and most humbly besought the sultan to grant Noor ad Deen Ali his office, that he might have the comfort before his death to see his son in law made grand vizier, in his stead.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000018_000000|The old vizier of Bussorah died about four years afterwards with great satisfaction, seeing a. branch of his family that promised so fair to support its future consequence and respectability.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000019_000000|Noor ad Deen Ali, performed his last duty to him with all possible love and gratitude.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000020_000000|After Buddir ad Deen had been two years under the tuition of his master, who taught him perfectly to read, he learnt the Koran by heart.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000020_000001|His father put him afterwards to other tutors, by whom his mind was cultivated to such a degree, that when he was twelve years of age he had no more occasion for them.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000021_000001|The people who saw him in the streets were charmed with his demeanour, and gave him a thousand blessings.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000022_000000|His father proposing to render him capable of supplying his place, accustomed him to business of the greatest moment, on purpose to qualify him betimes.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000022_000001|In short, he omitted nothing to advance a son he loved so well.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000022_000002|But as he began to enjoy the fruits of his labour, he was suddenly seized by a violent fit of sickness; and finding himself past recovery, disposed himself to die a good Mussulmaun.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000023_000000|In that last and precious moment he forgot not his son, but called for him, and said, "My son, you see this world is transitory; there is nothing durable but in that to which I shall speedily go.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000023_000001|You must therefore from henceforth begin to fit yourself for this change, as I have done; you must prepare for it without murmuring, so as to have no trouble of conscience for not having acted the part of a really honest man.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000023_000002|As for your religion, you are sufficiently instructed in it, by what you have learnt from your tutors, and your own study; and as to what belongs to an upright man, I shall give you some instructions, of which I hope you will make good use.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000023_000003|As it is a necessary thing to know one's self, and you cannot come to that knowledge without you first understand who I am, I shall now inform you.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000024_000000|"I am a native of Egypt; my father, your grandfather, was first minister to the sultan of that kingdom.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000024_000001|I had myself the honour to be vizier, to that sultan, and so has my brother, your uncle, who I suppose is yet alive; his name is Shumse ad Deen Mahummud. I was obliged to leave him, and come into this country, where I have raised myself to the high dignity I now enjoy.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000024_000002|But you will understand all these matters more fully by a manuscript that I shall give you."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000025_000000|At the same time, Noor ad Deen Ali gave to his son a memorandum book, saying, "Take and read it at your leisure; you will find, among other things, the day of my marriage, and that of your birth.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000025_000001|These are circumstances which perhaps you may hereafter have occasion to know, therefore you must keep it very carefully."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000027_000000|That very moment Noor ad Deen fainted, so that it was thought he would have expired; but he came to himself again, and spoke as follows:
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000028_000000|"My son, the first instruction I give you, is, Not to make yourself familiar with all sorts of people.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000028_000001|The way to live happy is to keep your mind to yourself, and not to tell your thoughts too easily.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000029_000000|"Secondly, Not to do violence to any body whatever, for in that case you will draw every body's hatred upon you.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000029_000001|You ought to consider the world as a creditor, to whom you owe moderation, compassion, and forbearance.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000030_000000|"Thirdly, Not to say a word when you are reproached; for, as the proverb says, He that keeps silence is out of danger.' And in this case particularly you ought to practice it.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000030_000001|You also know what one of our poets says upon this subject, That silence is the ornament and safe guard of life'; That our speech ought not to be like a storm of hail that spoils all.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000030_000002|Never did any man yet repent of having spoken too little, whereas many have been sorry that they spoke so much.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000031_000000|"Fourthly, To drink no wine, for that is the source of all vices.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000035_000000|The new grand vizier, accompanied by his officers, went immediately to execute his commission.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000035_000002|He found him sitting in the vestibule of his house, as melancholy as if his father had been but newly dead.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000035_000004|"My lord," said he, "there is no time to be lost; the sultan is incensed against you, has sent to confiscate your estates, and to seize your person."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000037_000000|He ran without stopping till he came to the public burying ground, and as it was growing dark, resolved to pass that night in his father's tomb.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000037_000002|On the way Buddir ad Deen met a Jew, who was a banker and merchant, and was returning from a place where his affairs had called him, to the city.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000038_000000|The Jew, knowing Buddir ad Deen, stopped, and saluted him very courteously.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000039_000002|I started out of my sleep in alarm, and came out immediately to go and pray upon his tomb."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000040_000000|"My lord," said the Jew (who did not know the true reason why Buddir ad Deen had left the town), "your father of happy memory, and my good lord, had store of merchandize in several vessels, which are yet at sea, and belong to you; I beg the favour of you to grant me the refusal of them before any other merchant.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000041_000001|"Since it is so, my lord," said he, "be pleased to favour me with a small note of the bargain we have made." As he spoke, he pulled the inkhorn from his girdle, and taking a small reed out of it neatly cut for writing, presented it to him with a piece of paper.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000043_000000|This note he delivered to the Jew, after having stamped it with his seal, and then took his leave of him.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000044_000000|While Isaac pursued his journey to the city, Buddir ad Deen made the best of his way to his father's tomb.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000044_000001|When he came to it, he prostrated himself to the ground, and, with his eyes full of tears, deplored his miserable condition.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000044_000003|Whither canst thou fly for refuge against the unjust prince who persecutes thee?
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000044_000005|Must fortune needs add new misfortunes to just complaints?"
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000044_000006|He continued a long time in this posture, but at last rose up, and leaning his head upon his father's tombstone, his sorrows returned more violently than before; so that he sighed and mourned, till, overcome with heaviness, he sunk upon the floor, and drops asleep.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000045_000000|He had not slept long, when a genie, who had retired to the cemetery during the day, and was intending, according to his custom, to range about the world at night, entered the sepulchre, and finding Buddir ad Deen lying on his back, was surprised at his beauty.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000046_000001|"Look," said the genie, shewing her Buddir ad Deen Houssun, "did you ever see a youth more beautiful?"
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000047_000000|The perie having attentively observed Buddir ad Deen, replied, "I must confess that he is a very handsome man, but I am just come from seeing an objets at Cairo, more admirable than this; and if you will hear me, I will relate her unhappy fate." "You will very much oblige me," answered the genie.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000047_000004|Since that time I have had no account of him till within these four days, that I heard he died at Bussorah, being grand vizier to the sultan of that kingdom.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000048_000001|He has left a son, and there having been an agreement between us to match our children together, I am persuaded he intended that match when he died; and being desirous to fulfil the promise on my part, I conjure your majesty to grant me permission.'
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000049_000000|"The sultan of Egypt, provoked at this denial of his vizier said to him in anger which he could not restrain: Is this the way in which you requite my condescension in stooping so low as to desire your alliance?
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000049_000002|The vizier retired to his palace full of confusion, and overwhelmed in despair.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000050_000000|"This very day the sultan sent for one of his grooms, who is hump backed, big bellied, crook legged, and as ugly as a hobgoblin; and after having commanded the vizier to marry his daughter to this ghastly slave, he caused the contract to be made and signed by witnesses in his own presence.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000050_000002|I have seen her, and do assure you, that no person can behold her without admiration."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000051_000001|I consent to your revenge upon the sultan of Egypt; let us comfort a distressed father, and make his daughter as happy as she thinks herself miserable.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000051_000002|I will do my utmost endeavours to make this project succeed, and I am persuaded you will not be backward.
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000051_000003|I will be at the pains to carry him to Cairo before he awakes, and afterwards leave it to your care to carry him elsewhere, when we have accomplished our design."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000052_000003|Observe to do everything exactly as I have desired you; be not afraid of any person, and leave the rest to a superior power, who will order matters as he thinks fit."
train-other-500/2284/135909/2284_135909_000053_000000|Buddir ad Deen, being well instructed in all that he was to do, advanced towards the door of the bath.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000002_000000|These fans of leaves from Indian trees- These crimson shells, from Indian seas- These tiny portraits, set in rings- Once, doubtless, deemed such precious things; Keepsakes bestowed by Love on Faith, And worn till the receiver's death, Now stored with cameos, china, shells, In this old closet's dusty cells.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000003_000000|I scarcely think, for ten long years, A hand has touched these relics old; And, coating each, slow formed, appears The growth of green and antique mould.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000006_000000|And outside all is ivy, clinging To chimney, lattice, gable grey; Scarcely one little red rose springing Through the green moss can force its way.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000009_000000|I fear to see the very faces, Familiar thirty years ago, Even in the old accustomed places Which look so cold and gloomy now,
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000010_000000|I've come, to close the window, hither, At twilight, when the sun was down, And Fear my very soul would wither, Lest something should be dimly shown,
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000012_000000|Hers was this chamber; in her time It seemed to me a pleasant room, For then no cloud of grief or crime Had cursed it with a settled gloom;
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000018_000000|She bore in silence-but when passion Surged in her soul with ceaseless foam, The storm at last brought desolation, And drove her exiled from her home.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000021_000000|Fain would I know if, henceforth, ever, These eyes shall read in hers again, That light of love which faded never, Though dimmed so long with secret pain.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000027_000000|So speaks experience, sage and hoary; I see it plainly, know it well, Like one who, having read a story, Each incident therein can tell.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000028_000000|Touch not that ring; 'twas his, the sire Of that forsaken child; And nought his relics can inspire Save memories, sin defiled.
train-other-500/2288/139949/2288_139949_000030_000000|And heaven did curse-they found him laid, When crime for wrath was rife, Cold-with the suicidal blade Clutched in his desperate gripe.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000008_000000|There was an alcove in that shade, Screening a rustic seat and stand; Weary she sat her down, and laid Her hot brow on her burning hand.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000009_000000|To solitude and to the night, Some words she now, in murmurs, said; And trickling through her fingers white, Some tears of misery she shed.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000012_000000|"Who can for ever crush the heart, Restrain its throbbing, curb its life? Dissemble truth with ceaseless art, With outward calm mask inward strife?"
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000015_000000|"My love awakes no love again, My tears collect, and fall unfelt; My sorrow touches none with pain, My humble hopes to nothing melt.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000017_000000|"That mind my own.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000019_000000|"Must it be so?
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000022_000000|"Oh! leaving disappointment here, Will man find hope on yonder coast? Hope, which, on earth, shines never clear, And oft in clouds is wholly lost.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000023_000000|"Will he hope's source of light behold, Fruition's spring, where doubts expire, And drink, in waves of living gold, Contentment, full, for long desire?
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000025_000000|"Will he find love without lust's leaven, Love fearless, tearless, perfect, pure, To all with equal bounty given; In all, unfeigned, unfailing, sure?
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000026_000000|"Will he, from penal sufferings free, Released from shroud and wormy clod, All calm and glorious, rise and see Creation's Sire-Existence' God?
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000028_000000|"If so, endure, my weary frame; And when thy anguish strikes too deep, And when all troubled burns life's flame, Think of the quiet, final sleep;
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000032_000000|"The tear which, welling from the heart, Burns where its drop corrosive falls, And makes each nerve, in torture, start, At feelings it too well recalls:
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000034_000000|"When the hand trembled to receive A thrilling clasp, which seemed so near, And the heart ventured to believe Another heart esteemed it dear.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000046_000000|"Still strong and young, and warm with vigour, Though scathed, I long shall greenly grow; And many a storm of wildest rigour Shall yet break o'er my shivered bough.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000047_000000|"Rebellious now to blank inertion, My unused strength demands a task; Travel, and toil, and full exertion, Are the last, only boon I ask.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000050_000000|"The world is not in yonder tower, Earth is not prisoned in that room, 'Mid whose dark panels, hour by hour, I've sat, the slave and prey of gloom.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000051_000000|"One feeling-turned to utter anguish, Is not my being's only aim; When, lorn and loveless, life will languish, But courage can revive the flame.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000053_000000|"New scenes, new language, skies less clouded, May once more wake the wish to live; Strange, foreign towns, astir, and crowded, New pictures to the mind may give.
train-other-500/2288/139962/2288_139962_000055_000000|"And we might meet-time may have changed him; Chance may reveal the mystery, The secret influence which estranged him; Love may restore him yet to me.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000003_000001|Mrs General
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000005_000001|A stiff commissariat officer of sixty, famous as a martinet, had then become enamoured of the gravity with which she drove the proprieties four in hand through the cathedral town society, and had solicited to be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000005_000002|His proposal of marriage being accepted by the lady, the commissary took his seat behind the proprieties with great decorum, and Mrs General drove until the commissary died.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000005_000003|In the course of their united journey, they ran over several people who came in the way of the proprieties; but always in a high style and with composure.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000006_000001|It then transpired that the commissary had so far stolen a march on Mrs General as to have bought himself an annuity some years before his marriage, and to have reserved that circumstance in mentioning, at the period of his proposal, that his income was derived from the interest of his money.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000006_000002|Mrs General consequently found her means so much diminished, that, but for the perfect regulation of her mind, she might have felt disposed to question the accuracy of that portion of the late service which had declared that the commissary could take nothing away with him.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000007_000001|Mrs General's communication of this idea to her clerical and commissariat connection was so warmly applauded that, but for the lady's undoubted merit, it might have appeared as though they wanted to get rid of her.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000007_000002|Testimonials representing Mrs General as a prodigy of piety, learning, virtue, and gentility, were lavishly contributed from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on whom he could rely), though he had never had the honour and moral gratification of setting eyes on Mrs General in all his life.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000008_000000|Thus delegated on her mission, as it were by Church and State, Mrs General, who had always occupied high ground, felt in a condition to keep it, and began by putting herself up at a very high figure.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000008_000001|An interval of some duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000009_000001|When her charge was at length formed, the marriage, not only of the young lady, but likewise of her father, the widower, was resolved on.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000009_000002|The widower then finding Mrs General both inconvenient and expensive, became of a sudden almost as much affected by her merits as the archdeacon had been, and circulated such praises of her surpassing worth, in all quarters where he thought an opportunity might arise of transferring the blessing to somebody else, that Mrs General was a name more honourable than ever.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000010_000000|The phoenix was to let, on this elevated perch, when Mr Dorrit, who had lately succeeded to his property, mentioned to his bankers that he wished to discover a lady, well bred, accomplished, well connected, well accustomed to good society, who was qualified at once to complete the education of his daughters, and to be their matron or chaperon.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000011_000000|Pursuing the light so fortunately hit upon, and finding the concurrent testimony of the whole of Mrs General's acquaintance to be of the pathetic nature already recorded, Mr Dorrit took the trouble of going down to the county of the county widower to see Mrs General, in whom he found a lady of a quality superior to his highest expectations.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000012_000000|'Might I be excused,' said Mr Dorrit, 'if I inquired-ha-what remune-'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000013_000000|'Why, indeed,' returned Mrs General, stopping the word, 'it is a subject on which I prefer to avoid entering.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000013_000001|I have never entered on it with my friends here; and I cannot overcome the delicacy, Mr Dorrit, with which I have always regarded it.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000013_000002|I am not, as I hope you are aware, a governess-'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000014_000000|'O dear no!' said Mr Dorrit. 'Pray, madam, do not imagine for a moment that I think so.' He really blushed to be suspected of it.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000015_000000|Mrs General gravely inclined her head.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000015_000001|'I cannot, therefore, put a price upon services which it is a pleasure to me to render if I can render them spontaneously, but which I could not render in mere return for any consideration.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000015_000002|Neither do I know how, or where, to find a case parallel to my own.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000015_000003|It is peculiar.'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000016_000000|No doubt.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000016_000001|But how then (Mr Dorrit not unnaturally hinted) could the subject be approached.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000016_000002|'I cannot object,' said Mrs General-'though even that is disagreeable to me-to Mr Dorrit's inquiring, in confidence of my friends here, what amount they have been accustomed, at quarterly intervals, to pay to my credit at my bankers'.'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000018_000000|'Permit me to add,' said Mrs General, 'that beyond this, I can never resume the topic.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000018_000001|Also that I can accept no second or inferior position. If the honour were proposed to me of becoming known to Mr Dorrit's family-I think two daughters were mentioned?--'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000019_000000|'Two daughters.'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000020_000000|'I could only accept it on terms of perfect equality, as a companion, protector, Mentor, and friend.'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000021_000000|Mr Dorrit, in spite of his sense of his importance, felt as if it would be quite a kindness in her to accept it on any conditions.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000021_000001|He almost said as much.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000022_000000|'I think,' repeated Mrs General, 'two daughters were mentioned?'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000023_000000|'Two daughters,' said Mr Dorrit again.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000024_000000|'It would therefore,' said Mrs General, 'be necessary to add a third more to the payment (whatever its amount may prove to be), which my friends here have been accustomed to make to my bankers'.'
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000025_000001|Mrs General being an article of that lustrous surface which suggests that it is worth any money, he made a formal proposal to be allowed to have the honour and pleasure of regarding her as a member of his family.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000025_000002|Mrs General conceded that high privilege, and here she was.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000026_000000|In person, Mrs General, including her skirts which had much to do with it, was of a dignified and imposing appearance; ample, rustling, gravely voluminous; always upright behind the proprieties.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000026_000002|If her countenance and hair had rather a floury appearance, as though from living in some transcendently genteel Mill, it was rather because she was a chalky creation altogether, than because she mended her complexion with violet powder, or had turned grey.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000026_000004|If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000026_000005|A cool, waxy, blown out woman, who had never lighted well.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000026_000006|Mrs General had no opinions.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000027_000001|Accidents, miseries, and offences, were never to be mentioned before her.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000027_000002|Passion was to go to sleep in the presence of Mrs General, and blood was to change to milk and water.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000027_000005|The more cracked it was, the more Mrs General varnished it.
train-other-500/2288/155711/2288_155711_000027_000006|There was varnish in Mrs General's voice, varnish in Mrs General's touch, an atmosphere of varnish round Mrs General's figure.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000008_000000|There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000008_000002|Far different was the situation of the German Caesars, who were ambitious to enslave the kingdom of Italy.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000008_000010|At the foot of these popular ramparts, the pride of the Caesars was overthrown; and the invincible genius of liberty prevailed over the two Frederics, the greatest princes of the middle age; the first, superior perhaps in military prowess; the second, who undoubtedly excelled in the softer accomplishments of peace and learning.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000014_000001|The recent discovery of the Pandects had renewed a science most favorable to despotism; and his venal advocates proclaimed the emperor the absolute master of the lives and properties of his subjects.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000014_000005|The court of Rome had slumbered, when his father Henry the Sixth was permitted to unite with the empire the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily; and from these hereditary realms the son derived an ample and ready supply of troops and treasure.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000014_000006|Yet Frederic the Second was finally oppressed by the arms of the Lombards and the thunders of the Vatican: his kingdom was given to a stranger, and the last of his family was beheaded at Naples on a public scaffold.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000014_000007|During sixty years, no emperor appeared in Italy, and the name was remembered only by the ignominious sale of the last relics of sovereignty.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000018_000002|It would have been a vain and dangerous attempt to impose a monarch on the armed freemen, who were impatient of a magistrate; on the bold, who refused to obey; on the powerful, who aspired to command.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000018_000005|If the dukes, margraves, and counts of Germany, were less audacious in their claims, the consequences of their success were more lasting and pernicious to the state.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000018_000010|As long as the emperors retained the prerogative of bestowing on every vacancy these ecclesiastic and secular benefices, their cause was maintained by the gratitude or ambition of their friends and favorites.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000018_000013|The emperor could not even be enriched by the casualties of forfeiture and extinction: within the term of a year, he was obliged to dispose of the vacant fief; and, in the choice of the candidate, it was his duty to consult either the general or the provincial diet.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000019_000001|A crowd of princes and prelates disputed the ruins of the empire: the lords of innumerable castles were less prone to obey, than to imitate, their superiors; and, according to the measure of their strength, their incessant hostilities received the names of conquest or robbery.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000019_000008|The pride of birth and dominion, of the sword and the mitre, wisely adopted the commons as the third branch of the legislature, and, in the progress of society, they were introduced about the same aera into the national assemblies of France England, and Germany.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000022_000000|It is in the fourteenth century that we may view in the strongest light the state and contrast of the Roman empire of Germany, which no longer held, except on the borders of the Rhine and Danube, a single province of Trajan or Constantine.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000022_000001|Their unworthy successors were the counts of Hapsburgh, of Nassau, of Luxemburgh, and Schwartzenburgh: the emperor Henry the Seventh procured for his son the crown of Bohemia, and his grandson Charles the Fourth was born among a people strange and barbarous in the estimation of the Germans themselves.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000022_000003|The death of his competitors united the electoral college, and Charles was unanimously saluted king of the romans, and future emperor; a title which, in the same age, was prostituted to the Caesars of Germany and Greece.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000022_000004|The German emperor was no more than the elective and impotent magistrate of an aristocracy of princes, who had not left him a village that he might call his own.
train-other-500/2292/150679/2292_150679_000022_000006|The army with which he passed the Alps consisted of three hundred horse.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000001_000001|But the flying Persians were overcome by the belief, that the last day of their religion and empire was at hand; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice; and the king, with a part of his family and treasures, escaped to Holwan at the foot of the Median hills.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000002_000004|Strangers to the name and properties of that odoriferous gum, the Saracens, mistaking it for salt, mingled the camphire in their bread, and were astonished at the bitterness of the taste.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000002_000007|Regardless of the merit of art, and the pomp of royalty, the rigid Omar divided the prize among his brethren of Medina: the picture was destroyed; but such was the intrinsic value of the materials, that the share of Ali alone was sold for twenty thousand drams.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000010_000004|They advanced along the Tigris and the Gulf; penetrated through the passes of the mountains into the valley of Estachar or Persepolis, and profaned the last sanctuary of the Magian empire.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000010_000008|In the public anarchy, the independent governors of the cities and castles obtained their separate capitulations: the terms were granted or imposed by the esteem, the prudence, or the compassion, of the victors; and a simple profession of faith established the distinction between a brother and a slave.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000010_000012|God was then neuter: since he has espoused your quarrel, you have subverted our kingdom and religion." Oppressed by this painful dialogue, the Persian complained of intolerable thirst, but discovered some apprehension lest he should be killed whilst he was drinking a cup of water.
train-other-500/2292/150689/2292_150689_000010_000013|"Be of good courage," said the caliph; "your life is safe till you have drunk this water:" the crafty satrap accepted the assurance, and instantly dashed the vase against the ground.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000001_000000|MADAME GOESLER'S STORY.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000004_000000|"No;--I left you as though I had grounds for quarrelling; but there was no quarrel.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000004_000001|I wrote to you, and tried to explain that."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000005_000000|"You did;--and though my answer was necessarily short, I was very grateful."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000006_000000|"And here you are back among us; and it does seem so odd.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000006_000001|Lady Chiltern never told me that I was to meet you."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000007_000000|"Nor did she tell me."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000008_000000|"It is better so, for otherwise I should not have come, and then, perhaps, you would have been all alone in your discomfiture at the bank."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000009_000000|"That would have been very bad."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000010_000000|"You see I can be quite frank with you, mr Finn.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000010_000002|And when I did see you, it was quite improbable that we should be thrown together as we are now,--was it not?
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000010_000003|Ah;--here is a man, and he can tell us the way back to Copperhouse Cross.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000011_000001|The waggonette had been left at an inn about two miles from Copperhouse Cross, but they resolved to abandon that and to ride direct to Harrington Hall. It was now nearly three o'clock, and they would not be subjected to the shame which falls upon sportsmen who are seen riding home very early in the day.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000012_000000|Then Madame Goesler began to talk about herself, and to give a short history of her life during the last two and a half years.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000012_000001|She did this in a frank natural manner, continuing her tale in a low voice, as though it were almost a matter of course that she should make the recital to so old a friend.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000012_000002|And Phineas soon began to feel that it was natural that she should do so.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000012_000003|"It was just before you left us," she said, "that the Duke took to coming to my house." The duke spoken of was the Duke of Omnium, and Phineas well remembered to have heard some rumours about the Duke and Madame Max.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000012_000006|Of all this, however, the reader who understands Madame Goesler's character will be quite sure that she did not say a word to Phineas Finn.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000012_000007|Since the business had been completed she had spoken of it to no one but to Lady Glencora Palliser, who had forced herself into a knowledge of all the circumstances while they were being acted.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000013_000000|"I met the Duke once at Matching," said Phineas.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000014_000000|"I remember it well.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000014_000001|I was there, and first made the Duke's acquaintance on that occasion.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000015_000000|"I suppose you like Lady Glencora?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000017_000000|"The Dukes have more to offer than the Joneses;--I don't mean in the way of wealth only, but of what one enjoys most in society generally."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000018_000000|"I suppose they have.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000018_000001|At any rate, I am glad that you should make some excuse for me.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000018_000002|But I do like the man.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000018_000003|He is gracious and noble in his bearing.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000018_000004|He is now very old, and sinking fast into the grave; but even the wreck is noble."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000019_000000|"I don't know that he ever did much," said Phineas.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000020_000000|"I don't know that he ever did anything according to your idea of doing.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000020_000001|There must be some men who do nothing."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000021_000000|"But a man with his wealth and rank has opportunities so great!
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000021_000001|Look at his nephew!"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000022_000000|"No doubt mr Palliser is a great man.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000023_000000|"But he will achieve much more than ten times the reputation," said Phineas.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000024_000000|"I won't compare them, nor will I argue; but I like the Duke.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000024_000001|Nay;--I love him.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000024_000002|During the last two years I have allowed the whole fashion of my life to be remodelled by this intimacy.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000024_000003|You knew what were my habits.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000024_000004|I have only been in Vienna for one week since I last saw you, and I have spent months and months at Matching."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000025_000000|"What do you do there?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000026_000000|"Read to him;--talk to him;--give him his food, and do all that in me lies to make his life bearable.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000026_000001|Last year, when it was thought necessary that very distinguished people should be entertained at the great family castle,--in Barsetshire, you know-"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000027_000000|"I have heard of the place."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000000|"A regular treaty or agreement was drawn up.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000001|Conditions were sealed and signed.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000002|One condition was that both Lady Glencora and I should be there.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000003|We put our heads together to try to avoid this; as, of course, the Prince would not want to see me particularly,--and it was altogether so grand an affair that things had to be weighed.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000004|But the Duke was inexorable.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000005|Lady Glencora at such a time would have other things to do, and I must be there, or Gatherum Castle should not be opened.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000028_000006|I suggested whether I could not remain in the background and look after the Duke as a kind of upper nurse,--but Lady Glencora said it would not do."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000029_000000|"Why should you subject yourself to such indignity?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000030_000000|"Simply from love of the man.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000030_000001|But you see I was not subjected.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000030_000002|For two days I wore my jewels beneath royal eyes,--eyes that will sooner or later belong to absolute majesty.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000030_000004|You ask me why I did it.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000030_000005|The fact is that things sometimes become too strong for one, even when there is no real power of constraint.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000030_000007|I had to go to Gatherum Castle, to the absolute neglect of my business; and I went."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000031_000000|"Do you still keep it up?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000032_000000|"Oh, dear, yes.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000032_000001|He is at Matching now, and I doubt whether he will ever leave it again.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000032_000002|I shall go there from here as a matter of course, and relieve guard with Lady Glencora."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000033_000000|"I don't see what you get for it all."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000034_000000|"Get;--what should I get?
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000034_000001|You don't believe in friendship, then?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000035_000000|"Certainly I do;--but this friendship is so unequal.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000035_000001|I can hardly understand that it should have grown from personal liking on your side."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000036_000001|"You see, mr Finn, that you as a young man can hardly understand how natural it is that a young woman,--if I may call myself young,--should minister to an old man."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000037_000000|"But there should be some bond to the old man."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000038_000000|"There is a bond."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000039_000000|"You must not be angry with me," said Phineas.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000040_000000|"I am not in the least angry."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000041_000000|"I should not venture to express any opinion, of course,--only that you ask me."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000042_000000|"I do ask you, and you are quite welcome to express your opinion.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000042_000001|And were it not expressed, I should know what you thought just the same. I have wondered at it myself sometimes,--that I should have become as it were engulfed in this new life, almost without will of my own.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000042_000002|And when he dies, how shall I return to the other life?
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000044_000000|"Ah,--how indeed?
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000044_000001|Lady Glencora and I will have to curtsey to each other, and there will be an end of it.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000044_000002|She will be a duchess then, and I shall no longer be wanted."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000045_000000|"But even if you were wanted-?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000046_000001|It must last the Duke's time, and last no longer.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000046_000002|It would not be a healthy kind of life were it not that I do my very best to make the evening of his days pleasant for him, and in that way to be of some service in the world.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000046_000004|Let me see;--we are to turn here to the left.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000046_000005|That goes to Copperhouse Cross, no doubt.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000046_000006|Is it not odd that I should have told you all this history?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000047_000000|"Just because this brute would not jump over the fence."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000048_000000|"I dare say I should have told you, even if he had jumped over; but certainly this has been a great opportunity.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000048_000001|Do you tell your friend Lord Chiltern not to abuse the poor Duke any more before me.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000048_000002|I dare say our host is all right in what he says; but I don't like it. You'll come and see me in London, mr Finn?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000049_000000|"But you'll be at Matching?"
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000050_000000|"I do get a few days at home sometimes.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000050_000001|You see I have escaped for the present,--or otherwise you and I would not have come to grief together in Broughton Spinnies."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000051_000000|Soon after this they were overtaken by others who were returning home, and who had been more fortunate than they in getting away with the hounds.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000051_000001|The fox had gone straight for Trumpeton Wood, not daring to try the gorse on the way, and then had been run to ground. Chiltern was again in a towering passion, as the earths, he said, had been purposely left open.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000051_000002|But on this matter the men who had overtaken our friends were both of opinion that Chiltern was wrong. He had allowed it to be understood that he would not draw Trumpeton Wood, and he had therefore no right to expect that the earths should be stopped.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000051_000003|But there were and had been various opinions on this difficult point, as the laws of hunting are complex, recondite, numerous, traditional, and not always perfectly understood.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000051_000004|Perhaps the day may arrive in which they shall be codified under the care of some great and laborious master of hounds.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000052_000000|"And they did nothing more?" asked Phineas.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000053_000000|"Yes;--they chopped another fox before they left the place,--so that in point of fact they have drawn Trumpeton.
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000053_000001|But they didn't mean it."
train-other-500/2297/174934/2297_174934_000054_000000|When Madame Max Goesler and Phineas had reached Harrington Hall they were able to give their own story of the day's sport to Lady Chiltern, as the remainder of the party had not as yet returned.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000003_000000|CHAPTER seventy five
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000004_000000|The Major's Story
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000005_000000|By the end of March Isabel was in Paris, whither she had forbidden her lover to follow her.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000005_000001|Silverbridge was therefore reduced to the shifts of a bachelor's life, in which his friends seemed to think that he ought now to take special delight.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000005_000002|Perhaps he did not take much delight in them.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000005_000003|He was no doubt impatient to commence that steady married life for which he had prepared himself. But nevertheless, just at present, he lived a good deal at the Beargarden.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000005_000004|Where was he to live?
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000005_000005|The Boncassens were in Paris, his sister was at Matching with a houseful of other Pallisers, and his father was again deep in politics.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000006_000000|Of course he was much in the House of Commons, but that also was stupid.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000006_000001|Indeed everything would be stupid till Isabel came back. Perhaps dinner was more comfortable at the club than at the House. And then, as everybody knew, it was a good thing to change the scene. Therefore he dined at the club, and though he would keep his hansom and go down to the House again in the course of the evening, he spent many long hours at the Beargarden.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000007_000000|"The sooner the better as far as this place is concerned."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000008_000000|"This place is as good as any other.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000008_000001|For the matter of that I like the Beargarden since we got rid of two or three not very charming characters."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000009_000000|"You mean my poor friend Tifto," said Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000010_000000|"No;--I was not thinking of Tifto.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000010_000002|I wonder what has become of that poor devil?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000011_000000|"I don't know in the least.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000011_000001|You heard of that row about the hounds?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000012_000000|"And his letter to you."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000013_000001|But whither he vanished, or what he is doing, or how he is living, I have not the least idea."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000014_000000|"Gone to join those other fellows abroad, I should say.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000014_000001|Among them they got a lot of money,--as the Duke ought to remember."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000015_000000|"He is not with them," said Silverbridge, as though he were in some degree mourning over the fate of his unfortunate friend.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000016_000000|"I suppose Captain Green was the leader in all that?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000017_000000|"Now it is all done and gone I own to a certain regard for the Major. He was true to me till he thought I snubbed him.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000017_000002|I always thought that I drove the poor Major to his malpractices."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000000|At this moment Dolly Longstaff sauntered into the room and came up to them.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000001|It may be remembered that Dolly had declared his purpose of emigrating.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000002|As soon as he heard that the Duke's heir had serious thoughts of marrying the lady whom he loved he withdrew at once from the contest, but, as he did so, he acknowledged that there could be no longer a home for him in the country which Isabel was to inhabit as the wife of another man.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000003|Gradually, however, better thoughts returned to him.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000004|After all, what was she but a "pert poppet"?
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000005|He determined that marriage "clips a fellow's wings confoundedly," and so he set himself to enjoy life after his old fashion.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000006|There was perhaps a little swagger as he threw himself into a chair and addressed the happy lover.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000018_000007|"I'll be shot if I didn't meet Tifto at the corner of the street."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000019_000000|"Tifto!"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000020_000000|"Yes, Tifto.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000021_000000|"Did he speak to you?" asked Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000022_000000|"No;--nor I to him.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000023_000000|Nothing further was said about the man, but Silverbridge was uneasy and silent.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000023_000002|As he left the club he looked about him as though expecting to see his old friend, and when he had passed through the first street and had got into the Haymarket there he was! The Major came up to him, touched his hat, asked to be allowed to say a few words.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000023_000003|"I don't think it can do any good," said Silverbridge. The man had not attempted to shake hands with him, or affected familiarity; but seemed to be thoroughly humiliated.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000023_000004|"I don't think I can be of any service to you, and therefore I had rather decline."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000024_000000|"I don't want you to be of any service, my Lord."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000025_000000|"Then what's the good?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000026_000000|"I have something to say.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000026_000001|May I come to you to morrow?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000027_000000|Then Silverbridge allowed himself to make an appointment, and an hour was named at which Tifto might call in Carlton Terrace.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000027_000001|He felt that he almost owed some reparation to the wretched man,--whom he had unfortunately admitted among his friends, whom he had used, and to whom he had been uncourteous.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000028_000000|Dolly had said that he was shabby,--but the man was altered rather than shabby.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000028_000002|"I've got something that I particularly want to say to you, my Lord." Silverbridge would not shake hands with him, but could not refrain from offering him a chair.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000029_000000|"Well;--you can say it now."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000030_000000|"Yes;--but it isn't so very easy to be said.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000030_000001|There are some things, though you want to say them ever so, you don't quite know how to do it."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000031_000000|"You have your choice, Major Tifto.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000031_000001|You can speak or hold your tongue."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000032_000000|Then there was a pause, during which Silverbridge sat with his hands in his pockets trying to look unconcerned.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000033_000000|"What thing?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000034_000000|"Why, the nail!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000034_000001|It was I lamed the horse."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000035_000000|"I am sorry for it.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000035_000001|I can say nothing else."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000036_000002|After all, what does it matter to you?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000037_000000|"Very little.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000037_000001|I meant that I was sorry for your sake."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000038_000000|"I believe you are, my Lord.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000038_000002|Now I will tell you everything, and then you can do as you please."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000039_000000|"I wish to do nothing.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000040_000000|"Nevertheless, my Lord, I've got to tell it.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000040_000001|It was Green who put me up to it.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000040_000002|He did it just for the plunder.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000040_000003|As God is my judge it was not for the money I did it."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000041_000000|"Then it was revenge."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000042_000001|Up to that I had always been square,--square as a die!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000042_000002|I got to think that your Lordship was upsetting.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000042_000003|I don't know whether your Lordship remembers, but you did put me down once or twice rather uncommon."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000043_000000|"I hope I was not unjust."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000044_000000|"I don't say you was, my Lord.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000044_000001|But I got a feeling on me that you wanted to get rid of me, and I all the time doing the best I could for the 'orses.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000044_000002|I did do the best I could up to that very morning at Doncaster.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000044_000003|Well;--it was Green put me up to it.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000045_000000|"I remember it."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000046_000000|"The first time?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000047_000000|"Yes; I remember it."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000048_000000|"Because I came twice, my Lord.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000048_000002|You turned me out."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000049_000000|"That is true, Major Tifto."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000050_000001|Wasn't you rough?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000051_000000|"A man's bedroom is generally supposed to be private."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000052_000000|"Yes, my Lord,--that's true.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000053_000000|"Then why couldn't you let the horse alone?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000054_000000|"I was in their hands.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000054_000001|And then you was so rough with me!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000054_000002|So I said to myself I might as well do it;--and I did it."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000055_000000|"What do you want me to say?
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000055_000001|As far as my forgiveness goes, you have it!"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000056_000000|"That's saying a great deal, my Lord,--a great deal," said Tifto, now in tears.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000056_000001|"But I ain't said it all yet.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000056_000002|He's here; in London!"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000057_000000|"Who's here?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000058_000000|"Green.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000058_000001|He's here.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000058_000002|He doesn't think that I know, but I could lay my hand on him to morrow."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000059_000000|"There is no human being alive, Major Tifto, whose presence or absence could be a matter of more indifference to me."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000060_000001|I'll go before any judge, or magistrate, or police officer in the country, and tell the truth.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000060_000003|They shall punish me and him too.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000060_000004|I'm in that state of mind that any change would be for the better.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000060_000005|But he,--he ought to have it heavy."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000061_000000|"It won't be done by me, Major Tifto.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000061_000001|Look here, Major Tifto; you have come here to confess that you have done me a great injury?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000062_000000|"Yes, I have."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000063_000000|"And you say you are sorry for it."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000064_000000|"Indeed I am."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000000|"And I have forgiven you.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000001|There is only one way in which you can show your gratitude.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000002|Hold your tongue about it.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000003|Let it be as a thing done and gone.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000004|The money has been paid.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000005|The horse has been sold.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000065_000006|The whole thing has gone out of my mind, and I don't want to have it brought back again."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000066_000000|"And nothing is to be done to Green!"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000067_000000|"I should say nothing,--on that score."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000068_000000|"And he has got they say five and twenty thousand pounds clear money."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000069_000000|"It is a pity, but it cannot be helped.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000069_000001|I will have nothing further to do with it.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000069_000002|Of course I cannot bind you, but I have told you my wishes." The poor wretch was silent, but still it seemed as though he did not wish to go quite yet.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000069_000003|"If you have said what you have got to say, Major Tifto, I may as well tell you that my time is engaged."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000070_000000|"And must that be all?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000071_000000|"What else?"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000073_000000|"I can't prevent you."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000074_000000|Then Tifto got up from his chair, as though he were going.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000074_000001|"I wish I knew what I was going to do with myself."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000075_000000|"I don't know that I can help you, Major Tifto."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000076_000000|"I suppose not, my Lord.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000076_000001|I haven't twenty pounds left in all the world.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000076_000002|It's the only thing that wasn't square that ever I did in all my life.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000076_000003|Your Lordship couldn't do anything for me?
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000076_000004|We was very much together at one time, my Lord."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000077_000000|"Yes, Major Tifto, we were."
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000000|"Of course I was a villain.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000001|But it was only once; and your Lordship was so rough to me!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000002|I am not saying but what I was a villain.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000003|Think of what I did for myself by that one piece of wickedness!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000004|Master of hounds! member of the club!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000005|And the horse would have run in my name and won the Leger!
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000006|And everybody knew as your Lordship and me was together in him!"
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000078_000007|Then he burst out into a paroxysm of tears and sobbing.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000079_000000|The young Lord certainly could not take the man into partnership again, nor could he restore to him either the hounds or his club,--or his clean hands.
train-other-500/2297/28913/2297_28913_000079_000001|Nor did he know in what way he could serve the man, except by putting his hand into his pocket,--which he did.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000002_000000|Chapter seven
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000003_000000|THE PROGRESS OF THE DESTRUCTION.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000004_000000|THE cloud, which had scattered so deep a murkiness over the day, had now settled into a solid and impenetrable mass.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000004_000001|It resembled less even the thickest gloom of a night in the open air than the close and blind darkness of some narrow room.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000004_000002|But in proportion as the blackness gathered, did the lightnings around Vesuvius increase in their vivid and scorching glare.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000006_000000|The ashes in many places were already knee deep; and the boiling showers which came from the steaming breath of the volcano forced their way into the houses, bearing with them a strong and suffocating vapor.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000006_000001|In some places, immense fragments of rock, hurled upon the house roofs, bore down along the streets masses of confused ruin, which yet more and more, with every hour, obstructed the way; and, as the day advanced, the motion of the earth was more sensibly felt-the footing seemed to slide and creep-nor could chariot or litter be kept steady, even on the most level ground.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000007_000000|Sometimes the huger stones striking against each other as they fell, broke into countless fragments, emitting sparks of fire, which caught whatever was combustible within their reach; and along the plains beyond the city the darkness was now terribly relieved; for several houses, and even vineyards, had been set on flames; and at various intervals the fires rose suddenly and fiercely against the solid gloom.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000008_000001|The whole elements of civilization were broken up.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000008_000002|Ever and anon, by the flickering lights, you saw the thief hastening by the most solemn authorities of the law, laden with, and fearfully chuckling over, the produce of his sudden gains.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000008_000004|Each hurried blindly and confusedly on.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000008_000005|Nothing in all the various and complicated machinery of social life was left save the primal law of self preservation!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000000|Through this awful scene did the Athenian wade his way, accompanied by Ione and the blind girl.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000001|Suddenly, a rush of hundreds, in their path to the sea, swept by them.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000002|Nydia was torn from the side of Glaucus, who, with Ione, was borne rapidly onward; and when the crowd (whose forms they saw not, so thick was the gloom) were gone, Nydia was still separated from their side.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000003|Glaucus shouted her name.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000005|Their friend, their preserver, was lost!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000007|Her blindness rendered the scene familiar to her alone.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000008|Accustomed, through a perpetual night, to thread the windings of the city, she had led them unerringly towards the sea shore, by which they had resolved to hazard an escape.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000009_000009|Now, which way could they wend? all was rayless to them-a maze without a clue.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000010_000001|Fly, dearest!--beloved, fly! and leave me to my fate!'
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000011_000000|'Hush, my betrothed! my bride!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000011_000002|Yet, whither-oh! whither, can we direct ourselves through the gloom?
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000011_000003|Already it seems that we have made but a circle, and are in the very spot which we quitted an hour ago.'
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000012_000000|'O gods! yon rock-see, it hath riven the roof before us!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000012_000001|It is death to move through the streets!'
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000013_000000|'Blessed lightning!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000013_000001|See, Ione-see! the portico of the Temple of Fortune is before us.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000014_000000|He caught his beloved in his arms, and with difficulty and labor gained the temple.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000014_000002|The beauty and the unselfishness of love could hallow even that dismal time!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000016_000000|Ione turned at the sound of the voice, and, with a faint shriek, cowered again beneath the arms of Glaucus: and he, looking in the direction of the voice, beheld the cause of her alarm.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000016_000001|Through the darkness glared forth two burning eyes-the lightning flashed and lingered athwart the temple-and Glaucus, with a shudder, perceived the lion to which he had been doomed couched beneath the pillars-and, close beside it, unwitting of the vicinity, lay the giant form of him who had accosted them-the wounded gladiator, Niger.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000017_000000|That lightning had revealed to each other the form of beast and man; yet the instinct of both was quelled.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000017_000001|Nay, the lion crept nearer and nearer to the gladiator, as for companionship; and the gladiator did not recede or tremble.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000017_000002|The revolution of Nature had dissolved her lighter terrors as well as her wonted ties.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000018_000000|While they were thus terribly protected, a group of men and women, bearing torches, passed by the temple.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000018_000002|They had long believed, according to the error of the early Christians, that the Last Day was at hand; they imagined now that the Day had come.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000019_000002|He maketh fire come down from heaven in the sight of men!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000019_000004|Woe to the idolater and the worshipper of the beast!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000019_000005|Woe to ye who pour forth the blood of saints, and gloat over the death pangs of the sons of God!
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000021_000000|The Nazarenes paced slowly on, their torches still flickering in the storm, their voices still raised in menace and solemn warning, till, lost amid the windings in the streets, the darkness of the atmosphere and the silence of death again fell over the scene.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000022_000000|There was one of the frequent pauses in the showers, and Glaucus encouraged Ione once more to proceed.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000022_000002|The youth bore a torch. Glaucus recognized the two as father and son-miser and prodigal.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000023_000000|'Father,' said the youth, 'if you cannot move more swiftly, I must leave you, or we both perish!'
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000025_000000|'But I cannot fly to starve; give me thy bag of gold!' And the youth snatched at it.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000026_000000|'Wretch! wouldst thou rob thy father?'
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000027_000001|Miser, perish!'
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000028_000000|The boy struck the old man to the ground, plucked the bag from his relaxing hand, and fled onward with a shrill yell.
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000029_000000|'Ye gods!' cried Glaucus: 'are ye blind, then, even in the dark?
train-other-500/2297/8377/2297_8377_000029_000001|Such crimes may well confound the guiltless with the guilty in one common ruin.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000001_000000|Ralph makes one last Appointment-and keeps it
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000003_000000|The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000003_000002|He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000004_000001|And here, in truth, they lay, parted from the living by a little earth and a board or two-lay thick and close-corrupting in body as they had in mind-a dense and squalid crowd.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000004_000002|Here they lay, cheek by jowl with life: no deeper down than the feet of the throng that passed there every day, and piled high as their throats.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000004_000003|Here they lay, a grisly family, all these dear departed brothers and sisters of the ruddy clergyman who did his task so speedily when they were hidden in the ground!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000005_000000|As he passed here, Ralph called to mind that he had been one of a jury, long before, on the body of a man who had cut his throat; and that he was buried in this place.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000006_000002|He was a grotesque, fantastic figure, and the few bystanders laughed.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000007_000002|But as he drew nearer and nearer home he forgot it again, and began to think how very dull and solitary the house would be inside.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000008_000000|This feeling became so strong at last, that when he reached his own door, he could hardly make up his mind to turn the key and open it.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000008_000001|When he had done that, and gone into the passage, he felt as though to shut it again would be to shut out the world.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000008_000002|But he let it go, and it closed with a loud noise.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000008_000003|There was no light.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000008_000004|How very dreary, cold, and still it was!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000009_000000|Shivering from head to foot, he made his way upstairs into the room where he had been last disturbed.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000009_000001|He had made a kind of compact with himself that he would not think of what had happened until he got home. He was at home now, and suffered himself to consider it.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000010_000000|His own child, his own child!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000010_000001|He never doubted the tale; he felt it was true; knew it as well, now, as if he had been privy to it all along.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000010_000002|His own child!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000010_000003|And dead too.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000010_000004|Dying beside Nicholas, loving him, and looking upon him as something like an angel.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000010_000005|That was the worst!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000011_000000|They had all turned from him and deserted him in his very first need. Even money could not buy them now; everything must come out, and everybody must know all.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000013_000001|His hatred of Nicholas had been fed upon his own defeat, nourished on his interference with his schemes, fattened upon his old defiance and success.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000013_000002|There were reasons for its increase; it had grown and strengthened gradually.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000013_000003|Now it attained a height which was sheer wild lunacy.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000013_000005|The dead boy's love for Nicholas, and the attachment of Nicholas to him, was insupportable agony.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000013_000007|He gnashed his teeth and smote the air, and looking wildly round, with eyes which gleamed through the darkness, cried aloud:
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000014_000000|'I am trampled down and ruined.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000014_000001|The wretch told me true.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000014_000002|The night has come!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000014_000003|Is there no way to rob them of further triumph, and spurn their mercy and compassion?
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000014_000004|Is there no devil to help me?'
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000015_000000|Swiftly, there glided again into his brain the figure he had raised that night.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000015_000001|It seemed to lie before him.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000015_000004|The rigid, upturned, marble feet too, he remembered well.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000016_000000|He spoke no more; but, after a pause, softly groped his way out of the room, and up the echoing stairs-up to the top-to the front garret-where he closed the door behind him, and remained.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000017_000000|It was a mere lumber room now, but it yet contained an old dismantled bedstead; the one on which his son had slept; for no other had ever been there.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000017_000001|He avoided it hastily, and sat down as far from it as he could.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000018_000000|The weakened glare of the lights in the street below, shining through the window which had no blind or curtain to intercept it, was enough to show the character of the room, though not sufficient fully to reveal the various articles of lumber, old corded trunks and broken furniture, which were scattered about.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000018_000001|It had a shelving roof; high in one part, and at another descending almost to the floor.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000018_000003|At length, they touched a large iron hook, firmly driven into one of the beams.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000022_000000|'That's not Mr Nickleby's voice, surely?' was the rejoinder.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000024_000000|The voice made answer that the twin brothers wished to know whether the man whom he had seen that night was to be detained; and that although it was now midnight they had sent, in their anxiety to do right.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000027_000000|'At any hour,' replied Ralph fiercely.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000027_000001|'In the afternoon, tell them.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000029_000000|'I know its meaning now,' he muttered, 'and the restless nights, the dreams, and why I have quailed of late.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000030_000001|One.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000031_000000|'Lie on!' cried the usurer, 'with your iron tongue!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000032_000000|With a wild look around, in which frenzy, hatred, and despair were horribly mingled, he shook his clenched hand at the sky above him, which was still dark and threatening, and closed the window.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000033_000000|The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000033_000001|But no hand was there, and it opened no more.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000034_000000|'How's this?' cried one.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000036_000000|They were a little knot of men, and, the window being mentioned, went out into the road to look up at it.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000036_000001|This occasioned their observing that the house was still close shut, as the housekeeper had said she had left it on the previous night, and led to a great many suggestions: which terminated in two or three of the boldest getting round to the back, and so entering by a window, while the others remained outside, in impatient expectation.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000038_000000|After they had stood for an instant, on the landing, eyeing each other, he who had proposed their carrying the search so far, turned the handle of the door, and, pushing it open, looked through the chink, and fell back directly.
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000039_000000|'It's very odd,' he whispered, 'he's hiding behind the door!
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000039_000001|Look!'
train-other-500/2301/134424/2301_134424_000040_000000|They pressed forward to see; but one among them thrusting the others aside with a loud exclamation, drew a clasp knife from his pocket, and dashing into the room, cut down the body.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000002_000000|THE NURSERY DANCE
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000003_000000|When Raggedy Andy was first brought to the nursery he was very quiet.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000004_000000|Raggedy Andy did not speak all day, but he smiled pleasantly to all the other dolls.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000004_000001|There was Raggedy Ann, the French doll, Henny, the little Dutch doll, Uncle Clem, and a few others.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000005_000000|Some of the dolls were without arms and legs.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000006_000000|One had a cracked head.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000006_000001|She was a nice doll, though, and the others all liked her very much.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000007_000000|All of them had cried the night Susan (that was her name) fell off the toy box and cracked her china head.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000008_000000|Raggedy Andy did not speak all day.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000009_000000|But there was really nothing strange about this fact, after all.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000010_000000|None of the other dolls spoke all day, either.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000011_000000|Marcella had played in the nursery all day and of course they did not speak in front of her.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000012_000000|Marcella thought they did, though, and often had them saying things which they really were not even thinking of.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000013_000000|For instance, when Marcella served water with sugar in it and little oyster crackers for "tea," Raggedy Andy was thinking of Raggedy Ann, and the French doll was thinking of one time when Fido was lost.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000014_000000|Marcella took the French doll's hand, and passed a cup of "tea" to Raggedy Andy, and said, "mr
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000014_000001|Raggedy Andy, will you have another cup of tea?" as if the French doll was talking.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000015_000000|And then Marcella answered for Raggedy Andy, "Oh, yes, thank you!
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000015_000001|It is so delicious!"
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000016_000000|Neither the French doll nor Raggedy Andy knew what was going on, for they were thinking real hard to themselves.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000017_000000|Nor did they drink the tea when it was poured for them.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000017_000001|Marcella drank it instead.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000018_000000|Perhaps this was just as well, for, most of the dolls were moist inside from the "tea" of the day before.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000019_000000|Marcella did not always drink all of the tea, often she poured a little down their mouths.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000020_000000|Sugar and water, if taken in small quantities, would not give the dolls colic, Marcella would tell them, but she did not know that it made their cotton, or sawdust insides, quite sticky.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000021_000000|Quite often, too, Marcella forgot to wash their faces after a "tea," and Fido would do it for them when he came into the nursery and found the dolls with sweets upon their faces.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000022_000001|But he did his best and saved his little Mistress a lot of work.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000024_000000|One can, you know, when one has been a rag doll as long as Raggedy Andy had.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000024_000001|Years and years and years and years!
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000025_000000|Even Raggedy Ann, with all her wisdom, did not really know how long Raggedy Andy and she had been rag dolls.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000026_000000|If Raggedy Ann had a pencil in her rag hand and Marcella guided it for her, Raggedy Ann could count up to ten-sometimes.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000029_000000|It was of these pleasant times Raggedy Andy was thinking all day, and this was the reason he did not notice that Marcella was speaking for him.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000030_000000|Raggedy Andy could patiently wait until Marcella put all the dollies to bed and left them for the night, alone in the nursery.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000031_000000|The day might have passed very slowly had it not been for the happy memories which filled Raggedy Andy's cotton stuffed head.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000032_000000|But he did not even fidget.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000033_000000|Of course, he fell out of his chair once, and his shoe button eyes went "Click!" against the floor, but it wasn't his fault.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000033_000001|Raggedy Andy was so loppy he could hardly be placed in a chair so that he would stay, and Marcella jiggled the table.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000035_000000|Through all this Raggedy Andy kept right on thinking his pleasant thoughts, and really did not know he had fallen from the chair.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000036_000000|You see how easy it is to pass over the little bumps of life if we are happy inside.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000037_000000|And so Raggedy Andy was quiet all day, and so the day finally passed.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000038_000000|Raggedy Andy was given one of Uncle Clem's clean white nighties and shared Uncle Clem's bed.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000038_000001|Marcella kissed them all good night and left them to sleep until morning.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000040_000000|Raggedy Ann introduced them one by one and Raggedy Andy shook hands with each.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000044_000000|"Oh, indeed we shall!" the dollies all answered.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000044_000001|"We love Raggedy Ann because she is so kindly and happy, and we know we shall like you too, for you talk like Raggedy Ann and have the same cheery smile!"
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000045_000000|"Now that we know each other so well, what do you say to a game, Uncle Clem?" Raggedy Andy cried, as he caught Uncle Clem and danced about the floor.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000046_000000|Henny, the Dutch doll, dragged the little square music box out into the center of the room and wound it up.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000046_000001|Then all, catching hands, danced in a circle around it, laughing and shouting in their tiny doll voices.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000048_000001|You see, her head had been cracked.
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000049_000002|And when the mama and daddy mice were away, I used to cuddle the tiny little baby mice!"
train-other-500/2301/157471/2301_157471_000050_000000|"No wonder you were never lonesome!" said Uncle Clem, who was very kind and loved everybody and everything.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000002_000000|The close of the performance left them both curiously tongue tied.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000002_000001|They waited until the theatre was half empty before they left their seats. Then they joined the little throng of stragglers at the end.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000003_000000|"Your play!" she murmured, as they faced the soft night air.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000003_000001|"I can't believe it, even now.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000003_000002|We've seen it together-your play-and this is New York!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000004_000000|"Absolutely," he confessed.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000004_000001|"The ending was always what bothered me, you know."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000005_000000|She laughed, not quite naturally.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000005_000001|She was unexpectedly impressed.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000006_000001|"Sometimes I wondered-but never mind that now.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000006_000002|Philip, do you know I am starving?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000006_000003|We took exactly ten minutes over dinner!"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000007_000000|He led her to a huge restaurant a few doors away, where they found a corner table.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000007_000001|Up in the balcony an orchestra was playing light music, and a little crowd of people were all the time streaming through the doors. Beatrice settled herself down with an air of content.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000007_000002|Few of the people were in evening dress, and the tone of the place was essentially democratic.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000009_000000|"We generally go further up town," he admitted unthinkingly.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000010_000000|She set her glass down quickly.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000012_000000|"Very likely."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000014_000000|"You're a nice sort of person!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000015_000000|He looked at her, and her eyes fell before his.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000016_000000|"I don't think there was ever much question of our being in love with one another, was there?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000016_000001|We simply seemed to have drifted together because we were both miserable, and then, as the time passed on-well, you came to be my only solace against the wretchedness of that life."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000017_000000|She nodded appreciatively.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000017_000001|For a moment the sights and sounds of the noisy restaurant passed from her consciousness.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000018_000000|"Do you remember how glad I was to see you?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000018_000002|But it was all so hopeless, wasn't it!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000018_000007|They were old men and women in wickedness before they passed their first standard.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000018_000009|I'd rather find hell!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000018_000011|I want to forget."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000019_000001|She watched it being opened and their glasses filled.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000020_000000|"This is like one of our fairy stories of the old days, isn't it?" she said.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000020_000001|"Well, I drink to you, Philip.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000021_000000|She raised her glass and drained it.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000021_000001|A woman had entered who reminded him of Elizabeth, and his eyes had wandered away for a moment as Beatrice pledged him.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000021_000002|She called him back a little impatiently.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000022_000001|Try and remember who I am and what we used to mean to one another.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000022_000003|We can wipe out all the memories we don't want.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000022_000004|That ought to be easy."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000023_000001|"There are times when I've found it difficult enough."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000024_000000|She laughed and looked about her.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000024_000002|People, as they passed, paid her some attention, and she was frankly curious about everybody.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000025_000000|"Well," she went on presently, "thank heavens I have plenty of will power.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000025_000001|I remember nothing, absolutely nothing, which happened before this evening.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000025_000002|I am going to tell myself that an uncle in Australia has died and left me money, and so we are here in New York to spend it.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000025_000003|To morrow I am going to begin.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000026_000000|His heart sank.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000026_000001|To morrow evening!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000027_000001|You don't know a soul.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000027_000002|You haven't a friend in the city."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000000|"What friends have I in England?" she retorted.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000001|"Not one!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000003|It seems bright enough here, and gay.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000004|I like it.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000005|I shall move to a different sort of hotel to morrow.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000006|You must help me choose one.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000007|And as to friends," she whispered, looking up at him with a little provocative gleam in her eyes, "don't you count?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000028_000009|Can't you draw down that curtain?"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000029_000000|He shivered.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000030_000000|"I can't!" he muttered.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000031_000000|A waiter brought their first course, and she at once evinced interest in her food.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000031_000001|She returned to the subject, however, later on, after she had drunk another glass of wine.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000000|"You're a silly old thing, you know," she declared.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000001|"You found the courage, somehow, to break away from that loathsome existence.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000002|You had more courage, even, than I, because you ran a risk I never did.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000003|But here you are, free, with the whole world before you, and your last danger disappearing with the knowledge that I am ready to be your friend and am sensible about everything that has happened.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000004|This ought to be an immense relief to you, Philip.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000006|Look at me for a moment like a human being, can't you?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000007|Drink some more wine.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000032_000008|There must be some strength, some manhood about you somewhere, or you couldn't have done what you have done."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000033_000000|He filled his glass mechanically.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000033_000001|She leaned across the table.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000033_000002|Her eyes were bright, her cheeks delicately pink.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000000|"Courage, Philip," she murmured.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000001|"Remember that what you did ... well, in a way it was for my sake, wasn't it?--for love of me?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000002|I am here now and we are both free.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000003|The old days are passed.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000004|Even their shadow cannot trouble us any longer.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000005|Don't be a sentimentalist.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000006|Listen and I'll tell you something-at the bottom of my heart I rather admire you for what you did.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000034_000007|Don't you want your reward?"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000035_000000|"No," he answered firmly, "I don't!"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000036_000001|She was not angry, not even hurt.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000036_000002|Philip had always been so difficult, but in the end so easily led.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000036_000003|She had unlimited confidence in herself.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000037_000000|"Don't be a goose!" she exclaimed at last.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000037_000001|"Of course you want your reward, and of course you'll have it, some day!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000037_000002|You've always lived with your head partly in the clouds, and it's always been my task to pull you down to earth.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000037_000003|I suppose I shall have to do the same again, but to night I haven't patience.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000037_000004|I feel suddenly gay.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000037_000005|You are so nice looking, Philip, but you'd look ten times nicer still if you'd only smile once or twice and look as though you were glad."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000038_000000|The whole thing was a nightmare to him.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000038_000001|The horror of it was in his blood, yet he did his best to obey.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000038_000002|Plain speaking just then was impossible.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000038_000003|He drank glass after glass of wine and called for liqueurs. She held his fingers for a moment under the table.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000000|"Oh, Philip," she whispered, "can't you forget that you have ever been a school teacher, dear?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000001|We are only human, and did suffer so.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000002|You know," she went on, "you were made for the things that are coming to us.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000003|You've improved already, ever so much.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000005|But you look-oh, so sad and so far away all the time!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000007|We must alter all that, dear.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000039_000008|Tell me how it is that with all your success you haven't been happy?"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000040_000000|"Memories!" he answered harshly.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000040_000001|"Only a few hours before you came, I was in hell!"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000041_000000|"Then you had better make up your mind," she told him firmly, "that you are going to climb up out of there, and when you're out, you're going to stay out.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000041_000001|You can't alter the past.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000041_000002|You can't alter even the smallest detail of its setting.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000041_000003|Just as inevitably as our lives come and go, so what has happened is finished with, unchangeable.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000041_000004|It is only a weak person who would spoil the present and the future, brooding.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000041_000005|You used not to be weak, Philip."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000042_000000|"I don't think that I am, really," he said.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000042_000001|"I am moody, though, and that's almost as bad.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000042_000002|The sight of you brought it all back.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000000|"Well, you needn't be any longer," she declared.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000001|"What you want is some one with you all the time who understands you, some one to drive back those other thoughts when they come to worry you.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000003|mr Dane is going to be very disappointed when I tell him that I never saw you before in my life....
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000004|Don't you love the music?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000006|That was written for happy people, Philip.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000009|It is the beginning of my task, too, Philip, with you-for you.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000010|What has really happened, dear?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000011|I can't realise anything.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000043_000015|Tell me, am I still nice to look at?"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000044_000000|"Of course you are," he assured her.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000044_000001|"Can't you understand that by the way people notice you?"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000045_000000|She strummed upon the table with her fingers.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000045_000002|She nodded several times.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000046_000001|"I want you to look just for a moment as though you thought me the only person in the world-as you did once, you know."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000047_000001|They sat there until nearly three o'clock.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000047_000002|It was she at last who rose reluctantly to her feet.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000048_000000|"I want to go whilst the memory of it all is wonderful," she declared. "Come.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000048_000001|Here's a card with my address on.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000048_000002|Drive me home now, please."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000049_000000|He paid his bill and they found a cab.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000049_000001|She linked her arm through his, her head sank a little upon his shoulder.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000049_000002|He made no movement.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000049_000003|She waited for a moment, then she leaned back amongst the cushions.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000051_000000|"Please don't speak of Miss Dalstan like that," he begged.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000052_000000|"Answer my question," she insisted.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000053_000000|"Miss Dalstan has been very kind to me," he admitted slowly, "wonderfully kind.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000053_000001|If you really want to know, I do care for her."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000054_000000|"More than you did for me?"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000055_000000|"Very much more," he answered bravely, "and in a different fashion."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000056_000000|In the darkness of the cab it seemed to him that her face had grown whiter.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000056_000002|Her body seemed to have become limp.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000057_000000|"Listen," she said.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000057_000002|I have made up my mind what I want in life and I am going to have it.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000057_000004|Then we will talk.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000057_000005|I want more than just that money.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000057_000007|You must and you shall care, Philip, because our time has come, and I want you, please-shall I have to say it, dear?--I want you to marry me."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000060_000000|She laughed at him mockingly.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000061_000000|"Oh, don't say that, Philip!
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000061_000001|You might tempt me to be brutal.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000062_000000|"Speak them and have done with it," he told her roughly.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000062_000001|"I might find a few, too."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000063_000001|You robbed me of the man who was bringing me to America-who would have married me some day, I suppose.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000063_000002|Well, you must pay, do you see, and in my way?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000064_000000|"You want me to marry you?" he demanded-"simply marry you?
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000064_000001|You do not care whether I have any love for you or whether I loathe you now."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000065_000000|"You couldn't loathe me, could you?" she begged.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000066_000000|"I will not!"
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000067_000000|Her lips sought his, in vain.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000067_000001|He pushed her away.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000068_000001|"There is another woman whom I have kissed-whom I am longing to kiss now."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000069_000001|Kiss me how you like.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000069_000002|Don't be foolish."
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000070_000000|He kissed her upon the cheek.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000070_000001|She pulled down her veil.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000070_000002|The cab had stopped before the door of her hotel.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000071_000001|"You are safe, remember-quite safe.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000071_000002|I've come to take care of you.
train-other-500/2301/157880/2301_157880_000071_000003|You need it so badly....
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000002_000001|In a suburban town?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000002_000002|On a country road?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000002_000003|It seemed childishly absurd that he could not at least differentiate to that extent; and yet, from the moment he had been placed in the automobile in which he now found himself, he was forced to admit that he could not tell.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000003_000000|But he had never ridden blindfolded in a car before!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000003_000001|He could see absolutely nothing.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000003_000002|And if that increased or accentuated his sense of hearing, it helped little-the roar of the racing car beat upon his eardrums the more heavily, that was all.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000003_000003|He could tell, of course, the nature of the roadbed.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000004_000000|Traffic?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000004_000002|And as for a sense of direction, he had none whatever-even if the car had not been persistently swerving and changing its course every little while.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000005_000000|With these conclusions finally thrust home upon him, Jimmie Dale philosophically subordinated the matter in his mind, and, leaning back, composed himself as comfortably as he could upon his seat.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000005_000001|There was a man beside him, and he could feel the legs of two men on the seat facing him.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000005_000002|These, with the driver, would make four.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000005_000003|He was still well guarded! The car itself was a closed car-not hooded, the sense of touch told him-therefore a limousine of some description.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000005_000004|These facts, in a sense inconsequential, were absorbed subconsciously; and then Jimmie Dale's brain, remorselessly active, in spite of the pain from his throbbing head, was at work again.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000006_000000|It seemed as though a year had passed since, in the early evening, as Larry the Bat, he had burrowed so ironically for refuge in Chang Foo's den-from her!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000006_000002|And the hour instead, the hours since then, had brought a nightmare of events so incredible as to seem but phantoms of the imagination.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000007_000000|Phantoms!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000007_000001|He sat up suddenly with a jerk.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000007_000003|God knew there was no phantom there!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000008_000000|The man beside him, at the sudden start, lifted a hand and felt hurriedly over the bandage across Jimmie Dale's eyes.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000009_000000|Jimmie Dale was scarcely conscious of the act.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000009_000002|He had had neither time nor opportunity to think before; it had been all horror, all shock when he had entered that room.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000010_000000|But it was not supposition.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000010_000001|Either he was right now, or these men were childish, immature fools-and, whatever else they might be, they were not that!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000010_000003|He had not, in a sense, been murdered at all.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000011_000000|Yes, he saw it now!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000011_000001|Their backs were against the wall, they were at their wits' end, these men!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000011_000002|The knowledge that the chauffeur possessed, that they KNEW he possessed, was evidently life and death to them.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000000|Jimmie Dale sat for a long time quite motionless.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000001|The car was speeding at a terrific rate along a straight stretch of road.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000002|He could almost have sworn, guided by some intuitive sense, that they were in the country.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000003|Well, even if it were so, what did that prove!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000004|They might have started FROM New York itself-only to return to it when they had satisfied themselves that he was sufficiently duped.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000005|Or they might have started legitimately from outside New York, and be going toward the city now.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000007|He had decided that once before!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000012_000008|The man at his side felt again over the scarf to see that it was in place.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000013_000002|And yet would it have made any difference?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000013_000003|He shook his head.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000013_000005|He could not-his lips curled in grim derision-have been any more convincing.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000014_000000|Convincing!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000014_000003|They did not know where to find the Tocsin; the package that she had said was vital to them was still beyond their reach; the chauffeur was dead; and he, Jimmie Dale, alone remained-a clew that they had still to prove valid or invalid it was true, but the only clew in their possession.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000014_000004|And, gaining nothing from him by a show of force, to throw him off his guard, they had let him go-meaning him to believe they were convinced he knew nothing, and that the episode, the adventure of the night, was, as far as they were concerned, ended, finished, and done with!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000015_000000|Time passed, a very long time, as he sat there.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000015_000001|It might have been an hour-he could only hazard a guess.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000015_000002|Not one of the men in the car had spoken a word.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000015_000003|But to Jimmie Dale, the car itself, the ride, its duration, these three strange companions, were for the time being extraneous.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000015_000004|Even that sick giddiness in his head had, at least temporarily, gone from him.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000016_000000|And so, all unsuspectingly, he was to lead them to the Tocsin and fall into the trap himself!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000016_000001|His hands, thrust deep in his pockets, were tightly clenched.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000016_000002|They were clever enough, ingenious enough, powerful enough to watch him henceforth at every turn-and from now on, day and night, they were to be reckoned with.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000016_000003|Suppose that in some way, as it might well have happened, for it was now vitally necessary that she should communicate with him and he with her, he had played blindly into their hands, and through him she should have fallen into their power!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000017_000000|And then Jimmie Dale, in the darkness, smiled again grimly as the leader's reference to the Gray Seal recurred to him.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000017_000001|Well, perhaps, who knew, they would have reason more than they dreamed of to wish the Gray Seal enrolled in their own ranks!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000017_000002|It was strange, curious!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000017_000003|He had thought all that was ended.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000018_000000|Well, at least, the odds were not all in the Crime Club's favour.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000019_000000|A sort of savage elation fell upon Jimmie Dale.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000019_000001|His brain, that had been stagnant, confused, physically sick with pain and suffering, was working now with its old time vigour and ease, mapping, planning, scheming the way ahead.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000019_000002|To strike, and strike quickly-to strike FIRST!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000019_000003|It must be his move next-not theirs!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000019_000005|By morning, Jimmie Dale would be Larry the Bat, and inhabiting the Sanctuary again.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000020_000001|How much longer was this to last!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000020_000002|They must have been fully an hour and a half on the road already, and-ah, the car was stopping now!
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000021_000000|He straightened up in his seat as the machine came to a halt-but the man at his side laid a restraining hand upon him.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000021_000001|The car door opened, and one of the men got out.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000000|Another half hour passed, that, curbing his irritation and impatience, was filled with the conjectures and questions that anew came crowding in upon his mind.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000001|Why had the car made that stop?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000002|It was rather curious.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000003|It was certainly a prearranged meeting place.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000004|Why?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000005|And these clothes that he now wore-why had they made him change?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000006|His own had not been very badly torn.
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000008|What was the ulterior motive behind that pretence?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000009|What did this package, that had already cost a man his life to night, contain?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000010|Who was the chauffeur?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000011|What was this death feud between the Tocsin and these men?
train-other-500/2309/152159/2309_152159_000022_000012|Did she know where the Crime Club was? Who and where was john Johansson?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000002_000000|CHAPTER six
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000004_000002|The car stopped, the door was opened, he was pushed toward it-and even as he reached the ground, the door was closed behind him, and the car was speeding on again.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000005_000002|Where had he come from?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000005_000003|Where was this Crime Club?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000005_000006|He forced a laugh.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000006_000000|But-he aroused himself with a start-he was wasting time!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000007_000000|He paused for an instant to listen.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000007_000001|There was not a sound.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000007_000002|The servants, naturally, would have been in bed hours ago.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000007_000003|Even old Jason-Jimmie Dale smiled, half whimsically, half affectionately-whose paternal custom it was to sit up for his Master Jim, who, as he was fond of saying, he had dandled as a baby on his knee, had evidently given it up as a bad job on this occasion and had turned in himself.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000007_000004|Jason, however, had left the light burning here in the big reception hall.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000008_000000|Jimmie Dale stepped to the switch and turned off the light; then stood hesitant in the darkness.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000008_000001|Was there anything to be gained by rousing Jason now and telling him what he intended to do-to instruct him to answer any inquiries by the statement that "mr
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000008_000002|Dale had gone away for a trip"?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000008_000003|He could trust Jason; Jason already knew much-more than one of those mysterious letters of the Tocsin's had passed through Jason's hands.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000000|Jimmie Dale shook his head.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000001|No; he could communicate with Jason from downtown in the morning.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000004|Was there anything else before he went?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000005|He would not be able to get back as easily as he got out!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000006|Money!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000007|He shook his head again-a little grimly this time.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000009_000008|He had been caught once before as Larry the Bat without funds! There was plenty of money now hidden in the Sanctuary, enough for any emergency, enough to last him indefinitely.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000010_000000|He stepped forward along the hall, his tread noiseless on the rich, heavy rug, passed into the rear of the house, descended the back stairs, and reached the cellar.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000011_000003|He muttered in annoyance.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000011_000004|Where were the fastenings!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000011_000005|At the sides, or at the bottom?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000012_000000|WHAT DID THIS MEAN?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000012_000001|Wires!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000012_000003|His fingers were working now with feverish haste, telegraphing their message to his brain.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000013_000002|This could only have been done-they had had no interest in him before then-while they held him at the Crime Club, while he was spending that two hours in the car!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000013_000003|Was that why they had taken so long in coming?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000013_000004|Was that why the car had stopped that time-that those with him might be told that the work here had been completed, and he need no longer be kept away?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000000|He edged away from the window, and, as cautiously as he had come, retraced his steps across the cellar and up the stairs-and then, the possibility of being heard from without gone, he broke into a run.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000001|There was no need to wonder long what those wires meant.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000003|THEY HAD TAPPED HIS TELEPHONE.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000004|The mains, he knew, ran into the cellar from the underground service in the street.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000005|He was racing like a madman now.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000006|How long ago, how many hours ago, had they done that!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000008|Had she done so?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000014_000009|Was the game, all, everything, she herself, at their mercy already?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000015_000000|He gained the door of his den on the first landing, a room that ran the entire length of one side of the house from front to rear, burst in, switched on the light---and stood stock still in amazement.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000016_000000|"Jason!" he cried out.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000020_000000|"Jason, what are you doing here?" Jimmie Dale demanded sharply.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000022_000000|"The-TELEPHONE!"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000024_000001|"Yes-yes!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000024_000002|What did she say?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000024_000003|QUICK, man!"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000025_000000|"Good Lord, Master Jim!" faltered Jason.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000026_000000|"Jason," said Jimmie Dale, suddenly as cold as ice, "what did she say? Think, man!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000026_000001|Every word!"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000027_000000|"She didn't say anything, Master Jim.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000027_000001|Nothing at all, sir-except to keep asking each time if she could speak to you."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000028_000000|"Nothing else, Jason?"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000031_000000|"I'm sure, Master Jim.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000033_000000|"Yes, sir," said Jason mechanically.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000034_000000|"How long ago was it since she telephoned last?" asked Jimmie Dale quickly.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000035_000000|"Well, sir, I couldn't rightly say.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000035_000001|You see, as I said, Master Jim, I must have gone to sleep, but-"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000036_000000|They were staring tensely into each other's face.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000036_000001|The telephone on the desk was ringing vibrantly, clamourously, through the stillness of the room.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000037_000000|Jason, white, frightened, bewildered, touched his lips with the tip of his tongue.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000038_000000|"That'll be her again, sir," he said hoarsely.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000039_000000|"Wait!" said Jimmie Dale tersely.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000040_000001|He dared not speak to her, or, above all, allow her to expose herself by a single inadvertent word.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000040_000002|He dared not speak to her-and she was here now, calling him!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000041_000000|The telephone rang again-imperatively, persistently.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000042_000000|"Listen, Jason." Jimmie Dale was speaking rapidly, earnestly.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000042_000002|That you told me a lady had been calling, but that I said if she called again I wasn't to be disturbed if it was the Queen of Sheba herself-that I wouldn't answer any 'phone to night for anybody.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000042_000003|Do you understand?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000042_000004|No argument with her-just that.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000042_000005|Now, answer!"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000043_000000|Jason lifted the receiver from the hook.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000044_000000|"Yes-hello!" he said.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000044_000001|"Yes, ma'am, mr Dale has come in, but he has retired. . . .
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000045_000000|Jimmie Dale snatched the receiver from Jason, and put it to his own ear.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000046_000000|"Kindly tell mr Dale that unless he comes to the 'phone now," a feminine voice, her voice, in well simulated indignation, was saying, "it will be a very long day before I shall trouble myself to-"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000047_000000|Jimmie Dale clapped his hand firmly over the mouthpiece of the instrument.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000047_000001|Thank God for that clever brain of hers!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000047_000002|She understood!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000048_000001|"Then say 'Good night.'"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000049_000000|He removed his hand from the mouthpiece.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000050_000000|"It's quite useless, ma'am," said Jason apologetically.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000050_000001|"In the rare temper he was in, he wouldn't come, to use his own words, ma'am, not for the Queen of Sheba herself, ma'am.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000051_000000|Jimmie Dale hung the receiver back on the hook-and with his hand flirted away a bead of moisture that had sprung to his forehead.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000052_000000|"Good Lord, Master Jim, what's wrong, sir?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000053_000000|"Jason," said Jimmie Dale, "switch off the light, and go to the front window and look out.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000053_000001|Keep well behind the curtains.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000053_000002|Don't show yourself. Tell me if you see anything."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000054_000000|"Yes, sir," said Jason obediently.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000055_000000|The light went out.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000055_000001|Jimmie Dale moved to the rear of the room-to the window overlooking the garage and yard.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000056_000000|"I don't see anything, sir," Jason called.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000057_000000|"Watch!" Jimmie Dale answered.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000000|A minute passed-two-three.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000001|Jimmie Dale was staring down into the black of the yard.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000002|She understood!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000004|She knew that only peril of the gravest moment would have kept him from the 'phone-and her.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000005|She knew now, as a logical conclusion, that it was dangerous to attempt to communicate with him at his home.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000006|Those wires!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000008|Was it into the Crime Club itself-near at hand?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000009|Or the basement, say, of that apartment house across the driveway?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000058_000010|Or-where?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000059_000000|And then Jimmie Dale spoke again:
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000061_000000|"I'm not sure, sir," Jason answered hesitantly.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000061_000001|"I thought I saw a man move behind a tree out there across the road a minute ago, sir.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000061_000002|Yes, sir-there he is again!"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000062_000000|There was a thin, mirthless smile on Jimmie Dale's lips.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000064_000000|"What time is it, Jason?" Jimmie Dale asked presently.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000065_000000|"It'll be about half past four, sir."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000066_000000|"Go to bed, Jason."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000067_000000|"Yes, sir; but"--Jason's voice, low, troubled, came through the darkness from the upper end of the room-"Master Jim, sir, I-"
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000068_000000|"Go to bed, Jason-and not a word of this."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000069_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000069_000001|Good night, Master Jim."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000070_000000|"Good night, Jason."
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000071_000000|Jimmie Dale groped his way to the big lounging chair in which he had found Jason asleep, and flung himself into it.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000071_000002|The house was already watched, would be watched now untiringly, unceasingly; not a movement of his henceforth but would be under their eyes!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000072_000000|His hands, resting on the arms of the chair, closed slowly until they became tight clenched, knotted fists.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000072_000001|What was he to do?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000074_000001|It was a means of defense and offense against these men who lurked now outside his doors.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000075_000000|He got up impulsively from his chair, and, in the blackness, began to pace the room.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000075_000002|He must get to the Sanctuary, become Larry the Bat-but how?
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000075_000003|HOW!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000076_000000|Schemes, plans, ideas came, bringing a momentary uplift-only to be discarded the next instant with a sort of bitter, desperate regret. These men were not men of mere ordinary intelligence; their cleverness, their power, the amazing scope of their organisation, all bore grim witness to the fact that they would be blinded not at all by any paltry ruse.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000077_000001|And so long as he pursued the usual avocations of Jimmie Dale, he would not be interfered with-only WATCHED.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000077_000002|It was useless to consider that plan for a moment. It would not help him to reach the Sanctuary-without leading them there behind him!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000077_000004|The strongest weapon in his hands now was his secret knowledge that he was being watched.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000000|He stopped in his walk, and, after a moment, dropped down into the lounging chair again.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000001|That was it, of course.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000002|An empty cage!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000003|If he could escape from the house!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000005|But escape-and leave them in possession of a sort of guarantee or assurance that he was still there! That would give him the freedom of action that he must have.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000006|He smiled with bitter irony.
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000007|That solved the problem!
train-other-500/2309/152160/2309_152160_000080_000008|That was all there was to it-just that!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000001_000000|Leverett, always a coward, had pursued his devious and larcenous way through the world, always in deadly fear of sink holes.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000004_000000|Like all cowards, he had always been inclined to bold and ruthless action; but inclination was all that ever had happened.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000008_000000|He looked at the back of Kloon's massive head.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000008_000001|One shot would blow that skull into fragments, he thought, shivering.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000009_000000|One shot from behind,--and twenty thousand dollars,--or, if it proved a better deal, the contents of the packet.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000010_000000|Always in his mean and busy brain he was trying to figure to himself what that packet must contain.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000010_000001|And, to make the bribe worth while, Leverett had concluded that only a solid packet of thousand dollar bills could account for the twenty thousand offered.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000011_000000|There might easily be half a million in bills pressed together in that heavy, flat packet.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000011_000001|Bills were absolutely safe plunder.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000012_000000|One shot!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000012_000001|There was the back of Kloon's bushy head.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000012_000002|One shot!--and fear, which had shadowed him from birth, was at an end forever.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000013_000000|A single shot would settle all problems for him....
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000013_000002|No use; always the coward's "if" blocked him; and the coward's rage,--fiercest of all fury,--ravaged him, almost crazing him with his own impotence.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000014_000000|Tamaracks, sphagnum, crimson pitcher plants grew thicker; wet woods set with little black pools stretched away on every side.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000015_000000|It was still nearly a mile from Drowned Valley when Jake Kloon halted in his tracks and seated himself on a narrow ridge of hard ground.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000016_000000|"Where the hell do we meet up with Quintana?" growled Kloon, tearing a mouthful from a gnawed tobacco plug and shoving the remainder deep into his trousers pocket.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000017_000000|"We gotta travel a piece, yet....
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000017_000001|Say, Jake, be you a man or be you a poor dumb critter what ain't got no spunk?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000018_000001|Then he spat, as answer.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000020_000000|Kloon's dogged silence continued.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000020_000001|Leverett licked his dry lips.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000020_000003|Almost imperceptibly he moved it, moved it again, froze stiff as Kloon spat, then, by infinitesimal degrees, continued to edge the muzzle toward Kloon.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000021_000000|"Jake?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000022_000002|Enough's enough.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000022_000003|I ain't got no use for no billion million dollar bills.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000023_000000|"Ten thousand dollars hain't nothin' to a billion million, Jake."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000024_000001|Diverted and gratified by the accuracy of his aim, he took other shots at intervals.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000025_000000|Leverett moved the muzzle of his rifle a hair's width to the left, shivered, moved it again.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000026_000000|"Jake?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000027_000000|No answer.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000028_000000|"Say, Jake?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000029_000000|No notice.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000030_000000|"Jake, I wanta take a peek at them bills."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000031_000000|Merely another stream of tobacco soiling the crimson pitcher.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000032_000001|I gotta take a peek.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000033_000000|Something in Leverett's unsteady voice made Kloon turn his head.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000037_000000|In the intense stillness of the place, suddenly the dead man made a sound; and the trap robber nearly fainted.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000039_000000|If it were a minute or a year he stood there he could never have reckoned the space of time.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000039_000001|The sun's level rays glimmered ruddy through the woods.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000039_000002|A green fly appeared, buzzing about the dead man.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000039_000004|Others appeared, whirling, gyrating, filling the silence with their humming.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000039_000005|And still Leverett dared not budge, dared not search the dead and take from it that for which the dead had died.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000040_000000|A little breeze came by and stirred the bushy hair on Kloon's head and fluttered the ferns around him where he lay.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000044_000000|In a few minutes he discovered what he was looking for; took his bearings; carefully picked his way back over a leafy crust that trembled under his cautious tread.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000045_000000|He bent over Kloon and, from the left inside coat pocket, he drew the packet and placed it inside his own flannel shirt.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000046_000000|Then, turning his back to the dead, he squatted down and clutched Kloon's burly ankles, as a man grasps the handles of a wheelbarrow to draw it after him.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000048_000000|Always, as Leverett crept on, pulling the dead behind him, the floor of the woods trembled slightly, and a black ooze wet the crust of withered leaves.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000049_000000|At the quaking edge of a little pool of water, Leverett halted.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000049_000001|The water was dark but scarcely an inch deep over its black bed of silt.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000050_000000|Beside this sink hole the trap thief dropped Kloon.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000050_000002|The sapling was about twenty feet in height.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000051_000001|Finally he managed it.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000052_000000|To his alarm, Kloon did not sink far.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000052_000001|He cut another sapling and pushed the body until only the shoes were visible above the silt.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000053_000000|These, however, were very slowly sinking, now.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000053_000001|Bubbles rose, dully iridescent, floated, broke.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000053_000002|Strings of blood hung suspended in the clouding water.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000054_000001|There were broken ferns, but he could not straighten them.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000054_000002|And there lay Kloon's rifle.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000056_000000|As he rose from the pool's edge, somebody laid a hand on his shoulder.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000057_000000|That was the most real death that Leverett ever had died.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000059_000000|A coward dies many times before Old Man Death really gets him.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000060_000000|The swimming minutes passed; his mind ceased to live for a space.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000060_000001|Then, as through the swirling waters of the last dark whirlpool, a dulled roar of returning consciousness filled his being.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000061_000000|Somebody was shaking him, shouting at him.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000061_000002|No human power could have blocked the frantic creature thrashing toward solid ground.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000062_000000|But there Quintana held him in his wiry grip.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000063_000000|"Fool!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000063_000001|Mule! Crazee fellow!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000063_000003|For why you make jumps like rabbits!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000063_000006|Yes?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000064_000000|Leverett, in a state of collapse, sagged back against an oak tree. Quintana's nervous grasp fell from his arms and they swung, dangling.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000065_000000|"What you do by that pond hole?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000065_000002|I come and touch you, and, my God!--one would think I have stab you.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000065_000003|Such an ass!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000066_000000|The sickly greenish hue changed in Leverett's face as the warmer tide stirred from its stagnation.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000066_000001|He lifted his head and tried to look at Quintana.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000067_000000|"Where Jake Kloon?" demanded the latter.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000068_000001|He passed one dirty hand over his mouth to mask any twitching.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000070_000000|"Jake's got it." Leverett's voice was growing stronger.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000071_000000|"Where is he, then, this Jake?" repeated Quintana impatiently.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000072_000000|"He got bogged."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000073_000000|"Bogged?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000073_000001|What is that, then?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000074_000000|"He got into a sink hole."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000075_000000|"What!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000077_000001|"Where is it, my packet?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000078_000000|"I'm tellin' you, ain't I?" retorted the other, raising a voice now shrill with the strain of this new crisis rushing so unexpectedly upon him: "I heard Jake give a holler.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000078_000001|'What the hell's the trouble?' I yells.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000078_000003|The quicksand's got me,' sez he.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000080_000004|I was sick and scared like, so when you come up over the moss, not makin' no noise, an' grabbed me-God!--I guess you'd jump, too."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000081_000000|Quintana's dark, tense face was expressionless when Leverett ventured to look at him.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000081_000001|Like most liars he realised the advisability of looking his victim straight in the eyes.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000081_000002|This he managed to accomplish, sustaining the cold intensity of Quintana's gaze as long as he deemed it necessary. Then he started toward his rifle.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000081_000003|Quintana blocked his way.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000082_000000|"Where my packet?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000083_000002|Jake had it in his pocket."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000084_000000|"My packet?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000087_000000|"You think I'm lyin'?" blustered Leverett, trying to move around Quintana's extended arm.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000087_000001|The arm swerved and clutched him by the collar of his flannel shirt.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000088_000001|"You shall explain to me some things before you go."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000090_000000|Quintana shook him into speechlessness.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000093_000000|"You did not shoot?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000093_000001|No?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000094_000000|"No!--damn it all----"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000095_000000|"And Jake?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000097_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000097_000001|Someone lies.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000097_000003|no
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000097_000004|Let us examine your rifle----"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000001|So!...
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000002|Now I search the other pocket....
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000003|So!...
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000005|Bah!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000006|Not in the pants, either?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000007|Ah, bah!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000009|Tiens!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000099_000010|What is this you hide inside your shirt----?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000101_000000|"Is that my packet?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000102_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000103_000000|Quintana unbuttoned the grey wool shirt, thrust in his hand and drew forth the packet for which Jake Kloon had died within the hour.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000104_000000|Suddenly Leverett's knees gave way and he dropped to the ground, grovelling at Quintana's feet in an agony of fright:
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000105_000001|Jake, he wanted me to steal it.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000105_000002|I told him I was honest.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000106_000000|He got Quintana by one foot.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000107_000000|"Swine," he said, calmly inspecting the whimpering creature who had started to crawl toward him.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000108_000000|He hesitated, lifted his automatic, then, as though annoyed by Leverett's deafening shriek, shrugged, hesitated, pocketed both pistol and packet, and turned on his heel.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000109_000000|By the birch sapling he paused and picked up Leverett's rifle.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000109_000001|Something left a red smear on his palm as he worked the ejector.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000109_000002|It was blood.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000110_000000|Quintana gazed curiously at his soiled hand.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000110_000002|And, as he stooped, he noticed more blood on a fallen leaf.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000112_000000|After he had contemplated the crimson traces of murder for a few moments, he turned and looked at Leverett with faint curiosity.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000113_000001|Yes?
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000114_000000|three
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000115_000000|When Quintana disappeared among the tamaracks, Leverett ventured to rise to his knees.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000115_000001|As he crouched there, peering after Quintana, a man came swiftly out of the forest behind him and nearly stumbled over him.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000116_000000|Recognition was instant and mutual as the man jerked the trap robber to his feet, stifling the muffled yell in his throat.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000117_000000|"I want that packet you picked up on Clinch's veranda," said Hal Smith.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000119_000000|"You lie!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000120_000001|Look at his foot marks there in the mud!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000121_000000|"Quintana!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000123_000000|"Which way!" whispered Smith fiercely, shaking Leverett till his jaws wagged.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000124_000001|Lemme loose!--I'm chokin'----"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000125_000000|Smith pushed him aside.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000126_000000|"You rat," he said, "if you're lying to me I'll come back and settle your affair.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000126_000001|And Kloon's, too!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000129_000000|In the first clump of hard wood trees Smith saw Quintana.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000129_000001|He had halted and he was fumbling at the twine which bound a flat, paper wrapped packet.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000130_000000|He did not start when Smith's sharp warning struck his ear: "Don't move! I've got you over my rifle, Quintana!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000131_000000|Quintana's fingers had instantly ceased operations.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000131_000001|Then, warily, he lifted his head and looked into the muzzle of Smith's rifle.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000132_000000|"Ah, bah!" he said tranquilly.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000132_000001|"There were three of you, then."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000133_000000|"Lay that packet on the ground."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000134_000000|"My frien'----"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000136_000000|Quintana carefully placed the packet on a bed of vivid moss.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000137_000000|"Now your gun!" continued Smith.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000138_000000|Quintana shrugged and laid Leverett's rifle beside the packet.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000139_000000|"Kneel down with your hands up and your back toward me!" said Smith.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000141_000000|"Down with you!"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000142_000000|Quintana dropped gracefully into the humiliating attitude popularly indicative of prayerful supplication.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000142_000001|Smith walked slowly up behind him, relieved him of two automatics and a dirk.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000143_000000|"Stay put," he said sharply, as Quintana started to turn his head.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000143_000001|Then he picked up the packet with its loosened string, slipped it into his side pocket, gathered together the arsenal which had decorated Quintana, and so, loaded with weapons, walked away a few paces and seated himself on a fallen log.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000145_000000|"You may turn around now, Quintana," he said amiably.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000146_000000|Quintana lowered his arms and started to rise.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000147_000000|"Sit down!" said Smith.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000148_000000|Quintana seated himself on the moss, facing Smith.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000149_000000|"Now, my gay and nimble thimble rigger," said Smith genially, "while I take ten minutes' rest we'll have a little polite conversation.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000149_000001|Or, rather, a monologue.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000149_000002|Because I don't want to hear anything from you."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000150_000000|He settled himself comfortably on the log:
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000151_000000|"Let me assemble for you, Senor Quintana, the interesting history of the jewels which so sparklingly repose in the packet in my pocket.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000153_000000|"Very interesting.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000153_000001|More interesting still-along comes Don Jose Quintana and his celebrated gang of international thieves, and steals from the Grand Duchess of Esthonia the Flaming Jewel and all her rubies, emeralds and diamonds.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000153_000002|Yes?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000154_000000|"Certainly," said Quintana, with a polite inclination of acknowledgment.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000155_000000|"Bon!
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000155_000001|Well, then, still more interesting to relate, a gentleman named Clinch helps himself to these famous jewels.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000156_000000|"Careless, certainly," assented Quintana politely.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000157_000000|"Well," said Smith, laughing, "Clinch was more careless still.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000160_000000|"no"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000161_000000|"Didn't you kill Kloon?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000162_000000|"no"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000163_000000|"Oh, pardon.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000163_000001|The mistake was natural.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000163_000003|You should have killed them."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000164_000000|"Yes," said Quintana slowly, "I should have.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000164_000001|It was my mistake."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000165_000000|"Signor Quintana, it is human for the human crook to err.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000165_000002|And then the Piper comes around holding out two itching palms."
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000167_000001|For example, what do you suppose I am going to do with this packet in my pocket?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000168_000000|"Live," replied Quintana tersely.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000169_000000|"Live, certainly," laughed Smith, "but not on the proceeds of this coup de main.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000169_000002|I am going to return this packet to its rightful owner, the Grand Duchess Theodorica of Esthonia.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000169_000003|And what do you think of that, Quintana?"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000170_000000|Quintana smiled.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000171_000000|"You do not believe me?" inquired Smith.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000172_000000|Quintana smiled again.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000173_000001|"It's the unusual that happens in life, my dear Quintana.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000173_000003|Sit very, very still, Quintana,--unless you want to lie stiller still....
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000173_000004|I'll let you take a modest peep at the Flaming Jewel----" busily unwrapping the packet-"just one little peep, Quintana----"
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000174_000000|He unwrapped the paper.
train-other-500/2309/167347/2309_167347_000175_000000|Quintana turned white, then deeply, heavily red.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000002_000000|TWARDOWSKI, THE POLISH FAUST
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000003_000000|Toward the close of the eighteenth century there was pointed out to visitors in the old town of Krakau the house of the magician Twardowski, who quite properly was called the Faust of Poland, because of his dealings with the Evil One.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000004_000001|But Twardowski was not satisfied with this.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000004_000002|He craved greater and still greater power.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000005_000000|At last one day, as he was reading, he found in an old book of magic that for which he had long been seeking-the formula for summoning the devil.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000005_000001|When night came a storm had risen, but caring not for that he hurried away to the lonely mountain Kremenki.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000005_000002|There, in a rudely constructed hut, he began his incantations.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000007_000000|"What do you wish?" the devil asked.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000008_000000|"The power of your most secret wisdom," was the answer.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000009_000000|"And how is this to be done?"
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000011_000000|"So be it," said the devil.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000011_000001|"But on condition that at the end of seven years I gain possession of your soul."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000012_000000|"You may take me," answered Twardowski, "but only in Rome may you have power over me.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000013_000000|The devil hesitated over this clause, but thinking of the fun he could have in the holy city, finally agreed.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000013_000001|Leaning against the wall of stone he wrote the compact, which Twardowski, making a slight wound in his arm, signed with his own blood.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000014_000001|He listened, wondering at the unaccustomed noise, then hurried into the town, inquiring from every one he met what the occasion was.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000014_000002|But no one seemed to have heard the sound.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000015_000000|Then a deep feeling of sadness came over him as he realized the meaning of the bells.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000015_000001|They were the funeral knell of his own soul.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000016_000000|When morning came, however, doubts were forgotten, and Twardowski was glad to have the devil at his command.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000017_000000|Similar requests followed, and it was not long before the devil repented of his bargain.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000017_000001|One day it would please Twardowski to fly without wings through the air; on another, to the delight of the crowd, to gallop backward on a cock; on another to float in a boat without a rudder or sail, accompanied by some maiden who for the moment had inflamed his heart.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000017_000003|This last feat made him greatly feared by people far and wide.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000018_000000|At last the seven years were up.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000018_000001|The devil appeared to Twardowski and said:
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000019_000000|"Twardowski, the time of our pact is over, and I command you to fulfill your promise and go to Rome."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000020_000000|"What shall I do there?"
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000021_000000|"Give me your immortal soul," was the answer.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000022_000000|"Do you think I am a fool?" asked Twardowski.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000023_000000|"You gave me your promise to go to Rome after seven years."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000024_000000|"That I have already done," said Twardowski, "and I did not promise to stay in Rome."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000025_000000|"Noble deceiver!" exclaimed the Evil One.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000026_000000|"Stupid devil!" cried Twardowski.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000027_000000|Then after a struggle the devil vanished and Twardowski returned home.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000028_000000|For over a year he pored incessantly over his books of magic, until at last he found a formula for warding off death.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000028_000001|Then he called his disciple Famulus to him and explained that he was going to test the formula.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000029_000000|"You have always obliged me without question," said Twardowski, "and I expect you to now.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000029_000001|Take this knife and thrust it into my heart."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000030_000000|"God forbid!" cried Famulus.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000031_000000|"Why are you frightened?
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000031_000001|I know what I am doing.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000031_000002|Take the knife and kill me, as the parchment directs."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000032_000000|"I cannot."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000033_000000|"You must," insisted Twardowski.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000035_000000|"No more exclamations.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000035_000001|Do as I tell you."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000037_000000|"Strike!" thundered Twardowski, "or I will kill you this instant."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000038_000000|Then Famulus did as he was bid and forced the blade into his master's heart.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000039_000000|Twardowski uttered a low cry, fell, and was soon dead.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000040_000001|Then he remembered that he must read the remainder of the parchment in order to find out what he must do to restore the body to life.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000041_000000|Then he set about the task, severed the limbs of the dead body, and worked and brewed and distilled until the elixir described in the parchment was prepared.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000042_000000|With the elixir he rubbed the members of the master's body, put them together, and laid the corpse in a coffin.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000042_000001|This he buried on the following night, explaining to Twardowski's friends that such had been the master's wish.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000043_000000|Now the parchment stated that the body must remain in the grave seven years, seven months, seven days and seven hours; so Famulus could do nothing but wait.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000043_000001|At last the time had expired, and on a snowy, cold December night he found his way to the grave.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000044_000000|"The child is like Twardowski," Famulus thought, and he gathered him up under his cloak and carried him home.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000044_000001|The next morning the child was the size of a twelve year old; and after seven weeks he was a full grown man.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000045_000000|Twardowski, who now seemed quite himself, only younger, and stronger, thanked Famulus and resumed again his study of magic.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000045_000001|He desired, above all things, to be freed forever from his compact with the devil. This, he read in one of the books, he might do if he would brave the terrors of the underworld.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000046_000000|So Twardowski determined to enter the gates of hell.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000046_000001|At his magic speech the ground opened and he began the path of descent.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000046_000002|Blue flames lighted the way.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000046_000003|Deeper and deeper he went through dark and winding passages.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000046_000004|At last he reached the underworld itself, and many awful sights did he behold.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000047_000000|And the farther he went the more frightened did he become.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000048_000000|Seeing a child in a cradle in one corner of the room he seized it hastily, threw his cloak around it, and was about to leave when the door opened and the Evil One entered.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000049_000000|He made a respectful bow and said, "Will you be good enough to go with me now?"
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000050_000000|"Why so?" asked Twardowski, obstinately.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000051_000000|"Because of our agreement."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000052_000000|"But," said the magician, "only in Rome have you power over me."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000053_000000|"Yes," replied the devil, "and Rome is the name of this house."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000054_000000|"You think to trick me by a pun; but you cannot.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000054_000001|I carry this talisman of innocence," and throwing aside his cloak, he disclosed the sleeping child.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000055_000000|Anger showed in the face of the devil; but he stepped nearer to Twardowski and said softly:
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000056_000000|"What are you thinking of, Twardowski?
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000056_000001|Have you forgotten your promise?
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000057_000000|Pride awoke in the breast of the magician.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000059_000000|On the shoulders of the devil two wings appeared, like the wings of a bat.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000059_000001|He seized Twardowski and flew away with him, mounting higher and higher into the night.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000059_000002|The magician was so terrified and suffered such anguish in the clutches of the Evil One that in a few moments he was changed into an old man, but he did not lose consciousness.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000059_000004|Deeply moved, Twardowski looked down upon the scene of all his struggles and all his joys.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000060_000000|But higher and higher they went-higher than any eagle has ever flown-and more lonely and more fearful did it seem to Twardowski. Only occasionally bright stars passed by them, or fiery meteors, leaving a long streak of light behind.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000061_000000|At last they came to the moon, which stared at them with dead eyes. Then a song that Twardowski had read in his mother's hymn book rose to his lips.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000061_000001|And as he repeated mechanically the prayer his mother had taught him an angel suddenly appeared and said:
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000062_000000|"Satan, let Twardowski go; and you, Twardowski, hang you there between heaven and earth, to atone for your sin until the Last Judgment.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000062_000001|Then will you be reunited with your mother in heaven.
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000062_000002|The prayer which you remembered in your hour of need has saved you."
train-other-500/2312/147629/2312_147629_000063_000000|And so, according to the story, Twardowski is suspended in the vault of heaven to this very day.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000004_000000|CHAPTER two
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000005_000000|Elizabeth's face was glowing with joy.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000006_000000|"You dear, dear man!" she exclaimed.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000006_000001|"To think what you have missed!
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000006_000002|It would have been the evening of your life.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000006_000004|It was wonderful!"
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000007_000000|He seemed, almost to himself, to be playing a part, he was so calm yet so gracefully happy.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000008_000000|"I am glad for both our sakes," he said.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000009_000000|She indicated the others with a little wave of the hand.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000010_000000|"I don't think you know a soul, do you?" she asked.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000010_000002|This is my leading man, Noel Bridges.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000010_000003|You should have seen how splendid he was as Carriston."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000011_000000|mr Noel Bridges, with a deprecating smile towards Elizabeth, held out his hand.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000012_000000|"So you are something human, after all," he remarked.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000012_000003|I enjoy acting in your play very much indeed, and I hope it's only the first of many."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000013_000000|"You are very kind," Philip murmured cordially.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000014_000000|Elizabeth glanced around the little group.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000015_000001|"I ought to have presented you to Sara Denison first.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000015_000003|She loves her part and has asked about you nearly every day."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000016_000000|Miss Denison, a young lady of the smaller Gibson type, with large eyes and a very constant smile, greeted Philip warmly.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000017_000000|"Do you know," she told him, "that this is the first time I have ever been in a play in which the author hasn't been round setting us to rights most of the time?
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000018_000000|"Perhaps," observed Philip, "my absence has contributed to your success. I am sure I shouldn't have known what to tell you.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000018_000001|You see, I am so absolutely ignorant of the technique."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000019_000001|"These other folk don't count for much by the side of me.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000019_000003|There's good stuff in it, and if I am any judge, and I'm supposed to be, there's plenty of better stuff behind.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000019_000004|Shake hands, if you please, sir.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000019_000005|You know me by name-Paul Fink.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000019_000006|I hope you'll see my signature at the bottom of a good many fat cheques before you've finished writing plays."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000020_000000|"That's very nice of you, mr Fink," Philip declared.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000020_000001|"Now I am sure you all want your supper."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000021_000000|At a sign from Philip, the maitre d'hotel handed round the tray of cocktails.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000021_000001|mr Fink raised his glass.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000022_000000|"Here's success to the play," he exclaimed, "and good luck to all of us!"
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000023_000000|He tossed off the contents of the glass and they all followed his example.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000023_000001|Then they took their places at the little round table and the service of supper began.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000023_000002|The conversation somewhat naturally centered around Philip.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000023_000003|The three strangers were all interested in his personality and the fact that he had no previous work to his credit.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000023_000004|It was unusual, almost dramatic, and for a time both Elizabeth and he himself found themselves hard put to it to escape the constant wave of good-natured but very pertinent questions.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000024_000001|"They'll be buzzing around you all day long.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000024_000002|They'll want to know everything, from where you get your clothes and what cigarettes you smoke, to how you like best to do your work and what complexioned typist you prefer.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000024_000003|They're some boys, I can tell you."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000025_000001|The same instinct of disquietude kept them both, for a moment, silent.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000026_000000|"I am afraid," Elizabeth sighed, "that mr Ware will find it rather hard to appreciate some of our journalistic friends."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000027_000000|"They're good fellows," mr Fink declared heartily, "white men, all of them.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000027_000001|So long as you don't try to put 'em off on a false stunt, or anything of that sort, they'll sling the ink about some.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000027_000003|I tell you he means to boost us."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000028_000000|Elizabeth laid her hand upon her manager's arm.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000029_000001|He is so anxious to forget, and I really don't wonder at it myself.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000029_000002|I am sure he will be delighted to talk with all of them as to the future and his future plans, but do you think you could just drop them a hint to go quietly as regards the past?"
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000030_000000|mr Fink was a little perplexed but inclined to be sympathetic.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000030_000001|He glanced towards Philip, who was deep in conversation with Sara Denison.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000031_000000|"Why, I'll do my best, Miss Dalstan," he promised.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000031_000001|"You know what the boys are, though.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000031_000002|They do love a story."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000032_000001|Ask them to be sports, mr Fink, there's a dear."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000033_000000|"I'll do what I can," he promised.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000033_000001|"mr Ware isn't the first man in the world who has funked the limelight, and from what I can see of him it probably wasn't his fault if things did go a little crooked in the past. I'll do my best, Miss Dalstan, I promise you that.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000033_000002|I'll look in at the club to night and drop a few hints around."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000034_000000|Elizabeth patted his hand and smiled at him very sweetly.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000034_000001|The conversation flowed back once more into its former channels, became a medley of confused chaff, disjointed streams of congratulation, of toast drinking and pleasant speeches.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000034_000002|Then mr Fink suddenly rose to his feet.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000035_000000|"Say," he exclaimed, "we've all drunk one another's healths.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000035_000001|There's just one other friend I think we ought to take a glass of wine with.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000035_000002|Gee, he'd give something to be with us to night!
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000035_000003|You'll agree with me, Miss Dalstan, I know.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000035_000004|Let's empty a full glass to Sylvanus Power!"
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000036_000000|There was a curious silence for a second or two, then a clamour of assenting voices.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000036_000001|For a single moment Philip felt a sharp pang at his heart.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000036_000002|Elizabeth was gazing steadily out of the room, a queer tremble at her lips, a look in her eyes which puzzled him, a look almost of fear, of some sort of apprehension.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000036_000003|The moment passed, but her enthusiasm, as she raised her glass, was a little overdone, her gaiety too easily assumed.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000037_000000|"Why, of course!" she declared.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000037_000001|"Fancy not thinking of Sylvanus!"
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000038_000000|They drank his health noisily.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000038_000001|Philip set down his glass empty.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000038_000002|A curious instinct kept his lips sealed.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000038_000003|He crushed down and stifled the memory of that sudden stab.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000038_000004|He did not even ask the one natural question.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000039_000000|"Say, where is Sylvanus Power these days?" mr Fink enquired.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000041_000000|Philip became naturally the central figure of the little gathering.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000041_000001|mr Fink was anxious to arrange a little dinner, to introduce him to some fellow workers.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000041_000003|Philip accepted gratefully everything that was offered to him.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000041_000004|It was no good doing things by halves, he told himself.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000041_000006|Even when, after the departure of his guests, he glanced for a moment into the anteroom beyond and remembered those few throbbing moments of suspense, they came back to him with a curious sense of unreality-they belonged, surety, to some other man, living in some other world!
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000042_000000|"You are happy?" Elizabeth murmured, as she took his arm and they waited in the portico below for her automobile.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000043_000000|He had no longer any idea of telling her of that disquieting visit.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000043_000001|The touch of her hair blown against his cheek, as he had helped her on with her cloak, something in her voice, some slight diffidence, a queer, half expostulating look in the eyes that fell with a curious uneasiness before his, drove every thought of future danger out of his mind.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000043_000002|He had at least the present!
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000043_000003|He answered without a moment's hesitation.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000044_000000|"For the first time in my life!"
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000045_000000|She gave the chauffeur a whispered order as she stepped into the car.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000046_000000|"I have told him to go home by Riverside Drive," she said, as they glided off.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000046_000001|"It is a little farther, and I love the air at this time of night."
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000047_000000|He clasped her fingers-suddenly felt, with the leaning of her body, her heart beating against his.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000047_000001|With that wave of passion there was an instant and portentous change in their attitudes.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000047_000002|The soft protectiveness which had sometimes seemed to shine out of her face, to envelop him in its warmth, had disappeared.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000047_000003|She was no longer the stronger.
train-other-500/2312/157868/2312_157868_000047_000004|She looked at him almost with fear, and he was electrically conscious of all the vigour and strength of his stunted manhood, was master at last of his fate, accepting battle, willing to fight whatever might come for the sake of the joy of these moments.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000000_000000|THIRD DYNASTY-OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000003_000001|At his command the mighty thunder rolls, the lightning flashes, and the clouds open and pour forth their refreshing streams to fructify the earth.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000007_000000|As the father of men, he takes a paternal interest in the actions and well-being of mortals.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000007_000001|He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000007_000002|Even the poorest and most forlorn wanderer finds in him a powerful advocate, for he, by a wise and merciful dispensation, ordains that the mighty ones of the earth should succour their distressed and needy brethren.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000008_000000|The Greeks believed that the home of this their mighty and all powerful deity was on the top of Mount Olympus, that high and lofty mountain between Thessaly and Macedon, whose summit, wrapt in clouds and mist, was hidden from mortal view.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000008_000001|It was supposed that this mysterious region, which even a bird could not reach, extended beyond the clouds right into Aether, the realm of the immortal gods.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000008_000002|The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000008_000005|Lower down were the homes of the other gods, which, though less commanding in position and size, were yet similar to that of Zeus in design and workmanship, all being the work of the divine artist Hephaestus. Below these were other palaces of silver, ebony, ivory, or burnished brass, where the Heroes, or Demi gods, resided.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000009_000002|He may be recognized by his rich flowing beard, and the thick masses of hair, which rise straight from the high and intellectual forehead and fall to his shoulders in clustering locks.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000009_000003|The nose is large and finely formed, and the slightly opened lips impart an air of sympathetic kindliness which invites confidence.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000009_000005|The head is frequently encircled with a wreath of oak leaves.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000011_000000|The most celebrated statue of the Olympian Zeus was that by the famous Athenian sculptor Phidias, which was forty feet high, and stood in the temple of Zeus at Olympia.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000011_000002|It represented the god, seated on a throne, holding in his right hand a life sized image of Nike (the goddess of Victory), and in his left a royal sceptre, surmounted by an eagle.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000011_000003|It is said that the great sculptor had concentrated all the marvellous powers of his genius on this sublime conception, and earnestly entreated Zeus to give him a decided proof that his labours were approved.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000012_000002|Recent excavations which have been made at this spot have brought to light the ruins of the ancient temple of Zeus, and also, among other interesting relics, some plates of lead, on which are engraved inquiries which were evidently made by certain individuals who consulted the oracle. These little leaden plates speak to us, as it were, in a curiously homely manner of a by gone time in the buried past.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000012_000003|One person inquires what god he should apply to for health and fortune; another asks for advice concerning his child; and a third, evidently a shepherd, promises a gift to the oracle should a speculation in sheep turn out successfully.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000013_000001|Crowds of devout worshippers flocked to this world renowned fane from all parts of Greece, not only to pay homage to their supreme deity, but also to join in the celebrated games which were held there at intervals of four years.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000013_000002|The Olympic games were such a thoroughly national institution, that even Greeks who had left their native country made a point of returning on these occasions, if possible, in order to contend with their fellow countrymen in the various athletic sports which took place at these festivals.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000014_000000|It will be seen on reflection that in a country like Greece, which contained so many petty states, often at variance with each other, these national gatherings must have been most valuable as a means of uniting the Greeks in one great bond of brotherhood.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000014_000001|On these festive occasions the whole nation met together, forgetting for the moment all past differences, and uniting in the enjoyment of the same festivities.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000015_000000|It will doubtless have been remarked that in the representations of Zeus he is always accompanied by an eagle.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000015_000001|This royal bird was sacred to him, probably from the fact of its being the only creature capable of gazing at the sun without being dazzled, which may have suggested the idea that it was able to contemplate the splendour of divine majesty unshrinkingly.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000016_000000|The oak tree, and also the summits of mountains, were sacred to Zeus.
train-other-500/2312/161206/2312_161206_000016_000001|His sacrifices consisted of white bulls, cows, and goats.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty three
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000002_000000|Frank Greystock's First Visit to Portray
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000004_000001|He was what the world calls penniless, having an income from his father just sufficient to keep him like a gentleman.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000004_000004|"I don't clearly know what a gillie is," he said, in answer to one of Frank's explanations.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000004_000007|Arthur Herriot, whom the attorneys had not yet loved, brought some very thick boots, a pair of knickerbockers, together with Stone and Toddy's "Digest of the Common Law." The best of the legal profession consists in this;--that when you get fairly at work you may give over working.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000004_000011|But till that blessed time has come, a barrister who means success should carry his Stone and Toddy with him everywhere.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000005_000000|"You won't mind being left alone for the first morning?" said Frank, as soon as they had finished the contents of one of the pots from Fortnum and Mason.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000006_000000|"Not in the least.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000006_000001|Stone and Toddy will carry me through."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000007_000000|"I'd go on the mountain if I were you, and get into a habit of steady loading."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000008_000000|"Perhaps I will take a turn,--just to find out how I feel in the knickerbockers.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000008_000001|At what time shall I dine if you don't come back?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000009_000000|"I shall certainly be here to dinner," said Frank, "unless the pony fails me or I get lost on the mountain." Then he started, and Herriot at once went to work on Stone and Toddy, with a pipe in his mouth.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000010_000001|The boy had offered to go with him, but that he had altogether refused;--and, therefore, to his other cares was added that of finding his way.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000010_000003|He was thinking of the work in hand, and he found the gap without difficulty.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000010_000004|When through that he ascended the hill for two miles, and then the sea was before him, and Portray Castle, lying, as it seemed to him at that distance, close upon the sea shore.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000010_000005|"Upon my word, Lizzie has not done badly for herself," he said almost aloud, as he looked down upon the fair sight beneath him, and round upon the mountains, and remembered that, for her life at least, it was all hers, and after her death would belong to her son.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000011_000001|Gowran had watched the pony coming down the mountain side, and had desired to see of what like was "her leddyship's" cousin.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000011_000005|He was very anxious, therefore, to see "her leddyship's" cousin.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000011_000006|mr Gowran thought that he knew a gentleman when he saw one.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000011_000010|mr Gowran perceived that Frank was a gentleman, and was disappointed.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000011_000012|mr Gowran, who was a stern moralist, was certainly disappointed at Frank's appearance.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000012_000000|Lizzie was in a little sitting room, reached by a long passage with steps in the middle, at some corner of the castle which seemed a long way from the great door.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000012_000004|"Well, Frank?" she said, with her sweetest smile, as she gave him her hand.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000012_000005|She felt and understood the extreme intimacy which would be implied by her not rising to receive him.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000013_000000|"So I am at Portray Castle at last," he said, still holding her hand.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000014_000000|"Yes,--at the dullest, dreariest, deadliest spot in all Christendom, I think,--if Ayrshire be Christendom.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000015_000000|"I thought you were to be so happy here."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000016_000000|"Sit down and we'll talk it all over by degrees.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000016_000001|What will you have,--breakfast or lunch?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000017_000000|"Neither, thank you."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000018_000000|"Of course you'll stay to dinner?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000019_000000|"No, indeed.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000020_000000|"Let him cut his throat;--but never mind now.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000020_000002|I needn't tell any lies to you, you know.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000020_000004|My life has been a burthen to me.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000020_000005|But never mind.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000020_000006|Tell me about my lord;--my lord and master."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000021_000000|"Lord Fawn?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000022_000000|"Who else?
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000022_000001|What other lord and master?
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000022_000003|Is he always thinking of his absent Lizzie?
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000022_000004|Does he still toil at Downing Street?
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000023_000000|"I have seen him."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000024_000000|"So you wrote me word."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000026_000000|"Frank, I don't care twopence for his honesty and truth.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000026_000001|If he ill treats me-"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000026_000003|"I suppose I had better let you tell your story," she said, "and I will sit still and listen."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000027_000000|"He means to ill treat you."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000028_000000|"And you will let him?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000029_000000|"You had better listen, as you promised, Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000029_000001|He declares that the marriage must be off at once unless you will send those diamonds to mr Camperdown or to the jewellers."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000030_000000|"And by what law or rule does he justify himself in a decision so monstrous?
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000032_000000|"Never!"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000033_000000|"You must, of course, judge for yourself;--but that is my advice.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000033_000001|You had better, however, hear my whole story."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000034_000000|"Certainly," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000034_000001|Her whole manner was now changed.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000034_000005|Her position had been one of lounging ease, such as a woman might adopt when all alone, giving herself all the luxuries of solitude;--but she had adopted it in special reference to cousin Frank.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000034_000007|She had seated herself on a common chair, with her hands upon the table, and was looking into Frank's face with eager, eloquent, and combative eyes.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000035_000000|"mr Camperdown," continued Greystock, "has consented to prepare a case for opinion, though he will not agree that the Eustace estate shall be bound by that opinion."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000038_000000|"Why isn't your opinion as good as that of any lawyer?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000039_000000|"I couldn't give an opinion;--not otherwise than as a private friend to you, which is worth nothing, unless for your private guidance.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000039_000001|mr Camperdown-"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000040_000000|"I don't care one straw for mr Camperdown."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000041_000000|"Just let me finish."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000042_000000|"Oh, certainly;--and you mustn't be angry with me, Frank.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000042_000001|The matter is so much to me; isn't it?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000043_000000|"I won't be angry.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000043_000002|mr Camperdown is right."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000044_000000|"I daresay he may be-what you call right.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000045_000001|The third person could not be made to lose his legal right by any such arbitration, and his claim, if made, would still have to be tried."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000047_000000|"Your own child at present."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000048_000000|"And will not he have it any way?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000050_000000|"To whom do you say that it belongs?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000051_000000|"That is a question I am not prepared to answer."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000052_000000|"To whom do you think that it belongs?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000054_000000|"Nor can I," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000056_000000|"Who is mr Dove?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000057_000000|"mr Dove is a barrister, and no doubt a very clever fellow.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000057_000001|If his opinion be such as mr Camperdown expects, he will at once proceed against you at law for the immediate recovery of the necklace."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000059_000000|"If mr Dove's opinion be in your favour-"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000060_000000|"Well," said Lizzie,--"what then?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000061_000000|"In that case mr Camperdown, acting on behalf of john Eustace and young Florian-"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000062_000001|"Well?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000063_000000|"In that case mr Camperdown will serve you with some notice that the jewels are not yours,--to part with them as you may please."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000064_000000|"But they will be mine."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000066_000000|"Who says that I want to sell them?" demanded Lizzie indignantly.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000067_000000|"Or from giving them away,--say to a second husband."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000068_000000|"How little they know me!"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000069_000000|"Now I have told you all about mr Camperdown."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000070_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000071_000000|"And the next thing is to tell you about Lord Fawn."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000072_000000|"That is everything.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000072_000001|I care nothing for mr Camperdown; nor yet for mr Dove,--if that is his absurd name.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000072_000002|Lord Fawn is of more moment to me,--though, indeed, he has given me but little cause to say so."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000074_000000|"He may thank himself for it."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000076_000000|"He does?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000077_000000|"He has commissioned me to give you that message;--and it is my duty, Lizzie, as your friend, to tell you my conviction that he repents his engagement."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000078_000000|She now rose from her chair and began to walk about the room.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000080_000000|"Taken him by the throat," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000081_000001|I think Lord Fawn is behaving very badly, and I have told him so.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000081_000002|No doubt he is under the influence of others,--mother and sisters,--who are not friendly to you."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000082_000000|"False faced idiots!" said Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000083_000001|He is timid, weak, conscientious, and wretched.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000083_000002|If you have set your heart upon marrying him-"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000084_000000|"My heart!" said Lizzie scornfully.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000085_000001|Whatever may be his wishes, in that case he will redeem his word."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000086_000000|"Not for him or all that belongs to him!
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000086_000001|It wouldn't be much.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000086_000002|He's just a pauper with a name."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000087_000000|"Then your loss will be so much the less."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000088_000000|"But what right has he to treat me so?
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000089_000000|"What punishment would you wish?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000092_000000|"I think I could almost do it myself." And Lizzie raised her hand as though there were some weapon in it.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000092_000001|"But, Frank, there must be something.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000092_000002|You wouldn't have me sit down and bear it.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000092_000003|All the world has been told of the engagement.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000092_000004|There must be some punishment."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000094_000000|"I would wish to do whatever would hurt him most,--without hurting myself," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000096_000000|"Certainly not," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000096_000001|"Give it up for his sake,--a man that I have always despised?"
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000097_000000|"Then you had better let him go."
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000098_000000|"I will not let him go.
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000098_000002|Never!
train-other-500/2339/158764/2339_158764_000098_000004|Harter and Benjamin five and thirty pounds till Sir Florian had settled that account for her.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000001_000000|Aunt Helen's Recipe
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000002_000000|"Dear me, Sybylla, not in bed yet, and tears, great big tears!
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000002_000001|Tell me what is the cause of them."
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000003_000000|It was aunt Helen's voice; she had entered and lit the lamp.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000004_000000|There was something beautifully sincere and real about aunt Helen.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000007_000000|I controlled myself instantly and waited expectantly.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000007_000001|What would she say?
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000008_000000|"I understand you, Sybylla," she said slowly and distinctly, "but you must not be a coward.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000008_000001|There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000008_000002|Being misunderstood is one of the trials we all must bear.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000008_000004|I am acquainted with a great number of young girls, some of them good and true, but you have a character containing more than any three of them put together.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000008_000006|But you are wild and wayward, you must curb and strain your spirit and bring it into subjection, else you will be worse than a person with the emptiest of characters.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000009_000000|She turned her face away, sighed, and forgetful of my presence lapsed into silence.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000009_000001|I knew she was thinking of herself.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000011_000000|Twelve years before I went to Caddagat, when Helen Bossier had been eighteen and one of the most beautiful and lovable girls in Australia, there had come to Caddagat on a visit a dashing colonel of the name of Bell, in the enjoyment of a most extended furlough for the benefit of his health.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000011_000001|He married aunt Helen and took her to some part of America where his regiment was stationed.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000011_000003|On account of his wife's spotless character he was unable to do this; he therefore deserted her and openly lived with the other woman as his mistress.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000011_000004|This forced aunt Helen to return to Caddagat, and her mother had induced her to sue for a judicial separation, which was easily obtained.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000012_000001|By reason of her youth and purity Mrs Bell had not as much to suffer in this way as some others.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000012_000002|But, comparatively speaking, her life was wrecked.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000012_000003|She had been humiliated and outraged in the cruellest way by the man whom she loved and trusted.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000013_000000|"Come, Sybylla," she said, starting up brightly, "I have a plan-will you agree to it?
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000013_000002|I will put as many as I can out of your way, and you must avoid the remainder.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000013_000003|During this time I will take you in hand, and you must follow my directions implicitly.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000013_000004|Will you agree?
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000013_000005|You will be surprised what a nice looking little girl I will make of you."
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000014_000000|Of course I agreed.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000014_000003|A very ugly spectacle, I thought.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000014_000004|Aunt Helen turned the face of the large mirror flat against the wall, while I remarked despondently, "you can make me only middling ugly, you must be a magician."
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000015_000002|I hope you will like your room; I have arranged it on purpose to suit you.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000015_000003|And now good night, and happy dreams."
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000016_000001|My poor old room at Possum Gully was lacking in barest necessaries.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000016_000006|It was stuffed full with all kinds of paper of good quality-fancy, all colours, sizes, and shapes, plain, foreign note, pens, ink, and a generous supply of stamps.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000016_000010|I made great pace, scrambled into my clothes helter skelter, and appeared at table when the others had been seated and unfolded their serviettes.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000018_000000|"Rub off some of your gloomy pessimism and cultivate a little more healthy girlish vanity, and you will do very well," she would say.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000019_000000|I observed these rites most religiously for three days.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000019_000001|Then I contracted a slight attack of influenza, and in poking around the kitchen, doing one of the things I oughtn't at the time I shouldn't, a servant girl tipped a pot of boiling pot liquor over my right foot, scalding it rather severely.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000019_000002|Aunt Helen and grannie put me to bed, where I yelled with pain for hours like a mad Red Indian, despite their applying every alleviative possible.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000019_000003|The combined forces of the burn and influenza made me a trifle dicky, so a decree went forth that I was to stay in bed until recovered from both complaints.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000019_000004|This effectually prevented me from running in the way of any looking glasses.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000020_000000|I was not sufficiently ill to be miserable, and being a pampered invalid was therefore fine fun.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000020_000001|Aunt Helen was a wonderful nurse.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000021_000001|The Beechams resided at Five Bob Downs, twelve miles from Caddagat, and were a family composed of two maiden ladies and their nephew, Harold.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000021_000002|One of these ladies was aunt Helen's particular friend, and the other had stood in the same capacity to my mother in days gone by, but of late years, on account of her poverty, mother had been too proud to keep up communication with her.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000021_000006|When my installation in the role of invalid took place, one Miss Beecham was away in Melbourne, and the other not well enough to come and see me, but Harold came regularly to inquire how I was progressing.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000021_000008|This kindness was because the Caddagat orchard had been too infested with codlin moth for grannie to save any last season.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000022_000000|Aunt Helen used to mischievously tease me about this attention.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000023_000001|"No doubt he is far more calculating and artful than I thought he was capable of being.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000023_000003|Young ladies are in the minority up this way, and every one is snapped up as soon as she arrives."
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000024_000001|Perhaps, though, it would be better not to describe me, or I will get no more apples," I would reply.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000025_000000|Aunt Helen was a clever needlewoman.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000025_000001|She made all grannie's dresses and her own.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000025_000002|Now she was making some for me, which, however, I was not to see until I wore them.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000025_000003|Aunt Helen had this as a pleasant surprise, and went to the trouble of blindfolding me while I was being fitted.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000027_000001|The glory of the starlit heavens, the mighty wonder of the sea, and the majesty of thunder had come home to them, and the breathless fulness of the sunset hour had whispered of something more than the humour of tomorrow's weather.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000027_000003|Gordon, with his sad, sad humanism and bitter disappointment, held out his hand and took me with him.
train-other-500/2339/181100/2339_181100_000027_000004|The regret of it all was I could never meet them-Byron, Thackeray, Dickens, Longfellow, Gordon, Kendall, the men I loved, all were dead; but, blissful thought! Caine, Paterson, and Lawson were still living, breathing human beings-two of them actually countrymen, fellow Australians!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000000_000000|CHAPTER TEN
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000001_000000|Everard Grey
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000000|Uncle Julius had taken a run down to Sydney before returning to Caddagat, and was to be home during the first week in September, bringing with him Everard Grey.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000001|This young gentleman always spent Christmas at Caddagat, but as he had just recovered from an illness he was coming up for a change now instead.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000002|Having heard much of him, I was curious to see him.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000003|He was grandmamma's adopted son, and was the orphan of very aristocratic English parents who had left him to the guardianship of distant relatives.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000005|By finding a flaw in deeds, or something which none but lawyers understand, they had deprived him of all his property and left him to sink or swim.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000006|Grannie had discovered, reared, and educated him. Among professions he had chosen the bar, and was now one of Sydney's most promising young barristers.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000002_000007|His foster mother was no end proud of him, and loved him as her own son.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000005_000000|During the afternoon I was dispatched by grannie on a message some miles away, and meeting Mr Hawden some distance from the house, he took it upon himself to accompany me.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000005_000001|Everywhere I went he followed after, much to my annoyance, because grannie gave me many and serious talkings to about the crime of encouraging young men.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000009_000000|"There now, you have nothing to complain of in the way of looks," she remarked at the completion of the ceremony.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000009_000001|"Come and have a good look at yourself."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000010_000000|I was decked in my first evening dress, as it was a great occasion.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000010_000001|It was only on the rarest occasion that we donned full war paint at Caddagat.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000010_000006|And is there any of the animal lines known pleasanter to the eye than the contour of shapely arms?
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000010_000007|Some there are who cry down evening dress as being immodest and indecent.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000010_000008|These will be found among those whose chest and arms will not admit of being displayed, or among those who, not having been reared to the custom, dislike it with many other things from want of use.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000011_000000|Aunt Helen took me into the wide old drawing room, now brilliantly lighted.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000011_000001|A heavy lamp was on each of the four brackets in the corners, and another swung from the centre of the ceiling, and candelabra threw many lights from the piano.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000011_000002|Never before had I seen this room in such a blaze of light.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000011_000004|This had been ample light for our purpose.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000012_000000|"Your uncle Julius always has the drawing room lighted like this; he does not believe in shadowy half light-calls it sentimental bosh," said aunt Helen in explanation.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000013_000000|"Is uncle like that?" I remarked, but my question remained unanswered. Leaving a hand mirror with me, aunt Helen had slipped away.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000014_000000|One wall of the drawing room was monopolized by a door, a big bookcase, and a heavy bevelled edged old-fashioned mirror-the two last mentioned articles reaching from floor to ceiling.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000014_000001|Since my arrival the face of the mirror had been covered, but this evening the blue silken curtains were looped up, and it was before this that I stood.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000015_000000|I looked, and looked again in pleased surprise.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000015_000001|I beheld a young girl with eyes and skin of the clearest and brightest, and lips of brilliant scarlet, and a chest and pair of arms which would pass muster with the best.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000015_000002|If Nature had been in bad humour when moulding my face, she had used her tools craftily in forming my figure.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000015_000003|Aunt Helen had proved a clever maid and dressmaker.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000015_000006|My toilet had altered me almost beyond recognition.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000015_000007|It made me look my age-sixteen years and ten months-whereas before, when dressed carelessly and with my hair plastered in a tight coil, people not knowing me would not believe that I was under twenty.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000016_000000|I was still admiring my reflection when aunt Helen returned to say that Everard and uncle Julius were smoking on the veranda and asking for me.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000017_000000|"What do you think of yourself, Sybylla?"
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000020_000000|"Silly child, there are some faces with faultless features, which would receive nothing more than an indifferent glance while beside other faces which might have few if any pretensions to beauty.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000020_000001|Yours is one of those last mentioned."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000021_000000|"But that does not say I am not ugly."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000023_000000|Uncle Julius had the upper part of his ponderous figure arrayed in a frock coat.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000023_000001|He did not take kindly to what he termed "those skittish sparrow tailed affairs".
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000023_000002|Frock coats suited him, but I am not partial to them on every one.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000023_000003|They look well enough on a podgy, fat, or broad man, but on a skinny one they hang with such a forlorn, dying duck expression, that they invariably make me laugh.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000025_000000|I was very proud to call him uncle.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000026_000000|"So this is yourself, is it!" he exclaimed, giving me a tremendous hug.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000027_000001|Your breath smells horribly of whisky and tobacco."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000028_000001|You're surely not done growing yet, though!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000028_000002|You are such a little nipper.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000028_000003|I could put you in my pocket with ease.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000028_000004|You aren't a scrap like your mother.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000028_000005|I'll give the next shearer who passes a shilling to cut that hair off.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000028_000006|It would kill a dog in the hot weather."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000031_000000|"I suppose I'm a kind of uncle and brother in one, and as either relationship entitles me to a kiss, I'm going to take one," he said in a very gallant manner.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000032_000000|"You may take one if you can," I said with mischievous defiance, springing off the veranda into the flower garden.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000032_000002|Round and round the flower beds we ran.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000032_000003|Uncle Jay Jay's beard opened in a broad smile, which ended in a loud laugh.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000032_000004|Everard Grey's coat tails flew in the breeze he made, and his collar was too high for athletic purposes.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000032_000005|I laughed too, and was lost, and we returned to the veranda-Everard in triumph, and I feeling very red and uncomfortable.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000033_000001|She cast on me a glance of severe disapproval, and denounced my conduct as shameful; but uncle Jay Jay's eyes twinkled as he dexterously turned the subject.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000034_000000|"Gammon, mother!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000034_000001|I bet you were often kissed when that youngster's age. I bet my boots now that you can't count the times you did the same thing yourself.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000034_000002|Now, confess."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000036_000000|Aunt Helen sent me inside lest I should catch cold, and I stationed myself immediately inside the window so that I should not miss the conversation.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000036_000001|"I should think your niece is very excitable," Mr Grey was saying to aunt Helen.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000037_000000|"Oh, very."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000039_000000|"She is very variable-one moment all joy, and the next the reverse."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000040_000001|I don't know what it is that makes it so."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000041_000000|"It may be her complexion," said aunt Helen; "her skin is whiter than the fairest blonde, and her eyebrows and lashes very dark.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000041_000001|Be very careful you do not say anything that would let her know you think her not nice looking.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000041_000002|She broods over her appearance in such a morbid manner.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000041_000003|It is a weak point with her, so be careful not to sting her sensitiveness in that respect."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000042_000000|"Plain looking!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000042_000002|What colour are they?"
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000043_000000|"The grass is not bad about Sydney.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000044_000000|"It is getting quite dark.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000044_000001|Let's get in to dinner at once," said grannie.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000045_000000|During the meal I took an opportunity of studying the appearance of Everard Grey.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000046_000001|Uncle Jay Jay bawled "The Vicar of Bray" and "Drink, Puppy, Drink" in a stentorian bass voice, holding me on his knee, pinching, tickling, pulling my hair, and shaking me up and down between whiles.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000046_000002|Mr Hawden favoured us by rendering "The Holy City".
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000046_000005|He was quite a champion on the piano, and played aunt Helen's accompaniments while he made her sing song after song.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000046_000007|Can you sing?"
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000048_000000|"Can this youngster sing, Helen?"
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000049_000000|"She sings very nicely to herself sometimes, but I do not know how she would manage before company.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000050_000000|Uncle Jay Jay waited to hear no more, but carrying me to the music stool, and depositing me thereon, warned me not to attempt to leave it before singing something.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000052_000000|When the song ceased Mr Grey wheeled abruptly on the stool and said, "Do you know that you have one of the most wonderful natural voices I have heard.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000052_000001|Why, there is a fortune in such a voice if it were, trained!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000053_000000|"Don't be sarcastic, Mr Grey," I said shortly.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000054_000000|"Upon my word as a man, I mean every word I say," he returned enthusiastically.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000055_000000|Everard Grey's opinion on artistic matters was considered worth having. He dabbled in all the arts-writing, music, acting, and sketching, and went to every good concert and play in Sydney.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000055_000001|Though he was clever at law, it was whispered by some that he would wind up on the stage, as he had a great leaning that way.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000056_000000|I walked away from the piano treading on air.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000056_000001|Would I really make a singer?
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000056_000002|I with the voice which had often been ridiculed; I who had often blasphemously said that I would sell my soul to be able to sing just passably.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000056_000003|Everard Grey's opinion gave me an intoxicated sensation of joy.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000057_000000|"Can you recite?" he inquired.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000058_000000|"Yes," I answered firmly.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000059_000000|"Give us something," said uncle Jay Jay.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000060_000000|I recited Longfellow's "The Slave's Dream".
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000060_000001|Everard Grey was quite as enthusiastic over this as he had been about my singing.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000061_000000|"Such a voice!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000061_000001|Such depth and width!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000061_000002|Why, she could fill the Centennial Hall without an effort.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000061_000003|All she requires is training."
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000062_000000|"By George, she's a regular dab!
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000062_000001|But I wish she would give us something not quite so glum," said uncle Jay Jay.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000063_000000|I let myself go.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000065_000000|Would Mr Hawden assist me?
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000065_000001|Of course he was only too delighted, and flattered that I had called upon him in preference to the others.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000065_000002|What would he do?
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000067_000002|Shure I rared him meself, and he says his prayers every morning.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000068_000000|Uncle Jay Jay was laughing like fun; even aunt Helen deigned to smile; and Everard was looking on with critical interest.
train-other-500/2339/181101/2339_181101_000069_000000|"Go on," said uncle.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000003_000000|A CALL ON THE WARDEN
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000004_000001|Here and there in the grim corridors a guard dozed in the glare of an electric light; and in the office, too, a desk light glimmered where the warden sat at his desk, poring over a report.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000004_000002|Once he glanced up at the clock-it was five minutes of eleven-and then he went on with his reading.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000005_000001|He was rather tall and slender, and a sinister black mask hid his face from the quickly raised eyes of the warden.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000005_000003|The intruder noted both gestures, and, unarmed himself, stood silent.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000005_000004|The warden was first to speak.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000006_000000|"Well, what is it?"
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000007_000000|"You have a prisoner here, Pietro Petrozinni," was the reply, in a pleasant voice.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000007_000001|"I have come to demand his release."
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000008_000000|The warden's right hand was raised above the desk top, and the revolver in it clicked warningly.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000009_000001|He still sat motionless, with his eyes fixed on the black mask.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000009_000002|"How did you pass the outside guard?"
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000010_000000|"He was bribed," was the ready response.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000010_000002|I may add that no bribe was offered to you because your integrity was beyond question."
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000012_000000|"Oh, that isn't loaded," said the masked man quietly.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000016_000000|"And that wire was cut, too," the stranger explained.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000017_000000|The warden came to his feet with white face, and nails biting into the palms of his hands.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000018_000003|I want your prisoner, Signor Petrozinni-you will release him at once! That's all!"
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000021_000000|"Then I shall take him," was the reply.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000021_000001|"It has been made impossible for you to give an alarm," the stranger went on.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000021_000002|"The very men on whom you most depended have been bought, and even if they were within sound of your voice now they wouldn't respond.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000021_000003|One of your assistants who has been here for years unloaded the revolver in the desk there, and less than an hour ago cut the prison alarm wire.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000021_000004|I, personally, cut the police alarm outside the building.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000021_000005|So you see!"
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000022_000001|His tone was a perfectly normal one.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000023_000001|"These are four inner guards and the outer guard.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000023_000002|They have all been bought-the turnkeys at five thousand dollars each, and the outer guard at seven thousand.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000025_000000|"He is a man who can command a vast fortune-and Senor Alvarez is at the point of death.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000025_000002|Now, if you'll sit down, please!"
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000026_000000|"Sit down?" bellowed the warden.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000027_000000|Suddenly he was seized by a violent, maddening rage.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000027_000001|He took one step forward and raised the empty revolver to strike.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000027_000002|The masked man moved slightly to one side and his clenched fist caught the warden on the point of the chin.
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000029_000001|"Better send some of your men up to investigate."
train-other-500/2341/151701/2341_151701_000031_000000|The stranger replaced the receiver on the hook, stripped off his black mask, dropped it on the floor beside the motionless warden, and went out.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000002_000000|"Where's the butter?"
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000006_000001|And then mosey right down the lightning rod and come along.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000008_000000|"You been down cellar?"
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000010_000000|"What you been doing down there?"
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000014_000000|"Well, then, what possessed you to go down there this time of night?"
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000018_000000|I reckoned she'd let me go now, and as a generl thing she would; but I s'pose there was so many strange things going on she was just in a sweat about every little thing that warn't yard stick straight; so she says, very decided:
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000019_000001|You been up to something you no business to, and I lay I'll find out what it is before I'M done with you."
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000023_000001|He's got the brain fever as shore as you're born, and they're oozing out!"
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000028_000000|"No!  is that so?
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000028_000002|Why, Huck, if it was to do over again, I bet I could fetch two hundred!
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000029_000000|"Hurry!
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000030_000000|"Right at your elbow; if you reach out your arm you can touch him. He's dressed, and everything's ready.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000033_000000|So in they come, but couldn't see us in the dark, and most trod on us whilst we was hustling to get under the bed.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000033_000001|But we got under all right, and out through the hole, swift but soft  Jim first, me next, and Tom last, which was according to Tom's orders.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000034_000000|"Who's that?
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000036_000001|They've broke for the river!
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000037_000000|So here they come, full tilt.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000037_000002|We was in the path to the mill; and when they got pretty close on to us we dodged into the bush and let them go by, and then dropped in behind them.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000037_000005|And when we stepped on to the raft I says:
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000040_000000|We was all glad as we could be, but Tom was the gladdest of all because he had a bullet in the calf of his leg.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000042_000002|Boys, we done it elegant!  'deed we did.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000042_000004|Man the sweeps  man the sweeps!"
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000043_000000|But me and Jim was consulting  and thinking.
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000043_000001|And after we'd thought a minute, I says:
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000045_000000|So he says:
train-other-500/2341/163407/2341_163407_000047_000001|Then he give us a piece of his mind, but it didn't do no good.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000001_000000|"The Phelpses, down yonder."
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000002_000001|And after a minute, he says:
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000006_000000|So he lit up his lantern, and got his saddle bags, and we started.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000006_000001|But when he sees the canoe he didn't like the look of her  said she was big enough for one, but didn't look pretty safe for two.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000006_000002|I says:
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000012_000000|I struck an idea pretty soon.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000013_000001|I shot out and went for the doctor's house, but they told me he'd gone away in the night some time or other, and warn't back yet.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000013_000004|He says:
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000016_000001|"Your aunt's been mighty uneasy."
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000030_000000|"Well, it does beat  "
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000031_000000|"Laws alive, I never  "
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000032_000000|"So help me, I wouldn't a be  "
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000035_000001|Why, they'd steal the very  why, goodness sakes, you can guess what kind of a fluster I was in by the time midnight come last night.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000035_000003|I was just to that pass I didn't have no reasoning faculties no more.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000040_000000|"No you won't," she says.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000042_000002|So she had to be satisfied.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000042_000003|But she said she'd set up for him a while anyway, and keep a light burning so he could see it.
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000043_000001|And when she was going away she looked down in my eyes so steady and gentle, and says:
train-other-500/2341/163408/2341_163408_000044_000001|And you won't go?
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000000_000001|If we have to die, I would rather do so moving; but I don't believe that we shall die."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000001_000000|"Very well," I said, "let us start.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000002_000001|Now, although the mount was under two hundred feet high, its base, fortunately for us-for otherwise it must have been swept away by the mighty pressure of the avalanche-was broad, so that there was a long expanse of piled up snow between us and the level ground.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000003_000001|As there was nothing to be gained by waiting, off we went, Leo leading and step by step trying the snow.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000003_000002|To our joy we discovered that the sharp night frost had so hardened its surface that it would support us.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000004_000000|All went well until we were within twenty paces of the bottom, where we must cross a soft mound formed of the powdery dust thrown off by the avalanche in its rush.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000005_000001|Down I went, and down, till at length I seemed to reach a rock which alone saved me from disappearing for ever.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000005_000003|Getting my hands upon the stone, I strove to rise, but could not, the weight upon me was too great.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000006_000000|Then I abandoned hope and prepared to die.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000006_000001|The process proved not altogether unpleasant.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000006_000003|I seemed to behold her and a man at her side, standing over me in some dark, rocky gulf.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000006_000004|She was wrapped in a long travelling cloak, and her lovely eyes were wild with fear.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000006_000005|I rose to salute her, and make report, but she cried in a fierce, concentrated voice-"What evil thing has happened here?
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000009_000000|I saw a light again.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000009_000001|I heard a voice, that of Leo.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000009_000005|Then, bethinking me, I drew up my legs and by chance or the mercy of Heaven, I know not, got my feet against a ridge of the rock on which I was lying.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000009_000007|Of a sudden the snow gave, and out of that hole I shot like a fox from its earth.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000010_000000|I struck something.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000010_000001|It was Leo straining at the gun, and I knocked him backwards.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000010_000002|Then down the steep slope we rolled, landing at length upon the very edge of the precipice.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000012_000000|"Don't know.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000013_000000|"Twenty minutes!
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000013_000001|It seemed like twenty centuries.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000013_000002|How did you get me out?
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000013_000003|You could not stand upon the drift dust."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000014_000000|"No; I lay upon the yak skin where the snow was harder and tunnelled towards you through the powdery stuff with my hands, for I knew where you had sunk and it was not far off.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000014_000001|At last I saw your finger tips; they were so blue that for a few seconds I took them for rock, but thrust the butt of the rifle against them.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000014_000002|Luckily you still had life enough to catch hold of it, and you know the rest.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000014_000003|Were we not both very strong, it could never have been done."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000016_000002|Come, if you have got your breath, let us be getting on.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000016_000003|You have been sleeping in a cold bed and want exercise.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000016_000005|Well, it will save us the trouble of carrying the cartridges," and he laughed drearily.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000017_000000|Then we began our march, heading for the spot where the road ended four miles or so away, for to go forward seemed useless.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000017_000003|But we took little heed of these things: our nerves were deadened, and no danger seemed to affect them.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000018_000003|Yes, it was sheer and absolutely unclimbable.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000019_000000|"Come to the glacier," said Leo.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000020_000000|So we went on to it, and scrambling a little way down its root, made an examination.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000020_000001|Here, so far as we could judge, the cliff was about four hundred feet deep.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000020_000003|We climbed back again and sat down, and despair took hold of us, bitter, black despair.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000021_000001|"In front of us death.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000021_000003|Here death, for we must sit and starve.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000021_000004|We have striven and failed.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000021_000006|Only a miracle can save us."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000022_000000|"A miracle," he answered.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000022_000004|Some directing Power.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000022_000005|Some Destiny that will accomplish itself in us.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000022_000006|Why should the Power cease to guide?
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000022_000007|Why should the Destiny be baulked at last?"
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000023_000001|I will go on."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000024_000000|"How?" I asked.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000027_000000|"Well, if so, Horace, it would seem that in this land men find life in death, or so they believe.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000027_000001|If we die now, we shall die travelling our path, and in the country where we perish we may be born again.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000027_000002|At least I am determined, so you must choose."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000028_000000|"I have chosen long ago.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000028_000001|Leo, we began this journey together and we will end it together.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000028_000003|"If not-come, we are wasting time."
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000030_000001|This done, we took the remainder of our gear and heavy robes and, having placed stones in them, threw them over the brink of the precipice, trusting to find them again, should we ever reach its foot.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000030_000002|Now our preparations were complete, and it was time for us to start upon perhaps one of the most desperate journeys ever undertaken by men of their own will.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000031_000000|Yet we stayed a little, looking at each other in piteous fashion, for we could not speak.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000031_000001|Only we embraced, and I confess, I think I wept a little.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000031_000003|I could not bear to think of that splendid man, my ward, my most dear friend, the companion of my life, who stood before me so full of beauty and of vigour, but who must within a few short minutes be turned into a heap of quivering, mangled flesh.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000031_000004|For myself it did not matter. I was old, it was time that I should die.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000033_000000|So side by side we began the terrible descent.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000033_000001|At first it was easy enough, although a slip would have hurled us to eternity.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000033_000002|But we were strong and skilful, accustomed to such places moreover, and made none. About a quarter of the way down we paused, standing upon a great boulder that was embedded in the ice, and, turning round cautiously, leaned our backs against the glacier and looked about us.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000033_000003|Truly it was a horrible place, almost sheer, nor did we learn much, for beneath us, a hundred and twenty feet or more, the projecting bend cut off our view of what lay below.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000034_000001|Now matters were more difficult, for the stones were fewer and once or twice we must slide to reach them, not knowing if we should ever stop again.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000034_000002|But the ropes which we threw over the angles of the rocks, or salient points of ice, letting ourselves down by their help and drawing them after us when we reached the next foothold, saved us from disaster.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000036_000000|"We must look," said Leo presently.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000037_000000|But the question was, how to do this.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000037_000001|Indeed, there was only one way, to hang over the bend and discover what lay below.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000038_000000|"No," said Leo, "I am younger and stronger than you.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000038_000001|Come, help me," and he began to fasten the end of his rope to a strong, projecting point of ice.
train-other-500/2346/152201/2346_152201_000038_000002|"Now," he said, "hold my ankles."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000001_000000|Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000002_000000|Maggie's intentions, as usual, were on a larger scale than Tom imagined.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000002_000001|The resolution that gathered in her mind, after Tom and Lucy had walked away, was not so simple as that of going home.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000002_000002|No! she would run away and go to the gypsies, and Tom should never see her any more.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000002_000004|She had once mentioned her views on this point to Tom and suggested that he should stain his face brown, and they should run away together; but Tom rejected the scheme with contempt, observing that gypsies were thieves, and hardly got anything to eat and had nothing to drive but a donkey.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000002_000006|She thought of her father as she ran along, but she reconciled herself to the idea of parting with him, by determining that she would secretly send him a letter by a small gypsy, who would run away without telling where she was, and just let him know that she was well and happy, and always loved him very much.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000000|Maggie soon got out of breath with running, but by the time Tom got to the pond again she was at the distance of three long fields, and was on the edge of the lane leading to the highroad.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000002|The formidable strangers were two shabby looking men with flushed faces, one of them carrying a bundle on a stick over his shoulder; but to her surprise, while she was dreading their disapprobation as a runaway, the man with the bundle stopped, and in a half whining, half coaxing tone asked her if she had a copper to give a poor man.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000004|"That's the only money I've got," she said apologetically.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000005|"Thank you, little miss," said the man, in a less respectful and grateful tone than Maggie anticipated, and she even observed that he smiled and winked at his companion.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000006|She walked on hurriedly, but was aware that the two men were standing still, probably to look after her, and she presently heard them laughing loudly.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000007|Suddenly it occurred to her that they might think she was an idiot; Tom had said that her cropped hair made her look like an idiot, and it was too painful an idea to be readily forgotten.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000008|Besides, she had no sleeves on,--only a cape and bonnet.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000009|It was clear that she was not likely to make a favorable impression on passengers, and she thought she would turn into the fields again, but not on the same side of the lane as before, lest they should still be uncle Pullet's fields.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000010|She turned through the first gate that was not locked, and felt a delightful sense of privacy in creeping along by the hedgerows, after her recent humiliating encounter.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000012|Sometimes she had to climb over high gates, but that was a small evil; she was getting out of reach very fast, and she should probably soon come within sight of Dunlow Common, or at least of some other common, for she had heard her father say that you couldn't go very far without coming to a common.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000013|She hoped so, for she was getting rather tired and hungry, and until she reached the gypsies there was no definite prospect of bread and butter.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000016|That was fortunate in some respects, as laborers might be too ignorant to understand the propriety of her wanting to go to Dunlow Common; yet it would have been better if she could have met some one who would tell her the way without wanting to know anything about her private business.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000017|At last, however, the green fields came to an end, and Maggie found herself looking through the bars of a gate into a lane with a wide margin of grass on each side of it.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000019|She crept through the bars of the gate and walked on with new spirit, though not without haunting images of Apollyon, and a highwayman with a pistol, and a blinking dwarf in yellow with a mouth from ear to ear, and other miscellaneous dangers.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000020|For poor little Maggie had at once the timidity of an active imagination and the daring that comes from overmastering impulse.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000021|She had rushed into the adventure of seeking her unknown kindred, the gypsies; and now she was in this strange lane, she hardly dared look on one side of her, lest she should see the diabolical blacksmith in his leathern apron grinning at her with arms akimbo.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000022|It was not without a leaping of the heart that she caught sight of a small pair of bare legs sticking up, feet uppermost, by the side of a hillock; they seemed something hideously preternatural,--a diabolical kind of fungus; for she was too much agitated at the first glance to see the ragged clothes and the dark shaggy head attached to them.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000023|It was a boy asleep, and Maggie trotted along faster and more lightly, lest she should wake him; it did not occur to her that he was one of her friends the gypsies, who in all probability would have very genial manners.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000024|But the fact was so, for at the next bend in the lane Maggie actually saw the little semicircular black tent with the blue smoke rising before it, which was to be her refuge from all the blighting obloquy that had pursued her in civilized life.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000025|She even saw a tall female figure by the column of smoke, doubtless the gypsy mother, who provided the tea and other groceries; it was astonishing to herself that she did not feel more delighted.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000026|But it was startling to find the gypsies in a lane, after all, and not on a common; indeed, it was rather disappointing; for a mysterious illimitable common, where there were sand pits to hide in, and one was out of everybody's reach, had always made part of Maggie's picture of gypsy life.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000003_000028|It was plain she had attracted attention; for the tall figure, who proved to be a young woman with a baby on her arm, walked slowly to meet her.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000005_000000|It was delightful, and just what Maggie expected; the gypsies saw at once that she was a little lady, and were prepared to treat her accordingly.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000007_000000|"That's pretty; come, then.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000007_000001|Why, what a nice little lady you are, to be sure!" said the gypsy, taking her by the hand.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000007_000002|Maggie thought her very agreeable, but wished she had not been so dirty.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000008_000000|There was quite a group round the fire when she reached it.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000008_000003|Everything would be quite charming when she had taught the gypsies to use a washing basin, and to feel an interest in books.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000008_000004|It was a little confusing, though, that the young woman began to speak to the old one in a language which Maggie did not understand, while the tall girl, who was feeding the donkey, sat up and stared at her without offering any salutation.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000008_000005|At last the old woman said,--
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000009_000000|"What! my pretty lady, are you come to stay with us?
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000009_000001|Sit ye down and tell us where you come from."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000010_000000|It was just like a story; Maggie liked to be called pretty lady and treated in this way.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000010_000001|She sat down and said,--
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000011_000000|"I'm come from home because I'm unhappy, and I mean to be a gypsy. I'll live with you if you like, and I can teach you a great many things."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000012_000000|"Such a clever little lady," said the woman with the baby sitting down by Maggie, and allowing baby to crawl; "and such a pretty bonnet and frock," she added, taking off Maggie's bonnet and looking at it while she made an observation to the old woman, in the unknown language.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000012_000001|The tall girl snatched the bonnet and put it on her own head hind foremost with a grin; but Maggie was determined not to show any weakness on this subject, as if she were susceptible about her bonnet.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000013_000000|"I don't want to wear a bonnet," she said; "I'd rather wear a red handkerchief, like yours" (looking at her friend by her side).
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000013_000001|"My hair was quite long till yesterday, when I cut it off; but I dare say it will grow again very soon," she added apologetically, thinking it probable the gypsies had a strong prejudice in favor of long hair.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000013_000002|And Maggie had forgotten even her hunger at that moment in the desire to conciliate gypsy opinion.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000015_000000|"Yes, my home is pretty, and I'm very fond of the river, where we go fishing, but I'm often very unhappy.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000015_000002|But I can tell you almost everything there is in my books, I've read them so many times, and that will amuse you.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000015_000003|And I can tell you something about Geography too,--that's about the world we live in,--very useful and interesting.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000015_000004|Did you ever hear about Columbus?"
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000016_000000|Maggie's eyes had begun to sparkle and her cheeks to flush,--she was really beginning to instruct the gypsies, and gaining great influence over them.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000016_000001|The gypsies themselves were not without amazement at this talk, though their attention was divided by the contents of Maggie's pocket, which the friend at her right hand had by this time emptied without attracting her notice.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000019_000000|The last words burst from Maggie, in spite of herself, with a sudden drop from patronizing instruction to simple peevishness.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000020_000003|Where's your home?"
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000021_000000|"It's Dorlcote Mill, a good way off," said Maggie.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000021_000001|"My father is mr Tulliver, but we mustn't let him know where I am, else he'll fetch me home again.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000021_000002|Where does the queen of the gypsies live?"
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000022_000000|"What! do you want to go to her, my little lady?" said the younger woman.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000022_000002|Her manners were certainly not agreeable.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000025_000000|"Thank you," said Maggie, looking at the food without taking it; "but will you give me some bread and butter and tea instead?
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000025_000001|I don't like bacon."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000000|"We han't got no treacle," said the old woman, crossly, whereupon there followed a sharp dialogue between the two women in their unknown tongue, and one of the small sphinxes snatched at the bread and bacon, and began to eat it.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000001|At this moment the tall girl, who had gone a few yards off, came back, and said something which produced a strong effect.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000002|The old woman, seeming to forget Maggie's hunger, poked the skewer into the pot with new vigor, and the younger crept under the tent and reached out some platters and spoons.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000003|Maggie trembled a little, and was afraid the tears would come into her eyes.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000004|Meanwhile the tall girl gave a shrill cry, and presently came running up the boy whom Maggie had passed as he was sleeping,--a rough urchin about the age of Tom.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000005|He stared at Maggie, and there ensued much incomprehensible chattering.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000028_000007|But the springing tears were checked by new terror, when two men came up, whose approach had been the cause of the sudden excitement.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000029_000000|Maggie felt that it was impossible she should ever be queen of these people, or ever communicate to them amusing and useful knowledge.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000030_000000|Both the men now seemed to be inquiring about Maggie, for they looked at her, and the tone of the conversation became of that pacific kind which implies curiosity on one side and the power of satisfying it on the other.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000030_000001|At last the younger woman said in her previous deferential, coaxing tone,--
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000032_000001|He returned them all except the thimble to the younger woman, with some observation, and she immediately restored them to Maggie's pocket, while the men seated themselves, and began to attack the contents of the kettle,--a stew of meat and potatoes,--which had been taken off the fire and turned out into a yellow platter.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000033_000001|She would willingly have given it to him, for she was not at all attached to her thimble; but the idea that she was among thieves prevented her from feeling any comfort in the revival of deference and attention toward her; all thieves, except Robin Hood, were wicked people.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000034_000000|"We've got nothing nice for a lady to eat," said the old woman, in her coaxing tone.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000034_000001|"And she's so hungry, sweet little lady."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000035_000001|If her father would but come by in the gig and take her up!
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000037_000000|Her ideas about the gypsies had undergone a rapid modification in the last five minutes.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000037_000002|It was no use trying to eat the stew, and yet the thing she most dreaded was to offend the gypsies, by betraying her extremely unfavorable opinion of them; and she wondered, with a keenness of interest that no theologian could have exceeded, whether, if the Devil were really present, he would know her thoughts.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000038_000001|"Try a bit, come."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000039_000000|"No, thank you," said Maggie, summoning all her force for a desperate effort, and trying to smile in a friendly way.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000039_000001|"I haven't time, I think; it seems getting darker.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000039_000002|I think I must go home now, and come again another day, and then I can bring you a basket with some jam tarts and things."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000040_000000|Maggie rose from her seat as she threw out this illusory prospect, devoutly hoping that Apollyon was gullible; but her hope sank when the old gypsy woman said, "Stop a bit, stop a bit, little lady; we'll take you home, all safe, when we've done supper; you shall ride home, like a lady."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000041_000000|Maggie sat down again, with little faith in this promise, though she presently saw the tall girl putting a bridle on the donkey, and throwing a couple of bags on his back.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000043_000000|"Dorlcote Mill is my home," said Maggie, eagerly.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000043_000001|"My father is mr Tulliver; he lives there."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000045_000001|"Is it far off?
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000045_000002|I think I should like to walk there, if you please."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000046_000001|And the donkey'll carry you as nice as can be; you'll see."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000047_000001|She felt relieved that it was not the old man who seemed to be going with her, but she had only a trembling hope that she was really going home.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000049_000000|"Oh yes, thank you," said Maggie, "I'm very much obliged to you.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000050_000001|"But I can't go; you'll go too fast for me."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000051_000000|It now appeared that the man also was to be seated on the donkey, holding Maggie before him, and she was as incapable of remonstrating against this arrangement as the donkey himself, though no nightmare had ever seemed to her more horrible.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000052_000000|Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short paced donkey, with a gypsy behind her, who considered that he was earning half a crown.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000052_000001|The red light of the setting sun seemed to have a portentous meaning, with which the alarming bray of the second donkey with the log on its foot must surely have some connection.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000052_000002|Two low thatched cottages-the only houses they passed in this lane-seemed to add to its dreariness; they had no windows to speak of, and the doors were closed; it was probable that they were inhabitated by witches, and it was a relief to find that the donkey did not stop there.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000053_000000|At last-oh, sight of joy!--this lane, the longest in the world, was coming to an end, was opening on a broad highroad, where there was actually a coach passing!
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000053_000002|This idea became stronger as she felt more and more certain that she knew the road quite well, and she was considering how she might open a conversation with the injured gypsy, and not only gratify his feelings but efface the impression of her cowardice, when, as they reached a cross road. Maggie caught sight of some one coming on a white faced horse.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000054_000000|"Oh, stop, stop!" she cried out.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000054_000001|"There's my father!
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000055_000001|Great was mr Tulliver's wonder, for he had made a round from Basset, and had not yet been home.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000056_000000|"Why, what's the meaning o' this?" he said, checking his horse, while Maggie slipped from the donkey and ran to her father's stirrup.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000057_000000|"The little miss lost herself, I reckon," said the gypsy.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000057_000002|It's a good way to come after being on the tramp all day."
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000058_000000|"Oh yes, father, he's been very good to bring me home," said Maggie,--"a very kind, good man!"
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000060_000000|"Why, Maggie, how's this, how's this?" he said, as they rode along, while she laid her head against her father and sobbed.
train-other-500/2351/151965/2351_151965_000061_000001|I couldn't bear it."
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000001_000000|The Christmas Holidays
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000002_000000|Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000004_000000|And yet this Christmas day, in spite of Tom's fresh delight in home, was not, he thought, somehow or other, quite so happy as it had always been before.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000006_000003|No; Dix, mr Tulliver considered, had been as good as nowhere in point of law; and in the intensity of his indignation against Pivart, his contempt for a baffled adversary like Dix began to wear the air of a friendly attachment.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000006_000005|mrs Moss, more alive to the subject, and interested in everything that affected her brother, listened and put in a word as often as maternal preoccupations allowed.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000008_000000|"New name?
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000011_000001|Law was a sort of cock fight, in which it was the business of injured honesty to get a game bird with the best pluck and the strongest spurs.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000012_000001|And water's a very particular thing; you can't pick it up with a pitchfork.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000013_000001|mrs Moss hurried away with her into another room, and expressed to mrs Tulliver, who accompanied her, the conviction that the dear child had good reasons for crying; implying that if it was supposed to be the rattle that baby clamored for, she was a misunderstood baby.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000014_000000|"I'm sorry to see brother so put out about this water work."
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000015_000001|She always spoke of her husband as "your brother" to mrs Moss in any case when his line of conduct was not matter of pure admiration.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000015_000002|Amiable mrs Tulliver, who was never angry in her life, had yet her mild share of that spirit without which she could hardly have been at once a Dodson and a woman.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000017_000000|"As to that," said mrs Tulliver, stroking her dress down, "I've seen what riches are in my own family; for my sisters have got husbands as can afford to do pretty much what they like.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000017_000001|But I think sometimes I shall be drove off my head with the talk about this law and erigation; and my sisters lay all the fault to me, for they don't know what it is to marry a man like your brother; how should they?
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000017_000002|Sister Pullet has her own way from morning till night."
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000021_000000|But not even a direct argument from that typical Dodson female herself against his going to law could have heightened his disposition toward it so much as the mere thought of Wakem, continually freshened by the sight of the too able attorney on market days.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000021_000002|And as an extra touch of bitterness, the injured miller had recently, in borrowing the five hundred pounds, been obliged to carry a little business to Wakem's office on his own account.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000021_000004|And it was vexatious that Lawyer Gore was not more like him, but was a bald, round featured man, with bland manners and fat hands; a game cock that you would be rash to bet upon against Wakem.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000021_000005|Gore was a sly fellow.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000021_000007|But then, if they went to law, there was a chance for mr Tulliver to employ Counsellor Wylde on his side, instead of having that admirable bully against him; and the prospect of seeing a witness of Wakem's made to perspire and become confounded, as mr Tulliver's witness had once been, was alluring to the love of retributive justice.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000022_000000|Much rumination had mr Tulliver on these puzzling subjects during his rides on the gray horse; much turning of the head from side to side, as the scales dipped alternately; but the probable result was still out of sight, only to be reached through much hot argument and iteration in domestic and social life.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000022_000003|If there had been no new evidence on any other point, there had been new evidence that Pivart was as "thick as mud" with Wakem.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000023_000001|It isn't true, what they said about his going to be sent to France.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000024_000001|The lad's a poor deformed creatur, and takes after his mother in the face; I think there isn't much of his father in him.
train-other-500/2351/151969/2351_151969_000025_000000|mr Tulliver in his heart was rather proud of the fact that his son was to have the same advantages as Wakem's; but Tom was not at all easy on the point.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000002_000000|The New Schoolfellow
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000003_000001|If he had not carried in his pocket a parcel of sugar candy and a small Dutch doll for little Laura, there would have been no ray of expected pleasure to enliven the general gloom.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000004_000000|"Well, Tulliver, we're glad to see you again," said mr Stelling, heartily.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000004_000001|"Take off your wrappings and come into the study till dinner.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000004_000002|You'll find a bright fire there, and a new companion."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000005_000000|Tom felt in an uncomfortable flutter as he took off his woollen comforter and other wrappings.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000005_000002|And Tom did not see how a bad man's son could be very good.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000005_000004|He was in a state of mingled embarrassment and defiance as he followed mr Stelling to the study.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000006_000000|"Here is a new companion for you to shake hands with, Tulliver," said that gentleman on entering the study,--"Master Philip Wakem.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000006_000001|I shall leave you to make acquaintance by yourselves.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000006_000002|You already know something of each other, I imagine; for you are neighbors at home."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000007_000000|Tom looked confused and awkward, while Philip rose and glanced at him timidly.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000008_000000|mr Stelling wisely turned away, and closed the door behind him; boys' shyness only wears off in the absence of their elders.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000009_000000|Philip was at once too proud and too timid to walk toward Tom.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000009_000001|He thought, or rather felt, that Tom had an aversion to looking at him; every one, almost, disliked looking at him; and his deformity was more conspicuous when he walked.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000000|Tom began to look oftener and longer at Philip's face, for he could see it without noticing the hump, and it was really not a disagreeable face,--very old looking, Tom thought.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000001|He wondered how much older Philip was than himself.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000002|An anatomist-even a mere physiognomist- would have seen that the deformity of Philip's spine was not a congenital hump, but the result of an accident in infancy; but you do not expect from Tom any acquaintance with such distinctions; to him, Philip was simply a humpback.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000003|He had a vague notion that the deformity of Wakem's son had some relation to the lawyer's rascality, of which he had so often heard his father talk with hot emphasis; and he felt, too, a half admitted fear of him as probably a spiteful fellow, who, not being able to fight you, had cunning ways of doing you a mischief by the sly.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000004|There was a humpbacked tailor in the neighborhood of mr Jacobs's academy, who was considered a very unamiable character, and was much hooted after by public spirited boys solely on the ground of his unsatisfactory moral qualities; so that Tom was not without a basis of fact to go upon.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000005|Still, no face could be more unlike that ugly tailor's than this melancholy boy's face,--the brown hair round it waved and curled at the ends like a girl's; Tom thought that truly pitiable.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000006|This Wakem was a pale, puny fellow, and it was quite clear he would not be able to play at anything worth speaking of; but he handled his pencil in an enviable manner, and was apparently making one thing after another without any trouble.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000007|What was he drawing?
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000010_000008|Tom was quite warm now, and wanted something new to be going forward.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000011_000001|"Oh my buttons!
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000011_000002|I wish I could draw like that.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000011_000003|I'm to learn drawing this half; I wonder if I shall learn to make dogs and donkeys!"
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000012_000000|"Oh, you can do them without learning," said Philip; "I never learned drawing."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000013_000000|"Never learned?" said Tom, in amazement.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000013_000001|"Why, when I make dogs and horses, and those things, the heads and the legs won't come right; though I can see how they ought to be very well.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000013_000003|But I dare say I could do dogs and horses if I was to try more," he added, reflecting that Philip might falsely suppose that he was going to "knock under," if he were too frank about the imperfection of his accomplishments.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000014_000000|"Oh, yes," said Philip, "it's very easy.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000014_000001|You've only to look well at things, and draw them over and over again.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000014_000002|What you do wrong once, you can alter the next time."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000015_000001|"I thought you'd been to school a long while."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000016_000000|"Yes," said Philip, smiling; "I've been taught Latin and Greek and mathematics, and writing and such things."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000018_000000|"Pretty well; I don't care much about it," said Philip.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000020_000000|Philip felt some bitter complacency in the promising stupidity of this well made, active looking boy; but made polite by his own extreme sensitiveness, as well as by his desire to conciliate, he checked his inclination to laugh, and said quietly,--
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000021_000000|"I've done with the grammar; I don't learn that any more."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000022_000000|"Then you won't have the same lessons as I shall?" said Tom, with a sense of disappointment.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000023_000000|"No; but I dare say I can help you.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000027_000001|He found much difficulty in adjusting his attitude of mind toward the son of Lawyer Wakem, and it had occurred to him that if Philip disliked his father, that fact might go some way toward clearing up his perplexity.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000028_000000|"Shall you learn drawing now?" he said, by way of changing the subject.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000029_000001|"My father wishes me to give all my time to other things now."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000030_000000|"What!
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000031_000000|"Yes," said Philip, who had left off using his pencil, and was resting his head on one hand, while Tom was learning forward on both elbows, and looking with increasing admiration at the dog and the donkey.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000033_000000|"No; I like to know what everybody else knows.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000033_000001|I can study what I like by and by."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000034_000001|"It's no good."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000035_000000|"It's part of the education of a gentleman," said Philip.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000035_000001|"All gentlemen learn the same things."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000037_000001|"But I dare say he's forgotten it."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000038_000000|"Oh, well, I can do that, then," said Tom, not with any epigrammatic intention, but with serious satisfaction at the idea that, as far as Latin was concerned, there was no hindrance to his resembling Sir john Crake.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000038_000001|"Only you're obliged to remember it while you're at school, else you've got to learn ever so many lines of 'Speaker.' mr Stelling's very particular-did you know?
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000039_000000|"Oh, I don't mind," said Philip, unable to choke a laugh; "I can remember things easily.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000039_000001|And there are some lessons I'm very fond of. I'm very fond of Greek history, and everything about the Greeks.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000040_000000|"Why, were the Greeks great fighters?" said Tom, who saw a vista in this direction.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000040_000001|"Is there anything like David and Goliath and Samson in the Greek history?
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000040_000002|Those are the only bits I like in the history of the Jews."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000042_000001|"I say, can you tell me all about those stories?
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000042_000004|"Does every gentleman learn Greek?
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000043_000000|"No, I should think not, very likely not," said Philip.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000043_000001|"But you may read those stories without knowing Greek.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000043_000002|I've got them in English."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000044_000000|"Oh, but I don't like reading; I'd sooner have you tell them me.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000044_000001|But only the fighting ones, you know.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000044_000002|My sister Maggie is always wanting to tell me stories, but they're stupid things.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000044_000003|Girls' stories always are.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000044_000004|Can you tell a good many fighting stories?"
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000045_000000|"Oh yes," said Philip; "lots of them, besides the Greek stories.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000046_000000|"You're older than I am, aren't you?" said Tom.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000048_000001|"But I thrashed all the fellows at Jacob's-that's where I was before I came here.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000048_000003|And I wish mr Stelling would let us go fishing.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000048_000006|It's only standing, and sitting still, you know."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000049_000000|Tom, in his turn, wished to make the balance dip in his favor.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000050_000000|"I can't bear fishing.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000050_000001|I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour, or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing."
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000051_000000|"Ah, but you wouldn't say they looked like fools when they landed a big pike, I can tell you," said Tom, who had never caught anything that was "big" in his life, but whose imagination was on the stretch with indignant zeal for the honor of sport.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000051_000002|Happily for the harmony of this first interview, they were now called to dinner, and Philip was not allowed to develop farther his unsound views on the subject of fishing.
train-other-500/2351/151970/2351_151970_000051_000003|But Tom said to himself, that was just what he should have expected from a hunchback.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000002_000000|BY
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000003_000000|WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000023_000000|William Harrison Ainsworth was born in King Street, Manchester, february fourth eighteen o five, in a house that has long since been demolished.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000001|In all probability, both of these young men joined in the production of the novel which attracted the attention of Sir Walter Scott.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000002|On the death of his father, in eighteen twenty four, Ainsworth went to London to finish his legal education, but whatever intentions he may have formed of humdrum study and determined attention to the details of a profession in which he had no interest, were dissipated by contact with the literary world of the metropolis.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000005|Ainsworth had then to decide upon a career, and, acting upon the suggestion of Ebers, his father in law, he began business as a publisher; but after an experience of about eighteen months he abandoned it.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000007|He was introduced to Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the "Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee" for an annual issued by him. Ainsworth gave him twenty guineas for it, which Sir Walter accepted, but laughingly handed over to the little daughter of Lockhart, in whose London house they had met.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000008|Ainsworth's literary aspirations still burned with undiminished ardor, and several plans were formed only to be abandoned, and when, in the summer of eighteen thirty, he visited Switzerland and Italy, he was as far as ever from the fulfilment of his desires.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000009|In eighteen thirty one he visited Chesterfield and began the novel of "Rookwood," in which he successfully applied the method of mrs Radcliffe to English scenes and characters.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000010|The finest passage is that relating Turpin's ride to York, which is a marvel of descriptive writing.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000011|It was written, apparently in a glow of inspiration, in less than a day and a half.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000013|Ainsworth at a bound reached popularity.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000014|This was in eighteen thirty four, and in eighteen thirty seven he published "Crichton," which is a fine piece of historical romance.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000015|The critics who had objected to the romantic glamor cast over the career of Dick Turpin were still further horrified at the manner in which that vulgar rascal, Jack Sheppard, was elevated into a hero of romance.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000016|The outcry was not entirely without justification, nor was it without effect on the novelist, who thenceforward avoided this perilous ground.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000018|The story is powerfully written.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000020|This was the heyday of Ainsworth's reputation alike in literature and in society.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000023|These novels all met with a certain amount of success, but those of later years did not attain the striking popularity of his earlier efforts.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000024|Many have been translated into various modern languages, and the editions of his various works are so numerous that some twenty three pages of the British Museum catalogue are devoted to his works.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000024_000025|The scenery and history of his native country had a perennial interest for him, and a certain group of his novels-that is, the "Lancashire Witches," "Guy Fawkes," "The Manchester Rebels," etc--may almost be said to form a novelist's history of Lancashire from the pilgrimage of grace until the early part of the present century.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000025_000000|Probably no more vivid account has been written of the great fire and plague of London than that given in "Old saint Paul's." The charm of Ainsworth's novels is not at all dependent upon the analysis of motives or subtle description of character.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000025_000002|People were weary of the inanities of the fashionable novel, and were ready to listen to one who had a power of vivacious narrative.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000025_000003|In eighteen eighty one, when he was in his seventy seventh year, a pleasant tribute of respect and admiration was paid to him in his native town.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000025_000004|The Mayor of Manchester entertained him at a banquet in the town hall september fifteenth eighteen eighty one, "as an expression of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow townsmen and of his services to literature." In proposing mr Ainsworth's health, the mayor gave a curious instance of the popularity of his writings.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000025_000005|"In our Manchester public free libraries there are two hundred and fifty volumes of mr Ainsworth's different works.
train-other-500/2356/154880/2356_154880_000025_000006|During the last twelve months these volumes have been read seven thousand six hundred and sixty times, mostly by the artisan class of readers.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000004_000000|I am right against my house-seat of my ancestors.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000006_000000|Rookwood Place was a fine, old, irregular pile, of considerable size, presenting a rich, picturesque outline, with its innumerable gable ends, its fantastical coigns, and tall crest of twisted chimneys.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000006_000001|There was no uniformity of style about the building, yet the general effect was pleasing and beautiful.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000006_000002|Its very irregularity constituted a charm. Nothing except convenience had been consulted in its construction: additions had from time to time been made to it, but everything dropped into its proper place, and, without apparent effort or design, grew into an ornament, and heightened the beauty of the whole.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000007_000001|It was of mixed architecture, and combined the peculiarities of each successive era.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000008_000000|The site selected by Sir Ranulph for his habitation had been already occupied by a vast fabric of oak, which he in part removed, though some vestiges might still be traced of that ancient pile.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000008_000004|Yet, despite all these changes, the house of the Rookwoods, for an old house-and, after all, what is like an old house?--was no undesirable or uncongenial abode for any worshipful country gentleman "who had a great estate."
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000009_000000|The hall was situated near the base of a gently declining hill, terminating a noble avenue of limes, and partially embosomed in an immemorial wood of the same timber, which had given its name to the family that dwelt amongst its rook haunted shades.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000009_000002|This tower rose to a height corresponding with the roof of the mansion; and was embellished on the side facing the house with a flamingly gilt dial, peering, like an impudent observer, at all that passed within doors.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000009_000003|Two apartments, which it contained, were appropriated to the house porter.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000009_000004|Despoiled of its martial honors, the gateway still displayed the achievements of the family-the rook and the fatal branch-carved in granite, which had resisted the storms of two centuries, though stained green with moss, and mapped over with lichens.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000009_000007|There might be seen the stately terraces, such as Watteau, and our own Wilson, in his earlier works, painted-the trim alleys exhibiting all the triumphs of topiarian art-
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000013_000000|All these delights might once have been enjoyed.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000014_000000|Diverging from the garden to the house, we have before remarked that the more ancient and characteristic features of the place had been, for the most part, destroyed; less by the hand of time than to suit the tastes of different proprietors.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000014_000001|This, however, was not so observable in the eastern wing, which overlooked the garden.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000014_000002|Here might be discerned many indications of its antiquity.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000014_000003|The strength and solidity of the walls, which had not been, as elsewhere, masked with brickwork; the low, Tudor arches; the mullioned bars of the windows-all attested its age.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000014_000005|The interior was curious for his honeycomb ceiling, deeply moulded in plaster, with the arms and alliances of the Rookwoods.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000014_000006|In the centre was the royal blazon of Elizabeth, who had once honored the hall with a visit during a progress, and whose cipher e r was also displayed upon the immense plate of iron which formed the fire grate.
train-other-500/2356/154885/2356_154885_000015_000000|To return, for a moment, to the garden, which we linger about as a bee around a flower.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000002_000000|Well, go thy ways, old Nick Machiavel, there will never be the peer of thee for wholesome policy and good counsel: thou took'st pains to chalk men out the dark paths and hidden plots of murther and deceit, and no man has the grace to follow thee.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000002_000001|The age is unthankful, thy principles are quite forsaken, and worn out of memory.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000004_000001|But she saw them not.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000004_000002|Her soul seemed riveted by Eleanor, towards whom she rushed; and while her eye wandered over her beauty, she raised the braided hair from her brow, revealing the clear, polished forehead.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000004_000004|The fierce expression that had lit up her dark orbs was succeeded by tender commiseration.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000004_000005|She looked an imploring appeal at Barbara.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000005_000002|Give her of this."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000006_000000|The effect of the potion was almost instantaneous, amply attesting Barbara's skill in its concoction.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000006_000001|Stifled respiration first proclaimed Eleanor's recovery.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000006_000002|She opened her large and languid eyes; her bosom heaved almost to bursting; her pulses throbbed quickly and feverishly; and as the stimulant operated, the wild lustre of excitement blazed in her eyes.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000007_000000|Sybil took her hand to chafe it.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000007_000001|The eyes of the two maidens met.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000007_000002|They gazed upon each other steadfastly and in silence.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000007_000003|Eleanor knew not whom she regarded, but she could not mistake that look of sympathy; she could not mistake the tremulous pressure of her hand; she felt the silent trickling tears.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000007_000004|She returned the sympathizing glance, and gazed with equal wonder upon the ministering fairy, for such she almost seemed, that knelt before her.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000007_000005|As her looks wandered from the kindly glance of Sybil to the withered and inauspicious aspect of the gipsy queen, and shifted thence to the dusky figures of her attendants, filled with renewed apprehension, she exclaimed, "Who are these, and where am I?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000008_000000|"You are in safety," replied luke.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000008_000002|You need fear no injury from them."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000009_000000|"My deliverer!" murmured Eleanor; when all at once the recollection that he had avowed himself a Rookwood, and the elder brother of Ranulph, flashed across her memory.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000009_000001|"Gipsies! did you not say these people were gipsies?
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000009_000002|Your own attire is the same as theirs.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000009_000003|You are not, cannot be, the brother of Ranulph."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000010_000000|"I do not boast the same mother," returned luke, proudly, "but my father was Sir Piers Rookwood, and I am his elder born."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000011_000000|He turned away.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000011_000001|Dark thoughts swept across his brain.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000011_000002|Maddened by the beauty of Eleanor, stung by her slights, and insensible to the silent agony of Sybil, who sought in vain to catch his eye, he thought of nothing but of revenge, and the accomplishment of his purposes.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000011_000003|All within was a wild and fearful turmoil.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000011_000004|His better principles were stifled by the promptings of evil.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000012_000002|The sexton stood beside his grandson.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000012_000003|luke started.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000012_000004|He eyed peter from head to foot, almost expecting to find the cloven foot, supposed to be proper to the fiend.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000012_000005|peter grinned in ghastly derision.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000013_000001|Well, she is yours."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000014_000000|"Make good your words," cried luke, impatiently.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000000|"Softly-softly," returned peter.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000001|"Moderate yourself, and your wishes shall be accomplished.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000003|You stare. But it is so.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000004|This is a cover for some deeper plot; no matter.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000005|It shall go hard, despite her cunning, if I foil her not at her own weapons. There is more mischief in that old woman's brain than was ever hatched within the crocodile's egg; yet she shall find her match.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000006|Do not thwart her; leave all to me.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000015_000007|She is about it now," added he, noticing Barbara and mrs Mowbray in conference together.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000016_000000|Barbara, meanwhile, had not remained inactive.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000017_000000|"You need fear no relapse in your daughter; I will answer for that," said the old gipsy to mrs Mowbray; "Sybil will tend her.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000018_000000|So saying, she shuffled to a little distance with mrs Mowbray, keeping Sybil in view, and watching every motion, as the panther watches the gambols of a fawn.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000019_000000|"Know you who speaks to you?" said the old crone, in the peculiar low and confidential tone assumed by her tribe to strangers.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000019_000001|"Have you forgotten the name of Barbara Lovel?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000020_000000|"I have no distinct remembrance of it," returned mrs Mowbray.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000021_000000|"Think again," said Barbara; "and though years are flown, you may perchance recall the black gipsy woman, who, when you were surrounded with gay gallants, with dancing plumes, perused your palm, and whispered in your ear the favored suitor's name.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000021_000001|Bide with me a moment, madam," said Barbara, seeing that mrs Mowbray shrank from the recollection thus conjured up; "I am old-very old; I have survived the shows of flattery, and being vested with a power over my people, am apt, perchance, to take too much upon myself with others." The old gipsy paused here, and then, assuming a more familiar tone, exclaimed, "The estates of Rookwood are ample----"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000022_000000|"Woman, what mean you?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000023_000001|You would have beseemed them bravely.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000023_000002|Sir Reginald was wilful, and erased the daughter's name to substitute that of his son.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000023_000003|Pity it is that so fair a creature as Miss Mowbray should lack the dower her beauty and her birth entitle her to expect.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000023_000005|Pity that those broad lands should pass away from you and your children, as they will do, if Ranulph and Eleanor are united."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000025_000000|"'twere indeed to wed your child to beggary," said Barbara.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000026_000000|mrs Mowbray sighed deeply.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000027_000000|"There is a way," continued the old crone, in a deep whisper, "by which the estates might still be hers and yours."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000029_000000|"Sir Piers Rookwood had two sons."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000030_000000|"Ha!"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000031_000000|"The elder is here."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000032_000000|"luke--Sir luke.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000032_000001|He brought us hither."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000000|"He loves your daughter.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000001|I saw his gaze of passion just now.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000002|I am old now, but I have some skill in lovers' glances.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000003|Why not wed her to him?
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000004|I read hands-read hearts, you know.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000005|They were born for each other.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000033_000006|Now, madam, do you understand me?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000034_000000|"But," returned mrs Mowbray, with hesitation, "though I might wish for-though I might sanction this, Eleanor is betrothed to Ranulph-she loves him."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000035_000001|She cannot judge so well for herself as you can for her.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000035_000002|She is a child, and knows not what she loves.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000035_000004|He is a noble youth-the image of his grandfather, your father, Sir Reginald; and if your daughter be betrothed to any one, 'twas to the heir of Rookwood.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000035_000005|That was an essential part of the contract.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000035_000006|Why should the marriage not take place at once, and here?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000036_000000|"Here!
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000036_000001|How were that possible?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000037_000000|"You are within sacred walls.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000037_000001|I will take you where an altar stands. There is no lack of holy priest to join their hands together.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000037_000002|Your companion, Father Ambrose, as you call him, will do the office fittingly.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000037_000003|He has essayed his clerkly skill already on others of your house."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000038_000000|"To what do you allude, mysterious woman?" asked mrs Mowbray, with anxiety.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000039_000001|"That priest united them."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000040_000000|"Indeed!
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000040_000001|He never told me this."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000041_000000|"He dared not do so; he had an oath which bound him to concealment.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000041_000001|The time is coming when greater mysteries will be revealed."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000042_000001|I see it all now.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000042_000002|I see the gulf into which I might have been plunged; but I am warned in time.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000042_000003|Father Ambrose," continued she, to the priest, who was pacing the chamber at some little distance from them, "is it true that my brother was wedded by you to Susan Bradley?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000043_000000|Ere the priest could reply the sexton presented himself.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000044_000001|Is he here likewise?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000045_000000|"Alan Rookwood!" echoed Barbara, upon whom a light seemed suddenly to break; "ha! what said he of him?"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000046_000000|"Ill boding raven," interposed peter, fiercely, "be content with what thou knowest of the living, and trouble not the repose of the dead.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000046_000001|Let them rest in their infamy."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000047_000000|"The dead!" echoed Barbara, with a chuckling laugh; "ha! ha! he is dead, then; and what became of his fair wife-his brother's minion?
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000047_000001|'twas a foul deed, I grant, and yet there was expiation.
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000047_000002|Blood flowed-blood----"
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000048_000001|Beware," added he, in a deep tone-"I am thy friend."
train-other-500/2356/154907/2356_154907_000049_000000|Barbara's withered countenance exhibited for an instant the deepest indignation at the sexton's threat.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000002_000001|How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Bleoberis for a lady, and how the lady was put to choice to whom she would go.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000003_000000|THEN Sir Tristram rode more than a pace until that he had overtaken him. Then spake Sir Tristram: Abide, he said, Knight of Arthur's court, bring again that lady, or deliver her to me.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000003_000001|I will do neither, said Bleoberis, for I dread no Cornish knight so sore that me list to deliver her.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000003_000002|Why, said Sir Tristram, may not a Cornish knight do as well as another knight?
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000003_000007|So they departed and came together like thunder, and either bare other down, horse and all, to the earth.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000004_000000|Then they avoided their horses, and lashed together eagerly with swords, and mightily, now tracing and traversing on the right hand and on the left hand more than two hours.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000004_000005|So God me help, said Sir Tristram, I fear not to tell you my name.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000004_000010|In good faith, said Bleoberis, as for me I will be loath to fight with you; but sithen ye follow me here to have this lady, I shall proffer you kindness, courtesy, and gentleness right here upon this ground.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000004_000011|This lady shall be betwixt us both, and to whom that she will go, let him have her in peace.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000004_000012|I will well, said Tristram, for, as I deem, she will leave you and come to me.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000005_000000|CHAPTER eighteen.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000005_000001|How the lady forsook Sir Tristram and abode with Sir Bleoberis, and how she desired to go to her husband.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000007_000000|When Sir Tristram saw her do so he was wonderly wroth with that lady, and ashamed to come to the court.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000007_000003|And therefore, Sir Tristram, she said, ride as thou came, for though thou haddest overcome this knight, as ye was likely, with thee never would I have gone.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000007_000007|And so they took their leave one from the other and departed.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000009_000000|CHAPTER nineteen.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000010_000000|THEN when this was done King Mark cast always in his heart how he might destroy Sir Tristram.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000010_000002|For Sir Tristram had so praised her beauty and her goodness that King Mark said that he would wed her, whereupon he prayed Sir Tristram to take his way into Ireland for him on message.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000010_000004|Notwithstanding, Sir Tristram would not refuse the message for no danger nor peril that might fall, for the pleasure of his uncle, but to go he made him ready in the most goodliest wise that might be devised.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000010_000005|For Sir Tristram took with him the most goodliest knights that he might find in the court; and they were arrayed, after the guise that was then used, in the goodliest manner.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000010_000006|So Sir Tristram departed and took the sea with all his fellowship.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000010_000007|And anon, as he was in the broad sea a tempest took him and his fellowship, and drove them back into the coast of England; and there they arrived fast by Camelot, and full fain they were to take the land.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000011_000000|And when they were landed Sir Tristram set up his pavilion upon the land of Camelot, and there he let hang his shield upon the pavilion.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000011_000004|So he made him ready, and first he smote down Sir Ector de Maris, and after he smote down Sir Morganor, all with one spear, and sore bruised them.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000011_000005|And when they lay upon the earth they asked Sir Tristram what he was, and of what country he was knight.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000011_000006|Fair lords, said Sir Tristram, wit ye well that I am of Cornwall.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000011_000008|And then for despite Sir Ector put off his armour from him, and went on foot, and would not ride.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000012_000000|CHAPTER twenty.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000012_000001|How King Anguish of Ireland was summoned to come to King Arthur's court for treason.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000013_000000|THEN it fell that Sir Bleoberis and Sir Blamore de Ganis, that were brethren, they had summoned the King Anguish of Ireland for to come to Arthur's court upon pain of forfeiture of King Arthur's good grace.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000013_000002|So it happened that at the day assigned, King Arthur neither Sir Launcelot might not be there for to give the judgment, for King Arthur was with Sir Launcelot at the Castle Joyous Garde.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000013_000003|And so King Arthur assigned King Carados and the King of Scots to be there that day as judges.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000013_000004|So when the kings were at Camelot King Anguish of Ireland was come to know his accusers.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000013_000005|Then was there Sir Blamore de Ganis, and appealed the King of Ireland of treason, that he had slain a cousin of his in his court in Ireland by treason.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000013_000008|And all manner of murders in those days were called treason.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000014_000000|So when King Anguish understood his accusing he was passing heavy, for he knew Sir Blamore de Ganis that he was a noble knight, and of noble knights come.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000014_000001|Then the King of Ireland was simply purveyed of his answer; therefore the judges gave him respite by the third day to give his answer.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000014_000002|So the king departed unto his lodging.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000014_000008|And he rode after him, and within a while he overtook that knight.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000014_000009|And then Sir Tristram bade him turn and give again the child.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000015_000000|CHAPTER twenty one.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000015_000001|How Sir Tristram rescued a child from a knight, and how Gouvernail told him of King Anguish.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000016_000000|THE knight turned his horse and made him ready to fight.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000016_000002|And then he yielded him unto Sir Tristram.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000016_000003|Then come thy way, said Sir Tristram, and bring the child to the lady again.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000016_000004|So he took his horse meekly and rode with Sir Tristram; and then by the way Sir Tristram asked him his name.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000016_000007|Then Sir Tristram let him go again that sore repented him after, for he was a great foe unto many good knights of King Arthur's court.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000018_000002|What knight is he? said the king.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000018_000004|Come on, fellow, said the king, with me anon and show me unto Sir Tristram.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000018_000005|So the king took a little hackney and but few fellowship with him, until he came unto Sir Tristram's pavilion.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000018_000006|And when Sir Tristram saw the king he ran unto him and would have holden his stirrup.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000018_000009|And, gentle knight, said the king unto Sir Tristram, now have I great need of you, never had I so great need of no knight's help.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000019_000000|CHAPTER twenty two.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000019_000001|How Sir Tristram fought for Sir Anguish and overcame his adversary, and how his adversary would never yield him.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000020_000000|NOW make your answer that your champion is ready, for I shall die in your quarrel rather than to be recreant.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000021_000001|Then by the commandment of the kings Sir Blamore de Ganis and Sir Tristram were sent for to hear the charge.
train-other-500/2361/137615/2361_137615_000021_000003|So when they had taken their charge they withdrew them to make them ready to do battle.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000001|In the morning, when it was daylight, Erec, who was on the watch, saw the clear dawn and the sun, and quickly rising, clothed himself.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000004|For his equipment the King sent him, when he arose, arms which he put to good use.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000006|He gladly accepted the arms and had himself equipped with them in the hall.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000007|When he was armed, he descends the steps and finds his horse saddled and the King who had mounted.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000008|Every one in the castle and in the houses of the town hastened to mount.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000009|In all the town there remained neither man nor woman, erect or deformed, great or small, weak or strong, who is able to go and does not do so.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000012|Surely it would not be just that thy life should end so soon, or that harm should come to wound and injure thee." He hears clearly the words and what they said; but notwithstanding, he passes on without lowering his head, and without the bearing of a craven.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000013|Whoever may speak, he longs to see and know and understand why they are all in such distress, anxiety, and woe.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000014|The King leads him without the town into a garden that stood near by; and all the people follow after, praying that from this trial God may grant him a happy issue.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000000_000015|But it is not meet that I should pass on, from weariness and exhaustion of tongue, without telling you the whole truth about the garden, according as the story runs.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000001|And all through the summer and the winter, too, there were flowers and ripe fruits there; and the fruit was of such a nature that it could be eaten inside; the danger consisted in carrying it out; for whoever should wish to carry out a little would never be able to find the gate, and never could issue from the garden until he had restored the fruit to its place.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000002|And there is no flying bird under heaven, pleasing to man, but it sings there to delight and to gladden him, and can be heard there in numbers of every kind.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000003|And the earth, however far it stretch, bears no spice or root of use in making medicine, but it had been planted there, and was to be found in abundance.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000004|Through a narrow entrance the people entered-King Evrain and all the rest.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000005|Erec went riding, lance in rest, into the middle of the garden, greatly delighting in the song of the birds which were singing there; they put him in mind of his Joy the thing he most was longing for.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000007|For before them, on sharpened stakes, there stood bright and shining helmets, and each one had beneath the rim a man's head.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000008|But at the end there stood a stake where as yet there was nothing but a horn.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000010|The King speaks and explains to him: "Friend," he says, "do you know the meaning of this thing that you see here?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000011|You must be in great terror of it, if you care at all for your own body; for this single stake which stands apart, where you see this horn hung up, has been waiting a very long time, but we know not for whom, whether for you or someone else.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000013|I had warned you well of that before you came here.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000014|I do not expect that you will escape hence, but that you will be killed and rent apart.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000015|For this much we know, that the stake awaits your head.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000017|I will tell you nothing of the horn; but never has any one been able to blow it.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000019|Now there is no more of this matter.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000001_000020|Have your men withdraw; for 'the Joy' will soon arrive, and will make you sorry, I suspect."
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000002|Gentle lady, as yet you know not what this is to be; no more do i You are troubled without cause.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000003|But know this truly: if there were in me only so much courage as your love inspires, truly I should not fear to face any man alive.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000004|But I am foolish to vaunt myself; yet I say it not from any pride, but because I wish to comfort you.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000005|So comfort yourself, and let it be!
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000007|But she is much chagrined that she cannot follow and escort him, until she may learn and see what this adventure is to be, and how he will conduct himself.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000008|But since she must stay behind and cannot follow him, she remains sorrowful and grieving.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000011|Erec draws near to her, wishing to see her more closely, and the onlookers go and sit down under the trees in the orchard.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000013|Before Erec caught sight of him, he cried out: "Vassal, vassal! You are mad, upon my life, thus to approach my damsel.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000014|I should say you are not worthy to draw near her.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000015|You will pay dearly for your presumption, by my head!
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000016|Stand back!" And Erec stops and looks at him, and the other, too, stood still.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000018|"Friend," he says, "one can speak folly as well as good sense.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000019|Threaten as much as you please, and I will keep silence; for in threatening there is no sense.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000020|Do you know why?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000021|A man sometimes thinks he has won the game who afterward loses it. So he is manifestly a fool who is too presumptuous and who threatens too much.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000022|If there are some who flee there are plenty who chase, but I do not fear you so much that I am going to run away yet.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000023|I am ready to make such defence, if there is any who wishes to offer me battle, that he will have to do his uttermost, or otherwise he cannot escape." "Nay," quoth he, "so help me God! know that you shall have the battle, for I defy and challenge you." And you may know, upon my word, that then the reins were not held in.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000025|Upon the shields with mighty strength they smote each other with their sharp weapons, so that a fathom of each lance passes through the gleaming shields.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000026|But neither touches the other's flesh, nor was either lance cracked; each one, as quickly as he could, draws back his lance, and both rushing together, return to the fray.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000027|One against the other rides, and so fiercely they smite each other that both lances break and the horses fall beneath them.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000029|No greater efforts can be made than those they make in striving and toiling to injure and wound each other.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000030|Both fiercely smite with the gilded pommel and the cutting edge.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000031|Such havoc did they inflict upon each other's teeth, cheeks, nose, hands, arms, and the rest, upon temples, neck, and throat that their bones all ache.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000032|They are very sore and very tired; yet they do not desist, but rather only strive the more.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000035|Erec has him at his mercy, and pulls and drags so that he breaks all the lacing of his helmet, and forces him over at his feet.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000037|Though it distresses him, he has to say and own: "I cannot deny it, you have beaten me; but much it goes against my will.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000041|Now hear who has detained me so long in this garden.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000042|I will tell the truth in accordance with your injunction, whatever it may cost me.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000043|That damsel who yonder sits, loved me from childhood and I loved her.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000044|It pleased us both, and our love grew and increased, until she asked a boon of me, but did not tell me what it was.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000045|Who would deny his mistress aught?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000046|There is no lover but would surely do all his sweet heart's pleasure without default or guile, whenever he can in any way.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000047|I agreed to her desire; but when I had agreed, she would have it, too, that I should swear.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000048|I would have done more than that for her, but she took me at my word.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000050|Time passed until I was made a knight.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000051|King Evrain, whose nephew I am, dubbed me a knight in the presence of many honourable men in this very garden where we are.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000052|My lady, who is sitting there, at once recalled to me my word, and said that I had promised her that I would never go forth from here until there should come some knight who should conquer me by trial of arms.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000053|It was right that I should remain, for rather than break my word, I should never have pledged it.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000055|Thus my lady thought to detain me here for a long stay; she did not think that there would ever enter this garden any vassal who could conquer me.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000056|In this way she intended to keep me absolutely shut up with her all the days of my life.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000058|And I dare to assure you that I have no friend so dear that I would have feigned at all in fighting with him.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000061|I could not help myself, unless I were willing to be false and recreant and disloyal.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000062|Now I have told you the truth, and be assured that it is no small honour which you have gained.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000064|You have defeated and bewitched my prowess and my chivalry.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000065|Now it is right that I tell you my name, if you would know it.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000066|I am called Mabonagrain; but I am not remembered by that name in any land where I have been, save only in this region; for never, when I was a squire, did I tell or make known my name.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000067|Sire, you knew the truth concerning all that you asked me.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000068|But I must still tell you that there is in this garden a horn which I doubt not you have seen.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000069|I cannot issue forth from here until you have blown the horn; but then you will have released me, and then the Joy will begin.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000071|Rise up, sire!
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000072|Go quickly now!
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000073|Go take the horn right joyfully; for you have no further cause to wait; so do that which you must do." Now Erec rose, and the other rises with him, and both approach the horn.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000074|Erec takes it and blows it, putting into it all his strength, so that the sound of it reaches far.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000077|Erec could boast that day, for never was such rejoicing made; it could not be described or related by mouth of man, but I will tell you the sum of it briefly and with few words.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000078|The news spreads through the country that thus the affair has turned out.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000079|Then there was no holding back from coming to the court.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000082|Erec was well sated with joy and well served to his heart's desire; but she who sat on the silver couch was not a bit pleased.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000083|The joy which she saw was not at all to her taste.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000085|Enide acted graciously; because she saw her sitting pensive, alone on the couch, she felt moved to go and speak with her and tell her about her affairs and about herself, and to strive, if possible, to make her tell in return about herself, if it did not cause her too great distress.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000088|Therefore the tears ran down her face from her eyes.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000089|Much more than I can say was she grieving and distressed; nevertheless she sat up straight.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000091|Enide salutes her kindly; but for a while the other could not reply a word, being prevented by the sighs and sobs which torment and distress her.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000092|Some time it was before the damsel returned her salutation, and when she had looked at her and examined her for a while, it seemed that she had seen and known her before.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000093|But not being very certain of it, she was not slow to inquire from whence she was, of what country, and where her lord was born; she inquires who they both are.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000095|Her heart leaps with joy which she cannot conceal.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000097|This is the very truth, and you are my father's niece; for he and your father are brothers.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000099|The Count, your uncle, was at war, and to him there came to fight for pay knights of many lands.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000100|Thus, fair cousin, it came about, that with these hireling knights there came one who was the nephew of the king of Brandigan.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000101|He was with my father almost a year.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000102|That was, I think, twelve years ago, and I was still but a little child.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000103|He was very handsome and attractive.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000104|There we had an understanding between us that pleased us both.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000105|I never had any wish but his, until at last he began to love me and promised and swore to me that he would always be my lover, and that he would bring me here; that pleased us both alike.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000106|He could not wait, and I was longing to come hither with him; so we both came away, and no one knew of it but ourselves.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000107|In those days you and I were both young and little girls.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000108|I have told you the truth; so now tell me in turn, as I have told you, all about your lover, and by what adventure he won you." "Fair cousin, he married me in such a way that my father knew all about it, and my mother was greatly pleased.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000109|All our relatives knew it and rejoiced over it, as they should do.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000110|Even the Count was glad.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000112|He loves me much, and I love him more, and our love cannot be greater.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000113|Never yet could I withhold my love from him, nor should I do so.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000114|For is not my lord the son of a king?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000115|For did he not take me when I was poor and naked?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000117|And if it please you, I will tell you without lying how I came to be thus raised up; for never will I be slow to tell the story." Then she told and related to her how Erec came to Lalut; for she had no desire to conceal it.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000118|She told her the adventure word for word, without omission.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000119|But I pass over it now, because he who tells a story twice makes his tale now tiresome.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000120|While they were thus conversing, one lady slipped away alone, who sent and told it all to the gentlemen, in order to increase and heighten their pleasure too.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000121|All those who heard it rejoiced at this news.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000122|And when Mabonagrain knew it he was delighted for his sweetheart because now she was comforted.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000123|And she who bore them quickly the news made them all happy in a short space.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000125|Enide leads away her fair cousin, fairer than Helen, more graceful and charming.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000126|Now Erec and Mabonagrain, Guivret and King Evrain, and all the others run to meet them and salute them and do them honour, for no one is grudging or holds back.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000127|Mabonagrain makes much of Enide, and she of him.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000128|Erec and Guivret, for their part, rejoice over the damsel as they all kiss and embrace each other.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000129|They propose to return to the castle, for they have stayed too long in the garden.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000130|They are all prepared to go out; so they sally forth joyfully, kissing each other on the way.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000132|Great was the gathering and the press.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000133|Every one, high and low, rich and poor, strives to see Erec.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000134|Each thrusts himself before the other, and they all salute him and bow before him, saying constantly: "May God save him through whom joy and gladness come to our court!
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000136|But I wish to conclude the matter briefly without too long delay.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000137|The King honours him to the extent of his power, as do all the others ungrudgingly.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000138|There is no one who does not gladly offer to do his service.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000139|Three whole days the Joy lasted, before Erec could get away. On the fourth he would no longer tarry for any reason they could urge. There was a great crowd to accompany him and a very great press when it came to taking leave.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000140|If he had wished to reply to each one, he would not have been able in half a day to return the salutations individually. The nobles he salutes and embraces; the others he commends to God in a word, and salutes them.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000141|Enide, for her part, is not silent when she takes leave of the nobles.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000142|She salutes them all by name, and they in turn do the like.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000143|Before she goes, she kisses her cousin very tenderly and embraces her.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000002_000144|Then they go and the Joy is over.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000002|The day before he had been bled privately in his apartments; with him he had only five hundred nobles of his household.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000004|At that time a messenger comes running, whom they had sent ahead to apprise the King of their approach.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000006|The King replies: "Let them be welcome, as valiant and gallant gentlemen!
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000007|Nowhere do I know of any better than they two.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000008|By their presence my court will be much enhanced." Then he sent for the Queen and told her the news.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000009|The others have their horses saddled to go and meet the gentlemen.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000010|In such haste are they to mount that they did not put on their spurs.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000011|I ought to state briefly that the crowd of common people, including squires, cooks, and butlers, had already entered the town to prepare for the lodgings. The main party came after, and had already drawn so near that they had entered the town.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000012|Now the two parties have met each other, and salute and kiss each other.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000013|They come to the lodgings and make themselves comfortable, removing their hose and making their toilet by donning their rich robes.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000014|When they were completely decked out, they took their way to the court.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000015|They come to court, where the King sees them, and the Queen, who is beside herself with impatience to see Erec and Enide.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000017|Nor is the Queen slow in embracing Erec and Enide.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000018|One might well rejoice to see her now so full of joy.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000019|Every one enters with spirit into the merry making.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000020|Then the King causes silence to be made, and appeals to Erec and asks news of his adventures.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000021|When the noise had ceased, Erec began his story, telling him of his adventures, without forgetting any detail.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000003_000022|Do you think now that I shall tell you what motive he had had in starting out?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000001|The messengers then started out: the nobles who went to seek him, and who were the greatest men of the land, sought and searched for him until they found him at Tintagel three weeks before Christmas; they told him the truth what had happened to his old, white haired father, and how he now was dead and gone.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000002|This grieved Erec much more than he showed before the people.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000003|But sorrow is not seemly in a king, nor does it become a king to mourn.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000005|To the poor clerks and priors he gave, as was right, black copes and warm linings to wear beneath.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000006|For God's sake he did great good to all: to those who were in need he distributed more than a barrel of small coins.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000007|When he had shared his wealth, he then did a very wise thing in receiving his land from the King's hand; and then he begged the King to crown him at his court.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000010|He summoned them all, and none stayed behind.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000012|I cannot tell you or relate who each one was, and what his name; but whoever came or did not come, the father and mother of my lady Enide were not forgotten.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000013|Her father was sent for first of all, and he came to court in handsome style, like a great lord and a chatelain.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000014|There was no great crowd of chaplains or of silly, gaping yokels, but of excellent knights and of people well equipped.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000017|Erec and Enide see them, and you may know how glad they were.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000018|To meet them they quickly make their way, and salute and embrace them, speaking to them tenderly and showing their delight as they should.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000022|Fair is Enide and fair she should be in all reason and by right; for her mother is a very handsome lady, and her father is a goodly knight.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000024|They do not disobey his command, but straightway take seats.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000025|Now is Enide filled with joy when she sees her father and mother, for a very long time had passed since she had seen them.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000026|Her happiness now is greatly increased, for she was delighted and happy, and she showed it all she could, but she could not make such demonstration but that her joy was yet greater. But I wish to say no more of that, for my heart draws me toward the court which was now assembled in force.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000029|Before the hour of nones had sounded, King Arthur dubbed four hundred knights or more all sons of counts and of kings.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000035|There all helped themselves, each one carrying away that night all that he wanted to his lodging place.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000036|At nine o'clock on Christmas day, all came together again at court.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000037|The great joy that is drawing near for him had completely filched Erec's heart away.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000038|The tongue and the mouth of no man, however skilful, could describe the third, or the fourth, or the fifth part of the display which marked his coronation.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000039|So it is a mad enterprise I undertake in wishing to attempt to describe it.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000004_000040|But since I must make the effort, come what may, I shall not fail to relate a part of it, as best I may.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000001|He who made them beyond a doubt was a very skilled and cunning craftsman.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000002|For so precisely did he make the two alike in height, in breadth, and in ornamentation, that you could nor look at them from every side to distinguish one from the other and find in one aught that was not in the other.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000003|There was no part of wood, but all of gold and fine ivory.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000004|Well were they carved with great skill, for the two corresponding sides of each bore the representation of a leopard, and the other two a dragon's shape.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000006|King Arthur sat upon the one, and upon the other he made Erec sit, who was robed in watered silk.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000008|Macrobius instructs me how to describe, according as I have found it in the book, the workmanship and the figures of the cloth.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000009|Four fairies had made it with great skill and mastery.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000014|This piece of work was good and fine; for upon it were portrayed all the instruments and all the pastimes.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000015|The fourth, who next performed her task, executed a most excellent work; for the best of the arts she there portrayed.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000017|Nowhere else does it seek counsel concerning aught which it has to do.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000018|They give it good and sure advice.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000023|What shall I tell you of the mantle?
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000005_000024|It was very rich and fine and handsome; it had four stones in the tassels-two chrysolites on one side, and two amethysts on the other, which were mounted in gold.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000004|So many of the other nobles ran thither to escort the two ladies that they would have sufficed to overcome a host; for there were more than a thousand of them.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000005|The Queen had made her best effort to adorn Enide.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000007|When they came to the palace, King Arthur came quickly toward them, and courteously seated Enide beside Erec; for he wished to do her great honour.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000008|Now he orders to be brought forth from his treasure two massive crowns of fine gold.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000009|As soon as he had spoken and given the command, without delay the crowns were brought before him, all sparkling with carbuncles, of which there were four in each.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000010|The light of the moon is nothing compared with the light which the least of the carbuncles could shed.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000012|He had one of them held by two damsels, and the other by two gentlemen.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000013|Then he bade the bishops and priors and the abbots of the Church step forward and anoint the new King, as the Christian practice is.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000014|Now all the prelates, young and old, came forward; for at the court there were a great number of bishops and abbots.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000016|King Arthur had a sceptre brought which was very fine.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000017|Listen to the description of the sceptre, which was clearer than a pane of glass, all of one solid emerald, fully as large as your fist.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000019|Then he crowned Enide in turn.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000020|Now the bells ring for Mass, and they go to the main church to hear the Mass and service; they go to pray at the cathedral.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000022|In truth this was her mother's name, and her father's name was Liconal.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000023|Very happy were they both.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000024|When they came to the cathedral, the procession came out from the church with relics and treasures to meet them.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000026|Never were seen so many kings, counts, dukes, and nobles together at a Mass, and the press was so great and thick that the church was completely filled.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000027|No low born man could enter there, but only ladies and knights.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000028|Outside the door of the church a great number still remained, so many were there come together who could not get inside the church.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000029|When they had heard all the Mass they returned to the palace.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000031|At each table there was in truth a king or a duke or a count; and full a hundred knights were seated at each table.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000032|A thousand knights served the bread, and a thousand served the wine, and a thousand the meat-all of them dressed in fresh fur robes of ermine.
train-other-500/2361/165622/2361_165622_000006_000033|All are served with divers dishes.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000001_000000|THE OTHER SOCIETIES
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000002_000000|For a long time the buffalo had not been seen.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000002_000001|Every one was hungry, for the hunters could find no food for the people.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000003_000002|In this way we shall have food to eat and shall live."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000004_000000|Next morning they caught their dogs and harnessed them to the travois and took their loads on their backs and set out.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000004_000002|Besides, they were weak from hunger and could go only a short distance in a day.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000004_000004|No one spoke, for people who are hungry do not care to talk.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000006_000000|Now during this day there had been blowing a warm wind which had melted the snow, so that the prairie was covered with water, yet this young man's moccasins and leggings were dry.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000006_000001|They saw this, and were frightened.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000006_000002|They sat there for a long time, saying nothing.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000007_000000|Then the young man spoke and asked, "Why is this?
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000007_000001|Why do you not give me food?"
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000009_000000|"Ah," said the young man, "then your travels are ended.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000009_000002|Close by here is our piskun.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000009_000003|Many buffalo have been run in, and our parfleches are filled with dried meat.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000009_000004|Wait a little; I will go and bring you some," and he went out.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000010_000000|As soon as he had gone they began to talk about this strange person. They were afraid of him and did not know what to do.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000010_000001|The children began to cry, and the women tried to quiet them.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000010_000002|Presently the young man came back, bringing some meat.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000011_000000|"There is food," said he, as he put it down by the woman.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000011_000002|Do not fear anything. No matter what strange things you may see, do not fear.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000011_000003|All will be your friends.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000011_000004|Yet about one thing I must warn you.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000011_000006|If you should find an arrow lying about anywhere, in the piskun or outside, do not touch it, neither you nor your wives nor your children." When he had said this he went out.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000012_000000|The father took his pipe and filled it, and smoked and prayed to all the powers, saying, "Hear now, Sun; listen, Above People; listen, Underwater People; now you have taken pity; now you have given us food.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000012_000001|We are going to those mysterious ones who walk through water with dry moccasins.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000012_000002|Protect us among these to be feared people.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000012_000003|Let us live.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000012_000004|Man, woman, and child, give us long life."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000013_000000|Now from the fire again arose the smell of roasting meat.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000013_000001|The children ate and played.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000014_000004|Truly that was a happy place.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000014_000005|Food was plenty.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000014_000006|All day long people were shouting out for feasts, and everywhere was heard the sound of drumming and singing and dancing.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000015_000000|The newly come people went to the piskun for meat, and there one of the children saw an arrow lying on the ground.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000015_000001|It was a beautiful arrow, the stone point long, slender, and sharp, the shaft round and straight.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000015_000003|No one was looking. He picked up the arrow and put it under his robe.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000016_000000|Then there rose a terrible sound.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000016_000001|All the animals howled and growled and rushed toward him, but the chief Wolf got to him first, and holding up his hand said, "Wait.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000016_000002|He is young and not yet of good sense.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000016_000003|We will let him go this time." They did nothing to him.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000018_000000|"We are invited," said the chief Wolf to his new friend, and together they went to the lodge from which the call came.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000019_000002|Then the Raven chief spoke and said, "Now, Wolf, I am going to give our new friend a present.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000019_000003|What do you think of that?"
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000020_000000|"It shall be as you say," replied the Wolf; "our new friend will be glad."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000021_000000|From a long parfleche sack the Raven chief took a slender stick, beautifully ornamented with many colored feathers.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000021_000001|To the end of the stick was tied the skin of a raven-head, wings, feet, and tail.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000022_000001|Of all the fliers, of all the birds, what one is so smart as the raven?
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000022_000002|None.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000022_000003|The raven's eyes are sharp, his wings are strong.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000022_000005|This is our song and our dance."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000023_000003|It shall be theirs forever."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000001|Here, too, old men had gathered.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000002|After they had eaten of the food set before them, the chief said, "Those among whom you have just come are generous.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000003|They do not look carefully at the things they have, but give to the stranger and pity the poor.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000005|None.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000006|His hair is like the dead grass of the prairie; his eyes are keen; his feet make no noise when he walks; his brain is cunning.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000007|His ears receive the far off sound.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000008|Here is our medicine.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000009|Take it." He gave the man the stick.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000010|It was long, crooked at one end, wound with fur, and tied here and there with eagle feathers.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000011|At the end was a kit fox skin. Again the chief spoke and said, "Listen to our song.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000012|Do not forget it, and the dance, too, you must remember.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000013|When you reach home teach them to the people." He sang and danced.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000024_000014|Then presently his guests departed.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000025_000001|After they had eaten and smoked the chief said,
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000026_000000|"What is your opinion, friend Wolf?
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000026_000001|Shall we give our new friend a present?"
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000027_000000|"It shall be as you say," replied the Wolf.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000028_000000|Then spoke the Bear, saying, "There are many animals and some of them are powerful; but the bear is the strongest and greatest of all.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000028_000001|He fears nothing and is always ready to fight."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000029_000000|Then he put on a necklace of bear claws, a band of bear fur about his head, and a belt of bear fur, and sang and danced.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000029_000002|It is powerful."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000030_000000|It was very late.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000030_000003|After the feast the chief said, "We are different from all others here.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000030_000006|Even if our enemies are as many as the grass we do not turn away, but fight and conquer.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000030_000007|Bows are good weapons, lances are better; but our weapon is the knife."
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000031_000000|Then the chief sang and danced, and afterward he gave the Wolf chief's friend the medicine.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000031_000001|It was a long knife and many scalps were tied on the handle.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000032_000001|Then the Wolf chief and his friend went home and slept.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000033_000000|Early next day the Blackfeet women began to take down the lodge and to get ready to move their camp.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000033_000001|Many women came and made them presents of food, dried meat, pemican, and berries.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000033_000002|They were given so much that they could not take it all with them.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000033_000003|It was long before they joined the main camp, for it had moved south, looking for buffalo.
train-other-500/2374/155651/2374_155651_000034_000000|When they reached the camp, as soon as the lodge was pitched, the man called all the chiefs to come and feast with him, and told them what he had seen, and showed them the different medicines.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000002_000000|There was once a Princess so lovely that no one could see her without loving her.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000003_000001|He sent an ambassador to ask her hand in marriage; and so confident was he that the Princess would return with him, that he made every preparation to receive her.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000003_000002|The ambassador arrived at the palace of the Princess with a hundred horses and as many servants.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000003_000003|With great ceremony, he presented the King's gifts of pearls and diamonds, together with his message.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000003_000005|When the ambassador returned without the Princess, every one blamed him for his failure; and the King's disappointment was so great that no one could console him.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000004_000003|His enemies at once went to the King and used the remark to influence him against Charming.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000005_000000|"He thinks himself so handsome that the Princess could not have resisted him, although she refused his King," they told his Majesty.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000006_000002|One day the King happened to be passing the tower and heard him exclaim:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000007_000001|His old favorite sadly knelt and kissed his hand, saying:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000008_000000|"Sire, how have I offended?"
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000010_000001|Could the Princess see you as my tongue would picture you, I would not return without her."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000012_000000|"Do you think," asked the King, "that she could be induced to change her mind?"
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000014_000001|One day when he had ridden a great distance, he dismounted and sat down under a tree that grew beside a river.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000014_000004|It sank out of sight, but presently returned to the surface long enough to say:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000015_000000|"Thank you, Charming, for saving my life.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000015_000001|Some day I may repay you." Naturally, he was greatly surprised at so much politeness from a fish.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000016_000000|A few days later, while riding along his way, he saw a raven pursued by an eagle.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000016_000001|In a moment more the eagle would have overtaken the raven, had not Charming aimed his arrow in time and killed the pursuer.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000016_000002|The raven perched on a tree near by and croaked its gratitude:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000017_000000|"You have rescued me from a dreadful fate," it said.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000017_000001|"Some day I will repay you."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000018_000001|Hunting about, he found the unfortunate bird caught in a net which some birdcatchers had spread.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000018_000003|The owl fluttered above his head, saying:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000019_000000|"You have saved me from the fowlers, who would have killed me.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000019_000001|I am not ungrateful, and some day I will repay you!"
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000019_000002|After that it flew swiftly away.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000020_000000|Charming at last reached the palace of the Princess, and asked an audience.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000020_000001|His name so pleased her that she at once received him.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000020_000002|He was ushered into the presence of the Princess, who sat on a throne of gold and ivory.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000020_000003|Her satin dress was embroidered with jewels, and her golden hair was confined by a crown of flowers.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000020_000004|Soft music and perfume filled the air, and Charming was so awed by all this splendor that at first he could not speak.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000020_000005|Recovering himself in a moment, he told of his mission, and set forth the good qualities of the King in such glowing terms that the Princess listened.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000021_000000|"You have argued so eloquently," replied she, "that I regret to deny you; but I have made a vow not to marry, until the ambassador can return to me a ring which I lost in the river a month ago.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000021_000001|I valued it more than all my other jewels, and nothing but its recovery can persuade me to your suit."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000022_000001|These were declined, so bowing low, he reluctantly took leave of the Princess.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000023_000000|In the morning he and Frisk were walking by the riverside when the dog ran to the water's edge, barking furiously.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000024_000000|"You saved my life by the willow tree," said the carp, "and I now repay you by giving to you the Princess's ring."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000025_000000|Charming lost no time in presenting it to the Princess and claiming his reward.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000030_000000|The Princess and all the people tried to dissuade him, but he mounted his horse and rode off, accompanied only by his little dog, Frisk.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000030_000001|He traveled straight to the giant's castle.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000030_000002|All about it were strewn the bones of Galifron's victims.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000030_000003|Inside the castle the giant was singing in a terrible voice:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000031_000000|"Little children I love to eat; Their bones are tender, their flesh is sweet. I do not care, I eat so many, If their hair be straight, or if they haven't any."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000032_000000|Charming called out loudly in reply:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000033_000000|"Be not so boastful, Galifron, Till you've met a knight, who May be good to feed upon, But is here to fight you."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000034_000000|The giant appeared at the door, club in hand.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000037_000000|"Your enemy is dead," Charming told the Princess.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000038_000001|I would regret to leave my kingdom without possessing some of it; but no one has dared to brave the two dragons that guard the cavern where the fountain is to be found."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000039_000000|"You do not need the water, Princess; but my life is yours to command," gallantly replied Charming; and he set out at once on the perilous mission.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000040_000000|When he came to the mouth of the cavern, black smoke issued forth; and presently he perceived the terrible form of a dragon, from whose mouth and eyes fire was darting.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000040_000002|Just then he heard his name called twice, and, looking back, he saw an owl flying toward him.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000041_000000|"I can enter the gloomy cavern without danger," the owl said.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000042_000000|Charming gladly surrendered the flask to the owl, who in a short time returned it to him filled with the precious water.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000043_000000|The Princess this time consented to marry the King, and after many preparations she and Charming started for his kingdom.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000043_000001|The journey was made so entertaining for the Princess that she one day said to Charming:
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000045_000001|The marriage was celebrated with great pomp, and Charming stood first in the King's favor.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000045_000002|His good fortune, however, did not continue long, for envious enemies pointed out to the King that the Princess was never happy unless Charming was near.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000045_000003|The unhappy knight was again put into prison, where he was cruelly chained and fed on bread and water.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000046_000000|When Goldilocks learned this, she wept and implored the King to set him free.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000046_000001|"But for him I never would have been here," she said.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000047_000002|Not daring to confess, she put another in its place that exactly resembled it in appearance. This, however, contained a deadly poison.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000047_000003|When the King bathed his face with it, he fell into a sleep from which he never awoke.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000048_000001|In a short time Goldilocks also appeared, unlocked his chains, and set him free.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000049_000000|"You shall be my husband," said she, "and I will make you King."
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000050_000000|Charming fell at her feet and expressed his gratitude and joy.
train-other-500/2374/160960/2374_160960_000050_000001|They were married soon afterward, and they reigned together for many happy years.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000000_000000|Garth Dalmain, as master of ceremonies, had sought Jane Champion on the terrace, and stood before her in the soft light of the hanging Chinese lanterns.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000000_000001|The crimson rambler in his button hole, and his red silk socks, which matched it, lent an artistic touch of colour to the conventional black and white of his evening clothes.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000002_000000|"I am ready," she said, and rising, walked beside him.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000003_000000|"Packed," replied Garth, "and the duchess has enjoyed herself.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000003_000001|It has been funnier than usual.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000003_000002|But now comes the event of the evening.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000003_000003|I say, where is your score?"
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000004_000000|"Thanks," said Jane.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000004_000001|"I shall play it from memory.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000005_000000|They passed into the concert room and stood behind screens and a curtain, close to the half dozen steps leading, from the side, up on to the platform.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000001|"My NIECE, JANE CHAMPION, HAS KINDLY CONSENTED TO STEP INTO THE BREACH-' Which means that you will have to step up on to that platform in another half minute.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000002|Really it would be kinder to you if she said less about Velma.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000003|But never mind; they are prepared to like anything.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000004|There!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000005|APPENDICITIS!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000006|I told you so. Poor Madame Velma!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000008|Oh, goodness!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000009|She is going to enlarge on new fangled diseases.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000010|Well, it gives us a moment's breathing space....
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000011|I say, Miss Champion, I was chaffing this afternoon about sharps and flats.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000012|I can play that accompaniment for you if you like.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000014|Well, just as you think best. But remember, it takes a lot of voice to make much effect in this concert room, and the place is crowded.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000015|Now-the duchess has done.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000016|Come on.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000017|Mind the bottom step.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000018|Hang it all!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000006_000019|How dark it is behind this curtain!"
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000007_000001|Her tall figure seemed taller than usual as she walked alone across the rather high platform.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000007_000003|A more kindly audience would have cheered her to the echo, voicing its generous appreciation of her effort, and sanguine expectation of her success.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000007_000004|This audience expressed its astonishment, in the dubiousness of its faint applause.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000008_000000|Jane smiled at them good naturedly; sat down at the piano, a Bechstein grand; glanced at the festoons of white roses and the cross of crimson ramblers; then, without further preliminaries, struck the opening chord and commenced to sing.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000009_000000|The deep, perfect voice thrilled through the room.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000010_000000|A sudden breathless hush fell upon the audience.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000011_000000|Each syllable penetrated the silence, borne on a tone so tender and so amazingly sweet, that casual hearts stood still and marvelled at their own emotion; and those who felt deeply already, responded with a yet deeper thrill to the magic of that music.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000013_000000|Softly, thoughtfully, tenderly, the last two words were breathed into the silence, holding a world of reminiscence-a large hearted woman's faithful remembrance of tender moments in the past.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000014_000000|The listening crowd held its breath.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000014_000001|This was not a song.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000015_000000|Then the voice, which had rendered the opening lines so quietly, rose in a rapid crescendo of quivering pain.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000017_000000|The last four words were given with a sudden power and passion which electrified the assembly.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000017_000001|In the pause which followed, could be heard the tension of feeling produced.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000017_000002|But in another moment the quiet voice fell soothingly, expressing a strength of endurance which would fail in no crisis, nor fear to face any depths of pain; yet gathering to itself a poignancy of sweetness, rendered richer by the discipline of suffering.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000018_000000|"O memories that bless and burn! O barren gain and bitter loss! I kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn To kiss the cross ... to kiss the cross."
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000019_000000|Only those who have heard Jane sing THE ROSARY can possibly realise how she sang "I KISS EACH BEAD." The lingering retrospection in each word; breathed out a love so womanly, so beautiful, so tender, that her identity was forgotten-even by those in the audience who knew her best-in the magic of her rendering of the song.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000020_000000|The accompaniment, which opens with a single chord, closes with a single note.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000021_000000|Jane struck it softly, lingeringly; then rose, turned from the piano, and was leaving the platform, when a sudden burst of wild applause broke from the audience.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000021_000001|Jane hesitated, paused, looked at her aunt's guests as if almost surprised to find them there.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000022_000000|But there, behind the scenes, in the semi darkness of screens and curtains, a fresh surprise awaited Jane, more startling than the enthusiastic tumult of her audience.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000023_000000|At the foot of the staircase stood Garth Dalmain.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000023_000001|His face was absolutely colourless, and his eyes shone out from it like burning stars.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000023_000002|He remained motionless until she stepped from the last stair and stood close to him.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000023_000003|Then with a sudden movement he caught her by the shoulders and turned her round.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000024_000000|"Go back!" he said, and the overmastering need quivering in his voice drew Jane's eyes to his in mute astonishment.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000024_000001|"Go back at once and sing it all over again, note for note, word for word, just as before.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000024_000003|Go back now!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000024_000004|Go back at once!
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000024_000005|Don't you know that you MUST?"
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000025_000000|Jane looked into those shining eyes.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000025_000001|Something she saw in them excused the brusque command of his tone.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000025_000002|Without a word, she quietly mounted the steps and walked across the platform to the piano.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000025_000003|People were still applauding, and redoubled their demonstrations of delight as she appeared; but Jane took her seat at the instrument without giving them a thought.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000026_000000|She was experiencing a very curious and unusual sensation.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000026_000003|An unreasonable order, or a reasonable one unexplained, promptly met with a point blank refusal.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000028_000001|She had many finer songs in her repertoire.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000028_000002|The audience expected another.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000028_000003|Why should she disappoint those expectations because of the imperious demands of a very highly excited boy?
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000029_000000|She commenced the magnificent prelude to Handel's "Where'er you walk," but, as she played it, her sense of truth and justice intervened.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000029_000002|While she played the Handel theme-and played it so that a whole orchestra seemed marshalled upon the key board under those strong, firm finger-she suddenly realised, though scarcely understanding it, the MUST of which Garth had spoken, and made up her mind to yield to its necessity.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000031_000001|His face was just as white as before, but his eyes had lost that terrible look of unshed tears, which had sent her back, at his bidding, without a word of question or remonstrance.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000031_000003|She smiled as she came slowly down the steps, and held out both hands to him with an unconscious movement of gracious friendliness.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000032_000000|For a moment he did not speak.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000032_000001|Then in a low voice, vibrant with emotion: "My God!" he said, "Oh, my God!"
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000033_000000|"Hush," said Jane; "I never like to hear that name spoken lightly, Dal."
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000034_000000|"Spoken lightly!" he exclaimed.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000035_000001|"So you liked my song?" she said.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000036_000001|"I do not know whether I liked your song."
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000037_000000|"Then why this flattering demonstration?" inquired Jane, laughing.
train-other-500/238/122530/238_122530_000038_000000|"Because," said Garth, very low, "you lifted the veil, and I-I passed within."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000002_000000|CHAPTER four
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000003_000000|THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000004_000000|There was not a sound.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000004_000001|That stillness, weird, unnerving, that permeated, as it were, everywhere through that mysterious house, was, if that were possible, accentuated now.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000005_000000|He tried to rouse himself mentally, to prod his brain to action, to pit it in a fight for life against these self confessed criminals and murderers with their mask of culture, who surrounded him now.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000005_000001|Was there a way out?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000005_000002|What was it the Tocsin had said-"the most powerful and pitiless organisation of criminals the world has ever known-the stake a fortune of millions-her life!" There had, indeed, been no overemphasis in the words she had used!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000005_000003|They had taken pains themselves to make that ominously clear, these men!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000006_000001|He could not take his eyes from it-except as his eyes were drawn magnetically to that FULL glass in the hand of one of the others.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000007_000000|And then the leader spoke.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000008_000000|"mr Dale," he said, with cold significance, "I regret to admit that your pseudo taxicab driver was so ill advised as to refuse to answer the SAME questions that I have put to you."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000009_000000|Five to one!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000009_000001|That was the only way out-and it was hopeless.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000009_000002|It was the only way out, because, convinced that he could answer those questions if he wanted to, these men were in deadly earnest; it was hopeless, because they were-five to one!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000009_000004|But what did it matter how many more there were!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000009_000005|He could fight until he was overpowered, that was all he could do, and the five could accomplish that.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000009_000007|It was as though they had read his thoughts.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000010_000000|Again the leader spoke.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000011_000000|"I will repeat the questions," he said sharply.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000011_000001|"Where is the woman whose ring was found on that man there in the chair?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000011_000002|And where is the package that you two men had with you in the taxicab to night?"
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000012_000000|Jimmie Dale glanced from the tall, straight, immaculately clothed figure of the speaker, from the threatening smile on the set lips that just showed under the edge of the mask, to the dead man in the chair.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000012_000002|But it was different now.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000012_000003|He could not, of course, answer those questions; nor, he was doggedly conscious, would he have answered them if he could-and there was no middle course.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000014_000000|Strange that thought should come!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000014_000002|No-not strange. He was picturing himself.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000014_000003|The analogy was not perfect, it was true, he had not had the months, weeks, days and hours of suspense; but it was perfect enough to bring home to him with appalling force the realisation of his position.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000015_000000|"Is it worth while, will it convince you now, any more than before, to repeat that there is some mistake here?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000015_000001|I am no more able to answer your questions than you are yourselves.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000015_000003|And if there was a package of any sort in the taxicab, as you state, I never saw it."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000016_000000|The lips under the mask curved into a lupine smile.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000017_000000|"Think well, mr Dale!"
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000017_000001|The man's voice was low, menacing.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000017_000003|Now-your answer!"
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000018_000000|"I have answered you," said Jimmie Dale-and, relaxing the muscles in his arms, let them hang limply for an instant in the grip of the two men behind him.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000018_000001|"I have no other answer."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000019_000000|It was only a sign, a motion of the leader's hand-but with it, quick as a lightning flash, Jimmie Dale was in action.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000020_000000|In an instant, with the blow, as the man staggered backward, the room was in pandemonium.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000020_000001|There was a rush from the door, and two, three, four leaping forms hurled themselves upon Jimmie Dale.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000020_000002|He shook them off-and they came again.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000021_000000|But it could not last.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000022_000000|The room cleared instantly of all but the original five.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000022_000001|His head was drawn suddenly, violently backward, and clamped in that position; and a metal instrument, forced into his mouth, while his lips bled in their resistance, pried jaws apart and held them open.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000023_000000|"One drop!" the leader ordered curtly.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000024_000000|The man with the full glass bent over him, and dipped a glass rod into the liquid.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000025_000001|What was it to be like this passing?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000025_000004|He strained forward in the chair until the sweat in great beads sprang from his forehead, strained and fought and tore at his bonds in a paroxysm of madness to free himself while there still remained a little strength.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000025_000006|He felt himself slipping away into a state of utter weakness, and his brain began to grow confused.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000026_000000|A voice seemed to float in the air near him: "For the last time-will you answer?"
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000027_000000|With a supreme effort, Jimmie Dale strove to rally his tottering senses. Did they not understand the stupendous mockery of their questions?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000027_000001|Did they not understand that he did not know?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000027_000002|He had told them so-perhaps he had better tell them so again.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000028_000000|"I-" He tried to speak, and found the words thick upon his tongue. "I-do not-know."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000029_000000|The glass itself was thrust abruptly between his lips.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000029_000001|Some of the contents spilled and trickled upon his chin, and then a flood of it, burning, fiery, poured down his throat.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000029_000002|A flood of it-and it needed but THREE drops and there had been TEN in the glass!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000000|So this was death-a hazy, nebulous thing!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000001|There was no pain.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000004|Strange that she should come!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000005|Alone she had fought these fiends and outwitted them for-how long was it?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000006|Three years!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000007|She would be more than ever alone now.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000030_000008|Pray God she did not finally fall into their clutches!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000031_000001|It was the end, and-no!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000031_000002|It was STIMULATING him!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000032_000000|He roused up with a startled exclamation.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000032_000001|He was back in the same room in which he had first returned to consciousness after the accident.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000032_000002|He was on the same couch.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000032_000003|The same masked figure was at the same desk.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000033_000000|No, it had been real enough; his clothes, rent and torn, and the blood upon his hands, where the skin had been scraped from his knuckles in the fight, bore evidence to that.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000033_000002|And yet it must have been so!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000035_000000|The man spoke abruptly.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000000|"That you find yourself alive, mr Dale," he said grimly, "is no confession of weakness upon the part of those with whom you have had to deal here.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000001|To bear witness to that there is one who is not alive, as you have seen.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000002|That man we knew.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000003|With you it was somewhat different.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000004|Your presence in the taxicab was only suspicious.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000005|There was always the possibility that you might be one of those ubiquitous 'innocent bystanders.' Your name, your position, the improbability that you could have anything in common with-shall we say, the matter that so deeply interests us?--was all in your favour.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000007|We do not depend upon them-we apply the test.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000036_000008|And having applied the test, we are convinced that you have told the truth-that is all."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000037_000000|He rose from his chair brusquely.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000037_000001|"I shall not apologise to you for what has happened.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000037_000006|We can, and shall be glad to make reparation to you to the slight extent of offering you a new suit before you go."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000038_000000|Jimmie Dale scowled.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000038_000001|Sick, shaken, and weak as he was, the cool, imperturbable impudence of the man was fast growing unbearable.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000039_000000|The man laughed.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000039_000001|"I am sure you will not refuse, mr Dale-since we insist.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000039_000003|It is not at all likely, of course; but we prefer to discount even so remote a possibility.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000039_000004|When you have changed, you will be motored back to your home.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000039_000005|I bid you good night, mr Dale."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000040_000000|Jimmie Dale rubbed his eyes.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000000|The place was a veritable maze, a lair of hellish cleverness.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000001|He had no illusions now, he laboured under no false estimate of either the ingenuity or the resources of this inhuman nest of vultures to whom murder was no more than a matter of detail.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000002|And it was against these men that henceforth he was to match his wits!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000003|There could be no truce, no armistice.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000005|Well, he was alive now, the first round was over, and so far he had won.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000006|His brows furrowed suddenly.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000007|Had he?
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000041_000008|He was not so sure, after all.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000042_000000|He was apparently-the "apparently" was a mental reservation-quite alone in the room.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000042_000001|He got up from the couch and walked shakily across the floor to the desk.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000042_000003|It was unloaded, of course.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000043_000000|"The car is ready as soon as you are dressed," announced the other briefly.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000043_000001|He laid the clothes upon the couch-and settled himself significantly in a chair.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000044_000000|Jimmie Dale hesitated.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000044_000001|Then, with a shrug of his shoulders, recrossed the room, and began to remove his torn garments.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000044_000002|What was the use!
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000044_000003|They would certainly have their own way in the end.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000045_000000|He dressed quickly, in what proved to be an exceedingly well fitting suit; and finally turned tentatively to the man in the chair.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000046_000000|The other stood up, and produced a heavy black silk scarf.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000047_000000|"If you have no objections," he said curtly, "I'll tie this over your eyes."
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000048_000000|Again Jimmie Dale shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2380/152158/2380_152158_000049_000000|"I am glad enough to get out on any conditions," he answered caustically.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000000_000002|Paul and he were to belong to each other forever: no mysterious threat of separation could ever menace them again!
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000001_000000|Clare at once renewed her entreaty to be allowed to aid in ransoming her little cousin, but Ralph tried to put her off by explaining that he meant to "look about."
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000000|"Look where?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000001|In the Dagonet coffers?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000002|Oh, Ralph, what's the use of pretending?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000003|Tell me what you've got to give her."
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000004|It was amazing how his cousin suddenly dominated him.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000005|But as yet he couldn't go into the details of the bargain.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000002_000006|That the reckoning between himself and Undine should be settled in dollars and cents seemed the last bitterest satire on his dreams: he felt himself miserably diminished by the smallness of what had filled his world.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000003_000001|His thoughts had been drawn back to Moffatt by the insistence with which the latter's name had lately been put forward by the press in connection with a revival of the Ararat investigation.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000003_000002|Moffatt, it appeared, had been regarded as one of the most valuable witnesses for the State; his return from Europe had been anxiously awaited, his unreadiness to testify caustically criticized; then at last he had arrived, had gone on to Washington-and had apparently had nothing to tell.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000004_000000|Ralph was too deep in his own troubles to waste any wonder over this anticlimax; but the frequent appearance of Moffatt's name in the morning papers acted as an unconscious suggestion.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000004_000001|Besides, to whom else could he look for help?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000004_000003|The market, moreover, happened to be booming, and it seemed not unlikely that so experienced a speculator might have a "good thing" up his sleeve.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000005_000000|Moffatt's office had been transformed since Ralph's last visit.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000007_000000|Having permitted himself this pleasantry he passed on to business. "Yes-it's a first rate time to buy: no doubt of that.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000007_000001|But you say you want to make a quick turn over?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000007_000002|Heard of a soft thing that won't wait, I presume?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000008_000000|"Fond of these pink crystals?"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000008_000001|He held the oriental toy against the light.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000009_000000|"Well-now let's talk.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000009_000001|You say you've got to have the funds for your-your investment within three weeks.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000009_000002|That's quick work.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000009_000003|And you want a hundred thousand.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000009_000004|Can you put up fifty?"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000010_000000|Ralph had been prepared for the question, but when it came he felt a moment's tremor.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000010_000001|He knew he could count on half the amount from his grandfather; could possibly ask Fairford for a small additional loan-but what of the rest?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000010_000002|Well, there was Clare.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000010_000004|And after all, the money was Clare's-it was Dagonet money.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000010_000005|At least she said it was.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000011_000000|"Well, I guess I can double it for you." Moffatt spoke with an air of Olympian modesty.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000011_000001|"Anyhow, I'll try.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000011_000002|Only don't tell the other girls!"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000012_000000|He proceeded to develop his plan to ears which Ralph tried to make alert and attentive, but in which perpetually, through the intricate concert of facts and figures, there broke the shout of a small boy racing across a suburban lawn.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000012_000002|I don't want to let you in for anything you ain't quite sure about." "Oh, if you're sure-" Ralph was already calculating the time it would take to dash up to Clare Van Degen's on his way to catch the train for the Fairfords'.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000013_000000|His impatience made it hard to pay due regard to Moffatt's parting civilities.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000013_000001|"Glad to have seen you," he heard the latter assuring him with a final hand grasp.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000013_000003|"He was a stunning chap last time I saw him.--Excuse me if I've put my foot in it; but I understood you kept him with you...?
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000013_000004|Yes: that's what I thought....
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000013_000005|Well, so long."
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000014_000000|Clare's inner sitting room was empty; but the servant, presently returning, led Ralph into the gilded and tapestried wilderness where she occasionally chose to receive her visitors.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000016_000000|He sat down and explained to her by what means, trying, as best he could, to restate the particulars of Moffatt's deal; and her manifest ignorance of business methods had the effect of making his vagueness appear less vague.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000017_000000|"Anyhow, he seems to be sure it's a safe thing.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000017_000002|This is some kind of a scheme to buy up all the works of public utility at Apex. They're practically sure of their charter, and Moffatt tells me I can count on doubling my investment within a few weeks.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000017_000003|Of course I'll go into the details if you like-"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000018_000000|"Oh, no; you've made it all so clear to me!" She really made him feel he had.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000018_000002|The great thing is that it's done." She lifted her sparkling eyes.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000018_000003|"And now-my share-you haven't told me..."
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000019_000001|His mother had something put by that she insisted on contributing; and Henley Fairford, of his own accord, had come forward with ten thousand: it was awfully decent of Henley...
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000020_000000|"Even Henley!" Clare sighed.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000021_000000|Ralph felt the colour in his face.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000021_000001|"Well, you see, I shall need as much as fifty-"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000022_000000|Her hands flew together joyfully.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000022_000001|"But then you've got to let me help! Oh, I'm so glad-so glad!
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000022_000002|I've twenty thousand waiting."
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000023_000000|He looked about the room, checked anew by all its oppressive implications.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000024_000000|"I've told you it's mine, every penny of it!"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000025_000000|"Yes; but supposing things went wrong?"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000026_000000|"Nothing CAN-if you'll only take it..."
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000027_000000|"I may lose it-"
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000029_000002|He stooped his head above her hands.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000029_000003|"I accept," he said; and they stood and looked at each other like radiant children.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000030_000000|She followed him to the door, and as he turned to leave he broke into a laugh.
train-other-500/2405/148581/2405_148581_000030_000001|"It's queer, though, its happening in this room!"
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000003_000000|three
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000006_000000|Now you know it always is the thing that you try and try to find out and can't find out that you most want to find out.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000006_000001|It was just so with peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck and Striped Chipmunk.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000006_000002|The more they talked about it, the more they wanted to know.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000007_000000|"There must be a reason" said peter gravely, as he pulled thoughtfully at one of his long ears.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000008_000000|"Of course there is a reason," asserted Johnny Chuck, chewing the end of a blade of grass.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000009_000000|"There's a reason for everything," added Striped Chipmunk, combing out the hair of his funny little tail.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000010_000000|"Then of course Grandfather Frog knows it," said peter.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000011_000000|"Of course!
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000011_000001|Why didn't we think of him before?" exclaimed the others.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000012_000000|"I'll beat you to the Smiling Pool!" shouted peter.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000013_000000|Of course he did, for his legs are long and made for running, but Striped Chipmunk was not far behind.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000013_000001|Johnny Chuck took his time, for he knew that he could not keep up with the others.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000013_000002|Besides he was so fat that to run made him puff and blow.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000013_000003|Grandfather Frog sat just as usual on his big green lily pad, and he grinned when he saw who his visitors were, for he guessed right away what they had come for.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000014_000000|"Chug a rum!
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000014_000001|What is it you want to know now?" he demanded, before peter could fairly get his breath.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000016_000000|Grandfather Frog chuckled.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000017_000000|"Of course we know that," replied Striped Chipmunk, "but what we want to know is how he ever found out that he could fool people that way, and how he knows that he will fool them."
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000018_000000|"I suspect that his mammy taught him," said Grandfather Frog, with another chuckle way down deep in his throat.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000019_000000|"But who taught his mammy?" persisted Striped Chipmunk.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000023_000000|Grandfather Frog scowled at peter.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000023_000001|"If I have any more interruptions, there will be no story to day" said he severely.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000024_000000|peter looked ashamed and promised that he would hold his tongue right between his teeth until Grandfather Frog was through.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000024_000001|Grandfather Frog cleared his throat and began again.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000025_000002|But when he did, he always managed to keep out of their way until they had forgotten all about their anger.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000026_000001|Yes, Sir, it certainly did seem that way.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000026_000002|And when you see Mischief trotting along the Lone Little Path, if you look sharp enough, you'll see Trouble following at his heels like a shadow.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000026_000003|I never knew it to fail.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000026_000004|It's just as sure as a stomach ache is to follow overeating."
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000027_000000|Just here Grandfather Frog paused and looked very hard at peter Rabbit.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000027_000001|But peter pretended not to notice, and after slowly winking one of his big, goggly eyes at Johnny Chuck, Grandfather Frog continued:
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000028_000000|"Anyway, as I said before, the imp of mischief seemed to be in old mr Possum's head that morning, for he began to play tricks on his neighbors as soon as they were out of bed.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000028_000002|He was very polite and offered to help Old King Bear hunt for his lost breakfast.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000028_000006|At last Old King Bear turned his head suddenly and caught sight of old mr Possum hiding that breakfast in a new place.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000028_000007|My, my, but his temper did boil over!
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000028_000008|It certainly did.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000029_000000|"But old mr Possum was mighty spry, and he went off through the Green Forest laughing fit to kill himself.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000029_000001|Pretty soon he met mr Panther. He was very polite to mr Panther.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000030_000000|"Now, mr Panther was hungry, for he had found nothing for his breakfast that morning.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000031_000000|"Old mr Possum himself hurried on, chuckling as he thought of the way mr Panther was likely to be received, with Old King Bear in such a temper.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000031_000001|Pretty soon along came mr Lynx.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000032_000000|"Now, there wasn't any more breakfast than Old King Bear wanted himself, and by the time mr Panther arrived, there wasn't so much as a crumb left.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000032_000002|At first he didn't know what to make of it, but pretty soon mr Fox delicately hinted that they had come in response to the invitation sent by mr Possum, and that as they were all very hungry, they would like to know when the feast would be ready.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000001|With Old King Bear at their head, they started out to hunt for old mr Possum.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000002|When he saw them coming, he realized that what he had thought was a joke had become no longer a laughing matter for him.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000003|He was too frightened to run, so he scrambled up a tree.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000004|He quite forgot that mr Panther and mr Lynx could climb just as fast as he.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000005|Up the tree after him they scrambled, and he crept as far out as he could get on one of the branches.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000006|mr Panther didn't dare go out there, so he just shook the branch.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000034_000007|He shook and shook and shook and shook, and the first thing old mr Possum knew, he was flying through the air down to where the others were all ready to pounce on him.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000035_000000|"Old mr Possum was frightened almost to death.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000035_000002|Presently, while he was wondering why they didn't jump on him and tear him to pieces, Old King Bear spoke:
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000037_000000|"mr Panther came over and sniffed at mr Possum and turned him over with one paw.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000037_000001|All the time mr Possum lay just as if he were dead, because he was too frightened to move.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000037_000002|'I didn't mean to kill him,' said mr Panther. 'We certainly will miss him.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000039_000001|He waited long enough to make sure that they were out of sight, and then took the shortest way home.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000039_000002|When he got there and thought it all over, he thought that the best joke of all was the way he had made everybody think that he was dead.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000039_000003|And then a bright idea struck him: he would try the same trick whenever he was caught.
train-other-500/2405/182390/2405_182390_000039_000004|So the next time he got in trouble, instead of running away, he tried playing dead.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000007_000003|I now understand that in the warm Rossetti language this did not mean that there was anything specially reminiscent of the Bard of Avon in this book, but simply that it was a monstrous fine production, and worthy of all attention.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000008_000000|The ordinary small collection of rarities has no room for three volume novels, those signs manual of our British dulness and crafty disdain for literature.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000008_000005|With Fanny Burney, novels grow too bulky, and it is a question whether even Scott or Jane Austen should be possessed in the original form.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000008_000006|Of the moderns, only Thackeray is bibliographically desirable.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000008_000008|I toiled long to secure it, and, now that I hold it, may its modest vermilion cover shine always like a lamp upon my shelves!
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000009_000003|Yet is there much to do.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000009_000005|But England is a Gallio, and in defiance of mr Le Gallienne, cares little for the things of literature.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000010_000005|We do this sort of thing no longer.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000010_000006|We are wholly given up to realism, we are harshly pressed upon on all sides by the importunities of excess of knowledge.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000011_000000|"It has seemed to me that the only way to tell an Arabian Story was by imitating the style and manner of the Oriental Story tellers.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000011_000001|But such an attempt, whether successful or not, may read like a translation.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000011_000002|I therefore think it better to prelude this Entertainment by an avowal that it springs from no Eastern source, and is in every respect an original Work."
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000012_000002|The variety of scenes and images, the untiring evolution of plot, the kaleidoscopic shifting of harmonious colours, all these seem of the very essence of Arabia, and to coil directly from some bottle of a genie.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000012_000003|Ah! what a bottle!
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000012_000004|As we whirl along in the vast and glowing bacchanal, we cry, like Sganarelle:
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000014_000000|Ah! why indeed?
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000014_000002|But perhaps of all gifts there is none more rare than this of clearing the board and leaving the reader still hungry.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000015_000000|Who shall say, in dealing with such a book, what passage in it is best or worst?
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000015_000001|Either the fancy, carried away utterly captive, follows the poet whither he will, or the whole conception is a failure.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000016_000000|There is surely no modern book so unsullied as this is by the modern spirit, none in which the desire to teach a lesson, to refer knowingly to topics of the day, or worst of all, to be incontinently funny, interferes less with the tender magic of Oriental fancy, or with the childlike, earnest faith in what is utterly outside the limits of experience.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000016_000001|It belongs to that infancy of the world, when the happy guileless human being still holds that somewhere there is a flower to be plucked, a lamp to be rubbed, or a form of words to be spoken which will reverse the humdrum laws of Nature, call up unwilling spirits bound to incredible services, and change all this brown life of ours to scarlet and azure and mother of pearl.
train-other-500/2405/7360/2405_7360_000016_000002|Little by little, even our children are losing this happy gift of believing the incredible, and that class of writing which seems to require less effort than any other, and to be a mere spinning of gold thread out of the poet's inner consciousness, is less and less at command, and when executed gives less and less satisfaction.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000001_000000|Chapter six
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000001|Towards evening, that same Lukashka the Snatcher, about whom the old women had been talking, was standing on a watch tower of the Nizhni Prototsk post situated on the very banks of the Terek.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000003|The sun was already approaching the snowy range that gleamed white above the fleecy clouds. The clouds undulating at the base of the mountains grew darker and darker.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000004|The clearness of evening was noticeable in the air.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000006|The moving mass of the Terek's rapid brown waters contrasted more vividly with its motionless banks.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000008|The other side of the river, just opposite the cordon, was deserted; only an immense waste of low growing reeds stretched far away to the very foot of the mountains.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000009|On the low bank, a little to one side, could be seen the flat roofed clay houses and the funnel shaped chimneys of a Chechen village.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000002_000010|The sharp eyes of the Cossack who stood on the watch tower followed, through the evening smoke of the pro Russian village, the tiny moving figures of the Chechen women visible in the distance in their red and blue garments.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000003_000001|The Cossacks, unarmed and with their horses unsaddled just as if they were at home, spent their time some in fishing, some in drinking, and some in hunting.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000003_000002|Only the horse of the man on duty was saddled, and with its feet hobbled was moving about by the brambles near the wood, and only the sentinel had his Circassian coat on and carried a gun and sword. The corporal, a tall thin Cossack with an exceptionally long back and small hands and feet, was sitting on the earth bank of a hut with his beshmet unbuttoned.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000003_000003|On his face was the lazy, bored expression of a superior, and having shut his eyes he dropped his head upon the palm first of one hand and then of the other.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000003_000004|An elderly Cossack with a broad greyish black beard was lying in his shirt, girdled with a black strap, close to the river and gazing lazily at the waves of the Terek as they monotonously foamed and swirled.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000003_000005|Others, also overcome by the heat and half naked, were rinsing clothes in the Terek, plaiting a fishing line, or humming tunes as they lay on the hot sand of the river bank.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000003_000006|One Cossack, with a thin face much burnt by the sun, lay near the hut evidently dead drunk, by a wall which though it had been in shadow some two hours previously was now exposed to the sun's fierce slanting rays.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000000|Lukashka, who stood on the watch tower, was a tall handsome lad about twenty years old and very like his mother.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000001|His face and whole build, in spite of the angularity of youth, indicated great strength, both physical and moral.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000002|Though he had only lately joined the Cossacks at the front, it was evident from the expression of his face and the calm assurance of his attitude that he had already acquired the somewhat proud and warlike bearing peculiar to Cossacks and to men generally who continually carry arms, and that he felt he was a Cossack and fully knew his own value.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000003|His ample Circassian coat was torn in some places, his cap was on the back of his head Chechen fashion, and his leggings had slipped below his knees.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000004|His clothing was not rich, but he wore it with that peculiar Cossack foppishness which consists in imitating the Chechen brave.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000005|Everything on a real brave is ample, ragged, and neglected, only his weapons are costly.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000006|But these ragged clothes and these weapons are belted and worn with a certain air and matched in a certain manner, neither of which can be acquired by everybody and which at once strike the eye of a Cossack or a hillsman.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000007|Lukashka had this resemblance to a brave.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000004_000008|With his hands folded under his sword, and his eyes nearly closed, he kept looking at the distant Tartar village. Taken separately his features were not beautiful, but anyone who saw his stately carriage and his dark browed intelligent face would involuntarily say, 'What a fine fellow!'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000006_000000|Nazarka who was lying below immediately lifted his head and remarked:
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000007_000000|'They must be going for water.'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000008_000000|'Supposing one scared them with a gun?' said Lukashka, laughing, 'Wouldn't they be frightened?'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000009_000000|'It wouldn't reach.'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000010_000000|'What!
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000010_000001|Mine would carry beyond.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000011_000000|A rustling in the thicket drew the Cossack's attention.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000011_000001|A pied mongrel half setter, searching for a scent and violently wagging its scantily furred tail, came running to the cordon.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000011_000002|Lukashka recognized the dog as one belonging to his neighbour, Uncle Eroshka, a hunter, and saw, following it through the thicket, the approaching figure of the hunter himself.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000012_000003|Having glanced at the cordon he stopped.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000015_000000|'Yes, yes.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000015_000001|Uncle!' answered from all sides the voices of the young Cossacks.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000016_000001|Tell us!' shouted Uncle Eroshka, wiping the sweat from his broad red face with the sleeve of his coat.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000017_000000|'Ah, there's a vulture living in the plane tree here, Uncle.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000018_000000|'Come, come!' said the old man incredulously.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000019_000000|'Really, Uncle!
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000019_000001|You must keep watch,' replied Nazarka with a laugh.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000020_000000|The other Cossacks began laughing.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000021_000000|The wag had not seen any vulture at all, but it had long been the custom of the young Cossacks in the cordon to tease and mislead Uncle Eroshka every time he came to them.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000023_000000|Nazarka was immediately silenced.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000024_000000|'It must be watched.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000024_000001|I'll watch,' answered the old man to the great delight of all the Cossacks. 'But have you seen any boars?'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000025_000000|'Watching for boars, are you?' said the corporal, bending forward and scratching his back with both hands, very pleased at the chance of some distraction.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000025_000001|'It's abreks one has to hunt here and not boars!
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000025_000002|You've not heard anything, Uncle, have you?' he added, needlessly screwing up his eyes and showing his close set white teeth.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000026_000000|'Abreks,' said the old man.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000026_000001|'No, I haven't.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000026_000002|I say, have you any chikhir?
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000026_000003|Let me have a drink, there's a good man.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000026_000004|I'm really quite done up.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000026_000005|When the time comes I'll bring you some fresh meat, I really will. Give me a drink!' he added.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000028_000000|'I did mean to watch tonight,' replied Uncle Eroshka. 'Maybe, with God's help, I shall kill something for the holiday.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000028_000001|Then you shall have a share, you shall indeed!'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000029_000000|'Uncle!
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000029_000001|Hallo, Uncle!' called out Lukashka sharply from above, attracting everybody's attention.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000029_000002|All the Cossacks looked up at him. 'Just go to the upper water course, there's a fine herd of boars there. I'm not inventing, really!
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000029_000003|The other day one of our Cossacks shot one there.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000030_000000|'Ah! Lukashka the Snatcher is here!' said the old man, looking up. 'Where has he been shooting?'
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000031_000000|'Haven't you seen?
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000031_000004|But I'll show you the place, it's not far.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000031_000005|You just wait a bit.
train-other-500/2407/7664/2407_7664_000031_000006|I know every one of their footpaths ...
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000000_000000|'Shall we lie here?' asked Nazarka.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000001_000001|'Sit down here and I'll be back in a minute.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000001_000002|I'll only show Daddy where to go.'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000002_000000|'This is the best place; here we can see and not be seen,' said Ergushov, 'so it's here we'll lie.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000002_000001|It's a first rate place!'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000003_000000|Nazarka and Ergushov spread out their cloaks and settled down behind the log, while Lukashka went on with Uncle Eroshka.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000004_000001|Daddy,' said Lukashka, stepping softly in front of the old man; 'I'll show you where they've been-I'm the only one that knows.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000004_000002|Daddy.'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000005_000000|'Show me!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000005_000001|You're a fine fellow, a regular Snatcher!' replied the old man, also whispering.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000006_000000|Having gone a few steps Lukashka stopped, stooped down over a puddle, and whistled.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000007_000000|'Christ bless you,' answered the old man.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000007_000001|'The boar will be in the hollow beyond the ditch,' he added.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000007_000002|Til watch, and you can go.'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000000|Lukashka pulled his cloak up higher and walked back alone, throwing swift glances now to the left at the wall of reeds, now to the Terek rushing by below the bank.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000001|'I daresay he's watching or creeping along somewhere,' thought he of a possible Chechen hillsman.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000002|Suddenly a loud rustling and a splash in the water made him start and seize his musket. From under the bank a boar leapt up-his dark outline showing for a moment against the glassy surface of the water and then disappearing among the reeds.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000003|Lukashka pulled out his gun and aimed, but before he could fire the boar had disappeared in the thicket.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000004|Lukashka spat with vexation and went on.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000005|On approaching the ambuscade he halted again and whistled softly.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000008_000006|His whistle was answered and he stepped up to his comrades.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000009_000000|Nazarka, all curled up, was already asleep.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000009_000001|Ergushov sat with his legs crossed and moved slightly to make room for Lukashka.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000010_000002|'Did you take him there?'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000011_000000|'Showed him where,' answered Lukashka, spreading out his cloak.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000011_000001|'But what a big boar I roused just now close to the water!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000011_000002|I expect it was the very one!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000011_000003|You must have heard the crash?'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000012_000000|'I did hear a beast crashing through.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000012_000001|I knew at once it was a beast.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000012_000002|I thought to myself: "Lukashka has roused a beast,"' Ergushov said, wrapping himself up in his cloak.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000012_000003|'Now I'll go to sleep,' he added. 'Wake me when the cocks crow.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000012_000004|We must have discipline.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000012_000005|I'll lie down and have a nap, and then you will have a nap and I'll watch-that's the way.'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000000|The night was dark, warm, and still.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000001|Only on one side of the sky the stars were shining, the other and greater part was overcast by one huge cloud stretching from the mountaintops.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000002|The black cloud, blending in the absence of any wind with the mountains, moved slowly onwards, its curved edges sharply denned against the deep starry sky.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000003|Only in front of him could the Cossack discern the Terek and the distance beyond. Behind and on both sides he was surrounded by a wall of reeds. Occasionally the reeds would sway and rustle against one another apparently without cause.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000004|Seen from down below, against the clear part of the sky, their waving tufts looked like the feathery branches of trees.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000005|Close in front at his very feet was the bank, and at its base the rushing torrent.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000006|A little farther on was the moving mass of glassy brown water which eddied rhythmically along the bank and round the shallows.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000007|Farther still, water, banks, and cloud all merged together in impenetrable gloom.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000008|Along the surface of the water floated black shadows, in which the experienced eyes of the Cossack detected trees carried down by the current.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000010|Once an owl flew past along the Terek, flapping one wing against the other rhythmically at every second beat.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000014_000012|At every one of these unexpected sounds the watching Cossack listened intently, straining his hearing, and screwing up his eyes while he deliberately felt for his musket.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000000|The greater part of the night was past.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000001|The black cloud that had moved westward revealed the clear starry sky from under its torn edge, and the golden upturned crescent of the moon shone above the mountains with a reddish light.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000002|The cold began to be penetrating.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000003|Nazarka awoke, spoke a little, and fell asleep again.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000004|Lukashka feeling bored got up, drew the knife from his dagger handle and began to fashion his stick into a ramrod.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000005|His head was full of the Chechens who lived over there in the mountains, and of how their brave lads came across and were not afraid of the Cossacks, and might even now be crossing the river at some other spot.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000006|He thrust himself out of his hiding place and looked along the river but could see nothing.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000007|And as he continued looking out at intervals upon the river and at the opposite bank, now dimly distinguishable from the water in the faint moonlight, he no longer thought about the Chechens but only of when it would be time to wake his comrades, and of going home to the village.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000008|In the village he imagined Dunayka, his 'little soul', as the Cossacks call a man's mistress, and thought of her with vexation.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000009|Silvery mists, a sign of coming morning, glittered white above the water, and not far from him young eagles were whistling and flapping their wings.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000015_000010|At last the crowing of a cock reached him from the distant village, followed by the long sustained note of another, which was again answered by yet other voices.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000000|'Time to wake them,' thought Lukashka, who had finished his ramrod and felt his eyes growing heavy.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000001|Turning to his comrades he managed to make out which pair of legs belonged to whom, when it suddenly seemed to him that he heard something splash on the other side of the Terek.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000003|For one instant it seemed to him that he was moving and that the Terek with the drifting wood remained stationary.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000004|Again he peered out.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000005|One large black log with a branch particularly attracted his attention.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000006|The tree was floating in a strange way right down the middle of the stream, neither rocking nor whirling.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000007|It even appeared not to be floating altogether with the current, but to be crossing it in the direction of the shallows.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000008|Lukashka stretching out his neck watched it intently.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000009|The tree floated to the shallows, stopped, and shifted in a peculiar manner.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000010|Lukashka thought he saw an arm stretched out from beneath the tree.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000011|'Supposing I killed an abrek all by myself!' he thought, and seized his gun with a swift, unhurried movement, putting up his gun rest, placing the gun upon it, and holding it noiselessly in position.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000012|Cocking the trigger, with bated breath he took aim, still peering out intently.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000013|'I won't wake them,' he thought.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000014|But his heart began beating so fast that he remained motionless, listening. Suddenly the trunk gave a plunge and again began to float across the stream towards our bank.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000015|'Only not to miss ...' thought he, and now by the faint light of the moon he caught a glimpse of a Tartar's head in front of the floating wood.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000016|He aimed straight at the head which appeared to be quite near-just at the end of his rifle's barrel.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000018|'Right enough it is an abrek! he thought joyfully, and suddenly rising to his knees he again took aim.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000019|Having found the sight, barely visible at the end of the long gun, he said: 'In the name of the Father and of the Son,' in the Cossack way learnt in his childhood, and pulled the trigger.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000016_000021|The piece of driftwood now floated not across, but with the current, rocking and whirling.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000017_000000|'Stop, I say!' exclaimed Ergushov, seizing his musket and raising himself behind the log near which he was lying.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000018_000000|'Shut up, you devil!' whispered Lukashka, grinding his teeth.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000018_000001|'abreks!'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000019_000000|'Whom have you shot?' asked Nazarka. 'Who was it, Lukashka?'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000020_000000|Lukashka did not answer.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000020_000001|He was reloading his gun and watching the floating wood.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000020_000002|A little way off it stopped on a sand bank, and from behind it something large that rocked in the water came into view.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000021_000000|'What did you shoot?
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000021_000001|Why don't you speak?' insisted the Cossacks.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000022_000000|'Abreks, I tell you!' said Lukashka.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000023_000000|'Don't humbug!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000023_000001|Did the gun go off? ...'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000024_000000|'I've killed an abrek, that's what I fired at,' muttered Lukashka in a voice choked by emotion, as he jumped to his feet.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000024_000001|'A man was swimming...' he said, pointing to the sandbank.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000024_000002|'I killed him.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000024_000003|Just look there.'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000025_000000|'Have done with your humbugging!' said Ergushov again, rubbing his eyes.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000026_000000|'Have done with what?
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000026_000001|Look there,' said Lukashka, seizing him by the shoulders and pulling him with such force that Ergushov groaned.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000027_000000|He looked in the direction in which Lukashka pointed, and discerning a body immediately changed his tone.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000028_000000|'O Lord!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000028_000001|But I say, more will come!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000028_000002|I tell you the truth,' said he softly, and began examining his musket.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000028_000003|'That was a scout swimming across: either the others are here already or are not far off on the other side-I tell you for sure!' Lukashka was unfastening his belt and taking off his Circassian coat.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000029_000000|'What are you up to, you idiot?' exclaimed Ergushov. 'Only show yourself and you've lost all for nothing, I tell you true!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000029_000001|If you've killed him he won't escape.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000029_000002|Let me have a little powder for my musket pan-you have some?
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000030_000000|'Catch me going alone!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000030_000001|Go yourself!' said Nazarka angrily.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000031_000000|Having taken off his coat, Lukashka went down to the bank.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000000|'Don't go in, I tell you!' said Ergushov, putting some powder on the pan.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000001|'Look, he's not moving.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000002|I can see.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000003|It's nearly morning; wait till they come from the cordon.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000004|You go, Nazarka.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000005|You're afraid!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000032_000006|Don't be afraid, I tell you.'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000033_000000|'luke, I say, Lukashka!
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000033_000001|Tell us how you did it!' said Nazarka.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000034_000000|Lukashka changed his mind about going into the water just then.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000034_000001|'Go quick to the cordon and I will watch.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000034_000002|Tell the Cossacks to send out the patrol.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000035_000000|'That's what I say.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000035_000001|They'll get off,' said Ergushov, rising.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000035_000002|'True, they must be caught!'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000036_000000|Ergushov and Nazarka rose and, crossing themselves, started off for the cordon-not along the riverbank but breaking their way through the brambles to reach a path in the wood.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000037_000000|'Now mind, Lukashka-they may cut you down here, so you'd best keep a sharp look out, I tell you!'
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000038_000000|'Go along; I know,' muttered Lukashka; and having examined his gun again he sat down behind the log.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000039_000000|He remained alone and sat gazing at the shallows and listening for the Cossacks; but it was some distance to the cordon and he was tormented by impatience.
train-other-500/2407/7666/2407_7666_000039_000003|He glanced round and at the opposite bank, expecting every moment to see a man, and having arranged his gun rest he was ready to fire.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000000_000000|'What have you shot?' asked the old man.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000001_000000|His sonorous voice resounded through the wood and downward along the river, suddenly dispelling the mysterious quiet of night around the Cossack.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000001_000001|It was as if everything had suddenly become lighter and more distinct.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000002_000000|'There now.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000002_000001|Uncle, you have not seen anything, but I've killed a beast,' said Lukashka, uncocking his gun and getting up with unnatural calmness.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000003_000000|The old man was staring intently at the white back, now clearly visible, against which the Terek rippled.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000004_000000|'He was swimming with a log on his back.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000004_000001|I spied him out! ...
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000004_000003|There!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000004_000004|He's got blue trousers, and a gun I think....
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000004_000005|Do you see?' inquired luke.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000005_000000|'How can one help seeing?' said the old man angrily, and a serious and stern expression appeared on his face.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000005_000001|'You've killed a brave,' he said, apparently with regret.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000000|'Well, I sat here and suddenly saw something dark on the other side.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000001|I spied him when he was still over there.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000002|It was as if a man had come there and fallen in.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000003|Strange!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000004|And a piece of driftwood, a good sized piece, comes floating, not with the stream but across it; and what do I see but a head appearing from under it!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000005|Strange!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000006|I stretched out of the reeds but could see nothing; then I rose and he must have heard, the beast, and crept out into the shallow and looked about.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000007|"No, you don't!" I said, as soon as he landed and looked round, "you won't get away!" Oh, there was something choking me!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000008|I got my gun ready but did not stir, and looked out.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000009|He waited a little and then swam out again; and when he came into the moonlight I could see his whole back.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000010|"In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost"... and through the smoke I see him struggling.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000011|He moaned, or so it seemed to me.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000013|He struggled a bit and then lay down.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000014|Everything could be seen.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000006_000015|Look, he does not move-he must be dead!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000007_000000|'And so you got him!' said the old man.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000007_000001|'He is far away now, my lad! ...' And again he shook his head sadly.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000009_000000|'You're a trump, luke!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000009_000001|Lug it to the bank!' shouted one of the Cossacks.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000011_000000|'Wait a bit, Nazarka is bringing the skiff,' shouted the corporal.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000012_000001|Maybe he is alive and only pretending!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000012_000002|Take your dagger with you!' shouted another Cossack.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000013_000000|'Get along,' cried luke, pulling off his trousers.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000013_000001|He quickly undressed and, crossing himself, jumped, plunging with a splash into the river. Then with long strokes of his white arms, lifting his back high out of the water and breathing deeply, he swam across the current of the Terek towards the shallows.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000013_000002|A crowd of Cossacks stood on the bank talking loudly.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000013_000003|Three horsemen rode off to patrol.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000013_000004|The skiff appeared round a bend.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000013_000005|Lukashka stood up on the sandbank, leaned over the body, and gave it a couple of shakes.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000014_000000|'Quite dead!' he shouted in a shrill voice.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000015_000000|The Chechen had been shot in the head.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000015_000001|He had on a pair of blue trousers, a shirt, and a Circassian coat, and a gun and dagger were tied to his back.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000015_000002|Above all these a large branch was tied, and it was this which at first had misled Lukashka.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000016_000000|'What a carp you've landed!' cried one of the Cossacks who had assembled in a circle, as the body, lifted out of the skiff, was laid on the bank, pressing down the grass.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000017_000000|'How yellow he is!' said another.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000018_000001|I expect the rest of them are on the other bank.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000018_000002|If this one had not been a scout he would not have swum that way.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000019_000000|'Must have been a smart one to offer himself before the others; a regular brave!' said Lukashka mockingly, shivering as he wrung out his clothes that had got wet on the bank.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000020_000000|'His beard is dyed and cropped.'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000021_000000|'And he has tied a bag with a coat in it to his back.'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000023_000000|'I say, Lukashka,' said the corporal, who was holding the dagger and gun taken from the dead man.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000023_000001|'Keep the dagger for yourself and the coat too; but I'll give you three rubles for the gun.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000023_000002|You see it has a hole in it,' said he, blowing into the muzzle.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000024_000000|Lukashka did not answer.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000024_000001|Evidently this sort of begging vexed him but he knew it could not be avoided.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000025_000000|'See, what a devil!' said he, frowning and throwing down the Chechen's coat.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000025_000001|'If at least it were a good coat, but it's a mere rag.'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000026_000000|'It'll do to fetch firewood in,' said one of the Cossacks.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000027_000000|'Mosev, I'll go home,' said Lukashka, evidently forgetting his vexation and wishing to get some advantage out of having to give a present to his superior.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000028_000000|'All right, you may go!'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000029_000000|'Take the body beyond the cordon, lads,' said the corporal, still examining the gun, 'and put a shelter over him from the sun
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000029_000001|Perhaps they'll send from the mountains to ransom it.'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000030_000000|'It isn't hot yet,' said someone.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000032_000000|'We'll set a watch; if they should come to ransom him it won't do for him to have been torn.'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000033_000000|'Well, Lukashka, whatever you do you must stand a pail of vodka for the lads,' said the corporal gaily.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000034_000000|'Of course!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000034_000001|That's the custom,' chimed in the Cossacks. 'See what luck God has sent you!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000034_000002|Without ever having seen anything of the kind before, you've killed a brave!'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000037_000000|'Drink, lads!
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000037_000001|I'll stand you a pail!' said luke. 'I'll bring it myself from the village.'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000038_000000|'And cut up the trousers into kerchiefs for the girls!' said Nazarka.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000039_000000|The Cossacks burst out laughing.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000040_000000|'Have done laughing!' said the corporal.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000040_000002|Why have you put the nasty thing by the hut?'
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000041_000001|Haul him along, lads!' shouted Lukashka in a commanding voice to the Cossacks, who reluctantly took hold of the body, obeying him as though he were their chief.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000041_000002|After dragging the body along for a few steps the Cossacks let fall the legs, which dropped with a lifeless jerk, and stepping apart they then stood silent for a few moments.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000041_000004|'See what a mark he has made right in the brain,' he said.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000041_000005|'He won't get lost.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000041_000006|His owners will always know him!' No one answered, and again the Angel of Silence flew over the Cossacks.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000000|The sun had risen high and its diverging beams were lighting up the dewy grass.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000001|Near by, the Terek murmured in the awakened wood and, greeting the morning, the pheasants called to one another.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000003|The brown body, with nothing on but the wet blue trousers held by a girdle over the sunken stomach, was well shaped and handsome.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000004|The muscular arms lay stretched straight out by his sides; the blue, freshly shaven, round head with the clotted wound on one side of it was thrown back.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000005|The smooth tanned forehead contrasted sharply with the shaven part of the head.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000006|The open glassy eyes with lowered pupils stared upwards, seeming to gaze past everything.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000007|Under the red trimmed moustache the fine lips, drawn at the corners, seemed stiffened into a smile of good-natured subtle raillery.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000042_000008|The fingers of the small hands covered with red hairs were bent inward, and the nails were dyed red.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000043_000000|Lukashka had not yet dressed.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000043_000001|He was wet.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000044_000000|'He too was a man!' he muttered, evidently admiring the corpse.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000046_000000|The Angel of Silence had taken wing.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000046_000001|The Cossacks began bustling about and talking.
train-other-500/2407/7667/2407_7667_000046_000003|luke and Nazarka ran to get ready to go to the village.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000003_000000|The 'dinner at home' ought to be the centre of the whole system of dinner giving.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000003_000001|Your usual style of meal-that is, plenteous, comfortable, and in its perfection-should be that to which you welcome your friends, as it is that of which you partake yourself.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000005_000000|Such a notion is monstrous.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000006_000000|Now, if this be the case; if the Brummagem plate pomp and the processions of disguised footmen are odious and foolish in everyday life, why not always?
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000007_000000|If it be pleasant to dine with your friends, as all persons with good stomachs and kindly hearts will, I presume, allow it to be, it is better to dine twice than to dine once.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000007_000002|People dine for less.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000008_000000|This rule I have made, and found the benefit of.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000009_000000|I am far from wishing that their Graces should treat me in a similar fashion.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000009_000002|Fate has comfortably appointed gold plate for some, and has bidden others contentedly to wear the willow pattern.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000012_000000|Peacocks' feathers are stuck in the tails of most families.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000012_000001|Scarce one of us domestic birds but imitates the lanky, pavonine strut, and shrill, genteel scream.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000012_000002|O you misguided dinner giving Snobs, think how much pleasure you lose, and how much mischief you do with your absurd grandeurs and hypocrisies!
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000015_000001|If the SOUFFLE should collapse, or if Wiggins does not send the ices in time-she feels as if she would commit suicide-that smiling, jolly woman!
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000017_000000|The servants are not servants, but the before mentioned retail tradesmen.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000018_000000|The plate is not plate, but a mere shiny Birmingham lacquer; and so is the hospitality, and everything else.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000019_000002|Jawkins, the great conversationalist, is scornful and indignant with the pair of them, because he is kept out of court.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000019_000003|Young Muscadel, that cheap dandy, is talking Fashion and Almack's out of the MORNING POST, and disgusting his neighbour, mrs Fox, who reflects that she has never been there.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000019_000004|The widow is vexed out of patience, because her daughter Maria has got a place beside young Cambric, the penniless curate, and not by Colonel Goldmore, the rich widower from India.
train-other-500/243/11266/243_11266_000019_000005|The Doctor's wife is sulky, because she has not been led out before the barrister's lady; old Doctor Cork is grumbling at the wine, and Guttleton sneering at the cookery.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000001_000000|EMBELLISHMENTS
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000002_000000|sixty four.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000003_000000|Usage varies greatly in the interpretation of the signs representing these embellishments and it is impossible to give examples of all the different forms.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000003_000001|The following definitions represent therefore only the most commonly found examples and the most generally accepted interpretations.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000004_000000|sixty five.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000004_000002|The lower of these two tones is represented by the printed note, while the upper one is the next higher tone in the diatonic scale of the key in which the composition is written.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000004_000003|The interval between the two tones may therefore be either a half step or a whole step.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000005_000000|Whether the trill is to begin with the principal tone (represented by the printed note) or with the one above is a matter of some dispute among theorists and performers, but it may safely be said that the majority of modern writers on the subject would have it begin on the principal tone rather than on the tone above.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000005_000001|Fig. forty.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000006_000001|Fig. forty one.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000011_000000|sixty six.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000013_000000|sixty seven.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000014_000000|In the case of both mordent and double mordent the tones are sounded as quickly as possible, the time taken by the embellishment being subtracted from the value of the principal note as printed.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000016_000000|sixty eight.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000016_000002|This ornament is sometimes called a "transient shake" because it is really only a part of the more elaborate grace called "trill." (See Fig. forty four.)
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000020_000000|sixty nine.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000024_000000|seventy.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000024_000002|In this case the four tones are of equal length as in the first example. (See Fig. forty seven.)
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000026_000001|But in both cases the time taken by the embellishment is taken from the time value of the principal note.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000026_000002|For further details see Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000026_000004|Also Elson, op
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000027_000001|Sometimes an accidental occurs with the turn, and in this case when written above the sign it refers to the highest tone of the turn, but when written below, to the lowest (Fig. forty eight).
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000029_000000|seventy two.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000031_000000|seventy three.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000034_000000|seventy four.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000036_000000|(two) When the principal note is dotted (division into halves being therefore not possible), the appoggiatura receives two thirds of the value. (Fig. fifty one.)
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000037_000000|(three) When the principal note is tied to a note of smaller denomination the appoggiatura receives the value of the first of the two notes. (Fig.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000037_000001|fifty two.)
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000041_000000|seventy five.
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000041_000003|vol
train-other-500/243/11595/243_11595_000042_000000|The use of embellishments is on the wane, and the student of to day needs the above information only to aid him in the interpretation of music written in previous centuries.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000000_000000|PLEA: CONFESSION AND AVOIDANCE
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000004_000000|"A Pearl, A Girl." -Browning
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000005_000000|There are of course, girls and girls; yet at heart they are pretty much alike.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000005_000001|In age, naturally, they differ wildly.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000005_000002|But this is a thorny subject.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000005_000003|Suffice it to say that all men love all girls the maid of sweet sixteen equally with the maid of untold age.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000006_000001|And they know it-which makes them more something or otherish still:--there is no other word for it.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000007_000000|A girl is a complicated thing.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000007_000001|It is made up of clothes, smiles, a pompadour, things of which space and prudence forbid the enumeration here.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000007_000002|These things by themselves do not constitute a girl which is obvious; nor is any one girl without these things which is not too obvious.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000007_000003|Where the things end and the girl begins many men have tried to find out.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000008_000000|Many girls would like to be men-except on occasions.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000009_000000|It is an open secret that girls are fonder of men than they are of one another-which is very lucky for the men.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000010_000000|Girls differ; and the same girl is different at different times.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000010_000001|When she is by herself, she is one thing.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000010_000002|When she is with other girls she is another thing.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000010_000003|When she is with a lot of men, she is a third sort of thing.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000010_000004|When she is with a man. . .
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000011_000000|As a rule, a man prefers a girl by herself.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000011_000001|This is natural.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000011_000002|And yet is said that you cannot have too much of a good thing.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000011_000004|Yet some men would sooner face the bulls of Bashan.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000012_000000|Some foolish men-probably poets-have sought for and asserted the existence of the ideal girl.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000012_000001|This is sheer nonsense: there is no such thing.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000013_000000|Other men, equally foolish, have regarded girls as playthings.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000013_000001|I wish these men had tried to play with them.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000013_000002|They would have found that they were playing with fire and brimstone.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000014_000000|Sweet?
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000014_000001|Yes.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000014_000003|On the six whole of this terrestrial sphere Nature has produced nothing more adorable than the high spirited high bred girl.--Of this she is quite aware-to our cost (I speak as a man).
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000014_000004|The consequence is, her price has gone up, and man has to pay high and pay all sorts of things-ices, sweets, champagne, drives, church goings, and sometimes spot cash.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000015_000001|It is a precious good thing that they don't.--Not that this is in any way disparaging to the girls.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000015_000002|The fact is
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000018_000001|No boy knows this-and precious few grown up men.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000019_000000|Many a grown up man plays with a girl, then finds himself in love with her.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000019_000001|As to the girl---
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000020_000000|Always the girl knows whether the play is leading: she probably chooses the game.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000021_000000|Very late in life does a man learn the truth (and significance) of that ancient proverb that Kissing goes by Favour.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000021_000001|For
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000022_000000|The masculine mind is the slave of Law and Justice:
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000023_000000|Aphrodite never heard of Law or Justice: she was born at sea.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000023_000001|That is to say,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000024_000001|And,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000026_000000|A girl, having given her heart, never recalls it not wholly: she may regret; she never recoils.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000026_000001|In other words,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000027_000000|To the man of her own free lawless choice a girl is always loyal; to subsequent and subordinate attachments she is dutiful.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000027_000001|So,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000028_000001|But, But,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000029_000000|Few things mystify poor law abiding man than this, that the central, the profoundest, the most portentous puzzle of the universe-the weal of woe of two high aspiring, much enduring, youthful human souls, should be the sport of what seems to him the veriest and merest chance.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000030_000000|The unconscious search of sweet sixteen is for (in mathematical language which will not sophisticate her) the integral of love.--Yet
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000031_000000|In the short years between sixteen and twenty a girl's love will undergo rapid and startling developments.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000032_000001|And
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000033_000000|To know the weaknesses and idiosyncrasies of men is perhaps a wife's chief task; unless it be to put up with them.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000034_000000|Often enough the freckled and fringrant girl wins over the professional beauty.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000035_000000|Sometimes grown up girls are just as shy as little ones-and for the same reasons because there is no one who knows how to play with them.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000037_000000|A girl is quick to discover the kind of love that is required of her.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000037_000001|As a rule
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000038_000000|Many a girl who has been sore put to it to prove herself whole hearted. For of course,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000039_000000|Always every suitor expects whole heartedness.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000039_000001|And this every girl instinctively knows.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000039_000002|Indeed,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000042_000001|And
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000043_000000|A young man's unsophisticatedeness it is a great delight to a woman to eradicate.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000043_000001|Yet
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000044_000000|A girl regards with complex emotions the man who has blossomed under the genial warmth of her rays; the flattery to own powers is counterbalanced by the evidence of lack of power in him.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000045_000000|A girl thinks she detects flippancy in seriousness.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000045_000001|A woman thinks she detects seriousness in flippancy.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000047_000000|Between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, girls play with love as if it were a doll; very soon after twenty they discover it is a dynamo.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000047_000001|This is why
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000048_000001|For
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000049_000001|Since even if
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000050_000001|Lastly,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000051_000000|A laxity with regard to the claims of courtship is apt to breed a laxity with regard to the claims of wedlock.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000051_000001|In short,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000052_000000|Flirtations, like clandestine engagements, are an affront to love. Accordingly
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000053_000001|Indeed,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000054_000001|Yet with extraordinary deftness she treads it.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000054_000007|She must win her one man, and she must win him for life; but she cannot pick or choose, for she must wait to be asked.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000055_000000|If she make test of many admirers, she is described as a flirt; if, conscientious and demure, she await her fate, a desirable fate is by no means assured.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000056_000000|In truth it seems that too often a girl must dissemble-hateful as dissemblance in men.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000056_000001|T'is a hard road indeed that a girl has to travel. To win her a fellow farer for life, she must go out of her way to accommodate so many travelers: and this one is lured by this, and that one by that, and another by something unnoticed by the throng.
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000057_000001|And always,
train-other-500/243/12956/243_12956_000058_000000|Always a girl has to pretend that never did she descend to dissemblance. --Which, nevertheless, is sometimes absolutely true, for
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000001_000000|LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000002_000000|In a great wide forest, full of beautiful trees, and green glades, and thorny thickets, there lived a long time ago a wood cutter and his wife, who had only one child, a little girl.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000002_000001|She was so pretty, and so good, that the sun seemed to shine more brightly when its light fell upon her rosy little face, and the birds would seem to sing more sweetly when she was passing by.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000003_000000|Her real name was Maisie; but the neighbors round about all called her "Little Red Riding Hood," because of a scarlet riding hood and cloak that her kind old grandmother had made for her, and which she nearly always wore.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000005_000000|Now, this, let me tell you before I forget, was at the time when all the birds and beasts, or very nearly all, could speak just as well as you or I; and nobody was surprised to hear them talk, as I suppose one would be nowadays.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000007_000000|It was on a bright spring morning early in May, when little Red Riding Hood had just finished putting away the breakfast cups that her mother came bustling in from the dairy.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000008_000000|"Here's a to do," she said.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000008_000001|"Farmer Hodge has this very minute told me that he hears your Grannie isn't quite well, and I can't leave the cheese making this morning for love or money!
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000008_000003|Maybe they'll tempt her to eat a bit.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000008_000004|Here's your basket, and don't be too long away, honey."
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000009_000001|But as she got deeper into the forest, she walked more slowly. Everything was so beautiful; the great trees waved their huge arms over her, the birds were calling to one another from the thorns all white with blossom, and the child began singing as she went, she could not have told why, but I think it was because the beautiful world made her feel glad.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000011_000000|"Good morning, mr Wolf," she answered.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000012_000000|"And where may you be going, sweet lass?" said the Wolf, as he walked beside her.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000013_000000|"Oh, Grannie isn't very well, and mother cannot leave the cheese making this morning, and so I'm taking her some little dainties in my basket, and I am to see how she is, and tell mother when I get back," said the child with a smile.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000015_000000|"Through the copse, and down the hollow, and over the bridge, and three meadows after the mill."
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000016_000000|"Does she indeed?" cried he.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000017_000000|So the Wolf trotted off one way, and Red Riding Hood went the other; and I am sorry to say that she lingered and loitered more than she ought to have done on the road.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000019_000000|"Oh! dear, how I must have lingered!" said the child, when she saw how high the sun had climbed since she set out on her journey; and, pattering up the garden path, she tapped at the cottage door.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000023_000000|"What a dreadful cold poor Grannie must have, to be sure, to make her so hoarse," thought the child.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000026_000000|And where was Grannie all this time, you will say?
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000026_000001|Well, we shall see presently.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000028_000000|"Oh!" said Red Riding Hood, "what great arms you have, Grannie!"
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000030_000000|"And what great rough ears you have, Grannie!"
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000031_000000|"All the better to hear you with, my little dear."
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000032_000000|"And your eyes, Grannie; what great yellow eyes you have!"
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000034_000000|"And oh!
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000036_000000|"But where is Grannie?" asked Little Red Riding Hood, when she had thanked the brave wood cutters.
train-other-500/243/160870/243_160870_000036_000002|Can the cruel Wolf have eaten her up?"
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000003_000002|He was the worst king that England ever had.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000004_000001|Every day a hundred noble men sat down with him to dine; and fifty brave knights, in fine velvet coats and gold chains, waited upon him at his table.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000005_000000|When King john heard of the way in which the abbot lived, he made up his mind to put a stop to it.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000005_000001|So he sent for the old man to come and see him.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000006_000000|"How now, my good abbot?" he said.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000006_000001|"I hear that you keep a far better house than i How dare you do such a thing?
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000006_000002|Don't you know that no man in the land ought to live better than the king?
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000006_000003|And I tell you that no man shall."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000007_000000|"O king!" said the abbot, "I beg to say that I am spending nothing but what is my own.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000008_000000|"Think ill of you?" said the king.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000008_000001|"How can I help but think ill of you?
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000008_000002|All that there is in this broad land is mine by right; and how do you dare to put me to shame by living in grander style than I? One would think that you were trying to be king in my place."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000009_000000|"Oh, do not say so!" said the abbot "For I"--
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000010_000000|"Not another word!" cried the king.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000011_000000|"I will try to answer them, O king!" said the abbot.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000014_000000|"Two weeks you shall have," said the king; "but if then you fail to answer me, you shall lose your head, and all your lands shall be mine."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000015_000000|The abbot went away very sad and in great fear.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000015_000001|He first rode to Oxford.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000015_000003|But they shook their heads, and said that there was nothing about King john in any of their books.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000017_000001|For now he had not a week to live.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000018_000001|THE THREE ANSWERS.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000020_000000|"Welcome home, good master!" cried the shepherd.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000020_000001|"What news do you bring us from great King john?"
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000021_000000|"Sad news, sad news," said the abbot; and then he told him all that had happened.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000022_000000|"Cheer up, cheer up, good master," said the shepherd.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000023_000000|"You help me!" cried the abbot "How?
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000023_000001|how?"
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000024_000002|If nothing else can be done, I can at least die in your place."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000025_000001|But if the worst comes to the worst, you shall not die for me.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000025_000002|I will die for myself."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000026_000001|He dressed himself with great care.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000026_000003|When all was ready, no one in the world would have thought that he was not the great man himself.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000026_000004|Then he mounted his horse, and with a great train of servants set out for London.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000027_000000|Of course the king did not know him.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000028_000000|"Welcome, Sir Abbot!" he said.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000028_000001|"It is a good thing that you have come back.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000029_000000|"I am ready to answer them, O king!" said the shepherd.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000030_000001|"Well, then, answer my first question: How long shall I live?
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000030_000002|Come, you must tell me to the very day."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000031_000000|"You shall live," said the shepherd, "until the day that you die, and not one day longer.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000031_000001|And you shall die when you take your last breath, and not one moment before."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000032_000000|The king laughed.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000033_000000|"You are witty, I see," he said.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000033_000001|"But we will let that pass, and say that your answer is right.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000033_000002|And now tell me how soon I may ride round the world."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000035_000001|As soon as you do that, you will find that you have ridden round the world in twenty four hours."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000036_000000|The king laughed again.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000036_000002|You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answer pass.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000036_000003|And now comes my third and last question: What do I think?"
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000037_000002|But, to tell you the truth, I am only his poor shepherd, and I have come to beg your pardon for him and for me." And with that, he threw off his long gown.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000038_000000|The king laughed loud and long.
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000039_000000|"A merry fellow you are," said he, "and you shall be the Abbot of Canterbury in your master's place."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000040_000000|"O king! that cannot be," said the shepherd; "for I can neither read nor write."
train-other-500/243/162846/243_162846_000041_000001|I will give you four pieces of silver every week as long as you live.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000000|No betrothal ceremony took place and Natasha's engagement to Bolkonski was not announced; Prince Andrew insisted on that.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000001|He said that as he was responsible for the delay he ought to bear the whole burden of it; that he had given his word and bound himself forever, but that he did not wish to bind Natasha and gave her perfect freedom.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000002|If after six months she felt that she did not love him she would have full right to reject him.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000003|Naturally neither Natasha nor her parents wished to hear of this, but Prince Andrew was firm.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000004|He came every day to the Rostovs', but did not behave to Natasha as an affianced lover: he did not use the familiar thou, but said you to her, and kissed only her hand.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000005|After their engagement, quite different, intimate, and natural relations sprang up between them.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000007|Both liked to recall how they had regarded each other when as yet they were nothing to one another; they felt themselves now quite different beings: then they were artificial, now natural and sincere.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000003_000008|At first the family felt some constraint in intercourse with Prince Andrew; he seemed a man from another world, and for a long time Natasha trained the family to get used to him, proudly assuring them all that he only appeared to be different, but was really just like all of them, and that she was not afraid of him and no one else ought to be.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000004_000000|In the house that poetic dullness and quiet reigned which always accompanies the presence of a betrothed couple.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000004_000001|Often when all sitting together everyone kept silent.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000004_000002|Sometimes the others would get up and go away and the couple, left alone, still remained silent.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000004_000004|Prince Andrew was afraid and ashamed to speak of it.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000004_000005|Natasha shared this as she did all his feelings, which she constantly divined.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000004_000006|Once she began questioning him about his son.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000005_000000|"Why not?" asked Natasha in a frightened tone.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000006_000000|"I cannot take him away from his grandfather, and besides..."
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000007_000000|"How I should have loved him!" said Natasha, immediately guessing his thought; "but I know you wish to avoid any pretext for finding fault with us."
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000000|Sometimes the old count would come up, kiss Prince Andrew, and ask his advice about Petya's education or Nicholas' service.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000001|The old countess sighed as she looked at them; Sonya was always getting frightened lest she should be in the way and tried to find excuses for leaving them alone, even when they did not wish it.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000002|When Prince Andrew spoke (he could tell a story very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke she noticed with fear and joy that he gazed attentively and scrutinizingly at her.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000003|She asked herself in perplexity: "What does he look for in me?
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000004|He is trying to discover something by looking at me!
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000005|What if what he seeks in me is not there?" Sometimes she fell into one of the mad, merry moods characteristic of her, and then she particularly loved to hear and see how Prince Andrew laughed.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000006|He seldom laughed, but when he did he abandoned himself entirely to his laughter, and after such a laugh she always felt nearer to him.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000008_000007|Natasha would have been completely happy if the thought of the separation awaiting her and drawing near had not terrified her, just as the mere thought of it made him turn pale and cold.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000009_000000|On the eve of his departure from Petersburg Prince Andrew brought with him Pierre, who had not been to the Rostovs' once since the ball.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000009_000001|Pierre seemed disconcerted and embarrassed.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000009_000002|He was talking to the countess, and Natasha sat down beside a little chess table with Sonya, thereby inviting Prince Andrew to come too.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000009_000003|He did so.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000010_000000|"You have known Bezukhov a long time?" he asked.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000010_000001|"Do you like him?"
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000011_000000|"Yes, he's a dear, but very absurd."
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000012_000000|And as usual when speaking of Pierre, she began to tell anecdotes of his absent mindedness, some of which had even been invented about him.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000013_000000|"Do you know I have entrusted him with our secret?
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000013_000001|I have known him from childhood.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000013_000002|He has a heart of gold.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000013_000004|You may cease to... all right, I know I am not to say that.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000013_000005|Only this, then: whatever may happen to you when I am not here..."
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000014_000000|"What can happen?"
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000015_000000|"Whatever trouble may come," Prince Andrew continued, "I beg you, Mademoiselle Sophie, whatever may happen, to turn to him alone for advice and help!
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000016_000000|Neither her father, nor her mother, nor Sonya, nor Prince Andrew himself could have foreseen how the separation from her lover would act on Natasha.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000016_000001|Flushed and agitated she went about the house all that day, dry eyed, occupied with most trivial matters as if not understanding what awaited her.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000016_000002|She did not even cry when, on taking leave, he kissed her hand for the last time.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000016_000003|"Don't go!" she said in a tone that made him wonder whether he really ought not to stay and which he remembered long afterwards.
train-other-500/2437/153219/2437_153219_000016_000004|Nor did she cry when he was gone; but for several days she sat in her room dry eyed, taking no interest in anything and only saying now and then, "Oh, why did he go away?"
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000000|During that year after his son's departure, Prince Nicholas Bolkonski's health and temper became much worse.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000001|He grew still more irritable, and it was Princess Mary who generally bore the brunt of his frequent fits of unprovoked anger.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000002|He seemed carefully to seek out her tender spots so as to torture her mentally as harshly as possible.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000003|Princess Mary had two passions and consequently two joys-her nephew, little Nicholas, and religion-and these were the favorite subjects of the prince's attacks and ridicule.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000004|Whatever was spoken of he would bring round to the superstitiousness of old maids, or the petting and spoiling of children.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000005|"You want to make him"--little Nicholas-"into an old maid like yourself!
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000006|A pity!
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000007|Prince Andrew wants a son and not an old maid," he would say.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000009_000008|Or, turning to Mademoiselle Bourienne, he would ask her in Princess Mary's presence how she liked our village priests and icons and would joke about them.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000010_000000|He continually hurt Princess Mary's feelings and tormented her, but it cost her no effort to forgive him.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000010_000001|Could he be to blame toward her, or could her father, whom she knew loved her in spite of it all, be unjust?
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000010_000002|And what is justice?
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000010_000004|What had she to do with the justice or injustice of other people?
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000010_000005|She had to endure and love, and that she did.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000011_000000|During the winter Prince Andrew had come to Bald Hills and had been gay, gentle, and more affectionate than Princess Mary had known him for a long time past.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000011_000001|She felt that something had happened to him, but he said nothing to her about his love.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000013_000000|Sorrow, it seems, is our common lot, my dear, tender friend Julie.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000000|Your loss is so terrible that I can only explain it to myself as a special providence of God who, loving you, wishes to try you and your excellent mother.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000001|Oh, my friend!
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000002|Religion, and religion alone, can-I will not say comfort us-but save us from despair.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000003|Religion alone can explain to us what without its help man cannot comprehend: why, for what cause, kind and noble beings able to find happiness in life-not merely harming no one but necessary to the happiness of others-are called away to God, while cruel, useless, harmful persons, or such as are a burden to themselves and to others, are left living.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000004|The first death I saw, and one I shall never forget-that of my dear sister in law-left that impression on me.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000006|And what do you think, dear friend?
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000007|Five years have passed since then, and already I, with my petty understanding, begin to see clearly why she had to die, and in what way that death was but an expression of the infinite goodness of the Creator, whose every action, though generally incomprehensible to us, is but a manifestation of His infinite love for His creatures.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000008|Perhaps, I often think, she was too angelically innocent to have the strength to perform all a mother's duties.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000009|As a young wife she was irreproachable; perhaps she could not have been so as a mother.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000010|As it is, not only has she left us, and particularly Prince Andrew, with the purest regrets and memories, but probably she will there receive a place I dare not hope for myself.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000012|Then, at the moment of our loss, these thoughts could not occur to me; I should then have dismissed them with horror, but now they are very clear and certain.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000013|I write all this to you, dear friend, only to convince you of the Gospel truth which has become for me a principle of life: not a single hair of our heads will fall without His will.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000014_000014|And His will is governed only by infinite love for us, and so whatever befalls us is for our good.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000000|You ask whether we shall spend next winter in Moscow.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000001|In spite of my wish to see you, I do not think so and do not want to do so.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000002|You will be surprised to hear that the reason for this is Buonaparte!
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000004|This irritability is, as you know, chiefly directed to political questions.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000007|And my father cannot stand this.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000008|It seems to me that it is chiefly because of his political views that my father is reluctant to speak of going to Moscow; for he foresees the encounters that would result from his way of expressing his views regardless of anybody.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000009|All the benefit he might derive from a course of treatment he would lose as a result of the disputes about Buonaparte which would be inevitable.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000015_000010|In any case it will be decided very shortly.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000000|Our family life goes on in the old way except for my brother Andrew's absence.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000001|He, as I wrote you before, has changed very much of late.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000002|After his sorrow he only this year quite recovered his spirits.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000004|He has realized, it seems to me, that life is not over for him.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000005|But together with this mental change he has grown physically much weaker.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000006|He has become thinner and more nervous.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000007|I am anxious about him and glad he is taking this trip abroad which the doctors recommended long ago.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000009|You write that in Petersburg he is spoken of as one of the most active, cultivated, and capable of the young men.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000010|Forgive my vanity as a relation, but I never doubted it.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000011|The good he has done to everybody here, from his peasants up to the gentry, is incalculable.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000012|On his arrival in Petersburg he received only his due.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000013|I always wonder at the way rumors fly from Petersburg to Moscow, especially such false ones as that you write about-I mean the report of my brother's betrothal to the little Rostova.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000014|I do not think my brother will ever marry again, and certainly not her; and this is why: first, I know that though he rarely speaks about the wife he has lost, the grief of that loss has gone too deep in his heart for him ever to decide to give her a successor and our little angel a stepmother.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000015|Secondly because, as far as I know, that girl is not the kind of girl who could please Prince Andrew.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000016|I do not think he would choose her for a wife, and frankly I do not wish it.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000018|Good bye, my dear friend.
train-other-500/2437/153220/2437_153220_000016_000019|May God keep you in His holy and mighty care.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000002_000000|THE FIRST CLUE
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000003_000000|Manton's car was a high powered, expensive limousine, fitted inside with every luxury of which the mind of even a prima donna could conceive, painted a vivid yellow that must have made it an object of attention even on its familiar routes.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000003_000001|It was quite characteristic of its owner, for Manton, as we learned, missed no chance to advertise himself.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000004_000000|In the back with us was Werner, while the rest of the company were left to return to the city in the two studio cars which had brought them out in the morning.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000004_000001|The director, however, seemed buried with his reflections.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000004_000002|He took no part in the conversation; paid no attention to us upon the entire trip.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000005_000000|Manton's mind seemed to dwell rather upon the problems brought up by the death of Stella than upon the tragedy itself.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000005_000002|I found that it was an unfair estimation.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000006_000000|"This has been a hoodoo picture from the start," he exclaimed, suddenly.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000006_000001|"We have been jinxed with a vengeance.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000006_000002|Some one has held the Indian sign on us for sure."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000008_000000|"First there were changes to be made in the script, and for those Millard took his own sweet time.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000008_000001|Then we were handed a lot of negative which had been fogged in the perforator, a thing that doesn't happen once in a thousand years.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000008_000002|But it caught us just as we sent the company down to Delaware Water Gap.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000008_000004|Neither of the camera men caught the fog in their tests because it came in the middle of the rolls.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000008_000005|Everything had to be done over again.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000009_000000|"And accidents!
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000009_000001|We carefully registered the principal accomplice of the 'Black Terror,' a little hunchback with a face to send chills down your back.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000009_000003|First we waited a few days; then we had to take all that stuff over again.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000010_000000|"Our payroll on this picture is staggering.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000010_000001|Stella's three thousand a week is cheap for her, the old contract, but it's a lot of money to throw away.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000010_000002|Two weeks when she was under the weather cost us six thousand dollars salary and there was half a week we couldn't do any work without her.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000010_000003|Gordon and Shirley and Marilyn Loring draw down seventeen hundred a week between them.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000010_000004|The director's salary is only two hundred short of that.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000011_000000|"And now"--it seemed to me that Manton literally groaned-"with Stella Lamar dead-excuse me looking at it this way, but, after all, it is business and I'm the executive at the head of the company-now we must find a new star, Lord knows where, and we must retake every scene in which Stella appeared.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000011_000001|It-it's enough to bankrupt Manton Pictures for once and all."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000013_000000|"Impossible!
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000014_000000|The car pulled up with a flourish before the Manton studio, which was an immense affair of reinforced concrete in the upper Bronx.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000014_000001|Then, in response to our horn, a great wide double door swung open admitting us through the building to a large courtyard around which the various departments were built.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000015_000001|Perhaps, had I been familiar with the ordinary bustle of the establishment, I might have detected a difference.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000015_000005|In the reception room there was a decided hush.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000017_000001|"He was here this morning and for a while yesterday."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000000|"You see!" Manton confronted Kennedy grimly.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000001|"This is only one of the things with which we have to contend in this business.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000002|I give Millard an office but he's a law unto himself.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000003|It's the artistic temperament. If I interfere, then he says he cannot write and he doesn't produce any manuscript.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000004|Ordinarily he cannot be bothered to work at the studio. But"--philosophically-"I know where to get him as a general thing.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000005|He does most of his writing in his rooms downtown; says there's more inspiration in the confusion of Broadway than in the wilds of the Bronx.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000018_000006|I'll phone him."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000019_000001|Its windows at frequent intervals looked down upon the courtyard and the present confusion.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000020_000000|Werner, who had preceded us into the building, now came up.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000021_000000|"This is my place," he explained.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000021_000001|"It connects with Manton, on one side, through his reception room.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000021_000002|You see, in addition to directing Stella Lamar I have been in general charge of production and most of the casting is up to me."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000022_000000|Kennedy entered after Werner, interested, and I followed.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000022_000002|I could see the promoter at his desk, receiver at his ear, an impatient expression upon his face.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000023_000000|"The next office on this side is Millard's," volunteered Werner.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000024_000000|"Manton has other writers, hasn't he?" Kennedy asked.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000025_000000|"Yes, the scenario department is on the third floor across the court, above the laboratory and cutting rooms."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000026_000000|"Who else is in the building here?"
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000027_000000|"There are six rooms on this floor," Werner replied.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000027_000002|Below is the general reception room, the cashier, the bookkeepers and stenographers."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000029_000000|Strolling out into the corridor, I went to the door of Millard's room. To my disappointment, it was locked.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000029_000001|Continuing down the hall, I stole a glance into each of the two directors' quarters but saw nothing to awaken my suspicion or justify my intrusion.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000029_000002|Beyond, I discovered a washroom, and, aware suddenly of the immense amount of dust I had acquired in the ride in from Tarrytown, I entered to freshen my hands and face at the least.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000030_000000|The amount of money to be made in the movies had resulted, in the case of Manton, in luxurious equipment for all the various departments of his establishment.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000030_000002|Now, in the lavatory, immaculate with its white tile and modern appointments, I saw a shelf literally stacked, in this day of paper, with linen towels of the finest quality.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000031_000000|As I drew the water, hot instantly, my eye caught, half in and half out of the wire basket beneath the stand, one of the towels covered with peculiar yellow spots.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000031_000001|Immediately my suspicions were awakened.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000031_000002|I picked it up gingerly.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000031_000004|I folded the towel hastily and hurried to rejoin him, to show it to him.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000032_000000|I found him with Werner, waiting for the results of Manton's efforts to locate Millard.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000032_000001|Almost at the moment I rejoined the two a boy came to summon Werner to one of the sets out on the stage itself.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000032_000002|Kennedy and I were alone.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000032_000003|I showed him the towel.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000033_000001|"This is only simple coloring matter Chinese yellow, to be exact.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000033_000002|And will you tell me, too"--he became ironical-"how do you expect to find clues of this sort here for a murder committed in Tarrytown when all the people present were held out there and examined, when we are the first to arrive back here?
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000034_000000|"Yellow, you know, photographs white.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000035_000000|"If you will notice, the next time you see them shooting a scene, you will find the actors' faces tinged with yellow.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000036_000000|I was properly chastened.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000036_000001|In fact, though I did not say much, I almost determined to let him conduct his case himself.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000037_000000|Kennedy saw my crestfallen expression and understood.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000037_000001|He was about to say something encouraging, as he handed back the towel, when his eye fell on the other end of it, which, indeed, I myself had noticed.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000038_000000|He sobered instantly and studied the other spots.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000038_000001|Indeed, I had not examined them closely myself.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000038_000002|They were the very faint stains of some other yellow substance, a liquid which had dried and did not rub off as the make-up, and there were also some small round drops of dark red, almost hidden in the fancy red scrollwork of the lettering on the towel, "Manton Pictures, inc" The latter had escaped me altogether.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000039_000000|"Blood!" Kennedy exclaimed.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000039_000001|Then, "Look here!"
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000039_000002|The marks of the pale yellow liquid trailed into a slender trace of blood.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000039_000003|"It looks as if some one had cleaned a needle on it," he muttered, "and in a hurry."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000040_000001|The murder had been in Tarrytown.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000040_000002|We had just arrived here.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000041_000000|"Would anyone have time to do it?" I asked.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000042_000000|"Whoever used the towel did so in a hurry," he reiterated, seriously. "It may have been some one afraid to leave any sort of clue out there at Phelps's house.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000042_000001|There were too many watchers about.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000042_000002|It might have seemed better to have run the risk of a search.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000042_000003|With no sign of a wound on Miss Lamar's person, it was pretty certain that neither Mackay nor I would attempt to frisk everyone.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000042_000004|It was not as though we were looking for a revolver, if she were shot, or a knife, if she had been stabbed. And"--he could not resist another dig at me-"and that we should look in a washroom here for a towel was, well, an idea that wouldn't occur to anyone but the most amateur and blundering sort of sleuth.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000042_000005|It's beginner's luck, Walter, beginner's luck."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000043_000001|"Who could have been in the washroom just before me?" I asked.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000044_000000|Suddenly he hurried through the waiting room to the door to Manton's office, opening it without ceremony.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000044_000001|Manton was gone.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000044_000002|We exchanged glances.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000044_000003|I remembered that Werner had preceded us upstairs.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000045_000000|Kennedy strode out to the hall, and to a window overlooking the court. After a moment he pointed.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000045_000001|I recognized both the cars used to transport the company to the home of Emery Phelps.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000046_000000|"They must have arrived immediately behind us," Kennedy remarked.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000046_000001|"We wasted several valuable minutes looking at that water stuff ourselves."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000047_000000|At that moment Werner's voice rose from the reception room below.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000047_000001|It was probable that he would be up to rejoin us again.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000048_000000|"Listen, Craig," I muttered, in low tones.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000049_000000|"Why not!" he interrupted, contradicting me.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000051_000000|"'Sh!" Kennedy stopped me as Werner mounted the stairs.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000051_000001|He turned to the director with assumed nonchalance.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000051_000002|"How long have the other cars been here?" he asked.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000051_000003|"I thought we came pretty fast."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000052_000001|"I guess those boys had enough of Tarrytown.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000052_000002|They rolled into the yard, both of them, while you and mr Jameson and Manton were stopping to watch the people in the water."
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000053_000000|"I see!" Kennedy gave me a side glance.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000053_000001|"Where are the dressing rooms?" he inquired.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000053_000002|It was a random shot.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000054_000000|Werner pointed to the end of the hall, toward the washroom.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000054_000001|"In the next building, on this floor-that is, the principals'.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000054_000002|It's a rotten arrangement," he added.
train-other-500/2437/155505/2437_155505_000054_000003|"They come through sometimes and use our lavatory, because it's a little more fancy and because it saves a trip down a flight of stairs.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000001_000001|She had put on her plainest dress, and wound a closely, patterned veil over her least vivid hat; but even thus toned down to the situation she was conscious of blazing out from it inconveniently.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000002_000000|The habit of meeting young men in sequestered spots was not unknown to her: the novelty was in feeling any embarrassment about it.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000002_000001|Even now she-was disturbed not so much by the unlikely chance of an accidental encounter with Ralph Marvell as by the remembrance of similar meetings, far from accidental, with the romantic Aaronson.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000002_000002|Could it be that the hand now adorned with Ralph's engagement ring had once, in this very spot, surrendered itself to the riding master's pressure?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000002_000003|At the thought a wave of physical disgust passed over her, blotting out another memory as distasteful but more remote.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000003_000000|It was revived by the appearance of a ruddy middle sized young man, his stoutish figure tightly buttoned into a square shouldered over coat, who presently approached along the path that led to the arbour.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000003_000004|He had always had a brisk swaggering step, and the faintly impudent tilt of the head that she had once thought "dashing"; but whereas this look had formerly denoted a somewhat desperate defiance of the world and its judgments it now suggested an almost assured relation to these powers; and Undine's heart sank at the thought of what the change implied.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000005_000000|"Well-this is white of you.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000005_000001|Undine!" he said, taking her lifeless fingers into his dapperly gloved hand.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000006_000000|Through her veil she formed the words: "I said I'd come."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000007_000000|He laughed.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000007_000001|"That's so.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000007_000002|And you see I believed you.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000007_000003|Though I might not have-"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000008_000000|"I don't see the use of beginning like this," she interrupted nervously.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000009_000000|"That's so too.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000009_000001|Suppose we walk along a little ways?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000009_000002|It's rather chilly standing round."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000011_000000|When they had reached the comparative shelter of the interlacing trees Moffatt paused again to say: "If we're going to talk I'd like to see you.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000011_000001|Undine;" and after a first moment of reluctance she submissively threw back her veil.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000015_000000|He returned her smile while his glance continued to study her humorously.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000015_000001|"You didn't betray the fact last night.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000015_000002|Miss Spragg."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000016_000000|"I was so taken aback.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000017_000000|The young man shaped his lips into the mute whistle by which he habitually vented his surprise.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000017_000001|"You DID?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000017_000002|Didn't Abner e Spragg tell you he'd seen me down town?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000018_000000|Undine gave him a startled glance.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000018_000001|"Father?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000018_000002|Why, have you seen him?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000019_000000|Her companion's whistle became audible.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000019_000001|"He's running yet!" he said gaily.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000019_000002|"I wish I could scare some people as easy as I can your father."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000020_000000|The girl hesitated.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000022_000000|"I didn't mean to, Elmer ...
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000022_000001|I give you my word-but I was so young ... I didn't know anything...."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000023_000000|His eyes had a twinkle of reminiscent pleasantry.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000024_000000|Undine flushed to the forehead.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000025_000000|"That's a fact.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000025_000001|And you went on being one a good while afterward.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000027_000000|"That ruled out of court too?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000027_000001|See here.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000027_000002|Undine-what CAN we talk about? I understood that was what we were here for."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000028_000000|"Of course." She made an effort at recovery.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000029_000000|"Rake up?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000029_000001|That's the idea, is it?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000030_000000|"I-oh, Elmer!
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000030_000001|I didn't mean to; only, you see, I'm engaged."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000031_000000|"Oh, I saw that fast enough.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000031_000003|I don't wonder he was.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000031_000004|I remember. But I don't see that that was a reason for cold shouldering me.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000032_000000|But to Undine, though undoubtedly impressive, the statement did not immediately present itself as a subject for pleasantry.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000033_000000|"Elmer Moffatt-you ARE?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000034_000000|He laughed again.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000035_000000|She was following her own train of thought with a look of pale intensity.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000035_000001|"You're LIVING in New York, then-you're going to live here right along?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000036_000000|"Well, it looks that way; as long as I can hang on to this job.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000036_000001|Great men always gravitate to the metropolis.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000036_000003|I happened to go out there after our little unpleasantness at Apex, and it was just the time the deal went through. So in one way your folks did me a good turn when they made Apex too hot for me: funny to think of, ain't it?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000037_000000|Undine, recovering herself, held out her hand impulsively.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000039_000000|"Much obliged," he returned.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000039_000001|"By the way, you might mention the fact to Abner e Spragg next time you run across him."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000040_000000|"Father'll be real glad too, Elmer." She hesitated, and then went on: "You must see now that it was natural father and mother should have felt the way they did-"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000041_000000|"Oh, the only thing that struck me as unnatural was their making you feel so too.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000041_000001|But I'm free to admit I wasn't a promising case in those days." His glance played over her for a moment.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000041_000002|"Say, Undine-it was good while it lasted, though, wasn't it?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000042_000000|She shrank back with a burning face and eyes of misery.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000043_000001|That ruled out too?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000043_000002|Oh, all right.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000044_000000|She cast a helpless glance down the windings of the wooded glen in which they had halted.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000045_000000|"Just to ask you-to beg you-not to say anything of this kind again-EVER-"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000046_000000|"Anything about you and me?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000047_000000|She nodded mutely.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000048_000000|"Why, what's wrong?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000048_000001|Anybody been saying anything against me?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000049_000001|It's not that!"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000051_000000|His tone seemed to increase her distress.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000052_000000|"Yes; but WHY?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000054_000000|This last strain on his credulity wrung a laugh from Moffatt.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000054_000002|Playing 'Holy City' on the melodeon, and knitting tidies for church fairs?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000055_000000|"Girls are looked after here.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000055_000001|It's all different.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000055_000002|Their mothers go round with them."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000056_000000|This increased her companion's hilarity and he glanced about him with a pretense of compunction.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000056_000003|Where's your chaperon, Miss Spragg?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000056_000005|You see I'm onto the New York style myself."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000057_000001|"Elmer-if you really believe I never wanted to act mean to you, don't you act mean to me now!"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000058_000000|"Act mean?" He grew serious again and moved nearer to her.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000059_000000|"What I told you.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000059_000001|I don't want Ralph Marvell-or any of them-to know anything.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000059_000004|And it would KILL me, Elmer-it would just kill me!"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000060_000000|She pressed close to him, forgetful of her new reserves and repugnances, and impelled by the passionate absorbing desire to wring from him some definite pledge of safety.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000063_000000|"That so, Puss?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000063_000001|You just ask me to pass the sponge over Elmer Moffatt of Apex City?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000063_000002|Cut the gentleman when we meet?
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000063_000003|That the size of it?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000065_000000|"Nonsense, child!
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000065_000002|Here, look up.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000065_000003|Undine-why, I never saw you cry before.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000065_000005|"I only just want one little promise in return."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000067_000001|"Afterward-yes.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000067_000002|I promise.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000069_000001|She slipped through the marble vestibule and soared skyward in the mirror lined lift, hardly conscious of the direction she was taking.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000069_000002|What she wanted was solitude, and the time to put some order into her thoughts; and she hoped to steal into her room without meeting her mother.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000071_000001|"I told you I'd be awfully late."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000072_000000|"I know-trying on!
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000072_000001|And you're horribly tired, and wishing with all your might I wasn't here."
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000074_000000|"What a tragic little voice!
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000074_000001|You really are done up.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000075_000000|A quiver of resistance ran through her: he felt it and dropped her hands.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000076_000000|"Please don't tease.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000078_000000|She forced a laugh.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000079_000000|"All to make yourself more beautiful for a man who's blind with your beauty already?"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000080_000000|The words made her smile, and moving nearer she bent her head and stood still while he undid her veil.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000080_000001|As he put it back their lips met, and his look of passionate tenderness was incense to her.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000081_000002|You've been crying!"
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000082_000000|She put both hands to her hat in the instinctive effort to hide her face.
train-other-500/2445/148556/2445_148556_000082_000001|His persistence was as irritating as her mother's.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000001_000000|"I said something like it," observed Tennyson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000003_000000|"You?" he cried.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000003_000001|"And who, pray, may you be?"
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000004_000000|"My name is Tennyson," replied the poet.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000005_000000|"And a very good name it is," said Shakespeare.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000007_000000|"I did," said the late laureate, proudly.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000008_000000|"In what pursuit?" asked Doctor Johnson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000009_000000|"Poetry," said Tennyson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000009_000001|"I wrote 'Locksley Hall' and 'Come into the Garden, Maude.'"
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000010_000000|"Humph!" said Doctor Johnson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000011_000000|"Well, why should you have read them?" snarled Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000011_000001|"They were written after you moved over here, and they were good stuff.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000013_000000|"Seven!" snapped Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000014_000000|"Well, seven then," returned Johnson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000014_000001|"I never saw the work, but I heard Frederick speaking of it the other day.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000014_000002|Bonaparte asked him if he had read it, and Frederick said no, he hadn't time.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000014_000003|Bonaparte cried, 'Haven't time?
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000014_000004|Why, my dear king, you've got all eternity.' 'I know it,' replied Frederick, 'but that isn't enough.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000014_000005|Read a page or two, my dear Napoleon, and you'll see why.'"
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000015_000000|"Frederick will have his joke," said Shakespeare, with a wink at Tennyson and a smile for the two philosophers, intended, no doubt, to put them in a more agreeable frame of mind.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000015_000001|"Why, he even asked me the other day why I never wrote a tragedy about him, completely ignoring the fact that he came along many years after I had departed.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000015_000003|'I didn't know that,' said i 'And why should you?' said he.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000015_000004|'You're English.'"
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000016_000000|"A very rude remark," said Johnson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000016_000001|"As if we English were incapable of seeing a joke!"
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000000|"Exactly," put in Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000001|"It strikes me as the absurdest notion that the Englishman can't see a joke.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000002|To the mind that is accustomed to snap judgments I have no doubt the Englishman appears to be dull of apprehension, but the philosophy of the whole matter is apparent to the mind that takes the trouble to investigate.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000006|I leaned over his shoulder to see what he was laughing at.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000007|'That isn't so funny,' said I, as I read the paragraph on which his eye was resting.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000009|I was enjoying the joke that appeared in the same relative position in last week's issue.' Now that's the point-the whole point.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000017_000011|It is the back number that amuses him-which merely proves that he is a deliberative person who weighs even his humor carefully before giving way to his emotions."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000019_000000|Shakespeare snickered quietly, but Carlyle and Johnson looked upon the intruder severely.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000020_000000|"We will take that question into consideration," said Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000020_000001|"Perhaps to morrow we shall have a definite answer ready for you."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000021_000000|"Never mind," returned the humorist.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000021_000001|"You've proved your point.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000021_000002|Tennyson tells me you find life here dull, Shakespeare."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000022_000000|"Somewhat," said Shakespeare.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000022_000002|I must have occupation, and the stage isn't popular here.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000022_000005|There is nothing I'd like better than to manage a theatre in this place, but think of the riots we'd have!
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000022_000006|Suppose, for an instant, that I wrote a play about Bonaparte!
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000024_000000|"No doubt," returned Shakespeare, sadly; "but in that event Wellington would be in the other stage box, and I'd get the greeting from him."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000025_000000|"Why come out at all?" asked Johnson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000026_000000|"Why come out at all?" echoed Shakespeare.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000026_000001|"What fun is there in writing a play if you can't come out and show yourself at the first night?
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000026_000002|That's the author's reward.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000026_000003|If it wasn't for the first night business, though, all would be plain sailing."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000027_000000|"Then why don't you begin it the second night?" drawled Ward.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000028_000000|"How the deuce could you?" put in Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000029_000000|"A most extraordinary proposition," sneered Johnson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000030_000000|"Yes," said Ward; "but wait a week-you'll see the point then."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000031_000000|"There isn't any doubt in my mind," said Shakespeare, reverting to his original proposition, "that the only perfectly satisfactory life is under a system not yet adopted in either world-the one we have quitted or this.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000031_000002|The great life in my estimation, would be to return to earth and battle with mortal problems, but equipped mentally and physically with immortal weapons."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000032_000000|"Some people don't know when they are well off," said Beau Brummel.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000032_000001|"This strikes me as being an ideal life.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000032_000003|The fact that there are ghosts of departed unpaid bills haunting my bedside at night doesn't bother me in the least, because the bailiffs that in the old life lent terror to an overdue account, thanks to our beneficent system here, are kept in the less agreeable sections of Hades.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000032_000004|I used to regret that bailiffs were such low people, but now I rejoice at it.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000032_000005|If they had been of a different order they might have proven unpleasant here."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000033_000000|"You are right, my dear Brummel," interposed Munchausen.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000033_000001|"This life is far preferable to that in the other sphere.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000033_000002|Any of you gentlemen who happen to have had the pleasure of reading my memoirs must have been struck with the tremendous difficulties that encumbered my progress.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000034_000000|"That's very likely true," said Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000034_000001|"I should think your feats of strength would have wrecked your imagination in time."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000035_000000|"Not so," said Munchausen.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000035_000001|"On the contrary, continuous exercise served only to make it stronger.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000036_000000|"You miss my point," said Shakespeare.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000036_000001|"I don't say this life is worse or better than the other we used to live.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000036_000002|What I do say is that a combination of both would suit me.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000036_000003|In short, I'd like to live here and go to the other world every day to business, like a suburban resident who sleeps in the country and makes his living in the city.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000036_000004|For instance, why shouldn't I dwell here and go to London every day, hire an office there, and put out a sign something like this:
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000037_000000|WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DRAMATIST
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000038_000000|Plays written while you wait
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000039_000000|I guess I'd find plenty to do."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000040_000000|"Guess again," said Tennyson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000040_000001|"My dear boy, you forget one thing.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000041_000000|"That is true," said Ward.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000041_000001|"And they do do you, my beloved William.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000041_000002|It's a wonder to me you are not dizzy turning over in your grave the way they do you."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000042_000001|"I know, of course, that I have to be adapted at times; but to be wholly out of date strikes me as a hard fate."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000044_000000|"Then I should succeed," said Shakespeare.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000045_000000|"No, I don't think so," returned Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000045_000001|"You couldn't stand the pace. The world revolves faster to day than it did in your time-men write three or four plays at once.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000045_000002|This is what you might call a Type writer Age, and to keep up with the procession you'd have to work as you never worked before."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000046_000000|"That is true," observed Tennyson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000047_000000|"He might do as a great many modern writers do," said Ward; "go in for the Paper doll Drama.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000051_000000|"You draw a very blue picture, it seems to me," said Shakespeare, sadly.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000052_000000|"Well, it's true," said Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000052_000001|"The world isn't at all what it used to be in any one respect, and you fellows who made great reputations centuries ago wouldn't have even the ghost of a show now.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000052_000002|I don't believe Homer could get a poem accepted by a modern magazine, and while the comic papers are still printing Diogenes' jokes the old gentleman couldn't make enough out of them in these days to pay taxes on his tub, let alone earning his bread."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000053_000000|"That is exactly so," said Tennyson.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000053_000001|"I'd be willing to wager too that, in the line of personal prowess, even D'Artagnan and Athos and Porthos and Aramis couldn't stand London for one day."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000054_000000|"Or New York either," said mr Barnum, who had been an interested listener.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000054_000001|"A New York policeman could have managed that quartet with one hand."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000055_000000|"Then," said Shakespeare, "in the opinion of you gentlemen, we old time lions would appear to modern eyes to be more or less stuffed?"
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000056_000000|"That's about the size of it," said Carlyle.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000057_000001|"You'd drive a five legged calf to suicide from envy.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000057_000002|If I could take you and Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte and Nero over for one circus season we'd drive the mint out of business."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000058_000000|"There's your chance, William," said Ward.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000058_000001|"You write a play for Bonaparte and Caesar, and let Nero take his fiddle and be the orchestra. Under Barnum's management you'd get enough activity in one season to last you through all eternity."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000059_000000|"You can count on me," said Barnum, rising.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000059_000001|"Let me know when you've got your plan laid out.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000059_000002|I'd stay and make a contract with you now, but Adam has promised to give me points on the management of wild animals without cages, so I can't wait.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000059_000003|By by."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000060_000001|"That's a gay proposition.
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000060_000002|When monkeys move in polite society William Shakespeare will make a side show of himself for a circus."
train-other-500/2448/141428/2448_141428_000061_000000|"They do now," said Thackeray, quietly.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000001_000002|At this the lad got very angry; and as he thought it hard that the North Wind should behave so, he thought he'd just look him up, and ask him to give up his meal.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000002_000000|So off he went, but the way was long, and he walked and walked; but at last he came to the North Wind's house.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000003_000000|'Good day!' said the lad, 'and thank you for coming to see us yesterday.'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000004_000000|'GOOD DAY!' answered the North Wind, for his voice was loud and gruff, 'AND THANKS FOR COMING TO SEE ME.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000004_000001|WHAT DO YOU WANT?'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000007_000000|With this the lad was well content.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000009_000000|He had scarce said so before the cloth did as it was bid; and all who stood by thought it a fine thing, but most of all the landlady.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000009_000001|So, when all were fast asleep at dead of night, she took the lad's cloth, and put another in its stead, just like the one he had got from the North Wind, but which couldn't so much as serve up a bit of dry bread.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000010_000000|So, when the lad woke, he took his cloth and went off with it, and that day he got home to his mother.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000011_000000|'Now', said he, 'I've been to the North Wind's house, and a good fellow he is, for he gave me this cloth, and when I only say to it, "Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes", I get any sort of food I please.'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000013_000000|So the lad made haste, drew out a table, laid the cloth on it, and said:
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000014_000000|'Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes.'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000015_000000|But never a bit of dry bread did the cloth serve up.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000017_000000|So he came to where the North Wind lived late in the afternoon.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000018_000000|'Good evening!' said the lad.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000019_000000|'Good evening!' said the North Wind.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000020_000000|'I want my rights for that meal of ours which you took', said the lad; 'for, as for that cloth I got, it isn't worth a penny.'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000021_000000|'I've got no meal', said the North Wind; 'but yonder you have a ram which coins nothing but golden ducats as soon as you say to it:
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000022_000000|"Rain, ram! make money!"
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000023_000000|So the lad thought this a fine thing; but as it was too far to get home that day, he turned in for the night to the same inn where he had slept before.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000025_000000|Next morning off went the lad; and when he got home to his mother, he said:
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000026_000000|'After all, the North Wind is a jolly fellow; for now he has given me a ram which can coin golden ducats if I only say "Ram, ram!
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000026_000001|make money."'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000027_000000|'All very true, I daresay', said his mother; 'but I shan't believe any such stuff until I see the ducats made.'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000028_000000|'Ram, ram! make money!' said the lad; but if the Ram made anything, it wasn't money.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000029_000000|So the lad went back again to the North Wind, and blew him up, and said the ram was worth nothing, and he must have his rights for the meal.
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000031_000000|'"Stick, stick! lay on!" it lays on till you say: "Stick, stick!
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000031_000001|now stop!"'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000033_000000|Now the landlord, who easily saw that the stick must be worth something, hunted up one which was like it, and when he heard the lad snore, was going to change the two; but, just as the landlord was about to take it, the lad bawled out: 'Stick, stick! lay on!'
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000034_000000|So the stick began to beat the landlord, till he jumped over chairs, and tables, and benches, and yelled and roared:
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000036_000000|When the lad thought the landlord had got enough, he said:
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000037_000000|'Stick, stick!
train-other-500/2448/163517/2448_163517_000037_000001|now stop!'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000001_000000|WELL DONE AND ILL PAID
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000002_000000|Once on a time there was a man, who had to drive his sledge to the wood for fuel.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000002_000001|So a Bear met him.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000003_000000|'Out with your horse', said the Bear, 'or I'll strike all your sheep dead by summer.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000004_000001|I'll bring the horse to you to morrow morning.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000005_000000|Yes! on those terms he might drive the wood home, that was a bargain; but Bruin said, 'if he didn't come back, he should lose all his sheep by summer'.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000006_000000|So the man got the wood on the sledge and rattled homewards, but he wasn't over pleased at the bargain you may fancy.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000006_000001|So just then a Fox met him.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000008_000000|'Oh, if you want to know', said the man; 'I met a Bear up yonder in the wood, and I had to give my word to him to bring Dobbin back to morrow, at this very hour; for if he didn't get him, he said he would tear all my sheep to death by summer.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000009_000000|'Stuff, nothing worse than that', said the Fox; 'if you'll give me your fattest wether, I'll soon set you free; see if I don't.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000010_000000|Yes! the man gave his word, and swore he would keep it too.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000011_000000|'Well, when you come with Dobbin to morrow for the bear', said the Fox, 'I'll make a clatter up in that heap of stones yonder, and so when the bear asks what that noise is, you must say 'tis peter the Marksman, who is the best shot in the world; and after that you must help yourself.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000014_000001|I know him by his voice.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000015_000000|'Have you seen any bears about here, Eric?' shouted out a voice in the wood.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000016_000000|'Say, no!' said the Bear.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000017_000000|'No, I haven't seen any', said Eric.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000018_000000|'What's that then, that stands alongside your sledge?' bawled out the voice in the wood.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000020_000000|'Oh, it's only an old fir stump', said the man.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000021_000000|'Such fir stumps we take in our country and roll them on our sledges', bawled out the voice; 'if you can't do it yourself, I'll come and help you.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000024_000000|'Such fir stumps we always bind fast on our sledges in our part of the world', bawled out the voice; 'shall I come and help you?'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000025_000000|'Say you can help yourself, and bind me fast, do', said the Bear.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000026_000000|'No, thanks, I can help myself well enough', said the man, who set to binding Bruin fast with all the ropes he had, so that at last the bear couldn't stir a paw.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000027_000000|'Such fir stumps we always drive our axes into, in our part of the world', bawled out the voice; 'for then we guide them better going down the steep pitches.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000028_000000|'Pretend to drive your axe into me, do now', said the bear.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000028_000002|But when they came near the farm, the Fox said:
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000029_000000|'I've no mind to go right home with you, for I can't say I like your tykes; so I'll just wait here, and you can bring the wether to me, but mind and pick out one nice and fat.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000030_000000|Yes! the man would be sure to do that, and thanked the Fox much for his help.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000030_000001|So when he had put up Dobbin, he went across to the sheep stall.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000031_000000|'Whither away, now?' asked his old dame.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000033_000000|'Whither, indeed', said the old dame; 'never a one shall that thief of a Fox get.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000033_000002|No, no; take a brace of your swiftest hounds in a sack, and slip them loose after him; and then, perhaps, we shall be rid of this robbing Reynard.'
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000035_000000|'Have you brought the wether?' said the Fox.
train-other-500/2448/163521/2448_163521_000036_000000|'Yes, come and take it', said the man, as he untied the sack and let slip the hounds.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000002_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000003_000000|mr Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gateshead.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000003_000002|Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000003_000004|I should not settle tamely down into being the forbearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: I should insist, also, on your keeping some of those drawling, half insincere complaints hushed in your own breast.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000003_000005|It is only because our connection happens to be very transitory, and comes at a peculiarly mournful season, that I consent thus to render it so patient and compliant on my part."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000004_000000|At last I saw Georgiana off; but now it was Eliza's turn to request me to stay another week.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000004_000002|She wished me to look after the house, to see callers, and answer notes of condolence.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000005_000001|"And," she added, "I am obliged to you for your valuable services and discreet conduct!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000006_000000|I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to dissuade her from it.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000007_000000|When we parted, she said: "Good bye, cousin Jane Eyre; I wish you well: you have some sense."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000009_000000|"You are in the right," said she; and with these words we each went our separate way.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000010_000000|How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000010_000002|Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000010_000003|The return to Thornfield was yet to be tried.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000011_000001|During the first twelve hours I thought of mrs Reed in her last moments; I saw her disfigured and discoloured face, and heard her strangely altered voice.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000011_000002|I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants-few was the number of relatives-the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000011_000003|Then I thought of Eliza and Georgiana; I beheld one the cynosure of a ball room, the other the inmate of a convent cell; and I dwelt on and analysed their separate peculiarities of person and character.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000012_000001|Not long; of that I was sure.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000012_000002|I had heard from mrs Fairfax in the interim of my absence: the party at the hall was dispersed; mr Rochester had left for London three weeks ago, but he was then expected to return in a fortnight.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000012_000004|"You would be strangely incredulous if you did doubt it," was my mental comment.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000012_000005|"I don't doubt it."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000016_000001|"mrs Fairfax will smile you a calm welcome, to be sure," said I; "and little Adele will clap her hands and jump to see you: but you know very well you are thinking of another than they, and that he is not thinking of you."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000017_000000|But what is so headstrong as youth?
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000017_000001|What so blind as inexperience?
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000018_000000|They are making hay, too, in Thornfield meadows: or rather, the labourers are just quitting their work, and returning home with their rakes on their shoulders, now, at the hour I arrive.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000018_000001|I have but a field or two to traverse, and then I shall cross the road and reach the gates.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000018_000002|How full the hedges are of roses!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000018_000003|But I have no time to gather any; I want to be at the house.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000018_000004|I passed a tall briar, shooting leafy and flowery branches across the path; I see the narrow stile with stone steps; and I see-mr Rochester sitting there, a book and a pencil in his hand; he is writing.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000019_000000|Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000019_000001|What does it mean?
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000019_000002|I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000019_000003|I will go back as soon as I can stir: I need not make an absolute fool of myself.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000019_000004|I know another way to the house.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000019_000005|It does not signify if I knew twenty ways; for he has seen me.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000020_000001|"There you are!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000020_000002|Come on, if you please."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000021_000000|I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face-which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000021_000001|But I have a veil-it is down: I may make shift yet to behave with decent composure.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000022_000000|"And this is Jane Eyre?
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000022_000002|What the deuce have you done with yourself this last month?"
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000024_000000|"A true Janian reply!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000024_000001|Good angels be my guard!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000024_000002|She comes from the other world-from the abode of people who are dead; and tells me so when she meets me alone here in the gloaming!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000024_000004|Truant!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000024_000005|truant!" he added, when he had paused an instant.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000025_000002|And he had spoken of Thornfield as my home-would that it were my home!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000026_000001|I inquired soon if he had not been to London.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000027_000000|"Yes; I suppose you found that out by second sight."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000028_000000|"mrs Fairfax told me in a letter."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000030_000000|"Oh, yes, sir!
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000030_000001|Everybody knew your errand."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000031_000000|"You must see the carriage, Jane, and tell me if you don't think it will suit mrs Rochester exactly; and whether she won't look like Queen Boadicea, leaning back against those purple cushions.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000031_000001|I wish, Jane, I were a trifle better adapted to match with her externally.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000031_000002|Tell me now, fairy as you are-can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?"
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000032_000000|"It would be past the power of magic, sir;" and, in thought, I added, "A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond beauty."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000035_000001|I got over the stile without a word, and meant to leave him calmly.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000035_000003|I said-or something in me said for me, and in spite of me-
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000036_000001|I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home-my only home."
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000037_000000|I walked on so fast that even he could hardly have overtaken me had he tried.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000037_000001|Little Adele was half wild with delight when she saw me.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000037_000002|mrs Fairfax received me with her usual plain friendliness.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000037_000003|Leah smiled, and even Sophie bid me "bon soir" with glee.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000037_000004|This was very pleasant; there is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
train-other-500/245/122647/245_122647_000039_000001|Almost every day I asked mrs Fairfax if she had yet heard anything decided: her answer was always in the negative.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000000_000000|On Midsummer eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000000_000001|I watched her drop asleep, and when I left her, I sought the garden.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000002_000003|Here one could wander unseen.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000002_000004|While such honey dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on this more open quarter, my step is stayed-not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a warning fragrance.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000003_000000|Sweet briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is-I know it well-it is mr Rochester's cigar.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000003_000001|I look round and I listen.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000003_000002|I see trees laden with ripening fruit.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000003_000004|I step aside into the ivy recess; he will not stay long: he will soon return whence he came, and if I sit still he will never see me.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000004_000000|But no-eventide is as pleasant to him as to me, and this antique garden as attractive; and he strolls on, now lifting the gooseberry tree branches to look at the fruit, large as plums, with which they are laden; now taking a ripe cherry from the wall; now stooping towards a knot of flowers, either to inhale their fragrance or to admire the dew beads on their petals.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000004_000001|A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at mr Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000006_000001|"I shall get by very well," I meditated.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000006_000002|As I crossed his shadow, thrown long over the garden by the moon, not yet risen high, he said quietly, without turning-
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000007_000000|"Jane, come and look at this fellow."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000008_000000|I had made no noise: he had not eyes behind-could his shadow feel?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000008_000001|I started at first, and then I approached him.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000009_000000|"Look at his wings," said he, "he reminds me rather of a West Indian insect; one does not often see so large and gay a night rover in England; there! he is flown."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000010_000000|The moth roamed away.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000010_000001|I was sheepishly retreating also; but mr Rochester followed me, and when we reached the wicket, he said-
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000012_000002|I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil-if evil existent or prospective there was-seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000013_000000|"Jane," he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, and slowly strayed down in the direction of the sunk fence and the horse chestnut, "Thornfield is a pleasant place in summer, is it not?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000016_000000|"I am attached to it, indeed."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000017_000000|"And though I don't comprehend how it is, I perceive you have acquired a degree of regard for that foolish little child Adele, too; and even for simple dame Fairfax?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000019_000000|"And would be sorry to part with them?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000020_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000021_000000|"Pity!" he said, and sighed and paused.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000022_000000|"Must I move on, sir?" I asked.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000023_000001|I am sorry, Janet, but I believe indeed you must."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000024_000000|This was a blow: but I did not let it prostrate me.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000025_000000|"Well, sir, I shall be ready when the order to march comes."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000026_000000|"It is come now-I must give it to night."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000029_000000|"Soon, sir?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000030_000002|That was only a lady clock, child, 'flying away home.' I wish to remind you that it was you who first said to me, with that discretion I respect in you-with that foresight, prudence, and humility which befit your responsible and dependent position-that in case I married Miss Ingram, both you and little Adele had better trot forthwith.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000030_000004|Adele must go to school; and you, Miss Eyre, must get a new situation."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000032_000000|"In about a month I hope to be a bridegroom," continued mr Rochester; "and in the interim, I shall myself look out for employment and an asylum for you."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000033_000000|"Thank you, sir; I am sorry to give-"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000034_000002|You'll like Ireland, I think: they're such warm hearted people there, they say."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000035_000000|"It is a long way off, sir."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000038_000000|"From what, Jane?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000039_000000|"From England and from Thornfield: and-"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000040_000000|"Well?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000042_000000|I said this almost involuntarily, and, with as little sanction of free will, my tears gushed out.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000042_000001|I did not cry so as to be heard, however; I avoided sobbing.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000043_000000|"It is a long way," I again said.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000044_000000|"It is, to be sure; and when you get to Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland, I shall never see you again, Jane: that's morally certain.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000044_000001|I never go over to Ireland, not having myself much of a fancy for the country.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000044_000002|We have been good friends, Jane; have we not?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000046_000000|"And when friends are on the eve of separation, they like to spend the little time that remains to them close to each other.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000046_000001|Come! we'll talk over the voyage and the parting quietly half an hour or so, while the stars enter into their shining life up in heaven yonder: here is the chestnut tree: here is the bench at its old roots.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000046_000002|Come, we will sit there in peace to night, though we should never more be destined to sit there together." He seated me and himself.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000047_000000|"It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000047_000001|Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000049_000000|"Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you-especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000049_000001|And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,--you'd forget me."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000051_000001|Listen!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000052_000001|When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000053_000000|"Because you are sorry to leave it?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000054_000000|The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway, and asserting a right to predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last: yes,--and to speak.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000055_000001|I have not been trampled on.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000055_000002|I have not been petrified.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000055_000003|I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000055_000004|I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,--with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000055_000005|I have known you, mr Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000057_000000|"Where?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000057_000001|You, sir, have placed it before me."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000058_000000|"In what shape?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000059_000000|"In the shape of Miss Ingram; a noble and beautiful woman,--your bride."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000060_000000|"My bride!
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000060_000001|What bride?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000060_000002|I have no bride!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000061_000000|"But you will have."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000062_000000|"Yes;--I will!--I will!" He set his teeth.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000063_000000|"Then I must go:--you have said it yourself."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000064_000000|"No: you must stay!
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000064_000001|I swear it-and the oath shall be kept."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000065_000001|"Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000065_000002|Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000065_000003|Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000065_000004|You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart!
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000065_000005|And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000066_000001|Gathering me to his breast, pressing his lips on my lips: "so, Jane!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000067_000000|"Yes, so, sir," I rejoined: "and yet not so; for you are a married man-or as good as a married man, and wed to one inferior to you-to one with whom you have no sympathy-whom I do not believe you truly love; for I have seen and heard you sneer at her.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000067_000001|I would scorn such a union: therefore I am better than you-let me go!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000068_000000|"Where, Jane?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000068_000001|To Ireland?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000069_000000|"Yes-to Ireland.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000069_000001|I have spoken my mind, and can go anywhere now."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000071_000000|"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000072_000000|Another effort set me at liberty, and I stood erect before him.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000073_000000|"And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000074_000000|"You play a farce, which I merely laugh at."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000075_000000|"I ask you to pass through life at my side-to be my second self, and best earthly companion."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000076_000000|"For that fate you have already made your choice, and must abide by it."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000078_000002|mr Rochester sat quiet, looking at me gently and seriously.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000078_000003|Some time passed before he spoke; he at last said-
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000079_000000|"Come to my side, Jane, and let us explain and understand one another."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000080_000000|"I will never again come to your side: I am torn away now, and cannot return."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000082_000000|I was silent: I thought he mocked me.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000083_000000|"Come, Jane-come hither."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000084_000000|"Your bride stands between us."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000085_000000|He rose, and with a stride reached me.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000086_000000|"My bride is here," he said, again drawing me to him, "because my equal is here, and my likeness.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000086_000001|Jane, will you marry me?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000087_000000|Still I did not answer, and still I writhed myself from his grasp: for I was still incredulous.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000088_000000|"Do you doubt me, Jane?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000089_000000|"Entirely."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000090_000000|"You have no faith in me?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000091_000000|"Not a whit."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000092_000002|What love have I for Miss Ingram?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000092_000003|None: and that you know.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000092_000004|What love has she for me?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000092_000006|I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000092_000007|You-you strange, you almost unearthly thing!--I love as my own flesh.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000094_000000|"You, Jane, I must have you for my own-entirely my own.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000094_000001|Will you be mine?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000094_000002|Say yes, quickly."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000095_000000|"mr Rochester, let me look at your face: turn to the moonlight."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000096_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000097_000000|"Because I want to read your countenance-turn!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000098_000001|Read on: only make haste, for I suffer."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000099_000000|His face was very much agitated and very much flushed, and there were strong workings in the features, and strange gleams in the eyes.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000100_000000|"Oh, Jane, you torture me!" he exclaimed.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000100_000001|"With that searching and yet faithful and generous look, you torture me!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000101_000000|"How can I do that?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000101_000001|If you are true, and your offer real, my only feelings to you must be gratitude and devotion-they cannot torture."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000102_000000|"Gratitude!" he ejaculated; and added wildly-"Jane accept me quickly. Say, Edward-give me my name-Edward-I will marry you."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000103_000000|"Are you in earnest?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000103_000002|Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000104_000000|"I do; and if an oath is necessary to satisfy you, I swear it."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000105_000000|"Then, sir, I will marry you."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000106_000000|"Edward-my little wife!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000107_000000|"Dear Edward!"
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000108_000000|"Come to me-come to me entirely now," said he; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, "Make my happiness-I will make yours."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000109_000000|"God pardon me!" he subjoined ere long; "and man meddle not with me: I have her, and will hold her."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000110_000000|"There is no one to meddle, sir.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000110_000001|I have no kindred to interfere."
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000000|"No-that is the best of it," he said.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000002|Again and again he said, "Are you happy, Jane?" And again and again I answered, "Yes." After which he murmured, "It will atone-it will atone.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000003|Have I not found her friendless, and cold, and comfortless?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000004|Will I not guard, and cherish, and solace her?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000005|Is there not love in my heart, and constancy in my resolves?
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000006|It will expiate at God's tribunal.
train-other-500/245/122648/245_122648_000111_000007|I know my Maker sanctions what I do.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000002_000000|As the Countess Gemini was not acquainted with the ancient monuments Isabel occasionally offered to introduce her to these interesting relics and to give their afternoon drive an antiquarian aim.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000002_000001|The Countess, who professed to think her sister in law a prodigy of learning, never made an objection, and gazed at masses of Roman brickwork as patiently as if they had been mounds of modern drapery.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000002_000006|It was in this manner that she had hitherto examined the Coliseum, to the infinite regret of her niece, who-with all the respect that she owed her-could not see why she should not descend from the vehicle and enter the building.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000002_000009|The three ladies went into the Coliseum together, but Isabel left her companions to wander over the place.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000002_000014|Here and there wandered a peasant or a tourist, looking up at the far sky line where, in the clear stillness, a multitude of swallows kept circling and plunging.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000002_000016|When he had assured himself that she was unaccompanied he drew near, remarking that though she would not answer his letters she would perhaps not wholly close her ears to his spoken eloquence.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000003_000003|"The sale took place three days ago, and they've telegraphed me the result.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000003_000004|It's magnificent."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000005_000000|"I have the money instead-fifty thousand dollars.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000005_000001|Will mr Osmond think me rich enough now?"
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000007_000002|I went to Paris and made my arrangements.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000007_000003|I couldn't stop for the sale; I couldn't have seen them going off; I think it would have killed me.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000007_000004|But I put them into good hands, and they brought high prices.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000007_000005|I should tell you I have kept my enamels.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000009_000000|Rosier gave her a sharp look.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000009_000001|"Do you mean that without my bibelots I'm nothing?
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000009_000003|That's what they told me in Paris; oh they were very frank about it.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000009_000004|But they hadn't seen HER!"
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000010_000000|"My dear friend, you deserve to succeed," said Isabel very kindly.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000011_000001|He had the air of a man who knows he has been the talk of Paris for a week and is full half a head taller in consequence, but who also has a painful suspicion that in spite of this increase of stature one or two persons still have the perversity to think him diminutive.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000011_000002|"I know what happened here while I was away," he went on; "What does mr Osmond expect after she has refused Lord Warburton?"
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000013_000000|"What other nobleman?"
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000015_000000|Rosier slowly got up, putting his watch into his waistcoat pocket. "You're laughing at some one, but this time I don't think it's at me."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000016_000000|"I didn't mean to laugh," said Isabel.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000016_000001|"I laugh very seldom.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000016_000002|Now you had better go away."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000017_000000|"I feel very safe!" Rosier declared without moving.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000017_000001|This might be; but it evidently made him feel more so to make the announcement in rather a loud voice, balancing himself a little complacently on his toes and looking all round the Coliseum as if it were filled with an audience. Suddenly Isabel saw him change colour; there was more of an audience than he had suspected.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000017_000002|She turned and perceived that her two companions had returned from their excursion.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000017_000003|"You must really go away," she said quickly.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000017_000005|And then he added eagerly, like a man who in the midst of his misery is seized by a happy thought: "Is that lady the Countess Gemini?
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000018_000000|Isabel looked at him a moment.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000018_000001|"She has no influence with her brother."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000021_000001|And she went on without a murmur, without faltering or glancing back.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000021_000003|He had removed his hat and was bowing and smiling; he had evidently introduced himself, while the Countess's expressive back displayed to Isabel's eye a gracious inclination.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000021_000005|There shone out of each of them a little melancholy ray-a spark of timid passion which touched Isabel to the heart.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000022_000000|"Oh never mind!" Pansy answered in the tone of eager apology.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000022_000001|And then there was a silence; the Countess was a long time coming.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000023_000000|"Yes, I showed her everything.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000023_000001|I think she was very much pleased."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000024_000000|"And you're not tired, I hope."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000025_000000|"Oh no, thank you, I'm not tired."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000026_000001|He presently returned with the announcement that the Signora Contessa begged them not to wait-she would come home in a cab!
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000027_000003|"It will be the last-for some time."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000028_000000|Her voice was strange, and her eyes, widely opened, had an excited, frightened look.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000028_000001|"You're not going away!" Isabel exclaimed.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000029_000000|"I'm going to the convent."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000030_000000|"To the convent?"
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000031_000000|Pansy drew nearer, till she was near enough to put her arms round Isabel and rest her head on her shoulder.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000031_000004|"Why are you going to the convent?"
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000032_000002|He says the world, always the world, is very bad for a young girl.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000033_000001|"When was this decided?" she asked.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000033_000002|"I've heard nothing of it."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000034_000003|I shall find all those ladies who used to be so kind to me, and I shall see the little girls who are being educated.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000034_000005|"And I'm also very fond of Mother Catherine.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000034_000006|I shall be very quiet and think a great deal."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000038_000000|Half an hour later she learned from her maid that Madame Catherine had arrived in a cab and had departed again with the signorina.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000038_000002|She could only dimly perceive that he had more traditions than she supposed. It had become her habit to be so careful as to what she said to him that, strange as it may appear, she hesitated, for several minutes after he had come in, to allude to his daughter's sudden departure: she spoke of it only after they were seated at table.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000038_000003|But she had forbidden herself ever to ask Osmond a question.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000038_000005|"I shall miss Pansy very much."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000002|You must go and see her, you know; but not too often.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000004|It doesn't matter; don't trouble yourself about it.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000005|That's why I had not spoken of it.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000006|I didn't believe you would enter into it.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000009|With the manners of the present time she is liable to become so dusty and crumpled.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000011|This bustling, pushing rabble that calls itself society-one should take her out of it occasionally.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000012|Convents are very quiet, very convenient, very salutary.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000013|I like to think of her there, in the old garden, under the arcade, among those tranquil virtuous women.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000014|Many of them are gentlewomen born; several of them are noble.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000015|She will have her books and her drawing, she will have her piano.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000019|His tone, however, was that of a man not so much offering an explanation as putting a thing into words-almost into pictures-to see, himself, how it would look.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000021|And then he went on: "The Catholics are very wise after all.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000022|The convent is a great institution; we can't do without it; it corresponds to an essential need in families, in society.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000023|It's a school of good manners; it's a school of repose.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000039_000026|Only she must think of it in the right way."
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000040_000000|Isabel gave an extreme attention to this little sketch; she found it indeed intensely interesting.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000040_000002|She could not understand his purpose, no-not wholly; but she understood it better than he supposed or desired, inasmuch as she was convinced that the whole proceeding was an elaborate mystification, addressed to herself and destined to act upon her imagination.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000040_000005|Pansy had known the convent in her childhood and had found a happy home there; she was fond of the good sisters, who were very fond of her, and there was therefore for the moment no definite hardship in her lot.
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000041_000001|Why, don't you say at once that you want to get her out of my way?
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000041_000004|He has made me believe in true love; I never did before!
train-other-500/2485/143898/2485_143898_000041_000005|Of course you've made up your mind that with those convictions I'm dreadful company for Pansy."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000000_000000|Chapter six
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000001_000000|The Hard Won Triumph
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000002_000001|There is a very pleasant light in Tom's blue gray eyes as he glances at the house windows; that fold in his brow never disappears, but it is not unbecoming; it seems to imply a strength of will that may possibly be without harshness, when the eyes and mouth have their gentlest expression.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000002_000002|His firm step becomes quicker, and the corners of his mouth rebel against the compression which is meant to forbid a smile.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000003_000000|The eyes in the parlor were not turned toward the bridge just then, and the group there was sitting in unexpectant silence,--mr
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000003_000001|Tulliver in his arm chair, tired with a long ride, and ruminating with a worn look, fixed chiefly on Maggie, who was bending over her sewing while her mother was making the tea.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000004_000000|They all looked up with surprise when they heard the well-known foot.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000005_000000|"Why, what's up now, Tom?" said his father.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000005_000001|"You're a bit earlier than usual."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000006_000000|"Oh, there was nothing more for me to do, so I came away.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000006_000001|Well, mother!"
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000007_000000|Tom went up to his mother and kissed her, a sign of unusual good humor with him.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000007_000001|Hardly a word or look had passed between him and Maggie in all the three weeks; but his usual incommunicativeness at home prevented this from being noticeable to their parents.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000008_000000|"Father," said Tom, when they had finished tea, "do you know exactly how much money there is in the tin box?"
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000009_000000|"Only a hundred and ninety three pound," said mr Tulliver.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000010_000000|"Are you quite sure that's the sum, father?" said Tom.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000010_000001|"I wish you would take the trouble to fetch the tin box down.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000010_000002|I think you have perhaps made a mistake."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000011_000000|"How should I make a mistake?" said his father, sharply.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000011_000001|"I've counted it often enough; but I can fetch it, if you won't believe me."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000012_000000|It was always an incident mr Tulliver liked, in his gloomy life, to fetch the tin box and count the money.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000013_000000|"Don't go out of the room, mother," said Tom, as he saw her moving when his father was gone upstairs.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000014_000000|"And isn't Maggie to go?" said mrs Tulliver; "because somebody must take away the things."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000015_000000|"Just as she likes," said Tom indifferently.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000016_000000|That was a cutting word to Maggie.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000016_000001|Her heart had leaped with the sudden conviction that Tom was going to tell their father the debts could be paid; and Tom would have let her be absent when that news was told!
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000016_000002|But she carried away the tray and came back immediately.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000016_000003|The feeling of injury on her own behalf could not predominate at that moment.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000017_000001|The mother and Maggie sat at the other end of the table, the one in blank patience, the other in palpitating expectation.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000018_000000|mr Tulliver counted out the money, setting it in order on the table, and then said, glancing sharply at Tom:
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000019_000000|"There now! you see I was right enough."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000020_000000|He paused, looking at the money with bitter despondency.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000021_000002|This world's been too many for me.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000021_000005|But you're like enough to bury me first."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000022_000000|He looked up in Tom's face with a querulous desire for some assurance.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000023_000000|"No, father," said Tom, speaking with energetic decision, though there was tremor discernible in his voice too, "you will live to see the debts all paid.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000023_000001|You shall pay them with your own hand."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000024_000000|His tone implied something more than mere hopefulness or resolution.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000024_000001|A slight electric shock seemed to pass through mr Tulliver, and he kept his eyes fixed on Tom with a look of eager inquiry, while Maggie, unable to restrain herself, rushed to her father's side and knelt down by him.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000024_000002|Tom was silent a little while before he went on.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000025_000000|"A good while ago, my uncle Glegg lent me a little money to trade with, and that has answered.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000025_000001|I have three hundred and twenty pounds in the bank."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000026_000000|His mother's arms were round his neck as soon as the last words were uttered, and she said, half crying:
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000028_000000|But his father was silent; the flood of emotion hemmed in all power of speech.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000028_000001|Both Tom and Maggie were struck with fear lest the shock of joy might even be fatal.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000028_000002|But the blessed relief of tears came.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000028_000003|The broad chest heaved, the muscles of the face gave way, and the gray haired man burst into loud sobs.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000028_000004|The fit of weeping gradually subsided, and he sat quiet, recovering the regularity of his breathing.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000030_000000|When she had kissed him, and he had held her hand a minute, his thoughts went back to the money.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000032_000000|"You shall see it to morrow, father," said Tom.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000032_000001|"My uncle Deane has appointed the creditors to meet to morrow at the Golden Lion, and he has ordered a dinner for them at two o'clock.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000032_000002|My uncle Glegg and he will both be there.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000032_000003|It was advertised in the 'Messenger' on Saturday."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000034_000000|"Yes," said mrs Tulliver, drawing out her much reduced bunch of keys, "there's some brandy sister Deane brought me when I was ill."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000035_000000|"Get it me, then; get it me.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000035_000001|I feel a bit weak."
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000037_000000|mr Tulliver threw himself back in his chair; his mind, which had so long been the home of nothing but bitter discontent and foreboding, suddenly filled, by the magic of joy, with visions of good fortune. But some subtle influence prevented him from foreseeing the good fortune as happening to himself.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000039_000000|Tom never lived to taste another moment so delicious as that; and Maggie couldn't help forgetting her own grievances.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000039_000002|She felt no jealousy this evening that, for the first time, she seemed to be thrown into the background in her father's mind.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000040_000000|There was much more talk before bedtime.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000040_000001|mr Tulliver naturally wanted to hear all the particulars of Tom's trading adventures, and he listened with growing excitement and delight.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000040_000003|Bob's juvenile history, so far as it had come under mr Tulliver's knowledge, was recalled with that sense of astonishing promise it displayed, which is observable in all reminiscences of the childhood of great men.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000041_000000|It was well that there was this interest of narrative to keep under the vague but fierce sense of triumph over Wakem, which would otherwise have been the channel his joy would have rushed into with dangerous force.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000041_000001|Even as it was, that feeling from time to time gave threats of its ultimate mastery, in sudden bursts of irrelevant exclamation.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000042_000000|It was long before mr Tulliver got to sleep that night; and the sleep, when it came, was filled with vivid dreams.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000042_000001|At half past five o'clock in the morning, when mrs Tulliver was already rising, he alarmed her by starting up with a sort of smothered shout, and looking round in a bewildered way at the walls of the bedroom.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000043_000000|"What's the matter, mr Tulliver?" said his wife.
train-other-500/2485/151992/2485_151992_000043_000001|He looked at her, still with a puzzled expression, and said at last:
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000002_000000|Chapter seven
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000003_000000|A Day of Reckoning
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000004_000000|mr Tulliver was an essentially sober man,--able to take his glass and not averse to it, but never exceeding the bounds of moderation.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000004_000001|He had naturally an active Hotspur temperament, which did not crave liquid fire to set it aglow; his impetuosity was usually equal to an exciting occasion without any such reinforcements; and his desire for the brandy and water implied that the too sudden joy had fallen with a dangerous shock on a frame depressed by four years of gloom and unaccustomed hard fare.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000004_000004|But the streak of irritation and hostile triumph seemed to melt for a little while into purer fatherly pride and pleasure, when, Tom's health having been proposed, and uncle Deane having taken occasion to say a few words of eulogy on his general character and conduct, Tom himself got up and made the single speech of his life.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000004_000005|It could hardly have been briefer.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000004_000006|He thanked the gentlemen for the honor they had done him.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000004_000007|He was glad that he had been able to help his father in proving his integrity and regaining his honest name; and, for his own part, he hoped he should never undo that work and disgrace that name.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000005_000000|The party broke up in very sober fashion at five o'clock.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000005_000002|He did not choose any back street to day, but rode slowly, with uplifted head and free glances, along the principal street all the way to the bridge.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000006_000000|Why did he not happen to meet Wakem?
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000006_000002|Perhaps Wakem was gone out of town to day on purpose to avoid seeing or hearing anything of an honorable action which might well cause him some unpleasant twinges.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000006_000003|If Wakem were to meet him then, mr Tulliver would look straight at him, and the rascal would perhaps be forsaken a little by his cool, domineering impudence.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000007_000000|Simmering in this way, mr Tulliver approached the yardgates of Dorlcote Mill, near enough to see a well-known figure coming out of them on a fine black horse.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000007_000001|They met about fifty yards from the gates, between the great chestnuts and elms and the high bank.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000008_000001|I told you how it would be; but you men never learn to farm with any method."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000010_000000|"You have been drinking, I suppose," said Wakem, really believing that this was the meaning of Tulliver's flushed face and sparkling eyes.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000011_000000|"No, I've not been drinking," said Tulliver; "I want no drinking to help me make up my mind as I'll serve no longer under a scoundrel."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000012_000000|"Very well! you may leave my premises to morrow, then; hold your insolent tongue and let me pass." (Tulliver was backing his horse across the road to hem Wakem in.)
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000013_000001|"I shall tell you what I think of you first.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000013_000002|You're too big a raskill to get hanged-you're----"
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000014_000000|"Let me pass, you ignorant brute, or I'll ride over you."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000015_000000|mr Tulliver, spurring his horse and raising his whip, made a rush forward; and Wakem's horse, rearing and staggering backward, threw his rider from the saddle and sent him sideways on the ground.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000016_000000|Suddenly, Wakem felt, something had arrested mr Tulliver's arm; for the flogging ceased, and the grasp on his own arm was relaxed.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000017_000000|"Get away with you-go!" said Tulliver, angrily.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000017_000001|But it was not to Wakem that he spoke.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000019_000000|"Help me on to that low horse," said Wakem to luke, "then I shall perhaps manage; though-confound it-I think this arm is sprained."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000020_000000|With some difficulty, Wakem was heaved on to Tulliver's horse.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000020_000001|Then he turned toward the miller and said, with white rage, "You'll suffer for this, sir.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000020_000002|Your daughter is a witness that you've assaulted me."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000022_000000|"Ride my horse home with me," said Wakem to luke.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000022_000001|"By the Tofton Ferry, not through the town."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000023_000000|"Father, come in!" said Maggie, imploringly.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000023_000001|Then, seeing that Wakem had ridden off, and that no further violence was possible, she slackened her hold and burst into hysteric sobs, while poor mrs Tulliver stood by in silence, quivering with fear.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000023_000002|But Maggie became conscious that as she was slackening her hold her father was beginning to grasp her and lean on her.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000024_000000|"I feel ill-faintish," he said.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000025_000000|He walked in slowly, propped by his wife and daughter and tottered into his arm chair.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000025_000001|The almost purple flush had given way to paleness, and his hand was cold.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000027_000000|He seemed to be too faint and suffering to hear her; but presently, when she said to Maggie, "Go and seek for somebody to fetch the doctor," he looked up at her with full comprehension, and said, "Doctor?
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000027_000001|No-no doctor.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000027_000002|It's my head, that's all.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000027_000003|Help me to bed."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000028_000000|Sad ending to the day that had risen on them all like a beginning of better times!
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000028_000001|But mingled seed must bear a mingled crop.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000029_000000|In half an hour after his father had lain down Tom came home.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000029_000002|But now Tom could only spend the evening in gloomy expectation of the unpleasant consequences that must follow on this mad outbreak of his father's long smothered hate.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000029_000003|After the painful news had been told, he sat in silence; he had not spirit or inclination to tell his mother and sister anything about the dinner; they hardly cared to ask it. Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000029_000004|Tom was dejected by the thought that his exemplary effort must always be baffled by the wrong doing of others; Maggie was living through, over and over again, the agony of the moment in which she had rushed to throw herself on her father's arm, with a vague, shuddering foreboding of wretched scenes to come.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000029_000005|Not one of the three felt any particular alarm about mr Tulliver's health; the symptoms did not recall his former dangerous attack, and it seemed only a necessary consequence that his violent passion and effort of strength, after many hours of unusual excitement, should have made him feel ill.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000029_000006|Rest would probably cure him.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000031_000000|"My boy, you must get up this minute; I've sent for the doctor, and your father wants you and Maggie to come to him."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000032_000000|"Is he worse, mother?"
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000034_000000|Maggie and Tom threw on their clothes hastily in the chill gray light, and reached their father's room almost at the same moment.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000034_000001|He was watching for them with an expression of pain on his brow, but with sharpened, anxious consciousness in his eyes.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000034_000002|mrs Tulliver stood at the foot of the bed, frightened and trembling, looking worn and aged from disturbed rest.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000035_000001|This world's been too many for me, my lad, but you've done what you could to make things a bit even.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000036_000000|The father and son clasped hands and looked at each other an instant. Then Tom said, trying to speak firmly,--
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000037_000000|"Have you any wish, father-that I can fulfil, when----"
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000039_000000|"Yes, father."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000041_000000|The father turned his eyes on Maggie with a still more eager look, while she, with a bursting heart, sank on her knees, to be closer to the dear, time worn face which had been present with her through long years, as the sign of her deepest love and hardest trial.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000042_000000|"You must take care of her, Tom-don't you fret, my wench-there'll come somebody as'll love you and take your part-and you must be good to her, my lad.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000042_000002|Kiss me, Maggie.--Come, Bessy.--You'll manage to pay for a brick grave, Tom, so as your mother and me can lie together."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000043_000000|He looked away from them all when he had said this, and lay silent for some minutes, while they stood watching him, not daring to move.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000043_000001|The morning light was growing clearer for them, and they could see the heaviness gathering in his face, and the dulness in his eyes.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000043_000002|But at last he looked toward Tom and said,--
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000044_000001|That was nothing but fair.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000044_000002|I never wanted anything but what was fair."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000045_000000|"But, father, dear father," said Maggie, an unspeakable anxiety predominating over her grief, "you forgive him-you forgive every one now?"
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000046_000000|He did not move his eyes to look at her, but he said,--
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000047_000001|I don't forgive him.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000047_000002|What's forgiving to do?
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000047_000003|I can't love a raskill----"
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000048_000000|His voice had become thicker; but he wanted to say more, and moved his lips again and again, struggling in vain to speak.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000048_000001|At length the words forced their way.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000050_000000|His hands moved uneasily, as if he wanted them to remove some obstruction that weighed upon him.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000051_000000|"This world's-too many-honest man-puzzling----"
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000052_000000|Soon they merged into mere mutterings; the eyes had ceased to discern; and then came the final silence.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000053_000000|But not of death.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000053_000001|For an hour or more the chest heaved, the loud, hard breathing continued, getting gradually slower, as the cold dews gathered on the brow.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000054_000000|At last there was total stillness, and poor Tulliver's dimly lighted soul had forever ceased to be vexed with the painful riddle of this world.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000055_000000|Help was come now; luke and his wife were there, and mr Turnbull had arrived, too late for everything but to say, "This is death."
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000056_000000|Tom and Maggie went downstairs together into the room where their father's place was empty.
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000056_000001|Their eyes turned to the same spot, and Maggie spoke,--
train-other-500/2485/151993/2485_151993_000057_000000|"Tom, forgive me-let us always love each other"; and they clung and wept together.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000001_000000|Chapter twenty four
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000002_000000|In the early morning of Midsummer Eve, Hazel wandered up the hill slopes.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000002_000001|There the sheep, golden, and gospel like in the early light, fed on wet lawns pale and unsubstantial as gauze.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000002_000002|She did not, as the more self conscious creatures of civilization would have done, envy their peace in so many words.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000003_000001|Whenever a blackbird dashed out of the grove of half ripe red currants, scolding with demoniac vitality, she would look up and say, 'Naughty bird.' She picked with deliberation, and placed the currants in the basket with an air of benediction.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000003_000002|The day was hot and splendid, a day to make the leaves limp and crack the flower beds.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000000|At eleven Martha appeared with cake and milk, and Edward returned from old Solomon's bedside.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000001|Then they went on picking, while Edward read them snatches of 'Natural Law.' Hazel was soothed by the reading, to the sense of which she paid no heed.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000002|It mingled with the drone of the hot bees falling in and out of the big red peonies, the far off sound of grass cutting, the grave, measured soliloquy of a blackbird hidden in the flame flowered chestnut.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000003|Hazel felt that she would like to go on picking currants for ever, growing more and more like mrs Marston every day, and at least becoming (possibly through sheer benignity) a grandmother.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000004|There seemed no place in her life for Reddin, no time for Hunter's Spinney.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000005|She thought, 'I wunna go.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000007|While they fought there like creatures in the dark, Hazel, sitting in the aromatic shadow of the currants, fell fast asleep; and as mrs Marston could never bring herself to wake anyone, she slept until Martha rang the dinner bell.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000008|So the peaceful, golden day wore on to green evening.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000004_000009|It was a day that Hazel always remembered.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000000|When the shadows grew long and dew fell, and the daisies on the graves filled the house with their faint, innocent fragrance, and closed their pink lined petals for the night, Hazel felt very miserable.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000001|This very night she was going to work the last charm-the charm of the bracken flower-and whoso she dreamed of with that flower beneath her pillow must be her lover.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000002|She felt traitorous to Edward in doing this.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000003|She and Edward were handfasted.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000004|How, then, could she have any lover but Edward? Why should she work the charm?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000005|She puzzled over this during prayers, but no answer came to her questioning.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000006|Life is a taciturn mother, and teaches not so much by instruction as by blows.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000007|Edward was reading the twenty third psalm, which always affected his mother to tears, and in reading which his voice was very tender, '...
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000005_000008|And lead thee forth beside the waters of comfort.'
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000006_000000|The room was full of a deep exaltation, a passion of trustfulness.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000007_000001|And I thought it was the waters of comfort.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000009_000000|Edward's good night to Hazel was more curt than usual.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000009_000001|She was looking so mysteriously lovely.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000009_000002|Her stress of mind had given a touch of spirituality to her face, and there is nothing that stirs passion as spirituality does.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000009_000003|She had on a print frock of a neat design reminiscent of old-fashioned china, and she had pinned a posy of daisies on her shoulder.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000010_000000|For one second, as she held up her cheek to be kissed, standing on the threshold of her moonlit room, Edward hesitated.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000010_000001|Then he abruptly turned and shut his door.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000011_000001|His hour had passed.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000012_000000|Hazel stood in the window reading the charm.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000013_000000|'On Midsummer Eve, when it wants a little of midnight, spread your smock where the bracken grows.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000013_000001|For this is the night of the flowering of the brake, that beareth a blue flower on the stroke of midnight.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000013_000003|Come you again about the time of the first bird call.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000013_000004|If aught is in the smock, take it; it is the dust of the flower.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000013_000005|Sleep above it, and he you dream of is your lover.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000013_000006|This is a sure charm, and cannot be broke.'
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000014_000000|She took a clean chemise from the drawer, and when the landing clock struck the half hour she slipped out on to the hillside and laid it under a clump of bracken.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000014_000001|As she stooped to set it smooth and straight, the moon swam out of cloud and flung her shadow, black and gigantic, up the hillside.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000014_000002|Frightened, she ran home, raked the fire together, and made herself a cup of tea to keep her awake.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000015_000000|Sipping it in the dim parlour, where familiar things looked eerie, she thought of Reddin and his strange doings since her wedding.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000000|She waited in the dove grey hour that precedes dawn-an hour pregnant with the future.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000001|It is full of hope; for what great deed may not be done, what ethereal idea caged in music or poetry or colour, what rare emotion struck out of pain in the coming day?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000002|It is full of grief; for how many beautiful things will be trampled, great dreams torn, sensitive spirits crucified in the time between dusk and dusk?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000003|For the death pack hunts at all hours, light and dark; it is no pale phantom of dreams.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000004|It is made not of spirit hounds with fiery eyes-a ghastly 'Melody,' a grisly 'Music'--, but of our fellows, all that have strength without pity.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000007|One flicker of merciful intention amid relentless action would redeem it.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000009|Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000010|It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000011|When a man or woman, confronted by helpless terror, is without the impulse to save, the world becomes hell.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000012|It was this, dimly but passionately felt, that made Hazel shrink from Reddin.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000018_000013|For unless Reddin was without this impulse to save, and had the mind of a fiend without pity, how could he in the mere pursuit of pleasure inflict wholly unnecessary torture, as in fox hunting?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000019_000000|She watched Venus shrink from a silver pool to a silver point.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000019_000001|She was full of trouble and unrest.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000019_000002|Would she dream of Reddin?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000019_000003|Would she go to sleep at all?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000019_000004|mrs Marston's armchair loomed in the gathering light, and she felt guilty again.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000020_000000|The east quickened, as if someone had turned up a light there.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000020_000002|She took long breaths of it, and thought of Reddin's green dress, of the queer look in his eyes when he stared long at her.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000020_000003|A curious passivity quite foreign to her came over her now at the thought of Reddin.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000020_000004|What would he look like, what would he say, would he hold her roughly, if she went to Hunter's Spinney?
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000020_000006|It did not occur to her to wonder why Edward did not kiss her as Reddin did.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000020_000007|She took him as much for granted as a child takes its parents.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000021_000000|Suddenly the first bird called silverly, startling the dusk.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000021_000001|It was a woodlark, and its song seemed even more vacillating than usual in the vast hush.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000021_000002|At the first note all Hazel's thoughts of Reddin fled.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000021_000003|It seemed that clarity, freshness, and music were bound up in her mind with Edward.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000022_000000|'Maybe there'll be no flower, and then the charm's broke,' she thought hopefully.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000022_000001|'If the charm's broke, I canna dream, and I shanna go.'
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000023_000000|But when she came to the white garment lying wet and pale in the half light she drew a sharp breath.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000023_000003|It was a faery flower.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000023_000004|She took it up reverently and went home solemn as a child in church.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000023_000005|When, with blue petal under her pillow, she lay down, she fell asleep in a moment.
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000023_000007|Waking at Martha's knock, she said to herself, with mingled heart sickness and elation:
train-other-500/2487/162474/2487_162474_000024_000002|Foxy wants me to go.' She would not have believed that her third sign was no faery flower, but only a petal of blue milk wort-little sister of the bracken-loosened by her own nervous hands the night before.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000001_000000|CHAPTER three: A CONFESSION
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000002_000000|It was a morning of the latter summer time; a morning of lingering dews, when the grass is never dry in the shade.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000002_000001|Fuchsias and dahlias were laden till eleven o'clock with small drops and dashes of water, changing the colour of their sparkle at every movement of the air; and elsewhere hanging on twigs like small silver fruit.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000002_000002|The threads of garden spiders appeared thick and polished.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000002_000003|In the dry and sunny places, dozens of long legged crane flies whizzed off the grass at every step the passer took.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000003_000001|Three months had elapsed since Dick and Fancy had journeyed together from Budmouth, and the course of their love had run on vigorously during the whole time.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000003_000002|There had been just enough difficulty attending its development, and just enough finesse required in keeping it private, to lend the passion an ever increasing freshness on Fancy's part, whilst, whether from these accessories or not, Dick's heart had been at all times as fond as could be desired.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000003_000003|But there was a cloud on Fancy's horizon now.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000004_000001|"Her father farms five hundred acres, and she might marry a doctor or curate or anything of that kind if she contrived a little."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000007_000000|"And what was she like?
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000007_000001|Tell me."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000009_000001|Come, do, Susan.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000009_000002|How many times did you say he danced with her?"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000010_000000|"Once."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000011_000000|"Twice, I think you said?"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000012_000000|"Indeed I'm sure I didn't."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000013_000000|"Well, and he wanted to again, I expect."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000014_000000|"No; I don't think he did.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000014_000001|She wanted to dance with him again bad enough, I know.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000014_000002|Everybody does with Dick, because he's so handsome and such a clever courter."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000015_000000|"O, I wish!--How did you say she wore her hair?"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000017_000000|"She's trying to get him away!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000017_000001|yes, yes, she is!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000017_000002|And through keeping this miserable school I mustn't wear my hair in curls!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000017_000003|But I will; I don't care if I leave the school and go home, I will wear my curls!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000017_000004|Look, Susan, do! is her hair as soft and long as this?" Fancy pulled from its coil under her hat a twine of her own hair, and stretched it down her shoulder to show its length, looking at Susan to catch her opinion from her eyes.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000018_000000|"It is about the same length as that, I think," said Miss Dewy.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000019_000000|Fancy paused hopelessly.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000019_000001|"I wish mine was lighter, like hers!" she continued mournfully.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000019_000002|"But hers isn't so soft, is it?
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000019_000003|Tell me, now."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000020_000000|"I don't know."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000021_000000|Fancy abstractedly extended her vision to survey a yellow butterfly and a red and black butterfly that were flitting along in company, and then became aware that Dick was advancing up the garden.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000022_000000|"Susan, here's Dick coming; I suppose that's because we've been talking about him."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000023_000000|"Well, then, I shall go indoors now-you won't want me;" and Susan turned practically and walked off.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000025_000000|Fancy had settled her plan of emotion.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000025_000001|To reproach Dick?
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000025_000002|O no, no
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000025_000003|"I am in great trouble," said she, taking what was intended to be a hopelessly melancholy survey of a few small apples lying under the tree; yet a critical ear might have noticed in her voice a tentative tone as to the effect of the words upon Dick when she uttered them.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000026_000000|"What are you in trouble about?
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000027_000000|"No, no: you can't!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000027_000001|Nobody can!"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000028_000000|"Why not?
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000028_000001|You don't deserve it, whatever it is.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000029_000000|"O, it isn't what you think!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000029_000001|It is dreadful: my own sin!"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000030_000000|"Sin, Fancy! as if you could sin!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000030_000001|I know it can't be."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000031_000001|Nobody will forgive me, nobody! and you above all will not! . . .
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000032_000001|"And you said only the day before yesterday that you hadn't flirted in your life!"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000033_000000|"Yes, I did; and that was a wicked story!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000033_000001|I have let another love me, and-"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000034_000002|"Did you encourage him?"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000035_000000|"O,--I don't know,--yes-no
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000035_000001|O, I think so!"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000036_000001|"Tell me!"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000037_000000|"mr Shiner."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000039_000000|"Tell it all;--every word!"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000041_000000|"Jack Sprat," mournfully suggested Dick through the cloud of his misery.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000044_000000|"Yes, that was it!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000044_000001|And then I put my hand upon the rail of the bridge to get across, and-That's all."
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000045_000001|"Not that I see what business Shiner has to take upon himself to teach you anything.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000045_000002|But it seems-it do seem there must have been more than that to set you up in such a dreadful taking?"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000046_000000|He looked into Fancy's eyes.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000046_000001|Misery of miseries!--guilt was written there still.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000047_000000|"Now, Fancy, you've not told me all!" said Dick, rather sternly for a quiet young man.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000048_000000|"O, don't speak so cruelly!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000049_000000|"Come, dear Fancy, tell: come.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000051_000000|"A scamp!" said Dick, grinding an imaginary human frame to powder.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000052_000000|"And then he looked at me, and at last he said, 'Are you in love with Dick Dewy?' And I said, 'Perhaps I am!' and then he said, 'I wish you weren't then, for I want to marry you, with all my soul.'"
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000053_000000|"There's a villain now!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000053_000001|Want to marry you!" And Dick quivered with the bitterness of satirical laughter.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000055_000000|"Well, then," said Dick, coming a little to his senses, "you've been stretching it very much in giving such a dreadful beginning to such a mere nothing.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000055_000001|And I know what you've done it for,--just because of that gipsy party!" He turned away from her and took five paces decisively, as if he were tired of an ungrateful country, including herself.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000055_000002|"You did it to make me jealous, and I won't stand it!" He flung the words to her over his shoulder and then stalked on, apparently very anxious to walk to the remotest of the Colonies that very minute.
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000056_000001|My impulses are bad-miserably wicked,--and I can't help it; forgive me, Dick!
train-other-500/2487/169011/2487_169011_000058_000000|"Why this," she said, drying the beginning of a new flood of tears she had been going to shed, "this is the serious part.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000000_000000|CHAPTER six: INTO TEMPTATION
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000001_000000|The day was done, and Fancy was again in the school house.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000001_000002|She was thinking-of her lover Dick Dewy?
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000001_000003|Not precisely.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000001_000004|Of how weary she was of living alone: how unbearable it would be to return to Yalbury under the rule of her strange tempered step mother; that it was far better to be married to anybody than do that; that eight or nine long months had yet to be lived through ere the wedding could take place.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000002_000000|At the side of the room were high windows of Ham hill stone, upon either sill of which she could sit by first mounting a desk and using it as a footstool.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000002_000001|As the evening advanced here she perched herself, as was her custom on such wet and gloomy occasions, put on a light shawl and bonnet, opened the window, and looked out at the rain.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000003_000000|The window overlooked a field called the Grove, and it was the position from which she used to survey the crown of Dick's passing hat in the early days of their acquaintance and meetings.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000003_000001|Not a living soul was now visible anywhere; the rain kept all people indoors who were not forced abroad by necessity, and necessity was less importunate on Sundays than during the week.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000004_000000|Sitting here and thinking again-of her lover, or of the sensation she had created at church that day?--well, it is unknown-thinking and thinking she saw a dark masculine figure arising into distinctness at the further end of the Grove-a man without an umbrella.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000004_000001|Nearer and nearer he came, and she perceived that he was in deep mourning, and then that it was Dick.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000004_000002|Yes, in the fondness and foolishness of his young heart, after walking four miles, in a drizzling rain without overcoat or umbrella, and in face of a remark from his love that he was not to come because he would be tired, he had made it his business to wander this mile out of his way again, from sheer wish of spending ten minutes in her presence.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000006_000001|"Wet never hurts me, though I am rather sorry for my best clothes.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000006_000002|However, it couldn't be helped; we lent all the umbrellas to the women.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000006_000003|I don't know when I shall get mine back!"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000007_000000|"And look, there's a nasty patch of something just on your shoulder."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000009_000000|Fancy put her hand to her mouth for half a minute.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000009_000001|Underneath the palm of that little hand there existed for that half minute a little yawn.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000010_000000|"Dick, I don't like you to stand there in the wet.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000010_000001|And you mustn't sit down.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000010_000002|Go home and change your things.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000010_000003|Don't stay another minute."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000011_000000|"One kiss after coming so far," he pleaded.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000012_000000|"If I can reach, then."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000013_000000|He looked rather disappointed at not being invited round to the door.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000013_000001|She twisted from her seated position and bent herself downwards, but not even by standing on the plinth was it possible for Dick to get his lips into contact with hers as she held them.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000013_000002|By great exertion she might have reached a little lower; but then she would have exposed her head to the rain.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000014_000000|"Never mind, Dick; kiss my hand," she said, flinging it down to him. "Now, good bye."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000015_000000|"Good bye."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000017_000000|As he vanished, she made as if to descend from her seat; but glancing in the other direction she saw another form coming along the same track.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000017_000001|It was also that of a man.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000017_000002|He, too, was in black from top to toe; but he carried an umbrella.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000018_000000|He drew nearer, and the direction of the rain caused him so to slant his umbrella that from her height above the ground his head was invisible, as she was also to him.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000018_000001|He passed in due time directly beneath her, and in looking down upon the exterior of his umbrella her feminine eyes perceived it to be of superior silk-less common at that date than since-and of elegant make.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000018_000002|He reached the entrance to the building, and Fancy suddenly lost sight of him.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000018_000003|Instead of pursuing the roadway as Dick had done he had turned sharply round into her own porch.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000019_000000|She jumped to the floor, hastily flung off her shawl and bonnet, smoothed and patted her hair till the curls hung in passable condition, and listened.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000019_000001|No knock.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000019_000002|Nearly a minute passed, and still there was no knock.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000019_000003|Then there arose a soft series of raps, no louder than the tapping of a distant woodpecker, and barely distinct enough to reach her ears.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000019_000004|She composed herself and flung open the door.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000020_000000|In the porch stood mr Maybold.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000021_000000|There was a warm flush upon his face, and a bright flash in his eyes, which made him look handsomer than she had ever seen him before.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000022_000000|"Good evening, Miss Day."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000023_000000|"Good evening, mr Maybold," she said, in a strange state of mind.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000023_000001|She had noticed, beyond the ardent hue of his face, that his voice had a singular tremor in it, and that his hand shook like an aspen leaf when he laid his umbrella in the corner of the porch.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000023_000002|Without another word being spoken by either, he came into the schoolroom, shut the door, and moved close to her.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000024_000000|"I want to speak to you," he then said; "seriously-on a perhaps unexpected subject, but one which is all the world to me-I don't know what it may be to you, Miss Day."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000025_000000|No reply.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000026_000000|"Fancy, I have come to ask you if you will be my wife?"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000027_000001|And in the dead silence which followed them, the breathings of the man and of the woman could be distinctly and separately heard; and there was this difference between them-his respirations gradually grew quieter and less rapid after the enunciation, hers, from having been low and regular, increased in quickness and force, till she almost panted.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000028_000000|"I cannot, I cannot, mr Maybold-I cannot!
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000028_000001|Don't ask me!" she said.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000000|"Don't answer in a hurry!" he entreated.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000001|"And do listen to me.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000002|This is no sudden feeling on my part.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000003|I have loved you for more than six months! Perhaps my late interest in teaching the children here has not been so single minded as it seemed.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000004|You will understand my motive-like me better, perhaps, for honestly telling you that I have struggled against my emotion continually, because I have thought that it was not well for me to love you!
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000006|I see your great charm; I respect your natural talents, and the refinement they have brought into your nature-they are quite enough, and more than enough for me!
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000007|They are equal to anything ever required of the mistress of a quiet parsonage house-the place in which I shall pass my days, wherever it may be situated.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000009|So there is nothing hurried, secret, or untoward in my desire to do this.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000029_000010|Fancy, will you marry me?"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000030_000000|No answer was returned.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000000|"Don't refuse; don't," he implored.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000001|"It would be foolish of you-I mean cruel!
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000002|Of course we would not live here, Fancy.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000003|I have had for a long time the offer of an exchange of livings with a friend in Yorkshire, but I have hitherto refused on account of my mother.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000004|There we would go.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000005|Your musical powers shall be still further developed; you shall have whatever pianoforte you like; you shall have anything, Fancy, anything to make you happy-pony carriage, flowers, birds, pleasant society; yes, you have enough in you for any society, after a few months of travel with me!
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000031_000006|Will you, Fancy, marry me?"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000032_000000|Another pause ensued, varied only by the surging of the rain against the window panes, and then Fancy spoke, in a faint and broken voice.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000033_000000|"Yes, I will," she said.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000034_000000|"God bless you, my own!"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000034_000002|She drew back hastily.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000034_000003|"No no, not now!" she said in an agitated whisper.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000034_000006|"O, leave me to myself!" she sobbed; "leave me!
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000034_000007|O, leave me!"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000035_000000|"Don't be distressed; don't, dearest!"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000035_000001|It was with visible difficulty that he restrained himself from approaching her.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000035_000002|"You shall tell me at your leisure what it is that grieves you so; I am happy-beyond all measure happy!--at having your simple promise."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000036_000000|"And do go and leave me now!"
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000037_000000|"But I must not, in justice to you, leave for a minute, until you are yourself again."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000038_000000|"There then," she said, controlling her emotion, and standing up; "I am not disturbed now."
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000039_000000|He reluctantly moved towards the door.
train-other-500/2487/169018/2487_169018_000039_000001|"Good bye!" he murmured tenderly. "I'll come to morrow about this time."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000000_000000|"What do you think of it?" I asked Kennedy, when we were half through our meal at a tiny restaurant on upper Broadway.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000001_000000|"We're still fumbling in the dark," he replied.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000002_000000|"There's the towel-"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000003_000000|"Yes, and almost any one on Mackay's list of nine suspects could have placed it in that washroom."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000004_000000|"Well-" I was determined to draw him out.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000004_000001|My own impressions, I must confess, were gloriously muddled.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000005_000000|"Manton may have philandered with her; undoubtedly he takes a personal interest in all his stars." Kennedy, I saw, remembered the promoter's close attentions to Enid Faye.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000005_000001|"Nevertheless, Walter, he is first and foremost and all the time the man of business.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000005_000002|His heart is in his dollars and Millard even suggests that he is none too scrupulous."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000007_000000|"No!" Kennedy stopped me.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000007_000001|"Don't forget that this was a cold blooded, calculated crime.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000007_000002|I'm not eliminating Manton yet, but until we find some tangible evidence of trouble between Stella and himself we can hardly assume he would kill the girl who's made him perhaps a million dollars.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000007_000003|Every motive in Manton's case is a motive against the crime."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000008_000001|He nearly owned the company."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000010_000001|Kennedy," I protested.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000010_000002|"If you go on that way you'll not eliminate anyone."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000011_000000|"I can't yet," he explained, patiently.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000011_000002|We're fishing in the dark, absolutely.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000011_000003|So far we haven't a single basic fact on which to build any structure of hypothesis.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000011_000004|We must go on fishing.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000011_000005|I expect you to dig up all the facts about these people; every odd bit of gossip or rumor or anything else.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000011_000006|I'll bring my science to play, but there's nothing I can do except analyze Stella's stomach contents and the spots on the towel; that is, until we've got a much more tangible lead than any which have developed so far."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000012_000000|"Is there anything I can do to night?"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000013_000000|"Yes!" He looked at his watch.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000013_000001|"There are two men who were very close to Miss Lamar.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000013_000003|All the picture people have night haunts.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000014_000000|"But I don't know where to find them offhand, and-"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000015_000000|"Both belong to the Goats Club, probably.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000015_000001|Try that as a start."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000018_000000|"No, but they were intimately associated with Miss Lamar in her daily life and they are the two we have learned the least about."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000019_000000|"Oh!" I was disappointed.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000019_000001|Then I rallied to the attack for a final time.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000019_000002|"Who is the most likely one.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000020_000000|He took a folded note from his pocket, opening it.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000020_000001|It was the memorandum from Manton's desk which I had mentioned.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000022_000000|"Very good, Walter." Kennedy's eyes were dancing in amusement.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000022_000001|"It is true that Werner had the best motive, so far as we know now, but it's a fantastic one.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000022_000002|Men don't commit cold blooded murder just to create a vacancy for a movie star.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000022_000003|If Werner was going to kill Miss Lamar he never would have written this note about Miss Faye."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000023_000000|"Unless to divert suspicion," I suggested.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000024_000001|"The whole thing's too bizarre."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000025_000000|"Werner was close to her in the dark.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000025_000001|All the other things point to him, don't they?"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000026_000001|I believe he's innocent-at least as far as I've gone in the case."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000027_000000|I determined to stick to my opinion.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000027_000001|"I believe it's Werner," I insisted.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000028_000000|"By the time you've dug up all the gossip about Gordon and Shirley you won't be so sure, Walter."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000029_000000|I was, however.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000029_000001|Kennedy was not as familiar with the picture world as i I had heard of too many actual happenings more strange and bizarre and wildly fantastic than anything conceivable in other walks of life. People in the film game, as they call it, live highly seasoned lives in which everything is exaggerated.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000029_000002|The mere desire to make a place for Enid might not have actuated Werner, granting he was the guilty man. Nevertheless it could easily have contributed.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000029_000003|And it struck me suddenly, an additional argument, that Werner, of all of them, was the most familiar with the script.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000029_000005|There was not a detail which he could not have arranged very skillfully.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000030_000001|He was one of the Star's former special writers and an older classman of the college which had graduated Kennedy and myself.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000031_000000|"Merle Shirley is not a member here," he said.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000031_000001|"As a matter of fact, I've only just heard the name.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000031_000002|But Jack Gordon's a Goat, worse luck. That fellow's a bad actor-in real life-and a disgrace to us."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000032_000000|"Tell me all you know about him?" I asked.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000033_000000|"Well, to give you an example, he was in here just about a week ago.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000033_000001|I was sitting in the grill, eating an after theater supper, when I heard the most terrible racket.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000033_000002|He and Emery Phelps, the banker, you know, were having an honest to goodness fight right out in the lobby.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000033_000003|It took three of the men to separate them."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000034_000000|"What was it all about."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000035_000001|I got it from some of the other men here that he has been speculating on the curb downtown, losing consistently.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000035_000002|More than that, he's engaged to Stella Lamar-you knew that?--and he's been blowing money on her.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000035_000003|Then they tell me his professional work is suffering, that his recent screen appearances are terrible; the result of late hours and worry, I suppose."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000036_000000|"The fight with Phelps was over money?"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000037_000000|"Of course!
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000037_000001|I figure that he kept drawing against his salary at the studio until the film company shut down on him.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000037_000002|Then probably he began to borrow from Phelps, who's Manton's backer now, until the banker shut down on him also.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000037_000003|At any rate, Phelps had begun to dun him and it led to the fight."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000038_000000|"That's all you know about Gordon?"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000039_000000|"Lord!
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000039_000001|Isn't it enough?"
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000040_000001|Could Gordon's debts have any bearing upon the case?
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000040_000002|All at once one possibility struck me.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000040_000003|He had been borrowing from Phelps. Perhaps he had borrowed from Stella also.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000040_000004|Perhaps that was the cause of their quarrel.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000041_000000|My immediate problem, however, was to obtain some information about Merle Shirley.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000041_000001|At first I thought I would make the rounds of some of the better known cafes, but that seemed a hopeless task.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000041_000002|Suddenly I remembered Belle Balcom, formerly with the Star.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000041_000005|Belle knew more people about town than any other newspaper woman.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000041_000006|Now, for some months, she had been connected with Screenings, a leading cinema "fan" magazine, and would unquestionably be posted upon the photoplayers.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000042_000000|Luckily, I caught her at home.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000043_000000|"Bless your soul," she told me over the phone, in delight, "I've just been aching for some one to take me out to night.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000043_000001|We'll go to the Midnight Fads and if Shirley isn't there the head waiter will tell you all I don't remember.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000043_000002|It was a glorious fight."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000044_000000|She wouldn't say any more over the phone, but I was hugely curious.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000044_000002|And who had been involved?
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000045_000000|When she met me finally, at the Subway station, and when we obtained an out of the way table at the Fads, she explained.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000045_000002|Gordon first had come up himself, quietly, pleading with Stella.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000045_000004|Then he had become insulting.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000045_000005|At that Shirley knocked him down.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000046_000001|After more than an hour Gordon returned, quietly and unobtrusively, with another girl.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000046_000002|From Belle's description I knew it was Marilyn Loring.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000046_000003|Taking another table, Marilyn had stared at Shirley reproachfully while Gordon had glared at Stella.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000000|Shirley put up with this for just about so long.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000001|As Belle described it, his face gradually became more and more red and he controlled himself with increasing difficulty.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000002|Stella, seeing the coming of the storm, tried to get him to go.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000003|He refused.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000004|She threatened to leave him.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000006|All at once he boiled over and with great strides walked over to Gordon and mauled him all over the place.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000007|The leading man had no chance whatever in the hands of the irate Westerner.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000008|Several waiters, attempting to intervene, were flung aside.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000009|Only when Shirley began to cool off were they able to eject the two men.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000010|Both Stella and Marilyn had left, separately, before that.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000047_000011|Neither of the men or women had been at the Fads since, or at least the head waiter, called over by Belle, so informed us.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000048_000000|Unable to obtain any other facts of interest, I returned finally to the apartment shared by Kennedy and myself.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000048_000001|First he listened to my account, plainly interested.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000049_000000|"It's getting more and more complicated, Walter," he exclaimed.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000049_000001|"After you left I remembered that there was one point of investigation I had failed to cover-Miss Lamar's home here in the city.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000049_000003|I hurried down to headquarters and questioned the girl."
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000050_000000|"Yes?" To me it sounded promising.
train-other-500/2488/155508/2488_155508_000052_000000|"You mean-"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000000_000001|I've been holding this as evidence.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000000_000002|mr Kennedy wanted me to bring it with me to day."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000001_000000|"He's waiting for us at the laboratory," I remarked.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000002_000000|"He'll straighten everything up in a hurry, won't he?"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000003_000000|"Kennedy's the most high handed individual I ever knew," I laughed, "if he sees a chance of getting his man." Then I became enthusiastic. "Often I've seen him gather a group of people in a room, perhaps without the faintest shred of legal right to do so, and there make the guilty person confess simply by marshaling the evidence, or maybe betray himself by some scientific device.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000005_000000|I led the way to the door.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000005_000001|"After what happened last night I know that Kennedy will resort to almost anything."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000006_000000|The district attorney fingered the package under his arm.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000007_000000|"Let's hurry!" I interrupted.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000008_000000|When we entered the laboratory we found Kennedy vigorously fanning a towel which he had hung up to dry.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000009_000000|"This will serve me better as bait than as evidence," he laughed.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000009_000003|"Here, Walter!
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000009_000004|It's dry enough.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000009_000005|Now I want you to rub the contents of that tiny can of grease, open before you there, into the cloth."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000010_000000|He hurried over to wash his hands.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000010_000001|I spread the towel out on the table and began to work in the stuff indicated by Kennedy.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000010_000002|There was no odor and it seemed like some patent ointment in color.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000010_000003|At first I was puzzled.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000010_000004|Then, absently, I touched the back of one hand with the greasy fingers of the other and immediately an itching set up so annoying that I had to abandon my task.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000011_000000|Kennedy chuckled.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000011_000001|"That's itching salve, Walter.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000011_000002|The cuticle pads at your finger tips are too thick, but touch yourself anywhere else!--" He shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000011_000003|"You'd better use soap and water if you want any relief.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000012_000000|At the basin I thought I grasped his little plot.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000013_000000|"You're going to plant the towel," I asked, "so that the interested party will try to get hold of it?"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000014_000000|Evidently he thought it unnecessary to reply to me.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000015_000000|"Why couldn't you just put it somewhere without all the preparation," Mackay suggested, "and watch to see who came after it?"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000016_000000|"Because our criminal's too clever," Kennedy rejoined.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000017_000001|Climbing into Mackay's little roadster, we soon were speeding toward the studio.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000019_000000|"Surely!
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000019_000001|It's what I was hoping you'd allow me to do.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000019_000002|I have no authority down here, though."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000020_000000|"I understand.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000020_000001|But the police, or an outsider, might allow some of my plans to become known." He paused a moment in thought.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000020_000003|It may or may not include the action where she scratched herself.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000020_000004|Now I want the scenes up to thirteen put together in proper order, first as photographed by one camera, then as caught by the other.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000020_000006|Will you superintend the assembly of the scenes, so that you can be sure nothing is taken out or omitted?"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000021_000000|"Of course!
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000021_000001|I want to do anything I can."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000022_000002|More, it was a second murder in four days, apparently by the same hand as the first.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000022_000004|The gateman eyed us with undisguised uneasiness as we drove through the archway into the yard.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000022_000005|In that inclosure there were only two cars-Manton's, and one we later learned belonged to Phelps.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000022_000006|The sole human being to enter our range of vision was an office boy.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000023_000000|We found Kauf in the large studio, obviously unhappy in the shoes of the unfortunate Werner.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000025_000001|He has the scenes taken from the camera and sealed at the time of Miss Lamar's death.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000025_000002|I would like to have any other film taken out there delivered to him and the whole joined in proper sequence.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000025_000003|Then, mr Kauf, if you could arrange to have the same cutter take the film exposed yesterday when mr Werner-"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000026_000000|"You think you might be able to see something, to discover something on the screen?"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000027_000000|"Exactly!"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000028_000000|Kauf beamed.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000028_000001|"mr Manton gave me orders to assist you in every way I could, or to put any of my people at your disposal.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000028_000002|More than that, mr Kennedy, he anticipated you.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000028_000003|He thought you might want to look at the scenes taken yesterday and he rushed the laboratory and the printing room.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000028_000004|We'll be able to fix you up very quickly."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000029_000001|"Now, Walter!" he exclaimed, sobering.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000030_000000|I picked up the traveling bag and together we strolled toward the ballroom set.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000030_000001|There most of the players were gathered already-in make-up and evening clothes of a fancier sort even than those demanded for the banquet.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000030_000002|I saw that Kennedy singled out Marilyn.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000031_000000|"Good morning," she said, cheerfully, but with effort.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000031_000002|There were circles under her eyes ill concealed by the small quantity of cosmetic she used.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000031_000003|Her hands, shifting constantly, displayed the loss of her usual poise.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000032_000000|"We've stumbled into a very important clue," Kennedy told her, with a show of giving her his confidence.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000032_000001|"In that bag in Walter's hand is one of the studio towels.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000033_000000|It seemed to me that Marilyn blanched.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000034_000000|"In one of the studio washrooms."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000036_000000|"No, not that!
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000037_000000|Enid Faye, seeing us from a distance, conquered her dislike of Marilyn sufficiently to join us.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000037_000001|She was very erect and tense.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000037_000002|Her eyes, wide and sober and searching, traveled from my face to Kennedy's and back. Then she dissembled, softening as she came close to me, laying a hand on my shoulder and allowing her skirt to brush my trousers.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000038_000000|"Tell me, Jamie," she whispered, her warm breath thrilling me through and through.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000038_000001|"Has the wonderful Craig Kennedy discovered something?" It was not sarcasm, but assumed playfulness, masking a throbbing curiosity.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000039_000000|"I found a towel in one of the studio washrooms," I answered, "and Craig has demonstrated that it is a clue to the poison which killed Stella Lamar as well as to the person who did it."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000040_000000|Enid gasped.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000040_000001|Then she drew herself up and her eyes narrowed.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000040_000002|Now she faced Kennedy.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000041_000001|"Stella was-was murdered way out in Tarrytown!
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000041_000002|mr Jameson found the towel here!"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000042_000000|Kennedy shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000042_000001|"I cannot tell you that-just yet." He paused deliberately.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000042_000003|"I have yet to make my analysis."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000043_000000|"But you know it's a clue to the-"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000045_000001|At the last he flushed, clenching his fists.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000046_000000|"If you can prove who the murderer is, mr Kennedy," he exploded, "why don't you apprehend him before some one else meets the fate of Werner?"
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000047_000000|"I can do nothing until I return to my laboratory this afternoon.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000047_000001|I will not know the identity of the guilty person until I complete a chemical analysis."
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000001|This morning all the faces were serious; most of them showed the marks of sleeplessness following the second murder.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000002|Kennedy walked away, but I saw that Jack Gordon hastened to question both the girls, ignoring their evident dislike for him.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000003|Among the others I recognized Watkins, the camera man, and his associate.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000004|Lawrence Millard came in and hastened to the side of Enid.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000005|As he drew her away to ask the cause of the gathering I wondered at his early presence.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000006|The scenario writer was typical of them all.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000008|Not one of them but was afraid of missing some development in the case.
train-other-500/2488/155524/2488_155524_000048_000009|In no instance could the interest of a particular individual be taken as an indication of guilt.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000001_000000|THE FILM FIRE
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000002_000000|The bag lay open at my feet.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000003_000000|"I think our evidence is safest in plain sight, Walter.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000003_000001|We'll carry it about with us."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000004_000000|Lloyd Manton seemed to be a genuinely unhappy individual.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000005_000000|"Manton's the only one who knew just where we put the bag," I remarked. "When he left us in the basement he had plenty of time to run up and steal the towel and return."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000007_000000|"In his hurry he might have left the towel in the paper, intending to destroy it later."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000008_000000|Kennedy frowned.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000008_000001|"That's possible, Walter.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000009_000000|"You can see that Manton's the logical man?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000011_000000|"Then-?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000012_000000|"First of all we must keep an eye out for any person showing signs of the itching concoction.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000012_000001|We must observe anyone with noticeably clean hands.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000012_000002|Principally, however, another thing worries me."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000014_000001|The fire doors between the different film vaults, which are arranged like the safety compartments in a ship, were all open.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000015_000000|"Good heavens!
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000015_000001|Craig," I interposed.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000018_000000|Jack Gordon was in the ballroom scene in make-up.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000018_000001|Kauf still was concerned with technical details of the set and lighting, and, although the cameras were set up, they were not in proper place, nor was either camera man in evidence.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000018_000002|With Gordon was Enid.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000018_000003|From a distance they seemed to be engaged in an argument of real magnitude.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000018_000004|There was no mistaking the dislike on the part of each for the other.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000019_000001|She was pacing up and down, glancing about in frank distress of mind.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000020_000000|Both Manton and Phelps were in evidence, decidedly so, I imagined, from, the viewpoint of poor Kauf.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000020_000002|Phelps, following Manton about, seemed to be urging haste upon the promoter.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000020_000003|The result was far from advantageous to picture making; it was concentrated distraction.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000021_000001|Like any author, it was never too late for minor improvements and suggestions.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000021_000003|At any rate, his hands seemed more clean than those of either Manton or Phelps, proving nothing because he was at a task not so apt to bring him into contact with dirt.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000022_000000|"Shirley is missing," observed the district attorney, in an undertone.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000023_000000|Kennedy faced me.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000023_000002|While he keeps an eye on the people up here we'll pay a visit to Shirley's dressing room, and after that go down to the basement again.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000023_000003|I can't account for it-intuition, perhaps-but I'm sure something's wrong."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000024_000000|The heavy man's dressing room, pointed out to us by some employee passing through the hall, was empty.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000024_000003|We did not dare linger and run the risk of giving away our trick; then, too, Kennedy was nervously anxious to look through the basement once more.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000025_000000|"I don't understand your suspicion of the state of affairs in the film vaults," I confessed.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000026_000000|"Why should Jack Gordon, the leading man, be down there?" he countered.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000028_000002|Manton explained that no negative or positive can be given out except upon order.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000028_000003|There is nothing down there but film and so no other errand to bring the leading man to the vault except to get some scenes or pieces showing his own work, and that isn't likely."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000030_000000|"How could that be?
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000030_000001|When we asked Manton about the Doctor Nagoya subject we went right down with him and procured it.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000030_000002|I doubt anyone could have overheard us as we talked about it, in any case."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000032_000000|Kennedy frowned.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000032_000001|"I believe you're right, Walter.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000033_000000|"It's damning to Gordon, all right," I said.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000034_000001|"We have mentioned over and over again the cleverness of our unknown criminal.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000034_000002|That man, or woman, never would drop a cigarette case with his or her initials and leave without it, nor smoke a cigarette in a place he, or she, was not supposed to be."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000035_000000|"What then?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000036_000000|"It's a plant; a deliberate plant to throw suspicion upon Gordon."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000037_000000|"Why upon Gordon?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000039_000001|That's what I didn't understand before."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000040_000000|"Ordinarily it wouldn't be.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000040_000001|But those open inner doors, the absence of the man in charge-isn't it possible that we interrupted an attempt not only to search for the particular damaging pieces of film, but perhaps to destroy the whole?
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000040_000002|If some one acted between the time I asked Manton about the snake film and the moment we arrived in the basement to get it, that some one had to move very fast."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000041_000000|"In which case it might have been Gordon, after all.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000042_000000|Kennedy shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000042_000001|"It all shows the futility of trying to arrive at a conclusion without definite facts.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000042_000002|That is where science is superior to deduction."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000044_000002|Had Manton taken fright in earnest at the possibility of fire, or had he given his employees a genuine scare?
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000045_000000|We retraced our steps to the yard, and there the alert eye of Kennedy detected a slinking figure just as a man darted into the protection of a doorway.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000045_000001|It was Shirley.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000045_000002|Had he been watching us?
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000045_000003|Was he connected in some way with the vague mystery Kennedy seemed to sense in connection with the basement and the film vaults?
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000046_000000|Kennedy led the way to the entrance where Shirley had disappeared.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000046_000001|Here there was no sign of him; only steps leading up and down and the open door to a huge developing room.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000046_000002|Returning to the yard, we caught a gesture from the chauffeur of a car standing near by and recognized McGroarty, the driver who had found the ampulla a few days previously.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000047_000000|"Excuse me, mr Kennedy," he apologized, as we approached.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000047_000001|"I should have come to you instead of making you two walk over to me, but it's less suspicious this way."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000048_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000049_000000|"You recognize me, McGroarty, the chauffeur as found the little bottle?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000050_000000|Kennedy nodded.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000051_000000|"Well, I says to myself I ought to tell you, but I don't like to because it might be nothing, you know!"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000052_000000|"It might prove very valuable, McGroarty." Kennedy wanted to encourage him.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000053_000000|"Well, I've been sitting here for an hour, I guess.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000054_000000|"Shirley?
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000054_000001|Merle Shirley?" I spoke up.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000055_000000|"That's him!
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000055_000002|I guess he's gone in and out of that basement a dozen times.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000055_000003|I says to myself, maybe he's up to something.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000055_000004|You know how it is?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000056_000000|Kennedy glanced at me significantly.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000056_000001|Then he extended his hand to the chauffeur.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000056_000002|"Again I thank you, McGroarty.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000056_000003|As I said before, I won't forget you."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000057_000000|"Now what?" I asked, as we drew away.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000059_000000|As we rather expected, the heavy man's quarters were deserted.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000061_000000|"Shirley?"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000063_000001|"Marilyn Loring?" I inquired.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000064_000000|"She's been missing, too!" All at once Mackay grinned broadly.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000064_000002|Look!" He pointed.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000064_000004|It's worse than Bedlam, and better than a Chaplin comedy."
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000065_000000|I was compelled to smile, although I knew that this was not uncommon in picture studios.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000065_000002|Clustered about I saw Enid and Gordon, both camera men, and a miniature mob of extra people.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000065_000003|But as I looked little Kauf seemed to come to the end of his patience.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000065_000004|In an instant or two he demonstrated real generalship.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000065_000006|He sent the camera men to their places; then confronted Phelps and Manton and the scenario writer once more.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000067_000000|"Listen, Kennedy!" I suggested.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000067_000001|"Suppose I go out by myself and see if I can locate Shirley or Marilyn.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000067_000002|Everyone else is right here where you can-"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000070_000000|With every detonation the floor beneath our feet trembled and rocked. Several flats of scenery stacked against a wall at our rear toppled forward and struck the floor with a resounding whack, not unlike some gigantic slap stick.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000070_000001|One entire side of the banquet set, luckily unoccupied, fell inward and I caught the sound as the dainty gold chairs and fragile tables snapped and were crushed as so much kindling wood.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000071_000000|Then-a fitting climax of destruction, withheld until this moment-there followed the terrifying snap of steel from above.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000071_000002|Upon the heads of the unlucky group in the center of the ballroom set came a perfect hailstorm of broken and shattered bits of heavy ground glass.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000073_000000|Kennedy dashed over to the scene where those beneath the shower of glass lay, dazed and uncertain of the extent of their own injuries.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000074_000000|"Where are the first aid kits?" he shouted.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000074_000001|"Bring cotton and bandages, and-and telephone for a doctor, an ambulance!"
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000076_000000|Then we realized that by some miracle, some freak of fate, no one had been hurt seriously.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000076_000002|Inside was everything necessary and Kennedy started to bind up the wounds with all the skill of a professional physician.
train-other-500/2488/155526/2488_155526_000078_000003|In this fashion Kennedy secured blood smears of Manton and Phelps, Millard and Kauf and Enid, Gordon, the two camera men, and a scene shifter.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000002_000000|CHAPTER thirteen-LITTLE GERVAIS
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000000|Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000002|He wandered thus the whole morning, without having eaten anything and without feeling hungry.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000003|He was the prey of a throng of novel sensations.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000004|He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not know against whom it was directed.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000005|He could not have told whether he was touched or humiliated.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000006|There came over him at moments a strange emotion which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000007|This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000003_000008|He asked himself what would replace this.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000004_000000|Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000005_000001|There was nothing on the horizon except the Alps.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000005_000002|Not even the spire of a distant village.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000005_000003|Jean Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000006_000000|In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have encountered him, a joyous sound became audible.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000007_000000|He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, coming up the path and singing, his hurdy gurdy on his hip, and his marmot box on his back.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000008_000000|One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000009_000000|Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to time, and played at knuckle bones with some coins which he had in his hand-his whole fortune, probably.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000013_000000|Jean Valjean set his foot upon it.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000015_000000|He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000016_000000|The spot was absolutely solitary.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000016_000001|As far as the eye could see there was not a person on the plain or on the path.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000016_000002|The only sound was the tiny, feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the heavens at an immense height.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000016_000003|The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000017_000000|"Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000020_000000|"Go away," said Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000021_000000|"Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000022_000000|Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000023_000000|The child began again, "My money, sir."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000024_000000|Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000025_000000|"My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000026_000000|It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000026_000001|The child grasped him by the collar of his blouse and shook him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000026_000002|At the same time he made an effort to displace the big iron shod shoe which rested on his treasure.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000027_000000|"I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000028_000001|Jean Valjean raised his head.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000028_000002|He still remained seated. His eyes were troubled.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000029_000000|"I, sir," replied the child.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000029_000002|I! Give me back my forty sous, if you please!
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000029_000003|Take your foot away, sir, if you please!"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000030_000000|Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:--
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000031_000000|"Come now, will you take your foot away?
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000033_000000|"Will you take yourself off!"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000038_000000|The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000038_000001|He had eaten nothing all day; it is probable that he was feverish.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000039_000000|He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the child's flight.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000039_000001|The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular intervals.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000039_000002|His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000039_000003|All at once he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000040_000000|He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his cudgel.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000041_000001|"What is this?" he muttered between his teeth.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000041_000002|He recoiled three paces, then halted, without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000042_000000|At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000043_000000|He saw nothing.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000043_000001|Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000044_000000|He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child had disappeared.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000045_000000|Then he shouted with all his might:--
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000047_000000|He paused and waited.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000048_000000|There was no reply.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000049_000000|The landscape was gloomy and deserted.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000049_000001|He was encompassed by space. There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000050_000000|An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000050_000001|The bushes shook their thin little arms with incredible fury.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000050_000002|One would have said that they were threatening and pursuing some one.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000052_000001|But the child was no doubt already far away.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000055_000000|"No," said the priest.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000057_000000|"I have seen no one."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000058_000000|He drew two five franc pieces from his money bag and handed them to the priest.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000059_000000|"Monsieur le Cure, this is for your poor people.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000059_000001|Monsieur le Cure, he was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a hurdy gurdy.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000059_000002|One of those Savoyards, you know?"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000060_000000|"I have not seen him."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000061_000001|There are no villages here?
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000061_000002|Can you tell me?"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000062_000000|"If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000062_000001|Such persons pass through these parts.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000062_000002|We know nothing of them."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000063_000000|Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000064_000000|"For your poor," he said.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000065_000000|Then he added, wildly:--
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000066_000000|"Monsieur l'Abbe, have me arrested.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000066_000001|I am a thief."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000067_000000|The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000069_000000|In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, shouting, but he met no one.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000069_000001|Two or three times he ran across the plain towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood or rocks nearly on a level with the earth.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000069_000002|At length, at a spot where three paths intersected each other, he stopped.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000069_000003|The moon had risen.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000069_000008|It was his last effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!"
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000070_000000|Then his heart burst, and he began to cry.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000070_000001|It was the first time that he had wept in nineteen years.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000071_000001|He could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000071_000002|He hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the old man.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000071_000003|"You have promised me to become an honest man.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000071_000004|I buy your soul. I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good God."
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000072_000000|This recurred to his mind unceasingly.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000072_000001|To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000073_000000|In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is intoxicated.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000073_000002|Did he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the spirit at certain moments of life?
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000074_000001|Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have here indicated.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000074_000002|If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000074_000003|On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000074_000004|The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000074_000006|Like an owl, who should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and blinded, as it were, by virtue.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000075_000000|That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to him and had not touched him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000076_000001|Why?
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000076_000004|Let us say it simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto unheard of thoughts besetting it.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000077_000000|When intelligence re awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000081_000000|First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000082_000001|This, then, was in the nature of a vision.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000082_000002|He actually saw that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000082_000003|He had almost reached the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by him.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000083_000000|His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000083_000001|One no longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own mind.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000084_000001|On scrutinizing this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch was the Bishop.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000085_000000|His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the Bishop and Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000085_000001|Nothing less than the first was required to soften the second.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000085_000002|By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow less and vanish.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000085_000003|After a certain time he was no longer anything more than a shade.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000085_000004|All at once he disappeared.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000085_000005|The Bishop alone remained; he filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000086_000000|Jean Valjean wept for a long time.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000086_000001|He wept burning tears, he sobbed with more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000087_000000|As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000087_000002|In the meantime a gentle light rested over this life and this soul.
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000088_000000|How many hours did he weep thus?
train-other-500/2491/134787/2491_134787_000088_000002|No one ever knew.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000003_000000|I will now resume my narrative of proceedings here.--My brother being in a good way, although you may be sure that his resentments are rather heightened than abated by the galling disgrace he has received, my friends (my father and uncles, however, if not my brother and sister) begin to think that I have been treated unkindly.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000003_000001|My mother been so good as to tell me this since I sent away my last.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000004_000000|Nevertheless I believe they all think that I receive letters from mr Lovelace.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000005_000000|But this is very far from being his intention: For he has already began to hint again, that he shall never be easy or satisfied till I am married; and, finding neither mr Symmes nor mr Mullins will be accepted, has proposed mr Wyerley once more, on the score of his great passion for me.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000005_000001|This I have again rejected; and but yesterday he mentioned one who has applied to him by letter, making high offers.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000005_000002|This is mr Solmes; Rich Solmes you know they call him.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000005_000003|But this application has not met with the attention of one single soul.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000010_000000|Just now, my mother has rejoiced me with the news that my requested permission is granted.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000010_000001|Every one thinks it best that I should go to you, except my brother.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000010_000002|But he was told, that he must not expect to rule in every thing.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000010_000003|I am to be sent for into the great parlour, where are my two uncles and my aunt Hervey, and to be acquainted with this concession in form.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000011_000000|You know, my dear, that there is a good deal of solemnity among us. But never was there a family more united in its different branches than ours.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000011_000001|Our uncles consider us as their own children, and declare that it is for our sakes that they live single.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000011_000002|So that they are advised with upon every article relating to us, or that may affect us.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000013_000001|And yet I know that you will not love my brother the better for my communication.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000013_000002|But I am angry with him myself, and cannot help it.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000013_000003|And besides, it is proper to let you know the terms I go upon, and their motives for permitting me to go.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000014_000000|Clary, said my mother, as soon as I entered the great parlour, your request to go to Miss Howe's for a few days has been taken into consideration, and granted-
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000015_000000|Much against my liking, I assure you, said my brother, rudely interrupting her.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000016_000000|Son james! said my father, and knit his brows.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000017_000000|He was not daunted.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000017_000001|His arm was in a sling.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000018_000000|Nobody spoke.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000019_000000|Do you hear, sister Clary? taking their silence for approbation of what he had dictated; you are not to receive visits from Lord m's nephew.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000020_000000|Every one still remained silent.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000021_000000|Do you so understand the license you have, Miss? interrogated he.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000023_000000|O the fond, fond heart! with a sneer of insult, lifting up his hands.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000024_000001|But if I am to be answerable for the rashness-
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000025_000000|No more!--No more of either side, said my father.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000025_000001|You are not to receive the visits of that Lovelace, though.--Nor are you, son james, to reflect upon your sister.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000025_000002|She is a worthy child.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000027_000000|And hence, Sir, retorted I, your unbrotherly reflections upon me?
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000028_000000|Well, but you observe, Miss, said he, that it is not I, but your father, that tells you, that you are not to receive the visits of that Lovelace.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000029_000000|Cousin Harlowe, said my aunt Hervey, allow me to say, that my cousin Clary's prudence may be confided in.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000030_000000|I am convinced it may, joined my mother.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000031_000000|But, aunt, but, madam (put in my sister) there is no hurt, I presume, in letting my sister know the condition she goes to Miss Howe upon; since, if he gets a nack of visiting her there-
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000032_000000|You may be sure, interrupted my uncle Harlowe, he will endeavour to see her there.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000033_000000|So would such an impudent man here, said my uncle Antony: and 'tis better done there than here.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000034_000000|Better no where, said my father.--I command you (turning to me) on pain of displeasure, that you see him not at all.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000035_000000|I will not, Sir, in any way of encouragement, I do assure you: not at all, if I can properly avoid it.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000036_000000|You know with what indifference, said my mother, she has hitherto seen him.--Her prudence may be trusted to, as my sister Hervey says.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000037_000000|With what appa-rent indifference, drawled my brother.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000038_000000|Son james! said my father sternly.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000039_000000|I have done, Sir, said he.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000039_000001|But again, in a provoking manner, he reminded me of the prohibition.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000040_000000|Thus ended the conference.
train-other-500/2496/156067/2496_156067_000042_000000|As I have no reason to doubt a welcome from your good mother, I will put every thing in order here, and be with you in two or three days.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000004_000000|Hannah has just brought me from the private place in the garden wall, a letter from mr Lovelace, deposited last night, signed also by Lord m
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000005_000001|He tells me of the patterns bespoken which my mother mentioned to me.'
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000006_000000|Not one thing escapes him that is done or said in this house.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000007_000000|'My sister, he says, reports the same things; and that with such particular aggravations of insult upon him, that he cannot but be extremely piqued, as well at the manner, as from the occasion; and expresses himself with great violence upon it.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000008_000000|'He knows not, he says, what my relations' inducements can be to prefer such a man as Solmes to him.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000008_000001|If advantageous settlements be the motive, Solmes shall not offer what he will refuse to comply with.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000010_000000|I suppose he would have his Lordship's signing to this letter to be taken as a voucher for him.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000012_000000|He presumes to be very earnest with me, 'to give him a private meeting some night, in my father's garden, attended by whom I please.'
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000013_000000|Really, my dear, were you to see his letter, you would think I had given him great encouragement, and that I am in direct treaty with him; or that he is sure that my friends will drive me into a foreign protection; for he has the boldness to offer, in my Lord's name, an asylum to me, should I be tyrannically treated in Solmes's behalf.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000014_000000|I suppose it is the way of this sex to endeavour to entangle the thoughtless of ours by bold supposals and offers, in hopes that we shall be too complaisant or bashful to quarrel with them; and, if not checked, to reckon upon our silence, as assents voluntarily given, or concessions made in their favour.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000017_000000|It is easy to see, if I do not break it off, that mr Lovelace's advantages, by reason of my unhappy situation, will every day increase, and I shall be more and more entangled.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000018_000000|All my relations are met.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000018_000001|They are at breakfast together.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000018_000002|mr Solmes is expected.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000018_000003|I am excessively uneasy.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000020_000000|They are all going to church together.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000020_000001|Grievously disordered they appear to be, as Hannah tells me.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000020_000002|She believes something is resolved upon.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000021_000000|SUNDAY NOON.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000022_000000|What a cruel thing is suspense!--I will ask leave to go to church this afternoon.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000022_000001|I expect to be denied.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000022_000002|But, if I do not ask, they may allege, that my not going is owing to myself.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000024_000001|Shorey came.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000024_000002|I directed her to carry to my mother my request for permission to go to church this afternoon.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000024_000004|Tell her, that she must direct herself to her brother for any favour she has to ask.--So, my dear, I am to be delivered up to my brother!
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000025_000000|I was resolved, however, to ask of him this favour.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000026_000000|This was the contemptuous answer: 'Tell her, that her request will be taken into consideration to morrow.'
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000027_000000|Patience will be the fittest return I can make to such an insult.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000027_000001|But this method will not do with me; indeed it will not!
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000027_000002|And yet it is but the beginning, I suppose, of what I am to expect from my brother, now I am delivered up to him.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000028_000000|On recollection, I thought it best to renew my request.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000028_000001|I did.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000028_000002|The following is a copy of what I wrote, and what follows that, of the answer sent me.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000029_000000|SIR,
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000030_000000|I know not what to make of the answer brought to my request of being permitted to go to church this afternoon.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000030_000001|If you designed to shew your pleasantry by it, I hope that will continue; and then my request will be granted.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000031_000001|My present situation is such, that I never more wanted the benefit of the public prayers.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000032_000000|I will solemnly engage only to go thither, and back again.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000033_000000|I hope it cannot be thought that I would do otherwise.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000034_000000|My dejection of spirits will give a too just excuse on the score of indisposition for avoiding visits.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000034_000001|Nor will I, but by distant civilities, return the compliments of any of my acquaintances.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000034_000002|My disgraces, if they are to have an end, need not be proclaimed to the whole world.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000036_000000|TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000037_000000|For a girl to lay so much stress upon going to church, and yet resolve to defy her parents, in an article of the greatest consequence to them, and to the whole family, is an absurdity.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000037_000001|You are recommended, Miss, to the practice of your private devotions.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000037_000003|The intention is, I tell you plainly, to mortify you into a sense of your duty.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000037_000004|The neighbours you are so solicitous to appear well with, already know, that you defy that.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000037_000005|So, Miss, if you have a real value for your reputation, shew it as you ought.
train-other-500/2496/156083/2496_156083_000038_000001|HARLOWE.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000000_000000|LETTER twenty six
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000003_000001|He cannot come at these intelligencies fairly.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000004_000001|He solicits me, 'To engage my honour to him never to have mr Solmes.'
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000005_000000|I think I may fairly promise him that I will not.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000006_000001|But declares, that the treatment he meets with from my family is of such a nature, that he is perpetually reproached for not resenting it; and that as well by Lord m and Lady Sarah, and Lady Betty, as by all his other friends: and if he must have no hope from me, he cannot answer for what his despair will make him do.'
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000007_000000|Indeed, he says, 'his relations, the ladies particularly, advise him to have recourse to a legal remedy: But how, he asks, can a man of honour go to law for verbal abuses given by people entitled to wear swords?'
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000009_000000|He is full of the favours of the ladies of his family to me: to whom, nevertheless, I am personally a stranger; except, that I once saw Miss Patty Montague at mrs Knolly's.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000010_000000|It is natural, I believe, for a person to be the more desirous of making new friends, in proportion as she loses the favour of old ones.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000010_000002|Cannot there be a way to find out, by mrs Fortescue's means, or by mr Hickman, who has some knowledge of Lord m [covertly, however,] what their opinions are of the present situation of things in our family; and of the little likelihood there is, that ever the alliance once approved of by them, can take effect?
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000011_000000|I cannot, for my own part, think so well of myself, as to imagine, that they can wish their kinsman to persevere in his views with regard to me, through such contempts and discouragements.--Not that it would concern me, should they advise him to the contrary.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000011_000002|But, methinks, I should be glad to have this confirmed to me, as from themselves, by the lips of an indifferent person; and the rather, because of their fortunes and family; and take it amiss (as they have reason) to be included by ours in the contempt thrown upon their kinsman.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000014_000000|I have answered his letters.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000014_000001|If he takes me at my word, I shall need to be less solicitous for the opinions of his relations in my favour: and yet one would be glad to be well thought of by the worthy.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000015_000000|This is the substance of my letter:
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000018_000000|I tell him, 'That to return, as I understand he does, defiances for defiances, to my relations, is far from being a proof with me, either of his politeness, or of the consideration he pretends to have for me.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000019_000000|'That the moment I hear he visits any of my friends without their consent, I will make a resolution never to see him more, if I can help it.'
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000020_000001|On all these accounts, I desire, that the one more letter, which I will allow him to deposit in the usual place, may be the very last; and that only, to acquaint me with his acquiescence that it shall be so; at least till happier times.'
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000021_000000|This last I put in that he may not be quite desperate.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000022_000000|I have promised to lay before you all his letters, and my answers: I repeat that promise: and am the less solicitous, for that reason, to amplify upon the contents of either.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000023_000000|For, my dear, you never knew so bold a supposer.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000024_000000|In short, my dear, like a restiff horse, (as I have heard described by sportsmen,) he pains one's hands, and half disjoints one's arms, to rein him in.
train-other-500/2496/156087/2496_156087_000024_000001|And, when you see his letters, you must form no judgment upon them, till you have read my answers.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000001_000000|LETTER twenty eight
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000003_000000|You will permit me, my dear, to touch upon a few passages in your last letter, that affect me sensibly.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000004_000000|In the first place, you must allow me to say, low as I am in spirits, that I am very angry with you, for your reflections on my relations, particularly on my father and mother, and on the memory of my grandfather.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000004_000001|Nor, my dear, does your own mother always escape the keen edge of your vivacity.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000004_000002|One cannot one's self forbear to write or speak freely of those we love and honour, when grief from imagined hard treatment wrings the heart: but it goes against one to hear any body else take the same liberties.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000005_000000|But least of all can I bear that you should reflect upon my mother. What, my dear, if her meekness should not be rewarded?
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000005_000001|Is the want of reward, or the want even of a grateful acknowledgement, a reason for us to dispense with what we think our duty?
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000008_000000|I have no friend but you to whom I can appeal, to whom I dare complain. Unhappily circumstanced as I am, it is but too probable that I shall complain, because it is but too probably that I shall have more and more cause given me for complaint.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000009_000000|I cannot help owning, however, that I am pleased to have you join with me in opinion of the contempt which mr Solmes deserves from me.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000010_000001|These men, my dear, with all their flatteries, look forward to the PERMANENT.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000011_000000|You very ingeniously account for the love we bear to one another, from the difference in our tempers.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000011_000001|I own, I should not have thought of that. There may possibly be something in it: but whether there be or not, whenever I am cool, and give myself time to reflect, I will love you the better for the correction you give, be as severe as you will upon me. Spare me not, therefore, my dear friend, whenever you think me in the least faulty.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000011_000002|I love your agreeable raillery: you know I always did: nor, however over serious you think me, did I ever think you flippant, as you harshly call it.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000011_000003|One of the first conditions of our mutual friendship was, each should say or write to the other whatever was upon her mind, without any offence to be taken: a condition, that is indeed indispensable in friendship.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000012_000000|I knew your mother would be for implicit obedience in a child.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000012_000001|I am sorry my case is so circumstanced, that I cannot comply.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000012_000002|It would be my duty to do so, if I could.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000014_000000|I should be very blamable to endeavour to hide any the least bias upon my mind, from you: and I cannot but say-that this man-this Lovelace-is a man that might be liked well enough, if he bore such a character as mr Hickman bears; and even if there were hopes of reclaiming him.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000015_000000|I could make some other observations upon the contents of your last two letters; but my mind is not free enough at present.
train-other-500/2496/156089/2496_156089_000015_000001|The occasion for the above stuck with me; and I could not help taking the earliest notice of them.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000002_000000|It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000004_000000|But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000007_000001|I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000007_000003|The question therefore is, How this number shall be reared, and provided for?
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000007_000004|which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000009_000000|I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000010_000000|I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000013_000000|I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000015_000001|Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000017_000000|As to our City of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000018_000000|A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000021_000000|I have too long digressed, and therefore shall return to my subject.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000021_000001|I think the advantages by the proposal which I have made are obvious and many, as well as of the highest importance.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000024_000001|And the money will circulate among our selves, the goods being entirely of our own growth and manufacture.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000025_000000|Fourthly, The constant breeders, besides the gain of eight shillings sterling per annum by the sale of their children, will be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000027_000000|Sixthly, This would be a great inducement to marriage, which all wise nations have either encouraged by rewards, or enforced by laws and penalties.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000028_000000|Many other advantages might be enumerated.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000028_000002|But this, and many others, I omit, being studious of brevity.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000030_000002|I desire the reader will observe, that I calculate my remedy for this one individual Kingdom of Ireland, and for no other that ever was, is, or, I think, ever can be upon Earth.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000030_000004|Lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shop keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000033_000000|After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000033_000001|But before something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to my scheme, and offering a better, I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two points. First, As things now stand, how they will be able to find food and raiment for a hundred thousand useless mouths and backs.
train-other-500/25/123319/25_123319_000034_000000|I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000001_000000|Henceforth the reader will use his discretion as to when he will read the chapter and when he will go to the picture show to verify it.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000002_000000|The shoddiest silent drama may contain noble views of the sea.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000002_000001|This part is almost sure to be good.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000002_000002|It is a fundamental resource.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000003_000000|A special development of this aptitude in the hands of an expert gives the sea of humanity, not metaphorically but literally: the whirling of dancers in ballrooms, handkerchief waving masses of people in balconies, hat waving political ratification meetings, ragged glowering strikers, and gossiping, dickering people in the marketplace.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000003_000001|Only Griffith and his close disciples can do these as well as almost any manager can reproduce the ocean.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000003_000002|Yet the sea of humanity is dramatically blood brother to the Pacific, Atlantic, or Mediterranean.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000003_000004|By the law of compensation, while the motion picture is shallow in showing private passion, it is powerful in conveying the passions of masses of men. Bernard Shaw, in a recent number of the Metropolitan, answered several questions in regard to the photoplay.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000003_000005|Here are two bits from his discourse:--
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000004_000000|"Strike the dialogue from Moliere's Tartuffe, and what audience would bear its mere stage business?
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000004_000002|What becomes of the difference between Shakespeare and Sheridan Knowles in the film?
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000005_000000|"Failures of the spoken drama may become the stars of the picture palace. And there are the authors with imagination, visualization and first rate verbal gifts who can write novels and epics, but cannot for the life of them write plays.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000005_000001|Well, the film lends itself admirably to the succession of events proper to narrative and epic, but physically impracticable on the stage.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000005_000002|Paradise Lost would make a far better film than Ibsen's john Gabriel Borkman, though Borkman is a dramatic masterpiece, and Milton could not write an effective play."
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000006_000001|This is one kind of a Crowd Picture.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000007_000002|It gives out the atmosphere of town crowd happiness.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000007_000003|Then comes the vineyard, the crowd sentiment of a merry grape harvest, then the massed emotion of many people embarking on an Atlantic liner telling good by to their kindred on the piers, then the drama of arrival in New York.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000008_000000|It is hot weather.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000008_000001|The mobs of children follow the ice wagon for chips of ice.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000008_000002|They besiege the fountain end of the street sprinkling wagon quite closely, rejoicing to have their clothes soaked.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000008_000003|They gather round the fire plug that is turned on for their benefit, and again become wet as drowned rats.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000009_000001|They owe the force of their acting to the fact that they express each mass of humanity in turn.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000009_000002|Their child is born.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000009_000003|It does not flourish.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000009_000004|It represents in an acuter way another phase of the same child struggle with the heat that the gamins indicate in their pursuit of the water cart.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000010_000000|Then a deeper matter.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000010_000001|The hero represents in a fashion the adventures of the whole Italian race coming to America: its natural southern gayety set in contrast to the drab East Side.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000010_000002|The gondolier becomes boot black.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000010_000003|The grape gathering peasant girl becomes the suffering slum mother.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000011_000000|Omitting the last episode, the entrance into the house of Corrigan, The Italian is a strong piece of work.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000000|Another kind of Crowd Picture is The Battle, an old Griffith Biograph, first issued in nineteen eleven, before Griffith's name or that of any actor in films was advertised.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000001|Blanche Sweet is the leading lady, and Charles h West the leading man.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000002|The psychology of a bevy of village lovers is conveyed in a lively sweet hearting dance.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000004|The lines pass between hand waving crowds of friends from the entire neighborhood.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000005|These friends give the sense of patriotism in mass.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000006|Then as the consequence of this feeling, as the special agents to express it, the soldiers are in battle.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000012_000007|By the fortunes of war the onset is unexpectedly near to the house where once was the dance.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000013_000000|The boy is at first a coward.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000013_000001|He enters the old familiar door.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000013_000002|He appeals to the girl to hide him, and for the time breaks her heart.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000013_000003|He goes forth a fugitive not only from battle, but from her terrible girlish anger. But later he rallies.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000013_000005|He loses every one of his men, and all but the last wagon, which he drives himself.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000013_000006|His return with that ammunition saves the hard fought day.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000015_000001|How the costumes flash and the handkerchiefs wave around her!
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000015_000004|Only the girl knows he was first a failure. The wounded general honors him as the hero above all.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000015_000005|Now she is radiant, she cannot help but be triumphant, though the side of the house is blown out by a shell and the dying are everywhere.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000000|This one reel work of art has been reissued of late by the Biograph Company.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000001|It should be kept in the libraries of the Universities as a standard.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000002|One reel films are unfortunate in this sense that in order to see a favorite the student must wait through five other reels of a mixed programme that usually is bad.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000003|That is the reason one reel masterpieces seldom appear now.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000004|The producer in a mood to make a special effort wants to feel that he has the entire evening, and that nothing before or after is going to be a bore or destroy the impression.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000006|But now, having the whole evening to work in, the producer takes too much time for his good ideas.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000007|I shall reiterate throughout this work the necessity for restraint.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000008|A one hour programme is long enough for any one.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000009|If the observer is pleased, he will sit it through again and take another hour.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000010|There is not a good film in the world but is the better for being seen in immediate succession to itself. Six reel programmes are a weariness to the flesh.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000016_000011|The best of the old one reel Biographs of Griffith contained more in twenty minutes than these ambitious incontinent six reel displays give us in two hours.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000002|Consider his illustration of Iago, Othello, and Lear.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000003|These parts, as he implies, would fall flat in motion pictures.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000004|The minor situations of dramatic intensity might in many cases be built up.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000005|The crisis would inevitably fail.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000007|If you go to a motion picture and feel yourself suddenly gripped by the highest dramatic tension, as on the old stage, and reflect afterward that it was a fight between only two or three men in a room otherwise empty, stop to analyze what they stood for.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000008|They were probably representatives of groups or races that had been pursuing each other earlier in the film.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000017_000009|Otherwise the conflict, however violent, appealed mainly to the sense of speed.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000018_000000|So, in The Birth of a Nation, which could better be called The Overthrow of Negro Rule, the Ku Klux Klan dashes down the road as powerfully as Niagara pours over the cliff.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000018_000001|Finally the white girl Elsie Stoneman (impersonated by Lillian Gish) is rescued by the Ku Klux Klan from the mulatto politician, Silas Lynch (impersonated by George Seigmann).
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000018_000002|The lady is brought forward as a typical helpless white maiden.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000018_000004|Ben Cameron (impersonated by Henry b Walthall), enters not as an individual, but as representing the whole Anglo Saxon Niagara.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000018_000006|As a result this rescue is a real climax, something the photoplays that trace strictly personal hatreds cannot achieve.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000019_000000|The Birth of a Nation is a Crowd Picture in a triple sense.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000019_000001|On the films, as in the audience, it turns the crowd into a mob that is either for or against the Reverend Thomas Dixon's poisonous hatred of the negro.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000020_000000|Griffith is a chameleon in interpreting his authors.
train-other-500/25/88353/25_88353_000020_000001|Wherever the scenario shows traces of The Clansman, the original book, by Thomas Dixon, it is bad.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000001_000000|THE Argentine Pampas extend from the thirty fourth to the fortieth degree of southern latitude.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000001_000003|The soil is composed of sand and red or yellow clay, and this is covered by a layer of earth, in which the vegetation takes root.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000003_000000|For two days they plodded steadily across this arid and deserted plain. The dry heat became severe.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000003_000001|There were not only no RIOS, but even the ponds dug out by the Indians were dried up.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000003_000002|As the drought seemed to increase with every mile, Paganel asked Thalcave when he expected to come to water.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000004_000000|"At Lake Salinas," replied the Indian.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000005_000000|"And when shall we get there?"
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000006_000000|"To morrow evening."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000007_000000|When the Argentines travel in the Pampas they generally dig wells, and find water a few feet below the surface.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000007_000001|But the travelers could not fall back on this resource, not having the necessary implements.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000008_000000|They halted at evening after a course of thirty miles and eagerly looked forward to a good night's rest to compensate for the fatigue of day.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000008_000001|But their slumbers were invaded by a swarm of mosquitoes, which allowed them no peace.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000008_000002|Their presence indicated a change of wind which shifted to the north.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000009_000000|Even these petty ills of life could not ruffle the Major's equanimity; but Paganel, on the contrary, was perfectly exasperated by such trifling annoyances.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000009_000001|He abused the poor mosquitoes desperately, and deplored the lack of some acid lotion which would have eased the pain of their stings.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000010_000002|The drought was constantly increasing, and the heat none the less for the wind being north, this wind being the simoom of the Pampas.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000011_000000|There was a brief interruption this day to the monotony of the journey. Mulrady, who was in front of the others, rode hastily back to report the approach of a troop of Indians.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000011_000003|He rather sought to avoid them, and gave orders to his party to have their arms in readiness for any trouble.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000012_000001|They came within a hundred yards of them, and stopped.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000014_000000|"The cowards!" exclaimed Paganel.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000015_000000|"They scampered off too quick for honest folks," said McNabbs.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000017_000000|"Gauchos."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000018_000000|"The Gauchos!" cried Paganel; and, turning to his companions, he added, "we need not have been so much on our guard; there was nothing to fear."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000021_000000|"You believe that, Paganel?"
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000022_000001|They took us for robbers, and fled in terror."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000023_000000|"I rather think they did not dare to attack us," replied Glenarvan, much vexed at not being able to enter into some sort of communication with those Indians, whatever they were.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000024_000000|"That's my opinion too," said the Major, "for if I am not mistaken, instead of being harmless, the Gauchos are formidable out and out bandits."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000025_000000|"The idea!" exclaimed Paganel.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000026_000000|And forthwith commenced a lively discussion of this ethnological thesis-so lively that the Major became excited, and, quite contrary to his usual suavity, said bluntly:
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000027_000000|"I believe you are wrong, Paganel."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000028_000000|"Wrong?" replied Paganel.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000029_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000029_000001|Thalcave took them for robbers, and he knows what he is talking about."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000030_000000|"Well, Thalcave was mistaken this time," retorted Paganel, somewhat sharply.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000030_000001|"The Gauchos are agriculturists and shepherds, and nothing else, as I have stated in a pamphlet on the natives of the Pampas, written by me, which has attracted some notice."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000037_000000|"Indeed!
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000038_000000|"Sir, I think you are very annoying to day."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000039_000000|"And I think you are very crabbed."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000040_000000|Glenarvan thought it was high time to interfere, for the discussion was getting too hot, so he said:
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000041_000000|"Come, now, there is no doubt one of you is very teasing and the other is very crabbed, and I must say I am surprised at both of you."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000042_000000|The Patagonian, without understanding the cause, could see that the two friends were quarreling.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000045_000002|I have heard that, in South America, the wind greatly irritates the nervous system."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000047_000000|But Paganel, in a towering rage, would not give up the contest, and turned upon Glenarvan, whose intervention in this jesting manner he resented.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000048_000000|"And so, my Lord, my nervous system is irritated?" he said.
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000050_000001|"Do I look like a man that would commit crimes?"
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000051_000000|"That's not exactly what I said."
train-other-500/2504/154288/2504_154288_000052_000000|"Tell me at once that I want to assassinate you?"
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000000_000001|Hunger and fatigue were forgotten in the face of this imperious necessity.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000002_000000|"What does he say?" asked Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000002_000001|"I fancied he was advising us to separate."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000003_000000|"Yes, into two parties.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000004_000000|"And what will we do then?" asked Austin.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000006_000001|My horse is in tolerable good trim, and I volunteer to accompany Thalcave."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000007_000000|"Oh, my Lord, take me," said Robert, as if it were a question of some pleasure party.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000008_000000|"But would you be able for it, my boy?"
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000009_000001|Please, my Lord, to take me."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000010_000000|"Come, then, my boy," said Glenarvan, delighted not to leave Robert behind.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000010_000001|"If we three don't manage to find out fresh water somewhere," he added, "we must be very stupid."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000012_000000|"Oh, my dear Paganel, you must stay with the reserve corps," replied the Major.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000013_000000|"I resign myself," said the geographer, much flattered at having supreme command.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000015_000000|"Oh, you insufferable Major; it would serve you right," replied Paganel, laughing.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000015_000001|"But how will you manage to understand what Thalcave says, Glenarvan?" he continued.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000018_000000|"We'll have supper first," rejoined Glenarvan, "and then sleep, if we can, till it is starting time."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000020_000000|Next morning, at six o'clock, the horses of Thalcave, Glenarvan and Robert were got ready.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000021_000000|"Don't come back whatever you do," called Paganel after them.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000022_000004|There the fertility is splendid; the pasturage is incomparable.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000024_000001|Robert," said Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000024_000002|"Thalcave is evidently congratulating you, my boy, and paying you compliments."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000025_000000|"What for, my Lord?"
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000026_000000|"For your good horsemanship."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000029_000000|"What would papa say to that?" said Robert, laughing.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000029_000001|"He wants me to be a sailor."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000030_000000|"The one won't hinder the other.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000030_000001|If all cavaliers wouldn't make good sailors, there is no reason why all sailors should not make good horsemen.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000030_000003|Indeed, it comes naturally."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000031_000000|"Poor father," said Robert; "how he will thank you for saving his life."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000033_000000|"Yes, my Lord, dearly.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000033_000002|We were his only thought: and whenever he came home from his voyages, we were sure of some SOUVENIR from all the places he had been to; and, better still, of loving words and caresses.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000033_000004|Mary is most like him.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000033_000005|He has a soft voice, like hers.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000035_000000|"I see him still," the boy went on, as if speaking to himself.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000035_000001|"Good, brave papa.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000035_000002|He put me to sleep on his knee, crooning an old Scotch ballad about the lochs of our country.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000035_000003|The time sometimes comes back to me, but very confused like.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000035_000004|So it does to Mary, too.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000035_000006|Well, I do think one needs to be little to love one's father like that."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000036_000000|"Yes, and to be grown up, my child, to venerate him," replied Glenarvan, deeply touched by the boy's genuine affection.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000038_000000|"You will find him?" said Robert again, after a few minutes' silence.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000040_000000|"Thalcave is a brave Indian, isn't he?" said the boy.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000041_000000|"That indeed he is."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000042_000000|"Do you know something, my Lord?"
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000043_000000|"What is it, and then I will tell you?"
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000044_000001|Lady Helena, whom I love so, and the Major, with his calm manner, and Captain Mangles, and Monsieur Paganel, and all the sailors on the DUNCAN.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000047_000000|"No, most certainly I don't know that."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000048_000000|"Well, it is time you did, my Lord," said the boy, seizing his lordship's hand, and covering it with kisses.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000049_000000|Glenarvan shook his head, but said no more, as a gesture from Thalcave made them spur on their horses and hurry forward.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000050_000000|But it was soon evident that, with the exception of Thaouka, the wearied animals could not go quicker than a walking pace.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000050_000001|At noon they were obliged to let them rest for an hour.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000051_000000|Glenarvan began to be uneasy.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000054_000001|Thalcave positively talked to the beast, and Thaouka understood perfectly, though unable to reply, for, after a great deal of arguing, the noble creature yielded, though he still champed the bit.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000055_000000|Thalcave did not understand Thaouka, it turned out, though Thaouka understood him.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000056_000000|The two other horses seemed to catch their comrade's meaning, and, inspired by his example, made a last effort, and galloped forward after the Indian.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000058_000000|"Water!" exclaimed Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000063_000000|"Drink moderately, my boy," said Glenarvan; but he did not set the example.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000064_000000|Thalcave drank very quietly, without hurrying himself, taking small gulps, but "as long as a lazo," as the Patagonians say.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000064_000001|He seemed as if he were never going to leave off, and really there was some danger of his swallowing up the whole river.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000067_000000|"But couldn't we go to meet them?
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000067_000001|It would spare them several hours' suffering and anxiety."
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000068_000001|The leather bottles were left with Wilson.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000069_000003|Accordingly they took possession at once, and stretched themselves at full length on the ground in the bright sunshine, to dry their dripping garments.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000070_000003|Are you ready, Robert?"
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000071_000000|"Yes, my Lord," replied the boy, standing up, gun in hand.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000073_000000|Disdaining the feathered tribes when more substantial game was at hand, the hunters' first shots were fired into the underwood.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000074_000001|It was very fat and would make an excellent dish, the Patagonian said.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000076_000000|There could be no entrapping such an animal, and the Indian did not attempt it.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000076_000003|In a few seconds it lay flat on the ground.
train-other-500/2504/154289/2504_154289_000077_000000|The Indian had not made his capture for the mere pleasure and glory of such a novel chase.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000004_000000|I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000004_000001|I spoke entirely in that language.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000005_000000|If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000005_000001|Harris and I had been hard at work on our German during several weeks at that time, and although we had made good progress, it had been accomplished under great difficulty and annoyance, for three of our teachers had died in the mean time.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000005_000002|A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000006_000002|So overboard he goes again, to hunt for another Ararat and find another quicksand.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000006_000003|Such has been, and continues to be, my experience.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000006_000004|Every time I think I have got one of these four confusing "cases" where I am master of it, a seemingly insignificant preposition intrudes itself into my sentence, clothed with an awful and unsuspected power, and crumbles the ground from under me.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000006_000006|Of course no bird would do that, but then you must stick to the book.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000006_000007|Very well, I begin to cipher out the German for that answer.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000006_000011|In the interest of science, I will cipher it out on the hypothesis that it is masculine.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000012_000000|That is from THE OLD MAMSELLE'S SECRET, by mrs Marlitt.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000012_000001|And that sentence is constructed upon the most approved German model.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000012_000003|Of course, then, the reader is left in a very exhausted and ignorant state.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000013_000001|For surely it is NOT clearness-it necessarily can't be clearness.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000013_000002|Even a jury would have penetration enough to discover that.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000013_000004|That is manifestly absurd.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000014_000001|Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that?
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000014_000004|Here is an example which I culled from a novel and reduced to English:
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000016_000000|However, it is not well to dwell too much on the separable verbs.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000016_000002|Personal pronouns and adjectives are a fruitful nuisance in this language, and should have been left out.
train-other-500/252/128411/252_128411_000016_000005|But mainly, think of the exasperation of never knowing which of these meanings the speaker is trying to convey.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000012_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000013_000000|"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000013_000002|But how do you do?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000013_000003|I see I have frightened you-sit down and tell me all the news."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000016_000000|"If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between seven and ten--Annette Scherer."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000017_000000|"Heavens! what a virulent attack!" replied the prince, not in the least disconcerted by this reception.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000018_000000|"First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000019_000000|"Can one be well while suffering morally?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000019_000002|"You are staying the whole evening, I hope?"
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000020_000000|"And the fete at the English ambassador's?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000020_000002|I must put in an appearance there," said the prince.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000020_000003|"My daughter is coming for me to take me there."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000021_000000|"I thought today's fete had been canceled.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000023_000002|You know everything."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000024_000000|"What can one say about it?" replied the prince in a cold, listless tone.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000024_000001|"What has been decided?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000024_000002|They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000025_000000|Prince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000025_000001|Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000026_000000|In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pavlovna burst out:
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000000|"Oh, don't speak to me of Austria.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000002|She is betraying us!
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000003|Russia alone must save Europe.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000004|Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000005|That is the one thing I have faith in!
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000008|We alone must avenge the blood of the just one....
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000011|She has refused to evacuate Malta.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000012|She wanted to find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000013|What answer did Novosiltsev get?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000014|None.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000015|The English have not understood and cannot understand the self abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000017|Nothing!
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000019|Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless before him....
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000021|This famous Prussian neutrality is just a trap.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000027_000023|He will save Europe!"
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000028_000000|She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000029_000001|You are so eloquent.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000030_000000|"In a moment.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000030_000002|He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000030_000003|And also the Abbe Morio.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000030_000004|Do you know that profound thinker?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000030_000005|He has been received by the Emperor.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000030_000006|Had you heard?"
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000031_000000|"I shall be delighted to meet them," said the prince.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000035_000000|As she named the Empress, Anna Pavlovna's face suddenly assumed an expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious patroness.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000036_000000|The prince was silent and looked indifferent.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000037_000000|"Now about your family.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000037_000001|Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000037_000002|They say she is amazingly beautiful."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000038_000000|The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000039_000000|"I often think," she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate conversation-"I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life are distributed.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000039_000002|I don't speak of Anatole, your youngest.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000039_000004|"Two such charming children.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000039_000005|And really you appreciate them less than anyone, and so you don't deserve to have them."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000040_000000|And she smiled her ecstatic smile.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000041_000000|"I can't help it," said the prince.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000041_000001|"Lavater would have said I lack the bump of paternity."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000042_000000|"Don't joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000042_000001|Do you know I am dissatisfied with your younger son?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000042_000002|Between ourselves" (and her face assumed its melancholy expression), "he was mentioned at Her Majesty's and you were pitied...."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000043_000000|The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, awaiting a reply.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000043_000001|He frowned.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000044_000000|"What would you have me do?" he said at last.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000044_000001|"You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000044_000002|Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000045_000000|"And why are children born to such men as you?
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000045_000001|If you were not a father there would be nothing I could reproach you with," said Anna Pavlovna, looking up pensively.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000046_000000|"I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000046_000002|That is how I explain it to myself.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000046_000003|It can't be helped!"
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000047_000000|He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a gesture.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000047_000001|Anna Pavlovna meditated.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000048_000002|She is a relation of yours, Princess Mary Bolkonskaya."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000049_000000|Prince Vasili did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this information.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000050_000002|Is this princess of yours rich?"
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000051_000001|He lives in the country.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000051_000002|He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed 'the King of Prussia.' He is very clever but eccentric, and a bore.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000051_000003|The poor girl is very unhappy.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000051_000004|She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000051_000005|He is an aide de camp of Kutuzov's and will be here tonight."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000052_000000|"Listen, dear Annette," said the prince, suddenly taking Anna Pavlovna's hand and for some reason drawing it downwards.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000052_000001|"Arrange that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave slafe with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports.
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000052_000002|She is rich and of good family and that's all I want."
train-other-500/252/132011/252_132011_000053_000000|And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the maid of honor's hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000000_000001|Shortly afterwards all the Jews in England were imprisoned.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000000_000003|And still the Jews are not yet considered as among the redeemed.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000000_000004|In twelve ninety they were all banished from the kingdom and their property seized by the crown.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000000_000005|This seizure of real estate turned the attention of the Jews to the use of diamonds as an investment.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000000_000006|For four hundred years the Jews were not permitted to return to England.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000004_000001|Baliol was succeeded by the brave William Wallace, who won a great battle at Stirling, but was afterwards defeated entirely at Falkirk, and in thirteen o five was executed in London by request.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000005_000000|But the Scotch called to their aid Robert Bruce, the grandson of Baliol's competitor, and he was solemnly crowned at the Abbey of Scone.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000006_000000|During a successful campaign against these people Edward fell sick, and died in thirteen o seven.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000006_000001|He left orders for the Scottish war to be continued till that restless and courageous people were subdued.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000011_000000|Young Edward was not much of a monarch.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000011_000003|Turning sick at the gory sight, he buried his face in his handkerchief and expired.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000012_000000|The nobles were forgiven afterwards by the king, who now turned his attention to the victorious Scots.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000014_000000|The English, numbering one hundred thousand, at Bannockburn fought against thirty thousand Scots.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000015_000001|The critic, too, should not be forgotten in a work of this kind.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000015_000002|He must do something to support his family, or he will become disliked.--AUTHOR.]
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000019_000000|The Spencers now returned, and the queen began to cut up strangely and create talk.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000019_000001|She formed the acquaintance of Roger Mortimer, who consented to act as her paramour.
train-other-500/252/140215/252_140215_000021_000000|Edward fled to Wales, but in thirteen twenty six was requested to come home and remain in jail there, instead of causing a scandal by staying away and spending his money in Wales.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000001_000000|From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000001_000002|But even after the discovery of the law of Copernicus the Ptolemaic worlds were still studied for a long time.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000003_000000|By refuting these new laws the former view of history might have been retained; but without refuting them it would seem impossible to continue studying historic events as the results of man's free will.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000004_000000|And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000005_000000|The struggle between the old views and the new was long and stubbornly fought out in physical philosophy.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000005_000002|But when truth conquered, theology established itself just as firmly on the new foundation.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000007_000000|In the one case as in the other, on both sides the struggle provokes passion and stifles truth.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000007_000001|On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000008_000000|To the men who fought against the rising truths of physical philosophy, it seemed that if they admitted that truth it would destroy faith in God, in the creation of the firmament, and in the miracle of joshua the son of Nun.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000008_000001|To the defenders of the laws of Copernicus and Newton, to Voltaire for example, it seemed that the laws of astronomy destroyed religion, and he utilized the law of gravitation as a weapon against religion.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000010_000000|So too, like Voltaire in his time, uninvited defenders of the law of inevitability today use that law as a weapon against religion, though the law of inevitability in history, like the law of Copernicus in astronomy, far from destroying, even strengthens the foundation on which the institutions of state and church are erected.
train-other-500/252/29350/252_29350_000011_000001|In astronomy it was the immovability of the earth, in history it is the independence of personality-free will.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000002_000000|JEM'S INTERVIEW WITH POOR esther.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000004_000000|"STREET WALKS."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000005_000000|The month was over;--the honeymoon to the newly married; the exquisite convalescence to the "living mother of a living child;" the "first dark days of nothingness" to the widow and the child bereaved; the term of penance, of hard labour, and solitary confinement, to the shrinking, shivering, hopeless prisoner.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000006_000000|"Sick, and in prison, and ye visited me." Shall you, or I, receive such blessing?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000006_000001|I know one who will.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000008_000000|Esther's term of imprisonment was ended.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000008_000002|And once more she was out of prison.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000008_000003|The door closed behind her with a ponderous clang, and in her desolation she felt as if shut out of home-from the only shelter she could meet with, houseless and pennyless as she was, on that dreary day.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000009_000000|But it was but for an instant that she stood there doubting.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000009_000001|One thought had haunted her both by night and by day, with monomaniacal incessancy; and that thought was how to save Mary (her dead sister's only child, her own little pet in the days of her innocence) from following in the same downward path to vice.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000009_000002|To whom could she speak and ask for aid?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000009_000003|She shrank from the idea of addressing john Barton again; her heart sank within her, at the remembrance of his fierce repulsing action, and far fiercer words.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000009_000004|It seemed worse than death to reveal her condition to Mary, else she sometimes thought that this course would be the most terrible, the most efficient warning.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000009_000006|She dreaded addressing any of her former female acquaintance, even supposing they had sense, or spirit, or interest enough to undertake her mission.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000010_000000|To whom shall the outcast prostitute tell her tale?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000010_000002|Hers is the leper sin, and all stand aloof dreading to be counted unclean.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000011_000000|In her wild night wanderings, she had noted the haunts and habits of many a one who little thought of a watcher in the poor forsaken woman.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000011_000001|You may easily imagine that a double interest was attached by her to the ways and companionships of those with whom she had been acquainted in the days which, when present, she had considered hardly worked and monotonous, but which now in retrospection seemed so happy and unclouded.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000012_000000|All these thoughts had passed through her mind while yet she was in prison; so when she was turned out, her purpose was clear, and she did not feel her desolation of freedom as she would otherwise have done.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000013_000000|That night she stationed herself early near the foundry where she knew Jem worked; he stayed later than usual, being detained by some arrangements for the morrow.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000014_000000|During that turn he came out, and in the quiet of that street of workshops and warehouses, she directly heard his steps.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000014_000002|She laid her hand on his arm.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000014_000003|As she expected, after a momentary glance at the person who thus endeavoured to detain him, he made an effort to shake it off, and pass on.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000014_000004|But trembling as she was, she had provided against this by a firm and unusual grasp.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000015_000000|"You must listen to me, Jem Wilson," she said, with almost an accent of command.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000017_000000|He made another struggle.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000018_000000|"You must listen," she said again, authoritatively, "for Mary Barton's sake."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000019_000001|"He listened like a three year child."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000021_000000|He interrupted his earnest gaze into her face, with the exclamation-
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000023_000000|There was a little strife in Esther's mind for an instant, between the shame of acknowledging herself, and the additional weight to her revelation which such acknowledgment would give.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000023_000001|Then she spoke.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000024_000001|the aunt to Mary?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000025_000000|"Yes, I mind her well!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000025_000002|He looked again into her face, and seeing that indeed it was his boyhood's friend, he took her hand, and shook it with a cordiality that forgot the present in the past.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000026_000000|"Why, esther!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000026_000001|Where han ye been this many a year?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000027_000000|The question was asked thoughtlessly, but answered with fierce earnestness.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000000|"Where have I been?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000001|What have I been doing?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000002|Why do you torment me with questions like these?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000003|Can you not guess?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000006|You must hear it, and I must tell it; and then see after Mary, and take care she does not become like me.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000008|"He was so handsome, so kind!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000010|I never thought poor Mary would have taken it so to heart!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000011|I always meant to send for her to pay me a visit when I was married; for, mark you! he promised me marriage.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000012|They all do.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000013|Then came three years of happiness.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000015|I had a little girl, too.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000028_000017|But I must not think of her," putting her hand wildly up to her forehead, "or I shall go mad; I shall."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000029_000000|"Don't tell me any more about yoursel," said Jem, soothingly.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000030_000002|I won't recall the agony of the past for nothing.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000030_000003|I will have the relief of telling it.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000030_000004|Oh, how happy I was!"--sinking her voice into a plaintive child like manner.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000031_000000|Jem muttered some words; she caught their meaning, and in a pleading voice continued,
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000000|"Oh, don't abuse him; don't speak a word against him!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000002|You don't guess how kind he was.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000005|For her sake he ceased.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000006|"I might have done better with the money; I see now.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000011|We should have done well, but alas!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000013|I sold my goods any how to get money to buy her food and medicine; I wrote over and over again to her father for help, but he must have changed his quarters, for I never got an answer.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000032_000016|So I went out into the street, one January night-Do you think God will punish me for that?" she asked with wild vehemence, almost amounting to insanity, and shaking Jem's arm in order to force an answer from him.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000033_000000|But before he could shape his heart's sympathy into words, her voice had lost its wildness, and she spoke with the quiet of despair.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000034_000000|"But it's no matter!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000034_000002|"My darling! my darling! even after death I may not see thee, my own sweet one!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000035_000000|"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000036_000003|You know Mary Barton, don't you?" said she, trying to collect her thoughts.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000037_000000|Yes, Jem knew her.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000037_000001|How well, his beating heart could testify!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000038_000000|"Well, there's something to do for her; I forget what; wait a minute!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000039_000001|But he controlled himself to silence.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000039_000002|After awhile, she spoke again, and in a calmer voice.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000040_000001|And yet I never thought my poor sister was dead.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000040_000005|I found out Mary went to learn dress making, and I began to be frightened for her; for it's a bad life for a girl to be out late at night in the streets, and after many an hour of weary work, they're ready to follow after any novelty that makes a little change.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000040_000009|She was joined soon after she came out, by a man; a gentleman.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000040_000011|But I was laid up for a long time with spitting of blood; and could do nothing.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000040_000012|I'm sure it made me worse, thinking about what might be happening to Mary.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000041_000001|Tell me his name!"
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000042_000000|"It's young Carson, old Carson's son, that your father worked for."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000043_000001|She broke the silence.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000044_000000|"Oh! Jem, I charge you with the care of her!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000044_000001|I suppose it would be murder to kill her, but it would be better for her to die than to live to lead such a life as I do.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000044_000002|Do you hear me, Jem?"
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000045_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000045_000002|It would be better.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000046_000001|That I have determined on.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000046_000003|Come home with me.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000046_000004|Come to my mother.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000046_000005|She and my aunt Alice live together.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000046_000008|Come home with me."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000049_000000|Still he did not relax his hold.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000049_000001|"Come home," he said.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000000|"I tell you, I cannot.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000001|I could not lead a virtuous life if I would. I should only disgrace you.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000002|If you will know all," said she, as he still seemed inclined to urge her, "I must have drink.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000003|Such as live like me could not bear life if they did not drink.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000004|It's the only thing to keep us from suicide.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000005|If we did not drink, we could not stand the memory of what we have been, and the thought of what we are, for a day.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000050_000006|If I go without food, and without shelter, I must have my dram.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000051_000001|"There they go round and round my bed the whole night through.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000053_000001|I know it better than if you told me in words.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000053_000002|But you can do nothing for me.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000053_000003|I am past hope.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000053_000004|You can yet save Mary.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000053_000005|You must.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000054_000000|With heart and soul, though in few words, Jem promised that if aught earthly could keep her from falling, he would do it.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000054_000001|Then she blessed him, and bade him good night.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000055_000000|"Stay a minute," said he, as she was on the point of departure.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000055_000001|"I may want to speak to you again.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000056_000000|She laughed strangely.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000056_000001|"And do you think one sunk so low as I am has a home?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000056_000002|Decent, good people have homes.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000056_000003|We have none.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000057_000000|Again she rapidly turned off, and Jem also went on his way.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000057_000002|One more effort, and she might have come.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000057_000003|Nay, twenty efforts would have been well rewarded by her yielding.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000057_000004|He turned back, but she was gone.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000057_000006|But many and many a day afterwards he bitterly regretted his omission of duty; his weariness of well doing.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000000|Now, the great thing was to reach home, and solitude.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000001|Mary loved another!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000002|Oh! how should he bear it?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000005|And he must live on; that seemed the strangest.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000006|That a long life (and he knew men did live long, even with deep, biting sorrow corroding at their hearts) must be spent without Mary; nay, with the consciousness she was another's!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000007|That hell of thought he would reserve for the quiet of his own room, the dead stillness of night.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000058_000008|He was on the threshold of home now.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000000|He entered.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000001|There were the usual faces, the usual sights.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000002|He loathed them, and then he cursed himself because he loathed them.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000003|His mother's love had taken a cross turn, because he had kept the tempting supper she had prepared for him waiting until it was nearly spoilt.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000005|And Will, out of the very kindness of his heart, talked more and more merrily than ever.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000006|He saw Jem was downcast, and fancied his rattling might cheer him; at any rate, it drowned his aunt's muttered grumblings, and in some measure concealed the blank of the evening.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000008|Jem, too, went to the closet termed his bed room.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000059_000009|There was no bolt to the door; but by one strong effort of his right arm, a heavy chest was moved against it, and he could sit down on the side of his bed, and think.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000060_000000|Mary loved another!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000060_000001|That idea would rise uppermost in his mind, and had to be combated in all its forms of pain.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000060_000002|It was, perhaps, no great wonder that she should prefer one so much above Jem in the external things of life.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000060_000004|With all the glories of the garden at his hand, why did he prefer to cull the wild rose,--Jem's own fragrant wild rose?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000000|Then uprose the guilty longing for blood!--The frenzy of jealousy!--Some one should die.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000002|A vision of her pale, sweet face, with her bright hair all bedabbled with gore, seemed to float constantly before his aching eyes.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000003|But hers were ever open, and contained, in their soft, deathly look, such mute reproach!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000006|That was all!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000007|It was the wooer who should die.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000008|Yes, die, knowing the cause of his death.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000009|Jem pictured him (and gloated on the picture), lying smitten, yet conscious; and listening to the upbraiding accusation of his murderer.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000011|Then the other nature spoke up, and bade him remember the anguish he should so prepare for Mary!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000012|At first he refused to listen to that better voice; or listened only to pervert.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000062_000014|he would take pleasure in her desolation of heart!
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000063_000000|No! he could not, said the still small voice.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000063_000001|It would be worse, far worse, to have caused such woe, than it was now to bear his present heavy burden.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000064_000000|But it was too heavy, too grievous to be borne, and live.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000064_000001|He would slay himself, and the lovers should love on, and the sun shine bright, and he with his burning, woeful heart would be at rest.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000064_000002|"Rest that is reserved for the people of God."
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000065_000001|Who would then guard Mary, with her love and her innocence? Would it not be a goodly thing to serve her, although she loved him not; to be her preserving angel, through the perils of life; and she, unconscious all the while?
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000066_000000|He braced up his soul, and said to himself, that with God's help he would be that earthly keeper.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000067_000000|And now the mists and the storms seemed clearing away from his path, though it still was full of stinging thorns.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000067_000001|Having done the duty nearest to him (of reducing the tumult of his own heart to something like order), the second became more plain before him.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000068_000000|Poor Esther's experience had led her, perhaps, too hastily to the conclusion, that mr Carson's intentions were evil towards Mary; at least she had given no just ground for the fears she entertained that such was the case.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000068_000001|It was possible, nay, to Jem's heart, very probable, that he might only be too happy to marry her.
train-other-500/2522/147156/2522_147156_000068_000002|She was a lady by right of nature, Jem thought; in movement, grace, and spirit. what was birth to a Manchester manufacturer, many of whom glory, and justly too, in being the architects of their own fortunes?
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train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000005_000000|HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000009_000000|PREFACE
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000010_000000|The following History is given in a series of letters, written Principally in a double yet separate correspondence;
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000017_000000|The principle of these two young ladies is proposed as an exemplar to her sex.
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000017_000001|Nor is it any objection to her being so, that she is not in all respects a perfect character.
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000017_000004|To have been impeccable, must have left nothing for the Divine Grace and a purified state to do, and carried our idea of her from woman to angel.
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000022_000001|It will probably be thought tedious to all such as dip into it, expecting a light novel, or transitory romance; and look upon story in it (interesting as that is generally allowed to be) as its sole end, rather than as a vehicle to the instruction.
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000024_000000|NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONS
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000002|HERVEY, half sister of mrs Harlowe. MISS DOLLY HERVEY, her daughter. mrs
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000005|MORDEN, a near relation of the Harlowes. MISS HOWE, the most intimate friend, companion, and correspondent of Clarissa. mrs
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000007|LEWEN, a worthy divine. mr
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000008|ELIAS BRAND, a pedantic young clergyman. dr
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000009|H. a humane physician. mr
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000012|MOORE, a widow, keeping a lodging house at Hampstead. MISS RAWLINS, a notable young gentlewoman there. mrs
train-other-500/2526/156061/2526_156061_000025_000013|BEVIS, a lively young widow of the same place. mrs
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000002_000000|LETTER twelve
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000003_000000|MISS HOWE, TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE THURSDAY MORNING, march second.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000004_000000|Indeed you would not be in love with him for the world!--Your servant, my dear.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000004_000002|For, I think, with all the advantages of person, fortune, and family, he is not by any means worthy of you.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000006_000001|Nor will I keep you longer in suspense.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000008_000000|mrs Fortescue owns, what every body knows, 'that he is notoriously, nay, avowedly, a man of pleasure; yet says, that in any thing he sets his heart upon or undertakes, he is the most industrious and persevering mortal under the sun
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000008_000001|He rests it seems not above six hours in the twenty four-any more than you.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000008_000002|He delights in writing.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000009_000000|'He had once it seems the vanity, upon being complimented on these talents (and on his surprising diligence, for a man of pleasure) to compare himself to Julius Caesar; who performed great actions by day, and wrote them down at night; and valued himself, that he only wanted Caesar's out setting, to make a figure among his contemporaries.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000011_000000|But supposing it to be true that all his vacant nightly hours are employed in writing, what can be his subjects?
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000012_000000|That you and I, my dear, should love to write, is no wonder.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000012_000001|We have always, from the time each could hold a pen, delighted in epistolary correspondencies.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000015_000000|Whatever his other vices are, all the world, as well as mrs Fortescue, says, 'he is a sober man.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000015_000001|And among all his bad qualities, gaming, that great waster of time as well as fortune, is not his vice:' So that he must have his head as cool, and his reason as clear, as the prime of youth and his natural gaiety will permit; and by his early morning hours, a great portion of time upon his hands to employ in writing, or worse.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000018_000002|Both very bad and threatening indications; since the first must shew him to be utterly abandoned; and it is but natural to conclude from the other, that what a man is not ashamed to have imputed to him, he will not scruple to be guilty of whenever he has an opportunity.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000019_000000|Upon the whole, and upon all I could gather from mrs Fortescue, mr Lovelace is a very faulty man.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000019_000004|Nor has he complaisance enough to spare your uncles.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000020_000001|His vanity would be your clue.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000022_000000|Talk of the devil, is an old saying.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000022_000001|The lively wretch has made me a visit, and is but just gone away.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000026_000000|I told him, that this was very hard upon him; and the more so, as neither his life nor morals perhaps would stand a fair inquiry.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000027_000000|He smiled, and called himself my servant.--The occasion was too fair, he said, for Miss Howe, who never spared him, to let it pass.--But, Lord help the shallow souls of the Harlowes!
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000027_000001|Would I believe it! they were for turning plotters upon him.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000028_000000|I asked him, If he valued himself upon having a head better turned than theirs for such works, as he called them?
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000029_000000|He drew off: and then ran into the highest professions of reverence and affection for you.
train-other-500/2526/156073/2526_156073_000030_000000|The object so meritorious, who can doubt the reality of his professions?
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000002_000000|LETTER fifteen
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000004_000000|I have both your letters at once.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000005_000000|That these presumers appear not in this very unworthy light to some of your friends, is, because their defects are not so striking to them as to others.--And why?
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000006_000002|Hence your Symmes's, your Byron's, your Mullins's, your Wyerley's (the best of the herd), and your Solmes's, in turn, invade you-Wretches that, looking upon the rest of your family, need not despair of succeeding in an alliance with it-But to you, what an inexcusable presumption!
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000007_000000|Yet I am afraid all opposition will be in vain.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000007_000001|You must, you will, I doubt, be sacrificed to this odious man.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000007_000002|I know your family.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000008_000002|Bell has a meanness in her very pride; that meanness rises with her pride, and goes hand in hand with it; and no one is so proud as Bell.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000008_000003|She has owned her love, her uneasy days, and sleepless nights, and her revenge grafted upon her love, to her favourite Betty Barnes-To lay herself in the power of a servant's tongue!
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000008_000004|Poor creature!--But LIKE little souls will find one another out, and mingle, as well as LIKE great ones.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000012_000001|I am too sure) that they will subdue such a fine spirit as yours, unused to opposition; and (tell it not in Gath) you must be mrs Solmes!
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000018_000000|I know your dutiful, your laudable motives; and one would have thought, that you might have trusted to a father who so dearly loved you.
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000020_000002|He has qualities, in short, that may make him a tolerable creature on the other side of fifty: but God help the poor woman to whose lot he shall fall till then!
train-other-500/2526/156076/2526_156076_000021_000000|I long for your next letter.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000007_000000|MISS HOWE, TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000007_000001|sunday march nineteenth.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000008_000000|I beg your pardon, my dearest friend, for having given you occasion to remind me of the date of my last.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000008_000001|I was willing to have before me as much of the workings of your wise relations as possible; being verily persuaded, that one side or the other would have yielded by this time: and then I should have had some degree of certainty to found my observations upon.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000008_000004|You cannot bear the thoughts of having their Solmes: and Lovelace is resolved you shall be his, let who will say to the contrary.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000008_000006|Let us see what their next step will be.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000013_000000|But let it-if it must be Lovelace or Solmes, the choice cannot admit of debate.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000013_000002|But who can be worthy of a Clarissa?
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000014_000001|I must own, that I should think myself inexcusable so to do, (the rather, as I am bold enough to imagine it a point out of all doubt from fifty places in your letters, were I to labour the proof,) if you would ingenuously own-
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000015_000000|Own what?
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000015_000002|Why, my Anna Howe, I hope you don't think that I am already in love-!
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000016_000000|No, to be sure!
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000016_000001|How can your Anna Howe have such a thought?--What then shall we call it?
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000017_000000|But, avoiding such hard names, let me tell you one thing, my dear (which nevertheless I have told you before); and that is this: that I shall think I have reason to be highly displeased with you, if, when you write to me, you endeavour to keep from me any secret of your heart.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000018_000000|Let me add, that if you would clearly and explicitly tell me, how far Lovelace has, or has not, a hold in your affections, I could better advise you what to do, than at present I can.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000018_000003|Surely, you are not afraid to trust yourself with a secret of this nature: if you are, then you may the more allowably doubt me.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000018_000004|But, I dare say, you will not own either-nor is there, I hope, cause for either.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000020_000000|Remember, that you found me out in a moment.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000020_000001|You challenged me.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000022_000002|And pray tell us, to what you think it owing, that your man seems so careful to adorn that self adorned person of his! yet so manages, that one cannot for one's heart think him a coxcomb?--Let this question, and the above tasks, divert, and not displease you, my dear.
train-other-500/2526/156098/2526_156098_000022_000003|One subject, though ever so important, could never yet engross your capacious mind.
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train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000005_000000|PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000007_000000|PART one
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000008_000000|Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000008_000002|For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000008_000003|The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000009_000000|For myself, I have never fancied my mind to be in any respect more perfect than those of the generality; on the contrary, I have often wished that I were equal to some others in promptitude of thought, or in clearness and distinctness of imagination, or in fullness and readiness of memory.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000011_000000|After all, it is possible I may be mistaken; and it is but a little copper and glass, perhaps, that I take for gold and diamonds.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000011_000001|I know how very liable we are to delusion in what relates to ourselves, and also how much the judgments of our friends are to be suspected when given in our favor.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000012_000000|My present design, then, is not to teach the method which each ought to follow for the right conduct of his reason, but solely to describe the way in which I have endeavored to conduct my own.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000012_000001|They who set themselves to give precepts must of course regard themselves as possessed of greater skill than those to whom they prescribe; and if they err in the slightest particular, they subject themselves to censure.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000012_000002|But as this tract is put forth merely as a history, or, if you will, as a tale, in which, amid some examples worthy of imitation, there will be found, perhaps, as many more which it were advisable not to follow, I hope it will prove useful to some without being hurtful to any, and that my openness will find some favor with all.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000013_000001|But as soon as I had finished the entire course of study, at the close of which it is customary to be admitted into the order of the learned, I completely changed my opinion.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000013_000002|For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all my attempts at learning, than the discovery at every turn of my own ignorance.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000013_000005|I knew the judgment which others had formed of me; and I did not find that I was considered inferior to my fellows, although there were among them some who were already marked out to fill the places of our instructors.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000013_000006|And, in fine, our age appeared to me as flourishing, and as fertile in powerful minds as any preceding one.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000013_000007|I was thus led to take the liberty of judging of all other men by myself, and of concluding that there was no science in existence that was of such a nature as I had previously been given to believe.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000014_000000|I still continued, however, to hold in esteem the studies of the schools.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000015_000000|But I believed that I had already given sufficient time to languages, and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients, to their histories and fables.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000015_000001|For to hold converse with those of other ages and to travel, are almost the same thing.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000015_000002|It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000015_000003|On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000017_000001|On the other hand, I compared the disquisitions of the ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation than sand and mud: they laud the virtues very highly, and exhibit them as estimable far above anything on earth; but they give us no adequate criterion of virtue, and frequently that which they designate with so fine a name is but apathy, or pride, or despair, or parricide.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000021_000000|For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters, and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000021_000002|In addition, I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life, and proceed in it with confidence.
train-other-500/253/124400/253_124400_000022_000000|It is true that, while busied only in considering the manners of other men, I found here, too, scarce any ground for settled conviction, and remarked hardly less contradiction among them than in the opinions of the philosophers.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000003_000000|TOO TOO, THE LISTENER
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000004_000000|HAVING thanked the sharks again for their kindness, the Doctor and his pets set off once more on their journey home in the swift ship with the three red sails.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000005_000000|As they moved out into the open sea, the animals all went downstairs to see what their new boat was like inside; while the Doctor leant on the rail at the back of the ship with a pipe in his mouth, watching the Canary Islands fade away in the blue dusk of the evening.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000007_000004|Come and look....
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000007_000008|Come down and see if you can let us in."
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000008_000000|So the Doctor went downstairs and he saw that it was indeed a beautiful ship.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000008_000002|The Doctor turned the handle but it wouldn't open.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000008_000003|Then they all started to hunt for the key.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000009_000001|But nowhere in the whole boat could they find a key to fit that lock.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000013_000000|They all kept still a moment.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000013_000001|Then the Doctor said,
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000014_000000|"You must be mistaken, Too Too.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000014_000001|I don't hear anything."
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000016_000000|"No, I do not," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000018_000000|"But that makes hardly any sound at all," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000018_000001|"You couldn't hear that out here."
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000019_000001|"I tell you there is some one on the other side of that door putting his hand in his pocket.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000020_000000|"Well, well!" said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000020_000001|"You surprise me.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000020_000002|That's very interesting....
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000020_000003|Listen again and tell me what he's doing now."
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000021_000000|"I'm not sure yet," said Too Too, "if it's a man at all.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000021_000001|Maybe it's a woman.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000022_000000|So the Doctor lifted the owl up and held him close to the lock of the door.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000024_000003|Now he pushes his hair back off his forehead-It's a man all right."
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000025_000000|"Women sometimes do that," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000026_000001|"But when they do, their long hair makes quite a different sound....
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000026_000003|Make that fidgety pig keep still.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000026_000004|Now all hold your breath a moment so I can listen well.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000026_000007|Everybody quite still-shut your eyes and don't breathe."
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000027_000000|Too Too leaned down and listened again very hard and long.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000028_000000|At last he looked up into the Doctor's face and said,
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000029_000000|"The man in there is unhappy.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000029_000001|He weeps.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000029_000002|He has taken care not to blubber or sniffle, lest we should find out that he is crying.
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000030_000002|"A drop of water falling off the ceiling would have made ten times as much noise!"
train-other-500/253/126864/253_126864_000031_000000|"Well," said the Doctor, "if the poor fellow's unhappy, we've got to get in and see what's the matter with him.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000001_000000|THE OCEAN GOSSIPS
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000002_000000|RIGHT away an axe was found.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000002_000001|And the Doctor soon chopped a hole in the door big enough to clamber through.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000003_000000|At first he could see nothing at all, it was so dark inside.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000003_000001|So he struck a match.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000004_000000|The room was quite small; no window; the ceiling, low.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000004_000001|For furniture there was only one little stool.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000004_000002|All round the room big barrels stood against the walls, fastened at the bottom so they wouldn't tumble with the rolling of the ship; and above the barrels, pewter jugs of all sizes hung from wooden pegs.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000004_000003|There was a strong, winey smell.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000004_000004|And in the middle of the floor sat a little boy, about eight years old, crying bitterly.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000006_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000007_000000|The little boy seemed rather frightened to find a man standing there before him and all those animals staring in through the hole in the broken door.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000007_000001|But as soon as he saw john Dolittle's face by the light of the match, he stopped crying and got up.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000008_000000|"You aren't one of the pirates, are you?" he asked.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000010_000000|"You laugh like a friend," he said-"not like a pirate.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000010_000001|Could you tell me where my uncle is?"
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000011_000000|"I am afraid I can't," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000000|"It was the day before yesterday," said the boy.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000003|But he said he didn't want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000004|Then the leader, Ben Ali, got very angry and gnashed his teeth, and said they would throw my uncle into the sea if he didn't do as they said.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000005|They sent me downstairs; and I heard the noise of a fight going on above.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000006|And when they let me come up again next day, my uncle was nowhere to be seen.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000007|I asked the pirates where he was; but they wouldn't tell me.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000012_000008|I am very much afraid they threw him into the sea and drowned him."
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000013_000000|And the little boy began to cry again.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000014_000000|"Well now-wait a minute," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000014_000001|"Don't cry.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000014_000003|Maybe your uncle is quite safe all the time.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000014_000004|You don't KNOW that he was drowned, do you?
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000014_000005|And that's something.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000014_000006|Perhaps we can find him for you.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000015_000000|All the animals had been standing around listening with great curiosity.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000017_000000|"All right," said the Doctor, taking a second piece of bread and jam.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000018_000000|"What are those funny, clicking noises you are making with your tongue?" asked the boy.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000020_000000|"I didn't even know that ducks had a language," said the boy.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000020_000001|"Are all these other animals your pets, too?
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000020_000002|What is that strange looking thing with two heads?"
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000021_000000|"Sh!" the Doctor whispered.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000021_000003|Tell me, how did you come to be locked up in that little room?"
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000022_000000|"The pirates shut me in there when they were going off to steal things from another ship.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000022_000001|When I heard some one chopping on the door, I didn't know who it could be.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000022_000002|I was very glad to find it was you.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000022_000003|Do you think you will be able to find my uncle for me?"
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000023_000000|"Well, we are going to try very hard," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000024_000000|"He had red hair," the boy answered-"very red hair, and the picture of an anchor tattooed on his arm.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000024_000001|He was a strong man, a kind uncle and the best sailor in the South Atlantic.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000024_000002|His fishing boat was called The Saucy Sally-a cutter rigged sloop."
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000026_000001|"Keep still, can't you?"
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000027_000001|I thought it was something to drink."
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000028_000000|So the Doctor left the boy to play with the animals in the dining room, and went upstairs to look for passing porpoises.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000029_000000|And soon a whole school came dancing and jumping through the water, on their way to Brazil.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000030_000000|When they saw the Doctor leaning on the rail of his ship, they came over to see how he was getting on.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000031_000000|And the Doctor asked them if they had seen anything of a man with red hair and an anchor tattooed on his arm.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000033_000000|"Yes," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000033_000001|"That's the man.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000035_000000|"His little nephew is on the ship with me here," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000035_000001|"And he is terribly afraid that the pirates threw his uncle into the sea. Would you be so good as to find out for me, for sure, whether he has been drowned or not?"
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000036_000001|"If he were, we would be sure to have heard of it from the deep-sea Decapods.
train-other-500/253/126865/253_126865_000036_000002|We hear all the salt water news.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000001_000000|CONCLUSION
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000002_000000|In the midst of this the paupers and the hags talked earnestly together.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000002_000001|Some of those who had been nearest in rank to the late Chief Pauper and Chief Hag were conspicuous in the debate.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000002_000004|After this a hag and a pauper advanced toward us, each carrying the sacrificial knife which had belonged to the deceased.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000003_000000|The hag spoke first, addressing Almah, in accordance with the Kosekin custom, which requires women to take the precedence in many things.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000004_000000|"Take this," she said, "O Almah, consort of Atam or, and Co ruler of Clouds and Darkness.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000004_000001|Henceforth you shall be Judge of Death to the women of the Kosekin."
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000005_000000|She then handed Almah the sacrificial knife of the Chief Hag, which Almah took in silence.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000006_000000|Then the pauper presented me with the sacrificial knife of the Chief Pauper, with the following words:
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000007_000000|"Take this, O Atam or, Father of Thunder and Ruler of Clouds and Darkness.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000007_000001|Henceforth you shall be Judge of Death to the men of the Kosekin, and Sar Tabakin over the whole nation."
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000009_000000|So Almah, holding the sacrificial knife, stood looking at them, full of dignity, and spoke as follows:
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000010_000000|"We will take this, O Kosekin, and we will reward you all.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000010_000002|These two great victims shall be enough for the Mista Kosek of this season.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000011_000000|"To all you hags and paupers we grant the splendid and unparalleled boon of exile to Magones.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000011_000002|To all classes and ranks in the whole nation we promise to grant a diminution in their wealth by one quarter.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000013_000000|"As rulers of Light and Darkness, we will henceforth govern the nation in the light as well as in the dark.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000013_000001|We will sacrifice ourselves so far to the public good as to live in the light, and in open palaces. We will consent to undergo the pains of light and splendor, to endure all the evils of luxury, magnificence, and boundless wealth, for the good of the Kosekin nation.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000013_000002|We will consent to forego the right of separation, and agree to live together, even though we love one another.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000013_000003|Above all, we will refuse death and consent to live.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000013_000004|Can any rulers do more than this for the good of their people?"
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000014_000000|Another outburst of applause followed.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000015_000003|There shall be no Meleks in all the land.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000015_000004|We, in our love for the Kosekin, will henceforth be the only Meleks.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000015_000005|Then all the misery of that low station will rest on us; and in our low estate as Meleks we shall govern this nation in love and self denial.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000015_000006|Tell them that we will forego the sacrifice and consent to live; that we will give up darkness and cavern gloom and live in light.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000015_000009|Tell them that we consent to have endless retinues of servants, soldiers, followers, and attendants.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000016_000000|These extraordinary words seemed to fill the paupers with rapture. Exclamations of joy burst from them; they prostrated themselves in an irrepressible impulse of grateful admiration, as though such promises could only come from superior beings.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000016_000001|Then most of them hurried down to communicate to the people below the glorious intelligence.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000016_000002|Soon it spread from mouth to mouth, and all the people were filled with the wildest excitement.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000017_000001|Selfishness, fear of death, love of riches, and love of luxury, these were all unintelligible to the Kosekin, as much as to us would be self abnegation, contempt of death, voluntary poverty, and asceticism.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000017_000002|But as with us self denying rulers may make others rich and be popular for this, so here among the Kosekin a selfish ruler might be popular by making others poor.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000017_000003|Hence the words of Almah, as they were made known, gave rise to the wildest excitement and enthusiasm, and the vast multitude poured forth their feelings in long shouts of rapturous applause.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000018_000000|Amid this the bodies of the dead were carried down from the pyramid, and were taken to the Mista Kosek in a long and solemn procession, accompanied by the singing of wild and dismal chants.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000019_000002|Above was the canopy of heaven, no longer black, no longer studded with stars or glistening with the fitful shimmer of the aurora, but all radiant with the glorious sunlight, and disclosing all the splendors of the infinite blue.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000019_000005|My heart swelled with rapture, my eyes filled with tears.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000019_000006|"O Light!" I cried; "O gleaming, golden Sunlight!
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000020_000000|But the light which was so glorious to us was painful and distressing to the Kosekin.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000020_000001|On the top of the pyramid the paupers crouched, shading their eyes.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000020_000002|The crowd below began to disperse in all directions, so as to betake themselves to their coverts and to the caverns, where they might live in the dark.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000022_000000|I caught her in my arms in a rapture of joy.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000022_000002|We both wept, but our tears were those of happiness.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000023_000000|"You will be all my own now," said I, "and we can fly from this hateful land.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000023_000001|We can be united-we can be married-here before we start-and you will not be cruel enough to refuse.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000023_000002|You will consent, will you not, to be my wife before we fly from the Kosekin?"
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000024_000001|Her arms were about me, and she did not draw away, but looked up in sweet confusion and said,
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000025_000000|"Why, as to that-I-I cannot be more your-your wife than I am."
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000026_000000|"What do you mean?" I exclaimed, in wonder.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000026_000001|"My wife!"
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000028_000000|"The ceremony of separation is with the Kosekin the most sacred form of marriage.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000028_000001|It is the religious form; the other is merely the civil form."
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000029_000000|This was unintelligible, nor did I try to understand it.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000030_000000|"As to flight," continued Almah, who had quite adopted the Kosekin fashion, which makes women take the lead-"as to flight, we need not hurry.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000030_000001|We are all powerful now, and there is no more danger.
train-other-500/2541/135246/2541_135246_000030_000003|But now let us leave this, for our servants are waiting for us, and the light is distressing to them.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000000_000000|At last the goody thought it too bad; so she told the lad that now he must begin to turn his hand to work and live steadily, or else there was nothing before both of them but starving to death.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000000_000001|But that the lad had no mind to do.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000001_000000|When his mother heard this she, too, thought it would be a very fine thing; and so she fitted out the lad as well as she could, that he might look tidy when he reached Mother Roundabout's house; and so he set off on his way.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000002_000000|Now when he got out of doors the sun shone warm and bright; but it had rained the night before, so that the ways were soft and miry and all the bog holes stood full of water.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000002_000001|The lad took a short cut to Mother Roundabout's, and he sang and jumped, as was ever his wont; but just as he sprang and leaped he came to a bog hole, and over it lay a little bridge, and from the bridge he had to make a spring across a hole on to a tuft of grass, that he might not dirty his shoes.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000003_000000|"What! you here, my boy?" said the rat.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000003_000001|"Thank you kindly for coming to me.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000003_000002|I have waited long for you.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000003_000004|I am not ready for my wedding just yet, but I'll do my best that it shall be as soon as ever I can."
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000005_000000|"Now, you must sit down and eat; I am sure you must be both tired and hungry."
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000006_000000|But the lad thought he had no liking for such food.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000007_000000|"If I were only well away from this, above ground again," he thought to himself, but he said nothing out loud.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000009_000000|'Short before, and long back, Short before, and long back';"
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000010_000000|and as she said this she put the linen thread into his hand.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000013_000000|"Short before, and long back, Short before, and long back."
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000015_000000|"Mother! mother! come out," he cried and roared.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000017_000000|So she took the linen and cut it out, and sewed shirts out of it both for herself and her son, and the rest she took into the town and sold, and got money for it.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000018_000001|Well, the goody thought that a very fine thing, for now he had good clothes on his back, and he was not such a bad looking fellow either.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000019_000000|But all happened just as it did before.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000019_000001|When he got out of doors the sun shone warm and bright; but it had rained overnight, so that it was soft and miry, and all the bog holes were full of water.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000019_000002|The lad took the short cut to Mother Roundabout, and he sang and sprang as he was ever wont.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000019_000003|Now he took another way than the one he went before; but just as he leaped and jumped, he got upon the bridge over the moor again, and from it he had to jump over a bog hole on to a turf that he might not soil his shoes.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000020_000000|"What! you here, my boy?" said the rat.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000020_000001|"That was nice of you to wish to see me so soon again.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000022_000000|So after a while the rat said:
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000024_000000|'Short before, and long back, Short before, and long back';"
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000025_000000|and as she said that she gave him a thread of wool in his hand.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000026_000000|"Heaven be praised!" said the lad, "that I got away.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000028_000000|and so he kept on the whole way home.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000031_000001|Then they had a fine time of it, you may fancy.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000031_000003|Then she decked out her cottage, and looked as smart in her old days as though she had been born a lady.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000032_000000|But the lad thought it far better to go to Mother Roundabout and woo her daughter.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000032_000001|This time the goody thought so too, and said not a word against it; for now he had new clothes of the finest kind, and he looked so well, she thought it quite out of the question that anyone could say "No" to so smart a lad.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000033_000000|This time he did not take the short cut, but made a great bend, for down to the rats he would not go if he could help it, he was so tired of all that wiggle waggle and that everlasting bridal gossip.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000033_000001|As for the weather and the ways, they were just as they had been twice before.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000033_000003|So he tried to jump from the bridge over a bog hole on to a tuft that he might not dirty his bright shoes.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000034_000001|Thank you, thank you kindly; but now everything is ready for the wedding, and we shall set off to church at once."
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000035_000000|"Something dreadful is going to happen," thought the lad, but he said nothing out loud.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000038_000000|"Very fine that will be, I dare say," thought the lad.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000038_000001|"If I were only well above ground, I'd run away from the whole pack of you." That was what he thought, but he said nothing out loud.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000039_000000|So he followed them as well as he could; sometimes he had to creep on all fours, and sometimes he had to stoop and bend his back as well, for the road was low and narrow in places; but when it got broader he went on in front, and looked about him how he might best give them the slip and run away.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000039_000001|But as he went forward he heard a clear, sweet voice behind him, which said:
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000040_000000|"Now the road is good.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000040_000001|Come, my dear, and get up into the carriage."
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000041_000000|The lad turned round in a trice, and had near lost both nose and ears. There stood the grandest carriage, with six white horses to it, and in the carriage sat a maiden as bright and lovely as the sun, and round her sat others who were as pretty and soft as stars.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000041_000001|They were a princess and her playfellows, who had been bewitched all together.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000042_000000|"Come now," said the princess.
train-other-500/2541/159352/2541_159352_000043_000001|But just as he thought that, they came to a grand castle; into it they turned, and there they were to dwell.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000002_000000|SPIRITUALIST HUMBUGS WAKING UP.--FOSTER HEARD FROM.--S.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000003_000000|I hear from spiritualists sometimes.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000003_000005|He needs them.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000003_000006|The exhibiting mediums must, of course, contrive new tricks as fast as dr Von Vleck and men like him show up their old ones.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000003_000007|It is the universal method of all sorts of impostors to adopt new means of fooling people when their old ones are exposed.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000004_000001|The honester the cheaper.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000005_000000|A valued friend of mine has furnished me a pleasant and true narrative of a fine "spiritual" humbug which took place in a respectable Massachusetts village not very long ago.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000005_000001|I give the story in his own graphic words:
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000006_000000|"Two artists of Boston, tired of the atmosphere of their studios, resolved themselves, in joint session, into spiritual mediums, as a means of raising the wind-or the devil-and of getting a little fresh air in the rural districts.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000006_000001|One of them had learned Mansfield's trick of answering communications and that of writing on the arms.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000006_000002|They had large handbills printed, announcing that "mr
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000006_000004|"mr Howard" donned a white choker, put his hair behind his ears, and mounted a pair of plain glass spectacles; and such was his profoundly spiritual appearance on entering his apartments at the hotel, that he had to lock the door and give his partner opportunity to explode, and absolutely roll about on the floor with laughter.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000007_000001|These, they said, were executed by the draftsman, whose right hand, when under spiritual influence, uncontrollably jerked off these likenesses.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000007_000002|They added, that the spirits had given information that, before the mediums left town, the people would recognize these pictures as likenesses of persons there deceased within twenty years or so.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000007_000003|Price, two dollars each!
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000008_000000|"Other tricks of various kinds were performed with pleasure to all parties and profit to the performers.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000008_000001|The artists stood it as long as they could, and then departed.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000009_000000|Thus far my friend's curious and truthful account.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000010_000002|A gentleman, whose name I also know very well indeed, but have particular reasons for not mentioning, went one day to see this "test medium," along with a friend, and asked to see a hand. "Certainly," the medium said; and the room was darkened, and the "circle" made round the table in the usual manner.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000010_000004|In a minute, he could see, dimly outlined in this blue light, the form of a hand, back toward him, fingers together, and no thumb.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000014_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000015_000001|Strange to relate, he caught it, and held it stoutly, to.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000016_000000|"Well gentlemen, you needn't trouble yourselves to come here any more!"
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000018_000000|The secret of this worthy gentleman is simple and soon told.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000018_000001|Holding one hand up in the air, he held up with the other, between the thumb and finger, a little pinch of phosphorus and bi sulphide of carbon, which gave the blue light.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000018_000003|It is a curious instance of the thorough credulity of genuine spiritualists that a believer in this wretched rogue, on being circumstantially told this whole story, not only steadily and firmly refused to credit it, and continued his faith in the fellow, but absolutely would not go to see the application of any other test.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000018_000004|That's the sort of follower that is worth having!
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000019_000000|Another case was witnessed as follows, by the very same person on whose authority I give the spirit hand story.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000020_000000|These chaps, after the fashion of their kind, caused themselves to be tied up in a rope, an old sea captain tying them.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000020_000002|Well, this sly and inconvenient old sea captain now slipped out of the hall a few minutes, and came back with some wheat flour.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000021_000000|"Now, gentlemen, please to take, each, your two hands full of wheat flour."
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000022_000000|The "brothers" got mad and flatly refused.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000022_000001|Then they cooled down and argued, saying it wouldn't make any difference, and was of no use.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000023_000000|"Well," said the ancient mariner, "if it won't make any difference you can just as well do it, can't you?"
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000025_000000|There was not the least sign of a "manifestation"--no more than if the wheat flour had shot the "brothers" dead in their tracks.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000025_000001|The audience were immensely delighted.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000025_000002|The "brothers," since that time, have learned to perform some tricks with flour in their fists, but only when tied by their own friends.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000026_000002|On the first of these evenings, a gentleman named Cummins, selected by the audience as one of the Tying Committee, tied one of the Brothers, and a mr Hulley, the other committee man, the other.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000026_000004|They, therefore, refused to let the tying be finished, saying that it was "brutal" although a surgeon present said it was not; one tied brother was untied by Ferguson, the agent; and then the Brothers went to work and performed their various tricks without the supervision of any committee, but amid a constant fire of derision, laughter, groans, shouts, and epithets from the audience.
train-other-500/2541/185493/2541_185493_000026_000007|Ferguson did so, and cut Ira's hand.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000001_000001|The sole difference lay in the fact that he was more busily occupied than ever.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000001_000003|And just as always he returned in July and at once fell to work as usual with increased energy.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000001_000006|He was a little colder to his wife.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000001_000007|He simply seemed to be slightly displeased with her for that first midnight conversation, which she had repelled.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000001_000010|Now you may beg as you please, but I won't be open with you.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000001_000012|He did not realize it, because it was too terrible to him to realize his actual position, and he shut down and locked and sealed up in his heart that secret place where lay hid his feelings towards his family, that is, his wife and son.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000002_000003|For this reason there positively came into Alexey Alexandrovitch's face a look of haughtiness and severity whenever anyone inquired after his wife's health.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000003_000004|He did not allow himself to think about it, and he did not think about it; but all the same though he never admitted it to himself, and had no proofs, not even suspicious evidence, in the bottom of his heart he knew beyond all doubt that he was a deceived husband, and he was profoundly miserable about it.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000005_000000|Since his return from abroad Alexey Alexandrovitch had twice been at their country villa.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000006_000001|He was going to see his wife, because he had determined to see her once a week to keep up appearances.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000006_000002|And besides, on that day, as it was the fifteenth, he had to give his wife some money for her expenses, according to their usual arrangement.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000007_000000|With his habitual control over his thoughts, though he thought all this about his wife, he did not let his thoughts stray further in regard to her.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000008_000007|But the doctor, a celebrated Petersburg doctor, who was an intimate acquaintance of Alexey Alexandrovitch, took up a great deal of time.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000008_000008|Alexey Alexandrovitch had not expected him that day, and was surprised at his visit, and still more so when the doctor questioned him very carefully about his health, listened to his breathing, and tapped at his liver.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000008_000010|"Do this for my sake," the Countess Lidia Ivanovna had said to him.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000009_000000|"I will do it for the sake of Russia, countess," replied the doctor.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000011_000000|The doctor was extremely dissatisfied with Alexey Alexandrovitch.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000011_000001|He found the liver considerably enlarged, and the digestive powers weakened, while the course of mineral waters had been quite without effect.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000011_000002|He prescribed more physical exercise as far as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above all no worry-in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000011_000003|Then he withdrew, leaving in Alexey Alexandrovitch an unpleasant sense that something was wrong with him, and that there was no chance of curing it.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000013_000001|"He's not well, and I fancy....
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000013_000002|Well, what do you think of him?"
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000014_000000|"I'll tell you," said the doctor, beckoning over Sludin's head to his coachman to bring the carriage round.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000015_000000|"Yes, yes, to be sure; it does waste a lot of time," the doctor responded vaguely to some reply of Sludin's he had not caught.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000017_000000|At the same time as the traveler there was announced a provincial marshal of nobility on a visit to Petersburg, with whom Alexey Alexandrovitch had to have some conversation.
train-other-500/2544/10944/2544_10944_000017_000001|After his departure, he had to finish the daily routine of business with his secretary, and then he still had to drive round to call on a certain great personage on a matter of grave and serious import.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000000_000000|"Am I my brother's keeper?"
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000001_000001|When these animals have not been disturbed in their resorts for some years they are comparatively tame, and it is not difficult to approach them.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000001_000003|But the old seals, when frequently disturbed, become shy, and, on the first alarm, take to the water.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000002_000000|I once made the acquaintance of an old sealer.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000002_000003|He was known only as "Jack."
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000003_000001|One evening after tea I was talking to a carpenter at the back door, who was lamenting his want of timber.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000003_000002|He had not brought a sufficient supply from Geelong to complete his contract, which was to construct some benches for a Presbyterian Church.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000003_000003|Jack was standing near listening to the conversation.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000004_000000|"What kind of timber do you want?" he said.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000004_000001|"There is a lot of planks down there in the yard, and if you'll be outside about eleven o'clock, I'll chuck over as many as you want."
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000005_000000|The contractor hesitated.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000006_000001|"Say the word, and you can have them, if you like."
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000008_000000|We adjourned to the bar parlour, and Jack had a glass of brandy, for which he did not pay.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000008_000002|He was most insufferable; would talk about nothing but science.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000009_000000|When the rest of the company had retired, Jack observed to me: "You put down that Adelaide chap gradely; he had not a leg to stand on."
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000010_000000|I was pleased to find that Jack knew a good argument when he heard it, so I rewarded his intelligence with another glass of brandy, and asked him if he had been long in the colonies.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000010_000001|He said:
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000000|"My name's not Jack; that's what they call me, but it doesn't matter what my name is.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000001|I was brought up in Liverpool, but I wasn't born there; that doesn't matter either.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000002|I used to work at the docks, was living quite respectable, was married and had a little son about five years old.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000023|I worked for him for about six months, and then come back to Liverpool, thinking there'd be no more bother about the blackfellow.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000030|At that time I went with a man from Port Albert to the Seal Islands in a boat.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000037|It was this way.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000046|I could see his face within four feet of me.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000048|I didn't throw him the rope; something stopped me.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000049|He might not have got hold of it, you know, anyhow.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000011_000051|I always dream about him.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000012_000001|I started drinking, trying to forget that Port Albert man, but it was no use.
train-other-500/2544/13195/2544_13195_000012_000002|Every shilling was soon gone, and eversince I've been doing odd jobs and loafing about the publics.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000001_000001|We'd been away more than a year, and he'd pulled down the old fences and put up new ones-first rate work it was too; he was always a dead hand at splitting.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000003_000000|The stable door opens, and out comes old George as hearty as ever, but looking full of business.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000004_000000|'Glad to see you, boys,' he says; 'what a time you've been away!
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000004_000001|Been away myself these three months with a lot of teams carrying.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000004_000002|I've taken greatly to the business lately.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000004_000003|I'm just settling up with my drivers, but put the horses in, there's chaff and corn in the mangers, and I'll be down in a few minutes.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000004_000004|It's well on to dinner time, I see.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000006_000000|'Wonder whether Gracey's as nice as she used to be,' says Jim. 'Next to Aileen I used to think she wasn't to be beat.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000006_000001|When I was a little chap I believed you and she must be married for certain.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000008_000000|'She'd better go down to the pier and drown herself comfortably,' said Jim. 'If she knew what was before us all, perhaps she would.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000008_000001|Poor little Jeanie!
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000008_000003|I believe we're getting worse and worse.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000009_000000|'You won't think so when it comes, old man,' I said.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000009_000001|'Don't bother your head-it ain't the best part of you-about things that can't be helped. We're not the only horses that can't be kept on the course-with a good turn of speed too.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000010_000003|Well, we'd better come in.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000012_000000|She held out both hands to me and said-
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000013_000000|'Well, Dick, so you're back again.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000013_000001|You must have been to the end of the world, and Jim, too.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000013_000002|I'm very glad to see you both.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000014_000000|She looked into my face with that pleased look that put me in mind of her when she was a little child and used to come toddling up to me, staring and smiling all over her face the moment she saw me.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000014_000001|Now she was a grown woman, and a sweet looking one too.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000014_000003|She was the only creature in the whole world, I think, that liked me better than Jim.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000014_000005|I was surprised at myself, and looked queer I daresay.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000016_000000|'Dick doesn't remember you, Gracey.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000016_000001|You've grown such a swell, too.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000016_000002|You can't be the little girl we used to carry on our backs.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000018_000000|'You tumble in and we'll try,' says Jim; 'first man to keep you for good-eh, Gracey?
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000018_000001|It's fine hot weather, and Aileen shall see fair play.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000019_000001|'I see George coming, so I must go and fetch in dinner.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000020_000000|When George came in he began to talk to make up for lost time, and told us where he had been-a long way out in some new back country, just taken up with sheep.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000021_000002|I pay drivers for three waggons and drive the fourth myself.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000021_000003|It pays first rate so far, and we had very fair feed all the way there and back.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000024_000001|I was afraid you'd forgotten the way.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000025_000000|'I never forget the way to a friend's place, George,' she said, 'and you've been our best friend while these naughty boys have left mother and me so long by ourselves.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000025_000001|But you've been away yourself.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000027_000001|'You know, Gracey, we can't do without George, can we?
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000027_000002|I felt quite deserted, I can tell you.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000029_000001|I couldn't interfere with mr Storefield's business,' said Aileen, looking very grave.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000029_000002|'What kind of a country was it you were out in?'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000031_000001|It's right enough if she's made up her mind to take him, no odds what happens.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000031_000003|I didn't know so much about it then.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000032_000002|What kind of people they were? and so on.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000034_000000|'Oh! yes, three.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000036_000000|'No, rather homely, particularly the youngest.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000037_000000|'What did they do?'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000038_000000|'Oh! their mother kept a boarding house.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000038_000001|We stayed there.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000039_000001|He told me afterwards he nearly broke down about the three daughters; but was rather proud of making the youngest the ugliest.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000040_000002|Aileen would take George if she wasn't a fool, as most women are.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000040_000003|I'd like to bring Jeanie up here, and join George in the carrying business.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000041_000000|'And how about Kate?'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000042_000000|'The devil take her! and then he'd have a bargain.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000043_000000|'It's all a toss up-like our lives; married or lagged, bushwork or roadwork (in irons), free or bond.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000043_000001|We can't tell how it will be with us this day year.'
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000045_000000|We didn't ride home till quite the evening.
train-other-500/2544/27475/2544_27475_000046_000000|Jim and I rode in front, with Gracey between us.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000001|All the lawyers in the kingdom were employed, to render the affair as complex and gloriously uncertain as possible; and, in fine, the whole nation became interested, and were divided on both sides of the question. Colossus took the part of Sphinx, and the affair was at length submitted to the decision of a grand council in a great hall, adorned with seats on every side in form of an amphitheatre.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000002|The assembly appeared the most magnificent and splendid in the world.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000004|At the ardent request of the whole empire I condescended to be the president of the court, and being arrayed accordingly, I took my seat beneath a canopy erected in the centre.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000005|Before every judge was placed a square inkstand, containing a gallon of ink, and pens of a proportionable size; and also right before him an enormous folio, so large as to serve for table and book at the same time.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000008|When she wished to express her negative, she darted and recoiled the quizzes in her right and left hand; and when she desired to express her affirmative, she, nodding, made the quiz pendent from her mouth flow down and recoil again.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000010|This creature was brought over the great bridge before mentioned, from the interior of Africa, by a balloon.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000002_000014|The solution of this question was deemed absolutely necessary before they could proceed farther on the trial.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000003_000004|Thinking suddenly to catch this ferocious animal, the judges and matrons would suddenly quicken their pace, but the creature would as quickly outrun them, or sometimes fly away for many miles together, and then alight to take breath until we came within sight of her again.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000005_000000|Arriving in North America, we were received by the President of the United States with every honour and politeness.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000005_000002|The inhabitants of the country, who loved hunting, were much delighted to behold the manner in which we attempted to seize upon Wauwau; the chase was noble and uncommon.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000005_000003|I determined to surround the animal on every side, and for this purpose ordered the judges and matrons to surround the morass with nets extending a mile in height, on various parts of which net the company disposed themselves, floating in the air like so many spiders upon their cobwebs.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000005_000008|She flew to the right, then to the left, north, east, west, and south, but found on every side the company prepared upon their nets.
train-other-500/2544/3070/2544_3070_000005_000009|At length she flew right up, soaring at a most astonishing rate towards the sun, while the company on every side set up one general acclamation.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000002_000000|Layelah at length began to make pointed remarks about Almah.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000003_000000|"She loves you," said she, "and you love her.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000004_000000|"I would die rather than give up Almah," said i
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000005_000000|Layelah smiled.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000005_000001|"That sounds strange to the Kosekin," said she, "for here to give up your love and to die are both esteemed the greatest possible blessings.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000005_000003|It is the women with us who make the beginning.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000005_000004|Women generally fall in love first, and it is expected that they will tell their love first.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000005_000005|The delicacy of a woman's feelings makes this natural, for if a man tells his love to a woman who does not love him, it shocks her modesty; while if a woman tells a man, he has no modesty to shock."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000006_000000|"That is strange," said I; "but suppose the man does not love the woman?"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000007_000000|"Why, no woman wants to be loved; she only wants to love."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000008_000000|At this I felt somewhat bewildered.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000010_000000|"And then," said I, "if so, would you give up your lover, in accordance with the custom of your country?"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000011_000000|Layelah's dark eyes rested on me for a moment with a glance of intense earnestness and profound meaning.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000011_000001|She drew a long breath, and then said, in a low, tremulous voice,
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000012_000000|"Never!"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000013_000000|Layelah was constantly with me, and at length used to come at an earlier time, when Almah was present.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000013_000001|Her manner toward Almah was full of the usual Kosekin courtesy and gracious cordiality.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000013_000002|She was still intent upon learning from me the manners, customs, and principles of action of the race to which I belonged.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000013_000003|She had an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and her curiosity extended to all of those great inventions which are the wonder of Christendom.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000013_000004|Locomotives and steamboats were described to her under the names of "horses of fire" and "ships of fire"; printing was "letters of power"; the electric telegraph, "messages of lightning"; the organ, "lute of giants," and so on.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000013_000005|Yet, in spite of the eagerness with which she made her inquiries, and the diligence with which she noted all down, I could see that there was in her mind something lying beneath it all-a far more earnest purpose, and a far more personal one, than the pursuit of useful knowledge.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000014_000000|Layelah was watchful of Almah; she seemed studying her to see how far this woman of another race differed from the Kosekin.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000014_000002|Almah's manner was somewhat reserved, and it was rendered somewhat more so from the fact that her mind was always full of the prospect of our impending doom.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000014_000003|Each jom as it came and went brought us nearer to that awful time, and the hour was surely coming when we should be taken to the outer square and to the top of the pyramid of sacrifice.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000015_000000|Once Layelah sat for some time silent and involved in thought.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000015_000001|At length she began to speak to me.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000016_000000|"Almah," said she, "is very different from us.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000016_000001|She loves you and you love her.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000016_000002|She ought to give you up.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000016_000003|Almah, you ought to give up Atam or, since you love him."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000017_000000|Almah looked confused, and made some reply to the effect that she belonged to a different race with different customs.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000018_000000|"But you should follow our customs.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000018_000001|You are one of us now.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000018_000002|You can easily find another who will take him."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000019_000000|Almah threw a piteous glance at me and said nothing.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000020_000000|"I," said Layelah, "will take him."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000021_000000|She spoke these words with an air of magnanimity, as though putting it in the light of a favor to Almah; but Almah did not make any reply, and after some silence Layelah spoke of something else.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000022_000000|Not long after we were alone together, and Layelah returned to the subject.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000023_000000|"I love her," said I, with great warmth, "and will never give her up."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000024_000000|"But she must give you up; it is the woman's place to take the first step.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000024_000001|I should be willing to take you."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000025_000000|As Layelah said this she looked at me very earnestly, as if anxious to see how I accepted this offer.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000025_000001|It was for me a most embarrassing moment.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000025_000003|Among all the Kosekin there was not one who was not infinitely inferior to her in my eyes.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000025_000004|Still, I loved Almah, and I told her so again, thinking that in this way I might repel her without giving offence.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000026_000000|But Layelah was quite ready with her reply.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000027_000000|"If you love Almah," said she, "that is the very reason why you should marry me."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000028_000000|This made me feel more embarrassed than ever.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000029_000000|I stammered something about my own feelings-the manners and customs of my race-and the fear that I had of acting against my own principles.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000029_000001|"Besides," I added, "I'm afraid it would make you unhappy."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000030_000000|"Oh no," said Layelah, briskly; "on the contrary, it would make me very happy indeed."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000031_000000|I began to be more and more aghast at this tremendous frankness, and was utterly at a loss what to say.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000032_000000|"My father," continued Layelah, "is different from the other Kosekin, and so am i I seek requital for love, and do not think it an evil."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000033_000000|A sudden thought now suggested itself, and I caught at it as a last resort.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000034_000000|"You have," said I, "some lover among the Kosekin.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000034_000001|Why do you not marry him?"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000035_000000|Layelah smiled.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000036_000000|"I have no lover that I love," said she, "among the Kosekin."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000037_000001|I was about saying something concerning the Kosekin alphabet or something else of an equally appropriate nature, when she prevented me.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000039_000000|"Layelah," said I, with my mind full of confusion.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000040_000000|"I love you!"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000041_000000|She sat looking at me with her beautiful face all aglow her dark eyes fixed on mine with an intense and eager gaze.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000041_000001|I looked at her and said not one single word.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000041_000002|Layelah was the first to break the awkward silence.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000042_000000|"You love Almah, Atam or; but say, do you not love me?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000042_000001|You smile at me, you meet me always when I come with warm greetings, and you seem to enjoy yourself in my society.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000042_000002|Say, Atam or, do you not love me?"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000044_000000|"Dear Layelah," said I, floundering and stammering in my confusion, "I love you; I-"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000045_000000|But here I was interrupted without waiting for any further words; the beautiful creature flung her arms around me and clung to me with a fond embrace.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000045_000001|As for me, I was utterly confounded, bewildered, and desperate.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000045_000002|I thought of my darling Almah, whom alone I loved.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000045_000003|It seemed at that moment as though I was not only false to her, but as if I was even endangering her life.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000045_000004|My only thought now was to clear up my meaning.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000046_000000|"Dear Layelah," said I, as I sat with her arms around me, and with my own around her slender waist, "I do not want to hurt your feelings."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000047_000000|"Oh, Atam or! oh, my love!
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000047_000001|never, never did I know such bliss as this."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000048_000000|Here again I was overwhelmed, but I still persisted in my effort.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000049_000000|"Dear Layelah," said I, "I love Almah most dearly and most tenderly."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000050_000000|"Oh, Atam or, why speak of that?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000050_000001|I know it well.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000050_000002|And so by our Kosekin law you give her up; among us, lovers never marry.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000050_000004|She may marry my papa."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000051_000000|This suggestion filled me with dismay.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000052_000000|"Oh no," said i "Never, never will I give up Almah!"
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000054_000000|"She never will," said i
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000055_000000|"Oh yes," said Layelah; "I will tell her that you wish it."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000056_000000|"I do not wish it," said i "I love her, and will never give her up."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000057_000000|"It's all the same," said Layelah.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000057_000001|"You cannot marry her at all.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000057_000002|No one will marry you.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000057_000004|Common people who love one another may marry if they choose, and take the punishment which the law assigns but illustrious victims who love cannot marry, and so, my Atam or, you have only me."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000058_000000|I need not say that all this was excessively embarrassing I was certainly fond of Layelah, and liked her too much to hurt her feelings.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000058_000001|Had I been one of the Kosekin I might perhaps have managed better; but being a European, a man of the Aryan race-being such, and sitting there with the beautiful Layelah lavishing all her affections upon me-why, it stands to reason that I could not have the heart to wound her feelings in any way.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000058_000002|I was taken at an utter disadvantage. Never in my life had I heard of women taking the initiative.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000058_000003|Layelah had proposed to me, she would not listen to refusal, and I had not the heart to wound her.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000058_000004|I had made all the fight I could by persisting in asserting my love for Almah, but all my assertions were brushed lightly aside as trivial things.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000000|Let any gentleman put himself in my situation, and ask himself what he would do.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000001|What would he do if such a thing could happen to him at home?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000002|But there such a thing could not happen, and so there is no use in supposing an impossible case.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000003|At any rate I think I deserve sympathy.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000004|Who could keep his presence of mind under such circumstances?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000005|With us a young lady who loves one man can easily repel another suitor; but here it was very different, for how could I repel Layelah?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000006|Could I turn upon her and say "Unhand me"?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000007|Could I say "Away! I am another's"?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000008|Of course I couldn't; and what's worse, if I had said such things Layelah would have smiled me down into silence.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000009|The fact is, it doesn't do for women to take the initiative-it's not fair.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000010|I had stood a good deal among the Kosekin.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000011|Their love of darkness, their passion for death, their contempt of riches, their yearning after unrequited love, their human sacrifices, their cannibalism, all had more or less become familiar to me, and I had learned to acquiesce in silence; but now when it came to this-that a woman should propose to a man-it really was more than a fellow could stand.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000059_000012|I felt this at that moment very forcibly; but then the worst of it was that Layelah was so confoundedly pretty, and had such a nice way with her, that hang me if I knew what to say.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000060_000000|Meanwhile Layelah was not silent; she had all her wits about her.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000061_000000|"Dear papa," said she, "would make such a nice husband for Almah.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000061_000001|He is a widower, you know.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000061_000002|I could easily persuade him to marry her.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000061_000003|He always does whatever I ask him to do."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000064_000000|At this I started away.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000065_000000|"No," said I, indignantly, "it won't be nice.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000065_000001|I'm engaged to be married to Almah, and I'm not going to give her up."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000066_000000|"Oh, but she gives you up, you know," said Layelah, quietly.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000067_000000|"Well, but I'm not going to be given up."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000068_000000|"Why, how unreasonable you are, you foolish boy!" said Layelah, in her most caressing manner.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000068_000001|"You have nothing at all to do with it."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000069_000000|At this I was in fresh despair, and then a new thought came, which I seized upon.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000070_000000|"See here," said I, "why can't I marry both of you?
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000070_000001|I'm engaged to Almah, and I love her better than all the world.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000070_000002|Let me marry her and you too."
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000071_000000|At this Layelah laughed long and merrily.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000071_000001|Peal after peal of laughter, musical and most merry, burst from her.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000071_000002|It was contagious; I could not help joining in, and so we both sat laughing.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000071_000003|It was a long time before we regained our self control.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000072_000000|"Why, that's downright bigamy!" exclaimed Layelah with fresh laughter. "Why, Atam or, you're mad!" and so she went off again in fresh peals of laughter.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000072_000001|It was evident that my proposal was not at all shocking, but simply comical, ridiculous, and inconceivable in its absurdity.
train-other-500/2545/135235/2545_135235_000072_000002|It was to her what the remark of some despairing beauty would be among us who, when pressed by two lovers should express a confused willingness to marry both.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000002_000002|The two fell in with one another in Messene at the house of Ortilochus, where Ulysses was staying in order to recover a debt that was owing from the whole people; for the Messenians had carried off three hundred sheep from Ithaca, and had sailed away with them and with their shepherds.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000002_000003|In quest of these Ulysses took a long journey while still quite young, for his father and the other chieftains sent him on a mission to recover them.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000003_000000|Penelope presently reached the oak threshold of the store room; the carpenter had planed this duly, and had drawn a line on it so as to get it quite straight; he had then set the door posts into it and hung the doors.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000003_000003|Along with her came her maidens, bearing a chest that contained much iron and bronze which her husband had won as prizes.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000003_000005|Then she said:
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000004_000001|But even so I doubt not that I shall remember it in my dreams."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000005_000001|Hard by, the stockman wept also when he saw his master's bow, but Antinous scolded them.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000005_000002|"You country louts," said he, "silly simpletons; why should you add to the sorrows of your mistress by crying in this way?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000007_000000|Then Telemachus spoke.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000007_000001|"Great heavens!" he exclaimed, "Jove must have robbed me of my senses.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000007_000003|But, suitors, as the contest has been agreed upon, let it go forward.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000007_000004|It is for a woman whose peer is not to be found in Pylos, Argos, or Mycene, nor yet in Ithaca nor on the mainland.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000007_000005|You know this as well as I do; what need have I to speak in praise of my mother?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000007_000006|Come on, then, make no excuses for delay, but let us see whether you can string the bow or no I too will make trial of it, for if I can string it and shoot through the iron, I shall not suffer my mother to quit this house with a stranger, not if I can win the prizes which my father won before me."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000008_000002|This done, he went on to the pavement to make trial of the bow; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw the string, and thrice he had to leave off, though he had hoped to string the bow and shoot through the iron.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000008_000003|He was trying for the fourth time, and would have strung it had not Ulysses made a sign to check him in spite of all his eagerness.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000009_000001|I shall either be always feeble and of no prowess, or I am too young, and have not yet reached my full strength so as to be able to hold my own if any one attacks me.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000009_000002|You others, therefore, who are stronger than I, make trial of the bow and get this contest settled."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000010_000000|On this he put the bow down, letting it lean against the door [that led into the house] with the arrow standing against the top of the bow.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000010_000001|Then he sat down on the seat from which he had risen, and Antinous said:
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000012_000003|Some one of us is even now hoping and praying that he may marry Penelope, but when he has seen this bow and tried it, let him woo and make bridal offerings to some other woman, and let Penelope marry whoever makes her the best offer and whose lot it is to win her."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000014_000001|Your words are monstrous and intolerable; it makes me angry to listen to you.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000014_000002|Shall, then, this bow take the life of many a chief among us, merely because you cannot bend it yourself?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000014_000003|True, you were not born to be an archer, but there are others who will soon string it."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000015_000001|Let us warm the bow and grease it-we will then make trial of it again, and bring the contest to an end."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000016_000000|Melanthius lit the fire, and set a seat covered with sheep skins beside it.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000016_000002|Nevertheless there still remained Antinous and Eurymachus, who were the ringleaders among the suitors and much the foremost among them all.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000017_000000|Then the swineherd and the stockman left the cloisters together, and Ulysses followed them.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000017_000001|When they had got outside the gates and the outer yard, Ulysses said to them quietly:
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000018_000001|What manner of men would you be to stand by Ulysses, if some god should bring him back here all of a sudden?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000018_000002|Say which you are disposed to do-to side with the suitors, or with Ulysses?"
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000019_000001|If some god were but to bring Ulysses back, you should see with what might and main I would fight for him."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000020_000001|I have suffered much, but at last, in the twentieth year, I am come back to my own country.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000020_000002|I find that you two alone of all my servants are glad that I should do so, for I have not heard any of the others praying for my return.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000020_000003|To you two, therefore, will I unfold the truth as it shall be.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000020_000004|If heaven shall deliver the suitors into my hands, I will find wives for both of you, will give you house and holding close to my own, and you shall be to me as though you were brothers and friends of Telemachus.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000020_000005|I will now give you convincing proofs that you may know me and be assured.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000020_000006|See, here is the scar from the boar's tooth that ripped me when I was out hunting on mount Parnassus with the sons of Autolycus."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000021_000000|As he spoke he drew his rags aside from the great scar, and when they had examined it thoroughly, they both of them wept about Ulysses, threw their arms round him, and kissed his head and shoulders, while Ulysses kissed their hands and faces in return.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000021_000001|The sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Ulysses had not checked them and said:
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000022_000000|"Cease your weeping, lest some one should come outside and see us, and tell those who are within.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000023_000000|When he had thus spoken, he went back to the house and took the seat that he had left.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000023_000001|Presently, his two servants followed him inside.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000024_000000|At this moment the bow was in the hands of Eurymachus, who was warming it by the fire, but even so he could not string it, and he was greatly grieved.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000024_000002|This will disgrace us in the eyes of those who are yet unborn."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000025_000001|Today is the feast of Apollo throughout all the land; who can string a bow on such a day as this?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000026_000000|The rest approved his words, and thereon men servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixing bowls with wine and water and handed it round after giving every man his drink offering. Then, when they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he desired, Ulysses craftily said:--
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000027_000000|"Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000027_000001|I appeal more especially to Eurymachus, and to Antinous who has just spoken with so much reason.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000027_000002|Cease shooting for the present and leave the matter to the gods, but in the morning let heaven give victory to whom it will.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000027_000003|For the moment, however, give me the bow that I may prove the power of my hands among you all, and see whether I still have as much strength as I used to have, or whether travel and neglect have made an end of it."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000028_000000|This made them all very angry, for they feared he might string the bow, Antinous therefore rebuked him fiercely saying, "Wretched creature, you have not so much as a grain of sense in your whole body; you ought to think yourself lucky in being allowed to dine unharmed among your betters, without having any smaller portion served you than we others have had, and in being allowed to hear our conversation.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000028_000003|When the wine had got into his head, he went mad and did ill deeds about the house of Peirithous; this angered the heroes who were there assembled, so they rushed at him and cut off his ears and nostrils; then they dragged him through the doorway out of the house, so he went away crazed, and bore the burden of his crime, bereft of understanding.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000028_000004|Henceforth, therefore, there was war between mankind and the centaurs, but he brought it upon himself through his own drunkenness.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000029_000000|Penelope then spoke to him.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000029_000002|Even the man himself can have no such idea in his mind: none of you need let that disturb his feasting; it would be out of all reason."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000031_000001|Why then should you mind if men talk as you think they will?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000031_000002|This stranger is strong and well built, he says moreover that he is of noble birth.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000031_000004|I will also give him sandals, and will see him sent safely wherever he wants to go."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000032_000001|No one shall force me one way or the other, not even though I choose to make the stranger a present of the bow outright, and let him take it away with him.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000032_000002|Go, then, within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your servants.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000032_000003|This bow is a man's matter, and mine above all others, for it is I who am master here."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000033_000000|She went wondering back into the house, and laid her son's saying in her heart.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000033_000001|Then going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva sent sweet sleep over her eyelids.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000034_000000|The swineherd now took up the bow and was for taking it to Ulysses, but the suitors clamoured at him from all parts of the cloisters, and one of them said, "You idiot, where are you taking the bow to?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000034_000001|Are you out of your wits?
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000034_000002|If Apollo and the other gods will grant our prayer, your own boarhounds shall get you into some quiet little place, and worry you to death."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000036_000000|Thus did he speak, and they all of them laughed heartily, which put them in a better humour with Telemachus; so Eumaeus brought the bow on and placed it in the hands of Ulysses.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000036_000001|When he had done this, he called Euryclea apart and said to her, "Euryclea, Telemachus says you are to close the doors of the women's apartments.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000036_000002|If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they are not to come out, but are to keep quiet and stay where they are at their work."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000037_000000|Euryclea did as she was told and closed the doors of the women's apartments.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000038_000002|Then would one turn towards his neighbour saying, "This is some tricky old bow fancier; either he has got one like it at home, or he wants to make one, in such workmanlike style does the old vagabond handle it."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000039_000000|Another said, "I hope he may be no more successful in other things than he is likely to be in stringing this bow."
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000040_000002|The suitors were dismayed, and turned colour as they heard it; at that moment, moreover, Jove thundered loudly as a sign, and the heart of Ulysses rejoiced as he heard the omen that the son of scheming Saturn had sent him.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000041_000001|When he had taken aim he let fly, and his arrow pierced every one of the handle holes of the axes from the first onwards till it had gone right through them, and into the outer courtyard.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000041_000002|Then he said to Telemachus:
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000042_000000|"Your guest has not disgraced you, Telemachus.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000042_000001|I did not miss what I aimed at, and I was not long in stringing my bow.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000042_000002|I am still strong, and not as the suitors twit me with being.
train-other-500/255/121534/255_121534_000042_000003|Now, however, it is time for the Achaeans to prepare supper while there is still daylight, and then otherwise to disport themselves with song and dance which are the crowning ornaments of a banquet."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000005_000000|On this he aimed a deadly arrow at Antinous, who was about to take up a two handled gold cup to drink his wine and already had it in his hands. He had no thought of death-who amongst all the revellers would think that one man, however brave, would stand alone among so many and kill him?
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000005_000002|He kicked the table from him and upset the things on it, so that the bread and roasted meats were all soiled as they fell over on to the ground.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000006_000000|Thus they spoke, for they thought that he had killed Antinous by mistake, and did not perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000006_000001|But Ulysses glared at them and said:
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000007_000000|"Dogs, did you think that I should not come back from Troy?
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000007_000002|You have feared neither God nor man, and now you shall die."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000009_000001|We have done much wrong on your lands and in your house.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000009_000003|It was all his doing.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000009_000004|It was not that he wanted to marry Penelope; he did not so much care about that; what he wanted was something quite different, and Jove has not vouchsafed it to him; he wanted to kill your son and to be chief man in Ithaca.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000009_000005|Now, therefore, that he has met the death which was his due, spare the lives of your people.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000009_000006|We will make everything good among ourselves, and pay you in full for all that we have eaten and drunk. Each one of us shall pay you a fine worth twenty oxen, and we will keep on giving you gold and bronze till your heart is softened.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000009_000007|Until we have done this no one can complain of your being enraged against us."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000010_000001|You must fight, or fly for your lives; and fly, not a man of you shall."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000012_000000|"My friends, this man will give us no quarter.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000012_000001|He will stand where he is and shoot us down till he has killed every man among us.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000012_000003|Let us have at him with a rush, to drive him from the pavement and doorway: we can then get through into the town, and raise such an alarm as shall soon stay his shooting."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000013_000000|As he spoke he drew his keen blade of bronze, sharpened on both sides, and with a loud cry sprang towards Ulysses, but Ulysses instantly shot an arrow into his breast that caught him by the nipple and fixed itself in his liver.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000014_000002|Then he said:
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000016_000000|"Run and fetch them," answered Ulysses, "while my arrows hold out, or when I am alone they may get me away from the door."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000017_000001|He chose four shields, eight spears, and four brass helmets with horse hair plumes.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000018_000002|Help would come at once, and we should soon make an end of this man and his shooting."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000019_000001|One brave man could prevent any number from getting in.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000020_000000|On this the goatherd Melanthius went by back passages to the store room of Ulysses' house.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000020_000003|He saw the greatness of the danger, and said to Telemachus, "Some one of the women inside is helping the suitors against us, or it may be Melanthius."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000022_000001|Meanwhile Melanthius was again going to the store room to fetch more armour, but the swineherd saw him and said to Ulysses who was beside him, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, it is that scoundrel Melanthius, just as we suspected, who is going to the store room.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000023_000000|Ulysses answered, "Telemachus and I will hold these suitors in check, no matter what they do; go back both of you and bind Melanthius' hands and feet behind him.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000024_000000|Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said; they went to the store room, which they entered before Melanthius saw them, for he was busy searching for arms in the innermost part of the room, so the two took their stand on either side of the door and waited.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000024_000003|You will know very well when morning comes from the streams of Oceanus, and it is time for you to be driving in your goats for the suitors to feast on."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000025_000001|Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the voice and form of Mentor. Ulysses was glad when he saw her and said, "Mentor, lend me your help, and forget not your old comrade, nor the many good turns he has done you.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000025_000002|Besides, you are my age mate."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000026_000002|"Mentor," he cried, "do not let Ulysses beguile you into siding with him and fighting the suitors.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000026_000003|This is what we will do: when we have killed these people, father and son, we will kill you too.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000026_000004|You shall pay for it with your head, and when we have killed you, we will take all you have, in doors or out, and bring it into hotch pot with Ulysses' property; we will not let your sons live in your house, nor your daughters, nor shall your widow continue to live in the city of Ithaca."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000027_000000|This made Minerva still more furious, so she scolded Ulysses very angrily.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000027_000002|You killed many a man in those days, and it was through your stratagem that Priam's city was taken.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000027_000003|How comes it that you are so lamentably less valiant now that you are on your own ground, face to face with the suitors in your own house?
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000029_000002|They are standing at the doors unsupported.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000029_000004|When he has fallen we need not be uneasy about the others."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000030_000000|They threw their spears as he bade them, but Minerva made them all of no effect.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000030_000001|One hit the door post; another went against the door; the pointed shaft of another struck the wall; and as soon as they had avoided all the spears of the suitors Ulysses said to his own men, "My friends, I should say we too had better let drive into the middle of them, or they will crown all the harm they have done us by killing us outright."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000031_000001|These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000032_000000|The suitors now aimed a second time, but again Minerva made their weapons for the most part without effect.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000032_000001|One hit a bearing post of the cloister; another went against the door; while the pointed shaft of another struck the wall.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000032_000003|Then Ulysses and his men let drive into the crowd of suitors.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000032_000006|I make you a present of this advice to repay you for the foot which you gave Ulysses when he was begging about in his own house."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000033_000002|As eagle beaked, crook taloned vultures from the mountains swoop down on the smaller birds that cower in flocks upon the ground, and kill them, for they cannot either fight or fly, and lookers on enjoy the sport-even so did Ulysses and his men fall upon the suitors and smite them on every side.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000033_000003|They made a horrible groaning as their brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with their blood.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000034_000001|I never wronged any of the women in your house either in word or deed, and I tried to stop the others.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000034_000002|I saw them, but they would not listen, and now they are paying for their folly.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000034_000003|I was their sacrificing priest; if you kill me, I shall die without having done anything to deserve it, and shall have got no thanks for all the good that I did."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000035_000001|Therefore you shall die."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000037_000004|You will be sorry for it afterwards if you kill a bard who can sing both for gods and men as I can.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000037_000005|I make all my lays myself, and heaven visits me with every kind of inspiration.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000037_000007|Your own son Telemachus will tell you that I did not want to frequent your house and sing to the suitors after their meals, but they were too many and too strong for me, so they made me."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000038_000000|Telemachus heard him, and at once went up to his father.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000040_000000|"Here I am, my dear sir," said he, "stay your hand therefore, and tell your father, or he will kill me in his rage against the suitors for having wasted his substance and been so foolishly disrespectful to yourself."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000041_000000|Ulysses smiled at him and answered, "Fear not; Telemachus has saved your life, that you may know in future, and tell other people, how greatly better good deeds prosper than evil ones.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000042_000000|The pair went into the outer court as fast as they could, and sat down by Jove's great altar, looking fearfully round, and still expecting that they would be killed.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000042_000001|Then Ulysses searched the whole court carefully over, to see if anyone had managed to hide himself and was still living, but he found them all lying in the dust and weltering in their blood. They were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000042_000002|Even so were the suitors lying all huddled up one against the other.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000043_000000|Then Ulysses said to Telemachus, "Call nurse Euryclea; I have something to say to her."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000044_000001|"Make haste," said he, "you old woman who have been set over all the other women in the house.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000044_000002|Come outside; my father wishes to speak to you."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000046_000000|"I will tell you the truth, my son," answered Euryclea.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000046_000001|"There are fifty women in the house whom we teach to do things, such as carding wool, and all kinds of household work.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000046_000003|They showed no disrespect to Telemachus, for he has only lately grown and his mother never permitted him to give orders to the female servants; but let me go upstairs and tell your wife all that has happened, for some god has been sending her to sleep."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000047_000000|"Do not wake her yet," answered Ulysses, "but tell the women who have misconducted themselves to come to me."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000048_000001|"Begin," said he, "to remove the dead, and make the women help you.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000049_000000|On this the women came down in a body, weeping and wailing bitterly. First they carried the dead bodies out, and propped them up against one another in the gatehouse.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000049_000001|Ulysses ordered them about and made them do their work quickly, so they had to carry the bodies out.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000051_000000|As for Melanthius, they took him through the cloister into the inner court.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000052_000000|When they had done this they washed their hands and feet and went back into the house, for all was now over; and Ulysses said to the dear old nurse Euryclea, "Bring me sulphur, which cleanses all pollution, and fetch fire also that I may burn it, and purify the cloisters.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000052_000001|Go, moreover, and tell Penelope to come here with her attendants, and also all the maidservants that are in the house."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000053_000000|"All that you have said is true," answered Euryclea, "but let me bring you some clean clothes-a shirt and cloak.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000053_000001|Do not keep these rags on your back any longer.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000053_000002|It is not right."
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000054_000000|"First light me a fire," replied Ulysses.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000055_000000|She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts. Then she went inside to call the women and tell them what had happened; whereon they came from their apartment with torches in their hands, and pressed round Ulysses to embrace him, kissing his head and shoulders and taking hold of his hands.
train-other-500/255/121535/255_121535_000055_000001|It made him feel as if he should like to weep, for he remembered every one of them.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000000_000002|Though I don't think John's taste in bouquets is very good."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000001_000000|"Isn't it splendid to have vacation come?" said one of the bigger girls. "What are you all going to do?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000001_000001|We're going to the seaside."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000003_000000|"I'm going to make my aunt a visit," said Alice Blair.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000003_000001|"She lives in a real lovely place in the country, and there's a pond there; and Tom (that's my cousin) says he'll teach me to row.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000003_000002|What are you going to do, Katy?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000005_000001|"All the other girls' Papas do."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000006_000000|"He's too busy," replied Clover.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000006_000001|"Beside, I don't think any of the rest of the girls have half such good times as we.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000006_000002|Ellen Robbins says she'd give a million of dollars for such nice brothers and sisters as ours to play with.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000006_000004|mrs Fiske is so particular.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000006_000005|She always says 'Don't,' and they haven't got any yard to their house, or anything. I wouldn't change."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000007_000000|"Nor I," said Katy, cheering up at these words of wisdom.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000007_000001|"Oh, isn't it lovely to think there won't be any school to morrow?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000007_000002|Vacations are just splendid!" and she gave her bag another toss.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000007_000003|It fell to the ground with a crash.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000008_000000|"There, you've cracked your slate," said Clover.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000010_000001|vacation's begun.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000010_000002|Aunt Izzie, vacation's begun!"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000010_000003|Then they stopped short, for lo! the upper hall was all in confusion.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000010_000004|Sounds of beating and dusting came from the spare room.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000010_000005|Tables and chairs were standing about; and a cot bed, which seemed to be taking a walk all by itself, had stopped short at the head of the stairs, and barred the way.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000011_000002|Oh, there's Aunt Izzie!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000012_000000|"Oh, gracious! is that you?" replied Aunt Izzie, who looked very hot and flurried.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000012_000001|"Now, children, it's no use for you to stand there asking questions; I haven't got time to answer them.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000012_000002|Let the bedstead alone, Katy, you'll push it into the wall.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000012_000004|What a troublesome child you are!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000012_000005|Go right down stairs, both of you, and don't come up this way again till after tea.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000013_000000|"Just tell us what's going to happen, and we will," cried the children.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000014_000000|"Your Cousin Helen is coming to visit us," said Miss Izzie, curtly, and disappeared into the Blue room.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000000|This was news indeed.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000001|Katy and Clover ran down stairs in great excitement, and after consulting a little, retired to the Loft to talk it over in peace and quiet.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000002|Cousin Helen coming!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000003|It seemed as strange as if Queen Victoria, gold crown and all, had invited herself to tea.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000004|Or as if some character out of a book, Robinson Crusoe, say, or "Amy Herbert," had driven up with a trunk and announced the intention of spending a week.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000005|For to the imaginations of the children, Cousin Helen was as interesting and unreal as anybody in the Fairy Tales: Cinderella, or Blue Beard, or dear Red Riding Hood herself.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000015_000006|Only there was a sort of mixture of Sunday school book in their idea of her, for Cousin Helen was very, very good.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000016_000001|Philly said he was sure she hadn't any legs, because she never went away from home, and lay on a sofa all the time.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000016_000002|But the rest knew that this was because Cousin Helen was ill.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000016_000004|Katy and Clover had "played Cousin Helen" so long, that now they were frightened as well as glad at the idea of seeing the real one.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000017_000000|"Do you suppose she will want us to say hymns to her all the time?" asked Clover.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000018_000000|"Not all the time," replied Katy, "because you know she'll get tired, and have to take naps in the afternoons.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000018_000001|And then, of course, she reads the Bible a great deal.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000018_000002|Oh dear, how quiet we shall have to be!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000018_000003|I wonder how long she's going to stay?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000019_000000|"What do you suppose she looks like?" went on Clover.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000020_000000|"Something like 'Lucy,' in mrs Sherwood, I guess, with blue eyes, and curls, and a long, straight nose.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000022_000000|The time seemed very long till the next afternoon, when Cousin Helen was expected.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000022_000001|Aunt Izzie, who was in a great excitement, gave the children many orders about their behavior.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000022_000002|They were to do this and that, and not to do the other.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000022_000003|Dorry, at last, announced that he wished Cousin Helen would just stay at home.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000023_000000|Five o'clock came.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000023_000001|They all sat on the steps waiting for the carriage. At last it drove up.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000023_000002|Papa was on the box.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000023_000003|He motioned the children to stand back.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000023_000004|Then he helped out a nice looking young woman, who, Aunt Izzie told them, was Cousin Helen's nurse, and then, very carefully, lifted Cousin Helen in his arms and brought her in.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000024_000001|"Do set me down somewhere, uncle.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000024_000002|I want to see them so much!"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000025_000000|So Papa put Cousin Helen on the hall sofa.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000025_000001|The nurse fetched a pillow, and when she was made comfortable, dr Carr called to the little ones.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000026_000000|"Cousin Helen wants to see you," he said.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000027_000001|"So this is Katy?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000027_000002|Why, what a splendid tall Katy it is!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000027_000004|You all look as natural as possible-just as if I had seen you before."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000029_000000|There was something in Cousin Helen's face and manner, which made the children at home with her at once.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000029_000001|Even Philly, who had backed away with his hands behind him, after staring hard for a minute or two, came up with a sort of rush to get his share of kissing.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000000|Still, Katy's first feeling was one of disappointment.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000001|Cousin Helen was not at all like "Lucy," in mrs Sherwood's story.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000002|Her nose turned up the least bit in the world.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000003|She had brown hair, which didn't curl, a brown skin, and bright eyes, which danced when she laughed or spoke.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000005|She didn't fold her hands, and she didn't look patient, but absolutely glad and merry.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000006|Her dress wasn't a "frilled wrapper," but a sort of loose travelling thing of pretty gray stuff, with a rose colored bow, and bracelets, and a round hat trimmed with a gray feather.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000007|All Katy's dreams about the "saintly invalid" seemed to take wings and fly away.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000030_000008|But the more she watched Cousin Helen the more she seemed to like her, and to feel as if she were nicer than the imaginary person which she and Clover had invented.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000033_000000|By and by, Papa carried Cousin Helen up stairs.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000033_000001|All the children wanted to go too, but he told them she was tired, and must rest.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000033_000002|So they went out doors to play till tea time.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000034_000000|"Oh, do let me take up the tray," cried Katy at the tea table, as she watched Aunt Izzie getting ready Cousin Helen's supper.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000034_000001|Such a nice supper!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000034_000002|Cold chicken, and raspberries and cream, and tea in a pretty pink and white china cup.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000036_000000|So Katy, proud of the commission, took the tray and carried it carefully across the hall.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000036_000001|There was a bowl of flowers on the table.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000036_000002|As she passed, she was struck with a bright idea.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000036_000003|She set down the tray, and picking out a rose, laid it on the napkin besides the saucer of crimson raspberries.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000038_000001|Luckless speed!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000038_000003|She caught at the door to save herself; the door flew open; and Katy, with the tray, cream, raspberries, rose and all, descended in a confused heap upon the carpet.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000040_000000|Katy never forgot how kind Cousin Helen was on this occasion.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000040_000003|The broken dishes were piled up and the carpet made clean again, while Aunt Izzie prepared another tray just as nice as the first.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000041_000000|"Please let Katy bring it up!" pleaded Cousin Helen, in her pleasant voice, "I am sure she will be careful this time.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000041_000001|And Katy, I want just such another rose on the napkin.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000041_000002|I guess that was your doing-wasn't it?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000042_000001|The tray was placed safely on a little table beside the bed, and Katy sat watching Cousin Helen eat her supper with a warm, loving feeling at her heart.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000042_000002|I think we are scarcely ever so grateful to people as when they help us to get back our own self esteem.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000043_000000|Cousin Helen hadn't much appetite, though she declared everything was delicious.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000043_000001|Katy could see that she was very tired.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000044_000002|Why, Katy dear, you are a born nurse Now kiss me.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000044_000003|Good night!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000044_000004|To morrow we will have a nice talk."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000045_000000|Katy went down stairs very happy.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000046_000000|"Cousin Helen's perfectly lovely," she told Clover.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000046_000002|It's just like a night gown in a book."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000047_000000|"Isn't it wicked to care about clothes when you're sick?" questioned Cecy.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000049_000000|"I told Ma that she had on bracelets, and Ma said she feared your cousin was a worldly person," retorted Cecy, primming up her lips.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000050_000000|Katy and Clover were quite distressed at this opinion.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000051_000000|"I mean to ask Cousin Helen to morrow," said Katy.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000052_000001|They were so glad that it was vacation!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000052_000002|If it hadn't been, they would have been forced to go to school without seeing Cousin Helen, for she didn't wake till late. They grew so impatient of the delay, and went up stairs so often to listen at the door, and see if she were moving, that Aunt Izzie finally had to order them off.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000052_000003|Katy rebelled against this order a good deal, but she consoled herself by going into the garden and picking the prettiest flowers she could find, to give to Cousin Helen the moment she should see her.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000053_000000|When Aunt Izzie let her go up, Cousin Helen was lying on the sofa all dressed for the day in a fresh blue muslin, with blue ribbons, and cunning bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000053_000001|The sofa had been wheeled round with its back to the light.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000053_000002|There was a cushion with a pretty fluted cover, that Katy had never seen before, and several other things were scattered about, which gave the room quite a different air. All the house was neat, but somehow Aunt Izzie's rooms never were pretty.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000054_000000|Cousin Helen was white and tired, but her eyes and smile were as bright as ever.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000054_000001|She was delighted with the flowers, which Katy presented rather shyly.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000055_000000|"Oh, how lovely!" she said; "I must put them in water right away.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000055_000002|And please pour a little water into it first."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000056_000000|"What a beauty!" cried Katy, as she lifted the graceful white cup swung on a gilt stand.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000056_000001|"Is it yours, Cousin Helen?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000057_000001|It stands on a little table beside me at home, and I fancied that the Water Cure would seem more home like if I had it with me there, so I brought it along.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000057_000002|But why do you look so puzzled, Katy?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000057_000003|Does it seem queer that a vase should travel about in a trunk?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000059_000000|Cousin Helen laughed heartily.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000062_000000|Cousin Helen laughed again.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000063_000000|"Well," she said, "I'll tell you what I think, Katy.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000063_000001|Pretty things are no more 'worldly' than ugly ones, except when they spoil us by making us vain, or careless of the comfort of other people.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000063_000002|And sickness is such a disagreeable thing in itself, that unless sick people take great pains, they soon grow to be eyesores to themselves and everybody about them.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000063_000003|I don't think it is possible for an invalid to be too particular.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000063_000004|And when one has the back ache, and the head ache, and the all over ache," she added, smiling, "there isn't much danger of growing vain because of a ruffle more or less on one's night gown, or a bit of bright ribbon."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000064_000000|Then she began to arrange the flowers, touching each separate one gently, and as if she loved it.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000065_000000|"What a queer noise!" she exclaimed, suddenly stopping.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000066_000001|Katy opened the door.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000066_000002|Behold! there were john and Dorry, very red in the face from flattening their noses against the key hole, in a vain attempt to see if Cousin Helen were up and ready to receive company.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000068_000000|So they came in, followed, before long, by Clover and Elsie.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000068_000001|Such a merry morning as they had!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000068_000005|Clover privately thought that Cousin Helen must be a witch; and Papa, when he came home at noon, said almost the same thing.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000069_000000|"What have you been doing to them, Helen?" he inquired, as he opened the door, and saw the merry circle on the carpet.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000070_000001|"Cousin Helen will be worn out.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000070_000002|Run away, all of you, and don't come near this door again till the clock strikes four.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000070_000003|Do you hear, chicks?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000070_000005|Shoo! shoo!"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000071_000002|"Mightn't I stay just till the dinner bell rings?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000072_000000|"Do let her!" said Cousin Helen, so Papa said "Yes."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000074_000000|"How is Alex?" asked dr Carr, at length.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000075_000000|"Quite well now," replied Cousin Helen, with one of her brightest looks. "He was run down and tired in the Spring, and we were a little anxious about him, but Emma persuaded him to take a fortnight's vacation, and he came back all right."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000076_000000|"Do you see them often?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000077_000000|"Almost every day.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000077_000001|And little Helen comes every day, you know, for her lessons."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000079_000000|"Oh yes-prettier, I think.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000079_000001|She is a lovely little creature: having her so much with me is one of my greatest treats.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000079_000002|Alex tries to think that she looks a little as I used to.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000079_000003|But that is a compliment so great, that I dare not appropriate it."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000080_000002|That was all; but something in the tone made Katy curious.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000081_000000|"Papa," she said, after dinner, "who is Alex, that you and Cousin Helen were talking about?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000082_000000|"Why, Katy?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000082_000001|What makes you want to know?"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000083_000000|"I can't exactly tell-only Cousin Helen looked so;--and you kissed her;--and I thought perhaps it was something interesting."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000084_000000|"So it is," said dr Carr, drawing her on to his knee.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000084_000002|Alex is the name of somebody who, long ago, when Cousin Helen was well and strong, she loved, and expected to marry."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000085_000000|"Oh! why didn't she?" cried Katy.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000086_000000|"She met with a dreadful accident," continued dr Carr.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000086_000001|"For a long time they thought she would die.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000086_000002|Then she grew slowly better, and the doctors told her that she might live a good many years, but that she would have to lie on her sofa always, and be helpless, and a cripple.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000087_000000|"Alex felt dreadfully when he heard this.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000087_000001|He wanted to marry Cousin Helen just the same, and be her nurse, and take care of her always; but she would not consent.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000087_000002|She broke the engagement, and told him that some day she hoped he would love somebody else well enough to marry her.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000087_000003|So after a good many years, he did, and now he and his wife live next door to Cousin Helen, and are her dearest friends.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000089_000000|"No," said dr Carr, "it doesn't, because Cousin Helen is half an angel already, and loves other people better than herself.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000089_000001|I'm very glad she could come here for once.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000090_000000|"It must be awful to be sick," soliloquized Katy, after Papa was gone.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000091_000000|Poor Katy.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000091_000001|It seemed to her, as it does to almost all young people, that there is nothing in the world so easy as to die, the moment things go wrong!
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000092_000000|This conversation with Papa made Cousin Helen doubly interesting in Katy's eyes.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000092_000001|"It was just like something in a book," to be in the same house with the heroine of a love story so sad and sweet.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000093_000000|The play that afternoon was much interrupted, for every few minutes somebody had to run in and see if it wasn't four o'clock.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000093_000001|The instant the hour came, all six children galloped up stairs.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000094_000000|"I think we'll tell stories this time," said Cousin Helen.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000095_000000|So they told stories.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000095_000001|Cousin Helen's were the best of all.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000095_000002|There was one of them about a robber, which sent delightful chills creeping down all their backs.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000095_000003|All but Philly.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000096_000000|"I ain't afraid of robbers," he declared, strutting up and down.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000096_000001|"When they come, I shall just cut them in two with my sword which Papa gave me.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000096_000002|They did come once.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000096_000004|You'll see!"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000097_000000|But that evening, after the younger children were gone to bed, and Katy and Clover were sitting in the Blue room, a lamentable howling was heard from the nursery.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000097_000001|Clover ran to see what was the matter.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000097_000002|Behold-there was Phil, sitting up in bed, and crying for help.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000098_000000|"There's robbers under the bed," he sobbed; "ever so many robbers."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000100_000000|"Yes, there is, I tell you," declared Phil, holding her tight.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000100_000001|"I heard one.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000101_000000|"Poor little fellow!" said Cousin Helen, when Clover, having pacified Phil, came back to report.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000101_000001|"It's a warning against robber stories.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000101_000002|But this one ended so well, that I didn't think of anybody's being frightened."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000102_000000|It was no use, after this, for Aunt Izzie to make rules about going into the Blue room.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000102_000001|She might as well have ordered flies to keep away from a sugar bowl.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000102_000003|And Cousin Helen begged her not to interfere.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000103_000000|"We have only three or four days to be together," she said.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000103_000001|"Let them come as much as they like.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000103_000002|It won't hurt me a bit."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000104_000000|Little Elsie clung with a passionate love to this new friend.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000104_000001|Cousin Helen had sharp eyes.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000104_000002|She saw the wistful look in Elsie's face at once, and took special pains to be sweet and tender to her.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000104_000003|This preference made Katy jealous.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000104_000004|She couldn't bear to share her cousin with anybody.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000105_000000|When the last evening came, and they went up after tea to the Blue room, Cousin Helen was opening a box which had just come by Express.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000107_000001|First came a vase exactly like her own, which Katy had admired so much.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000107_000002|Katy screamed with delight as it was placed in her hands:
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000108_000000|"Oh, how lovely! how lovely!" she cried.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000108_000001|"I'll keep it as long as I live and breathe."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000109_000000|"If you do, it'll be the first time you ever kept anything for a week without breaking it," remarked Aunt Izzie.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000110_000000|Next came a pretty purple pocket book for Clover.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000110_000001|It was just what she wanted, for she had lost her porte monnaie.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000110_000002|Then a cunning little locket on a bit of velvet ribbon, which Cousin Helen tied round Elsie's neck.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000111_000000|"There's a piece of my hair in it," she said.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000111_000001|"Why, Elsie, darling, what's the matter?
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000111_000002|Don't cry so!"
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000113_000000|Dorry had a box of dominoes, and john a solitaire board.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000113_000001|For Phil there appeared a book-"The History of the Robber Cat."
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000114_000001|They all laughed, Phil loudest of all.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000115_000000|Nobody was forgotten.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000115_000002|Even Cecy was remembered.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000115_000003|Her present was "The Book of Golden Deeds," with all sorts of stories about boys and girls who had done brave and good things.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000115_000004|She was almost too pleased to speak.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000116_000001|Cecy wasn't a cousin, but she and the Carr children were in the habit of sharing their aunts and uncles, and relations generally, as they did their other good things.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000117_000000|Next day came the sad parting.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000117_000001|All the little ones stood at the gate, to wave their pocket handkerchiefs as the carriage drove away.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000117_000002|When it was quite out of sight, Katy rushed off to "weep a little weep," all by herself.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000118_000001|I'll study, and keep my things in order, and be ever so kind to the little ones.
train-other-500/2552/132097/2552_132097_000118_000002|Dear me-if only Aunt Izzie was Cousin Helen, how easy it would be!
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty five
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000002_000000|ruth IS NOT LIKE LORNA
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000003_000000|Although by our mother's reluctant consent a large part of the obstacles between Annie and her lover appeared to be removed, on the other hand Lorna and myself gained little, except as regarded comfort of mind, and some ease to the conscience.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000004_000001|She was full of plans for fetching Lorna, in some wonderful manner, out of the power of the Doones entirely, and into her own hands, where she was to remain for at least a twelve month, learning all mother and Annie could teach her of dairy business, and farm house life, and the best mode of packing butter.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000004_000002|And all this arose from my happening to say, without meaning anything, how the poor dear had longed for quiet, and a life of simplicity, and a rest away from violence! Bless thee, mother-now long in heaven, there is no need to bless thee; but it often makes a dimness now in my well worn eyes, when I think of thy loving kindness, warmth, and romantic innocence.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000006_000001|Meanwhile I might even fall in love (as mother unwisely hinted) with a certain more peaceful heiress, although of inferior blood, who would be daily at my elbow.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000006_000002|I am not sure but what dear mother herself would have been disappointed, had I proved myself so fickle; and my disdain and indignation at the mere suggestion did not so much displease her; for she only smiled and answered,--
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000007_000003|And all the time this dreadful "coward" risking his life daily there, without a word to any one!
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000007_000004|How glad I am that you will not have, for all her miserable money, that little dwarfish granddaughter of the insolent old miser!'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000009_000004|I will only add for your further guidance one more little truth.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000010_000000|'Impudent little dwarf!' said my mother, recovering her breath after ever so long.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000010_000001|'Oh, john, how thankful you ought to be!
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000010_000002|What a life she would have led you!'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000012_000001|She is rare stuff.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000012_000002|I would have been glad to have married her to morrow, if I had never seen my Lorna.'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000013_000000|'And a nice nobody I should have been, in my own house!' cried mother: 'I never can be thankful enough to darling Lorna for saving me.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000014_000000|'That I did; and very fine they were.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000018_000000|After this, we said no more, at least about that matter; and little ruth, the next morning, left us, in spite of all that we could do.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000018_000001|She vowed an everlasting friendship to my younger sister Eliza; but she looked at Annie with some resentment, when they said good bye, for being so much taller.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000018_000002|At any rate so Annie fancied, but she may have been quite wrong.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000019_000000|Upon the whole, my opinion was that she had behaved uncommonly well for a maid whose self love was outraged, with spirit, I mean, and proper pride; and yet with a great endeavour to forgive, which is, meseems, the hardest of all things to a woman, outside of her own family.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000020_000003|But one thing that she said was this, and I took good care to carry it, word for word, to my mother and Annie:--
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000021_000001|With all my heart I long for home; any home, however dull and wearisome to those used to it, would seem a paradise to me, if only free from brawl and tumult, and such as I could call my own.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000021_000002|But even if God would allow me this, in lieu of my wild inheritance, it is quite certain that the Doones never can and never will.'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000023_000001|And how long would you wait for me, Lorna?'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000024_000002|But I will bind you to me, you dearest, with the very poorest and plainest thing that ever you set eyes on.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000024_000004|Look at it, what a queer old thing!
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000024_000008|Now you seem very greatly amazed; pray what thinks my lord of it?'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000026_000000|'Then you will never take me, that is all.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000027_000000|'No gentleman, dear-a yeoman.'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000028_000000|'Very well, a yeoman-nothing to do with a yeoman who will not accept my love gage.
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000028_000001|So, if you please, give it back again, and take your lovely ring back.'
train-other-500/2553/163692/2553_163692_000029_000002|I considered this with satisfaction, until my darling recovered herself; and then I began very gravely about it, to keep her (if I could) from chiding me:--
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000001_000000|A LONG ACCOUNT SETTLED
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000002_000001|And we fixed upon Friday night for our venture, because the moon would be at the full; and our powder was coming from Dulverton on the Friday afternoon.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000003_000001|His miners also did great wonders, having a grudge against the Doones; as indeed who had not for thirty miles round their valley?
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000004_000000|It was settled that the yeomen, having good horses under them, should give account (with the miners' help) of as many Doones as might be despatched to plunder the pretended gold.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000005_000000|Upon the whole, I rejoiced that Lorna was not present now.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000006_000000|There was hardly a man among us who had not suffered bitterly from the miscreants now before us.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000006_000002|But be the wrong too great to speak of, or too small to swear about, from poor Kit Badcock to rich Master Huckaback, there was not one but went heart and soul for stamping out these firebrands.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000007_000001|And that was the place where I had been used to sit, and to watch for Lorna.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000008_000000|We waited a very long time, with the moon marching up heaven steadfastly, and the white fog trembling in chords and columns, like a silver harp of the meadows.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000009_000001|But herein I did wrong to john, and am ready to acknowledge it; for suddenly the most awful noise that anything short of thunder could make, came down among the rocks, and went and hung upon the corners.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000010_000000|'The signal, my lads,' I cried, leaping up and rubbing my eyes; for even now, while condemning john unjustly, I was giving him right to be hard upon me.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000014_000000|For this cause, I had debated with Uncle Ben and with Cousin Tom as to the expediency of our climbing with guns unloaded.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000016_000001|And the earliest notice the Counsellor had, or any one else, of our presence, was the blazing of the log wood house, where lived that villain Carver.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000017_000003|The boy climbed on my back and rode; and much as I hated his father, it was not in my heart to say or do a thing to vex him.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000020_000001|Just then the waxing fire leaped above the red crest of the cliffs, and danced on the pillars of the forest, and lapped like a tide on the stones of the slope.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000021_000001|A finer dozen of young men could not have been found in the world perhaps, nor a braver, nor a viler one.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000024_000002|They fired wildly, not seeing us well among the hazel bushes; and then they clubbed their muskets, or drew their swords, as might be; and furiously drove at us.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000026_000002|All this Kit Badcock (who was mad, according to our measures) had discovered, and treasured up; and now was his revenge time.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000027_000001|For him, he said, life was no matter, after the loss of his wife and child; but death was matter to him, and he meant to make the most of it.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000028_000002|But I, in the loneliness of our barn, had listened, and had wept with him.
train-other-500/2553/163728/2553_163728_000030_000000|Now for these and other things (whereof I could tell a thousand) was the reckoning come that night; and not a line we missed of it; soon as our bad blood was up.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000004_000000|But the thing which next betided me was not a fall of any sort; but rather a most glorious rise to the summit of all fortune.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000004_000001|For in good truth it was no less than the return of Lorna-my Lorna, my own darling; in wonderful health and spirits, and as glad as a bird to get back again.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000004_000002|It would have done any one good for a twelve month to behold her face and doings, and her beaming eyes and smile (not to mention blushes also at my salutation), when this Queen of every heart ran about our rooms again.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000004_000003|She did love this, and she must see that, and where was our old friend the cat?
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000004_000004|All the house was full of brightness, as if the sun had come over the hill, and Lorna were his mirror.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000010_000000|When I came to smoke a pipe over it (after the rest were gone to bed), I could hardly believe in my good luck.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000010_000001|For here was I, without any merit, except of bodily power, and the absence of any falsehood (which surely is no commendation), so placed that the noblest man in England might envy me, and be vexed with me.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000010_000002|For the noblest lady in all the land, and the purest, and the sweetest-hung upon my heart, as if there was none to equal it.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000013_000003|She had seen a great deal of trouble; and grief begins to close on people, as their power of life declines.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000013_000004|We said that she was hard of hearing; but my opinion was, that seeing me inclined for marriage made her think of my father, and so perhaps a little too much, to dwell on the courting of thirty years agone.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000013_000006|Yet, with the wisdom of age, renouncing any opinion upon the matter; since none could see the end of it.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000014_000001|In the morning she was up, even sooner than I was, and through all the corners of the hens, remembering every one of them.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000014_000002|I caught her and saluted her with such warmth (being now none to look at us), that she vowed she would never come out again; and yet she came the next morning.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000015_000001|Yet I am of such nature, that finding many parts of life adverse to our wishes, I must now and then draw pleasure from the blessed portions.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000015_000003|Neither was my pride diminished, when I found what she had done, only from her love of me.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000016_000000|Earl Brandir's ancient steward, in whose charge she had travelled, with a proper escort, looked upon her as a lovely maniac; and the mixture of pity and admiration wherewith he regarded her, was a strange thing to observe; especially after he had seen our simple house and manners.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000016_000001|On the other hand, Lorna considered him a worthy but foolish old gentleman; to whom true happiness meant no more than money and high position.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000017_000000|These two last she had been ready to abandon wholly, and had in part escaped from them, as the enemies of her happiness.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000022_000001|Inasmuch, however, as King james was driven out of his kingdom before this arrangement could take effect, and another king succeeded, who desired not the promotion of the Catholic religion, neither hankered after subsidies, (whether French or English), that agreement was pronounced invalid, improper, and contemptible.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000022_000002|However, there was no getting back the money once paid to Lord Chancellor Jeffreys.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000024_000001|My mother replied that if anybody could deserve her john, it was Lorna; but that she could not hold with the rashness of giving up money so easily; while her next of kin would be john himself, and who could tell what others, by the time she was one and twenty?
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000025_000002|And few things vexed us more than this.
train-other-500/2553/163730/2553_163730_000025_000003|Whereas, if we got possession of the farm, we might, without breach of the market laws, or any harm done to any one (the price being but a prejudice), sell all our butter as Snowe butter, and do good to all our customers.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000003_000000|"I should think so!" he replied.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000003_000002|The thought has come into my mind that I was already tired of it all, and that we must all die.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000004_000000|"Oh yes, I know, I know, I know!" Natasha interrupted him.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000004_000001|"When I was quite little that used to be so with me.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000004_000004|I shall never forget it: I felt sad and sorry for everyone, for myself, and for everyone.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000004_000006|"Do you remember?"
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000005_000000|"I remember," answered Nicholas.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000005_000002|We were terribly absurd.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000007_000000|"A Negro," chimed in Nicholas with a smile of delight.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000007_000001|"Of course I remember.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000008_000000|"He was gray, you remember, and had white teeth, and stood and looked at us..."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000009_000000|"Sonya, do you remember?" asked Nicholas.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000010_000000|"Yes, yes, I do remember something too," Sonya answered timidly.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000013_000002|I like that."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000014_000002|Do you remember what fun it was?"
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000016_000000|So they went through their memories, smiling with pleasure: not the sad memories of old age, but poetic, youthful ones-those impressions of one's most distant past in which dreams and realities blend-and they laughed with quiet enjoyment.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000017_000000|Sonya, as always, did not quite keep pace with them, though they shared the same reminiscences.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000018_000000|Much that they remembered had slipped from her mind, and what she recalled did not arouse the same poetic feeling as they experienced.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000019_000000|She only really took part when they recalled Sonya's first arrival.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000022_000000|"They have brought the cock, Miss," she said in a whisper.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000023_000000|"It isn't wanted, Petya.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000023_000001|Tell them to take it away," replied Natasha.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000024_000001|He took off its cloth covering, and the harp gave out a jarring sound.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000026_000000|Dimmler struck a chord and, turning to Natasha, Nicholas, and Sonya, remarked: "How quiet you young people are!"
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000027_000001|They were now discussing dreams.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000028_000000|Dimmler began to play; Natasha went on tiptoe noiselessly to the table, took up a candle, carried it out, and returned, seating herself quietly in her former place.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000028_000001|It was dark in the room especially where they were sitting on the sofa, but through the big windows the silvery light of the full moon fell on the floor.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000028_000002|Dimmler had finished the piece but still sat softly running his fingers over the strings, evidently uncertain whether to stop or to play something else.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000030_000001|"The Egyptians believed that our souls have lived in animals, and will go back into animals again."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000032_000000|"May I join you?" said Dimmler who had come up quietly, and he sat down by them.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000033_000000|"If we have been angels, why have we fallen lower?" said Nicholas.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000034_000000|"Not lower, who said we were lower?...
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000034_000001|How do I know what I was before?" Natasha rejoined with conviction.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000036_000000|"Why is it hard to imagine eternity?" said Natasha.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000036_000001|"It is now today, and it will be tomorrow, and always; and there was yesterday, and the day before..."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000037_000000|"Natasha!
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000037_000001|Now it's your turn.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000037_000002|Sing me something," they heard the countess say.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000039_000001|Standing as usual in the middle of the hall and choosing the place where the resonance was best, Natasha began to sing her mother's favorite song.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000040_000000|She had said she did not want to sing, but it was long since she had sung, and long before she again sang, as she did that evening.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000040_000002|Nicholas did not take his eyes off his sister and drew breath in time with her.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000041_000000|Dimmler, who had seated himself beside the countess, listened with closed eyes.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000043_000002|Before Natasha had finished singing, fourteen year old Petya rushed in delightedly, to say that some mummers had arrived.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000047_000001|The countess, when she had identified them and laughed at their costumes, went into the drawing room.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000047_000003|The young people had disappeared.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000048_000000|Half an hour later there appeared among the other mummers in the ballroom an old lady in a hooped skirt-this was Nicholas.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000048_000002|A clown was Dimmler.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000050_000000|Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to "Uncle's."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000051_000001|"Besides, you wouldn't have room to turn round there.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000051_000002|If you must go, go to the Melyukovs'."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000053_000000|"That's right, my dear," chimed in the old count, thoroughly aroused.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000053_000001|"I'll dress up at once and go with them.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000053_000002|I'll make Pashette open her eyes."
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000055_000000|Sonya's costume was the best of all.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000055_000002|Everyone told her she looked very handsome, and she was in a spirited and energetic mood unusual with her.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000055_000003|Some inner voice told her that now or never her fate would be decided, and in her male attire she seemed quite a different person.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000057_000001|Nicholas, in his old lady's dress over which he had belted his hussar overcoat, stood in the middle of the sleigh, reins in hand.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000062_000001|At first they drove at a steady trot along the narrow road.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000062_000002|While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000062_000003|Bang, bang! went the first sleigh over a cradle hole in the snow of the road, and each of the other sleighs jolted in the same way, and rudely breaking the frost bound stillness, the troykas began to speed along the road, one after the other.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000063_000000|"A hare's track, a lot of tracks!" rang out Natasha's voice through the frost bound air.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000065_000001|Quite a new, sweet face with black eyebrows and mustaches peeped up at him from her sable furs-so close and yet so distant-in the moonlight.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000067_000000|"What is it, Nicholas?"
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000069_000001|The near side horse, arching his head and breaking into a short canter, tugged at his traces.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000069_000002|The shaft horse swayed from side to side, moving his ears as if asking: "Isn't it time to begin now?"
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000071_000000|It was only by the keener wind that met them and the jerks given by the side horses who pulled harder-ever increasing their gallop-that one noticed how fast the troyka was flying.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000071_000001|Nicholas looked back.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000071_000002|With screams squeals, and waving of whips that caused even the shaft horses to gallop-the other sleighs followed.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000072_000000|Nicholas overtook the first sleigh.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000073_000002|But no- this is something new I've never seen before.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000073_000004|It is something new and enchanted.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000073_000005|Well, whatever it may be..." And shouting to his horses, he began to pass the first sleigh.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000076_000000|"Now, look out, master!" he cried.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000077_000000|Faster still the two troykas flew side by side, and faster moved the feet of the galloping side horses.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000077_000001|Nicholas began to draw ahead.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000082_000000|"Look, his mustache and eyelashes are all white!" said one of the strange, pretty, unfamiliar people-the one with fine eyebrows and mustache.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000085_000000|They did not answer but began to laugh.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000086_000000|"Yes, yes!" some voices answered, laughing.
train-other-500/2568/156115/2568_156115_000087_000000|"But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows, and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000001|there's no recognizing them!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000002|And Natasha!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000003|See whom she looks like!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000004|She really reminds me of somebody.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000006|I didn't know him!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000007|And how he dances.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000009|Really, how becoming it is to dear Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000010|And who is that?
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000012|Nikita and Vanya-clear away the tables!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000015|The hussar, the hussar!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000016|Just like a boy!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000017|And the legs!...
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000003_000018|I can't look at him..." different voices were saying.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000004_000000|Natasha, the young Melyukovs' favorite, disappeared with them into the back rooms where a cork and various dressing gowns and male garments were called for and received from the footman by bare girlish arms from behind the door.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000006_000001|"I suppose it is one of the Rostovs!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000006_000003|"Here, hand some fruit jelly to the Turk!" she ordered the butler who was handing things round.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000006_000004|"That's not forbidden by his law."
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000008_000000|"My little Sasha!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000008_000001|Look at Sasha!" she said.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000009_000000|After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were fetched and they all played games together.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000010_000000|In an hour, all the costumes were crumpled and disordered.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000010_000001|The corked eyebrows and mustaches were smeared over the perspiring, flushed, and merry faces.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000010_000003|The visitors were invited to supper in the drawing room, and the serfs had something served to them in the ballroom.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000011_000000|"Now to tell one's fortune in the empty bathhouse is frightening!" said an old maid who lived with the Melyukovs, during supper.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000013_000000|"You wouldn't go, it takes courage..."
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000014_000000|"I'll go," said Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000015_000000|"Tell what happened to the young lady!" said the second Melyukov girl.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000016_000000|"Well," began the old maid, "a young lady once went out, took a cock, laid the table for two, all properly, and sat down.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000016_000001|After sitting a while, she suddenly hears someone coming... a sleigh drives up with harness bells; she hears him coming!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000016_000002|He comes in, just in the shape of a man, like an officer-comes in and sits down to table with her."
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000018_000000|"Yes?
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000019_000000|"Yes, like a man.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000019_000002|Then he caught her up.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000020_000000|"Now, why frighten them?" said Pelageya Danilovna.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000022_000000|"And how does one do it in a barn?" inquired Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000026_000000|"Oh, I've forgotten..." she replied.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000027_000000|"Yes, I will; Pelageya Danilovna, let me!
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000027_000001|I'll go," said Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000028_000000|"Well, why not, if you're not afraid?"
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000029_000000|"Louisa Ivanovna, may I?" asked Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000030_000000|Whether they were playing the ring and string game or the ruble game or talking as now, Nicholas did not leave Sonya's side, and gazed at her with quite new eyes.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000030_000001|It seemed to him that it was only today, thanks to that burnt cork mustache, that he had fully learned to know her.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000030_000002|And really, that evening, Sonya was brighter, more animated, and prettier than Nicholas had ever seen her before.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000032_000000|"I'm not afraid of anything," said Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000032_000001|"May I go at once?" She got up.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000033_000001|She threw this over her head and shoulders and glanced at Nicholas.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000034_000001|"And what have I been thinking of till now?"
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000035_000000|Sonya went out into the passage to go to the barn.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000035_000001|Nicholas went hastily to the front porch, saying he felt too hot.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000035_000002|The crowd of people really had made the house stuffy.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000036_000002|The sky was black and dreary, while the earth was gay.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000037_000001|He knew Sonya would pass that way.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000037_000002|Halfway lay some snow covered piles of firewood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the path.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000037_000003|This path led to the barn.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000037_000004|The log walls of the barn and its snow covered roof, that looked as if hewn out of some precious stone, sparkled in the moonlight.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000037_000005|A tree in the garden snapped with the frost, and then all was again perfectly silent.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000038_000001|Only, don't look back."
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000040_000000|Sonya came along, wrapped in her cloak.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000040_000001|She was only a couple of paces away when she saw him, and to her too he was not the Nicholas she had known and always slightly feared.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000040_000002|He was in a woman's dress, with tousled hair and a happy smile new to Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000040_000003|She ran rapidly toward him.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000041_000000|"Quite different and yet the same," thought Nicholas, looking at her face all lit up by the moonlight.
train-other-500/2568/156116/2568_156116_000042_000000|"Sonya!...
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000004_000000|"Sonya, is it well with thee?" he asked from time to time.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000005_000000|"Yes!" she replied.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000006_000000|When halfway home Nicholas handed the reins to the coachman and ran for a moment to Natasha's sleigh and stood on its wing.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000007_000000|"Natasha!" he whispered in French, "do you know I have made up my mind about Sonya?"
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000008_000000|"Have you told her?" asked Natasha, suddenly beaming all over with joy.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000009_000001|Natasha-are you glad?"
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000010_000001|I was beginning to be vexed with you.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000010_000002|I did not tell you, but you have been treating her badly.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000010_000003|What a heart she has, Nicholas!
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000010_000004|I am horrid sometimes, but I was ashamed to be happy while Sonya was not," continued Natasha.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000010_000006|Well, run back to her."
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000011_000000|"No, wait a bit....
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000012_000001|"You have done splendidly."
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000014_000000|"So you are glad and I have done right?"
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000015_000000|"Oh, quite right!
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000015_000001|I had a quarrel with Mamma some time ago about it.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000015_000002|Mamma said she was angling for you.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000015_000003|How could she say such a thing!
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000015_000004|I nearly stormed at Mamma.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000015_000005|I will never let anyone say anything bad of Sonya, for there is nothing but good in her."
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000016_000000|"Then it's all right?" said Nicholas, again scrutinizing the expression of his sister's face to see if she was in earnest.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000017_000003|On Natasha's table stood two looking glasses which Dunyasha had prepared beforehand.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000018_000001|I am afraid never....
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000018_000002|It would be too good!" said Natasha, rising and going to the looking glasses.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000019_000000|"Sit down, Natasha; perhaps you'll see him," said Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000022_000000|"You mustn't laugh, Miss," said Dunyasha.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000023_000000|With Sonya's help and the maid's, Natasha got the glass she held into the right position opposite the other; her face assumed a serious expression and she sat silent.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000023_000003|She began blinking rapidly and moved away from the looking glasses.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000024_000001|"You sit down now, Sonya.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000024_000002|You absolutely must, tonight!
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000024_000003|Do it for me....
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000024_000004|Today I feel so frightened!"
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000027_000000|Sonya heard this and Natasha's whisper:
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000028_000000|"I know she will.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000028_000001|She saw something last year."
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000029_000000|For about three minutes all were silent.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000030_000000|"Of course she will!" whispered Natasha, but did not finish... suddenly Sonya pushed away the glass she was holding and covered her eyes with her hand.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000032_000000|"Did you see?
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000032_000001|Did you?
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000032_000002|What was it?" exclaimed Natasha, holding up the looking glass.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000034_000000|"You saw him?" urged Natasha, seizing her hand.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000035_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000036_000000|"But why shouldn't I say I saw something?
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000036_000001|Others do see!
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000036_000002|Besides who can tell whether I saw anything or not?" flashed through Sonya's mind.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000037_000000|"Yes, I saw him," she said.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000038_000000|"How?
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000040_000001|Is he ill?" asked Natasha, her frightened eyes fixed on her friend.
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000041_000000|"No, on the contrary, on the contrary!
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000042_000000|"Well, and then, Sonya?..."
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000043_000000|"After that, I could not make out what there was; something blue and red..."
train-other-500/2568/156117/2568_156117_000044_000000|"Sonya!
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000001_000003|Coldly, without looking at her son, she sent for her husband and, when he came, tried briefly and coldly to inform him of the facts, in her son's presence, but unable to restrain herself she burst into tears of vexation and left the room.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000002_000002|She was ready to sacrifice everything for her benefactors.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000002_000004|She could not help loving the countess and the whole Rostov family, but neither could she help loving Nicholas and knowing that his happiness depended on that love.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000002_000005|She was silent and sad and did not reply.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000002_000006|Nicholas felt the situation to be intolerable and went to have an explanation with his mother.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000002_000007|He first implored her to forgive him and Sonya and consent to their marriage, then he threatened that if she molested Sonya he would at once marry her secretly.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000005_000000|"Nicholas, you are talking nonsense!
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000006_000000|"Mamma darling, it's not at all so... my poor, sweet darling," she said to her mother, who conscious that they had been on the brink of a rupture gazed at her son with terror, but in the obstinacy and excitement of the conflict could not and would not give way.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000007_000000|"Nicholas, I'll explain to you.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000007_000001|Go away!
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000007_000002|Listen, Mamma darling," said Natasha.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000008_000000|Her words were incoherent, but they attained the purpose at which she was aiming.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000009_000000|The countess, sobbing heavily, hid her face on her daughter's breast, while Nicholas rose, clutching his head, and left the room.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000011_000000|Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sonya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000012_000000|After Nicholas had gone things in the Rostov household were more depressing than ever, and the countess fell ill from mental agitation.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000013_000001|The count was more perturbed than ever by the condition of his affairs, which called for some decisive action.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000013_000002|Their town house and estate near Moscow had inevitably to be sold, and for this they had to go to Moscow.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000014_000000|Natasha, who had borne the first period of separation from her betrothed lightly and even cheerfully, now grew more agitated and impatient every day.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000014_000001|The thought that her best days, which she would have employed in loving him, were being vainly wasted, with no advantage to anyone, tormented her incessantly.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000014_000002|His letters for the most part irritated her.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000014_000003|It hurt her to think that while she lived only in the thought of him, he was living a real life, seeing new places and new people that interested him.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000014_000005|Her letters to him, far from giving her any comfort, seemed to her a wearisome and artificial obligation.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000014_000006|She could not write, because she could not conceive the possibility of expressing sincerely in a letter even a thousandth part of what she expressed by voice, smile, and glance.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000015_000000|There was still no improvement in the countess' health, but it was impossible to defer the journey to Moscow any longer.
train-other-500/2568/156118/2568_156118_000015_000001|Natasha's trousseau had to be ordered and the house sold.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000001_000001|THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000002_000000|one.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000003_000000|My mouthpiece-is of the people: too coarsely and cordially do I talk for Angora rabbits.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000006_000000|My stomach-is surely an eagle's stomach?
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000006_000001|For it preferreth lamb's flesh.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000006_000002|Certainly it is a bird's stomach.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000008_000000|And especially that I am hostile to the spirit of gravity, that is bird nature:--verily, deadly hostile, supremely hostile, originally hostile!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000012_000000|He who one day teacheth men to fly will have shifted all landmarks; to him will all landmarks themselves fly into the air; the earth will he christen anew-as "the light body."
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000016_000000|One must learn to love oneself-thus do I teach-with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000018_000000|And verily, it is no commandment for to day and to morrow to LEARN to love oneself.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000020_000001|For the sake of it we are forgiven for living.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000021_000000|And therefore suffereth one little children to come unto one, to forbid them betimes to love themselves-so causeth the spirit of gravity.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000022_000000|And we-we bear loyally what is apportioned unto us, on hard shoulders, over rugged mountains!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000023_000000|But man himself only is hard to bear!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000023_000001|The reason thereof is that he carrieth too many extraneous things on his shoulders.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000023_000002|Like the camel kneeleth he down, and letteth himself be well laden.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000024_000001|Too many EXTRANEOUS heavy words and worths loadeth he upon himself-then seemeth life to him a desert!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000025_000000|And verily!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000025_000001|Many a thing also that is OUR OWN is hard to bear!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000027_000000|Again, it deceiveth about many things in man, that many a shell is poor and pitiable, and too much of a shell.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000028_000000|Women know that, the choicest of them: a little fatter a little leaner- oh, how much fate is in so little!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000031_000001|Those do I call the all satisfied.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000032_000000|All satisfiedness, which knoweth how to taste everything,--that is not the best taste!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000032_000001|I honour the refractory, fastidious tongues and stomachs, which have learned to say "I" and "Yea" and "Nay."
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000034_000000|Deep yellow and hot red-so wanteth MY taste-it mixeth blood with all colours.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000034_000001|He, however, who whitewasheth his house, betrayeth unto me a whitewashed soul.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000035_000000|With mummies, some fall in love; others with phantoms: both alike hostile to all flesh and blood-oh, how repugnant are both to my taste! For I love blood.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000036_000001|Nobody carrieth gold in his mouth.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000038_000001|Amongst such would I not build my tabernacle.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000040_000000|Verily, I learned waiting also, and thoroughly so,--but only waiting for MYSELF.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000040_000001|And above all did I learn standing and walking and running and leaping and climbing and dancing.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000042_000000|With rope ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did I climb high masts: to sit on high masts of perception seemed to me no small bliss;--
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000043_000000|--To flicker like small flames on high masts: a small light, certainly, but a great comfort to cast away sailors and ship wrecked ones!
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000045_000001|Rather did I question and test the ways themselves.
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000046_000001|That, however,--is my taste:
train-other-500/2574/128278/2574_128278_000049_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000002_000001|THE SECOND DANCE SONG.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000003_000000|one.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000004_000000|"Into thine eyes gazed I lately, O Life: gold saw I gleam in thy night eyes,--my heart stood still with delight:
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000006_000000|At my dance frantic foot, dost thou cast a glance, a laughing, questioning, melting, thrown glance:
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000008_000000|My heels reared aloft, my toes they hearkened,--thee they would know: hath not the dancer his ear-in his toe!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000014_000001|Who would not love thee, thou innocent, impatient, wind swift, child eyed sinner!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000016_000000|I dance after thee, I follow even faint traces lonely.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000016_000001|Where art thou? Give me thy hand!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000016_000002|Or thy finger only!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000017_000000|Here are caves and thickets: we shall go astray!--Halt!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000018_000000|Thou bat!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000018_000003|Where are we?
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000018_000004|From the dogs hast thou learned thus to bark and howl.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000021_000000|Now beside me!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000021_000001|And quickly, wickedly springing!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000021_000002|Now up!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000022_000000|Oh, see me lying, thou arrogant one, and imploring grace!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000022_000001|Gladly would I walk with thee-in some lovelier place!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000023_000000|--In the paths of love, through bushes variegated, quiet, trim!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000023_000001|Or there along the lake, where gold fishes dance and swim!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000024_000001|There above are sheep and sun set stripes: is it not sweet to sleep-the shepherd pipes?
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000025_000000|Thou art so very weary?
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000025_000001|I carry thee thither; let just thine arm sink! And art thou thirsty-I should have something; but thy mouth would not like it to drink!--
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000026_000000|--Oh, that cursed, nimble, supple serpent and lurking witch!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000027_000000|I am verily weary of it, ever thy sheepish shepherd to be.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000027_000001|Thou witch, if I have hitherto sung unto thee, now shalt THOU-cry unto me!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000028_000001|I forget not my whip?--Not I!"--
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000029_000000|two.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000031_000000|"O Zarathustra!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000031_000002|Thou knowest surely that noise killeth thought,--and just now there came to me such delicate thoughts.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000032_000000|We are both of us genuine ne'er do wells and ne'er do ills.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000032_000001|Beyond good and evil found we our island and our green meadow-we two alone! Therefore must we be friendly to each other!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000033_000000|And even should we not love each other from the bottom of our hearts,--must we then have a grudge against each other if we do not love each other perfectly?
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000034_000001|Ah, this mad old fool, Wisdom!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000036_000000|Thereupon did Life look thoughtfully behind and around, and said softly: "O Zarathustra, thou art not faithful enough to me!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000037_000000|Thou lovest me not nearly so much as thou sayest; I know thou thinkest of soon leaving me.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000038_000000|There is an old heavy, heavy, booming clock: it boometh by night up to thy cave:--
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000039_000000|--When thou hearest this clock strike the hours at midnight, then thinkest thou between one and twelve thereon-
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000042_000000|"Thou KNOWEST that, O Zarathustra?
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000042_000001|That knoweth no one-"
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000043_000000|And we gazed at each other, and looked at the green meadow o'er which the cool evening was just passing, and we wept together.--Then, however, was Life dearer unto me than all my Wisdom had ever been.--
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000044_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000045_000000|three.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000046_000000|One!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000047_000000|O man!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000047_000001|Take heed!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000049_000000|What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000050_000000|Three!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000051_000000|"I slept my sleep-
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000054_000000|Five!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000055_000000|"The world is deep,
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000056_000000|Six!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000057_000000|"And deeper than the day could read.
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000058_000000|Seven!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000059_000000|"Deep is its woe-
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000060_000000|Eight!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000061_000000|"Joy-deeper still than grief can be:
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000062_000000|Nine!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000063_000000|"Woe saith: Hence!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000063_000001|Go!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000064_000000|Ten!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000066_000000|Eleven!
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000067_000000|"Want deep profound eternity!"
train-other-500/2574/128282/2574_128282_000068_000000|Twelve!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000018_000000|Nine!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000025_000001|THE SEVEN SEALS.
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000027_000000|one.
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000028_000000|If I be a diviner and full of the divining spirit which wandereth on high mountain ridges, 'twixt two seas,--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000029_000000|Wandereth 'twixt the past and the future as a heavy cloud-hostile to sultry plains, and to all that is weary and can neither die nor live:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000031_000000|--Blessed, however, is he who is thus charged!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000032_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000034_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000036_000000|If ever my wrath hath burst graves, shifted landmarks, or rolled old shattered tables into precipitous depths:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000037_000000|If ever my scorn hath scattered mouldered words to the winds, and if I have come like a besom to cross spiders, and as a cleansing wind to old charnel houses:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000039_000000|--For even churches and Gods'-graves do I love, if only heaven looketh through their ruined roofs with pure eyes; gladly do I sit like grass and red poppies on ruined churches-
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000040_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000041_000000|Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000042_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000043_000000|three.
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000045_000000|If ever I have laughed with the laughter of the creative lightning, to which the long thunder of the deed followeth, grumblingly, but obediently:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000046_000000|If ever I have played dice with the Gods at the divine table of the earth, so that the earth quaked and ruptured, and snorted forth fire streams:--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000047_000000|--For a divine table is the earth, and trembling with new creative dictums and dice casts of the Gods:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000048_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000050_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000053_000000|If ever my hand hath mingled the furthest with the nearest, fire with spirit, joy with sorrow, and the harshest with the kindest:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000054_000000|If I myself am a grain of the saving salt which maketh everything in the confection bowl mix well:--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000056_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000057_000000|Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000058_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000060_000000|If I be fond of the sea, and all that is sealike, and fondest of it when it angrily contradicteth me:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000061_000000|If the exploring delight be in me, which impelleth sails to the undiscovered, if the seafarer's delight be in my delight:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000062_000000|If ever my rejoicing hath called out: "The shore hath vanished,--now hath fallen from me the last chain-
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000063_000000|The boundless roareth around me, far away sparkle for me space and time,--well! cheer up! old heart!"--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000064_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000066_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000067_000000|six.
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000068_000000|If my virtue be a dancer's virtue, and if I have often sprung with both feet into golden emerald rapture:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000069_000000|If my wickedness be a laughing wickedness, at home among rose banks and hedges of lilies:
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000070_000000|--For in laughter is all evil present, but it is sanctified and absolved by its own bliss:--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000071_000000|And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, every body a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega!--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000072_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000073_000000|Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000074_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000075_000000|seven.
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000078_000000|--Thus however speaketh avian wisdom:--"Lo, there is no above and no below!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000078_000001|Throw thyself about,--outward, backward, thou light one!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000078_000002|Sing! speak no more!
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000079_000000|--Are not all words made for the heavy?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000079_000001|Do not all words lie to the light ones?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000079_000002|Sing! speak no more!"--
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000080_000000|Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings-the ring of the return?
train-other-500/2574/128283/2574_128283_000082_000000|FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000001_000000|In the morning, however, after this night, Zarathustra jumped up from his couch, and, having girded his loins, he came out of his cave glowing and strong, like a morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000004_000001|Not for them do I wait here in my mountains.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000005_000000|At my work I want to be, at my day: but they understand not what are the signs of my morning, my step-is not for them the awakening call.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000006_000000|They still sleep in my cave; their dream still drinketh at my drunken songs.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000007_000002|Mine animals are awake, for I am awake.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000009_000000|But still do I lack my proper men!"--
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000010_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra; then, however, it happened that all on a sudden he became aware that he was flocked around and fluttered around, as if by innumerable birds,--the whizzing of so many wings, however, and the crowding around his head was so great that he shut his eyes.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000010_000001|And verily, there came down upon him as it were a cloud, like a cloud of arrows which poureth upon a new enemy.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000010_000002|But behold, here it was a cloud of love, and showered upon a new friend.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000013_000001|His heart, however, was loosed, and from his eyes there dropped down tears and fell upon his hands.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000013_000002|And he took no further notice of anything, but sat there motionless, without repelling the animals further.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000013_000004|The strong lion, however, licked always the tears that fell on Zarathustra's hands, and roared and growled shyly.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000014_000003|The higher men, however, when they heard the lion roaring, cried all aloud as with one voice, fled back and vanished in an instant.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000016_000000|But soon there came to him his recollection, and he took in at a glance all that had taken place between yesterday and to day.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000017_000000|O ye higher men, YOUR distress was it that the old soothsayer foretold to me yester morn,--
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000020_000000|--And once more Zarathustra became absorbed in himself, and sat down again on the big stone and meditated.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000020_000001|Suddenly he sprang up,--
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000021_000000|"FELLOW SUFFERING!
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000021_000001|FELLOW SUFFERING WITH THE HIGHER MEN!" he cried out, and his countenance changed into brass.
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000021_000002|"Well!
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000022_000000|My suffering and my fellow suffering-what matter about them!
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000022_000001|Do I then strive after HAPPINESS?
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000022_000002|I strive after my WORK!
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000023_000000|Well!
train-other-500/2574/128303/2574_128303_000025_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000003_000000|THERE was once a poor Woodcutter who lived with his Wife and three Daughters in a little hut on the edge of a large forest.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000004_000000|So when the sun was risen to the center of the heavens, the Maiden set out on her way, carrying a jug of soup.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000004_000004|"People must dwell there," she thought, "who will keep me during the night"; and she walked toward the light.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000004_000006|On the hearth lay three animals-a hen, a cock, and a brindled cow.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000004_000007|The girl told the Old Man her adventures, and begged for a night's lodging.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000004_000008|The Man said:
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000005_000000|"Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, And pretty brindled Cow, What have you to say to that?"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000006_000000|"Cluck!" said the animals, and as that meant they were satisfied, the Old Man said to the Maiden: "Here is abundance, and to spare; go now into the kitchen and cook some supper for us."
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000007_000000|The girl found plenty of everything in the kitchen, and cooked a good meal, but thought nothing about the animals.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000007_000001|When she had finished she carried a full dish into the room, and, sitting down opposite the Old Man, ate till she had satisfied her hunger.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000007_000002|When she had done she said: "I am very tired; where is my bed, where I shall lie down and sleep?" The animals replied:
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000008_000000|"You have eaten with him, You have drunk, too, with him; And yet you have not thought of us; Still you may pass the night here."
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000009_000000|Thereupon the Old Man said: "Step down yon stair, and you will come to a room containing two beds, shake them up and cover them with white sheets, and then I will come and lie down to sleep myself."
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000009_000001|The Maiden stepped down the stair, and as soon as she had shaken up the beds and covered them afresh, she laid herself down in one bed, without waiting for the Old Man.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000010_000000|Late in the evening the Woodcutter arrived at home, and scolded his Wife because she had let him hunger all day long.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000010_000002|"I will take a bag of peas," he said; "they are larger than corn seed, and the girl will therefore see them better and not lose my track." At noonday, accordingly, the girl set out with her father's dinner; but the peas had all disappeared, for the wood birds had picked them all up as they had on the day before, and not one was left.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000010_000003|So the poor girl wandered about in the forest till it was quite dark, and then she also arrived at the Old Man's hut, was invited in, and begged food and a night's lodging. The Man of the white beard asked his animals again:
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000011_000000|"Pretty Hen, and pretty Cock, And pretty brindled Cow, What have you to say to that?"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000013_000000|"You have eaten with him, You have drunk, too, with him; And yet you have not thought of us; Still you may pass the night here!"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000014_000000|As soon as she was gone to sleep the Old Man came, and, after looking at her and shaking his head as before, dropped her into the cellar below.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000015_000000|Meanwhile the third morning arrived, and the Woodcutter told his Wife to send their youngest child with his dinner: "For," said he, "she is always obedient and good; she will keep in the right path and not run about like those idle hussies, her sisters!"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000018_000000|But by and by, when the girl went out with her basket on her arm, the wood pigeons had eaten up all the beans, and she knew not which way to turn.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000018_000002|At length, when it became quite dark, she also perceived the lighted cottage, and entering it, begged very politely to be allowed to pass the night there.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000018_000003|The Old Man asked the animals a third time in the same words:
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000019_000000|"Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, And pretty brindled Cow, What have you to say to that?"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000020_000001|Thereupon the Maiden stepped up to the fire, near which they lay, and fondled the pretty Hen and Cock, smoothing their plumage down with her hands, while she stroked the Cow between her horns.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000020_000004|When the animals were thus fed, the Maiden sat down at table with the Old Man and ate what was left for her. In a short while the Hen and Cock began to fold their wings over their heads, and the brindled Cow blinked with both eyes.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000020_000005|Then the Maiden asked: "Shall we not also take our rest?"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000020_000006|The Old Man replied as before:
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000021_000000|"Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, And pretty brindled Cow, What have you to say to that?"
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000023_000000|"You have eaten with us, You have drunk, too, with us, You have thought of us kindly, too; And we wish you a good night's rest."
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000024_000000|So the Maiden went down the stairs, and shook up the feather beds and laid on clean sheets, and when they were ready the Old Man came and lay down in one, with his white beard stretching down to his feet.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000024_000001|The girl then lay down in the other bed, first saying her prayers before she went to sleep.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000025_000000|She slept quietly till midnight, and at that hour there began such a tumult in the house that it awakened her.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000025_000002|Soon after that all was quiet, but the Maiden took no harm, and went quietly off again to sleep.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000025_000003|When, however the bright light of the morning sun awoke her, what a sight met her eyes!
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000025_000004|She found herself lying in a large chamber, with everything around belonging to regal pomp.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000025_000006|The Maiden thought it was all a dream; but presently in came three servants dressed in rich liveries, who asked her what were her commands.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000025_000009|And the enchantment was not to end until a maiden should come so kind hearted that she should behave as well to my animals as she did to me; and such a one you have been; and, therefore, this last midnight we were saved through you, and the old wooden hut has again become my royal palace."
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000026_000000|When he had thus spoken the girl and he arose, and the Prince told his three servants to fetch to the palace the Father and Mother of the Maiden, that they might witness her marriage.
train-other-500/2587/159393/2587_159393_000027_000000|"But where are my two Sisters?" she asked.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000000|The Parachute commonly in use is nothing more or less than a huge Umbrella, presenting a surface of sufficient dimension to experience from the air a resistance equal to the weight of descent, in moving through the fluid at a velocity not exceeding that of the shock which a person can sustain without danger or injury.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000001|It is made of silk or cotton.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000004|The machine is thus kept expanded during descent.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000005|The car is fastened to the centre cord, and the whole attached to the balloon in such a manner that it may be readily and quickly detached, either by cutting a string, or pulling a trigger.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000006|Consequently, in the East, where the Umbrella has been from the earliest ages in familiar use, it appears to have been occasionally employed by vaulters, to enable them to jump safely from great heights.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000007|Father Loubere, in his curious account of Siam, relates, that a person famous in that country for his dexterity, used to divert the King and Court by the extraordinary leaps he took, having two Umbrellas with long slender handles, fastened to his girdle.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000003_000009|His idea was that it might be made a sort of fire escape.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000004_000002|This he suffered to fall from a great height, and it reached the ground in safety.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000006_000001|He started from an enclosure near North Audley Street, and descended after having been seven or eight minutes in the air.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000006_000004|One of the stays of the machine having given way, his danger was increased.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000006_000005|The next person who tried this dangerous experiment was his niece, Eliza Garnerin, who descended several times in safety.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000006_000006|Her Parachute had a large orifice in the top, in order to check the oscillation, and this appears to have been tolerably successful.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000007_000002|It has not yet been proved that the principle was wrong, but the defect lay in the weakness of the materials employed in the formation of the Parachute.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000008_000000|On the twenty ninth of july eighteen thirty seven, mr Cocking ascended in his new Parachute, attached to the Great Nassau Balloon.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000008_000002|He never spoke, but died almost immediately afterwards.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000008_000004|The aeronauts themselves were for some time in a state of imminent peril.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000008_000005|Immediately the Parachute was cut away, the balloon ascended with frightful velocity, owing to the ascending power it necessarily gained by being freed from a weight of nearly five hundred pounds; and had it not been that its occupants applied their mouths to the air bags previously provided, they must have been suffocated by the escaping gas.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000008_000006|When the re action took place, the balloon had lost its buoyancy, and fell, rather than descended, to the ground.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000009_000002|As he was permitted to display his Parachute in the manner he intended to use it, the idea suddenly flashed across his mind that, he could carry out his long nursed wishes.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000009_000003|He suddenly cut the rope which kept him down, and went off, to the astonishment of the spectators: the last cheering sound that reached him being-"He will be killed to a dead certainty!"
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000010_000000|After attaining an altitude of nearly two miles, mr Hampton proceeded to cut the rope that held him attached to the balloon.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000011_000000|So steady and slow was the descent that the Parachute appeared to be stationary.
train-other-500/2587/160609/2587_160609_000011_000001|mr Hampton remembered that a bag of ballast was fastened beneath the car, he stooped over and upset the sand, he also noted by his watch the time he occupied in descending.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000003_000001|Our ancestors have ordained what instruction it is fitting their children should receive, and what schools they should attend.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000003_000002|These novelties, contrary to the customs and instructions of our ancestors, we neither approve, nor do they appear to us good.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000003_000003|Wherefore it appears to be our duty that we should notify our judgment both to those who keep such schools, and those who are in the practice of frequenting them, that they meet our disapprobation."
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000004_000004|Many speeches of orators were also published.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000005_000000|But the same mode of teaching was not adopted by all, nor, indeed, did individuals always confine themselves to the same system, but each varied his plan of teaching according to circumstances.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000005_000001|For they were accustomed, in stating their argument with the utmost clearness, to use figures and apologies, to put cases, as circumstances required, and to relate facts, sometimes briefly and succinctly, and, at other times, more at large and with greater feeling.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000005_000002|Nor did they omit, on occasion, to resort to translations from the Greek, and to expatiate in the praise, or to launch their censures on the faults, of illustrious men.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000005_000003|They also dealt with matters connected with every day life, pointing out such as are useful and necessary, and such as are hurtful and needless.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000005_000004|They had occasion often to support the authority of fabulous accounts, and to detract from that of historical narratives, which sort the Greeks call "Propositions," "Refutations" and "Corroboration," until by a gradual process they have exhausted these topics, and arrive at the gist of the argument.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000006_000001|It was, therefore, the custom to state them precisely, with details of the names of places.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000006_000002|We certainly so find them collected and published, and it may be well to give one or two of them literally, by way of example:
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000007_000001|Having bargained with them for the haul, whatever it might turn out to be, for a certain sum, they paid down the money.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000007_000002|They waited a long time while the nets were being drawn, and when at last they were dragged on shore, there was no fish in them, but some gold sewn up in a basket.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000007_000003|The buyers claim the haul as theirs, the fishermen assert that it belongs to them."
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000008_000001|They proceed to Rome; the affair becomes the subject of judicial inquiry; it is alleged that the boy was entitled to his freedom, because his master had voluntarily treated him as free."
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000009_000000|Formerly, they called these by a Greek term, syntaxeis, but of late "controversies;" but they may be either fictitious cases, or those which come under trial in the courts.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000013_000003|"You patronize," he said, "a master of the schools for the sake of his buffoonery, and make a rhetorician one of your pot companions; allowing him to cut his jokes on any one he pleased; a witty man, no doubt, but it was an easy matter to say smart things of such as you and your companions.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000013_000004|But listen, Conscript Fathers, while I tell you what reward was given to this rhetorician, and let the wounds of the republic be laid bare to view.
train-other-500/2587/163454/2587_163454_000013_000006|Hear this, and learn from the extravagance of the grant, how little wisdom is displayed in your acts."
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000001_000000|SCHUMANN, THE "INTIMATE"
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000002_000000|Having finished with his Chopin group, the pianist is apt to follow it with his Schumann selections, and we meet with another original musical genius.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000002_000001|Robert Schumann was born at Zwickau in June, eighteen ten.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000002_000002|His father was a book publisher and was in hopes that the son would show literary aptitude.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000002_000003|In fact, the elder Schumann discouraged Robert's musical aspirations; and as a result, instead of receiving early in life a systematic musical training, his education was along other lines.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000002_000004|He studied law at Leipzig in eighteen twenty eight and in Heidelberg in eighteen twenty nine, and was thus what is rare among musicians-a composer with an academic education.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000003_000000|His meeting with the celebrated pianoforte teacher, Frederick Wieck, the Leschetitzki of his day, determined Schumann to enter upon a musical career.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000003_000003|Unfortunately, through the use of this contrivance he strained the tendons of one hand and his dream of a virtuoso's career vanished.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000003_000007|Some boatmen rescued him from drowning, but he had to be taken to an asylum near Bonn, where he died in July, eighteen fifty six.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000004_000002|But if Schumann's compositions are wanting in superficially attractive brightness, they more than make up for it in their profounder characteristics.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000004_000003|All through them one seems to hear a deep sounding tone.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000005_000000|Poet, Bourgeois, and Philosopher.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000006_000000|In Schumann's music the sensitive listener will find a curious blending of poet, bourgeois, and philosopher.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000006_000004|He loves "anticipations"--advancing a single note or a few notes of the harmony and then filling in the sustained tone or tones with what was at first lacking.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000007_000000|Schumann made valuable contributions to so-called program music.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000007_000001|His pieces, besides intrinsic musical worth, have a distinct meaning, usually indicated by the titles he gives them.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000007_000002|And these titles themselves often are suggested by the works of authors whom he admired, or hark back to certain fanciful figures like harlequins and columbines.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000007_000005|This symbolism must be borne in mind in listening to "The Papillons."
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000008_000002|It will be found beautiful in itself; but it also is easy to discover that the titles and explanations which are calculated to place the hearer in certain receptive moods vastly add to his enjoyment.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000009_000000|"Carnaval" and "Kreisleriana."
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000010_000002|Asch was the birthplace of Ernestine von Fricken, one of Schumann's early loves.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000011_000000|"Grandfather wedded my grandmother dear, So grandfather then was a bridegroom, I fear,"
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000012_000000|and the whole ends in a merry uproar.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000013_000000|The title of another work which ranks among his finest productions, the "Kreisleriana," also requires explanation.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000013_000001|This he derived from a book by e t a Hoffmann, who sometimes is spoken of as the German Poe, although he lacks the exquisite art of the American author-in fact, is a Poe bound up in much heavy German philosophy and turgid introspection.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000014_000000|Thoughts of His Clara.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000015_000001|Think of it, since my last letter to you I have another entire book of new things ready.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000015_000002|I intend to call them 'Kreisleriana,' and in them you and a thought of you play the chief role, and I shall dedicate them to you.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000015_000003|Yes, they belong to you as to no one else, and how sweetly you will smile when you find yourself in them!
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000015_000004|My music seems to me so wonderfully interwoven, in spite of all its simplicity, and speaking right from the heart.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000015_000006|Surely "Kreisleriana" are Schumanniana.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000016_000001|These "Fantasie Pieces" and the aptly named "Novelettes" seem destined always to retain their popularity.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000017_000000|"Through every tone there passes, To him who deigns to list, In varied earthly dreaming, A tone of gentleness."
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000018_000001|It was largely through Madame Schumann's public playing of her husband's works that they won their way.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000018_000003|But the best of them, including, of course, the admirable "A Minor Concerto," long will retain their hold on the modern pianist's repertoire.
train-other-500/2587/54186/2587_54186_000018_000004|William Mason went to Leipzig in eighteen forty nine.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000000_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000001_000000|ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000002_000000|Dawn had given place to day, and day was well advanced toward noon, before the stout little steamer gained her port.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000004_000000|I don't know why this should have startled her as it did.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000006_000000|"Oh dear! what is the word for trunk key?" she asked herself.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000007_000000|But after all, when the time came it did not prove so very bad.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000007_000001|Katy's pleasant looks and courteous manner stood her in good stead.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000010_000000|"I don't like to leave you alone," Katy was beginning; but at that moment a nice old woman who seemed to be in charge of the waiting room appeared, and with a flood of French which none of them could follow, but which was evidently sympathetic in its nature, flew at mrs Ashe and began to make her comfortable.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000012_000000|It was a particularly pleasant looking place to breakfast in.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000012_000001|There were many windows with bright polished panes and very clean short muslin curtains, and on the window sills stood rows of thrifty potted plants in full bloom,--marigolds, balsams, nasturtiums, and many colored geraniums.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000013_000004|After that she grew adventurous, and, no longer fearful of being lost, led Amy straight down a long street lined with shops, almost all of which were for the sale of articles in ivory.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000014_000001|There were cases full, windows full, counters full, of the most exquisite combs and brushes, some with elaborate monograms in silver and colors, others plain; there were boxes and caskets of every size and shape, ornaments, fans, parasol handles, looking glasses, frames for pictures large and small, napkin rings.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000015_000000|Katy was particularly smitten with a paper knife in the form of an angel with long slender wings raised over its head and meeting to form a point.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000015_000001|Its price was twenty francs, and she was strongly tempted to buy it for Clover or Rose Red.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000019_000001|She quite blushed at the recollection afterward, as she made ready for bed.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000020_000000|"How rude we must have seemed!" she thought.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000020_000004|I am going to do it."
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000022_000000|"But, Katy, who is that person?
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000023_000000|"Don't you see that they all do?
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000025_000003|A maid called Amandine had been detailed to take charge of these rooms and serve their meals.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000026_000002|It was not very enlivening, it must be confessed.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000027_000000|The days that ensued were not brilliant enough to remove this impression.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000027_000002|Going about in cabs with the windows drawn up, and now and then making a rush through the drip into shops, was not exactly delightful, but it seemed pretty much all that they could do.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000028_000002|But I never will let her look at the book, though she always wants to; for if once she saw how the words are spelled, she would never in the world pronounce them right again.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000028_000003|They look so very different, you know."
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000029_000000|Katy looked at Amy's pale little face and eager eyes with a real heartache.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000029_000001|Her rapture when at the end of the long dull afternoons her mother returned to her was touching.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000030_000001|It was the gay red wagon of the Bon Marche, carrying bundles home to the dwellers of some up town street.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000031_000000|Katy burst out laughing.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000031_000002|It has been all Bon Marche and fog!"
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000033_000000|"Poor little bird, her views of 'Europe' are rather dark just now, and no wonder," said her mother.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000034_000000|"Burnet is a great deal pleasanter than Paris," pronounced Amy, decidedly.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000034_000001|"It doesn't keep always raining there, and I can take walks, and I understand everything that people say."
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000035_000000|All that day they sped southward, and with every hour came a change in the aspect of their surroundings.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000035_000004|And when the long night ended and day roused them from broken slumbers, behold, the world was made over!
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000036_000001|With every mile the blue became bluer, the wind softer, the feathery verdure more dense and summer like.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000037_000002|The December sun felt as warm as on a late June day at home, and had the same soft caressing touch.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000040_000000|"Katy, do you hear that?" cried mrs Ashe.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000040_000002|It is a real piece of good luck for us.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000040_000003|Ladies are at such a loss in a place like this with nobody to escort them.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000040_000004|I am perfectly delighted."
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000041_000000|"So am I," said Katy.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000041_000002|Do you suppose they will let us go on board of them?"
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000042_000000|"Why, of course they will." Then to the porter, "Give me a sheet of paper and an envelope, please.--I must let Ned know that I am here at once."
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000043_000001|She seemed to have a half hope that some bird of the air might carry the news of her arrival to her brother, for she kept running to the window as if in expectation of seeing him.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000044_000000|"Perhaps we may come across Ned," she remarked.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000045_000000|They did not come across Ned, but there was no lack of other delightful objects to engage their attention.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000045_000001|The sands were smooth and hard as a floor.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000045_000003|To the north shone the peaks of the maritime Alps, and the same rosy glow caught them here and there, and warmed their grays and whites into color.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000046_000000|"I wonder what that can be?" said Katy, indicating the rocky point which bounded the beach to the east, where stood a picturesque building of stone, with massive towers and steep pitches of roof.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000047_000000|"We might ask," suggested mrs Ashe.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000049_000000|"Celle la?" answered the old woman whom she had addressed.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000050_000001|"What fun it must be to board there!"
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000051_000000|"Well, why shouldn't we board there!" said her friend.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000051_000003|If the inside is as pleasant as the outside, we could not do better, I should think."
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000052_000001|She felt quite oppressed with anxiety as they rang the bell.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000053_000001|The thick stone walls made deep sills and embrasures for the casement windows, which were furnished with red cushions to serve as seats and lounging places.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000053_000003|The house was by no means full, either.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000053_000005|Her contentment knew no bounds.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000054_000000|"I am so glad that I came," she told mrs Ashe.
train-other-500/2588/11081/2588_11081_000054_000002|This is perfectly delicious.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000001_000000|The soldier had been to the wars and was coming home.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000002_000000|"Good evening," said the witch, as he came close to her.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000002_000001|"Good evening; what a bright sword you wear, and what a big knapsack!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000003_000000|"Thank you, old witch," said the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000003_000001|But he did not tell her that she did not look as though she had much money to spare.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000003_000002|He was too wise to say anything but, "Thank you, old witch."
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000004_000001|"It is hollow inside.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000004_000004|You must creep through it and let yourself down, right down under the tree.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000005_000000|"But what am I to do under the tree?" asked the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000000|"What are you to do?
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000001|Why, did I not tell you you should have money. It is there, under the tree, copper, silver, gold.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000002|Gold!" cried the witch, in a rough and eager voice.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000003|"When you come to the bottom of the tree there is a large passage.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000004|It is quite light, indeed it is ablaze with light.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000005|More than a hundred lamps are burning.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000006|There you will see three doors.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000007|The keys are in the keyholes.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000008|Unlock the doors and walk in.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000009|In the first room in the middle of the floor, is a big box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000013|Go forward quickly, seize the dog and place him on it.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000018|This one is tremendous, quite gigantic, and he has eyes, oh! such great, rolling eyes!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000006_000020|He is a dog indeed, but do not let that trouble you.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000007_000002|"Splendid!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000007_000003|But what am I to give you, old witch?
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000007_000004|You will wish something, I am quite certain of that."
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000008_000001|But I do wish my old tinder box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000008_000002|My grandmother left it behind her, the last time she went down the tree."
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000009_000000|"Well, tie the rope round my waist," said the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000010_000001|It is very important."
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000011_000000|Up the tree climbed the soldier, into the tree he crept through the hole at the top, and down, down the hollow inside he slipped, and there he was, in a wide passage, lighted, as the witch had said, by a hundred burning lamps.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000012_000001|There sat the dog with eyes as big as saucers, staring at him in great surprise.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000014_000000|He placed the witch's apron on the floor, seized the dog bravely, and placed him on the apron.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000015_000000|Then he opened the box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000015_000002|He crammed as many as he could into his pocket, shut the lid, placed the dog again on the box, and passed on to the second door.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000016_000000|He unlocked it.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000016_000001|Yes! there sat another dog on another box, with great eyes, as big as mill wheels.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000017_000001|Then he seized the dog, placed it on the witch's apron, and raised the lid of the second box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000018_000000|Silver, every coin was silver!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000018_000001|The soldier threw away all his copper coins in a great hurry.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000018_000002|He must have silver.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000018_000003|He stuffed his pockets and his knapsack with the silver coins, and clapped his hands.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000018_000004|He was rich now.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000019_000000|On he went to the third room.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000019_000001|He unlocked it.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000019_000003|The dog had eyes, great big rolling eyes, eyes as large as the Round Tower.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000019_000004|And they would not keep still.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000019_000005|No, round and round they rolled.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000020_000000|But the soldier was brave; he had been to the wars.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000021_000000|"Good evening," he said, and he lifted his hat respectfully, for never before in all his life, had he seen so big, so enormous a creature.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000022_000000|Then he walked straight up to the dog.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000022_000001|Could he lift him?
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000022_000002|Yes, he took the immense animal in his arms, set him on the witch's apron, and opened the third box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000023_000001|It was full of gold.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000023_000002|He would be able to buy the whole town, and all the sugar plums, and all the tin soldiers, and all the rocking horses and whips in the world.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000024_000000|The soldier was delighted.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000024_000001|He threw away his silver money.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000024_000002|Silver!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000024_000003|He did not want silver.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000024_000004|Here was gold, gold!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000025_000001|No, he crammed his cap and his boots so full that he could hardly walk.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000025_000002|He was really rich at last.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000027_000000|"Have you got the tinder box?" said the witch.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000030_000000|He had gold in his pockets, gold in his knapsack, gold in his cap, gold in his boots.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000031_000000|"What are you going to do with the tinder box, just tell me that?" said the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000032_000001|"You have the gold, give me the tinder box!"
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000033_000000|"Rubbish!" said the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000035_000001|In a great hurry he took all his gold and tied it up in the blue checked apron.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000036_000000|He slung it across his shoulder, put the tinder box in his pocket, and marched off to town.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000037_000000|How grand he felt!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000038_000000|When the soldier reached the town he walked straight to the finest hotel, and asked for the best rooms, and for dinner ordered all his favorite puddings and fruits.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000039_000000|The servant who cleaned his boots tossed her head.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000039_000001|"Shabby boots for a rich man to wear," she said.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000041_000000|Shabby!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000041_000001|No, he was a great man now, and people crowded round this rich fellow, told him all the sights there were to be seen in their city, all about their King too, and the beautiful Princess, his daughter.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000042_000000|"I should like to see her, this wonderful Princess," said the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000043_000000|"But you cannot see her," they told him.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000045_000000|Meanwhile he led a merry life.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000046_000000|The soldier was always gaily dressed now.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000047_000000|And so he went on day after day, spending money and giving money, but getting none, till at last the gold came to an end.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000047_000001|He had only two copper coins left: he was only a poor soldier once more.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000048_000000|Leaving the grand hotel he went to live in a small room.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000048_000001|He found a tiny attic, just under a roof, up, oh! so many stairs.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000048_000002|Here he lived, mending his own clothes, brushing his own boots.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000048_000003|He had no visitors, for his grand friends would not take the trouble to walk up so many stairs to his little attic.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000049_000000|Hungry?
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000049_000001|Yes, he was hungry too, and as he had no money to buy even a farthing candle, he had to sit alone in the dark.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000050_000000|One evening he suddenly thought of the witch's tinder box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000050_000001|Surely in it there were matches.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000051_000000|The soldier opened it eagerly.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000051_000001|Yes, there lay the matches.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000051_000002|He seized one and struck it on the tinder box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000052_000000|No sooner had he done this, than the door burst suddenly open, and there, there, staring at him, stood the dog with eyes as big as saucers.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000053_000000|"What does my master command?" asked the dog.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000054_000000|"No wonder the old witch wished the tinder box for her very own," thought the soldier.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000054_000001|Aloud he said to the dog, "Fetch me some money," and the dog instantly vanished to do his master's bidding.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000055_000000|He was back in a moment, and lo! in his mouth was a big bag, full of pennies.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000056_000003|Strike it twice and the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels appeared.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000056_000004|Strike it thrice and there appeared the monster dog with eyes that rolled round and round and were as large as the Round Tower itself.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000056_000005|All three dogs did the soldier's bidding.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000057_000000|Now the soldier could have gold again.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000057_000001|Gold as much as ever he wished.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000058_000000|He moved once more to the grand rooms in the fine hotel.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000060_000000|"It is ridiculous that no one sees the Princess," thought the soldier. "I want to see her, and I shall."
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000061_000000|He pulled out his tinder box, struck a light, and lo!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000061_000001|there stood the dog with eyes as large as saucers.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000062_000000|"It is the middle of the night," said the soldier, "but I must see the Princess, if it is only for a moment."
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000063_000000|The dog bounded out of the door, and before the soldier had time to wonder what he would do or say if the beautiful Princess really appeared, there she was.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000064_000000|Yes, there she was, fast asleep on the dog's back.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000064_000001|She was beautiful, so beautiful that the soldier was quite sure that she was a real Princess.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000064_000002|He stooped and kissed her hand.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000064_000004|Then off ran the dog, back to the copper palace with the Princess.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000065_000000|"I had such a strange dream last night," the Princess told the King and Queen at breakfast next morning.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000066_000000|"The Princess must not be left alone to night," said the Queen.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000068_000000|Well, that evening the soldier thought he would like to see the Princess again.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000070_000000|"Bring the Princess," ordered the soldier, and the dog vanished to do his master's will.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000071_000000|The old dame sat beside the Princess's bed.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000071_000001|She had heard all about the Princess's dream.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000072_000001|She pinched herself.--No, she was wide awake, yet she saw a dog, a real dog with eyes as large as saucers, in front of her.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000073_000000|The dog seized the Princess, and ran off; but although he ran very quickly, the old dame found time to put on her goloshes before she followed.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000074_000000|How she panted along!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000074_000001|How she ran, the faithful old dame!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000074_000002|She was just in time to see the Princess on the dog's back disappear into a large house.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000075_000000|"I shall mark the house, so that I may know it in the morning," she thought.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000075_000001|And she took a piece of white chalk and made a great white cross on the door.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000076_000000|Then she walked home and slept.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000078_000000|And what do you think he did?
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000078_000001|Oh, he was a wise dog.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000080_000000|They had scarcely started, when the King's eyes fell on a great white cross!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000080_000001|"Here it is," cried the King eagerly.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000082_000001|The hubbub was terrible, and the poor old dame was quite bewildered.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000082_000002|How could she tell which door she had marked?
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000083_000000|But the Queen was a clever woman.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000083_000001|She could do more than just sit very properly on a throne.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000084_000000|The same evening, she took her big gold scissors and cut up a large piece of silk into small pieces.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000084_000001|These she sewed together into a pretty little bag.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000084_000002|Then she filled the bag with the finest grains of wheat.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000084_000003|With her own hands she tied the bag round the Princess's waist, after which she took her gold scissors again and cut a tiny little hole in the bag, a hole just big enough to let the grains of wheat drop out whenever the Princess moved.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000086_000000|Now although the dog had very big eyes, eyes as large as saucers, he did not notice the tiny grains of wheat as they dropped out all along the road from the palace to the soldier's window.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000086_000001|Under the window the dog stopped and climbed up the wall with the Princess, into the soldier's room.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000087_000000|The next morning the King and Queen followed the little grains of wheat and very easily found out where the Princess had been.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000088_000000|Then the soldier was seized and put into prison.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000089_000001|But it was worse than that one day, when they told him he was to be hanged, "hanged to morrow," they told him.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000091_000000|Morning came!
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000091_000001|Through the narrow bars of his little window the soldier could see the people all hurrying out of town.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000091_000002|They were going to see him hanged.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000092_000000|He heard the drums, he saw the soldiers marching along.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000092_000001|He wished he were marching with them.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000092_000002|Alas, alas! that could never be now-
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000093_000000|A little shoemaker's apprentice, with a leather apron, came running along.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000093_000001|He was in such a hurry that he lost one of his slippers.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000094_000000|The soldier called to the boy, "There is no hurry, for I am still here.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000094_000001|Nothing will happen till I go.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000095_000000|The shoemaker's boy thought he would like to earn twopence, and off he raced to bring the tinder box.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000096_000000|He found it.
train-other-500/2588/160947/2588_160947_000097_000000|Outside the town the scaffold had been raised, the soldiers were drawn up round it, as well as crowds of people.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000000_000002|It was Phileas Fogg, Esquire.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000001_000000|What had happened was very simple.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000001_000001|Phileas Fogg wished to go to Liverpool, but the captain would not carry him there.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000001_000004|It was very clear, to see mr Fogg manage the craft, that he had been a sailor.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000002_000003|The captain had said "between eleven and twelve knots," and the Henrietta confirmed his prediction.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000004_000000|During the first days, they went along smoothly enough.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000000|Passepartout was delighted.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000001|His master's last exploit, the consequences of which he ignored, enchanted him.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000002|Never had the crew seen so jolly and dexterous a fellow.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000003|He formed warm friendships with the sailors, and amazed them with his acrobatic feats.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000004|He thought they managed the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like heroes.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000005|His loquacious good humour infected everyone.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000006|He had forgotten the past, its vexations and delays.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000007|He only thought of the end, so nearly accomplished; and sometimes he boiled over with impatience, as if heated by the furnaces of the Henrietta.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000005_000008|Often, also, the worthy fellow revolved around Fix, looking at him with a keen, distrustful eye; but he did not speak to him, for their old intimacy no longer existed.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000006_000001|He did not know what to think.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000006_000002|For, after all, a man who began by stealing fifty five thousand pounds might end by stealing a vessel; and Fix was not unnaturally inclined to conclude that the Henrietta under Fogg's command, was not going to Liverpool at all, but to some part of the world where the robber, turned into a pirate, would quietly put himself in safety.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000006_000003|The conjecture was at least a plausible one, and the detective began to seriously regret that he had embarked on the affair.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000007_000000|As for Captain Speedy, he continued to howl and growl in his cabin; and Passepartout, whose duty it was to carry him his meals, courageous as he was, took the greatest precautions.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000007_000001|mr Fogg did not seem even to know that there was a captain on board.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000008_000000|On the thirteenth they passed the edge of the Banks of Newfoundland, a dangerous locality; during the winter, especially, there are frequent fogs and heavy gales of wind.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000008_000001|Ever since the evening before the barometer, suddenly falling, had indicated an approaching change in the atmosphere; and during the night the temperature varied, the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the south-east.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000009_000000|This was a misfortune.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000009_000001|mr Fogg, in order not to deviate from his course, furled his sails and increased the force of the steam; but the vessel's speed slackened, owing to the state of the sea, the long waves of which broke against the stern.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000009_000002|She pitched violently, and this retarded her progress.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000010_000002|The Henrietta, when she could not rise upon the waves, crossed them, swamping her deck, but passing safely.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000010_000003|Sometimes the screw rose out of the water, beating its protruding end, when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves; but the craft always kept straight ahead.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000011_000000|The wind, however, did not grow as boisterous as might have been feared; it was not one of those tempests which burst, and rush on with a speed of ninety miles an hour.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000011_000001|It continued fresh, but, unhappily, it remained obstinately in the south-east, rendering the sails useless.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000012_000002|In summer, success would have been well nigh certain.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000012_000004|Passepartout said nothing; but he cherished hope in secret, and comforted himself with the reflection that, if the wind failed them, they might still count on the steam.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000013_000000|On this day the engineer came on deck, went up to mr Fogg, and began to speak earnestly with him.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000013_000001|Without knowing why it was a presentiment, perhaps Passepartout became vaguely uneasy.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000013_000002|He would have given one of his ears to hear with the other what the engineer was saying.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000013_000003|He finally managed to catch a few words, and was sure he heard his master say, "You are certain of what you tell me?"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000014_000000|"Certain, sir," replied the engineer.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000015_000000|Passepartout understood it all; he was seized with mortal anxiety.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000015_000001|The coal was giving out!
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000015_000002|"Ah, if my master can get over that," muttered he, "he'll be a famous man!" He could not help imparting to Fix what he had overheard.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000017_000000|"Of course."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000018_000000|"Ass!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and turning on his heel.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000020_000000|And now what course would Phileas Fogg adopt?
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000020_000001|It was difficult to imagine.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000020_000002|Nevertheless he seemed to have decided upon one, for that evening he sent for the engineer, and said to him, "Feed all the fires until the coal is exhausted."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000021_000000|A few moments after, the funnel of the Henrietta vomited forth torrents of smoke.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000021_000001|The vessel continued to proceed with all steam on; but on the eighteenth, the engineer, as he had predicted, announced that the coal would give out in the course of the day.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000022_000001|"Keep them up to the last.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000023_000000|Towards noon Phileas Fogg, having ascertained their position, called Passepartout, and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000023_000001|It was as if the honest fellow had been commanded to unchain a tiger.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000024_000000|In a few moments, with cries and oaths, a bomb appeared on the poop deck.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000024_000001|The bomb was Captain Speedy.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000024_000002|It was clear that he was on the point of bursting.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000024_000004|Had the poor man been an apoplectic, he could never have recovered from his paroxysm of wrath.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000028_000000|"I have sent for you, sir-"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000029_000000|"Pickaroon!"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000030_000000|"--sir," continued mr Fogg, "to ask you to sell me your vessel."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000031_000000|"No! By all the devils, no!"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000032_000000|"But I shall be obliged to burn her."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000034_000000|"Yes; at least the upper part of her.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000034_000001|The coal has given out."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000035_000000|"Burn my vessel!" cried Captain Speedy, who could scarcely pronounce the words.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000036_000000|"Here are sixty thousand," replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank bills.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000036_000002|An American can scarcely remain unmoved at the sight of sixty thousand dollars.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000036_000004|The Henrietta was twenty years old; it was a great bargain.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000036_000006|mr Fogg had taken away the match.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000038_000000|"The iron hull and the engine.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000038_000001|Is it agreed?"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000039_000000|"Agreed."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000040_000000|And Andrew Speedy, seizing the banknotes, counted them and consigned them to his pocket.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000041_000001|Nearly twenty thousand pounds had been expended, and Fogg left the hull and engine to the captain, that is, near the whole value of the craft!
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000041_000002|It was true, however, that fifty five thousand pounds had been stolen from the Bank.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000042_000000|When Andrew Speedy had pocketed the money, mr Fogg said to him, "Don't let this astonish you, sir.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000043_000000|"And I did well!" cried Andrew Speedy; "for I have gained at least forty thousand dollars by it!" He added, more sedately, "Do you know one thing, Captain-"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000044_000000|"Fogg."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000045_000000|"Captain Fogg, you've got something of the Yankee about you."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000046_000000|And, having paid his passenger what he considered a high compliment, he was going away, when mr Fogg said, "The vessel now belongs to me?"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000047_000000|"Certainly, from the keel to the truck of the masts-all the wood, that is."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000048_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000048_000001|Have the interior seats, bunks, and frames pulled down, and burn them."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000049_000001|On the next day, the nineteenth of December, the masts, rafts, and spars were burned; the crew worked lustily, keeping up the fires.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000049_000002|Passepartout hewed, cut, and sawed away with all his might. There was a perfect rage for demolition.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000050_000000|The railings, fittings, the greater part of the deck, and top sides disappeared on the twentieth, and the Henrietta was now only a flat hulk. But on this day they sighted the Irish coast and Fastnet Light.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000050_000001|By ten in the evening they were passing Queenstown.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000050_000002|Phileas Fogg had only twenty four hours more in which to get to London; that length of time was necessary to reach Liverpool, with all steam on.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000051_000001|Everything is against you.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000052_000000|"Ah," said mr Fogg, "is that place where we see the lights Queenstown?"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000053_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000054_000000|"Can we enter the harbour?"
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000055_000001|Only at high tide."
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000057_000001|These mails are carried to Dublin by express trains always held in readiness to start; from Dublin they are sent on to Liverpool by the most rapid boats, and thus gain twelve hours on the Atlantic steamers.
train-other-500/2606/130138/2606_130138_000058_000000|Phileas Fogg counted on gaining twelve hours in the same way.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000001_000000|TWO YEARS AFTERWARD
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000002_000000|It was a pleasant morning in early June.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000002_000002|dr Carr's front door stood wide open.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000003_000002|Her eyes were as blue and sweet as ever, and her apple blossom cheeks as pink.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000003_000003|But the brown pig tails were pinned up into a round knot, and the childish face had gained almost a womanly look.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000003_000004|Old Mary declared that Miss Clover was getting quite young ladyfied, and "Miss Clover" was quite aware of the fact, and mightily pleased with it.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000003_000005|It delighted her to turn up her hair; and she was very particular about having her dresses made to come below the tops of her boots.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000003_000006|She had also left off ruffles, and wore narrow collars instead, and little cuffs with sleeve buttons to fasten them.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000004_000000|Pretty soon the side gate swung open, and Philly came round the corner of the house.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000004_000001|He had grown into a big boy.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000004_000004|What, Clover could not see.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000007_000000|"Why, of course they're not ripe!" said Clover, putting one into her mouth.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000007_000001|"Can't you tell by the taste?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000008_000000|"I don't care, if Katy says they're ripe I shall eat 'em," answered Phil, defiantly, marching into the house.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000012_000000|"I should think he would be," replied Clover, laughing.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000014_000000|"Yes, but it was a good one, for none of them have ever touched the green gooseberries since.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000014_000001|Have you got through practising?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000014_000002|It doesn't seem like an hour yet."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000015_000000|"Oh, it isn't-it's only twenty five minutes.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000016_000002|Are the girls up there?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000016_000003|I thought they were cleaning the dining room."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000017_000000|"They're doing both.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000018_000000|"How nicely you hem!" said Elsie.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000018_000004|I've a great mind to go and ask her."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000019_000000|"There's her bell!" said Clover, as a little tinkle sounded up stairs; "I'll ask her, if you like."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000020_000000|"No, let me go.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000020_000001|I'll see what she wants." But Clover was already half-way across the hall, and the two girls ran up side by side.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000020_000003|Both liked to wait on her so much.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000021_000000|Katy came to meet them as they entered.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000021_000001|Not on her feet: that, alas!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000021_000006|dr Carr considered her doing so as a hopeful sign, but he had never told Katy this.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000022_000000|She met the girls with a bright smile as they came in, and said:
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000023_000000|"Oh, Clovy, it was you I rang for!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000024_000000|"Of course I will!" said Clover, who was a born housewife, and dearly loved to act as Katy's prime minister.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000026_000000|"Oh yes, please do!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000026_000001|I want to measure."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000027_000000|"Katy," said Elsie, "those mats of mine are most done, and I would like to finish them and put them on Papa's washstand before he comes back. Mayn't I stop practising now, and bring my crochet up here instead?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000028_000000|"Will there be plenty of time to learn the new exercise before Miss Phillips comes, if you do?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000029_000000|"I think so, plenty.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000030_000000|"Well, then it seems to me that you might just as well as not.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000030_000001|And Elsie, dear, run into papa's room first, and bring me the drawer out of his table.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000030_000002|I want to put that in order myself."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000031_000000|Elsie went cheerfully.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000031_000002|Pretty soon Clover joined them.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000032_000002|I like this sort of day, when nobody comes in to interrupt us."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000033_000000|Somebody tapped at the door, as she spoke.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000033_000003|Among the rest, he has developed a strong turn for mechanics.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000034_000000|"Here's your clock, Katy," he said.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000034_000001|"I've got it fixed so that it strikes all right.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000035_000000|"Have you, really?" said Katy.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000035_000001|"Why, Dorry, you're a genius!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000035_000002|I'm ever so much obliged."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000036_000000|"It's four minutes to eleven now," went on Dorry.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000036_000003|That is," he added politely, "unless you're busy, and would rather not."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000037_000000|"I'm never too busy to want you, old fellow," said Katy, stroking his arm.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000037_000001|"Here, this drawer is arranged now.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000037_000003|Your hands are stronger than Elsie's."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000038_000000|Dorry looked gratified.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000039_000000|"There!" he exclaimed; "that's splendid, isn't it?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000040_000000|But alas! the clock did not stop at eleven.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000040_000001|It went on-Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000041_000000|"Dear me!" said Clover, "what does all this mean?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000043_000000|"Thirty, Thirty one-Oh, Dorry!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000043_000001|Thirty two!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000043_000002|Thirty three!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000043_000003|Thirty four!"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000044_000000|"You've bewitched it, Dorry!" said Katy, as much entertained as the rest.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000045_000000|Then they all began counting.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000045_000001|Dorry seized the clock-shook it, slapped it, turned it upside-down.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000046_000000|"It's very queer," he said, "but I'm sure it's not because of anything I did.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000046_000001|I can fix it, though, if you'll let me try again.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000046_000002|May I, Katy?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000047_000001|Clover pulled her sleeve, and whispered, "Don't!"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000047_000002|Then seeing the mortification on Dorry's face, she made up her mind.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000048_000000|"Yes! take it, Dorry.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000048_000001|I'm sure you'll be careful.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000048_000002|But if I were you, I'd carry it down to Wetherell's first of all, and talk it over with them. Together you could hit on just the right thing.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000048_000003|Don't you think so?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000051_000000|"How could you let him take your clock again?" said Clover, as soon as the door was shut.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000051_000002|And you think so much of it."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000053_000000|"You were real good to do it," responded Clover; "but if it had been mine I don't think I could."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000055_000001|He's put in every one of Speckle's, and is just beginning on Dame Durden's.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000056_000000|"Why, he mustn't-of course he mustn't!" said Katy; "what made him think of such a thing?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000057_000002|I told him it wasn't, but he wouldn't listen to me." And Johnnie wrung her hands.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000058_000000|"Clover!" cried Katy, "won't you run down and ask Philly to come up to me?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000058_000001|Speak pleasantly, you know!"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000060_000000|"What a mischief Phil is getting to be!" said Elsie.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000060_000001|"Papa says his name ought to be Pickle."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000061_000000|"Pickles turn out very nice sometimes, you know," replied Katy, laughing.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000062_000000|Pretty soon Philly came up, escorted by Clover.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000064_000000|"But that wasn't egg, Philly-it was dear little clean feathers, like a canary bird's wings."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000065_000000|"Was it?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000066_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000066_000002|Don't you think you ought to go and warm them?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000067_000000|"How?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000068_000000|"Well-in your hands, very gently.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000068_000001|And then I would let them run round in the sun"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000069_000001|"Only kiss me first, because I didn't mean to, you know!"--Philly was very fond of Katy.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000069_000002|Miss Petingill said it was wonderful to see how that child let himself be managed.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000069_000003|But I think the secret was that Katy didn't "manage," but tried to be always kind and loving, and considerate of Phil's feelings.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000070_000001|There was a distressed expression on her face.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000071_000001|I don't think you know how bad it looks."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000072_000000|"I don't suppose I do," said Katy, smiling, and then sighing.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000072_000001|She had never seen the wood shed since the day of her fall from the swing. "Never mind, Mary, I'll talk to Alexander about it, and he shall make it all nice."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000073_000000|Mary trotted down stairs satisfied.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000073_000001|But in the course of a few minutes she was up again.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000076_000000|"Oh dear!" she said, "I wish people wouldn't keep coming and interrupting us.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000077_000000|She was not left to wonder long.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000077_000001|Almost as she spoke, there was another knock at the door.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000078_000000|"Come in!" said Katy, rather wearily.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000078_000001|The door opened.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000079_000000|"Shall I?" said a voice.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000079_000002|Katy could not think who it was, at first.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000080_000001|I hope I'm not interrupting anything private?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000081_000000|"Not at all," said Katy, politely.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000082_000001|She still had the little round curls stuck on to her cheeks, and Elsie wondered anew what kept them in their places.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000083_000001|She had called to say good by.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000083_000002|The Clark family were all going back to Jacksonville to live.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000084_000000|"Did you ever see the Brigand again?" asked Clover, who had never forgotten that eventful tale told in the parlor.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000085_000001|And I get letters from him quite often.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000085_000003|I wish I had one with me, so that I could read you a little bit.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000085_000004|You would enjoy it, I know.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000085_000005|Let me see-perhaps I have." And she put her hand into her pocket.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000086_000000|The Brigand seemed to write a bold, black hand, and his note paper and envelope was just like anybody else's.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000086_000001|But perhaps his band had surprised a pedlar with a box of stationery.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000087_000002|It was lonesome without you.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000087_000004|A pretty good dinner, was it not?
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000088_000001|Such language from a Brigand!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000089_000001|I don't think there is anything else you'd care about.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000090_000000|"'Come, little dove, with azure wing, And brood upon my breast,'
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000091_000000|"That's sweet, ain't it?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000092_000000|"Hasn't he reformed?" said Clover; "he writes as if he had."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000093_000001|"He was always just as good as he could be!"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000094_000000|There was nothing to be said in reply to this.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000094_000003|How queer!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000098_000002|Then the door bell rang, and Bridget, with a disturbed face, came up stairs.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000099_000000|"Miss Katy," she said, "it's old mrs Worrett, and I reckon's she's come to spend the day, for she's brought her bag.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000100_000000|Katy looked dismayed.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000100_000001|"Oh dear!" she said, "how unlucky.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000103_000000|The Katy of two years ago would probably have jumped at this idea.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000103_000001|But the Katy of to day was more considerate.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000104_000001|We must just make the best of it, Bridget.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000104_000003|And, oh, Clovy! give her a fan the first thing.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000104_000006|She drinks tea always, I believe.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000105_000000|"I can't bear to send the poor old lady away when she has come so far," she explained to Elsie, after the others were gone.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000105_000002|And oh! push all those little chairs back against the wall.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000105_000003|mrs Worrett broke down in one the last time she was here-don't you recollect?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000106_000001|Elsie began to giggle.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000106_000002|mrs Worrett always made her giggle.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000106_000003|Katy had just time to give her a warning glance before the door opened.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000107_000000|mrs Worrett was the most enormously fat person ever seen.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000107_000002|Her face was extremely red.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000107_000003|In the coldest weather she appeared hot, and on a mild day she seemed absolutely ready to melt.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000112_000000|"I had business at the bank," continued the visitor, "and I thought while I was about it I'd step up to Miss Petingill's and see if I couldn't get her to come and let out my black silk.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000112_000003|Do you know where she's sewing now?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000113_000000|"No," said Katy, feeling her chair shake, and keeping her own countenance with difficulty, "she was here for three days last week to make Johnnie a school dress.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000113_000001|But I haven't heard anything about her since.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000113_000003|She looks warm after her walk."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000114_000001|She came back after a while, with a perfectly straight face.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000114_000002|Luncheon was brought up.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000114_000003|mrs Worrett made a good meal, and seemed to enjoy everything.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000114_000005|Oh, how long that afternoon did seem to the poor girls, sitting there and trying to think of something to say to their vast visitor!
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000115_000000|At last mrs Worrett got out of her chair, and prepared to depart.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000116_000000|"Well," she said, tying her bonnet strings, "I've had a good rest, and feel all the better for it.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000116_000003|I wish your aunt could see you all as you are now.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000116_000004|She'd be right pleased; I know that."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000117_000000|Somehow, this sentence rang pleasantly in Katy's ears.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000118_000001|It isn't her fault that she's fat. And Aunt Izzie was fond of her, you know.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000118_000003|I was sorry when she came, but now it's over, I'm glad."
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000120_000000|"Isn't Katy sweet?"
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000121_000000|"Isn't she!" replied Clover.
train-other-500/2606/132102/2606_132102_000121_000001|"I wish I was half so good.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000004_000000|The woodpigeon is many things to many men.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000004_000001|To the farmer, who has some claim to priority of verdict, it is a curse, even as the rabbit in Australia, the lemming in Norway, or the locust in Algeria.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000005_000000|It is this attitude of the farmer which makes the woodpigeon pre eminently the bird of February.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000006_000000|The usual plan is to divide the guns in small parties and to post these in neighbouring plantations or lining hedges overlooking these spinneys. At a given signal the firing commences and is kept up for several hours, a number of the marauders being killed and the rest so harried that many of them must leave the neighbourhood, only to find a similar warm welcome across the border.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000006_000001|Some such concerted attack has of late years been rendered necessary by the great increase in the winter invasion from overseas.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000006_000002|It is probable that, as most writers on the subject insist, the wanderings of these birds are for the most part restricted to these islands and are mere food forays, like those which cause locusts to desert a district that they have stripped bare for pastures new.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000006_000003|At the same time, it seems to be beyond all doubt the fact that huge flocks of woodpigeons reach our shores annually from Scandinavia, and their inroads have had such serious results that it is only by joint action that their numbers can be kept under.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000006_000004|For such work February is obviously the month, not only because most of their damage to the growing crops and seeds is accomplished at this season, but also because large numbers of gunners, no longer able to shoot game, are thus at the disposal of the farmers and only too glad to prolong their shooting for a few weeks to such good purpose.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000000|Many birds are greedy.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000002|Yet the ringdove could probably vie with any of them.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000003|mr Harting mentions having found in the crop of one of these birds thirty three acorns and forty four beech nuts, while no fewer than one hundred thirty nine of the latter were taken, together with other food remains, from another.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000004|It is no uncommon experience to see the crop of a woodpigeon that is brought down from a great height burst, on reaching the earth, with a report like that of a pistol, and scatter its undigested contents broadcast.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000005|Little wonder then, that the farmers welcome the slaughter of so formidable a competitor!
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000006|It is one of their biggest customers, and pays nothing for their produce.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000007|One told me, not long ago, that the woodpigeons had got at a little patch of young rape, only a few acres in all, which had been uncovered by the drifting snow, and had laid it as bare as if the earth had never been planted.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000008|Seeing what hearty meals the woodpigeon makes, it is not surprising that it should sometimes throw up pellets of undigested material.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000007_000009|This is not, however, a regular habit, as in the case of hawks and owls, and is rather, perhaps, the result of some abnormally irritating food.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000000|Pigeons digest their food with the aid of a secretion in the crop, and it is on this soft material, popularly known as "pigeons' milk," that they feed their nestlings.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000002|Indeed, all the pigeons are devoted parents.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000004|Some of the pigeons of Australia, indeed, go even further.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000005|Not only do they build a much more substantial nest of leafy twigs, but the male bird actually sits throughout the day, such paternal sense of duty being all the more remarkable from the fact that these pigeons of the Antipodes usually lay but a single egg.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000006|Australia, with the neighbouring islands, must be a perfect paradise for pigeons, since about half of the species known to science occur in that region only.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000007|The wonga wonga and bronze wing and great fruit pigeons are, like the "bald pates" of Jamaica, all favourite birds with sportsmen, and some of the birds are far more brightly coloured than ours.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000008_000008|It is, however, noticeable that even the gayest Queensland species, with wings shot with every prismatic hue, are dull looking birds seen from above, and the late dr a r Wallace regarded this as affording protection against keen eyed hawks on the forage.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000009_000000|The woodpigeon has many names in rural England.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000009_000001|That by which it is referred to in the foregoing notes is not, perhaps, the most satisfactory, since, with the possible exception of the smaller stock dove, which lays its eggs in rabbit burrows, and the rock dove, which nests in the cliffs, all the members of the family need trees, if only to roost and nest in.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000009_000002|A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000009_000003|The last named, however, which will be familiar to readers of Tennyson, probably alludes specifically to the rock dove, as it undoubtedly gave its name to Culver Cliff, a prominent landmark in the Isle of Wight, where these birds have at all times been sparingly in evidence.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000010_000000|The ringdove occasionally rears a nestling in captivity, but it does not seem, at any time of life, to prove a very attractive pet.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000010_000001|White found it strangely ferocious, and another writer describes it as listless and uninteresting.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000010_000005|To those, however, who do not sow that they may reap, the subject of these remarks has irresistible charm.
train-other-500/2607/177740/2607_177740_000010_000006|There is doubtless monotony in its cooing, yet, heard in a still plantation of firs, with no other sound than perhaps the distant call of a shepherd or barking of a farm dog, it is a music singularly in harmony with the peaceful scene.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000001_000000|DECEMBER
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000002_000000|THE ROBIN REDBREAST
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000004_000001|Yet so persistently does his good name cling, that, while ever ready to condemn the aggressive sparrow for the same fault, all of us have a good word for the robin, and in few of our wild birds are character and reputation so divergent.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000000|Surely, however, the most interesting aspect of this familiar bird is its tameness, not to say attachment to ourselves, and so marked is its complete absence of fear that it is a wild bird in name only, and indeed few cage birds are ever so bold as to perch on the gardener's spade on the look out for the worms as he turns them up from the damp soil.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000002|It is a question that those, at any rate, who have seen the bird in countries where it is treated differently will have no difficulty whatever in answering.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000003|Broadly speaking, the redbreast has the best time of it in northern lands.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000004|This tolerance has not, as has been suggested, any connection with Protestantism, for such a distinction would exclude the greater part of Ireland, where, as it happens, the bird is as safe from persecution as in Britain, since the superstitious peasants firmly believe that anyone killing a "spiddog" will be punished by a lump growing on the palm of his hand.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000005|The untoward fate of the robin in Latin countries bordering the Mediterranean has nothing to do with religion, but is merely the result of a pernicious habit of killing all manner of small birds for the table.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000006|The sight of rows of dead robins laid out on poulterers' stalls in the markets of Italy and southern France inspires such righteous indignation in British tourists as to make them forget for the moment that larks are exposed in the same way in Bond Street and at Leadenhall.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000007|In Italy and Provence, taught by sad experience the robin is as shy as any other small bird.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000008|It has learnt its lesson like the robins in the north, but the lesson is different.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000009|The most friendly robin I ever remember meeting with, out of England was in a garden attached to a cafe in Trebizond, where, hopping round my chair and picking up crumbs, it made me feel curiously at home.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000010|Similar treatment of other wild birds would in time produce the same result, and even the suspicious starling and stand off rook might be taught to forget their fear of us.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000005_000012|The common, too common, sparrow, is another fearless neighbour, but its freedom from persecution, of late somewhat threatened by Sparrow Clubs, is due less to affection than to the futility of making any impression on such hordes as infest our streets.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000000|No act of the robin's more forcibly illustrates its trust in man than the manner in which, at a season when all animals are abnormally shy and suspicious, it makes its nest not only near our dwellings, but actually in many cases under the same roof as ourselves.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000001|Letterboxes, flowerpots, old boots, and bookshelves have all done duty, and I even remember a pair of robins, many years ago in Kent, bringing up two broods in an old rat trap which, fortunately too rusty to act, was still set and baited with a withered piece of bacon.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000004|The egg of the robin is subject to considerable variety of type.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000006|Eggs, on the other hand, like those of the house sparrow, redshank and some of the smaller warblers, are so easily confused with those of allied species that Lord Lilford's caution is by no means superfluous. Ordinarily speaking, the robin's egg is white, with red spots at one end, but I remember taking at Bexley, nearly thirty years ago, an immaculate one of coffee colour.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000007|As the robin is a favourite foster parent with cuckoos, my first thought was that this might be an unusually small egg of the parasitic bird, which was very plentiful thereabouts.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000008|It so happened, however, that three days after I had abstracted the first and only egg I took from that nest, there was a second of the same type; and, much as I would have liked this also for my collection, I left it in the nest so as to set all doubts at rest.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000006_000009|My moderation was rewarded, for no one else found the nest, and in due course the coffee coloured egg produced a robin like the rest.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000007_000000|The robin is anything but a gregarious bird.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000007_000001|Its fighting temper doubtless leads it to keep its own company, and we rarely see more than one singing on the same bush, or seeking for food on the same lawn.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000007_000002|Yet, though it is with us all the year, it is known to perform migrations within these islands, and possibly also overseas, chiefly connected with commissariat difficulties, and it is probable that on such occasions many robins may travel in company, though I have not been so fortunate as to come across them in their pilgrimage.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000007_000003|Equally interesting, however, is the habit which the bird has in Devonshire of occasionally going down to the rocks on the seashore, as I have often noticed in the neighbourhood of Teignmouth and Torquay.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000007_000004|What manner of food the redbreast may find in such surroundings is a mystery, but there it certainly spends some of its time, bobbing at the edge of the rock pools in much the same fashion as the dipper on inland waters.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000008_000000|Young robins are turned adrift at an early age to look after themselves, a result of the parent bird always rearing two families in the year, and in many cases even three, so that they have not too much time to devote to the upbringing of each.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000008_000001|Another consequence of this prolific habit is that the robin has to make its nest earlier than most of our wild birds, and its nest has, in fact, been found near Torquay during the first week of January.
train-other-500/2607/177749/2607_177749_000009_000001|As might be expected of a bird so characteristic of English scenes, and so closely associated with the festival that always brings nostalgia to the emigrant, the robin has its share of these namesakes, and several of them bear little likeness to the original.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000001_000000|"Suppose, now, that you have succeeded in putting the cart before the horse, mr Narkom," Cleek said suddenly, "you proceed to give me, not the ramifications of the case, but the case itself.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000001_000001|You have repeatedly spoken of the murder having taken place in some place which is difficult of access and under most mystifying circumstances.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000001_000002|Now, if you don't mind, I should like to hear what those circumstances are."
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000002_000000|"All right, old chap, I'll give you the details as briefly as possible.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000005_000000|"I see," said Cleek, with an amused twinkle in his eye.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000005_000001|"You are getting on, mr Narkom.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000005_000002|We shall have you lecturing on archaeology one of these fine days.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000006_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000006_000002|As a general thing, he did not do much in the way of burning the midnight oil, but conducted most of his experiments in the daytime.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000007_000000|"Oh, he has a Japanese valet, has he?
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000007_000001|But, of course, in these days no American gentleman with any pretence to distinction whatsoever would be without one.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000007_000002|Go on, please.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000007_000003|His Japanese valet carried up the ice water, and-then what?"
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000008_000000|"Then he suddenly announced his intention of going into the Stone Drum and working for a few hours.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000008_000001|Lord Fallowfield, it appears, tried his best to dissuade him, but to no purpose."
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000009_000000|"Why did he do that?
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000009_000001|Or don't you know?"
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000010_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000010_000001|I asked that very question myself.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000010_000002|I was told that it was because his lordship saw very plainly that he was labouring under strong mental excitement, and he thought that rest would be the best thing for him in the circumstances.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000010_000003|Then, too, his lordship and he are warmly attached to each other.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000013_000000|"What happened from that moment, Cleek, nobody knows.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000013_000002|Alarmed, he aroused the entire household; but despite the fact that a dozen persons endeavoured to get word from the man within, not so much as a whisper rewarded them.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000013_000004|When, however, they finally got into the place there lay the once famous inventor at full length on the oaken floor close to the barred door, as dead as George Washington, and with never a sign of what killed him either on the body or in any part of the place.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000014_000000|"Heart failure, possibly," said Cleek.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000015_000001|"A doctor was sent for immediately; fortunately one of the most famous surgeons in England happened to be in the neighbourhood at the time-called down from town to perform an operation.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000015_000004|Some murderous force had entered that room, and passed out of it again, leaving the door barred, bolted, and locked upon the inside.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000015_000006|As no one could account for the presence of that, and as it was the only thing there which might offer a possible clue to the mystery, the doctor took a small sample of that water and analyzed it.
train-other-500/2607/87140/2607_87140_000015_000008|There, old chap, that's the 'case'--that's the little riddle you're asked to come down and solve.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000000_000000|Part two
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000005_000000|fourteen eighty eight to fifteen forty three.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000008_000000|A French writer, however, advances a more ambitious claim.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000008_000003|On board his ship was one Pinzon, whose conduct became so mutinous that, on his return to Dieppe, Cousin made complaint to the magistracy, who thereupon dismissed the offender from the maritime service of the town.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000008_000004|Pinzon went to Spain, became known to Columbus, told him the discovery, and joined him on his voyage of fourteen ninety two.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000009_000000|To leave this cloudland of tradition, and approach the confines of recorded history.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000009_000001|The Normans, offspring of an ancestry of conquerors,--the Bretons, that stubborn, hardy, unchanging race, who, among Druid monuments changeless as themselves, still cling with Celtic obstinacy to the thoughts and habits of the past,--the Basques, that primeval people, older than history,--all frequented from a very early date the cod banks of Newfoundland.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000010_000000|From this time forth, the Newfoundland fishery was never abandoned. French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese made resort to the Banks, always jealous, often quarrelling, but still drawing up treasure from those exhaustless mines, and bearing home bountiful provision against the season of Lent.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000011_000000|On this dim verge of the known world there were other perils than those of the waves.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000011_000003|Two islands, north of Newfoundland, were given over to the fiends from whom they derived their name, the Isles of Demons.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000011_000004|An old map pictures their occupants at length,--devils rampant, with wings, horns, and tail.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000012_000000|While French fishermen plied their trade along these gloomy coasts, the French government spent it's energies on a different field.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000012_000001|The vitality of the kingdom was wasted in Italian wars.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000012_000002|Milan and Naples offered a more tempting prize than the wilds of Baccalaos.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000012_000003|Eager for glory and for plunder, a swarm of restless nobles followed their knight errant King, the would be paladin, who, misshapen in body and fantastic in mind, had yet the power to raise a storm which the lapse of generations could not quell.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000012_000004|Under Charles the Eighth and his successor, war and intrigue ruled the day; and in the whirl of Italian politics there was no leisure to think of a new world.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000013_000000|Yet private enterprise was not quite benumbed.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000014_000002|Yet he esteemed arts and letters, and, still more, coveted the eclat which they could give.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000014_000003|The light which was beginning to pierce the feudal darkness gathered its rays around his throne.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000014_000005|Among artists, philosophers, and men of letters enrolled in his service stands the humbler name of a Florentine navigator, john Verrazzano.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000015_000001|He has been called a pirate, and he was such in the same sense in which Drake, Hawkins, and other valiant sea rovers of his own and later times, merited the name; that is to say, he would plunder and kill a Spaniard on the high seas without waiting for a declaration of war.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000016_000001|He would fain have his share of the prize; and Verrazzano, with four ships, was despatched to seek out a passage westward to the rich kingdom of Cathay.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000017_000000|Some doubt has of late been cast on the reality of this voyage of Verrazzano, and evidence, mainly negative in kind, has been adduced to prove the story of it a fabrication; but the difficulties of incredulity appear greater than those of belief, and no ordinary degree of scepticism is required to reject the evidence that the narrative is essentially true.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000018_000001|What became of the other two does not appear.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000018_000002|Neither is it clear why, after a preliminary cruise against the Spaniards, he pursued his voyage with one vessel alone, a caravel called the "Dauphine." With her he made for Madeira, and, on the seventeenth of January, fifteen twenty four, set sail from a barren islet in its neighborhood, and bore away for the unknown world.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000018_000004|Presently he sent a boat ashore.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000018_000005|The inhabitants, who had fled at first, soon came down to the strand in wonder and admiration, pointing out a landing place, and making gestures of friendship.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000019_000001|The surf ran high, and the crew could not land; but an adventurous young sailor jumped overboard and swam shoreward with a gift of beads and trinkets for the Indians, who stood watching him. His heart failed as he drew near; he flung his gift among them, turned, and struck out for the boat.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000019_000002|The surf dashed him back, flinging him with violence on the beach among the recipients of his bounty, who seized him by the arms and legs, and, while he called lustily for aid, answered him with outcries designed to allay his terrors.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000019_000003|Next they kindled a great fire,--doubtless to roast and devour him before the eyes of his comrades, gazing in horror from their boat.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000019_000004|On the contrary, they carefully warmed him, and were trying to dry his clothes, when, recovering from his bewilderment, he betrayed a strong desire to escape to his friends; whereupon, "with great love, clapping him fast about, with many embracings," they led him to the shore, and stood watching till he had reached the boat.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000020_000000|It only remained to requite this kindness, and an opportunity soon occurred; for, coasting the shores of Virginia or Maryland, a party went on shore and found an old woman, a young girl, and several children, hiding with great terror in the grass.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000020_000001|Having, by various blandishments, gained their confidence, they carried off one of the children as a curiosity, and, since the girl was comely, would fain have taken her also, but desisted by reason of her continual screaming.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000021_000000|Verrazzano's next resting place was the Bay of New York.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000021_000001|Rowing up in his boat through the Narrows, under the steep heights of Staten Island, he saw the harbor within dotted with canoes of the feathered natives, coming from the shore to welcome him.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000021_000002|But what most engaged the eyes of the white men were the fancied signs of mineral wealth in the neighboring hills.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000022_000001|Here they stayed fifteen days, most courteously received by the inhabitants.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000022_000002|Among others appeared two chiefs, gorgeously arrayed in painted deer skins,--kings, as Verrazzano calls them, with attendant gentlemen; while a party of squaws in a canoe, kept by their jealous lords at a safe distance from the caravel, figure in the narrative as the queen and her maids.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000022_000003|The Indian wardrobe had been taxed to its utmost to do the strangers honor,--copper bracelets, lynx skins, raccoon skins, and faces bedaubed with gaudy colors.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000023_000000|Again they spread their sails, and on the fifth of May bade farewell to the primitive hospitalities of Newport, steered along the rugged coasts of New England, and surveyed, ill pleased, the surf beaten rocks, the pine tree and the fir, the shadows and the gloom of mighty forests.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000023_000001|Here man and nature alike were savage and repellent.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000023_000002|Perhaps some plundering straggler from the fishing banks, some manstealer like the Portuguese Cortereal, or some kidnapper of children and ravisher of squaws like themselves, had warned the denizens of the woods to beware of the worshippers of Christ.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000023_000003|Their only intercourse was in the way of trade. From the brink of the rocks which overhung the sea the Indians would let down a cord to the boat below, demand fish hooks, knives, and steel, in barter for their furs, and, their bargain made, salute the voyagers with unseemly gestures of derision and scorn.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000023_000004|The French once ventured ashore; but a war whoop and a shower of arrows sent them back to their boats.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000024_000001|He had not found a passage to Cathay, but he had explored the American coast from the thirty fourth degree to the fiftieth, and at various points had penetrated several leagues into the country.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000024_000002|On the eighth of July, he wrote from Dieppe to the King the earliest description known to exist of the shores of the United States.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000025_000000|Great was the joy that hailed his arrival, and great were the hopes of emolument and wealth from the new found shores.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000025_000002|For himself, he was earnest to return, plant a colony, and bring the heathen tribes within the pale of the Church.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000025_000003|But the time was inauspicious.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000026_000000|Henceforth few traces remain of the fortunes of Verrazzano.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000026_000001|Ramusio affirms, that, on another voyage, he was killed and eaten by savages, in sight of his followers; and a late writer hazards the conjecture that this voyage, if made at all, was made in the service of Henry the Eighth of England.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000026_000002|But a Spanish writer affirms that, in fifteen twenty seven, he was hanged at Puerto del Pico as a pirate, and this assertion is fully confirmed by authentic documents recently brought to light.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000027_000000|The fickle minded King, always ardent at the outset of an enterprise and always flagging before its close, divided, moreover, between the smiles of his mistresses and the assaults of his enemies, might probably have dismissed the New World from his thoughts.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000028_000001|Among the earliest and most eminent on its list stands the name of Jacques Cartier.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000028_000003|In him Chabot found a fit agent of his design, if, indeed, its suggestion is not due to the Breton navigator.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000029_000001|But autumnal storms were gathering.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000029_000002|The voyagers took counsel together, turned their prows eastward, and bore away for France, carrying thither, as a sample of the natural products of the New World, two young Indians, lured into their clutches by an act of villanous treachery.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000029_000003|The voyage was a mere reconnoissance.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000030_000000|The spirit of discovery was awakened.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000030_000001|A passage to India could be found, and a new France built up beyond the Atlantic.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000030_000002|Mingled with such views of interest and ambition was another motive scarcely less potent.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000030_000003|The heresy of Luther was convulsing Germany, and the deeper heresy of Calvin infecting France.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000030_000004|Devout Catholics, kindling with redoubled zeal, would fain requite the Church for her losses in the Old World by winning to her fold the infidels of the New.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000031_000000|In October, fifteen thirty four, Cartier received from Chabot another commission, and, in spite of secret but bitter opposition from jealous traders of saint Malo, he prepared for a second voyage.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000031_000002|On the sixteenth of May, fifteen thirty five, officers and sailors assembled in the cathedral of saint Malo, where, after confession and mass, they received the parting blessing of the bishop.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000031_000003|Three days later they set sail.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000031_000005|The scattered ships escaped the danger, and, reuniting at the Straits of Belle Isle, steered westward along the coast of Labrador, till they reached a small bay opposite the island of Anticosti.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000031_000006|Cartier called it the Bay of saint Lawrence,--a name afterwards extended to the entire gulf, and to the great river above.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000032_000000|To ascend this great river, and tempt the hazards of its intricate navigation with no better pilots than the two young Indians kidnapped the year before, was a venture of no light risk.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000032_000001|But skill or fortune prevailed; and, on the first of September, the voyagers reached in safety the gorge of the gloomy Saguenay, with its towering cliffs and sullen depth of waters.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000034_000001|A mighty promontory, rugged and bare, thrust its scarped front into the surging current.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000034_000002|Here, clothed in the majesty of solitude, breathing the stern poetry of the wilderness, rose the cliffs now rich with heroic memories, where the fiery Count Frontenac cast defiance at his foes, where Wolfe, Montcalm, and Montgomery fell.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000034_000003|As yet, all was a nameless barbarism, and a cluster of wigwams held the site of the rock built city of Quebec.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000034_000004|Its name was Stadacone, and it owned the sway of the royal Donnacona.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000035_000003|The gift of a few strings of beads completed their delight and redoubled their agility; and, from the distance of a mile, their shrill songs of jubilation still reached the ears of the receding Frenchmen.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000036_000000|The hamlet of Stadacone, with its king, Donnacona, and its naked lords and princes, was not the metropolis of this forest state, since a town far greater-so the Indians averred-stood by the brink of the river, many days' journey above.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000036_000002|The Breton captain turned a deaf ear to their dissuasions; on which, failing to touch his reason, they appealed to his fears.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000037_000002|Aid, however, was at hand; for Donnacona and his tribesmen, rushing pell mell from the adjacent woods, raised the swooning masqueraders, and, with shrill clamors, bore them in their arms within the sheltering thickets.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000037_000003|Here, for a full half hour, the French could hear them haranguing in solemn conclave.
train-other-500/2624/173598/2624_173598_000037_000005|They replied, that the god Coudonagny had sent to warn the French against all attempts to ascend the great river, since, should they persist, snows, tempests, and drifting ice would requite their rashness with inevitable ruin.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000000_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000002_000000|The stage is dependent upon three lines of tradition: first, that of Greece and Rome that came down through the French.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000002_000001|Second, the English style, ripened from the miracle play and the Shakespearian stage.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000002_000002|And third, the Ibsen precedent from Norway, now so firmly established it is classic.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000002_000003|These methods are obscured by the commercialized dramas, but they are behind them all.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000002_000004|Let us discuss for illustration the Ibsen tradition.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000003_000000|Ibsen is generally the vitriolic foe of pageant.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000003_000001|He must be read aloud. He stands for the spoken word, for the iron power of life that may be concentrated in a phrase like the "All or nothing" of Brand.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000003_000002|Though Peer Gynt has its spectacular side, Ibsen generally comes in through the ear alone.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000003_000003|He can be acted in essentials from end to end with one table and four chairs in any parlor.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000003_000005|At the close of every act of the dramas of this Norwegian one might inscribe on the curtain "This the magnificent moving picture cannot achieve." Likewise after every successful film described in this book could be inscribed "This the trenchant Ibsen cannot do."
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000000|But a photoplay of Ghosts came to our town.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000001|The humor of the prospect was the sort too deep for tears.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000003|Together we went to the services.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000004|Since then the film has been furiously denounced by the literati.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000005|Floyd Dell's discriminating assault upon it is quoted in Current Opinion, October, nineteen fifteen, and Margaret Anderson prints a denunciation of it in a recent number of The Little Review.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000007|It is not Ibsen.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000004_000008|It should be advertised "The Iniquities of the Fathers, an American drama of Eugenics, in a Palatial Setting."
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000005_000000|Henry Walthall as Alving, afterward as his son, shows the men much as Ibsen outlines their characters.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000005_000001|Of course the only way to be Ibsen is to be so precisely.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000005_000002|In the new plot all is open as the day.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000005_000003|The world is welcome, and generally present when the man or his son go forth to see the elephant and hear the owl.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000005_000004|Provincial hypocrisy is not implied.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000005_000005|But Ibsen can scarcely exist without an atmosphere of secrecy for his human volcanoes to burst through in the end.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000006_000000|Mary Alden as mrs Alving shows in her intelligent and sensitive countenance that she has a conception of that character.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000006_000001|She does not always have the chance to act the woman written in her face, the tart, thinking, handsome creature that Ibsen prefers.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000006_000002|Nigel Debrullier looks the buttoned up Pastor Manders, even to caricature.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000006_000003|But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000006_000004|And his wife and daughter are helpless, conventional, upper-class rabbits.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000006_000005|They do not remind one of the saucy originals.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000000|The original Ibsen drama is the result of mixing up five particular characters through three acts.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000001|There is not a situation but would go to pieces if one personality were altered.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000002|Here are two, sadly tampered with: Engstrand and his daughter.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000003|Here is the mother, who is only referred to in Ibsen.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000004|Here is the elder Alving, who disappears before the original play starts.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000005|So the twenty great Ibsen situations in the stage production are gone.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000006|One new crisis has an Ibsen irony and psychic tension.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000007|The boy is taken with the dreaded intermittent pains in the back of his head.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000008|He is painting the order that is to make him famous: the King's portrait.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000009|While the room empties of people he writhes on the floor.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000010|If this were all, it would have been one more moving picture failure to put through a tragic scene.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000011|But the thing is reiterated in tableau symbol.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000012|He is looking sideways in terror.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000013|A hairy arm with clutching demon claws comes thrusting in toward the back of his neck.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000014|He writhes in deadly fear.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000007_000015|The audience is appalled for him.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000008_000000|This visible clutch of heredity is the nearest equivalent that is offered for the whispered refrain: "Ghosts," in the original masterpiece.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000008_000001|This hand should also be reiterated as a refrain, three times at least, before this tableau, each time more dreadful and threatening.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000008_000002|It appears but the once, and has no chance to become a part of the accepted hieroglyphics of the piece, as it should be, to realize its full power.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000009_000000|The father's previous sins have been acted out.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000009_000001|The boy's consequent struggle with the malady has been traced step by step, so the play should end here.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000009_000002|It would then be a rough equivalent of the Ibsen irony in a contrary medium.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000009_000003|Instead of that, it wanders on through paraphrases of scraps of the play, sometimes literal, then quite alien, on to the alleged motion picture punch, when the Doctor is the god from the machine.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000009_000004|There is no doctor on the stage in the original Ghosts.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000009_000005|But there is a physician in the Doll's House, a scientific, quietly moving oracle, crisp, Spartan, sophisticated.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000000|Is this photoplay physician such a one?
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000001|The boy and his half sister are in their wedding clothes in the big church.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000002|Pastor Manders is saying the ceremony.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000003|The audience and building are indeed showy.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000005|He has tact.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000006|He simply breaks up the marriage right there.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000007|He does not tell the guests why.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000008|But he takes the wedding party into the pastor's study and there blazes at the bride and groom the long suppressed truth that they are brother and sister.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000010_000009|Always an orotund man, he has the Chautauqua manner indeed in this exigency.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000011_000000|He brings to one's mind the tearful book, much loved in childhood, Parted at the Altar, or Why Was it Thus?
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000011_000001|And four able actors have the task of telling the audience by facial expression only, that they have been struck by moral lightning.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000011_000002|They stand in a row, facing the people, endeavoring to make the crisis of an alleged Ibsen play out of a crashing melodrama.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000012_000000|The final death of young Alving is depicted with an approximation of Ibsen's mood.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000012_000001|But the only ways to suggest such feelings in silence, do not convey them in full to the audience, but merely narrate them. Wherever in Ghosts we have quiet voices that are like the slow drip of hydrochloric acid, in the photoplay we have no quiet gestures that will do trenchant work.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000013_000000|Up past the point of the clutching hand this film is the prime example for study for the person who would know once for all the differences between the photoplays and the stage dramas.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000013_000001|Along with it might be classed mrs Fiske's decorative moving picture Tess, in which there is every determination to convey the original mrs Fiske illusion without her voice and breathing presence.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000013_000002|To people who know her well it is a surprisingly good tintype of our beloved friend, for the family album. The relentless Thomas Hardy is nowhere to be found.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000013_000003|There are two moments of dramatic life set among many of delicious pictorial quality: when Tess baptizes her child, and when she smooths its little grave with a wavering hand.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000013_000004|But in the stage version the dramatic poignancy begins with the going up of the curtain, and lasts till it descends.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000014_000000|The prime example of complete failure is Sarah Bernhardt's Camille.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000014_000001|It is indeed a tintype of the consumptive heroine, with every group entire, and taken at full length.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000014_000002|Much space is occupied by the floor and the overhead portions of the stage setting.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000014_000003|It lasts as long as would the spoken performance, and wherever there is a dialogue we must imagine said conversation if we can.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000014_000004|It might be compared to watching Camille from the top gallery through smoked glass, with one's ears stopped with cotton.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000015_000000|It would be well for the beginning student to find some way to see the first two of these three, or some other attempts to revamp the classic, for instance mrs Fiske's painstaking reproduction of Vanity Fair, bearing in mind the list of differences which this chapter now furnishes.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000016_000000|There is no denying that many stage managers who have taken up photoplays are struggling with the Shakespearian French and Norwegian traditions in the new medium.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000016_000002|But in order to be real photoplays the stage dramas must be overhauled indeed, turned inside out and upside down.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000016_000003|The successful motion picture expresses itself through mechanical devices that are being evolved every hour.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000016_000004|Upon those many new bits of machinery are founded novel methods of combination in another field of logic, not dramatic logic, but tableau logic.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000016_000005|But the old line managers, taking up photoplays, begin by making curious miniatures of stage presentations. They try to have most things as before.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000016_000006|Later they take on the moving picture technique in a superficial way, but they, and the host of talented actors in the prime of life and Broadway success, retain the dramatic state of mind.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000000|It is a principle of criticism, the world over, that the distinctions between the arts must be clearly marked, even by those who afterwards mix those arts.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000001|Take, for instance, the perpetual quarrel between the artists and the half educated about literary painting.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000002|Whistler fought that battle in England.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000003|He tried to beat it into the head of john Bull that a painting is one thing, a mere illustration for a story another thing.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000004|But the novice is always stubborn.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000005|To him Hindu and Arabic are both foreign languages, therefore just alike.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000006|The book illustration may be said to come in through the ear, by reading the title aloud in imagination.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000007|And the other is effective with no title at all.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000008|The scenario writer who will study to the bottom of the matter in Whistler's Gentle Art of Making Enemies will be equipped to welcome the distinction between the old-fashioned stage, where the word rules, and the photoplay, where splendor and ritual are all.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000017_000009|It is not the same distinction, but a kindred one.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000018_000000|But let us consider the details of the matter.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000018_000001|The stage has its exits and entrances at the side and back.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000018_000002|The standard photoplays have their exits and entrances across the imaginary footlight line, even in the most stirring mob and battle scenes.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000000|Consider the devices whereby the stage actor holds the audience as he goes out at the side and back.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000001|He sighs, gestures, howls, and strides. With what studious preparation he ripens his quietness, if he goes out that way.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000002|In the new contraption, the moving picture, the hero or villain in exit strides past the nose of the camera, growing much bigger than a human being, marching toward us as though he would step on our heads, disappearing when largest.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000003|There is an explosive power about the mildest motion picture exit, be the actor skilful or the reverse.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000004|The people left in the scene are pygmies compared with each disappearing cyclops. Likewise, when the actor enters again, his mechanical importance is overwhelming.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000005|Therefore, for his first entrance the motion picture star does not require the preparations that are made on the stage.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000019_000006|The support does not need to warm the spectators to the problem, then talk them into surrender.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000020_000000|When the veteran stage producer as a beginning photoplay producer tries to give us a dialogue in the motion pictures, he makes it so dull no one follows.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000020_000002|By alternating scenes rapidly, flash after flash: cottage, field, mountain top, field, mountain top, cottage, we have a conversation between three places rather than three persons.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000020_000003|By alternating the picture of a man and the check he is forging, we have his soliloquy.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000020_000006|The boy plucks a rose: the girl accepts it.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000020_000007|Moving objects, not moving lips, make the words of the photoplay.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000021_000000|The old-fashioned stage producer, feeling he is getting nowhere, but still helpless, puts the climax of some puzzling lip debate, often the climax of the whole film, as a sentence on the screen.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000021_000001|Sentences should be used to show changes of time and place and a few such elementary matters before the episode is fully started.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000021_000002|The climax of a motion picture scene cannot be one word or fifty words.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000021_000004|Such remnants of pantomimic dialogue as remain in the main chase of the photoplay film are but guide posts in the race toward the goal.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000021_000005|They should not be elaborate toll gates of plot, to be laboriously lifted and lowered while the horses stop, mid career.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000022_000000|The Venus of Milo, that comes directly to the soul through the silence, requires no quotation from Keats to explain her, though Keats is the equivalent in verse.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000022_000001|Her setting in the great French Museum is enough.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000022_000002|We do not know that her name is Venus.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000022_000003|She is thought by many to be another statue of Victory.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000022_000004|We may some day evolve scenarios that will require nothing more than a title thrown upon the screen at the beginning, they come to the eye so perfectly.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000022_000005|This is not the only possible sort, but the self imposed limitation in certain films might give them a charm akin to that of the Songs without Words.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000000|The stage audience is a unit of three hundred or a thousand.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000001|In the beginning of the first act there is much moving about and extra talk on the part of the actors, to hold the crowd while it is settling down, and enable the late comer to be in his seat before the vital part of the story starts.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000002|If he appears later, he is glared at.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000003|In the motion picture art gallery, on the other hand, the audience is around two hundred, and these are not a unit, and the only crime is to obstruct the line of vision.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000004|The high-school girls can do a moderate amount of giggling without breaking the spell.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000005|There is no spell, in the stage sense, to break.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000006|People can climb over each other's knees to get in or out.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000023_000008|If the film suggests what some of the neighbors have been doing, they can regale each other with the richest sewing society report.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000000|The people in the motion picture audience total about two hundred, any time, but they come in groups of two or three at no specified hour.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000001|The newcomers do not, as in Vaudeville, make themselves part of a jocular army.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000002|Strictly as individuals they judge the panorama.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000003|If they disapprove, there is grumbling under their breath, but no hissing.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000005|Yet they often see the film through twice.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000006|When they have had enough, they stroll home.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000007|They manifest their favorable verdict by sending some other member of the family to "see the picture." If the people so delegated are likewise satisfied, they may ask the man at the door if he is going to bring it back.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000024_000008|That is the moving picture kind of cheering.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000025_000000|It was a theatrical sin when the old-fashioned stage actor was rendered unimportant by his scenery.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000025_000001|But the motion picture actor is but the mood of the mob or the landscape or the department store behind him, reduced to a single hieroglyphic.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000026_000000|The stage interior is large.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000026_000001|The motion picture interior is small.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000026_000002|The stage out of door scene is at best artificial and little and is generally at rest, or its movement is tainted with artificiality.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000026_000003|The waves dash, but not dashingly, the water flows, but not flowingly.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000026_000004|The motion picture out of door scene is as big as the universe.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000026_000005|And only pictures of the Sahara are without magnificent motion.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000000|The photoplay is as far from the stage on the one hand as it is from the novel on the other.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000001|Its nearest analogy in literature is, perhaps, the short story, or the lyric poem.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000003|The stage in its greatest power deals with pity for some one especially unfortunate, with whom we grow well acquainted; with some private revenge against some particular despoiler; traces the beginning and culmination of joy based on the gratification of some preference, or love for some person, whose charm is all his own.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000004|The drama is concerned with the slow, inevitable approaches to these intensities.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000005|On the other hand, the motion picture, though often appearing to deal with these things, as a matter of fact uses substitutes, many of which have been listed.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000006|But to review: its first substitute is the excitement of speed mania stretched on the framework of an obvious plot.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000007|Or it deals with delicate informal anecdote as the short story does, or fairy legerdemain, or patriotic banners, or great surging mobs of the proletariat, or big scenic outlooks, or miraculous beings made visible.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000008|And the further it gets from Euripides, Ibsen, Shakespeare, or Moliere-the more it becomes like a mural painting from which flashes of lightning come-the more it realizes its genius. Men like Gordon Craig and Granville Barker are almost wasting their genius on the theatre.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000027_000009|The Splendor Photoplays are the great outlet for their type of imagination.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000028_000000|The typical stage performance is from two hours and a half upward.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000028_000001|The movie show generally lasts five reels, that is, an hour and forty minutes.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000028_000002|And it should last but three reels, that is, an hour.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000028_000003|Edgar Poe said there was no such thing as a long poem.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000028_000004|There is certainly no such thing as a long moving picture masterpiece.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000029_000000|The stage production depends most largely upon the power of the actors, the movie show upon the genius of the producer.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000029_000001|The performers and the dumb objects are on equal terms in his paint buckets.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000029_000002|The star system is bad for the stage because the minor parts are smothered and the situations distorted to give the favorite an orbit.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000029_000003|It is bad for the motion pictures because it obscures the producer.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000029_000004|While the leading actor is entitled to his glory, as are all the actors, their mannerisms should not overshadow the latest inspirations of the creator of the films.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000030_000001|An artistic photoplay is not the result of a military efficiency system.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000030_000002|It is not a factory made staple article, but the product of the creative force of one soul, the flowering of a spirit that has the habit of perpetually renewing itself.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000031_000000|Once I saw Mary Fuller in a classic.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000031_000001|It was the life and death of Mary Queen of Scots.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000031_000002|Not only was the tense, fidgety, over American Mary Fuller transformed into a being who was a poppy and a tiger lily and a snow queen and a rose, but she and her company, including Marc Macdermott, radiated the old Scotch patriotism.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000031_000003|They made the picture a memorial.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000031_000004|It reminded one of Maurice Hewlett's novel The Queen's Quair. Evidently all the actors were fused by some noble managerial mood.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000001|But though I did go again and again, never did I see them act with the same deliberation and distinction, and I laid the difference to a change in the state of mind of the producer.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000002|Even baseball players must have managers.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000003|A team cannot pick itself, or it surely would.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000004|And this rule may apply to the stage.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000005|But by comparison to motion picture performers, stage actors are their own managers, for they have an approximate notion of how they look in the eye of the audience, which is but the human eye.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000006|They can hear and gauge their own voices. They have the same ears as their listeners.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000008|The actors have not the least notion of their appearance.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000009|Also the words in the motion picture are not things whose force the actor can gauge.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000032_000010|The book under the table is one word, the dog behind the chair is another, the window curtain flying in the breeze is another.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000033_000001|They are both paint and models.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000033_000002|They are models in the sense that the young Ellen Terry was the inspiration for Watts' Sir Galahad.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000033_000004|His father entered into Wilkins Micawber.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000033_000005|But these people are not perpetually thrust upon us as mr and mrs Dickens.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000033_000006|We are glad to find them in the Dickens biographies.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000033_000007|When the stories begin, it is Micawber and mrs Nickleby we want, and the Charles Dickens atmosphere.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000034_000000|The photoplays of the future will be written from the foundations for the films.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000034_000001|The soundest actors, photographers, and producers will be those who emphasize the points wherein the photoplay is unique.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000034_000002|What is adapted to complete expression in one art generally secures but half expression in another.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000034_000003|The supreme photoplay will give us things that have been but half expressed in all other mediums allied to it.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000035_000000|Once this principle is grasped there is every reason why the same people who have interested themselves in the advanced experimental drama should take hold of the super photoplay.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000035_000001|The good citizens who can most easily grasp the distinction should be there to perpetuate the higher welfare of these institutions side by side.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000035_000002|This parallel development should come, if for no other reason, because the two arts are still roughly classed together by the public.
train-other-500/2624/88360/2624_88360_000035_000003|The elect cannot teach the public what the drama is till they show them precisely what the photoplay is and is not.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000002_000000|The Penguin critics vie with one another in affirming that Penguin art has from its origin been distinguished by a powerful and pleasing originality, and that we may look elsewhere in vain for the qualities of grace and reason that characterise its earliest works.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000002_000001|But the Porpoises claim that their artists were undoubtedly the instructors and masters of the Penguins.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000002_000002|It is difficult to form an opinion on the matter, because the Penguins, before they began to admire their primitive painters, destroyed all their works.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000003_000000|We cannot be too sorry for this loss.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000003_000003|Even if this is denied it must at least be admitted that to France belongs the credit of having kept primitives when the other nations knew them no longer.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000003_000004|The Exhibition of French Primitives at the Pavilion Marsan in nineteen o four contained several little panels contemporary with the later Valois kings and with Henry the fourth.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000004_000000|I have made many journeys to see the pictures of the brothers Van Eyck, of Memling, of Roger van der Weyden, of the painter of the death of Mary, of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and of the old Umbrian masters.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000004_000002|That was ten years ago or even longer.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000004_000003|At that period of indigence and simplicity, the municipal museums, though usually kept shut, were always opened to foreigners.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000004_000005|Francis," the pious sadness of which moved me to tears.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000005_000000|I picture to myself the Penguin primitives in conformity with the works of that master.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000005_000001|It will not therefore be thought superfluous if in this place I consider his works with some attention, if not in detail, at least under their more general and, if I dare say so, most representative aspect.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000000|We possess five or six pictures signed with his hand.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000001|His masterpiece, preserved in the National Gallery of London, represents the Virgin seated on a throne and holding the infant Jesus in her arms.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000002|What strikes one first when one looks at this figure is the proportion.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000003|The body from the neck to the feet is only twice as long as the head, so that it appears extremely short and podgy.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000004|This work is not less remarkable for its painting than for its drawing.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000006|From this it follows that his colouring has more vivacity than harmony.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000006_000007|The cheeks of the Virgin and those of the Child are of a bright vermilion which the old master, from a naive preference for clear definitions, has placed on each face in two circumferences as exact as if they had been traced out by a pair of compasses.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000007_000000|A learned critic of the eighteenth century, the Abbe Lanzi, has treated Margaritone's works with profound disdain.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000007_000001|"They are," he says, "merely crude daubs.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000008_000000|That eminent theorist of Pre Raphaelitism, Sir james Tuckett, does not shrink from placing the Madonna of the National Gallery on a level with the masterpieces of Christian art.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000008_000001|"By giving to the Virgin's head," says Sir james Tuckett, "a third of the total height of the figure, the old master attracts the spectator's attention and keeps it directed towards the more sublime parts of the human figure, and in particular the eyes, which we ordinarily describe as the spiritual organs.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000008_000002|In this picture, colouring and design conspire to produce an ideal and mystical impression.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000008_000003|The vermilion of the cheeks does not recall the natural appearance of the skin; it rather seems as if the old master has applied the roses of Paradise to the faces of the Mother and the Child."
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000009_000000|We see, in such a criticism as this, a shining reflection, so to speak, of the work which it exalts; yet MacSilly, the seraphic aesthete of Edinburgh, has expressed in a still more moving and penetrating fashion the impression produced upon his mind by the sight of this primitive painting.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000009_000002|It inspires its beholders with feelings of innocence and purity; it makes them like little children. And so true is this, that at the age of sixty six, after having had the joy of contemplating it closely for three hours, I felt myself suddenly transformed into a little child.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000009_000003|While my cab was taking me through Trafalgar Square I kept laughing and prattling and shaking my spectacle case as if it were a rattle.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000009_000004|And when the maid in my boarding house had served my meal I kept pouring spoonfuls of soup into my ear with all the artlessness of childhood."
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000010_000000|"It is by such results," adds MacSilly, "that the excellence of a work of art is proved."
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000011_000000|Margaritone, according to Vasari, died at the age of seventy seven, "regretting that he had lived to see a new form of art arising and the new artists crowned with fame."
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000012_000000|These lines, which I translate literally, have inspired Sir james Tuckett with what are perhaps the finest pages in his work.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000012_000001|They form part of his "Breviary for Aesthetes"; all the Pre Raphaelites know them by heart.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000013_000000|MARGARITONE'S VISION
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000014_000001|He noticed in the studio a freshly painted Madonna, which, although severe and rigid, nevertheless, by a certain exactness in the proportions and a devilish mingling of light and shade, assumed an appearance of relief and life. At this sight the artless and sublime worker of Arezzo perceived with horror what the future of painting would be.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000014_000002|With his brow clasped in his hands he exclaimed:
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000015_000000|"What things of shame does not this figure show forth!
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000015_000010|They will stop nowhere.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000015_000011|They will go so far as to show men and women naked like the idols of the romans.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000016_000000|"Get ye behind me, demons," exclaimed the old master.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000016_000001|For in prophetic vision he saw the righteous and the saints assuming the appearance of melancholy athletes.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000016_000002|He saw Apollos playing the lute on a flowery hill, in the midst of the Muses wearing light tunics.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000016_000005|He saw in an inextricable confusion of human limbs, outspread wings, and flying draperies, crowds of tumultuous Nativities, opulent Holy Families, emphatic Crucifixions.
train-other-500/263/121285/263_121285_000016_000007|He saw Auroras scattering roses, and a multitude of naked Dianas and Nymphs surprised on the banks of retired streams.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000002_000000|In Madame Clarence's drawing room the conversation turned upon love, and many charming things were said about it.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000003_000000|"Love is a sacrifice," sighed Madame Cremeur.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000005_000000|But Professor Haddock soon displayed his fastidious insolence.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000006_000001|But there is nothing to be particularly proud of in that, for it is a state they share in common with cows and pigs, and even with orange and lemon trees, for the seeds of these plants germinate in the pericarp."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000007_000001|"It dates from the day when the holy apostle gave them clothes.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000007_000002|But this self importance was long kept in restraint, and displayed itself fully only with increased luxury of dress and in a small section of society.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000007_000003|For go only two leagues from Alca into the country at harvest time, and you will see whether women are over precise or self important."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000008_000001|He was a Deputy of Alca, and one of the youngest members of the House.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000010_000000|"And there are fresh improvements made in it every day, Madame."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000013_000000|"On account of the motors, of course."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000014_000000|"Do not give them a bad name," answered the Deputy.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000014_000001|"They are our great national industry."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000000|"I know.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000001|The Penguins of to day make me think of the ancient Egyptians. According to Clement of Alexandria, Taine tells us-though he misquotes the text-the Egyptians worshipped the crocodiles that devoured them. The Penguins to day worship the motors that crush them.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000002|Without a doubt the future belongs to the metal beast.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000003|We are no more likely to go back to cabs than we are to go back to the diligence.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000004|And the long martyrdom of the horse will come to an end.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000006|But in order that the motor may cease to be injurious and become beneficent we must build roads suited to its speed, roads which it cannot tear up with its ferocious tyres, and from which it will send no clouds of poisonous dust into human lungs.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000007|We ought not to allow slower vehicles or mere animals to go upon those roads, and we should establish garages upon them and foot bridges over them, and so create order and harmony among the means of communication of the future.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000015_000008|That is the wish of every good citizen."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000017_000000|"We build to day in an admirable style," said he; "everywhere majestic avenues are being reared.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000001|"I am amazed at the degree of ugliness which a modern city can attain.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000002|Alca is becoming Americanised.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000005|Everywhere we are suppressing some fragment of light and air, some fragment of nature, some fragment of the associations that still remain with us, some fragment of our fathers, some fragment of ourselves.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000006|And we are putting up frightful, enormous, infamous houses, surmounted in Viennese style by ridiculous domes, or fashioned after the models of the 'new art' without mouldings, or having profiles with sinister corbels and burlesque pinnacles, and such monsters as these shamelessly peer over the surrounding buildings.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000008|I have seen the 'new art' in other countries, but it is not so ugly as with us; it has fancy and it has simplicity.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000009|It is only in our own country that by a sad privilege we may behold the newest and most diverse styles of architectural ugliness.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000018_000010|Not an enviable privilege!"
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000023_000002|It is indeed deplorable.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000023_000004|If the evil exists, as he says it does, in our middle class society, I can assure him that everywhere else he would see a consoling spectacle.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000024_000000|"It is depravity!" said Madame Cremeur.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000025_000000|And she praised the innocence of young girls in terms full of modesty and grace.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000025_000001|It was charming to hear her.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000026_000000|Professor Haddock's views on the same subject were, on the contrary, painful to listen to.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000027_000000|"Respectable young girls," said he, "are guarded and watched over. Besides, men do not, as a rule, pursue them much, either through probity, or from a fear of grave responsibilities, or because the seduction of a young girl would not be to their credit.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000027_000001|Even then we do not know what really takes place, for the reason that what is hidden is not seen.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000027_000002|This is a condition necessary to the existence of all society. The scruples of respectable young girls could be more easily overcome than those of married women if the same pressure were brought to bear on them, and for this there are two reasons: they have more illusions, and their curiosity has not been satisfied.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000027_000003|Women, for the most part, have been so disappointed by their husbands that they have not courage enough to begin again with somebody else.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000027_000004|I myself have been met by this obstacle several times in my attempts at seduction."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000028_000000|At the moment when Professor Haddock ended his unpleasant remarks, Mademoiselle Eveline Clarence entered the drawing room and listlessly handed about tea with that expression of boredom which gave an oriental charm to her beauty.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000031_000001|Madame Clarence, who now liked attention, thought him agreeable.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000031_000003|This busy man taxed his ingenuity to please them, and he sometimes succeeded.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000031_000004|He got them cards for fashionable functions and boxes at the Opera.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000031_000005|He furnished Mademoiselle Clarence with several opportunities of appearing to great advantage and in particular at a garden party which, although given by a Minister, was regarded as really fashionable, and gained its first success in society circles for the Republic.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000032_000000|At that party Eveline had been much noticed and had attracted the special attention of a young diplomat called Roger Lambilly who, imagining that she belonged to a rather fast set, invited her to his bachelor's flat.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000032_000001|She thought him handsome and believed him rich, and she accepted.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000032_000003|This was the most foolish escapade in her unmarried life.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000033_000000|Being now on friendly terms with Ministers and with the President, Eveline continued to wear her aristocratic and pious affectations, and these won for her the sympathy of the chief personages in the anti clerical and democratic Republic.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000033_000002|He even went so far as to fall madly in love with her.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000034_000000|Henceforth, in spite of everything, she began to observe him with interest, being curious to see if his passion would increase.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000034_000001|He appeared to her without elegance or grace, and not well bred, but active, clear sighted, full of resource, and not too great a bore.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000034_000002|She still made fun of him, but he had now won her interest.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000000|One day she wished to test him.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000001|It was during the elections, when members of Parliament were, as the phrase runs, requesting a renewal of their mandates.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000002|He had an opponent, who, though not dangerous at first and not much of an orator, was rich and was reported to be gaining votes every day.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000004|His chief method of action was by public meetings at which he spoke vehemently against the rival candidate.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000005|His committee held huge meetings on Saturday evenings and at three o'clock on Sunday afternoons.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000006|One Sunday, as he called on the Clarences, he found Eveline alone in the drawing room.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000035_000007|He had been chatting for about twenty or twenty five minutes, when, taking out his watch, he saw that it was a quarter to three.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000037_000000|She was full of interest, of abandon, curiosity, and weakness.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000037_000001|He blushed, turned pale, and again got up.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000038_000000|Then, in order to keep him still longer, she looked at him out of two grey and melting eyes, and though her bosom was heaving, she did not say another word.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000039_000001|I must be off."
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000040_000000|And immediately he rushed down the stairs.
train-other-500/263/121311/263_121311_000041_000000|From that time onwards she had a certain amount of esteem for him.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000001_000000|The solution came in a flash and he had a quick, glad memory of Isabelle.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000002_000000|He found a blank space on his programme, and began to scribble rapidly:
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000003_000000|"Here in the figured dark I watch once more, There, with the curtain, roll the years away; Two years of years-there was an idle day Of ours, when happy endings didn't bore Our unfermented souls; I could adore Your eager face beside me, wide eyed, gay, Smiling a repertoire while the poor play Reached me as a faint ripple reaches shore.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000006_000000|STILL CALM
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000007_000001|I can always outguess a ghost."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000008_000000|"How?" asked Tom.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000009_000000|"Well, it depends where.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000009_000001|Take a bedroom, for example.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000010_000000|"Go on, s'pose you think there's maybe a ghost in your bedroom-what measures do you take on getting home at night?" demanded Amory, interested.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000011_000000|"Take a stick" answered Alec, with ponderous reverence, "one about the length of a broom handle.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000011_000002|Then, if nothing happens, you can look in.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000013_000000|"Yes-but they usually pray first.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000014_000000|"And the bed," Amory suggested.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000016_000000|"Well" Amory began.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000017_000000|Alec waved him into silence.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000018_000002|If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000019_000000|"All that's very interesting, Tom."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000020_000000|"Isn't it?" Alec beamed proudly.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000021_000000|Amory was enjoying college immensely again.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000021_000002|He had even stored enough surplus energy to sally into a new pose.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000022_000000|"What's the idea of all this 'distracted' stuff, Amory?" asked Alec one day, and then as Amory pretended to be cramped over his book in a daze: "Oh, don't try to act Burne, the mystic, to me."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000023_000000|Amory looked up innocently.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000024_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000025_000000|"What?" mimicked Alec.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000025_000001|"Are you trying to read yourself into a rhapsody with-let's see the book."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000026_000000|He snatched it; regarded it derisively.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000027_000000|"Well?" said Amory a little stiffly.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000028_000000|"'The Life of saint Teresa,'" read Alec aloud.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000028_000001|"Oh, my gosh!"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000029_000000|"Say, Alec."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000030_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000031_000000|"Does it bother you?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000033_000000|"My acting dazed and all that?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000035_000000|"Well, then, don't spoil it.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000035_000001|If I enjoy going around telling people guilelessly that I think I'm a genius, let me do it."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000036_000000|"You're getting a reputation for being eccentric," said Alec, laughing, "if that's what you mean."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000037_000000|Amory finally prevailed, and Alec agreed to accept his face value in the presence of others if he was allowed rest periods when they were alone; so Amory "ran it out" at a great rate, bringing the most eccentric characters to dinner, wild eyed grad students, preceptors with strange theories of God and government, to the cynical amazement of the supercilious Cottage Club.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000039_000000|Then one day came a letter from Monsignor, which appended an interesting p s:
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000040_000000|"Do you know," it ran, "that your third cousin, Clara Page, widowed six months and very poor, is living in Philadelphia? I don't think you've ever met her, but I wish, as a favor to me, you'd go to see her.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000041_000000|Amory sighed and decided to go, as a favor....
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000043_000000|CLARA
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000044_000000|She was immemorial....
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000044_000001|Amory wasn't good enough for Clara, Clara of ripply golden hair, but then no man was.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000044_000002|Her goodness was above the prosy morals of the husband seeker, apart from the dull literature of female virtue.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000045_000000|Sorrow lay lightly around her, and when Amory found her in Philadelphia he thought her steely blue eyes held only happiness; a latent strength, a realism, was brought to its fullest development by the facts that she was compelled to face.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000045_000001|She was alone in the world, with two small children, little money, and, worst of all, a host of friends.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000045_000002|He saw her that winter in Philadelphia entertaining a houseful of men for an evening, when he knew she had not a servant in the house except the little colored girl guarding the babies overhead.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000045_000004|She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing room.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000046_000001|He arrived in Philadelphia expecting to be told that nine twenty one Ark Street was in a miserable lane of hovels.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000046_000004|An elderly aunt, who objected to having it sold, had put ten years' taxes with a lawyer and pranced off to Honolulu, leaving Clara to struggle with the heating problem as best she could.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000046_000006|Instead, Amory would have thought from his reception that she had not a care in the world.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000047_000003|He considered his own uniqueness sufficient, and it rather embarrassed him when she tried to read new interests into him for the benefit of what other adorers were present.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000048_000000|But Clara talking, Clara telling a slender tale of a hatpin and an inebriated man and herself....
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000048_000001|People tried afterward to repeat her anecdotes but for the life of them they could make them sound like nothing whatever.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000049_000000|Very occasionally Amory stayed for little half hours after the rest of the court had gone, and they would have bread and jam and tea late in the afternoon or "maple sugar lunches," as she called them, at night.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000051_000000|"Not a bit," she answered.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000051_000001|She was searching out napkins in the sideboard.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000051_000002|"I'm really most humdrum and commonplace.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000051_000003|One of those people who have no interest in anything but their children."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000052_000000|"Tell that to somebody else," scoffed Amory.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000052_000001|"You know you're perfectly effulgent." He asked her the one thing that he knew might embarrass her. It was the remark that the first bore made to Adam.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000053_000000|"Tell me about yourself." And she gave the answer that Adam must have given.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000054_000000|"There's nothing to tell."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000055_000001|She had had a harried life from sixteen on, and her education had stopped sharply with her leisure.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000055_000002|Browsing in her library, Amory found a tattered gray book out of which fell a yellow sheet that he impudently opened.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000055_000004|As a rule such sentiment bored him, but this was done with so much simplicity and atmosphere, that it brought a picture of Clara to his mind, of Clara on such a cool, gray day with her keen blue eyes staring out, trying to see her tragedies come marching over the gardens outside.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000055_000005|He envied that poem.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000055_000006|How he would have loved to have come along and seen her on the wall and talked nonsense or romance to her, perched above him in the air.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000057_000000|"About half the world do," she admitted, "but I think that's a pretty good average, don't you?" and she turned to find something in Browning that bore on the subject.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000057_000001|She was the only person he ever met who could look up passages and quotations to show him in the middle of the conversation, and yet not be irritating to distraction.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000057_000002|She did it constantly, with such a serious enthusiasm that he grew fond of watching her golden hair bent over a book, brow wrinkled ever so little at hunting her sentence.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000058_000003|She made her goodness such an asset.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000060_000001|CECILIA
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000061_000000|"Over her gray and velvet dress, Under her molten, beaten hair, Color of rose in mock distress Flushes and fades and makes her fair; Fills the air from her to him With light and languor and little sighs, Just so subtly he scarcely knows... Laughing lightning, color of rose."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000062_000000|"Do you like me?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000063_000000|"Of course I do," said Clara seriously.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000064_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000065_000000|"Well, we have some qualities in common.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000065_000001|Things that are spontaneous in each of us-or were originally."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000066_000000|"You're implying that I haven't used myself very well?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000067_000000|Clara hesitated.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000068_000001|A man, of course, has to go through a lot more, and I've been sheltered."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000069_000000|"Oh, don't stall, please, Clara," Amory interrupted; "but do talk about me a little, won't you?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000070_000000|"Surely, I'd adore to." She didn't smile.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000071_000000|"That's sweet of you.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000071_000001|First answer some questions.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000071_000002|Am I painfully conceited?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000072_000000|"Well-no, you have tremendous vanity, but it'll amuse the people who notice its preponderance."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000073_000000|"I see."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000074_000001|You sink to the third hell of depression when you think you've been slighted.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000075_000001|How do you do it?
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000075_000002|You never let me say a word."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000076_000000|"Of course not-I can never judge a man while he's talking.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000077_000000|"But I am, potentially."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000078_000000|"And you say you're a weak character, that you've no will."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000079_000000|"Not a bit of will-I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires-"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000080_000000|"You are not!" She brought one little fist down onto the other. "You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000081_000000|"You certainly interest me.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000081_000001|If this isn't boring you, go on."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000082_000001|You never decide at first while the merits of going or staying are fairly clear in your mind.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000083_000000|"Yes," objected Amory, "but isn't it lack of will power to let my imagination shinny on the wrong side?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000084_000000|"My dear boy, there's your big mistake.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000084_000001|This has nothing to do with will power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgment-the judgment to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000085_000000|"Well, I'll be darned!" exclaimed Amory in surprise, "that's the last thing I expected."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000086_000000|Clara didn't gloat.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000086_000001|She changed the subject immediately.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000086_000003|He felt like a factory owner who after accusing a clerk of dishonesty finds that his own son, in the office, is changing the books once a week.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000086_000004|His poor, mistreated will that he had been holding up to the scorn of himself and his friends, stood before him innocent, and his judgment walked off to prison with the unconfinable imp, imagination, dancing in mocking glee beside him.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000086_000005|Clara's was the only advice he ever asked without dictating the answer himself-except, perhaps, in his talks with Monsignor Darcy.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000087_000000|How he loved to do any sort of thing with Clara!
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000087_000001|Shopping with her was a rare, epicurean dream.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000087_000002|In every store where she had ever traded she was whispered about as the beautiful mrs Page.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000089_000001|She ain't lookin' for no advice."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000091_000000|(Enter a floor walker-silence till he moves forward, smirking.)
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000092_000000|"Society person, ain't she?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000093_000000|"Yeah, but poor now, I guess; so they say."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000095_000000|And Clara beamed on all alike.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000095_000001|Amory believed that tradespeople gave her discounts, sometimes to her knowledge and sometimes without it.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000095_000002|He knew she dressed very well, had always the best of everything in the house, and was inevitably waited upon by the head floor walker at the very least.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000096_000000|Sometimes they would go to church together on Sunday and he would walk beside her and revel in her cheeks moist from the soft water in the new air.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000096_000001|She was very devout, always had been, and God knows what heights she attained and what strength she drew down to herself when she knelt and bent her golden hair into the stained glass light.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000098_000001|He couldn't help it.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000099_000000|They were walking through the March twilight where it was as warm as June, and the joy of youth filled his soul so that he felt he must speak.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000101_000000|She looked at him with such a startled face that he asked her the matter.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000102_000000|"Nothing," she said slowly, "only this: five men have said that to me before, and it frightens me."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000103_000000|"Oh, Clara, is that your fate!"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000104_000000|She did not answer.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000105_000000|"I suppose love to you is-" he began.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000106_000000|She turned like a flash.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000107_000000|"I have never been in love."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000108_000000|They walked along, and he realized slowly how much she had told him... never in love....
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000108_000002|His entity dropped out of her plane and he longed only to touch her dress with almost the realization that Joseph must have had of Mary's eternal significance.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000108_000003|But quite mechanically he heard himself saying:
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000109_000000|"And I love you-any latent greatness that I've got is... oh, I can't talk, but Clara, if I come back in two years in a position to marry you-"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000110_000000|She shook her head.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000111_000000|"No," she said; "I'd never marry again.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000111_000001|I've got my two children and I want myself for them.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000111_000002|I like you-I like all clever men, you more than any-but you know me well enough to know that I'd never marry a clever man-" She broke off suddenly.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000112_000000|"Amory."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000113_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000114_000000|"You're not in love with me.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000114_000001|You never wanted to marry me, did you?"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000115_000001|"I didn't feel as though I were speaking aloud.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000115_000002|But I love you-or adore you-or worship you-"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000117_000000|He smiled unwillingly.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000119_000001|"A light weight is an eternal nay."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000121_000000|She dropped his arm.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000122_000001|Give me a cigarette.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000122_000002|You've never seen me smoke, have you?
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000122_000003|Well, I do, about once a month."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000123_000000|And then that wonderful girl and Amory raced to the corner like two mad children gone wild with pale blue twilight.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000124_000000|"I'm going to the country for to morrow," she announced, as she stood panting, safe beyond the flare of the corner lamp post.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000125_000000|"Oh, Clara!" Amory said; "what a devil you could have been if the Lord had just bent your soul a little the other way!"
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000126_000001|I'm never really wild and never have been.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000126_000002|That little outburst was pure spring."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000127_000000|"And you are, too," said he.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000129_000000|"No-you're wrong again, how can a person of your own self reputed brains be so constantly wrong about me?
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000129_000001|I'm the opposite of everything spring ever stood for.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000129_000002|It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"--then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed-"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000130_000000|She was the only girl he ever knew with whom he could understand how another man might be preferred.
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000130_000001|Often Amory met wives whom he had known as debutantes, and looking intently at them imagined that he found something in their faces which said:
train-other-500/264/121332/264_121332_000132_000000|But that night seemed a night of stars and singing and Clara's bright soul still gleamed on the ways they had trod.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000000_000000|On that day, two men were lingering on the banks of a small but rapid stream, within an hour's journey of the encampment of Webb, like those who awaited the appearance of an absent person, or the approach of some expected event.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000000_000001|The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deeper hue.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000000_000002|The rays of the sun were beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of the day was lessened, as the cooler vapors of the springs and fountains rose above their leafy beds, and rested in the atmosphere.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000000_000006|The former was seated on the end of a mossy log, in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect of his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000000_000007|His body, which was nearly naked, presented a terrific emblem of death, drawn in intermingled colors of white and black.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000000_000010|The expanded chest, full formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had reached the vigor of his days, though no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000002_000001|His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000002_000003|He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000005_000000|"Even your traditions make the case in my favor, Chingachgook," he said, speaking in the tongue which was known to all the natives who formerly inhabited the country between the Hudson and the Potomac, and of which we shall give a free translation for the benefit of the reader; endeavoring, at the same time, to preserve some of the peculiarities, both of the individual and of the language.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000007_000001|"Is there no difference, Hawkeye, between the stone headed arrow of the warrior, and the leaden bullet with which you kill?"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000008_000000|"There is reason in an Indian, though nature has made him with a red skin!" said the white man, shaking his head like one on whom such an appeal to his justice was not thrown away.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000008_000001|For a moment he appeared to be conscious of having the worst of the argument, then, rallying again, he answered the objection of his antagonist in the best manner his limited information would allow:
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000010_000000|"You have the story told by your fathers," returned the other, coldly waving his hand.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000010_000001|"What say your old men?
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000011_000003|For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have a natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed down from generation to generation, as, our holy commandments tell us, all good and evil gifts are bestowed; though I should be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000013_000000|"Listen, Hawkeye, and your ear shall drink no lie.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000013_000001|'tis what my fathers have said, and what the Mohicans have done." He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000013_000002|"Does not this stream at our feet run toward the summer, until its waters grow salt, and the current flows upward?"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000015_000000|"And the current!" demanded the Indian, who expected his reply with that sort of interest that a man feels in the confirmation of testimony, at which he marvels even while he respects it; "the fathers of Chingachgook have not lied!"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000016_000000|"The holy Bible is not more true, and that is the truest thing in nature.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000016_000001|They call this up stream current the tide, which is a thing soon explained, and clear enough.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000017_000000|"The waters in the woods, and on the great lakes, run downward until they lie like my hand," said the Indian, stretching the limb horizontally before him, "and then they run no more."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000018_000000|"No honest man will deny it," said the scout, a little nettled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; "and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level. But everything depends on what scale you look at things.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000018_000001|Now, on the small scale, the 'arth is level; but on the large scale it is round.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000018_000003|You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000019_000000|If unsatisfied by the philosophy of his companion, the Indian was far too dignified to betray his unbelief.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000019_000001|He listened like one who was convinced, and resumed his narrative in his former solemn manner.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000020_000000|"We came from the place where the sun is hid at night, over great plains where the buffaloes live, until we reached the big river.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000020_000001|There we fought the Alligewi, till the ground was red with their blood.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000020_000002|From the banks of the big river to the shores of the salt lake, there was none to meet us.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000020_000003|The Maquas followed at a distance.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000020_000004|We said the country should be ours from the place where the water runs up no longer on this stream, to a river twenty sun's journey toward the summer.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000020_000005|We drove the Maquas into the woods with the bears.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000021_000000|"All this I have heard and believe," said the white man, observing that the Indian paused; "but it was long before the English came into the country."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000022_000000|"A pine grew then where this chestnut now stands.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000022_000001|The first pale faces who came among us spoke no English.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000022_000002|They came in a large canoe, when my fathers had buried the tomahawk with the red men around them.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000022_000003|Then, Hawkeye," he continued, betraying his deep emotion, only by permitting his voice to fall to those low, guttural tones, which render his language, as spoken at times, so very musical; "then, Hawkeye, we were one people, and we were happy.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000022_000005|We took wives who bore us children; we worshipped the Great Spirit; and we kept the Maquas beyond the sound of our songs of triumph."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000023_000000|"Know you anything of your own family at that time?" demanded the white. "But you are just a man, for an Indian; and as I suppose you hold their gifts, your fathers must have been brave warriors, and wise men at the council fire."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000024_000000|"My tribe is the grandfather of nations, but I am an unmixed man.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000024_000001|The blood of chiefs is in my veins, where it must stay forever.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000024_000002|The Dutch landed, and gave my people the fire water; they drank until the heavens and the earth seemed to meet, and they foolishly thought they had found the Great Spirit.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000024_000003|Then they parted with their land.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000024_000004|Foot by foot, they were driven back from the shores, until I, that am a chief and a Sagamore, have never seen the sun shine but through the trees, and have never visited the graves of my fathers."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000025_000001|But where are to be found those of your race who came to their kin in the Delaware country, so many summers since?"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000026_000001|I am on the hilltop and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000027_000000|"Uncas is here," said another voice, in the same soft, guttural tones, near his elbow; "who speaks to Uncas?"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000029_000001|No exclamation of surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked, or reply given, for several minutes; each appearing to await the moment when he might speak, without betraying womanish curiosity or childish impatience.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000029_000002|The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000030_000000|"Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000031_000000|"I have been on their trail," replied the young Indian, "and know that they number as many as the fingers of my two hands; but they lie hid like cowards."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000032_000001|"That busy Frenchman, Montcalm, will send his spies into our very camp, but he will know what road we travel!"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000033_000001|Hawkeye, let us eat to night, and show the Maquas that we are men to morrow."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000035_000000|"It cannot be!" said the young Indian, springing to his feet with youthful eagerness; "all but the tips of his horns are hid!"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000036_000000|"He's a boy!" said the white man, shaking his head while he spoke, and addressing the father.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000036_000001|"Does he think when a hunter sees a part of the creature', he can't tell where the rest of him should be!"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000037_000000|Adjusting his rifle, he was about to make an exhibition of that skill on which he so much valued himself, when the warrior struck up the piece with his hand, saying:
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000038_000000|"Hawkeye! will you fight the Maquas?"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000039_000000|"These Indians know the nature of the woods, as it might be by instinct!" returned the scout, dropping his rifle, and turning away like a man who was convinced of his error.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000039_000001|"I must leave the buck to your arrow, Uncas, or we may kill a deer for them thieves, the Iroquois, to eat."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000040_000000|The instant the father seconded this intimation by an expressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000040_000002|In another moment the twang of the cord was heard, a white streak was seen glancing into the bushes, and the wounded buck plunged from the cover, to the very feet of his hidden enemy.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000040_000003|Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat, when bounding to the edge of the river it fell, dyeing the waters with its blood.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000041_000000|"'twas done with Indian skill," said the scout laughing inwardly, but with vast satisfaction; "and 'twas a pretty sight to behold!
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000041_000001|Though an arrow is a near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000043_000000|"By the Lord, there is a drove of them!" exclaimed the scout, whose eyes began to glisten with the ardor of his usual occupation; "if they come within range of a bullet I will drop one, though the whole Six Nations should be lurking within sound!
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000044_000000|"There is but one deer, and he is dead," said the Indian, bending his body till his ear nearly touched the earth.
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000044_000001|"I hear the sounds of feet!"
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000045_000000|"Perhaps the wolves have driven the buck to shelter, and are following on his trail."
train-other-500/265/122594/265_122594_000046_000000|"no
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000002_000001|He therefore not only exerted his talents in occasional composition very different from Lexicography, but formed a club in Ivy lane, Paternoster row, with a view to enjoy literary discussion, and amuse his evening hours.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000006_000003|The fervid rapidity with which it was produced, is scarcely credible.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000008_000001|Some of them, however, he observed were too gross for imitation.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000009_000000|The profits of a single poem, however excellent, appear to have been very small in the last reign, compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000013_000001|The instances of variety of disappointment are chosen so judiciously and painted so strongly, that, the moment they are read, they bring conviction to every thinking mind.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000018_000000|Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury lane theatre, he kindly and generously made use of it to bring out Johnson's tragedy, which had been long kept back for want of encouragement.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000018_000002|Yet Garrick knew well, that without some alterations it would not be fit for the stage.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000018_000003|A violent dispute having ensued between them, Garrick applied to the Reverend dr Taylor to interpose.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000018_000004|Johnson was at first very obstinate.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000020_000004|She several times attempted to speak; but in vain.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000020_000007|I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so eminent in the political world.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000024_000002|Indeed Garrick has complained to me, that Johnson not only had not the faculty of producing the impressions of tragedy, but that he had not the sensibility to perceive them.
train-other-500/265/136853/265_136853_000028_000003|With some of them he kept up an acquaintance as long as he and they lived, and was ever ready to shew them acts of kindness.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000005_000000|CHAPTER five CANNIBALS
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000006_000000|WILL HALLEY and his crew, taking advantage of the darkness of night and the sleep of the passengers, had fled with the only boat.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000006_000001|There could be no doubt about it.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000006_000002|The captain, whose duty would have kept him on board to the last, had been the first to quit the ship.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000007_000001|"Well, my Lord, so much the better.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000007_000002|They have spared us some trying scenes."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000008_000000|"No doubt," said Glenarvan; "besides we have a captain of our own, and courageous, if unskillful sailors, your companions, john.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000008_000001|Say the word, and we are ready to obey."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000009_000000|The Major, Paganel, Robert, Wilson, Mulrady, Olbinett himself, applauded Glenarvan's speech, and ranged themselves on the deck, ready to execute their captain's orders.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000010_000000|"What is to be done?" asked Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000011_000000|It was evident that raising the MACQUARIE was out of the question, and no less evident that she must be abandoned.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000011_000001|Waiting on board for succor that might never come, would have been imprudence and folly.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000011_000002|Before the arrival of a chance vessel on the scene, the MACQUARIE would have broken up.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000011_000004|john was anxious to reach the land before this inevitable consummation.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000012_000000|He proposed to construct a raft strong enough to carry the passengers, and a sufficient quantity of provisions, to the coast of New Zealand.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000014_000001|Robert had chosen to stay with them.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000014_000002|The brave boy listened with all his ears, ready to be of use, and willing to enlist in any perilous adventure.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000016_000000|john replied that the voyage was impossible with such an unmanageable craft.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000018_000000|"Yes, if necessary," answered john; "but we should have had to sail by day and anchor at night."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000019_000000|"Then those wretches who abandoned us-"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000022_000001|The raft will bring us to the shore," said Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000024_000000|"What! do you think another twenty miles after crossing the Pampas and Australia, can have any terrors for us, hardened as we are to fatigue?"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000025_000000|"My friend," replied Paganel, "I do not call in question our courage nor the bravery of our friends.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000025_000001|Twenty miles would be nothing in any other country than New Zealand.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000025_000002|You cannot suspect me of faint heartedness.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000025_000003|I was the first to persuade you to cross America and Australia.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000025_000004|But here the case is different.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000025_000005|I repeat, anything is better than to venture into this treacherous country."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000026_000000|"Anything is better, in my judgment," said john Mangles, "than braving certain destruction on a stranded vessel."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000028_000000|"The savages," said Paganel.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000029_000000|"The savages!" repeated Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000029_000001|"Can we not avoid them by keeping to the shore?
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000029_000002|But in any case what have we to fear?
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000029_000003|Surely, two resolute and well armed Europeans need not give a thought to an attack by a handful of miserable beings."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000030_000000|Paganel shook his head.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000030_000001|"In this case there are no miserable beings to contend with.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000030_000002|The New Zealanders are a powerful race, who are rebelling against English rule, who fight the invaders, and often beat them, and who always eat them!"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000031_000000|"Cannibals!" exclaimed Robert, "cannibals?"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000031_000001|Then they heard him whisper, "My sister!
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000031_000002|Lady Helena."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000032_000000|"Don't frighten yourself, my boy," said Glenarvan; "our friend Paganel exaggerates."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000034_000000|Paganel was right.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000034_000001|Cannibalism has become a fixed fact in New Zealand, as it is in the Fijis and in Torres Strait. Superstition is no doubt partly to blame, but cannibalism is certainly owing to the fact that there are moments when game is scarce and hunger great.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000034_000002|The savages began by eating human flesh to appease the demands of an appetite rarely satiated; subsequently the priests regulated and satisfied the monstrous custom.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000034_000003|What was a meal, was raised to the dignity of a ceremony, that is all.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000035_000000|Besides, in the eyes of the Maories, nothing is more natural than to eat one another.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000035_000001|The missionaries often questioned them about cannibalism. They asked them why they devoured their brothers; to which the chiefs made answer that fish eat fish, dogs eat men, men eat dogs, and dogs eat one another.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000035_000002|Even the Maori mythology has a legend of a god who ate another god; and with such a precedent, who could resist eating his neighbor?
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000037_000000|But while he acknowledged all this, Paganel maintained, not without a show of reason, that sensuality, and especially hunger, was the first cause of cannibalism among the New Zealanders, and not only among the Polynesian races, but also among the savages of Europe.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000038_000000|"For," said he, "cannibalism was long prevalent among the ancestors of the most civilized people, and especially (if the Major will not think me personal) among the Scotch."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000039_000000|"Really," said McNabbs.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000040_000000|"Yes, Major," replied Paganel.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000040_000003|No! it was hunger."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000042_000000|"Hunger!" repeated Paganel; "but, above all, the necessity of the carnivorous appetite of replacing the bodily waste, by the azote contained in animal tissues.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000042_000001|The lungs are satisfied with a provision of vegetable and farinaceous food.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000043_000000|"Why not animal flesh?" asked Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000044_000001|Quadrupeds, and even birds, are rare on these inhospitable shores, so that the Maories have always eaten human flesh.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000044_000002|There are even 'man eating seasons,' as there are in civilized countries hunting seasons.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000045_000000|"Well, then," said Glenarvan, "according to your mode of reasoning, Paganel, cannibalism will not cease in New Zealand until her pastures teem with sheep and oxen."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000046_000000|"Evidently, my dear Lord; and even then it will take years to wean them from Maori flesh, which they prefer to all others; for the children will still have a relish for what their fathers so highly appreciated. According to them it tastes like pork, with even more flavor.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000046_000001|As to white men's flesh, they do not like it so well, because the whites eat salt with their food, which gives a peculiar flavor, not to the taste of connoisseurs."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000047_000000|"They are dainty," said the Major.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000049_000000|"What is that to me!" exclaimed the Major, earnestly.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000049_000001|"If I am to make a meal for a cannibal, I should prefer being cooked."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000050_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000051_000000|"Because then I should be sure of not being eaten alive!"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000052_000000|"Very good.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000052_000001|Major," said Paganel; "but suppose they cooked you alive?"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000054_000002|For my part, I very much dislike the idea of being eaten!
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000054_000004|bah!"
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000055_000000|"The conclusion of all," said john Mangles, "is that we must not fall into their hands.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000055_000001|Let us hope that one day Christianity will abolish all these monstrous customs."
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000057_000000|"By all means let us have the facts, Paganel," said Glenarvan.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000058_000000|"The first is narrated in the chronicles of the Jesuit Society in Brazil.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000058_000001|A Portuguese missionary was one day visiting an old Brazilian woman who was very ill.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000058_000002|She had only a few days to live.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000058_000003|The Jesuit inculcated the truths of religion, which the dying woman accepted, without objection.
train-other-500/2660/154321/2660_154321_000058_000004|Then having attended to her spiritual wants, he bethought himself of her bodily needs, and offered her some European delicacies.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000001_000001|PEDGIFT'S POSTSCRIPT.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000002_000000|"I mentioned that a point had occurred to me, sir," remarked Pedgift Senior.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000003_000000|"You did," said Allan.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000004_000000|"Would you like to hear what it is, mr Armadale?"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000005_000000|"If you please," said Allan.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000006_000000|"With all my heart, sir!
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000006_000001|This is the point.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000006_000002|I attach considerable importance-if nothing else can be done-to having Miss Gwilt privately looked after, as long as she stops at Thorpe Ambrose.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000006_000003|It struck me just now at the door, mr Armadale, that what you are not willing to do for your own security, you might be willing to do for the security of another person."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000007_000000|"What other person?" inquired Allan.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000008_000000|"A young lady who is a near neighbor of yours, sir.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000008_000001|Shall I mention the name in confidence?
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000008_000002|Miss Milroy."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000009_000000|Allan started, and changed color.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000010_000000|"Miss Milroy!" he repeated.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000010_000002|I hope not, mr Pedgift; I sincerely hope not."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000000|"I paid a visit, in your interests, sir, at the cottage this morning," proceeded Pedgift Senior.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000001|"You shall hear what happened there, and judge for yourself.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000002|Major Milroy has been expressing his opinion of you pretty freely; and I thought it highly desirable to give him a caution.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000003|It's always the way with those quiet addle headed men: when they do once wake up, there's no reasoning with their obstinacy, and no quieting their violence.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000004|Well, sir, this morning I went to the cottage.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000009|'Just a word,' says i Miss Neelie, like the sensible girl she is, gets up to leave the room; and what does her ridiculous father do?
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000010|He stops her.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000011|'You needn't go, my dear, I have nothing to say to mr Pedgift,' says this old military idiot, and turns my way, and tries to look me down again.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000011_000013|I wish to caution you to suspend your opinion of my client, or, if you won't do that, to be careful how you express it in public.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000012_000000|"I beg your pardon, mr Pedgift," said Allan, returning to his seat, and trying to look composedly at the lawyer through the intervening image of Neelie which the lawyer had called up.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000013_000000|"Well, sir, I left the cottage," resumed Pedgift Senior.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000014_000001|"Why did you leave her a moment in doubt about it?"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000015_000000|"Because I am a lawyer, mr Armadale," rejoined Pedgift Senior, dryly. "Even in moments of sentiment, under convenient trees, with a pretty girl on my arm, I can't entirely divest myself of my professional caution.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000015_000002|I set things right in due course of time.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000015_000003|Before I left Miss Milroy, I told her, in the plainest terms, no such idea had ever entered your head."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000016_000000|"Did she seem relieved?" asked Allan.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000017_000002|If you are at all anxious on your side to know why I am now betraying her confidence, I beg to inform you that her confidence related to no less a person than the lady who favored you with a call just now-Miss Gwilt."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000018_000000|Allan, who had been once more restlessly pacing the room, stopped, and returned to his chair.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000019_000000|"Is this serious?" he asked.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000003|She found some little difficulty in answering it, for the reply involved her in a narrative of the parting interview between her governess and herself.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000006|She said, 'Your mother has declined to allow me to take leave of her.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000007|Do you decline too?' Miss Neelie's answer was a remarkably sensible one for a girl of her age.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000010|Keep your temper.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000011|It's not at all wonderful that a woman, conscious of having her own mercenary designs on you, should attribute similar designs to a young lady who happens to be your near neighbor.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000013|Miss Neelie, by her own confession (and quite naturally, I think), was excessively indignant.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000017|Miss Neelie appears to have felt the imputation fastened on her, in connection with you, far more sensitively than she felt the threat.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000018|She had previously known, as everybody had known in the house, that some unacknowledged proceedings of yours in London had led to Miss Gwilt's voluntary withdrawal from her situation.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000019|And she now inferred, from the language addressed to her, that she was actually believed by Miss Gwilt to have set those proceedings on foot, to advance herself, and to injure her governess, in your estimation.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000020|Gently, sir, gently!
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000021|I haven't quite done yet.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000022|As soon as Miss Neelie had recovered herself, she went upstairs to speak to mrs Milroy.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000024|She got neither the one nor the other.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000025|mrs Milroy declared she was too ill to enter on the subject, and she has remained too ill to enter on it ever since.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000026|Miss Neelie applied next to her father.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000027|The major stopped her the moment your name passed her lips: he declared he would never hear you mentioned again by any member of his family.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000028|She has been left in the dark from that time to this, not knowing how she might have been misrepresented by Miss Gwilt, or what falsehoods you might have been led to believe of her.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000029|At my age and in my profession, I don't profess to have any extraordinary softness of heart.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000020_000030|But I do think, mr Armadale, that Miss Neelie's position deserves our sympathy."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000021_000000|"I'll do anything to help her!" cried Allan, impulsively.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000021_000001|"You don't know, mr Pedgift, what reason I have-"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000021_000003|"I'll do anything," he reiterated earnestly-"anything in the world to help her!"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000022_000000|"Do you really mean that, mr Armadale?
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000022_000001|Excuse my asking; but you can very materially help Miss Neelie, if you choose!"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000023_000000|"How?" asked Allan.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000023_000001|"Only tell me how!"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000024_000000|"By giving me your authority, sir, to protect her from Miss Gwilt."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000025_000000|Having fired that shot pointblank at his client, the wise lawyer waited a little to let it take its effect before he said any more.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000026_000000|Allan's face clouded, and he shifted uneasily from side to side of his chair.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000027_000000|"Your son is hard enough to deal with, mr Pedgift," he said, "and you are harder than your son."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000028_000002|You can do nothing to quiet her anxiety which I have not done already.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000028_000005|I can tell you, mr Armadale, it dwells on mine!
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000028_000006|You know my opinion of Miss Gwilt; and you know what Miss Gwilt herself has done this very evening to justify that opinion even in your eyes.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000029_000000|The question was a formidable one to answer.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000029_000002|"Is there no other way of protecting Miss Milroy but the way you have mentioned?" he asked, uneasily.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000030_000000|"Do you think the major would listen to you, sir, if you spoke to him?" asked Pedgift Senior, sarcastically.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000030_000002|Or perhaps you would prefer alarming Miss Neelie by telling her in plain words that we both think her in danger? Or, suppose you send me to Miss Gwilt, with instructions to inform her that she has done her pupil a cruel injustice?
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000032_000000|"In plain words, mr Armadale, I want to keep Miss Gwilt's proceedings privately under view, as long as she stops in this neighborhood.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000032_000002|And I agree to discontinue even this harmless superintendence of her actions, if there isn't good reasons shown for continuing it, to your entire satisfaction, in a week's time.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000033_000000|"Can't I have time to consider?" asked Allan, driven to the last helpless expedient of taking refuge in delay.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000034_000000|"Certainly, mr Armadale.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000034_000001|But don't forget, while you are considering, that Miss Milroy is in the habit of walking out alone in your park, innocent of all apprehension of danger, and that Miss Gwilt is perfectly free to take any advantage of that circumstance that Miss Gwilt pleases."
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000035_000000|"Do as you like!" exclaimed Allan, in despair.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000035_000001|"And, for God's sake, don't torment me any longer!"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000036_000000|Popular prejudice may deny it, but the profession of the law is a practically Christian profession in one respect at least.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000037_000001|"If it was only the end of the week!" he thought, longingly.
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000037_000002|"If I only had Midwinter back again!"
train-other-500/2660/173229/2660_173229_000038_000000|As that aspiration escaped the client's lips, the lawyer got gayly into his gig.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000004_000000|"High Street, december twentieth.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000005_000000|"MY DEAR AUGUSTUS-Your letter reached me yesterday.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000005_000001|You seem to be making the most of your youth (as you call it) with a vengeance.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000005_000002|Well! enjoy your holiday.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000005_000003|I made the most of my youth when I was your age; and, wonderful to relate, I haven't forgotten it yet!
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000006_000000|"You ask me for a good budget of news, and especially for more information about that mysterious business at the Sanitarium.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000007_000001|I doubt, however, if you will find it leading to much on this occasion.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000007_000003|I have already told you how they were entrapped into the house, and how they passed the night there.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000007_000004|To this I can now add that something did certainly happen to mr Midwinter, which deprived him of consciousness; and that the doctor, who appears to have been mixed up in the matter, carried things with a high hand, and insisted on taking his own course in his own Sanitarium.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000007_000006|My idea is that mr Midwinter had a motive of his own for not coming forward with the evidence that he might have given.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000007_000007|I have also reason to suspect that mr Armadale, out of regard for him, followed his lead, and that the verdict at the inquest (attaching no blame to anybody) proceeded, like many other verdicts of the same kind, from an entirely superficial investigation of the circumstances.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000008_000000|"The key to the whole mystery is to be found, I firmly believe, in that wretched woman's attempt to personate the character of mr Armadale's widow when the news of his death appeared in the papers.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000008_000002|The point was not touched at the inquest, for the simple reason that the inquest only concerned itself with the circumstances attending her death.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000008_000004|As the claim had never been admitted, even our stiff necked brother practitioner consented for once to do as he was asked.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000008_000006|She is buried in the great cemetery, near the place where she died.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000008_000007|Nobody but mr Midwinter and mr Armadale (who insisted on going with him) followed her to the grave; and nothing has been inscribed on the tombstone but the initial letter of her Christian name and the date of her death.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000008_000008|So, after all the harm she has done, she rests at last; and so the two men whom she has injured have forgiven her.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000009_000000|"Is there more to say on this subject before we leave it?
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000009_000001|On referring to your letter, I find you have raised one other point, which may be worth a moment's notice.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000010_000000|"You ask if there is reason to suppose that the doctor comes out of the matter with hands which are really as clean as they look?
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000010_000002|There is not much prospect of it at present.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000000|"To turn now to pleasanter subjects than Sanitariums, I may tell you that Miss Neelie is as good as well again, and is, in my humble opinion, prettier than ever.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000001|She is staying in London under the care of a female relative; and mr Armadale satisfies her of the fact of his existence (in case she should forget it) regularly every day.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000003|The medical men are of opinion that the poor lady is sinking at last.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000004|It may be a question of weeks or a question of months, they can say no more.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000005|She is greatly altered-quiet and gentle, and anxiously affectionate with her husband and her child.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000006|But in her case this happy change is, it seems, a sign of approaching dissolution, from the medical point of view.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000011_000008|He only sees that she has gone back to the likeness of her better self when he first married her; and he sits for hours by her bedside now, and tells her about his wonderful clock.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000012_000000|"mr
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000012_000001|Midwinter, of whom you will next expect me to say something, is improving rapidly.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000012_000002|After causing some anxiety at first to the medical men (who declared that he was suffering from a serious nervous shock, produced by circumstances about which their patient's obstinate silence kept them quite in the dark), he has rallied, as only men of his sensitive temperament (to quote the doctors again) can rally.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000012_000003|He and mr Armadale are together in a quiet lodging.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000012_000005|His face showed signs of wear and tear, very sad to see in so young a man.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000012_000006|But he spoke of himself and his future with a courage and hopefulness which men of twice his years (if he has suffered as I suspect him to have suffered) might have envied.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000013_000000|"You will wonder how I came to be in London.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000013_000001|I went up, with a return ticket (from Saturday to Monday), about that matter in dispute at our agent's.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000013_000002|We had a tough fight; but, curiously enough, a point occurred to me just as I got up to go; and I went back to my chair, and settled the question in no time.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000013_000003|Of course I stayed at Our Hotel in Covent Garden.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000013_000005|I had the agent's second son (the young chap you nicknamed Mustapha, when he made that dreadful mess about the Turkish Securities) to dine with me on Sunday.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000013_000006|A little incident happened in the evening which may be worth recording, as it connected itself with a certain old lady who was not 'at home' when you and mr Armadale blundered on that house in Pimlico in the bygone time.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000014_000001|'Let's go to a public amusement, mr Pedgift,' says he.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000014_000002|'Public amusement?
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000014_000003|Why, it's Sunday evening!' says i 'All right, sir,' says Mustapha.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000000|"We went to a street at the West End, and found it blocked up with carriages.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000001|If it hadn't been Sunday night, I should have thought we were going to the opera.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000003|Mustapha patronized one plate, and I the other.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000004|We passed through two doors into a long room, crammed with people.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000005|And there, on a platform at the further end, holding forth to the audience, was-not a man, as I had expected-but a Woman, and that woman, MOTHER OLDERSHAW!
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000006|You never listened to anything more eloquent in your life.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000007|As long as I heard her she was never once at a loss for a word anywhere.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000008|I shall think less of oratory as a human accomplishment, for the rest of my days, after that Sunday evening.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000009|As for the matter of the sermon, I may describe it as a narrative of mrs Oldershaw's experience among dilapidated women, profusely illustrated in the pious and penitential style.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000015_000011|I left Mustapha to hear the end of it.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000016_000000|"Have I anything more to tell you before I leave off?
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000016_000001|Only one thing that I can remember.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000000|"That wretched old Bashwood has confirmed the fears I told you I had about him when he was brought back here from London.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000001|There is no kind of doubt that he has really lost all the little reason he ever had.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000002|He is perfectly harmless, and perfectly happy.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000005|The moment his clothes are cleaned again he falls back into his favorite delusion, and struts about before the church gates, in the character of a bridegroom, waiting for Miss Gwilt.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000006|We must get the poor wretch taken care of somewhere for the rest of the little time he has to live.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000007|Who would ever have thought of a man at his age falling in love?
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000017_000008|And who would ever have believed that the mischief that woman's beauty has done could have reached as far in the downward direction as our superannuated old clerk?
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000018_000000|"Good by, for the present, my dear boy.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000018_000001|If you see a particularly handsome snuff box in Paris, remember-though your father scorns Testimonials-he doesn't object to receive a present from his son.
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000019_000000|"Yours affectionately,
train-other-500/2660/173260/2660_173260_000020_000000|"A.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000001_000000|That evening the Rostovs went to the Opera, for which Marya d mitrievna had taken a box.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000003_000002|And his eyes-how I see those eyes!" thought Natasha.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000003_000003|"And what do his father and sister matter to me?
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000003_000004|I love him alone, him, him, with that face and those eyes, with his smile, manly and yet childlike....
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000003_000006|I can't bear this waiting and I shall cry in a minute!" and she turned away from the glass, making an effort not to cry.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000003_000008|"No, she's altogether different.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000003_000009|I can't!"
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000004_000002|Having fallen into the line of carriages, the Rostovs' carriage drove up to the theater, its wheels squeaking over the snow.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000004_000003|Natasha and Sonya, holding up their dresses, jumped out quickly.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000005_000000|"Natasha, your hair!..." whispered Sonya.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000006_000004|Natasha, smoothing her gown, went in with Sonya and sat down, scanning the brilliant tiers of boxes opposite.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000007_000000|The two remarkably pretty girls, Natasha and Sonya, with Count Rostov who had not been seen in Moscow for a long time, attracted general attention.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000008_000000|Natasha's looks, as everyone told her, had improved in the country, and that evening thanks to her agitation she was particularly pretty.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000008_000001|She struck those who saw her by her fullness of life and beauty, combined with her indifference to everything about her.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000008_000003|"Look, there's Alenina," said Sonya, "with her mother, isn't it?"
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000011_000001|One can see at once that they're engaged...."
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000012_000000|"Drubetskoy has proposed?"
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000013_000000|"Oh yes, I heard it today," said Shinshin, coming into the Rostovs' box.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000014_000001|Behind them, wearing a smile and leaning over with an ear to Julie's mouth, was Boris' handsome smoothly brushed head.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000015_000001|"And he no doubt is calming her jealousy of me.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000015_000002|They needn't trouble themselves!
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000015_000003|If only they knew how little I am concerned about any of them."
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000017_000000|"What right has he not to wish to receive me into his family?
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000017_000001|Oh, better not think of it-not till he comes back!" she told herself, and began looking at the faces, some strange and some familiar, in the stalls.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000017_000003|He stood in full view of the audience, well aware that he was attracting everyone's attention, yet as much at ease as though he were in his own room.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000017_000004|Around him thronged Moscow's most brilliant young men, whom he evidently dominated.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000018_000000|The count, laughing, nudged the blushing Sonya and pointed to her former adorer.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000019_000000|"Do you recognize him?" said he.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000019_000002|"Didn't he vanish somewhere?"
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000000|"He did," replied Shinshin.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000001|"He was in the Caucasus and ran away from there.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000002|They say he has been acting as minister to some ruling prince in Persia, where he killed the Shah's brother.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000003|Now all the Moscow ladies are mad about him!
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000004|It's 'Dolokhov the Persian' that does it!
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000005|We never hear a word but Dolokhov is mentioned.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000020_000006|They swear by him, they offer him to you as they would a dish of choice sterlet.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000022_000000|Natasha involuntarily gazed at that neck, those shoulders, and pearls and coiffure, and admired the beauty of the shoulders and the pearls.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000023_000000|"Have you been here long, Countess?" he inquired.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000023_000001|"I'll call, I'll call to kiss your hand.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000023_000002|I'm here on business and have brought my girls with me.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000023_000003|They say Semenova acts marvelously.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000023_000004|Count Pierre never used to forget us.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000023_000005|Is he here?"
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000025_000000|Count Rostov resumed his seat.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000026_000000|"Handsome, isn't she?" he whispered to Natasha.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000027_000000|"Wonderful!" answered Natasha.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000027_000001|"She's a woman one could easily fall in love with."
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000028_000001|Some latecomers took their seats in the stalls, and the curtain rose.
train-other-500/2671/157946/2671_157946_000029_000000|As soon as it rose everyone in the boxes and stalls became silent, and all the men, old and young, in uniform and evening dress, and all the women with gems on their bare flesh, turned their whole attention with eager curiosity to the stage.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000001_000000|The floor of the stage consisted of smooth boards, at the sides was some painted cardboard representing trees, and at the back was a cloth stretched over boards.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000001_000001|In the center of the stage sat some girls in red bodices and white skirts.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000001_000003|They all sang something.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000002_000001|They sang together and everyone in the theater began clapping and shouting, while the man and woman on the stage-who represented lovers- began smiling, spreading out their arms, and bowing.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000003_000000|After her life in the country, and in her present serious mood, all this seemed grotesque and amazing to Natasha.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000003_000001|She could not follow the opera nor even listen to the music; she saw only the painted cardboard and the queerly dressed men and women who moved, spoke, and sang so strangely in that brilliant light.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000003_000002|She knew what it was all meant to represent, but it was so pretentiously false and unnatural that she first felt ashamed for the actors and then amused at them.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000003_000003|She looked at the faces of the audience, seeking in them the same sense of ridicule and perplexity she herself experienced, but they all seemed attentive to what was happening on the stage, and expressed delight which to Natasha seemed feigned.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000003_000004|"I suppose it has to be like this!" she thought.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000003_000005|She kept looking round in turn at the rows of pomaded heads in the stalls and then at the seminude women in the boxes, especially at Helene in the next box, who- apparently quite unclothed-sat with a quiet tranquil smile, not taking her eyes off the stage.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000004_000000|At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000004_000001|"There's Kuragin!" whispered Shinshin.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000004_000003|This was Anatole Kuragin whom she had seen and noticed long ago at the ball in Petersburg.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000004_000006|Though the performance was proceeding, he walked deliberately down the carpeted gangway, his sword and spurs slightly jingling and his handsome perfumed head held high.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000005_000001|Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000005_000002|He winked at him gaily, smiled, and rested his foot against the orchestra screen.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000006_000000|"How like the brother is to the sister," remarked the count.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000006_000001|"And how handsome they both are!"
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000008_000000|The first act was over.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000008_000001|In the stalls everyone began moving about, going out and coming in.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000009_000001|Natasha with a gay, coquettish smile talked to him, and congratulated on his approaching wedding that same Boris with whom she had formerly been in love.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000009_000002|In the state of intoxication she was in, everything seemed simple and natural.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000000|During the whole of that entr'acte Kuragin stood with Dolokhov in front of the orchestra partition, looking at the Rostovs' box.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000001|Natasha knew he was talking about her and this afforded her pleasure.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000002|She even turned so that he should see her profile in what she thought was its most becoming aspect.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000003|Before the beginning of the second act Pierre appeared in the stalls.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000005|His face looked sad, and he had grown still stouter since Natasha last saw him.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000006|He passed up to the front rows, not noticing anyone.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000007|Anatole went up to him and began speaking to him, looking at and indicating the Rostovs' box.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000009|When he got there he leaned on his elbows and, smiling, talked to her for a long time.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000011|She turned and their eyes met.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000012_000012|Almost smiling, he gazed straight into her eyes with such an enraptured caressing look that it seemed strange to be so near him, to look at him like that, to be so sure he admired her, and not to be acquainted with him.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000013_000000|In the second act there was scenery representing tombstones, there was a round hole in the canvas to represent the moon, shades were raised over the footlights, and from horns and contrabass came deep notes while many people appeared from right and left wearing black cloaks and holding things like daggers in their hands.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000013_000001|They began waving their arms.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000013_000003|They did not drag her away at once, but sang with her for a long time and then at last dragged her off, and behind the scenes something metallic was struck three times and everyone knelt down and sang a prayer.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000013_000004|All these things were repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic shouts of the audience.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000014_000001|She was pleased to see that he was captivated by her and it did not occur to her that there was anything wrong in it.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000016_000000|"Do make me acquainted with your charming daughters," said she.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000017_000000|Natasha rose and curtsied to the splendid countess.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000017_000001|She was so pleased by praise from this brilliant beauty that she blushed with pleasure.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000018_000000|"I want to become a Moscovite too, now," said Helene.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000018_000001|"How is it you're not ashamed to bury such pearls in the country?"
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000019_000000|Countess Bezukhova quite deserved her reputation of being a fascinating woman.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000019_000001|She could say what she did not think-especially what was flattering-quite simply and naturally.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000020_000000|"Dear count, you must let me look after your daughters!
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000020_000003|"I had heard about you from my page, Drubetskoy.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000020_000004|Have you heard he is getting married?
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000020_000005|And also from my husband's friend Bolkonski, Prince Andrew Bolkonski," she went on with special emphasis, implying that she knew of his relation to Natasha.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000020_000006|To get better acquainted she asked that one of the young ladies should come into her box for the rest of the performance, and Natasha moved over to it.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000000|The scene of the third act represented a palace in which many candles were burning and pictures of knights with short beards hung on the walls.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000002|The king waved his right arm and, evidently nervous, sang something badly and sat down on a crimson throne.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000003|The maiden who had been first in white and then in light blue, now wore only a smock, and stood beside the throne with her hair down.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000004|She sang something mournfully, addressing the queen, but the king waved his arm severely, and men and women with bare legs came in from both sides and began dancing all together.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000005|Then the violins played very shrilly and merrily and one of the women with thick bare legs and thin arms, separating from the others, went behind the wings, adjusted her bodice, returned to the middle of the stage, and began jumping and striking one foot rapidly against the other.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000006|In the stalls everyone clapped and shouted "bravo!"
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000008|The cymbals and horns in the orchestra struck up more loudly, and this man with bare legs jumped very high and waved his feet about very rapidly.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000009|(He was Duport, who received sixty thousand rubles a year for this art.) Everybody in the stalls, boxes, and galleries began clapping and shouting with all their might, and the man stopped and began smiling and bowing to all sides.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000021_000016|She looked about with pleasure, smiling joyfully.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000022_000000|"Isn't Duport delightful?" Helene asked her.
train-other-500/2671/157947/2671_157947_000023_000000|"Oh, yes," replied Natasha.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000002_000000|During the entr'acte a whiff of cold air came into Helene's box, the door opened, and Anatole entered, stooping and trying not to brush against anyone.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000004_000000|Natasha turned her pretty little head toward the elegant young officer and smiled at him over her bare shoulder.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000004_000002|Kuragin was much more sensible and simple with women than among men.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000004_000003|He talked boldly and naturally, and Natasha was strangely and agreeably struck by the fact that there was nothing formidable in this man about whom there was so much talk, but that on the contrary his smile was most naive, cheerful, and good-natured.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000006_000002|We shall all meet at the Karagins'!
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000006_000003|Please come!
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000006_000005|Really, eh?" said he.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000007_000000|While saying this he never removed his smiling eyes from her face, her neck, and her bare arms.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000007_000001|Natasha knew for certain that he was enraptured by her.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000007_000002|This pleased her, yet his presence made her feel constrained and oppressed.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000007_000005|She did not know how it was that within five minutes she had come to feel herself terribly near to this man.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000007_000006|When she turned away she feared he might seize her from behind by her bare arm and kiss her on the neck.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000007_000007|They spoke of most ordinary things, yet she felt that they were closer to one another than she had ever been to any man.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000008_000001|She asked the question and blushed.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000008_000002|She felt all the time that by talking to him she was doing something improper.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000008_000003|Anatole smiled as though to encourage her.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000009_000001|But now I like it very much indeed," he said, looking at her significantly.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000009_000002|"You'll come to the costume tournament, Countess?
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000009_000003|Do come!" and putting out his hand to her bouquet and dropping his voice, he added, "You will be the prettiest there.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000009_000004|Do come, dear countess, and give me this flower as a pledge!"
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000011_000001|She did not know what to say and turned away as if she had not heard his remark.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000011_000002|But as soon as she had turned away she felt that he was there, behind, so close behind her.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000012_000000|"How is he now?
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000012_000001|Confused?
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000012_000005|She smiled just as he was doing, gazing straight into his eyes.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000013_000000|The curtain rose again.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000013_000001|Anatole left the box, serene and gay.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000013_000003|All that was going on before her now seemed quite natural, but on the other hand all her previous thoughts of her betrothed, of Princess Mary, or of life in the country did not once recur to her mind and were as if belonging to a remote past.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000000|In the fourth act there was some sort of devil who sang waving his arm about, till the boards were withdrawn from under him and he disappeared down below.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000001|That was the only part of the fourth act that Natasha saw.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000002|She felt agitated and tormented, and the cause of this was Kuragin whom she could not help watching.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000003|As they were leaving the theater Anatole came up to them, called their carriage, and helped them in.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000004|As he was putting Natasha in he pressed her arm above the elbow.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000005|Agitated and flushed she turned round.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000014_000006|He was looking at her with glittering eyes, smiling tenderly.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000016_000000|"O God!
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000016_000001|I am lost!" she said to herself.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000016_000003|Everything seemed dark, obscure, and terrible.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000016_000005|"What is it?
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000016_000006|What was that terror I felt of him?
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000016_000007|What is this gnawing of conscience I am feeling now?" she thought.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000017_000000|Only to the old countess at night in bed could Natasha have told all she was feeling.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000017_000002|So Natasha tried to solve what was torturing her by herself.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000018_000002|Nothing!
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000018_000003|I have done nothing, I didn't lead him on at all.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000018_000004|Nobody will know and I shall never see him again," she told herself.
train-other-500/2671/157948/2671_157948_000018_000006|But why 'still?' O God, why isn't he here?" Natasha quieted herself for a moment, but again some instinct told her that though all this was true, and though nothing had happened, yet the former purity of her love for Prince Andrew had perished.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000013_000000|CHAPTER fifty five
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000000|He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that if she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost with which the old house was duly provided.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000002|She had lain down without undressing, it being her belief that Ralph would not outlast the night.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000003|She had no inclination to sleep; she was waiting, and such waiting was wakeful.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000004|But she closed her eyes; she believed that as the night wore on she should hear a knock at her door.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000005|She heard no knock, but at the time the darkness began vaguely to grow grey she started up from her pillow as abruptly as if she had received a summons.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000006|It seemed to her for an instant that he was standing there-a vague, hovering figure in the vagueness of the room.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000007|She stared a moment; she saw his white face-his kind eyes; then she saw there was nothing.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000008|She was not afraid; she was only sure.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000009|She quitted the place and in her certainty passed through dark corridors and down a flight of oaken steps that shone in the vague light of a hall window.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000010|Outside Ralph's door she stopped a moment, listening, but she seemed to hear only the hush that filled it.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000012|The doctor was on the other side, with poor Ralph's further wrist resting in his professional fingers.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000013|The two nurses were at the foot between them.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000015|The nurse looked at her very hard too, and no one said a word; but Isabel only looked at what she had come to see.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000016|It was fairer than Ralph had ever been in life, and there was a strange resemblance to the face of his father, which, six years before, she had seen lying on the same pillow.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000014_000018|But she was stiff and dry eyed; her acute white face was terrible.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000015_000000|"Dear Aunt Lydia," Isabel murmured.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000000|Three days after this a considerable number of people found time, at the height of the London "season," to take a morning train down to a quiet station in Berkshire and spend half an hour in a small grey church which stood within an easy walk.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000003|It was a solemn occasion, but neither a harsh nor a heavy one; there was a certain geniality in the appearance of things.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000004|The weather had changed to fair; the day, one of the last of the treacherous May time, was warm and windless, and the air had the brightness of the hawthorn and the blackbird.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000006|He had been dying so long; he was so ready; everything had been so expected and prepared.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000007|There were tears in Isabel's eyes, but they were not tears that blinded.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000008|She looked through them at the beauty of the day, the splendour of nature, the sweetness of the old English churchyard, the bowed heads of good friends.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000010|Miss Stackpole was among the first, with honest mr Bantling beside her; and Caspar Goodwood, lifting his head higher than the rest-bowing it rather less.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000011|During much of the time Isabel was conscious of mr Goodwood's gaze; he looked at her somewhat harder than he usually looked in public, while the others had fixed their eyes upon the churchyard turf.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000012|But she never let him see that she saw him; she thought of him only to wonder that he was still in England.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000013|She found she had taken for granted that after accompanying Ralph to Gardencourt he had gone away; she remembered how little it was a country that pleased him.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000017_000014|He was there, however, very distinctly there; and something in his attitude seemed to say that he was there with a complex intention.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000000|Ralph had said to Isabel that he hoped she would remain at Gardencourt, and she made no immediate motion to leave the place.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000001|She said to herself that it was but common charity to stay a little with her aunt.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000002|It was fortunate she had so good a formula; otherwise she might have been greatly in want of one.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000003|Her errand was over; she had done what she had left her husband to do.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000004|She had a husband in a foreign city, counting the hours of her absence; in such a case one needed an excellent motive. He was not one of the best husbands, but that didn't alter the case. Certain obligations were involved in the very fact of marriage, and were quite independent of the quantity of enjoyment extracted from it.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000005|Isabel thought of her husband as little as might be; but now that she was at a distance, beyond its spell, she thought with a kind of spiritual shudder of Rome.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000006|There was a penetrating chill in the image, and she drew back into the deepest shade of Gardencourt.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000007|She lived from day to day, postponing, closing her eyes, trying not to think.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000008|She knew she must decide, but she decided nothing; her coming itself had not been a decision.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000009|On that occasion she had simply started.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000018_000011|From Pansy she heard nothing, but that was very simple: her father had told her not to write.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000002|This consisted in the reflexion that, after all, such things happened to other people and not to herself.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000005|For herself she was on the spot; there was nothing so good as that.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000006|She made known to Isabel very punctually-it was the evening her son was buried-several of Ralph's testamentary arrangements.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000007|He had told her everything, had consulted her about everything.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000008|He left her no money; of course she had no need of money.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000009|He left her the furniture of Gardencourt, exclusive of the pictures and books and the use of the place for a year; after which it was to be sold.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000010|The money produced by the sale was to constitute an endowment for a hospital for poor persons suffering from the malady of which he died; and of this portion of the will Lord Warburton was appointed executor.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000011|The rest of his property, which was to be withdrawn from the bank, was disposed of in various bequests, several of them to those cousins in Vermont to whom his father had already been so bountiful.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000019_000012|Then there were a number of small legacies.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000020_000002|Apparently he thought you didn't like him, for he hasn't left you a penny.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000020_000005|The most valuable of the collection goes to Lord Warburton.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000020_000006|And what do you think he has done with his library? It sounds like a practical joke.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000020_000008|Was that a service to literature?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000020_000009|It contains a great many rare and valuable books, and as she can't carry it about the world in her trunk he recommends her to sell it at auction. She will sell it of course at Christie's, and with the proceeds she'll set up a newspaper.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000020_000010|Will that be a service to literature?"
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000000|This question Isabel forbore to answer, as it exceeded the little interrogatory to which she had deemed it necessary to submit on her arrival.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000002|She was quite unable to read; her attention had never been so little at her command.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000003|One afternoon, in the library, about a week after the ceremony in the churchyard, she was trying to fix it for an hour; but her eyes often wandered from the book in her hand to the open window, which looked down the long avenue.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000007|Since her arrival at Gardencourt she had been but little out of doors, the weather being unfavourable for visiting the grounds.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000008|This evening, however, was fine, and at first it struck her as a happy thought to have come out.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000009|The theory I have just mentioned was plausible enough, but it brought her little rest, and if you had seen her pacing about you would have said she had a bad conscience.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000011|Her aunt had evidently proposed to Lord Warburton that they should come in search of her.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000012|She was in no humour for visitors and, if she had had a chance, would have drawn back behind one of the great trees.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000013|But she saw she had been seen and that nothing was left her but to advance.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000014|As the lawn at Gardencourt was a vast expanse this took some time; during which she observed that, as he walked beside his hostess, Lord Warburton kept his hands rather stiffly behind him and his eyes upon the ground.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000016|It seemed to say with cutting sharpness: "Here's the eminently amenable nobleman you might have married!" When Lord Warburton lifted his own eyes, however, that was not what they said.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000017|They only said "This is rather awkward, you know, and I depend upon you to help me." He was very grave, very proper and, for the first time since Isabel had known him, greeted her without a smile.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000021_000018|Even in his days of distress he had always begun with a smile. He looked extremely selfconscious.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000022_000001|"He tells me he didn't know you were still here.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000022_000002|I know he's an old friend of yours, and as I was told you were not in the house I brought him out to see for himself."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000023_000001|"I'm so glad to find you've not gone."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000024_000000|"I'm not here for long, you know," Isabel said with a certain eagerness.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000025_000000|"I suppose not; but I hope it's for some weeks.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000025_000001|You came to England sooner than-a-than you thought?"
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000026_000000|"Yes, I came very suddenly."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000027_000001|Isabel fancied he had been on the point of asking about her husband-rather confusedly-and then had checked himself.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000027_000002|He continued immitigably grave, either because he thought it becoming in a place over which death had just passed, or for more personal reasons.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000027_000003|If he was conscious of personal reasons it was very fortunate that he had the cover of the former motive; he could make the most of that.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000027_000004|Isabel thought of all this.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000027_000005|It was not that his face was sad, for that was another matter; but it was strangely inexpressive.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000028_000000|"My sisters would have been so glad to come if they had known you were still here-if they had thought you would see them," Lord Warburton went on.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000028_000001|"Do kindly let them see you before you leave England."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000029_000000|"It would give me great pleasure; I have such a friendly recollection of them."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000030_000000|"I don't know whether you would come to Lockleigh for a day or two? You know there's always that old promise." And his lordship coloured a little as he made this suggestion, which gave his face a somewhat more familiar air.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000030_000001|"Perhaps I'm not right in saying that just now; of course you're not thinking of visiting.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000030_000002|But I meant what would hardly be a visit.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000031_000000|Isabel wondered if not even the young lady he was to marry would be there with her mamma; but she did not express this idea.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000032_000000|"Thank you extremely," she contented herself with saying; "I'm afraid I hardly know about Whitsuntide."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000033_000000|"But I have your promise-haven't I?--for some other time."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000034_000000|There was an interrogation in this; but Isabel let it pass.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000034_000001|She looked at her interlocutor a moment, and the result of her observation was that-as had happened before-she felt sorry for him.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000034_000002|"Take care you don't miss your train," she said.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000034_000003|And then she added: "I wish you every happiness."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000035_000000|He blushed again, more than before, and he looked at his watch.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000035_000002|Thank you very much."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000035_000003|It was not apparent whether the thanks applied to her having reminded him of his train or to the more sentimental remark.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000035_000005|With her his parting was equally brief; and in a moment the two ladies saw him move with long steps across the lawn.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000037_000000|"I can't be surer than he; but he seems sure.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000037_000001|I congratulated him, and he accepted it."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000038_000000|"Ah," said Isabel, "I give it up!"--while her aunt returned to the house and to those avocations which the visitor had interrupted.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000000|She gave it up, but she still thought of it-thought of it while she strolled again under the great oaks whose shadows were long upon the acres of turf.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000001|At the end of a few minutes she found herself near a rustic bench, which, a moment after she had looked at it, struck her as an object recognised.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000004|She wouldn't sit down on it now-she felt rather afraid of it.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000005|She only stood before it, and while she stood the past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000006|The effect of this agitation was a sudden sense of being very tired, under the influence of which she overcame her scruples and sank into the rustic seat.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000007|I have said that she was restless and unable to occupy herself; and whether or no, if you had seen her there, you would have admired the justice of the former epithet, you would at least have allowed that at this moment she was the image of a victim of idleness.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000008|Her attitude had a singular absence of purpose; her hands, hanging at her sides, lost themselves in the folds of her black dress; her eyes gazed vaguely before her. There was nothing to recall her to the house; the two ladies, in their seclusion, dined early and had tea at an indefinite hour.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000009|How long she had sat in this position she could not have told you; but the twilight had grown thick when she became aware that she was not alone.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000010|She quickly straightened herself, glancing about, and then saw what had become of her solitude.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000039_000012|It occurred to her in the midst of this that it was just so Lord Warburton had surprised her of old.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000040_000000|She instantly rose, and as soon as Goodwood saw he was seen he started forward.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000040_000003|But there was something in his face that she wished not to see.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000040_000005|He said nothing at first; she only felt him close to her-beside her on the bench and pressingly turned to her.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000040_000006|It almost seemed to her that no one had ever been so close to her as that. All this, however, took but an instant, at the end of which she had disengaged her wrist, turning her eyes upon her visitant.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000000|"I didn't mean to," he answered, "but if I did a little, no matter. I came from London a while ago by the train, but I couldn't come here directly.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000002|He took a fly that was there, and I heard him give the order to drive here.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000003|I don't know who he was, but I didn't want to come with him; I wanted to see you alone.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000004|So I've been waiting and walking about.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000005|I've walked all over, and I was just coming to the house when I saw you here.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000007|Is that gentleman gone?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000008|Are you really alone?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000010|She had a new sensation; he had never produced it before; it was a feeling of danger.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000011|There was indeed something really formidable in his resolution.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000012|She gazed straight before her; he, with a hand on each knee, leaned forward, looking deeply into her face.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000013|The twilight seemed to darken round them.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000014|"I want to speak to you," he repeated; "I've something particular to say.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000015|I don't want to trouble you-as I did the other day in Rome.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000016|That was of no use; it only distressed you.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000018|But I'm not wrong now; please don't think I am," he went on with his hard, deep voice melting a moment into entreaty.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000019|"I came here to day for a purpose.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000041_000020|It's very different. It was vain for me to speak to you then; but now I can help you."
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000042_000000|She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000042_000001|They produced a sort of stillness in all her being; and it was with an effort, in a moment, that she answered him.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000042_000002|"How can you help me?" she asked in a low tone, as if she were taking what he had said seriously enough to make the enquiry in confidence.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000000|"By inducing you to trust me.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000001|Now I know-to day I know.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000002|Do you remember what I asked you in Rome?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000003|Then I was quite in the dark.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000004|But to day I know on good authority; everything's clear to me to day.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000005|It was a good thing when you made me come away with your cousin.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000006|He was a good man, a fine man, one of the best; he told me how the case stands for you.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000007|He explained everything; he guessed my sentiments.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000009|"Do you know what he said to me the last time I saw him-as he lay there where he died?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000043_000010|He said: 'Do everything you can for her; do everything she'll let you.'"
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000044_000000|Isabel suddenly got up.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000044_000001|"You had no business to talk about me!"
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000045_000000|"Why not-why not, when we talked in that way?" he demanded, following her fast.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000045_000001|"And he was dying-when a man's dying it's different." She checked the movement she had made to leave him; she was listening more than ever; it was true that he was not the same as that last time.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000045_000002|That had been aimless, fruitless passion, but at present he had an idea, which she scented in all her being.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000045_000003|"But it doesn't matter!" he exclaimed, pressing her still harder, though now without touching a hem of her garment.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000045_000005|I had only to look at you at your cousin's funeral to see what's the matter with you.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000045_000006|You can't deceive me any more; for God's sake be honest with a man who's so honest with you.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000046_000000|She turned on him as if he had struck her.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000046_000001|"Are you mad?" she cried.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000000|"I've never been so sane; I see the whole thing.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000001|Don't think it's necessary to defend him.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000002|But I won't say another word against him; I'll speak only of you," Goodwood added quickly.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000003|"How can you pretend you're not heart broken?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000004|You don't know what to do-you don't know where to turn.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000005|It's too late to play a part; didn't you leave all that behind you in Rome?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000007|It will have cost you your life?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000008|Say it will"--and he flared almost into anger: "give me one word of truth!
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000009|When I know such a horror as that, how can I keep myself from wishing to save you?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000010|What would you think of me if I should stand still and see you go back to your reward?
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000013|"I'd sooner have been shot than let another man say those things to me; but he was different; he seemed to me to have the right.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000014|It was after he got home-when he saw he was dying, and when I saw it too. I understand all about it: you're afraid to go back.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000015|You're perfectly alone; you don't know where to turn.
train-other-500/2676/143903/2676_143903_000047_000016|You can't turn anywhere; you know that perfectly.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000001_000000|"Then He Will Come Again"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000000|Lady Mabel, when her young lover left her, was for a time freed from the necessity of thinking about him by her father.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000001|He had returned from the Oaks in a very bad humour.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000002|Lord Grex had been very badly treated by his son, whom he hated worse than any one else in the world.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000003|On the Derby Day he had won a large sum of money, which had been to him at the time a matter of intense delight,--for he was in great want of money.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000004|But on this day he had discovered that his son and heir had lost more than he had won, and an arrangement had been suggested to him that his winnings should go to pay Percival's losings.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000005|This was a mode of settling affairs to which the Earl would not listen for a moment, had he possessed the power of putting a veto upon it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000007|This money had not yet been forthcoming, and therefore the Earl was constrained to assent.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000008|This was very distasteful to the Earl, and he came home therefore in a bad humour, and said a great many disagreeable things to his daughter. "You know, papa, if I could do anything I would."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000009|This she said in answer to a threat, which he had made often before and now repeated, of getting rid altogether of the house in Belgrave Square.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000010|Whenever he made this threat he did not scruple to tell her that the house had to be kept up solely for her welfare.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000011|"I don't see why the deuce you don't get married.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000012|You'll have to do it sooner or later." That was not a pleasant speech for a daughter to hear from her father.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000002_000013|"As to that," she said, "it must come or not as chance will have it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000003_000000|They dined out together,--of course with all the luxury that wealth can give.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000003_000002|She was splendidly dressed, as became an Earl's daughter, and he was brilliant with some star which had been accorded to him by his sovereign's grateful minister in return for staunch parliamentary support.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000003_000003|No one looking at them could have imagined that such a father could have told such a daughter that she must marry herself out of the way because as an unmarried girl she was a burden.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000004_000000|During the dinner she was very gay.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000004_000001|To be gay was the habit,--we may almost say the work,--of her life.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000004_000002|It so chanced that she sat between Sir Timothy Beeswax, who in these days was a very great man indeed, and that very Dolly Longstaff, whom Silverbridge in his irony had proposed to her as a fitting suitor for her hand.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000005_000000|"Isn't Lord Silverbridge a cousin of yours?" asked Sir Timothy.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000006_000000|"A very distant one."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000007_000000|"He has come over to us, you know.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000007_000001|It is such a triumph."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000008_000000|"I was so sorry to hear it." This, however, as the reader knows, was a fib.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000009_000000|"Sorry!" said Sir Timothy.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000009_000001|"Surely Lord Grex's daughter must be a Conservative."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000010_000000|"Oh yes;--I am a Conservative because I was born one.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000010_000001|I think that people in politics should remain as they are born,--unless they are very wise indeed.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000010_000002|When men come to be statesmen and all that kind of thing, of course they can change backwards and forwards."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000011_000000|"I hope that is not intended for me, Lady Mabel."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000012_000000|"Certainly not.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000012_000003|Don't you like the Duke?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000013_000000|"Well;--yes;--in a way.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000013_000001|He is a most respectable man; and has been a good public servant."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000014_000000|"All our lot are ruined, you know," said Dolly, talking of the races.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000015_000000|"Who are your lot, mr Longstaff?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000016_000000|"I'm one myself."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000017_000000|"I suppose so."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000018_000000|"I'm utterly smashed.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000018_000001|Then there's Percival."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000019_000000|"I hope he has not lost much.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000019_000001|Of course you know he's my brother."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000020_000000|"Oh laws;--so he is.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000020_000001|I always put my foot in it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000020_000002|Well;--he has lost a lot.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000020_000003|And so have Silverbridge and Tifto.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000020_000004|Perhaps you don't know Tifto."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000021_000000|"I have not the pleasure of knowing mr Tifto."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000022_000000|"He is a major.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000022_000001|I think you'd like Major Tifto.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000022_000003|You ought to know Tifto.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000022_000004|And Tregear is pretty nearly cleared out."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000023_000000|"mr Tregear!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000023_000001|Frank Tregear!"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000024_000000|"I'm told he has been hit very heavy.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000024_000001|I hope he's not a friend of yours, Lady Mabel."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000025_000000|"Indeed he is;--a very dear friend and a cousin."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000026_000000|"That's what I hear.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000026_000001|He's very much with Silverbridge you know."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000028_000000|"I hope he hasn't.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000028_000001|I know I have.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000028_000002|I wish someone would stick up for me, and say that it was impossible."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000029_000000|"But that is not mr Tregear's way of living.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000029_000001|I can understand that Lord Silverbridge or Percival should lose money."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000031_000000|"Or you, if you like to say so."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000032_000000|"Or Tifto?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000033_000000|"I don't know anything about mr Tifto."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000034_000000|"Major Tifto."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000035_000000|"Or Major Tifto;--what does it signify?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000036_000001|We inferior people may lose our money just as we please.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000036_000002|But a man who can look as clever as mr Tregear ought to win always."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000037_000000|"I told you just now that he was a friend of mine."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000038_000001|"Now tell the truth, Lady Mabel; does he not look conceited sometimes?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000040_000000|"Of course he is a great deal more clever than I am.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000041_000000|"Sometimes, mr Longstaff, I deny myself the pleasure of saying what I think."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000000|When all this was over she was very angry with herself for the anxiety she had expressed about Tregear.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000001|This mr Longstaff was, she thought, exactly the man to report all she had said in the public room at the club.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000004|Those others had, as it were, a right to make fools of themselves.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000006|Her father had done so, and she had never even ventured to hope that her brother would not follow her father's example.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000007|But Tregear, if he gave way to such follies as these, would soon fall headlong into a pit from which there would be no escape.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000008|And if he did fall, she knew herself well enough to be aware that she could not stifle, nor even conceal, the misery which this would occasion her.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000010|But were he to be precipitated into some bottomless misfortunes then she could only throw herself after him.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000011|She could see him marry, and smile,--and perhaps even like his wife.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000012|And while he was doing so, she could also marry, and resolve that the husband whom she took should be made to think that he had a loving wife.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000015|She had been unable so to subdue herself as to seem to be perfectly careless about it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000016|She had begun by saying that she had not believed it;--but she had believed it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000042_000018|But then the misfortune would be to him so terrible,--so irremediable!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000043_000000|After the dinner she went home alone.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000043_000003|"I am glad you are alone," she said, "because I want to speak to you."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000044_000000|"Is anything wrong?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000046_000000|"He says that almost always when he comes back from the races, and very often when he comes back from the club."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000047_000000|"Percival has lost ever so much."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000048_000000|"I don't think my Lord will hamper himself for your brother."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000050_000000|"Who am I?" said Miss Cassewary.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000051_000000|"About the dearest friend that ever a poor girl had.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000051_000001|It is hard upon you,--and upon me.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000051_000002|I have given up everything,--and what good have I done?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000052_000000|"It is hard, my dear."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000053_000000|"But after all I do not care much for all that.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000053_000001|The thing has been going on so long that one is used to it."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000054_000000|"What is it then?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000057_000000|"I could tell no one else; I am sure of that.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000057_000001|Frank Tregear has taken to gambling,--like the rest of them."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000058_000000|"Who says so?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000059_000000|"He has lost a lot of money at these races.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000059_000001|A man who sat next me at dinner,--one of those stupid do nothing fools that one meets everywhere,--told me so.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000059_000002|He is one of the Beargarden set, and of course he knows all about it."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000060_000000|"Did he say how much?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000061_000001|Of all things that men do this is the worst.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000061_000003|And they consider themselves to be fine gentlemen!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000061_000004|A real gentleman should never want the money out of another man's pocket;--should never think of money at all."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000062_000000|"I don't know how that is to be helped, my dear.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000062_000001|You have got to think of money."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000065_000001|I might have had the feelings of a gentleman as well as the best man that ever was born.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000065_000002|I haven't; but I have never done anything so mean as gambling.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000065_000003|Now I have got something else to tell you."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000066_000000|"What is it?
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000066_000001|You do frighten me so when you look like that."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000067_000000|"You may well be frightened,--for if this all comes round I shall very soon be able to dispense with you altogether.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000067_000001|His Royal Highness Lord Silverbridge-"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000069_000000|"He's next door to a Royal Highness at any rate, and a much more topping man than most of them.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000069_000001|Well then;--His Serene Highness the heir of the Duke of Omnium has done me the inexpressible honour of asking me-to marry him."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000071_000000|"You may well say, no
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000072_000000|"Then why do you say he did?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000074_000000|"Did he mean it?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000075_000000|"Yes;--poor boy!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000075_000001|He meant it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000076_000000|"What did you do?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000077_000000|"I spared him;--out of sheer downright Christian charity!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000077_000001|I said to myself 'Love your neighbours.' 'Don't be selfish.' 'Do unto him as you would he should do unto you,'--that is, think of his welfare. Though I had him in my net, I let him go.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000078_000000|"I don't know," said Miss Cassewary, who was so much perturbed by the news she had heard as to be unable to come to any opinion on the point just raised.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000079_000001|From how much embarrassment should I have relieved my father!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000079_000003|How much I might have been able to do for Frank!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000079_000004|And then what a wife I should have made him!"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000080_000000|"I think you would."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000081_000000|"He'll never get another half so good; and he'll be sure to get one before long.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000081_000001|It is a sort of tenderness that is quite inefficacious. He will become a prey, as I should have made him a prey.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000082_000000|"I cannot bear to hear you speak of yourself in that way."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000083_000000|"But it is true.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000083_000001|I know the sort of girl he should marry.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000083_000003|How well I can see her!
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000083_000004|She should have fair hair, and bright green gray eyes, with the sweetest complexion, and the prettiest little dimples;--two inches shorter than me, and the delight of her life should be to hang with two hands on his arm.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000083_000005|She should have a feeling that her Silverbridge is an Apollo upon earth.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000083_000007|If I thought that he would get the fresh young girl with the dimples then I ought to abstain."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000085_000000|"He was quite in earnest."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000086_000000|"Then he will come again."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000087_000000|"I don't think he will," said Lady Mabel.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000087_000001|"I told him that I was too old for him, and I tried to laugh him out of it.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000087_000002|He does not like being laughed at.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000087_000003|He has been saved, and he will know it."
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000088_000000|"But if he should come again?"
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000089_000000|"I shall not spare him again.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000089_000001|No;--not twice.
train-other-500/2694/28858/2694_28858_000089_000002|I felt it to be hard to do so once, because I so nearly love him!
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000002_000000|CHAPTER fifty three
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000003_000000|"Then I Am As Proud As a Queen"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000000|During the next day or two the shooting went on without much interruption from love making.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000001|The love making was not prosperous all round.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000002|Poor Lady Mary had nothing to comfort her.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000003|Could she have been allowed to see the letter which her lover had written to her father, the comfort would have been, if not ample, still very great.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000004|Mary told herself again and again that she was quite sure of Tregear;--but it was hard upon her that she could not be made certain that her certainty was well grounded.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000005|Had she known that Tregear had written, though she had not seen a word of his letter, it would have comforted her.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000006|But she had heard nothing of the letter.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000007|In June last she had seen him, by chance, for a few minutes, in Lady Mabel's drawing room. Since that she had not heard from him or of him.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000008|That was now more than five months since.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000009|How could her love serve her,--how could her very life serve her, if things were to go on like that?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000010|How was she to bear it?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000004_000011|Thinking of this she resolved-she almost resolved-that she would go boldly to her father and desire that she might be given up to her lover.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000000|Her brother, though more triumphant,--for how could he fail to triumph after such words as Isabel had spoken to him?--still felt his difficulties very seriously.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000001|She had imbued him with a strong sense of her own firmness, and she had declared that she would go away and leave him altogether if the Duke should be unwilling to receive her. He knew that the Duke would be unwilling.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000003|These signs were manifest to Mary,--were disagreeably manifest to Silverbridge,--were unfortunately manifest to Lady Mabel herself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000004|They were manifest to mrs Finn, who was clever enough to perceive that the inclinations of the young heir were turned in another direction.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000005|And gradually they became manifest to Isabel Boncassen.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000006|The host himself, as host, was courteous to all his guests.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000007|They had been of his own selection, and he did his best to make himself pleasant to them all.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000008|But he selected two for his peculiar notice,--and those two were Miss Boncassen and Lady Mabel. While he would himself walk, and talk, and argue after his own peculiar fashion with the American beauty,--explaining to her matters political and social, till he persuaded her to promise to read his pamphlet upon decimal coinage,--he was always making awkward efforts to throw Silverbridge and Lady Mabel together.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000010|But neither was satisfied with her advantage, or nearly satisfied.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000011|Isabel would not take the prize without the Duke's consent;--and Mabel could not have it without that other consent.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000005_000013|I never saw a man more absolutely in love." "But I do not want to marry an English Duke," said Isabel, "and I pity any girl who has any idea of marriage except that which comes from a wish to give back love for love."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000006_000000|Through it all the father never suspected the real state of his son's mind.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000006_000001|He was too simple to think it possible that the purpose which Silverbridge had declared to him as they walked together from the Beargarden had already been thrown to the winds.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000006_000002|He did not like to ask why the thing was not settled.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000006_000003|Young men, he thought, were sometimes shy, and young ladies not always ready to give immediate encouragement.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000006_000004|But, when he saw them together, he concluded that matters were going in the right direction.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000006_000005|It was, however, an opinion which he had all to himself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000007_000000|During the three or four days which followed the scene in the billiard room Isabel kept herself out of her lover's way.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000007_000001|She had explained to him that which she wished him to do, and she left him to do it.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000007_000003|She was sure that it could not have been done while the Duke was explaining to her the beauty of quints, and expatiating on the horrors of twelve pennies, and twelve inches, and twelve ounces,--variegated in some matters by sixteen and fourteen!
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000007_000005|She was an apt scholar. Had there been a question of any other young man marrying her, he would probably have thought that no other young man could have done better.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000000|Silverbridge was discontented with himself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000001|The greatest misfortune was that Lady Mabel should be there.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000002|While she was present to his father's eyes he did not know how to declare his altered wishes. Every now and then she would say to him some little word indicating her feelings of the absurdity of his passion.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000003|"I declare I don't know whether it is you or your father that Miss Boncassen most affects," she said.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000004|But to this and to other similar speeches he would make no answer.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000005|She had extracted his secret from him at Killancodlem, and might use it against him if she pleased.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000008_000006|In his present frame of mind he was not disposed to joke with her upon the subject.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000009_000000|On that second Sunday,--the Boncassens were to return to London on the following Tuesday,--he found himself alone with Isabel's father. The American had been brought out at his own request to see the stables, and had been accompanied round the premises by Silverbridge and by mr Warburton, by Isabel and by Lady Mary.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000009_000001|As they got out into the park the party were divided, and Silverbridge found himself with mr Boncassen.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000009_000002|Then it occurred to him that the proper thing for a young man in love was to go, not to his own father, but to the lady's father.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000009_000004|Isabel no doubt had suggested a different course.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000009_000005|But that which Isabel had suggested was at the present moment impossible to him.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000009_000006|Now, at this instant, without a moment's forethought, he determined to tell his story to Isabel's father,--as any other lover might tell it to any other father.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000010_000000|"I am very glad to find ourselves alone, mr Boncassen," he said.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000010_000001|mr Boncassen bowed and showed himself prepared to listen.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000010_000002|Though so many at Matching had seen the whole play, mr Boncassen had seen nothing of it.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000011_000000|"I don't know whether you are aware of what I have got to say."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000012_000000|"I cannot quite say that I am, my Lord.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000012_000001|But whatever it is, I am sure I shall be delighted to hear it."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000013_000000|"I want to marry your daughter," said Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000013_000001|Isabel had told him that he was downright, and in such a matter he had hardly as yet learned how to express himself with those paraphrases in which the world delights.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000013_000002|mr Boncassen stood stock still, and in the excitement of the moment pulled off his hat.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000013_000003|"The proper thing is to ask your permission to go on with it."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000014_000000|"You want to marry my daughter!"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000015_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000015_000001|That is what I have got to say."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000016_000000|"Is she aware of your-intention?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000017_000000|"Quite aware.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000017_000001|I believe I may say that if other things go straight, she will consent."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000018_000000|"And your father-the Duke?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000019_000000|"He knows nothing about it,--as yet."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000020_000000|"Really this takes me quite by surprise.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000020_000001|I am afraid you have not given enough thought to the matter."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000021_000000|"I have been thinking about it for the last three months," said Lord Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000022_000000|"Marriage is a very serious thing."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000023_000000|"Of course it is."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000024_000000|"And men generally like to marry their equals."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000025_000000|"I don't know about that.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000025_000001|I don't think that counts for much.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000025_000002|People don't always know who are their equals."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000026_000000|"That is quite true.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000026_000001|If I were speaking to you or to your father theoretically I should perhaps be unwilling to admit superiority on your side because of your rank and wealth.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000026_000002|I could make an argument in favour of any equality with the best Briton that ever lived,--as would become a true born Republican."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000027_000000|"That is just what I mean."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000029_000000|"He wouldn't be a gentleman," said Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000030_000000|"That is a word of which I don't quite know the meaning."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000031_000000|"I do," said Silverbridge confidently.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000032_000000|"But you could not define it.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000032_000001|If a man be well educated, and can keep a good house over his head, perhaps you may call him a gentleman.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000032_000002|But there are many such with whom your father would not wish to be so closely connected as you propose."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000033_000000|"But I may have your sanction?" mr Boncassen again took off his hat and walked along thoughtfully.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000033_000001|"I hope you don't object to me personally."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000034_000000|"My dear young lord, your father has gone out of his way to be civil to me.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000034_000001|Am I to return his courtesy by bringing a great trouble upon him?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000035_000000|"He seems to be very fond of Miss Boncassen."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000036_000001|What does Isabel say?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000037_000000|"She says the same as you, of course."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000038_000000|"Why of course;--except that it is evident to you as it is to me that she could not with propriety say anything else."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000039_000000|"I think she would,--would like it, you know."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000040_000000|"She would like to be your wife!"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000041_000000|"Well;--yes.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000041_000001|If it were all serene, I think she would consent."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000042_000000|"I dare say she would consent,--if it were all serene.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000042_000001|Why should she not?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000042_000002|Do not try her too hard, Lord Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000042_000003|You say you love her."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000043_000000|"I do, indeed."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000044_000000|"Then think of the position in which you are placing her.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000044_000001|You are struggling to win her heart." Silverbridge as he heard this assured himself that there was no need for any further struggling in that direction.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000044_000002|"Perhaps you have won it.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000044_000003|Yet she may feel that she cannot become your wife.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000044_000004|She may well say to herself that this which is offered to her is so great, that she does not know how to refuse it; and may yet have to say, at the same time, that she cannot accept it without disgrace.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000044_000005|You would not put one that you love into such a position?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000045_000000|"As for disgrace,--that is nonsense.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000045_000001|I beg your pardon, mr Boncassen."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000046_000000|"Would it be no disgrace that she should be known here, in England, to be your wife, and that none of those of your rank,--of what would then be her own rank,--should welcome her into her new world?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000047_000000|"That would be out of the question."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000048_000000|"If your own father refused to welcome her, would not others follow suit?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000049_000000|"You don't know my father."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000050_000000|"You seem to know him well enough to fear that he would object."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000051_000000|"Yes;--that is true."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000052_000000|"What more do I want to know?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000053_000000|"If she were once my wife he would not reject her.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000053_000001|Of all human beings he is in truth the kindest and most affectionate."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000054_000000|"And therefore you would try him after this fashion?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000054_000001|No, my Lord; I cannot see my way through these difficulties.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000054_000002|You can say what you please to him as to your own wishes.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000054_000003|But you must not tell him that you have any sanction from me."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000000|That evening the story was told to mrs Boncassen, and the matter was discussed among the family.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000001|Isabel in talking to them made no scruple of declaring her own feelings; and though in speaking to Lord Silverbridge she had spoken very much as her father had done afterwards, yet in this family conclave she took her lover's part. "That is all very well, father," she said; "I told him the same thing myself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000002|But if he is man enough to be firm I shall not throw him over,--not for all the dukes in Europe.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000003|I shall not stay here to be pointed at.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000004|I will go back home.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000005|If he follows me then I shall choose to forget all about his rank.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000006|If he loves me well enough to show that he is in earnest, I shall not disappoint him for the sake of pleasing his father." To this neither mr nor mrs Boncassen was able to make any efficient answer.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000007|mrs Boncassen, dear good woman, could see no reason why two young people who loved each other should not be married at once.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000008|Dukes and duchesses were nothing to her.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000009|If they couldn't be happy in England, then let them come and live in New York.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000010|She didn't understand that anybody could be too good for her daughter.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000011|Was there not an idea that mr Boncassen would be the next President?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000055_000012|And was not the President of the United States as good as the Queen of England?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000000|Lord Silverbridge, when he left mr Boncassen, wandered about the park by himself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000001|King Cophetua married the beggar's daughter.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000002|He was sure of that.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000003|King Cophetua probably had not a father; and the beggar, probably, was not high minded.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000004|But the discrepancy in that case was much greater.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000005|He intended to persevere, trusting much to a belief that when once he was married his father would "come round." His father always did come round.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000006|But the more he thought of it, the more impossible it seemed to him that he should ask his father's consent at the present moment.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000007|Lady Mabel's presence in the house was an insuperable obstacle.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000008|He thought that he could do it if he and his father were alone together, or comparatively alone.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000056_000009|He must be prepared for an opposition, at any rate of some days, which opposition would make his father quite unable to entertain his guests while it lasted.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000057_000001|Then he considered whether he might not possibly make some bargain with his father.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000057_000002|How would it be if he should consent to go back to the Liberal party on being allowed to marry the girl he loved?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000057_000003|As far as his political feelings were concerned he did not think that he would much object to make the change.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000057_000004|There was only one thing certain,--that he must explain his condition to Miss Boncassen before she went.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000058_000000|He found no difficulty now in getting the opportunity.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000058_000001|She was equally anxious, and as well disposed to acknowledge her anxiety. After what had passed between them she was not desirous of pretending that the matter was one of small moment to herself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000058_000002|She had told him that it was all the world to her, and had begged him to let her know her fate as quickly as possible.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000058_000003|On that last Monday morning they were in the grounds together, and Lady Mabel, who was walking with mrs Finn, saw them pass through a little gate which led from the gardens into the Priory ruins.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000058_000004|"It all means nothing," Mabel said with a little laugh to her companion.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000059_000000|"If so, I am sorry for the young lady," said mrs Finn.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000060_000000|"Don't you think that one always has to be sorry for the young ladies?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000060_000001|Young ladies generally have a bad time of it.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000060_000002|Did you ever hear of a gentleman who had always to roll a stone to the top of a hill, but it would always come back upon him?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000061_000000|"That gentleman I believe never succeeded," said mrs Finn.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000062_000000|In the meantime Isabel and Silverbridge were among the ruins together.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000062_000001|"This is where the old Pallisers used to be buried," he said.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000063_000000|"Oh, indeed.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000063_000001|And married, I suppose."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000064_000000|"I dare say.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000064_000001|They had a priest of their own, no doubt, which must have been convenient.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000064_000002|This block of a fellow without any legs left is supposed to represent Sir Guy.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000064_000003|He ran away with half a dozen heiresses, they say.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000064_000004|I wish things were as easily done now."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000065_000000|"Nobody should have run away with me.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000065_000001|I have no idea of going on such a journey except on terms of equality,--just step and step alike." Then she took hold of his arm and put out one foot.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000065_000002|"Are you ready?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000066_000000|"I am very willing."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000067_000000|"But are you ready,--for a straightforward walk off to church before all the world?
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000067_000001|None of your private chaplains, such as Sir Guy had at his command.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000067_000002|Just the registrar, if there is nothing better,--so that it be public, before all the world."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000068_000000|"I wish we could start this instant."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000069_000000|"But we can't,--can we?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000070_000000|"No, dear.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000070_000001|So many things have to be settled."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000071_000000|"And what have you settled on since you last spoke to me?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000072_000000|"I have told your father everything."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000073_000000|"Yes;--I know that.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000073_000002|Father is not a Duke of Omnium.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000073_000003|No one supposed that he would object."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000074_000000|"But he did," said Silverbridge.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000075_000000|"Yes;--as I do,--for the same reason; because he would not have his daughter creep in at a hole.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000075_000001|But to your own father you have not ventured to speak." Then he told his story, as best he knew how.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000075_000002|It was not that he feared his father, but that he felt that the present moment was not fit.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000075_000003|"He wishes you to marry that Lady Mabel Grex," she said.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000075_000004|He nodded his head.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000076_000000|"Never!
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000076_000001|I might have done so, had I not seen you.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000076_000002|I should have done so, if she had been willing.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000076_000003|But now I never can,--never, never." Her hand had dropped from his arm, but now she put it up again for a moment, so that he might feel the pressure of her fingers.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000077_000000|"I think I do."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000079_000000|"I think you do.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000079_000001|I am sure I hope you do.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000079_000002|If you don't, then I am-a miserable wretch."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000080_000000|"With all my heart I do."
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000081_000000|"Then I am as proud as a queen.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000082_000000|"As soon as you are gone.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000082_000001|As soon as we are alone together.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000082_000002|I will;--and then I will follow you to London.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000082_000003|Now shall we not say, Good bye?"
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000083_000000|"Good bye, my own," she whispered.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000000|Her hand was in his, and she looked about as though to see that no eyes were watching them.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000001|But then, as the thoughts came rushing to her mind, she changed her purpose.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000002|"No," she said.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000003|"What is it but a trifle!
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000004|It is nothing in itself.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000005|But I have bound myself to myself by certain promises, and you must not ask me to break them.
train-other-500/2694/28891/2694_28891_000085_000006|You are as sweet to me as I can be to you, but there shall be no kissing till I know that I shall be your wife.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000000_000000|Paula's Saviour wishes to be your Saviour too.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000000_000001|Paula was by no means perfect, but she did love God with all her heart and her neighbor as herself.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000001_000000|This simple country girl, young and strong, yet so tender hearted and forgetful of self, appears to me sometimes like one of the clear brooks of my beloved land, pure and fresh, slipping noiselessly between flowered banks of forget me nots.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000001_000001|It was by love that she "conquered"--as we shall see!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000002_000000|If some day you should come to my country, do not forget that I would have great joy in seeing any of those who have read this book.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000002_000001|I live in the little town of Villar at the bottom of the valley, where on every side there are hills and mountains as far as the eye can reach.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000002_000002|To me it is the loveliest country in the world and I am sure that Paula thought so too.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000003_000000|And so good bye, dear young reader!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000004_000000|And now, may God bless you, Paula dear, as you walk among these my young friends who read about you!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000004_000001|My prayer is that you may shed over them the same sweet ray of celestial light that you have already shed over others.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000005_000000|EVA LECOMTE.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000007_000000|Translator's note:
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000009_000000|w m STRONG.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000010_000000|Coihueco, Chile, South America, nineteen forty.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000035_000000|CHAPTER ONE
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000036_000000|AN UNEXPECTED LETTER
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000037_000000|Clearly engraved on the walls of my memory there still remains a picture of the great gray house where I spent my childhood.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000037_000002|On the side of the house, where ran the broad road from Rouen to Darnetal, a high rugged wall surrounded a wide yard, guarded at the entrance by two massive doors, studded with enormous spikes.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000037_000003|The naked barrenness of this yard was, to say the least, forbidding in the extreme; but the fertile fields on the other side of the house spread themselves like a vast and beautiful green carpet, dotted here and there with little villages, crowned with church spires and their corresponding belfries, from which on a Sunday morning pealed out the cheerful call to prayer and worship.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000037_000004|The ancient convent long before our story begins had been transformed into a lovely dwelling with an immense garden on one side, edged by a dozen little brick houses that seemed so small that they made us children think of certain doll houses that we used to see in the Paris magazines.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000037_000005|They were known locally as the "Red Cottages." A long avenue of ancient elms separated us from these houses of our neighbors, and in front of the cottages stretched a line of stone benches, where, in the shade of the great trees, the old men of the village used to sit and recount to us tales of the days when the Convent flourished.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000037_000006|Some of these stories made us shiver. (Indeed, they had a habit of straying into our dreams at night.)
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000039_000001|In fact, it was in our eyes, the most enchanting corner of the earth.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000040_000000|I don't remember all the details about the special thing that happened one day, but I know that I shall never forget it to the end of my life.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000041_000000|We were at tea in the garden.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000041_000001|Teresa, our old servant, was walking up and down in her kitchen.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000041_000002|She never seemed to have time to sit down to eat Dear old Teresa!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000041_000003|She always seemed like a mother to me, for we had lost our own dear mother when I was still in the cradle.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000042_000000|My brother and I had quarrelled over a mere nothing, when we were called in to tea by our father.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000042_000001|Of course, we did not dare continue our dispute openly in front of him, but we continued our war like activities by kicking each other under the table.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000043_000000|Louis was ten years old and I was nine.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000043_000001|As he was older and a boy, he of course, considered that he had the right to the last word.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000043_000003|At this, his face changed color and my father now disturbed by the extra noise of my kick, finally began to realize what was happening.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000043_000005|He took it silently and opened it as Teresa carried away the tea pot.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000044_000000|I saw immediately by my father's expression that the letter carried serious news, and I am sure Louis noticed it also for he completely forgot to return my kick.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000048_000001|"Who wrote this?" was her first question.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000049_000000|"The Pastor of the village," replied my father.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000050_000000|"A minister!" exclaimed Teresa.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000051_000000|My father smiled a bit sadly.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000052_000000|"You don't understand it, Teresa?"
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000053_000000|"Yes, yes; I understand half of it, and I think I can guess at the other half."
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000054_000000|"Do you want me to help you?" offered Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000056_000000|"You!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000056_000001|I should say not!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000056_000002|You don't care to help me in the kitchen or run errands for me, and the only thing the matter with you now is curiosity!"
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000057_000001|Bending her great fat form more and more closely over the letter, she became more serious as she neared the bottom of the fourth page where the writing became so close and so fine that it was hardly possible to decipher it.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000057_000002|When, at last, she lifted her head, her eyes were full of tears.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000057_000003|"Poor, poor little thing!" she repeated softly.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000058_000000|"Well, what do you think?" said my father.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000059_000000|"What do I think?
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000059_000001|Why we must send at once and have her come here as soon as possible, because-"
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000060_000000|"Who?" my father interrupted her without ceremony.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000061_000000|"Yes; who?
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000062_000000|"Tell us, father, please," added my sister Rosa, a tall, serious girl of fifteen.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000063_000000|And as he did not answer us quickly our questions multiplied.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000064_000000|"Patience!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000064_000001|Patience!" cried my father; "your turn will come."
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000065_000000|"Teresa, you are getting old, and another girl in the house simply means more work for you and a lot more problems for me.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000065_000001|If 'she' (my father had never been able to reconcile himself to pronounce the name of my mother since her untimely death)--if 'she' were here I would not hesitate, but to bring another orphan into a family already half orphaned doesn't seem right to me."
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000066_000000|"Don't worry, sir, a little more work doesn't worry Teresa Rouland.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000068_000000|"And why do you say that, sir?
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000068_000001|One doesn't have to reflect long about doing good."
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000069_000000|"Well, I'll tell you why I hesitate.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000070_000000|"Sir, would you like to know what I think?
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000070_000001|You have said to yourself, 'From the time that my wife died life has become a burden, and if it wasn't for the children I would have died of grief, but for love of them I must work and live.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000070_000002|Therefore, with my heart torn and desolated as it is, I don't feel called upon to take any responsibility upon myself other than that of my own children!'"
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000071_000000|"There is a good deal of truth in what you say, Teresa."
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000072_000000|"Yes, sir, but it is very bad, very bad, if you will let me say so!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000072_000002|When I put her in the coffin it was as if they had taken out a piece of my own heart.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000072_000003|She was so young to die, so sweet, so good, and besides so marvelously beautiful!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000072_000004|But I dried my tears as best I could, for I knew there was much to be done; and I said to myself that I would honor the memory of my mistress by doing always that which I knew she would have approved of.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000072_000005|And now, sir, take this little orphan as you know your good wife would have done, as the daughter of her beloved sister...." She stopped suddenly, slightly abashed, as she realized that perhaps she had said a little too much for one in her station in life.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000074_000000|"You are a valiant woman with a great heart," my father said, as he took her hand.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000074_000001|"I will write this very night and ask them to send the girl to us as soon as possible."
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000075_000000|Then turning to us he added, "You no doubt know by this time of whom we have been speaking.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000075_000001|Your cousin Paula has just lost her father.
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000076_000000|We opened our mouths to ask a thousand questions, but father stopped us. "No, no!
train-other-500/2712/3532/2712_3532_000076_000001|That is enough for now!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000007_000000|CHAPTER THREE
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000008_000000|PAULA ARRIVES
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000009_000000|For nearly a week I couldn't think of another thing but the coming of Paula.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000010_000000|My father had gone to Paris.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000010_000001|He would be there some days to arrange certain important matters of business in connection with his factory, and also to wait for the little orphan to be placed in his care by a lady who was journeying from Villar to Paris.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000010_000003|In fact, I talked about her all day and every day.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000010_000004|I learned nothing, nor could I seem to do anything around the house.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000000|One night, while dreaming, I jumped from the bed, crying, "Paula!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000001|Paula!" This awakened Teresa, and she made me take some nasty medicine thinking I had fever.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000002|I made promises of reform.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000004|Nevertheless I became absolutely insufferable!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000005|My older sisters without being quite so enthusiastic as I was, nevertheless spoke often of Paula.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000006|Catalina began to worry that Paula might suffer in our house, but she soon consoled herself by remembering that my father had promised to put her out to board, if it turned out that she could not get along amicably with us.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000007|As to Louis, he soon showed us that he was not at all interested in the arrival of his young cousin.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000011_000008|If it had been a boy, it would have been different-but a girl!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000013_000000|At last the great day arrived.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000013_000001|It was a Wednesday, and of course I had to go to school as usual.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000013_000002|We did not know at what hour my father would come from Paris with Paula, and so every moment I said to myself, "Perhaps they have arrived!" Result-my lessons went from bad to worse, but at last at five in the afternoon, I reached the house breathless only to find that Paula had not yet come.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000013_000003|"They are not coming!" I cried impatiently, "I knew they wouldn't be here!"
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000014_000000|"Then why did you run so fast?" Teresa asked.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000000|I said nothing, but soon Rosa also arrived, and after tea I put all my books in order, redressed my dolls, got rid of the ink on my hands with pumice stone, and in between each task, took a turn in the garden on the passing of any coach but always with the same result!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000002|Then came supper time.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000003|Catalina had been up and dressed all day and would not hear of going to bed until Paula came.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000005|Then suddenly-Oh, joy!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000007|Teresa had already arisen from her chair.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000009|Then while I waited questioning myself as to what I would say to Paula, trying to remember all the many counsels of Teresa, our old servant staggered in from the yard with a great bag in each hand.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000010|Then our father entered with a young girl at his side dressed in black.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000015_000011|Paula had come!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000000|In anticipation I had fancied Paula as a pale, sad little girl with blue eyes full of tears.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000001|She would have golden hair, very smooth, cut off at the base of her ears, and would be dressed in black muslin, and wear a straw hat with a black ribbon tied under her chin.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000003|She was large for her age and appeared quite strong.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000004|Her frank open face, bronzed with the sun and air, showed health and intelligence.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000005|A black silk cap with a wide ribbon of the same color, failed to entirely hide a magnificent head of brown hair, gathered beneath her cap after the manner of the Waldensians.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000008|In spite of what to our mind was a certain quaint oddness in her dress, it could not hide Paula's beauty.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000016_000009|Her forehead was broad and intelligent, her large brown eyes were full of a certain sweetness, and a lovely smile played on her half opened lips.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000018_000000|Rosa came forward, and I timidly did the same; but Paula dropping father's hand, rushed toward Rosa and then to me, kissing us both and laughing and crying at the same time.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000018_000001|She seemed to forget her long voyage and her weariness as she repeated to each one of us in her melodious voice, "I know I shall love you all, and my Uncle Charles here.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000018_000002|I already love him, and he has told me all your names.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000018_000003|Let me see, this is Rosa," and then turning to me, "You are Lisita.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000018_000004|Oh, if you only knew how much I love you all!"
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000019_000000|"Now go and greet your cousin Catalina," said my father.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000020_000000|Paula drew near the big chair where the sick girl re clined.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000020_000001|Catalina was smiling sadly at the young stranger.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000021_000000|With tenderness and infinite care Paula enveloped her in her strong arms. "I already love you with all my heart!" she said, laying her head against Catalina's shoulder.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000022_000000|"Have you ever been sick, Paula?" she questioned her.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000023_000000|"No, but Papa was," she said in a trembling tone.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000024_000000|At this moment Teresa arrived carrying in the final bag.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000024_000001|"At last," she said, embracing Paula.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000024_000003|It was I who brought up your dear mother, and I thought I would have to do the same with you; but it looks to me as if you wouldn't need very much of my care.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000025_000000|"I am ten years old, madame."
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000026_000000|"Oh, don't call me 'madame.' Call me Teresa, just as your mother did many years ago."
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000027_000000|And Teresa took the lamp and brought it close to Paula.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000027_000001|"No, you hardly have any similiarity in your face, but your voice is like hers.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000027_000002|Now, let me hug you once more, my treasure." And Teresa pressed to her heart the motherless child.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000028_000000|"In my country they say I am like Papa.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000029_000000|"Show it to us now!" I shouted.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000030_000000|But Teresa interrupted me.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000030_000001|"What a child you are, when poor Paula is so tired!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000030_000002|Tomorrow will be time enough."
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000033_000000|"And the others?" said Paula, looking at us.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000034_000000|"Oh, we ate long ago," said Rosa.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000035_000000|"I think we might eat a little bread and jam to accompany her," I said. Then everybody laughed.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000036_000000|"I think Lisita is right for once," said Teresa, always happy when she was able to give us a bit of pleasure; "and I think Paula will be a little more comfortable that way."
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000037_000000|"Now then, Paula, are you not hungry?" asked Teresa with her hand on the lock of the kitchen door.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000038_000000|"Yes, madame ... that is-yes, Teresa."
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000039_000000|"Begin then!
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000039_000001|Lisita doesn't need any urging.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000040_000000|Paula looked at us, one after the other, and then looked at Teresa as if she would say something.
train-other-500/2712/3534/2712_3534_000040_000001|As Teresa remained, looking on in an astonished manner, Paula got down from her chair and stood in front of her now cooling cup of hot milk.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000000_000000|CHAPTER FIVE
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000000|When Louis returned at the end of the week, he was surprised to find Paula so happy and contented.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000001|He found her in the kitchen helping Teresa to dry the dishes.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000002|"One would think," said he, "that you had been with us for many months instead of a few days." Paula showed herself to be much more embarrassed in his presence than she had been with us.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000004|But Louis, like the good hearted lad that he was, did what he could to make her feel at home.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000005|Presently, out we went into the garden to play, not without an anxious look from Teresa, for she knew that when Louis came into any situation, he generally caused trouble. When, however, we returned with our aprons decorated with mud but still happy, the good old lady heaved a sigh of relief.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000006|The fact is, that when Louis played with us he always acted as he did with the boys at school.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000007|But no matter what happened, Paula seemed afraid of nothing.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000002_000010|No wonder Louis was quite content to have such an accommodating companion!
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000003_000000|Then the moment arrived when we must go back to the house.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000003_000001|That fatal time always seemed to arrive on the wings of the wind.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000003_000002|Teresa seldom had any time to come and call us, but she relied on Louis, as he had a watch. Beside all that, we could clearly hear the hour strike in the great clock on Darnetal Church.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000004_000000|"Listen," cried Paula, woefully, "it's nine o'clock, and Teresa said we must go back to the house at nine."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000005_000000|"Oh, shut up," said Louis. (He had just started a thrilling new game of jumping from a high wall.) "I'll tell you when it's time to go home.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000005_000001|Now are you ready?
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000005_000002|Hurry up, Paula, get the ladder.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000005_000003|There it is, under the cherry tree!" Paula obediently ran and returned with the required ladder, and helped Louis put it in position, saying at the same time, "But Louis, you know well that Teresa told us that we must be in at nine o'clock."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000006_000000|"Oh, yes, I heard it," said Louis ill humoredly.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000007_000000|"Well, then we must go!"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000008_000000|"Oh, not yet, five minutes more or less won't make any difference."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000009_000000|"No, five minutes won't make any great difference, of course," said Paula slowly, "and it certainly is lovely here, but Teresa ordered us in at nine o'clock.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000009_000001|I'll run and ask her if we cannot stay another fifteen minutes."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000010_000000|"Certainly not," sneered Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000010_000001|"Teresa would never give permission.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000010_000002|Now, hurry up, you're first on the wall, Paula."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000011_000000|"No, I'm not going to stay.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000011_000001|Teresa will be angry."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000012_000001|Besides, she'll never know.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000012_000002|I think she's out."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000013_000000|"Well, she'll know when she returns.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000013_000001|She'll ask us what time we came in."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000014_000000|"Oh, you needn't worry about that," and Louis took out his watch.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000014_000001|"I can fix that matter easily." We both looked over his shoulder at the watch, which by this time clearly pointed to five minutes after the hour. Suddenly, we saw the hands of the watch begin to turn backwards.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000014_000002|"Now," said Louis, "what time it is?"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000015_000000|"Half past eight," answered Paula, lifting astonished eyes to her cousin's face.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000016_000000|"Well, if it's half past eight why do you look at me like that?"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000017_000000|"Because I don't understand."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000018_000000|"What do you mean by saying you don't understand?
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000018_000002|If Teresa is angry, I'll tell her that we left the garden at nine o'clock; then I'll show her my watch."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000019_000000|"But," cried Paula, quite upset, "that would be a lie!"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000020_000000|"Nonsense, you foolish youngster, that's not a lie.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000020_000002|Of course, if she doesn't ask us, we don't have to say anything.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000020_000003|Besides, I do it for you and Lisita, for if you were boys instead of girls, there would be no reason to return so early.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000020_000004|Now, up with you. Yes, or no"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000021_000000|"Not I," said Paula, with a heightened color.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000021_000001|Louis was furious.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000022_000000|"No, you say?
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000022_000001|Oh," he laughed, "the wall's too high." Paula looked at the wall.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000022_000002|It was certainly high, but he knew very well from past exploits that the height would not bother her.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000023_000000|"No," she said, "I'm not afraid to jump.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000024_000000|Then it was that I joined in on the side of Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000024_000001|"If you're always going to obey Teresa, you'll never have a quiet moment."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000026_000000|"Of course," cried Louis, without giving me time to reply.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000026_000001|"And now, go if you wish and leave us in peace.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000026_000002|Get out of the way!"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000027_000000|Paula, who was seated on the lowest rung of the ladder, immediately stepped aside and soon Louis was on the wall.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000028_000000|"Now, it's your turn," he called to me.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000029_000000|"I'm going back with Paula," I said to Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000029_000001|Then from the top of the wall, I saw her turn her head for one last look.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000030_000000|"Oh, let her go!" said Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000030_000001|"She can find her own way.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000030_000002|I'm afraid the little fool is going to become impossible.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000030_000003|Now, do as I do.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000031_000000|"You jump first," I said.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000032_000000|"Getting afraid, are you?
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000032_000001|All right, see me jump.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000033_000001|"Now, won't Teresa be angry indeed!"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000034_000000|"Well, why should I care?" said Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000034_000002|Now, hurry up and jump.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000034_000003|We'll fix it up and water it, and she'll know nothing about what happened."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000036_000000|"What are you afraid of?
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000036_000002|Don't be a 'fraidcat!'" Just at that moment I would have done anything rather than jump.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000037_000000|"I'm coming down by the ladder."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000038_000000|"No, you'll do no such thing!
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000038_000001|Now, come on; don't be a coward!"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000039_000000|Just at this moment we heard a voice calling, "Louis!
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000039_000001|Lisita!"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000040_000000|Louis turned to see Paula calling us from the bottom of the garden.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000041_000000|"And now what do you want?" cried Louis.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000042_000000|I profited by this diversion to come rapidly down the ladder.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000043_000000|"I was almost at the house," answered Paula, coming nearer, "but I didn't go in because I didn't want to meet Teresa."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000045_000000|"Because I didn't know what to say to her, if she should ask me where you two were."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000047_000000|"Of course, I would have had to tell her.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000047_000001|That's why I've come back to look for you.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000047_000003|Oh, please, come now; won't you?"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000048_000000|My brother seemed to hesitate.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000049_000000|"You know I hated to disobey," added Paula, with tears in her eyes, "and at the same time, I don't like to be a 'tattle tale.' Won't you please come home now with me?"
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000050_000001|Therefore, seeing his young cousin beginning to cry, he said, "All right, let's go. Anyway, I can't play the way I want, especially with a pair of youngsters like you two.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000050_000002|But, look here, Paula, you forgot the ladder.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000050_000003|Take it away now, if you want us to play up to all your nonsense."
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000051_000001|I went meanwhile and filled the watering pot while Louis tried to restore the crushed pansies as best he could.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000052_000000|"There you are," said Louis finally, "Teresa will never know." And off we all three raced for the house.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000053_000000|"And so you are back already," remarked Teresa as we invaded the kitchen.
train-other-500/2712/3536/2712_3536_000054_000000|"Back already!" said Louis.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000001_000000|Chap.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000002_000004|Britain is rich in grain and trees, and is well adapted for feeding cattle and beasts of burden.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000002_000005|It also produces vines in some places, and has plenty of land and water fowl of divers sorts; it is remarkable also for rivers abounding in fish, and plentiful springs.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000002_000008|It has both salt and hot springs, and from them flow rivers which furnish hot baths, proper for all ages and both sexes, in separate places, according to their requirements.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000002_000011|The island was formerly distinguished by twenty eight famous cities, besides innumerable forts, which were all strongly secured with walls, towers, gates, and bars.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000002_000014|In like manner the nights are very short in summer, and the days in winter, that is, only six equinoctial hours.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000003_000003|There, finding the nation of the Scots, they begged to be allowed to settle among them, but could not succeed in obtaining their request.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000003_000004|Ireland is the largest island next to Britain, and lies to the west of it; but as it is shorter than Britain to the north, so, on the other hand, it runs out far beyond it to the south, over against the northern part of Spain, though a wide sea lies between them.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000003_000005|The Picts then, as has been said, arriving in this island by sea, desired to have a place granted them in which they might settle.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000003_000007|If you will go thither, you can obtain settlements; or, if any should oppose you, we will help you." The Picts, accordingly, sailing over into Britain, began to inhabit the northern parts thereof, for the Britons had possessed themselves of the southern.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000004_000001|No reptiles are found there, and no snake can live there; for, though snakes are often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore, and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000004_000002|On the contrary, almost all things in the island are efficacious against poison.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000004_000003|In truth, we have known that when men have been bitten by serpents, the scrapings of leaves of books that were brought out of Ireland, being put into water, and given them to drink, have immediately absorbed the spreading poison, and assuaged the swelling.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000005_000000|The island abounds in milk and honey, nor is there any lack of vines, fish, or fowl; and it is noted for the hunting of stags and roe deer.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000005_000001|It is properly the country of the Scots, who, migrating from thence, as has been said, formed the third nation in Britain in addition to the Britons and the Picts.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000007_000002|How Caius Julius Caesar was the first Roman that came into Britain.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000008_000002|Here, having provided about eighty ships of burden and fast sailing vessels, he sailed over into Britain; where, being first roughly handled in a battle, and then caught in a storm, he lost a considerable part of his fleet, no small number of foot soldiers, and almost all his cavalry.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000008_000003|Returning into Gaul, he put his legions into winter quarters, and gave orders for building six hundred sail of both sorts.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000008_000005|Forty of them were lost, the rest were, with much difficulty, repaired.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000008_000009|This being perceived and avoided by the romans, the barbarians, not able to stand the charge of the legions, hid themselves in the woods, whence they grievously harassed the romans with repeated sallies.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000008_000011|Many other cities, following their example, made a treaty with the romans.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000009_000001|three.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000010_000001|No one before or after Julius Caesar had dared to land upon the island.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000010_000002|Claudius crossed over to it, and within a very few days, without any fighting or bloodshed, the greater part of the island was surrendered into his hands.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000010_000004|This war he concluded in the fourth year of his reign, which is the forty sixth from the Incarnation of our Lord.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000011_000001|Nero, succeeding Claudius in the empire, undertook no wars at all; and, therefore, among countless other disasters brought by him upon the Roman state, he almost lost Britain; for in his time two most notable towns were there taken and destroyed.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000012_000000|Chap.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000012_000002|How Lucius, king of Britain, writing to Pope Eleutherus, desired to be made a Christian.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000014_000000|Chap.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000015_000001|Being naturally of a harsh disposition, and engaged in many wars, he governed the state vigorously, but with much trouble.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000016_000000|Chap.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000016_000002|Of the reign of Diocletian, and how he persecuted the Christians.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000019_000001|seven.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000021_000000|And fruitful Britain noble Alban rears.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000022_000001|This man he observed to be engaged in continual prayer and watching day and night; when on a sudden the Divine grace shining on him, he began to imitate the example of faith and piety which was set before him, and being gradually instructed by his wholesome admonitions, he cast off the darkness of idolatry, and became a Christian in all sincerity of heart.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000022_000003|Whereupon he sent some soldiers to make a strict search after him.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000023_000000|It happened that the judge, at the time when Alban was carried before him, was standing at the altar, and offering sacrifice to devils.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000023_000002|Then said the judge, "Of what family or race are you?"--"What does it concern you," answered Alban, "of what stock I am?
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000024_000000|The judge, hearing these words, and being much incensed, ordered this holy confessor of God to be scourged by the executioners, believing that he might by stripes shake that constancy of heart, on which he could not prevail by words.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000024_000001|He, being most cruelly tortured, bore the same patiently, or rather joyfully, for our Lord's sake.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000024_000003|In truth, almost all had gone out, so that the judge remained in the city without attendance.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000025_000001|On the top of this hill, saint Alban prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring, confined in its channel, sprang up at his feet, so that all men acknowledged that even the stream had yielded its service to the martyr.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000026_000000|At the same time was also beheaded the soldier, who before, through the Divine admonition, refused to strike the holy confessor.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000028_000001|eight.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000028_000002|How, when the persecution ceased, the Church in Britain enjoyed peace till the time of the Arian heresy.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000030_000000|At this time Constantius, who, whilst Diocletian was alive, governed Gaul and Spain, a man of great clemency and urbanity, died in Britain.
train-other-500/2724/89874/2724_89874_000030_000002|Eutropius writes that Constantine, being created emperor in Britain, succeeded his father in the sovereignty.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000001_000000|IN CONGRESS, july fourth seventeen seventy six
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000002_000000|The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000003_000000|When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000004_000001|Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000004_000003|To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000005_000000|He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000007_000000|He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000008_000000|He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000009_000000|He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000010_000000|He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000012_000000|He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000013_000000|He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000014_000000|He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000015_000000|He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000016_000000|He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000017_000000|He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation:
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000018_000000|For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000020_000000|For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000021_000000|For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000022_000000|For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000024_000000|For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000026_000000|For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000027_000000|He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000031_000000|He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000032_000000|In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000033_000000|Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
train-other-500/273/123248/273_123248_000034_000001|And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000000_000000|Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000000_000002|The shop was close and hot.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000000_000003|The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000000_000004|The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000001_000000|Nor were these the only dismal feelings which depressed Oliver.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000001_000001|He was alone in a strange place; and we all know how chilled and desolate the best of us will sometimes feel in such a situation.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000001_000002|The boy had no friends to care for, or to care for him.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000001_000003|The regret of no recent separation was fresh in his mind; the absence of no loved and well remembered face sank heavily into his heart.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000002_000000|But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000003_000000|Oliver was awakened in the morning, by a loud kicking at the outside of the shop door: which, before he could huddle on his clothes, was repeated, in an angry and impetuous manner, about twenty five times. When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000005_000000|'I will, directly, sir,' replied Oliver: undoing the chain, and turning the key.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000007_000000|'Yes, sir,' replied Oliver.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000008_000000|'How old are yer?' inquired the voice.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000009_000000|'Ten, sir,' replied Oliver.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000010_000000|'Then I'll whop yer when I get in,' said the voice; 'you just see if I don't, that's all, my work'us brat!' and having made this obliging promise, the voice began to whistle.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000011_000000|Oliver had been too often subjected to the process to which the very expressive monosyllable just recorded bears reference, to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice, whoever he might be, would redeem his pledge, most honourably.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000014_000000|'I kicked,' replied the charity boy.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000015_000000|'Did you want a coffin, sir?' inquired Oliver, innocently.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000016_000000|At this, the charity boy looked monstrous fierce; and said that Oliver would want one before long, if he cut jokes with his superiors in that way.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000018_000000|'No, sir,' rejoined Oliver.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000019_000000|'I'm Mister Noah Claypole,' said the charity boy, 'and you're under me. Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian!' With this, mr Claypole administered a kick to Oliver, and entered the shop with a dignified air, which did him great credit.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000019_000001|It is difficult for a large headed, small eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any circumstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000020_000000|Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah: who having consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000020_000001|mr Sowerberry came down soon after.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000020_000002|Shortly afterwards, mrs Sowerberry appeared.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000020_000003|Oliver having 'caught it,' in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down the stairs to breakfast.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000021_000000|'Come near the fire, Noah,' said Charlotte. 'I saved a nice little bit of bacon for you from master's breakfast.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000022_000000|'D'ye hear, Work'us?' said Noah Claypole.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000024_000000|'Let him alone!' said Noah.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000024_000001|'Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000024_000002|Neither his father nor his mother will ever interfere with him.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000024_000003|All his relations let him have his own way pretty well.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000024_000004|Eh, Charlotte?
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000026_000000|Noah was a charity boy, but not a workhouse orphan.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000026_000001|No chance child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000026_000003|But, now that fortune had cast in his way a nameless orphan, at whom even the meanest could point the finger of scorn, he retorted on him with interest.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000026_000004|This affords charming food for contemplation.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000026_000005|It shows us what a beautiful thing human nature may be made to be; and how impartially the same amiable qualities are developed in the finest lord and the dirtiest charity boy.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000027_000000|Oliver had been sojourning at the undertaker's some three weeks or a month.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000027_000001|mr and mrs Sowerberry-the shop being shut up-were taking their supper in the little back parlour, when mr Sowerberry, after several deferential glances at his wife, said,
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000028_000000|'My dear-' He was going to say more; but, mrs Sowerberry looking up, with a peculiarly unpropitious aspect, he stopped short.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000029_000000|'Well,' said mrs Sowerberry, sharply.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000030_000000|'Nothing, my dear, nothing,' said mr Sowerberry.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000032_000000|'Not at all, my dear,' said mr Sowerberry humbly.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000032_000001|'I thought you didn't want to hear, my dear.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000032_000002|I was only going to say-'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000033_000000|'Oh, don't tell me what you were going to say,' interposed mrs Sowerberry. 'I am nobody; don't consult me, pray.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000034_000000|'But, my dear,' said Sowerberry, 'I want to ask your advice.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000035_000000|'No, no, don't ask mine,' replied mrs Sowerberry, in an affecting manner: 'ask somebody else's.' Here, there was another hysterical laugh, which frightened mr Sowerberry very much.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000035_000001|This is a very common and much approved matrimonial course of treatment, which is often very effective.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000035_000003|After a short duration, the permission was most graciously conceded.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000036_000000|'It's only about young Twist, my dear,' said mr Sowerberry. 'A very good looking boy, that, my dear.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000037_000000|'He need be, for he eats enough,' observed the lady.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000038_000000|'There's an expression of melancholy in his face, my dear,' resumed mr Sowerberry, 'which is very interesting.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000039_000000|mrs Sowerberry looked up with an expression of considerable wonderment.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000039_000001|mr Sowerberry remarked it and, without allowing time for any observation on the good lady's part, proceeded.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000040_000000|'I don't mean a regular mute to attend grown up people, my dear, but only for children's practice.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000040_000001|It would be very new to have a mute in proportion, my dear.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000041_000000|mrs Sowerberry, who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way, was much struck by the novelty of this idea; but, as it would have been compromising her dignity to have said so, under existing circumstances, she merely inquired, with much sharpness, why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband's mind before?
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000042_000000|The occasion was not long in coming.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000042_000001|Half an hour after breakfast next morning, mr Bumble entered the shop; and supporting his cane against the counter, drew forth his large leathern pocket book: from which he selected a small scrap of paper, which he handed over to Sowerberry.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000043_000000|'Aha!' said the undertaker, glancing over it with a lively countenance; 'an order for a coffin, eh?'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000044_000000|'For a coffin first, and a porochial funeral afterwards,' replied mr Bumble, fastening the strap of the leathern pocket book: which, like himself, was very corpulent.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000045_000000|'Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to mr Bumble. 'I never heard the name before.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000046_000000|Bumble shook his head, as he replied, 'Obstinate people, mr Sowerberry; very obstinate.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000047_000000|'Proud, eh?' exclaimed mr Sowerberry with a sneer.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000047_000001|'Come, that's too much.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000048_000000|'Oh, it's sickening,' replied the beadle.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000048_000001|'Antimonial, mr Sowerberry!'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000049_000000|'So it is,' acquiesced the undertaker.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000050_000000|'We only heard of the family the night before last,' said the beadle; 'and we shouldn't have known anything about them, then, only a woman who lodges in the same house made an application to the porochial committee for them to send the porochial surgeon to see a woman as was very bad.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000050_000001|He had gone out to dinner; but his 'prentice (which is a very clever lad) sent 'em some medicine in a blacking bottle, offhand.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000052_000000|'Promptness, indeed!' replied the beadle.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000052_000001|'But what's the consequence; what's the ungrateful behaviour of these rebels, sir?
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000052_000003|Good, strong, wholesome medicine, as was given with great success to two Irish labourers and a coal heaver, only a week before-sent 'em for nothing, with a blackin'-bottle in,--and he sends back word that she shan't take it, sir!'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000053_000000|As the atrocity presented itself to mr Bumble's mind in full force, he struck the counter sharply with his cane, and became flushed with indignation.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000055_000000|'Never did, sir!' ejaculated the beadle.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000057_000000|'Why, he was so angry, Oliver, that he forgot even to ask after you!' said mr Sowerberry, looking after the beadle as he strode down the street.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000060_000000|'Well,' said mr Sowerberry, taking up his hat, 'the sooner this job is done, the better.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000060_000001|Noah, look after the shop.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000060_000002|Oliver, put on your cap, and come with me.' Oliver obeyed, and followed his master on his professional mission.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000061_000000|They walked on, for some time, through the most crowded and densely inhabited part of the town; and then, striking down a narrow street more dirty and miserable than any they had yet passed through, paused to look for the house which was the object of their search.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000061_000002|A great many of the tenements had shop fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000061_000004|The kennel was stagnant and filthy.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000061_000005|The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000062_000000|There was neither knocker nor bell handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000062_000001|Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000063_000000|It was opened by a young girl of thirteen or fourteen.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000063_000002|He stepped in; Oliver followed him.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000064_000000|There was no fire in the room; but a man was crouching, mechanically, over the empty stove.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000065_000000|The man's face was thin and very pale; his hair and beard were grizzly; his eyes were bloodshot.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000065_000002|Oliver was afraid to look at either her or the man. They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000066_000000|'Nobody shall go near her,' said the man, starting fiercely up, as the undertaker approached the recess.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000066_000001|'Keep back!
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000066_000002|Damn you, keep back, if you've a life to lose!'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000067_000000|'Nonsense, my good man,' said the undertaker, who was pretty well used to misery in all its shapes.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000067_000001|'Nonsense!'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000068_000000|'I tell you,' said the man: clenching his hands, and stamping furiously on the floor,--'I tell you I won't have her put into the ground.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000068_000001|She couldn't rest there.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000069_000000|The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000070_000002|There was neither fire nor candle; she died in the dark-in the dark!
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000070_000003|She couldn't even see her children's faces, though we heard her gasping out their names.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000070_000004|I begged for her in the streets: and they sent me to prison.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000070_000007|They starved her!' He twined his hands in his hair; and, with a loud scream, rolled grovelling upon the floor: his eyes fixed, and the foam covering his lips.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000071_000000|The terrified children cried bitterly; but the old woman, who had hitherto remained as quiet as if she had been wholly deaf to all that passed, menaced them into silence.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000071_000001|Having unloosened the cravat of the man who still remained extended on the ground, she tottered towards the undertaker.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000072_000002|Lord, Lord!--to think of it; it's as good as a play-as good as a play!'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000074_000001|'Will she be buried to morrow, or next day, or to night?
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000074_000002|I laid her out; and I must walk, you know.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000074_000004|We should have cake and wine, too, before we go!
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000074_000006|Shall we have some bread, dear?' she said eagerly: catching at the undertaker's coat, as he once more moved towards the door.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000075_000000|'Yes, yes,' said the undertaker,'of course.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000075_000001|Anything you like!' He disengaged himself from the old woman's grasp; and, drawing Oliver after him, hurried away.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000076_000001|An old black cloak had been thrown over the rags of the old woman and the man; and the bare coffin having been screwed down, was hoisted on the shoulders of the bearers, and carried into the street.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000078_000001|mr Bumble and Sowerberry walked at a good smart pace in front; and Oliver, whose legs were not so long as his master's, ran by the side.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000079_000001|So, they put the bier on the brink of the grave; and the two mourners waited patiently in the damp clay, with a cold rain drizzling down, while the ragged boys whom the spectacle had attracted into the churchyard played a noisy game at hide and seek among the tombstones, or varied their amusements by jumping backwards and forwards over the coffin.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000079_000002|mr Sowerberry and Bumble, being personal friends of the clerk, sat by the fire with him, and read the paper.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000080_000001|mr Bumble then thrashed a boy or two, to keep up appearances; and the reverend gentleman, having read as much of the burial service as could be compressed into four minutes, gave his surplice to the clerk, and walked away again.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000081_000001|'Fill up!'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000082_000000|It was no very difficult task, for the grave was so full, that the uppermost coffin was within a few feet of the surface.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000083_000000|'Come, my good fellow!' said Bumble, tapping the man on the back.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000083_000001|'They want to shut up the yard.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000084_000001|The crazy old woman was too much occupied in bewailing the loss of her cloak (which the undertaker had taken off), to pay him any attention; so they threw a can of cold water over him; and when he came to, saw him safely out of the churchyard, locked the gate, and departed on their different ways.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000085_000000|'Well, Oliver,' said Sowerberry, as they walked home, 'how do you like it?'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000086_000000|'Pretty well, thank you, sir' replied Oliver, with considerable hesitation.
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000086_000001|'Not very much, sir.'
train-other-500/273/129288/273_129288_000088_000000|Oliver wondered, in his own mind, whether it had taken a very long time to get mr Sowerberry used to it.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000000_000000|This meant that Juliet was to give the money and Basil to spend it. Mallow was disgusted with this candid selfishness.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000000_000002|"Perhaps Miss Loach may have left you some money after all," he remarked.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000001_000000|"By Jove, I hope so.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000001_000001|I'll be in a hole if she has not.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000002_000000|"What's that?" asked Cuthbert sharply.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000003_000000|"Nothing-nothing-only a tailor's bill.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000003_000001|As to getting money by the will, don't you know I quarrelled with Aunt Selina a week before her death.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000003_000002|Yes, she turned me out of the house." Here Basil's face assumed what may be described as an ugly look.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000003_000003|"I should like to have got even with the old cat.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000003_000004|She insulted me."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000005_000000|Basil's brow cleared.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000006_000000|"Your mother is mistaken," rejoined Mallow gravely.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000006_000001|"Juliet and I are still engaged.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000006_000002|I do not intend to give her up."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000008_000000|"Why not?" asked Cuthbert sharply; "do you know the reason?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000009_000000|Basil appeared about to say something, then suddenly closed his mouth and shook his head.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000010_000000|Cuthbert pressed him.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000010_000001|"If you know the reason, tell me," he said, "and I'll help you out of your difficulties.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000010_000002|You know I love Juliet, and your mother does not seem to have any excuse to forbid the marriage."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000011_000000|"I would help you if I could, but I can't.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000011_000001|You had better ask Juliet herself.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000011_000002|She may tell you the reason."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000012_000000|"How can I find her?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000013_000000|"Go down to Rose Cottage and ask to see her," suggested Basil.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000014_000000|"Your mother will not admit me."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000015_000000|"That's true enough.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000015_000001|Well, I'll tell you what, Mallow, I'll speak to Juliet and get her to make an appointment to see you."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000016_000000|"I could write and ask her for one myself."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000017_000000|"Oh, no, you couldn't.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000017_000001|Mother will intercept all letters."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000018_000000|"Upon my word-" began Mallow angrily, then stopped.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000018_000001|It was useless to show his wrath before this silly boy, who could do no good and might do a deal of harm.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000018_000002|"Very well, then," he said more mildly, "ask Juliet to meet me on the other side of Rexton, under the wall which runs round the unfinished house."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000019_000000|Basil started.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000019_000001|"Why that place?" he asked nervously.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000020_000000|"It is as good as any other."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000021_000000|"You can't get inside."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000022_000000|"That's true enough.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000022_000001|But we can meet outside.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000022_000002|I have been inside though, and I made a mess of myself climbing the wall."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000023_000001|"I remember; you were there on the day after Aunt Selina was killed."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000026_000000|"Once I was there at night.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000026_000001|Why do you ask?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000027_000001|I was just thinking it's a wild place in which to find one's self at night.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000027_000002|By the way," added Basil, as though anxious to change a disagreeable subject, "do you think Jarvey Hale a nice fellow?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000028_000000|"No, I don't.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000028_000001|I have met him at Maraquito's, and I don't like him. He's a bounder.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000028_000002|Moreover, a respectable lawyer has no right to gamble to the extent he does.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000028_000003|I wonder Miss Loach trusted him."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000030_000000|"Yes, I should.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000030_000001|Do you owe him money?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000031_000000|"A few pounds.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000031_000001|He won't give me time to pay.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000031_000002|And I say, Mallow, I suppose all Aunt Selina's affairs will be left in Hale's hands?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000032_000000|"I can't say.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000032_000002|If everything is left to Juliet, unconditionally, she may take her affairs out of Hale's hands. I should certainly advise her to do so.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000032_000003|He's too intimate with Maraquito and her gambling salon to be a decent lawyer."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000033_000000|"You do seem down on gambling," said Basil, "yet you gamble yourself a lot.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000033_000001|But I expect Juliet will change her lawyer.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000033_000002|I hope she will."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000034_000000|"Why?" asked Cuthbert sharply.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000035_000002|"Good day.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000036_000000|Cuthbert, walking back to his rooms, wondered if it was on account of the gambling that mrs Octagon objected to the marriage.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000036_000002|Here he had often met Basil, and without doubt the young man had told his mother.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000036_000003|But he could hardly do this without incriminating himself.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000001|Probably he counts on getting the money from Juliet, should she inherit the fortune of Miss Loach.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000003|I must keep that quiet.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000006|It does not concern her in the least.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000007|I wonder," here Cuthbert stopped, struck with an idea.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000009|Juliet may know that, and so, fearful lest he should be accused of the murder, asked me to stop proceedings.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000010|Can Basil Saxon be guilty?
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000037_000011|No," Mallow shook his head and resumed his walk, "he has not pluck enough to kill a fly."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000038_000000|After this he dismissed the matter from his thoughts and waited expectant of a letter from Juliet.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000038_000001|None came, and he was convinced that Basil had not delivered the message.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000038_000002|This being the case, Cuthbert determined to act for himself, and one afternoon went down to Rexton.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000038_000004|But the young man quite expected to be back in time to keep the appointment, and meantime he spent an hour wandering round Rexton in the vicinity of Rose Cottage. But afraid lest mrs Octagon should see him and keep Juliet within doors, he abstained from passing in front of the house and waited on the path which led to the station.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000039_000002|Cuthbert pressed himself against the quickset hedge to allow her to pass, as there was very little room.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000039_000003|The girl started as she murmured her thanks, and grew crimson on seeing his face.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000040_000000|"By George!" he thought, "that was Susan Grant.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000040_000002|I wonder why she blushed.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000041_000000|It was now about four o'clock, and Cuthbert fancied that after all it would be best to boldly ring at the door and ask admission, in spite of mrs Octagon.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000042_000001|She came out of the gate and walked directly towards the path.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000044_000000|"Susan Grant!" echoed Cuthbert, resolved not to know too much in the presence of Juliet.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000044_000001|"I saw her name in the papers.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000044_000002|How does she know me?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000045_000000|"I can't say," said Juliet quickly; "come along this way." She hurried along the narrow path, talking all the time.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000045_000001|"She came in just now and said you were waiting in the by path.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000045_000002|I came out at once.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000046_000000|"Really!" cried Cuthbert, rather nettled.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000046_000001|"I don't see that I have any reason to avoid mrs Octagon."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000047_000000|"She will not allow me to see you.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000047_000001|If she knew I was meeting you she would be very angry.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000047_000002|We are here only till to morrow.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000047_000003|Now that Aunt Selina is buried and the will read, we return to Kensington at once. Come this way.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000047_000004|Let us get into the open.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000047_000005|I don't wish my mother to follow and find me speaking to you."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000048_000000|They emerged into a waste piece of land, distant a stone throw from the railway station, but secluded by reason of many trees and shrubs. These, belonging to the old Rexton estate, had not yet been rooted up by the builder, and there ran a path through the heart of the miniature wood leading to the station.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000048_000001|When quite screened from observation by the friendly leafage, Juliet turned quickly.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000048_000002|She was pale and ill in looks, and there were dark circles under her eyes which told of sleepless nights.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000048_000003|But she was dressed with her usual care and behaved in a composed manner.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000049_000000|"I wish you had not come, Cuthbert," she said, again taking his hand, "at least not at present.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000049_000001|Later on-"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000051_000000|Juliet shook her head.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000052_000000|"Then he is not the friend I took him to be," said Mallow angrily.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000053_000000|"Don't be angry with Basil," said Juliet, gently.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000053_000001|"The poor boy has quite enough trouble."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000054_000001|"See here, Juliet, this sort of thing can't go on.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000054_000003|Your mother is mad to behave as she is doing.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000055_000000|Juliet did not pay attention to this hasty speech.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000055_000001|"How do you know Basil has troubles?" she asked hurriedly.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000056_000000|"Because I know he's a dissipated young ass," returned Mallow roughly; "and I daresay you know it also."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000058_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000058_000002|But I know he is in debt to Hale-he hinted as much the other day.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000058_000004|I tell you, Juliet, it is wrong for you to do so."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000059_000000|"How do you know I can?" she asked.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000060_000000|"I know nothing," said Cuthbert doggedly, "not even if you have inherited the money of Miss Loach."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000061_000000|"I have inherited it.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000061_000001|She left everything to me, save legacies to Thomas her servant, and to Emily Pill, the cook.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000061_000002|It is a large fortune. The will was read on the day of the funeral.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000061_000003|I have now six thousand a year."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000062_000000|"So much as that?
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000063_000000|"mr Hale speculated a great deal on her account, and, he is very lucky.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000063_000001|At least so he told me.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000063_000002|But the money is well invested and there are no restrictions.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000063_000003|I can easily pay the few debts Basil owes, poor boy.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000063_000004|You are too hard on him."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000064_000000|"Perhaps I am.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000064_000001|But he is so foolish, and he doesn't like me.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000064_000002|I believe he puts you against me, Juliet."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000065_000000|The girl threw her arms round his neck.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000065_000001|"Nothing in the world would ever put me against you, Cuthbert," she whispered vehemently.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000065_000003|I don't care what mother says, I love you."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000066_000000|"Well, then," said Cuthbert, between kisses, "since you are now rich and your own mistress-not that I care about the money-why not marry me at once?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000067_000001|"I dare not-I dare not," she whispered.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000067_000002|"You don't know what you ask."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000068_000000|"Yes I do.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000068_000001|Juliet, what is all this mystery about?
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000068_000002|I could not understand the meaning of your letter."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000069_000000|"Did you do what I asked?" she panted.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000070_000000|"It was too late.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000072_000000|"Afraid!" echoed Cuthbert, opening his eyes.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000072_000001|"What do you mean?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000073_000000|She looked into his eyes.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000073_000001|"No," she said to herself, "he is not afraid."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000074_000000|Cuthbert lost his temper.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000074_000001|"I don't understand all this," he declared, "if you would only speak out.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000074_000002|But I can guess why you wish me to stop the proceedings-you fear for Basil!"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000075_000000|She stepped back a pace.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000075_000001|"For Basil?"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000076_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000078_000001|I am only speaking on chance.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000078_000003|He-"
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000079_000000|"Stop! stop!" cried Juliet, the blood rising to her face, "this is only supposition.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000079_000001|You can prove nothing."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000081_000000|"There is nothing for you to hold your tongue about," she answered evasively.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000081_000001|"You know nothing."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000082_000000|Cuthbert caught her hands and looked into her troubled eyes.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000082_000001|"Do you, Juliet-do you?
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000082_000002|Put an end to this mystery and speak out."
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000083_000000|She broke from him and fled.
train-other-500/2730/154436/2730_154436_000083_000001|"No," she cried, "for your sake I keep silent.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000056_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000056_000001|I can see that.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000056_000002|Well," Jennings rose and stretched himself.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000056_000003|"I must see what Susan has to say"; he glanced at his watch; "she should be here in a few minutes."
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000057_000000|A silence ensued which was broken by Jennings.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000057_000001|"Oh, by the way," he said, taking some papers out of his pocket, "I looked up the Saul case."
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000058_000000|"Well, what about it?" asked Cuthbert indolently
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000059_000000|Jennings referred to his notes.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000059_000001|"The Saul family" he said, "seem to have been a bad lot.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000059_000002|There was a mother, a brother and a daughter-"
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000060_000000|"Emilia!"
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000000|"Just so.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000001|They were all coiners.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000002|Somewhere in Hampstead they had a regular factory.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000006|Then she died, as you know.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000007|Afterwards the mother and brother were caught.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000008|They bolted.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000009|The mother, I believe, died-it was believed she was poisoned for having betrayed secrets.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000061_000011|The rest of the gang were put in jail, but I can't say what became of them."
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000062_000000|Cuthbert shrugged his shoulders.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000062_000001|"This does not help us much."
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000063_000000|"no
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000063_000001|But it shows you what an escape your uncle had from marrying the woman.
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000063_000002|I can't understand-"
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000064_000001|However, she is dead, and I can see no connection between her and this crime."
train-other-500/2730/154437/2730_154437_000065_000001|Supposing that person was Selina Loach, who hated Emilia for having taken Caranby from her.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000001_000001|WINTER QUARTERS
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000002_000000|The habitation that had now revealed itself, well lighted and thoroughly warm, was indeed marvelous.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000003_000000|This enormous cavern was neither more or less than the common junction of nearly twenty tunnels (similar to that which had been traversed by the explorers), forming ramifications in the solid rock, and the pores, as it were, by which the internal heat exuded from the heart of the mountain.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000004_000000|But not a day, not an hour, was to be lost now.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000004_000001|The steam launch returned to Gourbi Island, and preparations were forthwith taken in hand for conveying man and beast, corn and fodder, across to the volcanic headland.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000005_000002|First of all, the large store of corn and fodder, the produce of the recent harvest, was landed and deposited in one of the vaults; then, on the fifteenth, about fifty head of live cattle-bullocks, cows, sheep, and pigs-were conveyed to their rocky stalls.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000005_000003|These were saved for the sake of preserving the several breeds, the bulk of the island cattle being slaughtered, as the extreme severity of the climate insured all meat remaining fresh for almost an indefinite period.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000006_000001|And if haste were necessary, so also were care, ingenuity, and forethought.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000006_000002|It was indispensable that the space at their command should be properly utilized, and yet that the several portions of the store should all be readily accessible.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000007_000000|On further investigation an unexpected number of galleries was discovered, so that, in fact, the interior of the mountain was like a vast bee hive perforated with innumerable cells; and in compliment to the little Italian it was unanimously voted by the colony that their new home should be called "Nina's Hive."
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000009_000000|"What a saving of expense it would be," exclaimed Ben Zoof, "if every household could be furnished with its own private volcano!"
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000010_000002|The curtain of fire extending over the opening of the cavern provided it, as already stated, with light and heat.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000012_000001|The Spaniards and the Russian sailors took up their sleeping quarters in the adjacent galleries, and found the temperature quite comfortable.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000014_000000|The only discontented spirit was Isaac Hakkabut.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000014_000003|He had given out in plain terms that he did not intend to part with any of his property, except for current money, and Servadac, equally resolute, had strictly forbidden any purchases to be made, hoping to wear out the rascal's obstinacy.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000015_000000|Hakkabut persistently refused to credit the real situation; he could not absolutely deny that some portions of the terrestrial globe had undergone a certain degree of modification, but nothing could bring him to believe that he was not, sooner or later, to resume his old line of business in the Mediterranean.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000015_000002|Repudiating, as he did utterly, the hypothesis that a fragment had become detached from the earth, he scanned the horizon for hours together with an old telescope, the case of which had been patched up till it looked like a rusty stove pipe, hoping to descry the passing trader with which he might effect some bartering upon advantageous terms.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000017_000000|The movement set him thinking.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000017_000003|What if he should never again behold his German fatherland?
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000017_000004|What if his marts for business were gone for ever?
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000017_000005|A vague idea of ruin began to take possession of his mind: he must yield to necessity; he must do the best he could.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000017_000006|As the result of his cogitations, he occasionally left his tartan and made a visit to the shore.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000017_000007|At length he endeavored to mingle with the busy group, who were hurrying on their preparations; but his advances were only met by jeers and scorn, and, ridiculed by all the rest, he was fain to turn his attention to Ben Zoof, to whom he offered a few pinches of tobacco.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000019_000000|Finding the subordinates incorruptible, Isaac determined to go to the fountain head.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000020_000000|"Tell you the truth, man!" cried Servadac.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000020_000001|"Confound it, I have told you the truth twenty times.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000021_000000|"God and Mahomet have mercy on me!" muttered the Jew, whose creed frequently assumed a very ambiguous character.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000023_000000|"But I want to go to Algiers," whimpered Hakkabut.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000024_000000|"How often am I to tell you that Algiers is no longer in existence?
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000025_000000|"God of Israel! what is to become of all my property?"
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000026_000001|I am not going to let your cursed obstinacy incur the risk of losing your cargo altogether."
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000027_000000|"Merciful Heaven!
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000028_000000|"You are going the right way to ruin yourself, and it would serve you right to leave you to your own devices.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000028_000001|But be off!
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000028_000002|I have no more to say."
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000030_000000|By the twentieth all preliminary arrangements were complete, and everything ready for a final departure from the island.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000030_000001|The thermometer stood on an average at eight degrees below zero, and the water in the cistern was completely frozen.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000030_000002|It was determined, therefore, for the colony to embark on the following day, and take up their residence in Nina's Hive.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000031_000001|Lieutenant Procope pronounced his decided conviction that it would be impossible for the tartan to resist the pressure of the ice in the harbor of the Shelif, and that there would be far more safety in the proximity of the volcano.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000032_000000|Long and loud were the lamentations of the Jew.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000033_000000|"God of Israel!" he said in an undertone, "they have made no charge; the idiots have piloted me here for nothing."
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000034_000000|For nothing!
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000034_000001|His whole nature exulted in the consciousness that he was enjoying a service that had been rendered gratuitously.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000035_000000|Destitute of human inhabitants, Gourbi Island was now left to the tenancy of such birds and beasts as had escaped the recent promiscuous slaughter.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000035_000001|Birds, indeed, that had migrated in search of warmer shores, had returned, proving that this fragment of the French colony was the only shred of land that could yield them any sustenance; but their life must necessarily be short.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000036_000000|The colony took possession of their new abode with but few formalities. Everyone, however, approved of all the internal arrangements of Nina's Hive, and were profuse in their expressions of satisfaction at finding themselves located in such comfortable quarters.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000036_000001|The only malcontent was Hakkabut; he had no share in the general enthusiasm, refused even to enter or inspect any of the galleries, and insisted on remaining on board his tartan.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000037_000000|"He is afraid," said Ben Zoof, "that he will have to pay for his lodgings.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000037_000001|But wait a bit; we shall see how he stands the cold out there; the frost, no doubt, will drive the old fox out of his hole."
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000038_000000|Towards evening the pots were set boiling, and a bountiful supper, to which all were invited, was spread in the central hall.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000040_000000|The concert was succeeded by a ball, unquestionably the first that had ever taken place in Gallia.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000040_000001|The Russian sailors exhibited some of their national dances, which gained considerable applause, even although they followed upon the marvelous fandangos of the Spaniards.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000041_000000|It was nine o'clock before the festivities came to an end, and by that time the company, heated by the high temperature of the hall, and by their own exertions, felt the want of a little fresh air.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000041_000001|Accordingly the greater portion of the party, escorted by Ben Zoof, made their way into one of the adjacent galleries that led to the shore.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000041_000002|Servadac, with the count and lieutenant, did not follow immediately; but shortly afterwards they proceeded to join them, when on their way they were startled by loud cries from those in advance.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000042_000000|Their first impression was that they were cries of distress, and they were greatly relieved to find that they were shouts of delight, which the dryness and purity of the atmosphere caused to re echo like a volley of musketry.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000043_000000|Reaching the mouth of the gallery, they found the entire group pointing with eager interest to the sky.
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000044_000000|"Well, Ben Zoof," asked the captain, "what's the matter now?"
train-other-500/2733/28252/2733_28252_000045_000000|"Oh, your Excellency," ejaculated the orderly, "look there! look there! The moon! the moon's come back!"
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000001_000000|IN a large and pleasant garden sat little Annie all alone, and she seemed very sad, for drops that were not dew fell fast upon the flowers beside her, who looked wonderingly up, and bent still nearer, as if they longed to cheer and comfort her.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000001_000001|The warm wind lifted up her shining hair and softly kissed her cheek, while the sunbeams, looking most kindly in her face, made little rainbows in her tears, and lingered lovingly about her.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000003_000000|"Who are you, lovely little thing?" cried Annie, smiling through her tears.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000004_000000|"I am a Fairy, little child, and am come to help and comfort you; now tell me why you weep, and let me be your friend," replied the spirit, as she smiled more kindly still on Annie's wondering face.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000005_000001|Do you ride on butterflies, sleep in flower cups, and live among the clouds?"
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000010_000000|"O kind and generous Fairy, how can I ever thank you for this lovely gift!" cried Annie.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000010_000001|"I will be true, and listen to my little bell whenever it may ring.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000010_000002|But shall I never see YOU more?
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000011_000001|And now farewell, dear child; be faithful to yourself, and the magic flower will never fade."
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000013_000000|And little Annie sat among her flowers, and watched with wondering joy the fairy blossom shining on her breast.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000014_000000|The pleasant days of Spring and Summer passed away, and in little Annie's garden Autumn flowers were blooming everywhere, with each day's sun and dew growing still more beautiful and bright; but the fairy flower, that should have been the loveliest of all, hung pale and drooping on little Annie's bosom; its fragrance seemed quite gone, and the clear, low music of its warning chime rang often in her ear.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000017_000000|One sunny morning, when the fresh, cool Winds were blowing, and not a cloud was in the sky, little Annie walked among her flowers, looking carefully into each, hoping thus to find the Fairy, who alone could take the magic blossom from her breast.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000017_000001|But she lifted up their drooping leaves, peeped into their dewy cups in vain; no little Elf lay hidden there, and she turned sadly from them all, saying, "I will go out into the fields and woods, and seek her there.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000019_000000|Then she went through broad fields of yellow grain, that waved around her like a golden forest; here crickets chirped, grasshoppers leaped, and busy ants worked, but they could not tell her what she longed to know.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000020_000000|"Now will I go among the hills," said Annie, "she may be there." So up and down the green hill sides went her little feet; long she searched and vainly she called; but still no Fairy came.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000021_000001|So, weary with her long and useless search, she sat amid the ferns, and feasted on the rosy strawberries that grew beside her, watching meanwhile the crimson evening clouds that glowed around the setting sun
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000025_000000|"Little Annie, look and see the evil things that you are cherishing; I will clothe in fitting shapes the thoughts and feelings that now dwell within your heart, and you shall see how great their power becomes, unless you banish them for ever."
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000026_000000|Then Annie saw, with fear and wonder, that the angry words she uttered changed to dark, unlovely forms, each showing plainly from what fault or passion it had sprung.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000026_000002|Others, with sullen, anxious looks, seemed gathering up all they could reach, and Annie saw that the more they gained, the less they seemed to have; and these she knew were shapes of Selfishness.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000026_000003|Spirits of Pride were there, who folded their shadowy garments round them, and turned scornfully away from all the rest.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000026_000004|These and many others little Annie saw, which had come from her own heart, and taken form before her eyes.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000027_000000|When first she saw them, they were small and weak; but as she looked they seemed to grow and gather strength, and each gained a strange power over her.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000028_000001|Then the spirits gathered round her, whispering strange things in her ear, bidding her obey, for by her own will she had yielded up her heart to be their home, and she was now their slave.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000029_000000|Clearer and brighter grew the radiant light, till the evil spirits turned away to the dark shadow of the wall, and left the child alone.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000031_000000|Then in her dream she felt how hard the spirits tried to tempt and trouble her, and how, but for her flower, they would have led her back, and made all dark and dreary as before.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000031_000001|Long and hard she struggled, and tears often fell; but after each new trial, brighter shone her magic flower, and sweeter grew its breath, while the spirits lost still more their power to tempt her.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000031_000002|Meanwhile, green, flowering vines crept up the high, dark wall, and hid its roughness from her sight; and over these she watched most tenderly, for soon, wherever green leaves and flowers bloomed, the wall beneath grew weak, and fell apart.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000032_000000|Then the low voice spoke again in Annie's sleeping ear, saying, "The dark, unlovely passions you have looked upon are in your heart; watch well while they are few and weak, lest they should darken your whole life, and shut out love and happiness for ever.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000033_000001|And as the thought came to her mind, the flower raised its drooping head, and, looking up into the earnest little face bent over it, seemed by its fragrant breath to answer Annie's silent thought, and strengthen her for what might come.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000035_000000|Autumn flowers were dead and gone, yellow leaves lay rustling on the ground, bleak winds went whistling through the naked trees, and cold, white Winter snow fell softly down; yet now, when all without looked dark and dreary, on little Annie's breast the fairy flower bloomed more beautiful than ever.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000035_000001|The memory of her forest dream had never passed away, and through trial and temptation she had been true, and kept her resolution still unbroken; seldom now did the warning bell sound in her ear, and seldom did the flower's fragrance cease to float about her, or the fairy light to brighten all whereon it fell.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000037_000000|So better and happier grew the child, fairer and sweeter grew the flower, till Spring came smiling over the earth, and woke the flowers, set free the streams, and welcomed back the birds; then daily did the happy child sit among her flowers, longing for the gentle Elf to come again, that she might tell her gratitude for all the magic gift had done.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000039_000000|"Dear Annie, look for me no longer; I am here on your own breast, for you have learned to love my gift, and it has done its work most faithfully and well," the Fairy said, as she looked into the happy child's bright face, and laid her little arms most tenderly about her neck.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000041_000001|On every breeze, bright, airy spirits came floating by; some fanned her cheek with their cool breath, and waved her long hair to and fro, while others rang the flower bells, and made a pleasant rustling among the leaves.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000041_000003|Butterflies whispered lovely tales in her ear, and birds sang cheerful songs in a sweet language she had never understood before.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000041_000004|Earth and air seemed filled with beauty and with music she had never dreamed of until now.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000044_000000|Then, with a kind farewell, the gentle Fairy floated upward through the sunny air, smiling down upon the child, until she vanished in the soft, white clouds, and little Annie stood alone in her enchanted garden, where all was brightened with the radiant light, and fragrant with the perfume of her fairy flower.
train-other-500/2735/160603/2735_160603_000046_000000|RIPPLE, THE WATER SPIRIT.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000001_000000|three.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000002_000001|He felt as if all the angels and devils together must be making a mock at him.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000002_000002|The thing he had worked for through five heavy years, the end he had aimed at, the goal he had fought for, was his already-his for the stretching out of his hand.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000002_000003|Yet now that it was his, he could not have it.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000002_000004|Oh, the mockery of his fate!
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000002_000005|Oh, the irony of his life!
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000002_000006|It was shrieking, it was frantic!
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000003_000000|Then his bolder spirit seemed to say, "What is all this childish fuming about?
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000003_000001|Fortune comes to you with both hands full.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000000|It was impossible to believe that.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000001|If he married Kate, the Governor would not recommend him as Deemster.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000002|Had he not admitted that he stood in some fear of the public opinion of the island?
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000003|And was it not conceivable that, besides the unselfish interest which the Governor had shown in him, there was even a personal one that would operate more powerfully than fear of the old-fashioned Manx conventions to prevent any recommendation of the husband of the wrong woman?
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000004|At one moment a vague memory rose before Philip, as he crossed the fields, of the lunch at Government House, of the Governor's wife and daughter, of their courtesy and boundless graciousness.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000005|At the next moment he had drawn up sharply, with pangs of self contempt, hating himself, loathing himself, swearing at himself for a mean souled ingrate, as he kicked up the grass and the turf beneath it But the idea had taken root.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000004_000006|He could not help it; the Governor's interest went for nothing in his reckoning.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000005_000001|The Deemster who slapped the conventions in the face would suffer for it.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000005_000002|He would be taboo to half the life of the island-in public an official, in private a recluse.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000005_000003|An icy picture rose before his mind's eye of the woman who would be his wife in her relations with the ladies he had just left.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000005_000004|She might be their superior in education, certainly in all true manners, and in natural grace and beauty, in sweetness and charm, their mistress beyond a dream of comparison. But they would never forget that she was the daughter of a country innkeeper, and every little cobble in the rickety pyramid, even from the daughter of the innkeeper in the town, would look down on her as from a throne.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000006_000000|He could see them leaving their cards at his door and driving hurriedly off.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000006_000001|They must do that much.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000006_000002|It was the bitter pill which the Deemster's doings made them swallow.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000006_000004|Again, he could see himself too powerful to offend, too dangerous to ignore, going out on his duties without cheer, and returning to his wife without company.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000006_000007|Oh, God, what end could come of such an abject life but that, beginning by being unhappy, they should descend to being bad as well?
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000007_000000|"What a fuss you are making of things," said the voice again, but more loudly.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000007_000001|"This hubbub only means that you can't have your cake and eat it.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000007_000002|Very well, take Kate, and let the Deemstership go to perdition."
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000008_000000|There was not much comfort in that counsel, for it made no reckoning with the certainty that, if marriage with Kate would prevent him from being Deemster, it would prevent him from being anything in the Isle of Man.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000008_000001|As it had happened with his father, so it would happen with him-there would be no standing ground in the island for the man who had deliberately put himself outside the pale.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000009_000000|"Don't worry me with silly efforts to draw a line so straight.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000010_000000|This was how Philip put it to himself at length, and the daylight had gone by that time, and he was walking in the dark.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000010_000001|But the voice which had been pleading on his side now protested on hers.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000000|"Don't prate of duty and necessity.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000001|You mean self love and self interest.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000002|Man, be honest.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000003|Because this woman is an obstacle in your career, you would sacrifice her.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000004|It is boundless, pitiless selfishness. Suppose you abandon her, dare you think of her without shame!
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000005|She loves you, she trusts you, and she has given you proof of her love and trust. Hold your tongue.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000007|She loves you.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000008|She has given you all.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000011_000009|God bless her!"
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000012_000000|Affectionate pity swept down the selfish man in him.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000012_000001|As the lights of the town appeared on his path, he was saying to himself boldly, "Since either way there is trouble, I'll do as I said last night-I'll leave Heaven to decide whether I'm to be a great man or a little man, and decide for myself whether I'm to be a true man or a happy man.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000012_000002|I'll take my heart in my hand and go right forward."
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000013_000000|In this temper he returned to his chambers.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000013_000001|The rooms fronted to Athol Street, but backed on to the churchyard of saint George's.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000013_000004|The servant was laying the cloth.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000014_000000|"Lay covers for two, Jemmy," said Philip.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000014_000001|Then he began to hum something.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000015_000000|Presently, in feeling for his keys, his fingers touched an unfamiliar substance in his pocket.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000015_000001|He remembered what it was.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000015_000002|It was the cracked medallion of his father.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000015_000003|He could not bear to look at it.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000016_000000|This recalled a possession yet more painful, and going to a desk, he drew out the packet of his father's letters and proceeded to hide them away with the medallion.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000016_000001|As he did so his hand trembled, his limbs shook, he felt giddy, and he thought the voice that had tormented him with conflicting taunts was ringing in his ears again.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000016_000002|"Bury him deep! Bury your father out of all sight and all remembrance.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000016_000003|Bury his love of you, his hopes of you, his expectations and dreams of you.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000016_000004|Bury and forget him for ever."
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000017_000001|The man was a solemn, dignified, and reticent person, who had been groom to the late Bishop.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000017_000002|His gravity he had acquired from his horses, his dignity from his master; but his reticence he had created for himself, being a thing beyond nature in creature or man.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000017_000003|His proper name was Cottier; he had always been known as Jemy Lord.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000018_000000|"Company not arrived, sir," he said.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000018_000001|"Wait or serve?"
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000019_000000|"What is the time?" said Philip.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000020_000000|"Struck eight; but clock two minutes soon."
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000021_000000|"Serve the supper at once," said Philip.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000022_000000|When the dishes had been brought in and the man dismissed, Philip, taking his place at the table, drew from his button hole a flower which he had picked out of his water bowl at lunch, and, first putting it to his lips, he tossed it on to the empty place before the chair which had been drawn up opposite.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000022_000001|Then he sat down to eat.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000023_000000|He ate little; and, do what he would, he could not keep his mind from wandering.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000024_000000|In the midst of these memories, all sad and some bitter, suddenly he remembered again that he was supping with Kate.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000024_000002|He knew that she would be taking her supper at Sulby at that moment, thinking of him and making believe that he was with her.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000024_000005|He could have fancied there was a perfume of lace and dainty things. "Sweetheart!" He laughed-he hardly knew if it was himself that had spoken.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000024_000006|It was dear, delicious fooling.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000025_000001|He thought of his father, of his grandfather, of his lost inheritance, and how nearly he had reclaimed the better part of it, and then once more of Pete, crying aloud at last in the coil of his trouble, "Oh, if Pete had only lived!"
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000026_000000|His voice startled and his words horrified him.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000026_000001|To wipe out both in the first moment of recovered consciousness, he filled his glass to the brim, and lifted it up, rising at the same time, looking across the table, and saying in a soft whisper, "Your health, darling, your health!"
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000027_000000|The bell rang from the street door, and he stood listening with the wine glass in his hand.
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000027_000001|When he knew anything more, a voice at his elbow was saying out of a palpitating gloom, "The gentleman can't come, seemingly; he has sent a telegram."
train-other-500/2740/162051/2740_162051_000029_000000|Philip tore open the envelope and read-
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000000|There is a kind of mental shock which, like an earthquake under a prison, bursts open every cell and lets the inmates escape.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000001|After a time, Pete remembered that he was sitting in the dark, and he got up to light a candle.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000002|Looking for candlestick and matches, he went from table to dresser, from dresser to table, and from table back to dresser, doing the same thing over and over again, and not perceiving that he was going round and round.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000003|When at length the candle was lighted, he took it in his hand and went into the parlour like a sleepwalker.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000004|He set it on the mantelpiece, and sat down on the stool.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000005|In his blurred vision confused forms floated about him.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000007|He was sitting with these in his hands when his eyes fell on the other candlestick, the one in which the candle had gone out "I meant to light a candle," he thought, and he got up and took the empty candlestick into the hall.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000008|When he came back with another lighted candle, he perceived that there were two.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000009|"I'm going stupid," he thought, and he blew out the first one.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000006_000010|A moment afterwards he forgot that he had done so, and seeing the second still burning, he blew that out also.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000007_000000|So dull were his senses that he did not realise that anything was amiss. His eyes were seeing objects everywhere about-they were growing to awful size and threatening him.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000007_000001|His ears were hearing noises-they were making a fearful tumult inside his head.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000000|The room was not entirely dark.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000001|A shaft of bleared moonlight came and went at intervals.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000002|The moon was scudding through an angry sky, sometimes appearing, sometimes disappearing.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000003|Pete returned to the stool, and then he was in the light, but the nameless stone, leaning against the wall, was in the shade.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000004|He took up the mallet and chisels again, intending to work.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000006|The clamour in his brain was so loud that he thought some one was making a noise in the house.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000007|This task was sacred.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000008_000008|He always worked at it in silence.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000002|There are moments which are not to be measured as time.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000003|In the uncertain handling of the chisel and the irregular beat of the mallet something gave way.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000004|There was a harsh sound like a groan.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000005|A crack like a flash of forked lightning had shot across the face of the stone.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000006|He had split it in half.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000007|Its great pieces fell to the floor on either side of him.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000008|Then he remembered that the stone had been useless.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000009_000009|"It doesn't matter now," he thought. Nothing mattered.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000010_000000|With the mallet hanging from his hand he continued to sit in the drifting moonlight, feeling as if everything in the world had been shivered to atoms.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000010_000001|His two idols had been scattered at one blow-his wife and his friend.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000010_000002|The golden threads that had bound him to life were broken.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000010_000003|When poverty had come, he had met it without repining; when death had seemed to come, he had borne up against it bravely.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000010_000004|But wifeless, friendless, deceived where he had loved, betrayed where he had worshipped, he was bankrupt, he was broken, and a boundless despair took hold of him.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000000|When hope is entirely gone, anguish will sometimes turn a man into a monster.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000001|There was a fretful cry from the cradle, and, still in the stupor of his despair, he went out to rock it.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000002|The fire, which had only slid and smouldered, was now struggling into flame, and the child looked up at him with Philip's eyes.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000004|He was more desolate than he had thought.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000005|"Hush, my child, hush!" he said, without thinking.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000007|He had none.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000011_000008|That solace was gone.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000012_000000|Anger came to save his reason.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000012_000001|Not to have felt anger, he must have been less than a man or more.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000012_000003|Flesh of his flesh, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, heart of his heart.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000012_000004|Not his merely, but himself.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000013_000000|A lie, a mockery, a delusion, a deception!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000013_000002|Oh, she had hidden her secret.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000013_000003|She had thought it was safe.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000013_000005|The secret had spoken from the child's own face.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000014_000000|"Yet I've seen her kneel by the cot and pray, 'God bless my baby, and its father and its mother'-----"
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000015_000000|Why had he not killed her?
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000015_000001|A wild vision rose before him of killing Kate, and then going to the Deemster and saying, "Take me; I have murdered her because you have dishonoured her.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000015_000002|Condemn me to death; yet remember God lives, and He will condemn you to damnation."
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000016_000000|But the pity of it-the pity of it!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000016_000001|By a quick revolt of tenderness he recalled Kate as he had just seen her, crouching at the back of the cradle, like a hunted hare with uplifted paws uttering its last pitiful cry.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000016_000002|He remembered her altered face, so pale even in the firelight, so thin, so worn, and his anger began to smoke against Philip.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000016_000003|The flower that he would have been proud to wear on his breast Philip had buried in the dark.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000016_000004|Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000016_000005|Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000017_000000|She had given up all for that man-husband, child, father, mother, her friends, her good name, the very light of heaven.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000017_000001|How she must have loved him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000017_000003|Curse him! Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000017_000004|Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000018_000000|In the heat of his great anger Pete thought of himself also.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000018_000001|Jealousy was far beneath him, but, like all great souls, this simple man had known something of the grandeur of friendship.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000018_000002|Two streams running into them and taking heaven into their bosom.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000018_000004|He had uncovered his nakedness-the nakedness of his soul itself.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000019_000000|Bit by bit Pete pieced together the history of the past months.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000019_000001|He remembered the night of Kate's disappearance, when he had gone to Ballure and shouted up at the lighted window, "I've sent her to England," thinking to hide her fault.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000019_000002|At that moment Philip had known all-where she was (for it was where he had sent her), why she was gone, and that she was gone for ever.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000019_000003|Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000019_000004|Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000020_000000|Pete recalled the letters-the first one that he had put into Philip's hand, the second that he had read to him, the third that Philip had written to his dictation.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000020_000001|The little forgeries' to keep her poor name sweet, the little inventions to make his story plausible, the little lies of love, the little jests of a breaking heart!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000020_000002|And then the messages!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000020_000003|The presents to the child!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000020_000006|Curse him, O God!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000020_000007|Curse him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000022_000001|Deemster too!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000022_000002|First Deemster now, and held high in honour!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000022_000003|Worshipped for his justice!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000022_000004|Beloved for his mercy!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000022_000005|O God! O God!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000000|There are passions so overmastering that they stifle speech, and man sinks back to the animal.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000002|A frantic thought had flashed on him of killing Philip as he sat on the bench which he had disgraced, administering the law which he had outraged.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000003|The wild justice of this idea made the blood to bubble in his ears.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000004|He saw himself holding the Deemster by the throat, and crying aloud to the people, "You think this man is a just judge-he is a whited sepulchre.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000005|You think he is as true as the sun-he is as false as the sea.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000006|He has robbed me of wife and child; at the very gates of heaven he has lied to me like hell.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000023_000007|The hour of justice has struck, and thus I pay him-and thus-and thus."
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000000|But the power of words was lost in the drunkenness of his rage.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000001|With a dismal roar he flung the mallet away, and it rolled on the ground in narrowing circles.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000002|"My hands, my hands," he thought.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000003|He would strangle Philip, and then he would kill everybody in his way, merely for the lust of killing.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000004|Why not?
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000005|The fatal line was past.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000024_000006|Nothing sacred remained. The world was a howling wilderness of boundless license.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000025_000000|Then he stopped suddenly.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000025_000001|There was a thunderous noise outside, such as the waves make in a cave.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000025_000002|A company of people were coming in at the gate.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000025_000003|Some were walking with the heavy step of men who carry a corpse. Others were bearing lanterns, and a few held high over their heads the torches which fishermen use when they are hauling the white nets at night.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000027_000000|"Your friend," said somebody.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000028_000001|I have no friend," cried Pete, in a broken roar.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000030_000000|Pete did not hear.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000031_000000|"Where is he?" he roared.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000031_000001|"He's here," they answered.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000032_000000|And then Philip was brought up the path in the arms of four bearers, his head hanging aside and shaking at every step, his face white as the wig above it, and his gown trailing along the earth.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000033_000000|There was a sudden calm, and Pete dropped back in awe and horror.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000033_000001|A bolt out of heaven seemed to have fallen at his feet, and he trembled as if lightning had blinded him.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000034_000000|Dead!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000035_000000|His anger had ebbed, his fury had dashed itself against a rock.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000035_000001|His towering rage had shrunk to nothing in the face of this awful presence. The Dark Spirit had gone before him and snatched his victim out of his hands.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000035_000002|He had come out to kill this man, and here he met him being brought home dead.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000036_000000|Dead?
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000036_000002|God forgive him!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000037_000000|God forgive him, where he was gone!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000037_000001|Presumptuous man, stand back.
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000038_000000|Oh, mighty and merciful Death!
train-other-500/2740/288813/2740_288813_000038_000001|Death the liberator, the deliverer, the pardoner, the peace maker!
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000000_000000|THE WHITE CAT
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000002_000001|For he was growing an old man, and began to think it would soon be time for him to let one of them reign in his stead.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000003_000000|So he determined to set them a task to perform, and whichever should be the most successful was to have the kingdom as his reward.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000004_000000|It was some time before he could decide what the task should be.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000004_000001|But at last he told them that he had a fancy for a very beautiful little dog, and that they were all to set out to find one for him.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000004_000002|They were to have a whole year in which to search, and were all to return to the castle on the same day, and present the various dogs they had chosen at the same hour.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000006_000000|So they bade their father good bye, and after agreeing to be back at the castle at the same hour, and on the same day, when a year should have passed away, the three brothers all started together.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000007_000000|A great number of lords and servants accompanied them out of the city, but when they had ridden about a league they sent everyone back, and after embracing one another affectionately, they all set out to try their luck in different directions.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000008_000000|The two eldest met with many adventures on their travels, but the youngest saw the most wonderful sights of all.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000009_000000|He was young and handsome, and as clever as a Prince should be, besides being brave.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000010_000000|Wherever he went he enquired for dogs, and hardly a day passed without his buying several, big and little, greyhounds, spaniels, lap dogs, and sheep dogs-in fact, every kind of dog that you could think of, and very soon he had a troop of fifty or sixty trotting along behind him, one of which he thought would surely win the prize.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000011_000000|So he journeyed on from day to day, not knowing where he was going, until one night he lost his way in a thick dark forest, and after wandering many weary miles in the wind and rain he was glad to see at last a bright light shining through the trees.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000012_000001|All the beautiful little dogs he had taken so much trouble to collect had been lost in the forest, and he was thoroughly weary and disheartened.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000014_000000|Here he found a splendid fire blazing, beside which stood a comfortable arm chair; the hands pointed invitingly towards it, and as soon as the Prince had seated himself they proceeded to take off his wet, muddy clothes, and dress him in a magnificent suit of silk and velvet.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000015_000000|When he was ready, the hands led him into a brilliantly lighted room, in which was a table spread for supper.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000015_000001|At the end of the room was a raised platform, upon which a number of cats were seated, all playing different musical instruments.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000016_000000|The Prince began to think he must be dreaming, when the door opened, and a lovely little White Cat came in.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000016_000001|She wore a long black veil, and was accompanied by a number of cats, dressed in black, and carrying swords.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000017_000000|She came straight up to the Prince, and in a sweet, sad little voice bade him welcome.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000017_000001|Then she ordered supper to be served, and the whole company sat down together.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000018_000000|They were waited upon by the mysterious hands, but many of the dishes were not to the Prince's liking.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000018_000001|Stewed rats and mice may be a first rate meal for a cat, but the Prince did not feel inclined to try them.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000019_000000|However, the White Cat ordered the hands to serve the Prince with the dishes he liked best, and at once, without his even mentioning his favorite food, he was supplied with every dainty he could think of.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000022_000000|As soon as the hands had dressed him in a hunting suit of green, he hurried down to join his hostess.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000023_000000|The hands led him up to a wooden horse, and seemed to expect him to mount.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000024_000000|They had an excellent day's sport.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000024_000001|The White Cat, who rode a monkey, proved herself a clever huntress, climbing the tallest trees with the greatest ease, and without once falling from her steed.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000025_000000|Never was there a pleasanter hunting party, and day after day the time passed so happily away that the Prince forgot all about the little dog he was searching for, and even forgot his own home and his father's promise.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000026_000000|At length the White Cat reminded him that in three days he must appear at court, and the Prince was terribly upset to think that he had now no chance of winning his father's kingdom.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000026_000001|But the White Cat told him that all would be well, and giving him an acorn, bade him mount the wooden horse and ride away.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000027_000000|The Prince thought she must be mocking him, but when she held the acorn to his ear, he heard quite plainly a little dog's bark.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000028_000001|But be sure you do not open the fruit until you are in the King's presence."
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000029_000000|The Prince thanked her, and having bidden her a sorrowful farewell, mounted his wooden steed and rode away.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000030_000000|Before he reached the castle, he met his two brothers, who made fine fun of the wooden horse, and also of the big ugly dog which trotted by his side.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000032_000000|When they reached the palace, everyone was loud in praise of the two lovely little dogs the elder brothers had brought back with them, but when the youngest opened his acorn and showed a tiny dog, lying upon a white satin cushion, they knew that this must be the prettiest little dog in the world.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000033_000000|However, the King did not feel inclined to give up his throne just yet, so he told the brothers that there was one more task they must first perform: they must bring him a piece of muslin so fine that it would pass through the eye of a needle.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000034_000000|So once more the brothers set out upon their travels.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000035_000000|She was delighted to welcome him, and when the Prince told her that the King had now ordered him to find a piece of muslin fine enough to go through the eye of a needle, she smiled at him very sweetly, and told him to be of good cheer.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000036_000000|"In my palace I have some very clever spinners," she said; "and I will set them to work upon the muslin."
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000038_000000|Well, the second year passed away as quickly as the first, and the night before the day on which the three Princes were expected at their father's court, the White Cat gave the young Prince a walnut, telling him that it contained the muslin.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000038_000001|Then she bade him good by, and he mounted the wooden horse and rode away.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000039_000002|Then the youngest Prince stepped into the great hall and produced his walnut.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000039_000003|He cracked it carefully, and found inside a hazel nut.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000039_000004|This when cracked held a cherrystone, inside the cherrystone was a grain of wheat, and in the wheat a millet seed.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000039_000005|The Prince himself began to mistrust the White Cat, but he instantly felt a cat's claw scratch him gently, so he persevered, opened the millet seed, and found inside a beautiful piece of soft white muslin that was four hundred ells long at the very least.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000039_000006|It passed with the greatest ease through the eye of the smallest needle in the kingdom, and the Prince felt that now the prize must be his.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000041_000000|Of course, the Prince went back to the White Cat, and told her how very unfairly his father had behaved to him.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000041_000001|She comforted him as best she could, and told him not to be afraid, for she would introduce him to the loveliest Princess the sun had ever shone upon.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000042_000000|The appointed time passed happily away, and one evening the White Cat reminded the Prince that on the next day he must return home.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000043_000001|The time is so short that I cannot even look for one."
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000044_000000|Then the White Cat told him that if only he would do as she bade him all would be well.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000045_000000|"Take your sword, cut off my head and my tail, and cast them into the flames," she said.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000046_000000|The Prince declared that on no account would he treat her so cruelly; but she begged him so earnestly to do as she asked that at last he consented.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000047_000000|No sooner had he cast the head and the tail into the fire than a beautiful Princess appeared where the body of the cat had been.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000047_000001|The spell that had been cast upon her was broken, and at the same time her courtiers and attendants, who had also been changed into cats, hastened in in their proper forms again, to pay their respects to their mistress.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000048_000000|The Prince at once fell deeply in love with the charming Princess, and begged her to accompany him to his father's court as his bride.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000049_000000|She consented, and together they rode away.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000049_000001|During the journey, the Princess told her husband the story of her enchantment.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000051_000000|Now, the fairies wished her to marry the King of the Dwarfs, and were so angry when she declared she would marry no one but her own true love, that they changed her into a White Cat as a punishment.
train-other-500/2748/160959/2748_160959_000053_000000|So the poor old King felt that now he would be obliged to give up his kingdom.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000001_000000|THE STAR WIFE
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000002_000001|He was fond of the red flowers and the blue sky; and when the rest of the Indians went out to hunt in waistcloths of skin he put on his fringed leggings all heavy with blue beads, and painted red rings and stripes on his face, till he was as gay as the earth and the sky himself.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000002_000002|High feather was his name, and he always wore a red swan's feather on his head.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000003_000000|One day, when High feather was out with his bow and arrows, he came on a little beaten trail that he had never seen before, and he followed it-but he found that it went round and round and brought him back to where he had started.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000003_000001|It came from nowhere, and it went to nowhere.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000004_000000|"What sort of animal has made this?" he said.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000004_000001|And he lay down in the middle of the ring to think, looking up into the blue sky.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000005_000000|While he lay thinking, he saw a little speck up above him in the sky, and thought it was an eagle.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000005_000001|But the speck grew bigger, and sank down and down, till he saw it was a great basket coming down out of the sky.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000005_000002|He jumped up and ran back to a little hollow and lay down to hide in a patch of tall red flowers.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000005_000004|Twelve beautiful maidens were leaning over the edge of the basket.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000006_000000|The maidens jumped out of the basket and began to dance round and round the ring trail, one behind the other, drumming with their fingers on little drums of eagle skin, and singing such beautiful songs as High feather had never heard.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000007_000000|Then High feather jumped up and ran towards the ring, crying out, "Let me dance and sing with you!"
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000008_000000|The maidens were frightened, and ran to the basket and jumped in, and the basket flew up into the sky, and grew smaller till at last he could not see it at all.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000009_000000|The young man went home to his wigwam, and his mother roasted buffalo meat for his dinner; but he could not eat, and he could not think of anything but the twelve beautiful maidens.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000009_000001|His mother begged him to tell her what the matter was; and at last he told her, and said he would never be happy till he brought one of the maidens home to be his wife.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000010_000000|"Those must be the Star people," said his mother, who was a great magician-the prairie was full of magic in those days, before the white man came and the buffalo went.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000010_000001|"You had better take an Indian girl for your wife.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000010_000002|Don't think any more of the Star maidens, or you will have much trouble."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000011_000000|"I care little how much trouble I have, so long as I get a Star maiden for my wife," he said; "and I am going to get one, if I have to wait till the world ends."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000012_000000|"If you must, you must," said his mother.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000013_000000|So next morning she sewed a bit of gopher's fur on to his feather; and he ate a good breakfast of buffalo meat and tramped away over the prairie to the dancing ring.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000013_000001|As soon as he came into the ring he turned into a gopher; but there were no gophers' holes there for him to hide in, so he had to lie in the grass and wait.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000014_000000|Presently he saw a speck up in the sky, and the speck grew larger and larger till it became a basket, and the basket came down and down till it rested on the earth in the middle of the ring.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000016_000000|"There is no man here," she said.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000016_000001|So they all jumped out to have their dance.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000016_000002|But before they came to the beaten ring the youngest maiden spied the gopher, and called out to her sisters to look at it.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000017_000000|"Away! away!" cried the eldest maiden.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000017_000001|"No gopher would dare to come on our dancing ground.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000017_000002|It is a conjuror in disguise!"
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000018_000000|So she took her youngest sister by the arm and pulled her away to the basket, and they all jumped in and the basket went sailing up into the sky before High feather could get out of his gopher skin or say a word.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000019_000000|The young man went home very miserable; but when his mother heard what had happened she said: "It is a hard thing you want to do; but if you must, you must.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000019_000001|To night I will make some fresh magic, and you can try again to morrow."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000020_000000|Next morning High feather asked for his breakfast; but his mother said, "You must not have any buffalo meat, or it will spoil the magic. You must not eat anything but the wild strawberries you find on the prairie as you go."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000021_000001|As soon as he was inside the ring he turned into a little mouse, and made friends with the family of mice that lived in a hole under the grass; and the mother mouse promised to help him all she could.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000022_000001|The eldest sister put her head over the edge, and looked all around, north and west and south and east and down on the ground.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000023_000000|"There is no man here," she said, "and I do not see any gopher; but you must be very careful."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000024_000000|So they all got out of the basket, and began to dance round the ring, drumming and singing as they went.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000024_000001|But when they came near the mouse's nest the eldest sister held up her hand, and they stopped dancing and held their breath.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000024_000002|Then she tapped on the ground and listened.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000025_000000|"It does not sound so hollow as it did," she said, "The mice have a visitor."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000026_000000|And she tapped again, and called out, "Come and show yourselves, you little traitors, or we will dig you up!"
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000028_000000|The maidens turned round and ran after them; all but the youngest sister, who did not want any one to be killed; and High feather came out of the hole and turned himself into what he was, and caught her by the arm.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000030_000000|Her sisters came rushing round her, and begged her to go back home to the sky with them; but she looked into the young man's eyes, and said she would go with him wherever he went.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000030_000001|So the other maidens went weeping and wailing up into the sky, and High feather took his Star wife home to his tent on the bank of the Battle River.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000031_000000|High feather's mother was glad to see them both; but she whispered in his ear: "You must never let her out of your sight if you want to keep her; you must take her with you everywhere you go."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000032_000000|And he did so.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000032_000002|She only ate berries and crushed corn.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000034_000001|If you come quickly and quietly you can catch them before they fly away; but do not tell your wife, for red swans cannot bear the sight of a woman, and they can tell if one comes within a mile of them."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000035_000000|High feather had never seen or heard of a red swan before; all the red feathers he wore he had had to paint.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000035_000002|Then they all gathered round her, and begged her to go home with them.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000036_000000|But she only said, "High feather is a brave man, and he is very good to me, and I will never leave him."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000037_000000|When they saw they could not make her leave her husband, the eldest sister said: "If you must stay, you must.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000037_000001|But just come up for an hour, to let your father see you, because he has been mourning for you ever since you went away."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000038_000000|The Star wife did not wish to go, but she wanted to see her father once more, so she got into the basket and it sailed away up into the sky.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000038_000002|Then she remembered that she ought to have gone home long before.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000039_000000|"Now I must go back to my husband," she said.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000040_000000|"That you shall never do!" said her father.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000041_000000|And he shut her up in a white cloud and said she should stay there till she promised never to go back to the prairie.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000041_000001|She begged to be let out, but it was no use.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000042_000000|Then she began to weep; and she wept so much that the cloud began to weep too, and it was weeping itself quite away.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000043_000000|"What must I do for you," he said, "to make you stay with us here and be happy?"
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000044_000000|"I will not stay here," she said, "unless my husband comes and lives here too."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000045_000000|"I will send for him at once," said her father.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000045_000001|So he sent the basket down empty, and it rested in the middle of the dancing ring.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000046_000001|He shot two with one arrow, and then all the rest flew away. He picked up the two swans and hurried back to his tent, and there lay the dancing cloth with the feather stars on it half finished, but no wife could he see.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000046_000002|He called her, but she did not answer.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000046_000003|He rushed out, with the two red swans still slung round his neck and hanging down his back, and ran to the dancing ring, but nobody was there.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000047_000000|"I will wait till she comes back," he said to himself, "if I have to wait till the world ends." So he threw himself down on the grass and lay looking up at the stars till he went to sleep.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000048_000000|Early in the morning he heard a rustling on the grass, and when he opened his eyes he saw the great basket close beside him.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000048_000001|He jumped up, with the two red swans still slung round his neck, and climbed into the basket.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000048_000002|There was nobody there; and when he began to climb out again he found that the basket was half way up to the sky.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000048_000003|It went up and up, and at last it came into the Star country, where his wife was waiting for him.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000048_000004|Her father gave them a beautiful blue tent to live in, and High feather was happy enough for a while; but he soon grew tired of the cloud berries that the Star people ate, and he longed to tramp over the solid green prairie, so he asked his wife's father to let him take her back to the earth.
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000049_000000|"No," said the Star man, "because then I should never see her again. If you stay with us you will soon forget the dull old earth."
train-other-500/2748/160985/2748_160985_000050_000001|The Star wife finished embroidering her dancing cloth that day; and whenever the Indians danced she danced with them.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000004_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000005_000000|My senses (as I have described) were continually mortified, and under perpetual restraint.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000005_000001|To conquer them totally, it is necessary to deny them the smallest relaxation, until the victory is completed.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000005_000003|Austerities, however severe, will not conquer the senses.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000005_000006|It indeed would prolong his torments, and postpone his death.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000006_000001|If we do not eradicate every remains of self subsisting in these, we support them in a dying life to the end. This state and its termination are clearly set forth by Paul.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000006_000003|But, lest we should rest here, he fully distinguishes this from the state of being dead and having our life hid with Christ in God.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000006_000004|It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000007_000001|The very end of mortification is accomplished in him, and all is become new.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000008_000000|The more Thou didst augment my love, and my patience, O my Lord, the less respite had I from the most oppressive crosses; but love rendered them easy to bear.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000009_000001|The increase of crosses would proportionately increase your delight.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000000|Love, at the beginning, athirst for mortification impelled me to seek and invent various kinds.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000001|It is surprising, that as soon as the bitterness of any new mode of mortification was exhausted, another kind was pointed to me, and I was inwardly led to pursue it.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000002|Divine love so enlightened my heart, and so scrutinized into its secret springs, that the smallest defects became exposed.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000003|If I was about to speak, something wrong was instantly pointed to me, and I was compelled to silence.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000004|If I kept silence, faults were presently discovered-in every action there was something defective-in my mortifications, my penances, my alms giving, my retirement, I was faulty.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000005|When I walked, I observed there was something wrong; if I spoke any way in my own favor, I saw pride.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000007|If I was cheerful and open, I was condemned.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000009|It was not that I was particularly attentive over myself, for it was even with constraint that I could look at all at myself.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000010|My attention toward God, by an attachment of my will to His, was without intermission.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000011|I waited continually upon Him, and He watched incessantly over me, and He so led me by His providence, that I forgot all things.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000012|I knew not how to communicate what I felt to anyone.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000010_000015|It must not, however, be supposed that divine love suffered my faults to go unpunished.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000000|O Lord! with what rigor, dost Thou punish the most faithful, the most loving and beloved of Thy children.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000003|Indeed, the manner in which He corrects His chosen, must be felt, or it is impossible to conceive how dreadful it is.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000004|In my attempt to explain it, I shall be unintelligible, except to experienced souls.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000006|It is like a dislocated joint, which is in incessant torment, until the bone is replaced.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000010|It is of the utmost consequence to know what use to make of the distress.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000013|Bear it passively, nor seek to satisfy God by anything we can do of ourselves.
train-other-500/2754/161876/2754_161876_000011_000014|To continue passive at such a time is extremely difficult, and requires great firmness and courage.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000002_000000|The Lord took from me all the sensibility which I had for the creatures, or things created, even in an instant, as one takes off a robe.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000002_000004|The loss of my reputation every day increasing, became sensible to my heart, though I was not allowed to justify or bewail myself.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000003_000001|There were some very considerable gentlemen who made proposals for me, and even such persons as according to the rules of fashion ought not to think of me.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000003_000002|They presented themselves during the very depth of my outward and inward desolation.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000003_000003|At first it appeared to me a means of drawing me out of the distress I was in.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000004_000002|It was sufficient for me that Thou, O my God, knewest that I sacrificed them to Thee, (without saying a word to anybody) especially one whose high birth and amiable exterior qualities might have tempted both my vanity and inclination.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000004_000004|So far was I from presuming to hope for it, that I feared this sea of affliction might also be followed by everlasting misery, in the loss of Thee.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000000|I was for five or six weeks at the last extremity.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000001|I could not take any nourishment.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000004|I could not see any hope of salvation, yet was not unwilling to die.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000006|Of the two, I thought I would rather choose Hell than sin.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000008|All my prayers, penances, alms and charities, seemed to rise up against me, and heighten my condemnation.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000009|I thought there appeared on the side of God, on my own, and from all creatures, one general condemnation, my conscience was a witness against me, which I could not appease.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000010|What may appear strange, the sins of my youth did not then give me any pain at all.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000011|They did not rise up in judgment against me, but there appeared one universal testimony against all the good I had done, and all the sentiments of evil I had entertained.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000012|If I went to confessors, I could tell them nothing of my condition.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000014|They would have regarded as eminent virtues, what, O my God, thy eyes all pure and chaste rejected as infidelity.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000017|Who can comprehend it?
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000022|Oh, ye stout and righteous men!
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000023|Observe as much as ye please of excellence in what ye have done to the glory of God.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000005_000024|As for me, I only glory in my infirmities, since they have merited for me such a Saviour!
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000006_000001|In four days I did not eat as much as would make one very moderate repast.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000006_000002|I was obliged to keep my bed through mere weakness, my body being no longer able to support the burden laid upon it.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000006_000003|If I had thought, known, or heard tell, that there had ever been such a state as mine, it would have exceedingly relieved me.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000006_000005|I saw in myself none of those states which they set down.
train-other-500/2754/161889/2754_161889_000006_000006|I did not so much as comprehend them.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000001_000000|My soul was in a state of entire resignation and very great content, in the midst of such violent tempests.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000001_000002|The more they said to me to his disadvantage, the more esteem I felt for him.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000001_000003|I answered them, "Perhaps I may never see him again, but I shall ever be glad to do him justice.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000002_000000|A soul in this state seeks nothing for itself, but all for God.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000002_000002|It leaves itself to be conducted by God's providences and creatures.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000002_000004|The more everything appears adverse, and even desperate, the more calm it is, in spite of the annoyance and pain of the senses and of the creatures, which, for some time after the new life, raise some clouds and obstructions, as I have already signified.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000002_000005|But when the soul is entirely passed into its original Being, all these things no more cause any separation or partition.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000002_000007|There is in such case no other way or means of remedy, but in waiting till the Sun of Righteousness dissipate those fogs.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000002_000008|The whole work of purification comes from God only.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000003_000001|Both these states are found in the apostle Paul.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000003_000003|Then there is no longer a sting in death, or thorn in the flesh, capable of paining or hurting any more.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000004_000000|At first indeed, and for a pretty long time after, the soul sees that nature wants to take some part with it in its trials; then its fidelity consists in withholding it, without allowing it the least indulgence, till it leaves everything to go on with God in purity as it comes from Him.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000004_000002|Unless God through experience, makes known His guidance to the soul, it can never comprehend it.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000005_000001|But few are willing to lose the earth.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000005_000005|Often the idea which a man falsely conceives of the greatness of his advancement in divine experience, makes him want to be seen and known of men, and to wish to see the very same perfection in others.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000005_000006|He conceives too low ideas of others, and too high of his own state.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000006_000000|What, then, renders this soul so perfectly content?
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000007_000000|It is here that the apostolic life begins.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000007_000002|There is a way of lights, gifts and graces, a holy life in which the creature appears all admirable.
train-other-500/2754/161902/2754_161902_000007_000004|The souls which walk in the other path are often very little known, for a length of time, as it was with Jesus Christ Himself, till the last years of His life.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000001_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000002_000000|After Father La Combe returned from Rome, well approved, and furnished with testimonials of life and doctrine, he performed his functions of preaching and confessing as usual.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000002_000001|I gave him an account of what I had done and suffered in his absence, and what care God had taken of all my concerns.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000002_000002|I saw his providence incessantly extended to the very smallest things.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000002_000003|After having been several months without any news of my papers, when some pressed me to write, and blamed my neglect, an invisible hand held me back; my peace and confidence were great.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000002_000005|I had sent to Paris for a pretty considerable bundle of things for my daughter.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000003_000004|The money fell from the horse in the middle of the market at Geneva.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000003_000005|That instant I arrived, coming on the other side, and having alighted from my litter, the first thing I found was my money.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000003_000007|Many such things have attended me.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000003_000008|These accounts may suffice to show the continual protection of God.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000004_000000|The Bishop of Geneva continued to persecute me.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000004_000006|The will of God rendering everything equal to me.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000004_000009|They have reasons, I know, which self love causes to appear very just.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000005_000000|To relieve myself a little from the fatigue of continual conversation, I desired Father La Combe to allow me a retreat.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000005_000001|It was then that I let myself be consumed by love all the day long.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000005_000002|Also I perceived the quality of a spiritual mother; for the Lord gave me what I cannot express for the perfection of souls.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000006_000001|I had nothing to write about, not one idea to begin with.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000006_000002|It was a divine impulse, with such a fulness of grace as was hard to contain.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000006_000003|I opened this disposition of mine to Father La Combe.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000006_000005|I told him, that "weakness was the effect of my resistance," and I believed it would, through my writing, go off again.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000008_000000|He ordered me to do so.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000008_000001|At my taking the pen I knew not the first word I should write; when I began, suitable matter flowed copiously, nay, impetuously.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000008_000002|As I was writing I was relieved and grew better.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000008_000003|I wrote an entire treatise on the interior path of faith, under the comparison of torrents, or of streams and rivers.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000009_000001|Who could express what it has cost my heart before he was formed according to the will of God?
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000010_000001|The Lord was pleased to make me pass wholly into Him by an entire internal transformation.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000010_000002|He became more and more the absolute master of my heart, to such a degree as not to leave me a movement of my own.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000010_000003|This state did not hinder me from condescending to my sister, and the others in the house.
train-other-500/2754/161905/2754_161905_000010_000004|Nevertheless, the useless things with which they were taken up could not interest me.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000002_000000|RECIPES.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000004_000000|FISH.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000007_000000|FRIED ANCHOVIES.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000014_000001|Its extreme range is extended into the Black Sea.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000014_000002|The fishing for them is carried on during the night, and lights are used with the nets.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000014_000003|The anchovy is common on the coasts of Portugal, Spain, and France.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000014_000004|It occurs, I have no doubt, at the Channel Islands, and has been taken on the Hampshire coast, and in the Bristol Channel." Other fish, of inferior quality, but resembling the real Gorgona anchovy, are frequently sold for it, and passed off as genuine.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000015_000000|ANCHOVY BUTTER o r PASTE.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000017_000001|Mix the butter gradually with them, and rub the whole through a sieve.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000019_000000|POTTED ANCHOVIES.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000022_000002|Made mustard, or a few grains of cayenne, may be added to the paste before laying it on the toast.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000023_000001|These fish are preserved in a kind of pickling bottle, carefully corked down, and surrounded by a red looking liquor, resembling in appearance diluted clay.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000023_000002|The price is moderate, one shilling only being demanded for the luxury.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000023_000003|When these anchovies are what is termed potted, it implies that the fish have been pounded into the consistency of a paste, and then placed in flat pots, somewhat similar in shape to those used for pomatum.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000023_000005|All the samples of anchovy paste, analyzed by different medical men, have been found to be highly and vividly coloured with very large quantities of bole Armenian." The anchovy itself, when imported, is of a dark dead colour, and it is to make it a bright "handsome looking sauce" that this red earth is used.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000024_000000|BARBEL.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000026_000001|Put in the fish; heat it gradually; but do not let it boil, or it will be broken.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000030_000001|It was, however, formerly, if not now, a favourite with the Jews, excellent cookers of fish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000030_000002|Others would boil with it a piece of bacon, that it might have a relish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000030_000003|It is to be met with from two to three or four feet long, and is said to live to a great age.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000031_000000|BRILL.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000033_000001|Set the fish in sufficient cold water to cover it; throw in salt, in the above proportions, and a little vinegar, and bring it gradually to boil; simmer very gently till the fish is done, which will be in about ten minutes; but the time for boiling, of course, depends entirely on the size of the fish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000033_000002|Serve it on a hot napkin, and garnish with cut lemon, parsley, horseradish, and a little lobster coral sprinkled over the fish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000033_000003|Send lobster or shrimp sauce and plain melted butter to table with it.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000038_000001|It is a fine fish, and is abundant in the London market.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000039_000000|TO CHOOSE BRILL.--The flesh of this fish, like that of turbot, should be of a yellowish tint, and should be chosen on account of its thickness. If the flesh has a bluish tint, it is not good.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000040_000000|CODFISH.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000041_000001|Cod may be boiled whole; but a large head and shoulders are quite sufficient for a dish, and contain all that is usually helped, because, when the thick part is done, the tail is insipid and overdone.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000041_000002|The latter, cut in slices, makes a very good dish for frying; or it may be salted down and served with egg sauce and parsnips.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000041_000003|Cod, when boiled quite fresh, is watery; salting a little, renders it firmer.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000043_000001|They have a smooth head, and the gill membrane has seven rays.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000043_000002|The body is oblong, and covered with deciduous scales.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000043_000003|The fins are all inclosed in skin, whilst their rays are unarmed.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000043_000004|The ventral fins are slender, and terminate in a point. Their habits are gregarious, and they feed on smaller fish and other marine animals.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000044_000000|COD'S HEAD AND SHOULDERS.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000045_000001|INGREDIENTS.--Sufficient water to cover the fish; five ounces. of salt to each gallon of water.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000046_000001|Lay it in the fish kettle, with sufficient cold water to cover it.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000046_000002|Be very particular not to pour the water on the fish, as it is liable to break it, and only keep it just simmering.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000046_000003|If the water should boil away, add a little by pouring it in at the side of the kettle, and not on the fish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000046_000004|Add salt in the above proportion, and bring it gradually to a boil.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000046_000005|Skim very carefully, draw it to the side of the fire, and let it gently simmer till done.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000000|TO CHOOSE COD.--The cod should be chosen for the table when it is plump and round near the tail, when the hollow behind the head is deep, and when the sides are undulated as if they were ribbed.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000001|The glutinous parts about the head lose their delicate flavour, after the fish has been twenty four hours out of the water.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000002|The great point by which the cod should be judged is the firmness of its flesh; and, although the cod is not firm when it is alive, its quality may be arrived at by pressing the finger into the flesh.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000003|If this rises immediately, the fish is good; if not, it is stale.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000004|Another sign of its goodness is, if the fish, when it is cut, exhibits a bronze appearance, like the silver side of a round of beef.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000005|When this is the case, the flesh will be firm when cooked. Stiffness in a cod, or in any other fish, is a sure sign of freshness, though not always of quality.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000006|Sometimes, codfish, though exhibiting signs of rough usage, will eat much better than those with red gills, so strongly recommended by many cookery books.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000051_000007|This appearance is generally caused by the fish having been knocked about at sea, in the well boats, in which they are conveyed from the fishing grounds to market.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000052_000000|SALT COD, COMMONLY CALLED "SALT FISH."
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000053_000001|INGREDIENTS.--Sufficient water to cover the fish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000054_000001|When thoroughly soaked, take it out, see that it is perfectly clean, and put it in the fish kettle with sufficient cold water to cover it.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000054_000002|Heat it gradually, but do not let it boil much, or the fish will be hard.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000054_000003|Skim well, and when done, drain the fish and put it on a napkin garnished with hard boiled eggs cut in rings.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000058_000001|This is an especial dish on Ash Wednesday.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000059_000000|PRESERVING COD.--Immediately as the cod are caught, their heads are cut off.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000059_000001|They are then opened, cleaned, and salted, when they are stowed away in the hold of the vessel, in beds of five or six yards square, head to tail, with a layer of salt to each layer of fish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000059_000002|When they have lain in this state three or four days, in order that the water may drain from them, they are shifted into a different part of the vessel, and again salted. Here they remain till the vessel is loaded, when they are sometimes cut into thick pieces and packed in barrels for the greater convenience of carriage.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000060_000000|COD SOUNDS.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000061_000000|Should be well soaked in salt and water, and thoroughly washed before dressing them.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000064_000001|Cover each with a layer of forcemeat, roll them up in a nice form, and skewer them.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000064_000002|Rub over with lard, dredge with flour, and cook them gently before the fire in a Dutch oven.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000067_000000|THE SOUNDS IN CODFISH.--These are the air or swimming bladders, by means of which the fishes are enabled to ascend or descend in the water.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000067_000001|In the Newfoundland fishery they are taken out previous to incipient putrefaction, washed from their slime and salted for exportation.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000067_000002|The tongues are also cured and packed up in barrels; whilst, from the livers, considerable quantities of oil are extracted, this oil having been found possessed of the most nourishing properties, and particularly beneficial in cases of pulmonary affections.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000068_000000|COD PIE.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000071_000001|INGREDIENTS.--Any remains of cold cod, twelve oysters, sufficient melted butter to moisten it; mashed potatoes enough to fill up the dish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000077_000001|Now make the sauce, by mixing the ingredients named above; give it one boil, and pour it into the pie by a hole made at the top of the crust, which can easily be covered by a small piece of pastry cut and baked in any fanciful shape-such as a leaf, or otherwise.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000082_000000|CURRIED COD.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000084_000001|Stir the curry powder into the cream; put it, with the seasoning, to the other ingredients; give one boil, and serve.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000088_000000|THE FOOD OF THE COD.--This chiefly consists of the smaller species of the scaly tribes, shell fish, crabs, and worms.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000088_000002|They sometimes attain a great size, but their usual weight is from fourteen to forty pounds.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000091_000001|Stir in sufficient flour to thicken, and pour to it the milk or cream.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000091_000002|Simmer for ten minutes, add the cayenne and sugar, and, when liked, a little lemon juice.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000091_000003|Put the fish in the sauce to warm gradually, but do not let it boil.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000091_000004|Serve in a dish garnished with croutons.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000096_000000|COD A l a BECHAMEL.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000097_000002|butter; seasoning to taste of pepper and salt; fried bread, a few bread crumbs.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000098_000001|Make a border of fried bread round the dish, lay in the fish, sprinkle over with bread crumbs, and baste with butter.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000098_000002|Brown either before the fire or with a salamander, and garnish with toasted bread cut in fanciful shapes.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000101_000001|Its great rendezvous are the sandbanks of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and New England.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000101_000002|These places are its favourite resorts; for there it is able to obtain great quantities of worms, a food peculiarly grateful to it.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000101_000003|Another cause of its attachment to these places has been said to be on account of the vicinity to the Polar seas, where it returns to spawn.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000101_000004|Few are taken north of Iceland, and the shoals never reach so far south as the Straits of Gibraltar.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000101_000005|Many are taken on the coasts of Norway, in the Baltic, and off the Orkneys, which, prior to the discovery of Newfoundland, formed one of the principal fisheries.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000102_000000|COD A l a MAITRE D'HOTEL.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000104_000001|Put it into a stewpan with the butter, parsley, shalot, pepper, and nutmeg.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000104_000002|Melt the butter gradually, and be very careful that it does not become like oil. When all is well mixed and thoroughly hot, add the lemon juice, and serve.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000109_000000|THE SEASON FOR FISHING COD.--The best season for catching cod is from the beginning of February to the end of April; and although each fisherman engaged in taking them, catches no more than one at a time, an expert hand will sometimes take four hundred in a day.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000109_000001|The employment is excessively fatiguing, from the weight of the fish as well as from the coldness of the climate.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000110_000000|COD A L'ITALIENNE.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000112_000001|If the colour should not be good, add cream in the above proportion, and strain it through a fine sieve; season it, and put in the vinegar, lemon juice, and sugar.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000116_000000|THE FECUNDITY OF THE COD.--In our preceding remarks on the natural history of fishes, we have spoken of the amazing fruitfulness of this fish; but in this we see one more instance of the wise provision which Nature has made for supplying the wants of man.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000116_000001|So extensive has been the consumption of this fish, that it is surprising that it has not long ago become extinct; which would certainly have been the case, had it not been for its wonderful powers of reproduction.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000116_000002|"So early as thirteen sixty eight," says dr Cloquet, "the inhabitants of Amsterdam had dispatched fishermen to the coast of Sweden; and in the first quarter of seventeen ninety two, from the ports of France only, two hundred ten vessels went out to the cod fisheries.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000116_000003|Every year, however, upwards of ten thousand vessels, of all nations, are employed in this trade, and bring into the commercial world more than forty million of salted and dried cod.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000117_000000|BAKED CARP.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000119_000002|Serve the carp on a dish garnished with parsley and cut lemon, and the sauce in a boat.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000120_000002|Seldom bought.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000124_000001|Some of them are migratory.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000124_000002|They have very small mouths and no teeth, and the gill membrane has three rays.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000124_000003|The body is smooth, and generally whitish.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000124_000004|The carp both grows and increases very fast, and is accounted the most valuable of all fish for the stocking of ponds.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000124_000005|It has been pronounced the queen of river fish, and was first introduced to this country about three hundred years ago.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000124_000006|Of its sound, or air bladder, a kind of glue is made, and a green paint of its gall.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000125_000000|STEWED CARP.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000128_000002|Seldom bought.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000131_000001|Chub and Char may be cooked in the same manner as the above, as also Dace and Roach.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000132_000000|THE AGE OF CARP.--This fish has been found to live one hundred fifty years. The pond in the garden of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, contained one that had lived there seventy years, and Gesner mentions an instance of one one hundred years old.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000132_000001|They are, besides, capable of being tamed.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000132_000003|They would even allow themselves to be handled."
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000135_000001|It is a river fish, and resembles the carp, but is somewhat longer.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000135_000002|Its flesh is not in much esteem, being coarse, and, when out of season, full of small hairy bones.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000135_000003|The head and throat are the best parts.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000135_000004|The roe is also good.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000136_000000|THE CHAR.--This is one of the most delicious of fish, being esteemed by some superior to the salmon.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000136_000001|It is an inhabitant of the deep lakes of mountainous countries.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000136_000002|Its flesh is rich and red, and full of fat.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000136_000003|The largest and best kind is found in the lakes of Westmoreland, and, as it is considered a rarity, it is often potted and preserved.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000137_000002|In the warm months they are to be found in shoals on the shallows near to streams. They are in season about the end of April, and gradually improve till February, when they attain their highest condition.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000137_000003|In that month, when just taken, scotched (crimped), and broiled, they are said to be more palatable than a fresh herring.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000138_000000|THE ROACH.--This fish is found throughout Europe, and the western parts of Asia, in deep still rivers, of which it is an inhabitant.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000138_000001|It is rarely more than a pound and a half in weight, and is in season from September till March.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000138_000002|It is plentiful in England, and the finest are caught in the Thames.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000141_000000|TO DRESS CRAB.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000143_000001|Garnish with slices of cut lemon and parsley.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000148_000000|HOT CRAB.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000150_000001|Cut up the butter in small pieces, and add the bread crumbs and vinegar.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000150_000002|Mix altogether, put the whole in the large shell, and brown before the fire or with a salamander.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000155_000001|Some, however, inhabit fresh waters, and a few live upon land.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000155_000002|They feed variously, on aquatic or marine plants, small fish, molluscae, or dead bodies.
train-other-500/2762/142778/2762_142778_000155_000004|The former occurs once a year, usually between Christmas and Easter, when the crabs retire to cavities in the rocks, or conceal themselves under great stones.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000000_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000001_000000|UMBRELLA STORIES.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000002_000000|Who could for a moment suppose that so important an article as the Umbrella would be without its lighter as well as its more serious history?
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000002_000001|Umbrellas are still, we regret to say, regarded rather in a comic than a serious light; so, if any of the following anecdotes seem to treat of Umbrellas in too mocking or frivolous a vein, it is the fault of the bad taste of the British public, not ours, who have merely compiled.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000002_000002|However, we may commence with a very neat little French riddle.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000004_000000|A mysterious inquiry, and all sorts of horrible but needful abominations occur to the mind in answer.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000004_000001|But the answer is not so bad after all.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000007_000001|The English poet of the Umbrella has yet to be born.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000008_000000|The next story relates to the early history of the Umbrella in Scotland, and may probably be referred to the time when good dr Jamieson was walking about Glasgow with his new fangled sheltering apparatus, which he had brought with him on his return from Paris.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000009_000000|"When Umbrellas were first marched into Blairgowrie, they were sported only by the minister and the laird, and were looked upon by the common class of people as a perfect phenomenon.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000009_000001|One day Daniel M- went to Colonel McPherson, at Blairgowrie House; when about to return, a shower came on, and the colonel politely offered him the loan of an Umbrella, which he gladly accepted, and Daniel, with his head two or three inches higher than usual, marched off.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000010_000000|In the veracious "History of Sandford and Merton," if our memory serves us aright, there is an instance quoted of remarkable presence of mind relating to an Umbrella and its owner.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000010_000001|The members of a comfortable pic nic party were cosily assembled in some part of India, when an unbidden and most unwelcome guest made his appearance, in the shape of a huge Bengal tiger.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000010_000003|The astonished brute turned tail and fled, and the lady saved her dinner.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000010_000004|Not many years ago the Umbrella was employed in an equally curious manner, though not so successfully as in the former instance.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000010_000006|In this situation he made a desperate attempt to regain his liberty.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000010_000008|He struck against an opposite wall, fell into a ditch and broke his leg, and, worse than all, was carried back to his prison.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000011_000001|Of course our kind readers know him as well as we do, for not to do so "would be to argue yourselves unknown." At any Continental watering place, Longbow, or one of his family-for it is a large one-can be met with.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000011_000002|He is, indeed, a wonderful man-on intimate terms with all the crowned heads of Europe, and proves his intimacy by always speaking of them by their Christian names.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000013_000000|Well, the other day we happened to meet the Colonel, and he speedily contrived to discover that we were on the point of going to dine, and so invited him to share our humble meal, as a graceful way of making a virtue of necessity, for had we not done so, he would have had no hesitation in inviting himself.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000013_000001|During dinner, conversation, of course, turned upon one all engrossing subject, the war, and the Colonel proceeded to give us his experiences of former wars, including his adventures in the Crimea, and the miraculous escape he owed to an Umbrella.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000014_000000|It appeared that he had gone out with his friend, Lord Levant, on a yachting excursion in the Mediterranean, and they eventually found their way into the Black Sea.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000014_000003|As it was raining at the time, he put up a huge gingham Umbrella he happened to find in the hotel.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000014_000004|Suddenly, however, a furious blast of wind drove across the cliff, and lifted the Colonel bodily in the air.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000015_000001|On coming up to the surface after his first dip, he found that swimming would not save him; so he quietly emptied out the water contained in the Umbrella, seated himself upon it, and sailed triumphantly into the harbour, like Arion on his dolphin.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000016_000000|Our face, on hearing this anecdote, must have betrayed the scepticism we felt, for the Colonel proceeded to a corner of the room, and produced the identical Umbrella.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000016_000001|Of course, such a proof was irresistible, and we were compelled to do penance for our unbelief by lending the gallant Colonel a sovereign, for "the Bank was closed." We thought the anecdote cheap at the price.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000017_000000|There is a story told of one of our City bankers, that he owed an excellent wife to the interposition of an Umbrella.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000017_000002|Politeness induced him to invite her to take shelter under his roof, and eventually to offer her the loan of an Umbrella.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000017_000003|Of course, the gallant banker called for it the next day, and the acquaintance thus accidentally made, soon ripened into mutual affection.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000018_000000|A worthy little Frenchman of our acquaintance was ordered by his medical man to take a course of shower baths.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000018_000001|Such things being unknown to him in his fatherland, he of course found the first essay remarkably unpleasant, but with native ingenuity he soon discovered a remedy.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000020_000000|"Hopkins once lent Simpson, his next door neighbour, an Umbrella.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000020_000001|You will judge of the intellect of Hopkins, not so much from the act of lending an Umbrella, but from his insane endeavour to get it back again.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000021_000000|"It poured in torrents, Hopkins had an urgent call.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000021_000001|Hopkins knocked at Simpson's door.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000021_000003|'I tell you,' roared Hopkins, 'I want my Umbrella.' 'Can't have it,' said Simpson. 'Why, I want to go to the East end; it rains in torrents; what'--screamed Hopkins-'what am I to do for an Umbrella?'
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000022_000000|"'Do!' answered Simpson, darting from the door, 'do as I did-BORROW ONE.'"
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000023_000000|The Umbrella has been most successfully introduced on the stage. What, for instance, would Paul Pry have been without that valuable implement for which to inquire with his stereotyped "Hope I don't intrude?" Or his French successor, the nobleman in "The Grand Duchess," who inquires, in plaintive accents, for "Le parapluie de ma mere," just after Schneider has been declaiming about her father's sabre?
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000023_000001|Merely to bring a big Umbrella on the stage is an acknowledged way of raising a laugh.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000023_000002|mrs Gamp again, with her receptacle for unconsidered trifles, cannot be realised apart from her Umbrella.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000023_000005|A stout steel Umbrella would offer no contemptible shelter to a rifleman.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000023_000007|We throw out this as a hint to any enterprising manager.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000024_000000|In Germany, on the other hand, a soldier is-or used to be-strictly forbidden from carrying an open Umbrella, unless he is accompanied by a civilian or a lady.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000024_000002|On the road home a violent shower came on, and, to avoid committing a breach of the regulations, under his arm he tucked the dog, which was contained, according to his ideas, in both the above categories, put up the Umbrella, and marched very comfortably to barracks.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000025_000000|With one more characteristic anecdote we will close our budget.
train-other-500/2762/160610/2762_160610_000025_000001|One evening, while Rowland Hill was preaching, a shower came on, and his chapel was speedily filled with devotees.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000004_000000|THE FALSE COLLAR
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000007_000000|"Nay!" said the collar.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000008_000000|"That I shall not tell you!" said the garter.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000009_000000|"Where do you live?" asked the collar.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000010_000000|But the garter was so bashful, so modest, and thought it was a strange question to answer.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000011_000000|"You are certainly a girdle," said the collar; "that is to say an inside girdle.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000011_000001|I see well that you are both for use and ornament, my dear young lady."
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000012_000000|"I will thank you not to speak to me," said the garter.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000012_000001|"I think I have not given the least occasion for it."
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000013_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000013_000001|When one is as handsome as you," said the collar, "that is occasion enough."
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000014_000000|"Don't come so near me, I beg of you!" said the garter.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000014_000001|"You look so much like those men folks."
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000001|It was starched, hung over the back of a chair in the sunshine, and was then laid on the ironing blanket; then came the warm box iron.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000002|"Dear lady!" said the collar.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000004|I feel quite hot.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000005|I am quite changed.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000006|I begin to unfold myself.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000007|You will burn a hole in me.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000008|Oh!
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000018_000009|I offer you my hand."
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000019_000001|"Rag!" said the box iron.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000020_000000|The collar was a little jagged at the edge, and so came the long scissors to cut off the jagged part.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000020_000001|"Oh!" said the collar.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000020_000002|"You are certainly the first opera dancer.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000020_000003|How well you can stretch your legs out!
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000020_000004|It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000020_000005|No one can imitate you."
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000021_000000|"I know it," said the scissors.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000022_000000|"You deserve to be a baroness," said the collar.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000022_000001|"All that I have is a fine gentleman, a boot jack, and a hair comb.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000024_000000|"I shall now be obliged to ask the hair comb.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000024_000001|It is surprising how well you preserve your teeth, Miss," said the collar.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000025_000000|"Yes, of course! you may be sure of that," said the hair comb.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000026_000001|Now there was no other to court, and so he despised it.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000027_000000|A long time passed away, then the collar came into the rag chest at the paper mill; there was a large company of rags, the fine by themselves, and the coarse by themselves, just as it should be.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000027_000001|They all had much to say, but the collar the most; for he was a real boaster.
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000028_000000|"I have had such an immense number of sweethearts!" said the collar. "I could not be in peace!
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000028_000001|It is true, I was always a fine starched up gentleman!
train-other-500/277/122805/277_122805_000029_000000|And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the collar came to be just this very piece of white paper we here see, and on which the story is printed; and that was because it boasted so terribly afterwards of what had never happened to it.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000001_000000|CHAPTER six.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000001_000001|Humpty Dumpty
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000002_000000|However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000003_000000|It might have been written a hundred times, easily, on that enormous face.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000003_000001|Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall-such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance-and, as his eyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn't take the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure after all.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000004_000000|'And how exactly like an egg he is!' she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every moment expecting him to fall.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000005_000000|'It's VERY provoking,' Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, 'to be called an egg-VERY!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000006_000001|'And some eggs are very pretty, you know' she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000007_000000|'Some people,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her as usual, 'have no more sense than a baby!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000008_000000|Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to HER; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree-so she stood and softly repeated to herself:--
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000010_000000|'That last line is much too long for the poetry,' she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000011_000000|'Don't stand there chattering to yourself like that,' Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time, 'but tell me your name and your business.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000012_000000|'My NAME is Alice, but-'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000013_000000|'It's a stupid enough name!' Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. 'What does it mean?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000015_000001|With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000016_000000|'Why do you sit out here all alone?' said Alice, not wishing to begin an argument.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000017_000000|'Why, because there's nobody with me!' cried Humpty Dumpty.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000017_000001|'Did you think I didn't know the answer to THAT?
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000017_000002|Ask another.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000018_000001|'That wall is so VERY narrow!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000019_000000|'What tremendously easy riddles you ask!' Humpty Dumpty growled out.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000019_000001|'Of course I don't think so!
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000020_000000|'To send all his horses and all his men,' Alice interrupted, rather unwisely.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000021_000000|'Now I declare that's too bad!' Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a sudden passion.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000021_000001|'You've been listening at doors-and behind trees-and down chimneys-or you couldn't have known it!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000022_000001|'It's in a book.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000023_000001|They may write such things in a BOOK,' Humpty Dumpty said in a calmer tone.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000023_000002|'That's what you call a History of England, that is. Now, take a good look at me!
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000023_000004|She watched him a little anxiously as she took it.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000023_000006|I'm afraid it would come off!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000024_000000|'Yes, all his horses and all his men,' Humpty Dumpty went on.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000024_000001|'They'd pick me up again in a minute, THEY would!
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000025_000000|'I'm afraid I can't quite remember it,' Alice said very politely.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000026_000000|'In that case we start fresh,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'and it's my turn to choose a subject-' ('He talks about it just as if it was a game!' thought Alice.) 'So here's a question for you.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000026_000001|How old did you say you were?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000027_000000|Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000028_000001|'You never said a word like it!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000030_000000|'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000031_000000|Alice didn't want to begin another argument, so she said nothing.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000032_000000|'Seven years and six months!' Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000032_000001|'An uncomfortable sort of age.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000033_000000|'I never ask advice about growing,' Alice said indignantly.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000034_000000|'Too proud?' the other inquired.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000035_000001|'I mean,' she said, 'that one can't help growing older.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000036_000001|With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000039_000000|Evidently Humpty Dumpty was very angry, though he said nothing for a minute or two.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000039_000001|When he DID speak again, it was in a deep growl.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000040_000000|'It is a-MOST-PROVOKING-thing,' he said at last, 'when a person doesn't know a cravat from a belt!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000042_000000|'It's a cravat, child, and a beautiful one, as you say.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000042_000001|It's a present from the White King and Queen.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000042_000002|There now!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000045_000000|'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000046_000000|'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000048_000000|'A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000049_000001|'I like birthday presents best,' she said at last.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000050_000001|'How many days are there in a year?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000051_000000|'Three hundred and sixty five,' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000052_000000|'And how many birthdays have you?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000053_000000|'One.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000055_000000|'Three hundred and sixty four, of course.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000056_000000|Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000057_000000|Alice couldn't help smiling as she took out her memorandum book, and worked the sum for him:
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000060_000001|'That seems to be done right-' he began.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000061_000000|'You're holding it upside down!' Alice interrupted.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000062_000000|'To be sure I was!' Humpty Dumpty said gaily, as she turned it round for him.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000062_000001|'I thought it looked a little queer.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000063_000000|'Certainly,' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000064_000001|There's glory for you!'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000066_000001|'Of course you don't-till I tell you.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000066_000002|I meant "there's a nice knock down argument for you!"'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000067_000000|'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock down argument,"' Alice objected.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000069_000000|'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000071_000000|Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000072_000000|'Would you tell me, please,' said Alice 'what that means?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000073_000000|'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000073_000001|'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000076_000000|'Oh!' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000076_000001|She was too much puzzled to make any other remark.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000079_000000|'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. 'Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000080_000000|'Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. 'I can explain all the poems that were ever invented-and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000081_000000|This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000083_000000|'That's enough to begin with,' Humpty Dumpty interrupted: 'there are plenty of hard words there.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000087_000000|'Well, "TOVES" are something like badgers-they're something like lizards-and they're something like corkscrews.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000088_000000|'They must be very curious looking creatures.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000089_000000|'They are that,' said Humpty Dumpty: 'also they make their nests under sun dials-also they live on cheese.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000090_000000|'And what's the "GYRE" and to "GIMBLE"?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000091_000000|'To "GYRE" is to go round and round like a gyroscope.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000091_000001|To "GIMBLE" is to make holes like a gimlet.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000093_000000|'Of course it is.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000094_000000|'And a long way beyond it on each side,' Alice added.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000095_000000|'Exactly so.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000095_000002|And a "BOROGOVE" is a thin shabby looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round-something like a live mop.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000096_000000|'And then "MOME RATHS"?' said Alice. 'I'm afraid I'm giving you a great deal of trouble.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000098_000000|'And what does "OUTGRABE" mean?'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000100_000001|'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by-Tweedledee, I think it was.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000103_000000|'The piece I'm going to repeat,' he went on without noticing her remark, 'was written entirely for your amusement.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000105_000000|'In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight-
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000106_000000|only I don't sing it,' he added, as an explanation.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000107_000000|'I see you don't,' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000108_000000|'If you can SEE whether I'm singing or not, you've sharper eyes than most.' Humpty Dumpty remarked severely.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000108_000001|Alice was silent.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000109_000000|'In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000110_000000|'Thank you very much,' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000111_000000|'In summer, when the days are long, Perhaps you'll understand the song: In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000112_000000|'I will, if I can remember it so long,' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000115_000000|The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000116_000000|The little fishes' answer was "We cannot do it, Sir, because-"'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000117_000000|'I'm afraid I don't quite understand,' said Alice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000118_000000|'It gets easier further on,' Humpty Dumpty replied.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000121_000000|I told them once, I told them twice: They would not listen to advice.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000122_000000|I took a kettle large and new, Fit for the deed I had to do.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000123_000000|My heart went hop, my heart went thump; I filled the kettle at the pump.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000124_000000|Then some one came to me and said, "The little fishes are in bed."
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000125_000000|I said to him, I said it plain, "Then you must wake them up again."
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000129_000000|And he was very proud and stiff; He said "I'd go and wake them, if-"
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000130_000000|I took a corkscrew from the shelf: I went to wake them up myself.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000131_000000|And when I found the door was locked, I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000132_000000|And when I found the door was shut, I tried to turn the handle, but-'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000133_000000|There was a long pause.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000134_000000|'Is that all?' Alice timidly asked.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000135_000000|'That's all,' said Humpty Dumpty.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000135_000001|'Good bye.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000136_000000|This was rather sudden, Alice thought: but, after such a VERY strong hint that she ought to be going, she felt that it would hardly be civil to stay.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000136_000001|So she got up, and held out her hand.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000136_000002|'Good bye, till we meet again!' she said as cheerfully as she could.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000138_000000|'The face is what one goes by, generally,' Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000139_000001|It's always the same.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000139_000002|Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance-or the mouth at the top-that would be SOME help.'
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000140_000000|'It wouldn't look nice,' Alice objected.
train-other-500/277/127368/277_127368_000140_000001|But Humpty Dumpty only shut his eyes and said 'Wait till you've tried.'
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000007_000000|AUTHOR'S NOTE
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000009_000000|I don't mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000009_000002|What, however, did cause me some concern was that after finishing the last story of the "Typhoon" volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000010_000000|This so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted some little time; and then, as with many of my longer stories, the first hint for "Nostromo" came to me in the shape of a vagrant anecdote completely destitute of valuable details.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000011_000000|As a matter of fact in eighteen seventy five or 'six, when very young, in the West Indies or rather in the Gulf of Mexico, for my contacts with land were short, few, and fleeting, I heard the story of some man who was supposed to have stolen single handed a whole lighter full of silver, somewhere on the Tierra Firme seaboard during the troubles of a revolution.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000012_000000|On the face of it this was something of a feat.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000012_000002|And I forgot it till twenty six or seven years afterwards I came upon the very thing in a shabby volume picked up outside a second-hand book shop.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000012_000004|In the course of his wanderings that American sailor worked for some months on board a schooner, the master and owner of which was the thief of whom I had heard in my very young days.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000012_000005|I have no doubt of that because there could hardly have been two exploits of that peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both connected with a South American revolution.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000013_000001|In the sailor's story he is represented as an unmitigated rascal, a small cheat, stupidly ferocious, morose, of mean appearance, and altogether unworthy of the greatness this opportunity had thrust upon him.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000013_000002|What was interesting was that he would boast of it openly.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000014_000000|He used to say: "People think I make a lot of money in this schooner of mine.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000014_000001|But that is nothing.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000014_000002|I don't care for that.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000015_000000|There was also another curious point about the man.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000016_000000|The cynical ruffian was not alarmed in the least.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000016_000001|He actually laughed. "You fool, if you dare talk like that on shore about me you will get a knife stuck in your back.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000016_000002|Every man, woman, and child in that port is my friend.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000016_000003|And who's to prove the lighter wasn't sunk?
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000016_000004|I didn't show you where the silver is hidden.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000016_000005|Did I? So you know nothing.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000017_000000|Ultimately the sailor, disgusted with the sordid meanness of that impenitent thief, deserted from the schooner.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000017_000001|The whole episode takes about three pages of his autobiography.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000017_000003|Perhaps, perhaps, there still was in the world something to write about.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000017_000004|Yet I did not see anything at first in the mere story.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000018_000001|From that moment, I suppose, it had to be.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000018_000002|Yet even then I hesitated, as if warned by the instinct of self preservation from venturing on a distant and toilsome journey into a land full of intrigues and revolutions.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000018_000003|But it had to be done.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000022_000000|About Nostromo, the second of the two racially and socially contrasted men, both captured by the silver of the San Tome Mine, I feel bound to say something more.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000023_000002|For myself I needed there a Man of the People as free as possible from his class conventions and all settled modes of thinking. This is not a side snarl at conventions.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000023_000003|My reasons were not moral but artistic.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000023_000006|He does not want to raise himself above the mass.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000000|But mainly Nostromo is what he is because I received the inspiration for him in my early days from a Mediterranean sailor.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000002|At any rate Dominic would have understood the younger man perfectly-if scornfully.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000004|It is a real satisfaction to think that in my very young days there must, after all, have been something in me worthy to command that man's half bitter fidelity, his half ironic devotion.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000005|Many of Nostromo's speeches I have heard first in Dominic's voice.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000007|Like Nostromo!
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000010|He is a man with the weight of countless generations behind him and no parentage to boast of. . . .
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000024_000011|Like the People.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000025_000002|In his mingled love and scorn of life and in the bewildered conviction of having been betrayed, of dying betrayed he hardly knows by what or by whom, he is still of the People, their undoubted Great Man-with a private history of his own.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000026_000002|Of all the people who had seen with me the birth of the Occidental Republic, she is the only one who has kept in my memory the aspect of continued life.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000026_000003|Antonia the Aristocrat and Nostromo the Man of the People are the artisans of the New Era, the true creators of the New State; he by his legendary and daring feat, she, like a woman, simply by the force of what she is: the only being capable of inspiring a sincere passion in the heart of a trifler.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000027_000000|If anything could induce me to revisit Sulaco (I should hate to see all these changes) it would be Antonia.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000027_000005|She did not quite understand-but never mind.
train-other-500/2825/6391/2825_6391_000027_000007|She was softened at the last as though she had suddenly perceived (we were such children still!) that I was really going away for good, going very far away-even as far as Sulaco, lying unknown, hidden from our eyes in the darkness of the Placid Gulf.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000003_000000|Chapter four.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000003_000001|The Third Son, Alyosha
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000001|First of all, I must explain that this young man, Alyosha, was not a fanatic, and, in my opinion at least, was not even a mystic.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000004|And the reason this life struck him in this way was that he found in it at that time, as he thought, an extraordinary being, our celebrated elder, Zossima, to whom he became attached with all the warm first love of his ardent heart.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000005|But I do not dispute that he was very strange even at that time, and had been so indeed from his cradle.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000007|That is how it was with him.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000009|That was the picture!
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000010|And Alyosha remembered his mother's face at that minute.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000011|He used to say that it was frenzied but beautiful as he remembered.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000012|But he rarely cared to speak of this memory to any one.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000004_000016|He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly: and this was so much so that no one could surprise or frighten him even in his earliest youth.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000000|Every one, indeed, loved this young man wherever he went, and it was so from his earliest childhood.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000002|Yet he entered the house at such a tender age that he could not have acted from design nor artfulness in winning affection.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000003|So that the gift of making himself loved directly and unconsciously was inherent in him, in his very nature, so to speak.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000004|It was the same at school, though he seemed to be just one of those children who are distrusted, sometimes ridiculed, and even disliked by their schoolfellows.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000005|He was dreamy, for instance, and rather solitary.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000006|From his earliest childhood he was fond of creeping into a corner to read, and yet he was a general favorite all the while he was at school.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000008|On the contrary he was bright and good tempered.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000009|He never tried to show off among his schoolfellows.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000011|He never resented an insult.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000012|It would happen that an hour after the offense he would address the offender or answer some question with as trustful and candid an expression as though nothing had happened between them.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000013|And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront, and this completely conquered and captivated the boys.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000014|He had one characteristic which made all his schoolfellows from the bottom class to the top want to mock at him, not from malice but because it amused them.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000015|This characteristic was a wild fanatical modesty and chastity.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000016|He could not bear to hear certain words and certain conversations about women.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000017|There are "certain" words and conversations unhappily impossible to eradicate in schools.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000018|Boys pure in mind and heart, almost children, are fond of talking in school among themselves, and even aloud, of things, pictures, and images of which even soldiers would sometimes hesitate to speak.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000019|More than that, much that soldiers have no knowledge or conception of is familiar to quite young children of our intellectual and higher classes.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000020|There is no moral depravity, no real corrupt inner cynicism in it, but there is the appearance of it, and it is often looked upon among them as something refined, subtle, daring, and worthy of imitation.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000022|But at last they left him alone and gave up taunting him with being a "regular girl," and what's more they looked upon it with compassion as a weakness.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000005_000023|He was always one of the best in the class but was never first.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000006_000002|Alyosha went to live in the house of two distant relations of Yefim Petrovitch, ladies whom he had never seen before.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000006_000004|It was very characteristic of him, indeed, that he never cared at whose expense he was living.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000006_000007|When he was given pocket money, which he never asked for, he was either terribly careless of it so that it was gone in a moment, or he kept it for weeks together, not knowing what to do with it.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000008_000001|And to shelter him would be no burden, but, on the contrary, would probably be looked on as a pleasure."
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000009_000000|He did not finish his studies at the gymnasium.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000009_000001|A year before the end of the course he suddenly announced to the ladies that he was going to see his father about a plan which had occurred to him.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000009_000002|They were sorry and unwilling to let him go.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000009_000003|The journey was not an expensive one, and the ladies would not let him pawn his watch, a parting present from his benefactor's family.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000009_000004|They provided him liberally with money and even fitted him out with new clothes and linen.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000009_000008|He practically acknowledged at the time that that was the only object of his visit.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000001|Three or four years after his wife's death he had gone to the south of Russia and finally turned up in Odessa, where he spent several years.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000004|His former acquaintances found him looking terribly aged, although he was by no means an old man.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000005|He behaved not exactly with more dignity but with more effrontery.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000006|The former buffoon showed an insolent propensity for making buffoons of others.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000008|In a short time he opened a great number of new taverns in the district.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000009|It was evident that he had perhaps a hundred thousand roubles or not much less.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000010|Many of the inhabitants of the town and district were soon in his debt, and, of course, had given good security.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000012|He was more and more frequently drunk.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000010_000014|Alyosha's arrival seemed to affect even his moral side, as though something had awakened in this prematurely old man which had long been dead in his soul.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000011_000001|Grigory it was who pointed out the "crazy woman's" grave to Alyosha.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000011_000008|In the evening of the same day he got drunk and abused the monks to Alyosha.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000011_000009|He himself was far from being religious; he had probably never put a penny candle before the image of a saint.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000011_000010|Strange impulses of sudden feeling and sudden thought are common in such types.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000012_000000|I have mentioned already that he looked bloated.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000012_000005|He used particularly to point to his nose, which was not very large, but very delicate and conspicuously aquiline.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000014_000002|So that's where you want to be, my gentle boy?"
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000002|I had a presentiment that you would end in something like this.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000003|Would you believe it?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000004|You were making straight for it.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000005|Well, to be sure you have your own two thousand.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000006|That's a dowry for you.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000007|And I'll never desert you, my angel.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000008|And I'll pay what's wanted for you there, if they ask for it. But, of course, if they don't ask, why should we worry them?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000009|What do you say?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000010|You know, you spend money like a canary, two grains a week.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000012|Thirty women, I believe.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000013|I have been there myself.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000015|The worst of it is it's awfully Russian.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000016|There are no French women there.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000017|Of course they could get them fast enough, they have plenty of money.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000018|If they get to hear of it they'll come along.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000019|Well, there's nothing of that sort here, no 'monks' wives,' and two hundred monks.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000020|They're honest.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000021|They keep the fasts.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000023|So you want to be a monk?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000026|You'll pray for us sinners; we have sinned too much here.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000027|I've always been thinking who would pray for me, and whether there's any one in the world to do it.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000028|My dear boy, I'm awfully stupid about that.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000030|Awfully.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000031|You see, however stupid I am about it, I keep thinking, I keep thinking-from time to time, of course, not all the while.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000032|It's impossible, I think, for the devils to forget to drag me down to hell with their hooks when I die.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000033|Then I wonder-hooks?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000034|Where would they get them?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000035|What of?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000036|Iron hooks?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000037|Where do they forge them?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000040|It makes it more refined, more enlightened, more Lutheran that is.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000041|And, after all, what does it matter whether it has a ceiling or hasn't?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000042|But, do you know, there's a damnable question involved in it?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000015_000043|If there's no ceiling there can be no hooks, and if there are no hooks it all breaks down, which is unlikely again, for then there would be none to drag me down to hell, and if they don't drag me down what justice is there in the world?
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000017_000000|"Yes, yes, only the shadows of hooks, I know, I know.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000017_000002|When you've lived with the monks you'll sing a different tune.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000017_000006|And I dare say nothing will touch you there.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000017_000007|That's why I let you go, because I hope for that.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000017_000010|And I will wait for you.
train-other-500/2825/666/2825_666_000017_000012|My dear boy, I feel it, you know.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000000_000001|We stayed two days at Streatley, and got our clothes washed.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000000_000002|We had tried washing them ourselves, in the river, under George's superintendence, and it had been a failure.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000000_000004|Before we had washed them, they had been very, very dirty, it is true; but they were just wearable.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000000_000006|All the dirt contained in the river between Reading and Henley, we collected, during that wash, and worked it into our clothes.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000001_000000|The washerwoman at Streatley said she felt she owed it to herself to charge us just three times the usual prices for that wash.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000001_000001|She said it had not been like washing, it had been more in the nature of excavating.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000002_000000|We paid the bill without a murmur.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000003_000001|The river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels, just here; and you can sit and fish for them all day.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000004_000000|Some people do.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000004_000001|They never catch them.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000004_000002|I never knew anybody catch anything, up the Thames, except minnows and dead cats, but that has nothing to do, of course, with fishing!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000004_000003|The local fisherman's guide doesn't say a word about catching anything.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000004_000004|All it says is the place is "a good station for fishing;" and, from what I have seen of the district, I am quite prepared to bear out this statement.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000005_000000|There is no spot in the world where you can get more fishing, or where you can fish for a longer period.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000005_000001|Some fishermen come here and fish for a day, and others stop and fish for a month.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000005_000002|You can hang on and fish for a year, if you want to: it will be all the same.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000006_000003|And, if you go for a bathe, they crowd round, and get in your way, and irritate you.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000006_000004|But they are not to be "had" by a bit of worm on the end of a hook, nor anything like it-not they!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000007_000000|I am not a good fisherman myself.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000007_000001|I devoted a considerable amount of attention to the subject at one time, and was getting on, as I thought, fairly well; but the old hands told me that I should never be any real good at it, and advised me to give it up.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000007_000002|They said that I was an extremely neat thrower, and that I seemed to have plenty of gumption for the thing, and quite enough constitutional laziness.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000007_000003|But they were sure I should never make anything of a fisherman.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000007_000004|I had not got sufficient imagination.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000008_000000|They said that as a poet, or a shilling shocker, or a reporter, or anything of that kind, I might be satisfactory, but that, to gain any position as a Thames angler, would require more play of fancy, more power of invention than I appeared to possess.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000009_000000|Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000009_000002|It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous-almost of pedantic-veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000011_000000|There is no art, no skill, required for that sort of thing.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000011_000001|It shows pluck, but that is all.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000012_000000|No; your accomplished angler would scorn to tell a lie, that way.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000012_000001|His method is a study in itself.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000013_000000|He comes in quietly with his hat on, appropriates the most comfortable chair, lights his pipe, and commences to puff in silence.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000013_000001|He lets the youngsters brag away for a while, and then, during a momentary lull, he removes the pipe from his mouth, and remarks, as he knocks the ashes out against the bars:
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000014_000000|"Well, I had a haul on Tuesday evening that it's not much good my telling anybody about."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000015_000000|"Oh! why's that?" they ask.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000016_000000|"Because I don't expect anybody would believe me if I did," replies the old fellow calmly, and without even a tinge of bitterness in his tone, as he refills his pipe, and requests the landlord to bring him three of Scotch, cold.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000017_000001|So he has to go on by himself without any encouragement.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000000|"No," he continues thoughtfully; "I shouldn't believe it myself if anybody told it to me, but it's a fact, for all that.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000001|I had been sitting there all the afternoon and had caught literally nothing-except a few dozen dace and a score of jack; and I was just about giving it up as a bad job when I suddenly felt a rather smart pull at the line.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000002|I thought it was another little one, and I went to jerk it up.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000003|Hang me, if I could move the rod!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000005|I reached him at last, and what do you think it was?
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000006|A sturgeon! a forty pound sturgeon!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000007|taken on a line, sir!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000018_000008|Yes, you may well look surprised-I'll have another three of Scotch, landlord, please."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000019_000000|And then he goes on to tell of the astonishment of everybody who saw it; and what his wife said, when he got home, and of what Joe Buggles thought about it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000020_000000|I asked the landlord of an inn up the river once, if it did not injure him, sometimes, listening to the tales that the fishermen about there told him; and he said:
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000021_000000|"Oh, no; not now, sir.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000021_000001|It did used to knock me over a bit at first, but, lor love you! me and the missus we listens to 'em all day now.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000021_000002|It's what you're used to, you know.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000021_000003|It's what you're used to."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000022_000000|I knew a young man once, he was a most conscientious fellow, and, when he took to fly fishing, he determined never to exaggerate his hauls by more than twenty five per cent.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000023_000000|"When I have caught forty fish," said he, "then I will tell people that I have caught fifty, and so on.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000023_000001|But I will not lie any more than that, because it is sinful to lie."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000024_000000|But the twenty five per cent.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000024_000001|plan did not work well at all.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000024_000002|He never was able to use it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000024_000003|The greatest number of fish he ever caught in one day was three, and you can't add twenty five per cent. to three-at least, not in fish.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000026_000000|He stuck to this arrangement for a couple of months, and then he grew dissatisfied with it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000026_000002|When he had really caught three small fish, and said he had caught six, it used to make him quite jealous to hear a man, whom he knew for a fact had only caught one, going about telling people he had landed two dozen.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000027_000000|So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000027_000001|For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish-you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000027_000002|Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000028_000000|It is a simple and easily worked plan, and there has been some talk lately of its being made use of by the angling fraternity in general. Indeed, the Committee of the Thames Angler's Association did recommend its adoption about two years ago, but some of the older members opposed it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000028_000001|They said they would consider the idea if the number were doubled, and each fish counted as twenty.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000029_000000|If ever you have an evening to spare, up the river, I should advise you to drop into one of the little village inns, and take a seat in the tap room.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000029_000001|You will be nearly sure to meet one or two old rod men, sipping their toddy there, and they will tell you enough fishy stories, in half an hour, to give you indigestion for a month.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000031_000000|We went into the parlour and sat down.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000031_000001|There was an old fellow there, smoking a long clay pipe, and we naturally began chatting.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000033_000000|After that it came out, somehow or other, that we were strangers in the neighbourhood, and that we were going away the next morning.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000034_000002|They finally rested upon a dusty old glass case, fixed very high up above the chimney piece, and containing a trout.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000034_000003|It rather fascinated me, that trout; it was such a monstrous fish.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000034_000004|In fact, at first glance, I thought it was a cod.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000035_000000|"Ah!" said the old gentleman, following the direction of my gaze, "fine fellow that, ain't he?"
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000036_000000|"Quite uncommon," I murmured; and George asked the old man how much he thought it weighed.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000037_000000|"Eighteen pounds six ounces," said our friend, rising and taking down his coat.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000037_000002|I caught him just below the bridge with a minnow.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000037_000004|You don't see many fish that size about here now, I'm thinking.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000037_000005|Good night, gentlemen, good night."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000038_000000|And out he went, and left us alone.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000039_000000|We could not take our eyes off the fish after that.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000039_000001|It really was a remarkably fine fish.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000039_000002|We were still looking at it, when the local carrier, who had just stopped at the inn, came to the door of the room with a pot of beer in his hand, and he also looked at the fish.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000040_000000|"Good sized trout, that," said George, turning round to him.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000042_000000|"No," we told him.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000042_000001|We were strangers in the neighbourhood.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000043_000000|"Ah!" said the carrier, "then, of course, how should you?
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000043_000001|It was nearly five years ago that I caught that trout."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000044_000000|"Oh! was it you who caught it, then?" said i
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000045_000000|"Yes, sir," replied the genial old fellow.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000045_000001|"I caught him just below the lock-leastways, what was the lock then-one Friday afternoon; and the remarkable thing about it is that I caught him with a fly.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000045_000002|I'd gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn't quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty six pound.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000045_000003|Good night, gentlemen, good night."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000048_000000|"I beg your pardon, I hope you will forgive the liberty that we-perfect strangers in the neighbourhood-are taking, but my friend here and myself would be so much obliged if you would tell us how you caught that trout up there."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000049_000000|"Why, who told you I caught that trout!" was the surprised query.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000051_000000|"Well, it's a most remarkable thing-most remarkable," answered the stolid stranger, laughing; "because, as a matter of fact, you are quite right.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000051_000001|I did catch it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000051_000002|But fancy your guessing it like that.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000051_000003|Dear me, it's really a most remarkable thing."
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000052_000000|And then he went on, and told us how it had taken him half an hour to land it, and how it had broken his rod.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000052_000001|He said he had weighed it carefully when he reached home, and it had turned the scale at thirty four pounds.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000053_000000|He went in his turn, and when he was gone, the landlord came in to us. We told him the various histories we had heard about his trout, and he was immensely amused, and we all laughed very heartily.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000054_000000|"Fancy Jim Bates and Joe Muggles and mr Jones and old Billy Maunders all telling you that they had caught it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000054_000001|Ha! ha!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000054_000003|Well, that is good," said the honest old fellow, laughing heartily.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000054_000005|Ha! ha!
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000055_000000|And then he told us the real history of the fish.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000055_000001|It seemed that he had caught it himself, years ago, when he was quite a lad; not by any art or skill, but by that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bit of string tied on to the end of a tree.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000056_000000|He said that bringing home that trout had saved him from a whacking, and that even his school master had said it was worth the rule of three and practice put together.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000058_000000|It really was a most astonishing trout.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000058_000001|The more we looked at it, the more we marvelled at it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000059_000000|It excited George so much that he climbed up on the back of a chair to get a better view of it.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000062_000000|"I hope not," said George, rising cautiously and looking about.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000063_000000|But he had.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000063_000001|That trout lay shattered into a thousand fragments-I say a thousand, but they may have only been nine hundred.
train-other-500/283/130638/283_130638_000063_000002|I did not count them.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000004_000000|CHAPTER four
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000001|There's no need to go into particulars how Marfa Petrovna bought me out; do you know to what a point of insanity a woman can sometimes love?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000002|She was an honest woman, and very sensible, although completely uneducated.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000013|Perhaps you have already heard a great deal that was ridiculous and absurd about Marfa Petrovna.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000018|But your sister she couldn't put up with, anyway.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000020|My explanation is that Marfa Petrovna was an ardent and impressionable woman and simply fell in love herself-literally fell in love-with your sister.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000025|I don't know what it was she wanted!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000005_000029|I don't mind betting that you too have heard something of the sort already?"
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000006_000000|"I have.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000008_000000|"I was told too about some footman of yours in the country whom you treated badly."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000010_000000|"Was that the footman who came to you after death to fill your pipe?... you told me about it yourself." Raskolnikov felt more and more irritated.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000011_000000|Svidrigailov looked at him attentively and Raskolnikov fancied he caught a flash of spiteful mockery in that look.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000000|"Yes, it was.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000002|Upon my soul!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000005|I dare not guess what impression it made on her, but in any case it worked in my interests.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000008|She is bound to want to 'save him,' to bring him to his senses, and lift him up and draw him to nobler aims, and restore him to new life and usefulness-well, we all know how far such dreams can go.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000009|I saw at once that the bird was flying into the cage of herself.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000011|There's no need.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000014|And she would have gone to it of herself.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000018|He's probably a divinity student.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000019|Well, he'd better look after your sister!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000022|One doesn't see clearly.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000024|It's not my fault.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000025|In fact, it began on my side with a most irresistible physical desire.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000030|It was almost our first conversation by ourselves.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000031|I, of course, was only too pleased to obey her wishes, tried to appear disconcerted, embarrassed, in fact played my part not badly.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000032|Then came interviews, mysterious conversations, exhortations, entreaties, supplications, even tears-would you believe it, even tears?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000033|Think what the passion for propaganda will bring some girls to!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000034|I, of course, threw it all on my destiny, posed as hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the most powerful weapon in the subjection of the female heart, a weapon which never fails one.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000035|It's the well-known resource-flattery.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000036|Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000038|But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000039|It may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000040|And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000041|That's so for all stages of development and classes of society.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000042|A vestal virgin might be seduced by flattery.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000044|What fun it was and how little trouble!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000045|And the lady really had principles-of her own, anyway.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000051|There was sometimes a light in them which frightened her and grew stronger and stronger and more unguarded till it was hateful to her.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000052|No need to go into detail, but we parted.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000053|There I acted stupidly again.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000054|I fell to jeering in the coarsest way at all such propaganda and efforts to convert me; Parasha came on to the scene again, and not she alone; in fact there was a tremendous to do.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000056|Never mind my being drunk at this moment and having had a whole glass of wine.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000058|I really began to think that I might become epileptic.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000060|It was essential, indeed, to be reconciled, but by then it was impossible.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000061|And imagine what I did then!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000062|To what a pitch of stupidity a man can be brought by frenzy!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000067|But it ended in the catastrophe of which you know already.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000068|You can fancy how frantic I was when I heard that Marfa Petrovna had got hold of that scoundrelly attorney, Luzhin, and had almost made a match between them-which would really have been just the same thing as I was proposing.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000012_000069|Wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000013_000000|Svidrigailov struck the table with his fist impatiently.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000015_000000|"Oh, nonsense," said Svidrigailov, seeming to rouse himself.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000015_000001|"Why, I told you... besides your sister can't endure me."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000016_000000|"Yes, I am certain that she can't, but that's not the point."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000017_000002|There's always a little corner which remains a secret to the world and is only known to those two.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000018_000000|"From some words you've dropped, I notice that you still have designs-and of course evil ones-on Dounia and mean to carry them out promptly."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000020_000000|"Why, you are dropping them even now.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000021_000000|"Me-afraid?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000021_000001|Afraid of you?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000021_000003|But what nonsense....
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000021_000004|I've drunk too much though, I see that.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000021_000005|I was almost saying too much again.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000021_000006|Damn the wine!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000022_000001|Philip brought the water.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000023_000001|"But I can answer you in one word and annihilate all your suspicions.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000023_000002|Do you know that I am going to get married?"
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000024_000000|"You told me so before."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000025_000000|"Did I? I've forgotten.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000025_000004|See, look at the watch.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000025_000005|But I must tell you, for it's an interesting story, my marriage, in its own way.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000025_000006|Where are you off to? Going again?"
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000026_000000|"No, I'm not going away now."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000000|"Not at all?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000003|For you'll soon have to be off.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000004|You have to go to the right and I to the left.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000008|She arranged it all for me.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000009|You're bored, she said, you want something to fill up your time.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000010|For, you know, I am a gloomy, depressed person.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000011|Do you think I'm light-hearted?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000012|No, I'm gloomy.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000014|And that Resslich is a sly hussy, I tell you.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000017|The mamma, she said, was a sensible woman.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000018|There is a son serving in the provinces, but he doesn't help; there is a daughter, who is married, but she doesn't visit them.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000020|She was for me.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000021|We went there.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000022|How funny it was!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000024|What if I am fifty and she is not sixteen?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000025|Who thinks of that?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000026|But it's fascinating, isn't it?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000027|It is fascinating, ha ha!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000028|You should have seen how I talked to the papa and mamma.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000029|It was worth paying to have seen me at that moment.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000030|She comes in, curtseys, you can fancy, still in a short frock-an unopened bud!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000031|Flushing like a sunset-she had been told, no doubt.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000032|I don't know how you feel about female faces, but to my mind these sixteen years, these childish eyes, shyness and tears of bashfulness are better than beauty; and she is a perfect little picture, too.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000038|Her mamma of course impresses on her that this is her husband and that this must be so.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000039|It's simply delicious!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000040|The present betrothed condition is perhaps better than marriage.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000042|I've talked to her twice, she is far from a fool.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000043|Sometimes she steals a look at me that positively scorches me.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000044|Her face is like Raphael's Madonna.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000046|Haven't you noticed it?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000047|Well, she's something in that line.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000048|The day after we'd been betrothed, I bought her presents to the value of fifteen hundred roubles-a set of diamonds and another of pearls and a silver dressing case as large as this, with all sorts of things in it, so that even my Madonna's face glowed.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000050|Isn't it fascinating?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000051|It's worth paying for, isn't it?
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000027_000052|Well... listen, we'll go to see my betrothed, only not just now!"
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000028_000000|"The fact is this monstrous difference in age and development excites your sensuality!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000028_000001|Will you really make such a marriage?"
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000029_000000|"Why, of course.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000029_000001|Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000029_000002|Ha ha!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000029_000004|Have mercy on me, my good friend.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000029_000005|I am a sinful man.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000030_000000|"But you have provided for the children of Katerina Ivanovna.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000030_000001|Though... though you had your own reasons....
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000030_000002|I understand it all now."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000001|The first day I came here I visited various haunts, after seven years I simply rushed at them.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000002|You probably notice that I am not in a hurry to renew acquaintance with my old friends.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000005|Yes, upon my soul!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000007|From the first hour the town reeked of its familiar odours.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000009|Yes, there you have progress.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000011|Her mother was sitting on a chair by the wall.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000013|The girl was ashamed, blushed, at last felt insulted, and began to cry.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000015|Shouldn't bring children!' Well, it's not my business whether that consoling reflection was logical or not.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000017|I took them home and got to know them.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000018|They were lodging in a miserable little hole and had only just arrived from the country.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000019|She told me that she and her daughter could only regard my acquaintance as an honour.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000020|I found out that they had nothing of their own and had come to town upon some legal business.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000021|I proffered my services and money.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000022|I learnt that they had gone to the dancing saloon by mistake, believing that it was a genuine dancing class.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000023|I offered to assist in the young girl's education in French and dancing.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000031_000025|If you like, we'll go and see them, only not just now."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000032_000000|"Stop!
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000034_000000|"I dare say.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000035_000000|Svidrigailov laughed heartily; finally he called Philip, paid his bill, and began getting up.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000036_000001|"It's been a pleasure."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000037_000000|"I should rather think it must be a pleasure!" cried Raskolnikov, getting up.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000037_000001|"No doubt it is a pleasure for a worn out profligate to describe such adventures with a monstrous project of the same sort in his mind-especially under such circumstances and to such a man as me....
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000037_000002|It's stimulating!"
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000038_000002|You can understand a great deal... and you can do a great deal too.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000038_000003|But enough.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000038_000005|Only wait a bit."
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000039_000001|Raskolnikov walked out after him.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000039_000002|Svidrigailov was not however very drunk, the wine had affected him for a moment, but it was passing off every minute.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000039_000003|He was preoccupied with something of importance and was frowning.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000039_000005|His manner to Raskolnikov had changed during the last few minutes, and he was ruder and more sneering every moment.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000039_000006|Raskolnikov noticed all this, and he too was uneasy.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000039_000007|He became very suspicious of Svidrigailov and resolved to follow him.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000040_000000|They came out on to the pavement.
train-other-500/2834/132496/2834_132496_000042_000000|And he walked to the right towards the Hay Market.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000006_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000007_000000|Raskolnikov walked after him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000008_000000|"What's this?" cried Svidrigailov turning round, "I thought I said..."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000009_000000|"It means that I am not going to lose sight of you now."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000010_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000011_000000|Both stood still and gazed at one another, as though measuring their strength.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000012_000002|You have hardly been able to sit still all this time....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000012_000003|You may have unearthed a wife on the way, but that means nothing.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000012_000004|I should like to make certain myself."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000014_000000|"Upon my word!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000014_000001|I'll call the police!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000016_000000|Again they stood for a minute facing each other.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000016_000001|At last Svidrigailov's face changed.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000016_000002|Having satisfied himself that Raskolnikov was not frightened at his threat, he assumed a mirthful and friendly air.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000017_000000|"What a fellow!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000017_000001|I purposely refrained from referring to your affair, though I am devoured by curiosity.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000017_000002|It's a fantastic affair.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000017_000003|I've put it off till another time, but you're enough to rouse the dead....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000017_000005|Now, now are you going to follow me?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000018_000000|"I'm coming to your lodgings, not to see you but Sofya Semyonovna, to say I'm sorry not to have been at the funeral."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000019_000000|"That's as you like, but Sofya Semyonovna is not at home.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000019_000003|I told her too the story of Sofya Semyonovna in full detail, suppressing nothing. It produced an indescribable effect on her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000019_000004|That's why Sofya Semyonovna has been invited to call to day at the x Hotel where the lady is staying for the time."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000020_000000|"No matter, I'll come all the same."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000021_000002|It struck you as extraordinary; I don't mind betting it's that.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000021_000003|Well, it teaches one to show delicacy!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000022_000000|"And to listen at doors!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000023_000001|"Yes, I should have been surprised if you had let that pass after all that has happened.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000023_000003|Perhaps I am quite behind the times and can't understand.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000023_000004|For goodness' sake, explain it, my dear boy.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000023_000005|Expound the latest theories!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000024_000000|"You couldn't have heard anything.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000024_000001|You're making it all up!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000025_000001|No, I'm talking of the way you keep sighing and groaning now.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000025_000003|If that's how you feel, go and inform the police that you had this mischance: you made a little mistake in your theory.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000025_000004|But if you are convinced that one mustn't listen at doors, but one may murder old women at one's pleasure, you'd better be off to America and make haste.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000025_000005|Run, young man!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000025_000008|Haven't you the money?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000025_000009|I'll give you the fare."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000026_000000|"I'm not thinking of that at all," Raskolnikov interrupted with disgust.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000027_000001|I understand the questions you are worrying over-moral ones, aren't they?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000027_000002|Duties of citizen and man?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000027_000003|Lay them all aside.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000027_000006|It's no use taking up a job you are not fit for.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000027_000007|Well, you'd better shoot yourself, or don't you want to?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000028_000000|"You seem trying to enrage me, to make me leave you."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000000|"What a queer fellow!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000001|But here we are.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000002|Welcome to the staircase.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000004|Look, there is no one at home. Don't you believe me?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000006|She leaves the key with him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000007|Here is Madame de Kapernaumov herself.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000008|Hey, what?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000010|Has she gone out?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000011|Where?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000013|She is not in and won't be till late in the evening probably.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000014|Well, come to my room; you wanted to come and see me, didn't you?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000015|Here we are.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000017|She is a woman who is always busy, an excellent woman I assure you....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000019|Now, see!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000021|I mustn't waste any more time.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000022|The bureau is locked, the flat is locked, and here we are again on the stairs.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000025|Would you like a lift?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000026|I'll take this carriage.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000027|Ah, you refuse?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000029|Come for a drive!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000030|I believe it will come on to rain.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000029_000031|Never mind, we'll put down the hood...."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000030_000000|Svidrigailov was already in the carriage.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000030_000001|Raskolnikov decided that his suspicions were at least for that moment unjust.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000030_000002|Without answering a word he turned and walked back towards the Hay Market.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000030_000004|But he had turned the corner and could see nothing.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000032_000002|But it was too tiresome and unbearable to go on thinking and thinking about this.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000033_000000|When he was alone, he had not gone twenty paces before he sank, as usual, into deep thought.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000033_000001|On the bridge he stood by the railing and began gazing at the water.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000033_000002|And his sister was standing close by him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000034_000000|He met her at the entrance to the bridge, but passed by without seeing her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000035_000000|He seemed to be approaching cautiously.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000035_000003|She fancied he was signalling to beg her not to speak to her brother, but to come to him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000036_000000|That was what Dounia did.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000037_000000|"Let us make haste away," Svidrigailov whispered to her, "I don't want Rodion Romanovitch to know of our meeting.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000037_000002|He has somehow heard of my letter to you and suspects something.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000037_000003|It wasn't you who told him, of course, but if not you, who then?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000038_000001|I have to tell you that I am going no further with you. Speak to me here.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000038_000002|You can tell it all in the street."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000039_000000|"In the first place, I can't say it in the street; secondly, you must hear Sofya Semyonovna too; and, thirdly, I will show you some papers.... Oh well, if you won't agree to come with me, I shall refuse to give any explanation and go away at once.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000039_000001|But I beg you not to forget that a very curious secret of your beloved brother's is entirely in my keeping."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000040_000000|Dounia stood still, hesitating, and looked at Svidrigailov with searching eyes.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000041_000001|"The town is not the country.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000041_000002|And even in the country you did me more harm than I did you."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000042_000000|"Have you prepared Sofya Semyonovna?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000000|"No, I have not said a word to her and am not quite certain whether she is at home now.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000001|But most likely she is.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000002|She has buried her stepmother to day: she is not likely to go visiting on such a day.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000004|The slightest indiscretion is as bad as betrayal in a thing like this.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000005|I live there in that house, we are coming to it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000007|Excuse my putting things so coarsely.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000043_000008|I haven't a flat to myself; Sofya Semyonovna's room is next to mine-she lodges in the next flat.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000044_000002|But Dounia did not notice this peculiar excitement, she was so irritated by his remark that she was frightened of him like a child and that he was so terrible to her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000045_000001|Lead the way," she said with apparent composure, but her face was very pale.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000000|"Allow me to inquire whether she is at home....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000001|She is not.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000002|How unfortunate!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000003|But I know she may come quite soon.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000004|If she's gone out, it can only be to see a lady about the orphans.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000005|Their mother is dead.... I've been meddling and making arrangements for them.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000006|If Sofya Semyonovna does not come back in ten minutes, I will send her to you, to day if you like.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000007|This is my flat.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000008|These are my two rooms.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000010|Now, look this way.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000011|I will show you my chief piece of evidence: this door from my bedroom leads into two perfectly empty rooms, which are to let.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000012|Here they are...
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000047_000013|You must look into them with some attention."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000048_000001|Dounia was looking about her mistrustfully, but saw nothing special in the furniture or position of the rooms.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000048_000003|His rooms were not entered directly from the passage, but through the landlady's two almost empty rooms. Unlocking a door leading out of his bedroom, Svidrigailov showed Dounia the two empty rooms that were to let.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000048_000004|Dounia stopped in the doorway, not knowing what she was called to look upon, but Svidrigailov hastened to explain.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000050_000000|"You listened?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000051_000000|"Yes, I did.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000051_000001|Now come back to my room; we can't sit down here."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000052_000002|She shuddered and once more looked about her distrustfully.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000052_000004|But the secluded position of Svidrigailov's lodging had suddenly struck her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000052_000005|She wanted to ask whether his landlady at least were at home, but pride kept her from asking.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000052_000006|Moreover, she had another trouble in her heart incomparably greater than fear for herself.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000052_000007|She was in great distress.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000000|"Here is your letter," she said, laying it on the table.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000001|"Can it be true what you write?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000002|You hint at a crime committed, you say, by my brother. You hint at it too clearly; you daren't deny it now.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000003|I must tell you that I'd heard of this stupid story before you wrote and don't believe a word of it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000004|It's a disgusting and ridiculous suspicion.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000005|I know the story and why and how it was invented.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000006|You can have no proofs.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000007|You promised to prove it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000008|Speak!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000009|But let me warn you that I don't believe you!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000053_000010|I don't believe you!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000055_000001|Simply from curiosity?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000056_000000|"Don't torment me.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000056_000001|Speak, speak!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000000|"There's no denying that you are a brave girl.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000001|Upon my word, I thought you would have asked mr Razumihin to escort you here.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000002|But he was not with you nor anywhere near.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000003|I was on the look out.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000005|But everything is divine in you....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000006|About your brother, what am I to say to you?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000057_000008|What did you think of him?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000000|"No, not on that, but on his own words.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000001|He came here on two successive evenings to see Sofya Semyonovna.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000003|He made a full confession to her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000004|He is a murderer.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000005|He killed an old woman, a pawnbroker, with whom he had pawned things himself.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000006|He killed her sister too, a pedlar woman called Lizaveta, who happened to come in while he was murdering her sister.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000008|He murdered them to rob them and he did rob them.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000009|He took money and various things....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000010|He told all this, word for word, to Sofya Semyonovna, the only person who knows his secret.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000011|But she has had no share by word or deed in the murder; she was as horrified at it as you are now.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000059_000012|Don't be anxious, she won't betray him."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000060_000000|"It cannot be," muttered Dounia, with white lips.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000060_000001|She gasped for breath. "It cannot be.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000060_000002|There was not the slightest cause, no sort of ground.... It's a lie, a lie!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000061_000000|"He robbed her, that was the cause, he took money and things.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000062_000000|"But how could he steal, rob?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000062_000002|"Why, you know him, and you've seen him, can he be a thief?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000063_000000|She seemed to be imploring Svidrigailov; she had entirely forgotten her fear.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000064_000001|A thief steals and knows he is a scoundrel, but I've heard of a gentleman who broke open the mail.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000064_000003|Of course I should not have believed it myself if I'd been told of it as you have, but I believe my own ears.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000065_000000|"What... were the causes?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000066_000002|It's galling too, of course, for a young man of gifts and overweening pride to know that if he had, for instance, a paltry three thousand, his whole career, his whole future would be differently shaped and yet not to have that three thousand.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000066_000003|Add to that, nervous irritability from hunger, from lodging in a hole, from rags, from a vivid sense of the charm of his social position and his sister's and mother's position too.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000066_000004|Above all, vanity, pride and vanity, though goodness knows he may have good qualities too....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000066_000005|I am not blaming him, please don't think it; besides, it's not my business.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000066_000011|And that's humiliating for a young man of any pride, in our day especially...."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000067_000000|"But remorse?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000067_000001|You deny him any moral feeling then?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000067_000002|Is he like that?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000003|Do you remember what a lot of talk we had together on this subject, sitting in the evenings on the terrace after supper?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000004|Why, you used to reproach me with breadth!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000005|Who knows, perhaps we were talking at the very time when he was lying here thinking over his plan.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000007|At the best someone will make them up somehow for himself out of books or from some old chronicle.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000009|You know my opinions in general, though.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000010|I never blame anyone.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000011|I do nothing at all, I persevere in that.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000012|But we've talked of this more than once before.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000068_000013|I was so happy indeed as to interest you in my opinions....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000069_000000|"I know his theory.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000069_000001|I read that article of his about men to whom all is permitted.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000069_000002|Razumihin brought it to me."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000070_000001|Your brother's article?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000070_000003|Is there such an article?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000070_000004|I didn't know.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000070_000005|It must be interesting.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000071_000000|"I want to see Sofya Semyonovna," Dounia articulated faintly.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000071_000002|She has come in, perhaps.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000071_000004|Perhaps she..."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000072_000001|Her breath literally failed her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000073_000000|"Sofya Semyonovna will not be back till night, at least I believe not. She was to have been back at once, but if not, then she will not be in till quite late."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000074_000000|"Ah, then you are lying!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000074_000001|I see... you were lying... lying all the time....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000074_000002|I don't believe you!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000074_000003|I don't believe you!" cried Dounia, completely losing her head.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000076_000001|Control yourself!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000076_000002|Here is some water. Drink a little...."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000077_000000|He sprinkled some water over her.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000077_000001|Dounia shuddered and came to herself.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000001|Believe me, he has friends.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000002|We will save him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000003|Would you like me to take him abroad?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000004|I have money, I can get a ticket in three days.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000005|And as for the murder, he will do all sorts of good deeds yet, to atone for it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000008|Well, how are you?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000078_000009|How do you feel?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000079_000000|"Cruel man!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000079_000002|Let me go..."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000080_000000|"Where are you going?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000081_000000|"To him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000081_000002|Do you know?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000081_000003|Why is this door locked?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000000|"We couldn't be shouting all over the flat on such a subject.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000001|I am far from jeering; it's simply that I'm sick of talking like this.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000002|But how can you go in such a state?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000003|Do you want to betray him?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000004|You will drive him to fury, and he will give himself up.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000005|Let me tell you, he is already being watched; they are already on his track.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000006|You will simply be giving him away.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000007|Wait a little: I saw him and was talking to him just now.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000008|He can still be saved.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000082_000010|But do sit down!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000083_000000|"How can you save him?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000083_000001|Can he really be saved?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000084_000000|Dounia sat down.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000085_000000|"It all depends on you, on you, on you alone," he began with glowing eyes, almost in a whisper and hardly able to utter the words for emotion.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000086_000000|Dounia drew back from him in alarm.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000086_000001|He too was trembling all over.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000000|"You... one word from you, and he is saved.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000001|I... I'll save him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000002|I have money and friends.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000003|I'll send him away at once.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000004|I'll get a passport, two passports, one for him and one for me.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000005|I have friends... capable people....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000006|If you like, I'll take a passport for you... for your mother....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000007|What do you want with Razumihin?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000008|I love you too....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000009|I love you beyond everything....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000010|Let me kiss the hem of your dress, let me, let me....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000011|The very rustle of it is too much for me.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000012|Tell me, 'do that,' and I'll do it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000013|I'll do everything.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000014|I will do the impossible.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000016|I'll do anything-anything!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000017|Don't, don't look at me like that.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000087_000018|Do you know that you are killing me?..."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000088_000000|He was almost beginning to rave....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000088_000001|Something seemed suddenly to go to his head.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000088_000002|Dounia jumped up and rushed to the door.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000089_000000|"Open it!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000089_000001|Open it!" she called, shaking the door.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000089_000002|"Open it!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000089_000003|Is there no one there?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000090_000001|His still trembling lips slowly broke into an angry mocking smile.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000091_000000|"There is no one at home," he said quietly and emphatically.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000091_000002|You are only exciting yourself uselessly."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000092_000000|"Where is the key?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000092_000001|Open the door at once, at once, base man!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000093_000000|"I have lost the key and cannot find it."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000095_000000|She did not scream, but she fixed her eyes on her tormentor and watched every movement he made.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000096_000001|The mocking smile did not leave his face.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000097_000001|In that case you may be sure I've taken measures.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000097_000002|Sofya Semyonovna is not at home.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000097_000004|I am at least twice as strong as you are and I have nothing to fear, besides. For you could not complain afterwards.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000097_000006|Besides, no one would believe you.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000098_000000|"Scoundrel!" whispered Dounia indignantly.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000099_000000|"As you like, but observe I was only speaking by way of a general proposition.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000099_000001|It's my personal conviction that you are perfectly right-violence is hateful.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000099_000002|I only spoke to show you that you need have no remorse even if... you were willing to save your brother of your own accord, as I suggest to you.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000099_000003|You would be simply submitting to circumstances, to violence, in fact, if we must use that word.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000099_000004|Think about it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000099_000007|I will wait here."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000100_000001|She had not the slightest doubt now of his unbending determination.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000100_000002|Besides, she knew him.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000100_000003|Suddenly she pulled out of her pocket a revolver, cocked it and laid it in her hand on the table.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000100_000004|Svidrigailov jumped up.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000101_000000|"Aha!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000101_000001|So that's it, is it?" he cried, surprised but smiling maliciously. "Well, that completely alters the aspect of affairs.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000101_000003|But where did you get the revolver?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000101_000005|Why, it's my revolver, an old friend! And how I've hunted for it!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000101_000006|The shooting lessons I've given you in the country have not been thrown away."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000102_000000|"It's not your revolver, it belonged to Marfa Petrovna, whom you killed, wretch!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000102_000001|There was nothing of yours in her house.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000102_000003|If you dare to advance one step, I swear I'll kill you." She was frantic.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000103_000000|"But your brother?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000104_000000|"Inform, if you want to!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000104_000002|Don't come nearer!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000104_000003|I'll shoot!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000104_000004|You poisoned your wife, I know; you are a murderer yourself!" She held the revolver ready.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000106_000000|"You did!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000106_000001|You hinted it yourself; you talked to me of poison....
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000106_000003|It was your doing.... It must have been your doing.... Scoundrel!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000107_000000|"Even if that were true, it would have been for your sake... you would have been the cause."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000108_000000|"You are lying!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000108_000001|I hated you always, always...."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000109_000001|You seem to have forgotten how you softened to me in the heat of propaganda.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000109_000002|I saw it in your eyes.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000109_000003|Do you remember that moonlight night, when the nightingale was singing?"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000111_000000|"A lie?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000111_000001|Well, if you like, it's a lie.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000111_000002|I made it up.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000111_000003|Women ought not to be reminded of such things," he smiled.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000111_000004|"I know you will shoot, you pretty wild creature.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000111_000005|Well, shoot away!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000112_000001|Her lower lip was white and quivering and her big black eyes flashed like fire.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000112_000002|He had never seen her so handsome.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000112_000003|The fire glowing in her eyes at the moment she raised the revolver seemed to kindle him and there was a pang of anguish in his heart.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000112_000004|He took a step forward and a shot rang out.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000112_000005|The bullet grazed his hair and flew into the wall behind.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000112_000006|He stood still and laughed softly.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000113_000001|She aimed straight at my head.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000113_000002|What's this? Blood?" he pulled out his handkerchief to wipe the blood, which flowed in a thin stream down his right temple.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000113_000003|The bullet seemed to have just grazed the skin.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000114_000001|She seemed not to understand what she was doing and what was going on.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000115_000000|"Well, you missed!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000115_000001|Fire again, I'll wait," said Svidrigailov softly, still smiling, but gloomily.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000115_000002|"If you go on like that, I shall have time to seize you before you cock again."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000117_000000|"Let me be," she cried in despair.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000117_000001|"I swear I'll shoot again.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000117_000002|I... I'll kill you."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000118_000000|"Well... at three paces you can hardly help it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000118_000001|But if you don't... then." His eyes flashed and he took two steps forward.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000118_000002|Dounia shot again: it missed fire.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000119_000000|"You haven't loaded it properly.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000119_000001|Never mind, you have another charge there.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000119_000002|Get it ready, I'll wait."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000120_000000|He stood facing her, two paces away, waiting and gazing at her with wild determination, with feverishly passionate, stubborn, set eyes.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000120_000001|Dounia saw that he would sooner die than let her go.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000120_000002|"And...
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000120_000003|now, of course she would kill him, at two paces!" Suddenly she flung away the revolver.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000122_000000|He went to Dounia and gently put his arm round her waist.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000123_000000|"Let me go," Dounia implored.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000123_000001|Svidrigailov shuddered.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000123_000002|Her voice now was quite different.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000124_000000|"Then you don't love me?" he asked softly.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000124_000001|Dounia shook her head.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000125_000000|"And... and you can't?
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000125_000001|Never?" he whispered in despair.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000126_000000|"Never!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000127_000000|There followed a moment of terrible, dumb struggle in the heart of Svidrigailov.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000127_000001|He looked at her with an indescribable gaze.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000127_000002|Suddenly he withdrew his arm, turned quickly to the window and stood facing it. Another moment passed.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000129_000000|He took it out of the left pocket of his coat and laid it on the table behind him, without turning or looking at Dounia.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000130_000000|"Take it!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000130_000001|Make haste!"
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000131_000000|He looked stubbornly out of the window.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000131_000001|Dounia went up to the table to take the key.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000132_000000|"Make haste!
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000132_000002|But there seemed a terrible significance in the tone of that "make haste."
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000133_000000|Dounia understood it, snatched up the key, flew to the door, unlocked it quickly and rushed out of the room.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000134_000000|Svidrigailov remained three minutes standing at the window.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000134_000001|At last he slowly turned, looked about him and passed his hand over his forehead.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000134_000004|He picked it up and examined it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000134_000005|It was a little pocket three barrel revolver of old-fashioned construction.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000134_000006|There were still two charges and one capsule left in it.
train-other-500/2834/132497/2834_132497_000134_000007|It could be fired again.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000002_000000|VOLUME five.--AFFAIRS AT CROTONA
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000004_000001|But, although I daily crammed my bloated carcass to overflowing with good things, and began more and more to believe that Fortune had turned away her face from keeping watch upon me, I frequently meditated, nevertheless, upon my present state and upon its cause. "Suppose," thought I, "some wily legacy hunter should dispatch an agent to Africa and catch us in our lie?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000004_000002|Or even suppose the hireling servant, glutted with prosperity, should tip off his cronies or give the whole scheme away out of spite?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000004_000003|There would be nothing for it but flight and, in a fresh state of destitution, a recalling of poverty which had been driven off.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000004_000005|"You must be mistaken," I answered, in confusion, "I am only a servant and a stranger, and am by no means worthy of such an honor.")
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000005_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIXTH.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000006_000001|What else can those wavy well combed locks mean or that face, rouged and covered with cosmetics, or that languishing, wanton expression in your eyes?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000006_000002|Why that gait, so precise that not a footstep deviates from its place, unless you wish to show off your figure in order to sell your favors?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000006_000005|My mistress belongs to this class, she jumps the fourteen rows from the stage to the gallery and looks for a lover among the gallery gods at the back." Puffed up with this delightful chatter.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000006_000006|"Come now, confess, won't you," I queried, "is this lady who loves me yourself?"
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000006_000007|The waiting maid smiled broadly at this blunt speech.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000007_000000|Each one will find what suits his taste, one thing is not for all, One gathers roses as his share, another thorns enthrall.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000008_000000|After a little more teasing, I requested the maid to conduct her mistress to a clump of plane trees.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000008_000001|Pleased with this plan, the girl picked up the skirt of her garment and turned into a laurel grove that bordered the path.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000008_000004|Her chin, her neck, her hands, the gleaming whiteness of her feet under a slender band of gold; she turned Parian marble dull!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000009_000000|Oh Jove, what's come to pass that thou, thine armor cast away Art mute in heaven; and but an idle tale? At such a time the horns should sprout, the raging bull hold sway, Or they white hair beneath swan's down conceal Here's Dana's self!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000009_000001|But touch that lovely form Thy limbs will melt beneath thy passions' storm!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000010_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVENTH.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000000|She was delighted and so be witchingly did she smile that I seemed to see the full moon showing her face from behind a cloud.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000001|Then, punctuating her words with her fingers, "Dear boy, if you are not too critical to enjoy a woman of wealth who has but this year known her first man, I offer you a sister," said she.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000002|"You have a brother already, I know, for I didn't disdain to ask, but what is to prevent your adopting a sister, too?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000003|I will come in on the same footing only deem my kisses worthy of recognition and caress me at your own pleasure!" "Rather let me implore you by your beauty," I replied.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000004|"Do not scorn to admit an alien among your worshipers: If you permit me to kneel before your shrine you will find me a true votary and, that you may not think I approach this temple of love without a gift, I make you a present of my brother!" "What," she exclaimed, "would you really sacrifice the only one without whom you could not live'?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000005|The one upon whose kisses your happiness depends.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000008|"Why, didn't my maid tell you that I am called Circe?" she replied.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000011_000010|I don't know what it is, but some god's silent purpose is beneath this.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000012_000000|With flowers like these did Mother Earth great Ida's summit strew When Jupiter, his heart aflame, enjoyed his lawful love; There glowed the rose, the flowering rush, the violet's deep blue, From out green meadows snow white lilies laughed.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000013_000000|Side by side upon the grassy plot we lay, exchanging a thousand kisses, the prelude to more poignant pleasure, (but alas!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000013_000001|My sudden loss of vigor disappointed Circe!)
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000014_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000000|(Infuriated at this affront,) "What's the matter," demanded she; "do my kisses offend you?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000001|Is my breath fetid from fasting?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000002|Is there any evil smelling perspiration in my armpits?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000004|"My queen," I cried, "do not mock me in my humiliation.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000005|I am bewitched!" (Circe's anger was far from being appeased by such a trivial excuse; turning her eyes contemptuously away from me, she looked at her maid,) "Tell me, Chrysis, and tell me truly, is there anything repulsive about me?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000006|Anything sluttish?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000015_000008|Don't deceive your mistress!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000017_000000|(The misfortune seemed to me a dream, but I imagined that I must surely be under a spell of enchantment and, for a long time, I was so devoid of strength that I could not get to my feet.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000017_000005|"No!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000017_000006|No! Darling," I replied, "my love for you has always been the same, but reason prevails now over love and wantonness.") "And for the Socratic continence of your love, I thank you in his name," (he replied sarcastically,) "Alcibiades was never more spotless when he left his master's bed!"
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000018_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINTH.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000021_000001|Still, I would like to know how you are and whether you got home upon your own legs, for the doctors say that one cannot walk without nerves!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000021_000002|Young man, I advise you to beware of paralysis for I never in my life saw a patient in such great danger; you're as good as dead, I'm sure!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000021_000003|What if the same numbness should attack your hands and knees?
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000021_000004|You would have to send for the funeral trumpeters!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000021_000005|Still, even if I have been affronted, I will not begrudge a prescription to one as sick as you!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000022_000000|Farewell (if you can).
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000023_000000|"Such things will happen," said Chrysis, when she saw that I had read through the entire inditement, "and especially in this city, where the women can lure the moon from the sky!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000023_000001|But we'll find a cure for your trouble.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000023_000002|Just return a diplomatic answer to my mistress and restore her self esteem by frank courtesy for, truth to tell, she has never been herself from the minute she received that affront." I gladly followed the maid's advice and wrote upon the tablets as follows:
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000024_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000026_000000|Dear lady, I confess that I have often given cause for offense, for I am only a man, and a young one, too, but I never committed a deadly crime until today!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000026_000001|You have my confession of guilt, I deserve any punishment you may see fit to prescribe.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000026_000002|I betrayed a trust, I murdered a man, I violated a temple: demand my punishment for these crimes.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000026_000003|Should it be your pleasure to slay me I will come to you with my sword; if you are content with a flogging I will run naked to my mistress; only bear in mind that it was not myself but my tools that failed me.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000026_000004|I was a soldier, and ready, but I had no arms.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000026_000006|You bid me beware of paralysis; as if a disease which prevented my enjoying you could grow worse!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000028_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIRST.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000029_000001|"Well, mr Squeamish," she chirped, when she had greeted me, "have you recovered your appetite?" In the meantime, the old hag:
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000030_000000|A wine soaked crone with twitching lips
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000032_000000|As long as life remains, there's hope; Thou rustic God, oh hear our prayer, Great Priapus, I thee invoke, Temper our arms to dare!
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000033_000001|Skipping for joy, "Look, Chrysis, look," she cried out, "see what a hare I've started, for someone else to course!" (This done, the old lady handed me over to Chrysis, who was greatly delighted at the recovery of her mistress's treasure; she hastily conducted me straight to the latter, introducing me into a lovely nook that nature had furnished with everything which could delight the eye.)
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000034_000000|Shorn of its top, the swaying pine here casts a summer shade And quivering cypress, and the stately plane And berry laden laurel.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000035_000000|Fanning herself with a branch of flowering myrtle, she lay, stretched out with her marble neck resting upon a golden cushion.
train-other-500/2854/51657/2854_51657_000035_000001|When she caught sight of me she blushed faintly; she recalled yesterday's affront, I suppose.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000002_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SECOND.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000003_000000|The loveliness of her form drew me to her and summoned me to love.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000003_000005|There, I turned the full fury of my resentment against that recreant which had been the sole cause of all the evil accidents which had befallen me.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000005_000000|Raising myself upon my elbow I rebuked the shirker in some such terms as these: "What have you to say for yourself, you disgrace to gods and men," I demanded, "for your name must never be mentioned among refined people. Did I deserve to be lifted up to heaven and then dragged down to hell by you?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000005_000002|Give me some sign, however faint, I beg of you, that you have returned to life!" I vented my anger in words such as these.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000006_000000|His eyes were fixed, and with averted look He stood, less moved by any word of mine Than weeping willows bending o'er a brook Or drooping poppies as at noon they pine.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000007_000002|Are we not accustomed to swear at every member of the human body, the belly, throat, or even the head when it aches, as it often does?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000007_000003|Did not Ulysses wrangle with his own heart?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000009_000001|All the rest is embers.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000010_000000|"Nothing can be more insincere than the silly prejudices of mankind, and nothing sillier than the morality of bigotry,"
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000011_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THIRD.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000013_000002|When fortune smiles I'll not thy glory shun and leave behind Thy worship!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000013_000004|And suckling pigs, the tender young Of some fine grunting sow!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000013_000005|New wine, in crocks Shall foam!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000013_000006|Thy grateful praises shall be sung By youths who thrice shall dance around thy shrine Happy, in youth and full of this year's wine!"
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000015_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOURTH.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000016_000001|What filth did you tread upon at some crossroads, in the dark?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000016_000002|Not even by the boy could you do your duty but, weak and effeminate, you are worn out like a cart horse at a hill, you have lost both labor and sweat!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000016_000004|I groaned dismally, and especially when she manipulated my member and, shedding a flood of tears, I covered my head with my right arm and huddled down upon the pillow.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000016_000005|Nor did she weep less bitterly:
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000017_000000|The sailor, naked from his foundered barque, Some shipwrecked mariner seeks out to hear his woe; When hail beats down a farmer's crop, his cark Seeks consolation from another, too. Death levels caste and sufferers unites, And weeping parents are as one in grief; We also will beseech the starry heights, United prayers climb best, is the belief.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000018_000000|She seated herself upon the other side of the bed and in quavering tones commenced to accuse the delays of old age.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000018_000001|At last the priestess came in.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000018_000002|"Why," she cried, "what has brought you into my cell as if you were visiting a newly made grave?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000018_000004|Such an unfortunate fellow you never saw.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000018_000005|He has no tool at all, only a piece of leather soaked in water!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000019_000000|All that you see in the world must give heed to my mandates;
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000023_000000|Seas calm their billows before me, gales silence their howlings,
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000024_000000|Hearing my step!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000024_000001|And the rivers sink into their channels;
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000026_000000|Why should I tell you of small things?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000026_000001|The image of Luna
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000027_000000|Drawn by my spells must descend, and Apollo, atremble
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000028_000000|Backs up his horses and turns from his course at my order!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000029_000000|Such is the power of my word!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000029_000001|By the rites of a virgin
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000030_000000|Quenched is the raging of bulls; and the sun's daughter Circe
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000031_000000|Changed and transfigured the crew of the wily Ulysses.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000032_000000|Proteus changes his form when his good pleasure dictates,
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000033_000000|I, who am skilled in these arts, can the shrubs of Mount Ida
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000034_000000|Plant in the ocean; turn rivers to flow up the mountains!"
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000035_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIFTH.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000000|At this declaration, which was so awe inspiring, I shuddered in terror, and commenced to scrutinize the crone more narrowly.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000001|"Come now," said OEnothea, "obey my orders," and, carefully wiping her hands, she bent over the cot and kissed me, once, twice!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000002|On the middle of the altar OEnothea placed an old table, upon which she heaped live coals, then with melted pitch she repaired a goblet which had become cracked through age. Next she replaced, in the smoke stained wall, a peg which had come out when she took down the wooden goblet.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000003|Then, having donned a mantle, in the shape of a piece of square cut cloth, she set a huge kettle upon the hearth and at the same time speared with a fork a cloth hanging upon the meathooks, and lifted it down.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000004|It contained some beans which had been laid away for future use, and a very small and stale piece of pig's cheek, scored with a thousand slashes.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000005|When she had untied the string which fastened the cloth, she poured some of the beans upon the table and ordered me to shell them quickly and carefully.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000036_000006|I obey her mandate and with careful fingers separate the beans from the filthy pods which contain them; but she, accusing my clumsiness, hastily snatched them and, skillfully tearing off the pods with her teeth, spat them upon the ground, where they looked like dead flies.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000037_000001|For honey soft, a bowl; Platters of green bark wickerwork, a jar Stained by the lifeblood of the God of Wine; The walls around with chaff and spattered clay Were covered.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000037_000002|Flanging from protruding nails Were slender stalks of the green rush; and then Suspended from the smoky beam, the stores Of this poor cottage.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000038_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIXTH.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000039_000001|The neck of the pot was broken, putting out the fire, which was just getting a good start, her elbow was burned by a flaming brand, and her whole face was covered by the ashes raised by her fall.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000039_000002|I jumped up in dismay and, not without laughing, helped the old lady to her feet.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000039_000003|She hastily scurried out into the neighborhood to replenish the fire, for fear anything should delay the sacrifice.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000039_000005|One tore at my tunic, another undid the lacings of my sandals and tugged at them, but one in particular, the ringleader and moving spirit of this savage attack, did not hesitate to worry at my leg with his serrated bill.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000039_000006|Unable to see the joke, I twisted off one of the legs of the little table and, thus armed, began to belabor the pugnacious brute.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000039_000007|Nor did I rest content with a light blow, I avenged myself by the death of the goose.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000040_000000|'twas thus, I ween, the birds of Stymphalus To heaven fled, by Herakles impelled; The Harpies, too, whose reeking pinions held That poison which the feast of Phineus Contaminated.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000040_000001|All the air above With their unwonted lamentations shook, The heavens in uproar and confusion move {The Stars, in dread, their orbits then forsook!}
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000041_000001|I had not yet stepped over the threshold of the cell, however, when I caught sight of OEnothea returning with an earthen vessel full of live coals.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000041_000002|Thereupon I retraced my steps and, throwing off my garments, I took my stand just inside the door, as if I were awaiting her return. She banked her fire with broken reeds, piled some pieces of wood on top, and began to excuse her delay on the ground that her friend would not permit her to leave until after the customary three drinks had been taken.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000041_000003|"But what were you up to in my absence?" she demanded.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000041_000004|"Where are the beans?" Thinking that I had done a thing worthy of all praise, I informed her of the battle in all its details and, that she might not be downcast any longer, I produced the dead goose in payment for her loss. When the old lady laid eyes upon that, she raised such a clamor that you would have thought that the geese had invaded the room again.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000041_000005|Confounded and thunderstruck at the novelty of my crime, I asked her why she was so angry and why she pitied the goose rather than myself.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000042_000000|CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVENTH.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000043_000000|But, beating her palms together, "You villain, are you so brazen that you can speak?" she shrieked.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000043_000001|"Don't you know what a serious crime you've committed?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000043_000002|You have slaughtered the delight of Priapus, a goose, the very darling of married women!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000043_000003|And for fear you think that nothing serious has happened, if the magistrates find this out you'll go to the cross!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000043_000004|Until this day my dwelling has been inviolate and you have polluted it with blood!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000043_000005|You have conducted yourself in such a manner that any enemy I have can turn me out of the priesthood!"
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000001|Seeing the dead goose and inquiring the cause of her grief, she herself commenced to weep more violently still and to commiserate me, as if I had slain my own father, instead of a public goose.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000002|Growing tired of this nonsense at last, "See here," said I, "could I not purchase immunity for a price, even though I had assaulted you'?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000003|Even though I had murdered a man?
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000004|Look here!
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000005|I'm laying down two gold pieces, you can buy both gods and geese with them!" "Forgive me, young man," said OEnothea, when she caught sight of the gold, "I am anxious upon your account; that is a proof of love, not of malignity.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000006|Let us take such precautions that not a soul will find this out.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000045_000007|As for you, pray to the gods to forgive your sacrilege!"
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000047_000001|Then, muttering incantations, she threw hazel nuts into the wine and drew her conclusions as they sank or floated; but she did not hoodwink me, for those with empty shells, no kernel and full of air, would of course float, while those that were heavy and full of sound kernel would sink to the bottom.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000047_000002|{She then turned her attention to the goose,} and, cutting open the breast, she drew out a very fat liver from which she foretold my future.
train-other-500/2854/51658/2854_51658_000047_000004|Meanwhile, cups of unmixed wine went merrily around (and the crones greedily devoured the goose which they had but so lately lamented.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000000_000000|Lovely Ilonka
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000001_000000|There was once a king's son who told his father that he wished to marry.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000002_000000|'No, no!' said the king; 'you must not be in such a hurry.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000002_000002|My father did not let me marry till I had won the golden sword you see me wear.'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000003_000000|The prince was much disappointed, but he never dreamed of disobeying his father, and he began to think with all his might what he could do.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000003_000001|It was no use staying at home, so one day he wandered out into the world to try his luck, and as he walked along he came to a little hut in which he found an old woman crouching over the fire.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000004_000000|'Good evening, mother.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000004_000001|I see you have lived long in this world; do you know anything about the three bulrushes?'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000005_000001|Still, if you will wait till to morrow I may be able to tell you something.'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000006_000001|Not one was missing.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000006_000002|Then she asked if they knew anything about the three bulrushes, but not one of them did.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000007_000001|On being questioned the old man said he knew nothing, but begged the prince to stay overnight, and the next morning the old man called all the ravens together, but they too had nothing to tell.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000008_000000|The prince bade him farewell and set out.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000008_000001|He wandered so far that he crossed seven kingdoms, and at last, one evening, he came to a little house in which was an old woman.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000010_000000|'Good evening to you, my dear son,' answered the old woman.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000010_000001|'It is lucky for you that you spoke to me or you would have met with a horrible death.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000011_000000|'I am seeking the three bulrushes.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000011_000001|Do you know anything about them?'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000012_000000|'I don't know anything myself, but wait till to morrow.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000012_000001|Perhaps I can tell you then.' So the next morning she blew on her pipe, and lo! and behold every magpie in the world flew up.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000012_000002|That is to say, all the magpies except one who had broken a leg and a wing.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000012_000003|The old woman sent after it at once, and when she questioned the magpies the crippled one was the only one who knew where the three bulrushes were.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000013_000000|Then the prince started off with the lame magpie.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000014_000000|'Now, prince,' said the magpie, 'the three bulrushes are behind that wall.'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000015_000000|The prince wasted no time.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000015_000002|Then he looked about for the three bulrushes, pulled them up and set off with them on his way home.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000015_000003|As he rode along one of the bulrushes happened to knock against something.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000015_000004|It split open and, only think!
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000015_000005|out sprang a lovely girl, who said: 'My heart's love, you are mine and I am yours; do give me a glass of water.'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000016_000000|But how could the prince give it her when there was no water at hand? So the lovely maiden flew away.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000016_000001|He split the second bulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000017_000000|How careful he was of the third bulrush!
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000017_000001|He waited till he came to a well, and there he split it open, and out sprang a maiden seven times lovelier than either of the others, and she too said: 'My heart's love, I am yours and you are mine; do give me a glass of water.'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000018_000001|Then they set out for home.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000019_000000|They soon reached the prince's country, and as he wished to bring his promised bride back in a fine coach he went on to the town to fetch one. In the field where the well was, the king's swineherds and cowherds were feeding their droves, and the prince left Ilonka (for that was her name) in their care.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000020_000000|Unluckily the chief swineherd had an ugly old daughter, and whilst the prince was away he dressed her up in fine clothes, and threw Ilonka into the well.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000021_000000|The prince returned before long, bringing with him his father and mother and a great train of courtiers to escort Ilonka home.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000021_000001|But how they all stared when they saw the swineherd's ugly daughter!
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000022_000000|But he had no peace!
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000022_000001|He knew very well he had been cheated, though he could not think how.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000022_000003|The coachman went for it and, in the bucket he pulled up, a pretty little duck was swimming. He looked wonderingly at it, and all of a sudden it disappeared and he found a dirty looking girl standing near him.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000023_000000|Of course she was very busy all day long, but whenever she had a little spare time she sat down to spin.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000023_000001|Her distaff turned of itself and her spindle span by itself and the flax wound itself off; and however much she might use there was always plenty left.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000024_000000|When the queen-or, rather, the swineherd's daughter-heard of this, she very much wished to have the distaff, but the girl flatly refused to give it to her.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000024_000001|However, at last she consented on condition that she might sleep one night in the king's room.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000024_000002|The queen was very angry, and scolded her well; but as she longed to have the distaff she consented, though she gave the king a sleeping draught at supper.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000025_000000|Then the girl went to the king's room looking seven times lovelier than ever.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000025_000001|She bent over the sleeper and said: 'My heart's love, I am yours and you are mine.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000025_000002|Speak to me but once; I am your Ilonka.' But the king was so sound asleep he neither heard nor spoke, and Ilonka left the room, sadly thinking he was ashamed to own her.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000026_000001|The girl agreed to let her have it on the same conditions as before; but this time, also, the queen took care to give the king a sleeping draught.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000026_000002|And once more Ilonka went to the king's room and spoke to him; whisper as sweetly as she might she could get no answer.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000027_000000|Now some of the king's servants had taken note of the matter, and warned their master not to eat and drink anything that the queen offered him, as for two nights running she had given him a sleeping draught.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000027_000001|The queen had no idea that her doings had been discovered; and when, a few days later, she wanted the flax, and had to pay the same price for it, she felt no fears at all.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000028_000000|At supper that night the queen offered the king all sorts of nice things to eat and drink, but he declared he was not hungry, and went early to bed.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000029_000000|The queen repented bitterly her promise to the girl, but it was too late to recall it; for Ilonka had already entered the king's room, where he lay anxiously waiting for something, he knew not what.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000029_000001|All of a sudden he saw a lovely maiden who bent over him and said: 'My dearest love, I am yours and you are mine.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000029_000002|Speak to me, for I am your Ilonka.'
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000030_000000|At these words the king's heart bounded within him.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000030_000001|He sprang up and embraced and kissed her, and she told him all her adventures since the moment he had left her.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000030_000002|And when he heard all that Ilonka had suffered, and how he had been deceived, he vowed he would be revenged; so he gave orders that the swineherd, his wife and daughter should all be hanged; and so they were.
train-other-500/2895/8662/2895_8662_000031_000000|The next day the king was married, with great rejoicings, to the fair Ilonka; and if they are not yet dead-why, they are still living.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000002_000000|Lucky Luck
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000003_000000|Once upon a time there was a king who had an only son.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000003_000001|When the lad was about eighteen years old his father had to go to fight in a war against a neighbouring country, and the king led his troops in person.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000003_000002|He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000004_000000|Time went by.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000004_000001|The prince ruled the country and never even thought of marrying.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000004_000002|But when he reached his twenty fifth birthday he began to think that it might be rather nice to have a wife, and he thought so much that at last he got quite eager about it.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000004_000003|He remembered, however, what his father had said, and waited some time longer, till at last it was ten years since the king went out to war.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000004_000004|Then the prince called his courtiers about him and set off with a great retinue to seek a bride.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000004_000005|He hardly knew which way to go, so he wandered about for twenty days, when, suddenly, he found himself in his father's camp.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000005_000000|The king was delighted to see his son, and had a great many questions to ask and answer; but when he heard that instead of quietly waiting for him at home the prince was starting off to seek a wife he was very angry, and said: 'You may go where you please but I will not leave any of my people with you.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000006_000000|Only one faithful servant stayed with the prince and refused to part from him.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000006_000001|They journeyed over hill and dale till they came to a place called Goldtown.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000006_000002|The King of Goldtown had a lovely daughter, and the prince, who soon heard about her beauty, could not rest till he saw her.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000007_000000|He was very kindly received, for he was extremely good looking and had charming manners, so he lost no time in asking for her hand and her parents gave her to him with joy.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000007_000001|The wedding took place at once, and the feasting and rejoicings went on for a whole month.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000007_000002|At the end of the month they set off for home, but as the journey was a long one they spent the first evening at an inn.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000007_000003|Everyone in the house slept, and only the faithful servant kept watch.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000007_000004|About midnight he heard three crows, who had flown to the roof, talking together.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000008_000001|It seems quite a pity they should lose their lives so soon.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000009_000000|'Truly,' said the second crow; 'for to morrow, when midday strikes, the bridge over the Gold Stream will break just as they are driving over it.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000009_000001|But, listen! whoever overhears and tells what we have said will be turned to stone up to his knees.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000010_000000|The crows had hardly done speaking when away they flew.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000010_000001|And close upon them followed three pigeons.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000011_000000|'Even if the prince and princess get safe over the bridge they will perish,' said they; 'for the king is going to send a carriage to meet them which looks as new as paint.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000011_000003|But anyone who hears and betrays what we have said will be turned to stone up to his waist.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000012_000000|With that the pigeons flew off and three eagles took their places, and this is what they said:
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000013_000001|When they put these on they will be burnt up at once. But whoever hears and repeats this will turn to stone from head to foot.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000014_000002|At last the servant said:
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000015_000000|'Gracious prince, I dreamt that if your Royal Highness would grant all I asked we should get home safe and sound; but if you did not we should certainly be lost.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000015_000001|My dreams never deceive me, so I entreat you to follow my advice during the rest of the journey.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000016_000000|'Don't make such a fuss about a dream,' said the prince; 'dreams are but clouds.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000016_000001|Still, to prevent your being anxious I will promise to do as you wish.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000017_000000|With that they set out on their journey.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000018_000001|When they got to the bridge the servant said: 'Let us leave the carriage here, my prince, and walk a little way.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000018_000002|The town is not far off and we can easily get another carriage there, for the wheels of this one are bad and will not hold out much longer.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000019_000000|The prince looked well at the carriage.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000019_000001|He did not think it looked so unsafe as his servant said; but he had given his word and he held to it.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000020_000000|They got down and loaded the horses with the luggage.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000020_000001|The prince and his bride walked over the bridge, but the servant said he would ride the horses through the stream so as to water and bathe them.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000022_000000|The prince was so delighted that he could not speak.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000022_000001|But the servant said: 'My lord, let me examine this carriage first and then you can get in if I find it is all right; otherwise we had better stay in our own.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000023_000000|The prince made no objections, and after looking the carriage well over the servant said: 'It is as bad as it is smart'; and with that he knocked it all to pieces, and they went on in the one that they had bought.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000024_000001|But the servant implored the prince to have nothing to do with them, and never gave him any peace till he had obtained leave to destroy the robes.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000025_000000|The old king was furious when he found that all his arts had failed; that his son still lived and that he would have to give up the crown to him now he was married, for that was the law of the land.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000025_000001|He longed to know how the prince had escaped, and said: 'My dear son, I do indeed rejoice to have you safely back, but I cannot imagine why the beautiful carriage and the splendid robes I sent did not please you; why you had them destroyed.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000026_000000|'Indeed, sire,' said the prince, 'I was myself much annoyed at their destruction; but my servant had begged to direct everything on the journey and I had promised him that he should do so.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000026_000001|He declared that we could not possibly get home safely unless I did as he told me.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000027_000001|He called his Council together and condemned the servant to death.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000028_000000|The gallows was put up in the square in front of the palace.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000029_000000|The rope was being placed round his neck, when he begged to be allowed a few last words.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000029_000003|The prince called to him to say no more as he had proved his innocence.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000029_000004|But the servant paid no heed to him, and by the time his story was done he had turned to stone from head to foot.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000030_000000|Oh! how grieved the prince was to lose his faithful servant!
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000030_000001|And what pained him most was the thought that he was lost through his very faithfulness, and he determined to travel all over the world and never rest till he found some means of restoring him to life.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000031_000000|Now there lived at Court an old woman who had been the prince's nurse. To her he confided all his plans, and left his wife, the princess, in her care.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000031_000002|If he cannot help you no one on earth can.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000032_000001|He walked and walked till he got beyond his own country, and he wandered through a wood for three days but did not meet a living being in it.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000032_000002|At the end of the third day he came to a river near which stood a large mill.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000032_000003|Here he spent the night.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000032_000004|When he was leaving next morning the miller asked him: 'My gracious lord, where are you going all alone?'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000033_000000|And the prince told him.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000035_000000|The prince promised to inquire, and went on his way.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000035_000003|He went straight to it and in the house were three girls playing a game together.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000036_000000|Next morning when he was leaving they asked where he was going and he told them his story.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000036_000001|'Gracious prince,' said the maidens, 'do ask Lucky Luck how it happens that here we are over thirty years old and no lover has come to woo us, though we are good, pretty, and very industrious.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000037_000000|The prince promised to inquire, and went on his way.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000038_000000|Then he came to a great forest and wandered about in it from morning to night and from night to morning before he got near the other end.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000038_000002|I must have been flowing here a hundred years and more and no one has ever yet come by.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000039_000000|'I will tell you,' answered the prince, 'if you will divide yourself so that I may walk through.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000041_000000|'Oh, do ask Lucky Luck,' cried the brook, 'why, though I am such a clear, bright, rapid stream I never have a fish or any other living creature in my waters.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000043_000000|When he got quite clear of the forest he walked on through a lovely valley till he reached a little house thatched with rushes, and he went in to rest for he was very tired.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000044_000000|Everything in the house was beautifully clean and tidy, and a cheerful honest looking old woman was sitting by the fire.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000045_000000|'Good morning, mother,' said the prince.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000046_000000|'May Luck be with you, my son.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000047_000000|'I am looking for Lucky Luck,' replied the prince.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000000|'Then you have come to the right place, my son, for I am his mother.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000001|He is not at home just now, he is out digging in the vineyard.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000002|Do you go too.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000003|Here are two spades.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000004|When you find him begin to dig, but don't speak a word to him.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000005|It is now eleven o'clock.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000006|When he sits down to eat his dinner sit beside him and eat with him.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000007|After dinner he will question you, and then tell him all your troubles freely.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000048_000008|He will answer whatever you may ask.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000049_000000|With that she showed him the way, and the prince went and did just as she had told him.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000049_000001|After dinner they lay down to rest.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000050_000000|All of a sudden Lucky Luck began to speak and said: 'Tell me, what sort of man are you, for since you came here you have not spoken a word?'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000051_000000|'I am not dumb,' replied the young man, 'but I am that unhappy prince whose faithful servant has been turned to stone, and I want to know how to help him.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000052_000000|'And you do well, for he deserves everything.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000052_000001|Go back, and when you get home your wife will just have had a little boy.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000052_000002|Take three drops of blood from the child's little finger, rub them on your servant's wrists with a blade of grass and he will return to life.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000053_000000|'I have another thing to ask,' said the prince, when he had thanked him. 'In the forest near here is a fine stream but not a fish or other living creature in it.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000053_000001|Why is this?'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000054_000000|'Because no one has ever been drowned in the stream.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000054_000001|But take care, in crossing, to get as near the other side as you can before you say so, or you may be the first victim yourself.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000055_000000|'Another question, please, before I go.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000055_000001|On my way here I lodged one night in the house of three maidens.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000055_000003|Why was this?'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000056_000000|'Because they always throw out their sweepings in the face of the sun'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000057_000000|'And why is it that a miller, who has a large mill with all the best machinery and gets plenty of corn to grind is so poor that he can hardly live from day to day?'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000058_000000|'Because the miller keeps everything for himself, and does not give to those who need it.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000060_000000|When he reached the stream it asked if he brought it any good news. 'When I get across I will tell you,' said he.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000060_000001|So the stream parted; he walked through and on to the highest part of the bank.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000061_000000|'Listen, oh stream!
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000061_000001|Lucky Luck says you will never have any living creature in your waters until someone is drowned in you.'
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000062_000000|The words were hardly out of his mouth when the stream swelled and overflowed till it reached the rock up which he had climbed, and dashed so far up it that the spray flew over him.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000062_000001|But he clung on tight, and after failing to reach him three times the stream returned to its proper course.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000062_000002|Then the prince climbed down, dried himself in the sun, and set out on his march home.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000063_000000|He spent the night once more at the mill and gave the miller his answer, and by and by he told the three sisters not to throw out all their sweepings in the face of the sun
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000064_000000|The prince had hardly arrived at home when some thieves tried to ford the stream with a fine horse they had stolen.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000064_000001|When they were half-way across, the stream rose so suddenly that it swept them all away.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000064_000002|From that time it became the best fishing stream in the country side.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000065_000000|The miller, too, began to give alms and became a very good man, and in time grew so rich that he hardly knew how much he had.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000067_000000|When the prince got home he found that his wife had just got a fine little boy.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000067_000001|He did not lose a moment in pricking the baby's finger till the blood ran, and he brushed it on the wrists of the stone figure, which shuddered all over and split with a loud noise in seven parts and there was the faithful servant alive and well.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000068_000000|When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly about, flung himself on the ground and died.
train-other-500/2895/8663/2895_8663_000069_000000|The servant stayed on with his royal master and served him faithfully all the rest of his life; and, if neither of them is dead, he is serving him still.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000000_000000|twenty six How it Ended
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000001_000000|It must have been nearly midnight when I heard at a great distance the sound of a horse's feet.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000001_000001|Sometimes the sound died away, then it grew clearer again and nearer.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000001_000004|I neighed loudly, and was overjoyed to hear an answering neigh from Ginger, and men's voices.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000001_000005|They came slowly over the stones, and stopped at the dark figure that lay upon the ground.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000002_000000|One of the men jumped out, and stooped down over it.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000002_000001|"It is Reuben," he said, "and he does not stir!"
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000003_000000|The other man followed, and bent over him.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000003_000001|"He's dead," he said; "feel how cold his hands are."
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000004_000000|They raised him up, but there was no life, and his hair was soaked with blood.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000004_000001|They laid him down again, and came and looked at me.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000004_000002|They soon saw my cut knees.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000005_000000|"Why, the horse has been down and thrown him!
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000005_000001|Who would have thought the black horse would have done that?
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000005_000002|Nobody thought he could fall.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000005_000004|Odd, too, that the horse has not moved from the place."
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000006_000000|Robert then attempted to lead me forward.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000006_000001|I made a step, but almost fell again.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000001|Look here-his hoof is cut all to pieces; he might well come down, poor fellow!
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000003|Just think of his riding a horse over these stones without a shoe!
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000004|Why, if he had been in his right senses he would just as soon have tried to ride him over the moon.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000005|I'm afraid it has been the old thing over again.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000006|Poor Susan! she looked awfully pale when she came to my house to ask if he had not come home.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000008|But for all that she begged me to go and meet him.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000007_000009|But what must we do?
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000008_000001|I noticed that, because, if she had a fault, it was that she was impatient in standing.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000009_000000|Ned started off very slowly with his sad load, and Robert came and looked at my foot again; then he took his handkerchief and bound it closely round, and so he led me home.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000009_000001|I shall never forget that night walk; it was more than three miles.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000009_000002|Robert led me on very slowly, and I limped and hobbled on as well as I could with great pain.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000009_000003|I am sure he was sorry for me, for he often patted and encouraged me, talking to me in a pleasant voice.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000010_000000|At last I reached my own box, and had some corn; and after Robert had wrapped up my knees in wet cloths, he tied up my foot in a bran poultice, to draw out the heat and cleanse it before the horse doctor saw it in the morning, and I managed to get myself down on the straw, and slept in spite of the pain.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000011_000000|The next day after the farrier had examined my wounds, he said he hoped the joint was not injured; and if so, I should not be spoiled for work, but I should never lose the blemish.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000011_000001|I believe they did the best to make a good cure, but it was a long and painful one.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000013_000000|Everybody pitied Susan.
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000013_000001|She was nearly out of her mind; she kept saying over and over again, "Oh! he was so good-so good!
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000013_000002|It was all that cursed drink; why will they sell that cursed drink?
train-other-500/29/123027/29_123027_000013_000003|Oh Reuben, Reuben!" So she went on till after he was buried; and then, as she had no home or relations, she, with her six little children, was obliged once more to leave the pleasant home by the tall oak trees, and go into that great gloomy Union House.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000002_000000|thirty one A Humbug
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000003_000000|My master was not immediately suited, but in a few days my new groom came.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000003_000001|He was a tall, good looking fellow enough; but if ever there was a humbug in the shape of a groom Alfred Smirk was the man.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000003_000004|He left my bit rusty, my saddle damp, and my crupper stiff.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000004_000000|Alfred Smirk considered himself very handsome; he spent a great deal of time about his hair, whiskers and necktie, before a little looking glass in the harness room.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000004_000002|I should say he was the laziest, most conceited fellow I ever came near.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000004_000003|Of course, it was a great thing not to be ill used, but then a horse wants more than that.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000004_000004|I had a loose box, and might have been very comfortable if he had not been too indolent to clean it out.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000004_000005|He never took all the straw away, and the smell from what lay underneath was very bad; while the strong vapors that rose made my eyes smart and inflame, and I did not feel the same appetite for my food.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000007_000000|"Well," said his master, "I should not like him to take cold; but I don't like the smell of this stable.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000007_000001|Do you think the drains are all right?"
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000010_000000|"Yes, sir, I will."
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000011_000000|The bricklayer came and pulled up a great many bricks, but found nothing amiss; so he put down some lime and charged the master five shillings, and the smell in my box was as bad as ever.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000011_000001|But that was not all: standing as I did on a quantity of moist straw my feet grew unhealthy and tender, and the master used to say:
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000012_000000|"I don't know what is the matter with this horse; he goes very fumble footed.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000012_000001|I am sometimes afraid he will stumble."
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000013_000000|"Yes, sir," said Alfred, "I have noticed the same myself, when I have exercised him."
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000014_000000|Now the fact was that he hardly ever did exercise me, and when the master was busy I often stood for days together without stretching my legs at all, and yet being fed just as high as if I were at hard work. This often disordered my health, and made me sometimes heavy and dull, but more often restless and feverish.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000014_000001|He never even gave me a meal of green food or a bran mash, which would have cooled me, for he was altogether as ignorant as he was conceited; and then, instead of exercise or change of food, I had to take horse balls and draughts; which, beside the nuisance of having them poured down my throat, used to make me feel ill and uncomfortable.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000015_000001|The man took up my feet one by one and examined them; then standing up and dusting his hands one against the other, he said:
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000016_000001|I wonder your groom has not seen to it before.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000016_000002|This is the sort of thing we find in foul stables, where the litter is never properly cleaned out.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000016_000003|If you will send him here to morrow I will attend to the hoof, and I will direct your man how to apply the liniment which I will give him."
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000018_000000|The farrier ordered all the litter to be taken out of my box day by day, and the floor kept very clean.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000018_000001|Then I was to have bran mashes, a little green food, and not so much corn, till my feet were well again.
train-other-500/29/123032/29_123032_000018_000002|With this treatment I soon regained my spirits; but mr Barry was so much disgusted at being twice deceived by his grooms that he determined to give up keeping a horse, and to hire when he wanted one.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000001_000000|THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000001|That means, there aren't any more. But long ago, when Doctor Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000002|They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000003|They were very shy and terribly hard to catch. The black men get most of their animals by sneaking up behind them while they are not looking.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000004|But you could not do this with the pushmi pullyu-because, no matter which way you came towards him, he was always facing you.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000005|And besides, only one half of him slept at a time.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000006|The other head was always awake-and watching.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000008|Though many of the greatest huntsmen and the cleverest menagerie keepers spent years of their lives searching through the jungles in all weathers for pushmi pullyus, not a single one had ever been caught.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000002_000009|Even then, years ago, he was the only animal in the world with two heads.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000005_000001|But he couldn't do it.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000005_000002|When he saw that it was no use trying to escape, he sat down and waited to see what they wanted.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000006_000000|They asked him if he would go with Doctor Dolittle and be put on show in the Land of the White Men.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000007_000000|But he shook both his heads hard and said, "Certainly not!"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000008_000000|They explained to him that he would not be shut up in a menagerie but would just be looked at.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000008_000001|They told him that the Doctor was a very kind man but hadn't any money; and people would pay to see a two headed animal and the Doctor would get rich and could pay for the boat he had borrowed to come to Africa in.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000009_000000|But he answered, "no
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000010_000000|Then for three days they tried to persuade him.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000012_000001|And when they came to where the Doctor's little house of grass was, they knocked on the door.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000013_000000|The duck, who was packing the trunk, said, "Come in!"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000014_000000|And Chee Chee very proudly took the animal inside and showed him to the Doctor.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000015_000000|"What in the world is it?" asked john Dolittle, gazing at the strange creature.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000016_000000|"Lord save us!" cried the duck.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000016_000001|"How does it make up its mind?"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000017_000000|"It doesn't look to me as though it had any," said Jip, the dog.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000018_000001|People will pay any money to see him."
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000019_000000|"But I don't want any money," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000020_000000|"Yes, you do," said Dab Dab, the duck.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000020_000001|"Don't you remember how we had to pinch and scrape to pay the butcher's bill in Puddleby?
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000020_000002|And how are you going to get the sailor the new boat you spoke of-unless we have the money to buy it?"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000021_000000|"I was going to make him one," said the Doctor.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000022_000000|"Oh, do be sensible!" cried Dab Dab.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000022_000001|"Where would you get all the wood and the nails to make one with?--And besides, what are we going to live on?
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000022_000002|We shall be poorer than ever when we get back.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000022_000003|Chee Chee's perfectly right: take the funny looking thing along, do!"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000023_000000|"Well, perhaps there is something in what you say," murmured the Doctor.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000023_000001|"It certainly would make a nice new kind of pet.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000024_000000|"Yes, I'll go," said the pushmi pullyu who saw at once, from the Doctor's face, that he was a man to be trusted.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000024_000001|"You have been so kind to the animals here-and the monkeys tell me that I am the only one who will do.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000024_000002|But you must promise me that if I do not like it in the Land of the White Men you will send me back."
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000025_000001|"Excuse me, surely you are related to the Deer Family, are you not?"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000026_000000|"Yes," said the pushmi pullyu-"to the Abyssinian Gazelles and the Asiatic Chamois-on my mother's side.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000026_000001|My father's great grandfather was the last of the Unicorns."
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000027_000000|"Most interesting!" murmured the Doctor; and he took a book out of the trunk which Dab Dab was packing and began turning the pages.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000027_000001|"Let us see if Buffon says anything-"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000028_000000|"I notice," said the duck, "that you only talk with one of your mouths. Can't the other head talk as well?"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000029_000000|"Oh, yes," said the pushmi pullyu.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000029_000001|"But I keep the other mouth for eating-mostly.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000029_000002|In that way I can talk while I am eating without being rude.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000029_000003|Our people have always been very polite."
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000030_000000|When the packing was finished and everything was ready to start, the monkeys gave a grand party for the Doctor, and all the animals of the jungle came.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000030_000001|And they had pineapples and mangoes and honey and all sorts of good things to eat and drink.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000031_000000|After they had all finished eating, the Doctor got up and said,
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000032_000000|"My friends: I am not clever at speaking long words after dinner, like some men; and I have just eaten many fruits and much honey.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000033_000000|When the Doctor stopped speaking and sat down, all the monkeys clapped their hands a long time and said to one another, "Let it be remembered always among our people that he sat and ate with us, here, under the trees.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000033_000001|For surely he is the Greatest of Men!"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000034_000000|And the Grand Gorilla, who had the strength of seven horses in his hairy arms, rolled a great rock up to the head of the table and said,
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000036_000000|And even to this day, in the heart of the Jungle, that stone still is there.
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000036_000002|There it is-look-where the Good White Man sat and ate food with us in the Year of the Great Sickness!"
train-other-500/29/126858/29_126858_000037_000000|Then, when the party was over, the Doctor and his pets started out to go back to the seashore.
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000006_000000|nasal drone
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000007_000000|nascent intercourse
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000010_000000|natural sluggishness
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000011_000000|nauseous dose
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000012_000000|nautical venture
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000013_000000|neat refutation
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000015_000000|necessary adjuncts
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000018_000000|nefarious scheme
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000020_000000|negligible quantity
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000022_000000|nerveless hand
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000023_000000|nervous solicitude
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000028_000000|niggardly allowance
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000029_000000|nightmare fantasy
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000030_000000|nimble faculty
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000031_000000|noble condescension
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000034_000000|noiseless reverie
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000067_000000|obvious boredom
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000069_000000|occult sympathy
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000070_000000|ocean depth
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000071_000000|odd makeshifts
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000072_000000|odious tyranny
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000074_000000|offensive hostility
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000076_000000|olfactory sense
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000077_000000|olive grayness
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000085_000000|opaque mass
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000092_000000|oratorical display
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000095_000000|oriental spicery
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000096_000000|originally promulgated
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train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000098_000000|ostensible occupation
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000099_000000|ostentatious display
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000100_000000|outlandish fashion
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000101_000000|outrageously vehement
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000102_000000|outspoken encouragement
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000103_000000|outstanding feature
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000104_000000|outstretching sympathies
train-other-500/29/130413/29_130413_000105_000000|outward pomp
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000001_000000|"So I did," I answered; "why didn't you wake me?"
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000002_000000|"How could I wake you, when you didn't wake me?" he retorted.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000002_000001|"Now we shan't get on the water till after twelve.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000002_000002|I wonder you take the trouble to get up at all."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000003_000000|"Um," I replied, "lucky for you that I do.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000003_000001|If I hadn't woke you, you'd have lain there for the whole fortnight."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000004_000002|It reminded us, for the first time since our being called, of his existence.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000004_000003|There he lay-the man who had wanted to know what time he should wake us-on his back, with his mouth wide open, and his knees stuck up.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000005_000000|I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000005_000001|It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life-the priceless moments that will never come back to him again-being wasted in mere brutish sleep.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000006_000000|There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000006_000001|He might have been up stuffing himself with eggs and bacon, irritating the dog, or flirting with the slavey, instead of sprawling there, sunk in soul clogging oblivion.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000007_000000|It was a terrible thought.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000007_000001|Harris and I appeared to be struck by it at the same instant.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000007_000002|We determined to save him, and, in this noble resolve, our own dispute was forgotten.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000009_000000|"Get up, you fat headed chunk!" roared Harris.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000009_000001|"It's quarter to ten."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000010_000000|"What!" he shrieked, jumping out of bed into the bath; "Who the thunder put this thing here?"
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000011_000000|We told him he must have been a fool not to see the bath.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000012_000001|And when we had done that George wanted the shaving tackle.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000012_000002|We told him that he would have to go without shaving that morning, as we weren't going to unpack that bag again for him, nor for anyone like him.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000013_000000|He said:
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000014_000000|"Don't be absurd.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000014_000001|How can I go into the City like this?"
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000015_000000|It was certainly rather rough on the City, but what cared we for human suffering?
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000015_000001|As Harris said, in his common, vulgar way, the City would have to lump it.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000016_000001|We went downstairs to breakfast. Montmorency had invited two other dogs to come and see him off, and they were whiling away the time by fighting on the doorstep.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000016_000002|We calmed them with an umbrella, and sat down to chops and cold beef.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000017_000000|Harris said:
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000018_000000|"The great thing is to make a good breakfast," and he started with a couple of chops, saying that he would take these while they were hot, as the beef could wait.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000019_000000|George got hold of the paper, and read us out the boating fatalities, and the weather forecast, which latter prophesied "rain, cold, wet to fine" (whatever more than usually ghastly thing in weather that may be), "occasional local thunder storms, east wind, with general depression over the Midland Counties (London and Channel).
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000019_000001|Bar. falling."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000020_000000|I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen to day.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000022_000000|"Ah!" we said, as we stood looking out at them through the window, "won't they come home soaked!"
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000023_000000|And we chuckled to think how wet they were going to get, and came back and stirred the fire, and got our books, and arranged our specimens of seaweed and cockle shells.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000023_000001|By twelve o'clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became quite oppressive, and we wondered when those heavy showers and occasional thunderstorms were going to begin.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000026_000000|"No, no," we replied, with a knowing chuckle, "not we.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000027_000000|And when the afternoon was nearly gone, and still there was no sign of rain, we tried to cheer ourselves up with the idea that it would come down all at once, just as the people had started for home, and were out of the reach of any shelter, and that they would thus get more drenched than ever.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000029_000000|The weather is a thing that is beyond me altogether.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000029_000001|I never can understand it.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000029_000002|The barometer is useless: it is as misleading as the newspaper forecast.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000030_000000|There was one hanging up in a hotel at Oxford at which I was staying last spring, and, when I got there, it was pointing to "set fair."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000030_000001|It was simply pouring with rain outside, and had been all day; and I couldn't quite make matters out.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000030_000002|I tapped the barometer, and it jumped up and pointed to "very dry." The Boots stopped as he was passing, and said he expected it meant to morrow.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000030_000003|I fancied that maybe it was thinking of the week before last, but Boots said, No, he thought not.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000031_000000|I tapped it again the next morning, and it went up still higher, and the rain came down faster than ever.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000031_000001|On Wednesday I went and hit it again, and the pointer went round towards "set fair," "very dry," and "much heat," until it was stopped by the peg, and couldn't go any further.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000031_000002|It tried its best, but the instrument was built so that it couldn't prophesy fine weather any harder than it did without breaking itself.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000031_000003|It evidently wanted to go on, and prognosticate drought, and water famine, and sunstroke, and simooms, and such things, but the peg prevented it, and it had to be content with pointing to the mere commonplace "very dry."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000032_000000|Meanwhile, the rain came down in a steady torrent, and the lower part of the town was under water, owing to the river having overflowed.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000034_000000|"Long foretold, long last; Short notice, soon past."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000035_000000|The fine weather never came that summer.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000035_000001|I expect that machine must have been referring to the following spring.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000036_000000|Then there are those new style of barometers, the long straight ones.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000036_000001|I never can make head or tail of those.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000036_000002|There is one side for ten a m yesterday, and one side for ten a m to day; but you can't always get there as early as ten, you know.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000037_000000|But who wants to be foretold the weather?
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000038_000000|"Oh no, sir, I think it will clear up all right.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000038_000001|It will break all right enough, sir."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000042_000000|For the man that prophesies us bad weather, on the contrary, we entertain only bitter and revengeful thoughts.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000044_000000|"Well, no, sir; I'm afraid it's settled down for the day," he replies, shaking his head.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000046_000000|It was too bright and sunny on this especial morning for George's blood curdling readings about "Bar. falling," "atmospheric disturbance, passing in an oblique line over Southern Europe," and "pressure increasing," to very much upset us: and so, finding that he could not make us wretched, and was only wasting his time, he sneaked the cigarette that I had carefully rolled up for myself, and went.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000049_000000|There seemed a good deal of luggage, when we put it all together.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000050_000000|It did look a lot, and Harris and I began to feel rather ashamed of it, though why we should be, I can't see.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000050_000001|No cab came by, but the street boys did, and got interested in the show, apparently, and stopped.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000051_000000|Biggs's boy was the first to come round.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000051_000002|If anything more than usually villainous in the boy line crops up in our neighbourhood, we know that it is Biggs's latest.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000052_000000|Biggs's boy, as I have said, came round the corner.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000052_000002|Harris and I frowned at him.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000052_000003|This might have wounded a more sensitive nature, but Biggs's boys are not, as a rule, touchy.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000052_000004|He came to a dead stop, a yard from our step, and, leaning up against the railings, and selecting a straw to chew, fixed us with his eye.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000052_000005|He evidently meant to see this thing out.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000053_000000|In another moment, the grocer's boy passed on the opposite side of the street.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000053_000001|Biggs's boy hailed him:
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000054_000000|"Hi! ground floor o' forty twos a moving."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000055_000000|The grocer's boy came across, and took up a position on the other side of the step.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000055_000001|Then the young gentleman from the boot shop stopped, and joined Biggs's boy; while the empty can superintendent from "The Blue Posts" took up an independent position on the curb.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000056_000000|"They ain't a going to starve, are they?" said the gentleman from the boot shop.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000059_000000|By this time, quite a small crowd had collected, and people were asking each other what was the matter.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000061_000000|We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven five started from.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000061_000001|Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000061_000003|The station master, on the other hand, was convinced it would start from the local.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000062_000000|To put an end to the matter, we went upstairs, and asked the traffic superintendent, and he told us that he had just met a man, who said he had seen it at number three platform.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000062_000002|But they were sure it wasn't the Kingston train, though why they were sure it wasn't they couldn't say.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000063_000001|So we went to the high level platform, and saw the engine driver, and asked him if he was going to Kingston.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000064_000000|"Nobody will ever know, on this line," we said, "what you are, or where you're going.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000064_000001|You know the way, you slip off quietly and go to Kingston."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000065_000001|Gimme the half crown."
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000066_000000|Thus we got to Kingston by the London and south-western Railway.
train-other-500/29/130626/29_130626_000069_000000|"Are you all right, sir?" said the man.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000008_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000009_000000|THE OLD HALL.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000010_000000|Near Westminster Abbey was an old Norman palace which was burnt in the time of Henry the eighth.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000010_000001|Its wings were spared.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000010_000003|Neither the two wings nor the two chambers are now in existence.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000010_000004|The whole has been rebuilt.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000011_000000|We have already said, and we must repeat, that there is no resemblance between the House of Lords of the present day and that of the past.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000011_000001|In demolishing the ancient palace they somewhat demolished its ancient usages.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000011_000002|The strokes of the pickaxe on the monument produce their counter strokes on customs and charters.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000011_000003|An old stone cannot fall without dragging down with it an old law.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000011_000004|Place in a round room a parliament which has been hitherto held in a square room, and it will no longer be the same thing.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000011_000005|A change in the shape of the shell changes the shape of the fish inside.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000000|If you wish to preserve an old thing, human or divine, a code or a dogma, a nobility or a priesthood, never repair anything about it thoroughly, even its outside cover.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000001|Patch it up, nothing more.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000002|For instance, Jesuitism is a piece added to Catholicism.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000003|Treat edifices as you would treat institutions.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000004|Shadows should dwell in ruins.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000006|Ruined palaces accord best with institutions in rags.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000007|To attempt to describe the House of Lords of other days would be to attempt to describe the unknown.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000008|History is night.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000009|In history there is no second tier.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000010|That which is no longer on the stage immediately fades into obscurity.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000011|The scene is shifted, and all is at once forgotten.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000012_000012|The past has a synonym, the unknown.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000014_000000|Besides the house of peers of England, which did not assemble as a court unless convoked by the crown, two great English tribunals, inferior to the house of peers, but superior to all other jurisdiction, sat in Westminster Hall.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000014_000003|The one was a court of justice, the other a court of mercy.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000014_000004|It was the Chancellor who counselled the king to pardon; only rarely, though.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000015_000000|These two courts, which are still in existence, interpreted legislation, and reconstructed it somewhat, for the art of the judge is to carve the code into jurisprudence; a task from which equity results as it best may.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000015_000001|Legislation was worked up and applied in the severity of the great hall of Westminster, the rafters of which were of chestnut wood, over which spiders could not spread their webs.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000015_000002|There are enough of them in all conscience in the laws.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000016_000000|To sit as a court and to sit as a chamber are two distinct things.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000016_000001|This double function constitutes supreme power.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000000|This double power has been, from time immemorial, vested in the House of Peers.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000001|We have just mentioned that as judges they occupied Westminster Hall; as legislators, they had another chamber.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000002|This other chamber, properly called the House of Lords, was oblong and narrow.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000003|All the light in it came from four windows in deep embrasures, which received their light through the roof, and a bull's eye, composed of six panes with curtains, over the throne.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000004|At night there was no other light than twelve half candelabra, fastened to the wall.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000005|The chamber of Venice was darker still.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000017_000006|A certain obscurity is pleasing to those owls of supreme power.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000000|A high ceiling adorned with many faced relievos and gilded cornices, circled over the chamber where the Lords assembled.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000002|There is a meaning in all monarchical buildings.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000003|At one end of the long chamber of the Lords was the door; at the other, opposite to it, the throne.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000004|A few paces from the door, the bar, a transverse barrier, and a sort of frontier, marked the spot where the people ended and the peerage began.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000006|The throne was approached by three steps.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000007|It was called the royal chair.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000008|On the two walls, opposite each other, were displayed in successive pictures, on a huge piece of tapestry given to the Lords by Elizabeth, the adventures of the Armada, from the time of its leaving Spain until it was wrecked on the coasts of Great Britain.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000018_000009|The great hulls of the ships were embroidered with threads of gold and silver, which had become blackened by time.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000019_000000|On the highest bench to the right of the throne sat the two archbishops of Canterbury and York; on the middle bench three bishops, London, Durham, and Winchester, and the other bishops on the lowest bench.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000019_000002|Plenty of fleurs de lis everywhere, and the great escutcheon of England over the four walls, above the peers, as well as above the king.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000020_000000|The sons of peers and the heirs to peerages assisted at the debates, standing behind the throne, between the dais and the wall.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000020_000001|A large square space was left vacant between the tiers of benches placed along three sides of the chamber and the throne.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000021_000000|In the middle of the space was a large covered table, heaped with bundles of papers, registers, and summonses, with magnificent inkstands of chased silver, and with high candlesticks at the four corners.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000022_000000|The peers took their seats in chronological order, each according to the date of the creation of his peerage.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000022_000001|They ranked according to their titles, and within their grade of nobility according to seniority.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000022_000002|At the bar stood the Usher of the Black Rod, his wand in his hand.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000022_000004|Near the Crier stood the Serjeant Mace Bearer of the Chancellor.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000023_000000|In royal ceremonies the temporal peers wore coronets on their heads, and the spiritual peers, mitres.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000024_000000|It is to be remarked, as a coincidence at once strange and instructive, that this square formed by the throne, the bishops, and the barons, with kneeling magistrates within it, was in form similar to the ancient parliament in France under the two first dynasties.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000024_000001|The aspect of authority was the same in France as in England.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000024_000003|Strange, indeed! a description given nine hundred years before the existence of the thing described.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000025_000000|But what is history?
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000026_000000|The assembly of Parliament was obligatory only once in every seven years.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000027_000000|The Lords deliberated in secret, with closed doors.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000027_000001|The debates of the Commons were public.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000027_000002|Publicity entails diminution of dignity.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000028_000000|The number of the Lords was unlimited.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000028_000001|To create Lords was the menace of royalty; a means of government.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000001|It has increased still further since that period.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000002|To dilute the aristocracy is politic.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000003|Elizabeth most probably erred in condensing the peerage into sixty five lords.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000004|The less numerous, the more intense is a peerage.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000005|In assemblies, the more numerous the members, the fewer the heads.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000006|james the second. understood this when he increased the Upper House to a hundred and eighty eight lords; a hundred and eighty six if we subtract from the peerages the two duchies of royal favourites, Portsmouth and Cleveland.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000009|Winchester, termed first and sole marquis of England, as Astorga was termed sole Marquis of Spain, was absent, being a Jacobite; so that there were only five marquises, of whom the premier was Lindsay, and the junior Lothian; seventy nine earls, of whom Derby was premier and Islay junior; nine viscounts, of whom Hereford was premier and Lonsdale junior; and sixty two barons, of whom Abergavenny was premier and Hervey junior.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000012|Bacon and Jeffreys! both names overshadowed, though by different crimes.
train-other-500/2909/34661/2909_34661_000029_000014|Amongst the bishops some were peers of high rank, such as William Talbot, Bishop of Oxford, who was head of the Protestant branch of that family.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000002_000000|All at once a bright light broke upon the House.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000002_000001|Four doorkeepers brought and placed on each side of the throne four high candelabra filled with wax lights.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000002_000002|The throne, thus illuminated, shone in a kind of purple light.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000002_000003|It was empty but august.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000003_000000|The Usher of the Black Rod entered with his wand and announced,--
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000004_000000|"The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty."
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000005_000000|The hum of conversation immediately subsided.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000007_000000|These were the Royal Commissioners.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000007_000001|The first was the Lord High Treasurer of England, Godolphin; the second, the Lord President of the Council, Pembroke; the third, the Lord of the Privy Seal, Newcastle.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000009_000000|They reached the bench in front of the throne, to which they bowed, took off and replaced their hats, and sat down on the bench.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000011_000000|"Order the Commons to the bar of the House."
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000012_000000|The Usher of the Black Rod retired.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000014_000000|Then there came an interruption, which continued for some minutes.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000015_000000|Two doorkeepers placed before the bar a stool with three steps.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000018_000000|"The faithful Commons of England."
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000019_000000|It was the Usher of the Black Rod announcing the other half of Parliament.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000020_000000|The lords put on their hats.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000022_000000|They stopped at the bar.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000022_000001|They were in their ordinary garb; for the most part dressed in black, and wearing swords.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000022_000003|The Speaker of the Commons wore a robe of black satin, with large hanging sleeves, embroidered before and behind with brandenburgs of gold, and a wig smaller than that of the Lord Chancellor.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000022_000004|He was majestic, but inferior.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000023_000000|The Commons, both Speaker and members, stood waiting with uncovered heads, before the peers, who were seated, with their hats on.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000024_000000|Amongst the members of Commons might have been remarked the Chief Justice of Chester, Joseph Jekyll; the Queen's three Serjeants at Law-Hooper, Powys, and Parker; james Montagu, Solicitor General; and the Attorney General, Simon Harcourt.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000025_000000|When the noise made by the trampling of feet had ceased, the Crier of the Black Rod, standing by the door, exclaimed:--
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000026_000000|"Oyez!"
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000027_000000|The Clerk of the Crown arose.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000027_000001|He took, unfolded, and read the first of the documents on the cushion.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000027_000002|It was a message from the Queen, naming three commissioners to represent her in Parliament, with power to sanction the bills.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000028_000000|"To wit-"
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000029_000000|Here the Clerk raised his voice.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000030_000000|"Sidney Earl Godolphin."
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000031_000000|The Clerk bowed to Lord Godolphin.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000031_000001|Lord Godolphin raised his hat.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000032_000000|The Clerk continued,--
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000033_000000|"Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery."
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000034_000000|The Clerk bowed to Lord Pembroke.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000035_000000|The Clerk resumed,--
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000037_000000|The Duke of Newcastle nodded.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000038_000000|The Clerk of the Crown resumed his seat.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000039_000000|The Clerk of the Parliaments arose.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000039_000001|His under clerk, who had been on his knees behind him, got up also.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000039_000002|Both turned their faces to the throne, and their backs to the Commons.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000041_000000|The Clerk of the Parliaments read the first bill.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000042_000000|It was a bill passed by the Commons, charging the country with the costs of the improvements made by the Queen to her residence at Hampton Court, amounting to a million sterling.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000043_000000|The reading over, the Clerk bowed low to the throne.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000043_000001|The under clerk bowed lower still; then, half turning his head towards the Commons, he said,--
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000045_000000|The Clerk read the second bill.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000046_000000|It was a law condemning to imprisonment and fine whosoever withdrew himself from the service of the trainbands.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000046_000001|The trainbands were a militia, recruited from the middle and lower classes, serving gratis, which in Elizabeth's reign furnished, on the approach of the Armada, one hundred and eighty five thousand foot soldiers and forty thousand horse.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000047_000000|The two clerks made a fresh bow to the throne, after which the under clerk, again half turning his face to the Commons, said,--
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000049_000002|Finally, the bill, declaring the sums already levied for the current year insufficient, concluded by decreeing a poll tax on each subject throughout the kingdom of four shillings per head, adding that a double tax would be levied on every one who did not take the fresh oath to Government.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000049_000003|The fifth bill forbade the admission into the hospital of any sick person who on entering did not deposit a pound sterling to pay for his funeral, in case of death.
train-other-500/2909/34664/2909_34664_000051_000000|This terminated the royal sitting.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000002_000003|Still, with him, in the actual result, they become subordinate, as it is their tendency to do in real life, to the characters they help to form.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000003_000001|"What good company!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000003_000002|What pleasure they took in high things!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000003_000003|How much more worthy they were than the people who live now!"--What good company!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000005_000000|The accomplished Bernard, with many graces of person, by his own confession, takes nothing seriously.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000005_000002|Since that moment, however, a gaiety, serene and imperturbable, has been the mainstay of his happily constituted character.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000005_000006|"This piquant episode of my life," he writes, "seems to me to be really deserving of study; to be worth etching off, day by day, by an observer well informed on the subject."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000006_000003|In oblique paths he finds himself ill at ease.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000007_000000|In truth, Bernard has merits which he ignores, at least in this first part of his journal: merits which are necessary to explain the influence he is able to exercise from the first over such a character as Mademoiselle de Courteheuse.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000007_000001|His charm, in fact, is in the union of that gay and apparently wanton nature with a genuine power of appreciating devotion in others, which becomes devotion in himself. With all the much cherished elegance and worldly glitter of his personality, he is capable of apprehending, of understanding and being touched by the presence of great matters.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000007_000003|In proportion to his immense worldly strength is his capacity for the immense pity which breaks his heart.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000009_000000|One day she took me to see the library, rich in works of the seventeenth century and in memoirs relating to that time.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000009_000001|I remarked there also a curious collection of engravings of the same period. "Your father," I observed, "had a strong predilection for the age of Louis the Fourteenth."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000010_000000|"My father lived in that age," she answered gravely.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000010_000001|And as I looked at her with surprise, and a little embarrassed, she added, "He made me live there too, in his company."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000000|She was half a minute collecting her thoughts: then, speaking with an expansion of manner not habitual with her, hesitating, and blushing deeply, whenever she was about to utter a word that might seem a shade too serious for lips so youthful:--"My father," she proceeded, "died of the consequences of a wound he had received at Patay.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000001|That may show you that he loved his country, but he was no lover of his own age.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000003|He had a horror of disorder; and he saw it everywhere.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000005|More and more also he loved to make the moral discipline and the literary tastes of that favourite age prevail in his own household.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000009|Our old silvan tapestries, similarly, are of that age.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000010|You see too that all our furniture, from presses and sideboards, down to our little tables and our arm chairs, is in the severest style of Louis the Fourteenth.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000011|My father did not appreciate the dainty research of our modern luxury.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000012|He maintained that our excessive care for the comforts of life weakened mind as well as body.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000012_000013|That," added the girl with a laugh,--"that is why you find your chair so hard when you come to see us."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000013_000000|Then, with resumed gravity-"It was thus that my father endeavoured, by the very aspect and arrangement of outward things, to promote in himself the imaginary presence of the epoch in which his thoughts delighted.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000013_000002|In common we indulged our enthusiasm for those days of faith; of the quiet life; its blissful hours of leisure well secured; for the French language in its beauty and purity; the delicate, the noble urbanity, which was then the honour and the special mark of our country, but has ceased to be so."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000014_000000|She paused, with a little confusion, as I thought, at the warmth of her last words.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000016_000001|What good company!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000016_000002|What pleasure they took in high things!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000016_000003|How much more worthy they were than the people who live now!" I tried to calm a little this retrospective enthusiasm, so much to the prejudice of my contemporaries and of myself.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000016_000005|But then, need one say that that society, so regular, so choice in appearance, had, like our own, below the surface, its troubles, its disorders?
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000016_000007|I can't tell exactly which of them you may or may not have read, and so I feel a certain difficulty in speaking."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000017_000004|I am not usually so very talkative.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000018_000000|We pass over the many little dramatic intrigues and misunderstandings, with the more or less adroit interferences of the uncle, which raise and lower alternately Bernard's hopes.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000019_000001|His speech and gesture are animated, and, at times, as if carried away.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000019_000002|He adopts frequently a sort of furious manner which on a sudden melts into the smile of an honest man.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000019_000004|As he becomes calm he has an imposing way of gently resettling himself in his sacerdotal dignity.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000000|"Monseigneur!" I said, "I come to you (you understand me?) as to my last resource.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000002|I am an unbeliever: you are an apostle!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000003|And yet, Monseigneur, it is often at the hands of saintly priests, such as yourself, that the guilty find most indulgence.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000004|And then, I am not indeed guilty: I have but wandered.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000006|I know people often say, a man denies God when by his own conduct he has brought himself into a condition in which he may well desire that God does not exist.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000008|For myself, Monseigneur, I have consulted my conscience with an entire sincerity; and although my youth has been amiss, I am certain that my atheism proceeds from no sentiment of personal interest.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000010|In spite of appearances, I am not so light a spirit as people think.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000012|Believe me!--a man may love sport, his club, his worldly habits, and yet have his hours of thought, of self recollection.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000013|Do you suppose that in those hours one does not feel the frightful discomfort of an existence with no moral basis, without principles, with no outlook beyond this world?
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000014|And yet, what can one do?
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000015|You would tell me forthwith, in the goodness, the compassion, which I read in your eyes; Confide to me your objections to religion, and I will try to solve them.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000021_000017|Such has been my experience, and that of many others; and it has been as involuntary as it is irreparable."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000023_000000|"Monseigneur!"
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000024_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000024_000002|Personally, I claim to be neither one nor the other."
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000025_000001|Need I say that I did not come here to give you offence?"
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000026_000000|"Doubtless!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000026_000001|doubtless!
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000026_000003|Is it therefore any the less certain that the union of a fervent believer, such as my niece, with a man like yourself would be a moral disorder of which the consequences might be disastrous?
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000028_000000|"Monseigneur," I answered, after a moment's embarrassment, "you know as well as, and better than I, the condition of the world, and of our country, at this time.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000028_000002|And permit me to tell you my whole mind.
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000029_000000|"What, Monsieur?"
train-other-500/2909/81524/2909_81524_000030_000000|"A hypocrite, Monseigneur!
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000001_000001|A line of doors flew open and a lot of men stepped out headlong.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000001_000002|They had high hats, healthy pale faces, dark overcoats and shiny boots; they held in their gloved hands thin umbrellas and hastily folded evening papers that resembled stiff, dirty rags of greenish, pinkish, or whitish colour.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000001_000003|Alvan Hervey stepped out with the rest, a smouldering cigar between his teeth.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000001_000004|A disregarded little woman in rusty black, with both arms full of parcels, ran along in distress, bolted suddenly into a third class compartment and the train went on.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000001_000006|No one spared him a glance.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000002_000000|Alvan Hervey passed through the ticket gate.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000003_000001|Alvan Hervey hesitated, standing alone in the doorway for a moment; then decided to walk home.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000004_000000|He strode firmly.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000004_000001|A misty rain settled like silvery dust on clothes, on moustaches; wetted the faces, varnished the flagstones, darkened the walls, dripped from umbrellas.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000004_000003|He was tall, well set-up, good looking and healthy; and his clear pale face had under its commonplace refinement that slight tinge of overbearing brutality which is given by the possession of only partly difficult accomplishments; by excelling in games, or in the art of making money; by the easy mastery over animals and over needy men.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000000|He was going home much earlier than usual, straight from the City and without calling at his club.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000001|He considered himself well connected, well educated and intelligent.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000002|Who doesn't?
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000003|But his connections, education and intelligence were strictly on a par with those of the men with whom he did business or amused himself.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000004|He had married five years ago.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000005|At the time all his acquaintances had said he was very much in love; and he had said so himself, frankly, because it is very well understood that every man falls in love once in his life-unless his wife dies, when it may be quite praiseworthy to fall in love again.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000006|The girl was healthy, tall, fair, and in his opinion was well connected, well educated and intelligent.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000007|She was also intensely bored with her home where, as if packed in a tight box, her individuality-of which she was very conscious-had no play.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000009|He surrendered quickly to all those charms, and she appeared to him so unquestionably of the right sort that he did not hesitate for a moment to declare himself in love. Under the cover of that sacred and poetical fiction he desired her masterfully, for various reasons; but principally for the satisfaction of having his own way.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000010|He was very dull and solemn about it-for no earthly reason, unless to conceal his feelings-which is an eminently proper thing to do.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000005_000011|Nobody, however, would have been shocked had he neglected that duty, for the feeling he experienced really was a longing-a longing stronger and a little more complex no doubt, but no more reprehensible in its nature than a hungry man's appetite for his dinner.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000000|After their marriage they busied themselves, with marked success, in enlarging the circle of their acquaintance.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000001|Thirty people knew them by sight; twenty more with smiling demonstrations tolerated their occasional presence within hospitable thresholds; at least fifty others became aware of their existence.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000002|They moved in their enlarged world amongst perfectly delightful men and women who feared emotion, enthusiasm, or failure, more than fire, war, or mortal disease; who tolerated only the commonest formulas of commonest thoughts, and recognized only profitable facts.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000003|It was an extremely charming sphere, the abode of all the virtues, where nothing is realized and where all joys and sorrows are cautiously toned down into pleasures and annoyances.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000004|In that serene region, then, where noble sentiments are cultivated in sufficient profusion to conceal the pitiless materialism of thoughts and aspirations Alvan Hervey and his wife spent five years of prudent bliss unclouded by any doubt as to the moral propriety of their existence.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000005|She, to give her individuality fair play, took up all manner of philanthropic work and became a member of various rescuing and reforming societies patronized or presided over by ladies of title.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000006|He took an active interest in politics; and having met quite by chance a literary man-who nevertheless was related to an earl-he was induced to finance a moribund society paper.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000006_000008|Afterwards, when it paid, he promptly perceived that upon the whole it was a virtuous undertaking. It paved the way of his ambition; and he enjoyed also the special kind of importance he derived from this connection with what he imagined to be literature.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000000|This connection still further enlarged their world.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000001|Men who wrote or drew prettily for the public came at times to their house, and his editor came very often.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000002|He thought him rather an ass because he had such big front teeth (the proper thing is to have small, even teeth) and wore his hair a trifle longer than most men do.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000003|However, some dukes wear their hair long, and the fellow indubitably knew his business.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000005|His forehead was too lofty-unusually so-and under it there was a straight nose, lost between the hairless cheeks, that in a smooth curve ran into a chin shaped like the end of a snow shoe.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000007|He wrote verses too.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000008|Rather an ass.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000009|But the band of men who trailed at the skirts of his monumental frock coat seemed to perceive wonderful things in what he said.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000012|She received her mixed and decorous guests with a kind of tall, ponderous grace, peculiarly her own and which awakened in the mind of intimidated strangers incongruous and improper reminiscences of an elephant, a giraffe, a gazelle; of a gothic tower-of an overgrown angel.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000007_000013|Her Thursdays were becoming famous in their world; and their world grew steadily, annexing street after street.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000008_000000|Thus Alvan Hervey and his wife for five prosperous years lived by the side of one another.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000008_000001|In time they came to know each other sufficiently well for all the practical purposes of such an existence, but they were no more capable of real intimacy than two animals feeding at the same manger, under the same roof, in a luxurious stable.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000008_000002|His longing was appeased and became a habit; and she had her desire-the desire to get away from under the paternal roof, to assert her individuality, to move in her own set (so much smarter than the parental one); to have a home of her own, and her own share of the world's respect, envy, and applause.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000008_000003|They understood each other warily, tacitly, like a pair of cautious conspirators in a profitable plot; because they were both unable to look at a fact, a sentiment, a principle, or a belief otherwise than in the light of their own dignity, of their own glorification, of their own advantage.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000008_000004|They skimmed over the surface of life hand in hand, in a pure and frosty atmosphere-like two skilful skaters cutting figures on thick ice for the admiration of the beholders, and disdainfully ignoring the hidden stream, the stream restless and dark; the stream of life, profound and unfrozen.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000009_000001|A parlour maid opened.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000009_000002|A fad of his wife's, this, to have only women servants.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000009_000003|That girl, while she took his hat and overcoat, said something which made him look at his watch.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000009_000004|It was five o'clock, and his wife not at home.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000009_000005|There was nothing unusual in that.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000009_000006|He said, "No; no tea," and went upstairs.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000000|He ascended without footfalls.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000001|Brass rods glimmered all up the red carpet.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000002|On the first floor landing a marble woman, decently covered from neck to instep with stone draperies, advanced a row of lifeless toes to the edge of the pedestal, and thrust out blindly a rigid white arm holding a cluster of lights.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000003|He had artistic tastes-at home.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000004|Heavy curtains caught back, half concealed dark corners.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000006|His tastes were distinctly artistic.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000007|Old church towers peeped above green masses of foliage; the hills were purple, the sands yellow, the seas sunny, the skies blue.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000008|A young lady sprawled with dreamy eyes in a moored boat, in company of a lunch basket, a champagne bottle, and an enamoured man in a blazer.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000010_000009|Bare legged boys flirted sweetly with ragged maidens, slept on stone steps, gambolled with dogs.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000011_000000|He looked, of course, at nothing, ascended another flight of stairs and went straight into the dressing room.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000011_000003|And like real people who are slaves of common thoughts, that are not even their own, they affected a shadowy independence by the superficial variety of their movements.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000011_000004|They moved together with him; but they either advanced to meet him, or walked away from him; they appeared, disappeared; they seemed to dodge behind walnut furniture, to be seen again, far within the polished panes, stepping about distinct and unreal in the convincing illusion of a room.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000011_000005|And like the men he respected they could be trusted to do nothing individual, original, or startling-nothing unforeseen and nothing improper.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000012_000001|It was such an unusual thing to be seen there that he spun round almost before he realized his surprise; and all the sham men about him pivoted on their heels; all appeared surprised; and all moved rapidly towards envelopes on dressing tables.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000013_000003|He tore the envelope open, glanced at the letter, and sat down in a chair near by.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000014_000002|And suddenly he dropped the letter as though it had been something hot, or venomous, or filthy; and rushing to the window with the unreflecting precipitation of a man anxious to raise an alarm of fire or murder, he threw it up and put his head out.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000000|A chill gust of wind, wandering through the damp and sooty obscurity over the waste of roofs and chimney pots, touched his face with a clammy flick.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000001|He saw an illimitable darkness, in which stood a black jumble of walls, and, between them, the many rows of gaslights stretched far away in long lines, like strung up beads of fire.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000002|A sinister loom as of a hidden conflagration lit up faintly from below the mist, falling upon a billowy and motionless sea of tiles and bricks.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000003|At the rattle of the opened window the world seemed to leap out of the night and confront him, while floating up to his ears there came a sound vast and faint; the deep mutter of something immense and alive.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000005|From the cab stand in the square came distinct hoarse voices and a jeering laugh which sounded ominously harsh and cruel.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000006|It sounded threatening.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000015_000007|He drew his head in, as if before an aimed blow, and flung the window down quickly.
train-other-500/2919/7269/2919_7269_000016_000001|But he was unwilling to hear his own voice-to hear any sound whatever-owing to a vague belief, shaping itself slowly within him, that solitude and silence are the greatest felicities of mankind.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000004_000002|Looking down between the toes of his boots he seemed to listen thoughtfully to the receding wave of sound; to the wave spreading out in a widening circle, embracing streets, roofs, church steeples, fields-and travelling away, widening endlessly, far, very far, where he could not hear-where he could not imagine anything-where . . .
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000005_000001|Nothing else.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000005_000002|He could derive no moral solace from any aspect of the situation, which radiated pain only on every side.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000005_000003|Pain.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000005_000004|What kind of pain?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000005_000005|It occurred to him that he ought to be heart broken; but in an exceedingly short moment he perceived that his suffering was nothing of so trifling and dignified a kind.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000005_000006|It was altogether a more serious matter, and partook rather of the nature of those subtle and cruel feelings which are awakened by a kick or a horse whipping.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000006_000000|He felt very sick-physically sick-as though he had bitten through something nauseous.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000006_000001|Life, that to a well ordered mind should be a matter of congratulation, appeared to him, for a second or so, perfectly intolerable.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000006_000002|He picked up the paper at his feet, and sat down with the wish to think it out, to understand why his wife-his wife!--should leave him, should throw away respect, comfort, peace, decency, position throw away everything for nothing!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000006_000003|He set himself to think out the hidden logic of her action-a mental undertaking fit for the leisure hours of a madhouse, though he couldn't see it.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000006_000004|And he thought of his wife in every relation except the only fundamental one.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000007_000000|Then a fresh wave, a raging wave of humiliation, swept through his mind, and left nothing there but a personal sense of undeserved abasement.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000007_000001|Why should he be mixed up with such a horrid exposure!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000007_000003|Its failure was disclosed-a distinct failure, on his part, to see, to guard, to understand.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000007_000004|It could not be denied; it could not be explained away, hustled out of sight.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000007_000005|He could not sit on it and look solemn.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000007_000006|Now-if she had only died!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000000|If she had only died!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000002|No one would have cared.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000003|He sought comfort in clinging to the contemplation of the only fact of life that the resolute efforts of mankind had never failed to disguise in the clatter and glamour of phrases.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000004|And nothing lends itself more to lies than death. If she had only died!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000005|Certain words would have been said to him in a sad tone, and he, with proper fortitude, would have made appropriate answers.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000006|There were precedents for such an occasion.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000007|And no one would have cared.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000008|If she had only died!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000010|And life was his concern: that sane and gratifying existence untroubled by too much love or by too much regret.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000011|She had interfered with it; she had defaced it. And suddenly it occurred to him he must have been mad to marry.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000012|It was too much in the nature of giving yourself away, of wearing-if for a moment-your heart on your sleeve.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000013|But every one married.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000008_000014|Was all mankind mad!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000001|It was not to be borne.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000002|He rose quickly, and the others jumped up, too, on all sides.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000003|He stood still in the middle of the room as if discouraged by their vigilance.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000004|No escape! He felt something akin to despair.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000005|Everybody must know.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000006|The servants must know to night.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000007|He ground his teeth . . .
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000008|And he had never noticed, never guessed anything.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000009|Every one will know.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000010|He thought: "The woman's a monster, but everybody will think me a fool"; and standing still in the midst of severe walnut wood furniture, he felt such a tempest of anguish within him that he seemed to see himself rolling on the carpet, beating his head against the wall.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000011|He was disgusted with himself, with the loathsome rush of emotion breaking through all the reserves that guarded his manhood.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000012|Something unknown, withering and poisonous, had entered his life, passed near him, touched him, and he was deteriorating.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000013|He was appalled.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000014|What was it?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000015|She was gone.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000016|Why?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000018|Why?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000019|Only a woman gone, after all; and yet he had a vision, a vision quick and distinct as a dream: the vision of everything he had thought indestructible and safe in the world crashing down about him, like solid walls do before the fierce breath of a hurricane.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000020|He stared, shaking in every limb, while he felt the destructive breath, the mysterious breath, the breath of passion, stir the profound peace of the house.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000023|And it had come to him!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000024|It had laid its unclean hand upon the spotless draperies of his existence, and he had to face it alone with all the world looking on.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000009_000025|All the world!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000010_000002|And he knew instinctively that truth would be of no use to him.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000010_000003|Some kind of concealment seemed a necessity because one cannot explain.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000010_000004|Of course not!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000010_000005|Who would listen? One had simply to be without stain and without reproach to keep one's place in the forefront of life.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000000|He said to himself, "I must get over it the best I can," and began to walk up and down the room.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000001|What next?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000002|What ought to be done?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000003|He thought: "I will travel-no I won't.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000005|He argued to himself that decent people-and he knew no others-did not care to talk about such indelicate affairs.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000006|She had gone off-with that unhealthy, fat ass of a journalist.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000007|Why?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000008|He had been all a husband ought to be.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000009|He had given her a good position-she shared his prospects-he had treated her invariably with great consideration.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000010|He reviewed his conduct with a kind of dismal pride.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000011|It had been irreproachable.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000012|Then, why?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000013|For love?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000014|Profanation! There could be no love there.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000015|A shameful impulse of passion.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000016|Yes, passion.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000017|His own wife!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000018|Good God! . . .
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000021|Anything!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000022|Brutality . . .
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000023|But he gave it up directly, and began to think of the Divorce Court.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000024|It did not present itself to him, notwithstanding his respect for law and usage, as a proper refuge for dignified grief.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000025|It appeared rather as an unclean and sinister cavern where men and women are haled by adverse fate to writhe ridiculously in the presence of uncompromising truth.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000026|It should not be allowed.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000027|That woman!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000028|Five . . . years . . . married five years . . . and never to see anything.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000030|Blind! . . .
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000031|Not at all.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000032|Could a clean minded man imagine such depravity?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000033|Evidently not.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000034|He drew a free breath.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000036|He yearned unaffectedly to see morality (in his person) triumphant before the world.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000037|As to her she would be forgotten.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000038|Let her be forgotten-buried in oblivion-lost!
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000039|No one would allude . . .
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000040|Refined people-and every man and woman he knew could be so described-had, of course, a horror of such topics.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000041|Had they?
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000042|Oh, yes.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000043|No one would allude to her . . . in his hearing.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000044|He stamped his foot, tore the letter across, then again and again.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000045|The thought of sympathizing friends excited in him a fury of mistrust.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000046|He flung down the small bits of paper.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000011_000047|They settled, fluttering at his feet, and looked very white on the dark carpet, like a scattered handful of snow flakes.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000002|A dark curtain seemed to rise before him, and for less than a second he looked upon the mysterious universe of moral suffering.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000003|As a landscape is seen complete, and vast, and vivid, under a flash of lightning, so he could see disclosed in a moment all the immensity of pain that can be contained in one short moment of human thought.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000004|Then the curtain fell again, but his rapid vision left in Alvan Hervey's mind a trail of invincible sadness, a sense of loss and bitter solitude, as though he had been robbed and exiled.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000006|He was a simple human being removed from the delightful world of crescents and squares.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000007|He stood alone, naked and afraid, like the first man on the first day of evil.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000008|There are in life events, contacts, glimpses, that seem brutally to bring all the past to a close.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000009|There is a shock and a crash, as of a gate flung to behind one by the perfidious hand of fate.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000012_000010|Go and seek another paradise, fool or sage.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000000|He came to himself with a slight start, and became aware of an oppressive, crushing desolation.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000001|It was only a feeling, it is true, but it produced on him a physical effect, as though his chest had been squeezed in a vice.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000002|He perceived himself so extremely forlorn and lamentable, and was moved so deeply by the oppressive sorrow, that another turn of the screw, he felt, would bring tears out of his eyes. He was deteriorating.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000003|Five years of life in common had appeased his longing.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000004|Yes, long-time ago.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000006|She had a pure brow and good hair.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000007|How utterly wretched all this was.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000009|He was surprised by the number of details that intruded upon his unwilling memory.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000010|He could not help remembering her footsteps, the rustle of her dress, her way of holding her head, her decisive manner of saying "Alvan," the quiver of her nostrils when she was annoyed.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000012|He raged in a mournful, silent way, as he took stock of his losses.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000013|He was like a man counting the cost of an unlucky speculation-irritated, depressed-exasperated with himself and with others, with the fortunate, with the indifferent, with the callous; yet the wrong done him appeared so cruel that he would perhaps have dropped a tear over that spoliation if it had not been for his conviction that men do not weep.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000014|Foreigners do; they also kill sometimes in such circumstances.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000015|And to his horror he felt himself driven to regret almost that the usages of a society ready to forgive the shooting of a burglar forbade him, under the circumstances, even as much as a thought of murder.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000016|Nevertheless, he clenched his fists and set his teeth hard. And he was afraid at the same time.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000017|He was afraid with that penetrating faltering fear that seems, in the very middle of a beat, to turn one's heart into a handful of dust.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000019|She was a monster-he himself was thinking monstrous thoughts . . . and yet he was like other people.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000020|How many men and women at this very moment were plunged in abominations-meditated crimes.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000021|It was frightful to think of.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000022|He remembered all the streets-the well to do streets he had passed on his way home; all the innumerable houses with closed doors and curtained windows.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000025|Surely he was not the only man; his was not the only house . . . and yet no one knew-no one guessed.
train-other-500/2919/7270/2919_7270_000013_000026|But he knew. He knew with unerring certitude that could not be deceived by the correct silence of walls, of closed doors, of curtained windows.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000003_000000|THE THREE MEN OF POWER-EVENING, MIDNIGHT, AND SUNRISE.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000004_000000|Long ago there lived a King, and he had three daughters, the loveliest in all the world.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000004_000001|He loved them so well that he built a palace for them underground, lest the rough winds should blow on them or the red sun scorch their delicate faces.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000004_000002|A wonderful palace it was, down there underground, with fountains and courts, and lamps burning, and precious stones glittering in the light of the lamps.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000004_000003|And the three lovely princesses grew up in that palace underground, and knew no other light but that of the coloured lanterns, and had never seen the broad world that lies open under the sun by day and under the stars by night.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000004_000004|Indeed, they did not know that there was a world outside those glittering walls, above that shining ceiling, carved and gilded and set with precious stones.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000006_000000|And when the King came to see them, as he was used to do, they asked him,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000007_000000|"Father, is it true that there is a garden in the world?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000008_000000|"Yes," said the King.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000009_000000|"And green grass?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000010_000000|"Yes," said the King.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000011_000000|"And little shining flowers?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000012_000000|"Why, yes," said the King, wondering and stroking his silver beard.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000013_000000|And the three lovely princesses all begged him at once,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000014_000000|"Oh, your Majesty, our own little father, whom, we love, let us out to see this world.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000014_000001|Let us out just so that we may see this garden, and walk in it on the green grass, and see the shining flowers."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000015_000000|The King turned his head away and tried not to listen to them.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000015_000001|But what could he do?
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000015_000002|They were the loveliest princesses in the world, and when they begged him just to let them walk in the garden he could see the tears in their eyes.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000015_000003|And after all, he thought, there were high walls to the garden.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000016_000000|So he called up his army, and set soldiers all round the garden, and a hundred soldiers to each gate, so that no one should come in.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000016_000001|And then he let the princesses come up from their underground palace, and step out into the sunshine in the garden, with ten nurses and maids to each princess to see that no harm came to her.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000017_000000|The princesses stepped out into the garden, under the blue sky, shading their eyes at first because they had never before been in the golden sunlight.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000017_000001|Soon they were taking hands, and running this way and that along the garden paths and over the green grass, and gathering posies of shining flowers to set in their girdles and to shame their golden crowns.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000017_000002|And the King sat and watched them with love in his eyes, and was glad to see how happy they were.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000017_000003|And after all, he thought, what with the high walls and the soldiers standing to arms, nothing could get in to hurt them.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000000|But just as he had quieted his old heart a strong whirlwind came down out of the blue sky, tearing up trees and throwing them aside, and lifting the roofs from the houses.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000001|But it did not touch the palace roofs, shining green in the sunlight, and it plucked no trees from the garden.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000002|It raged this way and that, and then with its swift whirling arms it caught up the three lovely princesses, and carried them up into the air, over the high walls and over the heads of the guarding soldiers.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000003|For a moment the King saw them, his daughters, the three lovely princesses, spinning round and round, as if they were dancing in the sky.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000004|A moment later they were no more than little whirling specks, like dust in the sunlight.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000005|And then they were out of sight, and the King and all the maids and nurses were alone in the empty garden.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000006|The noise of the wind had gone.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000019_000007|The soldiers did not dare to speak.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000020_000000|The King called his generals, and made them send the soldiers in all directions over the country to bring back the princesses, if the whirlwind should tire and set them again upon the ground.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000020_000001|The soldiers went to the very boundaries of the kingdom, but they came back as they went.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000021_000000|Then the King called together all his faithful servants, and promised a great reward to any one who should bring news of the three princesses.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000021_000002|Slowly, one by one, they rode back, with bent heads, on tired horses.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000021_000003|Not one of them had seen the King's daughters.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000022_000000|Then the King called a grand council of his wise boyars and men of state.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000022_000001|They all sat round and listened as the King told his tale and asked if one of them would not undertake the task of finding and rescuing the three princesses.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000022_000003|But the boyars and the wise men of state sat round in silence.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000022_000004|He asked them one by one.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000022_000005|They were all silent and afraid.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000022_000006|For they were boyars and wise men of state, and not one of them would undertake to follow the whirlwind and rescue the three princesses.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000023_000000|The King wept bitter tears.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000024_000000|"I see," he said, "I have no friends about me in the palace.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000024_000001|My soldiers cannot, my servants cannot, and my boyars and wise men will not, bring back my three sweet maids, whom I love better than my kingdom."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000026_000002|For this reason they were called Evening, Midnight, and Sunrise. Evening was dusky, with brown eyes and hair; Midnight was dark, with eyes and hair as black as charcoal; while Sunrise had hair golden as the sun, and eyes blue as morning sky.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000027_000000|As soon as the King's word had been proclaimed in the village, the three brothers asked for their mother's blessing, which she gave them, kissing them on the forehead and on both cheeks.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000027_000001|Then they made ready for the journey and rode off to the capital-Evening on his horse of dusky brown, Midnight on his black horse, and Sunrise on his horse that was as white as clouds in summer.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000027_000002|They came to the capital, and as they rode through the streets everybody stopped to look at them, and all the pretty young women waved handkerchiefs at the windows.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000027_000003|But the three brothers looked neither to right nor left but straight before them, and they rode to the palace of the King.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000028_000000|They came to the King, bowed low before him, and said,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000029_000000|"May you live for many years, O King.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000029_000001|We have come to you not for feasting but for service.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000029_000002|Let us, O King, ride out to rescue your three princesses."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000030_000000|"God give you success, my good young men," says the King.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000030_000001|"What are your names?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000031_000000|"We are three brothers-Evening, Midnight, and Sunrise."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000032_000000|"What will you have to take with you on the road?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000033_000000|"For ourselves, O King, we want nothing.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000033_000001|Only, do not leave our mother in poverty, for she is old."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000035_000000|The young men rode out on their journey.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000035_000001|A month they rode together, two months, and in the third month they came to a broad desert plain, where there were no towns, no villages, no farms, and not a human being to be seen.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000035_000002|They rode on over the sand, through the rank grass, over the stony wastes.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000035_000003|At last, on the other side of that desolate plain, they came to a thick forest.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000035_000004|They found a path through the thick undergrowth, and rode along that path together into the very heart of the forest.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000036_000001|Evening leant from his brown horse and knocked on the window.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000036_000002|There was no answer. They forced open the door, and found no one at all.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000037_000000|"Well, brothers," says Evening, "let us make ourselves at home.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000037_000001|Let us stay here awhile.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000037_000002|We have been riding three months.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000037_000003|Let us rest, and then ride farther.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000037_000004|We shall deal better with our adventure if we come to it as fresh men, and not dusty and weary from the long road."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000038_000000|The others agreed.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000039_000001|Sunrise, said to the eldest brother, Evening,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000040_000000|"Midnight and I are going hunting to day, and you shall rest here, and see what sort of dinner you can give us when we come back."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000041_000000|"Very well," says Evening; "but to morrow I shall go hunting, and one of you shall stay here and cook the dinner."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000042_000000|Nobody made bones about that, and so Evening stood at the door of the hut while the others rode off-Midnight on his black horse, and Sunrise on his horse, white as a summer cloud.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000042_000001|They rode off into the forest, and disappeared among the green trees.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000043_000000|Evening watched them out of sight, and then, without thinking twice about what he was doing, went out into the yard, picked out the finest sheep he could see, caught it, killed it, skinned it, cleaned it, and set it in a cauldron on the stove so as to be ready and hot whenever his brothers should come riding back from the forest.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000043_000001|As soon as that was done, Evening lay down on the broad bench to rest himself.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000044_000002|The little man screamed out,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000045_000000|"What are you chuckling about?
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000045_000001|How dare you play the master in my house?
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000045_000002|How dare you kill my best sheep?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000046_000000|Evening answered him, laughing,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000048_000000|The little man was angry before, but now he was angrier.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000049_000000|"What?" he screamed.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000049_000001|"I am little, am I? Well, see what little does!"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000050_000002|Then, when he was tired, he threw Evening under the bench, took the sheep out of the cauldron, gobbled it up in a few mouthfuls, and, when he had done, went off again into the forest.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000052_000000|When Evening came to his senses again, he bound up his head with a dishcloth, and lay on the ground and groaned.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000053_000000|Midnight and Sunrise rode back, on the black horse and the white, and came to the hut, where they found their brother groaning on the ground, unable to see out of his eyes, and with a dishcloth round his head.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000054_000000|"What are you tied up like that for?" they asked; "and where is our dinner?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000055_000000|Evening was ashamed to tell them the truth-how he had been thumped about with a crust of bread by a little fellow only a yard high.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000055_000001|He moaned and said,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000056_000000|"O my brothers, I made a fire in the stove, and fell ill from the great heat in this little hut.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000056_000001|My head ached.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000056_000003|I thought my head would burst with the heat, and my brains fly beyond the seventh world."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000057_000000|Next day Sunrise went hunting with Evening, whose head was still bound up in a dishcloth, and hurting so sorely that he could hardly see. Midnight stayed at home.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000057_000001|It was his turn to see to the dinner.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000057_000002|Sunrise rode out on his cloud white horse, and Evening on his dusky brown. Midnight stood in the doorway of the hut, watched them disappear among the green trees, and then set about getting the dinner.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000058_000000|He lit the fire, but was careful not to make it too hot.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000058_000001|Then he went into the yard, caught the very fattest of the sheep, killed it, skinned it, cleaned it, cut it up, and set it on the stove.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000058_000002|Then, when all was ready, he lay down on the bench and rested himself.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000060_000000|Midnight tied up his head with a handkerchief, and lay down under the bench, groaning and groaning, unable to put his head to the ground, or even to lay it in the crook of his arm, it was so bruised by the beating given it by the little old man.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000061_000000|In the evening the brothers rode back, and found Midnight groaning under the bench, with his head bound up in a handkerchief.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000062_000000|Evening looked at him and said nothing.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000062_000001|Perhaps he was thinking of his own bruised head, which was still tied up in a dishcloth.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000063_000000|"What's the matter with you?" says Sunrise.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000064_000000|"There never was such another stove as this," says Midnight.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000064_000001|"I'd no sooner lit it than it seemed as if the whole hut were on fire.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000064_000002|My head nearly burst.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000064_000003|It's aching now; and as for your dinner, why, I've not been able to put a hand to anything all day."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000065_000000|Evening chuckled to himself, but Sunrise only said, "That's bad, brother; but you shall go hunting to morrow, and I'll stay at home, and see what I can do with the stove."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000066_000000|And so on the third day the two elder brothers went hunting-Midnight on his black horse, and Evening on his horse of dusky brown.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000066_000001|Sunrise stood in the doorway of the hut, and saw them disappear under the green trees.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000066_000002|The sun shone on his golden curls, and his blue eyes were like the sky itself.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000066_000003|There, never was such another bogatir as he.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000067_000000|He went into the hut and lit the stove.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000067_000001|Then he went out into the yard, chose the best sheep he could find, killed it, skinned it, cleaned it, cut it up, and set it on the stove.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000067_000002|He made everything ready, and then lay down on the bench.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000000|Before he had lain there very long he heard a stumping, a thumping, a knocking, a rattling, a grumbling, a rumbling.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000001|Sunrise leaped up from the bench and looked out through the window of the hut.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000003|He was carrying a whole haystack on his head and a great tub of water in his arms.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000004|He came into the middle of the yard, and set down his tub to water all the beasts.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000006|All the cattle and the sheep came together to eat and to drink, and the little man stood and counted them.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000008|He counted them twice, and he began to grind his teeth.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000068_000009|He counted them a third time, made sure that one was missing, and then he flew into a violent rage, rushed across the yard and into the hut, and gave Sunrise a terrific blow on the head.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000069_000000|Sunrise shook his head as if a fly had settled on it.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000069_000001|Then he jumped suddenly and caught the end of the long beard of the little old man, and set to pulling him this way and that, round and round the hut, as if his beard was a rope.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000069_000002|Phew! how the little man roared.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000070_000000|Sunrise laughed, and tugged him this way and that, and mocked him, crying out, "If you do not know the ford, it is better not to go into the water," meaning that the little fellow had begun to beat him without finding out who was the stronger.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000071_000000|The little old man, one yard high, with a beard seven yards long, began to pray and to beg,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000072_000000|"O man of power, O great and mighty bogatir, have mercy upon me.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000072_000001|Do not kill me.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000072_000002|Leave me my soul to repent with."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000073_000001|Then with a heavy iron wedge he fixed the end of the little man's beard firmly in the oaken trunk, and, leaving the little man howling and lamenting, went back to the hut, set it in order again, saw that the sheep was cooking as it should, and then lay down in peace to wait for the coming of his brothers.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000074_000001|They could hardly believe their eyes when they saw him alive and well, without a bruise, lying comfortably on the bench.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000075_000000|He sat up and laughed in their faces.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000076_000000|"Well, brothers," says he, "come along with me into the yard, and I think I can show you that headache of yours.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000076_000001|It's a good deal stronger than it is big, but for the time being you need not be afraid of it, for it's fastened to an oak timber that all three of us together could not lift."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000077_000000|He got up and went into the yard.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000077_000001|Evening and Midnight followed him with shamed faces.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000077_000002|But when they came to the oaken timber the little man was not there.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000077_000003|Long ago he had torn himself free and run away into the forest.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000077_000004|But half his beard was left, wedged in the trunk, and Sunrise pointed to that and said,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000078_000000|"Tell me, brothers, was it the heat of the stove that gave you your headaches?
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000078_000001|Or had this long beard something to do with it?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000079_000000|The brothers grew red, and laughed, and told him the whole truth.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000080_000000|Meanwhile Sunrise had been looking at the end of the beard, the end of the half beard that was left, and he saw that it had been torn out by the roots, and that drops of blood from the little man's chin showed the way he had gone.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000081_000000|Quickly the brothers went back to the hut and ate up the sheep.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000082_000000|Sunrise left his brothers to guard the hole, while he went off into the forest and gathered bast, and twisted it, and made a strong rope, and brought it to the mouth of the pit, and asked his brothers to lower him down.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000083_000000|He made a loop in the rope.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000083_000001|His brothers kissed him on both cheeks, and he kissed them back.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000083_000002|Then he sat in the loop, and Evening and Midnight lowered him down into the darkness.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000083_000003|Down and down he went, swinging in the dark, till he came into a world under the world, with a light that was neither that of the sun, nor of the moon, nor of the stars.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000083_000004|He stepped from the loop in the rope of twisted bast, and set out walking through the underworld, going whither his eyes led him, for he found no more drops of blood, nor any other traces of the little old man.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000084_000000|He walked and walked, and came at last to a palace of copper, green and ruddy in the strange light.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000084_000001|He went into that palace, and there came to meet him in the copper halls a maiden whose cheeks were redder than the aloe and whiter than the snow.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000084_000002|She was the youngest daughter of the King, and the loveliest of the three princesses, who were the loveliest in all the world.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000084_000003|Sweetly she curtsied to Sunrise, as he stood there with his golden hair and his eyes blue as the sky at morning, and sweetly she asked him,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000085_000000|"How have you come hither, my brave young man-of your own will or against it?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000087_000000|She bade him sit at the table, and gave him food and brought him a little flask of the water of strength.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000088_000000|"Strong you are," says she, "but not strong enough for what is before you.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000089_000000|Sunrise looked in her sweet eyes, and drank the water of strength in a single draught, and felt gigantic power forcing its way throughout his body.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000090_000000|"Now," thought he, "let come what may."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000091_000000|Instantly a violent wind rushed through the copper palace, and the Princess trembled.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000092_000000|"The snake that holds me here is coming," says she.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000092_000001|"He is flying hither on his strong wings."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000093_000000|She took the great hand of the bogatir in her little fingers, and drew him to another room, and hid him there.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000094_000000|The copper palace rocked in the wind, and there flew into the great hall a huge snake with three heads.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000094_000001|The snake hissed loudly, and called out in a whistling voice,--
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000095_000001|What visitor have you here?"
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000096_000000|"How could any one come here?" said the Princess.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000096_000002|There you smelt Russian souls, and the smell is still in your nostrils, so that you think you smell them here."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000097_000000|"It is true," said the snake: "I have been flying over Russia.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000097_000002|Let me eat and drink, for I am both hungry and thirsty."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000098_000000|All this time Sunrise was watching from the other room.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000099_000000|The Princess brought meat and drink to the snake, and in the drink she put a philtre of sleep.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000100_000000|The snake ate and drank, and began to feel sleepy.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000100_000001|He coiled himself up in rings, laid his three heads in the lap of the Princess, told her to scratch them for him, and dropped into a deep sleep.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000101_000000|The Princess called Sunrise, and the bogatir rushed in, swung his glittering sword three times round his golden head, and cut off all three heads of the snake.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000101_000001|It was like felling three oak trees at a single blow.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000101_000002|Then he made a great fire of wood, and threw upon it the body of the snake, and, when it was burnt up, scattered the ashes over the open country.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000103_000000|"Fare you well," says he.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000103_000001|"I go to seek your sisters.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000103_000002|As soon as I have found them I will come back."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000104_000000|And at that she let him go.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000105_000000|He walked on further through the underworld, and came at last to a palace of silver, gleaming in the strange light.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000106_000000|He went in there, and was met with sweet words and kindness by the second of the three lovely princesses.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000106_000001|In that palace he killed a snake with six heads.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000106_000002|The Princess begged him to stay; but he told her he had yet to find her eldest sister.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000106_000003|At that she wished him the help of God, and he left her, and went on further.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000107_000000|He walked and walked, and came at last to a palace of gold, glittering in the light of the underworld.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000107_000001|All happened as in the other palaces. The eldest of the three daughters of the King met him with courtesy and kindness.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000107_000002|And he killed a snake with twelve heads and freed the Princess from her imprisonment.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000107_000003|The Princess rejoiced, and thanked Sunrise, and set about her packing to go home.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000108_000000|And this was the way of her packing.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000108_000001|She went out into the broad courtyard and waved a scarlet handkerchief, and instantly the whole palace, golden and glittering, and the kingdom belonging to it, became little, little, little, till it went into a little golden egg.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000108_000002|The Princess tied the egg in a corner of her handkerchief, and set out with Sunrise to join her sisters and go home to her father.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000109_000000|Her sisters did their packing in the same way.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000109_000001|The silver palace and its kingdom were packed by the second sister into a little silver egg. And when they came to the copper palace, the youngest of the three lovely princesses clapped her hands and kissed Sunrise on both his cheeks, and waved a scarlet handkerchief, and instantly the copper palace and its kingdom were packed into a little copper egg, shining ruddy and green.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000110_000002|And they sat in the loop, and Evening and Midnight pulled them up one by one, rejoicing together.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000112_000001|Safer they will be if they have you to guard them, even than they were in the palace I had built for them underground.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000112_000002|But I have only one kingdom and three daughters."
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000113_000001|There was a kingdom for each of the brothers.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000113_000003|Great was the feasting, loud were the songs, and the King made Sunrise his heir, so that some day he would wear his crown.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000113_000004|But little did Sunrise think of that.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000113_000005|He thought of nothing but the youngest Princess.
train-other-500/2925/162505/2925_162505_000113_000007|And merrily they lived together in the copper palace.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000008_000002|He overthrew the enemy in several battles, and drove them far back into the depths of the desert.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000008_000003|Nor did he desist from pursuing them, until an apparition, in the form of a barbarian woman, of more than human size, appeared to him, and, in the Latin tongue, forbad him to proceed any farther.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000008_000007|The senate likewise, among various other honours, decreed for him a triumphal arch of marble, with trophies, in the Appian Way, and gave the cognomen of Germanicus to him and his posterity.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000008_000009|He likewise often declared that he would, some time or other, if possible, restore the ancient government.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000008_000010|In this account, I suppose, some have ventured to affirm that Augustus was jealous of him, and recalled him; and because he made no haste to comply with the order, took him off by poison.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000010_000002|But never, with all his endeavours, could he attain to any public post in the government, or afford any hope of arriving at distinction thereafter.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000011_000002|We are both agreed in this, that, once for all, we ought to determine what course to take with him.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000011_000011|Thus, my dear Livia, you have my thoughts upon the matter.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000011_000014|I wish the poor creature was more cautious and attentive in the choice of some one, whose manners, air, and gait might be proper for his imitation:
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000015_000003|When he entered the theatre, they used to rise, and put off their cloaks.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000015_000005|This decree was, however, repealed; Tiberius insisting to have him excused on account of his imbecility, and promising to make good his loss at his own expense.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000017_000005|Sometimes they would put slippers upon his hands; as he lay snoring, that he might, upon awaking, rub his face with them.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000018_000003|Some even say, that he was thrown into a river, in his travelling dress.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000020_000001|Having thus established himself in power, his first object was to abolish all remembrance of the two preceding days, in which a revolution in the state had been canvassed.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000020_000002|Accordingly, he passed an act of perpetual oblivion and pardon for every thing said or done during that time; and this he faithfully observed, with the exception only of putting to death a few tribunes and centurions concerned in the conspiracy against Caius, both as an example, and because he understood that they had also planned his own death.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000020_000008|And though he cancelled all the acts of Caius, yet he forbad the day of his assassination, notwithstanding it was that of his own accession to the empire, to be reckoned amongst the festivals.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000021_000001|But with regard to his own aggrandisement, he was sparing and modest, declining the title of emperor, and refusing all excessive honours.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000021_000004|He asked of the consuls likewise the privilege of holding fairs upon his private estate.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000021_000005|He frequently assisted the magistrates in the trial of causes, as one of their assessors.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000021_000006|And when they gave public spectacles, he would rise up with the rest of the spectators, and salute them both by words and gestures.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000022_000005|For when orders were given them to march, to meet their new emperor, the eagles could not be decorated, nor the standards pulled out of the ground, whether it was by accident, or a divine interposition.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000023_000002|For where persons lost their suits by insisting upon more than appeared to be their due, before the judges of private causes, he granted them the indulgence of a second trial.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000023_000003|And with regard to such as were convicted of any great delinquency, he even exceeded the punishment appointed by law, and condemned them to be exposed to wild beasts.
train-other-500/2930/163436/2930_163436_000024_000001|But in hearing and determining causes, he exhibited a strange inconsistency of temper, being at one time circumspect and sagacious, at another inconsiderate and rash, and sometimes frivolous, and like one out of his mind.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000000_000006|One of the knights who was charged with stabbing himself, laid his bosom bare, to show that there was not the least mark of violence upon his body.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000000_000007|The following incidents were remarkable in his censorship.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000001_000008|Crassus Frugi was mounted upon a horse richly caparisoned, in a robe embroidered with palm leaves, because this was the second time of his obtaining that honour.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000002_000001|He paid particular attention to the care of the city, and to have it well supplied with provisions.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000003_000003|He proposed to the merchants a sure profit, by indemnifying them against any loss that might befall them by storms at sea; and granted great privileges to those who built ships for that traffic.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000004_000001|He completed some important public works, which, though not numerous, were very useful.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000004_000003|He brought to the city the cool and plentiful springs of the Claudian water, one of which is called Caeruleus, and the other Curtius and Albudinus, as likewise the river of the New Anio, in a stone canal; and distributed them into many magnificent reservoirs.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000005_000010|Immediately before he drew off the waters from the Fucine lake, he exhibited upon it a naval fight.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000005_000012|We, who are about to peril our lives, salute you;" and he replying, "Health attend you too," they all refused to fight, as if by that response he had meant to excuse them.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000005_000013|Upon this, he hesitated for a time, whether he should not destroy them all with fire and sword.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000005_000014|At last, leaping from his seat, and running along the shore of the lake with tottering steps, the result of his foul excesses, he, partly by fair words, and partly by threats, persuaded them to engage.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000006_000001|With regard to religious ceremonies, the administration of affairs both civil and military, and the condition of all orders of the people at home and abroad, some practices he corrected, others which had been laid aside he revived; and some regulations he introduced which were entirely new.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000006_000002|In appointing new priests for the several colleges, he made no appointments without being sworn.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000007_000006|When any affair of importance came before the senate, he used to sit between the two consuls upon the seats of the tribunes. He reserved to himself the power of granting license to travel out of Italy, which before had belonged to the senate.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000008_000001|He likewise granted the consular ornaments to his Ducenarian procurators.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000008_000002|From those who declined the senatorian dignity, he took away the equestrian.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000009_000001|His military organization of the equestrian order was this.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000009_000003|He procured an act of the senate to prohibit all soldiers from attending senators at their houses, in the way of respect and compliment.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000009_000004|He confiscated the estates of all freedmen who presumed to take upon themselves the equestrian rank.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000009_000008|He quartered a cohort of soldiers at Puteoli, and another at Ostia, to be in readiness against any accidents from fire.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000009_000010|Those who falsely pretended to the freedom of Rome, he beheaded on the Esquiline.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000010_000006|He concluded treaties with foreign princes in the forum, with the sacrifice of a sow, and the form of words used by the heralds in former times.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000011_000004|But he divorced them both; Paetina, upon some trifling causes of disgust; and Urgulanilla, for scandalous lewdness, and the suspicion of murder.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000011_000010|No person was found, however, to follow the example, excepting one freedman, and a centurion of the first rank, at the solemnization of whose nuptials both he and Agrippina attended.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000012_000002|He lost Drusus at Pompeii, when he was very young; he being choked with a pear, which in his play he tossed into the air, and caught in his mouth.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000012_000004|Claudia, who was, in truth, the daughter of Boter his freedman, though she was born five months before his divorce, he ordered to be thrown naked at her mother's door.
train-other-500/2930/163437/2930_163437_000012_000006|He often earnestly commended him to the soldiers, holding him in his arms before their ranks; and would likewise show him to the people in the theatre, setting him upon his lap, or holding him out whilst he was still very young; and was sure to receive their acclamations, and good wishes on his behalf.
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train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000004_000000|by Nennius
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000005_000000|Translated by j a Giles
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000009_000003|For zealous efforts very often fail: but bold enthusiasm, were it in its power, would not suffer me to fail.
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000009_000005|For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000011_000000|For I yield to those who are greater and more eloquent than myself, who, kindled with generous ardour, have endeavoured by Roman eloquence to smooth the jarring elements of their tongue, if they have left unshaken any pillar of history which I wished to see remain.
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000011_000003|I shall obediently accomplish the rest to the utmost of my power.
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000013_000000|Here begins the apology of Nennius, the historiographer of the Britons, of the race of the Britons.
train-other-500/2930/5059/2930_5059_000014_000004|I pray that every reader who shall read this book, may pardon me, for having attempted, like a chattering jay, or like some weak witness, to write these things, after they had failed.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000000_000000|CHAPTER fourteen
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000001_000000|The sudden termination of Colonel Brandon's visit at the park, with his steadiness in concealing its cause, filled the mind, and raised the wonder of mrs Jennings for two or three days; she was a great wonderer, as every one must be who takes a very lively interest in all the comings and goings of all their acquaintance.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000001_000001|She wondered, with little intermission what could be the reason of it; was sure there must be some bad news, and thought over every kind of distress that could have befallen him, with a fixed determination that he should not escape them all.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000000|"Something very melancholy must be the matter, I am sure," said she. "I could see it in his face.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000001|Poor man!
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000002|I am afraid his circumstances may be bad.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000003|The estate at Delaford was never reckoned more than two thousand a year, and his brother left everything sadly involved.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000004|I do think he must have been sent for about money matters, for what else can it be?
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000006|I would give anything to know the truth of it.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000007|Perhaps it is about Miss Williams and, by the bye, I dare say it is, because he looked so conscious when I mentioned her.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000008|May be she is ill in town; nothing in the world more likely, for I have a notion she is always rather sickly.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000011|I wonder what it can be!
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000012|May be his sister is worse at Avignon, and has sent for him over.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000013|His setting off in such a hurry seems very like it.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000002_000014|Well, I wish him out of all his trouble with all my heart, and a good wife into the bargain."
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000003_000000|So wondered, so talked mrs Jennings.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000003_000002|It was engrossed by the extraordinary silence of her sister and Willoughby on the subject, which they must know to be peculiarly interesting to them all.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000003_000003|As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000003_000004|Why they should not openly acknowledge to her mother and herself, what their constant behaviour to each other declared to have taken place, Elinor could not imagine.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000004_000001|His estate had been rated by Sir john at about six or seven hundred a year; but he lived at an expense to which that income could hardly be equal, and he had himself often complained of his poverty.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000004_000002|But for this strange kind of secrecy maintained by them relative to their engagement, which in fact concealed nothing at all, she could not account; and it was so wholly contradictory to their general opinions and practice, that a doubt sometimes entered her mind of their being really engaged, and this doubt was enough to prevent her making any inquiry of Marianne.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000007_000000|"What!" he exclaimed-"Improve this dear cottage!
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000007_000001|no
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000007_000002|THAT I will never consent to.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000009_000000|"I am heartily glad of it," he cried.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000009_000001|"May she always be poor, if she can employ her riches no better."
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000010_000000|"Thank you, Willoughby.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000010_000001|But you may be assured that I would not sacrifice one sentiment of local attachment of yours, or of any one whom I loved, for all the improvements in the world.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000010_000003|But are you really so attached to this place as to see no defect in it?"
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000011_000000|"I am," said he.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000011_000001|"To me it is faultless.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000012_000000|"With dark narrow stairs and a kitchen that smokes, I suppose," said Elinor.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000013_000001|Then, and then only, under such a roof, I might perhaps be as happy at Combe as I have been at Barton."
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000014_000000|"I flatter myself," replied Elinor, "that even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase, you will hereafter find your own house as faultless as you now do this."
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000016_000000|mrs Dashwood looked with pleasure at Marianne, whose fine eyes were fixed so expressively on Willoughby, as plainly denoted how well she understood him.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000017_000001|I never passed within view of it without admiring its situation, and grieving that no one should live in it.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000017_000004|Then continuing his former tone, he said, "And yet this house you would spoil, mrs Dashwood?
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000019_000000|"You are a good woman," he warmly replied.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000019_000001|"Your promise makes me easy.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000019_000002|Extend it a little farther, and it will make me happy.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000019_000003|Tell me that not only your house will remain the same, but that I shall ever find you and yours as unchanged as your dwelling; and that you will always consider me with the kindness which has made everything belonging to you so dear to me."
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000021_000000|"Shall we see you tomorrow to dinner?" said mrs Dashwood, when he was leaving them.
train-other-500/294/129973/294_129973_000021_000001|"I do not ask you to come in the morning, for we must walk to the park, to call on Lady Middleton."
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000000_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000001_000000|Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000002_000000|BY THE NEXT MORNING, november eighteenth, I was fully recovered from my exhaustion of the day before, and I climbed onto the platform just as the Nautilus's chief officer was pronouncing his daily phrase. It then occurred to me that these words either referred to the state of the sea, or that they meant: "There's nothing in sight."
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000003_000000|And in truth, the ocean was deserted.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000003_000001|Not a sail on the horizon. The tips of Crespo Island had disappeared during the night. The sea, absorbing every color of the prism except its blue rays, reflected the latter in every direction and sported a wonderful indigo tint.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000003_000002|The undulating waves regularly took on the appearance of watered silk with wide stripes.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000004_000000|I was marveling at this magnificent ocean view when Captain Nemo appeared.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000004_000001|He didn't seem to notice my presence and began a series of astronomical observations.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000004_000002|Then, his operations finished, he went and leaned his elbows on the beacon housing, his eyes straying over the surface of the ocean.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000005_000000|Meanwhile some twenty of the Nautilus's sailors-all energetic, well built fellows-climbed onto the platform.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000005_000002|Even so, these men were frugal of speech and used among themselves only that bizarre dialect whose origin I couldn't even guess. So I had to give up any notions of questioning them.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000006_000000|The nets were hauled on board.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000006_000001|They were a breed of trawl resembling those used off the Normandy coast, huge pouches held half open by a floating pole and a chain laced through the lower meshes. Trailing in this way from these iron glove makers, the resulting receptacles scoured the ocean floor and collected every marine exhibit in their path.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000007_000001|It was a fine catch but not surprising. In essence, these nets stayed in our wake for several hours, incarcerating an entire aquatic world in prisons made of thread. So we were never lacking in provisions of the highest quality, which the Nautilus's speed and the allure of its electric light could continually replenish.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000009_000000|After its fishing was finished and its air supply renewed, I thought the Nautilus would resume its underwater excursion, and I was getting ready to return to my stateroom, when Captain Nemo turned to me and said without further preamble:
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000010_000000|"Look at this ocean, professor!
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000010_000002|Doesn't it experience both anger and affection? Last evening it went to sleep just as we did, and there it is, waking up after a peaceful night!"
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000011_000000|No hellos or good mornings for this gent!
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000011_000001|You would have thought this eccentric individual was simply continuing a conversation we'd already started!
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000012_000000|"See!" he went on.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000012_000001|"It's waking up under the sun's caresses! It's going to relive its daily existence!
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000012_000002|What a fascinating field of study lies in watching the play of its organism. It owns a pulse and arteries, it has spasms, and I side with the scholarly Commander Maury, who discovered that it has a circulation as real as the circulation of blood in animals."
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000013_000000|I'm sure that Captain Nemo expected no replies from me, and it seemed pointless to pitch in with "Ah yes," "Exactly," or "How right you are!" Rather, he was simply talking to himself, with long pauses between sentences.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000014_000001|Evaporation, which is nil in the High Arctic regions and very active in equatorial zones, brings about a constant interchange of tropical and polar waters. What's more, I've detected those falling and rising currents that make up the ocean's true breathing.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000015_000000|As the captain was finishing his sentence, I said to myself: "The pole!
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000016_000000|Meanwhile the captain fell silent and stared at the element he had studied so thoroughly and unceasingly.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000016_000001|Then, going on:
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000017_000000|"Salts," he said, "fill the sea in considerable quantities, professor, and if you removed all its dissolved saline content, you'd create a mass measuring four million five hundred thousand cubic leagues, which if it were spread all over the globe, would form a layer more than ten meters high. And don't think that the presence of these salts is due merely to some whim of nature.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000017_000001|no
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000017_000002|They make ocean water less open to evaporation and prevent winds from carrying off excessive amounts of steam, which, when condensing, would submerge the temperate zones. Salts play a leading role, the role of stabilizer for the general ecology of the globe!"
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000018_000000|Captain Nemo stopped, straightened up, took a few steps along the platform, and returned to me:
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000019_000001|And so, after they've finished depriving our water drop of its mineral nutrients, the droplet gets lighter, rises to the surface, there absorbs more salts left behind through evaporation, gets heavier, sinks again, and brings those tiny animals new elements to absorb.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000019_000002|The outcome: a double current, rising and falling, constant movement, constant life! More intense than on land, more abundant, more infinite, such life blooms in every part of this ocean, an element fatal to man, they say, but vital to myriads of animals-and to me!"
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000021_000000|"There," he added, "out there lies true existence!
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000021_000001|And I can imagine the founding of nautical towns, clusters of underwater households that, like the Nautilus, would return to the surface of the sea to breathe each morning, free towns if ever there were, independent cities! Then again, who knows whether some tyrant . . ."
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000022_000000|Captain Nemo finished his sentence with a vehement gesture. Then, addressing me directly, as if to drive away an ugly thought:
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000023_000000|"Professor Aronnax," he asked me, "do you know the depth of the ocean floor?"
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000024_000000|"At least, captain, I know what the major soundings tell us."
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000026_000000|"Here," I replied, "are a few of them that stick in my memory. If I'm not mistaken, an average depth of eight thousand two hundred meters was found in the north Atlantic, and two thousand five hundred meters in the Mediterranean.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000027_000000|"Well, professor," Captain Nemo replied, "we'll show you better than that, I hope.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000027_000001|As for the average depth of this part of the Pacific, I'll inform you that it's a mere four thousand meters."
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000028_000000|This said, Captain Nemo headed to the hatch and disappeared down the ladder.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000028_000001|I followed him and went back to the main lounge. The propeller was instantly set in motion, and the log gave our speed as twenty miles per hour.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000029_000000|Over the ensuing days and weeks, Captain Nemo was very frugal with his visits.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000029_000001|I saw him only at rare intervals.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000030_000002|But I hoped an opportunity would arise for a visit to the forests of Oceania.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000031_000000|Almost every day the panels in the lounge were open for some hours, and our eyes never tired of probing the mysteries of the underwater world.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000033_000001|On the twenty seventh it passed in sight of the Hawaiian Islands, where the famous Captain Cook met his death on february fourteenth seventeen seventy nine.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000033_000002|By then we had fared four thousand eight hundred sixty leagues from our starting point.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000033_000003|When I arrived on the platform that morning, I saw the Island of Hawaii two miles to leeward, the largest of the seven islands making up this group. I could clearly distinguish the tilled soil on its outskirts, the various mountain chains running parallel with its coastline, and its volcanoes, crowned by Mauna Kea, whose elevation is five thousand meters above sea level.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000033_000004|Among other specimens from these waterways, our nets brought up some peacock tailed flabellarian coral, polyps flattened into stylish shapes and unique to this part of the ocean.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000034_000000|The Nautilus kept to its southeasterly heading.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000037_000000|During this crossing, the sea continually lavished us with the most marvelous sights.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000038_000000|During the day of december eleventh, I was busy reading in the main lounge. Ned Land and Conseil were observing the luminous waters through the gaping panels.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000040_000000|"Would master kindly come here for an instant?" he said to me in an odd voice.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000043_000000|I stood up, went, leaned on my elbows before the window, and I saw it.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000046_000000|"Yes," the Canadian replied, "a disabled craft that's sinking straight down!"
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000047_000000|Ned Land was not mistaken.
train-other-500/294/130872/294_130872_000047_000001|We were in the presence of a ship whose severed shrouds still hung from their clasps.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000000_000000|"Hold your tongue, Elsie; I'll do as I please," was the polite rejoinder.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000003_000000|"O Arthur! do put it away," pleaded Elsie, "if anything should happen to it, what will grandpa say?
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000003_000001|I know he will be very angry, and ask us all who did it; and you know I cannot tell a lie, and if he asks me if it was you, I cannot say no"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000005_000002|At any other time she would have trembled at the thought of touching it; but now she felt so sure it would be safer with her than with him, that she would gladly have taken the responsibility.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000009_000000|The crystal was broken, the back dented, and how much the works were injured they could not tell; but it had ceased to run.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000012_000000|"You hush!" exclaimed Arthur fiercely.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000012_000001|"I'll tell you what, if any of you dare to tell of me, I'll make you sorry for it to the last day of your life.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000012_000002|Do you hear?"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000013_000000|The question was addressed to Elsie in a tone of defiance.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000016_000000|"I shall say nothing, unless it becomes necessary to save the innocent, or I am forced to speak; but in that case I shall tell the truth," replied Elsie, firmly.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000017_000000|Arthur doubled up his fist, and made a plunge at her as if he meant to knock her down; but Elsie sprang behind the tree, and then ran so fleetly toward the house that he was not able to overtake her until his passion had had time to cool.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000022_000000|"What?" he asked, with intense interest.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000023_000000|"Tell papa that Jim broke the watch."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000026_000000|"But Jim will get punished," said Walter, "and I don't want to tell such a big story either."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000031_000001|And turning away from Walter, he next sought out Enna, and tried his threats and persuasions upon her with even better success.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000032_000000|Elsie had gone directly to her own room, where she sat trembling every time a footstep approached her door, lest it should be a messenger from her grandfather.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000032_000001|No one came, however, and at last the tea bell rang, and on going down she found to her relief that her grandfather and his wife had not yet returned.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000033_000001|"Are you well?"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000034_000000|"Yes, papa, quite well," she replied.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000035_000000|He looked at her again a little anxiously, but said no more; and as soon as the meal was concluded, Elsie hastened away to her own room again.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000037_000001|Young rascal!
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000038_000000|"My dear, how can you say so?
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000041_000000|The father instantly despatched a servant to bring him in; sending a second in search of the overseer; while a third was ordered to assemble all the house servants.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000041_000001|"I will sift this matter to the bottom, and child or servant, the guilty one shall suffer for it," exclaimed the old gentleman, pacing angrily up and down the room.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000041_000002|"Arthur," said he sternly, as the boy made his appearance, looking somewhat pale and alarmed, "how dared you meddle with my watch?"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000043_000000|"There, my dear, I told you so," exclaimed his mother, triumphantly.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000044_000000|"I don't believe you," said his father; "and if you are guilty, as I strongly suspect, you had better confess it at once, before I find it out in some other way."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000045_000000|"I didn't do it, sir.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000046_000000|"That I will, if it is true," exclaimed the old gentleman, passionately; "he shall be well whipped and sent out to work on the plantation.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000046_000001|I'll keep no such meddlers about my house."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000047_000000|He looked at Enna.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000049_000000|"Did you see it, too, Walter?" asked his father.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000050_000000|"Yes, sir," replied the little fellow, in a low, reluctant tone; "but please, papa, don't punish him.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000050_000001|I'm sure he didn't mean to break it."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000051_000001|"Here, sir," turning to the overseer, and pointing to Jim, "take the fellow out, and give him such a flogging as he will remember."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000052_000000|Elsie was sitting in her own room, trying to learn a lesson for the next day, but finding great difficulty in fixing her thoughts upon it, when she was startled by the sudden entrance of Aunt Chloe, who, with her apron to her eyes, was sobbing violently.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000053_000000|"O mammy, mammy!
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000053_000001|what's the matter?
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000053_000002|has anything happened to you?" inquired the little girl, in a tone of great alarm, starting to her feet, and dropping her book in her haste and fright.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000055_000001|don't, oh!
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000057_000000|"I am sorry it is necessary, daughter," he said, "but Jim has done very wrong, and deserves his punishment, and I cannot interfere."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000059_000001|It could not have been you, Elsie?" and he looked searchingly into her face.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000063_000000|"I don't like to tell tales, papa," pleaded the little girl; "I think it so very mean.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000063_000001|Is it not enough for me to tell that I know Jim didn't do it?"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000065_000000|"O papa!
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000068_000000|"Have I not said enough to convince you of your duty?" he asked.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000070_000000|Her story was told with evident reluctance, but in a simple, straightforward manner, that attested its truthfulness.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000072_000000|"You must repeat this story to your grandfather."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000073_000001|please don't make me do it," she pleaded tremblingly, and hanging back.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000075_000000|He was still in the drawing room, walking about in a disturbed and angry manner, and now and then casting a suspicious glance upon Arthur, who sat pale and trembling in a corner, looking the picture of guilt and misery; for he had heard Chloe deliver his brother's message, and feared that exposure awaited him.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000077_000000|None of the other members of the family had left the room, and all wore an anxious, expectant look, as mr Dinsmore entered, leading Elsie by the hand.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000079_000001|Elsie, who broke my watch?"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000081_000000|"Elsie!" exclaimed her father, in a tone of stern reproof.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000082_000000|"O papa! how can I?" she sobbed, trembling and clinging to his hand as she caught a threatening look from Arthur.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000083_000000|"Come, come, child, you must tell us all you know about it," said her grandfather, "or else I can't let Jim off."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000085_000000|"Yes, yes, speak out, child; speak out at once; no one shall hurt you for telling the truth," exclaimed her grandfather, impatiently.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000088_000000|"But go on, Elsie, let us have the whole story," he added, turning to her again, but still keeping his hold upon Arthur.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000088_000002|"Yes, I'll forgive you when you've had a good, sound flogging, and a week's solitary confinement on bread and water, but not before."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000089_000003|Will you, Arthur?
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000089_000005|I would so like to do it."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000090_000000|"It isn't the moneyed value of the watch I care for, child," replied the old gentleman, contemptuously; "and besides, where would you get so much money?"
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000091_000000|"I am rich, grandpa, am I not?
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000096_000000|Arthur cast a look of hatred and defiance at Elsie as he went out, that made her grow pale with fear and tremble so that she could scarcely stand.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000099_000002|I'm sure, quite sure papa was going to take me on his knee, and they prevented him.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000099_000003|Oh! will be ever think of doing it again!
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000100_000000|The poor old creature was overflowing with gratitude, and her fervent outpouring of thanks and blessings almost made Elsie forget her disappointment for the time.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000102_000000|But at length Phoebe remembered that she had some baking to do, and calling on Jim to come right along and split up some dry wood to heat her oven, she went down to the kitchen followed by her son, and Elsie was left alone with her nurse.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000104_000000|But her bedtime came and she dared not stay up any longer; for his orders had been peremptory that she should always retire precisely at that hour, unless she had his express permission to remain up longer.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000105_000000|She lay awake for some time, thinking of his unwonted kindness, and indulging fond hopes for the future, then fell asleep to dream that she was on her father's knee, and felt his arms folded lovingly about her, and his kisses warm upon her cheek.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000106_000000|Her heart beat quickly as she entered the breakfast room the next morning.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000108_000000|Elsie was sadly disappointed, and lingered about the room in the vain hope of obtaining a smile or caress; but presently her father went out, saying to the elder mr Dinsmore that he was going to ride over to Ion, and would probably not return before night; then, with a sigh, the little girl went back to her own room to prepare her morning lessons.
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000111_000000|"If you please, Adelaide," said he haughtily, "I should like to be allowed to manage my own child as I see proper, without any interference from others."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000112_000001|I have known Elsie a great deal longer than you have, and I feel very certain that a gentle reproof would do her quite as much good, and not wound her half so much."
train-other-500/2943/171000/2943_171000_000113_000000|"Enough, Adelaide!" exclaimed her brother, impatiently.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000000_000000|It was Sabbath morning, and Elsie, ready dressed for church, stood in the portico waiting for her father to come down and lift her into the carriage, in which Adelaide, Louisa, and Enna were already seated.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000001_000000|The coachman was in his seat, and the horses, a pair of young and fiery steeds purchased by mr Dinsmore only a few days before, were impatiently stamping and tossing their heads, requiring quite an exertion of strength to hold them in.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000002_000000|"I don't exactly like the actions of those horses, Ajax," remarked mr Dinsmore, as he came out putting on his gloves; "I did not intend to have them put in harness to day.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000002_000001|Why did you not give us the old bays?"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000006_000000|"Elsie," said her father, still looking a little uneasy, in spite of Ajax's boasting, "I think it would be just as well for you to stay at home."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000007_000000|Elsie made no reply in words, but her answering look spoke such intense disappointment, such earnest entreaty, that, saying, "Ah! well, I suppose there is no real danger; and since you seem so anxious to go, I will not compel you to stay at home," he lifted her into the carriage, and seating himself beside her, ordered the coachman to drive on as carefully as he could.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000008_000000|"Elsie, change seats with me," said Enna; "I want to sit beside Brother Horace."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000009_000000|"No," replied mr Dinsmore, laying his hand on his little daughter's shoulder, "Elsie's place is by me, and she shall sit nowhere else."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000012_000000|They reached the church without accident, but on their return the horses took fright while going down a hill, and rushed along at a furious rate, which threatened every instant to upset the carriage.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000013_000000|Elsie thought they were going very fast, but did not know that there was real danger until her father suddenly lifted her from her seat, and placing her between his knees, held her tightly, as though he feared she would be snatched from his grasp.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000014_000000|Elsie looked up into his face.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000015_000000|"Dear papa," she whispered, "God will take care of us."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000016_000000|"I would give all I am worth to have you safe at home," he answered hoarsely, pressing her closer and closer to him.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000018_000000|But destruction seemed inevitable.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000018_000001|Lora was leaning back, half fainting with terror; Adelaide scarcely less alarmed, while Enna clung to her, sobbing most bitterly.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000019_000000|Elsie alone preserved a cheerful serenity.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000019_000001|She had built her house upon the rock, and knew that it would stand.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000019_000002|Her destiny was in her Heavenly Father's hands, and she was content to leave it there.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000021_000000|"Thank God, we are saved!
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000021_000001|That fellow shall be well rewarded for his brave deed," exclaimed mr Dinsmore, throwing open the carriage door.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000023_000000|They were almost at the entrance of the avenue, and all preferred to walk the short distance to the house rather than again trust themselves to the horses.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000025_000000|"Yes, papa," she answered, in a quiet tone, "I knew that God would take care of us.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000025_000001|Oh! wasn't He good to keep us all from being killed?"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000026_000000|"Yes," he said, very gravely.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000026_000001|"Go now and let mammy get you ready for dinner."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000027_000000|As Elsie was sitting alone in her room that afternoon she was surprised by a visit from Lora; it being very seldom that the elder girls cared to enter her apartment.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000028_000000|Lora looked a little pale, and more grave and thoughtful than Elsie had ever seen her.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000028_000001|For a while she sat in silence, then suddenly burst out, "Oh, Elsie!
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000028_000005|I should have been with the rich man the minister read about this morning, lifting up my eyes in torment."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000029_000000|And Lora covered her face with her hands and shuddered.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000030_000000|Presently she went on again.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000032_000002|"But tell me, Elsie, did you not feel afraid for the rest of us?
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000033_000000|Elsie blushed and looked down.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000034_000000|"It all passed so quickly, you know, Lora, almost in a moment," she said, "so that I only had time to think of papa and myself; and I have prayed so much for him that I felt quite sure God would spare him until he should be prepared to die.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000035_000000|"Don't look so-as if you had done something very wicked, Elsie," replied Lora, sighing again.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000035_000002|Elsie, if you can only tell me how to be a Christian, I mean now to try very hard; indeed, I am determined never to rest until I am one."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000037_000001|that is, what means am I to use to get rid of my sins, and get a new heart?
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000038_000000|"That is the very question the jailer put to Paul, and he answered, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,'" replied Elsie, quickly turning to the chapter and pointing out the text with her finger, that Lora might see that she had quoted it correctly.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000042_000000|"Yes, God tells us to repent; and He says, 'Give me thine heart;' you can do that; you can love Jesus; at least He will enable you to, if you ask Him, and He will teach you to be sorry for your sins; the Bible says, 'He is exalted to give repentance and remission of sins;' and if you ask Him He will give them to you.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000042_000001|It is true we cannot do anything good of ourselves; without the help of the Holy Spirit we can do nothing right, because we are so very wicked; but then we can always get that help if we ask for it.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000042_000002|Jesus said, 'Your Heavenly Father is more willing to give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, than parents are to give good gifts unto their children.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000042_000003|Oh, Lora! don't be afraid to ask for it; don't be afraid to come to Jesus, for He says, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in nowise cast out;' and He is such a precious Saviour, so kind and loving.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000042_000004|But remember that you must come very humbly; feeling that you are a great sinner, and not worthy to be heard, and only hoping to be forgiven, because Jesus died.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000042_000005|The Bible says, 'God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.'"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000043_000000|Lora lingered the greater part of the afternoon in Elsie's room, asking her questions, or listening to her while she read the Scriptures, or repeated some beautiful hymn, or spoke in her sweet, childish way, of her own peace and joy in believing in Jesus.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000044_000000|But at last Lora went to her own room, and Elsie had another quiet half hour to herself before the tea bell again called the family together.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000045_000000|Elsie answered the summons with a light heart-a heart that thrilled with a new and strange sense of happiness as she remembered her father's evident anxiety for her safety during their perilous ride, recalling each word and look, and feeling again, in imagination, the clasp of his arm about her waist.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000047_000000|But that was quite impossible at the table, and before all the family; so she merely raised her glad eyes to his face and answered, "I am very well, thank you, papa."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000048_000000|But, after all, this occurrence produced but little change in Elsie's condition; her father treated her a little more affectionately for a day or two, and then gradually returned to his ordinary stern, cold manner; indeed, before the week was out, she was again in sad disgrace.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000052_000000|Not caring to meet Arthur then, however, she hastily retreated to the house, where she seated herself in the veranda with a book.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000055_000000|Elsie wondered why Arthur did not go to see after his bird, but soon forgot all about it in the interest with which she was poring over the story of the "Swiss Family Robinson."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000057_000000|Elsie was terribly frightened, and would have been glad at that moment to sink through the floor; she dropped her book in her lap, and clasping her hands over her beating heart, grew pale and red by turns, while she seemed choking with the vain effort to speak and acknowledge herself the culprit, as conscience told her she ought.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000058_000000|But her father was not looking at her; his eye was fixed on Arthur.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000059_000000|"I presume it was you, sir," he said very angrily, "and if so, you may prepare yourself for either a flogging or a return to your prison, for one or the other I am determined you shall have."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000061_000000|"Of course you will deny it," said his brother, "but we all know that your word is good for nothing."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000062_000000|"Papa," said a trembling little voice, "Arthur did not do it; it was i"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000064_000000|Elsie's book fell on the floor, and, covering her face with both hands, she burst into sobs and tears.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000065_000001|"Come here and tell me what you mean by meddling with my affairs in this way."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000067_000001|Really, Elsie, I am sorely tempted to administer a very severe punishment."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000068_000000|Elsie caught at the arm of the settee for support.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000069_000000|"Tell me what you did it for; was it pure love of mischief?" asked her father, sternly, taking hold of her arm and holding her up by it.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000070_000000|"No, papa," she answered almost under her breath.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000070_000001|"I was sorry for the little bird.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000070_000002|I thought Arthur had put it there to torture it, and so I let it go.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000070_000003|I did not mean to do wrong, papa, indeed I did not," and the tears fell faster and faster.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000071_000000|"Indeed," said he, "you had no business to meddle with it, let who would have put it there.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000071_000001|Which hand did it?"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000072_000000|"This one, papa," sobbed the child, indicating her right hand.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000073_000000|He took it in his and held it a moment, while the little girl stood tremblingly awaiting what was to come next.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000073_000003|She should be punished, though he would not inflict physical pain.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000074_000001|I suspect he intends to cut your hand off."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000076_000001|You should never speak anything but truth, especially to children."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000078_000000|"No," said her brother, "that is a very bad plan, and one which I shall never adopt.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000078_000001|Elsie will learn in time, if she does not know it now, that I never utter a threat which I do not intend to carry out, and never break my word."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000079_000000|He had drawn a handkerchief from his pocket while speaking.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000080_000000|"I shall tie this hand up, Elsie," he said, proceeding to do so; "those who do not use their hands aright must be deprived of the use of them. There! let me see if that will keep it out of mischief.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000082_000000|Walter, who was far more tender hearted than either his brother or sister, felt touched by the sight of her distress, and ran after her to say, "Never mind, Elsie; I am ever so sorry for you, and I don't think you were the least bit naughty."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000083_000001|how I wish I could be good, and make him love me!
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000083_000002|I am afraid he never will if I vex him so often."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000084_000001|And thus between weeping, mourning, and praying, an hour passed slowly away, and the tea bell rang.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000087_000000|"Did you not hear the bell?" he asked, in his sternest tone, as she tremblingly took her seat at his side.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000089_000000|"Very well, then; remember that you are always to come down the moment the bell rings, unless you are directed otherwise, or are sick; and the next time you are so late, I shall send you away without your meal."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000090_000000|"I don't want any supper, papa," she said, humbly.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000092_000000|He watched her a moment while she made a violent effort to choke back her tears.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000093_000000|"What is your hand tied up for, Elsie?" asked her grandfather; "have you been hurt?"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000094_000000|Elsie's face flushed painfully, but she made no reply.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000095_000000|"You must speak when you are spoken to," said her father; "answer your grandfather's question at once."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000096_000000|"Papa tied it up, because I was naughty," replied the little girl, vainly striving to suppress a sob.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000097_000000|Her father made a movement as if about to lead her from the table.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000098_000000|"O papa!
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000099_000000|"Let me have no more crying, then," said he; "this is shameful behavior for a girl eight years old; it would be bad enough in a child of Enna's age." He took out his handkerchief and wiped her eyes.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000102_000000|She was very thankful to her Aunt Adelaide for addressing a question to her papa just at that moment, thus taking his attention from her, and then adroitly setting them all to talking until the little girl had had time to recover her composure, at least in a measure.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000103_000000|"May I go to my room now, papa?" asked the timid little voice as they rose from the table.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000104_000000|"No," he said, taking her hand and leading her out to the veranda, where he settled himself in an easy chair and lighted a cigar.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000105_000000|"Bring me that book that lies yonder on the settee," he commanded.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000106_000000|She brought it.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000108_000000|"May I get a book to read, papa?" she asked timidly.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000109_000000|"No," said he shortly.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000109_000001|"You may just do what I bid you, and nothing more nor less."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000110_000000|She sat down as he directed, with her face turned toward him, and tried to amuse herself with her own thoughts, and watching the expression of his countenance as he read on and on, turning leaf after leaf, too much interested in his book to take any further notice of her.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000111_000000|"How handsome my papa is!" thought the little girl, gazing with affectionate admiration into his face.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000111_000003|There was an aching void in her heart which nothing else could fill; must it always be thus? was her craving for affection never to be satisfied?
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000111_000005|Oh!
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000114_000000|"Because I don't want to see them, papa," she said, hanging her head and blushing deeply; "I don't want them to see me."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000115_000000|"You are not usually afraid of visitors," he replied in the same cool tone.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000116_000000|"But they will see that my hand is tied up, and they will ask what is the matter.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000116_000001|O papa!
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000117_000000|"No," said he, "I shall not let you go, if it were only to punish you for getting off the seat where I bade you stay, without permission.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000117_000001|You will have to learn that I am to be obeyed at all times, and under all circumstances.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000118_000000|Elsie sat down without another word, but two bitter, scalding tears rolled quickly down her burning cheeks.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000119_000000|"You needn't cry, Elsie," said her father; "it is only an old gentleman who comes to see your grandfather on business, and who, as he never notices children, will not be at all likely to ask any questions.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000119_000001|I hope you will learn some day, Elsie, to save your tears until there is really some occasion for them."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000120_000000|The old gentleman had alighted while mr Dinsmore was speaking; Elsie saw that he was alone, and the relief was so great that for once she scarcely heeded her father's rebuke.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000121_000000|Another half hour passed, and mr Dinsmore still sat reading, taking no notice of Elsie, who, afraid to speak or move, was growing very weary and sleepy.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000123_000000|"You are tired and sleepy," said he; "if you would like to go to bed you may do so."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000124_000000|"Thank you, papa," she replied, rising to her feet.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000125_000000|"Well," he said, seeing her hesitate, "speak, if you have anything to say."
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000126_000000|"I am very sorry I was naughty, papa.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000126_000001|Will you please forgive me?"
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000126_000002|The words were spoken very low, and almost with a sob.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000128_000000|"Yes, sir, I will try to be a good girl always," said the humble little voice.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000129_000000|"Then I will forgive you," he replied, taking the handkerchief off her hand.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000130_000000|Still Elsie lingered.
train-other-500/2943/171001/2943_171001_000131_000000|He looked at her with an impatient "Well?" Then, in answer to her mute request, "No," he said, "I will not kiss you to night; you have been entirely too naughty.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000001_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000002_000001|I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000002_000002|There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000000|I was powerful lazy and comfortable  didn't want to get up and cook breakfast.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000001|Well, I was dozing off again when I thinks I hears a deep sound of "boom!" away up the river.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000002|I rouses up, and rests on my elbow and listens; pretty soon I hears it again.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000003|I hopped up, and went and looked out at a hole in the leaves, and I see a bunch of smoke laying on the water a long ways up  about abreast the ferry.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000004|And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000005|I knowed what was the matter now.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000006|"Boom!" I see the white smoke squirt out of the ferryboat's side.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000003_000007|You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000001|So I set there and watched the cannon smoke and listened to the boom.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000003|Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000004|So, says I, I'll keep a lookout, and if any of them's floating around after me I'll give them a show.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000006|A big double loaf come along, and I most got it with a long stick, but my foot slipped and she floated out further.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000008|But by and by along comes another one, and this time I won.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000009|I took out the plug and shook out the little dab of quicksilver, and set my teeth in.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000004_000010|It was "baker's bread"  what the quality eat; none of your low down corn pone.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000005_000000|I got a good place amongst the leaves, and set there on a log, munching the bread and watching the ferry boat, and very well satisfied.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000005_000001|And then something struck me.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000005_000002|I says, now I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000005_000003|So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing  that is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000006_000000|I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000006_000001|The ferryboat was floating with the current, and I allowed I'd have a chance to see who was aboard when she come along, because she would come in close, where the bread did.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000006_000002|When she'd got pretty well along down towards me, I put out my pipe and went to where I fished out the bread, and laid down behind a log on the bank in a little open place.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000006_000003|Where the log forked I could peep through.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000007_000000|By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000008_000000|"Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000009_000000|I didn't hope so.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000009_000001|They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000009_000002|I could see them first rate, but they couldn't see me.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000010_000004|I could hear the booming now and then, further and further off, and by and by, after an hour, I didn't hear it no more. The island was three mile long.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000010_000005|I judged they had got to the foot, and was giving it up.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000010_000006|But they didn't yet a while.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000010_000007|They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000010_000008|I crossed over to that side and watched them.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000010_000009|When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to the town.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000011_000000|I knowed I was all right now.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000011_000001|Nobody else would come a hunting after me.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000011_000002|I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000011_000003|I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000011_000004|I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000011_000005|Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000013_000001|No difference  just the same thing. But the next day I went exploring around down through the island.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000013_000002|I was boss of it; it all belonged to me, so to say, and I wanted to know all about it; but mainly I wanted to put in the time.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000013_000003|I found plenty strawberries, ripe and prime; and green summer grapes, and green razberries; and the green blackberries was just beginning to show.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000013_000004|They would all come handy by and by, I judged.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000014_000001|I had my gun along, but I hadn't shot nothing; it was for protection; thought I would kill some game nigh home.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000014_000002|About this time I mighty near stepped on a good sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000014_000003|I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000015_000000|My heart jumped up amongst my lungs.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000015_000003|I slunk along another piece further, then listened again; and so on, and so on.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000015_000004|If I see a stump, I took it for a man; if I trod on a stick and broke it, it made me feel like a person had cut one of my breaths in two and I only got half, and the short half, too.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000016_000001|So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000017_000001|Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000017_000002|All I could get to eat was berries and what was left over from breakfast.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000018_000000|By the time it was night I was pretty hungry.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000018_000001|So when it was good and dark I slid out from shore before moonrise and paddled over to the Illinois bank  about a quarter of a mile.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000018_000004|I hadn't got far when I hear a man say:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000019_000000|"We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000019_000001|Let's look around."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000020_000000|I didn't wait, but shoved out and paddled away easy.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000020_000001|I tied up in the old place, and reckoned I would sleep in the canoe.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000021_000000|I didn't sleep much.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000021_000001|I couldn't, somehow, for thinking.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000021_000002|And every time I waked up I thought somebody had me by the neck.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000021_000003|So the sleep didn't do me no good.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000021_000005|Well, I felt better right off.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000000|So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along down amongst the shadows.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000001|The moon was shining, and outside of the shadows it made it most as light as day. I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000002|Well, by this time I was most down to the foot of the island.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000003|A little ripply, cool breeze begun to blow, and that was as good as saying the night was about done.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000005|I sat down there on a log, and looked out through the leaves.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000006|I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000007|But in a little while I see a pale streak over the treetops, and knowed the day was coming.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000008|So I took my gun and slipped off towards where I had run across that camp fire, stopping every minute or two to listen.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000010|But by and by, sure enough, I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000012|By and by I was close enough to have a look, and there laid a man on the ground.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000013|It most give me the fan tods.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000014|He had a blanket around his head, and his head was nearly in the fire.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000016|It was getting gray daylight now.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000017|Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim!
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000018|I bet I was glad to see him.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000022_000019|I says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000023_000000|"Hello, Jim!" and skipped out.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000024_000000|He bounced up and stared at me wild.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000024_000001|Then he drops down on his knees, and puts his hands together and says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000026_000001|I was ever so glad to see Jim.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000026_000002|I warn't lonesome now.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000026_000004|I talked along, but he only set there and looked at me; never said nothing.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000026_000005|Then I says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000027_000000|"It's good daylight.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000029_000000|"Strawberries and such truck," I says.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000029_000001|"Is that what you live on?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000031_000000|"Why, how long you been on the island, Jim?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000033_000000|"What, all that time?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000034_000000|"Yes  indeedy."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000038_000001|I think I could.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000039_000000|"Since the night I got killed."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000040_000001|But you got a gun.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000040_000002|Oh, yes, you got a gun.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000042_000000|When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot. Jim laid it in with all his might, for he was most about starved.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000042_000001|Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000042_000002|By and by Jim says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000044_000000|Then I told him the whole thing, and he said it was smart.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000044_000001|He said Tom Sawyer couldn't get up no better plan than what I had.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000044_000002|Then I says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000045_000000|"How do you come to be here, Jim, and how'd you get here?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000046_000001|Then he says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000048_000000|"Why, Jim?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000049_000000|"Well, dey's reasons.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000050_000000|"Blamed if I would, Jim."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000051_000000|"Well, I b'lieve you, Huck.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000052_000000|"Jim!"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000053_000000|"But mind, you said you wouldn' tell  you know you said you wouldn' tell, Huck."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000054_000001|I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000054_000003|People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum  but that don't make no difference.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000055_000004|I lit out mighty quick, I tell you.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000061_000001|Why didn't you get mud turkles?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000063_000000|"Well, that's so.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000063_000002|Did you hear 'em shooting the cannon?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000064_000000|"Oh, yes.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000065_000000|Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000065_000001|Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000065_000002|He said it was a sign when young chickens flew that way, and so he reckoned it was the same way when young birds done it.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000065_000003|I was going to catch some of them, but Jim wouldn't let me.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000065_000004|He said it was death.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000065_000005|He said his father laid mighty sick once, and some of them catched a bird, and his old granny said his father would die, and he did.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000066_000000|And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000066_000001|The same if you shook the table cloth after sundown.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000067_000000|I had heard about some of these things before, but not all of them.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000067_000002|He said he knowed most everything.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000067_000004|He says:
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000068_000001|What you want to know when good luck's a comin' for?
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000069_000000|"Have you got hairy arms and a hairy breast, Jim?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000070_000001|Don't you see I has?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000071_000000|"Well, are you rich?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000073_000000|"What did you speculate in, Jim?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000074_000000|"Well, fust I tackled stock."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000075_000000|"What kind of stock?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000076_000000|"Why, live stock  cattle, you know.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000076_000001|I put ten dollars in a cow.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000077_000000|"So you lost the ten dollars."
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000078_000000|"No, I didn't lose it all.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000079_000000|"You had five dollars and ten cents left.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000079_000001|Did you speculate any more?"
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000081_000000|"So I done it.
train-other-500/2946/163375/2946_163375_000082_000000|"What did you do with the ten cents, Jim?"
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000010_000000|PROLOGUE.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000012_000000|Three persons were the actors in it.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000012_000001|One was an old man, whose white hair and wrinkled face gave token that he was at least sixty years of age.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000012_000003|He was confronted by a man of two and twenty, unusually tall and athletic of figure, dresses in rough seafaring clothes, and who held in his arms, protecting her, a lady of middle age.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000013_000000|These three people were Sir Richard Devine, his wife, and his only son Richard, who had returned from abroad that morning.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000014_000001|For twenty years you have cheated and mocked me.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000015_000000|"Mother, dear mother!" cried the young man, in a paroxysm of grief, "say that you did not mean those words; you said them but in anger!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000015_000001|See, I am calm now, and he may strike me if he will."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000016_000000|Lady Devine shuddered, creeping close, as though to hide herself in the broad bosom of her son.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000017_000000|The old man continued: "I married you, Ellinor Wade, for your beauty; you married me for my fortune.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000017_000001|I was a plebeian, a ship's carpenter; you were well born, your father was a man of fashion, a gambler, the friend of rakes and prodigals.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000017_000002|I was rich.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000017_000004|I was in favour at Court.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000017_000005|He wanted money, and he sold you.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000017_000006|I paid the price he asked, but there was nothing of your cousin, my Lord Bellasis and Wotton, in the bond."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000018_000000|"Spare me, sir, spare me!" said Lady Ellinor faintly.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000019_000000|"Spare you!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000019_000003|Your family are proud. Colonel Wade has other daughters.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000019_000004|Your lover, my Lord Bellasis, even now, thinks to retrieve his broken fortunes by marriage.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000019_000005|You have confessed your shame.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000019_000006|To morrow your father, your sisters, all the world, shall know the story you have told me!"
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000020_000000|"By Heaven, sir, you will not do this!" burst out the young man.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000021_000000|"Silence, bastard!" cried Sir Richard.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000022_000000|Lady Devine slipped through her son's arms and fell on her knees at her husband's feet.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000023_000000|"Do not do this, Richard.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000023_000001|I have been faithful to you for two and twenty years.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000023_000002|I have borne all the slights and insults you have heaped upon me. The shameful secret of my early love broke from me when in your rage, you threatened him.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000023_000003|Let me go away; kill me; but do not shame me."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000024_000000|Sir Richard, who had turned to walk away, stopped suddenly, and his great white eyebrows came together in his red face with a savage scowl. He laughed, and in that laugh his fury seemed to congeal into a cold and cruel hate.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000025_000000|"You would preserve your good name then.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000025_000001|You would conceal this disgrace from the world.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000025_000002|You shall have your wish-upon one condition."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000026_000000|"What is it, sir?" she asked, rising, but trembling with terror, as she stood with drooping arms and widely opened eyes.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000027_000000|The old man looked at her for an instant, and then said slowly, "That this impostor, who so long has falsely borne my name, has wrongfully squandered my money, and unlawfully eaten my bread, shall pack!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000027_000001|That he abandon for ever the name he has usurped, keep himself from my sight, and never set foot again in house of mine."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000028_000000|"You would not part me from my only son!" cried the wretched woman.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000029_000000|"Take him with you to his father then."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000030_000000|Richard Devine gently loosed the arms that again clung around his neck, kissed the pale face, and turned his own-scarcely less pale-towards the old man.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000031_000001|"You have always hated and reviled me. When by your violence you drove me from your house, you set spies to watch me in the life I had chosen.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000031_000003|Now when I learn for the first time whose son I really am, I rejoice to think that I have less to thank you for than I once believed.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000031_000004|I accept the terms you offer.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000031_000005|I will go.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000031_000006|Nay, mother, think of your good name."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000000|Sir Richard Devine laughed again.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000001|"I am glad to see you are so well disposed.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000002|Listen now.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000003|To night I send for Quaid to alter my will.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000004|My sister's son, Maurice Frere, shall be my heir in your stead.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000005|I give you nothing.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000006|You leave this house in an hour.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000007|You change your name; you never by word or deed make claim on me or mine.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000008|No matter what strait or poverty you plead-if even your life should hang upon the issue-the instant I hear that there exists on earth one who calls himself Richard Devine, that instant shall your mother's shame become a public scandal. You know me.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000009|I keep my word.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000032_000010|I return in an hour, madam; let me find him gone."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000034_000000|"Richard!" cried the poor mother.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000034_000001|"Forgive me, my son!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000034_000002|I have ruined you."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000035_000000|Richard Devine tossed his black hair from his brow in sudden passion of love and grief.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000000|"Mother, dear mother, do not weep," he said.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000001|"I am not worthy of your tears.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000002|Forgive!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000003|It is I-impetuous and ungrateful during all your years of sorrow-who most need forgiveness.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000004|Let me share your burden that I may lighten it.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000005|He is just.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000006|It is fitting that I go.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000008|I am strong. I can work.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000009|The world is wide.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000036_000010|Farewell! my own mother!"
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000037_000000|"Not yet, not yet!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000037_000002|Oh, Richard, pray Heaven they may not meet."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000038_000000|"Tush!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000038_000001|They will not meet!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000038_000002|You are pale, you faint!"
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000039_000000|"A terror of I know not what coming evil overpowers me.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000039_000001|I tremble for the future.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000039_000003|Forgive me!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000039_000004|Pray for me."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000040_000000|"Hush, dearest!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000040_000001|Come, let me lead you in.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000040_000002|I will write.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000000|Sir Richard Devine, knight, shipbuilder, naval contractor, and millionaire, was the son of a Harwich boat carpenter.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000001|Early left an orphan with a sister to support, he soon reduced his sole aim in life to the accumulation of money.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000004|The sole aim of the coarse, pushing and hard headed son of Dick Devine was to make money.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000006|Nothing was too low, nothing too high for him.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000007|A shrewd man of business, a thorough master of his trade, troubled with no scruples of honour or of delicacy, he made money rapidly, and saved it when made.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000008|The first hint that the public received of his wealth was in seventeen ninety six, when mr Devine, one of the shipwrights to the Government, and a comparatively young man of forty four or thereabouts, subscribed five thousand pounds to the Loyalty Loan raised to prosecute the French war.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000041_000011|But the old man of the sea burden of parsimony and avarice which he had voluntarily taken upon him was not to be shaken off, and the only show he made of his wealth was by purchasing, on his knighthood, the rambling but comfortable house at Hampstead, and ostensibly retiring from active business.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000000|His retirement was not a happy one.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000001|He was a stern father and a severe master.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000002|His servants hated, and his wife feared him.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000003|His only son Richard appeared to inherit his father's strong will and imperious manner.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000006|Sir Richard, upon this, sent for Maurice Frere, his sister's son-the abolition of the slave trade had ruined the Bristol House of Frere-and bought for him a commission in a marching regiment, hinting darkly of special favours to come.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000007|His open preference for his nephew had galled to the quick his sensitive wife, who contrasted with some heart pangs the gallant prodigality of her father with the niggardly economy of her husband.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000008|Between the houses of parvenu Devine and long descended Wotton Wade there had long been little love.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000012|This Esme was a man of dark devices.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000014|He became rich, and his sister (the widow of Henry de Kirkhaven, Lord of Hemfleet) marrying into the family of the Wottons, the wealth of the house was further increased by the union of her daughter Sybil with Marmaduke Wade.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000015|Marmaduke Wade was a Lord of the Admiralty, and a patron of Pepys, who in his diary [july seventeenth,sixteen sixty eight] speaks of visiting him at Belsize.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000042_000017|Allied to this powerful house, the family tree of Wotton Wade grew and flourished.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000043_000000|In seventeen eighty four, Philip, third Baron, married the celebrated beauty, Miss Povey, and had issue Armigell Esme, in whose person the family prudence seemed to have run itself out.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000044_000000|The fourth Lord Bellasis combined the daring of Armigell, the adventurer, with the evil disposition of Esme, the Lieutenant of the Tower.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000044_000001|No sooner had he become master of his fortune than he took to dice, drink, and debauchery with all the extravagance of the last century.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000044_000002|He was foremost in every riot, most notorious of all the notorious "bloods" of the day.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000045_000000|Horace Walpole, in one of his letters to Selwyn in seventeen eighty five, mentions a fact which may stand for a page of narrative.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000045_000002|When he was told by thin lipped, cool Colonel Wade that the rich shipbuilder, Sir Richard Devine, had proposed an alliance with fair haired gentle Ellinor, he swore, with fierce knitting of his black brows, that no law of man nor Heaven should further restrain him in his selfish prodigality.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000045_000004|The year eighteen twenty seven found him a hardened, hopeless old man of sixty, battered in health and ruined in pocket; but who, by dint of stays, hair dye, and courage, yet faced the world with undaunted front, and dined as gaily in bailiff haunted Belsize as he had dined at Carlton House.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000047_000000|"With a woman?" asked mr Crofton.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000048_000000|"Not at all; with a parson."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000049_000000|"A parson!"
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000050_000000|"You stare!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000050_000001|Well, he is only just ordained.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000051_000000|"And now waits to pay it out of his first curacy.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000051_000001|I wish your lordship joy with all my soul.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000051_000002|Then, we must push on, for it grows late."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000052_000001|"To morrow you can settle with me for the sitting of last week.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000052_000002|Hark! the clock is striking nine.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000052_000003|Good night."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000053_000000|At half past nine Richard Devine quitted his mother's house to begin the new life he had chosen, and so, drawn together by that strange fate of circumstances which creates events, the father and son approached each other.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000054_000002|To his astonishment, however, Sir Richard passed swiftly on, with body bent forward as one in the act of falling, and with eyes unconscious of surroundings, staring straight into the distance.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000054_000003|Half terrified at this strange appearance, Richard hurried onward, and at a turn of the path stumbled upon something which horribly accounted for the curious action of the old man.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000054_000005|Richard took up the book, and read, in gold letters on the cover, "Lord Bellasis."
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000055_000002|It seemed an hour to his excited fancy before he saw a light pass along the front of the house he had quitted, and knew that Sir Richard had safely reached his chamber.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000055_000003|With some bewildered intention of summoning aid, he left the body and made towards the town.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000055_000004|As he stepped out on the path he heard voices, and presently some dozen men, one of whom held a horse, burst out upon him, and, with sudden fury, seized and flung him to the ground.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000056_000000|At first the young man, so rudely assailed, did not comprehend his own danger.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000056_000001|His mind, bent upon one hideous explanation of the crime, did not see another obvious one which had already occurred to the mind of the landlord of the Three Spaniards.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000057_000000|"God defend me!" cried mr Mogford, scanning by the pale light of the rising moon the features of the murdered man, "but it is Lord Bellasis!--oh, you bloody villain!
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000058_000000|"It was not I!" cried Richard Devine.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000058_000001|"For God's sake, my lord say-" then he stopped abruptly, and being forced on his knees by his captors, remained staring at the dying man, in sudden and ghastly fear.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000059_000001|The runaway horse had given the alarm.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000059_000002|The drinkers at the Spaniards' Inn had started to search the Heath, and had discovered a fellow in rough costume, whose person was unknown to them, hastily quitting a spot where, beside a rifled pocket book and a blood stained whip, lay a dying man.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000060_000000|The web of circumstantial evidence had enmeshed him.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000060_000001|An hour ago escape would have been easy.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000060_000002|He would have had but to cry, "I am the son of Sir Richard Devine.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000060_000003|Come with me to yonder house, and I will prove to you that I have but just quitted it,"--to place his innocence beyond immediate question.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000060_000004|That course of action was impossible now.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000060_000007|He knelt, stupefied, unable to speak or move.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000061_000000|"Come," cried Mogford again; "say, my lord, is this the villain?"
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000062_000000|Lord Bellasis rallied his failing senses, his glazing eyes stared into his son's face with horrible eagerness; he shook his head, raised a feeble arm as though to point elsewhere, and fell back dead.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000063_000000|"If you didn't murder him, you robbed him," growled Mogford, "and you shall sleep at Bow Street to night.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000065_000000|His new life had begun already: for that night one, Rufus Dawes, charged with murder and robbery, lay awake in prison, waiting for the fortune of the morrow.
train-other-500/2967/4901/2967_4901_000066_000000|Two other men waited as eagerly.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000001_000000|CHAPTER one THE PRISON SHIP.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000005_000000|Save for the man at the wheel and the guard at the quarter railing, he was alone on the deck.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000005_000004|On the forecastle, some half dozen soldiers, in all varieties of undress, were playing at cards, smoking, or watching the fishing lines hanging over the catheads.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000006_000000|So far the appearance of the vessel differed in no wise from that of an ordinary transport.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000006_000001|But in the waist a curious sight presented itself. It was as though one had built a cattle pen there.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000006_000002|At the foot of the foremast, and at the quarter deck, a strong barricade, loop holed and furnished with doors for ingress and egress, ran across the deck from bulwark to bulwark.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000006_000003|Outside this cattle pen an armed sentry stood on guard; inside, standing, sitting, or walking monotonously, within range of the shining barrels in the arm chest on the poop, were some sixty men and boys, dressed in uniform grey.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000006_000004|The men and boys were prisoners of the Crown, and the cattle pen was their exercise ground.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000007_000000|It was the fag end of the two hours' exercise graciously permitted each afternoon by His Majesty King George the Fourth to prisoners of the Crown, and the prisoners of the Crown were enjoying themselves.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000007_000001|It was not, perhaps, so pleasant as under the awning on the poop deck, but that sacred shade was only for such great men as the captain and his officers, Surgeon Pine, Lieutenant Maurice Frere, and, most important personages of all, Captain Vickers and his wife.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000010_000000|The low browed, coarse featured ruffians grouped about the deck cast many a leer of contempt at the solitary figure, but their remarks were confined to gestures only.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000010_000001|There are degrees in crime, and Rufus Dawes, the convicted felon, who had but escaped the gallows to toil for all his life in irons, was a man of mark.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000010_000002|He had been tried for the robbery and murder of Lord Bellasis.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000010_000004|The vagabond was acquitted of the murder, but condemned to death for the robbery, and London, who took some interest in the trial, considered him fortunate when his sentence was commuted to transportation for life.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000011_000000|It was customary on board these floating prisons to keep each man's crime a secret from his fellows, so that if he chose, and the caprice of his gaolers allowed him, he could lead a new life in his adopted home, without being taunted with his former misdeeds.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000011_000001|But, like other excellent devices, the expedient was only a nominal one, and few out of the doomed hundred and eighty were ignorant of the offence which their companions had committed.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000011_000002|The more guilty boasted of their superiority in vice; the petty criminals swore that their guilt was blacker than it appeared.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000011_000004|A young man of two and twenty owning to no friends, and existing among them but by the fact of his criminality, he was respected and admired.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000012_000000|The young man on the poop caught sight of the tall figure leaning against the bulwarks, and it gave him an excuse to break the monotony of his employment.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000015_000000|Rufus Dawes touched his cap, saluting in half military fashion.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000015_000002|"Insolent blackguards!"
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000016_000000|And then the noise of the sentry, on the quarter deck below him, grounding arms, turned the current of his thoughts.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000016_000002|Captain Vickers, of mr Frere's regiment, ordered for service in Van Diemen's Land, was bringing his lady on deck to get an appetite for dinner.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000017_000000|mrs Vickers was forty two (she owned to thirty three), and had been a garrison belle for eleven weary years before she married prim john Vickers.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000017_000001|The marriage was not a happy one.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000017_000002|Vickers found his wife extravagant, vain, and snappish, and she found him harsh, disenchanted, and commonplace.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000017_000003|A daughter, born two years after their marriage, was the only link that bound the ill assorted pair.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000018_000000|So mrs Vickers, after a hard struggle, gave up the point and her dreams of Bath together, and followed her husband with the best grace she could muster.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000018_000001|When fairly out to sea she seemed reconciled to her fate, and employed the intervals between scolding her daughter and her maid, in fascinating the boorish young Lieutenant, Maurice Frere.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000019_000000|Fascination was an integral portion of Julia Vickers's nature; admiration was all she lived for: and even in a convict ship, with her husband at her elbow, she must flirt, or perish of mental inanition. There was no harm in the creature.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000019_000001|She was simply a vain, middle aged woman, and Frere took her attentions for what they were worth.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000019_000002|Moreover, her good feeling towards him was useful, for reasons which will shortly appear.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000020_000000|Running down the ladder, cap in hand, he offered her his assistance.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000000|"Thank you, mr Frere.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000001|These horrid ladders.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000006|Pray, mr Frere-oh, thank you!
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000007|Sylvia!
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000008|Sylvia!
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000009|john, have you my smelling salts?
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000010|Still a calm, I suppose?
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000021_000011|These dreadful calms!"
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000022_000000|This semi fashionable slip slop, within twenty yards of the wild beasts' den, on the other side of the barricade, sounded strange; but mr Frere thought nothing of it.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000022_000001|Familiarity destroys terror, and the incurable flirt, fluttered her muslins, and played off her second rate graces, under the noses of the grinning convicts, with as much complacency as if she had been in a Chatham ball room.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000022_000002|Indeed, if there had been nobody else near, it is not unlikely that she would have disdainfully fascinated the 'tween decks, and made eyes at the most presentable of the convicts there.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000024_000001|Though indulged by her father, and spoiled by her mother, the natural sweetness of her disposition saved her from being disagreeable, and the effects of her education as yet only showed themselves in a thousand imperious prettinesses, which made her the darling of the ship.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000024_000002|Little Miss Sylvia was privileged to go anywhere and do anything, and even convictism shut its foul mouth in her presence.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000024_000003|Running to her father's side, the child chattered with all the volubility of flattered self esteem.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000025_000000|At last, tired of running about, she took a little striped leather ball from the bosom of her frock, and calling to her father, threw it up to him as he stood on the poop.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000025_000001|He returned it, and, shouting with laughter, clapping her hands between each throw, the child kept up the game.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000026_000000|The convicts-whose slice of fresh air was nearly eaten-turned with eagerness to watch this new source of amusement.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000026_000001|Innocent laughter and childish prattle were strange to them.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000026_000002|Some smiled, and nodded with interest in the varying fortunes of the game.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000026_000003|One young lad could hardly restrain himself from applauding.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000027_000000|In the midst of this mirth, the officer of the watch, glancing round the fast crimsoning horizon, paused abruptly, and shading his eyes with his hand, looked out intently to the westward.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000028_000000|Frere, who found mrs Vickers's conversation a little tiresome, and had been glancing from time to time at the companion, as though in expectation of someone appearing, noticed the action.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000029_000000|"What is it, mr Best?"
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000030_000000|"I don't know exactly.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000030_000001|It looks to me like a cloud of smoke." And, taking the glass, he swept the horizon.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000031_000000|"Let me see," said Frere; and he looked also.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000032_000000|On the extreme horizon, just to the left of the sinking sun, rested, or seemed to rest, a tiny black cloud.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000032_000001|The gold and crimson, splashed all about the sky, had overflowed around it, and rendered a clear view almost impossible.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000033_000000|"I can't quite make it out," says Frere, handing back the telescope.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000035_000001|Then the mizentop was appealed to, and declared that he could see nothing; and at last the sun went down with a jerk, as though it had slipped through a slit in the sea, and the black spot, swallowed up in the gathering haze, was seen no more.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000036_000000|As the sun sank, the relief guard came up the after hatchway, and the relieved guard prepared to superintend the descent of the convicts.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000037_000000|The bright spot of colour rolling across the white deck caught his eye; stooping mechanically, he picked up the ball, and stepped forward to return it.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000039_000000|Maurice Frere, descending the poop ladder, had not witnessed this little incident; on reaching the deck, he saw only the unexplained presence of the convict uniform.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000042_000000|He knew her at once.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000044_000000|Leaping to his feet, his first impulse was to rush upon his assailant, but he saw the ready bayonet of the sentry gleam, and he checked himself with an effort, for his assailant was mr Maurice Frere.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000045_000001|"You lazy, skulking hound, what brings you here?
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000046_000000|Rufus Dawes, pale with rage and mortification, opened his mouth to justify himself, but he allowed the words to die on his lips.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000046_000001|What was the use?
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000046_000002|"Go down below, and remember what I've told you," cried Frere; and comprehending at once what had occurred, he made a mental minute of the name of the defaulting sentry.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000047_000001|Frere leant forward and took the girl's shapely hand with an easy gesture, but she drew it away, with a flash of her black eyes.
train-other-500/2967/4902/2967_4902_000048_000000|"You coward!" she said.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000000_000000|Chapter two
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000001_000000|First Impressions
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000002_000000|"He is very clever, Maggie," said Lucy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000002_000001|She was kneeling on a footstool at Maggie's feet, after placing that dark lady in the large crimson velvet chair.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000002_000002|"I feel sure you will like him.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000002_000003|I hope you will."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000003_000000|"I shall be very difficult to please," said Maggie, smiling, and holding up one of Lucy's long curls, that the sunlight might shine through it.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000003_000001|"A gentleman who thinks he is good enough for Lucy must expect to be sharply criticised."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000004_000000|"Indeed, he's a great deal too good for me.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000004_000001|And sometimes, when he is away, I almost think it can't really be that he loves me.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000004_000002|But I can never doubt it when he is with me, though I couldn't bear any one but you to know that I feel in that way, Maggie."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000006_000000|"I would rather not be engaged.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000006_000001|When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon," said Lucy, too thoroughly preoccupied to notice Maggie's joke; "and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000006_000002|Sometimes I am quite frightened lest Stephen should say that he has spoken to papa; and from something that fell from papa the other day, I feel sure he and mr Guest are expecting that.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000006_000003|And Stephen's sisters are very civil to me now.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000007_000000|"But people are not expected to be large in proportion to the houses they live in, like snails," said Maggie, laughing.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000007_000001|"Pray, are mr Guest's sisters giantesses?"
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000009_000000|"Though you are unable to share that opinion?"
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000012_000000|"Stand up a moment, Maggie."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000014_000000|Lucy kept her contemplative attitude a moment or two in silence, and then said,--
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000015_000001|I wonder if Marie Antoinette looked all the grander when her gown was darned at the elbows.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000015_000003|I should be a mere rag."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000016_000000|"Oh, quite," said Maggie, with mock gravity.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000017_000001|Then, with an air of serious reflection, unfastening her large jet brooch, "But you must change brooches, Maggie; that little butterfly looks silly on you."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000018_000001|"I wish my mother were of your opinion, for she was fretting last night because this is my best frock.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000018_000002|I've been saving my money to pay for some lessons; I shall never get a better situation without more accomplishments."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000019_000000|Maggie gave a little sigh.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000020_000000|"Now, don't put on that sad look again," said Lucy, pinning the large brooch below Maggie's fine throat.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000020_000001|"You're forgetting that you've left that dreary schoolroom behind you, and have no little girls' clothes to mend."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000021_000000|"Yes," said Maggie.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000021_000002|I thought he must have got so stupid with the habit of turning backward and forward in that narrow space that he would keep doing it if they set him free.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000021_000003|One gets a bad habit of being unhappy."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000023_000000|"You dear, tiny thing," said Maggie, in one of her bursts of loving admiration, "you enjoy other people's happiness so much, I believe you would do without any of your own.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000023_000001|I wish I were like you."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000024_000000|"I've never been tried in that way," said Lucy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000024_000001|"I've always been so happy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000024_000002|I don't know whether I could bear much trouble; I never had any but poor mamma's death.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000025_000002|I think I get worse as I get older, more selfish.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000027_000000|"Well, perhaps it is," said Maggie, resolutely clearing away the clouds from her face with a bright smile, and throwing herself backward in her chair.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000027_000001|"Perhaps it comes from the school diet,--watery rice pudding spiced with Pinnock.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000027_000002|Let us hope it will give way before my mother's custards and this charming Geoffrey Crayon."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000028_000000|Maggie took up the "Sketch Book," which lay by her on the table.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000029_000000|"Do I look fit to be seen with this little brooch?" said Lucy, going to survey the effect in the chimney glass.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000030_000000|"Oh no, mr Guest will be obliged to go out of the room again if he sees you in it.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000030_000001|Pray make haste and put another on."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000031_000002|Yet Maggie's eyes began to fill with tears.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000031_000003|The sight of the old scenes had made the rush of memories so painful that even yesterday she had only been able to rejoice in her mother's restored comfort and Tom's brotherly friendliness as we rejoice in good news of friends at a distance, rather than in the presence of a happiness which we share.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000031_000004|Memory and imagination urged upon her a sense of privation too keen to let her taste what was offered in the transient present.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000031_000005|Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000032_000000|"There is one pleasure, I know, Maggie, that your deepest dismalness will never resist," said Lucy, beginning to speak as soon as she entered the room.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000033_000001|But I don't know whether I could play anything more difficult now than 'Begone, dull care!'"
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000036_000001|Because if you feel just as he does about that, we shall want our third voice.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000038_000000|"Does it hurt you to hear the name mentioned, Maggie?
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000038_000001|If it does, I will not speak of him again.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000038_000002|I know Tom will not see him if he can avoid it."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000039_000001|He was so good when Tom hurt his foot."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000041_000000|"But, Lucy----" said Maggie, trying to arrest the prattling stream.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000042_000001|That must be Stephen," Lucy went on, not noticing Maggie's faint effort to speak.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000042_000002|"One of the things I most admire in Stephen is that he makes a greater friend of Philip than any one."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000043_000000|It was too late for Maggie to speak now; the drawingroom door was opening, and Minny was already growling in a small way at the entrance of a tall gentleman, who went up to Lucy and took her hand with a half polite, half tender glance and tone of inquiry, which seemed to indicate that he was unconscious of any other presence.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000044_000000|"Let me introduce you to my cousin, Miss Tulliver," said Lucy, turning with wicked enjoyment toward Maggie, who now approached from the farther window.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000044_000001|"This is mr Stephen Guest."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000046_000000|This new experience was very agreeable to her, so agreeable that it almost effaced her previous emotion about Philip.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000047_000001|She enjoyed her lover's confusion; the advantage was usually on his side.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000048_000000|"This designing cousin of yours quite deceived me, Miss Tulliver," said Stephen, seating himself by Lucy, and stooping to play with Minny, only looking at Maggie furtively.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000048_000001|"She said you had light hair and blue eyes."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000049_000000|"Nay, it was you who said so," remonstrated Lucy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000049_000001|"I only refrained from destroying your confidence in your own second sight."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000050_000000|"I wish I could always err in the same way," said Stephen, "and find reality so much more beautiful than my preconceptions."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000051_000000|"Now you have proved yourself equal to the occasion," said Maggie, "and said what it was incumbent on you to say under the circumstances."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000052_000001|Lucy had said he was inclined to be satirical, and Maggie had mentally supplied the addition, "and rather conceited."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000053_000000|"An alarming amount of devil there," was Stephen's first thought.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000056_000000|"Then my compliment ought to be eloquent," said Stephen, really not quite knowing what he said while Maggie looked at him, "seeing that the words were so far beneath the occasion."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000057_000000|"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference," said Maggie, flushing a little.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000058_000002|"Why, dear Maggie," she interposed, "you have always pretended that you are too fond of being admired; and now, I think, you are angry because some one ventures to admire you."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000059_000000|"Not at all," said Maggie; "I like too well to feel that I am admired, but compliments never make me feel that."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000060_000000|"I will never pay you a compliment again, Miss Tulliver," said Stephen.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000061_000000|"Thank you; that will be a proof of respect."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000062_000000|Poor Maggie!
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000063_000000|Stephen was too well bred not to seem unaware that the previous conversation could have been felt embarrassing, and at once began to talk of impersonal matters, asking Lucy if she knew when the bazaar was at length to take place, so that there might be some hope of seeing her rain the influence of her eyes on objects more grateful than those worsted flowers that were growing under her fingers.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000064_000000|"Some day next month, I believe," said Lucy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000065_000000|"Ah yes; but they carry on their manufactures in their own sitting room, where I don't intrude on them.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000065_000001|I see you are not addicted to the fashionable vice of fancy work, Miss Tulliver," said Stephen, looking at Maggie's plain hemming.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000067_000000|"And your plain sewing is so beautiful, Maggie," said Lucy, "that I think I shall beg a few specimens of you to show as fancy work.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000068_000000|"It is a mystery easily explained, dear," said Maggie, looking up quietly.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000068_000001|"Plain sewing was the only thing I could get money by, so I was obliged to try and do it well."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000069_000000|Lucy, good and simple as she was, could not help blushing a little. She did not quite like that Stephen should know that; Maggie need not have mentioned it.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000069_000001|Perhaps there was some pride in the confession,-- the pride of poverty that will not be ashamed of itself.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000070_000000|"But I can knit, Lucy," Maggie went on, "if that will be of any use for your bazaar."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000071_000000|"Oh yes, of infinite use.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000071_000001|I shall set you to work with scarlet wool to morrow.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000071_000002|But your sister is the most enviable person," continued Lucy, turning to Stephen, "to have the talent of modelling.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000071_000003|She is doing a wonderful bust of dr Kenn entirely from memory."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000073_000000|"Now that is very wicked of you," said Lucy, looking rather hurt.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000074_000000|"I say anything disrespectful of dr Kenn?
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000074_000001|Heaven forbid!
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000074_000004|I don't care much about the tall candlesticks he has put on the communion table, and I shouldn't like to spoil my temper by getting up to early prayers every morning.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000074_000006|That was a very fine thing of him,--taking into his house that poor lad Grattan, who shot his mother by accident.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000074_000007|He sacrifices more time than a less busy man could spare, to save the poor fellow from getting into a morbid state of mind about it.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000075_000001|"I never knew any one who did such things."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000076_000000|"And one admires that sort of action in Kenn all the more," said Stephen, "because his manners in general are rather cold and severe. There's nothing sugary and maudlin about him."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000081_000000|"Well, those are the right views, I think," said Lucy, gravely.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000083_000000|"Do you really think of that?" said Lucy, her eyes brightening with a proud pleasure that made her neglect the argumentative interests of Anglicanism.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000084_000002|Don't you think so, Miss Tulliver?"
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000085_000000|"Yes," said Maggie, smiling, but not looking up; "so much fluency and self possession should not be wasted entirely on private occasions."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000086_000000|"Ah, I see how much penetration you have," said Stephen.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000086_000002|Now superficial people never discern that, owing to my manner, I suppose."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000087_000000|"She doesn't look at me when I talk of myself," he thought, while his listeners were laughing.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000087_000001|"I must try other subjects."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000088_000000|Did Lucy intend to be present at the meeting of the Book Club next week? was the next question.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000088_000004|He was so fascinated by the clear, large gaze that at last he forgot to look away from it occasionally toward Lucy; but she, sweet child, was only rejoicing that Stephen was proving to Maggie how clever he was, and that they would certainly be good friends after all.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000091_000000|"No, no," Lucy interposed.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000091_000001|"I must forbid your plunging Maggie in books.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000091_000002|I shall never get her away from them; and I want her to have delicious do nothing days, filled with boating and chatting and riding and driving; that is the holiday she needs."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000092_000000|"Apropos!" said Stephen, looking at his watch.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000093_000000|That was a delightful proposition to Maggie, for it was years since she had been on the river.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000093_000002|But she would write another to morrow and invite him.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000094_000001|I must leave the field clear for them in the morning."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000095_000000|"Oh yes, pray bring him," said Lucy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000095_000002|"Isn't she a dear, noble looking creature?"
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000096_000000|"Too tall," said Stephen, smiling down upon her, "and a little too fiery.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000000|Gentlemen, you are aware, are apt to impart these imprudent confidences to ladies concerning their unfavorable opinion of sister fair ones.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000001|That is why so many women have the advantage of knowing that they are secretly repulsive to men who have self denyingly made ardent love to them.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000002|And hardly anything could be more distinctively characteristic of Lucy than that she both implicitly believed what Stephen said, and was determined that Maggie should not know it.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000004|What then?
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000006|Such passions are never heard of in real life.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000008|But when one is five and twenty, one has not chalk stones at one's finger ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000010|And there was really something very interesting about this girl, with her poverty and troubles; it was gratifying to see the friendship between the two cousins.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000097_000011|Generally, Stephen admitted, he was not fond of women who had any peculiarity of character, but here the peculiarity seemed really of a superior kind, and provided one is not obliged to marry such women, why, they certainly make a variety in social intercourse.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000098_000000|Maggie did not fulfil Stephen's hope by looking at him during the first quarter of an hour; her eyes were too full of the old banks that she knew so well.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000098_000001|She felt lonely, cut off from Philip,--the only person who had ever seemed to love her devotedly, as she had always longed to be loved.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000098_000003|It appeared that she required much teaching, and she became ambitious.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000098_000004|The exercise brought the warm blood into her cheeks, and made her inclined to take her lesson merrily.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000099_000000|"I shall not be satisfied until I can manage both oars, and row you and Lucy," she said, looking very bright as she stepped out of the boat.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000099_000001|Maggie, we know, was apt to forget the thing she was doing, and she had chosen an inopportune moment for her remark; her foot slipped, but happily mr Stephen Guest held her hand, and kept her up with a firm grasp.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000100_000000|"You have not hurt yourself at all, I hope?" he said, bending to look in her face with anxiety.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000100_000001|It was very charming to be taken care of in that kind, graceful manner by some one taller and stronger than one's self.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000100_000002|Maggie had never felt just in the same way before.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000101_000000|When they reached home again, they found uncle and aunt Pullet seated with mrs Tulliver in the drawing room, and Stephen hurried away, asking leave to come again in the evening.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000102_000000|"And pray bring with you the volume of Purcell that you took away," said Lucy.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000102_000001|"I want Maggie to hear your best songs."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000107_000000|"Nonsense, aunty!" said Lucy, patting her aunt Tulliver's shoulder, "you don't understand those things.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000107_000001|A painter would think Maggie's complexion beautiful."
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000108_000000|"Maybe, my dear," said mrs Tulliver, submissively.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000108_000001|"You know better than I do.
train-other-500/2975/151995/2975_151995_000108_000002|Only when I was young a brown skin wasn't thought well on among respectable folks."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000006_000000|A Bonnet Gained And A Lover Lost
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000007_000000|"My letters have come at last," said Brandon, next morning, as he joined his friends at breakfast.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000007_000002|I would rather do without my dinner on mail day than have my letters delayed for nearly a week.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000007_000004|Had I got my letters when you received yours, I should have gone by the mail steamer and saved a month, but I cannot possibly manage to get off so soon."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000008_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000008_000001|mr Brandon," said mrs Phillips, calmly, "there surely is no such need for hurry."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000009_000000|"Everything is going to the dogs at my station.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000009_000002|Another six months like the last and I will be a ruined man.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000009_000003|It is very hard that one cannot take a short holiday without suffering so grievously for it.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000009_000004|What were your accounts, Phillips; I think you said they were rather unsatisfactory?"
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000010_000000|"Not very good, certainly; but not so bad as that comes to.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000010_000001|You will look to Wiriwilta a little when you return, and send me your opinion.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000010_000002|I had better entrust you with full powers to act for me, for I should prefer you as my attorney to Grant."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000012_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000012_000001|I think not; he took it very reluctantly, for he said his own affairs were enough for him."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000013_000000|"And perhaps a little more than enough," said Brandon, with a smile. "In that case I will be very glad to do all in my power for you."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000014_000000|"I have no wish to return to Australia," said mr Phillips, "if I can possibly afford to live here.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000014_000001|With a family like mine, England offers so many advantages.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000014_000002|In fact, there is only one place in the world worth living in, and that is London."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000015_000000|"Very true, if you have enough to live on," said Brandon, shrugging his shoulders.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000015_000001|"I must go now to work as hard as ever to get things set to rights again, and perhaps in another dozen of years, when I am feeble, old, and grey, I may return and spend the poor remnant of my days in this delightful centre of civilization.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000015_000002|But with me, fortunately, there are only the two alternatives, either London or the bush of Australia-there is no middle course of life desirable.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000015_000003|If I cannot attain the one, I must make the best of the other."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000016_000001|She had no fancy for a twelve years' banishment from England, nor for a rough life in the bush.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000016_000002|mr Brandon had been represented to her as a thriving settler who had made money.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000016_000004|She felt that she had been deceived, and she did not like being deceived, or mistaken, and she still less liked to make mistakes; and instead of blaming herself, she was angry with everyone else-her brother, her sister in law, Brandon himself-for leading her to believe that his circumstances were so much better than they were.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000016_000005|Of course, he would ask her-he could not help doing so; but as to accepting him-that was quite a different question.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000017_000000|She had put on her old bonnet with a grudge at Elsie; and when mrs Phillips appeared in the drawing room ready for the party to the exhibition in all the splendour of her new one, which really looked lovely, and she lovely in it, and Harriett caught the reflection of both figures in the large mirror, she felt still more dissatisfied with everybody than she had done before.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000018_000000|Harriett opened it, and was delighted to see Elsie holding in her hand the second bonnet completed-equally beautiful, equally tasteful, and apparently quite as expensive.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000019_000000|"Oh, Alice, how good of you!
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000019_000002|Come in and see mr Hogarth.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000019_000003|Look, mrs Phillips-look at Alice's clever handiwork."
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000020_000000|And Alice was introduced a little unwillingly into the drawing room to be complimented on her taste and her despatch, and to shake hands with the two gentlemen.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000021_000000|"I knew she could do it," Harriett whispered to mr Brandon, when Alice left the room; "she is so excessively quick.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000021_000002|I said it would." And so she accepted mr Hogarth's arm, and went to see the pictures with a better judge than Brandon, in all the triumph of her new bonnet-the lightest, the most becoming she had ever had in her life: but her influence with Walter Brandon was lost for ever.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000022_000001|How Harriett Phillips would have started if she could have read the hearts of Hogarth and Brandon, and seen what a very infinitesimal share she had in either.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000024_000001|The armed neutrality which she maintained with her sister in law had amused Brandon at first, but now it appeared to him to be unladylike and ungraceful to accept of hospitality in her brother's house without any gratitude or any forbearance.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000024_000002|He began to question the reality of her very great superiority over mrs Phillips; with all her advantages of education and society she ought to have shown more gentleness and affection both to her brother's wife and his children.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000024_000003|He analysed, as he had never done before, her expressions, and weighed her opinions, and found they generally had more sound than sense; and her habitual assumption that she knew everything much better than other people, became tiresome when he did not believe in her superiority.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000025_000001|Jane's calmness was the result of a strong will mastering the strong emotions which she really felt, and not in the absence of any powerful feeling or emotion whatever.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000025_000002|Brandon had learned to like Jane better as he knew more of her, and rather enjoyed being preached to by one who could practise as well as preach.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000025_000003|He felt that if she was superior to him she did not look down on him; and she certainly had the power of making him speak well, and of bringing out the very large amount of real useful practical knowledge that he had acquired in his Australian life.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000025_000004|Her eagerness to hear everything about Australia and Australians certainly was in pleasing contrast to Miss Phillips's distaste for all things and people colonial; but above all, Miss Phillips's want of consideration for Alice Melville had weaned mr Brandon's heart from her.
train-other-500/2979/156236/2979_156236_000025_000005|It was not merely unladylike; it was unwomanly.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000001_000000|A Seance
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000003_000000|The medium was a thin, nervous looking youth of about nineteen; but, as mr Dempster assured mr Hogarth, was in every way to be trusted, as his character was irreproachable, and of great sincerity and simplicity.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000000|To Francis, the details communicated appeared to be meagre and unsatisfactory.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000001|The spirits all said that they were happy, which to some present was a fact of inestimable value, but to him it was a matter of course.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000002|He never had believed, since he had thought out the subject in early manhood, that God would continue existence if He did not make it a blessing.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000003|But to others who, like many before him, had intelligently accepted of a sterner theology, and who had been struggling through years of chaotic doubts and fancies for footing on which to rest, he saw that these assurances gave real strength and support.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000004|An hour had passed amidst these manifestations-the interest of the believers continued to be unflagging, but Francis felt a little tired of it.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000005|He had lost no dear friend by death.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000007|The dearest beings in the world to him were his two cousins, and they were divided from him by circumstances almost as cruel as the grave.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000008|How few have done justice to the sad partings, the mournful alienations that have been caused by circumstances!
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000004_000009|Bereavement in all its varied bitterness has been sung by many poets in strains worthy of the subject; but circumstances are so insidious, and often so prosaic, that their tragical operation has been rarely treated of in verse.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000006_000000|"How am I to know it is he?" said Francis, starting up incredulously, but at the same time somewhat awed by the mere possibility that such a one was there, out of the body, owning him as his son, which he had not done while he was alive.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000007_000000|"Does the spirit mean to communicate by raps or through the medium?" asked mr Dempster.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000008_000000|"By raps," was the answer given.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000010_000000|Francis passed his finger along the alphabet, half disdainfully, half in curiosity.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000010_000001|The rap stopped him at the letter h He had never thought the curious little taps sounded so unearthly before.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000010_000002|Next he was stopped at E, then at N, then at R, and next at Y; and so on, till the full name of Henry Hogarth was spelled out.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000011_000000|"You wish to communicate with me;--then you love me now?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000012_000000|The three quick raps meaning "Yes" was the immediate reply.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000013_000000|"Are you satisfied with what I have done at Cross Hall since your death?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000014_000000|Again the alphabet was called for, and the raps spelled out, "Very much pleased."
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000015_000000|"Are you sorry for the will you made?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000016_000000|"All will be well in the end," was spelled out.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000017_000000|"Did you see your nieces' sufferings unmoved-their poverty, their disappointments, their unfitness for the work that you had set them to do?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000018_000000|"They are better for what they have suffered," was spelled out; "and you too."
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000019_000000|"Does the letter in my pocket come from my mother?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000020_000000|The three raps replied in the affirmative.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000021_000000|"Did you give her an annuity, as she says you did?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000022_000000|A single rap, meaning "No," was the reply.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000023_000000|"What did you give her, then, to make her forego her claims on you?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000024_000000|"A sum of money," was the reply.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000025_000000|Francis observed a great difference in the character of the raps proceeding from mr Hogarth from those of the spirit last summoned, which had been supposed to be that of mr Dempster's eldest daughter, who had died at sixteen, and of a lingering disease.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000025_000001|The latter were faint, and almost inaudible to an unpractised ear, while those of his father were firm and distinct.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000026_000000|"Advise me, my father; tell me what to do if you see more and know than more I can do.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000026_000001|Should I assist my mother, as she asks me to do?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000027_000000|The single impatient rap, meaning "No," was the immediate reply.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000029_000000|Again the answer was "no"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000032_000000|"Can I ever have what I most desire in the world?
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000032_000001|You promise improvement-I want happiness," said Francis, passionately, startled out of himself by the extraordinary pertinence of the answers to his questions, and careless in the company of absolute strangers as to what they thought of him.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000033_000000|"Patience!
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000033_000001|I watch over you," was the reply.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000034_000000|"What do you do in the spiritual world?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000035_000000|"I am learning," answered the spirit, "from one who loves me."
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000036_000000|"What is her name?" asked Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000037_000000|The alphabet was in his hands; he was anxious not to let any sign of his give any clue in case of its being all imposture and extraordinary quickness of sight.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000038_000001|Can I win her in this life?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000039_000000|"After a time," said the spirit, rapping by the alphabet this answer to his inaudible question.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000040_000000|"You then can answer mental questions," thought Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000040_000001|"What connection can mr Phillips possibly have with mrs Peck, or rather Elizabeth Hogarth?" But to this inaudible question the spirit made no reply, and told him, through the medium, that he was disinclined for any further communication.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000040_000002|Certainly it was a question which he felt conscious he had no right to put, after what mr Phillips had said to him.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000040_000003|The spirit was in the right not to answer it.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000041_000000|"Are you convinced?" said mr Dempster, who had seen the surprise with which mr Hogarth had spelled out the answers.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000042_000000|"I am staggered," said Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000044_000000|"I have asked some questions as to the future," said Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000044_000001|"I do not know if it is allowable to do so.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000044_000002|Do your spirits claim to have a knowledge of what is to come?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000045_000000|"Oh, yes; they do-those of the highest class in particular," said mr Dempster.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000046_000000|"I do not see how they can," said Francis musingly.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000046_000001|"To know the future is a prerogative of Omniscience, and even the highest created intelligence cannot tell what His purposes may be."
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000047_000000|"How do we guess at the future with sufficient accuracy to direct us in the present but by generalization from experience?
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000048_000000|"But not an infallible one?" said Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000049_000000|"No; certainly not," said mr Dempster.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000050_000000|"But, as to the present, their views are sure to be correct?" said Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000051_000000|"If they are good spirits, and not lying spirits.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000051_000001|We prayed against their appearance, and I do not believe that the spirit who has been communicating with you was of that kind," said mr Dempster.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000053_000000|"By the nature of their communications.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000053_000001|A false or an immoral message cannot be delivered by a good spirit."
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000054_000000|"Then you still continue to be the judges of the spirits?
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000054_000001|You do not bow your morality to theirs-you select and reject as you see good?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000055_000000|"Morality is universal and eternal," said mr Dempster.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000055_000001|"Even God himself cannot make evil good or good evil by any fiat of his own."
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000056_000000|"Then have these manifestations taught you anything that could not have been otherwise learned?" asked Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000057_000001|I cannot say what other people may attain to through pure reason or through a simple faith in the revealed will of God.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000057_000002|There are diversities of administration, but the same spirit," said mr Dempster, with a simple earnestness that weighed much with Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000059_000001|He eagerly turned to identify him.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000059_000003|Then a message was sent to his aged mother, who had so long mourned for her youngest born, that he was expecting her soon to join him in the spirit land.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000059_000004|The place where the old lady lived was mentioned, and her state of health was described as being bad.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000060_000000|"All perfectly true, perfectly true, mr Hogarth.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000060_000002|His was a distressing fate.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000060_000003|I expected that we should have something good in manifestations this evening, but I scarcely looked for anything so perfectly satisfactory as this.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000060_000004|Every name and every date exactly correct.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000060_000005|Are you not convinced now?"
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000061_000000|"I am certainly very much staggered," said Francis.
train-other-500/2979/156237/2979_156237_000061_000001|"Have you been thinking much about your friend or his mother lately?"
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000000_000000|"I know myself that one cannot help one's sympathies and antipathies," thought Prince Andrew, "so it will not do to present my proposal for the reform of the army regulations to the Emperor personally, but the project will speak for itself."
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000001_000001|The field marshal made an appointment to see him, received him graciously, and promised to inform the Emperor.
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000001_000002|A few days later Prince Andrew received notice that he was to go to see the Minister of War, Count Arakcheev.
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000004_000000|"He is Minister of War, a man trusted by the Emperor, and I need not concern myself about his personal qualities: he has been commissioned to consider my project, so he alone can get it adopted," thought Prince Andrew as he waited among a number of important and unimportant people in Count Arakcheev's waiting room.
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000005_000001|Count Arakcheev's anteroom had quite a special character.
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000005_000002|The faces of the unimportant people awaiting their turn for an audience showed embarrassment and servility; the faces of those of higher rank expressed a common feeling of awkwardness, covered by a mask of unconcern and ridicule of themselves, their situation, and the person for whom they were waiting.
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000005_000003|Some walked thoughtfully up and down, others whispered and laughed.
train-other-500/2985/153199/2985_153199_000005_000004|Prince Andrew heard the nickname "Sila Andreevich" and the words, "Uncle will give it to us hot," in reference to Count Arakcheev.
train-other-500/2985/153200/2985_153200_000020_000001|His arguments were concise, simple, and clear.
train-other-500/2985/153200/2985_153200_000022_000000|"I do not dispute that, but it cannot be denied that court privileges have attained the same end," returned Prince Andrew.
train-other-500/2985/153200/2985_153200_000022_000001|"Every courtier considers himself bound to maintain his position worthily."
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000000_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000001_000002|He gave money for the erection of temples and supplemented as far as he could the collection of alms, in regard to which the majority of members were stingy and irregular.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000001_000003|He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000002_000000|His life meanwhile continued as before, with the same infatuations and dissipations.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000002_000001|He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000003_000001|At the same time he felt that the deeper the ground sank under him the closer bound he involuntarily became to the order.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000003_000002|When he had joined the Freemasons he had experienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000003_000003|When he put his foot down it sank in.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000004_000000|Joseph Alexeevich was not in Petersburg-he had of late stood aside from the affairs of the Petersburg lodges, and lived almost entirely in Moscow.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000005_000000|He divided the Brothers he knew into four categories.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000005_000003|His heart was not in the mystical aspect of Freemasonry.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000007_000000|In the third category he included those Brothers (the majority) who saw nothing in Freemasonry but the external forms and ceremonies, and prized the strict performance of these forms without troubling about their purport or significance.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000007_000001|Such were Willarski and even the Grand Master of the principal lodge.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000008_000000|Finally, to the fourth category also a great many Brothers belonged, particularly those who had lately joined.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000009_000000|Pierre began to feel dissatisfied with what he was doing.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000009_000001|Freemasonry, at any rate as he saw it here, sometimes seemed to him based merely on externals.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000009_000003|And so toward the end of the year he went abroad to be initiated into the higher secrets of the order.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000010_000000|In the summer of eighteen o nine Pierre returned to Petersburg.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000010_000001|Our Freemasons knew from correspondence with those abroad that Bezukhov had obtained the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade, and was bringing back with him much that might conduce to the advantage of the masonic cause in Russia.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000010_000002|The Petersburg Freemasons all came to see him, tried to ingratiate themselves with him, and it seemed to them all that he was preparing something for them and concealing it.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000011_000000|A solemn meeting of the lodge of the second degree was convened, at which Pierre promised to communicate to the Petersburg Brothers what he had to deliver to them from the highest leaders of their order.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000011_000002|After the usual ceremonies Pierre rose and began his address.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000012_000001|We are drowsing, but we must act." Pierre raised his notebook and began to read.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000014_000001|But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000014_000002|What is to be done in these circumstances?
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000014_000003|To favor revolutions, overthrow everything, repel force by force?...
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000014_000004|No!
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000014_000005|We are very far from that.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000014_000006|Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.
train-other-500/2985/153202/2985_153202_000015_000001|Only then will our order have the power unobtrusively to bind the hands of the protectors of disorder and to control them without their being aware of it.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000008_000000|In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000008_000001|While the sea of history remains calm the ruler administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000008_000002|But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000009_000000|Rostopchin felt this, and it was this which exasperated him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000010_000000|The superintendent of police, whom the crowd had stopped, went in to see him at the same time as an adjutant who informed the count that the horses were harnessed.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000010_000001|They were both pale, and the superintendent of police, after reporting that he had executed the instructions he had received, informed the count that an immense crowd had collected in the courtyard and wished to see him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000011_000000|Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000011_000001|The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000011_000002|The blood stained smith stood beside him with a gloomy face.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000011_000003|A drone of voices was audible through the closed window.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000013_000000|"It is, your excellency," replied the adjutant.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000015_000000|"But what do they want?" he asked the superintendent of police.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000016_000000|"Your excellency, they say they have got ready, according to your orders, to go against the French, and they shouted something about treachery.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000016_000001|But it is a turbulent crowd, your excellency-I hardly managed to get away from it.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000016_000002|Your excellency, I venture to suggest..."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000017_000000|"You may go.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000017_000001|I don't need you to tell me what to do!" exclaimed Rostopchin angrily.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000019_000000|"This is what they have done with Russia!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000019_000002|As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000019_000004|They want a victim," he thought as he looked at the tall lad flourishing his arm.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000019_000005|And this thought occurred to him just because he himself desired a victim, something on which to vent his rage.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000020_000000|"Is the carriage ready?" he asked again.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000021_000000|"Yes, your excellency.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000021_000001|What are your orders about Vereshchagin?
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000021_000002|He is waiting at the porch," said the adjutant.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000022_000000|"Ah!" exclaimed Rostopchin, as if struck by an unexpected recollection.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000023_000000|And rapidly opening the door he went resolutely out onto the balcony.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000023_000001|The talking instantly ceased, hats and caps were doffed, and all eyes were raised to the count.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000024_000000|"Good morning, lads!" said the count briskly and loudly.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000024_000001|"Thank you for coming.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000024_000003|We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000024_000004|Wait for me!"
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000025_000000|And the count stepped as briskly back into the room and slammed the door behind him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000026_000000|A murmur of approbation and satisfaction ran through the crowd.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000026_000001|"He'll settle with all the villains, you'll see!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000026_000002|And you said the French...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000026_000003|He'll show you what law is!" the mob were saying as if reproving one another for their lack of confidence.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000027_000001|The crowd moved eagerly from the balcony toward the porch.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000027_000002|Rostopchin, coming out there with quick angry steps, looked hastily around as if seeking someone.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000028_000000|"Where is he?" he inquired.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000028_000002|He had a long thin neck, and his head, that had been half shaved, was again covered by short hair.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000028_000003|This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden down boots.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000028_000004|On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000029_000000|"Ah!" said Rostopchin, hurriedly turning away his eyes from the young man in the fur lined coat and pointing to the bottom step of the porch.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000029_000001|"Put him there."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000031_000000|For several seconds while the young man was taking his place on the step the silence continued.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000031_000001|Only among the back rows of the people, who were all pressing toward the one spot, could sighs, groans, and the shuffling of feet be heard.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000033_000000|"Lads!" said he, with a metallic ring in his voice.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000033_000001|"This man, Vereshchagin, is the scoundrel by whose doing Moscow is perishing."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000034_000000|The young man in the fur lined coat, stooping a little, stood in a submissive attitude, his fingers clasped before him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000034_000001|His emaciated young face, disfigured by the half shaven head, hung down hopelessly.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000034_000002|At the count's first words he raised it slowly and looked up at him as if wishing to say something or at least to meet his eye.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000034_000003|But Rostopchin did not look at him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000034_000004|A vein in the young man's long thin neck swelled like a cord and went blue behind the ear, and suddenly his face flushed.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000035_000000|All eyes were fixed on him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000037_000001|I hand him over to you."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000038_000000|The crowd remained silent and only pressed closer and closer to one another.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000038_000001|To keep one another back, to breathe in that stifling atmosphere, to be unable to stir, and to await something unknown, uncomprehended, and terrible, was becoming unbearable.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000039_000000|"Beat him!...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000039_000001|Let the traitor perish and not disgrace the Russian name!" shouted Rostopchin.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000039_000002|"Cut him down.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000039_000003|I command it."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000040_000000|Hearing not so much the words as the angry tone of Rostopchin's voice, the crowd moaned and heaved forward, but again paused.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000042_000000|He did not finish what he wished to say.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000043_000000|"Cut him down!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000043_000001|I command it..." shouted Rostopchin, suddenly growing pale like Vereshchagin.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000044_000000|"Draw sabers!" cried the dragoon officer, drawing his own.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000045_000000|Another still stronger wave flowed through the crowd and reaching the front ranks carried it swaying to the very steps of the porch.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000045_000001|The tall youth, with a stony look on his face, and rigid and uplifted arm, stood beside Vereshchagin.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000046_000000|"Saber him!" the dragoon officer almost whispered.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000047_000000|And one of the soldiers, his face all at once distorted with fury, struck Vereshchagin on the head with the blunt side of his saber.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000048_000000|"Ah!" cried Vereshchagin in meek surprise, looking round with a frightened glance as if not understanding why this was done to him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000048_000001|A similar moan of surprise and horror ran through the crowd.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000048_000002|"O Lord!" exclaimed a sorrowful voice.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000000|But after the exclamation of surprise that had escaped from Vereshchagin he uttered a plaintive cry of pain, and that cry was fatal.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000001|The barrier of human feeling, strained to the utmost, that had held the crowd in check suddenly broke.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000002|The crime had begun and must now be completed.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000003|The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000005|The dragoon was about to repeat his blow.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000006|Vereshchagin with a cry of horror, covering his head with his hands, rushed toward the crowd.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000049_000007|The tall youth, against whom he stumbled, seized his thin neck with his hands and, yelling wildly, fell with him under the feet of the pressing, struggling crowd.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000050_000000|Some beat and tore at Vereshchagin, others at the tall youth.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000050_000002|It was a long time before the dragoons could extricate the bleeding youth, beaten almost to death.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000051_000001|Crushed?...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000051_000002|Traitor, he sold Christ....
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000051_000003|Still alive... tenacious... serves him right!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000051_000004|Torture serves a thief right.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000051_000005|Use the hatchet!...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000051_000006|What-still alive?"
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000052_000000|Only when the victim ceased to struggle and his cries changed to a long drawn, measured death rattle did the crowd around his prostrate, bleeding corpse begin rapidly to change places.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000052_000001|Each one came up, glanced at what had been done, and with horror, reproach, and astonishment pushed back again.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000053_000000|"O Lord!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000053_000001|The people are like wild beasts!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000053_000003|"Quite a young fellow too... must have been a merchant's son.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000053_000005|How not the right one?... O Lord!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000053_000006|And there's another has been beaten too-they say he's nearly done for....
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000053_000008|Aren't they afraid of sinning?..." said the same mob now, looking with pained distress at the dead body with its long, thin, half severed neck and its livid face stained with blood and dust.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000054_000000|A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000054_000001|Two dragoons took it by its distorted legs and dragged it along the ground.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000054_000002|The gory, dust stained, half shaven head with its long neck trailed twisting along the ground.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000054_000003|The crowd shrank back from it.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000056_000001|Where are you going?...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000056_000002|This way, please..." said a trembling, frightened voice behind him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000057_000001|At the back entrance stood his caleche.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000057_000002|The distant roar of the yelling crowd was audible even there.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000057_000003|He hastily took his seat and told the coachman to drive him to his country house in Sokolniki.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000001|He remembered with dissatisfaction the agitation and fear he had betrayed before his subordinates.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000002|"The mob is terrible-disgusting," he said to himself in French.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000003|"They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease." "Count!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000004|One God is above us both!"--Vereshchagin's words suddenly recurred to him, and a disagreeable shiver ran down his back.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000005|But this was only a momentary feeling and Count Rostopchin smiled disdainfully at himself.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000006|"I had other duties," thought he.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000058_000007|"The people had to be appeased.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000059_000001|The thought which tranquillized Rostopchin was not a new one.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000059_000002|Since the world began and men have killed one another no one has ever committed such a crime against his fellow man without comforting himself with this same idea.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000059_000003|This idea is le bien public, the hypothetical welfare of other people.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000060_000000|To a man not swayed by passion that welfare is never certain, but he who commits such a crime always knows just where that welfare lies.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000060_000001|And Rostopchin now knew it.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000062_000000|"Vereshchagin was tried and condemned to death," thought Rostopchin (though the Senate had only condemned Vereshchagin to hard labor), "he was a traitor and a spy.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000062_000001|I could not let him go unpunished and so I have killed two birds with one stone: to appease the mob I gave them a victim and at the same time punished a miscreant."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000063_000000|Having reached his country house and begun to give orders about domestic arrangements, the count grew quite tranquil.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000064_000000|Half an hour later he was driving with his fast horses across the Sokolniki field, no longer thinking of what had occurred but considering what was to come.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000064_000001|He was driving to the Yauza bridge where he had heard that Kutuzov was.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000064_000002|Count Rostopchin was mentally preparing the angry and stinging reproaches he meant to address to Kutuzov for his deception.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000064_000003|He would make that foxy old courtier feel that the responsibility for all the calamities that would follow the abandonment of the city and the ruin of Russia (as Rostopchin regarded it) would fall upon his doting old head.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000064_000004|Planning beforehand what he would say to Kutuzov, Rostopchin turned angrily in his caleche and gazed sternly from side to side.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000065_000000|The Sokolniki field was deserted.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000065_000001|Only at the end of it, in front of the almshouse and the lunatic asylum, could be seen some people in white and others like them walking singly across the field shouting and gesticulating.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000067_000001|The lunatic's solemn, gloomy face was thin and yellow, with its beard growing in uneven tufts.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000067_000002|His black, agate pupils with saffron yellow whites moved restlessly near the lower eyelids.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000068_000000|"Stop!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000068_000001|Pull up, I tell you!" he cried in a piercing voice, and again shouted something breathlessly with emphatic intonations and gestures.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000070_000001|They stoned me, crucified me...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000070_000002|I shall rise... shall rise... shall rise.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000070_000003|They have torn my body.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000070_000004|The kingdom of God will be overthrown...
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000071_000000|Count Rostopchin suddenly grew pale as he had done when the crowd closed in on Vereshchagin.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000071_000001|He turned away.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000071_000003|The caleche flew over the ground as fast as the horses could draw it, but for a long time Count Rostopchin still heard the insane despairing screams growing fainter in the distance, while his eyes saw nothing but the astonished, frightened, bloodstained face of "the traitor" in the fur lined coat.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000072_000000|Recent as that mental picture was, Rostopchin already felt that it had cut deep into his heart and drawn blood.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000072_000002|He seemed still to hear the sound of his own words: "Cut him down!
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000072_000003|I command it...."
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000073_000000|"Why did I utter those words?
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000073_000001|It was by some accident I said them....
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000073_000002|I need not have said them," he thought.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000073_000003|"And then nothing would have happened." He saw the frightened and then infuriated face of the dragoon who dealt the blow, the look of silent, timid reproach that boy in the fur lined coat had turned upon him.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000073_000005|I was bound to act that way....
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000074_000000|Troops were still crowding at the Yauza bridge.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000074_000001|It was hot.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000074_000002|Kutuzov, dejected and frowning, sat on a bench by the bridge toying with his whip in the sand when a caleche dashed up noisily.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000074_000004|It was Count Rostopchin.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000074_000005|He told Kutuzov that he had come because Moscow, the capital, was no more and only the army remained.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000075_000000|"Things would have been different if your Serene Highness had not told me that you would not abandon Moscow without another battle; all this would not have happened," he said.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000076_000001|Rostopchin grew confused and became silent.
train-other-500/2988/173558/2988_173558_000078_000000|Whether Kutuzov was thinking of something entirely different when he spoke those words, or uttered them purposely, knowing them to be meaningless, at any rate Rostopchin made no reply and hastily left him.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000002_000000|OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of m Valdemar has excited discussion.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000003_000001|They are, succinctly, these:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000004_000000|My attention, for the last three years, had been repeatedly drawn to the subject of Mesmerism; and, about nine months ago it occurred to me, quite suddenly, that in the series of experiments made hitherto, there had been a very remarkable and most unaccountable omission:--no person had as yet been mesmerized in articulo mortis.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000004_000002|There were other points to be ascertained, but these most excited my curiosity-the last in especial, from the immensely important character of its consequences.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000005_000001|His temperament was markedly nervous, and rendered him a good subject for mesmeric experiment.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000005_000002|On two or three occasions I had put him to sleep with little difficulty, but was disappointed in other results which his peculiar constitution had naturally led me to anticipate.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000005_000003|His will was at no period positively, or thoroughly, under my control, and in regard to clairvoyance, I could accomplish with him nothing to be relied upon.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000005_000005|For some months previous to my becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in a confirmed phthisis.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000005_000006|It was his custom, indeed, to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution, as of a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000006_000001|I knew the steady philosophy of the man too well to apprehend any scruples from him; and he had no relatives in America who would be likely to interfere.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000006_000002|I spoke to him frankly upon the subject; and, to my surprise, his interest seemed vividly excited.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000006_000003|I say to my surprise, for, although he had always yielded his person freely to my experiments, he had never before given me any tokens of sympathy with what I did.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000006_000004|His disease was of that character which would admit of exact calculation in respect to the epoch of its termination in death; and it was finally arranged between us that he would send for me about twenty four hours before the period announced by his physicians as that of his decease.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000007_000000|It is now rather more than seven months since I received, from m Valdemar himself, the subjoined note:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000008_000000|My DEAR P---,
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000009_000000|You may as well come now.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000009_000001|D---- and F---- are agreed that I cannot hold out beyond to morrow midnight; and I think they have hit the time very nearly.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000010_000000|VALDEMAR
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000011_000000|I received this note within half an hour after it was written, and in fifteen minutes more I was in the dying man's chamber.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000011_000003|His expectoration was excessive.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000011_000004|The pulse was barely perceptible.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000011_000005|He retained, nevertheless, in a very remarkable manner, both his mental power and a certain degree of physical strength.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000011_000006|He spoke with distinctness-took some palliative medicines without aid-and, when I entered the room, was occupied in penciling memoranda in a pocket book.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000012_000000|After pressing Valdemar's hand, I took these gentlemen aside, and obtained from them a minute account of the patient's condition.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000012_000003|Several extensive perforations existed; and, at one point, permanent adhesion to the ribs had taken place.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000012_000004|These appearances in the right lobe were of comparatively recent date.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000013_000000|On quitting the invalid's bed side to hold conversation with myself, Doctors D---- and F---- had bidden him a final farewell.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000013_000001|It had not been their intention to return; but, at my request, they agreed to look in upon the patient about ten the next night.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000014_000001|He still professed himself quite willing and even anxious to have it made, and urged me to commence it at once.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000014_000003|It had been my design, originally, to wait for the physicians; but I was induced to proceed, first, by the urgent entreaties of m Valdemar, and secondly, by my conviction that I had not a moment to lose, as he was evidently sinking fast.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000016_000001|Valdemar) was entirely willing that I should make the experiment of mesmerizing him in his then condition.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000018_000002|I explained to them, in a few words, what I designed, and as they opposed no objection, saying that the patient was already in the death agony, I proceeded without hesitation-exchanging, however, the lateral passes for downward ones, and directing my gaze entirely into the right eye of the sufferer.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000019_000000|By this time his pulse was imperceptible and his breathing was stertorous, and at intervals of half a minute.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000020_000000|This condition was nearly unaltered for a quarter of an hour.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000020_000002|The patient's extremities were of an icy coldness.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000021_000000|At five minutes before eleven I perceived unequivocal signs of the mesmeric influence.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000021_000003|The legs were at full length; the arms were nearly so, and reposed on the bed at a moderate distance from the loin. The head was very slightly elevated.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000022_000002|The curiosity of both the physicians was greatly excited.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000022_000003|dr D---- resolved at once to remain with the patient all night, while dr F---- took leave with a promise to return at daybreak. mr L-l and the nurses remained.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000023_000001|Still, the general appearance was certainly not that of death.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000024_000002|I determined to hazard a few words of conversation.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000025_000001|Valdemar," I said, "are you asleep?" He made no answer, but I perceived a tremor about the lips, and was thus induced to repeat the question, again and again.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000025_000002|At its third repetition, his whole frame was agitated by a very slight shivering; the eyelids unclosed themselves so far as to display a white line of the ball; the lips moved sluggishly, and from between them, in a barely audible whisper, issued the words:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000026_000000|"Yes;--asleep now.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000026_000001|Do not wake me!--let me die so!"
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000027_000000|I here felt the limbs and found them as rigid as ever.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000027_000002|I questioned the sleep waker again:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000029_000000|The answer now was immediate, but even less audible than before: "No pain-I am dying."
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000030_000001|After feeling the pulse and applying a mirror to the lips, he requested me to speak to the sleep waker again.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000030_000002|I did so, saying:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000031_000001|Valdemar, do you still sleep?"
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000033_000000|"Yes; still asleep-dying."
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000034_000000|It was now the opinion, or rather the wish, of the physicians, that m Valdemar should be suffered to remain undisturbed in his present apparently tranquil condition, until death should supervene-and this, it was generally agreed, must now take place within a few minutes.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000034_000001|I concluded, however, to speak to him once more, and merely repeated my previous question.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000035_000000|While I spoke, there came a marked change over the countenance of the sleep waker.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000036_000001|It is my business, however, simply to proceed.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000037_000002|There are, indeed, two or three epithets which might be considered as applicable to it in part; I might say, for example, that the sound was harsh, and broken and hollow; but the hideous whole is indescribable, for the simple reason that no similar sounds have ever jarred upon the ear of humanity.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000037_000003|There were two particulars, nevertheless, which I thought then, and still think, might fairly be stated as characteristic of the intonation-as well adapted to convey some idea of its unearthly peculiarity.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000037_000004|In the first place, the voice seemed to reach our ears-at least mine-from a vast distance, or from some deep cavern within the earth.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000038_000000|I have spoken both of "sound" and of "voice." I mean to say that the sound was one of distinct-of even wonderfully, thrillingly distinct-syllabification.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000038_000002|I had asked him, it will be remembered, if he still slept.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000038_000003|He now said:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000039_000000|"Yes;--no;--I have been sleeping-and now-now-I am dead."
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000040_000000|No person present even affected to deny, or attempted to repress, the unutterable, shuddering horror which these few words, thus uttered, were so well calculated to convey.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000040_000002|The nurses immediately left the chamber, and could not be induced to return.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000041_000000|It remained in all respects as I have last described it, with the exception that the mirror no longer afforded evidence of respiration.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000041_000001|An attempt to draw blood from the arm failed.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000041_000003|I endeavored in vain to make it follow the direction of my hand.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000041_000006|I believe that I have now related all that is necessary to an understanding of the sleep waker's state at this epoch.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000042_000000|In the afternoon we all called again to see the patient.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000042_000001|His condition remained precisely the same.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000043_000002|The nurses' attentions were continual.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000045_000002|It was observed, as especially remarkable, that this lowering of the pupil was accompanied by the profuse out flowing of a yellowish ichor (from beneath the lids) of a pungent and highly offensive odor.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000046_000001|I made the attempt and failed.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000046_000002|dr F-then intimated a desire to have me put a question.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000046_000003|I did so, as follows:
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000047_000001|Valdemar, can you explain to us what are your feelings or wishes now?"
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000050_000000|I was thoroughly unnerved, and for an instant remained undecided what to do.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000050_000001|At first I made an endeavor to re compose the patient; but, failing in this through total abeyance of the will, I retraced my steps and as earnestly struggled to awaken him.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000050_000002|In this attempt I soon saw that I should be successful-or at least I soon fancied that my success would be complete-and I am sure that all in the room were prepared to see the patient awaken.
train-other-500/2988/7587/2988_7587_000051_000000|For what really occurred, however, it is quite impossible that any human being could have been prepared.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000001_000000|The Work and the Workers
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000004_000001|Patches seem to be remaining south of the Glacier Tongue and the Island and off our own bay.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000005_000000|Had Divine Service.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000005_000001|Have only seven hymn books, those brought on shore for our first Service being very stupidly taken back to the ship.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000007_000001|The observer is to look round every hour or oftener if there is aught to be seen.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000007_000002|He is allowed cocoa and sardines with bread and butter-the cocoa can be made over an acetylene Bunsen burner, part of Simpson's outfit.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000007_000003|I took the first turn last night; the remainder of the afterguard follow in rotation.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000007_000004|The long night hours give time to finish up a number of small tasks-the hut remains quite warm though the fires are out.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000008_000000|Simpson has been practising with balloons during our absence.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000008_000001|This morning he sent one up for trial.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000008_000002|The balloon is of silk and has a capacity of one cubic metre.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000008_000003|It is filled with hydrogen gas, which is made in a special generator.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000008_000004|The generation is a simple process.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000008_000006|By tipping the tube the amount of calcium hydrate required can be poured into the generator.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000010_000001|The lower part of the instrument is again attached to the silk thread, which is cunningly wound on coned bobbins from which the balloon unwinds it without hitch or friction as it ascends.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000013_000001|In the afternoon a double thread was tried, and this acted successfully.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000014_000000|To day I allotted the ponies for exercise.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000014_000001|Bowers, Cherry Garrard, Hooper, Clissold, p o
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000015_000000|Wilson is very busy making sketches.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000017_000000|Although we had very good sunset effects at Hut Point, Ponting and others were much disappointed with the absence of such effects at Cape Evans.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000017_000001|This was probably due to the continual interference of frost smoke; since our return here and especially yesterday and to day the sky and sea have been glorious in the afternoon.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000019_000000|Atkinson is unpacking and setting up his sterilizers and incubators.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000019_000001|Wright is wrestling with the electrical instruments.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000019_000002|Evans is busy surveying the Cape and its vicinity.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000019_000006|In fact, everyone is extraordinarily busy.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000020_000002|With the sunset lights, deep shadows, the black islands and white bergs it was all very beautiful.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000021_000001|The balloon at first went north with a light southerly breeze till it reached three hundred or four hundred feet., then it turned to the south but did not travel rapidly; when two miles of thread had gone it seemed to be going north again or rising straight upward.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000023_000000|The sides of the galley fire have caved in-there should have been cheeks to prevent this; we got some fire clay cement to day and plastered up the sides.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000023_000001|I hope this will get over the difficulty, but have some doubt.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000026_000000|We should have our party back soon.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000027_000001|It will be interesting to climb around these monsters as the winter proceeds.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000029_000000|We have an extraordinary diversity of talent and training in our people; it would be difficult to imagine a company composed of experiences which differed so completely.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000029_000001|We find one hut contains an experience of every country and every clime!
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000030_000005|The faults in the dust strata in these surfaces are very mysterious and should be instructive in the explanation of certain ice problems.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000031_000001|If no further blizzard clears the Strait it can be said for this season that:
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000033_000000|Later.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000000|Night twenty fourth-twenty fifth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000001|Ice forming mid day twenty fifth, opened with leads. twenty sixth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000002|Ice all out, sound apparently open. twenty seventh.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000003|Strait apparently freezing. Early twenty eighth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000004|Ice over whole Strait. twenty ninth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000005|All ice gone. thirtieth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000006|Freezing over. may fourth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000007|Broad lead opened along land to Castle Rock, three hundred to four hundred yds.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000034_000008|wide.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000035_000000|Party intended to start on eleventh, if weather fine.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000037_000001|The agglomerates, kenytes, and lavas are much the same as those at Cape Evans.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000037_000002|The Island is five hundred forty feet.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000037_000004|From the summit one has an excellent view of our surroundings and the ice in the Strait, which seemed to extend far beyond Cape Royds, but had some ominous cracks beyond the Island.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000038_000000|We climbed round the ice foot after descending the hill and found it much broken up on the south side; the sea spray had washed far up on it.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000040_000001|The island had a good sprinkling of snow, which will all be gone, I expect, to night.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000040_000003|By the time we started homeward it was upon us, making a harsh chatter as it struck the high rocks and sweeping along the drift on the floe.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000041_000000|The blow seems to have passed over to night and the sky is clear again, but I much fear the ice has gone out in the Strait.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000041_000001|There is an ominous black look to the westward.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000043_000000|The only comfort is that the Strait is already frozen again; but what is to happen if every blow clears the sea like this?
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000044_000000|Had an interesting walk.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000045_000001|The ponds and various forms of ice grains interest us.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000046_000000|To night have been naming all the small land features of our vicinity.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000047_000001|A balloon was sent up in the morning, but only reached a mile in height before the instrument was detached (by slow match).
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000048_000002|The ice outside the bergs has grown very thick, fourteen inches or more, but there were freshly frozen pools beyond the Island.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000049_000001|The most attractive point raised was that of pigmentation.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000049_000002|Does the absence of pigment suggest absence of reserve energy?
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000049_000003|Does it increase the insulating properties of the hair or feathers?
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000049_000004|Or does the animal clothed in white radiate less of his internal heat?
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000050_000000|To day have had our first game of football; a harassing southerly wind sprang up, which helped my own side to the extent of three goals.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000051_000002|I'm much afraid it may go across our pony track from Hut Point.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000051_000003|I am getting anxious to have the hut party back, and begin to wonder if the ice to the south will ever hold in permanently now that the Glacier Tongue has gone.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000052_000001|Wilson and Bowers took our few dogs for a run in a sledge.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000053_000002|This shows an inverted temperature.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000054_000000|As I returned from my walk the southern sky seemed to grow darker, and later stratus cloud was undoubtedly spreading up from that direction-this at about five p m
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000054_000003|One cannot see the result on the Strait, but I fear it means that the ice has gone out again in places.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000062_000000|Wanted to see more rainbows on Barrier.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000062_000002|Reports should note colours and relative width of bands of colour.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000066_000000|Arch: centre of arch in magnetic meridian.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000067_000000|Shafts: take direction of dipping needle.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000068_000000|Bands and Curtains with convolutions-not understood.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000069_000000|Corona: shafts meeting to form.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000070_000002|The phenomenon further connects itself in form with lines of magnetic force about the earth.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000071_000000|(Curious apparent connection between spectrum of aurora and that of a heavy gas, 'argon.' May be coincidence.)
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000072_000000|Two theories enunciated:
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000076_000000|It is experimentally shown that ions are given off by dried calcium, which the sun contains.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000078_000002|The dark appearance of the ice is noticeable, but this has been the case of late since the light is poor; little snow has fallen or drifted and the ice flowers are very sparse and scattered.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000079_000000|We had an excellent game of football again to day-the exercise is delightful and we get very warm.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000079_000001|Atkinson is by far the best player, but Hooper, p o Evans, and Crean are also quite good.
train-other-500/2990/6534/2990_6534_000079_000002|It has been calm all day again.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000002_000001|Once or twice in the night a light northerly wind, soon dying away.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000002_000005|It is delightful to contemplate the amount of work which is being done at the station.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000000|I do not think there can be any life quite so demonstrative of character as that which we had on these expeditions.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000001|One sees a remarkable reassortment of values.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000002|Under ordinary conditions it is so easy to carry a point with a little bounce; self assertion is a mask which covers many a weakness.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000003|As a rule we have neither the time nor the desire to look beneath it, and so it is that commonly we accept people on their own valuation.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000004|Here the outward show is nothing, it is the inward purpose that counts.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000005|So the 'gods' dwindle and the humble supplant them.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000003_000006|Pretence is useless.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000005_000000|Simpson, master of his craft, untiringly attentive to the working of his numerous self recording instruments, observing all changes with scientific acumen, doing the work of two observers at least and yet ever seeking to correlate an expanded scope.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000005_000001|So the current meteorological and magnetic observations are taken as never before by Polar expeditions.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000007_000001|Therefrom we derive a singularly exact preservation of time-an important consideration to all, but especially necessary for the physical work.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000007_000002|Therefrom also, and including more labour, we have an accurate survey of our immediate surroundings and can trust to possess the correctly mapped results of all surveying data obtained.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000007_000003|He has Gran for assistant.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000008_000000|Taylor's intellect is omnivorous and versatile-his mind is unceasingly active, his grasp wide.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000009_000001|Here we have a well trained, sturdy worker, with a quiet meaning that carries conviction; he realises the conceptions of thoroughness and conscientiousness.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000010_000000|To Bowers' practical genius is owed much of the smooth working of our station.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000010_000002|Active mind and active body were never more happily blended.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000010_000003|It is a restless activity, admitting no idle moments and ever budding into new forms.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000011_000001|Such a task completed, he is away to exercise his pony, and later out again with the dogs, the last typically self suggested, because for the moment there is no one else to care for these animals.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000011_000002|Now in a similar manner he is spreading thermometer screens to get comparative readings with the home station.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000012_000000|Adjacent to the physicist's corner of the hut Atkinson is quietly pursuing the subject of parasites.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000012_000001|Already he is in a new world.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000012_000002|The laying out of the fish trap was his action and the catches are his field of labour.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000013_000001|I would describe him as sustained by artistic enthusiasm.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000014_000000|Cherry Garrard is another of the open air, self effacing, quiet workers; his whole heart is in the life, with profound eagerness to help everyone.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000015_000000|Oates' whole heart is in the ponies.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000016_000000|Evans and Crean are repairing sleeping bags, covering felt boots, and generally working on sledging kit.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000016_000001|In fact there is no one idle, and no one who has the least prospect of idleness.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000018_000000|Yesterday, Friday evening, Taylor gave an introductory lecture on his remarkably fascinating subject-modern physiography.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000019_000001|They must, in consequence, have their special language.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000019_000002|River courses, they say, are not temporary-in the main they are archaic.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000019_000008|Hence modification in positions of river courses and the fact of different parts of a single river being in different stages of cycle.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000022_000000|The Russian Plains-Examples of 'senility.'
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000025_000000|Landslips have caused the isolation of Lake George and altered the watershed of the whole country to the south.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000026_000000|Later on Taylor will deal with the effects of ice and lead us to the formation of the scenery of our own region, and so we shall have much to discuss.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000027_000001|One wonders why the Hut Point party does not come.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000027_000003|Another smaller one is to go on top of the Ramp.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000027_000005|This vehicle is not easily turned, but may be very useful before there is much snowfall.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000029_000001|We had fish for breakfast this morning, but an even more satisfactory result of the catches has been revealed by Atkinson's microscope.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000031_000000|Yesterday we had a game of football; it is pleasant to mess about, but the light is failing.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000033_000001|Everyone was interested naturally.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000033_000003|With this sentiment the whole company appeared to be in sympathy.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000033_000004|Everyone seems to distrust the dogs when it comes to glacier and summit.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000033_000005|I have asked everyone to give thought to the problem, to freely discuss it, and bring suggestions to my notice.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000033_000006|It's going to be a tough job; that is better realised the more one dives into it.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000035_000000|The Strait has been frozen over a week.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000035_000001|I cannot understand why the Hut Point party doesn't return.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000035_000003|Perhaps the unsettled look stops the party, or perhaps it waits for the moon, which will be bright in a day or two.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000036_000000|Any way I wish it would return, and shall not be free from anxiety till it does.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000037_000000|Cherry Garrard is experimenting in stone huts and with blubber fires-all with a view to prolonging the stay at Cape Crozier.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000038_000002|To complete the records a thermometer is to be placed in South Bay.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000039_000000|Science-the rock foundation of all effort!!
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000040_000002|The party does not come.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000040_000004|The ice is nine inches thick, not much for eight or nine days' freezing; but it is very solid-the surface wet but very slippery.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000040_000005|I suppose Meares waits for twelve inches in thickness, or fears the floe is too slippery for the ponies.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000041_000000|Yet I wish he would come.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000043_000003|Our lectures are a real success.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000046_000000|I have not been far from the hut, but had a great fear on one occasion that the ice had gone out in the Strait.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000047_000000|The wind is dropping this evening, and I have been up to Wind Vane Hill.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000047_000001|I now think the ice has remained fast.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000049_000001|It is probably air borne, and though no bacteria have been found in the air, this may be carried in upper currents and brought down by the snow.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000050_000000|To night Debenham gave a geological lecture.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000050_000001|It was elementary.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000051_000002|Mock moons with prismatic patches of colour appeared in the radiant ring, echoes of the main source of light.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000051_000003|Wilson has a charming sketch of the phenomenon.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000052_000001|It was evident that there had been no movement in consequence of yesterday's blow.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000053_000001|Instead of this I came to an impossible overhanging cliff of lava, and was forced to descend as I had come up.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000053_000002|It was no easy task, and I was glad to get down with only one slip, when I brought myself up with my ice axe in the nick of time to prevent a fall over a cliff.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000053_000003|This Island is very steep on all sides.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000053_000004|There is only one known place of ascent; it will be interesting to try and find others.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000054_000000|After tea Atkinson came in with the glad tidings that the dog team were returning from Hut Point.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000054_000001|We were soon on the floe to welcome the last remnant of our wintering party.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000054_000002|Meares reported everything well and the ponies not far behind.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000056_000000|Half an hour later Day, Lashly, Nelson, Forde, and Keohane arrived with the two ponies-men and animals in good form.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000057_000000|It is a great comfort to have the men and dogs back, and a greater to contemplate all the ten ponies comfortably stabled for the winter.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000057_000001|Everything seems to depend on these animals.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000058_000000|I have not seen the meteorological record brought back, but it appears that the party had had very fine calm weather since we left them, except during the last three days when wind has been very strong.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000059_000000|I am promised the sea freezing record to morrow.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000059_000002|Some more forage had been fetched in from the depot.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000060_000000|It is a strange fact that none of the returning party seem to greatly appreciate the food luxuries they have had since their return.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000060_000001|It would have been the same with us had we not had a day or two in tents before our return.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000060_000002|It seems more and more certain that a very simple fare is all that is needed here-plenty of seal meat, flour, and fat, with tea, cocoa, and sugar; these are the only real requirements for comfortable existence.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000062_000001|Other details as to the carbide consumed in making acetylene gas may be briefly quoted.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000064_000000|Exercised the ponies and held the usual service.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000064_000002|I want to get into his head the larger bearing of the problems which our physical investigations involve.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000064_000003|He needs two years here to fully realise these things, and with all his intelligence and energy will produce little unless he has that extended experience.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000065_000001|At such times the Bay seems strangely homely, especially when the eye rests on our camp with the hut and lighted windows.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000066_000002|With me there is no need to draw a veil; there is nothing to cover.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000066_000003|There are no strained relations in this hut, and nothing more emphatically evident than the universally amicable spirit which is shown on all occasions.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000067_000000|Such a state of affairs would be delightfully surprising under any conditions, but it is much more so when one remembers the diverse assortment of our company.
train-other-500/2990/6535/2990_6535_000069_000000|It is a triumph to have collected such men.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000002_000000|WAKING UP.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000004_000003|A soft brightness shone in her eyes, a fuller tone sounded in her voice, and her face grew young and blooming with the happiness that transfigures all it touches.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000006_000000|"Thee is a good gardener, Davy," the old lady would reply, and when he was busy would watch him with a tender sort of anxiety, as if to discover a like change in him.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000007_000000|But no alteration appeared, except more cheerfulness and less silence; for now there was no need to hide his real self, and all the social virtues in him came out delightfully after their long solitude.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000008_000000|In her present uplifted state, Christie could no more help regarding David as a martyr and admiring him for it, than she could help mixing sentiment with her sympathy.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000008_000001|By the light of the late confessions, his life and character looked very different to her now.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000009_000000|She grubbed in the garden and green house, and learned hard botanical names that she might be able to talk intelligently upon subjects that interested her comrade.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000009_000001|Then, as autumn ended out of door work, she tried to make home more comfortable and attractive than ever.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000010_000001|He had fought many a silent battle there; won many a secret victory; and tried to cheer his solitude with the best thoughts the minds of the bravest, wisest men could give him.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000011_000000|She did not smile at the dilapidated idols now, but touched them tenderly, and let no dust obscure their well beloved faces.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000012_000000|She also-alas, for romance!--cooked the dishes David loved, and liked to see him enjoy them with the appetite which once had shocked her so.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000012_000001|She watched over his buttons with a vigilance that would have softened the heart of the crustiest bachelor: she even gave herself the complexion of a lemon by wearing blue, because David liked the pretty contrast with his mother's drabs.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000013_000000|After recording that last fact, it is unnecessary to explain what was the matter with Christie.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000014_000000|"Not the first maiden Who came but for friendship, And took away love."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000015_000000|After the birthnight confessions, David found it easier to go on with the humdrum life he had chosen from a sense of duty; for now he felt as if he had not only a fellow worker, but a comrade and friend who understood, sympathized with, and encouraged him by an interest and good will inexpressibly comfortable and inspiring.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000016_000000|David saw this, and felt it more attractive than any gift of beauty or fascination of manner would have been.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000017_000000|mrs Sterling saw these changes with her wise, motherly eyes, but said nothing; for she influenced others by the silent power of character.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000017_000001|Speaking little, and unusually gifted with the meditative habits of age, she seemed to live in a more peaceful world than this.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000017_000002|As George MacDonald somewhere says, "Her soul seemed to sit apart in a sunny little room, safe from dust and noise, serenely regarding passers by through the clear muslin curtains of her window."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000018_000001|Christie had won her heart long ago, and now was as devoted as a daughter to her; lightening her cares so skilfully that many of them slipped naturally on to the young shoulders, and left the old lady much time for rest, or the lighter tasks fitted for feeble hands.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000018_000002|Christie often called her "Mother," and felt herself rewarded for the hardest, humblest job she ever did when the sweet old voice said gratefully, "I thank thee, daughter."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000019_000000|Things were in this prosperous, not to say paradisiacal, state, when one member of the family began to make discoveries of an alarming nature.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000019_000002|Next, that the restless ambitions of all sorts were quite gone; for now Christie's mission seemed to be sitting in a quiet corner and making shirts in the most exquisite manner, while thinking about-well, say botany, or any kindred subject.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000019_000003|Thirdly, that home was woman's sphere after all, and the perfect roasting of beef, brewing of tea, and concocting of delectable puddings, an end worth living for if masculine commendation rewarded the labor.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000021_000000|At this point Christie paused; and, after evading any explanation of these phenomena in the most skilful manner for a time, suddenly faced the fact, saying to herself with great candor and decision:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000022_000000|"I know what all this means: I'm beginning to like David more than is good for me.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000022_000001|I see this clearly, and won't dodge any longer, but put a stop to it at once.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000022_000004|I promised to be one to him, and I'll keep my word like an honest woman.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000022_000005|It may not be easy; but all the sacrifices shall not be his, and I won't be a fool."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000024_000000|She talked while she sewed instead of indulging in dangerous thoughts, and mrs Sterling was surprised and entertained by this new loquacity.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000025_000000|"I'm trying to brighten up my wits," she said, and went on trying to stifle her affections.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000026_000000|But though "the absurdity," as she called the new revelation, was stopped externally, it continued with redoubled vigor internally. Each night she said, "this must be conquered," yet each morning it rose fair and strong to make the light and beauty of her day, and conquer her again.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000026_000001|She did her best and bravest, but was forced at last to own that she could not "put a stop to it," because she had already reached the point where "it was all over with her."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000027_000000|Just at this critical moment an event occurred which completed Christie's defeat, and made her feel that her only safety lay in flight.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000028_000000|One evening she sat studying ferns, and heroically saying over and over, "Andiantum, Aspidium, and Asplenium, Trichomanes," while longing to go and talk delightfully to David, who sat musing by the fire.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000029_000000|"I can't go on so much longer," she thought despairingly. "Polypodium aureum, a native of Florida," is all very interesting in its place; but it doesn't help me to gain self control a bit, and I shall disgrace myself if something doesn't happen very soon."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000031_000000|"Why, Kitty, what's the matter now?" asked David, putting back her hood, and looking down at her with the paternal expression Christie had not seen for a long time, and missed very much.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000032_000000|"Father found me, and took me home, and wanted me to marry a dreadful man, and I wouldn't, so I ran away to you.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000035_000001|She came to take your place, and we got so fond of her we could not let her go," answered David with a gesture of introduction, quite unconscious that his position just then was about as safe and pleasant as that of a man between a lighted candle and an open powder barrel.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000036_000000|The two young women nodded to each other, took a swift survey, and made up their minds before David had poked the fire.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000038_000000|"Just the pretty, lively sort of girl sensible men often marry, and then discover how silly they are," thought Christie, taking up her work and assuming an indifferent air.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000040_000000|"So you don't want to marry this Miles because he is not handsome. You'd better think again before you make up your mind.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000040_000001|He is respectable, well off, and fond of you, it seems.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000040_000002|Why not try it, Kitty?
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000042_000000|"Oh, there's another lover, is there?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000044_000000|David laughed and looked at Christie as if inviting her to be amused with the freaks and prattle of a child.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000045_000000|"That won't do, Kitty: you are too young for much of such nonsense. I shall keep you here a while, and see if we can't settle matters both wisely and pleasantly," he said, shaking his head as sagely as a grandfather.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000046_000000|"I'm sure I wish you would: I love to stay here, you are always so good to me.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000046_000001|I'm in no hurry to be married; and you won't make me: will you?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000047_000000|Kitty rose as she spoke, and stood before him with a beseeching little gesture, and a confiding air quite captivating to behold.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000048_000000|Christie was suddenly seized with a strong desire to shake the girl and call her an "artful little hussy," but crushed this unaccountable impulse, and hemmed a pocket handkerchief with reckless rapidity, while she stole covert glances at the tableau by the fire.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000049_000000|David put his finger under Kitty's round chin, and lifting her face looked into it, trying to discover if she really cared for this suitor who seemed so providentially provided for her.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000049_000001|Kitty smiled and blushed, and dimpled under that grave look so prettily that it soon changed, and David let her go, saying indulgently:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000050_000001|Let the lovers go, and stay and play with me, for I've been rather lonely lately."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000052_000001|But the next minute she was sitting on a stool at his feet petting the cat, while she told her adventures with girlish volubility.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000053_000001|As she shut the door, Christie heard Kitty say softly:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000054_000000|"Now we'll be comfortable as we used to be: won't we?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000055_000000|What David answered Christie did not stay to hear, but went into the kitchen, and had her first pang of jealousy out alone, while she beat up the buckwheats for breakfast with an energy that made them miracles of lightness on the morrow.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000056_000000|When she told mrs Sterling of the new arrival, the placid little lady gave a cluck of regret and said with unusual emphasis:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000058_000000|"Why?" asked Christie, feeling as if she could embrace the speaker for the words.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000060_000000|"No one will take thy place with me, my daughter."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000061_000000|For a week Christie suffered constant pin pricks of jealousy, despising herself all the time, and trying to be friendly with the disturber of her peace.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000061_000001|As if prompted by an evil spirit, Kitty unconsciously tried and tormented her from morning to night, and no one saw or guessed it unless mrs Sterling's motherly heart divined the truth.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000061_000002|David seemed to enjoy the girl's lively chat, her openly expressed affection, and the fresh young face that always brightened when he came.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000062_000000|Presently, however, Christie saw a change in him, and suspected that he had discovered that Kitty was a child no longer, but a young girl with her head full of love and lovers.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000062_000001|The blue eyes grew shy, the pretty face grew eloquent with blushes now and then, as he looked at it, and the lively tongue faltered sometimes in speaking to him.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000062_000002|A thousand little coquetries were played off for his benefit, and frequent appeals for advice in her heart affairs kept tender subjects uppermost in their conversations.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000063_000001|By many indescribable but significant signs he showed that he considered Kitty a woman now and treated her as such, being all the more scrupulous in the respect he paid her, because she was so unprotected, and so wanting in the natural dignity and refinement which are a woman's best protection.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000065_000000|Kitty was puzzled and piqued by these changes, and being a born flirt tried all her powers on David, veiled under guileless girlishness.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000065_000001|She was very pretty, very charming, and at times most lovable and sweet when all that was best in her shallow little heart was touched.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000066_000000|mrs Sterling was very kind to her, but never treated her as she did Christie; and though not a word was spoken between them the elder women knew that they quite agreed in their opinion of Kitty.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000066_000001|She evidently was rather afraid of the old lady, who said so little and saw so much.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000066_000002|Christie also she shunned without appearing to do so, and when alone with her put on airs that half amused, half irritated the other.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000068_000000|A few words which she accidentally overheard confirmed this idea, and showed her what she must do.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000068_000001|As she came quietly in one evening from a stroll in the lane, and stood taking off cloak and hood, she caught a glimpse through the half open parlor door of David pacing to and fro with a curiously excited expression on his face, and heard mrs Sterling say with unusual warmth:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000069_000000|"Thee is too hard upon thyself, Davy.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000069_000001|Forget the past and be happy as other men are.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000070_000000|"Not yet, mother, not yet.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000072_000000|He had no time to alter the expression of his face for its usual grave serenity: Kitty saw the change at once, and spoke of it with her accustomed want of tact.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000073_000000|"How handsome you look!
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000074_000000|"I am thinking that you look more like a rose than ever," answered David turning her attention from himself by a compliment, and beginning to admire the flowers, still with that flushed and kindled look on his own face.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000075_000000|Christie crept upstairs, and, sitting in the dark, decided with the firmness of despair to go away, lest she should betray the secret that possessed her, a dead hope now, but still too dear to be concealed.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000076_000000|"mr
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000076_000001|Power told me to come to him when I got tired of this.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000078_000000|mr Power's keen eye searched her face for a moment, as if to discover the real motive for her wish.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000080_000001|One of my good Dorcases is tired out and must rest; so you shall take her place and visit my poor, report their needs, and supply them as fast as we can.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000081_000000|"Entirely, sir.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000081_000001|Where shall I live?" asked Christie, with an expression of relief that said much.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000082_000000|"Here for the present.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000082_000001|I want a secretary to put my papers in order, write some of my letters, and do a thousand things to help a busy man.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000082_000002|My old housekeeper likes you, and will let you take a duster now and then if you don't find enough other work to do.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000082_000003|When can you come?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000083_000000|Christie answered with a long breath of satisfaction: "To morrow, if you like."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000084_000000|"I do: can you be spared so soon?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000085_000001|Then quite steadily she added:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000086_000000|"Will you be kind enough to write, and ask mrs Sterling if she can spare me?
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000086_000001|I shall find it hard to tell her myself, for I fear she may think me ungrateful after all her kindness."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000087_000000|"No: she is used to parting with those whom she has helped, and is always glad to set them on their way toward better things.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000087_000001|I will write to morrow, and you can come whenever you will, sure of a welcome, my child."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000089_000000|She only said: "Thank you, sir.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000089_000001|I shall be very glad to come;" but her eyes were full, and she held his hand an instant, as if she clung to it sure of succor and support.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000091_000000|On the morrow, mr Power's note came, and Christie fled upstairs while it was read and discussed.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000092_000000|"If I get through this parting without disgracing myself, I don't care what happens to me afterward," she said; and, in order that she might do so, she assumed a cheerful air, and determined to depart with all the honors of war, if she died in the attempt.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000093_000000|So, when mrs Sterling called her down, she went humming into the parlor, smiled as she read the note silently given her, and then said with an effort greater than any she had ever made in her most arduous part on the stage:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000094_000000|"Yes, I did say to mr Power that I thought I'd better be moving on. I'm a restless creature as you know; and, now that you don't need me, I've a fancy to see more of the world.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000094_000001|If you want me back again in the spring, I'll come."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000095_000001|We shall see thee sometimes, and spring will make thee long for the flowers, I hope," was mrs Sterling's answer, as Christie gave back the note at the end of her difficult speech.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000096_000000|"Don't think me ungrateful.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000096_000002|You will believe this and love me still, though I go away and leave you for a little while?" prayed Christie, with a face full of treacherous emotion.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000098_000000|"I believe and love and honor thee, my child.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000098_000001|My heart warmed to thee from the first: it has taken thee to itself now; and nothing can ever come between us, unless thee wills it.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000098_000002|Remember that, and go in peace with an old friend's thanks, and good wishes in return for faithful service, which no money can repay."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000100_000000|This made the hardest task of all easier to perform; and, when David met her in the evening, Christie was ready to play out her part, feeling that mrs Sterling would help her, if need be.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000100_000002|This wounded Christie terribly; for all of a sudden a barrier seemed to rise between them, and the old friendliness grew chilled.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000101_000000|"He thinks I am ungrateful, and is offended," she said to herself. "Well, I can bear coldness better than kindness now, and it will make it easier to go."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000102_000000|Kitty was pleased at the prospect of reigning alone, and did not disguise her satisfaction; so Christie's last day was any thing but pleasant.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000102_000001|mr Power would send for her on the morrow, and she busied herself in packing her own possessions, setting every thing in order, and making various little arrangements for mrs Sterling's comfort, as Kitty was a heedless creature; willing enough, but very forgetful.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000103_000000|"We won't have any sentimental demonstrations; no wailing, or tender adieux.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000103_000001|If I'm weak enough to break my heart, no one need know it,--least of all, that little fool," thought Christie, grimly, as she burnt up several long cherished relics of her love.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000104_000000|She was up early, and went about her usual work with the sad pleasure with which one performs a task for the last time.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000104_000001|Lazy little Kitty never appeared till the bell rang; and Christie was fond of that early hour, busy though it was, for David was always before her with blazing fires; and, while she got breakfast, he came and went with wood and water, milk and marketing; often stopping to talk, and always in his happiest mood.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000105_000000|The first snow fall had made the world wonderfully lovely that morning; and Christie stood at the window admiring the bridal look of the earth, as it lay dazzlingly white in the early sunshine.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000105_000002|Only a flower by their plates; but it meant much to them: for, in these lives of ours, tender little acts do more to bind hearts together than great, deeds or heroic words; since the first are like the dear daily bread that none can live without; the latter but occasional feasts, beautiful and memorable, but not possible to all.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000106_000000|This morning David laid a sprig of sweet scented balm at his mother's place, two or three rosy daisies at Kitty's, and a bunch of Christie's favorite violets at hers.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000106_000001|She smiled as her eye went from the scentless daisies, so pertly pretty, to her own posy full of perfume, and the half sad, half sweet associations that haunt these blue eyed flowers.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000107_000000|"I wanted pansies for you, but not one would bloom; so I did the next best, since you don't like roses," said David, as Christie stood looking at the violets with a thoughtful face, for something in the peculiarly graceful arrangement of the heart shaped leaves recalled another nosegay to her mind.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000108_000001|As she finished she looked up at him; and, though his face was perfectly grave, his eyes laughed, and with a sudden conviction of the truth, Christie exclaimed!
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000110_000000|"I couldn't help it: you seemed so touched and troubled.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000110_000001|I longed to speak to you, but didn't dare, so dropped the flowers and got away as fast as possible.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000110_000002|Did you think it very rude?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000111_000000|"I thought it the sweetest thing that ever happened to me.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000111_000001|That was my first step along a road that you have strewn with flowers ever since.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000111_000003|Dropping the knife, she tried to get her handkerchief, but the blood flowed fast, and the pain of a deep gash made her a little faint.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000111_000004|David sprung to help her, tied up the wound, put her in the big chair, held water to her lips, and bathed her temples with a wet napkin; silently, but so tenderly, that it was almost too much for poor Christie.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000113_000000|"It's nothing: I'm all right now.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000113_000001|Don't say any thing to worry your mother; I'll put on a bit of court plaster, and no one will be the wiser," she said, hastily removing all traces of the accident but her own pale face.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000116_000000|"I loved to do it," was all Christie trusted herself to say.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000120_000000|"No, thank you," he answered absently, looking out over her head, as he stood upon the rug in the attitude which the best men will assume in the bosoms of their families.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000121_000000|Kitty looked offended, and turned to the mirror for comfort; while Christie went on shovelling tea, quite unconscious what she was about till David said gravely:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000122_000000|"Won't that be rather strong?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000123_000000|"How stupid of me!
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000124_000000|Kitty laughed, and said in her pert little way:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000125_000000|"Getting up early don't seem to agree with either of you this morning: I wonder what you've been doing?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000126_000000|"Your work.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000126_000001|Suppose you bring in the kettle: Christie has hurt her hand."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000127_000000|David spoke quietly; but Kitty looked as much surprised as if he had boxed her ears, for he had never used that tone to her before.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000127_000001|She meekly obeyed; and David added with a smile to Christie:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000129_000000|"That is easily done;" and Christie rubbed her pale cheeks till they rivalled Kitty's in their bloom.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000130_000000|"How well you women know how to conceal your wounds," said David, half to himself.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000132_000000|"I wish I could forget what I have been!" muttered David, turning his back to her and kicking a log that had rolled out of place.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000135_000000|"It is only for a time, else I couldn't let thee go, my dear," said mrs Sterling, with a close embrace.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000136_000000|"I shall see you at church, and Tuesday evenings, even if you don't find time to come to us, so I shall not say good by at all;" and David shook hands warmly, as he put her into the carriage.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000138_000000|"I hope you will be very happy.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000139_000000|Then she drove away, smiling and waving her hand to the old lady at her window; but the last thing she saw as she left the well beloved lane, was David going slowly up the path, with Kitty close beside him, talking busily.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000139_000001|If she had heard the short dialogue between them, the sight would have been less bitter, for Kitty said:
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000140_000000|"She's dreadful good; but I'm glad she's gone: ain't you?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000141_000000|"no"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000142_000000|"Had you rather have her here than me?"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000143_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000144_000000|"Then why don't you ask her to come back."
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000145_000000|"I would if I could!"
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000146_000000|"I never did see any thing like it; every one is so queer and cross to day I get snubbed all round.
train-other-500/2997/163246/2997_163246_000146_000001|If folks ain't good to me, I'll go and marry Miles!
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000001_000000|THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000003_000000|There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a miserable little hovel close to the sea.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000003_000001|He went to fish every day, and he fished and fished, and at last one day, when he was sitting looking deep down into the shining water, he felt something on his line.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000003_000002|When he hauled it up there was a great flounder on the end of the line.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000003_000003|The flounder said to him: "Look here, fisherman, don't you kill me; I am no common flounder, I am an enchanted prince!
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000003_000004|What good will it do you to kill me?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000004_000000|"Well," said the fisherman, "you need not make so many words about it. I am quite ready to put back a flounder that can talk." And so saying, he put back the flounder into the shining water, and it sank down to the bottom, leaving a streak of blood behind it.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000005_000000|Then the fisherman got up and went back to his wife in the hovel. "Husband," she said, "hast thou caught nothing to day?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000006_000000|"No," said the man; "all I caught was one flounder, and he said he was an enchanted prince, so I let him go swim again."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000007_000000|"Didst thou not wish for anything then?" asked the good wife.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000008_000000|"No," said the man; "what was there to wish for?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000009_000000|"Alas!" said his wife; "isn't it bad enough always to live in this wretched hovel?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000009_000002|Go back and call him; tell him I want a pretty cottage; he will surely give us that!"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000010_000000|"Alas," said the man, "what am I to go back there for?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000011_000000|"Well," said the woman, "it was thou who caught him and let him go again; for certain he will do that for thee.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000011_000001|Be off now!"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000012_000000|The man was still not very willing to go, but he did not want to vex his wife, and at last he went back to the sea.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000013_000000|He found the sea no longer bright and shining, but dull and green.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000013_000001|He stood by it and said:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000014_000000|"Flounder, flounder in the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me: My wife, Ilsebil, will have her own way Whatever I wish, whatever I say."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000015_000000|The flounder came swimming up, and said: "Well, what do you want?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000016_000000|"Alas!" said the man; "I had to call you, for my wife said I ought to have wished for something, as I caught you.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000016_000001|She doesn't want to live in our miserable hovel any longer; she wants a pretty cottage."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000017_000000|"Go home again, then," said the flounder; "she has her wish fully."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000018_000000|The man went home and found his wife no longer in the old hut, but a pretty little cottage stood in its place, and his wife was sitting on a bench by the door.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000019_000000|She took him by the hand, and said: "Come and look in here-isn't this much better?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000020_000000|They went inside and found a pretty sitting room, and a bedroom with a bed in it, a kitchen, and a larder furnished with everything of the best in tin and brass, and every possible requisite.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000020_000001|Outside there was a little yard with chickens and ducks, and a little garden full of vegetables and fruit.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000021_000000|"Look!" said the woman, "is not this nice?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000022_000000|"Yes," said the man; "and so let it remain.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000022_000001|We can live here very happily."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000023_000000|"We will see about that," said the woman, and with that they ate something and went to bed.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000024_000000|Everything went well for a week or more, and then said the wife: "Listen, husband; this cottage is too cramped, and the garden is too small.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000024_000001|The flounder might have given us a bigger house.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000024_000002|I want to live in a big stone castle.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000024_000003|Go to the flounder, and tell him to give us a castle."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000025_000000|"Alas, wife!" said the man; "the cottage is good enough for us; what should we do with a castle?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000026_000000|"Never mind," said his wife; "do thou but go to the flounder, and he will manage it."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000027_000000|"Nay, wife," said the man; "the flounder gave us the cottage.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000027_000001|I don't want to go back; as likely as not he'll be angry."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000028_000000|"Go, all the same," said the woman.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000028_000001|"He can do it easily enough, and willingly into the bargain.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000028_000002|Just go!"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000029_000000|The man's heart was heavy, and he was very unwilling to go.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000029_000001|He said to himself: "It's not right." But at last he went.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000030_000000|He found the sea was no longer green; it was still calm, but dark violet and gray.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000030_000001|He stood by it and said:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000031_000000|"Flounder, flounder in the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me: My wife, Ilsebil, will have her own way Whatever I wish, whatever I say."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000032_000000|"Now, what do you want?" said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000033_000000|"Alas," said the man, half scared, "my wife wants a big stone castle."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000034_000000|"Go home again," said the flounder; "she is standing at the door of it."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000035_000000|Then the man went away, thinking he would find no house, but when he got back he found a great stone palace, and his wife standing at the top of the steps, waiting to go in.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000036_000000|She took him by the hand and said, "Come in with me."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000037_000000|With that they went in and found a great hall paved with marble slabs, and numbers of servants in attendance, who opened the great doors for them.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000037_000001|The walls were hung with beautiful tapestries, and the rooms were furnished with golden chairs and tables, while rich carpets covered the floors, and crystal chandeliers hung from the ceilings. The tables groaned under every kind of delicate food and the most costly wines.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000037_000002|Outside the house there was a great courtyard, with stabling for horses, and cows, and many fine carriages.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000037_000003|Beyond this there was a great garden filled with the loveliest flowers, and fine fruit trees.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000037_000004|There was also a park, half a mile long, and in it were stags and hinds, and hares, and everything of the kind one could wish for.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000038_000000|"Now," said the woman, "is not this worth having?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000039_000000|"Oh, yes," said the man; "and so let it remain.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000039_000001|We will live in this beautiful palace and be content."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000040_000000|"We will think about that," said his wife, "and sleep upon it."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000041_000000|With that they went to bed.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000042_000000|Next morning the wife woke up first; day was just dawning, and from her bed she could see the beautiful country around her.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000042_000001|Her husband was still asleep, but she pushed him with her elbow, and said, "Husband, get up and peep out of the window.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000042_000002|See here, now, could we not be king over all this land?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000042_000003|Go to the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000042_000004|We will be king."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000043_000000|"Alas, wife," said the man, "what should we be king for?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000043_000001|I don't want to be king."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000044_000001|Go to the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000044_000002|I will be king."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000045_000000|"Alas, wife," said the man, "whatever dost thou want to be king for?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000045_000001|I don't like to tell him."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000046_000000|"Why not?" said the woman.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000046_000001|"Go thou must.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000046_000002|I will be king."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000047_000000|So the man went; but he was quite sad because his wife would be king.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000048_000000|"It is not right," he said; "it is not right."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000049_000000|When he reached the sea, he found it dark, gray, and rough, and evil smelling.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000049_000001|He stood there and said:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000051_000000|"Now, what does she want?" said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000052_000000|"Alas," said the man, "she wants to be king now."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000053_000000|"Go back.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000053_000001|She is king already," said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000054_000000|So the man went back, and when he reached the palace he found that it had grown much larger, and a great tower had been added, with handsome decorations.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000054_000001|There was a sentry at the door, and numbers of soldiers were playing drums and trumpets.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000054_000002|As soon as he got inside the house, he found everything was marble and gold; and the hangings were of velvet, with great golden tassels.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000054_000003|The doors of the saloon were thrown wide open and he saw the whole court assembled.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000054_000004|His wife was sitting on a lofty throne of gold and diamonds; she wore a golden crown, and carried in one hand a scepter of pure gold.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000054_000005|On each side of her stood her ladies in a long row, each one a head shorter than the next.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000055_000000|He stood before her, and said, "Alas, wife, art thou now king?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000056_000000|"Yes," she said; "now I am king."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000057_000000|He stood looking at her for some time, and then he said, "Ah, wife, it is a fine thing for thee to be king; now we will not wish to be anything more."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000058_000000|"Nay, husband," she answered, quite uneasily, "I find the time hangs very heavy on my hands.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000058_000001|I can't bear it any longer.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000058_000002|Go back to the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000059_000000|"Alas, wife," said the man, "why dost thou now want to be emperor?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000060_000000|"Husband," she answered, "go to the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000060_000001|Emperor I will be."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000061_000001|There is only one emperor in the country; and emperor the flounder cannot make thee, that he can't."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000062_000000|"What?" said the woman.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000062_000001|"I am king, and thou art but my husband.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000062_000002|To him thou must go, and that right quickly.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000062_000003|If he can make a king, he can also make an emperor.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000062_000004|Emperor I will be, so quickly go."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000063_000000|He had to go, but he was quite frightened.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000063_000001|And as he went, he thought, "This won't end well; emperor is too shameless.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000064_000000|With that he came to the sea, but now he found it quite black, and heaving up from below in great waves.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000064_000001|It tossed to and fro, and a sharp wind blew over it, and the man trembled.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000064_000002|So he stood there, and said:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000065_000000|"Flounder, flounder in the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me: My wife, Ilsebil, will have her own way Whatever I wish, whatever I say."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000066_000000|"What does she want now?" said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000067_000000|"Alas, flounder," he said, "my wife wants to be emperor."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000068_000000|"Go back," said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000068_000001|"She is emperor."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000069_000000|So the man went back, and when he got to the door, he found that the whole palace was made of polished marble, with alabaster figures and golden decorations.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000069_000001|Soldiers marched up and down before the doors, blowing their trumpets and beating their drums.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000069_000002|Inside the palace, counts, barons, and dukes walked about as attendants, and they opened to him the doors, which were of pure gold.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000070_000000|He went in, and saw his wife sitting on a huge throne made of solid gold.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000070_000001|It was at least two miles high.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000070_000003|In one hand she held the scepter, and in the other the ball of empire.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000070_000004|On each side of her stood the gentlemen at arms in two rows, each one a little smaller than the other, from giants two miles high, down to the tiniest dwarf no bigger than my little finger.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000070_000005|She was surrounded by princes and dukes.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000071_000000|Her husband stood still, and said, "Wife, art thou now emperor?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000072_000000|"Yes," said she; "now I am emperor."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000073_000000|Then he looked at her for some time, and said, "Alas, wife, how much better off art thou for being emperor?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000074_000000|"Husband," she said, "what art thou standing there for?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000074_000001|Now I am emperor, I mean to be pope!
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000074_000002|Go back to the flounder."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000075_000000|"Alas, wife," said the man, "what wilt thou not want?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000075_000001|Pope thou canst not be.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000075_000002|There is only one pope in Christendom.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000075_000003|That's more than the flounder can do."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000076_000000|"Husband," she said, "pope I will be; so go at once.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000076_000001|I must be pope this very day."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000077_000000|"No, wife," he said, "I dare not tell him.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000077_000001|It's no good; it's too monstrous altogether.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000077_000002|The flounder cannot make thee pope."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000078_000000|"Husband," said the woman, "don't talk nonsense.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000078_000001|If he can make an emperor, he can make a pope.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000078_000002|Go immediately.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000078_000003|I am emperor, and thou art but my husband, and thou must obey."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000079_000000|So he was frightened, and went; but he was quite dazed.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000079_000001|He shivered and shook, and his knees trembled.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000080_000000|A great wind arose over the land, the clouds flew across the sky, and it grew as dark as night; the leaves fell from the trees, and the water foamed and dashed upon the shore.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000080_000001|In the distance the ships were being tossed to and fro on the waves, and he heard them firing signals of distress.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000080_000002|There was still a little patch of blue in the sky among the dark clouds, but toward the south they were red and heavy, as in a bad storm.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000080_000003|In despair, he stood and said;
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000081_000000|"Flounder, flounder in the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me: My wife, Ilsebil, will have her own way Whatever I wish, whatever I say."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000082_000000|"Now, what does she want?" said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000084_000000|"Go back.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000084_000001|Pope she is," said the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000085_000001|On each side of her were two rows of candles, the biggest as thick as a tower, down to the tiniest little taper.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000085_000002|Kings and emperors were on their knees before her, kissing her shoe.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000086_000000|"Wife," said the man, looking at her, "art thou now pope?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000087_000000|"Yes," said she; "now I am pope."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000088_000000|So there he stood gazing at her, and it was like looking at a shining sun
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000089_000000|"Alas, wife," he said, "art thou better off for being pope?" At first she sat as stiff as a post, without stirring.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000089_000001|Then he said, "Now, wife, be content with being pope; higher thou canst not go."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000090_000000|"I will think about that," said the woman, and with that they both went to bed.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000090_000001|Still she was not content, and could not sleep for her inordinate desires.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000090_000002|The man slept well and soundly, for he had walked about a great deal in the day; but his wife could think of nothing but what further grandeur she could demand.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000090_000003|When the dawn reddened the sky, she raised herself up in bed and looked out of the window, and when she saw the sun rise she said:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000091_000000|"Ha! can I not cause the sun and the moon to rise?
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000091_000001|Husband!" she cried, digging her elbow into his side, "wake up and go to the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000091_000002|I will be lord of the universe."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000092_000000|Her husband, who was still more than half asleep, was so shocked that he fell out of bed.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000092_000001|He thought he must have heard wrong.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000092_000002|He rubbed his eyes and said:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000094_000000|"Husband," she said, "if I cannot be lord of the universe, and cause the sun and moon to set and rise, I shall not be able to bear it.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000094_000001|I shall never have another happy moment."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000095_000000|She looked at him so wildly that it caused a shudder to run through him.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000096_000001|Emperor and pope he can make, but that is indeed beyond him.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000096_000002|I pray thee, control thyself and remain pope."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000097_000000|Then she flew into a terrible rage.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000097_000001|Her hair stood on end; she panted for breath, and screamed:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000098_000000|"I won't bear it any longer; wilt thou go?"
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000099_000000|Then he pulled on his trousers and tore away like a madman.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000099_000001|Such a storm was raging that he could hardly keep his feet; houses and trees quivered and swayed, mountains trembled, and the rocks rolled into the sea.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000099_000002|The sky was pitchy black; it thundered and lightened, and the sea ran in black waves, mountains high, crested with white foam.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000099_000003|He shrieked out, but could hardly make himself heard:
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000100_000000|"Flounder, flounder in the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me: My wife, Ilsebil, will have her own way Whatever I wish, whatever I say."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000101_000000|"Now, what does she want?" asked the flounder.
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000102_000000|"Alas," he said, "she wants to be Lord of the Universe."
train-other-500/2998/160954/2998_160954_000103_000000|"Now she must go back to her old hovel," said the flounder; "and there you will find her."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000003_000000|Once upon a time it was the middle of winter; the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky; a Queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000003_000001|As she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000003_000002|And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000004_000000|"Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window frame!" Soon after that she had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony; so she was called Little Snow white. And when the child was born, the Queen died.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000005_000000|A year after, the King took to himself another wife.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000005_000001|She was beautiful but proud, and she could not bear to have any one else more beautiful. She had a wonderful Looking glass, and when she stood in front of it, and looked at herself in it, and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000006_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000007_000000|the Looking glass answered:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000009_000000|At last she was well pleased, for she knew the Looking glass spoke the truth.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000010_000000|Now Snow white grew up, and became more and more beautiful; and when she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the day, and more beautiful than the Queen herself.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000010_000001|And once when the queen asked her Looking glass:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000011_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000012_000000|it answered:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000013_000000|"Thou art fairer than all who are here, Lady Queen, But more beautiful by far is Snow white, I ween."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000014_000000|Then the Queen was angry, and turned green with envy.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000014_000001|From that hour, whenever she looked at Snow white, her breath came and went, she hated the girl so much.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000015_000001|She called a huntsman, and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000016_000000|"Take the child away into the wood; I will no longer have her in my sight.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000016_000001|Kill her, and bring me back her heart as a token." The huntsman did as he was told, and took her away; but when he had drawn his knife, and was about to pierce Snow white's little heart, she began to weep, and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000017_000000|"Ah, dear huntsman, leave me my life!
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000017_000001|I will run away into the wild wood, and never come home again."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000018_000000|And as she was so beautiful the huntsman had pity on her and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000019_000000|"Run away, then, you poor child." The wild beasts will soon kill her, thought he; and yet it seemed as if a stone had been rolled from his heart, since it was no longer needful for him to kill her.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000019_000001|As a young boar just then came running by he stabbed it, and cut out its heart and took it to the Queen as a proof that the child was dead.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000019_000002|The cook had to salt this, and the wicked Queen ate it, and thought she had eaten the heart of Snow white.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000020_000000|But now the poor child was all alone in the great wood, and so afraid that she started at every bush, and did not know what to do.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000020_000001|Then she began to run, and ran over sharp stones and through thorns, and the wild beasts ran past her, but did her no harm.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000021_000000|She ran as long as her feet would go, until it was almost evening; then she saw a little cottage, and went into it to rest herself. Everything in the cottage was small, but neater and cleaner than can be told.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000021_000002|Against the wall stood seven little beds side by side, covered with snow white coverlets.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000022_000000|Little Snow white was so hungry and thirsty that she ate some fruit and bread from each plate, and drank a drop of milk out of each mug, for she did not wish to take all from one only.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000022_000001|Then, as she was so tired, she lay down on one of the little beds, but none of them suited her; one was too long, another too short; but at last she found the seventh one was just right, and so she stayed in it, said her prayers, and went to sleep.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000023_000000|When it was quite dark the owners of the cottage came back; they were seven dwarfs who dug in the hills for gold.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000024_000000|The first said, "Who has been sitting on my chair?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000025_000000|The second, "Who has been eating off my plate?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000026_000000|The third, "Who has been taking some of my bread?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000027_000000|The fourth, "Who has been eating my fruit?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000028_000000|The fifth, "Who has been using my fork?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000029_000000|The sixth, "Who has been cutting with my knife?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000030_000000|The seventh, "Who has been drinking out of my mug?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000031_000000|Then the first looked round and saw that there was a little hole in his bed, and he said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000032_000000|"Who has been getting into my bed?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000034_000000|"Oh, heavens!
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000034_000001|oh, heavens!" cried they, "what a lovely child!" and they were so glad that they did not wake her, but let her sleep on in the bed.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000034_000002|And the seventh dwarf slept with the others, one hour with each, and so got through the night.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000035_000001|But they were friendly and asked her what her name was.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000036_000000|"My name is Snow white," she answered.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000037_000000|"How have you come to our house?" said the dwarfs.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000037_000001|Then she told them that the Queen had wished to have her killed, but that the huntsman had spared her life; she had run for the whole day, until at last she had found their house.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000037_000002|The dwarfs said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000038_000000|"If you will take care of our house, cook, make the beds, wash, sew, and knit; and if you will keep everything neat and clean, you can stay with us, and you shall want for nothing."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000039_000000|"Yes," said Snow white, "with all my heart," and she stayed with them. She kept the house in order for them; in the mornings they went to the hills and looked for gold; in the evenings they came back, and then their supper had to be ready.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000039_000001|The girl was alone the whole day, so the good dwarfs warned her and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000040_000000|"Beware of the Queen; she will soon know that you are here; be sure to let no one come in."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000041_000000|But the Queen, thinking she had eaten Snow white's heart, began to suppose she was again the first and most beautiful person in the world; and she went to her Looking glass and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000042_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000044_000000|"O Queen, thou art fairest of all I see, But over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell, Snow white is still alive and well, And no one else is so fair as she."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000045_000000|And so she thought and thought again how she might kill Snow white, for so long as she was not the fairest in the whole land, envy let her have no rest.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000045_000002|Then she went over the seven hills to the seven dwarfs, and knocked at the door and cried:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000046_000000|"Pretty things to sell, very cheap, very cheap." Little Snow white looked out of the window and called out:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000047_000000|"Good day, my good woman, what have you to sell?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000048_000000|"Good things, pretty things," she answered; "stay laces of all colors," and she pulled out one which was woven of bright silk.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000050_000000|"Child," said the old woman, "what a fright you look!
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000050_000001|Come, I will lace you properly for once."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000051_000000|Snow white stood before her, and let herself be laced with the new laces.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000051_000002|"Now I am the most beautiful," said the Queen to herself, and ran away.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000052_000000|Not long after, in the evening, the seven dwarfs came home, but how shocked they were when they saw their dear little Snow white lying on the ground!
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000052_000001|She did not stir or move, and seemed to be dead. They lifted her up, and, as they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the laces; then she began to breathe a little, and after a while came to life again.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000052_000002|When the dwarfs heard what had happened they said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000053_000000|"The old peddler woman was no one else than the wicked Queen; take care and let no one come in when we are not with you."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000054_000000|But the wicked woman, when she was at home again, went in front of the Glass and asked:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000055_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000056_000000|And it answered as before:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000057_000000|"O Queen, thou art fairest of all I see, But over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell, Snow white is still alive and well, And no one else is so fair as she."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000058_000000|When she heard that, all her blood rushed to her heart with fear, for she saw plainly that little Snow white was again alive.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000059_000001|Then she took the shape of another old woman.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000059_000002|So she went over the seven hills to the seven dwarfs, knocked at the door, and cried, "Good things to sell, cheap, cheap!" Little Snow white looked out and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000060_000000|"Go away; I cannot let any one come in."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000061_000000|"I suppose you can look," said the old woman, and pulled the comb out and held it up.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000061_000001|It pleased the girl so well that she let herself be coaxed and opened the door.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000062_000000|"You piece of beauty," said the wicked woman, "you are done for now," and she went away.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000063_000000|But as good luck would have it, it was almost evening, and the seven dwarfs soon came home.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000063_000001|When they saw Snow white lying as if dead upon the ground, they knew at once the Queen had been there, and they looked and found the comb.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000063_000002|Scarcely had they taken it out when Snow white came to herself, and told them what had happened.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000063_000003|Then they warned her once more to be upon her guard and to open the door to no one.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000064_000000|The Queen, at home, went in front of the Glass, and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000065_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000066_000000|Then it answered as before:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000068_000000|When she heard the Glass speak thus she trembled and shook with rage.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000069_000000|"Snow white shall die," she cried, "even if it costs me my life!"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000070_000000|She went into a quiet, secret, lonely room, where no one ever came, and there she made an apple full of poison.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000070_000001|It was white with a red cheek, so that every one who saw it longed for it; but whoever ate a piece of it must surely die.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000071_000000|When the apple was ready she painted her face, and dressed herself up as a country woman, and so she went over the seven hills to the seven dwarfs.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000071_000001|She knocked at the door.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000072_000000|"I cannot let any one in; the seven dwarfs have told me not to."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000073_000000|"It is all the same to me," said the woman.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000073_000001|"I shall soon get rid of my apples.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000073_000002|There, I will give you one."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000074_000000|"No," said Snow white, "I dare not take anything."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000075_000000|"Are you afraid of poison?" said the old woman.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000075_000003|Then the Queen looked at her with a dreadful look, and laughed aloud and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000076_000000|"White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony wood!
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000076_000001|This time the dwarfs cannot wake you up again."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000077_000000|And when she asked of the Looking glass at home:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000078_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000079_000000|it answered at last:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000080_000000|"O Queen, in this land thou art fairest of all."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000081_000000|Then her envious heart had rest, so far as an envious heart can have rest.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000082_000000|When the dwarfs came home in the evening, they found Snow white lying upon the ground; she breathed no longer, and was dead.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000082_000002|They laid her upon a bier, and all seven of them sat round it and wept for her, and wept three whole days.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000083_000000|Then they were going to bury her, but she still looked as if she were living, and still had her pretty red cheeks.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000083_000001|They said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000084_000000|"We could not bury her in the dark ground," and they had a coffin of glass made, so that she could be seen from all sides, and they laid her in it, and wrote her name upon it in golden letters, and that she was a King's daughter.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000084_000001|Then they put the coffin out upon the hill, and one of them always stayed by it and watched it.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000086_000000|It happened that a King's son came into the wood, and went to the dwarfs' house to spend the night.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000086_000001|He saw the coffin on the hill, and the beautiful Snow white within it, and read what was written upon it in golden letters.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000086_000002|Then he said to the dwarfs:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000087_000000|"Let me have the coffin, I will give you whatever you want for it." But the dwarfs answered:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000088_000000|"We will not part with it for all the gold in the world." Then he said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000089_000000|"Let me have it as a gift, for I cannot live without seeing Snow white.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000089_000001|I will honor and prize her as the dearest thing I have." As he spoke in this way the good dwarfs took pity upon him, and gave him the coffin.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000090_000000|And now the King's son had it carried away by his servants on their shoulders.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000090_000001|And it happened that they stumbled over a tree stump, and with the shock the piece of apple which Snow white had bitten off came out of her throat.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000091_000000|"Oh, heavens, where am I?" she cried.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000091_000001|The King's son, full of joy, said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000092_000000|"You are with me," and told her what had happened, and said, "I love you more than everything in the world; come with me to my father's palace; you shall be my wife."
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000093_000000|Snow white was willing, and went with him, and their wedding was held with great show and splendor.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000093_000001|The wicked Queen was also bidden to the feast.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000093_000002|When she had put on her beautiful clothes, she went before the Looking glass, and said:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000094_000000|"Looking glass, Looking glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000095_000000|The Glass answered:
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000097_000000|Then the wicked woman gave a scream, and was so wretched, so utterly wretched, that she knew not what to do.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000097_000001|At first she would not go to the wedding at all, but she had no peace, and must go to see the young Queen.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000097_000002|And when she went in she knew Snow white; and she stood still with rage and fear, and could not stir.
train-other-500/2998/160955/2998_160955_000097_000003|But iron slippers had already been put upon the fire, and they were brought in with tongs, and set before her.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000001_000000|For the great body of the people in any modern community, the proximate ground of expenditure in excess of what is required for physical comfort is not a conscious effort to excel in the expensiveness of their visible consumption, so much as it is a desire to live up to the conventional standard of decency in the amount and grade of goods consumed.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000001_000001|This desire is not guided by a rigidly invariable standard, which must be lived up to, and beyond which there is no incentive to go.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000001_000002|The standard is flexible; and especially it is indefinitely extensible, if only time is allowed for habituation to any increase in pecuniary ability and for acquiring facility in the new and larger scale of expenditure that follows such an increase.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000001_000003|It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000001_000005|That is to say, the conspicuously wasteful honorific expenditure that confers spiritual well-being may become more indispensable than much of that expenditure which ministers to the "lower" wants of physical well-being or sustenance only.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000001_000006|It is notoriously just as difficult to recede from a "high" standard of living as it is to lower a standard which is already relatively low; although in the former case the difficulty is a moral one, while in the latter it may involve a material deduction from the physical comforts of life.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000002_000000|But while retrogression is difficult, a fresh advance in conspicuous expenditure is relatively easy; indeed, it takes place almost as a matter of course.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000002_000002|A prompt response to the stimulus, on the other hand, is accepted as the normal effect.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000002_000003|This suggests that the standard of expenditure which commonly guides our efforts is not the average, ordinary expenditure already achieved; it is an ideal of consumption that lies just beyond our reach, or to reach which requires some strain. The motive is emulation-the stimulus of an invidious comparison which prompts us to outdo those with whom we are in the habit of classing ourselves.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000000|It is for this class to determine, in general outline, what scheme of Life the community shall accept as decent or honorific; and it is their office by precept and example to set forth this scheme of social salvation in its highest, ideal form.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000001|But the higher leisure class can exercise this quasi sacerdotal office only under certain material limitations.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000002|The class cannot at discretion effect a sudden revolution or reversal of the popular habits of thought with respect to any of these ceremonial requirements.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000003|It takes time for any change to permeate the mass and change the habitual attitude of the people; and especially it takes time to change the habits of those classes that are socially more remote from the radiant body.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000004|The process is slower where the mobility of the population is less or where the intervals between the several classes are wider and more abrupt.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000005|But if time be allowed, the scope of the discretion of the leisure class as regards questions of form and detail in the community's scheme of life is large; while as regards the substantial principles of reputability, the changes which it can effect lie within a narrow margin of tolerance.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000006|Its example and precept carries the force of prescription for all classes below it; but in working out the precepts which are handed down as governing the form and method of reputability-in shaping the usages and the spiritual attitude of the lower classes-this authoritative prescription constantly works under the selective guidance of the canon of conspicuous waste, tempered in varying degree by the instinct of workmanship.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000007|To those norms is to be added another broad principle of human nature-the predatory animus-which in point of generality and of psychological content lies between the two just named.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000008|The effect of the latter in shaping the accepted scheme of life is yet to be discussed. The canon of reputability, then, must adapt itself to the economic circumstances, the traditions, and the degree of spiritual maturity of the particular class whose scheme of life it is to regulate.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000003_000012|In this respect the control exerted by the accepted standard of living is chiefly of a negative character; it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000004_000000|A standard of living is of the nature of habit.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000004_000001|It is an habitual scale and method of responding to given stimuli.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000004_000002|The difficulty in the way of receding from an accustomed standard is the difficulty of breaking a habit that has once been formed.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000004_000004|But when the habit of expression along such a given line of low resistance has once been formed, the discharge will seek the accustomed outlet even after a change has taken place in the environment whereby the external resistance has appreciably risen.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000004_000005|That heightened facility of expression in a given direction which is called habit may offset a considerable increase in the resistance offered by external circumstances to the unfolding of life in the given direction.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000004_000006|As between the various habits, or habitual modes and directions of expression, which go to make up an individual's standard of living, there is an appreciable difference in point of persistence under counteracting circumstances and in point of the degree of imperativeness with which the discharge seeks a given direction.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000000|That is to say, in the language of current economic theory, while men are reluctant to retrench their expenditures in any direction, they are more reluctant to retrench in some directions than in others; so that while any accustomed consumption is reluctantly given up, there are certain lines of consumption which are given up with relatively extreme reluctance.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000001|The articles or forms of consumption to which the consumer clings with the greatest tenacity are commonly the so-called necessaries of life, or the subsistence minimum.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000002|The subsistence minimum is of course not a rigidly determined allowance of goods, definite and invariable in kind and quantity; but for the purpose in hand it may be taken to comprise a certain, more or less definite, aggregate of consumption required for the maintenance of life.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000003|This minimum, it may be assumed, is ordinarily given up last in case of a progressive retrenchment of expenditure.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000004|That is to say, in a general way, the most ancient and ingrained of the habits which govern the individual's life-those habits that touch his existence as an organism-are the most persistent and imperative.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000007|In general, the longer the habituation, the more unbroken the habit, and the more nearly it coincides with previous habitual forms of the life process, the more persistently will the given habit assert itself.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000008|The habit will be stronger if the particular traits of human nature which its action involves, or the particular aptitudes that find exercise in it, are traits or aptitudes that are already largely and profoundly concerned in the life process or that are intimately bound up with the life history of the particular racial stock.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000009|The varying degrees of ease with which different habits are formed by different persons, as well as the varying degrees of reluctance with which different habits are given up, goes to say that the formation of specific habits is not a matter of length of habituation simply.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000010|Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000005_000011|And the prevalent type of transmitted aptitudes, or in other words the type of temperament belonging to the dominant ethnic element in any community, will go far to decide what will be the scope and form of expression of the community's habitual life process.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000006_000002|It is easily called into vigorous activity in any new form, and it asserts itself with great insistence under any form under which it has once found habitual expression.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000006_000004|And on the other hand, whenever an accession of pecuniary strength puts the individual in a position to unfold his life process in larger scope and with additional reach, the ancient propensities of the race will assert themselves in determining the direction which the new unfolding of life is to take.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000006_000005|And those propensities which are already actively in the field under some related form of expression, which are aided by the pointed suggestions afforded by a current accredited scheme of life, and for the exercise of which the material means and opportunities are readily available-these will especially have much to say in shaping the form and direction in which the new accession to the individual's aggregate force will assert itself.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000006_000006|That is to say, in concrete terms, in any community where conspicuous consumption is an element of the scheme of life, an increase in an individual's ability to pay is likely to take the form of an expenditure for some accredited line of conspicuous consumption.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000000|With the exception of the instinct of self preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000002|The need of conspicuous waste, therefore, stands ready to absorb any increase in the community's industrial efficiency or output of goods, after the most elementary physical wants have been provided for.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000004|As increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor, the energies of the industrious members of the community are bent to the compassing of a higher result in conspicuous expenditure, rather than slackened to a more comfortable pace.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000005|The strain is not lightened as industrial efficiency increases and makes a lighter strain possible, but the increment of output is turned to use to meet this want, which is indefinitely expansible, after the manner commonly imputed in economic theory to higher or spiritual wants.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000006|It is owing chiefly to the presence of this element in the standard of living that j s Mill was able to say that "hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." The accepted standard of expenditure in the community or in the class to which a person belongs largely determines what his standard of living will be.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000009|The standard of living of any class, so far as concerns the element of conspicuous waste, is commonly as high as the earning capacity of the class will permit-with a constant tendency to go higher.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000010|The effect upon the serious activities of men is therefore to direct them with great singleness of purpose to the largest possible acquisition of wealth, and to discountenance work that brings no pecuniary gain.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000007_000011|At the same time the effect on consumption is to concentrate it upon the lines which are most patent to the observers whose good opinion is sought; while the inclinations and aptitudes whose exercise does not involve a honorific expenditure of time or substance tend to fall into abeyance through disuse.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000008_000000|Through this discrimination in favor of visible consumption it has come about that the domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the eclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000008_000001|As a secondary consequence of the same discrimination, people habitually screen their private life from observation.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000008_000003|The low birthrate of the classes upon whom the requirements of reputable expenditure fall with great urgency is likewise traceable to the exigencies of a standard of living based on conspicuous waste.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000008_000004|The conspicuous consumption, and the consequent increased expense, required in the reputable maintenance of a child is very considerable and acts as a powerful deterrent.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000009_000002|The scale of decent expenditure in their case is pitched correspondingly high, and it consequently leaves an exceptionally narrow margin disposable for the other ends of life.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000009_000003|By force of circumstances, their habitual sense of what is good and right in these matters, as well as the expectations of the community in the way of pecuniary decency among the learned, are excessively high-as measured by the prevalent degree of opulence and earning capacity of the class, relatively to the non scholarly classes whose social equals they nominally are.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000009_000004|In any modern community where there is no priestly monopoly of these occupations, the people of scholarly pursuits are unavoidably thrown into contact with classes that are pecuniarily their superiors.
train-other-500/3006/5697/3006_5697_000009_000005|The high standard of pecuniary decency in force among these superior classes is transfused among the scholarly classes with but little mitigation of its rigor; and as a consequence there is no class of the community that spends a larger proportion of its substance in conspicuous waste than these.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000002_000000|The caution has already been repeated more than once, that while the regulating norm of consumption is in large part the requirement of conspicuous waste, it must not be understood that the motive on which the consumer acts in any given case is this principle in its bald, unsophisticated form.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000002_000004|In all such useful articles a close scrutiny will discover certain features which add to the cost and enhance the commercial value of the goods in question, but do not proportionately increase the serviceability of these articles for the material purposes which alone they ostensibly are designed to serve.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000003_000000|Under the selective surveillance of the law of conspicuous waste there grows up a code of accredited canons of consumption, the effect of which is to hold the consumer up to a standard of expensiveness and wastefulness in his consumption of goods and in his employment of time and effort.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000003_000002|Habits of thought with respect to the expression of life in any given direction unavoidably affect the habitual view of what is good and right in life in other directions also.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000003_000003|In the organic complex of habits of thought which make up the substance of an individual's conscious life the economic interest does not lie isolated and distinct from all other interests.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000003_000004|Something, for instance, has already been said of its relation to the canons of reputability.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000004_000001|So the canon of honorific waste may, immediately or remotely, influence the sense of duty, the sense of beauty, the sense of utility, the sense of devotional or ritualistic fitness, and the scientific sense of truth.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000005_000002|Most offenses against property, especially offenses of an appreciable magnitude, come under this head.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000005_000005|A well bred expenditure of his booty especially appeals with great effect to persons of a cultivated sense of the proprieties, and goes far to mitigate the sense of moral turpitude with which his dereliction is viewed by them.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000005_000007|If it is added that the wife has been "nurtured in the lap of luxury," that is accepted as an additional extenuating circumstance.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000005_000008|That is to say, we are prone to condone such an offense where its aim is the honorific one of enabling the offender's wife to perform for him such an amount of vicarious consumption of time and substance as is demanded by the standard of pecuniary decency.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000006_000000|This topic need scarcely be pursued further here; but the remark may not be out of place that all that considerable body of morals that clusters about the concept of an inviolable ownership is itself a psychological precipitate of the traditional meritoriousness of wealth.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000006_000001|And it should be added that this wealth which is held sacred is valued primarily for the sake of the good repute to be got through its conspicuous consumption.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000006_000002|The bearing of pecuniary decency upon the scientific spirit or the quest of knowledge will be taken up in some detail in a separate chapter.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000006_000003|Also as regards the sense of devout or ritual merit and adequacy in this connection, little need be said in this place.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000006_000004|That topic will also come up incidentally in a later chapter.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000007_000001|Even in those modern cults to whose divinities is imputed a predilection for temples not built with hands, the sacred buildings and the other properties of the cult are constructed and decorated with some view to a reputable degree of wasteful expenditure.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000007_000006|It may also be in place to notice that in all communities, especially in neighborhoods where the standard of pecuniary decency for dwellings is not high, the local sanctuary is more ornate, more conspicuously wasteful in its architecture and decoration, than the dwelling houses of the congregation.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000007_000009|If any element of comfort is admitted in the fittings of the sanctuary, it should be at least scrupulously screened and masked under an ostensible austerity.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000007_000010|In the most reputable latter day houses of worship, where no expense is spared, the principle of austerity is carried to the length of making the fittings of the place a means of mortifying the flesh, especially in appearance.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000007_000011|There are few persons of delicate tastes, in the matter of devout consumption to whom this austerely wasteful discomfort does not appeal as intrinsically right and good.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000007_000012|Devout consumption is of the nature of vicarious consumption.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000008_000000|The sanctuary and its fittings have something of this austerity in all the cults in which the saint or divinity to whom the sanctuary pertains is not conceived to be present and make personal use of the property for the gratification of luxurious tastes imputed to him.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000008_000002|In the latter case the sanctuary and its fittings take on more of the fashion given to goods destined for the conspicuous consumption of a temporal master or owner.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000009_000003|And such it is felt that they should be.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000010_000000|It is not only in establishing a devout standard of decent expensiveness that the principle of waste invades the domain of the canons of ritual serviceability.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000010_000001|It touches the ways as well as the means, and draws on vicarious leisure as well as on vicarious consumption.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000010_000002|Priestly demeanor at its best is aloof, leisurely, perfunctory, and uncontaminated with suggestions of sensuous pleasure.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000000|The same pervading canon of vicarious leisure is also visibly present in the exterior details of devout observances and need only be pointed out in order to become obvious to all beholders.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000001|All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000002|This development of formula is most noticeable in the maturer cults, which have at the same time a more austere, ornate, and severe priestly life and garb; but it is perceptible also in the forms and methods of worship of the newer and fresher sects, whose tastes in respect of priests, vestments, and sanctuaries are less exacting.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000003|The rehearsal of the service (the term "service" carries a suggestion significant for the point in question) grows more perfunctory as the cult gains in age and consistency, and this perfunctoriness of the rehearsal is very pleasing to the correct devout taste.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000004|And with a good reason, for the fact of its being perfunctory goes to say pointedly that the master for whom it is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000006|It is needless to point out the close analogy at this point between the priestly office and the office of the footman.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000007|It is pleasing to our sense of what is fitting in these matters, in either case, to recognize in the obvious perfunctoriness of the service that it is a pro forma execution only.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000011_000008|There should be no show of agility or of dexterous manipulation in the execution of the priestly office, such as might suggest a capacity for turning off the work.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000000|In all this there is of course an obvious implication as to the temperament, tastes, propensities, and habits of life imputed to the divinity by worshippers who live under the tradition of these pecuniary canons of reputability.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000002|It is of course in the more naive cults that this suffusion of pecuniary beauty is most patent, but it is visible throughout.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000004|In so calling in the aid of fancy to enrich and fill in their picture of the divinity's presence and manner of life they habitually impute to him such traits as go to make up their ideal of a worthy man.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000005|And in seeking communion with the divinity the ways and means of approach are assimilated as nearly as may be to the divine ideal that is in men's minds at the time.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000006|It is felt that the divine presence is entered with the best grace, and with the best effect, according to certain accepted methods and with the accompaniment of certain material circumstances which in popular apprehension are peculiarly consonant with the divine nature.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000007|This popularly accepted ideal of the bearing and paraphernalia adequate to such occasions of communion is, of course, to a good extent shaped by the popular apprehension of what is intrinsically worthy and beautiful in human carriage and surroundings on all occasions of dignified intercourse.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000012_000009|So it would also be misleading to ascribe to the divinity, as popularly conceived, a jealous regard for his pecuniary standing and a habit of avoiding and condemning squalid situations and surroundings simply because they are under grade in the pecuniary respect.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000013_000000|And still, after all allowance has been made, it appears that the canons of pecuniary reputability do, directly or indirectly, materially affect our notions of the attributes of divinity, as well as our notions of what are the fit and adequate manner and circumstances of divine communion.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000013_000001|It is felt that the divinity must be of a peculiarly serene and leisurely habit of life.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000013_000002|And whenever his local habitation is pictured in poetic imagery, for edification or in appeal to the devout fancy, the devout word painter, as a matter of course, brings out before his auditors' imagination a throne with a profusion of the insignia of opulence and power, and surrounded by a great number of servitors.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000013_000004|It is only in the crasser expressions of devout fancy that this intrusion of pecuniary canons into the devout ideals reaches such an extreme.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000013_000005|An extreme case occurs in the devout imagery of the Negro population of the South.
train-other-500/3006/5698/3006_5698_000013_000006|Their word painters are unable to descend to anything cheaper than gold; so that in this case the insistence on pecuniary beauty gives a startling effect in yellow-such as would be unbearable to a soberer taste.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000004_000001|I said to her something like:
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000005_000001|I mean, that I must claim the liberty of a free American citizen to think what I please about your co religionists. And I suppose that Florence must have liberty to think what she pleases and to say what politeness allows her to say."
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000006_000001|It was almost as if she were trying to convey to Florence, through me, that she would seriously harm my wife if Florence went to something that was an extreme.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000006_000002|Yes, I remember thinking at the time that it was almost as if Leonora were saying, through me to Florence:
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000007_000000|"You may outrage me as you will; you may take all that I personally possess, but do not you care to say one single thing in view of the situation that that will set up-against the faith that makes me become the doormat for your feet."
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000008_000000|But obviously, as I saw it, that could not be her meaning.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000008_000001|Good people, be they ever so diverse in creed, do not threaten each other.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000000|For, all that time, I was just a male sick nurse.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000001|And what chance had I against those three hardened gamblers, who were all in league to conceal their hands from me?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000002|What earthly chance?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000003|They were three to one-and they made me happy.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000004|Oh God, they made me so happy that I doubt if even paradise, that shall smooth out all temporal wrongs, shall ever give me the like.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000005|And what could they have done better, or what could they have done that could have been worse?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000010_000006|I don't know....
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000011_000000|I suppose that, during all that time I was a deceived husband and that Leonora was pimping for Edward.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000011_000001|That was the cross that she had to take up during her long Calvary of a life....
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000000|You ask how it feels to be a deceived husband.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000001|Just Heavens, I do not know.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000002|It feels just nothing at all.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000003|It is not Hell, certainly it is not necessarily Heaven.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000004|So I suppose it is the intermediate stage.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000005|What do they call it?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000006|Limbo.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000007|No, I feel nothing at all about that.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000009|It is not my business to think about it.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000012|The just?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000013|The unjust?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000014|God knows!
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000015|I think that the pair of them were only poor wretches, creeping over this earth in the shadow of an eternal wrath.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000012_000016|It is very terrible....
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000000|It is almost too terrible, the picture of that judgement, as it appears to me sometimes, at nights.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000001|It is probably the suggestion of some picture that I have seen somewhere.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000002|But upon an immense plain, suspended in mid-air, I seem to see three figures, two of them clasped close in an intense embrace, and one intolerably solitary.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000003|It is in black and white, my picture of that judgement, an etching, perhaps; only I cannot tell an etching from a photographic reproduction.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000004|And the immense plain is the hand of God, stretching out for miles and miles, with great spaces above it and below it.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000005|And they are in the sight of God, and it is Florence that is alone....
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000007|But, in the nights, with that vision of judgement before me, I know that I hold myself back.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000008|For I hate Florence.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000009|I hate Florence with such a hatred that I would not spare her an eternity of loneliness.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000011|She was an American, a New Englander.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000012|She had not the hot passions of these Europeans.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000014|And, no doubt, Maisie Maidan will find her young husband again, and Leonora will burn, clear and serene, a northern light and one of the archangels of God.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000013_000016|Well, perhaps, they will find me an elevator to run....
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000014_000000|She should not have done it.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000014_000002|It was playing it too low down.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000014_000003|She cut out poor dear Edward from sheer vanity; she meddled between him and Leonora from a sheer, imbecile spirit of district visiting.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000014_000005|She would gabble on to Leonora about forgiveness-treating the subject from the bright, American point of view.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000014_000006|And Leonora would treat her like the whore she was.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000015_000000|"You come to me straight out of his bed to tell me that that is my proper place.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000015_000001|I know it, thank you."
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000016_000000|But even that could not stop Florence.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000016_000001|She went on saying that it was her ambition to leave this world a little brighter by the passage of her brief life, and how thankfully she would leave Edward, whom she thought she had brought to a right frame of mind, if Leonora would only give him a chance.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000016_000002|He needed, she said, tenderness beyond anything.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000017_000000|And Leonora would answer-for she put up with this outrage for years-Leonora, as I understand, would answer something like:
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000018_000000|"Yes, you would give him up.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000018_000001|And you would go on writing to each other in secret, and committing adultery in hired rooms.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000018_000003|no
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000018_000004|I prefer the situation as it is." Half the time Florence would ignore Leonora's remarks.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000018_000005|She would think they were not quite ladylike.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000018_000007|Once she said:
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000020_000000|"Never do you dare to mention Mrs Maidan's name again.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000020_000001|You murdered her. You and I murdered her between us.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000020_000002|I am as much a scoundrel as you.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000020_000003|I don't like to be reminded of it."
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000021_000000|Florence went off at once into a babble of how could she have hurt a person whom she hardly knew, a person whom with the best intentions, in pursuance of her efforts to leave the world a little brighter, she had tried to save from Edward.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000021_000001|That was how she figured it out to herself. She really thought that....
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000022_000002|I ought never to have brought her from India." And that, indeed, is exactly how Leonora looked at it.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000022_000003|It is stated a little baldly, but Leonora was always a great one for bald statements.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000023_000000|What had happened on the day of our jaunt to the ancient city of M---- had been this:
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000024_000000|Leonora, who had been even then filled with pity and contrition for the poor child, on returning to our hotel had gone straight to Mrs Maidan's room.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000024_000002|And she had perceived at first only, on the clear, round table covered with red velvet, a letter addressed to her.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000000|"Oh, Mrs Ashburnham, how could you have done it?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000001|I trusted you so.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000002|You never talked to me about me and Edward, but I trusted you.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000003|How could you buy me from my husband?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000005|You paid the money for me to come here.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000007|How could you?
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000025_000008|I am going straight back to Bunny...." Bunny was Mrs Maidan's husband.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000026_000001|She had to fight against that feeling, whilst she read the postscript of the letter.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000027_000000|"I did not know you wanted me for an adulteress," the postscript began. The poor child was hardly literate.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000027_000001|"It was surely not right of you and I never wanted to be one.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000027_000002|And I heard Edward call me a poor little rat to the American lady.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000027_000003|He always called me a little rat in private, and I did not mind.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000027_000004|But, if he called me it to her, I think he does not love me any more.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000027_000006|You should not have done it, and we out of the same convent...."
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000028_000000|Leonora said that she screamed when she read that.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000000|And then she saw that Maisie's boxes were all packed, and she began a search for Mrs Maidan herself-all over the hotel.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000002|He imagined that he had seen her come back, but he was not quite certain.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000003|No one in the large hotel had bothered his head about the child.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000005|I never heard then or after what had passed between that precious couple.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000007|That would be the sort of way she would begin.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000008|And Edward would have sentimentally assured her that there was nothing in it; that Maisie was just a poor little rat whose passage to Nauheim his wife had paid out of her own pocket.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000029_000009|That would have been enough to do the trick.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000000|For the trick was pretty efficiently done.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000001|Leonora, with panic growing and with contrition very large in her heart, visited every one of the public rooms of the hotel-the dining room, the lounge, the schreibzimmer, the winter garden.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000005|She had determined to take that child right away from that hideous place.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000006|It seemed to her to be all unspeakable.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000007|I do not mean to say that she was not quite cool about it. Leonora was always Leonora.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000008|But the cold justice of the thing demanded that she should play the part of mother to this child who had come from the same convent.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000009|She figured it out to amount to that.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000010|She would leave Edward to Florence and to me-and she would devote all her time to providing that child with an atmosphere of love until she could be returned to her poor young husband.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000030_000011|It was naturally too late.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000031_000000|She had not cared to look round Maisie's rooms at first.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000031_000001|Now, as soon as she came in, she perceived, sticking out beyond the bed, a small pair of feet in high heeled shoes.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000031_000002|Maisie had died in the effort to strap up a great portmanteau.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000031_000005|Her dark hair, like the hair of a Japanese, had come down and covered her body and her face.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000000|Leonora lifted her up-she was the merest featherweight-and laid her on the bed with her hair about her.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000001|She was smiling, as if she had just scored a goal in a hockey match.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000002|You understand she had not committed suicide.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000003|Her heart had just stopped.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000005|The stem of a white lily rested in her hand so that the spike of flowers was upon her shoulder.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000009|She wanted, you know, to spare poor dear Edward's feelings.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000010|He never could bear the sight of a corpse.
train-other-500/3020/888/3020_888_000032_000012|He soon got over it.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000000_000001|It was like a father saying that he approved of a marriageable daughter...
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000000_000002|And Edward, when he realized what he was doing, curbed his tongue at once.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000000_000003|She was just glad and she went on being just glad.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000001_000001|And yet I am so near to all these people that I cannot think any of them wicked.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000001_000003|That, I mean, is, in spite of everything, my permanent view of him.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000001_000004|I try at times by dwelling on some of the things that he did to push that image of him away, as you might try to push aside a large pendulum.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000001_000005|But it always comes back-the memory of his innumerable acts of kindness, of his efficiency, of his unspiteful tongue.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000001_000006|He was such a fine fellow.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000002_000000|So I feel myself forced to attempt to excuse him in this as in so many other things.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000002_000002|But I think Edward had no idea at all of corrupting her.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000002_000004|He said that that was so; and he did enough to prove it.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000002_000005|And Leonora said that it was so and Leonora knew him to the bottom of his heart.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000001|Or, at any rate, it is impossible to believe in the permanence of any early passion.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000002|As I see it, at least, with regard to man, a love affair, a love for any definite woman-is something in the nature of a widening of the experience.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000003|With each new woman that a man is attracted to there appears to come a broadening of the outlook, or, if you like, an acquiring of new territory.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000005|He wants to get, as it were, behind those eyebrows with the peculiar turn, as if he desired to see the world with the eyes that they overshadow.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000006|He wants to hear that voice applying itself to every possible proposition, to every possible topic; he wants to see those characteristic gestures against every possible background. Of the question of the sex instinct I know very little and I do not think that it counts for very much in a really great passion.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000008|I don't mean to say that any great passion can exist without a desire for consummation.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000010|It is a thing, with all its accidents, that must be taken for granted, as, in a novel, or a biography, you take it for granted that the characters have their meals with some regularity.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000012|He desires to see with the same eyes, to touch with the same sense of touch, to hear with the same ears, to lose his identity, to be enveloped, to be supported.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000013|For, whatever may be said of the relation of the sexes, there is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000014|And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000015|We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000017|He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000019|It is sad, but it is so.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000020|The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000026|It was quite literally the case.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000027|It was quite literally the case that his passions-for the mistress of the Grand Duke, for Mrs Basil, for little Mrs Maidan, for Florence, for whom you will-these passions were merely preliminary canters compared to his final race with death for her.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000003_000029|I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000004_000000|And, in speaking to her on that night, he wasn't, I am convinced, committing a baseness.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000004_000001|It was as if his passion for her hadn't existed; as if the very words that he spoke, without knowing that he spoke them, created the passion as they went along.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000004_000002|Before he spoke, there was nothing; afterwards, it was the integral fact of his life.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000005_000000|And my story was concerning itself with Florence-with Florence, who heard those words from behind the tree.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000005_000001|That of course is only conjecture, but I think the conjecture is pretty well justified.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000005_000004|But I dare say Bagshawe may have been the determining influence in her suicide.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000005_000005|Leonora says that she had that flask, apparently of nitrate of amyl, but actually of prussic acid, for many years and that she was determined to use it if ever I discovered the nature of her relationship with that fellow Jimmy.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000005_000006|You see, the mainspring of her nature must have been vanity.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000005_000007|There is no reason why it shouldn't have been; I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000006_000000|If it had been merely a matter of Edward's relations with the girl I dare say Florence would have faced it out.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000006_000001|She would no doubt have made him scenes, have threatened him, have appealed to his sense of humour, to his promises.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000006_000003|You see, she had two things that she wanted.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000006_000005|She wanted also to retain my respect.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000007_000000|She wanted, that is to say, to retain my respect for as long as she lived with me.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000007_000002|Or perhaps she would have tried to exact from me a new respect for the greatness of her passion on the lines of all for love and the world well lost.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000008_000000|In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor-a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character or in one's career.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000008_000001|For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one's small meannesses.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000008_000002|It is really death to do so-that is why so many marriages turn out unhappily.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000009_000001|If Florence had discovered this secret of mine I should have found her knowledge of it so unbearable that I never could have supported all the other privations of the regime that she extracted from me.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000009_000002|I am bound to say that Florence never discovered this secret.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000010_000000|Certainly she never alluded to it; I dare say she never took sufficient interest in me.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000000|And the secret weakness of Florence-the weakness that she could not bear to have me discover, was just that early escapade with the fellow called Jimmy.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000001|Let me, as this is in all probability the last time I shall mention Florence's name, dwell a little upon the change that had taken place in her psychology.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000002|She would not, I mean, have minded if I had discovered that she was the mistress of Edward Ashburnham.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000005|She wanted, in one mood, to come rushing to me, to cast herself on her knees at my feet and to declaim a carefully arranged, frightfully emotional, outpouring as to her passion.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000006|That was to show that she was like one of the great erotic women of whom history tells us.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000007|In another mood she would desire to come to me disdainfully and to tell me that I was considerably less than a man and that what had happened was what must happen when a real male came along.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000008|She wanted to say that in cool, balanced and sarcastic sentences.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000011_000010|Because of course she was always play acting.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000000|But what she didn't want me to know was the fact of her first escapade with the fellow called Jimmy.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000001|She had arrived at figuring out the sort of low down Bowery tough that that fellow was.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000003|Well, it was that sort of shuddering that came over Florence at the thought that she had surrendered to such a low fellow.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000004|I don't know that she need have shuddered.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000005|It was her footling old uncle's work; he ought never to have taken those two round the world together and shut himself up in his cabin for the greater part of the time.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000006|Anyhow, I am convinced that the sight of Mr Bagshawe and the thought that Mr Bagshawe-for she knew that unpleasant and toadlike personality-the thought that Mr Bagshawe would almost certainly reveal to me that he had caught her coming out of Jimmy's bedroom at five o'clock in the morning on the fourth of August, nineteen hundred--that was the determining influence in her suicide.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000008|On the same day of the year she had married me; on that fourth she had lost Edward's love, and Bagshawe had appeared like a sinister omen-like a grin on the face of Fate.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000009|It was the last straw. She ran upstairs, arranged herself decoratively upon her bed-she was a sweetly pretty woman with smooth pink and white cheeks, long hair, the eyelashes falling like a tiny curtain on her cheeks.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000011|Who knows?
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000012_000012|Anyhow, there was an end of Florence.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000013_000000|You have no idea how quite extraordinarily for me that was the end of Florence.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000013_000001|From that day to this I have never given her another thought; I have not bestowed upon her so much as a sigh.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000013_000003|But it has always been as a matter for study, not for remembrance.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000013_000004|She just went completely out of existence, like yesterday's paper.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000014_000000|I was so deadly tired.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000014_000002|For that was all that I had been.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000014_000004|But I am unwilling to attribute my feelings at that time to anything so concrete as a shock.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000014_000008|What had I to regret? I suppose that my inner soul-my dual personality-had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper-that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank note represents a certain quantity of gold.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000014_000009|I know that sort of feeling came to the surface in me the moment the man Bagshawe told me that he had seen her coming out of that fellow's bedroom.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000015_000001|I didn't care whether she had come out of that bedroom or whether she hadn't.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000015_000003|Florence didn't matter.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000016_000001|Well, I am not seeking to avoid discredit.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000016_000002|I was in love with Nancy Rufford as I am in love with the poor child's memory, quietly and quite tenderly in my American sort of way.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000016_000003|I had never thought about it until I heard Leonora state that I might now marry her.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000016_000004|But, from that moment until her worse than death, I do not suppose that I much thought about anything else.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000001|I didn't attach much importance to my superior years.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000003|But she was older than her years and quieter.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000005|But she had frequently told me that she had no vocation; it just simply wasn't there-the desire to become a nun.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000007|No, I didn't see any impediment on the score of age.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000008|I dare say no man does and I was pretty confident that with a little preparation, I could make a young girl happy.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000009|I could spoil her as few young girls have ever been spoiled; and I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000011|I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine.
train-other-500/3020/892/3020_892_000017_000012|I didn't want to present myself to Nancy Rufford as a sort of an old maid.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000005_000000|sixty eight.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000005_000001|Cromwell's House.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000006_000000|It was, in fact, Mordaunt whom D'Artagnan had followed, without knowing it.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000006_000001|On entering the house he had taken off his mask and imitation beard, then, mounting a staircase, had opened a door, and in a room lighted by a single lamp found himself face to face with a man seated behind a desk.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000007_000000|This man was Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000009_000000|"It is you, Mordaunt," he said.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000009_000001|"You are late."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000010_000000|"General, I wished to see the ceremony to the end, which delayed me."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000011_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000011_000001|I scarcely thought you were so curious as that."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000012_000000|"I am always curious to see the downfall of your honor's enemies, and he was not among the least of them.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000012_000001|But you, general, were you not at Whitehall?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000013_000000|"No," said Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000014_000000|There was a moment's silence.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000015_000000|"Have you had any account of it?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000016_000000|"None.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000016_000001|I have been here since the morning.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000016_000002|I only know that there was a conspiracy to rescue the king."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000018_000000|"It matters little.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000018_000001|Four men, disguised as workmen, were to get the king out of prison and take him to Greenwich, where a vessel was waiting."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000019_000000|"And knowing all that, your honor remained here, far from the city, tranquil and inactive."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000020_000000|"Tranquil, yes," replied Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000020_000001|"But who told you I was inactive?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000022_000000|"I wished it to do so."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000023_000000|"I thought your excellence considered the death of Charles the first as a misfortune necessary to the welfare of England."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000024_000000|"Yes, his death; but it would have been more seemly not upon the scaffold."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000025_000000|"Why so?" asked Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000026_000000|Cromwell smiled.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000027_000000|"But if he had escaped?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000028_000000|"Impossible; my precautions were taken."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000029_000000|"And does your honor know the four men who undertook to rescue him?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000030_000000|"The four Frenchmen, of whom two were sent by the queen to her husband and two by Mazarin to me."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000031_000000|"And do you think Mazarin commissioned them to act as they have done?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000032_000000|"It is possible.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000033_000000|"How so?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000034_000000|"Because they failed."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000035_000000|"Your honor gave me two of these Frenchmen when they were only guilty of fighting for Charles the first Now that they are guilty of a conspiracy against England will your honor give me all four of them?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000036_000000|"Take them," said Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000037_000000|Mordaunt bowed with a smile of triumphant ferocity.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000039_000000|"Very little, except 'Long live Cromwell!'"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000040_000000|"Where were you placed?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000041_000000|Mordaunt tried for a moment to read in the general's face if this was simply a useless question, or whether he knew everything.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000041_000001|But his piercing eyes could by no means penetrate the sombre depths of Cromwell's.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000042_000000|"I was so situated as to hear and see everything," he answered.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000043_000000|It was now Cromwell's turn to look fixedly at Mordaunt, and Mordaunt to make himself impenetrable.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000044_000001|The blow, so they tell me at least, was struck with a master's hand."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000046_000000|"In fact," said Mordaunt, with a calm voice and immovable countenance, "a single blow sufficed."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000047_000000|"Perhaps it was some one in that occupation," said Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000048_000000|"Do you think so, sir?
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000048_000001|He did not look like an executioner."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000049_000000|"And who else save an executioner would have wished to fill that horrible office?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000051_000000|"Possibly."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000052_000000|"And if that were the case would your honor condemn his action?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000053_000000|"It is not for me to judge.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000053_000001|It rests between his conscience and his God."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000054_000000|"But if your honor knew this man?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000055_000001|Provided Charles is dead, it is the axe, not the man, we must thank."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000056_000000|"And yet, without the man, the king would have been rescued."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000057_000000|Cromwell smiled.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000058_000000|"They would have carried him to Greenwich," he said, "and put him on board a felucca with five barrels of powder in the hold.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000058_000001|Once out to sea, you are too good a politician not to understand the rest, Mordaunt."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000059_000000|"Yes, they would have all been blown up."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000060_000000|"Just so.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000060_000002|You see now why I did not care to know your gentleman in the mask; for really, in spite of his excellent intentions, I could not thank him for what he has done."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000061_000000|Mordaunt bowed humbly.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000061_000001|"Sir," he said, "you are a profound thinker and your plan was sublime."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000062_000000|"Say absurd, since it has become useless.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000062_000001|The only sublime ideas in politics are those which bear fruit.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000062_000002|So to night, Mordaunt, go to Greenwich and ask for the captain of the felucca Lightning.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000063_000000|"Unless?" said Mordaunt, whose face was lighted by a savage joy as Cromwell spoke:
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000064_000000|"This skiff might be of use to you for personal projects."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000065_000000|"Oh, my lord, my lord!"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000066_000000|"That title," said Cromwell, laughing, "is all very well here, but take care a word like that does not escape your lips in public."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000067_000000|"But your honor will soon be called so generally."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000070_000000|"Yes," said Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000070_000001|"I slept here last night and the night before, and you know it is not my custom to sleep three times in the same bed."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000071_000000|"Then," said Mordaunt, "your honor gives me my liberty for to night?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000072_000000|"And even for all day to morrow, if you want it.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000073_000000|"Thank you, sir; it will be well employed, I hope."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000074_000000|Cromwell turned as he was going.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000075_000000|"Are you armed?" he asked.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000076_000000|"I have my sword."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000077_000000|"And no one waiting for you outside?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000078_000000|"no"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000079_000000|"Then you had better come with me."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000080_000000|"Thank you, sir, but the way by the subterranean passage would take too much time and I have none to lose."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000081_000000|Cromwell placed his hand on a hidden handle and opened a door so well concealed by the tapestry that the most practiced eye could not have discovered it.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000081_000001|It closed after him with a spring.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000081_000002|This door communicated with a subterranean passage, leading under the street to a grotto in the garden of a house about a hundred yards from that of the future Protector.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000083_000000|D'Artagnan was the first to recover from his surprise.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000084_000000|"Mordaunt," he cried.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000085_000000|"Yes," said Porthos, "let us break the door in and fall upon him."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000086_000000|"No," replied D'Artagnan, "no noise.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000086_000002|If he comes out we shall catch him. If he stays in we will break in the window.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000086_000003|It is easier and less noisy than the door."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000087_000000|Grimaud began to scale the wall again.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000088_000000|"Keep guard at the other door, Athos and Aramis.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000088_000001|Porthos and I will stay here."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000089_000000|The friends obeyed.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000091_000000|"We did not see his companion come out."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000092_000000|"He may have gone by the other door."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000093_000000|"What is he doing?"
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000094_000000|"Putting on his cloak and gloves."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000095_000000|"He's ours," muttered D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000096_000000|Porthos mechanically drew his dagger from the scabbard.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000097_000000|"Put it up again, my friend," said D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000098_000001|He has put out the lamp, I can see nothing now."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000099_000000|"Get down then and quickly."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000100_000000|Grimaud leaped down.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000100_000001|The snow deadened the noise of his fall.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000101_000000|"Now go and tell Athos and Aramis to stand on each side of the door and clap their hands if they catch him.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000101_000001|We will do the same."
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000102_000000|The next moment the door opened and Mordaunt appeared on the threshold, face to face with D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000102_000001|Porthos clapped his hands and the other two came running around.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000102_000002|Mordaunt was livid, but he uttered no cry nor called for assistance.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000102_000003|D'Artagnan quietly pushed him in again, and by the light of a lamp on the staircase made him ascend the steps backward one by one, keeping his eyes all the time on Mordaunt's hands, who, however, knowing that it was useless, attempted no resistance.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000102_000004|At last they stood face to face in the very room where ten minutes before Mordaunt had been talking to Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000103_000000|Porthos came up behind, and unhooking the lamp on the staircase relit that in the room.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000103_000001|Athos and Aramis entered last and locked the door behind them.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000104_000000|"Oblige me by taking a seat," said D'Artagnan, pushing a chair toward Mordaunt, who sat down, pale but calm.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000104_000001|Aramis, Porthos and D'Artagnan drew their chairs near him.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000104_000002|Athos alone kept away and sat in the furthest corner of the room, as if determined to be merely a spectator of the proceedings.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000104_000003|He seemed to be quite overcome.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000104_000004|Porthos rubbed his hands in feverish impatience.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000104_000005|Aramis bit his lips till the blood came.
train-other-500/3021/121438/3021_121438_000105_000000|D'Artagnan alone was calm, at least in appearance.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000002_000000|sixty nine.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000002_000001|Conversational.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000003_000000|Though Mordaunt had been so completely taken by surprise and had mounted the stairs in such utter confusion, when once seated he recovered himself, as it were, and prepared to seize any possible opportunity of escape.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000004_000000|D'Artagnan was waiting for a reply to his remark and said nothing. Aramis muttered to himself, "We shall hear nothing but the usual commonplace things."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000006_000000|The silence, however, could not last forever.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000006_000001|So D'Artagnan began:
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000007_000000|"Sir," he said, with desperate politeness, "it seems to me that you change your costume almost as rapidly as I have seen the Italian mummers do, whom the Cardinal Mazarin brought over from Bergamo and whom he doubtless took you to see during your travels in France."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000008_000000|Mordaunt did not reply.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000009_000000|"Just now," D'Artagnan continued, "you were disguised-I mean to say, attired-as a murderer, and now----"
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000010_000000|"And now I look very much like a man who is going to be murdered."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000012_000000|"No sword is excellent enough to be of use against four swords and daggers."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000013_000000|"Well, that is scarcely the question.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000013_000001|I had the honor of asking you why you altered your costume.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000013_000002|The mask and beard became you very well, and as to the axe, I do not think it would be out of keeping even at this moment.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000013_000003|Why, then, have you laid it aside?"
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000014_000000|"Because, remembering the scene at Armentieres, I thought I should find four axes for one, as I was to meet four executioners."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000015_000001|What took place at Armentieres has no connection whatever with the present occasion.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000016_000000|"Aha!
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000017_000000|Porthos rose, always ready for this kind of adventure.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000018_000000|"Pardon me," said D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000018_000001|"Do not let us do things in a hurry.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000019_000000|"All," replied Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000020_000000|"Then, my dear sir; I am convinced that these gentlemen return your kind wishes and will be delighted to kill you also.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000020_000001|Of course they will do so as honorable gentlemen, and the best proof I can furnish is this----"
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000021_000000|So saying, he threw his hat on the ground, pushed back his chair to the wall and bowed to Mordaunt with true French grace.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000022_000000|"At your service, sir," he continued.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000022_000001|"My sword is shorter than yours, it's true, but, bah!
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000022_000002|I think the arm will make up for the sword."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000023_000000|"Halt!" cried Porthos coming forward.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000023_000001|"I begin, and without any rhetoric."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000024_000000|"Allow me, Porthos," said Aramis.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000025_000000|Athos did not move.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000025_000001|He might have been taken for a statue.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000025_000002|Even his breathing seemed to be arrested.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000026_000000|"Gentlemen," said D'Artagnan, "you shall have your turn.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000026_000003|So pray keep your places, like Athos, whose calmness is entirely laudable.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000026_000004|Besides, we will have no words about it.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000026_000005|I have particular business to settle with this gentleman and I shall and will begin."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000027_000000|Porthos and Aramis drew back, disappointed, and drawing his sword D'Artagnan turned to his adversary:
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000028_000000|"Sir, I am waiting for you."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000029_000000|"And for my part, gentlemen, I admire you.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000029_000001|You are disputing which shall fight me first, but you do not consult me who am most concerned in the matter.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000029_000002|I hate you all, but not equally.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000029_000004|I claim, then, the right to choose my opponent.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000029_000005|If you refuse this right you may kill me, but I shall not fight."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000030_000000|"It is but fair," said Porthos and Aramis, hoping he would choose one of them.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000033_000001|Submit this honour to somebody else." And he sat down.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000034_000000|"Ah!" said Mordaunt, with a sneer, "there's one who is afraid."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000035_000000|"Zounds!" exclaimed D'Artagnan, bounding toward him, "who says that Athos is afraid?"
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000036_000000|"Let him have his say, D'Artagnan," said Athos, with a smile of sadness and contempt.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000037_000000|"Is it your decision, Athos?" resumed the Gascon.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000038_000000|"Irrevocably."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000039_000000|"You hear, sir," said D'Artagnan, turning to Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000040_000000|"As long as I don't fight with him it is the same to me with whom I fight.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000040_000001|Put your names into a hat and draw lots."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000041_000000|"A good idea," said D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000042_000000|"At least that will conciliate us all," said Aramis.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000043_000000|"I should never have thought of that," said Porthos, "and yet it is very simple."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000045_000000|Mordaunt sustained this new attack without wincing.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000045_000001|He stood with his arms folded, apparently as calm as any man could be in such circumstances.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000045_000002|If he had not courage he had what is very like it, namely, pride.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000046_000001|He then rolled them separately and put them in a hat, which he handed to Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000047_000000|Mordaunt put his hand into the hat, took out one of the three papers and disdainfully dropped it on the table without reading it.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000048_000000|"Ah! serpent," muttered D'Artagnan, "I would give my chance of a captaincy in the mousquetaires for that to be my name."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000049_000000|Aramis opened the paper, and in a voice trembling with hate and vengeance read "D'Artagnan."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000050_000000|The Gascon uttered a cry of joy and turning to Mordaunt:
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000051_000000|"I hope, sir," said he, "you have no objection to make."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000052_000000|"None, whatever," replied the other, drawing his sword and resting the point on his boot.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000053_000000|The moment that D'Artagnan saw that his wish was accomplished and his man would not escape him, he recovered his usual tranquillity.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000053_000001|He turned up his cuffs neatly and rubbed the sole of his right boot on the floor, but did not fail, however, to remark that Mordaunt was looking about him in a singular manner.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000054_000000|"Are you ready, sir?" he said at last.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000055_000000|"I was waiting for you, sir," said Mordaunt, raising his head and casting at his opponent a look it would be impossible to describe.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000056_000000|"Well, then," said the Gascon, "take care of yourself, for I am not a bad hand at the rapier."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000057_000000|"Nor I either."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000058_000000|"So much the better; that sets my mind at rest.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000058_000001|Defend yourself."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000059_000000|"One minute," said the young man.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000060_000000|"Is it to have the pleasure of insulting us that you say that, my little viper?"
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000061_000000|"No, but to set my mind at rest, as you observed just now."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000062_000000|"It is for something else than that, I imagine," muttered D'Artagnan, shaking his head doubtfully.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000063_000000|"On the honor of gentlemen," said Aramis and Porthos.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000064_000001|We shall require it."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000065_000000|"Yes, gentlemen," said D'Artagnan, "we must not leave this person the slightest pretext for behaving badly, which, with all due respect, I fancy he is anxious still to do."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000066_000000|This new attack made no impression on Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000066_000001|The space was cleared, the two lamps placed on Cromwell's desk, in order that the combatants might have as much light as possible; and the swords crossed.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000067_000000|D'Artagnan was too good a swordsman to trifle with his opponent.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000067_000001|He made a rapid and brilliant feint which Mordaunt parried.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000068_000000|"Aha!" he cried with a smile of satisfaction.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000070_000000|This time it was Mordaunt who smiled.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000071_000001|It must have been the devil who taught it you, was it not?"
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000072_000000|Mordaunt replied by trying his opponent's weapon with an amount of strength which the Gascon was astonished to find in a form apparently so feeble; but thanks to a parry no less clever than that which Mordaunt had just achieved, he succeeded in meeting his sword, which slid along his own without touching his chest.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000073_000000|Mordaunt rapidly sprang back a step.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000074_000000|"Ah! you lose ground, you are turning?
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000074_000001|Well, as you please, I even gain something by it, for I no longer see that wicked smile of yours.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000074_000002|You have no idea what a false look you have, particularly when you are afraid.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000074_000003|Look at my eyes and you will see what no looking glass has ever shown you-a frank and honorable countenance."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000076_000000|He smiled more and more sarcastically and his smile began to make the Gascon anxious.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000077_000000|"Come, come," cried D'Artagnan, "we must finish with this," and in his turn he pressed Mordaunt hard, who continued to lose ground, but evidently on purpose and without letting his sword leave the line for a moment.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000077_000001|However, as they were fighting in a room and had not space to go on like that forever, Mordaunt's foot at last touched the wall, against which he rested his left hand.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000078_000000|"Ah, this time you cannot lose ground, my fine friend!" exclaimed D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000078_000001|"Gentlemen, did you ever see a scorpion pinned to a wall? no
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000078_000002|Well, then, you shall see it now."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000079_000000|In a second D'Artagnan had made three terrible thrusts at Mordaunt, all of which touched, but only pricked him.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000079_000001|The three friends looked on, panting and astonished.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000079_000003|D'Artagnan sprang back; the wall had closed again.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000080_000000|Mordaunt, in fact, while defending himself, had manoeuvred so as to reach the secret door by which Cromwell had left, had felt for the knob with his left hand, pressed it and disappeared.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000081_000000|The Gascon uttered a furious imprecation, which was answered by a wild laugh on the other side of the iron panel.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000082_000000|"Help me, gentlemen," cried D'Artagnan, "we must break in this door."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000084_000000|"He escapes us," growled Porthos, pushing his huge shoulder against the hinges, but in vain.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000085_000000|"So much the better," muttered Athos.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000086_000001|"Zounds, I thought as much when the wretch kept moving around the room.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000086_000002|I thought he was up to something."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000087_000000|"It's a misfortune, to which his friend, the devil, treats us," said Aramis.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000088_000000|"It's a piece of good fortune sent from Heaven," said Athos, evidently much relieved.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000089_000000|"Really!" said D'Artagnan, abandoning the attempt to burst open the panel after several ineffectual attempts, "Athos, I cannot imagine how you can talk to us in that way.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000089_000001|You cannot understand the position we are in.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000089_000002|In this kind of game, not to kill is to let one's self be killed.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000089_000003|This fox of a fellow will be sending us a hundred iron sided beasts who will pick us off like sparrows in this place.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000089_000004|Come, come, we must be off.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000089_000005|If we stay here five minutes more there's an end of us."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000090_000000|"Yes, you are right."
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000091_000000|"But where shall we go?" asked Porthos.
train-other-500/3021/121439/3021_121439_000092_000000|"To the hotel, to be sure, to get our baggage and horses; and from there, if it please God, to France, where, at least, I understand the architecture of the houses."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000000_000000|seventy.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000000_000001|The Skiff "Lightning."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000001_000000|D'Artagnan had judged correctly; Mordaunt felt that he had no time to lose, and he lost none.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000001_000001|He knew the rapidity of decision and action that characterized his enemies and resolved to act with reference to that. This time the musketeers had an adversary who was worthy of them.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000003_000000|"Good!" he said, "nothing, almost nothing-scratches, nothing more; two in the arm and one in the breast.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000003_000002|They must disappear, broken, scattered, annihilated.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000003_000003|I will run, then, till my legs no longer serve, till my heart bursts in my bosom but I will arrive before they do."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000004_000000|Mordaunt proceeded at a rapid pace to the nearest cavalry barracks, about a quarter of a league distant.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000004_000001|He made that quarter of a league in four or five minutes.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000004_000002|Arrived at the barracks he made himself known, took the best horse in the stables, mounted and gained the high road.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000005_000000|"There is the port," he murmured.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000005_000001|"That dark point yonder is the Isle of Dogs.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000005_000002|Good!
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000005_000004|Fool that I was!
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000005_000006|Now," he added, rising in the stirrups and looking about him, "which, I wonder, is the Lightning?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000006_000002|He was wrapped in a large rough cape, which concealed his form and partly his face.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000008_000000|"Yes, just so.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000008_000001|Along the Isle of Dogs."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000009_000001|You would like one that sails as rapidly as----"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000010_000000|"Lightning," interrupted Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000011_000000|"Then mine is the boat you want, sir.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000011_000001|I'm your man."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000012_000000|"I begin to think so, particularly if you have not forgotten a certain signal."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000014_000000|"Good, quite right!" cried Mordaunt, springing off his horse.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000014_000001|"There's not a moment to lose; now take my horse to the nearest inn and conduct me to your vessel."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000015_000001|I thought there were four of you."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000016_000000|"Listen to me, sir.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000016_000002|under orders from General Cromwell.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000018_000000|Mordaunt was startled.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000019_000000|"Oh, fear nothing," said the skipper, showing his face.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000019_000001|"I am a friend."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000020_000000|"Captain Groslow!" cried Mordaunt.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000021_000000|"Himself.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000021_000001|The general remembered that I had formerly been a naval officer and he gave me the command of this expedition.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000022_000000|"Nothing."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000024_000000|"Has only hastened their flight; in ten minutes they will perhaps be here."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000026_000000|"To embark with you."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000028_000000|"No, but I wish to have a share in my revenge.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000028_000001|Haven't you some one who will relieve me of my horse?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000029_000000|Groslow whistled and a sailor appeared.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000030_000000|"Patrick," said Groslow, "take this horse to the stables of the nearest inn.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000030_000001|If any one asks you whose it is you can say that it belongs to an Irish gentleman."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000031_000000|The sailor departed without reply.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000033_000000|"There is no danger, dressed as I am in this pilot coat, on a night as dark as this.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000033_000001|Besides even you didn't recognize me; they will be much less likely to."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000034_000000|"That is true," said Mordaunt, "and they will be far from thinking of you.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000034_000001|Everything is ready, is it not?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000035_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000036_000000|"The cargo on board?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000037_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000038_000000|"Five full casks?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000039_000000|"And fifty empty ones."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000040_000000|"Good."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000041_000000|"We are carrying port wine to Anvers."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000042_000000|"Excellent.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000042_000001|Now take me aboard and return to your post, for they will soon be here."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000043_000000|"I am ready."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000044_000000|"It is important that none of your crew should see me."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000046_000000|"Very well; let us go."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000047_000000|They then went down to the Thames.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000047_000001|A boat was fastened to the shore by a chain fixed to a stake.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000047_000002|Groslow jumped in, followed by Mordaunt, and in five minutes they were quite away from that world of houses which then crowded the outskirts of London; and Mordaunt could discern the little vessel riding at anchor near the Isle of Dogs.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000049_000000|"Nothing at all."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000050_000000|"That's a capital arrangement.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000050_000001|Return to Greenwich and bring them here. I shall hide myself in your cabin.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000050_000002|You have a longboat?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000051_000000|"That in which we came."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000052_000000|"It appeared light and well constructed."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000053_000000|"Quite a canoe."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000054_000000|"Fasten it to the poop with a rope; put the oars into it, so that it may follow in the track and there will be nothing to do except to cut the cord.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000054_000001|Put a good supply of rum and biscuit in it for the seamen; should the night happen to be stormy they will not be sorry to find something to console themselves with."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000055_000000|"Consider all this done.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000055_000001|Do you wish to see the powder room?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000056_000000|"no
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000057_000000|"Never fear."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000059_000001|The wind was chilly and the jetty was deserted, as he approached it; but he had no sooner landed than he heard a noise of horses galloping upon the paved road.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000060_000000|These horsemen were our friends, or rather, an avant garde, composed of D'Artagnan and Athos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000060_000001|As soon as they arrived at the spot where Groslow stood they stopped, as if guessing that he was the man they wanted. Athos alighted and calmly opened the handkerchief tied at each corner, whilst D'Artagnan, ever cautious, remained on horseback, one hand upon his pistol, leaning forward watchfully.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000061_000000|On seeing the appointed signal, Groslow, who had at first crept behind one of the cannon planted on that spot, walked straight up to the gentlemen.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000061_000001|He was so well wrapped up in his cloak that it would have been impossible to see his face even if the night had not been so dark as to render precaution superfluous; nevertheless, the keen glance of Athos perceived at once it was not Rogers who stood before them.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000063_000000|"I wish to inform you, my lord," replied Groslow, with an Irish accent, feigned of course, "that if you are looking for Captain Rogers you will not find him.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000063_000001|He fell down this morning and broke his leg.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000063_000002|But I'm his cousin; he told me everything and desired me to watch instead of him, and in his place to conduct, wherever they wished to go, the gentlemen who should bring me a handkerchief tied at each corner, like that one which you hold and one which I have in my pocket."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000065_000000|"Was that all he said?" inquired Athos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000067_000000|"What do you think of all this?" said Athos, in a low tone to D'Artagnan, after explaining to him in French what the sailor had said in English.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000070_000001|I dare say you know how to navigate, should he fail us."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000071_000000|"My dear friend, you guess well.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000071_000001|My father meant me for the navy and I have some vague notions about navigation."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000072_000000|"You see!" cried D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000074_000000|Parry parted from his friends regretfully; they had proposed his going with them to France, but he had straightway declined.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000075_000000|"It is very simple," Mousqueton had said; "he is thinking of Groslow."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000076_000000|It was Captain Groslow, the reader will remember, who had broken Parry's head.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000077_000002|He had reported to Aramis what had taken place, and Aramis, not less distrustful than he, had increased his suspicions.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000078_000000|"We have no time now for suspicions," said Athos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000078_000001|"The boat is waiting for us; come."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000079_000000|"Besides," said Aramis, "what prevents our being distrustful and going aboard at the same time?
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000081_000000|"Well said, Porthos," replied D'Artagnan.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000081_000001|"Let us go, then.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000082_000000|The three valets passed without accident.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000082_000001|Athos followed them, then Porthos, then Aramis.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000082_000002|D'Artagnan went last, still shaking his head.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000083_000000|"What in the devil is the matter with you, my friend?" said Porthos. "Upon my word you would make Caesar afraid."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000084_000000|"The matter is," replied D'Artagnan, "that I can see upon this pier neither inspector nor sentinel nor exciseman."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000085_000000|"And you complain of that!" said Porthos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000085_000001|"Everything goes as if in flowery paths."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000086_000000|"Everything goes too well, Porthos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000086_000001|But no matter; we must trust in God."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000087_000000|As soon as the plank was withdrawn the captain took his place at the tiller and made a sign to one of the sailors, who, boat hook in hand, began to push out from the labyrinth of boats in which they were involved.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000087_000001|The other sailor had already seated himself on the port side and was ready to row.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000088_000000|"At last we are off!" exclaimed Porthos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000091_000000|"We are not yet at our destination," observed the prudent D'Artagnan; "beware of misadventure."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000092_000001|Who could intercept us on such a night as this, pitch dark, when one does not see more than twenty yards before one?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000093_000000|"Yes, but to morrow morning----"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000095_000000|"I hope so, with all my heart," said the Gascon, "and I confess my weakness.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000095_000001|Yes, Athos, you may laugh, but as long as we were within gunshot of the pier or of the vessels lying by it I was looking for a frightful discharge of musketry which would crush us."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000097_000000|"Bah! much Monsieur Mordaunt would care.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000097_000001|You don't imagine he would consider a little thing like that?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000099_000000|"I not only confess it, but am proud of it," returned the Gascon; "I'm not such a rhinoceros as you are.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000100_000000|"The Lightning," answered the captain, "our felucca."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000101_000000|"So far, so good," laughed Athos.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000102_000000|They went on board and the captain instantly conducted them to the berth prepared for them-a cabin which was to serve for all purposes and for the whole party; he then tried to slip away under pretext of giving orders to some one.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000103_000000|"Stop a moment," cried D'Artagnan; "pray how many men have you on board, captain?"
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000104_000000|"I don't understand," was the reply.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000106_000000|Groslow, on the question being interpreted, answered, "Three, without counting myself."
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000107_000000|D'Artagnan understood, for while replying the captain had raised three fingers.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000109_000000|"A very good idea, Porthos," said the Gascon.
train-other-500/3021/121440/3021_121440_000111_000000|D'Artagnan, finding a lantern on the deck, took it up and with a pistol in his hand he said to the captain, in English, "Come," (being, with the classic English oath, the only English words he knew), and so saying he descended to the lower deck.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000000_000000|"He knew my name," said Jessie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000000_000001|"Yes-it was mr Dangle."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000002_000001|His eyebrows went up spasmodically.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000003_000000|"What! someone you know?"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000004_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000005_000000|"Lord!"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000006_000000|"He was looking for me," said Jessie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000006_000001|"I could see.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000006_000002|He began to call to me before the horse shied.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000006_000003|My stepmother has sent him."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000007_000001|Honesty IS the best policy-often, he thought.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000007_000003|He became active.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000008_000000|Jessie, he saw, had wheeled her machine into the road and was mounting. Still staring at the corner that had swallowed up Dangle, Hoopdriver followed suit.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000008_000002|Occasionally Jessie had to slacken her pace.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000008_000003|He breathed heavily, and hated himself because his mouth fell open, After nearly an hour's hard riding, they found themselves uncaught at Winchester.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000008_000004|Not a trace of Dangle nor any other danger was visible as they rode into the dusky, yellow lit street. Though the bats had been fluttering behind thehedges and the evening star was bright while they were still two miles from Winchester, mr Hoopdriver pointed out the dangers of stopping in such an obvious abiding place, and gently but firmly insisted upon replenishing the lamps and riding on towards Salisbury.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000008_000007|They rode in absolute silence, and slowly after they had cleared the outskirts of Winchester.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000008_000009|A plausible landlady rose to the occasion.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000009_000001|And he also heard a remark.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000009_000002|In the second before he heard that remark, mr Hoopdriver had been a proud and happy man, to particularize, a baronet's heir incognito.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000010_000001|But the remark toppled him headlong.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000010_000002|What the precise remark was need not concern us.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000010_000004|Should you be curious, dear lady, as to its nature, you have merely to dress yourself in a really modern cycling costume, get one of the feeblest looking of your men to escort you, and ride out, next Saturday evening, to any public house where healthy, homely people gather together.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000010_000005|Then you will hear quite a lot of the kind of thing mr Hoopdriver heard.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000011_000001|It indicated an entire disbelief in his social standing.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000011_000002|At a blow, it shattered all the gorgeous imaginative fabric his mind had been rejoicing in.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000011_000003|All that foolish happiness vanished like a dream.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000011_000005|Perhaps the man who said the thing had a gleam of satisfaction at the idea of taking a complacent looking fool down a peg, but it is just as possible he did not know at the time that his stray shot had hit.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000011_000006|He had thrown it as a boy throws a stone at a bird.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000011_000008|It touched Jessie grossly.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000012_000000|She did not hear it, he concluded from her subsequent bearing; but during the supper they had in the little private dining room, though she talked cheerfully, he was preoccupied.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000012_000007|"Cads!" he said in a scathing undertone, as a fresh burst of laughter came floating in.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000012_000008|All through supper he had been composing stinging repartee, a blistering speech of denunciation to be presently delivered.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000012_000010|It really ought to be done.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000013_000001|What was it?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000014_000002|Yet was he not a Knight Errant?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000014_000003|Should such men go unreproved, unchecked, by wandering baronets incognito?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000014_000004|Magnanimity?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000014_000005|Look at it in that way?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000014_000007|No; merely a cowardly subterfuge.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000014_000008|He WOULD after all.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000015_000001|But he only went on the more resolutely.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000015_000003|He opened the door abruptly and stood scowling on them in the doorway.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000016_000001|And then in a forbidding tone, as one who consented to no liberties, "Good evening."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000018_000000|"Very," said mr Hoopdriver, slowly; and taking a brown armchair, he planted it with great deliberation where he faced the fireplace, and sat down.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000018_000001|Let's see-how did that speech begin?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000019_000000|"Very pleasant roads about here," said the fair young man with the white tie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000020_000000|"Very," said mr Hoopdriver, eyeing him darkly.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000021_000001|"How's that?"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000022_000000|mr Hoopdriver put his hands on his knees and stuck out his elbows with extreme angularity.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000024_000000|"I came here," said mr Hoopdriver, "with a lady."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000025_000001|"I don't see there's anything so very extraordinary in that.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000026_000000|mr Hoopdriver coughed.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000028_000000|mr Hoopdriver temporarily lost his thread.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000028_000002|A pause.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000032_000000|"Some dirty cad," said mr Hoopdriver, proceeding with his discourse, and suddenly growing extremely fierce, "made a remark as we went by this door."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000033_000001|"Steady on!
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000033_000002|Don't you go a calling us names, please."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000034_000000|"One minute!" said mr Hoopdriver.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000034_000001|"It wasn't I began calling names." ("Who did?" said the man with the chins.) "I'm not calling any of you dirty cads.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000034_000002|Don't run away with that impression.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000034_000003|Only some person in this room made a remark that showed he wasn't fit to wipe boots on, and, with all due deference to such gentlemen as ARE gentlemen" (mr Hoopdriver looked round for moral support), "I want to know which it was."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000035_000000|"Meanin'?" said the fair young man in the white tie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000036_000002|It is curious how situations run away with us.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000039_000000|"That's fair and reasonable," said the man in the velveteen jacket; "if you can."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000041_000000|"Own up, Charlie," said the young man with the gaiters, looking up for a moment.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000041_000002|It's fair and square. You can't get out of it."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000042_000000|"Was it this-gent?" began mr Hoopdriver.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000043_000000|"Of course," said the young man in the white tie, "when it comes to talking of wiping boots-"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000044_000000|"I'm not talking; I'm going to do it," said mr Hoopdriver.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000000|He looked round at the meeting.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000001|They were no longer antagonists; they were spectators.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000002|He would have to go through with it now.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000003|But this tone of personal aggression on the maker of the remark had somehow got rid of the oppressive feeling of Hoopdriver contra mundum.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000004|Apparently, he would have to fight someone.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000005|Would he get a black eye?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000007|Pray goodness it wasn't that sturdy chap in the gaiters!
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000008|Should he rise and begin?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000009|What would she think if he brought a black eye to breakfast to morrow?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000045_000010|"Is this the man?" said mr Hoopdriver, with a business like calm, and arms more angular than ever.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000047_000001|"Steady on a minute. If I did happen to say-"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000048_000000|"You did, did you?" said mr Hoopdriver.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000050_000000|"Not a bit," said Charlie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000050_000001|"Surely we can pass a bit of a joke-"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000051_000000|"I'm going to teach you to keep your jokes to yourself," said mr Hoopdriver.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000053_000000|"Charlie IS a bit too free with his jokes," said the little man with the beard.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000054_000000|"It's downright disgusting," said Hoopdriver, falling back upon his speech.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000056_000002|"Of COURSE you knew the door was open," he retorted indignantly.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000056_000003|"Of COURSE you thought we should hear what you said.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000056_000004|Don't go telling lies about it.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000056_000005|It's no good your saying things like that.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000056_000007|And I mean to make an example of you, Sir."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000057_000001|Bustin' its bottles it is everywhere."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000058_000000|"What's the good of scrapping about in a public house?" said Charlie, appealing to the company.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000058_000001|"A fair fight without interruptions, now, I WOULDN'T mind, if the gentleman's so disposed."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000059_000000|Evidently the man was horribly afraid.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000059_000001|mr Hoopdriver grew truculent.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000061_000000|"You insulted the gent," said the man in velveteen.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000062_000000|"Don't be a bloomin' funk, Charlie," said the man in gaiters.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000062_000001|"Why, you got a stone of him, if you got an ounce."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000063_000000|"What I say, is this," said the gentleman with the excessive chins, trying to get a hearing by banging his chair arms.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000063_000002|That's what I say.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000065_000000|"Rot!" chopped in Hoopdriver.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000065_000001|"Now."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000067_000000|"Never put off till to morrow, Charlie, what you can do to day," said the man in the velveteen coat.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000068_000000|"You got to do it, Charlie," said the man in gaiters.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000068_000001|"It's no good."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000069_000000|"It's like this," said Charlie, appealing to everyone except Hoopdriver. "Here's me, got to take in her ladyship's dinner to morrow night.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000069_000002|And going round with the carriage with a split lip?"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000071_000000|"Exactly," said mr Hoopdriver, driving it home with great fierceness. "Why don't you shut your ugly mouth?"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000072_000000|"It's as much as my situation's worth," protested Charlie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000074_000001|I only meant the thing joking," said Charlie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000075_000000|Everybody began to speak at once.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000075_000003|He shouted some insulting phrase over the tumult.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000077_000000|More confusion.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000078_000000|"Only don't think I'm afraid,--not of a spindle legged cuss like him," shouted Charlie.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000078_000001|"Because I ain't."
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000079_000000|"Change of front," thought Hoopdriver, a little startled.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000079_000001|"Where are we going?"
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000000|"All right, then," said Charlie, with a sudden change of front and springing to his feet.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000001|"If I must, I must.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000003|Things had taken a turn.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000005|He and Charlie stood six feet apart, with a table between, both very breathless and fierce.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000007|Good Heavens!
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000008|And this was the dignified, scornful remonstrance!
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000009|How the juice had it all happened?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000081_000012|Everyone was standing up.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000082_000000|"Charlie's artful," said the little man with the beard.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000083_000002|"We'll do the thing regular and decent, if you please." And before he completely realized what was happening, Hoopdriver was being marched out through the back premises of the inn, to the first and only fight with fists that was ever to glorify his life.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000084_000000|Outwardly, so far as the intermittent moonlight showed, mr Hoopdriver was quietly but eagerly prepared to fight.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000084_000002|It was extraordinary how things happened.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000084_000004|Then incident had flickered into incident until here he was out in a moonlit lane,--a slight, dark figure in a group of larger, indistinct figures,--marching in a quiet, business like way towards some unknown horror at Buller's yard.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000084_000005|Fists!
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000084_000006|It was astonishing. It was terrible!
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000084_000007|In front of him was the pallid figure of Charles, and he saw that the man in gaiters held Charles kindly but firmly by the arm.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000002|And here it was his face was to be battered to a pulp.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000003|He knew this was the uttermost folly, to stand up here and be pounded, but the way out of it was beyond his imagining.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000004|Yet afterwards-?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000005|Could he ever face her again?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000006|He patted his Norfolk jacket and took his ground with his back to the gate.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000007|How did one square?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000008|So? Suppose one were to turn and run even now, run straight back to the inn and lock himself into his bedroom?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000009|They couldn't make, him come out-anyhow.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000010|He could prosecute them for assault if they did.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000086_000011|How did one set about prosecuting for assault?
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000001|Charles pressed him.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000002|Then he hit with his right and with the violence of despair.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000004|He perceived with a leap of exultation that the thing his fist had met was the jawbone of Charles.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000006|He had hardly got home upon Charles before he was struck in the chest and whirled backward.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000007|He had the greatest difficulty in keeping his feet.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000008|He felt that his heart was smashed flat.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000010|As mr Hoopdriver staggered, Charles gave a loud and fear compelling cry.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000011|He seemed to tower over Hoopdriver in the moonlight.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000012|Both his fists were whirling.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000013|It was annihilation coming-no less.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000014|mr Hoopdriver ducked perhaps and certainly gave ground to the right, hit, and missed.
train-other-500/3033/130750/3033_130750_000087_000018|The man in gaiters sprang forward past mr Hoopdriver, but too late to intercept the fugitive.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000001_000001|HOW THEY LESSENED THE EFFECT OF THE CALAMITY
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000002_000002|Presently Loveday, the father, came to the door; her mother vanished with him, and they remained closeted together a long time.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000003_000001|Gazing at her over the hedge was Festus Derriman, mounted on such an incredibly tall animal that he could see to her very feet over the thick and broad thorn fence.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000003_000002|She no sooner recognized him than she withdrew her glance; but as his eyes were fixed steadily upon her this was a futile manoeuvre.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000004_000000|'I saw you look round!' he exclaimed crossly.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000004_000001|'What have I done to make you behave like that?
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000004_000002|Come, Miss Garland, be fair.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000004_000005|You know my temper-what I say I mean.' He seated himself firmly in the saddle, plucked some leaves from the hedge, and began humming a song, to show how absolutely indifferent he was to the flight of time.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000007_000000|'What do you want, mr Derriman?' said she.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000008_000000|'"What do you want, mr Derriman?"--now listen to that!
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000008_000001|Is that my encouragement?'
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000010_000001|'My uncle has been letting things out.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000010_000002|He was here late last night, and he saw you.'
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000012_000000|'O, now!
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000012_000001|He saw Trumpet major Loveday courting somebody like you in that garden walk; and when he came you ran indoors.'
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000014_000000|'Upon my life, he said so!
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000014_000002|What a simpleton you must be, to pass me over for him!
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000014_000003|There, now you are angry because I said simpleton!--I didn't mean simpleton, I meant misguided-misguided rosebud!
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000014_000005|'But I'll have you yet.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000014_000006|Much reason you have to be too proud to stay with me.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000015_000002|She further recalled the strange agitation of Miss Johnson on the preceding evening, and that it occurred just at the entry of the dragoon, till by degrees suspicion amounted to conviction that he knew more than any one else supposed of that lady's disappearance.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000016_000000|It was just at this time that the trumpet major descended to the mill after his talk with his brother on the down.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000017_000000|Yes, there she was, sitting on the seat of logs that he had repaired for her, under the apple tree; but she was not facing in his direction.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000017_000001|He walked with a noisier tread, he coughed, he shook a bough, he did everything, in short, but the one thing that Festus did in the same circumstances-call out to her.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000017_000002|He would not have ventured on that for the world.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000017_000003|Any of his signs would have been sufficient to attract her a day or two earlier; now she would not turn.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000017_000004|At last, in his fond anxiety, he did what he had never done before without an invitation, and crossed over into mrs Garland's half of the garden, till he stood before her.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000020_000001|A queer, strange, perplexing thing, isn't it?
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000020_000002|I can't make it out at all.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000022_000000|'Festus Derriman rode by half an hour ago, and talked to her over the hedge.'
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000023_000000|john guessed the rest, and, after standing on the threshold in silence awhile, walked away towards the camp.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000024_000001|As the distance lengthened between himself and the mill, Bob was conscious of some cooling down of the excitement that had prompted him to set out; but he did not pause in his walk till he had reached the head of the river which fed the mill stream.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000024_000002|Here, for some indefinite reason, he allowed his eyes to be attracted by the bubbling spring whose waters never failed or lessened, and he stopped as if to look longer at the scene; it was really because his mind was so absorbed by John's story.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000025_000000|The sun was warm, the spot was a pleasant one, and he deposited his bundle and sat down.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000025_000002|When he allowed John's story to repeat itself in his ears, the reasonableness and good sense of his advice seemed beyond question.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000026_000001|Still he did not positively go towards home.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000027_000000|'No, I won't go, after all,' he said.
train-other-500/3033/138641/3033_138641_000028_000000|He picked up his bundle and switch, and retraced his steps towards Overcombe Mill, knocking down the brambles and nettles as he went with gloomy and indifferent blows.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000000|In my own judgment the most important service that I rendered to peace was the voyage of the battle fleet round the world.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000001|I had become convinced that for many reasons it was essential that we should have it clearly understood, by our own people especially, but also by other peoples, that the Pacific was as much our home waters as the Atlantic, and that our fleet could and would at will pass from one to the other of the two great oceans.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000003|I determined on the move without consulting the Cabinet, precisely as I took Panama without consulting the Cabinet.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000004|A council of war never fights, and in a crisis the duty of a leader is to lead and not to take refuge behind the generally timid wisdom of a multitude of councillors. At that time, as I happen to know, neither the English nor the German authorities believed it possible to take a fleet of great battleships round the world.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000005|They did not believe that their own fleets could perform the feat, and still less did they believe that the American fleet could.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000007|Many persons publicly and privately protested against the move on the ground that Japan would accept it as a threat.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000008|To this I answered nothing in public.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000009|In private I said that I did not believe Japan would so regard it because Japan knew my sincere friendship and admiration for her and realized that we could not as a Nation have any intention of attacking her; and that if there were any such feeling on the part of Japan as was alleged that very fact rendered it imperative that that fleet should go.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000003_000010|When in the spring of nineteen ten i was in Europe I was interested to find that high naval authorities in both Germany and Italy had expected that war would come at the time of the voyage.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000004_000000|My prime purpose was to impress the American people; and this purpose was fully achieved.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000004_000003|No single thing in the history of the new United States Navy has done as much to stimulate popular interest and belief in it as the world cruise.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000005_000000|"All over America the people will follow the movements of the fleet; they will learn something of the intricate details of the coaling and commissariat work under warlike conditions; and in a word their attention will be aroused.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000005_000001|Next time mr Roosevelt or his representatives appeal to the country for new battleships they will do so to people whose minds have been influenced one way or the other.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000005_000002|The naval programme will not have stood still.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000005_000004|He has a policy which projects itself far into the future, but it is an entire misreading of it to suppose that it is aimed narrowly and definitely at any single Power."
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000006_000000|I first directed the fleet, of sixteen battleships, to go round through the Straits of Magellan to San Francisco.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000006_000001|From thence I ordered them to New Zealand and Australia, then to the Philippines, China and Japan, and home through Suez-they stopped in the Mediterranean to help the sufferers from the earthquake at Messina, by the way, and did this work as effectively as they had done all their other work.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000006_000003|The coaling and other preparations were made in such excellent shape by the Department that there was never a hitch, not so much as the delay of an hour, in keeping every appointment made. All the repairs were made without difficulty, the ship concerned merely falling out of column for a few hours, and when the job was done steaming at speed until she regained her position.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000006_000006|The fleet practiced incessantly during the voyage, both with the guns and in battle tactics, and came home a much more efficient fighting instrument than when it started sixteen months before.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000000|The best men of command rank in our own service were confident that the fleet would go round in safety, in spite of the incredulity of foreign critics.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000001|Even they, however, did not believe that it was wise to send the torpedo craft around.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000002|I accordingly acquiesced in their views, as it did not occur to me to consult the lieutenants.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000003|But shortly before the fleet started, I went in the Government yacht Mayflower to inspect the target practice off Provincetown.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000004|I was accompanied by two torpedo boat destroyers, in charge of a couple of naval lieutenants, thorough gamecocks; and I had the two lieutenants aboard to dine one evening. Towards the end of the dinner they could not refrain from asking if the torpedo flotilla was to go round with the big ships.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000005|I told them no, that the admirals and captains did not believe that the torpedo boats could stand it, and believed that the officers and crews aboard the cockle shells would be worn out by the constant pitching and bouncing and the everlasting need to make repairs.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000006|My two guests chorused an eager assurance that the boats could stand it.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000007|They assured me that the enlisted men were even more anxious to go than were the officers, mentioning that on one of their boats the terms of enlistment of most of the crew were out, and the men were waiting to see whether or not to reenlist, as they did not care to do so unless the boats were to go on the cruise.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000007_000010|I felt that the feat reflected even more credit upon the navy than did the circumnavigation of the big ships, and I wrote the flotilla commander the following letter:
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000008_000000|may eighteenth nineteen o eight.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000009_000000|My dear Captain Cone:
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000010_000001|Yet if I should draw any distinction at all it would be in favor of you and your associates who have taken out the torpedo flotilla.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000010_000002|Yours was an even more notable feat, and every officer and every enlisted man in the torpedo boat flotilla has the right to feel that he has rendered distinguished service to the United States navy and therefore to the people of the United States; and I wish I could thank each of them personally.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000010_000003|Will you have this letter read by the commanding officer of each torpedo boat to his officers and crew?
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000011_000000|Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000013_000000|There were various amusing features connected with the trip.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000013_000001|Most of the wealthy people and "leaders of opinion" in the Eastern cities were panic struck at the proposal to take the fleet away from Atlantic waters.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000013_000002|The great New York dailies issued frantic appeals to Congress to stop the fleet from going.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000013_000003|The head of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs announced that the fleet should not and could not go because Congress would refuse to appropriate the money-he being from an Eastern seaboard State.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000013_000004|However, I announced in response that I had enough money to take the fleet around to the Pacific anyhow, that the fleet would certainly go, and that if Congress did not choose to appropriate enough money to get the fleet back, why, it would stay in the Pacific.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000013_000005|There was no further difficulty about the money.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000000|It was not originally my intention that the fleet should visit Australia, but the Australian Government sent a most cordial invitation, which I gladly accepted; for I have, as every American ought to have, a hearty admiration for, and fellow feeling with, Australia, and I believe that America should be ready to stand back of Australia in any serious emergency.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000001|The reception accorded the fleet in Australia was wonderful, and it showed the fundamental community of feeling between ourselves and the great commonwealth of the South Seas.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000002|The considerate, generous, and open handed hospitality with which the entire Australian people treated our officers and men could not have been surpassed had they been our own countrymen.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000003|The fleet first visited Sydney, which has a singularly beautiful harbor.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000004|The day after the arrival one of our captains noticed a member of his crew trying to go to sleep on a bench in the park. He had fixed above his head a large paper with some lines evidently designed to forestall any questions from friendly would be hosts: "I am delighted with the Australian people.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000005|I think your harbor the finest in the world.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000014_000006|I am very tired and would like to go to sleep."
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000015_000001|In courtesy and good breeding, the Japanese can certainly teach much to the nations of the Western world.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000015_000003|The event even surpassed my expectations.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000017_000000|Dear mr Roosevelt:
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000018_000000|My official report of the visit to Japan goes forward in this mail, but there are certain aspects of the affair so successfully concluded which cannot well be included in the report.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000019_000001|Desiring to avoid every possibility of trouble or misunderstanding, I wrote to him last June explaining fully the character of our men, which they have so well lived up to, the desirability of ample landing places, guides, rest houses and places for changing money in order that there might be no delay in getting the men away from the docks on the excursions in which they delight.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000019_000002|Very few of them go into a drinking place, except to get a resting place not to be found elsewhere, paying for it by taking a drink.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000020_000000|I also explained our system of landing with liberty men an unarmed patrol, properly officered, to quietly take in charge and send off to their ships any men who showed the slightest trace of disorderly conduct.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000020_000001|This letter he showed to the Minister of the Navy, who highly approved of all our arrangements, including the patrol, of which I feared they might be jealous.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000020_000002|mr Denison's reply reached me in Manila, with a memorandum from the Minister of the Navy which removed all doubts.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000020_000003|Three temporary piers were built for our boat landings, each three hundred feet long, brilliantly lighted and decorated.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000020_000004|The sleeping accommodations did not permit two or three thousand sailors to remain on shore, but the ample landings permitted them to be handled night and day with perfect order and safety.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000021_000001|The arrangements were marvelously perfect.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000022_000000|As soon as your telegram of october eighteenth, giving the address to be made to the Emperor, was received, I gave copies of it to our Ambassador to be sent to the Foreign Office.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000022_000001|It seems that the Emperor had already prepared a very cordial address to be forwarded through me to you, after delivery at the audience, but your telegram reversed the situation and his reply was prepared.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000022_000002|I am convinced that your kind and courteous initiative on this occasion helped cause the pleasant feeling which was so obvious in the Emperor's bearing at the luncheon which followed the audience.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000022_000003|X., who is reticent and conservative, told me that not only the Emperor but all the Ministers were profoundly gratified by the course of events.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000022_000004|I am confident that not even the most trifling incident has taken place which could in any way mar the general satisfaction, and our Ambassador has expressed to me his great satisfaction with all that has taken place.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000024_000000|The Yankton remained behind to keep up communication for a few days, and yesterday she transmitted the Emperor's telegram to you, which was sent in reply to your message through our Ambassador after the sailing of the fleet.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000025_000000|As for the effect of the cruise upon the training, discipline and effectiveness of the fleet, the good cannot be exaggerated.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000025_000001|It is a war game in every detail.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000025_000002|The wireless communication has been maintained with an efficiency hitherto unheard of.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000026_000000|The officers and men as soon as we put to sea turn to their gunnery and tactical work far more eagerly than they go to functions.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000026_000001|Every morning certain ships leave the column and move off seven or eight thousand yards as targets for range measuring fire control and battery practice for the others, and at night certain ships do the same thing for night battery practice.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000026_000004|I have for years, while a member of the General Board, advocated painting the ships war color at all times, and by this mail I am asking the Department to make the necessary change in the Regulations and paint the ships properly.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000026_000005|I do not know that any one now dissents from my view.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000026_000006|Admiral Wainwright strongly concurs, and the War College Conference recommended it year after year without a dissenting voice.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000028_000000|The competition in coal economy goes on automatically and reacts in a hundred ways.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000028_000001|It has reduced the waste in the use of electric light and water, and certain chief engineers are said to keep men ranging over the ships all night turning out every light not in actual and immediate use. Perhaps the most important effect is the keen hunt for defects in the machinery causing waste of power.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000028_000002|The Yankton by resetting valves increased her speed from ten to eleven and a half knots on the same expenditure.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000029_000000|All this has been done, but the field is widening, the work has only begun.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000030_000000|c s SPERRY.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000031_000000|When I left the Presidency I finished seven and a half years of administration, during which not one shot had been fired against a foreign foe.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000031_000002|The cruise of the battle fleet was not the least of the causes which ensured so peaceful an outlook.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000032_000000|When the fleet returned after its sixteen months' voyage around the world I went down to Hampton Roads to greet it.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000032_000001|The day was Washington's Birthday, february twenty second nineteen o seven.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000032_000002|Literally on the minute the homing battlecraft came into view.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000033_000000|"Admiral Sperry, Officers and Men of the Battle Fleet:
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000034_000001|Ever your general course has been westward; and now you come back to the port from which you set sail.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000034_000002|This is the first battle fleet that has ever circumnavigated the globe.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000034_000003|Those who perform the feat again can but follow in your footsteps.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000035_000000|"The little torpedo flotilla went with you around South America, through the Straits of Magellan, to our own Pacific Coast.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000035_000001|The armored cruiser squadron met you, and left you again, when you were half way round the world.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000035_000002|You have falsified every prediction of the prophets of failure. In all your long cruise not an accident worthy of mention has happened to a single battleship, nor yet to the cruisers or torpedo boats.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000035_000004|During your world cruise you have taken your regular gunnery practice, and skilled though you were before with the guns, you have grown more skilful still; and through practice you have improved in battle tactics, though here there is more room for improvement than in your gunnery.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000036_000000|"As a war machine, the fleet comes back in better shape than it went out.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000036_000001|In addition, you, the officers and men of this formidable fighting force, have shown yourselves the best of all possible ambassadors and heralds of peace.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000036_000002|Wherever you have landed you have borne yourselves so as to make us at home proud of being your countrymen.
train-other-500/3045/155991/3045_155991_000036_000003|You have shown that the best type of fighting man of the sea knows how to appear to the utmost possible advantage when his business is to behave himself on shore, and to make a good impression in a foreign land.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000000_000000|CHAPTER thirty nine.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000001|The family was at home.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000003|Then we got allycumpain and rubbed on the places, and was pretty near all right again, but couldn't set down convenient.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000005|But it didn't matter much, because they was still on the premises somewheres.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000006|So we judged we could get some of them again.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000010|I never see such a woman.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000012|You couldn't get her to take a holt of one of them with the tongs.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000014|She disturbed the old man so that he said he could most wish there hadn't ever been no snakes created.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000015|Why, after every last snake had been gone clear out of the house for as much as a week Aunt Sally warn't over it yet; she warn't near over it; when she was setting thinking about something you could touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and she would jump right out of her stockings.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000016|It was very curious.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000002_000018|He said they was made that way for some reason or other.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000003_000001|I didn't mind the lickings, because they didn't amount to nothing; but I minded the trouble we had to lay in another lot.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000004_000001|We reckoned we was all going to die, but didn't.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000004_000002|It was the most undigestible sawdust I ever see; and Tom said the same.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000005_000002|So Tom said, now for the nonnamous letters.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000006_000000|"What's them?" I says.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000000|"Warnings to the people that something is up.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000001|Sometimes it's done one way, sometimes another.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000003|When Louis the sixteenth. was going to light out of the Tooleries, a servant girl done it.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000004|It's a very good way, and so is the nonnamous letters.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000005|We'll use them both.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000006|And it's usual for the prisoner's mother to change clothes with him, and she stays in, and he slides out in her clothes.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000007_000007|We'll do that, too."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000008_000001|Let them find it out for themselves  it's their lookout."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000009_000000|"Yes, I know; but you can't depend on them.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000009_000002|They're so confiding and mullet headed they don't take notice of nothing at all.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000010_000000|"Well, as for me, Tom, that's the way I'd like."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000011_000000|"Shucks!" he says, and looked disgusted.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000011_000001|So I says:
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000012_000001|Any way that suits you suits me.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000012_000002|What you going to do about the servant girl?"
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000013_000000|"You'll be her.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000013_000001|You slide in, in the middle of the night, and hook that yaller girl's frock."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000015_000000|"I know; but you don't want it but fifteen minutes, to carry the nonnamous letter and shove it under the front door."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000016_000000|"All right, then, I'll do it; but I could carry it just as handy in my own togs."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000020_000001|Who's Jim's mother?"
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000021_000000|"I'm his mother.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000021_000001|I'll hook a gown from Aunt Sally."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000022_000000|"Well, then, you'll have to stay in the cabin when me and Jim leaves."
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000023_000000|"Not much.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000023_000002|When a prisoner of style escapes it's called an evasion.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000023_000003|It's always called so when a king escapes, f'rinstance.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000024_000000|So Tom he wrote the nonnamous letter, and I smouched the yaller wench's frock that night, and put it on, and shoved it under the front door, the way Tom told me to.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000024_000001|It said:
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000025_000000|Beware.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000025_000001|Trouble is brewing.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000025_000002|Keep a sharp lookout.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000026_000000|Next night we stuck a picture, which Tom drawed in blood, of a skull and crossbones on the front door; and next night another one of a coffin on the back door.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000026_000001|I never see a family in such a sweat.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000026_000004|So the thing was working very well, Tom said; he said he never see a thing work more satisfactory.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000026_000005|He said it showed it was done right.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000027_000000|So he said, now for the grand bulge!
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000027_000002|Tom he went down the lightning rod to spy around; and the nigger at the back door was asleep, and he stuck it in the back of his neck and come back.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000027_000003|This letter said:
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000028_000000|Don't betray me, I wish to be your friend.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000028_000002|I am one of the gang, but have got religgion and wish to quit it and lead an honest life again, and will betray the helish design.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000028_000005|Don't do anything but just the way I am telling you, if you do they will suspicion something and raise whoop jamboreehoo.
train-other-500/3045/163406/3045_163406_000028_000006|I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000001_000001|The large, level meadow near the old willow was now the college playground, and here baseball battles raged with fury, varied by football, leaping, and kindred sports fitted to split the fingers, break the ribs, and strain the backs of the too ambitious participants.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000002_000000|One of these tennis grounds was called 'Jo's Court', and here the little lady ruled like a queen; for she was fond of the game, and being bent on developing her small self to the highest degree of perfection, she was to be found at every leisure moment with some victim hard at it.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000002_000001|On a certain pleasant Saturday afternoon she had been playing with Bess and beating her; for, though more graceful, the Princess was less active than her cousin, and cultivated her roses by quieter methods.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000003_000001|'What shall I do?' sighed Josie, pushing back the great red hat she wore, and gazing sadly round her for more worlds to conquer.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000004_000000|'I'll play presently, when I'm a little cooler.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000005_000000|Josie was about to sit down beside her on the rustic seat and wait, when her quick eye saw afar off two manly forms arrayed in white flannel; their blue legs seemed bearing them towards the battle going on in the distance; but they never reached the fray; for with a cry of joy, Jo raced away to meet them, bent on securing this heaven sent reinforcement.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000005_000001|Both paused as she came flying up, and both raised their hats; but oh, the difference there was in the salutes!
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000005_000003|Dolly prided himself upon that bow, and practised it before his glass, but did not bestow it upon all alike, regarding it as a work of art, fit only for the fairest and most favoured of his female admirers; for he was a pretty youth, and fancied himself an Adonis.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000007_000000|'Charmed to oblige,' answered the polite one, with another bend.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000008_000000|'You play, I'll rest,' added the fat boy, yearning for repose and gentle converse with the Princess in the cooling shade.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000009_000000|'Well, you can comfort Bess, for I've beaten her all to bits and she needs amusing.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000009_000001|I know you've got something nice in your pocket, George; give her some, and 'Dolphus can have her racket.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000009_000002|Now then, fly round'; and driving her prey before her, Josie returned in triumph to the court.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000010_000000|Casting himself ponderously upon the bench, which creaked under his weight, Stuffy-as we will continue to call him, though no one else dared to use the old name now-promptly produced the box of confectionery, without which he never travelled far, and regaled Bess with candied violets and other dainties, while Dolly worked hard to hold his own against a most accomplished antagonist.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000010_000001|He would have beaten her if an unlucky stumble, which produced an unsightly stain upon the knee of those new shorts, had not distracted his mind and made him careless. Much elated at her victory, Josie permitted him to rest, and offered ironical consolation for the mishap which evidently weighed upon his mind.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000011_000000|'Don't be an old Betty; it can be cleaned.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000012_000000|'Come now, don't hit a fellow when he is down,' responded Dolly from the grass where he and Stuffy now lay to make room for both girls on the seat.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000012_000001|One handkerchief was spread under him, and his elbow leaned upon another, while his eyes were sadly fixed upon the green and brown spot which afflicted him.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000012_000003|Our fellows are gentlemen, and dress as such,' he added, rather nettled at the word 'tailor'; for he owed one of those too attractive persons an uncomfortably big bill.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000013_000000|'So are ours; but good clothes alone don't make a gentleman here.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000013_000003|I like old boots and wear them, and I hate dandies; don't you, Bess?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000014_000000|'Not when they are kind to me, and belong to our old set,' answered Bess, with a nod of thanks to Dolly, who was carefully removing an inquisitive caterpillar from one of her little russet shoes.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000015_000000|'I like a lady who is always polite, and doesn't snap a man's head off if he has a mind of his own; don't you, George?' asked Dolly, with his best smile for Bess and a Harvard stare of disapprobation for Josie.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000016_000000|A tranquil snore was Stuffy's sole reply, and a general laugh restored peace for the moment.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000016_000001|But Josie loved to harass the lords of creation who asserted themselves too much, and bided her time for another attack till she had secured more tennis.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000016_000002|She got another game; for Dolly was a sworn knight of dames, so he obeyed her call, leaving Bess to sketch George as he lay upon his back, his stout legs crossed, and his round red face partially eclipsed by his hat.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000017_000000|'Come, sit up and let us have a little elegant conversation; you "howling swells" ought to improve our minds and manners, for we are only poor "country girls in dowdy gowns and hats",' began the gad fly, opening the battle with a sly quotation from one of Dolly's unfortunate speeches about certain studious damsels who cared more for books than finery.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000018_000000|'I didn't mean you!
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000018_000001|Your gowns are all right, and those hats the latest thing out,' began poor 'Dolphus, convicting himself by the incautious exclamation.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000019_000000|'Caught you that time; I thought you fellows were all gentlemen, civil as well as nice.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000019_000001|But you are always sneering at girls who don't dress well and that is a very unmanly thing to do; my mother said so'; and Josie felt that she had dealt a shrewd blow at the elegant youth who bowed at many shrines if they were well decorated ones.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000020_000000|'Got you there, old boy, and she's right.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000020_000001|You never hear me talk about clothes and such twaddle,' said Stuffy, suppressing a yawn, and feeling for another bon bon wherewith to refresh himself.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000021_000000|'You talk about eating, and that is even worse for a man.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000021_000001|You will marry a cook and keep a restaurant some day,' laughed Josie, down on him at once.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000022_000000|This fearful prediction kept him silent for several moments; but Dolly rallied, and wisely changing the subject, carried war into the enemy's camp.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000023_000000|'As you wanted us to improve your manners, allow me to say that young ladies in good society don't make personal remarks or deliver lectures. Little girls who are not out do it, and think it witty; but I assure you it's not good form.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000024_000000|Josie paused a moment to recover from the shock of being called 'a little girl', when all the honours of her fourteenth birthday were fresh upon her; and Bess said, in the lofty tone which was infinitely more crushing than Jo's impertinence:
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000026_000000|When the Princess reproved, the boys seldom resented it; so Dolly held his peace, and Josie burst out, following her cousin's lead, which she thought a happy one:
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000027_000000|'Our boys like to have us talk with them, and take kindly any hints we give.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000027_000001|They don't think they know everything and are quite perfect at eighteen, as I've observed the Harvard men do, especially the very young ones.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000028_000001|Our men are largely from the best families all over the country, so we don't need girls to teach us anything.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000029_000000|'It's a pity you don't have more of such "fellows" as ours.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000029_000002|Oh, I've heard you "men" talk, and heard your fathers say they wish they hadn't wasted time and money just that you might say you'd been through college.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000029_000003|As for the girls, you'll be much better off in all ways when they do get in, and keep you lazy things up to the mark, as we do here.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000031_000000|'I don't; my hat is scarlet, not crimson.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000031_000001|Much you know about a colour,' scoffed Josie.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000032_000000|'I know that a cross cow would soon set you scampering, if you flaunted that red tile under her nose,' retorted Dolly.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000033_000000|'I'm ready for her.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000033_000001|Can your fine young ladies do this? or you either?' and burning to display her latest accomplishment, Josie ran to the nearest gate, put one hand on the top rail, and vaulted over as lightly as a bird.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000035_000000|'Not yet; but I will by and by.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000039_000000|'I guess we'd better be going, Dolf,' said peaceable Stuffy, feeling that it would be wise to retreat before another skirmish took place, as his side seemed to be getting the worst of it.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000040_000000|'Don't hurry, I beg; stay and rest; you must need it after the tremendous amount of brain work you've done this week.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000040_000002|Come, Bess.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000040_000003|Good afternoon, gentlemen.' And, with a sweeping courtesy, Josie led the way, with her hat belligerently cocked up, and her racket borne like a triumphal banner over one shoulder; for having had the last word, she felt that she could retire with the honours of war.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000041_000000|Dolly gave Bess his best bow, with the chill on; and Stuffy subsided luxuriously, with his legs in the air, murmuring in a dreamy tone:
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000042_000001|I'm going in for another nap: too hot to play anything.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000043_000000|'So it is.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000044_000000|'no
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000044_000001|I was thinking that Jo wasn't far wrong about shirking.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000044_000002|'tis a shame to get so little done, when we ought to be grinding like Morton and Torry and that lot.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000044_000003|I never wanted to go to college; but my governor made me.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000044_000004|Much good it will do either of us!' answered Stuffy, with a groan; for he hated work, and saw two more long years of it before him.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000045_000000|'Gives a man prestige, you know.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000045_000001|No need to dig.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000045_000005|But if we've got to turn the grindstone, it would be mighty nice to have some of the little dears to lend a hand.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000045_000006|Wouldn't it now?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000047_000000|'How would root beer do?' asked a voice behind them, which made Dolly spring to his feet and Stuffy roll over like a startled porpoise.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000048_000000|Sitting on the stile that crossed the wall near by was Mrs Jo, with two jugs slung over her shoulder by a strap, several tin mugs in her hand, and an old-fashioned sun bonnet on her head.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000049_000001|They drank like fishes.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000049_000003|Have some?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000050_000000|'Yes, thanks, very much.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000052_000000|'I was glad to hear you say you would like to have girls at your college; but I hope you will learn to speak more respectfully of them before they come; for that will be the first lesson they will teach you.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000053_000000|'Really, ma'am, I was only joking,' began Stuffy, gulping down his beer in a hurry.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000055_000000|'Not in the right way.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000055_000001|Frivolous girls may like to be called "little dears" and things of that sort; but the girls who love study wish to be treated like reasonable beings, not dolls to flirt with.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000055_000002|Yes, I'm going to preach; that's my business; so stand up and take it like men.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000056_000001|Both were far from home, had money enough to waste, and were as inexperienced, curious, and credulous as most lads of their age.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000056_000003|These traits and foibles made both peculiarly liable to the temptations which assail pleasure loving and weak willed boys.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000057_000000|'I'm going to talk to you like a mother, because yours are far away; and there are things that mothers can manage best, if they do their duty,' she solemnly began from the depths of the sunbonnet.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000058_000001|We're in for it now!' thought Dolly, in secret dismay; while Stuffy got the first blow by trying to sustain himself with another mug of beer.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000059_000000|'That won't hurt you; but I must warn you about drinking other things, George.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000059_000001|Overeating is an old story; and a few more fits of illness will teach you to be wise.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000059_000005|Stop at once, and learn that temperance in all things is the only safe rule.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000060_000000|'Upon my honour, I only take wine and iron.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000061_000001|Work and plain fare are what you want; and I wish I had you here for a few months out of harm's way.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000061_000002|I'd Banting you, and fit you to run without puffing, and get on without four or five meals a day.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000063_000000|'All the more reason you should live carefully.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000063_000001|Do you want to die early, or be an invalid all your life?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000065_000000|Stuffy looked so scared that Mrs Jo could not be hard upon his budding sins, for they lay at his overindulgent mother's door line in a great measure; so she softened the tone of her voice, and added, with a little slap on the fat hand, as she used to do when it was small enough to pilfer lumps of sugar from her bowl:
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000066_000000|'Then be careful; for a man writes his character in his face; and you don't want gluttony and intemperance in yours, I know.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000067_000000|'I'm sure I don't!
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000067_000001|Please make out a wholesome bill of fare, and I'll stick to it, if I can.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000067_000002|I am getting stout, and I don't like it; and my liver's torpid, and I have palpitations and headache.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000068_000000|'I will; follow it, and in a year you'll be a man and not a meal bag. Now, Dolly'; and Mrs Jo turned to the other culprit, who shook in his shoes and wished he hadn't come.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000069_000000|'Are you studying French as industriously as you were last winter?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000072_000000|'So I understood; and that is what I want to speak about.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000072_000002|Your men were out in full force; and I was glad to see that some of the younger ones looked as ashamed as I felt.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000072_000004|Did you ever go with them?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000074_000000|'Did you like it?'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000076_000000|'I'm glad you have not lost the grace of blushing yet; but you will soon, if you keep up this sort of study and forget to be ashamed.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000076_000001|The society of such women will unfit you for that of good ones, and lead you into trouble and sin and shame.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000076_000002|Oh, why don't the city fathers stop that evil thing, when they know the harm it does?
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000078_000000|'My dear boys, if I didn't love you, I would not say these things.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000078_000003|Stop now, I beg of you, and not only save yourselves but help others by a brave example.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000078_000005|Do this, and you will be able to kiss your mothers with clean lips, and by and by have the right to ask innocent girls to love you.'
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000079_000000|'Yes'm, thank you.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000080_000002|I'd rather my boys should be laughed at and cold shouldered by a hundred foolish fellows than lose what, once gone, no power can give them back-innocence and self respect.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000080_000003|I don't wonder you find it "hard to toe the mark", when books, pictures, ball rooms, theatres, and streets offer temptations; yet you can resist, if you try.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000081_000000|'That's like the Deacon!' exclaimed Stuffy, with an approving smile on his fat face.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000082_000000|'I'm glad you told me that.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000082_000002|Seeing this, she was satisfied, and said, as she prepared to leave the bar before which her culprits had been tried and found guilty, but recommended to mercy:
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000083_000000|'Then be to others what john is to you-a good example.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000083_000001|Forgive me for troubling you, my dear lads, and remember my little preachment.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000083_000002|I think it will do you good, though I may never know it.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000083_000003|Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for-else their experience is of little use.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000083_000004|Now, come and find the young folk.
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000083_000005|I hope I shall never have to shut the gates of Plumfield upon you, as I have on some of your "gentlemen".
train-other-500/3053/148990/3053_148990_000084_000000|Much impressed by that dire threat, Dolly helped her from her perch with deep respect; and Stuffy relieved her of her empty jugs, solemnly vowing to abstain from all fermented beverages except root beer, as long as feeble flesh could hold out.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000005_000000|nineteen.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000005_000001|THE BITE OF THE ADDER.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000006_000000|One day had Zarathustra fallen asleep under a fig tree, owing to the heat, with his arms over his face.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000006_000001|And there came an adder and bit him in the neck, so that Zarathustra screamed with pain.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000006_000002|When he had taken his arm from his face he looked at the serpent; and then did it recognise the eyes of Zarathustra, wriggled awkwardly, and tried to get away.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000006_000004|Thou hast awakened me in time; my journey is yet long." "Thy journey is short," said the adder sadly; "my poison is fatal." Zarathustra smiled.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000006_000005|"When did ever a dragon die of a serpent's poison?"--said he.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000006_000006|"But take thy poison back!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000007_000000|When Zarathustra once told this to his disciples they asked him: "And what, O Zarathustra, is the moral of thy story?" And Zarathustra answered them thus:
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000008_000000|The destroyer of morality, the good and just call me: my story is immoral.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000010_000000|And rather be angry than abash any one!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000010_000001|And when ye are cursed, it pleaseth me not that ye should then desire to bless.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000010_000002|Rather curse a little also!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000011_000000|And should a great injustice befall you, then do quickly five small ones besides.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000011_000001|Hideous to behold is he on whom injustice presseth alone.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000012_000000|Did ye ever know this?
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000012_000001|Shared injustice is half justice.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000012_000002|And he who can bear it, shall take the injustice upon himself!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000013_000000|A small revenge is humaner than no revenge at all.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000013_000001|And if the punishment be not also a right and an honour to the transgressor, I do not like your punishing.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000014_000000|Nobler is it to own oneself in the wrong than to establish one's right, especially if one be in the right.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000014_000001|Only, one must be rich enough to do so.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000016_000000|Tell me: where find we justice, which is love with seeing eyes?
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000017_000000|Devise me, then, the love which not only beareth all punishment, but also all guilt!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000018_000000|Devise me, then, the justice which acquitteth every one except the judge!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000019_000000|And would ye hear this likewise?
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000019_000001|To him who seeketh to be just from the heart, even the lie becometh philanthropy.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000020_000000|But how could I be just from the heart!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000020_000001|How can I give every one his own!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000020_000002|Let this be enough for me: I give unto every one mine own.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000021_000000|Finally, my brethren, guard against doing wrong to any anchorite.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000021_000001|How could an anchorite forget!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000021_000002|How could he requite!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000022_000000|Like a deep well is an anchorite.
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000022_000001|Easy is it to throw in a stone: if it should sink to the bottom, however, tell me, who will bring it out again?
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000023_000000|Guard against injuring the anchorite!
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000023_000001|If ye have done so, however, well then, kill him also!--
train-other-500/3054/128242/3054_128242_000024_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000004_000000|twenty one. VOLUNTARY DEATH.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000005_000000|Many die too late, and some die too early.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000006_000000|Die at the right time: so teacheth Zarathustra.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000007_000000|To be sure, he who never liveth at the right time, how could he ever die at the right time?
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000007_000001|Would that he might never be born!--Thus do I advise the superfluous ones.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000008_000000|But even the superfluous ones make much ado about their death, and even the hollowest nut wanteth to be cracked.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000009_000000|Every one regardeth dying as a great matter: but as yet death is not a festival.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000009_000001|Not yet have people learned to inaugurate the finest festivals.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000010_000000|The consummating death I show unto you, which becometh a stimulus and promise to the living.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000011_000000|His death, dieth the consummating one triumphantly, surrounded by hoping and promising ones.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000012_000000|Thus should one learn to die; and there should be no festival at which such a dying one doth not consecrate the oaths of the living!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000013_000000|Thus to die is best; the next best, however, is to die in battle, and sacrifice a great soul.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000014_000000|But to the fighter equally hateful as to the victor, is your grinning death which stealeth nigh like a thief,--and yet cometh as master.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000017_000000|And out of reverence for the goal and the heir, he will hang up no more withered wreaths in the sanctuary of life.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000018_000000|Verily, not the rope makers will I resemble: they lengthen out their cord, and thereby go ever backward.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000019_000000|Many a one, also, waxeth too old for his truths and triumphs; a toothless mouth hath no longer the right to every truth.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000020_000000|And whoever wanteth to have fame, must take leave of honour betimes, and practise the difficult art of-going at the right time.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000021_000000|One must discontinue being feasted upon when one tasteth best: that is known by those who want to be long loved.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000022_000000|Sour apples are there, no doubt, whose lot is to wait until the last day of autumn: and at the same time they become ripe, yellow, and shrivelled.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000023_000001|And some are hoary in youth, but the late young keep long young.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000024_000000|To many men life is a failure; a poison worm gnaweth at their heart. Then let them see to it that their dying is all the more a success.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000025_000000|Many never become sweet; they rot even in the summer.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000025_000001|It is cowardice that holdeth them fast to their branches.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000026_000000|Far too many live, and far too long hang they on their branches.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000026_000001|Would that a storm came and shook all this rottenness and worm eatenness from the tree!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000027_000000|Would that there came preachers of SPEEDY death!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000027_000001|Those would be the appropriate storms and agitators of the trees of life!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000027_000002|But I hear only slow death preached, and patience with all that is "earthly."
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000028_000000|Ah! ye preach patience with what is earthly?
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000029_000000|Verily, too early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honour: and to many hath it proved a calamity that he died too early.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000031_000000|Had he but remained in the wilderness, and far from the good and just! Then, perhaps, would he have learned to live, and love the earth-and laughter also!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000032_000000|Believe it, my brethren!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000032_000001|He died too early; he himself would have disavowed his doctrine had he attained to my age!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000032_000002|Noble enough was he to disavow!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000033_000000|But he was still immature.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000033_000001|Immaturely loveth the youth, and immaturely also hateth he man and earth.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000034_000000|But in man there is more of the child than in the youth, and less of melancholy: better understandeth he about life and death.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000035_000000|Free for death, and free in death; a holy Naysayer, when there is no longer time for Yea: thus understandeth he about death and life.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000036_000000|That your dying may not be a reproach to man and the earth, my friends: that do I solicit from the honey of your soul.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000038_000000|Thus will I die myself, that ye friends may love the earth more for my sake; and earth will I again become, to have rest in her that bore me.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000039_000000|Verily, a goal had Zarathustra; he threw his ball.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000039_000001|Now be ye friends the heirs of my goal; to you throw I the golden ball.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000040_000000|Best of all, do I see you, my friends, throw the golden ball!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000040_000001|And so tarry I still a little while on the earth-pardon me for it!
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000041_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/3054/128244/3054_128244_000043_000000|one.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000003_000001|THE BESTOWING VIRTUE.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000004_000000|one.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000005_000000|When Zarathustra had taken leave of the town to which his heart was attached, the name of which is "The Pied Cow," there followed him many people who called themselves his disciples, and kept him company.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000005_000001|Thus came they to a crossroad.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000005_000002|Then Zarathustra told them that he now wanted to go alone; for he was fond of going alone.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000005_000003|His disciples, however, presented him at his departure with a staff, on the golden handle of which a serpent twined round the sun
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000005_000004|Zarathustra rejoiced on account of the staff, and supported himself thereon; then spake he thus to his disciples:
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000006_000000|Tell me, pray: how came gold to the highest value?
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000007_000000|Only as image of the highest virtue came gold to the highest value. Goldlike, beameth the glance of the bestower.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000008_000000|Uncommon is the highest virtue, and unprofiting, beaming is it, and soft of lustre: a bestowing virtue is the highest virtue.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000009_000000|Verily, I divine you well, my disciples: ye strive like me for the bestowing virtue.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000011_000000|Insatiably striveth your soul for treasures and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in desiring to bestow.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000012_000000|Ye constrain all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000013_000000|Verily, an appropriator of all values must such bestowing love become; but healthy and holy, call I this selfishness.--
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000014_000000|Another selfishness is there, an all too poor and hungry kind, which would always steal-the selfishness of the sick, the sickly selfishness.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000016_000000|Sickness speaketh in such craving, and invisible degeneration; of a sickly body, speaketh the larcenous craving of this selfishness.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000017_000000|Tell me, my brother, what do we think bad, and worst of all?
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000017_000001|Is it not DEGENERATION?--And we always suspect degeneration when the bestowing soul is lacking.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000018_000000|Upward goeth our course from genera on to super genera.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000018_000001|But a horror to us is the degenerating sense, which saith: "All for myself."
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000019_000000|Upward soareth our sense: thus is it a simile of our body, a simile of an elevation.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000019_000001|Such similes of elevations are the names of the virtues.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000020_000000|Thus goeth the body through history, a becomer and fighter.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000020_000001|And the spirit-what is it to the body?
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000020_000002|Its fights' and victories' herald, its companion and echo.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000021_000000|Similes, are all names of good and evil; they do not speak out, they only hint.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000021_000001|A fool who seeketh knowledge from them!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000022_000000|Give heed, my brethren, to every hour when your spirit would speak in similes: there is the origin of your virtue.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000023_000000|Elevated is then your body, and raised up; with its delight, enraptureth it the spirit; so that it becometh creator, and valuer, and lover, and everything's benefactor.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000024_000000|When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000027_000000|When ye are willers of one will, and when that change of every need is needful to you: there is the origin of your virtue.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000028_000000|Verily, a new good and evil is it!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000028_000001|Verily, a new deep murmuring, and the voice of a new fountain!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000031_000000|Here paused Zarathustra awhile, and looked lovingly on his disciples. Then he continued to speak thus-and his voice had changed:
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000032_000000|Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000032_000001|Thus do I pray and conjure you.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000033_000000|Let it not fly away from the earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000033_000001|Ah, there hath always been so much flown away virtue!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000034_000000|Lead, like me, the flown away virtue back to the earth-yea, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000035_000000|A hundred times hitherto hath spirit as well as virtue flown away and blundered.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000035_000001|Alas! in our body dwelleth still all this delusion and blundering: body and will hath it there become.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000036_000001|Yea, an attempt hath man been.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000037_000000|Not only the rationality of millenniums-also their madness, breaketh out in us.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000037_000001|Dangerous is it to be an heir.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000038_000000|Still fight we step by step with the giant Chance, and over all mankind hath hitherto ruled nonsense, the lack of sense.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000039_000001|Therefore shall ye be creators!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000040_000000|Intelligently doth the body purify itself; attempting with intelligence it exalteth itself; to the discerners all impulses sanctify themselves; to the exalted the soul becometh joyful.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000041_000001|Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000042_000000|A thousand paths are there which have never yet been trodden; a thousand salubrities and hidden islands of life.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000042_000001|Unexhausted and undiscovered is still man and man's world.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000043_000000|Awake and hearken, ye lonesome ones!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000043_000001|From the future come winds with stealthy pinions, and to fine ears good tidings are proclaimed.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000044_000000|Ye lonesome ones of to day, ye seceding ones, ye shall one day be a people: out of you who have chosen yourselves, shall a chosen people arise:--and out of it the Superman.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000045_000000|Verily, a place of healing shall the earth become!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000045_000001|And already is a new odour diffused around it, a salvation bringing odour-and a new hope!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000046_000000|three.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000047_000000|When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he paused, like one who had not said his last word; and long did he balance the staff doubtfully in his hand.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000047_000001|At last he spake thus-and his voice had changed:
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000048_000000|I now go alone, my disciples!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000048_000002|So will I have it.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000049_000000|Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000049_000001|And better still: be ashamed of him!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000049_000002|Perhaps he hath deceived you.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000050_000000|The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000051_000000|One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000051_000001|And why will ye not pluck at my wreath?
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000052_000000|Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000053_000001|But of what account is Zarathustra! Ye are my believers: but of what account are all believers!
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000054_000001|So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000055_000000|Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000056_000000|Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000057_000000|And once again shall ye have become friends unto me, and children of one hope: then will I be with you for the third time, to celebrate the great noontide with you.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000058_000000|And it is the great noontide, when man is in the middle of his course between animal and Superman, and celebrateth his advance to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the advance to a new morning.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000059_000000|At such time will the down goer bless himself, that he should be an over goer; and the sun of his knowledge will be at noontide.
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000060_000000|"DEAD ARE ALL THE GODS: NOW DO WE DESIRE THE SUPERMAN TO LIVE."--Let this be our final will at the great noontide!--
train-other-500/3054/128245/3054_128245_000061_000000|Thus spake Zarathustra.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000003_000000|THE MASTER SMITH
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000004_000000|Once on a time, in the days when our Lord and saint Peter used to wander on earth, they came to a smith's house.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000006_000000|'Who are you?' he said to the Smith.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000007_000000|'Read what's written over the door', said the Smith; 'but maybe you can't read writing.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000007_000001|If so, you must wait till some one comes to help you.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000008_000000|Before our Lord had time to answer him, a man came with his horse, which he begged the Smith to shoe.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000009_000000|'Might I have leave to shoe it?' asked our Lord.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000010_000000|'You may try, if you like', said the Smith; 'you can't do it so badly that I shall not be able to make it right again.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000011_000000|So our Lord went out and took one leg off the horse, and laid it in the furnace, and made the shoe red hot; after that, he turned up the ends of the shoe, and filed down the heads of the nails, and clenched the points; and then he put back the leg safe and sound on the horse again.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000011_000002|All the while, the Smith stood by and looked on.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000013_000000|'Oh, you think so, do you?' said our Lord.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000015_000000|'Mark now, what you see', said our Lord.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000016_000000|Then he took the woman and laid her in the furnace, and smithied a lovely young maiden out of her.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000017_000001|There it stands over my door.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000021_000000|Then he laid the legs in the furnace, just as he had seen our Lord lay them, and threw on a great heap of coal, and made his mates work the bellows bravely; but it went as one might suppose it would go. The legs were burnt to ashes, and the Smith had to pay for the horse.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000024_000000|But it went no better with the poor old woman than with the horse's legs.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000027_000000|'If you might have three wishes from me', said our Lord, 'what would you wish for?'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000028_000000|'Only try me', said the Smith, 'and you'll soon know.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000029_000000|So our Lord gave him three wishes.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000030_000000|'Well', said the Smith, 'first and foremost, I wish that any one whom I ask to climb up into the pear tree that stands outside by the wall of my forge, may stay sitting there till I ask him to come down again.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000030_000001|The second wish I wish is, that any one whom I ask to sit down in my easy chair which stands inside the workshop yonder, may stay sitting there till I ask him to get up.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000030_000002|Last of all, I wish that any one whom I ask to creep into the steel purse which I have in my pocket, may stay in it till I give him leave to creep out again.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000031_000000|'You have wished as a wicked man', said saint Peter; 'first and foremost, you should have wished for God's grace and goodwill.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000032_000000|'I durstn't look so high as that', said the Smith; and after that our Lord and saint Peter bade him 'good bye', and went on their way.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000036_000000|So the Devil thanked him for his kind offer, and climbed up into the pear tree.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000038_000001|There he was, and there he must stay.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000040_000000|'You're ready now, of course', said he; 'you've had time enough to hammer the head of that nail, I should think.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000041_000001|So while I work at the point, you may just as well sit down in my easy chair and rest yourself; I'll be bound you're weary after coming so far.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000042_000000|'Thank you kindly', said the Devil, and down he plumped into the easy chair; but just as he had made himself comfortable, the Smith said, on second thoughts, he found he couldn't get the point sharp till four years were out.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000043_000000|'Well now, you may get up and be off about your business', and away went the Devil as fast as he could lay legs to the ground.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000045_000000|'Now, I know you must be ready.'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000046_000001|Is it true what people say, that the Devil can make himself as small as he pleases?'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000049_000000|'With all my heart', said the Devil, who made himself small in a trice, and crept into the purse; but he was scarce in when the Smith snapped to the clasp.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000052_000002|don't you know I'm inside the purse?'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000055_000000|'Very well!' said the Smith; 'now, I think, the links are pretty well welded, and you may come out'; so he unclasped the purse, and away went the Devil in such a hurry that he didn't once look behind him.
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000059_000000|'Good day', said the Smith; 'whither are you off to?'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000060_000000|'To the kingdom of Heaven', said the Tailor, 'if I can only get into it'--'but whither are you going yourself?'
train-other-500/3060/163499/3060_163499_000062_000001|Then he called the watch, and bade him go and tell the Devil there was some one outside who wished to speak a word with him.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000002_000001|A good, easy man he was, but that was just why she thought more of the lad next door, whom they called 'Tom Totherhouse'.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000003_000000|'Dare you wager ten dollars, mother, that I don't make you lay bare your own shame?'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000004_000000|'Yes I dare', said she; and so they wagered ten dollars.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000005_000000|'What! are we to go home already?' said the man, who hadn't given any heed to what the lad did.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000006_000000|'Yes, we must, since mother calls', said the lad.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000007_000001|But when they came into the room, there stood a whole bowl of custards on the table.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000008_000000|'Nay, nay, mother', cried out the man; 'shall we have custards to day?'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000009_000000|'Yes, that you shall, dear', said the Goody; but she was as sour as verjuice, and as cross as two sticks.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000010_000000|So when they had eaten and drank all the good cheer up, off they went again to their work, and the Goody said to Tom:
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000012_000000|This the lad stood outside in the passage and listened to.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000013_000000|'Do you know, father', he said, 'I think we'd best go down into the hollow and put our fence to rights, which is blown down, before the neighbours' swine get in and root up our meadow.'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000014_000000|'Aye, aye, let's go and do it', said the man; for he did all he was told, good, easy man.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000015_000000|So when the afternoon was half spent, down came the Goody sneaking along into the mead, with something under her apron.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000017_000000|'Yes, yes, that you shall', she said; but she was sourer and wilder than ever.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000018_000000|So they made merry, and crammed themselves with bannocks and butter, and had a drop of brandy into the bargain.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000019_000001|'He's had nothing between meals, I'll be bound.'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000021_000000|As he went along the lad broke a bannock to bits, and dropped the crumbs here and there as he walked.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000021_000001|But when he got to Tom Totherhouse he said:
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000022_000001|He won't stand it any longer, and has sworn to drive his axe into you as soon as ever he can set eyes on you.'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000023_000000|As for Tom, he was so frightened he scarce knew which way to turn, and the lad went back again to his master.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000025_000001|His old dame stood in the meadow and looked at him as he did this for a while, and wondered and wondered what it could be her husband was gathering up.
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000026_000000|'Oh, I know', said the lad, 'master's picking up stones, I'll be bound; for he has marked how often this Tom Totherhouse runs over here; and the old fellow won't stand it any longer; and now he has sworn to stone mother to death.'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000029_000000|'Oh', said the lad, 'maybe the house at home is on fire!'
train-other-500/3060/163540/3060_163540_000031_000001|don't stone me to death; don't stone me to death! and I'll give you my word never to let Tom Totherhouse come near me again.'
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000003_000000|INTRODUCTION TO APPENDIX
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000000|The Negroes in the West Indies still retain the tales and traditions which their fathers and grandfathers brought with them from Africa. Some thirty years back these 'Ananzi Stories', as they are called, were invariably told at the Negro wakes, which lasted for nine successive nights.
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000003|The wakes are now, it is believed, almost entirely discontinued, and with them have gone the stories.
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000005|The translator, whose early childhood was passed in those islands, remembers to have heard such stories from his nurse, who was an African born; but beyond a stray fragment here and there, the rich store which she possessed has altogether escaped his memory.
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000006|The following stories have been taken down from the mouth of a West Indian nurse in his sister's house, who, born and bred in it, is rather regarded as a member of the family than as a servant.
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000009|In one story we have 'Boots' to the life, while the man whom he outwits is own brother to the Norse Trolls.
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000013|Then he went home to the Troll, and begged him to come and see how his swine were going down to Hell.
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000005_000014|But when the Troll saw the swine's tails sticking out of the ground he wanted to pull them back again, so he caught hold of them and gave a great tug, and then down he fell with his heels up in the air, and the tails in his fist.'
train-other-500/3060/163542/3060_163542_000006_000004|In fact, he is the example which the African tribes from which these stories came, have chosen to take as pointing out the superiority of wit over brute strength.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000003_000001|AT THE THEATRE ROYAL
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000004_000002|The absurd extreme of female fashion, which was to wear muslin dresses in January, was at this time equalled by that of the men, who wore clothes enough in August to melt them.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000005_000000|It was a day of days.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000005_000003|The King had gone for a cruise in his yacht, and they would be in time to see him land.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000006_000001|The sergeant's sword was drawn, and at intervals of two or three inches along its shining blade were impaled fluttering one pound notes, to express the lavish bounty that was offered.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000006_000002|He gave a stern, suppressed nod of friendship to our people, and passed by.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000006_000003|Next they came up to a waggon, bowered over with leaves and flowers, so that the men inside could hardly be seen.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000007_000001|The waggon contained all Derriman's workpeople.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000008_000000|'Is your master here?' said john.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000009_000000|'No, trumpet major, sir.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000009_000001|But young maister is coming to fetch us at nine o'clock, in case we should be too blind to drive home.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000010_000000|'O! where is he now?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000013_000000|As there was yet some little time before the theatre would open, they strayed upon the velvet sands, and listened to the songs of the sailors, one of whom extemporized for the occasion:--
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000016_000000|When Anne and Bob entered the theatre they found that john had taken excellent places, and concluded that he had got them for nothing through the influence of the lady of his choice.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000016_000001|As a matter of fact he had paid full prices for those two seats, like any other outsider, and even then had a difficulty in getting them, it being a King's night.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000016_000002|When they were settled he himself retired to an obscure part of the pit, from which the stage was scarcely visible.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000017_000000|'We can see beautifully,' said Bob, in an aristocratic voice, as he took a delicate pinch of snuff, and drew out the magnificent pocket handkerchief brought home from the East for such occasions.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000017_000001|'But I am afraid poor john can't see at all.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000018_000000|'But we can see him,' replied Anne, 'and notice by his face which of them it is he is so charmed with.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000019_000001|About twenty places were occupied by the royal family and suite; and beyond them was a crowd of powdered and glittering personages of fashion, completely filling the centre of the little building; though the King so frequently patronized the local stage during these years that the crush was not inconvenient.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000020_000000|The curtain rose and the play began.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000020_000001|To night it was one of Colman's, who at this time enjoyed great popularity, and mr Bannister supported the leading character.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000020_000003|She had not long to wait.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000020_000004|When a certain one of the subordinate ladies of the comedy entered on the stage the trumpet major in his corner not only looked conscious, but started and gazed with parted lips.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000021_000000|'This must be the one,' whispered Anne quickly.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000021_000001|'See, he is agitated!'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000022_000000|She turned to Bob, but at the same moment his hand convulsively closed upon hers as he, too, strangely fixed his eyes upon the newly entered lady.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000023_000000|'What is it?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000026_000000|'What-is she the woman of his choice after all?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000027_000000|'If so, it is a dreadful thing!' murmured Anne.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000029_000001|john was not concerned on his own account at being face to face with her, but at the extraordinary suspicion that this conjuncture must revive in the minds of his best beloved friends.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000029_000002|After some moments of pained reflection he tapped his knee.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000030_000000|'Gad, I won't explain; it shall go as it is!' he said.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000030_000002|Better that than the truth, after all.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000031_000001|But fortunately the deadlock of awkward suspense into which all four had fallen was terminated by an accident.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000031_000002|A messenger entered the King's box with despatches.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000031_000003|There was an instant pause in the performance.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000031_000004|The despatch box being opened the King read for a few moments with great interest, the eyes of the whole house, including those of Anne Garland, being anxiously fixed upon his face; for terrible events fell as unexpectedly as thunderbolts at this critical time of our history.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000031_000005|The King at length beckoned to Lord ---, who was immediately behind him, the play was again stopped, and the contents of the despatch were publicly communicated to the audience.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000033_000000|The news was received with truly national feeling, if noise might be taken as an index of patriotism.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000033_000001|'Rule Britannia' was called for and sung by the whole house.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000033_000002|But the importance of the event was far from being recognized at this time; and Bob Loveday, as he sat there and heard it, had very little conception how it would bear upon his destiny.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000034_000000|This parenthetic excitement diverted for a few minutes the eyes of Bob and Anne from the trumpet major; and when the play proceeded, and they looked back to his corner, he was gone.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000035_000000|'He's just slipped round to talk to her behind the scenes,' said Bob knowingly.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000035_000001|'Shall we go too, and tease him for a sly dog?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000036_000000|'No, I would rather not.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000037_000000|'Shall we go home, then?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000038_000000|'Not unless her presence is too much for you?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000039_000000|'O-not at all.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000039_000001|We'll stay here.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000039_000002|Ah, there she is again.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000041_000000|'Well, what a nerve the young woman has!' he said at last in tones of admiration, and gazing at Miss Johnson with all his might.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000041_000001|'After all, Jack's taste is not so bad.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000041_000002|She's really deuced clever.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000042_000000|'Bob, I'll go home if you wish to,' said Anne quickly.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000043_000000|'O no-let us see how she fleets herself off that bit of a scrape she's playing at now.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000043_000001|Well, what a hand she is at it, to be sure!'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000044_000001|She began to feel that she did not like life particularly well; it was too complicated: she saw nothing of the scene, and only longed to get away, and to get Bob away with her.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000045_000001|Bob unconsciously loitered, and turned towards the pier.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000046_000000|'What boat is that?' said Anne.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000047_000000|'It seems to be some frigate lying in the Roads,' said Bob carelessly, as he brought Anne round with a gentle pressure of his arm and bent his steps towards the homeward end of the town.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000048_000000|Meanwhile, Miss Johnson, having finished her duties for that evening, rapidly changed her dress, and went out likewise.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000048_000001|The prominent position which Anne and Captain Bob had occupied side by side in the theatre, left her no alternative but to suppose that the situation was arranged by Bob as a species of defiance to herself; and her heart, such as it was, became proportionately embittered against him.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000049_000000|She passed along by the houses facing the sea, and scanned the shore, the footway, and the open road close to her, which, illuminated by the slanting moon to a great brightness, sparkled with minute facets of crystallized salts from the water sprinkled there during the day.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000050_000000|Two forms crossed this line at a startling nearness to her; she marked them at once as Anne and Bob Loveday.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000050_000001|They were walking slowly, and in the earnestness of their discourse were oblivious of the presence of any human beings save themselves.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000050_000002|Matilda stood motionless till they had passed.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000051_000000|'How I love them!' she said, treading the initial step of her walk onwards with a vehemence that walking did not demand.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000053_000000|'You-who are you?' she asked.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000054_000001|We walked some way together towards Overcombe earlier in the summer.' Matilda looked more closely, and perceived that the speaker was Derriman, in plain clothes.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000054_000002|He continued, 'You are one of the ladies of the theatre, I know.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000054_000003|May I ask why you said in such a queer way that you loved that couple?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000055_000000|'In a queer way?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000056_000000|'Well, as if you hated them.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000057_000000|'I don't mind your knowing that I have good reason to hate them.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000057_000001|You do too, it seems?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000058_000000|'That man,' said Festus savagely, 'came to me one night about that very woman; insulted me before I could put myself on my guard, and ran away before I could come up with him and avenge myself.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000058_000001|The woman tricks me at every turn!
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000059_000000|'Then why don't you?
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000059_000001|There's a splendid opportunity.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000059_000002|Do you see that soldier walking along?
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000059_000004|They are often here for men.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000060_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000061_000000|'Well, we have only to tell him that Loveday is a seaman to be clear of him this very night.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000062_000000|'Done!' said Festus. 'Take my arm and come this way.' They walked across to the footway.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000062_000001|'Fine night, sergeant.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000064_000000|'Looking for hands, I suppose?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000065_000000|'It is not to be known, sir.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000065_000001|We don't begin till half past ten.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000066_000000|'It is a pity you don't begin now.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000067_000000|'What, that little nest of fellows at the "Old Rooms" in Cove Row?
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000068_000000|'No-come here.' Festus, with Miss Johnson on his arm, led the sergeant quickly along the parade, and by the time they reached the Narrows the lovers, who walked but slowly, were visible in front of them.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000068_000001|'There's your man,' he said.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000069_000000|'That buck in pantaloons and half boots-a looking like a squire?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000071_000000|'Faith, now you tell of it, there's a hint of sea legs about him.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000071_000001|What's the young beau's name?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000073_000000|But Festus had already said, 'Robert Loveday, son of the miller at Overcombe.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000073_000001|You may find several likely fellows in that neighbourhood.'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000074_000000|The marine said that he would bear it in mind, and they left him.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000075_000000|'I wish you had not told,' said Matilda tearfully.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000075_000001|'She's the worst!'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000076_000000|'Dash my eyes now; listen to that!
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000076_000001|Why, you chicken hearted old stager, you was as well agreed as i Come now; hasn't he used you badly?'
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000077_000000|Matilda's acrimony returned.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000077_000001|'I was down on my luck, or he wouldn't have had the chance!' she said.
train-other-500/3063/138651/3063_138651_000078_000000|'Well, then, let things be.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000004_000000|thirty one.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000004_000001|MIDNIGHT VISITORS
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000006_000000|'Is this then because you want to throw dust in the eyes of the Black Diamond chaps?' (with an admiring glance at Bob's costume).
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000008_000000|'She hove in sight just after dark, and at nine o'clock a boat having more than a dozen marines on board, with cloaks on, rowed into harbour.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000009_000000|Bob reflected.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000010_000000|'They won't know you, will they, Bob?' said Anne anxiously.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000011_000001|'But if I was you two, I should drive home along straight and quiet; and be very busy in the mill all to morrow, mr Loveday.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000012_000001|Its dark contour, lying like a whale on the sea, was just perceptible in the gloom as the background to half a dozen ships' lights nearer at hand.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000013_000000|'They can't make you go, now you are a gentleman tradesman, can they?' she asked.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000014_000000|'If they want me they can have me, dearest.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000014_000001|I have often said I ought to volunteer.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000015_000000|'And not care about me at all?'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000016_000000|'It is just that that keeps me at home.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000016_000001|I won't leave you if I can help it.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000017_000000|'It cannot make such a vast difference to the country whether one man goes or stays!
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000017_000001|But if you want to go you had better, and not mind us at all!'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000018_000001|She said no more about the Black Diamond; but whenever they ascended a hill she turned her head to look at the lights in Portland Roads, and the grey expanse of intervening sea.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000019_000001|That Anne was charming and loving enough to chain him anywhere was true; but he had begun to find the mill work terribly irksome at times.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000019_000002|Often during the last month, when standing among the rumbling cogs in his new miller's suit, which ill became him, he had yawned, thought wistfully of the old pea jacket, and the waters of the deep blue sea.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000019_000004|Even were his father indifferent, mrs Loveday would never intrust her only daughter to the hands of a husband who would be away from home five sixths of his time.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000020_000001|Hence, as they went towards home, he frequently listened for sounds behind him, but hearing none he assured his sweetheart that they were safe for that night at least.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000021_000000|Having reached the privacy of her own room, Anne threw open the window, for she had not the slightest intention of going to bed just yet.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000021_000001|The tale of the Black Diamond had disturbed her by a slow, insidious process that was worse than sudden fright.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000021_000003|She could have heard any strange sound distinctly enough in one direction; but in the other all low noises were absorbed in the patter of the mill, and the rush of water down the race.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000022_000001|She tried to think they were some late stragglers from Budmouth.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000022_000002|Alas! no; the tramp was too regular for that of villagers.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000022_000003|She hastily turned, extinguished the candle, and listened again.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000022_000004|As they were on the main road there was, after all, every probability that the party would pass the bridge which gave access to the mill court without turning in upon it, or even noticing that such an entrance existed.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000022_000005|In this again she was disappointed: they crossed into the front without a pause.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000022_000007|One of the men spoke.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000023_000000|'I am not sure that we are in the right place,' he said.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000025_000000|'There's lots about here.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000026_000000|'Then come this way a moment with your light.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000028_000000|'"Loveday and Son, Overcombe Mill,"' continued the man, reading from the waggon.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000028_000001|'"Son," you see, is lately painted in.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000028_000002|That's our man.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000031_000000|'Bob, dear Bob!' she said, through the keyhole.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000032_000000|'Why?' said Bob, leisurely knocking the ashes from the pipe he had been smoking.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000033_000000|'The press gang!'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000034_000001|By God! who can have blown upon me?
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000034_000002|All right, dearest.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000034_000003|I'm game.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000036_000000|Though the hands held her rather roughly, Anne did not mind for herself, and turning she cried desperately, in tones intended to reach Bob's ears: 'They are at the back door; try the front!'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000040_000000|'This gentleman can't be the right one,' observed a marine, rather impressed by Bob's appearance.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000041_000000|'Yes, yes; that's the man,' said the sergeant.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000041_000001|'Now take it quietly, my young cock o'-wax.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000042_000000|'Where are you going to take me?' said Bob.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000043_000000|'Only aboard the Black Diamond.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000043_000001|If you choose to take the bounty and come voluntarily, you'll be allowed to go ashore whenever your ship's in port.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000043_000002|If you don't, and we've got to pinion ye, you will not have your liberty at all.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000043_000003|As you must come, willy nilly, you'll do the first if you've any brains whatever.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000044_000000|Bob's temper began to rise.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000044_000001|'Don't you talk so large, about your pinioning, my man.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000044_000002|When I've settled-'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000045_000000|'Now or never, young blow hard,' interrupted his informant.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000046_000000|'Come, what jabber is this going on?' said the lieutenant, stepping forward.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000046_000001|'Bring your man.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000047_000001|In spite of the darkness they began to scramble up the ladder.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000047_000002|Bob thereupon shut the door, which being but of slight construction, was as he knew only a momentary defence.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000047_000004|He alighted without much hurt beyond a few scratches from the boughs, a shower of falling apples testifying to the force of his leap.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000048_000000|'Here he is!' shouted several below who had seen Bob's figure flying like a raven's across the sky.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000049_000000|There was stillness for a moment in the tree.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000050_000000|The latter movement of Loveday had been a mere feint.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000050_000001|Partly hidden by the leaves he glided back to the other part of the tree, from whence it was easy to jump upon a thatch covered out house.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000052_000000|By this time they had obtained another light, and pursued him closely along the back quarters of the mill.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000052_000001|Bob had entered the lower room, seized hold of the chain by which the flour sacks were hoisted from story to story by connexion with the mill wheel, and pulled the rope that hung alongside for the purpose of throwing it into gear.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000052_000002|The foremost pursuers arrived just in time to see Captain Bob's legs and shoe buckles vanishing through the trap door in the joists overhead, his person having been whirled up by the machinery like any bag of flour, and the trap falling to behind him.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000054_000000|It was more difficult to follow now; there was only a flimsy little ladder, and the men ascended cautiously.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000054_000001|When they stepped out upon the loft it was empty.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000056_000000|They looked up.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000057_000000|'Perhaps he's buried himself in the corn.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000058_000000|The whole crew jumped into the corn bins, and stirred about their yellow contents; but neither arm, leg, nor coat tail was uncovered.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000058_000001|They removed sacks, peeped among the rafters of the roof, but to no purpose. The lieutenant began to fume at the loss of time.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000059_000000|'What cursed fools to let the man go!
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000059_000001|Why, look here, what's this?' He had opened the door by which sacks were taken in from waggons without, and dangling from the cat head projecting above it was the rope used in lifting them.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000059_000002|'There's the way he went down,' the officer continued. 'The man's gone.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000061_000000|'Your son is a clever fellow, miller,' said the lieutenant; 'but it would have been much better for him if he had come quiet.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000062_000000|'That's a matter of opinion,' said Loveday.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000063_000000|'I have no doubt that he's in the house.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000064_000000|'He may be; and he may not.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000066_000000|'I do not; and if I did I shouldn't tell.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000067_000000|'Naturally.'
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000068_000000|'I heard steps beating up the road, sir,' said the sergeant.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000069_000001|While they were pausing to decide which course to take, one of the soldiers held up the light.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000070_000000|'We are on the track,' cried the sergeant, deciding for this direction.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000071_000000|They tore on rapidly, and the footsteps previously heard became audible again, increasing in clearness, which told that they gained upon the fugitive, who in another five minutes stopped and turned.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000071_000001|The rays of the candle fell upon Anne.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000072_000000|'What do you want?' she said, showing her frightened face.
train-other-500/3063/138652/3063_138652_000073_000001|She sank down on the bank to rest, having done all she could.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000001_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000003_000007|Neither of the youths was yet so badly stricken.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000004_000001|The Shell People often fished from boats, and the boats were excellent.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000004_000004|None of these boats could sink, and the man of the time was quite at home in the water.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000004_000005|It was fun for the young men whose tale is told here to go with the Shell People and assist in spearing fish or drawing them from the river's depths upon rude hooks, and the Shell People did not object, but were rather proud of the attendance of representatives of the hillside aristocracy.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000005_000000|The morning was one to make men far older than these two most confident and full of life.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000005_000002|The mast had already begun to fall and the nuts lay thickly among the leaves.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000005_000003|Every morning, and more regularly than it comes now, there was a spread of glistening hoar frost upon the lowlands and the little open lands in the forest and upon every spot not tree protected.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000005_000005|It came most strikingly in spring and autumn, and was something wonderful.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000005_000007|They were accustomed to it, for it was part of the record of every year.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000006_000001|They were late when, after swimming the creek, they reached the Shell village and there learned that the party had already gone.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000006_000003|They were not destined to fish that day.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000007_000001|But there was something else in sight.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000007_000003|She was fishing diligently.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000007_000005|The ordinary young woman of the Shell People did not worry when away from land.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000008_000001|SHE BUT FISHED AWAY DEMURELY]
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000010_000001|He held no defined wish to carry her away to a new home with him, but there arose a feeling that he wanted to know her better.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000011_000000|"I'll swim to the rock!" he said to his companion, and Oak laughed loudly.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000012_000001|All this time the girl had been eyeing every motion closely.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000013_000005|Along the bank ran the laughing and shouting Oak.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000014_000000|Yard by yard, Ab's mighty strokes brought him nearer the object of his pursuit.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000014_000001|She was swimming breast forward, as was he-for that was his only way-she with a dog like paddling stroke, and often she turned her head to look backward at the man.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000014_000003|She, possibly, understood that the chase did not involve a real abduction, for she and her pursuer had often met, but there was, at least, reason enough for avoiding too close contact on this day.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000015_000003|His thought was only what now made up an overmastering aim.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000015_000004|He must reach and seize upon the girl before him!
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000016_000003|It was but a matter of endurance, he chuckled to himself.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000016_000004|How could a woman outswim a man like him?
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000017_000001|And then she taught him something!
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000017_000003|But this was only a demonstration, made in sheer audacity and blithesome insolence, for the brown head soon appeared again some yards ahead and there was another twist of it and another merry laugh.
train-other-500/3079/164971/3079_164971_000017_000006|Oak was having a great day of it!
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000002_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000003_000000|"Stand to, you rocket wash!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000004_000001|Tumbling out of the gleaming monorail cars, they froze to quick attention, their eyes turned to the main exit ramp.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000005_000001|He stood there a moment, his sharp eyes flicking over the silent clusters, then slowly sauntered down the ramp toward them with a strangely light, catfooted tread.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000006_000000|"Form up!
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000008_000000|The scarlet clad figure stood before them, his seamed and weather beaten face set in stern lines.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000009_000000|Every year, for the last ten years, he had met the trains at the monorail station.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000009_000002|They were dressed in many different styles of clothes; the loose flowing robes of the lads from the Martian deserts; the knee length shorts and high stockings of the boys from the Venusian jungles; the vari colored jacket and trouser combinations of the boys from the magnificent Earth cities.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000010_000000|"All right now!
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000010_000001|Let's get squared away!" His voice was a little more friendly now.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000010_000002|"My name's McKenny-Mike McKenny.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000010_000003|Warrant Officer-Solar Guard.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000010_000004|See these hash marks?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000014_000001|I handle you until you either wash out and go home, or you finally blast off and become spacemen.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000014_000002|If you stub your toe or cut your finger, come to me.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000014_000003|If you get homesick, come to me.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000015_000001|At the far end of the line, a tall, ruggedly built boy of about eighteen, with curly brown hair and a pleasant, open face, was stirring uncomfortably.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000015_000002|He slowly reached down toward his right boot and held it, while he wriggled his foot into it.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000015_000003|McKenny quickly strode over and planted himself firmly in front of the boy.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000016_000000|"When I say stand to, I mean stand to!" he roared.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000017_000000|The boy jerked himself erect and snapped to attention.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000018_000000|"I-I'm sorry, sir," he stammered.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000018_000001|"But my boot-it was coming off and-"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000019_000000|"I don't care if your pants are falling down, an order's an order!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000020_000001|McKenny spun around and glared.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000020_000002|There was immediate silence.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000022_000000|"Corbett, sir.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000024_000000|"Yes, sir!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000025_000000|"Been studying long hard hours in primary school, eh?
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000025_000002|You want to feel those rockets bucking in your back out in the stars?
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000026_000000|"Yes, sir," replied Tom, wondering how this man he didn't even know could know so much about him.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000028_000001|He turned back to Corbett.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000030_000000|"Yes, sir!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000031_000001|The ranks were quiet and motionless, and as he made his call, McKenny smiled.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000032_000000|The ranks melted immediately and the boys fell into chattering clusters, their voices low, and they occasionally peered over their shoulders at Corbett as if he had suddenly been stricken with a horrible plague.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000033_000001|He shook his head slowly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000033_000002|He had heard Space Academy was tough, tougher than any other school in the world, but he didn't expect the stern discipline to begin so soon.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000034_000000|"This could be the beginning of the end," drawled a lazy voice in back of Tom, "for some of the more enthusiastic cadets." Someone laughed.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000038_000000|Manning, as Tom remembered it, had taken advantage of the huge Venusian by tricking him into carrying his luggage.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000038_000002|It had been a cheap trick, but no one had wanted to challenge the sharpness of Manning's tongue and come to Astro's rescue.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000040_000000|"All right," he bawled.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000040_000001|"They're all set for you at the Academy!
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000043_000001|"The gravity around here is the same as in Atom City.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000044_000000|Astro still hesitated, "I don't know, Manning.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000045_000000|"By the rings of Saturn!
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000047_000000|"And this cadet candidate"--he nodded casually toward Astro-"offered to carry my luggage.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000047_000001|Now he refuses."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000048_000000|Mike glared at Astro.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000048_000001|"Did you agree to carry this man's luggage?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000050_000000|"Well?
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000050_000001|Did you or didn't you?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000051_000000|"I guess I sorta did, sir," replied Astro, his face turning a slow red.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000053_000000|"Yes, sir," was the embarrassed reply.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000054_000000|McKenny turned to Manning who stood listening, a faint smile playing on his lips.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000056_000000|"Manning.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000056_000001|Roger Manning," he answered easily.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000058_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000060_000000|"Yes," answered Roger evenly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000060_000001|"I could carry my own luggage.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000060_000003|Nothing more.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000061_000000|His face suddenly crimson, McKenny spluttered, searching for a ready answer, then turned away abruptly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000062_000000|"What are you all standing around for?" he roared.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000062_000002|Blast!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000062_000003|He turned once again to the rolling platform.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000065_000000|"Never mind," replied Astro grimly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000066_000000|"No, let me help." Tom bent over-then suddenly straightened.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000066_000001|"By the way, we haven't introduced ourselves.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000066_000002|My name's Corbett-Tom Corbett." He stuck out his hand.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000066_000003|Astro hesitated, sizing up the curly headed boy in front of him, who stood smiling and offering friendship.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000066_000004|Finally he pushed out his own hand and smiled back at Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000067_000000|"Astro, but you know that by now."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000068_000000|"That sure was a dirty deal Manning gave you."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000069_000001|It's just that I wanted to tell him he's going to have to send it all back.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000070_000000|"Guess he'll find out the hard way."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000071_000001|Both having felt the sharpness of Manning's tongue, and both having been dressed down by Warrant Officer McKenny, they seemed to be linked by a bond of trouble and they stood close together for mutual comfort.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000073_000002|He recognized it immediately from the hundreds of books he had read about the Academy and stared wordlessly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000074_000000|"Sure is pretty, isn't it?" asked Astro, his voice strangely husky.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000075_000000|"Yeah," breathed Tom in reply.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000075_000001|"It sure is." He could only stare at the shimmering tower ahead.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000076_000000|"It's all I've ever wanted to do," said Tom at length.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000077_000000|"I know what you mean.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000078_000000|"You say that as if you've already been up there."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000079_000000|Astro grinned.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000079_000001|"Yup.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000081_000000|"Simple.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000081_000001|I want to be an officer.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000081_000002|I want to get into the Solar Guard and handle the power push in one of those cruisers."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000082_000001|"I've been out four or five times but only in jet boats five hundred miles out. Nothing like a jump to Luna City or Venusport."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000084_000000|"Haul off, you blasted polliwogs!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000085_000000|As the boys jumped off the slidewalk, a cadet, dressed in the vivid blue that Tom recognized as the official dress of the Senior Cadet Corps, walked up to McKenny and spoke to him quietly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000085_000001|The warrant officer turned back to the waiting group and gave rapid orders.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000086_000000|"By twos, follow Cadet Herbert inside and he'll assign you to your quarters.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000086_000003|That's three o'clock.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000086_000004|All clear? Blast off!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000087_000001|The noise expanded and rolled across the hills surrounding Space Academy.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000088_000000|Mouths open, eyes popping, the cadet candidates stood rooted in their tracks and stared as, in the distance, a long, thin, needlelike ship seemed to balance delicately on a column of flame, then suddenly shoot skyward and disappear.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000089_000000|"Pull in your eyeballs!" McKenny's voice crackled over the receding thunder.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000089_000001|"You'll fly one of those firecrackers some day.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000091_000000|"Did you see that, Astro?" asked Tom excitedly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000091_000001|"That was a Solar Guard patrol ship!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000092_000000|"Yeah, I know," replied Astro.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000092_000002|"Say, Tom-ah, since we sort of know each other, how about us trying to get in the same quarters?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000093_000000|"o k by me, Astro, if we can," said Tom, grinning back at his friend.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000095_000000|"Cadet Candidate Tom Corbett," announced Tom, and Herbert repeated it into the audioscriber.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000096_000000|"Cadet Candidate Astro!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000096_000001|The big Venusian stepped forward.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000097_000000|"What's the rest of it, Mister?" inquired Herbert.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000098_000000|"That's all.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000098_000001|Just Astro."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000099_000000|"No other names?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000100_000000|"No, sir," replied Astro.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000100_000001|"You see-"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000101_000000|"You don't say 'sir' to a senior cadet, Mister.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000101_000001|And we're not interested in why you have only one name!" Herbert snapped.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000107_000000|"Take your luggage with you, Misters!" snapped Herbert.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000108_000000|"It isn't ours," replied Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000109_000000|"Isn't yours?" Herbert glanced over the pile of suitcases and turned back to Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000110_000000|"Belongs to Cadet Candidate Roger Manning," replied Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000111_000000|"What are you doing with it?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000112_000000|"We were carrying it for him."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000117_000000|"Roger Manning here," he presented himself smoothly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000118_000000|"Is that your luggage?" Herbert jerked his thumb over his shoulder.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000119_000000|"It is."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000121_000000|"You have a peculiar attitude for a candidate, Manning."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000123_000000|Herbert's face twitched almost imperceptibly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000123_000001|Then he nodded, made a notation on a pad and returned to his post at the head of the gaping line of boys.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000124_000000|Tom, Astro, and Philip Morgan stepped on the slidestairs and began their spiraling ascent to the forty second floor.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000126_000000|"We found out for ourselves," grunted Astro.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000127_000001|Where you all from?"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000128_000000|"New Chicago," replied Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000128_000001|"Name's Tom Corbett.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000128_000002|And this is Astro."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000130_000000|"How come?" inquired the Southerner.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000132_000000|"Funny custom," drawled Phil.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000133_000001|Tom could see his face turn a slow pink.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000135_000000|"Forget it, Phil." Astro grinned again.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000136_000000|"Say," interjected Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000136_000001|"Look at that!"
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000137_000003|They turned to see Manning, the pile of suitcases in front of him, reading aloud.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000138_000000|" ... to the brave men who sacrificed their lives in the conquest of space, this Galaxy Hall is dedicated...."
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000139_000000|"Say, this must be the museum," said Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000140_000000|"Absolutely right," said Manning with a smile.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000142_000000|"Sure you can," said Roger.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000143_000000|The members of Section forty two d looked at Roger questioningly.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000144_000000|"I don't know if we have time." Tom was dubious.
train-other-500/3088/5436/3088_5436_000145_000000|"Sure you have-plenty.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000001_000000|"--And yet," continued Strong, "every morning for the last three weeks I've got a report from McKenny about some sort of friction between them!"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000005_000000|"What's happened this time?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000006_000000|"Manning." He paused.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000006_000001|"It seems to be all Manning!"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000008_000000|"No-not necessarily.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000008_000003|You know, I actually saw him put an auxiliary rocket motor together blindfolded!"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000009_000000|The pretty scientist smiled.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000009_000001|"I could have told you that after one look at his classification tests."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000010_000000|"How?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000012_000000|"And on the others?
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000012_000001|Astrogation and control deck?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000013_000000|"He just skimmed by.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000014_000002|Good instinctive intelligence.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000014_000003|That boy soaks up knowledge like a sponge."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000015_000000|"Facile mind-quick to grasp the essentials." She smiled again.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000016_000000|Strong grinned sheepishly.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000016_000001|A routine flight to Titan had misfired into open rebellion by the crew.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000017_000000|"And Manning," asked Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000017_000001|"What about Manning?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000018_000002|He never misses."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000019_000000|"Then, do you think he's acting up because Corbett is the nominal head of the unit?
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000019_000001|Does he feel that he should be the command cadet in the control deck instead of Corbett?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000020_000001|"Not at all.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000020_000002|I'm sure he intentionally missed problems about control deck and command in his classification test.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000020_000003|He concentrated on astrogation, communications and signal radar.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000020_000004|He wanted to be assigned to the radar deck.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000020_000005|And he turned in the best paper I've ever read from a cadet to get the post."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000000|Strong threw up his hands.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000001|"Then what is it?
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000002|Here we have a unit, on paper at least, that could be number one.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000003|A good combination of brains, experience and knowledge.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000004|Everything that's needed.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000005|And what is the result?
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000021_000006|Friction!"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000022_000000|Suddenly a buzzer sounded, and on Steve Strong's desk a small teleceiver screen glowed into life.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000022_000001|Gradually the stern face of Commander Walters emerged.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000024_000000|"Of course, Commander," replied Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000024_000001|"Is anything wrong?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000025_000000|"Very wrong, Steve.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000025_000001|I've been looking over the daily performance reports on Unit forty two d."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000027_000000|"Good!
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000028_000000|"No, sir!" said Strong quickly.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000028_000001|"Don't do that!"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000029_000000|"Oh?" replied the commander.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000030_000000|"And why not?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000031_000000|"Well, Joan-er-dr
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000032_000000|Walters considered this for a moment and then asked thoughtfully, "Give me one good reason why the unit shouldn't be washed out."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000033_000000|"The academy needs boys like this, sir," Steve answered flatly.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000033_000001|"Needs their intelligence, their experience.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000033_000002|They may be a problem now, but if they're handled right, they'll turn out to be ace spacemen, they'll-"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000034_000000|The commander interrupted.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000035_000000|"Yes, sir, I am."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000037_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000037_000002|He's tough and smart.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000038_000000|"I don't agree, Steve.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000038_000002|But I think we have a better man for the job."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000039_000000|"Whom do you suggest, sir?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000041_000000|"You, Steve."
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000042_000000|"Me?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000043_000000|"What do you think, Joan?"
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000044_000000|"I wanted to make the same suggestion, Commander," smiled Joan.
train-other-500/3088/5438/3088_5438_000045_000001|"This is no reflection on your present work.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000000_000001|In these weeks that had followed Tom's fight with Roger in the gym, there had been no further incidents of open warfare.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000000_000003|The sting had been taken out of his attack and he seemed satisfied merely to annoy.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000000_000004|Astro had withdrawn into a shell, refusing to allow Roger to bother him and only an occasional rumble of anger indicated his true feelings toward his troublesome unit mate.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000001_000000|Strong finally broke the silence.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000002_000000|"Why?" insisted Walters.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000003_000000|"Well, nothing's really happened," answered Steve.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000005_000000|"Oh-" Strong flushed.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000005_000001|"You know about that?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000006_000000|Commander Walters smiled.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000006_000001|"Black eyes and faces that looked like raw beef don't go unnoticed, Steve."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000008_000000|"What I want to know is," pursued Walters, "did the fight prove anything?
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000009_000001|Why, dr Dale told me the other day that she's sure Tom's been giving Roger a few pointers on control deck operation.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000009_000002|And one night I found Manning giving Astro a lecture in compression ratios.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000009_000003|Of course, Manning's way of talking is a way that would confuse the Venusian more than it would help him, but at least they weren't snarling at each other."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000010_000000|"Hmm," Walters nodded.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000010_000001|"Sounds hopeful, but still not conclusive.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000010_000002|After all, they have to help each other in the manuals.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000010_000003|If one member of the unit fails, it will reflect on the marks of the other two and they might be washed out too.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000010_000004|Even the deadliest enemies will unite to save their lives."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000011_000000|"Perhaps, sir," replied Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000011_000001|"But we're not dealing with deadly enemies now.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000011_000002|These are three boys, with three distinct personalities who've been lumped together in strange surroundings.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000011_000003|It takes time and patience to make a team that will last for years."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000012_000001|"When does Unit forty two d take its manuals?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000013_000000|"This afternoon, sir," replied Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000013_000001|"I'm on my way over to the examination hall right now."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000014_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000014_000001|I won't take any action yet.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000014_000004|See you later, Steve." Turning abruptly, Commander Walters stepped off the slidewalk onto the steps of the Administration Building and rapidly disappeared from view.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000015_000000|Left alone, Strong pondered the commander's parting statement.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000017_000000|"Cadet Corbett reporting for manual examination, sir!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000018_000000|"Stand easy, Corbett," replied Strong, returning the salute.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000018_000002|Are you fully prepared?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000019_000000|"I believe so, sir." Tom's voice wasn't too steady.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000022_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000022_000001|Follow me."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000024_000000|"All right, Corbett.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000024_000001|Inside." Strong nodded toward the interior of the room.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000025_000000|The boy stepped in quickly, then stopped in amazement.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000025_000001|All around him was a maze of instruments and controls.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000025_000002|And in the center, twin pilot's chairs.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000026_000001|"It's-it's a real control deck!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000027_000000|Strong smiled.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000027_000001|"As real as we can make it, Corbett, without allowing the building to blast off." He gestured toward the pilot's chairs.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000027_000002|"Take your place and strap in."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000028_000000|"Yes, sir." His eyes still wide with wonder, Tom stepped over to the indicated chair and Strong followed him, leaning casually against the other.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000030_000000|"Yes, sir-just a little," replied Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000031_000000|"Don't worry," said Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000031_000001|"You should have seen the way I came into this room fifteen years ago.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000032_000000|Tom managed a fleeting smile.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000034_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000035_000000|"I warn you, it isn't easy.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000036_000000|"I understand, sir," said Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000037_000000|"All right, then we'll begin.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000037_000001|Your crew is aboard, the air lock is closed.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000038_000000|"Adjust the air circulating system to ensure standard Earth conditions."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000039_000000|"How do you do that?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000041_000000|"All right, carry on," said Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000042_000002|"All pressures steady, sir."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000043_000000|"What next?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000044_000000|"Check the crew, sir-all departments-" replied Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000045_000000|"Carry on," said Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000047_000000|"All hands!
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000049_000000|Tom leaned back in the pilot's seat and turned to the captain.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000049_000001|"All stations ready, sir."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000050_000000|"Good!
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000050_000001|What next?" asked Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000051_000000|"Ask spaceport tower for blast off clearance-"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000052_000000|Strong nodded.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000052_000001|Tom turned back to the microphone, and without looking, punched a button in front of him.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000053_000000|"Rocket cruiser-"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000053_000001|He paused and turned back to Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000053_000002|"What name do I give, sir?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000054_000000|Strong smiled.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000055_000001|Request blast off clearance and orbit."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000057_000000|On and on, through every possible command, condition or decision that would be placed in front of him, Tom guided his imaginary ship on its imaginary flight through space.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000057_000001|For two hours he pushed buttons, snapped switches and jockeyed controls.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000057_000002|He gave orders and received them from the thin metallic voices.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000057_000003|They answered him with such accuracy, and sometimes with seeming hesitation, that Tom found it difficult to believe that they were only electronically controlled recording devices. Once, when supposedly blasting through space at three quarters space speed, he received a warning from the radar bridge of an approaching asteroid.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000057_000005|Believing the recording to have broken down, he turned inquiringly to Captain Strong, but received only a blank stare in return.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000059_000000|"Good work, Corbett.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000060_000000|"Thank you, sir," stammered Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000061_000000|"That's all-the test is over.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000061_000002|"And don't worry, Corbett.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000061_000004|You've passed with a perfect score!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000062_000000|"I have, sir?
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000063_000000|"Next step is Manning," said Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000064_000000|"Thank you, sir"--Tom could only repeat it over and over-"thank you, sir-thank you."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000065_000000|Dazed, he saluted his superior and turned to the door.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000065_000001|Two hours in the pilot's chair had made him dizzy.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000065_000002|But he was happy.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000066_000000|Five minutes later he slammed back the sliding door and entered the quarters of forty two d with a lusty shout.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000067_000000|"Meet Space Cadet Corbett-an Earthworm who's just passed his control deck manual operations exam!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000068_000000|Astro looked up from a book of tables on astrogation and gave Tom a wan smile.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000070_000000|"Say-what's going on here?" asked Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000070_000001|"Where's Roger?
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000070_000002|Didn't he help you with them?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000071_000001|Said he had to see someone before taking his radar bridge manual.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000071_000002|He helped me a little.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000072_000000|Suddenly slamming the book shut, he got up.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000073_000000|"What's the trouble?"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000074_000001|They're simple.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000075_000000|"Well-I mean-what specifically?" asked Tom softly.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000079_000000|Tom hesitated.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000079_000001|Astro was right.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000079_000003|And if one of them failed...?
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000079_000004|Tom saw why the ground manuals were so important now.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000080_000000|"Look," offered Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000081_000000|Tom grabbed a chair, hitched it close to the desk and pulled Astro down beside him.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000081_000001|He opened the book and began studying the problem.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000082_000000|"Now look-you have twenty two tons of fuel-and considering the position of your ship in space-"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000085_000000|"Stand easy, Manning," replied Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000086_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000088_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000089_000001|Your problems are purely mathematical.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000089_000002|There are no decisions to make.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000089_000003|Just use your head."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000091_000000|"You may begin any time you are ready, Manning," said Strong.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000092_000000|"I'm ready now, sir," replied Roger calmly.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000092_000001|He turned to the swivel chair located between the huge communications board, the adjustable chart table and the astrogation prism.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000093_000000|Roger concentrated on the first problem.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000094_000000|" ... you are now in the northwest quadrant of Mars, chart M, area twenty eight.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000094_000001|You have been notified by the control deck that it has been necessary to jettison three quarters of your fuel supply.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000094_000002|For the last five hundred and seventy nine seconds you have been blasting at one quarter space speed.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000095_000003|He quickly grabbed two knobs, one in each hand, and twisted them to move two thin, plotting lines, one horizontal and one vertical, across the surface of the scanner.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000095_000005|Then he turned his whole attention to the tabulator, ripped off the answer with lightning moves of his fingers and began talking rapidly into the microphone.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000096_000001|Alien body bearing zero one five, one point seven degrees over plane of the ecliptic.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000096_000002|On intersecting orbit.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000096_000004|Will compensate for change nearer destination!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000097_000000|Roger watched the scanner a moment longer.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000102_000003|That was routine."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000104_000000|"Seven and a half minutes.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000105_000000|Forty five minutes later, Roger, as unruffled as if he had been sitting listening to a lecture from a sound slide, handed in the rest of his papers, executed a sharp salute and walked out.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000106_000001|Astro.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000106_000002|The big Venusian was unable to understand anything that couldn't be turned with a wrench.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000106_000004|While none of the members of the other units could come up to the individual brilliance of Corbett or Manning, they worked together as a unit, helping one another. They might make a higher unit rating, simply because they were better balanced.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000107_000001|It was as much torture for him, as it was for any cadet, he thought, and turned to the door.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000109_000000|"Let's try again, Astro," sighed Tom as he hitched his chair closer to the desk.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000111_000000|"But you're not on a space freighter now!" exclaimed Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000111_000001|"You've got to do things the way they want it done here at the Academy.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000112_000001|He strolled in and kicked at the crumpled sheets of paper that littered the floor, stark evidence of Tom's efforts with Astro.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000113_000000|"All right, wise guy," said Tom, "suppose you explain it to him!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000114_000000|"No can do," replied Roger.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000114_000001|"I tried.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000114_000002|I explained it to him twenty times this morning while you were taking your control deck manual." He tapped his head delicately with his forefinger.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000114_000003|"Can't get through-too thick!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000116_000000|"Lay off, Roger," snapped Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000116_000002|"Come on, Astro, we haven't got much time.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000117_000003|But I just can't get those ratios out of a book.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000121_000000|"Take it easy, Earthworms!" said Tony Richards.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000122_000000|"Lay off, Richards," said Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000122_000001|"We haven't time for gags now.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000122_000002|Astro's going to take his power deck manual in a few minutes and we're cramming with him."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000123_000000|"o k--o k--don't blow your jets," said Richards.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000126_000000|"With Astro on our team?" complained Roger.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000127_000001|"From what I hear, he's hot stuff!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000127_000003|Astro balled his huge hands into fists.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000128_000001|But today he came down with a cold.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000129_000000|"I'll give you two to one," Richards offered.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000130_000001|"Not even at five to one.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000130_000002|Not with Astro."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000131_000000|Richards grinned, nodded and disappeared.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000132_000000|Roger turned to face the hard stare of Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000134_000000|"Sorry, Corbett," said Roger.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000134_000001|"I only bet on sure things."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000136_000000|"Who are you kidding?" Roger laughed and sprawled on his bunk.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000138_000000|"You'll be late for the exam, Astro!" he shouted.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000138_000001|"Get going or it'll count against your mark!"
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000140_000001|Disengaging Tom's restraining arms, he spoke coldly to the sneering boy on the bed.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000141_000000|"I'm going to pass the exam, Manning.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000141_000001|Get that?
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000143_000000|"What's the idea of giving Astro a hard time?" demanded Tom.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000144_000000|"Cool off, Corbett," replied Roger warily.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000144_000001|"You're fusing your tubes you're so hot."
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000145_000000|"You bet I'm hot!
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000147_000000|"Go blow your jets," his voice drifted back to Tom as he disappeared.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000148_000000|Tom stood there, looking at the empty door, almost blind with rage and frustration.
train-other-500/3088/5441/3088_5441_000148_000001|He was failing in the main job assigned to him, that of keeping the unit on an even keel and working together.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000003_000004|At this season, a falling temperature would speedily follow.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000003_000006|If it were not killed tonight, the incident he had come to prevent would certainly occur.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000004_000001|Then he took off his coat, removing his pipe and tobacco from the pockets, and spread it on the wet grass.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000004_000004|He remembered that the Gavran family derived their title from their vast Venus hotlands estates; that Gavran Sarn, the man who had brought this thing to the Fourth Level, had been born on the inner planet.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000004_000005|When Verkan Vall donned that coat, he would become his own living bait for the murderous fury of the creature he sought.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000005_000003|Then he got into the jeep and drove away.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000006_000001|Now and then, he passed farmhouses, and dogs, puzzled and angered by the alien scent his coat bore, barked furiously.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000010_000001|The next instant, the rifle was knocked from his hand.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000010_000002|Instinctively, he flung up his left arm to shield his eyes.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000010_000003|Claws raked his left arm and shoulder, something struck him heavily along the left side, and his cap light went out as he dropped and rolled under the jeep, drawing in his legs and fumbling under his coat for the revolver.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000011_000000|In that instant, he knew what had gone wrong.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000011_000001|His plan had been entirely too much of a success.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000011_000002|The nighthound had winded him as he had driven up the old railroad grade, and had followed.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000011_000004|In the few moments between stopping the little car and getting out, the nighthound had been able to close the distance and spring upon him.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000015_000000|"Hope it gets a paw full of seat springs," Verkan Vall commented mentally.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000015_000001|He had already found a stone about the size of his two fists, and another slightly smaller, and had put one in each of the side pockets of the coat.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000015_000003|Wriggling on the flat of his back, he squirmed between the rear wheels, until he was able to sit up, behind the jeep.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000017_000000|His stratagem had succeeded beautifully.
train-other-500/3090/131878/3090_131878_000018_000000|His sights clearly defined by the lights in front of him, the paratimer centered them on the base of the creature's spine, just above its secondary shoulders, and carefully squeezed the trigger.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000001_000001|Originally the host had provided whisky for himself and his guest at these pleasant chats, but there were undeniable objections to this plan, because the guest always proved unusually thirsty, which tempted his host to keep pace with him, while if they both drank at their own expense, the causes of economy and abstemiousness had a better chance.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000001_000003|But if each brought his own bottle . . .
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000002_000002|He was perfectly willing to be paid his half crown and go home, but Major Flint, remembering that Puffin's game usually went to pieces if it rained, had rejected this proposal with the scorn that it deserved.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000002_000005|They had given each other stymies, and each had holed his opponent's ball by mistake; they had wrangled over the correct procedure if you lay in a rabbit scrape or on the tram lines: the Major had lost a new ball; there was a mushroom on one of the greens between Puffin's ball and the hole. . . .
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000003_000000|He wiped his streaming eyes.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000004_000000|"You should get your chimney swept," he observed.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000005_000000|Major Flint had put his handkerchief over his face to keep the wood smoke out of his eyes.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000005_000001|He blew it off with a loud, indignant puff.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000006_000002|Indeed!" he said.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000007_000000|Puffin was rather taken aback by the violence of these interjections; they dripped with angry sarcasm.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000008_000000|"Oh, well!
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000008_000001|No offence," he said.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000009_000000|"A man," said the Major impersonally, "makes an offensive remark, and says 'No offence'.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000009_000001|If your own fireside suits you better than mine, Captain Puffin, all I can say is that you're at liberty to enjoy it!"
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000011_000000|"There's your handkerchief," he said, picking it up.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000011_000001|"Now let's have one of our comfortable talks.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000011_000002|Hot glass of grog and a chat over the fire: that's the best thing after such a wetting as we got this afternoon.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000012_000000|The Major got up and limped to his cupboard.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000012_000002|He determined to ask for some biscuits, anyhow, to morrow. . . .
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000013_000000|"I hardly know whether there's a lemon left," he grumbled.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000013_000001|"I must lay in a store of lemons.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000013_000002|As for sugar-"
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000014_000000|Puffin chose to disregard this suggestion.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000015_000000|"Amusing incident the other day," he said brightly, "when Miss Mapp's cupboard door flew open.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000016_000000|The Major became dignified.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000017_000001|"When an esteemed friend like Miss Elizabeth tells me that certain provisions are destined for the poor of the parish, I take it that her statement is correct.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000017_000002|I expect others of my friends, while they are in my presence, to do the same.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000017_000003|I have the honour to give you a lemon, Captain Puffin, and a slice of sugar.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000017_000004|I should say a lump of sugar.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000017_000005|Pray make yourself comfortable."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000018_000000|This dignified and lofty mood was often one of the aftereffects of an unsuccessful game of golf.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000018_000001|It generally yielded quite quickly to a little stimulant.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000018_000002|Puffin filled his glass from the bottle and the kettle, while his friend put his handkerchief again over his face.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000019_000000|"Well, I shall just have my grog before I turn in," he observed, according to custom.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000019_000001|"Aren't you going to join me, Major?"
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000020_000000|"Presently, sir," said the Major.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000021_000000|Puffin knocked out the consumed cinders in his pipe against the edge of the fender.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000022_000000|"I have your permission, I hope?" he said witheringly.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000023_000000|"Certainly, certainly," said Puffin.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000023_000001|"Now get your glass, Major. You'll feel better in a minute or two."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000024_000001|He gave a lamentable cry when he beheld it.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000025_000000|"But I got that bottle in only the day before yesterday," he shouted, "and there's hardly a drink left in it."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000026_000000|"Well, you did yourself pretty well last night," said Puffin. "Those small glasses of yours, if frequently filled up, empty a bottle quicker than you seem to realize."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000027_000000|Motives of policy prevented the Major from receiving this with the resentment that was proper to it, and his face cleared.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000028_000000|"Well, you'll have to let me borrow from you to night," he said genially, as he poured the rest of the contents of his bottle into the glass.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000028_000001|"Ah, that's more the ticket!
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000028_000002|A glass of whisky a day keeps the doctor away."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000029_000000|The prospect of sponging on Puffin was most exhilarating, and he put his large slippered feet on to the fender.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000030_000000|"Yes, indeed, that was a highly amusing incident about Miss Mapp's cupboard," he said.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000030_000001|"And wasn't mrs Plaistow down on her like a knife about it?
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000030_000002|Our fair friends, you know, have a pretty sharp eye for each other's little failings.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000030_000003|They've no sooner finished one squabble than they begin another, the pert little fairies. They can't sit and enjoy themselves like two old cronies I could tell you of, and feel at peace with all the world."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000031_000000|He finished his glass at a gulp, and seemed much surprised to find it empty.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000032_000000|"I'll be borrowing a drop from you, old friend," he said.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000033_000000|"Help yourself, Major," said Puffin, with a keen eye as to how much he took.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000034_000002|My wound."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000035_000000|"Be careful not to inflame it," said Puffin.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000036_000001|It's this beastly climate that touches it up.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000036_000002|A winter in England adds years on to a man's life unless he takes care of himself.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000036_000003|Take care of yourself, old boy.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000036_000004|Have some more sugar."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000037_000000|Before long the Major's hand was moving slowly and instinctively towards Puffin's whisky bottle again.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000038_000000|"I reckon that big glass of yours, Puffin," he said, "holds between three and a half times to four times what my little tumbler holds. Between three and a half and four I should reckon.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000038_000001|I may be wrong."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000039_000000|"Reckoning the water in, I daresay you're not far out, Major," said he.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000040_000000|"Oh, come, come!" said the Major.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000042_000005|Major Flint, looking at the various implements and trophies that adorned the room, would suggest putting a sporting challenge in The Times.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000044_000000|"Forty," said Puffin sycophantically, as he thought over what he would say about himself when the old man had finished.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000045_000001|I shouldn't feel much anxiety as to the result."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000046_000000|"My confounded leg!" said Puffin.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000046_000001|"But I know a retired captain from His Majesty's merchant service-the King, God bless him!--aged fifty-"
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000047_000001|Fifty, indeed!" said the Major, thinking to himself that a dried up little man like Puffin might be as old as an Egyptian mummy.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000047_000002|Who can tell the age of a kipper? . . .
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000049_000001|The two were perfectly well aware of the sympathetic interest that Old Mappy took in all that concerned them, and that she had an eye on their evening séances was evidenced by the frequency with which the corner of her blind in the window of the garden room was raised between, say, half past nine and eleven at night.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000049_000002|They had often watched with giggles the pencil of light that escaped, obscured at the lower end by the outline of Old Mappy's head, and occasionally drank to the "Guardian Angel".
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000049_000003|Guardian Angel, in answer to direct inquiries, had been told by Major Benjy during the last month that he worked at his diaries on three nights in the week and went to bed early on the others, to the vast improvement of his mental grasp.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000051_000000|"I don't think you knew my beloved, my revered mother, Miss Elizabeth," said Major Benjy.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000051_000001|"I spend Sunday evening as-Well, well."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000052_000000|The very next Sunday evening Guardian Angel had heard the sound of singing.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000052_000001|She could not catch the words, and only fragments of the tune, which reminded her of "The roseate morn hath passed away". Brimming with emotion, she sang it softly to herself as she undressed, and blamed herself very much for ever having thought that dear Major Benjy-She peeped out of her window when she had extinguished her light, but fortunately the singing had ceased.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000053_000000|To night, however, the epoch of Puffin's second big tumbler was not accompanied by harmonious developments.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000053_000002|When he mistakenly thought he had done so, he hastily refilled his glass, taking unusually stiff doses for fear of not getting another opportunity, and altogether omitting to ask Puffin's leave for these maraudings.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000054_000001|Amorous reminiscences to night had been the accompaniment to Puffin's second tumbler.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000055_000000|"Devilish fine woman she was," he said, "and that was the last Benjamin Flint ever saw of her.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000055_000001|She went up to the hills next morning-"
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000056_000000|"But the last you saw of her just now was on the deck of the p and o at Bombay," objected Puffin.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000056_000002|Wonderful line!"
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000057_000001|I don't know if I told you-By Gad, I've kicked the bottle over.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000057_000002|No idea you'd put it there.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000057_000003|Hope the cork's in."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000058_000000|"No harm if it isn't," said Puffin, beginning on his third most fiery glass.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000058_000001|The strength of it rather astonished him.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000059_000000|"You don't mean to say it's empty?" asked Major Flint.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000059_000001|"Why just now there was close on a quarter of a bottle left."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000060_000000|"As much as that?" asked Puffin, "Glad to hear it."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000061_000000|"Not a drop less.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000061_000002|It's a fine thing to have a strong head, though if I drank what you've got in your glass, I should be tipsy, sir."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000062_000000|Puffin laughed in his irritating falsetto manner.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000063_000000|"Good thing that it's in my glass then, and not your glass," he said.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000063_000001|"And lemme tell you, Major, in case you don't know it, that when I've drunk every drop of this and sucked the lemon, you'll have had far more out of my bottle this evening than I have.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000063_000002|My usual twice and-and my usual night cap, as you say, is what's my ration, and I've had no more than my ration.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000063_000003|Eight Bells."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000064_000000|"And a pretty good ration you've got there," said the baffled Major.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000064_000001|"Without your usual twice."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000065_000000|Puffin was beginning to be aware of that as he swallowed the fiery mixture, but nothing in the world would now have prevented his drinking every single drop of it.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000066_000000|"And whose whisky is it?" he said, gulping down the fiery stuff.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000067_000000|"I know whose it's going to be," said the other.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000068_000000|"And I know whose it is now," retorted Puffin, "and I know whose whisky it is that's filled you up ti' as a drum.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000070_000001|'Pologize, in fact."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000071_000000|Puffin finished his glass at a gulp, and rose to his feet.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000072_000000|"'Pologies be blowed," he said.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000074_000000|"Of course, I was.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000074_000001|Hippot-same animal as before.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000074_000002|Pleasant old boy.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000074_000003|And as for the lemon you lent me, well, I don't want it any more.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000074_000004|Have a suck at it, ole fellow!
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000074_000005|I don't want it any more."
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000076_000000|Captain Puffin stood for a moment wreathed in smiles, and fingering the slice of lemon, which he had meant playfully to throw at his friend.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000076_000003|Not a word passed.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000077_000000|Then Captain Puffin found his hat and coat without much difficulty, and marched out of the house, slamming the door behind him with a bang that echoed down the street and made Miss Mapp dream about a thunderstorm.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000077_000001|He let himself into his own house, and bent down before his expired fire, which he tried to blow into life again. This was unsuccessful, and he breathed in a quantity of wood ash.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000078_000000|He sat down by his table and began to think things out.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000078_000002|Allowing for that, he was conscious that he was extremely angry about something, and had a firm idea that the Major was very angry too.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000080_000000|He was roused from his puzzling over this unanswerable conundrum by the clink of the flap in his letter box.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000080_000002|But, whichever it was, a letter had been slipped into his box, and he brought it in.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000080_000003|The gum on the envelope was still wet, which saved trouble in opening it.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000080_000004|Inside was a half sheet containing but a few words.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000080_000005|This curt epistle ran as follows:
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000081_000000|SIR,
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000082_000000|My seconds will wait on you in the course of to morrow morning.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000083_000000|Your faithful obedient servant,
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000086_000000|Puffin felt as calm as a tropic night, and as courageous as a captain.
train-other-500/3090/164191/3090_164191_000086_000001|Somewhere below his courage and his calm was an appalling sense of misgiving.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000001_000001|Duroc said that Napoleon would receive the Russian general before going for his ride.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000003_000001|He stood a minute or two, waiting.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000003_000003|He had just finished dressing for his ride, and wore a blue uniform, opening in front over a white waistcoat so long that it covered his rotund stomach, white leather breeches tightly fitting the fat thighs of his short legs, and Hessian boots.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000003_000005|His plump white neck stood out sharply above the black collar of his uniform, and he smelled of Eau de Cologne.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000003_000006|His full face, rather young looking, with its prominent chin, wore a gracious and majestic expression of imperial welcome.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000004_000000|He entered briskly, with a jerk at every step and his head slightly thrown back.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000004_000002|It was evident, too, that he was in the best of spirits that day.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000006_000000|"Good day, General!" said he.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000007_000000|It was plain that Balashev's personality did not interest him at all.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000007_000001|Evidently only what took place within his own mind interested him.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000007_000002|Nothing outside himself had any significance for him, because everything in the world, it seemed to him, depended entirely on his will.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000008_000000|"I do not, and did not, desire war," he continued, "but it has been forced on me.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000008_000001|Even now" (he emphasized the word)
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000008_000002|"I am ready to receive any explanations you can give me."
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000009_000001|Judging by the calmly moderate and amicable tone in which the French Emperor spoke, Balashev was firmly persuaded that he wished for peace and intended to enter into negotiations.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000010_000000|When Napoleon, having finished speaking, looked inquiringly at the Russian envoy, Balashev began a speech he had prepared long before: "Sire!
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000010_000001|The Emperor, my master..." but the sight of the Emperor's eyes bent on him confused him.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000010_000002|"You are flurried-compose yourself!" Napoleon seemed to say, as with a scarcely perceptible smile he looked at Balashev's uniform and sword.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000011_000000|Balashev recovered himself and began to speak.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000013_000003|He could not utter them, though he wished to do so.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000013_000004|He grew confused and said: "On condition that the French army retires beyond the Niemen."
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000014_000001|Without moving from where he stood he began speaking in a louder tone and more hurriedly than before.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000015_000000|"I desire peace, no less than the Emperor Alexander," he began.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000015_000001|"Have I not for eighteen months been doing everything to obtain it?
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000015_000003|But in order to begin negotiations, what is demanded of me?" he said, frowning and making an energetic gesture of inquiry with his small white plump hand.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000016_000000|"The withdrawal of your army beyond the Niemen, sire," replied Balashev.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000018_000000|The latter bowed his head respectfully.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000019_000001|Napoleon turned quickly and began to pace the room.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000021_000002|This quivering of his left leg was a thing Napoleon was conscious of.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000021_000003|"The vibration of my left calf is a great sign with me," he remarked at a later date.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000022_000001|"If you gave me Petersburg and Moscow I could not accept such conditions.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000022_000002|You say I have begun this war!
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000022_000003|But who first joined his army?
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000022_000004|The Emperor Alexander, not I! And you offer me negotiations when I have expended millions, when you are in alliance with England, and when your position is a bad one.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000022_000005|You offer me negotiations!
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000022_000007|What has she given you?" he continued hurriedly, evidently no longer trying to show the advantages of peace and discuss its possibility, but only to prove his own rectitude and power and Alexander's errors and duplicity.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000027_000000|"Peace has been concluded..." he began.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000028_000000|But Napoleon did not let him speak.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000029_000000|"Yes, I know you have made peace with the Turks without obtaining Moldavia and Wallachia; I would have given your sovereign those provinces as I gave him Finland.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000029_000002|Yet he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bothnia to the mouths of the Danube.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000029_000004|"All that, he would have owed to my friendship.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000029_000005|Oh, what a splendid reign!" he repeated several times, then paused, drew from his pocket a gold snuffbox, lifted it to his nose, and greedily sniffed at it.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000030_000000|"What a splendid reign the Emperor Alexander's might have been!"
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000000|"What could he wish or look for that he would not have obtained through my friendship?" demanded Napoleon, shrugging his shoulders in perplexity.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000001|"But no, he has preferred to surround himself with my enemies, and with whom?
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000004|They are neither fit for war nor peace!
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000005|Barclay is said to be the most capable of them all, but I cannot say so, judging by his first movements.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000006|And what are they doing, all these courtiers?
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000008|Bagration alone is a military man.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000009|He's stupid, but he has experience, a quick eye, and resolution....
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000011|They compromise him and throw on him the responsibility for all that happens.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000012|A sovereign should not be with the army unless he is a general!" said Napoleon, evidently uttering these words as a direct challenge to the Emperor.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000032_000013|He knew how Alexander desired to be a military commander.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000033_000000|"The campaign began only a week ago, and you haven't even been able to defend Vilna.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000033_000002|Your army is grumbling."
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000000|"I know everything!" Napoleon interrupted him.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000001|"I know everything.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000002|I know the number of your battalions as exactly as I know my own.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000003|You have not two hundred thousand men, and I have three times that number.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000004|I give you my word of honor," said Napoleon, forgetting that his word of honor could carry no weight-"I give you my word of honor that I have five hundred and thirty thousand men this side of the Vistula.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000005|The Turks will be of no use to you; they are worth nothing and have shown it by making peace with you.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000035_000006|As for the Swedes-it is their fate to be governed by mad kings.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000036_000000|Napoleon grinned maliciously and again raised his snuffbox to his nose.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000037_000001|To the alleged insanity of the Swedes, Balashev wished to reply that when Russia is on her side Sweden is practically an island: but Napoleon gave an angry exclamation to drown his voice.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000037_000002|Napoleon was in that state of irritability in which a man has to talk, talk, and talk, merely to convince himself that he is in the right.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000037_000004|He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000037_000005|Balashev stood with downcast eyes, looking at the movements of Napoleon's stout legs and trying to avoid meeting his eyes.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000038_000000|"But what do I care about your allies?" said Napoleon.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000038_000001|"I have allies- the Poles.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000038_000002|There are eighty thousand of them and they fight like lions.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000038_000003|And there will be two hundred thousand of them."
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000040_000000|"Know that if you stir up Prussia against me, I'll wipe it off the map of Europe!" he declared, his face pale and distorted by anger, and he struck one of his small hands energetically with the other.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000040_000002|Yes, that is what will happen to you.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000041_000001|He paused, looked ironically straight into Balashev's eyes, and said in a quiet voice:
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000043_000001|Napoleon was silent, still looking derisively at him and evidently not listening to him.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000043_000003|Napoleon nodded condescendingly, as if to say, "I know it's your duty to say that, but you don't believe it yourself.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000043_000004|I have convinced you."
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000044_000000|When Balashev had ended, Napoleon again took out his snuffbox, sniffed at it, and stamped his foot twice on the floor as a signal.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000045_000000|"Assure the Emperor Alexander from me," said he, taking his hat, "that I am as devoted to him as before: I know him thoroughly and very highly esteem his lofty qualities.
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000045_000001|I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter to the Emperor."
train-other-500/3097/165352/3097_165352_000046_000000|And Napoleon went quickly to the door.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000002_000000|After all that Napoleon had said to him-those bursts of anger and the last dryly spoken words: "I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter," Balashev felt convinced that Napoleon would not wish to see him, and would even avoid another meeting with him-an insulted envoy-especially as he had witnessed his unseemly anger.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000004_000000|Napoleon met Balashev cheerfully and amiably.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000004_000002|It was evident that he had long been convinced that it was impossible for him to make a mistake, and that in his perception whatever he did was right, not because it harmonized with any idea of right and wrong, but because he did it.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000005_000000|The Emperor was in very good spirits after his ride through Vilna, where crowds of people had rapturously greeted and followed him.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000005_000001|From all the windows of the streets through which he rode, rugs, flags, and his monogram were displayed, and the Polish ladies, welcoming him, waved their handkerchiefs to him.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000006_000000|At dinner, having placed Balashev beside him, Napoleon not only treated him amiably but behaved as if Balashev were one of his own courtiers, one of those who sympathized with his plans and ought to rejoice at his success.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000006_000001|In the course of conversation he mentioned Moscow and questioned Balashev about the Russian capital, not merely as an interested traveler asks about a new city he intends to visit, but as if convinced that Balashev, as a Russian, must be flattered by his curiosity.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000007_000000|"How many inhabitants are there in Moscow?
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000007_000001|How many houses?
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000007_000002|Is it true that Moscow is called 'Holy Moscow'?
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000007_000003|How many churches are there in Moscow?" he asked.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000008_000000|And receiving the reply that there were more than two hundred churches, he remarked:
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000009_000000|"Why such a quantity of churches?"
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000010_000000|"The Russians are very devout," replied Balashev.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000011_000000|"But a large number of monasteries and churches is always a sign of the backwardness of a people," said Napoleon, turning to Caulaincourt for appreciation of this remark.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000012_000000|Balashev respectfully ventured to disagree with the French Emperor.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000013_000000|"Every country has its own character," said he.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000014_000000|"But nowhere in Europe is there anything like that," said Napoleon.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000015_000000|"I beg your Majesty's pardon," returned Balashev, "besides Russia there is Spain, where there are also many churches and monasteries."
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000017_000000|The uninterested and perplexed faces of the marshals showed that they were puzzled as to what Balashev's tone suggested.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000017_000001|"If there is a point we don't see it, or it is not at all witty," their expressions seemed to say.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000018_000000|After dinner they went to drink coffee in Napoleon's study, which four days previously had been that of the Emperor Alexander.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000019_000000|Napoleon was in that well-known after dinner mood which, more than any reasoned cause, makes a man contented with himself and disposed to consider everyone his friend.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000019_000001|It seemed to him that he was surrounded by men who adored him: and he felt convinced that, after his dinner, Balashev too was his friend and worshiper.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000019_000002|Napoleon turned to him with a pleasant, though slightly ironic, smile.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000020_000000|"They tell me this is the room the Emperor Alexander occupied?
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000020_000001|Strange, isn't it, General?" he said, evidently not doubting that this remark would be agreeable to his hearer since it went to prove his, Napoleon's, superiority to Alexander.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000021_000000|Balashev made no reply and bowed his head in silence.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000022_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000022_000001|Four days ago in this room, Wintzingerode and Stein were deliberating," continued Napoleon with the same derisive and self confident smile.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000022_000002|"What I can't understand," he went on, "is that the Emperor Alexander has surrounded himself with my personal enemies.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000022_000003|That I do not... understand.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000023_000000|"And let him know that I will do so!" said Napoleon, rising and pushing his cup away with his hand.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000023_000002|Yes.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000023_000003|I'll drive them out.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000024_000000|Balashev bowed his head with an air indicating that he would like to make his bow and leave, and only listened because he could not help hearing what was said to him.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000024_000001|Napoleon did not notice this expression; he treated Balashev not as an envoy from his enemy, but as a man now fully devoted to him and who must rejoice at his former master's humiliation.
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000025_000001|What is the good of that?
train-other-500/3097/165353/3097_165353_000028_000000|"Well, adorer and courtier of the Emperor Alexander, why don't you say anything?" said he, as if it was ridiculous, in his presence, to be the adorer and courtier of anyone but himself, Napoleon.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000001_000000|After his interview with Pierre in Moscow, Prince Andrew went to Petersburg, on business as he told his family, but really to meet Anatole Kuragin whom he felt it necessary to encounter.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000001_000005|So Prince Andrew, having received an appointment on the headquarters staff, left for Turkey.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000002_000002|But he again failed to meet Kuragin in Turkey, for soon after Prince Andrew arrived, the latter returned to Russia.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000002_000003|In a new country, amid new conditions, Prince Andrew found life easier to bear.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000003_000000|Of the activities that presented themselves to him, army service was the simplest and most familiar.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000003_000001|As a general on duty on Kutuzov's staff, he applied himself to business with zeal and perseverance and surprised Kutuzov by his willingness and accuracy in work.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000003_000003|And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000004_000001|Kutuzov, who was already weary of Bolkonski's activity which seemed to reproach his own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000000|Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at Drissa, Prince Andrew visited Bald Hills which was directly on his way, being only two miles off the Smolensk highroad.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000001|During the last three years there had been so many changes in his life, he had thought, felt, and seen so much (having traveled both in the east and the west), that on reaching Bald Hills it struck him as strange and unexpected to find the way of life there unchanged and still the same in every detail.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000003|The same old stateliness, the same cleanliness, the same stillness reigned there, and inside there was the same furniture, the same walls, sounds, and smell, and the same timid faces, only somewhat older.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000004|Princess Mary was still the same timid, plain maiden getting on in years, uselessly and joylessly passing the best years of her life in fear and constant suffering.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000005|Mademoiselle Bourienne was the same coquettish, self satisfied girl, enjoying every moment of her existence and full of joyous hopes for the future.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000006|She had merely become more self confident, Prince Andrew thought.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000007|Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000008|The old prince had changed in appearance only by the loss of a tooth, which left a noticeable gap on one side of his mouth; in character he was the same as ever, only showing still more irritability and skepticism as to what was happening in the world.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000009|Little Nicholas alone had changed.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000011|He alone did not obey the law of immutability in the enchanted, sleeping castle.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000005_000013|The household was divided into two alien and hostile camps, who changed their habits for his sake and only met because he was there.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000006_000000|During his stay at Bald Hills all the family dined together, but they were ill at ease and Prince Andrew felt that he was a visitor for whose sake an exception was being made and that his presence made them all feel awkward.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000006_000001|Involuntarily feeling this at dinner on the first day, he was taciturn, and the old prince noticing this also became morosely dumb and retired to his apartments directly after dinner.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000007_000000|The old prince said that if he was ill it was only because of Princess Mary: that she purposely worried and irritated him, and that by indulgence and silly talk she was spoiling little Prince Nicholas.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000007_000001|The old prince knew very well that he tormented his daughter and that her life was very hard, but he also knew that he could not help tormenting her and that she deserved it.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000007_000003|Does he think me a scoundrel, or an old fool who, without any reason, keeps his own daughter at a distance and attaches this Frenchwoman to himself?
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000007_000004|He doesn't understand, so I must explain it, and he must hear me out," thought the old prince.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000007_000005|And he began explaining why he could not put up with his daughter's unreasonable character.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000008_000000|"If you ask me," said Prince Andrew, without looking up (he was censuring his father for the first time in his life), "I did not wish to speak about it, but as you ask me I will give you my frank opinion.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000008_000001|If there is any misunderstanding and discord between you and Mary, I can't blame her for it at all.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000008_000002|I know how she loves and respects you.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000008_000003|Since you ask me," continued Prince Andrew, becoming irritable-as he was always liable to do of late-"I can only say that if there are any misunderstandings they are caused by that worthless woman, who is not fit to be my sister's companion."
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000010_000000|"What companion, my dear boy?
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000010_000002|You've already been talking it over!
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000012_000001|Let not a trace of you remain here!..."
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000013_000000|Prince Andrew wished to leave at once, but Princess Mary persuaded him to stay another day.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000013_000001|That day he did not see his father, who did not leave his room and admitted no one but Mademoiselle Bourienne and Tikhon, but asked several times whether his son had gone.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000013_000002|Next day, before leaving, Prince Andrew went to his son's rooms.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000013_000003|The boy, curly headed like his mother and glowing with health, sat on his knee, and Prince Andrew began telling him the story of Bluebeard, but fell into a reverie without finishing the story.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000013_000005|He sought in himself either remorse for having angered his father or regret at leaving home for the first time in his life on bad terms with him, and was horrified to find neither.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000014_000000|"Well, go on!" said his son.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000015_000000|Prince Andrew, without replying, put him down from his knee and went out of the room.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000016_000000|As soon as Prince Andrew had given up his daily occupations, and especially on returning to the old conditions of life amid which he had been happy, weariness of life overcame him with its former intensity, and he hastened to escape from these memories and to find some work as soon as possible.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000017_000000|"So you've decided to go, Andrew?" asked his sister.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000018_000000|"Thank God that I can," replied Prince Andrew.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000018_000001|"I am very sorry you can't."
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000019_000000|"Why do you say that?" replied Princess Mary.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000019_000002|Mademoiselle Bourienne says he has been asking about you...."
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000020_000001|Prince Andrew turned away and began pacing the room.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000021_000000|"Ah, my God! my God!
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000021_000001|When one thinks who and what-what trash-can cause people misery!" he said with a malignity that alarmed Princess Mary.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000022_000000|She understood that when speaking of "trash" he referred not only to Mademoiselle Bourienne, the cause of her misery, but also to the man who had ruined his own happiness.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000000|"Andrew!
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000001|One thing I beg, I entreat of you!" she said, touching his elbow and looking at him with eyes that shone through her tears.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000002|"I understand you" (she looked down).
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000004|Men are His tools." She looked a little above Prince Andrew's head with the confident, accustomed look with which one looks at the place where a familiar portrait hangs.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000005|"Sorrow is sent by Him, not by men.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000006|Men are His instruments, they are not to blame.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000007|If you think someone has wronged you, forget it and forgive!
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000023_000008|We have no right to punish.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000024_000000|"If I were a woman I would do so, Mary.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000024_000001|That is a woman's virtue.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000025_000001|And giving her no further reply, he began thinking of the glad vindictive moment when he would meet Kuragin who he knew was now in the army.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000026_000000|Princess Mary begged him to stay one day more, saying that she knew how unhappy her father would be if Andrew left without being reconciled to him, but Prince Andrew replied that he would probably soon be back again from the army and would certainly write to his father, but that the longer he stayed now the more embittered their differences would become.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000027_000000|"Good bye, Andrew!
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000027_000001|Remember that misfortunes come from God, and men are never to blame," were the last words he heard from his sister when he took leave of her.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000000|"Then it must be so!" thought Prince Andrew as he drove out of the avenue from the house at Bald Hills.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000002|The old man feels he is guilty, but cannot change himself.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000003|My boy is growing up and rejoices in life, in which like everybody else he will deceive or be deceived.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000004|And I am off to the army.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000005|Why?
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000006|I myself don't know.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000028_000007|I want to meet that man whom I despise, so as to give him a chance to kill and laugh at me!"
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000029_000000|These conditions of life had been the same before, but then they were all connected, while now they had all tumbled to pieces.
train-other-500/3097/165354/3097_165354_000029_000001|Only senseless things, lacking coherence, presented themselves one after another to Prince Andrew's mind.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000001_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000002_000000|OUTWARD BOUND.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000003_000000|OUR story opens in that broad, far reaching expanse of water which lies deep and blue between the two hemispheres, some fifteen degrees north of the equator, in the latitude of Cuba and the Cape Verd Islands.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000003_000002|It was scarcely a day's sail beyond the flow of the Caribbean Sea, that one of those noblest results of man's handiwork, a fine ship, might have been seen gracefully ploughing her course through the sky blue waters of the Atlantic.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000003_000003|She was close hauled on the larboard tack, steering east southeast, and to a sailor's eye presented a certain indescribable something that gave her taut rig and saucy air a dash of mystery, which would have set him to speculating at once as to her character and the trade she followed.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000004_000001|There is true poetry in such a scene as this, beauty fit to move the heart of an anchorite.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000004_000002|No wonder the sailor loves his ship like a mistress; no wonder he discourses of her charms with the eloquence of true love and confiding trust; no landsman can be more enamored of his promised bride.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000005_000001|She was very long and sharp, with graceful concave lines, and might have measured some five hundred tons.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000005_000002|Speed had evidently been the main object aimed at in her construction, the flatness of her floor giving her great buoyancy, and her length ensuring fleetness.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000005_000003|These were points that would at once have struck a sailor's eye, as he beheld the ship bowling gracefully on her course by the power of the trade winds that so constantly befriend the mariners in these latitudes.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000006_000000|We have said that the "Sea Witch" was of peculiar model, and so indeed she was.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000006_000004|There were none there but real able bodied seamen-sea dogs, who had roughed it in all weather, and on all sorts of allowance.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000007_000001|The men spoke to each other now and then, but it was in an under tone, and there was no open levity.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000008_000001|The hair, escaping in glossy curls from beneath his hat, added to a set of very regular features a fine effect, while a clear, full blue eye, and an open, ingenuous expression of countenance, told of manliness of heart and chivalric hardihood of character.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000010_000000|"Yes, mr Faulkner, 'daintily' is the word.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000010_000001|I wish our beauty could be a little more spunky, time is money in our business, sir," was the prompt reply.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000011_000000|"But the willing craft does all she can, sir."
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000012_000000|"I don't know, mr Faulkner, we can make her do almost anything."
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000013_000000|"But talk," added the mate.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000016_000000|"She minds her helm like a beauty, and feels the slightest pull upon her sheets."
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000019_000000|"It's uncommon, sir," continued the other.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000020_000000|"She must and can do better, though," said the young commander, with an air of slight impatience.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000021_000001|The signal rang sharply through the ship, and caused an instant response.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000024_000001|A few minutes more, and the foremast passed through the same metamorphose, leaving the "Sea Witch" a three masted schooner, with fore and aft sails on every mast and every stay.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000024_000002|All this had been accomplished with a celerity that showed the crew to be no strangers to the manouvres through which they had just passed, each man requiring to work with marked intelligence.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000024_000003|Fifty well drilled men, thorough sea dogs, can turn a five hundred ton ship "inside out," if the controlling mind understands his position on the quarter deck.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000025_000000|"She wears that dress as though it suited her taste exactly, mr Faulkner," said the captain, running his eye over the vessel, and glancing over the side to mark her headway.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000026_000000|"Any rig becomes the 'Sea Witch,'" answered the officer, with evident pride.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000027_000000|"That is true," returned the captain.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000027_000001|"Luff, sir, luff a bit, so, well," he continued to the man at the helm; "we will have all of her weatherly points that site will give."
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000028_000000|"The wind is rather more unsteady than it was an hour past," said mr Faulkner.
train-other-500/3098/5406/3098_5406_000030_000000|"Here it is again," added the mate, as the wind hauled once more.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000003_000000|There was an absent expression in his handsome face, a look as though his heart was far distant from the scene about him, and yet a habit of watchful caution seemed ever and anon to recall his senses, and his quick, keen glance would run over the craft from stem to stern with a searching and comprehensive power that showed him master of his profession, and worthy his trust.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000003_000001|Trust?--what was the trust he held? Surely, no legitimate commerce could warrant the outfit of such a vessel as he controlled.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000003_000003|Amidship, beneath that long boat, was a long, heavy metalled gun that worked on a traverse, and which could command nearly every point of the compass, while the ship kept her course.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000003_000004|Just inside the rise of the low quarter deck-the cabin being entered from the deck by the descent of a couple of steps-there were ranged boarding pikes, muskets, cutlasses and pistols, ready for instant use.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000004_000000|The brightness of these arms, and the handy way in which they were arranged in the sockets made to receive them, showed at once that they were designed for use, while the various other fixtures of the cabin and docks plainly bespoke preparation for conflict.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000004_000001|A strong and lofty boarding netting being stowed, also, told of the readiness of the "Sea Witch" to repel boarders.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000004_000003|A pirate would hardly have dared to lay the course he steered in these latitudes, where an English or French cruiser was very likely to cross his track.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000005_000000|"He handles a ship as prettily as ever a true blue did yet," said one of the forecastle group, in replying to some remark of a comrade concerning the commander.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000006_000000|"That's true," answered another; "he seems to have a sort of natural way with him, as though he'd been born aboard and never seed the land at all; and as to that matter, there may be them on board who say as much of him."
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000007_000000|"That isn't far from the truth," answered Bill Marline, "seein' he started so arly on the sea he can't tell when he wasn't there himself."
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000008_000000|"How was that matter, Bill?" asked one of his messmates.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000008_000001|"They say you have kept the captain's reckoning, man and boy, these fifteen years."
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000010_000000|"How did you first fall in with him, Bill?--Tell us that," said one of the crew.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000011_000000|"Well, do ye see, messmates, it must have been the matter of thirteen years ago, there or thereabouts, but I can't exactly say, seeing's I never have kept a log and can't write; but must have been about that length of time, when I was a foremast hand on board the 'Sea Lion,' as fine an Indiaman as you would wish to see.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000011_000002|Well, do ye see, we were lazing away time on board, and waiting the captain's coming before we hauled out into the stream, and so we coaxed the lad aboard.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000012_000000|"Well, heave ahead, Bill," said one of the group, as the narrator stopped to stove a fresh instalment of the Virginia weed in his larboard cheek.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000013_000000|"Heave ahead."
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000014_000000|"We hadn't got fairly clear of the channel," continued Bill Marline, "before the boy had become a general favorite all over the ship.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000016_000000|"That's true," growled one or two of his messmates.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000017_000000|"Our ship was a first class freighter and passage vessel, and on the home voyage we had plenty of ladies.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000020_000001|I ask it, sir, as a personal favor.'
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000021_000000|"'But discipline, discipline must be observed, mr Ratlin.'
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000022_000000|"'I acknowledge he's in fault, sir,' said our mate.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000023_000000|"'And deserves the punishment,' said the captain.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000024_000000|"'I fear he does, sir; but yet I can't bear to see a good seaman flogged, said the mate, apologetically.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000025_000000|"'Nor I either,' said the captain; 'but Bill Marline deserves the cat, though as you make it a personal matter, why I'll let him off this time, mr Ratlin.'
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000026_000001|I didn't forget that favor, messmates, and sink me if I wouldn't go to the bottom to serve him any time.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000026_000003|You see him there now, messmates, as calm as a lady; but he's awake when there's need of it.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000027_000000|Bill Marline evidently found himself treading upon dangerous ground, and wisely cut short his yarn, thereby creating a vast amount of curiosity among his messmates, but he sternly refused to speak further upon the subject.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000027_000001|Either his commander had prohibited him, or he found that by speaking he should in some way compromise the credit or honor of one upon whom he evidently looked as being little less than one of a superior order of beings to himself.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000028_000000|"But what do you bring up so sudden for?
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000028_000001|Pay out, old fellow, there's plenty of sea room, and no land sharks to fear," said one of the group, encouragingly.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000029_000000|"Never you mind, messmates, there's nothing like keeping a civil tongue in your head, especially being quiet about other people's business," added Bill.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000031_000000|"I shipped for six months, that's all I know, and no questions asked.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000031_000001|I understand very well that Captain Ratlin wouldn't ship me where he wouldn't go himself."
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000035_000000|"Any boy in the ship can make out the 'Sea Witch's' course," said the old tar, evasively.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000036_000000|"Port Praya and a port; that was in the articles sure enough," answered he who had questioned Bill Marline; "but the 'Sea Witch' will scarce anchor there before she is off again, according to my reckoning."
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000037_000000|That the old tar knew more than he chose to divulge, however, was apparent to his comrades, but they knew him to be fixed when he chose, and so did not endeavor by importunity to gather anything further from him; so the conversation gradually changed into some other channel.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000038_000000|In the meantime, while the crew gathered about Bill Marline were thus speculating, the vessel bowled along gracefully, with a speed that was in itself exhilarating to her young commander, who still gazed idly at the passing current.
train-other-500/3098/5407/3098_5407_000038_000001|Once or twice a slight frown clouded his features, and his lips moved as though he was striving within himself either against real or imaginary evil, and then the same calm, placid manliness of countenance radiated his handsome features, and his lips were composed.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000002_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000003_000000|THE GALE.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000004_000000|"THE Wind seems to be hauling," said the mate, walking aft, and addressing his superior.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000005_000000|"Keep her a good full," said the captain, to the man at the helm.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000007_000000|"Here it is, sure enough," said the captain, "from the southwest.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000007_000001|Up with the men forward once more, mr Faulkner!--we must humor our beauty."
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000009_000000|Almost as quickly as the foremast had been stripped of the square rig it had at first borne, it was once more clothed again with its topsail and mainsail, and in less than fifteen minutes the "Sea Witch" was under a cloud of canvass, with studd'nsails out on both sides, while the fore and aft sails on the main and mizzen were boomed out wing and wing dead before the wind.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000009_000001|The staysails and jibs were hauled down now as useless, and the vessel flew like a courser.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000009_000002|The change of wind had brought the sea up, and the vessel had a gradual roll, causing the waves now and then to come gracefully in over the waist, while the extreme fore and aft parts of the handsome craft were perfectly dry.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000010_000000|"It has set her to waltzing, mr Faulkner," said his superior; "but she improves her speed upon to it, and I think the breeze freshens from this new quarter."
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000011_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000011_000001|Do you see the long bank of white hereaway to the south southwest; it looks like a fog bank, but may be a squall," said the mate.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000012_000000|"There are few squalls in these latitudes, mr Faulkner, and yet I don't like the looks of the weather in the southern board," said the captain, as he gazed to windward, with a quick, searching glance.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000013_000001|Captain Ratlin jumped upon the inner braces of the taffrail, and shading his eyes with his hands for a moment, looked steadily to windward, then glanced at his well filled sails as though he was loth to lose even a minute of such a fair wind.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000013_000002|He delayed, however, but a second, when jumping down to the deck again, he issued his orders in those brief but significant tones of voice, which at the same time imparts promptness and confidence in a waiting crew on shipboard.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000014_000000|"In studd'nsails, gaff topsails, fore royal and top gallantsails, with a will, men, cheerily, cheerily O!"
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000015_000000|These were tones that the crew of the "Sea Witch" were no strangers to, and sounds they loved, for they betokened a thorough and complete feeling of confidence between commander and men, and they worked with spirit.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000016_000000|"Lay aft here, and brail the spanker up!" continued the captain, promptly.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000018_000000|The vessel was thus, by the consummation of these orders, quickly reduced to her mainsail, foresail, and foretopsail, while she flew before the on coming gale at the rate of seventeen or eighteen knots an hour, being actually much faster than the sea.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000018_000001|It was now evident to every one on board that a severe gale of wind was gathering, and its force was momentarily more powerfully exercised upon the vessel.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000019_000000|"She staggers under it, mr Faulkner," said his superior, with a calmness that evinced perfect self reliance and coolness, while he regarded the increasing gale.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000021_000000|"Scud while you can, mr Faulkner, it's a true nautical rule.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000021_000001|Some men will always heave a ship to if there is a cap fill of-"
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000022_000000|"Double reef the mainsail!" shouted the captain, interrupting himself, to give an order that he saw was imperative.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000025_000000|The gale still increased, and everything being now made snug on board the "Sea Witch," she was run before it with almost incredible speed.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000025_000001|It would have been a study to have regarded the calm self possession and complete coolness of the young commander during this startling gale; he never once left his post, every inch of the vessel seemed under his eye, and not the least trifle of duty was for a moment forgotten.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000025_000003|There was a firmness now expressed in the compressed lips, and a sternness in the eye, that had not before been manifested, while there was a breathing of authority in his smallest order.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000026_000001|With terrific violence the vessel flew up in the wind with the rapidity of thought, and a report like that of a score of cannons fired at the same moment, was heard above the roar of the winds.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000027_000000|"What lubberly trick is this?" shouted the captain, fiercely, to the old tar who held his station at the wheel, and on whose faithfulness everything depended.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000028_000000|"The wheel rope has parted on the larboard side, your honor," was the reply.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000029_000000|"That is no man's fault," said his commander.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000029_000002|Be lively; sir, be lively!"
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000030_000002|Fifty voices were raised in shouts above the storm, suggesting this expedient and that, but that agile figure, which we have already described, sprang lightly into the mizzen shrouds, and with a voice that was heard by every soul on board the "Sea Witch," shouted sternly:
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000031_000000|"Silence in the ship!"
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000032_000000|Not a voice was heard, and every man quietly awaited his order, looking abashed that there had been a tongue heard save his who had the right alone to speak.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000033_000000|"Cast the gasket off the foot of the fore and aft foresail."
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000035_000000|"Haul the sheet to port!"
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000037_000000|"Belay that!"
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000038_000000|As the vessel felt the power of the canvass thus opportunely loosed and brought to bear, she gradually paid off before the wind, and once more had steerage way.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000038_000001|Another foresail was now bent, and this time double reefed, the foretopsail, too, was bent, close reefed and furled, while the fore and aft foresail was once more stowed, leaving the "Sea Witch" to scud under double reefed foresail.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000039_000000|Five days of steady blow continued before the vessel could again show more than a small portion of her canvass.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000040_000000|The "Sea Witch," whatever her business in this harbor, seemed able to transact it without venturing inside the forts, or taking stronger moorings than a single anchor could afford her.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000040_000001|At this she rode with mysterious quiet.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000040_000002|Not a soul of the full complement of men on board were visible from the shore; now and then perhaps the head of some taller hand than his fellows might loom up above the bulwarks at the waist, or a solitary seaman creep quietly aloft to reave a sheet through some block, or secure some portion of the rigging.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000040_000003|The captain scarcely waited for his land tackle to hold the vessel before a quarter boat was lowered away, and with a half dozen sturdy fellows as its crew pulled boldly towards the main landing, where he stepped ashore and disappeared.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000041_000000|A suspicious eye would have marked the manner in which the sails upon the "Sea Witch" had been secured, and the way in which she was moored. If need be, three minutes would have covered her with canvass, and slipping her cable she could in that space of time, had the order been issued from her quarter deck, have been under way and looking once more seaward.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000041_000001|Whatever her business, it was very clear that promptness, secrecy, and large precaution were elements of its success.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000042_000000|Nor had these characteristics, which we have named, escaped entire observation of the people on shore, for at the nearest point of land a group of idlers were visible, who stood gazing at and discussing the character of the vessel, while at the same moment her young commander was seen with his boat's crew pulling back from the landing to his craft.
train-other-500/3098/5408/3098_5408_000042_000001|His business was brief enough, for even now the anchor is once more away.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000002_000001|He was, perhaps, in more respects than one, all ears.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000002_000002|And these ears, mrs Caudle-his lawful, wedded wife as she would ever and anon impress upon him, for she was not a woman to wear chains without shaking them-took whole and sole possession of.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000002_000005|The wine was always sugared: the wisdom, never.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000001|The Grecian sage confessed that his labours smelt of the lamp.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000004|Besides, she could never make sure of him: he was always liable to be summoned to the shop.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000005|Now from eleven at night until seven in the morning there was no retreat for him.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000006|He was compelled to lie and listen.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000008|Besides, mrs Caudle copied very ancient and classic authority.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000010|So was mrs Caudle.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000003_000011|Like the owl, she hooted only at night.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000004_000002|He lived thirty years with mrs Caudle, surviving her.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000004_000003|Yes, it took thirty years for mrs Caudle to lecture and dilate upon the joys, griefs, duties, and vicissitudes comprised within that seemingly small circle-the wedding ring.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000004_000004|We say, seemingly small; for the thing, as viewed by the vulgar, naked eye, is a tiny hoop made for the third feminine finger.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000004_000005|Alack! like the ring of Saturn, for good or evil, it circles a whole world.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000004_000006|Or, to take a less gigantic figure, it compasses a vast region: it may be Arabia Felix, and it may be Arabia Petrea.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000005_000001|Perish the hyperbole!
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000005_000002|We would rather compare it to an elfin ring, in which dancing fairies made the sweetest music for infirm humanity.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000001|Even swine are tamed by them.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000002|You will see a vagrant, hilarious, devastating porker-a full blooded fellow that would bleed into many, many fathoms of black pudding-you will see him, escaped from his proper home, straying in a neighbour's garden.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000003|How he tramples upon the heart's ease: how, with quivering snout, he roots up lilies-odoriferous bulbs!
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000004|Here he gives a reckless snatch at thyme and marjoram-and here he munches violets and gilly flowers.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000006|To make the porker less dangerous, it is determined that he shall be RINGED.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000007|The sentence is pronounced-execution ordered.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000006_000008|Listen to his screams!
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000008_000001|It is, for the greatness of humanity, a saddening thought, that sometimes men must be treated no better than pigs.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000009_000000|But mr Job Caudle was not of these men.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000009_000001|Marriage to him was not made a necessity.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000002|His wife still talked at his side.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000003|True it was, she was dead and decently interred.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000004|His mind-it was a comfort to know it-could not wander on this point; this he knew.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000005|Nevertheless, his wife was with him.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000006|The Ghost of her Tongue still talked as in the life; and again and again did Job Caudle hear the monitions of bygone years.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000008|And then, with the movement of an arm, a foot, he would assure himself that he was alone in his holland. Nevertheless, the talk continued.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000010_000010|Now did the voice speak from the curtains; now from the tester; and now did it whisper to Job from the very pillow that he pressed.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000011_000000|Whether Job followed his own brain, or the wise direction of another, we know not.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000011_000001|But he resolved every night to commit to paper one curtain lecture of his late wife.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000011_000002|The employment would, possibly, lay the ghost that haunted him.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000011_000003|It was her dear tongue that cried for justice, and when thus satisfied, it might possibly rest in quiet.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000011_000004|And so it happened.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000013_000000|"Curtain Lectures delivered in the course of Thirty Years by mrs Margaret Caudle, and suffered by Job, her Husband."
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000014_000001|He had also, with an instinctive knowledge of the dignity of literature, left a bank note of very fair amount with the manuscript.
train-other-500/31/121969/31_121969_000014_000002|Following our duty as editor, we trust we have done justice to both documents.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000003_000001|CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO A FRIEND
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000001|I wonder who'd lend you five pounds?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000002|But so it is: a wife may work and may slave!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000003|Ha, dear!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000005|As if people picked up money in the street!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000006|But you always were a fool, mr Caudle!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000008|But it's no matter how I go,--not at all.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000009|Everybody says I don't dress as becomes your wife- and I don't; but what's that to you, mr Caudle?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000010|Nothing.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000011|Oh, no! you can have fine feelings for everybody but those belonging to you. I wish people knew you, as I do-that's all.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000004_000012|You like to be called liberal-and your poor family pays for it.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000005_000000|"All the girls want bonnets, and where they're to come from I can't tell.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000005_000002|Of course, THEY belong to you: and anybody but your own flesh and body, mr Caudle!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000007_000000|"Perhaps you don't know that Jack, this morning, knocked his shuttlecock through his bedroom window.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000007_000003|He's got a cold already on his lungs, and I shouldn't at all wonder if that broken window settled him.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000007_000004|If the dear boy dies, his death will be upon his father's head; for I'm sure we can't now pay to mend windows.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000007_000005|We might though, and do a good many more things too, if people didn't throw away their five pounds.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000000|"Next Tuesday the fire insurance is due.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000001|I should like to know how it's to be paid?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000002|Why, it can't be paid at all!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000003|That five pounds would have more than done it-and now, insurance is out of the question.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000005|I shall never close my eyes all night,--but what's that to you, so people can call you liberal, mr Caudle?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000006|Your wife and children may all be burnt alive in their beds-as all of us to a certainty shall be, for the insurance MUST drop.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000007|And after we've insured for so many years!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000008_000008|But how, I should like to know, are people to insure who make ducks and drakes of their five pounds?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000009_000000|"I did think we might go to Margate this summer.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000009_000001|There's poor little Caroline, I'm sure she wants the sea.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000009_000002|But no, dear creature!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000009_000004|The child might have been saved; but people can't save their children and throw away their five pounds too.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000010_000004|However, what's your family to you, so you can play the liberal creature with five pounds?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000011_000000|"Do you hear that shutter, how it's banging to and fro?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000011_000002|I was going to send for the blacksmith to day, but now it's out of the question: NOW it must bang of nights, since you've thrown away five pounds.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000012_000000|"Ha! there's the soot falling down the chimney.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000012_000001|If I hate the smell of anything, it's the smell of soot.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000012_000002|And you know it; but what are my feelings to you?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000012_000003|SWEEP THE CHIMNEY!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000012_000004|Yes, it's all very fine to say sweep the chimney-but how are chimneys to be swept-how are they to be paid for by people who don't take care of their five pounds?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000013_000000|"Do you hear the mice running about the room?
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000013_000001|I hear them.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000013_000002|If they were to drag only you out of bed, it would be no matter.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000013_000003|SET A TRAP FOR THEM!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000014_000000|"Hark!
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000014_000001|I'm sure there's a noise downstairs.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000014_000002|It wouldn't at all surprise me if there were thieves in the house.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000014_000003|Well, it MAY be the cat; but thieves are pretty sure to come in some night.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000014_000004|There's a wretched fastening to the back door; but these are not times to afford bolts and bars, when people won't take care of their five pounds.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000000|"Mary Anne ought to have gone to the dentist's to morrow.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000001|She wants three teeth taken out.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000002|Now, it can't be done.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000003|Three teeth that quite disfigure the child's mouth.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000004|But there they must stop, and spoil the sweetest face that was ever made.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000006|Now, when she grows up, who'll have her? Nobody.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000007|We shall die, and leave her alone and unprotected in the world.
train-other-500/31/121970/31_121970_000015_000008|But what do you care for that?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000001|Ha!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000002|I'm sure I don't know who'd be a poor woman!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000003|I don't know who'd tie themselves up to a man, if they knew only half they'd have to bear.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000004|A wife must stay at home, and be a drudge, whilst a man can go anywhere.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000005|It's enough for a wife to sit like Cinderella by the ashes, whilst her husband can go drinking and singing at a tavern.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000006|YOU NEVER SING?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000000_000007|How do I know you never sing?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000001_000000|"And now, I suppose, it will be the tavern every night?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000001_000001|If you think I'm going to sit up for you, mr Caudle, you're very much mistaken. No: and I'm not going to get out of my warm bed to let you in, either.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000001_000002|No: nor Susan shan't sit up for you.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000001_000003|No: nor you shan't have a latchkey.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000001_000004|I'm not going to sleep with the door upon the latch, to be murdered before the morning.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000001|Pah!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000003|That filthy tobacco smoke!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000004|It's enough to kill any decent woman.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000005|You know I hate tobacco, and yet you will do it.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000006|YOU DON'T SMOKE YOURSELF?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000007|What of that?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000008|If you go among people who DO smoke, you're just as bad, or worse.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000009|You might as well smoke -indeed, better.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000002_000010|Better smoke yourself than come home with other people's smoke all in your hair and whiskers.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000000|"I never knew any good come to a man who went to a tavern.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000001|Nice companions he picks up there!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000002|Yes! people who make it a boast to treat their wives like slaves, and ruin their families.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000003|There's that wretch Harry Prettyman.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000004|See what he's come to!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000007|A mean wretch!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000008|But don't you think I'll be like mrs Prettyman.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000009|No: I wouldn't put up with it from the best man that ever trod.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000010|You'll not make me afraid to speak to you, however you may swear at the door mat.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000003_000011|No, mr Caudle, that you won't.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000004_000000|"YOU DON'T INTEND TO STAY OUT TILL TWO IN THE MORNING?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000005_000000|"How do you know what you'll do when you get among such people?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000005_000002|A nice headache you'll have to morrow morning-or rather THIS morning; for it must be past twelve.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000005_000003|YOU WON'T HAVE A HEADACHE?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000005_000004|It's very well for you to say so, but I know you will; and then you may nurse yourself for me.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000005_000005|Ha! that filthy tobacco again!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000005_000006|No; I shall not go to sleep like a good soul.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000006_000001|But don't you think I'm going to let you have your breakfast in bed, like mrs Prettyman.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000006_000003|No; nor I won't have discredit brought upon the house by sending for soda water early, for all the neighbourhood to say, 'Caudle was drunk last night.' No: I've some regard for the dear children, if you haven't.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000006_000005|Not a neck of mutton crosses my threshold, I can tell you.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000001|All the better.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000003|I'm sure it's enough to make me as bad as you are.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000006|You men contrive to have it all of your own side, you do.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000008|You, however, can go and smoke no end of pipes and-YOU DIDN'T SMOKE?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000009|It's all the same, mr Caudle, if you go among smoking people.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000010|Folks are known by their company.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000007_000011|You'd better smoke yourself, than bring home the pipes of all the world.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000001|Now you've once gone to a tavern, you'll always be going.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000003|And then you'll be getting into a street fight-oh!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000004|I know your temper too well to doubt it, mr Caudle-and be knocking down some of the police.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000005|And then I know what will follow.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000006|It MUST follow.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000007|Yes, you'll be sent for a month or six weeks to the treadmill.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000008|Pretty thing that, for a respectable tradesman, mr Caudle, to be put upon the treadmill with all sorts of thieves and vagabonds, and-there, again, that horrible tobacco!--and riffraff of every kind.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000009|I should like to know how your children are to hold up their heads, after their father has been upon the treadmill?--No; I WON'T go to sleep. And I'm not talking of what's impossible.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000010|I know it will all happen -every bit of it.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000011|If it wasn't for the dear children, you might be ruined and I wouldn't so much as speak about it, but-oh, dear, dear! at least you might go where they smoke GOOD tobacco-but I can't forget that I'm their mother.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000008_000012|At least, they shall have ONE parent.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000009_000002|For it MUST happen.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000009_000003|Your business is sure to fall off; for what respectable people will buy toys for their children of a drunkard?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000009_000004|You're not a drunkard!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000009_000005|No: but you will be-it's all the same.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000000|"You've begun by staying out till midnight.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000001|By and by 'twill be all night.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000002|But don't you think, mr Caudle, you shall ever have a key. I know you.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000003|Yes; you'd do exactly like that Prettyman, and what did he do, only last Wednesday?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000004|Why, he let himself in about four in the morning, and brought home with him his pot companion, Puffy.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000005|His dear wife woke at six, and saw Prettyman's dirty boots at her bedside.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000006|And where was the wretch, her husband?
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000007|Why, he was drinking downstairs-swilling.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000010_000009|A pretty thing for a wife to wake at six in the morning, and instead of her husband to see his dirty boots!
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000011_000000|"But I'll not be made your victim, mr Caudle, not i You shall never get at my keys, for they shall lie under my pillow-under my own head, mr Caudle.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000012_000000|"You'll be ruined, but if I can help it, you shall ruin nobody but yourself.
train-other-500/31/121971/31_121971_000014_000000|To this lecture, Caudle affixes no comment.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000000_000001|CAUDLE JOINS A CLUB-"THE SKYLARKS."
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000001_000001|No; I don't care if you are tired, I SHAN'T let you go to sleep.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000001_000002|No, and I won't say what I have to say in the morning; I'll say it now.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000002_000000|"And so you've gone and joined a club?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000002_000001|The Skylarks, indeed!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000002_000002|A pretty skylark you'll make of yourself!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000002_000003|But I won't stay and be ruined by you.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000002_000004|No: I'm determined on that.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000002_000006|That is, as long as you have a house to keep-and that won't be long, I know.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000000|"How any decent man can go and spend his nights in a tavern!--oh, yes, mr Caudle; I daresay you DO go for rational conversation.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000001|I should like to know how many of you would care for what you call rational conversation, if you had it without your filthy brandy and water; yes, and your more filthy tobacco smoke.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000002|I'm sure the last time you came home, I had the headache for a week.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000003|But I know who it is who's taking you to destruction.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000004|It's that brute, Prettyman.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000005|He has broken his own poor wife's heart, and now he wants to-but don't you think it, mr Caudle; I'll not have my peace of mind destroyed by the best man that ever trod.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000006|Oh, yes!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000003_000007|I know you don't care so long as you can appear well to all the world,--but the world little thinks how you behave to me.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000004_000001|No man who had the least love for his wife could do it.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000005_000003|No; if you want to go to sleep, you should come home in Christian time, not at half past twelve.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000005_000006|I never heard any good come to a man who cared about jokes.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000005_000007|No respectable tradesman does.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000005_000008|But I know what I'll do: I'll scare away your Skylarks.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000005_000010|Yes, you may call me a foolish woman; but no, mr Caudle, no; it's you who are the foolish man; or worse than a foolish man; you're a wicked one.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000005_000011|If you were to die to morrow-and people who go to public houses do all they can to shorten their lives-I should like to know who would write upon your tombstone, 'A tender husband and an affectionate father'?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000001|You can't be all those hours and only spend eighteenpence.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000002|I know better.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000003|I'm not quite a fool, mr Caudle.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000004|A great deal you could have for eighteenpence!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000005|And all the Club married men and fathers of families.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000006|The more shame for 'em! Skylarks, indeed!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000008|And if it was only that,--do you know what fifty two eighteenpences come to in a year?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000011|No-not so much as a ball of cotton.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000012|But what do you care so you can get your brandy and water?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000013|There's the girls, too-the things they want!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000015|But it's all the same to their father.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000016|Oh, yes!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000006_000017|So he can go with his Skylarks they may wear sackcloth for pinafores, and packthread for garters.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000007_000000|"You'd better not let that mr Prettyman come here, that's all; or, rather, you'd better bring him once.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000007_000001|Yes, I should like to see him. He wouldn't forget it.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000007_000002|A man who, I may say, lives and moves only in a spittoon.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000007_000003|A man who has a pipe in his mouth as constant as his front teeth.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000007_000005|No, mr Caudle, no; it's no use your telling me to go to sleep, for I won't. Go to sleep, indeed!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000007_000006|I'm sure it's almost time to get up.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000000|"The Skylarks, indeed!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000001|I suppose you'll be buying a 'Little Warbler,' and at your time of life, be trying to sing.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000005|YOU DON'T SEE IT'S RED?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000007|And so you'll go on.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000008|In a little time, with your brandy and water-don't tell me that you only take two small glasses: I know what men's two small glasses are; in a little time you'll have a face all over as if it was made of red currant jam.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000009|And I should like to know who's to endure you then?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000010|I won't, and so don't think it.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000008_000011|Don't come to me.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000000|"Nice habits men learn at clubs!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000001|There's Joskins: he was a decent creature once, and now I'm told he has more than once boxed his wife's ears.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000002|He's a Skylark too.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000003|And I suppose, some day, you'll be trying to box MY ears?
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000004|Don't attempt it, mr Caudle; I say don't attempt it.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000005|Yes-it's all very well for you to say you don't mean it,--but I only say again, don't attempt it.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000009_000006|You'd rue it till the day of your death, mr Caudle.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000010_000000|"Going and sitting for four hours at a tavern!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000010_000001|What men, unless they had their wives with them, can find to talk about, I can't think.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000010_000002|No good, of course.
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000011_000000|"Eighteenpence a week-and drinking brandy and water, enough to swim a boat!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000011_000001|And smoking like the funnel of a steamship!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000011_000002|And I can't afford myself so much as a piece of tape!
train-other-500/31/121972/31_121972_000012_000000|"And here," says Caudle-"Here, thank Heaven! at last she fell asleep."
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000000_000000|CHAPTER forty eight
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000001_000000|In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000002_000003|The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000002|I, for my part, look back with love and awe to that Great Character in history.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000005|THE KING?
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000006|There he was.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000009|Ladies wept; mothers clasped their children; some fainted with emotion.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000011|Yes, we saw him.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000012|Fate cannot deprive us of THAT.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000003_000013|Others have seen Napoleon.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000005_000000|Sir Pitt, in a glittering uniform, descended and went into Curzon Street, his sword between his legs.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000005_000001|Little Rawdon stood with his face against the parlour window panes, smiling and nodding with all his might to his aunt in the carriage within; and presently Sir Pitt issued forth from the house again, leading forth a lady with grand feathers, covered in a white shawl, and holding up daintily a train of magnificent brocade.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000006_000000|Then Rawdon followed in his old Guards' uniform, which had grown woefully shabby, and was much too tight.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000007_000003|And as she went to Court in the carriage, the family carriage, she adopted a demeanour so grand, self satisfied, deliberate, and imposing that it made even Lady Jane laugh.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000008_000002|A stout countess of sixty, decolletee, painted, wrinkled with rouge up to her drooping eyelids, and diamonds twinkling in her wig, is a wholesome and edifying, but not a pleasant sight.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000009_000000|Our beloved Rebecca had no need, however, of any such a friendly halo to set off her beauty.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000009_000002|A score of years hence that too, that milliner's wonder, will have passed into the domain of the absurd, along with all previous vanities.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000010_000000|She did not know how much care, thought, and genius mrs Rawdon had bestowed upon that garment.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000010_000001|Rebecca had as good taste as any milliner in Europe, and such a clever way of doing things as Lady Jane little understood.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000011_000001|She had had it these hundred years.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000013_000000|And yet, if Lady Jane had known all, I think even her kindly temper would have failed her.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000015_000000|Becky blushed a little and looked at him hard for a moment.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000015_000001|Pitt Crawley blushed a little too, and looked out of window.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000016_000000|Becky looked at her husband, and then at Sir Pitt, with an air of saucy triumph-as much as to say, "Shall I betray you?"
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000017_000002|I hired them, to be sure.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000017_000004|You don't suppose that all the diamonds which go to Court belong to the wearers; like those beautiful stones which Lady Jane has, and which are much handsomer than any which I have, I am certain."
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000018_000000|"They are family jewels," said Sir Pitt, again looking uneasy.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000019_000000|The diamonds, which had created Rawdon's admiration, never went back to mr Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentleman never applied for their restoration, but they retired into a little private repository, in an old desk, which Amelia Sedley had given her years and years ago, and in which Becky kept a number of useful and, perhaps, valuable things, about which her husband knew nothing.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000019_000001|To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000022_000001|And many ladies round about whispered and talked, and many gentlemen nodded and whispered, as they saw what marked attention the great nobleman was paying to the little adventuress.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000023_000000|What were the circumstances of the interview between Rebecca Crawley, nee Sharp, and her Imperial Master, it does not become such a feeble and inexperienced pen as mine to attempt to relate.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000023_000001|The dazzled eyes close before that Magnificent Idea.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000023_000002|Loyal respect and decency tell even the imagination not to look too keenly and audaciously about the sacred audience chamber, but to back away rapidly, silently, and respectfully, making profound bows out of the August Presence.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000024_000000|This may be said, that in all London there was no more loyal heart than Becky's after this interview.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000024_000001|The name of her king was always on her lips, and he was proclaimed by her to be the most charming of men.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000024_000002|She went to Colnaghi's and ordered the finest portrait of him that art had produced, and credit could supply.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000024_000005|Who knows!
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000025_000000|But the finest sport of all after her presentation was to hear her talk virtuously.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000025_000003|"One must, my dear, show one is somebody," she said.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000025_000004|"One mustn't be seen with doubtful people.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000026_000000|The particulars of Becky's costume were in the newspapers-feathers, lappets, superb diamonds, and all the rest.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000026_000005|You have only some of the best blood in England in your veins, and good principles and piety for your portion.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000026_000006|I, myself, the wife of a Baronet's younger brother, too, never thought of such a thing as going to Court-nor would other people, if good Queen Charlotte had been alive." In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself, and her daughters sighed and sat over the Peerage all night.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000027_000001|Lady Steyne's carriage drove up to mr Rawdon Crawley's door, and the footman, instead of driving down the front of the house, as by his tremendous knocking he appeared to be inclined to do, relented and only delivered in a couple of cards, on which were engraven the names of the Marchioness of Steyne and the Countess of Gaunt.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000027_000005|I say, how soon at the appearance of these grand court cards, did those poor little neglected deuces sink down to the bottom of the pack.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000029_000000|She found him grinning over the bowl.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000029_000001|She was discovered, and she blushed a little.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000029_000003|"You see your ladies have been here.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000029_000004|How good of you!
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000029_000005|I couldn't come before-I was in the kitchen making a pudding."
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000032_000001|I heard you in the room overhead, where I have no doubt you were putting a little rouge on-you must give some of yours to my Lady Gaunt, whose complexion is quite preposterous-and I heard the bedroom door open, and then you came downstairs."
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000033_000001|About this who can tell?
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000034_000000|"Well," said the old gentleman, twiddling round his wife's card, "you are bent on becoming a fine lady.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000034_000003|You've got no money."
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000035_000000|"You will get us a place," interposed Becky, "as quick as possible."
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000000|"You've got no money, and you want to compete with those who have.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000007|You will go to Gaunt House.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000008|You give an old fellow no rest until you get there.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000009|It's not half so nice as here.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000010|You'll be bored there.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000011|I am.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000012|My wife is as gay as Lady Macbeth, and my daughters as cheerful as Regan and Goneril.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000016|I am an anchorite.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000018|You'll be asked to dinner next week.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000036_000020|How the women will bully you!" This was a very long speech for a man of few words like my Lord Steyne; nor was it the first which he uttered for Becky's benefit on that day.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000040_000001|Her eyes filled with tears as she spoke, and she turned away her head.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000044_000000|"Men do that," Becky answered bitterly.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000046_000000|This caused the Lord Steyne to break out in another brief and energetic expression of anger, at which Rebecca held down her head the more and cried bitterly.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000046_000001|"I could not help it.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000046_000002|It was my only chance.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000046_000004|He would kill me if I told him what I have done. I have kept it a secret from everybody but you-and you forced it from me.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000047_000000|Lord Steyne made no reply except by beating the devil's tattoo and biting his nails.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000047_000001|At last he clapped his hat on his head and flung out of the room.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000047_000004|She burst out laughing once or twice to herself, as she sat at work, and sitting down to the piano, she rattled away a triumphant voluntary on the keys, which made the people pause under her window to listen to her brilliant music.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000049_000000|Rawdon heard Becky laughing in the night once or twice.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000049_000002|But the truth was that she was occupied with a great number of other thoughts.
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000049_000004|Should she astonish Raggles by settling his account?
train-other-500/310/129055/310_129055_000051_000000|Then she walked to mr Raggles, inquired about his children affectionately, and gave him fifty pounds on account.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000001_000000|ROAST FOWLS.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000002_000001|INGREDIENTS.--A pair of fowls; a little flour.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000003_000001|In drawing them, be careful not to break the gall bag, as, wherever it touches, it would impart a very bitter taste; the liver and gizzard should also be preserved.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000003_000003|Cut off the claws; dip the legs in boiling water, and scrape them; turn the pinions under, run a skewer through them and the middle of the legs, which should be passed through the body to the pinion and leg on the other side, one skewer securing the limbs on both sides.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000003_000006|When firmly trussed, singe them all over; put them down to a bright clear fire, paper the breasts with a sheet of buttered paper, and keep the fowls well basted.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000005_000001|the pair.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000001|The first mentioned is the most common of all, and results from cold.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000002|The ordinary symptoms,--swollen eyes, running at the nostrils, and the purple colour of the wattles.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000003|Part birds so affected from the healthy ones, as, when the disease is at its height it is as contagious as glanders among horses.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000005|If the head is much swollen, bathe with warm brandy and water.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000006|When the bird is getting well, put half a spoonful of sulphur in his drinking water.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000007|Some fanciers prescribe for this disease half a spoonful of table salt, dissolved in half a gill of water, in which rue has been steeped; others, pills composed of ground rice and fresh butter: but the remedy first mentioned will be found far the best.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000008|As there is a doubt respecting the wholesomeness of the eggs laid by roupy hens, it will be as well to throw them away.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000009|The pip is a white horny skin growing on the tip of the bird's tongue.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000008_000010|It should be removed with the point of a penknife, and the place rubbed with salt.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000009_000000|FOWL AND RICE CROQUETTES (an Entree).
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000011_000001|The mince should be rather thick.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000011_000002|Cover over with rice, dip the balls into egg, sprinkle them with bread crumbs, and fry a nice brown.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000011_000003|Dish them, and garnish with fried parsley.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000011_000004|Oysters, white sauce, or a little cream, may be stirred into the rice before it cools.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000015_000000|CHIP.--If the birds are allowed to puddle about on wet soil, or to be much out in the rain, they will get "chip." Young chicks are especially liable to this complaint.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000016_000000|CROQUETTES OF FOWL (an Entree).
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000021_000000|THE TURN.--What is termed "turrling" with song birds, is known, as regard fowls, as the "turn." Its origin is the same in both cases,--over feeing and want of exercise.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000021_000001|Without a moment's warning, a fowl so afflicted will totter and fall from its perch, and unless assistance be at hand, speedily give up the ghost.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000021_000002|The veins of the palate should be opened, and a few drops of mixture composed of six parts of sweet nitre and one of ammonia, poured down its throat.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000021_000003|I have seen ignorant keepers plunge a bird, stricken with the "turn," into cold water; but I never saw it taken out again alive; and for a good reason: the sudden chill has the effect of driving the blood to the head,--of aggravating the disease indeed, instead of relieving it.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000022_000000|HASHED FOWL-an Entree (Cold Meat Cookery).
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000028_000000|SKIN DISEASE IN FOWLS.--Skin disease is, nine times out of ten, caused by the feathers being swarmed by parasites.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000028_000001|Poor feeding will induce this, even if cleanliness be observed; uncleanliness, however liberal the bill of fare, will be taken as an invitation by the little biting pests, and heartily responded to.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000028_000002|Mix half a teaspoonful of hydro oxalic acid with twelve teaspoonfuls of water,--apply to the itching parts with an old shaving brush.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000029_000000|OBSTRUCTION OF THE CROP.--Obstruction of the crop is occasioned by weakness or greediness.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000029_000001|You may know when a bird is so afflicted by his crop being distended almost to bursting. Mowbray tells of a hen of his in this predicament; when the crop was opened, a quantity of new beans were discovered in a state of vegetation.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000030_000000|MINCED FOWL-an Entree (Cold Meat Cookery).
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000037_000000|THE MOULTING SEASON.--During the moulting season beginning properly at the end of September, the fowls will require a little extra attention.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000037_000001|Keep them dry and warm, and feed them liberally on warm and satisfying food.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000037_000002|If in any fowl the moult should seem protracted, examine it for broken feather stumps still beaded in the skin: if you find any, extract them carefully with a pair of tweezers.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000037_000003|If a fowl is hearty and strong, six weeks will see him out of his trouble; if he is weakly, or should take cold during the time, he will not thoroughly recover in less than three months.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000037_000004|It is seldom or ever that hens will lay during the moult; while the cock, during the same period, will give so little of his consideration to the frivolities of love, that you may as well, nay, much better, keep him by himself till he perfectly recovers.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000037_000005|A moulting chicken makes but a sorry dish.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000038_000000|HASHED FOWL, Indian Fashion (an Entree).
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000043_000001|A sudden alteration in diet will cause it, as will a superabundance of green food.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000046_000001|When quite hot, serve, and garnish the dish with rolled ham or bacon toasted.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000050_000003|Owing, possibly, to the little care taken to preserve this variety from admixture, it is now not frequently seen.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000050_000006|When this sort of Bantam is pure, it yields in courage and spirit to none, and is, in fact, a game fowl in miniature, being as beautiful and graceful as it is spirited.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000050_000007|A pure white Bantam, possessing all the qualifications just named, is also bred in the royal aviary at Windsor.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000051_000000|AN INDIAN DISH OF FOWL (an Entree).
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000052_000001|INGREDIENTS.--The remains of cold roast fowl, three or four sliced onions, one tablespoonful of curry powder, salt to taste.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000058_000000|THE SPECKLED HAMBURG.--Of the speckled, or spangled Hamburg which is a favourite breed with many persons, there are two varieties,--the golden speckled and the silver speckled.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000058_000002|The female is yellow, or orange brown, the feathers in like manner being margined with black.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000058_000004|Both of these varieties are extremely beautiful, the hens laying freely.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000058_000005|First rate birds command a high price.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000061_000001|Dredge in the flour, shake the ingredients well round, then add the stock and peas, and stew till the latter are tender, which will be in about twenty minutes; put in the pounded sugar, and serve, placing the chicken round, and the peas in the middle of the dish.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000061_000002|When liked, mushrooms may be substituted for the peas.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000073_000000|SIR john SEBRIGHT'S BANTAMS.--Above all Bantams is placed, the celebrated and beautiful breed called Sir john Sebright's Silver Bantams.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000073_000005|"The finest," says the writer whom we have consulted as to this breed, "we have ever seen, were in Sir John's poultry yard, adjacent to Turnham Green Common, in the byroad leading to Acton."
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000076_000001|All kinds of cold meat and solid fish may be dressed a la Mayonnaise, and make excellent luncheon or supper dishes.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000076_000002|The sauce should not be poured over the fowls until the moment of serving.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000076_000003|Should a very large Mayonnaise be required, use two fowls instead of one, with an equal proportion of the remaining ingredients.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000081_000002|They are, however, bad nurses; consequently, their eggs should be laid in the nest of other varieties to be hatched.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000081_000004|For a town fowl, they are perhaps better adapted than any other variety.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000083_000002|of cinnamon, half an ounce. of peppercorns, four onions, six thin slices of bacon, two hard boiled eggs.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000084_000002|Let it boil slowly until it is nearly done; then add the rice, which should stew until quite tender and almost dry; cut the onions into slices, sprinkle them with flour, and fry, without breaking them, of a nice brown colour.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000084_000003|Have ready the slices of bacon curled and grilled, and the eggs boiled hard.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000084_000005|Before taking the rice out, remove the spices.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000089_000003|They are thus called the "fowls of the sultan," a name which has the twofold advantage of being the nearest to be found to that by which they have been known in their own country, and of designating the country whence they come.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000089_000006|Brahmas or Cochins will clear the crop of a grass run long before they will, and, with scattered food, they soon satisfy themselves and walk away.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000092_000001|Wash and dry the water cresses, pick them nicely, and arrange them in a flat layer on a dish.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000092_000003|A little gravy should be served in a tureen.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000092_000004|When not liked, the vinegar may be omitted.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000097_000000|ROAST FOWL, Stuffed.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000106_000001|The hens of both should have the body clearly pencilled across with several bars of black, and the hackle in both, sexes should be perfectly free from dark marks.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000106_000004|The hens do not sit, but lay extremely well; hence one of their common names, that of Dutch every day layers.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000106_000005|They are also known in different parts of the country, as Chitteprats, Creoles, or Corals, Bolton bays and grays, and, in some parts of Yorkshire, by the wrong name of Corsican fowls. They are imported in large numbers from Holland, but those bred in this country are greatly superior in size.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000107_000000|GIBLET PIE.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000109_000002|Cover a piece of paper over the pie, to prevent the crust taking too much colour.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000113_000000|THE BRENT GOOSE.--This is the smallest and most numerous species of the geese which visit the British islands.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000113_000002|mr Selby states that a very large body of these birds annually resort to the extensive sandy and muddy flats which lie between the mainland and Holy Island, on the Northumbrian coast, and which are covered by every flow of the tide.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000113_000003|This part of the coast appears to have been a favourite resort of these birds from time immemorial, where they have always received the name of Ware geese, no doubt from their continually feeding on marine vegetables.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000113_000004|Their flesh is very agreeable.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000114_000000|HASHED GOOSE.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000115_000001|INGREDIENTS.--The remains of cold roast goose, two onions, two ounces. of butter, one pint of boiling water, one dessertspoonful of flour, pepper and salt to taste, one tablespoonful of port wine, two tablespoonfuls of mushroom ketchup.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000120_000000|THE WILD GOOSE.--This bird is sometimes called the "Gray lag" and is the original of the domestic goose.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000120_000001|It is, according to Pennant, the only species which the Britons could take young, and familiarize.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000121_000000|ROAST GOOSE.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000123_000001|Pluck, singe, draw, and carefully wash and wipe the goose; cut off the neck close to the back, leaving the skin long enough to turn over; cut off the feet at the first joint, and separate the pinions at the first joint.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000123_000002|Beat the breast bone flat with a rolling pin, put a skewer through the under part of each wing, and having drawn up the legs closely, put a skewer into the middle of each, and pass the same quite through the body.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000123_000003|Insert another skewer into the small of the leg, bring it close down to the side bone, run it through, and do the same to the other side.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000123_000004|Now cut off the end of the vent, and make a hole in the skin sufficiently large for the passage of the rump, in order to keep in the seasoning.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000125_000002|Remove the skewers, and serve with a tureen of good gravy, and one of well made apple sauce.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000125_000003|Should a very highly flavoured seasoning be preferred, the onions should not be parboiled, but minced raw: of the two methods, the mild seasoning is far superior.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000125_000004|A ragout, or pie, should be made of the giblets, or they may be stewed down to make gravy.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000125_000005|Be careful to serve the goose before the breast falls, or its appearance will be spoiled by coming flattened to table.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000129_000001|This sauce is, by many persons, considered an improvement.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000131_000001|Its varieties are numerous; but in England there is only one species, which is supposed to be a native breed.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000131_000002|The best geese are found on the borders of Suffolk, and in Norfolk and Berkshire; but the largest flocks are reared in the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridge.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000131_000006|The fine time is between both; from the second week in June to the first in September." It is said that the Michaelmas goose is indebted to Queen Elizabeth for its origin on the table at that season.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000132_000000|TO DRESS A GREEN GOOSE.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000133_000001|INGREDIENTS.--Goose, three ounces. of butter, pepper and salt to taste.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000134_000001|After it has been singed and trussed, the same as in the preceding recipe, put into the body a seasoning of pepper and salt, and the butter to moisten it inside.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000134_000003|This dish should be garnished with water cresses.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000140_000000|ROAST GUINEA FOWL, Larded.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000141_000001|INGREDIENTS.--A Guinea fowl, lardoons, flour, and salt.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000142_000001|After larding and trussing it, put it down to roast at a brisk fire; keep it well basted, and a short time before serving, dredge it with a little flour, and let it froth nicely.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000142_000002|Serve with a little gravy in the dish, and a tureen of the same, and one of well made bread sauce.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000148_000001|It is gregarious in its habits, associating in flocks of two or three hundred, delighting in marshy grounds, and at night perching upon trees, or on high situations.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000148_000002|Its size is about the same as that of a common hen, but it stands higher on its legs.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000148_000003|Though domesticated, it retains much of its wild nature, and is apt to wander.
train-other-500/3100/142810/3100_142810_000148_000004|The hens lay abundantly, and the eggs are excellent.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000001_000000|CHAPTER ten
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000002_000000|On assembling at the residence indicated, the tchinovniks had occasion to remark that, owing to all these cares and excitements, every one of their number had grown thinner.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000002_000001|Yes, the appointment of a new Governor General, coupled with the rumours described and the reception of the two serious documents above mentioned, had left manifest traces upon the features of every one present.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000002_000005|Why this should be so one could hardly say, but at all events a success is scored only by such gatherings as have for their object dining and festivity-to wit, gatherings at clubs or in German run restaurants.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000002_000006|However, on the present occasion, the meeting was NOT one of this kind; it was a meeting convoked of necessity, and likely in view of the threatened calamity to affect every tchinovnik in the place.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000002_000008|But on at least one point all seemed to agree-namely, that Chichikov's appearance and conversation were too respectable for him to be a forger or a disguised brigand.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000002_000009|That is to say, all SEEMED to agree on the point; until a sudden shout arose from the direction of the Postmaster, who for some time past had been sitting plunged in thought.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000004_000000|"Who, then?" replied the crowd in great excitement.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000005_000000|"He is none other than Captain Kopeikin."
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000006_000000|"And who may Captain Kopeikin be?"
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000002|You can imagine him arriving in the capital on a baggage waggon-in the capital which is like no other city in the world!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000003|Before him there lay spread out the whole field of life, like a sort of Arabian Nights-a picture made up of the Nevski Prospect, Gorokhovaia Street, countless tapering spires, and a number of bridges apparently supported on nothing-in fact, a regular second Nineveh.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000004|Well, he made shift to hire a lodging, but found everything so wonderfully furnished with blinds and Persian carpets and so forth that he saw it would mean throwing away a lot of money.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000006|'What you had better do?' they said.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000009|But first he asked where the President lived, and was told that his house was in Naberezhnaia Street.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000017|And what do YOU want?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000018|What can I do for YOU?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000021|'Very well,' he said.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000023|'NOW I have done my job!' he thought to himself; and you may imagine how gaily he trotted along the pavement, and how he dropped into a tavern for a glass of vodka, and how he ordered a cutlet and some caper sauce and some other things for luncheon, and how he called for a bottle of wine, and how he went to the theatre in the evening!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000024|In short, he did himself thoroughly well.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000026|'But no,' he thought to himself.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000027|'To the devil with that sort of thing just now!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000030|'I should be glad to know,' he said, 'whether by now you can do anything for me in return for my having shed my blood and suffered sickness and wounds on military service.' 'First of all,' said the President, 'I must tell you that nothing can be decided in your case without the authority of the Supreme Government.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000032|Surely you see how things stand until the army shall have returned from the war?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000033|All that I can advise you to do is wait for the Minister to return, and, in the meanwhile, to have patience.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000036|However, that was not what Kopeikin wanted.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000041|You have had your orders given you.' 'I daresay I have,' he retorted, 'but I am not going to be put off with THEM.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000043|You have been given something for food until the Military Committee shall have met, and then, doubtless, you will receive your proper reward, seeing that it would not be seemly that a man who has served his country should be left destitute.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000045|Accordingly he raised a turmoil which sent the staff flying.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000046|One by one, he gave the mob of secretaries and clerks a real good hammering.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000047|'You, and you, and you,' he said, 'do not even know your duties.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000048|You are law breakers.' Yes, he trod every man of them under foot.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000050|What was to be done with a fellow like Kopeikin? The President saw that strong measures were imperative.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000051|'Very well,' he said.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000055|That's one comfort.' Again, after he had ridden a little way, he said to himself: 'they told me at the Commission to go and make my own means of enjoying myself.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000056|Very good.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000057|I'll do so.' However, what became of Kopeikin, and whither he went, is known to no one.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000059|But allow me, gentlemen, to piece together the further threads of the story.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000008_000060|Not two months later there appeared in the forests of Riazan a band of robbers: and of that band the chieftain was none other than-"
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000009_000000|"Allow me," put in the Head of the Police Department.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000010_000000|To say anything more was unnecessary.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000012_000002|The business referred to consisted of the marking of several dozen selected cards in such a way as to permit of his relying upon them as upon his bosom friend.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000012_000004|Chichikov, he averred, had indeed purchased dead souls, and to the tune of several thousand roubles.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000012_000005|In fact, he (Nozdrev) had himself sold him some, and still saw no reason why he should not have done so.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000012_000006|Next, to the question of whether or not he considered Chichikov to be a spy, he replied in the affirmative, and added that, as long ago as his and Chichikov's joint schooldays, the said Chichikov had been known as "The Informer," and repeatedly been thrashed by his companions on that account.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000013_000002|Nay, the narrative, as detailed by Nozdrev, even reached the point of his mentioning certain of the postillions by name!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000013_000003|Next, the tchinovniks sounded him on the question of Chichikov's possible identity with Napoleon; but before long they had reason to regret the step, for Nozdrev responded with a rambling rigmarole such as bore no resemblance to anything possibly conceivable.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000013_000004|Finally, the majority of the audience left the room, and only the Chief of Police remained to listen (in the hope of gathering something more); but at last even he found himself forced to disclaim the speaker with a gesture which said: "The devil only knows what the fellow is talking about!" and so voiced the general opinion that it was no use trying to gather figs of thistles.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000014_000002|He wondered and wondered, and then, with a shrug of his shoulders, fell to pacing the room.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000016_000001|"You do not know me?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000016_000002|Look at me again, and see if you do not recognise me."
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000017_000000|"Of course I recognise you," the footman replied.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000017_000001|"I have seen you before, but have been ordered to admit any one else rather than Monsieur Chichikov."
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000018_000000|"Indeed?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000018_000001|And why so?"
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000020_000001|Then he departed, and made his way to the house of the President of the Council.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000020_000002|But so put about was that official by Chichikov's entry that he could not utter two consecutive words-he could only murmur some rubbish which left both his visitor and himself out of countenance.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000020_000006|At length, in a state bordering upon bewilderment, he returned to the inn-to the establishment whence, that every afternoon, he had set forth in such exuberance of spirits.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000020_000007|Feeling the need of something to do, he ordered tea, and, still marvelling at the strangeness of his position, was about to pour out the beverage when the door opened and Nozdrev made his appearance.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000021_000000|"What says the proverb?" he began.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000021_000002|It is unlikely that he will be asleep.' Ah, ha! I see tea on your table!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000021_000003|Good!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000021_000004|Then I will drink a cup with you, for I had wretched stuff for dinner, and it is beginning to lie heavy on my stomach.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000021_000005|Also, tell your man to fill me a pipe.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000021_000006|Where is your own pipe?"
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000022_000000|"I never smoke," rejoined Chichikov drily.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000023_000000|"Rubbish!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000023_000002|What is your man's name?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000023_000004|Come here!"
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000025_000000|"Indeed?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000026_000000|"No, never."
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000000|"Oh, well.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000001|Then it must be Derebin's man I am thinking of.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000002|What a lucky fellow that Derebin is!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000005|But why have you been hiding yourself away?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000007|"By the way, I can tell you of something that would have found you scope for your satirical vein" (the conclusion as to Chichikov's "satirical vein" was, as before, altogether unwarranted on Nozdrev's part).
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000008|"That is to say, you would have seen merchant Likhachev losing a pile of money at play. My word, you would have laughed!
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000011|A propos, I am just from the President's, and ought to tell you that the feeling against you in the town is very strong, for every one believes you to be a forger of currency notes.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000027_000012|I myself was sent for and questioned about you, but I stuck up for you through thick and thin, and told the tchinovniks that I had been at school with you, and had known your father.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000028_000000|"You say that I am believed to be a forger?" said Chichikov, starting from his seat.
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000029_000001|"Why have you gone and frightened everybody as you have done?
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000029_000003|Yesterday the Public Prosecutor even died of it, and is to be buried to morrow" (this was true in so far as that, on the previous day, the official in question had had a fatal stroke-probably induced by the excitement of the public meeting).
train-other-500/3109/144137/3109_144137_000029_000006|Should the new Governor General shut himself up in his study, and give no balls, there will be the very devil to pay!
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000000_000001|Then, in a transport of rage, he desired them to go where they would.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000001_000001|When arrived there, they informed the merchants of the unfortunate death of Skinner, and of the proposal which had been made to them.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000001_000002|Davis was accordingly seized, and committed to prison, but he having never been in the pirate service, nothing could be proved to condemn him, and he was discharged without a trial.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000002_000000|Captain Rogers having equipped two sloops for trade, Davis obtained employment in one of these, called the Buck.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000002_000001|They were laden with European goods to a considerable value, which they were to sell or exchange with the French and Spanish.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000002_000003|When they had effected their purpose, they hailed the other ship, in which they knew that there were many hands ripe for rebellion, and coming to, the greater part joined Davis.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000002_000004|Those who did not choose to adhere to them were allowed to remain in the other sloop, and continue their course, after Davis had pillaged her of what things he pleased.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000003_000000|In full possession of the vessel and stores and goods, a large bowl of punch was made; under its exhilarating influence, it was proposed to choose a commander, and to form their future mode of policy.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000003_000001|The election was soon over, and a large majority of legal votes were in favor of Davis, and no scrutiny demanded, Davis was declared duly elected.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000001|They performed that laborious task in the best manner they could, and then made to the north side of Hispaniola.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000002|The first sail they met with was a French ship of twelve guns, which they captured; and while they were plundering her, another appeared in view.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000003|Enquiring of the Frenchmen, they learned that she was a ship of twenty four guns and sixty men.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000004|Davis proposed to his crew to attack her, assuring them that she would prove a rich prize.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000005|This appeared to the crew such a hazardous enterprise, that they were rather adverse to the measure.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000006|But he acquainted them that he had conceived a stratagem that he was confident would succeed; they might, therefore, safely leave the matter to his management.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000007|He then commenced chase, and ordered his prize to do the same.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000008|Being a better sailer, he soon came up with the enemy, and showed his black colors.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000009|With no small surprise at his insolence in coming so near them, they commanded him to strike.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000005_000010|He replied, that he was disposed to give them employment until his companion came up, who was able to contend with them; meanwhile assuring them that, if they did not strike to him, it would most certainly fare the worse for them: then giving them a broadside, he received the same in return.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000006_000002|He then despatched four of his men to the other ship, and calling aloud to them, desired that his compliments should be given to the captain, with a request to send a sufficient number of hands to go on board their new prize, to see what they had got in her.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000006_000003|At the same time, he gave them a written paper with their proper instructions, even to nail up the small guns, to take out all the arms and powder, and to go every man on board the new prize.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000007_000000|During three days, these three vessels sailed in company, but finding that his late prize was a heavy sailer, he emptied her of everything that he stood in need of, and then restored her to the captain with all his men.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000008_000001|He next directed his course towards the western islands, and from Cape de Verd islands cast anchor at saint Nicholas, and hoisted English colors.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000008_000003|He remained here five weeks, and he and half of his crew visited the principal town of the island.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000008_000004|Davis, from his appearing in the dress of a gentleman, was greatly caressed by the Portuguese, and nothing was spared to entertain and render him and his men happy.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000009_000003|He likewise made free with one of the ships, equipped her for his own purpose, and called her the King james.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000009_000006|Upon this, Davis seemed highly affronted, and expressed his displeasure in the most polite but determined manner.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000009_000007|He, however, hastened on board, informed his men, and suggested the possibility of surprising the fort during the night.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000009_000008|Accordingly, all his men being well armed, they advanced to the assault; and, from the carelessness of the guards, they were in the garrison before the inhabitants were alarmed.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000009_000009|Upon the discovery of their danger, they took shelter in the governor's house, and fortified it against the pirates: but the latter throwing in some grando shells, ruined the furniture, and killed several people.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000012_000000|Arrived at Gambia, he ordered all his men below, except just so many as were necessary to work the vessel, that those from the fort, seeing so few hands, might have no suspicion that she was any other than a trading vessel.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000013_000001|They replied, that they were from Liverpool, and bound for the river Senegal, to trade for gum and elephants teeth; but that they were chased on that coast by two French men of war, and narrowly escaped being taken.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000013_000002|"We were now disposed," continued Davis, "to make the best of our voyage, and would willingly trade here for slaves." The governor then inquired what were the principal articles of their cargo.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000013_000003|They replied, that they were iron and plate, which were necessary articles in that place.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000013_000004|The governor then said, that he would give them slaves for all their cargo; and asked if they had any European liquor on board.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000014_000000|While in the fort, his eyes were keenly employed to discover the position of the arms, and how the fort might most successfully be surprised.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000014_000002|When he went on board, he ordered some hands on board a sloop lying at anchor, lest, hearing any bustle they should come to the aid of the castle; then desiring his men to avoid too much liquor, and to be ready when he should hoist the flag from the walls, to come to his assistance, he proceeded to the castle.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000015_000000|Having taken these precautions and formed these arrangements, he ordered every man who was to accompany him to arm himself with two pair of pistols, which he himself also did, concealed under their clothes.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000016_000001|Davis's boatswain attending him, had an opportunity of visiting all parts of the house, and observing their strength.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000016_000002|He whispered his intelligence to his master, who being surrounded by his own friends, and seeing the governor unattended by any of his retinue, presented a pistol to the breast of the latter, informing him that he was a dead man, unless he should surrender the fort and all its riches.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000016_000003|The governor, thus taken by surprise, was compelled to submit; for Davis took down all the pistols that hung in the hall, and loaded them.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000016_000004|He then fired his pistol out of the window.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000016_000005|His men flew like lions, presented their pistols to the soldiers, and while some carried out the arms, the rest secured the military, and shut them all up in the guard house, placing a guard on the door.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000017_000000|Davis then harrangued the soldiers, many of whom enlisted with him; and those who declined, he put on board the small ships, and to prevent the necessity of a guard, or the possibility of escape, carried off the sails, rigging and cables.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000018_000000|That day being spent in feasting and rejoicing, the castle saluting the ship, and the ship the castle, on the day following they proceeded to examine the contents of their prize.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000018_000001|They, however, were greatly disappointed in their expectations, a large sum of money having been sent off a few days before.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000018_000003|They carried on board their vessel whatever they deemed useful, gave several articles to the captain and crew of the small vessel, and allowed them to depart, while they dismounted the guns, and demolished the fortifications.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000020_000001|The Frenchman was highly gratified at this discovery; both hoisted out their boats, and congratulated each other.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000021_000000|They first touched at Sierra Leone, where they espied a large vessel, and Davis being the swifter sailer, came first up with him.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000021_000001|He was not a little surprised that she did not endeavor to make off, and began to suspect her strength.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000021_000003|Davis did the same, and fired a gun to leeward.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000021_000004|The satisfaction of these brothers in iniquity was mutual, at having thus acquired so much additional strength and ability to undertake more formidable adventures.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000021_000005|Two days were devoted to mirth and song, and upon the third, Davis and Cochlyn, the captain of the new confederate, agreed to go in the French pirate ship to attack the fort. When they approached, the men in the fort, apprehensive of their character and intentions, fired all the guns upon them at once.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000022_000000|They took possession, remained there seven weeks, and cleaned their vessels.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000022_000001|They then called a council of war, to deliberate concerning future undertakings, when it was resolved to sail down the coast in company; and, for the greater regularity and grandeur, Davis was chosen Commodore.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000022_000002|That dangerous enemy, strong drink, had well nigh, however, sown the seeds of discord among these affectionate brethren.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000023_000000|Davis held down the coast, and reaching Cape Appolonia he captured three vessels, two English and one Scottish, plundered them, and allowed them to proceed.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000023_000001|In five days after he met with a Dutchman of thirty guns and ninety men.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000023_000002|She gave Davis a broadside, and killed nine of his men; a desperate engagement ensued, which continued from one o'clock at noon until nine next morning, when the Dutchman struck.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000024_000002|When the fort had intelligence that they were pirates, they fired at them, but without any effect; Davis fired also, and hoisted the black colors, but deemed it prudent to depart.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000026_000000|Davis pursued that vessel, which, being between him and the shore, labored hard to run aground.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000026_000001|Davis perceiving this, got between her and the land, and fired a broadside at her, when she immediately struck.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000026_000002|She proved to be a very rich prize, having on board the Governor of Acra, with all his substance, going to Holland.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000026_000003|There was in money to the amount of fifteen thousand pounds, besides a large quantity of merchant goods, and other valuable articles.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000027_000001|When he came in sight of the fort he hoisted English colors.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000027_000003|Davis informed them, that he was an English man of war, sent out in search of some pirates which they had heard were in this quarter.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000028_000000|Davis also took the opportunity of cleaning and preparing all things for renewing his operations.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000028_000001|He, however, could not contentedly leave the fort, without receiving some of the riches of the island.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000028_000003|Fortunately however, for them, a negro, who was privy to the horrible plan of Davis, swam on shore during the night, and gave information of the danger to the governor.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000002|A brisk fire was opened upon them from the fort, which they returned in a spirited manner.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000006|The fall of their chief, and the determined resistance of those in the fort, checked the impetuosity of the assailants.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000007|They hesitated, and at last retreated, bearing away with them their wounded commander.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000008|The Portuguese cheered, and led on by the governor, now became the assailants.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000009|Still the pirates' retreat was orderly; they fired and retired rank behind rank successively.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000010|They kept the Portuguese at bay until they had arrived at the boats, when a charge was made and a severe conflict ensued.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000011|But the pirates had lost too many men; and without their Captain, felt dispirited.
train-other-500/3109/165420/3109_165420_000030_000013|They now pulled with all their might to escape from the muskets of the Portuguese, who followed them along the banks of the river, annoying them in their retreat to the vessel.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000000|This advice was seriously attended to, and the officer, who gave it, received the command of the troops, demanded for his purpose.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000001|His first efforts were accordingly those of contrivance alone.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000002|In the neighbourhood of Udolpho, he waited, till he had secured the assistance of several of the condottieri, of whom he found none, that he addressed, unwilling to punish their imperious master and to secure their own pardon from the senate.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000003|He learned also the number of Montoni's troops, and that it had been much increased, since his late successes.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000004|The conclusion of his plan was soon effected.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000005|Having returned with his party, who received the watch word and other assistance from their friends within, Montoni and his officers were surprised by one division, who had been directed to their apartment, while the other maintained the slight combat, which preceded the surrender of the whole garrison.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000006|Among the persons, seized with Montoni, was Orsino, the assassin, who had joined him on his first arrival at Udolpho, and whose concealment had been made known to the senate by Count Morano, after the unsuccessful attempt of the latter to carry off Emily.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000000_000007|It was, indeed, partly for the purpose of capturing this man, by whom one of the senate had been murdered, that the expedition was undertaken, and its success was so acceptable to them, that Morano was instantly released, notwithstanding the political suspicions, which Montoni, by his secret accusation, had excited against him.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000003_000001|'It is about twenty years since my lady Marchioness came a bride to the chateau.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000003_000004|My lady Marchioness was then about your age, and, as I have often thought, very like you.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000003_000005|Well! my lord the Marquis kept open house, for a long time, and gave such entertainments and there were such gay doings as have never been in the chateau since.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000003_000007|I remember I danced with Philip, the butler, in a pink gown, with yellow ribbons, and a coif, not such as they wear now, but plaited high, with ribbons all about it.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000003_000008|It was very becoming truly;--my lord, the Marquis, noticed me.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000003_000009|Ah! he was a good-natured gentleman then-who would have thought that he!'--
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000001|I did not dare then to ask what was the matter; but, the next time I saw her crying, I did, and she seemed displeased;--so I said no more.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000002|I found out, some time after, how it was.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000003|Her father, it seems, had commanded her to marry my lord, the Marquis, for his money, and there was another nobleman, or else a chevalier, that she liked better and that was very fond of her, and she fretted for the loss of him, I fancy, but she never told me so.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000004|My lady always tried to conceal her tears from the Marquis, for I have often seen her, after she has been so sorrowful, look so calm and sweet, when he came into the room!
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000005|But my lord, all of a sudden, grew gloomy and fretful, and very unkind sometimes to my lady.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000006|This afflicted her very much, as I saw, for she never complained, and she used to try so sweetly to oblige him and to bring him into a good humour, that my heart has often ached to see it.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000005_000009|To be sure my lady was greatly admired, but she was too good to deserve suspicion.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000007_000000|'Why that I will not tell even to you, ma'amselle, for evil may come of it.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000007_000001|I once heard from a person, who is since dead, that the Marchioness was not in law the wife of the Marquis, for that she had before been privately married to the gentleman she was so much attached to, and was afterwards afraid to own it to her father, who was a very stern man; but this seems very unlikely, and I never gave much faith to it.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000007_000003|He would see hardly any visitors at the castle, and made her live almost by herself.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000008_000001|I fear it was worse than that.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000009_000000|'Worse!
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000009_000001|Dorothee,' said Emily, 'can that be possible?'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000010_000000|'I fear it was so, madam, there were strange appearances.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000010_000001|But I will only tell what happened.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000010_000002|My lord, the Marquis-'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000012_000000|Dorothee changed countenance, and, while they both listened, they heard, on the stillness of the night, music of uncommon sweetness.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000014_000000|'I have often heard it, and at this same hour,' said Dorothee, solemnly, 'and, if spirits ever bring music-that is surely the music of one!'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000016_000000|'I think I once told you, madam,' said Dorothee, 'that I first heard this music, soon after my lady's death!
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000016_000001|I well remember the night!'-- 'Hark! it comes again!' said Emily, 'let us open the window, and listen.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000019_000000|'I was saying, ma'amselle, that I well remember when first I heard that music.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000019_000004|It seemed just at my window, and I shall never forget what I felt.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000019_000006|O! it went to one's heart!
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000019_000007|I have listened in the anti chamber, for the hour together, and she would sometimes sit playing, with the window open, when it was summer time, till it was quite dark, and when I have gone in, to shut it, she has hardly seemed to know what hour it was.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000019_000008|But, as I said, madam,' continued Dorothee, 'when first I heard the music, that came just now, I thought it was my late lady's, and I have often thought so again, when I have heard it, as I have done at intervals, ever since.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000019_000009|Sometimes, many months have gone by, but still it has returned.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000020_000000|'It is extraordinary,' observed Emily, 'that no person has yet discovered the musician.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000024_000000|'This cool air refreshes me,' replied Emily, 'and I love to hear it creep along the woods, and to look upon this dusky landscape.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000024_000001|You was speaking of my lord, the Marquis, when the music interrupted us.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000025_000000|'Yes, madam, my lord, the Marquis, became more and more gloomy; and my lady grew worse and worse, till, one night, she was taken very ill, indeed.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000025_000001|I was called up, and, when I came to her bedside, I was shocked to see her countenance-it was so changed!
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000025_000002|She looked piteously up at me, and desired I would call the Marquis again, for he was not yet come, and tell him she had something particular to say to him.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000025_000003|At last, he came, and he did, to be sure, seem very sorry to see her, but he said very little.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000025_000004|My lady told him she felt herself to be dying, and wished to speak with him alone, and then I left the room, but I shall never forget his look as I went.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000026_000003|She had intervals of ease, and in one of these she sent for my lord again; when he came, I was going, but she desired I would not leave her.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000026_000006|And to be sure he did seem to be overwhelmed with the thought of his treatment of her, and this affected her so much, that she fainted away.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000027_000000|'We then got my lord out of the room; he went into his library, and threw himself on the floor, and there he staid, and would hear no reason, that was talked to him.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000027_000001|When my lady recovered, she enquired for him, but, afterwards, said she could not bear to see his grief, and desired we would let her die quietly.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000027_000002|She died in my arms, ma'amselle, and she went off as peacefully as a child, for all the violence of her disorder was passed.'
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000001|When he had sent the attendants out of the room, he asked me several odd questions about the Marchioness, particularly concerning the manner, in which she had been seized, and he often shook his head at my answers, and seemed to mean more, than he chose to say.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000002|But I understood him too well.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000003|However, I kept my remarks to myself, and only told them to my husband, who bade me hold my tongue.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000004|Some of the other servants, however, suspected what I did, and strange reports were whispered about the neighbourhood, but nobody dared to make any stir about them.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000005|When my lord heard that my lady was dead, he shut himself up, and would see nobody but the doctor, who used to be with him alone, sometimes for an hour together; and, after that, the doctor never talked with me again about my lady.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000006|When she was buried in the church of the convent, at a little distance yonder, if the moon was up you might see the towers here, ma'amselle, all my lord's vassals followed the funeral, and there was not a dry eye among them, for she had done a deal of good among the poor.
train-other-500/3125/132586/3125_132586_000029_000008|He did not stay long at the chateau, but joined his regiment, and, soon after, all the servants, except my husband and I, received notice to go, for my lord went to the wars.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000001_000000|COLD COMFORT
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000002_000000|All things being full of flaw, all things being full of holes, the strength of all things is in shortness.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000002_000001|If Sir Ensor Doone had dwelled for half an hour upon himself, and an hour perhaps upon Lorna and me, we must both have wearied of him, and required change of air.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000002_000003|However, he was too good for this world (as we say of all people who leave it); and I verily believe his heart was not a bad one, after all.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000003_000000|Evil he had done, no doubt, as evil had been done to him; yet how many have done evil, while receiving only good!
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000005_000000|I will not deceive any one, by saying that Sir Ensor Doone gave (in so many words) his consent to my resolve about Lorna.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000005_000002|Not but what he may have meant to bestow on us his blessing; only that he died next day, without taking the trouble to do it.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000006_000000|He called indeed for his box of snuff, which was a very high thing to take; and which he never took without being in very good humour, at least for him.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000007_000000|'Will your honour have it wiped?' I asked him very softly, for the brown appearance of it spoiled (to my idea) his white mostacchio; but he seemed to shake his head; and I thought it kept his spirits up.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000009_000001|But every one seemed to think, or feel, that I had a right to be there; because the women took that view of it.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000009_000002|As for Carver and Counsellor, they were minding their own affairs, so as to win the succession; and never found it in their business (at least so long as I was there) to come near the dying man.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000011_000000|'He wants something out of the bed, dear,' Lorna whispered to me; 'see what it is, upon your side, there.'
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000012_000000|I followed the bent of his poor shrunken hand, and sought among the pilings; and there I felt something hard and sharp, and drew it forth and gave it to him.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000012_000001|It flashed, like the spray of a fountain upon us, in the dark winter of the room.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000012_000002|He could not take it in his hand, but let it hang, as daisies do; only making Lorna see that he meant her to have it.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000013_000001|But grandfather kept it, because the children wanted to pull it from my neck.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000013_000003|Not unless you wish, dear.'
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000015_000002|Though of all this I know nothing, and less than nothing I may say (because I ought to know something); I can hear what people tell me; and I can see before my eyes.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000018_000001|They had not dared to meddle with me while the chief lay dying; nor was it in their policy, for a short time after that, to endanger their succession by an open breach with Lorna, whose tender age and beauty held so many of the youths in thrall.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000019_000000|The ancient outlaw's funeral was a grand and moving sight; more perhaps from the sense of contrast than from that of fitness.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000020_000000|Not a tear was shed upon him, except from the sweetest of all sweet eyes; not a sigh pursued him home.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000020_000002|Aged men will show his tombstone; mothers haste with their infants by it; children shrink from the name upon it, until in time his history shall lapse and be forgotten by all except the great Judge and God.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000021_000000|After all was over, I strode across the moors very sadly; trying to keep the cold away by virtue of quick movement.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000021_000001|Not a flake of snow had fallen yet; all the earth was caked and hard, with a dry brown crust upon it; all the sky was banked with darkness, hard, austere, and frowning.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000021_000002|The fog of the last three weeks was gone, neither did any rime remain; but all things had a look of sameness, and a kind of furzy colour.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000023_000003|There was not a bird but knew her well, after one day of comforting; and some would come to her hand, and sit, and shut one eye, and look at her.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000023_000007|He was the hardest of all to please: and yet he tried to do his best.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000024_000000|Another little bird there was, whom I longed to welcome home, and protect from enemies, a little bird no native to us, but than any native dearer.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000024_000002|At what time of night it first began is more than I can say, at least from my own knowledge, for we all went to bed soon after supper, being cold and not inclined to talk.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000024_000004|But we, being blinder than they, I suppose, and not having had a great snow for years, made no preparation against the storm, except that the lambing ewes were in shelter.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000025_000000|It struck me, as I lay in bed, that we were acting foolishly; for an ancient shepherd had dropped in and taken supper with us, and foretold a heavy fall and great disaster to live stock.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000025_000001|He said that he had known a frost beginning, just as this had done, with a black east wind, after days of raw cold fog, and then on the third night of the frost, at this very time of year (to wit on the fifteenth of December) such a snow set in as killed half of the sheep and many even of the red deer and the forest ponies.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000025_000003|Hereupon mother nodded at him, having heard from her father about it, and how three men had been frozen to death, and how badly their stockings came off from them.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000029_000001|I went to the window at once, of course; and at first I could not understand what was doing outside of it.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000032_000001|I raked the ashes together a little, just to see a spark of warmth; and then set forth to find john Fry, Jem Slocombe, and Bill Dadds.
train-other-500/3125/163698/3125_163698_000032_000002|But this was easier thought than done; for when I opened the courtyard door, I was taken up to my knees at once, and the power of the drifting cloud prevented sight of anything.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000000_000000|THE STORY OF A MOTHER
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000001_000001|She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000004_000000|"Do you not think that I shall save him?" said she.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000004_000001|"Our Lord will not take him from me!"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000007_000000|But the poor mother ran out of the house and cried aloud for her child.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000009_000001|"Tell me the way, and I shall find him!"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000010_000000|"I know it!" said the woman in the black clothes.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000011_000001|"But do not stop me now-I may overtake him-I may find my child!"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000012_000000|But Night stood still and mute.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000015_000001|I am freezing to death; I shall become a lump of ice!"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000017_000001|Then she lay down to drink up the lake, and that was an impossibility for a human being, but the afflicted mother thought that a miracle might happen nevertheless.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000020_000002|And who has helped you?"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000021_000000|"OUR LORD has helped me," said she.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000021_000001|"He is merciful, and you will also be so!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000021_000002|Where shall I find my little child?"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000022_000000|"Nay, I know not," said the woman, "and you cannot see!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000024_000002|You shall have my white hair instead, and that's always something!"
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000026_000000|So they went into Death's great greenhouse, where flowers and trees grew strangely into one another.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000026_000002|There stood beautiful palm trees, oaks, and plantains; there stood parsley and flowering thyme: every tree and every flower had its name; each of them was a human life, the human frame still lived-one in China, and another in Greenland-round about in the world.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000028_000000|"Don't touch the flower!" said the old woman.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000028_000002|Then he will be afraid!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000028_000003|He is responsible for them to OUR LORD, and no one dares to pluck them up before HE gives leave."
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000034_000000|"But OUR LORD can!" said she.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000037_000000|"Touch them not!" said Death.
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000044_000001|Tell it me!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000044_000002|Save the innocent!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000044_000003|Save my child from all that misery!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000044_000004|Rather take it away!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000044_000005|Take it into God's kingdom!
train-other-500/313/122804/313_122804_000044_000006|Forget my tears, forget my prayers, and all that I have done!"
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000001_000001|This war hastened the approach of the great constitutional crisis.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000001_000002|It was necessary that the King should have a large military force.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000001_000003|He could not have such a force without money.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000001_000004|He could not legally raise money without the consent of Parliament.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000002_000000|Just at this conjuncture james died.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000002_000005|It would be unjust to deny that Charles had some of the qualities of a good, and even of a great prince.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000002_000006|He wrote and spoke, not, like his father, with the exactness of a professor, but after the fashion of intelligent and well educated gentlemen.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000002_000007|His taste in literature and art was excellent, his manner dignified, though not gracious, his domestic life without blemish.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000002_000010|But there is reason to believe that he was perfidious, not only from constitution and from habit, but also on principle.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000003_000002|They were resolved to place the King in such a situation that he must either conduct the administration in conformity with the wishes of his Parliament, or make outrageous attacks on the most sacred principles of the constitution.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000003_000005|His choice was soon made.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000003_000006|He dissolved his first Parliament, and levied taxes by his own authority.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000003_000007|He convoked a second Parliament, and found it more intractable than the first.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000003_000009|Companies of soldiers were billeted on the people; and martial law was, in some places, substituted for the ancient jurisprudence of the realm.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000004_000003|The Parliament granted an ample supply.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000005_000000|The day on which the royal sanction was, after many delays, solemnly given to this great Act, was a day of joy and hope.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000005_000002|Those acclamations were reechoed by the voice of the capital and of the nation; but within three weeks it became manifest that Charles had no intention of observing the compact into which he had entered.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000005_000004|The promise by which that supply had been obtained was broken.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000005_000006|The Parliament was dissolved with every mark of royal displeasure.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000005_000007|Some of the most distinguished members were imprisoned; and one of them, Sir john Eliot, after years of suffering, died in confinement.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000006_000000|Charles, however, could not venture to raise, by his own authority, taxes sufficient for carrying on war.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000006_000001|He accordingly hastened to make peace with his neighbours, and thenceforth gave his whole mind to British politics.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000007_000000|Now commenced a new era.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000007_000003|From march sixteen twenty nine to april sixteen forty, the Houses were not convoked.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000007_000004|Never in our history had there been an interval of eleven years between Parliament and Parliament.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000010_000001|He had been one of the most distinguished members of the opposition, and felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000010_000003|To this scheme, in his confidential correspondence, he gave the expressive name of Thorough.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000011_000002|He saw that there was one instrument, and only one, by which his vast and daring projects could be carried into execution.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000011_000003|That instrument was a standing army.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000000|The ecclesiastical administration was, in the meantime, principally directed by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000002|His theology was more remote than even that of the Dutch Arminians from the theology of the Calvinists.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000004|But his understanding was narrow; and his commerce with the world had been small.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000005|He was by nature rash, irritable, quick to feel for his own dignity, slow to sympathise with the sufferings of others, and prone to the error, common in superstitious men, of mistaking his own peevish and malignant moods for emotions of pious zeal.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000008|Even the devotions of private families could not escape the vigilance of his spies.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000009|Such fear did his rigour inspire that the deadly hatred of the Church, which festered in innumerable bosoms, was generally disguised under an outward show of conformity.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000012_000010|On the very eve of troubles, fatal to himself and to his order, the Bishops of several extensive dioceses were able to report to him that not a single dissenter was to be found within their jurisdiction.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000000|The tribunals afforded no protection to the subject against the civil and ecclesiastical tyranny of that period.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000001|The judges of the common law, holding their situations during the pleasure of the King, were scandalously obsequious.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000002|Yet, obsequious as they were, they were less ready and less efficient instruments of arbitrary power than a class of courts, the memory of which is still, after the lapse of more than two centuries, held in deep abhorrence by the nation.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000004|The Star Chamber had been remodelled, and the High Commission created, by the Tudors.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000005|The power which these boards had possessed before the accession of Charles had been extensive and formidable, but had been small indeed when compared with that which they now usurped.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000006|Guided chiefly by the violent spirit of the primate, and free from the control of Parliament, they displayed a rapacity, a violence, a malignant energy, which had been unknown to any former age.
train-other-500/313/127992/313_127992_000013_000009|All these tribunals insulted and defied the authority of Westminster Hall, and daily committed excesses which the most distinguished Royalists have warmly condemned.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000002_000000|During five months, the administration of Richard Cromwell went on so tranquilly and regularly that all Europe believed him to be firmly established on the chair of state.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000002_000002|The young man had made no enemy.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000002_000003|His hands were unstained by civil blood. The Cavaliers themselves allowed him to be an honest, good-natured gentleman.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000003_000004|Both the events in which it originated, and the effects which it had produced, prejudiced men against it.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000003_000005|It had sprung from military violence.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000003_000006|It had been fruitful of nothing but disputes.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000004_000000|Among the Commons there was a strong opposition, consisting partly of avowed Republicans, and partly of concealed Royalists: but a large and steady majority appeared to be favourable to the plan of reviving the old civil constitution under a new dynasty.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000004_000001|Richard was solemnly recognised as first magistrate.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000000|Thus far the statesmen by whose advice Richard acted had been successful.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000001|Almost all the parts of the government were now constituted as they had been constituted at the commencement of the civil war.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000003|But there was in the state a power more than sufficient to deal with Protector and Parliament together.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000005|He had never led them to victory.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000006|He had never even borne arms.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000007|All his tastes and habits were pacific.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000010|The officers who had the principal influence among the troops stationed near London were not his friends. They were men distinguished by valour and conduct in the field, but destitute of the wisdom and civil courage which had been conspicuous in their deceased leader.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000011|Some of them were honest, but fanatical, Independents and Republicans.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000012|Of this class Fleetwood was the representative.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000013|Others were impatient to be what Oliver had been.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000005_000015|Among these feeble copies of a great original the most conspicuous was Lambert.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000001|The good understanding which existed between him and his Parliament hastened the crisis.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000002|Alarm and resentment spread through the camp.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000004|It seemed that the Independents were to be subjected to the Presbyterians, and that the men of the sword were to be subjected to the men of the gown.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000006|It may well be doubted whether Richard could have triumphed over that coalition, even if he had inherited his father's clear judgment and iron courage.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000007|It is certain that simplicity and meekness like his were not the qualities which the conjuncture required.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000009|He was used by the army as an instrument for the purpose of dissolving the Parliament, and was then contemptuously thrown aside.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000006_000012|It was at the same time expressly declared that there should be no first magistrate, and no House of Lords.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000001|Some Presbyterians had, indeed, been disposed to such an alliance even before the death of Charles the First: but it was not till after the fall of Richard Cromwell that the whole party became eager for the restoration of the royal house.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000002|There was no longer any reasonable hope that the old constitution could be reestablished under a new dynasty.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000003|One choice only was left, the Stuarts or the army.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000004|The banished family had committed great faults; but it had dearly expiated those faults, and had undergone a long, and, it might be hoped, a salutary training in the school of adversity.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000005|It was probable that Charles the Second would take warning by the fate of Charles the First.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000010|As often as the truncheon was transferred from one feeble hand to another, the nation would be pillaged for the purpose of bestowing a fresh donative on the troops.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000008_000011|If the Presbyterians obstinately stood aloof from the Royalists, the state was lost; and men might well doubt whether, by the combined exertions of Presbyterians and Royalists, it could be saved.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000009_000002|The army of Scotland had done good service to the Commonwealth, and was in the highest state of efficiency.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000009_000004|It was intolerable that certain regiments should, merely because they happened to be quartered near Westminster, take on themselves to make and unmake several governments in the course of half a year.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000009_000005|If it were fit that the state should be regulated by the soldiers, those soldiers who upheld the English ascendency on the north of the Tweed were as well entitled to a voice as those who garrisoned the Tower of London.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000009_000009|He seems to have been impelled to attack the new rulers of the Commonwealth less by the hope that, if he overthrew them, he should become great, than by the fear that, if he submitted to them, he should not even be secure.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000010_000000|This step was the signal for a general explosion.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000010_000001|The people everywhere refused to pay taxes.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000010_000003|The fleet sailed up the Thames, and declared against the tyranny of the soldiers.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000010_000004|The soldiers, no longer under the control of one commanding mind, separated into factions.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000010_000007|During thirteen years the civil power had, in every conflict, been compelled to yield to the military power.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000000|In the mean time Monk was advancing towards London.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000002|What were at this time his plans, and whether he had any plan, may well be doubted.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000003|His great object, apparently, was to keep himself, as long as possible, free to choose between several lines of action.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000005|It was probably not till he had been some days in the capital that he had made up his mind.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000008|But the Rump was universally detested and despised.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000010|They had no head.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000011_000012|On the very day before Monk reached London, there was a fight in the Strand between the cavalry and the infantry.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000012_000000|During a short time the dissimulation or irresolution of Monk kept all parties in a state of painful suspense.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000012_000001|At length he broke silence, and declared for a free Parliament.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000013_000000|As soon as his declaration was known, the whole nation was wild with delight.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000013_000002|The bells of all England rang joyously: the gutters ran with ale; and, night after night, the sky five miles round London was reddened by innumerable bonfires.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000013_000004|The Independent leaders no longer dared to show their faces in the streets, and were scarcely safe within their own dwellings.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000014_000000|The result of the elections was such as might have been expected from the temper of the nation.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000014_000002|The Presbyterians formed the majority.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000001|The soldiers were in a gloomy and savage mood.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000002|They hated the title of King. They hated the name of Stuart.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000004|They saw with bitter indignation that the close of their long domination was approaching, and that a life of inglorious toil and penury was before them.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000006|One hour of their beloved Oliver might even now restore the glory which had departed.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000007|Betrayed, disunited, and left without any chief in whom they could confide, they were yet to be dreaded.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000010|They employed every art to soothe and to divide the discontented warriors.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000011|At the same time vigorous preparation was made for a conflict.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000012|The army of Scotland, now quartered in London, was kept in good humour by bribes, praises, and promises.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000014|Some refractory regiments Monk ventured to disband.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000018|The fleet was heartily with the nation.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000015_000020|The prevailing opinion was that England would be delivered, but not without a desperate and bloody struggle, and that the class which had so long ruled by the sword would perish by the sword.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000016_000000|Happily the dangers of a conflict were averted.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000016_000002|Lambert escaped from his confinement, and called his comrades to arms.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000016_000003|The flame of civil war was actually rekindled; but by prompt and vigorous exertion it was trodden out before it had time to spread.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000000|The new Parliament, which, having been called without the royal writ, is more accurately described as a Convention, met at Westminster.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000001|The Lords repaired to the hall, from which they had, during more than eleven years, been excluded by force.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000002|Both Houses instantly invited the King to return to his country.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000003|He was proclaimed with pomp never before known. A gallant fleet convoyed him from Holland to the coast of Kent.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000004|When he landed, the cliffs of Dover were covered by thousands of gazers, among whom scarcely one could be found who was not weeping with delight.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000005|The journey to London was a continued triumph.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000008|On Blackheath the army was drawn up to welcome the sovereign.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000012|But there was no concert among them.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000013|Discord and defection had left them no confidence in their chiefs or in each other.
train-other-500/313/127997/313_127997_000017_000014|The whole array of the City of London was under arms.
train-other-500/313/128021/313_128021_000006_000033|Happily the spirit of the age on which his lot was cast, gave the right direction to his mind; and his mind reacted with tenfold force on the spirit of the age.
train-other-500/313/128021/313_128021_000006_000034|In the year sixteen eighty five his fame, though splendid, was only dawning; but his genius was in the meridian.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000000_000000|THE LASSIE AND HER GODMOTHER
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000001_000003|Now, when he was going home again, a lovely lady met him, dressed so fine, and who looked so thoroughly good and kind; she offered to get the babe christened, but after that, she said, she must keep it for her own.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000002_000001|And again as he went home, towards evening the same lovely lady met him, who looked so sweet and good, and she made him the same offer.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000003_000002|After that she took it to her own house, and there the little girl lived with her several years, and her foster mother was always kind and friendly to her.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000004_000000|Now, when the lassie had grown to be big enough to know right and wrong, her foster mother got ready to go on a journey.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000005_000000|But the lassie could not forbear just to open one of the doors a little bit, when-POP! out flew a Star.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000006_000000|When her foster mother came back, she was very vexed to find that the star had flown out, and she got very angry with her foster daughter, and threatened to send her away; but the child cried and begged so hard that she got leave to stay.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000007_000001|She promised to beware; but when she was left alone, she began to think and to wonder what there could be in the second room, and at last she could not help setting the door a little ajar, just to peep in, when-POP! out flew the Moon.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000008_000000|When her foster mother came home and found the Moon let out, she was very downcast, and said to the lassie she must go away, she could not stay with her any longer.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000008_000001|But the lassie wept so bitterly, and prayed so heartily for forgiveness, that this time, too, she got leave to stay.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000009_000000|Some time after, the foster mother had to go away again, and she charged the lassie, who by this time was half grown up, most earnestly that she mustn't try to go into, or to peep into, the third room.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000012_000000|And the lassie said, 'I would sooner be lovely.' So she became all at once wondrous fair; but from that day forth she was dumb.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000014_000001|Then the Prince went himself, for he had a mind to see what all this could mean.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000016_000000|But the Prince could not be content till he got her.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000018_000000|But when those who were on the watch woke, they thought the queen had eaten her own child, and the old queen was all for burning her alive, but the Prince was so fond of her that at last he begged her off, but he had hard work to set her free.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000019_000000|So the next time the young queen was to have a child, twice as strong a watch was set as the first time, but the same thing happened over again, only this time her foster mother said:
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000020_000000|'Now you shall be as grieved as I was when you let the moon out.'
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000021_000000|And the queen begged and prayed, and wept; for when her foster mother was there, she could speak-but it was all no good.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000022_000002|Her foster mother came while the watch slept, took the babe, and cut its little finger, and smeared the queen's mouth with the blood, telling her now she should be as grieved as she had been when the lassie let out the sun
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000023_000001|She must and should be burnt.
train-other-500/3132/163510/3132_163510_000024_000002|Now you have been punished for what you did, and henceforth you shall have your speech.'
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000000|"Well?
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000001|Are you satisfied now?" said he.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000005|Satisfied?...
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000006|It hurts me, it hurts.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000007|I'm old and weak and this is what you wanted.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000008|Well then, gloat over it!
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000003_000009|Gloat over it!"
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000004_000000|After that Princess Mary did not see her father for a whole week.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000004_000001|He was ill and did not leave his study.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000005_000000|Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this illness the old prince not only excluded her from his room, but did not admit Mademoiselle Bourienne either.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000006_000001|His looks and cold tone to his daughter seemed to say: "There, you see?
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000006_000002|You plotted against me, you lied to Prince Andrew about my relations with that Frenchwoman and made me quarrel with him, but you see I need neither her nor you!"
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000008_000001|She feared for her brother who was in it, was horrified by and amazed at the strange cruelty that impels men to kill one another, but she did not understand the significance of this war, which seemed to her like all previous wars.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000009_000001|We in Moscow are elated by enthusiasm for our adored Emperor.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000010_000000|"My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000011_000000|"You heard probably of the heroic exploit of Raevski, embracing his two sons and saying: 'I will perish with them but we will not be shaken!' And truly though the enemy was twice stronger than we, we were unshakable.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000011_000001|We pass the time as we can, but in war as in war!
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000011_000002|The princesses Aline and Sophie sit whole days with me, and we, unhappy widows of live men, make beautiful conversations over our 'charpie', only you, my friend, are missing..." and so on.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000013_000000|All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000013_000001|He planned another garden and began a new building for the domestic serfs.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000013_000002|The only thing that made Princess Mary anxious about him was that he slept very little and, instead of sleeping in his study as usual, changed his sleeping place every day.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000013_000004|Then again he would spend a night in the dining room.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000014_000000|On august first, a second letter was received from Prince Andrew.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000016_000000|"There was a letter from Prince Andrew today," he said to Princess Mary -"Haven't you read it?"
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000017_000000|"No, Father," she replied in a frightened voice.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000018_000000|She could not have read the letter as she did not even know it had arrived.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000019_000000|"He writes about this war," said the prince, with the ironic smile that had become habitual to him in speaking of the present war.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000022_000001|"You know-under the paperweight on the little table."
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000023_000000|Mademoiselle Bourienne jumped up eagerly.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000024_000000|"No, don't!" he exclaimed with a frown.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000026_000000|"They can't do anything... always make some muddle," he muttered.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000027_000002|These he put down beside him-not letting anyone read them at dinner.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000028_000001|When she had done so Princess Mary looked inquiringly at her father.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000028_000002|He was examining the plan, evidently engrossed in his own ideas.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000031_000000|"Very possibly the theater of war will move so near to us that..."
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000032_000001|The theater of war!" said the prince.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000034_000000|"When the snow melts they'll sink in the Polish swamps.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000034_000001|Only they could fail to see it," the prince continued, evidently thinking of the campaign of eighteen o seven which seemed to him so recent.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000034_000002|"Bennigsen should have advanced into Prussia sooner, then things would have taken a different turn..."
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000036_000000|"Ah, the letter?
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000036_000002|"Yes... yes..." His face suddenly took on a morose expression.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000036_000003|He paused.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000036_000004|"Yes, he writes that the French were beaten at... at... what river is it?"
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000039_000000|"Doesn't he?
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000039_000001|But I didn't invent it myself."
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000040_000000|No one spoke for a long time.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000041_000000|"Yes... yes...
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000045_000000|"Always busy," replied Michael Ivanovich with a respectfully ironic smile which caused Princess Mary to turn pale.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000045_000001|"He's worrying very much about the new building.
train-other-500/3132/167590/3132_167590_000046_000000|"And Alpatych is being sent to Smolensk?" asked Princess Mary.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000001_000000|CHAPTER fifteen
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000002_000000|On receiving command of the armies Kutuzov remembered Prince Andrew and sent an order for him to report at headquarters.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000003_000001|He stopped in the village at the priest's house in front of which stood the commander in chief's carriage, and he sat down on the bench at the gate awaiting his Serene Highness, as everyone now called Kutuzov.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000003_000002|From the field beyond the village came now sounds of regimental music and now the roar of many voices shouting "Hurrah!" to the new commander in chief.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000005_000000|"What?
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000005_000001|His Serene Highness?
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000005_000002|I expect he'll be here soon.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000005_000003|What do you want?"
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000006_000001|Bolkonski made room for him on the bench and the lieutenant colonel sat down beside him.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000007_000000|"You're also waiting for the commander in chief?" said he.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000007_000006|We kept wetweating and wetweating.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000008_000001|I belong to the province of Smolensk."
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000009_000000|"Ah?
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000009_000003|I'm Lieutenant Colonel Denisov, better known as 'Vaska,'" said Denisov, pressing Prince Andrew's hand and looking into his face with a particularly kindly attention.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000010_000000|Prince Andrew knew Denisov from what Natasha had told him of her first suitor.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000010_000002|Of late he had received so many new and very serious impressions-such as the retreat from Smolensk, his visit to Bald Hills, and the recent news of his father's death-and had experienced so many emotions, that for a long time past those memories had not entered his mind, and now that they did, they did not act on him with nearly their former strength.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000010_000005|This was a plan of campaign he had devised while serving at the outposts during the retreat.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000010_000006|He had proposed that plan to Barclay de Tolly and now wished to propose it to Kutuzov.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000010_000008|He began explaining his plan to Prince Andrew.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000011_000000|"They can't hold all that line.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000012_000000|Denisov rose and began gesticulating as he explained his plan to Bolkonski.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000014_000002|Barclay was riding almost beside him, and a crowd of officers ran after and around them shouting, "Hurrah!"
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000015_000000|His adjutants galloped into the yard before him.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000015_000002|When he came up to the guard of honor, a fine set of Grenadiers mostly wearing decorations, who were giving him the salute, he looked at them silently and attentively for nearly a minute with the steady gaze of a commander and then turned to the crowd of generals and officers surrounding him.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000015_000003|Suddenly his face assumed a subtle expression, he shrugged his shoulders with an air of perplexity.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000016_000000|"And with such fine fellows to retreat and retreat!
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000017_000000|"Hurrah! hurrah!
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000018_000000|Since Prince Andrew had last seen him Kutuzov had grown still more corpulent, flaccid, and fat.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000018_000001|But the bleached eyeball, the scar, and the familiar weariness of his expression were still the same.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000020_000002|As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000021_000000|"Ah, how do you do, my dear prince?
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000021_000001|How do you do, my dear boy?
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000022_000000|He unbuttoned his coat and sat down on a bench in the porch.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000023_000000|"And how's your father?"
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000024_000000|"I received news of his death, yesterday," replied Prince Andrew abruptly.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000025_000000|Kutuzov looked at him with eyes wide open with dismay and then took off his cap and crossed himself:
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000026_000001|God's will be done to us all!" He sighed deeply, his whole chest heaving, and was silent for a while.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000026_000002|"I loved him and respected him, and sympathize with you with all my heart."
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000027_000000|He embraced Prince Andrew, pressing him to his fat breast, and for some time did not let him go.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000027_000001|When he released him Prince Andrew saw that Kutuzov's flabby lips were trembling and that tears were in his eyes.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000027_000002|He sighed and pressed on the bench with both hands to raise himself.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000028_000000|"Come!
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000028_000001|Come with me, we'll have a talk," said he.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000029_000006|Denisov came from those parts and knew the country well.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000029_000007|His plan seemed decidedly a good one, especially from the strength of conviction with which he spoke.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000029_000009|And from that hut, while Denisov was speaking, a general with a portfolio under his arm really did appear.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000036_000001|"All right, all right, friend, stay here at the staff and tomorrow we'll have a talk."
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000039_000002|He made a grimace...
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000040_000000|"No, tell them to bring a small table out here, my dear boy.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000040_000001|I'll look at them here," said he.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000040_000002|"Don't go away," he added, turning to Prince Andrew, who remained in the porch and listened to the general's report.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000002|Kutuzov's adjutant whispered to Prince Andrew that this was the wife of the priest whose home it was, and that she intended to offer his Serene Highness bread and salt.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000004|She's very pretty," added the adjutant with a smile.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000008|All that Denisov had said was clever and to the point.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000010|Prince Andrew watched the commander in chief's face attentively, and the only expression he could see there was one of boredom, curiosity as to the meaning of the feminine whispering behind the door, and a desire to observe propriety.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000011|It was evident that Kutuzov despised cleverness and learning and even the patriotic feeling shown by Denisov, but despised them not because of his own intellect, feelings, or knowledge-he did not try to display any of these-but because of something else.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000012|He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000013|The only instruction Kutuzov gave of his own accord during that report referred to looting by the Russian troops.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000041_000014|At the end of the report the general put before him for signature a paper relating to the recovery of payment from army commanders for green oats mown down by the soldiers, when landowners lodged petitions for compensation.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000042_000000|After hearing the matter, Kutuzov smacked his lips together and shook his head.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000043_000000|"Into the stove... into the fire with it!
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000043_000001|I tell you once for all, my dear fellow," said he, "into the fire with all such things!
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000043_000002|Let them cut the crops and burn wood to their hearts' content.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000043_000003|I don't order it or allow it, but I don't exact compensation either.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000043_000004|One can't get on without it.
train-other-500/3132/167603/3132_167603_000043_000005|'When wood is chopped the chips will fly.'" He looked at the paper again.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000003_000000|CHAPTER TWELVE
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000004_000001|THE DIME MUSEUMS.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000000|Feats of strength have always interested me greatly, so that in my travels around the world I have made it a point to come in contact with the most powerful human beings of my generation.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000001|The one among these who deserves first mention is Charles Jefferson, with whose achievements I became quite familiar while we were working in the same museum many years ago.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000002|I am convinced that he must have been the strongest man of his time at lifting with the bare hands alone.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000003|He had two feats that he challenged any mortal to duplicate.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000004|One was picking up a heavy blacksmith's anvil by the horn and placing it on a kitchen table; for the other he had a block of steel, which, as near as I can remember, must have been about fourteen inches long, twelve inches wide, and seven inches thick.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000005|This block lay on the floor, and his challenge was for anyone to pick it up with bare hands.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000007|Though thousands tried, I never saw, or heard, of anyone else who could juggle his anvil or pick up the weight.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000005_000008|True, I saw him surreptitiously rub his fingers with resin, to assist in the gripping, but that could have been only of slight assistance to the marvelous grip the man possessed.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000007_000000|john Grun Marx, a Luxemberger, must have been among the strongest men in the world at the time I knew him.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000007_000001|We worked on the same bill several times; but it was at the Olympia, in Paris, that he shone supreme as a strongman-and at the same time as a weak one.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000008_000000|Marx's strength was prodigious, and he juggled hundreds, and toyed with thousands, of pounds as a child plays with a rattle.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000008_000001|He must have weighed in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds, and he walked like a veritable colossus.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000008_000002|In fact, he reminded me of a two footed baby elephant.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000009_000000|Always good-natured, he made a host of friends both in the profession and out of it.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000009_000002|Wishing to die in his native city, he returned to Luxemberg.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000009_000003|He did not realize that he was bereft of his enormous strength, and those about him humored him: the doctor and the nurses would pretend that he hurt them when he grasped their hands.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000009_000004|He died almost forgotten except by his brother artists, but they (myself among them) built a monument to this good-natured Hercules, whose only care was to entertain.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000011_000000|Le Roy was born in cincinnati ohio, october third eighteen seventy three.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000011_000002|The inordinate strength of his jaws, teeth, and neck, enabled him to push a nail, held between his teeth, through a one inch board; or to nail together, with his teeth, two three quarters-inch boards.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000011_000003|He could draw with his teeth a large nail that had been driven completely through a two inch plank.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000011_000005|When he had performed these stunts in various positions, he would bend his body backward till his head pointed toward the floor, and in that position push a nail through a one inch board held perpendicularly in a metal frame.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000011_000006|I saw no chance for trickery in Le Roy's act.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000012_000001|But since this act did not get him very far either on the road to fame, or toward the big money-he turned to magic and finally became one of the leading Continental magicians, boasting that he was one of the few really expert sleight of hand magicians of the world.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000013_000000|I met Weyer at Liege, Belgium, where we had an all night match with playing cards.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000013_000002|On this occasion, however, he was unable to make the boast good.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000014_000000|Another clever performer of those days was Mexican Billy Wells, who worked on the Curio platform.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000014_000001|His act was the old stone breaking stunt, already explained, except that he had the stones broken on his head instead of on his body.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000014_000002|He protected his head with a small blanket, which he passed for examination, and this protection seemed excusable, considering that he had to do at least seven shows a day.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000014_000003|A strong man from the audience did the real work of the act by swinging the heavy sledge hammer on the stone, as shown in the accompanying illustration.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000014_000004|Usually the stone would be riven by a single blow; but if it was not, Wells would yell, "Harder! harder! hit harder!" until the stone was broken.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000015_000000|The last I saw of Billy was during one of my engagements at the Palace Theater, New York.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000016_000000|Of all the acts of this nature that I have ever seen I think the most foolhardy was that of an under sized Italian who lay on his back on the floor and let fall from his hands, extended upward at arm's length heavy weights upon his chest-the silly fool!
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000016_000001|I said as much to him-and some other things too.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000016_000002|His act had little entertainment to show as compared with the pain and danger involved.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000016_000003|I do not know what became of him, but I can guess.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000017_000000|Among the museum attractions of those years was a man named Wilson who had the incredible chest expansion of twenty one inches.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000018_000000|Another "Samson," a German, among other sensational feats, such as breaking coins with his fingers, used to flex his muscles and break a dog chain that had been fastened round the biceps of his right arm. While he was performing at the Aquarium, in London, he issued a challenge.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000018_000001|Sandow, then a youth without reputation, accepted the challenge, went upon the stage, defeated him, and, since Samson's act had been the talk of the town, thus brought himself into instant notice, the beginning of a career in which he rose to the top of his profession.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000018_000002|After several successful years on the stage, Sandow settled down in London, where I last heard of him as conducting a school of instruction in health and strength methods.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000019_000001|I remember these ladies particularly because both were remarkably good talkers-and I am referring to conversational quality, not to volume.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000020_000002|Although she was exposed many times, her success was so marked that several other muscular ladies entered her province with acts that were, in several instances, superior to the original.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000021_000000|One of the cleverest of these was Annie Abbott, who, if I remember rightly, also called herself The Georgia Magnet.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000021_000002|The second sensation was credited to the Bullet Proof Man.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000021_000003|This chap wore a jacket that rifle bullets, fired point blank, failed to penetrate.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000021_000004|The composition of this jacket was a secret, but after the owner's death the garment was ripped open and found to contain ground glass!
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000022_000000|The Magnet failed to attract after about forty eight hours, for a keen witted reporter discovered her methods and promptly published them.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000022_000001|The bullet detainer also lasted only a short time only.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000022_000002|When my opening added a third sensational surprise, one of the London dailies asked, "Is this going to be another Georgia Magnet fiasco?"
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000024_000000|Some twenty six years ago I was on the bill with Mattie Lee Price, who, though less well known, was in many ways superior to either Miss Hurst or Miss Abbott.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000024_000001|For a time she was a sensation of the highest order, for which thanks were largely due to the management of her husband, a wonderful lecturer and a thorough showman.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000025_000002|He had interfered between the couple, and was, I am sorry to say, quite successful as an interferer; but he was a diabolical failure when he attempted to duplicate White's work as lecturer, and the act, after playing a date or two, sank out of sight and I have heard nothing more of her professionally.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000025_000003|Lately I have learned that she died in London in nineteen hundred and is buried in Clements Cemetery, Fulham.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000027_000000|In Chapter Eleven we read dr Desaguliers' analysis of the mechanics of what may be called strongmanship.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000027_000001|Similar investigations have attended the appearance of more recent performers.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000029_000000|The "Phenomenon of the Nineteenth Century," which may be seen nightly at Wallack's, is not so much the famous Georgia girl, with her mysterious muscle, as is the audience which gathers to wonder at her performance.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000030_000000|Then follows a description of her performance, which was far from successful, thanks to the efforts of one of the committee, a man described as "mr
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000030_000001|Thomas Johnson, a powerfully built engraver connected with the Century magazine." mr Johnson had evidently caught her secret, and he got the better of her in all the tests in which he was allowed to take part.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000032_000000|These explanations are taken from the French periodical La Nature, in which mr Nelson w Perry thus sums up the attitude of the public in regard to this class of performance: "Electricity is a mysterious agent; therefore everything mysterious is electric." Of the performance of the Electric Girl this magazine says:
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000033_000000|It is a question of a simple application of the elementary principles of the laws of mechanics, chapter of equilibrium.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000035_000001|This first experiment is so elementary and infantile that it is not necessary to dwell upon it.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000036_000000|Next we have a second and more complex experiment, less easily explained at first sight.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000038_000000|mr Perry explains this exercise as follows: The men are requested to place themselves parallel to each other, and the girl, who stands opposite them, places the palm of her hand against the stick and turned toward her.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000038_000002|She thus moves it from the perpendicular and asks the two men to hold it in a vertical position.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000040_000002|All the efforts made to cause the stick to slide in the open hand failed, and the excess of weight due to the vertical force always remained less than twenty five pounds, despite the very determined and sincere stresses of the two men, who, unbeknown to themselves, were exerting their strength in a HORIZONTAL direction.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000041_000001|Such pressure in the first place is exerted but slightly, and the stresses are gradually increased.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000042_000003|The experimenter, therefore, needs only to exert a horizontal thrust, without doing any lifting, and such horizontal thrust is facilitated by taking the knees as points of support for her elbows.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000042_000004|As soon as a slight movement is effected, the hardest part of the work is over, for it is only necessary for the girl to cease to exert her stresses in order to have the chair fall back or move laterally in one direction or the other.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000045_000000|There was still a considerable demand for these people in the dime museums, until the enormous increase in the number of such houses created a demand for freaks that was far in excess of the supply, and many houses were obliged to close because no freaks were obtainable, even at the enormous increase in salaries then in vogue.
train-other-500/3135/166688/3135_166688_000047_000000|The dime museum is but a memory now, and in three generations it will, in all probability, be utterly forgotten.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000001_000000|Once on a time there was a princess who was so proud and pert that no suitor was good enough for her.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000002_000001|When the prince went out to drive next day, the Princess stood in the porch and looked at him.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000003_000000|'Well!' she cried, 'I never saw the like of this in all my life; the keen north wind that blows here has taken the ears off one of your horses, and the other has stood by and gaped at what was going on till his jaws have split right up to his ears.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000004_000000|And with that she burst out into a roar of laughter, ran in, slammed to the door, and let him drive off.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000005_000000|So he drove home; but as he went, he thought to himself that he would pay her off one day.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000005_000001|After a bit, he put on a great beard of moss, threw a great fur cloak over his clothes, and dressed himself up just like any beggar.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000006_000000|So when the Princess rose up in the morning, she came to the window and threw it up, and called out to the beggar if he would sell his golden spinning wheel?
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000008_000000|Well, the Princess thought it a good bargain; there could be no danger in letting him sleep outside her door.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000009_000000|So she got the wheel, and at night Hacon Grizzlebeard lay down outside her bedroom.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000009_000001|But as the night wore on he began to freeze.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000011_000000|'You've lost your wits outright, I think', said the Princess.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000013_000000|'Hush! hush!
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000013_000001|hold your tongue!' said the Princess; 'if my father were to know that there was a man in the house, I should be in a fine scrape.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000014_000001|I'm almost frozen to death; only let me come inside and lie on the floor', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000015_000000|Yes! there was no help for it.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000015_000001|She had to let him in, and when he was, he lay on the ground and slept like a top.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000019_000000|Well! she gave him leave, only he was to be sure to lie still, and not to shiver and call out 'hutetu', or any such stuff.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000020_000000|There was no help for it; she had to give him leave, lest the king should hear the noise he made.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000020_000001|So Hacon Grizzlebeard lay alongside the Princess' bed, and slept like a top.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000021_000001|Then came the old story over again.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000021_000002|When the Princess heard what was going on, she came to the window, and asked him how he did, and whether he would sell the golden wool winder?
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000022_000000|'It is not to be had for money; but if you'll give me leave to sleep to night in your bedroom, with my head on your bedstead, you shall have it for nothing', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000024_000001|Oh, do let me get into bed and warm myself a little', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000027_000000|'Hush! hush! be still for God's sake', said the Princess; 'if father knows there is a man in here, I shall be in a sad plight.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000029_000000|Well! there was no help for it; she had to let him get into bed, where he slept both sound and soft; but a little while after the Princess had a child, at which the king grew so wild with rage, that he was near making an end of both mother and babe.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000029_000001|Just after this happened, came Hacon Grizzlebeard tramping that way once more, as if by chance, and took his seat down in the kitchen, like any other beggar.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000031_000000|'Oh!
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000032_000000|'Oh yes!
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000032_000001|it's all the same to me how you get it, or whether you get it at all', she said; 'only let me be with you, for if I stay here any longer, my father will be sure to take my life.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000034_000000|'Oh! this is Hacon Grizzlebeard's, if you must know', said he.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000035_000000|'Indeed!' said the Princess; 'I might have married him if I chose, and then I should not have had to walk about like a beggar's wife.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000036_000000|So, whenever they came to grand castles, and woods, and parks, and she asked whose they were?
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000036_000001|the beggar's answer was still the same: 'Oh: they are Hacon Grizzlebeard's.' And the Princess was in a sad way that she had not chosen the man who had such broad lands.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000037_000000|'I bake!' said the Princess; 'I can't bake, for I never did such a thing in my life.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000038_000000|'Well, you must go', said Hacon, 'since the Prince has said it.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000039_000000|'I can't steal', said the Princess.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000040_000001|But take care that the Prince doesn't see you, for he has eyes at the back of his head.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000041_000000|So when she was well on her way, Hacon ran by a short cut and reached the palace long before her, and threw off his rags and beard, and put on his princely robes.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000042_000000|The Princess took her turn in the bakehouse, and did as Hacon bade her, for she stole bread till her pockets were crammed full.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000042_000001|So when she was about to go home at even, the Prince said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000043_000000|'We don't know much of this old wife of Hacon Grizzlebeard's, I think we'd best see if she has taken anything away with her.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000044_000001|She began to weep and bewail, and said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000045_000000|'The beggar made me do it, and I couldn't help it.' 'Well', said the Prince at last, 'it ought to have gone hard with you; but all the same, for the sake of the beggar you shall be forgiven this once.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000046_000000|When she was well on her way, he threw off his robes, put on his skin cloak, and his false beard, and reached the cabin before her.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000046_000001|When she came home, he was busy nursing the baby.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000047_000001|This is the first time I ever stole, and this shall be the last'; and with that she told him how it had gone with her, and what the Prince had said.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000048_000000|A few days after Hacon Grizzlebeard came home at even and said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000050_000000|'I make sausages!' said the Princess; 'I can't do any such thing.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000050_000001|I have eaten sausages often enough; but as to making them, I never made one in my life.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000051_000000|Well, there was no help for it; the Prince had said it, and go she must.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000051_000001|As for not knowing how, she was only to do what the others did, and at the same time Hacon bade her steal some sausages for him.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000052_000000|'Nay, but I can't steal them', she said; 'you know how it went last time.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000053_000000|'Well, you can learn to steal; who knows but you may have better luck next time', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000054_000001|So the Princess stood by when the pig was killed, and made sausages with the rest, and did as Hacon bade her, and stuffed her pockets full of sausages.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000054_000002|But when she was about to go home at even, the Prince said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000055_000000|'This beggar's wife was long fingered last time; we may as well just see if she hasn't carried anything off.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000057_000000|'Oh, God bless your royal highness; do let me off!
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000057_000001|The beggar made me do it', she said, and wept bitterly.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000059_000000|When she was gone, he changed his clothes again, ran by the short cut, and when she reached the cabin, there he was before her.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000059_000001|Then she told him the whole story, and swore, through thick and thin, it should be the last time he got her to do such a thing.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000060_000000|Now, it fell out a little time after, when the man came back from the palace, he said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000061_000001|And the Prince's will is, that you should go up to the palace and be measured instead of the bride; for he says you are just the same height and shape.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000061_000002|But after you have been measured, mind you don't go away; you can stand about, you know, and when the tailor cuts out the gown, you can snap up the largest pieces, and bring them home for a waistcoat for me.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000062_000000|'Nay, but I can't steal', she said; 'besides, you know how it went last time.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000063_000000|'You can learn then', said Hacon, 'and you may have better luck, perhaps.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000064_000000|She thought it bad, but still she went and did as she was told.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000064_000001|She stood by while the tailor was cutting out the gown, and she swept down all the biggest scraps, and stuffed them into her pockets; and when she was going away, the Prince said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000065_000000|'We may as well see if this old girl has not been long fingered this time too.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000066_000000|So he began to feel and search her pockets, and when he found the pieces he was in a rage, and began to stamp and scold at a great rate, while she wept and said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000069_000000|So it went now just as it had gone before, and when she got back to the cabin, the beggar was there before her.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000070_000000|'Oh, Heaven help me', she said; 'you will be the death of me at last, by making me nothing but what is wicked.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000071_000000|Sometime after, Hacon came home to the cabin at even and said:
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000072_000000|'Now, the Prince's will is, that you should go up to the palace and stand for the bride, old lass! for the bride is still sick, and keeps her bed; but he won't put off the wedding; and he says, you are so like her, that no one could tell one from the other; so to morrow you must get ready to go to the palace.'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000073_000000|'I think you've lost your wits, both the Prince and you', said she. 'Do you think I look fit to stand in the bride's place?
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000073_000001|look at me! Can any beggar's trull look worse than I?'
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000074_000000|'Well, the Prince said you were to go, and so go you must', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000075_000000|There was no help for it, go she must; and when she reached the palace, they dressed her out so finely that no princess ever looked so smart.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000076_000000|The bridal train went to church, where she stood for the bride, and when they came back, there was dancing and merriment in the palace. But just as she was in the midst of dancing with the Prince, she saw a gleam of light through the window, and lo! the cabin by the wood side was all one bright flame.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000077_000000|'Oh! the beggar, and the babe, and the cabin', she screamed out, and was just going to swoon away.
train-other-500/3137/163489/3137_163489_000078_000000|'Here is the beggar, and there is the babe, and so let the cabin burn away', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000001_000000|Once on a time there was a man whose name was Gudbrand; he had a farm which lay far, far away upon a hill side, and so they called him Gudbrand on the Hill side.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000002_000001|The farm was their own land, and they had a hundred dollars lying at the bottom of their chest, and two cows tethered up in a stall in their farm yard.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000004_000000|'Do you know, dear, I think we ought to take one of our cows into town, and sell it; that's what I think; for then we shall have some money in hand, and such well to do people as we ought to have ready money like the rest of the world.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000004_000002|Besides, we shall gain a little in another way, for then I shall get off with only looking after one cow, instead of having, as now, to feed and litter and water two.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000005_000000|Well, Gudbrand thought his wife talked right good sense, so he set off at once with the cow on his way to town to sell her; but when he got to the town, there was no one who would buy his cow.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000006_000000|'Well! well!
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000007_000000|But when he had gone a bit of the way, a man met him who had a horse to sell, so Gudbrand thought 'twas better to have a horse than a cow, so he swopped with the man.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000007_000001|A little farther on he met a man walking along and driving a fat pig before him, and he thought it better to have a fat pig than a horse, so he swopped with the man.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000007_000003|Then he went on a good bit till he met a man who had a sheep, and he swopped with him too, for he thought it always better to have a sheep than a goat.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000008_000000|After that he went on home till he reached his nearest neighbour's house, where he turned in.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000009_000000|'Well', said the owner of the house, 'how did things go with you in town?'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000010_000000|'Rather so so', said Gudbrand, 'I can't praise my luck, nor do I blame it either', and with that he told the whole story from first to last.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000011_000000|'Ah!' said his friend, 'you'll get nicely called over the coals, that one can see, when you get home to your wife.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000011_000001|Heaven help you, I wouldn't stand in your shoes for something.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000014_000000|'Shall we lay a bet upon it?' asked Gudbrand on the Hill side. 'I have a hundred dollars at the bottom of my chest at home; will you lay as many against them?'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000015_000000|Yes! the friend was ready to bet; so Gudbrand stayed there till evening, when it began to get dark, and then they went together to his house, and the neighbour was to stand outside the door and listen, while the man went in to see his wife.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000016_000000|'Good evening!' said Gudbrand on the Hill side.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000017_000001|'Oh! is that you?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000017_000002|now God be praised.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000018_000000|Yes! it was he.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000018_000001|So the wife asked how things had gone with him in town?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000019_000000|'Oh! only so so', answered Gudbrand; 'not much to brag of.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000019_000001|When I got to the town there was no one who would buy the cow, so you must know I swopped it away for a horse.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000021_000000|'Ah!' said Gudbrand, 'but you see I've not got the horse after all; for when I got a bit farther on the road, I swopped it away for a pig.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000022_000002|What do we want with a horse?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000022_000003|People would only say we had got so proud that we couldn't walk to church.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000024_000000|'Bless us!' cried his wife, 'how well you manage everything!
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000024_000001|Now I think it over, what should I do with a pig?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000025_000000|'Nay, but I haven't got the goat either', said Gudbrand, 'for a little farther on I swopped it away, and got a fine sheep instead.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000026_000003|Run out, child, and put up the sheep.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000028_000000|'Thank you! thank you! with all my heart', cried his wife; 'what should I do with a sheep?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000028_000003|Run out, child, and put up the goose.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000029_000000|'Ah!' said Gudbrand, 'but I haven't the goose either; for when I had gone a bit farther I swopped it away for a cock.'
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000030_000000|'Dear me!' cried his wife, 'how you think of everything!
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000030_000001|just as I should have done myself.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000030_000002|A cock! think of that! why it's as good as an eight day clock, for every morning the cock crows at four o'clock, and we shall be able to stir our stumps in good time.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000030_000003|What should we do with a goose?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000032_000000|'Now, God be praised that you did so!' cried his wife; 'whatever you do, you do it always just after my own heart.
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000032_000001|What should we do with the cock?
train-other-500/3137/163504/3137_163504_000032_000002|We are our own masters, I should think, and can lie a bed in the morning as long as we like.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000002_000001|A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped speaking and went out.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000003_000002|But that's not the point.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000003_000004|Pierre remained silent.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000004_000000|"Yes, I am a Mason," Pierre replied.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000005_000002|Speranski and Magnitski have been deported to their proper place.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000005_000005|It has now come to my knowledge that you lent him your carriage for his removal from town, and that you have even accepted papers from him for safe custody.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000009_000000|"There we are!" Rostopchin shouted at Pierre louder than before, frowning suddenly.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000009_000005|My head is sometimes in a whirl.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000012_000001|Be off as soon as you can, that's all I have to tell you.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000012_000003|Good bye, my dear fellow.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000014_000004|When left alone at last he opened and read his wife's letter.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000015_000000|"They, the soldiers at the battery, Prince Andrew killed... that old man...
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000015_000001|Simplicity is submission to God.
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000015_000002|Suffering is necessary... the meaning of all... one must harness... my wife is getting married...
train-other-500/3138/173544/3138_173544_000017_000001|Pierre dressed hurriedly and, instead of going to see them, went to the back porch and out through the gate.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000003_000000|THE SON OF SEVEN QUEENS
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000004_000000|ADAPTED BY JOSEPH JACOBS
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000005_000000|Once upon a time there lived a King who had seven Queens, but no children.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000005_000001|This was a great grief to him, especially when he remembered that on his death there would be no heir to inherit the kingdom.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000008_000000|Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, attended by hundreds of female slaves, and fed to their hearts' content on sweetmeats and confectionery.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000010_000000|The King, to allay their anxiety, promised regard for their wishes, and set out toward the south; but as luck would have it, although he hunted diligently, he found no game.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000010_000001|Nor had he more success to the east or west, so that, being a keen sportsman, and determined not to go home empty handed, he forgot all about his promise and turned to the north.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000012_000001|However, when he would take no refusal, but implored her to have pity on him, promising her everything she could desire, she replied, "Give me the eyes of your seven Queens, and then perhaps I may believe you mean what you say."
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000015_000000|Now, very soon after the seven wretched hapless Queens had their eyes torn out, and were cast into prison, a baby was born to the youngest of the Queens.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000015_000001|It was a handsome boy, but the other Queens were very jealous that the youngest among them should be so fortunate.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000016_000002|All these, things he brought home to his seven mothers, as he loved to call the seven blind Queens, who by his help lived on in their dungeon when all the world thought they had starved to death ages before.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000017_000000|At last, when he was quite a big lad, he one day took his bow and arrow, and went out to seek for game.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000017_000003|At the first glance of the handsome young lad standing there bow in hand, she knew by witchcraft that it was the King's son.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000020_000000|"Poor souls!" cried the cunning white witch.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000020_000001|"Would you not like to bring them their eyes again?
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000021_000000|Hearing this, the lad was delighted beyond measure, and gave up the pigeon at once.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000021_000001|Whereupon the white Queen told him to seek her mother without delay, and ask for the eyes which she wore as a necklace.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000023_000000|So saying, she gave the lad a piece of broken potsherd, with these words inscribed on it, "Kill the bearer at once, and sprinkle his blood like water!"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000026_000000|No sooner did the Princess catch sight of him than she blushed, and, turning to the King, said, "Dear father, this is my choice!"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000027_000000|Never were such rejoicings as these few words produced.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000027_000002|When the beautiful bride heard his story, she asked to see the potsherd, for she was very learned and clever.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000028_000000|Ere long he arrived at the hovel in the ravine where the white witch's mother, a hideous old creature, grumbled dreadfully on reading the message, especially when the lad asked for the necklace of eyes. Nevertheless she took it off and gave it him, saying, "There are only thirteen of 'em now, for I lost one last week."
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000030_000000|After this he set off to marry the Princess, as he had promised, but when passing by the white Queen's palace he saw some pigeons on the roof.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000030_000001|Drawing his bow, he shot one, and it came fluttering past the window.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000030_000003|there was the King's son alive and well.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000031_000000|She cried with hatred and disgust, but sending for the lad, asked him how he had returned so soon, and when she heard how he had brought home the thirteen eyes, and given them to the seven blind Queens, she could hardly restrain her rage.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000031_000002|The lad, nothing loth, gave her the pigeon; whereupon, as before, she bade him go and ask her mother for the cow, and gave him a potsherd where on was written, "Kill this lad without fail, and sprinkle his blood like water!"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000033_000002|They were really frightful to behold, but, plucking up courage, he whistled a tune as he walked through them, looking neither to the right nor the left.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000034_000000|The Jogi, seeing the lad, called out fiercely, "What do you want here?"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000039_000001|One fell dead just beneath the window where the white Queen was sitting.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000041_000001|Kill the lad, and sprinkle his blood like water!"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000042_000000|But when he looked in on his Princess, just to prevent her becoming anxious about him, she asked to see the potsherd as usual, and substituted another, on which was written, "Yet again give this lad all he requires, for his blood shall be as your blood!"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000044_000002|He looked back, and lo!
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000045_000000|Now as time passed by and the lad did not return, the old hag grew uneasy, remembering the message "His blood shall be as your blood"; so she set off to see what had happened.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000047_000001|Now be off, before I repent of my kindness!"
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000048_000000|So the son of seven Queens returned joyfully to his seven mothers, who, by the aid of the millionfold rice, soon became the richest people in the kingdom.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000048_000001|Then they celebrated their son's marriage to the clever Princess with all imaginable pomp; but the bride was so clever, she would not rest until she had made known her husband to his father, and punished the wicked white witch.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000048_000004|And when his host, richly attired, led him straight to the private hall, where on royal thrones sat the seven Queens, dressed as he had last seen them, he was speechless with surprise, until the Princess, coming forward, threw herself at his feet and told him the whole story.
train-other-500/3142/160977/3142_160977_000048_000005|Then the King awoke from his enchantment, and his anger rose against the wicked white hind who had bewitched him so long, until he could not contain himself.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000001_000000|THE STORY OF CALIPH STORK
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000002_000001|The Caliph, being in an affable state of mind, summoned the peddler, who, delighted with the opportunity, displayed all the treasures of his pack.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000002_000002|There were pearls, rings, silks, and many other rich things.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000002_000003|The Caliph selected something for himself, a handsome present for the Vizier, and another for the Vizier's wife.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000003_000000|Just as the peddler was putting the things back into his box, the Caliph noticed a small drawer and asked what it contained.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000004_000000|"Only something of no value, which I picked up in a street of Mecca," the peddler replied.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000004_000001|He thereupon opened the drawer and showed the Caliph a small box, containing a black powder and a scroll written in characters which neither the Caliph nor his Grand Vizier could make out.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000004_000002|The Caliph immediately decided that he wanted this strange scroll, and the peddler was persuaded to part with it for a trifle. Then the Vizier was asked to find some one to decipher its meaning.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000005_000000|Near the mosque lived a man called Selim, who was so learned that he knew every language in the world.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000005_000001|When the Vizier brought him to interpret the scroll, the Caliph said to him:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000006_000000|"They tell me that you are a scholar and can read all languages.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000006_000001|If you can decipher what is written here, I shall know that it is true, and will give you a robe of honor; but if you fail, I shall have you punished with many strokes, because you are falsely named."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000007_000000|Selim prostrated himself at the feet of the Caliph, and then took the scroll.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000007_000001|He had not looked at it long when he exclaimed:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000009_000000|"Well, if so, let us hear what it says," the Caliph impatiently answered.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000009_000001|Selim at once began:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000010_000000|"Let him who finds this box praise Allah.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000010_000001|If he snuffs the powder it contains, at the same time pronouncing the word 'Matabor,' he will be transformed into any creature that he desires, and will understand the language of all animals.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000010_000002|When he wishes to return to his own form, let him bow to the east three times, repeating the word 'Matabor.' But remember if, while he is bird or beast, he should laugh, the magic word would be forgotten, and the enchantment would be on him forever."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000011_000000|The Caliph was delighted with the knowledge of Selim.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000011_000001|He made him a splendid present, and told him to keep the secret.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000011_000002|When he had dismissed the learned man, he turned to the Grand Vizier, and expressed a wish to try the powder.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000012_000000|"Come to morrow morning early," said he, "and we will go together to the country and learn what the animals are talking about."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000013_000000|The Vizier came as he was ordered, and they left the palace without attendants.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000013_000001|Beyond the town was a large pond where some handsome storks were often seen, and to this place they presently came.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000013_000002|A grave and stately stork was hunting for frogs, while another flew about and kept him company.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000014_000000|"Most gracious lord," said the Vizier, "what think you of these dignified long legs, and how would you like to know their chatter?"
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000015_000000|The Caliph replied that the stork had always interested him, and he would very much like a more intimate acquaintance.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000015_000001|Taking the box from his girdle, he helped himself to a pinch of snuff and offered it to the Vizier, who followed his example.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000016_000000|Together they cried "Matabor," and instantly their beards disappeared, and feathers covered their bodies; their necks stretched out long and slender, and their legs shriveled into red and shapeless sticks.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000016_000001|The Caliph lifted up his foot to stroke his beard in astonishment, but found a long bill in its place.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000018_000000|"If I may say so, your Highness, you are equally handsome as a stork as when you were a Caliph," replied the Vizier.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000018_000001|"I see our two relations are conversing over there; shall we join them?"
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000019_000000|When they came near to where the storks were smoothing their feathers and touching bills in the most friendly manner, this was the conversation they overheard, "Will you have some of my frog's legs for breakfast, Dame Yellowlegs?" "No, thank you; I am obliged to practise a dance for my father's guests, and cannot eat." Thereupon Dame Yellowlegs stepped out, and began to pose most gracefully.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000020_000000|Suddenly, however, the Vizier ceased his mirth, and commenced bowing to the east.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000020_000001|The Caliph recovered himself and did the same, but neither could think of the magic word.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000021_000000|"Mansor, just recall that unholy word, and I will become Caliph once more, and you my Grand Vizier.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000021_000001|I have had enough of being a bird for one day."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000022_000000|"Most gracious lord, that dancing stork has undone us, for, since laughing at her antics, I cannot remember the word that will restore us to human shape."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000023_000000|So at last, in despair, the two unhappy birds wandered through the meadows.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000023_000001|They appeased their hunger with fruits, for they could not bring themselves to eat frogs and lizards.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000023_000002|As they dared not return to Bagdad and tell the people their chagrin, they flew over the city, and had the satisfaction of seeing signs of mourning and confusion.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000023_000004|"Hail!
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000023_000005|Hail Mirza, ruler of Bagdad!" they shouted.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000024_000000|The procession came nearer.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000024_000001|At the head of it the Caliph saw a man dressed in scarlet and gold, riding a handsome horse.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000024_000002|He at once recognized the new ruler as the son of his worst enemy.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000025_000000|"Behold," said he, "the explanation of our enchantment!
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000025_000001|This is the son of Kaschnur, the magician, who is my great enemy, who seeks revenge.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000025_000002|Let us not lose hope, but fly to the sacred grave of the Prophet and pray to be released from the spell."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000026_000000|They at once spread their wings and soared away toward Medina, but not being accustomed to such long flights, they soon became fatigued and descended to a ruin which stood in a valley below.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000026_000003|The Caliph listened, and heard a low moaning and sobbing, which seemed to come from a room down the passage.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000026_000004|He started to rush toward it, but the Vizier held him fast by a wing.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000026_000005|He had retained the brave heart that he had possessed when a Caliph, however, and freeing himself from the Vizier's bill, he hurried to the room whence came the pitiful sounds.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000026_000008|To their astonishment it addressed them in Arabic, in the following words:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000027_000000|"I have abandoned myself to despair, but I believe my deliverance is near, for it was prophesied in my youth that a stork would bring me good fortune."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000028_000000|The Caliph, thus appealed to, arched his neck most gracefully and replied:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000031_000001|I am Tusa, the daughter of the King of the Indies.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000031_000002|The magician, Kaschnur, came one day to my father, to ask my hand in marriage for his son Mirza.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000032_000000|At the conclusion of her story, the screech owl wept anew and would not be consoled.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000032_000001|Suddenly, however, she wiped her eyes on her wing and said:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000033_000000|"I have an idea that may lead to our deliverance.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000033_000001|Once every month the magician, Kaschnur, and his companions meet in a large hall at this castle, where they feast and relate their evil deeds.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000033_000002|We will listen outside the door, and perhaps you may hear the forgotten word.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000033_000003|Then, when you have resumed human form, one of you can ask to marry me, that I too may be freed from this wretched enchantment; and the prophecy that a stork would bring me happiness would be fulfilled."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000035_000000|"Not so, your Highness, I already have a wife, and would rather remain a stork forever than take another; besides, I am an old man, while you are young and unmarried, and much better suited to a beautiful Princess."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000036_000000|"That is it," said the Caliph.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000036_000001|"How do I know that she will not prove to be some old fright?" As the Vizier was firm, the Caliph at last said he would take the chances and do as the screech owl required.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000000|That very night it so happened that the magicians met at the ruined castle.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000001|The screech owl led the two storks through difficult passages till they came to a hole in the wall, through which they could plainly see all that transpired in the lighted hall.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000002|Handsomely carved pillars adorned the room, and a table was spread with many dishes.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000003|About the table sat eight men, among whom was their enemy, the magician.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000004|He entertained the company with many stories, and at last came to his latest-that of turning the Caliph and Vizier into storks-in relating which he pronounced the magic word.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000005|The storks did not wait to hear more, but ran to the door of the castle.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000037_000006|The screech owl followed as fast as she could, and when the Caliph saw her he exclaimed:
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000038_000000|"To prove my gratitude, O our deliverer!
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000038_000001|I beg you to take me for your husband."
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000039_000000|Then the two storks faced the rising sun, and bowed their long necks three times.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000039_000001|"Matabor!" they solemnly cried, together; and in an instant they were no longer storks, but stood before each other in their natural forms.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000039_000003|When the Caliph recovered from his astonishment he said that he was now, indeed, enchanted and hoped to remain so always.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000040_000000|They then started at once for the gate of Bagdad; and when they arrived, the people were overjoyed, for they had believed their ruler dead.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000040_000002|Choosing the powder, he was changed into a stork, and was kept in the palace gardens.
train-other-500/3143/160986/3143_160986_000041_000000|Caliph Charid and the Princess were married; and when their children grew old enough, the Caliph often amused them with imitations of the Grand Vizier when he was a stork,--while Mansor sat smiling and pulling his long beard.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000000|King Kojata ruled over a mighty kingdom, and was beloved by his subjects; but because he had no heir to his crown, both he and the Queen lamented.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000001|Once, while traveling through his territories, he came to a well that was filled to the brim with clear cold water; and being very thirsty, he stopped to drink.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000002|On the top of the water floated a golden vessel, which the King attempted to seize; but just as his hand touched it, away it floated to the other side of the well.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000003|He went around to where the vessel rested and tried again, with the same result.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000004|Every time the King touched the basin it glided from his grasp.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000005|At last, losing patience, he gave up trying to seize the vessel, and bending over the well, he began to drink.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000006|His long beard had fallen into the water, and when he had slaked his thirst and attempted to rise, he found himself held fast by it.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000007|After vainly pulling and jerking for some time, he looked down into the water and saw a hideous face grinning at him.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000002_000008|Its eyes were green and shining, its teeth showed from ear to ear, and it held him by the beard with two bony claws.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000003_000000|"You cannot get away, King Kojata, so do not make me pull your beard too hard.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000003_000001|There is something at the palace of which you do not know; promise to give it to me, and I will release you."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000000|The King did not know of anything that could have arrived at the palace during his absence worth the discomfort he was experiencing; so he very readily gave his promise, and was freed.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000001|When he had shaken the water from his beard, he looked in the well for the ugly monster which had held him captive, but he was nowhere to be seen.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000002|Summoning his attendants, he at once set out for home, where he arrived in a few days.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000003|The people along the way hailed him with delight; and when he reached the palace, the Queen led him to the royal chamber and showed him a beautiful son that had been born during his absence.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000004|His joy was so great that he forgot all else; but after a time he recalled with horror his compact with the monster of the well, and the meaning was all plain to him.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000005|The thought of what he had promised haunted him day and night, and the fear that something would happen to his little son tortured him.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000004_000006|But as days and months passed, and the little Prince grew more beautiful all the time, the King at last forgot his fears and became happy once more.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000005_000000|Years went by without anything happening to disturb his peace of mind, and the Prince grew to be a beautiful youth, who was the joy and pride of the King and Queen.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000005_000001|One day he went with the hunters to the forest, and while pursuing a wild boar, became separated from them.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000005_000002|He got farther and farther away from his companions, and at last found himself alone in a dark part of the wood where he never before had been.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000005_000003|Not knowing in which direction his path lay, he called again and again to the hunters.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000005_000004|At last a hoarse voice answered him, and from the hollow trunk of a lime tree appeared a hideous man with green eyes and terrible teeth.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000006_000000|"I've waited for you a long time, Prince Milan," said he.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000007_000000|"Who on earth may you be?" asked the Prince.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000008_000000|"Your father will tell you who I am.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000008_000001|Just give my greetings to his Majesty, and tell him that I am ready to claim the debt he owes me."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000009_000001|The King turned white, and cried:
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000010_000000|"At last, it has come!"
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000010_000001|Then he explained to the Prince what had occurred at the well, and added, "Now my happiness is at an end, for you, my son, will be taken from me."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000011_000000|The Prince told the King not to despair, for though he might go away, he was certain to return to him.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000011_000001|His father provided him with a handsome horse with golden stirrups, and the Queen gave him a cross to wear about his neck.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000012_000000|On the third day he came to a lake on whose smooth surface thirty ducks were swimming, while spread about upon the grass were thirty white garments.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000012_000001|The Prince dismounted, and taking up one of the garments, seated himself behind a bush and waited to see what would happen.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000012_000003|But there was one little duck, that remained on the lake and swam about in the most distracted manner, uttering piteous cries.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000012_000004|The Prince came from behind the bush and the little duck begged him to give back her garment.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000012_000005|He had no sooner done so than before him stood the loveliest maiden he had ever seen.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000013_000000|"Thank you, Prince Milan, for restoring my garment," said she.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000013_000001|"My name is Hyacinthia, and I am one of the thirty daughters of a King of the Underworld, to whose castle I will lead you, for he has waited long for you.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000013_000002|Approach him on your knees and do not fear him, for I will be there to help you, whatever happens."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000014_000001|When his eyes became accustomed to the radiant light, the Prince saw the magician of the lime tree sitting on a dazzling throne.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000014_000002|His green eyes looked out from under a golden crown, and his hideous claws clutched the air with rage when he saw the Prince.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000014_000003|Remembering what the maiden had told him, Prince Milan walked boldly up to the throne and knelt at the feet of the magician, who cursed in a voice that shook the Underworld.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000014_000004|As the youth was not at all frightened, the magician at last stopped swearing.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000014_000006|On the following day he sent for him and said;
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000015_000000|"You are very brave, Prince Milan, but you must pay the penalty for keeping me waiting so long for you.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000015_000001|To night build me a palace of gold and marble, with windows of crystal, and about it the most beautiful gardens in the world, or tomorrow I shall cut off your head."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000016_000000|The Prince went back to his chamber and sadly awaited his doom.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000016_000001|That evening a small bee flew in through his window, and as soon as it entered the room it became Hyacinthia.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000016_000002|"Why are you sad, Prince Milan?" she asked.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000016_000003|He told her of her father's impossible command and added, "Naturally, I am not happy at the thought of losing my head."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000017_000000|"Do not be distressed about that," said she, "but trust to me." In the morning he looked out of the window and saw a wonderful marble palace, with a roof of gold.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000018_000000|When the magician beheld it, he exclaimed, "You have accomplished a great wonder, but I cannot let you off so easily.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000019_000000|The Prince, however, was not cast down at this, for he thought he would have no trouble in recognizing Hyacinthia.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000019_000001|That evening the little bee entered the room and told him that this task was quite as difficult as the first, because the sisters were all exactly alike. "But you will know me," said she, "by a little fly which you will discover on my cheek."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000020_000000|The next day the magician summoned him to his presence, and showed him the thirty daughters standing in a row.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000020_000001|The Prince passed before them twice, without daring to choose; but he saw the little fly on the pink cheek of one of the maidens.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000021_000000|"This is Hyacinthia!" exclaimed he.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000021_000001|The magician was greatly astonished; but not yet satisfied, he required of the Prince still another task.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000022_000000|"If, before this candle burns to the bottom," said he, "you make me a pair of boots reaching to my knees, I will let you go; but if you fail, you will lose your head."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000023_000001|She breathed on the window pane, and straightway it was covered with frost; then, leading Prince Milan from the chamber, she locked the door, and they fled through the passage by which they had entered the Underworld.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000023_000002|Beside the smooth lake his horse was still grazing, and mounting it, they were borne swiftly away.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000024_000000|When the magician sent for the Prince to come to him, the frozen breath replied to the messengers, and so delayed the discovery of his escape.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000024_000001|At last the magician lost patience and ordered the door burst open.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000024_000002|The frozen breath mocked at him, and he hastened in pursuit of the fugitives.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000025_000000|"I hear the sound of horses' feet behind us," said Hyacinthia.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000025_000001|The Prince dismounted, and putting his ear to the ground, answered, "Yes, they are near." Hyacinthia thereupon changed herself into a river, and the Prince became a bridge, and his horse a blackbird.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000025_000002|Their pursuers, no longer finding their footprints, were obliged to return to the magician, who cursed them, and again sent them forth.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000026_000000|"I hear the sound of horses' feet behind us," again said Hyacinthia. The Prince put his ear to the earth and said, "Yes, they are nearly upon us." Thereupon Hyacinthia changed herself, the Prince and the horse, all into a dense forest in which many paths crossed, so that the followers were bewildered; and they again returned to the magician.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000027_000000|"I hear horses' feet behind us," said Hyacinthia a third time; and this time it was the magician himself.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000027_000001|Hyacinthia took the little cross from the neck of the Prince, and changed herself into a church, the Prince into a monk, and the horse into the belfry; so that when the magician came up he lost all trace of them, and was obliged to return to the Underworld in great chagrin.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000028_000000|When he had departed, the Prince and Hyacinthia mounted the horse and rode till they came to a beautiful town.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000029_000000|"We must not enter," said she, "for we may not come out again." But the Prince would not take her advice, and insisted upon passing through the gates.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000030_000000|"Then," sadly replied the maiden, "when the King and Queen of the town come out to meet you, do not kiss the little child which they will lead by the hand, or you will forget me and never come back.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000030_000001|As for me, I will become a milestone and wait for you here."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000031_000000|It was all as Hyacinthia had said.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000031_000001|The King and Queen came out to greet him, and when the lovely little child ran up to him for a caress, he kissed its pretty face and forgot Hyacinthia.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000032_000000|The first and second day went by; and when the third day came, Hyacinthia wept, and became a little blue flower growing by the roadside.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000032_000001|An old man came along, and digging up the flower carried it home with him and planted it in his garden.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000032_000002|He watered and tended it carefully, and one day the little flower became a beautiful maiden.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000035_000000|Hyacinthia at once dried her tears, and presented herself at the palace, dressed like a peasant.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000035_000001|She went to the cook and asked to be allowed to make the wedding cake.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000035_000002|The cook was so struck with her beauty that he could not refuse the request.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000035_000003|When the guests were all seated about the table, Prince Milan was called upon to cut the cake. As soon as he had done so, out flew two beautiful doves, which circled about his head.
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000036_000000|"Dear mate," cried one of the doves, "do not leave me as Prince Milan left Hyacinthia."
train-other-500/3143/160993/3143_160993_000037_000000|The Prince, who suddenly recollected all he had forgotten, ran from the room and at the door found Hyacinthia and his horse awaiting him. They mounted and rode swiftly away to the kingdom of King Kojata, where the King and Queen received them with tears of joy, and they all lived in happiness to the end of their days.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000003_000000|Like a shroud was that silence.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000003_000001|Beneath it my mind struggled, its unease, its forebodings growing ever stronger.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000003_000002|Silently we repacked the saddlebags; girthed the pony; silently we waited for Norhala's return.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000005_000000|Abruptly out of their dim nebulosity a faintly phosphorescent square broke.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000005_000001|It lifted, slowly; then swept, a dully lustrous six foot cube, up the slope and came to rest almost at our feet.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000006_000001|One by one they skimmed swiftly over the ledge; and one by one they nestled, edge to edge and alternately, against the cube which had gone before.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000007_000000|In a crescent, they stretched before us.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000007_000001|Back from them, a pace, ten paces, twenty, we retreated.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000008_000000|They lay immobile-staring at us.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000009_000000|Cleaving the mists, silk of copper hair streaming wide, unearthly eyes lambent, floated up behind them-Norhala.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000009_000001|For an instant she was hidden behind their bulk; suddenly was upon them; drifted over them like some spirit of light; stood before us.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000010_000000|Her veils were again about her; golden girdle, sandals of gold and turquoise in their places.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000010_000001|Pearl white her body gleamed; no mark of lightning marred it.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000011_000000|She walked toward us, turned and faced the watching cubes.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000011_000002|She rested a hand upon its edge.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000012_000000|"Ride with me," she said to ruth.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000013_000000|"Norhala." Ventnor took a step forward.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000013_000001|"Norhala, we must go with her. And this"--he pointed to the pony-"must go with us."
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000014_000000|"I meant-you-to come," the faraway voice chimed, "but I had not thought of-that."
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000015_000000|A moment she considered; then turned to the six waiting cubes.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000016_000000|"Mount," sighed Norhala.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000017_000000|Ventnor looked helplessly at the sheer front facing him.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000018_000000|"Mount." There was half wondering impatience in her command.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000018_000001|"See!"
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000020_000000|"Mount," she murmured again, looking down upon us.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000021_000000|Slowly Ventnor began to bandage the pony's eyes.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000021_000001|I placed my hand upon the edge of the quadruple; sprang.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000021_000002|A myriad unseen hands caught me, raised me, set me instantaneously on the upward surface.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000022_000000|"Lift the pony to me," I called to Ventnor.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000024_000000|Drake's grin cut like a sunray through the nightmare dread that shrouded my mind.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000026_000000|"Follow," cried Norhala.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000027_000000|Ventnor leaped wildly for the top, Drake beside him; in the flash of a humming bird's wing they were gripping me, swearing feebly.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000027_000001|The unseen hold angled; struck upward; clutched from ankle to thigh; held us fast-men and beast.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000028_000000|Away swept the block that bore ruth and Norhala; I saw ruth crouching, head bent, her arms around the knees of the woman.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000028_000001|They slipped into the mists; vanished.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000029_000000|And after them, like a log in a racing current, we, too, dipped beneath the faintly luminous vapors.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000031_000000|I saw the blurred form of Ventnor drift toward the forward edge.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000031_000001|He walked as though wading.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000031_000002|I essayed to follow him; my feet I could not lift; I could advance only by gliding them as though skating.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000032_000000|Also the force, whatever it was, that held me seemed to pass me on from unseen clutch to clutch; it was as though up to my hips I moved through a closely woven yet fluid mass of cobwebs.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000033_000000|I drew beside Ventnor.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000033_000001|He was staring ahead, striving, I knew, to pierce the mists for some glimpse of ruth.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000034_000000|He turned to me, his face drawn with anxiety, his eyes feverish.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000035_000000|"Can you see them, Walter?" His voice shook.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000035_000001|"God-why did I ever let her go like that?
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000035_000002|Why did I let her go alone?"
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000036_000002|I'm sure of it."
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000037_000000|"She said-follow."
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000037_000004|But she has.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000037_000005|What she meant, Ventnor, is that it would follow her."
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000038_000000|"That's true"--new hope softened the haggard face-"that's true-but is it?
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000038_000001|We're reckoning with creatures that man's imagination never conceived-nor could conceive.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000038_000002|And with this-woman-human in shape, yes, but human in thought-never.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000038_000003|How then can we tell-"
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000039_000000|He turned once more, all his consciousness concentrated in his searching eyes.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000040_000000|Drake's rifle slipped from his hand.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000041_000000|He stooped to pick it up; then tugged with both hands.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000041_000001|The rifle lay immovable.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000042_000000|I bent and strove to aid him.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000043_000000|"They're-laughing at us!" grunted Drake.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000044_000000|"Nonsense," I answered, and tried to check the involuntary shuddering that shook me, as I saw it shake him.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000044_000001|"Nonsense.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000044_000002|These blocks are great magnets-that's what holds the rifle; what holds us, too."
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000045_000000|"I don't mean the rifle," he said; "I mean those points of lights-the eyes-"
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000046_000001|We straightened.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000046_000002|Our head shot above the mists like those of swimmers from water.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000046_000003|Unnoticed, we had been climbing out of them.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000048_000000|A mile away was an opening in the valley's mountainous wall; toward it we were speeding.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000048_000001|It was no ragged crevice, no nature split fissure; it gave the impression of a gigantic doorway.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000049_000000|"Look," whispered Drake.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000050_000001|Quickly the fins and rolling curves were all about us.
train-other-500/3144/166426/3144_166426_000050_000002|They centered upon the portal, streamed through-a horde of the metal things, leading us, guarding us, playing about us.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000002_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000002_000001|THE PORTAL OF FLAME
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000003_000000|It was as though we were on a meteor hurtling through space.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000003_000001|The split air shrieked and shrilled, a keening barrier against the avalanche of the thunder.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000003_000002|The blast bent us far back on thighs held rigid by the magnetic grip.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000005_000000|Ventnor crouched lower and lower, eyes shielded behind arms folded over his brows, straining for a glimpse of ruth; Drake crouched beside him, bracing him, supporting him against the tempest.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000006_000000|Our line of flight became less abrupt, but the speed increased, the wind pressure became almost insupportable.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000006_000001|I twisted, dropped upon my right arm, thrust my head against my shoulder, stared backward.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000006_000002|When first I had looked upon the place I had sensed its immensity; now I began to realize how vast it must really be-for already the gateway through which we had come glimmered far away on high, shrunk to a hoop of incandescent brass and dwindling fast.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000007_000001|Pit it might be, but whatever terror, whatever ordeals were before us, we would not have to face them buried deep within earth.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000007_000002|There was a curious comfort to me in the thought.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000008_000000|Suddenly stars and sky were blotted out.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000009_000000|We had plunged beneath the surface of the radiant sea.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000010_000000|Lying in the position in which I was, I was sensible of a diminution of the cyclonic force; the blast streamed up and over the front of the cube.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000010_000001|To me drifted only the wailings of our flight and the whimpering terror of the pony.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000011_000000|I turned my head cautiously.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000011_000001|Upon the very edge of the flying blocks squatted Drake and Ventnor, grotesquely frog like.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000012_000000|As my bare palms clung to the Things I realized with finality that whatever their activation, their life, they WERE metal.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000013_000000|There was no mistaking now the testimony of touch.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000014_000000|Also they had temperature, a curiously pleasant warmth-the surfaces were, I judged, around ninety five degrees Fahrenheit.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000016_000000|They were like the galaxies of little aureate and sapphire stars in the clear gray heavens of Norhala's eyes.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000017_000000|I crept beside Drake, struck him with my head.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000018_000001|"Can't lift my hands.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000019_000000|"Drag 'em over your knees," he cried, bending to me.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000019_000001|"It slides 'em out of the attraction."
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000021_000001|Nothing here you can slide your knees on."
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000022_000000|I nodded, waddling close to his side; then sank back on my haunches to relieve the strain upon my aching leg muscles.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000026_000001|Preparing, DRILLING there in some wide vestibule of space between the known and the unknown, alert and menacing-poised for the signal which would send them pouring over it.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000028_000000|They cleared away.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000028_000001|I saw Drake and Ventnor straighten up; raised myself to my own aching knees.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000029_000001|It was as though before us lay, upon its side, a cone of crystalline clear air against whose curved sides some radiant medium heavier than air, lighter than water, pressed.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000030_000000|The top arc of its prostrate base reached a thousand feet or more up the precipitous wall; above it all was hidden in sparkling nebulosities that were like still clouds of greenly glimmering fire flies.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000030_000001|Back from the curving sides of this cone, above it and below it, the pressing luminosities stretched into, it seemed, infinite distances.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000032_000000|It was-how can I describe it?--PURPOSEFUL; purposeful as the geometric shiftings of the Little Things of the ruins, of the summoning song of Norhala, of the Protean changes of the Smiting Shape and the Following Thing; and like all of these it was as laden with that baffling certainty of hidden meanings, of messages that the brain recognized as such yet knew it never could read.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000033_000000|The rays seemed to spring upward from the earth.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000034_000000|Whence came the force, the mechanism that produced this cone of clarity, this NOT searchlight, but unlight in the midst of light?
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000034_000002|I turned again-it came to me, why I knew not, yet with an absolute certainty, that the energy, the force emanated from the distant wall itself.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000035_000000|The funnel, the cone, did not expand from where we were standing, now motionless.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000036_000000|It began at the wall and focused upon us.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000037_000000|Within the great circle the surface of the wall was smooth, utterly blank; upon it was no trace of those flitting lights we had seen before we had plunged down toward the radiant sea.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000037_000001|It shone with a pale blue phosphorescence.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000037_000002|It was featureless, smooth, a blind cliff of polished, blue metal-and that was all.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000038_000000|"ruth!" groaned Ventnor.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000038_000001|"Where is she?"
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000039_000000|Aghast at my mental withdrawal from him, angry at myself for my callousness, awkwardly I tried to crawl over to him, to touch him, comfort him as well as I might.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000040_000000|And then, as though his cry had been a signal, the great cone began to move.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000041_000002|The two rose out of the glow like swimmers floating from the depths.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000041_000003|Now they were clear before us, and now we could see the surface of the cube on which they rode.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000042_000000|But neither turned to us; each stared straightly, motionless along the axis of the sinking cone, the woman's left arm holding ruth close to her side.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000043_000000|Drake's hand caught my shoulder in a grip that hurt-nor did he need to point toward that which had wrung the exclamation from him.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000043_000001|The funnel had broken from its slow falling; it had made one swift, startling drop and had come to rest.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000043_000002|Its recumbent side was now flattened into a triangular plane, widening from the narrow tip in which we stood to all of five hundred feet where its base rested against the blue wall, and falling at a full thirty degree pitch.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000044_000000|The misty edged circle had become an oval, a flattened ellipse another five hundred feet high and three times that in length.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000044_000001|And in its exact center, shining forth as though it opened into a place of pale azure incandescence was another rectangular Cyclopean portal.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000045_000000|On each side of it, in the apparently solid face of the gleaming, metallic cliffs, a slit was opening.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000047_000000|Deep within them I sensed a movement.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000047_000001|Scores of towering shapes swam within and glided out of them, each reflecting the vivid light as though they themselves were incandescent.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000047_000002|Around their crests spun wide and flaming coronets.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000048_000001|Out they swirled from the cat's eyes of the glimmering wall, these dervish obelisks crowded with spinning fires.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000048_000002|They vanished in the mists.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000048_000003|Instantly with their going, the eyes contracted; were but slits; were gone.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000049_000000|The leading block leaped forward.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000049_000001|As abruptly, those that bore us followed.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000049_000002|Again under that strain of projectile flight we clutched each other; the pony screamed in terror.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000050_000000|And into it we swept; were devoured by it.
train-other-500/3144/166428/3144_166428_000051_000000|Light in blinding, intolerable flood beat about us, blackening the sight with agony.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000000_000000|The picture, a random choice among the three shows in the neighborhood, was about Seventeenth Century buccaneers; exciting action and a sound track loud with shots and cutlass clashing.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000000_000003|It was long after midnight before he had finished the notes he had begun on his return home.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000001_000000|Well, that had been a mistake, but he wouldn't make it again.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000001_000001|He determined again to destroy his notes, and began casting about for a subject which would occupy his mind to the exclusion of the future. Not the Spanish Conquistadores; that was too much like the early period of interstellar expansion.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000001_000003|There were so few things, in the history of the past, which did not have their counter parts in the future.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000001_000004|That evening, too, he stayed at home, preparing for his various classes for the rest of the week and making copious notes on what he would talk about to each.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000003_000001|Pottgeiter hadn't arrived yet, but Marjorie Fenner was waiting for him; a newspaper in her hand, almost bursting with excitement.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000004_000000|"Here; have you seen it, Doctor Chalmers?" she asked as he entered.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000005_000000|He shook his head.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000005_000001|He ought to read the papers more, to keep track of the advancing knife edge that divided what he might talk about from what he wasn't supposed to know, but each morning he seemed to have less and less time to get ready for work.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000006_000000|"Well, look!
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000006_000001|Look at that!"
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000007_000000|She thrust the paper into his hands, still folded, the big, black headline where he could see it.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000009_000000|He glanced over the leading paragraphs.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000010_000000|For a moment, he felt guilt, until he realized that nothing he could have done could have altered the event.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000010_000001|The death of Khalid ib'n Hussein, and all the millions of other deaths that would follow it, were fixed in the matrix of the space time continuum.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000010_000002|Including, maybe, the death of an obscure professor of Modern History named Edward Chalmers.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000011_000000|"At least, this'll be the end of that silly flap about what happened a month ago in Modern Four.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000011_000001|This is modern history, now; I can talk about it without a lot of fools yelling their heads off."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000013_000000|"Yes, of course; the man's dead.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000013_000001|So's Julius Caesar, but we've gotten over being shocked at his murder."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000014_000002|No, he couldn't talk about that; that was on the wrong side of the knife edge.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000014_000003|Have to be careful about the knife edge; too easy to cut himself on it.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000015_000002|Great heavens, did it take the murder of the greatest Moslem since Saladin to convince people that he wasn't crazy?
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000016_000000|Before the period was over, Whitburn's secretary entered with a note in the college president's hand and over his signature; requesting Chalmers to come to his office immediately and without delay.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000016_000001|Just like that; expected him to walk right out of his class.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000016_000002|He was protesting as he entered the president's office.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000016_000003|Whitburn cut him off short.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000017_000000|"Doctor Chalmers,"--Whitburn had risen behind his desk as the door opened-"I certainly hope that you can realize that there was nothing but the most purely coincidental connection between the event featured in this morning's newspapers and your performance, a month ago, in Modern History Four," he began.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000018_000000|"I realize nothing of the sort.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000019_000001|And I suppose you intend to exploit this-this coincidence-to the utmost. The involvement of Blanley College in a mess of sensational publicity means nothing to you, I presume."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000022_000000|"I did not.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000022_000002|Except my attorney, a month ago, when you were threatening to repudiate the contract you signed with me."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000023_000000|"I suppose I'm expected to take your word for that?"
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000024_000000|"Yes, you are.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000024_000001|Unless you care to call me a liar in so many words." He moved a step closer.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000024_000003|Whitburn must have realized that, too.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000025_000001|"But somebody did.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000026_000000|"What did you tell him?"
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000027_000000|"I refused to make any statement whatever.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000028_000001|Not even by college presidents.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000028_000002|That's only made things worse.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000028_000003|Personally, I don't relish the prospect of having this publicized, any more than you do.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000029_000000|Whitburn didn't take the hint.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000029_000002|He was livid with rage.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000030_000001|"Why, it's ridiculous!
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000031_000000|"Unusual, I'll admit.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000031_000001|But the fact remains that I did.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000031_000002|I should, of course, have been more careful, and not confused future with past events.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000032_000000|Whitburn half turned, stopping short.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000033_000000|"My God, man!
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000034_000000|The period bell was ringing as he left Whitburn's office; that meant that the twenty three students were scattering over the campus, talking like mad.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000034_000001|He shrugged.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000034_000002|Keeping them quiet about a thing like this wouldn't have been possible in any case.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000034_000003|When he entered his office, Stanly Weill was waiting for him.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000034_000004|The lawyer drew him out into the hallway quickly.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000035_000000|"For God's sake, have you been talking to the papers?" he demanded. "After what I told you...."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000036_000001|Weill cursed the college president bitterly.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000037_000001|Well, if you haven't talked, don't."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000038_000000|"Suppose somebody asks me?"
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000039_000000|"A reporter, no comment.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000039_000001|Anybody else, none of his damn business.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000040_000000|Leonard Fitch met him as he entered the Faculty Club, sizzling with excitement.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000041_000000|"Ed, this has done it!" he began, jubilantly.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000041_000001|"This is one nobody can laugh off.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000041_000002|It's direct proof of precognition, and because of the prominence of the event, everybody will hear about it.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000041_000003|And it simply can't be dismissed as coincidence...."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000042_000000|"Whitburn's trying to do that."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000043_000001|Turning, he saw that the speaker was Tom Smith, one of the math professors.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000043_000002|"I figured the odds against that being chance.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000045_000000|"Of course, I did," Fitch said.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000045_000001|"I'll admit, I had to go behind your back and have some of my postgrads get statements from the boys in your history class, but you wouldn't talk about it yourself...."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000046_000000|Tom Smith was standing beside him.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000046_000001|He was twenty years younger than Chalmers, he was an amateur boxer, and he had good reflexes.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000046_000002|He caught Chalmers' arm as it was traveling back for an uppercut, and held it.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000047_000000|"Take it easy, Ed; you don't want to start a slugfest in here.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000047_000001|This is the Faculty Club; remember?"
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000048_000000|"I won't, Tom; it wouldn't prove anything if I did." He turned to Fitch.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000048_000001|"I won't talk about sending your students to pump mine, but at least you could have told me before you gave that story out."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000049_000000|"I don't know what you're sore about," Fitch defended himself.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000049_000002|It happens that extrasensory perception means as much to me as history does to you.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000049_000003|I've believed in it ever since I read about Rhine's work, when I was a kid.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000049_000004|I worked in e s p for a long time.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000049_000005|Then I had a chance to get a full professorship by coming here, and after I did, I found that I couldn't go on with it, because Whitburn's president here, and he's a stupid old bigot with an air locked mind...."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000050_000000|"Yes." His anger died down as Fitch spoke.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000050_000001|"I'm glad Tom stopped me from making an ass of myself.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000050_000002|I can see your side of it." Maybe that was the curse of the professional intellectual, an ability to see everybody's side of everything.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000050_000003|He thought for a moment.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000051_000000|"I phoned the secretary of the American Institute of Psionics and Parapsychology, as soon as I saw this morning's paper.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000051_000001|With the time difference to the East Coast, I got him just as he reached his office.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000052_000000|"Well, you got your publicity, all right.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000053_000000|There was an uproar outside.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000053_000001|The doorman was saying, firmly:
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000054_000000|"This is the Faculty Club, gentlemen; it's for members only.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000054_000001|I don't care if you gentlemen are the press, you simply cannot come in here."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000055_000000|"We're all up to our necks in it," Smith said.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000056_000000|"This place will be a madhouse," Handley complained.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000056_000001|"How we're going to get any of these students to keep their minds on their work...."
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000057_000000|"I tell you, I don't know a confounded thing about it," Max Pottgeiter's voice rose petulantly at the door.
train-other-500/3144/174048/3144_174048_000057_000002|Ridiculous!"
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train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000001|As for that, said Sir Tristram, I will answer you; this shield was given me, not desired, of Queen Morgan le Fay; and as for me, I can not descrive these arms, for it is no point of my charge, and yet I trust to God to bear them with worship.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000003|To what intent? said Sir Tristram.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000004|For I would wit, said Arthur. Sir, ye shall not wit as at this time.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000005|Then shall ye and I do battle together, said King Arthur.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000007|And there withal King Arthur dressed his shield and his spear, and Sir Tristram against him, and they came so eagerly together.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000008|And there King Arthur brake his spear all to pieces upon Sir Tristram's shield.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000009|But Sir Tristram hit Arthur again, that horse and man fell to the earth.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000010_000010|And there was King Arthur wounded on the left side, a great wound and a perilous.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000011_000000|Then when Sir Uwaine saw his lord Arthur lie on the ground sore wounded, he was passing heavy.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000011_000001|And then he dressed his shield and his spear, and cried aloud unto Sir Tristram and said: Knight, defend thee.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000011_000004|Nevertheless, by Saint Cross, said Sir Uwaine, he is a strong knight at mine advice as any is now living.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000012_000001|And there he saw ten knights fighting together.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000013_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000014_000004|What is your name? said Sir Tristram.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000014_000006|O Jesu, said Sir Tristram, thou hast a fair grace of me this day that I should rescue thee, and thou art the man in the world that I most hate; but now make thee ready, for I will do battle with thee.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000014_000008|My name is Sir Tristram, your mortal enemy.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000014_000010|Ye say well, said Sir Tristram, now I assign you to meet me in the meadow by the river of Camelot, where Merlin set the peron.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000014_000011|So they were agreed.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000015_000002|And when I saw her making such dole, I asked her who slew her lord.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000015_000004|Then for pity I made the damosel to leap on her palfrey, and I promised her to be her warrant, and to help her to inter her lord.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000015_000006|And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew the damosel.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000015_000007|And so I took my horse again, and I was sore ashamed, and so began the medley betwixt us: and this is the cause wherefore we did this battle.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000015_000008|Well, said Sir Tristram, now I understand the manner of your battle, but in any wise have remembrance of your promise that ye have made with me to do battle with me this day fortnight.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000015_000010|Well, said Sir Tristram, as at this time I will not fail you till that ye be out of the danger of your enemies.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000000|So they mounted upon their horses, and rode together unto that forest, and there they found a fair well, with clear water bubbling.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000001|Fair sir, said Sir Tristram, to drink of that water have I courage; and then they alighted off their horses.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000002|And then were they ware by them where stood a great horse tied to a tree, and ever he neighed.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000003|And then were they ware of a fair knight armed, under a tree, lacking no piece of harness, save his helm lay under his head.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000004|By the good lord, said Sir Tristram, yonder lieth a well faring knight; what is best to do?
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000006|So Sir Tristram awaked him with the butt of his spear.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000009|And then this strange knight left them there, and took his way through the forest.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000011|By my head, said Sir Tristram, I will follow this strong knight that thus hath shamed us.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000016_000015|And if ye meet with him it is an hard adventure an ever ye escape his hands.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000017_000000|CHAPTER three.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000002|Fair lady, said Sir Tristram, who hath slain your lord?
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000005|That me repenteth, said Sir Tristram, of your great anger; an it please you tell me your husband's name.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000007|So departed Sir Tristram from that dolorous lady, and had much evil lodging.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000009|Then Sir Tristram asked Sir Gawaine and Sir Bleoberis if they met with such a knight, with such a cognisance, with a covered shield.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000010|Fair sir, said these knights, such a knight met with us to our great damage.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000013|And then they rode together, and so he hurt my fellow.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000014|And when he had done so I might not for shame but I must joust with him.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000016|And there he had almost slain me, and from us he took his horse and departed, and in an evil time we met with him.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000019|By my faith, said Sir Tristram, I shall never rest till that I find him.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000020|And then Sir Gawaine asked him his name.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000021|Then he said: My name is Sir Tristram.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000018_000022|And so either told other their names, and then departed Sir Tristram and rode his way.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000019_000001|What tidings with you, said Sir Tristram, with you knights?
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000019_000002|Not good, said these knights.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000019_000003|Why so? said Sir Tristram; I pray you tell me, for I ride to seek a knight.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000019_000005|He beareth, said Sir Tristram, a covered shield close with cloth.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000019_000008|And then Sir Tristram asked them their names, and so either told other their names.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000020_000000|CHAPTER four.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000021_000009|And when he saw them lie on the earth he took his bridle, and rode forth on his way, and his man Gouvernail with him.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000022_000004|And this is the cause why I am so loath to have ado with you; for I must fight within these three days with a good knight, and as valiant as any is now living, and if I be hurt I shall not be able to do battle with him.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000022_000008|But, fair knight, said Sir Sagramore, tell us your name.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000024_000001|And in that same place was the fair lady Colombe slain, that was love unto Sir Lanceor; for after he was dead she took his sword and thrust it through her body.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000024_000003|And at that time Merlin prophesied that in that same place should fight two the best knights that ever were in Arthur's days, and the best lovers.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000024_000006|When he came nigh Sir Tristram he said on high: Ye be welcome, sir knight, and well and truly have ye holden your promise.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000024_000012|So they stood and wept both, and made great dole when they saw the bright swords over covered with blood of their bodies.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000000|Then at the last spake Sir Launcelot and said: Knight, thou fightest wonderly well as ever I saw knight, therefore, an it please you, tell me your name.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000001|Sir, said Sir Tristram, that is me loath to tell any man my name.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000002|Truly, said Sir Launcelot, an I were required I was never loath to tell my name.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000004|Fair knight, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du Lake.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000006|Fair knight, said Sir Launcelot, tell me your name?
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000007|Truly, said he, my name is Sir Tristram de Liones.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000008|O Jesu, said Sir Launcelot, what adventure is befallen me!
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000009|And therewith Sir Launcelot kneeled down and yielded him up his sword.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000010|And therewith Sir Tristram kneeled adown, and yielded him up his sword.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000011|And so either gave other the degree.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000012|And then they both forthwithal went to the stone, and set them down upon it, and took off their helms to cool them, and either kissed other an hundred times.
train-other-500/3148/4666/3148_4666_000025_000013|And then anon after they took off their helms and rode to Camelot.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000000_000000|Chapter eighteen
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000001_000000|THE WARDEN IS VERY OBSTINATE
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000002_000000|"Dr Grantly is here, sir," greeted his ears before the door was well open, "and Mrs Grantly.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000002_000001|They have a sitting room above, and are waiting up for you."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000003_000000|There was something in the tone of the man's voice which seemed to indicate that even he looked upon the warden as a runaway schoolboy, just recaptured by his guardian, and that he pitied the culprit, though he could not but be horrified at the crime.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000004_000000|The warden endeavoured to appear unconcerned, as he said, "Oh, indeed! I'll go upstairs at once;" but he failed signally.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000006_000000|"Yes, my dear," said the warden.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000006_000001|"The attorney general named ten for my meeting; to be sure ten is late, but what could I do, you know? Great men will have their own way."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000007_000000|And he gave his daughter a kiss, and shook hands with the doctor, and again tried to look unconcerned.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000009_000000|Mr Harding signified that he had.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000010_000001|"What will Sir Abraham think of it?
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000011_000000|"Isn't it?" asked the warden, innocently.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000011_000001|"Well, at any rate, I've done it now.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000012_000000|The archdeacon gave a sigh that would have moved a man of war.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000014_000001|He couldn't explain it in the only way which would have satisfied me, and so I resigned the wardenship."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000015_000000|"Resigned it!" said the archdeacon, in a solemn voice, sad and low, but yet sufficiently audible,--a sort of whisper that Macready would have envied, and the galleries have applauded with a couple of rounds. "Resigned it!
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000015_000001|Good heavens!" And the dignitary of the church sank back horrified into a horsehair arm chair.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000017_000000|"Not at all," said the archdeacon, catching a ray of hope.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000017_000002|I'm sure Sir Abraham did not advise any such step."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000018_000000|Mr Harding could not say that he had.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000019_000000|"I am sure he disadvised you from it," continued the reverend cross examiner.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000020_000000|Mr Harding could not deny this.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000021_000000|"I'm sure Sir Abraham must have advised you to consult your friends."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000022_000000|To this proposition also Mr Harding was obliged to assent.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000023_000000|"Then your threat of resignation amounts to nothing, and we are just where we were before."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000024_000000|Mr Harding was now standing on the rug, moving uneasily from one foot to the other.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000024_000001|He made no distinct answer to the archdeacon's last proposition, for his mind was chiefly engaged on thinking how he could escape to bed.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000025_000000|"You must be very tired, Susan," said he: "wouldn't you like to go to bed?"
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000026_000000|But Susan didn't want to go till her husband went.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000026_000001|She had an idea that her papa might be bullied if she were away: she wasn't tired at all, or at least she said so.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000027_000000|The archdeacon was pacing the room, expressing, by certain nods of his head, his opinion of the utter fatuity of his father in law.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000028_000000|"Why," at last he said,--and angels might have blushed at the rebuke expressed in his tone and emphasis,--"Why did you go off from Barchester so suddenly?
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000028_000001|Why did you take such a step without giving us notice, after what had passed at the palace?"
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000029_000000|The warden hung his head, and made no reply: he could not condescend to say that he had not intended to give his son in law the slip; and as he had not the courage to avow it, he said nothing.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000031_000000|The archdeacon took another turn, and again ejaculated, "Good heavens!" this time in a very low whisper, but still audible.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000032_000000|"I think I'll go to bed," said the warden, taking up a side candle.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000033_000000|"At any rate, you'll promise me to take no further step without consultation," said the archdeacon.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000033_000001|Mr Harding made no answer, but slowly proceeded to light his candle.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000034_000000|"Of course," continued the other, "such a declaration as that you made to Sir Abraham means nothing.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000034_000001|Come, warden, promise me this.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000034_000002|The whole affair, you see, is already settled, and that with very little trouble or expense.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000034_000003|Bold has been compelled to abandon his action, and all you have to do is to remain quiet at the hospital." Mr Harding still made no reply, but looked meekly into his son in law's face.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000034_000004|The archdeacon thought he knew his father in law, but he was mistaken; he thought that he had already talked over a vacillating man to resign his promise.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000034_000005|"Come," said he, "promise Susan to give up this idea of resigning the wardenship."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000035_000000|The warden looked at his daughter, thinking probably at the moment that if Eleanor were contented with him, he need not so much regard his other child, and said, "I am sure Susan will not ask me to break my word, or to do what I know to be wrong."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000036_000001|What are you to live on?"
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000037_000000|"God, that feeds the young ravens, will take care of me also," said Mr Harding, with a smile, as though afraid of giving offence by making his reference to scripture too solemn.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000038_000001|"If the ravens persisted in refusing the food prepared for them, they wouldn't be fed." A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose, or as a lawyer when an unprofessional man attempts to put him down by a quibble.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000039_000000|"I shall have the living of Crabtree," modestly suggested the warden.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000040_000000|"Eighty pounds a year!" sneered the archdeacon.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000041_000000|"And the precentorship," said the father in law.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000042_000000|"It goes with the wardenship," said the son in law.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000042_000001|Mr Harding was prepared to argue this point, and began to do so, but Dr Grantly stopped him.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000042_000002|"My dear warden," said he, "this is all nonsense. Eighty pounds or a hundred and sixty makes very little difference. You can't live on it,--you can't ruin Eleanor's prospects for ever. In point of fact, you can't resign; the bishop wouldn't accept it; the whole thing is settled.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000042_000003|What I now want to do is to prevent any inconvenient tittle tattle,--any more newspaper articles."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000043_000000|"That's what I want, too," said the warden.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000044_000000|"And to prevent that," continued the other, "we mustn't let any talk of resignation get abroad."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000045_000000|"But I shall resign," said the warden, very, very meekly.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000046_000000|"Good heavens!
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000046_000001|Susan, my dear, what can I say to him?"
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000048_000000|A hot tear stood in each of the warden's eyes as he looked round upon his married daughter.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000048_000001|Why should one sister who was so rich predict poverty for another?
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000048_000002|Some such idea as this was on his mind, but he gave no utterance to it.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000048_000003|Then he thought of the pelican feeding its young with blood from its own breast, but he gave no utterance to that either; and then of Eleanor waiting for him at home, waiting to congratulate him on the end of all his trouble.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000049_000000|"Think of Eleanor, papa," said Mrs Grantly.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000050_000000|"I do think of her," said her father.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000051_000000|"And you will not do this rash thing?"
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000051_000001|The lady was really moved beyond her usual calm composure.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000052_000000|"It can never be rash to do right," said he.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000052_000001|"I shall certainly resign this wardenship."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000053_000000|"Then, Mr Harding, there is nothing before you but ruin," said the archdeacon, now moved beyond all endurance.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000053_000002|How do you mean to pay the monstrous expenses of this action?"
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000054_000000|Mrs Grantly suggested that, as the action was abandoned, the costs would not be heavy.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000055_000001|"One cannot have the attorney general up at twelve o'clock at night for nothing;--but of course your father has not thought of this."
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000056_000000|"I will sell my furniture," said the warden.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000057_000000|"Furniture!" ejaculated the other, with a most powerful sneer.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000059_000000|"Such absurdity is enough to provoke Job," said the archdeacon, marching quickly up and down the room.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000059_000001|"Your father is like a child. Eight hundred pounds a year!--eight hundred and eighty with the house,--with nothing to do.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000059_000002|The very place for him.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000059_000003|And to throw that up because some scoundrel writes an article in a newspaper! Well;--I have done my duty.
train-other-500/317/127219/317_127219_000059_000004|If he chooses to ruin his child I cannot help it;" and he stood still at the fire place, and looked at himself in a dingy mirror which stood on the chimney piece.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000001_000000|CHAPTER two
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000002_000000|I spoke of my lady a line or two back.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000002_000001|Now the Diamond could never have been in our house, where it was lost, if it had not been made a present of to my lady's daughter; and my lady's daughter would never have been in existence to have the present, if it had not been for my lady who (with pain and travail) produced her into the world.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000002_000002|Consequently, if we begin with my lady, we are pretty sure of beginning far enough back.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000002_000003|And that, let me tell you, when you have got such a job as mine in hand, is a real comfort at starting.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000003_000000|If you know anything of the fashionable world, you have heard tell of the three beautiful Miss Herncastles.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000003_000003|There I lived till Miss Julia married the late Sir john Verinder.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000004_000000|I have omitted to state that I went with the bride to the bride's husband's house and lands down here.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000004_000001|"Sir john," she says, "I can't do without Gabriel Betteredge." "My lady," says Sir john, "I can't do without him, either." That was his way with her-and that was how I went into his service.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000000|Seeing that my lady took an interest in the out of door work, and the farms, and such like, I took an interest in them too-with all the more reason that I was a small farmer's seventh son myself.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000001|My lady got me put under the bailiff, and I did my best, and gave satisfaction, and got promotion accordingly.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000002|Some years later, on the Monday as it might be, my lady says, "Sir john, your bailiff is a stupid old man.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000003|Pension him liberally, and let Gabriel Betteredge have his place." On the Tuesday as it might be, Sir john says, "My lady, the bailiff is pensioned liberally; and Gabriel Betteredge has got his place." You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000004|Here is an example to the contrary.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000005|Let it be a warning to some of you, and an encouragement to others.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000005_000006|In the meantime, I will go on with my story.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000006_000000|Well, there I was in clover, you will say.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000006_000001|Placed in a position of trust and honour, with a little cottage of my own to live in, with my rounds on the estate to occupy me in the morning, and my accounts in the afternoon, and my pipe and my ROBINSON CRUSOE in the evening-what more could I possibly want to make me happy?
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000000|The woman I fixed my eye on, was the woman who kept house for me at my cottage.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000001|Her name was Selina Goby.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000002|I agree with the late William Cobbett about picking a wife.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000005|I had another reason, likewise, entirely of my own discovering.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000006|Selina, being a single woman, made me pay so much a week for her board and services.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000007|Selina, being my wife, couldn't charge for her board, and would have to give me her services for nothing.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000007_000008|That was the point of view I looked at it from.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000008_000000|"I have been turning Selina Goby over in my mind," I said, "and I think, my lady, it will be cheaper to marry her than to keep her."
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000009_000002|Understanding nothing myself but that I was free to put it next to Selina, I went and put it accordingly.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000009_000003|And what did Selina say?
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000009_000005|Of course she said, Yes.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000010_000000|As my time drew nearer, and there got to be talk of my having a new coat for the ceremony, my mind began to misgive me.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000010_000002|I went a trifle further than that myself; I actually rose up, as it were, and tried to get out of it.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000010_000003|Not for nothing!
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000010_000005|Compensation to the woman when the man gets out of it, is one of the laws of England.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000011_000000|After that it was all over with me, of course.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000011_000002|We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000011_000003|We were six of one and half a dozen of the other.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000011_000006|That is married life, according to my experience of it.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000012_000000|After five years of misunderstandings on the stairs, it pleased an all wise Providence to relieve us of each other by taking my wife.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000012_000001|I was left with my little girl Penelope, and with no other child.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000012_000003|I have written to very poor purpose of my lady, if you require to be told that my little Penelope was taken care of, under my good mistress's own eye, and was sent to school and taught, and made a sharp girl, and promoted, when old enough, to be Miss Rachel's own maid.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000013_000000|As for me, I went on with my business as bailiff year after year up to Christmas eighteen forty seven, when there came a change in my life.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000013_000001|On that day, my lady invited herself to a cup of tea alone with me in my cottage.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000014_000002|My lady had discovered that I was getting old before I had discovered it myself, and she had come to my cottage to wheedle me (if I may use such an expression) into giving up my hard out of door work as bailiff, and taking my ease for the rest of my days as steward in the house.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000014_000003|I made as good a fight of it against the indignity of taking my ease as I could.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000014_000004|But my mistress knew the weak side of me; she put it as a favour to herself.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000014_000005|The dispute between us ended, after that, in my wiping my eyes, like an old fool, with my new woollen waistcoat, and saying I would think about it.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000015_000001|I smoked a pipe and took a turn at ROBINSON CRUSOE.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000015_000002|Before I had occupied myself with that extraordinary book five minutes, I came on a comforting bit (page one hundred and fifty eight), as follows: "To day we love, what to morrow we hate." I saw my way clear directly.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000015_000003|To day I was all for continuing to be farm bailiff; to morrow, on the authority of ROBINSON CRUSOE, I should be all the other way.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000015_000004|Take myself to morrow while in to morrow's humour, and the thing was done.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000015_000006|All quite comfortable, and all through ROBINSON CRUSOE!
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000000|My daughter Penelope has just looked over my shoulder to see what I have done so far.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000002|But she points out one objection.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000003|She says what I have done so far isn't in the least what I was wanted to do.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000004|I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond and, instead of that, I have been telling the story of my own self.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000005|Curious, and quite beyond me to account for.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000006|I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me?
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000007|If they do, I can feel for them.
train-other-500/317/130243/317_130243_000016_000008|In the meantime, here is another false start, and more waste of good writing paper. What's to be done now?
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000000_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000001_000001|Under present circumstances, the one thing to be done was to clap the extinguisher upon Penelope's curiosity on the spot.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000001_000003|Try that sort of answer when your wife or your daughter next worries you with an awkward question at an awkward time, and depend on the natural sweetness of women for kissing and making it up again at the next opportunity.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000002_000000|The afternoon wore on, and my lady and Miss Rachel came back.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000003_000000|Needless to say how astonished they were, when they heard that mr Franklin Blake had arrived, and had gone off again on horseback. Needless also to say, that THEY asked awkward questions directly, and that the "foreign politics" and the "falling asleep in the sun" wouldn't serve a second time over with THEM.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000004_000000|Having got over my difficulties with the ladies, I found more difficulties waiting for me when I went back to my own room.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000004_000001|In came Penelope-with the natural sweetness of women-to kiss and make it up again; and-with the natural curiosity of women-to ask another question.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000000|After leaving mr Franklin and me at the Shivering Sand, Rosanna, it appeared, had returned to the house in a very unaccountable state of mind.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000001|She had turned (if Penelope was to be believed) all the colours of the rainbow.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000003|She had been surprised, smiling, and scribbling mr Franklin's name inside her workbox.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000004|She had been surprised again, crying and looking at her deformed shoulder in the glass.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000005|Had she and mr Franklin known anything of each other before to day?
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000006|Quite impossible!
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000007|Had they heard anything of each other?
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000008|Impossible again!
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000005_000009|I could speak to mr Franklin's astonishment as genuine, when he saw how the girl stared at him. Penelope could speak to the girl's inquisitiveness as genuine, when she asked questions about mr Franklin.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000006_000000|"Father!" says Penelope, quite seriously, "there's only one explanation of it.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000006_000001|Rosanna has fallen in love with mr Franklin Blake at first sight!"
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000007_000000|You have heard of beautiful young ladies falling in love at first sight, and have thought it natural enough.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000007_000002|I laughed till the tears rolled down my cheeks.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000007_000004|"I never knew you cruel before, father," she said, very gently, and went out.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000008_000000|My girl's words fell upon me like a splash of cold water.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000008_000001|I was savage with myself, for feeling uneasy in myself the moment she had spoken them-but so it was.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000008_000002|We will change the subject, if you please.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000009_000000|The evening came, and the dressing bell for dinner rang, before mr Franklin returned from Frizinghall.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000009_000001|I took his hot water up to his room myself, expecting to hear, after this extraordinary delay, that something had happened.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000009_000002|To my great disappointment (and no doubt to yours also), nothing had happened.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000009_000003|He had not met with the Indians, either going or returning.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000011_000000|I would have given something to have waited at table that day.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000011_000001|But, in my position in the household, waiting at dinner (except on high family festivals) was letting down my dignity in the eyes of the other servants-a thing which my lady considered me quite prone enough to do already, without seeking occasions for it.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000011_000004|Later still, I went to mr Franklin in the smoking room, with the soda water and brandy, and found that Miss Rachel had put the Diamond clean out of his head.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000012_000000|Towards midnight, I went round the house to lock up, accompanied by my second in command (Samuel, the footman), as usual.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000013_000000|The night was still and close, and the moon was at the full in the heavens.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000013_000002|As the house stood, the terrace side was the dark side; but the broad moonlight showed fair on the gravel walk that ran along the next side to the terrace.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000013_000003|Looking this way, after looking up at the sky, I saw the shadow of a person in the moonlight thrown forward from behind the corner of the house.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000014_000000|Being old and sly, I forbore to call out; but being also, unfortunately, old and heavy, my feet betrayed me on the gravel.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000014_000001|Before I could steal suddenly round the corner, as I had proposed, I heard lighter feet than mine-and more than one pair of them as I thought-retreating in a hurry.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000014_000003|From the shrubbery, they could easily make their way, over our fence into the road.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000014_000004|If I had been forty years younger, I might have had a chance of catching them before they got clear of our premises. As it was, I went back to set a going a younger pair of legs than mine. Without disturbing anybody, Samuel and I got a couple of guns, and went all round the house and through the shrubbery.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000014_000006|Picking the object up, I discovered it was a small bottle, containing a thick sweet smelling liquor, as black as ink.
train-other-500/317/130248/317_130248_000015_000000|I said nothing to Samuel.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000001_000000|Around the crater lip were poised thousands of concave disks, vernal green, enormous.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000001_000001|They were like a border of gigantic, upthrust shields; and within each, emblazoned like a shield's device, was a blinding flower of flame-the reflected, dilated face of the sun
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000001_000002|Below this diadem hung, pendent, clusters of other disks, swarmed like the globular hiving of the constellation Hercules' captured stars.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000002_000000|A hundred feet below us was the crater floor.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000003_000000|Up from it thrust a mountainous forest of the pallidly radiant cones; bristling; prodigious.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000003_000001|Tier upon tier, thicket upon thicket, phalanx upon phalanx they climbed.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000003_000002|Up and up, pyramidically, they flung their spiked hosts.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000004_000000|They drew together two thousand feet above us, clustering close about the foot of a single huge spire which thrust itself skyward above them. The crest of this spire was truncated.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000004_000001|From its shorn tip radiated scores of long and slender spokes holding in place a thousand feet wide wheel of wan green disks whose concave surfaces, unlike those smooth ones girding the crater, were curiously faceted.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000005_000001|But it was in size to that as-as Leviathan to a minnow.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000005_000002|From it streamed the same baffling suggestion of invincible force transmuted into matter; energy coalesced into the tangible; power made concentrate in the vestments of substance.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000008_000000|From these Brobdignagian beams they swung in ropes and clusters-spheres and cubes studded as thickly with the pyramids as ever Titan's mace with spikes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000008_000001|Group after bizarre group they dropped; pendulous.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000008_000002|Coppices of slender columns of thistled globes sprang up to meet the festooned joists.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000009_000000|Between the girders they draped themselves in long, stellated garlands; grouped themselves in innumerable, kaleidoscopic patterns.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000010_000000|They clicked into place around the golden turret in which we crouched.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000011_000000|In fantastic arrases they swayed in front of us-now hiding by, now revealing through their quicksilver interweavings the mounts of the Cones.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000013_000000|They swung and threaded swiftly, in shifting arabesque, in Gothic traceries, in lace like fantasies; utterly bizarre, unutterably beautiful-crystalline, geometric always.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000014_000000|Abruptly their movement ceased-so abruptly that the stoppage of all the ordered turmoil had the quality of appalling silence.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000016_000000|Pillared it as though it were a temple.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000017_000000|Garnished it with their bodies as though it were a shrine.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000018_000000|Across the floor toward the Cones glided a palely lustrous sphere.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000018_000001|In shape only a globe like all its kind, yet it was invested with power; it radiated power as a star does light; was clothed in unseen garments of supernal force.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000018_000002|In its wake drifted two great pyramids; after them ten spheres but little smaller than the Shape which led.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000020_000000|On they swept until they reached the base of the Cones.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000020_000001|They paused at the edge of the crystal tabling.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000020_000002|They turned.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000021_000000|There was a flashing as of a meteor bursting.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000021_000001|The globe had opened into that splendor of jewel fires before which had floated Norhala and ruth.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000022_000000|I saw again the luminous ovals of sapphire, studding its golden zone, the mystic rose of pulsing, petal flame, the still core of incandescent ruby that was the heart of that rose.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000023_000000|Strangely I felt my own heart veer toward this-Thing; bowing before its beauty and its strength; almost worshiping!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000024_000000|A shock of revulsion went through me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000024_000001|I shot a quick, half frightened glance at Drake.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000024_000002|He was crouching dangerously close to the lip of the ledge, hands clasped and knuckles white with the intensity of his grip, eyes rapt, staring-upon the verge of worship even as I had been.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000025_000000|"Drake!" I thrust my elbow into his side brutally.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000025_000001|"None of that! Remember you're human!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000025_000002|Guard yourself, man-guard yourself!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000026_000000|"What?" he muttered; then, abruptly: "How did you know?"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000027_000001|Remember ruth!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000028_000000|He shook his head violently-as though to be rid of some clinging, cloying thing.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000029_000000|"I'll not forget again," he said.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000030_000000|He huddled down once more close to the edge of the shelf; peering over. No one of the Metal People had moved; the silence, the stillness, was unbroken.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000031_000000|Now the flanking pyramids shot forth into twin stars, blazing with violet luminescences.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000031_000001|And one by one after them the ten lesser spheres expanded into flaming orbs; beautiful they were, but far less glorious than that Disk of whom they were the counselors?--ministers?--what?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000033_000000|There came a little wailing; far away it was and far.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000033_000001|Nearer it drew. Was that a tremor that passed through the crowded crater?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000033_000002|A quick pulse of-eagerness?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000034_000000|"Hungry!" whispered Drake.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000034_000001|"They're HUNGRY!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000035_000000|Closer was the wailing; again that faint tremor quivered over the place. And now I caught it-a quick and avid pulsing.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000036_000000|"Hungry," whispered Drake again.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000037_000000|The wailing was below us.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000037_000001|I felt, not a quiver this time, but an unmistakable shock pass through the Horde.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000037_000002|It throbbed-and passed.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000038_000000|Into the field of our vision, up to the flaming Disk rushed an immense cube.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000039_000000|Thrice the height of a tall man-as I think I have noted before-when it unfolded its radiance was that shape of mingled beauty and power I call the Metal Emperor.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000040_000000|Yet this Thing eclipsed it.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000040_000001|Black, uncompromising, in some indefinable way BRUTAL, its square bulk blotted out the Disk's effulgence; shrouded it.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000040_000002|And a shadow seemed to fall upon the crater.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000040_000003|The violet fires of the flanking stars pulsed out-watchfully, threateningly.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000041_000000|For only an instant the darkening block loomed against the Disk; blackened it.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000042_000000|There came another meteor burst of light.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000042_000001|Where the cube had been was now a tremendous, fiery cross-a cross inverted.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000043_000001|In its opening it must have turned, for its-FACE-was toward us and away from the Cones, its body hid the Disk, and almost all the surfaces of the two watchful Stars.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000044_000000|Eighty feet at least in height, this cruciform shape stood.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000044_000001|It flamed and flickered with angry, smoky crimsons and scarlets; with sullen orange glowings and glitterings of sulphurous yellows.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000044_000003|Nothing even of the blasting violet of the Stars.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000046_000000|"The Keeper of the Cones and the Metal Emperor!" muttered Drake.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000046_000001|"I begin to get it-yes-I begin to get-Ventnor!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000047_000000|Once more the pulse, the avid throbbing shook the crater.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000048_000000|The Keeper turned-I saw its palely lustrous blue metallic back.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000048_000001|I drew out my little field glasses, focussed them.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000049_000000|The Cross slipped sidewise past the Disk, its courtiers, its stellated guardians.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000049_000001|As it went by they swung about with it; ever facing it.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000051_000000|The Metal People were hollow!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000052_000000|Hollow metal-boxes!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000053_000000|In their enclosing sides dwelt all their vitality-their powers-themselves!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000054_000000|And those sides were-everything that THEY were!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000055_000000|Folded, the oval disk became the sphere; the four points of the star, the square from which those points radiated; shutting became the pyramid; the six faces of the cubes were when opened the inverted cross.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000056_000000|Nor were these flexible, mobile walls massive.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000056_000001|They were indeed, considering the apparent mass of the Metal Folk, most astonishingly fragile.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000056_000002|Those of the Keeper, despite its eighty feet of height, could not have been more than a yard in thickness.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000056_000003|At the edges I thought I could see groovings; noted the same appearances at the outlines of the Stars.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000057_000000|The Keeper was bending; its oblong upper plane dropping forward as though upon a hinge.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000057_000001|Lower and lower this flange bent-in a grotesque, terrifying obeisance; a horrible mockery of reverence.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000058_000000|Was this mountain of Cones then actually a shrine-an idol of the Metal People-their God?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000059_000000|The oblong that was the upper half of the cruciform Shape extended now at right angles to the horizontal arms.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000059_000002|It bent again, this time from the hinge that held the outstretched arms to the base.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000059_000003|And now it was a huge truncated cross, a T shaped figure, hovering only twenty feet above the pave.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000060_000001|Silvery white, they were dyed with the scarlet and orange flaming of the surface now hidden from my eyes; reflected those sullen and angry gleamings.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000060_000002|Vermiceous, coiling, they seemed to drop from every inch of the overhanging planes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000061_000000|Something there was beneath them-something like an immense and luminous tablet.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000061_000001|The tentacles were moving over it-pressing here, thrusting there, turning, pushing, manipulating-
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000062_000000|A shuddering passed through the crowding cones.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000062_000001|I saw the tremor shake their bristling hosts, oscillate the great spire, set the faceted disks quivering.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000064_000000|Faster, ever faster grew the vibration.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000064_000001|Now the sharp outlines of the cones were dissolving.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000065_000000|And now they were-gone.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000066_000000|The mount of the cones had become a mighty pyramid of pale green radiance-one tremendous, pallid flame, of which the spire was the tongue.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000066_000001|Out from the disked wheel at its shorn tip gushed a flood of light-light that gathered itself from the leaping radiance below it.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000067_000000|The tentacles of the Keeper moved more swiftly over the enigmatic tablet; writhing cloudily; confusedly rapid.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000067_000001|The faceted disks wavered; turned upward; the wheel began to whirl-faster-faster-
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000068_000000|Up from that flaming circle, out into the sky leaped a thick, pale green column of intensest light.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000069_000000|With prodigious speed, as compact as water, CONCENTRATE, it struck-straight out toward the face of the sun
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000070_000000|It thrust up with the speed of light-the speed of light?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000070_000002|My pulse is uniformly seventy to the minute.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000070_000003|I sought my wrist, found the artery, made allowance for its possible acceleration, began to count.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000072_000000|"Take my glasses," I muttered, trying to keep up, while speaking, my tally.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000072_000001|"Matches in my pocket.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000072_000002|Smoke the lenses.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000073_000000|With a look of stupefied amazement which, at another time I would have found laughable, he obeyed.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000074_000000|"Hold them to my eyes," I ordered.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000076_000002|An unimaginable cyclone of incandescent gases; an unthinkably huge dynamo pouring its floods of electro magnetism upon all the circling planets; that solar crater which we now know was, when at its maximum, all of one hundred and fifty thousand miles across; the great sun spot of the summer of nineteen nineteen--the most enormous ever recorded by astronomical science.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000077_000000|Five minutes had gone by.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000078_000000|Common sense whispered to me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000078_000001|There was no use keeping my eyes fixed to the glasses.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000080_000000|What possible effect could that spear have upon the solar forces?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000081_000001|And Nature's balance is delicate; and what great happenings may follow the slightest disturbance of her infinitely sensitive, her complex, equilibrium?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000081_000002|It might be-it might be-
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000082_000000|Eight minutes had passed.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000083_000000|"Take the glasses," I bade Drake.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000084_000000|"I see it." He had obeyed me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000084_000001|"What of it?"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000085_000000|Nine minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000086_000000|The shaft, if I were right, had by now touched the sun
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000086_000001|What was to follow?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000087_000000|"I don't get you at all," said Drake, and lowered the glasses.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000088_000000|Ten minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000089_000000|"What's happening?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000089_000001|Look at the Cones!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000089_000002|Look at the Emperor!" gasped Drake.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000090_000000|I peered down, then almost forgot to count.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000091_000001|The pillar of radiance had not lessened-but the mechanism that was its source had retreated whole yards within the field of its crystal base.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000092_000000|And the Metal Emperor!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000092_000001|Dulled and faint were his fires, dimmed his splendors; and fainter still were the violet luminescences of the watching Stars, the shimmering livery of his court.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000093_000000|The Keeper of the Cones!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000093_000001|Were not its outstretched planes hovering lower and lower over the gleaming tablet; its tentacles moving aimlessly, feebly-wearily?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000094_000000|I had a sense of force being withdrawn from all about me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000095_000000|The Metal People seemed to hang limply, inert; the living girders seemed to sag; the living columns to bend; to droop and to sway.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000096_000000|Twelve minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000097_000000|With a nerve racking crash one of the laden beams fell; dragging down with it others; bending, shattering in its fall a thicket of the horned columns.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000097_000002|Something of that hellish loneliness, that demoniac desire for immolation that had assailed us in the haunted hollow of the ruins began to creep over me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000098_000000|The crowded crater was fainting.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000099_000000|Duller grew the Metal Emperor's glories.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000100_000000|Fourteen minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000101_000000|"Goodwin," cried Drake, "the life's going out of these Things!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000101_000001|Going out with that ray they're shooting."
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000102_000000|Fifteen minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000103_000001|Abruptly the flaming pyramid darkened-WENT OUT.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000104_000000|The radiant pillar hurtled upward like a thunder bolt; vanished in space.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000106_000000|Sixteen minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000107_000000|All about the crater lip the ringed shields tilted; thrust themselves on high, as though behind each was an eager lifting arm.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000107_000001|Below them the hived clusters of disks changed from globules into wide coronets.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000108_000000|Seventeen minutes.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000109_000000|I dropped my wrist; seized the glasses from Drake; raised them to the sun
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000109_000001|For a moment I saw nothing-then a tiny spot of white incandescence shone forth at the lower edge of the great spot.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000109_000002|It grew into a point of radiance, dazzling even through the shadowed lenses.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000110_000000|I rubbed my eyes; looked again.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000110_000001|It was still there, larger-blazing with an ever increasing and intolerable intensity.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000111_000000|I handed the glasses to Drake, silently.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000000|"I see it!" he muttered.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000001|"I see it!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000002|And THAT did it-that!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000004|"Goodwin!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000005|The spot!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000006|it's widening!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000112_000007|It's widening!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000113_000000|I snatched the glasses from him.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000114_000000|To me it seemed unchanged-and yet-perhaps it was not.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000115_000000|That the sun had winced!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000116_000000|I do not to this day know.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000116_000002|And miracle enough that was for me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000117_000000|Twenty minutes-subconsciously I had gone on counting-twenty minutes-
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000118_000000|About the cratered girdle of the upthrust shields a glimmering mistiness was gathering; a translucent mist, beryl pale and beryl clear.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000119_000000|Again the filaments of the Keeper moved-feebly.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000119_000002|Brilliant, ever more brilliant, waxed the fast thickening mists.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000120_000000|Abruptly, and again as one, the disks began to revolve.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000120_000001|From every concave surface, from the surfaces of the huge circlets below them, flashed out a stream of green fire-green as the fire of green life itself.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000121_000000|Over it I saw form a limpid cloud of the brilliant vapors.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000121_000001|Whence came these sparkling nebulosities, these mists of light?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000121_000002|It was as though the clustered, spinning disks reached into the shadowless air, sucked from it some unseen, rhythmic energy and transformed it into this visible, coruscating flood.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000122_000000|For now it was a flood.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000122_000001|Down from the immense wheel came pouring cataracts of green fires.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000122_000002|They cascaded over the cones; deluged them; engulfed them.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000123_000000|Beneath that radiant inundation the cones grew.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000123_000001|Perceptibly their volume increased-as though they gorged themselves upon the light.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000123_000002|No-it was as though the corpuscles flew to them, coalesced and built themselves into the structure.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000124_000000|Out and further out upon the base of crystal they crept.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000124_000001|And higher and higher soared their tips, thrusting, ever thrusting upward toward the whirling wheel that fed them.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000125_000001|The crater's disks tilted downward.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000125_000002|Into the vast hollow shot their jets of green radiance, drenching the Metal Hordes, splashing from the polished walls wherever the Metal Hordes had left those living walls exposed.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000126_000001|Colossal, rhythmic, ever quicker, ever more powerfully that pulse throbbed-a prodigious vibration monstrously alive.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000127_000000|"Feeding!" whispered Drake.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000127_000001|"Feeding!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000127_000002|Feeding on the sun!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000128_000000|Faster danced the radiant beams.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000128_000001|The crater was a cauldron of green fires through which the conical rays angled and interwove, crossed and mingled.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000128_000002|And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000129_000000|Stronger and stronger beat the pulse of returning life.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000130_000000|A jetting stream struck squarely upon the Metal Emperor.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000130_000001|Out blazed his splendors-jubilant.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000131_000000|Up snapped the Keeper; towered behind him, all flickering scarlets and leaping yellows-no longer wrathful or sullen.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000133_000000|Us, too, the sparkling mists bathed.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000134_000000|I was conscious of a curiously wild exhilaration; a quickening of the pulse; an abnormally rapid breathing.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000134_000001|I stooped to touch Drake; sparks leaped from my outstretched fingers, great green sparks that crackled as they impacted upon him.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000134_000002|He gave them no heed; but stared with fascinated eyes upon the crater.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000135_000000|Now from every side broke a tempest of gem fires.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000135_000001|From every girder and column, from every arras, pendent and looping, burst diamond glitterings, ruby luminescences, lanced flames of molten emerald and sapphires, flashings of amethyst and opal, meteoric iridescences, dazzling spectrums.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000136_000000|The hollow was a cave of some Aladdin of the Titans ablaze with enchanted hoards.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000136_000001|It was a place of gems ensorcelled, gems in which imprisoned hosts of the Jinns of Light beat sparkling against their crystal walls to escape.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000137_000000|I thrust the fantasies from me.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000137_000001|Fantastic enough was this reality-globe and pyramid and cube of the Metal People opening wide, bathing in, drinking from the radiant maelstrom that faster and ever faster swirled about them.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000138_000000|"Feeding!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000138_000001|It was Drake's awed voice.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000138_000002|"Feeding on the sun!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000139_000000|The circling shields were raising themselves, lifting themselves higher above the crater lip.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000139_000001|Into the crowded cylinder came now only the rays from the high circlets, the streams from the huge wheel above the still growing cones.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000140_000000|Up and up the shields rose, but by what mechanism raised I could not see.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000140_000001|Their motion ceased; in all their thousands they turned.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000140_000002|Over the City's top and out into the oval valley they poured their torrents of light; flooding it, deluging it even as they had this pit that was the City's heart.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000140_000003|Feeding, I knew, those other Metal Hordes without.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000141_000000|And as though in answer, sweeping down upon us through the circles of open sky, a clamor poured.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000142_000000|"If we'd but known!" Drake's voice came to me, thin and unreal through the tumult.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000142_000001|"It's what Ventnor meant!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000142_000003|We could have killed them!"
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000143_000000|"There are other Cones," I cried back to him.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000144_000000|"No," he shook his head.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000144_000001|"This is the master machine.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000144_000002|It's what Ventnor meant when he said to strike through the sun
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000145_000000|Louder grew the hurricane without; and now within began its mate. Through the mists flashed linked tempests of lightnings.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000145_000001|Bolt upon javelin bolt, and ever more thickly; lightnings green as the mists themselves; lightning bolts of destroying violets, searing scarlets; tearing chains of withering yellows, globes of exploding multicolored electric incandescences.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000146_000000|The crater was threaded with the lightnings of the Metal People; was broidered with them; was a Pit woven with vast and changing patterns of electric flame.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000147_000000|What was it that Drake had said?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000147_000001|That if but we could have known we could have destroyed these-Things-Destroyed-Them?
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000147_000002|Things that could thrust their will and power up through ninety million miles of space and suck from the sun the honey of power!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000148_000000|Destroy Things that could feed their own life into a machine to draw back from the sun a greater life-Things that could forge of their strength a spear which, piercing the side of the sun, sent gushing back upon them a tenfold, nay, a thousandfold strength!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000149_000000|Destroy this City that was one vast and living dynamo feeding upon the magnetic life of earth and sun!
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000150_000000|The clamor had grown stupendous, destroying-like armored Gods roaring at sword play in a hundred Valhallas; like the war drums of battling universe; like the smitings of warring suns.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000151_000000|And all the City was throbbing, beating with a gigantic pulse of life-was fed and drunken with life.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000151_000001|I felt that pulsing become my own; I echoed to it; throbbed in unison.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000151_000002|I saw Drake outlined in flame; that around me a radiant nimbus was growing.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000152_000000|I thought I saw Norhala floating, clothed in shouting, flailing fires.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000152_000001|I strove to call out to her.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000152_000002|By me slipped the body of Drake; lay flaming at my feet upon the narrow ledge.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000153_000000|There was a roaring within my head-louder, far louder, than that which beat against my ears.
train-other-500/3172/166439/3172_166439_000153_000001|Something was drawing me forth; drawing me out of my body into unimaginable depths of blackness.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000001_000001|Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000002_000000|Marilla came briskly forward as matthew opened the door.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000003_000000|"matthew Cuthbert, who's that?" she ejaculated.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000003_000001|"Where is the boy?"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000004_000000|"There wasn't any boy," said matthew wretchedly.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000004_000001|"There was only HER."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000006_000000|"No boy!
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000006_000001|But there MUST have been a boy," insisted Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000006_000002|"We sent word to mrs Spencer to bring a boy."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000007_000000|"Well, she didn't.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000007_000001|She brought HER.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000007_000002|I asked the station master.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000007_000003|And I had to bring her home.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000007_000004|She couldn't be left there, no matter where the mistake had come in."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000008_000000|"Well, this is a pretty piece of business!" ejaculated Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000009_000000|During this dialogue the child had remained silent, her eyes roving from one to the other, all the animation fading out of her face.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000009_000002|Dropping her precious carpet bag she sprang forward a step and clasped her hands.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000000|"You don't want me!" she cried.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000001|"You don't want me because I'm not a boy!
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000002|I might have expected it.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000003|Nobody ever did want me.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000004|I might have known it was all too beautiful to last.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000005|I might have known nobody really did want me.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000006|Oh, what shall I do?
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000010_000007|I'm going to burst into tears!"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000011_000000|Burst into tears she did.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000011_000001|Sitting down on a chair by the table, flinging her arms out upon it, and burying her face in them, she proceeded to cry stormily.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000011_000004|Finally Marilla stepped lamely into the breach.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000012_000000|"Well, well, there's no need to cry so about it."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000013_000000|"Yes, there IS need!"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000013_000001|The child raised her head quickly, revealing a tear stained face and trembling lips.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000013_000003|Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000015_000000|"Well, don't cry any more.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000015_000001|We're not going to turn you out of doors to night.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000016_000000|The child hesitated for a moment.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000017_000000|"Will you please call me Cordelia?" she said eagerly.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000018_000000|"CALL you Cordelia?
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000018_000001|Is that your name?"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000019_000001|It's such a perfectly elegant name."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000020_000000|"I don't know what on earth you mean.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000020_000001|If Cordelia isn't your name, what is?"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000022_000000|"Unromantic fiddlesticks!" said the unsympathetic Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000022_000001|"Anne is a real good plain sensible name.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000022_000002|You've no need to be ashamed of it."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000023_000001|I've always imagined that my name was Cordelia-at least, I always have of late years.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000023_000002|When I was young I used to imagine it was Geraldine, but I like Cordelia better now.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000024_000000|"What difference does it make how it's spelled?" asked Marilla with another rusty smile as she picked up the teapot.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000025_000001|It LOOKS so much nicer.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000026_000000|"Very well, then, Anne spelled with an E, can you tell us how this mistake came to be made?
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000026_000001|We sent word to mrs Spencer to bring us a boy. Were there no boys at the asylum?"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000000|"Oh, yes, there was an abundance of them.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000001|But mrs Spencer said DISTINCTLY that you wanted a girl about eleven years old.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000002|And the matron said she thought I would do.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000003|You don't know how delighted I was.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000004|I couldn't sleep all last night for joy.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000005|Oh," she added reproachfully, turning to matthew, "why didn't you tell me at the station that you didn't want me and leave me there?
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000027_000006|If I hadn't seen the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters it wouldn't be so hard."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000028_000000|"What on earth does she mean?" demanded Marilla, staring at matthew.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000029_000001|"I'm going out to put the mare in, Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000029_000002|Have tea ready when I come back."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000030_000000|"Did mrs Spencer bring anybody over besides you?" continued Marilla when matthew had gone out.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000031_000000|"She brought Lily Jones for herself.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000031_000001|Lily is only five years old and she is very beautiful and had nut brown hair.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000032_000000|"no
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000032_000001|We want a boy to help matthew on the farm.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000032_000002|A girl would be of no use to us.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000032_000003|Take off your hat.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000033_000001|matthew came back presently and they sat down to supper.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000033_000002|But Anne could not eat.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000033_000004|She did not really make any headway at all.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000034_000000|"You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000035_000000|"I can't.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000036_000000|"I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000037_000000|"Weren't you?
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000037_000001|Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000038_000000|"No, I didn't."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000039_000001|It's very uncomfortable feeling indeed.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000039_000005|I do hope you won't be offended because I can't eat.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000041_000000|Marilla had been wondering where Anne should be put to bed.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000041_000002|But, although it was neat and clean, it did not seem quite the thing to put a girl there somehow.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000042_000000|Marilla set the candle on a three legged, three cornered table and turned down the bedclothes.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000043_000000|"I suppose you have a nightgown?" she questioned.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000045_000001|The matron of the asylum made them for me.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000045_000002|They're fearfully skimpy.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000045_000003|There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy-at least in a poor asylum like ours.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000045_000004|I hate skimpy night dresses.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000045_000005|But one can dream just as well in them as in lovely trailing ones, with frills around the neck, that's one consolation."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000046_000000|"Well, undress as quick as you can and go to bed.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000046_000001|I'll come back in a few minutes for the candle.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000047_000000|When Marilla had gone Anne looked around her wistfully.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000047_000005|Above it hung a little six by eight mirror.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000047_000006|Midway between table and bed was the window, with an icy white muslin frill over it, and opposite it was the wash stand.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000047_000009|When Marilla came up for the light various skimpy articles of raiment scattered most untidily over the floor and a certain tempestuous appearance of the bed were the only indications of any presence save her own.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000048_000000|She deliberately picked up Anne's clothes, placed them neatly on a prim yellow chair, and then, taking up the candle, went over to the bed.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000049_000000|"Good night," she said, a little awkwardly, but not unkindly.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000053_000000|Marilla went slowly down to the kitchen and proceeded to wash the supper dishes.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000053_000001|matthew was smoking-a sure sign of perturbation of mind.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000054_000000|"Well, this is a pretty kettle of fish," she said wrathfully.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000054_000001|"This is what comes of sending word instead of going ourselves.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000054_000002|Richard Spencer's folks have twisted that message somehow.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000054_000003|One of us will have to drive over and see mrs Spencer tomorrow, that's certain.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000054_000004|This girl will have to be sent back to the asylum."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000055_000000|"Yes, I suppose so," said matthew reluctantly.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000056_000000|"You SUPPOSE so!
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000056_000001|Don't you know it?"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000057_000000|"Well now, she's a real nice little thing, Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000057_000001|It's kind of a pity to send her back when she's so set on staying here."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000058_000000|"matthew Cuthbert, you don't mean to say you think we ought to keep her!"
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000059_000000|Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000060_000000|"Well, now, no, I suppose not-not exactly," stammered matthew, uncomfortably driven into a corner for his precise meaning.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000060_000001|"I suppose-we could hardly be expected to keep her."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000061_000000|"I should say not.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000062_000000|"We might be some good to her," said matthew suddenly and unexpectedly.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000063_000000|"matthew Cuthbert, I believe that child has bewitched you!
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000063_000001|I can see as plain as plain that you want to keep her."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000064_000000|"Well now, she's a real interesting little thing," persisted matthew. "You should have heard her talk coming from the station."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000065_000000|"Oh, she can talk fast enough.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000065_000001|I saw that at once.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000065_000002|It's nothing in her favour, either.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000065_000003|I don't like children who have so much to say.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000065_000004|I don't want an orphan girl and if I did she isn't the style I'd pick out. There's something I don't understand about her.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000065_000005|No, she's got to be despatched straight way back to where she came from."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000067_000000|"I'm not suffering for company," said Marilla shortly.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000068_000000|"Well now, it's just as you say, of course, Marilla," said matthew rising and putting his pipe away.
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000068_000001|"I'm going to bed."
train-other-500/3179/7133/3179_7133_000069_000000|To bed went matthew.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000000|"Do you know," said Anne confidentially, "I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000001|It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000002|Of course, you must make it up FIRMLY.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000004|I'm just going to think about the drive.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000005|Oh, look, there's one little early wild rose out!
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000006|Isn't it lovely?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000007|Don't you think it must be glad to be a rose?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000009|I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000010|And isn't pink the most bewitching color in the world?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000011|I love it, but I can't wear it.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000012|Redheaded people can't wear pink, not even in imagination.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000001_000013|Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to be another color when she grew up?"
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000004_000000|"Well, that is another hope gone.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000005_000000|"I don't see where the comforting comes in myself," said Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000006_000001|I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine isn't it?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000006_000002|I'm rather glad I have one.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000006_000003|Are we going across the Lake of Shining Waters today?"
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000007_000001|We're going by the shore road."
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000008_000001|"Is it as nice as it sounds?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000008_000003|And White Sands is a pretty name, too; but I don't like it as well as Avonlea.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000008_000004|Avonlea is a lovely name.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000008_000006|How far is it to White Sands?"
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000009_000000|"It's five miles; and as you're evidently bent on talking you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what you know about yourself."
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000011_000000|"No, I don't want any of your imaginings.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000011_000001|Just you stick to bald facts. Begin at the beginning.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000012_000000|"I was eleven last March," said Anne, resigning herself to bald facts with a little sigh.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000012_000002|My mother's name was Bertha Shirley.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000012_000003|Aren't Walter and Bertha lovely names?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000001|"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000002|I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000006|mrs Thomas said that they were a pair of babies and as poor as church mice.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000009|I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000010|Yes, and muslin curtains in all the windows.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000011|Muslin curtains give a house such an air.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000012|I was born in that house.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000013|mrs Thomas said I was the homeliest baby she ever saw, I was so scrawny and tiny and nothing but eyes, but that mother thought I was perfectly beautiful.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000014|I should think a mother would be a better judge than a poor woman who came in to scrub, wouldn't you?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000016|She died of fever when I was just three months old.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000017|I do wish she'd lived long enough for me to remember calling her mother.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000020|That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits' end, so mrs Thomas said, what to do with me.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000021|You see, nobody wanted me even then.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000022|It seems to be my fate.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000014_000025|She brought me up by hand.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000000|"mr and mrs Thomas moved away from Bolingbroke to Marysville, and I lived with them until I was eight years old.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000002|Then mr Thomas was killed falling under a train and his mother offered to take mrs Thomas and the children, but she didn't want me.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000003|mrs Thomas was at HER wits' end, so she said, what to do with me.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000005|It was a very lonesome place.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000008|She had twins three times.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000009|I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000010|I told mrs Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000015_000011|I used to get so dreadfully tired carrying them about.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000016_000001|She divided her children among her relatives and went to the States.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000016_000002|I had to go to the asylum at Hopeton, because nobody would take me.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000016_000004|But they had to take me and I was there four months until mrs Spencer came."
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000017_000001|Evidently she did not like talking about her experiences in a world that had not wanted her.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000018_000000|"Did you ever go to school?" demanded Marilla, turning the sorrel mare down the shore road.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000019_000000|"Not a great deal.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000019_000001|I went a little the last year I stayed with mrs Thomas.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000019_000003|But of course I went while I was at the asylum.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000019_000005|Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000019_000006|There is a piece in the Fifth Reader-'The Downfall of Poland'--that is just full of thrills.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000020_000001|Thomas and mrs Hammond-good to you?" asked Marilla, looking at Anne out of the corner of her eye.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000021_000001|Her sensitive little face suddenly flushed scarlet and embarrassment sat on her brow.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000021_000005|It's very trying to have a drunken husband, you see; and it must be very trying to have twins three times in succession, don't you think?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000021_000006|But I feel sure they meant to be good to me."
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000022_000000|Marilla asked no more questions.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000022_000002|Pity was suddenly stirring in her heart for the child.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000022_000004|No wonder she had been so delighted at the prospect of a real home.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000022_000005|It was a pity she had to be sent back.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000022_000006|What if she, Marilla, should indulge Matthew's unaccountable whim and let her stay?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000022_000007|He was set on it; and the child seemed a nice, teachable little thing.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000023_000000|"She's got too much to say," thought Marilla, "but she might be trained out of that.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000023_000002|It's likely her people were nice folks."
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000024_000001|On the left were the steep red sandstone cliffs, so near the track in places that a mare of less steadiness than the sorrel might have tried the nerves of the people behind her.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000024_000002|Down at the base of the cliffs were heaps of surf worn rocks or little sandy coves inlaid with pebbles as with ocean jewels; beyond lay the sea, shimmering and blue, and over it soared the gulls, their pinions flashing silvery in the sunlight.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000025_000000|"Isn't the sea wonderful?" said Anne, rousing from a long, wide eyed silence.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000025_000001|"Once, when I lived in Marysville, mr Thomas hired an express wagon and took us all to spend the day at the shore ten miles away. I enjoyed every moment of that day, even if I had to look after the children all the time.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000025_000002|I lived it over in happy dreams for years. But this shore is nicer than the Marysville shore.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000025_000003|Aren't those gulls splendid?
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000025_000005|I think I would-that is, if I couldn't be a human girl.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000025_000007|Oh, I can just imagine myself doing it.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000026_000000|"That's the White Sands Hotel.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000026_000002|There are heaps of Americans come there for the summer.
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000026_000003|They think this shore is just about right."
train-other-500/3179/7135/3179_7135_000027_000000|"I was afraid it might be mrs Spencer's place," said Anne mournfully. "I don't want to get there.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000001_000001|She came home from mrs Lynde's and called Anne to account.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000002_000001|What on earth put you up to such a caper?
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000002_000002|A pretty looking object you must have been!"
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000003_000000|"Oh.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000004_000000|"Becoming fiddlesticks!
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000004_000001|It was putting flowers on your hat at all, no matter what color they were, that was ridiculous.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000004_000002|You are the most aggravating child!"
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000005_000000|"I don't see why it's any more ridiculous to wear flowers on your hat than on your dress," protested Anne.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000005_000002|What's the difference?"
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000006_000000|Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000007_000000|"Don't answer me back like that, Anne.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000007_000002|Never let me catch you at such a trick again.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000007_000004|She couldn't get near enough to tell you to take them off till it was too late.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000007_000005|She says people talked about it something dreadful.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000008_000000|"Oh, I'm so sorry," said Anne, tears welling into her eyes.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000008_000001|"I never thought you'd mind.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000008_000002|The roses and buttercups were so sweet and pretty I thought they'd look lovely on my hat.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000008_000004|I'm afraid I'm going to be a dreadful trial to you.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000008_000007|But that would be better than being a trial to you."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000009_000000|"Nonsense," said Marilla, vexed at herself for having made the child cry.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000009_000001|"I don't want to send you back to the asylum, I'm sure.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000009_000002|All I want is that you should behave like other little girls and not make yourself ridiculous.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000009_000003|Don't cry any more.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000009_000005|Diana Barry came home this afternoon.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000012_000000|"Now, don't get into a fluster.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000012_000002|It sounds so funny in a little girl.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000012_000003|I guess Diana'll like you well enough.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000012_000004|It's her mother you've got to reckon with.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000013_000001|Her face was pale and tense.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000015_000001|mrs Barry came to the kitchen door in answer to Marilla's knock.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000016_000000|"How do you do, Marilla?" she said cordially.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000016_000001|"Come in.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000017_000000|"Yes, this is Anne Shirley," said Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000019_000000|mrs Barry, not hearing or not comprehending, merely shook hands and said kindly:
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000020_000000|"How are you?"
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000021_000001|Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, "There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?"
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000022_000000|Diana was sitting on the sofa, reading a book which she dropped when the callers entered.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000023_000000|"This is my little girl Diana," said mrs Barry.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000023_000001|"Diana, you might take Anne out into the garden and show her your flowers.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000023_000003|She reads entirely too much-" this to Marilla as the little girls went out-"and I can't prevent her, for her father aids and abets her.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000023_000005|I'm glad she has the prospect of a playmate-perhaps it will take her more out of doors."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000025_000002|Prim, right angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000027_000000|Diana laughed.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000027_000001|Diana always laughed before she spoke.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000029_000000|"Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?" demanded Anne eagerly.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000030_000000|Diana looked shocked.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000031_000000|"Why it's dreadfully wicked to swear," she said rebukingly.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000032_000000|"Oh no, not my kind of swearing.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000032_000001|There are two kinds, you know."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000034_000000|"There really is another.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000034_000001|Oh, it isn't wicked at all.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000034_000002|It just means vowing and promising solemnly."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000035_000000|"Well, I don't mind doing that," agreed Diana, relieved.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000036_000000|"We must join hands-so," said Anne gravely.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000036_000001|"It ought to be over running water.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000036_000003|I'll repeat the oath first.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000036_000004|I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry, as long as the sun and moon shall endure.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000037_000000|Diana repeated the "oath" with a laugh fore and aft.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000037_000001|Then she said:
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000038_000002|But I believe I'm going to like you real well."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000040_000000|"Well, did you find Diana a kindred spirit?" asked Marilla as they went up through the garden of Green Gables.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000000|"Oh yes," sighed Anne, blissfully unconscious of any sarcasm on Marilla's part.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000001|"Oh Marilla, I'm the happiest girl on Prince Edward Island this very moment.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000003|Diana and I are going to build a playhouse in mr William Bell's birch grove tomorrow.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000009|Don't you think Diana has got very soulful eyes?
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000010|I wish I had soulful eyes.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000011|Diana is going to teach me to sing a song called 'Nelly in the Hazel Dell.' She's going to give me a picture to put up in my room; it's a perfectly beautiful picture, she says-a lovely lady in a pale blue silk dress.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000012|A sewing machine agent gave it to her.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000013|I wish I had something to give Diana.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000015|We're going to the shore some day to gather shells.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000017|Isn't that a perfectly elegant name?
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000018|I read a story once about a spring called that.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000041_000019|A dryad is sort of a grown up fairy, I think."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000042_000000|"Well, all I hope is you won't talk Diana to death," said Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000042_000002|You're not going to play all the time nor most of it.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000042_000003|You'll have your work to do and it'll have to be done first."
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000045_000002|There, there, child, don't look so dismal.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000045_000005|They're wholesomer.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000046_000000|"Oh, no, indeed, I won't," said Anne eagerly.
train-other-500/3179/7142/3179_7142_000047_000003|I can't imagine the place without her.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000002_000000|A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000003_000000|"Small and select," Anne assured Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000003_000001|"Just the girls in our class."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000004_000001|This presently took the form of "daring."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000006_000001|Then Josie Pye dared Jane Andrews to hop on her left leg around the garden without stopping once or putting her right foot to the ground; which Jane Andrews gamely tried to do, but gave out at the third corner and had to confess herself defeated.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000007_000000|Josie's triumph being rather more pronounced than good taste permitted, Anne Shirley dared her to walk along the top of the board fence which bounded the garden to the east.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000007_000001|Now, to "walk" board fences requires more skill and steadiness of head and heel than one might suppose who has never tried it.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000007_000002|But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000007_000004|Josie descended from her perch, flushed with victory, and darted a defiant glance at Anne.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000009_000000|"I don't think it's such a very wonderful thing to walk a little, low, board fence," she said.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000009_000001|"I knew a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridgepole of a roof."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000010_000000|"I don't believe it," said Josie flatly.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000010_000001|"I don't believe anybody could walk a ridgepole.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000010_000002|YOU couldn't, anyhow."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000011_000000|"Couldn't I?" cried Anne rashly.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000012_000000|"Then I dare you to do it," said Josie defiantly.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000013_000002|All the fifth class girls said, "Oh!" partly in excitement, partly in dismay.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000014_000000|"Don't you do it, Anne," entreated Diana.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000014_000001|"You'll fall off and be killed.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000014_000003|It isn't fair to dare anybody to do anything so dangerous."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000015_000000|"I must do it.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000015_000001|My honor is at stake," said Anne solemnly.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000015_000002|"I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000015_000003|If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000016_000001|Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps before the catastrophe came.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000020_000000|"No, Diana, I am not killed, but I think I am rendered unconscious."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000021_000000|"Where?" sobbed Carrie Sloane.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000022_000000|"What's the matter?
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000023_000000|"My ankle," gasped Anne.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000023_000001|"Oh, Diana, please find your father and ask him to take me home.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000023_000002|I know I can never walk there.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000023_000003|And I'm sure I couldn't hop so far on one foot when Jane couldn't even hop around the garden."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000024_000000|Marilla was out in the orchard picking a panful of summer apples when she saw mr Barry coming over the log bridge and up the slope, with mrs Barry beside him and a whole procession of little girls trailing after him.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000024_000001|In his arms he carried Anne, whose head lay limply against his shoulder.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000025_000000|At that moment Marilla had a revelation.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000027_000000|Anne herself answered, lifting her head.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000028_000000|"Don't be very frightened, Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000028_000001|I was walking the ridgepole and I fell off.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000028_000002|I expect I have sprained my ankle.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000028_000003|But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000029_000001|Mercy me, the child has gone and fainted!"
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000030_000000|It was quite true.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000030_000002|She had fainted dead away.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000031_000000|matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000032_000000|That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000034_000000|"It was your own fault," said Marilla, twitching down the blind and lighting a lamp.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000036_000000|"I'd have stayed on good firm ground and let them dare away.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000036_000001|Such absurdity!" said Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000038_000000|"But you have such strength of mind, Marilla.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000038_000001|I haven't.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000038_000002|I just felt that I couldn't bear Josie Pye's scorn.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000038_000003|She would have crowed over me all my life.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000038_000006|I won't be able to go around for six or seven weeks and I'll miss the new lady teacher.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000038_000008|Oh, I am an afflicted mortal.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000039_000002|Here now, try and eat some supper."
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000041_000001|But she was not solely dependent on it.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000000|"Everybody has been so good and kind, Marilla," sighed Anne happily, on the day when she could first limp across the floor.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000002|You find out how many friends you have.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000003|Why, even Superintendent Bell came to see me, and he's really a very fine man.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000006|He could get over that if he'd take a little trouble.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000010|It does seem so strange to think of Superintendent Bell ever being a boy.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000011|Even my imagination has its limits, for I can't imagine THAT.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000013|Now, it's so easy to imagine mrs Allan as a little girl.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000014|mrs Allan has been to see me fourteen times.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000015|Isn't that something to be proud of, Marilla?
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000016|When a minister's wife has so many claims on her time!
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000018|She never tells you it's your own fault and she hopes you'll be a better girl on account of it.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000019|mrs Lynde always told me that when she came to see me; and she said it in a kind of way that made me feel she might hope I'd be a better girl but didn't really believe I would.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000020|Even Josie Pye came to see me.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000023|Diana has been a faithful friend.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000024|She's been over every day to cheer my lonely pillow.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000025|But oh, I shall be so glad when I can go to school for I've heard such exciting things about the new teacher.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000026|The girls all think she is perfectly sweet.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000027|Diana says she has the loveliest fair curly hair and such fascinating eyes.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000033|And the Friday afternoons they don't have recitations Miss Stacy takes them all to the woods for a 'field' day and they study ferns and flowers and birds.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000034|And they have physical culture exercises every morning and evening.
train-other-500/3179/7153/3179_7153_000042_000036|But I think it must be splendid and I believe I shall find that Miss Stacy is a kindred spirit."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000001_000000|THE YELLOW DWARF
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000002_000000|Once upon a time there lived a queen who had been the mother of a great many children, and of them all only one daughter was left.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000003_000000|Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000003_000001|The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000004_000000|The Queen, her mother, by her caresses and flatteries, helped to make her believe that there was nothing too good for her.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000004_000001|She was dressed almost always in the prettiest frocks, as a fairy, or as a queen going out to hunt, and the ladies of the Court followed her dressed as forest fairies.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000005_000000|And to make her more vain than ever the Queen caused her portrait to be taken by the cleverest painters and sent it to several neighboring kings with whom she was very friendly.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000006_000000|When they saw this portrait they fell in love with the Princess-every one of them, but upon each it had a different effect.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000007_000000|Never has there been a gayer Court.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000007_000001|Twenty delightful kings did everything they could think of to make themselves agreeable, and after having spent ever so much money in giving a single entertainment thought themselves very lucky if the Princess said "That's pretty."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000008_000000|All this admiration vastly pleased the Queen.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000009_000002|You may imagine how hard hearted her lovers thought her; and the Queen, who wished to see her married, did not know how to persuade her to think of it seriously.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000010_000000|"Bellissima," she said, "I do wish you would not be so proud.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000010_000001|What makes you despise all these nice kings?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000010_000002|I wish you to marry one of them, and you do not try to please me."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000011_000001|I don't want to care for anyone."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000012_000000|"But you would be very happy with any of these Princes," said the Queen, "and I shall be very angry if you fall in love with anyone who is not worthy of you."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000013_000000|But the Princess thought so much of herself that she did not consider any one of her lovers clever or handsome enough for her; and her mother, who was getting really angry at her determination not to be married, began to wish that she had not allowed her to have her own way so much.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000014_000001|This cake she prepared with her own hands, and putting it in a little basket, she set out to seek the Fairy. But as she was not used to walking far, she soon felt very tired and sat down at the foot of a tree to rest, and presently fell fast asleep.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000014_000002|When she awoke she was dismayed to find her basket empty.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000014_000003|The cake was all gone!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000014_000004|and, to make matters worse, at that moment she heard the roaring of the great lions, who had found out that she was near and were coming to look for her.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000015_000000|"What shall I do?" she cried; "I shall be eaten up," and being too frightened to run a single step, she began to cry, and leaned against the tree under which she had been asleep.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000017_000000|She looked all round her, and then up the tree, and there she saw a little tiny man, who was eating oranges.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000019_000000|"I must make up my mind to die," said the poor Queen.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000019_000001|"Alas!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000019_000002|I should not care so much if only my dear daughter were married."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000020_000001|"I'm really glad to hear that, for I've been looking for a wife all over the world.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000020_000002|Now, if you will promise that she shall marry me, not one of the lions, tigers, or bears shall touch you."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000021_000000|The Queen looked at him and was almost as much afraid of his ugly little face as she had been of the lions before, so that she could not speak a word.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000022_000000|"What! you hesitate, madam," cried the Dwarf.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000023_000000|And, as he spoke, the Queen saw the lions, which were running down a hill toward them.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000026_000001|"Bellissima is pretty enough, but I don't particularly want to marry her-you can keep her."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000027_000000|"Oh! noble sir," said the Queen in great distress, "do not refuse her. She is the most charming Princess in the world."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000028_000000|"Oh! well," he replied, "out of charity I will take her; but be sure and don't forget that she is mine."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000030_000000|The Queen was so confused that at first she did not notice another little door in the orange tree, but presently it opened and she found herself in a field of thistles and nettles.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000031_000001|With these thistles and nettles she can feed a donkey which she can ride whenever she likes; under this humble roof no weather can hurt her; she will drink the water of this brook and eat frogs-which grow very fat about here; and then she will have me always with her, handsome, agreeable, and gay as you see me now.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000033_000000|When she revived she found to her great surprise that she was lying in her own bed at home, and, what was more, that she had on the loveliest lace night cap that she had ever seen in her life.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000033_000001|At first she thought that all her adventures, the terrible lions, and her promise to the Yellow Dwarf that he should marry Bellissima, must have been a dream, but there was the new cap with its beautiful ribbon and lace to remind her that it was all true, which made her so unhappy that she could neither eat, drink, nor sleep for thinking of it.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000034_000001|Bellissima knew quite well that something was being hidden from her-and that neither of these was the real reason of the Queen's uneasiness.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000035_000000|So, with great care, she made some of the proper cake to pacify the lions, and one night went up to her room very early, pretending that she was going to bed; but instead of that, she wrapped herself in a long white veil, and went down a secret staircase, and set off all by herself to find the Witch.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000036_000000|But when she got as far as the same fatal orange tree, and saw it covered with flowers and fruit, she stopped and began to gather some of the oranges-and then, putting down her basket, she sat down to eat them.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000036_000001|But when it was time to go on again the basket had disappeared and, though she looked everywhere, not a trace of it could she find. The more she hunted for it, the more frightened she got, and at last she began to cry.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000036_000002|Then all at once she saw before her the Yellow Dwarf.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000037_000000|"What's the matter with you, my pretty one?" said he.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000037_000001|"What are you crying about?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000039_000000|"And what do you want with her, pretty one?" said the little monster, "for I am a friend of hers, and, for the matter of that, I am quite as clever as she is."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000040_000001|So for all these reasons I wished to talk to the Fairy."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000041_000001|"I can tell you all you want to know better than she could.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000041_000002|The Queen, your mother, has promised you in marriage----"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000042_000001|"Oh! no I'm sure she has not.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000042_000002|She would have told me if she had.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000042_000003|I am too much interested in the matter for her to promise anything without my consent-you must be mistaken."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000044_000000|"You!" cried Bellissima, starting back.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000044_000001|"My mother wishes me to marry you!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000047_000000|"What shall I do?" she cried.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000047_000001|"Must all my happy days come to an end like this?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000048_000000|The malicious Dwarf looked at her and began to laugh spitefully.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000048_000001|"At least," said he, "you have the satisfaction of dying unmarried.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000048_000002|A lovely Princess like you must surely prefer to die rather than be the wife of a poor little dwarf like myself."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000050_000000|"Look at me well, Princess, before you give me your word," said he.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000050_000001|"I don't want you to promise me in a hurry."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000051_000000|"Oh!" cried she, "the lions are coming.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000051_000001|I have looked at you enough.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000051_000002|I am so frightened.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000051_000003|Save me this minute, or I shall die of terror."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000053_000000|When the Princess saw all these things, and remembered what had happened, she, too, fell into the deepest sadness, which surprised and alarmed the whole Court, and the Queen more than anyone else.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000055_000000|Preparations were begun at once for the grandest wedding that had ever been held at the palace.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000055_000003|At least that is what the King of the Gold Mines thought, and he was never happy unless he was with her.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000056_000000|As for the Princess, the more she saw of the King the more she liked him; he was so generous, so handsome and clever, that at last she was almost as much in love with him as he was with her.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000056_000002|And the King used to write songs for Bellissima.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000058_000002|They said good by to the Princess so sadly that she could not help being sorry for them.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000059_000000|"Ah! madam," the King of the Gold Mines said to her "how is this?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000059_000001|Why do you waste your pity on these princes, who love you so much that all their trouble would be well repaid by a single smile from you?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000060_000000|"I should be sorry," answered Bellissima, "if you had not noticed how much I pitied these princes who were leaving me for ever; but for you, sire, it is very different: you have every reason to be pleased with me, but they are going sorrowfully away, so you must not grudge them my compassion."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000061_000000|The King of the Gold Mines was quite overcome by the Princess's good-natured way of taking his interference, and, throwing himself at her feet, he kissed her hand a thousand times and begged her to forgive him.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000062_000000|At last the happy day came.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000062_000001|Everything was ready for Bellissima's wedding.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000062_000002|The trumpets sounded, all the streets of the town were hung with flags and strewn with flowers, and the people ran in crowds to the great square before the palace.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000062_000003|The Queen was so overjoyed that she had hardly been able to sleep at all, and she got up before it was light to give the necessary orders and to choose the jewels that the Princess was to wear.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000062_000005|You may imagine how much these had cost; but then nothing could have been more brilliant, except the beauty of the Princess!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000062_000006|Upon her head she wore a splendid crown, her lovely hair waved nearly to her feet, and her stately figure could easily be distinguished among all the ladies who attended her.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000064_000000|The Queen and the Princess were just ready to set out with the King when they saw, advancing toward them from the end of the long gallery, two great basilisks, dragging after them a very badly made box; behind them came a tall old woman, whose ugliness was even more surprising than her extreme old age.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000064_000001|She wore a ruff of black taffeta, a red velvet hood, and a farthingale all in rags, and she leaned heavily upon a crutch. This strange old woman, without saying a single word, hobbled three times round the gallery, followed by the basilisks, then stopping in the middle, and brandishing her crutch threateningly, she cried:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000065_000002|Do you think you are going to break with impunity the promise that you made to my friend the Yellow Dwarf?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000065_000003|I am the Fairy of the Desert; without the Yellow Dwarf and his orange tree my great lions would soon have eaten you up, I can tell you, and in Fairyland we do not suffer ourselves to be insulted like this.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000065_000004|Make up your minds at once what you will do, for I vow that you shall marry the Yellow Dwarf.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000065_000005|If you don't, may I burn my crutch!"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000066_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000066_000001|Princess," said the Queen, weeping, "what is this that I hear?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000066_000002|What have you promised?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000068_000000|The King of the Gold Mines, indignant at being kept from his happiness by this wicked old woman, went up to her, and threatening her with his sword, said:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000069_000000|"Get away out of my country at once, and for ever, miserable creature, lest I take your life, and so rid myself of your malice."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000070_000001|"Rash youth!" he cried, rushing between the Fairy of the Desert and the King.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000070_000004|I am your enemy and your rival.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000070_000005|That faithless Princess who would have married you is promised to me.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000070_000006|See if she has not upon her finger a ring made of one of my hairs.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000070_000007|Just try to take it off, and you will soon find out that I am more powerful than you are!"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000071_000000|"Wretched little monster!" said the King; "do you dare to call yourself the Princess's lover, and to lay claim to such a treasure?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000072_000000|The Yellow Dwarf, deeply enraged at these words, set spurs to his cat, which yelled horribly, and leaped hither and thither-terrifying everybody except the brave King, who pursued the Dwarf closely, till he, drawing a great knife with which he was armed, challenged the King to meet him in single combat, and rushed down into the courtyard of the palace with a terrible clatter.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000073_000000|The King, motionless with horror, looked on despairingly at this dreadful occurrence, which he was quite powerless to prevent, and to make matters worse his sight failed him, everything became dark, and he felt himself carried along through the air by a strong hand.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000074_000001|She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and chained him to a rock, then the fear of death would make him forget Bellissima and become her slave.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000075_000000|"What do I see?" she cried.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000075_000002|What misfortune has brought you to this dismal place?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000076_000000|The King, who was quite deceived by her altered appearance, replied:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000077_000000|"Alas! beautiful Fairy, the fairy who brought me here first took away my sight, but by her voice I recognized her as the Fairy of the Desert, though what she should have carried me off for I cannot tell you."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000079_000000|Without seeming to have noticed anything, he said, in a confidential way:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000080_000001|It is true that I love a charming princess, but if the Fairy should set me free my gratitude would oblige me to love her only."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000082_000000|"Surely," replied the Prince; "how could I deceive you?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000082_000001|You see it is so much more flattering to my vanity to be loved by a fairy than by a simple princess.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000083_000000|The Fairy of the Desert, quite taken in by these words, resolved at once to transport the Prince to a pleasanter place.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000083_000001|So, making him mount her chariot, to which she had harnessed swans instead of the bats which generally drew it, away she flew with him.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000084_000000|"What!" she cried; "was I not unhappy enough in this lonely castle to which that frightful Yellow Dwarf brought me?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000084_000001|Must I also be made to know that the King of the Gold Mines ceased to love me as soon as he lost sight of me?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000084_000002|But who can my rival be, whose fatal beauty is greater than mine?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000085_000000|While she was saying this, the King, who really loved her as much as ever, was feeling terribly sad at being so rapidly torn away from his beloved Princess, but he knew too well how powerful the Fairy was to have any hope of escaping from her except by great patience and cunning.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000086_000000|The Fairy of the Desert had also seen Bellissima, and she tried to read in the King's eyes the effect that this unexpected sight had had upon him.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000087_000000|"No one can tell you what you wish to know better than I can," said he.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000087_000001|"This chance meeting with an unhappy princess for whom I once had a passing fancy, before I was lucky enough to meet you, has affected me a little, I admit, but you are so much more to me than she is that I would rather die than leave you."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000089_000000|"Time will show, madam," replied the King; "but if you wish to convince me that you have some regard for me, do not, I beg of you, refuse to aid Bellissima."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000091_000000|The King sighed, but made no answer-indeed, what was there to be said to such a clear sighted person?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000091_000001|At last they reached a vast meadow, gay with all sorts of flowers; a deep river surrounded it, and many little brooks murmured softly under the shady trees, where it was always cool and fresh.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000091_000002|A little way off stood a splendid palace, the walls of which were of transparent emeralds.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000091_000003|As soon as the swans which drew the Fairy's chariot had alighted under a porch, which was paved with diamonds and had arches of rubies, they were greeted on all sides by thousands of beautiful beings, who came to meet them joyfully, singing these words:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000093_000000|The Fairy of the Desert was delighted to hear them sing of her triumphs; she led the King into the most splendid room that can be imagined, and left him alone for a little while, just that he might not feel that he was a prisoner; but he felt sure that she had not really gone quite away, but was watching him from some hiding place.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000093_000001|So walking up to a great mirror, he said to it, "Trusty counsellor, let me see what I can do to make myself agreeable to the charming Fairy of the Desert; for I can think of nothing but how to please her."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000094_000001|The Fairy came back so delighted that she could not conceal her joy.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000095_000001|You see it is not difficult to do if you really care for me."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000096_000000|The King, who had his own reasons for wishing to keep the old Fairy in a good humor, did not spare pretty speeches, and after a time he was allowed to walk by himself upon the sea shore.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000096_000001|The Fairy of the Desert had by her enchantments raised such a terrible storm that the boldest pilot would not venture out in it, so she was not afraid of her prisoner's being able to escape; and he found it some relief to think sadly over his terrible situation without being interrupted by his cruel captor.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000097_000000|Presently, after walking wildly up and down, he wrote these verses upon the sand with his stick:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000098_000000|"At last may I upon this shore Lighten my sorrow with soft tears. Alas! alas!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000098_000001|I see no more My Love, who yet my sadness cheers.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000100_000000|"My heart is still more wild than thine, For Fate is cruel unto me. Why must I thus in exile pine? Why is my Princess snatched from me?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000102_000000|While he was still writing he heard a voice which attracted his attention in spite of himself.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000104_000000|The King of the Gold Mines hardly knew what answer to make to this proposal.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000104_000001|Not because he did not wish very much to escape, but he was afraid that this might be only another device by which the Fairy of the Desert was trying to deceive him.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000104_000002|As he hesitated the Mermaid, who guessed his thoughts, said to him:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000105_000000|"You may trust me: I am not trying to entrap you.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000105_000001|I am so angry with the Yellow Dwarf and the Fairy of the Desert that I am not likely to wish to help them, especially since I constantly see your poor Princess, whose beauty and goodness make me pity her so much; and I tell you that if you will have confidence in me I will help you to escape."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000106_000000|"I trust you absolutely," cried the King, "and I will do whatever you tell me; but if you have seen my Princess I beg of you to tell me how she is and what is happening to her.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000108_000000|So saying, she quickly collected a bundle of sea weed, and, blowing it three times, she said:
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000110_000000|"Now," said she, "I have time to tell you about the Princess.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000110_000001|In spite of the blow which the Fairy of the Desert gave her, the Yellow Dwarf compelled her to mount behind him upon his terrible Spanish cat; but she soon fainted away with pain and terror, and did not recover till they were within the walls of his frightful Castle of Steel.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000110_000002|Here she was received by the prettiest girls it was possible to find, who had been carried there by the Yellow Dwarf, who hastened to wait upon her and showed her every possible attention.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000110_000003|She was laid upon a couch covered with cloth of gold, embroidered with pearls as big as nuts."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000111_000000|"Ah!" interrupted the King of the Gold Mines, "if Bellissima forgets me, and consents to marry him, I shall break my heart."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000112_000000|"You need not be afraid of that," answered the Mermaid, "the Princess thinks of no one but you, and the frightful Dwarf cannot persuade her to look at him."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000113_000000|"Pray go on with your story," said the King.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000115_000000|"She believes that I love her!" cried the King.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000115_000001|"What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000116_000000|"You know best," answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000118_000000|"I know quite well," said the Mermaid, "that the Princess is sitting by the brook side, just where you saw her as you passed, but as you will have many enemies to fight with before you can reach her, take this sword; armed with it you may dare any danger, and overcome the greatest difficulties, only beware of one thing-that is, never to let it fall from your hand.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000118_000001|Farewell; now I will wait by that rock, and if you need my help in carrying off your beloved Princess I will not fail you, for the Queen, her mother, is my best friend, and it was for her sake that I went to rescue you."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000119_000001|He could not find words to express his gratitude, but he begged her to believe that he fully appreciated the importance of her gift, and would never forget her help and kindness.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000000|We must now go back to the Fairy of the Desert.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000001|When she found that the King did not return, she hastened out to look for him, and reached the shore, with a hundred of the ladies of her train, loaded with splendid presents for him.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000005|But they were all taken in by the image of the King, for, clever as they were, the Mermaid was still cleverer, and all they could do was to help the Fairy of the Desert to make a wonderful monument over what they thought was the grave of the King of the Gold Mines.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000006|But while they were collecting jasper and porphyry, agate and marble, gold and bronze, statues and devices, to immortalize the King's memory, he was thanking the good Mermaid and begging her still to help him, which she graciously promised to do as she disappeared; and then he set out for the Castle of Steel.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000008|But he had hardly turned to continue his search when he met six dragons covered with scales that were harder than iron.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000009|Frightful as this encounter was the King's courage was unshaken, and by the aid of his wonderful sword he cut them in pieces one after the other.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000010|Now he hoped his difficulties were over, but at the next turning he was met by one which he did not know how to overcome.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000120_000011|Four and twenty pretty and graceful nymphs advanced toward him, holding garlands of flowers, with which they barred the way.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000121_000001|We beg you not to insist upon going on.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000121_000002|Do you want to kill four and twenty girls who have never displeased you in any way?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000122_000000|The King did not know what to do or to say.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000123_000000|"Strike! strike! and do not spare, or your Princess is lost for ever!"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000124_000000|So, without reply to the nymphs, he rushed forward instantly, breaking their garlands, and scattering them in all directions; and then went on without further hindrance to the little wood where he had seen Bellissima.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000125_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000125_000001|Princess," he cried, "do not be angry with me.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000125_000002|Let me explain everything.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000125_000003|I am not faithless or to blame for what has happened.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000127_000000|"Indeed it was, Princess," he answered; "the wicked Fairy of the Desert, not content with chaining me to a rock, carried me off in her chariot to the other end of the earth, where I should even now be a captive but for the unexpected help of a friendly mermaid, who brought me here to rescue you, my Princess, from the unworthy hands that hold you.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000127_000001|Do not refuse the aid of your most faithful lover." So saying, he threw himself at her feet and held her by her robe.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000130_000000|"Let me die a thousand times rather," cried the unhappy King.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000131_000000|"Alas!" cried the Princess, "must you die?
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000131_000001|Could anything be more terrible?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000132_000000|"That you should marry that little wretch would be far more terrible," answered the King.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000133_000000|"At least," continued she, "let us die together."
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000134_000000|"Let me have the satisfaction of dying for you, my Princess," said he.
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000136_000000|"Cruel Princess!" said the King, "would you make my life horrible to me by marrying another before my eyes?"
train-other-500/319/134959/319_134959_000137_000000|"Not so," replied the Yellow Dwarf; "you are a rival of whom I am too much afraid; you shall not see our marriage." So saying, in spite of Bellissima's tears and cries, he stabbed the King to the heart with the diamond sword.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000000_000000|Nothing was changed since yesterday.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000000_000001|The sentries' arms glittered in the pitiless sunshine, the ship rolled and creaked on the swell of the dreamy sea, and the prison cage on the lower deck was crowded with the same cheerless figures, disposed in the attitudes of the day before. Even mr Maurice Frere, recovered from his midnight fatigues, was lounging on the same coil of rope, in precisely the same position.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000001_000000|Yet the eye of an acute observer would have detected some difference beneath this outward varnish of similarity.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000001_000002|The fishing lines still hung dangling over the catheads, but nobody touched them.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000001_000005|The noise of mallet and hammer echoed in the soldiers' berth ominously; the workmen might have been making coffins. The prison was strangely silent, with the lowering silence which precedes a thunderstorm; and the convicts on deck no longer told stories, nor laughed at obscene jests, but sat together, moodily patient, as if waiting for something.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000001_000006|Three men-two prisoners and a soldier-had succumbed since Rufus Dawes had been removed to the hospital; and though as yet there had been no complaint or symptom of panic, the face of each man, soldier, sailor, or prisoner, wore an expectant look, as though he wondered whose turn would come next.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000001_000007|On the ship-rolling ceaselessly from side to side, like some wounded creature, on the opaque profundity of that stagnant ocean-a horrible shadow had fallen.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000001_000008|The Malabar seemed to be enveloped in an electric cloud, whose sullen gloom a chance spark might flash into a blaze that should consume her.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000002_000000|The woman who held in her hands the two ends of the chain that would produce this spark, paused, came up upon deck, and, after a glance round, leant against the poop railing, and looked down into the barricade.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000002_000002|Three men, leaning carelessly against the bulwarks, watched her every motion.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000003_000000|"There she is, right enough," growled mr Gabbett, as if in continuation of a previous remark.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000003_000001|"Flash as ever, and looking this way, too."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000004_000000|"I don't see no wipe," said the practical Moocher.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000005_000000|"Patience is a virtue, most noble knuckler!" says the Crow, with affected carelessness.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000005_000001|"Give the young woman time."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000006_000000|"Blowed if I'm going to wait no longer," says the giant, licking his coarse blue lips.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000006_000002|The fever's aboard, and we've got all ready.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000006_000004|Orfice, or no orfice, I'm for bizness at once!--"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000008_000000|"It's all right, you confounded muddlehead!" cried the Crow, losing patience with his perverse and stupid companion.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000008_000001|"How can she give us the office with that cove at her elbow?"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000009_000001|The giant did not follow; and mr Vetch, folding his arms, and assuming an attitude of easy contempt, directed his attention to Sarah Purfoy.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000009_000002|She seemed an object of general attraction, for at the same moment a young soldier ran up the ladder to the forecastle, and eagerly bent his gaze in her direction.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000010_000000|Maurice Frere had come behind her and touched her on the shoulder.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000010_000002|The girl was evidently playing with him, and he would show her that he was not to be trifled with.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000011_000000|"Well, Sarah!"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000012_000000|"Well, mr Frere," dropping her hand, and turning round with a smile.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000013_000000|"How well you are looking to day!
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000013_000001|Positively lovely!"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000014_000000|"You have told me that so often," says she, with a pout.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000015_000000|"Except that I love you."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000015_000001|This in a most impassioned manner.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000016_000000|"That is no news.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000016_000001|I know you do."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000017_000000|"Curse it, Sarah, what is a fellow to do?" His profligacy was failing him rapidly.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000018_000000|"A 'fellow' should be able to take care of himself, mr Frere.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000018_000001|I didn't ask you to fall in love with me, did I?
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000018_000002|If you don't please me, it is not your fault, perhaps."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000019_000000|"What do you mean?"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000020_000000|"You soldiers have so many things to think of-your guards and sentries, and visits and things.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000021_000000|"Spare!" cries Frere, in amazement.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000021_000003|"I have so much to do," she said, in a half whisper.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000021_000004|"There are so many eyes upon me, I cannot stir without being seen."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000023_000000|"I will come at eight o'clock," said she, with modestly averted face.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000024_000000|"They relieve the guard at eight," he said deprecatingly.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000025_000000|She tossed her head.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000025_000001|"Very well, then, attend to your guard; I don't care."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000026_000000|"But, Sarah, consider-"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000027_000000|"As if a woman in love ever considers!" said she, turning upon him a burning glance, which in truth might have melted a more icy man than he. --She loved him then!
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000027_000003|Besides, the guard could relieve itself for once without his supervision.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000028_000000|"Very well, at eight then, dearest."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000029_000001|"Here comes that stupid captain."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000030_000000|And as Frere left her, she turned, and with her eyes fixed on the convict barricade, dropped the handkerchief she held in her hand over the poop railing.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000032_000000|"Did you take the laudanum?" whispered Blunt, with a twinkle in his eye.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000033_000000|"Some of it," said she.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000033_000001|"I will bring you back the bottle to night."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000034_000000|Blunt walked aft, humming cheerily, and saluted Frere with a slap on the back.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000035_000001|They were together once more, and the Crow, having taken off his prison cap, held it at arm's length with one hand, while he wiped his brow with the other.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000038_000000|The place where he lay was but dimly lighted.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000038_000001|The ingenuity of Pine had constructed a canvas blind over the port, to prevent the sun striking into the cabin, and this blind absorbed much of the light.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000038_000002|He could but just see the deck above his head, and distinguish the outlines of three other berths, apparently similar to his own.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000038_000004|By and by the noise of these hammers ceased, and then the sick man could hear gasps, and moans, and mutterings-the signs that his companions yet lived.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000039_000000|All at once a voice called out, "Of course his bills are worth four hundred pounds; but, my good sir, four hundred pounds to a man in my position is not worth the getting.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000039_000001|Why, I've given four hundred pounds for a freak of my girl Sarah!
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000039_000002|Is it right, eh, Jezebel?
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000039_000003|She's a good girl, though, as girls go.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000039_000004|mrs Lionel Crofton, of the Crofts, Sevenoaks, Kent-Sevenoaks, Kent-Seven----"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000040_000002|With an effort he spoke.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000041_000000|"Rex!"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000042_000000|"Yes, yes.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000042_000001|I'm coming; don't be in a hurry.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000042_000002|The sentry's safe, and the howitzer is but five paces from the door.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000042_000004|That is, mine.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000042_000005|Mine and my wife's, mrs Lionel Crofton, of Seven Crofts, no oaks-Sarah Purfoy, lady's maid and nurse-ha! ha!--lady's maid and nurse!"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000043_000000|This last sentence contained the name clue to the labyrinth in which Rufus Dawes's bewildered intellects were wandering.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000043_000001|"Sarah Purfoy!" He remembered now each detail of the conversation he had so strangely overheard, and how imperative it was that he should, without delay, reveal the plot that threatened the ship.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000000|He attempted to rise, but found that his fever thralled limbs refused to obey the impulse of his will.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000001|He made an effort to speak, but his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and his jaws stuck together.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000002|He could not raise a finger nor utter a sound.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000004|He closed his eyes with a terrible sigh of despair, and resigned himself to his fate.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000005|At that instant the sound of hammering ceased, and the door opened.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000006|It was six o'clock, and Pine had come to have a last look at his patients before dinner.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000044_000007|It seemed that there was somebody with him, for a kind, though somewhat pompous, voice remarked upon the scantiness of accommodation, and the "necessity-the absolute necessity" of complying with the King's Regulations.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000045_000000|Honest Vickers, though agonized for the safety of his child, would not abate a jot of his duty, and had sternly come to visit the sick men, aware as he was that such a visit would necessitate his isolation from the cabin where his child lay.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000046_000000|"Here they are," said Pine; "six of 'em.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000046_000001|This fellow"--going to the side of Rex-"is the worst.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000000|"Three, eighteen, seven, four," muttered Rex; "dot and carry one.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000001|Is that an occupation for a gentleman?
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000002|No, sir.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000003|Good night, my lord, good night.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000004|Hark!
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000005|The clock is striking nine; five, six, seven, eight!
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000047_000006|Well, you've had your day, and can't complain."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000048_000000|"A dangerous fellow," says Pine, with the light upraised.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000050_000000|Rufus Dawes felt the sweat break out into beads on his forehead.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000050_000001|They suspected nothing.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000050_000002|They were going away.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000050_000003|He must warn them.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000050_000004|With a violent effort, in his agony he turned over in the bunk and thrust out his hand from the blankets.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000052_000000|"Sarah Purfoy-to night-the prison-MUTINY!"
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000053_000001|"Hush!" he cried.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000053_000002|"Is that you, Jemmy?
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000053_000003|Sarah's right.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000053_000004|Wait till she gives the word."
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000054_000000|"He's raving," said Vickers.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000055_000000|Pine caught the convict by the shoulder.
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000055_000001|"What do you say, my man?
train-other-500/3192/4909/3192_4909_000055_000002|A mutiny of the prisoners!"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000000_000000|CHAPTER nine.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000000_000001|WOMAN'S WEAPONS.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000001_000000|The two discoverers of this awkward secret held a council of war. Vickers was for at once calling the guard, and announcing to the prisoners that the plot-whatever it might be-had been discovered; but Pine, accustomed to convict ships, overruled this decision.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000003_000000|"But the man seemed certain," said the other.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000003_000001|"He mentioned my wife's maid, too!"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000004_000001|To tell them that we have found them out this time won't prevent 'em trying it again.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000004_000002|We don't know what their scheme is either.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000004_000004|No, Captain Vickers, allow me, as surgeon superintendent, to settle our course of action.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000004_000005|You are aware that-"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000005_000002|We were glad to get anybody to make a voyage like this."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000000|"Well," says Pine, "look here.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000001|Suppose we tell these scoundrels that their design, whatever it may be, is known.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000002|Very good.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000003|They will profess absolute ignorance, and try again on the next opportunity, when, perhaps, we may not know anything about it.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000004|At all events, we are completely ignorant of the nature of the plot and the names of the ringleaders.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000005|Let us double the sentries, and quietly get the men under arms.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000006_000007|I am not a cruel man, sir, but we have got a cargo of wild beasts aboard, and we must be careful."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000007_000000|"But surely, mr Pine, have you considered the probable loss of life? I-really-some more humane course perhaps?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000007_000001|Prevention, you know-"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000008_000000|Pine turned round upon him with that grim practicality which was a part of his nature.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000008_000001|"Have you considered the safety of the ship, Captain Vickers?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000008_000002|You know, or have heard of, the sort of things that take place in these mutinies.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000008_000003|Have you considered what will befall those half dozen women in the soldiers' berths?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000008_000004|Have you thought of the fate of your own wife and child?"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000009_000000|Vickers shuddered.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000010_000000|"Have it your way, mr Pine; you know best perhaps.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000010_000001|But don't risk more lives than you can help."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000012_000001|"Kindness might do much for them.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000012_000002|After all, they are our fellow creatures."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000013_000000|"Yes," returned the other, "they are.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000013_000001|But if you use that argument to them when they have taken the vessel, it won't avail you much.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000013_000002|Let me manage, sir; and for God's sake, say nothing to anybody.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000013_000003|Our lives may hang upon a word."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000015_000000|According to the usual custom on board convict ships, the guards relieved each other every two hours, and at six p.m. the poop guard was removed to the quarter deck, and the arms which, in the daytime, were disposed on the top of the arm chest, were placed in an arm rack constructed on the quarter deck for that purpose.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000016_000000|At a quarter past seven, any curious person looking through the window of Captain Blunt's cabin would have seen an unusual sight.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000016_000001|That gallant commander was sitting on the bed place, with a glass of rum and water in his hand, and the handsome waiting maid of mrs Vickers was seated on a stool by his side.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000016_000002|At a first glance it was perceptible that the captain was very drunk.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000017_000000|"Cuc come, Sarah," he hiccuped.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000018_000001|The amorous Phineas lurched over, and made shift to take her hand.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000019_000002|Giv'sh-kiss, Sarah."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000020_000000|Sarah got up and went to the door.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000021_000000|"Wotsh this?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000021_000001|Goin'!
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000022_000000|The ship's bell struck the half hour.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000022_000001|Now or never was the time.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000023_000001|Nun-not I, my wench."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000024_000000|"You will be if you drink much more.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000024_000001|Come, finish that and be quiet, or I'll go away."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000025_000002|The effect was almost instantaneous.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000025_000003|He dropped the tumbler, lurched towards the woman at the door, and then making a half turn in accordance with the motion of the vessel, fell into his bunk, and snored like a grampus.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000000|Sarah Purfoy watched him for a few minutes, and then having blown out the light, stepped out of the cabin, and closed the door behind her.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000001|The dusky gloom which had held the deck on the previous night enveloped all forward of the main mast.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000002|A lantern swung in the forecastle, and swayed with the motion of the ship.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000004|She looked mechanically for Vickers, who was ordinarily there at that hour, but the cuddy was empty.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000005|So much the better, she thought, as she drew her dark cloak around her, and tapped at Frere's door.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000006|As she did so, a strange pain shot through her temples, and her knees trembled.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000007|With a strong effort she dispelled the dizziness that had almost overpowered her, and held herself erect.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000026_000008|It would never do to break down now.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000027_000000|The door opened, and Maurice Frere drew her into the cabin.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000027_000001|"So you have come?" said he.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000028_000000|"You see I have.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000029_000000|"Seen?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000029_000001|Nonsense!
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000029_000002|Who is to see you?"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000030_000000|"Captain Vickers, Doctor Pine, anybody."
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000031_000000|"Not they.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000032_000000|Gone off to Pine's cabin!
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000032_000001|The intelligence struck her with dismay. What was the cause of such an unusual proceeding?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000032_000002|Surely they did not suspect!
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000032_000003|"What do they want there?" she asked.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000033_000000|Maurice Frere was not in the humour to argue questions of probability. "Who knows?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000033_000001|I don't.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000033_000003|We don't want them, do we, Sarah?"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000034_000000|She seemed to be listening for something, and did not reply.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000034_000002|The success of the plot depended on the next five minutes.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000035_000000|"What are you staring at?
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000035_000002|What eyes you have!
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000035_000003|And what hair!"
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000036_000000|At that instant the report of a musket shot broke the silence.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000036_000001|The mutiny had begun!
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000037_000001|He sprang to his feet, and disengaging the arms that clung about his neck, made for the door.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000037_000002|The moment for which the convict's accomplice had waited approached.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000037_000003|She hung upon him with all her weight.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000037_000005|He, intoxicated, conquered, had half turned back, when suddenly the rich crimson died away from her lips, leaving them an ashen grey colour.
train-other-500/3192/4910/3192_4910_000038_000000|The fever which had been on her two days, and which, by a strong exercise of will, she had struggled against-encouraged by the violent excitement of the occasion-had attacked her at this supreme moment. Deathly pale and sick, she reeled to the side of the cabin.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000002_000000|CHAPTER ten EIGHT BELLS.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000001|The news of the fever had awoke in the convicts all that love of liberty which had but slumbered during the monotony of the earlier part of the voyage. Now that death menaced them, they longed fiercely for the chance of escape which seemed permitted to freemen.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000002|"Let us get out!" they said, each man speaking to his particular friend.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000003|"We are locked up here to die like sheep." Gloomy faces and desponding looks met the gaze of each, and sometimes across this gloom shot a fierce glance that lighted up its blackness, as a lightning flash renders luridly luminous the indigo dullness of a thunder cloud.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000004|By and by, in some inexplicable way, it came to be understood that there was a conspiracy afloat, that they were to be released from their shambles, that some amongst them had been plotting for freedom.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000006|The influence of this predominant idea showed itself by a strange shifting of atoms.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000007|The mass of villainy, ignorance, and innocence began to be animated with something like a uniform movement.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000008|Natural affinities came together, and like allied itself to like, falling noiselessly into harmony, as the pieces of glass and coloured beads in a kaleidoscope assume mathematical forms.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000010|These three parties had arranged themselves in natural sequence.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000003_000012|The mutineers proper numbered, perhaps, some thirty men, and of these thirty only half a dozen knew what was really about to be done.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000006_000000|The whisper being heard by those nearest the giant, a silence ensues, which gradually spreads like a ripple over the surface of the crowd, reaching even the bunks at the further end.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000009_000000|"You needn't be afraid," mr Vetch continues, "we have arranged it all for you.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000009_000001|There are friends waiting for us outside, and the door will be open directly.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000009_000002|All we want, gentlemen, is your vote and interest-I mean your-"
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000010_000000|"Gaffing agin!" interrupts the giant angrily.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000010_000002|Tell 'em they may like it or lump it, but we mean to have the ship, and them as refuses to join us we mean to chuck overboard.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000010_000003|That's about the plain English of it!"
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000011_000000|This practical way of putting it produces a sensation, and the conservative party at the other end look in each other's faces with some alarm.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000013_000001|"Go on, old man!" cries Jemmy Vetch to the giant, rubbing his thin hands with eldritch glee.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000014_000000|It was eight o'clock and the relief guard was coming from the after deck.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000014_000001|The crowd of prisoners round the door held their breath to listen. "It's all planned," says Gabbett, in a low growl.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000015_000000|"They're very quiet about it," says the Crow suspiciously.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000016_000000|"Stand from the door, Miles," says Pine's voice outside, in its usual calm accents.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000017_000000|The Crow was relieved.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000017_000001|The tone was an ordinary one, and Miles was the soldier whom Sarah Purfoy had bribed not to fire.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000017_000002|All had gone well.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000019_000000|"NOW!" cries Jemmy Vetch, as the iron plated oak swung back, and with the guttural snarl of a charging wild boar, Gabbett hurled himself out of the prison.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000020_000000|The red line of light which glowed for an instant through the doorway was blotted out by a mass of figures.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000020_000001|All the prison surged forward, and before the eye could wink, five, ten, twenty, of the most desperate were outside.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000020_000002|It was as though a sea, breaking against a stone wall, had found some breach through which to pour its waters.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000020_000003|The contagion of battle spread.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000021_000001|The mass in the doorway hung irresolute, and then by sheer weight of pressure from behind burst forward, and as it so burst, the heavy door crashed into its jambs, and the bolts were shot into their places.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000022_000000|All this took place by one of those simultaneous movements which are so rapid in execution, so tedious to describe in detail.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000022_000001|At one instant the prison door had opened, at the next it had closed.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000022_000002|The picture which had presented itself to the eyes of the convicts was as momentary as are those of the thaumatoscope.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000023_000000|The report of another shot, and then a noise of confused cries, mingled with the clashing of arms, informed the imprisoned men that the ship had been alarmed.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000023_000001|How would it go with their friends on deck?
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000023_000002|Would they succeed in overcoming the guards, or would they be beaten back?
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000023_000003|They would soon know; and in the hot dusk, straining their eyes to see each other, they waited for the issue Suddenly the noises ceased, and a strange rumbling sound fell upon the ears of the listeners.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000025_000000|This-the men pouring out of the darkness into the sudden glare of the lanterns, rushed, bewildered, across the deck.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000025_000001|Miles, true to his promise, did not fire, but the next instant Vickers had snatched the firelock from him, and leaping into the stream, turned about and fired down towards the prison.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000025_000003|The shot would serve a double purpose.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000025_000004|It would warn the men in the barrack, and perhaps check the rush by stopping up the doorway with a corpse.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000026_000000|Gabbett and his companions had by this time reached the foot of the companion ladder, there to encounter the cutlasses of the doubled guard gleaming redly in the glow of the lanterns.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000026_000002|Even his dull intellect comprehended that the desperate project had failed, and that he had been betrayed.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000026_000003|With the roar of despair which had penetrated into the prison, he turned to fight his way back, just in time to see the crowd in the gangway recoil from the flash of the musket fired by Vickers.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000026_000004|The next instant, Pine and two soldiers, taking advantage of the momentary cessation of the press, shot the bolts, and secured the prison.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000027_000000|The mutineers were caught in a trap.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000028_000000|The narrow space between the barracks and the barricade was choked with struggling figures.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000028_000001|Some twenty convicts, and half as many soldiers, struck and stabbed at each other in the crowd.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000028_000004|The Moocher, close at the giant's heels, flung himself upon the nearest soldier, and grasping his wrist, struggled for the cutlass.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000028_000005|A brawny, bull necked fellow next him dashed his clenched fist in the soldier's face, and the man maddened by the blow, let go the cutlass, and drawing his pistol, shot his new assailant through the head.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000029_000002|The two men were drawn together.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000029_000003|The guard on the quarter deck dared not fire at the two bodies that, twined about each other, rolled across the deck, and for a moment mr Frere's cherished existence hung upon the slenderest thread imaginable.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000030_000000|The Moocher, spattered with the blood and brains of his unfortunate comrade, had already set his foot upon the lowest step of the ladder, when the cutlass was dashed from his hand by a blow from a clubbed firelock, and he was dragged roughly backwards.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000031_000000|They were not perplexed for long.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000032_000001|"Surrender, and give up your ringleaders, or I'll blow you to pieces!"
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000033_000001|This skurrying noise was made by the convicts rushing to their berths to escape the threatened shower of grape; to the twenty desperadoes cowering before the muzzle of the howitzer it spoke more eloquently than words.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000033_000003|The position of affairs at this crisis was a strange one.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000033_000004|From the opened trap door came a sort of subdued murmur, like that which sounds within the folds of a sea shell, but, in the oblong block of darkness which it framed, nothing was visible.
train-other-500/3192/4911/3192_4911_000033_000006|In front of the little group lay the corpse of the miserable boy whom Sarah Purfoy had led to ruin; and forced close upon, yet shrinking back from the trampled and bloody mass, crouched in mingled terror and rage, the twenty mutineers.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000001_000000|How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000003_000000|Time would have seemed to creep to the watchers by the bed, if it had only been measured by the doubtful, distant hope which kept count of the moments within the chamber; but it was measured for them by a fast approaching dread which made the nights come too quickly.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000003_000001|While mr Tulliver was slowly becoming himself again, his lot was hastening toward its moment of most palpable change.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000004_000002|For uncle Deane had been induced to interest himself in this stage of the business.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000004_000004|mr Deane was obliged to tell mrs Tulliver something to that effect, when he rode over to the mill to inspect the books in company with mrs Glegg; for she had observed that "if Guest and Co. would only think about it, mr Tulliver's father and grandfather had been carrying on Dorlcote Mill long before the oil mill of that firm had been so much as thought of."
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000005_000000|mr Deane, in reply, doubted whether that was precisely the relation between the two mills which would determine their value as investments.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000007_000000|That might have cheered the lad and fed his hopes a little, if there had not come at the same time the much dreaded blow of finding that his father must be a bankrupt, after all; at least, the creditors must be asked to take less than their due, which to Tom's untechnical mind was the same thing as bankruptcy.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000007_000001|His father must not only be said to have "lost his property," but to have "failed,"--the word that carried the worst obloquy to Tom's mind.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000008_000002|Tom's young pink and white face had its colors very much deadened by the time he took off his hat at home, and sat down with keen hunger to his supper.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000009_000003|And now that mrs Tulliver had come to the conclusion that her husband was very much in the wrong to bring her into this trouble, she was inclined to think that his opinion of Wakem was wrong too.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000009_000004|To be sure, Wakem had "put the bailies in the house, and sold them up"; but she supposed he did that to please the man that lent mr Tulliver the money, for a lawyer had more folks to please than one, and he wasn't likely to put mr Tulliver, who had gone to law with him, above everybody else in the world.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000009_000006|He had married a Miss Clint, and at the time mrs Tulliver had heard of that marriage, the summer when she wore her blue satin spencer, and had not yet any thoughts of mr Tulliver, she knew no harm of Wakem.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000009_000008|In fact, if that attorney saw a respectable matron like herself disposed "to give him good words," why shouldn't he listen to her representations?
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000009_000009|For she would put the matter clearly before him, which had never been done yet.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000009_000010|And he would never go and bid for the mill on purpose to spite her, an innocent woman, who thought it likely enough that she had danced with him in their youth at Squire Darleigh's, for at those big dances she had often and often danced with young men whose names she had forgotten.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000010_000001|But this unusual concentration of thought naturally gave mrs Tulliver an unusual power of device and determination: and a day or two before the sale, to be held at the Golden Lion, when there was no longer any time to be lost, she carried out her plan by a stratagem.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000011_000000|That gentleman was not yet come to his office; would mrs Tulliver sit down by the fire in his private room and wait for him?
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000011_000001|She had not long to wait before the punctual attorney entered, knitting his brow with an examining glance at the stout blond woman who rose, curtsying deferentially,--a tallish man, with an aquiline nose and abundant iron gray hair.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000013_000000|But it is really impossible to decide this question by a glance at his person; the lines and lights of the human countenance are like other symbols,--not always easy to read without a key.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000014_000000|"mrs Tulliver, I think?" said mr Wakem.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000016_000001|You have some business with me?"
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000017_000000|"Well, sir, yes," said mrs Tulliver, beginning to feel alarmed at her own courage, now she was really in presence of the formidable man, and reflecting that she had not settled with herself how she should begin. mr Wakem felt in his waistcoat pockets, and looked at her in silence.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000019_000000|mrs Tulliver shook her head a little, and looked at the hem of her pocket handkerchief.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000020_000000|"I've no doubt of what you say, mrs Tulliver," said mr Wakem, with cold politeness.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000022_000000|"What does all this mean, mrs Tulliver?" said mr Wakem rather sharply.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000022_000001|"What do you want to ask me?"
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000024_000000|Something like a new thought flashed across mr Wakem's face as he said, "Who told you I meant to buy it?"
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000029_000000|"Oh dear, sir, it's hard to think of," said poor mrs Tulliver, a little tear making its way, "as my husband should take wage.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000030_000000|"Well, but if I bought the mill, and allowed your husband to act as my manager in the same way, how then?" said mr Wakem.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000032_000000|"He's a pig headed, foul mouthed fool!" burst out mr Wakem, forgetting himself.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000033_000000|"Oh dear, sir!" said mrs Tulliver, frightened at a result so different from the one she had fixed her mind on; "I wouldn't wish to contradict you, but it's like enough he's changed his mind with this illness,--he's forgot a many things he used to talk about.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000035_000000|"You must excuse me for interrupting you, mrs Tulliver; I have business that must be attended to; and I think there is nothing more necessary to be said."
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000036_000001|He's done nobody any harm but himself and his family,--the more's the pity,--and I go and look at the bare shelves every day, and think where all my things used to stand."
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000037_000000|"Yes, yes, I'll bear it in mind," said mr Wakem, hastily, looking toward the open door.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000039_000000|Poor mrs Tulliver's voice trembled a little, and she could make no answer to the attorney's "good morning," but curtsied and walked out in silence.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000040_000000|"Which day is it that Dorlcote Mill is to be sold?
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000042_000000|"Oh, just run to Winship's the auctioneer, and see if he's at home.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000042_000001|I have some business for him; ask him to come up."
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000043_000000|Although, when mr Wakem entered his office that morning, he had had no intention of purchasing Dorlcote Mill, his mind was already made up.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000043_000001|mrs Tulliver had suggested to him several determining motives, and his mental glance was very rapid; he was one of those men who can be prompt without being rash, because their motives run in fixed tracks, and they have no need to reconcile conflicting aims.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000044_000005|Tulliver, then, could be no obstruction to Wakem; on the contrary, he was a poor devil whom the lawyer had defeated several times; a hot tempered fellow, who would always give you a handle against him.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000044_000006|Wakem's conscience was not uneasy because he had used a few tricks against the miller; why should he hate that unsuccessful plaintiff, that pitiable, furious bull entangled in the meshes of a net?
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000045_000002|Prosperous men take a little vengeance now and then, as they take a diversion, when it comes easily in their way, and is no hindrance to business; and such small unimpassioned revenges have an enormous effect in life, running through all degrees of pleasant infliction, blocking the fit men out of places, and blackening characters in unpremeditated talk.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000000|Wakem was not without this parenthetic vindictiveness toward the uncomplimentary miller; and now mrs Tulliver had put the notion into his head, it presented itself to him as a pleasure to do the very thing that would cause mr Tulliver the most deadly mortification,-- and a pleasure of a complex kind, not made up of crude malice, but mingling with it the relish of self approbation.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000006|Tulliver was known to be a man of proud honesty, and Wakem was too acute not to believe in the existence of honesty.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000008|But there were good reasons for purchasing Dorlcote Mill, quite apart from any benevolent vengeance on the miller.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000009|It was really a capital investment; besides, Guest and Co. were going to bid for it.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000012|Most men would have married again under his circumstances, but he was said to be more tender to his deformed son than most men were to their best shapen offspring.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000014|In this fact, indeed, there lay the clenching motive to the purchase of Dorlcote Mill.
train-other-500/3196/151981/3196_151981_000046_000015|While mrs Tulliver was talking, it had occurred to the rapid minded lawyer, among all the other circumstances of the case, that this purchase would, in a few years to come, furnish a highly suitable position for a certain favorite lad whom he meant to bring on in the world.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000001_000000|Daylight on the Wreck
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000002_000000|It was a clear frosty January day on which mr Tulliver first came downstairs.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000002_000004|This resolution to come downstairs was heard with trembling by the wife and children.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000002_000006|The hearts of all three had been more deeply dejected than ever during the last few days.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000002_000007|For Guest and Co. had not bought the mill; both mill and land had been knocked down to Wakem, who had been over the premises, and had laid before mr Deane and mr Glegg, in mrs Tulliver's presence, his willingness to employ mr Tulliver, in case of his recovery, as a manager of the business.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000002_000008|This proposition had occasioned much family debating.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000002_000010|Here was an opportunity for mr Tulliver to provide for his wife and daughter without any assistance from his wife's relations, and without that too evident descent into pauperism which makes it annoying to respectable people to meet the degraded member of the family by the wayside.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000003_000000|Tom had protested against entertaining the proposition.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000004_000001|But we must get my mother away.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000004_000002|She will say something that will do harm.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000004_000003|Ask Kezia to fetch her down, and keep her engaged with something in the kitchen."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000005_000000|Kezia was equal to the task.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000005_000003|Poor mrs Tulliver went submissively downstairs; to be ordered about by a servant was the last remnant of her household dignities,--she would soon have no servant to scold her.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000005_000004|mr Tulliver was resting in his chair a little after the fatigue of dressing, and Maggie and Tom were seated near him, when luke entered to ask if he should help master downstairs.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000006_000001|For luke had been a constant night watcher by his master's bed.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000007_000000|"How's the water now, eh, luke?" said mr Tulliver.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000007_000001|"Dix hasn't been choking you up again, eh?"
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000008_000000|"No, sir, it's all right."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000009_000001|That was what I said to Riley yesterday-I said----"
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000010_000001|Maggie looked at Tom in mute distress, their father's mind was so far off the present, which would by and by thrust itself on his wandering consciousness!
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000010_000002|Tom was almost ready to rush away, with that impatience of painful emotion which makes one of the differences between youth and maiden, man and woman.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000011_000000|"Father," said Maggie, laying her hand on his, "don't you remember that mr Riley is dead?"
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000012_000000|"Dead?" said mr Tulliver, sharply, looking in her face with a strange, examining glance.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000013_000000|"Yes, he died of apoplexy nearly a year ago.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000014_000000|"Ah?" said her father, doubtfully, still looking in her face.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000014_000002|Whenever his mind was wandering in the far past, he fell into this oblivion of their actual faces; they were not those of the lad and the little wench who belonged to that past.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000015_000000|"It's a long while since you had the dispute with Dix, father," said Tom.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000015_000002|I've been at school there three years; don't you remember?"
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000016_000000|mr Tulliver threw himself backward again, losing the childlike outward glance under a rush of new ideas, which diverted him from external impressions.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000017_000001|And he'll want no other fortin, that's what I say-if Wakem was to get the better of me again----"
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000018_000000|The thought of Wakem roused new vibrations, and after a moment's pause he began to look at the coat he had on, and to feel in his side pocket.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000019_000000|It was close at hand in a drawer, for he had often asked for it before.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000020_000000|"You know what there is in the letter, father?" said Tom, as he gave it to him.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000021_000000|"To be sure I do," said mr Tulliver, rather angrily.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000022_000000|"No, dear father!" Maggie burst out entreatingly; "it's a very long while since all that; you've been ill a great many weeks,--more than two months; everything is changed."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000024_000000|"Yes, father," said Tom, in answer to the gaze.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000024_000001|"You needn't trouble your mind about business until you are quite well; everything is settled about that for the present,--about the mill and the land and the debts."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000025_000000|"What's settled, then?" said his father, angrily.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000026_000000|"Don't you take on too much bout it, sir," said luke.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000027_000000|Good luke felt, after the manner of contented hard-working men whose lives have been spent in servitude, that sense of natural fitness in rank which made his master's downfall a tragedy to him.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000027_000002|They were just the words to lay the most painful hold on his master's bewildered mind.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000029_000000|"Oh, father, dear father!" said Maggie, who thought that terrible word really represented the fact; "bear it well, because we love you; your children will always love you.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000029_000001|Tom will pay them all; he says he will, when he's a man."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000030_000000|She felt her father beginning to tremble; his voice trembled too, as he said, after a few moments:
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000032_000000|"But perhaps you will live to see me pay everybody, father," said Tom, speaking with a great effort.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000033_000001|I've given you a good eddication,--that'll start you."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000034_000000|Something in his throat half choked the last words; the flush, which had alarmed his children because it had so often preceded a recurrence of paralysis, had subsided, and his face looked pale and tremulous. Tom said nothing; he was still struggling against his inclination to rush away.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000034_000001|His father remained quiet a minute or two, but his mind did not seem to be wandering again.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000036_000000|"Everything is sold, father; but we don't know all about the mill and the land yet," said Tom, anxious to ward off any question leading to the fact that Wakem was the purchaser.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000040_000000|Maggie ran on before to see that all was right in the dreary parlor, where the fire, dulled by the frosty sunshine, seemed part of the general shabbiness.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000040_000001|She turned her father's chair, and pushed aside the table to make an easy way for him, and then stood with a beating heart to see him enter and look round for the first time.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000040_000002|Tom advanced before him, carrying the leg rest, and stood beside Maggie on the hearth.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000040_000003|Of those two young hearts Tom's suffered the most unmixed pain, for Maggie, with all her keen susceptibility, yet felt as if the sorrow made larger room for her love to flow in, and gave breathing space to her passionate nature.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000040_000004|No true boy feels that; he would rather go and slay the Nemean lion, or perform any round of heroic labors, than endure perpetual appeals to his pity, for evils over which he can make no conquest.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000041_000000|mr Tulliver paused just inside the door, resting on luke, and looking round him at all the bare places, which for him were filled with the shadows of departed objects,--the daily companions of his life.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000041_000001|His faculties seemed to be renewing their strength from getting a footing on this demonstration of the senses.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000043_000000|Then seating himself, and laying down his stick, while luke left the room, he looked round again.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000044_000000|"They've left the big Bible," he said.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000044_000001|"It's got everything in,--when I was born and married; bring it me, Tom."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000046_000000|"Ah," he said, looking at a spot where his finger rested, "my mother was Margaret Beaton; she died when she was forty seven,--hers wasn't a long lived family; we're our mother's children, Gritty and me are,--we shall go to our last bed before long."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000049_000000|"No, father," said Tom; "the note was burnt."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000050_000000|mr Tulliver turned his eyes on the page again, and presently said:
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000051_000000|"Ah-Elizabeth Dodson-it's eighteen year since I married her----"
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000053_000000|Her husband fixed his eyes earnestly on her face.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000054_000000|"Poor Bessy," he said, "you was a pretty lass then,--everybody said so,--and I used to think you kept your good looks rarely.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000056_000000|"Oh, mother!" said Maggie, "don't talk in that way."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000058_000000|"Don't say so, Bessy," said mr Tulliver, whose pride, in these first moments of humiliation, was in abeyance to the sense of some justice in his wife's reproach.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000060_000000|"Mother," said Tom, severely, "this is not the time to talk about that."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000061_000000|"Let her be," said mr Tulliver.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000061_000001|"Say what you mean, Bessy."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000062_000001|And where have we got to put our heads?
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000063_000000|mr Tulliver had sunk back in his chair trembling.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000065_000000|"Father," said Tom, "I don't agree with my mother or my uncles, and I don't think you ought to submit to be under Wakem.
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000065_000001|I get a pound a week now, and you can find something else to do when you get well."
train-other-500/3196/151982/3196_151982_000066_000000|"Say no more, Tom, say no more; I've had enough for this day.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000002_000001|The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000004_000002|Many errors, in truth, can be traced to this head, namely, that we do not apply names to things rightly.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000004_000004|So again, when men make mistakes in calculation, they have one set of figures in their mind, and another on the paper.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000004_000005|If we could see into their minds, they do not make a mistake; they seem to do so, because we think, that they have the same numbers in their mind as they have on the paper.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000007_000005|For by ideas I do not mean images such as are formed at the back of the eye, or in the midst of the brain, but the conceptions of thought.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000008_000001|There is in the mind no volition or affirmation and negation, save that which an idea, inasmuch as it is an idea, involves.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000009_000006|Again, this idea of a triangle must involve this same affirmation, namely, that its three interior angles are equal to two right angles.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000012_000002|Wherefore, a false idea, inasmuch as it is false, does not involve certainty.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000012_000004|note).
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000012_000005|Thus, although the man be assumed to acquiesce in what is false, we shall never say that he is certain.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000013_000002|I say "some," for they will be better appreciated from what we shall set forth in the fifth part.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000014_000004|Again, those who confuse words with ideas, or with the affirmation which an idea involves, think that they can wish something contrary to what they feel, affirm, or deny.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000014_000005|This misconception will easily be laid aside by one, who reflects on the nature of knowledge, and seeing that it in no wise involves the conception of extension, will therefore clearly understand, that an idea (being a mode of thinking) does not consist in the image of anything, nor in words.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000014_000006|The essence of words and images is put together by bodily motions, which in no wise involve the conception of thought.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000015_000001|Of these, the first is advanced by those, who think that the will has a wider scope than the understanding, and that therefore it is different therefrom.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000016_000001|Nothing therefore seems to be taught more clearly by experience, than that the will or faculty of assent is free and different from the faculty of understanding.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000016_000002|Thirdly, it may be objected that one affirmation does not apparently contain more reality than another; in other words, that we do not seem to need for affirming, that what is true is true, any greater power than for affirming, that what is false is true.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000016_000003|We have, however, seen that one idea has more reality or perfection than another, for as objects are some more excellent than others, so also are the ideas of them some more excellent than others; this also seems to point to a difference between the understanding and the will.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000016_000007|If I say that he would not, he would then determine his own action, and would consequently possess the faculty of going and doing whatever he liked.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000021_000001|For instance, the affirmation which involves the idea of a circle, differs from that which involves the idea of a triangle, as much as the idea of a circle differs from the idea of a triangle.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000022_000003|note).
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000023_000000|We must therefore conclude, that we are easily deceived, when we confuse universals with singulars, and the entities of reason and abstractions with realities.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000024_000001|The doctrine is good,
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000025_000000|one.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000025_000002|Such a doctrine not only completely tranquilizes our spirit, but also shows us where our highest happiness or blessedness is, namely, solely in the knowledge of God, whereby we are led to act only as love and piety shall bid us.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000025_000003|We may thus clearly understand, how far astray from a true estimate of virtue are those who expect to be decorated by God with high rewards for their virtue, and their best actions, as for having endured the direst slavery; as if virtue and the service of God were not in itself happiness and perfect freedom.
train-other-500/3227/24747/3227_24747_000029_000001|I think I have therein explained the nature and properties of the human mind at sufficient length, and, considering the difficulty of the subject, with sufficient clearness.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000001_000001|This love towards God must hold the chief place in the mind.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000003_000001|God is without passions, neither is he affected by any emotion of pleasure or pain.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000006_000001|No one can hate God.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000012_000001|This love towards God cannot be stained by the emotion of envy or jealousy: contrariwise, it is the more fostered, in proportion as we conceive a greater number of men to be joined to God by the same bond of love.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000014_000000|Note.--We can in the same way show, that there is no emotion directly contrary to this love, whereby this love can be destroyed; therefore we may conclude, that this love towards God is the most constant of all the emotions, and that, in so far as it is referred to the body, it cannot be destroyed, unless the body be destroyed also.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000014_000001|As to its nature, in so far as it is referred to the mind only, we shall presently inquire.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000015_000000|I have now gone through all the remedies against the emotions, or all that the mind, considered in itself alone, can do against them.
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000015_000001|Whence it appears that the mind's power over the emotions consists:----
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000016_000002|note).
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000017_000002|note).
train-other-500/3227/24784/3227_24784_000022_000002|Again, it must be observed, that spiritual unhealthiness and misfortunes can generally be traced to excessive love for something which is subject to many variations, and which we can never become masters of.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000000_000001|The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity; in other words, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000003_000001|This love or blessedness is, in the Bible, called Glory, and not undeservedly.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000004_000001|note), it becomes clear to us, in what manner and way our mind, as to its essence and existence, follows from the divine nature and constantly depends on God.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000004_000003|note.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000004_000005|For, although in Part one I showed in general terms, that all things (and consequently, also, the human mind) depend as to their essence and existence on God, yet that demonstration, though legitimate and placed beyond the chances of doubt, does not affect our mind so much, as when the same conclusion is derived from the actual essence of some particular thing, which we say depends on God.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000005_000001|There is nothing in nature, which is contrary to this intellectual love, or which can take it away.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000007_000000|Note.--The Axiom of Part four. has reference to particular things, in so far as they are regarded in relation to a given time and place: of this, I think, no one can doubt.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000008_000001|In proportion as the mind understands more things by the second and third kind of knowledge, it is less subject to those emotions which are evil, and stands in less fear of death.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000010_000001|note, and which I promised to explain in this Part; namely, that death becomes less hurtful, in proportion as the mind's clear and distinct knowledge is greater, and, consequently, in proportion as the mind loves God more.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000010_000003|But I will soon treat of the subject at greater length.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000013_000001|But, in order that this may be understood more clearly, we must here call to mind, that we live in a state of perpetual variation, and, according as we are changed for the better or the worse, we are called happy or unhappy.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000015_000001|In proportion as each thing possesses more of perfection, so is it more active, and less passive; and, vice versa, in proportion as it is more active, so is it more perfect.
train-other-500/3227/24788/3227_24788_000016_000002|This demonstration may be reversed, and thus prove that, in proportion as a thing is more active, so is it more perfect.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirty six
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000002_000000|Private and confidential; relating to Family Matters.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000002_000001|Showing how Mr Kenwigs underwent violent Agitation, and how Mrs Kenwigs was as well as could be expected
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000003_000001|Having executed this task with great nicety, Mr Kenwigs pulled the door to, after him, and just stepped across the road to try the effect from the opposite side of the street.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000003_000002|Satisfied that nothing could possibly look better in its way, Mr Kenwigs then stepped back again, and calling through the keyhole to Morleena to open the door, vanished into the house, and was seen no longer.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000004_000001|The first floor, the second floor, and the third floor, had each a bell of its own.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000005_000000|But knockers may be muffled for other purposes than those of mere utilitarianism, as, in the present instance, was clearly shown.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000005_000001|There are certain polite forms and ceremonies which must be observed in civilised life, or mankind relapse into their original barbarism.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000005_000003|Mrs Kenwigs was a lady of some pretensions to gentility; Mrs Kenwigs was confined.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000005_000004|And, therefore, Mr Kenwigs tied up the silent knocker on the premises in a white kid glove.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000006_000000|'I'm not quite certain neither,' said Mr Kenwigs, arranging his shirt collar, and walking slowly upstairs, 'whether, as it's a boy, I won't have it in the papers.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000008_000000|'It's a fine boy, Mr Kenwigs,' said Mr Lumbey, the doctor.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000009_000000|'You consider him a fine boy, do you, sir?' returned Mr Kenwigs.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000010_000000|'It's the finest boy I ever saw in all my life,' said the doctor.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000010_000001|'I never saw such a baby.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000011_000000|It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000013_000000|'Morleena was a fine baby,' remarked Mr Kenwigs; as if this were rather an attack, by implication, upon the family.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000014_000000|'They were all fine babies,' said Mr Lumbey.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000014_000001|And Mr Lumbey went on nursing the baby with a thoughtful look.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000014_000002|Whether he was considering under what head he could best charge the nursing in the bill, was best known to himself.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000016_000000|'She will be a treasure to the man she marries, sir,' said Mr Kenwigs, half aside; 'I think she'll marry above her station, Mr Lumbey.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000017_000000|'I shouldn't wonder at all,' replied the doctor.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000019_000000|The doctor shook his head.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000021_000001|Indeed, the excitement extended itself over the whole street, and groups of ladies might be seen standing at the doors, (some in the interesting condition in which Mrs Kenwigs had last appeared in public,) relating their experiences of similar occurrences.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000022_000000|In the midst of this general hubbub, Dr Lumbey sat in the first floor front, as before related, nursing the deposed baby, and talking to Mr Kenwigs.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000022_000001|He was a stout bluff looking gentleman, with no shirt collar to speak of, and a beard that had been growing since yesterday morning; for Dr Lumbey was popular, and the neighbourhood was prolific; and there had been no less than three other knockers muffled, one after the other within the last forty eight hours.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000023_000000|'Well, Mr Kenwigs,' said Dr Lumbey, 'this makes six.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000023_000001|You'll have a fine family in time, sir.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000024_000000|'I think six is almost enough, sir,' returned Mr Kenwigs.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000025_000000|'Pooh! pooh!' said the doctor.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000025_000001|'Nonsense! not half enough.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000027_000000|'They're not altogether dependent upon good fortune, neither,' said Mr Kenwigs, taking his second daughter on his knee; 'they have expectations.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000028_000000|'Oh, indeed!' said Mr Lumbey, the doctor.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000029_000000|'And very good ones too, I believe, haven't they?' asked the married lady.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000030_000000|'Why, ma'am,' said Mr Kenwigs, 'it's not exactly for me to say what they may be, or what they may not be.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000030_000002|Perhaps more, but certainly that.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000031_000000|'And a very pretty little fortune,' said the married lady.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000032_000000|'There are some relations of Mrs Kenwigs's,' said Mr Kenwigs, taking a pinch of snuff from the doctor's box, and then sneezing very hard, for he wasn't used to it, 'that might leave their hundred pound apiece to ten people, and yet not go begging when they had done it.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000033_000000|'Ah!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000033_000001|I know who you mean,' observed the married lady, nodding her head.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000034_000000|'I made mention of no names, and I wish to make mention of no names,' said Mr Kenwigs, with a portentous look.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000035_000000|'I've met him,' said the married lady, with a glance towards Dr Lumbey.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000037_000000|Having delivered his sentiments in this form of words, Mr Kenwigs arranged his second daughter's flaxen tail, and bade her be a good girl and mind what her sister, Morleena, said.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000038_000000|'That girl grows more like her mother every day,' said Mr Lumbey, suddenly stricken with an enthusiastic admiration of Morleena.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000039_000000|'There!' rejoined the married lady.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000039_000001|'What I always say; what I always did say!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000040_000000|'Yes! there is a likeness,' said Mr Kenwigs, after some reflection.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000040_000002|Good gracious, such a woman!'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000041_000000|Mr Lumbey shook his head with great solemnity, as though to imply that he supposed she must have been rather a dazzler.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000042_000000|'Talk of fairies!' cried Mr Kenwigs 'I never see anybody so light to be alive, never.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000043_000000|'But only see what it is now,' urged the married lady.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000043_000001|'Does SHE look like the mother of six?'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000044_000000|'Quite ridiculous,' cried the doctor.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000045_000000|'She looks a deal more like her own daughter,' said the married lady.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000046_000000|'So she does,' assented Mr Lumbey. 'A great deal more.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000049_000000|'Why, I do declare,' said Mr Kenwigs, standing opposite the door so as to get the earliest glimpse of the visitor, as he came upstairs, 'it's Mr Johnson!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000049_000001|How do you find yourself, sir?'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000051_000000|'I ought to make a hundred apologies to you for calling at such a season,' said Nicholas, 'but I was not aware of it until I had rung the bell, and my time is so fully occupied now, that I feared it might be some days before I could possibly come again.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000052_000000|'No time like the present, sir,' said Mr Kenwigs.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000052_000001|'The sitiwation of Mrs Kenwigs, sir, is no obstacle to a little conversation between you and me, I hope?'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000053_000000|'You are very good,' said Nicholas.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000054_000000|At this juncture, proclamation was made by another married lady, that the baby had begun to eat like anything; whereupon the two married ladies, already mentioned, rushed tumultuously into the bedroom to behold him in the act.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000055_000000|'The fact is,' resumed Nicholas, 'that before I left the country, where I have been for some time past, I undertook to deliver a message to you.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000057_000000|'And I have been,' added Nicholas, 'already in town for some days, without having had an opportunity of doing so.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000058_000000|'It's no matter, sir,' said Mr Kenwigs. 'I dare say it's none the worse for keeping cold.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000058_000001|Message from the country!' said Mr Kenwigs, ruminating; 'that's curious.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000058_000002|I don't know anybody in the country.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000059_000000|'Miss Petowker,' suggested Nicholas.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000060_000002|Mrs Kenwigs will be glad to hear from her.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000060_000003|Henrietta Petowker, eh?
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000060_000005|That you should have met her in the country!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000060_000006|Well!'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000061_000000|Hearing this mention of their old friend's name, the four Miss Kenwigses gathered round Nicholas, open eyed and mouthed, to hear more.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000061_000001|Mr Kenwigs looked a little curious too, but quite comfortable and unsuspecting.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000062_000000|'The message relates to family matters,' said Nicholas, hesitating.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000063_000001|'All friends here.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000064_000000|Nicholas hemmed once or twice, and seemed to have some difficulty in proceeding.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000065_000000|'At Portsmouth, Henrietta Petowker is,' observed Mr Kenwigs.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000066_000000|'Yes,' said Nicholas, 'Mr Lillyvick is there.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000068_000000|'The message is from him,' said Nicholas.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000069_000000|Mr Kenwigs appeared to revive.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000069_000001|He knew that his niece was in a delicate state, and had, no doubt, sent word that they were to forward full particulars.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000069_000002|Yes.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000069_000003|That was very kind of him; so like him too!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000070_000000|'He desired me to give his kindest love,' said Nicholas.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000071_000000|'Very much obliged to him, I'm sure.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000071_000001|Your great uncle, Lillyvick, my dears!' interposed Mr Kenwigs, condescendingly explaining it to the children.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000072_000000|'His kindest love,' resumed Nicholas; 'and to say that he had no time to write, but that he was married to Miss Petowker.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000073_000000|Mr Kenwigs started from his seat with a petrified stare, caught his second daughter by her flaxen tail, and covered his face with his pocket handkerchief.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000073_000001|Morleena fell, all stiff and rigid, into the baby's chair, as she had seen her mother fall when she fainted away, and the two remaining little Kenwigses shrieked in affright.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000074_000000|'My children, my defrauded, swindled infants!' cried Mr Kenwigs, pulling so hard, in his vehemence, at the flaxen tail of his second daughter, that he lifted her up on tiptoe, and kept her, for some seconds, in that attitude.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000074_000001|'Villain, ass, traitor!'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000075_000000|'Drat the man!' cried the nurse, looking angrily around.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000075_000001|'What does he mean by making that noise here?'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000076_000000|'Silence, woman!' said Mr Kenwigs, fiercely.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000077_000001|'Be silent yourself, you wretch.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000077_000002|Have you no regard for your baby?'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000078_000000|'No!' returned Mr Kenwigs.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000079_000000|'More shame for you,' retorted the nurse.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000079_000001|'Ugh! you unnatural monster.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000080_000001|'Let him die!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000080_000002|He has no expectations, no property to come into.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000080_000003|We want no babies here,' said Mr Kenwigs recklessly.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000080_000004|'Take 'em away, take 'em away to the Fondling!'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000081_000000|With these awful remarks, Mr Kenwigs sat himself down in a chair, and defied the nurse, who made the best of her way into the adjoining room, and returned with a stream of matrons: declaring that Mr Kenwigs had spoken blasphemy against his family, and must be raving mad.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000082_000001|But, Nicholas and the doctor-who had been passive at first, doubting very much whether Mr Kenwigs could be in earnest-interfering to explain the immediate cause of his condition, the indignation of the matrons was changed to pity, and they implored him, with much feeling, to go quietly to bed.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000083_000000|'The attention,' said Mr Kenwigs, looking around with a plaintive air, 'the attention that I've shown to that man!
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000084_000000|'It's very trying, and very hard to bear, we know,' said one of the married ladies; 'but think of your dear darling wife.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000085_000000|'Oh yes, and what she's been a undergoing of, only this day,' cried a great many voices.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000085_000001|'There's a good man, do.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000086_000000|'The presents that have been made to him,' said Mr Kenwigs, reverting to his calamity, 'the pipes, the snuff boxes-a pair of india rubber goloshes, that cost six and six-'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000087_000000|'Ah! it won't bear thinking of, indeed,' cried the matrons generally; 'but it'll all come home to him, never fear.'
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000088_000000|Mr Kenwigs looked darkly upon the ladies, as if he would prefer its all coming home to HIM, as there was nothing to be got by it; but he said nothing, and resting his head upon his hand, subsided into a kind of doze.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000091_000000|Having seen him sound asleep, and heard him snore most satisfactorily, and having further presided over the distribution of the toys, to the perfect contentment of all the little Kenwigses, Nicholas took his leave.
train-other-500/3238/134398/3238_134398_000091_000001|The matrons dropped off one by one, with the exception of six or eight particular friends, who had determined to stop all night; the lights in the houses gradually disappeared; the last bulletin was issued that Mrs Kenwigs was as well as could be expected; and the whole family were left to their repose.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000001_000000|Noureddin and the Fair Persian
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000003_000001|Throughout the entire kingdom there was no one who did not esteem and praise him as he deserved.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000009_000000|As soon, then, as Khacan returned home he sent for the dealers in female slaves, and charged them directly they had found such a one as he described to inform him.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000013_000000|"Sir," was the answer, "for less than ten thousand gold pieces he will not let her go; he declares that, what with masters for her instruction, and for bodily exercises, not to speak of clothing and nourishment, he has already spent that sum upon her.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000013_000001|She is in every way fit to be the slave of a king; she plays every musical instrument, she sings, she dances, she makes verses, in fact there is no accomplishment in which she does not excel."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000014_000001|Her price, however, is too high."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000015_000001|I ask no more than the sum it has cost me to make her such as she is."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000017_000000|"Sir, as she is destined for the king, I would have you observe that she is extremely tired with the long journey, and before presenting her to his Majesty you would do well to keep her a fortnight in your own house, and to see that a little care is bestowed upon her.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000019_000000|Before bidding adieu to the fair Persian, he said to her: "No happiness can be greater than what I have procured for you; judge for yourself, you now belong to the king.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000019_000001|I have, however, to warn you of one thing. I have a son, who, though not wanting in sense, is young, foolish, and headstrong, and I charge you to keep him at a distance."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000020_000000|The Persian thanked him for his advice, and promised to profit by it.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000021_000003|The Persian was equally captivated by Noureddin, and said to herself: "The vizir does me too great honour in buying me for the king.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000024_000001|Kissing her hand, the beautiful slave said: "Madam, I do not know how you find me in this dress that you have had prepared for me; your women assure me that it suits me so well that they hardly knew me.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000024_000002|If it is the truth they tell me, and not flattery, it is to you I owe the transformation."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000025_000001|I myself hardly recognised you.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000025_000002|The improvement is not due to the dress alone, but largely to the beautifying effects of the bath.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000025_000003|I am so struck by its results, that I would try it on myself."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000027_000000|She had no sooner gone than he arrived, and not finding his mother in her apartment, would have sought her in that of the Persian.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000027_000001|The two little slaves barred the entrance, saying that his mother had given orders that he was not to be admitted.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000027_000002|Taking each by an arm, he put them out of the anteroom, and shut the door.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000027_000003|Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks and tears that Noureddin had driven them away by force and gone in.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000028_000000|This news caused great consternation to the lady, who, dressing herself as quickly as possible, hastened to the apartment of the fair Persian, to find that Noureddin had already gone out.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000030_000000|"But, madam," inquired the Persian, "what harm is there in that?"
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000031_000000|"How!
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000032_000000|"Certainly, but Noureddin has just been to tell me that his father has changed his mind and has bestowed me upon him.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000032_000001|I believed him, and so great is my affection for Noureddin that I would willingly pass my life with him."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000034_000000|So saying, she wept bitterly, and all her slaves wept with her.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000035_000002|When his wife was at length sufficiently calm to inform him of what had happened, his rage and mortification knew no bounds. Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed:
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000036_000000|"Wretched son!
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000036_000002|The king will shed not only thy blood but mine." His wife tried to console him, saying: "Do not torment thyself.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000036_000003|With the sale of my jewels I will obtain ten thousand gold pieces, and with this sum you will buy another slave."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000037_000000|"Do not suppose," replied her husband, "that it is the loss of the money that affects me.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000037_000001|My honour is at stake, and that is more precious to me than all my wealth.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000037_000003|He will relate all this to the king, and you will see the consequences that will ensue."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000038_000000|"My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and that he is capable of playing you this malicious trick.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000038_000001|But how can he or any one else know what takes place in this house?
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000039_000002|He did not return home till after his father had gone to bed, and went out early next morning before the vizir awoke, and these precautions he kept up during an entire month.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000040_000000|His mother, though knowing very well that he returned to the house every evening, dare not ask her husband to pardon him.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000040_000001|At length she took courage and said:
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000041_000001|Do you not consider the harm you may be doing yourself, and fear that malicious people, seeking the cause of your estrangement, may guess the real one?"
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000042_000000|"Madam," replied the vizir, "what you say is very just, but I cannot pardon Noureddin before I have mortified him as he deserves."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000043_000000|"He will be sufficiently punished," answered the lady, "if you do as I suggest.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000043_000001|In the evening, when he returns home, lie in wait for him and pretend that you will slay him.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000044_000000|"You owe your life to your mother.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000046_000000|More than a year after these events the minister took a chill, leaving the bath while still heated to go out on important business.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000046_000001|This resulted in inflammation of the lungs, which rapidly increased.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000046_000002|The vizir, feeling that his end was at hand, sent for Noureddin, and charged him with his dying breath never to part with the beautiful Persian.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000047_000000|Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000047_000001|Noureddin showed every mark of the deepest grief at his father's death, and for long refused to see any one.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000047_000002|At length a day came when, one of his friends being admitted, urged him strongly to be consoled, and to resume his former place in society.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000047_000003|This advice Noureddin was not slow to follow, and soon he formed little society of ten young men all about his own age, with whom he spent all his time in continual feasting and merry making.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000048_000000|Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000048_000001|He, however, only laughed at her advice, saying, that his father had always kept him in too great constraint, and that now he rejoiced at his new found liberty.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000049_000000|What added to the confusion in his affairs was that he refused to look into his accounts with his steward, sending him away every time he appeared with his book.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000051_000001|In vain the Persian protested against the wrong he did himself; he continued to scatter with the same lavish hand.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000052_000000|Throughout one entire year Noureddin did nothing but amuse himself, and dissipate the wealth his father had taken such pains to acquire.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000052_000002|The slaves having been sent away, Noureddin went to open it himself.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000052_000003|One of his friends had risen at the same time, but Noureddin was before him, and finding the intruder to be the steward, he went out and closed the door.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000052_000004|The friend, curious to hear what passed between them, hid himself behind the hangings, and heard the following words:
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000053_000000|"My lord," said the steward, "I beg a thousand pardons for interrupting you, but what I have long foreseen has taken place.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000053_000001|Nothing remains of the sums you gave me for your expenses, and all other sources of income are also at end, having been transferred by you to others.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000053_000002|If you wish me to remain in your service, furnish me with the necessary funds, else I must withdraw."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000055_000000|The friend, who had been listening behind the curtain, immediately hastened to communicate the news to the rest of the company.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000056_000000|"If this is so," they said, "we must cease to come here."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000057_000000|Noureddin re entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of his efforts to dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000057_000002|Then, seeing the beautiful Persian, he confided to her the statement of the steward, with many expressions of regret for his own carelessness.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000058_000000|"Had I but followed your advice, beautiful Persian," he said, "all this would not have happened, but at least I have this consolation, that I have spent my fortune in the company of friends who will not desert me in an hour of need.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000059_000000|Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friends, who all lived in the same street.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000059_000001|Knocking at the door of the first and chief, the slave who opened it left him to wait in a hall while he announced his visit to his master.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000059_000003|"Tell him, every time he calls, that I am not at home." The same thing happened at the second door, and also at the third, and so on with all the ten.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000059_000005|Overwhelmed with grief, he sought consolation from the beautiful Persian.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000060_000001|There is now no other resource left but to sell your slaves and your furniture."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000061_000001|Finally this resource also came to an end, and again he sought counsel from the beautiful Persian.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000062_000000|"My lord," she said, "I know that the late vizir, your father, bought me for ten thousand gold pieces, and though I have diminished in value since, I should still fetch a large sum.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000062_000001|Do not therefore hesitate to sell me, and with the money you obtain go and establish yourself in business in some distant town."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000063_000000|"Charming Persian," answered Noureddin, "how could I be guilty of such baseness?
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000063_000001|I would die rather than part from you whom I love better than my life."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000064_000000|"My lord," she replied, "I am well aware of your love for me, which is only equalled by mine for you, but a cruel necessity obliges us to seek the only remedy."
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000065_000000|Noureddin, convinced at length of the truth of her words, yielded, and reluctantly led her to the slave market, where, showing her to a dealer named Hagi Hassan, he inquired her value.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000066_000000|Taking them into a room apart, Hagi Hassan exclaimed as soon as she had unveiled, "My lord, is not this the slave your father bought for ten thousand pieces?"
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000067_000000|On learning that it was so, he promised to obtain the highest possible price for her.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000067_000001|Leaving the beautiful Persian shut up in the room alone, he went out to seek the slave merchants, announcing to them that he had found the pearl among slaves, and asking them to come and put a value upon her.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000067_000002|As soon as they saw her they agreed that less than four thousand gold pieces could not be asked.
train-other-500/3244/10691/3244_10691_000068_000001|Now it was not the custom to show a slave to a private bidder, but as no one dared to disobey the vizir his request was granted.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000001_000000|Covered from head to foot with mire and streaming with blood he rose, and leaning on two of his slaves went straight to the palace, where he demanded an audience of the king, to whom he related what had taken place in these words:
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000002_000000|"May it please your Majesty, I had gone to the slave market to buy myself a cook.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000002_000001|While there I heard a slave being offered for four thousand pieces.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000002_000003|This is the identical slave, whom instead of bringing to your Majesty he gave to his own son.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000002_000007|This remonstrance only irritated him the more.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000002_000008|Throwing himself on me like a madman, he tore me from my horse, beat me to his heart's content, and left me in the state your Majesty sees."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000004_000000|The king's wrath was kindled against Noureddin.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000005_000000|As soon, then, as the fair Persian had put on her veil they fled together, and had the good fortune to get out of the town without being observed.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000005_000001|At the mouth of the Euphrates they found a ship just about to start for Bagdad.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000006_000003|When the vessel had come to an anchor they paid five gold pieces for their passage and went ashore.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000006_000004|Never having been in Bagdad before, they did not know where to seek a lodging.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000006_000006|The gate was shut, but in front of it was an open vestibule with a sofa on either side.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000006_000007|"Here," said Noureddin, "let us pass the night," and reclining on the sofas they soon fell asleep.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000007_000001|In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eighty windows, each window having a lustre, lit solely when the Caliph spent the evening there.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000007_000002|Only the door keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahim, who had strict orders to be very careful whom he admitted, and never to allow any one to sit on the sofas by the door.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000007_000003|It happened that evening that he had gone out on an errand.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000007_000005|"Come with me," said Scheih Ibrahim, "I will lodge you better, and will show you a magnificent garden belonging to me." So saying the doorkeeper led the way into the Caliph's garden, the beauties of which filled them with wonder and amazement.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000007_000006|Noureddin took out two gold pieces, and giving them to Scheih Ibrahim said,
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000008_000000|"I beg you to get us something to eat that we may make merry together." Being very avaricious, Scheih Ibrahim determined to spend only the tenth part of the money and to keep the rest to himself.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000008_000002|On the return of Scheih Ibrahim they begged him to open it, and to allow them to enter and admire the magnificence within. Consenting, he brought not only the key, but a light, and immediately unlocked the door.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000008_000004|The paintings and furniture were of astonishing beauty, and between each window was a silver arm holding a candle.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000009_000000|Scheih Ibrahim spread the table in front of a sofa, and all three ate together.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000009_000001|When they had finished eating Noureddin asked the old man to bring them a bottle of wine.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000010_000001|I who have four times made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and have renounced wine for ever."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000011_000001|"You need not touch it yourself.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000011_000003|Here are two pieces of gold for the expenses."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000012_000000|At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000012_000002|Then he withdrew, in spite of repeated invitations to remain.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000013_000000|Noureddin and the beautiful Persian, finding the wine excellent, drank of it freely, and while drinking they sang.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000014_000002|Till near midnight they continued drinking, laughing, and singing together.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000015_000000|About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by only one miserable tallow candle, asked Scheih Ibrahim to light some of the beautiful candles in the silver arms.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000017_000000|She did not stop, however, till she had lit all the eighty, but Scheih Ibrahim was not conscious of this, and when, soon after that, Noureddin proposed to have some of the lustres lit, he answered:
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000020_000001|Calling the grand vizir, Giafar, he said to him:
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000021_000000|"Negligent vizir, look at the pavilion, and tell me why it is lit up when I am not there."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000023_000000|"Commander of the Faithful," he said, "I must tell you that four or five days ago Scheih Ibrahim told me that he wished to have an assembly of the ministers of his mosque, and asked permission to hold it in the pavilion.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000023_000001|I granted his request, but forgot since to mention it to your Majesty."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000024_000000|"Giafar," replied the Caliph, "you have committed three faults-first, in giving the permission; second, in not mentioning it to me; and third, in not investigating the matter more closely.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000024_000001|For punishment I condemn you to spend the rest of the night with me in company of these worthy people.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000024_000002|While I dress myself as a citizen, go and disguise yourself, and then come with me."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000025_000000|When they reached the garden gate they found it open, to the great indignation of the Caliph.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000025_000001|The door of the pavilion being also open, he went softly upstairs, and looked in at the half closed door of the saloon.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000025_000002|Great was his surprise to see Scheih Ibrahim, whose sobriety he had never doubted, drinking and singing with a young man and a beautiful lady.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000026_000000|Presently Scheih Ibrahim asked the beautiful Persian if anything were wanting to complete her enjoyment of the evening.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000027_000000|"If only," she said, "I had an instrument upon which I might play."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000028_000001|When she ceased he went softly downstairs and said to the vizir:
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000029_000000|"Never have I heard a finer voice, nor the lute better played.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000029_000001|I am determined to go in and make her play to me."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000030_000000|"Commander of the Faithful," said the vizir, "if Scheih Ibrahim recognises you he will die of fright."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000031_000000|"I should be sorry for that," answered the Caliph, "and I am going to take steps to prevent it.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000031_000001|Wait here till I return."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000032_000000|Now the Caliph had caused a bend in the river to form a lake in his garden.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000032_000001|There the finest fish in the Tigris were to be found, but fishing was strictly forbidden.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000032_000002|It happened that night, however, that a fisherman had taken advantage of the gate being open to go in and cast his nets.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000032_000004|Recognising him at once in spite of his disguise, he threw himself at his feet imploring forgiveness.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000033_000000|"Fear nothing," said the Caliph, "only rise up and draw thy nets."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000034_000001|Then he desired the fisherman to change clothes with him, and in a few minutes the Caliph was transformed into a fisherman, even to the shoes and the turban. Taking the two fish in his hand, he returned to the vizir, who, not recognising him, would have sent him about his business.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000035_000000|"Scheih Ibrahim, I am the fisher Kerim.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000036_000002|When they had finished Noureddin took thirty gold pieces (all that remained of what Sangiar had given him) and presented them to the Caliph, who, thanking him, asked as a further favour if the lady would play him one piece on the lute.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000039_000001|Oblige me, I beg you, by relating your history."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000041_000000|"And where do you go now?" asked the Caliph.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000042_000000|"Wherever the hand of Allah leads me," said Noureddin.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000043_000000|"Then, if you will listen to me," said the Caliph, "you will immediately return to Balsora.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000043_000001|I will give you a letter to the king, which will ensure you a good reception from him."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000046_000000|The Caliph then took a sheet of paper, and wrote the following letter, at the top of which he put in very small characters this formula to show that he must be implicitly obeyed:--"In the name of the Most Merciful God.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000048_000000|"Haroun al Raschid, son of Mahdi, sends this letter to Mohammed Zinebi, his cousin.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000048_000002|Farewell."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000051_000000|Now here it must be related that when the Caliph went upstairs with the plate of fish he ordered the vizir to hasten to the palace and bring back four slaves bearing a change of raiment, who should wait outside the pavilion till the Caliph should clap his hands.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000052_000000|Still personating the fisherman, the Caliph answered: "Scheih Ibrahim, whatever is in the purse I will share equally with you, but as to the slave I will keep her for myself.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000052_000001|If you do not agree to these conditions you shall have nothing."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000053_000002|Scheih Ibrahim, still more enraged, then went out to fetch a stick.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000054_000001|Throwing himself on the ground at the Caliph's feet, he said: "Commander of the Faithful, your miserable slave has offended you, and craves forgiveness."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000055_000001|Meanwhile I will give you an apartment in my palace, where you will be treated with all honour."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000057_000002|While the king read the letter he changed colour.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000057_000005|Then, turning to the king, he said:
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000058_000000|"Your majesty has no need to obey this letter.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000058_000002|Besides, he has not sent an express with the patent, without which the letter is useless. Leave all to me, and I will take the consequences."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000060_000000|"What!" said the king; "is that wretch still alive?
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000060_000001|Go and behead him at once.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000060_000002|I authorise you."
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000062_000000|The king granted these requests, and the announcement caused universal grief, for the memory of Noureddin's father was still fresh in the hearts of his people.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000062_000006|A troop of horsemen was seen at that moment riding at full gallop towards the square.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000064_000000|Giafar rode at full speed through the square, and alighted at the steps of the palace, where the king came to greet him.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000064_000001|The vizir's first question was whether Noureddin were still alive.
train-other-500/3244/10692/3244_10692_000065_000002|He became one of his most intimate courtiers, and lived long in great happiness with the fair Persian.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000003|It was acknowledged also that as regarded the question of oratory mr Daubeny had failed signally.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000006|This man is declared to be unfit for any position of note, because he always shows temper.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000007|Anything can be done with another man,--he can be made to fit almost any hole,--because he has his temper under command.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000009|We want practical results rather than truth.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000010|A clear head is worth more than an honest heart.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000011|In a matter of horseflesh of what use is it to have all manner of good gifts if your horse won't go whither you want him, and refuses to stop when you bid him?
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000004_000012|mr Gresham had been very indiscreet, and had especially sinned in opposing the Address without arrangements with his party.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000005_000000|And he made the matter worse by retreating within his own shell during the whole of that Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning. Lord Cantrip was with him three or four times, and he saw both mr Palliser, who had been Chancellor of the Exchequer under him, and mr Ratler.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000005_000001|But he went amidst no congregation of Liberals, and asked for no support.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000005_000002|He told Ratler that he wished gentlemen to vote altogether in accordance with their opinions; and it came to be whispered in certain circles that he had resigned, or was resigning, or would resign, the leadership of his party.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000000|The Ministers held a Cabinet Council on the Monday morning, and it was supposed afterwards that that also had been stormy.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000001|Two gentlemen had certainly resigned their seats in the Government before the House met at four o'clock, and there were rumours abroad that others would do so if the suggested measure should be found really to amount to disestablishment.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000002|The rumours were, of course, worthy of no belief, as the transactions of the Cabinet are of necessity secret.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000003|Lord Drummond at the War Office, and mr Boffin from the Board of Trade, did, however, actually resign; and mr Boffin's explanations in the House were heard before the debate was resumed.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000004|mr Boffin had certainly not joined the present Ministry,--so he said,--with the view of destroying the Church.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000005|He had no other remark to make, and he was sure that the House would appreciate the course which had induced him to seat himself below the gangway.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000006|The House cheered very loudly, and mr Boffin was the hero of ten minutes.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000007|mr Daubeny detracted something from this triumph by the overstrained and perhaps ironic pathos with which he deplored the loss of his right honourable friend's services.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000006_000008|Now this right honourable gentleman had never been specially serviceable.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000000|But the wonder of the world arose from the fact that only two gentlemen out of the twenty or thirty who composed the Government did give up their places on this occasion.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000001|And this was a Conservative Government!
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000002|With what a force of agony did all the Ratlers of the day repeat that inappropriate name!
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000005|Ratler himself almost felt that he loved the Church.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000006|Only two resignations;--whereas it had been expected that the whole House would fall to pieces!
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000007|Was it possible that these earls, that marquis, and the two dukes, and those staunch old Tory squires, should remain in a Government pledged to disestablish the Church?
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000007_000010|The parsons in the country, and the little squires who but rarely come up to London, spoke of it all exactly as did the Ratlers. There were parishes in the country in which mr Boffin was canonised, though up to that date no Cabinet Minister could well have been less known to fame than was mr Boffin.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000008_000001|After all, the success or failure of mr Daubeny must depend, not on his own party, but on them. It must always be so when measures of Reform are advocated by a Conservative Ministry.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000008_000002|There will always be a number of untrained men ready to take the gift without looking at the giver.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000008_000003|They have not expected relief from the hands of Greeks, but will take it when it comes from Greeks or Trojans.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000008_000004|What would mr Turnbull say in this debate,--and what mr Monk?
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000008_000005|mr Turnbull was the people's tribune, of the day; mr Monk had also been a tribune, then a Minister, and now was again-something less than a tribune.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000000|The debate was long and stormy, but was peculiarly memorable for the skill with which mr Daubeny's higher colleagues defended the steps they were about to take.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000001|The thing was to be done in the cause of religion.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000002|The whole line of defence was indicated by the gentlemen who moved and seconded the Address.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000004|As to the endowments, there was some confusion of ideas; but nothing was to be done with them inappropriate to religion.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000005|Education would receive the bulk of what was left after existing interests had been amply guaranteed.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000007|As to the connection with the State, the time for it had clearly gone by.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000008|The Church, as a Church, would own increased power when it could appoint its own bishops, and be wholly dissevered from State patronage.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000009_000009|It seemed to be almost a matter of surprise that really good Churchmen should have endured so long to be shackled by subservience to the State.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000001|It would be lost as far as it could be lost by a majority in that House on that motion; and it was by that majority or minority that mr Daubeny would be maintained in his high office or ejected from it.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000002|mr Turnbull began by declaring that he did not at all like mr Daubeny as a Minister of the Crown.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000003|He was not in the habit of attaching himself specially to any Minister of the Crown.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000004|Experience had taught him to doubt them all.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000005|Of all possible Ministers of the Crown at this period, mr Daubeny was he thought perhaps the worst, and the most dangerous.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000006|But the thing now offered was too good to be rejected, let it come from what quarter it would.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000007|Indeed, might it not be said of all the good things obtained for the people, of all really serviceable reforms, that they were gathered and garnered home in consequence of the squabbles of Ministers?
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000008|When men wanted power, either to grasp at it or to retain it, then they offered bribes to the people.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000010_000009|But in the taking of such bribes there was no dishonesty, and he should willingly take this bribe.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000011_000000|mr Monk spoke also.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000011_000001|He would not, he said, feel himself justified in refusing the Address to the Crown proposed by Ministers, simply because that Address was founded on the proposition of a future reform, as to the expediency of which he had not for many years entertained a doubt.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000011_000002|He could not allow it to be said of him that he had voted for the permanence of the Church establishment, and he must therefore support the Government.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000011_000004|On the fourth night the House was divided, and mr Daubeny was the owner of a majority of fifteen.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000012_000001|Perhaps no leader of the House was ever more devoutly worshipped by a small number of adherents than was mr Gresham now; but such worship will not support power.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000012_000003|"But who should lead our House?" asked Bonteen.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000012_000004|Ratler sighed instead of answering.
train-other-500/3244/174926/3244_174926_000012_000005|Things had come to that pass that mr Gresham was the only possible leader.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000004_000000|DANIEL DEFOE
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000005_000000|In this time I pursued my voyage, coasted the whole Malabar shore, and met with no purchase but a great Portugal East India ship, which I chased into Goa, where she got out of my reach.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000005_000001|I took several small vessels and barks, but little of value in them, till I entered the great Bay of Bengal, when I began to look about me with more expectation of success, though without prospect of what happened.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000008_000000|At length we spied three ships coming right up to us with the wind.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000009_000000|Accordingly, when we came near them, we fired a gun with shot as a challenge.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000009_000002|We could easily see, by the confusion that was on board, that they were frightened out of their wits; they fired here a gun and there a gun, and some on that side that was from us, as well as those that were next to us.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000009_000005|One was chiefly filled with women, and the other with lumber.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000009_000006|Upon the whole, as the granddaughter of the Great Mogul was our prize in the first ship, so in the second was her women, or, in a word, her household, her eunuchs, all the necessaries of her wardrobe, of her stables, and of her kitchen; and in the last, great quantities of household stuff, and things less costly, though not less useful.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000010_000000|But the first was the main prize.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000011_000000|I immediately went to the great cabin door, taking the lieutenant that called me along with me, and caused the cabin door to be opened.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000011_000001|But such a sight of glory and misery was never seen by buccaneer before.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000011_000002|The queen (for such she was to have been) was all in gold and silver, but frightened and crying, and, at the sight of me, she appeared trembling, and just as if she was going to die.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000011_000003|She sat on the side of a kind of a bed like a couch, with no canopy over it, or any covering; only made to lie down upon.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000011_000004|She was, in a manner, covered with diamonds, and I, like a true pirate, soon let her see that I had more mind to the jewels than to the lady.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000012_000001|The lady was young, and, I suppose, in their country esteem, very handsome, but she was not very much so in my thoughts.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000012_000004|What they meant, I knew not at first; but by their gestures and pointings I found at last it was to beg the young queen's life, and that I would not kill her.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000013_000000|When the three ladies kneeled down to me, and as soon as I understood what it was for, I let them know I would not hurt the queen, nor let any one else hurt her, but that she must give me all her jewels and money.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000013_000005|But as I did not offer anything of that kind, only made her sit down by me, they began all to be easier after some time, and she gave me the little box or casket, I know not what to call it, but it was full of invaluable jewels.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000014_000000|Being master of this treasure, I was very willing to be good humored to the persons; so I went out of the cabin, and caused the women to be left alone, causing the guard to be kept still, that they might receive no more injury than I would do them myself.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000015_000000|After I had been out of the cabin some time, a slave of the women's came to me, and made sign to me that the queen would speak with me again.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000015_000001|I made signs back that I would come and dine with her majesty; and accordingly I ordered that her servants should prepare her dinner, and carry it in, and then call me.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000016_000000|When I came in, she rose up, and paid me such respect as I did not well know how to receive, and not in the least how to return.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000017_000000|After we had eaten, she rose up again, and drinking some water out of a china cup, sat her down on the side of the couch as before.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000017_000001|When she saw I had done eating, she went then to another cabinet, and pulling out a drawer, she brought it to me; it was full of small pieces of gold coin of Pegu, about as big as an English half guinea, and I think there were three thousand of them.
train-other-500/3245/169642/3245_169642_000017_000002|She opened several other drawers, and showed me the wealth that was in them, and then gave me the key of the whole.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000002_000003|And under cover of his most energetic fooling Jim Linton watched his father and sister, and fooled the more happily whenever he made them laugh.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000003_000000|They arrived together unexpectedly on this last evening, preferring to bring their news rather than give it by telephone; and found, instead of the usual cheery tea party in the hall, only silence and emptiness. Allenby, appearing, broke into a broad smile of pleasure as he greeted them.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000004_000000|"Every one's out, mr Jim."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000005_000000|"So it seems," Jim answered.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000006_000000|"Not very far, sir," Allenby said.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000007_000000|"Oh, we'll go over, Wal," Jim said.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000007_000001|"Come and make yourself pretty: you've a splash of mud on your downy cheek." At the foot of the stairs he turned.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000007_000002|"We're off to morrow, Allenby."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000008_000000|Allenby's face fell.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000009_000000|"To France, sir?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000010_000000|Jim nodded.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000011_000000|"The master and Miss Norah will be very sorry, sir.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000012_000000|"Thanks, Allenby.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000012_000001|We'll miss you all," Jim said pleasantly.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000012_000002|He sprang upstairs after Wally.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000013_000001|A chorus of welcome greeted them, nevertheless.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000014_000000|"This is delightful," said mrs Hunt.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000014_000001|"I'm sure I don't know how you're going to fit in, but you must manage it somehow.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000015_000000|"Oh, don't trouble, mrs Hunt," Jim said.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000016_000000|"My chair is ever so much too big for me," she said.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000016_000001|"You can each have an arm."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000017_000001|"Come along, Jim, or we'll be lop sided!"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000018_000001|"This is the first day for quite a while that she hasn't been hostess, so we made her chief guest, and she is having a rest cure."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000019_000000|"If you treat Norah with respect it won't have at all a restful effect on her," said Wally.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000019_000001|"I've tried." To which Norah inquired, "When?" in a voice of such amazement that every one laughed.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000020_000000|"Misunderstood as usual," said Wally pathetically.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000020_000001|"It really doesn't pay to be like me and have a meek spirit: people only think you are a worm, and trample on you.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000020_000002|Come here, Geoff, and take care of me:" and Geoffrey, who adored him, came.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000021_000000|"'M!" said Geoffrey, nodding.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000021_000001|"I can canter now!"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000022_000000|"Good man!
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000022_000001|Any tosses?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000023_000001|"He cantered before I had gotted ready, and I fell off.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000023_000002|But it didn't hurt."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000024_000000|"That's right.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000024_000001|You practise always falling on a soft spot, and you need never worry."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000025_000000|"But I'd rather practise sticking on," said Geoffrey.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000025_000001|"It's nicer."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000026_000000|"You might practise both," said Wally.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000026_000001|"You'll have plenty of both, you know." He laughed at the puzzled face.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000026_000002|"Never mind, old chap. How are the others, and why aren't they here?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000027_000000|"They're too little," Geoffrey said loftily.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000027_000001|"Small childrens don't come in to tea, at least not when there's parties.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000027_000002|I came, 'cause Mother says I'm getting 'normous."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000028_000000|"So you are.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000028_000001|Are the others quite well?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000029_000000|"Oh yes," Geoffrey answered, clearly regarding the question as foolish.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000029_000002|Alison's got a puppy, and Michael's been eating plate powder.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000030_000000|"What's that about my Michael," demanded mrs Hunt.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000030_000001|"Oh yes-we found him making a hearty meal of plate powder this morning.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000030_000002|Douglas says it should make him very bright.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000030_000003|I'm thankful to say it doesn't seem to be going to kill him."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000031_000001|"I found him gnawing the strap of one of my gaiters the other day."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000032_000000|"You shouldn't underfeed the poor kid," said Wally.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000032_000001|"It's clear that he's finding his nourishment when and how he can.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000032_000002|Isn't there a Society for dealing with people like you?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000033_000000|"There is," said Jim solemnly.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000034_000000|"You're two horrible boys!" said their hostess, laughing.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000035_000000|"No, thank you, mrs Hunt." Norah's voice sounded strange in her own ears.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000035_000001|She wanted to get away from the room, and the light-hearted chatter . . . to make sure, though she was sure already.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000035_000002|The guns of France seemed to sound very near her.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000036_000000|The party broke up after a while.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000036_000001|Jim and Wally lingered behind the others.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000037_000001|We're off to morrow."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000038_000001|"Poor Norah!"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000039_000000|"Norah will keep smiling," said Jim.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000039_000001|"But I'm jolly glad you're so near her, mrs Hunt.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000039_000002|You'll keep an eye on them, won't you?
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000039_000003|I'd be awfully obliged if you would."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000040_000000|"You may be very sure I will," she said.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000041_000000|"We won't lose any time in coming for it," Jim said.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000041_000001|"Blighty means more than ever it did, now that we've got a real home.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000041_000002|Then you'll come to night?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000042_000000|"Of course we will." She watched them stride off into the shrubbery, and choked back a sigh.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000043_000000|Norah came back to them through the trees.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000044_000000|"It's marching orders, isn't it?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000045_000000|"Yes, it's marching orders, old kiddie," Jim answered.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000045_000001|They looked at each other steadily: and then Norah's eyes met Wally's.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000046_000000|"When?" she asked.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000047_000000|"To morrow morning."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000048_000000|"Well----" said Norah; and drew a long breath.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000048_000001|"And I haven't your last week's socks darned!
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000048_000003|Any buttons to be sewn on for either of you?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000049_000000|"No, thanks," they told her, greatly relieved.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000049_000002|David Linton came out hurriedly to meet them.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000050_000000|"Allenby says----" he began.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000050_000001|He did not need to go further.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000051_000000|"We were trotting in to tell you," said Jim.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000052_000001|"Norah, are you going to send us a Christmas hamper?
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000052_000002|With a pudding?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000054_000000|"After which you'll try them on the dogs-meaning us," Jim said, laughing.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000054_000001|"Well, if we don't go into hospital after them, we'll let you know."
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000055_000001|Then everybody faded away unobtrusively, and left them to themselves.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000055_000002|They went into the morning room, and Norah darned socks vigorously while the boys kept up a running fire of cheery talk.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000055_000003|Whatever was to come they would meet it with their heads up-all four.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000058_000000|"Encumbrance," said Wally firmly.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000059_000003|We will miss them-ah-very much.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000061_000000|The Hunts arrived after dinner, and they all woke the house with ringing choruses-echoed by Allenby in his pantry, as he polished the silver; and Garrett sang a song which was not encored because something in his silver tenor made a lump come into Norah's throat; and there was no room for that, to night, of all nights.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000061_000002|Jim had slipped out to speak to Allenby: and presently, going out, they found the hall cleared, and the floor waxed for dancing.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000061_000004|It was eleven o'clock when Allenby announced stolidly, "Supper is served, sir!"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000062_000000|"Supper?" said mr Linton.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000062_000001|"How's this, Norah?"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000063_000001|"Ask Miss de Lisle!"
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000064_000000|They filed in, to find a table laden and glittering; in the centre a huge cake, bearing the greeting, "Good Luck!" with a silken Union Jack waving proudly.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000064_000001|Norah whispered to her father, and then ran away. She returned, presently, dragging the half unwilling cook lady.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000067_000000|"My poor, neglected babies!" said mrs Hunt tragically, as twelve strokes chimed from the grandfather clock in the hall.
train-other-500/3245/6194/3245_6194_000067_000002|It might have been anything, but it satisfied the performers.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000001_000000|THE BIGGER THE YEAR
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000002_000000|As soon as we heard that "The Big Year-A College Story" by Meade Minnigerode was about Yale we knew that we just had to read it.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000002_000001|Tales of travel and curious native customs have always fascinated us.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000002_000003|The seniors, he informs us, come out on summer afternoons on roller skates.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000003_000000|Of course, we are disposed to believe that mr Minnigerode, like all travelers in strange lands, is prone to color things a little more highly than exact accuracy would sanction.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000003_000001|We felt this particularly when he began to write about Yale football.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000004_000003|Yes, it was a game against the scrubs.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000004_000004|"Some one came tearing along and lunged at Curly as he went by, apparently trying to grab him about the legs.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000004_000005|Champ cast all caution to the winds.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000004_000006|Interfere with Curly, would he?
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000004_000007|Well, Champ guessed not!
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000004_000008|Like an arrow from a bow Champ hurled himself through the air and fastened his jaws firmly in the seat of the offender's pants, in a desperate effort to prevent him from further molesting Curly."
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000005_000000|Champ was immediately adopted by the team as mascot.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000005_000002|The associate mascot was Jimmy, a little newsboy, who also took football at New Haven seriously.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000005_000003|His romanticism, like that of Champ, was understandable.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000005_000004|Hadn't Curly Corliss once saved his life?
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000005_000005|We need not tell you that he had.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000006_000001|We have forgotten his name.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000006_000002|Unlike Corliss of Yale, the Harvard man did not bother to pick up the newsboy. Instead he seized the street car and threw it for a loss.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000001|Things looked blue for Yale.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000002|Neither mascot was on hand.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000003|Yale was trying to win with nothing but students.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000004|Where was little Jimmy the newsboy?
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000005|If you must know he was in the hospital, for he had been run over again.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000006|The boy could not seem to break himself of the habit.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000007|Unfortunately he had picked out the afternoon of the Princeton game when all the Yale players were much too busy trying to stop Tigers to have any time to interfere with traffic.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000008|It was only an automobile this time and Jimmy escaped with a mere gash over one eye.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000007_000010|"I'm all right now," Jimmy told the doctor, "honest I am-can I go-I gotta take Champ out to the game-he's the mascot and they can't win without him-please, Mister, let me go-I guess they need us bad out there."
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000008_000002|After that there was nothing to it.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000008_000003|Yale won by a score of twelve to ten.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000008_000004|"Curly clapped his hands together," writes mr Minnigerode in describing the rally, "and kept calling out 'Never mind the signal!
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000008_000005|Give me the ball' in his plaintive voice"----
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000010_000000|Still, as Professor Billy Phelps has taught his students to say, football isn't everything.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000010_000001|Perhaps something of Sparta has gone from Yale, for a few years or forever, but just look at the Yale poets and novelists all over the place.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000011_000000|"'Angel!'
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000012_000000|"'Yeah,' very sleepily.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000013_000000|"'They all seem to get over it!'
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000014_000000|"'Over what?'
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000015_000000|"'The fellows who have graduated,' Curly explained.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000015_000001|'I guess they all feel pretty poor when they leave, but they get over it right away.
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000015_000002|It's just like changing into a new suit, I expect.'
train-other-500/3245/62827/3245_62827_000016_000000|"'Yeah, I guess so'....
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000010_000000|FOR OLD NASSAU
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000012_000001|He was enamored of her from the very beginning when old Planter engaged him to accompany his daughter on rides, but his admiration did not become articulate until she fell off her horse.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000012_000002|She seems to have done it extremely well.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000012_000003|"He saw her horse refuse," writes mr Camp, "straightening his knees and sliding in the marshy ground.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000013_000002|That brought her to and she called him "You-you-stable boy." And so George decided to go to college.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000014_000000|His high school preparation had been scant and irregular.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000014_000003|It was possible, he promised himself bravely, if only he could win a Yale or a Harvard game."
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000015_000000|Perhaps this explains why one meets so few Princeton men socially.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000015_000001|Some, we have found, are occasionally invited to drop in after dinner.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000015_000002|These, we assume, are recruited from the ranks of those Princetonians who have tied Yale or Harvard or at least held the score down.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000016_000000|Like mr Minnigerode, mr Camp employs symbolism in his story.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000016_000001|In the Yale novel we had Corliss evidently standing for Coy.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000016_000002|Just which Princeton hero George Morton represents we are not prepared to say.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000016_000004|Morton can hardly be intended for Edwards because it seems unlikely that anybody would ever have engaged Big Bill to ride horses; no, not even to break them.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000016_000006|Here, to be sure, identification is easy.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000016_000008|He might, for instance, have called him Cordier.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000017_000000|In some respects Morton proved an even better football player than Corliss.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000017_000003|The enemy's secondary defense had been drawing in, there was no one near enough to stop him within those ten yards and he went over for a touchdown and casually kicked the goal."
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000018_000000|Eventually, George Morton did get asked to all the better houses, but still Sylvia spurned him.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000018_000001|"Go away and don't bother me," was the usual form of her replies to his ardent words of wooing.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000018_000003|A man who had taken more than one straight arm squarely in the face during the course of his football career was not to be rebuffed by a slip of a girl.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000020_000000|There was no stopping George Morton.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000020_000001|In the end he wore Sylvia down. Nothing else could be expected from such a man.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000021_000000|His head was hard and he could not take a hint.
train-other-500/3245/62828/3245_62828_000021_000002|Her right hand swing was not good enough.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000001_000000|Chapter five The Reconstruction Period
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000002_000001|This included the time that I spent as a student at Hampton and as a teacher in West Virginia.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000002_000002|During the whole of the Reconstruction period two ideas were constantly agitating in the minds of the coloured people, or, at least, in the minds of a large part of the race.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000002_000003|One of these was the craze for Greek and Latin learning, and the other was a desire to hold office.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000003_000000|It could not have been expected that a people who had spent generations in slavery, and before that generations in the darkest heathenism, could at first form any proper conception of what an education meant.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000003_000001|In every part of the South, during the Reconstruction period, schools, both day and night, were filled to overflowing with people of all ages and conditions, some being as far along in age as sixty and seventy years.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000003_000002|The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000003_000003|The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labour.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000003_000004|There was a further feeling that a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin languages would make one a very superior human being, something bordering almost on the supernatural.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000003_000005|I remember that the first coloured man whom I saw who knew something about foreign languages impressed me at the time as being a man of all others to be envied.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000004_000000|Naturally, most of our people who received some little education became teachers or preachers.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000004_000001|While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy way to make a living.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000004_000002|Many became teachers who could do little more than write their names.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000004_000003|I remember there came into our neighbourhood one of this class, who was in search of a school to teach, and the question arose while he was there as to the shape of the earth and how he could teach the children concerning the subject.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000004_000004|He explained his position in the matter by saying that he was prepared to teach that the earth was either flat or round, according to the preference of a majority of his patrons.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000005_000000|The ministry was the profession that suffered most-and still suffers, though there has been great improvement-on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were "called to preach." In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000005_000001|At my home in West Virginia the process of being called to the ministry was a very interesting one.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000005_000002|Usually the "call" came when the individual was sitting in church.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000005_000003|Without warning the one called would fall upon the floor as if struck by a bullet, and would lie there for hours, speechless and motionless.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000005_000005|In the end he always yielded to the call. While I wanted an education badly, I confess that in my youth I had a fear that when I had learned to read and write very well I would receive one of these "calls"; but, for some reason, my call never came.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000006_000000|When we add the number of wholly ignorant men who preached or "exhorted" to that of those who possessed something of an education, it can be seen at a glance that the supply of ministers was large.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000006_000001|In fact, some time ago I knew a certain church that had a total membership of about two hundred, and eighteen of that number were ministers.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000006_000002|But, I repeat, in many communities in the South the character of the ministry is being improved, and I believe that within the next two or three decades a very large proportion of the unworthy ones will have disappeared.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000006_000003|The "calls" to preach, I am glad to say, are not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some industrial occupation are growing more numerous.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000007_000000|During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000007_000001|This was not unnatural.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000007_000002|The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the labour of the Negro.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000007_000003|Even as a youth, and later in manhood, I had the feeling that it was cruelly wrong in the central government, at the beginning of our freedom, to fail to make some provision for the general education of our people in addition to what the states might do, so that the people would be the better prepared for the duties of citizenship.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000009_000000|Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000009_000001|I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000009_000003|I felt that the Negro would be the one to suffer for this in the end.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000009_000004|Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000010_000000|The temptations to enter political life were so alluring that I came very near yielding to them at one time, but I was kept from doing so by the feeling that I would be helping in a more substantial way by assisting in the laying of the foundation of the race through a generous education of the hand, head, and heart.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000010_000001|I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000011_000000|But not all the coloured people who were in office during Reconstruction were unworthy of their positions, by any means.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000011_000001|Some of them, like the late Senator b k
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000011_000002|Bruce, Governor Pinchback, and many others, were strong, upright, useful men.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000011_000003|Neither were all the class designated as carpetbaggers dishonourable men.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000011_000004|Some of them, like ex Governor Bullock, of Georgia, were men of high character and usefulness.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000012_000000|Of course the coloured people, so largely without education, and wholly without experience in government, made tremendous mistakes, just as many people similarly situated would have done.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000012_000001|Many of the Southern whites have a feeling that, if the Negro is permitted to exercise his political rights now to any degree, the mistakes of the Reconstruction period will repeat themselves.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000012_000002|I do not think this would be true, because the Negro is a much stronger and wiser man than he was thirty five years ago, and he is fast learning the lesson that he cannot afford to act in a manner that will alienate his Southern white neighbours from him.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000012_000003|More and more I am convinced that the final solution of the political end of our race problem will be for each state that finds it necessary to change the law bearing upon the franchise to make the law apply with absolute honesty, and without opportunity for double dealing or evasion, to both races alike.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000012_000004|Any other course my daily observation in the South convinces me, will be unjust to the Negro, unjust to the white man, and unfair to the rest of the state in the Union, and will be, like slavery, a sin that at some time we shall have to pay for.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000000|In the fall of eighteen seventy eight, after having taught school in Malden for two years, and after I had succeeded in preparing several of the young men and women, besides my two brothers, to enter the Hampton Institute, I decided to spend some months in study at Washington d c
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000001|I remained there for eight months.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000002|I derived a great deal of benefit from the studies which I pursued, and I came into contact with some strong men and women.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000003|At the institution I attended there was no industrial training given to the students, and I had an opportunity of comparing the influence of an institution with no industrial training with that of one like the Hampton Institute, that emphasizes the industries.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000004|At this school I found the students, in most cases, had more money, were better dressed, wore the latest style of all manner of clothing, and in some cases were more brilliant mentally.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000005|At Hampton it was a standing rule that, while the institution would be responsible for securing some one to pay the tuition for the students, the men and women themselves must provide for their own board, books, clothing, and room wholly by work, or partly by work and partly in cash.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000007|At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character building.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000008|The students at the other school seemed to be less self dependent.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000009|They seemed to give more attention to mere outward appearances.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000010|In a word, they did not appear to me to be beginning at the bottom, on a real, solid foundation, to the extent that they were at Hampton.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000011|They knew more about Latin and Greek when they left school, but they seemed to know less about life and its conditions as they would meet it at their homes.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000013_000012|Having lived for a number of years in the midst of comfortable surroundings, they were not as much inclined as the Hampton students to go into the country districts of the South, where there was little of comfort, to take up work for our people, and they were more inclined to yield to the temptation to become hotel waiters and Pullman car porters as their life work.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000000|During the time I was a student at Washington the city was crowded with coloured people, many of whom had recently come from the South.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000001|A large proportion of these people had been drawn to Washington because they felt that they could lead a life of ease there.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000002|Others had secured minor government positions, and still another large class was there in the hope of securing Federal positions.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000004|b k Bruce, was in the Senate.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000005|All this tended to make Washington an attractive place for members of the coloured race.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000006|Then, too, they knew that at all times they could have the protection of the law in the District of Columbia.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000007|The public schools in Washington for coloured people were better then than they were elsewhere.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000008|I took great interest in studying the life of our people there closely at that time.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000010|I saw other young men who received seventy five or one hundred dollars per month from the Government, who were in debt at the end of every month.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000011|I saw men who but a few months previous were members of Congress, then without employment and in poverty.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000012|Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000014_000013|The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000015_000000|In Washington I saw girls whose mothers were earning their living by laundrying.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000015_000002|Later, these girls entered the public schools and remained there perhaps six or eight years.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000015_000003|When the public school course was finally finished, they wanted more costly dresses, more costly hats and shoes.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000015_000004|In a word, while their wants have been increased, their ability to supply their wants had not been increased in the same degree.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000015_000005|On the other hand, their six or eight years of book education had weaned them away from the occupation of their mothers.
train-other-500/3257/169284/3257_169284_000015_000006|The result of this was in too many cases that the girls went to the bad.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000001_000000|Chapter nine.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000001_000001|Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000002_000000|The coming of Christmas, that first year of our residence in Alabama, gave us an opportunity to get a farther insight into the real life of the people.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000002_000001|The first thing that reminded us that Christmas had arrived was the "foreday" visits of scores of children rapping at our doors, asking for "Chris'mus gifts!
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000002_000002|Chris'mus gifts!" Between the hours of two o'clock and five o'clock in the morning I presume that we must have had a half hundred such calls.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000002_000003|This custom prevails throughout this portion of the South to day.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000003_000000|During the days of slavery it was a custom quite generally observed throughout all the Southern states to give the coloured people a week of holiday at Christmas, or to allow the holiday to continue as long as the "yule log" lasted.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000003_000001|The male members of the race, and often the female members, were expected to get drunk.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000003_000002|We found that for a whole week the coloured people in and around Tuskegee dropped work the day before Christmas, and that it was difficult for any one to perform any service from the time they stopped work until after the New Year.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000003_000003|Persons who at other times did not use strong drink thought it quite the proper thing to indulge in it rather freely during the Christmas week.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000003_000004|There was a widespread hilarity, and a free use of guns, pistols, and gunpowder generally.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000003_000005|The sacredness of the season seemed to have been almost wholly lost sight of.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000000|During this first Christmas vacation I went some distance from the town to visit the people on one of the large plantations.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000001|In their poverty and ignorance it was pathetic to see their attempts to get joy out of the season that in most parts of the country is so sacred and so dear to the heart.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000002|In one cabin I notice that all that the five children had to remind them of the coming of Christ was a single bunch of firecrackers, which they had divided among them.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000004|In another family they had only a few pieces of sugarcane.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000006|In a few instances I found that the people had gotten hold of some bright coloured cards that had been designed for advertising purposes, and were making the most of these.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000007|In other homes some member of the family had bought a new pistol. In the majority of cases there was nothing to be seen in the cabin to remind one of the coming of the Saviour, except that the people had ceased work in the fields and were lounging about their homes.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000008|At night, during Christmas week, they usually had what they called a "frolic," in some cabin on the plantation.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000004_000009|That meant a kind of rough dance, where there was likely to be a good deal of whiskey used, and where there might be some shooting or cutting with razors.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000005_000000|While I was making this Christmas visit I met an old coloured man who was one of the numerous local preachers, who tried to convince me, from the experience Adam had in the Garden of Eden, that God had cursed all labour, and that, therefore, it was a sin for any man to work.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000005_000001|For that reason this man sought to do as little work as possible.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000005_000002|He seemed at that time to be supremely happy, because he was living, as he expressed it, through one week that was free from sin.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000006_000000|In the school we made a special effort to teach our students the meaning of Christmas, and to give them lessons in its proper observance.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000007_000000|At the present time one of the most satisfactory features of the Christmas and Thanksgiving season at Tuskegee is the unselfish and beautiful way in which our graduates and students spend their time in administering to the comfort and happiness of others, especially the unfortunate.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000007_000001|Not long ago some of our young men spent a holiday in rebuilding a cabin for a helpless coloured women who was about seventy five years old.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000007_000002|At another time I remember that I made it known in chapel, one night, that a very poor student was suffering from cold, because he needed a coat.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000007_000003|The next morning two coats were sent to my office for him.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000008_000000|I have referred to the disposition on the part of the white people in the town of Tuskegee and vicinity to help the school.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000008_000001|From the first, I resolved to make the school a real part of the community in which it was located.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000009_000000|Perhaps I might add right here, what I hope to demonstrate later, that, so far as I know, the Tuskegee school at the present time has no warmer and more enthusiastic friends anywhere than it has among the white citizens of Tuskegee and throughout the state of Alabama and the entire South.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000009_000001|From the first, I have advised our people in the South to make friends in every straightforward, manly way with their next door neighbour, whether he be a black man or a white man.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000009_000002|I have also advised them, where no principle is at stake, to consult the interests of their local communities, and to advise with their friends in regard to their voting.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000010_000000|For several months the work of securing the money with which to pay for the farm went on without ceasing.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000010_000001|At the end of three months enough was secured to repay the loan of two hundred and fifty dollars to General Marshall, and within two months more we had secured the entire five hundred dollars and had received a deed of the one hundred acres of land.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000010_000002|This gave us a great deal of satisfaction.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000010_000003|It was not only a source of satisfaction to secure a permanent location for the school, but it was equally satisfactory to know that the greater part of the money with which it was paid for had been gotten from the white and coloured people in the town of Tuskegee.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000010_000004|The most of this money was obtained by holding festivals and concerts, and from small individual donations.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000011_000000|Our next effort was in the direction of increasing the cultivation of the land, so as to secure some return from it, and at the same time give the students training in agriculture.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000011_000001|All the industries at Tuskegee have been started in natural and logical order, growing out of the needs of a community settlement.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000011_000002|We began with farming, because we wanted something to eat.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000012_000000|Many of the students, also, were able to remain in school but a few weeks at a time, because they had so little money with which to pay their board.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000012_000001|Thus another object which made it desirable to get an industrial system started was in order to make it available as a means of helping the students to earn money enough so that they might be able to remain in school during the nine months' session of the school year.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000013_000000|The first animal that the school came into possession of was an old blind horse given us by one of the white citizens of Tuskegee.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000013_000001|Perhaps I may add here that at the present time the school owns over two hundred horses, colts, mules, cows, calves, and oxen, and about seven hundred hogs and pigs, as well as a large number of sheep and goats.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000014_000000|The school was constantly growing in numbers, so much so that, after we had got the farm paid for, the cultivation of the land begun, and the old cabins which we had found on the place somewhat repaired, we turned our attention toward providing a large, substantial building.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000014_000001|After having given a good deal of thought to the subject, we finally had the plans drawn for a building that was estimated to cost about six thousand dollars.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000014_000002|This seemed to us a tremendous sum, but we knew that the school must go backward or forward, and that our work would mean little unless we could get hold of the students in their home life.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000015_000000|One incident which occurred about this time gave me a great deal of satisfaction as well as surprise.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000015_000002|I told the man frankly that at the time we did not have in our hands one dollar of the money needed.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000015_000003|Notwithstanding this, he insisted on being allowed to put the lumber on the grounds.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000015_000004|After we had secured some portion of the money we permitted him to do this.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000016_000000|Miss Davidson again began the work of securing in various ways small contributions for the new building from the white and coloured people in and near Tuskegee.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000016_000001|I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000016_000002|One day, when we were holding a meeting to secure funds for its erection, an old, ante bellum coloured man came a distance of twelve miles and brought in his ox cart a large hog.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000016_000003|When the meeting was in progress, he rose in the midst of the company and said that he had no money which he could give, but he had raised two fine hogs, and that he had brought one of them as a contribution toward the expenses of the building.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000016_000004|He closed his announcement by saying: "Any nigger that's got any love for his race, or any respect for himself, will bring a hog to the next meeting." Quite a number of men in the community also volunteered to give several days' work, each, toward the erection of the building.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000017_000000|After we had secured all the help that we could in Tuskegee, Miss Davidson decided to go North for the purpose of securing additional funds.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000017_000001|For weeks she visited individuals and spoke in churches and before Sunday schools and other organizations.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000017_000002|She found this work quite trying, and often embarrassing.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000017_000003|The school was not known, but she was not long in winning her way into the confidence of the best people in the North.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000018_000001|For some time before our marriage, and also after it, Miss Davidson kept up the work of securing money in the North and in the South by interesting people by personal visits and through correspondence.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000018_000002|At the same time she kept in close touch with the work at Tuskegee, as lady principal and classroom teacher.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000018_000003|In addition to this, she worked among the older people in and near Tuskegee, and taught a Sunday school class in the town.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000018_000004|She was never very strong, but never seemed happy unless she was giving all of her strength to the cause which she loved.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000018_000005|Often, at night, after spending the day in going from door to door trying to interest persons in the work at Tuskegee, she would be so exhausted that she could not undress herself.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000018_000006|A lady upon whom she called, in Boston, afterward told me that at one time when Miss Davidson called her to see and send up her card the lady was detained a little before she could see Miss Davidson, and when she entered the parlour she found Miss Davidson so exhausted that she had fallen asleep.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000019_000000|While putting up our first building, which was named Porter Hall, after mr a h
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000019_000002|I had given one of our creditors a promise that upon a certain day he should be paid four hundred dollars.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000019_000004|This four hundred dollars was given by two ladies in Boston.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000019_000005|Two years later, when the work at Tuskegee had grown considerably, and when we were in the midst of a season when we were so much in need of money that the future looked doubtful and gloomy, the same two Boston ladies sent us six thousand dollars.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000019_000006|Words cannot describe our surprise, or the encouragement that the gift brought to us.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000019_000007|Perhaps I might add here that for fourteen years these same friends have sent us six thousand dollars a year.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000020_000000|As soon as the plans were drawn for the new building, the students began digging out the earth where the foundations were to be laid, working after the regular classes were over.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000020_000001|They had not fully outgrown the idea that it was hardly the proper thing for them to use their hands, since they had come there, as one of them expressed it, "to be educated, and not to work." Gradually, though, I noted with satisfaction that a sentiment in favour of work was gaining ground.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000020_000002|After a few weeks of hard work the foundations were ready, and a day was appointed for the laying of the corner stone.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000021_000001|I believe there are few places in the world where it could have taken place.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000022_000000|The principal address was delivered by the honorable
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000022_000001|Waddy Thompson, the Superintendent of Education for the county.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000022_000002|About the corner stone were gathered the teachers, the students, their parents and friends, the county officials-who were white-and all the leading white men in that vicinity, together with many of the black men and women whom the same white people but a few years before had held a title to as property.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000022_000003|The members of both races were anxious to exercise the privilege of placing under the corner stone some momento.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000023_000000|Before the building was completed we passed through some very trying seasons.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000023_000001|More than once our hearts were made to bleed, as it were, because bills were falling due that we did not have the money to meet. Perhaps no one who has not gone through the experience, month after month, of trying to erect buildings and provide equipment for a school when no one knew where the money was to come from, can properly appreciate the difficulties under which we laboured.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000023_000003|I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment-that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000023_000004|I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race. I knew that the presumption was against us.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000023_000005|I knew that in the case of white people beginning such an enterprise it would be taken for granted that they were going to succeed, but in our case I felt that people would be surprised if we succeeded.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000023_000006|All this made a burden which pressed down on us, sometimes, it seemed, at the rate of a thousand pounds to the square inch.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000024_000001|One thing I was determined to do from the first, and that was to keep the credit of the school high; and this, I think I can say without boasting, we have done all through these years.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000025_000000|I shall always remember a bit of advice given me by mr George w Campbell, the white man to whom I have referred to as the one who induced General Armstrong to send me to Tuskegee.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000025_000001|Soon after I entered upon the work mr Campbell said to me, in his fatherly way: "Washington, always remember that credit is capital."
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000026_000000|At one time when we were in the greatest distress for money that we ever experienced, I placed the situation frankly before General Armstrong. Without hesitation he gave me his personal check for all the money which he had saved for his own use.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000026_000001|This was not the only time that General Armstrong helped Tuskegee in this way.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000026_000002|I do not think I have ever made this fact public before.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000027_000001|We began keeping house in Tuskegee early in the fall.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000027_000002|This made a home for our teachers, who now had been increase to four in number.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000027_000003|My wife was also a graduate of the Hampton Institute.
train-other-500/3257/169288/3257_169288_000027_000004|After earnest and constant work in the interests of the school, together with her housekeeping duties, my wife passed away in May, eighteen eighty four.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve TOLINE OF THE LACHLAN
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000002_000000|ABOUT two miles from the railway, the plain terminated in a range of low hills, and it was not long before the wagon entered a succession of narrow gorges and capricious windings, out of which it emerged into a most charming region, where grand trees, not closely planted, but in scattered groups, were growing with absolutely tropical luxuriance.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000002_000002|He was dressed in European garb, and seemed about eight years of age.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000002_000003|There was no mistaking the characteristic features of his race; the crisped hair, the nearly black skin, the flattened nose, the thick lips, the unusual length of the arms, immediately classed him among the aborigines of the interior.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000003_000000|Lady Helena, whose interest was greatly excited by this spectacle, got out of the wagon, followed by Mary, and presently the whole company surrounded the peaceful little sleeper.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000003_000001|"Poor child!" said Mary Grant. "Is he lost, I wonder, in this desert?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000004_000000|"I suppose," said Lady Helena, "he has come a long way to visit this part.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000004_000001|No doubt some he loves are here."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000005_000001|"We must-"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000006_000000|His compassionate sentence remained unfinished, for, just at that moment the child turned over in his sleep, and, to the extreme surprise of everybody, there was a large label on his shoulders, on which the following was written:
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000008_000001|"They send off a child just as they would luggage, and book him like a parcel.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000008_000002|I heard it was done, certainly; but I could not believe it before."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000009_000000|"Poor child!" said Lady Helena.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000009_000002|Perhaps his parents are killed, and he is left alone in the world!"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000010_000000|"I don't think so, madam," replied john Mangles.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000011_000000|"He is waking up!" said Mary.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000012_000000|And so he was.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000012_000003|He seemed half frightened at first, but the presence of Lady Helena reassured him.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000012_000004|"Do you understand English, my little man?" asked the young lady.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000013_000000|"I understand it and speak it," replied the child in fluent enough English, but with a marked accent.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000013_000001|His pronunciation was like a Frenchman's.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000014_000000|"What is your name?" asked Lady Helena.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000015_000000|"Toline," replied the little native.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000016_000000|"Toline!" exclaimed Paganel.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000016_000001|"Ah!
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000016_000002|I think that means 'bark of a tree' in Australian."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000017_000000|Toline nodded, and looked again at the travelers.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000018_000000|"Where do you come from?" inquired Lady Helena.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000021_000000|"Yes, sir," was Toline's reply; "but the God of the Bible protected me."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000022_000000|"Are you traveling alone?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000024_000000|"And you did not know any one else on the train?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000025_000000|"No one, madam; but God watches over children and never forsakes them."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000026_000001|When he mentioned the name of God his voice was grave and his eyes beamed with all the fervor that animated his young soul.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000027_000000|This religious enthusiasm at so tender an age was easily explained.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000027_000001|The child was one of the aborigines baptized by the English missionaries, and trained by them in all the rigid principles of the Methodist Church. His calm replies, proper behavior, and even his somber garb made him look like a little reverend already.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000028_000000|But where was he going all alone in these solitudes and why had he left Camden Bridge?
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000028_000001|Lady Helena asked him about this.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000029_000001|"I wished to see my family again."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000030_000000|"Are they Australians?" inquired john Mangles.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000031_000000|"Yes, Australians of the Lachlan," replied Toline.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000032_000000|"Have you a father and mother?" said Robert Grant.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000033_000000|"Yes, my brother," replied Toline, holding out his hand to little Grant. Robert was so touched by the word brother that he kissed the black child, and they were friends forthwith.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000034_000002|The tent was pitched, and Olbinett got the supper ready. Toline consented, after some difficulty, to share it, though he was hungry enough.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000034_000003|He took his seat beside Robert, who chose out all the titbits for his new friend.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000035_000000|The conversation with him, however, was still kept up, for everyone felt an interest in the child, and wanted to talk to him and hear his history.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000035_000001|It was simple enough.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000036_000000|This was how Toline's parents had acted.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000039_000000|"And what are you going to be some day?" she continued.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000040_000001|I am going to teach them, to bring them to know and love God.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000040_000002|I am going to be a missionary."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000042_000001|He had not come to Australia to see Australians in coats and trousers.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000042_000002|He preferred them simply tattooed, and this conventional dress jarred on his preconceived notions.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000042_000003|But the child's genuine religious fervor won him over completely.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000042_000004|Indeed, the wind up of the conversation converted the worthy geographer into his best friend.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000044_000000|"And what do they teach you?" she went on to say.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000045_000000|"They teach me the Bible, and mathematics, and geography."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000046_000000|Paganel pricked up his ears at this, and said, "Indeed, geography!"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000047_000000|"Yes, sir," said Toline; "and I had the first prize for geography before the Christmas holidays."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000048_000000|"You had the first prize for geography, my boy?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000049_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000049_000001|Here it is," returned Toline, pulling a book out of his pocket.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000050_000000|It was a bible, thirty two mo size, and well bound.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000050_000001|On the first page was written the words: "Normal School, Melbourne.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000050_000002|First Prize for Geography.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000050_000003|Toline of the Lachlan."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000051_000000|Paganel was beside himself.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000051_000002|This was marvelous, and he could not help kissing Toline on both cheeks, just as if he had been the Reverend mr Paxton himself, on the day of the distribution of prizes.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000051_000003|Paganel need not have been so amazed at this circumstance, however, for it is frequent enough in Australian schools. The little savages are very quick in learning geography.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000051_000004|They learn it eagerly, and on the other hand, are perfectly averse to the science of arithmetic.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000053_000000|"A professor of geography!" cried Toline.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000053_000001|"Oh, sir, do question me!"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000054_000000|"Question you?
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000054_000001|Well, I'd like nothing better.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000054_000002|Indeed, I was going to do it without your leave.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000054_000003|I should very much like to see how they teach geography in the Normal School of Melbourne."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000055_000000|"And suppose Toline trips you up, Paganel!" said McNabbs.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000056_000000|"What a likely idea!" exclaimed the geographer.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000056_000001|"Trip up the Secretary of the Geographical Society of France."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000058_000000|"Pupil Toline, stand up."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000060_000000|"Pupil Toline, what are the five divisions of the globe?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000061_000000|"Oceanica, Asia, Africa, America, and Europe."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000062_000000|"Perfectly so.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000062_000001|Now we'll take Oceanica first; where are we at this moment?
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000062_000002|What are the principal divisions?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000065_000000|"They are islands under the Protectorate of Great Britain."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000067_000000|"France," said the child, with an astonished look.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000069_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000069_000001|Isn't it right?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000070_000001|All Oceanica belongs to the English. That's an understood thing.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000070_000002|Go on."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000071_000000|Paganel's face betrayed both surprise and annoyance, to the great delight of the Major.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000072_000000|"Let us go on to Asia," said the geographer.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000073_000001|Capital-Calcutta.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000074_000000|"Very good, pupil Toline.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000074_000001|And now for Africa."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000076_000001|"As to Algeria, Morocco, Egypt-they are all struck out of the Britannic cities."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000077_000000|"Let us pass on, pray, to America."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000078_000000|"It is divided," said Toline, promptly, "into North and South America. The former belongs to the English in Canada, New Brunswick, New Scotland, and the United States, under the government of President Johnson."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000079_000000|"President Johnson," cried Paganel, "the successor of the great and good Lincoln, assassinated by a mad fanatic of the slave party.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000079_000001|Capital; nothing could be better.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000079_000004|But, Toline, I should like to know your opinion of Europe, or rather your professor's."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000080_000000|"Europe?" said Toline not at all understanding Paganel's excitement.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000081_000000|"Yes, Europe!
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000081_000001|Who does Europe belong to?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000083_000001|"But how's that, Toline, for I want to know that?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000085_000000|"Yes, yes, my lad; but there are other states you forgot to mention."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000088_000000|"They are provinces, not states," said Toline.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000090_000001|"Spain-capital, Gibraltar."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000091_000000|"Admirable! perfect!
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000091_000001|sublime!
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000092_000000|"France," said Toline, quietly, "is an English province; chief city, Calais."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000093_000000|"Calais!" cried Paganel.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000093_000001|"So you think Calais still belongs to the English?"
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000094_000000|"Certainly."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000096_000000|"Yes, sir; and it is there that the Governor, Lord Napo leon, lives."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000000|This was too much for Paganel's risible faculties.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000001|He burst out laughing.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000002|Toline did not know what to make of him.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000003|He had done his best to answer every question put to him.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000004|But the singularity of the answers were not his blame; indeed, he never imagined anything singular about them.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000005|However, he took it all quietly, and waited for the professor to recover himself.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000097_000006|These peals of laughter were quite incomprehensible to him.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000098_000000|"You see," said Major McNabbs, laughing, "I was right.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000098_000001|The pupil could enlighten you after all."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000099_000000|"Most assuredly, friend Major," replied the geographer.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000099_000001|"So that's the way they teach geography in Melbourne!
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000099_000002|They do it well, these professors in the Normal School!
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000099_000003|Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceanica, the whole world belongs to the English.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000100_000000|"She will, some day," replied the young savage, gravely.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000101_000000|This was the climax.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000101_000001|Paganel could not stand any more.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000102_000000|Meanwhile, Glenarvan looked up a geography they had brought among their books.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000103_000000|"Here, my child," he said to Toline, "take this book and keep it.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000103_000001|You have a few wrong ideas about geography, which it would be well for you to rectify.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000103_000002|I will give you this as a keepsake from me."
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000105_000000|By this time night had closed in; it was ten p m and time to think of rest, if they were to start betimes next day.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000105_000001|Robert offered his friend Toline half his bed, and the little fellow accepted it.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000105_000002|Lady Helena and Mary Grant withdrew to the wagon, and the others lay down in the tent, Paganel's merry peals still mingling with the low, sweet song of the wild magpie.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000106_000000|But in the morning at six o'clock, when the sunshine wakened the sleepers, they looked in vain for the little Australian.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000106_000001|Toline had disappeared.
train-other-500/3261/154309/3261_154309_000106_000003|No one could say.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000002_000000|ANOTHER SCENE AT THE BATTLE FRONT
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000004_000000|Whereabouts, you may ask, did this come to pass?
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000004_000002|At any rate this certainly happened somewhere.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000004_000003|I have, moreover, a sad conviction that it happened in France.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000005_000000|I had travelled by motor car since morning, and had passed through more towns, large and small, than I can count.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000005_000002|Some fifty German prisoners were brought in.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000005_000003|They were unshaven, unshorn, and highly unprepossessing.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000005_000004|I will not flatter them by saying that they looked like savages, for true savages in the bush are seldom lacking either in distinction or grace of bearing.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000005_000005|Such air as these Germans had was a blackguard air of doltish ugliness-dull, gross, incurable.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000006_000000|A pretty girl of somewhat doubtful character, with feathers in her hat, who had taken up a position there to watch them go past, stared at them with ill concealed resentment.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000007_000001|God's truth!" and she clinched her unfinished phrase by spitting on the ground.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000008_000001|It was cold, with that bitter, penetrating chill which we hardly know in my home in south-west France, and which seemed characteristic of northern lands.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000009_000000|From time to time a village through which the barbarians had passed displayed to us its ruins, charred and blackened by fire.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000009_000001|Here and there by the wayside lay little grave mounds, either singly or grouped together-mounds lately dug; a few leaves had been scattered above them and a cross made of two sticks.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000009_000002|Soldiers, their names now for ever forgotten, had fallen there exhausted and had breathed their last with none to help them.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000010_000000|We scarcely noticed them, for we raced along with ever increasing speed, because the night of late October was already closing rapidly in upon us.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000010_000001|As the day advanced a mist almost wintry in character thickened around us like a shroud.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000010_000002|Silence pervaded with still deeper melancholy all that countryside, which, although the barbarians had been expelled from it, still had memories of all those butcheries, ravings, outcries, and conflagrations.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000012_000000|"Were they friends of yours, my child, those two who are sleeping there?"
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000013_000000|"Oh no, sir, but I know that they were Frenchmen; I saw them being buried.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000013_000001|They were young, sir, and their moustaches were scarcely grown."
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000014_000001|Who were they?
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000014_000002|Sons of peasants, of simple citizens, of aristocrats?
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000014_000003|Who weeps for them?
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000014_000004|Is it a mother in skilfully fashioned draperies of crape?
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000014_000005|Is it a mother in the homely weeds of a peasant woman?
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000015_000000|Farther on I came to a village, the headquarters of a general officer in command of an army corps.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000015_000001|Here an officer joined me in my motor car, who undertook to guide me to one particular point of the vast battle front.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000016_000000|We drove on rapidly for another hour through a country without inhabitants.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000016_000002|Townspeople, men and women, sat there once, where now sides of beef, all red and raw, swing suspended from hooks.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000016_000003|If we did not know that in those fields yonder there were hundreds of thousands of men to be fed we might well ask why such things were being carted in the midst of this deserted country through which we are hastening at top speed.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000017_000000|The day is waning rapidly, and a continuous rumbling of a storm begins to make itself heard, unchained seemingly on a level with the earth.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000017_000001|For weeks now this same storm has thundered away without pause along a sinuous line stretching across France from east to west, a line on which daily, alas! new heaps of dead are piled up.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000018_000000|"Here we are," said my guide.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000019_000000|If I were not already familiar with the new characteristics wherewith the Germans have endued a battle front, I should believe, in spite of the incessant cannonade, that he had made a mistake, for at first sight there is no sign either of army or of soldiers.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000019_000002|There is no trace of human existence, not even the ruins of a village; nothing characteristic of any period, either of historical or even of geological development.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000019_000003|Gazing into the distance at the far flung forest skyline fading on all sides into the darkening mists of twilight, we might well believe ourselves to have reverted to a prehistoric epoch of the world's history.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000020_000000|"Here we are."
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000021_000000|That means that it is time to hide our motor car under some trees or it will attract a rain of shells and endanger the lives of our chauffeurs, for in that misty forest opposite there are many wicked eyes watching us through wonderful binoculars, by whose aid they are as keen of sight as great birds of prey.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000021_000001|To reach the firing line, then, it is incumbent on us to proceed on foot.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000022_000000|How strange the ground looks!
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000022_000001|It is riddled with shell holes, resembling enormous craters; in another place it is scarred and pierced and sown with pointed bullets, copper cartridge cases, fragments of spiked helmets, and barbarian filth of other sorts.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000022_000002|But in spite of its deserted appearance, this region is nevertheless thickly populated, only the inhabitants are no doubt troglodytes, for their dwellings, scattered about and invisible at first sight, are a kind of cave or molehill, half covered with branches and leaves.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000023_000000|Of a truth, to force upon us such a reversion was a right Prussian artifice.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000023_000001|War, which was once a gallant affair of parades in the sunshine, of beautiful uniforms and of music, war they have rendered a mean and ugly thing.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000023_000002|They wage it like burrowing beasts, and obviously there was nothing left for us but to imitate them.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000024_000000|In the meantime here and there heads look out from the excavations to see who is coming.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000024_000002|A sergeant comes up to us; he is as earthy as a mole that has not had time to clean itself, but he has a merry look of youth and gaiety.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000025_000000|"Take two or three men with you," I say to him, "and go and unpack my motor car, down there behind the trees.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000025_000001|You will find a thousand packets of cigarettes and some picture papers which some people in Paris have sent you to help to pass the time in the trenches."
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000026_000000|What a pity that I cannot take back and show, as a thanksgiving to the kind donors, the smiles of satisfaction with which their gifts were welcomed.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000027_000000|Another mile or two have still to be covered on foot before we reach the firing line.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000027_000002|This plain with its miserable molehills is a dismal place in the twilight, and I marvel that they can be so gay, these dear soldiers of ours, in the midst of the desolation surrounding them.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000028_000001|Our soldiers are working like navvies with shovels and picks in their hands. They are all resolute and happy, anxious to finish their work, and it will be formidable indeed, surrounded as it is with most deadly ambushes.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000029_000000|A mile farther on is the first line.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000029_000002|Then heads, rash enough to show themselves above the parapet, will be shot away, breasts shattered, entrails torn.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000029_000003|They know, too, that they must be prepared to encounter at any unforeseen hour, in the pale sunlight or in the blackness of midnight, onslaughts of those barbarians with whom the forest opposite still swarms.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000029_000004|They know how they will come on at a run, with shouts intended to terrify them, linked arm in arm into one infuriated mass, and how they will find means, as ever, to do much harm before death overtakes them entangled in our barbed wire.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000029_000005|All this they know, for they have already seen it, but nevertheless they smile a serious, dignified smile.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000029_000006|They have been nearly a week in this trench, waiting to be relieved, and they make no complaints.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000030_000000|"We are well fed," they say, "we eat when we are hungry.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000030_000001|As long as it does not rain we keep ourselves warm at night in our fox holes with good thick blankets.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000030_000002|But not all of us yet have woollen underclothing for the winter, and we shall need it soon.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000030_000003|When you go back to Paris, Colonel, perhaps you will be so kind as to bring this to the notice of Government and of all the ladies too, who are working for us."
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000032_000002|Yet they have become not only good soldiers, but good men, for this war, while it has drawn us closer together, has at the same time purified us and ennobled us.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000032_000003|This benefit at least the Germans will, involuntarily, have bestowed upon us, and indeed it is worth the trouble.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000032_000004|Moreover our soldiers all know to day why they are fighting, and therein lies their supreme strength.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000032_000005|Their indignation will inspire them till their latest breath.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000033_000000|"When you have seen," said two young Breton peasants to me, "when you have seen with your own eyes what these brutes do in the villages they pass through, it is natural, is it not, to give your life to try to prevent them from doing as much in your own home?"
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000034_000000|The cannonade roared an accompaniment in its deep, unceasing bass to this ingenuous statement.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000035_000000|Now this is the spirit that prevails inexhaustibly from one end of the fighting line to the other.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000035_000001|Everywhere there is the same determination and courage.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000035_000002|Whether here or there, a talk with any of these soldiers is equally reassuring, and calls forth the same admiration.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000036_000000|But it is strange to reflect that in this twentieth century of ours, in order to protect ourselves from barbarism and horror, we have had to establish trenches such as these, in double and treble lines, crossing our dear country from east to west along an unbroken front of hundreds of miles, like a kind of Great Wall of China.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000037_000000|The twilight this evening, under the sullen sky, lingers sadly, and will not come to an end.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000037_000001|It appeared to me to begin two hours ago, and yet it is still light enough to see.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000037_000002|Before us, distinguishable as yet to sight or imagination, lie two sections of a forest, unfolding itself beyond range of vision, the contours of its more distant section almost lost in darkness.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000038_000001|If you have time to stay a short while you will see how quickly they fire and almost without aiming."
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000039_000000|As for time, well, I have really hardly any to spare, and, besides, I have had other opportunities of observing how quickly they fire "almost without aiming." Sometimes it might be mistaken for a display of fireworks, and it is to be supposed that they have more projectiles than they know what to do with.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000039_000001|Nevertheless I shall be delighted to stay a few minutes longer and to witness the performance again in their company.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000040_000001|This is a change for us from the muffled voice of the cannonade we heard just before; it is now beginning to come in our direction.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000040_000002|But it is much too high and much too far to the left-so much too far to the left that they surely cannot be aiming at us; they cannot be quite so stupid. Nevertheless we stop talking and listen with our ears pricked-a dozen shells, and then no more.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000041_000000|"They have finished," the men tell me then; "their hour is over now, and it was for our comrades down there.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000042_000000|It is dark and I ought to be far away.
train-other-500/3268/59224/3268_59224_000042_000001|Moreover, they are all going to sleep, for obviously they cannot risk showing a light; cigarettes are the limit of indulgence.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000001_000000|THE PHANTOM BASILICA
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000005_000000|At last, far away in the fog, uplifting all its great height above a sprinkling of reddish squares, doubtless the roofs of houses, we saw the form of a mighty church.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000005_000001|This was evidently the basilica.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000007_000000|In the great city where I am a stranger, I have to ask my way to the cathedral, for it is no longer in sight.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000009_000000|And my motor car plunges into the crowded streets.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000009_000001|There are many soldiers, regiments on the march, motor ambulances in single file, but there are many ordinary footfarers, too, unconcerned as if nothing were happening, and there are even many well dressed women, with prayer books in their hands, in honour of Sunday.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000010_000000|At a street crossing there is a gathering of people in front of a house whose walls bear signs of recent damage, the reason being that a shell has just fallen there.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000010_000001|It is just one of their little brutal jests, so to speak; we understand the situation, look you; it is a simple pastime, just a matter of killing a few persons, on a Sunday morning for choice, because there are more people in the streets on Sunday mornings.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000010_000002|But it seems, indeed, as if this town had reconciled itself to its lot, to live its life watched by the remorseless binoculars, under the fire of savages lurking on the neighbouring hillside.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000010_000003|The wayfarers stop for a moment to look at the walls and the marks made by the shell bursts, and then they quietly continue their Sunday walk.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000010_000004|This time, we are told, it is women and little girls who lie weltering in their blood, victims of that amiable peasantry.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000010_000005|We hear about it, and then think no more of the matter, as if it were of the smallest importance in times such as these.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000011_000000|This quarter of the town is now deserted.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000011_000002|And at the far end of a street appear the tall grey gates, the lofty pointed arches with their marvellous carvings and the soaring towers.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000012_000000|The basilica of Rheims still keeps its place as if by miracle, but so riddled and rent it is, that it seems ready to collapse at the slightest shock.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000012_000001|It gives the impression of a huge mummy, still erect and majestic, but which the least touch would turn into ashes.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000012_000002|The ground is strewn with its precious fragments.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000012_000004|The calcined stone work of the tower on the left, from top to bottom, has assumed a strange colour like that of baked flesh, and the saints, still standing upright in rank on the cornices, have been decorticated, as it were, by fire.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000012_000005|They have no longer either faces or fingers, yet, still retaining their human form, they resemble corpses ranged in rows, their contours but faintly defined under a kind of reddish shroud.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000015_000001|Oh, how gross, how cowardly, how imbecile was the brutality of those who fired those volleys of scrap iron with full force against tracery of such delicacy, that had stayed aloft in the air for centuries in confidence, no battles, no invasions, no tempests ever daring to assail its beauty.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000016_000000|That great, closed house yonder in the square must be the archbishop's palace.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000016_000001|I venture to ring at the door and request the privilege of entering the church.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000017_000000|"His Eminence," I am told, "is at Mass, but would soon return, if I would wait."
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000018_000000|And while I am waiting, the priest, who acts as my host, tells me the history of the burning of the episcopal palace.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000019_000000|"First of all they sprinkled the roofs with I know not what diabolical preparation; then, when they threw their incendiary bombs, the woodwork burnt like straw, and everywhere you saw jets of green flame which burned with a noise like that of fireworks."
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000020_000000|Indeed the barbarians had long prepared with studied foresight this deed of sacrilege, in spite of their idiotically absurd pretexts and their shameless denials.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000020_000001|That which they had desired to destroy here was the very heart of ancient France, impelled as much by some superstitious fancy as by their own brutal instincts, and upon this task they bent their whole energy, while in the rest of the town nothing else, or almost nothing, suffered damage.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000022_000001|It is the cathedral, always the cathedral, that they watch through their field glasses, and as soon as a single person appears in the bell turret of a tower the rain of shells begins again.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000022_000002|No, there is nothing to be done.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000022_000003|It must be left to the grace of God."
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000023_000000|On his return, His Eminence graciously provides me with a guide, who has the keys of the hoarding, and at last I penetrate into the ruins of the basilica, into the nave, which, being stripped bare, appears the loftier and vaster for it.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000024_000001|It is perhaps this unexpected chill, a chill far more piercing than that of the world without, which at first grips you and disconcerts you.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000024_000003|The sight is led up towards them, as it were, by all those columns that jut out, shooting aloft in sheaves, for their support.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000024_000006|These vast ceilings of stone are so airy in appearance, and moreover so distant, that they do not oppress or confine the spirit.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000024_000007|Indeed they seem freed from all heaviness, almost insubstantial.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000025_000000|Moreover, it is wiser to move on under that roof with head turned upward and not to watch too closely where the feet may fall, for that pavement, reverberating rather sadly, has been sullied and blackened by charred human flesh.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000025_000001|It is known that on the day of the conflagration the church was full of wounded Germans lying on straw mattresses, which caught fire, and a scene of horror ensued, worthy of a vision of Dante; all these beings, their green wounds scorched by the flames, dragged themselves along screaming, on red stumps, trying to win through doors too narrow.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000025_000002|Renowned, too, is the heroism of those stretcher bearers, priests and nuns, who risked their lives in the midst of falling bombs in their attempt to save these unhappy wretches, whom their own German brothers had not even thought to spare.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000025_000003|Yet they did not succeed in saving all; some remained and were burnt to death in the nave, leaving unseemly clots of blood on the sacred flagstones, where formerly processions of kings and queens had slowly trailed their ermine mantles to the sound of great organs and plain song.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000027_000000|And he leads me into the choir where the statue of Joan of Arc, preserved it may be said by some special Providence, still stands unharmed, with its eyes of gentle ecstasy.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000028_000000|The most irreparable disaster is the ruin of those great glass windows, which the mysterious artists of the thirteenth century had piously wrought in meditation and dreams, assembling together in hundreds, saints, male and female, with translucent draperies and luminous aureoles.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000028_000001|There again German scrap iron has crashed through in great senseless volleys, shattering everything.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000029_000001|The cold wind alone makes a kind of music this Sunday morning, and at times when it blows harder there is a tinkling like the fall of very light pearls.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000029_000002|It is the falling of the little that still remained in place of the beautiful glass windows of the thirteenth century, crumbling away entirely, beyond recovery.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000030_000000|A whole splendid cycle of our history which seemed to live in the sanctuary, with a life almost tangible, though essentially spiritual, has suddenly been plunged into the abyss of things gone by, of which even the memory will soon pass away.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000030_000001|The great barbarism has swept through this place, the modern barbarism from beyond the Rhine, a thousand times worse than the barbarism of old times, because it is doltishly, outrageously self satisfied, and consequently fundamental, incurable, and final-destined, if it be not crushed, to overwhelm the world in a sinister night of eclipse.
train-other-500/3268/59225/3268_59225_000031_000000|In truth it is strange how that statue of Joan of Arc in the choir has remained standing calm, intact, immaculate, without even the smallest scratch upon her gown.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000001_000000|seven
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000002_000000|THE FLAG WHICH OUR NAVAL BRIGADE DO NOT YET POSSESS
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000004_000000|At first they were sent to Paris, those dear sailors of ours, so that the duty of policing the city, of maintaining order, enforcing silence and good behaviour might be entrusted to them-and I could not help smiling; it seemed so incongruous, this entirely new part which someone had thought fit to make them play.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000004_000001|For truth to tell, between ourselves, correct behaviour in the streets of towns has never been the especial boast of our excellent young friends.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000004_000003|That was already a little better, a little more after their own hearts.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000004_000004|At last came a day of rejoicing and glorious intoxication, when they were told that they were all going into the firing line.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000006_000000|Yes, they would have been well pleased, our Naval Brigade, to have had a flag wherewith to march into the firing line, but their officers said to them:
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000007_000000|"You will certainly be given one in the end, as soon as you have won it yonder."
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000008_000000|And they went away singing, all with the same ardour of heroes; all, I say, not only those who still uphold the admirable traditions of our Navy of old, but even the new recruits, who were already a little corrupted-no more than superficially, however-by disgusting, anti military claptrap, but who had suddenly recovered their senses and were exalted at the sound of the German guns.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000008_000001|All were united, resolute, disciplined, sobered, and dreaming of having a flag on their return.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000010_000000|They had been told:
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000011_000000|"The part assigned to you is one of danger and gravity; we have need of your courage.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000011_000001|In order to save the whole of our left wing you must sacrifice yourselves until reinforcements arrive.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000012_000000|And they held out twenty six mortal days.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000012_000001|They held out almost alone, for reinforcements, owing to unforeseen difficulties, were insufficient and long in coming.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000013_000000|They had the bare necessities of life and hardly those.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000013_000002|Most of them wore nothing over their chests except the regulation jumper of cotton, striped with blue, and light trousers, with nothing underneath, on their legs, and over all that, it is true, infantry great coats to which they were unaccustomed and which hampered their movements.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000013_000004|In the same circumstances ordinary troops, even though their peers in courage, could never have been equal to the occasion.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000013_000005|But they had that faculty of fighting through, common to seafaring men, which is acquired in the course of arduous voyages, in the colonies, among the islands, and thanks to which a true sailor can face any emergency-a special way with them, after all so natural and moreover so merry withal, so tempered with ingratiating tact that it offends nobody.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000014_000000|Well, then, they had fought through; for after those three or four epic weeks, in which day and night they had battled like devils, in fire and water, the survivors were found well nourished, almost, and with hardly a cold among them.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000015_000000|The only reproach, which I heard addressed to them by their officers, who had the honour to command them in the midst of the furnace, was that they could not reconcile themselves to the practice of crawling. Crawling is a mode of progression introduced into modern warfare by German cunning, and it is well known that our soldiers have to be prepared for it by a long course of training.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000015_000001|Now there had not been time to accustom these men to the practice, and when it came to an attack they set out indeed as ordered, dragging themselves along on all fours, but, promptly carried away by their zeal, they stood up to get into their stride, and too many of them were mown down by shrapnel.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000016_000000|One of them told me yesterday, in the words I now quote, how his company having been ordered to transfer themselves to another part of the battle front-but without letting themselves be seen, walking along, bent double, at the bottom of a long interminable trench-were really unable to obey the order literally.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000017_000000|"The trench was already half full of our poor dead comrades.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000017_000001|And you will understand, sir, that in places where there were too many of them, it would have hurt us to walk on them; we could not do it.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000017_000003|But," he continued, "except for trifling acts of disobedience such as that, I assure you, sir, that we behaved very well.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000017_000005|Well, when they came sometimes to chat with our officers, we used to hear them say, 'Our soldiers they were brave fellows enough, to be sure!
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000017_000006|But to see your sailors fighting is an absolute eye opener all the same.'"
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000018_000002|And often at night, when already men could no longer tell where to strike home, there were bewildering acts of treachery committed by Germans, who would suddenly begin to shout in French:
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000019_000000|"Cease fire, you fools!
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000019_000001|It is our men who are there and you are firing on your own comrades."
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000020_000000|And men lost their heads entirely, as in a nightmare, from which they could neither rouse themselves nor escape.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000021_000000|At last came the day when the town was taken.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000021_000001|The Germans suddenly brought up terrific reinforcements of heavy artillery, and heavy shells fell all round like hail-those enormous shells, the devil's own, which make holes six to eight yards wide by four yards deep.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000021_000002|They came at the rate of fifty or sixty a minute, and in the craters they made there was at once a jumbled mass of masonry, furniture, carpets, corpses, a chaos of nameless horror.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000021_000003|To continue there became truly a task beyond human endurance; it would have meant a massacre to the very last man, moreover without serving any useful purpose, for the abandonment of that mass of ruins, of that charnel house, which was all that remained of the poor little Flemish town, was no longer a matter of importance.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000021_000004|It had resisted just the necessary length of time.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000021_000006|On this side the barbarians' thrust was definitely countered.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000022_000000|Then they said to themselves, those who were left of them:
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000023_000000|"Our flag-we shall get it this time."
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000024_000000|Besides, officers in high command, touched and amazed at so much bravery, had promised it to them, and so had the head of the French Government himself, one day when he came to congratulate them.
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000026_000000|For God's sake give them their flag, our Naval Brigade!
train-other-500/3268/59226/3268_59226_000026_000001|And even before sending it to them it would be well, methinks, to decorate it with the Cross.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000005_000001|In this time forty buildings, counting small and large, have been built, and all except four are almost wholly the product of student labour.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000006_000000|Not a few times, when a new student has been led into the temptation of marring the looks of some building by leadpencil marks or by the cuts of a jack knife, I have heard an old student remind him: "Don't do that. That is our building.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000008_000000|I had always sympathized with the "Children of Israel," in their task of "making bricks without straw," but ours was the task of making bricks with no money and no experience.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000009_000000|In the first place, the work was hard and dirty, and it was difficult to get the students to help.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000009_000001|When it came to brickmaking, their distaste for manual labour in connection with book education became especially manifest.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000000|We tried several locations before we opened up a pit that furnished brick clay.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000002|After a good deal of effort we moulded about twenty five thousand bricks, and put them into a kiln to be burned.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000003|This kiln turned out to be a failure, because it was not properly constructed or properly burned.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000004|We began at once, however, on a second kiln.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000006|Several of the teachers, however, who had been trained in the industries at Hampton, volunteered their services, and in some way we succeeded in getting a third kiln ready for burning.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000007|The burning of a kiln required about a week.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000010_000009|For the third time we had failed.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000013_000002|As the people of the neighbourhood came to us to buy bricks, we got acquainted with them; they traded with us and we with them.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000013_000003|Our business interests became intermingled.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000013_000004|We had something which they wanted; they had something which we wanted.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000013_000005|This, in a large measure, helped to lay the foundation for the pleasant relations that have continued to exist between us and the white people in that section, and which now extend throughout the South.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000014_000000|Wherever one of our brickmakers has gone in the South, we find that he has something to contribute to the well-being of the community into which he has gone; something that has made the community feel that, in a degree, it is indebted to him, and perhaps, to a certain extent, dependent upon him.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000014_000001|In this way pleasant relations between the races have been simulated.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000015_000000|My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000015_000001|I have found, too, that it is the visible, the tangible, that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000030_000000|Early one morning I was standing near the dining room door listening to the complaints of the students.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000030_000001|The complaints that morning were especially emphatic and numerous, because the whole breakfast had been a failure.
train-other-500/3271/169289/3271_169289_000030_000003|When she reached the well, she found that the rope was broken and that she could get no water.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000001_000000|Man goes to Man!
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000001_000001|Cry the challenge through the Jungle! He that was our Brother goes away. Hear, now, and judge, O ye People of the Jungle,-- Answer, who shall turn him-who shall stay?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000002_000000|Man goes to Man!
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000002_000001|He is weeping in the Jungle: He that was our Brother sorrows sore! Man goes to Man! (Oh, we loved him in the Jungle!) To the Man Trail where we may not follow more.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000003_000000|The second year after the great fight with Red Dog and the death of Akela, Mowgli must have been nearly seventeen years old.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000003_000001|He looked older, for hard exercise, the best of good eating, and baths whenever he felt in the least hot or dusty, had given him strength and growth far beyond his age.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000003_000002|He could swing by one hand from a top branch for half an hour at a time, when he had occasion to look along the tree roads. He could stop a young buck in mid gallop and throw him sideways by the head.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000003_000005|And yet the look in his eyes was always gentle.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000003_000006|Even when he fought, his eyes never blazed as Bagheera's did.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000003_000007|They only grew more and more interested and excited; and that was one of the things that Bagheera himself did not understand.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000004_000001|"When I miss the kill I am angry.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000004_000002|When I must go empty for two days I am very angry.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000004_000003|Do not my eyes talk then?"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000005_000000|"The mouth is hungry," said Bagheera, "but the eyes say nothing. Hunting, eating, or swimming, it is all one-like a stone in wet or dry weather." Mowgli looked at him lazily from under his long eyelashes, and, as usual, the panther's head dropped.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000005_000001|Bagheera knew his master.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000006_000004|It roused Bagheera, for he snuffed the morning air with a deep, hollow cough, threw himself on his back, and struck with his fore paws at the nodding leaf above.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000007_000000|"The year turns," he said.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000007_000001|"The Jungle goes forward.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000007_000002|The Time of New Talk is near.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000007_000003|That leaf knows.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000007_000004|It is very good."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000008_000000|"The grass is dry," Mowgli answered, pulling up a tuft.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000009_000001|He seemed to be thinking of other things.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000010_000000|"I say, IS it well for the Black Panther so to mouth and cough, and howl and roll?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000000|"Indeed, yes; I hear, Man cub." Bagheera rolled over hurriedly and sat up, the dust on his ragged black flanks. (He was just casting his winter coat.) "We be surely the Masters of the Jungle!
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000001|Who is so strong as Mowgli?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000002|Who so wise?" There was a curious drawl in the voice that made Mowgli turn to see whether by any chance the Black Panther were making fun of him, for the Jungle is full of words that sound like one thing, but mean another.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000003|"I said we be beyond question the Masters of the Jungle," Bagheera repeated.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000004|"Have I done wrong?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000005|I did not know that the Man cub no longer lay upon the ground.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000011_000006|Does he fly, then?"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000012_000000|Mowgli sat with his elbows on his knees, looking out across the valley at the daylight.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000013_000000|"I said the Time of New Talk is near," growled the panther, switching his tail.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000014_000000|"I hear," Mowgli answered.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000014_000001|"Bagheera, why dost thou shake all over?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000015_000001|"HE has not forgotten.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000015_000002|Now I, too, must remember my song," and he began purring and crooning to himself, harking back dissatisfied again and again.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000016_000000|"There is no game afoot," said Mowgli.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000017_000000|"Little Brother, are BOTH thine ears stopped?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000017_000001|That is no killing word, but my song that I make ready against the need."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000018_000000|"I had forgotten.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000019_000000|"But, indeed, Little Brother," Bagheera began, "we do not always----"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000020_000000|"I say ye do," said Mowgli, shooting out his forefinger angrily.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000020_000002|I sent a runner-I sent thee!--to Hathi, bidding him to come upon such a night and pluck the sweet grass for me with his trunk."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000021_000001|That was no fault of mine."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000022_000000|"He did not come upon the night when I sent him the word.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000022_000001|No, he was trumpeting and running and roaring through the valleys in the moonlight. His trail was like the trail of three elephants, for he would not hide among the trees.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000022_000002|He danced in the moonlight before the houses of the Man Pack.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000023_000000|"It was the Time of New Talk," said the panther, always very humble. "Perhaps, Little Brother, thou didst not that time call him by a Master word?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000023_000001|Listen to Ferao, and be glad!"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000024_000000|Mowgli's bad temper seemed to have boiled itself away.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000024_000001|He lay back with his head on his arms, his eyes shut.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000024_000002|"I do not know-nor do I care," he said sleepily.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000024_000003|"Let us sleep, Bagheera.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000024_000004|My stomach is heavy in me.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000024_000005|Make me a rest for my head."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000026_000000|In an Indian Jungle the seasons slide one into the other almost without division.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000026_000001|There seem to be only two-the wet and the dry; but if you look closely below the torrents of rain and the clouds of char and dust you will find all four going round in their regular ring.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000026_000002|Spring is the most wonderful, because she has not to cover a clean, bare field with new leaves and flowers, but to drive before her and to put away the hanging on, over surviving raffle of half green things which the gentle winter has suffered to live, and to make the partly dressed stale earth feel new and young once more.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000026_000003|And this she does so well that there is no spring in the world like the Jungle spring.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000027_000000|There is one day when all things are tired, and the very smells, as they drift on the heavy air, are old and used.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000027_000002|Then there is another day-to the eye nothing whatever has changed-when all the smells are new and delightful, and the whiskers of the Jungle People quiver to their roots, and the winter hair comes away from their sides in long, draggled locks.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000028_000003|The Four did not follow him on these wild ringings of the Jungle, but went off to sing songs with other wolves.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000028_000004|The Jungle People are very busy in the spring, and Mowgli could hear them grunting and screaming and whistling according to their kind.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000028_000005|Their voices then are different from their voices at other times of the year, and that is one of the reasons why spring in the Jungle is called the Time of New Talk.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000029_000000|But that spring, as he told Bagheera, his stomach was changed in him. Ever since the bamboo shoots turned spotty brown he had been looking forward to the morning when the smells should change.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000029_000002|Mor cried the new smells, the other birds took it over, and from the rocks by the Waingunga he heard Bagheera's hoarse scream-something between the scream of an eagle and the neighing of a horse.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000029_000003|There was a yelling and scattering of Bandar log in the new budding branches above, and there stood Mowgli, his chest, filled to answer Mor, sinking in little gasps as the breath was driven out of it by this unhappiness.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000031_000000|"The smells have changed," screamed Mor.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000031_000001|"Good hunting, Little Brother! Where is thy answer?"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000032_000000|"Little Brother, good hunting!" whistled Chil the Kite and his mate, swooping down together.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000032_000001|The two baffed under Mowgli's nose so close that a pinch of downy white feathers brushed away.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000033_000001|The spring hum broke out for a minute, and was silent, but all the Jungle Folk seemed to be giving tongue at once.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000033_000002|All except Mowgli.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000034_000000|"I have eaten good food," he said to himself.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000034_000001|"I have drunk good water.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000034_000002|Nor does my throat burn and grow small, as it did when I bit the blue spotted root that Oo the Turtle said was clean food.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000034_000007|I have hunted too easily too long.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000034_000008|The Four shall come with me, for they grow as fat as white grubs."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000035_000003|At this he shook all over with rage, and half drew his knife. Then he became very haughty, though there was no one to see him, and stalked severely down the hillside, chin up and eyebrows down.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000035_000004|But never a single one of his people asked him a question, for they were all too busy with their own affairs.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000036_000000|"Yes," said Mowgli to himself, though in his heart he knew that he had no reason.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000036_000001|"Let the Red Dhole come from the Dekkan, or the Red Flower dance among the bamboos, and all the Jungle runs whining to Mowgli, calling him great elephant names.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000036_000003|By the Bull that bought me! am I the Master of the Jungle, or am I not?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000036_000004|Be silent!
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000036_000005|What do ye here?"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000037_000000|A couple of young wolves of the Pack were cantering down a path, looking for open ground in which to fight. (You will remember that the Law of the Jungle forbids fighting where the Pack can see.) Their neck bristles were as stiff as wire, and they bayed furiously, crouching for the first grapple.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000037_000001|Mowgli leaped forward, caught one outstretched throat in either hand, expecting to fling the creatures backward as he had often done in games or Pack hunts.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000037_000003|The two leaped forward and dashed him aside, and without word to waste rolled over and over close locked.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000038_000000|Mowgli was on his feet almost before he fell, his knife and his white teeth were bared, and at that minute he would have killed both for no reason but that they were fighting when he wished them to be quiet, although every wolf has full right under the Law to fight.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000039_000001|"Since I broke up the Council with the Red Flower-since I killed Shere Khan-none of the Pack could fling me aside.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000039_000003|My strength is gone from me, and presently I shall die.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000039_000004|Oh, Mowgli, why dost thou not kill them both?"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000041_000000|He killed early that evening and ate but little, so as to be in good fettle for his spring running, and he ate alone because all the Jungle People were away singing or fighting.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000041_000001|It was a perfect white night, as they call it.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000041_000002|All green things seemed to have made a month's growth since the morning.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000041_000003|The branch that was yellow leaved the day before dripped sap when Mowgli broke it.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000042_000000|So he ran, sometimes shouting, sometimes singing to himself, the happiest thing in all the Jungle that night, till the smell of the flowers warned him that he was near the marshes, and those lay far beyond his farthest hunting grounds.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000043_000001|He ran out to the middle of the swamp, disturbing the duck as he ran, and sat down on a moss coated tree trunk lapped in the black water.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000043_000002|The marsh was awake all round him, for in the spring the Bird People sleep very lightly, and companies of them were coming or going the night through.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000043_000003|But no one took any notice of Mowgli sitting among the tall reeds humming songs without words, and looking at the soles of his hard brown feet in case of neglected thorns.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000044_000000|This time Mowgli was frightened.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000044_000001|"It is here also!" he said half aloud. "It has followed me," and he looked over his shoulder to see whether the It were not standing behind him.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000044_000002|"There is no one here." The night noises of the marsh went on, but never a bird or beast spoke to him, and the new feeling of misery grew.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000000|"I have surely eaten poison," he said in an awe stricken voice.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000001|"It must be that carelessly I have eaten poison, and my strength is going from me.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000004|That is true sign I have eaten poison....
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000005|But what do they care in the Jungle?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000006|They sing and howl and fight, and run in companies under the moon, and I-Hai mai!--I am dying in the marshes, of that poison which I have eaten." He was so sorry for himself that he nearly wept.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000007|"And after," he went on, "they will find me lying in the black water.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000045_000008|Nay, I will go back to my own Jungle, and I will die upon the Council Rock, and Bagheera, whom I love, if he is not screaming in the valley-Bagheera, perhaps, may watch by what is left for a little, lest Chil use me as he used Akela."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000046_000000|A large, warm tear splashed down on his knee, and, miserable as he was, Mowgli felt happy that he was so miserable, if you can understand that upside-down sort of happiness.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000046_000001|"As Chil the Kite used Akela," he repeated, "on the night I saved the Pack from Red Dog." He was quiet for a little, thinking of the last words of the Lone Wolf, which you, of course, remember.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000046_000002|"Now Akela said to me many foolish things before he died, for when we die our stomachs change.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000046_000003|He said...
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000047_000000|In his excitement, as he remembered the fight on Waingunga bank, he shouted the last words aloud, and a wild buffalo cow among the reeds sprang to her knees, snorting, "Man!"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000048_000001|It is only the hairless wolf of the Seeonee Pack.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000048_000002|On such nights runs he to and fro."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000051_000000|"Oh, Mowgli, is it danger?" the boy called back mockingly.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000052_000000|"How loud he cries!" said the cow.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000052_000001|"Thus do they cry," Mysa answered contemptuously, "who, having torn up the grass, know not how to eat it."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000053_000002|"I will not die HERE," he said angrily.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000053_000004|Let us go beyond the swamp and see what comes.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000053_000005|Never have I run such a spring running-hot and cold together. Up, Mowgli!"
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000054_000000|He could not resist the temptation of stealing across the reeds to Mysa and pricking him with the point of his knife.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000055_000000|"Say now that the hairless wolf of the Seeonee Pack once herded thee, Mysa," he called.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000056_000000|"Wolf!
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000056_000004|What hunter would have crawled like a snake among the leeches, and for a muddy jest-a jackal's jest-have shamed me before my cow?
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000057_000000|Mowgli watched him puff and blow with eyes that never changed.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000057_000002|This is new Jungle to me."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000058_000001|"It was a naked cow herd's jest.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000058_000002|Go and tell them at the village at the foot of the marsh."
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000059_000000|"The Man Pack do not love jungle tales, nor do I think, Mysa, that a scratch more or less on thy hide is any matter for a council.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000059_000002|Yes, I will go.
train-other-500/3272/167426/3272_167426_000059_000003|Softly now.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000001_000000|thirty.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000001_000001|Skirmishing.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000002_000001|Raoul had desired to be awakened should Grimaud arrive, but Grimaud did not arrive.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000002_000002|Doubtless, too, the horses on their part appreciated the eight hours of repose and the abundant stabling which was granted them.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000002_000003|The Count de Guiche was awakened at five o'clock in the morning by Raoul, who came to wish him good day.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000002_000004|They breakfasted in haste, and at six o'clock had already gone ten miles.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000003_000000|The young count's conversation was most interesting to Raoul, therefore he listened much, whilst the count talked well and long.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000003_000001|Brought up in Paris, where Raoul had been but once; at the court, which Raoul had never seen; his follies as page; two duels, which he had already found the means of fighting, in spite of the edicts against them and, more especially, in spite of his tutor's vigilance-these things excited the greatest curiosity in Raoul.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000003_000004|He criticised everybody humorously.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000003_000006|His praises increased Raoul's friendship twofold.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000003_000007|Then came the question of gallantry and love affairs.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000003_000009|He listened attentively and fancied that he discovered through three or four rather frivolous adventures, that the count, like himself, had a secret to hide in the depths of his heart.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000004_000000|De Guiche, as we have said before, had been educated at the court, and the intrigues of this court were not unknown to him.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000004_000002|The young count, witty and caustic, passed all the world in review; the queen herself was not spared, and Cardinal Mazarin came in for his share of ridicule.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000005_000000|The day passed away as rapidly as an hour.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000006_000000|The horses, which were more kindly used than on the previous day, stopped at Arras at four o'clock in the evening.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000006_000001|They were approaching the scene of war; and as bands of Spaniards sometimes took advantage of the night to make expeditions even as far as the neighborhood of Arras, they determined to remain in the town until the morrow.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000007_000000|The enemy's army extended from Cassel to Courtray; and as there was no species of violence or pillage it did not commit, the poor people on the frontier quitted their isolated dwellings and fled for refuge into the strong cities which held out a shelter to them.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000007_000001|Arras was encumbered with fugitives.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000009_000000|But as there was nothing positively certain in this report, the young warriors decided to continue their way toward Bethune, free on the road to diverge to the right and march to Carvin if necessary.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000010_000002|About seven o'clock in the morning they set out.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000010_000003|De Guiche, who was young and impulsive, said to Raoul, "Here we are, three masters and three servants.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000012_000000|"Yes, yes," resumed De Guiche; "I am sure he can fire a musket when required.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000012_000001|On my side I have two sure men, who have been in action with my father.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000012_000002|We therefore represent six fighting men; if we should meet a little troop of enemies, equal or even superior in number to our own, shall we charge them, Raoul?"
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000014_000002|You seem to forget the orders I received to conduct you safe and sound to his highness the prince!
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000015_000002|Therefore, leaving directions at every place for Grimaud, they took a crossroad which conducted the little troop by the bank of a small stream flowing into the Lys.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000015_000003|The country was beautiful, intersected by valleys as green as the emerald.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000015_000004|Here and there they passed little copses crossing the path which they were following.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000015_000006|Himself and the two young men represented the body of the army, whilst Olivain, with his rifle upon his knee and his eyes upon the watch, protected the rear.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000016_000001|The servants had just disappeared under the trees, followed by the tutor, and the young men were laughing and talking about a hundred yards off.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000016_000002|Olivain was at the same distance in the rear, when suddenly there resounded five or six musket shots.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000017_000000|The young men, impatient to learn the cause of the firing, spurred on toward the servants.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000017_000001|The tutor followed them.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000018_000000|"Were you stopped?" eagerly inquired the two youths.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000019_000000|"No," replied the servants, "it is even probable that we have not been seen; the shots were fired about a hundred paces in advance of us, in the thickest part of the wood, and we returned to ask your advice."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000020_000000|"My advice is this," said Monsieur d'Arminges, "and if needs be, my will, that we beat a retreat.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000020_000001|There may be an ambuscade concealed in this wood."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000021_000000|"Did you see nothing there?" asked the count.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000022_000000|"I thought I saw," said one of the servants, "horsemen dressed in yellow, creeping along the bed of the stream.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000023_000001|"We have fallen in with a party of Spaniards.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000023_000002|Come back, sirs, back."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000024_000002|Whilst they spurred their steeds they held their pistols ready also.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000024_000003|In five minutes they arrived at the spot whence the noise had proceeded, and then restraining their horses, they advanced cautiously.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000025_000000|"Hush," whispered De Guiche, "these are cavaliers."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000026_000000|"Yes, three on horseback and three who have dismounted."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000027_000000|"Can you see what they are doing?"
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000028_000000|"Yes, they appear to be searching a wounded or dead man."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000029_000000|"It is some cowardly assassination," said De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000031_000000|"Yes, skirmishers; that is to say, highway robbers."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000032_000000|"At them!" cried Raoul.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000032_000001|"At them!" echoed De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000033_000000|"Oh! gentlemen!
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000033_000001|gentlemen! in the name of Heaven!" cried the poor tutor.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000034_000000|But he was not listened to, and his cries only served to arouse the attention of the Spaniards.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000035_000000|The men on horseback at once rushed at the two youths, leaving the three others to complete the plunder of the dead or wounded travelers; for on approaching nearer, instead of one extended figure, the young men discovered two.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000035_000001|De Guiche fired the first shot at ten paces and missed his man; and the Spaniard, who had advanced to meet Raoul, aimed in his turn, and Raoul felt a pain in the left arm, similar to that of a blow from a whip.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000035_000002|He let off his fire at but four paces.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000035_000003|Struck in the breast and extending his arms, the Spaniard fell back on the crupper, and the terrified horse, turning around, carried him off.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000036_000000|Raoul at this moment perceived the muzzle of a gun pointed at him, and remembering the recommendation of Athos, he, with the rapidity of lightning, made his horse rear as the shot was fired.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000036_000001|His horse bounded to one side, losing its footing, and fell, entangling Raoul's leg under its body.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000036_000002|The Spaniard sprang forward and seized the gun by its muzzle, in order to strike Raoul on the head with the butt.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000036_000003|In the position in which Raoul lay, unfortunately, he could neither draw his sword from the scabbard, nor his pistols from their holsters.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000036_000004|The butt end of the musket hovered over his head, and he could scarcely restrain himself from closing his eyes, when with one bound Guiche reached the Spaniard and placed a pistol at his throat.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000036_000005|"Yield!" he cried, "or you are a dead man!" The musket fell from the soldier's hands, who yielded on the instant.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000037_000000|"Faith, sir," said Raoul, smiling, although his pallor betrayed the excitement consequent on a first affair, "you are in a great hurry to pay your debts and have not been long under any obligation to me. Without your aid," continued he, repeating the count's words "I should have been a dead man-thrice dead."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000038_000000|"My antagonist took flight," replied De Guiche "and left me at liberty to come to your assistance.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000038_000001|But are you seriously wounded?
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000038_000002|I see you are covered with blood!"
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000039_000000|"I believe," said Raoul, "that I have got something like a scratch on the arm.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000040_000000|Monsieur d'Arminges and Olivain had already dismounted and were attempting to raise the struggling horse.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000040_000001|At last Raoul succeeded in drawing his foot from the stirrup and his leg from under the animal, and in a second he was on his feet again.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000041_000000|"Nothing broken?" asked De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000042_000000|"Faith, no, thank Heaven!" replied Raoul; "but what has become of the poor wretches whom these scoundrels were murdering?"
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000043_000000|"I fear we arrived too late.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000043_000001|They have killed them, I think, and taken flight, carrying off their booty.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000043_000002|My servants are examining the bodies."
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000044_000000|"Let us go and see whether they are quite dead, or if they can still be helped," suggested Raoul.
train-other-500/3285/121400/3285_121400_000044_000002|Take for yourself the better of the two and give me yours."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000000_000000|thirty one.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000000_000001|The Monk.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000001_000000|Two men lay prone upon the ground, one bathed in blood and motionless, with his face toward the earth; this one was dead.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000001_000001|The other leaned against a tree, supported there by the two valets, and was praying fervently, with clasped hands and eyes raised to Heaven.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000001_000002|He had received a ball in his thigh, which had broken the bone.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000001_000003|The young men first approached the dead man.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000002_000000|"He is a priest," said Bragelonne, "he has worn the tonsure.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000002_000001|Oh, the scoundrels! to lift their hands against a minister of God."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000004_000000|The wounded man smiled sadly.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000004_000001|"Save me!
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000004_000002|Oh, no!" said he, "but help me to die, if you can."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000006_000000|"No sir."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000007_000000|"I ask, as your unfortunate companion appeared to me to belong to the church."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000009_000000|"And, sir," continued the wounded man, "I suffer much and would like, if possible, to be carried to some house."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000010_000000|"Where you can be relieved?" asked De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000011_000000|"No, where I can confess."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000013_000000|"Sir," replied the wounded man, "believe me, there is no time to lose; the ball has broken the thigh bone and entered the intestines."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000014_000000|"Are you a surgeon?" asked De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000015_000000|"No, but I know a little about wounds, and mine, I know, is mortal.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000015_000001|Try, therefore, either to carry me to some place where I may see a priest or take the trouble to send one to me here.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000015_000002|It is my soul that must be saved; as for my body, it is lost."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000016_000000|"To die whilst doing a good deed!
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000016_000001|It is impossible.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000016_000002|God will help you."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000017_000001|But," he added in a despairing tone, "perhaps no one will dare to come for it is known that the Spaniards are ranging through the country, and I shall die without absolution.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000017_000002|My God! my God! Good God! good God!" added the wounded man, in an accent of terror which made the young men shudder; "you will not allow that?
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000017_000003|that would be too terrible!"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000018_000000|"Calm yourself, sir," replied De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000018_000001|"I swear to you, you shall receive the consolation that you ask.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000018_000002|Only tell us where we shall find a house at which we can demand aid and a village from which we can fetch a priest."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000019_000000|"Thank you, and God reward you!
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000019_000002|There you must find the curate, or if he is not at home, go to the convent of the Augustines, which is the last house on the right, and bring me one of the brothers. Monk or priest, it matters not, provided only that he has received from holy church the power of absolving in articulo mortis."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000020_000000|"Monsieur d'Arminges," said De Guiche, "remain beside this unfortunate man and see that he is removed as gently as possible.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000021_000000|"Go, sir," replied the tutor; "but in Heaven's name do not expose yourself to danger!"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000022_000000|"Do not fear.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000023_000000|"Courage, sir," said Raoul to the wounded man.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000023_000001|"We are going to execute your wishes."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000024_000000|"May Heaven prosper you!" replied the dying man, with an accent of gratitude impossible to describe.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000025_000000|The two young men galloped off in the direction mentioned and in ten minutes reached the inn.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000025_000001|Raoul, without dismounting, called to the host and announced that a wounded man was about to be brought to his house and begged him in the meantime to prepare everything needful.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000027_000001|Chance for once seemed to favor them in sending what they were so assiduously seeking. He was a man about twenty two or twenty three years old, but who appeared much older from ascetic exercises.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000027_000002|His complexion was pale, not of that deadly pallor which is a kind of neutral beauty, but of a bilious, yellow hue; his colorless hair was short and scarcely extended beyond the circle formed by the hat around his head, and his light blue eyes seemed destitute of any expression.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000028_000000|"Sir," began Raoul, with his usual politeness, "are you an ecclesiastic?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000029_000000|"Why do you ask me that?" replied the stranger, with a coolness which was barely civil.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000030_000000|"Because we want to know," said De Guiche, haughtily.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000031_000000|The stranger touched his mule with his heel and continued his way.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000032_000000|In a second De Guiche had sprung before him and barred his passage. "Answer, sir," exclaimed he; "you have been asked politely, and every question is worth an answer."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000033_000000|"I suppose I am free to say or not to say who I am to two strangers who take a fancy to ask me."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000034_000000|It was with difficulty that De Guiche restrained the intense desire he had of breaking the monk's bones.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000035_000001|Nor was it from caprice we asked the question, for there is a wounded and dying man who demands the succor of the church.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000035_000002|If you be a priest, I conjure you in the name of humanity to follow me to aid this man; if you be not, it is a different matter, and I warn you in the name of courtesy, of which you appear profoundly ignorant, that I shall chastise you for your insolence."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000036_000000|The pale face of the monk became so livid and his smile so strange, that Raoul, whose eyes were still fixed upon him, felt as if this smile had struck to his heart like an insult.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000037_000001|A glance, threatening and transient as lightning, replied to Raoul.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000038_000000|"Well, sir," said De Guiche, "are you going to reply?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000039_000000|"I am a priest," said the young man.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000040_000000|"Then, father," said Raoul, forcing himself to convey a respect by speech that did not come from his heart, "if you are a priest you have an opportunity, as my friend has told you, of exercising your vocation. At the next inn you will find a wounded man, now being attended by our servants, who has asked the assistance of a minister of God."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000041_000000|"I will go," said the monk.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000042_000000|And he touched his mule.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000043_000000|"If you do not go, sir," said De Guiche, "remember that we have two steeds able to catch your mule and the power of having you seized wherever you may be; and then I swear your trial will be summary; one can always find a tree and a cord."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000044_000000|The monk's eye again flashed, but that was all; he merely repeated his phrase, "I will go,"--and he went.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000045_000000|"Let us follow him," said De Guiche; "it will be the surest plan."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000046_000000|"I was about to propose so doing," answered De Bragelonne.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000047_000000|In the space of five minutes the monk turned around to ascertain whether he was followed or not.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000048_000000|"You see," said Raoul, "we have done wisely."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000049_000000|"What a horrible face that monk has," said De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000050_000000|"Horrible!" replied Raoul, "especially in expression."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000052_000000|"Well," said Raoul, "the poor man will get his priest, but, by Heaven, the penitent appears to me to have a better conscience than the confessor.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000052_000001|I confess I am accustomed to priests of a very different appearance."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000053_000001|I have seen them before."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000054_000000|"As ugly?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000055_000000|"No, but reasonably hideous."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000056_000000|"What a misfortune for the wounded man to die under the hands of such a friar!"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000057_000001|"Absolution comes not from him who administers it, but from God.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000057_000002|However, for my part, I would rather die unshriven than have anything to say to such a confessor.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000057_000003|You are of my opinion, are you not, viscount? and I see you playing with the pommel of your sword, as if you had a great inclination to break the holy father's head."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000058_000000|"Yes, count, it is a strange thing and one which might astonish you, but I feel an indescribable horror at the sight of yonder man.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000058_000001|Have you ever seen a snake rise up on your path?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000059_000000|"Never," answered De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000061_000000|"Your father?" asked De Guiche.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000062_000000|"No, my guardian," replied Raoul, blushing.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000063_000000|"Very well----"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000064_000000|"Until the moment when the Comte de la Fere," resumed Raoul, "said, 'Come, Bragelonne, draw your sword;' then only I rushed upon the reptile and cut it in two, just at the moment when it was rising on its tail and hissing, ere it sprang upon me.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000064_000001|Well, I vow I felt exactly the same sensation at sight of that man when he said, 'Why do you ask me that?' and looked so strangely at me."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000065_000000|"Then you regret that you did not cut your serpent in two morsels?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000066_000000|"Faith, yes, almost," said Raoul.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000067_000000|They had now arrived within sight of the little inn and could see on the opposite side the procession bearing the wounded man and guided by Monsieur d'Arminges.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000067_000001|The youths spurred on.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000068_000000|"There is the wounded man," said De Guiche, passing close to the Augustine brother.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000068_000001|"Be good enough to hurry yourself a little, monsieur monk."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000069_000000|As for Raoul, he avoided the monk by the whole width of the road and passed him, turning his head away in repulsion.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000070_000000|The young men rode up to the wounded man to announce that they were followed by the priest.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000070_000001|He raised himself to glance in the direction which they pointed out, saw the monk, and fell back upon the litter, his face illumined by joy.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000071_000000|"And now," said the youths, "we have done all we can for you; and as we are in haste to rejoin the prince's army we must continue our journey. You will excuse us, sir, but we are told that a battle is expected and we do not wish to arrive the day after it."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000072_000001|You have done for me, as you promised, all that you could do.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000072_000002|As for me I can only repeat, may God protect you and all dear to you!"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000073_000000|"Sir," said De Guiche to his tutor, "we will precede you, and you can rejoin us on the road to Cambrin."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000075_000000|"Everything," said he to Raoul, "shall be done as you desire; but you will not stop to have your wound dressed?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000076_000001|This cavalier is my attendant."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000078_000000|"There is no harm in over precaution.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000078_000001|I am the Viscount de Bragelonne and he is called Grimaud."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000079_000000|At this moment the wounded man arrived from one direction and the monk from the other, the latter dismounting from his mule and desiring that it should be taken to the stables without being unharnessed.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000080_000000|"Sir monk," said De Guiche, "confess well that brave man; and be not concerned for your expenses or for those of your mule; all is paid."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000081_000000|"Thanks, monsieur," said the monk, with one of those smiles that made Bragelonne shudder.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000082_000000|"Come, count," said Raoul, who seemed instinctively to dislike the vicinity of the Augustine; "come, I feel ill here," and the two young men spurred on.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000083_000000|The litter, borne by two servants, now entered the house.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000083_000001|The host and his wife were standing on the steps, whilst the unhappy man seemed to suffer dreadful pain and yet to be concerned only to know if he was followed by the monk.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000083_000002|At sight of this pale, bleeding man, the wife grasped her husband's arm.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000084_000000|"Well, what's the matter?" asked the latter, "are you going to be ill just now?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000085_000000|"No, but look," replied the hostess, pointing to the wounded man; "I ask you if you recognize him?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000087_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000087_000001|I see you know him," exclaimed the wife; "for you have become pale in your turn."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000088_000000|"Truly," cried the host, "misfortune is coming on our house; it is the former executioner of Bethune."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000089_000000|"The former executioner of Bethune!" murmured the young monk, shrinking back and showing on his countenance the feeling of repugnance which his penitent inspired.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000090_000000|Monsieur d'Arminges, who was at the door, perceived his hesitation.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000091_000001|Render to him, then, the last service he can by any possibility ask of you, and your work will be all the more meritorious."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000092_000000|The monk made no reply, but silently wended his way to the room where the two valets had deposited the dying man on a bed.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000092_000002|Just as the tutor and his escort disappeared in their turn, a new traveler stopped on the threshold of the inn.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000093_000000|"What does your worship want?" demanded the host, pale and trembling from the discovery he had just made.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000095_000001|And where will your worship drink?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000096_000000|"There," answered the traveler, pointing to the table.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000097_000000|"I was mistaken," said the host, "he's not quite dumb.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000100_000000|"Just so."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000101_000000|"Then you are called Monsieur Grimaud?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000102_000000|The traveler made a sign of assent.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000104_000000|"How far is Mazingarbe?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000105_000000|"Two miles and a half."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000106_000000|"Thank you."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000107_000000|Grimaud was drinking his wine silently and had just placed his glass on the table to be filled a second time, when a terrific scream resounded from the room occupied by the monk and the dying man.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000107_000001|Grimaud sprang up.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000108_000000|"What is that?" said he; "whence comes that cry?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000109_000000|"From the wounded man's room," replied the host.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000110_000000|"What wounded man?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000111_000000|"The former executioner of Bethune, who has just been brought in here, assassinated by Spaniards, and who is now being confessed by an Augustine friar."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000114_000000|"I have seen him once," replied Grimaud, a cloud darkening his countenance at the picture so suddenly summoned to the bar of recollection.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000115_000000|At this instant a second cry, less piercing than the first, but followed by prolonged groaning, was heard.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000116_000000|The three listeners looked at one another in alarm.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000117_000000|"We must see what it is," said Grimaud.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000120_000000|If Grimaud was slow in speaking, we know that he was quick to act; he sprang to the door and shook it violently, but it was bolted on the other side.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000122_000000|No reply.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000123_000000|"Unfasten it, or I will break it in!" said Grimaud.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000124_000000|The same silence, and then, ere the host could oppose his design, Grimaud seized a pair of pincers he perceived in a corner and forced the bolt.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000124_000001|The room was inundated with blood, dripping from the mattresses upon which lay the wounded man, speechless; the monk had disappeared.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000125_000000|"The monk!" cried the host; "where is the monk?"
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000126_000000|Grimaud sprang toward an open window which looked into the courtyard.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000127_000000|"He has escaped by this means," exclaimed he.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000128_000000|"Do you think so?" said the host, bewildered; "boy, see if the mule belonging to the monk is still in the stable."
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000129_000000|"There is no mule," cried he to whom this question was addressed.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000132_000000|"Does he still live?" inquired the innkeeper.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000133_000000|Making no reply, Grimaud opened the poor man's jacket to feel if the heart beat, whilst the host approached in his turn; but in a moment they both fell back, the host uttering a cry of horror and Grimaud becoming pallid.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000133_000001|The blade of a dagger was buried up to the hilt in the left side of the executioner.
train-other-500/3285/121401/3285_121401_000134_000000|"Run! run for help!" cried Grimaud, "and I will remain beside him here."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000000_000001|The Story Club Is Formed
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000001_000000|Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000001_000001|To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000001_000002|Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before the concert?
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000001_000003|At first, as she told Diana, she did not really think she could.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000000|"I'm positively certain, Diana, that life can never be quite the same again as it was in those olden days," she said mournfully, as if referring to a period of at least fifty years back.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000001|"Perhaps after a while I'll get used to it, but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000002|I suppose that is why Marilla disapproves of them. Marilla is such a sensible woman.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000004|mrs Lynde says there is no danger of my ever being one, but you can never tell.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000005|I feel just now that I may grow up to be sensible yet.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000006|But perhaps that is only because I'm tired.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000002_000007|I simply couldn't sleep last night for ever so long.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000003_000000|Eventually, however, Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000003_000001|To be sure, the concert left traces.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000003_000003|Josie Pye and Julia Bell did not "speak" for three months, because Josie Pye had told Bessie Wright that Julia Bell's bow when she got up to recite made her think of a chicken jerking its head, and Bessie told Julia.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000003_000004|None of the Sloanes would have any dealings with the Bells, because the Bells had declared that the Sloanes had too much to do in the program, and the Sloanes had retorted that the Bells were not capable of doing the little they had to do properly.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000003_000005|Finally, Charlie Sloane fought Moody Spurgeon MacPherson, because Moody Spurgeon had said that Anne Shirley put on airs about her recitations, and Moody Spurgeon was "licked"; consequently Moody Spurgeon's sister, Ella May, would not "speak" to Anne Shirley all the rest of the winter.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000003_000006|With the exception of these trifling frictions, work in Miss Stacy's little kingdom went on with regularity and smoothness.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000004_000000|The winter weeks slipped by.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000004_000001|It was an unusually mild winter, with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000004_000002|On Anne's birthday they were tripping lightly down it, keeping eyes and ears alert amid all their chatter, for Miss Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on "A Winter's Walk in the Woods," and it behooved them to be observant.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000005_000000|"Just think, Diana, I'm thirteen years old today," remarked Anne in an awed voice.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000005_000001|"I can scarcely realize that I'm in my teens.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000005_000003|You've been thirteen for a month, so I suppose it doesn't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000005_000004|It makes life seem so much more interesting. In two more years I'll be really grown up.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000006_000000|"Ruby Gillis says she means to have a beau as soon as she's fifteen," said Diana.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000000|"Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but beaus," said Anne disdainfully. "She's actually delighted when anyone writes her name up in a take notice for all she pretends to be so mad.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000001|But I'm afraid that is an uncharitable speech.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000002|mrs Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches; but they do slip out so often before you think, don't they?
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000003|I simply can't talk about Josie Pye without making an uncharitable speech, so I never mention her at all.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000004|You may have noticed that.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000005|I'm trying to be as much like mrs Allan as I possibly can, for I think she's perfect. mr Allan thinks so too.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000006|mrs Lynde says he just worships the ground she treads on and she doesn't really think it right for a minister to set his affections so much on a mortal being.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000007|But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000008|I had such an interesting talk with mrs Allan about besetting sins last Sunday afternoon.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000009|There are just a few things it's proper to talk about on Sundays and that is one of them.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000010|My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000007_000011|I'm striving very hard to overcome it and now that I'm really thirteen perhaps I'll get on better."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000000|"If I had Alice Bell's crooked nose," said Anne decidedly, "I wouldn't-but there!
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000001|I won't say what I was going to because it was extremely uncharitable.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000002|Besides, I was comparing it with my own nose and that's vanity.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000003|I'm afraid I think too much about my nose ever since I heard that compliment about it long ago.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000004|It really is a great comfort to me.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000005|Oh, Diana, look, there's a rabbit.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000006|That's something to remember for our woods composition.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000007|I really think the woods are just as lovely in winter as in summer.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000009_000008|They're so white and still, as if they were asleep and dreaming pretty dreams."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000010_000001|"I can manage to write about the woods, but the one we're to hand in Monday is terrible.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000010_000002|The idea of Miss Stacy telling us to write a story out of our own heads!"
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000011_000000|"Why, it's as easy as wink," said Anne.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000012_000000|"It's easy for you because you have an imagination," retorted Diana, "but what would you do if you had been born without one?
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000012_000001|I suppose you have your composition all done?"
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000000|"I wrote it last Monday evening.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000001|It's called 'The Jealous Rival; or In Death Not Divided.' I read it to Marilla and she said it was stuff and nonsense.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000002|Then I read it to matthew and he said it was fine.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000003|That is the kind of critic I like.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000004|It's a sad, sweet story.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000005|I just cried like a child while I was writing it.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000006|It's about two beautiful maidens called Cordelia Montmorency and Geraldine Seymour who lived in the same village and were devotedly attached to each other.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000014_000008|Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000015_000000|"I never saw anybody with purple eyes," said Diana dubiously.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000016_000001|I wanted something out of the common.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000016_000002|Geraldine had an alabaster brow too.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000016_000004|That is one of the advantages of being thirteen.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000016_000005|You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000017_000000|"Well, what became of Cordelia and Geraldine?" asked Diana, who was beginning to feel rather interested in their fate.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000001|Then Bertram DeVere came to their native village and fell in love with the fair Geraldine.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000002|He saved her life when her horse ran away with her in a carriage, and she fainted in his arms and he carried her home three miles; because, you understand, the carriage was all smashed up.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000003|I found it rather hard to imagine the proposal because I had no experience to go by.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000004|I asked Ruby Gillis if she knew anything about how men proposed because I thought she'd likely be an authority on the subject, having so many sisters married.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000005|Ruby told me she was hid in the hall pantry when Malcolm Andres proposed to her sister Susan.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000008|Geraldine accepted him in a speech a page long.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000009|I can tell you I took a lot of trouble with that speech.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000010|I rewrote it five times and I look upon it as my masterpiece.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000011|Bertram gave her a diamond ring and a ruby necklace and told her they would go to Europe for a wedding tour, for he was immensely wealthy.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000012|But then, alas, shadows began to darken over their path.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000013|Cordelia was secretly in love with Bertram herself and when Geraldine told her about the engagement she was simply furious, especially when she saw the necklace and the diamond ring.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000014|All her affection for Geraldine turned to bitter hate and she vowed that she should never marry Bertram.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000015|But she pretended to be Geraldine's friend the same as ever.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000017|They were buried in the one grave and their funeral was most imposing, Diana.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000018|It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000019|As for Cordelia, she went insane with remorse and was shut up in a lunatic asylum.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000018_000020|I thought that was a poetical retribution for her crime."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000019_000000|"How perfectly lovely!" sighed Diana, who belonged to Matthew's school of critics.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000019_000002|I wish my imagination was as good as yours."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000020_000000|"It would be if you'd only cultivate it," said Anne cheeringly.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000020_000001|"I've just thought of a plan, Diana.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000020_000003|I'll help you along until you can do them by yourself.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000020_000005|Only we must take the right way.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000021_000000|This was how the story club came into existence.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000021_000001|It was limited to Diana and Anne at first, but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and one or two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000021_000002|No boys were allowed in it-although Ruby Gillis opined that their admission would make it more exciting-and each member had to produce one story a week.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000001|"Each girl has to read her story out loud and then we talk it over.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000002|We are going to keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000003|We each write under a nom de plume.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000004|Mine is Rosamond Montmorency.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000005|All the girls do pretty well.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000006|Ruby Gillis is rather sentimental.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000007|She puts too much lovemaking into her stories and you know too much is worse than too little.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000008|Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly when she had to read it out loud.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000009|Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000010|She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000022_000011|I mostly always have to tell them what to write about, but that isn't hard for I've millions of ideas."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000023_000000|"I think this story writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000023_000002|Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000001|"I insist upon that.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000002|All the good people are rewarded and all the bad ones are suitably punished.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000003|I'm sure that must have a wholesome effect.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000004|The moral is the great thing.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000005|mr Allan says so.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000006|I read one of my stories to him and mrs Allan and they both agreed that the moral was excellent.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000007|Only they laughed in the wrong places.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000008|I like it better when people cry.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000009|Jane and Ruby almost always cry when I come to the pathetic parts.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000010|Diana wrote her Aunt Josephine about our club and her Aunt Josephine wrote back that we were to send her some of our stories.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000011|So we copied out four of our very best and sent them.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000012|Miss Josephine Barry wrote back that she had never read anything so amusing in her life.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000013|That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000014|But I'm glad Miss Barry liked them.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000015|It shows our club is doing some good in the world.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000016|mrs Allan says that ought to be our object in everything.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000017|I do really try to make it my object but I forget so often when I'm having fun.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000018|I hope I shall be a little like mrs Allan when I grow up.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000024_000019|Do you think there is any prospect of it, Marilla?"
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000025_000000|"I shouldn't say there was a great deal" was Marilla's encouraging answer.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000025_000001|"I'm sure mrs Allan was never such a silly, forgetful little girl as you are."
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000026_000001|"She told me so herself-that is, she said she was a dreadful mischief when she was a girl and was always getting into scrapes.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000026_000002|I felt so encouraged when I heard that.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000026_000003|Is it very wicked of me, Marilla, to feel encouraged when I hear that other people have been bad and mischievous?
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000026_000004|mrs Lynde says it is.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000026_000005|mrs Lynde says she always feels shocked when she hears of anyone ever having been naughty, no matter how small they were.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000026_000007|Now, I wouldn't have felt that way.
train-other-500/3288/7156/3288_7156_000027_000001|You've taken half an hour longer than you should with all your chattering.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000000_000000|Marilla, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting, realized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000000_000001|Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000000_000003|The spring was abroad in the land and Marilla's sober, middle aged step was lighter and swifter because of its deep, primal gladness.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000001_000000|Her eyes dwelt affectionately on Green Gables, peering through its network of trees and reflecting the sunlight back from its windows in several little coruscations of glory.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000002_000000|Consequently, when Marilla entered her kitchen and found the fire black out, with no sign of Anne anywhere, she felt justly disappointed and irritated.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000002_000001|She had told Anne to be sure and have tea ready at five o'clock, but now she must hurry to take off her second best dress and prepare the meal herself against Matthew's return from plowing.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000001|matthew had come in and was waiting patiently for his tea in his corner.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000002|"She's gadding off somewhere with Diana, writing stories or practicing dialogues or some such tomfoolery, and never thinking once about the time or her duties.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000003|She's just got to be pulled up short and sudden on this sort of thing.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000005|She may be bright and sweet enough, but her head is full of nonsense and there's never any knowing what shape it'll break out in next.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000006|Just as soon as she grows out of one freak she takes up with another.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000007|But there!
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000008|Here I am saying the very thing I was so riled with Rachel Lynde for saying at the Aid today.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000009|I was real glad when mrs Allan spoke up for Anne, for if she hadn't I know I'd have said something too sharp to Rachel before everybody.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000010|Anne's got plenty of faults, goodness knows, and far be it from me to deny it.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000011|But I'm bringing her up and not Rachel Lynde, who'd pick faults in the Angel Gabriel himself if he lived in Avonlea.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000012|Just the same, Anne has no business to leave the house like this when I told her she was to stay home this afternoon and look after things.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000003_000013|I must say, with all her faults, I never found her disobedient or untrustworthy before and I'm real sorry to find her so now."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000004_000000|"Well now, I dunno," said matthew, who, being patient and wise and, above all, hungry, had deemed it best to let Marilla talk her wrath out unhindered, having learned by experience that she got through with whatever work was on hand much quicker if not delayed by untimely argument.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000004_000001|"Perhaps you're judging her too hasty, Marilla.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000004_000002|Don't call her untrustworthy until you're sure she has disobeyed you.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000005_000000|"She's not here when I told her to stay," retorted Marilla.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000005_000001|"I reckon she'll find it hard to explain THAT to my satisfaction.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000005_000003|But I'm bringing her up, not you."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000006_000001|Marilla washed and put away the dishes grimly.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000006_000002|Then, wanting a candle to light her way down the cellar, she went up to the east gable for the one that generally stood on Anne's table.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000006_000003|Lighting it, she turned around to see Anne herself lying on the bed, face downward among the pillows.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000007_000000|"Mercy on us," said astonished Marilla, "have you been asleep, Anne?"
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000009_000000|"Are you sick then?" demanded Marilla anxiously, going over to the bed.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000011_000000|"no
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000011_000001|But please, Marilla, go away and don't look at me.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000011_000002|I'm in the depths of despair and I don't care who gets head in class or writes the best composition or sings in the Sunday school choir any more.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000011_000004|My career is closed.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000011_000005|Please, Marilla, go away and don't look at me."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000012_000001|What have you done?
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000012_000002|Get right up this minute and tell me.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000012_000003|This minute, I say.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000012_000004|There now, what is it?"
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000013_000000|Anne had slid to the floor in despairing obedience.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000015_000000|Accordingly, Marilla lifted her candle and looked scrutinizingly at Anne's hair, flowing in heavy masses down her back.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000015_000001|It certainly had a very strange appearance.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000016_000001|Why, it's GREEN!"
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000017_000000|Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color-a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000017_000001|Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so grotesque as Anne's hair at that moment.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000018_000000|"Yes, it's green," moaned Anne.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000018_000001|"I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000018_000002|But now I know it's ten times worse to have green hair.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000018_000003|Oh, Marilla, you little know how utterly wretched I am."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000019_000000|"I little know how you got into this fix, but I mean to find out," said Marilla.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000019_000001|"Come right down to the kitchen-it's too cold up here-and tell me just what you've done.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000019_000002|I've been expecting something queer for some time.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000019_000003|You haven't got into any scrape for over two months, and I was sure another one was due.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000021_000000|"Dyed it!
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000021_000001|Dyed your hair!
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000022_000000|"Yes, I knew it was a little wicked," admitted Anne.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000022_000001|"But I thought it was worth while to be a little wicked to get rid of red hair.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000022_000002|I counted the cost, Marilla.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000022_000003|Besides, I meant to be extra good in other ways to make up for it."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000023_000000|"Well," said Marilla sarcastically, "if I'd decided it was worth while to dye my hair I'd have dyed it a decent color at least.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000023_000001|I wouldn't have dyed it green."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000024_000000|"But I didn't mean to dye it green, Marilla," protested Anne dejectedly. "If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000024_000001|He said it would turn my hair a beautiful raven black-he positively assured me that it would.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000024_000002|How could I doubt his word, Marilla?
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000024_000003|I know what it feels like to have your word doubted.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000024_000005|I have proof now-green hair is proof enough for anybody.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000024_000006|But I hadn't then and I believed every word he said IMPLICITLY."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000025_000000|"Who said?
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000025_000001|Who are you talking about?"
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000026_000000|"The peddler that was here this afternoon.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000026_000001|I bought the dye from him."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000027_000001|I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000000|"Oh, I didn't let him in the house.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000001|I remembered what you told me, and I went out, carefully shut the door, and looked at his things on the step. Besides, he wasn't an Italian-he was a German Jew.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000002|He had a big box full of very interesting things and he told me he was working hard to make enough money to bring his wife and children out from Germany.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000003|He spoke so feelingly about them that it touched my heart.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000004|I wanted to buy something from him to help him in such a worthy object.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000005|Then all at once I saw the bottle of hair dye.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000007|In a trice I saw myself with beautiful raven black hair and the temptation was irresistible.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000008|But the price of the bottle was seventy five cents and I had only fifty cents left out of my chicken money.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000009|I think the peddler had a very kind heart, for he said that, seeing it was me, he'd sell it for fifty cents and that was just giving it away.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000010|So I bought it, and as soon as he had gone I came up here and applied it with an old hairbrush as the directions said.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000011|I used up the whole bottle, and oh, Marilla, when I saw the dreadful color it turned my hair I repented of being wicked, I can tell you.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000028_000012|And I've been repenting ever since."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000029_000001|Goodness knows what's to be done.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000029_000002|I suppose the first thing is to give your hair a good washing and see if that will do any good."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000030_000000|Accordingly, Anne washed her hair, scrubbing it vigorously with soap and water, but for all the difference it made she might as well have been scouring its original red.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000030_000001|The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn't wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000000|"Oh, Marilla, what shall I do?" questioned Anne in tears.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000001|"I can never live this down.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000002|People have pretty well forgotten my other mistakes-the liniment cake and setting Diana drunk and flying into a temper with mrs Lynde.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000003|But they'll never forget this.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000004|They will think I am not respectable.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000005|Oh, Marilla, 'what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.' That is poetry, but it is true.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000006|And oh, how Josie Pye will laugh!
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000031_000007|Marilla, I CANNOT face Josie Pye.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000032_000000|Anne's unhappiness continued for a week.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000032_000002|Diana alone of outsiders knew the fatal secret, but she promised solemnly never to tell, and it may be stated here and now that she kept her word.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000032_000003|At the end of the week Marilla said decidedly:
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000033_000000|"It's no use, Anne.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000033_000001|That is fast dye if ever there was any.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000033_000003|You can't go out with it looking like that."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000034_000000|Anne's lips quivered, but she realized the bitter truth of Marilla's remarks.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000034_000001|With a dismal sigh she went for the scissors.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000000|"Please cut it off at once, Marilla, and have it over.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000001|Oh, I feel that my heart is broken.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000002|This is such an unromantic affliction.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000003|The girls in books lose their hair in fevers or sell it to get money for some good deed, and I'm sure I wouldn't mind losing my hair in some such fashion half so much.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000004|But there is nothing comforting in having your hair cut off because you've dyed it a dreadful color, is there?
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000005|I'm going to weep all the time you're cutting it off, if it won't interfere.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000035_000006|It seems such a tragic thing."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000036_000001|Marilla had done her work thoroughly and it had been necessary to shingle the hair as closely as possible. The result was not becoming, to state the case as mildly as may be.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000037_000000|"I'll never, never look at myself again until my hair grows," she exclaimed passionately.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000038_000000|Then she suddenly righted the glass.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000039_000000|"Yes, I will, too.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000039_000003|And I won't try to imagine it away, either.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000039_000004|I never thought I was vain about my hair, of all things, but now I know I was, in spite of its being red, because it was so long and thick and curly.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000039_000005|I expect something will happen to my nose next."
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000001|It's hard to be told you look like a scarecrow and I wanted to say something back.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000002|But I didn't.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000003|I just swept her one scornful look and then I forgave her.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000004|It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000005|I mean to devote all my energies to being good after this and I shall never try to be beautiful again.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000006|Of course it's better to be good.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000007|I know it is, but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000009|Diana says when my hair begins to grow to tie a black velvet ribbon around my head with a bow at one side.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000010|She says she thinks it will be very becoming.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000011|I will call it a snood-that sounds so romantic.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000012|But am I talking too much, Marilla?
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000041_000013|Does it hurt your head?"
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000042_000000|"My head is better now.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000042_000001|It was terrible bad this afternoon, though. These headaches of mine are getting worse and worse.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000042_000002|I'll have to see a doctor about them.
train-other-500/3288/7157/3288_7157_000042_000003|As for your chatter, I don't know that I mind it-I've got so used to it."
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000001_000000|CHAPTER nineteen
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000002_000000|THE WHIPPET
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000003_000000|For elegance of style, cleanliness of habit, and graceful movement, few dogs can equal the Whippet, for which reason his popularity as a companion has increased very greatly within the past decade.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000003_000001|No more affectionate creature is to be found, yet he possesses considerable determination and pluck, and on occasion will defend himself in his own way.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000004_000001|It was probably owing to this habit, which is common to all Whippets, that they were originally known as Snap Dogs.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000006_000000|This sport has been mainly confined to the working classes, the colliers of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland being particularly devoted to it.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000006_000001|As a rule the contests are handicaps, the starting point of each competitor being regulated by its weight; but the winners of previous important events are penalised in addition, according to their presumed merit, by having a certain number of yards deducted from the start to which weight alone would otherwise have entitled them.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000006_000002|Each dog is taken to its stipulated mark according to the handicap, and there laid hold of by the nape of the neck and hind quarters; the real starter stands behind the lot, and after warning all to be ready, discharges a pistol, upon which each attendant swings his dog as far forward as he can possibly throw him, but always making sure that he alights on his feet.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000006_000003|The distance covered in the race is generally two hundred yards, minus the starts allotted, and some idea of the speed at which these very active little animals can travel may be gleaned from the fact that the full distance has been covered in rather under twelve seconds.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000007_000000|In order to induce each dog to do its best, the owner, or more probably the trainer stands beyond the winning post, and frantically waves a towel or very stout rag.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000007_000002|The speed at which they are travelling makes this movement necessary in many cases to enable the dog to avoid accident, particularly where the space beyond the winning mark is limited.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000007_000003|For racing purposes there is a wide margin of size allowed to the dogs, anything from eight pounds. to twenty three pounds., or even more, being eligible; but in view of the handicap terms those dogs which possess speed, and scale nine to twelve pounds. amongst the light weights, and over seventeen pounds. in the heavy ones, are considered to have the best chance.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000008_000001|The Borough grounds at Oldham and the Wellington grounds at Bury are also noted centres for races.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000008_000002|It is a remarkable but well recognised fact that bitches are faster than dogs, and in consequence the terms upon which they are handicapped are varied.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000009_000000|One of the fastest dogs that ever ran was Collier Lad, but he was almost a Greyhound as regards size.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000010_000002|Choice mutton chops, beef steaks and similar dainties comprise their daily portion.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000010_000003|Of course exercise is a necessity, but it is not considered good policy to allow a dog in training to gambol about either on the roads or in the fields.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000010_000005|Any distance between six and a dozen miles a day, according to the stamina and condition of the dog, is supposed to be the proper amount of exercise, and scales are brought into use every few days to gauge the effect which is being produced.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000011_000000|Colour in the Whippet is absolutely of no importance to a good judge, though possibly what is known as the peach fawn is the favourite among amateur fanciers.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000011_000002|In some quarters the idea is prevalent that Whippets are delicate in their constitution, but this is a popular error.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000013_000000|The South Durham and Yorkshire Show at Darlington has the credit for first introducing classes for Whippets into the prize ring.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000014_000000|The following is the standard of points adopted by the Whippet Club:--
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000000|HEAD-Long and lean, rather wide between the eyes and flat on the top; the jaw powerful yet cleanly cut; the teeth level and white.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000001|EYES-Bright and fiery.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000002|EARS-Small, fine in texture and rose shape.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000003|NECK-Long and muscular, elegantly arched and free from throatiness.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000004|SHOULDERS-Oblique and muscular.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000005|CHEST-Deep and capacious.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000006|BACK-Broad and square, rather long and slightly arched over the loin, which should be strong and powerful.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000007|FORE LEGS-Rather long, well set under the dog, possessing a fair amount of bone. HIND QUARTERS-Strong and broad across stifles, well bent thighs, broad and muscular; hocks well let down.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000008|FEET-Round, well split up, with strong soles.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000009|COAT-Fine and close.
train-other-500/3290/14909/3290_14909_000015_000010|COLOUR-Black, red, white, brindle, fawn, blue, and the various mixtures of each.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000001_000000|CHAPTER six
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000000|In an aperture of the western wall of Jerusalem hang the "oaken valves" called the Bethlehem or Joppa Gate.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000001|The area outside of them is one of the notable places of the city.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000002|Long before David coveted Zion there was a citadel there.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000005|In Solomon's day there was great traffic at the locality, shared in by traders from Egypt and the rich dealers from Tyre and Sidon.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000006|Nearly three thousand years have passed, and yet a kind of commerce clings to the spot. A pilgrim wanting a pin or a pistol, a cucumber or a camel, a house or a horse, a loan or a lentil, a date or a dragoman, a melon or a man, a dove or a donkey, has only to inquire for the article at the Joppa Gate.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000007|Sometimes the scene is quite animated, and then it suggests, What a place the old market must have been in the days of Herod the Builder!
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000002_000008|And to that period and that market the reader is now to be transferred.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000003_000003|The massive valves had been wide open since dawn. Business, always aggressive, had pushed through the arched entrance into a narrow lane and court, which, passing by the walls of the great tower, conducted on into the city.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000003_000004|As Jerusalem is in the hill country, the morning air on this occasion was not a little crisp.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000003_000005|The rays of the sun, with their promise of warmth, lingered provokingly far up on the battlements and turrets of the great piles about, down from which fell the crooning of pigeons and the whir of the flocks coming and going.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000004_000000|As a passing acquaintance with the people of the Holy City, strangers as well as residents, will be necessary to an understanding of some of the pages which follow, it will be well to stop at the gate and pass the scene in review.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000004_000001|Better opportunity will not offer to get sight of the populace who will afterwhile go forward in a mood very different from that which now possesses them.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000005_000000|The scene is at first one of utter confusion-confusion of action, sounds, colors, and things.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000005_000001|It is especially so in the lane and court. The ground there is paved with broad unshaped flags, from which each cry and jar and hoof stamp arises to swell the medley that rings and roars up between the solid impending walls.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000005_000002|A little mixing with the throng, however, a little familiarity with the business going on, will make analysis possible.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000006_000000|Here stands a donkey, dozing under panniers full of lentils, beans, onions, and cucumbers, brought fresh from the gardens and terraces of Galilee.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000006_000002|Nothing can be simpler than his costume-sandals, and an unbleached, undyed blanket, crossed over one shoulder and girt round the waist.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000006_000004|He wears a faded tarbooshe, a loose gown, sleeveless, unbelted, and dropping from the neck to the knee. His feet are bare.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000006_000005|The camel, restless under the load, groans and occasionally shows his teeth; but the man paces indifferently to and fro, holding the driving strap, and all the time advertising his fruits fresh from the orchards of the Kedron-grapes, dates, figs, apples, and pomegranates.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000007_000000|At the corner where the lane opens out into the court, some women sit with their backs against the gray stones of the wall.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000007_000001|Their dress is that common to the humbler classes of the country-a linen frock extending the full length of the person, loosely gathered at the waist, and a veil or wimple broad enough, after covering the head, to wrap the shoulders.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000007_000002|Their merchandise is contained in a number of earthen jars, such as are still used in the East for bringing water from the wells, and some leathern bottles.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000007_000005|Grapes of En Gedi!" When a customer halts one of them, round comes the bottle, and, upon lifting the thumb from the nozzle, out into the ready cup gushes the deep red blood of the luscious berry.
train-other-500/3290/170207/3290_170207_000008_000000|Scarcely less blatant are the dealers in birds-doves, ducks, and frequently the singing bulbul, or nightingale, most frequently pigeons; and buyers, receiving them from the nets, seldom fail to think of the perilous life of the catchers, bold climbers of the cliffs; now hanging with hand and foot to the face of the crag, now swinging in a basket far down the mountain fissure.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000002_000000|CHAPTER eleven.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000003_000000|A Scientific Explanation of Hypnotism.--dr
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000003_000001|Hart's Theory.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000004_000000|In the introduction to this book the reader will find a summary of the theories of hypnotism.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000004_000001|There is no doubt that hypnotism is a complex state which cannot be explained in an offhand way in a sentence or two. There are, however, certain aspects of hypnotism which we may suppose sufficiently explained by certain scientific writers on the subject.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000005_000000|First, what is the character of the delusions apparently created in the mind of a person in the hypnotic condition by a simple word of mouth statement, as when a physician says, "Now, I am going to cut your leg off, but it will not hurt you in the least," and the patient suffers nothing?
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000007_000000|"Make a stroke on a paper or blackboard, and tell the subject it is not there, and he will see nothing but the clean paper or board.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000007_000001|Next, he not looking, surround the original stroke with other strokes exactly like it, and ask him what he sees.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000007_000002|He will point out one by one the new strokes and omit the original one every time, no matter how numerous the next strokes may be, or in what order they are arranged.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000008_000001|This proves that it has impressed his sensibility.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000008_000002|He has felt but not perceived it.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000008_000003|He had actually ignored it; refused to recognize it, as it were."
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000009_000000|dr Ernest Hart, an English writer, in an article in the British Medical Journal, gives a general explanation of the phenomena of hypnotism which we may accept as true so far as it goes, but which is evidently incomplete.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000009_000001|He seems to minimize personal influence too much-that personal influence which we all exert at various times, and which he ignores, not because he would deny it, but because he fears lending countenance to the magnetic fluid and other similar theories.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000009_000002|Says he:
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000010_000003|We can practically get the same results while eliminating even the operator, if we can contrive to influence the imagination or to affect the physical condition of the subject by any one of a great number of contrivances.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000000|"What does all this mean?
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000001|I will refer to one or two facts in relation to the structure and function of the brain, and show one or two simple experiments of very ancient parentage and date, which will, I think, help to an explanation.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000002|First, let us recall something of what we know of the anatomy and localization of function in the brain, and of the nature of ordinary sleep.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000004|At the base of the brain is a complete circle of arteries, from which spring great numbers of small arterial vessels, carrying a profuse blood supply throughout the whole mass, and capable of contraction in small tracts, so that small areas of the brain may, at any given moment, become bloodless, while other parts of the brain may simultaneously become highly congested.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000005|Now, if the brain or any part of it be deprived of the circulation of blood through it, or be rendered partially bloodless, or if it be excessively congested and overloaded with blood, or if it be subjected to local pressure, the part of the brain so acted upon ceases to be capable of exercising its functions.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000006|The regularity of the action of the brain and the sanity and completeness of the thought which is one of the functions of its activity depend upon the healthy regularity of the quantity of blood passing through all its parts, and upon the healthy quality of the blood so circulating.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000008|Thought is abolished, consciousness lost.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000011_000009|And if we continue the pressure, all those automatic actions of the body, such as the beating of the heart, the breathing motions of the lungs, which maintain life and are controlled by the lower brain centers of ganglia, are quickly stopped and death ensues.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000000|"We know by observation in cases where portions of the skull have been removed, either in men or in animals, that during natural sleep the upper part of the brain-its convoluted surface, which in health and in the waking state is faintly pink, like a blushing cheek, from the color of the blood circulating through the network of capillary arteries-becomes white and almost bloodless.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000001|It is in these upper convolutions of the brain, as we also know, that the will and the directing power are resident; so that in sleep the will is abolished and consciousness fades gradually away, as the blood is pressed out by the contraction of the arteries.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000002|So, also, the consciousness and the directing will may be abolished by altering the quality of the blood passing through the convolutions of the brain.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000003|We may introduce a volatile substance, such as chloroform, and its first effect will be to abolish consciousness and induce profound slumber and a blessed insensibility to pain.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000004|The like effects will follow more slowly upon the absorption of a drug, such as opium; or we may induce hallucinations by introducing into the blood other toxic substances, such as Indian hemp or stramonium.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000005|We are not conscious of the mechanism producing the arterial contraction and the bloodlessness of those convolutions related to natural sleep.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000006|But we are not altogether without control over them. We can, we know, help to compose ourselves to sleep, as we say in ordinary language.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000007|We retire into a darkened room, we relieve ourselves from the stimulus of the special senses, we free ourselves from the influence of noises, of strong light, of powerful colors, or of tactile impressions.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000011|Most people know something of what is meant by reflex action.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000012|The nerves which pass from the various organs to the brain convey with, great rapidity messages to its various parts, which are answered by reflected waves of impulse.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000013|If the soles of the feet be tickled, contraction of the toes, or involuntary laughter, will be excited, or perhaps only a shuddering and skin contraction, known as goose skin.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000012_000014|The irritation of the nerve end in the skin has carried a message to the involuntary or voluntary ganglia of the brain which has responded by reflecting back again nerve impulses which have contracted the muscles of the feet or skin muscles, or have given rise to associated ideas and explosion of laughter.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000013_000000|"Here, then, it is seen that we have a mechanism in the body, known to physiologists as the ideo motor, or sensory motor system of nerves, which can produce, without the consciousness of the individual and automatically, a series of muscular contractions.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000013_000002|I will give another example of this, which completes the chain of phenomena in the natural brain and the natural body I wish to bring under notice in explanation of the true as distinguished from the false, or falsely interpreted, phenomena of hypnotism, mesmerism and electro biology.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000013_000003|I will take the excellent illustration quoted by dr b w Carpenter in his old time, but valuable, book on 'The Physiology of the Brain.' When a hungry man sees food, or when, let us say, a hungry boy looks into a cookshop, he becomes aware of a watering of the mouth and a gnawing sensation at the stomach.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000013_000004|What does this mean?
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000014_000000|"Here, then, we have something like a clue to the phenomena-phenomena which, as I have pointed out, are similar to and have much in common with mesmeric sleep, hypnotism or electro biology.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000014_000002|We now see that ideas arising in the mind of the subject are sufficient to influence the circulation in the brain of the person operated on, and such variations of the blood supply of the brain as are adequate to produce sleep in the natural state, or artificial slumber, either by total deprivation or by excessive increase or local aberration in the quantity or quality of blood.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000014_000003|In a like manner it is possible to produce coma and prolonged insensibility by pressure of the thumbs on the carotid; or hallucination, dreams and visions by drugs, or by external stimulation of the nerves.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000015_000000|In short, dr Hart's theory is that hypnotism comes from controlling the blood supply of the brain, cutting off the supply from parts or increasing it in other parts.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000015_000001|This theory is borne out by the well-known fact that some persons can blush or turn pale at will; that some people always blush on the mention of certain things, or calling up certain ideas.
train-other-500/3290/179163/3290_179163_000015_000002|Certain other ideas will make them turn pale.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000000_000000|It was past one o'clock when Pierre left his friend.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000000_000001|It was a cloudless, northern, summer night.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000000_000002|Pierre took an open cab intending to drive straight home.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000000_000003|But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000000_000005|On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind Pierre was very fond of.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000001_000000|"I should like to go to Kuragin's," thought he.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000002_000000|But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go there.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000002_000001|Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000002_000003|He went to Kuragin's.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000004_000000|Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000004_000002|A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on the sly what was left in the glasses.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000004_000003|From the third room came sounds of laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and general commotion.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000004_000004|Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously round an open window.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000004_000005|Three others were romping with a young bear, one pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000005_000000|"I bet a hundred on Stevens!" shouted one.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000006_000000|"Mind, no holding on!" cried another.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000007_000000|"I bet on Dolokhov!" cried a third.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000008_000000|"There, leave Bruin alone; here's a bet on."
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000010_000001|"Wait a bit, you fellows....
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000010_000002|Here is Petya!
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000010_000003|Good man!" cried he, addressing Pierre.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000011_000002|Pierre smiled, looking about him merrily.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000012_000000|"I don't understand.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000012_000001|What's it all about?"
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000013_000000|"Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet!
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000013_000001|A bottle here," said Anatole, taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000014_000000|"First of all you must drink!"
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000016_000000|"Go on, you must drink it all," said Anatole, giving Pierre the last glass, "or I won't let you go!"
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000017_000000|"No, I won't," said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up to the window.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000018_000000|Dolokhov was holding the Englishman's hand and clearly and distinctly repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to Anatole and Pierre.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000000|Dolokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light blue eyes.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000001|He was about twenty five.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000002|Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly seen.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000003|The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000005|Dolokhov was a man of small means and no connections.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000007|Dolokhov could play all games and nearly always won.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000008|However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000019_000009|Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000020_000000|The bottle of rum was brought.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000020_000001|The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000021_000001|He wanted to smash something.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000021_000002|Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but could not move it.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000021_000003|He smashed a pane.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000023_000000|Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with a crash.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000025_000000|"Is the Englishman bragging?...
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000026_000000|"First rate," said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who with a bottle of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000027_000000|Dolokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window sill.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000027_000001|"Listen!" cried he, standing there and addressing those in the room.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000028_000000|"I bet fifty imperials"--he spoke French that the Englishman might understand him, but he did not speak it very well-"I bet fifty imperials... or do you wish to make it a hundred?" added he, addressing the Englishman.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000029_000000|"No, fifty," replied the latter.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000030_000000|"All right.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000030_000001|Fifty imperials... that I will drink a whole bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this spot" (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) "and without holding on to anything.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000030_000002|Is that right?"
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000033_000000|"Wait!" cried Dolokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window sill to attract attention.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000033_000001|"Wait a bit, Kuragin.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000033_000002|Listen!
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000033_000003|If anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000034_000000|The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to accept this challenge or not.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000034_000002|A thin young lad, an hussar of the Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window sill, leaned over, and looked down.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000036_000000|"Shut up!" cried Dolokhov, pushing him away from the window.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000036_000001|The lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000037_000002|Anatole brought two candles and placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000037_000003|Dolokhov's back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit up from both sides.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000037_000004|Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in front.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000037_000005|Pierre stood smiling but silent.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000038_000001|He'll be killed," said this more sensible man.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000039_000000|Anatole stopped him.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000040_000000|"Don't touch him!
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000041_000000|Dolokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged himself on his seat.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000042_000000|"If anyone comes meddling again," said he, emitting the words separately through his thin compressed lips, "I will throw him down there.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000042_000001|Now then!"
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000000|Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand to balance himself.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000001|One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the window and from Dolokhov's back.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000002|Anatole stood erect with staring eyes.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000004|The man who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw himself on a sofa with his face to the wall.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000005|Pierre hid his face, from which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed horror and fear.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000006|All were still.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000007|Pierre took his hands from his eyes.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000009|The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher and his head tilting yet further back.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000010|"Why is it so long?" thought Pierre.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000011|It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000013|As he began slipping down, his head and arm wavered still more with the strain.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000014|One hand moved as if to clutch the window sill, but refrained from touching it.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000015|Pierre again covered his eyes and thought he would never open them again.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000043_000016|Suddenly he was aware of a stir all around.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000044_000000|"It's empty."
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000045_000000|He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000045_000001|Dolokhov jumped down.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000045_000002|He smelt strongly of rum.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000046_000000|"Well done!...
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000046_000002|There's a bet for you!...
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000046_000003|Devil take you!" came from different sides.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000047_000000|The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000047_000001|Dolokhov stood frowning and did not speak.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000047_000002|Pierre jumped upon the window sill.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000048_000000|"Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me?
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000048_000001|I'll do the same thing!" he suddenly cried.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000048_000002|"Even without a bet, there!
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000048_000003|Tell them to bring me a bottle.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000048_000004|I'll do it....
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000048_000005|Bring a bottle!"
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000049_000000|"Let him do it, let him do it," said Dolokhov, smiling.
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000050_000000|"What next?
train-other-500/331/132019/331_132019_000050_000002|No one would let you!...
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train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000007_000001|Miscellaneous Essays.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000011_000000|THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000022_000000|IN MACBETH.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000023_000000|From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000023_000001|It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000000|Here I pause for one moment, to exhort the reader never to pay any attention to his understanding when it stands in opposition to any other faculty of his mind.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000002|Of this out of ten thousand instances that I might produce, I will cite one.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000004|Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to observe in pictures how it is that artists produce these effects, he will be utterly unable to make the smallest approximation to it.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000005|Yet why?
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000007|The reason is-that he allows his understanding to overrule his eyes.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000009|Accordingly he makes the line of his houses a horizontal line, and fails of course to produce the effect demanded.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000014|But I knew better; I felt that it did; and I waited and clung to the problem until further knowledge should enable me to solve it.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000021|Such an attitude would little suit the purposes of the poet.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000022|What then must he do?
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000024_000023|He must throw the interest on the murderer.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000025_000000|[Footnote one: It seems almost ludicrous to guard and explain my use of a word in a situation where it would naturally explain itself.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000026_000001|This was to be expressed; and on its own account, as well as to make it a more proportionable antagonist to the unoffending nature of their victim, "the gracious Duncan," and adequately to expound "the deep damnation of his taking off," this was to be expressed with peculiar energy.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000026_000005|All action in any direction is best expounded, measured, and made apprehensible, by reaction.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000026_000006|Now apply this to the case in Macbeth.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000026_000010|In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear.
train-other-500/331/135126/331_135126_000027_000000|O, mighty poet!
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000001_000000|I DON'T know how it is best to put this thing down-whether it would be better to try and tell the story from the beginning, as if it were a story; or whether to tell it from this distance of time, as it reached me from the lips of Leonora or from those of Edward himself.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000002_000000|So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000002_000001|From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at the great moon and say: "Why, it is nearly as bright as in Provence!" And then we shall come back to the fireside, with just the touch of a sigh because we are not in that Provence where even the saddest stories are gay.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000002_000002|Consider the lamentable history of Peire Vidal.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000005_000000|No, we never did go back anywhere.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000005_000001|Not to Heidelberg, not to Hamelin, not to Verona, not to Mont Majour-not so much as to Carcassonne itself. We talked of it, of course, but I guess Florence got all she wanted out of one look at a place.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000005_000002|She had the seeing eye.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000000|Is all this digression or isn't it digression?
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000001|Again I don't know.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000002|You, the listener, sit opposite me.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000003|But you are so silent.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000004|You don't tell me anything.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000005|I am, at any rate, trying to get you to see what sort of life it was I led with Florence and what Florence was like.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000006|Well, she was bright; and she danced.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000007_000008|And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000000|Florence's aunts used to say that I must be the laziest man in Philadelphia.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000002|You see, the first thing they said to me when I called in on Florence in the little ancient, colonial, wooden house beneath the high, thin leaved elms-the first question they asked me was not how I did but what did I do.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000003|And I did nothing.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000004|I suppose I ought to have done something, but I didn't see any call to do it.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000005|Why does one do things?
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000006|I just drifted in and wanted Florence.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000008|I don't know why I had gone to New York; I don't know why I had gone to the tea.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000009|I don't see why Florence should have gone to that sort of spelling bee.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000010|It wasn't the place at which, even then, you expected to find a Poughkeepsie graduate. I guess Florence wanted to raise the culture of the Stuyvesant crowd and did it as she might have gone in slumming.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000011|Intellectual slumming, that was what it was.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000014|I wonder what he made of it?
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000008_000015|Perhaps he was thankful.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000009_000000|I know I was.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000009_000002|I had to keep her at it, you understand, or she might die.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000009_000003|For I was solemnly informed that if she became excited over anything or if her emotions were really stirred her little heart might cease to beat.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000009_000004|For twelve years I had to watch every word that any person uttered in any conversation and I had to head it off what the English call "things"--off love, poverty, crime, religion and the rest of it.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000009_000005|Yes, the first doctor that we had when she was carried off the ship at Havre assured me that this must be done. Good God, are all these fellows monstrous idiots, or is there a freemasonry between all of them from end to end of the earth?...
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000010_000000|Because, of course, his story is culture and I had to head her towards culture and at the same time it's so funny and she hadn't got to laugh, and it's so full of love and she wasn't to think of love.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000010_000004|And she wouldn't have anything to do with him.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000010_000007|They polished him up and her husband remonstrated seriously with her.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000010_000008|Vidal was, you see, a great poet and it was not proper to treat a great poet with indifference.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000011_000001|And Peire set sail in a rowing boat with four companions to redeem the Holy Sepulchre.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000011_000002|And they struck on a rock somewhere, and, at great expense, the husband had to fit out an expedition to fetch him back.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000001|An extraordinarily lovable man, that Uncle john.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000003|He didn't reside at Stamford; his home was in Waterbury where the watches come from.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000005|For nine months or so it would manufacture buttons out of bone.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000006|Then it would suddenly produce brass buttons for coachmen's liveries.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000007|Then it would take a turn at embossed tin lids for candy boxes.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000008|The fact is that the poor old gentleman, with his weak and fluttering heart, didn't want his factory to manufacture anything at all.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000009|He wanted to retire.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000010|And he did retire when he was seventy.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000011|But he was so worried at having all the street boys in the town point after him and exclaim: "There goes the laziest man in Waterbury!" that he tried taking a tour round the world.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000012_000012|And Florence and a young man called Jimmy went with him.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000013_000000|I think an anecdote is about the best way to give you an idea of what the old gentleman was like.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000013_000001|For it is perhaps important that you should know what the old gentleman was; he had a great deal of influence in forming the character of my poor dear wife.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000014_000000|Just before they set out from San Francisco for the South Seas old Mr Hurlbird said he must take something with him to make little presents to people he met on the voyage.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000014_000001|And it struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges-because California is the orange country-and comfortable folding chairs.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000014_000002|So he bought I don't know how many cases of oranges-the great cool California oranges, and half a dozen folding chairs in a special case that he always kept in his cabin.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000014_000003|There must have been half a cargo of fruit.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000015_000000|For, to every person on board the several steamers that they employed-to every person with whom he had so much as a nodding acquaintance, he gave an orange every morning.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000015_000001|And they lasted him right round the girdle of this mighty globe of ours.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000015_000002|When they were at North Cape, even, he saw on the horizon, poor dear thin man that he was, a lighthouse.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000015_000004|Let's take them some oranges." So he had a boatload of his fruit out and had himself rowed to the lighthouse on the horizon.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000015_000005|The folding chairs he lent to any lady that he came across and liked or who seemed tired and invalidish on the ship.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000015_000006|And so, guarded against his heart and, having his niece with him, he went round the world....
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000016_000000|He wasn't obtrusive about his heart.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000016_000003|It had certainly jumped or squeaked or something just sufficiently to take in the doctors, but it appears that that was because of an odd formation of the lungs.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000016_000004|I don't much understand about these matters.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000017_000001|I wish I hadn't.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000017_000002|It was a great worry.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000000|Yes, it was a great worry.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000001|And just as I had got things roughly settled I received the extraordinary cable from Ashburnham begging me to come back and have a talk with him.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000002|And immediately afterwards came one from Leonora saying, "Yes, please do come.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000003|You could be so helpful."
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000004|It was as if he had sent the cable without consulting her and had afterwards told her.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000006|I arrived, however, too late to be of any good if I could have been of any good.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000007|And then I had my first taste of English life.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000008|It was amazing.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000009|It was overwhelming.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000011|And the peace!
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000012|And the red cheeks!
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000018_000013|And the beautiful, beautiful old house.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000019_000001|I tell you it was amazing to arrive there from Waterbury.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000019_000003|I tell you it was the very spirit of peace.
train-other-500/331/884/331_884_000019_000004|And Leonora, beautiful and smiling, with her coils of yellow hair, stood on the top doorstep, with a butler and footman and a maid or so behind her.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000002_000000|CLAY
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000003_000000|THE matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women's tea was over and Maria looked forward to her evening out.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000003_000001|The kitchen was spick and span: the cook said you could see yourself in the big copper boilers.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000003_000002|The fire was nice and bright and on one of the side tables were four very big barmbracks.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000003_000003|These barmbracks seemed uncut; but if you went closer you would see that they had been cut into long thick even slices and were ready to be handed round at tea.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000003_000004|Maria had cut them herself.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000004_000001|She talked a little through her nose, always soothingly: "Yes, my dear," and "No, my dear." She was always sent for when the women quarrelled over their tubs and always succeeded in making peace.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000004_000002|One day the matron had said to her:
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000005_000000|"Maria, you are a veritable peace maker!"
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000006_000000|And the sub matron and two of the Board ladies had heard the compliment. And Ginger Mooney was always saying what she wouldn't do to the dummy who had charge of the irons if it wasn't for Maria.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000006_000001|Everyone was so fond of Maria.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000000|The women would have their tea at six o'clock and she would be able to get away before seven.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000001|From Ballsbridge to the Pillar, twenty minutes; from the Pillar to Drumcondra, twenty minutes; and twenty minutes to buy the things.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000002|She would be there before eight.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000004|She was very fond of that purse because Joe had brought it to her five years before when he and Alphy had gone to Belfast on a Whit Monday trip.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000005|In the purse were two half crowns and some coppers.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000006|She would have five shillings clear after paying tram fare.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000007|What a nice evening they would have, all the children singing!
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000008|Only she hoped that Joe wouldn't come in drunk.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000007_000009|He was so different when he took any drink.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000008_000000|Often he had wanted her to go and live with them; but she would have felt herself in the way (though Joe's wife was ever so nice with her) and she had become accustomed to the life of the laundry.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000008_000001|Joe was a good fellow.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000008_000002|She had nursed him and Alphy too; and Joe used often say:
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000009_000000|"Mamma is mamma but Maria is my proper mother."
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000010_000000|After the break-up at home the boys had got her that position in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, and she liked it.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000010_000002|Then she had her plants in the conservatory and she liked looking after them.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000010_000003|She had lovely ferns and wax plants and, whenever anyone came to visit her, she always gave the visitor one or two slips from her conservatory.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000010_000004|There was one thing she didn't like and that was the tracts on the walks; but the matron was such a nice person to deal with, so genteel.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000011_000000|When the cook told her everything was ready she went into the women's room and began to pull the big bell.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000011_000002|They settled down before their huge mugs which the cook and the dummy filled up with hot tea, already mixed with milk and sugar in huge tin cans.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000011_000003|Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000011_000004|There was a great deal of laughing and joking during the meal.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000011_000005|Lizzie Fleming said Maria was sure to get the ring and, though Fleming had said that for so many Hallow Eves, Maria had to laugh and say she didn't want any ring or man either; and when she laughed her grey green eyes sparkled with disappointed shyness and the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000012_000000|But wasn't Maria glad when the women had finished their tea and the cook and the dummy had begun to clear away the tea things!
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000012_000001|She went into her little bedroom and, remembering that the next morning was a mass morning, changed the hand of the alarm from seven to six.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000012_000002|Then she took off her working skirt and her house boots and laid her best skirt out on the bed and her tiny dress boots beside the foot of the bed.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000012_000003|She changed her blouse too and, as she stood before the mirror, she thought of how she used to dress for mass on Sunday morning when she was a young girl; and she looked with quaint affection at the diminutive body which she had so often adorned.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000012_000004|In spite of its years she found it a nice tidy little body.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000013_000000|When she got outside the streets were shining with rain and she was glad of her old brown waterproof.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000013_000001|The tram was full and she had to sit on the little stool at the end of the car, facing all the people, with her toes barely touching the floor.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000013_000002|She arranged in her mind all she was going to do and thought how much better it was to be independent and to have your own money in your pocket.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000013_000003|She hoped they would have a nice evening.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000013_000004|She was sure they would but she could not help thinking what a pity it was Alphy and Joe were not speaking.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000013_000005|They were always falling out now but when they were boys together they used to be the best of friends: but such was life.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000000|She got out of her tram at the Pillar and ferreted her way quickly among the crowds.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000001|She went into Downes's cake shop but the shop was so full of people that it was a long time before she could get herself attended to.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000002|She bought a dozen of mixed penny cakes, and at last came out of the shop laden with a big bag.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000003|Then she thought what else would she buy: she wanted to buy something really nice.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000004|They would be sure to have plenty of apples and nuts.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000005|It was hard to know what to buy and all she could think of was cake.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000006|She decided to buy some plumcake but Downes's plumcake had not enough almond icing on top of it so she went over to a shop in Henry Street.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000007|Here she was a long time in suiting herself and the stylish young lady behind the counter, who was evidently a little annoyed by her, asked her was it wedding cake she wanted to buy.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000014_000008|That made Maria blush and smile at the young lady; but the young lady took it all very seriously and finally cut a thick slice of plumcake, parcelled it up and said:
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000015_000000|"Two and four, please."
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000016_000001|He was a stout gentleman and he wore a brown hard hat; he had a square red face and a greyish moustache.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000016_000002|Maria thought he was a colonel looking gentleman and she reflected how much more polite he was than the young men who simply stared straight before them.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000016_000003|The gentleman began to chat with her about Hallow Eve and the rainy weather.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000016_000004|He supposed the bag was full of good things for the little ones and said it was only right that the youngsters should enjoy themselves while they were young.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000016_000005|Maria agreed with him and favoured him with demure nods and hems.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000016_000006|He was very nice with her, and when she was getting out at the Canal Bridge she thanked him and bowed, and he bowed to her and raised his hat and smiled agreeably, and while she was going up along the terrace, bending her tiny head under the rain, she thought how easy it was to know a gentleman even when he has a drop taken.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000017_000001|Joe was there, having come home from business, and all the children had their Sunday dresses on.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000017_000002|There were two big girls in from next door and games were going on.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000017_000003|Maria gave the bag of cakes to the eldest boy, Alphy, to divide and mrs Donnelly said it was too good of her to bring such a big bag of cakes and made all the children say:
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000018_000000|"Thanks, Maria."
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000019_000001|She tried in Downes's bag and then in the pockets of her waterproof and then on the hallstand but nowhere could she find it. Then she asked all the children had any of them eaten it-by mistake, of course-but the children all said no and looked as if they did not like to eat cakes if they were to be accused of stealing.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000019_000002|Everybody had a solution for the mystery and mrs Donnelly said it was plain that Maria had left it behind her in the tram.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000019_000004|At the thought of the failure of her little surprise and of the two and fourpence she had thrown away for nothing she nearly cried outright.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000000|But Joe said it didn't matter and made her sit down by the fire.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000001|He was very nice with her.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000002|He told her all that went on in his office, repeating for her a smart answer which he had made to the manager.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000003|Maria did not understand why Joe laughed so much over the answer he had made but she said that the manager must have been a very overbearing person to deal with.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000004|Joe said he wasn't so bad when you knew how to take him, that he was a decent sort so long as you didn't rub him the wrong way. mrs Donnelly played the piano for the children and they danced and sang.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000005|Then the two next door girls handed round the nuts.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000006|Nobody could find the nutcrackers and Joe was nearly getting cross over it and asked how did they expect Maria to crack nuts without a nutcracker.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000020_000008|Maria said she would rather they didn't ask her to take anything: but Joe insisted.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000000|So Maria let him have his way and they sat by the fire talking over old times and Maria thought she would put in a good word for Alphy.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000001|But Joe cried that God might strike him stone dead if ever he spoke a word to his brother again and Maria said she was sorry she had mentioned the matter.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000003|But Joe said he would not lose his temper on account of the night it was and asked his wife to open some more stout.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000004|The two next door girls had arranged some Hallow Eve games and soon everything was merry again. Maria was delighted to see the children so merry and Joe and his wife in such good spirits.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000005|The next door girls put some saucers on the table and then led the children up to the table, blindfold.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000006|One got the prayer book and the other three got the water; and when one of the next door girls got the ring mrs Donnelly shook her finger at the blushing girl as much as to say: O, I know all about it!
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000021_000007|They insisted then on blindfolding Maria and leading her up to the table to see what she would get; and, while they were putting on the bandage, Maria laughed and laughed again till the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000022_000001|She moved her hand about here and there in the air and descended on one of the saucers.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000022_000002|She felt a soft wet substance with her fingers and was surprised that nobody spoke or took off her bandage.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000022_000003|There was a pause for a few seconds; and then a great deal of scuffling and whispering.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000022_000004|Somebody said something about the garden, and at last mrs Donnelly said something very cross to one of the next door girls and told her to throw it out at once: that was no play.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000022_000005|Maria understood that it was wrong that time and so she had to do it over again: and this time she got the prayer book.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000023_000000|After that mrs Donnelly played Miss McCloud's Reel for the children and Joe made Maria take a glass of wine.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000023_000001|Soon they were all quite merry again and mrs Donnelly said Maria would enter a convent before the year was out because she had got the prayer book.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000023_000002|Maria had never seen Joe so nice to her as he was that night, so full of pleasant talk and reminiscences.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000023_000003|She said they were all very good to her.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000024_000000|At last the children grew tired and sleepy and Joe asked Maria would she not sing some little song before she went, one of the old songs.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000024_000001|mrs Donnelly said "Do, please, Maria!" and so Maria had to get up and stand beside the piano.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000024_000002|mrs Donnelly bade the children be quiet and listen to Maria's song.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000024_000003|Then she played the prelude and said "Now, Maria!" and Maria, blushing very much began to sing in a tiny quavering voice.
train-other-500/3314/135987/3314_135987_000024_000004|She sang I Dreamt that I Dwelt, and when she came to the second verse she sang again:
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000002_000003|All who knew her were filled with astonishment, and the duke and duchess more than any; for though they thought her a simpleton and a weak creature, they did not think her capable of crazy pranks.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000002_000004|Dona Rodriguez, at length, turning to her master and mistress said to them, "Will your excellences be pleased to permit me to speak to this gentleman for a moment, for it is requisite I should do so in order to get successfully out of the business in which the boldness of an evil minded clown has involved me?"
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000003_000000|The duke said that for his part he gave her leave, and that she might speak with Senor Don Quixote as much as she liked.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000008_000001|"But first of all," he said, "it is requisite that this worthy duenna and unworthy damsel should place their claim for justice in the hands of Don Quixote; for otherwise nothing can be done, nor can the said challenge be brought to a lawful issue."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000009_000000|"I do so place it," replied the duenna.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000010_000000|"And I too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shame and confusion.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000012_000001|One bore by way of address, Letter for my lady the Duchess So and so, of I don't know where; and the other To my husband Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000014_000000|The letter your highness wrote me, my lady, gave me great pleasure, for indeed I found it very welcome.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000014_000001|The string of coral beads is very fine, and my husband's hunting suit does not fall short of it.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000016_000000|Sancha my daughter, and my son, kiss your worship's hands.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000022_000000|I got thy letter, Sancho of my soul, and I promise thee and swear as a Catholic Christian that I was within two fingers' breadth of going mad I was so happy.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000022_000001|I can tell thee, brother, when I came to hear that thou wert a governor I thought I should have dropped dead with pure joy; and thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as great sorrow; and as for Sanchica thy daughter, she leaked from sheer happiness.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000022_000004|My lady the duchess will tell thee the desire I have to go to the Court; consider the matter and let me know thy pleasure; I will try to do honour to thee by going in a coach.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000023_000002|Send me some strings of pearls if they are in fashion in that island.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000023_000003|Here is the news of the village; La Berrueca has married her daughter to a good for nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might turn up.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000023_000007|Evil tongues say she is with child by him, but he denies it stoutly.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000023_000011|The fountain in the plaza has run dry.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000023_000012|A flash of lightning struck the gibbet, and I wish they all lit there.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000024_000000|Thy wife,
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000026_000000|The letters were applauded, laughed over, relished, and admired; and then, as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived, bringing the one Sancho sent to Don Quixote, and this, too, was read out, and it raised some doubts as to the governor's simplicity.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000026_000001|The duchess withdrew to hear from the page about his adventures in Sancho's village, which he narrated at full length without leaving a single circumstance unmentioned.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000028_000000|OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000029_000000|To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it everything seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000029_000001|The spring succeeds the summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the autumn the winter, and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with never ceasing wheel. Man's life alone, swifter than time, speeds onward to its end without any hope of renewal, save it be in that other life which is endless and boundless.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000029_000003|For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard such a noise of bell ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the whole island was going to the bottom.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000029_000005|The enemy is in the island in countless numbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valour come to our support."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000031_000000|"What have I to do with arming?" said Sancho.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000031_000001|"What do I know about arms or supports?
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000034_000001|What you must do is carry me in your arms, and lay me across or set me upright in some postern, and I'll hold it either with this lance or with my body."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000000|Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an attempt to advance, but fell to the ground with such a crash that he fancied he had broken himself all to pieces.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000003|Here the enemy is thickest!
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000004|Hold the breach there! Shut that gate!
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000005|Barricade those ladders!
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000006|Here with your stink pots of pitch and resin, and kettles of boiling oil!
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000007|Block the streets with feather beds!"
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000009|The enemy retreats beaten!
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000036_000010|Come, senor governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000037_000001|They helped him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, "The enemy I have beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don't want to divide the spoils of the foe, I only beg and entreat some friend, if I have one, to give me a sup of wine, for I'm parched with thirst, and wipe me dry, for I'm turning to water."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000038_000000|They rubbed him down, fetched him wine and unbound the shields, and he seated himself upon his bed, and with fear, agitation, and fatigue he fainted away.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000038_000001|Those who had been concerned in the joke were now sorry they had pushed it so far; however, the anxiety his fainting away had caused them was relieved by his returning to himself.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000038_000002|He asked what o'clock it was; they told him it was just daybreak.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000038_000003|He said no more, and in silence began to dress himself, while all watched him, waiting to see what the haste with which he was putting on his clothes meant.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000039_000002|I was not born to be a governor or protect islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000039_000004|'Saint peter is very well at Rome; I mean each of us is best following the trade he was born to.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000039_000006|God be with your worships, and tell my lord the duke that 'naked I was born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a farthing I go out of it, very different from the way governors commonly leave other islands.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000039_000007|Stand aside and let me go; I have to plaster myself, for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks to the enemies that have been trampling over me to night."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000041_000000|"You spoke late," said Sancho.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000041_000001|"I'd as soon turn Turk as stay any longer. Those jokes won't pass a second time.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000041_000002|By God I'd as soon remain in this government, or take another, even if it was offered me between two plates, as fly to heaven without wings.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000042_000000|To this the majordomo said, "Senor governor, we would let your worship go with all our hearts, though it sorely grieves us to lose you, for your wit and Christian conduct naturally make us regret you; but it is well known that every governor, before he leaves the place where he has been governing, is bound first of all to render an account.
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000042_000001|Let your worship do so for the ten days you have held the government, and then you may go and the peace of God go with you."
train-other-500/3314/138053/3314_138053_000045_000000|They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to bear him company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own comfort or for the journey.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000002_000000|ONCE upon a time there lived a king who had three sons, two of whom were bright youths, but the youngest never had anything to say for himself, so he was set down by everyone as a simpleton.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000003_000000|Years went on, and the King felt himself growing old, and he thought it was time to decide which of his sons was to succeed him.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000005_000000|"As they fly, thither shall you follow."
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000006_000001|So one brother went east, and another west, and poor Dummling was left to follow the third feather, which had gone no distance at all, whereat his brothers were much amused.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000008_000000|Immediately he heard a voice singing:
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000009_000000|"Little frog, so green and cold, I prithee open and behold Who it is that knocks so bold,"
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000010_000000|and the door opened, and he saw a large frog squatting in the middle of a circle of little ones.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000010_000001|The big one bowed to him as he entered, and asked him what he sought.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000011_000000|"Please," said Dummling, taking off his cap and returning the bow, "I want to know if you can help me to get the most beautiful carpet in the world."
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000014_000000|Then the mother Frog took a key that hung around her neck on a chain, and opened the box and drew forth the most beautiful carpet that was ever seen.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000016_000000|Meanwhile, the two brothers, never thinking that Dummling was clever enough to find any sort of carpet at all, said to each other:
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000017_000000|"Let us buy the shawl of the first peasant woman we meet.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000017_000001|That should be good enough to win us the kingdom."
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000019_000000|The King was astonished when the carpets were spread out before him and he saw the lovely thing Dummling had brought.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000023_000000|So the King gave out that whoever should bring him the most beautiful ring should be King when he died, and he blew up the feathers as before, and bade the youths follow them.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000024_000000|The two eldest went east and west, but Dummling's feather did as it did the first time, and fell to earth just by the trapdoor.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000024_000001|So he pulled it up once again and went down the steps.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000025_000000|When the door was opened, he told the big Frog that he wanted the most beautiful ring in the world.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000025_000001|So she sent one of her little attendants hopping for her jewel casket, and, when it was come, she took out of it a ring that fairly blazed with diamonds and other jewels, and finer than the finest workmanship that could be obtained.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000025_000002|You may imagine Dummling thanked her very warmly for the ring, and hurried off back to the palace as fast as his legs could carry him.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000025_000004|As soon as the King saw Dummling's lovely jewel, he cried out:
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000026_000000|"The kingdom belongs to him."
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000027_000000|But the brothers again flew into a passion at this, and said that a youth who had as little wit as Dummling could not possibly reign over the land.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000027_000001|So they worried the father at last to make just one more condition; and this time he said that whoever should bring home the most beautiful woman in the world should succeed to the throne.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000028_000000|Dummling's feather floated and fell just as before, and again he pulled up his trapdoor and went down into the presence of the old Frog, and told her that this time he wanted the most beautiful maiden in all the world.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000031_000000|"I will tell you," she said.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000031_000001|"Take one of my little frog attendants and set her on the carrot."
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000034_000000|Of course the King had nothing for it but to award the kingdom to his youngest son, and, of course, the elder brothers still grumbled, and made such a fuss that at last the poor King had to consent to yet another trial.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000035_000000|To prove which was the best wife of the three, he decided that they should all jump through a hoop in the hall, and the one who did it most prettily was to be the winner.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000036_000000|And now all the court was gathered together in the hall to see the contest.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000036_000001|The country girls jumped, but were so plump that they fell heavily and broke their arms and legs.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000036_000002|Then Dummling's lovely maiden sprang lightly and gracefully through the ring, and landed safely on the other side.
train-other-500/3314/159392/3314_159392_000037_000000|So at last the brothers had to be content, and in time Dummling came to the throne and ruled wisely and well for many, many years.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000001_000000|THE FIRE COUNTRY AGAIN.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000002_000001|Even the bones had been dragged into the forest by the ravening creatures who had fed there during the night.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000003_000000|And so began the home life of these two people.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000003_000002|The two were very close, as the conditions under which they lived demanded.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000003_000003|They were the only human beings within a radius of miles.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000003_000005|And the two troubled themselves about nothing.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000003_000006|Who better than they could daily win the means of animal subsistence?
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000004_000001|He taught her, too, the use of his new weapon, and in all his life he did no wiser thing!
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000004_000003|Her arrows flew with greater accuracy than his, though the buzzing shaft had not as yet, and did not have for many centuries later, the "gray goose" feather which made the doing of its mission far more certain.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000004_000005|Even in their joint hunting, when there was a half rivalry, he was happy in her.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000005_000001|And she learned the woods about them well, and, though ever dreading when alone, found where were the trees from which fell the greatest store of nuts and where, in the mud along the river's side, her long and highly educated toes could reach the clams which were excellent to feed upon.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000006_000000|But never did the hunter leave the cave without a fear.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000006_000003|Yet the two cared little for these fearful surroundings of the darkness.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000006_000004|They were safe enough.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000006_000005|In the morning there were no signs of the lurking beasts of prey.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000007_000000|It may be that because of this ever present peril the two grew closer together.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000007_000001|It could not well be otherwise with human beings thus bound and isolated and facing and living upon the rest of nature, part of it seeking always their own lives.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000007_000002|They became a wonderfully loving couple, as love went in that rude time.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000007_000004|Yet, one day, came a difference and a hurt.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000002|Early in their married life Lightfoot, to whom the memory of the dead man, so little had she known him, was a far less haunting thing than to her husband, had suddenly broken a silence, saying "Where is Oak?" There was no answer, but the look of the man of whom she had asked the question was such that she was glad to creep from his sight unharmed.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000004|She, but to tease him, sprang up with a face convulsed and agonized, and with staring eyes and hands opening and shutting, had cried out "Oak!
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000006|Her mimic terror was changed on the moment into reality.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000007|With a shudder and then with a glare in his eyes the man leaped toward her, snatching his great ax from his belt and swinging it above her head.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000008|The woman shrieked and shrank to the ground.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000009|The man whirled the weapon aloft and then, his face twitching convulsively, checked its descent.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000010|He may, in that moment, have thought of what followed the slaying of the other who had been close to him. There was no death done, but, thenceforth, Lightfoot never uttered aloud the name of Oak.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000008_000011|She became more sedate and grave of bearing.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000009_000001|The months went by and there were tranquil hours in the cave as, at night, the weapons were shaped, and Lightfoot boasted of the arrowheads she had learned to make so well.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000010_000001|The incident of the talk of Oak may have brought to his mind again more freshly and keenly the memory of the Fire Country.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000010_000002|There he had found safety and great comfort.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000010_000005|He became so absorbed in his own thoughts on this great theme that the woman who was his could not understand his mood, but, one day, he told her of what he had been thinking and of what he had resolved upon. "I am going to the Fire Country," he said.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000012_000002|She remained close to the cave, and when early dusk came she lugged the stone barriers into place and built a night fire within the entrance.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000012_000003|The fierce and hungry beasts of the wood came, as usual, lurking and sniffing harshly about the entrance, and when she ventured there and peered outside she saw the wicked and leering eyes.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000012_000005|She would have sport with her bow.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000012_000006|The advantage of the bow is that it requires no swing of space for its work as is demanded of the flung spear.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000012_000007|An arrow may be sent through a mere loophole with no probable demerit as to what it will accomplish.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000012_000009|There was a certain comfort in the work, though it could not affect her condition in one way or another.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000013_000001|He found it as comfortable and untenanted as when the leap through the ring of flame had saved his life. He clambered up the creek and wandered along its banks, where the grass was green because of the warmth about, and studied all the qualities of the naturally defended valley.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000013_000002|"I will make my home here," he said. "Lightfoot shall come with me."
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000014_000000|The man returned to his cave and his lonely mate again and told her of the Fire Country.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000014_000001|He said that in the Fire Valley they would be safer and happier, and told her how he had found an opening underneath the cliff which they could soon enlarge into a cave to meet all wants.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000014_000002|Not that a cave was really needed in a fire valley, but they might have one if they cared.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000014_000003|And Lightfoot was glad of the departure.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000015_000001|But it was far different from either journey that he had made.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000015_000002|There with him was his wife, and he was all equipped and was to begin a new sort of life which would, he felt, be good.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000015_000003|Lightfoot, bearing her load gallantly, was not less jubilant.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000015_000007|She was a plucky young matron, but there were extremes.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000016_000000|There were no adventures on the journey worth relating.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000016_000003|"It is our home!" she cried.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000017_000001|But, though they worked earnestly, they did not care so much for the prospective shelter as they might have done.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000017_000002|What a cave had given was warmth and safety.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000017_000003|Here they had both, out of doors and under the clear sky.
train-other-500/3318/164981/3318_164981_000017_000004|It was a new and glorious life.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000003_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000004_000000|LITTLE MOK.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000005_000001|When the child, strong and joyous, was scarcely two years old, he fell from a ledge off the cliff where he had climbed to play, and both his legs were broken.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000005_000002|Strange to say he survived the accident in that time when the law of the survival of the fittest was almost invariable in its sternest and most purely physical demonstration.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000005_000003|The mother love of Lightfoot warded off the last pitiless blow of nature, although the child, a hopeless cripple, never after walked.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000005_000004|The name Little Mok was naturally given him, and before long the child had won the heart, as well as the name, of the limping old maker of axes, spearheads and arrows.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000006_000000|The closer ties of family life, as we know them now, existed but in their outlines to the cave man.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000006_000001|The man and woman were faithful to each other with the fidelity of the higher animals and their children were cared for with rough tenderness in their infancy.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000006_000002|The time of absolute dependence was made very short, though, and children very early were required to find some of their own food, and taught by necessity to protect themselves.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000006_000003|But Little Mok, unable to take up for himself the burden of an independent existence, was not slain nor left to die of neglect as might have been another child thus crippled in the time in which he lived.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000007_000000|It was a strange thing for the time.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000007_000002|He may have been the first child ever so cherished from such impulse.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000008_000000|From his mother the child inherited a joyous disposition which nothing could subdue.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000008_000002|Other children flocked around the merry youngster, seeking to emulate his play of voice and the oldsters smiled as they saw and heard the joyous confusion about the tiny reveler.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000009_000000|No one ever forgot the day when Little Mok, then about six years old, caught his first fish.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000009_000001|His joy and pride infected all as he exhibited his prize and boasted of what he would catch in the river next, and when, on the return, Old Mok saluted him as the "Great Fisherman," the elf's elation became too great for any expression.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000000|It was soon after this great event of the first fish catching that Red Spot, Ab's mother, died.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000002|At last a fever attacked her and the end of her patient, busy life came.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000003|After her death One Ear was much in Old Mok's cave, the two had so long been friends.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000004|There with them the crippled boy was often to be found.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000005|He was not always gay and joyous.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000006|Sometimes he lay for days on his bed of leaves at home, in weakness and pain, silent and unlike himself. Then when Lightfoot's care had given him back a little strength, he would beg to be taken to Old Mok's cave.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000010_000009|Here, when no one else remained in the weary darkness of night and the half light of stormy days Old Mok beguiled the time with stories, and sometimes in a hoarse voice even attempted to chant to his little hearer snatches of the wild singing tales of the Shell People, for the Shell People had a sort of story song.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000011_000002|The laugh of the cave man was not a common event, and when it came was likely to be sober and sardonic, at least it was so when not simply an evidence of rude health and high animal spirits.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000011_000003|Humor is one of the latest, as it is one of the most precious, grains shaken out of Time's hour glass, but Little Mok somehow caught a tiny bit of the rainbow gift, long before its time in the world, and soon, with him, it was to disappear for centuries to come.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000001|The veteran stared in surprise.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000002|The picture was wonderfully life like in grasp and detail.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000003|The child owned that great gift, the memory of sight, and his hand was cunning.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000004|Encouraged by his success, the boy drew on, delighting Old Mok with his singular fidelity and skill.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000005|Then came hours and days of sketching and etching in the old man's cave.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000006|The master was delighted.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000012_000008|And, as time passed, the young artist excelled the old one, and became the pride and boast of his friend and teacher.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000013_000001|He became permanently weak and grew more and more helpless day by day.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000013_000002|His cherished excursions to the river, even his little journeys on old One Ear's strong arm to the cliff top, from whence he could see the whole world at once, had all to be abandoned.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000014_000000|When the winter snows began to whirl in the air Little Mok was lying quietly on his bed, his great eyes looking wistfully up at Lightfoot, who in vain taxed her limited skill and resources to tempt him to eat and become more sturdy.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000014_000001|She hovered over him like a distressed mother bird over its youngling fallen from the nest, but, with all her efforts, she could not bring back even his usual slight measure of health and strength to the poor Little Mok.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000015_000000|And at last Little Mok died, and was buried under the stones, and the snow fell over the lonely cairn under the fir trees outside the Fire Valley where his grave was made.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000016_000000|Lightfoot was silent and sad, and could not smile nor laugh any more.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000016_000001|She longed for Little Mok, and did not eat or sleep.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000017_000000|"What do you mean?" cried Lightfoot.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000017_000002|Go to sleep, and you will see him."
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000018_000000|But Lightfoot could not sleep yet and for many a night her eyes closed only when extreme fatigue compelled sleep toward the morning.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000019_000000|And at last, after many days and nights, Lightfoot, when asleep, saw Little Mok.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000019_000001|Just as in life, she saw him, with all his familiar looks and motions.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000019_000002|But he did not stay long.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000019_000005|She only said: "I want to see him in the daytime."
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000020_000001|But that made him think more and more.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000020_000002|He felt drawn closer to Lightfoot, his wife, no longer a young girl, but the mother of Little Mok, who was dead, and of all his children.
train-other-500/3318/164984/3318_164984_000021_000001|Old Mok, crippled and disabled for the hunt and defense, was nevertheless a power not to be despised, and Little Mok, the helpless child, had been still strong enough to win and keep the love of all the stalwart and rough cave people.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000004_000001|It does really seem as if an independent fortune could be made simply by putting forth circulars and advertisements, requesting the receiver to send five dollars to the advertiser, and saying that "it will be all right."
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000005_000000|I have already given an account of the way in which lottery dealers operate.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000005_000003|Some are only to cheat you out of money, and others offer in return for money some base gratification.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000005_000004|But whatever means are used, and whatever purpose is sought, they are all alike in one thing-they depend entirely on the monstrous number of simpletons who will send money to people they know nothing about.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000006_000000|Of the nasty ones, I can give no details.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000007_000000|There have been some cases where a funny sort of swindle has been effected by these peddlers of pruriency, by selling some dirty minded dupe a cheap good book, at the extravagant price of a dear bad one.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000007_000001|More than one foolish youth has received, instead of the vile thing that he sent five dollars for, a nice little New Testament.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000007_000003|It is, perhaps, one of the safest swindles ever contrived.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000008_000001|His scheme appeals at once to benevolence and to greediness.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000008_000002|He says: "The profits of the distribution are to be given to the Sanitary Commission;" and secondly, "Every ticket brings a prize of at least its full value, and some of them five thousand dollars."
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000010_000000|"But," somebody says, "how can you afford this arrangement, which is a direct loss of the whole cost of working your lottery, and moreover of the whole value of all prizes costing more than a ticket?"
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000012_000000|One observation will sufficiently show what an impudent mess of lies this story is, namely;--If the manufacturers of New England wanted to give money to the Sanitary Commission, they would give money; if goods, they would give goods.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000012_000001|They certainly would not put their gifts through the additional roundabout, useless nonsense of a lottery, which is to turn over only the same amount of funds to the Commission.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000013_000001|This chap sends round a list of two hundred and fifty recipes at various prices, from twenty five cents to a dollar each.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000013_000003|You are then to go about and peddle it, and swiftly become independently rich.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000014_000001|Most of these recipes are for sufficiently harmless purposes-shaving soap, cement, inks-"five gallons of good ink for fifteen cents"--tooth powders, etc
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000014_000002|Some of them are arrant nonsense; such as "tea-better than the Chinese," which is as if he promised something wetter than water; "to make thieves' vinegar;" "prismatic diamond crystals for windows;" "to make yellow butter"--is the butter blue where the man lives?
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000014_000005|A number of these recipes are barefaced quackeries; such as cures for consumption, cancer, rheumatism, and sundry other diseases; to make whiskers and mustaches grow-ah, boys, you can't hurry up those things.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000014_000006|Greasing your cheeks is just as good as trying to whistle the hair out, but not a bit better.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000014_000009|And last, but not least, quietly inserted among all these fooleries and harmless humbugs, are two or three recipes which promise the safe gratification of the basest vices.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000014_000010|Those are what he really hoped to get money for.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000015_000000|I have carefully refrained from giving any names or information which would enable anybody to address any of these folks.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000015_000001|I do not propose to cooperate with them, if I know it.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000017_000000|The next paper I can copy verbatim, except some names, etc, is a letter as follows:
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000018_000001|Pleas forward the same.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000018_000002|I shall send it Per Express Your receipt."
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000019_000000|It is some little comfort to know that this gentleman, who is so much opposed to the present prevailing methods of spelling, lost the three cents which he invested in seeking "fratage." But a good many sensible people have carelessly sent away the small amounts demanded by letters like the above, and have wondered why their prepaid parcels never came.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000020_000000|Next, is an account by a half amused and half indignant eye witness, of what happened in a well known town in Western New York, on friday january sixth eighteen sixty five.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000020_000001|A personage described as "dressed in Yankee style," drove into the principal street of the place with a horse and buggy, and began to sell what is called in some parts of New England "Attleboro," that is, imitation jewelry, but promising to return the customers their money, if required, and doing so.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000020_000002|After a number of transactions of this kind, he bawls out, like the sorcerer in Aladdin, who went around crying new lamps for old, "Who will give me four dollars for this five dollar greenback?"
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000021_000000|He found a customer; sold a one dollar greenback for ninety cents; then sold some half dollar bills for twenty five cents each; then flung out among the crowd what a fisherman would call ground bait, in the shape of a handful of "currency."
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000022_000000|Everybody scrambled for the money.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000022_000001|This liberal trader now drove slowly a little way along, and the crowd pressed after him.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000023_000000|He now began, without any further promises, to sell a lot of bogus lockets at five dollars each, and in a few minutes had disposed of about forty.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000023_000001|Having, therefore, about two hundred dollars in his pocket, and trade slackening, he coolly observes, with a terseness and clearness of oratory that would not discredit General Sherman:
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000024_000000|"Gentlemen-I have sold you those goods at my price.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000024_000001|I am a licensed peddler.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000024_000002|If I give you your money back you will think me a lunatic.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000024_000004|Good morning!"
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000025_000000|And sure enough, he drove off.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000025_000002|He really is licensed as a peddler, and though arrested more than once, has consequently not been found legally punishable.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000026_000000|I will specify only one more of my collection, of yet another kind.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000026_000001|This is a printed circular appealing to a class of fools, if possible, even shallower, sillier, and more credulous than any I have named yet.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000026_000002|It is headed "The Gypsies' Seven Secret Charms." These charms consist of a kind of hellbroth or decoction.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000026_000005|These precious conceits are set forth in a ridiculous hodge podge of statements.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000026_000007|This Frenchman is perhaps a relative of the equally celebrated Russian traveller, Toofaroff.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000027_000000|But here is the point, after all.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000027_000001|You send the money, we will say, for one of these charms-for they are for sale separately.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000027_000002|You receive in return a second circular, saying that they work a great deal better all together, and so the man will send you all of them when you send the rest of the money.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000027_000003|Send it, if you choose!
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000028_000001|There are such, however, and a great many of them.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000028_000002|I do not imagine that there are many of these addlepates among my readers; but there is no harm in giving once more a very plain and easy direction which may possibly save somebody some money and some mortification.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000028_000004|Know whom you deal with.
train-other-500/3318/185499/3318_185499_000028_000005|Do not try to get money without giving fair value for it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000001_000000|It was Friday, and the next morning was the when the reports were to be presented.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000001_000001|School had closed, and all but Elsie had already left the room; but she was carefully arranging the books, writing and drawing materials, etc, in her desk, for she was very neat and orderly in her habits.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000002_000000|When she had quite finished her work she took up her report book, and glanced over it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000002_000002|I don't know why I never can get the courage to tell him."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000003_000000|Then, laying it aside, she opened her copy book and turned over the leaves with unalloyed pleasure, for not one of its pages was defaced by a single blot, and from beginning to end it gave evidence of painstaking carefulness and decided improvement.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000006_000000|Now it so happened that afternoon that Arthur, who had made himself sick by over indulgence in sweetmeats, and had in consequence been lounging about the house doing nothing for the last day or two, remained at home while all the rest of the family were out, walking, riding, or visiting.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000009_000000|Elsie, he knew, was out, and Chloe in the kitchen; so, feeling certain there would be no one to interfere with him, he went directly to the little girl's room to look for the book.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000011_000001|But then Adelaide had just left home to pay a visit to a friend living at some distance, and would not return for several weeks, so there was little danger from that quarter.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000011_000002|Miss Day, to be sure, knew the appearance of Elsie's book quite as well, but there was still less danger of her interference, and he was pretty certain no one else knew.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000013_000001|He stopped once or twice as he thought he heard a footstep, and shut down the lid until it had passed, when he raised it again and went on with his wicked work.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000013_000002|It did not take long, however, and he soon replaced the copy book in the precise spot in which he had found it, wiped the pen, and put it carefully back in its place, relocked the desk, hurried back to Elsie's room, put the key just where he had found it, and taking the book, returned to the nursery without having met any one.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000014_000000|He threw himself down on a couch and tried to read, but in vain; he could not fix his attention upon the page-could think of nothing but the mischief he had done, and its probable consequences; and now, when it was too late, he more than half repented; yet as to confessing and thus saving Elsie from unmerited blame, he did not for a single moment entertain the thought.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000014_000001|But at length it suddenly occurred to him that if it became known that he had been into Elsie's room to get the book he might be suspected; and he started up with the intention of replacing it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000014_000002|But he found that it was too late; she had already returned, for he heard her voice in the hall; so he lay down again, and kept the book until she came in search of it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000015_000000|He looked very guilty as the little girl came in, but not seeming to notice it, she merely said, "I am looking for my book.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000015_000001|I thought perhaps some one might have brought it in here.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000016_000000|"Here, take it," said he roughly, pushing it toward her; "I don't want it; 'tisn't a bit pretty."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000017_000000|"I think it is very interesting, and you are quite welcome to read it if you wish," she answered mildly; "but if you don't care to, I will take it."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000018_000000|"Young ladies and gentlemen," said the governess, as they were about closing their exercises the next morning, "this is the regular day for the reports, and they are all made out.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000018_000001|Miss Elsie, here is yours; bring your copy book, and carry both to your papa."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000022_000000|Then taking the copy book and opening it, much to Elsie's surprise and alarm he gave her a glance of great displeasure, turned rapidly over the leaves, then laying it down, said in his sternest tones, "I see I shall have to keep my promise, Elsie."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000024_000001|"do you ask me what?
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000025_000001|I tried so very hard; and there are no blots in it."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000026_000000|"No blots?" said he; "what do you call these?" and he turned over the leaves again, holding the book so that she could see them, and showing that almost every one was blotted in several places.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000027_000000|Elsie gazed at them in unfeigned astonishment; then looking up into his face, she said earnestly but fearfully, "Papa, I did not do it."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000028_000000|"Who did, then?" he asked.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000029_000000|"Indeed, papa, I do not know," she replied.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000031_000000|And taking her by the hand as he spoke, he led her back to the school room.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000032_000000|"Miss Day," said he, showing the book, "Elsie says these blots are not her work; can you tell me whose they are?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000035_000000|"Yes, papa."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000036_000000|"And have you ever left your desk unlocked, or the key lying about?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000037_000000|"No, papa.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000037_000001|I am quite certain I have not," she answered unhesitatingly, though her voice trembled, and she grey very pale.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000038_000002|Come with me.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000042_000000|"You don't know anything about it," said he doggedly.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000044_000000|"Go away," he exclaimed angrily, "I have nothing to confess."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000045_000000|Seeing it was useless to try to move him, Lora turned away and hurried to Horace's room, which, in her haste, she entered without knocking, he having fortunately neglected to fasten the door.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000045_000001|She was just in time; he had a small riding whip in his hand, and Elsie stood beside him pale as death, too much frightened even to cry, and trembling so that she could scarcely stand.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000046_000000|He turned an angry glance on his sister as she entered; but taking no notice of it, she exclaimed eagerly, "Horace, don't punish Elsie, for I am certain she is innocent."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000047_000002|I shall be very glad to be convinced," he added, his countenance relaxing somewhat in its stern and angry expression.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000048_000001|And then, Horace, what motive could she have had for spoiling her book, knowing as she did that certain punishment would follow?
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000048_000002|Besides, I am sure Arthur is at the bottom of this, for though he will not acknowledge, he does not deny it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000049_000000|A great change had come over her brother's countenance while she was speaking.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000050_000000|"Thank you, Lora," he said, cordially, as soon as she had done, "you have quite convinced me, and saved me from punishing Elsie as unjustly as severely.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000050_000001|That last assurance I consider quite sufficient of itself to establish her innocence."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000051_000000|Lora turned and went out feeling very happy, and as she closed the door, Elsie's papa took her in his arms, saying in loving, tender tones, "My poor little daughter! my own darling child!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000051_000001|I have been cruelly unjust to you, have I not?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000052_000000|"Dear papa, you thought I deserved it," she said, with a burst of tears and sobs, throwing her arms around his neck, and laying her head on his breast.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000053_000000|"Do you love me, Elsie, dearest?" he asked, folding her closer to his heart.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000054_000001|O papa!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000054_000002|if you would only love me." The last word was almost a sob.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000055_000000|"I do, my darling, my own precious child," he said, caressing her again and again.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000055_000002|I could never forgive myself if I had done it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000055_000003|I would rather have lost half I am worth; ah!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000055_000004|I fear it would have turned all her love for me into hatred; and justly, too."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000056_000000|"No, papa, oh!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000057_000000|"There, there daughter!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000057_000001|don't cry any more; we will try to forget all about it, and talk of something else," he said soothingly.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000057_000002|"Elsie, dear, your Aunt Adelaide thinks perhaps you were not so very much to blame the other day; and now I want you to tell me all the circumstances; for though I should be very sorry to encourage you to find fault with your teacher, I am by no means willing to have you abused."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000058_000000|"Please, papa, don't ask me," she begged.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000061_000000|"Elsie," he said when she had done, "if I had known all this at the time, I should not have punished you at all.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000061_000001|Why did you not tell me, my daughter, how you have been ill treated and provoked?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000062_000000|"O papa!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000063_000000|"I did ask you if it was true that you contradicted her, did I not?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000064_000000|"Yes, papa, and it was true."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000065_000000|"You ought to have told me the whole story though; but I see how it was-I frightened you by my sternness.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000066_000000|"I will, papa," she replied meekly; "but indeed I cannot help feeling frightened when you are angry with me."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000068_000000|"What is this, Elsie?" he asked, taking hold of the chain she always wore around her neck, and drawing the miniature from her bosom.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000069_000000|But as he touched the spring the case flew open, revealing the sweet, girlish face, it needed not Elsie's low murmured "Mamma" to tell him who that lovely lady was.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000070_000000|He gazed upon it with emotion, carried back in memory to the time when for a few short months she had been his own most cherished treasure. Then, looking from it to his child, he murmured, "Yes, she is very like-the same features, the same expression, complexion, hair and all-will be the very counterpart of her if she lives."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000072_000000|"Yes, darling, very much indeed, and I hope you will grow more so."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000073_000000|"You loved mamma?" she said inquiringly.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000075_000000|"O papa!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000076_000000|"I have not much to tell," he said, sighing.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000077_000001|Do you love Jesus, papa?" she timidly inquired, for she had seen him do a number of things which she knew to be wrong-such as riding out for pleasure on the Sabbath, reading secular newspapers, and engaging in worldly conversation-and she greatly feared he did not.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000078_000000|But instead of answering her question, he asked, "Do you, Elsie?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000080_000000|"How do you know?" he asked, looking keenly into her face.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000083_000000|He kissed her very gravely, and set her down, saying, "Go now, my daughter, and prepare for dinner; it is almost time for the bell."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000084_000000|"You are not displeased, papa?" she inquired, looking up anxiously into his face.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000085_000000|"No, darling, not at all," he replied, stroking her hair.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000086_000000|"Oh papa! do you really mean it?
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000086_000001|I shall be so glad!" she exclaimed joyfully.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000087_000000|"Very well, then," he said, "it is settled.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000087_000001|But go now; there is the bell.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000087_000002|No, stay!" he added quickly, as she turned to obey; "think a moment and tell me where you put the key of your desk yesterday, for it must have been then the mischief was done.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000087_000003|Had you it with you when you rode out?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000088_000000|Suddenly Elsie's face flushed, and she exclaimed Eagerly, "Ah!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000088_000001|I remember now!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000088_000002|I left it on the mantelpiece, papa, and-"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000089_000000|But here she paused, as if sorry she had said so much.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000090_000000|"And what?" he asked.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000091_000000|"I think I had better not say it, papa!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000092_000001|Was Aunt Chloe in your room all the time you were away?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000093_000000|"No, sir; she told me she went down to the kitchen directly after I left, and did not come up again until after I returned."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000094_000000|"Very well; do you know whether any one else entered the room during your absence?"
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000096_000000|"Ah, ha! that is just it!
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000096_000001|I see it all now," he exclaimed, with a satisfied nod.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000096_000002|"There, that will do, Elsie; go now and make haste down to your dinner."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000097_000000|But Elsie lingered, and, in answer to a look of kind inquiry from her father, said coaxingly, "Please, papa, don't be very angry with him.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000097_000001|I think he did not know how much I cared about my book."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000098_000000|"You are very forgiving, Elsie; but go, child, I shall not abuse him," mr Dinsmore answered, with an imperative gesture, and the little girl hurried from the room.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000100_000000|Arthur was already in the dining room when mr Dinsmore came down.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000101_000000|"Arthur," said he, "I wish you to step into the library a moment; I have something to say to you."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000103_000000|"I dare say not, sir; but that makes no difference," replied his brother.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000103_000001|"Walk into the library at once."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000104_000000|Arthur returned a scowl of defiance, muttering almost under his breath, "I'll do as I please about that;" but cowed by his brother's determined look and manner, he slowly and reluctantly obeyed.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000106_000000|"I didn't," was the angry rejoinder.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000107_000000|"Take care, sir; I know all about it," said mr Dinsmore, in a warning tone; "it is useless for you to deny it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000108_000000|Arthur looked up in astonishment.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000109_000000|"Who told you?" he asked; "nobody saw me;" then, catching himself, said hastily, "I tell you I didn't do it.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000109_000001|I don't know anything about it."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000110_000000|"Will you dare to tell me such a falsehood as that again?" exclaimed mr Dinsmore, angrily, taking him by the collar and shaking him roughly.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000111_000001|"I want my dinner, I say."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000112_000000|"You'll get no dinner to day, I can tell you," replied his brother.
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000112_000002|I know that all this is in revenge for Elsie's forced testimony in the affair of the watch, and I gave you fair warning then that I would see to it that any attempt to abuse my child should receive its just reward."
train-other-500/3319/171003/3319_171003_000113_000000|He took the boy by the arm as he spoke, to lead him from the room.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000003_000000|"NAPLES, october tenth.--It is two months to day since I declared that I had closed my Diary, never to open it again.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000004_000000|"Why have I broken my resolution?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000004_000002|Because I am more friendless than ever; because I am more lonely than ever, though my husband is sitting writing in the next room to me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000005_000001|Only two months have passed, and that time is a by gone time already!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000005_000002|I try to think of anything I might have said or done wrongly, on my side-of anything he might have said or done wrongly, on his; and I can remember nothing unworthy of my husband, nothing unworthy of myself.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000005_000003|I cannot even lay my finger on the day when the cloud first rose between us.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000006_000000|"I could bear it, if I loved him less dearly than I do.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000006_000001|I could conquer the misery of our estrangement, if he only showed the change in him as brutally as other men would show it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000007_000000|"But this never has happened-never will happen.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000007_000001|It is not in his nature to inflict suffering on others.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000007_000002|Not a hard word, not a hard look, escapes him.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000007_000003|It is only at night, when I hear him sighing in his sleep, and sometimes when I see him dreaming in the morning hours, that I know how hopelessly I am losing the love he once felt for me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000007_000004|He hides, or tries to hide, it in the day, for my sake.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000007_000006|Day after day the hours that he gives to his hateful writing grow longer and longer; day after day he becomes more and more silent in the hours that he gives to me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000000|"And, with all this, there is nothing that I can complain of-nothing marked enough to justify me in noticing it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000001|His disappointment shrinks from all open confession; his resignation collects itself by such fine degrees that even my watchfulness fails to see the growth of it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000002|Fifty times a day I feel the longing in me to throw my arms round his neck, and say: 'For God's sake, do anything to me, rather than treat me like this!' and fifty times a day the words are forced back into my heart by the cruel considerateness of his conduct; which gives me no excuse for speaking them.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000003|I thought I had suffered the sharpest pain that I could feel when my first husband laid his whip across my face.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000004|I thought I knew the worst that despair could do on the day when I knew that the other villain, the meaner villain still, had cast me off.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000005|Live and learn.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000008_000006|There is sharper pain than I felt under Waldron's whip; there is bitterer despair than the despair I knew when Manuel deserted me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000009_000000|"Am I too old for him?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000009_000001|Surely not yet!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000009_000002|Have I lost my beauty?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000009_000003|Not a man passes me in the street but his eyes tell me I am as handsome as ever.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000010_000001|I have thought and thought about it till a horrible fancy has taken possession of me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000010_000002|He has been noble and good in his past life, and I have been wicked and disgraced.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000010_000003|Who can tell what a gap that dreadful difference may make between us, unknown to him and unknown to me?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000010_000004|It is folly, it is madness; but, when I lie awake by him in the darkness, I ask myself whether any unconscious disclosure of the truth escapes me in the close intimacy that now unites us?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000010_000005|Is there an unutterable Something left by the horror of my past life, which clings invisibly to me still?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000010_000006|And is he feeling the influence of it, sensibly, and yet incomprehensibly to himself?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000011_000000|"Who can tell?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000011_000001|There is something wrong in our married life-I can only come back to that.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000011_000002|There is some adverse influence that neither he nor I can trace which is parting us further and further from each other day by day.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000011_000003|Well!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000011_000004|I suppose I shall be hardened in time, and learn to bear it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000012_000000|"An open carriage has just driven by my window, with a nicely dressed lady in it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000012_000001|She had her husband by her side, and her children on the seat opposite.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000012_000002|At the moment when I saw her she was laughing and talking in high spirits-a sparkling, light-hearted, happy woman.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000013_000000|"october eleventh.--The eleventh day of the month was the day (two months since) when we were married.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000013_000001|He said nothing about it to me when we woke, nor I to him.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000013_000002|But I thought I would make it the occasion, at breakfast time, of trying to win him back.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000000|"I don't think I ever took such pains with my toilet before.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000001|I don't think I ever looked better than I looked when I went downstairs this morning.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000002|He had breakfasted by himself, and I found a little slip of paper on the table with an apology written on it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000003|The post to England, he said, went out that day and his letter to the newspaper must be finished.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000004|In his place I would have let fifty posts go out rather than breakfast without him.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000005|I went into his room.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000006|There he was, immersed body and soul in his hateful writing!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000007|'Can't you give me a little time this morning?' I asked.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000008|He got up with a start.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000009|'Certainly, if you wish it.' He never even looked at me as he said the words.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000010|The very sound of his voice told me that all his interest was centered in the pen that he had just laid down.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000011|'I see you are occupied,' I said; 'I don't wish it.' Before I had closed the door on him he was back at his desk.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000012|I have often heard that the wives of authors have been for the most part unhappy women.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000014_000013|And now I know why.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000015_000001|How ashamed I should be if anybody saw it but myself!) I hope the trumpery newspaper he writes for won't succeed!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000015_000002|I hope his rubbishing letter will be well cut up by some other newspaper as soon as it gets into print!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000016_000000|"What am I to do with myself all the morning?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000016_000001|I can't go out, it's raining.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000016_000002|If I open the piano, I shall disturb the industrious journalist who is scribbling in the next room.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000016_000003|Oh, dear, it was lonely enough in my lodging in Thorpe Ambrose, but how much lonelier it is here!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000016_000004|Shall I read?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000016_000005|No; books don't interest me; I hate the whole tribe of authors.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000017_000001|All he remembers is the newspaper."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000018_000000|"Twelve o'clock.--I have been reading and thinking; and, thanks to my Diary, I have got through an hour.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000019_000000|"What a time it was-what a life it was, at Thorpe Ambrose!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000019_000001|I wonder I kept my senses.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000019_000002|It makes my heart beat, it makes my face flush, only to read about it now!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000020_000000|"The rain still falls, and the journalist still scribbles.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000020_000002|And yet, what else can I do?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000021_000000|"Supposing-I only say supposing-I felt now, as I felt when I traveled to London with Armadale; and when I saw my way to his life as plainly as I saw the man himself all through the journey...?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000022_000001|I'll go and count the people as they pass by.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000023_000002|I shall go back to my Diary.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000024_000000|"Supposing I was not the altered woman I am-I only say, supposing-how would the Grand Risk that I once thought of running look now?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000024_000001|I have married Midwinter in the name that is really his own.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000024_000002|And by doing that I have taken the first of those three steps which were once to lead me, through Armadale's life, to the fortune and the station of Armadale's widow.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000024_000004|Well, having taken the first step, then, whether I would or no, how-supposing I meant to take the second step, which I don't-how would present circumstances stand toward me?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000024_000005|Would they warn me to draw back, I wonder? or would they encourage me to go on?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000025_000000|"It will interest me to calculate the chances; and I can easily tear the leaf out, and destroy it, if the prospect looks too encouraging.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000000|"We are living here (for economy's sake) far away from the expensive English quarter, in a suburb of the city, on the Portici side.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000001|We have made no traveling acquaintances among our own country people.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000002|Our poverty is against us; Midwinter's shyness is against us; and (with the women) my personal appearance is against us.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000003|The men from whom my husband gets his information for the newspaper meet him at the cafe, and never come here.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000004|I discourage his bringing any strangers to see me; for, though years have passed since I was last at Naples, I cannot be sure that some of the many people I once knew in this place may not be living still.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000005|The moral of all this is (as the children's storybooks say), that not a single witness has come to this house who could declare, if any after inquiry took place in England, that Midwinter and I had been living here as man and wife.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000026_000006|So much for present circumstances as they affect me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000027_000000|"Armadale next.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000027_000001|Has any unforeseen accident led him to communicate with Thorpe Ambrose?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000027_000002|Has he broken the conditions which the major imposed on him, and asserted himself in the character of Miss Milroy's promised husband since I saw him last?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000028_000000|"Nothing of the sort has taken place.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000028_000001|No unforeseen accident has altered his position-his tempting position-toward myself.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000028_000002|I know all that has happened to him since he left England, through the letters which he writes to Midwinter, and which Midwinter shows to me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000000|"He has been wrecked, to begin with.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000001|His trumpery little yacht has actually tried to drown him, after all, and has failed!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000002|It happened (as Midwinter warned him it might happen with so small a vessel) in a sudden storm.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000003|They were blown ashore on the coast of Portugal.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000004|The yacht went to pieces, but the lives, and papers, and so on, were saved.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000006|His third attempt is to be made at Naples, where there is an English yacht 'laid up,' as they call it, to be had for sale or hire.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000007|He has had no occasion to write home since the wreck; for he took away from Coutts's the whole of the large sum of money lodged there for him, in circular notes.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000008|And he has felt no inclination to go back to England himself; for, with mr Brock dead, Miss Milroy at school, and Midwinter here, he has not a living creature in whom he is interested to welcome him if he returned.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000029_000009|To see us, and to see the new yacht, are the only two present objects he has in view. Midwinter has been expecting him for a week past, and he may walk into this very room in which I am writing, at this very moment, for all I know to the contrary.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000030_000001|I wish it wasn't raining; I wish I could go out.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000031_000001|He may get tired of waiting before the steamer comes, or he may hear of a yacht at some other place than this.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000031_000002|A little bird whispers in my ear that it may possibly be the wisest thing he ever did in his life if he breaks his engagement to join us at Naples.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000032_000000|"Shall I tear out the leaf on which all these shocking things have been written?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000032_000001|no
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000032_000002|My Diary is so nicely bound-it would be positive barbarity to tear out a leaf.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000032_000003|Let me occupy myself harmlessly with something else. What shall it be?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000032_000004|My dressing case-I will put my dressing case tidy, and polish up the few little things in it which my misfortunes have still left in my possession.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000000|"I have shut up the dressing case again.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000001|The first thing I found in it was Armadale's shabby present to me on my marriage-the rubbishing little ruby ring.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000002|That irritated me, to begin with.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000003|The second thing that turned up was my bottle of Drops.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000004|I caught myself measuring the doses with my eye, and calculating how many of them would be enough to take a living creature over the border land between sleep and death.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000005|Why I should have locked the dressing case in a fright, before I had quite completed my calculation, I don't know; but I did lock it.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000033_000007|Oh, the weary day! the weary day!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000000|"october twelfth.--Midwinter's all important letter to the newspaper was dispatched by the post last night.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000001|I was foolish enough to suppose that I might be honored by having some of his spare attention bestowed on me to day.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000002|Nothing of the sort!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000003|He had a restless night, after all his writing, and got up with his head aching, and his spirits miserably depressed.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000004|When he is in this state, his favorite remedy is to return to his old vagabond habits, and go roaming away by himself nobody knows where.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000005|He went through the form this morning (knowing I had no riding habit) of offering to hire a little broken kneed brute of a pony for me, in case I wished to accompany him!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000006|I preferred remaining at home.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000007|I will have a handsome horse and a handsome habit, or I won't ride at all. He went away, without attempting to persuade me to change my mind.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000034_000008|I wouldn't have changed it, of course; but he might have tried to persuade me all the same.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000035_000000|"I can open the piano in his absence-that is one comfort.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000035_000001|And I am in a fine humor for playing-that is another.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000035_000002|There is a sonata of Beethoven's (I forget the number), which always suggests to me the agony of lost spirits in a place of torment.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000035_000003|Come, my fingers and thumbs, and take me among the lost spirits this morning!"
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000036_000000|"october thirteenth.--Our windows look out on the sea.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000036_000001|At noon to day we saw a steamer coming in, with the English flag flying.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000037_000001|Armadale has added one more to the long list of his blunders: he has kept his engagement to join us at Naples.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000039_000000|"Who knows?"
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000040_000000|"october sixteenth.--Two days missed out of my Diary!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000040_000001|I can hardly tell why, unless it is that Armadale irritates me beyond all endurance.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000040_000002|The mere sight of him takes me back to Thorpe Ambrose.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000040_000003|I fancy I must have been afraid of what I might write about him, in the course of the last two days, if I indulged myself in the dangerous luxury of opening these pages.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000041_000000|"This morning I am afraid of nothing, and I take up my pen again accordingly.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000042_000000|"Is there any limit, I wonder, to the brutish stupidity of some men? I thought I had discovered Armadale's limit when I was his neighbor in Norfolk; but my later experience at Naples shows me that I was wrong.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000042_000004|He is evidently persuaded (if he thinks about it at all) that I have forgotten, as completely as he has forgotten, all that once passed between us when I was first at Thorpe Ambrose.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000042_000006|But it is, for all that, quite true.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000042_000008|This to me, with an alpaca gown on, and a husband whose income must be helped by a newspaper!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000043_000000|"I had better not dwell on it any longer.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000043_000001|I had better think and write of something else.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000044_000000|"The yacht.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000044_000001|As a relief from hearing about Miss Milroy, I declare the yacht in the harbor is quite an interesting subject to me!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000044_000006|And then it will be time to settle whether to buy her outright or not.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000045_000000|"I shall write no more to day.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000045_000002|We all know that a lady has no passions."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000000|"october seventeenth.--A letter for Midwinter this morning from the slave owners-I mean the newspaper people in London-which has set him at work again harder than ever.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000001|A visit at luncheon time and another visit at dinner time from Armadale.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000002|Conversation at luncheon about the yacht.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000003|Conversation at dinner about Miss Milroy.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000004|I have been honored, in regard to that young lady, by an invitation to go with Armadale to morrow to the Toledo, and help him to buy some presents for the beloved object.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000005|I didn't fly out at him-I only made an excuse.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000006|Can words express the astonishment I feel at my own patience?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000046_000007|No words can express it."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000047_000000|"october eighteenth.--Armadale came to breakfast this morning, by way of catching Midwinter before he shuts himself up over his work.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000048_000000|"Conversation the same as yesterday's conversation at lunch.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000048_000001|Armadale has made his bargain with the agent for hiring the yacht.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000048_000002|The agent (compassionating his total ignorance of the language) has helped him to find an interpreter, but can't help him to find a crew.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000048_000004|Midwinter's assistance is indispensable; and Midwinter is requested (and consents!) to work harder than ever, so as to make time for helping his friend. When the crew is found, the merits and defects of the vessel are to be tried by a cruise to Sicily, with Midwinter on board to give his opinion.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000048_000006|All this was settled at the breakfast table; and it ended with one of Armadale's neatly turned compliments, addressed to myself: 'I mean to take Neelie sailing with me, when we are married.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000048_000007|And you have such good taste, you will be able to tell me everything the ladies' cabin wants between that time and this.'
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000049_000000|"If some women bring such men as this into the world, ought other women to allow them to live?
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000049_000001|It is a matter of opinion.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000050_000000|"What maddens me is to see, as I do see plainly, that Midwinter finds in Armadale's company, and in Armadale's new yacht, a refuge from me.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000050_000001|He is always in better spirits when Armadale is here.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000050_000002|He forgets me in Armadale almost as completely as he forgets me in his work.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000050_000003|And I bear it!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000051_000000|"october nineteenth.--Nothing new.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000051_000001|Yesterday over again."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000052_000000|"october twentieth.--One piece of news.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000052_000001|Midwinter is suffering from nervous headache; and is working in spite of it, to make time for his holiday with his friend."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000053_000000|"october twenty first.--Midwinter is worse.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000053_000001|Angry and wild and unapproachable, after two bad nights, and two uninterrupted days at his desk.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000053_000003|But nothing warns him now.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000053_000004|He is still working as hard as ever, for Armadale's sake. How much longer will my patience last?"
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000054_000001|When he did fall asleep, he was frightfully restless; groaning and talking and grinding his teeth.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000054_000003|At another time he was back again with Armadale, imprisoned all night on the wrecked ship.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000054_000004|Toward the early morning hours he grew quieter.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000054_000006|My first glance round showed me a light burning in Midwinter's dressing room.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000054_000007|I rose softly, and went to look at him.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000055_000000|"He was seated in the great, ugly, old-fashioned chair, which I ordered to be removed into the dressing room out of the way when we first came here.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000055_000001|His head lay back, and one of his hands hung listlessly over the arm of the chair.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000055_000002|The other hand was on his lap.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000055_000003|I stole a little nearer, and saw that exhaustion had overpowered him while he was either reading or writing, for there were books, pens, ink, and paper on the table before him.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000055_000005|I looked closer at the papers on the table.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000055_000006|They were all neatly folded (as he usually keeps them), with one exception; and that exception, lying open on the rest, was mr Brock's letter.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000056_000000|"I looked round at him again, after making this discovery, and then noticed for the first time another written paper, lying under the hand that rested on his lap.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000056_000001|There was no moving it away without the risk of waking him.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000056_000002|Part of the open manuscript, however, was not covered by his hand.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000056_000003|I looked at it to see what he had secretly stolen away to read, besides mr Brock's letter; and made out enough to tell me that it was the Narrative of Armadale's Dream.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000057_000000|"That second discovery sent me back at once to my bed-with something serious to think of.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000058_000000|"Traveling through France, on our way to this place, Midwinter's shyness was conquered for once, by a very pleasant man-an Irish doctor-whom we met in the railway carriage, and who quite insisted on being friendly and sociable with us all through the day's journey.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000058_000001|Finding that Midwinter was devoting himself to literary pursuits, our traveling companion warned him not to pass too many hours together at his desk. 'Your face tells me more than you think,' the doctor said: 'If you are ever tempted to overwork your brain, you will feel it sooner than most men.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000058_000002|When you find your nerves playing you strange tricks, don't neglect the warning-drop your pen.'
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000059_000000|"After my last night's discovery in the dressing room, it looks as if Midwinter's nerves were beginning already to justify the doctor's opinion of them.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000059_000001|If one of the tricks they are playing him is the trick of tormenting him again with his old superstitious terrors, there will be a change in our lives here before long.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000059_000002|I shall wait curiously to see whether the conviction that we two are destined to bring fatal danger to Armadale takes possession of Midwinter's mind once more.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000059_000003|If it does, I know what will happen.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000059_000004|He will not stir a step toward helping his friend to find a crew for the yacht; and he will certainly refuse to sail with Armadale, or to let me sail with him, on the trial cruise."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000060_000001|Brock's letter has, apparently, not lost its influence yet.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000060_000002|Midwinter is working again to day, and is as anxious as ever for the holiday time that he is to pass with his friend.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000061_000000|"Two o'clock.--Armadale here as usual; eager to know when Midwinter will be at his service.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000061_000001|No definite answer to be given to the question yet, seeing that it all depends on Midwinter's capacity to continue at his desk.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000061_000002|Armadale sat down disappointed; he yawned, and put his great clumsy hands in his pockets.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000061_000003|I took up a book.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000061_000004|The brute didn't understand that I wanted to be left alone; he began again on the unendurable subject of Miss Milroy, and of all the fine things she was to have when he married her.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000061_000005|Her own riding horse; her own pony carriage; her own beautiful little sitting room upstairs at the great house, and so on.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000062_000000|"Six o'clock.--More of the everlasting Armadale!
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000062_000001|Half an hour since, Midwinter came in from his writing, giddy and exhausted.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000062_000002|I had been pining all day for a little music, and I knew they were giving 'Norma' at the theater here.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000062_000004|Armadale was present, and flourished his well filled purse in his usual insufferable way.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000062_000006|I looked after him from the window as he went down the street. 'Your widow, with her twelve hundred a year,' I thought to myself, 'might take a box at the San Carlo whenever she pleased, without being beholden to anybody.' The empty headed wretch whistled as he went his way to the theater, and tossed his loose silver magnificently to every beggar who ran after him."
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000063_000000|"Midnight.--I am alone again at last.
train-other-500/3319/173247/3319_173247_000063_000001|Have I nerve enough to write the history of this terrible evening, just as it has passed?
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000002_000000|"Good morning, mammy," said the little girl.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000002_000001|"Are you ready to dress me now?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000004_000000|"I'll wait a little while, mammy," Elsie said, lying down again, "but I must get up soon; for I wouldn't miss my walk with papa for a great deal.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000004_000002|I'm so glad it has come."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000005_000001|You ain't sick, nor sufferin' any way?" exclaimed Chloe, in a tone of mingled concern and inquiry, as she hastily set down her broom, and came toward the bed, with a look of loving anxiety on her dark face.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000010_000000|"Oh, yes, mammy! and that reminds me that papa said I must eat a cracker or something before I take my walk, because he thinks it isn't good for people to exercise much on an entirely empty stomach," said Elsie.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000010_000001|"Will you get me one when you have done my curls?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000012_000002|Had you a good night's rest?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000013_000000|"Oh, yes, papa!
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000014_000000|"In good season, too," he said.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000014_000002|Did you get something to eat?" he asked, as he seated himself by the fire and drew her to his side.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000015_000001|"Shall we not start soon?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000021_000001|But alas! it cannot be, my darling," he added with a sigh.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000024_000003|I cannot feel satisfied, and yet I believe few daughters love their fathers as well as she loves me;" and fondly pressing the little hand he held, he looked down upon her with beaming eyes.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000026_000000|Breakfast-always a plentiful and inviting meal at Roselands-was already upon the table when they returned, and they brought to it appetites sufficiently keen to make it very enjoyable.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000027_000000|Elsie spent the first hour after breakfast at the piano, practising, and the second in her papa's dressing room, studying and reciting to him; then they took a long ride on horseback, and when they returned she found that quite a number of the expected guests had already arrived.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000028_000000|Among them was Caroline Howard, a favorite friend of Elsie's; a pretty, sweet tempered little girl, about a year older than herself.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000029_000000|Caroline had been away paying a long visit to some friends in the North, and so the two little girls had not met for nearly a year, and of course they had a great deal to say to each other.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000030_000000|They chatted a few moments in the drawing room, and then Elsie carried her friend off with her to her own room, that they might go on with their talk while she was getting dressed for dinner.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000031_000000|"How pretty your hair is, Elsie," said Caroline, winding the glossy ringlets around her finger.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000031_000002|I want to get a bracelet made for mamma, and she thinks so much of you, and your hair is such a lovely color, that I am sure she would be delighted with one made of it."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000032_000000|"A Christmas gift is it to be?" asked Elsie; "but how will you get it done in time? for you know day after to morrow is Christmas."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000033_000000|"Yes, I know; but if I could get into the city this afternoon, I think I might get them to promise it by to morrow night."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000035_000000|"Of course I will; I don't want to spoil your beauty, though you are so much prettier than I," was Caroline's laughing rejoinder.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000035_000001|"There," she cried, holding up the severed ringlet, "isn't it a beauty? but don't look scared, it will never be missed among so many; I don't even miss it myself, although I know it is gone."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000038_000000|"Oh! you wouldn't be, Carry, if you knew him," Elsie answered, in her eager way; "I was a little myself, at first, but now I love him so dearly, I never want to go anywhere without him."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000039_000001|He was conversing with a strange gentleman, and his little girl stood quietly at his side, patiently waiting until he should be ready to give her his attention.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000042_000000|"I wish I could, my dear, but I have an engagement, which makes it quite impossible."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000044_000001|You must wait until to morrow, when I can take you myself."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000045_000000|"But, papa, we want to go to day.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000045_000001|Oh! please do say yes; we want to go so very much, and I'm sure we could do very nicely by ourselves."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000047_000000|"My little daughter forgets that when papa says no, she is never to ask again."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000048_000000|Elsie blushed and hung her head.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000048_000001|His manner was quite too grave and decided for her to venture another word.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000049_000000|"What is the matter?
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000049_000001|what does Elsie want?" asked Adelaide, who was standing near, and had overheard enough to have some idea of the trouble.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000051_000000|"Thank you," said her brother, looking very much pleased; "that obviates the difficulty entirely.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000051_000001|Elsie, you may go, if mrs Howard gives Caroline permission."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000054_000000|"All ready, my darling?" he said, holding out his hand; "I think you will have a pleasant ride."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000057_000001|But how could you know I wanted more money?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000060_000000|It was growing quite dark when the carriage again drove up the avenue; and mr Horace Dinsmore, who was beginning to feel a little anxious, came out to receive them, and ask what had detained them so long.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000061_000000|"Long!" said Adelaide, in a tone of surprise, "you gentlemen really have no idea what an undertaking it is to shop.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000061_000001|Why, I thought we got through in a wonderfully short time."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000067_000000|"I will, darling," he answered, pinching her cheek, "Here, Bill"--to a servant-"carry these bundles to Miss Elsie's room."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000068_000000|Then, picking her up, he tossed her over his shoulder, and carried her up stairs as easily as though she had been a baby, she clinging to him and laughing merrily.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000069_000001|"I believe you can carry me as easily as I can my doll."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000070_000001|But here come the bundles! what a number! no wonder you were late in getting home."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000071_000000|"Oh! yes, papa see!
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000071_000002|"This is a turban for Aunt Phillis; and this is a pound of tobacco for old Uncle Jack, and a nice pipe, too.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000071_000004|won't he be pleased?
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000071_000006|don't you open that!
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000071_000007|It's a nice shawl for her, papa," she whispered in his ear.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000072_000000|"Ah!" he said, smiling; "and which is my present?
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000073_000000|"There is none here for you, sir," she replied, looking up into his face with an arch smile.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000074_000000|"Indeed it does, and I feel richer in that possession than all the gold of California could make me," he said, pressing her to his heart.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000075_000000|She looked surpassingly lovely at that moment, her cheeks burning, and her eyes sparkling with excitement; the dark, fur trimmed pelisse, and the velvet hat and plumes, setting off to advantage the whiteness of her pure complexion and the glossy ringlets falling in rich masses on her shoulders.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000077_000000|And she went on opening bundle after bundle, displaying their contents, and telling him for whom she intended them, until at last they had all been examined, and then she said, a little wearily, "Now, mammy, please put them all away until to morrow.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000077_000001|But first take off my things and get me ready to go downstairs."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000078_000000|"No, daughter," mr Dinsmore said in a gentle but firm tone; "you are not ready to have them put away until the price of each has been set down in your book."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000079_000000|"Oh! papa," she pleaded, "won't to morrow do?
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000079_000001|I'm tired now, and isn't it almost tea time?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000081_000000|Elsie's face clouded, and the slightest approach to a pout might have been perceived.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000082_000000|"I hope my little girl is not going to be naughty," he said, very gravely.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000083_000000|Her face brightened in an instant.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000083_000001|"No, papa," she answered cheerfully, "I will be good, and do whatever you bid me."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000085_000000|He opened her writing desk as he spoke, and took out her account book.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000086_000000|"Oh! papa," she cried in a startled tone, springing forward and taking hold of his hand, "please, please don't look! you know you said I need not show you until after Christmas."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000087_000001|Will that do?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000090_000000|Half an hour's work finished it all, and Elsie wiped her pen, and laid it away, saying joyously, "Oh!
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000091_000000|"Papa knew best, after all, did he not?" asked her father, drawing her to him, and patting her cheek.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000092_000000|"Yes, papa," she said softly; "you always know best, and I am very sorry I was naughty."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000093_000000|He answered with a kiss, and, taking her hand, led her down to the drawing room.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000094_000000|After tea the young people adjourned to the nursery, where they amused themselves with a variety of innocent games.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000095_000000|Time flew fast, and Elsie was very much surprised when the clock struck eight.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000095_000001|Half past was her bedtime; and, as she now and then glanced up at the dial plate, she thought the hands had never moved so fast.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000096_000000|"Papa," she asked, "is the clock right?"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000097_000000|"Yes, my dear, it is," he replied, comparing it with his watch.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000099_000000|"Yes, daughter; keep to rules."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000101_000000|"No; I cannot often allow a departure from rules," he said kindly, but firmly; "and to morrow night Elsie will find it harder to go to bed in season than to night.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000101_000001|Bid your little friends good night, my dear, and go at once."
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000102_000000|Elsie obeyed, readily and cheerfully.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000104_000000|Elsie looked very glad, and went away feeling herself the happiest little girl in the land, in spite of the annoyance of being forced to leave the merry group in the nursery.
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000104_000001|She was just ready for bed when her papa came in, and, taking her in his arms, folded her to his heart, saying, "My own darling! my good, obedient little daughter!"
train-other-500/3334/171008/3334_171008_000105_000000|"Dear papa, I love you so much!" she replied, twining her arms around his neck, "I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000000|"Of course he is," said Lizzie, with an angry gesture.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000002|She said that Lord Fawn was in the Cabinet because she had heard some one speak of him as not being a Cabinet Minister, and in so speaking appear to slight his political position.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000003|Lizzie did not know how much her companion knew, and Miss Macnulty did not comprehend the depth of the ignorance of her patroness.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000004|Thus the lies which Lizzie told were amazing to Miss Macnulty.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000005|To say that Lord Fawn was in the Cabinet, when all the world knew that he was an under-secretary!
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000008|"Of course he is," said Lizzie; "but I sha'n't have my drawing room made a Cabinet.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000009|They sha'n't come here." And then again on the Tuesday evening she displayed her independence.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000001_000011|I said I would go there, and of course I shall keep my word."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000002_000000|"I think you had better go," said Miss Macnulty.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000003_000000|"Of course, I shall go.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000003_000001|I don't want anybody to tell me where I'm to go, my dear, and where I'm not.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000003_000002|But it'll be about the first and the last visit.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000003_000004|Indeed, I doubt whether they can afford to dress themselves." As she went up to bed on the Tuesday evening, Miss Macnulty doubted whether the match would go on.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000003_000006|She had even ridiculed Lord Fawn himself, declaring that he understood nothing about anything beyond his office.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000000|And, in truth, Lizzie almost had made up her mind to break it off. All that she would gain did not seem to weigh down with sufficient preponderance all that she would lose.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000001|Such were her feelings on the Tuesday night.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000002|But on the Wednesday morning she received a note which threw her back violently upon the Fawn interest.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000004|Camperdown and Son present their compliments to Lady Eustace.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000007|She was frightened about the diamonds, and was, nevertheless, almost determined not to surrender them.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000008|At any rate, in such a strait she would want assistance, either in keeping them or in giving them up.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000009|The lawyer's letter afflicted her with a sense of weakness, and there was strength in the Fawn connexion.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000010|As Lord Fawn was so poor, perhaps he would adhere to the jewels.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000012|Mowbray and Mopus might give her, and therefore her heart softened towards her betrothed.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000014|Miss Macnulty nodded.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000004_000016|"And you can walk back, you know," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000005_000000|"Frederic" came and was received very graciously.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000005_000008|Perhaps she might have a second son yet,--a future little Lord Fawn, and he might inherit it.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000005_000009|In regard to honesty, the man was superior to the woman, because his purpose was declared, and he told no lies;--but the one was as mercenary as the other.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000005_000010|It was not love that had brought Lord Fawn to Mount Street.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000007_000000|"There is no house, you know."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000008_000000|"But there was one, Frederic?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000009_000000|"The town land where the house used to be, is called Killeagent.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000010_000000|"What pretty names!
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000010_000002|"How beautifully romantic!" said Lizzie.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000010_000003|"But the people live on the mountain and pay rent?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000011_000000|Lord Fawn asked no such inept questions respecting the Ayrshire property, but he did inquire who was Lizzie's solicitor.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000011_000001|"Of course there will be things to be settled," he said, "and my lawyer had better see yours.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000011_000002|mr Camperdown is a-"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000012_000004|"mr Camperdown was Sir Florian's lawyer," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000013_000000|"That will make it all the easier, I should think," said Lord Fawn.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000014_000000|"I don't know how that may be," said Lizzie, trying to bring her mind to work upon the subject steadily.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000014_000001|"mr Camperdown has been very uncourteous to me;--I must say that; and, as I think, unfair.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000014_000002|He wishes to rob me now of a thing that is quite my own."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000015_000000|"What sort of a thing?" asked Lord Fawn slowly.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000000|"A very valuable thing.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000001|I'll tell you all about it, Frederic.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000002|Of course I'll tell you everything now.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000003|I never could keep back anything from one that I loved.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000004|It's not my nature.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000008|What his lawyer tells him to do, he does.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000009|What his lawyer tells him to sign, he signs.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000016_000010|He buys and sells in obedience to the same direction, and feels perfectly comfortable in the possession of a guide who is responsible and all but divine.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000017_000000|"They are my own,--altogether my own.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000017_000001|Sir Florian gave them to me. When he put them into my hands, he said that they were to be my own for ever and ever.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000017_000003|If you had been married before, and your wife had given you a keepsake,--to keep for ever and ever, would you give it up to a lawyer?
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000018_000001|"What do they consist of?
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000019_000000|"I'll show them to you," said Lizzie, jumping up and hurrying out of the room.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000019_000001|Lord Fawn, when he was alone, rubbed his hands over his eyes and thought about it all.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000019_000003|But it was, to his thinking, most improbable that the Eustace people or the lawyer should be harsh to a widow bearing the Eustace name.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000019_000007|If so, the jewel should, of course, be surrendered,--or replaced by one of equal value.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000019_000009|"It was the manner in which he gave it to me," said Lizzie, as she opened the clasp, "which makes its value to me."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000020_000001|A ring, or brooch, or perhaps a bracelet, a lover or a loving lord may bring in his pocket.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000020_000003|He felt sure that it was so, even though he was entirely ignorant of the value of the stones. "Do you know what it is worth?" he asked.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000021_000001|"I think they say its value is about-ten thousand pounds," she replied.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000022_000000|"Ten-thousand-pounds!" Lord Fawn riveted his eyes upon them.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000024_000000|"By what jeweller?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000025_000000|"A man had to come and see them,--about some repairs,--or something of that kind.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000025_000001|Poor Sir Florian wished it.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000025_000002|And he said so."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000026_000000|"What was the man's name?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000027_000000|"I forget his name," said Lizzie, who was not quite sure whether her acquaintance with mr Benjamin would be considered respectable.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000028_000000|"Ten thousand pounds!
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000028_000001|You don't keep them in the house;--do you?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000029_000000|"I have an iron case up stairs for them;--ever so heavy."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000030_000000|"And did Sir Florian give you the iron case?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000031_000000|Lizzie hesitated for a moment.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000031_000001|"Yes," said she.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000031_000002|"That is,--no
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000032_000000|"He knew their value, then?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000033_000000|"Oh, dear, yes.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000033_000001|Though he never named any sum.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000033_000002|He told me, however, that they were very-very valuable."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000034_000000|Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000034_000001|But he was at once involved in a painful maze of doubt and almost of dismay.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000034_000003|He was especially timid, and lived in a perpetual fear lest the newspapers should say something hard of him.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000034_000004|In that matter of the Sawab he had been very wretched, because Frank Greystock had accused him of being an administrator of tyranny.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000034_000006|"I think," said he, at last, "that if you were to put them into mr Camperdown's hands-"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000035_000000|"Into mr Camperdown's hands!"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000036_000000|"And then let the matter be settled by arbitration-"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000037_000001|That means going to law?"
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000038_000000|"No, dearest,--that means not going to law.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000038_000001|The diamonds would be entrusted to mr Camperdown.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000038_000002|And then some one would be appointed to decide whose property they were."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000041_000000|"He'll say anything," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000042_000001|You must do something of the kind, you know."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000043_000000|"I sha'n't do anything of the kind," said Lizzie.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000043_000002|And he did not like the circumstances in which he found himself placed.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000043_000003|"Why should mr Camperdown interfere?" continued Lizzie.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000043_000004|"If they don't belong to me, they belong to my son;--and who has so good a right to keep them for him as I have?
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000043_000005|But they belong to me."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000045_000000|"If I were to let them go, mr Camperdown would get them.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000045_000002|Oh, Frederic, I hope you'll stand to me, and not see me injured.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000046_000000|Frederic's face had become very long, and he was much disturbed in his mind.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000046_000001|He could only suggest that he himself would go and see mr Camperdown, and ascertain what ought to be done.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000047_000000|"He wants to rob me," said Lizzie, "and I shall look to you to prevent it."
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000048_000002|"But, my dear, if it's decided against you-" said Lord Fawn gravely.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000050_000001|Then Lizzie looked at him,--and her look, which was very eloquent, called him a poltroon as plain as a look could speak.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000050_000002|Then they parted, and the signs of affection between them were not satisfactory.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000000|The door was hardly closed behind him before Lizzie began to declare to herself that he shouldn't escape her.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000002|She did, in truth, despise him because he would not clutch the jewels.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000003|She looked upon him as mean and paltry because he was willing to submit to mr Camperdown.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000004|But still she was prompted to demand all that could be demanded from her engagement,--because she thought that she perceived a something in him which might produce in him a desire to be relieved from it.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000005|No! he should not be relieved.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000006|He should marry her.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000051_000007|And she would keep the key of that iron box with the diamonds, and he should find what sort of a noise she would make if he attempted to take it from her.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000054_000002|I am engaged to Lord Fawn, who, as you know, is a peer, and a member of Her Majesty's Government, and a nobleman of great influence.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000054_000003|I do not suppose that even you can say anything against such an alliance.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000057_000000|Then she wrote to mrs Eustace, the wife of the Bishop of Bobsborough.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000057_000001|mrs Eustace had been very kind to her in the first days of her widowhood, and had fully recognised her as the widow of the head of her husband's family.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000057_000002|Lizzie had liked none of the Bobsborough people.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000057_000003|They were, according to her ideas, slow, respectable, and dull.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000057_000004|But they had not found much open fault with her, and she was aware that it was for her interest to remain on good terms with them.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000058_000000|MY DEAR mrs
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000058_000001|EUSTACE,
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000059_000000|I hope you will be glad to hear from me, and will not be sorry to hear my news.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000059_000001|I am going to be married again.
train-other-500/3346/158751/3346_158751_000059_000003|I have therefore accepted an offer made to me by Lord Fawn, who is, as you know, a peer of Parliament, and a most distinguished member of Her Majesty's Government; and he is, too, a nobleman of very great influence in every respect, and has a property in Ireland, extending over ever so many miles, and running up into the mountains.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000000_000000|LANDOR'S COTTAGE
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000001_000000|A Pendant to "The Domain of Arnheim"
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000000|DURING A pedestrian trip last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as the day declined, somewhat embarrassed about the road I was pursuing.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000002|The sun had scarcely shone-strictly speaking-during the day, which nevertheless, had been unpleasantly warm.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000003|A smoky mist, resembling that of the Indian summer, enveloped all things, and of course, added to my uncertainty.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000004|Not that I cared much about the matter.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000005|If I did not hit upon the village before sunset, or even before dark, it was more than possible that a little Dutch farmhouse, or something of that kind, would soon make its appearance-although, in fact, the neighborhood (perhaps on account of being more picturesque than fertile) was very sparsely inhabited.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000007|There could be no mistaking it.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000010|The tracks of which I speak were but faintly perceptible-having been impressed upon the firm, yet pleasantly moist surface of-what looked more like green Genoese velvet than any thing else.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000012|Not a single impediment lay in the wheel route-not even a chip or dead twig.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000002_000014|Clumps of wild flowers grew everywhere, luxuriantly, in the interspaces.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000003_000000|What to make of all this, of course I knew not.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000003_000001|Here was art undoubtedly-that did not surprise me-all roads, in the ordinary sense, are works of art; nor can I say that there was much to wonder at in the mere excess of art manifested; all that seemed to have been done, might have been done here-with such natural "capabilities" (as they have it in the books on Landscape Gardening)--with very little labor and expense.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000003_000002|No; it was not the amount but the character of the art which caused me to take a seat on one of the blossomy stones and gaze up and down this fairy like avenue for half an hour or more in bewildered admiration.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000003_000003|One thing became more and more evident the longer I gazed: an artist, and one with a most scrupulous eye for form, had superintended all these arrangements.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000003_000005|There were few straight, and no long uninterrupted lines.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000004_000001|The path was so serpentine, that at no moment could I trace its course for more than two or three paces in advance.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000004_000002|Its character did not undergo any material change.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000008_000000|The first coup d'oeil, as the sun slid into the position described, impressed me very much as I have been impressed, when a boy, by the concluding scene of some well arranged theatrical spectacle or melodrama.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000001|The widest portion was within eighty yards of the southern extreme.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000002|The slopes which encompassed the vale could not fairly be called hills, unless at their northern face.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000004|All, in a word, sloped and softened to the south; and yet the whole vale was engirdled by eminences, more or less high, except at two points.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000009|In the middle of this extent was a depression, level with the ordinary floor of the valley.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000010|As regards vegetation, as well as in respect to every thing else, the scene softened and sloped to the south.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000013|The whole face of the southern declivity was covered with wild shrubbery alone-an occasional silver willow or white poplar excepted.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000020|The whole height of the principal division was one hundred and twenty feet.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000009_000026|The innumerable blossoms, mingling with those of other trees scarcely less beautiful, although infinitely less majestic, filled the valley with more than Arabian perfumes.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000010_000001|It was hard to conceive how all this beauty had been attained.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000000|I have spoken of two openings into the vale.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000004|No crystal could be clearer than its waters.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000005|Its bottom, which could be distinctly seen, consisted altogether, of pebbles brilliantly white.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000007|The trout, and some other varieties of fish, with which this pond seemed to be almost inconveniently crowded, had all the appearance of veritable flying fish. It was almost impossible to believe that they were not absolutely suspended in the air.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000008|A light birch canoe that lay placidly on the water, was reflected in its minutest fibres with a fidelity unsurpassed by the most exquisitely polished mirror.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000010|It was formed of a single, broad and thick plank of the tulip wood.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000011_000011|This was forty feet long, and spanned the interval between shore and shore with a slight but very perceptible arch, preventing all oscillation.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000013_000001|These latter grew in pots which were carefully buried in the soil, so as to give the plants the appearance of being indigenous.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000013_000003|A very large mastiff seemed to be in vigilant attendance upon these animals, each and all.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000016_000001|Its two general directions, as I have said, were first from west to east, and then from north to south.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000017_000000|In fact nothing could well be more simple-more utterly unpretending than this cottage.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000017_000001|Its marvellous effect lay altogether in its artistic arrangement as a picture.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000019_000000|The main building was about twenty four feet long and sixteen broad-certainly not more.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000019_000003|At right angles to these buildings, and from the rear of the main one-not exactly in the middle-extended a third compartment, very small-being, in general, one third less than the western wing.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000019_000004|The roofs of the two larger were very steep-sweeping down from the ridge beam with a long concave curve, and extending at least four feet beyond the walls in front, so as to form the roofs of two piazzas.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000019_000008|The principal door was not exactly in the main division, being a little to the east-while the two windows were to the west.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000019_000009|These latter did not extend to the floor, but were much longer and narrower than usual-they had single shutters like doors-the panes were of lozenge form, but quite large.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000019_000010|The door itself had its upper half of glass, also in lozenge panes-a movable shutter secured it at night.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000021_000000|The piazzas of the main building and western wing had no floors, as is usual; but at the doors and at each window, large, flat irregular slabs of granite lay imbedded in the delicious turf, affording comfortable footing in all weather.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000021_000001|Excellent paths of the same material-not nicely adapted, but with the velvety sod filling frequent intervals between the stones, led hither and thither from the house, to a crystal spring about five paces off, to the road, or to one or two out houses that lay to the north, beyond the brook, and were thoroughly concealed by a few locusts and catalpas.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000027_000000|I did not remain very long on the brow of the hill, although long enough to make a thorough survey of the scene at my feet.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000027_000001|It was clear that I had wandered from the road to the village, and I had thus good traveller's excuse to open the gate before me, and inquire my way, at all events; so, without more ado, I proceeded.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000028_000001|It led me on to the foot of the northern precipice, and thence over the bridge, round by the eastern gable to the front door.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000028_000002|In this progress, I took notice that no sight of the out houses could be obtained.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000030_000000|As no bell was discernible, I rapped with my stick against the door, which stood half open.
train-other-500/3346/7599/3346_7599_000030_000002|I said to myself, "Surely here I have found the perfection of natural, in contradistinction from artificial grace." The second impression which she made on me, but by far the more vivid of the two, was that of enthusiasm.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000004_000000|As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles, Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000005_000001|Some very splendid entertainments, which Madame Clairval had given, and the general adulation, which was paid her, made the former more anxious than before to secure an alliance, that would so much exalt her in her own opinion and in that of the world.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000005_000002|She proposed terms for the immediate marriage of her niece, and offered to give Emily a dower, provided Madame Clairval observed equal terms, on the part of her nephew.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000005_000004|Meanwhile, Emily knew nothing of the transaction, till Madame Cheron informed her, that she must make preparation for the nuptials, which would be celebrated without further delay; then, astonished and wholly unable to account for this sudden conclusion, which Valancourt had not solicited (for he was ignorant of what had passed between the elder ladies, and had not dared to hope such good fortune), she decisively objected to it.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000005_000005|Madame Cheron, however, quite as jealous of contradiction now, as she had been formerly, contended for a speedy marriage with as much vehemence as she had formerly opposed whatever had the most remote possibility of leading to it; and Emily's scruples disappeared, when she again saw Valancourt, who was now informed of the happiness, designed for him, and came to claim a promise of it from herself.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000007_000002|'So, niece!'--said Madame, and she stopped under some degree of embarrassment.--'I sent for you-I-I wished to see you; I have news to tell you.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000007_000003|From this hour you must consider the Signor Montoni as your uncle-we were married this morning.'
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000008_000001|His wife, however, intended, that the contrary should be believed, and therefore added, 'you see I wished to avoid a bustle; but now the ceremony is over I shall do so no longer; and I wish to announce to my servants that they must receive the Signor Montoni for their master.' Emily made a feeble attempt to congratulate her on these apparently imprudent nuptials.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000008_000003|Such of your wedding clothes as are ready I shall expect you will appear in, to do honour to this festival.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000008_000005|In a few days I shall give a grand entertainment, at which I shall request their presence.'
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000009_000000|Emily was so lost in surprise and various thought, that she made Madame Montoni scarcely any reply, but, at her desire, she returned to inform Valancourt of what had passed.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000009_000001|Surprise was not his predominant emotion on hearing of these hasty nuptials; and, when he learned, that they were to be the means of delaying his own, and that the very ornaments of the chateau, which had been prepared to grace the nuptial day of his Emily, were to be degraded to the celebration of Madame Montoni's, grief and indignation agitated him alternately.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000009_000002|He could conceal neither from the observation of Emily, whose efforts to abstract him from these serious emotions, and to laugh at the apprehensive considerations, that assailed him, were ineffectual; and, when, at length, he took leave, there was an earnest tenderness in his manner, that extremely affected her; she even shed tears, when he disappeared at the end of the terrace, yet knew not exactly why she should do so.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000011_000002|During this evening, Madame Montoni danced, laughed and talked incessantly; while Montoni, silent, reserved and somewhat haughty, seemed weary of the parade, and of the frivolous company it had drawn together.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000012_000000|This was the first and the last entertainment, given in celebration of their nuptials.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000012_000001|Montoni, though the severity of his temper and the gloominess of his pride prevented him from enjoying such festivities, was extremely willing to promote them.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000013_000000|A few weeks only had elapsed, since the marriage, when Madame Montoni informed Emily, that the Signor intended to return to Italy, as soon as the necessary preparation could be made for so long a journey.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000013_000001|'We shall go to Venice,' said she, 'where the Signor has a fine mansion, and from thence to his estate in Tuscany.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000014_000001|'Most certainly,' replied her aunt, 'how could you imagine we should leave you behind?
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000014_000002|But I see you are thinking of the Chevalier; he is not yet, I believe, informed of the journey, but he very soon will be so.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000014_000003|Signor Montoni is gone to acquaint Madame Clairval of our journey, and to say, that the proposed connection between the families must from this time be thought of no more.'
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000016_000001|I was weak enough-I am so foolish sometimes!--to suffer other people's uneasiness to affect me, and so my better judgment yielded to your affliction.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000016_000002|But the Signor has very properly pointed out the folly of this, and he shall not have to reprove me a second time.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000017_000000|Emily would have been astonished at the assertions of this eloquent speech, had not her mind been so overwhelmed by the sudden shock it had received, that she scarcely heard a word of what was latterly addressed to her.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000017_000001|Whatever were the weaknesses of Madame Montoni, she might have avoided to accuse herself with those of compassion and tenderness to the feelings of others, and especially to those of Emily.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000018_000000|Emily was, at this time, too much affected to employ either remonstrance, or entreaty on this topic; and when, at length, she attempted the latter, her emotion overcame her speech, and she retired to her apartment, to think, if in the present state of her mind to think was possible, upon this sudden and overwhelming subject.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000018_000001|It was very long, before her spirits were sufficiently composed to permit the reflection, which, when it came, was dark and even terrible.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000018_000002|She saw, that Montoni sought to aggrandise himself in his disposal of her, and it occurred, that his friend Cavigni was the person, for whom he was interested.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000020_000000|As she crossed the hall, a person entered it by the great door, whom, as her eyes hastily glanced that way, she imagined to be Montoni, and she was passing on with quicker steps, when she heard the well-known voice of Valancourt.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000021_000001|'In tears, Emily! I would speak with you,' said he, 'I have much to say; conduct me to where we may converse.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000021_000002|But you tremble-you are ill!
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000021_000003|Let me lead you to a seat.'
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000024_000000|Emily, terrified for the consequence of the indignation, that flashed in his eyes, tremblingly assured him, that Montoni was not at home, and entreated he would endeavour to moderate his resentment.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000024_000001|At the tremulous accents of her voice, his eyes softened instantly from wildness into tenderness.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000024_000002|'You are ill, Emily,' said he, 'they will destroy us both!
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000025_000001|He listened to her entreaties, with attention, but replied to them only with looks of despondency and tenderness, concealing, as much as possible, the sentiments he felt towards Montoni, that he might soothe the apprehensions, which distressed her.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000027_000000|'This is not the conduct I should have expected from you, sir;' said she, 'I did not expect to see you in my house, after you had been informed, that your visits were no longer agreeable, much less, that you would seek a clandestine interview with my niece, and that she would grant one.'
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000029_000000|His expostulations were answered with severe rebuke; she lamented again, that her prudence had ever yielded to what she termed compassion, and added, that she was so sensible of the folly of her former consent, that, to prevent the possibility of a repetition, she had committed the affair entirely to the conduct of Signor Montoni.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000030_000001|This was also the more inveterate, because his tempered words and manner were such as, without accusing her, compelled her to accuse herself, and neither left her a hope, that the odious portrait was the caricature of his prejudice, or afforded her an excuse for expressing the violent resentment, with which she contemplated it.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000031_000000|To Montoni he looked with equal despondency, since it was nearly evident, that this plan of separation originated with him, and it was not probable, that he would relinquish his own views to entreaties, or remonstrances, which he must have foreseen and have been prepared to resist.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000032_000000|Madame Clairval was passive in the affair.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000032_000001|When she gave her approbation to Valancourt's marriage, it was in the belief, that Emily would be the heiress of Madame Montoni's fortune; and, though, upon the nuptials of the latter, when she perceived the fallacy of this expectation, her conscience had withheld her from adopting any measure to prevent the union, her benevolence was not sufficiently active to impel her towards any step, that might now promote it.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000033_000000|Montoni, in his reply to Valancourt, said, that as an interview could neither remove the objections of the one, or overcome the wishes of the other, it would serve only to produce useless altercation between them. He, therefore, thought proper to refuse it.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000034_000000|In consideration of the policy, suggested by Emily, and of his promise to her, Valancourt restrained the impulse, that urged him to the house of Montoni, to demand what had been denied to his entreaties.
train-other-500/3356/132542/3356_132542_000034_000003|At length, Valancourt's letters were returned unopened, and then, in the first moments of passionate despair, he forgot every promise to Emily, except the solemn one, which bound him to avoid violence, and hastened to Montoni's chateau, determined to see him by whatever other means might be necessary.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty four
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000002_000000|Pinocchio reaches the Island of the Busy Bees and finds the Fairy once more.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000003_000000|Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000004_000000|And what a horrible night it was!
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000004_000001|It poured rain, it hailed, it thundered, and the lightning was so bright that it turned the night into day.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000005_000001|It was an island in the middle of the sea.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000006_000000|Pinocchio tried his best to get there, but he couldn't.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000006_000002|At last, and luckily for him, a tremendous wave tossed him to the very spot where he wanted to be.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000006_000003|The blow from the wave was so strong that, as he fell to the ground, his joints cracked and almost broke.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000006_000004|But, nothing daunted, he jumped to his feet and cried:
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000007_000000|"Once more I have escaped with my life!"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000008_000000|Little by little the sky cleared.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000009_000000|Then the Marionette took off his clothes and laid them on the sand to dry.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000009_000001|He looked over the waters to see whether he might catch sight of a boat with a little man in it.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000009_000002|He searched and he searched, but he saw nothing except sea and sky and far away a few sails, so small that they might have been birds.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000010_000000|"If only I knew the name of this island!" he said to himself.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000010_000001|"If I even knew what kind of people I would find here!
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000010_000002|But whom shall I ask?
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000010_000003|There is no one here."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000013_000000|"Hey there, mr Fish, may I have a word with you?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000015_000000|"Will you please tell me if, on this island, there are places where one may eat without necessarily being eaten?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000016_000000|"Surely, there are," answered the Dolphin.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000016_000001|"In fact you'll find one not far from this spot."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000017_000000|"And how shall I get there?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000018_000000|"Take that path on your left and follow your nose.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000018_000001|You can't go wrong."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000019_000000|"Tell me another thing.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000019_000001|You who travel day and night through the sea, did you not perhaps meet a little boat with my father in it?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000021_000000|"He is the best father in the world, even as I am the worst son that can be found."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000022_000000|"In the storm of last night," answered the Dolphin, "the little boat must have been swamped."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000023_000000|"And my father?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000025_000000|"Is this Shark very big?" asked Pinocchio, who was beginning to tremble with fright.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000027_000000|"Mother mine!" cried the Marionette, scared to death; and dressing himself as fast as he could, he turned to the Dolphin and said:
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000029_000000|This said, he took the path at so swift a gait that he seemed to fly, and at every small sound he heard, he turned in fear to see whether the Terrible Shark, five stories high and with a train in his mouth, was following him.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000030_000000|After walking a half hour, he came to a small country called the Land of the Busy Bees.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000030_000001|The streets were filled with people running to and fro about their tasks.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000030_000002|Everyone worked, everyone had something to do.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000030_000003|Even if one were to search with a lantern, not one idle man or one tramp could have been found.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000031_000000|"I understand," said Pinocchio at once wearily, "this is no place for me!
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000031_000001|I was not born for work."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000032_000000|But in the meantime, he began to feel hungry, for it was twenty four hours since he had eaten.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000033_000000|What was to be done?
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000034_000000|There were only two means left to him in order to get a bite to eat.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000035_000001|He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000035_000002|All others should work, and if they didn't, and went hungry, so much the worse for them.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000036_000000|Just then a man passed by, worn out and wet with perspiration, pulling, with difficulty, two heavy carts filled with coal.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000037_000000|Pinocchio looked at him and, judging him by his looks to be a kind man, said to him with eyes downcast in shame:
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000039_000000|"Not only one penny," answered the Coal Man.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000039_000001|"I'll give you four if you will help me pull these two wagons."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000040_000000|"I am surprised!" answered the Marionette, very much offended.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000041_000000|"So much the better for you!" answered the Coal Man.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000041_000001|"Then, my boy, if you are really faint with hunger, eat two slices of your pride; and I hope they don't give you indigestion."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000042_000000|A few minutes after, a Bricklayer passed by, carrying a pail full of plaster on his shoulder.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000043_000000|"Good man, will you be kind enough to give a penny to a poor boy who is yawning from hunger?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000044_000000|"Gladly," answered the Bricklayer.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000044_000001|"Come with me and carry some plaster, and instead of one penny, I'll give you five."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000046_000000|"If the work is too hard for you, my boy, enjoy your yawns and may they bring you luck!"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000048_000000|"Aren't you ashamed?
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000048_000001|Instead of being a beggar in the streets, why don't you look for work and earn your own bread?"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000050_000000|"Good woman, will you allow me to have a drink from one of your jugs?" asked Pinocchio, who was burning up with thirst.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000051_000000|"With pleasure, my boy!" she answered, setting the two jugs on the ground before him.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000053_000000|"My thirst is gone.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000053_000001|If I could only as easily get rid of my hunger!"
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000054_000000|On hearing these words, the good little woman immediately said:
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000056_000000|Pinocchio looked at the jug and said neither yes nor no
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000057_000000|"And with the bread, I'll give you a nice dish of cauliflower with white sauce on it."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000058_000000|Pinocchio gave the jug another look and said neither yes nor no
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000059_000000|"And after the cauliflower, some cake and jam."
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000060_000000|At this last bribery, Pinocchio could no longer resist and said firmly:
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000062_000000|The jug was very heavy, and the Marionette, not being strong enough to carry it with his hands, had to put it on his head.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000063_000000|When they arrived home, the little woman made Pinocchio sit down at a small table and placed before him the bread, the cauliflower, and the cake.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000063_000001|Pinocchio did not eat; he devoured.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000063_000002|His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000064_000000|His hunger finally appeased, he raised his head to thank his kind benefactress.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000065_000000|"Why all this surprise?" asked the good woman, laughing.
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000066_000001|Tell me that it is you!
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000066_000002|Don't make me cry any longer!
train-other-500/336/125871/336_125871_000066_000003|If you only knew!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty seven
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000002_000000|The great battle between Pinocchio and his playmates.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000002_000001|One is wounded. Pinocchio is arrested.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000003_000000|Going like the wind, Pinocchio took but a very short time to reach the shore.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000003_000001|He glanced all about him, but there was no sign of a Shark.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000003_000002|The sea was as smooth as glass.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000004_000000|"Hey there, boys!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000004_000001|Where's that Shark?" he asked, turning to his playmates.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000005_000000|"He may have gone for his breakfast," said one of them, laughing.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000006_000000|"Or, perhaps, he went to bed for a little nap," said another, laughing also.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000007_000000|From the answers and the laughter which followed them, Pinocchio understood that the boys had played a trick on him.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000008_000000|"What now?" he said angrily to them.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000008_000001|"What's the joke?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000009_000000|"Oh, the joke's on you!" cried his tormentors, laughing more heartily than ever, and dancing gayly around the Marionette.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000010_000000|"And that is-?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000011_000000|"That we have made you stay out of school to come with us.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000011_000001|Aren't you ashamed of being such a goody goody, and of studying so hard?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000011_000002|You never have a bit of enjoyment."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000012_000000|"And what is it to you, if I do study?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000013_000000|"What does the teacher think of us, you mean?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000014_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000015_000000|"Don't you see?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000015_000001|If you study and we don't, we pay for it.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000015_000002|After all, it's only fair to look out for ourselves."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000016_000000|"What do you want me to do?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000017_000000|"Hate school and books and teachers, as we all do.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000017_000001|They are your worst enemies, you know, and they like to make you as unhappy as they can."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000018_000000|"And if I go on studying, what will you do to me?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000019_000000|"You'll pay for it!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000020_000000|"Really, you amuse me," answered the Marionette, nodding his head.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000021_000000|"Hey, Pinocchio," cried the tallest of them all, "that will do.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000021_000001|We are tired of hearing you bragging about yourself, you little turkey cock! You may not be afraid of us, but remember we are not afraid of you, either!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000021_000002|You are alone, you know, and we are seven."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000023_000000|"Did you hear that?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000023_000001|He has insulted us all.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000024_000000|"Pinocchio, apologize for that, or look out!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000026_000000|"You'll be sorry!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000028_000000|"We'll whip you soundly!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000030_000000|"You'll go home with a broken nose!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000032_000000|"Very well, then!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000032_000001|Take that, and keep it for your supper," called out the boldest of his tormentors.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000033_000000|And with the words, he gave Pinocchio a terrible blow on the head.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000034_000000|Pinocchio answered with another blow, and that was the signal for the beginning of the fray.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000035_000000|Pinocchio, although alone, defended himself bravely.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000035_000001|With those two wooden feet of his, he worked so fast that his opponents kept at a respectful distance.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000035_000002|Wherever they landed, they left their painful mark and the boys could only run away and howl.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000036_000000|Enraged at not being able to fight the Marionette at close quarters, they started to throw all kinds of books at him.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000036_000001|Readers, geographies, histories, grammars flew in all directions.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000036_000002|But Pinocchio was keen of eye and swift of movement, and the books only passed over his head, landed in the sea, and disappeared.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000037_000001|Some took a nibble, some took a bite, but no sooner had they tasted a page or two, than they spat them out with a wry face, as if to say:
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000038_000001|Our own food is so much better!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000039_000001|At the noise, a large Crab crawled slowly out of the water and, with a voice that sounded like a trombone suffering from a cold, he cried out:
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000040_000000|"Stop fighting, you rascals!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000041_000000|Poor Crab!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000041_000001|He might as well have spoken to the wind.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000041_000002|Instead of listening to his good advice, Pinocchio turned to him and said as roughly as he knew how:
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000042_000001|It would be better for you to chew a few cough drops to get rid of that cold you have.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000042_000002|Go to bed and sleep!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000043_000000|In the meantime, the boys, having used all their books, looked around for new ammunition.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000043_000001|Seeing Pinocchio's bundle lying idle near by, they somehow managed to get hold of it.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000044_000001|It was Pinocchio's pride.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000044_000002|Among all his books, he liked that one the best.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000045_000001|But instead of hitting the Marionette, the book struck one of the other boys, who, as pale as a ghost, cried out faintly: "Oh, Mother, help!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000045_000002|I'm dying!" and fell senseless to the ground.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000046_000001|In a few moments, all had disappeared.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000047_000000|All except Pinocchio.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000000|"Eugene!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000002|Open your eyes and look at me!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000003|Why don't you answer?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000004|I was not the one who hit you, you know.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000005|Believe me, I didn't do it.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000006|Open your eyes, Eugene?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000007|If you keep them shut, I'll die, too. Oh, dear me, how shall I ever go home now?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000008|How shall I ever look at my little mother again?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000009|What will happen to me?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000010|Where shall I go?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000011|Where shall I hide?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000012|Oh, how much better it would have been, a thousand times better, if only I had gone to school!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000013|Why did I listen to those boys? They always were a bad influence!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000014|And to think that the teacher had told me-and my mother, too!--'Beware of bad company!' That's what she said. But I'm stubborn and proud.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000015|I listen, but always I do as I wish.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000016|And then I pay.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000017|I've never had a moment's peace since I've been born!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000018|Oh, dear!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000019|What will become of me?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000048_000020|What will become of me?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000049_000000|Pinocchio went on crying and moaning and beating his head.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000049_000001|Again and again he called to his little friend, when suddenly he heard heavy steps approaching.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000050_000000|He looked up and saw two tall Carabineers near him.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000051_000000|"What are you doing stretched out on the ground?" they asked Pinocchio.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000054_000000|"I should say so," said one of the Carabineers, bending to look at Eugene.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000054_000001|"This boy has been wounded on the temple.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000055_000000|"Not I," stammered the Marionette, who had hardly a breath left in his whole body.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000057_000000|"Not I," repeated Pinocchio.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000058_000000|"And with what was he wounded?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000060_000000|"And whose book is this?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000061_000000|"Mine."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000062_000000|"Enough."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000063_000000|"Not another word!
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000063_000001|Get up as quickly as you can and come along with us."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000064_000000|"But I-"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000065_000000|"Come with us!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000066_000000|"But I am innocent."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000067_000000|"Come with us!"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000068_000000|Before starting out, the officers called out to several fishermen passing by in a boat and said to them:
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000069_000000|"Take care of this little fellow who has been hurt.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000069_000001|Take him home and bind his wounds.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000000|They did not have to repeat their words.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000001|The Marionette walked swiftly along the road to the village.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000002|But the poor fellow hardly knew what he was about.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000003|He thought he had a nightmare.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000004|He felt ill.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000006|Yet, in spite of this numbness of feeling, he suffered keenly at the thought of passing under the windows of his good little Fairy's house.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000071_000007|What would she say on seeing him between two Carabineers?
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000072_000000|They had just reached the village, when a sudden gust of wind blew off Pinocchio's cap and made it go sailing far down the street.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000073_000000|"Would you allow me," the Marionette asked the Carabineers, "to run after my cap?"
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000074_000000|"Very well, go; but hurry."
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000075_000000|The Marionette went, picked up his cap-but instead of putting it on his head, he stuck it between his teeth and then raced toward the sea.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000076_000000|He went like a bullet out of a gun.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000077_000000|The Carabineers, judging that it would be very difficult to catch him, sent a large Mastiff after him, one that had won first prize in all the dog races.
train-other-500/336/125874/336_125874_000077_000001|Pinocchio ran fast and the Dog ran faster.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000000_000001|He closed his eyes and waited for the final moment.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000002_000000|"Get out!" cried the Fisherman threateningly and still holding onto the Marionette, who was all covered with flour.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000003_000000|But the poor Dog was very hungry, and whining and wagging his tail, he tried to say:
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000005_000000|"Get out, I say!" repeated the Fisherman.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000006_000000|And he drew back his foot to give the Dog a kick.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000008_000000|The Dog immediately recognized Pinocchio's voice.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000008_000001|Great was his surprise to find that the voice came from the little flour covered bundle that the Fisherman held in his hand.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000009_000000|Then what did he do?
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000009_000001|With one great leap, he grasped that bundle in his mouth and, holding it lightly between his teeth, ran through the door and disappeared like a flash!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000010_000000|The Fisherman, angry at seeing his meal snatched from under his nose, ran after the Dog, but a bad fit of coughing made him stop and turn back.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000011_000000|Meanwhile, Alidoro, as soon as he had found the road which led to the village, stopped and dropped Pinocchio softly to the ground.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000012_000000|"How much I do thank you!" said the Marionette.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000013_000001|"You saved me once, and what is given is always returned.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000013_000002|We are in this world to help one another."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000014_000000|"But how did you get in that cave?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000015_000000|"I was lying here on the sand more dead than alive, when an appetizing odor of fried fish came to me.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000015_000001|That odor tickled my hunger and I followed it.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000015_000002|Oh, if I had come a moment later!"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000016_000000|"Don't speak about it," wailed Pinocchio, still trembling with fright. "Don't say a word.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000016_000001|If you had come a moment later, I would be fried, eaten, and digested by this time.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000016_000003|I shiver at the mere thought of it."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000017_000001|Then they bid each other good by and the Dog went home.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000018_000000|Pinocchio, left alone, walked toward a little hut near by, where an old man sat at the door sunning himself, and asked:
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000020_000000|"The boy was brought to this hut and now-"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000021_000000|"Now he is dead?" Pinocchio interrupted sorrowfully.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000022_000000|"No, he is now alive and he has already returned home."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000023_000000|"Really?
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000023_000001|Really?" cried the Marionette, jumping around with joy.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000025_000000|"And who threw it?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000026_000000|"A schoolmate of his, a certain Pinocchio."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000027_000000|"And who is this Pinocchio?" asked the Marionette, feigning ignorance.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000028_000000|"They say he is a mischief maker, a tramp, a street urchin-"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000029_000000|"Calumnies!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000029_000001|All calumnies!"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000030_000000|"Do you know this Pinocchio?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000031_000000|"By sight!" answered the Marionette.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000033_000000|"I think he's a very good boy, fond of study, obedient, kind to his Father, and to his whole family-"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000034_000000|As he was telling all these enormous lies about himself, Pinocchio touched his nose and found it twice as long as it should be.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000034_000001|Scared out of his wits, he cried out:
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000035_000000|"Don't listen to me, good man!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000035_000001|All the wonderful things I have said are not true at all.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000035_000002|I know Pinocchio well and he is indeed a very wicked fellow, lazy and disobedient, who instead of going to school, runs away with his playmates to have a good time."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000036_000000|At this speech, his nose returned to its natural size.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000038_000000|"Let me tell you.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000038_000001|Without knowing it, I rubbed myself against a newly painted wall," he lied, ashamed to say that he had been made ready for the frying pan.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000040_000001|Tell me, my good man, have you not, perhaps, a little suit to give me, so that I may go home?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000041_000000|"My boy, as for clothes, I have only a bag in which I keep hops.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000041_000001|If you want it, take it.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000041_000002|There it is."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000042_000000|Pinocchio did not wait for him to repeat his words.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000042_000001|He took the bag, which happened to be empty, and after cutting a big hole at the top and two at the sides, he slipped into it as if it were a shirt.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000042_000002|Lightly clad as he was, he started out toward the village.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000043_000000|Along the way he felt very uneasy.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000043_000001|In fact he was so unhappy that he went along taking two steps forward and one back, and as he went he said to himself:
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000044_000000|"How shall I ever face my good little Fairy?
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000044_000001|What will she say when she sees me?
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000044_000002|Will she forgive this last trick of mine?
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000044_000003|I am sure she won't. Oh, no, she won't.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000044_000004|And I deserve it, as usual!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000044_000005|For I am a rascal, fine on promises which I never keep!"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000045_000000|He came to the village late at night.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000046_000000|Pinocchio went straight to the Fairy's house, firmly resolved to knock at the door.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000047_000000|When he found himself there, he lost courage and ran back a few steps. A second time he came to the door and again he ran back.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000047_000002|The fourth time, before he had time to lose his courage, he grasped the knocker and made a faint sound with it.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000048_000000|He waited and waited and waited.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000048_000001|Finally, after a full half hour, a top floor window (the house had four stories) opened and Pinocchio saw a large Snail look out.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000048_000002|A tiny light glowed on top of her head.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000048_000003|"Who knocks at this late hour?" she called.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000049_000000|"Is the Fairy home?" asked the Marionette.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000050_000000|"The Fairy is asleep and does not wish to be disturbed.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000050_000001|Who are you?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000051_000000|"It is i"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000052_000000|"Who's I?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000053_000000|"Pinocchio."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000054_000000|"Who is Pinocchio?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000055_000000|"The Marionette; the one who lives in the Fairy's house."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000056_000000|"Oh, I understand," said the Snail.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000056_000001|"Wait for me there.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000057_000000|"Hurry, I beg of you, for I am dying of cold."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000058_000000|"My boy, I am a snail and snails are never in a hurry."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000059_000001|Pinocchio, who was trembling with fear and shivering from the cold rain on his back, knocked a second time, this time louder than before.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000060_000000|At that second knock, a window on the third floor opened and the same Snail looked out.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000061_000000|"Dear little Snail," cried Pinocchio from the street.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000061_000001|"I have been waiting two hours for you!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000061_000002|And two hours on a dreadful night like this are as long as two years.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000061_000003|Hurry, please!"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000062_000000|"My boy," answered the Snail in a calm, peaceful voice, "my dear boy, I am a snail and snails are never in a hurry." And the window closed.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000063_000000|A few minutes later midnight struck; then one o'clock-two o'clock.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000063_000001|And the door still remained closed!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000065_000000|"Really?" cried Pinocchio, blind with rage.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000065_000001|"If the knocker is gone, I can still use my feet."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000066_000000|He stepped back and gave the door a most solemn kick.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000066_000001|He kicked so hard that his foot went straight through the door and his leg followed almost to the knee.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000066_000002|No matter how he pulled and tugged, he could not pull it out.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000066_000003|There he stayed as if nailed to the door.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000067_000001|The rest of the night he had to spend with one foot through the door and the other one in the air.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000068_000000|As dawn was breaking, the door finally opened.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000068_000001|That brave little animal, the Snail, had taken exactly nine hours to go from the fourth floor to the street.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000068_000002|How she must have raced!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000069_000000|"What are you doing with your foot through the door?" she asked the Marionette, laughing.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000070_000000|"It was a misfortune.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000070_000001|Won't you try, pretty little Snail, to free me from this terrible torture?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000071_000000|"My boy, we need a carpenter here and I have never been one."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000073_000000|"The Fairy is asleep and does not want to be disturbed."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000074_000000|"But what do you want me to do, nailed to the door like this?"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000075_000000|"Enjoy yourself counting the ants which are passing by."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000076_000000|"Bring me something to eat, at least, for I am faint with hunger."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000077_000000|"Immediately!"
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000079_000000|"Here is the breakfast the Fairy sends to you," said the Snail.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000080_000000|At the sight of all these good things, the Marionette felt much better.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000081_000000|What was his disgust, however, when on tasting the food, he found the bread to be made of chalk, the chicken of cardboard, and the brilliant fruit of colored alabaster!
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000082_000000|He wanted to cry, he wanted to give himself up to despair, he wanted to throw away the tray and all that was on it.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000082_000001|Instead, either from pain or weakness, he fell to the floor in a dead faint.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000083_000000|When he regained his senses, he found himself stretched out on a sofa and the Fairy was seated near him.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000084_000001|"But be careful not to get into mischief again."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000085_000000|Pinocchio promised to study and to behave himself.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000085_000001|And he kept his word for the remainder of the year.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000085_000002|At the end of it, he passed first in all his examinations, and his report was so good that the Fairy said to him happily:
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000086_000000|"Tomorrow your wish will come true."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000088_000000|"Tomorrow you will cease to be a Marionette and will become a real boy."
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000089_000000|Pinocchio was beside himself with joy.
train-other-500/336/125876/336_125876_000089_000001|All his friends and schoolmates must be invited to celebrate the great event!
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000003_000000|CHAPTER sixty four.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000004_000000|CONFUSION IN THE COURT.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000005_000001|They who knew him were sure, when they saw his bearing on this morning, that he intended to do something more before the charge was given.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000005_000002|The judges entered the Court nearly half an hour later than usual, and it was observed with surprise that they were followed by the Duke of Omnium.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000005_000003|mr Chaffanbrass was on his feet before the Chief Justice had taken his seat, but the judge was the first to speak.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000005_000005|Then every man in the Court knew that some message had come suddenly by the wires. "I am informed, mr Chaffanbrass, that you wish to address the Court before I begin my charge."
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000000|Every eye was turned upon Phineas Finn, who up to this moment had heard nothing of these new tidings,--who did not in the least know on what was grounded the singularly confident,--almost insolently confident assertion which mr Chaffanbrass had made in his favour.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000001|On him the effect was altogether distressing.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000002|He had borne the trying week with singular fortitude, having stood there in the place of shame hour after hour, and day after day, expecting his doom.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000003|It had been to him as a lifetime of torture.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000004|He had become almost numb from the weariness of his position and the agonising strain upon his mind. The gaoler had offered him a seat from day to day, but he had always refused it, preferring to lean upon the rail and gaze upon the Court. He had almost ceased to hope for anything except the end of it.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000005|He had lost count of the days, and had begun to feel that the trial was an eternity of torture in itself.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000007_000006|At nights he could not sleep, but during the Sunday, after Mass, he had slept all day.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000008_000000|"This telegram has reached us only this morning," continued mr Chaffanbrass.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000008_000001|"'Mealyus had a house door key made in Prague.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000008_000003|We now propose to prove that he had prepared himself with the means of doing so, and had done so after a fashion which is conclusive as to his having required the key for some guilty purpose.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000009_000000|Then there was a scene in Court, and it appeared that no less than four messages had been received from Prague, all to the same effect.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000009_000002|He had brought his telegram direct to the Old Bailey, and the Chief Justice now held it in his hand.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000009_000004|Sir Gregory, rising with the telegram in his hand, stated that he had received the same information.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000010_000001|I shall be contented.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000010_000002|You have already got your other man in prison on a charge of bigamy."
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000011_000002|But it proves nothing.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000011_000003|It is an assertion.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000011_000004|And where should we all be, mr Chaffanbrass, if it should appear hereafter that the assertion is fictitious,--prepared purposely to aid the escape of a criminal?"
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000012_000000|"I defy you to ignore it, my lord."
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000013_000000|"I can only suggest, mr Chaffanbrass," continued the judge, "that you should obtain the consent of the gentlemen on the other side to a postponement of my charge."
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000000|Then spoke out the foreman of the jury.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000001|Was it proposed that they should be locked up till somebody should come from Prague, and that then the trial should be recommenced?
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000002|The system, said the foreman, under which Middlesex juries were chosen for service in the City was known to be most horribly cruel;--but cruelty to jurymen such as this had never even been heard of.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000004|"Every one believes it," said mr Chaffanbrass.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000005|Then the Chief Justice scolded the juryman, and Sir Gregory Grogram scolded mr Chaffanbrass.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000007|"Will my learned friend say that he doesn't believe it?" asked mr Chaffanbrass.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000014_000008|"I neither believe nor disbelieve it; but it cannot affect the evidence," said Sir Gregory. "Then send the case to the jury," said mr Chaffanbrass.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000015_000000|Something, however, must be done.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000015_000002|Sundry of the jury altogether disagreed with this, and became loud in their anger.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000015_000003|They had already been locked up for a week.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000015_000004|"And we are quite prepared to give a verdict," said one.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000016_000000|If the matter was interesting to the public before, it became doubly interesting now.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000016_000002|The late Duke had left her everything at his disposal, and, it was hinted that they had been privately married just before the Duke's death.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000017_000003|The Home Secretary should then have granted a respite till the coming of the blacksmith, and have extended this respite to a pardon, if advised that the circumstances of the latch key rendered doubtful the propriety of the verdict.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000017_000004|Others, however, maintained that in this way a grievous penalty would be inflicted on a man who, by general consent, was now held to be innocent.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000017_000005|Not only would he, by such an arrangement of circumstances, have been left for some prolonged period under the agony of a condemnation, but, by the necessity of the case, he would lose his seat for Tankerville.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000017_000007|The House, as a House of Parliament, could only recognise the verdict of the jury as to the man's guilt.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000017_000009|Many went much further than this, and were prepared to prove that were he once condemned he could not afterwards sit in the House, even if re-elected.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000000|Now there was unquestionably an intense desire,--since the arrival of these telegrams,--that Phineas Finn should retain his seat.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000001|It may be a question whether he would not have been the most popular man in the House could he have sat there on the day after the telegrams arrived. The Attorney General had declared,--and many others had declared with him,--that this information about the latch key did not in the least affect the evidence as given against mr Finn.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000002|Could it have been possible to convict the other man, merely because he had surreptitiously caused a door key of the house in which he lived to be made for him?
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000003|And how would this new information have been received had Lord Fawn sworn unreservedly that the man he had seen running out of the mews had been Phineas Finn?
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000005|But nevertheless the information conveyed by the telegrams altogether changed the opinion of the public as to the guilt or innocence of Phineas Finn.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000006|His life now might have been insured, as against the gallows, at a very low rate.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000018_000007|It was felt that no jury could convict him, and he was much more pitied in being subjected to a prolonged incarceration than even those twelve unfortunate men who had felt sure that the Wednesday would have been the last day of their unmerited martyrdom.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000000|Phineas in his prison was materially circumstanced precisely as he had been before the trial.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000001|He was supplied with a profusion of luxuries, could they have comforted him; and was allowed to receive visitors.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000002|But he would see no one but his sisters,--except that he had one interview with mr Low.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000003|Even mr Low found it difficult to make him comprehend the exact condition of the affair, and could not induce him to be comforted when he did understand it.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000006|"I was to be hung or saved from hanging according to the chances of such a thing as this!
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000007|I do not care for my life in a country where such injustice can be done." His friend endeavoured to assure him that even had nothing been heard of the key the jury would have acquitted him.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000008|But Phineas would not believe him.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000012|"There is nothing left of me," he said at the end of the interview.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000013|"I feel that I had better take to my bed and die.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000014|Even when I think of all that friends have done for me, it fails to cheer me.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000015|In this matter I should not have had to depend on friends.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000019_000016|Had not she gone for me to that place every one would have believed me to be a murderer."
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000020_000002|Lord Chiltern, Lord Cantrip, and mr Monk had alluded to him as a man specially singled out by them for their friendship.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000020_000003|Lady Cantrip, than whom no woman in London was more discreet, had been equally enthusiastic.
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000020_000004|Then how gracious, how tender, how inexpressibly sweet had been the words of her who had been Violet Effingham!
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000020_000006|Yes, indeed!
train-other-500/3373/174981/3373_174981_000020_000007|Remembering all that had passed between them he acknowledged to himself that it was very wonderful.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000001_000000|THE FOREIGN BLUDGEON.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000000|In the meantime Madame Goesler, having accomplished the journey from Prague in considerably less than a week, reached London with the blacksmith, the attorney's clerk, and the model of the key.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000003|The sitting of the Court should have been concluded, and everybody concerned should have been somewhere else, but the matter was sufficient to justify almost any departure from routine.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000004|A member of the House of Commons was in custody, and it had already been suggested that some action should be taken by the House as to his speedy deliverance.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000008|Without a doubt the man Mealyus had caused to be made for him in Prague a key which would open the door of the house in Northumberland Street.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000009|A key was made in London from the model now brought which did open the door.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000012|Lord Fawn, to his infinite disgust, was taken to the prison in which Mealyus was detained, and was confronted with the man, but he could say nothing.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000013|Mealyus, at his own suggestion, put on the coat, and stalked about the room in it.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000014|But Lord Fawn would not say a word.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000015|The person whom he now saw might have been the man in the street, or mr Finn might have been the man, or any other man might have been the man.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000016|Lord Fawn was very dignified, very reserved, and very unhappy. To his thinking he was the great martyr of this trial.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000017|Phineas Finn was becoming a hero.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000018|Against the twelve jurymen the finger of scorn would never be pointed.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000019|But his sufferings must endure for his life-might probably embitter his life to the very end.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000020|Looking into his own future from his present point of view he did not see how he could ever again appear before the eye of the public.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000021|And yet with what persistency of conscience had he struggled to be true and honest!
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000023|He had seen a man in a grey coat, and for the future would confine himself to that.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000002_000024|"You did not see me, my lord," said mr Emilius with touching simplicity.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000003_000001|And this was made without any journey to Prague, and might, no doubt, have been made on any day since the murder had been committed. And it was a discovery for not having made which the police force generally was subjected to heavy censure.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000003_000002|A beautiful little boy was seen playing in one of those gardens through which the passage runs with a short loaded bludgeon in his hand.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000003_000006|This occurred late on the Monday afternoon, when the noble family were at dinner, and the noble family was considerably disturbed, and at the same time very much interested, by the occurrence.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000003_000007|But on the Tuesday morning there was the additional fact established that a bludgeon loaded with lead had been found among the thick grass and undergrowth of shrubs in a spot to which it might easily have been thrown by any one attempting to pitch it over the wall.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000003_000008|The news flew about the town like wildfire, and it was now considered certain that the real murderer would be discovered.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000005_000001|The instrument was submitted to the eyes and hands of persons experienced in such matters, and it was declared on all sides that the thing was not of English manufacture.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000005_000002|It was about a foot long, with a leathern thong to the handle, with something of a spring in the shaft, and with the oval loaded knot at the end cased with leathern thongs very minutely and skilfully cut.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000005_000003|They who understood modern work in leather gave it as their opinion that the weapon had been made in Paris.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000005_000004|It was considered that Mealyus had brought it with him, and concealed it in preparation for this occasion.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000005_000006|But till that had been done, there could be nothing to connect the preacher with the murder.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000006_000000|Mealyus was confronted with the weapon in the presence of Major Mackintosh, and was told its story;--how it was found in the nobleman's garden by the little boy.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000006_000001|At the first moment, with instant readiness, he took the thing in his hand, and looked at it with feigned curiosity.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000006_000003|But with all his presence of mind he could not keep the tell tale blood from mounting.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000007_000000|"You don't know anything about it, mr Mealyus?" said one of the policemen present, looking closely into his face.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000008_000000|"What should I know about it?
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000009_000000|"You saved his life, certainly," said the Duchess to her friend on the Sunday afternoon.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000009_000001|That had been before the bludgeon was found.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000011_000000|"Would they not?
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000011_000001|Everybody felt sure that he would be hung.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000011_000002|Would it not have been awful?
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000011_000003|I do not see how you are to help becoming man and wife now, for all the world are talking about you." Madame Goesler smiled, and said that she was quite indifferent to the world's talk.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000011_000004|On the Tuesday after the bludgeon was found, the two ladies met again.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000011_000005|"Now it was known that it was the clergyman," said the Duchess.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000012_000000|"I never doubted it."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000013_000000|"He must have been a brave man for a foreigner,--to have attacked mr Bonteen all alone in the street, when any one might have seen him. I don't feel to hate him so very much after all.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000013_000001|As for that little wife of his, she has got no more than she deserved."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000014_000000|"mr
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000014_000001|Finn will surely be acquitted now."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000015_000000|"Of course he'll be acquitted.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000015_000001|Nobody doubts about it.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000015_000002|That is all settled, and it is a shame that he should be kept in prison even over to day.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000015_000004|He couldn't very well be Privy Seal, unless they do make him a peer.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000016_000000|"I think you'll find that they will console mr Finn with something less gorgeous than that.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000016_000001|You have succeeded in seeing him, of course?"
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000018_000000|"Some lady?"
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000019_000000|"Oh, yes,--a lady.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000019_000001|Half the men about the clubs went to him, I believe."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000020_000000|"Who was she?"
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000021_000000|"You won't be ill natured?"
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000022_000000|"I'll endeavour at any rate to keep my temper, Duchess."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000023_000000|"It was Lady Laura."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000024_000000|"I supposed so."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000025_000000|"They say she is frantic about him, my dear."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000026_000000|"I never believe those things.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000026_000001|Women do not get frantic about men in these days.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000026_000003|Her brother, Lord Chiltern, was his particular friend.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000027_000000|"Of course you know that she is a widow."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000028_000000|"Oh, yes;--mr
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000028_000001|Kennedy had died long before I left England."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000029_000000|"And she is very rich.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000029_000002|I will bet you anything you like that she offers to share it with him."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000030_000000|"It may be so," said Madame Goesler, while the slightest blush in the world suffused her cheek.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000031_000000|"And I'll make you another bet, and give you any odds."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000032_000000|"What is that?"
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000033_000000|"That he refuses her.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000033_000001|It is quite a common thing nowadays for ladies to make the offer, and for gentlemen to refuse.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000033_000002|Indeed, it was felt to be so inconvenient while it was thought that gentlemen had not the alternative, that some men became afraid of going into society.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000034_000000|"Such things have been done, I do not doubt," said Madame Goesler, who had contrived to avert her face without making the motion apparent to her friend.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000035_000000|"When this is all over we'll get him down to Matching, and manage better than that.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000035_000001|I should think they'll hardly go on with the Session, as nobody has done anything since the arrest.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000035_000002|While mr Finn has been in prison legislation has come to a standstill altogether. Even Plantagenet doesn't work above twelve hours a day, and I'm told that poor Lord Fawn hasn't been near his office for the last fortnight.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000035_000004|There'll be a few dinners of course, just as a compliment to the great man,--but London will break up after that, I should think.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000035_000005|You won't come in for so much of the glory as you would have done if they hadn't found the stick. Little Lord Frederick must have his share, you know."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000036_000000|"It's the most singular case I ever knew," said Sir Simon Slope that night to one of his friends.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000036_000001|"We certainly should have hanged him but for the two accidents, and yet neither of them brings us a bit nearer to hanging any one else."
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000037_000000|"What a pity!"
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000038_000001|I'm very glad, you know, that the key and the stick did turn up.
train-other-500/3373/174983/3373_174983_000038_000002|I never thought much about the coat."
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000001_000000|CHAPTER one-AN ANCIENT SALON
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000002_000005|He was an oracle everywhere.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000005_000001|Duchesses, the most delicate and charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the following, addressed to "the federates":--
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000009_000002|In that society, they parodied the Revolution.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000014_000001|The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above this law, as above every other.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000014_000003|In spite of?
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000014_000004|No, because.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000014_000008|A thief is admitted there, provided he be a god.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000015_000001|His face was the same color as his trousers.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000017_000002|One is not a century with impunity.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000017_000003|The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000018_000000|In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the old rock.
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000020_000001|What a pity!
train-other-500/3381/9921/3381_9921_000020_000002|Poor child!"
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000003_000000|CHAPTER six-WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000005_000000|We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in that isolated quarter.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000006_000004|He would have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, where everything breathed depression and weariness of life.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000006_000005|Judging from his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, he would have hardly been thought fifty.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000006_000007|His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed severe, and which was humble.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000006_000008|There was in the depth of his glance an indescribable melancholy serenity.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000006_000010|This stick had been carefully trimmed, and had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its knots, and it had received a coral like head, made from red wax: it was a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000007_000001|The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this without any affectation.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000008_000000|At that epoch, King Louis the eighteenth. went nearly every day to Choisy le Roi: it was one of his favorite excursions.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000010_000001|It was rapid but majestic.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000010_000003|He passed, pacific and severe, in the midst of naked swords.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000010_000004|His massive coach, all covered with gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered noisily along.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000010_000005|There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000012_000002|There was no one but himself in this cross lane.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000014_000000|When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure himself that he was not being followed.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000014_000002|This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000014_000004|This coach set out at half past four.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000015_000000|The man inquired:--
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000016_000000|"Have you a place?"
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000018_000000|"I will take it."
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000019_000000|"Climb up."
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000020_000000|Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made him pay his fare.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000021_000000|"Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000022_000000|"Yes," said the man.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000024_000000|They started.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000024_000001|When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in monosyllables.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000025_000000|The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000025_000002|The man did not appear to be thinking of that.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000025_000003|Thus they passed Gournay and Neuilly sur Marne.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000027_000000|"I get down here," said the man.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000029_000000|An instant later he had disappeared.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000032_000000|The coachman turned to the inside travellers.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000033_000000|"There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know him.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000033_000003|So he has dived through the earth."
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000035_000000|He followed this road rapidly.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000035_000002|He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there waited until the passers by were at a distance.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000035_000004|Not more than two or three stars were visible in the sky.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000036_000001|The man did not return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the right, and entered the forest with long strides.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000037_000001|There came a moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000037_000003|He stepped up briskly to these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, as though he were passing them in review.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000038_000000|Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut tree, suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been nailed by way of dressing.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000039_000000|Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000041_000000|It was the man who had just met Cosette.
train-other-500/3394/168627/3394_168627_000042_000001|He drew near, and perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket of water.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000002_000000|Chapter eight
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000003_000000|JASPER
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000004_000000|She led them to the north gallery and, pausing at the door, said merrily, "The ghost-or ghosts rather, for there were two-which frightened Patty were Sir Jasper and myself, meeting to discuss certain important matters which concerned mr Treherne.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000004_000001|If you want to see spirits we will play phantom for you, and convince you of our power."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000005_000000|"Good, let us go and have a ghostly dance, as a proper finale of our revel," answered Rose as they flocked into the long hall.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000006_000000|At that moment the great clock struck twelve, and all paused to bid the old year adieu.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000007_000000|Eight narrow Gothic windows pierced either wall of the north gallery.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000007_000002|No fires burned there now, and wherever the moonlight did not fall deep shadows lay.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000007_000003|As Octavia cried out, all looked, and all distinctly saw a tall, dark figure moving noiselessly across the second bar of light far down the hall.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000009_000000|"No, upon my honor, I know nothing of it!
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000009_000001|I only meant to relieve Octavia's superstitious fears by showing her our pranks" was the whispered reply as mrs Snowdon's cheek paled, and she drew nearer to Jasper.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000010_000000|"Who is there?" called Treherne in a commanding tone.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000011_000000|No answer, but a faint, cold breath of air seemed to sigh along the arched roof and die away as the dark figure crossed the third streak of moonlight.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000011_000002|Nearer and nearer it came, with soundless steps, and as it reached the sixth window its outlines were distinctly visible.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000011_000003|A tall, wasted figure, all in black, with a rosary hanging from the girdle, and a dark beard half concealing the face.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000014_000003|Nothing human ever wore a look like that of the ghastly, hollow eyed, pale lipped countenance below the hood.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000014_000004|All saw it and held their breath as it slowly raised a shadowy arm and pointed a shriveled finger at Sir Jasper.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000015_000000|"Speak, whatever you are, or I'll quickly prove whether you are man or spirit!" cried Jasper fiercely, stepping forward as if to grasp the extended arm that seemed to menace him alone.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000016_000000|An icy gust swept through the hall, and the phantom slowly receded into the shadow.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000016_000001|Jasper sprang after it, but nothing crossed the second stream of light, and nothing remained in the shade.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000016_000002|Like one possessed by a sudden fancy he rushed down the gallery to find all fast and empty, and to return looking very strangely.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000017_000000|"Am I then dearer than your brother?" he whispered back.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000018_000000|There was no audible reply, but one little hand involuntarily pressed his, though the other was outstretched toward Jasper, who came up white and startled but firm and quiet.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000018_000001|Affecting to make light of it, he said, forcing a smile as he raised mrs Snowdon, "It is some stupid joke of the servants.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000018_000002|Let us think no more of it.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000018_000003|Come, Edith, this is not like your usual self."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000019_000000|"It was nothing human, Jasper; you know it as well as i Oh, why did I bring you here to meet the warning phantom that haunts your house!"
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000020_000000|"Nay, if my time is near the spirit would have found me out wherever I might be.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000020_000001|I have no faith in that absurd superstition-I laugh at and defy it.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000020_000002|Come down and drink my health in wine from the Abbot's own cellar."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000022_000000|At her command the house was searched, the servants cross questioned, and every effort made to discover the identity of the apparition.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000022_000001|All in vain; the house was as usual, and not a man or maid but turned pale at the idea of entering the gallery at midnight.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000023_000000|Very grave were the faces gathered about the breakfast table next morning, and very anxious the glances cast on Sir Jasper as he came in, late as usual, looking uncommonly blithe and well.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000023_000001|Nothing serious ever made a deep impression on his mercurial nature.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000023_000002|Treherne had more the air of a doomed man, being very pale and worn, in spite of an occasional gleam of happiness as he looked at Octavia.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000023_000003|He haunted Jasper like a shadow all the morning, much to that young gentleman's annoyance, for both his mother and sister hung about him with faces of ill dissembled anxiety.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000023_000004|By afternoon his patience gave out, and he openly rebelled against the tender guard kept over him.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000024_000000|"Come with me in the pony carriage, Jasper.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000024_000001|I've not had a drive with you for a long while, and should enjoy it so much," said my lady, detaining him.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000026_000000|"Take the girls in the clarence.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000026_000002|Be gallant and say yes, dear."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000027_000001|Rose and Blanche are both asleep, and you are dying to go and do likewise, after your vigils last night. As a man and a brother I beg you'll do so, and let me ride as I like."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000029_000000|"Upon my life I should think I was a boy or a baby, by the manner in which you mount guard over me today.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000029_000001|If you think I'm going to live in daily fear of some mishap, you are all much mistaken.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000029_000002|Ghost or no ghost, I shall make merry while I can; a short life and a jolly one has always been my motto, you know, so fare you well till dinnertime."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000030_000000|They watched him gallop down the avenue, and then went their different ways, still burdened with a nameless foreboding.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000032_000000|"Forgive me if I give you an unwelcome reply, but I must be true, and so regretfully refuse the honor you do me," she said sorrowfully.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000033_000000|"May I ask why?"
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000034_000000|"Because I do not love you."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000035_000000|"And you do love your cousin," he cried angrily, pausing to watch her half averted face.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000037_000001|Then with a manful effort to be just and generous, he added heartily, "Say no more, he deserves you; I want no sacrifice to duty; I yield, and go away, praying heaven to bless you now and always."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000038_000000|He kissed her hand and left her to seek my lady and make his adieus, for no persuasion could keep him.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000039_000000|"Here comes Jasper, Mamma, safe and well," cried Octavia an hour or two later, as she joined her mother on the terrace, where my lady had been pacing restlessly to and fro nearly ever since her son rode away.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000040_000000|With a smile of intense relief she waved her handkerchief as he came clattering up the drive, and seeing her he answered with hat and hand. He usually dismounted at the great hall door, but a sudden whim made him ride along the wall that lay below the terrace, for he was a fine horseman, and mrs Snowdon was looking from her window.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000040_000001|As he approached, the peacocks fled screaming, and one flew up just before the horse's eyes as his master was in the act of dismounting.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000042_000000|They bore in the senseless, shattered body, and for hours tried everything that skill and sciences could devise to save the young man's life.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000042_000001|But every effort was in vain, and as the sun set Sir Jasper lay dying.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000042_000002|Conscious at last, and able to speak, he looked about him with a troubled glance, and seemed struggling with some desire that overmastered pain and held death at bay.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000043_000000|"I want Maurice," he feebly said, at length.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000045_000000|"Always near when I need you.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000045_000003|Let me tell it before it is too late!
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000045_000005|Bring Edith; she must hear the truth."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000046_000000|She was soon there, and, lying in his mother's arms, one hand in his cousin's, and one on his sister's bent head, Jasper rapidly told the secret which had burdened him for a year.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000047_000000|"I did it; I forged my uncle's name when I had lost so heavily at play that I dared not tell my mother, or squander more of my own fortune.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000047_000001|I deceived Maurice, and let him think the check a genuine one; I made him present it and get the money, and when all went well I fancied I was safe.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000047_000003|I never knew this till the old man died, and then it was too late.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000047_000004|I confessed to Maurice, and he forgave me.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000048_000000|"Hush, Jasper, let it pass.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000048_000001|I can bear it; I promised your dear father to be your staunch friend through life, and I have only kept my word."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000049_000000|"God knows you have, but now my life ends, and I cannot die till you are cleared.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000049_000001|Edith, I told you half the truth, and you would have used it against him had not some angel sent this girl to touch your heart.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000049_000002|You have done your part to atone for the past, now let me do mine.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000049_000003|Mother, Tavie loves him, he has risked life and honor for me.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000049_000004|Repay him generously and give him this."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000051_000000|"One more confession, and then I am ready," he said, looking up into the face of the woman whom he had loved with all the power of a shallow nature.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000051_000001|"It was a jest to you, Edith, but it was bitter earnest to me, for I loved you, sinful as it was.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000051_000002|Ask your husband to forgive me, and tell him it was better I should die than live to mar a good man's peace. Kiss me once, and make him happy for my sake."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000052_000000|She touched his cold lips with remorseful tenderness, and in the same breath registered a vow to obey that dying prayer.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000053_000001|Good bye, Mother. He will be a better son than I have been to you." Then, the reckless spirit of the man surviving to the last, Sir Jasper laughed faintly, as he seemed to beckon some invisible shape, and died saying gaily, "Now, Father Abbot, lead on, I'll follow you."
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000054_000000|A year later three weddings were celebrated on the same day and in the same church.
train-other-500/3394/184333/3394_184333_000054_000003|The triple wedding feast was celebrated at Treherne Abbey, and no uncanny visitor marred its festivities, for never again was the north gallery haunted by the ghostly Abbot.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000001_000003|But in these accounts it is the fact----it is the reality----it is the history which excites.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000001_000004|As inventions, we should regard them with simple abhorrence.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000002_000001|I need not remind the reader that, from the long and weird catalogue of human miseries, I might have selected many individual instances more replete with essential suffering than any of these vast generalities of disaster. The true wretchedness, indeed-the ultimate woe----is particular, not diffuse.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000003_000000|To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000003_000001|That it has frequently, very frequently, so fallen will scarcely be denied by those who think.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000003_000003|Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000003_000004|We know that there are diseases in which occur total cessations of all the apparent functions of vitality, and yet in which these cessations are merely suspensions, properly so called.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000004_000003|The wife of one of the most respectable citizens-a lawyer of eminence and a member of Congress-was seized with a sudden and unaccountable illness, which completely baffled the skill of her physicians.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000004_000005|No one suspected, indeed, or had reason to suspect, that she was not actually dead.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000004_000008|The eyes were lustreless.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000004_000009|There was no warmth. Pulsation had ceased.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000004_000010|For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000004_000011|The funeral, in short, was hastened, on account of the rapid advance of what was supposed to be decomposition.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000005_000002|As its portals swung outwardly back, some white apparelled object fell rattling within his arms.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000006_000001|A lamp which had been accidentally left, full of oil, within the tomb, was found empty; it might have been exhausted, however, by evaporation.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000006_000002|On the uttermost of the steps which led down into the dread chamber was a large fragment of the coffin, with which, it seemed, that she had endeavored to arrest attention by striking the iron door.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000006|Filled with despair, and still inflamed by the memory of a profound attachment, the lover journeys from the capital to the remote province in which the village lies, with the romantic purpose of disinterring the corpse, and possessing himself of its luxuriant tresses.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000007|He reaches the grave.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000008|At midnight he unearths the coffin, opens it, and is in the act of detaching the hair, when he is arrested by the unclosing of the beloved eyes.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000009|In fact, the lady had been buried alive.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000011|He bore her frantically to his lodgings in the village.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000014|She recognized her preserver.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000007_000016|Her woman's heart was not adamant, and this last lesson of love sufficed to soften it.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000009_000000|An officer of artillery, a man of gigantic stature and of robust health, being thrown from an unmanageable horse, received a very severe contusion upon the head, which rendered him insensible at once; the skull was slightly fractured, but no immediate danger was apprehended. Trepanning was accomplished successfully.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000009_000001|He was bled, and many other of the ordinary means of relief were adopted.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000010_000000|The weather was warm, and he was buried with indecent haste in one of the public cemeteries.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000010_000001|His funeral took place on Thursday.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000010_000004|Spades were hurriedly procured, and the grave, which was shamefully shallow, was in a few minutes so far thrown open that the head of its occupant appeared.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000010_000005|He was then seemingly dead; but he sat nearly erect within his coffin, the lid of which, in his furious struggles, he had partially uplifted.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000012_000000|From what he related, it was clear that he must have been conscious of life for more than an hour, while inhumed, before lapsing into insensibility.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000012_000002|It was the tumult within the grounds of the cemetery, he said, which appeared to awaken him from a deep sleep, but no sooner was he awake than he became fully aware of the awful horrors of his position.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000013_000000|This patient, it is recorded, was doing well and seemed to be in a fair way of ultimate recovery, but fell a victim to the quackeries of medical experiment.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000013_000001|The galvanic battery was applied, and he suddenly expired in one of those ecstatic paroxysms which, occasionally, it superinduces.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000014_000000|The mention of the galvanic battery, nevertheless, recalls to my memory a well known and very extraordinary case in point, where its action proved the means of restoring to animation a young attorney of London, who had been interred for two days.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000014_000001|This occurred in eighteen thirty one, and created, at the time, a very profound sensation wherever it was made the subject of converse.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000017_000004|What he said was unintelligible, but words were uttered; the syllabification was distinct.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000018_000003|Their wonder-their rapturous astonishment-may be conceived.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000019_000000|The most thrilling peculiarity of this incident, nevertheless, is involved in what mr s himself asserts.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000020_000000|It were an easy matter to multiply such histories as these-but I forbear-for, indeed, we have no need of such to establish the fact that premature interments occur.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000020_000001|When we reflect how very rarely, from the nature of the case, we have it in our power to detect them, we must admit that they may frequently occur without our cognizance.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000021_000000|Fearful indeed the suspicion-but more fearful the doom!
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000021_000005|What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge-of my own positive and personal experience.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000001|Although both the immediate and the predisposing causes, and even the actual diagnosis, of this disease are still mysterious, its obvious and apparent character is sufficiently well understood.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000002|Its variations seem to be chiefly of degree.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000006|Very usually he is saved from premature interment solely by the knowledge of his friends that he has been previously subject to catalepsy, by the consequent suspicion excited, and, above all, by the non appearance of decay.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000007|The advances of the malady are, luckily, gradual.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000008|The first manifestations, although marked, are unequivocal.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000009|The fits grow successively more and more distinctive, and endure each for a longer term than the preceding.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000022_000011|The unfortunate whose first attack should be of the extreme character which is occasionally seen, would almost inevitably be consigned alive to the tomb.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000023_000002|At other times I was quickly and impetuously smitten.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000023_000004|Then, for weeks, all was void, and black, and silent, and Nothing became the universe. Total annihilation could be no more.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000023_000005|From these latter attacks I awoke, however, with a gradation slow in proportion to the suddenness of the seizure.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000024_000000|Apart from the tendency to trance, however, my general health appeared to be good; nor could I perceive that it was at all affected by the one prevalent malady-unless, indeed, an idiosyncrasy in my ordinary sleep may be looked upon as superinduced.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000025_000002|The ghastly Danger to which I was subjected haunted me day and night.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000026_000000|From the innumerable images of gloom which thus oppressed me in dreams, I select for record but a solitary vision.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000026_000001|Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000027_000000|I sat erect.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000027_000002|I could not see the figure of him who had aroused me.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000027_000004|While I remained motionless, and busied in endeavors to collect my thought, the cold hand grasped me fiercely by the wrist, shaking it petulantly, while the gibbering voice said again:
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000028_000000|"Arise! did I not bid thee arise?"
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000029_000000|"And who," I demanded, "art thou?"
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000030_000000|"I have no name in the regions which I inhabit," replied the voice, mournfully; "I was mortal, but am fiend.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000030_000001|I was merciless, but am pitiful.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000030_000002|Thou dost feel that I shudder.--My teeth chatter as I speak, yet it is not with the chilliness of the night-of the night without end.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000030_000005|I cannot rest for the cry of these great agonies.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000030_000006|These sights are more than I can bear.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000031_000000|I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, had caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind, and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay, so that I could see into the innermost recesses, and there view the shrouded bodies in their sad and solemn slumbers with the worm.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000031_000003|And the voice again said to me as I gazed:
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000032_000000|"Is it not-oh! is it not a pitiful sight?"--but, before I could find words to reply, the figure had ceased to grasp my wrist, the phosphoric lights expired, and the graves were closed with a sudden violence, while from out them arose a tumult of despairing cries, saying again: "Is it not-O, God, is it not a very pitiful sight?"
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000033_000000|Phantasies such as these, presenting themselves at night, extended their terrific influence far into my waking hours.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000033_000003|I doubted the care, the fidelity of my dearest friends. I dreaded that, in some trance of more than customary duration, they might be prevailed upon to regard me as irrecoverable.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000033_000004|I even went so far as to fear that, as I occasioned much trouble, they might be glad to consider any very protracted attack as sufficient excuse for getting rid of me altogether.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000033_000007|And, even then, my mortal terrors would listen to no reason-would accept no consolation.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000033_000009|Among other things, I had the family vault so remodelled as to admit of being readily opened from within.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000033_000013|But, alas? what avails the vigilance against the Destiny of man?
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000001|Slowly-with a tortoise gradation-approached the faint gray dawn of the psychal day.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000002|A torpid uneasiness.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000003|An apathetic endurance of dull pain.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000004|No care-no hope-no effort.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000006|At length the slight quivering of an eyelid, and immediately thereupon, an electric shock of a terror, deadly and indefinite, which sends the blood in torrents from the temples to the heart.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000007|And now the first positive effort to think.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000008|And now the first endeavor to remember.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000009|And now a partial and evanescent success.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000010|And now the memory has so far regained its dominion, that, in some measure, I am cognizant of my state.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000011|I feel that I am not awaking from ordinary sleep.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000012|I recollect that I have been subject to catalepsy.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000034_000013|And now, at last, as if by the rush of an ocean, my shuddering spirit is overwhelmed by the one grim Danger-by the one spectral and ever prevalent idea.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000000|For some minutes after this fancy possessed me, I remained without motion.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000001|And why?
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000002|I could not summon courage to move.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000003|I dared not make the effort which was to satisfy me of my fate-and yet there was something at my heart which whispered me it was sure.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000005|It was dark-all dark.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000006|I knew that the fit was over.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000035_000007|I knew that the crisis of my disorder had long passed.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000036_000000|I endeavored to shriek; and my lips and my parched tongue moved convulsively together in the attempt-but no voice issued from the cavernous lungs, which oppressed as if by the weight of some incumbent mountain, gasped and palpitated, with the heart, at every elaborate and struggling inspiration.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000037_000000|The movement of the jaws, in this effort to cry aloud, showed me that they were bound up, as is usual with the dead.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000037_000001|I felt, too, that I lay upon some hard substance, and by something similar my sides were, also, closely compressed.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000037_000002|So far, I had not ventured to stir any of my limbs-but now I violently threw up my arms, which had been lying at length, with the wrists crossed.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000037_000004|I could no longer doubt that I reposed within a coffin at last.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000038_000002|I felt my wrists for the bell rope: it was not to be found.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000038_000003|And now the Comforter fled for ever, and a still sterner Despair reigned triumphant; for I could not help perceiving the absence of the paddings which I had so carefully prepared-and then, too, there came suddenly to my nostrils the strong peculiar odor of moist earth.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000038_000004|The conclusion was irresistible.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000038_000005|I was not within the vault.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000038_000006|I had fallen into a trance while absent from home-while among strangers-when, or how, I could not remember-and it was they who had buried me as a dog-nailed up in some common coffin-and thrust deep, deep, and for ever, into some ordinary and nameless grave.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000039_000000|As this awful conviction forced itself, thus, into the innermost chambers of my soul, I once again struggled to cry aloud.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000041_000000|"What the devil's the matter now!" said a second.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000043_000001|They did not arouse me from my slumber-for I was wide awake when I screamed-but they restored me to the full possession of my memory.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000002|Night approached, and we were overtaken by a storm.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000004|We made the best of it, and passed the night on board.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000005|I slept in one of the only two berths in the vessel-and the berths of a sloop of sixty or twenty tons need scarcely be described.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000006|That which I occupied had no bedding of any kind.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000007|Its extreme width was eighteen inches.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000008|The distance of its bottom from the deck overhead was precisely the same.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000011|The men who shook me were the crew of the sloop, and some laborers engaged to unload it.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000012|From the load itself came the earthly smell.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000044_000013|The bandage about the jaws was a silk handkerchief in which I had bound up my head, in default of my customary nightcap.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000000|The tortures endured, however, were indubitably quite equal for the time, to those of actual sepulture.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000001|They were fearfully-they were inconceivably hideous; but out of Evil proceeded Good; for their very excess wrought in my spirit an inevitable revulsion.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000002|My soul acquired tone-acquired temper.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000003|I went abroad.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000004|I took vigorous exercise.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000005|I breathed the free air of Heaven.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000006|I thought upon other subjects than Death.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000007|I discarded my medical books.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000008|"Buchan" I burned.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000009|I read no "Night Thoughts"--no fustian about churchyards-no bugaboo tales-such as this.
train-other-500/3394/7597/3394_7597_000045_000010|In short, I became a new man, and lived a man's life.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000002_000000|I asked why measles? and was told that there was a fear lest extenuating circumstances should prevent a jury from convicting me, if I were indicted for typhus or small pox, but that a verdict would probably be obtained for measles, a disease which could be sufficiently punished in a person of my age.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000002_000001|I was given to understand that unless some unexpected change should come over the mind of his Majesty, I might expect the blow to be struck within a very few days.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000003_000000|My plan was this-that Arowhena and I should escape in a balloon together.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000003_000001|I fear that the reader will disbelieve this part of my story, yet in no other have I endeavoured to adhere more conscientiously to facts, and can only throw myself upon his charity.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000006_000001|When I first told her Majesty that I wanted a balloon, I said my intention was to go up into the sky and prevail upon the air god by means of a personal interview.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000006_000002|I own that this proposition bordered on the idolatrous, but I have long since repented of it, and am little likely ever to repeat the offence.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000007_000000|When the Queen told his Majesty of my proposal, he at first not only ridiculed it, but was inclined to veto it.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000007_000001|Being, however, a very uxorious husband, he at length consented-as he eventually always did to everything on which the Queen had set her heart.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000008_000001|Neither King nor Queen had any idea that I meant going right away if I could get the wind to take me, nor had he any conception of the existence of a certain steady upper current of air which was always setting in one direction, as could be seen by the shape of the higher clouds, which pointed invariably from south-east to north-west.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000008_000002|I had myself long noticed this peculiarity in the climate, and attributed it, I believe justly, to a trade wind which was constant at a few thousand feet above the earth, but was disturbed by local influences at lower elevations.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000009_000000|My next business was to break the plan to Arowhena, and to devise the means for getting her into the car.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000009_000001|I felt sure that she would come with me, but had made up my mind that if her courage failed her, the whole thing should come to nothing.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000009_000002|Arowhena and I had been in constant communication through her maid, but I had thought it best not to tell her the details of my scheme till everything was settled.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000010_000000|I came at the appointed time; the girl let me into the garden and bade me wait in a secluded alley until Arowhena should come.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000010_000001|It was now early summer, and the leaves were so thick upon the trees that even though some one else had entered the garden I could have easily hidden myself.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000010_000002|The night was one of extreme beauty; the sun had long set, but there was still a rosy gleam in the sky over the ruins of the railway station; below me was the city already twinkling with lights, while beyond it stretched the plains for many a league until they blended with the sky.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000010_000003|I just noted these things, but I could not heed them.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000010_000005|I bounded towards it, and ere thought could either prompt or check, I had caught Arowhena to my heart and covered her unresisting cheek with kisses.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000011_000001|I told her that my plan would probably end in death for both of us, and that I dared not press it-that at a word from her it should be abandoned; still that there was just a possibility of our escaping together to some part of the world where there would be no bar to our getting married, and that I could see no other hope.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000012_000000|She made no resistance, not a sign or hint of doubt or hesitation.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000013_000000|I hurried my preparations forward, for I feared rain, and also that the King might change his mind; but the weather continued dry, and in another week the Queen's workmen had finished the balloon and car, while the gas was ready to be turned on into the balloon at any moment.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000013_000001|All being now prepared I was to ascend on the following morning.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000013_000002|I had stipulated for being allowed to take abundance of rugs and wrappings as protection from the cold of the upper atmosphere, and also ten or a dozen good sized bags of ballast.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000014_000000|I had nearly a quarter's pension in hand, and with this I fee'd Arowhena's maid, and bribed the Queen's foreman-who would, I believe, have given me assistance even without a bribe.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000014_000001|He helped me to secrete food and wine in the bags of ballast, and on the morning of my ascent he kept the other workmen out of the way while I got Arowhena into the car. She came with early dawn, muffled up, and in her maid's dress.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000014_000002|She was supposed to be gone to an early performance at one of the Musical Banks, and told me that she should not be missed till breakfast, but that her absence must then be discovered.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000014_000003|I arranged the ballast about her so that it should conceal her as she lay at the bottom of the car, and covered her with wrappings.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000014_000004|Although it still wanted some hours of the time fixed for my ascent, I could not trust myself one moment from the car, so I got into it at once, and watched the gradual inflation of the balloon.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000014_000005|Luggage I had none, save the provisions hidden in the ballast bags, the books of mythology, and the treatises on the machines, with my own manuscript diaries and translations.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000015_000000|I sat quietly, and awaited the hour fixed for my departure-quiet outwardly, but inwardly I was in an agony of suspense lest Arowhena's absence should be discovered before the arrival of the King and Queen, who were to witness my ascent.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000015_000001|They were not due yet for another two hours, and during this time a hundred things might happen, any one of which would undo me.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000016_000001|Nothing remained to hinder the balloon from ascending but the hands and weight of those who were holding on to it with ropes.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000016_000002|I strained my eyes for the coming of the King and Queen, but could see no sign of their approach.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000016_000003|I looked in the direction of mr Nosnibor's house-there was nothing to indicate disturbance, but it was not yet breakfast time.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000016_000004|The crowd began to gather; they were aware that I was under the displeasure of the court, but I could detect no signs of my being unpopular.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000017_000001|For the moment my pulse ceased beating, and then, knowing that the time had come when I must either do or die, I called vehemently to those who were holding the ropes (some thirty men) to let go at once, and made gestures signifying danger, and that there would be mischief if they held on longer.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000017_000002|Many obeyed; the rest were too weak to hold on to the ropes, and were forced to let them go.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000018_000001|In an incredibly short time, I could see little but a vast wall of blue plains rising up against me, towards whichever side I looked.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000019_000000|At first, the balloon mounted vertically upwards, but after about five minutes, when we had already attained a very great elevation, I fancied that the objects on the plain beneath began to move from under me.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000019_000001|I did not feel so much as a breath of wind, and could not suppose that the balloon itself was travelling.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000019_000003|Then I was happy in thinking that I must now have reached the invariable trade wind of the upper air, and that I should be very possibly wafted for hundreds or even thousands of miles, far from Erewhon and the Erewhonians.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000021_000001|Some things I can recall-as that we were ere long enveloped in vapour which froze upon my moustache and whiskers; then comes a memory of sitting for hours and hours in a thick fog, hearing no sound but my own breathing and Arowhena's (for we hardly spoke) and seeing no sight but the car beneath us and beside us, and the dark balloon above.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000022_000000|Perhaps the most painful feeling when the earth was hidden was that the balloon was motionless, though our only hope lay in our going forward with an extreme of speed.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000022_000002|Now and again, I ate and gave food to Arowhena, but by guess work as regards time.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000022_000003|Then came darkness, a dreadful dreary time, without even the moon to cheer us.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000024_000000|In a couple of hours we had passed the ranges, which must have been some hundred and fifty miles across, and again I saw a tract of level plain extending far away to the horizon.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000024_000001|I knew not where we were, and dared not descend, lest I should waste the power of the balloon, but I was half hopeful that we might be above the country from which I had originally started.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000024_000003|While I was still in doubt, the balloon was again wrapped in clouds, and we were left to blank space and to conjectures.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000025_000001|How I longed for my unhappy watch!
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000025_000002|I felt as though not even time was moving, so dumb and spell bound were our surroundings.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000025_000003|Sometimes I would feel my pulse, and count its beats for half an hour together; anything to mark the time-to prove that it was there, and to assure myself that we were within the blessed range of its influence, and not gone adrift into the timelessness of eternity.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000026_000001|What they were I knew not, but they grew gradually fainter and fainter, and after a time were lost.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000026_000003|I saw the sea, and nothing but the sea; in the main black, but flecked with white heads of storm tossed, angry waves.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000027_000000|Arowhena was sleeping quietly at the bottom of the car, and as I looked at her sweet and saintly beauty, I groaned, and cursed myself for the misery into which I had brought her; but there was nothing for it now.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000028_000000|I sat and waited for the worst, and presently I saw signs as though that worst were soon to be at hand, for the balloon had begun to sink.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000028_000001|On first seeing the sea I had been impressed with the idea that we must have been falling, but now there could be no mistake, we were sinking, and that fast.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000028_000002|I threw out a bag of ballast, and for a time we rose again, but in the course of a few hours the sinking recommenced, and I threw out another bag.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000029_000000|Then the battle commenced in earnest.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000029_000001|It lasted all that afternoon and through the night until the following evening.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000030_000001|The feelings of the traveller have become more and more highly wrought at every step, until at last the naked and overhanging precipices seem to close above his head, as he crosses a bridge hung in mid-air over a roaring waterfall, and enters on the darkness of a tunnel, hewn out of the rock.
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000031_000000|What can be in store for him on emerging?
train-other-500/3400/153975/3400_153975_000031_000001|Surely something even wilder and more desolate than that which he has seen already; yet his imagination is paralysed, and can suggest no fancy or vision of anything to surpass the reality which he had just witnessed.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000001_000001|But contrary to what had always happened in their former battles, instead of the news they expected of the enemy's flight, these orderly masses returned thence as disorganized and terrified mobs.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000001_000002|The generals re-formed them, but their numbers constantly decreased.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000002_000000|Napoleon sat at the foot of the knoll, drinking punch, when Murat's adjutant galloped up with an assurance that the Russians would be routed if His Majesty would let him have another division.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000003_000000|"Reinforcements?" said Napoleon in a tone of stern surprise, looking at the adjutant-a handsome lad with long black curls arranged like Murat's own-as though he did not understand his words.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000004_000000|"Reinforcements!" thought Napoleon to himself.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000004_000001|"How can they need reinforcements when they already have half the army directed against a weak, unentrenched Russian wing?"
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000005_000001|Go!..."
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000006_000000|The handsome boy adjutant with the long hair sighed deeply without removing his hand from his hat and galloped back to where men were being slaughtered.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000008_000001|It was Belliard.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000008_000003|He swore on his honor that the Russians were lost if the Emperor would give another division.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000009_000000|Napoleon shrugged his shoulders and continued to pace up and down without replying.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000009_000001|Belliard began talking loudly and eagerly to the generals of the suite around him.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000010_000001|"In the heat of a battle it is easy to make a mistake.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000010_000002|Go and have another look and then come back to me."
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000011_000000|Before Belliard was out of sight, a messenger from another part of the battlefield galloped up.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000012_000000|"Now then, what do you want?" asked Napoleon in the tone of a man irritated at being continually disturbed.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000013_000000|"Sire, the prince..." began the adjutant.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000014_000000|"Asks for reinforcements?" said Napoleon with an angry gesture.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000015_000000|The adjutant bent his head affirmatively and began to report, but the Emperor turned from him, took a couple of steps, stopped, came back, and called Berthier.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000017_000000|"Send Claparede's division, sire," replied Berthier, who knew all the division's regiments, and battalions by heart.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000018_000000|Napoleon nodded assent.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000019_000000|The adjutant galloped to Claparede's division and a few minutes later the Young Guards stationed behind the knoll moved forward.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000019_000001|Napoleon gazed silently in that direction.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000021_000000|Though there was no advantage in sending Friant's division instead of Claparede's, and even an obvious inconvenience and delay in stopping Claparede and sending Friant now, the order was carried out exactly.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000021_000001|Napoleon did not notice that in regard to his army he was playing the part of a doctor who hinders by his medicines-a role he so justly understood and condemned.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000022_000001|From all sides adjutants continued to arrive at a gallop and as if by agreement all said the same thing.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000022_000002|They all asked for reinforcements and all said that the Russians were holding their positions and maintaining a hellish fire under which the French army was melting away.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000023_000000|Napoleon sat on a campstool, wrapped in thought.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000024_000000|M. de Beausset, the man so fond of travel, having fasted since morning, came up to the Emperor and ventured respectfully to suggest lunch to His Majesty.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000026_000000|Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000026_000001|Assuming the negation to refer only to the victory and not to the lunch, m de Beausset ventured with respectful jocularity to remark that there is no reason for not having lunch when one can get it.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000027_000000|"Go away..." exclaimed Napoleon suddenly and morosely, and turned aside.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000029_000000|Napoleon was experiencing a feeling of depression like that of an ever lucky gambler who, after recklessly flinging money about and always winning, suddenly just when he has calculated all the chances of the game, finds that the more he considers his play the more surely he loses.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000030_000000|His troops were the same, his generals the same, the same preparations had been made, the same dispositions, and the same proclamation courte et energique, he himself was still the same: he knew that and knew that he was now even more experienced and skillful than before.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000030_000001|Even the enemy was the same as at Austerlitz and Friedland-yet the terrible stroke of his arm had supernaturally become impotent.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000032_000001|So it had been at Lodi, Marengo, Arcola, Jena, Austerlitz, Wagram, and so on.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000032_000002|But now something strange was happening to his troops.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000033_000000|Despite news of the capture of the fleches, Napoleon saw that this was not the same, not at all the same, as what had happened in his former battles.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000033_000001|He saw that what he was feeling was felt by all the men about him experienced in the art of war.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000034_000000|But Napoleon with his long experience of war well knew the meaning of a battle not gained by the attacking side in eight hours, after all efforts had been expended.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000034_000001|He knew that it was a lost battle and that the least accident might now-with the fight balanced on such a strained center-destroy him and his army.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000035_000001|The Russians might fall on his left wing, might break through his center, he himself might be killed by a stray cannon ball.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000035_000002|All this was possible.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000035_000004|Yes, it was like a dream in which a man fancies that a ruffian is coming to attack him, and raises his arm to strike that ruffian a terrible blow which he knows should annihilate him, but then feels that his arm drops powerless and limp like a rag, and the horror of unavoidable destruction seizes him in his helplessness.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000036_000000|The news that the Russians were attacking the left flank of the French army aroused that horror in Napoleon.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000036_000001|He sat silently on a campstool below the knoll, with head bowed and elbows on his knees.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000037_000001|What do you say?" asked Napoleon.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000037_000002|"Yes, tell them to bring me my horse."
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000038_000000|He mounted and rode toward Semenovsk.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000039_000000|Amid the powder smoke, slowly dispersing over the whole space through which Napoleon rode, horses and men were lying in pools of blood, singly or in heaps.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000039_000001|Neither Napoleon nor any of his generals had ever before seen such horrors or so many slain in such a small area.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000039_000002|The roar of guns, that had not ceased for ten hours, wearied the ear and gave a peculiar significance to the spectacle, as music does to tableaux vivants.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000039_000004|They were Russians.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000040_000000|The Russians stood in serried ranks behind Semenovsk village and its knoll, and their guns boomed incessantly along their line and sent forth clouds of smoke.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000040_000002|Napoleon stopped his horse and again fell into the reverie from which Berthier had aroused him.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000040_000003|He could not stop what was going on before him and around him and was supposed to be directed by him and to depend on him, and from its lack of success this affair, for the first time, seemed to him unnecessary and horrible.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000041_000000|One of the generals rode up to Napoleon and ventured to offer to lead the Old Guard into action.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000041_000001|Ney and Berthier, standing near Napoleon, exchanged looks and smiled contemptuously at this general's senseless offer.
train-other-500/3409/167622/3409_167622_000042_000000|Napoleon bowed his head and remained silent a long time.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000001_000000|On the rug covered bench where Pierre had seen him in the morning sat Kutuzov, his gray head hanging, his heavy body relaxed.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000001_000001|He gave no orders, but only assented to or dissented from what others suggested.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000002_000000|"Yes, yes, do that," he replied to various proposals.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000003_000000|Kutuzov's general expression was one of concentrated quiet attention, and his face wore a strained look as if he found it difficult to master the fatigue of his old and feeble body.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000004_000001|Kutuzov groaned and swayed his head.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000006_000000|"Will Your Highness please take command of the first army?"
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000007_000000|Soon after the duke's departure-before he could possibly have reached Semenovsk-his adjutant came back from him and told Kutuzov that the duke asked for more troops.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000009_000000|"Wait a little, gentlemen," said he.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000009_000002|Still, it is better to wait before we rejoice."
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000010_000000|But he sent an adjutant to take the news round the army.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000011_000000|When Scherbinin came galloping from the left flank with news that the French had captured the fleches and the village of Semenovsk, Kutuzov, guessing by the sounds of the battle and by Scherbinin's looks that the news was bad, rose as if to stretch his legs and, taking Scherbinin's arm, led him aside.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000013_000000|Kutuzov was in Gorki, near the center of the Russian position.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000013_000001|The attack directed by Napoleon against our left flank had been several times repulsed.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000014_000000|Toward three o'clock the French attacks ceased.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000014_000001|On the faces of all who came from the field of battle, and of those who stood around him, Kutuzov noticed an expression of extreme tension.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000014_000003|Several times his head dropped low as if it were falling and he dozed off.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000014_000004|Dinner was brought him.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000015_000000|Adjutant General Wolzogen, the man who when riding past Prince Andrew had said, "the war should be extended widely," and whom Bagration so detested, rode up while Kutuzov was at dinner.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000015_000001|Wolzogen had come from Barclay de Tolly to report on the progress of affairs on the left flank.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000015_000002|The sagacious Barclay de Tolly, seeing crowds of wounded men running back and the disordered rear of the army, weighed all the circumstances, concluded that the battle was lost, and sent his favorite officer to the commander in chief with that news.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000019_000000|"All the points of our position are in the enemy's hands and we cannot dislodge them for lack of troops, the men are running away and it is impossible to stop them," he reported.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000021_000000|"I have not considered it right to conceal from your Serene Highness what I have seen.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000022_000000|"You have seen?
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000022_000001|You have seen?..." Kutuzov shouted.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000023_000001|You know nothing about it.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000023_000002|Tell General Barclay from me that his information is incorrect and that the real course of the battle is better known to me, the commander in chief, than to him."
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000024_000000|Wolzogen was about to make a rejoinder, but Kutuzov interrupted him.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000025_000000|"The enemy has been repulsed on the left and defeated on the right flank.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000025_000001|If you have seen amiss, sir, do not allow yourself to say what you don't know!
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000025_000002|Be so good as to ride to General Barclay and inform him of my firm intention to attack the enemy tomorrow," said Kutuzov sternly.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000027_000000|"They are repulsed everywhere, for which I thank God and our brave army!
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000027_000001|The enemy is beaten, and tomorrow we shall drive him from the sacred soil of Russia," said Kutuzov crossing himself, and he suddenly sobbed as his eyes filled with tears.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000030_000000|This was Raevski, who had spent the whole day at the most important part of the field of Borodino.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000031_000000|Raevski reported that the troops were firmly holding their ground and that the French no longer ventured to attack.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000032_000000|After hearing him, Kutuzov said in French:
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000033_000000|"Then you do not think, like some others, that we must retreat?"
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000034_000000|"On the contrary, your Highness, in indecisive actions it is always the most stubborn who remain victors," replied Raevski, "and in my opinion..."
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000035_000000|"Kaysarov!" Kutuzov called to his adjutant.
train-other-500/3409/167623/3409_167623_000035_000001|"Sit down and write out the order of the day for tomorrow.
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000003_000000|Helene understood that the question was very simple and easy from the ecclesiastical point of view, and that her directors were making difficulties only because they were apprehensive as to how the matter would be regarded by the secular authorities.
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000004_000000|So she decided that it was necessary to prepare the opinion of society.
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000004_000001|She provoked the jealousy of the elderly magnate and told him what she had told her other suitor; that is, she put the matter so that the only way for him to obtain a right over her was to marry her.
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000005_000003|Whether it was right or wrong to remarry while one had a husband living they did not discuss, for that question had evidently been settled by people "wiser than you or me," as they said, and to doubt the correctness of that decision would be to risk exposing one's stupidity and incapacity to live in society.
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000006_000001|Meeting Helene at a ball she stopped her in the middle of the room and, amid general silence, said in her gruff voice: "So wives of living men have started marrying again!
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000006_000002|Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty?
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000006_000003|You have been forestalled, my dear!
train-other-500/3409/173540/3409_173540_000006_000004|It was thought of long ago.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000000|Having run through different yards and side streets, Pierre got back with his little burden to the Gruzinski garden at the corner of the Povarskoy.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000001|He did not at first recognize the place from which he had set out to look for the child, so crowded was it now with people and goods that had been dragged out of the houses.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000002|Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000003|Pierre took no notice of them.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000004|He hurried to find the family of that civil servant in order to restore the daughter to her mother and go to save someone else.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000007|She had now become quiet and, clinging with her little hands to Pierre's coat, sat on his arm gazing about her like some little wild animal.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000008|He glanced at her occasionally with a slight smile.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000001_000009|He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000000|He did not find the civil servant or his wife where he had left them.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000001|He walked among the crowd with rapid steps, scanning the various faces he met.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000002|Involuntarily he noticed a Georgian or Armenian family consisting of a very handsome old man of Oriental type, wearing a new, cloth covered, sheepskin coat and new boots, an old woman of similar type, and a young woman.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000004|Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000005|She was sitting on some bundles a little behind the old woman, and looked from under her long lashes with motionless, large, almond shaped eyes at the ground before her.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000006|Evidently she was aware of her beauty and fearful because of it.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000007|Her face struck Pierre and, hurrying along by the fence, he turned several times to look at her.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000002_000008|When he had reached the fence, still without finding those he sought, he stopped and looked about him.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000003_000000|With the child in his arms his figure was now more conspicuous than before, and a group of Russians, both men and women, gathered about him.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000004_000000|"Have you lost anyone, my dear fellow?
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000004_000002|Whose child is it?" they asked him.
train-other-500/3409/173567/3409_173567_000005_000000|Pierre replied that the child belonged to a woman in a black coat who had been sitting there with her other children, and he asked whether anyone knew where she had gone.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000000_000000|There were many wounded, but none mortally.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000000_000001|Colonel Proctor was one of the most seriously hurt; he had fought bravely, and a ball had entered his groin.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000000_000002|He was carried into the station with the other wounded passengers, to receive such attention as could be of avail.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000001_000000|Aouda was safe; and Phileas Fogg, who had been in the thickest of the fight, had not received a scratch.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000001_000001|Fix was slightly wounded in the arm.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000001_000002|But Passepartout was not to be found, and tears coursed down Aouda's cheeks.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000002_000000|All the passengers had got out of the train, the wheels of which were stained with blood.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000002_000001|From the tyres and spokes hung ragged pieces of flesh.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000002_000002|As far as the eye could reach on the white plain behind, red trails were visible.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000002_000003|The last Sioux were disappearing in the south, along the banks of Republican River.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000003_000000|mr Fogg, with folded arms, remained motionless.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000003_000001|He had a serious decision to make.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000003_000003|If his servant was a prisoner, ought he not to risk everything to rescue him from the Indians?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000003_000004|"I will find him, living or dead," said he quietly to Aouda.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000004_000000|"Ah, mr--mr
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000004_000001|Fogg!" cried she, clasping his hands and covering them with tears.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000005_000000|"Living," added mr Fogg, "if we do not lose a moment."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000006_000000|Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sacrificed himself; he pronounced his own doom.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000006_000001|The delay of a single day would make him lose the steamer at New York, and his bet would be certainly lost.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000006_000002|But as he thought, "It is my duty," he did not hesitate.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000007_000000|The commanding officer of Fort Kearney was there.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000009_000000|"Dead?" asked the captain.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000010_000000|"Dead or prisoners; that is the uncertainty which must be solved.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000011_000000|"That's a serious thing to do, sir," returned the captain.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000012_000000|"The lives of three men are in question, sir," said Phileas Fogg.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000013_000000|"Doubtless; but can I risk the lives of fifty men to save three?"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000014_000000|"I don't know whether you can, sir; but you ought to do so."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000015_000000|"Nobody here," returned the other, "has a right to teach me my duty."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000016_000000|"Very well," said mr Fogg, coldly.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000016_000001|"I will go alone."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000017_000000|"You, sir!" cried Fix, coming up; "you go alone in pursuit of the Indians?"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000018_000000|"Would you have me leave this poor fellow to perish-him to whom every one present owes his life?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000018_000001|I shall go."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000019_000000|"No, sir, you shall not go alone," cried the captain, touched in spite of himself.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000019_000001|"No! you are a brave man.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000019_000002|Thirty volunteers!" he added, turning to the soldiers.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000020_000000|The whole company started forward at once.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000020_000001|The captain had only to pick his men.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000020_000002|Thirty were chosen, and an old sergeant placed at their head.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000021_000000|"Thanks, captain," said mr Fogg.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000022_000000|"Will you let me go with you?" asked Fix.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000023_000001|But if you wish to do me a favour, you will remain with Aouda.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000023_000002|In case anything should happen to me-"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000024_000000|A sudden pallor overspread the detective's face.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000024_000001|Separate himself from the man whom he had so persistently followed step by step!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000024_000002|Leave him to wander about in this desert!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000025_000000|"I will stay," said he.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000026_000000|A few moments after, mr Fogg pressed the young woman's hand, and, having confided to her his precious carpet bag, went off with the sergeant and his little squad.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000026_000001|But, before going, he had said to the soldiers, "My friends, I will divide five thousand dollars among you, if we save the prisoners."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000027_000000|It was then a little past noon.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000028_000000|Aouda retired to a waiting room, and there she waited alone, thinking of the simple and noble generosity, the tranquil courage of Phileas Fogg.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000028_000001|He had sacrificed his fortune, and was now risking his life, all without hesitation, from duty, in silence.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000029_000000|Fix did not have the same thoughts, and could scarcely conceal his agitation.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000029_000001|He walked feverishly up and down the platform, but soon resumed his outward composure.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000029_000002|He now saw the folly of which he had been guilty in letting Fogg go alone.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000029_000003|What!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000029_000004|This man, whom he had just followed around the world, was permitted now to separate himself from him!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000030_000000|"I have been an idiot!" he thought, "and this man will see it.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000030_000001|He has gone, and won't come back!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000031_000001|He did not know what to do.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000031_000002|Sometimes he was tempted to tell Aouda all; but he could not doubt how the young woman would receive his confidences.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000031_000003|What course should he take?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000031_000005|Footsteps were easily printed on the snow!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000031_000006|But soon, under a new sheet, every imprint would be effaced.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000032_000000|Fix became discouraged.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000032_000001|He felt a sort of insurmountable longing to abandon the game altogether.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000032_000002|He could now leave Fort Kearney station, and pursue his journey homeward in peace.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000033_000000|Towards two o'clock in the afternoon, while it was snowing hard, long whistles were heard approaching from the east.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000033_000001|A great shadow, preceded by a wild light, slowly advanced, appearing still larger through the mist, which gave it a fantastic aspect.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000033_000003|The mystery was soon explained.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000034_000000|The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles, was that which, having been detached from the train, had continued its route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer and stoker.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000034_000002|Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead, and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had come to themselves.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000034_000003|The train had then stopped.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000034_000004|The engineer, when he found himself in the desert, and the locomotive without cars, understood what had happened.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000035_000001|It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000035_000002|Nevertheless, he began to rebuild the fire in the furnace; the pressure again mounted, and the locomotive returned, running backwards to Fort Kearney.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000035_000003|This it was which was whistling in the mist.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000036_000000|The travellers were glad to see the locomotive resume its place at the head of the train.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000036_000001|They could now continue the journey so terribly interrupted.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000037_000000|Aouda, on seeing the locomotive come up, hurried out of the station, and asked the conductor, "Are you going to start?"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000038_000000|"At once, madam."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000039_000000|"But the prisoners, our unfortunate fellow travellers-"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000040_000000|"I cannot interrupt the trip," replied the conductor.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000041_000000|"And when will another train pass here from San Francisco?"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000042_000000|"To morrow evening, madam."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000043_000000|"To morrow evening!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000043_000001|But then it will be too late!
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000043_000002|We must wait-"
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000044_000000|"It is impossible," responded the conductor.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000044_000001|"If you wish to go, please get in."
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000045_000000|"I will not go," said Aouda.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000046_000000|Fix had heard this conversation.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000046_000002|The station platform burned his feet, and he could not stir.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000046_000003|The conflict in his mind again began; anger and failure stifled him.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000046_000004|He wished to struggle on to the end.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000047_000000|Meanwhile the passengers and some of the wounded, among them Colonel Proctor, whose injuries were serious, had taken their places in the train.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000047_000002|The engineer whistled, the train started, and soon disappeared, mingling its white smoke with the eddies of the densely falling snow.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000048_000000|The detective had remained behind.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000049_000000|Several hours passed.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000049_000001|The weather was dismal, and it was very cold. Fix sat motionless on a bench in the station; he might have been thought asleep.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000049_000002|Aouda, despite the storm, kept coming out of the waiting room, going to the end of the platform, and peering through the tempest of snow, as if to pierce the mist which narrowed the horizon around her, and to hear, if possible, some welcome sound.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000049_000003|She heard and saw nothing.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000049_000004|Then she would return, chilled through, to issue out again after the lapse of a few moments, but always in vain.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000000|Evening came, and the little band had not returned.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000001|Where could they be?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000002|Had they found the Indians, and were they having a conflict with them, or were they still wandering amid the mist?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000003|The commander of the fort was anxious, though he tried to conceal his apprehensions.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000004|As night approached, the snow fell less plentifully, but it became intensely cold.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000005|Absolute silence rested on the plains.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000050_000006|Neither flight of bird nor passing of beast troubled the perfect calm.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000052_000000|Fix remained stationary in the same place, but did not sleep.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000052_000001|Once a man approached and spoke to him, and the detective merely replied by shaking his head.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000053_000002|Phileas Fogg and the squad had gone southward; in the south all was still vacancy.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000053_000003|It was then seven o'clock.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000054_000000|The captain, who was really alarmed, did not know what course to take.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000055_000000|Should he send another detachment to the rescue of the first?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000055_000001|Should he sacrifice more men, with so few chances of saving those already sacrificed?
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000055_000002|His hesitation did not last long, however.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000055_000003|Calling one of his lieutenants, he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance, when gunshots were heard.
train-other-500/3411/130135/3411_130135_000055_000004|Was it a signal?
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000001_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000002_000000|The time had come when Chris could go out beyond the confines of mr Wicker's gardens.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000002_000001|It was a bright fall day when amos and he stepped out the kitchen door.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000002_000002|Becky Boozer's huge frame blocked it behind them as she stood in the sun to see them off.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000002_000003|Each boy had been given meat and bread, some cakes and apples, for their midday meal, and Chris stood looking up and down the street for a moment before starting, savoring the promise of new sights and new adventure.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000002_000004|The only drawback was that amos would not, and must not, know why Chris might be surprised at certain places.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000002_000005|Georgetown in the year seventeen ninety might be new for amos, but not nearly as new as it would be for Chris.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000004_000000|Chris had long ago decided.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000005_000001|The colored boy's brilliant foreign costume was very noticeable, his friend thought, but when no one paid any attention, Chris decided Amos's clothes were not unfamiliar to the seafaring men among whom they were walking.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000006_000000|A ship had just come in, the sailors browned and cheerful at being once more in their home port.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000007_000000|For some time Chris and amos stood watching the men carrying out bales or kegs on their shoulders.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000007_000001|When one part of the cargo had been assembled on the dock, an auction was held forthwith to sell it off at once to the highest bidder.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000008_000000|Listening and looking, Chris saw bolts of silk, hardware, china, wines and liquors, needles and pins-all manner of things auctioned and sold.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000008_000001|The ship, American owned, had come from England, and Chris overheard one man say to another: "See there, the thin man.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000008_000002|That be mr Mason's agent.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000008_000003|I heard he's here to buy the ballast bricks for his master's plantation on the island."
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000009_000000|Chris, not understanding, asked, "Ballast bricks?
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000009_000001|Please sir, what's that?"
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000010_000000|The men, astounded to be interrupted by a boy, and looking down to see two, each with an apple in his hands, turned around, and after a moment's scrutiny, answered.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000011_000000|"Ballast bricks?
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000011_000001|Why, anyone knows that these are the bricks brought over in the hold, my lad, should there not be sufficient cargo, both to make ballast for the vessel and to sell once here.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000011_000002|English bricks are cheaper than those we can make ourselves.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000011_000003|Did you not know, young man," he said, frowning with disapproval, "that our bricks for building houses have all come from British kilns?"
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000012_000000|"No sir, thank you sir," Chris said, and moved away, not in the least abashed.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000014_000000|Further on, a ship being painted a dazzling white caught their eyes.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000017_000002|At the waterline, a clear light green contrasted well with the white of her sides.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000018_000001|Master Cilley's eyes lit up as he saw his friends, and hurrying down the gangplank, shook them by the hand as warmly as if he had not seen them for a month, instead of just the night before when he had shared with them what Becky termed, "a taste, a mere spoonful" of supper.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000020_000001|Soon the watchers were given a better look, for the two men came down the gangplank to examine cases that had been brought to the dock for loading, and Chris and amos were hard put to it not to laugh out loud at the comical pair.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000021_000000|The first man was so round and so short he appeared to have no legs at all.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000021_000002|The roundness of his face was underlined by three folds of chin, but his small piercing blue eyes had a way of suddenly opening wide that made Chris feel the man was no fool.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000021_000003|He constantly burbled with laughter and was in a high good humor, occasional remarks from his companion causing him now and again to chuckle with amusement.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000022_000000|What the other man could be saying that was so entertaining Chris could not imagine, for he was the opposite of the fat good humored one.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000024_000000|"Who in the world are they?" Chris asked of Cilley as they drew near. Cilley looked scandalized at Chris's impertinence in finding them in any way droll.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000025_000000|"Them?
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000025_000001|Why, bless me cap and buttons!
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000000|"Blizzard and Finney, that's them," he said.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000002|He may look too plump for his own good," Master Cilley went on, lowering his voice and bending down to be on a level with Chris and amos, "but believe me, there's no sounder captain afloat.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000004|As to Elisha Finney, he's glum, I don't deny, but faithful!
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000005|That's true of the two of them-whatever they can do for mr Wicker is law for Ezekial Blizzard and Elisha Finney.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000006|They swear by mr Wicker, so they do," Ned said, wagging his head with the certainty of it.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000007|"mr
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000028_000008|Finney's kind, too," Ned went on, "though he don't look it, bless me cap and boots!
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000029_000000|"Could we go on board the ship?" Chris asked, when the Captain and mr Finney had moved off to the far end of the wharf.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000030_000000|"No, me lad," Cilley answered gravely.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000030_000003|I would sooner ye were asked aboard by him."
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000032_000000|"Come now!
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000032_000001|Cheer up!" Ned cried.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000033_000000|Chris looked quickly around at the faces of the men, for these, he secretly knew, were to be his companions on a long sea journey soon to start.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000033_000001|With a deep sense of relief he found that he liked them all. All, perhaps, but one.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000033_000002|Then he gave his attention to Ned Cilley, who with a flourish was making the introductions.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000034_000003|"Now boys," he roared, "this good man here is Bowie."
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000035_000000|A short, muscular, bowlegged man with a friendly grin, nodded his head at them and cut off a piece of black tobacco with his knife, stuffing it into his mouth, knife blade and all.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000035_000001|Chris gave a shiver as the blade went in and came out and Bowie champed contentedly on his chew.
train-other-500/3411/187007/3411_187007_000036_000000|"This here's Elbert Jones," Cilley went on, "and that one's Abner Cloud, and that one," pointed Ned, "that one's Zachary Heigh."
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000001_000000|"Come along, amos!
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000001_000001|We must get a closer look at that ship!" Chris cried, putting his glass away.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000001_000002|Scrambling down, the two boys ran along the stream until it was shallow enough to cross.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000001_000003|The water was icy, telling, as well as the turning leaves and cooler air, that fall had come and winter was on the way.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000002_000000|Hurrying forward, Chris and amos reached the mouth of the stream where it joined the river.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000002_000001|There on the left bank of Rock Creek, high rushes grew in rank profusion on the marshy land.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000002_000002|They rose higher than the heads of the two boys and were too closely packed to allow for easy passage.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000003_000000|"We'll have to skirt the very edge," Chris said glancing about. "Barefoot would be the best.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000003_000001|This soft ground would soon go over our shoes and maybe suck them down."
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000004_000000|"Keep right against the rushes," Chris warned amos, "and if a boat shows up coming from the wharves, we can't take any chances.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000004_000001|We'll have to dive into the rushes and hide, just in case it's Claggett Chew."
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000006_000000|"That's right," amos nodded his head vigorously.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000007_000000|The two went on, making slow progress, for the river was deep at that point, with little foothold between the end of the jungle of reeds and deep water.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000008_000001|It was no time before Amos's voice came huskily up to his friend.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000009_000003|Get in those rushes quick-my clothes is mighty bright!"
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000011_000000|Rushing and panting, they shoved their way into the dusty rushes, groping back until they could barely see the river through the stalks. And it was just in time, for barely were they hidden when they heard, carried over the water, the dip and splash of two pairs of oars and the creak of oarlocks.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000011_000001|Then, in another moment, came the high pitched voice of Osterbridge Hawsey.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000011_000002|Chris gave a shiver as it reached him.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000012_000001|A little wine, I fancy, might revive me when we reach the ship.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000012_000003|Is it not delicate?
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000012_000005|I feel sure it will be satisfactory."
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000013_000001|Osterbridge Hawsey, wrapped in a great cloak, was admiring a bolt of muslin that he held, but Claggett Chew, his face shadowed by a hat, was holding his whip upon his knees and glowering at the water.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000014_000001|After a while, as the boys were about to move along, a heavy dropping sound, and the shuddering of the marshy ground, made the two in hiding look at one another in concern.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000016_000001|Stealthily, trying not to shake the rushes and so show where they might be, Chris and amos pushed through the marsh.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000017_000000|The sun was setting as they came near the steps and voices.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000018_000000|Chris gestured amos forward, and they went on step by step until, in a pause of the thundering dropping sound, they knew themselves to be near its origin and parted the reeds enough to see.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000019_000000|There, within a few yards of them and at the edge of a hard beaten track from the main shore, lay a mass of cannon balls and shot for guns of various sizes, such as are used on men of war.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000019_000002|Seeing the red caps and kerchiefed heads of men above the rushes, the boys let the reeds fall back.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000020_000000|"I'm going to have a look at the ship through the glass," Chris whispered, and moved forward closer to the shore.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000021_000000|Parting the stalks, he trained the glass on Claggett Chew's ship.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000021_000002|Chris and amos were the only watchers.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000022_000000|The cannon balls and ammunition were taken out in boats and hoisted up in nets.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000022_000001|Chris observed everything closely, and saw still other crewmen disappearing with their burdens down the hold.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000022_000002|Then something caught his eye and he examined the name along the side through the spyglass.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000023_000000|Curious, thought Chris, that all the letters of the ship's name seemed exact except the second and third.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000024_000000|Oh well, Chris thought, it's doubtless a custom of the time for all I know.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000025_000001|In the ensuing silence the rustle of the rushes as Chris and amos moved away was plainly to be heard.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000027_000000|"What's that?" one man cried out.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000028_000002|I'll draw them off!
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000030_000000|"Give it a kick-there-it's only a stray dog," one said.
train-other-500/3411/187011/3411_187011_000032_000000|The dog lay panting at the river's edge.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000000_000001|To Chris he said, "I wonder what brings them here so early?
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000000_000002|It must be a matter of some importance.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000000_000003|Stay with me, Christopher.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000000_000004|I shall present you to the Captain."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000001_000000|The extraordinary pair came in and Chris was introduced to Captain Blizzard and mr Finney.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000001_000001|The Captain was all smiles except for his eyes; Chris noted that his eyes did not smile at all.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000001_000002|mr Finney, true to form, cast down his eyes, sighed, and let the corners of his wide thin lips droop almost to his chin.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000003_000000|mr Wicker spoke first.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000004_000000|"Well, Captain, what brings you here so betimes?
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000006_000000|He paused and glanced at mr Finney who nodded forlornly, his mouth drooping.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000008_000000|mr Wicker's face was grave but showed no surprise.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000008_000001|"I knew some trouble was ahead," he said slowly, "but did not know what form it was to take." He paused.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000008_000003|Although," he added thoughtfully, "I think Claggett Chew guessed it.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000008_000004|Well," and mr Wicker looked alertly at the two men, "what advice do you give me?"
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000009_000000|Captain Blizzard wagged his head.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000009_000001|"Nay sir, 'tis for orders that I came to you.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000009_000002|It is for you to say."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000011_000000|"At any time, sir," the Captain at once replied.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000011_000001|"We have nearly water enough, and quite sufficient stores.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000011_000002|The men are all assembled."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000012_000000|The Captain fell silent and no one spoke for several minutes.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000012_000001|mr Wicker leaning his chin on his folded hands was lost in thought.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000013_000000|"How move the tides?" he finally asked, raising his head.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000014_000000|The Captain, with surprising briskness for so large a man, pulled some folded charts from his pocket.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000014_000001|Without a word the three men rose and went over to the table, pushing aside the china bowl filled with flowers to spread the charts flat on the table top.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000014_000002|Captain Blizzard leaned his knuckles on the boards.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000015_000000|"The tide will be high at midnight, sir," he informed them.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000015_000001|"See"--he pointed a short forefinger at a spot on one chart-"here is the sandbar that the tide covers for but a short time, and should there be other ships crowding the river near this point, we must slip through there then or not at all."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000016_000000|mr Wicker examined the charts and nodded.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000016_000001|"Very well," he said, "so must it be," and Chris felt that his heartbeat would stifle him, it pounded so fast and thickly in his throat.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000016_000002|All at once, looking up at the thoughtful face of his master, Chris longed to be able to stay safe at home.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000016_000003|The imminent journey, so far and perhaps so perilous, seemed suddenly too much for him.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000016_000004|mr Wicker had taken the river charts and rolled them up, and now turned to the Captain and first mate.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000017_000001|I therefore ask you to so contrive it that the casks be hidden in bales or boxes so that they seem to be anything but what they are." He tapped the rolled charts thoughtfully on the palm of one hand.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000017_000003|"There is one other thing.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000017_000005|"He has a task of utmost secrecy to carry out and will require your help, encouragement, and silence."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000018_000000|Captain Blizzard and mr Finney looked solemnly at Chris who looked as solemnly back.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000020_000001|"I shall arrange to bring him aboard somehow, and give you your sailing orders later."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000022_000000|"Leave me these charts for yet a little while, and I shall ponder on our plans," said mr Wicker.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000022_000001|He turned.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000022_000002|"See that the water casks are taken on at once, Captain, and hidden, and make a place for Christopher, here," and at a beseeching look from Chris he added with a smile, "and amos."
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000023_000000|No sooner were the Captain and mr Finney gone than Chris spoke up in great excitement.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000023_000001|"mr Wicker, sir, I have a plan!
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000023_000002|May we look at the river charts again?"
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000024_000000|Master and pupil spread out the charts once more, and Chris pointed eagerly.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000025_000000|"Look, sir!
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000025_000002|Or she was, yesterday.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000026_000000|He looked eagerly up into mr Wicker's face and saw in it the reflection of his own excitement.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000027_000000|"There are times, Christopher," said mr Wicker with his eyes snapping, "when you surprise even me.
train-other-500/3411/187012/3411_187012_000027_000001|But how is it to be done?"
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000000_000000|CHAPTER three
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000001_000000|Land
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000003|In the first watch we kept away two points and set fore and aft sail.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000004|It did not increase our comfort but gave us greater speed.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000006|I could not sleep thinking of the sore strait for our wretched ponies.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000007|In the morning watch the wind and sea increased and the outlook was very distressing, but at six ice was sighted ahead.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000008|Under ordinary conditions the safe course would have been to go about and stand to the east.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000009|But in our case we must risk trouble to get smoother water for the ponies.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000010|We passed a stream of ice over which the sea was breaking heavily and one realised the danger of being amongst loose floes in such a sea.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000012|We ran on for a bit, then stopped and lay to.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000013|Now we are lying in a sort of ice bay-there is a mile or so of pack to windward, and two horns which form the bay embracing us.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000015|As a result we are lying very comfortably.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000002_000016|The ice is drifting a little faster than the ship so that we have occasionally to steam slowly to leeward.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000003_000000|So far so good.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000003_000001|From a dangerous position we have achieved one which only directly involved a waste of coal.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000003_000002|The question is, which will last longest, the gale or our temporary shelter?
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000004_000000|Rennick has just obtained a sounding of one hundred eighty seven fathoms; taken in conjunction with yesterday's one thousand one hundred eleven fathoms and Ross's sounding of one hundred eighty, this is interesting, showing the rapid gradient of the continental shelf.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000005_000000|Unfortunately we could not clear the line for the trawl-it is stowed under the fodder.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000005_000001|A light dredge was tried on a small manilla line-very little result.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000006_000003|There seems to be another from south but none from the direction from which the wind is now blowing.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000006_000004|The wind has been getting squally: now the squalls are lessening in force, the sky is clearing and we seem to be approaching the end of the blow.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000006_000005|I trust it may be so and that the New Year will bring us better fortune than the old.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000008_000000|At ten p m to night as the clouds lifted to the west a distant but splendid view of the great mountains was obtained.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000008_000002|Mount Sabine was one hundred ten miles away when we saw it.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000009_000000|Finis nineteen ten
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000012_000000|At eight a m the ship was clear of the ice and headed south with fore and aft sail set.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000013_000000|Oates reports that the ponies are taking it pretty well.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000014_000001|We increased to fifty five revolutions at ten a m
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000014_000002|The swell is subsiding but not so quickly as I had expected.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000015_000000|To night it is absolutely calm, with glorious bright sunshine.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000015_000001|Several people were sunning themselves at eleven o'clock! sitting on deck and reading.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000016_000000|The land is clear to night.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000016_000001|Coulman Island seventy five miles west.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000017_000000|Sounding at seven p m, one hundred eighty seven fathoms. Sounding at four a m, three hundred ten ,,
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000018_000004|Several of us drew a bucket of sea water and had a bath with salt water soap on the deck.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000018_000006|The deck bathing habit has fallen off since we crossed the Antarctic circle, but Bowers has kept going in all weathers.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000021_000001|With all sail set we are making very good progress.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000024_000000|For the moment it doesn't look hopeful.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000024_000001|We have been continuing our line of soundings.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000026_000000|six p m--No good!!
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000026_000001|Alas!
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000026_000002|Cape Crozier with all its attractions is denied us.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000027_000002|The Barrier was not more than sixty feet in height.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000027_000003|From the crow's nest one could see well over it, and noted that there was a gentle slope for at least a mile towards the edge.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000027_000004|The land of Black (or White?) Island could be seen distinctly behind, topping the huge lines of pressure ridges.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000028_000000|The Barrier takes a sharp turn back at two or three miles from the cliffs, runs back for half a mile, then west again with a fairly regular surface until within a few hundred yards of the cliffs; the interval is occupied with a single high pressure ridge-the evidences of pressure at the edge being less marked than I had expected.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000029_000001|In the angle at the corner near the cliffs Rennick got a sounding of one hundred forty fathoms and Nelson some temperatures and samples.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000030_000000|Meanwhile, one of the whale boats was lowered and Wilson, Griffith Taylor, Priestley, Evans, and I were pulled towards the shore.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000030_000001|The after guard are so keen that the proper boat's crew was displaced and the oars manned by Oates, Atkinson, and Cherry Garrard, the latter catching several crabs.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000031_000002|On top of this old floe we saw an old Emperor moulting and a young one shedding its down.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000032_000001|These Crozier cliffs are remarkably interesting.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000032_000003|Bands of bright yellow occurred in the rich brown of the cliffs, caused, the geologists think, by the action of salts on the brown rock.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000032_000008|We noticed a very clear echo as we passed close to a perpendicular rock face.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000033_000000|It makes the position rather alarming when one is feeling one's way into some doubtful corner.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000037_000001|What an excellent time these animals must have with thousands of penguins passing to and fro!
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000039_000000|From the penguin rookeries to the west it is a relentless coast with high ice cliffs and occasional bare patches of rock showing through.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000039_000001|Even if landing were possible, the grimmest crevassed snow slopes lie behind to cut one off from the Barrier surface; there is no hope of shelter till we reach Cape Royds.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000040_000000|Meanwhile all hands are employed making a running survey.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000040_000001|I give an idea of the programme opposite.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000040_000004|The Bay on the north side of Erebus is much deeper than shown on the chart.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000041_000000|The sun has been obstinate all day, peeping out occasionally and then shyly retiring; it makes a great difference to comfort.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000043_000000|Bruce continually checking speed with hand log.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000044_000000|Bowers taking altitudes of objects as they come abeam. Nelson noting results.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000045_000000|Pennell taking verge plate bearings on bow and quarter. Cherry Garrard noting results.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000046_000000|Evans taking verge plate bearings abeam. Atkinson noting results.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000047_000000|Campbell taking distances abeam with range finder. Wright noting results.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000048_000000|Rennick sounding with Thomson machine. Drake noting results.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000049_000000|Beaufort Island looks very black from the south.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000054_000000|On the uniform dark reddish brown of the land can be seen numerous grey spots; these are erratic boulders of granite.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000055_000000|Another group of killer whales were idly diving off the penguin rookery; an old one with a very high straight dorsal fin and several youngsters.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000055_000001|We watched a small party of penguins leaping through the water towards their enemies.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000055_000003|One can only suppose the whales are satiated.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000056_000001|It was good to see them again, and perhaps after all we are better this side of the Island.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000056_000002|It gives one a homely feeling to see such a familiar scene.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000057_000001|We pushed past these cliffs into streams of heavy bay ice, making fair progress; as we proceeded the lanes became scarcer, the floes heavier, but the latter remain loose.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000057_000002|'Many of us spent the night on deck as we pushed through the pack.' We have passed some very large floes evidently frozen in the strait.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000058_000000|I have observed several floes with an entirely new type of surface.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000059_000000|We are within five miles of Cape Royds and ought to get there.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000001|We steered for the Cape, fully expecting to find the edge of the pack ice ranging westward from it.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000007|At this point it was evident that we had a considerable choice of wintering spots.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000008|We could have gone to either of the small islands, to the mainland, the Glacier Tongue, or pretty well anywhere except Hut Point.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000009|My main wish was to choose a place that would not be easily cut off from the Barrier, and my eye fell on a cape which we used to call the Skuary a little behind us.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000014|We made fast with ice anchors.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000015|Wilson, Evans, and I went to the Cape, which I had now rechristened Cape Evans in honour of our excellent second in command.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000016|A glance at the land showed, as we expected, ideal spots for our wintering station.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000061_000020|The most favourable circumstance of all is the stronge chance of communication with Cape Armitage being established at an early date.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000062_000002|Before that, all evidence seems to show that the part between Cape Royds and Cape Barne is continually going out.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000062_000003|How, I ask myself, was our depot party to get back to home quarters?
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000063_000000|After many frowns fortune has treated us to the kindest smile-for twenty four hours we have had a calm with brilliant sunshine.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000063_000001|Such weather in such a place comes nearer to satisfying my ideal of perfection than any condition that I have ever experienced.
train-other-500/3417/6522/3417_6522_000063_000002|The warm glow of the sun with the keen invigorating cold of the air forms a combination which is inexpressibly health giving and satisfying to me, whilst the golden light on this wonderful scene of mountain and ice satisfies every claim of scenic magnificence.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000002_000000|A PAINFUL CASE
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000000|mr
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000001|james DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000002|He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows he could look into the disused distillery or upwards along the shallow river on which Dublin is built.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000003|The lofty walls of his uncarpeted room were free from pictures. He had himself bought every article of furniture in the room: a black iron bedstead, an iron washstand, four cane chairs, a clothes rack, a coal scuttle, a fender and irons and a square table on which lay a double desk.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000004|A bookcase had been made in an alcove by means of shelves of white wood.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000005|The bed was clothed with white bedclothes and a black and scarlet rug covered the foot.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000006|A little hand mirror hung above the washstand and during the day a white shaded lamp stood as the sole ornament of the mantelpiece.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000007|The books on the white wooden shelves were arranged from below upwards according to bulk.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000008|A complete Wordsworth stood at one end of the lowest shelf and a copy of the Maynooth Catechism, sewn into the cloth cover of a notebook, stood at one end of the top shelf.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000009|Writing materials were always on the desk.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000003_000010|In the desk lay a manuscript translation of Hauptmann's Michael Kramer, the stage directions of which were written in purple ink, and a little sheaf of papers held together by a brass pin.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000004_000000|mr Duffy abhorred anything which betokened physical or mental disorder. A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000004_000001|His face, which carried the entire tale of his years, was of the brown tint of Dublin streets.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000004_000003|His cheekbones also gave his face a harsh character; but there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000004_000004|He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side glances.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000004_000005|He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a predicate in the past tense.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000004_000006|He never gave alms to beggars and walked firmly, carrying a stout hazel.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000005_000000|He had been for many years cashier of a private bank in Baggot Street. Every morning he came in from Chapelizod by tram.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000005_000002|At four o'clock he was set free.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000005_000003|He dined in an eating house in George's Street where he felt himself safe from the society of Dublin's gilded youth and where there was a certain plain honesty in the bill of fare.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000005_000004|His evenings were spent either before his landlady's piano or roaming about the outskirts of the city.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000005_000005|His liking for Mozart's music brought him sometimes to an opera or a concert: these were the only dissipations of his life.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000006_000000|He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000006_000001|He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000006_000002|He performed these two social duties for old dignity's sake but conceded nothing further to the conventions which regulate the civic life.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000008_000000|"What a pity there is such a poor house tonight!
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000008_000001|It's so hard on people to have to sing to empty benches."
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000000|He took the remark as an invitation to talk.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000001|He was surprised that she seemed so little awkward.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000002|While they talked he tried to fix her permanently in his memory.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000003|When he learned that the young girl beside her was her daughter he judged her to be a year or so younger than himself.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000004|Her face, which must have been handsome, had remained intelligent.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000005|It was an oval face with strongly marked features.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000006|The eyes were very dark blue and steady.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000009_000008|The pupil reasserted itself quickly, this half disclosed nature fell again under the reign of prudence, and her astrakhan jacket, moulding a bosom of a certain fullness, struck the note of defiance more definitely.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000010_000000|He met her again a few weeks afterwards at a concert in Earlsfort Terrace and seized the moments when her daughter's attention was diverted to become intimate.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000010_000001|She alluded once or twice to her husband but her tone was not such as to make the allusion a warning.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000010_000002|Her name was mrs Sinico.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000010_000003|Her husband's great great grandfather had come from Leghorn.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000010_000004|Her husband was captain of a mercantile boat plying between Dublin and Holland; and they had one child.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000000|Meeting her a third time by accident he found courage to make an appointment.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000001|She came.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000002|This was the first of many meetings; they met always in the evening and chose the most quiet quarters for their walks together.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000003|mr Duffy, however, had a distaste for underhand ways and, finding that they were compelled to meet stealthily, he forced her to ask him to her house.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000004|Captain Sinico encouraged his visits, thinking that his daughter's hand was in question.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000005|He had dismissed his wife so sincerely from his gallery of pleasures that he did not suspect that anyone else would take an interest in her.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000006|As the husband was often away and the daughter out giving music lessons mr Duffy had many opportunities of enjoying the lady's society.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000007|Neither he nor she had had any such adventure before and neither was conscious of any incongruity. Little by little he entangled his thoughts with hers.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000008|He lent her books, provided her with ideas, shared his intellectual life with her.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000011_000009|She listened to all.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000000|Sometimes in return for his theories she gave out some fact of her own life.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000001|With almost maternal solicitude she urged him to let his nature open to the full: she became his confessor.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000002|He told her that for some time he had assisted at the meetings of an Irish Socialist Party where he had felt himself a unique figure amidst a score of sober workmen in a garret lit by an inefficient oil lamp.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000003|When the party had divided into three sections, each under its own leader and in its own garret, he had discontinued his attendances.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000004|The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous; the interest they took in the question of wages was inordinate.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000005|He felt that they were hard featured realists and that they resented an exactitude which was the produce of a leisure not within their reach.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000012_000006|No social revolution, he told her, would be likely to strike Dublin for some centuries.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000013_000000|She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000013_000001|For what, he asked her, with careful scorn.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000013_000002|To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds?
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000013_000003|To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impresarios?
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000000|He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000001|Little by little, as their thoughts entangled, they spoke of subjects less remote.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000002|Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000003|Many times she allowed the dark to fall upon them, refraining from lighting the lamp.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000004|The dark discreet room, their isolation, the music that still vibrated in their ears united them. This union exalted him, wore away the rough edges of his character, emotionalised his mental life.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000005|Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000006|He thought that in her eyes he would ascend to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable loneliness.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000007|We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000014_000008|The end of these discourses was that one night during which she had shown every sign of unusual excitement, mrs Sinico caught up his hand passionately and pressed it to her cheek.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000000|mr Duffy was very much surprised.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000001|Her interpretation of his words disillusioned him.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000002|He did not visit her for a week, then he wrote to her asking her to meet him.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000003|As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they met in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000004|It was cold autumn weather but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000005|They agreed to break off their intercourse: every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000006|When they came out of the Park they walked in silence towards the tram; but here she began to tremble so violently that, fearing another collapse on her part, he bade her good bye quickly and left her.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000015_000007|A few days later he received a parcel containing his books and music.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000000|Four years passed.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000001|mr Duffy returned to his even way of life.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000002|His room still bore witness of the orderliness of his mind.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000004|He wrote seldom in the sheaf of papers which lay in his desk. One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with mrs Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000005|He kept away from concerts lest he should meet her.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000006|His father died; the junior partner of the bank retired.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000016_000007|And still every morning he went into the city by tram and every evening walked home from the city after having dined moderately in George's Street and read the evening paper for dessert.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000000|One evening as he was about to put a morsel of corned beef and cabbage into his mouth his hand stopped.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000001|His eyes fixed themselves on a paragraph in the evening paper which he had propped against the water carafe.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000002|He replaced the morsel of food on his plate and read the paragraph attentively.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000004|The cabbage began to deposit a cold white grease on his plate.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000005|The girl came over to him to ask was his dinner not properly cooked.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000006|He said it was very good and ate a few mouthfuls of it with difficulty.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000017_000007|Then he paid his bill and went out.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000018_000000|He walked along quickly through the November twilight, his stout hazel stick striking the ground regularly, the fringe of the buff Mail peeping out of a side pocket of his tight reefer overcoat.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000018_000002|He read it not aloud, but moving his lips as a priest does when he reads the prayers Secreto.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000018_000003|This was the paragraph:
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000019_000000|DEATH OF A LADY AT SYDNEY PARADE A PAINFUL CASE
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000020_000000|Today at the City of Dublin Hospital the Deputy Coroner (in the absence of mr Leverett) held an inquest on the body of mrs Emily Sinico, aged forty three years, who was killed at Sydney Parade Station yesterday evening.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000020_000001|The evidence showed that the deceased lady, while attempting to cross the line, was knocked down by the engine of the ten o'clock slow train from Kingstown, thereby sustaining injuries of the head and right side which led to her death.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000021_000000|james Lennon, driver of the engine, stated that he had been in the employment of the railway company for fifteen years.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000021_000001|On hearing the guard's whistle he set the train in motion and a second or two afterwards brought it to rest in response to loud cries.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000021_000002|The train was going slowly.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000022_000000|P. Dunne, railway porter, stated that as the train was about to start he observed a woman attempting to cross the lines.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000022_000001|He ran towards her and shouted, but, before he could reach her, she was caught by the buffer of the engine and fell to the ground.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000023_000000|A juror.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000023_000001|"You saw the lady fall?"
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000024_000000|Witness.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000024_000001|"Yes."
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000025_000000|Police Sergeant Croly deposed that when he arrived he found the deceased lying on the platform apparently dead.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000025_000001|He had the body taken to the waiting room pending the arrival of the ambulance.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000027_000000|dr Halpin, assistant house surgeon of the City of Dublin Hospital, stated that the deceased had two lower ribs fractured and had sustained severe contusions of the right shoulder.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000027_000001|The right side of the head had been injured in the fall.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000027_000002|The injuries were not sufficient to have caused death in a normal person.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000027_000003|Death, in his opinion, had been probably due to shock and sudden failure of the heart's action.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000028_000000|mr h b Patterson Finlay, on behalf of the railway company, expressed his deep regret at the accident.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000028_000001|The company had always taken every precaution to prevent people crossing the lines except by the bridges, both by placing notices in every station and by the use of patent spring gates at level crossings.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000028_000002|The deceased had been in the habit of crossing the lines late at night from platform to platform and, in view of certain other circumstances of the case, he did not think the railway officials were to blame.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000029_000001|He stated that the deceased was his wife.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000029_000002|He was not in Dublin at the time of the accident as he had arrived only that morning from Rotterdam.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000029_000003|They had been married for twenty two years and had lived happily until about two years ago when his wife began to be rather intemperate in her habits.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000030_000000|Miss Mary Sinico said that of late her mother had been in the habit of going out at night to buy spirits.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000030_000001|She, witness, had often tried to reason with her mother and had induced her to join a league.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000030_000002|She was not at home until an hour after the accident.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000030_000003|The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence and exonerated Lennon from all blame.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000031_000000|The Deputy Coroner said it was a most painful case, and expressed great sympathy with Captain Sinico and his daughter.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000031_000001|He urged on the railway company to take strong measures to prevent the possibility of similar accidents in the future.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000031_000002|No blame attached to anyone.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000000|mr Duffy raised his eyes from the paper and gazed out of his window on the cheerless evening landscape.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000001|The river lay quiet beside the empty distillery and from time to time a light appeared in some house on the Lucan road.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000002|What an end!
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000003|The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000004|The threadbare phrases, the inane expressions of sympathy, the cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000006|He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000008|He thought of the hobbling wretches whom he had seen carrying cans and bottles to be filled by the barman.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000009|Just God, what an end!
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000010|Evidently she had been unfit to live, without any strength of purpose, an easy prey to habits, one of the wrecks on which civilisation has been reared.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000011|But that she could have sunk so low!
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000012|Was it possible he had deceived himself so utterly about her?
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000013|He remembered her outburst of that night and interpreted it in a harsher sense than he had ever done.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000032_000014|He had no difficulty now in approving of the course he had taken.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000033_000000|As the light failed and his memory began to wander he thought her hand touched his.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000033_000001|The shock which had first attacked his stomach was now attacking his nerves.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000033_000002|He put on his overcoat and hat quickly and went out.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000033_000003|The cold air met him on the threshold; it crept into the sleeves of his coat.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000034_000000|The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six workingmen in the shop discussing the value of a gentleman's estate in County Kildare They drank at intervals from their huge pint tumblers and smoked, spitting often on the floor and sometimes dragging the sawdust over their spits with their heavy boots.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000034_000001|mr Duffy sat on his stool and gazed at them, without seeing or hearing them. After a while they went out and he called for another punch.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000034_000002|He sat a long time over it.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000034_000003|The shop was very quiet.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000034_000004|The proprietor sprawled on the counter reading the Herald and yawning.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000034_000005|Now and again a tram was heard swishing along the lonely road outside.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000000|As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images in which he now conceived her, he realised that she was dead, that she had ceased to exist, that she had become a memory.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000001|He began to feel ill at ease.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000002|He asked himself what else could he have done.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000003|He could not have carried on a comedy of deception with her; he could not have lived with her openly.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000004|He had done what seemed to him best.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000005|How was he to blame?
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000006|Now that she was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night after night alone in that room.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000035_000007|His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory-if anyone remembered him.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000000|It was after nine o'clock when he left the shop.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000001|The night was cold and gloomy.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000002|He entered the Park by the first gate and walked along under the gaunt trees.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000003|He walked through the bleak alleys where they had walked four years before.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000004|She seemed to be near him in the darkness.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000005|At moments he seemed to feel her voice touch his ear, her hand touch his.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000006|He stood still to listen.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000007|Why had he withheld life from her?
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000008|Why had he sentenced her to death?
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000036_000009|He felt his moral nature falling to pieces.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000037_000000|When he gained the crest of the Magazine Hill he halted and looked along the river towards Dublin, the lights of which burned redly and hospitably in the cold night.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000037_000001|He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000037_000003|One human being had seemed to love him and he had denied her life and happiness: he had sentenced her to ignominy, a death of shame.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000037_000004|He knew that the prostrate creatures down by the wall were watching him and wished him gone.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000037_000005|No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast. He turned his eyes to the grey gleaming river, winding along towards Dublin.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000037_000007|It passed slowly out of sight; but still he heard in his ears the laborious drone of the engine reiterating the syllables of her name.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000000|He turned back the way he had come, the rhythm of the engine pounding in his ears.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000001|He began to doubt the reality of what memory told him.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000002|He halted under a tree and allowed the rhythm to die away.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000003|He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor her voice touch his ear.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000004|He waited for some minutes listening.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000005|He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent.
train-other-500/3433/135988/3433_135988_000038_000006|He listened again: perfectly silent.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000001_000000|COWS.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000000|I admire cows in their proper places.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000001|They are undoubtedly useful animals; some may think them handsome and graceful: this is, as yet, an unsettled question.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000002|They certainly figure pretty extensively in all sketches of rural scenery, and may, therefore, be considered as picturesque objects; but I think that on canvas they take to themselves beauties which they do not possess in actual life.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000003|I do not object to see them at a distance, quietly grazing in a meadow by the brink of a winding stream, and all that sort of thing, provided the distance is very great, and a strong fence intervenes.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000004|For I would have you know, that I am a delicate young lady of nervous temperament and keen sensibilities, and have a mortal dread of cows.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000005|I am not used to the customs of country life, which place this animal on a level with domestic pets, and when my brother asked me to pat the side of one of these great, coarse brutes, I screamed at the mere idea.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000006|For I should be extremely unwilling to provoke one of them, because I have been told that, when heated with passion, as these beasts often are, it sometimes happens that the powder horns on top of their heads explode, and spread ruin and desolation around.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000007|People here bestow a vast deal too much consideration on these unpleasant animals, for they are often seen-that is, those of them that are troubled with weak eyes-walking along the streets with boards over their faces, as a protection from the rays of the sun
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000008|I don't believe that is the real reason of the thing, though my brother assures me that it is.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000009|I think, myself, that it is intended as a keen satire upon those young ladies who wear veils in the streets; but I never will yield my point.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000012|It seems, as my brother informs me, that the drovers, from humane considerations, are in the habit of driving their cattle over to Brighton, (when the weather is pleasant,) and back again on the next day, in order that their health may be improved by the sea air which blows up Charles River.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000013|Now I think that when the cow takes precedence of the lady, and usurps, to the utter exclusion of the latter, the most delightful promenade in Cambridge, it is time the city authorities should look to it; and so I told my brother.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000015|I followed his advice, as I always do, and, on one fine afternoon, took advantage of the pleasant weather to indulge in a solitary walk in that direction.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000016|As I was sauntering along on the wooden sidewalk, gazing at the noble ships which lay moored by their gaff topsails to the abutments of the bridge, and viewing the honest sailors as they promenaded up and down the string ladders at the command of their captains, my fears were aroused by a distant commotion.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000017|I hastily turned and looked over the railing into the street.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000018|A whole drove of infuriated cows, urged on by two fiendish boys and a savage dog, was rapidly approaching me from the Cambridge side.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000019|What should I do?
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000020|I was too much fatigued to run, and I had never learned to swim.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000021|My plans were hastily formed.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000022|Flinging my red silk visite and sky blue parasolette into the water, lest the gay colors should still more enrage the wild animals, I jumped over the outside railing towards the river, and hung by one arm over the angry flood during a moment of speechless agony!
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000023|On they came, with lightning speed, in a whirlwind of dust.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000024|A rapid succession of earthquakes-bellowings-groans,--and all was over.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000025|I was safe.
train-other-500/3433/20043/3433_20043_000002_000026|On inspection of the footmarks, I felt quite sure that some of them must have approached within ten yards of me, and only two railings had intervened between me and their fury.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000001_000000|And so Mitya sat looking wildly at the people round him, not understanding what was said to him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000001_000001|Suddenly he got up, flung up his hands, and shouted aloud:
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000002_000000|"I'm not guilty!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000002_000001|I'm not guilty of that blood!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000002_000002|I'm not guilty of my father's blood....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000002_000003|I meant to kill him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000002_000004|But I'm not guilty.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000002_000005|Not i"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000004_000000|"It was my fault!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000004_000001|Mine!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000004_000002|My wickedness!" she cried, in a heartrending voice, bathed in tears, stretching out her clasped hands towards them.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000004_000003|"He did it through me.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000004_000004|I tortured him and drove him to it.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000004_000005|I tortured that poor old man that's dead, too, in my wickedness, and brought him to this! It's my fault, mine first, mine most, my fault!"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000005_000000|"Yes, it's your fault!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000005_000001|You're the chief criminal!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000005_000002|You fury!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000005_000003|You harlot! You're the most to blame!" shouted the police captain, threatening her with his hand.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000005_000004|But he was quickly and resolutely suppressed.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000005_000005|The prosecutor positively seized hold of him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000006_000001|"You are positively hindering the inquiry....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000007_000000|"Follow the regular course!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000007_000001|Follow the regular course!" cried Nikolay Parfenovitch, fearfully excited too, "otherwise it's absolutely impossible!..."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000008_000001|"Punish us together.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000008_000002|I will go with him now, if it's to death!"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000009_000000|"Grusha, my life, my blood, my holy one!" Mitya fell on his knees beside her and held her tight in his arms.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000010_000000|He remembered afterwards that he was forcibly dragged away from her by several men, and that she was led out, and that when he recovered himself he was sitting at the table.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000010_000001|Beside him and behind him stood the men with metal plates.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000010_000002|Facing him on the other side of the table sat Nikolay Parfenovitch, the investigating lawyer.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000010_000003|He kept persuading him to drink a little water out of a glass that stood on the table.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000000|"That will refresh you, that will calm you.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000001|Be calm, don't be frightened," he added, extremely politely.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000002|Mitya (he remembered it afterwards) became suddenly intensely interested in his big rings, one with an amethyst, and another with a transparent bright yellow stone, of great brilliance.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000003|And long afterwards he remembered with wonder how those rings had riveted his attention through all those terrible hours of interrogation, so that he was utterly unable to tear himself away from them and dismiss them, as things that had nothing to do with his position.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000004|On Mitya's left side, in the place where Maximov had been sitting at the beginning of the evening, the prosecutor was now seated, and on Mitya's right hand, where Grushenka had been, was a rosy cheeked young man in a sort of shabby hunting jacket, with ink and paper before him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000005|This was the secretary of the investigating lawyer, who had brought him with him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000011_000006|The police captain was now standing by the window at the other end of the room, beside Kalganov, who was sitting there.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000012_000000|"Drink some water," said the investigating lawyer softly, for the tenth time.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000013_000000|"I have drunk it, gentlemen, I have ... but ... come, gentlemen, crush me, punish me, decide my fate!" cried Mitya, staring with terribly fixed wide open eyes at the investigating lawyer.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000014_000000|"So you positively declare that you are not guilty of the death of your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch?" asked the investigating lawyer, softly but insistently.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000000|"I am not guilty.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000001|I am guilty of the blood of another old man but not of my father's.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000002|And I weep for it!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000003|I killed, I killed the old man and knocked him down....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000004|But it's hard to have to answer for that murder with another, a terrible murder of which I am not guilty....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000005|It's a terrible accusation, gentlemen, a knock down blow.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000006|But who has killed my father, who has killed him?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000007|Who can have killed him if I didn't?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000015_000008|It's marvelous, extraordinary, impossible."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000016_000000|"Yes, who can have killed him?" the investigating lawyer was beginning, but Ippolit Kirillovitch, the prosecutor, glancing at him, addressed Mitya.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000017_000000|"You need not worry yourself about the old servant, Grigory Vassilyevitch. He is alive, he has recovered, and in spite of the terrible blows inflicted, according to his own and your evidence, by you, there seems no doubt that he will live, so the doctor says, at least."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000018_000000|"Alive?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000018_000001|He's alive?" cried Mitya, flinging up his hands.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000018_000003|That's an answer to my prayer.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000018_000004|I've been praying all night." And he crossed himself three times.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000018_000005|He was almost breathless.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000019_000000|"So from this Grigory we have received such important evidence concerning you, that-" The prosecutor would have continued, but Mitya suddenly jumped up from his chair.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000020_000000|"One minute, gentlemen, for God's sake, one minute; I will run to her-"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000021_000000|"Excuse me, at this moment it's quite impossible," Nikolay Parfenovitch almost shrieked.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000021_000001|He, too, leapt to his feet.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000021_000002|Mitya was seized by the men with the metal plates, but he sat down of his own accord....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000022_000000|"Gentlemen, what a pity!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000022_000002|"Oh, thank you, gentlemen!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000022_000003|Oh, in one minute you have given me new life, new heart!...
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000022_000004|That old man used to carry me in his arms, gentlemen.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000022_000005|He used to wash me in the tub when I was a baby three years old, abandoned by every one, he was like a father to me!..."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000023_000000|"And so you-" the investigating lawyer began.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000024_000000|"Allow me, gentlemen, allow me one minute more," interposed Mitya, putting his elbows on the table and covering his face with his hands.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000024_000001|"Let me have a moment to think, let me breathe, gentlemen.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000024_000002|All this is horribly upsetting, horribly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000024_000003|A man is not a drum, gentlemen!"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000025_000000|"Drink a little more water," murmured Nikolay Parfenovitch.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000026_000000|Mitya took his hands from his face and laughed.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000026_000001|His eyes were confident. He seemed completely transformed in a moment.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000026_000002|His whole bearing was changed; he was once more the equal of these men, with all of whom he was acquainted, as though they had all met the day before, when nothing had happened, at some social gathering.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000026_000004|His acquaintance with the prosecutor was less intimate, though he sometimes paid his wife, a nervous and fanciful lady, visits of politeness, without quite knowing why, and she always received him graciously and had, for some reason, taken an interest in him up to the last.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000026_000005|He had not had time to get to know the investigating lawyer, though he had met him and talked to him twice, each time about the fair sex.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000003|Gentlemen, gentlemen, I don't pretend to be on equal terms with you.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000004|I understand, of course, in what character I am sitting before you. Oh, of course, there's a horrible suspicion ... hanging over me ... if Grigory has given evidence....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000006|It's awful, awful, I understand that!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000007|But to business, gentlemen, I am ready, and we will make an end of it in one moment; for, listen, listen, gentlemen!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000008|Since I know I'm innocent, we can put an end to it in a minute.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000009|Can't we?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000027_000010|Can't we?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000029_000000|"So, for the present, we will write that you absolutely deny the charge brought against you," said Nikolay Parfenovitch, impressively, and bending down to the secretary he dictated to him in an undertone what to write.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000000|"Write it down?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000001|You want to write that down?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000002|Well, write it; I consent, I give my full consent, gentlemen, only ... do you see?...
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000003|Stay, stay, write this.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000004|Of disorderly conduct I am guilty, of violence on a poor old man I am guilty.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000007|That's a wild idea.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000008|It's quite a wild idea!...
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000009|I will prove you that and you'll be convinced directly....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000010|You will laugh, gentlemen.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000030_000011|You'll laugh yourselves at your suspicion!..."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000031_000000|"Be calm, Dmitri Fyodorovitch," said the investigating lawyer evidently trying to allay Mitya's excitement by his own composure.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000031_000001|"Before we go on with our inquiry, I should like, if you will consent to answer, to hear you confirm the statement that you disliked your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch, that you were involved in continual disputes with him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000031_000002|Here at least, a quarter of an hour ago, you exclaimed that you wanted to kill him: 'I didn't kill him,' you said, 'but I wanted to kill him.' "
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000032_000000|"Did I exclaim that?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000033_000000|"You wanted to.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000033_000001|Would you consent to explain what motives precisely led you to such a sentiment of hatred for your parent?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000000|"What is there to explain, gentlemen?" Mitya shrugged his shoulders sullenly, looking down.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000001|"I have never concealed my feelings.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000002|All the town knows about it-every one knows in the tavern.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000004|And the very same day, in the evening I beat my father.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000005|I nearly killed him, and I swore I'd come again and kill him, before witnesses....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000006|Oh, a thousand witnesses!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000007|I've been shouting it aloud for the last month, any one can tell you that!...
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000008|The fact stares you in the face, it speaks for itself, it cries aloud, but feelings, gentlemen, feelings are another matter.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000009|You see, gentlemen"--Mitya frowned-"it seems to me that about feelings you've no right to question me.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000010|I know that you are bound by your office, I quite understand that, but that's my affair, my private, intimate affair, yet ... since I haven't concealed my feelings in the past ... in the tavern, for instance, I've talked to every one, so ... so I won't make a secret of it now.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000011|You see, I understand, gentlemen, that there are terrible facts against me in this business.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000012|I told every one that I'd kill him, and now, all of a sudden, he's been killed.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000013|So it must have been me!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000015|I can make allowances for you, gentlemen, I can quite make allowances.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000016|I'm struck all of a heap myself, for who can have murdered him, if not I? That's what it comes to, isn't it?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000018|Gentlemen, I want to know, I insist on knowing!" he exclaimed suddenly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000019|"Where was he murdered?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000020|How was he murdered?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000021|How, and with what?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000034_000022|Tell me," he asked quickly, looking at the two lawyers.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000035_000000|"We found him in his study, lying on his back on the floor, with his head battered in," said the prosecutor.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000036_000000|"That's horrible!" Mitya shuddered and, putting his elbows on the table, hid his face in his right hand.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000037_000000|"We will continue," interposed Nikolay Parfenovitch.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000037_000001|"So what was it that impelled you to this sentiment of hatred?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000037_000002|You have asserted in public, I believe, that it was based upon jealousy?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000038_000000|"Well, yes, jealousy.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000039_000000|"Disputes about money?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000040_000000|"Yes, about money, too."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000041_000000|"There was a dispute about three thousand roubles, I think, which you claimed as part of your inheritance?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000042_000000|"Three thousand!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000042_000001|More, more," cried Mitya hotly; "more than six thousand, more than ten, perhaps.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000042_000002|I told every one so, shouted it at them.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000042_000003|But I made up my mind to let it go at three thousand.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000042_000005|Yes, gentlemen, I looked upon it as mine, as my own property...."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000043_000000|The prosecutor looked significantly at the investigating lawyer, and had time to wink at him on the sly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000044_000000|"We will return to that subject later," said the lawyer promptly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000044_000001|"You will allow us to note that point and write it down; that you looked upon that money as your own property?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000000|"Write it down, by all means.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000001|I know that's another fact that tells against me, but I'm not afraid of facts and I tell them against myself.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000002|Do you hear?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000003|Do you know, gentlemen, you take me for a different sort of man from what I am," he added, suddenly gloomy and dejected.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000004|"You have to deal with a man of honor, a man of the highest honor; above all-don't lose sight of it-a man who's done a lot of nasty things, but has always been, and still is, honorable at bottom, in his inner being.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000005|I don't know how to express it.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000007|That was a mistake, like me alone, me alone!... Gentlemen, my head aches ..." His brows contracted with pain.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000045_000009|But now that he's dead, I feel differently."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000046_000000|"How do you mean?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000047_000000|"I don't feel differently, but I wish I hadn't hated him so."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000048_000000|"You feel penitent?"
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000049_000000|"No, not penitent, don't write that.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000049_000001|I'm not much good myself, I'm not very beautiful, so I had no right to consider him repulsive.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000049_000002|That's what I mean.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000049_000003|Write that down, if you like."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000050_000000|Saying this Mitya became very mournful.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000050_000001|He had grown more and more gloomy as the inquiry continued.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000000|At that moment another unexpected scene followed.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000002|It was a little room with one window, next beyond the large room in which they had danced and feasted so lavishly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000003|She was sitting there with no one by her but Maximov, who was terribly depressed, terribly scared, and clung to her side, as though for security.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000004|At their door stood one of the peasants with a metal plate on his breast.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000005|Grushenka was crying, and suddenly her grief was too much for her, she jumped up, flung up her arms and, with a loud wail of sorrow, rushed out of the room to him, to her Mitya, and so unexpectedly that they had not time to stop her.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000006|Mitya, hearing her cry, trembled, jumped up, and with a yell rushed impetuously to meet her, not knowing what he was doing.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000008|He was seized by the arms.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000009|He struggled, and tried to tear himself away.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000010|It took three or four men to hold him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000011|She was seized too, and he saw her stretching out her arms to him, crying aloud as they carried her away.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000051_000012|When the scene was over, he came to himself again, sitting in the same place as before, opposite the investigating lawyer, and crying out to them:
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000052_000000|"What do you want with her?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000052_000001|Why do you torment her?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000052_000002|She's done nothing, nothing!..."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000053_000000|The lawyers tried to soothe him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000053_000001|About ten minutes passed like this.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000053_000002|At last Mihail Makarovitch, who had been absent, came hurriedly into the room, and said in a loud and excited voice to the prosecutor:
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000054_000000|"She's been removed, she's downstairs.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000054_000001|Will you allow me to say one word to this unhappy man, gentlemen?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000054_000002|In your presence, gentlemen, in your presence."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000055_000000|"By all means, Mihail Makarovitch," answered the investigating lawyer.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000055_000001|"In the present case we have nothing against it."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000000|"Listen, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, my dear fellow," began the police captain, and there was a look of warm, almost fatherly, feeling for the luckless prisoner on his excited face.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000001|"I took your Agrafena Alexandrovna downstairs myself, and confided her to the care of the landlord's daughters, and that old fellow Maximov is with her all the time.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000002|And I soothed her, do you hear?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000003|I soothed and calmed her.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000004|I impressed on her that you have to clear yourself, so she mustn't hinder you, must not depress you, or you may lose your head and say the wrong thing in your evidence.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000005|In fact, I talked to her and she understood.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000006|She's a sensible girl, my boy, a good hearted girl, she would have kissed my old hands, begging help for you.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000007|She sent me herself, to tell you not to worry about her.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000008|And I must go, my dear fellow, I must go and tell her that you are calm and comforted about her.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000009|And so you must be calm, do you understand? I was unfair to her; she is a Christian soul, gentlemen, yes, I tell you, she's a gentle soul, and not to blame for anything.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000056_000010|So what am I to tell her, Dmitri Fyodorovitch?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000057_000000|The good-natured police captain said a great deal that was irregular, but Grushenka's suffering, a fellow creature's suffering, touched his good-natured heart, and tears stood in his eyes.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000057_000001|Mitya jumped up and rushed towards him.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000000|"Forgive me, gentlemen, oh, allow me, allow me!" he cried.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000001|"You've the heart of an angel, an angel, Mihail Makarovitch, I thank you for her.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000002|I will, I will be calm, cheerful, in fact.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000003|Tell her, in the kindness of your heart, that I am cheerful, quite cheerful, that I shall be laughing in a minute, knowing that she has a guardian angel like you.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000004|I shall have done with all this directly, and as soon as I'm free, I'll be with her, she'll see, let her wait.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000005|Gentlemen," he said, turning to the two lawyers, "now I'll open my whole soul to you; I'll pour out everything.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000006|We'll finish this off directly, finish it off gayly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000007|We shall laugh at it in the end, shan't we?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000008|But, gentlemen, that woman is the queen of my heart.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000010|That one thing I'll tell you now....
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000011|I see I'm with honorable men.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000012|She is my light, she is my holy one, and if only you knew! Did you hear her cry, 'I'll go to death with you'?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000014|Why such love for me?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000016|And how she fell down at your feet for my sake, just now!... and yet she's proud and has done nothing!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000017|How can I help adoring her, how can I help crying out and rushing to her as I did just now?
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000018|Gentlemen, forgive me!
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000058_000019|But now, now I am comforted."
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000059_000000|And he sank back in his chair and, covering his face with his hands, burst into tears.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000059_000001|But they were happy tears.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000059_000002|He recovered himself instantly.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000059_000003|The old police captain seemed much pleased, and the lawyers also.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000059_000004|They felt that the examination was passing into a new phase.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000059_000005|When the police captain went out, Mitya was positively gay.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000060_000000|"Now, gentlemen, I am at your disposal, entirely at your disposal.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000060_000001|And if it were not for all these trivial details, we should understand one another in a minute.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000060_000002|I'm at those details again.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000060_000004|I speak in your interests.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000060_000005|To business, gentlemen, to business, and don't rummage in my soul; don't tease me with trifles, but only ask me about facts and what matters, and I will satisfy you at once.
train-other-500/3433/718/3433_718_000060_000006|And damn the details!"
train-other-500/3465/20021/3465_20021_000009_000012|They charge Up Brattle Street.
train-other-500/3465/20022/3465_20022_000008_000032|Missile I seize, Not caring what, and with a savage "Scat!" That scrapes my throat, let drive.
train-other-500/3465/20022/3465_20022_000008_000033|I would it were A millstone!
train-other-500/3465/20022/3465_20022_000008_000035|Now with joy I feel My eyelids droop once more.
train-other-500/3465/20022/3465_20022_000008_000038|Will you?
train-other-500/3465/20022/3465_20022_000008_000040|Let's sing once more!
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000001_000000|By Elkton wood, where gurgling flood Impels the foamy mill, Where quarries loom, in solemn gloom, A mansion crowns the hill.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000004_000000|Now, as we walk, with pleasant talk To cheer the dismal way, That light shall tell of marriage bell, Of moon and merry sleigh.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000006_000000|Go back threescore long years, or more: Old Time the latch shall lift, And, from his urn, once more return The home of love and thrift.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000007_000000|A noble sire, with nerves of wire, Warm heart, and open hand,-- A worthy dame, nor shrewd, nor tame,-- Lead forth the phantom band;
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000009_000000|"My pretty nuns, 't is late!
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000011_000000|In full array, the spacious sleigh Glides through the pillared gate: Each prancing steed, straining to lead, Draws no unwilling mate.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000012_000000|Full moon and bright loops up the night Above the starry sky. Runner and heel, well shod with steel, Cut sharply as they fly.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000015_000000|From lofty tower to maiden's bower, And wide o'er hill and dell, Of earthly heaven, to mortals given, Sweet chimes the marriage bell.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000017_000000|(The evening mail and nut brown ale, His pipe and rocking chair, Are waiting long, while the bridal throng Still lingers unaware.)
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000020_000000|Soft breathes the vow, responsive now, In calm but earnest tone. The wedding ring, strange, mystic thing! Fast binds the twain in one.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000023_000000|O'er cradling drift, secure though swift,-- Now smooth, now rough, the track,-- The furious sleigh devours the way, As lash and harness crack.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000025_000000|A fitful light, scarce yet in sight, Gleams through the opening wood: Ah! now they come to their hill side home, In merry, merry mood.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000027_000000|As roars the fire, their loving sire A warmer welcome deals; And, stooping low, on one fair brow His heart's adoption seals.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000028_000000|A dearer bliss, a mother's kiss, Awaits the blushing bride: One look above! then smiles of love Express her joy and pride.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000029_000000|Once more good cheer removes the tear, Returns the joyous smile; Soon laughter, poured around the board, Rings through the spacious pile.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000032_000000|Yet shines that light from lattice bright, Wide o'er the grass, or snow; Still all the room its rays illume, As when, so long ago,
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000033_000000|Its arrowy star recalled the car Then winding round the wood, And lime rock gray threw back the ray Across the rapid flood.
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000035_000000|The skies are dark!
train-other-500/3465/20044/3465_20044_000037_000000|Shine on, fair star, through storms, afar! Still bless the nightly way! Always the same, a vestal flame, Love shall maintain thy ray.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000002_000000|The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors, Storm stained ravines, and crags that lawns inlay, Soothes as with love the rocks whose guard secures The heavenly bay.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000003_000000|O friend, shall time take ever this away, This blessing given of beauty that endures, This glory shown us, not to pass but stay?
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000004_000000|Though sight be changed for memory, love ensures What memory, changed by love to sight, would say — The word that seals for ever mine and yours The heavenly bay.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000007_000000|Once more I give me body and soul to thee, Who hast my soul for ever: cliff and sand Recede, and heart to heart once more are we.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000008_000000|My heart springs first and plunges, ere my hand Strike out from shore: more close it brings to me, More near and dear than seems my fatherland, My mother sea.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000009_000000|three.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000012_000000|Like children unworn of the passions and toils that wore us, We breast for a season the breadth of the seas that throng, Rejoicing as they, to be borne as of old they bore us Across and along.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000014_000000|On Dante's track by some funereal spell Drawn down through desperate ways that lead not back We seem to move, bound forth past flood and fell On Dante's track.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000015_000000|The grey path ends: the gaunt rocks gape: the black Deep hollow tortuous night, a soundless shell, Glares darkness: are the fires of old grown slack?
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000018_000000|By mere men's hands the flame was lit, we know, From heaps of dry waste whin and casual brands: Yet, knowing, we scarce believe it kindled so By mere men's hands.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000019_000000|Above, around, high vaulted hell expands, Steep, dense, a labyrinth walled and roofed with woe, Whose mysteries even itself not understands.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000020_000000|The scorn in Farinata's eyes aglow Seems visible in this flame: there Geryon stands: No stage of earth's is here, set forth to show By mere men's hands.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000024_000000|Lower than dive the thoughts of spirit stricken fear in souls forecasting Hell, the deep void seems to yawn beyond fear's reach, and higher than sight Rise the walls and roofs that compass it about with everlasting Night.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000025_000000|seven.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000026_000000|The house accurst, with cursing sealed and signed, Heeds not what storms about it burn and burst: No fear more fearful than its own may find The house accurst.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000027_000000|Barren as crime, anhungered and athirst, Blank miles of moor sweep inland, sere and blind, Where summer's best rebukes not winter's worst.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000028_000000|The low bleak tower with nought save wastes behind Stares down the abyss whereon chance reared and nursed This type and likeness of the accurst man's mind, The house accurst.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000029_000000|eight.
train-other-500/3465/275761/3465_275761_000031_000000|This eyrie was the homeless eagle's nest When storm laid waste his eyrie: hence he came Again, when storm smote sore his mother's breast.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000000_000000|twenty eight.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000000_000001|I HOPE NEVER TO SEE THAT MAN
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000001_000000|That this would be a difficult thing to do, Doris was soon to realise. mr Challoner continued to pass the house twice a day and the time finally came when he ventured up the walk.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000002_000000|Doris was in the window and saw him coming.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000002_000001|She slipped softly out and intercepted him before he had stepped upon the porch.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000003_000000|"Miss Scott?" he asked.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000004_000000|"Yes, mr Challoner."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000005_000000|"You know me?" he went on, one foot on the step and one still on the walk.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000006_000000|Before replying she closed the door behind her.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000007_000000|"mr Brotherson, our boarder, is just recovering from typhoid.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000007_000001|He is still weak and acutely susceptible to the least noise.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000007_000002|I was afraid that our voices might disturb him.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000007_000003|Do you mind walking a little way up the road?
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000007_000004|That is, if your visit was intended for me."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000008_000000|Her flush, the beauty which must have struck even him, but more than all else her youth, seemed to reconcile him to this unconventional request. Bowing, he took his foot from the step, saying, as she joined him:
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000009_000000|"Yes, you are the one I wanted to see; that is, to day.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000009_000001|Later, I hope to have the privilege of a conversation with mr Brotherson."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000010_000000|She gave him one quick look, trembling so that he offered her his arm with a fatherly air.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000011_000000|"I see that you understand my errand here," he proceeded, with a grave smile, meant as she knew for her encouragement.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000011_000001|"I am glad, because we can go at once to the point.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000011_000002|Miss Scott," he continued in a voice from which he no longer strove to keep back the evidences of deep feeling, "I have the strongest interest in your patient that one man can have in another, where there is no personal acquaintanceship.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000011_000003|You who have every reason to understand my reasons for this, will accept the statement, I hope, as frankly as it is made."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000012_000000|She nodded.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000012_000001|Her eyes were full of tears, but she did not hesitate to raise them.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000012_000003|Doris forgot, in meeting his softened glance and tender, almost wistful, expression, the changes which can be made by a great grief, and only wondered why her sweet benefactress had not taken him into her confidence and thus, possibly, averted the doom which Doris felt had in some way grown out of this secrecy.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000013_000000|"Why should she have feared the disapproval of this man?" she inwardly queried, as she cast him a confiding look which pleased him greatly, as his tone now showed.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000000|"When I lost my daughter, I lost everything," he declared, as they walked slowly up the road.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000001|"Nothing excites my interest, save that which once excited hers.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000002|I am told that the deepest interest of her life lay here.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000003|I am also told that it was an interest quite worthy of her.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000004|I expect to find it so.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000005|I hope with all my heart to find it so, and that is why I have come to this town and expect to linger till mr Brotherson has recovered sufficiently to see me.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000006|I hope that this will be agreeable to him.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000014_000007|I hope that I am not presuming too much in cherishing these expectations."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000015_000000|Doris turned her candid eyes upon him.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000016_000000|"I cannot tell; I do not know," said she.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000016_000001|"Nobody knows, not even the doctor, what effect the news we so dread to give him will have upon mr Brotherson.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000016_000003|It cannot be kept from him much longer.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000016_000004|When I return, I shall shrink from his first look, in the fear of seeing it betray this dreadful knowledge.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000017_000000|"You have had much to carry for one so young," was mr Challoner's sympathetic remark.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000017_000001|"You must let me help you when that awful moment comes.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000017_000002|I am at the hotel and shall stay there till mr Brotherson is pronounced quite well.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000017_000003|I have no other duty now in life but to sustain him through his trouble and then, with what aid he can give, search out and find the cause of my daughter's death which I will never admit without the fullest proof, to have been one of suicide."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000018_000000|Doris trembled.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000019_000000|"It was not suicide," she declared, vehemently.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000020_000001|mr Challoner was himself greatly startled.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000020_000002|What had happened-what could have happened since yesterday that she should emphasise that now?
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000021_000000|"I've not told any one," she went on, as he stopped short in the road, in his anxiety to understand her.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000021_000001|"But I will tell you.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000021_000002|Only, not here, not with all these people driving past; most of whom know me.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000021_000003|Come to the house later-this evening, after mr Brotherson's room is closed for the night.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000021_000004|I have a little sitting room on the other side of the hall where we can talk without being heard.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000022_000000|"No, not at all," he assured her.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000022_000002|Will that be too early?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000023_000000|"No, no Oh, how those people stared!
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000023_000001|Let us hasten back or they may connect your name with what we want kept secret."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000024_000000|He smiled at her fears, but gave in to her humour; he would see her soon again and possibly learn something which would amply repay him, both for his trouble and his patience.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000025_000000|But when evening came and she turned to face him in that little sitting room where he had quietly followed her, he was conscious of a change in her manner which forbade these high hopes.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000025_000001|The gleam was gone from her eyes; the tremulous eagerness from her mobile and sensitive mouth.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000025_000002|She had been thinking in the hours which had passed, and had lost the confidence of that one impetuous moment.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000025_000003|Her greeting betrayed embarrassment and she hesitated painfully before she spoke.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000026_000000|"I don't know what you will think of me," she ventured at last, motioning to a chair but not sitting herself.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000026_000001|"You have had time to think over what I said and probably expect something real,--something you could tell people.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000026_000002|But it isn't like that.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000026_000003|It's a feeling-a belief. I'm so sure-"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000027_000000|"Sure of what, Miss Scott?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000028_000000|She gave a glance at the door before stepping up nearer.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000028_000001|He had not taken the chair she preferred.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000029_000000|"Sure that I have seen the face of the man who murdered her.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000030_000000|"A dream, Miss Scott?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000030_000001|He tried to hide his disappointment.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000031_000000|"Yes; I knew that it would sound foolish to you; it sounds foolish to me.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000031_000001|But listen, sir.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000031_000002|Listen to what I have to tell and then you can judge.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000031_000003|I was very much agitated yesterday.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000031_000005|You can understand my horror and the effort I made to hide my emotion.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000032_000000|Grasping at a near by chair, she leaned on it for support, closing her eyes to all but that inner vision.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000032_000001|A breathless moment followed, then she murmured in strained monotonous tones:
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000033_000000|"I see it again-just as I saw it in the early morning-but even more plainly, if that is possible.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000033_000001|A hall-(I should call it a hall, though I don't remember seeing any place like it before), with a little staircase at the side, up which there comes a man, who stops just at the top and looks intently my way.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000034_000000|mr Challoner watched her with dilated eyes, the spell under which she spoke falling in some degree upon him.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000034_000001|Had she finished?
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000035_000000|"There is music-a crash-but I plainly see his other hand approach the object he is holding.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000035_000001|He takes something from the end-the object is pointed my way-I am looking into-into-what?
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000035_000002|I do not know.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000035_000003|I cannot even see him now.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000035_000004|The space where he stood is empty.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000035_000006|"Yet it was not I who had been shot," she added softly.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000036_000000|mr Challoner shuddered.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000036_000001|This was like the reopening of his daughter's grave.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000036_000002|But he had entered upon the scene with a full appreciation of the ordeal awaiting him and he did not lose his calmness, or the control of his judgment.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000037_000000|"Be seated, Miss Scott," he entreated, taking a chair himself.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000037_000001|"You have described the spot and some of the circumstances of my daughter's death as accurately as if you had been there.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000037_000002|But you have doubtless read a full account of those details in the papers; possibly seen pictures which would make the place quite real to you.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000037_000003|The mind is a strange storehouse.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000037_000004|We do not always know what lies hidden within it."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000038_000000|"That's true," she admitted.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000038_000001|"But the man!
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000038_000003|I should know it if I saw it anywhere.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000038_000004|It is imprinted on my memory as plainly as yours. Oh, I hope never to see that man!"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000039_000000|mr Challoner sighed; he had really anticipated something from the interview.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000039_000001|The disappointment was keen.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000039_000002|A moment of expectation; the thrill which comes to us all under the shadow of the supernatural, and then-this! a young and imaginative girl's dream, convincing to herself but supplying nothing which had not already been supplied both by the facts and his own imagination!
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000039_000003|A man had stood at the staircase, and this man had raised his arm.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000039_000004|She said that she had seen something like a pistol in his hand, but his daughter had not been shot.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000039_000005|This he thought it well to point out to her.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000040_000000|Leaning toward her that he might get her full attention, he waited till her eyes met his, then quietly asked:
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000041_000000|"Have you ever named this man to yourself?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000042_000000|She started and dropped her eyes.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000043_000000|"I do not dare to," said she.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000044_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000045_000000|"Because I've read in the papers that the man who stood there had the same name as-"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000046_000000|"Tell me, Miss Scott."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000047_000000|"As mr Brotherson's brother."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000049_000000|"I do not know."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000050_000000|"You've never seen his brother?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000051_000000|"Never."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000052_000000|"Nor his picture?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000053_000000|"No, mr Brotherson has none."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000054_000000|"Aren't they friends?
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000055_000000|"Very, very rarely.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000055_000001|But I've no reason to think they are not on good terms.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000055_000002|I know they correspond."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000056_000000|"Miss Scott?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000057_000000|"Yes, mr Challoner."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000058_000000|"You must not rely too much upon your dream."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000059_000000|Her eyes flashed to his and then fell again.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000060_000001|I can prove that your dream is such."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000061_000000|"How?" She looked startled.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000062_000000|"You speak of seeing something being leveled at you which made you think of a pistol."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000063_000000|"Yes, I was looking directly into it."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000064_000000|"But my daughter was not shot.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000064_000001|She died from a stab."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000066_000000|"I know that you think so;--but my dream says no I saw this object.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000066_000001|It was pointed directly towards me-above all, I saw his face.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000066_000002|It was the face of one whose finger is on the trigger and who means death; and I believe my dream."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000067_000000|Well, it was useless to reason further.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000067_000001|Gentle in all else, she was immovable so far as this idea was concerned and, seeing this, he let the matter go and prepared to take his leave.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000068_000000|She seemed to be quite ready for this.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000068_000002|Taking her hand in his, he said some kind words, then crossed to the door and opened it.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000068_000003|Instantly her finger flew to her lips and, obedient to its silent injunction, he took up his hat in silence, and was proceeding down the hall, when the bell rang, startling them both and causing him to step quickly back.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000069_000000|"Who is it?" she asked.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000069_000001|"Father's in and visitors seldom come so late."
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000070_000000|"Shall I see?"
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000071_000000|She nodded, looking strangely troubled as the door swung open, revealing the tall, strong figure of a man facing them from the porch.
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000072_000000|"A stranger," formed itself upon her lips, and she was moving forward, when the man suddenly stepped into the glare of the light, and she stopped, with a murmur of dismay which pierced mr Challoner's heart and prepared him for the words which now fell shudderingly from her lips:
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000073_000000|"It is he! it is he!
train-other-500/3467/166570/3467_166570_000073_000001|I said that I should know him wherever I saw him." Then with a quiet turn towards the intruder, "Oh, why, why, did you come here!"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000003_000000|It is not difficult to understand mr Challoner's feelings or even those of Doris at the moment of mr Brotherson's departure.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000003_000001|But why this change in Brotherson himself?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000003_000002|Why this sense of something new and terrible rising between him and the suddenly beclouded future?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000003_000003|Let us follow him to his lonely hotel room and see if we can solve the puzzle.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000004_000000|But first, does he understand his own trouble?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000004_000001|He does not seem to. For when, his hat thrown aside, he stops, erect and frowning under the flaring gas jet he had no recollection of lighting, his first act was to lift his hand to his head in a gesture of surprising helplessness for him, while snatches of broken sentences fell from his lips among which could be heard:
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000000|"What has come to me?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000001|Undone in an hour!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000002|Doubly undone!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000003|First by a face and then by this thought which surely the devils have whispered to me. mr Challoner and Oswald!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000004|What is the link between them?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000005|Great God! what is the link?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000005_000007|Who then or what?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000006_000000|Flinging himself into a chair, he buried his face in his hands.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000006_000001|There were two demons to fight-the first in the guise of an angel.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000006_000002|Doris! Unknown yesterday, unknown an hour ago; but now!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000008_000001|This was something springing full born out of nothing! a force which, for the first time in his life, made him complaisant to the natural weaknesses of man! a dream and yet a reality strong enough to blot out the past, remake the present, change the aspect of all his hopes, and outline a new fate.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000008_000002|He did not know himself.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000008_000003|There was nothing in his whole history to give him an understanding of such feelings as these.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000009_000000|Can a man be seized as it were by the hair, and swung up on the slopes of paradise or down the steeps of hell-without a forewarning, without the chance even to say whether he wished such a cataclysm in his life or no?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000010_000000|He, Orlando Brotherson, had never thought much of love.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000010_000001|Science had been his mistress; ambition his lode star.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000010_000002|Such feeling as he had acknowledged to had been for men-struggling men, men who were down trodden and gasping in the narrow bounds of poverty and helplessness.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000010_000003|Miss Challoner had roused-well, his pride.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000010_000004|He could see that now.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000010_000005|The might of this new emotion made plain many things he had passed by as useless, puerile, unworthy of a man of mental calibre and might.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000011_000000|Did he hail the experience?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000011_000001|It was not likely to bring him joy.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000011_000002|This young girl whose image floated in light before his eyes, would never love him.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000011_000003|She loved his brother.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000012_000000|He had accepted the gossip then; he had not seen her and it all seemed very natural;--hardly worth a moment's thought.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000012_000001|But now!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000000|And here, the other Demon sprang erect and grappled with him before the first one had let go his hold.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000001|Oswald and Challoner!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000002|The secret, unknown something which had softened that hard man's eye when his brother's name was mentioned!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000003|He had noted it and realised the mystery; a mystery before which sleep and rest must fly; a mystery to which he must now give his thought, whatever the cost, whatever the loss to those heavenly dreams the magic of which was so new it seemed to envelope him in the balm of Paradise.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000004|Away, then, image of light!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000005|Let the faculties thou hast dazed, act again.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000006|There is more than Fate's caprice in Challoner's interest in a man he never saw.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000007|Ghosts of old memories rise and demand a hearing.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000008|Facts, trivial and commonplace enough to have been lost in oblivion with the day which gave them birth, throng again from the past, proving that nought dies without a possibility of resurrection.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000009|Their power over this brooding man is shown by the force with which his fingers crush against his bowed forehead.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000010|Oswald and Challoner!
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000011|Had he found the connecting link?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000012|Had it been-could it have been Edith?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000013_000013|The preposterous is sometimes true; could it be true in this case?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000000|He recalled the letters read to him as hers in that room of his in Brooklyn.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000001|He had hardly noted them then, he was so sure of their being forgeries, gotten up by the police to mislead him.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000003|They had not been meant for him.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000004|He had read enough of the mawkish lines to be sure of that.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000005|None of the allusions fitted in with the facts of their mutual intercourse.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000006|But they might with those of another man; they might with the possible acts and affections of Oswald whose temperament was wholly different from his and who might have loved her, should it ever be shown that they had met and known each other.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000007|And this was not an impossibility.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000008|Oswald had been east, Oswald had even been in the Berkshires before himself.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000009|Oswald-Why it was Oswald who had suggested that he should go there-go where she still was.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000010|Why this second coincidence, if there were no tie-if the Challoners and Oswald were as far apart as they seemed and as conventionalities would naturally place them.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000011|Oswald was a sentimentalist, but very reserved about his sentimentalities.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000012|If these suppositions were true, he had had a sentimentalist's motive for what he did.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000013|As Orlando realised this, he rose from his seat, aghast at the possibilities confronting him from this line of thought.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000014|Should he contemplate them?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000015|Risk his reason by dwelling on a supposition which might have no foundation in fact?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000016|no His brain was too full-his purposes too important for any unnecessary strain to be put upon his faculties.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000014_000017|No thinking! investigation first. mr Challoner should be able to settle this question.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000015_000000|There was a wood fire burning in the sitting room that night, and around it was grouped a number of men with their papers and pipes.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000015_000002|His back was to the room and he seemed to be lost in a fit of abstraction.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000016_000000|As Orlando crossed to him, he had time to observe how much whiter was this man's head than in the last interview he had held with him in the coroner's office in New York.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000016_000001|But this evidence of grief in one with whom he had little, if anything, in common, neither touched his feelings nor deterred his step.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000016_000002|The awakening of his heart to new and profound emotions had not softened him towards the sufferings of others if those others stood without the pale he had previously raised as the legitimate boundary of a just man's sympathies.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000017_000000|He was, as I have said, an extraordinary specimen of manly vigour in body and in mind, and his presence in any company always attracted attention and roused, if it never satisfied, curiosity.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000017_000001|Conversation accordingly ceased as he strode up to mr Challoner's side, so that his words were quite audible as he addressed that gentleman with a somewhat curt:
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000018_000000|"You see me again, mr Challoner.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000018_000001|May I beg of you a few minutes' further conversation?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000018_000002|I will not detain you long."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000019_000000|The grey head turned, and the many eyes watching showed surprise at the expression of dislike and repulsion with which this New York gentleman met the request thus emphatically urged.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000019_000001|But his answer was courteous enough.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000019_000002|If mr Brotherson knew a place where they would be left undisturbed, he would listen to him if he would be very brief.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000020_000000|For reply, the other pointed to a small room quite unoccupied which opened out of the one in which they then stood.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000022_000000|"This; I make no apologies and expect in answer nothing more than an unequivocal yes or no
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000022_000001|You tell me that you have never met my brother. Can that be said of the other members of your family-of your deceased daughter, in fact?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000023_000000|"no"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000024_000000|"She was acquainted with Oswald Brotherson?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000025_000000|"She was."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000026_000000|"Without your knowledge?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000027_000000|"Entirely so."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000028_000000|"Corresponded with him?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000029_000000|"Not exactly."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000030_000000|"How, not exactly?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000031_000000|"He wrote to her-occasionally.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000031_000001|She wrote to him frequently-but she never sent her letters."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000032_000000|"Ah!"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000033_000000|The exclamation was sharp, short and conveyed little.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000033_000001|Yet with its escape, the whole scaffolding of this man's hold upon life and his own fate went down in indistinguishable chaos.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000033_000002|mr Challoner realised a sense of havoc, though the eyes bent upon his countenance had not wavered, nor the stalwart figure moved.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000034_000000|"I have read some of those letters," the inventor finally acknowledged. "The police took great pains to place them under my eye, supposing them to have been meant for me because of the initials written on the wrapper.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000034_000001|But they were meant for Oswald.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000034_000002|You believe that now?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000035_000000|"I know it."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000036_000000|"And that is why I found you in the same house with him."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000037_000000|"It is.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000037_000001|Providence has robbed me of my daughter; if this brother of yours should prove to be the man I am led to expect, I shall ask him to take that place in my heart and life which was once hers."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000038_000000|A quick recoil, a smothered exclamation on the part of the man he addressed.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000038_000001|A barb had been hidden in this simple statement which had reached some deeply hidden but vulnerable spot in Brotherson's breast, which had never been pierced before.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000038_000003|It was a sight no man could see unmoved.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000038_000004|mr Challoner turned sharply away, in dread of the abyss which the next word he uttered might open between them.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000039_000000|But Orlando Brotherson possessed resources of strength of which, possibly, he was not aware himself.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000039_000001|When mr Challoner, still more affected by the silence than by the dread I have mentioned, turned to confront him again, it was to find his features composed and his glance clear.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000039_000002|He had conquered all outward manifestation of the mysterious emotion which for an instant had laid his proud spirit low.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000040_000000|"You are considerate of my brother," were the words with which he re-opened this painful conversation.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000040_000001|"You will not find your confidence misplaced.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000040_000002|Oswald is a straightforward fellow, of few faults."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000041_000000|"I believe it.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000041_000001|No man can be so universally beloved without some very substantial claims to regard.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000041_000002|I am glad to see that your opinion, though given somewhat coldly, coincides with that of his friends."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000042_000000|"I am not given to exaggeration," was the even reply.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000043_000000|The flush which had come into mr Challoner's cheek under the effort he had made to sustain with unflinching heroism this interview with the man he looked upon as his mortal enemy, slowly faded out till he looked the wraith of himself even to the unsympathetic eyes of Orlando Brotherson. A duty lay before him which would tax to its utmost extent his already greatly weakened self control.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000043_000001|Nothing which had yet passed showed that this man realised the fact that Oswald had been kept in ignorance of Miss Challoner's death.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000043_000003|But in what words could he urge such a request upon this man?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000043_000004|None suggested themselves, yet he had promised Miss Scott that he would ensure his silence in this regard, and it was with this difficulty and no other he had been struggling when mr Brotherson came upon him in the other room.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000045_000000|"I have," returned mr Challoner, regaining his courage under the exigencies of the moment.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000045_000001|"Miss Scott is very anxious to have your promise that you will avoid all disagreeable topics with your brother till the doctor pronounces him strong enough to meet the trouble which awaits him."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000046_000000|"You mean-"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000047_000000|"He is not as unhappy as we.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000047_000001|He knows nothing of the affliction which has befallen him.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000047_000002|He was taken ill-"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000047_000003|The rest was almost inaudible.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000048_000000|But Orlando Brotherson had no difficulty in understanding him, and for the second time in this extraordinary interview, he gave evidences of agitation and of a mind shaken from its equipoise.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000048_000001|But only for an instant.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000048_000002|He did not shun the other's gaze or even maintain more than a momentary silence.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000048_000003|Indeed, he found strength to smile, in a curious, sardonic way, as he said:
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000049_000000|"Do you think I should be apt to broach this subject with any one, let alone with him, whose connection with it I shall need days to realise? I'm not so given to gossip.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000049_000001|Besides, he and I have other topics of interest.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000049_000002|I have an invention ready with which I propose to experiment in a place he has already prepared for me.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000049_000003|We can talk about that."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000050_000000|The irony, the hardy self possession with which this was said struck mr Challoner to the heart.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000050_000001|Without a word he wheeled about towards the door.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000050_000002|Without a word, Brotherson stood, watching him go till he saw his hand fall on the knob when he quietly prevented his exit by saying:
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000051_000000|"Unhappy truths cannot be long concealed.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000051_000001|How soon does the doctor think my brother can bear these inevitable revelations?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000052_000000|"He said this morning that if his patient were as well to morrow as his present condition gives promise of, he might be told in another week."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000053_000000|Orlando bowed his appreciation of this fact, but added quickly:
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000054_000000|"Who is to do the telling?"
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000055_000000|"Doris.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000055_000001|Nobody else could be trusted with so delicate a task."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000056_000000|"I wish to be present."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000057_000000|mr Challoner looked up, surprised at the feeling with which this request was charged.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000058_000000|"As his brother-his only remaining relative, I have that right.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000059_000000|"If she so promises.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000059_000001|But will you exact this from her?
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000059_000002|It surely cannot be necessary for me to say that your presence will add infinitely to the difficulty of her task."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000060_000000|"Yet it is a duty I cannot shirk.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000060_000001|I will consult the doctor about it.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000060_000002|I will make him see that I both understand and shall insist upon my rights in this matter.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000060_000003|But you may tell Miss Doris that I will sit out of sight, and that I shall not obtrude myself unless my name is brought up in an undesirable way."
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000061_000000|The hand on the door knob made a sudden movement.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000062_000000|"mr Brotherson, I can bear no more to night.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000062_000001|With your permission, I will leave this question to be settled by others." And with a repetition of his former bow, the bereaved father withdrew.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000063_000000|Orlando watched him till the door closed, then he too dropped his mask.
train-other-500/3467/166572/3467_166572_000064_000000|But it was on again, when in a little while he passed through the sitting room on his way upstairs.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000000_000000|"Pray to the small gods, who are the gods of Doing; but MANA is the god of Having Done-the god of Having Done and of the Resting.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000001_000001|Yet what mercy should the small gods have, who themselves made Death and Pain; or shall they restrain their old hound Time for thee?
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000002_000000|"Slid is but a small god.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000002_000001|Yet Slid is Slid-it is written and hath been said.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000004_000000|And the People of Earth said: "There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000005_000000|And Slid said: "I am the Lord of gliding waters and of foaming waters and of still.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000005_000001|I am the Lord of all the waters in the world and all that long streams garner in the hills; but the soul of Slid is in the Sea.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000005_000002|Thither goes all that glides upon Earth, and the end of all the rivers is the Sea."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000007_000000|Much homage hath Slid among the cities of men and pleasant are the woodland paths and the paths of the plains, and pleasant the high valleys where he danceth in the hills; but Slid would be fettered neither by banks nor boundaries-so the soul of Slid is in the Sea.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000009_000000|There may he sit and smile, or creep among the ships, or moan and sigh round islands in his great content-the miser lord of wealth in gems and pearls beyond the telling of all fables.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000010_000001|Then doth the Sea, like venturous legions on the eve of war that exult to acclaim their chief, gather its force together from under all the winds and roar and follow and sing and crash together to vanquish all things-and all at the bidding of Slid, whose soul is in the sea.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000011_000000|There is ease in the soul of Slid and there be calms upon the sea; also, there be storms upon the sea and troubles in the soul of Slid, for the gods have many moods.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000011_000001|And Slid is in many places, for he sitteth in high Pegana.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000011_000003|And to whoever that cry hath ever come he must needs follow and follow, leaving all stable things; only to be always with Slid in all the moods of Slid, to find no rest until he reaches the sea.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000012_000000|With the cry of Slid before them and the hills of their home behind have gone a hundred thousand to the sea, over whose bones doth Slid lament with the voice of a god lamenting for his people.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000013_000000|THE DEEDS OF MUNG
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000014_000000|(Lord of all Deaths between Pegana and the Rim)
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000016_000000|And Mung said: "Were the forty million years before thy coming intolerable to thee?"
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000017_000000|And Mung said: "Not less tolerable to thee shall be the forty million years to come!"
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000018_000000|Then Mung made against him the sign of Mung and the Life of the Man was fettered no longer with hands and feet.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000019_000000|At the end of the flight of the arrow there is Mung, and in the houses and the cities of Men.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000019_000001|Mung walketh in all places at all times.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000019_000002|But mostly he loves to walk in the dark and still, along the river mists when the wind hath sank, a little before night meeteth with the morning upon the highway between Pegana and the Worlds.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000020_000000|Sometimes Mung entereth the poor man's cottage; Mung also boweth very low before The King.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000020_000001|Then do the Lives of the poor man and of The King go forth among the Worlds.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000021_000001|Behind one of these turnings sitteth Mung."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000022_000000|One day as a man trod upon the road that Kib had given him to tread he came suddenly upon Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000022_000001|And when Mung said: "I am Mung!" the man cried out: "Alas, that I took this road, for had I gone by any other way then had I not met with Mung."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000024_000000|Then Mung made the sign of Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000024_000001|And the Life of that man went forth with yesterday's regrets and all old sorrows and forgotten things-whither Mung knoweth.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000025_000000|And Mung went onward with his work to sunder Life from flesh, and Mung came upon a man who became stricken with sorrow when he saw the shadow of Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000025_000001|But Mung said: "When at the sign of Mung thy Life shall float away there will also disappear thy sorrow at forsaking it." But the man cried out: "O Mung! tarry for a little, and make not the sign of Mung against me now, for I have a family upon the earth with whom sorrow will remain, though mine should disappear because of the sign of Mung."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000026_000000|And Mung said: "With the gods it is always Now.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000026_000001|And before Sish hath banished many of the years the sorrows of thy family for thee shall go the way of thine." And the man beheld Mung making the sign of Mung before his eyes, which beheld things no more.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000028_000000|This is the chaunt of the Priests.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000030_000000|This is the chaunt of the Priests.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000031_000001|What, then, shall avail the prayers of All the People?
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000032_000000|Rather bring gifts to the Priests, gifts to the Priests of Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000033_000000|So shall they cry louder unto Mung than ever was their wont.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000034_000000|And it may be that Mung shall hear.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000035_000000|Not any longer than shall fall the Shadow of Mung athwart the hopes of the People.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000037_000000|Not any longer shall the lives of the People be loosened because of Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000038_000000|Bring ye gifts to the Priests, gifts to the Priests of Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000039_000000|This is the chaunt of the Priests.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000040_000000|The chaunt of the Priests of Mung.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000041_000000|This is the chaunt of the Priests.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000043_000000|(The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels)
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000044_000000|And Limpang Tung said: "The ways of the gods are strange.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000044_000001|The flower groweth up and the flower fadeth away.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000044_000002|This may be very clever of the gods.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000044_000003|Man groweth from his infancy, and in a while he dieth.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000044_000004|This may be very clever too.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000045_000000|"But the gods play with a strange scheme.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000046_000000|"I will send jests into the world and a little mirth.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000047_000000|"Go out into the starry night, and Limpang Tung will dance with thee who danced since the gods were young, the god of mirth and of melodious minstrels.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000050_000000|"Utter thy prayer!
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000050_000001|It may accomplish where failed ten thousand thousand.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000051_000000|"Limpang Tung is lesser than the gods, and doth not understand."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000052_000000|And Limpang Tung said: "Lest men grow weary down on the great Worlds through gazing always at a changeless sky, I will paint my pictures in the sky.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000052_000001|And I will paint them twice in every day for so long as days shall be.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000053_000000|"It is a little," said Limpang Tung, "it is a little even for a god to give some pleasure to men upon the Worlds."
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000054_000000|And Limpang Tung hath sworn that the pictures that he paints shall never be the same for so long as the days shall be, and this he hath sworn by the oath of the gods of Pegana that the gods may never break, laying his hand upon the shoulder of each of the gods and swearing by the light behind Their eyes.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000055_000000|Limpang Tung hath lured a melody out of the stream and stolen its anthem from the forest; for him the wind hath cried in lonely places and the ocean sung its dirges.
train-other-500/3470/116548/3470_116548_000055_000001|There is music for Limpang Tung in the sounds of the moving of grass and in the voices of the people that lament or in the cry of them that rejoice.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000002_000000|(The God of Little Dreams and Fancies)
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000004_000000|All night he sendeth little dreams out of Pegana to please the people of Earth.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000005_000000|He sendeth little dreams to the poor man and to The King.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000006_000000|He is so busy to send his dreams to all before the night be ended that oft he forgetteth which be the poor man and which be The King.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000007_000000|To whom Yoharneth Lahai cometh not with little dreams and sleep he must endure all night the laughter of the gods, with highest mockery, in Pegana.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000008_000000|All night long Yoharneth Lahai giveth peace to cities until the dawn hour and the departing of Yoharneth Lahai, when it is time for the gods to play with men again.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000010_000000|OF ROON, THE GOD OF GOING, AND THE THOUSAND HOME GODS
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000011_000000|Roon said: "There be gods of moving and gods of standing still, but I am the god of Going."
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000012_000000|It is because of Roon that the worlds are never still, for the moons and the worlds and the comet are stirred by the spirit of Roon, which saith: "Go!
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000012_000001|Go!
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000012_000002|Go!"
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000015_000000|The footfall of Roon hath been heard at evening outside the houses of men, and thenceforth comfort and abiding know them no more. Before them stretcheth travel over all the lands, long miles, and never resting between their homes and their graves-and all at the bidding of Roon.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000016_000000|The Mountains have set no limit against Roon nor all the seas a boundary.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000018_000000|I heard the whisper of Roon at evening, saying: "There are islands of spices to the South," and the voice of Roon saying: "Go."
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000021_000000|Offer to Roon thy toiling and thy speed, whose incense is the smoke of the camp fire to the South, whose song is the sound of going, whose temples stand beyond the farthest hills in his lands behind the East.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000022_000000|Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth, which signifieth Beyond-these words be carved in letters of gold upon the arch of the great portal of the Temple of Roon that men have builded looking towards the East upon the Sea, where Roon is carved as a giant trumpeter, with his trumpet pointing towards the East beyond the Seas.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000023_000000|Whoso heareth his voice, the voice of Roon at evening, he at once forsaketh the home gods that sit beside the hearth.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000023_000001|These be the gods of the hearth: Pitsu, who stroketh the cat; Hobith who calms the dog; and Habaniah, the lord of glowing embers; and little Zumbiboo, the lord of dust; and old Gribaun, who sits in the heart of the fire to turn the wood to ash-all these be home gods, and live not in Pegana and be lesser than Roon.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000024_000000|There is also Kilooloogung, the lord of arising smoke, who taketh the smoke from the hearth and sendeth it to the sky, who is pleased if it reacheth Pegana, so that the gods of Pegana, speaking to the gods, say: "There is Kilooloogung doing the work on earth of Kilooloogung."
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000026_000000|And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000026_000001|And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000026_000002|Or sometimes he sitteth by the river's edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000027_000000|A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000028_000000|There is also Triboogie, the Lord of Dusk, whose children are the shadows, who sitteth in a corner far off from Habaniah and speaketh to none.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000029_000000|But when there is light again upon the worlds, and dawn comes dancing down the highway from Pegana, then does Triboogie retire into his corner, with his children all around him, as though they had never danced about the room.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000029_000001|And the slaves of Habaniah and old Gribaun come and awake them from their sleep upon the hearth, and Pitsu strokes the cat, and Hobith calms the dog, and Kilooloogung stretches aloft his arms towards Pegana, and Triboogie is very still, and his children asleep.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000030_000001|Hish husheth the mouse and all the whispers in the night; he maketh all noises still.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000030_000002|Only the cricket rebelleth.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000030_000003|But Hish hath set against him such a spell that after he hath cried a thousand times his voice may be heard no more but becometh part of the silence.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000031_000000|And when he hath slain all sounds Hish boweth low to the ground; then cometh into the house, with never a sound of feet, the god Yoharneth Lahai.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000032_000000|But away in the forest whence Hish hath come Wohoon, the Lord of Noises in the Night, awaketh in his lair and creepeth round the forest to see whether it be true that Hish hath gone.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000033_000001|And the wolf and the fox and the owl, and the great beasts and the small, lift up their voices to acclaim Wohoon.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000033_000002|And there arise the sounds of voices and the stirring of leaves.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000034_000000|THE REVOLT OF THE HOME GODS
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000035_000000|There be three broad rivers of the plain, born before memory or fable, whose mothers are three grey peaks and whose father was the storm.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000036_000001|These be the rivers of the plain, wherein the plain rejoices.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000037_000000|And all the plain was flooded to the hills.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000039_000000|But the prayer of men going upward found Pegana, and cried in the ear of the gods: "There be three home gods who slay us for their pleasure, and say that they be mightier than Pegana's gods, and play Their game with men."
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000040_000000|Then were all the gods of Pegana very wroth; but They could not whelm the lords of the three rivers, because being home gods, though small, they were immortal.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000042_000000|Then Mung went down into a waste of Afrik, and came upon the drought Umbool as he sat in the desert upon iron rocks, clawing with miserly grasp at the bones of men and breathing hot.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000043_000000|And Mung stood before him as his dry sides heaved, and ever as they sank his hot breath blasted dry sticks and bones.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000044_000000|Then Mung said: "Friend of Mung!
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000045_000000|And Umbool answered: "I am the beast of Mung."
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000046_000000|And Umbool came and crouched upon a hill upon the other side of the waters and grinned across them at the rebellious home gods.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000048_000000|But when Umbool had grinned for thirty days the waters fell back into the river beds and the lords of the rivers slunk away back again to their homes: still Umbool sat and grinned.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000051_000000|Then said the gods of Pegana: "It is enough.
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000051_000001|We are the gods of Pegana, and none are equal."
train-other-500/3470/116549/3470_116549_000052_000000|Then Mung sent Umbool back to his waste in Afrik to breathe again upon the rocks, and parch the desert, and to sear the memory of Afrik into the brains of all who ever bring their bones away.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000002_000000|(Whose Eyes Regard The End)
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000003_000000|Sitting above the lives of the people, and looking, doth Dorozhand see that which is to be.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000004_000000|The god of Destiny is Dorozhand.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000004_000001|Upon whom have looked the eyes of Dorozhand he goeth forward to an end that naught may stay; he becometh the arrow from the bow of Dorozhand hurled forward at a mark he may not see-to the goal of Dorozhand.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000004_000002|Beyond the thinking of men, beyond the sight of all the other gods, regard the eyes of Dorozhand.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000006_000000|There is something that Dorozhand would fain achieve, and, therefore, hath he set the people striving, with none to cease or rest in all the worlds.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000006_000001|But the gods of Pegana, speaking to the gods, say: "What is it that Dorozhand would fain achieve?"
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000007_000000|It hath been written and said that not only the destinies of men are the care of Dorozhand but that even the gods of Pegana be not unconcerned by his will.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000008_000000|All the gods of Pegana have felt a fear, for they have seen a look in the eyes of Dorozhand that regardeth beyond the gods.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000009_000000|The reason and purpose of the Worlds is that there should be Life upon the Worlds, and Life is the instrument of Dorozhand wherewith he would achieve his end.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000012_000000|And then shall the gods be afraid when they find that MANA knoweth that they have made Worlds while he rested.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000014_000000|When there shall be three moons towards the north above the Star of the Abiding, three moons that neither wax nor wane but regard towards the North.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000016_000000|Then shall the Times that were be Times no more; and it may be that the old, dead days shall return from beyond the Rim, and we who have wept for them shall see those days again, as one who, returning from long travel to his home, comes suddenly on dear, remembered things.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000017_000000|For none shall know of MANA who hath rested for so long, whether he be a harsh or merciful god.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000017_000001|It may be that he shall have mercy, and that these things shall be.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000019_000002|In the first desert lie the tracks of mighty travellers outward from Bodrahan, and some returning.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000020_000000|The third is a desert untrodden by the feet of men.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000021_000000|The fourth is the desert of sand, and the fifth is the desert of dust, and the sixth is the desert of stones, and the seventh is the Desert of Deserts.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000023_000000|About the base of Ranorada is carved in mystic letters that are vaster than the beds of streams these words:
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000024_000000|To the god who knows.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000025_000000|Now, beyond the second desert are no tracks, and there is no water in all the seven deserts that lie beyond Bodrahan.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000025_000001|Therefore came no man thither to hew that statue from the living hills, and Ranorada was wrought by the hands of gods.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000025_000002|Men tell in Bodrahan, where the caravans end and all the drivers of the camels rest, how once the gods hewed Ranorada from the living hill, hammering all night long beyond the deserts.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000026_000000|They say that Hoodrazai stands all alone in Pegana and speaks to none because he knows what is hidden from the gods.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000029_000000|But the camel drivers, as they sit and listen to the tales of the old men in the market place of Bodrahan, at evening, while the camels rest, say:
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000031_000000|All this the camel drivers tell when the caravans come in from Bodrahan; but who shall credit tales that camel drivers have heard from aged men in so remote a city?
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000032_000000|OF THE THING THAT IS NEITHER GOD NOR BEAST
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000034_000001|Why doth not Skarl forsake his drumming, and MANA cease to rest?" and the echo of seven deserts answered: "Who knows?
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000034_000002|Who knows?"
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000036_000000|But as they passed by the prophet they seemed so cool and free and the desert so blinding and hot that he stretched up his arms towards them.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000036_000001|Then it seemed happy to fly and pleasant to follow behind great white wings, and he was with the three flamingoes up in the cool above the desert, and their voices cried before him: "Going South, Going South," and the desert below him mumbled: "Who knows?
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000036_000002|Who knows?"
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000037_000000|Sometimes the earth stretched up towards them with peaks of mountains, sometimes it fell away in steep ravines, blue rivers sang to them as they passed above them, or very faintly came the song of breezes in lone orchards, and far away the sea sang mighty dirges of old forsaken isles.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000037_000001|But it seemed that in all the world there was nothing only to be going South.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000039_000000|But when the prophet saw that they had passed above the edge of Earth, and that far away to the North of them lay the Moon, he perceived that he was following no mortal birds but some strange messengers of Hoodrazai whose nest had lain in one of Pegana's vales below the mountains whereon sit the gods.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000041_000000|Still they went South till they passed below the South and came to the Rim of the Worlds.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000045_000000|Because it is written that there are gods-there are the gods.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000046_000000|Also there is writing about thee and me until the page where our names no more are written.
train-other-500/3470/116550/3470_116550_000052_000000|There some said that he had but dreamed when thirst seized him while he wandered among the rocks in the desert.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000003_000000|JACK AND HIS COMRADES
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000004_000000|Once there was a poor widow, as often there has been, and she had one son.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000005_000000|So she did as he asked her, and he set out at break of day on his journey.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000006_000000|"O musha, mother," says Jack, "why do you ax me that question?
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000006_000001|sure you know I wouldn't have your curse and Damer's estate along with it."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000008_000000|Well, he went along and along till he was tired, and ne'er a farmer's house he went into wanted a boy.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000008_000001|At last his road led by the side of a bog, and there was a poor ass up to his shoulders near a big bunch of grass he was striving to come at.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000011_000000|"Thank you, Jack," says he, when he was out on the hard road; "I'll do as much for you another time.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000011_000001|Where are you going?"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000012_000000|"Faith, I'm going to seek my fortune till harvest comes in, God bless it!"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000013_000000|"And if you like," says the ass, "I'll go along with you; who knows what luck we may have!"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000014_000000|"With all my heart, it's getting late, let us be jogging."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000015_000000|Well, they were going through a village, and a whole army of gossoons were hunting a poor dog with a kettle tied to his tail.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000018_000000|"We're going to seek our fortune till harvest comes in."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000020_000000|"Well, well, throw your tail over your arm, and come along."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000021_000000|They got outside the town, and sat down under an old wall, and Jack pulled out his bread and meat, and shared with the dog; and the ass made his dinner on a bunch of thistles.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000021_000001|While they were eating and chatting, what should come by but a poor half starved cat, and the moll row he gave out of him would make your heart ache.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000024_000000|"We're going to seek our fortune till the harvest comes in, and you may join us if you like."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000027_000000|"Oh, you anointed villain!" says the ass, roaring like thunder.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000028_000000|"At him, good dog!" says Jack, and the word wasn't out of his mouth when Coley was in full sweep after the Red Dog.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000028_000001|Reynard dropped his prize like a hot potato, and was off like shot, and the poor cock came back fluttering and trembling to Jack and his comrades.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000029_000001|Maybe I won't remember your kindness if ever I find you in hardship; and where in the world are you all going?"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000032_000000|"Well, well," says Jack, "the worse luck now the better another time, and it's only a summer night after all.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000032_000001|We'll go into the wood, and make our bed on the long grass."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000033_000000|No sooner said than done.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000035_000001|What's the matter?"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000037_000000|"I see a light indeed," says Jack, "but it's from a candle it's coming, and not from the sun
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000037_000001|As you've roused us we may as well go over, and ask for lodging."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000039_000000|"Easy, boys!" says Jack: "walk on your tippy toes till we see what sort of people we have to deal with."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000040_000000|So they crept near the window, and there they saw six robbers inside, with pistols, and blunderbushes, and cutlashes, sitting at a table, eating roast beef and pork, and drinking mulled beer, and wine, and whisky punch.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000041_000001|here's his purty health!"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000042_000000|"The porter's purty health!" cried out every one of them, and Jack bent his finger at his comrades.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000044_000001|Then Jack made a sign, and they all sung out like mad.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000046_000002|The robbers were frightened out of their lives.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000046_000003|They blew out the candles, threw down the table, and skelped out at the back door as if they were in earnest, and never drew rein till they were in the very heart of the wood.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000047_000000|Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted the candles, and ate and drank till hunger and thirst were gone.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000047_000001|Then they lay down to rest;--Jack in the bed, the ass in the stable, the dog on the door mat, the cat by the fire, and the cock on the perch.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000050_000000|"I was obliged to drop a fine pig's foot," says another.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000051_000000|"I didn't get a tayspoonful of my last tumbler," says another.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000052_000000|"And all the Lord of Dunlavin's gold and silver that we left behind!" says the last.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000053_000000|"I think I'll venture back," says the captain, "and see if we can recover anything."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000054_000000|"That's a good boy!" said they all, and away he went.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000055_000000|The lights were all out, and so he groped his way to the fire, and there the cat flew in his face, and tore him with teeth and claws.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000055_000001|He let a roar out of him, and made for the room door, to look for a candle inside.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000056_000000|"Thousand murders!" cried he; "I wish I was out of this unlucky house."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000057_000000|When he got to the street door, the cock dropped down upon him with his claws and bill, and what the cat and dog done to him was only a flay bite to what he got from the cock.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000060_000000|"Well, well," cried them all, when he came within hearing, "any chance of our property?"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000061_000000|"You may say chance," says he, "and it's itself is the poor chance all out.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000061_000001|Ah, will any of you pull a bed of dry grass for me?
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000061_000002|All the sticking plaster in Enniscorthy will be too little for the cuts and bruises I have on me.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000061_000004|When I got to the kitchen fire, looking for a sod of lighted turf, what should be there but an old woman carding flax, and you may see the marks she left on my face with the cards.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000061_000006|Well, I got away from him somehow, but when I was passing through the door, it must be the divel himself that pounced down on me with his claws, and his teeth, that were equal to sixpenny nails, and his wings-ill luck be in his road!
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000061_000008|If you don't believe me, I'll give you leave to go and judge for yourselves."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000063_000000|Well, before the sun shook his doublet next morning, Jack and his comrades were up and about.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000063_000001|They made a hearty breakfast on what was left the night before, and then they all agreed to set off to the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin, and give him back all his gold and silver.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000063_000002|Jack put it all in the two ends of a sack and laid it across Neddy's back, and all took the road in their hands.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000064_000000|He gave a cross look to the visitors, and says he to Jack, "What do you want here, my fine fellow?
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000064_000001|there isn't room for you all."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000065_000000|"We want," says Jack, "what I'm sure you haven't to give us-and that is, common civility."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000067_000000|"Would you tell a body," says the cock that was perched on the ass's head, "who was it that opened the door for the robbers the other night?"
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000068_000000|Ah! maybe the porter's red face didn't turn the colour of his frill, and the Lord of Dunlavin and his pretty daughter, that were standing at the parlour window unknownst to the porter, put out their heads.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000071_000000|"And how did you know there were six, you poor innocent?" said the lord.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000073_000000|"Begrudge, indeed!
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000073_000001|Not one of you will ever see a poor day if I can help it."
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000074_000000|So all were welcomed to their heart's content, and the ass and the dog and the cock got the best posts in the farmyard, and the cat took possession of the kitchen.
train-other-500/3479/153280/3479_153280_000074_000002|When they sat down to dinner, the lady of the house said Jack had the air of a born gentleman about him, and the lord said he'd make him his steward.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000002_000000|"I will give you my daughter in marriage," said the king of Erin; "you won't get her, though, unless you go and bring me back the tidings that I want, and tell me what it is that put a stop to the laughing of the Gruagach Gaire, who before this laughed always, and laughed so loud that the whole world heard him.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000002_000001|There are twelve iron spikes out here in the garden behind my castle.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000002_000003|Not one was able to get it and tell me what stopped the Gruagach Gaire from laughing.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000003_000000|The Shee an Gannon made no answer, but left the king and pushed away to know could he find why the Gruagach was silent.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000004_000001|Then he came to a house.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000004_000002|The master of the house asked him what sort was he, and he said: "A young man looking for hire."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000005_000000|"Well," said the master of the house, "I was going tomorrow to look for a man to mind my cows.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000005_000001|If you'll work for me, you'll have a good place, the best food a man could have to eat in this world, and a soft bed to lie on."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000006_000000|The Shee an Gannon took service, and ate his supper.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000006_000001|Then the master of the house said: "I am the Gruagach Gaire; now that you are my man and have eaten your supper, you'll have a bed of silk to sleep on."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000008_000000|The new cowboy drove the cattle to pasture, and when near the land of the giant, he saw it was covered with woods and surrounded by a high wall.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000009_000000|Then he climbed a tree, ate the sweet apples himself, and threw the sour ones down to the cattle of the Gruagach Gaire.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000010_000001|The cowboy looked around and saw a five headed giant pushing through the trees; and soon he was before him.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000011_000001|You're too big for one bite, and too small for two.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000011_000002|I don't know what to do but tear you to pieces."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000012_000000|"You nasty brute," said the cowboy, coming down to him from the tree, "'tis little I care for you;" and then they went at each other.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000012_000001|So great was the noise between them that there was nothing in the world but what was looking on and listening to the combat.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000013_000000|They fought till late in the afternoon, when the giant was getting the upper hand; and then the cowboy thought that if the giant should kill him, his father and mother would never find him or set eyes on him again, and he would never get the daughter of the king of Erin.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000014_000000|"I have you at last; you're done for now!", said the cowboy.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000015_000000|Then he put the tongues in his pocket and drove home the cattle.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000017_000000|After supper the cowboy would give no talk to his master, but kept his mind to himself, and went to the bed of silk to sleep.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000018_000000|On the morning the cowboy rose before his master, and the first words he said to the Gruagach were:
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000019_000000|"What keeps you from laughing, you who used to laugh so loud that the whole world heard you?"
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000020_000000|"I'm sorry," said the Gruagach, "that the daughter of the king of Erin sent you here."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000021_000000|"If you don't tell me of your own will, I'll make you tell me," said the cowboy; and he put a face on himself that was terrible to look at, and running through the house like a madman, could find nothing that would give pain enough to the Gruagach but some ropes made of untanned sheepskin hanging on the wall.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000022_000000|He took these down, caught the Gruagach, fastened him by the three smalls, and tied him so that his little toes were whispering to his ears.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000022_000001|When he was in this state the Gruagach said: "I'll tell you what stopped my laughing if you set me free."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000025_000000|"On another day he came again; but if he did, we were ready for him, my twelve sons and myself.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000025_000001|As soon as he tossed up the ashes and ran off, we made after him, and followed him till nightfall, when he went into a glen.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000025_000002|We saw a light before us.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000025_000003|I ran on, and came to a house with a great apartment, where there was a man named Yellow Face with twelve daughters, and the hare was tied to the side of the room near the women.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000026_000000|"There was a large pot over the fire in the room, and a great stork boiling in the pot.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000026_000001|The man of the house said to me: 'There are bundles of rushes at the end of the room, go there and sit down with your men!'
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000028_000002|We had to fast that night; and when the man and his twelve daughters ate the flesh of the stork, they hurled the bare bones in the faces of my sons and myself.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000032_000000|When he had said this, the Gruagach showed the cowboy his back covered with thick black wool.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000033_000000|After what he had seen and heard, the cowboy said: "I know now why you don't laugh, and small blame to you.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000034_000000|"He does indeed," said the Gruagach.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000037_000000|"Who has dared to interfere with my fighting pet?" screamed Yellow Face.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000038_000000|"I," said the cowboy; "and if your pet had had manners, he might be alive now."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000039_000000|The cowboy and the Gruagach stood by the fire.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000039_000001|A stork was boiling in the pot, as when the Gruagach came the first time.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000039_000002|The master of the house went into the next room and brought out an iron and a wooden pike, and asked the cowboy which would he choose.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000040_000000|"I'll take the wooden one," said the cowboy; "and you may keep the iron one for yourself."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000043_000000|"What could I do with the twelve iron ones for myself or my master? I'll take the wooden one."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000046_000000|Then the cowboy said to the Gruagach: "It's a bad thing you have done to me, for the daughter of the king of Erin will be married the day after your laugh is heard."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000047_000000|"Oh! then we must be there in time," said the Gruagach; and they all made away from the place as fast as ever they could, the cowboy, the Gruagach, and his twelve sons.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000048_000000|They hurried on; and when within three miles of the king's castle there was such a throng of people that no one could go a step ahead.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000048_000001|"We must clear a road through this," said the cowboy.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000049_000000|"We must indeed," said the Gruagach; and at it they went, threw the people some on one side and some on the other, and soon they had an opening for themselves to the king's castle.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000050_000000|As they went in, the daughter of the king of Erin and the son of the king of Tisean were on their knees just going to be married.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000052_000000|"It was I," said the cowboy.
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000053_000000|"What reason had you to strike the man who won my daughter?"
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000054_000001|He'll tell you the whole story from beginning to end, and show you the tongues of the giant."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000055_000001|"And then," said the Gruagach, "he is the only man in the whole world I have ever told why I stopped laughing, and the only one who has ever seen my fleece of wool."
train-other-500/3479/153281/3479_153281_000056_000000|When the king of Erin heard what the Gruagach said, and saw the tongues of the giant fitted in the head, he made the Shee an Gannon kneel down by his daughter, and they were married on the spot.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000001_000000|JACK AND HIS MASTER
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000002_000001|The eldest and second eldest were cunning clever fellows, but they called the youngest Jack the Fool, because they thought he was no better than a simpleton.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000002_000002|The eldest got tired of staying at home, and said he'd go look for service.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000003_000000|Vexed enough were the poor mother and brothers; and the second eldest said on the spot he'd go and take service with the Gray Churl, and punish him by all the annoyance he'd give him till he'd make him say he was sorry for his agreement.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000003_000001|"Oh, won't I be glad to see the skin coming off the old villain's back!" said he.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000003_000002|All they could say had no effect: he started off for the Townland of Mischance, and in a twelvemonth he was back just as miserable and helpless as his brother.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000004_000001|He agreed with him for a year for twenty pounds, and the terms were the same.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000006_000000|"I'm satisfied," said Jack; "and if you stop me from doing a thing after telling me to do it, you are to give me an additional month's wages."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000007_000000|"I am satisfied," says the master.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000009_000000|"I am satisfied," said the master again.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000010_000000|The first day that Jack served he was fed very poorly, and was worked to the saddleskirts.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000010_000001|Next day he came in just before the dinner was sent up to the parlour.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000010_000003|In came the master, and began to abuse him for his assurance.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000010_000004|"Oh, you know, master, you're to feed me, and wherever the goose goes won't have to be filled again till supper.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000010_000005|Are you sorry for our agreement?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000011_000000|The master was going to cry out he was, but he bethought himself in time.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000011_000001|"Oh no, not at all," said he.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000012_000000|"That's well," said Jack.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000013_000002|He didn't find his breakfast very heavy on his stomach; so he said to the mistress, "I think, ma'am, it will be better for me to get my dinner now, and not lose time coming home from the bog."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000014_000000|"That's true, Jack," said she.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000015_000001|So you may as well give me my supper, and be done with the day's trouble." She gave him that, thinking he'd take it to the bog; but he fell to on the spot, and did not leave a scrap to tell tales on him; and the mistress was a little astonished.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000018_000001|He came up.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000020_000000|"Yes, you rascal, I do."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000021_000000|"Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence, if you please, sir."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000022_000000|"One divel and thirteen imps, you tinker! what for?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000023_000000|"Oh, I see, you've forgot your bargain.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000023_000001|Are you sorry for it?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000024_000000|"Oh, ya-no, I mean.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000024_000001|I'll give you the money after your nap."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000025_000000|Next morning early, Jack asked how he'd be employed that day.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000026_000000|"What are you doing, you contrary thief?" said the master.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000028_000000|"No, but I'll speak to you.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000028_000001|Didn't you know, you bosthoon, that when I said 'holding the plough,' I meant reddening the ground."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000029_000001|Do you blame me for what I have done?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000030_000000|The master caught himself in time, but he was so stomached, he said nothing.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000033_000000|"Oh, not at all, not at all!"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000034_000000|Jack, ploughed away like a good workman all the rest of the day.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000035_000001|"Be sure, particularly," said he, "to keep Browney from the wheat; while she's out of mischief there's no fear of the rest."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000036_000001|Down came the switch on Jack.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000037_000000|"Jack, you vagabone, do you see what the cows are at?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000039_000000|"To be sure, you lazy sluggard, I do?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000040_000000|"Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence, master.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000040_000001|You said if I only kept Browney out of mischief, the rest would do no harm.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000040_000002|There she is as harmless as a lamb.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000040_000003|Are you sorry for hiring me, master?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000041_000000|"To be-that is, not at all.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000041_000001|I'll give you your money when you go to dinner.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000042_000000|"Never fear, master!" and neither did he.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000044_000000|"Where will I look for them?" said Jack.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000045_000000|"Oh, every place likely and unlikely for them all to be in."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000046_000000|The churl was getting very exact in his words.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000046_000001|When he was coming into the bawn at dinner time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000047_000000|"What are you doing there, you rascal?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000048_000000|"Sure, I'm looking for the heifers, poor things!"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000049_000000|"What would bring them there?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000050_000001|Maybe it's not pleasing to you it is."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000051_000000|"And to be sure it isn't pleasing to me, you aggravating goose cap!"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000052_000000|"Please, sir, hand me one pound thirteen and four pence before you sit down to your dinner.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000053_000001|Will you begin, if you please, and put in the thatch again, just as if you were doing it for your mother's cabin?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000054_000000|"Oh, faith I will, sir, with a heart and a half;" and by the time the farmer came out from his dinner, Jack had the roof better than it was before, for he made the boy give him new straw.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000055_000000|Says the master when he came out, "Go, Jack, and look for the heifers, and bring them home."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000058_000000|Next morning, says the master, "Jack, the path across the bog to the pasture is very bad; the sheep does be sinking in it every step; go and make the sheep's feet a good path." About an hour after he came to the edge of the bog, and what did he find Jack at but sharpening a carving knife, and the sheep standing or grazing round.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000059_000000|"Is this the way you are mending the path, Jack?" said he.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000060_000000|"Everything must have a beginning, master," said Jack, "and a thing well begun is half done.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000060_000001|I am sharpening the knife, and I'll have the feet off every sheep in the flock while you'd be blessing yourself."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000062_000001|Says you, 'Jack, make a path with the foot of the sheep.'"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000063_000000|"Oh, you fool, I meant make good the path for the sheep's feet."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000064_000000|"It's a pity you didn't say so, master.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000064_000001|Hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence if you don't like me to finish my job."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000066_000000|"It's better pray than curse, master.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000066_000001|Maybe you're sorry for your bargain?"
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000068_000000|The next night the master was going to a wedding; and says he to Jack, before he set out: "I'll leave at midnight, and I wish you, to come and be with me home, for fear I might be overtaken with the drink.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000068_000001|If you're there before, you may throw a sheep's eye at me, and I'll be sure to see that they'll give you something for yourself."
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000069_000000|About eleven o'clock, while the master was in great spirits, he felt something clammy hit him on the cheek.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000069_000001|It fell beside his tumbler, and when he looked at it what was it but the eye of a sheep.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000070_000000|"Master," says Jack, "don't blame the honest man.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000074_000001|My time is up.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000076_000000|When the company heard the rights of the business, they were only too eager to see the job done.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000076_000001|The master bawled and roared, but there was no help at hand.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000076_000002|He was stripped to his hips, and laid on the floor in the next room, and Jack had the carving knife in his hand ready to begin.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000077_000000|"Now you cruel old villain," said he, giving the knife a couple of scrapes along the floor, "I'll make you an offer.
train-other-500/3479/153286/3479_153286_000077_000001|Give me, along with my double wages, two hundred guineas to support my poor brothers, and I'll do without the strap."
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000001_000001|The steeples sent forth a joyous peal.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000001_000002|A copy of the Exclusion Bill, and a black box, resembling that which, according to the popular fable, contained the contract between Charles the Second and Lucy Walters, were publicly committed to the flames, with loud acclamations.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000002_000000|The general result of the elections exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the court.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000002_000001|james found with delight that it would be unnecessary for him to expend a farthing in buying votes.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000002_000002|He Said that, with the exception of about forty members, the House of Commons was just such as he should himself have named.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000003_000000|Secure of parliamentary support, he might now indulge in the luxury of revenge.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000003_000001|His nature was not placable; and, while still a subject, he had suffered some injuries and indignities which might move even a placable nature to fierce and lasting resentment.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000003_000002|One set of men in particular had, with a baseness and cruelty beyond all example and all description, attacked his honour and his life, the witnesses of the plot.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000004_000001|His end had been all horror and despair; and, with his last breath, he had told his attendants to throw him into a ditch like a dog, for that he was not fit to sleep in a Christian burial ground.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000004_000005|Two bills of indictment against him for perjury had been found by the grand jury of Middlesex, a few weeks before the death of Charles.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000004_000006|Soon after the close of the elections the trial came on.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000005_000000|Among the upper and middle classes Oates had few friends left.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000005_000001|The most respectable Whigs were now convinced that, even if his narrative had some foundation in fact, he had erected on that foundation a vast superstructure of romance.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000005_000002|A considerable number of low fanatics, however, still regarded him as a public benefactor.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000005_000003|These people well knew that, if he were convicted, his sentence would be one of extreme severity, and were therefore indefatigable in their endeavours to manage an escape.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000005_000004|Though he was as yet in confinement only for debt, he was put into irons by the authorities of the King's Bench prison; and even so he was with difficulty kept in safe custody.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000005_000005|The mastiff that guarded his door was poisoned; and, on the very night preceding the trial, a ladder of ropes was introduced into the cell.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000006_000003|Wherever he had appeared, men had uncovered their heads to him.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000006_000004|The lives and estates of the magnates of the realm had been at his mercy.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000000|It was proved, beyond all possibility of doubt, that this man had by false testimony deliberately murdered several guiltless persons.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000001|He called in vain on the most eminent members of the Parliaments which had rewarded and extolled him to give evidence in his favour.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000002|Some of those whom he had summoned absented themselves.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000003|None of them said anything tending to his vindication.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000004|One of them, the Earl of Huntingdon, bitterly reproached him with having deceived the Houses and drawn on them the guilt of shedding innocent blood.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000005|The judges browbeat and reviled the prisoner with an intemperance which, even in the most atrocious cases, ill becomes the judicial character.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000007|He was convicted on both indictments.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000008|His offence, though, in a moral light, murder of the most aggravated kind, was, in the eye of the law, merely a misdemeanour.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000009|The tribunal, however, was desirous to make his punishment more severe than that of felons or traitors, and not merely to put him to death, but to put him to death by frightful torments.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000010|He was sentenced to be stripped of his clerical habit, to be pilloried in Palace Yard, to be led round Westminster Hall with an inscription declaring his infamy over his head, to be pilloried again in front of the Royal Exchange, to be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and, after an interval of two days, to be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000011|If, against all probability, he should happen to survive this horrible infliction, he was to be kept close prisoner during life.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000012|Five times every year he was to be brought forth from his dungeon and exposed on the pillory in different parts of the capital.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000017|It was supposed that he would try to escape the horrible doom which awaited him by swallowing poison. All that he ate and drank was therefore carefully inspected.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000018|On the following morning he was brought forth to undergo his first flogging. At an early hour an innumerable multitude filled all the streets from Aldgate to the Old Bailey.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000019|The hangman laid on the lash with such unusual severity as showed that he had received special instructions. The blood ran down in rivulets.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000020|For a time the criminal showed a strange constancy: but at last his stubborn fortitude gave way.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000021|His bellowings were frightful to hear.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000022|He swooned several times; but the scourge still continued to descend.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000024|james was entreated to remit the second flogging.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000025|His answer was short and clear: "He shall go through with it, if he has breath in his body." An attempt was made to obtain the Queen's intercession; but she indignantly refused to say a word in favour of such a wretch.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000026|After an interval of only forty eight hours, Oates was again brought out of his dungeon.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000027|He was unable to stand, and it was necessary to drag him to Tyburn on a sledge.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000031|The doors of the prison closed upon him.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000032|During many months he remained ironed in the darkest hole of Newgate.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000034|There was, therefore, great joy in distant countries when it was known that the divine justice had overtaken him.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000007_000035|Engravings of him, looking out from the pillory, and writhing at the cart's tail, were circulated all over Europe; and epigrammatists, in many languages, made merry with the doctoral title which he pretended to have received from the University of Salamanca, and remarked that, since his forehead could not be made to blush, it was but reasonable that his back should do so.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000000|Horrible as were the sufferings of Oates, they did not equal his crimes. The old law of England, which had been suffered to become obsolete, treated the false witness, who had caused death by means of perjury, as a murderer.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000003|The pain produced by ordinary murder bears no proportion to the pain produced by murder of which the courts of justice are made the agents.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000004|The mere extinction of life is a very small part of what makes an execution horrible.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000005|The prolonged mental agony of the sufferer, the shame and misery of all connected with him, the stain abiding even to the third and fourth generation, are things far more dreadful than death itself.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000006|In general it may be safely affirmed that the father of a large family would rather be bereaved of all his children by accident or by disease than lose one of them by the hands of the hangman.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000007|Murder by false testimony is therefore the most aggravated species of murder; and Oates had been guilty of many such murders.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000008|Nevertheless the punishment which was inflicted upon him cannot be justified.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000009|In sentencing him to be stripped of his ecclesiastical habit and imprisoned for life, the judges exceeded their legal power.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000011|But the spirit of the law clearly was that no misdemeanour should be punished more severely than the most atrocious felonies. The worst felon could only be hanged.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000012|The judges, as they believed, sentenced Oates to be scourged to death.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000013|That the law was defective is not a sufficient excuse: for defective laws should be altered by the legislature, and not strained by the tribunals; and least of all should the law be strained for the purpose of inflicting torture and destroying life.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000014|That Oates was a bad man is not a sufficient excuse; for the guilty are almost always the first to suffer those hardships which are afterwards used as precedents against the innocent.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000015|Thus it was in the present case.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000016|Merciless flogging soon became an ordinary punishment for political misdemeanours of no very aggravated kind.
train-other-500/348/128030/348_128030_000008_000017|Men were sentenced, for words spoken against the government, to pains so excruciating that they, with unfeigned earnestness, begged to be brought to trial on capital charges, and sent to the gallows.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000001_000002|His title had notoriously been purchased by his wife's dishonour and his own.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000001_000003|His fortune was small.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000001_000004|His temper, naturally ungentle, had been exasperated by his domestic vexations, by the public reproaches, and by what he had undergone in the days of the Popish plot.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000001_000005|He had been long a prisoner, and had at length been tried for his life.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000001_000006|Happily for him, he was not put to the bar till the first burst of popular rage had spent itself, and till the credit of the false witnesses had been blown upon. He had therefore escaped, though very narrowly.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000001_000008|He was now ruined by play, and was eager to retrieve his fallen fortunes by means of lucrative posts from which the laws excluded him.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000002_000000|Soon after the prorogation this reckless faction was strengthened by an important reinforcement.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000001|In his youth he had been one of the most noted sharpers and bullies of London.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000002|He had been introduced to Charles and james when they were exiles in Flanders, as a man fit and ready for the infamous service of assassinating the Protector.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000003|Soon after the Restoration, Talbot attempted to obtain the favour of the royal family by a service more infamous still.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000004|A plea was wanted which might justify the Duke of York in breaking that promise of marriage by which he had obtained from Anne Hyde the last proof of female affection.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000005|Such a plea Talbot, in concert with some of his dissolute companions, undertook to furnish.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000008|Talbot was soon forced to own that they were so; and he owned it without a blush. The injured lady became Duchess of York.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000009|Had her husband been a man really upright and honourable, he would have driven from his presence with indignation and contempt the wretches who had slandered her.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000010|But one of the peculiarities of James's character was that no act, however wicked and shameful, which had been prompted by a desire to gain his favour, ever seemed to him deserving of disapprobation.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000012|In no long time Whitehall was thrown into confusion by the news that Dick Talbot, as he was commonly called, had laid a plan to murder the Duke of Ormond.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000016|He affected the character of an Irish patriot, and pleaded, with great audacity, and sometimes with success, the cause of his countrymen whose estates had been confiscated.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000017|He took care, however, to be well paid for his services, and succeeded in acquiring, partly by the sale of his influence, partly by gambling, and partly by pimping, an estate of three thousand pounds a year.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000018|For under an outward show of levity, profusion, improvidence, and eccentric impudence, he was in truth one of the most mercenary and crafty of mankind.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000003_000019|He was now no longer young, and was expiating by severe sufferings the dissoluteness of his youth: but age and disease had made no essential change in his character and manners.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000001|When the new Lord Lieutenant was about to leave London for Dublin, the General was summoned from Dublin to London.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000004|The Reformation, he told the people, had ruined everything.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000005|But fine times were coming.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000006|The Catholics would soon be uppermost.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000007|The heretics should pay for all.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000008|Raving and blaspheming incessantly, like a demoniac, he came to the court.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000004_000011|They told their master that he owed it to his religion and to the dignity of his crown to stand firm against the outcry of heretical demagogues, and to let the Parliament see from the first that he would be master in spite of opposition, and that the only effect of opposition would be to make him a hard master.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000000|Each of the two parties into which the court was divided had zealous foreign allies.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000001|The ministers of Spain, of the Empire, and of the States General were now as anxious to support Rochester as they had formerly been to support Halifax.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000002|All the influence of Barillon was employed on the other side; and Barillon was assisted by another French agent, inferior to him in station, but far superior in abilities, Bonrepaux. Barillon was not without parts, and possessed in large measure the graces and accomplishments which then distinguished the French gentry. But his capacity was scarcely equal to what his great place required.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000005|At the close of the year sixteen eighty five, he was sent to London, charged with several special commissions of high importance.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000007|The new Envoy's origin was plebeian, his stature was dwarfish, his countenance was ludicrously ugly, and his accent was that of his native Gascony: but his strong sense, his keen penetration, and his lively wit eminently qualified him for his post.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000008|In spite of every disadvantage of birth and figure he was soon known as a most pleasing companion and as a most skilful diplomatist.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000009|He contrived, while flirting with the Duchess of Mazarin, discussing literary questions with Waller and Saint Evremond, and corresponding with La Fontaine, to acquire a considerable knowledge of English politics.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000010|His skill in maritime affairs recommended him to james, who had, during many years, paid close attention to the business of the Admiralty, and understood that business as well as he was capable of understanding anything.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000011|They conversed every day long and freely about the state of the shipping and the dock yards.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000005_000012|The result of this intimacy was, as might have been expected, that the keen and vigilant Frenchman conceived a great contempt for the King's abilities and character.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000006_000001|They made a partition of the court.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000006_000002|Bonrepaux lived chiefly with Rochester and Rochester's adherents.
train-other-500/348/132611/348_132611_000006_000003|Barillon's connections were chiefly with the opposite faction.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000000|Till after the suppression of the Western insurrection grave causes of dissension had separated William both from Whigs and Tories.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000001|He had seen with displeasure the attempts of the Whigs to strip the executive government of some powers which he thought necessary to its efficiency and dignity.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000002|He had seen with still deeper displeasure the countenance given by a large section of that party to the pretensions of Monmouth. The opposition, it seemed, wished first to make the crown of England not worth the wearing, and then to place it on the head of a bastard and impostor.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000003|At the same time the Prince's religious system differed widely from that which was the badge of the Tories.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000004|They were Arminians and Prelatists.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000005|They looked down on the Protestant Churches of the Continent, and regarded every line of their own liturgy and rubric as scarcely less sacred than the gospels.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000006|His opinions touching the metaphysics of theology were Calvinistic.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000007|His opinions respecting ecclesiastical polity and modes of worship were latitudinarian.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000008|He owned that episcopacy was a lawful and convenient form of church government; but he spoke with sharpness and scorn of the bigotry of those who thought episcopal ordination essential to a Christian society.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000010|But he avowed that he should like the rites of the Church of England better if they reminded him less of the rites of the Church of Rome.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000002_000011|He had been heard to utter an ominous growl when first he saw, in his wife's private chapel, an altar decked after the Anglican fashion, and had not seemed well pleased at finding her with Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity in her hands.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000000|He therefore long observed the contest between the English factions attentively, but without feeling a strong predilection for either side. Nor in truth did he ever, to the end of his life, become either a Whig or a Tory.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000001|He wanted that which is the common groundwork of both characters; for he never became an Englishman.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000002|He saved England, it is true; but he never loved her, and he never obtained her love.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000003|To him she was always a land of exile, visited with reluctance and quitted with delight.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000004|Even when he rendered to her those services of which, at this day, we feel the happy effects, her welfare was not his chief object. Whatever patriotic feeling he had was for Holland.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000005|There was the stately tomb where slept the great politician whose blood, whose name, whose temperament, and whose genius he had inherited.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000007|The Dutch language was the language of his nursery.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000008|Among the Dutch gentry he had chosen his early friends.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000009|The amusements, the architecture, the landscape of his native country, had taken hold on his heart.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000010|To her he turned with constant fondness from a prouder and fairer rival.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000011|In the gallery of Whitehall he pined for the familiar House in the Wood at the Hague, and never was so happy as when he could quit the magnificence of Windsor for his far humbler seat at Loo.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000003_000012|During his splendid banishment it was his consolation to create round him, by building, planting, and digging, a scene which might remind him of the formal piles of red brick, of the long canals, and of the symmetrical flower beds amidst which his early life had been passed.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000000|It is not difficult to trace the progress of the sentiment which gradually possessed itself of William's whole soul.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000002|The Dutch had in dismay humbled themselves before the conqueror, and had implored mercy.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000003|They had been told in reply that, if they desired peace, they must resign their independence and do annual homage to the House of Bourbon.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000006|For a time it seemed to him that resistance was hopeless.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000007|He looked round for succour, and looked in vain.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000008|Spain was unnerved, Germany distracted, England corrupted.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000010|No obstacle would then remain to check the progress of the House of Bourbon.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000011|A few years, and that House might add to its dominions Loraine and Flanders, Castile and Aragon, Naples and Milan, Mexico and Peru.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000015|Religion gave her sanction to that intense and unquenchable animosity.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000018|He had a great work to do; and till it was done nothing could harm him.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000020|The ardour and perseverance with which he devoted himself to his mission have scarcely any parallel in history.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000021|In comparison with his great object he held the lives of other men as cheap as his own.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000022|It was but too much the habit, even of the most humane and generous soldiers of that age, to think very lightly of the bloodshed and devastation inseparable from great martial exploits; and the heart of William was steeled, not only by professional insensibility, but by that sterner insensibility which is the effect of a sense of duty.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000023|Three great coalitions, three long and bloody wars in which all Europe from the Vistula to the Western Ocean was in arms, are to be ascribed to his unconquerable energy.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000025|If peace was made, it was made only because he could not breathe into other men a spirit as fierce and determined as his own.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000026|At the very last moment, in the hope of breaking off the negotiation which he knew to be all but concluded, he fought one of the most bloody and obstinate battles of that age.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000028|His contest with Lewis, transferred from the field to the cabinet, was soon exasperated by a private feud.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000029|In talents, temper, manners and opinions, the rivals were diametrically opposed to each other.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000031|The enemies did not long observe those courtesies which men of their rank, even when opposed to each other at the head of armies, seldom neglect.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000032|William, indeed, went through the form of tendering his best services to Lewis.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000033|But this civility was rated at its true value, and requited with a dry reprimand. The great King affected contempt for the petty Prince who was the servant of a confederacy of trading towns; and to every mark of contempt the dauntless Stadtholder replied by a fresh defiance.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000035|Lewis, with that ostentatious contempt of public law which was characteristic of him, occupied Orange, dismantled the fortifications, and confiscated the revenues.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000036|William declared aloud at his table before many persons that he would make the most Christian King repent the outrage, and, when questioned about these words by the Count of Avaux, positively refused either to retract them or to explain them away.
train-other-500/348/132751/348_132751_000004_000037|The quarrel was carried so far that the French minister could not venture to present himself at the drawing room of the Princess for fear of receiving some affront.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000002_000000|CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000003_000000|MORE STRANGE FACTS
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000004_000000|Compelled against my will to accompany the inspector to the police head quarters in the High Street, I made a statement-a rather lame one, I fear.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000005_000000|I concealed the fact that the lady of the previous night's conference was my wife, and explained my visit to Stamford, and my inquiries at the George, by the fact that I had met the man Lewis abroad, and had had some financial dealings with him, which, I now suspected, were not altogether square.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000006_000000|This story would, of course, not have held water had Miss Hammond, the manageress, been present.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000007_000000|"Then you actually know nothing concerning these people?" he asked, regarding me shrewdly.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000008_000000|"Nothing beyond the fact of meeting Lewis abroad, and very foolishly trusting in his honesty."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000009_000000|The superintendent smiled.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000009_000001|I think he regarded me as a bit of a fool. Probably I had been.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000010_000001|"The Archduchess's necklace must have been stolen by some one travelling in the train. I've been on to Scotland Yard by telephone, and there seems a suspicion because at Grantham-the last stopping place before London-a ticket collector boarded the train.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000010_000002|He was a stranger to the others, but they believed that he had been transferred from one or other of the branches to the main line, and being in the company's uniform they, of course, accepted him.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000010_000004|Here again the busy collectors came and demanded tickets, much to the surprise of the passengers, and the curious incident was much commented upon."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000012_000000|"No doubt.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000012_000001|He somehow secured the dressing bag and dropped it out at a point between Grantham and Essendine-a spot where he knew his accomplices would be waiting-a very neatly planned robbery."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000013_000000|"And by persons who are evidently experts," I said.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000014_000000|"Of course," replied the grey haired superintendent.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000014_000001|"The manner in which the diamonds have been quickly transferred from hand to hand and carried out of the country is sufficient evidence of that.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000014_000002|The gang have now scattered, and, for aught we know, have all crossed the Channel by this time."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000015_000000|"Well," I assured him; "I know nothing more of the affair than what I have told you.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000015_000001|If I were an accomplice I should hardly be here-making inquiries concerning them."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000016_000000|"I don't know so much about that," he replied, rather incredulously. "Such an action has been known before, in order to place the police upon a wrong scent.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000017_000000|"What!" I cried.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000018_000000|"There is no indignity," he declared.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000018_000001|"You may go about the town where you will-providing you do not attempt to leave it.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000018_000002|I regret, but it is my duty to ascertain who and what you are, mr Biddulph."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000019_000000|I had given him my card, and he, seeing the look of annoyance upon my face, added-
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000020_000000|"I can only express apologies, sir.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000020_000001|But you will see it is my duty. You have admitted knowledge of at least one of the mysterious gang."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000021_000000|"Very well," I replied reluctantly; "make what inquiries you will." And I gave him the address of my solicitors and my bankers.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000022_000000|Then, walking out of the office, I strolled down the quiet old High Street into the market place, full of evil forebodings.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000023_000000|Who was this man Lewis-or Louis-with whom my wife had escaped?
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000024_000000|He was a blackguardly adventurer, anyhow.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000024_000001|He had addressed her as "dear," and had been solicitous of her welfare throughout!
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000024_000002|To him she had signalled from her box in the theatre, well knowing that he was making secret preparations for her elopement.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000024_000003|Indeed, she had written that note and placed it upon my blotting pad before we had gone forth together, she well knowing that she would never again re cross my threshold.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000025_000000|Ah!
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000025_000001|The poignant bitterness of it all had gripped my heart.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000025_000002|My cup of unhappiness was now assuredly full.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000026_000000|How brief had been my joy; how quickly my worst fears had been realized.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000027_000000|About the quiet, old world decaying town I wandered, hardly knowing whither I went.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000027_000001|When, every now and then, in the fading light, I found myself going into the country I turned back, mindful of my promise not to leave the place without permission.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000028_000000|About six I returned to the George and sat beside the fire in the lounge-in that selfsame chair where my fugitive wife had sat
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000028_000001|I was eager to renew the chase, yet until I received word from the police I was compelled to remain helpless.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000029_000001|I had given my chauffeur liberty till eight o'clock, but I was all anxiety to drive back to London.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000030_000000|Still, if I returned, what could I do?
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000030_000001|Sylvia and her companions had driven away-whither was a mystery.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000031_000000|The Criminal Investigation Department had already issued an official description of the persons wanted, for while I had been at the police office the inspector had been closely questioning the man Cross and Miss Hammond.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000032_000000|Already the police drag net was out, and the combined police forces of Europe would, in an hour or two, be on the watch for Sylvia and her mysterious companions.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000033_000000|So far as the United Kingdom was concerned sixty thousand officers, detectives and constables would be furnished with a complete description of those who had held that secret consultation.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000033_000001|The tightest of tight cordons would be drawn.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000033_000002|Every passenger who embarked at English ports for abroad would be carefully scrutinized by plain clothes men.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000033_000004|Full descriptions of Sylvia and her friends would be cabled to America, and the American police would be asked to keep a sharp look out on passengers arriving on all boats from Europe.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000034_000000|In face of that, what more could I do?
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000035_000000|The situation had become unbearable.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000035_000001|Sylvia's unaccountable action had plunged me into a veritable sea of despair.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000035_000002|The future seemed blank and hopeless.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000036_000000|Just before eight o'clock I strolled back to the police office and reported myself, as it were.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000037_000000|"Inquiry is being made along the roads in every direction from here," he said.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000037_000001|"We hear that the three men and the woman called at the Bell, at Barnby Moor, and had some breakfast.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000037_000002|Afterwards they continued northward."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000038_000000|"Barnby Moor!" I echoed.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000038_000001|"Why, that's near Doncaster."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000039_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000039_000001|Motorists patronize the place a good deal."
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000041_000001|Therefore I left and, returning to the garage, mounted the car and, with head lamps alight, drove out into the pitch darkness in the direction of Grantham.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000041_000002|We sped along the broad old coach road for nearly three hours, until at last we pulled up before an ancient wayside inn which had been modernized and adapted to twentieth century requirements.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000042_000000|The manager, in reply to my eager questions, said it was true that the Doncaster police had been there making inquiries regarding four motorists-three gentlemen and a lady-who had called there that morning and had had breakfast in the coffee room.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000043_000000|The head waiter who had attended them was called, and I questioned him.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000043_000001|I think the manager believed me to be a detective, for he was most courteous, and ready to give me all information.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000044_000000|"Yes, sir," replied the tall, slim head waiter.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000044_000001|"They came here in a great hurry, and seemed to have come a long distance, judging from the way the car was plastered with mud.
train-other-500/3488/65654/3488_65654_000044_000003|The tallest of the gentlemen drove the car.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000000_000000|"Every inquiry is being made, sir, in a dozen cities on the continent.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000000_000001|In fact, in all the capitals."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000001_000000|"And the description of the deceased has been circulated?"
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000002_000000|"Yes, sir.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000002_000001|Photographs have been sent through all the channels in Europe. But up to the present we have met with no success," Edwards replied. "There is a suspicion because of a name upon a tab in the young girl's coat that she may be Italian.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000002_000002|Hence the most ardent search is being made by the Italian authorities into the manner and descriptions of females lately reported as missing."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000003_000000|"The affair seems remarkably curious," said the coroner.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000003_000001|"It would certainly appear that the lady who lost her life was a stranger to London."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000004_000001|Seated near him, I saw how keen and shrewd was the expression upon his face.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000004_000002|"We have evidence that certain persons visited the flat on the night in question, but these have not yet been identified.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000004_000003|The owner of the flat has not yet been found, he having absconded."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000005_000000|"Gone abroad, I suppose?"
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000006_000000|"It would appear so, sir."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000007_000000|"And his description has been circulated also?" asked the coroner.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000008_000000|"Yes, a detailed description, together with a recent photograph," was Edwards' reply.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000009_000000|"Rather remarkable!" he exclaimed.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000010_000000|Then, when the jury had completed reading the anonymous letter, addressing them, he said:
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000011_000001|The writer, as you will note, is prepared to reveal the truth of the whole affair in return for a monetary reward.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000011_000002|It is, of course, a matter to be left entirely at the discretion of the police."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000012_000000|I started at this statement, and gazed across the court-dull and cheerless on that cold winter's afternoon.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000013_000000|Who had written that anonymous letter?
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000015_000000|I held my breath, and listened to the slow, hard words of the coroner, as he again addressed some questions to the great detective.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000016_000000|"Yes, sir," Edwards was saying.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000016_000001|"There is distinct evidence of the presence at the flat on the night in question of some person-a woman whose identity we have not yet been successful in establishing.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000016_000002|We, however, have formed a theory which certainly appears to be borne out by the writer of the letter I have just handed you."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000018_000000|I heard the Coroner addressing the jury in hard, business like tones, but I know not what he said.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000018_000001|My heart was too full to think of anything else besides the peril of the one whom I loved.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000019_000000|I know that the verdict returned by the jury was one of "Wilful murder." Then I went out into the fading light of that brief London day, and, seeking Edwards, walked at his side towards the busy Kensington High Street.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000020_000000|We had not met for several days, and he, of course, had no knowledge of my visit to Brussels.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000021_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000021_000001|mr Royle.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000021_000002|It's very curious," he said.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000021_000004|The handwriting is a woman's, and it has been posted at Colchester."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000022_000000|"At Colchester!" I echoed in dismay.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000024_000000|"Oh, nothing.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000024_000001|Only-well, Colchester is a curious place for anyone to live who knows the truth about an affair in Kensington," was my reply, for fortunately I quickly recovered myself.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000025_000000|"Why not Colchester as well as Clapham-eh?"
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000026_000000|"Yes, of course," I laughed.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000026_000001|"But, tell me, what does the woman say?"
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000027_000000|"She simply declares that she can elucidate the mystery and give us the correct clue-even bring evidence if required-as to the actual person who committed the crime, if we, on our part, will pay for the information."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000029_000000|"I don't exactly know.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000029_000001|The letter only arrived this morning.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000029_000002|To morrow the Council of Seven will decide what action we take."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000031_000001|She only gives the name of 'G.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000031_000002|Payne,' and the address as 'The g p o, London.' She's evidently a rather cute person."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000032_000000|"G.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000032_000001|Payne"--the woman Petre without a doubt.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000033_000000|I recollected her telegram asking me to meet her.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000033_000001|She had said that something had "happened," and she had urged me to see her as soon as possible.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000033_000002|Was it because I had not replied that she had penned that anonymous letter to the police?
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000034_000000|The letter bore the Colchester post mark, and she, I knew, lived at Melbourne House in that town.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000035_000000|"I suppose you will get into communication with her," I exclaimed presently.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000036_000000|"Of course.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000036_000003|We receive many of them at the Yard.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000037_000000|"But may not the writers of such letters be endeavouring to fasten guilt upon perfectly innocent persons against whom they have spite?" I suggested.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000038_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000038_000001|That's just it, mr Royle," exclaimed my companion gravely.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000038_000002|"Yet it is so terribly difficult to discriminate, and I fear we often, in our hesitation, place aside letters, the writers of which could really give valuable information."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000039_000001|"I know that you possess a curious, almost unique, intuition as to what is fact and what is fiction.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000039_000002|What is, may I term it, your private opinion?"
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000041_000000|"Well," he said at last in a deeply earnest tone, "I tell you frankly, mr Royle, what I believe.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000041_000001|First, I don't think that the man Kemsley, although an impostor, was the actual assassin."
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000043_000000|"Well-I've very carefully studied the whole problem.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000043_000003|In his position as Sir Digby, the great engineer, he must have met in society many persons who knew him.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000043_000004|We have evidence that he constantly moved in the best circles in Mayfair, and apparently without the slightest compunction.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000044_000000|I saw that a problem was presented to Inspector Edwards which sorely puzzled him, as it certainly did myself.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000045_000000|"Well," I asked after a pause, and then with some trepidation put the question, "what do you intend doing?"
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000046_000000|"Doing!" he echoed.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000046_000001|"There is but one course to pursue.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000046_000002|We must get in touch with this woman who says she knows the truth, and obtain what information we can from her.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000046_000003|Perhaps she can reveal the identity of the woman whose fingers touched that glass topped table in the room where the crime was committed.
train-other-500/3488/85273/3488_85273_000046_000004|If so, that will tell us a great deal, mr Royle." Then, taking a cigarette from his pocket and tapping it, he added, "Do you know, I've been wondering of late how it is that you got those finger prints which so exactly corresponded with the ones which we secured in the flat.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000001_000000|CHAPTER forty seven
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000002_000000|Mr Ralph Nickleby has some confidential Intercourse with another old Friend.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000002_000001|They concert between them a Project, which promises well for both
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000003_000001|He does it on purpose.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000003_000002|He makes a point of it.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000003_000003|It's just like him.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000005_000000|'I don't believe he ever had an appetite,' said Newman, 'except for pounds, shillings, and pence, and with them he's as greedy as a wolf.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000007_000000|'Five minutes to three,' growled Newman; 'it can't want more by this time; and I had my breakfast at eight o'clock, and SUCH a breakfast! and my right dinner time two!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000008_000001|The recital of his wrongs, however, seemed to have the effect of making Newman Noggs desperate; for he flattened his old hat upon his head, and drawing on the everlasting gloves, declared with great vehemence, that come what might, he would go to dinner that very minute.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000009_000000|Carrying this resolution into instant effect, he had advanced as far as the passage, when the sound of the latch key in the street door caused him to make a precipitate retreat into his own office again.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000010_000000|'Here he is,' growled Newman, 'and somebody with him.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000010_000001|Now it'll be "Stop till this gentleman's gone." But I won't.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000010_000002|That's flat.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000011_000000|So saying, Newman slipped into a tall empty closet which opened with two half doors, and shut himself up; intending to slip out directly Ralph was safe inside his own room.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000012_000000|'Noggs!' cried Ralph, 'where is that fellow, Noggs?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000013_000000|But not a word said Newman.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000014_000002|My man's out, and the sun is hot upon my room.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000014_000003|This is cool and in the shade, if you don't mind roughing it.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000015_000001|All places are alike to me, sir.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000015_000002|Ah! very nice indeed.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000015_000003|Oh! very nice!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000016_000000|The parson who made this reply was a little old man, of about seventy or seventy five years of age, of a very lean figure, much bent and slightly twisted.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000016_000001|He wore a grey coat with a very narrow collar, an old-fashioned waistcoat of ribbed black silk, and such scanty trousers as displayed his shrunken spindle shanks in their full ugliness.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000016_000002|The only articles of display or ornament in his dress were a steel watch chain to which were attached some large gold seals; and a black ribbon into which, in compliance with an old fashion scarcely ever observed in these days, his grey hair was gathered behind.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000016_000003|His nose and chin were sharp and prominent, his jaws had fallen inwards from loss of teeth, his face was shrivelled and yellow, save where the cheeks were streaked with the colour of a dry winter apple; and where his beard had been, there lingered yet a few grey tufts which seemed, like the ragged eyebrows, to denote the badness of the soil from which they sprung.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000017_000001|Such was old Arthur Gride, as he sat in a low chair looking up into the face of Ralph Nickleby, who, lounging upon the tall office stool, with his arms upon his knees, looked down into his; a match for him on whatever errand he had come.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000018_000001|'I haven't seen you for-oh! not for-'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000019_000001|'It was a narrow chance that you saw me now, for I had only just come up to the door as you turned the corner.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000021_000000|'So men say,' replied Ralph, drily.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000022_000000|The older money lender wagged his chin and smiled, but he originated no new remark, and they sat for some little time without speaking.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000022_000001|Each was looking out to take the other at a disadvantage.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000026_000000|'You were born a genius, Mr Nickleby,' said old Arthur. 'Deep, deep, deep.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000027_000000|'Deep enough,' retorted Ralph, 'to know that I shall need all the depth I have, when men like you begin to compliment.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000027_000001|You know I have stood by when you fawned and flattered other people, and I remember pretty well what THAT always led to.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000028_000001|'So you do, so you do, no doubt.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000028_000002|Not a man knows it better.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000028_000003|Well, it's a pleasant thing now to think that you remember old times.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000028_000004|Oh dear!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000029_000000|'Now then,' said Ralph, composedly; 'what's in the wind, I ask again? What is it?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000030_000000|'See that now!' cried the other.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000030_000001|'He can't even keep from business while we're chatting over bygones.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000031_000000|'WHICH of the bygones do you want to revive?' said Ralph. 'One of them, I know, or you wouldn't talk about them.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000000|'He suspects even me!' cried old Arthur, holding up his hands.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000001|'Even me!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000002|Oh dear, even me.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000003|What a man it is!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000005|What a man it is!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000006|Mr Nickleby against all the world.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000007|There's nobody like him.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000032_000008|A giant among pigmies, a giant, a giant!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000033_000000|Ralph looked at the old dog with a quiet smile as he chuckled on in this strain, and Newman Noggs in the closet felt his heart sink within him as the prospect of dinner grew fainter and fainter.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000034_000001|He will talk about business, and won't give away his time for nothing.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000034_000002|He's very right.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000034_000003|Time is money, time is money.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000035_000000|'He was one of us who made that saying, I should think,' said Ralph. 'Time is money, and very good money too, to those who reckon interest by it.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000035_000001|Time IS money!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000035_000002|Yes, and time costs money; it's rather an expensive article to some people we could name, or I forget my trade.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000036_000000|In rejoinder to this sally, old Arthur again raised his hands, again chuckled, and again ejaculated 'What a man it is!' which done, he dragged the low chair a little nearer to Ralph's high stool, and looking upwards into his immovable face, said,
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000037_000000|'What would you say to me, if I was to tell you that I was-that I was-going to be married?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000038_000000|'I should tell you,' replied Ralph, looking coldly down upon him, 'that for some purpose of your own you told a lie, and that it wasn't the first time and wouldn't be the last; that I wasn't surprised and wasn't to be taken in.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000040_000000|'And I tell you seriously,' rejoined Ralph, 'what I told you this minute.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000040_000002|Let me look at you.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000040_000003|There's a liquorish devilry in your face.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000040_000004|What is this?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000041_000002|The pigmy to impose upon the giant.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000042_000000|'To some old hag?' said Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000043_000000|'No, No,' cried Arthur, interrupting him, and rubbing his hands in an ecstasy.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000043_000001|'Wrong, wrong again.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000043_000003|To a young and beautiful girl; fresh, lovely, bewitching, and not nineteen.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000044_000000|'This is something more than common drivelling,' said Ralph, after listening with a curled lip to the old sinner's raptures.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000044_000001|'The girl's name?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000045_000000|'Oh deep, deep!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000045_000001|See now how deep that is!' exclaimed old Arthur.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000045_000003|Her name-is there nobody within hearing?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000046_000000|'Why, who the devil should there be?' retorted Ralph, testily.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000047_000001|Clerks and servants have a trick of listening, and I should have been very uncomfortable if Mr Noggs-'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000048_000000|'Curse Mr Noggs,' said Ralph, sharply, 'and go on with what you have to say.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000049_000001|Her name is-'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000050_000000|'Well,' said Ralph, rendered very irritable by old Arthur's pausing again 'what is it?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000051_000000|'Madeline Bray.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000052_000000|Whatever reasons there might have been-and Arthur Gride appeared to have anticipated some-for the mention of this name producing an effect upon Ralph, or whatever effect it really did produce upon him, he permitted none to manifest itself, but calmly repeated the name several times, as if reflecting when and where he had heard it before.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000055_000000|'No,' said Ralph, looking vacantly at him.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000056_000000|'Not Walter Bray!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000056_000001|The dashing man, who used his handsome wife so ill?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000058_000001|That Bray who is now in the Rules of the Bench,' said old Arthur.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000058_000002|'You can't have forgotten Bray.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000058_000003|Both of us did business with him.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000058_000004|Why, he owes you money!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000059_000000|'Oh HIM!' rejoined Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000059_000002|Now you speak.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000059_000003|Oh!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000059_000004|It's HIS daughter, is it?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000061_000000|'I knew you couldn't forget him, when you came to think for a moment,' he said.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000062_000000|'You were right,' answered Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000063_000000|There was enough acerbity and sarcasm not only in the matter of Ralph's speech, but in the tone of voice in which he uttered it, and the looks with which he eked it out, to have fired even the ancient usurer's cold blood and flushed even his withered cheek.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000063_000001|But he gave vent to no demonstration of anger, contenting himself with exclaiming as before, 'What a man it is!' and rolling his head from side to side, as if in unrestrained enjoyment of his freedom and drollery.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000063_000002|Clearly observing, however, from the expression in Ralph's features, that he had best come to the point as speedily as might be, he composed himself for more serious business, and entered upon the pith and marrow of his negotiation.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000065_000000|Secondly, he enlarged upon the character of her father, arguing, that even taking it for granted that he loved her in return with the utmost affection of which he was capable, yet he loved himself a great deal better; which Ralph said it was quite unnecessary to say anything more about, as that was very natural, and probable enough.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000066_000000|And, thirdly, old Arthur premised that the girl was a delicate and beautiful creature, and that he had really a hankering to have her for his wife.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000066_000001|To this Ralph deigned no other rejoinder than a harsh smile, and a glance at the shrivelled old creature before him, which were, however, sufficiently expressive.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000067_000001|But that you have gathered already?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000068_000000|'Don't play with me then,' said Ralph impatiently.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000068_000001|'You know the proverb.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000069_000001|'He is always prepared!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000069_000003|But that is neither here nor there. I am his detaining creditor for seventeen hundred pounds!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000071_000001|'The only other.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000071_000002|Nobody else went to the expense of lodging a detainer, trusting to our holding him fast enough, I warrant you.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000071_000003|We both fell into the same snare; oh dear, what a pitfall it was; it almost ruined me!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000071_000004|And lent him our money upon bills, with only one name besides his own, which to be sure everybody supposed to be a good one, and was as negotiable as money, but which turned out you know how.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000072_000000|'Go on with your scheme,' said Ralph. 'It's of no use raising the cry of our trade just now; there's nobody to hear us!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000073_000001|Practice makes perfect, you know.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000074_000000|'Go on,' said Ralph, nodding his head deliberately, and speaking in a tone whose studied coldness presented a strange contrast to the rapturous squeak to which his friend had gradually mounted.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000074_000001|'Go on.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000074_000002|You didn't come here to ask me that.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000075_000001|I came to ask what you would take from me, if I prospered with the father, for this debt of yours.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000075_000002|Five shillings in the pound, six and eightpence, ten shillings?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000075_000004|Now, will you?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000076_000000|'There's something more to be told,' said Ralph, as stony and immovable as ever.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000077_000001|I can't do that, for I am a poor, timid, nervous creature.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000077_000003|Won't you?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000078_000000|'There's something more,' said Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000080_000000|'Yes, yes, indeed.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000080_000001|I tell you yes,' said Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000081_000000|'Oh!' returned old Arthur feigning to be suddenly enlightened.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000082_000000|'I think you had better,' rejoined Ralph, drily.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000083_000001|Oh dear, how very kind of you!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000083_000002|Why, supposing I had a knowledge of some property-some little property-very little-to which this pretty chick was entitled; which nobody does or can know of at this time, but which her husband could sweep into his pouch, if he knew as much as I do, would that account for-'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000084_000000|'For the whole proceeding,' rejoined Ralph, abruptly.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000084_000001|'Now, let me turn this matter over, and consider what I ought to have if I should help you to success.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000085_000001|'Don't be too hard upon me.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000085_000002|It's a very small property, it is indeed.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000085_000003|Say the ten shillings, and we'll close the bargain.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000085_000004|It's more than I ought to give, but you're so kind-shall we say the ten?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000085_000005|Do now, do.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000086_000000|Ralph took no notice of these supplications, but sat for three or four minutes in a brown study, looking thoughtfully at the person from whom they proceeded.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000086_000001|After sufficient cogitation he broke silence, and it certainly could not be objected that he used any needless circumlocution, or failed to speak directly to the purpose.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000000|'If you married this girl without me,' said Ralph, 'you must pay my debt in full, because you couldn't set her father free otherwise.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000001|It's plain, then, that I must have the whole amount, clear of all deduction or incumbrance, or I should lose from being honoured with your confidence, instead of gaining by it.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000002|That's the first article of the treaty.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000003|For the second, I shall stipulate that for my trouble in negotiation and persuasion, and helping you to this fortune, I have five hundred pounds. That's very little, because you have the ripe lips, and the clustering hair, and what not, all to yourself.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000005|You have told me I can urge and press a point.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000007|Accept them if you like.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000008|If not, marry her without me if you can.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000087_000009|I shall still get my debt.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000089_000000|In pursuance of this last understanding the worthy gentlemen went out together shortly afterwards, and Newman Noggs emerged, bottle in hand, from the cupboard, out of the upper door of which, at the imminent risk of detection, he had more than once thrust his red nose when such parts of the subject were under discussion as interested him most.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000090_000000|'I have no appetite now,' said Newman, putting the flask in his pocket. 'I've had MY dinner.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000091_000000|Having delivered this observation in a very grievous and doleful tone, Newman reached the door in one long limp, and came back again in another.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000092_000000|'I don't know who she may be, or what she may be,' he said: 'but I pity her with all my heart and soul; and I can't help her, nor can I any of the people against whom a hundred tricks, but none so vile as this, are plotted every day!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000092_000002|The thing is no worse because I know it, and it tortures me as well as them.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000092_000004|Good pair for a curricle.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000092_000005|Oh roguery!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000092_000006|roguery! roguery!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000093_000000|With these reflections, and a very hard knock on the crown of his unfortunate hat at each repetition of the last word, Newman Noggs, whose brain was a little muddled by so much of the contents of the pocket pistol as had found their way there during his recent concealment, went forth to seek such consolation as might be derivable from the beef and greens of some cheap eating house.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000094_000000|Meanwhile the two plotters had betaken themselves to the same house whither Nicholas had repaired for the first time but a few mornings before, and having obtained access to Mr Bray, and found his daughter from home, had by a train of the most masterly approaches that Ralph's utmost skill could frame, at length laid open the real object of their visit.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000095_000002|We offer the best reparation in our power.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000095_000003|Reparation!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000095_000004|Here is an offer of marriage, that many a titled father would leap at, for his child.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000095_000006|Think what a haul it is!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000096_000000|'My daughter, sir,' returned Bray, haughtily, 'as I have brought her up, would be a rich recompense for the largest fortune that a man could bestow in exchange for her hand.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000097_000000|'Precisely what I told you,' said the artful Ralph, turning to his friend, old Arthur. 'Precisely what made me consider the thing so fair and easy.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000097_000001|There is no obligation on either side.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000097_000002|You have money, and Miss Madeline has beauty and worth.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000098_000001|'If we are married, it will be destiny, according to that.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000099_000000|'Then think, Mr Bray,' said Ralph, hastily substituting for this argument considerations more nearly allied to earth, 'think what a stake is involved in the acceptance or rejection of these proposals of my friend.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000100_000000|'How can I accept or reject,' interrupted Mr Bray, with an irritable consciousness that it really rested with him to decide.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000100_000001|'It is for my daughter to accept or reject; it is for my daughter.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000100_000002|You know that.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000102_000002|Why should I hint, and beat about the bush?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000102_000003|Do you suppose, like her mother's friends and my enemies-a curse upon them all!--that there is anything in what she has done for me but duty, sir, but duty?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000102_000006|Perhaps you think, because you see me in this place and scarcely able to leave this chair without assistance, that I am some broken spirited dependent creature, without the courage or power to do what I may think best for my own child.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000102_000007|Still the power to hint a wish! I hope so!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000103_000000|'Pardon me,' returned Ralph, who thoroughly knew his man, and had taken his ground accordingly; 'you do not hear me out.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000103_000001|I was about to say that your hinting a wish, even hinting a wish, would surely be equivalent to commanding.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000104_000001|'If you don't happen to have heard of the time, sir, I tell you that there was a time, when I carried every point in triumph against her mother's whole family, although they had power and wealth on their side, by my will alone.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000000|'Still,' rejoined Ralph, as mildly as his nature would allow him, 'you have not heard me out.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000001|You are a man yet qualified to shine in society, with many years of life before you; that is, if you lived in freer air, and under brighter skies, and chose your own companions.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000002|Gaiety is your element, you have shone in it before.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000004|The town rang with your expensive pleasures once, and you could blaze up on a new scene again, profiting by experience, and living a little at others' cost, instead of letting others live at yours.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000005|What is there on the reverse side of the picture?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000006|What is there?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000007|I don't know which is the nearest churchyard, but a gravestone there, wherever it is, and a date, perhaps two years hence, perhaps twenty.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000105_000008|That's all.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000106_000000|Mr Bray rested his elbow on the arm of his chair, and shaded his face with his hand.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000000|'I speak plainly,' said Ralph, sitting down beside him, 'because I feel strongly.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000002|I don't disguise it.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000003|I acknowledge it openly.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000004|But what interest have you in recommending her to such a step?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000005|Keep that in view.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000006|She might object, remonstrate, shed tears, talk of his being too old, and plead that her life would be rendered miserable.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000107_000007|But what is it now?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000108_000000|Several slight gestures on the part of the invalid showed that these arguments were no more lost upon him, than the smallest iota of his demeanour was upon Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000109_000000|'What is it now, I say,' pursued the wily usurer, 'or what has it a chance of being?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000109_000001|If you died, indeed, the people you hate would make her happy.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000109_000002|But can you bear the thought of that?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000110_000000|'No!' returned Bray, urged by a vindictive impulse he could not repress.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000000|'I should imagine not, indeed!' said Ralph, quietly.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000001|'If she profits by anybody's death,' this was said in a lower tone, 'let it be by her husband's.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000002|Don't let her have to look back to yours, as the event from which to date a happier life.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000003|Where is the objection?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000004|Let me hear it stated.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000005|What is it?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000006|That her suitor is an old man?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000007|Why, how often do men of family and fortune, who haven't your excuse, but have all the means and superfluities of life within their reach, how often do they marry their daughters to old men, or (worse still) to young men without heads or hearts, to tickle some idle vanity, strengthen some family interest, or secure some seat in Parliament!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000111_000008|Judge for her, sir, judge for her. You must know best, and she will live to thank you.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000112_000001|'I hear her at the door!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000113_000000|There was a gleam of conscience in the shame and terror of this hasty action, which, in one short moment, tore the thin covering of sophistry from the cruel design, and laid it bare in all its meanness and heartless deformity.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000114_000000|The effect was almost as brief as sudden.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000114_000001|Ralph was the first to recover himself, and observing Madeline's looks of alarm, entreated the poor girl to be composed, assuring her that there was no cause for fear.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000115_000000|'A sudden spasm,' said Ralph, glancing at Mr Bray.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000115_000001|'He is quite well now.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000116_000000|It might have moved a very hard and worldly heart to see the young and beautiful creature, whose certain misery they had been contriving but a minute before, throw her arms about her father's neck, and pour forth words of tender sympathy and love, the sweetest a father's ear can know, or child's lips form.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000116_000001|But Ralph looked coldly on; and Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced-a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000117_000000|'Madeline,' said her father, gently disengaging himself, 'it was nothing.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000118_000000|'But you had that spasm yesterday, and it is terrible to see you in such pain.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000118_000001|Can I do nothing for you?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000119_000000|'Nothing just now.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000119_000001|Here are two gentlemen, Madeline, one of whom you have seen before.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000119_000003|That was natural, knowing what she did, and only what she did, of our connection and its results.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000119_000005|Perhaps she may change her mind on that point; girls have leave to change their minds, you know.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000119_000006|You are very tired, my dear.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000120_000000|'I am not, indeed.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000121_000000|'Indeed you are.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000121_000001|You do too much.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000122_000000|'I wish I could do more.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000123_000000|'I know you do, but you overtask your strength.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000123_000001|This wretched life, my love, of daily labour and fatigue, is more than you can bear, I am sure it is.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000123_000002|Poor Madeline!'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000124_000000|With these and many more kind words, Mr Bray drew his daughter to him and kissed her cheek affectionately.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000125_000000|'You will communicate with us again?' said Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000126_000000|'Yes, yes,' returned Mr Bray, hastily thrusting his daughter aside.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000126_000001|'In a week.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000126_000002|Give me a week.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000127_000000|'One week,' said Ralph, turning to his companion, 'from today. Good morning.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000127_000001|Miss Madeline, I kiss your hand.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000128_000001|'You mean well, no doubt.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000128_000002|I am bound to say so now.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000128_000003|If I owed you money, that was not your fault.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000128_000004|Madeline, my love, your hand here.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000129_000000|'Oh dear!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000129_000001|If the young lady would condescent!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000129_000002|Only the tips of her fingers,' said Arthur, hesitating and half retreating.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000130_000000|Madeline shrunk involuntarily from the goblin figure, but she placed the tips of her fingers in his hand and instantly withdrew them.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000131_000000|'What does he say, what does he say?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000132_000000|'What does the pigmy say to the giant?' rejoined Ralph, elevating his eyebrows and looking down upon his questioner.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000133_000001|'He hopes and fears.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000134_000000|'I have no great taste for beauty,' growled Ralph.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000135_000000|'But I have,' rejoined Arthur, rubbing his hands.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000135_000001|'Oh dear!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000135_000002|How handsome her eyes looked when she was stooping over him!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000135_000003|Such long lashes, such delicate fringe!
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000136_000000|'Not over lovingly, I think,' said Ralph. 'Did she?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000137_000000|'No, you think not?' replied old Arthur. 'But don't you think it can be brought about?
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000137_000001|Don't you think it can?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000139_000000|'Did you mark his telling her she was tired and did too much, and overtasked her strength?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000140_000001|What of it?'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000141_000001|The life is more than she can bear.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000141_000002|Yes, yes.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000141_000003|He'll change it for her.'
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000143_000000|'I am sure it's done,' said Ralph. 'He is trying to deceive himself, even before our eyes, already.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000143_000001|He is making believe that he thinks of her good and not his own.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000143_000002|He is acting a virtuous part, and so considerate and affectionate, sir, that the daughter scarcely knew him. I saw a tear of surprise in her eye.
train-other-500/3500/134409/3500_134409_000143_000003|There'll be a few more tears of surprise there before long, though of a different kind.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000001_000000|CHAPTER twenty two
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000002_000000|My daughter-O my ducats-O my daughter! ------O my Christian ducats! Justice-the Law-my ducats, and my daughter! --Merchant of Venice
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000003_000001|The poor Jew had been hastily thrust into a dungeon vault of the castle, the floor of which was deep beneath the level of the ground, and very damp, being lower than even the moat itself.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000003_000002|The only light was received through one or two loop holes far above the reach of the captive's hand.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000003_000003|These apertures admitted, even at mid day, only a dim and uncertain light, which was changed for utter darkness long before the rest of the castle had lost the blessing of day.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000004_000000|At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000005_000000|The whole appearance of the dungeon might have appalled a stouter heart than that of Isaac, who, nevertheless, was more composed under the imminent pressure of danger, than he had seemed to be while affected by terrors, of which the cause was as yet remote and contingent.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000005_000001|The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000006_000000|And thus it is probable, that the Jews, by the very frequency of their fear on all occasions, had their minds in some degree prepared for every effort of tyranny which could be practised upon them; so that no aggression, when it had taken place, could bring with it that surprise which is the most disabling quality of terror.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000006_000001|Neither was it the first time that Isaac had been placed in circumstances so dangerous.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000006_000002|He had therefore experience to guide him, as well as hope, that he might again, as formerly, be delivered as a prey from the fowler.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000007_000001|The Jew remained, without altering his position, for nearly three hours, at the expiry of which steps were heard on the dungeon stair.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000008_000002|This formidable baron was clad in a leathern doublet, fitted close to his body, which was frayed and soiled with the stains of his armour.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000008_000003|He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000009_000001|Each had in his hand a small pannier; and, when they entered the dungeon, they stopt at the door until Front de Boeuf himself carefully locked and double locked it.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000009_000005|The unhappy Isaac was deprived not only of the power of rising to make the obeisance which his terror dictated, but he could not even doff his cap, or utter any word of supplication; so strongly was he agitated by the conviction that tortures and death were impending over him.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000010_000000|On the other hand, the stately form of the Norman appeared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless prey.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000010_000001|He paused within three steps of the corner in which the unfortunate Jew had now, as it were, coiled himself up into the smallest possible space, and made a sign for one of the slaves to approach.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000011_000000|The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000011_000001|Front de Boeuf himself opened the scene by thus addressing his ill fated captive.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000013_000000|The unhappy Jew returned a feeble affirmative.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000014_000000|"In these very scales shalt thou weigh me out," said the relentless Baron, "a thousand silver pounds, after the just measure and weight of the Tower of London."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000016_000001|At the rate of a mark of gold for each six pounds of silver, thou shalt free thy unbelieving carcass from such punishment as thy heart has never even conceived."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000017_000000|"Have mercy on me, noble knight!" exclaimed Isaac; "I am old, and poor, and helpless.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000017_000001|It were unworthy to triumph over me-It is a poor deed to crush a worm."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000019_000000|"I swear to you, noble knight," said the Jew "by all which I believe, and by all which we believe in common---"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000020_000003|This dungeon is no place for trifling.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000020_000005|But for thee is reserved a long and lingering death, to which theirs were luxury."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000021_000001|The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000023_000000|"It is impossible," exclaimed the miserable Jew-"it is impossible that your purpose can be real!
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000023_000001|The good God of nature never made a heart capable of exercising such cruelty!"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000024_000002|Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000024_000003|I waste no more words with thee-choose between thy dross and thy flesh and blood, and as thou choosest, so shall it be."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000025_000000|"So may Abraham, Jacob, and all the fathers of our people assist me," said Isaac, "I cannot make the choice, because I have not the means of satisfying your exorbitant demand!"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000026_000000|"Seize him and strip him, slaves," said the knight, "and let the fathers of his race assist him if they can."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000027_000000|The assistants, taking their directions more from the Baron's eye and his hand than his tongue, once more stepped forward, laid hands on the unfortunate Isaac, plucked him up from the ground, and, holding him between them, waited the hard hearted Baron's farther signal.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000030_000000|"And what is to be my surety," said the Jew, "that I shall be at liberty after this ransom is paid?"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000032_000000|"I crave pardon, noble lord," said Isaac timidly, "but wherefore should I rely wholly on the word of one who will trust nothing to mine?"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000033_000000|"Because thou canst not help it, Jew," said the knight, sternly.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000033_000002|This is MY treasure chamber.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000034_000000|The Jew groaned deeply.--"Grant me," he said, "at least with my own liberty, that of the companions with whom I travel.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000036_000000|"I am, then," said Isaac, "only to be set at liberty, together with mine wounded friend?"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000038_000000|"Yet hear me," said the Jew-"for the sake of that very wealth which thou wouldst obtain at the expense of thy---" Here he stopt short, afraid of irritating the savage Norman.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000038_000001|But Front de Boeuf only laughed, and himself filled up the blank at which the Jew had hesitated.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000039_000001|I can bear the reproaches of a loser, even when that loser is a Jew.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000040_000000|"I swear by the Talmud," said the Jew, "that your valour has been misled in that matter.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000040_000001|Fitzdotterel drew his poniard upon me in mine own chamber, because I craved him for mine own silver.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000040_000002|The term of payment was due at the Passover."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000042_000000|"Let my daughter Rebecca go forth to York," answered Isaac, "with your safe conduct, noble knight, and so soon as man and horse can return, the treasure---"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000043_000001|I deemed that yonder black browed girl had been thy concubine, and I gave her to be a handmaiden to Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert, after the fashion of patriarchs and heroes of the days of old, who set us in these matters a wholesome example."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000046_000000|"I would," said the Norman, somewhat relenting, "that I had known of this before.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000046_000001|I thought your race had loved nothing save their moneybags."
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000047_000000|"Think not so vilely of us, Jews though we be," said Isaac, eager to improve the moment of apparent sympathy; "the hunted fox, the tortured wildcat loves its young-the despised and persecuted race of Abraham love their children!"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000049_000000|"There will, there must!" exclaimed Isaac, wringing his hands in agony; "when did Templars breathe aught but cruelty to men, and dishonour to women!"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000051_000000|"Robber and villain!" said the Jew, retorting the insults of his oppressor with passion, which, however impotent, he now found it impossible to bridle, "I will pay thee nothing-not one silver penny will I pay thee, unless my daughter is delivered to me in safety and honour!"
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000053_000001|My daughter is my flesh and blood, dearer to me a thousand times than those limbs which thy cruelty threatens.
train-other-500/3503/127082/3503_127082_000053_000003|Take my life if thou wilt, and say, the Jew, amidst his tortures, knew how to disappoint the Christian."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty three
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000002_000000|The apartment to which the Lady Rowena had been introduced was fitted up with some rude attempts at ornament and magnificence, and her being placed there might be considered as a peculiar mark of respect not offered to the other prisoners.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000002_000002|Desolate, however, as it was, this was the apartment of the castle which had been judged most fitting for the accommodation of the Saxon heiress; and here she was left to meditate upon her fate, until the actors in this nefarious drama had arranged the several parts which each of them was to perform.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000002_000003|This had been settled in a council held by Front de Boeuf, De Bracy, and the Templar, in which, after a long and warm debate concerning the several advantages which each insisted upon deriving from his peculiar share in this audacious enterprise, they had at length determined the fate of their unhappy prisoners.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000004_000000|The interval had not entirely been bestowed in holding council with his confederates, for De Bracy had found leisure to decorate his person with all the foppery of the times.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000004_000001|His green cassock and vizard were now flung aside.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000004_000002|His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000004_000003|His beard was closely shaved, his doublet reached to the middle of his leg, and the girdle which secured it, and at the same time supported his ponderous sword, was embroidered and embossed with gold work.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000004_000004|We have already noticed the extravagant fashion of the shoes at this period, and the points of Maurice de Bracy's might have challenged the prize of extravagance with the gayest, being turned up and twisted like the horns of a ram.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000005_000000|He saluted Rowena by doffing his velvet bonnet, garnished with a golden broach, representing saint Michael trampling down the Prince of Evil.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000005_000001|With this, he gently motioned the lady to a seat; and, as she still retained her standing posture, the knight ungloved his right hand, and motioned to conduct her thither.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000006_000000|"Alas! fair Rowena," returned De Bracy, "you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000007_000000|"I know you not, sir," said the lady, drawing herself up with all the pride of offended rank and beauty; "I know you not-and the insolent familiarity with which you apply to me the jargon of a troubadour, forms no apology for the violence of a robber."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000008_000000|"To thyself, fair maid," answered De Bracy, in his former tone-"to thine own charms be ascribed whate'er I have done which passed the respect due to her, whom I have chosen queen of my heart, and lodestar of my eyes."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000010_000000|"That I am unknown to you," said De Bracy, "is indeed my misfortune; yet let me hope that De Bracy's name has not been always unspoken, when minstrels or heralds have praised deeds of chivalry, whether in the lists or in the battle field."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000012_000000|"You are unjust, Lady Rowena," said the knight, biting his lips in some confusion, and speaking in a tone more natural to him than that of affected gallantry, which he had at first adopted; "yourself free from passion, you can allow no excuse for the frenzy of another, although caused by your own beauty."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000013_000000|"I pray you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "to cease a language so commonly used by strolling minstrels, that it becomes not the mouth of knights or nobles.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000014_000000|"Proud damsel," said De Bracy, incensed at finding his gallant style procured him nothing but contempt-"proud damsel, thou shalt be as proudly encountered.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000014_000001|Know then, that I have supported my pretensions to your hand in the way that best suited thy character.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000015_000000|"Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000016_000003|By what other means couldst thou be raised to high honour and to princely place, saving by my alliance?
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000018_000000|"I guess your meaning, lady," said De Bracy, "though you may think it lies too obscure for my apprehension.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000018_000002|Another suitor might feel jealousy while he touched this string; but my firm purpose cannot be changed by a passion so childish and so hopeless.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000018_000003|Know, lady, that this rival is in my power, and that it rests but with me to betray the secret of his being within the castle to Front de Boeuf, whose jealousy will be more fatal than mine."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000019_000000|"Wilfred here?" said Rowena, in disdain; "that is as true as that Front de Boeuf is his rival."
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000020_000000|De Bracy looked at her steadily for an instant.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000024_000000|"Save him, for the love of Heaven!" said Rowena, her firmness giving way under terror for her lover's impending fate.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000025_000000|"I can-I will-it is my purpose," said De Bracy; "for, when Rowena consents to be the bride of De Bracy, who is it shall dare to put forth a violent hand upon her kinsman-the son of her guardian-the companion of her youth?
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000025_000001|But it is thy love must buy his protection.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000025_000002|I am not romantic fool enough to further the fortune, or avert the fate, of one who is likely to be a successful obstacle between me and my wishes.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000027_000000|"Flatter thyself, then, with that belief," said De Bracy, "until time shall prove it false.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000027_000001|Thy lover lies wounded in this castle-thy preferred lover.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000027_000003|What will it cost beyond the blow of a poniard, or the thrust of a javelin, to silence his opposition for ever?
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000027_000005|Cedric also-"
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000028_000000|"And Cedric also," said Rowena, repeating his words; "my noble-my generous guardian!
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000028_000001|I deserved the evil I have encountered, for forgetting his fate even in that of his son!"
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000030_000000|Hitherto, Rowena had sustained her part in this trying scene with undismayed courage, but it was because she had not considered the danger as serious and imminent.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000030_000001|Her disposition was naturally that which physiognomists consider as proper to fair complexions, mild, timid, and gentle; but it had been tempered, and, as it were, hardened, by the circumstances of her education.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000030_000003|She could scarce conceive the possibility of her will being opposed, far less that of its being treated with total disregard.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000032_000000|After casting her eyes around, as if to look for the aid which was nowhere to be found, and after a few broken interjections, she raised her hands to heaven, and burst into a passion of uncontrolled vexation and sorrow.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000032_000002|He had, in truth, gone too far to recede; and yet, in Rowena's present condition, she could not be acted on either by argument or threats.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000032_000003|He paced the apartment to and fro, now vainly exhorting the terrified maiden to compose herself, now hesitating concerning his own line of conduct.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000033_000001|"And yet," he said to himself, "I feel myself ill framed for the part which I am playing.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000033_000002|I cannot look on so fair a face while it is disturbed with agony, or on those eyes when they are drowned in tears.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000033_000003|I would she had retained her original haughtiness of disposition, or that I had a larger share of Front de Boeuf's thrice tempered hardness of heart!"
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000034_000000|Agitated by these thoughts, he could only bid the unfortunate Rowena be comforted, and assure her, that as yet she had no reason for the excess of despair to which she was now giving way.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000034_000001|But in this task of consolation De Bracy was interrupted by the horn, "hoarse winded blowing far and keen," which had at the same time alarmed the other inmates of the castle, and interrupted their several plans of avarice and of license.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000034_000002|Of them all, perhaps, De Bracy least regretted the interruption; for his conference with the Lady Rowena had arrived at a point, where he found it equally difficult to prosecute or to resign his enterprise.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000035_000000|And here we cannot but think it necessary to offer some better proof than the incidents of an idle tale, to vindicate the melancholy representation of manners which has been just laid before the reader.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000035_000001|It is grievous to think that those valiant barons, to whose stand against the crown the liberties of England were indebted for their existence, should themselves have been such dreadful oppressors, and capable of excesses contrary not only to the laws of England, but to those of nature and humanity.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000036_000001|They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them.
train-other-500/3503/127083/3503_127083_000036_000002|They squeezed the heads of some with knotted cords till they pierced their brains, while they threw others into dungeons swarming with serpents, snakes, and toads." But it would be cruel to put the reader to the pain of perusing the remainder of this description.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000001_000000|For what happened a few moments later you must not blame him.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000001_000001|Some measure of force was the only way out of an impossible situation.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000001_000002|It was in vain that he commanded the young lady to let go: she did but cling the closer.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000001_000003|It was in vain that he tried to disentangle himself of her by standing first on one foot, then on the other, and veering sharply on his heel: she did but sway as though hinged to him.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000001_000004|He had no choice but to grasp her by the wrists, cast her aside, and step clear of her into the room.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000002_000000|Her hat, gauzily basking with a pair of long white gloves on one of his arm chairs, proclaimed that she had come to stay.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000003_000000|Nor did she rise.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000003_000001|Propped on one elbow, with heaving bosom and parted lips, she seemed to be trying to realise what had been done to her. Through her undried tears her eyes shone up to him.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000004_000000|He asked: "To what am I indebted for this visit?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000005_000000|"Ah, say that again!" she murmured.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000005_000001|"Your voice is music."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000006_000000|He repeated his question.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000007_000000|"Music!" she said dreamily; and such is the force of habit that "I don't," she added, "know anything about music, really.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000007_000001|But I know what I like."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000008_000000|"Had you not better get up from the floor?" he said.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000008_000001|"The door is open, and any one who passed might see you."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000009_000001|"Happy carpet!" she crooned.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000009_000002|"Aye, happy the very women that wove the threads that are trod by the feet of my beloved master.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000009_000003|But hark! he bids his slave rise and stand before him!"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000010_000000|Just after she had risen, a figure appeared in the doorway.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000012_000000|"Yes," said the Duke.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000012_000001|"I will ring when I am ready." And it dawned on him that this girl, who perhaps loved him, was, according to all known standards, extraordinarily pretty.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000013_000000|"Will-" she hesitated, "will Miss Dobson be-"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000015_000000|"You want to be rid of me?" asked Zuleika, when the girl was gone.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000017_000000|"Then take me," she cried, throwing back her arms, "and throw me out of the window."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000018_000000|He smiled coldly.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000019_000000|"You think I don't mean it?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000019_000001|You think I would struggle?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000019_000002|Try me." She let herself droop sideways, in an attitude limp and portable.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000019_000003|"Try me," she repeated.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000020_000000|"All this is very well conceived, no doubt," said he, "and well executed.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000020_000001|But it happens to be otiose."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000022_000000|"I mean you may set your mind at rest.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000022_000001|I am not going to back out of my promise."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000023_000000|Zuleika flushed.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000023_000003|Forget it, forget it, for pity's sake!"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000024_000000|The Duke looked searchingly at her.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000024_000001|"You mean that you now wish to release me from my promise?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000025_000000|"Release you?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000025_000001|As if you were ever bound!
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000025_000002|Don't torture me!"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000026_000000|He wondered what deep game she was playing.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000026_000001|Very real, though, her anguish seemed; and, if real it was, then-he stared, he gasped-there could be but one explanation.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000026_000002|He put it to her.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000026_000003|"You love me?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000027_000000|"With all my soul."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000028_000000|His heart leapt.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000028_000001|If she spoke truth, then indeed vengeance was his!
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000028_000002|But "What proof have I?" he asked her.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000029_000000|"Proof?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000029_000001|Have men absolutely NO intuition?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000029_000002|If you need proof, produce it. Where are my ear rings?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000030_000000|"Your ear rings?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000030_000001|Why?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000031_000000|Impatiently she pointed to two white pearls that fastened the front of her blouse.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000031_000001|"These are your studs.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000000|"Of course.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000002|When I undressed, they must have rolled on to the carpet.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000004|That was just after she came back from bringing you my first letter.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000005|I was bewildered.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000006|I doubted.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000007|Might not the pearls have gone back to their natural state simply through being yours no more?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000008|That is why I wrote again to you, my own darling-a frantic little questioning letter.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000009|When I heard how you had torn it up, I knew, I knew that the pearls had not mocked me.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000010|I telescoped my toilet and came rushing round to you.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000033_000011|How many hours have I been waiting for you?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000034_000000|The Duke had drawn her ear rings from his waistcoat pocket, and was contemplating them in the palm of his hand.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000034_000001|Blanched, both of them, yes. He laid them on the table.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000034_000002|"Take them," he said.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000035_000000|"No," she shuddered.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000035_000001|"I could never forget that once they were both black." She flung them into the fender.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000035_000002|"Oh john," she cried, turning to him and falling again to her knees, "I do so want to forget what I have been.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000035_000003|I want to atone.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000035_000004|You think you can drive me out of your life.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000035_000006|Always I shall follow you on my knees, thus."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000036_000000|He looked down at her over his folded arms,
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000037_000000|"I am not going to back out of my promise," he repeated.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000038_000000|She stopped her ears.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000039_000001|It was the telegram sent by his steward.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000040_000000|She read it.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000040_000001|With a stern joy he watched her reading it.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000042_000001|"Help!" he vaguely cried-was she not a fellow creature?--and rushed blindly out to his bedroom, whence he returned, a moment later, with the water jug.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000042_000002|He dipped his hand, and sprinkled the upturned face (Dew drops on a white rose?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000042_000003|But some other, sharper analogy hovered to him).
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000042_000004|He dipped and sprinkled.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000042_000005|The water beads broke, mingled-rivulets now.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000042_000006|He dipped and flung, then caught the horrible analogy and rebounded.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000043_000002|She put a hand to her face, then looked at the wet palm wonderingly, looked at the Duke, saw the water jug beside him.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000044_000000|Her poor little jest drew to the Duke's face no answering smile, did but make hotter the blush there.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000044_000001|The wave of her returning memory swept on-swept up to her with a roar the instant past.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000044_000002|"Oh," she cried, staggering to her feet, "the owls, the owls!"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000045_000000|Vengeance was his, and "Yes, there," he said, "is the ineluctable hard fact you wake to.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000045_000001|The owls have hooted.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000045_000002|The gods have spoken.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000045_000003|This day your wish is to be fulfilled."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000046_000000|"The owls have hooted.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000046_000001|The gods have spoken.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000046_000002|This day-oh, it must not be, john!
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000046_000003|Heaven have mercy on me!"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000047_000000|"The unerring owls have hooted.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000047_000001|The dispiteous and humorous gods have spoken.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000047_000002|Miss Dobson, it has to be.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000048_000000|"That is unworthy of you," she said.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000048_000001|There was in her eyes a look that made the words sound as if they had been spoken by a dumb animal.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000050_000000|"No, I have forgotten him."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000051_000000|"That is unworthy of you.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000051_000001|After all, he is going to die for you, like the rest of us.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000051_000002|I am but one of a number, you know.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000051_000003|Use your sense of proportion."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000000|"If I do that," she said after a pause, "you may not be pleased by the issue.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000002|I may find that what I had taken to be a great indifference is nothing but a very small hate...
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000004|Forgive me, a weak woman, talking at random in her wretchedness.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000005|Oh john, john, if I thought you small, my love would but take on the crown of pity.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000006|Don't forbid me to call you john.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000007|I looked you up in Debrett while I was waiting for you. That seemed to bring you nearer to me.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000008|So many other names you have, too.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000009|I remember you told me them all yesterday, here in this room-not twenty four hours ago.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000011|Years!"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000012|She laughed hysterically.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000013|"john, don't you see why I won't stop talking?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000052_000014|It's because I dare not think."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000053_000000|"Yonder in Balliol," he suavely said, "you will find the matter of my death easier to forget than here." He took her hat and gloves from the arm chair, and held them carefully out to her; but she did not take them.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000054_000000|"I give you three minutes," he told her.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000054_000001|"Two minutes, that is, in which to make yourself tidy before the mirror.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000054_000002|A third in which to say good bye and be outside the front door."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000055_000000|"If I refuse?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000056_000000|"You will not."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000057_000000|"If I do?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000058_000000|"I shall send for a policeman."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000059_000000|She looked well at him.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000059_000001|"Yes," she slowly said, "I think you would do that."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000060_000000|She took her things from him, and laid them by the mirror.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000060_000001|With a high hand she quelled the excesses of her hair-some of the curls still agleam with water-and knowingly poised and pinned her hat.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000060_000002|Then, after a few swift touches and passes at neck and waist, she took her gloves and, wheeling round to him, "There!" she said, "I have been quick."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000061_000000|"Admirably," he allowed.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000000|"Quick in more than meets the eye, john.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000001|Spiritually quick.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000002|You saw me putting on my hat; you did not see love taking on the crown of pity, and me bonneting her with it, tripping her up and trampling the life out of her.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000003|Oh, a most cold blooded business, john!
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000004|Had to be done, though.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000005|No other way out.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000006|So I just used my sense of proportion, as you rashly bade me, and then hardened my heart at sight of you as you are.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000007|One of a number?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000008|Yes, and a quite unlovable unit.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000009|So I am all right again.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000062_000011|Far from here?"
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000063_000001|"Balliol is quite near.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000063_000002|At the end of this street in fact.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000063_000003|I can show it to you from the front door."
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000064_000000|Yes, he had controlled himself.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000064_000001|But this, he furiously felt, did not make him look the less a fool.
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000064_000002|What ought he to have SAID?
train-other-500/3541/174236/3541_174236_000064_000003|He prayed, as he followed the victorious young woman downstairs, that l'esprit de l'escalier might befall him.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000001|Some one?
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000002|Whom?
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000003|Are you not begging the question? I admit there were, that evening in Oxford, many people who, when they went home from the river, gave vivid reports of what they had seen.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000005|Certainly, I might have pieced together a dozen of the various accounts, and put them all into the mouth of one person.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000006|But credibility is not enough for Clio's servant.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000007|I aim at truth.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000001_000008|And so, as I by my Zeus given incorporeity was the one person who had a good view of the scene at large, you must pardon me for having withheld the veil of indirect narration.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000002_000000|"Too late," you will say if I offer you a Messenger now.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000002_000001|But it was not thus that mrs Batch and Katie greeted Clarence when, lamentably soaked with rain, that Messenger appeared on the threshold of the kitchen. Katie was laying the table cloth for seven o'clock supper.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000002_000004|But, as Clarence had not come home since afternoon school, they had assumed that he was at the river; and they now assumed from the look of him that something very unusual had been happening there.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000002_000005|As to what this was, they were not quickly enlightened.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000002_000007|Clarence was of degenerate mould.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000004_000000|"The Duke, he's drowned himself," presently gasped the Messenger.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000005_000000|Blank verse, yes, so far as it went; but delivered without the slightest regard for rhythm, and composed in stark defiance of those laws which should regulate the breaking of bad news.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000005_000001|You, please remember, were carefully prepared by me against the shock of the Duke's death; and yet I hear you still mumbling that I didn't let the actual fact be told you by a Messenger.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000005_000002|Come, do you really think your grievance against me is for a moment comparable with that of mrs and Miss Batch against Clarence?
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000005_000003|Did you feel faint at any moment in the foregoing chapter?
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000005_000004|no But Katie, at Clarence's first words, fainted outright.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000006_000000|mrs Batch herself did not faint, but she was too much overwhelmed to notice that her daughter had done so.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000007_000000|"No! Mercy on us!
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000007_000001|Speak, boy, can't you?"
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000008_000001|"Threw himself in.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000008_000002|On purpose.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000009_000000|mrs Batch gave a low moan.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000010_000000|"Katie's fainted," added the Messenger, not without a touch of personal pride.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000011_000001|"Katie," she said, in the same voice, "get up this instant." But Katie did not hear her.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000012_000000|The mother was loth to have been outdone in sensibility by the daughter, and it was with some temper that she hastened to make the necessary ministrations.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000014_000001|"A mother's support indeed!
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000014_000002|Well!
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000014_000004|Katie, remembering it simultaneously, uttered a loud sob.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000014_000005|mrs Batch capped this with a much louder one.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000014_000006|Clarence stood before the fire, slowly revolving on one heel.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000014_000007|His clothes steamed briskly.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000015_000000|"It isn't true," said Katie.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000015_000001|She rose and came uncertainly towards her brother, half threatening, half imploring.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000016_000000|"All right," said he, strong in his advantage.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000017_000000|mrs Batch through her tears called Katie a bad girl, and Clarence a bad boy.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000019_000001|Clarence curbed the brotherly intention of telling her she looked "a sight" in them.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000020_000000|She stood staring into vacancy.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000020_000001|"He didn't love HER," she murmured. "That was all over.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000022_000000|"That Miss Dobson that's been here."
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000025_000002|'Zuleika!'--like that," added the boy, with a most infelicitous attempt to reproduce the Duke's manner.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000026_000000|Katie had shut her eyes, and clenched her hands.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000027_000001|He told me so," she said.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000028_000001|"Why didn't he come to me in his trouble?"
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000029_000001|"No other man shall ever do that."
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000030_000000|"He did?" exclaimed Clarence.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000030_000001|"And you let him?"
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000031_000000|"You wretched little whipper snapper!" flashed Katie.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000001|mrs Batch had a keen sense of the deportment owed to tragedy.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000002|Katie, by bickering with Clarence, had thrown away the advantage she had gained by fainting.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000003|mrs Batch was not going to let her retrieve it by shining as a consoler. I hasten to add that this resolve was only sub conscious in the good woman.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000004|Her grief was perfectly sincere.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000005|And it was not the less so because with it was mingled a certain joy in the greatness of the calamity.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000006|She came of good sound peasant stock.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000007|Abiding in her was the spirit of those old songs and ballads in which daisies and daffodillies and lovers' vows and smiles are so strangely inwoven with tombs and ghosts, with murders and all manner of grim things.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000008|She had not had education enough to spoil her nerve.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000034_000009|She was able to take the rough with the smooth.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000035_000000|The Duke was dead.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000035_000001|This was the stupendous outline she had grasped: now let it be filled in.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000035_000002|She had been stricken: now let her be racked.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000035_000004|She did not flinch.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000035_000005|Modern Katie did.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000036_000000|Such had ever been the Duke's magic in the household that Clarence had at first forgotten to mention that any one else was dead.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000036_000001|Of this omission he was glad.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000036_000002|It promised him a new lease of importance. Meanwhile, he described in greater detail the Duke's plunge.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000036_000003|mrs Batch's mind, while she listened, ran ahead, dog like, into the immediate future, ranging around: "the family" would all be here to morrow, the Duke's own room must be "put straight" to night, "I was of speaking"...
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000038_000000|The sound of the rain had long ceased.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000038_000001|There was the noise of a gathering wind.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000039_000000|"Then in went a lot of others," Clarence was saying.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000040_000000|mrs Batch had risen from her chair, the better to cope with such magnitude.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000040_000001|She stood with wide spread arms, silent, gaping.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000041_000000|Intensive Katie recked little of all these other deaths.
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000042_000001|mr Noaks!
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000042_000003|She staggered to the door, leaving her actual offspring to their own devices, and went heavily up the stairs, her mind scampering again before her....
train-other-500/3541/174240/3541_174240_000042_000004|If he was safe and sound, dear young gentleman, heaven be praised! and she would break the awful news to him, very gradually.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000001_000000|twenty four
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000002_000000|From the shifting gloom of the stair case to the soft radiance cast through the open door of her bedroom was for poor Zuleika an almost heartening transition.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000002_000001|She stood awhile on the threshold, watching Melisande dart to and fro like a shuttle across a loom.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000002_000002|Already the main part of the packing seemed to have been accomplished.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000002_000003|The wardrobe was a yawning void, the carpet was here and there visible, many of the trunks were already brimming and foaming over...
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000002_000005|And yet-well, at least, good bye to Oxford!
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000005_000002|Do I mix myself in that?" she cried, waving one hand towards the great malachite casket.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000001|Her art-how had she forgotten that?
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000002|Here was solace, purpose.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000003|She would work as she had never worked yet.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000005|She confessed to herself that she had too often been slack in the matter of practice and rehearsal, trusting her personal magnetism to carry her through.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000006|Only last night she had badly fumbled, more than once.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000007|Her bravura business with the Demon Egg Cup had been simply vile.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000008|The audience hadn't noticed it, perhaps, but she had.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000009|Now she would perfect herself.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000011|What if-no, she must not think of that!
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000012|But the thought insisted.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000006_000013|What if she essayed for Paris that which again and again she had meant to graft on to her repertory-the Provoking Thimble?
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000007_000000|She flushed at the possibility.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000007_000002|She remembered how marvellously last night she had manipulated the ear rings and the studs.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000007_000003|Then lo! the light died out of her eyes, and her face grew rigid.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000007_000004|That memory had brought other memories in its wake.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000000|For her, when she fled the Broad, Noaks' window had blotted out all else.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000001|Now she saw again that higher window, saw that girl flaunting her ear rings, gibing down at her.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000002|"He put them in with his own hands!"--the words rang again in her ears, making her cheeks tingle.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000004|"And he kissed me in the open street"--excellent, excellent!
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000005|She ground her teeth.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000006|And these doings must have been fresh in his mind when she overtook him and walked with him to the house boat!
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000008_000009|She drew his attention to them when-
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000009_000001|She went very calmly to it.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000011_000000|"Mademoiselle?"
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000014_000000|"Then you shall give him these," said Zuleika, holding out the two studs.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000016_000000|"Tell him he may tell every one that they were given to me by the late Duke of Dorset, and given by me to you, and by you to him."
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000017_000001|The protest died on Melisande's lips.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000001|The look was transient.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000002|Nothing, she reflected, could undo what the Duke had done.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000004|"He put them in with his own hands." HER ear rings!
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000005|"He kissed me in the public street.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000006|He loved me"...
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000008|That was something.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000010|It wasn't anything to do with HER. I'm told on the very best authority," and so forth, and so on.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000012|And good heavens! If there were a doubt as to the Duke's motive, why not doubts as to theirs?...
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000014|And of course any really impartial person who knew anything at all about the matter at first hand would be sure in his own mind that it was perfectly absurd to pretend that the whole thing wasn't entirely and absolutely for her... And of course some of the men must have left written evidence of their intention.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000019_000016|Oh, there would be proof positive as to many of the men.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000020_000001|Do leave off!
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000020_000002|Can't you see that I am waiting to be undressed?"
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000021_000000|The maid hastened to her side, and with quick light fingers began to undress her.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000022_000000|"I shan't," said Zuleika.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000000|After all, it didn't so much matter what the world thought.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000001|Let the world whisper and insinuate what it would.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000002|To slur and sully, to belittle and drag down-that was what the world always tried to do. But great things were still great, and fair things still fair.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000003|With no thought for the world's opinion had these men gone down to the water to day.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000004|Their deed was for her and themselves alone.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000005|It had sufficed them.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000006|Should it not suffice her?
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000007|It did, oh it did.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000024_000008|She was a wretch to have repined.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000025_000000|At a gesture from her, Melisande brought to a close the rhythmical ministrations, and-using no tissue paper this time-did what was yet to be done among the trunks.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000027_000000|THEY knew, these two.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000028_000000|Yet, in their happiness, rose and floated a shadow between them.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000028_000001|It was the ghost of that one man who-THEY knew-had died irrelevantly, with a cold heart.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000029_000000|Came also the horrid little ghost of one who had died late and unseemly.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000031_000000|No more?
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000031_000001|Was it not enough?
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000031_000003|Each of the two covered her face with her hands.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000035_000000|"Be quiet," said Zuleika.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000035_000001|We always repulse, at first, any one who intervenes between us and Bradshaw.
train-other-500/3541/174244/3541_174244_000036_000000|We always end by accepting the intervention.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000005_000000|THE PIONEER'S INFLUENCE UPON A NATION'S IDEALS.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000010_000000|By faith Abraham when he was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not knowing whither he went.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000013_000000|THE PROPHETIC STORIES ABOUT ABRAHAM.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000014_000000|Many Biblical scholars claim that the data point to variant versions of the different stories about Abraham.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000014_000006|Do these variant versions indicate that they were drawn from different groups of narratives?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000014_000009|Sometimes, as in the case of the expulsion of Hagar, the two versions are introduced at different points in the life of the patriarch.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000014_000011|Fortunately, if this theory is right, the group of stories most fully quoted and therefore best preserved is the early Judean prophetic narratives.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000014_000012|When these are separated from the later parallels they give a marvelously complete and consistent portrait of Abraham.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000016_000000|THE MEANING OF THE EARLY PROPHETIC STORIES ABOUT ABRAHAM.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000017_000004|Abraham, whose name in Hebrew means, "Exalted Father," or as it was later interpreted, "Father of a Multitude," naturally represents this historic movement, but the story of his call and settlement in Canaan has a larger meaning and value.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000017_000007|It is evident that, like the opening narratives of genesis, this story aimed to explain existing conditions, as well as to illustrate the deeper truths of life.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000000|Similarly the story of the expulsion of Hagar, it is thought, aims primarily to explain the origin of Israel's foes, the nomadic Ishmaelites, who lived south of Canaan.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000003|The Hagar of the story is a typical daughter of the desert.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000004|When she became the mother of a child, the highest honor that could come to a Semitic woman, she could not resist the temptation to taunt Sarah.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000005|In keeping with early Semitic customs Sarah had full authority to demand the expulsion of Hagar, for in the eye of the law the slave wife was her property. The tradition of the revelation to Hagar also represented the popular explanation of the sanctity of the famous desert shrine Beer lahal roi.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000006|Like most of the prophetic stories, this narrative teaches deeper moral lessons.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000008|To the outcast and needy he ever comes with his message of counsel and promise.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000009|Was Abraham right or wrong in yielding to Sarah's wish?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000018_000012|Was it right?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000000|In the story of the destruction of Sodom Lot appears as the central figure.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000001|His choice of the fertile plain of the Jordan had brought him into close contact with its inhabitants, the Canaanites. Abandoning his nomadic life, he had become a citizen, of the corrupt city of Sodom.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000003|Its wickedness proved, however, too great for pardon.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000004|Lot, who, true to his nomad training, hospitably received the divine messengers, was finally persuaded to flee from the city and thus escaped the overwhelming destruction that felt upon it.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000005|What was the possible origin of this story?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000007|Were great calamities in the past usually the result of wickedness?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000008|Are they to day?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000009|Do people so interpret the destruction of San Francisco and Messina?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000011|At that date the cholera germ had not been clearly identified and there was some doubt regarding the means by which the disease was spread.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000019_000012|Was sanitary neglect then as much of a sin as it would be now?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000020_000000|Why did the prophets preserve the story of the sacrifices of Isaac? Compare the parallel teaching in micah chapter six verses six to eight.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000021_000000|With what shall I come before Jehovah, Bow myself before the God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, With myriads of streams of oil? Shall I give him my first born for my guilt, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000022_000001|Does God ever command any person to do anything that the person thinks wrong?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000023_000000|three.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000024_000000|THE PROPHETIC PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000025_000001|With him the later priests associated the origin of the distinctive rite of circumcision.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000001|He exemplifies that which is noblest in Israel's early ideals.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000003|His unselfishness and generosity?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000004|His courtly hospitality?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000006|Was Abraham's devoted interest in the future of his descendants a noble quality?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000007|How are his devotion and obedience to God illustrated?
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000008|In the light of this study describe the Abraham of the prophetic narratives.
train-other-500/3547/156969/3547_156969_000026_000009|Is it a perfect character that is thus portrayed?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000001_000000|THE TENDENCY TO IDEALIZE NATIONAL HEROES.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000000|Is Shakespeare right in his statement that "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000001|Why do men as a rule idealize the dead?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000002|Does the primitive tendency to ancestor worship in part explain this?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000004|What would be the effect if all the iniquity of the past were remembered?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000005|The tendency to idealize national heroes is by no means confined to the hebrews.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000006|Greek, Roman and English history abounds in illustrations.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000007|Cite some of the more striking.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000008|Why are they often thought of as descendants of the gods?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000010|The noblest ideals in each succeeding generation are often thus concretely embodied in the character of some national hero.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000011|Compare the great heroes of Greek mythology with the early heroes of the Old Testament.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000002_000014|Is it probable that in the character of Abraham the traditional father of the Hebrew race was idealized?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000005_000001|As numbers increase in the hunting stage game becomes scarce and more hunting grounds are needed.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000005_000002|Tribes migrate from season to season, as did the American Indians, and eventually some members of the tribe are likely to go forth to seek new homes.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000005_000003|Later in the pastoral stage of society, as the wealth of flocks and herds increases, more pasturage is needed and similar results follow.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000005_000004|Even after agriculture is well established and commerce is well begun, as in Ancient Greece, colonies have a like origin.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000005_000006|Emigration and pioneering are thus a normal outgrowth of a progressive growing people in any stage of civilization.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000005_000007|What does the statement about Abraham's wealth in cattle and silver and gold show regarding the country from which he came and the probable cause of God's direction for his removal?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000006_000000|Immigrants and pioneers are usually the self reliant and courageous, who dare to endure hardships and incur risks to secure for their country and posterity the benefits of new lands and broader opportunity.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000006_000002|In the light of later history what was the profound religious significance to his race and to the world, of the migration represented by Abraham?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000006_000003|The Biblical narrative does not state the exact way in which Jehovah spoke to Abraham.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000007_000000|Was it for Abraham's material interest to migrate to Canaan?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000009_000000|THE PERMANENT VALUE AND INFLUENCE OF THE ABRAHAM NARRATIVES.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000010_000000|Scholars will probably never absolutely agree regarding many problems connected with Abraham.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000010_000002|Is the question of fundamental importance?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000010_000004|It is probable that popular tradition has preserved certain facts regarding his life and character.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000010_000005|It is equally clear that the different groups of Israel's teachers have each interpreted his character and work in keeping with their distinctive ideals.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000010_000006|Each individual narrative has an independent unity and the connection between the different accounts is far from close.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000002|The permanent and universal value of these stories lies, however, in the great moral principles which they vividly and effectively illustrate.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000003|The prophetic portrait of Abraham was an inspiring example to hold up before a race.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000005|They were unquestionably an important force in developing the prophet nation.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000006|He was, therefore, pre eminently a spiritual pioneer.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000007|How far do these stories, and especially the accounts of the covenant between Jehovah and Abraham, embody the national and spiritual aspirations of the race? Are the Abraham stories of practical inspiration to the present generation?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000008|What qualities in his character are essential to the all around man of any age?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000009|How far would the Abraham of the prophetic stories succeed, were he living in America to day?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000010|Would he be appreciated by a majority of our citizens?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000011_000011|Are spiritual pioneers of the type of Abraham absolutely needed in every nation and generation if the human race is to progress?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000013_000000|Are God's purposes often contrary to man's desires?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000013_000001|Ever to man's best interests?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000014_000000|What qualities must every true pioneer possess?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000015_000000|What is the ultimate basis of all true politeness?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000016_000000|Who are some of the great pioneers of early American history?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000016_000001|What were their chief contributions to their nation?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000017_000000|Is your own conscientious conception of your duty to be considered as God's command to you?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000017_000001|Does he give any other command?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000018_000000|Does a high stage of civilization ennoble character or tend to degrade it?
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000020_000000|(one) Abraham in Late Jewish Tradition.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000021_000000|(two) The Geological History of the Dead Sea Valley.
train-other-500/3547/156970/3547_156970_000022_000000|(three) The Original Meaning of Sacrifice.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000008_000000|Chapter ten
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000009_000001|THE EGYPTIAN FEELS COMPASSION FOR GLAUCUS.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000009_000002|COMPASSION IS OFTEN A VERY USELESS VISITOR TO THE GUILTY.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000010_000001|At another time the Egyptian might have conceived a philosophical interest in sounding the depths and origin of the strange and absorbing passion which, in blindness and in slavery, this singular girl had dared to cherish; but at present he spared no thought from himself.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000011_000002|He seemed to her set apart for the blessings of life.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000011_000004|It was therefore to restore the brain that she had marred, to save the life that she had endangered that she implored the assistance of the great Egyptian.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000012_000001|I have compassion on thy soft crime-I will do all to remedy it.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000014_000001|Not till he had encountered her that morning-not till he had heard her loud denunciations-was he aware that he had also another danger to apprehend in her suspicion of his crime.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000014_000005|This was his hope: but should it fail, his unholy and fervid passion whispered, 'At the worst, now she is in my power.'
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000015_000001|The buoyant air of Campania weighed heavily upon his breast; he longed to hurry from a scene where danger might not sleep eternally with the dead; and, having Ione now in his possession, he secretly resolved, as soon as he had witnessed the last agony of his rival, to transport his wealth-and her, the costliest treasure of all, to some distant shore.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000016_000001|Cheered by my stars, supported by the omens of my soul, we will penetrate to those vast and glorious worlds which my wisdom tells me lie yet untracked in the recesses of the circling sea.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000017_000001|The congenialities that bind us to others ever assimilate to the qualities of our own nature.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000017_000003|All of us are human, and Arbaces, criminal as he was, had his share of our common feelings and our mother clay.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000017_000004|Had he but obtained from Glaucus the written confession of his crime, which would, better than even the judgment of others, have lost him with Ione, and removed from Arbaces the chance of future detection, the Egyptian would have strained every nerve to save his rival.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000017_000008|If Glaucus could not be her slave, neither could he be the adorer of her rival.
train-other-500/3547/8363/3547_8363_000017_000009|This was sufficient consolation for any regret at his fate.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000008_000000|Chapter twelve
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000009_000000|A WASP VENTURES INTO THE SPIDER'S WEB.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000010_000001|He scarcely noted the humble offerings of indifferent fruit, and still more indifferent wine, which the pious Sosia had deemed good enough for the invisible stranger they were intended to allure.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000010_000002|'Some tribute,' thought he, 'to the garden god.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000010_000004|Ah! were it not for us priests, the gods would have a sad time of it.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000010_000005|And now for Arbaces-I am treading a quicksand, but it ought to cover a mine.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000010_000006|I have the Egyptian's life in my power-what will he value it at?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000013_000000|'Yes, wise Arbaces-I trust my visit is not unseasonable?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000015_000000|'Shall we within to your chamber, Arbaces?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000017_000000|'With all my heart,' answered the priest; and the two friends passed slowly to one of the many terraces which, bordered by marble vases and sleeping flowers, intersected the garden.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000018_000000|'It is a lovely night,' said Arbaces-'blue and beautiful as that on which, twenty years ago, the shores of Italy first broke upon my view. My Calenus, age creeps upon us-let us, at least, feel that we have lived.'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000020_000000|'Thou alludest to the Athenian.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000020_000002|The senate does not relent.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000020_000004|I entertain no other sentiment of animosity against that unfortunate homicide.'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000021_000002|He continued rapidly-'Homicide! it is well to charge him with that crime; but thou, of all men, knowest that he is innocent.'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000025_000000|'Alone!' returned Calenus, surprised at the Egyptian's calmness.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000026_000000|'And wherefore wert thou hid behind the chapel at that hour?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000029_000000|'No, my master: the secret is locked in thy servant's breast.'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000030_000001|Come, the truth!'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000031_000000|'By the gods...'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000032_000000|'Hush! we know each other-what are the gods to us?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000033_000000|'By the fear of thy vengeance, then-no!'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000035_000000|'Because-because...' stammered Calenus, coloring and in confusion.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000036_000001|Is it not so?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000038_000000|'It is my vocation,' answered the Egyptian, laughing gently.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000038_000001|'Well, then, forbear; and when all is over, I will make thee rich.'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000040_000000|'Witty and poetical!' answered Arbaces, still in that bland voice which lulled and encouraged, when it ought to have alarmed and checked, his griping comrade.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000041_000000|'Why this delay?
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000041_000001|Perhaps, when I can no longer give my testimony without shame for not having given it ere the innocent man suffered, thou wilt forget my claim; and, indeed, thy present hesitation is a bad omen of thy future gratitude.'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000042_000000|'Well, then, Calenus, what wouldst thou have me pay thee?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000043_000000|'Thy life is, very precious, and thy wealth is very great,' returned the priest, grinning.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000044_000000|'Wittier and more witty.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000044_000001|But speak out-what shall be the sum?'
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000046_000002|When Glaucus is no more, thou shalt pay the treasury another visit.
train-other-500/3547/8365/3547_8365_000046_000003|Speak I frankly and as a friend?'
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000001_000000|Chapter four.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000001_000001|Rebellion
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000002_000001|"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000002_000004|I am convinced that he did that from 'self laceration,' from the self laceration of falsity, for the sake of the charity imposed by duty, as a penance laid on him.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000003_000000|"Father Zossima has talked of that more than once," observed Alyosha; "he, too, said that the face of a man often hinders many people not practiced in love, from loving him.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000001|The question is, whether that's due to men's bad qualities or whether it's inherent in their nature.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000003|He was God.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000004|But we are not gods.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000005|Suppose I, for instance, suffer intensely.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000007|Why won't he admit it, do you think?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000008|Because I smell unpleasant, because I have a stupid face, because I once trod on his foot.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000010|And so he deprives me instantly of his favor, and not at all from badness of heart.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000011|Beggars, especially genteel beggars, ought never to show themselves, but to ask for charity through the newspapers.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000012|One can love one's neighbors in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000014|But even then we should not love them.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000016|I simply wanted to show you my point of view.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000018|That reduces the scope of my argument to a tenth of what it would be.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000019|Still we'd better keep to the children, though it does weaken my case.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000020|But, in the first place, children can be loved even at close quarters, even when they are dirty, even when they are ugly (I fancy, though, children never are ugly).
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000022|But the children haven't eaten anything, and are so far innocent.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000023|Are you fond of children, Alyosha?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000024|I know you are, and you will understand why I prefer to speak of them.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000028|And observe, cruel people, the violent, the rapacious, the Karamazovs are sometimes very fond of children.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000030|But when he was in prison, he had a strange affection for them.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000031|He spent all his time at his window, watching the children playing in the prison yard.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000032|He trained one little boy to come up to his window and made great friends with him....
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000033|You don't know why I am telling you all this, Alyosha?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000004_000034|My head aches and I am sad."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000005_000000|"You speak with a strange air," observed Alyosha uneasily, "as though you were not quite yourself."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000001|They burn villages, murder, outrage women and children, they nail their prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them-all sorts of things you can't imagine.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000005|These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing babies up in the air and catching them on the points of their bayonets before their mothers' eyes.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000006|Doing it before the mothers' eyes was what gave zest to the amusement.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000008|They've planned a diversion: they pet the baby, laugh to make it laugh.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000009|They succeed, the baby laughs.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000012|Artistic, wasn't it?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000006_000013|By the way, Turks are particularly fond of sweet things, they say."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000007_000000|"Brother, what are you driving at?" asked Alyosha.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000008_000000|"I think if the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000009_000000|"Just as he did God, then?" observed Alyosha.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000001|"You turn my words against me.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000002|Well, I am glad.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000008|You know we prefer beating-rods and scourges-that's our national institution.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000009|Nailing ears is unthinkable for us, for we are, after all, Europeans.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000014|This Richard was an illegitimate child who was given as a child of six by his parents to some shepherds on the Swiss mountains.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000015|They brought him up to work for them.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000021|And that was how he spent all his childhood and his youth, till he grew up and was strong enough to go away and be a thief.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000022|The savage began to earn his living as a day laborer in Geneva.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000023|He drank what he earned, he lived like a brute, and finished by killing and robbing an old man.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000024|He was caught, tried, and condemned to death.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000026|And in prison he was immediately surrounded by pastors, members of Christian brotherhoods, philanthropic ladies, and the like.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000027|They taught him to read and write in prison, and expounded the Gospel to him.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000029|He was converted.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000030|He wrote to the court himself that he was a monster, but that in the end God had vouchsafed him light and shown grace. All Geneva was in excitement about him-all philanthropic and religious Geneva.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000032|All my youth and childhood I was glad of pigs' food, but now even I have found grace.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000033|I am dying in the Lord.' 'Yes, Richard, die in the Lord; you have shed blood and must die.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000035|I am going to the Lord.' 'Yes,' cry the pastors and the judges and philanthropic ladies.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000040|The case of Richard is interesting because it's national.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000042|Our historical pastime is the direct satisfaction of inflicting pain.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000044|It's peculiarly Russian.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000050|A well educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch rod, a girl of seven.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000051|I have an exact account of it. The papa was glad that the birch was covered with twigs.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000053|I know for a fact there are people who at every blow are worked up to sensuality, to literal sensuality, which increases progressively at every blow they inflict.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000054|They beat for a minute, for five minutes, for ten minutes, more often and more savagely.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000055|The child screams.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000056|At last the child cannot scream, it gasps, 'Daddy! daddy!' By some diabolical unseemly chance the case was brought into court.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000057|A counsel is engaged.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000059|'It's such a simple thing,' he says, 'an everyday domestic event. A father corrects his child.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000060|To our shame be it said, it is brought into court.' The jury, convinced by him, give a favorable verdict.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000010_000063|I would have proposed to raise a subscription in his honor! Charming pictures.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000011_000000|"But I've still better things about children.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000011_000003|To all other types of humanity these torturers behave mildly and benevolently, like cultivated and humane Europeans; but they are very fond of tormenting children, even fond of children themselves in that sense.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000000|"This poor child of five was subjected to every possible torture by those cultivated parents.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000002|Then, they went to greater refinements of cruelty-shut her up all night in the cold and frost in a privy, and because she didn't ask to be taken up at night (as though a child of five sleeping its angelic, sound sleep could be trained to wake and ask), they smeared her face and filled her mouth with excrement, and it was her mother, her mother did this.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000003|And that mother could sleep, hearing the poor child's groans!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000004|Can you understand why a little creature, who can't even understand what's done to her, should beat her little aching heart with her tiny fist in the dark and the cold, and weep her meek unresentful tears to dear, kind God to protect her?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000006|Do you understand why this infamy must be and is permitted?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000007|Without it, I am told, man could not have existed on earth, for he could not have known good and evil.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000008|Why should he know that diabolical good and evil when it costs so much?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000009|Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000011|But these little ones!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000012|I am making you suffer, Alyosha, you are not yourself.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000012_000013|I'll leave off if you like."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000013_000000|"Never mind.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000013_000001|I want to suffer too," muttered Alyosha.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000001|I must look it up.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000002|It was in the darkest days of serfdom at the beginning of the century, and long live the Liberator of the People!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000005|So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000006|He has kennels of hundreds of hounds and nearly a hundred dog boys-all mounted, and in uniform.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000009|'Take him.' He was taken-taken from his mother and kept shut up all night.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000010|Early that morning the general comes out on horseback, with the hounds, his dependents, dog boys, and huntsmen, all mounted around him in full hunting parade.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000011|The servants are summoned for their edification, and in front of them all stands the mother of the child.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000014|'Run! run!' shout the dog boys.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000015|The boy runs.... 'At him!' yells the general, and he sets the whole pack of hounds on the child.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000016|The hounds catch him, and tear him to pieces before his mother's eyes!...
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000017|I believe the general was afterwards declared incapable of administering his estates.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000018|Well-what did he deserve?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000019|To be shot?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000020|To be shot for the satisfaction of our moral feelings?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000014_000021|Speak, Alyosha!"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000016_000001|"If even you say so....
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000016_000002|You're a pretty monk!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000016_000003|So there is a little devil sitting in your heart, Alyosha Karamazov!"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000017_000000|"What I said was absurd, but-"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000018_000001|"Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000018_000002|The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have come to pass in it without them.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000018_000003|We know what we know!"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000019_000000|"What do you know?"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000020_000001|"I don't want to understand anything now.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000020_000002|I want to stick to the fact.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000020_000003|I made up my mind long ago not to understand.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000020_000004|If I try to understand anything, I shall be false to the fact, and I have determined to stick to the fact."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000021_000000|"Why are you trying me?" Alyosha cried, with sudden distress.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000021_000001|"Will you say what you mean at last?"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000022_000000|"Of course, I will; that's what I've been leading up to.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000000|"Listen!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000001|I took the case of children only to make my case clearer.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000002|Of the other tears of humanity with which the earth is soaked from its crust to its center, I will say nothing.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000003|I have narrowed my subject on purpose.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000004|I am a bug, and I recognize in all humility that I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000005|Men are themselves to blame, I suppose; they were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew they would become unhappy, so there is no need to pity them.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000008|And not justice in some remote infinite time and space, but here on earth, and that I could see myself.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000009|I have believed in it.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000011|Surely I haven't suffered, simply that I, my crimes and my sufferings, may manure the soil of the future harmony for somebody else.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000012|I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000014|All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000015|But then there are the children, and what am I to do about them?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000016|That's a question I can't answer.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000018|Listen!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000020|It's beyond all comprehension why they should suffer, and why they should pay for the harmony.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000023|I understand solidarity in retribution, too; but there can be no such solidarity with children.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000024|And if it is really true that they must share responsibility for all their fathers' crimes, such a truth is not of this world and is beyond my comprehension.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000025|Some jester will say, perhaps, that the child would have grown up and have sinned, but you see he didn't grow up, he was torn to pieces by the dogs, at eight years old.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000026|Oh, Alyosha, I am not blaspheming!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000028|But what pulls me up here is that I can't accept that harmony.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000031|While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000032|It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000033|It's not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000034|They must be atoned for, or there can be no harmony.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000035|But how?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000036|How are you going to atone for them? Is it possible?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000037|By their being avenged?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000038|But what do I care for avenging them?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000039|What do I care for a hell for oppressors?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000040|What good can hell do, since those children have already been tortured?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000042|I want to forgive.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000043|I want to embrace.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000044|I don't want more suffering.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000045|And if the sufferings of children go to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000046|I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000047|She dare not forgive him!
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000048|Let her forgive him for herself, if she will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother's heart.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000050|And if that is so, if they dare not forgive, what becomes of harmony?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000051|Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000052|I don't want harmony.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000053|From love for humanity I don't want it.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000054|I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000057|And that I am doing.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000024_000058|It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000025_000000|"That's rebellion," murmured Alyosha, looking down.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000026_000000|"Rebellion?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000026_000002|"One can hardly live in rebellion, and I want to live.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000026_000005|Tell me, and tell the truth."
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000028_000001|And accepting it would remain happy for ever?"
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000029_000001|Brother," said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, "you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000029_000002|But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000030_000001|No, I have not forgotten Him; on the contrary I've been wondering all the time how it was you did not bring Him in before, for usually all arguments on your side put Him in the foreground.
train-other-500/3553/697/3553_697_000030_000003|I made a poem about a year ago.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000001_000002|She was positively thinner.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000001_000003|She did not hold out her hand to him.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000001_000004|He touched the thin, long fingers which lay motionless on her dress, then he sat down facing her, without a word.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000002_000000|"I know you are in a hurry to get to the prison," Lise said curtly, "and mamma's kept you there for hours; she's just been telling you about me and Yulia."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000003_000000|"How do you know?" asked Alyosha.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000004_000000|"I've been listening.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000004_000001|Why do you stare at me?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000004_000002|I want to listen and I do listen, there's no harm in that.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000004_000003|I don't apologize."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000005_000000|"You are upset about something?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000006_000000|"On the contrary, I am very happy.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000006_000001|I've only just been reflecting for the thirtieth time what a good thing it is I refused you and shall not be your wife.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000006_000004|If you were forty, you would still go on taking my love letters for me."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000007_000000|She suddenly laughed.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000008_000000|"There is something spiteful and yet open hearted about you," Alyosha smiled to her.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000009_000001|I am very fond of you, but I don't respect you.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000009_000002|If I respected you, I shouldn't talk to you without shame, should I?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000011_000000|"But do you believe that I am not ashamed with you?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000013_000000|Lise laughed nervously again; she spoke rapidly.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000014_000001|Alyosha, you know, you are quite pretty!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000014_000002|I shall love you awfully for having so quickly allowed me not to love you."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000016_000000|"I wanted to tell you of a longing I have.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000016_000001|I should like some one to torture me, marry me and then torture me, deceive me and go away.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000016_000002|I don't want to be happy."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000018_000000|"Yes, I want disorder.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000018_000001|I keep wanting to set fire to the house.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000018_000002|I keep imagining how I'll creep up and set fire to the house on the sly; it must be on the sly.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000018_000004|And I shall know and say nothing.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000018_000005|Ah, what silliness!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000018_000006|And how bored I am!"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000019_000000|She waved her hand with a look of repulsion.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000022_000000|"Yes, it is better."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000000|"That's what your monk taught you.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000001|That's not true.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000002|Let me be rich and all the rest poor, I'll eat sweets and drink cream and not give any to any one else.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000004|"You've told me all that before, I know it all by heart.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000005|It bores me.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000007|But do you know, I should like to reap, cut the rye?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000008|I'll marry you, and you shall become a peasant, a real peasant; we'll keep a colt, shall we?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000023_000009|Do you know Kalganov?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000024_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000025_000001|He says, 'Why live in real life? It's better to dream.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000025_000002|One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.' But he'll be married soon for all that; he's been making love to me already.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000025_000003|Can you spin tops?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000026_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000027_000000|"Well, he's just like a top: he wants to be wound up and set spinning and then to be lashed, lashed, lashed with a whip.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000027_000001|If I marry him, I'll keep him spinning all his life.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000029_000000|"You are awfully cross, because I don't talk about holy things.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000029_000001|I don't want to be holy.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000029_000002|What will they do to one in the next world for the greatest sin?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000029_000003|You must know all about that."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000030_000000|"God will censure you." Alyosha was watching her steadily.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000031_000000|"That's just what I should like.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000031_000001|I would go up and they would censure me, and I would burst out laughing in their faces.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000031_000002|I should dreadfully like to set fire to the house, Alyosha, to our house; you still don't believe me?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000032_000000|"Why?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000032_000001|There are children of twelve years old, who have a longing to set fire to something and they do set things on fire, too.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000032_000002|It's a sort of disease."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000033_000000|"That's not true, that's not true; there may be children, but that's not what I mean."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000034_000000|"You take evil for good; it's a passing crisis, it's the result of your illness, perhaps."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000035_000001|It's simply that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do with illness."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000036_000000|"Why do evil?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000037_000000|"So that everything might be destroyed.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000037_000001|Ah, how nice it would be if everything were destroyed!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000037_000003|Every one will stand round and point their fingers at me and I would look at them all. That would be awfully nice.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000037_000004|Why would it be so nice, Alyosha?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000038_000000|"I don't know.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000038_000001|It's a craving to destroy something good or, as you say, to set fire to something.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000038_000002|It happens sometimes."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000039_000000|"I not only say it, I shall do it."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000040_000000|"I believe you."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000041_000001|And you are not lying one little bit.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000041_000002|But perhaps you think that I am saying all this on purpose to annoy you?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000043_000000|"There is a little.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000043_000001|I never can tell lies to you," she declared, with a strange fire in her eyes.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000044_000000|What struck Alyosha above everything was her earnestness.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000044_000001|There was not a trace of humor or jesting in her face now, though, in old days, fun and gayety never deserted her even at her most "earnest" moments.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000045_000000|"There are moments when people love crime," said Alyosha thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000046_000000|"Yes, yes!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000046_000001|You have uttered my thought; they love crime, every one loves crime, they love it always, not at some 'moments.' You know, it's as though people have made an agreement to lie about it and have lied about it ever since.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000046_000002|They all declare that they hate evil, but secretly they all love it."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000047_000000|"And are you still reading nasty books?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000048_000000|"Yes, I am.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000048_000001|Mamma reads them and hides them under her pillow and I steal them."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000050_000000|"I want to destroy myself.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000050_000001|There's a boy here, who lay down between the railway lines when the train was passing.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000050_000002|Lucky fellow!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000050_000003|Listen, your brother is being tried now for murdering his father and every one loves his having killed his father."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000051_000000|"Loves his having killed his father?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000052_000000|"Yes, loves it; every one loves it!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000052_000001|Everybody says it's so awful, but secretly they simply love it.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000052_000002|I for one love it."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000053_000000|"There is some truth in what you say about every one," said Alyosha softly.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000054_000000|"Oh, what ideas you have!" Lise shrieked in delight.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000054_000001|"And you a monk, too! You wouldn't believe how I respect you, Alyosha, for never telling lies. Oh, I must tell you a funny dream of mine.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000054_000002|I sometimes dream of devils. It's night; I am in my room with a candle and suddenly there are devils all over the place, in all the corners, under the table, and they open the doors; there's a crowd of them behind the doors and they want to come and seize me.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000054_000003|And they are just coming, just seizing me.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000054_000004|But I suddenly cross myself and they all draw back, though they don't go away altogether, they stand at the doors and in the corners, waiting.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000054_000006|It's awful fun. it takes one's breath away."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000056_000000|"Really?" cried Lise, surprised.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000056_000001|"I say, Alyosha, don't laugh, that's awfully important.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000056_000002|Could two different people have the same dream?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000057_000000|"It seems they can."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000058_000000|"Alyosha, I tell you, it's awfully important," Lise went on, with really excessive amazement.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000059_000000|"It's true."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000060_000000|Lise seemed extraordinarily impressed and for half a minute she was silent.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000061_000000|"Alyosha, come and see me, come and see me more often," she said suddenly, in a supplicating voice.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000063_000000|"You are the only person I can talk to, you know," Lise began again.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000063_000001|"I talk to no one but myself and you.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000063_000002|Only you in the whole world.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000063_000004|And I am not a bit ashamed with you, not a bit.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000063_000006|Alyosha, is it true that at Easter the Jews steal a child and kill it?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000064_000000|"I don't know."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000065_000001|That was 'soon'!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000065_000002|He said the child moaned, kept on moaning and he stood admiring it.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000065_000003|That's nice!"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000066_000000|"Nice?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000067_000000|"Nice; I sometimes imagine that it was I who crucified him.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000067_000003|Do you like it?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000068_000000|Alyosha looked at her in silence.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000068_000001|Her pale, sallow face was suddenly contorted, her eyes burned.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000069_000000|"You know, when I read about that Jew I shook with sobs all night.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000069_000004|He laughed and said it really was nice. Then he got up and went away.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000069_000005|He was only here five minutes.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000069_000006|Did he despise me?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000069_000007|Did he despise me?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000070_000000|"Tell me," Alyosha asked anxiously, "did you send for that person?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000071_000000|"Yes, I did."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000072_000000|"Did you send him a letter?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000073_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000075_000000|"No, not about that at all.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000075_000001|But when he came, I asked him about that at once.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000076_000000|"That person behaved honorably," Alyosha murmured.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000077_000000|"And did he despise me?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000077_000001|Did he laugh at me?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000079_000000|"Yes, he does believe in it," said Lise, with flashing eyes.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000080_000000|"He doesn't despise any one," Alyosha went on.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000080_000001|"Only he does not believe any one.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000080_000002|If he doesn't believe in people, of course, he does despise them."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000081_000000|"Then he despises me, me?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000083_000000|"Good," Lise seemed to grind her teeth.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000083_000001|"When he went out laughing, I felt that it was nice to be despised.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000083_000002|The child with fingers cut off is nice, and to be despised is nice...."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000084_000000|And she laughed in Alyosha's face, a feverish malicious laugh.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000085_000000|"Do you know, Alyosha, do you know, I should like-Alyosha, save me!" She suddenly jumped from the couch, rushed to him and seized him with both hands.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000085_000001|"Save me!" she almost groaned.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000085_000002|"Is there any one in the world I could tell what I've told you?
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000085_000003|I've told you the truth, the truth.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000085_000007|Alyosha, why don't you love me in the least?" she finished in a frenzy.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000086_000000|"But I do love you!" answered Alyosha warmly.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000087_000000|"And will you weep over me, will you?"
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000088_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000090_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000091_000000|"Thank you!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000091_000003|For I don't love any one.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000091_000004|Do you hear, not any one!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000091_000005|On the contrary, I hate him!
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000091_000006|Go, Alyosha; it's time you went to your brother"; she tore herself away from him suddenly.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000092_000000|"How can I leave you like this?" said Alyosha, almost in alarm.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000093_000000|"Go to your brother, the prison will be shut; go, here's your hat.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000094_000000|And she almost forcibly pushed Alyosha out of the door.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000094_000001|He looked at her with pained surprise, when he was suddenly aware of a letter in his right hand, a tiny letter folded up tight and sealed.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000094_000003|Her face had become almost menacing.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000095_000000|"Give it to him, you must give it to him!" she ordered him, trembling and beside herself.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000095_000002|That's why I sent for you."
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000096_000000|And she slammed the door quickly.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000096_000001|The bolt clicked.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000096_000002|Alyosha put the note in his pocket and went straight downstairs, without going back to Madame Hohlakov; forgetting her, in fact.
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000096_000005|Her lips were quivering and she kept whispering rapidly to herself:
train-other-500/3553/734/3553_734_000097_000000|"I am a wretch, wretch, wretch, wretch!"
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000007_000000|THE GOLDEN BRANCH
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000008_000000|ONCE upon a time there was a King who was so morose and disagreeable that he was feared by all his subjects, and with good reason, as for the most trifling offences he would have their heads cut off.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000008_000001|This King Grumpy, as he was called, had one son, who was as different from his father as he could possibly be.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000008_000002|No prince equalled him in cleverness and kindness of heart, but unfortunately he was most terribly ugly.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000008_000003|He had crooked legs and squinting eyes, a large mouth all on one side, and a hunchback.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000008_000004|Never was there a beautiful soul in such a frightful little body, but in spite of his appearance everybody loved him.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000008_000005|The Queen, his mother, called him Curlicue, because it was a name she rather liked, and it seemed to suit him.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000011_000000|The Prince after one glance at it turned away with a disdainful air, which greatly offended his father.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000013_000000|'No, sire,' replied the Prince.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000013_000001|'How could I be pleased to marry an ugly, lame Princess?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000014_000000|'Certainly it is becoming in YOU to object to that,' said King Grumpy, 'since you are ugly enough to frighten anyone yourself.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000015_000001|I am quite tired enough of seeing myself.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000016_000000|'I tell you that you shall marry her,' cried King Grumpy angrily.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000017_000000|And the Prince, seeing that it was of no use to remonstrate, bowed and retired.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000018_000001|The Prince thought all the rooms looked strangely old-fashioned, with their antique furniture, but as there was a good library he was pleased, for he was very fond of reading, and he soon got permission to have as many books as he liked.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000019_000000|King Grumpy was so convinced that Prince Curlicue would soon get tired of being in prison, and so consent to marry the Princess Cabbage Stalk, that he sent ambassadors to her father proposing that she should come and be married to his son, who would make her perfectly happy.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000020_000002|The King, who was very much annoyed to see how greatly she disliked it, took a mirror, and holding it up before the unhappy Princess, said:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000021_000000|'I see you do not think the Prince handsome, but look at yourself, and see if you have any right to complain about that.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000022_000000|'Sire,' she answered, 'I do not wish to complain, only I beg of you do not make me marry at all.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000022_000001|I had rather be the unhappy Princess Cabbage Stalk all my life than inflict the sight of my ugliness on anyone else.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000023_000000|But the King would not listen to her, and sent her away with the ambassadors.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000024_000001|But all the Princess guards were so fond of him that they did everything they dared, in spite of the King, to make the time pass pleasantly.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000025_000001|He found that the pictures seemed to be scenes from the life of a man who appeared in every window, and the Prince, fancying that he saw in this man some resemblance to himself, began to be deeply interested.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000025_000003|By this time it had grown dark, and the Prince had to go back to his own room, and to amuse himself he took up a quaint old book and began to look at the pictures.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000025_000004|But his surprise was great to find that they represented the same scenes as the windows of the gallery, and what was more, that they seemed to be alive.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000026_000000|'We drink your health, Curlicue.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000026_000001|Try to give us our Queen again, for if you do you will be rewarded; if not, it will be the worse for you.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000027_000000|At these words the Prince, who had been growing more and more astonished, was fairly terrified, and dropping the book with a crash he sank back insensible.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000027_000001|The noise he made brought his guards to his aid, and as soon as he revived they asked him what was the matter.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000027_000003|Thereupon, in spite of the King's orders, the guards gave him an excellent supper, and when he had eaten it he again opened his book, but could see none of the wonderful pictures, which convinced him that he must have been dreaming before.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000028_000002|Taking a hammer he broke away a bit of the stone, and found behind it a little golden key.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000028_000004|At first he could not see any keyhole, but after a careful search he found one hidden in the carving, and the golden key just fitted it; so the Prince gave it a vigorous turn and the doors flew open.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000029_000000|Ugly and old as the cabinet was outside, nothing could have been more rich and beautiful than what met the Prince's astonished eyes.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000029_000001|Every drawer was made of crystal, of amber, or of some precious stone, and was quite full of every kind of treasure.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000029_000002|Prince Curlicue was delighted; he opened one after another, until at last he came to one tiny drawer which contained only an emerald key.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000030_000000|'I believe that this must open that little golden door in the middle,' said the Prince to himself.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000030_000001|And he fitted in the little key and turned it.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000030_000002|The tiny door swung back, and a soft crimson light gleamed over the whole cabinet.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000030_000003|The Prince found that it proceeded from an immense glowing carbuncle, made into a box, which lay before him.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000030_000004|He lost no time in opening it, but what was his horror when he found that it contained a man's hand, which was holding a portrait.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000031_000000|The voice ceased, and though the Prince in his bewilderment asked various questions, he received no answer.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000031_000001|So he put back the box and locked the cabinet up again, and, having replaced the key in the crack in the wall, hastened down to the gallery.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000032_000000|When he entered it all the windows shook and clattered in the strangest way, but the Prince did not heed them; he was looking so carefully for the place where the sun shone most brightly, and it seemed to him that it was upon the portrait of a most splendidly handsome young man.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000033_000000|He went up and examined it, and found that it rested against the ebony and gold panelling, just like any of the other pictures in the gallery. He was puzzled, not knowing what to do next, until it occurred to him to see if the windows would help him, and, looking at the nearest, he saw a picture of himself lifting the picture from the wall.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000034_000000|The Prince took the hint, and lifting aside the picture without difficulty, found himself in a marble hall adorned with statues; from this he passed on through numbers of splendid rooms, until at last he reached one all hung with blue gauze.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000034_000001|The walls were of turquoises, and upon a low couch lay a lovely lady, who seemed to be asleep.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000034_000002|Her hair, black as ebony, was spread across the pillows, making her face look ivory white, and the Prince noticed that she was unquiet; and when he softly advanced, fearing to wake her, he could hear her sigh, and murmur to herself:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000035_000000|'Ah! how dared you think to win my love by separating me from my beloved Florimond, and in my presence cutting off that dear hand that even you should have feared and honoured?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000037_000000|At this moment a huge Eagle flew into the room, holding in its talons a Golden Branch, upon which were growing what looked like clusters of cherries, only every cherry was a single glowing ruby.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000038_000000|This he presented to the Prince, who guessed by this time that he was in some way to break the enchantment that surrounded the sleeping lady. Taking the branch he touched her lightly with it, saying:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000040_000000|Instantly the lady opened her lustrous eyes, and saw the Eagle hovering near.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000041_000001|But the Eagle, uttering a dolorous cry, fluttered his broad wings and disappeared.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000041_000002|Then the lady turned to Prince Curlicue, and said:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000042_000000|'I know that it is to you I owe my deliverance from an enchantment which has held me for two hundred years.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000043_000000|'Madam,' said Prince Curlicue, 'I wish to be allowed to restore your beloved Florimond to his natural form, since I cannot forget the tears you shed for him.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000044_000000|'That is very amiable of you, dear Prince,' said the Fairy, 'but it is reserved for another person to do that.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000044_000001|I cannot explain more at present.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000044_000002|But is there nothing you wish for yourself?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000045_000000|'Madam,' cried the Prince, flinging himself down at her feet, 'only look at my ugliness.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000045_000001|I am called Curlicue, and am an object of derision; I entreat you to make me less ridiculous.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000046_000000|'Rise, Prince,' said the Fairy, touching him with the Golden Branch. 'Be as accomplished as you are handsome, and take the name of Prince Peerless, since that is the only title which will suit you now.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000047_000000|Silent from joy, the Prince kissed her hand to express his thanks, and when he rose and saw his new reflection in the mirrors which surrounded him, he understood that Curlicue was indeed gone for ever.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000048_000000|'How I wish,' said the Fairy, 'that I dared to tell you what is in store for you, and warn you of the traps which lie in your path, but I must not.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000048_000001|Fly from the tower, Prince, and remember that the Fairy Douceline will be your friend always.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000050_000000|When the guards found that the Prince did not ask for his supper as usual, they went into his room, and not finding him there, were very much alarmed, and searched the tower from turret to dungeon, but without success.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000050_000001|Knowing that the King would certainly have their heads cut off for allowing the Prince to escape, they then agreed to say that he was ill, and after making the smallest among them look as much like Prince Curlicue as possible, they put him into his bed and sent to inform the King.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000051_000000|King Grumpy was quite delighted to hear that his son was ill, for he thought that he would all the sooner be brought to do as he wished, and marry the Princess.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000051_000002|In the meantime the Princess Cabbage Stalk had reached the palace, travelling in a litter.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000053_000000|'Well, I must say Curlicue is ugly enough, but I don't think YOU need have thought twice before consenting to marry him.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000054_000000|'Sire,' she replied, 'I know too well what I am like to be hurt by what you say, but I assure you that I have no wish to marry your son I had rather be called Princess Cabbage Stalk than Queen Curlicue.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000055_000000|This made King Grumpy very angry.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000057_000000|At this juncture the guards, who were in great fear that they would be found out, sent to tell the King that his son was dead, which annoyed him very much.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000057_000004|Every day she walked up and down the long gallery, until she too was attracted and fascinated by the ever changing pictures in the windows, and recognised herself in one of the figures.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000057_000005|'They seem to have taken a great delight in painting me since I came to this country,' she said to herself.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000057_000006|'One would think that I and my crutch were put in on purpose to make that slim, charming young shepherdess in the next picture look prettier by contrast.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000057_000008|All at once she became aware that she was not alone, for behind her stood a tiny old woman in a cap, who was as ugly again as herself and quite as lame.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000058_000000|'Princess,' she said, 'your regrets are so piteous that I have come to offer you the choice of goodness or beauty.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000058_000001|If you wish to be pretty you shall have your way, but you will also be vain, capricious, and frivolous.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000059_000000|'Alas I madam,' cried the Princess, 'is it impossible to be at once wise and beautiful?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000060_000001|See, I have brought with me my white and yellow muff.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000060_000002|Breathe upon the yellow side and you will become like the pretty shepherdess you so much admire, and you will have won the love of the handsome shepherd whose picture I have already seen you studying with interest.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000060_000003|Breathe upon the white side and your looks will not alter, but you will grow better and happier day by day.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000060_000004|Now you may choose.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000063_000000|'If I could but get up into the turret,' she thought, 'to see if any one is coming.' But to climb up there seemed impossible.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000063_000001|Nevertheless she presently hit upon a plan.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000063_000002|The great clock was in the turret, as she knew, though the weights hung down into the gallery.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000063_000003|Taking one of them off the rope, she tied herself on in its place, and when the clock was wound, up she went triumphantly into the turret.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000063_000005|Out fell the broken stone, and with it the golden key.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000063_000006|The clatter it made upon the floor attracted the Princess Cabbage Stalk's attention.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000064_000000|She picked it up, and after a moment's consideration decided that it must belong to the curious old cabinet in the corner, which had no visible keyhole.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000064_000001|And then it was not long before she had it open, and was admiring the treasures it contained as much as Prince Peerless had done before her, and at last she came to the carbuncle box.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000064_000002|No sooner had she opened it than with a shudder of horror she tried to throw it down, but found that some mysterious power compelled her to hold it against her will.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000064_000003|And at this moment a voice in her ear said softly:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000066_000000|'What am I to do?' said the Princess trembling.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000068_000000|Terrified as the Princess was, she did not hesitate to obey, and hastened to put back all the other precious things precisely as she had found them.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000068_000001|By this time her guards were seeking her everywhere, and they were amazed to find her up in the turret, for they said she could only have got there by magic.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000068_000002|For three days nothing happened, but at last in the night the Princess heard something flutter against her window, and drawing back her curtains she saw in the moonlight that it was an Eagle.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000069_000001|The Princess lost no time in offering it the carbuncle box, which it grasped in its talons, and instantly disappeared, leaving in its place the most beautiful Prince she had ever seen, who was splendidly dressed, and wore a diamond crown.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000070_000000|'Princess,' said he, 'for two hundred years has a wicked enchanter kept me here.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000070_000001|We both loved the same Fairy, but she preferred me.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000070_000002|However, he was more powerful than I, and succeeded, when for a moment I was off my guard, in changing me into an Eagle, while my Queen was left in an enchanted sleep.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000070_000004|Tell me, Princess, what is it that you wish for most?
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000070_000005|Shall I make you as beautiful as you deserve to be?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000071_000001|She grew tall and straight and pretty, with eyes like shining stars, and a skin as white as milk.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000073_000000|'Indeed, Princess,' replied Florimond, 'it is yourself, but you must have a new name, since the old one does not suit you now.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000073_000001|Be called Princess Sunbeam, for you are bright and charming enough to deserve the name.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000074_000000|And so saying he disappeared, and the Princess, without knowing how she got there, found herself walking under shady trees by a clear river.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000074_000001|Of course, the first thing she did was to look at her own reflection in the water, and she was extremely surprised to find that she was exactly like the shepherdess she had so much admired, and wore the same white dress and flowery wreath that she had seen in the painted windows.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000074_000002|To complete the resemblance, her flock of sheep appeared, grazing round her, and she found a gay crook adorned with flowers upon the bank of the river.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000074_000003|Quite tired out by so many new and wonderful experiences, the Princess sat down to rest at the foot of a tree, and there she fell fast asleep.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000076_000000|He was still watching her admiringly when the Princess opened her eyes, and as she also recognised him they were soon great friends.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000076_000001|The Princess asked Prince Peerless, as he knew the country better than she did, to tell her of some peasant who would give her a lodging, and he said he knew of an old woman whose cottage would be the very place for her, it was so nice and so pretty.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000076_000003|After this they met every day as they guarded their flocks, and were so happy that Prince Peerless begged the Princess to marry him, so that they might never be parted again.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000076_000004|Now though the Princess Sunbeam appeared to be only a poor shepherdess, she never forgot that she was a real Princess, and she was not at all sure that she ought to marry a humble shepherd, though she knew she would like to do so very much.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000077_000000|So she resolved to consult an Enchanter of whom she had heard a great deal since she had been a shepherdess, and without saying a word to anybody she set out to find the castle in which he lived with his sister, who was a powerful Fairy.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000077_000001|The way was long, and lay through a thick wood, where the Princess heard strange voices calling to her from every side, but she was in such a hurry that she stopped for nothing, and at last she came to the courtyard of the Enchanter's castle.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000078_000000|The grass and briers were growing as high as if it were a hundred years since anyone had set foot there, but the Princess got through at last, though she gave herself a good many scratches by the way, and then she went into a dark, gloomy hall, where there was but one tiny hole in the wall through which the daylight could enter.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000078_000001|The hangings were all of bats' wings, and from the ceiling hung twelve cats, who filled the hall with their ear piercing yells.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000078_000002|Upon the long table twelve mice were fastened by the tail, and just in front of each one's nose, but quite beyond its reach, lay a tempting morsel of fat bacon.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000078_000003|So the cats could always see the mice, but could not touch them, and the hungry mice were tormented by the sight and smell of the delicious morsels which they could never seize.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000079_000001|In his hand he carried a whip made of twenty long snakes, all alive and writhing, and the Princess was so terrified at the sight that she heartily wished she had never come.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000079_000002|Without saying a word she ran to the door, but it was covered with a thick spider's web, and when she broke it she found another, and another, and another. In fact, there was no end to them; the Princess's arms ached with tearing them down, and yet she was no nearer to getting out, and the wicked Enchanter behind her laughed maliciously.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000079_000003|At last he said:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000080_000000|'You might spend the rest of your life over that without doing any good, but as you are young, and quite the prettiest creature I have seen for a long time, I will marry you if you like, and I will give you those cats and mice that you see there for your own.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000080_000001|They are princes and princesses who have happened to offend me.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000080_000002|They used to love one another as much as they now hate one another.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000080_000003|Aha!
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000080_000004|It's a pretty little revenge to keep them like that.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000081_000000|'Oh!
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000081_000001|If you would only change me into a mouse too,' cried the Princess.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000082_000000|'Oh! so you won't marry me?' said he.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000082_000001|'Little simpleton, you should have everything heart can desire.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000083_000000|'No, indeed; nothing should make me marry you; in fact, I don't think I shall ever love anyone,' cried the Princess.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000084_000002|But as soon as she was safely out she began to be rather sorry for herself.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000085_000001|Certainly beauty is short-lived, and this funny little face and a green crape dress are a comical end to it.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000085_000002|I had better have married my amiable shepherd.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000086_000000|In the meantime Prince Peerless had discovered the Princess's absence, and was lamenting over it by the river's brim, when he suddenly became aware of the presence of a little old woman.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000086_000001|She was quaintly dressed in a ruff and farthingale, and a velvet hood covered her snow white hair.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000087_000000|'You seem sorrowful, my son,' she said.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000087_000001|'What is the matter?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000089_000000|'Go that way, my son,' said the old woman, pointing towards the path that led to the castle.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000089_000001|'I have an idea that you will soon overtake her.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000090_000000|The Prince thanked her heartily and set out.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000090_000001|As he met with no hindrance, he soon reached the enchanted wood which surrounded the castle, and there he thought he saw the Princess Sunbeam gliding before him among the trees.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000090_000002|Prince Peerless hastened after her at the top of his speed, but could not get any nearer; then he called to her:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000091_000000|'Sunbeam, my darling-only wait for me a moment.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000092_000000|But the phantom did but fly the faster, and the Prince spent the whole day in this vain pursuit.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000092_000001|When night came he saw the castle before him all lighted up, and as he imagined that the Princess must be in it, he made haste to get there too.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000092_000002|He entered without difficulty, and in the hall the terrible old Fairy met him.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000093_000002|I am the Queen of the Comets, and can bring you to great honour if you will marry me.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000094_000000|'Marry you, Madam,' cried the Prince, in horror.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000094_000001|'No, I will never consent to that.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000095_000000|Thereupon the Fairy, in a rage, gave two strokes of her wand and filled the gallery with horrible goblins, against whom the Prince had to fight for his life.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000095_000001|Though he had only his dagger, he defended himself so well that he escaped without any harm, and presently the old Fairy stopped the fray and asked the Prince if he was still of the same mind.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000095_000002|When he answered firmly that he was, she called up the appearance of the Princess Sunbeam to the other end of the gallery, and said:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000096_000001|Take care what you are about, for if you again refuse to marry me she shall be torn in pieces by two tigers.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000097_000000|The Prince was distracted, for he fancied he heard his dear shepherdess weeping and begging him to save her.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000097_000001|In despair he cried:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000098_000001|Help, help us now!'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000099_000000|Immediately a soft voice said in his ear:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000100_000000|'Be firm, happen what may, and seek the Golden Branch.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000102_000000|'Get out of my sight, obstinate Prince.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000102_000001|Become a Cricket!'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000103_000000|And instantly the handsome Prince Peerless became a poor little black Cricket, whose only idea would have been to find himself a cosy cranny behind some blazing hearth, if he had not luckily remembered the Fairy Douceline's injunction to seek the Golden Branch.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000104_000000|So he hastened to depart from the fatal castle, and sought shelter in a hollow tree, where he found a forlorn looking little Grasshopper crouching in a corner, too miserable to sing.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000105_000000|Without in the least expecting an answer, the Prince asked it:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000106_000000|'And where may you be going, Gammer Grasshopper?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000107_000000|'Where are you going yourself, Gaffer Cricket?' replied the Grasshopper.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000108_000000|'What! can you speak?' said he.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000109_000000|'Why should I not speak as well as you?
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000109_000001|Isn't a Grasshopper as good as a Cricket?' said she.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000110_000000|'I can talk because I was a Prince,' said the Cricket.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000112_000000|'Then you have met with the same fate as I have,' said he.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000112_000001|'But where are you going now?
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000112_000002|Cannot we journey together?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000113_000000|'I seemed to hear a voice in the air which said: "Be firm, happen what may, and seek the Golden Branch,"' answered the Grasshopper, 'and I thought the command must be for me, so I started at once, though I don't know the way.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000114_000000|At this moment their conversation was interrupted by two mice, who, breathless from running, flung themselves headlong through the hole into the tree, nearly crushing the Grasshopper and the Cricket, though they got out of the way as fast as they could and stood up in a dark corner.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000115_000001|How does your Highness find yourself?'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000116_000001|Are we pursued, think you?
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000116_000002|How lucky we were to escape!'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000117_000000|'I only trust that we may escape cats and traps, and reach the Golden Branch soon,' said the fat Mouse.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000118_000000|'You know the way then?' said the other.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000119_000000|'Oh dear, yes! as well as the way to my own house, Madam.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000119_000001|This Golden Branch is indeed a marvel, a single leaf from it makes one rich for ever.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000120_000000|'May we have the honour of travelling with you-this respectable Cricket and myself?' said the Grasshopper, stepping forward.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000120_000001|'We also are on a pilgrimage to the Golden Branch.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000121_000000|The Mice courteously assented, and after many polite speeches the whole party fell asleep.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000121_000001|With the earliest dawn they were on their way, and though the Mice were in constant fear of being overtaken or trapped, they reached the Golden Branch in safety.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000122_000000|It grew in the midst of a wonderful garden, all the paths of which were strewn with pearls as big as peas.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000122_000001|The roses were crimson diamonds, with emerald leaves.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000122_000003|The Golden Branch itself had become as tall as a forest tree, and sparkled with ruby cherries to its topmost twig. No sooner had the Grasshopper and the Cricket touched it than they were restored to their natural forms, and their surprise and joy were great when they recognised each other.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000122_000004|At this moment Florimond and the Fairy Douceline appeared in great splendour, and the Fairy, as she descended from her chariot, said with a smile:
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000123_000001|Don't hesitate, Princess, to tell your devoted shepherd how dearly you love him, as he is the very Prince your father sent you to marry.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000123_000002|So come here both of you and let me crown you, and we will have the wedding at once.'
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000124_000000|The Prince and Princess thanked her with all their hearts, and declared that to her they owed all their happiness, and then the two Princesses, who had so lately been Mice, came and begged that the Fairy would use her power to release their unhappy friends who were still under the Enchanter's spell.
train-other-500/3554/163609/3554_163609_000125_000001|To complete her generous work the Fairy presented them with the wonderful cabinet and all the treasures it contained, which were worth at least ten kingdoms.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000000_000000|THE ADVENTURES AND HEROISM OF MARY READ.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000001_000000|The attention of our readers is now to be directed to the history of two female pirates,--a history which is chiefly remarkable from the extraordinary circumstance of the softer sex assuming a character peculiarly distinguished for every vice that can disgrace humanity, and at the same time for the exertion of the most daring, though brutal, courage.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000002_000000|Mary Read was a native of England, but at what place she was born is not recorded.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000002_000002|The fruit of that marriage was a sprightly boy.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000002_000003|The husband not returning, she again found herself with child, and to cover her shame, took leave of her husband's relations, and went to live in the country, taking her boy along with her.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000002_000004|Her son in a short time died, and she was relieved from the burden of his maintenance and education.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000002_000005|The mother had not resided long in the country before Mary Read, the subject of the present narrative, was born.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000003_000000|After the birth of Mary, her mother resided in the country for three or four years, until her money was all spent, and her ingenuity was set at work to contrive how to obtain a supply.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000003_000002|But it seemed impossible to impose upon an old experienced mother.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000003_000003|She, however, presented Mary in the character of her grandson.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000003_000004|The old woman proposed to take the boy to live with her, but the mother would not on any account part with her boy; the grandmother, therefore, allowed a crown per week for his support.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000004_000000|The ingenuity of the mother being successful, she reared the daughter as a boy.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000004_000002|The grandmother, however, dying, the support from that quarter failed, and she was obliged to hire her out as a footboy to a French lady.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000004_000003|The strength and manly disposition of this supposed boy increased with her years, and leaving that servile employment, she engaged on board a man of war.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000000|The volatile disposition of the youth did not permit her to remain long in this station, and she next went into Flanders, and joined a regiment of foot as a cadet.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000001|Though in every action she conducted herself with the greatest bravery, yet she could not obtain a commission, as they were in general bought and sold.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000002|She accordingly quitted that service, and enlisted into a regiment of horse; there she behaved herself so valiantly, that she gained the esteem of all her officers.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000003|It, however, happened, that her comrade was a handsome young Fleming, and she fell passionately in love with him.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000004|The violence of her feelings rendered her negligent of her duty, and effected such a change in her behaviour as attracted the attention of all.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000005|Both her comrade and the rest of the regiment deemed her mad.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000006|Love, however, is inventive, and as they slept in the same tent, she found means to discover her sex without any seeming design.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000007|He was both surprised and pleased, supposing that he would have a mistress to himself; but he was greatly mistaken, and he found that it was necessary to court her for his wife.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000005_000008|A mutual attachment took place, and, as soon as convenient, women's clothes were provided for her, and they were publicly married.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000006_000000|The singularity of two troopers marrying caused a general conversation, and many of the officers honored the ceremony with their presence, and resolved to make presents to the bride, to provide her with necessaries. After marriage they were desirous to quit the service, and their discharge being easily obtained, they set up an ordinary under the sign of the "Three Shoes," and soon acquired a considerable run of business.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000007_000000|But Mary Read's felicity was of short duration; the husband died, and peace being concluded, her business diminished.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000008_000000|During the voyage, the vessel was captured by English pirates, and as Mary was the only English person on board, they detained her, and having plundered the vessel of what they chose, allowed it to depart.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000008_000003|Among these was Mary Read.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000008_000004|She indeed, frequently declared, that the life of a pirate was what she detested, and that she was constrained to it both on the former and present occasion.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000009_000000|Nor was Mary less modest than brave; for though she had remained many years in the character of a sailor, yet no one had discovered her sex, until she was under the necessity of doing so to Anne Bonney.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000009_000001|The reason of this was, that Anne, supposing her to be a handsome fellow, became greatly enamored of her, and discovered her sex and wishes to Mary, who was thus constrained to reveal her secret to Anne.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000010_000000|Rackam was enjoined to secrecy, and here he behaved honorably; but love again assailed the conquered Mary.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000010_000001|It was usual with the pirates to retain all the artists who were captured in the trading vessels; among these was a very handsome young man, of engaging manners, who vanquished the heart of Mary.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000010_000002|In a short time her love became so violent, that she took every opportunity of enjoying his company and conversation; and, after she had gained his friendship, discovered her sex.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000010_000003|Esteem and friendship were speedily converted into the most ardent affection, and a mutual flame burned in the hearts of these two lovers.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000010_000004|An occurrence soon happened that put the attachment of Mary to a severe trial.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000010_000007|Accordingly she quarrelled with the man who challenged her lover, and called him to the field two hours before his appointment with her lover, engaged him with sword and pistol, and laid him dead at her feet.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000011_000000|Though no esteem or love had formerly existed, this action was sufficient to have kindled the most violent flame.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000011_000001|But this was not necessary, for the lover's attachment was equal, if not stronger than her own; they pledged their faith, which was esteemed as binding as if the ceremony had been performed by a clergyman.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000012_000000|Captain Rackam one day, before he knew that she was a woman, asked her why she followed a line of life that exposed her to so much danger, and at last to the certainty of being hanged.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000012_000001|She replied, that, "As to hanging, she thought it no great hardship, for were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate, and so infest the seas; and men of courage would starve.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000013_000000|Being with child at the time of her trial, her execution was delayed; and it is probable that she would have found favor, but in the mean time she fell sick and died.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000014_000000|Mary Read was of a strong and robust constitution, capable of enduring much exertion and fatigue.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000014_000001|She was vain and bold in her disposition, but susceptible of the tenderest emotions, and of the most melting affections.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000014_000002|Her conduct was generally directed by virtuous principles, while at the same time, she was violent in her attachments.
train-other-500/3554/165435/3554_165435_000014_000003|Though she was inadvertently drawn into that dishonorable mode of life which has stained her character, and given her a place among the criminals noticed in this work, yet she possessed a rectitude of principle and of conduct, far superior to many who have not been exposed to such temptations to swerve from the path of female virtue and honor.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000001_000000|SIR AGRIVAIN'S TREASON
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000002_000000|When Sir Perceval and Sir Bohort saw Sir Galahad dead they made as much sorrow as ever did two men.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000002_000001|And if they had not been good men they might have fallen into despair.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000002_000005|Then was there great joy made of him in the whole court, for they feared he had been dead.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000002_000006|Then the king made great clerks to come before him, that they should chronicle of the high adventures of the good knights.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000002_000007|And Sir Bohort told him of the adventures that had befallen him, and his two fellows, Sir Perceval and Sir Galahad. And Sir Launcelot told the adventures of the Sangreal that he had seen.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000002_000008|All this was made in great books, and put up in the church at Salisbury.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000003_000003|"Then will I," said Sir Modred.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000003_000004|"I doubt you not," said Sir Gawain, "for to all mischief ever were ye prone; yet I would that ye left all this, for I know what will come of it."
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000004_000000|"Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye: Henceforward, too, the Powers that tend the soul To help it from the death that cannot die, And save it even in extremes, began To vex and plague."
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000005_000000|--Guinevere.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000006_000000|"Fall of it what fall may," said Sir Agrivain, "I will disclose it to the king." With that came to them King Arthur.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000006_000001|"Now, brothers, hold your peace," said Sir Gawain.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000006_000002|"We will not," said Sir Agrivain.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000006_000003|Then said Sir Gawain, "I will not hear your tales nor be of your counsel." "No more will I," said Sir Gareth and Sir Gaheris, and therewith they departed, making great sorrow.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000007_000000|Then Sir Agrivain told the king all that was said in the court of the conduct of Sir Launcelot and the queen, and it grieved the king very much.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000007_000001|But he would not believe it to be true without proof.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000007_000002|So Sir Agrivain laid a plot to entrap Sir Launcelot and the queen, intending to take them together unawares.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000007_000004|Then Sir Launcelot hastened to his friends, and told them what had happened, and withdrew with them to the forest; but he left spies to bring him tidings of whatever might be done.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000008_000000|So Sir Launcelot escaped, but the queen remained in the king's power, and Arthur could no longer doubt of her guilt.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000008_000001|And the law was such in those days that they who committed such crimes, of what estate or condition soever they were, must be burned to death, and so it was ordained for Queen Guenever.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000009_000000|So the queen was led forth, and her ghostly father was brought to her to shrive her, and there was weeping and wailing of many lords and ladies.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000009_000001|And one went and told Sir Launcelot that the queen was led forth to her death.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000009_000002|Then Sir Launcelot and the knights that were with him fell upon the troop that guarded the queen, and dispersed them, and slew all who withstood them.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000010_000000|Then there came one to Sir Gawain and told him how that Sir Launcelot had slain the knights and carried away the queen.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000010_000001|"O Lord, defend my brethren!" said Sir Gawain.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000010_000002|"Truly," said the man, "Sir Gareth and Sir Gaheris are slain." "Alas!" said Sir Gawain, "now is my joy gone." And then he fell down and swooned, and long he lay there as he had been dead.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000011_000000|When he arose out of his swoon Sir Gawain ran to the king, crying, "O King Arthur, mine uncle, my brothers are slain." Then the king wept and he both.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000011_000001|"My king, my lord, and mine uncle," said Sir Gawain, "bear witness now that I make you a promise that I shall hold by my knighthood, and from this day I will never fail Sir Launcelot until the one of us have slain the other.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000011_000005|Thereof heard Sir Launcelot, and collected all whom he could; and many good knights held with him, both for his sake and for the queen's sake.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000011_000006|But King Arthur's host was too great for Sir Launcelot to abide him in the field; and he was full loath to do battle against the king.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000011_000007|So Sir Launcelot drew him to his strong castle, with all manner of provisions.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000013_000002|So then Sir Launcelot's fellowship came out of the castle in full good array.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000014_000000|Then came forth Sir Gawain from the king's host and offered combat, and Sir Lionel encountered with him, and there Sir Gawain smote Sir Lionel through the body, that he fell to the earth as if dead.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000014_000004|Then anon both parties withdrew to repose them, and buried the dead.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000016_000000|So, by means of this bishop, peace was made for the space of one year; and King Arthur received back the queen, and Sir Launcelot departed from the kingdom with all his knights, and went to his own country.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000016_000001|So they shipped at Cardiff, and sailed unto Benwick, which some men call Bayonne.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000016_000002|And all the people of those lands came to Sir Launcelot, and received him home right joyfully.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000017_000000|"Then Arthur made vast banquets, and strange knights From the four winds came in: and each one sat, Tho' served with choice from air, land, stream and sea, Oft in mid banquet measuring with his eyes His neighbor's make and might."
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000018_000000|--Pelleas and Ettarre.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000019_000000|But when the year was passed, King Arthur and Sir Gawain came with a great host, and landed upon Sir Launcelot's lands, and burned and wasted all that they might overrun.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000019_000004|Will you now turn back, now you are so far advanced upon your journey?
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000021_000001|Why hidest thou thyself within holes and walls like a coward?
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000022_000000|Then Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawain departed a great way asunder, and then they came together with all their horses' might, and each smote the other in the middle of their shields, but neither of them was unhorsed, but their horses fell to the earth.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000022_000002|Now Sir Gawain had this gift from a holy man, that every day in the year, from morning to noon, his strength was increased threefold, and then it fell again to its natural measure.
train-other-500/3554/172175/3554_172175_000022_000004|And during that time Sir Gawain gave him many sad brunts, that all the knights that looked on marvelled how Sir Launcelot might endure them.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000001_000001|And everybody said that he was as clever as he was handsome, and that no one could be compared to him.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000001_000003|If he could find such a paragon he would marry her.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000001_000004|There were many beautiful maidens in the land, but they were not the cleverest. There were also many maidens who were clever enough, but they were not the fairest.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000002_000003|So once more he felt his quest for a worthy bride had proved vain, and turned his face homeward.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000003_000004|And they were both tired out.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000003_000006|He got off his horse and knocked at the door.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000003_000008|They appeared very much astonished to see such a fine, handsome young knight.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000003_000016|Yes, the old folk said, they did.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000003_000017|There was nobody else in the house, and there was no other house for miles and miles around.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000003_000018|They got on as best they could, and managed to make a living out of their goat and their cow.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000005_000003|Then he heard singing.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000006_000002|And you may as well tell me the plain truth, for I am determined to learn it, one way or another."
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000007_000000|So then the old man made a clean breast of it.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000007_000001|The Prince was quite right, there was somebody else in the house-it was their daughter, in her little room up in the loft.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000008_000001|He was no man eater, nor woman eater either, so far as he knew; therefore they might surely let him see the maiden.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000008_000004|Never had he seen anything half so lovely as she was!
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000008_000008|He could not picture to himself anything more lovely. But a poor beggar maid, such as she was, he might not even dream of making his wife.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000011_000000|The old King was much vexed on hearing this, but he was so certain of his son's exceeding cleverness that he had no doubt matters were exactly as the Prince represented.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000012_000001|Dainty food failed to tempt his appetite, no sweet sleep came to him on his downy couch.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000013_000000|At last he said to himself: "There must be an end of this."
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000014_000002|He sent off a royal courier at once, bidding him bring back an immediate answer.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000015_000000|After this the Prince could no longer doubt that she was quite as clever as he was, and now he felt bound to perform the vow that he had made, which was just what he most wished to do.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000015_000001|So he rode forth with all his royal train to the cottage in the wild wood; and he told the old people that he had come to woo their daughter for his bride-if she were willing.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000015_000002|And she was willing.
train-other-500/3557/159359/3557_159359_000015_000003|The old folk were very down hearted at parting from their child, but they did not wish to stand in the way of her happiness, so they gave their consent.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000002_000004|Well! if my glass runs low, the sands shall sparkle to the last.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000002_000009|My soul would express, in sadness and in gloom, its forecast of the dreary Orcus.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000002_000010|But it smiles-it assures me of deliverance.'
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000003_000000|As he thus concluded his soliloquy, the Egyptian involuntarily rose.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000006_000005|Above all, rode the cloud capped summit of the Dread Mountain, with the shadows, now dark, now light, betraying the mossy caverns and ashy rocks, which testified the past conflagrations, and might have prophesied-but man is blind-that which was to come!
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000009_000000|'Ho!' said he, aloud, 'I have then, another companion in these unworldly night-watches.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000009_000002|What! doth she, too, as the credulous imagine-doth she, too, learn the lore of the great stars?
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000009_000004|Well, I must see this fellow laborer.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000011_000008|But still, unsocial in his pleasures as in his graver pursuits, and brooking neither superior nor equal, he admitted few to his companionship, save the willing slaves of his profligacy.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000012_000003|Kings, courtiers, and sages, all trembled before the professors of the dread science.
train-other-500/3557/8341/3557_8341_000015_000005|As long as he was rich, none pried into his conduct.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000000_000001|It was you who taught me to disdain adulation: will you unteach your pupil?'
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000003_000001|Cabinets of gems, each cabinet itself a gem, filled up the interstices of the columns; the most precious woods lined the thresholds and composed the doors; gold and jewels seemed lavished all around.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000007_000000|'But thou dost not disdain riches, O Ione! they know not what life is capable of who are not wealthy.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000013_000002|Thus, in the land beyond the grave, are ever two impalpable and spiritual hosts-the things to be, the things that have been!
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000015_000000|'Wilt thou prove my knowledge, Ione, and behold the representation of thine own fate?
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000021_000000|'But yonder,' said he, pointing to a small building which stood at the end of the vista.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000022_000000|They passed into a narrow hall, at the end of which hung a sable curtain.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000026_000000|The Neapolitan's heart beat violently.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000029_000001|'And thou art destined to be the bride of Arbaces.'
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000031_000001|I adore thee!
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000031_000005|Never woman had lover so devoted-so passionate as I will be to Ione.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000031_000006|Do not struggle in my clasp: see-I release thy hand.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000031_000007|Take it from me if thou wilt-well be it so!
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000031_000011|Ione, tremble not, thou art my queen-my goddess-be my bride!
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000031_000014|Arbaces shall have no ambition, save the pride of obeying thee.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000032_000001|But she was confused-astonished: it was some moments before she could recover the power of reply.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000033_000001|'Rise! and if thou art serious, if thy language be in earnest...'
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000034_000000|'If!' said he tenderly.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000040_000002|Ione sank upon the couch, half dead with terror.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000044_000000|'Speak!' he rather shrieked than said.
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000045_000000|'It is-it is!
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000046_000000|'And his name-it is written here-his name is Glaucus!'
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000048_000000|'Then hear me,' said Arbaces, sinking his voice into a whisper; 'thou shalt go to thy tomb rather than to his arms!
train-other-500/3557/8342/3557_8342_000048_000003|Pretty fool-no!
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000001_000000|THE LIFE OF LAFITTE, THE FAMOUS PIRATE OF THE GULF OF MEXICO.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000003|He therefore conceived the bold project of proceeding to the Bay of Bengal, in order to get provisions from on board some English ships.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000004|In his ship of two hundred tons, with only two guns and twenty six men, he attacked and took an English armed schooner with a numerous crew.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000008|The Pagoda manifested no suspicions, whereupon he suddenly darted with his brave followers upon her decks, overturned all who opposed them, and speedily took the ship.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000009|After a very successful cruise he arrived safe at the Mauritius, and took the command of La Confiance of twenty six guns and two hundred and fifty men, and sailed for the coast of British India.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000011|Never was there beheld a more unequal conflict; even the height of the vessel compared to the feeble privateer augmented the chances against Lafitte; but the difficulty and danger far from discouraging this intrepid sailor, acted as an additional spur to his brilliant valor.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000012|After electrifying his crew with a few words of hope and ardor, he manoeuvred and ran on board of the enemy.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000013|In this position he received a broadside when close too; but he expected this, and made his men lay flat upon the deck.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000015|This sudden and unforeseen attack caused a great havoc.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000016|In an instant, death and terror made them abandon a part of the vessel near the mizen mast.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000017|Lafitte, who observed every thing, seized the decisive moment, beat to arms, and forty of his crew prepared to board, with pistols in their hands and daggers held between their teeth.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000019|Lafitte thereupon ordered a second division to board, which he headed himself; the captain of the Indiaman was killed, and all were swept away in a moment.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000020|Lafitte caused a gun to be loaded with grape, which he pointed towards the place where the crowd was assembled, threatening to exterminate them.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000021|The English deeming resistance fruitless, surrendered, and Lafitte hastened to put a stop to the slaughter.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000003_000022|This exploit, hitherto unparalleled, resounded through India, and the name of Lafitte became the terror of English commerce in these latitudes.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000001|Most of the commissions granted to privateers by the French government at Gaudaloupe, having expired sometime after the declaration of the independence of Carthagena, many of the privateers repaired to that port, for the purpose of obtaining from the new government commissions for cruising against Spanish vessels.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000002|Having duly obtained their commissions, they in a manner blockaded for a long time all the ports belonging to the royalists, and made numerous captives, which they carried into Barrataria.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000003|Under this denomination is comprised part of the coast of Louisiana to the west of the mouths of the Mississippi, comprehended between Bastien bay on the east, and the mouths of the river or bayou la Fourche on the west.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000004|Not far from the sea are lakes called the great and little lakes of Barrataria, communicating with one another by several large bayous with a great number of branches.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000005|There is also the island of Barrataria, at the extremity of which is a place called the Temple, which denomination it owes to several mounds of shells thrown up there by the Indians.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000006|The name of Barrataria is also given to a large basin which extends the whole length of the cypress swamps, from the Gulf of Mexico to three miles above New Orleans.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000007|These waters disembogue into the gulf by two entrances of the bayou Barrataria, between which lies an island called Grand Terre, six miles in length, and from two to three miles in breadth, running parallel with the coast.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000007_000008|In the western entrance is the great pass of Barrataria, which has from nine to ten feet of water.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000008_000001|From all parts of Lower Louisiana, people resorted to Barrataria, without being at all solicitous to conceal the object of their journey.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000008_000002|The most respectable inhabitants of the state, especially those living in the country, were in the habit of purchasing smuggled goods coming from Barrataria.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000009_000000|The government of the United States sent an expedition under Commodore Patterson, to disperse the settlement of marauders at Barrataria; the following is an extract of his letter to the secretary of war.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000010_000001|Ross, with a detachment of seventy of the forty fourth regiment of infantry.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000010_000003|At two o'clock, perceived the pirates forming their vessels, ten in number, including prizes, into a line of battle near the entrance of the harbor, and making every preparation to offer me battle.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000010_000006|At a quarter past eleven o'clock, two gun boats grounded and were passed agreeably to my previous orders, by the other four which entered the harbor, manned by my barge and the boats belonging to the grounded vessels, and proceeded in to my great disappointment.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000010_000007|I perceived that the pirates abandoned their vessels, and were flying in all directions.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000010_000008|I immediately sent the launch and two barges with small boats in pursuit of them.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000010_000010|col Ross at the same time landed, and with his command took possession of their establishment on shore, consisting of about forty houses of different sizes, badly constructed, and thatched with palmetto leaves.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000012_000000|The enemy had mounted on their vessels twenty pieces of cannon of different calibre; and as I have since learnt, from eight hundred, to one thousand men of all nations and colors.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000013_000001|Spedding with four boats manned and armed to prevent her passing the harbor; at nine o'clock a m, the chase fired upon the Carolina, which was returned; each vessel continued firing during the chase, when their long guns could reach.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000013_000003|At half past ten o'clock, she hauled down her colors and was taken possession of.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000014_000000|At different times the English had sought to attack the pirates at Barrataria, in hopes of taking their prizes, and even their armed vessels.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000001|She fired a gun at a vessel about to enter, and forced her to run aground; she then tacked and shortly after came to an anchor at the entrance of the pass. It was not easy to understand the intentions of this vessel, who, having commenced with hostilities on her first appearance now seemed to announce an amicable disposition.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000002|mr Lafitte then went off in a boat to examine her, venturing so far that he could not escape from the pinnace sent from the brig, and making towards the shore, bearing British colors and a flag of truce.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000003|In this pinnace were two naval officers.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000005|Lockyer, commander of the brig.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000006|The first question they asked was, where was mr Lafitte? he not choosing to make himself known to them, replied that the person they inquired for was on shore.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000007|They then delivered to him a packet directed to mr Lafitte, Barrataria, requesting him to take particular care of it, and to deliver it into mr Lafitte's hands.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000009|Upwards of two hundred persons lined the shore, and it was a general cry amongst the crews of the privateers at Grand Terre, that those British officers should be made prisoners and sent to New Orleans as spies.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000011|He thought very prudently that the papers contained in the packet might be of importance towards the safety of the country and that the officers if well watched could obtain no intelligence that might turn to the detriment of Louisiana.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000012|He now examined the contents of the packet, in which he found a proclamation addressed by col
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000013|Edward Nichalls, in the service of his Brittanic Majesty, and commander of the land forces on the coast of Florida, to the inhabitants of Louisiana.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000014|A letter from the same to mr Lafitte, the commander of Barrataria; an official letter from the honorable w h Percy, captain of the sloop of war Hermes, directed to Lafitte.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000016|Lockyer enlarged on the subject of them and proposed to him to enter into the service of his Brittanic Majesty with the rank of post captain and to receive the command of a forty four gun frigate.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000017|Also all those under his command, or over whom he had sufficient influence.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000018|He was also offered thirty thousand dollars, payable at Pensacola, and urged him not to let slip this opportunity of acquiring fortune and consideration.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000020|But to all his splendid promises and daring insinuations, Lafitte replied that in a few days he would give a final answer; his object in this procrastination being to gain time to inform the officers of the state government of this nefarious project.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000022|The British officers sent for Lafitte; but he, fearing an insurrection of the crews of the privateers, thought it advisable not to see them until he had first persuaded their captains and officers to desist from the measures on which they seemed bent.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000015_000023|With this view he represented to the latter that, besides the infamy that would attach to them if they treated as prisoners people who had come with a flag of truce, they would lose the opportunity of discovering the projects of the British against Louisiana.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000016_000000|Early the next morning Lafitte caused them to be released from their confinement and saw them safe on board their pinnace, apologizing the detention.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000016_000002|Lockyer the following letter.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000017_000000|To CAPTAIN LOCKYER.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000019_000001|This delay is indispensable to enable me to put my affairs in order.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000019_000002|You may communicate with me by sending a boat to the eastern point of the pass, where I will be found.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000019_000003|You have inspired me with more confidence than the admiral, your superior officer, could have done himself; with you alone, I wish to deal, and from you also I will claim, in due time the reward of the services, which I may render to you.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000020_000000|J. LAFITTE.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000021_000000|His object in writing that letter was, by appearing disposed to accede to their proposals, to give time to communicate the affair to the officers of the state government, and to receive from them instructions how to act, under circumstances so critical and important to the country.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000021_000002|Claiborne of the state of Louisiana.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000000|Sir-In the firm persuasion that the choice made of you to fill the office of first magistrate of this state, was dictated by the esteem of your fellow citizens, and was conferred on merit, I confidently address you on an affair on which may depend the safety of this country.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000001|I offer to you to restore to this state several citizens, who perhaps in your eyes have lost that sacred title.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000002|I offer you them, however, such as you could wish to find them, ready to exert their utmost efforts in defence of the country.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000003|This point of Louisiana, which I occupy, is of great importance in the present crisis.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000004|I tender my services to defend it; and the only reward I ask is that a stop be put to the proscription against me and my adherents, by an act of oblivion, for all that has been done hitherto.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000005|I am the stray sheep wishing to return to the fold.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000006|If you are thoroughly acquainted with the nature of my offences, I should appear to you much less guilty, and still worthy to discharge the duties of a good citizen.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000007|I have never sailed under any flag but that of the republic of Carthagena, and my vessels are perfectly regular in that respect.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000009|I decline saying more on the subject, until I have the honor of your excellency's answer, which I am persuaded can be dictated only by wisdom.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000024_000010|Should your answer not be favorable to my ardent desires, I declare to you that I will instantly leave the country, to avoid the imputation of having cooperated towards an invasion on this point, which cannot fail to take place, and to rest secure in the acquittal of my conscience.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000025_000000|I have the honor to be
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000027_000000|J. LAFITTE.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000028_000000|The contents of these letters do honor to Lafitte's judgment, and evince his sincere attachment to the American cause.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000029_000000|At the expiration of the time agreed on with Captain Lockyer, his ship appeared again on the coast with two others, and continued standing off and on before the pass for several days.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000029_000001|But he pretended not to perceive the return of the sloop of war, who tired of waiting to no purpose put out to sea and disappeared.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000030_000000|Lafitte having received a guarantee from General Jackson for his safe passage from Barrataria to New Orleans and back, he proceeded forthwith to the city where he had an interview with governor Claiborne and the General.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000030_000001|After the usual formalities and courtesies had taken place between these gentlemen, Lafitte addressed the Governor of Louisiana nearly as follows.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000030_000002|I have offered to defend for you that part of Louisiana I now hold.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000030_000003|But not as an outlaw, would I be its defender.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000030_000004|In that confidence, with which you have inspired me, I offer to restore to the state many citizens, now under my command.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000030_000005|As I have remarked before, the point I occupy is of great importance in the present crisis. I tender not only my own services to defend it, but those of all I command; and the only reward I ask, is, that a stop be put to the proscription against me and my adherents, by an act of oblivion for all that has been done hitherto.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000033_000000|The Governor of Louisiana, informed that many individuals implicated in the offences heretofore committed against the United States at Barrataria, express a willingness at the present crisis to enroll themselves and march against the enemy.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000035_000000|BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000036_000000|A PROCLAMATION.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000038_000001|The government of the United States caused the establishment to be broken up and destroyed; and, having obtained the means of designating the offenders of every description, it only remained to answer the demands of justice by inflicting an exemplary punishment.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000039_000000|"But it has since been represented that the offenders have manifested a sincere penitence; that they have abandoned the prosecution of the worst cause for the support of the best, and, particularly, that they have exhibited, in the defence of New Orleans, unequivocal traits of courage and fidelity.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000039_000001|Offenders, who have refused to become the associates of the enemy in the war, upon the most seducing terms of invitation; and who have aided to repel his hostile invasion of the territory of the United States, can no longer be considered as objects of punishment, but as objects of a generous forgiveness.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000041_000000|"And I do hereby further authorize and direct all suits, indictments, and prosecutions, for fines, penalties, and forfeitures, against any person or persons, who shall be entitled to the benefit of this full pardon, forthwith to be stayed, discontinued and released: All civil officers are hereby required, according to the duties of their respective stations, to carry this proclamation into immediate and faithful execution.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000042_000000|"Done at the City of Washington, the sixth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the independence of the United States the thirty ninth.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000043_000000|"By the President,
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000044_000000|"james MADISON
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000045_000000|"james MONROE,
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000047_000000|The morning of the eighth of January, was ushered in with the discharge of rockets, the sound of cannon, and the cheers of the British soldiers advancing to the attack.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000047_000001|The Americans, behind the breastwork, awaited in calm intrepidity their approach.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000047_000002|The enemy advanced in close column of sixty men in front, shouldering their muskets and carrying fascines and ladders.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000047_000003|A storm of rockets preceded them, and an incessant fire opened from the battery, which commanded the advanced column.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000047_000004|The musketry and rifles from the Kentuckians and Tennesseans, joined the fire of the artillery, and in a few moments was heard along the line a ceaseless, rolling fire, whose tremendous noise resembled the continued reverberation of thunder.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000047_000005|One of these guns, a twenty four pounder, placed upon the breastwork in the third embrasure from the river, drew, from the fatal skill and activity with which it was managed, even in the heat of battle, the admiration of both Americans and British; and became one of the points most dreaded by the advancing foe.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000048_000000|Here was stationed Lafitte and his lieutenant Dominique and a large band of his men, who during the continuance of the battle, fought with unparalleled bravery.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000048_000001|The British already had been twice driven back in the utmost confusion, with the loss of their commander in chief, and two general officers.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000049_000000|Two other batteries were manned by the Barratarians, who served their pieces with the steadiness and precision of veteran gunners.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000049_000001|In the first attack of the enemy, a column pushed forward between the levee and river; and so precipitate was their charge that the outposts were forced to retire, closely pressed by the enemy.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000049_000002|Before the batteries could meet the charge, clearing the ditch, they gained the redoubt through the embrasures, leaping over the parapet, and overwhelming by their superior force the small party stationed there.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000051_000001|All the energies of the British were now concentrated to scale the breastwork, which one daring officer had already mounted.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000051_000002|While Lafitte and his followers, seconding a gallant band of volunteer riflemen, formed a phalanx which they in vain assayed to penetrate.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000053_000000|General Jackson, in his correspondence with the secretary of war did not fail to notice the conduct of the "Corsairs of Barrataria," who were, as we have already seen, employed in the artillery service.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000053_000001|In the course of the campaign they proved, in an unequivocal manner, that they had been misjudged by the enemy, who a short time previous to the invasion of Louisiana, had hoped to enlist them in his cause.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000053_000002|Many of them were killed or wounded in the defence of the country.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000053_000004|In a few days peace was declared between Great Britain and the United States.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000054_000000|The piratical establishment of Barrataria having been broken up and Lafitte not being content with leading an honest, peaceful life, procured some fast sailing vessels, and with a great number of his followers, proceeded to Galvezton Bay, in Texas, during the year eighteen nineteen; where he received a commission from General Long; and had five vessels generally cruising and about three hundred men.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000054_000003|The Lynx also captured one of his schooners, and her prize that had been for a length of time smuggling in the Carmento.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000054_000004|One of his cruisers, named the Jupiter, returned safe to Galvezton after a short cruise with a valuable cargo, principally specie; she was the first vessel that sailed under the authority of Texas.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000054_000005|The American government well knowing that where Lafitte was, piracy and smuggling would be the order of the day, sent a vessel of war to cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, and scour the coasts of Texas.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000054_000006|Lafitte having been appointed governor of Galvezton and one of the cruisers being stationed off the port to watch his motions, it so annoyed him that he wrote the following letter to her commander, Lieutenant Madison.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000056_000001|I have therefore deemed it proper to inquire into the cause of your living before this port without communicating your intention.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000056_000002|I shall by this message inform you, that the port of Galvezton belongs to and is in the possession of the republic of Texas, and was made a port of entry the ninth of october last.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000056_000004|But if you are ordered, or should attempt to enter this port in a hostile manner, my oath and duty to the government compels me to rebut your intentions at the expense of my life.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000057_000000|To prove to you my intentions towards the welfare and harmony of your government I send enclosed the declaration of several prisoners, who were taken in custody yesterday, and by a court of inquiry appointed for that purpose, were found guilty of robbing the inhabitants of the United States of a number of slaves and specie.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000057_000001|The gentlemen bearing this message will give you any reasonable information relating to this place, that may be required.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000059_000000|J. LAFITTE.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000061_000001|An expedition was now sent to dislodge Mitchell and his comrades from the island he had taken possession of; after coming to anchor, a summons was sent for him to surrender, which was answered by a brisk cannonade from his breastwork.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000061_000003|A large quantity of dry goods and specie together with other booty was taken.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000062_000000|Accounts of these transactions having reached Lafitte, he plainly perceived there was a determination to sweep all his cruisers from the sea; and a war of extermination appeared to be waged against him.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000063_000000|In a fit of desperation he procured a large and fast sailing brigantine mounting sixteen guns and having selected a crew of one hundred and sixty men he started without any commission as a regular pirate determined to rob all nations and neither to give or receive quarter.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000063_000001|A British sloop of war which was cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, having heard that Lafitte himself was at sea, kept a sharp look out from the mast head; when one morning as an officer was sweeping the horizon with his glass he discovered a long dark looking vessel, low in the water, but having very tall masts, with sails white as the driven snow.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000063_000005|Again the reeking steel was upheld, and Lafitte placed his left hand near the Captain's heart, to make his aim more sure; again the dizziness of dissolution spread over his sight, down came the dagger into the captain's left thigh and Lafitte was a corpse.
train-other-500/3559/165413/3559_165413_000064_000000|The upper deck was cleared, and the boarders rushed below on the main deck to complete their conquest.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000001_000000|He spent that evening till ten o'clock going from one low haunt to another.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000002_000000|"villain and tyrant,"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000004_000002|They took him finally to a pleasure garden, where he paid for their entrance.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000004_000007|Finally it appeared that the stolen object was a teaspoon belonging to the Vauxhall.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000004_000010|It was about six o'clock.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000005_000003|The water fell not in drops, but beat on the earth in streams.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000005_000004|There were flashes of lightning every minute and each flash lasted while one could count five.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000006_000002|He went straight to Sonia.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000006_000003|She was at home.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000007_000000|She was not alone: the four Kapernaumov children were with her.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000007_000001|She was giving them tea.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000009_000001|Well, did you see the lady to day?
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000009_000005|Here, take them!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000009_000006|Well now, that's settled.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000009_000009|You will need the money, for to go on living in the old way, Sofya Semyonovna, is bad, and besides there is no need for it now."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000011_000000|"That's enough!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000011_000001|that's enough!"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000012_000003|If you are so charitable, that money...."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000000|"It's for you, for you, Sofya Semyonovna, and please don't waste words over it.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000001|I haven't time for it.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000002|You will want it.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000006|Well, if it turns out to be Siberia, he will go and you will follow him.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000008|And if so, you'll need money. You'll need it for him, do you understand?
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000009|Giving it to you is the same as my giving it to him.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000010|Besides, you promised Amalia Ivanovna to pay what's owing.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000011|I heard you.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000012|How can you undertake such obligations so heedlessly, Sofya Semyonovna?
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000017|You know mr Razumihin?
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000018|Of course you do.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000019|He's not a bad fellow.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000020|Take it to him to morrow or... when the time comes.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000013_000021|And till then, hide it carefully."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000016_000000|"Why, be starting for America, and be stopped by rain!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000016_000001|Ha, ha!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000016_000005|Be sure to."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000018_000000|It appeared afterwards that on the same evening, at twenty past eleven, he made another very eccentric and unexpected visit.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000018_000001|The rain still persisted.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000018_000007|The girl of course appeared.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000019_000001|The logical connection of the present with his immediate departure and the absolute necessity of visiting them for that purpose in pouring rain at midnight was not made clear.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000019_000006|He would start off on a journey and give away money just as the fancy took him, so that there was nothing surprising about it.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000019_000008|Possibly, indeed, he came like that on purpose to show that he was not afraid of anyone.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000020_000001|The rain had ceased and there was a roaring wind.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000020_000003|He walked along that endless street for a long time, almost half an hour, more than once stumbling in the dark on the wooden pavement, but continually looking for something on the right side of the street.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000020_000009|There was no other, all were occupied.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000021_000000|"Is there tea?" asked Svidrigailov.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000023_000000|"What else is there?"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000026_000000|"And you want nothing else?" he asked with apparent surprise.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000027_000000|"Nothing, nothing."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000028_000000|The ragged man went away, completely disillusioned.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000029_000001|"How was it I didn't know it?
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000029_000003|It would be interesting to know who stay here?"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000030_000000|He lighted the candle and looked at the room more carefully.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000031_000002|The murmur had not ceased from the moment he entered the room.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000032_000003|He reproached the other with being a beggar, with having no standing whatever.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000032_000004|He declared that he had taken the other out of the gutter and he could turn him out when he liked, and that only the finger of Providence sees it all.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000032_000008|After gazing attentively at this, Svidrigailov turned away indifferently and sat down on the bed.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000000|The ragged attendant, returning with the tea, could not resist asking him again whether he didn't want anything more, and again receiving a negative reply, finally withdrew.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000002|He began to feel feverish.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000004|He was annoyed.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000005|"It would have been better to be well for the occasion," he thought with a smile.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000007|He lay in a sort of reverie: one thought followed another.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000008|He felt a longing to fix his imagination on something.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000009|"It must be a garden under the window," he thought.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000011|How I dislike the sound of trees on a stormy night, in the dark!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000014|"I never have liked water," he thought, "even in a landscape," and he suddenly smiled again at a strange idea: "Surely now all these questions of taste and comfort ought not to matter, but I've become more particular, like an animal that picks out a special place... for such an occasion.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000016|I suppose it seemed dark, cold, ha ha!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000018|By the way, why haven't I put out the candle?" he blew it out.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000019|"They've gone to bed next door," he thought, not seeing the light at the crack.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000033_000021|But now you won't come!"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000034_000002|But what a rogue that Raskolnikov is!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000034_000003|He's gone through a good deal.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000034_000006|These young men are contemptible on that point.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000034_000007|But, hang the fellow!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000034_000008|Let him please himself, it's nothing to do with me."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000035_000000|He could not get to sleep.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000035_000002|"No, I must give up all that now," he thought, rousing himself.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000035_000003|"I must think of something else.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000035_000006|I never liked quarrelling either, and never lost my temper-that's a bad sign too.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000035_000007|And the promises I made her just now, too-Damnation! But-who knows?--perhaps she would have made a new man of me somehow...."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000036_000000|He ground his teeth and sank into silence again.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000036_000001|Again Dounia's image rose before him, just as she was when, after shooting the first time, she had lowered the revolver in terror and gazed blankly at him, so that he might have seized her twice over and she would not have lifted a hand to defend herself if he had not reminded her.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000037_000001|Damnation, these thoughts again!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000037_000002|I must put it away!"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000038_000001|He started.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000038_000003|I believe it's a mouse," he thought, "that's the veal I left on the table." He felt fearfully disinclined to pull off the blanket, get up, get cold, but all at once something unpleasant ran over his leg again.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000038_000004|He pulled off the blanket and lighted the candle.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000039_000002|The wind was howling under the window.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000039_000003|"How disgusting," he thought with annoyance.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000040_000003|He was not thinking of anything and did not want to think.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000040_000005|He sank into drowsiness.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000040_000006|Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000040_000007|He kept dwelling on images of flowers, he fancied a charming flower garden, a bright, warm, almost hot day, a holiday-Trinity day.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000040_000009|A light, cool staircase, carpeted with rich rugs, was decorated with rare plants in china pots.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000040_000012|The birds were chirruping under the window, and in the middle of the room, on a table covered with a white satin shroud, stood a coffin.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000041_000003|Under the window there must have been something like a garden, and apparently a pleasure garden.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000041_000007|"Ah, the signal!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000042_000001|It will be light in an hour!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000042_000002|Why wait?
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000042_000004|I'll choose a great bush there drenched with rain, so that as soon as one's shoulder touches it, millions of drops drip on one's head."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000043_000001|"It's the best minute; I couldn't choose a better."
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000044_000004|The child's face was pale and tired, she was numb with cold.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000044_000005|"How can she have come here? She must have hidden here and not slept all night." He began questioning her.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000044_000010|When he had undressed her, he put her on the bed, covered her up and wrapped her in the blanket from her head downwards.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000044_000011|She fell asleep at once.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000044_000012|Then he sank into dreary musing again.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000045_000000|"What folly to trouble myself," he decided suddenly with an oppressive feeling of annoyance.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000045_000012|But now she quite gave up all effort, now it was a grin, a broad grin; there was something shameless, provocative in that quite unchildish face; it was depravity, it was the face of a harlot, the shameless face of a French harlot.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000045_000016|"What does it mean?" And now she turned to him, her little face all aglow, holding out her arms....
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000046_000000|He was in the same bed, still wrapped in the blanket.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000047_000000|"I've had nightmare all night!"
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000047_000002|There was a thick mist outside and he could see nothing.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000047_000003|It was nearly five.
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000047_000004|He had overslept himself!
train-other-500/3564/132498/3564_132498_000047_000008|The revolver and the notebook lay beside him.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000011_000000|The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman-
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000012_000000|"We will pass the night in Arsat's clearing.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000012_000001|It is late."
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000013_000001|The white man rested his chin on his crossed arms and gazed at the wake of the boat.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000013_000002|At the end of the straight avenue of forests cut by the intense glitter of the river, the sun appeared unclouded and dazzling, poised low over the water that shone smoothly like a band of metal.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000013_000003|The forests, sombre and dull, stood motionless and silent on each side of the broad stream.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000013_000004|At the foot of big, towering trees, trunkless nipa palms rose from the mud of the bank, in bunches of leaves enormous and heavy, that hung unstirring over the brown swirl of eddies.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000013_000007|The churned up water frothed alongside with a confused murmur.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000013_000008|And the white man's canoe, advancing upstream in the short-lived disturbance of its own making, seemed to enter the portals of a land from which the very memory of motion had forever departed.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000014_000000|The white man, turning his back upon the setting sun, looked along the empty and broad expanse of the sea reach.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000015_000000|The steersman dug his paddle into the stream, and held hard with stiffened arms, his body thrown forward.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000015_000001|The water gurgled aloud; and suddenly the long straight reach seemed to pivot on its centre, the forests swung in a semicircle, and the slanting beams of sunset touched the broadside of the canoe with a fiery glow, throwing the slender and distorted shadows of its crew upon the streaked glitter of the river. The white man turned to look ahead.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000016_000000|The narrow creek was like a ditch: tortuous, fabulously deep; filled with gloom under the thin strip of pure and shining blue of the heaven. Immense trees soared up, invisible behind the festooned draperies of creepers.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000016_000001|Here and there, near the glistening blackness of the water, a twisted root of some tall tree showed amongst the tracery of small ferns, black and dull, writhing and motionless, like an arrested snake. The short words of the paddlers reverberated loudly between the thick and sombre walls of vegetation.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000017_000000|The men poled in the shoaling water.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000017_000001|The creek broadened, opening out into a wide sweep of a stagnant lagoon.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000017_000002|The forests receded from the marshy bank, leaving a level strip of bright green, reedy grass to frame the reflected blueness of the sky.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000017_000003|A fleecy pink cloud drifted high above, trailing the delicate colouring of its image under the floating leaves and the silvery blossoms of the lotus.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000017_000005|Near it, two tall nibong palms, that seemed to have come out of the forests in the background, leaned slightly over the ragged roof, with a suggestion of sad tenderness and care in the droop of their leafy and soaring heads.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000018_000000|The steersman, pointing with his paddle, said, "Arsat is there.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000018_000001|I see his canoe fast between the piles."
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000019_000001|They would have preferred to spend the night somewhere else than on this lagoon of weird aspect and ghostly reputation.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000019_000002|Moreover, they disliked Arsat, first as a stranger, and also because he who repairs a ruined house, and dwells in it, proclaims that he is not afraid to live amongst the spirits that haunt the places abandoned by mankind.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000019_000003|Such a man can disturb the course of fate by glances or words; while his familiar ghosts are not easy to propitiate by casual wayfarers upon whom they long to wreak the malice of their human master.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000019_000004|White men care not for such things, being unbelievers and in league with the Father of Evil, who leads them unharmed through the invisible dangers of this world.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000019_000005|To the warnings of the righteous they oppose an offensive pretence of disbelief.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000019_000006|What is there to be done?
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000020_000000|So they thought, throwing their weight on the end of their long poles. The big canoe glided on swiftly, noiselessly, and smoothly, towards Arsat's clearing, till, in a great rattling of poles thrown down, and the loud murmurs of "Allah be praised!" it came with a gentle knock against the crooked piles below the house.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000021_000002|The white man began to climb the rude ladder giving access to the bamboo platform before the house.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000021_000003|The juragan of the boat said sulkily, "We will cook in the sampan, and sleep on the water."
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000022_000000|"Pass my blankets and the basket," said the white man, curtly.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000023_000000|He knelt on the edge of the platform to receive the bundle.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000023_000002|He was a man young, powerful, with broad chest and muscular arms.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000023_000003|He had nothing on but his sarong.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000023_000004|His head was bare.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000023_000005|His big, soft eyes stared eagerly at the white man, but his voice and demeanour were composed as he asked, without any words of greeting-
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000024_000000|"Have you medicine, Tuan?"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000025_000001|"no
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000025_000002|Why?
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000025_000003|Is there sickness in the house?"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000026_000000|"Enter and see," replied Arsat, in the same calm manner, and turning short round, passed again through the small doorway.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000026_000001|The white man, dropping his bundles, followed.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000027_000000|In the dim light of the dwelling he made out on a couch of bamboos a woman stretched on her back under a broad sheet of red cotton cloth. She lay still, as if dead; but her big eyes, wide open, glittered in the gloom, staring upwards at the slender rafters, motionless and unseeing. She was in a high fever, and evidently unconscious.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000027_000002|The two men stood looking down at her in silence.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000028_000000|"Has she been long ill?" asked the traveller.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000029_000001|"At first she heard voices calling her from the water and struggled against me who held her.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000029_000003|She sees nothing.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000029_000004|She sees not me-me!"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000031_000000|"Tuan, will she die?"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000032_000000|"I fear so," said the white man, sorrowfully.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000032_000001|He had known Arsat years ago, in a far country in times of trouble and danger, when no friendship is to be despised.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000032_000002|And since his Malay friend had come unexpectedly to dwell in the hut on the lagoon with a strange woman, he had slept many times there, in his journeys up and down the river.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000032_000003|He liked the man who knew how to keep faith in council and how to fight without fear by the side of his white friend.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000032_000004|He liked him-not so much perhaps as a man likes his favourite dog-but still he liked him well enough to help and ask no questions, to think sometimes vaguely and hazily in the midst of his own pursuits, about the lonely man and the long haired woman with audacious face and triumphant eyes, who lived together hidden by the forests-alone and feared.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000034_000001|The white man moved his outstretched legs a little.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000035_000000|"She breathes," said Arsat in a low voice, anticipating the expected question.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000035_000002|She speaks not; she hears not-and burns!"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000037_000000|"Tuan . . . will she die?"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000038_000000|The white man moved his shoulders uneasily and muttered in a hesitating manner-
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000039_000000|"If such is her fate."
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000040_000000|"No, Tuan," said Arsat, calmly.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000040_000001|"If such is my fate.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000040_000003|I remember . . .
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000040_000004|Tuan, do you remember the old days?
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000040_000005|Do you remember my brother?"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000041_000000|"Yes," said the white man.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000041_000001|The Malay rose suddenly and went in.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000041_000003|Arsat said: "Hear me!
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000041_000004|Speak!" His words were succeeded by a complete silence. "O Diamelen!" he cried, suddenly.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000041_000005|After that cry there was a deep sigh. Arsat came out and sank down again in his old place.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000042_000000|They sat in silence before the fire.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000042_000001|There was no sound within the house, there was no sound near them; but far away on the lagoon they could hear the voices of the boatmen ringing fitful and distinct on the calm water.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000042_000003|Then it died out.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000042_000004|The voices ceased. The land and the water slept invisible, unstirring and mute.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000042_000005|It was as though there had been nothing left in the world but the glitter of stars streaming, ceaseless and vain, through the black stillness of the night.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000043_000000|The white man gazed straight before him into the darkness with wide open eyes.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000043_000003|An unquiet and mysterious country of inextinguishable desires and fears.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000044_000003|Arsat, motionless and shadowy, sitting with bowed head under the stars, was speaking in a low and dreamy tone-
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000045_000000|". . . for where can we lay down the heaviness of our trouble but in a friend's heart?
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000045_000001|A man must speak of war and of love.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000045_000002|You, Tuan, know what war is, and you have seen me in time of danger seek death as other men seek life!
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000045_000003|A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!"
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000046_000000|"I remember," said the white man, quietly.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000046_000001|Arsat went on with mournful composure-
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000047_000000|"Therefore I shall speak to you of love.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000047_000001|Speak in the night.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000047_000002|Speak before both night and love are gone-and the eye of day looks upon my sorrow and my shame; upon my blackened face; upon my burnt up heart."
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000000|"After the time of trouble and war was over and you went away from my country in the pursuit of your desires, which we, men of the islands, cannot understand, I and my brother became again, as we had been before, the sword bearers of the Ruler.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000001|You know we were men of family, belonging to a ruling race, and more fit than any to carry on our right shoulder the emblem of power.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000003|It was a time of peace.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000004|A time of deer hunts and cock fights; of idle talks and foolish squabbles between men whose bellies are full and weapons are rusty.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000005|But the sower watched the young rice shoots grow up without fear, and the traders came and went, departed lean and returned fat into the river of peace.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000006|They brought news, too.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000008|We heard from them about you also.
train-other-500/3567/7276/3567_7276_000049_000009|They had seen you here and had seen you there.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000000_000001|O Calamity!" then went on speaking a little louder:
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000000|"There's no worse enemy and no better friend than a brother, Tuan, for one brother knows another, and in perfect knowledge is strength for good or evil.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000001|I loved my brother.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000002|I went to him and told him that I could see nothing but one face, hear nothing but one voice.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000003|He told me: 'Open your heart so that she can see what is in it-and wait.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000004|Patience is wisdom. Inchi Midah may die or our Ruler may throw off his fear of a woman!' . . .
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000005|I waited! . . .
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000007|And if she wanted her servant, what could I do?
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000008|But I fed the hunger of my heart on short glances and stealthy words.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000009|I loitered on the path to the bath houses in the daytime, and when the sun had fallen behind the forest I crept along the jasmine hedges of the women's courtyard.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000012|There is a time when a man should forget loyalty and respect.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000013|Might and authority are given to rulers, but to all men is given love and strength and courage.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000014|My brother said, 'You shall take her from their midst.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000016|There were hundreds of boats, and on the white sand, between the water and the forests, dwellings of leaves were built for the households of the Rajahs.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000018|While they were making the boats ready to beat up the fish, my brother came to me and said, 'To night!' I looked to my weapons, and when the time came our canoe took its place in the circle of boats carrying the torches.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000019|The lights blazed on the water, but behind the boats there was darkness.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000020|When the shouting began and the excitement made them like mad we dropped out.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000021|The water swallowed our fire, and we floated back to the shore that was dark with only here and there the glimmer of embers.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000022|We could hear the talk of slave girls amongst the sheds.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000023|Then we found a place deserted and silent.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000024|We waited there.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000025|She came.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000026|She came running along the shore, rapid and leaving no trace, like a leaf driven by the wind into the sea.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000027|My brother said gloomily, 'Go and take her; carry her into our boat.' I lifted her in my arms.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000028|She panted.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000030|I said, 'I take you from those people.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000031|You came to the cry of my heart, but my arms take you into my boat against the will of the great!' 'It is right,' said my brother.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000032|'We are men who take what we want and can hold it against many.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000033|We should have taken her in daylight.' I said, 'Let us be off'; for since she was in my boat I began to think of our Ruler's many men.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000034|'Yes.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000035|Let us be off,' said my brother.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000036|'We are cast out and this boat is our country now-and the sea is our refuge.' He lingered with his foot on the shore, and I entreated him to hasten, for I remembered the strokes of her heart against my breast and thought that two men cannot withstand a hundred.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000037|We left, paddling downstream close to the bank; and as we passed by the creek where they were fishing, the great shouting had ceased, but the murmur of voices was loud like the humming of insects flying at noonday.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000038|The boats floated, clustered together, in the red light of torches, under a black roof of smoke; and men talked of their sport.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000039|Men that boasted, and praised, and jeered-men that would have been our friends in the morning, but on that night were already our enemies.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000040|We paddled swiftly past.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000041|We had no more friends in the country of our birth.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000001_000042|She sat in the middle of the canoe with covered face; silent as she is now; unseeing as she is now-and I had no regret at what I was leaving because I could hear her breathing close to me-as I can hear her now."
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000002_000000|He paused, listened with his ear turned to the doorway, then shook his head and went on:
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000000|"My brother wanted to shout the cry of challenge-one cry only-to let the people know we were freeborn robbers who trusted our arms and the great sea.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000001|And again I begged him in the name of our love to be silent. Could I not hear her breathing close to me?
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000002|I knew the pursuit would come quick enough.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000003|My brother loved me.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000004|He dipped his paddle without a splash.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000005|He only said, 'There is half a man in you now-the other half is in that woman.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000006|I can wait.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000007|When you are a whole man again, you will come back with me here to shout defiance.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000009|All my strength and all my spirit were in my hands that held the paddle-for I longed to be with her in a safe place beyond the reach of men's anger and of women's spite.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000010|My love was so great, that I thought it could guide me to a country where death was unknown, if I could only escape from Inchi Midah's fury and from our Ruler's sword. We paddled with haste, breathing through our teeth.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000011|The blades bit deep into the smooth water.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000012|We passed out of the river; we flew in clear channels amongst the shallows.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000013|We skirted the black coast; we skirted the sand beaches where the sea speaks in whispers to the land; and the gleam of white sand flashed back past our boat, so swiftly she ran upon the water.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000014|We spoke not.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000015|Only once I said, 'Sleep, Diamelen, for soon you may want all your strength.' I heard the sweetness of her voice, but I never turned my head.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000016|The sun rose and still we went on.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000017|Water fell from my face like rain from a cloud.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000018|We flew in the light and heat.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000020|There was no better paddler, no better steersman than my brother.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000021|Many times, together, we had won races in that canoe.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000023|There was no braver or stronger man in our country than my brother.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000027|My ribs were ready to burst, but I could no longer get enough air into my chest.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000028|And then I felt I must cry out with my last breath, 'Let us rest!' . . . 'Good!' he answered; and his voice was firm.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000029|He was strong. He was brave.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000030|He knew not fear and no fatigue . . .
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000003_000031|My brother!"
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000005_000000|Arsat went on in an even, low voice.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000000|"We ran our canoe on the white beach of a little bay close to a long tongue of land that seemed to bar our road; a long wooded cape going far into the sea.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000001|My brother knew that place.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000002|Beyond the cape a river has its entrance, and through the jungle of that land there is a narrow path.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000003|We made a fire and cooked rice.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000004|Then we lay down to sleep on the soft sand in the shade of our canoe, while she watched.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000005|No sooner had I closed my eyes than I heard her cry of alarm.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000007|The sun was halfway down the sky already, and coming in sight in the opening of the bay we saw a prau manned by many paddlers.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000008|We knew it at once; it was one of our Rajah's praus.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000010|They beat the gong, and turned the head of the prau into the bay.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000011|I felt my heart become weak within my breast.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000012|Diamelen sat on the sand and covered her face.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000013|There was no escape by sea.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000014|My brother laughed.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000015|He had the gun you had given him, Tuan, before you went away, but there was only a handful of powder.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000017|Run with her.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000019|I am a great runner, and before they can come up we shall be gone.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000021|The prau was coming.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000022|She and I ran, and as we rushed along the path I heard shots. My brother fired-once-twice-and the booming of the gong ceased.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000023|There was silence behind us.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000025|Before I heard my brother fire the third shot I saw the shelving shore, and I saw the water again; the mouth of a broad river.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000026|We crossed a grassy glade.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000027|We ran down to the water.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000029|I heard another shot behind me.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000030|I thought, 'That is his last charge.' We rushed down to the canoe; a man came running from the hut, but I leaped on him, and we rolled together in the mud.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000033|I and Diamelen pushed the canoe afloat.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000034|I heard yells behind me, and I saw my brother run across the glade.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000035|Many men were bounding after him, I took her in my arms and threw her into the boat, then leaped in myself.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000036|When I looked back I saw that my brother had fallen.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000037|He fell and was up again, but the men were closing round him.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000038|He shouted, 'I am coming!' The men were close to him.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000039|I looked.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000040|Many men.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000041|Then I looked at her.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000042|Tuan, I pushed the canoe!
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000044|She was kneeling forward looking at me, and I said, 'Take your paddle,' while I struck the water with mine.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000046|I heard him cry my name twice; and I heard voices shouting, 'Kill!
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000047|Strike!' I never turned back.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000049|My brother!
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000050|Three times he called-but I was not afraid of life.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000006_000051|Was she not there in that canoe?
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000007_000001|Arsat rose and stood, an indistinct and silent figure above the dying embers of the fire.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000007_000002|Over the lagoon a mist drifting and low had crept, erasing slowly the glittering images of the stars.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000007_000003|And now a great expanse of white vapour covered the land: it flowed cold and gray in the darkness, eddied in noiseless whirls round the tree trunks and about the platform of the house, which seemed to float upon a restless and impalpable illusion of a sea.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000008_000000|Arsat's voice vibrated loudly in the profound peace.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000009_000000|"I had her there!
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000009_000001|I had her!
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000009_000002|To get her I would have faced all mankind. But I had her-and-"
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000010_000000|His words went out ringing into the empty distances.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000010_000001|He paused, and seemed to listen to them dying away very far-beyond help and beyond recall.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000010_000002|Then he said quietly-
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000012_000000|A breath of wind made him shiver.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000012_000001|High above his head, high above the silent sea of mist the drooping leaves of the palms rattled together with a mournful and expiring sound.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000012_000002|The white man stretched his legs. His chin rested on his chest, and he murmured sadly without lifting his head-
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000013_000000|"We all love our brothers."
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000014_000000|Arsat burst out with an intense whispering violence-
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000015_000000|"What did I care who died?
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000015_000001|I wanted peace in my own heart."
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000000|He seemed to hear a stir in the house-listened-then stepped in noiselessly.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000001|The white man stood up.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000002|A breeze was coming in fitful puffs.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000003|The stars shone paler as if they had retreated into the frozen depths of immense space.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000005|Then from behind the black and wavy line of the forests a column of golden light shot up into the heavens and spread over the semicircle of the eastern horizon.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000006|The sun had risen.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000007|The mist lifted, broke into drifting patches, vanished into thin flying wreaths; and the unveiled lagoon lay, polished and black, in the heavy shadows at the foot of the wall of trees.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000008|A white eagle rose over it with a slanting and ponderous flight, reached the clear sunshine and appeared dazzlingly brilliant for a moment, then soaring higher, became a dark and motionless speck before it vanished into the blue as if it had left the earth forever.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000010|Suddenly Arsat stumbled out with outstretched hands, shivered, and stood still for some time with fixed eyes.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000016_000011|Then he said-
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000017_000000|"She burns no more."
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000018_000000|Before his face the sun showed its edge above the tree tops rising steadily.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000018_000001|The breeze freshened; a great brilliance burst upon the lagoon, sparkled on the rippling water.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000018_000002|The forests came out of the clear shadows of the morning, became distinct, as if they had rushed nearer-to stop short in a great stir of leaves, of nodding boughs, of swaying branches.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000018_000003|In the merciless sunshine the whisper of unconscious life grew louder, speaking in an incomprehensible voice round the dumb darkness of that human sorrow.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000019_000000|"I can see nothing," he said half aloud to himself.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000020_000000|"There is nothing," said the white man, moving to the edge of the platform and waving his hand to his boat.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000021_000000|"If you want to come with me, I will wait all the morning," said the white man, looking away upon the water.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000022_000000|"No, Tuan," said Arsat, softly.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000022_000001|"I shall not eat or sleep in this house, but I must first see my road.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000022_000002|Now I can see nothing-see nothing!
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000022_000004|We are sons of the same mother-and I left him in the midst of enemies; but I am going back now."
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000023_000000|He drew a long breath and went on in a dreamy tone:
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000024_000000|"In a little while I shall see clear enough to strike-to strike.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000024_000001|But she has died, and . . . now . . . darkness."
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000025_000001|The white man got down into his canoe.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000025_000002|The polers ran smartly along the sides of the boat, looking over their shoulders at the beginning of a weary journey.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000025_000003|High in the stern, his head muffled up in white rags, the juragan sat moody, letting his paddle trail in the water.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000025_000005|Before the sampan passed out of the lagoon into the creek he lifted his eyes.
train-other-500/3567/7277/3567_7277_000025_000006|Arsat had not moved.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000001_000000|Meanwhile Moscow was empty.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000001_000002|It was empty in the sense that a dying queenless hive is empty.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000002_000000|In a queenless hive no life is left though to a superficial glance it seems as much alive as other hives.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000003_000002|The bees do not fly in the same way, the smell and the sound that meet the beekeeper are not the same.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000003_000003|To the beekeeper's tap on the wall of the sick hive, instead of the former instant unanimous humming of tens of thousands of bees with their abdomens threateningly compressed, and producing by the rapid vibration of their wings an aerial living sound, the only reply is a disconnected buzzing from different parts of the deserted hive.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000003_000007|In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000003_000009|Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000003_000010|The beekeeper opens the lower part of the hive and peers in.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000000|The beekeeper opens the upper part of the hive and examines the super.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000002|All is neglected and foul.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000003|Black robber bees are swiftly and stealthily prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000004|Drones, bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies knock awkwardly against the walls of the hive in their flight.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000008|In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000009|The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000004_000010|In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000007_000000|When with due circumspection Napoleon was informed that Moscow was empty, he looked angrily at his informant, turned away, and silently continued to walk to and fro.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000008_000000|"My carriage!" he said.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000009_000000|He took his seat beside the aide de camp on duty and drove into the suburb.
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000009_000002|"What an incredible event!"
train-other-500/3571/173553/3571_173553_000010_000000|He did not drive into the town, but put up at an inn in the Dorogomilov suburb.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000008_000000|The greatest crush during the movement of the troops took place at the Stone, Moskva, and Yauza bridges.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000009_000001|Crowds of the kind seen at cheap sales filled all the passages and alleys of the Bazaar.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000009_000002|But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers-but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000009_000003|Tradesmen and their assistants (of whom there were but few) moved about among the soldiers quite bewildered.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000009_000005|On the square in front of the Bazaar were drummers beating the muster call.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000009_000008|Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000009_000009|A third officer galloped up to them.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000010_000001|This is outrageous!
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000010_000002|Half the men have dispersed."
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000011_000001|Where?..." he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000011_000002|"Stop, you rascals!"
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000012_000000|"But how are you going to stop them?" replied another officer.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000012_000001|"There is no getting them together.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000012_000002|The army should push on before the rest bolt, that's all!"
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000013_000002|Shouldn't we put a cordon round to prevent the rest from running away?"
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000015_000000|The officer in the scarf dismounted, called up a drummer, and went with him into the arcade.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000015_000001|Some soldiers started running away in a group.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000016_000001|"Be so good as to protect us!
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000016_000002|We won't grudge trifles, you are welcome to anything-we shall be delighted!
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000016_000003|Pray!...
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000016_000005|For we feel how it is; but what's all this-sheer robbery!
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000016_000006|If you please, could not guards be placed if only to let us close the shop...."
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000018_000001|"When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000019_000001|"Please step inside, your honor!"
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000020_000000|"Talk indeed!" cried the thin one.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000020_000001|"In my three shops here I have a hundred thousand rubles' worth of goods.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000020_000002|Can they be saved when the army has gone?
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000020_000004|'Against God's might our hands can't fight.'"
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000021_000000|"Come inside, your honor!" repeated the tradesman, bowing.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000022_000000|The officer stood perplexed and his face showed indecision.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000023_000000|"It's not my business!" he exclaimed, and strode on quickly down one of the passages.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000025_000000|This man, bent double, rushed past the tradesman and the officer.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000026_000000|"What is it?
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000026_000001|What is it?" he asked, but his comrade was already galloping off past Vasili the Beatified in the direction from which the screams came.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000027_000000|The officer mounted his horse and rode after him.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000027_000001|When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000027_000002|Beside the cannon a cart was standing to which two horses were harnessed.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000027_000003|Four borzois with collars were pressing close to the wheels.
train-other-500/3571/173554/3571_173554_000027_000004|The cart was loaded high, and at the very top, beside a child's chair with its legs in the air, sat a peasant woman uttering piercing and desperate shrieks.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000000|Meanwhile, the city itself was deserted.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000001|There was hardly anyone in the streets.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000002|The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000003|Nobody drove through the streets and footsteps were rarely heard.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000004|The Povarskaya was quite still and deserted.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000007|They were the yard porter Ignat, and the page boy Mishka, Vasilich's grandson who had stayed in Moscow with his grandfather.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000008|Mishka had opened the clavichord and was strumming on it with one finger.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000001_000009|The yard porter, his arms akimbo, stood smiling with satisfaction before the large mirror.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000004_000000|"Impudence!
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000004_000001|Impudence!" they heard behind them the voice of Mavra Kuzminichna who had entered silently.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000004_000002|"How he's grinning, the fat mug!
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000004_000003|Is that what you're here for?
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000004_000005|Just you wait a bit!"
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000005_000000|Ignat left off smiling, adjusted his belt, and went out of the room with meekly downcast eyes.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000007_000001|"Go and get the samovar to boil for your grandfather."
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000008_000000|Mavra Kuzminichna flicked the dust off the clavichord and closed it, and with a deep sigh left the drawing room and locked its main door.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000009_000000|Going out into the yard she paused to consider where she should go next -to drink tea in the servants' wing with Vasilich, or into the storeroom to put away what still lay about.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000010_000000|She heard the sound of quick footsteps in the quiet street.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000010_000001|Someone stopped at the gate, and the latch rattled as someone tried to open it.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000010_000002|Mavra Kuzminichna went to the gate.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000011_000000|"Who do you want?"
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000012_000000|"The count-Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov."
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000013_000000|"And who are you?"
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000014_000000|"An officer, I have to see him," came the reply in a pleasant, well bred Russian voice.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000015_000000|Mavra Kuzminichna opened the gate and an officer of eighteen, with the round face of a Rostov, entered the yard.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000016_000000|"They have gone away, sir.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000016_000001|Went away yesterday at vespertime," said Mavra Kuzminichna cordially.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000017_000000|The young officer standing in the gateway, as if hesitating whether to enter or not, clicked his tongue.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000018_000001|"I should have come yesterday....
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000019_000000|Meanwhile, Mavra Kuzminichna was attentively and sympathetically examining the familiar Rostov features of the young man's face, his tattered coat and trodden down boots.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000020_000000|"What did you want to see the count for?" she asked.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000022_000000|He again paused in indecision.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000023_000000|"You see," he suddenly said, "I am a kinsman of the count's and he has been very kind to me.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000023_000001|As you see" (he glanced with an amused air and good-natured smile at his coat and boots) "my things are worn out and I have no money, so I was going to ask the count..."
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000025_000000|"Just wait a minute, sir.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000026_000000|And as soon as the officer let go of the gate handle she turned and, hurrying away on her old legs, went through the back yard to the servants' quarters.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000027_000000|While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000027_000005|Just then Mavra Kuzminichna appeared from behind the corner of the house with a frightened yet resolute look, carrying a rolled up check kerchief in her hand.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000029_000000|Mavra Kuzminichna grew abashed and confused.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000030_000000|"If the count had been at home..." Mavra Kuzminichna went on apologetically.
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000030_000001|"Christ be with you, sir!
train-other-500/3571/173555/3571_173555_000030_000002|May God preserve you!" said she, bowing as she saw him out.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000001_000000|From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dramshop, came drunken shouts and songs.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000001_000004|One, a tall, fair haired lad in a clean blue coat, was standing over the others.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000001_000005|His face with its fine straight nose would have been handsome had it not been for his thin, compressed, twitching lips and dull, gloomy, fixed eyes.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000001_000007|The sleeve of his coat kept slipping down and he always carefully rolled it up again with his left hand, as if it were most important that the sinewy white arm he was flourishing should be bare.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000001_000009|The tall lad waved his arm.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000002_000000|"Stop it!" he exclaimed peremptorily.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000003_000000|The factory hands followed him.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000004_000000|The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000005_000000|Another smith tried to enter the doorway, pressing against the publican with his chest.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000007_000000|At that moment the first smith got up and, scratching his bruised face to make it bleed, shouted in a tearful voice: "Police!
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000007_000001|Murder!...
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000007_000002|They've killed a man, lads!"
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000008_000000|"Oh, gracious me, a man beaten to death-killed!..." screamed a woman coming out of a gate close by.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000010_000000|"Haven't you robbed people enough-taking their last shirts?" said a voice addressing the publican.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000010_000001|"What have you killed a man for, you thief?"
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000011_000000|The tall lad, standing in the porch, turned his bleared eyes from the publican to the smith and back again as if considering whom he ought to fight now.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000012_000000|"Murderer!" he shouted suddenly to the publican.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000012_000001|"Bind him, lads!"
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000014_000000|As if this action had some mysterious and menacing significance, the workmen surrounding the publican paused in indecision.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000015_000000|"I know the law very well, mates!
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000015_000001|I'll take the matter to the captain of police.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000015_000002|You think I won't get to him?
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000016_000001|Come along then!" the publican and the tall young fellow repeated one after the other, and they moved up the street together.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000017_000000|The bloodstained smith went beside them.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000018_000000|At the corner of the Moroseyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker's signboard, stood a score of thin, worn out, gloomy faced bootmakers, wearing overalls and long tattered coats.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000020_000000|"But he's sucked our blood and now he thinks he's quit of us.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000020_000001|He's been misleading us all the week and now that he's brought us to this pass he's made off."
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000021_000000|On seeing the crowd and the bloodstained man the workman ceased speaking, and with eager curiosity all the bootmakers joined the moving crowd.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000022_000000|"Where are all the folks going?"
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000025_000000|Questions and answers were heard.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000025_000001|The publican, taking advantage of the increased crowd, dropped behind and returned to his tavern.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000026_000000|The tall youth, not noticing the disappearance of his foe, waved his bare arm and went on talking incessantly, attracting general attention to himself.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000026_000001|It was around him that the people chiefly crowded, expecting answers from him to the questions that occupied all their minds.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000027_000000|"He must keep order, keep the law, that's what the government is there for.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000027_000001|Am I not right, good Christians?" said the tall youth, with a scarcely perceptible smile.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000027_000003|How can one do without government?
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000028_000000|"Why talk nonsense?" rejoined voices in the crowd.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000028_000001|"Will they give up Moscow like this?
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000028_000002|They told you that for fun, and you believed it!
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000028_000003|Aren't there plenty of troops on the march?
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000028_000004|Let him in, indeed!
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000028_000005|That's what the government is for.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000031_000001|When the crowd collected round him he seemed confused, but at the demand of the tall lad who had pushed his way up to him, he began in a rather tremulous voice to read the sheet from the beginning.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000032_000001|We too will take part..." the reader went on, and then paused ("Do you see," shouted the youth victoriously, "he's going to clear up the whole affair for you...."), "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000032_000002|I will come back to dinner, and we'll set to work.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000032_000003|We will do, completely do, and undo these scoundrels."
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000033_000001|The tall lad hung his head gloomily.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000034_000000|They all stood despondent and silent.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000034_000001|The tall youth moved his lips and swayed from side to side.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000035_000000|"We should ask him... that's he himself?"...
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000035_000001|"Yes, ask him indeed!...
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000035_000002|Why not?
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000037_000000|"What people are these?" he shouted to the men, who were moving singly and timidly in the direction of his trap.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000038_000000|"What people are these?" he shouted again, receiving no answer.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000040_000000|"The count has not left, he is here, and an order will be issued concerning you," said the superintendent of police.
train-other-500/3571/173556/3571_173556_000040_000001|"Go on!" he ordered his coachman.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000002_000000|LETTER twenty four
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000003_000000|DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000004_000000|I shall write on, as long as I stay, though I should have nothing but silliness to write; for I know you divert yourselves on nights with what I write, because it is mine.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000004_000001|john tells me how much you long for my coming; but he says, he told you he hoped something would happen to hinder it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000005_000000|I am glad you did not tell him the occasion of my coming away; for if my fellow servants should guess, it were better so, than to have it from you or me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000005_000001|Besides, I really am concerned, that my master should cast away a thought upon such a poor creature as me; for, besides the disgrace, it has quite turned his temper; and I begin to believe what mrs Jervis told me, that he likes me, and can't help it; and yet strives to conquer it; and so finds no way but to be cross to me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000007_000000|And so, when I had dined, up stairs I went, and locked myself into my little room.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000008_000000|O the pleasure of descending with ease, innocence, and resignation!--Indeed, there is nothing like it!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000009_000000|So I went down to look for mrs Jervis, to see how she liked me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000000|I met, as I was upon the stairs, our Rachel, who is the house maid; and she made me a low courtesy, and I found did not know me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000001|So I smiled, and went to the housekeeper's parlour; and there sat good mrs Jervis at work, making a shift: and, would you believe it?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000002|she did not know me at first; but rose up, and pulled off her spectacles; and said, Do you want me, forsooth?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000003|I could not help laughing, and said, Hey day!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000004|mrs Jervis, what!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000005|don't you know me?--She stood all in amaze, and looked at me from top to toe: Why, you surprise me, said she: What!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000010_000006|Pamela thus metamorphosed!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000011_000001|I told her, I had no clothes suitable to my condition when I returned to my father's; and so it was better to begin here, as I was soon to go away, that all my fellow servants might see I knew how to suit myself to the state I was returning to.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000012_000000|Well, said she, I never knew the like of thee.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000012_000002|O my dear Pamela, how can I part with you!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000013_000000|My master rung in the back parlour, and so I withdrew, and mrs Jervis went to attend him.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000013_000002|But, pray, what pretty neat damsel was with you?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000013_000003|She says, she smiled, and asked, If his honour did not know who it was?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000013_000004|No, said he, I never saw her before.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000013_000005|Farmer Nichols, or Farmer Brady, have neither of them such a tight prim lass for a daughter! have they?--Though I did not see her face neither, said he. If your honour won't be angry, said she, I will introduce her into your presence; for I think, says she, she outdoes our Pamela.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000014_000000|Now I did not thank her for this, as I told her afterwards, (for it brought a great deal of trouble upon me, as well as crossness, as you shall hear).
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000014_000002|But if you can find an excuse for it, let her come in.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000015_000002|I tell you, said she, you shall come in; and pray don't reveal yourself till he finds you out.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000016_000000|So I went in, foolish as I was; though I must have been seen by him another time, if I had not then.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000016_000001|And she would make me take my straw hat in my hand.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000017_000000|I dropt a low courtesy, but said never a word.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000017_000003|So neat, so clean, so pretty!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000017_000004|Why, child, you far surpass your sister Pamela!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000021_000000|This was a sad trick upon me, indeed, and what I could not expect; and mrs Jervis looked like a fool as much as I, for her officiousness.--At last I got away, and ran out of the parlour, most sadly vexed, as you may well think.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000022_000000|He talked a good deal to mrs Jervis, and at last ordered me to come in to him.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000023_000000|I was out of patience then: Hold, good sir, said I; don't impute disguise and hypocrisy to me, above all things; for I hate them both, mean as I am.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000023_000001|I have put on no disguise.--What a plague, said he, for that was his word, do you mean then by this dress?--Why, and please your honour, said I, I mean one of the honestest things in the world.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000024_000000|I have been in disguise, indeed, ever since my good lady your mother took me from my poor parents.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000025_000000|He then took me in his arms, and presently pushed me from him.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000027_000001|Pride and perverseness, said he, with a vengeance!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000028_000001|Good your honour, what have I done, that I must be used worse than if I had robbed you?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000029_000002|I, sir? said I; have I robbed you?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000029_000003|Why then you are a justice of peace, and may send me to gaol, if you please, and bring me to a trial for my life! If you can prove that I have robbed you, I am sure I ought to die.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000030_000001|Then I thought in an instant, how I should shew my face to my honest poor parents, if I was but suspected.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000030_000002|But, sir, said I, let me ask you but one question, and pray don't let me be called names for it; for I don't mean disrespectfully: Why, if I have done amiss, am I not left to be discharged by your housekeeper, as the other maids have been?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000030_000003|And if Jane, or Rachel, or Hannah, were to offend, would your honour stoop to take notice of them?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000030_000004|And why should you so demean yourself to take notice of me?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000030_000005|Pray, sir, if I have not been worse than others, why should I suffer more than others? and why should I not be turned away, and there's an end of it?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000030_000006|For indeed I am not of consequence enough for my master to concern himself, and be angry about such a creature as me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000031_000000|Do you hear, mrs Jervis, cried he again, how pertly I am interrogated by this saucy slut?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000031_000001|Why, sauce box, says he, did not my good mother desire me to take care of you?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000031_000002|And have you not been always distinguished by me, above a common servant?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000032_000000|I said something mutteringly, and he vowed he would hear it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000032_000001|I begged excuse; but he insisted upon it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000032_000002|Why, then, said I, if your honour must know, I said, That my good lady did not desire your care to extend to the summer house, and her dressing room.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000033_000000|Well, this was a little saucy, you'll say-And he flew into such a passion, that I was forced to run for it; and mrs Jervis said, It was happy I got out of the way.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000034_000000|Why what makes him provoke one so, then?--I'm almost sorry for it; but I would be glad to get away at any rate.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000034_000001|For I begin to be more fearful now.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000035_000000|Just now mr Jonathan sent me these lines-(Bless me! what shall I do?)
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000036_000001|Burn this instantly.'
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000037_000000|O pray for your poor daughter.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000037_000001|I am called to go to bed by mrs Jervis, for it is past eleven; and I am sure she shall hear of it; for all this is owing to her, though she did not mean any harm.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000037_000002|But I have been, and am, in a strange fluster; and I suppose too, she'll say, I have been full pert.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000038_000000|O my dear father and mother, power and riches never want advocates!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000038_000001|But, poor gentlewoman, she cannot live without him: and he has been very good to her.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000039_000000|So good night.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000039_000001|May be I shall send this in the morning; but may be not; so won't conclude: though I can't say too often, that I am (though with great apprehension)
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000040_000000|Your most dutiful DAUGHTER.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000041_000000|LETTER twenty five
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000042_000000|MY DEAR PARENTS,
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000043_000000|O let me take up my complaint, and say, Never was poor creature so unhappy, and so barbarously used, as poor Pamela!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000043_000001|Indeed, my dear father and mother, my heart's just broke!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000043_000002|I can neither write as I should do, nor let it alone, for to whom but you can I vent my griefs, and keep my poor heart from bursting!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000045_000000|I went to mrs Jervis's chamber; and, O dreadful! my wicked master had hid himself, base gentleman as he is! in her closet, where she has a few books, and chest of drawers, and such like.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000046_000000|I sat myself down on one side of the bed, and she on the other, and we began to undress ourselves; but she on that side next the wicked closet, that held the worst heart in the world.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000046_000001|So, said mrs Jervis, you won't speak to me, Pamela!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000046_000002|I find you are angry with me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000046_000003|Why, mrs Jervis, said I, so I am, a little; 'tis a folly to deny it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000046_000004|You see what I have suffered by your forcing me in to my master: and a gentlewoman of your years and experience must needs know, that it was not fit for me to pretend to be any body else for my own sake, nor with regard to my master.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000047_000002|You see presently what use he made of it, pretending not to know me, on purpose to be free with me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000049_000000|I luckily said nothing of the note from mr Jonathan; for I began to suspect all the world almost: but I said, to try mrs Jervis, Well then, what would you have me do?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000049_000001|You see he is for having me wait on Lady Davers now.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000050_000000|Why, I'll tell you freely, my dear Pamela, said she, and I trust to your discretion to conceal what I say: my master has been often desiring me to put you upon asking him to let you stay----
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000051_000000|Yes, said I, mrs Jervis, let me interrupt you: I will tell you why I could not think of that: It was not the pride of my heart, but the pride of my honesty: For what must have been the case?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000051_000003|And was not this to allow him to tempt me, as one may say?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000051_000004|and to encourage him to go on in his wicked devices?--How then, mrs Jervis, could I ask or wish to stay?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000001|There's my good mrs Jervis! said I; God will bless you for your good counsel to a poor maiden, that is hard beset. But pray what did he say, when I was gone?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000003|But he would hear it! said I: I think it was a little bold; but then he provoked me to it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000004|And had not my honesty been in the case, I would not by any means have been so saucy.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000005|Besides, mrs Jervis, consider it was the truth; if he does not love to hear of the summer house, and the dressing room, why should he not be ashamed to continue in the same mind?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000007|Well, said I, I cannot tell a wilful lie, and so there's an end of it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000008|But I find you now give him up, and think there's danger in staying.--Lord bless me!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000052_000009|I wish I was well out of the house; so it was at the bottom of a wet ditch, on the wildest common in England.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000053_000001|And then it was such a surprise upon us all!--I believe truly, you owe some of your danger to the lovely appearance you made.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000053_000002|Then, said I, I wish the clothes in the fire: I expected no effect from them; but, if any, a quite contrary one.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000054_000000|Hush! said I, mrs Jervis, did you not hear something stir in the closet?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000054_000001|No, silly girl, said she, your fears are always awake.--But indeed, said I, I think I heard something rustle.--May be, says she, the cat may be got there: but I hear nothing.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000055_000000|I was hush; but she said, Pr'ythee, my good girl, make haste to bed.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000055_000001|See if the door be fast.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000055_000002|So I did, and was thinking to look into the closet; but, hearing no more noise, thought it needless, and so went again and sat myself down on the bed side, and went on undressing myself.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000056_000000|I don't know what was the matter, but my heart sadly misgave me: Indeed, mr Jonathan's note was enough to make it do so, with what mrs Jervis had said.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000056_000001|I pulled off my stays, and my stockings, and all my clothes to an under petticoat; and then hearing a rustling again in the closet, I said, Heaven protect us! but before I say my prayers, I must look into this closet.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000056_000002|And so was going to it slip shod, when, O dreadful!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000056_000003|out rushed my master in a rich silk and silver morning gown.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000057_000000|I screamed, and ran to the bed, and mrs Jervis screamed too; and he said, I'll do you no harm, if you forbear this noise; but otherwise take what follows.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000059_000001|mrs Jervis, said I, if I am not betrayed, don't leave me; and, I beseech you, raise all the house.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000059_000002|No, said mrs Jervis, I will not stir, my dear lamb; I will not leave you. I wonder at you, sir, said she; and kindly threw herself upon my coat, clasping me round the waist: You shall not hurt this innocent, said she: for I will lose my life in her defence.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000060_000000|He was desperate angry, and threatened to throw her out of the window; and to turn her out of the house the next morning.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000060_000001|You need not, sir, said she; for I will not stay in it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000060_000002|God defend my poor Pamela till to morrow, and we will both go together.--Says he, let me but expostulate a word or two with you, Pamela.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000061_000000|I found his hand in my bosom; and when my fright let me know it, I was ready to die; and I sighed and screamed, and fainted away.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000061_000002|And all in a cold dewy sweat was i Pamela!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000061_000004|And so, to be sure, I was for a time; for I knew nothing more of the matter, one fit following another, till about three hours after, as it proved to be, I found myself in bed, and mrs Jervis sitting upon one side, with her wrapper about her, and Rachel on the other; and no master, for the wicked wretch was gone.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000061_000006|Tell me! can I?--Where have I been?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000061_000007|Hush, my dear, said mrs Jervis; you have been in fit after fit.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000061_000008|I never saw any body so frightful in my life!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000062_000001|And he charged mrs Jervis, and promised to forgive her for what she had said and done, if she would conceal the matter.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000062_000003|I believe they all guess the matter to be bad enough; though they dare not say any thing.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000063_000000|When I think of my danger, and the freedoms he actually took, though I believe mrs Jervis saved me from worse, and she said she did, (though what can I think, who was in a fit, and knew nothing of the matter?) I am almost distracted.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000064_000000|At first I was afraid of mrs Jervis; but I am fully satisfied she is very good, and I should have been lost but for her; and she takes on grievously about it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000064_000001|What would have become of me, had she gone out of the room, to still the maids, as he bid her!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000064_000002|He'd certainly have shut her out, and then, mercy on me! what would have become of your poor Pamela?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000065_000000|I must leave off a little; for my eyes and my head are sadly bad.--This was a dreadful trial!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000065_000001|This was the worst of all!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000065_000002|Oh, that I was out of the power of this dreadfully wicked man!
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000065_000003|Pray for
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000066_000000|Your distressed DAUGHTER.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000068_000000|MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000069_000001|My wicked master went out early to hunt; but left word he would be in to breakfast.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000069_000002|And so he was.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000070_000000|He came up to our chamber about eleven, and had nothing to do to be sorry; for he was our master, and so put on sharp anger at first.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000071_000000|I had great emotions at his entering the room, and threw my apron over my head, and fell a crying, as if my heart would break.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000000|mrs Jervis, said he, since I know you, and you me so well, I don't know how we shall live together for the future.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000001|Sir, said she, I will take the liberty to say, what I think is best for both.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000002|I have so much grief, that you should attempt to do any injury to this poor girl, and especially in my chamber, that I should think myself accessary to the mischief, if I was not to take notice of it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000004|With all my heart, said he; and the sooner the better. She fell a crying.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000005|I find, says he, this girl has made a party of the whole house in her favour against me.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000007|No more of this, mrs Jervis! said he; I will not hear it.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000008|As for Pamela, she has a lucky knack of falling into fits, when she pleases.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000009|But the cursed yellings of you both made me not myself.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000011|Sir, said mrs Jervis, then I beg mr Longman may take my accounts, and I will go away as soon as I can.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000072_000012|As for Pamela, she is at her liberty, I hope, to go away next Thursday, as she intends?
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000073_000000|I sat still; for I could not speak nor look up, and his presence discomposed me extremely; but I was sorry to hear myself the unhappy occasion of mrs Jervis's losing her place, and hope that may be still made up.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000074_000000|Well, said he, let mr Longman make up your accounts, as soon as you will; and mrs Jewkes (who is his housekeeper in Lincolnshire) shall come hither in your place, and won't be less obliging, I dare say, than you have been.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000074_000002|I have been no bad friend to you; and I shall always esteem you, though you have not been so faithful to my secrets as I could have wished, and have laid me open to this girl, which has made her more afraid of me than she had occasion.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000074_000003|Well, sir, said she, after what passed yesterday, and last night, I think I went rather too far in favour of your injunctions than otherwise; and I should have deserved every body's censure, as the basest of creatures, had I been capable of contributing to your lawless attempts.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000074_000004|Still, mrs Jervis, still reflecting upon me, and all for imaginary faults! for what harm have I done the girl?--I won't bear it, I'll assure you.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000075_000001|You are mighty solicitous, said he, about Pamela: But no, not I; let her go as soon as she will: She is a naughty girl, and has brought all this upon herself; and upon me more trouble than she can have had from me: But I have overcome it all, and will never concern myself about her.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000076_000001|I clasped my hands together through my apron, overjoyed at this, though I was soon to go away: For, naughty as he has been to me, I wish his prosperity with all my heart, for my good old lady's sake.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000076_000003|I said not a word.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000076_000004|Says he, If you like what I have said, give me your hand upon it. I held my hand up through my apron; for I could not speak to him; and he took hold of it, and pressed it, though less hard than he did my arm the day before.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000076_000005|What does the little fool cover her face for? said he: Pull your apron away; and let me see how you look, after your freedom of speech of me last night.
train-other-500/3587/140711/3587_140711_000076_000006|No wonder you are ashamed to see me.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000000_000000|"My little child," he said at last, as if we were fallen back ten years, "put your hand where I can feel it."
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000001_000001|But cold fear stopped my talking.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000002_000001|Some day you will see all this, and some day you will pardon me."
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000003_000002|The conical point of the furious sun, which like a barb had pierced us, was broadening into a hazy disk, inefficient, but benevolent.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000004_000002|But drought and famine and long fatigue had failed even now to change or weaken the fine expression of his large, sad eyes.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000004_000003|Those eyes alone would have made the face remarkable among ten thousand, so deep with settled gloom they were, and dark with fatal sorrow.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000004_000004|Such eyes might fitly have told the grief of Adrastus, son of Gordias, who, having slain his own brother unwitting, unwitting slew the only son of his generous host and savior.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000005_000000|The pale globe of the sun hung trembling in the haze himself had made. My father rose to see the last, and reared his tall form upright against the deepening background.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000005_000001|He gazed as if the course of life lay vanishing below him, while level land and waters drew the breadth of shadow over them.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000005_000002|Then the last gleam flowed and fled upon the face of ocean, and my father put his dry lips to my forehead, saying nothing.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000006_000000|His lips might well be dry, for he had not swallowed water for three days; but it frightened me to feel how cold they were, and even tremulous.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000006_000001|"Let us run, let us run, my dear father!" I cried.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000006_000002|"Delicious water!
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000006_000004|It is all down hill.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000007_000000|"Erema," he answered, with a quiet smile, "there is no cause now for hurrying, except that I must hurry to show you what you have to do, my child.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000007_000002|We have escaped from that starving desert at a spot-at a spot where we can see-"
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000008_000001|His face, which had been so pale before, became of a deadly whiteness, and he breathed with gasps of agony.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000008_000002|I knelt before him and took his hands, and tried to rub the palms, and did whatever I could think of.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000009_000000|"Oh, father, father, you have starved yourself, and given every thing to me!
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000009_000001|What a brute I was to let you do it!
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000009_000002|But I did not know; I never knew!
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000010_000000|He could not manage to answer this, even if he understood it; but he firmly lifted his arm again, and tried to make me follow it.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000011_000000|"What does it matter?
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000011_000001|Oh, never mind, never mind such, a wretch as I am! Father, only try to tell me what I ought to do for you."
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000013_000002|For the chills of many wretched years had deadened and benumbed his faith.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000014_000001|Go on your way, and save your life; save your life, Erema."
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000015_000000|There was no way for me to go, except on my knees before him.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000015_000002|I whispered into his ear my name, that he might speak once more to me; and when he could not speak, I tried to say what he would say to me.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000016_000002|Cold despair and self reproach and strong rebellion dazed me, until I lay at my father's side, and slept with his dead hand in mine.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000017_000000|By and by long shadows of morning crept toward me dismally, and the pallid light of the hills was stretched in weary streaks away from me. How I arose, or what I did, or what I thought, is nothing now.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000017_000001|Such times are not for talking of.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000017_000002|How many hearts of anguish lie forlorn, with none to comfort them, with all the joy of life died out, and all the fear of having yet to live, in front arising!
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000018_000001|Thirst and famine now had flown into the opposite extreme; I seemed to loathe the thought of water, and the smell of food would have made me sick.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000018_000002|I opened my father's knapsack, and a pang of new misery seized me.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000018_000003|There lay nearly all his rations, which he had made pretense to eat as he gave me mine from time to time.
train-other-500/3588/180957/3588_180957_000018_000005|And I had done nothing but grumble and groan, even while consuming every thing.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000000_000001|Jane was rich, having inherited a fortune and a handsome country place from a young man whom she was engaged to marry, but who died on the eve of his wedding day."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000001_000000|"How romantic!" exclaimed Louise.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000002_000000|"It does seem romantic, related in this way," replied her mother.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000002_000002|Your poor father applied to her in vain for assistance, and I believe her refusal positively shortened his life.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000002_000003|When he died, after struggling bravely to succeed in his business, he left nothing but his life insurance."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000003_000000|"Thank heaven he left that!" sighed Louise.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000004_000000|"Yes; we would have been beggared, indeed, without it," agreed mrs Merrick.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000004_000001|"Yet I often wonder, Louise, how we managed to live upon the interest of that money for so many years."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000005_000000|"We didn't live-we existed," corrected the girl, yawning.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000005_000001|"We scrimped and pinched, and denied ourselves everything but bare necessities.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000005_000002|And had it not been for your brilliant idea, mater dear, we would still be struggling in the depths of poverty."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000006_000000|mrs Merrick frowned, and leaned back in her chair.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000007_000000|"I sometimes doubt if the idea was so brilliant, after all," she returned, with a certain grimness of expression.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000007_000001|"We're plunging, Louise; and it may be into a bottomless pit."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000000|"Don't worry, dear," said the girl, biting into a bonbon.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000001|"We are only on the verge of our great adventure, and there's no reason to be discouraged yet, I assure you.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000002|Brilliant!
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000003|Of course the idea was brilliant, mamma.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000004|The income of that insurance money was insignificant, but the capital is a very respectable sum.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000006|It's a very brilliant idea, my dear!
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000007|Three years is a long time.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000008_000008|I'll find my Croesus long before that, never fear."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000009_000000|"You ought to," returned the mother, thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000010_000000|"A strong incentive to succeed." said Louise, smiling.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000010_000001|"An ordinary girl might not win out; but I've had my taste of poverty, and I don't like it.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000010_000002|No one will suspect us of being adventurers, for as long as we live in this luxurious fashion we shall pay our bills promptly and be proper and respectable in every way.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000010_000003|The only chance we run lies in the danger that eligible young men may prove shy, and refuse to take our bait; but are we not diplomats, mother dear?
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000011_000000|mrs Merrick stared silently out of the window, and for a few moments seemed lost in thought.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000013_000000|"You mean that I should accept her queer invitation to visit her?"
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000014_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000015_000000|"She has sent me a check for a hundred dollars.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000015_000001|Isn't it funny?"
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000016_000000|"Jane was always a whimsical woman.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000016_000001|Perhaps she thinks we are quite destitute, and fears you would not be able to present a respectable appearance at Elmhurst without this assistance.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000016_000002|But it is an evidence of her good intentions.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000016_000003|Finding death near at hand she is obliged to select an heir, and so invites you to visit her that she may study your character and determine whether you are worthy to inherit her fortune."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000017_000000|The girl laughed, lightly.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000018_000000|"It will be easy to cajole the old lady," she said.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000018_000001|"In two days I can so win her heart that she will regret she has neglected me so long."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000019_000000|"Exactly."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000020_000000|"If I get her money we will change our plans, and abandon the adventure we were forced to undertake.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000020_000001|But if, for any reason, that plan goes awry, we can fall back upon this prettily conceived scheme which we have undertaken.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000020_000002|As you say, it is well to have two strings to one's bow; and during July and August everyone will be out of town, and so we shall lose no valuable time."
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000021_000000|mrs Merrick did not reply.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000021_000002|Presently she said:
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000022_000001|Is this rich aunt of mine the only relative he had?"
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000023_000000|"No, indeed.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000023_000002|The eldest was john Merrick, a common tinsmith, if I remember rightly, who went into the far west many years ago and probably died there, for he was never heard from.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000023_000004|Anyway, she won the heart of Thomas Bradley, the wealthy young man I referred to, and she must have been clever to have induced him to leave her his money.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000023_000005|Your father was a year or so younger than Jane, and after him came Julia, a coarse and disagreeable creature who married a music teacher and settled in some out of the way country town.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000023_000006|Once, while your father was alive, she visited us for a few days, with her baby daughter, and nearly drove us all crazy.
train-other-500/3588/186215/3588_186215_000023_000007|Perhaps she did not find us very hospitable, for we were too poor to entertain lavishly.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000000_000000|Chapter six
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000001_000000|They walked directly into a bare, dark hallway.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000001_000002|Here a broad band of yellow sunlight fell unrestrained athwart the waxen like face of the sleeping boy.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000001_000003|The rest of the simple, poor looking room was in shadow.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000001_000004|The doctor noiselessly closed the door behind them, and stepped to the bed, which was covered with a heavy horse blanket.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000002_000000|The boy on the bed even in sleep could not be accounted good looking; there was a heaviness of feature, a plentitude of freckles, a shock of lack lustre hair, that made poor Bob Bard anything but a thing of beauty.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000002_000002|Sleep puts the strongest at the mercy of the watcher; there is a loneliness about it, a silent, expressive plea for protection, that appeals unconsciously.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000002_000003|ruth would have liked to raise the rough, lonely head to her bosom.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000003_000000|"It would be too bad to wake him now," said the doctor, in a low voice, coming back to her side; "he is sleeping restfully; and that is what he needs.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000003_000001|I am sorry our little plan is frustrated; but it would be senseless to wait, as there is no telling when he will waken."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000004_000000|A shade of disappointment passed over the girl's face, which he noticed.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000005_000000|"But," he continued, "you might leave your roses where he cannot fail to see them.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000005_000001|His conjectures on their mysterious appearance will rouse him sufficiently for one day."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000007_000000|"We will go now," Kemp said, and opened the door for ruth to pass before him.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000007_000001|She followed him slowly, but on the threshold drew back, a thoughtful little pucker on her brow.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000008_000001|"I should like to talk with Bob a little."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000009_000000|The doctor looked slightly annoyed.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000010_000000|"You had better drive home with me," he objected.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000011_000000|"Thank you," she replied, drawing farther back into the room; "but the Jackson Street cars are very convenient."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000012_000000|"Nevertheless, I should prefer to have you come with me," he insisted.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000013_000000|"But I do not wish to," she repeated quietly; "besides, I have decided to stay."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000014_000000|"That settles it, then," smiled Kemp; and shaking her hand, he went out alone.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000015_000000|"When my lady will, she will; and when she won't, she won't," he mused, gathering up his reins.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000015_000001|But the terminal point to the thought was a smile.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000016_000000|ruth, thus left alone, seated herself on the one other chair near the foot of the bed.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000016_000001|Strange to say, though she gazed at Bob, her thoughts had flown out of the room.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000016_000002|She was dimly conscious that she was pleasantly excited.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000016_000003|Had she cared to look the cause boldly in the face, she would have known that Miss ruth Levice's vanity had been highly fed by dr Kemp's unmistakable desire for her assistance.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000017_000000|"How do you feel now, Bob?" she asked, rising immediately and smiling down at him.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000018_000000|The boy forgot to answer.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000019_000000|"The doctor brought me here," she went on brightly; "but as you were asleep, he could not wait.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000019_000001|Are you feeling better, Bob?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000020_000000|The soft, star like eyes did not wander in their gaze.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000021_000000|"Why did you come?" he breathed finally.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000021_000001|His voice was surprisingly musical.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000022_000000|"Why?" faltered ruth.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000022_000001|"Oh, to bring you these roses.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000022_000002|Do you care for flowers, Bob?" She lifted the mass of delicate buds toward him.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000022_000003|Two pale, transparent hands went out to meet them.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000022_000004|Tenderly as you sometimes see a mother press the cheek of her babe to her own, he drew them to his cheek.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000023_000000|"Oh, my darlings, my darlings!" he murmured passionately, with his lips pressed to the fragrant petals.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000025_000000|"Lady," replied the boy, raising himself to a sitting posture, "there is nothing in the world to me like flowers."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000026_000000|"I never thought boys cared so for flowers," remarked ruth, in surprise.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000027_000000|"I am a gardener," said he, simply, and again fell to caressing the roses.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000027_000001|Sitting up, he looked fully seventeen or eighteen years old.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000029_000001|The boy rested his dreamy eyes upon her.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000030_000001|Lady, you fit well next my Homer rose."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000031_000000|"What Homer rose?" asked ruth, humoring the flower poet's odd conceit.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000032_000000|"My strong, brave Homer.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000032_000001|There is none like him for strength, with all his gentle perfume folded close to his heart.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000034_000000|"I do not suffer.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000034_000001|I am only weak; but he is nourishing me, and mrs Mills brings me what he orders."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000035_000000|"And is there anything you would like to have of which you forgot to tell him?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000036_000000|"I never tell him anything I wish," replied the boy, proudly.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000036_000001|"He knows beforehand.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000036_000002|Did you never draw up close to a delicate flower, lay your cheek softly upon it, so,--close your eyes, so,--and listen to the tale it's telling?
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000036_000003|Well, that is what my good friend does always."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000037_000000|It was like listening to music to hear the slow, drawling words of the invalid.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000037_000001|Ruth's hand closed softly over his.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000038_000000|"I have some pretty stories at home about flowers," she said; "would you like to read them?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000039_000000|"I can't read very well," answered Bob, in unabashed simplicity.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000040_000000|Yet his spoken words were flawless.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000041_000000|"Then I shall read them to you," she answered pleasantly, "to morrow, Bob, say at about three."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000042_000000|"You will come again?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000043_000000|"Why, yes; now that I know you, I must know you better.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000000|ruth went out enveloped in that look of gratitude.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000001|It was the first directly personal expression of honest gratitude she had ever received; and as she walked down the hill, she longed to do something that would be really helpful to some one.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000002|She had led, on the whole, so far, an egotistic life.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000003|Being their only child, her parents expected much of her.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000004|During her school life she had been a sort of human reservoir for all her father's ideas, whims, and hobbies.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000005|True, he had made her take a wide interest in everything within the line of vision; hanging on his arm, as they wandered off daily in their peripatetic school, he had imbued her with all his manly nobility of soul.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000045_000006|But theorizing does not give much hold on a subject, the mind being taken up with its own clever elucidations.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000046_000000|A plan slowly formed itself in her mind, in which she became so engrossed that she unconsciously crossed the cable of the Jackson Street cars.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000046_000001|She did not turn till a hand was suddenly laid upon her arm.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000047_000000|"What are you doing in this part of town?" broke in Louis Arnold's voice in evident anger.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000048_000000|"Oh, Louis, how you startled me!
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000048_000001|What is the matter with this part of town?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000049_000000|"You are on a very disreputable street.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000049_000001|Where are you going?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000050_000000|"Home."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000051_000000|"Then be so kind as to turn back with me and take the cars."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000052_000000|She glanced at him quickly, unused to his tone of command, and turned with him.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000053_000000|"How do you happen to be here?" he asked shortly.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000054_000000|"dr Kemp took me to see a poor patient of his."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000055_000000|"dr Kemp?" surprise raised his eyebrows half an inch.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000056_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000057_000000|"Indeed!
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000057_000001|Then," he continued in cool, biting words, "why didn't he carry his charity a little farther and take you home again?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000058_000000|"Because I did not choose to go with him," she returned, rearing her head and looking calmly at him as they walked along.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000059_000000|"Bah!
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000059_000001|What had your wishing or not wishing to do with it?
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000059_000003|This quarter is occupied by nothing but negroes and foreign loafers.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000059_000004|It was decidedly ungentlemanly to leave you to return alone at this time of the evening."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000060_000000|"Probably he gave me credit for being able to take care of myself in broad daylight."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000061_000000|"Probably he never gave it a second's thought one way or the other. Hereafter you had better consult your natural protectors before starting out on Quixotic excursions with indifferent strangers."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000062_000000|"Louis!"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000063_000000|She actually stamped her little foot while walking.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000064_000000|"Well?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000065_000000|"Stop that, please.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000066_000000|Her cousin smiled quizzically.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000066_000001|They took their seats on the dummy, just as the sun, a golden ball, was about to glide behind Lone Mountain.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000066_000002|Late afternoon is a quiet time, and ruth and Louis did not speak for a while.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000067_000000|The girl was experiencing a whirl of conflicting emotions,--anger at Louis's interference, pleasure at his protecting care, annoyance at what he considered gross negligence on the doctor's part, and a sneaking pride, in defiance of his insinuations, over the thought that Kemp had trusted to her womanliness as a safeguard against any chance annoyance. She also felt ashamed at having showed temper.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000068_000000|"Louis," she ventured finally, rubbing her shoulder against his, as gentle animals conciliate their mates, "I am sorry I spoke so harshly; but it exasperates me to hear you cast slurs, as you have done before, upon dr Kemp in his absence."
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000069_000000|"Why should it, my dear, since it give you a chance to uphold him?"
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000070_000000|There is a way of saying "my dear" that is as mortifying as a slap in the face.
train-other-500/3588/54099/3588_54099_000071_000000|The dark blood surged over the girl's cheeks.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000000|After Petya had joined Obolenski's regiment of Cossacks and left for Belaya Tserkov where that regiment was forming, the countess was seized with terror.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000002|She tried to get Nicholas back and wished to go herself to join Petya, or to get him an appointment somewhere in Petersburg, but neither of these proved possible.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000005|The countess did not sleep at night, or when she did fall asleep dreamed that she saw her sons lying dead.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000006|After many consultations and conversations, the count at last devised means to tranquillize her.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000007|He got Petya transferred from Obolenski's regiment to Bezukhov's, which was in training near Moscow.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000008|Though Petya would remain in the service, this transfer would give the countess the consolation of seeing at least one of her sons under her wing, and she hoped to arrange matters for her Petya so as not to let him go again, but always get him appointed to places where he could not possibly take part in a battle.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000010|The nearer the time came for Petya to return, the more uneasy grew the countess.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000011|She began to think she would never live to see such happiness.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000012|The presence of Sonya, of her beloved Natasha, or even of her husband irritated her.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000013|"What do I want with them?
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000003_000014|I want no one but Petya," she thought.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000004_000000|At the end of August the Rostovs received another letter from Nicholas.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000004_000001|He wrote from the province of Voronezh where he had been sent to procure remounts, but that letter did not set the countess at ease.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000004_000002|Knowing that one son was out of danger she became the more anxious about Petya.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000005_000001|On the twenty eighth of August he arrived.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000000|From the twenty eighth till the thirty first all Moscow was in a bustle and commotion.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000001|Every day thousands of men wounded at Borodino were brought in by the Dorogomilov gate and taken to various parts of Moscow, and thousands of carts conveyed the inhabitants and their possessions out by the other gates.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000002|In spite of Rostopchin's broadsheets, or because of them or independently of them, the strangest and most contradictory rumors were current in the town.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000003|Some said that no one was to be allowed to leave the city, others on the contrary said that all the icons had been taken out of the churches and everybody was to be ordered to leave.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000005|Some talked about the Moscow militia which, preceded by the clergy, would go to the Three Hills; others whispered that Augustin had been forbidden to leave, that traitors had been seized, that the peasants were rioting and robbing people on their way from Moscow, and so on.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000006|But all this was only talk; in reality (though the Council of Fili, at which it was decided to abandon Moscow, had not yet been held) both those who went away and those who remained behind felt, though they did not show it, that Moscow would certainly be abandoned, and that they ought to get away as quickly as possible and save their belongings.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000007_000007|It was felt that everything would suddenly break up and change, but up to the first of September nothing had done so.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000008_000000|During the three days preceding the occupation of Moscow the whole Rostov family was absorbed in various activities.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000008_000001|The head of the family, Count Ilya Rostov, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty orders at home about the preparations for their departure.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000009_000000|The countess watched the things being packed, was dissatisfied with everything, was constantly in pursuit of Petya who was always running away from her, and was jealous of Natasha with whom he spent all his time.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000009_000001|Sonya alone directed the practical side of matters by getting things packed.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000009_000002|But of late Sonya had been particularly sad and silent.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000009_000003|Nicholas' letter in which he mentioned Princess Mary had elicited, in her presence, joyous comments from the countess, who saw an intervention of Providence in this meeting of the princess and Nicholas.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000010_000000|"I was never pleased at Bolkonski's engagement to Natasha," said the countess, "but I always wanted Nicholas to marry the princess, and had a presentiment that it would happen.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000010_000001|What a good thing it would be!"
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000000|Sonya felt that this was true: that the only possibility of retrieving the Rostovs' affairs was by Nicholas marrying a rich woman, and that the princess was a good match.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000001|It was very bitter for her.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000002|But despite her grief, or perhaps just because of it, she took on herself all the difficult work of directing the storing and packing of their things and was busy for whole days.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000003|The count and countess turned to her when they had any orders to give.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000005|Almost all day long the house resounded with their running feet, their cries, and their spontaneous laughter.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000006|They laughed and were gay not because there was any reason to laugh, but because gaiety and mirth were in their hearts and so everything that happened was a cause for gaiety and laughter to them.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000008|Natasha was gay because she had been sad too long and now nothing reminded her of the cause of her sadness, and because she was feeling well.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000009|She was also happy because she had someone to adore her: the adoration of others was a lubricant the wheels of her machine needed to make them run freely- and Petya adored her.
train-other-500/3592/173545/3592_173545_000011_000010|Above all, they were gay because there was a war near Moscow, there would be fighting at the town gates, arms were being given out, everybody was escaping-going away somewhere, and in general something extraordinary was happening, and that is always exciting, especially to the young.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000000_000001|She had already made such innovation upon his heart, that he cultivated her with peculiar complacency, gazed upon her with a most libidinous stare, and unbended his aspect into a grin that was truly Israelitish.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000000_000002|The painter saw and was offended at this correspondence, which he considered as an insult upon his misfortune, as well as an evident preference of his rival; and, conscious of his own timidity, swallowed an extraordinary glass, that his invention might be stimulated, and his resolution raised to the contrivance and execution of some scheme of revenge.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000001_000000|The evening being pretty far advanced, and the company separated into their respective apartments, Pickle repaired, in all the impatience of youth and desire, to the chamber of his charmer, and, finding the door unbolted, entered in a transport of joy.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000001_000001|By the light of the room, which shone through the window, he was conducted to her bed, which he approached in the utmost agitation; and perceiving her to all appearance asleep, essayed to wake her with a gentle kiss; but this method proved ineffectual, because she was determined to save herself the confusion of being an accomplice in his guilt.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000001_000002|He repeated the application, murmured a most passionate salutation in her ear, and took such other gentle methods of signifying his presence, as persuaded him that she was resolved to sleep, in spite of all his endeavours.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000001_000003|Flushed with this supposition, he locked the door, in order to prevent interruption; and, stealing himself under the clothes, set fortune at defiance, while he held the fair creature circled in his arms.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000002_000000|Nevertheless, near as he seemed to be to the happy accomplishment of his desire, his hope was again frustrated with a fearful noise, which in a moment awaked his Amanda in a fright, and for the present engaged all his attention.
train-other-500/3595/176633/3595_176633_000002_000003|It was the noise of this contention between Pallet and the ass which invaded the ears of Peregrine and his mistress, neither of whom could form the least rational conjecture about the cause of such strange disturbance, which increased as the animal approached their apartment.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000000_000000|Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, cursed his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth, challenged his enemy to double the sum.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000001_000000|Gauntlet went home to his lodgings, fully certified of his own superiority, and took his measures with Peregrine, touching the prosecution of their scheme; while his opponent made a report of his success to the brethren of the gang, who resolved to be present at the decision of the match, with a view of taking advantage of the stranger's passionate disposition.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000002_000000|Affairs being thus concerted on both sides, the players met, according to appointment, and the room was immediately filled with spectators, who either came thither by accident, curiosity, or design.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000002_000003|The game was begun, and the soldier having lost the first hazard, the odds were offered by the confederacy with great vociferation; but nobody would run such a risk in favour of a person who was utterly unknown.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000002_000004|The sharper having gained the second also, the noise increased to a surprising clamour, not only of the gang, but likewise of almost all the spectators, who desired to lay two to one against the brother of Emilia.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000003_000002|They were overwhelmed with horror and astonishment at seeing three hazards taken in as many strokes, from a person of their friend's dexterity; and shrewdly suspected, that the whole was a scheme preconcerted for their destruction.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000004_000000|But this gleam of fortune did not long continue.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000004_000001|Godfrey collected his whole art and capacity, and, augmenting his score to number ten, indulged himself with a view of the whole fraternity.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000004_000002|The visages of these professors had adopted different shades of complexion at every hazard he had taken: from their natural colour they had shifted into a sallow hue; from thence into pale; from pale into yellow, which degenerated into a mahogany tint; and now they saw seventeen hundred pounds of their stock depending upon a single stroke, they stood like so many swarthy Moors, jaundiced with terror and vexation.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000004_000003|The fire which naturally glowed in the cheeks and nose of the player, seemed utterly extinct, and his carbuncles exhibited a livid appearance, as if a gangrene had already made some progress in his face; his hand began to shake, and his whole frame was seized with such trepidation, that he was fain to swallow a bumper of brandy, in order to re-establish the tranquility of his nerves.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000004_000005|This fatal accident was attended with a universal groan, as if the whole universe had gone to wreck; and notwithstanding that tranquility for which adventurers are so remarkable, this loss made such an impression upon them all, that each in particular manifested his chagrin, by the most violent emotions.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000005_000000|The victors, after having insulted them, by asking, if they were disposed for another chance, carried off their winning, with the appearance of great composure, though in their hearts they were transported with unspeakable joy; not so much on account of the booty they had gained, as in consideration of having so effectually destroyed such a nest of pernicious miscreants.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000007_000000|Godfrey thanked him for his obliging intention, but absolutely refused, with great loftiness of demeanour, to appropriate to his own use any part of the money which Pickle had gained, and seemed affronted at the other's entertaining a sentiment so unworthy of his character.
train-other-500/3595/176646/3595_176646_000007_000001|He would not even accept, in the way of loan, such an addition to his own stock, as would amount to the price of a company of foot; but expressed great confidence in the future exertion of that talent which had been blessed with such a prosperous beginning.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000000_000001|CALAIS.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000002_000001|I form'd a score different plans.-- There was no such thing as a man's asking her directly;--the thing was impossible.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000006_000000|Had I served seven years apprenticeship to good breeding, I could not have done as much.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000007_000001|CALAIS.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000011_000001|CALAIS.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000013_000000|- There wants nothing, said I, to make it so but the comic use which the gallantry of a Frenchman would put it to,--to make love the first moment, and an offer of his person the second.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000014_000000|'tis their fort, replied the lady.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000015_000000|It is supposed so at least;--and how it has come to pass, continued I, I know not; but they have certainly got the credit of understanding more of love, and making it better than any other nation upon earth; but, for my own part, I think them arrant bunglers, and in truth the worst set of marksmen that ever tried Cupid's patience.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000016_000000|- To think of making love by SENTIMENTS!
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000018_000000|The lady attended as if she expected I should go on.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000019_000000|Consider then, Madame, continued I, laying my hand upon hers:-
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000020_000000|That grave people hate love for the name's sake; -
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000021_000000|That selfish people hate it for their own; -
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000022_000000|Hypocrites for heaven's; -
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000024_000000|Then I solemnly declare, said the lady, blushing, you have been making love to me all this while.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000025_000001|CALAIS.
train-other-500/3595/191322/3595_191322_000026_000000|Monsieur Dessein came back to let us out of the chaise, and acquaint the lady, the count de L, her brother, was just arrived at the hotel.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000001_000000|Blue vision of depth lost in height,--sea and sky interblending through luminous haze.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000001_000001|The day is of spring, and the hour morning.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000002_000000|Only sky and sea,--one azure enormity...
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000002_000001|In the fore, ripples are catching a silvery light, and threads of foam are swirling.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000002_000002|But a little further off no motion is visible, nor anything save color: dim warm blue of water widening away to melt into blue of air.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000002_000003|Horizon there is none: only distance soaring into space,--infinite concavity hollowing before you, and hugely arching above you,--the color deepening with the height.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000002_000004|But far in the midway blue there hangs a faint, faint vision of palace towers, with high roofs horned and curved like moons,--some shadowing of splendor strange and old, illumined by a sunshine soft as memory.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000003_000000|...What I have thus been trying to describe is a kakemono,--that is to say, a Japanese painting on silk, suspended to the wall of my alcove;--and the name of it is Shinkiro, which signifies "Mirage." But the shapes of the mirage are unmistakable.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000004_000000|Thus much is told of the place in the Chinese books of that time:--
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000005_000000|In Horai there is neither death nor pain; and there is no winter.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000005_000001|The flowers in that place never fade, and the fruits never fail; and if a man taste of those fruits even but once, he can never again feel thirst or hunger.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000005_000003|The people of Horai eat their rice out of very, very small bowls; but the rice never diminishes within those bowls,--however much of it be eaten,--until the eater desires no more. And the people of Horai drink their wine out of very, very small cups; but no man can empty one of those cups,--however stoutly he may drink,--until there comes upon him the pleasant drowsiness of intoxication.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000006_000000|All this and more is told in the legends of the time of the Shin dynasty.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000006_000002|For really there are no enchanted fruits which leave the eater forever satisfied,--nor any magical grass which revives the dead,--nor any fountain of fairy water,--nor any bowls which never lack rice,--nor any cups which never lack wine.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000000|Nevertheless there are wonderful things in Horai; and the most wonderful of all has not been mentioned by any Chinese writer.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000001|I mean the atmosphere of Horai.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000002|It is an atmosphere peculiar to the place; and, because of it, the sunshine in Horai is whiter than any other sunshine,--a milky light that never dazzles,--astonishingly clear, but very soft.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000003|This atmosphere is not of our human period: it is enormously old,--so old that I feel afraid when I try to think how old it is;--and it is not a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000004|It is not made of air at all, but of ghost,--the substance of quintillions of quintillions of generations of souls blended into one immense translucency,--souls of people who thought in ways never resembling our ways.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000005|Whatever mortal man inhales that atmosphere, he takes into his blood the thrilling of these spirits; and they change the sense within him,--reshaping his notions of Space and Time,--so that he can see only as they used to see, and feel only as they used to feel, and think only as they used to think.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000007_000006|Soft as sleep are these changes of sense; and Horai, discerned across them, might thus be described:--
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000008_000000|--Because in Horai there is no knowledge of great evil, the hearts of the people never grow old.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000008_000001|And, by reason of being always young in heart, the people of Horai smile from birth until death-except when the Gods send sorrow among them; and faces then are veiled until the sorrow goes away.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000008_000002|All folk in Horai love and trust each other, as if all were members of a single household;--and the speech of the women is like birdsong, because the hearts of them are light as the souls of birds;--and the swaying of the sleeves of the maidens at play seems a flutter of wide, soft wings.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000008_000003|In Horai nothing is hidden but grief, because there is no reason for shame;--and nothing is locked away, because there could not be any theft;--and by night as well as by day all doors remain unbarred, because there is no reason for fear.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000009_000000|--Much of this seeming would be due to the inhalation of that ghostly atmosphere-but not all.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000009_000001|For the spell wrought by the dead is only the charm of an Ideal, the glamour of an ancient hope;--and something of that hope has found fulfillment in many hearts,--in the simple beauty of unselfish lives,--in the sweetness of Woman...
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000010_000000|--Evil winds from the West are blowing over Horai; and the magical atmosphere, alas! is shrinking away before them.
train-other-500/3595/418/3595_418_000010_000001|It lingers now in patches only, and bands,--like those long bright bands of cloud that train across the landscapes of Japanese painters.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000002_000000|twelve.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000002_000001|THE CLOUDING OF THE SKY.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000003_000000|Nine days had passed, and the tenth day was nearly at an end, since Miss Gwilt and her pupil had taken their morning walk in the cottage garden.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000004_000000|The night was overcast.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000004_000001|Since sunset, there had been signs in the sky from which the popular forecast had predicted rain.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000004_000002|The reception rooms at the great house were all empty and dark.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000004_000003|Allan was away, passing the evening with the Milroys; and Midwinter was waiting his return-not where Midwinter usually waited, among the books in the library, but in the little back room which Allan's mother had inhabited in the last days of her residence at Thorpe Ambrose.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000005_000000|Nothing had been taken away, but much had been added to the room, since Midwinter had first seen it.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000005_000001|The books which mrs Armadale had left behind her, the furniture, the old matting on the floor, the old paper on the walls, were all undisturbed.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000005_000002|The statuette of Niobe still stood on its bracket, and the French window still opened on the garden. But now, to the relics left by the mother, were added the personal possessions belonging to the son.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000005_000005|Here, strangely unmoved by the scene around him, so lately the object of his superstitious distrust, Allan's friend now waited composedly for Allan's return; and here, more strangely still, he looked on a change in the household arrangements, due in the first instance entirely to himself.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000005_000006|His own lips had revealed the discovery which he had made on the first morning in the new house; his own voluntary act had induced the son to establish himself in the mother's room.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000006_000000|Under what motives had he spoken the words?
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000007_000000|The entire change wrought in his convictions by the memorable event that had brought him face to face with Miss Gwilt was a change which it was not in his nature to hide from Allan's knowledge.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000007_000002|The merit of conquering his superstition was a merit which he shrank from claiming, until he had first unsparingly exposed that superstition in its worst and weakest aspects to view.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000008_000000|It was only after he had unreservedly acknowledged the impulse under which he had left Allan at the Mere, that he had taken credit to himself for the new point of view from which he could now look at the Dream. Then, and not till then, he had spoken of the fulfillment of the first Vision as the doctor at the Isle of Man might have spoken of it.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000008_000001|He had asked, as the doctor might have asked, Where was the wonder of their seeing a pool at sunset, when they had a whole network of pools within a few hours' drive of them? and what was there extraordinary in discovering a woman at the Mere, when there were roads that led to it, and villages in its neighborhood, and boats employed on it, and pleasure parties visiting it?
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000009_000000|A man who could thus open his whole heart, without one lurking reserve inspired by consideration for himself, was not a man to forget any minor act of concealment of which his weakness might have led him to be guilty toward his friend.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000010_000000|But one doubt still closed his lips-the doubt whether mrs Armadale's conduct in Madeira had been kept secret on her return to England.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000011_000001|Once satisfied that whatever inquiries the son might make would lead to no disclosure which could shake his respect for his mother's memory, Midwinter had hesitated no longer.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000011_000003|He had said plainly, "My one motive for not telling you this before sprang from my dread of interesting you in the room which I looked at with horror as the second of the scenes pointed at in the Dream.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000011_000004|Forgive me this also, and you will have forgiven me all."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000012_000000|With Allan's love for his mother's memory, but one result could follow such an avowal as this.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000013_000000|Under those circumstances had the change now wrought in the household arrangements been produced; and in this way had Midwinter's victory over his own fatalism-by making Allan the daily occupant of a room which he might otherwise hardly ever have entered-actually favored the fulfillment of the Second Vision of the Dream.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000014_000000|The hour wore on quietly as Allan's friend sat waiting for Allan's return.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000014_000001|Sometimes reading, sometimes thinking placidly, he whiled away the time.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000014_000002|No vexing cares, no boding doubts, troubled him now.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000014_000003|The rent day, which he had once dreaded, had come and gone harmlessly.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000014_000004|A friendlier understanding had been established between Allan and his tenants; mr Bashwood had proved himself to be worthy of the confidence reposed in him; the Pedgifts, father and son, had amply justified their client's good opinion of them.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000014_000005|Wherever Midwinter looked, the prospect was bright, the future was without a cloud.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000015_000000|He trimmed the lamp on the table beside him and looked out at the night. The stable clock was chiming the half hour past eleven as he walked to the window, and the first rain drops were beginning to fall.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000016_000000|"How late you are!" said Midwinter, as Allan entered through the open French window.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000016_000001|"Was there a party at the cottage?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000017_000000|"No! only ourselves.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000017_000001|The time slipped away somehow." He answered in lower tones than usual, and sighed as he took his chair.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000018_000000|"You seem to be out of spirits?" pursued Midwinter.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000018_000001|"What's the matter?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000019_000000|Allan hesitated.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000019_000002|There's a woman in it, as usual-I'm in love."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000020_000000|Midwinter laughed.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000020_000001|"Has Miss Milroy been more charming to night than ever?" he asked, gayly.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000021_000000|"Miss Milroy!" repeated Allan.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000021_000001|"What are you thinking of!
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000021_000002|I'm not in love with Miss Milroy."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000023_000000|"Who is it!
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000023_000001|What a question to ask!
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000023_000002|Who can it be but Miss Gwilt?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000024_000000|There was a sudden silence.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000024_000001|Allan sat listlessly, with his hands in his pockets, looking out through the open window at the falling rain.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000024_000002|If he had turned toward his friend when he mentioned Miss Gwilt's name he might possibly have been a little startled by the change he would have seen in Midwinter's face.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000025_000000|"I suppose you don't approve of it?" he said, after waiting a little.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000026_000000|There was no answer.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000027_000000|"It's too late to make objections," proceeded Allan.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000027_000001|"I really mean it when I tell you I'm in love with her."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000028_000000|"A fortnight since you were in love with Miss Milroy," said the other, in quiet, measured tones.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000029_000000|"Pooh! a mere flirtation.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000029_000001|It's different this time.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000029_000002|I'm in earnest about Miss Gwilt."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000030_000000|He looked round as he spoke.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000030_000001|Midwinter turned his face aside on the instant, and bent it over a book.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000031_000000|"I see you don't approve of the thing," Allan went on.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000031_000001|"Do you object to her being only a governess?
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000031_000002|You can't do that, I'm sure.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000032_000000|"No," said Midwinter; "I can't honestly say it would stand in the way with me." He gave the answer reluctantly, and pushed his chair back out of the light of the lamp.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000033_000000|"A governess is a lady who is not rich," said Allan, in an oracular manner; "and a duchess is a lady who is not poor.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000033_000001|And that's all the difference I acknowledge between them.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000033_000002|Miss Gwilt is older than I am-I don't deny that.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000033_000003|What age do you guess her at, Midwinter?
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000033_000004|I say, seven or eight and twenty.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000033_000005|What do you say?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000034_000000|"Nothing.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000034_000001|I agree with you."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000035_000000|"Do you think seven or eight and twenty is too old for me?
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000035_000001|If you were in love with a woman yourself, you wouldn't think seven or eight and twenty too old-would you?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000036_000000|"I can't say I should think it too old, if-"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000037_000000|"If you were really fond of her?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000038_000000|Once more there was no answer.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000040_000000|"I have made no objection."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000041_000000|"I don't say you have.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000042_000000|There was another pause.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000042_000001|Midwinter was the first to break the silence this time.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000043_000000|"Are you sure of yourself, Allan?" he asked, with his face bent once more over the book.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000043_000001|"Are you really attached to this lady?
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000043_000002|Have you thought seriously already of asking her to be your wife?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000044_000000|"I am thinking seriously of it at this moment," said Allan.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000044_000001|"I can't be happy-I can't live without her.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000044_000002|Upon my soul, I worship the very ground she treads on!"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000045_000000|"How long-" His voice faltered, and he stopped.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000045_000001|"How long," he reiterated, "have you worshipped the very ground she treads on?"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000046_000000|"Longer than you think for.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000046_000001|I know I can trust you with all my secrets-"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000047_000000|"Don't trust me!"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000048_000000|"Nonsense!
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000048_000002|There is a little difficulty in the way which I haven't mentioned yet.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000048_000003|It's a matter of some delicacy, and I want to consult you about it.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000048_000004|Between ourselves, I have had private opportunities with Miss Gwilt-"
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000049_000000|Midwinter suddenly started to his feet, and opened the door.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000050_000000|"We'll talk of this to morrow," he said.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000050_000001|"Good night."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000051_000001|The door was closed again, and he was alone in the room.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000054_000000|"We haven't shaken hands," he said, abruptly.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000054_000001|"God bless you, Allan! We'll talk of it to morrow.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000054_000002|Good night."
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000055_000000|Allan stood alone at the window, looking out at the pouring rain.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000055_000001|He felt ill at ease, without knowing why.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000055_000002|"Midwinter's ways get stranger and stranger," he thought.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000055_000003|"What can he mean by putting me off till to morrow, when I wanted to speak to him to night?" He took up his bedroom candle a little impatiently, put it down again, and, walking back to the open window, stood looking out in the direction of the cottage.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000055_000004|"I wonder if she's thinking of me?" he said to himself softly.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000056_000001|She had just opened her desk to write to mrs Oldershaw; and her pen had that moment traced the opening line: "Make your mind easy.
train-other-500/3598/173222/3598_173222_000056_000002|I have got him!"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000001_000000|A RUN WITH THE TRUANT; A WALK WITH THE MASTER
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000002_000000|The sight of Miss Middleton running inflamed young Crossjay with the passion of the game of hare and hounds.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000002_000001|He shouted a view halloo, and flung up his legs.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000002_000002|She was fleet; she ran as though a hundred little feet were bearing her onward smooth as water over the lawn and the sweeps of grass of the park, so swiftly did the hidden pair multiply one another to speed her.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000002_000004|Suddenly her flight wound to an end in a dozen twittering steps, and she sank.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000002_000005|Young Crossjay attained her, with just breath enough to say: "You are a runner!"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000004_000000|"And you don't pant a bit!" was his encomium.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000005_000000|"Dear me, no; not more than a bird.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000005_000001|You might as well try to catch a bird."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000006_000000|Young Crossjay gave a knowing nod.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000006_000001|"Wait till I get my second wind."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000007_000000|"Now you must confess that girls run faster than boys."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000008_000000|"They may at the start."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000009_000000|"They do everything better."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000011_000000|"They learn their lessons."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000012_000000|"You can't make soldiers or sailors of them, though."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000013_000000|"And that is untrue.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000013_000001|Have you never read of Mary Ambree? and Mistress Hannah Snell of Pondicherry?
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000013_000002|And there was the bride of the celebrated William Taylor.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000013_000004|What do you say to Boadicea?
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000013_000005|I suppose you have never heard of the Amazons."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000014_000000|"They weren't English."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000015_000000|"Then it is your own countrywomen you decry, sir!"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000016_000000|Young Crossjay betrayed anxiety about his false position, and begged for the stories of Mary Ambree and the others who were English.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000017_000000|"See, you will not read for yourself, you hide and play truant with mr Whitford, and the consequence is you are ignorant of your country's history."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000018_000001|She commanded him to tell her which was the glorious Valentine's day of our naval annals; the name of the hero of the day, and the name of his ship.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000018_000002|To these questions his answers were as ready as the guns of the good ship Captain, for the Spanish four decker.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000019_000000|"And that you owe to mr Whitford," said Miss Middleton.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000020_000000|"He bought me the books," young Crossjay growled, and plucked at grass blades and bit them, foreseeing dimly but certainly the termination of all this.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000021_000000|Miss Middleton lay back on the grass and said: "Are you going to be fond of me, Crossjay?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000022_000000|The boy sat blinking.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000022_000002|His young heart beat fast.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000023_000000|"Because, my dear boy," she said, leaning on her elbow, "you are a very nice boy, but an ungrateful boy, and there is no telling whether you will not punish any one who cares for you.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000023_000001|Come along with me; pluck me some of these cowslips, and the speedwells near them; I think we both love wild flowers." She rose and took his arm.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000023_000002|"You shall row me on the lake while I talk to you seriously."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000024_000000|It was she, however, who took the sculls at the boat house, for she had been a playfellow with boys, and knew that one of them engaged in a manly exercise is not likely to listen to a woman.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000000|"Now, Crossjay," she said.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000001|Dense gloom overcame him like a cowl.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000002|She bent across her hands to laugh.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000003|"As if I were going to lecture you, you silly boy!" He began to brighten dubiously.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000004|"I used to be as fond of birdsnesting as you are.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000005|I like brave boys, and I like you for wanting to enter the Royal Navy.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000007|You must get the captains to pass you, you know.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000025_000008|Somebody spoils you: Miss Dale or mr Whitford."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000026_000000|"Do they?" sung out young Crossjay.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000027_000000|"Sir Willoughby does?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000028_000000|"I don't know about spoil.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000028_000001|I can come round him."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000029_000000|"I am sure he is very kind to you.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000029_000001|I dare say you think mr Whitford rather severe.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000029_000002|You should remember he has to teach you, so that you may pass for the navy.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000029_000003|You must not dislike him because he makes you work. Supposing you had blown yourself up to day!
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000029_000004|You would have thought it better to have been working with mr Whitford."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000030_000000|"Sir Willoughby says, when he's married, you won't let me hide."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000031_000000|"Ah!
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000031_000001|It is wrong to pet a big boy like you.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000032_000000|"Generally half crown pieces.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000032_000001|I've had a crown piece.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000032_000002|I've had sovereigns."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000033_000000|"And for that you do as he bids you?
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000033_000001|And he indulges you because you . . .
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000033_000002|Well, but though mr Whitford does not give you money, he gives you his time, he tries to get you into the navy."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000034_000000|"He pays for me."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000035_000000|"What do you say?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000036_000000|"My keep.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000036_000001|And, as for liking him, if he were at the bottom of the water here, I'd go down after him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000036_000002|I mean to learn.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000036_000003|We're both of us here at six o'clock in the morning, when it's light, and have a swim.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000036_000004|He taught me.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000036_000005|Only, I never cared for schoolbooks."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000037_000000|"Are you quite certain that mr Whitford pays for you."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000038_000000|"My father told me he did, and I must obey him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000038_000001|He heard my father was poor, with a family.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000038_000002|He went down to see my father.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000038_000003|My father came here once, and Sir Willoughby wouldn't see him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000038_000004|I know mr Whitford does. And Miss Dale told me he did.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000039_000000|"So you see you should not vex him, Crossjay.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000039_000002|You ought to love him."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000040_000000|"I like him, and I like his face."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000041_000000|"Why his face?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000042_000000|"It's not like those faces!
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000042_000001|Miss Dale and I talk about him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000042_000002|She thinks that Sir Willoughby is the best looking man ever born."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000043_000000|"Were you not speaking of mr Whitford?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000000|"Yes; old Vernon.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000001|That's what Sir Willoughby calls him," young Crossjay excused himself to her look of surprise.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000002|"Do you know what he makes me think of?--his eyes, I mean.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000003|He makes me think of Robinson Crusoe's old goat in the cavern.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000004|I like him because he's always the same, and you're not positive about some people.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000005|Miss Middleton, if you look on at cricket, in comes a safe man for ten runs.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000006|He may get more, and he never gets less; and you should hear the old farmers talk of him in the booth.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000044_000007|That's just my feeling."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000045_000000|Miss Middleton understood that some illustration from the cricketing field was intended to throw light on the boy's feeling for mr Whitford.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000045_000001|Young Crossjay was evidently warming to speak from his heart.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000045_000002|But the sun was low, she had to dress for the dinner table, and she landed him with regret, as at a holiday over.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000047_000000|A step was at her heels.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000048_000000|"I see you have been petting my scapegrace."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000049_000000|"mr
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000049_000001|Whitford!
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000049_000002|Yes; not petting, I hope.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000049_000003|I tried to give him a lecture. He's a dear lad, but, I fancy, trying."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000050_000000|She was in fine sunset colour, unable to arrest the mounting tide.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000051_000000|"I must have him away from here very soon," said Vernon.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000051_000001|"Here he's quite spoiled.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000051_000002|Speak of him to Willoughby.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000052_000000|The incident of the explosion in the laboratory was new to Vernon.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000053_000000|"And Willoughby laughed?" he said.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000053_000002|I would rather have had him under me up to the last three months, and have made sure of some roots to what is knocked into his head.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000053_000003|But he's ruined here.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000053_000004|And I am going.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000053_000005|So I shall not trouble him for many weeks longer.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000054_000001|He pounced like a falcon on your notes in the library."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000055_000000|Vernon came out with a chuckle.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000056_000000|"They were left to attract him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000057_000000|"Papa will not spare you, to judge from his look."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000058_000000|"I know the look."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000059_000000|"Have you walked far to day?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000060_000000|"Nine and a half hours.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000061_000000|She cast her eyes on him, thinking of the pleasure of dealing with a temper honestly coltish, and manfully open to a specific.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000062_000000|"All those hours were required?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000063_000000|"Not quite so long."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000065_000000|"It's doubtful whether I shall get to the Alps this year.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000065_000001|I leave the Hall, and shall probably be in London with a pen to sell."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000066_000000|"Willoughby knows that you leave him?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000067_000000|"As much as Mont Blanc knows that he is going to be climbed by a party below.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000067_000001|He sees a speck or two in the valley."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000068_000000|"He has not spoken of it."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000069_000000|"He would attribute it to changes . . ."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000070_000000|Vernon did not conclude the sentence.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000071_000000|She became breathless, without emotion, but checked by the barrier confronting an impulse to ask, what changes?
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000071_000001|She stooped to pluck a cowslip.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000072_000000|"I saw daffodils lower down the park," she said.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000072_000001|"One or two; they're nearly over."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000073_000000|"We are well off for wild flowers here," he answered.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000074_000000|"Do not leave him, mr Whitford."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000075_000000|"He will not want me."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000076_000000|"You are devoted to him."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000077_000000|"I can't pretend that."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000078_000000|"Then it is the changes you imagine you foresee . . .
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000078_000001|If any occur, why should they drive you away?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000080_000000|"Papa will not like your serving with your pen in London: he will say you are worth too much for that."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000081_000000|"Good men are at it; I should not care to be ranked above them."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000082_000000|"They are wasted, he says."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000083_000000|"Error!
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000083_000001|If they have their private ambition, they may suppose they are wasted.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000083_000002|But the value to the world of a private ambition, I do not clearly understand."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000084_000000|"You have not an evil opinion of the world?" said Miss Middleton, sick at heart as she spoke, with the sensation of having invited herself to take a drop of poison.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000085_000000|He replied: "One might as well have an evil opinion of a river: here it's muddy, there it's clear; one day troubled, another at rest.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000085_000001|We have to treat it with common sense."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000086_000000|"Love it?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000087_000000|"In the sense of serving it."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000088_000000|"Not think it beautiful?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000089_000000|"Part of it is, part of it the reverse."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000090_000000|"Papa would quote the 'mulier formosa'".
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000091_000000|"Except that 'fish' is too good for the black extremity.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000091_000001|'Woman' is excellent for the upper."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000092_000000|"How do you say that?--not cynically, I believe.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000092_000001|Your view commends itself to my reason."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000093_000000|She was grateful to him for not stating it in ideal contrast with Sir Willoughby's view.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000093_000001|If he had, so intensely did her youthful blood desire to be enamoured of the world, that she felt he would have lifted her off her feet.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000000|She could think of him in pleasant liberty, uncorrected by her woman's instinct of peril.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000001|He had neither arts nor graces; nothing of his cousin's easy social front face.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000002|She had once witnessed the military precision of his dancing, and had to learn to like him before she ceased to pray that she might never be the victim of it as his partner. He walked heroically, his pedestrian vigour being famous, but that means one who walks away from the sex, not excelling in the recreations where men and women join hands.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000004|And he could scarcely be said to shine in a drawingroom, unless when seated beside a person ready for real talk.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000005|Even more than his merits, his demerits pointed him out as a man to be a friend to a young woman who wanted one.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000006|His way of life pictured to her troubled spirit an enviable smoothness; and his having achieved that smooth way she considered a sign of strength; and she wished to lean in idea upon some friendly strength.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000007|His reputation for indifference to the frivolous charms of girls clothed him with a noble coldness, and gave him the distinction of a far seen solitary iceberg in Southern waters.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000008|The popular notion of hereditary titled aristocracy resembles her sentiment for a man that would not flatter and could not be flattered by her sex: he appeared superior almost to awfulness.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000094_000009|She was young, but she had received much flattery in her ears, and by it she had been snared; and he, disdaining to practise the fowler's arts or to cast a thought on small fowls, appeared to her to have a pride founded on natural loftiness.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000000|They had not spoken for awhile, when Vernon said abruptly, "The boy's future rather depends on you, Miss Middleton.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000001|I mean to leave as soon as possible, and I do not like his being here without me, though you will look after him, I have no doubt.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000002|But you may not at first see where the spoiling hurts him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000003|He should be packed off at once to the crammer, before you are Lady Patterne.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000004|Use your influence.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000005|Willoughby will support the lad at your request.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000006|The cost cannot be great.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000007|There are strong grounds against my having him in London, even if I could manage it.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000095_000008|May I count on you?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000096_000000|"I will mention it: I will do my best," said Miss Middleton, strangely dejected.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000097_000000|They were now on the lawn, where Sir Willoughby was walking with the ladies Eleanor and Isabel, his maiden aunts.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000098_000000|"You seem to have coursed the hare and captured the hart." he said to his bride.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000099_000000|"Started the truant and run down the paedagogue," said Vernon.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000101_000000|The ladies embraced Miss Middleton.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000101_000001|One offered up an ejaculation in eulogy of her looks, the other of her healthfulness: then both remarked that with indulgence young Crossjay could be induced to do anything. Clara wondered whether inclination or Sir Willoughby had disciplined their individuality out of them and made them his shadows, his echoes. She gazed from them to him, and feared him.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000101_000002|But as yet she had not experienced the power in him which could threaten and wrestle to subject the members of his household to the state of satellites.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000102_000000|She said to the ladies, "Ah, no! mr Whitford has chosen the only method for teaching a boy like Crossjay."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000103_000000|"I propose to make a man of him," said Sir Willoughby.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000104_000000|"What is to become of him if he learns nothing?"
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000105_000000|"If he pleases me, he will be provided for.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000106_000000|Clara let her eyes rest on his and, without turning or dropping, shut them.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000107_000001|He was very sensitive to the intentions of eyes and tones; which was one secret of his rigid grasp of the dwellers in his household.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000107_000002|They were taught that they had to render agreement under sharp scrutiny.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000107_000003|Studious eyes, devoid of warmth, devoid of the shyness of sex, that suddenly closed on their look, signified a want of comprehension of some kind, it might be hostility of understanding.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000107_000004|Was it possible he did not possess her utterly?
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000107_000005|He frowned up.
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000108_000000|Clara saw the lift of his brows, and thought, "My mind is my own, married or not."
train-other-500/3598/180204/3598_180204_000109_000000|It was the point in dispute.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000001_000000|Chapter two
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000002_000000|When so much has been written about Charles Strickland, it may seem unnecessary that I should write more.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000002_000001|A painter's monument is his work.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000002_000003|There, as is notorious, he spent the last years of his life; and there I came across persons who were familiar with him.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000002_000004|I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure. If they who believe in Strickland's greatness are right, the personal narratives of such as knew him in the flesh can hardly be superfluous.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000002_000005|What would we not give for the reminiscences of someone who had been as intimately acquainted with El Greco as I was with Strickland?
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000003_000000|But I seek refuge in no such excuses.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000003_000002|But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000003_000004|It is a salutary discipline to consider the vast number of books that are written, the fair hopes with which their authors see them published, and the fate which awaits them.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000003_000005|What chance is there that any book will make its way among that multitude?
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000003_000006|And the successful books are but the successes of a season.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000003_000009|The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000001|The younger generation, conscious of strength and tumultuous, have done with knocking at the door; they have burst in and seated themselves in our seats. The air is noisy with their shouts.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000002|Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring. The wiser go their way with a decent grace.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000003|In their chastened smile is an indulgent mockery.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000004|They remember that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch bearers will presently yield their place also.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000005|There is no last word. The new evangel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000006|These gallant words which seem so novel to those that speak them were said in accents scarcely changed a hundred times before.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000004_000007|The pendulum swings backwards and forwards. The circle is ever travelled anew.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000000|Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000001|Who now, for example, thinks of George Crabbe?
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000002|He was a famous poet in his day, and the world recognised his genius with a unanimity which the greater complexity of modern life has rendered infrequent.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000003|He had learnt his craft at the school of Alexander Pope, and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000004|Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. mr Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. I think he must have read the verse of these young men who were making so great a stir in the world, and I fancy he found it poor stuff.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000005|Of course, much of it was.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000006|But the odes of Keats and of Wordsworth, a poem or two by Coleridge, a few more by Shelley, discovered vast realms of the spirit that none had explored before.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000008|I cannot tell.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000010|I do not like them. I am on the shelf.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000005_000011|I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000007_000000|But all this is by the way.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000008_000000|I was very young when I wrote my first book.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000009_000000|It is not without melancholy that I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London when first, bashful but eager, I was introduced to it.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000009_000002|The venue is different.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000009_000005|The spade was not invariably called a bloody shovel.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000009_000006|Woman had not yet altogether come into her own.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000010_000000|I lived near Victoria Station, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000010_000001|In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell; and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000010_000002|I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the kind words they said about my book made me excessively uncomfortable.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000010_000003|I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over. I tried to conceal my embarrassment by handing round cups of tea and rather ill cut bread and butter.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000010_000004|I wanted no one to take notice of me, so that I could observe these famous creatures at my ease and listen to the clever things they said.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000011_000000|I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes, who wore their clothes as though they were armour; and of little, mouse like spinsters, with soft voices and a shrewd glance.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000012_000001|The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work. I despaired of ever expressing myself with such aptness or with such fluency.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000012_000004|Some advertised badly and some well.
train-other-500/36/16602/36_16602_000012_000005|Some were modern and some were old-fashioned.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000001_000000|Chapter four
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000002_000001|Everyone seemed to be talking, and I, sitting in silence, felt awkward; but I was too shy to break into any of the groups that seemed absorbed in their own affairs. Miss Waterford was a good hostess, and seeing my embarrassment came up to me.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000004_000000|"What does she do?" I asked.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000005_000000|I was conscious of my ignorance, and if mrs Strickland was a well-known writer I thought it as well to ascertain the fact before I spoke to her.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000007_000000|"She gives luncheon parties.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000008_000000|Rose Waterford was a cynic.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000008_000001|She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000008_000002|Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000009_000000|I was led up to mrs Strickland, and for ten minutes we talked together.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000009_000001|I noticed nothing about her except that she had a pleasant voice.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000009_000002|She had a flat in Westminster, overlooking the unfinished cathedral, and because we lived in the same neighbourhood we felt friendly disposed to one another. The Army and Navy Stores are a bond of union between all who dwell between the river and saint James's Park.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000009_000003|mrs Strickland asked me for my address, and a few days later I received an invitation to luncheon.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000010_000000|My engagements were few, and I was glad to accept.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000010_000001|When I arrived, a little late, because in my fear of being too early I had walked three times round the cathedral, I found the party already complete.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000010_000002|Miss Waterford was there and mrs Jay, Richard Twining and George Road.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000010_000006|Her dark hair was elaborately dressed. She was the only woman of the three whose face was free of make-up, and by contrast with the others she seemed simple and unaffected.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000011_000000|The dining room was in the good taste of the period.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000011_000001|It was very severe.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000011_000003|There was blue delft on the chimney piece. At that time there must have been five hundred dining rooms in London decorated in exactly the same manner.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000011_000004|It was chaste, artistic, and dull.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000012_000000|When we left I walked away with Miss Waterford, and the fine day and her new hat persuaded us to saunter through the Park.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000014_000000|"Did you think the food was good?
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000014_000001|I told her that if she wanted writers she must feed them well."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000015_000000|"Admirable advice," I answered.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000015_000001|"But why does she want them?"
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000016_000000|Miss Waterford shrugged her shoulders.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000017_000000|"She finds them amusing.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000017_000001|She wants to be in the movement. I fancy she's rather simple, poor dear, and she thinks we're all wonderful.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000017_000002|After all, it pleases her to ask us to luncheon, and it doesn't hurt us.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000017_000003|I like her for it."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000018_000000|Looking back, I think that mrs Strickland was the most harmless of all the lion hunters that pursue their quarry from the rarefied heights of Hampstead to the nethermost studios of Cheyne Walk.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000018_000004|Their moral eccentricities, like their oddities of dress, their wild theories and paradoxes, were an entertainment which amused her, but had not the slightest influence on her convictions.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000019_000000|"Is there a mr Strickland?" I asked
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000020_000000|"Oh yes; he's something in the city.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000020_000001|I believe he's a stockbroker.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000022_000000|"They adore one another.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000022_000001|You'll meet him if you dine there. But she doesn't often have people to dinner.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000022_000002|He's very quiet. He's not in the least interested in literature or the arts."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000023_000000|"Why do nice women marry dull men?"
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000024_000000|"Because intelligent men won't marry nice women."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000025_000000|I could not think of any retort to this, so I asked if mrs Strickland had children.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000026_000000|"Yes; she has a boy and a girl.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000026_000001|They're both at school."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000000|During the summer I met mrs Strickland not infrequently. I went now and then to pleasant little luncheons at her flat, and to rather more formidable tea parties.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000001|We took a fancy to one another.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000002|I was very young, and perhaps she liked the idea of guiding my virgin steps on the hard road of letters; while for me it was pleasant to have someone I could go to with my small troubles, certain of an attentive ear and reasonable counsel.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000003|mrs Strickland had the gift of sympathy.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000005|There are bosoms on which so many tears have been shed that I cannot bedew them with mine. mrs Strickland used her advantage with tact.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000006|You felt that you obliged her by accepting her sympathy.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000029_000007|When, in the enthusiasm of my youth, I remarked on this to Rose Waterford, she said:
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000030_000000|"Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000031_000001|No one could say such bitter things; on the other hand, no one could do more charming ones.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000032_000001|Her flat was always neat and cheerful, gay with flowers, and the chintzes in the drawing room, notwithstanding their severe design, were bright and pretty.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000032_000003|It was impossible not to see that mrs Strickland was an excellent housekeeper. And you felt sure that she was an admirable mother.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000032_000005|He had his mother's candid brow and fine, reflective eyes.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000032_000006|He looked clean, healthy, and normal.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000033_000000|"I don't know that he's very clever," she said one day, when I was looking at the photograph, "but I know he's good.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000033_000001|He has a charming character."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000034_000000|The daughter was fourteen.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000036_000000|"Yes; I think they are more like me than their father."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000037_000000|"Why have you never let me meet him?" I asked.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000038_000000|"Would you like to?"
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000039_000001|Perhaps her naivete was her greatest charm.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000040_000000|"You know, he's not at all literary," she said.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000040_000001|"He's a perfect philistine."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000042_000000|"He's on the Stock Exchange, and he's a typical broker. I think he'd bore you to death."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000043_000000|"Does he bore you?" I asked.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000044_000000|"You see, I happen to be his wife.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000044_000001|I'm very fond of him."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000045_000000|She smiled to cover her shyness, and I fancied she had a fear that I would make the sort of gibe that such a confession could hardly have failed to elicit from Rose Waterford. She hesitated a little.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000045_000001|Her eyes grew tender.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000046_000000|"He doesn't pretend to be a genius.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000046_000001|He doesn't even make much money on the Stock Exchange.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000046_000002|But he's awfully good and kind."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000047_000000|"I think I should like him very much."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000050_000000|But when at last I met Charles Strickland, it was under circumstances which allowed me to do no more than just make his acquaintance.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000050_000001|One morning mrs Strickland sent me round a note to say that she was giving a dinner party that evening, and one of her guests had failed her.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000050_000002|She asked me to stop the gap.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000050_000003|She wrote:
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000051_000000|"It's only decent to warn you that you will be bored to extinction.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000051_000001|It was a thoroughly dull party from the beginning, but if you will come I shall be uncommonly grateful. And you and I can have a little chat by ourselves."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000052_000000|It was only neighbourly to accept.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000053_000000|When mrs Strickland introduced me to her husband, he gave me a rather indifferent hand to shake.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000053_000001|Turning to him gaily, she attempted a small jest.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000054_000001|I think he was beginning to doubt it."
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000055_000001|New arrivals claimed my host's attention, and I was left to myself.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000055_000002|When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000055_000003|It was the kind of party which makes you wonder why the hostess has troubled to bid her guests, and why the guests have troubled to come. There were ten people.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000055_000004|They met with indifference, and would part with relief.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000055_000005|It was, of course, a purely social function. The Stricklands "owed" dinners to a number of persons, whom they took no interest in, and so had asked them; these persons had accepted.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000055_000006|Why?
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000056_000000|The dining room was inconveniently crowded.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000056_000002|It was because the Member of Parliament found that he could not leave the House that I had been invited.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000056_000003|The respectability of the party was portentous. The women were too nice to be well dressed, and too sure of their position to be amusing.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000056_000004|The men were solid. There was about all of them an air of well satisfied prosperity.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000057_000001|But there was no general conversation. Each one talked to his neighbour; to his neighbour on the right during the soup, fish, and entree; to his neighbour on the left during the roast, sweet, and savoury.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000057_000002|They talked of the political situation and of golf, of their children and the latest play, of the pictures at the Royal Academy, of the weather and their plans for the holidays.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000057_000003|There was never a pause, and the noise grew louder.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000057_000005|Perhaps he did not talk very much, and I fancied there was towards the end a look of fatigue in the faces of the women on either side of him. They were finding him heavy.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000057_000006|Once or twice mrs Strickland's eyes rested on him somewhat anxiously.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000000|At last she rose and shepherded the ladies out of one room. Strickland shut the door behind her, and, moving to the other end of the table, took his place between the k c and the Government official.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000001|He passed round the port again and handed us cigars.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000002|The k c remarked on the excellence of the wine, and Strickland told us where he got it.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000003|We began to chat about vintages and tobacco.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000004|The k c told us of a case he was engaged in, and the Colonel talked about polo.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000005|I had nothing to say and so sat silent, trying politely to show interest in the conversation; and because I thought no one was in the least concerned with me, examined Strickland at my ease.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000006|He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000007|He gave you somewhat the idea of a coachman dressed up for the occasion.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000008|He was a man of forty, not good looking, and yet not ugly, for his features were rather good; but they were all a little larger than life-size, and the effect was ungainly.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000009|He was clean shaven, and his large face looked uncomfortably naked. His hair was reddish, cut very short, and his eyes were small, blue or grey.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000010|He looked commonplace.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000011|I no longer wondered that mrs Strickland felt a certain embarrassment about him; he was scarcely a credit to a woman who wanted to make herself a position in the world of art and letters.
train-other-500/36/16603/36_16603_000058_000012|It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000001_000000|He immediately made up his mind to go to Modena in order to explain to his pupil how he was to act in Venice to open for himself the way to a brilliant fortune.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000001_000001|De la Haye depended on me in every way; he saw my fanaticism, and he was well aware that it is a disease which rages as long as the causes from which it has sprung are in existence.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000001_000002|As he was going with me to Venice, he flattered himself that he could easily feed the fire he had lighted.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000002_000001|After an absence of a year, my three friends received me as if I had been their guardian angel.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000002_000002|They expressed their impatience to welcome the two saints announced by my letters.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000003_000000|They were thoroughly amazed at the wonderful change which had taken place in my morals.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000003_000002|When they compared my actual mode of living with the former one, they marvelled, and they could not sufficiently thank the eternal providence of God whose inconceivable ways they admired. They blessed the criminal actions which had compelled me to remain one year away from my native place.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000004_000000|I had a letter from De la Haye in the beginning of May.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000004_000001|He announced that he was on the eve of starting with the son so dear to his heart, and that he would soon place himself at the disposition of the respectable men to whom I had announced him.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000005_000001|We returned to the palace before him, and when he came back, finding us all together, he gave his new guests the most friendly welcome.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000005_000002|De la Haye spoke to me of a hundred things, but I scarcely heard what he said, so much was my attention taken up by Bavois.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000005_000003|He was so different to what I had fancied him to be from the impression I had received from De la Haye, that my ideas were altogether upset.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000005_000004|I had to study him; for three days before I could make up my mind to like him.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000005_000005|I must give his portrait to my readers.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000006_000000|Baron Bavois was a young man of about twenty five, of middle size, handsome in features, well made, fair, of an equable temper, speaking well and with intelligence, and uttering his words with a tone of modesty which suited him exactly.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000006_000001|His features were regular and pleasing, his teeth were beautiful, his hair was long and fine, always well taken care of, and exhaling the perfume of the pomatum with which it was dressed.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000006_000002|That individual, who was the exact opposite of the man that De la Haye had led me to imagine, surprised my friends greatly, but their welcome did not in any way betray their astonishment, for their pure and candid minds would not admit a judgment contrary to the good opinion they had formed of his morals.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000006_000003|As soon as we had established De la Haye in his beautiful apartment, I accompanied Bavois to the rooms engaged for him, where his luggage had been sent by my orders.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000006_000004|He found himself in very comfortable quarters, and being received with distinction by his worthy host, who was already greatly prejudiced in his favour, the young baron embraced me warmly, pouring out all his gratitude, and assuring me that he felt deeply all I had done for him without knowing him, as De la Haye had informed him of all that had occurred.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000006_000005|I pretended not to understand what he was alluding to, and to change the subject of conversation I asked him how he intended to occupy his time in Venice until his military appointment gave him serious duties to perform.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000007_000000|Mercury and De la Haye had so completely besotted me that I should have found some difficulty in understanding these words, however intelligible they were; but if I did not go any further than the outward signification of his answer, I could not help remarking that he had already taken the fancy of the two daughters of the house.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000007_000001|They were neither pretty nor ugly, but he shewed himself gracious towards them like a man who understands his business.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000007_000002|I had, however, already made such great progress in my mystical education, that I considered the compliments he addressed to the girls as mere forms of politeness.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000008_000000|For the first day, I took my young baron only to the saint Mark's Square and to the cafe, where we remained until supper time, as it had been arranged that he would take his meals with us.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000008_000002|In the evening I accompanied him to his lodging, where I found that the two young girls were delighted because the young Swiss nobleman had no servant, and because they hoped to convince him that he would not require one.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000009_000001|We found him at his toilet under the delicate hands of the eldest girl, who was dressing his hair.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000009_000002|His room, was fragrant with the perfumes of his pomatums and scents.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000009_000006|When Bavois was ready, I left them and went a different way.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000009_000009|I should not have required such a long study, if I had not at first begun on a wrong scent, or rather if my intelligence had not been stultified by my fanaticism.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000011_000000|"God forbid I should deceive anyone.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000011_000001|De la Haye is perfectly well aware of my system, and of my way of thinking on religious matters, but, being himself very devout, he entertains a holy sympathy for my soul, and I do not object to it.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000011_000002|He has bestowed many kindnesses upon me, and I feel grateful to him; my affection for him is all the greater because he never teases me with his dogmatic lessons or with sermons respecting my salvation, of which I have no doubt that God, in His fatherly goodness, will take care.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000011_000003|All this is settled between De la Haye and me, and we live on the best of terms:"
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000012_000001|From that moment I fell again into all my former practices.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000012_000002|But let us return to De la Haye.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000013_000000|That late Jesuit, who in his inmost heart loved nothing but his own comfort, already advanced in years, and therefore no longer caring for the fair sex, was exactly the sort of man to please my simpleminded trio of friends.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000013_000001|As he never spoke to them but of God, of His angels, and of everlasting glory, and as he was always accompanying them to church, they found him a delightful companion.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000013_000002|They longed for the time when he would discover himself, for they imagined he was at the very least a Rosicrucian, or perhaps the hermit of Courpegna, who had taught me the cabalistic science and made me a present of the immortal Paralis.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000013_000003|They felt grieved because the oracle had forbidden them, through my cabalistic lips, ever to mention my science in the presence of Tartufe.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000015_000000|I soon found out that I had acted with prudence, for in less than three weeks the cunning fox had obtained so great an influence over the mind of my three friends that he was foolish enough, not only to believe that he did not want me any more to support his credit with them, but likewise that he could supplant me whenever he chose.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000016_000000|He was beginning to hold with my friends frequent conversations to which I was not summoned, and he had contrived to make them introduce him to several families which I was not in the habit of visiting.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000016_000001|He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, "God knows where!"
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000017_000000|I was particularly vexed at his seeming to accuse me of leading his pupil astray.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000017_000001|He then would assume the tone of a man speaking jestingly, but I was not deceived.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000017_000002|I thought it was time to put an end to his game, and with that intention I paid him a visit in his bedroom.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000017_000003|When I was seated, I said,
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000018_000000|"I come, as a true worshipper of the Gospel, to tell you in private something that, another time, I would say in public."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000019_000000|"What is it, my dear friend?"
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000020_000000|"I advise you for the future not to hurl at me the slightest taunt respecting the life I am leading with Bavois, when we are in the presence of my three worthy friends.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000020_000001|I do not object to listen to you when we are alone."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000021_000000|"You are wrong in taking my innocent jests seriously."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000022_000000|"Wrong or right, that does not matter.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000022_000001|Why do you never attack your proselyte?
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000022_000002|Be careful for the future, or I might on my side, and only in jest like you, throw at your head some repartee which you have every reason to fear, and thus repay you with interest."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000023_000000|And bowing to him I left his room.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000024_000000|A few days afterwards I spent a few hours with my friends and Paralis, and the oracle enjoined them never to accomplish without my advice anything that might be recommended or even insinuated by Valentine; that was the cabalistic name of the disciple of Escobar.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000024_000001|I knew I could rely upon their obedience to that order.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000025_000000|De la Haye soon took notice of some slight change; he became more reserved, and Bavois, whom I informed of what I had done, gave me his full approbation.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000025_000001|He felt convinced, as I was, that De la Haye had been useful to him only through weak or selfish reasons, that is, that he would have cared little for his soul if his face had not been handsome, and if he had not known that he would derive important advantages from having caused his so-called conversion.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000026_000000|Finding that the Venetian government was postponing his appointment from day to day, Bavois entered the service of the French ambassador.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000027_000001|But the decision taken by Bavois did not prevent my friends speaking in his favour, and they succeeded in obtaining employment for him, as will be seen further on.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000028_000001|I accepted his invitation, and I found Christine as lovely as ever, and speaking the Venetian dialect like her husband.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000028_000002|I made in that casino the acquaintance of a chemist, who inspired me with the wish to follow a course of chemistry.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000028_000003|I went to his house, where I found a young girl who greatly pleased me.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000028_000004|She was a neighbour, and came every evening to keep the chemist's elderly wife company, and at a regular hour a servant called to take her home.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000028_000005|I had never made love to her but once in a trifling sort of way, and in the presence of the old lady, but I was surprised not to see her after that for several days, and I expressed my astonishment.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000028_000006|The good lady told me that very likely the girl's cousin, an abbe, with whom she was residing, had heard of my seeing her every evening, had become jealous, and would not allow her to come again.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000029_000000|"An abbe jealous?"
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000030_000000|"Why not?
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000030_000001|He never allows her to go out except on Sundays to attend the first mass at the Church of Santa Maria Mater Domini, close by his dwelling.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000030_000002|He did not object to her coming here, because he knew that we never had any visitors, and very likely he has heard through the servant of your being here every evening."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000031_000001|I added that I would be in the church on the following Sunday to receive her answer.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000033_000001|Thinking that they wanted to dupe me, and besides, finding the proposal of marriage ridiculous, I determined on having my revenge.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000033_000002|But I wanted to get to the bottom of it, and I made up my mind to see the girl's mother.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000034_000000|"That abbe," she said, "is a distant relative.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000034_000001|He used to live alone in his house in Venice, and two years ago he told me that he was in want of a housekeeper.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000034_000002|He asked me to let my daughter go to him in that capacity, assuring me that in Venice she would have good opportunities of getting married.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000034_000004|It seemed to me a good bargain, and, my daughter being pleased with the offer, I accepted.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000034_000005|He gave me the deed duly drawn by a notary, and my daughter went with him.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000035_000000|"Then come to Venice with me.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000035_000002|Unless that is done I cannot marry her, for I should dishonour myself if I received my wife from his hands."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000036_000000|"Oh, no! for he is my cousin, although only in the fourth degree, and, what is more, he is a priest and says the mass every day."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000037_000000|"You make me laugh, my good woman.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000037_000001|Everybody knows that a priest says the mass without depriving himself of certain trifling enjoyments.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000037_000002|Take your daughter with you, or give up all hope of ever seeing her married."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000038_000000|"But if I take her with me, he will not give her his furniture, and perhaps he will sell his small estate here."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000039_000000|"I undertake to look to that part of the business.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000039_000002|If you knew me better, you would not doubt what I say.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000039_000003|Come to Venice, and I assure you that you shall return here in four or five days with your daughter."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000041_000000|"In Venice you shall not want for anything," I said; "in the mean time, here are ten sequins."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000042_000000|"Ten sequins!
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000042_000001|Then I can go with my sister in law?"
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000043_000000|"Come with anyone you like, but let us go soon so as to reach Chiozza, where we must sleep.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000043_000001|To morrow we shall dine in Venice, and I undertake to defray all expenses."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000044_000003|I instructed him to have the petition ready, saying that I would come the next morning with the mother, who would sign it in his presence.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000045_000000|I brought the mother early in the morning, and after she had signed the petition we went to the Boussole, where she presented it to the President of the Council.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000046_000000|The order was carried into execution to the very letter.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000046_000002|When it was all done, the daughter was brought to the gondola, and she was extremely surprised to see me.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000046_000003|Her mother kissed her, and told her that I would be her husband the very next day.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000046_000004|She answered that she was delighted, and that nothing had been left in her tyrant's house except his bed and his clothes.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000047_000000|When we reached Castello, I ordered the furniture to be brought out of the boat; we had dinner, and I told the three women that they must go back to Lusia, where I would join them as soon as I had settled all my affairs.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000047_000001|I spent the afternoon gaily with my intended.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000048_000000|"It is the first proof I give you of my love."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000049_000000|These words made her smile very pleasantly.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000051_000000|The next morning, after breakfast, I had the whole of the furniture stowed in a peotta, which I had engaged for the purpose and paid for beforehand.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000051_000001|I gave ten more sequins to the mother, and sent them away all three in great delight.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000051_000002|The affair was completed to my honour as well as to my entire satisfaction, and I returned home.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000052_000004|I had nothing to fear, and I wanted to amuse myself with all that would be said.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000055_000000|"It is said everywhere and by everybody.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000055_000001|The members of the Council themselves believe it, and they have good reason to believe that they are right."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000056_000000|"To be right in believing such a thing, they ought to be certain of it, and those gentlemen have no such certainty.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000056_000001|As they are not infallible any more than any one, except God, I tell you that they are mistaken.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000058_000000|"Quite true, but I have no account to give to anyone respecting what I have done last night.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000059_000000|"I wish you would not ask my opinion, for I do not know.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000059_000002|The deep affection I have for you causes me to grieve for what the public voice says about you."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000061_000000|"I respect you, but I have learned at my own expense that slander is to be feared.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000061_000002|The bailiff sent by the Council swears that you were in the gondola with the false mother when the young girl joined her.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000064_000000|The adventure was the talk of the city for five or six days, after which it was soon forgotten.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000065_000000|But three months having elapsed without my having paid any visit to Lusia, or having answered the letters written to me by the damigella Marchetti, and without sending her the money she claimed of me, she made up her mind to take certain proceedings which might have had serious consequences, although they had none whatever in the end.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000066_000000|One day, Ignacio, the bailiff of the dreaded tribunal of the State inquisitors, presented himself as I was sitting at table with my friends, De la Haye, and two other guests.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000066_000002|I rose from the table and answered, with a bow, that I would not fail to obey the wishes of his excellency.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000066_000003|The bailiff then left us.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000068_000000|"Ignacio was dressed in private clothes," he added, "and therefore he did not come as the official messenger of the dread tribunal.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000069_000001|I called at the appointed time.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000070_000000|I was immediately announced, and I had not long to wait.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000070_000002|I guessed at once what was the matter, and felt no surprise when I saw the woman Marchetti and her daughter.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000070_000003|His excellency asked me if I knew them.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000071_000000|"I must know them, monsignor, as one of them will become my wife when she has convinced me by her good conduct that she is worthy of that honour."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000072_000000|"Her conduct is good, she lives with her mother at Lusia; you have deceived her.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000072_000002|Why do you not visit her?
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000072_000003|You never answer her letters, and you let her be in want."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000073_000000|"I cannot marry her, your excellency, before I have enough to support her.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000073_000002|Until then she must live honestly, and support herself by working.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000074_000000|"She wishes you to give her a legal promise of marriage, and sustentation."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000075_000000|"Monsignor, I am under no obligation to give her a promise of marriage, and having no means whatever I cannot support her.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000075_000001|She must earn her own living with her mother"
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000077_000000|"If she returns to his house I shall not take the trouble of taking her out of his hands a second time, and your excellency will then see that I was right to defer my marriage with her until I was convinced of her honesty."
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000078_000000|The judge told me that my presence, was no longer necessary.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000078_000001|It was the end of the affair, and I never heard any more about it.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000078_000002|The recital of the dialogue greatly amused my friends.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000079_000000|At the beginning of the Carnival of seventeen fifty i won a prize of three thousand ducats at the lottery.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000079_000002|It was at a casino where no nobleman dared to present himself, because one of the partners was an officer in the service of the Duke de Montalegre, the Spanish Ambassador.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000079_000003|The citizens of Venice felt ill at ease with the patricians, and that is always the case under an aristocratic government, because equality exists in reality only between the members of such a government.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000081_000000|Towards mid Lent my friend Baletti returned from Mantua to Venice.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000081_000002|He was with Marina, but they did not live together.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000082_000000|It was at that time that Bavois was appointed captain in the service of the Republic; he rose rapidly in his profession, as I shall mention hereafter.
train-other-500/3606/6850/3606_6850_000083_000001|I met him again in Vienna three years later.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000001_000000|CHAPTER five
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000002_000000|HOW TO READ A CLASSIC
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000000|Let us begin experimental reading with Charles Lamb.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000001|I choose Lamb for various reasons: He is a great writer, wide in his appeal, of a highly sympathetic temperament; and his finest achievements are simple and very short.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000002|Moreover, he may usefully lead to other and more complex matters, as will appear later.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000003|Now, your natural tendency will be to think of Charles Lamb as a book, because he has arrived at the stage of being a classic.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000004|Charles Lamb was a man, not a book.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000005|It is extremely important that the beginner in literary study should always form an idea of the man behind the book.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000006|The book is nothing but the expression of the man.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000007|The book is nothing but the man trying to talk to you, trying to impart to you some of his feelings.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000008|An experienced student will divine the man from the book, will understand the man by the book, as is, of course, logically proper.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000009|But the beginner will do well to aid himself in understanding the book by means of independent information about the man.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000010|He will thus at once relate the book to something human, and strengthen in his mind the essential notion of the connection between literature and life.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000011|The earliest literature was delivered orally direct by the artist to the recipient.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000012|In some respects this arrangement was ideal.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000013|Changes in the constitution of society have rendered it impossible.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000014|Nevertheless, we can still, by the exercise of the imagination, hear mentally the accents of the artist speaking to us.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000003_000015|We must so exercise our imagination as to feel the man behind the book.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000004_000000|Some biographical information about Lamb should be acquired.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000004_000002|If you have none of these (but you ought to have the last), there are mr e v
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000004_000009|Do not say to yourself that you will read it later, but read it now.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000004_000010|When you have read it, you may proceed to my next paragraph.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000001|Lamb was nearing fifty when he wrote it.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000002|You can see, especially from the last line, that the death of his elder brother, john Lamb, was fresh and heavy on his mind.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000004|You will know that one of the influences of his childhood was his grandmother Field, housekeeper of Blakesware House, in Hertfordshire, at which mansion he sometimes spent his holidays.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000005|You will know that he was a bachelor, living with his sister Mary, who was subject to homicidal mania.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000006|And you will see in this essay, primarily, a supreme expression of the increasing loneliness of his life.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000007|He constructed all that preliminary tableau of paternal pleasure in order to bring home to you in the most poignant way his feeling of the solitude of his existence, his sense of all that he had missed and lost in the world.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000008|The key of the essay is one of profound sadness.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000009|But note that he makes his sadness beautiful; or, rather, he shows the beauty that resides in sadness.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000010|You watch him sitting there in his "bachelor arm chair," and you say to yourself: "Yes, it was sad, but it was somehow beautiful." When you have said that to yourself, Charles Lamb, so far as you are concerned, has accomplished his chief aim in writing the essay.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000011|How exactly he produces his effect can never be fully explained.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000013|He does not falsely idealise his brother, nor the relations between them.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000015|Being a sane man, he has too much common sense to assemble all his woes at once.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000005_000016|He might have told you that Bridget was a homicidal maniac; what he does tell you is that she was faithful.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000000|Then, subordinate to the main purpose, part of the machinery of the main purpose, is the picture of the children-real children until the moment when they fade away.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000002|You can see these children almost as clearly and as tenderly as Lamb saw them.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000003|For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000004|He will have shared with you his perception of beauty.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000005|If you possess children, he will have renewed for you the charm which custom does very decidedly stale.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000007|The more real they seem, the more touching is the revelation of the fact that they do not exist, and never have existed.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000006_000008|And if you were moved by the reference to their "pretty dead mother," you will be still more moved when you learn that the girl who would have been their mother is not dead and is not Lamb's.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000003|It is a classic because it transmits to you, as to generations before you, distinguished emotion, because it makes you respond to the throb of life more intensely, more justly, and more nobly.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000005|He felt so keenly that he was obliged to find relief in imparting his emotions.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000006|And his mental processes were so sincere that he could neither exaggerate nor diminish the truth.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000009|As Lamb sat in his bachelor arm chair, with his brother in the grave, and the faithful homicidal maniac by his side, he really did think to himself, "This is beautiful.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000010|Sorrow is beautiful. Disappointment is beautiful.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000011|Life is beautiful.
train-other-500/3618/175930/3618_175930_000007_000013|I must make them understand." Because he still makes you understand he is a classic.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000001_000000|CHAPTER seven
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000002_000000|WRESTLING WITH AN AUTHOR
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000001|As we have made a beginning of Lamb, it will be well to make an end of him.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000004|I mean that you should regularly devote a proportion of your learned leisure to the study of Lamb until you are acquainted with all that is important in his work and about his work.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000005|(You may buy the complete works in prose and verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by that unsurpassed expert mr Thomas Hutchison, and published by the Oxford University Press, in two volumes for four shillings the pair!) There is no reason why you should not become a modest specialist in Lamb.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000006|He is the very man for you; neither voluminous, nor difficult, nor uncomfortably lofty; always either amusing or touching; and-most important-himself passionately addicted to literature.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000007|You cannot like Lamb without liking literature in general.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000008|And you cannot read Lamb without learning about literature in general; for books were his hobby, and he was a critic of the first rank.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000003_000009|His letters are full of literariness. You will naturally read his letters; you should not only be infinitely diverted by them (there are no better epistles), but you should receive from them much light on the works.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000004_000000|It is a course of study that I am suggesting to you.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000004_000003|It means, in fact, "work." Perhaps you did not bargain for work when you joined me.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000004_000004|But I do not think that the literary taste can be satisfactorily formed unless one is prepared to put one's back into the affair.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000004_000006|This legitimate pride and sense of accomplishment will stimulate you to go on further; it will generate steam.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000000|Now, I shall not shut my eyes to a possible result of your diligent intercourse with Charles Lamb.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000001|It is possible that you may be disappointed with him.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000002|It is-shall I say?--almost probable that you will be disappointed with him, at any rate partially.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000003|You will have expected more joy in him than you have received.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000004|I have referred in a previous chapter to the feeling of disappointment which often comes from first contacts with the classics.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000006|You may have found Lamb less diverting, less interesting, than you hoped.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000007|You may have had to whip yourself up again and again to the effort of reading him.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000008|In brief, Lamb has not, for you, justified his terrific reputation.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000010|The difficulty must be fairly fronted, and the fronting of it brings us to the very core of the business of actually forming the taste.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000011|If your taste were classical you would discover in Lamb a continual fascination; whereas what you in fact do discover in Lamb is a not unpleasant flatness, enlivened by a vague humour and an occasional pathos.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000012|You ought, according to theory, to be enthusiastic; but you are apathetic, or, at best, half hearted.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000013|There is a gulf.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000005_000014|How to cross it?
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000000|To cross it needs time and needs trouble.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000001|The following considerations may aid.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000002|In the first place, we have to remember that, in coming into the society of the classics in general and of Charles Lamb in particular, we are coming into the society of a mental superior.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000004|We can judge by recalling what happens when we are in the society of a mental inferior.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000005|We say things of which he misses the import; we joke, and he does not smile; what makes him laugh loudly seems to us horseplay or childish; he is blind to beauties which ravish us; he is ecstatic over what strikes us as crude; and his profound truths are for us trite commonplaces.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000006|His perceptions are relatively coarse; our perceptions are relatively subtle.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000007|We try to make him understand, to make him see, and if he is aware of his inferiority we may have some success.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000010|In approaching a classic, the true wisdom is to place ourselves in the position of the mental inferior, aware of mental inferiority, humbly stripping off all conceit, anxious to rise out of that inferiority.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000011|Recollect that we always regard as quite hopeless the mental inferior who does not suspect his own inferiority.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000006_000012|Our attitude towards Lamb must be: "Charles Lamb was a greater man than I am, cleverer, sharper, subtler, finer, intellectually more powerful, and with keener eyes for beauty. I must brace myself to follow his lead." Our attitude must resemble that of one who cocks his ear and listens with all his soul for a distant sound.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000000|To catch the sound we really must listen.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000002|We must read slowly and perseveringly.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000003|A classic has to be wooed and is worth the wooing. Further, we must disdain no assistance.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000004|I am not in favour of studying criticism of classics before the classics themselves.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000005|My notion is to study the work and the biography of a classical writer together, and then to read criticism afterwards.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000007|The classic should be allowed to make his own impression, however faint, on the virginal mind of the reader.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000008|But afterwards let explanatory criticism be read as much as you please.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000009|Explanatory criticism is very useful; nearly as useful as pondering for oneself on what one has read!
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000007_000010|Explanatory criticism may throw one single gleam that lights up the entire subject.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000001|It is never a violent pleasure.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000002|It is subtle, and it will wax in intensity, but the idea of violence is foreign to it.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000003|The artistic pleasures of an uncultivated mind are generally violent.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000005|They are gross, like the joy of Worcester sauce on the palate.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000006|Now, if there is one point common to all classics, it is the absence of exaggeration.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000007|The balanced sanity of a great mind makes impossible exaggeration, and, therefore, distortion.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000008|The beauty of a classic is not at all apt to knock you down.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000009|It will steal over you, rather.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000010|Many serious students are, I am convinced, discouraged in the early stages because they are expecting a wrong kind of pleasure.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000011|They have abandoned Worcester sauce, and they miss it.
train-other-500/3618/175932/3618_175932_000008_000014|They cannot have crudeness and fineness together.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000002_000000|seven
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000003_000000|WARNING APPARITIONS
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000004_000000|As we should expect, there are a number of instances of warning apparitions in antiquity; and it is interesting to note that the majority of these are gigantic women endowed with a gift of prophecy.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000005_000001|She announced that she was Africa, and was able to predict the future, and told him that he would go to Rome, hold office there, return to the province with the highest authority, and there die.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000006_000000|So, again, at the time of the conspiracy of Callippus, Dion was meditating one evening before the porch of his house, when he turned round and saw a gigantic female figure, in the form of a Fury, at the end of the corridor, sweeping the floor with a broom.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000007_000002|Depart hence, for the end of thy life and of thy deeds is at hand." Drusus was much troubled by this warning, and instantly obeyed the words of the apparition; but he died before reaching the Rhine.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000009_000002|On this particular occasion he had left his men at work in the vineyard, and was resting quietly at midday, when his dog began to bark.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000009_000004|Her lower extremities were like those of a dragon, and snakes were coiling round her neck and shoulders.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000009_000005|Eucrates was not in the least alarmed, but turned the seal of his ring, when a vast chasm opened in the earth, into which she disappeared.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000009_000008|In a few moments the chasm closed.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000010_000001|A similar story is told of the poet Simonides, who was warned by a spectre that his house was going to fall, and thus enabled to make his escape in time.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000011_000000|I will include here a couple of stories which, if they cannot exactly be classed as stories of warning apparitions, are interesting in themselves, and may at least be considered as ghost stories.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000011_000003|Soon afterwards the same thing happened again.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000011_000004|His brother, who slept with him, saw nothing; but Marcus declared that two people came in by the windows, dressed in white, and, after cutting his hair, disappeared. "Nothing astonishing happened," adds Pliny, "except that I was not prosecuted, as I undoubtedly should have been, had Domitian lived; for this happened during his principate.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000011_000005|Perhaps the cutting of my slave's hair was a sign of my approaching doom, for accused people cut their hair," as a sign of mourning.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000011_000006|One may be allowed to wonder whether, after all, a fondness for practical joking is not even older than the age of the younger Pliny.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000012_000001|Indeed, Lucian seems to have covered almost the whole field of the marvellous, as understood at that time, in his determination to turn it into ridicule in that amusing dialogue.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000012_000002|In this case we are told of a little statue of AEsculapius, which stood in the house of the narrator of the story, and at the feet of which a number of pence had been placed as offerings, while other coins, some of them silver, were fastened to the thighs with wax.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000012_000003|There were also silver plates which had been vowed or offered by those who had been cured of fever by the god.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000012_000005|One would like to know what was the ultimate destination of these particular coins-whether they were to be sent as contributions to one of the temples of AEsculapius, which were the centre of the medical world at this period, and had elaborate hospitals attached to them, about which we learn so much from Aristides.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000013_000001|The god, however, considered that he had been let off much too easily; and he was mysteriously flogged every night, as the weals upon him showed, till he ultimately died of the punishment.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000014_000002|When he awoke, he told his slave the story, and set to work to finish a play with which he was then busy.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000014_000003|After completing it to his satisfaction, he wrapped himself in his cloak and lay down upon his bed. His slave came in, and, thinking he was asleep, went to wake him, when he found that he was dead.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000015_000000|Many stories naturally gather round the great struggle for the final mastery of the Roman world which ended in the overthrow of the Republic. Shakespeare has made us familiar with the fate of the poet Cinna, who was actually mistaken for one of the conspirators against Caesar and murdered by the crowd.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000015_000001|He dreamt, on the night before he met his death, that Caesar invited him to supper, and when he refused the invitation, took him by the hand and forced him down into a deep, dark abyss, which he entered with the utmost horror.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000016_000001|Some of the troops, several trumpeters among them, ran up to listen, when the man seized a trumpet, blew a loud blast upon it, and began to cross the Rubicon.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000017_000001|Shakespeare represents it to be Caesar's ghost, but has otherwise strictly followed Plutarch.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000018_000000|BRUTUS.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000018_000001|How ill this taper burns!
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000019_000000|GHOST.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000020_000000|BRUTUS.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000021_000000|GHOST.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000022_000000|BRUTUS.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000022_000001|Well; then I shall see thee again?
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000023_000000|GHOST.
train-other-500/3618/178097/3618_178097_000024_000000|BRUTUS.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000003_000000|"Have you written to thank the Froplinsons for what they sent us?" asked Egbert.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000004_000000|"No," said Janetta, with a note of tired defiance in her voice; "I've written eleven letters to day expressing surprise and gratitude for sundry unmerited gifts, but I haven't written to the Froplinsons."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000005_000000|"Some one will have to write to them," said Egbert.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000006_000000|"I don't dispute the necessity, but I don't think the some one should be me," said Janetta.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000006_000001|"I wouldn't mind writing a letter of angry recrimination or heartless satire to some suitable recipient; in fact, I should rather enjoy it, but I've come to the end of my capacity for expressing servile amiability.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000006_000002|Eleven letters to day and nine yesterday, all couched in the same strain of ecstatic thankfulness: really, you can't expect me to sit down to another.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000006_000003|There is such a thing as writing oneself out."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000007_000000|"I've written nearly as many," said Egbert, "and I've had my usual business correspondence to get through, too.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000007_000001|Besides, I don't know what it was that the Froplinsons sent us."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000008_000000|"A William the Conqueror calendar," said Janetta, "with a quotation of one of his great thoughts for every day in the year."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000009_000000|"Impossible," said Egbert; "he didn't have three hundred and sixty five thoughts in the whole of his life, or, if he did, he kept them to himself.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000009_000001|He was a man of action, not of introspection."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000010_000000|"Well, it was William Wordsworth, then," said Janetta; "I know William came into it somewhere."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000011_000000|"That sounds more probable," said Egbert; "well, let's collaborate on this letter of thanks and get it done.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000011_000001|I'll dictate, and you can scribble it down.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000011_000003|It was very good of you to think of us.'"
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000013_000000|"It's what I always do say, and what every one says to me," protested Egbert.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000016_000000|"Bridge markers," said Janetta, "in a cardboard case, with some inanity about 'digging for fortune with a royal spade' emblazoned on the cover. The moment I saw it in the shop I said to myself 'Froplinsons' and to the attendant 'How much?' When he said 'Ninepence,' I gave him their address, jabbed our card in, paid tenpence or elevenpence to cover the postage, and thanked heaven.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000016_000001|With less sincerity and infinitely more trouble they eventually thanked me."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000017_000000|"The Froplinsons don't play bridge," said Egbert.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000018_000001|Besides, what trouble did they take to find out whether we read Wordsworth with gladness?
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000018_000002|For all they knew or cared we might be frantically embedded in the belief that all poetry begins and ends with john Masefield, and it might infuriate or depress us to have a daily sample of Wordsworthian products flung at us."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000021_000000|"'How clever of you to guess that Wordsworth is our favourite poet,'" dictated Egbert.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000023_000000|"Do you realise what that means?" she asked; "a Wordsworth booklet next Christmas, and another calendar the Christmas after, with the same problem of having to write suitable letters of thankfulness.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000023_000001|No, the best thing to do is to drop all further allusion to the calendar and switch off on to some other topic."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000025_000000|"Oh, something like this: 'What do you think of the New Year Honours List?
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000025_000002|The Froplinsons won't know whether it is or isn't."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000027_000000|"Well, we can't think of one," said Janetta wearily; "the fact is, we've both written ourselves out.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000027_000001|Heavens!
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000027_000002|I've just remembered mrs Stephen Ludberry.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000029_000000|"I forget; I think it was a calendar."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000030_000000|There was a long silence, the forlorn silence of those who are bereft of hope and have almost ceased to care.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000031_000001|The light of battle was in his eyes.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000032_000000|"Let me come to the writing table," he exclaimed.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000033_000000|"Gladly," said Janetta.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000033_000001|"Are you going to write to mrs Ludberry or the Froplinsons?"
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000034_000000|"To neither," said Egbert, drawing a stack of notepaper towards him; "I'm going to write to the editor of every enlightened and influential newspaper in the Kingdom, I'm going to suggest that there should be a sort of epistolary Truce of God during the festivities of Christmas and New Year.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000034_000002|Answers to invitations, arrangements about trains, renewal of club subscriptions, and, of course, all the ordinary everyday affairs of business, sickness, engaging new cooks, and so forth, these will be dealt with in the usual manner as something inevitable, a legitimate part of our daily life.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000034_000003|But all the devastating accretions of correspondence, incident to the festive season, these should be swept away to give the season a chance of being really festive, a time of untroubled, unpunctuated peace and good will."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000038_000000|"It is not a bit more perfunctory than the present system," said Egbert; "I have only the same conventional language of gratitude at my disposal with which to thank dear old Colonel Chuttle for his perfectly delicious Stilton, which we shall devour to the last morsel, and the Froplinsons for their calendar, which we shall never look at.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000038_000001|Colonel Chuttle knows that we are grateful for the Stilton, without having to be told so, and the Froplinsons know that we are bored with their calendar, whatever we may say to the contrary, just as we know that they are bored with the bridge markers in spite of their written assurance that they thanked us for our charming little gift.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000038_000002|What is more, the Colonel knows that even if we had taken a sudden aversion to Stilton or been forbidden it by the doctor, we should still have written a letter of hearty thanks around it. So you see the present system of acknowledgment is just as perfunctory and conventional as the counterfoil business would be, only ten times more tiresome and brain racking."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000039_000000|"Your plan would certainly bring the ideal of a Happy Christmas a step nearer realisation," said Janetta.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000040_000000|"There are exceptions, of course," said Egbert, "people who really try to infuse a breath of reality into their letters of acknowledgment.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000040_000001|Aunt Susan, for instance, who writes: 'Thank you very much for the ham; not such a good flavour as the one you sent last year, which itself was not a particularly good one.
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000040_000002|Hams are not what they used to be.' It would be a pity to be deprived of her Christmas comments, but that loss would be swallowed up in the general gain."
train-other-500/3641/134615/3641_134615_000041_000000|"Meanwhile," said Janetta, "what am I to say to the Froplinsons?"
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000000_000000|I went at once to the convent.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000000_000001|The parlour was full, but thanks to my costume of Pierrot, which was seen in Venice but very seldom, everybody made room for me.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000000_000002|I walked on, assuming the gait of a booby, the true characteristic of my costume, and I stopped near the dancers.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000000_000003|After I had examined the Pantaloons, Punches, Harlequins, and Merry Andrews, I went near the grating, where I saw all the nuns and boarders, some seated, some standing, and, without appearing to, notice any of them in particular, I remarked my two friends together, and very intent upon the dancers.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000000_000004|I then walked round the room, eyeing everybody from head to foot, and calling the general attention upon myself.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000001|My partner danced very well according to her costume, and I kept my character with such perfection that the laughter was general.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000002|After the minuet I danced twelve forlanas with the greatest vigour.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000003|Out of breath, I threw myself on a sofa, pretending to go to sleep, and the moment I began to snore everybody respected the slumbers of Pierrot.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000004|The quadrille lasted one hour, and I took no part in it, but immediately after it, a Harlequin approached me with the impertinence which belongs to his costume, and flogged me with his wand.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000005|It is Harlequin's weapon.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000006|In my quality of Pierrot I had no weapons.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000007|I seized him round the waist and carried him round the parlour, running all the time, while he kept on flogging me.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000008|I then put him down.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000009|Adroitly snatching his wand out of his hand, I lifted his Columbine on my shoulders, and pursued him, striking him with the wand, to the great delight and mirth of the company.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000010|The Columbine was screaming because she was afraid of my tumbling down and of shewing her centre of gravity to everybody in the fall.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000011|She had good reason to fear, for suddenly a foolish Merry Andrew came behind me, tripped me up, and down I tumbled.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000012|Everybody hooted Master Punch.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000013|I quickly picked myself up, and rather vexed I began a regular fight with the insolent fellow. He was of my size, but awkward, and he had nothing but strength.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000014|I threw him, and shaking him vigorously on all sides I contrived to deprive him of his hump and false stomach.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000001_000015|The nuns, who had never seen such a merry sight, clapped their hands, everybody laughed loudly, and improving my opportunity I ran through the crowd and disappeared.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000002_000000|I was in a perspiration, and the weather was cold; I threw myself into a gondola, and in order not to get chilled I landed at the 'ridotto'.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000002_000002|I spent those two hours in playing at all the banks, winning, losing, and performing all sorts of antics with complete freedom, being satisfied that no one could recognize me; enjoying the present, bidding defiance to the future, and laughing at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000003_000000|But two o'clock struck and gave me warning that Love and Comus were calling me to bestow new delights upon me.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000003_000001|With my pockets full of gold and silver, I left the ridotto, hurried to Muran, entered the sanctuary, and saw my divinity leaning against the mantelpiece.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000003_000002|She wore her convent dress.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000003_000004|I look at her, and I remain petrified, astounded.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000004_000000|The person I see is not M---- M----
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000005_000000|It is C---- C----, dressed as a nun, who, more astonished even than myself, does not utter one word or make a movement.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000005_000001|I throw myself in an arm chair in order to breathe and to recover from my surprise.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000005_000002|The sight of C---- C---- had annihilated me, and my mind was as much stupefied as my body.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000005_000003|I found myself in an inextricable maze.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000006_000000|It is M---- M----, I said to myself, who has played that trick upon me, but how has she contrived to know that I am the lover of C---- C----? Has C---- C---- betrayed my secret?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000006_000001|But if she has betrayed it, how could M---- M---- deprive herself of the pleasure of seeing me, and consent to her place being taken by her friend and rival?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000006_000002|That cannot be a mark of kind compliance, for a woman never carries it to such an extreme.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000007_000000|My self love tried hard to imagine some reason likely to disprove the possibility of that contempt, but in vain.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000007_000001|Absorbed in that dark discontent, I believed myself wantonly trifled with, deceived, despised, and I spent half an hour silent and gloomy, staring at C---- C----, who scarcely dared to breathe, perplexed, confused, and not knowing in whose presence she was, for she could only know me as the Pierrot whom she had seen at the ball.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000008_000000|Deeply in love with M---- M----, and having come to the casino only for her, I did not feel disposed to accept the exchange, although I was very far from despising C---- C----, whose charms were as great, at least, as those of M---- M----.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000008_000001|I loved her tenderly, I adored her, but at that moment it was not her whom I wanted, because at first her presence had struck me as a mystification.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000008_000002|It seemed to me that if I celebrated the return of C---- C---- in an amorous manner, I would fail in what I owed to myself, and I thought that I was bound in honour not to lend myself to the imposition.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000008_000004|I must add that I suspected M---- M---- to be hiding in the secret closet, perhaps with her friend.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000009_000000|I had to take a decision, for I could not pass the whole night in my costume of Pierrot, and without speaking.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000009_000002|I had seduced her.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000009_000003|I had given her the right to call me her husband.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000009_000004|These thoughts broke my heart.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000010_000001|With that idea, I took off the gauze which covered my features.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000010_000002|My lovely C---- C---- gave a deep sigh, and said:
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000011_000000|"I breathe again! it could not be anyone but you, my heart felt it.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000011_000001|You seemed surprised when you saw me, dearest; did you not know that I was waiting for you?"
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000012_000000|"I had not the faintest idea of it."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000013_000000|"If you are angry, I regret it deeply, but I am innocent."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000014_000000|"My adored friend, come to my arms, and never suppose that I can be angry with you.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000014_000001|I am delighted to see you; you are always my dear wife: but I entreat you to clear up a cruel doubt, for you could never have betrayed my secret."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000015_000000|"I!
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000015_000001|I would never have been guilty of such a thing, even if death had stared me in the face."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000016_000000|"Then, how did you come here?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000016_000001|How did your friend contrive to discover everything?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000016_000003|Laura perhaps....'
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000017_000000|"No, Laura is faithful, dearest, and I cannot guess how it was."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000018_000000|"But how could you be persuaded to assume that disguise, and to come here?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000018_000001|You can leave the convent, and you have never apprised me of that important circumstance."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000019_000000|"Can you suppose that I would not have told you all about it, if I had ever left the convent, even once?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000020_000000|"Tell me all about it, my love.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000020_000001|I feel extremely curious."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000000|"I am glad of it, and I would conceal nothing from you.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000001|You know how dearly M---- M---- and I love each other.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000002|No intimacy could be more tender than ours; you can judge of it by what I told you in my letters. Well, two days ago, my dear friend begged the abbess and my aunt to allow me to sleep in her room in the place of the lay sister, who, having a very bad cold, had carried her cough to the infirmary.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000003|The permission was granted, and you cannot imagine our pleasure in seeing ourselves at liberty, for the first time, to sleep in the same bed.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000004|To day, shortly after you had left the parlour, where you so much amused us, without our discovering that the delightful Pierrot was our friend, my dear M---- M---- retired to her room and I followed her.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000005|The moment we were alone she told me that she wanted me to render her a service from which depended our happiness.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000006|I need not tell you how readily I answered that she had only to name it.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000007|Then she opened a drawer, and much to my surprise she dressed me in this costume.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000008|She was laughing; and I did the same without suspecting the end of the joke.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000009|When she saw me entirely metamorphosed into a nun, she told me that she was going to trust me with a great secret, but that she entertained no fear of my discretion.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000010|'Let me tell you, clearest friend,' she said to me, 'that I was on the point of going out of the convent, to return only tomorrow morning.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000011|I have, however, just decided that you shall go instead.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000012|You have nothing to fear and you do not require any instructions, because I know that you will meet with no difficulty.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000013|In an hour, a lay sister will come here, I will speak a few words apart to her, and she will tell you to follow her.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000014|You will go out with her through the small gate and across the garden as far as the room leading out to the low shore.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000015|There you will get into the gondola, and say to the gondolier these words: 'To the casino.' You will reach it in five minutes; you will step out and enter a small apartment, where you will find a good fire; you will be alone, and you will wait.' 'For whom?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000016|I enquired.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000017|'For nobody.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000018|You need not know any more: you may only be certain that nothing unpleasant will happen to you; trust me for that.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000019|You will sup at the casino, and sleep, if you like, without being disturbed.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000020|Do not ask any questions, for I cannot answer them.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000022|Tell me now what I could do after that speech of my friend, and after she had received my promise to do whatever she wished.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000023|Do not distrust what I tell you, for my lips cannot utter a falsehood.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000024|I laughed, and not expecting anything else but an agreeable adventure, I followed the lay sister and soon found myself here.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000025|After a tedious hour of expectation, Pierrot made his appearance.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000026|Be quite certain that the very moment I saw you my heart knew who it was, but a minute after I felt as if the lightning had struck me when I saw you step back, for I saw clearly enough that you did not expect to find me.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000027|Your gloomy silence frightened me, and I would never have dared to be the first in breaking it; the more so that, in spite of the feelings of my heart, I might have been mistaken.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000028|The dress of Pierrot might conceal some other man, but certainly no one that I could have seen in this place without horror. Recollect that for the last eight months I have been deprived of the happiness of kissing you, and now that you must be certain of my innocence, allow me to congratulate you upon knowing this casino.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000029|You are happy, and I congratulate you with all my heart.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000031|I used to pity you, but I do so no longer, and your happiness makes me happy.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000021_000032|Kiss me now."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000023_000000|After assuring her that I no longer entertained any doubt of her innocence, I told her that I thought the behaviour of her friend very ambiguous.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000024_000000|"I am not of your opinion," replied C---- C----.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000025_000001|She wished to make us happy, and I cannot be angry with her for it."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000026_000000|"You are right to think so, dearest, but my position is very different from yours.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000026_000001|You have not another lover; you could not have another; but I being free and unable to see you, have not found it possible to resist the charms of M---- M----.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000026_000002|I love her madly; she knows it, and, intelligent as she is, she must have meant to shew her contempt for me by doing what she has done.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000026_000003|I candidly confess that I feel hurt in the highest degree.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000026_000004|If she loved me as I love her, she never could have sent you here instead of coming herself."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000027_000000|"I do not think so, my beloved friend.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000027_000001|Her soul is as noble as her heart is generous; and just in the same manner that I am not sorry to know that you love one another and that you make each other happy, as this beautiful casino proves to me, she does not regret our love, and she is, on the contrary, delighted to shew us that she approves of it.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000027_000002|Most likely she meant to prove that she loved you for your own sake, that your happiness makes her happy, and that she is not jealous of her best friend being her rival.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000027_000003|To convince you that you ought not to be angry with her for having discovered our secret, she proves, by sending me here in her place, that she is pleased to see your heart divided between her and me.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000027_000004|You know very well that she loves me, and that I am often either her wife or her husband, and as you do not object to my being your rival and making her often as happy as I can, she does not want you either to suppose that her love is like hatred, for the love of a jealous heart is very much like it."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000028_000000|"You plead the cause of your friend with the eloquence of an angel, but, dear little wife, you do not see the affair in its proper light.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000028_000001|You have intelligence and a pure soul, but you have not my experience.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000028_000003|I am miserable, and it is her doing."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000030_000000|"Now, dearest, you speak without reason, for the relations between you two are of an entirely different nature.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000030_000001|Your mutual love is nothing but trifling nonsense, mere illusion of the senses.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000030_000002|The pleasures which you enjoy together are not exclusive.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000030_000003|To become jealous of one another it would be necessary that one of you two should feel a similar affection for another woman but M---- M---- could no more be angry at your having a lover than you could be so yourself if she had one; provided, however, that the lover should not belong to the other"
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000031_000000|"But that is precisely our case, and you are mistaken.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000031_000001|We are not angry at your loving us both equally.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000031_000002|Have I not written to you that I would most willingly give you my place near M---- M----?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000031_000003|Then you must believe that I despise you likewise?"
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000000|"My darling, that wish of yours to give me up your place, when you did not know that I was happy with M---- M----, arose from your friendship rather than from your love, and for the present I must be glad to see that your friendship is stronger than your love, but I have every reason to be sorry when M---- M---- feels the same.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000001|I love her without any possibility of marrying her.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000002|Do you understand me, dearest?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000003|As for you, knowing that you must be my wife, I am certain of our love, which practice will animate with new life.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000004|It is not the same with M---- M---- ; that love cannot spring up again into existence.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000005|Is it not humiliating for me to have inspired her with nothing but a passing fancy?
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000006|I understand your adoration for her very well.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000032_000007|She has initiated you into all her mysteries, and you owe her eternal friendship and everlasting gratitude."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000033_000000|It was midnight, and we went on wasting our time in this desultory conversation, when the prudent and careful servant brought us an excellent supper.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000033_000001|I could not touch anything, my heart was too full, but my dear little wife supped with a good appetite.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000033_000003|In her innocence, she could not understand the intention of the person who had ordered the supper.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000033_000004|As I looked at her, I was compelled to acknowledge that she had improved in beauty; in fact C---- C---- was remarkably beautiful, yet I remained cold by her side.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000033_000005|I have always thought that there is no merit in being faithful to the person we truly love.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000034_000000|Two hours before day light we resumed our seats near the fire, and C---- C----, seeing how dull I was, was delicately attentive to me.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000034_000001|She attempted no allurement, all her movements wore the stamp of the most decent reserve, and her conversation, tender in its expressions and perfectly easy, never conveyed the shadow of a reproach for my coolness.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000035_000000|Towards the end of our long conversation, she asked me what she should say to her friend on her return to the convent.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000036_000000|"My dear M---- M---- expects to see me full of joy and gratitude for the generous present she thought she was making me by giving me this night, but what shall I tell her?"
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000037_000000|"The whole truth.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000037_000001|Do not keep from her a single word of our conversation, as far as your memory will serve you, and tell her especially that she has made me miserable for a long time."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000038_000000|"No, for I should cause her too great a sorrow; she loves you dearly, and cherishes the locket which contains your likeness.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000038_000001|I mean, on the contrary, to do all I can to bring peace between you two, and I must succeed before long, because my friend is not guilty of any wrong, and you only feel some spite, although with no cause.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000038_000002|I will send you my letter by Laura, unless you promise me to go and fetch it yourself at her house."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000039_000001|She will believe you in everything, except in one."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000040_000000|"I suppose you mean our passing a whole night together as innocently as if we were brother and sister.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000040_000001|If she knows you as well as I do, she will indeed think it most wonderful."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000041_000000|"In that case, you may tell her the contrary, if you like."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000042_000000|"Nothing of the sort.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000042_000001|I hate falsehoods, and I will certainly never utter one in such a case as this; it would be very wrong.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000042_000002|I do not love you less on that account, my darling, although, during this long night, you have not condescended to give me the slightest proof of your love."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000043_000000|"Believe me, dearest, I am sick from unhappiness.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000043_000001|I love you with my whole soul, but I am in such a situation that...."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000044_000000|"What! you are weeping, my love!
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000044_000001|Oh!
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000044_000002|I entreat you, spare my heart!
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000044_000003|I am so sorry to have told you such a thing, but I can assure you I never meant to make you unhappy.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000044_000004|I am sure that in a quarter of an hour M---- M---- will be crying likewise."
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000045_000000|The alarum struck, and, having no longer any hope of seeing M---- M---- come to justify herself, I kissed C---- C----.
train-other-500/3641/6870/3641_6870_000045_000001|I gave her the key of the casino, requesting her to return it for me to M---- M----, and my young friend having gone back to the convent, I put on my mask and left the casino.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000002_000000|There were, certainly, no particular attractions, either in the room over which the glance of Mr Squeers so discontentedly wandered, or in the narrow street into which it might have penetrated, if he had thought fit to approach the window.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000002_000002|The street was muddy, dirty, and deserted.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000003_000000|Mr Squeers continued to look disconsolately about him, and to listen to these noises in profound silence, broken only by the rustling of his large coat, as he now and then moved his arm to raise his glass to his lips.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000003_000001|Mr Squeers continued to do this for some time, until the increasing gloom warned him to snuff the candle.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000004_000000|'Well, this is a pretty go, is this here!
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000004_000001|An uncommon pretty go!
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000004_000003|That's the worst of ever being in with a owdacious chap like that old Nickleby.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000004_000004|You never know when he's done with you, and if you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000005_000000|This remark, perhaps, reminded Mr Squeers that he was in for a hundred pound at any rate.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000006_000000|'I never see,' soliloquised Mr Squeers in continuation, 'I never see nor come across such a file as that old Nickleby.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000006_000001|Never!
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000008_000001|Young Sprouter has been a winking, has he?
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000008_000002|I'll wink him when I get back.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000009_000000|Mr Squeers was so much moved by the contemplation of this hardened nature in one so young, that he angrily put up the letter, and sought, in a new train of ideas, a subject of consolation.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000010_000002|There's nothing lost, neither, by one's being here; because the boys' money comes in just the same as if I was at home, and Mrs Squeers she keeps them in order.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000010_000003|There'll be some lost time to make up, of course.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000010_000005|It's pretty nigh the time to wait upon the old woman.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000010_000007|Mrs Squeers, my dear, your health!'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000013_000000|'But what's the use of tapping?' he said, 'She'll never hear.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000013_000001|I suppose she isn't doing anything very particular; and if she is, it don't much matter, that I see.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000014_000000|With this brief preface, Mr Squeers applied his hand to the latch of the door, and thrusting his head into a garret far more deplorable than that he had just left, and seeing that there was nobody there but an old woman, who was bending over a wretched fire (for although the weather was still warm, the evening was chilly), walked in, and tapped her on the shoulder.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000015_000000|'Well, my Slider,' said Mr Squeers, jocularly.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000016_000000|'Is that you?' inquired Peg.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000017_000001|'At least, if it isn't, you don't know any better, and if it is, I've done it accidentally.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000019_000000|'Well, my Slider!'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000021_000000|'I've come according to promise,' roared Squeers.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000022_000000|'So they used to say in that part of the country I come from,' observed Peg, complacently, 'but I think oil's better.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000024_000000|'No,' said Peg, 'of course not.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000025_000001|This is a bottle.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000026_000000|'I see it,' answered Peg.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000030_000001|'Now then, let's have a talk.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000030_000002|How's the rheumatics?'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000032_000000|'What's the reason,' said Mr Squeers, deriving fresh facetiousness from the bottle; 'what's the reason of rheumatics?
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000032_000001|What do they mean?
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000034_000001|The heavenly bodies is philosophy, and the earthly bodies is philosophy.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000035_000000|Saying this, and a great deal more, with tipsy profundity and a serio comic air, and keeping his eye all the time on Mrs Sliderskew, who was unable to hear one word, Mr Squeers concluded by helping himself and passing the bottle: to which Peg did becoming reverence.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000037_000000|Again Mrs Sliderskew chuckled, but modesty forbade her assenting verbally to the compliment.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000038_000001|Don't you know?'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000039_000000|'Ah!' said Peg, shaking her head, 'but you frightened me that day.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000044_000001|Not married after all?'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000048_000001|Let's have it every word-now-now-beginning at the very first, you know, when he went to the house that morning!'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000050_000001|I'm even with him.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000050_000002|I'm even with him.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000051_000001|Out of sight, Slider, quite out of sight.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000051_000002|And that reminds me,' he added, handing her the glass, 'if you want me to give you my opinion of them deeds, and tell you what you'd better keep and what you'd better burn, why, now's your time, Slider.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000052_000000|'There an't no hurry for that,' said Peg, with several knowing looks and winks.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000053_000000|'Oh! very well!' observed Squeers, 'it don't matter to me; you asked me, you know.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000053_000002|You're the best judge of course.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000053_000003|But you're a bold woman, Slider.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000055_000001|All I say is, Slider, I wouldn't do it.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000060_000000|Peg trotted to the door, and after fumbling at the bolt, crept to the other end of the room, and from beneath the coals which filled the bottom of the cupboard, drew forth a small deal box.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000062_000000|'I thought,' said Squeers, 'that you didn't bear him any particular good will.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000062_000001|But, I say, why didn't you take some money besides?'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000063_000000|'Some what?' asked Peg.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000064_000000|'Some money,' roared Squeers.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000065_000000|'Why, what a man you are to ask!' cried Peg, with some contempt.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000065_000002|No, no! I knew better than that.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000065_000003|I took what I thought his secrets were hid in: and them he couldn't afford to make public, let'em be worth ever so much money.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000065_000004|He's an old dog; a sly, old, cunning, thankless dog!
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000066_000000|'All right, and very laudable,' said Squeers. 'But, first and foremost, Slider, burn the box.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000066_000001|You should never keep things as may lead to discovery.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000066_000002|Always mind that.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000068_000000|'There!' said Squeers; 'you poke the pieces between the bars, and make up a good fire, and I'll read the while.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000071_000000|Of the stealthy comers, Frank Cheeryble was one, and Newman Noggs the other.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000072_000001|Having tried it by reading from left to right, and from right to left, and finding it equally clear both ways, he turned it upside down with no better success.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000073_000001|'What's that writing about, eh?'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000074_000000|'Nothing particular,' replied Squeers, tossing it towards her.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000074_000001|'It's only an old lease, as well as I can make out.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000075_000000|Mrs Sliderskew complied, and inquired what the next one was.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000076_000000|'This,' said Squeers, 'is a bundle of overdue acceptances and renewed bills of six or eight young gentlemen, but they're all m p's, so it's of no use to anybody.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000078_000000|'What's the next?' inquired Peg.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000079_000003|It's very odd; I don't see anything like it yet.'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000080_000000|'What's the matter?' said Peg.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000081_000000|'Nothing,' replied Squeers, 'only I'm looking for-'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000082_000000|Newman raised the bellows again.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000082_000001|Once more, Frank, by a rapid motion of his arm, unaccompanied by any noise, checked him in his purpose.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000083_000000|'Here you are,' said Squeers, 'bonds-take care of them.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000083_000001|Warrant of attorney-take care of that.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000083_000002|Two cognovits-take care of them.
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000083_000004|Ah!
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000083_000005|"Madeline Bray-come of age or marry-the said Madeline"--here, burn THAT!'
train-other-500/3647/134419/3647_134419_000085_000001|'I've got it!
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000001_000000|Chapter eighteen
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000000|It would be difficult to give you all the details of our new life.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000001|It was made up of a series of little childish events, charming for us but insignificant to any one else.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000002|You know what it is to be in love with a woman, you know how it cuts short the days, and with what loving listlessness one drifts into the morrow.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000003|You know that forgetfulness of everything which comes of a violent confident, reciprocated love.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000004|Every being who is not the beloved one seems a useless being in creation.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000005|One regrets having cast scraps of one's heart to other women, and one can not believe in the possibility of ever pressing another hand than that which one holds between one's hands.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000007|Every day one discovers in one's mistress a new charm and unknown delights.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000002_000008|Existence itself is but the unceasing accomplishment of an unchanging desire; the soul is but the vestal charged to feed the sacred fire of love.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000004_000000|The curtains were hermetically closed, and for a moment the external world did not exist for us.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000004_000001|Nanine alone had the right to open our door, but only to bring in our meals and even these we took without getting up, interrupting them with laughter and gaiety.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000004_000002|To that succeeded a brief sleep, for, disappearing into the depths of our love, we were like two divers who only come to the surface to take breath.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000005_000000|Nevertheless, I surprised moments of sadness, even tears, in Marguerite; I asked her the cause of her trouble, and she answered:
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000006_000000|"Our love is not like other loves, my Armand.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000006_000003|Tell me that you will never leave me!"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000007_000000|"I swear it!"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000009_000000|One evening, seated on the balcony outside the window, we looked at the moon which seemed to rise with difficulty out of its bed of clouds, and we listened to the wind violently rustling the trees; we held each other's hands, and for a whole quarter of an hour we had not spoken, when Marguerite said to me:
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000010_000000|"Winter is at hand.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000010_000001|Would you like for us to go abroad?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000011_000000|"Where?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000012_000000|"To Italy."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000014_000000|"I am afraid of the winter; I am particularly afraid of your return to Paris."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000015_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000016_000000|"For many reasons."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000018_000000|"Will you go abroad?
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000018_000002|Will you?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000019_000000|"By all means, if you like, Marguerite, let us travel," I said.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000019_000001|"But where is the necessity of selling things which you will be glad of when we return?
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000020_000000|"After all, no," she said, leaving the window and going to sit down on the sofa at the other end of the room.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000020_000001|"Why should we spend money abroad?
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000020_000002|I cost you enough already, here."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000022_000000|"Forgive me, my friend," she said, giving me her hand.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000022_000001|"This thunder weather gets on my nerves; I do not say what I intend to say."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000023_000000|And after embracing me she fell into a long reverie.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000024_000000|Scenes of this kind often took place, and though I could not discover their cause, I could not fail to see in Marguerite signs of disquietude in regard to the future.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000024_000001|She could not doubt my love, which increased day by day, and yet I often found her sad, without being able to get any explanation of the reason, except some physical cause.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000025_000000|Prudence now came but rarely; but she often wrote letters which I never asked to see, though, every time they came, they seemed to preoccupy Marguerite deeply.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000025_000001|I did not know what to think.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000026_000000|One day Marguerite was in her room.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000026_000001|I entered.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000026_000002|She was writing.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000026_000003|"To whom are you writing?" I asked.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000026_000004|"To Prudence.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000026_000005|Do you want to see what I am writing?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000027_000000|I had a horror of anything that might look like suspicion, and I answered that I had no desire to know what she was writing; and yet I was certain that letter would have explained to me the cause of her sadness.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000028_000000|Next day the weather was splendid.' Marguerite proposed to me to take the boat and go as far as the island of Croissy.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000028_000001|She seemed very cheerful; when we got back it was five o'clock.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000029_000002|"She has gone again?" asked Marguerite.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000030_000000|"Yes, madame, in the carriage; she said it was arranged."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000031_000000|"Quite right," said Marguerite sharply.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000031_000001|"Serve the dinner."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000032_000000|Two days afterward there came a letter from Prudence, and for a fortnight Marguerite seemed to have got rid of her mysterious gloom, for which she constantly asked my forgiveness, now that it no longer existed.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000032_000001|Still, the carriage did not return.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000034_000000|"One of the horses is ill, and there are some repairs to be done.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000034_000001|It is better to have that done while we are here, and don't need a carriage, than to wait till we get back to Paris."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000035_000000|Prudence came two days afterward, and confirmed what Marguerite had said.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000035_000001|The two women went for a walk in the garden, and when I joined them they changed the conversation.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000036_000000|So a month passed, and all the time Marguerite was more joyous and more affectionate than she ever had been.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000036_000002|When I opened the drawer in which the trinkets and diamonds were usually kept, these opened without resistance, but the jewel cases had disappeared, along with their contents no doubt.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000037_000000|A sharp fear penetrated my heart.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000037_000001|I might indeed ask Marguerite for the truth in regard to these disappearances, but it was certain that she would not confess it.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000038_000000|"My good Marguerite," I said to her, "I am going to ask your permission to go to Paris.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000038_000002|I have no doubt he is concerned; I ought to answer him."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000039_000000|"Go, my friend," she said; "but be back early." I went straight to Prudence.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000042_000000|"The shawl?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000043_000000|"Sold."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000045_000000|"Pawned."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000046_000000|"And who has sold and pawned them?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000047_000000|"Why did you not tell me?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000048_000000|"Because Marguerite made me promise not to."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000049_000000|"And why did you not ask me for money?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000050_000000|"Because she wouldn't let me."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000051_000000|"And where has this money gone?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000052_000000|"In payments."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000053_000000|"Is she much in debt?"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000054_000002|You wouldn't believe me; now you are convinced.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000054_000004|Gautier.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000054_000006|Marguerite wanted to sell everything, but it was too late, and besides I should have opposed it.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000054_000007|But it was necessary to pay, and in order not to ask you for money, she sold her horses and her shawls, and pawned her jewels.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000055_000000|And Prudence opened the drawer and showed me the papers.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000056_000000|"Ah, you think," she continued, with the insistence of a woman who can say, I was right after all, "ah, you think it is enough to be in love, and to go into the country and lead a dreamy, pastoral life.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000056_000003|It is not my fault for not advising her to, for I couldn't bear to see the poor girl stripping herself of everything.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000056_000004|She wouldn't; she replied that she loved you, and she wouldn't be unfaithful to you for anything in the world.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000056_000005|All that is very pretty, very poetical, but one can't pay one's creditors in that coin, and now she can't free herself from debt, unless she can raise thirty thousand francs."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000057_000000|"All right, I will provide that amount."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000059_000000|"Good heavens!
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000059_000001|Why, yes!"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000000|"A fine thing that will be to do; you will fall out with your father, cripple your resources, and one doesn't find thirty thousand francs from one day to another.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000001|Believe me, my dear Armand, I know women better than you do; do not commit this folly; you will be sorry for it one day.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000002|Be reasonable.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000003|I don't advise you to leave Marguerite, but live with her as you did at the beginning.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000004|Let her find the means to get out of this difficulty.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000005|The duke will come back in a little while.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000006|The Comte de n, if she would take him, he told me yesterday even, would pay all her debts, and give her four or five thousand francs a month.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000007|He has two hundred thousand a year.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000008|It would be a position for her, while you will certainly be obliged to leave her.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000011|Imagine that Marguerite is married, and deceive the husband; that is all.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000060_000012|I have already told you all this once, only at that time it was merely advice, and now it is almost a necessity."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000062_000000|"This is how it is," she went on, putting away the papers she had just shown me; "women like Marguerite always foresee that some one will love them, never that they will love; otherwise they would put aside money, and at thirty they could afford the luxury of having a lover for nothing.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000062_000002|In short, say nothing to Marguerite, and bring her back to Paris.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000062_000003|You have lived with her alone for four or five months; that is quite enough.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000062_000004|Shut your eyes now; that is all that any one asks of you.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000062_000006|That is how things are done, my dear fellow!"
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000063_000000|And Prudence appeared to be enchanted with her advice, which I refused indignantly.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000066_000000|"I have told you: thirty thousand francs."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000068_000000|"Before the end of two months."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000069_000000|"She shall have it."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000070_000000|Prudence shrugged her shoulders.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000071_000000|"I will give it to you," I continued, "but you must swear to me that you will not tell Marguerite that I have given it to you."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000072_000000|"Don't be afraid."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000074_000000|"There is no danger.
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000074_000001|She has nothing left."
train-other-500/3647/180300/3647_180300_000075_000001|There were four.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000004_000000|THE THREE LANGUAGES
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000005_000000|An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he was stupid, and could learn nothing.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000005_000001|Then said the father: 'Hark you, my son, try as I will I can get nothing into your head.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000005_000002|You must go from hence, I will give you into the care of a celebrated master, who shall see what he can do with you.' The youth was sent into a strange town, and remained a whole year with the master.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000005_000003|At the end of this time, he came home again, and his father asked: 'Now, my son, what have you learnt?' 'Father, I have learnt what the dogs say when they bark.' 'Lord have mercy on us!' cried the father; 'is that all you have learnt?
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000005_000004|I will send you into another town, to another master.' The youth was taken thither, and stayed a year with this master likewise.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000005_000005|When he came back the father again asked: 'My son, what have you learnt?' He answered: 'Father, I have learnt what the birds say.' Then the father fell into a rage and said: 'Oh, you lost man, you have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not ashamed to appear before my eyes?
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000006_000000|The youth wandered on, and after some time came to a fortress where he begged for a night's lodging.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000006_000003|When he went inside, the dogs did not bark at him, but wagged their tails quite amicably around him, ate what he set before them, and did not hurt one hair of his head.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000006_000004|Next morning, to the astonishment of everyone, he came out again safe and unharmed, and said to the lord of the castle: 'The dogs have revealed to me, in their own language, why they dwell there, and bring evil on the land.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000006_000006|He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he did it thoroughly, and brought a chest full of gold out with him.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000006_000007|The howling of the wild dogs was henceforth heard no more; they had disappeared, and the country was freed from the trouble.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000000|After some time he took it in his head that he would travel to Rome.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000001|On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000002|He listened to them, and when he became aware of what they were saying, he grew very thoughtful and sad.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000003|At last he arrived in Rome, where the Pope had just died, and there was great doubt among the cardinals as to whom they should appoint as his successor.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000004|They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000006|The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope.
train-other-500/365/126320/365_126320_000007_000007|He was undecided, and knew not if he were worthy of this, but the doves counselled him to do it, and at length he said yes.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000003_000000|Long before you or I were born, there reigned, in a country a great way off, a king who had three sons.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000003_000001|This king once fell very ill-so ill that nobody thought he could live.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000003_000002|His sons were very much grieved at their father's sickness; and as they were walking together very mournfully in the garden of the palace, a little old man met them and asked what was the matter.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000003_000003|They told him that their father was very ill, and that they were afraid nothing could save him.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000003_000004|'I know what would,' said the little old man; 'it is the Water of Life.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000003_000006|'No,' said the king.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000005_000001|He next tried to get off his horse and make his way on foot, but again the laugh rang in his ears, and he found himself unable to move a step, and thus he was forced to abide spellbound.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000007_000000|But the dwarf put the same spell upon him as he put on his elder brother, and he, too, was at last obliged to take up his abode in the heart of the mountains.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000008_000001|So he set out, and the dwarf met him too at the same spot in the valley, among the mountains, and said, 'Prince, whither so fast?' And the prince said, 'I am going in search of the Water of Life, because my father is ill, and like to die: can you help me?
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000008_000002|Pray be kind, and aid me if you can!' 'Do you know where it is to be found?' asked the dwarf.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000008_000003|'No,' said the prince, 'I do not.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000009_000000|Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for his friendly aid, and took the wand and the bread, and went travelling on and on, over sea and over land, till he came to his journey's end, and found everything to be as the dwarf had told him.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000009_000002|Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance; then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fingers.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000009_000004|Further on he came to a room where a beautiful young lady sat upon a couch; and she welcomed him joyfully, and said, if he would set her free from the spell that bound her, the kingdom should be his, if he would come back in a year and marry her.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000009_000005|Then she told him that the well that held the Water of Life was in the palace gardens; and bade him make haste, and draw what he wanted before the clock struck twelve.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000010_000000|He walked on; and as he walked through beautiful gardens he came to a delightful shady spot in which stood a couch; and he thought to himself, as he felt tired, that he would rest himself for a while, and gaze on the lovely scenes around him.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000010_000001|So he laid himself down, and sleep fell upon him unawares, so that he did not wake up till the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000010_000002|Then he sprang from the couch dreadfully frightened, ran to the well, filled a cup that was standing by him full of water, and hastened to get away in time.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000010_000003|Just as he was going out of the iron door it struck twelve, and the door fell so quickly upon him that it snapped off a piece of his heel.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000012_000000|Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to a country that was laid waste by war and a dreadful famine, so that it was feared all must die for want.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000012_000003|In the same manner he befriended two other countries through which they passed on their way.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000013_000001|Then they waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Life out of the cup, and took it for themselves, giving him bitter sea water instead.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000014_000000|When they came to their journey's end, the youngest son brought his cup to the sick king, that he might drink and be healed.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000014_000002|You have had the trouble and we shall have the reward.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000014_000004|Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000014_000005|You had better say nothing about this to our father, for he does not believe a word you say; and if you tell tales, you shall lose your life into the bargain: but be quiet, and we will let you off.'
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000016_000000|Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king's court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000018_000002|But when he came to the gate, the guards, who had seen the road he took, said to him, he could not be what he said he was, and must go about his business.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000019_000000|The second prince set out soon afterwards on the same errand; and when he came to the golden road, and his horse had set one foot upon it, he stopped to look at it, and thought it very beautiful, and said to himself, 'What a pity it is that anything should tread here!' Then he too turned aside and rode on the left side of it.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000019_000001|But when he came to the gate the guards said he was not the true prince, and that he too must go away about his business; and away he went.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000020_000001|So he journeyed on, thinking of her all the way, and rode so quickly that he did not even see what the road was made of, but went with his horse straight over it; and as he came to the gate it flew open, and the princess welcomed him with joy, and said he was her deliverer, and should now be her husband and lord of the kingdom.
train-other-500/365/126328/365_126328_000020_000003|Then he told him everything; how his brothers had cheated and robbed him, and yet that he had borne all those wrongs for the love of his father.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000002_000000|a d thirteen forty five to fifty four.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000003_000000|The history of this adventurer is rendered more than usually interesting from the fact that several authors have taken up cudgels on his behalf, and vehemently assert that he was truly the man he asserted himself to be.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000003_000001|Not only authors' ink, but, unfortunately, a great quantity of human blood was wasted in the dispute, and that, too, without the world being any the wiser.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000003_000002|The facts, as they are recounted by historians, stand thus:
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000004_000001|After a reign of about three years, Voldemar, following the example of so many of his contemporaries, determined upon making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Having settled all his temporal affairs, and left his brother, john the Fourth, in possession of his electorate, he started upon his pilgrimage, attended only by two men.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000005_000001|This was a d thirteen twenty.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000006_000000|Twenty four days after Voldemar's departure his brother john died suddenly, not without suspicion that he had been poisoned.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000007_000001|In order to afford a fair idea of this pretender's claims, it will be necessary in the first place to recount the story of his appearance as detailed by the authors favouring the theory of his being an impostor, and then to produce the evidence offered by those of the opposite party on his behalf.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000009_000001|He had, they add, dwelt for a number of years in Saxony, where he had been well instructed as to the former life and family connections of the deceased Elector, as well as put in the way of counterfeiting on his person the various marks by which he might deceive the world.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000010_000000|Thus runs the story as told by the advocates for the imposture theory; presently it will be seen what can be said on the other side; whilst now it will be as well to hear what happened upon the appearance of the claimant.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000011_000001|Almost all the towns and cities acknowledged his authority, and promised obedience to his rule.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000012_000002|This transference of the electorate, it should be mentioned, the Emperor Charles afterwards confirmed by letters patent in thirteen fifty, notwithstanding the contestation of Voldemar and his partisans.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000013_000000|According to the popular account, the pseudo Voldemar was ultimately overthrown, condemned to death, and burnt as an impostor; whilst the veritable Marquis is stated to have died in thirteen twenty two, either at a place called Korekei, or at Stendell.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000014_000000|Thus runs the commonly accredited story; but summing up later and equally reliable records, the favourers of the idea that it was really the Elector himself who reappeared put the case thus.
train-other-500/365/84333/365_84333_000014_000001|The Archbishop of Magdeburg, Primate of Germany, a man totally uninterested either way, and known for his probity, would not, they say, have recognised and have given his testimony on behalf of the claimant unless satisfied as to his identity; nor, they further remark, would the Emperor Charles and so many other princes have exposed their lives and caused the effusion of so much human blood for an impostor.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000000_000000|THE FALSE DEMETRIUS OF RUSSIA.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000001_000000|a d sixteen o three to sixteen o six.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000000|Ivan the Terrible of Russia, having murdered his eldest son, left the crown to the next, Feodore, a prince so feeble in body and mind that the government of the country had to be committed to the care of his brother in law, Boris.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000002|The Regent left this boy to the care of his mother, the Dowager Czarina, under whose charge he attained to the age of ten.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000003|One afternoon of may fifteen ninety one, the child was playing with four other boys in the palace courtyard, his governess, nurse, and another female servant being close by.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000004|According to the testimony of these persons he had a knife in his hand.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000005|For a moment he disappeared, and the next instant was discovered dying, with a large wound in his throat; he died without uttering a word.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000006|Suspicion of foul play was at once aroused, and some known emissaries of Boris being discovered in the neighbourhood, they fell victims to the fury of the populace.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000002_000007|The Regent instituted an inquiry, and the result was a verdict that the boy had died from a wound accidentally inflicted upon himself.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000003_000002|Amid the many contradictory reports, one main fact was positively proclaimed-that was, the young prince was alive, and preparing to contend for the throne of his ancestors.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000004_000001|Unfortunately, both the physician and the faithful guardian being dead, the tale had to be received for what it was worth; nevertheless, the unknown produced a Russian seal, bearing the name and arms of the Czarevitch, and a valuable jewelled cross.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000004_000002|This was in the summer of sixteen o three, when Demetrius, if living, would have been about twenty two-an age apparently corresponding with that of the claimant to his name. Visitors arrived who quickly recognized their resuscitated prince; warts which the late Emperor's son had had on the forehead, and under the right eye, were discovered, whilst one arm being longer than another was a still surer sign.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000004_000003|The deportment and acquirements of the young pretender were suited to his birth, not the least of them being his good horsemanship and skill in fencing.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000004_000004|The Poles, ready for mischief, espoused his cause; George, the Palatine of Sandomir, gave him his daughter in marriage, and the Pope of Rome, upon his secret confession of the Catholic faith, sanctioned his pretensions.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000000|But a still more formidable test was to be undergone.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000001|The Dowager Czarina forsook the convent in which she had so long been immured to behold the man claiming to be her son.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000002|Demetrius went to meet her in regal state, and their first interview took place in a magnificent tent, specially prepared for the interesting ceremony.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000003|After they had been left together for a few minutes they came out, and threw themselves into one another's arms, in the full view of the enormous multitude which had assembled.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000004|Ivan's widow had recognized her son, and the new monarch was master of the situation.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000005|He respectfully conducted the Czarina to a carriage, walking bare headed by its side. In the capital he treated her with every attention, visited her daily, and provided her with a competent revenue to maintain her royal dignity.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000005_000006|A few moments after the murder of her son at Uglitch, she was on the spot and recognized the body; and yet, after having maintained for fourteen years her belief in his death, she came forward and recognized him in the successful adventurer, at the exact instant that recantation was worth any price.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000006_000000|Demetrius now set to work to govern with humanity and justice; both qualities quite unsuited to Russian tastes, who soon grew as tired of their new Czar as they had been of his predecessors.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000006_000001|He appears to have been an able and forbearing man, but he outraged the nobles by pointing out their educational deficiencies, and the Greek priesthood by a careless or irreverent demeanour towards their Church.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000006_000002|This latter error was his ruin.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000007_000002|He broke his leg in the fall, and fainted.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000007_000004|The wretched man, collecting his strength, exclaimed, "I am your Czar, the son of Ivan Vassilievitch!" when his agony was terminated by a shot from an arquebuss.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000008_000001|The body of the murdered man, after lying exposed for some days, was unceremoniously buried without the walls, then disinterred and burnt, the ashes collected, and, to make sure of no further resuscitation, mixed with gunpowder and fired off from a cannon.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000009_000000|Shuiski, the leader of the revolution, was raised to the throne, but finding the memory of his predecessor still cherished by many, he sought to eradicate the feeling by proving him an impostor.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000009_000001|The Dowager Czarina, ever complacent, gave him a written declaration that the deposed Czar was not her son; but the nation placed little reliance upon her testimony now.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000009_000002|Shuiski then pretended to have discovered the body of young Demetrius in the ruins of Uglitch, and his clerical friends contrived a miracle for the occasion.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000009_000003|When the body was brought to Moscow, they recognized the corpse as that of the real prince, and affirmed that by heavenly providence it had been preserved in its then condition-it being found quite uncorrupt, and the glow of life not even faded from the cheek.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000010_000000|This time a substituted corpse could not be produced.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000010_000001|A civil war broke out, but it was some time before a suitable claimant could be discovered.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000010_000002|At last a Lithuanian Jew was selected by the insurgents, who, aided by the Poles, advanced into Russia at the head of a large army.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000010_000003|A feasible story was invented to account for the escape of the intended victim of the late massacre; and to confirm the nation in the belief of his identity with their late Czar, Marina, the widowed Czarina, publicly acknowledged him as her own Demetrius, lived with him as his consort, and had a child by him.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000011_000000|His reign, however, was short.
train-other-500/365/84340/365_84340_000011_000001|Deserted by his foreign allies, he was forced to fly, and eventually was assassinated.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000001_000000|Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000001_000002|He liked to go to Saint Medard, which is the nearest church.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000001_000003|When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good man.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000001_000004|She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous tete a tetes with Catherine.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000001_000005|He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things to her.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000002_000000|It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000003_000000|The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to market.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000004_000000|They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in very moderate circumstances.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000004_000001|Jean Valjean had made no alterations in the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door leading to Cosette's dressing room replaced by a solid door.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000005_000003|It also happened occasionally that he encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver coin, and walked rapidly away.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000005_000004|This had its disadvantages.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000005_000005|He began to be known in the neighborhood under the name of the beggar who gives alms.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000000|The old principal lodger, a cross looking creature, who was thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean a great deal, without his suspecting the fact.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000001|She was a little deaf, which rendered her talkative.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000002|There remained to her from her past, two teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking against each other.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000004|One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000005|She followed him with the step of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a crack in the door, which was directly opposite him.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000006|Jean Valjean had his back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000007|The old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he unfolded.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000008|The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was a bank bill for a thousand francs.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000006_000010|She fled in alarm.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000007_000001|"Where?" thought the old woman.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000007_000002|"He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000008_000001|The old woman was in the chamber, putting things in order.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000008_000002|She was alone.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000008_000003|Cosette was occupied in admiring the wood as it was sawed.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000008_000004|The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging on a nail, and examined it.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000008_000005|The lining had been sewed up again.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000008_000007|More thousand franc bank bills, no doubt!
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000009_000000|She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big pocket book, a very large knife, and-a suspicious circumstance-several wigs of various colors.
train-other-500/3650/168636/3650_168636_000010_000000|Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000001_000000|CHAPTER five-A FIVE FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000002_000000|Near Saint Medard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000002_000001|He never passed this man without giving him a few sous.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000002_000002|Sometimes he spoke to him.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000002_000003|Those who envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000002_000004|He was an ex beadle of seventy five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000000|One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern which had just been lighted.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000001|The man seemed engaged in prayer, according to his custom, and was much bent over.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000002|Jean Valjean stepped up to him and placed his customary alms in his hand.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000004|This movement was like a flash of lightning.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000007|He experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000008|He recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he was there.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000009|At this strange moment, an instinct-possibly the mysterious instinct of self preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a word.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000010|The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance as he had every day.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000011|"Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad!
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000003_000012|I am dreaming! Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000004_000000|He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he thought he had seen was the face of Javert.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000005_000000|That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second time.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000006_000000|On the following day, at nightfall, he went back.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000006_000001|The beggar was at his post.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000006_000003|The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex beadle.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000007_000000|Jean Valjean felt completely reassured.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000007_000001|He began to laugh.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000007_000002|"How the deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000007_000003|"Am I going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000008_000000|A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, when he heard the house door open and then shut again.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000008_000001|This struck him as singular.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000008_000003|Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. He heard some one ascending the stairs.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000009_000001|Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew out his candle.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000010_000000|He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000011_000000|Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his breath in the dark.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000012_000000|After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000012_000001|This light formed a sort of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000013_000001|But he heard no sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had been listening at the door had removed his shoes.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000014_000000|Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could not close his eyes all night.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000015_000001|The step was approaching. He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000015_000002|It was a man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean Valjean's chamber.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000015_000004|The man was of lofty stature, clad in a long frock coat, with a cudgel under his arm.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000015_000005|The formidable neck and shoulders belonged to Javert.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000017_000000|It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. Who had given him that key?
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000017_000001|What was the meaning of this?
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000018_000000|When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question her.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000018_000001|The good woman appeared as usual.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000020_000000|"Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?"
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000021_000000|At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the dead of the night.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000022_000000|"That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone possible.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000022_000001|"Who was it?"
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000025_000000|"I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort."
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000027_000000|The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:--
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000028_000000|"A gentleman of property, like yourself."
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000029_000000|Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000029_000001|Jean Valjean thought he perceived one.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000030_000000|When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000031_000000|When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides of the boulevard.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000031_000001|He saw no one.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000031_000002|The boulevard appeared to be absolutely deserted.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000031_000003|It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000032_000000|He went up stairs again.
train-other-500/3650/168637/3650_168637_000033_000000|"Come." he said to Cosette.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000004_000000|CHAPTER six-THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000005_000000|Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to be looked at in winter and at night.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000005_000001|This garden was oblong in shape, with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit trees, gnarled and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000005_000002|Here and there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000005_000003|The alleys were bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000005_000004|The grass had half taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000007_000000|The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000008_000001|All the windows were grated.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000008_000002|Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of them.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000008_000003|The upper story had scuttles like prisons.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000009_000000|No other house was visible.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000009_000001|The bottom of the garden was lost in mist and darkness.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000010_000000|Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000011_000000|Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000011_000001|A man who is fleeing never thinks himself sufficiently hidden.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000011_000002|The child, whose thoughts were still on the Thenardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight as much as possible.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000012_000000|Cosette trembled and pressed close to him.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000013_000000|At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that species of stormy roar were becoming more distant.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000013_000001|Jean Valjean held his breath.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000015_000000|However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so much as the shadow of a misgiving.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000015_000001|It seemed as though those walls had been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000016_000003|At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000018_000000|They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that they must kneel.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000019_000000|These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000019_000001|It was a supernatural chant in an uninhabited house.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000020_000000|While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000020_000001|He no longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000020_000002|It seemed to him that he felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000021_000000|The song died away.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000021_000001|It may have lasted a long time.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000021_000002|Jean Valjean could not have told.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000021_000003|Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000022_000000|All fell silent again.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000022_000001|There was no longer anything in the street; there was nothing in the garden.
train-other-500/3650/168643/3650_168643_000022_000002|That which had menaced, that which had reassured him,--all had vanished.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000013_000000|CHAPTER nine-THE MAN WITH THE BELL
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000014_000001|He had taken in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000015_000000|The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000015_000001|In a few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000016_000000|Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:--
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000017_000000|"One hundred francs!"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000018_000000|The man gave a start and raised his eyes.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000019_000000|"You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will grant me shelter for this night."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000020_000000|The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000021_000000|"What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000022_000000|That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000023_000000|He had expected anything but that.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000023_000001|The person who thus addressed him was a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his left knee a leather knee cap, whence hung a moderately large bell.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000023_000002|His face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000000|"Ah, good God!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000001|How come you here, Father Madeleine?
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000003|Did you fall from heaven?
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000004|There is no trouble about that: if ever you do fall, it will be from there.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000005|And what a state you are in! You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000006|Do you know, you would have frightened any one who did not know you?
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000007|No coat!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000008|Lord God! Are the saints going mad nowadays?
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000025_000009|But how did you get in here?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000026_000000|His words tumbled over each other.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000026_000002|All this was uttered with a mixture of stupefaction and naive kindliness.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000027_000000|"Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000028_000001|"I am the person for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had me placed.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000028_000002|What!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000028_000003|You don't recognize me?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000029_000000|"No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000030_000000|"You saved my life," said the man.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000031_000000|He turned.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000032_000000|"Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you?
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000032_000001|Yes, I recollect you."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000033_000000|"That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000034_000000|"And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000035_000000|"Why, I am covering my melons, of course!"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000036_000000|In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in spreading over the melon bed.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000036_000001|During the hour or thereabouts that he had been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000036_000002|It was this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements observed from the shed by Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000037_000000|He continued:--
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000038_000002|But how do you come here?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000039_000000|Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000039_000001|He multiplied his questions.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000039_000002|Strange to say, their roles seemed to be reversed.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000039_000003|It was he, the intruder, who interrogated.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000040_000000|"And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000042_000000|"What! so that you may be avoided?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000043_000000|Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000044_000000|"Ah, goodness!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000044_000001|there are only women in this house-many young girls.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000044_000002|It appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000044_000003|The bell gives them warning.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000044_000004|When I come, they go."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000045_000000|"What house is this?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000046_000000|"Come, you know well enough."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000047_000000|"But I do not."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000048_000000|"Not when you got me the place here as gardener?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000049_000000|"Answer me as though I knew nothing."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000051_000000|Memories recurred to Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000051_000002|He repeated, as though talking to himself:--
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000053_000001|"But to come to the point, how the deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine?
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000053_000002|No matter if you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000054_000000|"You certainly are here."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000055_000000|"There is no one but me."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000056_000000|"Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000058_000000|Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave voice:--
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000061_000000|"Well, you can do to day for me that which I did for you in the olden days."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000062_000000|Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though incapable of speaking.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000062_000001|At length he exclaimed:--
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000063_000000|"Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you some little return for that!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000063_000001|Save your life!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000063_000002|Monsieur le Maire, dispose of the old man!"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000064_000000|A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000064_000001|His countenance seemed to emit a ray of light.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000065_000000|"What do you wish me to do?" he resumed.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000066_000000|"That I will explain to you.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000066_000001|You have a chamber?"
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000067_000000|"I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, in a corner which no one ever looks into.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000069_000000|"Good," said Jean Valjean.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000069_000001|"Now I am going to ask two things of you."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000071_000000|"In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000072_000000|"As you please.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000072_000001|I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, that you have always been a man after the good God's heart.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000072_000002|And then, moreover, you it was who placed me here.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000072_000003|That concerns you.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000072_000004|I am at your service."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000073_000000|"That is settled then.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000073_000001|Now, come with me.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000073_000002|We will go and get the child."
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000076_000000|Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's bed.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000076_000001|Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up.
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000076_000003|The two men were warming themselves with their elbows resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: "Ah!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000076_000004|Father Madeleine!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000076_000006|That is bad!
train-other-500/3650/168646/3650_168646_000076_000007|But they remember you!
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000000_000001|The bagpipe player in the centre dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under his arm, played the Highland airs.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000000_000002|These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000001_000001|Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000001_000002|Had Napoleon at that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000000|All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found themselves assailed.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000001|The English cavalry was at their back.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000002|Before them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred dragoons of the guard.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000003|On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the German light horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000004|What mattered it to them?
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000005|They were a whirlwind.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000002_000006|Their valor was something indescribable.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000003_000000|In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still thundering.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000003_000001|It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never have been wounded in the back.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000004_000000|For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000004_000002|In an instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. Fuller, their lieutenant colonel, fell dead.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000004_000004|The plateau of Mont Saint Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000004_000005|The cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other without releasing the other.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000004_000006|The squares still held firm.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000005_000000|There were a dozen assaults.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000005_000002|Half the cuirassiers remained on the plateau.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000005_000003|This conflict lasted two hours.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000006_000000|The English army was profoundly shaken.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000006_000001|There is no doubt that, had they not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the victory.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000006_000002|This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen Talavera and Badajoz.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000006_000003|Wellington, three quarters vanquished, admired heroically.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000006_000004|He said in an undertone, "Sublime!"
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000007_000000|The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000008_000000|Wellington's situation had grown worse.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000008_000001|This strange battle was like a duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and still resisting, is expending all his blood.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000009_000000|Which of the two will be the first to fall?
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000010_000000|The conflict on the plateau continued.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000011_000001|No one could have told.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000011_000003|This horseman had pierced the English lines.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000011_000004|One of the men who picked up the body still lives at Mont Saint Jean.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000011_000005|His name is Dehaze.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000012_000000|Wellington felt that he was yielding.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000012_000001|The crisis was at hand.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000013_000000|The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken through.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000013_000001|As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000013_000003|They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000014_000000|But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000014_000001|The bleeding of that army was horrible.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000014_000002|Kempt, on the left wing, demanded reinforcements.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000014_000003|"There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry!
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000014_000004|Where does he expect me to get it?
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000014_000005|Does he think I can make it?"
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000000|Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000001|The furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000003|The loss in officers was considerable.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000004|Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following day, had his knee shattered.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000006|The second regiment of foot guards had lost five lieutenant colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; the first battalion of the thirtieth infantry had lost twenty four officers and one thousand two hundred soldiers; the seventy ninth Highlanders had lost twenty four officers wounded, eighteen officers killed, four hundred fifty soldiers killed.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000007|The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way to Brussels.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000008|The transports, ammunition wagons, the baggage wagons, the wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000010|This panic was such that it attacked the Prince de Conde at Mechlin, and Louis the eighteenth. at Ghent.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000012|A number of batteries lay unhorsed.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000013|These facts are attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far as to say that the Anglo Dutch army was reduced to thirty four thousand men.
train-other-500/3656/168609/3656_168609_000015_000014|The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000000_000000|If ever the sic vos non vobis was applicable, it certainly is to that village of Waterloo.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000000_000001|Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from the scene of action.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000001_000000|We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion presents itself, we tell the truth about it.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000001_000001|War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000001_000003|The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000000|Who does this?
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000002|What hideous, furtive hand is that which is slipped into the pocket of victory?
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000003|What pickpockets are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory?
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000004|Some philosophers-Voltaire among the number-affirm that it is precisely those persons have made the glory.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000005|It is the same men, they say; there is no relief corps; those who are erect pillage those who are prone on the earth.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000006|The hero of the day is the vampire of the night.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000007|One has assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the author of that corpse.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000002_000008|For our own part, we do not think so; it seems to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the shoes from a dead man.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000003_000000|One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow thieves.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000003_000001|But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary soldier, out of the question.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000004_000002|The rascal sprang from this marauding.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000004_000003|The detestable maxim, Live on the enemy! produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline alone could heal.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000004_000004|There are reputations which are deceptive; one does not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have been so popular.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000004_000005|Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000004_000006|Turenne was so good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and blood.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000005_000001|Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000005_000002|The marauders stole in one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000006_000000|The moon was sinister over this plain.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000007_000001|To all appearance he was one of those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle Waterloo.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000007_000002|He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. Who was this man?
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000007_000003|The night probably knew more of him than the day.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000007_000004|He had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000007_000005|From time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000008_000000|Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000009_000001|Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and that prowler.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000010_000000|The darkness was serene.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000010_000001|Not a cloud in the zenith.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000010_000003|In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape shot, but not fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000010_000004|Quivers which resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000011_000000|In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds of the English camp were audible.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000013_000001|The heart is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many brave men.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000015_000000|There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death rattle, all was silence now.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000015_000001|The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000015_000002|Terrible entanglement!
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000015_000003|There was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the plain, and reached the brim like a well filled bushel of barley.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000016_000000|It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers had taken place.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000016_000001|The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned to the depth of the hollow road.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000017_000000|The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going in that direction.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000017_000001|He was searching that vast tomb.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000017_000002|He gazed about.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000017_000003|He passed the dead in some sort of hideous review.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000017_000004|He walked with his feet in the blood.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000018_000000|All at once he paused.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000019_000000|A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, projected from beneath that heap of men.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000019_000001|That hand had on its finger something sparkling, which was a ring of gold.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000020_000000|The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000021_000000|He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above the edge of the hollow road.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000021_000001|The jackal's four paws suit some actions.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000022_000000|Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000023_000000|At that moment, he gave a terrible start.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000023_000001|He felt some one clutch him from behind.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000024_000000|He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized the skirt of his coat.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000025_000000|An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000026_000000|"Come," said he, "it's only a dead body.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000027_000000|But the hand weakened and released him.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000027_000001|Effort is quickly exhausted in the grave.
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000028_000000|"Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive?
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000028_000001|Let's see."
train-other-500/3656/168618/3656_168618_000029_000000|He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000007_000003|That head spoke with you, but did not look at you and never smiled at you.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000008_000000|The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000008_000001|This light was symbolical.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000009_000000|Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which was made in that place shut off from all glances.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000009_000001|A profound vagueness enveloped that form clad in mourning.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000009_000003|At the expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see nothing.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000009_000004|What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000010_000000|What you beheld was the interior of a cloister.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000011_000000|It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration.
train-other-500/3656/168648/3656_168648_000011_000001|The box in which you stood was the parlor.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000002_000000|WHY mr
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000002_000001|SNAKE CANNOT WINK
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000003_000000|peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck were playing tag on the Green Meadows. Of course peter can run so much faster than Johnny Chuck that he would never have been "it" if he had tried his best to keep out of the way. But he didn't.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000003_000001|No, Sir, peter Rabbit didn't do anything of the kind. He pretended that one of his long hind legs was lame so that he had to run on three legs, while Johnny Chuck could use all four.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000003_000002|It was great fun.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000003_000003|They raced and dodged and twisted and turned.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000003_000004|Sometimes peter was so excited that he would forget and use all four legs.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000001|Of course peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck were not afraid of him.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000002|If it had been mr Rattlesnake or mr Gophersnake, it would have been different.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000003|But from little mr Greensnake there was nothing to fear, and sometimes, just for fun, peter would jump right over him.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000004|When he did that, peter always winked good naturedly.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000005|But mr Greensnake never winked back. Instead he would raise his head, run his tongue out at peter, and hiss in what he tried to make a very fierce and angry manner.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000006|Then peter would laugh and wink at him again.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000004_000007|But never once did mr Greensnake wink back.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000006_000000|peter was thinking of this as he and Johnny Chuck stretched out in a sunny spot to get their breath and rest.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000006_000002|He mentioned the matter to Johnny Chuck.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000007_000000|"That's so," replied Johnny thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000007_000001|"I never have seen any of them wink, either.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000007_000002|Do you suppose they can wink?"
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000008_000000|"Let's go ask mr Greensnake," said peter.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000009_000000|Up they hopped and raced over to the grassy tussock where mr Greensnake lay, but to all their questions he would make no reply save to run out his tongue at them.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000009_000001|Finally they gave up asking him.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000010_000000|"I tell you what, let's go over to the Smiling Pool and ask Grandfather Frog.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000011_000000|So off they scampered to the Smiling Pool.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000011_000001|There they found Grandfather Frog sitting on his big green lily pad just as usual, and peter knew by the look in his great, goggly eyes that Grandfather Frog had a good breakfast of foolish green flies tucked away inside his white and yellow waistcoat.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000011_000002|His eyes twinkled as peter and Johnny very politely wished him good morning.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000012_000000|"Good morning," said he gruffly.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000013_000000|But peter had seen that twinkle in his eyes and knew that Grandfather Frog was feeling good-natured in spite of his gruff greeting.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000014_000000|"If you please, Grandfather Frog, why doesn't mr Greensnake wink at us when we wink at him?" he asked.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000015_000001|Because he can't," replied Grandfather Frog.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000016_000000|"Can't!" cried peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck together.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000017_000000|"That's what I said-can't," replied Grandfather Frog.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000017_000001|"And no more can mr Blacksnake, or mr Rattlesnake, or mr Gophersnake, or any other member of the Snake family."
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000018_000000|"Why not?" cried peter and Johnny, all in the same breath.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000020_000000|Of course peter and Johnny promised to sit perfectly still and not say a word.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000020_000001|After they had made themselves comfortable, Grandfather Frog cleared his throat as if to begin, but for a long time he didn't say a word.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000020_000002|Once peter opened his mouth to ask why, but remembered in time and closed it again without making a sound.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000021_000000|At last Grandfather Frog cleared his throat once more, and with a far away look in his great, goggly eyes began:
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000022_000000|"Once upon a time, long, long ago, when the world was young, lived old mr Snake, the grandfather a thousand times removed of little mr Greensnake and all the other Snakes whom you know.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000022_000003|Now there is such a thing as being too smart.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000022_000004|That was the trouble with mr Snake. Yes, Sir, that was the trouble with mr Snake.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000022_000005|He was so smart that he soon found out that he was the smartest of all the meadow and forest people, and that was a bad thing.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000022_000006|It certainly was a very bad thing." Grandfather Frog shook his head gravely.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000023_000001|At night he would go home and chuckle over his smartness.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000023_000002|It wasn't long before he began to look down on his neighbors for being so honest that they didn't suspect other people of being dishonest, and for being so easily cheated.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000000|"Now one bad habit almost always leads to another.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000001|From cheating, mr Snake just naturally slipped to stealing.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000002|Yes, Sir, he became a thief. Of course that made trouble right away, but still no one suspected mr Snake.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000003|He was always very polite to every one and always offering to do favors for his neighbors.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000004|In fact, mr Snake was very well liked and much respected.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000005|When any one had been robbed, he was always the first to offer sympathy and join in the hunt for the thief.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000024_000006|He was so spry and slim, and could slip through the tall grass so fast, that he could go almost where he pleased without being seen, and this made him very bold.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000025_000000|"So mr Snake found that lying helped him to cheat and steal, and all the time he kept thinking how smart he was.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000025_000001|But even mr Snake had a little bit of conscience, and once in a while it would trouble him.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000025_000002|So what do you think he did?
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000025_000003|Why, cheating had become such a habit with him that he actually tried to cheat himself-to cheat his conscience! When he was telling a lie, he would wink one eye.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000026_000000|"Dear me, dear me, such terrible times as there were on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest!
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000026_000002|She had all the little people come before her in turn and tell their troubles.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000026_000004|He seemed to be the only one who had no troubles.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000026_000005|She asked him a great many questions, and for each one he had a ready reply.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000026_000006|Of course a great many of these replies were lies, and every time he told one of these, he winked without knowing it.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000026_000007|You see, it had become a habit.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000001|It was this: You can't fool Old Mother Nature, and it is of no use to try.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000002|He hadn't been talking three minutes before she knew who was at the bottom of all the trouble.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000003|She let him finish, then called all the others about her and told them who had made all the trouble.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000004|mr Snake was very bold.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000005|He held his head very high in the air and pretended not to care.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000006|When Old Mother Nature turned her head, he even ran out his tongue at her, just as all the Snake family do at you and me to day.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000027_000007|When she had finished telling them how cheating and stealing and lying isn't smart at all, but very, very dreadful, she turned to mr Snake and said:
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000028_000001|You will never wink again, for you and your children and your children's children forever will have no eyelids, that all the world may know that those who make a wrong use of the things given them shall have them taken away.'
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000029_000000|"And now you know why little mr Greensnake cannot wink at you; he hasn't any eyelids to wink with" finished Grandfather Frog.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000030_000000|peter Rabbit drew a long breath.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000030_000001|"Thank you, oh, thank you ever so much, Grandfather Frog," he said.
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000030_000002|"Will you tell us next time why Bobby Coon wears rings on his tail?"
train-other-500/3657/182397/3657_182397_000031_000000|"Perhaps," replied Grandfather Frog.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000002_000000|A MODEL RANCH
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000003_000000|Any one who has been in Arizona and failed to visit the Sierra Bonita ranch missed seeing a model ranch.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000004_000000|He went to Arizona at the close of the Civil War and engaged in contracting for the Government and furnishing supplies to the army.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000004_000001|It was before the days of railroads when all merchandise was hauled overland in wagons and cattle were driven through on foot.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000004_000002|He outfitted at points in Texas and on the Rio Grande and drove his cattle and wagons over hundreds of miles of desert road through a country that was infested by hostile Indians.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000005_000000|Such a wild life was naturally full of adventures and involved much hardship and danger.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000006_000000|In his travels he saw the advantages that Arizona offered as a grazing country, which decided him to locate a ranch and engage in the range cattle business.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000007_000000|The ranch derives its name from the Graham or Pinaleno mountains which the Indians called the Sierra Bonita because of the many beautiful wild flowers that grow there.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000007_000002|Grant, that nestles in a grove of cotton trees at the foot of mount Graham, the noblest mountain in southern Arizona.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000008_000000|The Sierra Bonita ranch is situated in the famous Sulphur Spring valley in Cochise county arizona, which is, perhaps, the only all grass valley in the Territory.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000008_000001|The valley is about twenty miles wide and more than one hundred miles long and extends into Mexico.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000008_000002|Its waters drain in opposite directions, part flowing south into the Yaqui river, and part running north through the Aravaipa Canon into the Gila and Colorado rivers, all to meet and mingle again in the Gulf of California.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000009_000000|Fine gramma grass covers the entire valley and an underground river furnishes an inexhaustible supply of good water.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000009_000001|In the early days of overland travel before the country was protected or any of its resources were known, immigrants, who were bound for California by the Southern route and ignorant of the near presence of water, nearly perished from thirst while crossing the valley.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000010_000000|The water rises to within a few feet of the surface and, since its discovery, numerous wells have been dug and windmills and ranch houses dot the landscape in all directions; while thousands of cattle feed and fatten on the nutritious gramma grass.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000010_000001|Its altitude is about four thousand feet above the sea and the climate is exceptionally fine.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000011_000000|The Sierra Bonita ranch is located on a natural cienega of moist land that has been considerably enlarged by artificial means.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000012_000000|The owner has acquired by location and purchase, title to several thousand acres of land, that is all fenced and much of it highly cultivated.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000012_000001|It consists of a strip of land one mile wide and ten miles long, which is doubly valuable because of its productiveness and as the key that controls a fine open range.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000013_000000|The original herd of cattle that pastured on the Sierra Bonita ranch thirty years ago was composed of native scrub stock from Texas and Sonora.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000013_000002|The change was a long stride in the direction of improvement, but, later on, another change was made to Herefords, and during recent years only whitefaces have been bred upon the ranch.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000014_000001|He has spent much time and money in experimental work, and his success has demonstrated the wisdom of his course.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000014_000002|Just such men are needed in every new country to develop its resources and prove its worth.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000015_000000|He saw that the primitive methods of ranching then in vogue must be improved, and began to prepare for the change which was coming.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000015_000001|What he predicted came to pass, and the days of large herds on the open range are numbered.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000016_000000|Many of them have already been sold or divided up, and it is a question Of only a short time when the rest will meet the same fate.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000017_000000|When this is done there may be no fewer cattle than there are now but they will be bunched in smaller herds and better cared for.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000017_000001|Scrubs of any kind are always undesirable, since it has been proved that quality is more profitable than quantity.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000017_000002|A small herd is more easily handled, and there is less danger of loss from straying or stealing.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000018_000000|The common method of running cattle on the open range is reckless and wasteful in the extreme and entirely inexcusable.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000018_000001|The cattle are simply turned loose to rustle for themselves.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000018_000002|No provision whatever is made for their welfare, except that they are given the freedom of the range to find water, if they can, and grass that often affords them only scant picking.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000019_000000|Under the new regime the cattle are carefully fed and watered, if need be in a fenced enclosure, that not only gives the cattle humane treatment but also makes money for the owner.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000019_000001|The men are instructed to bring in every sick or weak animal found on the range and put it into a corral or pasture, where it is nursed back to life.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000019_000002|If an orphan calf is found that is in danger of starving it is picked up, carried home and fed.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000019_000003|On the average ranch foundlings and weaklings get no attention whatever, but are left in their misery to pine away and perish from neglect.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000019_000004|The profit of caring for the weak and sick animals on the Sierra Bonita ranch amounts to a large sum every year, which the owner thinks is worth saving.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000020_000000|Another peculiarity of ranch life is that where there are hundreds or, perhaps, thousands of cows in a herd, not a single cow is milked, nor is a cup of milk or pound of butter ever seen upon the ranch table.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000020_000001|It is altogether different on Hooker's ranch.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000020_000002|There is a separate herd of milch cows in charge of a man whose duty it is to keep the table supplied with plenty of fresh milk and butter.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000020_000003|No milk ever goes to waste.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000020_000004|If there is a surplus it is fed to the calves, pigs and poultry.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000021_000001|Each calf after it is branded, if it is old and strong enough to wean, is taken from the cow and turned into a separate pasture.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000021_000002|It prevents the weak mother cow from being dragged to death by a strong sucking calf and saves the pampered calf from dying of blackleg by a timely change of diet.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000022_000000|Instead of classing the cattle out on the open range as is the usual custom, by an original system of corrals, gates and chutes the cattle are much more easily and quickly classified without any cruelty or injury inflicted upon either man or beast.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000022_000001|Classing cattle at a round up by the old method is a hard and often cruel process, that requires a small army of both men and horses and is always rough and severe on the men, horses and cattle.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000023_000000|Besides the herds of sleek cattle, there are also horses galore, enough to do all of the work on the ranch as well as for pleasure riding and driving.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000023_000001|There is likewise a kennel of fine greyhounds that are the Colonel's special pride.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000023_000002|His cattle, horses and dogs are all of the best, as he believes in thoroughbreds and has no use whatever for scrubs of either the human or brute kind.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000024_000000|The dogs are fond of their master and lavish their caresses on him with almost human affection.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000024_000002|Blackie nips him playfully on the leg while Dash and the rest of the pack race about like mad, trying to express the exuberance of their joy.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000025_000001|He is active and gets over the ground lively for a small dog, but in a long chase is completely distanced and outclassed to his apparent disgust.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000026_000001|Hooker appreciates his dogs is best illustrated by an incident.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000026_000002|One morning after greeting the dogs at the door, he was heard to remark sotto voce.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000027_000000|"Well, if everybody on the ranch is cross, my dogs always greet me with a smile."
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000028_000000|There appears to be much in the dog as well as in the horse that is human, and the trio are capable of forming attachments for each other that only death can part.
train-other-500/3657/19115/3657_19115_000029_000000|The ranch house is a one story adobe structure built in the Spanish style of a rectangle, with all the doors opening upon a central court. It is large and commodious, is elegantly furnished and supplied with every modern convenience.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000010_000000|The sunlight dripped over the house like golden paint over an art jar, and the freckling shadows here and there only intensified the rigor of the bath of light.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000010_000001|The Butterworth and Larkin houses flanking were entrenched behind great stodgy trees; only the Happer house took the full sun, and all day long faced the dusty road street with a tolerant kindly patience.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000010_000002|This was the city of Tarleton in southernmost Georgia, September afternoon.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000011_000000|Up in her bedroom window Sally Carrol Happer rested her nineteen year old chin on a fifty two year old sill and watched Clark Darrow's ancient Ford turn the corner.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000011_000002|He laboriously crossed two dust ruts, the wheels squeaking indignantly at the encounter, and then with a terrifying expression he gave the steering gear a final wrench and deposited self and car approximately in front of the Happer steps.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000011_000003|There was a heaving sound, a death rattle, followed by a short silence; and then the air was rent by a startling whistle.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000012_000000|Sally Carrol gazed down sleepily.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000012_000002|After a moment the whistle once more split the dusty air.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000013_000000|"Good mawnin'."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000014_000000|With difficulty Clark twisted his tall body round and bent a distorted glance on the window.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000017_000000|"What you doin'?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000018_000000|"Eatin' 'n apple."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000019_000000|"Come on go swimmin'--want to?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000020_000000|"Reckon so."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000021_000000|"How 'bout hurryin' up?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000023_000001|She approached a mirror, regarded her expression with a pleased and pleasant languor, dabbed two spots of rouge on her lips and a grain of powder on her nose, and covered her bobbed corn colored hair with a rose littered sunbonnet.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000023_000002|Then she kicked over the painting water, said, "Oh, damn!"--but let it lay-and left the room.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000024_000000|"How you, Clark?" she inquired a minute later as she slipped nimbly over the side of the car.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000025_000000|"Mighty fine, Sally Carrol."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000026_000000|"Where we go swimmin'?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000027_000000|"Out to Walley's Pool.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000028_000000|Clark was dark and lean, and when on foot was rather inclined to stoop.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000028_000001|His eyes were ominous and his expression somewhat petulant except when startlingly illuminated by one of his frequent smiles.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000029_000000|Hanging round he found not at all difficult; a crowd of little girls had grown up beautifully, the amazing Sally Carrol foremost among them; and they enjoyed being swum with and danced with and made love to in the flower filled summery evenings-and they all liked Clark immensely.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000030_000000|The Ford having been excited into a sort of restless resentful life Clark and Sally Carrol rolled and rattled down Valley Avenue into Jefferson Street, where the dust road became a pavement; along opiate Millicent Place, where there were half a dozen prosperous, substantial mansions; and on into the down town section.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000030_000001|Driving was perilous here, for it was shopping time; the population idled casually across the streets and a drove of low moaning oxen were being urged along in front of a placid street car; even the shops seemed only yawning their doors and blinking their windows in the sunshine before retiring into a state of utter and finite coma.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000031_000000|"Sally Carrol," said Clark suddenly, "it a fact that you're engaged?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000032_000000|She looked at him quickly.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000033_000000|"Where'd you hear that?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000034_000000|"Sure enough, you engaged?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000035_000000|"'At's a nice question!"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000036_000000|"Girl told me you were engaged to a Yankee you met up in Asheville last summer."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000039_000000|"Don't marry a Yankee, Sally Carrol.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000039_000001|We need you round here."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000040_000000|Sally Carrol was silent a moment.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000041_000000|"Clark," she demanded suddenly, "who on earth shall I marry?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000045_000000|"S'pose I love him?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000046_000000|He shook his head.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000047_000000|"You couldn't.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000047_000001|He'd be a lot different from us, every way."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000048_000001|Marylyn Wade and Joe Ewing appeared in the doorway.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000049_000000|"'Lo Sally Carrol."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000050_000000|"Hi!"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000053_000000|"Lawdy, where'd all this start?
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000054_000000|Clark stared straight in front of him at a bolt on the clattering wind shield.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000056_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000057_000000|"Us down here?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000058_000001|I adore all you boys."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000060_000000|"Clark, I don't know.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000060_000001|I'm not sure what I'll do, but-well, I want to go places and see people.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000060_000002|I want my mind to grow.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000060_000003|I want to live where things happen on a big scale."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000061_000000|"What you mean?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000062_000000|"Oh, Clark, I love you, and I love Joe here and Ben Arrot, and you all, but you'll-you'll---"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000063_000000|"We'll all be failures?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000064_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000064_000001|I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of-of ineffectual and sad, and-oh, how can I tell you?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000065_000000|"You mean because we stay here in Tarleton?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000067_000000|He nodded and she reached over and pressed his hand.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000068_000000|"Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000069_000000|"But you're goin' away?"
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000070_000000|"Yes-because I couldn't ever marry you.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000070_000001|You've a place in my heart no one else ever could have, but tied down here I'd get restless.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000070_000004|There's the sleepy old side you love an' there's a sort of energy-the feeling that makes me do wild things.
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000070_000005|That's the part of me that may be useful somewhere, that'll last when I'm not beautiful any more."
train-other-500/3657/78622/3657_78622_000072_000001|They were in the country now, hurrying between tangled growths of bright green coppice and grass and tall trees that sent sprays of foliage to hang a cool welcome over the road.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000000_000000|five--Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000001_000000|When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his books; when he was not reading he was meeting her.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000001_000001|These meetings were carried on with the greatest secrecy.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000002_000000|One afternoon his mother came home from a morning visit to Thomasin.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000002_000001|He could see from a disturbance in the lines of her face that something had happened.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000003_000000|"I have been told an incomprehensible thing," she said mournfully.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000003_000001|"The captain has let out at the Woman that you and Eustacia Vye are engaged to be married."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000004_000000|"We are," said Yeobright.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000004_000001|"But it may not be yet for a very long time."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000005_000000|"I should hardly think it WOULD be yet for a very long time!
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000006_000000|"I am not going back to Paris."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000008_000000|"Keep a school in Budmouth, as I have told you."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000009_000000|"That's incredible!
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000009_000001|The place is overrun with schoolmasters.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000009_000002|You have no special qualifications.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000009_000003|What possible chance is there for such as you?"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000010_000001|But with my system of education, which is as new as it is true, I shall do a great deal of good to my fellow creatures."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000011_000000|"Dreams, dreams!
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000011_000001|If there had been any system left to be invented they would have found it out at the universities long before this time."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000012_000000|"Never, Mother.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000012_000001|They cannot find it out, because their teachers don't come in contact with the class which demands such a system-that is, those who have had no preliminary training.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000012_000002|My plan is one for instilling high knowledge into empty minds without first cramming them with what has to be uncrammed again before true study begins."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000014_000000|"She is a good girl."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000015_000000|"So you think.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000015_000001|A Corfu bandmaster's daughter!
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000015_000002|What has her life been? Her surname even is not her true one."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000016_000000|"She is Captain Vye's granddaughter, and her father merely took her mother's name.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000016_000001|And she is a lady by instinct."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000017_000000|"They call him 'captain,' but anybody is captain."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000018_000000|"He was in the Royal Navy!"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000019_000000|"No doubt he has been to sea in some tub or other.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000019_000001|Why doesn't he look after her?
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000019_000003|But that's not all of it.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000019_000004|There was something queer between her and Thomasin's husband at one time-I am as sure of it as that I stand here."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000020_000000|"Eustacia has told me.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000020_000001|He did pay her a little attention a year ago; but there's no harm in that.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000020_000002|I like her all the better."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000021_000000|"Clym," said his mother with firmness, "I have no proofs against her, unfortunately.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000021_000001|But if she makes you a good wife, there has never been a bad one."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000022_000001|But you give me no peace; you try to thwart my wishes in everything."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000023_000000|"I hate the thought of any son of mine marrying badly!
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000023_000001|I wish I had never lived to see this; it is too much for me-it is more than I dreamt!"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000023_000002|She turned to the window.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000023_000003|Her breath was coming quickly, and her lips were pale, parted, and trembling.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000024_000000|"Mother," said Clym, "whatever you do, you will always be dear to me-that you know.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000024_000001|But one thing I have a right to say, which is, that at my age I am old enough to know what is best for me."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000025_000000|mrs Yeobright remained for some time silent and shaken, as if she could say no more.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000025_000001|Then she replied, "Best?
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000025_000002|Is it best for you to injure your prospects for such a voluptuous, idle woman as that?
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000025_000003|Don't you see that by the very fact of your choosing her you prove that you do not know what is best for you?
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000026_000000|"I do.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000026_000001|And that woman is you."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000027_000000|"How can you treat me so flippantly!" said his mother, turning again to him with a tearful look.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000027_000001|"You are unnatural, Clym, and I did not expect it."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000028_000000|"Very likely," said he cheerlessly.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000029_000001|You stick to her in all things."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000030_000000|"That proves her to be worthy.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000030_000001|I have never yet supported what is bad. And I do not care only for her.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000030_000003|When a woman once dislikes another she is merciless!"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000031_000000|"O Clym! please don't go setting down as my fault what is your obstinate wrongheadedness.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000031_000001|If you wished to connect yourself with an unworthy person why did you come home here to do it?
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000031_000002|Why didn't you do it in Paris?--it is more the fashion there.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000031_000003|You have come only to distress me, a lonely woman, and shorten my days!
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000031_000004|I wish that you would bestow your presence where you bestow your love!"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000032_000000|Clym said huskily, "You are my mother.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000032_000001|I will say no more-beyond this, that I beg your pardon for having thought this my home.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000032_000002|I will no longer inflict myself upon you; I'll go." And he went out with tears in his eyes.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000033_000000|It was a sunny afternoon at the beginning of summer, and the moist hollows of the heath had passed from their brown to their green stage. Yeobright walked to the edge of the basin which extended down from Mistover and Rainbarrow.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000034_000000|By this time he was calm, and he looked over the landscape.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000034_000002|He descended a little way, flung himself down in a spot where a path emerged from one of the small hollows, and waited.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000034_000003|Hither it was that he had promised Eustacia to bring his mother this afternoon, that they might meet and be friends.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000035_000000|He was in a nest of vivid green.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000035_000001|The ferny vegetation round him, though so abundant, was quite uniform-it was a grove of machine made foliage, a world of green triangles with saw edges, and not a single flower.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000035_000002|The air was warm with a vaporous warmth, and the stillness was unbroken. Lizards, grasshoppers, and ants were the only living things to be beheld.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000035_000003|The scene seemed to belong to the ancient world of the carboniferous period, when the forms of plants were few, and of the fern kind; when there was neither bud nor blossom, nothing but a monotonous extent of leafage, amid which no bird sang.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000036_000000|When he had reclined for some considerable time, gloomily pondering, he discerned above the ferns a drawn bonnet of white silk approaching from the left, and Yeobright knew directly that it covered the head of her he loved.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000036_000001|His heart awoke from its apathy to a warm excitement, and, jumping to his feet, he said aloud, "I knew she was sure to come."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000037_000000|She vanished in a hollow for a few moments, and then her whole form unfolded itself from the brake.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000038_000000|"Only you here?" she exclaimed, with a disappointed air, whose hollowness was proved by her rising redness and her half guilty low laugh.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000038_000001|"Where is mrs Yeobright?"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000039_000000|"She has not come," he replied in a subdued tone.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000040_000000|"I wish I had known that you would be here alone," she said seriously, "and that we were going to have such an idle, pleasant time as this. Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000040_000001|I have not thought once today of having you all to myself this afternoon, and the actual moment of a thing is so soon gone."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000041_000000|"It is indeed."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000042_000000|"Poor Clym!" she continued, looking tenderly into his face.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000042_000001|"You are sad.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000042_000002|Something has happened at your home.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000042_000003|Never mind what is-let us only look at what seems."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000043_000000|"But, darling, what shall we do?" said he.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000044_000000|"Still go on as we do now-just live on from meeting to meeting, never minding about another day.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000044_000001|You, I know, are always thinking of that-I can see you are.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000044_000002|But you must not-will you, dear Clym?"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000045_000001|They are ever content to build their lives on any incidental position that offers itself; whilst men would fain make a globe to suit them.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000045_000002|Listen to this, Eustacia.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000045_000003|There is a subject I have determined to put off no longer.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000045_000004|Your sentiment on the wisdom of Carpe diem does not impress me today.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000045_000005|Our present mode of life must shortly be brought to an end."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000046_000000|"It is your mother!"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000047_000000|"It is.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000048_000000|"I have feared my bliss," she said, with the merest motion of her lips. "It has been too intense and consuming."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000049_000000|"There is hope yet.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000049_000001|There are forty years of work in me yet, and why should you despair?
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000049_000002|I am only at an awkward turning.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000049_000003|I wish people wouldn't be so ready to think that there is no progress without uniformity."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000050_000000|"Ah-your mind runs off to the philosophical side of it.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000050_000001|Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000050_000003|I felt myself in that whimsical state of uneasiness lately; but I shall be spared it now.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000050_000004|Let us walk on."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000051_000000|Clym took the hand which was already bared for him-it was a favourite way with them to walk bare hand in bare hand-and led her through the ferns.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000051_000001|They formed a very comely picture of love at full flush, as they walked along the valley that late afternoon, the sun sloping down on their right, and throwing their thin spectral shadows, tall as poplar trees, far out across the furze and fern.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000053_000000|They stood still and prepared to bid each other farewell.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000053_000001|Everything before them was on a perfect level.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000054_000000|"O! this leaving you is too hard to bear!" exclaimed Eustacia in a sudden whisper of anguish.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000055_000000|"They cannot.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000055_000001|Nobody dares to speak disrespectfully of you or of me."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000057_000000|Clym stood silent a moment.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000057_000001|His feelings were high, the moment was passionate, and he cut the knot.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000058_000000|"You shall be sure of me, darling," he said, folding her in his arms. "We will be married at once."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000059_000000|"O Clym!"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000060_000000|"Do you agree to it?"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000061_000000|"If-if we can."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000062_000000|"We certainly can, both being of full age.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000063_000000|"How long shall we have to live in the tiny cottage, Clym?"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000064_000000|"About six months.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000064_000001|At the end of that time I shall have finished my reading-yes, we will do it, and this heart aching will be over.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000064_000003|Would your grandfather allow you?"
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000065_000000|"I think he would-on the understanding that it should not last longer than six months."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000066_000000|"I will guarantee that, if no misfortune happens."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000067_000000|"If no misfortune happens," she repeated slowly.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000068_000000|"Which is not likely.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000068_000001|Dearest, fix the exact day."
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000069_000000|And then they consulted on the question, and the day was chosen.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000069_000001|It was to be a fortnight from that time.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000070_000000|This was the end of their talk, and Eustacia left him.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000070_000002|The luminous rays wrapped her up with her increasing distance, and the rustle of her dress over the sprouting sedge and grass died away.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000070_000003|As he watched, the dead flat of the scenery overpowered him, though he was fully alive to the beauty of that untarnished early summer green which was worn for the nonce by the poorest blade.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000071_000000|Eustacia was now no longer the goddess but the woman to him, a being to fight for, support, help, be maligned for.
train-other-500/366/126663/366_126663_000071_000002|Whether Eustacia was to add one other to the list of those who love too hotly to love long and well, the forthcoming event was certainly a ready way of proving.
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000002_000000|"A good joke, that!" returned Don Quixote.
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000002_000002|And above all when they carry such an appearance of truth with them; for they tell us the father, mother, country, kindred, age, place, and the achievements, step by step, and day by day, performed by such a knight or knights!
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000002_000003|Hush, sir; utter not such blasphemy; trust me I am advising you now to act as a sensible man should; only read them, and you will see the pleasure you will derive from them.
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000003_000001|Here he sees a brook whose limpid waters, like liquid crystal, ripple over fine sands and white pebbles that look like sifted gold and purest pearls.
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000003_000002|There he perceives a cunningly wrought fountain of many coloured jasper and polished marble; here another of rustic fashion where the little mussel shells and the spiral white and yellow mansions of the snail disposed in studious disorder, mingled with fragments of glittering crystal and mock emeralds, make up a work of varied aspect, where art, imitating nature, seems to have outdone it.
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000006_000001|That's what I'll do, and not stand haggling over trifles, but wash my hands at once of the whole business, and enjoy my rents like a duke, and let things go their own way."
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000010_000000|To which Don Quixote returned, "I know not what more there is to be said; I only guide myself by the example set me by the great Amadis of Gaul, when he made his squire count of the Insula Firme; and so, without any scruples of conscience, I can make a count of Sancho Panza, for he is one of the best squires that ever knight errant had."
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000012_000003|What wolves have frightened you, my daughter?
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000012_000004|Won't you tell me what is the matter, my beauty?
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000012_000007|Come back, come back, my darling; and if you will not be so happy, at any rate you will be safe in the fold or with your companions; for if you who ought to keep and lead them, go wandering astray, what will become of them?"
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000014_000000|The goatherd took it with thanks, and drank and calmed himself, and then said, "I should be sorry if your worships were to take me for a simpleton for having spoken so seriously as I did to this animal; but the truth is there is a certain mystery in the words I used.
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000017_000001|So begin, friend, for we are all prepared to listen."
train-other-500/366/127793/366_127793_000020_000000|"It is what we shall all do," said the canon; and then begged the goatherd to begin the promised tale.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000000_000000|CHAPTER two
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000001_000000|TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST'S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARD
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000002_000000|For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000002_000001|He was brought up by hand.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000002_000002|The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000002_000004|The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000002_000006|The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was good for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000002_000007|Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000004_000001|But these impertinences were speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very self devotional.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000004_000002|Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000005_000001|Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000005_000002|But nature or inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's breast.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000006_000000|'Goodness gracious!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000006_000002|mr Bumble, how glad I am to see you, sure ly!'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000007_000000|Now, mr Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so, instead of responding to this open hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000008_000000|'Lor, only think,' said mrs Mann, running out,--for the three boys had been removed by this time,--'only think of that!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000008_000002|Walk in sir; walk in, pray, mr Bumble, do, sir.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000009_000000|Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000010_000000|'Do you think this respectful or proper conduct, mrs Mann,' inquired mr Bumble, grasping his cane, 'to keep the parish officers a waiting at your garden gate, when they come here upon porochial business with the porochial orphans?
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000010_000001|Are you aweer, mrs Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000011_000000|'I'm sure mr Bumble, that I was only a telling one or two of the dear children as is so fond of you, that it was you a coming,' replied mrs Mann with great humility.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000012_000000|mr Bumble had a great idea of his oratorical powers and his importance.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000012_000001|He had displayed the one, and vindicated the other.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000012_000002|He relaxed.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000013_000000|'Well, well, mrs Mann,' he replied in a calmer tone; 'it may be as you say; it may be.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000013_000001|Lead the way in, mrs Mann, for I come on business, and have something to say.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000014_000000|mrs Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor; placed a seat for him; and officiously deposited his cocked hat and cane on the table before him.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000014_000001|mr Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000014_000002|Yes, he smiled.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000014_000003|Beadles are but men: and mr Bumble smiled.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000015_000000|'Now don't you be offended at what I'm a going to say,' observed mrs Mann, with captivating sweetness.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000015_000001|'You've had a long walk, you know, or I wouldn't mention it.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000015_000002|Now, will you take a little drop of somethink, mr Bumble?'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000016_000000|'Not a drop.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000017_000000|'I think you will,' said mrs Mann, who had noticed the tone of the refusal, and the gesture that had accompanied it.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000018_000000|mr Bumble coughed.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000020_000000|'What is it?' inquired the beadle.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000021_000001|'It's gin.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000021_000002|I'll not deceive you, mr b It's gin.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000022_000000|'Do you give the children Daffy, mrs Mann?' inquired Bumble, following with his eyes the interesting process of mixing.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000024_000000|'No'; said mr Bumble approvingly; 'no, you could not.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000024_000001|You are a humane woman, mrs Mann.' (Here she set down the glass.) 'I shall take a early opportunity of mentioning it to the board, mrs Mann.' (He drew it towards him.) 'You feel as a mother, mrs Mann.' (He stirred the gin and water.) 'I-I drink your health with cheerfulness, mrs Mann'; and he swallowed half of it.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000025_000000|'And now about business,' said the beadle, taking out a leathern pocket book. 'The child that was half baptized Oliver Twist, is nine year old to day.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000026_000000|'Bless him!' interposed mrs Mann, inflaming her left eye with the corner of her apron.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000027_000001|Notwithstanding the most superlative, and, I may say, supernat'ral exertions on the part of this parish,' said Bumble, 'we have never been able to discover who is his father, or what was his mother's settlement, name, or condition.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000028_000000|mrs Mann raised her hands in astonishment; but added, after a moment's reflection, 'How comes he to have any name at all, then?'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000030_000000|'You, mr Bumble!'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000031_000000|'I, mrs Mann.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000031_000001|We name our fondlings in alphabetical order.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000031_000002|The last was a S,--Swubble, I named him.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000031_000004|I have got names ready made to the end of the alphabet, and all the way through it again, when we come to z'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000032_000000|'Why, you're quite a literary character, sir!' said mrs Mann.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000033_000000|'Well, well,' said the beadle, evidently gratified with the compliment; 'perhaps I may be.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000033_000001|Perhaps I may be, mrs Mann.' He finished the gin and water, and added, 'Oliver being now too old to remain here, the board have determined to have him back into the house.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000033_000002|I have come out myself to take him there.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000033_000003|So let me see him at once.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000034_000000|'I'll fetch him directly,' said mrs Mann, leaving the room for that purpose.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000034_000001|Oliver, having had by this time as much of the outer coat of dirt which encrusted his face and hands, removed, as could be scrubbed off in one washing, was led into the room by his benevolent protectress.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000035_000000|'Make a bow to the gentleman, Oliver,' said mrs Mann.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000036_000000|Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair, and the cocked hat on the table.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000037_000000|'Will you go along with me, Oliver?' said mr Bumble, in a majestic voice.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000038_000000|Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody with great readiness, when, glancing upward, he caught sight of mrs Mann, who had got behind the beadle's chair, and was shaking her fist at him with a furious countenance.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000038_000001|He took the hint at once, for the fist had been too often impressed upon his body not to be deeply impressed upon his recollection.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000039_000000|'Will she go with me?' inquired poor Oliver.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000040_000000|'No, she can't,' replied mr Bumble. 'But she'll come and see you sometimes.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000000|This was no very great consolation to the child.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000001|Young as he was, however, he had sense enough to make a feint of feeling great regret at going away.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000002|It was no very difficult matter for the boy to call tears into his eyes.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000003|Hunger and recent ill usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000004|mrs Mann gave him a thousand embraces, and what Oliver wanted a great deal more, a piece of bread and butter, less he should seem too hungry when he got to the workhouse.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000005|With the slice of bread in his hand, and the little brown cloth parish cap on his head, Oliver was then led away by mr Bumble from the wretched home where one kind word or look had never lighted the gloom of his infant years.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000006|And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage gate closed after him.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000041_000007|Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world, sank into the child's heart for the first time.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000042_000000|mr Bumble walked on with long strides; little Oliver, firmly grasping his gold laced cuff, trotted beside him, inquiring at the end of every quarter of a mile whether they were 'nearly there.' To these interrogations mr Bumble returned very brief and snappish replies; for the temporary blandness which gin and water awakens in some bosoms had by this time evaporated; and he was once again a beadle.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000044_000000|Not having a very clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather astounded by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000044_000001|He had no time to think about the matter, however; for mr Bumble gave him a tap on the head, with his cane, to wake him up: and another on the back to make him lively: and bidding him to follow, conducted him into a large white washed room, where eight or ten fat gentlemen were sitting round a table.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000044_000002|At the top of the table, seated in an arm chair rather higher than the rest, was a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000045_000000|'Bow to the board,' said Bumble.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000046_000000|'What's your name, boy?' said the gentleman in the high chair.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000047_000000|Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many gentlemen, which made him tremble: and the beadle gave him another tap behind, which made him cry.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000048_000000|'Boy,' said the gentleman in the high chair, 'listen to me.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000048_000001|You know you're an orphan, I suppose?'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000049_000000|'What's that, sir?' inquired poor Oliver.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000051_000000|'Hush!' said the gentleman who had spoken first.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000051_000001|'You know you've got no father or mother, and that you were brought up by the parish, don't you?'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000052_000000|'Yes, sir,' replied Oliver, weeping bitterly.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000053_000000|'What are you crying for?' inquired the gentleman in the white waistcoat.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000053_000001|And to be sure it was very extraordinary.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000054_000000|'I hope you say your prayers every night,' said another gentleman in a gruff voice; 'and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you-like a Christian.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000055_000000|'Yes, sir,' stammered the boy.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000055_000001|The gentleman who spoke last was unconsciously right.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000055_000003|But he hadn't, because nobody had taught him.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000056_000000|'Well!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000056_000001|You have come here to be educated, and taught a useful trade,' said the red faced gentleman in the high chair.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000057_000000|'So you'll begin to pick oakum to morrow morning at six o'clock,' added the surly one in the white waistcoat.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000058_000000|For the combination of both these blessings in the one simple process of picking oakum, Oliver bowed low by the direction of the beadle, and was then hurried away to a large ward; where, on a rough, hard bed, he sobbed himself to sleep.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000058_000001|What a novel illustration of the tender laws of England!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000058_000002|They let the paupers go to sleep!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000059_000000|Poor Oliver!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000059_000001|He little thought, as he lay sleeping in happy unconsciousness of all around him, that the board had that very day arrived at a decision which would exercise the most material influence over all his future fortunes.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000059_000002|But they had.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000059_000003|And this was it:
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000060_000000|The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered-the poor people liked it!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000060_000001|It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000060_000002|'Oho!' said the board, looking very knowing; 'we are the fellows to set this to rights; we'll stop it all, in no time.' So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000060_000004|They made a great many other wise and humane regulations, having reference to the ladies, which it is not necessary to repeat; kindly undertook to divorce poor married people, in consequence of the great expense of a suit in Doctors' Commons; and, instead of compelling a man to support his family, as they had theretofore done, took his family away from him, and made him a bachelor!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000060_000005|There is no saying how many applicants for relief, under these last two heads, might have started up in all classes of society, if it had not been coupled with the workhouse; but the board were long headed men, and had provided for this difficulty.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000060_000006|The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000061_000000|For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000061_000001|It was rather expensive at first, in consequence of the increase in the undertaker's bill, and the necessity of taking in the clothes of all the paupers, which fluttered loosely on their wasted, shrunken forms, after a week or two's gruel.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000061_000002|But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000062_000000|The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000062_000001|Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more-except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000063_000000|The bowls never wanted washing.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000063_000002|Boys have generally excellent appetites.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000063_000004|He had a wild, hungry eye; and they implicitly believed him.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000063_000005|A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000064_000000|The evening arrived; the boys took their places.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000064_000001|The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000064_000003|Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000064_000004|He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity:
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000065_000000|'Please, sir, I want some more.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000066_000000|The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000066_000001|He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000066_000002|The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000067_000000|'What!' said the master at length, in a faint voice.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000068_000000|'Please, sir,' replied Oliver, 'I want some more.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000069_000000|The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000070_000000|The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when mr Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said,
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000071_000000|'mr Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir!
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000071_000001|Oliver Twist has asked for more!'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000072_000000|There was a general start.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000072_000001|Horror was depicted on every countenance.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000073_000001|'Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000073_000002|Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000074_000000|'He did, sir,' replied Bumble.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000075_000000|'That boy will be hung,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000075_000001|'I know that boy will be hung.'
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000076_000000|Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000076_000001|An animated discussion took place.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000076_000003|In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.
train-other-500/366/129285/366_129285_000077_000000|'I never was more convinced of anything in my life,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, as he knocked at the gate and read the bill next morning: 'I never was more convinced of anything in my life, than I am that that boy will come to be hung.'
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000002_000000|The first impression that you got of his head was that it was a patchwork of black and white-black bushy hair and short white beard, or else the other way about.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000000|We never knew when he was going to turn up on a job.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000001|We might not have seen him for weeks, but his face was always as likely as not to appear over the edge of a crane platform just when that marvellous mechanical intuition of his was badly needed.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000002|He wasn't certificated.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000004|But he could set sheers and tackle in a way that made the rest of us look silly.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000007|Certificated or not, a man isn't a fool who can do that sort of thing.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000008|And he was one of these fellows, too, who can "find water"--tell you where water is and what amount of getting it is likely to take, by just walking over the place.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000003_000009|We aren't certificated up to that yet.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000004_000000|He was offered good money to stick to us-to stick to our firm-but he always shook his black and white piebald head.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000005_000001|We had knocked off for the day, and I was walking in the direction of the bridge when he came up.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000007_000000|"What do you want to know that for?" I said.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000007_000001|"What does a chap like you, who can do it all backwards, want with molecules?"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000008_000000|Oh, he just wanted to know, he said.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000009_000002|I gave it up.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000011_000002|I did so, but they didn't seem to contain what he wanted to know, and he soon returned them, without remark.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000012_000001|He couldn't stand echoes.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000012_000004|We're all cranky somewhere, and for that matter, I can't touch a spider myself.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000014_000000|It was early on a particularly dismal November evening, and this time we were somewhere out south-east London way, just beyond what they are pleased to call the building line-you know these districts of wretched trees and grimy fields and market gardens that are about the same to real country that a slum is to a town.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000014_000001|It rained that night; rain was the most appropriate weather for the brickfields and sewage farms and yards of old carts and railway sleepers we were passing.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000014_000003|We were walking in the direction of Lewisham (I think it would be), and were still a little way from that eruption of red brick houses that ... but you've doubtless seen them.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000015_000000|You know how, when they're laying out new roads, they lay down the narrow strip of kerb first, with neither setts on the one hand nor flagstones on the other?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000017_000000|"Hurt yourself?" I said.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000018_000002|He waited for me to come up.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000019_000000|"I say," he said, in an odd sort of voice, "go a yard or two ahead, will you?"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000020_000001|He didn't answer.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000021_000000|Well, I hadn't been leading for more than a minute before he wanted to change again.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000022_000000|"Why, what ails you?" I demanded, stopping.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000023_000000|"It's all right....
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000023_000001|You're not playing any tricks, are you?..."
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000025_000000|"Come, get on," I said shortly; and we didn't speak again till we struck the pavement with the lighted lamps.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000025_000001|Then I happened to glance at him.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000026_000000|"Here," I said brusquely, taking him by the sleeve, "you're not well. We'll call somewhere and get a drink."
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000027_000000|"Yes," he said, again wiping his brow.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000028_000000|"Hear what?"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000030_000000|"Come, you're shaking."
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000031_000001|The shirt sleeved barman noticed it too, and watched us curiously.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000031_000002|I made Rooum sit down, and got him some brandy.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000032_000000|"What was the matter?" I asked, as I held the glass to his lips.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000033_000001|He began to come round a little.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000033_000002|He wasn't the kind of man you'd press for explanations, and presently we set out again. He walked with me as far as my lodgings, refused to come in, but for all that lingered at the gate as if loath to leave.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000033_000003|I watched him turn the corner in the rain.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000034_000000|We came home together again the next evening, but by a different way, quite half a mile longer.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000035_000002|He dropped the molecules, and began to ask me about osmosis.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000036_000000|"It means, doesn't it," he demanded, "that liquids will work their way into one another-through a bladder or something?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000037_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000037_000001|The thick into the thin is ex osmosis, and the other end osmosis. That takes place more quickly.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000039_000000|What was he driving at?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000042_000001|He disappeared for a good many weeks.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000042_000002|I think it would be about February before I saw or heard of him again.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000043_000000|It was February weather, anyway, and in an echoing enough place that I found him-the subway of one of the Metropolitan stations.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000043_000001|He'd probably forgotten the echoes when he'd taken the train; but, of course, the railway folk won't let a man who happens to dislike echoes go wandering across the metals where he likes.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000044_000002|I ran along the subway after him.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000045_000000|It was very curious.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000045_000001|He'd been walking close to the white tiled wall, and I saw him suddenly stop; but he didn't turn.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000045_000002|He didn't even turn when I pulled up, close behind him; he put out one hand to the wall, as if to steady himself.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000045_000003|But, the moment I touched his shoulder, he just dropped-just dropped, half on his knees against the white tiling.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000045_000004|The face he turned round and up to me was transfixed with fright.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000046_000001|I felt somebody's hand on my own arm.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000046_000002|Evidently somebody thought I'd knocked Rooum down.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000047_000001|He stumbled to his feet.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000048_000000|"What the devil's all this about?" I demanded, roughly enough.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000050_000000|"Heavens, man, you shouldn't play tricks like that!"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000055_000001|"But there: you didn't know....
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000056_000000|"Certainly I might have spoken," I agreed, a little stiffly.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000057_000000|"Of course, you ought to have spoken!
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000058_000000|I put a curt question.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000060_000001|Nothing so easy!
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000062_000000|Suddenly he asked: "What are you doing now?"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000063_000001|Oh, the firm.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000064_000000|"I'll come along."
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000066_000000|"I don't mean that.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000067_000000|"Oh!" I said.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000068_000000|I don't know that I specially wanted him.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000068_000002|You never know what he's going to let you in for next.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000068_000003|But, as this didn't seem to occur to him, I didn't say anything.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000068_000004|If he really liked catching the last train down, a three mile walk, and then sharing a double bedded room at a poor sort of alehouse (which was my own programme), he was welcome.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000069_000000|He turned up at Euston, a little after twelve.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000069_000001|We went down together.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000069_000004|Our talk, too, was about work, not molecules and osmosis.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000070_000001|Over the head of my own bed the ceiling was cut away, following the roof line; and the wallpaper was perfectly shocking-faded bouquets that made V's and A's, interlacing everywhere.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000070_000002|The other bed was made up, and lay across the room.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000072_000001|We tumbled into bed.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000073_000000|But, for all the lateness of the hour, I wasn't sleepy; so from my own bag I took a book, set the candle on the end of the mantel, and began to read.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000073_000001|Mark you, I don't say I was much better informed for the reading I did, for I was watching the V's on the wallpaper mostly-that, and wondering what was wrong with the man in the other bed who had fallen down at a touch in the subway.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000073_000002|He was already asleep.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000074_000001|I'm quite certain he was sound asleep, so that it wasn't just the fact that he spoke.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000079_000000|"Whom?...
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000079_000001|You're not attending.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000080_000000|I could see his head there on the pillow, black and white, and his eyes were closed.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000080_000001|He made a slight movement with his arm, but that did not wake him.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000080_000002|Then it came to me, with a sort of start, what was happening.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000080_000004|Would he-would he?--answer another question?...
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000080_000005|I risked it, breathlessly:
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000082_000000|Well, that too he answered.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000083_000000|"Who he is?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000083_000001|The Runner?...
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000083_000002|Don't be silly.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000084_000000|With every nerve in me tingling, I tried again.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000086_000000|This time, I really don't know whether his words were an answer or not; they were these:
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000087_000000|"To hear him catching you up ... and then padding away ahead again!
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000089_000000|"What did you say his name was?" I breathed.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000090_000001|He muttered brokenly for a moment, gave a deep troubled sigh, and then began to snore loudly and regularly.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000091_000003|Rooum, I remember, remarked on the silly practice of reading in bed.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000093_000001|I lost no time about it.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000096_000001|Good God, man!"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000097_000000|"Queer, isn't it?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000098_000000|He pondered for a moment, and then suddenly put his lips to my ear.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000099_000000|"I'll tell you," he whispered.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000099_000003|But now it's getting grinding, sluggish; and the pain....
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000100_000001|I could scream at the thought of it.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000100_000002|It's oftener, too, now, and he's getting stronger.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000100_000004|Just let me tell you one more thing-"
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000101_000000|But I'd had enough.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000101_000001|I'd asked questions the night before, but now-well, I knew quite as much as, and more than, I wanted.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000102_000000|"Stop, please," I said.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000102_000002|Let's call it the first.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000102_000003|Don't tell me any more, please."
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000103_000000|"Frightened, what?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000103_000001|Well, I don't blame you.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000104_000000|"I should see a doctor; I'm only an engineer," I replied.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000001|This thing, that outrages reason-I saw it happen.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000002|That is to say, I saw its effects, and it was in broad daylight, on an ordinary afternoon, in the middle of Oxford Street, of all places.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000003|There wasn't a shadow of doubt about it.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000004|People were pressing and jostling about him, and suddenly I saw him turn his head and listen, as I'd seen him before.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000005|I tell you, an icy creeping ran all over my skin.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000008|He stumbled and thrust-thrust with his body.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000009|He swayed, physically, as a tree sways in a wind; he clutched my arm and gave a loud scream.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000107_000010|Then, after seconds-minutes-I don't know how long-he was free again.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000111_000000|Soon after that he disappeared again.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000111_000001|I wasn't sorry.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000112_000000|Our big contract in the West End came on.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000112_000001|It was a time contract, with all manner of penalty clauses if we didn't get through; and I assure you that we were busy.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000113_000001|It was a sight.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000113_000002|Staging rose on staging, tier on tier, with interminable ladders all over the steel structure.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000116_000000|Well, our Johnnie Fresh came up to me for the twentieth time that night, this time wanting to know something about the overhead crane.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000116_000001|At that I fairly lost my temper.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000117_000000|"What ails the crane?" I cried.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000117_000001|"It's doing its work, isn't it?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000117_000002|Isn't everybody doing their work except you?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000118_000000|"I don't know," he said.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000120_000000|But he grabbed my arm.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000122_000000|Either Hopkins or somebody was dangerously exceeding the speed limit.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000122_000001|The thing was flying along its thirty yards of rail as fast as a tram, and the heavy fall blocks swung like a ponderous kite tail, thirty feet below.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000122_000003|The crane set off at a tear back.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000123_000000|"Who in Hell ..." I began; but it wasn't a time to talk.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000124_000001|Again the crane tore past, with the massive tackle sweeping behind it, and again I heard the crash at the other end.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000125_000000|On the fourth platform, at the end of the way, I found Hopkins.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000127_000002|He's running somebody down, he says; he'll run the whole shoot down in a minute-look!..."
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000128_000001|Half out of the cab I could see Rooum's mottled hair and beard.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000129_000001|Now, damn you!..." he was shouting.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000131_000000|Just how we scrambled on I don't know.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000131_000001|I got one arm over the lifting gear (which, of course, wasn't going), and heard Hopkins on the other footplate.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000131_000003|The stagings were thronged with gaping men.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000132_000000|"Ready?
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000133_000003|The crane came to a standstill half-way down the line.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000134_000000|But either Rooum was stronger than I, or else he took me very much unawares.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000135_000000|"Keep still, you fool!" I bawled.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000139_000000|I told you it was a skeleton line, two rails and a tie or two.
train-other-500/3665/8587/3665_8587_000139_000001|He'd actually jumped to the right-hand rail.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000001_000000|As the young man put his hand to the uppermost of the four brass bell knobs to the right of the fanlighted door he paused, withdrew the hand again, and then pulled at the lowest knob.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000002_000000|"Sorry, Daisy," the young man apologised, "but I didn't want to bring her down all those stairs.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000002_000001|How is she?
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000002_000002|Has she been out to day?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000004_000001|At the foot of the stairs was a rustling portiere of strung beads, and beyond it the carpet was continued up the broad, easy flight, secured at each step by a brass rod.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000004_000003|Passing along a short landing, the young man began the ascent of the second flight.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000005_000000|"Come in," a girl's voice called.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000007_000000|The young man set the paper bag he carried down on the littered round table and advanced to the girl who sat in an old wicker chair before the fire.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000007_000001|The girl did not turn her head as he kissed her cheek, and he looked down at something that had muffled the sound of his steps as he had approached her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000009_000000|The middle of the floor was covered with a common jute matting, but on the hearth was a magnificent leopard skin rug.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000010_000000|"mrs Hepburn sent it up.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000010_000002|It's much warmer for my feet."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000011_000000|"Very kind of mrs Hepburn.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000011_000001|Well, how are you feeling to day, old girl?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000012_000000|"Better, thanks, Ed."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000013_000000|"That's the style.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000013_000001|You'll be yourself again soon.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000013_000002|Daisy says you've been out to day?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000014_000000|"Yes, I went for a walk.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000014_000001|But not far; I went to the Museum and then sat down.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000014_000002|You're early, aren't you?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000015_000001|He brought it to the rug.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000016_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000016_000001|I stopped last night late to cash up for Vedder, so he's staying to night.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000016_000002|Turn and turn about.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000016_000003|Well, tell us all about it, Bess."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000017_000000|Their faces were red in the firelight.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000018_000000|From his face only one would have guessed, and guessed wrongly, that his preferences were for billiard rooms and music halls.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000018_000001|His conversation showed them to be otherwise.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000019_000001|That's tremendously important, especially when a fellow spends the day in a stuffy office.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000019_000003|The second lecture's to night.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000019_000007|It was splendid, the way the lecturer put it.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000019_000008|English is a Germanic language, you know.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000019_000009|Then came the Celts.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000019_000010|I wish I'd brought my notes.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000020_000001|He took it and opened it.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000021_000000|"Ah, Keats!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000021_000001|Glad you like Keats, Bessie.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000021_000004|But he's quite all right-Aa one in fact.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000021_000005|And he's an example of what I've always maintained, that knowledge should be brought within the reach of all.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000021_000006|It just shows.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000021_000008|Let's have a look-"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000024_000001|Ed plucked for a moment at his lower lip, and then, with a "Hm!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000001|I see.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000002|Mythology.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000003|That's made up of tales, and myths, you know.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000004|Like Odin and Thor and those, only those were Scandinavian Mythology.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000006|But I think, in a way, things like that do harm.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000012|Now there's Vedder; he 'went off on a bend,' as he calls it, last night, and even he says this morning it wasn't worth it.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000026_000013|But let's read on."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000027_000000|Again he read, with unresilient movement:
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000029_000000|"Hm!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000029_000001|He was a Buddhist god, Brahma was; mythology again.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000029_000003|Better light the lamp.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000029_000004|We'll have tea first, then read.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000029_000005|No, you sit still; I'll get it ready; I know where things are-"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000030_000001|Then he struck a match and lighted the lamp.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000032_000002|Presently she spoke.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000032_000003|"I was looking at some of those things this afternoon, at the Museum."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000033_000002|"What things?" he asked.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000034_000001|Greek, aren't they?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000035_000000|"Oh, the Greek room!...
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000035_000001|But those people, Bacchus and those, weren't people in the ordinary sense.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000035_000003|That's what mythology means.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000035_000004|I wish sometimes our course took in Greek literature, but it's a dead language after all.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000035_000005|German's more good in modern life.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000036_000001|They're all in a glass case there. And they had safety pins, exactly like ours."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000037_000003|You'll soon be all right, of course, but you have to be careful yet.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000038_000000|She had been seriously ill; her life had been despaired of; and somehow the young Polytechnic student seemed anxious to assure her that she was now all right again, or soon would be.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000038_000001|They were to be married "as soon as things brightened up a bit," and he was very much in love with her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000038_000002|He watched her head and neck as he continued to lay the table, and then, as he crossed once more to the cupboard, he put his hand lightly in passing on her hair.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000039_000001|She must have been very deep in her reverie to have been so taken by surprise.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000040_000000|"I say, Bessie, don't jump like that!" he cried with involuntary quickness.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000041_000000|"It was your touching me," she muttered, resuming her gazing into the grate.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000042_000000|He stood looking anxiously down on her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000043_000000|"That jumpiness is the effect of your illness, you know.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000043_000001|I shall be glad when it's all over.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000043_000002|It's made you so odd."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000044_000000|She was not pleased that he should speak of her "oddness." For that matter, she, too, found him "odd"--at any rate, found it difficult to realise that he was as he always had been.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000045_000000|"It's all right, Ed, but please don't touch me just now," she said.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000046_000000|He was in the act of leaning over her chair, but he saw her shrink, and refrained.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000047_000000|"Poor old girl!" he said sympathetically.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000047_000001|"What's the matter?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000048_000000|"I don't know.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000048_000001|It's awfully stupid of me to be like this, but I can't help it.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000048_000002|I shall be better soon if you leave me alone."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000049_000000|"Nothing's happened, has it?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000051_000000|"Bother the dreams!" muttered the Polytechnic student.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000052_000000|During her illness she had had dreams, and had come to herself at intervals to find Ed or the doctor, mrs Hepburn or her aunt, bending over her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000052_000001|These kind, solicitous faces had been no more than a glimpse, and then she had gone off into the dreams again.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000052_000003|And, though she had come back to actuality, the dreams had never quite vanished.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000052_000005|She was living now between reality and a vision.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000054_000002|Sometimes I could almost touch it with my hand, and then it goes away, but never quite away.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000054_000003|It's like something just past the corner of my eye, over my shoulder, and I sit very still sometimes, trying to take it off its guard.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000055_000000|Again he gave a quick start at the suddenness of her action.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000056_000002|You're brooding," he continued, "that's what you're doing, brooding.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000056_000003|You're getting into a low state.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000056_000004|You want bucking up.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000056_000005|I don't think I shall go to the Polytec. to night; I shall stay and cheer you up.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000056_000006|You know, I really don't think you're making an effort, darling."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000057_000000|His last words seemed to strike her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000057_000001|They seemed to fit in with something of which she too was conscious.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000057_000002|"Not making an effort ..." she wondered how he knew that.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000057_000003|She felt in some vague way that it was important that she should make an effort.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000058_000000|For, while her dream ever evaded her, and yet never ceased to call her with such a voice as he who reads on a magic page of the calling of elves hears stilly in his brain, yet somehow behind the seduction was another and a sterner voice.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000058_000003|They puzzled her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000058_000004|Beware of what?
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000058_000005|Of what danger?
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000060_000000|"Why, an effort to get all right again.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000061_000000|"As I used to be?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000061_000001|The words came with a little check in her breathing.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000062_000000|"Yes, before all this.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000062_000001|To be yourself, you know."
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000063_000000|"Myself?"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000065_000001|The sea!...
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000065_000003|What had he meant by speaking of the sea?...
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000065_000010|Had he other such words?
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000065_000012|Deep within her she felt something-her soul, herself, she knew not what-thrill and turn over and settle again....
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000066_000000|"The sea," she repeated in a low voice.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000067_000000|"Yes, that's what you want to set you up-rather!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000067_000002|Jolly that was!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000067_000003|I like Littlehampton.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000067_000006|I did love you that afternoon, Bessie!"...
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000068_000000|He continued to talk, but she was not listening.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000068_000001|She was wondering why the words "the sea" were somehow part of it all-the pins and brooches of the Museum, the book on her knees, the dream.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000069_000000|He had ceased to talk, and was watching her.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000069_000003|Then she said quickly, "Is tea nearly ready, Ed?" and, as he turned to the table, took up the book again.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000072_000000|The words seemed to move on the page.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000073_000000|"Eh?
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000074_000000|"Eh?...
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000075_000003|He was rather vain of his neat shoes, too, and doubtless stunted his feet; and she had seen the little spot on his neck caused by the chafing of his collar stud....
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000075_000005|His touch would be too like a betrayal of another touch ... somewhere, sometime, somehow ... in that tantalising dream that refused to allow itself either to be fully remembered or quite forgotten.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000075_000006|What was that dream?
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000075_000007|What was it?...
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000076_000000|She continued to gaze into the fire.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000080_000000|"I told you-I told you-" she choked, her stockish figure shaking with rage, "I told you-you-"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000083_000001|He stammered.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000086_000001|"I won't touch you again-no fear.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000086_000003|All right, drop it now.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000086_000004|I won't again.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000088_000000|"All right now," he continued to grumble resentfully.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000088_000002|It's said-I won't touch you again." Then, as if he remembered that after all she was ill and must be humoured, he began, while her bosom still rose and fell rapidly, to talk with an assumption that nothing much had happened.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000088_000003|"Come, sit down again, Bessie.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000089_000000|He took her key from her bag, caught up his hat, and hastened out.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000090_000000|But she did not sit down again.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000090_000001|She was no calmer for his quick disappearance.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000090_000004|Some merest trifle stood between her and those elfin cries, between her and that thin golden mist in which faintly seen shapes seemed to move-shapes almost of tossed arms, waving, brandishing objects strangely all but familiar.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000091_000000|"Quick-the book," she muttered.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000092_000000|But even as she stretched out her hand for it, again came that solemn sound of warning.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000092_000002|Again the high dinning calls of "Hasten! Hasten!" were mingled with that deeper "Beware!"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000093_000000|As she hesitated a new light appeared in the chamber.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000093_000001|Within the frame of the small square window, beyond the ragged line of the chimney cowls, an edge of orange brightness showed.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000093_000002|She leaned forward.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000093_000003|It was the full moon, rusty and bloated and flattened by the earth mist.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000094_000000|The next moment her hand had clutched at the book.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000095_000001|Whence came ye So many, and so many, and such glee? Why have ye left your bowers desolate, Your lutes, and gentler fate? 'We follow Bacchus, Bacchus on the wing A conquering! Bacchus, young Bacchus!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000096_000001|It was gone, and she stood face to face with her Dream, that for two thousand years had slumbered in the blood of her and her line.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000096_000004|The thudding of their hooves shook the ground, and the clash of their timbrels and the rustling of their thyrsi filled the air.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000096_000005|They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Down a cleft of rocks and woods they came, trooping to a wide seashore with the red of the sunset behind them.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000096_000006|She saw the evening light on the sleek and dappled hides, the gilded ivory and rich brown of their legs and shoulders, the white of inner arms held up on high, their wide red mouths, the quivering of the twin flesh gouts on the necks of the leaping fauns.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000097_000002|They ran along its edge over their images in the wet sands, calling their lost companion.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000098_000000|"Hasten, hasten!" they cried; and one of them, a young man with a torso noble as the dawn and shoulder lines strong as those of the eternal hills, ran here and there calling her name.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000099_000000|"Louder, louder!" she called back in an ecstasy.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000100_000000|Something dropped and tinkled against the fender.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000100_000001|It was one of her hairpins.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000101_000000|"Louder!--I cannot hear!
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000101_000001|Once more-"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000102_000001|For the last time that formidable "Beware!" sounded like thunder in her ears; the next moment she had snapped with her fingers the ribbon that was cutting into her throbbing throat.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000103_000000|Her fingers clutched at the tawdry mercerised silk of her blouse.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000103_000001|There was a rip, and her arms and throat were free.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000103_000003|These also....
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000104_000000|"Ah!"
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000105_000000|And as she stood there, as if within the screen of a spectrum that deepened to the band of red, her eyes fell on the leopard skin at her feet.
train-other-500/3665/8589/3665_8589_000105_000004|Down her body there was a spilth of seeds and pulp.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000001_000000|The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000002_000000|There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000002_000001|Like the rest of us, he inherited a hundred silver drachmas from our father, which he thought was a large fortune, but through ill luck, he soon lost it all, and was driven to beg.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000002_000002|As he had a smooth tongue and good manners, he really did very well in his new profession, and he devoted himself specially to making friends with the servants in big houses, so as to gain access to their masters.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000003_000000|One day he was passing a splendid mansion, with a crowd of servants lounging in the courtyard.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000003_000001|He thought that from the appearance of the house it might yield him a rich harvest, so he entered and inquired to whom it belonged.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000004_000000|"My good man, where do you come from?" replied the servant.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000004_000001|"Can't you see for yourself that it can belong to nobody but a Barmecide?" for the Barmecides were famed for their liberality and generosity.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000004_000002|My brother, hearing this, asked the porters, of whom there were several, if they would give him alms.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000004_000003|They did not refuse, but told him politely to go in, and speak to the master himself.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000005_000000|My brother thanked them for their courtesy and entered the building, which was so large that it took him some time to reach the apartments of the Barmecide.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000006_000000|"My lord," he said, "you behold in me a poor man who only lives by the help of persons as rich and as generous as you."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000007_000000|Before he could proceed further, he was stopped by the astonishment shown by the Barmecide.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000007_000002|That is a state of things that must at once be put an end to!
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000007_000003|Never shall it be said that I have abandoned you, and I am sure that you, on your part, will never abandon me."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000008_000000|"My lord," answered my brother, "I swear that I have not broken my fast this whole day."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000009_000000|"What, you are dying of hunger?" exclaimed the Barmecide.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000010_000000|Then he said to my brother, "Why don't you wash your hands too?" and Schacabac, supposing that it was a joke on the part of the Barmecide (though he could see none himself), drew near, and imitated his motion.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000011_000000|When the Barmecide had done rubbing his hands, he raised his voice, and cried, "Set food before us at once, we are very hungry." No food was brought, but the Barmecide pretended to help himself from a dish, and carry a morsel to his mouth, saying as he did so, "Eat, my friend, eat, I entreat.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000011_000001|Help yourself as freely as if you were at home!
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000011_000002|For a starving man, you seem to have a very small appetite."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000012_000000|"Excuse me, my lord," replied Schacabac, imitating his gestures as before, "I really am not losing time, and I do full justice to the repast."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000013_000001|"I find it particularly good myself."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000014_000000|"Oh, my lord," answered my brother, who beheld neither meat nor bread, "never have I tasted anything so delicious."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000015_000000|"Eat as much as you want," said the Barmecide.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000015_000001|"I bought the woman who makes it for five hundred pieces of gold, so that I might never be without it."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000016_000000|After ordering a variety of dishes (which never came) to be placed on the table, and discussing the merits of each one, the Barmecide declared that having dined so well, they would now proceed to take their wine.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000016_000002|The Barmecide, however, pretended to fill their glasses so often, that my brother feigned that the wine had gone into his head, and struck the Barmecide such a blow on the head, that he fell to the ground.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000016_000004|At this the Barmecide, instead of being angry, began to laugh, and embraced him heartily.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000016_000005|"I have long been seeking," he exclaimed, "a man of your description, and henceforth my house shall be yours.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000016_000006|You have had the good grace to fall in with my humour, and to pretend to eat and to drink when nothing was there. Now you shall be rewarded by a really good supper."
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000017_000000|Then he clapped his hands, and all the dishes were brought that they had tasted in imagination before and during the repast, slaves sang and played on various instruments.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000018_000000|Twenty years passed by, and my brother was still living with the Barmecide, looking after his house, and managing his affairs.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000018_000001|At the end of that time his generous benefactor died without heirs, so all his possessions went to the prince.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000018_000004|At length the Bedouin grew tired of tormenting, and sent him on a camel to the top of a high barren mountain, where he left him to take his chance.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000018_000005|A passing caravan, on its way to Bagdad, told me where he was to be found, and I hurried to his rescue, and brought him in a deplorable condition back to the town.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000021_000001|It was at this time that I rendered to the young cripple the important service of which you have heard, and for which, as you know, he showed such profound ingratitude, that he preferred rather to leave Bagdad than to run the risk of seeing me.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000023_000000|"It was during this interval that the little hunchback, half drunk already, presented himself before me, singing and playing on his drum. I took him home, to amuse my wife, and she invited him to supper. While eating some fish, a bone got into his throat, and in spite of all we could do, he died shortly.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000023_000001|It was all so sudden that we lost our heads, and in order to divert suspicion from ourselves, we carried the body to the house of a Jewish physician.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000023_000002|He placed it in the chamber of the purveyor, and the purveyor propped it up in the street, where it was thought to have been killed by the merchant.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000024_000000|"This, Sire, is the story which I was obliged to tell to satisfy your highness.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000024_000001|It is now for you to say if we deserve mercy or punishment; life or death?"
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000025_000002|But before I allow you all four to return to your own homes, and have the corpse of the hunchback properly buried, I should like to see this barber who has earned your pardon.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000026_000001|"O Silent One," said the Sultan, "I am told that you know many strange stories.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000026_000002|Will you tell some of them to me?"
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000027_000000|"Never mind my stories for the present," replied the barber, "but will your Highness graciously be pleased to explain why this Jew, this Christian, and this Mussulman, as well as this dead body, are all here?"
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000028_000000|"What business is that of yours?" asked the Sultan with a smile; but seeing that the barber had some reasons for his question, he commanded that the tale of the hunchback should be told him.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000029_000001|Suddenly he burst into such loud laughter that he fell right backwards, and when he had recovered himself enough to speak, he turned to the Sultan.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000029_000002|"The man is no more dead than I am," he said; "watch me." As he spoke he drew a small case of medicines from his pocket and rubbed the neck of the hunchback with some ointment made of balsam.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000029_000003|Next he opened the dead man's mouth, and by the help of a pair of pincers drew the bone from his throat.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000029_000004|At this the hunchback sneezed, stretched himself and opened his eyes.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000030_000000|The Sultan and all those who saw this operation did not know which to admire most, the constitution of the hunchback who had apparently been dead for a whole night and most of one day, or the skill of the barber, whom everyone now began to look upon as a great man.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000030_000001|His Highness desired that the history of the hunchback should be written down, and placed in the archives beside that of the barber, so that they might be associated in people's minds to the end of time.
train-other-500/3675/10687/3675_10687_000030_000002|And he did not stop there; for in order to wipe out the memory of what they had undergone, he commanded that the tailor, the doctor, the purveyor and the merchant, should each be clothed in his presence with a robe from his own wardrobe before they returned home.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000000_000000|CHAPTER.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000002_000000|Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000002_000001|And it is not a dead humbug either; it is alive, busily exercised by knaves and believed by fools all over the world.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000002_000004|Yes: but are the French and Germans and English and Americans poor ignorant creatures too?
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000002_000005|They are, if the belief and practice of witchcraft among them is any test; for in all those countries there are witches.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000002_000006|I take up one of the New York City dailies of this very morning, and find in it the advertisements of seven Witches.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000002_000008|One of these wizards was a black man; a very proper style of person to deal with the black art.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000002|The devil part of the business did not begin until a good while after Christ.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000004|Take our New York city witches, for instance.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000005|They live in cheap and dirty streets that smell bad; their houses are in the same style, infected with a strong odor of cabbage, onions, washing day, old dinners, and other merely sublunary smells.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000006|Their rooms are very ill furnished, and often beset with wash tubs, swill pails, mops and soiled clothes; their personal appearance is commonly unclean, homely, vulgar, coarse, and ignorant, and often rummy.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000007|Their fee is a quarter or half of a dollar. Sometimes a dollar.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000008|Their divination is worked by cutting and dealing cards or studying the palm of your hand.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000009|And the things which they tell you are the most silly and shallow babble in the world; a mess of phrases worn out over and over again.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000011|I think it will come upon you within three weeks, but it may not.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000012|A dark complexioned man faces your life card.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000013|He is plotting against you, and you must beware of him.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000014|Your marriage card faces two young women, one fair and the other dark.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000015|One you will have, and the other you will not.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000016|I think you will have the fair one.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000017|She favors the dark complexioned man, which means trouble.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000018|You face money, but you must earn it.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000019|There is a good deal, but you may not get much of it" etc, etc
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000003_000020|These words are exactly the sort of stuff that is sold by the witches of to day.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000004_000000|The peculiar traits of the witchcraft of this period are among the most mysterious of all humbugs.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000004_000003|And the mystery is, how anybody could believe that to accomplish such very small results, seldom equal even to the death of an enemy, one would agree to accept eternal damnation in the next world, almost certain poverty, misery, persecution and torment in this, besides having for an amusement performances more dirty, obscene and vulgar than I can even hint at.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000005_000000|But such a belief was universal, and hundreds of the witches themselves confessed as much as I have described, and more, with numerous details, and they were burnt alive for their trouble.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000005_000001|The extent of wholesale murdering perpetrated under forms of law, on charges of witchcraft, is astonishing.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000005_000002|A magistrate named Remigius, published a book in which he told how much he thought of himself for having condemned and burned nine hundred witches in sixteen years, in Lorraine.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000005_000003|And the one thing that he blamed himself for was this: that out of regard for the wishes of a colleague, he had only caused certain children to be whipped naked three times round the market place where their parents had been burned, instead of burning them.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000005_000006|In Geneva, five hundred persons were burned during fifteen fifteen and fifteen sixteen.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000000|The way in which the witch murderers reasoned, and their modes of conducting trials and procuring confessions, were truly infernal.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000001|The chief rule was that witchcraft being an "exceptional crime," no regard need be had to the ordinary forms of justice.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000002|All manner of tortures were freely applied to force confessions.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000004|Pin sticking, drowning, starving, the rack, were too common to need details.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000005|Sometimes the prisoner was hung up by the thumbs, and whipped by one person, while another held lighted candles to the feet and other parts of the body.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000006|At Arras, while the prisoners were being torn on the rack, the executioner stood by, sword in hand, promising to cut off at once the heads of those who did not confess.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000007|At Offenburg, when the prisoners had been tortured until beyond the power of speaking aloud, they silently assented to abominable confessions read to them out of a book.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000008|Many were cheated into confession by the promise of pardon and release, and then burned.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000009|A poor woman in Germany was tricked by the hangman, who dressed himself up as a devil and went into her cell.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000010|Overpowered by pain, fear and superstition, she begged him to help her out; her beseeching was taken for confession, she was burned, and a ballad which treated the trick as a jolly and comical device, was long popular in the country.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000012|All who dared to argue against the current of popular and judicial delusion were instantly refuted very effectively by being attacked for witchcraft themselves; and once accused, there was little hope of escape.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000013|The Jesuit Delrio, in a book published in fifteen ninety nine, states the witch killers' side of the discussion very neatly indeed; for in one and the same chapter he defies any opponents to disprove the existence of witchcraft, and then shows that a denial of witchcraft is the worst of all heresies, and must be punished with death.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000006_000014|Quite a number of excellent and sensible people were actually burnt on just this principle.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000007_000000|I do not undertake to give details of any witch trials; this sketch of the way in which they operated is all I can make room for, and sufficiently delineates this cruel and bloody humbug.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000008_000001|I have not just now the most recent information, but in the year eighteen fifty seven and eighteen fifty eight, for instance, mobbing and prosecutions growing out of a popular belief in witchcraft were quite plentiful enough in various parts of Europe.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000008_000003|Some others of those cases show a singular quantity of credulity among people of respectability.
train-other-500/3675/185514/3675_185514_000009_000000|While therefore some of us may perhaps be justly thankful for safety from such horrible follies as these, still we can not properly feel very proud of the progress of humanity, since after not less than six thousand years of existence and eighteen hundred of revelation, so many believers in witchcraft still exist among the most civilized nations.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty five
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000001_000000|As soon as the night was dark enough, Chris loudly complained of not feeling well-of being hot and dizzy, and in no time Captain Blizzard had, as loudly, told him he was to go to bed on a cot in the Captain's cabin.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000002_000000|Chris remained alone in the cabin from that time.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000002_000002|Their deep voices swept back over the water to where Chris stood by the open port of the Captain's cabin.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000003_000000|Leave it he must.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000007_000001|She was riding at anchor close inshore farther down the coast, and final boatfuls of men were returning from the merchantman carrying the last of the spoils.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000007_000002|Sweeping by toward the beach Chris saw that most of the bandit crew were already drunk, shouting and carousing around fires where they roasted wild creatures they had earlier killed.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000007_000004|The Tahitians, fitting so well into the beauty of their island, gold of skin and crowned with flowers, carrying themselves with dignity, were as far removed as could be imagined from the idea of pagan men.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000007_000005|They contrasted sharply at that moment with those from "civilization," who in filthy rags of clothes and wild disorder of gestures and voices staggered about aimlessly gorging food and drinking.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000007_000006|The watching pagans glanced from the brawling pirates back a short distance down the beach where already a few bodies had been washed ashore from the fight.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000007_000007|Their distaste and bewilderment were plain.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000009_000000|Osterbridge Hawsey had two baskets at his feet.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000009_000001|One was filled with carefully chosen fruits, and the other with the exotic flowers of the island.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000009_000003|Determined to make a good impression and perhaps catch Osterbridge's fancy, Chris, in his bright parakeet plumage, bobbed his head and sidled up and down the ship's rail, eyeing Osterbridge Hawsey with his head on one side as he had seen parakeets do.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000010_000000|The maneuver succeeded, for Osterbridge, with a little cry of pleasure, declared himself enchanted.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000011_000000|"I must have that little bird!" he exclaimed, and carefully taking off his fashionable hat-even more out of place in the tropics than it had been on the Georgetown docks-he slapped it quickly over the parakeet which allowed itself to be captured.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000013_000001|"My soul-what a prize!" he rattled on, entirely to himself as it turned out, for the sailors were not at all interested in a pet. Exhausted from the battle or drunk from captured wine, and all despising the fastidious ways of Osterbridge Hawsey, they paid not the slightest attention.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000013_000002|They obeyed occasional orders from him, for they knew they would be whipped by Claggett Chew if they did not, and so hauled up the baskets of fruits and flowers, dumped them unceremoniously in the Captain's cabin, and left as quickly as they could to rejoin their shipmates on shore.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000015_000000|Chris did not disappoint him.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000015_000001|As the parakeet, he played the clown for all he was worth.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000015_000002|He strutted up and down, and bobbed his head whenever Osterbridge Hawsey spoke, so that it appeared that the brightly feathered bird was in constant agreement with his captor.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000015_000003|Or he would cock his head to one side as if weighing one of Osterbridge's remarks, in a truly comical manner.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000016_000000|Looking about meanwhile with his black beady eyes, Chris saw that Claggett Chew was lying in a bunk against one wall, nursing his left leg which had been given a sword thrust in the fight.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000016_000001|He was obviously in pain and perhaps feverish, and Osterbridge Hawsey's childish talk irritated and bored him so that he turned his face to the wall.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000016_000002|Light from the swinging lamp that Chris remembered from many weeks before threw black hollows into Claggett Chew's eye sockets and deeply lined face.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000016_000003|Now and again he could be heard grinding his teeth at the pain of his wound, but Osterbridge Hawsey, throwing his fine coat and plumed hat to one side, lightheartedly amused himself by trying to tempt his new pet with some fruit.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000017_000000|"Claggett!" he cried, as if Claggett Chew could possibly be interested in a parakeet at that point, "do look at what I captured!
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000017_000001|This is my very own spoils of war!" he crowed.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000018_000000|Claggett Chew made an impolite noise and said nothing.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000018_000002|It is vulgar, messy, and noisy.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000018_000003|I can imagine no possible good word to say for it.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000018_000004|And I see no reason why you could not have made them give up their cargo without a skirmish.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000018_000005|Ugh!" he said, at the remembrance.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000019_000003|Refined, and not at all degrading to one's character."
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000020_000000|No sound from Claggett Chew.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000020_000001|Osterbridge Hawsey rattled on and Chris, pecking at the fruit proffered him, thought that sometimes Osterbridge Hawsey might quite possibly talk just as gaily to himself as he did to the unresponsive Claggett Chew.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000021_000000|"Claggett-your men!" his voice rose.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000021_000005|I expect your wound smarts a trifle?"
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000023_000000|"Do you know," his more delicate friend pursued, stretching out a long finger for the parakeet to perch on, which to his evident pleasure it instantly did, "Do you know, Claggett, this dear little creature seems fearless and almost human?
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000026_000000|"I shall give you a name, my little feathered captive," he said, and pondered.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000026_000002|Something French, undoubtedly." He waved a hand and the lace at his wrist fell forward in a not overly clean frill.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000026_000005|That's it.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000026_000007|"To think that I once knew such a royal, such a distinguished man!"
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000026_000008|He sighed reminiscently.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000027_000000|For the first time words came from Claggett Chew.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000027_000001|He bit them off as if the saying of them cost him very great effort.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000029_000000|Osterbridge Hawsey permitted a sad condescending smile to cross his face and he shook his finger at Claggett Chew.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000029_000001|"Ah, Claggett-you never knew him, you see.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000029_000004|Oh dear me yes.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000030_000001|He went to the door and clapped his hands, but no one responded.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000031_000000|Osterbridge Hawsey came back into the cabin holding a bottle of wine which he uncorked and poured into a glass.
train-other-500/3675/187020/3675_187020_000031_000001|Chris, foreseeing what would follow, hopped up to the back of his new master's chair where he hoped he would be forgotten, and tucked his head under his wing in case Osterbridge should look at him.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000001_000001|There she went about from house to house for a while, and at last she came to the Lord Mayor.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000001_000002|He was both open hearted and open handed, and he was married to the daughter of the richest merchant in the town, and they had one little daughter.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000001_000003|As they had no more children, you may fancy she was sugar and spice and all that's nice, and in a word there was nothing too good for her.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000001_000005|Yes, they played and read and went to school together, and never had so much as one quarrel.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000003_000000|One day the Lady Mayoress stood at the window, and watched the children as they were trudging off to school.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000003_000001|There had been a shower of rain, and the street was flooded, and she saw how the boy first carried the basket with their dinner over the stream, and then he went back and lifted the little girl over, and when he set her down he gave her a kiss.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000004_000001|"To think of such a ragamuffin kissing our daughter-we who are the best people in the place!" That was what she said.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000004_000002|Her husband did his best to stop her tongue.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000005_000000|But no! it was all the same, whatever he said and whichever way he put it.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000005_000001|The Lady Mayoress held her own, and said beggars on horseback always rode their cattle to death, and that no one had ever heard of a silk purse being made out of a sow's ear; adding, that a penny would never turn into a shilling, even though it glittered like a guinea.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000005_000002|The end of it all was that the poor lad was turned out of the house, and had to pack up his rags and be off.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000006_000001|He told his wife he had sold the boy for a roll of tobacco.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000007_000003|So he took the boat and rowed across, and there he saw an old hag, who called and roared.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000008_000001|Here have I stood a hundred years calling and bawling, and thinking how I should ever get over this water; but no one has ever heard or heeded but you, and you shall be well paid if you will put me over to the other side."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000009_000001|Yes! he would beg for it; and when the old witch who lived there knew that he had helped her sister over the water, she said he might have whatever he chose to ask.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000012_000000|"Now I must be off," said the lad, "to cook the Sunday dinner for the church goers."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000013_000001|Stop with me, and I will pay you better still.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000013_000002|Here have I stood and called and bawled for a hundred years, but no one has ever heeded me but you."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000014_000002|So when they came over, and the second old witch heard how he had helped her sister across, she said he might have anything he chose to ask for her fare.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000017_000000|Then the old hag said again: "Come on with me to my third sister.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000017_000001|Here have I stood and called and bawled for a hundred years, and no one has heeded me but you.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000017_000002|Come on to my third sister, and you shall have better pay still."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000018_000001|Well! when they got across, and the third old witch heard he had helped her sister across, she said he was to have whatever he chose to ask for his fare.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000019_000000|"Oh," said the lad, "then I won't have anything else but granny's old hymn book."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000021_000001|Yes! in a trice it was covered with good food and strong drink, enough and to spare.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000021_000002|So he just took a little snack, and then he gave the ship's dog as much as it could eat.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000022_000001|Why, he's as round as a sausage, and as lazy as a snail."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000023_000000|"Oh, if you must know," said the lad, "I gave him the bones."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000024_000000|"Good boy," said the captain, "to think of the dog."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000026_000001|But the book-that he could not get tried just then.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000027_000002|The King came down to the shore, and asked was there anyone on board who could cure her and make her well again.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000029_000000|"Is there no one else on board the ship than those I see?" asked the King.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000030_000000|"Yes; there's a little beggar boy."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000031_000000|"Well," said the King, "let him come on deck."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000033_000000|But the King only said that wit came as children grew, and that there was the making of a man in every bairn.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000033_000002|After all, there were many who had tried and failed before him.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000033_000003|So he took him home to his daughter, and the lad sang a hymn once.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000033_000004|Then the Princess could lift her arm.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000033_000005|Once again he sang it, and she could sit up in bed.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000033_000006|And when he had sung it thrice, the King's daughter was as well as you and I are.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000034_000000|The King was so glad he wanted to give him half his kingdom and the princess to wife.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000035_000000|"Yes," said the lad, "land and power are fine things to have half of," and was very grateful; "but as for the Princess, he was betrothed to another," he said, "and he could not take her to wife."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000036_000002|But when they had conquered, he turned the white edge, and they all rose up alive and became the King's soldiers, who had granted them their lives.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000036_000003|But then there were so many of them that they were badly off for food, though the King wished to send them away full, both of meat and drink.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000036_000004|So the lad had to bring out his tablecloth, and then there was not a man that lacked anything.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000037_000002|On board those ships everything was as grand as in a King's palace; and as for himself, he had gold on every seam of his coat, so fine he was.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000037_000004|"Yes, he would go," he said; and so he went up to the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor lived, and there he took his seat between the Lady Mayoress and her daughter.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000039_000000|"Do you know who that is in there, mother?" said the daughter.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000040_000000|"No!" said the Lady Mayoress.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000041_000000|"He whom papa sold for a roll of tobacco," said the daughter.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000042_000000|At these words the Lady Mayoress fainted and fell down flat on the floor.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000043_000000|In a little while the Lord Mayor came out to see what was the matter, and when he heard how things stood he was almost as uneasy as his wife.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000044_000000|"There is nothing to make a fuss about," said Master Tobacco.
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000044_000001|"I have only come to claim the little girl I kissed as we were going to school."
train-other-500/3679/159362/3679_159362_000045_000000|But to the Lady Mayoress he said:
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000004_000000|IN the days of the great Prince Arthur there lived a mighty magician, called Merlin, the most learned and skillful enchanter the world has ever seen.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000005_000000|This famous magician, who could take any form he pleased, was traveling about as a poor beggar, and being very tired, he stopped at the cottage of a plowman to rest himself, and asked for some food.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000006_000000|The countryman bade him welcome, and his wife, who was a very good hearted woman, soon brought him some milk in a wooden bowl, and some coarse brown bread on a platter.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000007_000001|He therefore asked them why they were so melancholy, and learned that they were miserable because they had no children.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000008_000000|The poor woman said, with tears in her eyes: "I should be the happiest creature in the world if I had a son; although he was no bigger than my husband's thumb, I would be satisfied."
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000009_000001|Accordingly, in a short time after, the plowman's wife had a son, who, wonderful to relate, was not a bit bigger than his father's thumb!
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000010_000001|The queen kissed the child, and, giving it the name of Tom Thumb, sent for some of the fairies, who dressed her little godson according to her orders:
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000012_000000|Tom never grew any larger than his father's thumb, which was only of ordinary size; but as he got older he became very cunning and full of tricks.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000012_000001|When he was old enough to play with the boys, and had lost all his own cherry stones, he used to creep into the bags of his playfellows, fill his pockets, and, getting out without their noticing him, would again join in the game.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000013_000000|One day, however, as he was coming out of a bag of cherry stones, where he had been stealing as usual, the boy to whom it belonged chanced to see him.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000013_000002|He roared loud with pain, and begged to be let out, promising never to steal again.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000014_000000|A short time afterwards his mother was making a batter pudding, and Tom, being very anxious to see how it was made, climbed up to the edge of the bowl; but his foot slipped, and he plumped over head and ears into the batter, without his mother noticing him, who stirred him into the pudding bag, and put him in the pot to boil.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000015_000002|As Tom had now got his mouth cleared of the batter, he then began to cry aloud, which so frightened the tinker that he flung down the pudding and ran away.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000016_000000|Soon after the adventure of the pudding, Tom's mother went to milk her cow in the meadow, and she took him along with her.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000016_000001|As the wind was very high, for fear of being blown away, she tied him to a thistle with a piece of fine thread.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000017_000000|"Where are you, Tommy, my dear Tommy?" said his mother.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000018_000000|"Here, mother," replied he, "in the red cow's mouth."
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000019_000001|She then put Tom in her bosom and ran home with him.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000020_000001|A raven, which was flying over, picked him up, and flew with him over the sea, and there dropped him.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000021_000000|A large fish swallowed Tom the moment he fell into the sea, which was soon after caught and bought for the table of King Arthur.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000021_000001|When they opened the fish in order to cook it, everyone was astonished at finding such a little boy, and Tom was quite delighted at being free again.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000023_000001|Tom told the King that his father and mother were as tall as anybody about the court, but in rather poor circumstances.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000023_000002|On hearing this the King carried Tom to his treasury, the place where he kept all his money, and told him to take as much money as he could carry home to his parents, which made the poor little fellow caper with joy.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000023_000003|Tom went immediately to procure a purse, which was made of a water bubble, and then returned to the treasury, where he received a silver threepenny piece to put into it.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000024_000000|Our little hero had some difficulty in lifting the burden upon his back; but he at last succeeded in getting it placed to his mind, and set forward on his journey.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000025_000000|Tom had traveled forty eight hours with a huge silver piece on his back, and was almost tired to death, when his mother ran out to meet him, and carried him into the house.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000025_000001|But he soon returned to court.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000026_000000|As Tom's clothes had suffered much in the batter pudding and the inside of the fish, his majesty ordered him a new suit of clothes and to be mounted as a knight on a mouse.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000029_000000|The King was so charmed with his address that he ordered a little chair to be made, in order that Tom might sit upon his table, and also a palace of gold, a span high, with a door an inch wide, to live in.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000029_000001|He also gave him a coach, drawn by six small mice.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000030_000000|The Queen was so enraged at the honors conferred on Sir Thomas that she resolved to ruin him, and told the King that the little knight had been saucy to her.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000034_000000|The King received Tom again into favor, which he did not live to enjoy, for a large spider one day attacked him; and although he drew his sword and fought well, yet the spider's poisonous breath at last overcame him.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000035_000000|He fell dead on the ground where he stood, And the spider suck'd every drop of his blood.
train-other-500/3679/159363/3679_159363_000036_000000|King Arthur and his whole court were so sorry at the loss of their little favorite that they went into mourning and raised a fine white marble monument over his grave with the following epitaph:
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000001_000000|CRABS.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000002_000001|These are the Shore Crabs; the large Edible Crabs are a different kind, and live mostly in deep water.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000003_000001|If you put some dead mussels or fish in a pool, you will be amused at their antics.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000003_000002|How they scramble and fight!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000003_000003|Crabs do not believe in "table manners."
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000006_000000|It is their taste for waste scraps of food that makes crabs of use in the sea.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000006_000001|They are most useful scavengers.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000006_000002|They clear the sea and beach of dead matter which would poison the air and water.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000007_000000|For many years nobody knew how Crabs grew up.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000008_000000|Let us begin at the beginning-the egg.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000008_000001|Mother Crab carries her eggs with her, under her tail, which itself is always kept tucked up under her body.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000008_000002|Out of each egg there comes the queerest little creature!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000008_000003|It is just large enough to be seen as it wriggles in the water.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000008_000004|Then its skin splits, and there appears a quaint thing with long feathery legs, a big head, a spike on the back of its head, and another spike like a nose.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000009_000000|Who would suspect this strange atom would turn into a Crab!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000009_000001|Well, nobody did.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000009_000005|Fishes, and even great whales, swallow these tiny things by the million.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000010_000000|The Crab larva eats and grows.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000010_000001|Again and again its skin splits, and a rather different zoea appears.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000010_000002|This happens about once a week, until, hey presto! the spiked zoea is now rather like a Crab.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000010_000004|Yet it still owns a tail.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000010_000005|At last this is tucked up under its body, and lo! our little friend has changed into a very small Crab.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000010_000006|No longer able to swim about, it comes to get a living in the shallow pools of the shore.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000011_000000|Luckily, this helpless baby knows how to hide.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000011_000001|He is helped by his colour, for it matches the green and brown of the weeds and rocks.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000011_000003|At this time of his life he has to "make himself scarce," and snatch his food when and where he can.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000013_000000|We do not eat these little Crabs, but other Crabs do, and so do anemones, gulls, and other hungry creatures; and they themselves hunt sand hoppers, and eat anything they can find or steal.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000013_000001|So they grow bigger; and then, like the boy who grows quickly, the Crab finds his shelly suit a size too small for him!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000014_000000|Now look at his suit.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000014_000001|It is a hard coat, a complete suit of armour to protect his soft body.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000014_000004|What is he to do?
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000015_000001|He loosens himself as well as he can.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000015_000002|Soon the shell breaks across, and the Crab struggles to get free.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000015_000003|At last he backs out, and leaves his old suit for ever.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000015_000004|It is a wonderful performance, for he has withdrawn even from the legs, claws, feelers, bristles, eye stalks and eyes!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000016_000000|Now the Crab, in his new suit, hides away.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000016_000001|He knows that he is a soft, flabby creature at this time, and that other animals, even mrs Crab, would be glad to meet him-and eat him.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000016_000002|While his covering is yet soft he grows quickly.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000016_000003|When it is hard, he ventures out again, ready to quarrel and fight.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000017_000000|This change of shell happens often to young Crabs.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000017_000001|Older ones change only once a year.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000018_000000|Crabs can see and hear and smell; and they must also have a fine sense of touch.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000018_000001|I was once watching a big Crab eating his dinner under a rocky ledge in a large glass tank.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000018_000002|As he tore his food, some of the bits, no larger than crumbs, fell and settled on the rocks below.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000018_000003|Then I saw that a smaller Crab, with long pincers, was hiding under a rock.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000018_000004|As the crumbs fell, he reached out his pincers and picked them up, one by one. Each bit was gravely carried to his mouth, and tucked in, and then he reached out for another.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000018_000005|Though I was very close to the Crab, I could hardly see the tiny scraps which he was able to pick up so easily.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000019_000000|One of the strangest Crabs is the Hermit.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000019_000001|You would think that Nature had played a joke on him, for he has only half a suit of armour.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000019_000002|His tail part is soft.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000019_000003|He would have a bad time in the sea, but for a dodge he has learnt.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000020_000000|The baby Hermit takes the empty home of a periwinkle.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000020_000001|As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000020_000003|Our coloured picture, page thirty five, shows some Hermits at war.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000020_000004|Fighting, house hunting, and moving house seem to be the Hermit's favourite pursuits.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000020_000005|But, whatever he does, his first care is to protect that soft tail of his.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000020_000006|His right claw is large and strong, so he uses it to close the door of his stolen home.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000021_000000|Sometimes he has a lodger who lives on the roof.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000021_000001|This lodger, as you will notice in our coloured picture, is the sea anemone.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000021_000002|The Hermit and his lodger seem to be good friends, at least they seem to like each other's company.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000003|But that is not all.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000004|The artful Crab tears off other pieces of weed with its pincers, and attaches them to the hooks.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000005|It is another dodge, of course, to escape from enemies.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000006|The Lobster, whose picture you see, has a life story much like that of the Crab.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000007|He, also, grows too big for his suit of armour, and casts it off in a wonderful manner, but only after a great deal of trouble.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000008|In his new suit he is very weak and soft-an easy prey to the first enemy to find him.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000009|He cannot defend himself then; he can only lie helplessly on his side, waiting for his coat to harden.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000023_000010|He is so weak that his soft legs cannot bear the weight of his body.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000025_000000|Needless to say, the Lobster always finds a secure retreat before casting off his protecting coat of armour.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000025_000001|A hole under a rock suits him well at that time.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000025_000002|Strange to say, he seems to dislike his old clothes, and often crunches them to pieces or eats them up, or even pushes them under the sand or stones!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000025_000003|Then he marches out like a proud warrior, knowing his strength, and the power of his great claws.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000026_000000|Lobsters are fond of fighting, and must be very disagreeable neighbours. They can swim along by using the little "swimmerets" under their bodies. Or, by rapidly bending down their powerful tails, Lobsters are able to shoot backwards through the water at a great pace.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000028_000001|Having enjoyed his meal he tries to swim away; but there is no escape, and there he must wait until the owner of the trap makes his usual "round" in the morning.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000028_000002|Of course, there is a rope to every trap, and a cork to mark its position.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000030_000001|There are many lobster fisheries along the rocky parts of our coast.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000032_000000|You will often see Lobsters with one very large claw, and one small. They are able to throw off a limb or two whenever they are frightened. Also they often lose a claw in the terrible fights of which they seem so fond.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000032_000001|If one joint of a claw becomes injured the Lobster has no further use for it; he is wise, for his very life depends on his armour.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000033_000002|What a useful gift this must be to an animal like the Lobster, whose whole life is one terrible fight after another!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000034_000000|The baby Lobsters, like the baby Crabs, are quite unlike their parents. They swim about at the surface of the sea, and already they seize every chance of fighting and eating their small neighbours.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000035_000001|Here they eat, fight, grow and change their coats, just as the young Crabs do.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000035_000002|They are now like their parents.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000035_000003|Sometimes they grow to be huge, and to weigh as much as ten and a half pounds.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000036_000000|The mother Lobster carries as many as thirty thousand eggs under her body!
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000036_000001|Needless to say, a very, very few of this enormous family survive the dangers of the sea.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000036_000002|The rule there is-"Eat and be eaten!".
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000038_000000|one.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000038_000001|What is a Crab larva like?
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000039_000001|Give the names of four crustaceans.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000040_000000|three.
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000040_000001|Why does the Crab have to change its shell?
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000041_000001|Why does it hide away at that time?
train-other-500/3681/111567/3681_111567_000042_000000|five.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000001_000000|CHAPTER two.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000003_000000|As the flood, pouring into the valley, sweeps everything before it, the people, rushing to seek vengeance, forced every one they met to join them.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000003_000001|No Egyptian from whom death had snatched a loved one failed to follow the swelling torrent, which increased till hundreds became thousands.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000003_000002|Men, women, and children, freedmen and slaves, winged by the ardent longing to bring death and destruction on the hated hebrews, darted to the remote quarter where they dwelt.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000004_000001|They were dashing forward to deal death and ruin and had had no occasion to search for weapons-they had been close at hand.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000007_000000|Usually at this hour herds of cattle and flocks of sheep were being watered or driven to pasture and the great yard before his house was filled with cattle, servants of both sexes, carts, and agricultural implements.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000007_000001|The owner usually overlooked the departure of the flocks and herds, and the mob had marked him and his family for the first victims of their fury.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000008_000000|The swiftest of the avengers had now reached his extensive farm buildings, among them Hornecht, captain of the archers, brother in law of the old astrologer.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000008_000001|House and barns were brightly illumined by the first light of the young day.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000008_000002|A stalwart smith kicked violently on the stout door; but the unbolted sides yielded so easily that he was forced to cling to the door post to save himself from falling.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000008_000003|Others, Hornecht among them, pressed past him into the yard. What did this mean?
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000009_000000|Had some new spell been displayed to attest the power of the Hebrew leader Mesu, who had brought such terrible plagues on the land,--and of his God.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000010_000000|The yard was absolutely empty.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000010_000002|The carts and wagons, too, had vanished.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000010_000003|The lowing, bleating throng which the priests had imagined to be the souls of the damned was the Hebrew host, departing by night from their old home with all their flocks under the guidance of Moses.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000011_000000|The captain of the archers dropped his sword, and a spectator might have believed that the sight was a pleasant surprise to him; but his neighbor, a clerk from the king's treasure house, gazed around the empty space with the disappointed air of a man who has been defrauded.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000012_000000|The flood of schemes and passions, which had surged so high during the night, ebbed under the clear light of day.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000012_000001|Even the soldier's quickly awakened wrath had long since subsided into composure.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000012_000002|The populace might have wreaked their utmost fury on the other hebrews, but not upon Nun, whose son, hosea, had been his comrade in arms, one of the most distinguished leaders in the army, and an intimate family friend.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000012_000003|Had he thought of him and foreseen that his father's dwelling would be first attacked, he would never have headed the mob in their pursuit of vengeance; nay, he bitterly repented having forgotten the deliberate judgment which befitted his years.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000013_000000|While many of the throng began to plunder and destroy Nun's deserted home, men and women came to report that not a soul was to be found in any of the neighboring dwellings.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000014_000001|Indeed, many knew him, he was a money lender and when the rest of his nation had set forth on their pilgrimage, he had concealed himself, hoping to pursue his dishonest calling and sustain no loss.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000015_000002|Nobody knew who had done this first bloody deed; too many had dashed forward at once.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000017_000000|The burning embers brought by some frantic women were extinguished and trampled out; the more prudent warned them of the peril that would menace their own homes and the whole city of Tanis, if the strangers' quarter should be fired.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000018_000000|So the Hebrews' dwellings escaped the flames; but as the sun mounted higher dense clouds of white dust shrouded the abodes they had forsaken, and where, only yesterday, thousands of people had possessed happy homes and numerous herds had quenched their thirst in fresh waters, the glowing soil was covered with rubbish and stone, shattered beams, and broken woodwork.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000018_000001|Dogs and cats left behind by their owners wandered among the ruins and were joined by women and children who lived in the beggars' hovels on the edge of the necropolis close by, and now, holding their hands over their mouths, searched amid the stifling dust and rubbish for any household utensil or food which might have been left by the fugitives and overlooked by the mob.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000019_000001|He did not come to gloat over the spectacle of destruction, it was his nearest way from the necropolis to his home. Yet a satisfied smile hovered around his stern mouth as he noticed how thoroughly the people had performed their work.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000019_000002|His own purpose, it is true, had not been fulfilled, the leader of the fugitives had escaped their vengeance, but hate, though never sated, can yet be gratified. Even the smallest pangs of an enemy are a satisfaction, and the priest had just come from the grieving Pharaoh.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000019_000003|He had not succeeded in releasing him entirely from the bonds of the Hebrew magician, but he had loosened them.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000021_000000|Pharaoh had uttered them, and the entreaty had been addressed neither to old Rui, the chief priest, nor to himself, the only persons who could possess the privilege of blessing the monarch, nay-but to the most atrocious wretch that breathed, to the foreigner the Hebrew, Mesu, whom he hated more than any other man on earth.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000022_000000|"Bless me too!"
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000022_000001|The pious entreaty, which wells so trustingly from the human heart in the hour of anguish, had pierced his soul like a dagger. It had seemed as if such a petition, uttered by the royal lips to such a man, had broken the crozier in the hand of the whole body of Egyptian priests, stripped the panther skin from their shoulders, and branded with shame the whole people whom he loved.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000023_000000|He knew full well that Moses was one of the wisest sages who had ever graduated from the Egyptian schools, knew that Pharaoh was completely under the thrall of this man who had grown up in the royal household and been a friend of his father Rameses the Great.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000024_000001|The destruction of this man and all his race was in his eyes the holiest, most urgent duty-to accomplish which he would not shrink even from assailing the throne. Nay, in his eyes Pharaoh Menephtah's shameful entreaty: "Bless me too!" had deprived him of all the rights of sovereignty.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000025_000000|Moses had murdered Pharaoh's first born son, but he and the aged chief priest of Amon held the weal or woe of the dead prince's soul in their hands,--a weapon sharp and strong, for he knew the monarch's weak and vacillating heart.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000025_000001|If the high priest of Amon-the only man whose authority surpassed his own-did not thwart him by some of the unaccountable whims of age, it would be the merest trifle to force Pharaoh to yield; but any concession made to day would be withdrawn to morrow, should the Hebrew succeed in coming between the irresolute monarch and his Egyptian advisers.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000025_000002|This very day the unworthy son of the great Rameses had covered his face and trembled like a timid fawn at the bare mention of the sorcerer's name, and to morrow he might curse him and pronounce a death sentence upon him.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000025_000003|Perhaps he might be induced to do this, and on the following one he would recall him and again sue for his blessing.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000026_000000|Down with such monarchs!
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000026_000001|Let the feeble reed on the throne be hurled into the dust!
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000027_000000|While the prophet was absorbed in these reflections a pair of ravens fluttered around his head and, croaking loudly, alighted on the dusty ruins of one of the shattered houses.
train-other-500/3681/116302/3681_116302_000027_000001|He involuntarily glanced around him and noted that they had perched on the corpse of a murdered Hebrew, lying half concealed amid the rubbish.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000001_000005|Now this Pekah held the government twenty years, and proved a wicked man and a transgressor.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000001_000007|And so much shall suffice to have related here concerning the king of Assyria.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000002_000001|Now Jotham the son of Uzziah reigned over the tribe of Judah in Jerusalem, being a citizen thereof by his mother, whose name was Jerusha.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000002_000002|This king was not defective in any virtue, but was religious towards God, and righteous towards men, and careful of the good of the city [for what part soever wanted to be repaired or adorned he magnificently repaired and adorned them].
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000002_000003|He also took care of the foundations of the cloisters in the temple, and repaired the walls that were fallen down, and built very great towers, and such as were almost impregnable; and if any thing else in his kingdom had been neglected, he took great care of it.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000003_000002|And there will be the den of the lions, and the mother of the young lions!
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000004_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000005_000002|He imitated the kings of Israel, and reared altars in Jerusalem, and offered sacrifices upon them to idols; to which also he offered his own son as a burnt offering, according to the practices of the Canaanites.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000005_000003|His other actions were also of the same sort.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000005_000006|He also carried Elkanah, the general of the troops of the tribe of Judah, into captivity.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000006_000001|Now there was one Obed, who was a prophet at that time in Samaria; he met the army before the city walls, and with a loud voice told them that they had gotten the victory not by their own strength, but by reason of the anger God had against king Ahaz.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000006_000002|And he complained that they were not satisfied with the good success they had had against him, but were so bold as to make captives out of their kinsmen the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000006_000003|He also gave them counsel to let them go home without doing them any harm, for that if they did not obey God herein, they should be punished.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000006_000005|So the forenamed men took the captives, and let them go, and took care of them, and gave them provisions, and sent them to their own country, without doing them any harm.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000006_000006|However, these four went along with them, and conducted them as far as Jericho, which is not far from Jerusalem, and returned to Samaria.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000007_000001|Hereupon king Ahaz, having been so thoroughly beaten by the Israelites, sent to Tiglath Pileser, king of the Assyrians, and sued for assistance from him in his war against the Israelites, and Syrians, and Damascenes, with a promise to send him much money; he sent him also great presents at the same time.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000007_000003|So he confessed that he owed him thanks for all he had done for him, and returned to Jerusalem.
train-other-500/3681/26514/3681_26514_000007_000005|And when he had offered these indignities to God, he died, having lived thirty six years, and of them reigned sixteen; and he left his son Hezekiah for his successor.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000001_000000|CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000002_000001|And, excited as the midshipman was, these ideas occurred to him while running along over the top of the down like cliff.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000003_000000|On looking back beyond the first boat's crew, the head of the second crew could be seen as they reached the top of the zigzag path, where the boatswain waited till the last man was up, and then gave the word for them to double after their fellows.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000005_000000|"It will be time enough to talk about that, Mr Gurr," said Archy rather breathlessly, "when we have found the place."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000006_000000|"But I thought you had found it, my lad!"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000008_000000|"But you think it's close here?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000010_000000|"Then if it's there, and those fellows have gone in, we'll find the way, and go in too."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000012_000000|"What's the matter, lad?--hurt?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000013_000000|"no
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000013_000001|The place is dark as pitch, and we have no lights."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000014_000001|Never mind the lights.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000014_000002|If it's light enough for them, it will be light enough for us, lad.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000014_000003|Let's find the way in, and that will be enough.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000014_000004|They won't show fight.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000014_000005|Let's get on, and we shall be marching them all out tied two and two before they're much older."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000015_000000|The party kept on along the rugged undulating top of the cliffs, till, after a careful inspection in all directions, Archy declared that they must now be over the cavern.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000017_000000|"You must find it now, my lads," he said.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000018_000000|"Yes, something like the mouths of the old quarries we have seen," added Archy.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000019_000000|"Then there's something of the sort down yonder," cried Dick, pointing to a spot where the ground seemed to have sunk down.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000020_000000|"Yes," cried Archy eagerly; "and that's the place.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000022_000000|"The grass."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000023_000000|"Well, we want to find smugglers, not grass, my lad."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000024_000000|"Yes, but don't you see that some one has gone over here lately.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000025_000000|"I can't, my lad.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000025_000001|Perhaps you can with your young eyes."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000027_000000|"Keep a sharp look out, then, and mind no one gets by."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000031_000001|Let me go first, my lad."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000032_000000|For answer the midshipman went down to the bottom of the rough steps, and stood over the trap door on the loose stones.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000000|"No, no, my lad," said Gurr kindly, as he joined him.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000001|"Too rough a job for you.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000002|I'll lead, and, hang it!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000003|I shall have to crawl.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000004|Not very good work for one's clothes.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000005|Come along, my lads.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000033_000006|You, Mr Raystoke, and four men stop back, and form the reserve, to take prisoner any one who tries to escape."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000034_000000|The men descended till every step was occupied, the little force extending from top to bottom.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000035_000000|"Stop a minute, Mr Gurr.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000035_000001|Let the bo's'n guard the entry here; I must go with you to act as guide."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000036_000000|"It aren't all passage, then, like this?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000037_000000|"No; it's a great open place supported by pillars, big enough to lose yourselves in.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000037_000001|But stop; that can't be the way, sir."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000039_000000|"But I do," cried Archy.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000039_000001|"There ought to be a trap door covered with stones leading down a place like a well."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000040_000000|"Yes; that's what we've come down."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000041_000000|"No, no, another.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000041_000001|I think it was down here."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000043_000000|"Right!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000043_000002|"Clear off more stones, my lads. No; stop!" he said.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000044_000000|"Yes, I know what you are thinking, Mr Gurr," said Archy.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000044_000001|"The men couldn't have shut themselves in there."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000045_000000|"Course not, my lad.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000046_000000|Then, thrusting in his head, and holding on by the rugged stones, he shouted into the hollow passage,--
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000047_000000|"Now then, my lads, out you come!"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000048_000000|A pause.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000050_000000|Still no reply.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000051_000000|"Come, come, my lads, no nonsense!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000051_000001|Surrender.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000051_000002|I don't want to use pistols and cutlashes to Englishmen.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000051_000003|You know the game's up. Surrender."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000052_000000|Still no reply.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000053_000000|"I don't think that hole goes in far, Mr Raystoke," whispered the master.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000053_000001|"There's no echo like, and it sounds smothered." Then aloud,--
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000054_000000|"Now, then, is it surrender?
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000054_000001|Oh, very well; I've got some nice little round messengers to send in after you."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000055_000000|He drew a pistol from his belt and cocked it, winking at Archy as he did so.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000056_000000|He pointed the mouth of the pistol downward, and drew the trigger, and in the semi darkness below the overhanging brambles and clematis there was a dull flash, the report sounded smothered, and the place was filled with the dank, heavy scented smoke.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000057_000002|Here, one of you, reload that.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000057_000003|You, Dick, follow me.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000059_000000|"Hi!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000059_000002|Do you surrender?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000060_000000|There was not a sound, and, after a momentary pause, the master spat in his fist, gripped his cutlass, went down on all fours, after driving his hat on tightly, and crawled into the hole, followed by Dick.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000061_000000|"Keep a cheery heart on it, lad," said one of the men just before to Dick.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000061_000001|"We'll fetch you out and bury you at sea."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000062_000000|Dick drove his elbow into the man's chest for an answer, grinned as he felt the point of his cutlass, and dived into the hole, while the boatswain and his men stood waiting eagerly, ready to plunge forward at the first sound of a scuffle.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000063_000000|Archy peered in at the dark passage, his heart beating as he listened to the noise made by the two men crawling in, and the last of the two had hardly disappeared when there was a shout, a scuffle, and the boatswain plunged in.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000064_000000|"All right!" they heard Gurr say.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000064_000001|"I've got him.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000064_000002|Hold still, you varmint, or I'll cut your ears off.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000064_000003|Here, Dick, get by me, and go forrard if you can."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000066_000000|"Can't get no farther.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000066_000001|All choked up."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000067_000000|"All right, then, but make sure."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000068_000000|"Oh, I'm sure enough," said Dick.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000068_000001|"It's all a stopper here."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000069_000000|"Then out you come, my lad," said the master; and the next minute his legs were seed as he backed out, dragging evidently some one after him who was resisting.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000070_000000|"Here, Dick," came in smothered tones.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000072_000000|"Says he won't come.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000074_000000|"Yah!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000076_000000|"Hullo!" cried Archy.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000076_000001|"It's my turn now, Ram;" but he repented his words directly, as he saw the reproachful look the boy darted at him. Then he forgot all directly, as he exclaimed,--
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000077_000000|"I see, Mr Gurr, I see!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000078_000000|Unable to contain himself, Ram thoroughly endorsed the midshipman's words by giving an angry stamp upon the bottom of the hole.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000079_000000|"That's it!" cried Gurr.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000080_000000|"No way out, Mr Raystoke, is there?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000081_000000|"no"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000082_000000|"Then we've got 'em trapped safe this time," said Gurr, as the door was thrown open.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000083_000000|There was a murmur of excitement among the men, and then Gurr leaned down over the hole, put his hand to his mouth, and shouted,--
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000084_000000|"Below there!
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000084_000001|In the King's name-surrender!"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000085_000000|His words went rolling and echoing through the place, but there was no reply.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000086_000000|"Once more, my lads, to save bloodshed, will you surrender?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000087_000000|No reply.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000088_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000088_000003|You're all right here; with one you ought to be able to hold this."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000089_000000|"And the prisoner?"
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000090_000000|"No; we'll take him with us.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000090_000001|Here, lash his hands behind him, and tie his legs together.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000090_000002|We'll lay him down to have a nap somewhere yonder down below.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000090_000003|That's right," he continued, as a man produced a piece of line, and firmly secured the boy, who was lowered down to one of the men who had descended, laid on the stones in a corner at the bottom; and then, after giving the word to be ready, Gurr braced himself up.
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000091_000000|"You'll stop aside me, Mr Raystoke, and try and guide."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000092_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3681/96617/3681_96617_000093_000000|"You understand, bo's'n, down with the first who tries to escape up the hole here."
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000001_000000|THE LAND OF BILLOWING CLOUDS
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000002_000001|A thousand slews, a hundred lakes bordered with rippling barley or tinkling bells of the flax, Claire passed.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000002_000002|She had left the occasional groves of oak and poplar and silver birch, and come out on the treeless Great Plains.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000003_000000|She had learned to call the slews "pugholes," and to watch for ducks at twilight.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000004_000000|She had learned that what had seemed rudeness in garage men and hotel clerks was often a resentful reflection of her own Eastern attitude that she was necessarily superior to a race she had been trained to call "common people." If she spoke up frankly, they made her one of their own, and gave her companionable aid.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000005_000000|For two days of sunshine and drying mud she followed a road flung straight across flat wheatlands, then curving among low hills.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000005_000001|Often there were no fences; she was so intimately in among the grain that the fenders of the car brushed wheat stalks, and she became no stranger, but a part of all this vast horizoned land.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000005_000002|She forgot that she was driving, as she let the car creep on, while she was transported by Armadas of clouds, prairie clouds, wisps of vapor like a ribbed beach, or mounts of cumulus swelling to gold washed snowy peaks.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000006_000000|The friendliness of the bearing earth gave her a calm that took no heed of passing hours.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000007_000000|Claire had discovered America, and she felt stronger, and all her days were colored with the sun
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000008_000000|She had discovered, too, that she could adventure.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000008_000001|No longer was she haunted by the apprehension that had whispered to her as she had left Minneapolis.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000009_000000|Her father was easily tired, but he drowsed through the early afternoons when a none too digestible small town lunch was as lead within him. Despite the beauty of the land and the joy of pushing on, they both had things to endure.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000010_000001|Her eyes felt greasy from the food, or smarted with the sun glare.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000011_000001|But she was joyous till noon; and with mid afternoon a new strength came which, as rose crept above the golden haze of dust, deepened into serene meditation.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000012_000000|And she was finding the one secret of long distance driving-namely, driving; keeping on, thinking by fifty mile units, not by the ten mile stretches of Long Island runs; and not fretting over anything whatever. She seemed charmed; if she had a puncture-why, she put on the spare.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000012_000001|If she ran out of gas-why, any passing driver would lend her a gallon. Nothing, it seemed, could halt her level flight across the giant land.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000013_000000|She rarely lost her way.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000014_000000|Her father's occasional musing talk kept her from loneliness.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000014_000001|He was a good touring companion.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000014_000002|Motoring is not the best occasion for epigrams, satire, and the Good One You Got Off at the Lambs' Club last night.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000014_000003|Such verbiage on motor trips invariably results in the mysterious finding of the corpse of a strange man, well dressed, hidden beside the road. Claire and her father mumbled, "Good farmhouse-brick," or "Nice view," and smiled, and were for miles as silent as the companionable sky.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000015_000000|She thought of the people she knew, especially of Jeff Saxton.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000015_000001|But she could not clearly remember his lean earnest face.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000015_000002|Between her and Jeff were sweeping sunny leagues.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000015_000003|But she was not lonely.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000015_000004|Certainly she was not lonely for a young man with a raincoat, a cat, and an interest in Japan.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000016_000000|No singer after a first concert has felt more triumphant than Claire when she crossed her first state line; rumbled over the bridge across the Red River into North Dakota.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000016_000002|And when she found a good hotel in Fargo and had a real bath, she felt that by her own efforts she had earned the right to enjoy it.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000017_000000|mr Boltwood caught her enthusiasm.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000018_000000|In front of the Royal Palace, Pictures, four Great Acts Vaudeville four, was browsing a small, beetle like, tin covered car.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000019_000000|"Dad!
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000019_000001|Look!
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000019_000002|I'm sure-yes, of course, there's his suitcase-that's the car of that nice boy-don't you remember?--the one that pulled us out of the mud at-I don't remember the name of the place.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000019_000003|Apparently he's keeping going.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000019_000004|I remember; he's headed for Seattle, too.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000019_000005|We'll look for him in the theater.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000020_000001|She twinkled her whiskers at Claire, and purred to a stroking hand.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000021_000001|In the second row she saw Milt's stiffish, rope colored hair-surprisingly smooth above an astoundingly clean new tan shirt of mercerized silk.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000022_000000|He laughed furiously at the dialogue between Pete Rosenheim and Larose Bettina, though it contained the cheese joke, the mother in law joke, and the joke about the wife rifling her husband's pockets.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000023_000000|"Our young friend seems to have enviable youthful spirits," commented mr Boltwood.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000024_000000|"Now, no superiority!
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000024_000002|Instead of being taken by Jeff Saxton, and having the humor, oh! so articulately explained!"
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000025_000000|The pictures were resumed; the film which, under ten or twelve different titles, Claire had already seen, even though Brooklyn Heights does not devote Saturday evening to the movies.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000025_000002|Claire had seen too often.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000025_000003|She dragged her father back to the hotel, sent him to bed, and entered her room-to find a telegram upon the bureau.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000026_000000|She had sent her friends a list of the places at which she would be likely to stop.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000026_000001|The message was from Jeff Saxton, in Brooklyn.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000027_000001|GEOFFREY."
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000028_000000|She held the telegram, flipping her fingers against one end of it as she debated.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000028_000001|She remembered how the wide world had flowed toward her over the hood of the Gomez all day.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000028_000002|She wrote in answer:
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000029_000000|"Awful perils of road, two punctures, split infinitive, eggs at lunch questionable, but struggle on."
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000030_000001|She sat on the foot of his bed and tried to sound dutiful.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000030_000003|But isn't it taking your mind away from business?"
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000031_000001|Anyway, we'll try it a few days more."
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000032_000000|"I fancy we can stand up under the strain and perils.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000032_000001|I think we can persuade some of these big farmers to come to the rescue if we encounter any walruses or crocodiles among the wheat.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000032_000002|And I have a feeling that if we ever get stuck, our friend of the Teal bug will help us."
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000033_000000|"Probably never see him again.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000033_000001|He'll skip on ahead of us."
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000034_000000|"Of course.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000034_000001|We haven't laid an eye on him, along the road.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000034_000002|He must have gotten into Fargo long before we did.
train-other-500/3691/178103/3691_178103_000034_000003|Now tomorrow I think----"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000000_000000|CHAPTER twelve
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000001_000000|THE WONDERS OF NATURE WITH ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000002_000000|"Hello!" said Milt.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000004_000000|"How dee do," said mr Boltwood.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000005_000000|"This is so nice!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000005_000001|Where's your car?
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000005_000002|I hope nothing's happened," glowed Claire.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000006_000001|It's back here from the road a piece.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000006_000002|Camp there tonight.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000006_000003|Reason I stopped---- Struck me you've never done any mountain driving, and there's some pretty good climbs in the Park; slick road, but we go up to almost nine thousand feet.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000006_000004|And cold mornings.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000006_000005|Thought I'd tip you off to some driving tricks-if you'd like me to."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000007_000001|Very grateful----"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000008_000000|"Then I'll tag after you tomorrow, and speak my piece."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000009_000000|"So jolly you're going through the Park."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000010_000000|"Yes, thought might as well.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000010_000001|What the guide books call 'Wonders of Nature.' Only wonder of nature I ever saw in Schoenstrom was my friend Mac trying to think he was soused after a case of near beer.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000010_000002|Well---- See you tomorrow."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000011_000000|Not once had he smiled.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000011_000001|His tone had been impersonal.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000011_000002|He vaulted the fence and tramped away.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000012_000000|When they drove out of town, in the morning, they found Milt waiting by the road, and he followed them till noon.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000012_000001|By urgent request, he shared a lunch, and lectured upon going down long grades in first or second speed, to save brakes; upon the use of the retarded spark and the slipped clutch in climbing.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000012_000002|His bug was beside the Gomez in the line-up at the Park gate, when the United States Army came to seal one's firearms, and to inquire on which mountain one intended to be killed by defective brakes.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000012_000003|He was just behind her all the climb up to Mammoth Hot Springs.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000013_000000|When she paused for water to cool the boiling radiator, the bug panted up, and with the first grin she had seen on his face since Dakota Milt chuckled, "The Teal is a grand car for mountains.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000014_000000|Claire and her father stayed at the chain of hotels through the Park. Milt was always near them, but not at the hotels.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000014_000001|He patronized one of the chains of permanent camps.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000016_000000|Because he was afraid that Claire would find him intrusive, Milt was grave in her presence.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000016_000001|He couldn't respond either to her enthusiasm about canyon and colored pool-or to her rage about the tourists who, she alleged, preferred freak museum pieces to plain beauty; who never admired a view unless it was labeled by a signpost and megaphoned by a guide as something they ought to admire-and tell the Folks Back Home about.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000017_000000|When she tried to express this social rage to Milt he merely answered uneasily, "Yes, I guess there's something to that."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000018_000000|She was, he pondered, so darn particular.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000018_000002|No thanks; much obliged, but guessed he'd better not accept her invitation to dinner.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000019_000000|If in this Milt was veracious, he was rather fickle to his newly discovered friend; for while Claire was finishing dinner, a solemn young man was watching her through a window.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000020_000000|She was at a table for six.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000020_000001|She was listening to a man of thirty in riding breeches, a stock, and a pointed nose, who bowed to her every time he spoke, which was so frequently that his dining gave the impression of a man eating grape fruit on a merry go round.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000020_000003|What's he got his neck bandaged for?
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000021_000000|But now Milt yearned, "He does look swell.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000021_000001|Wish I could get away with those things.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000021_000002|Wouldn't I look like a fool with my knees buttoned up, though!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000021_000003|And there's two other fellows in dress suits.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000021_000005|Gee, it must be awful where you've got so many suits of trick clothes you don't know which one to wear.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000022_000001|He doesn't need any piston rings, that lad.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000022_000005|Lord, how I'd be out of it.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000022_000006|I wish----"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000000|Milt made a toothpick out of a match, decided that toothpicks were inelegant in his tragic mood, and longed: "Never did see her among her own kind of folks till now.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000001|I wish I could jabber about music and stuff. I'll learn it.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000002|I will!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000003|I can!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000004|I picked up autos in three months.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000005|I---- Milt, you're a dub.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000006|I wonder can they be talking French, maybe, or Wop, or something?
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000023_000007|I could get onto the sedan styles in highbrow talk as long as it was in American.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000024_000000|"I could probably spring linen collar stuff about, 'Really a delightful book, so full of delightful characters,' if I stuck by the rhetoric books long enough.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000024_000002|Still, by golly, didn't I pick up Dutch-German-like a mice?
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000024_000004|You did not!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000024_000005|You can talk Plattdeutsch something grand, as long as you keep the verbs and nouns in American.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000025_000000|"Now look at Percy!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000025_000002|I never could pull that finger bowl stuff; pinning your ears back and jiu jitsing the fried chicken, and then doing a high dive into a little dish that ain't-that isn't either a wash bowl or real good lemonade.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000025_000003|He's a perfect lady, Percy is.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000026_000000|"Lookit him bow and scrape-asking her something---- Rats, he's going out in the lobby with her.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000026_000002|But---- Oh thunder, he's all right.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000026_000004|I never could mingle with that bunch. I'd be web footed and butter fingered.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000026_000006|Now if I was following her, I'd never see anybody but her; rest of the folks could all bob their heads silly, and I'd never see one blame thing except that funny little soft spot at the back of her neck.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000028_000000|Ah, 'tis far heaven my awed heart seeks When I behold those mighty peaks.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000029_000000|Milt could hear him commenting, "Doesn't that just get the feeling of the great open, Miss Boltwood?"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000031_000001|She cried, "Oh, mr Daggett!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000031_000002|Just a moment!" She left Breeches, ran down to Milt. He was frightened.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000031_000003|Was he going to get what he deserved for eavesdropping?
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000032_000000|She was almost whispering.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000032_000001|"Save me from our friend up on the porch," she implored.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000033_000000|He couldn't believe it.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000033_000001|But he took a chance.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000034_000000|"So nice of you-just a little way, perhaps?" she sang out.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000035_000000|They were silent till he got up the nerve to admire, "Glad you found some people you knew in the hotel."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000036_000000|"But I didn't."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000037_000000|"Oh, I thought your friend in the riding pants was chummy."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000038_000000|"So did I!" She rather snorted.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000039_000000|"Well, he's a nice looking lad.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000039_000001|I did admire those pants.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000039_000002|I never could wear anything like that."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000040_000000|"I should hope not-at dinner!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000040_000001|The creepy jack ass, I don't believe he's ever been on a horse in his life!
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000041_000000|"Oh, that's it.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000041_000001|Breeches, not pants."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000042_000000|"--last word in smartness.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000042_000001|Overdressing is just ten degrees worse than underdressing."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000043_000000|"Oh, I don't know.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000043_000001|Take this sloppy old blue suit of mine----"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000044_000000|"It's perfectly nice and simple, and quite well cut.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000044_000001|You probably had a clever tailor."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000045_000000|"I had.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000045_000001|He lives in Chicago or New York, I believe."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000046_000000|"Really?
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000047_000000|"Never been there.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000047_000001|This tailor is a busy boy.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000048_000000|"I see.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000048_000001|Ready mades.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000048_000002|Cheer up.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000048_000003|That's where Henry b Boltwood gets most of his clothes.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000049_000000|"He seemed to have soul in large chunks.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000049_000001|He seemed to talk pretty painlessly.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000049_000002|I had a hunch you and he were discussing sculpture, anyway. Maybe Rodin."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000050_000000|"What do you know about Rodin?"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000051_000000|"Articles in the magazines.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000051_000002|He said it chucklingly.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000052_000000|"You're perfectly right.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000052_000002|Then he slickered his hair at me, and mooed, 'Is it not wonderful to see all these strange manifestations of the secrets of Nature!' and I said, 'Is it?' and he went on, 'One feels that if one could but meet a sympathetic lady here, one's cup of rejoicing in untrammeled nature----' Honest, Milt, mr Daggett, I mean, he did talk like that.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000052_000003|Been reading books by optimistic lady authors.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000052_000004|And one looked at me, one did, as if one would be willing to hold my hand, if I let one.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000053_000000|"He invited me to come out on the porch and give the double o to handsome mountains as illuminated by terrestrial bodies, and I felt so weak in the presence of his conceit that I couldn't refuse.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000053_000002|And then I saw you!"
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000054_000000|Through all her tirade they had stood close together, her face visibly eager in the glow from the hotel; and Milt had grown taller.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000054_000001|But he responded, "I'm afraid I might have been just as bad.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000054_000002|I haven't even reached the riding breeches stage in evolution.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000054_000003|Maybe never will."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000055_000001|You won't.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000056_000000|"Oh, I'm already rich.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000056_000001|It shows.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000056_000002|Waitress down at the camp asked me whose car I was driving through."
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000057_000000|"I know what I wanted to say.
train-other-500/3691/178109/3691_178109_000057_000001|Since you won't be our guest, will you be our host-I mean, as far as welcoming us?
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000000_000000|"That couldn't have been Pinky!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000000_000001|Why!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000000_000002|Why, the car he had was red," cried Claire.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000001_000000|"Sure.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000001_000001|The idiot's got hold of some barn paint somewhere, and tried to daub it over.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000001_000002|He's trying to make a getaway with it!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000002_000000|"We'll chase him.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000002_000001|In my car."
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000003_000000|"Don't you mind?"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000004_000000|"Of course not.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000004_000001|I do not give up my objections to the roughing philosophy, but---- You were right about these shoes---- Oh, don't leave me behind!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000004_000002|Want to go along!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000005_000000|These sentences she broke, scattered, and totally lost as she scrambled after him, down the rocks.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000005_000001|He halted.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000005_000002|His lips trembled.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000005_000003|He picked her up, carried her down, hesitated a second while his face-curiously foreshortened as she looked up at it from his big arms-twisted with emotion.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000005_000004|He set her down gently, and she climbed into the Gomez.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000006_000000|It seemed to her that he drove rather too carefully, too slowly.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000006_000001|He took curves and corners evenly.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000006_000002|His face was as empty of expression, as unmelodramatic, as that of a jitney driver.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000006_000003|Then she looked at the speedometer.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000006_000004|He was making forty eight miles an hour down hill and forty to thirty on upgrades.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000007_000002|Milt merely sat more erect, looked more bland and white browed and steady.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000008_000000|The bug fled before them on a winding shelf road.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000008_000001|It popped up a curve, then slowed down.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000008_000002|"He took it too fast.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000008_000003|Poor Pink!" said Milt.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000009_000000|They gained on that upslope, but as the road dropped, the bug started forward desperately.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000009_000002|Pinky passed it so carelessly that, with crawling spine, Claire saw the outer wheels of the bug on the very edge of the road-the edge of a fifty foot drop. Milt went easily past the halted car-even waved his hand to the waiting driver.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000010_000000|This did not seem to Claire at all like the chase of a thief.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000010_000002|The bug headed directly toward the edge of the road, shot out, went down the embankment, over and over.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000010_000003|It lay absurdly upside-down, its muffler and brake rods showing in place of the seat and hood.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000011_000000|Milt quite carefully stopped the Gomez.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000011_000001|The day was still-just a breathing of running water in the deep gully.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000011_000002|The topsy turvy car below them was equally still; no sight of Pinky, no sound.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000000|The gauche boy gone from him, Milt took her hand, pressed it to his cheek.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000001|"Claire!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000002|You're here!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000003|You might have gone with him, to make room---- Oh, I was bullying you because I was bullying myself!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000004|Trying to make myself tell you-but oh, you know, you know!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000005|Can you stand going down there?
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000012_000006|I hate to have you, but you may be needed."
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000013_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000013_000001|I'll come," she whispered.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000014_000000|Their crawl down the rock rolling embankment seemed desperately slow.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000015_000000|"Wait here," bade Milt, at the bottom.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000016_000000|She looked away from the grotesque car.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000016_000001|She had seen that one side of it was crumpled like paper in an impatient hand.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000017_000000|Milt was stooping, looking under; seemed to be saying something.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000017_000001|When he came back, he did not speak.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000017_000002|He wiped his forehead.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000017_000003|"Come.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000017_000004|We'll climb back up.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000017_000005|Nothing to do, now.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000018_000000|He gave her his hand up the embankment, drove to the nearest house, telephoned to dr Beach.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000000|Milt returned to her.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000001|"There is one thing for you to do.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000002|Before he died, Pinky asked me to go get his wife-Dolores, I think it is.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000003|She's up in a side canyon, few miles away.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000004|She may want a woman around.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000005|Beach will take care of-of him.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000019_000006|Can you come?"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000020_000000|"Of course.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000020_000001|Oh, Milt, I didn't----"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000021_000000|"I didn't----"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000022_000000|"--mean you were a caveman!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000022_000001|You're my big brother!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000024_000000|They drove five miles along the highway, then up a trail where the Gomez brushed the undergrowth on each side as it desperately dug into moss, rain gutted ruts, loose rocks, all on a vicious slant which seemed to push the car down again.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000024_000001|Beside them, the mountain woods were sacredly quiet, with fern and lily and green lit spaces.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000024_000002|They came out in a clearing, before dusk.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000024_000003|Beside the clearing was a brook, with a crude cradle-sign of a not very successful gold miner.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000024_000004|Before a log cabin, in a sway sided rocker, creaked a tall, white, flabby woman, once nearly beautiful, now rubbed at the edges.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000024_000005|She rose, huddling her wrapper about her bosom, as they drove into the clearing and picked their way through stumps and briars.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000025_000000|"Where you folks think you're going?" she whimpered.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000027_000001|I been 'most scared to death.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000027_000003|Got a shotgun, but if anybody come, I guess they'd take it away from me.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000029_000000|"Course not.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000029_000003|Or than there's flour or pork in the house!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000030_000000|The woman's voice was rising.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000030_000001|Her gestures were furious.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000030_000002|Claire and Milt stood close, their hands slipping together.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000031_000002|Lying hound-worst talker in ten counties!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000032_000000|Claire thought of the still hand-so still-that she had seen under the edge of the upturned car.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000032_000001|She tried to speak, while the woman raved on, wrath feeding wrath:
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000033_000000|"Thank God, I ain't really his wife!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000033_000002|mr Kloh's got a fine job with the mill, at North Yakima.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000033_000003|Oh, I was a fool!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000034_000001|He's dead!" wailed Claire.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000035_000001|Pinky?
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000035_000002|Oh-my-God!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000036_000000|She threw herself on the ground; she kicked her heels; she tore at her loosely caught, tarnished blonde hair.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000037_000000|Claire knelt by her.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000037_000001|"You mustn't-you mustn't-we'll----"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000038_000000|"Damn you, with your smug faced husband there, and your fine auto and all, butting into poor folks' troubles!" shrieked d lorus.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000039_000001|Her shoulders were dejected.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000039_000002|Milt pleaded, "Let's hike out.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000039_000004|Dirty dishes---- And gin bottles on the floor!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000040_000000|"Desert her?
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000040_000001|When she needs me so?" Claire started forward, but Milt caught her sleeve, and admired, "You were right!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000040_000002|You've got more nerve than I have!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000041_000000|"no
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000041_000001|I wouldn't dare if---- I'm glad you're here with me!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000042_000001|Him that was so lively!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000042_000002|And he was so sweet a lover, oh, so sweet.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000042_000003|He was a swell fellow; my, he could just make you laugh and cry, the way he talked; and he was so educated, and he played the vi'lin-he could do anything-and athaletic-he would have made me rich.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000042_000005|I just want to be alone and think of him.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000043_000001|Dusk had sneaked up on them; the clearing was full of swimming grayness, and between the woman's screams, the woods crackled.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000044_000000|"Yes," sighed Claire at last, "perhaps we'd better go."
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000045_000000|"If you go, I'll kill myself!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000045_000003|Oh, so good.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000047_000000|Milt sauntered toward her.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000048_000000|"Don't you get flip, young man!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000048_000001|I mean it!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000048_000002|And I'll kill you----"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000049_000001|Here!
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000049_000002|Gimme that knife!"
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000051_000000|Claire herded her into the cabin.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000051_000001|"We'll take you to your husband-tonight.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000051_000002|Come, let's wash up, and I'll help you put on your prettiest dress."
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000052_000000|"Honest, will you?" cried the woman, in high spirits, all grief put aside.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000052_000002|He'll take me back.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000052_000003|I know how to handle him.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000052_000004|That'll be swell, going back in an automobile.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000052_000005|And I got a new hair comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000053_000000|In the light of the lantern Milt had kindled, Claire looked questioningly at him.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000053_000001|Both of them shrugged.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000053_000002|Claire promised, "Yes. Tonight.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000053_000003|If we can make it."
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000054_000001|Gee, I'll be awfully scared of him. I swear, I'll wash his dishes and everything.
train-other-500/3691/178118/3691_178118_000054_000002|He's a good man.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000001_000000|Some days later Prince Rameses was summoned before the face of his most worthy mother, Nikotris, who was the second wife of the pharaoh, but now the greatest lady in Egypt.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000001_000001|The gods were not mistaken when they called her to be the mother of a pharaoh.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000001_000002|She was a tall person, of rather full habit, and in spite of forty years was still beautiful. There was in her eyes, face, and whole form such majesty that even when she went unattended, in the modest garb of a priestess, people bowed their heads to her.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000002_000001|She sat on an inlaid armchair under a palm tree.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000002_000002|At her feet, on a small stool, lay a little dog; on the other side knelt a black slave woman with a fan.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000002_000003|The pharaoh's wife wore a muslin robe embroidered with gold, and on her wig a circlet in the form of a lotus, ornamented with jewels.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000005_000000|"Two days ago, mother."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000006_000001|But to day we both have time, and I can listen."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000007_000000|"Thy speech, mother, acts on me as a strong wind of the desert, and I have no longer courage to present my petition."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000008_000000|"Then surely it is a question of money."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000009_000000|Rameses dropped his head; he was confused.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000011_000000|"Fifteen talents-"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000012_000000|"O gods!" cried the lady, "but a couple of days ago ten talents were paid thee from the treasury.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000012_000001|Go, girl, into the garden; thou must be tired," said she to the black slave; and when alone with her son she asked,--
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000015_000001|But I promised a reward to the army, and-I am unable to pay it."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000016_000000|The queen looked at him with calm loftiness.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000018_000000|"She pleased me.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000018_000001|There is not such a beauty among thy serving maidens, mother, nor even among the wives of his holiness."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000019_000000|"But she is a Jewess!"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000020_000000|"Be not prejudiced, mother, I beg of thee.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000021_000000|The worthy lady laughed.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000023_000001|"Besides, where are the Jews?
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000023_000002|Three centuries ago they left Egypt, and to day they form a little state, ridiculous and priest governed."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000024_000000|"I see," answered the worthy lady, frowning slightly, "that thy mistress is not losing time.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000024_000001|Be careful, Rameses; remember, that their leader was Messu (Moses), that traitor priest whom we curse to this day in our temples.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000024_000003|And if they give themselves even to hostile leaders, it is to use them for their policy or to kill them."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000025_000000|"Believe me, mother, that it is our priests who spread all these reports.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000026_000000|The queen rose from the armchair, and crossing her arms on her breast, gazed at her son with amazement.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000027_000000|"What they tell me is true then, thou art an enemy of our priests. Thou, their favorite pupil!"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000028_000000|"I must have the traces of their canes to this day on my shoulders," said Rameses.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000029_000000|"But thy grandfather and my father, Amenhotep, was a high priest, and possessed extensive power in this country."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000031_000000|"He was brought to his position by thy grandfather, the holy Amenhotep."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000032_000000|"And I will cast him down from it."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000035_000000|"How is that?" interrupted the prince, restraining himself with difficulty from an outburst.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000036_000000|"I cannot recognize my own son.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000036_000002|The dynasty in thy person will be like a Nile boat without a rudder.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000036_000004|Who will be thy eye in the Lower and the Upper Country, who in foreign lands?
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000036_000005|But the pharaoh must see everything, whatever it be, on which fall the divine rays of Osiris."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000037_000000|"The priests will be my servants, not my ministers."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000038_000000|"They are the most faithful servants.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000039_000000|"To the priests?"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000040_000000|"To the pharaoh and the state!" interrupted the lady.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000040_000002|Knowest thou that were it not for the liberality of the priests, who on behalf of the treasury even take real jewels from the gods and put false ones in their places, the property of the pharaoh would be now in the hands of Phoenicians?"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000041_000000|"One fortunate war would overflow our treasury as the increase of the Nile does our fields."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000042_000002|Occupy thyself, I beg, with thy Greek regiments, get rid of the Jew girl as quickly as may be, and leave politics to us."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000043_000000|"Why must I put away Sarah?"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000044_000002|They know that it is necessary to overlook much in an heir to the throne, especially when he has such a stormy character.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000044_000003|But time pacifies everything to the glory of the dynasty and the profit of Egypt."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000045_000000|The prince meditated; then he said suddenly,--
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000046_000000|"I cannot count, therefore, on money from the treasury."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000047_000000|"Thou canst not in any case.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000047_000001|The grand secretary would have been forced to stop payment to day had I not given him fourteen talents sent from Tyre to me."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000049_000000|"Put away the Jewess, and beg the priests.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000050_000000|"Never!
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000051_000000|The lady shook her head.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000052_000001|But I say that thou must give great security, and the Phoenicians, when once thy creditors, will not let thee go.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000052_000002|They surpass the Jews in treachery."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000054_000000|"We shall see.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000054_000001|I wish sincerely to help thee, but I have not the means," said the lady, sadly.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000057_000001|What are they?"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000058_000000|She stroked his face.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000059_000000|"Not now-not yet.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000059_000001|Thou art free to day, like every young noble in the country; then make use of thy freedom.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000060_000000|"And what?"
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000061_000001|In every case political wisdom suggests to me that thy wife should be a priest's daughter."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000062_000000|"Perhaps Herhor's?" said the prince, with a laugh.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000063_000000|"What would there be blamable in that?
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000064_000000|"And would she consent to occupy the place of the Jewess?" asked Rameses, ironically.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000066_000000|"I kiss thy feet, mother, and I go," said the prince, seizing his own head.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000069_000000|"Men have witnessed the death of pharaohs who had reigned a few months only, and the fall of dynasties which had governed nine nations."
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000070_000000|"Yes, for those pharaohs forgot the sword for the distaff," retorted Rameses.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000071_000000|He bowed and went out.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000073_000000|She ran to the statue of the goddess, knelt, and sprinkling incense from India on the coals, began to pray,--
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000074_000001|O Isis, who givest birth to serpents, crocodiles, and ostriches, may thy name be thrice praised.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000074_000002|O Isis, who preservest grains of wheat from robber whirlwinds, and the bodies of our fathers from the destructive toil of time, O Isis, take pity on my son and preserve him!
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000075_000001|Above her at that moment a low whisper was audible,--
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000077_000000|The worthy lady sprang up, and full of astonishment looked around.
train-other-500/3698/256231/3698_256231_000077_000001|But there was no one in the chamber.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000002_000000|I stood alone on the bank of the ugliest stream in England.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000003_000000|The moonlight, pouring its unclouded radiance over open space, failed to throw a beauty not their own on those sluggish waters.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000003_000002|On the side from which I was looking at the river, the neglected trees grew so close together that they were undermining their own lives, and poisoning each other.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000003_000003|On the opposite bank, a rank growth of gigantic bulrushes hid the ground beyond, except where it rose in hillocks, and showed its surface of desert sand spotted here and there by mean patches of health.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000003_000004|A repellent river in itself, a repellent river in its surroundings, a repellent river even in its name.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000003_000006|Neither popular tradition nor antiquarian research could explain what the name meant, or could tell when the name had been given.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000003_000008|But I was pleased to see The Loke again. The ugly river, like the woodland glade, looked at me with the face of an old friend.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000004_000000|On my right hand side rose the venerable timbers of the water mill.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000005_000000|The wheel was motionless, at that time of night; and the whole structure looked-as remembered objects will look, when we see them again after a long interval-smaller than I had supposed it to be.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000005_000001|Otherwise, I could discover no change in the mill.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000005_000002|But the wooden cottage attached to it had felt the devastating march of time.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000005_000003|A portion of the decrepit building still stood revealed in its wretched old age; propped, partly by beams which reached from the thatched roof to the ground, and partly by the wall of a new cottage attached, presenting in yellow brick work a hideous modern contrast to all that was left of its ancient neighbor.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000006_000000|Had the miller whom I remembered, died; and were these changes the work of his successor?
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000006_000001|I thought of asking the question, and tried the door: it was fastened.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000006_000002|The windows were all dark excepting one, which I discovered in the upper storey, at the farther side of the new building. Here, there was a dim light burning.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000006_000003|It was impossible to disturb a person, who, for all I knew to the contrary, might be going to bed.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000007_000001|Pausing to listen, I heard next the working of oars in their rowlocks.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000007_000002|After another interval a boat appeared, turning a projection in the bank, and rowed by a woman pulling steadily against the stream.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000008_000000|As the boat approached me in the moonlight, this person corrected my first impression, and revealed herself as a young girl.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000008_000001|So far as I could perceive she was a stranger to me.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000008_000002|Who could the girl be, alone on the river at that time of night?
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000008_000003|Idly curious I followed the boat, instead of pursuing my way to the village, to see whether she would stop at the mill, or pass it.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000009_000000|She stopped at the mill, secured the boat, and stepped on shore.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000010_000000|Taking a key from her pocket, she was about to open the door of the cottage, when I advanced and spoke to her.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000010_000001|As far from recognizing her as ever, I found myself nevertheless thinking of an odd outspoken child, living at the mill in past years, who had been one of my poor mother's favorites at our village school.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000010_000002|I ran the risk of offending her, by bluntly expressing the thought which was then in my mind.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000011_000000|"Is it possible that you are Cristel Toller?" I said.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000012_000000|The question seemed to amuse her.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000012_000001|"Why shouldn't I be Cristel Toller?" she asked.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000013_000000|"You were a little girl," I explained, "when I saw you last.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000014_000000|She acknowledged my compliment by a curtsey, which reminded me again of the village school.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000014_000001|"Thank you, young man," she said smartly; "I wonder who you are?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000015_000000|"Try if you can recollect me," I suggested.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000016_000000|"May I take a long look at you?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000017_000000|"As long as you like."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000018_000000|She studied my face, with a mental effort to remember me, which gathered her pretty eyebrows together quaintly in a frown.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000019_000000|"There's something in his eyes," she remarked, not speaking to me but to herself, "which doesn't seem to be quite strange.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000019_000001|But I don't know his voice, and I don't know his beard." She considered a little, and addressed herself directly to me once more.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000019_000002|"Now I look at you again, you seem to be a gentleman.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000019_000003|Are you one?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000020_000000|"I hope so."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000021_000000|"Then you're not making game of me?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000022_000000|"My dear, I am only trying if you can remember Gerard Roylake."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000023_000003|Her verbal apologies followed.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000024_000002|"Oh, Lord," I heard her say to herself, "half the county belongs to him!" She tried another apology, and hit this time on the conventional form.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000024_000003|"I beg your pardon, sir.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000024_000004|Welcome back to your own country, sir.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000024_000005|I wish you good night, sir."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000025_000000|She attempted to escape into the cottage; I followed her to the threshold of the door.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000025_000001|"Surely it's not time to go to bed yet," I ventured to say.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000026_000000|She was still on her good behavior to her landlord.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000026_000001|"Not if you object to it, sir," she answered.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000027_000000|This recognition of my authority was irresistible.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000027_000001|Cristel had laid me under an obligation to her good influence for which I felt sincerely grateful-she had made me laugh, for the first time since my return to England.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000028_000000|"We needn't say good night just yet," I suggested; "I want to hear a little more about you.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000000|She stepped out of the doorway even more rapidly than she had stepped into it.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000001|I might have been mistaken, but I thought Cristel seemed to be actually alarmed by my proposal.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000002|We walked up and down the river bank.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000003|On every occasion when we approached the cottage, I detected her in stealing a look at the ugly modern part of it.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000004|There could be no mistake this time; I saw doubt, I saw anxiety in her face.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000005|What was going on at the mill?
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000006|I made some domestic inquiries, beginning with her father.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000029_000007|Was the miller alive and well?
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000030_000000|"Oh yes, sir.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000031_000000|"Did he send you out by yourself, at this late hour, in the boat?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000032_000000|"They were waiting for a sack of flour down there," she replied, pointing in the direction of the river side village.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000032_000001|"Father isn't as quick as he used to be.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000032_000002|He's often late over his work now."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000034_000000|A change of expression appeared in her bright brown eyes which roused my curiosity.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000034_000001|I also observed that she evaded a direct reply.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000034_000002|"What makes you doubt, sir, if father and I live alone?" she asked.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000035_000000|I pointed to the new cottage.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000035_000001|"That ugly building," I answered, "seems to give you more room than you want-unless there is somebody else living at the mill."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000036_000000|I had no intention of trying to force the reply from her which she had hitherto withheld; but she appeared to put that interpretation on what I had said.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000036_000001|"If you will have it," she burst out, "there is somebody else living with us."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000037_000000|"A man who helps your father?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000038_000000|"no
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000039_000000|I was quite unprepared for such a reply as this: Cristel had surprised me.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000039_000002|His domestic expenses made no heavy demand on his purse; his German wife (whose Christian name was now borne by his daughter) had died long since; his sons were no burden on him; they had never lived at the mill in my remembrance.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000039_000004|"mr Toller can't possibly be in want of money," I said.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000040_000000|"The more money father has, the more he wants.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000040_000001|That's the reason," she added bitterly, "why he asked for plenty of room when the cottage was built, and why we have got a lodger."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000042_000000|"I don't know.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000042_000003|It isn't worth thinking about."
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000043_000000|This was plain speaking at last.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000044_000000|"I hate him!"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000045_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000046_000000|She turned on me with a look of angry amazement-not undeserved, I must own, on my part-which showed her dark beauty in the perfection of its luster and its power.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000046_000001|To my eyes she was at the moment irresistibly charming.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000046_000002|I daresay I was blind to the defects in her face.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000046_000003|My good German tutor used to lament that there was too much of my boyhood still left in me.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000046_000004|Honestly admiring her, I let my favorable opinion express itself a little too plainly.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000046_000005|"What a splendid creature you are!" I burst out.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000047_000000|"Master Gerard," she began-and checked herself.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000047_000001|"Please to excuse me, sir; you have set my head running on old times.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000047_000002|What I want to say is: you were not so inquisitive when you were a young gentleman in short jackets.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000047_000004|I hate him because I hate him.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000047_000005|There!"
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000048_000000|Ignorant as I was of the natures of women, I understood her at last. Cristel's opinion of the lodger was evidently the exact opposite of the lodger's opinion of Cristel.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000048_000001|When I add that this discovery did decidedly operate as a relief to my mind, the impression produced on me by the miller's daughter is stated without exaggeration and without reserve.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000049_000000|"Good night," she repeated, "for the last time." I held out my hand.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000050_000000|She did it nevertheless; and dropping my hand, cast a farewell look at the mysterious object of her interest-the new cottage.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000050_000001|Her variable humor changed on the instant.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000050_000002|Apparently in a state of unendurable irritation, she stamped on the ground.
train-other-500/3698/29401/3698_29401_000050_000003|"Just what I didn't want to happen!" she said to herself.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000003_000000|All this while, the Widow Chupin's abode had remained open, accessible to any chance visitor.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000003_000001|Still, when, on his return, the young police agent remembered this neglect of elementary precautions, he did not feel alarmed.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000003_000002|Considering all the circumstances, it was very difficult to believe that any serious harm could have resulted from this carelessness.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000004_000001|Its bad name served the purpose of a bulwark.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000004_000002|The most daring vagrants did not drink there without some disquietude, fearing that if the liquor caused them to lose consciousness, they might be robbed or perhaps even murdered.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000004_000003|Hence, if any one had been attracted to this notoriously dangerous drinking shop by the light that streamed through the open door, it could only have been some very reckless person returning late at night from the ball at the Rainbow, with a few sous left in his pocket.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000004_000004|But, even then, a single glance inside would have sufficed to put the bravest to flight.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000005_000000|In less than a second the young police agent had weighed all these possibilities, concerning which he did not breathe a word to Father Absinthe.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000005_000002|He had experimented upon Father Absinthe with his new system of investigation, just as an aspiring orator tries his powers before his least gifted friends, not before the cleverest.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000005_000003|He had certainly overwhelmed the old veteran by his superiority; he had literally crushed him.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000005_000004|But what great merit, what wonderful victory was this?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000005_000005|Why should he boast of having outwitted Father Absinthe, one of the least sagacious men in the service?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000006_000001|But, after all, what had he accomplished?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000006_000002|Was the mystery solved?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000006_000003|Was his success more than problematical?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000006_000004|When one thread is drawn out, the skein is not untangled.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000007_000000|Everything looked exactly in the same state as when the two men left the room.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000007_000001|A candle, with a charred smoking wick, cast its flickering light upon the same scene of disorder, revealing to view the rigid features of the three victims.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000007_000002|Without losing a moment, Lecoq began to pick up and study the various objects scattered over the floor.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000007_000005|This ground, which must originally have been well beaten down, had, by constant use and damp, become well nigh as muddy as the soil outside.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000008_000000|The first fruits of Lecoq's search were a large salad bowl and a big iron spoon, the latter so twisted and bent that it had evidently been used as a weapon during the conflict.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000008_000002|After the salad bowl, the two men picked up five of the weighty glasses ordinarily used in wine shops, and which, while looking as though they would contain half a bottle, are in point of fact so thick at the bottom that they hold next to nothing. Three of these glasses were broken, two were whole.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000008_000004|This was plain, but for greater surety, Lecoq applied his tongue to the bluish mixture remaining in the bottom of each glass.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000009_000000|Then he examined successively the surfaces of the three overturned tables.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000009_000001|Upon one of these, the one nearest the fireplace and the window, the still wet marks of the five glasses, of the salad bowl, and even of the spoons could be distinguished.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000009_000002|Lecoq very properly regarded this circumstance as a matter of the greatest importance, for it proved clearly enough that five persons had emptied the salad bowl in company. Who were these five persons?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000011_000000|A very simple mode of discovery had presented itself to his mind.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000011_000001|It was to ascertain if there were any other glasses, and what they had contained.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000011_000002|After a fresh search on the floor, a sixth glass was found, similar in form to the others, but much smaller.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000011_000004|Then these two women had not been with the murderer, and therefore he could not have fought because the other men had insulted them.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000011_000005|This discovery proved the inaccuracy of Lecoq's original suppositions.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000011_000006|It was an unexpected check, and he was mourning over it in silence, when Father Absinthe, who had not ceased ferreting about, uttered a cry of surprise.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000013_000000|"Some one has been here in our absence."
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000000|It was not impossible-it was true.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000001|When Gevrol had torn the apron off Widow Chupin's head he had thrown it upon the steps of the stairs; neither of the police agents had since touched it.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000002|And yet the pockets of this apron were now turned inside out; this was a proof, this was evidence.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000003|At this discovery Lecoq was overcome with consternation, and the contraction of his features revealed the struggle going on in his mind.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000004|"Who could have been here?" he murmured.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000005|"Robbers?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000015_000006|That is improbable."
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000016_000001|But it is not enough to suspect this, it is necessary to know it.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000016_000002|I must-I will know it!"
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000017_000000|They searched for a long time, and it was not until after an hour of earnest work that, in front of the door forced open by the police, they discovered in the mud, just inside the marks made by Gevrol's tread, a footprint that bore a close resemblance to those left by the man who had entered the garden.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000017_000001|They compared the impressions and recognized the same designs formed by the nails upon the sole of the boot.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000000|"It must have been the accomplice!" exclaimed Lecoq.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000001|"He watched us, he saw us go away, and then he entered.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000002|But why?
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000003|What pressing, irresistible necessity made him decide to brave such imminent danger?" He seized his companion's hand, nearly crushing it in his excitement: "Ah!
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000004|I know why!" continued he, violently.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000005|"I understand only too well. Some article that would have served to throw light on this horrible affair had been left or forgotten, or lost here, and to obtain it, to find it, he decided to run this terrible risk.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000006|And to think that it was my fault, my fault alone, that this convincing proof escaped us!
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000007|And I thought myself so shrewd!
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000008|What a lesson!
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000018_000009|The door should have been locked; any fool would have thought of it-" Here he checked himself, and remained with open mouth and distended eyes, pointing with his finger to one of the corners of the room.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000019_000000|"What is the matter?" asked his frightened companion.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000020_000000|Lecoq made no reply, but slowly, and with the stiff movements of a somnambulist, he approached the spot to which he had pointed, stooped, picked up something, and said: "My folly is not deserving of such luck."
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000021_000001|The setting was of marvelous workmanship.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000021_000002|"This diamond," declared Lecoq, after a moment's examination, "must be worth at least five or six thousand francs."
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000022_000000|"Are you in earnest?"
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000023_000000|"I think I could swear to it."
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000024_000000|He would not have troubled about such a preamble as "I think" a few hours before, but the blunder he had made was a lesson that would not be forgotten so long as he lived.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000025_000000|"Perhaps it was that same diamond earring that the accomplice came to seek," ventured Father Absinthe.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000026_000000|"The supposition is scarcely admissible.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000026_000001|In that case, he would not have sought for it in Mother Chupin's apron.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000026_000002|No, he must have been seeking for something else-a letter, for example."
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000028_000000|Lecoq shook his head thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3698/41990/3698_41990_000028_000001|"Yes, it is very strange, very improbable, very absurd.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000002_000000|CHAPTER seventeen
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000003_000002|What this additional fortnight was to produce to her beyond the pleasure of sometimes seeing Henry Tilney made but a small part of Catherine's speculation.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000003_000004|In the course of the morning which saw this business arranged, she visited Miss Tilney, and poured forth her joyful feelings.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000003_000005|It was doomed to be a day of trial.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000003_000006|No sooner had she expressed her delight in mr Allen's lengthened stay than Miss Tilney told her of her father's having just determined upon quitting Bath by the end of another week.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000003_000007|Here was a blow!
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000003_000008|The past suspense of the morning had been ease and quiet to the present disappointment. Catherine's countenance fell, and in a voice of most sincere concern she echoed Miss Tilney's concluding words, "By the end of another week!"
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000004_000001|He has been disappointed of some friends' arrival whom he expected to meet here, and as he is now pretty well, is in a hurry to get home."
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000006_000000|"Perhaps," said Miss Tilney in an embarrassed manner, "you would be so good-it would make me very happy if-"
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000007_000000|The entrance of her father put a stop to the civility, which Catherine was beginning to hope might introduce a desire of their corresponding. After addressing her with his usual politeness, he turned to his daughter and said, "Well, Eleanor, may I congratulate you on being successful in your application to your fair friend?"
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000008_000000|"I was just beginning to make the request, sir, as you came in."
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000000|"Well, proceed by all means.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000001|I know how much your heart is in it.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000002|My daughter, Miss Morland," he continued, without leaving his daughter time to speak, "has been forming a very bold wish.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000004|A letter from my steward tells me that my presence is wanted at home; and being disappointed in my hope of seeing the Marquis of Longtown and General Courteney here, some of my very old friends, there is nothing to detain me longer in Bath.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000005|And could we carry our selfish point with you, we should leave it without a single regret.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000008|Modesty such as yours-but not for the world would I pain it by open praise.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000009_000010|'tis true, we can offer you nothing like the gaieties of this lively place; we can tempt you neither by amusement nor splendour, for our mode of living, as you see, is plain and unpretending; yet no endeavours shall be wanting on our side to make Northanger Abbey not wholly disagreeable."
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000010_000000|Northanger Abbey!
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000010_000001|These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000010_000002|Her grateful and gratified heart could hardly restrain its expressions within the language of tolerable calmness.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000010_000003|To receive so flattering an invitation!
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000010_000004|To have her company so warmly solicited!
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000011_000000|General Tilney was not less sanguine, having already waited on her excellent friends in Pulteney Street, and obtained their sanction of his wishes.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000011_000001|"Since they can consent to part with you," said he, "we may expect philosophy from all the world."
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000013_000002|This indulgence, though not more than Catherine had hoped for, completed her conviction of being favoured beyond every other human creature, in friends and fortune, circumstance and chance.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000013_000003|Everything seemed to cooperate for her advantage.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000013_000004|By the kindness of her first friends, the Allens, she had been introduced into scenes where pleasures of every kind had met her. Her feelings, her preferences, had each known the happiness of a return. Wherever she felt attachment, she had been able to create it.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000013_000005|The affection of Isabella was to be secured to her in a sister.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000013_000006|The Tilneys, they, by whom, above all, she desired to be favourably thought of, outstripped even her wishes in the flattering measures by which their intimacy was to be continued.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000013_000008|Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney-and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000014_000000|It was wonderful that her friends should seem so little elated by the possession of such a home, that the consciousness of it should be so meekly borne.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000014_000001|The power of early habit only could account for it.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000014_000002|A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.
train-other-500/37/214/37_214_000014_000003|Their superiority of abode was no more to them than their superiority of person.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000001_000000|CHAPTER eighteen
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000002_000002|"This is my favourite place," said she as they sat down on a bench between the doors, which commanded a tolerable view of everybody entering at either; "it is so out of the way."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000003_000000|Catherine, observing that Isabella's eyes were continually bent towards one door or the other, as in eager expectation, and remembering how often she had been falsely accused of being arch, thought the present a fine opportunity for being really so; and therefore gaily said, "Do not be uneasy, Isabella, james will soon be here."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000004_000001|My dear creature," she replied, "do not think me such a simpleton as to be always wanting to confine him to my elbow.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000004_000002|It would be hideous to be always together; we should be the jest of the place.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000004_000003|And so you are going to Northanger!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000005_000000|"You shall certainly have the best in my power to give.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000005_000001|But who are you looking for?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000006_000000|"I am not looking for anybody.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000006_000003|Tilney says it is always the case with minds of a certain stamp."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000007_000000|"But I thought, Isabella, you had something in particular to tell me?"
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000008_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000008_000001|Yes, and so I have.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000008_000003|My poor head, I had quite forgot it.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000008_000004|Well, the thing is this: I have just had a letter from john; you can guess the contents."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000009_000000|"No, indeed, I cannot."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000010_000000|"My sweet love, do not be so abominably affected.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000010_000001|What can he write about, but yourself?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000010_000002|You know he is over head and ears in love with you."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000011_000000|"With me, dear Isabella!"
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000012_000000|"Nay, my sweetest Catherine, this is being quite absurd!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000012_000001|Modesty, and all that, is very well in its way, but really a little common honesty is sometimes quite as becoming.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000012_000002|I have no idea of being so overstrained! It is fishing for compliments.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000012_000003|His attentions were such as a child must have noticed.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000012_000004|And it was but half an hour before he left Bath that you gave him the most positive encouragement.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000012_000006|So it is in vain to affect ignorance."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000013_000002|I could not have misunderstood a thing of that kind, you know!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000015_000000|"Are you?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000015_000001|Well, if you say it, it was so, I dare say-but for the life of me, I cannot recollect it.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000015_000004|Pray undeceive him as soon as you can, and tell him I beg his pardon-that is-I do not know what I ought to say-but make him understand what I mean, in the properest way.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000015_000006|"My dear friend, you must not be angry with me.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000015_000007|I cannot suppose your brother cares so very much about me.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000015_000008|And, you know, we shall still be sisters."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000016_000001|But where am I wandering to?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000016_000002|Well, my dear Catherine, the case seems to be that you are determined against poor john--is not it so?"
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000017_000000|"I certainly cannot return his affection, and as certainly never meant to encourage it."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000018_000000|"Since that is the case, I am sure I shall not tease you any further. john desired me to speak to you on the subject, and therefore I have. But I confess, as soon as I read his letter, I thought it a very foolish, imprudent business, and not likely to promote the good of either; for what were you to live upon, supposing you came together?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000020_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000020_000002|All that is best known to yourself.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000020_000004|But you may be assured that I am the last person in the world to judge you severely.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000020_000005|All those things should be allowed for in youth and high spirits.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000020_000007|Circumstances change, opinions alter."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000021_000000|"But my opinion of your brother never did alter; it was always the same. You are describing what never happened."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000000|"My dearest Catherine," continued the other without at all listening to her, "I would not for all the world be the means of hurrying you into an engagement before you knew what you were about.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000001|I do not think anything would justify me in wishing you to sacrifice all your happiness merely to oblige my brother, because he is my brother, and who perhaps after all, you know, might be just as happy without you, for people seldom know what they would be at, young men especially, they are so amazingly changeable and inconstant.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000002|What I say is, why should a brother's happiness be dearer to me than a friend's?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000003|You know I carry my notions of friendship pretty high.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000005|Take my word for it, that if you are in too great a hurry, you will certainly live to repent it.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000007|Ah!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000022_000008|Here he comes; never mind, he will not see us, I am sure."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000023_000000|Catherine, looking up, perceived Captain Tilney; and Isabella, earnestly fixing her eye on him as she spoke, soon caught his notice.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000023_000001|He approached immediately, and took the seat to which her movements invited him.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000023_000002|His first address made Catherine start.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000023_000004|Always to be watched, in person or by proxy!"
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000024_000001|"Why do you put such things into my head?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000024_000002|If I could believe it-my spirit, you know, is pretty independent."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000025_000001|That would be enough for me."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000026_000000|"My heart, indeed!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000026_000001|What can you have to do with hearts?
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000026_000002|You men have none of you any hearts."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000027_000000|"If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000028_000001|I am sorry for it; I am sorry they find anything so disagreeable in me.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000028_000002|I will look another way.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000029_000000|"Never more so; for the edge of a blooming cheek is still in view-at once too much and too little."
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000000|Catherine heard all this, and quite out of countenance, could listen no longer.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000001|Amazed that Isabella could endure it, and jealous for her brother, she rose up, and saying she should join mrs Allen, proposed their walking.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000002|But for this Isabella showed no inclination.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000003|She was so amazingly tired, and it was so odious to parade about the pump room; and if she moved from her seat she should miss her sisters; she was expecting her sisters every moment; so that her dearest Catherine must excuse her, and must sit quietly down again.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000004|But Catherine could be stubborn too; and mrs Allen just then coming up to propose their returning home, she joined her and walked out of the pump room, leaving Isabella still sitting with Captain Tilney.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000006|It seemed to her that Captain Tilney was falling in love with Isabella, and Isabella unconsciously encouraging him; unconsciously it must be, for Isabella's attachment to james was as certain and well acknowledged as her engagement.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000007|To doubt her truth or good intentions was impossible; and yet, during the whole of their conversation her manner had been odd.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000008|She wished Isabella had talked more like her usual self, and not so much about money, and had not looked so well pleased at the sight of Captain Tilney.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000030_000009|How strange that she should not perceive his admiration!
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000031_000000|The compliment of john Thorpe's affection did not make amends for this thoughtlessness in his sister.
train-other-500/37/215/37_215_000031_000002|That he should think it worth his while to fancy himself in love with her was a matter of lively astonishment.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000009_000000|CHAPTER twenty eight
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000011_000001|Eleanor looked and declared herself much concerned.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000011_000003|As to that, Papa and Mamma were in no hurry at all.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000011_000004|As long as she was happy, they would always be satisfied."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000013_000000|"Oh!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000013_000001|Because she had been there so long."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000014_000001|If you think it long-"
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000015_000000|"Oh! No, I do not indeed.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000015_000002|In having this cause of uneasiness so pleasantly removed, the force of the other was likewise weakened.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000015_000004|She did-almost always-believe that Henry loved her, and quite always that his father and sister loved and even wished her to belong to them; and believing so far, her doubts and anxieties were merely sportive irritations.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000016_000003|After the first perturbation of surprise had passed away, in a "Good heaven!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000016_000004|What can be the matter?" it was quickly decided by Eleanor to be her eldest brother, whose arrival was often as sudden, if not quite so unseasonable, and accordingly she hurried down to welcome him.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000017_000000|Catherine walked on to her chamber, making up her mind as well as she could, to a further acquaintance with Captain Tilney, and comforting herself under the unpleasant impression his conduct had given her, and the persuasion of his being by far too fine a gentleman to approve of her, that at least they should not meet under such circumstances as would make their meeting materially painful.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000017_000001|She trusted he would never speak of Miss Thorpe; and indeed, as he must by this time be ashamed of the part he had acted, there could be no danger of it; and as long as all mention of Bath scenes were avoided, she thought she could behave to him very civilly.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000000|At that moment Catherine thought she heard her step in the gallery, and listened for its continuance; but all was silent.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000001|Scarcely, however, had she convicted her fancy of error, when the noise of something moving close to her door made her start; it seemed as if someone was touching the very doorway-and in another moment a slight motion of the lock proved that some hand must be on it.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000002|She trembled a little at the idea of anyone's approaching so cautiously; but resolving not to be again overcome by trivial appearances of alarm, or misled by a raised imagination, she stepped quietly forward, and opened the door.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000003|Eleanor, and only Eleanor, stood there.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000004|Catherine's spirits, however, were tranquillized but for an instant, for Eleanor's cheeks were pale, and her manner greatly agitated.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000005|Though evidently intending to come in, it seemed an effort to enter the room, and a still greater to speak when there.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000006|Catherine, supposing some uneasiness on Captain Tilney's account, could only express her concern by silent attention, obliged her to be seated, rubbed her temples with lavender water, and hung over her with affectionate solicitude.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000007|"My dear Catherine, you must not-you must not indeed-" were Eleanor's first connected words.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000018_000008|"I am quite well. This kindness distracts me-I cannot bear it-I come to you on such an errand!"
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000019_000000|"Errand!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000019_000001|To me!"
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000020_000000|"How shall I tell you!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000020_000001|Oh!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000021_000000|A new idea now darted into Catherine's mind, and turning as pale as her friend, she exclaimed, "'tis a messenger from Woodston!"
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000000|"You are mistaken, indeed," returned Eleanor, looking at her most compassionately; "it is no one from Woodston.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000001|It is my father himself." Her voice faltered, and her eyes were turned to the ground as she mentioned his name.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000003|She said nothing; and Eleanor, endeavouring to collect herself and speak with firmness, but with eyes still cast down, soon went on.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000005|I am indeed a most unwilling messenger.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000006|After what has so lately passed, so lately been settled between us-how joyfully, how thankfully on my side!--as to your continuing here as I hoped for many, many weeks longer, how can I tell you that your kindness is not to be accepted-and that the happiness your company has hitherto given us is to be repaid by-But I must not trust myself with words.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000007|My dear Catherine, we are to part.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000008|My father has recollected an engagement that takes our whole family away on Monday.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000022_000010|I cannot attempt either."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000023_000000|"My dear Eleanor," cried Catherine, suppressing her feelings as well as she could, "do not be so distressed.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000023_000001|A second engagement must give way to a first.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000023_000002|I am very, very sorry we are to part-so soon, and so suddenly too; but I am not offended, indeed I am not.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000023_000004|Can you, when you return from this lord's, come to Fullerton?"
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000025_000000|"Come when you can, then."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000026_000000|Eleanor made no answer; and Catherine's thoughts recurring to something more directly interesting, she added, thinking aloud, "Monday-so soon as Monday; and you all go.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000026_000001|Well, I am certain of-I shall be able to take leave, however.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000026_000002|I need not go till just before you do, you know.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000026_000005|The general will send a servant with me, I dare say, half the way-and then I shall soon be at Salisbury, and then I am only nine miles from home."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000027_000000|"Ah, Catherine!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000027_000001|Were it settled so, it would be somewhat less intolerable, though in such common attentions you would have received but half what you ought.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000028_000000|Catherine sat down, breathless and speechless.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000028_000002|Oh!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000028_000003|That I could suggest anything in extenuation!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000028_000004|Good God!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000030_000001|For my feelings as a daughter, all that I know, all that I answer for, is that you can have given him no just cause of offence.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000030_000002|He certainly is greatly, very greatly discomposed; I have seldom seen him more so.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000030_000003|His temper is not happy, and something has now occurred to ruffle it in an uncommon degree; some disappointment, some vexation, which just at this moment seems important, but which I can hardly suppose you to have any concern in, for how is it possible?"
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000000|It was with pain that Catherine could speak at all; and it was only for Eleanor's sake that she attempted it.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000001|"I am sure," said she, "I am very sorry if I have offended him.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000002|It was the last thing I would willingly have done.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000003|But do not be unhappy, Eleanor.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000004|An engagement, you know, must be kept.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000005|I am only sorry it was not recollected sooner, that I might have written home.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000031_000006|But it is of very little consequence."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000032_000000|"I hope, I earnestly hope, that to your real safety it will be of none; but to everything else it is of the greatest consequence: to comfort, appearance, propriety, to your family, to the world.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000033_000000|"Oh, the journey is nothing.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000033_000001|Do not think about that.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000033_000003|I can be ready by seven.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000033_000004|Let me be called in time." Eleanor saw that she wished to be alone; and believing it better for each that they should avoid any further conversation, now left her with, "I shall see you in the morning."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000000|Catherine's swelling heart needed relief.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000002|Turned from the house, and in such a way!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000003|Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000004|Henry at a distance-not able even to bid him farewell.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000005|Every hope, every expectation from him suspended, at least, and who could say how long?
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000006|Who could say when they might meet again?
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000007|And all this by such a man as General Tilney, so polite, so well bred, and heretofore so particularly fond of her!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000011|What could all this mean but an intentional affront?
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000034_000012|By some means or other she must have had the misfortune to offend him.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000035_000000|Heavily passed the night.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000035_000001|Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of the question.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000035_000002|That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000036_000001|The possibility of some conciliatory message from the general occurred to her as his daughter appeared.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000036_000007|She tried to eat, as well to save herself from the pain of being urged as to make her friend comfortable; but she had no appetite, and could not swallow many mouthfuls.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000036_000010|Happy, happy breakfast!
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000036_000012|These reflections were long indulged undisturbed by any address from her companion, who sat as deep in thought as herself; and the appearance of the carriage was the first thing to startle and recall them to the present moment.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000036_000014|Eleanor seemed now impelled into resolution and speech.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000037_000000|"You must write to me, Catherine," she cried; "you must let me hear from you as soon as possible.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000037_000002|For one letter, at all risks, all hazards, I must entreat.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000037_000003|Let me have the satisfaction of knowing that you are safe at Fullerton, and have found your family well, and then, till I can ask for your correspondence as I ought to do, I will not expect more.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000037_000004|Direct to me at Lord Longtown's, and, I must ask it, under cover to Alice."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000038_000000|"No, Eleanor, if you are not allowed to receive a letter from me, I am sure I had better not write.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000038_000001|There can be no doubt of my getting home safe."
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000039_000000|Eleanor only replied, "I cannot wonder at your feelings.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000039_000001|I will not importune you.
train-other-500/37/225/37_225_000040_000003|Short, however, was that time.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000000_000001|And although mr Robert Williams, after a very short interval, began to leave his guitar on the front porch again, exactly as if he thought nothing had happened, Penrod, with his younger vision of a father's mood, remained coldly distant from the Jones neighbourhood. With his own family his manner was gentle, proud and sad, but not for long enough to frighten them.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000000_000002|The change came with mystifying abruptness at the end of the week.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000001_000000|It was Duke who brought it about.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000002_000000|Duke could chase a much bigger dog out of the Schofields' yard and far down the street.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000002_000001|This might be thought to indicate unusual valour on the part of Duke and cowardice on that of the bigger dogs whom he undoubtedly put to rout.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000002_000002|On the contrary, all such flights were founded in mere superstition, for dogs are even more superstitious than boys and coloured people; and the most firmly established of all dog superstitions is that any dog-be he the smallest and feeblest in the world-can whip any trespasser whatsoever.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000003_000000|A rat terrier believes that on his home grounds he can whip an elephant. It follows, of course, that a big dog, away from his own home, will run from a little dog in the little dog's neighbourhood.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000003_000001|Otherwise, the big dog must face a charge of inconsistency, and dogs are as consistent as they are superstitious.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000003_000002|A dog believes in war, but he is convinced that there are times when it is moral to run; and the thoughtful physiognomist, seeing a big dog fleeing out of a little dog's yard, must observe that the expression of the big dog's face is more conscientious than alarmed: it is the expression of a person performing a duty to himself.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000004_000000|Penrod understood these matters perfectly; he knew that the gaunt brown hound Duke chased up the alley had fled only out of deference to a custom, yet Penrod could not refrain from bragging of Duke to the hound's owner, a fat faced stranger of twelve or thirteen, who had wandered into the neighbourhood.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000005_000000|"You better keep that ole yellow dog o' yours back," said Penrod ominously, as he climbed the fence.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000005_000001|"You better catch him and hold him till I get mine inside the yard again.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000005_000002|Duke's chewed up some pretty bad bulldogs around here."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000006_000000|The fat faced boy gave Penrod a fishy stare.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000006_000002|"It'll make him sick."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000007_000000|"What will?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000008_000000|The stranger laughed raspingly and gazed up the alley, where the hound, having come to a halt, now coolly sat down, and, with an expression of roguish benevolence, patronizingly watched the tempered fury of Duke, whose assaults and barkings were becoming perfunctory.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000009_000000|"What'll make Duke sick?" Penrod demanded.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000010_000000|"Eatin' dead bulldogs people leave around here."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000011_000000|This was not improvisation but formula, adapted from other occasions to the present encounter; nevertheless, it was new to Penrod, and he was so taken with it that resentment lost itself in admiration.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000011_000001|Hastily committing the gem to memory for use upon a dog owning friend, he inquired in a sociable tone:
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000012_000000|"What's your dog's name?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000013_000000|"Dan.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000013_000001|You better call your ole pup, 'cause Dan eats LIVE dogs."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000014_000000|Dan's actions poorly supported his master's assertion, for, upon Duke's ceasing to bark, Dan rose and showed the most courteous interest in making the little, old dog's acquaintance.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000014_000001|Dan had a great deal of manner, and it became plain that Duke was impressed favourably in spite of former prejudice, so that presently the two trotted amicably back to their masters and sat down with the harmonious but indifferent air of having known each other intimately for years.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000015_000000|They were received without comment, though both boys looked at them reflectively for a time.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000015_000001|It was Penrod who spoke first.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000017_000000|"Me?
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000017_000001|What number do I go to?" said the stranger, contemptuously.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000018_000000|"I mean when it ain't."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000019_000000|"Third," returned the fat faced boy.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000019_000001|"I got 'em ALL scared in THAT school."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000020_000000|"What of?" innocently asked Penrod, to whom "the Third"--in a distant part of town-was undiscovered country.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000021_000000|"What of?
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000021_000002|You'd be lucky if you got out alive!"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000022_000000|"Are the teachers mean?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000023_000000|The other boy frowned with bitter scorn.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000023_000001|"Teachers!
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000023_000003|They're mighty careful how they try to run over Rupe Collins."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000024_000000|"Who's Rupe Collins?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000025_000000|"Who is he?" echoed the fat faced boy incredulously.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000025_000001|"Say, ain't you got ANY sense?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000026_000000|"What?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000027_000000|"Say, wouldn't you be just as happy if you had SOME sense?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000028_000001|"Rupe Collins is the principal at your school, guess."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000029_000000|The other yelled with jeering laughter, and mocked Penrod's manner and voice.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000029_000003|What's the matter of you, anyhow?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000031_000000|The fat faced boy shook his head disgustedly.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000031_000001|"Honest, you make me sick!"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000032_000000|Penrod's expression became one of despair.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000032_000001|"Well, who IS he?" he cried.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000033_000000|"'Who IS he?'" mocked the other, with a scorn that withered.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000033_000001|"'Who IS he?' ME!"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000034_000000|"Oh!" Penrod was humiliated but relieved: he felt that he had proved himself criminally ignorant, yet a peril seemed to have passed.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000034_000001|"Rupe Collins is your name, then, I guess.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000034_000002|I kind of thought it was, all the time."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000035_000002|"Yes, sonny, Rupe Collins is my name, and you better look out what you say when he's around or you'll get in big trouble!
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000036_000000|Penrod was cowed but fascinated: he felt that there was something dangerous and dashing about this newcomer.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000037_000000|"Yes," he said, feebly, drawing back.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000037_000001|"My name's Penrod Schofield."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000038_000000|"Then I reckon your father and mother ain't got good sense," said mr Collins promptly, this also being formula.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000039_000000|"Why?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000040_000000|"'cause if they had they'd of give you a good name!" And the agreeable youth instantly rewarded himself for the wit with another yell of rasping laughter, after which he pointed suddenly at Penrod's right hand.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000041_000000|"Where'd you get that wart on your finger?" he demanded severely.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000042_000000|"Which finger?" asked the mystified Penrod, extending his hand.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000043_000000|"The middle one."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000044_000000|"Where?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000045_000000|"There!" exclaimed Rupe Collins, seizing and vigorously twisting the wartless finger naively offered for his inspection.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000046_000000|"Quit!" shouted Penrod in agony.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000047_000000|"Say your prayers!" commanded Rupe, and continued to twist the luckless finger until Penrod writhed to his knees.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000049_000000|At this Rupe's scornful expression altered to one of contrition.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000049_000001|"Well, I declare!" he exclaimed remorsefully.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000049_000002|"I didn't s'pose it would hurt. Turn about's fair play; so now you do that to me."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000052_000000|"Lick dirt," commanded Rupe, forcing the captive's face to the sidewalk; and the suffering Penrod completed this ceremony.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000055_000000|"No, I wouldn't," Penrod protested rather weakly, dusting his knees.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000058_000000|"Looky here," said the fat faced boy, darkly, "what you mean, counterdicking me?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000059_000000|He advanced a step and Penrod hastily qualified his contradiction.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000060_000000|"I mean, I don't THINK I would.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000061_000000|"You better look out!" Rupe moved closer, and unexpectedly grasped the back of Penrod's neck again.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000063_000000|"There!" said Rupe, giving the helpless nape a final squeeze.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000063_000001|"That's the way we do up at the Third."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000064_000000|Penrod rubbed his neck and asked meekly:
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000065_000000|"Can you do that to any boy up at the Third?"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000066_000000|"See here now," said Rupe, in the tone of one goaded beyond all endurance, "YOU say if I can!
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000066_000001|You better say it quick, or----"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000067_000000|"I knew you could," Penrod interposed hastily, with the pathetic semblance of a laugh.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000067_000001|"I only said that in fun."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000068_000000|"In 'fun'!" repeated Rupe stormily.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000068_000001|"You better look out how you----"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000069_000000|"Well, I SAID I wasn't in earnest!" Penrod retreated a few steps.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000070_000000|"No, you couldn't."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000071_000000|"Well, there must be SOME boy up there that I could----"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000072_000001|You better----"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000073_000000|"I expect not, then," said Penrod, quickly.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000074_000000|"You BETTER 'expect not.' Didn't I tell you once you'd never get back alive if you ever tried to come up around the Third?
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000075_000000|He began a slow and deadly advance, whereupon Penrod timidly offered a diversion:
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000076_000000|"Say, Rupe, I got a box of rats in our stable under a glass cover, so you can watch 'em jump around when you hammer on the box.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000077_000000|"All right," said the fat faced boy, slightly mollified.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000078_000000|"No, SIR!
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000080_000000|"Yes, but I won't----"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000081_000001|"It seems to me you're gettin' pretty fresh around here."
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000082_000000|"Well, I don't want----"
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000083_000000|mr Collins once more brought into play the dreadful eye to eye scowl as practised "up at the Third," and, sometimes, also by young leading men upon the stage.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000083_000001|Frowning appallingly, and thrusting forward his underlip, he placed his nose almost in contact with the nose of Penrod, whose eyes naturally became crossed.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000084_000000|"Dan kills the rats.
train-other-500/3744/177438/3744_177438_000085_000000|"Well, all right," said Penrod, swallowing.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000000_000001|They burst into the stable, making almost as much noise as Duke, who had become frantic at the invasion.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000000_000002|Sam laid hands upon a rake.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000001_000002|I-"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000002_000000|"WAIT a minute!" Penrod shouted.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000003_000000|Sam was manfully preparing to enter the stall.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000004_000000|"You hold the doors open," he commanded, "so's they won't blow shut and keep him in here.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000004_000001|I'm goin' to hit him-"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000005_000001|"Wait a MINUTE, can't you?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000005_000002|He turned with ferocious voice and gestures upon Duke.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000005_000003|"DUKE!" And Duke, in spite of his excitement, was so impressed that he prostrated himself in silence, and then unobtrusively withdrew from the stable.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000005_000004|Penrod ran to the alley doors and closed them.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000006_000000|"My gracious!" Sam protested.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000007_000000|"I'm goin' to keep this horse," said Penrod, whose face showed the strain of a great idea.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000008_000000|"What FOR?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000011_000001|How-how much do you think we'll get, Penrod?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000012_000000|Sam's thus admitting himself to a full partnership in the enterprise met no objection from Penrod, who was absorbed in the contemplation of Whitey.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000013_000000|"Well," he said judicially, "we might get more and we might get less."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000014_000000|Sam rose and joined his friend in the doorway opening upon the two stalls.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000014_000001|Whitey had preempted the nearer, and was hungrily nuzzling the old frayed hollows in the manger.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000017_000000|"More'n a hunderd DOLLARS?" Sam gasped.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000018_000000|"Well," said Penrod, "we might get more and we might get less." This time, however, he felt the need of adding something.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000018_000001|He put a question in an indulgent tone, as though he were inquiring, not to add to his own information but to discover the extent of Sam's.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000018_000002|"How much do you think horses are worth, anyway?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000019_000000|"I don't know," Sam said frankly, and, unconsciously, he added, "They might be more and they might be less."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000020_000000|"Well, when our ole horse died," Penrod said, "Papa said he wouldn't taken five hunderd dollars for him.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000020_000001|That's how much HORSES are worth!"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000021_000000|"My gracious!" Sam exclaimed.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000021_000001|Then he had a practical afterthought.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000021_000002|"But maybe he was a better horse than this'n.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000021_000003|What colour was he?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000022_000000|"He was bay.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000022_000001|Looky here, Sam"--and now Penrod's manner changed from the superior to the eager-"you look what kind of horses they have in a circus, and you bet a circus has the BEST horses, don't it?
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000022_000002|Well, what kind of horses do they have in a circus?
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000022_000003|They have some black and white ones; but the best they have are white all over.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000022_000004|Well, what kind of a horse is this we got here?
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000022_000005|He's perty near white right now, and I bet if we washed him off and got him fixed up nice he WOULD be white.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000023_000000|Sam interrupted rather timidly.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000024_000000|"He-he's awful bony, Penrod.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000025_000000|Penrod laughed contemptuously.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000026_000001|All he needs is a little food and he'll fill right up and look good as ever.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000026_000002|You don't know much about horses, Sam, I expect.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000026_000003|Why, OUR ole horse-"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000027_000000|"Do you expect he's hungry now?" asked Sam, staring at Whitey.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000028_000000|"Let's try him," said Penrod.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000028_000001|"Horses like hay and oats the best; but they'll eat most anything."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000029_000000|"I guess they will.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000029_000001|He's tryin' to eat that manger up right now, and I bet it ain't good for him."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000030_000000|"Come on," said Penrod, closing the door that gave entrance to the stalls.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000030_000001|"We got to get this horse some drinkin'-water and some good food."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000031_000000|They tried Whitey's appetite first with an autumnal branch that they wrenched from a hardy maple in the yard.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000031_000001|They had seen horses nibble leaves, and they expected Whitey to nibble the leaves of this branch; but his ravenous condition did not allow him time for cool discriminations.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000031_000002|Sam poked the branch at him from the passageway, and Whitey, after one backward movement of alarm, seized it venomously.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000032_000000|"Here!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000032_000001|You stop that!" Sam shouted.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000032_000002|"You stop that, you ole horse, you!"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000033_000000|"What's the matter?" called Penrod from the hydrant, where he was filling a bucket.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000033_000001|"What's he doin' now?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000034_000000|"Doin'!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000034_000001|He's eatin' the wood part, too!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000034_000002|He's chewin' up sticks as big as baseball bats!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000034_000003|He's crazy!"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000035_000000|Penrod rushed to see this sight, and stood aghast.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000036_000000|"Take it away from him, Sam!" he commanded sharply.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000037_000000|"Go on, take it away from him yourself!" was the prompt retort of his comrade.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000038_000000|"You had no biz'nuss to give it to him," said Penrod.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000038_000001|"Anybody with any sense ought to know it'd make him sick.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000038_000002|What'd you want to go and give it to him for?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000039_000000|"Well, you didn't say not to."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000040_000000|"Well, what if I didn't?
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000040_000001|I never said I did, did I?
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000040_000002|You go on in that stall and take it away from him."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000041_000000|"YES, I will!" Sam returned bitterly.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000041_000001|Then, as Whitey had dragged the remains of the branch from the manger to the floor of the stall, Sam scrambled to the top of the manger and looked over.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000041_000002|"There ain't much left to TAKE away!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000041_000003|He's swallered it all except some splinters.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000041_000004|Better give him the water to try and wash it down with." And, as Penrod complied, "My gracious, look at that horse DRINK!"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000042_000000|They gave Whitey four buckets of water, and then debated the question of nourishment.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000042_000001|Obviously, this horse could not be trusted with branches, and, after getting their knees black and their backs sodden, they gave up trying to pull enough grass to sustain him.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000042_000002|Then Penrod remembered that horses like apples, both "cooking apples" and "eating apples", and Sam mentioned the fact that every autumn his father received a barrel of "cooking apples" from a cousin who owned a farm.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000042_000003|That barrel was in the Williams' cellar now, and the cellar was providentially supplied with "outside doors," so that it could be visited without going through the house.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000042_000004|Sam and Penrod set forth for the cellar.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000043_000000|They returned to the stable bulging, and, after a discussion of Whitey's digestion (Sam claiming that eating the core and seeds, as Whitey did, would grow trees in his inside) they went back to the cellar for supplies again-and again.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000043_000001|They made six trips, carrying each time a capacity cargo of apples, and still Whitey ate in a famished manner. They were afraid to take more apples from the barrel, which began to show conspicuously the result of their raids, wherefore Penrod made an unostentatious visit to the cellar of his own house.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000043_000002|From the inside he opened a window and passed vegetables out to Sam, who placed them in a bucket and carried them hurriedly to the stable, while Penrod returned in a casual manner through the house.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000043_000003|Of his sang froid under a great strain it is sufficient to relate that, in the kitchen, he said suddenly to Della, the cook, "Oh, look behind you!" and by the time Della discovered that there was nothing unusual behind her, Penrod was gone, and a loaf of bread from the kitchen table was gone with him.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000044_000000|Whitey now ate nine turnips, two heads of lettuce, one cabbage, eleven raw potatoes and the loaf of bread.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000044_000001|He ate the loaf of bread last and he was a long time about it; so the boys came to a not unreasonable conclusion.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000045_000000|"Well, sir, I guess we got him filled up at last!" said Penrod.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000046_000001|"I think he's kind of begun to fill out some.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000046_000002|I expect he must like us, Penrod; we been doin' a good deal for this horse."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000047_000000|"Well, we got to keep it up," Penrod insisted rather pompously.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000048_000000|"What we better do now, Penrod?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000049_000000|Penrod took on the outward signs of deep thought.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000050_000000|"Well, there's plenty to DO, all right.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000050_000001|I got to think."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000051_000000|Sam made several suggestions, which Penrod-maintaining his air of preoccupation-dismissed with mere gestures.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000052_000001|"We ought to wash him so's he'll look whiter'n what he does now.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000053_000000|"No; not yet," Penrod said.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000053_000001|"It's too soon after his meal.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000053_000002|You ought to know that yourself.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000054_000000|"Make up a what for him?" Sam echoed, dumfounded.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000054_000001|"What you talkin' about?
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000055_000000|"Sawdust," Penrod said.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000055_000001|"That's the way the horse we used to have used to have it.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000055_000002|We'll make this horse's bed in the other stall, and then he can go in there and lay down whenever he wants to."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000056_000000|"How we goin' to do it?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000057_000000|"Look, Sam; there's the hole into the sawdust box!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000057_000001|All you got to do is walk in there with the shovel, stick the shovel in the hole till it gets full of sawdust, and then sprinkle it around on the empty stall."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000060_000000|"What makes you think he won't kick?"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000061_000000|"Well, I KNOW he won't, and, besides, you could hit him with the shovel if he tried to.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000062_000000|"I don't care where you are," Sam said earnestly.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000063_000001|"When he first came in, you were goin' to take the rake and-"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000064_000000|"I don't care if I was," Sam declared.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000064_000001|"I was excited then."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000065_000000|"Well, you can get excited now, can't you?" his friend urged.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000065_000001|"You can just as easy get-"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000067_000000|"Look!
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000067_000001|Looky there!" And undoubtedly renewing his excitement, Sam pointed at the long, gaunt head beyond the manger.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000067_000002|It was disappearing from view.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000067_000003|"Look!" Sam shouted.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000067_000004|"He's layin' down!"
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000068_000000|"Well, then," said Penrod, "I guess he's goin' to take a nap.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000068_000001|If he wants to lay down without waitin' for us to get the sawdust fixed for him, that's his lookout, not ours."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000069_000000|On the contrary, Sam perceived a favourable opportunity for action.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000070_000000|"I just as soon go and make his bed up while he's layin' down," he volunteered.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000070_000001|"You climb up on the manger and watch him, Penrod, and I'll sneak in the other stall and fix it all up nice for him, so's he can go in there any time when he wakes up, and lay down again, or anything; and if he starts to get up, you holler and I'll jump out over the other manger."
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000071_000000|Accordingly, Penrod established himself in a position to observe the recumbent figure.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000071_000001|Whitey's breathing was rather laboured but regular, and, as Sam remarked, he looked "better", even in his slumber.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000071_000002|It is not to be doubted that although Whitey was suffering from a light attack of colic his feelings were in the main those of contentment.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000071_000003|After trouble, he was solaced; after exposure, he was sheltered; after hunger and thirst, he was fed and watered.
train-other-500/3744/178590/3744_178590_000071_000004|He slept.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000003_000000|CHAPTER twelve.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000003_000001|GIPSY
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000004_000000|On a fair Saturday afternoon in November Penrod's little old dog Duke returned to the ways of his youth and had trouble with a strange cat on the back porch.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000004_000001|This indiscretion, so uncharacteristic, was due to the agitation of a surprised moment, for Duke's experience had inclined him to a peaceful pessimism, and he had no ambition for hazardous undertakings of any sort.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000004_000002|He was given to musing but not to avoidable action, and he seemed habitually to hope for something that he was pretty sure would not happen.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000005_000000|Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse can.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000006_000001|Once, long ago, he had been a roly poly pepper and salt kitten; he had a home in those days, and a name, "Gipsy," which he abundantly justified.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000006_000002|He was precocious in dissipation.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000006_000003|Long before his adolescence, his lack of domesticity was ominous, and he had formed bad companionships.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000006_000004|Meanwhile, he grew so rangy, and developed such length and power of leg and such traits of character, that the father of the little girl who owned him was almost convincing when he declared that the young cat was half broncho and half Malay pirate-though, in the light of Gipsy's later career, this seems bitterly unfair to even the lowest orders of bronchos and Malay pirates.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000007_000000|No; Gipsy was not the pet for a little girl.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000007_000001|The rosy hearthstone and sheltered rug were too circumspect for him.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000007_000002|Surrounded by the comforts of middle class respectability, and profoundly oppressed, even in his youth, by the Puritan ideals of the household, he sometimes experienced a sense of suffocation.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000007_000003|He wanted free air and he wanted free life; he wanted the lights, the lights and the music.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000007_000004|He abandoned the bourgeoise irrevocably.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000007_000005|He went forth in a May twilight, carrying the evening beefsteak with him, and joined the underworld.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000008_000000|His extraordinary size, his daring and his utter lack of sympathy soon made him the leader-and, at the same time, the terror-of all the loose lived cats in a wide neighbourhood.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000008_000003|This stately and dangerous walk of his, his long, vibrant whiskers, his scars, his yellow eye, so ice cold, so fire hot, haughty as the eye of Satan, gave him the deadly air of a mousquetaire duellist.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000008_000005|Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature that now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000009_000000|The scrutiny was searching but not prolonged.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000009_000002|It was a desirable fishbone, large, with a considerable portion of the fish's tail still attached to it.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000010_000001|This faithful sentinel, on guard even while Duke slept, signalled that alarums and excursions by parties unknown were taking place, and suggested that attention might well be paid.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000010_000002|Duke opened one drowsy eye.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000010_000003|What that eye beheld was monstrous.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000011_000000|Here was a strange experience-the horrific vision in the midst of things so accustomed.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000011_000001|Sunshine fell sweetly upon porch and backyard; yonder was the familiar stable, and from its interior came the busy hum of a carpenter shop, established that morning by Duke's young master, in association with Samuel Williams and Herman.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000011_000003|All about Duke were these usual and reassuring environs of his daily life, and yet it was his fate to behold, right in the midst of them, and in ghastly juxtaposition to his face, a thing of nightmare and lunacy.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000012_000000|Gipsy had seized the fishbone by the middle.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000012_000001|Out from one side of his head, and mingling with his whiskers, projected the long, spiked spine of the big fish; down from the other side of that ferocious head dangled the fish's tail, and from above the remarkable effect thus produced shot the intolerable glare of two yellow eyes.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000012_000005|Indeed, Duke was not in a position to think the matter over quietly.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000013_000000|On the contrary, Duke was so electrified by his horrid awakening that he completely lost his presence of mind.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000013_000001|In the very instant of his first eye's opening, the other eye and his mouth behaved similarly, the latter loosing upon the quiet air one shriek of mental agony before the little dog scrambled to his feet and gave further employment to his voice in a frenzy of profanity.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000013_000002|At the same time the subterranean diapason of a demoniac bass viol was heard; it rose to a wail, and rose and rose again till it screamed like a small siren.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000013_000003|It was Gipsy's war cry, and, at the sound of it, Duke became a frothing maniac.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000013_000004|He made a convulsive frontal attack upon the hobgoblin-and the massacre began.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000014_000000|Never releasing the fishbone for an instant, Gipsy laid back his ears in a chilling way, beginning to shrink into himself like a concertina, but rising amidships so high that he appeared to be giving an imitation of that peaceful beast, the dromedary.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000014_000001|Such was not his purpose, however, for, having attained his greatest possible altitude, he partially sat down and elevated his right arm after the manner of a semaphore.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000014_000002|This semaphore arm remained rigid for a second, threatening; then it vibrated with inconceivable rapidity, feinting.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000014_000003|But it was the treacherous left that did the work.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000014_000004|Seemingly this left gave Duke three lightning little pats upon the right ear; but the change in his voice indicated that these were no love taps.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000014_000005|He yelled "help!" and "bloody murder!"
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000015_000000|Never had such a shattering uproar, all vocal, broken out upon a peaceful afternoon.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000015_000001|Gipsy possessed a vocabulary for cat swearing certainly second to none out of Italy, and probably equal to the best there, while Duke remembered and uttered things he had not thought of for years.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000016_000000|The hum of the carpenter shop ceased, and Sam Williams appeared in the stable doorway.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000016_000001|He stared insanely.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000017_000000|"My gorry!" he shouted.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000017_000002|C'mon!"
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000018_000000|His feet were already in motion toward the battlefield, with Penrod and Herman hurrying in his wake.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000018_000001|Onward they sped, and Duke was encouraged by the sight and sound of these reenforcements to increase his own outrageous clamours and to press home his attack.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000018_000002|But he was ill advised.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000018_000003|This time it was the right arm of the semaphore that dipped-and Duke's honest nose was but too conscious of what happened in consequence.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000019_000000|A lump of dirt struck the refuse can with violence, and Gipsy beheld the advance of overwhelming forces.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000019_000001|They rushed upon him from two directions, cutting off the steps of the porch.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000019_000002|Undaunted, the formidable cat raked Duke's nose again, somewhat more lingeringly, and prepared to depart with his fishbone.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000019_000003|He had little fear for himself, because he was inclined to think that, unhampered, he could whip anything on earth; still, things seemed to be growing rather warm and he saw nothing to prevent his leaving.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000020_000000|And though he could laugh in the face of so unequal an antagonist as Duke, Gipsy felt that he was never at his best or able to do himself full justice unless he could perform that feline operation inaccurately known as "spitting".
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000021_000000|Therefore, on small accounts he decided to leave the field to his enemies and to carry the fishbone elsewhere.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000021_000001|He took two giant leaps. The first landed him upon the edge of the porch.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000021_000003|He made a stirring picture, however brief, as he left the solid porch behind him and sailed upward on an ascending curve into the sunlit air.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000021_000004|His head was proudly up; he was the incarnation of menacing power and of self confidence.
train-other-500/3744/178594/3744_178594_000021_000005|It is possible that the whitefish's spinal column and flopping tail had interfered with his vision, and in launching himself he may have mistaken the dark, round opening of the cistern for its dark, round cover.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000002|He would fain build up a city of refuge for the persecuted sect.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000004|He must act, too, in the name of the Crown, and in virtue of his office of Admiral of France.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000005|A nobleman and a soldier,--for the Admiral of France was no seaman,--he shared the ideas and habits of his class; nor is there reason to believe him to have been in advance of his time in a knowledge of the principles of successful colonization.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000006|His scheme promised a military colony, not a free commonwealth.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000007|The Huguenot party was already a political as well as a religious party.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000009|Joined to these were numbers on whom the faith sat lightly, whose hope was in commotion and change.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000000_000010|Of the latter, in great part, was the Huguenot noblesse, from Conde, who aspired to the crown,
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000002_000000|to the younger son of the impoverished seigneur whose patrimony was his sword.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000002_000001|More than this, the restless, the factious, and the discontented, began to link their fortunes to a party whose triumph would involve confiscation of the wealth of the only rich class in France.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000003_000000|America was still a land of wonder.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000003_000001|The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,--a land of romance, adventure, and gold.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000004_000000|Fifty eight years later the Puritans landed on the sands of Massachusetts Bay.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000004_000003|In their own hearts, and not in the promptings of a great leader or the patronage of an equivocal government, their enterprise found its birth and its achievement.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000004_000004|They were of the boldest and most earnest of their sect.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000004_000005|There were such among the French disciples of Calvin; but no Mayflower ever sailed from a port of France.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000004_000006|Coligny's colonists were of a different stamp, and widely different was their fate.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000005_000000|An excellent seaman and stanch Protestant, Jean Ribaut of Dieppe, commanded the expedition.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000005_000004|It was the coast of Florida.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000006_000000|On the next morning, the first of May, they found themselves off the mouth of a great river.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000006_000002|They pushed their boats ashore and disembarked,--sailors, soldiers, and eager young nobles.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000006_000003|Corselet and morion, arquebuse and halberd, flashed in the sun that flickered through innumerable leaves, as, kneeling on the ground, they gave thanks to God, who had guided their voyage to an issue full of promise.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000007_000000|But Ribaut and his followers, just escaped from the dull prison of their ships, were intent on admiring the wild scenes around them.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000007_000001|Never had they known a fairer May day.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000009_000002|They gathered, too, from the signs of their savage visitors, that the wonderful land of Cibola, with its seven cities and its untold riches, was distant but twenty days' journey by water.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000009_000003|In truth, it was two thousand miles westward, and its wealth a fable.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000010_000000|They named the river the River of May.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000010_000001|It is now the saint John's.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000011_000003|At length, opening betwixt flat and sandy shores, they saw a commodious haven, and named it Port Royal.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000012_000001|When they landed, all was solitude.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000012_000002|The frightened Indians had fled, but they lured them back with knives, beads, and looking glasses, and enticed two of them on board their ships.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000012_000003|Here, by feeding, clothing, and caressing them, they tried to wean them from their fears, thinking to carry them to France, in obedience to a command of Catherine de Medicis; but the captive warriors moaned and lamented day and night, and at length made their escape.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000013_000000|Ranging the woods, they found them full of game, wild turkeys and partridges, bears and lynxes.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000013_000001|Two deer, of unusual size, leaped from the underbrush.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000013_000002|Cross bow and arquebuse were brought to the level; but the Huguenot captain, "moved with the singular fairness and bigness of them," forbade his men to shoot.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000014_000001|Ribaut was more than willing to humor them.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000014_000002|He mustered his company on deck, and made them a harangue.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000016_000001|They were alone in those fearful solitudes.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000016_000002|From the north pole to Mexico there was no Christian denizen but they.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000017_000000|The pressing question was how they were to subsist.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000017_000001|Their thought was not of subsistence, but of gold.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000017_000003|For a time they busied themselves with finishing their fort, and, this done, set forth in quest of adventures.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000018_000000|The Indians had lost fear of them.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000018_000001|Ribaut had enjoined upon them to use all kindness and gentleness in their dealing with the men of the woods; and they more than obeyed him.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000018_000002|They were soon hand and glove with chiefs, warriors, and squaws; and as with Indians the adage that familiarity breeds contempt holds with peculiar force, they quickly divested themselves of the prestige which had attached at the outset to their supposed character of children of the sun
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000018_000003|Good will, however, remained, and this the colonists abused to the utmost.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000019_000002|When they arrived, they found the village alive with preparation, and troops of women busied in sweeping the great circular area where the ceremonies were to take place.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000019_000005|A scene of ravenous feasting followed, in which the French, released from durance, were summoned to share.
train-other-500/3747/173589/3747_173589_000020_000001|The Indians, never niggardly of food, brought them supplies as long as their own lasted; but the harvest was not yet ripe, and their means did not match their good will.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000000_000001|A CUNNING CONSPIRACY.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000001_000000|The Warden entered at this moment: and close behind him came the Lord Chancellor, a little flushed and out of breath, and adjusting his wig, which appeared to have been dragged partly off his head.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000002_000000|"But where is my precious child?" my Lady enquired, as the four took their seats at the small side table devoted to ledgers and bundles and bills.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000004_000000|"Ah!" said my Lady, graciously smiling on that high official.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000004_000001|"Your Lordship has a very taking way with children!
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000005_000000|The Chancellor bowed, but with a very uneasy air.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000006_000000|But my Lady would not be checked.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000006_000001|"He is a clever boy," she continued with enthusiasm, "but he needs a man like your Lordship to draw him out!"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000007_000000|The Chancellor bit his lip, and was silent.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000007_000001|He evidently feared that, stupid as she looked, she understood what she said this time, and was having a joke at his expense.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000007_000002|He might have spared himself all anxiety: whatever accidental meaning her words might have, she herself never meant anything at all.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000008_000001|"The Sub Wardenship is abolished, and my brother is appointed to act as Vice Warden whenever I am absent.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000008_000002|So, as I am going abroad for a while, he will enter on his new duties at once."
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000009_000000|"And there will really be a Vice after all?" my Lady enquired.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000010_000000|"I hope so!" the Warden smilingly replied.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000011_000000|My Lady looked much pleased, and tried to clap her hands: but you might as well have knocked two feather beds together, for any noise it made. "When my husband is Vice," she said, "it will be the same as if we had a hundred Vices!"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000014_000000|"No, not remarkable at all!" her husband anxiously explained.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000014_000001|"Nothing is remarkable that you say, sweet one!"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000015_000000|My Lady smiled approval of the sentiment, and went on.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000016_000000|"If you choose to use that title," said the Warden: "but 'Your Excellency' will be the proper style of address.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000016_000001|And I trust that both 'His Excellency' and 'Her Excellency' will observe the Agreement I have drawn up.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000016_000003|"I suppose, now, that word 'item' has some deep legal meaning?"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000017_000000|"Undoubtedly!" replied the Chancellor, as articulately as he could with a pen between his lips.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000017_000001|He was nervously rolling and unrolling several other scrolls, and making room among them for the one the Warden had just handed to him.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000017_000002|"These are merely the rough copies," he explained: "and, as soon as I have put in the final corrections-" making a great commotion among the different parchments, "--a semi colon or two that I have accidentally omitted-" here he darted about, pen in hand, from one part of the scroll to another, spreading sheets of blotting paper over his corrections, "all will be ready for signing."
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000018_000000|"Should it not be read out, first?" my Lady enquired.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000019_000000|"No need, no need!" the Sub Warden and the Chancellor exclaimed at the same moment, with feverish eagerness.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000020_000000|"No need at all," the Warden gently assented.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000022_000000|"Short partings are best," said the Warden.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000022_000001|"All is ready for my journey.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000022_000002|My children are waiting below to see me off"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000025_000001|And he and the Vice Warden joined hands, and skipped wildly about the room.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000025_000002|My Lady was too dignified to skip, but she laughed like the neighing of a horse, and waved her handkerchief above her head: it was clear to her very limited understanding that something very clever had been done, but what it was she had yet to learn.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000026_000000|"You said I should hear all about it when the Warden had gone," she remarked, as soon as she could make herself heard.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000027_000000|"And so you shall, Tabby!" her husband graciously replied, as he removed the blotting paper, and showed the two parchments lying side by side. "This is the one he read but didn't sign: and this is the one he signed but didn't read!
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000028_000000|"Yes, yes!" my Lady interrupted eagerly, and began comparing the two Agreements.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000029_000000|"'Item, that he shall exercise the authority of Warden, in the Warden's absence.' Why, that's been changed into 'shall be absolute governor for life, with the title of Emperor, if elected to that office by the people.' What!
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000029_000001|Are you Emperor, darling?"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000030_000000|"Not yet, dear," the Vice Warden replied.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000030_000001|"It won't do to let this paper be seen, just at present.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000030_000002|All in good time."
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000031_000000|My Lady nodded, and read on.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000031_000001|"'Item, that we will be kind to the poor.' Why, that's omitted altogether!"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000032_000000|"Course it is!" said her husband.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000033_000000|"Good," said my Lady, with emphasis, and read on again.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000033_000002|Well, Sibby, that was a clever trick!
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000033_000003|All the Jewels, only think!
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000033_000004|May I go and put them on directly?"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000034_000000|"Well, not just yet, Lovey," her husband uneasily replied.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000034_000002|We must feel our way.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000034_000003|Of course we'll have the coach and four out, at once.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000034_000004|And I'll take the title of Emperor, as soon as we can safely hold an Election.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000034_000005|But they'll hardly stand our using the Jewels, as long as they know the Warden's alive.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000034_000007|A little Conspiracy-"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000036_000000|The Vice Warden and the Chancellor interchanged a wink or two.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000037_000000|"And when will the Conspiracy-"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000039_000000|"Mustn't cry like that!" the Vice Warden said sharply, but without any effect on the weeping children.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000039_000001|"Cheer 'em up a bit!" he hinted to my Lady.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000040_000000|"Cake!" my Lady muttered to herself with great decision, crossing the room and opening a cupboard, from which she presently returned with two slices of plum cake.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000040_000001|"Eat, and don't cry!" were her short and simple orders: and the poor children sat down side by side, but seemed in no mood for eating.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000042_000000|"He's not to have any food-" the Vice warden was beginning, but the Chancellor interrupted him.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000043_000000|"He's just under here," said Uggug, who had gone to the window, and was looking down into the court yard.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000044_000001|All of us (except Sylvie and Bruno, who took no notice of what was going on) followed her to the window.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000044_000003|"Only a crust of bread, your Highness!" he pleaded.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000046_000001|"A crust of bread is what I crave!" he repeated.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000047_000000|"Here's some water, drink this!"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000049_000000|"Well done, my boy!" cried the Vice Warden.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000050_000000|"That's the way to settle such folk!"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000051_000000|"Clever boy!", the Wardeness chimed in.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000051_000001|"Hasn't he good spirits?"
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000052_000000|"Take a stick to him!" shouted the Vice Warden, as the old Beggar shook the water from his ragged cloak, and again gazed meekly upwards.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000053_000000|"Take a red hot poker to him!" my Lady again chimed in.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000054_000000|Possibly there was no red hot poker handy: but some sticks were forthcoming in a moment, and threatening faces surrounded the poor old wanderer, who waved them back with quiet dignity.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000054_000001|"No need to break my old bones," he said.
train-other-500/3757/134141/3757_134141_000054_000002|"I am going.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000000_000000|"I hope I didn't frighten you?" I stammered out at last.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000000_000001|"I have no idea what I said.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000000_000002|I was dreaming."
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000001_000001|"At least-you didn't say it-you shouted it!"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000002_000000|"I'm very sorry," was all I could say, feeling very penitent and helpless.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000002_000001|"She has Sylvie's eyes!" I thought to myself, half doubting whether, even now, I were fairly awake.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000002_000002|"And that sweet look of innocent wonder is all Sylvie's too.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000004_000000|Her friendliness, and utter unreserve, took me aback for a moment; yet there was no touch of forwardness, or boldness, about the child for child, almost, she seemed to be: I guessed her at scarcely over twenty-all was the innocent frankness of some angelic visitant, new to the ways of earth and the conventionalisms or, if you will, the barbarisms-of Society.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000004_000001|"Even so," I mused, "will Sylvie look and speak, in another ten years."
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000005_000000|"You don't care for Ghosts, then," I ventured to suggest, "unless they are really terrifying?"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000006_000000|"Quite so," the lady assented.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000006_000001|"The regular Railway Ghosts-I mean the Ghosts of ordinary Railway literature-are very poor affairs.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000006_000002|I feel inclined to say, with Alexander Selkirk, 'Their tameness is shocking to me'!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000006_000004|They couldn't 'welter in gore,' to save their lives!"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000007_000000|"'Weltering in gore' is a very expressive phrase, certainly.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000007_000001|Can it be done in any fluid, I wonder?"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000008_000001|"It has to be something thick.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000008_000002|For instance, you might welter in bread sauce.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000009_000000|"You have a real good terrifying Ghost in that book?" I hinted.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000010_000000|"How could you guess?" she exclaimed with the most engaging frankness, and placed the volume in my hands.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000011_000000|It was a book of Domestic Cookery, open at the article Bread Sauce.'
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000012_000000|I returned the book, looking, I suppose, a little blank, as the lady laughed merrily at my discomfiture.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000012_000002|Now there was a Ghost last month-I don't mean a real Ghost in in Supernature-but in a Magazine.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000013_000000|"Three score years and ten, baldness, and spectacles, have their advantages after all!", I said to myself.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000013_000001|"Instead of a bashful youth and maiden, gasping out monosyllables at awful intervals, here we have an old man and a child, quite at their ease, talking as if they had known each other for years!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000013_000002|Then you think," I continued aloud, "that we ought sometimes to ask a Ghost to sit down?
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000014_000001|"Yes, yes, he does!" she cried.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000014_000002|"He makes Hamlet say 'Rest, rest, perturbed Spirit!"'
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000015_000000|"And that, I suppose, means an easy chair?"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000016_000000|"An American rocking chair, I think-"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000019_000000|"Come, you be off!" the Station master roughly accosted the poor old man.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000019_000001|"You be off, and make way for your betters!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000019_000002|This way, my Lady!" he added in a perfectly different tone.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000020_000000|As I watched the old man slowly rise to his feet, and hobble a few paces down the platform, the lines came to my lips:--
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000021_000000|"From sackcloth couch the Monk arose, With toil his stiffen'd limbs he rear'd; A hundred years had flung their snows On his thin locks and floating beard."
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000023_000000|But the lady scarcely noticed the little incident.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000023_000001|After one glance at the 'banished man,' who stood tremulously leaning on his stick, she turned to me.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000024_000000|"--perturbed Spirit!"' I finished the sentence for her.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000024_000001|"Yes, that describes a railway traveler exactly!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000025_000000|She paused, before following him, to watch the progress of the other passenger.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000025_000001|"Poor old man!" she said.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000025_000005|I moved away a few steps, and waited to follow her into the carriage, where I resumed the conversation.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000027_000001|If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature!"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000028_000000|"No doubt of it," I echoed.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000028_000001|"The true origin of all our medical books-and all our cookery books-"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000029_000000|"No, no!" she broke in merrily.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000029_000001|"I didn't mean our Literature!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000029_000003|But the booklets-the little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty-surely they are due to Steam?"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000033_000000|"He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, "The bitterness of Life!'"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000034_000000|And what a wild being it was who sang these wild words!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000034_000001|A Gardener he seemed to be yet surely a mad one, by the way he brandished his rake-madder, by the way he broke, ever and anon, into a frantic jig-maddest of all, by the shriek in which he brought out the last words of the stanza!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000038_000000|"And who's that other thing?', said the Gardener.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000039_000000|"What thing?" said Sylvie, looking round.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000039_000001|"Oh, that's Bruno.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000039_000002|He's my brother."
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000042_000001|"Things change so, here.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000042_000002|Whenever I look again, it's sure to be something different!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000042_000003|Yet I does my duty!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000042_000004|I gets up wriggle early at five-"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000044_000000|"But you shouldn't be lazy in the morning, Bruno," said Sylvie. "Remember, it's the early bird that picks up the worm!"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000046_000000|"I wonder you've the face to tell me such fibs!" cried the Gardener.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000048_000000|Sylvie discreetly changed the subject.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000049_000000|"What a lovely garden you've made!
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000050_000000|"In the winter nights-" the Gardener was beginning.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000051_000001|There's a poor old beggar just gone out-and he's very hungry-and Bruno wants to give him his cake, you know!"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000054_000001|"That's a secret!" he said.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000054_000002|"Mind you come back quick!" he called after the children, as they passed out into the road.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000054_000003|I had just time to follow them, before he shut the door again.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000055_000000|We hurried down the road, and very soon caught sight of the old Beggar, about a quarter of a mile ahead of us, and the children at once set off running to overtake him.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000056_000001|But the unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might have done, there were so many other things to attend to.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000059_000000|"There is no more!", Sylvie said with tears in her eyes.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000059_000001|"I'd eaten mine.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000059_000002|It was a shame to let you be turned away like that.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000059_000003|I'm very sorry-"
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000062_000000|When the bush had sunk quite out of our sight, marble steps were seen, leading downwards into darkness.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000062_000001|The old man led the way, and we eagerly followed.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000064_000000|It was eight sided, having in each angle a slender pillar, round which silken draperies were twined.
train-other-500/3757/134142/3757_134142_000064_000002|In another place, perchance, I might have wondered to see fruit and flowers growing together: here, my chief wonder was that neither fruit nor flowers were such as I had ever seen before.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000001_000001|"I couldn't feel nuffin in my mouf!
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000003_000000|"They're all like that to you, darling, because you don't belong to Elfland-yet.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000003_000001|But to me they are real."
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000004_000000|Bruno looked puzzled.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000007_000000|"'It's just lovely," cried Sylvie, delightedly.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000008_000001|"All-will-love-Sylvie," he made them out at last.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000008_000002|"And so they doos!" he cried, clasping his arms round her neck.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000009_000000|"But we love her best, don't we, Bruno?" said the old King, as he took possession of the Locket.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000009_000001|"Now, Sylvie, look at this." And he showed her, lying on the palm of his hand, a Locket of a deep crimson colour, the same shape as the blue one and, like it, attached to a slender golden chain.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000010_000000|"Lovelier and lovelier!" exclaimed Sylvie, clasping her hands in ecstasy.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000012_000000|"Now you see the difference," said the old man: "different colours and different words."
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000013_000000|"Choose one of them, darling.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000015_000000|Sylvie whispered the words, several times over, with a thoughtful smile, and then made her decision.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000015_000001|"It's very nice to be loved," she said: "but it's nicer to love other people!
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000016_000000|The old man said nothing: but I could see his eyes fill with tears, as he bent his head and pressed his lips to her forehead in a long loving kiss.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000017_000000|"Yes, I'll remember," said Sylvie.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000018_000000|"And now darlings it's time for you to go back or they'll be missing you and then that poor Gardener will get into trouble!"
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000024_000000|"Them as pay rint for me, a course!" the Gardener replied.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000024_000001|"You can come in now, if you like."
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000028_000000|"Little, as you see, but quite enough for us two.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000028_000003|suff.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000030_000001|"At home, lawn tennis, three p m
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000030_000002|At home, kettledrum, five p m
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000030_000003|At home, music (Elveston doesn't give dinners), eight p m
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000030_000004|Carriages at ten.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000030_000005|There you are!"
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000031_000000|It sounded very pleasant, I was obliged to admit.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000031_000001|"And I know some of the lady society already," I added.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000032_000000|"What was she like?
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000033_000000|"The name was Lady Muriel Orme.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000035_000000|"I quite lost my heart to her!" I went on mischievously.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000035_000001|"We talked-"
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000036_000001|And he steadily resisted all my attempts to return to the subject of Lady Muriel until the evening had almost worn itself away.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000036_000002|Then, as we sat gazing into the fire, and conversation was lapsing into silence, he made a hurried confession.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000037_000001|And I've not breathed a word of it to any one else.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000037_000002|But I can trust you with a secret, old friend!
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000037_000003|Yes!
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000038_000000|"In the merest jest, believe me!" I said earnestly.
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000038_000001|"Why, man, I'm three times her age!
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000038_000002|But if she's your choice, then I'm sure she's all that is good and-"
train-other-500/3757/134143/3757_134143_000040_000000|I pictured them to myself walking together, lingeringly and lovingly, under arching trees, in a sweet garden of their own, and welcomed back by their faithful gardener, on their return from some brief excursion.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000000_000000|'Why, what's the matter with the boy!' said the old pauper.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000001_000000|'mr Bumble!
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000003_000000|'What?
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000003_000001|What?' interposed mr Bumble: with a gleam of pleasure in his metallic eyes.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000005_000000|Such agony, please, sir!' And here, Noah writhed and twisted his body into an extensive variety of eel like positions; thereby giving mr Bumble to understand that, from the violent and sanguinary onset of Oliver Twist, he had sustained severe internal injury and damage, from which he was at that moment suffering the acutest torture.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000006_000000|When Noah saw that the intelligence he communicated perfectly paralysed mr Bumble, he imparted additional effect thereunto, by bewailing his dreadful wounds ten times louder than before; and when he observed a gentleman in a white waistcoat crossing the yard, he was more tragic in his lamentations than ever: rightly conceiving it highly expedient to attract the notice, and rouse the indignation, of the gentleman aforesaid.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000007_000000|The gentleman's notice was very soon attracted; for he had not walked three paces, when he turned angrily round, and inquired what that young cur was howling for, and why mr Bumble did not favour him with something which would render the series of vocular exclamations so designated, an involuntary process?
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000009_000001|'I knew it!
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000011_000000|'And his missis,' interposed mr Claypole.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000016_000000|'Certainly, my boy; certainly,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat: smiling benignly, and patting Noah's head, which was about three inches higher than his own.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000016_000002|Bumble, just step up to Sowerberry's with your cane, and see what's best to be done.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000016_000003|Don't spare him, Bumble.'
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000017_000000|'No, I will not, sir,' replied the beadle.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000017_000001|And the cocked hat and cane having been, by this time, adjusted to their owner's satisfaction, mr Bumble and Noah Claypole betook themselves with all speed to the undertaker's shop.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000018_000000|Here the position of affairs had not at all improved.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000018_000002|The accounts of his ferocity as related by mrs Sowerberry and Charlotte, were of so startling a nature, that mr Bumble judged it prudent to parley, before opening the door.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000018_000003|With this view he gave a kick at the outside, by way of prelude; and, then, applying his mouth to the keyhole, said, in a deep and impressive tone:
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000020_000000|'Come; you let me out!' replied Oliver, from the inside.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000022_000000|'Yes,' replied Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000025_000000|An answer so different from the one he had expected to elicit, and was in the habit of receiving, staggered mr Bumble not a little.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000025_000001|He stepped back from the keyhole; drew himself up to his full height; and looked from one to another of the three bystanders, in mute astonishment.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000026_000000|'Oh, you know, mr Bumble, he must be mad,' said mrs Sowerberry.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000027_000000|'No boy in half his senses could venture to speak so to you.'
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000028_000001|'It's Meat.'
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000029_000000|'What?' exclaimed mrs Sowerberry.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000030_000005|If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.'
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000032_000000|The liberality of mrs Sowerberry to Oliver, had consisted of a profuse bestowal upon him of all the dirty odds and ends which nobody else would eat; so there was a great deal of meekness and self devotion in her voluntarily remaining under mr Bumble's heavy accusation.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000033_000002|Excitable natures, mrs Sowerberry!
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000034_000001|Oliver's offence having been explained to him, with such exaggerations as the ladies thought best calculated to rouse his ire, he unlocked the cellar door in a twinkling, and dragged his rebellious apprentice out, by the collar.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000035_000000|Oliver's clothes had been torn in the beating he had received; his face was bruised and scratched; and his hair scattered over his forehead. The angry flush had not disappeared, however; and when he was pulled out of his prison, he scowled boldly on Noah, and looked quite undismayed.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000037_000000|'He called my mother names,' replied Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000039_000000|'She didn't' said Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000040_000000|'She did,' said mrs Sowerberry.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000041_000000|'It's a lie!' said Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000042_000000|mrs Sowerberry burst into a flood of tears.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000043_000000|This flood of tears left mr Sowerberry no alternative.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000043_000001|If he had hesitated for one instant to punish Oliver most severely, it must be quite clear to every experienced reader that he would have been, according to all precedents in disputes of matrimony established, a brute, an unnatural husband, an insulting creature, a base imitation of a man, and various other agreeable characters too numerous for recital within the limits of this chapter.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000044_000001|He had listened to their taunts with a look of contempt; he had borne the lash without a cry: for he felt that pride swelling in his heart which would have kept down a shriek to the last, though they had roasted him alive.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000044_000002|But now, when there were none to see or hear him, he fell upon his knees on the floor; and, hiding his face in his hands, wept such tears as, God send for the credit of our nature, few so young may ever have cause to pour out before him!
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000045_000000|For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000045_000001|The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000045_000002|Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000046_000000|It was a cold, dark night.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000046_000001|The stars seemed, to the boy's eyes, farther from the earth than he had ever seen them before; there was no wind; and the sombre shadows thrown by the trees upon the ground, looked sepulchral and death like, from being so still.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000046_000002|He softly reclosed the door.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000046_000003|Having availed himself of the expiring light of the candle to tie up in a handkerchief the few articles of wearing apparel he had, sat himself down upon a bench, to wait for morning.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000047_000000|With the first ray of light that struggled through the crevices in the shutters, Oliver arose, and again unbarred the door.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000047_000001|One timid look around-one moment's pause of hesitation-he had closed it behind him, and was in the open street.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000049_000000|He remembered to have seen the waggons, as they went out, toiling up the hill.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000049_000001|He took the same route; and arriving at a footpath across the fields: which he knew, after some distance, led out again into the road; struck into it, and walked quickly on.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000050_000000|Along this same footpath, Oliver well remembered he had trotted beside mr Bumble, when he first carried him to the workhouse from the farm. His way lay directly in front of the cottage.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000050_000002|Besides, it was so early that there was very little fear of his being seen; so he walked on.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000051_000000|He reached the house.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000051_000001|There was no appearance of its inmates stirring at that early hour.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000051_000002|Oliver stopped, and peeped into the garden.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000051_000003|A child was weeding one of the little beds; as he stopped, he raised his pale face and disclosed the features of one of his former companions. Oliver felt glad to see him, before he went; for, though younger than himself, he had been his little friend and playmate.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000051_000004|They had been beaten, and starved, and shut up together, many and many a time.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000052_000001|'Is any one up?'
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000053_000000|'Nobody but me,' replied the child.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000054_000002|How pale you are!'
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000055_000000|'I heard the doctor tell them I was dying,' replied the child with a faint smile.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000056_000001|I know I shall!
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000057_000000|'I hope so,' replied the child.
train-other-500/377/129290/377_129290_000057_000004|God bless you!'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000000_000001|He would stop every now and then to listen when there was the least noise below: and when he had satisfied himself, he would go on whistling and stirring again, as before.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000002_000000|Oliver was precisely in this condition.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000002_000001|He saw the Jew with his half closed eyes; heard his low whistling; and recognised the sound of the spoon grating against the saucepan's sides: and yet the self same senses were mentally engaged, at the same time, in busy action with almost everybody he had ever known.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000003_000000|When the coffee was done, the Jew drew the saucepan to the hob. Standing, then in an irresolute attitude for a few minutes, as if he did not well know how to employ himself, he turned round and looked at Oliver, and called him by his name.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000003_000001|He did not answer, and was to all appearances asleep.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000004_000000|After satisfying himself upon this head, the Jew stepped gently to the door: which he fastened.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000004_000002|His eyes glistened as he raised the lid, and looked in. Dragging an old chair to the table, he sat down; and took from it a magnificent gold watch, sparkling with jewels.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000001|'Clever dogs!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000002|Clever dogs!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000003|Staunch to the last!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000004|Never told the old parson where they were.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000005|Never poached upon old Fagin!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000008|No, no, no! Fine fellows!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000005_000009|Fine fellows!'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000006_000000|With these, and other muttered reflections of the like nature, the Jew once more deposited the watch in its place of safety.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000006_000001|At least half a dozen more were severally drawn forth from the same box, and surveyed with equal pleasure; besides rings, brooches, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, of such magnificent materials, and costly workmanship, that Oliver had no idea, even of their names.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000007_000000|Having replaced these trinkets, the Jew took out another: so small that it lay in the palm of his hand.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000007_000002|At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered:
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000008_000000|'What a fine thing capital punishment is!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000009_000000|As the Jew uttered these words, his bright dark eyes, which had been staring vacantly before him, fell on Oliver's face; the boy's eyes were fixed on his in mute curiousity; and although the recognition was only for an instant-for the briefest space of time that can possibly be conceived-it was enough to show the old man that he had been observed.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000010_000000|He closed the lid of the box with a loud crash; and, laying his hand on a bread knife which was on the table, started furiously up.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000010_000001|He trembled very much though; for, even in his terror, Oliver could see that the knife quivered in the air.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000011_000000|'What's that?' said the Jew.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000011_000001|'What do you watch me for?
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000011_000003|What have you seen?
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000011_000004|Speak out, boy!
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000011_000005|Quick-quick! for your life.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000012_000000|'I wasn't able to sleep any longer, sir,' replied Oliver, meekly.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000013_000000|'You were not awake an hour ago?' said the Jew, scowling fiercely on the boy.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000014_000000|'No! No, indeed!' replied Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000015_000000|'Are you sure?' cried the Jew: with a still fiercer look than before: and a threatening attitude.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000016_000000|'Upon my word I was not, sir,' replied Oliver, earnestly.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000016_000001|'I was not, indeed, sir.'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000017_000001|'Of course I know that, my dear.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000017_000002|I only tried to frighten you.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000017_000004|you're a brave boy, Oliver.' The Jew rubbed his hands with a chuckle, but glanced uneasily at the box, notwithstanding.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000018_000000|'Did you see any of these pretty things, my dear?' said the Jew, laying his hand upon it after a short pause.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000020_000002|All I have to live upon, in my old age.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000020_000004|Only a miser; that's all.'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000022_000001|'Stay. There's a pitcher of water in the corner by the door.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000022_000002|Bring it here; and I'll give you a basin to wash in, my dear.'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000023_000000|Oliver got up; walked across the room; and stooped for an instant to raise the pitcher.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000023_000001|When he turned his head, the box was gone.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000024_000000|He had scarcely washed himself, and made everything tidy, by emptying the basin out of the window, agreeably to the Jew's directions, when the Dodger returned: accompanied by a very sprightly young friend, whom Oliver had seen smoking on the previous night, and who was now formally introduced to him as Charley Bates.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000024_000001|The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000025_000000|'Well,' said the Jew, glancing slyly at Oliver, and addressing himself to the Dodger, 'I hope you've been at work this morning, my dears?'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000026_000000|'Hard,' replied the Dodger.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000027_000000|'As nails,' added Charley Bates.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000028_000000|'Good boys, good boys!' said the Jew. 'What have you got, Dodger?'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000030_000000|'Lined?' inquired the Jew, with eagerness.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000031_000000|'Pretty well,' replied the Dodger, producing two pocket books; one green, and the other red.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000032_000000|'Not so heavy as they might be,' said the Jew, after looking at the insides carefully; 'but very neat and nicely made.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000032_000001|Ingenious workman, ain't he, Oliver?'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000033_000000|'Very indeed, sir,' said Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000033_000001|At which mr Charles Bates laughed uproariously; very much to the amazement of Oliver, who saw nothing to laugh at, in anything that had passed.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000034_000000|'And what have you got, my dear?' said Fagin to Charley Bates.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000035_000000|'Wipes,' replied Master Bates; at the same time producing four pocket handkerchiefs.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000036_000001|You haven't marked them well, though, Charley; so the marks shall be picked out with a needle, and we'll teach Oliver how to do it.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000036_000002|Shall us, Oliver, eh?
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000039_000000|'Very much, indeed, if you'll teach me, sir,' replied Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000040_000000|Master Bates saw something so exquisitely ludicrous in this reply, that he burst into another laugh; which laugh, meeting the coffee he was drinking, and carrying it down some wrong channel, very nearly terminated in his premature suffocation.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000041_000000|'He is so jolly green!' said Charley when he recovered, as an apology to the company for his unpolite behaviour.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000043_000000|When the breakfast was cleared away; the merry old gentlman and the two boys played at a very curious and uncommon game, which was performed in this way.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000043_000002|Sometimes he stopped at the fire place, and sometimes at the door, making believe that he was staring with all his might into shop windows.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000043_000005|At last, the Dodger trod upon his toes, or ran upon his boot accidently, while Charley Bates stumbled up against him behind; and in that one moment they took from him, with the most extraordinary rapidity, snuff box, note case, watch guard, chain, shirt pin, pocket handkerchief, even the spectacle case.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000044_000000|When this game had been played a great many times, a couple of young ladies called to see the young gentleman; one of whom was named Bet, and the other Nancy.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000044_000002|Being remarkably free and agreeable in their manners, Oliver thought them very nice girls indeed.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000044_000003|As there is no doubt they were.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000045_000000|The visitors stopped a long time.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000045_000001|Spirits were produced, in consequence of one of the young ladies complaining of a coldness in her inside; and the conversation took a very convivial and improving turn.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000045_000002|At length, Charley Bates expressed his opinion that it was time to pad the hoof. This, it occurred to Oliver, must be French for going out; for directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and the two young ladies, went away together, having been kindly furnished by the amiable old Jew with money to spend.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000046_000000|'There, my dear,' said Fagin.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000046_000001|'That's a pleasant life, isn't it?
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000046_000002|They have gone out for the day.'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000047_000000|'Have they done work, sir?' inquired Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000048_000000|'Yes,' said the Jew; 'that is, unless they should unexpectedly come across any, when they are out; and they won't neglect it, if they do, my dear, depend upon it.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000048_000001|Make 'em your models, my dear.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000048_000002|Make 'em your models,' tapping the fire shovel on the hearth to add force to his words; 'do everything they bid you, and take their advice in all matters-especially the Dodger's, my dear.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000048_000003|He'll be a great man himself, and will make you one too, if you take pattern by him.--Is my handkerchief hanging out of my pocket, my dear?' said the Jew, stopping short.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000049_000000|'Yes, sir,' said Oliver.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000050_000000|'See if you can take it out, without my feeling it; as you saw them do, when we were at play this morning.'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000051_000000|Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand, as he had seen the Dodger hold it, and drew the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000052_000000|'Is it gone?' cried the Jew.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000054_000001|'I never saw a sharper lad.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000054_000004|And now come here, and I'll show you how to take the marks out of the handkerchiefs.'
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000055_000000|Oliver wondered what picking the old gentleman's pocket in play, had to do with his chances of being a great man.
train-other-500/377/129292/377_129292_000055_000001|But, thinking that the Jew, being so much his senior, must know best, he followed him quietly to the table, and was soon deeply involved in his new study.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000000|But in the drawing room the conversation was already over.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000002|At the moment Alyosha and Madame Hohlakov entered, Ivan Fyodorovitch stood up to take leave.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000003|His face was rather pale, and Alyosha looked at him anxiously.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000004|For this moment was to solve a doubt, a harassing enigma which had for some time haunted Alyosha.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000006|Until quite lately the idea seemed to Alyosha monstrous, though it worried him extremely.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000007|He loved both his brothers, and dreaded such rivalry between them.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000008|Meantime, Dmitri had said outright on the previous day that he was glad that Ivan was his rival, and that it was a great assistance to him, Dmitri.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000009|In what way did it assist him?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000010|To marry Grushenka?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000011|But that Alyosha considered the worst thing possible.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000001_000013|He had fancied, too, that she was incapable of loving a man like Ivan, and that she did love Dmitri, and loved him just as he was, in spite of all the strangeness of such a passion.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000002_000000|But during yesterday's scene with Grushenka another idea had struck him. The word "lacerating," which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost made him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night he had cried out "Laceration, laceration," probably applying it to his dream.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000002_000003|"Yes," he thought, "perhaps the whole truth lies in those words." But in that case what was Ivan's position?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000002_000005|Alyosha could not help believing that of Ivan.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000002_000006|And now all these doubts and reflections flitted through his mind as he entered the drawing room. Another idea, too, forced itself upon him: "What if she loved neither of them-neither Ivan nor Dmitri?"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000003_000000|It must be noted that Alyosha felt as it were ashamed of his own thoughts and blamed himself when they kept recurring to him during the last month. "What do I know about love and women and how can I decide such questions?" he thought reproachfully, after such doubts and surmises.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000003_000001|And yet it was impossible not to think about it.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000003_000002|He felt instinctively that this rivalry was of immense importance in his brothers' lives and that a great deal depended upon it.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000000|"One reptile will devour the other," Ivan had pronounced the day before, speaking in anger of his father and Dmitri.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000002|Was it perhaps since he had known Katerina Ivanovna?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000003|That phrase had, of course, escaped Ivan unawares yesterday, but that only made it more important.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000004|If he felt like that, what chance was there of peace?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000005|Were there not, on the contrary, new grounds for hatred and hostility in their family?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000006|And with which of them was Alyosha to sympathize?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000007|And what was he to wish for each of them?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000008|He loved them both, but what could he desire for each in the midst of these conflicting interests?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000010|He was incapable of passive love.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000013|But instead of a definite aim, he found nothing but uncertainty and perplexity on all sides.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000014|"It was lacerating," as was said just now.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000015|But what could he understand even in this "laceration"?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000004_000016|He did not understand the first word in this perplexing maze.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000005_000000|Seeing Alyosha, Katerina Ivanovna said quickly and joyfully to Ivan, who had already got up to go, "A minute!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000005_000001|Stay another minute!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000005_000002|I want to hear the opinion of this person here whom I trust absolutely.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000005_000003|Don't go away," she added, addressing Madame Hohlakov.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000005_000004|She made Alyosha sit down beside her, and Madame Hohlakov sat opposite, by Ivan.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000001|"You, Alexey Fyodorovitch, were witness yesterday of that abominable scene, and saw what I did.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000002|You did not see it, Ivan Fyodorovitch, he did.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000003|What he thought of me yesterday I don't know.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000004|I only know one thing, that if it were repeated to day, this minute, I should express the same feelings again as yesterday-the same feelings, the same words, the same actions.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000005|You remember my actions, Alexey Fyodorovitch; you checked me in one of them" ... (as she said that, she flushed and her eyes shone).
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000006|"I must tell you that I can't get over it.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000006_000007|Listen, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000007_000000|Her voice quivered, and tears glittered on her eyelashes.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000007_000001|Alyosha shuddered inwardly.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000007_000002|"That girl is truthful and sincere," he thought, "and she does not love Dmitri any more."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000008_000000|"That's true, that's true," cried Madame Hohlakov.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000009_000000|"Wait, dear.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000009_000001|I haven't told you the chief, the final decision I came to during the night.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000009_000002|I feel that perhaps my decision is a terrible one-for me, but I foresee that nothing will induce me to change it-nothing.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000009_000003|It will be so all my life.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000009_000004|My dear, kind, ever faithful and generous adviser, the one friend I have in the world, Ivan Fyodorovitch, with his deep insight into the heart, approves and commends my decision.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000009_000005|He knows it."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000010_000000|"Yes, I approve of it," Ivan assented, in a subdued but firm voice.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000011_000000|"But I should like Alyosha, too (Ah!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000011_000002|I feel instinctively that you, Alyosha, my dear brother (for you are a dear brother to me)," she said again ecstatically, taking his cold hand in her hot one, "I foresee that your decision, your approval, will bring me peace, in spite of all my sufferings, for, after your words, I shall be calm and submit-I feel that."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000012_000000|"I don't know what you are asking me," said Alyosha, flushing.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000012_000001|"I only know that I love you and at this moment wish for your happiness more than my own!...
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000012_000002|But I know nothing about such affairs," something impelled him to add hurriedly.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000000|"In such affairs, Alexey Fyodorovitch, in such affairs, the chief thing is honor and duty and something higher-I don't know what-but higher perhaps even than duty.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000001|I am conscious of this irresistible feeling in my heart, and it compels me irresistibly.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000002|But it may all be put in two words.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000004|"Not that I would run after him continually, get in his way and worry him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000005|Oh, no! I will go away to another town-where you like-but I will watch over him all my life-I will watch over him all my life unceasingly.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000006|When he becomes unhappy with that woman, and that is bound to happen quite soon, let him come to me and he will find a friend, a sister....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000007|Only a sister, of course, and so for ever; but he will learn at least that that sister is really his sister, who loves him and has sacrificed all her life to him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000008|I will gain my point.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000010|"I will be a god to whom he can pray-and that, at least, he owes me for his treachery and for what I suffered yesterday through him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000011|And let him see that all my life I will be true to him and the promise I gave him, in spite of his being untrue and betraying me.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000012|I will-I will become nothing but a means for his happiness, or-how shall I say?--an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my whole life, and that he may see that all his life!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000013|That's my decision.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000013_000014|Ivan Fyodorovitch fully approves me."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000014_000000|She was breathless.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000014_000001|She had perhaps intended to express her idea with more dignity, art and naturalness, but her speech was too hurried and crude.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000014_000002|It was full of youthful impulsiveness, it betrayed that she was still smarting from yesterday's insult, and that her pride craved satisfaction. She felt this herself.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000014_000003|Her face suddenly darkened, an unpleasant look came into her eyes.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000015_000000|"I've only expressed my own view," he said.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000015_000001|"From any one else, this would have been affected and overstrained, but from you-no
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000015_000002|Any other woman would have been wrong, but you are right.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000015_000003|I don't know how to explain it, but I see that you are absolutely genuine and, therefore, you are right."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000016_000001|And what does this moment stand for? Nothing but yesterday's insult." Madame Hohlakov obviously had not intended to interfere, but she could not refrain from this very just comment.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000017_000002|What for any one else would be only a promise is for her an everlasting burdensome, grim perhaps, but unflagging duty.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000017_000003|And she will be sustained by the feeling of this duty being fulfilled.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000017_000004|Your life, Katerina Ivanovna, will henceforth be spent in painful brooding over your own feelings, your own heroism, and your own suffering; but in the end that suffering will be softened and will pass into sweet contemplation of the fulfillment of a bold and proud design.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000017_000005|Yes, proud it certainly is, and desperate in any case, but a triumph for you.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000017_000006|And the consciousness of it will at last be a source of complete satisfaction and will make you resigned to everything else."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000018_000000|This was unmistakably said with some malice and obviously with intention; even perhaps with no desire to conceal that he spoke ironically and with intention.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000020_000000|"Alexey Fyodorovitch, you speak.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000020_000001|I want dreadfully to know what you will say!" cried Katerina Ivanovna, and burst into tears.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000020_000002|Alyosha got up from the sofa.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000021_000000|"It's nothing, nothing!" she went on through her tears.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000021_000001|"I'm upset, I didn't sleep last night.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000021_000002|But by the side of two such friends as you and your brother I still feel strong-for I know-you two will never desert me."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000023_000000|"To morrow-to Moscow!" her face was suddenly contorted; "but-but, dear me, how fortunate!" she cried in a voice suddenly changed.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000023_000001|In one instant there was no trace left of her tears.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000023_000002|She underwent an instantaneous transformation, which amazed Alyosha.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000023_000003|Instead of a poor, insulted girl, weeping in a sort of "laceration," he saw a woman completely self possessed and even exceedingly pleased, as though something agreeable had just happened.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000000|"Oh, not fortunate that I am losing you, of course not," she corrected herself suddenly, with a charming society smile.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000001|"Such a friend as you are could not suppose that.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000002|I am only too unhappy at losing you." She rushed impulsively at Ivan, and seizing both his hands, pressed them warmly.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000005|You will know how to do that.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000006|You can't think how wretched I was yesterday and this morning, wondering how I could write them that dreadful letter-for one can never tell such things in a letter....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000007|Now it will be easy for me to write, for you will see them and explain everything.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000008|Oh, how glad I am! But I am only glad of that, believe me.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000009|Of course, no one can take your place....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000024_000010|I will run at once to write the letter," she finished suddenly, and took a step as though to go out of the room.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000025_000000|"And what about Alyosha and his opinion, which you were so desperately anxious to hear?" cried Madame Hohlakov.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000025_000001|There was a sarcastic, angry note in her voice.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000026_000000|"I had not forgotten that," cried Katerina Ivanovna, coming to a sudden standstill, "and why are you so antagonistic at such a moment?" she added, with warm and bitter reproachfulness.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000026_000001|"What I said, I repeat.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000026_000002|I must have his opinion.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000026_000003|More than that, I must have his decision!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000026_000004|As he says, so it shall be.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000026_000005|You see how anxious I am for your words, Alexey Fyodorovitch.... But what's the matter?"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000027_000000|"I couldn't have believed it.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000027_000001|I can't understand it!" Alyosha cried suddenly in distress.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000029_000000|"He is going to Moscow, and you cry out that you are glad.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000029_000001|You said that on purpose!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000029_000002|And you begin explaining that you are not glad of that but sorry to be-losing a friend.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000029_000003|But that was acting, too-you were playing a part-as in a theater!"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000030_000000|"In a theater?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000030_000001|What?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000030_000002|What do you mean?" exclaimed Katerina Ivanovna, profoundly astonished, flushing crimson, and frowning.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000031_000000|"Though you assure him you are sorry to lose a friend in him, you persist in telling him to his face that it's fortunate he is going," said Alyosha breathlessly.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000031_000001|He was standing at the table and did not sit down.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000032_000000|"What are you talking about?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000032_000001|I don't understand."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000033_000000|"I don't understand myself....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000033_000001|I seemed to see in a flash ...
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000033_000002|I know I am not saying it properly, but I'll say it all the same," Alyosha went on in the same shaking and broken voice.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000033_000004|And Dmitri, too, has never loved you ... and only esteems you....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000033_000005|I really don't know how I dare to say all this, but somebody must tell the truth ... for nobody here will tell the truth."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000034_000000|"What truth?" cried Katerina Ivanovna, and there was an hysterical ring in her voice.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000035_000000|"I'll tell you," Alyosha went on with desperate haste, as though he were jumping from the top of a house.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000035_000001|"Call Dmitri; I will fetch him-and let him come here and take your hand and take Ivan's and join your hands.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000035_000002|For you're torturing Ivan, simply because you love him-and torturing him, because you love Dmitri through 'self laceration'--with an unreal love-because you've persuaded yourself."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000036_000000|Alyosha broke off and was silent.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000037_000001|Her face was white and her lips were moving with anger.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000038_000000|Ivan suddenly laughed and got up.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000001|"Katerina Ivanovna has never cared for me!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000002|She has known all the time that I cared for her-though I never said a word of my love to her-she knew, but she didn't care for me.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000003|I have never been her friend either, not for one moment; she is too proud to need my friendship.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000004|She kept me at her side as a means of revenge.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000007|She has talked to me of nothing but her love for him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000008|I am going now; but, believe me, Katerina Ivanovna, you really love him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000009|And the more he insults you, the more you love him-that's your 'laceration.' You love him just as he is; you love him for insulting you.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000010|If he reformed, you'd give him up at once and cease to love him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000011|But you need him so as to contemplate continually your heroic fidelity and to reproach him for infidelity.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000012|And it all comes from your pride.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000013|Oh, there's a great deal of humiliation and self abasement about it, but it all comes from pride....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000016|But I am going far away, and shall never come back....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000017|It is for ever.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000018|I don't want to sit beside a 'laceration.'...
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000019|But I don't know how to speak now.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000020|I've said everything....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000021|Good by, Katerina Ivanovna; you can't be angry with me, for I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000022|Good by!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000023|I don't want your hand.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000024|You have tortured me too deliberately for me to be able to forgive you at this moment.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000025|I shall forgive you later, but now I don't want your hand.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000027|He went out of the room without saying good by even to his hostess, Madame Hohlakov.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000039_000028|Alyosha clasped his hands.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000040_000000|"Ivan!" he cried desperately after him.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000040_000001|"Come back, Ivan!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000040_000002|No, nothing will induce him to come back now!" he cried again, regretfully realizing it; "but it's my fault, my fault.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000040_000003|I began it!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000040_000004|Ivan spoke angrily, wrongly. Unjustly and angrily.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000040_000005|He must come back here, come back," Alyosha kept exclaiming frantically.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000041_000000|Katerina Ivanovna went suddenly into the next room.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000042_000000|"You have done no harm.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000042_000001|You behaved beautifully, like an angel," Madame Hohlakov whispered rapidly and ecstatically to Alyosha.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000042_000002|"I will do my utmost to prevent Ivan Fyodorovitch from going."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000043_000001|She had two hundred rouble notes in her hand.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000000|"I have a great favor to ask of you, Alexey Fyodorovitch," she began, addressing Alyosha with an apparently calm and even voice, as though nothing had happened.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000001|"A week-yes, I think it was a week ago-Dmitri Fyodorovitch was guilty of a hasty and unjust action-a very ugly action. There is a low tavern here, and in it he met that discharged officer, that captain, whom your father used to employ in some business.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000002|Dmitri Fyodorovitch somehow lost his temper with this captain, seized him by the beard and dragged him out into the street and for some distance along it, in that insulting fashion.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000003|And I am told that his son, a boy, quite a child, who is at the school here, saw it and ran beside them crying and begging for his father, appealing to every one to defend him, while every one laughed.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000005|I can't describe it even....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000006|I can't find my words.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000007|I've made inquiries about his victim, and find he is quite a poor man.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000008|His name is Snegiryov.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000009|He did something wrong in the army and was discharged.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000010|I can't tell you what.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000011|And now he has sunk into terrible destitution, with his family-an unhappy family of sick children, and, I believe, an insane wife.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000013|I thought if you ... that is I thought ...
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000014|I don't know.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000015|I am so confused.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000016|You see, I wanted to ask you, my dear Alexey Fyodorovitch, to go to him, to find some excuse to go to them-I mean to that captain-oh, goodness, how badly I explain it!--and delicately, carefully, as only you know how to" (Alyosha blushed), "manage to give him this assistance, these two hundred roubles. He will be sure to take it....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000017|I mean, persuade him to take it....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000018|Or, rather, what do I mean?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000020|But you know....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000021|I would go myself, but you'll know how to do it ever so much better.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000022|He lives in Lake Street, in the house of a woman called Kalmikov....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000044_000023|For God's sake, Alexey Fyodorovitch, do it for me, and now ... now I am rather ... tired. Good by!"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000045_000000|She turned and disappeared behind the portiere so quickly that Alyosha had not time to utter a word, though he wanted to speak.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000045_000001|He longed to beg her pardon, to blame himself, to say something, for his heart was full and he could not bear to go out of the room without it.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000045_000002|But Madame Hohlakov took him by the hand and drew him along with her.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000045_000003|In the hall she stopped him again as before.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000046_000000|"She is proud, she is struggling with herself; but kind, charming, generous," she exclaimed, in a half whisper.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000046_000001|"Oh, how I love her, especially sometimes, and how glad I am again of everything!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000046_000003|We are in a regular plot to bring it about, and I am even staying on here perhaps on that account."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000047_000000|"But she has been crying-she has been wounded again," cried Alyosha.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000048_000000|"Never trust a woman's tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000048_000002|I am always on the side of the men."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000050_000000|"No, it was all my fault.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000050_000001|I am horribly to blame," Alyosha repeated unconsoled, hiding his face in his hands in an agony of remorse for his indiscretion.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000051_000000|"Quite the contrary; you behaved like an angel, like an angel.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000051_000001|I am ready to say so a thousand times over."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000052_000000|"Mamma, how has he behaved like an angel?" Lise's voice was heard again.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000053_000000|"I somehow fancied all at once," Alyosha went on as though he had not heard Lise, "that she loved Ivan, and so I said that stupid thing....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000053_000001|What will happen now?"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000054_000000|"To whom, to whom?" cried Lise.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000054_000001|"Mamma, you really want to be the death of me.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000054_000002|I ask you and you don't answer."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000056_000001|She is crying, struggling ... hysterics."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000057_000000|"What is the matter?" cried Lise, in a tone of real anxiety.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000057_000001|"Mamma, I shall be having hysterics, and not she!"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000000|"Lise, for mercy's sake, don't scream, don't persecute me.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000001|At your age one can't know everything that grown up people know.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000002|I'll come and tell you everything you ought to know.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000003|Oh, mercy on us!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000004|I am coming, I am coming....
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000005|Hysterics is a good sign, Alexey Fyodorovitch; it's an excellent thing that she is hysterical.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000006|That's just as it ought to be.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000007|In such cases I am always against the woman, against all these feminine tears and hysterics.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000008|Run and say, Yulia, that I'll fly to her.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000010|But he won't go away.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000011|Lise, for mercy's sake, don't scream!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000012|Oh, yes; you are not screaming.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000013|It's I am screaming.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000014|Forgive your mamma; but I am delighted, delighted, delighted!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000015|Did you notice, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how young, how young Ivan Fyodorovitch was just now when he went out, when he said all that and went out?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000017|And the way he repeated that German verse, it was just like you!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000018|But I must fly, I must fly!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000019|Alexey Fyodorovitch, make haste to carry out her commission, and then make haste back.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000020|Lise, do you want anything now?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000021|For mercy's sake, don't keep Alexey Fyodorovitch a minute.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000058_000022|He will come back to you at once."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000059_000000|Madame Hohlakov at last ran off.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000059_000001|Before leaving, Alyosha would have opened the door to see Lise.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000060_000000|"On no account," cried Lise.
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000060_000002|Speak through the door. How have you come to be an angel?
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000060_000003|That's the only thing I want to know."
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000061_000000|"For an awful piece of stupidity, Lise!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000061_000001|Good by!"
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000063_000000|"Lise, I have a real sorrow!
train-other-500/3779/691/3779_691_000063_000001|I'll be back directly, but I have a great, great sorrow!"
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000000_000002|In the kitchen mrs Latch and esther had been busy for some time with chickens and pies and jellies, and in the passage there were cases packed with fruit and wine.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000000_000003|The dressmaker had come from Worthing, and for several days the young ladies had not left her.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000000_000004|And one fine morning, very early-about eight o'clock-the wheelers were backed into the drag that had come from Brighton, and the yard resounded with the blaring of the horn.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000000_000005|Ginger was practising under his sister's window.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000002_000001|Miss Mary sat beside her father on the box, and looked very charming in white and blue.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000002_000003|Then William and the coachman let go the leaders' heads, and running side by side swung themselves into their seats.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000002_000004|At the same moment a glimpse was caught of mr Leopold's sallow profile amid the boxes and the mackintoshes that filled the inside of the coach.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000003_000000|"Oh, William did look that handsome in those beautiful new clothes! ...Everyone said so-Sarah and Margaret and Miss Grover.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000004_000000|mrs Latch made no answer, and esther remembered how she hated her son to wear livery, and thought that she had perhaps made a mistake in saying that mrs Latch should have come out to see him.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000005_000000|"Do you think that he has bet much on this race?"
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000006_000000|"Oh, how should I know, mrs Latch?...
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000006_000001|But the horse is certain to win."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000007_000000|"Certain to win!
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000007_000002|So they have won you round to their way of thinking, have they?" said mrs Latch, straightening her back.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000008_000000|"I know very well indeed that it is not right to bet; but what can I do, a poor girl like me?
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000011_000000|"Yes, I know, when I was unkind.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000011_000003|But there is no ill feeling?...
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000011_000004|I'll make it up to you-I'll teach you how to be a cook."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000012_000000|"Oh, mrs Latch, I am sure----"
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000013_000000|"Never mind that.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000013_000001|When you went out to walk with him the other night, did he tell you that he had many bets on the race?"
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000014_000000|"He talked about the race, like everyone else, but he did not tell me what bets he had on."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000015_000000|"No, they never do do that....
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000016_000000|"No, mrs Latch, I promise."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000017_000000|"It would do no good, he'd only be angry; it would only set him against me.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000017_000001|I am afraid that nothing will stop him now.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000017_000002|Once they get a taste for it it is like drink.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000018_000000|At that moment Sarah and Grover entered the kitchen talking loudly.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000018_000004|She would, get herself a bit of lunch in the dining room.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000018_000005|mrs Latch allowed esther to hurry on the dinner, and by one o'clock they had all finished.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000018_000006|Sarah and Margaret were going into Brighton to do some shopping, Grover was going to Worthing to spend the afternoon with the wife of one of the guards of the Brighton and South Coast Railway.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000018_000007|mrs Latch went upstairs to lie down.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000019_000001|The heat rippled the blue air, and the sea, like an exhausted caged beast, licked the shingle.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000019_000002|Sea poppies bloomed under the wheels of a decaying bathing machine, and esther wondered.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000019_000006|She lay on the shingle, her day dream becoming softer and more delicate as it rounded into summer sleep.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000021_000000|"Good evening, mrs Randal," said esther, glad to find someone to speak to.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000021_000001|"I've been asleep."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000022_000001|You're from Woodview, I think?"
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000023_000001|They've gone to the races; there was nothing to do, so I came down here."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000024_000001|But she did not speak.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000024_000002|Soon after she rose to her feet.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000024_000003|"I think that it must be getting near tea time; I must be going.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000025_000000|esther was surprised at so much condescension, and in silence the two women crossed the meadows that lay between the shingle bank and the river. Trains were passing all the while, scattering, it seemed, in their noisy passage over the spider legged bridge, the news from Goodwood.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000026_000000|"It is all over now.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000027_000001|I feel as if Silver Braid had won."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000028_000000|mrs Randal's home was gaunt as herself.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000028_000002|She dropped a plate as she laid the table, and stood pathetically looking at the pieces.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000028_000003|When esther asked for a teaspoon she gave way utterly.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000029_000001|I should have remembered and not asked you to tea."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000030_000000|"It don't matter, mrs Randal; I can stir up my tea with anything-a knitting needle will do very well-"
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000000|"I should have remembered and not asked you back to tea; but I was so miserable, and it is so lonely sitting in this house, that I could stand it no longer....
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000001|Talking to you saved me from thinking, and I did not want to think until this race was over.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000002|If Silver Braid is beaten we are ruined.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000003|Indeed, I don't know what will become of us.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000005|The sufferings of a gambler's wife cannot be told.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000006|Tell me, what do you think my feelings must have been when one night I heard him calling me out of my sleep, when I heard him say, 'I can't die, Annie, without bidding you good bye.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000009|There was no time to send for the doctor, so I jumped out of bed, put the kettle on, and made him drink glass after glass of salt and water.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000031_000010|At last he brought up the laudanum."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000032_000000|esther listened to the melancholy woman, and remembered the little man whom she saw every day so orderly, so precise, so sedate, so methodical, so unemotional, into whose life she thought no faintest emotion had ever entered-and this was the truth.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000033_000000|"So long as I only had myself to think of I didn't mind; but now there are the children growing up.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000033_000001|He should think of them.
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000033_000002|Heaven only knows what will become of them...
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000033_000003|john is as kind a husband as ever was if it weren't for that one fault; but he cannot resist having something on any more than a drunkard can resist the bar room."
train-other-500/3780/177782/3780_177782_000035_000000|The women started to their feet.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000001_000000|mr Leopold was very busy dragging men away from the circular buffet-they must dance whether they knew how or not.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000003_000000|But it had been found impossible to restrict the ball to those who possessed or could obtain an evening suit, and plenty of check trousers and red neckties were hopping about.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000003_000001|Among the villagers many a touch suggested costume.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000003_000002|A young girl had borrowed her grandmother's wedding dress, and a young man wore a canary coloured waistcoat and a blue coastguardsman's coat of old time.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000003_000003|These touches of fancy and personal taste divided the villagers from the household servants.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000003_000004|The butlers seemed on the watch for side dishes, and the valets suggested hair brushes and hot water.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000003_000006|Ginger loved the upper circles, and now he romped the polka in the most approved London fashion, his elbows advanced like a yacht's bowsprit, and, his coat tails flying, he dashed through a group of tradespeople who were bobbing up and down, hardly advancing at all.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000004_000000|esther was now being spoken of as the belle of the ball, she had danced with young mr Preston, and seeing her sitting alone Grover called her and asked her why she was not dancing.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000005_000000|"Come, the next polka, just to show there is no ill feeling." Half a dozen times William repeated his demand.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000005_000001|At last she said-
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000007_000000|"I'm sorry if I've done that, esther.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000007_000001|I was jealous, that's all."
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000008_000000|"Jealous!
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000008_000001|What was you jealous for?
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000008_000002|What do it matter what people think, so long as I know I haven't done no wrong?"
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000009_000000|And in silence they walked into the garden.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000009_000003|William showed esther the theatre and explained its purpose.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000010_000000|"How still the water is; and the stars, they are lovely!"
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000011_000000|"You should see the gardens about three o'clock on Saturday afternoons, when the excursion comes in from Brighton."
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000012_000000|They walked on a little further, and esther said, "What's these places? Ain't they dark?"
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000013_000000|"These are arbours, where we 'as shrimps and tea.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000013_000001|I'll take you next Saturday, if you'll come."
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000014_000000|A noisy band of young men, followed by three or four girls, ran across the bridge.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000014_000001|Suddenly they stopped to argue on which side the boat was to be found.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000014_000002|Some chose the left, some the right; those who went to the right sent up a yell of triumph, and paddled into the middle of the water.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000014_000004|A song was demanded, and at the end of the second verse William threw his arm round esther.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000015_000000|"Oh, esther, I do love you."
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000016_000000|She looked at him, her grey eyes fixed in a long interrogation.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000017_000001|What is there to love in me?"
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000018_000000|He squeezed her tightly, and continued his protestations.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000018_000001|"I do, I do, I do love you, esther."
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000019_000000|She did not answer, and they walked slowly on.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000019_000001|A holly bush threw a black shadow on the gravel path and a moment after the ornamental tin roof of the dancing room appeared between the trees.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000020_000000|Even in their short absence a change had come upon the ball.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000020_000001|About the circular buffet numbers of men called for drink, and talked loudly of horse racing.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000020_000003|A tall, lean woman, dressed like Sarah in white muslin, wearing amber beads round her neck, was dancing the lancers with the Demon, and everyone shook with laughter when she whirled the little fellow round or took him in her arms and carried him across.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000021_000000|"Now tell me, if they ask me, the young gents yonder, to dance, am I to look them straight in the face and say no?"
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000023_000000|"Let's have another bottle," cried Ginger.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000023_000001|"Come, what do you say, mr Thomas?"
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000024_000000|mr Thomas coughed, smiled, and said that mr Arthur wished to see him in the hands of the police.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000024_000001|However, he promised to drink his share.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000024_000004|Suddenly the conversation was interrupted by the cornet sounding the first phrase of a favourite waltz, and the tipsy and the sober hastened away.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000025_000002|In the chain they lost themselves as in a labyrinth and found their partners unexpectedly.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000025_000004|It always appeared to be her turn, and it was so sweet to see her dear William, and such a strange excitement to run forward to meet young mr Preston, to curtsey to him, and then run away; and this over and over again.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000026_000000|"There's the dawn."
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000027_000000|esther looked, and in the whitening doorways she saw the little jockey staggering about helplessly drunk.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000027_000001|The smile died out of her eyes; she returned to her true self, to mrs Barfield and the Brethren.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000029_000000|When they reached the station the sky was stained with rose, and the barren downs-more tin like than ever in the shadow less light of dawn-stretched across the sunrise from Lancing to Brighton.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000029_000002|The night had been close and sultry, and even at this hour there was hardly any freshness in the air.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000029_000003|esther looked at the hills, examining the landscape intently.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000029_000004|She was thinking of the first time she saw it.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000029_000005|Some vague association of ideas-the likeness that the morning landscape bore to the evening landscape, or the wish to prolong the sweetness of these, the last moments of her happiness, impelled her to linger and to ask William if the woods and fields were not beautiful.
train-other-500/3780/177784/3780_177784_000029_000006|The too familiar landscape awoke in William neither idea nor sensation; esther interested him more, and while she gazed dreamily on the hills he admired the white curve of her neck which showed beneath the unbuttoned jacket.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000000_000000|"You can't be over comfortable on that bit of sofa," said mrs Saunders.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000002_000000|"You is that cast down, esther; you mustn't give way.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000002_000001|Things sometimes turns out better than one expects."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000003_000000|"You never found they did, mother."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000004_000000|"Perhaps I didn't, but that says nothing for others.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000004_000001|We must bear up as best we can."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000006_000002|They call you Creeping Jesus if you say your prayers, and you can't say them with a girl laughing or singing behind your back, so you think you'll say them to yourself in bed, but sleep comes sooner than you expect, and so you slips out of the habit. Then the drinking.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000006_000003|We was brought up teetotal, but they're always pressing it upon you, and to please him I said I would drink the 'orse's 'ealth. That's how it began....
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000006_000005|We aren't all good like you, mother.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000006_000006|But I thought no harm, indeed I didn't."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000008_000000|"I don't say that I was altogether blameless but-"
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000011_000001|But he told me-he promised me he'd marry me."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000012_000000|mrs Saunders did not answer, and esther said, "You don't believe I'm speaking the truth."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000013_000000|"Yes, I do, dearie.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000013_000001|I was only thinking.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000013_000002|You're my daughter; no mother had a better daughter.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000013_000003|There never was a better girl in this world."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000014_000000|"I was telling you, mother-"
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000016_000001|Neither spoke, and esther continued dressing.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000017_000000|"You 'aven't told me what you think of your room.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000017_000001|It looks pretty, don't you think?
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000017_000002|I keeps it as nice as I can.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000017_000003|Jenny hung up them pictures.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000017_000005|"The china shepherd and shepherdess, you know; they was at Barnstaple."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000018_000000|When esther was dressed, she and mrs Saunders knelt down and said a prayer together.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000018_000001|Then esther said she would make up her room, and when that was done she insisted on helping her mother with the housework.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000019_000000|In the afternoon she sat with her sisters, helping them with their dogs, folding the paper into the moulds, pasting it down, or cutting the skins into the requisite sizes.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000019_000002|Very often they strolled through Victoria Station, amused by the bustle of the traffic, or maybe they wandered down the Buckingham Palace Road, attracted by the shops.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000019_000003|And there was a sad pleasure in these walks.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000019_000004|The elder woman had borne years of exceeding trouble, and felt her strength failing under her burdens, which instead of lightening were increasing; the younger woman was full of nervous apprehension for the future and grief for the past.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000019_000005|But they loved each other deeply.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000020_000000|One day some flannel and shirts in a window caught mrs Saunder's eye, and she said-
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000021_000001|One must be prepared; one never knows if one will go one's full time."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000023_000001|I looks round the kitchen when I'm taken with the pains, and I says, 'I may never see this room again.'"
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000027_000000|"Oh, mother, of course he'll live; why shouldn't he?"
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000028_000000|Even the shopwoman smiled, and mrs Saunders, addressing the shopwoman, said-
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000030_000000|The shopwoman raised her eyes, sighed, and inquired sympathetically if this was the young lady's first confinement.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000031_000001|mrs Saunders said she had all she required.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000032_000000|"I may as well buy the material and make another set-it will give me something to do in the afternoons.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000032_000001|I think I should like to make them."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000033_000000|"We have some first rate longcloth at sixpence half penny a yard."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000034_000001|And you had better take three yards of flannel.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000034_000002|How much is yer flannel?"
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000035_000000|"We have some excellent flannel," said the woman, lifting down a long, heavy package in dull yellow paper; "this is ten pence a yard.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000035_000001|You will want a finer longcloth for the little shirts."
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000036_000002|Never would she be able to bring him up-he would have no one to look to but her.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000036_000003|She never imagined other than that her child would be a boy.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000036_000004|The task was clearly more than she could perform, and in despair she thought it would be better for it to die.
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000036_000005|What would happen if she remained out of a situation?
train-other-500/3780/177788/3780_177788_000036_000008|She would never see William again-that was certain.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000000|It was court day at the county seat across the Kentucky line.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000001|Hale had risen early, as everyone must if he would get his breakfast in the mountains, even in the hotels in the county seats, and he sat with his feet on the railing of the hotel porch which fronted the main street of the town.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000004|Opposite was the brick Court House-every window lacking at least one pane, the steps yellow with dirt and tobacco juice, the doorway and the bricks about the upper windows bullet dented and eloquent with memories of the feud which had long embroiled the whole county.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000005|Not that everybody took part in it but, on the matter, everybody, as an old woman told him, "had feelin's." It had begun, so he learned, just after the war.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000006|Two boys were playing marbles in the road along the Cumberland River, and one had a patch on the seat of his trousers.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000007|The other boy made fun of it and the boy with the patch went home and told his father.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000008|As a result there had already been thirty years of local war.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000009|In the last race for legislature, political issues were submerged and the feud was the sole issue.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000010|And a Tolliver had carried that boy's trouser patch like a flag to victory and was sitting in the lower House at that time helping to make laws for the rest of the State.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000011|Now Bad Rufe Tolliver was in the hills again and the end was not yet.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000013|Soon the square was filled with hitched horses, and an auctioneer was bidding off cattle, sheep, hogs and horses to the crowd of mountaineers about him, while the women sold eggs and butter and bought things for use at home.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000014|Now and then, an open feudsman with a Winchester passed and many a man was belted with cartridges for the big pistol dangling at his hip.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000015|When court opened, the rain ceased, the sun came out and Hale made his way through the crowd to the battered temple of justice.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000016|On one corner of the square he could see the chief store of the town marked "Buck Falin-General Merchandise," and the big man in the door with the bushy redhead, he guessed, was the leader of the Falin clan.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000018|That, doubtless, was young Buck.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000019|For a moment he stood at the door of the court room.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000001_000020|A Falin was on trial and the grizzled judge was speaking angrily:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000002_000000|"This is the third time you've had this trial postponed because you hain't got no lawyer.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000002_000002|Have you got you a lawyer now?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000006_000000|The judge looked at the man on the jury.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000001|Till noon he worked and yet there was no trouble.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000002|After dinner he went back and in two hours his work was done.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000003|An atmospheric difference he felt as soon as he reached the door. The crowd had melted from the square.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000004|There were no women in sight, but eight armed men were in front of the door and two of them, a red Falin and a black Tolliver-Bad Rufe it was-were quarrelling.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000005|In every doorway stood a man cautiously looking on, and in a hotel window he saw a woman's frightened face.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000006|It was so still that it seemed impossible that a tragedy could be imminent, and yet, while he was trying to take the conditions in, one of the quarrelling men-Bad Rufe Tolliver-whipped out his revolver and before he could level it, a Falin struck the muzzle of a pistol into his back.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000007|Another Tolliver flashed his weapon on the Falin.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000008|This Tolliver was covered by another Falin and in so many flashes of lightning the eight men in front of him were covering each other-every man afraid to be the first to shoot, since he knew that the flash of his own pistol meant instantaneous death for him. As Hale shrank back, he pushed against somebody who thrust him aside.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000008_000009|It was the judge:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000009_000000|"Why don't somebody shoot?" he asked sarcastically.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000009_000001|"You're a purty set o' fools, ain't you?
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000009_000002|I want you all to stop this damned foolishness.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000010_000000|Already Rufe was grinning like a devil over the absurdity of the situation.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000012_000000|"Put 'em in yo' pockets."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000013_000000|They did.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000014_000001|It is not wise for the stranger to show too much interest in the personal affairs of mountain men, and Hale left the judge berating them and went to the hotel to get ready for the Gap, little dreaming how fixed the faces of some of those men were in his brain and how, later, they were to rise in his memory again.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000015_000000|"You don't mean to say they've made peace?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000018_000000|The Cumberland River was rain swollen.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000018_000001|The home going people were helping each other across it and, as Hale approached the ford of a creek half a mile beyond the river, a black haired girl was standing on a boulder looking helplessly at the yellow water, and two boys were on the ground below her.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000018_000002|One of them looked up at Hale:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000020_000000|"Certainly," said Hale, and the girl giggled when he laboriously turned his old mule up to the boulder.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000020_000001|Not accustomed to have ladies ride behind him, Hale had turned the wrong side.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000020_000003|Across, Hale stopped and said courteously:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000021_000000|"If you are going up this way, you are quite welcome to ride on."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000022_000001|They had gone down to a shallower ford, and when they, too, had waded across, they said nothing and the girl said nothing-so Hale started on, the two boys following.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000022_000002|The mule was slow and, being in a hurry, Hale urged him with his whip.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000022_000003|Every time he struck, the beast would kick up and once the girl came near going off.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000023_000000|"You must watch out, when I hit him," said Hale.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000025_000000|"Well, I'll let you know," said Hale laughing.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000025_000001|"Now!" And, as he whacked the beast again, the girl laughed and they were better acquainted. Presently they passed two boys.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000025_000002|Hale was wearing riding boots and tight breeches, and one of the boys ran his eyes up boot and leg and if they were lifted higher, Hale could not tell.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000027_000000|The girl turned her head as the mule broke into a trot.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000028_000001|They are my cousins," explained the girl.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000029_000000|"What is your name?" asked Hale.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000030_000000|"Loretty Tolliver." Hale turned in his saddle.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000031_000000|"Are you the daughter of Dave Tolliver?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000032_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000033_000000|"Then you've got a brother named Dave?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000034_000000|"Yes." This, then, was the sister of the black haired boy he had seen in the Lonesome Cove.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000035_000000|"Haven't you got some kinfolks over the mountain?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000036_000001|Devil Judd, folks calls him," said the girl simply.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000036_000002|This girl was cousin to little June in Lonesome Cove.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000036_000003|Every now and then she would look behind them, and when Hale turned again inquiringly she explained:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000038_000000|"Shall we wait for them?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000042_000001|She was looking down shyly and she did not seem much pleased.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000044_000000|"You must be kin to everybody around here?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000045_000000|"Most everybody," she said simply.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000046_000000|By and by they came to a creek.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000047_000000|"I have to turn up here," said Hale.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000048_000000|"So do I," she said, smiling now directly at him.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000049_000000|"Good!" he said, and they went on-Hale asking more questions.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000049_000001|She was going to school at the county seat the coming winter and she was fifteen years old.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000050_000000|"That's right.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000052_000000|"No, indeed."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000054_000000|Again she gave a vigorous shake of the head.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000055_000000|"Well, if he saw you riding behind me, he wouldn't like it, would he?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000056_000002|Hale answered so shortly that the girl thought there was going to be a fight, and she was on the point of slipping from the mule.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000057_000000|"Sit still," said Hale, quietly.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000057_000001|"There's not going to be a fight so long as you are here."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000058_000001|"Well"--then he looked sharply at the girl and turned his horse-"Come on, Bill-that's ole Dave Tolliver's gal." The girl's face was on fire.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000059_000001|Devil Judd had taken no active part in it for a long time, she said, except to keep it down-especially since he and her father had had a "fallin' out" and the two families did not visit much-though she and her cousin June sometimes spent the night with each other.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000060_000001|She searched his face with her black eyes, which were like June's without the depths of June's.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000062_000000|"Maybe I am-my name's Hale."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000062_000001|The girl laughed.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000062_000002|"Well, if this ain't the beatenest!
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000062_000004|My brother Dave don't like you overmuch," she added frankly.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000064_000000|"Is there any place on the way where I can get to stay all night?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000065_000000|"You can stay all night with the Red Fox on top of the mountain."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000066_000000|"The Red Fox," repeated Hale.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000067_000000|"Yes, he lives right on top of the mountain.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000067_000001|You can't miss his house."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000068_000000|"Oh, yes, I remember him.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000069_000001|He felt straightway that he ought not to have said that, and the day was to come when he would remember it to his cost.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000069_000002|He knew how foolish it was for the stranger to show sympathy with, or interest in, one faction or another in a mountain feud, but to give any kind of information of one to the other-that was unwise indeed.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000069_000003|Ahead of them now, a little stream ran from a ravine across the road.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000069_000004|Beyond was a cabin; in the doorway were several faces, and sitting on a horse at the gate was young Dave Tolliver.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000070_000000|"Well, I git down here," said the girl, and before his mule stopped she slid from behind him and made for the gate without a word of thanks or good by.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000071_000000|"Howdye!" said Hale, taking in the group with his glance, but leaving his eyes on young Dave.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000071_000001|The rest nodded, but the boy was too surprised for speech, and the spirit of deviltry took the girl when she saw her brother's face, and at the gate she turned:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000072_000000|"Much obleeged," she said.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000072_000001|"Tell June I'm a comin' over to see her next Sunday."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000073_000000|"I will," said Hale, and he rode on.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000073_000001|To his surprise, when he had gone a hundred yards, he heard the boy spurring after him and he looked around inquiringly as young Dave drew alongside; but the boy said nothing and Hale, amused, kept still, wondering when the lad would open speech.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000073_000002|At the mouth of another little creek the boy stopped his horse as though he was to turn up that way.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000075_000000|"You goin' over to Lonesome Cove?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000076_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000078_000000|"Certainly."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000080_000000|"No," said Hale.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000080_000001|"But how did you know that I saw the Red Fox that day?" The boy laughed unpleasantly.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000081_000000|"So long," he said.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000081_000002|And there, with a grin on his curious mismatched face, he repeated young Dave's words:
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000084_000000|"You goin' over to Lonesome Cove?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000085_000000|"Yes," said Hale impatiently, "I'm going over to Lonesome Cove.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000085_000001|Can I stay here all night?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000086_000000|"Shore!" said the old man hospitably.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000086_000002|"Been swappin'?" Hale had to laugh as he climbed down from the bony ear flopping beast.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000087_000000|"I left my horse in town-he's lame."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000091_000000|"I keeps friends with both sides," he said.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000091_000001|"Ain't many folks can do that."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000092_000000|"I reckon not," said Hale calmly, but in the pale eyes he still saw suspicion.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000093_000001|The children of the two, he learned, had scattered, and they lived there alone.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000093_000002|On the mantel were two pistols and in one corner was the big Winchester he remembered and behind it was the big brass telescope.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000093_000003|On the table was a Bible and a volume of Swedenborg, and among the usual strings of pepper pods and beans and twisted long green tobacco were drying herbs and roots of all kinds, and about the fireplace were bottles of liquids that had been stewed from them.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000094_000000|"I heerd you found some mighty fine coal over in Lonesome Cove."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000095_000000|"Yes."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000096_000000|"Young Dave Tolliver thinks you found somethin' else thar, too," chuckled the Red Fox.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000097_000000|"I did," said Hale coolly, and the old man chuckled again.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000098_000000|"She's a purty leetle gal-shore."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000099_000000|"Who is?" asked Hale, looking calmly at his questioner, and the Red Fox lapsed into baffled silence.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000100_000003|He pulled in at the gate, but before he could shout "Hello" the Red Fox had stepped from the porch into the moonlight and was going to meet him.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000101_000000|"Who was that?" asked Hale.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000102_000000|"Bad Rufe Tolliver."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000104_000000|"Most everybody in these mountains has.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000104_000001|He's the feller that's always causin' trouble.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000104_000005|He swore he wouldn't go back unless another Falin goes too.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000104_000007|Now Rufe says he won't go at all-truce or no truce.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000105_000000|No doubt he did, Hale thought, keep peace or mischief with or against anybody with that face of his.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000106_000000|"Want to lay down?" asked the old man quickly.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000107_000000|"I think I do," said Hale, and they went inside.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000110_000000|"What's the calibre?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000111_000000|"Biggest made," was the answer, "a fifty by seventy five."
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000112_000000|"Centre fire?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000113_000000|"Rim," said the Red Fox.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000114_000000|"Gracious," laughed Hale, "what do you want such a big one for?"
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000116_000001|It is fatefully strange when people, whose lives tragically intersect, look back to their first meetings with one another, and Hale never forgot that night in the cabin of the Red Fox.
train-other-500/3783/176659/3783_176659_000116_000002|For had Bad Rufe Tolliver, while he whispered at the gate, known the part the quiet young man silently seated in the porch would play in his life, he would have shot him where he sat: and could the Red Fox have known the part his sleeping guest was to play in his, the old man would have knifed him where he lay.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000000_000000|The mountain formed the seaward boundary of a large island, and the narrow strip of rocky shore upon which we stood was strewn with the wreckage of a thousand gallant ships, while the bones of the luckless mariners shone white in the sunshine, and we shuddered to think how soon our own would be added to the heap.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000000_000001|All around, too, lay vast quantities of the costliest merchandise, and treasures were heaped in every cranny of the rocks, but all these things only added to the desolation of the scene.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000000_000003|The first thing our captain did was to divide equally amongst us all the food we possessed, and then the length of each man's life depended on the time he could make his portion last.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000000_000004|I myself could live upon very little.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000001_000000|Nevertheless, by the time I had buried the last of my companions my stock of provisions was so small that I hardly thought I should live long enough to dig my own grave, which I set about doing, while I regretted bitterly the roving disposition which was always bringing me into such straits, and thought longingly of all the comfort and luxury that I had left.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000001_000003|Why should I not build a raft and trust myself to its swiftly flowing waters?
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000001_000010|Though I only ate what was absolutely necessary to keep myself alive, the inevitable moment came when, after swallowing my last morsel of food, I began to wonder if I must after all die of hunger.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000002_000000|One of the natives, who understood this tongue, then came forward saying:
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000003_000001|We have waited for your awakening; tell us now whence you come and where you were going by that dangerous way?"
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000004_000000|I replied that nothing would please me better than to tell them, but that I was starving, and would fain eat something first.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000004_000003|So, procuring a horse, they mounted me upon it, and we set out, followed by several strong men carrying my raft just as it was upon their shoulders.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000006_000000|"And how come you here?" asked the king.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000007_000000|I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight were so great that he ordered my adventures to be written in letters of gold and laid up in the archives of his kingdom.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000009_000005|I had the curiosity to ascend to its very summit, for this was the place to which Adam was banished out of Paradise.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000009_000006|Here are found rubies and many precious things, and rare plants grow abundantly, with cedar trees and cocoa palms.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000009_000007|On the seashore and at the mouths of the rivers the divers seek for pearls, and in some valleys diamonds are plentiful.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000009_000009|Moreover, he loaded me with rich gifts, and when I went to take leave of him he entrusted me with a royal present and a letter to the Commander of the Faithful, our sovereign lord, saying, "I pray you give these to the Caliph Haroun al Raschid, and assure him of my friendship."
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000010_000000|I accepted the charge respectfully, and soon embarked upon the vessel which the king himself had chosen for me.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000010_000001|The king's letter was written in blue characters upon a rare and precious skin of yellowish colour, and these were the words of it: "The King of the Indies, before whom walk a thousand elephants, who lives in a palace, of which the roof blazes with a hundred thousand rubies, and whose treasure house contains twenty thousand diamond crowns, to the Caliph Haroun al Raschid sends greeting.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000010_000003|Adieu, brother."
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000011_000000|The present consisted of a vase carved from a single ruby, six inches high and as thick as my finger; this was filled with the choicest pearls, large, and of perfect shape and lustre; secondly, a huge snake skin, with scales as large as a sequin, which would preserve from sickness those who slept upon it.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000011_000001|Then quantities of aloes wood, camphor, and pistachio nuts; and lastly, a beautiful slave girl, whose robes glittered with precious stones.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000012_000000|After a long and prosperous voyage we landed at Balsora, and I made haste to reach Bagdad, and taking the king's letter I presented myself at the palace gate, followed by the beautiful slave, and various members of my own family, bearing the treasure.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000014_000000|"Commander of the Faithful," I replied, again bowing humbly before him, "I can assure your Majesty that he has in no way exaggerated his wealth and grandeur.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000014_000001|Nothing can equal the magnificence of his palace.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000014_000002|When he goes abroad his throne is prepared upon the back of an elephant, and on either side of him ride his ministers, his favourites, and courtiers.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000014_000003|On his elephant's neck sits an officer, his golden lance in his hand, and behind him stands another bearing a pillar of gold, at the top of which is an emerald as long as my hand.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000015_000000|"Then the one who stands behind the throne answers: 'This king, so great and powerful, must die, must die, must die!'"
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000017_000000|"Further, my lord, in Serendib no judge is needed, for to the king himself his people come for justice."
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000018_000000|The Caliph was well satisfied with my report.
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000019_000000|"From the king's letter," said he, "I judged that he was a wise man. It seems that he is worthy of his people, and his people of him."
train-other-500/3793/10683/3793_10683_000020_000000|So saying he dismissed me with rich presents, and I returned in peace to my own house.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000002_000000|Seventh and Last Voyage
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000003_000000|After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea no more.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000003_000001|I was now of an age to appreciate a quiet life, and I had run risks enough.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000003_000004|After I had saluted him, the Caliph said:
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000004_000000|"I have sent for you, Sindbad, because I need your services.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000004_000001|I have chosen you to bear a letter and a gift to the King of Serendib in return for his message of friendship."
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000006_000000|"Commander of the Faithful," I answered, "I am ready to do all that your Majesty commands, but I humbly pray you to remember that I am utterly disheartened by the unheard of sufferings I have undergone. Indeed, I have made a vow never again to leave Bagdad."
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000007_000000|With this I gave him a long account of some of my strangest adventures, to which he listened patiently.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000009_000000|Seeing that there was no help for it, I declared myself willing to obey; and the Caliph, delighted at having got his own way, gave me a thousand sequins for the expenses of the voyage.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000009_000001|I was soon ready to start, and taking the letter and the present I embarked at Balsora, and sailed quickly and safely to Serendib.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000009_000002|Here, when I had disclosed my errand, I was well received, and brought into the presence of the king, who greeted me with joy.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000010_000000|"Welcome, Sindbad," he cried.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000010_000001|"I have thought of you often, and rejoice to see you once more."
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000011_000000|After thanking him for the honour that he did me, I displayed the Caliph's gifts.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000011_000001|First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a thousand sequins, and another like to it of crimson stuff. Fifty robes of rich embroidery, a hundred of the finest white linen from Cairo, Suez, Cufa, and Alexandria.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000011_000005|On the fifth day we had the misfortune to fall in with pirates, who seized our vessel, killing all who resisted, and making prisoners of those who were prudent enough to submit at once, of whom I was one.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000011_000006|When they had despoiled us of all we possessed, they forced us to put on vile raiment, and sailing to a distant island there sold us for slaves.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000011_000007|I fell into the hands of a rich merchant, who took me home with him, and clothed and fed me well, and after some days sent for me and questioned me as to what I could do.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000013_000000|"Tell me," said he, "can you shoot with a bow?"
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000015_000003|When you have succeeded in killing one come and tell me."
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000016_000000|So saying he gave me a supply of food, and returned to the town, and I perched myself high up in the tree and kept watch.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000016_000001|That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a large herd of elephants came crashing and trampling by.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000017_000000|For two months I hunted thus, and no day passed without my securing, an elephant.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000017_000001|Of course I did not always station myself in the same tree, but sometimes in one place, sometimes in another.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000017_000006|Then, recovering myself, I looked about me, and found that I was standing upon the side of a great hill, strewn as far as I could see on either hand with bones and tusks of elephants.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000018_000001|After a day and a night I reached my master's house, and was received by him with joyful surprise.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000020_000001|When we had loaded our elephant with as many tusks as it could carry and were on our way back to the city, he said:
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000021_000003|You alone have escaped the wiles of these animals, therefore you must be under the special protection of Heaven.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000021_000004|Now through you the whole town will be enriched without further loss of life, therefore you shall not only receive your liberty, but I will also bestow a fortune upon you."
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000022_000000|To which I replied, "Master, I thank you, and wish you all prosperity. For myself I only ask liberty to return to my own country."
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000024_000001|By this time the other merchants knew the secret, but there was enough and to spare for all.
train-other-500/3793/10684/3793_10684_000024_000005|My first care was to present myself before the Caliph, and give him an account of my embassy.
train-other-500/3793/33942/3793_33942_000005_000000|And every Alban burgher Hath donned his whitest gown; And every head in Alba Weareth a poplar crown; And every Alban door post With boughs and flowers is gay, For to day the dead are living, The lost are found to day.
train-other-500/3793/33942/3793_33942_000007_000000|They were doomed by a bloody king, They were doomed by a lying priest, They were cast on the raging flood, They were tracked by the raging beast; Raging beast and raging flood Alike have spared the prey; And to day the dead are living, The lost are found to day.
train-other-500/3793/33942/3793_33942_000031_000000|"The ox toils through the furrow, Obedient to the goad; The patient ass, up flinty paths, Plods with his weary load: With whine and bound the spaniel His master's whistle hears; And the sheep yields her patiently To the loud clashing shears.
train-other-500/3793/33942/3793_33942_000045_000000|"The Gaul shall come against thee From the land of snow and night; Thou shalt give his fair haired armies To the raven and the kite.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000000_000001|And then King Arthur was wood wroth, and ran to the King with the Hundred Knights, and there King Arthur smote him down; and after with that same spear King Arthur smote down three other knights.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000001_000002|I am well apaid, said Sir Gareth, that I may know him.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000001_000003|But who is he, said they all, that rideth with him in the same array? That is the good and gentle knight Sir Lavaine, said Sir Bors.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000002_000004|Ye shall not so, said Sir Bors, by my counsel, unless that ye were disguised.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000002_000006|I will well, said the Welsh knight.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000002_000007|And when Sir Gareth had his shield, the book saith it was green, with a maiden that seemed in it.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000003_000001|Gramercy, said Sir Launcelot.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000003_000003|And when we have delivered them, let us three hold us sadly together.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000005_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000005_000001|How King Arthur marvelled much of the jousting in the field, and how he rode and found Sir Launcelot.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000006_000000|SO this tournament and this jousts dured long, till it was near night, for the knights of the Round Table relieved ever unto King Arthur; for the king was wroth out of measure that he and his knights might not prevail that day.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000006_000002|By my head, said Sir Kay, Sir Bors is yonder all this day upon the right hand of this field, and there he and his blood do more worshipfully than we do.
train-other-500/3793/4707/3793_4707_000008_000001|Also Arthur blamed Sir Gareth because he left his fellowship and held with Sir Launcelot.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000002_000000|SLANG.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000003_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000004_000000|cant, colloquialism, vulgarism, vulgarity.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000006_000000|SLOW.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000007_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000010_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000011_000000|See synonyms for NIMBLE.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000012_000000|SNEER.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000013_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000014_000000|fling, gibe, jeer, mock, scoff, taunt.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000018_000003|Compare BANTER.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000019_000000|Preposition:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000021_000000|SOCIALISM.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000022_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000023_000000|collectivism, communism, fabianism.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000025_000000|SOUND.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000026_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000029_000000|SPEAK.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000030_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000033_000000|Prepositions:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000035_000000|SPEECH.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000036_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000038_000003|Compare CONVERSATION; DICTION; LANGUAGE.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000039_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000040_000000|hush, silence, speechlessness, stillness, taciturnity.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000041_000000|SPONTANEOUS.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000042_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000045_000000|SPY.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000046_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000047_000000|detective, emissary, scout.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000049_000000|STAIN.
train-other-500/3796/16815/3796_16815_000050_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000001_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000004_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000006_000000|STEEP.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000007_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000008_000000|abrupt, high, precipitous, sharp, sheer.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000009_000004|Compare HIGH.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000010_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000011_000000|easy, flat, gentle, gradual, horizontal, level, low, slight.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000012_000000|STORM.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000013_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000014_000000|agitation, disturbance, tempest.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000016_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000017_000000|calm, fair weather, hush, peace, serenity, stillness, tranquillity.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000018_000000|STORY.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000019_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000021_000007|Compare ALLEGORY; FICTION; HISTORY.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000022_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000023_000000|annals, biography, chronicle, history, memoir.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000024_000000|STUPIDITY.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000025_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000027_000001|Compare APATHY; IDIOCY; STUPOR.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000028_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000030_000000|STUPOR.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000031_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000034_000000|SUBJECTIVE.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000035_000000|Synonym:
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000036_000000|objective.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000038_000000|SUBSIDY.
train-other-500/3796/16816/3796_16816_000039_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000004_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000006_000000|SUCCEED.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000007_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000009_000004|Compare FOLLOW.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000010_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000011_000000|be defeated, come short, fail, fall short, lose, miss, miscarry.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000012_000000|SUGGESTION.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000013_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000014_000000|hint, implication, innuendo, insinuation, intimation.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000016_000000|SUPERNATURAL.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000017_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000018_000000|miraculous, preternatural, superhuman.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000020_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000021_000000|common, commonplace, everyday, natural, ordinary, usual.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000022_000000|SUPPORT.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000023_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000025_000005|Compare ABET; ENDURE; KEEP.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000026_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000028_000000|Prepositions:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000030_000000|SUPPOSE.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000031_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000032_000000|conjecture, deem, guess, imagine, surmise, think.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000034_000000|Antonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000036_000000|SURRENDER.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000037_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000039_000005|Compare ABANDON.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000040_000000|SYNONYMOUS.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000041_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000047_000000|SYSTEM.
train-other-500/3796/16817/3796_16817_000048_000000|Synonyms:
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000000_000000|The great man, massive and benignant, had been looking at him thoughtfully; when he broke the short silence it was to remark that concessions flew about thick in the air of Costaguana.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000000_000001|Any simple soul that just yearned to be taken in could bring down a concession at the first shot.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000001_000001|But in a moment he became grave. "A conscientious, upright man, that cares nothing for boodle, and keeps clear of their intrigues, conspiracies, and factions, soon gets his passports.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000001_000003|Persona non grata.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000001_000004|That's the reason our Government is never properly informed.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000001_000005|On the other hand, Europe must be kept out of this continent, and for proper interference on our part the time is not yet ripe, I dare say.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000001_000006|But we here-we are not this country's Government, neither are we simple souls.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000001_000007|Your affair is all right.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000003_000001|I have been fed on that sort of knowledge since I was a boy.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000003_000002|I am not likely to fall into mistakes from excess of optimism."
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000004_000001|That's all right.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000004_000003|Not too much, though.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000004_000004|We will go with you as long as the thing runs straight.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000004_000006|This is the experiment which I am willing to make.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000004_000008|This mine can wait; it has been shut up before, as you know.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000005_000001|And rather more than a year later, during his unexpected appearance in Sulaco, he had emphasized his uncompromising attitude with a freedom of sincerity permitted to his wealth and influence.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000008_000003|Marta, tried to keep clear of their politics, and died ruined after a lot of revolutions.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000008_000004|And that's your Costaguana in a nutshell."
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000000|Of course, he was too great a man to be questioned as to his motives, even by his intimates.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000001|The outside world was at liberty to wonder respectfully at the hidden meaning of his actions.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000003|It was a great man's caprice.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000007|But, in fact, the hobby theory was the right one.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000008|It interested the great man to attend personally to the San Tome mine; it interested him so much that he allowed this hobby to give a direction to the first complete holiday he had taken for quite a startling number of years.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000009|He was not running a great enterprise there; no mere railway board or industrial corporation.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000010|He was running a man!
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000009_000013|The papers had unfortunately trumpeted all over the land his journey to Costaguana.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000012_000000|And the great man had liked this imperturbable assurance.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000012_000002|Like this the mine preserved its identity, with which he had endowed it as a boy; and it remained dependent on himself alone.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000012_000003|It was a serious affair, and he, too, took it grimly.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000013_000001|He will suffer from no sense of defeat.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000014_000001|The parrot, catching the sound of a word belonging to his vocabulary, was moved to interfere.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000014_000002|Parrots are very human.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000017_000000|"My dear, it's nothing to me," interrupted her husband, in a reasonable tone.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000017_000001|"I make use of what I see.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000017_000002|What's it to me whether his talk is the voice of destiny or simply a bit of clap trap eloquence?
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000017_000004|The air of the New World seems favourable to the art of declamation.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000018_000000|"Oh, but that's different," protested mrs Gould, almost shocked.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000018_000001|The allusion was not to the point.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000020_000001|He was an American himself, after all, and perhaps he could understand both kinds of eloquence-"if it were worth while to try," he added, grimly. But he had breathed the air of England longer than any of his people had done for three generations, and really he begged to be excused.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000020_000002|His poor father could be eloquent, too.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000021_000002|"It was a striking pronouncement.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000021_000003|How deeply your father must have felt its terrible sadness!"
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000022_000000|"He did not like to be robbed.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000022_000002|What is wanted here is law, good faith, order, security.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000022_000004|Only let the material interests once get a firm footing, and they are bound to impose the conditions on which alone they can continue to exist.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000022_000005|That's how your money making is justified here in the face of lawlessness and disorder.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000022_000006|It is justified because the security which it demands must be shared with an oppressed people.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000022_000007|A better justice will come afterwards.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000024_000000|"Charley," she said, "you are splendidly disobedient."
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000025_000000|He left her suddenly in the corredor to go and get his hat, a soft, grey sombrero, an article of national costume which combined unexpectedly well with his English get up.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000025_000001|He came back, a riding whip under his arm, buttoning up a dogskin glove; his face reflected the resolute nature of his thoughts.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000025_000002|His wife had waited for him at the head of the stairs, and before he gave her the parting kiss he finished the conversation-
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000026_000000|"What should be perfectly clear to us," he said, "is the fact that there is no going back.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000026_000001|Where could we begin life afresh?
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000026_000002|We are in now for all that there is in us."
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000027_000002|He was prepared to stoop for his weapons.
train-other-500/3796/6400/3796_6400_000027_000004|There was no going back.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000000_000000|She looked across the road which ran by the house, across the canal on the other side, across the level green fields that lay beyond, clear to the blue rim of the world, where the sky touches the earth.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000000_000001|The sky was very blue; and the great, round, shining face of the sun was just peering over the tops of the trees, as she looked out.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000001_000001|The roosters in the barnyard were crowing, the ducks in the canal were quacking, and all the little birds in the fields were singing for joy.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000002_000001|She gave them each a kiss.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000003_000001|If you will hurry, you may go with him!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000003_000002|He is coming at six o'clock; so pop out of bed and get dressed.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000003_000003|I will put some lunch for you in the yellow basket, and you may dig worms for bait in the garden.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000003_000004|Only be sure not to step on the young cabbages that Father planted."
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000004_000001|Their mother helped them put on their clothes and new wooden shoes.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000004_000002|Then she gave them each a bowl of bread and milk for their breakfast.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000005_000000|This is a picture of Kit and Kat digging worms.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000005_000002|They sat on them, instead.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000005_000003|But that was an accident.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000007_000001|There was a little hook on the end of each line.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000009_000000|"Mind Grandfather, and don't fall into the water," she said.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000010_000000|Grandfather and the Twins started off together down the long road beside the canal.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000011_000000|The house where the Twins lived was right beside the canal.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000012_000000|Grandfather lived in a large town, a little way beyond the farm where the Twins lived.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000012_000001|He did not often have a holiday, because he carried milk to the doors of the people in the town, every morning early. Sometime I will tell you how he did it; but I must not tell you now, because if I do, I can't tell you about their going fishing.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000013_000000|This morning, Grandfather carried his rod and the lunch basket.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000014_000000|They walked along ever so far, beside the canal.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000014_000001|Then they turned to the left and walked along a path that ran from the canal across the green fields to what looked like a hill.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000015_000000|But it wasn't a hill at all, really, because there aren't any hills in Holland.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000015_000001|It was a long, long wall of earth, very high-oh, as high as a house, or even higher!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000015_000002|And it had sloping sides.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000016_000000|There is such a wall of earth all around the country of Holland, where the Twins live.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000016_000003|So you see it was very lucky for the Twins that the wall was there.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000016_000004|They called it a dyke.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000017_000000|Grandfather and Kit and Kat climbed the dyke.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000018_000000|They saw a great ship sail slowly by, making a cloud of smoke.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000020_000000|"To America, and England, and China, and all over the world," said Grandfather.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000022_000000|"To take flax and linen from the mills of Holland to make dresses for little girls in other countries," said Grandfather.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000024_000000|"They take cheese and herring, bulbs and butter, and lots of other things besides, and bring back to us wheat and meat and all sorts of good things from the lands across the sea."
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000025_000000|"I think I'll be a sea captain when I'm big," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000027_000000|"Girls can't," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000029_000000|"You can't tell what a girl may be by the time she's four feet and a half high and is called Katrina.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000029_000001|There's no telling what girls will do anyway.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000031_000000|Grandfather showed them how to bait their hooks.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000031_000001|Kit baited Kat's for her, because Kat said it made her all wriggly inside to do it.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000031_000003|Neither did the worm!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000033_000001|The sun climbed higher and higher in the sky, and it grew hotter and hotter on the pier.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000033_000002|The flies tickled Kat's nose and made her sneeze.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000034_000000|"Keep still, can't you?" said Kit crossly.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000034_000001|"You'll scare the fish. Girls don't know how to fish, anyway."
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000035_000001|She was perfectly sure she did.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000036_000001|She jerked it so hard that one foot flew right up in the air, and one of her new wooden shoes went-splash-right into the water!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000037_000000|But that wasn't the worst of it!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000037_000001|Before you could say Jack Robinson, Kat's hook flew around and caught in Kit's clothes and pricked him.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000038_000000|Kit jumped and said "Ow!" And then-no one could ever tell how it happened-there was Kit in the water, too, splashing like a young whale, with Kat's hook still holding fast to his clothes in the back!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000039_000001|He caught hold of Kat's rod and pulled hard and called out, "Steady there, steady!"
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000040_000000|And in one minute there was Kit in the shallow water beside the pier, puffing and blowing like a grampus!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000042_000000|When Kit was safely on the pier, Kat threw her arms around his neck, though the water was running down in streams from his hair and eyes and ears.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000045_000000|"Well, anyway," said Kat, "I caught more than you did.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000045_000001|I caught you!"
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000046_000000|Then Kat thought of something else.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000047_000000|"O Kit," she said, "Mother told you not to fall into the water!"
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000050_000001|No one had thought about shoes, because they were thinking so hard about Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000051_000001|There was Kat's shoe sailing away toward America like a little boat!
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000051_000002|Kit's were still bobbing about in the water near the pier.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000054_000001|It tasted very good, even if it was sandy.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000054_000002|After lunch Grandfather said, "It will never do to go home without any fish at all."
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000055_000000|So by and by he went back to the pier and caught one while the Twins played in the sand.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000055_000001|He put it in the lunch basket to carry home.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000056_000001|Then she made sand pies in clam shells and set them in a row in the sun to bake.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000058_000000|He helped Kit dress, but Kit's clothes were still a little wet in the thick parts.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000059_000000|They climbed the dyke and crossed the fields, and walked along the road by the canal.
train-other-500/3798/16980/3798_16980_000059_000002|They walked quite slowly, for they were tired and sleepy.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000001_000000|MARKET DAY WITH FATHER
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000002_000000|One afternoon Kit and Kat were playing around the kitchen doorstep, while their Mother sat on a bench by the door, peeling some onions for supper.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000003_000000|Kit and Kat had a pan of water and were teaching their ducklings to swim.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000003_000001|They each had one little fat duckling of their very own.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000004_000000|"Don't do that, Kit," said Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000004_000001|"The ducklings don't like it.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000004_000002|You didn't like it when you fell into the water, did you?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000005_000000|"But I'm not a duck," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000006_000001|I'll tell you what!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000006_000002|Let's go out to the garden and help Father get the boat loaded for market."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000007_000000|"All right," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000007_000001|"May we, Mother?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000008_000001|Tell him I said you could ask."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000009_000000|"Oh, goody, goody!" said Kit and Kat, both at once; and they ran as fast as their wooden shoes would take them out into the garden.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000010_000000|They found their father cutting cabbages and gathering them into piles. He was stopping to light his pipe, when they reached him.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000011_000000|"O Father!" said Kit and Kat both together.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000011_000002|Mother said we might ask!"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000012_000000|Father Vedder blew two puffs from his pipe without answering.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000013_000000|"We'll help you load the boat," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000014_000000|"Yes," said Kat, "I can carry a cabbage."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000015_000000|"I can carry two," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000015_000001|"We'll both be good," said Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000016_000000|"Very well," said Father, at last.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000016_000001|"We'll see how you work!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000016_000002|And to morrow morning, if it's fair, I'll see!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000016_000003|But you must go to bed early to night, because you'll have to get up very early in the morning, if you go with me!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000016_000004|Now you each take a cabbage and run along."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000017_000000|Father Vedder went back to his work.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000018_000000|Kit and Kat ran to the cabbage pile.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000020_000000|Perhaps it seems queer to you that they should go to market in a boat, but it didn't seem queer at all to the Twins.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000021_000001|They cross the fields like roadways of water, and that is what they really are.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000021_000002|Little canals open into big ones, and big ones go clear to the sea.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000024_000000|The Twins and their father worked like beavers, washing the vegetables and packing them in baskets, until their good old boat was filled with cabbages and onions and beets and carrots and all sorts of good things to eat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000025_000000|By that time it was nearly dark, and they were all three very hungry; so they went home.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000026_000000|They found that Mother Vedder had made buttermilk porridge for supper. The Twins loved buttermilk porridge.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000027_000000|This is a picture of the bed!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000027_000001|It opened like a cupboard right into the kitchen, and it was like going to bed on a shelf in the pantry.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000029_000000|"It's market day, and the sun is almost up.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000029_000001|Come Kit and Kat, if you want to go with Father," she said.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000030_000000|The Twins bounced out like two rubber balls.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000031_000000|Father was there before them.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000031_000001|He helped them into the boat and put them both on one seat, and told them to sit still.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000031_000002|Then he got in and took the pole and pushed off.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000033_000000|"Be good children; mind Father, and don't get lost," she called after them.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000036_000000|They passed little groups of farm buildings, their red tiled roofs shining in the morning sun; and the windmills threw long, long shadows across the fields.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000038_000001|They passed so close to some of the houses that Kit and Kat could see the white curtains blowing in the windows, and the pots of red geraniums standing on the sill.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000038_000002|In one house the family waved their hands to Kit and Kat from the breakfast table, and a little farther on they passed a woman who was washing clothes in the canal.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000038_000003|Other boats filled with vegetables and flowers of all colors passed them.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000038_000004|And they were going to market too.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000039_000000|"Good day, neighbor Vedder," one man called out.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000039_000001|"Are you taking a pair of fat pigs to market?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000040_000000|By and by they came to the town.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000040_000001|There were a great many boats in the canal here, and people calling back and forth to each other from them.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000041_000000|Kit and Kat saw a boat that the Captain's family lived in.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000041_000001|It was like a floating house.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000043_000000|"We should never have to go to school at all," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000044_000000|They wished their own boat were big enough to move about in; but Father told them they must sit very, very still all the time.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000045_000000|There were houses on each side of the canal, in the town, and people were clattering along over the pavement in their wooden shoes.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000046_000000|The market place was an open square in the middle of the town.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000046_000001|It had little booths and stalls all about it.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000046_000002|The farmers brought their fresh vegetables and flowers, or whatever they had to sell, into these stalls, and then sat there waiting for customers.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000047_000002|They put the cheese between slices of bread and took bites, while they looked about.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000048_000001|Most of them were women with market baskets on their arms.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000048_000002|They went to the different stalls to see what they would buy for dinner.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000049_000000|A large woman with a big basket on her arm came along to the stall where Kit and Kat were sitting.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000050_000000|"Bless my heart!" she said.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000051_000000|"Yes, Ma'am," said Kit and Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000052_000000|"O my soul!" said the large woman.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000052_000001|"So you are!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000052_000002|What are your names?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000053_000000|"Christopher and Katrina, but they call us Kit and Kat for short." It was Kat who said this.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000054_000000|"When we are four feet and a half high, we are going to be called Christopher and Katrina."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000055_000000|"Well, well, well!" said the large woman.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000055_000001|"So you are!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000055_000003|Are you helping Father?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000056_000000|"Yes," said the Twins.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000056_000001|"We're going to help him sell things."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000059_000001|You see, really Kit couldn't count ten and be sure of it.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000059_000002|So he asked Kat to do it.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000060_000000|Kat wasn't afraid.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000061_000000|"Is that ten?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000062_000001|There were eleven, and so she gave back one.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000063_000001|She keeps the sweetie shop."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000064_000001|"We're hungry yet!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000064_000002|Can't we go now?"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000065_000000|"No, not now," said Father.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000065_000001|"We must do some work first."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000066_000000|The Twins helped Father Vedder a long time.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000066_000001|They learned to count ten and to do several other things.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000067_000001|Then come back here to me."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000068_000000|Kit and Kat set forth on their travels, to see the world.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000069_000000|"The world is very large," said Kit and Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000070_000000|They saw all sorts of strange things in the market.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000070_000001|There were tables piled high with flowers.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000070_000002|There was a stall full of birds in cages, singing away with all their might.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000070_000003|One cage had five little birds in it, sitting in a row.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000071_000000|"O Kit," cried Kat, "let's buy the birds!"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000072_000000|They asked the woman if the birds cost two cents, and she said,
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000073_000000|"No, my angels; they cost fifty cents."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000074_000000|You see, now that the Twins could count ten, they knew they couldn't get the birds for two cents when they cost fifty.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000074_000001|So they went to the next place.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000075_000000|There, there were chickens and ducks for sale.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000075_000001|But the Twins had plenty of those at home.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000075_000002|There were stalls and stalls of vegetables just like Father's, and there were booths where meat and fish and wood and peat were sold.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000075_000003|But the Twins couldn't find anything they wanted that cost exactly two cents.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000077_000000|The Twins held up their money.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000081_000000|The Twins were discouraged.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000082_000000|"I don't believe there's a single thing in this whole market that costs just two cents," said Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000083_000000|"Keep still!" said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000083_000001|"Let me think."
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000084_000000|They sat down on the curb.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000084_000002|He thought so hard that he scowled all over his forehead!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000085_000000|"I tell you what it is, Kat," he said at last.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000086_000000|"O Kit," said Kat, "how splendidly you can think!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000086_000001|Does it hurt you much?
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000090_000000|"But you've got two cents, and I've got two," said Kat to Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000090_000001|"If you should get two Nicholas dolls, why, I should have my two cents left; shouldn't I? Oh! dear, it won't come out right anyway!"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000092_000000|"I'll tell you what let's!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000092_000001|You get two with your two cents, and I'll get two with mine!
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000092_000002|And I'll give my other one to Mother and you can give your other one to Father!"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000093_000000|"That's just what we'll do," said Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000096_000001|"So you've figured it all out, have you?" And she counted out the dolls-"One for Kit, and one for Kat, and one for Father, and one for Mother, and an extra one for good measure!"
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000097_000000|"O Kit, she's given us one more!" said Kat.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000098_000000|So they ate up the one more then and there, beginning with the feet. Kit bit one off, and Kat bit the other; and they took turns until the saint Nicholas doll was all gone.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000100_000000|They carried their empty baskets back to the boat, and soon were on their way home.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000100_000001|The Twins sat on one seat, holding tight to their dolls, which were growing rather sticky.
train-other-500/3798/16981/3798_16981_000101_000000|The boat was so light that they went home from market much more quickly than they had come, and it did not seem long before they saw their own house.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000003_000000|The next morning Kit and Kat woke up very early, without any one's calling them.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000003_000001|You see, they were afraid they would be too late to go with the milk cart.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000005_000000|Grandmother Winkle's kitchen was quite like the kitchen at home, only a little nicer.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000005_000001|It had red tiles on the floor; and it had ever so many blue plates hanging around on the walls, and standing on edge in a row on the shelves.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000005_000002|There was a warming pan with a bright brass cover, hanging on the wall; and I wish you could have seen the pillows and the coverlet on the best bed!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000006_000001|When she had company, she always drew the curtains back so that her beautiful bed would be seen.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000006_000002|She said that Kit and Kat were company, and she always left the curtains open when they came to visit her.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000007_000000|When the Twins were all dressed, Grandmother said,
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000008_000000|"Mercy sakes!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000008_000001|You have on your best clothes!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000008_000002|Now that's just like a man to promise to take you out in your best clothes in a milk wagon! Whatever was Grandfather thinking about!"
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000010_000000|"Well, well, we must fix it somehow.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000010_000001|Don't cry now, that's a good Kit and Kat." So the Twins took their knuckles out of their eyes and began to smile.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000011_000000|Grandmother went to the press and brought out two aprons.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000011_000001|One was a very small apron.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000011_000002|It wouldn't reach to Kit's knees.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000011_000003|But she put it on him and tied it around his waist.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000012_000001|"It's pretty small, but it will help some."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000013_000001|But he didn't say so.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000014_000000|Then Grandmother took another apron out of the press.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000014_000001|It looked as if it had been there a long time.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000015_000000|"Kat, you must wear this," she said.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000015_000001|"It was your mother's when she was a little girl."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000016_000000|Now, this apron was all faded, and it had patches on it of different kinds of cloth.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000016_000001|Kat looked at her best dress.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000016_000002|Then she looked at the apron.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000016_000004|She wondered if she wanted to go in the milk cart badly enough to wear that apron over her Sunday dress!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000016_000005|She stuck her finger in her mouth and looked sidewise at Grandmother Winkle.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000017_000000|Grandmother didn't say a word.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000017_000001|She just looked firm and held up the apron.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000018_000000|Very soon Kat came slowly-very slowly-and Grandmother buttoned the apron up behind, and that was the end of that.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000019_000000|The Twins could hardly eat any breakfast, they were in such a hurry to go.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000019_000001|As soon as they had taken the last spoonful, and Grandfather Winkle had finished his coffee, they ran out into the place where the dogs were kept, to help Grandfather harness them.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000020_000000|There were two black and white dogs.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000020_000001|Their names were peter and Paul.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000021_000000|The wagon was small, just the right size for the dogs; and it was painted blue.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000021_000001|The bright brass cans full of milk were already in; and there was a little seat for Kat to sit on.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000022_000000|When the last strap was fastened, Grandfather lifted Kat up and set her on the seat.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000022_000001|She held on with both hands.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000023_000001|He told him to be sure not to let go of the lines.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000024_000000|Grandfather walked behind, carrying some milk cans.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000026_000001|"She takes one quart of milk.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000026_000002|Go slowly."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000027_000000|At first Kit went slowly.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000027_000001|But pretty soon there was a great rattling behind him; and Hans Hite, a boy he knew, drove right past him with his dog cart!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000027_000002|He drove fast; and, as he passed Kit, he stuck out his tongue and called out,
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000028_000000|"Milk for sale!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000028_000001|Milk for sale! A milk cart drawn by a pair of snails!"
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000029_000000|Kit forgot all about going slowly.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000030_000000|"Get up!" he said to the dogs, and he touched them with his long stick.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000031_000000|peter and Paul "got up." They jumped forward and began to run!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000032_000001|But the dogs had four legs apiece, and Kit had only two; so you see he couldn't keep up very well.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000033_000000|Kat began to scream the moment that peter and Paul began to run.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000033_000001|The dogs thought that something that made a dreadful noise was after them, and they ran faster than ever.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000033_000002|You see, Grandfather Winkle never in the world screamed like that, and peter and Paul didn't know what to make of it.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000033_000003|So they ran and ran and ran.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000034_000000|Kat held on the best she could, but she bounced up ever so far in the air every time the cart struck a bump in the street.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000035_000000|Kat didn't always come down in the same spot.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000036_000000|But Kat didn't think about that; she just screamed.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000036_000002|But he didn't let go of the lines!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000037_000000|When Kit sat down, it jerked the dogs so hard that they stopped suddenly.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000037_000002|She flew out over the front of the cart and landed on the ground, among all of peter and Paul's legs!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000037_000003|Then she stopped going, but she didn't stop screaming.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000038_000000|And, though Kit was a boy, he screamed some too.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000038_000001|Then peter and Paul pointed their noses up in the air and began to howl.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000039_000000|Way back, ever so far, Grandfather was coming along as fast as he could; but that wasn't very fast.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000040_000000|All the doors on the street flew open, and all the good housewives came clattering out to see what was the matter.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000041_000001|But shocking things had happened, nevertheless!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000041_000002|Kat had torn a great hole in the front of her best dress; and Kit had worn two round holes in the seat of his Sunday clothes, where he slid along on the pavement; and, besides that, the milk was slopped all over the bottom of the cart!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000042_000001|If it hadn't been that his pipe was still in his mouth, I really don't know what he might not have said!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000042_000002|He looked at the cart, and he looked at the Twins.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000042_000003|Then he took his pipe out of his mouth and said sternly to Kit,
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000043_000000|"Why didn't you do as I told you?"
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000044_000000|"I did," said Kit, very much scared.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000044_000001|"You told me to be sure to hold tight to the lines, and I did!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000044_000002|I never let go once."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000045_000000|"Yes, and look at his clothes," said one of the women.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000045_000001|She turned him around and showed Grandfather the holes.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000046_000000|"I told you to go slowly," said Grandfather.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000046_000001|"Now look at the cart, and see what you've done by not minding, spoiled your best clothes and Kat's, and spilled the milk!
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000046_000002|Go back to Grandmother."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000047_000000|"But I couldn't mind twice at one time," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000047_000001|"I was minding about not letting go."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000048_000000|"Oh dear," sobbed Kat, "I wish we were four and a half feet high now! If we were, this never would have happened."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000050_000000|The Twins took each other's hands, and walked back to Grandmother's house.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000050_000001|Quite a number of little boys and girls in wooden shoes clattered along with them.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000051_000001|See how you've torn them!"
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000052_000000|"I can't see the holes in mine," said Kit.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000053_000001|And then all the children talked at once; and what with wooden shoes and the tongues all going, Grandmother clapped her hands over her ears to shut out the noise.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000053_000003|She put on her glasses and got down on the floor so she could see better.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000054_000000|Then she turned Kit and Kat all around and looked at the holes.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000054_000001|"O! my soul!" she said.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000054_000002|She took off the aprons and the torn clothes and put the Twins to bed while she mended.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000055_000000|She got out a pair of Grandfather's oldest velveteen breeches that had been patched a great deal, and found a good piece to patch with.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000056_000000|Then she patched Kat's dress; and, when it was all done, she shook it out and said to herself,
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000057_000000|"Seems to me those Twins have been quiet for a long time."
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000058_000000|She went over to the cupboard bed; and there were Kit and Kat fast asleep; with their cheeks all stained with tears and dirt.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000059_000000|By and by Grandfather Winkle came home from going about with the milk. Grandmother Winkle scrubbed the cart and made it all clean again; and by noon you would never have known, unless you had looked very, very closely-much more closely than would be polite-that anything had happened to the Twins or the milk cart, or their clothes or anything.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000061_000000|"Kit, if you think you can mind, I will take you and Kat both home in the dog cart." Kit and Kat both nodded their heads very hard.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000061_000001|"Only, I'll do the driving myself," said Grandfather Winkle.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000061_000002|And he did.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000062_000000|He put Kit and Kat both on the seat, and he walked slowly beside the cart.
train-other-500/3798/16984/3798_16984_000062_000001|They went out on the road beside the canal toward home.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000000_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000000_000001|A RIDE ON A LION.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000002_000000|My first impressions of the gentle, dignified, and yet genial old man were entirely favourable: and the real satisfaction that showed itself on his daughter's face, as she met me with the words "this is indeed an unlooked for pleasure!", was very soothing for whatever remains of personal vanity the failures and disappointments of many long years, and much buffeting with a rough world, had left in me.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000004_000000|"How convenient it would be," Lady Muriel laughingly remarked, a propos of my having insisted on saving her the trouble of carrying a cup of tea across the room to the Earl, "if cups of tea had no weight at all!
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000005_000000|"One can easily imagine a situation," said Arthur, "where things would necessarily have no weight, relatively to each other, though each would have its usual weight, looked at by itself."
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000006_000001|"Tell us how it could be.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000006_000002|We shall never guess it."
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000007_000000|"Well, suppose this house, just as it is, placed a few billion miles above a planet, and with nothing else near enough to disturb it: of course it falls to the planet?"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000008_000000|The Earl nodded.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000009_000000|"And is five o'clock tea to be going on all the while?" said Lady Muriel.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000010_000001|"The inhabitants would live their lives, grow up and die, and still the house would be falling, falling, falling!
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000010_000002|But now as to the relative weight of things.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000010_000003|Nothing can be heavy, you know, except by trying to fall, and being prevented from doing so.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000010_000004|You all grant that?"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000011_000000|We all granted that.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000012_000000|"Well, now, if I take this book, and hold it out at arm's length, of course I feel its weight.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000012_000002|But, if we were all falling together, it couldn't be trying to fall any quicker, you know: for, if I let go, what more could it do than fall?
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000012_000003|And, as my hand would be falling too-at the same rate-it would never leave it, for that would be to get ahead of it in the race.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000013_000000|"I see it clearly," said Lady Muriel.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000013_000001|"But it makes one dizzy to think of such things!
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000013_000002|How can you make us do it?"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000014_000000|"There is a more curious idea yet," I ventured to say.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000014_000001|"Suppose a cord fastened to the house, from below, and pulled down by some one on the planet.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000015_000000|"Practically, we should rise to the ceiling," said the Earl.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000015_000001|"The inevitable result of which would be concussion of brain."
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000017_000000|"With one little drawback!" Lady Muriel gaily interrupted.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000017_000001|"We should take the cups down with us: but what about the tea?"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000018_000000|"I had forgotten the tea," Arthur confessed.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000018_000001|"That, no doubt, would rise to the ceiling unless you chose to drink it on the way!"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000020_000001|After a while, Arthur gave the signal for our departure, and in the cool of the evening we strolled down to the beach, enjoying the silence, broken only by the murmur of the sea and the far away music of some fishermen's song, almost as much as our late pleasant talk.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000021_000000|We sat down among the rocks, by a little pool, so rich in animal, vegetable, and zoophytic-or whatever is the right word-life, that I became entranced in the study of it, and, when Arthur proposed returning to our lodgings, I begged to be left there for a while, to watch and muse alone.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000022_000000|The fishermen's song grew ever nearer and clearer, as their boat stood in for the beach; and I would have gone down to see them land their cargo of fish, had not the microcosm at my feet stirred my curiosity yet more keenly.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000023_000000|One ancient crab, that was for ever shuffling frantically from side to side of the pool, had particularly fascinated me: there was a vacancy in its stare, and an aimless violence in its behaviour, that irresistibly recalled the Gardener who had befriended Sylvie and Bruno: and, as I gazed, I caught the concluding notes of the tune of his crazy song.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000024_000000|The silence that followed was broken by the sweet voice of Sylvie. "Would you please let us out into the road?"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000028_000000|"We don't want him to swallow anything," Sylvie explained.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000028_000001|"He's not hungry.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000028_000002|But we want to see him.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000028_000003|So Will you please-"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000029_000003|There you are!" And he flung the door open, and let us out upon the dusty high road.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000030_000002|It's all gone out of my head!"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000031_000001|Sylvie kissed it, but no result followed.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000032_000000|"Rub it the wrong way," was Bruno's next suggestion.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000033_000000|"Which is the wrong way?", Sylvie most reasonably enquired.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000033_000001|The obvious plan was to try both ways.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000034_000000|Rubbing from left to right had no visible effect whatever.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000035_000000|From right to left-"Oh, stop, Sylvie!" Bruno cried in sudden alarm. "Whatever is going to happen?"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000036_000000|For a number of trees, on the neighbouring hillside, were moving slowly upwards, in solemn procession: while a mild little brook, that had been rippling at our feet a moment before, began to swell, and foam, and hiss, and bubble, in a truly alarming fashion.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000037_000002|Quick!"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000038_000000|It was a happy thought.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000038_000001|Up and down did it: and the landscape, which had been showing signs of mental aberration in various directions, returned to its normal condition of sobriety with the exception of a small yellowish brown mouse, which continued to run wildly up and down the road, lashing its tail like a little lion.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000039_000001|The mouse at once settled down into a business like jog trot, with which we could easily keep pace.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000039_000002|The only phenomenon, that gave me any uneasiness, was the rapid increase in the size of the little creature we were following, which became every moment more and more like a real lion.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000040_000000|Soon the transformation was complete: and a noble lion stood patiently waiting for us to come up with it.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000042_000001|And in another moment Sylvie had lifted him upon the broad back of the gentle beast, and seated herself behind him, pillion fashion.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000042_000002|Bruno took a good handful of mane in each hand, and made believe to guide this new kind of steed.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000042_000003|"Gee up!', seemed quite sufficient by way of verbal direction: the lion at once broke into an easy canter, and we soon found ourselves in the depths of the forest.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000042_000004|I say 'we,' for I am certain that I accompanied them though how I managed to keep up with a cantering lion I am wholly unable to explain.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000000|"From bad to worse!" the old man said to himself, dreamily, when the children had finished their rather confused account of the Ambassador's visit, gathered no doubt from general report, as they had not seen him themselves.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000001|"From bad to worse!
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000002|That is their destiny.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000003|I see it, but I cannot alter it.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000004|The selfishness of a mean and crafty man-the selfishness of an ambitious and silly woman----the selfishness of a spiteful and loveless child all tend one way, from bad to worse!
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000006|Yet, when things are at their worst, you can come to me.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000043_000007|I can do but little as yet-"
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000046_000000|The cloud of dust spread itself out through the air, as if it were alive, forming curious shapes that were for ever changing into others.
train-other-500/3819/134145/3819_134145_000047_000000|"It makes letters!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000000_000000|"What's all this noise about?" the Vice warden angrily enquired, as he strode into the room.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000000_000001|"And who put the hat stand here?"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000001_000000|And he hung his hat up on Bruno, who was standing in the middle of the room, too much astonished by the sudden change of scene to make any attempt at removing it, though it came down to his shoulders, making him look something like a small candle with a large extinguisher over it.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000002_000000|The Professor mildly explained that His Highness had been graciously pleased to say he wouldn't do his lessons.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000003_000000|"Do your lessons this instant, you young cub!" thundered the Vice Warden.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000003_000001|"And take this!" and a resounding box on the ear made the unfortunate Professor reel across the room.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000005_000002|"Where's the razor?"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000006_000000|The Vice Warden meanwhile had got hold of Uggug, and was belabouring him with his umbrella.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000006_000001|"Who left this loose nail in the floor?" he shouted, "Hammer it in, I say!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000008_000002|"You are such an utter donkey!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000008_000003|Kiss me, Tabby!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000010_000000|"We must go to Father!" Sylvie panted, as they ran down the garden. "I'm sure things are at their worst!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000012_000000|And, shrill and wild, rang through the air the familiar voice:--
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000015_000000|"No, I ca'n't let you out again!" he said, before the children could speak.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000015_000003|It's waiting to be fed!'" but in a more musical tone than the shrill screech in which he had begun.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000016_000000|The music grew fuller and richer at every moment: other manly voices joined in the refrain: and soon I heard the heavy thud that told me the boat had touched the beach, and the harsh grating of the shingle as the men dragged it up.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000016_000001|I roused myself, and, after lending them a hand in hauling up their boat, I lingered yet awhile to watch them disembark a goodly assortment of the hard won 'treasures of the deep.'
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000018_000000|And how that cupboard door did creak!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000018_000001|It surely could not be Arthur, who was opening and shutting it so often, moving so restlessly about, and muttering like the soliloquy of a tragedy queen!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000019_000000|No, it was a female voice.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000020_000000|Could it be the landlady?
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000020_000001|The door opened, and a strange man entered the room.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000021_000000|"What is that donkey doing?" he said to himself, pausing, aghast, on the threshold.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000022_000000|The lady, thus rudely referred to, was his wife.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000022_000001|She had got one of the cupboards open, and stood with her back to him, smoothing down a sheet of brown paper on one of the shelves, and whispering to herself "So, so! Deftly done!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000022_000002|Craftily contrived!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000023_000000|Her loving husband stole behind her on tiptoe, and tapped her on the head.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000023_000001|"Boh!" he playfully shouted at her ear.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000024_000000|My Lady wrung her hands.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000024_000002|"Yet no-he is one of us!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000024_000003|Reveal it not, oh Man!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000024_000004|Let it bide its time!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000025_000000|"Reveal what not?" her husband testily replied, dragging out the sheet of brown paper.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000025_000001|"What are you hiding here, my Lady?
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000025_000002|I insist upon knowing!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000026_000001|"It's-it's---don't you understand?
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000026_000002|It's a DAGGER!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000027_000000|"And what's that for?" sneered His Excellency.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000027_000001|"We've only got to make people think he's dead!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000027_000003|And made of tin, too!" he snarled, contemptuously bending the blade round his thumb. "Now, Madam, you'll be good enough to explain.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000027_000004|First, what do you call me Benjamin for?"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000028_000000|"It's part of the Conspiracy, Love!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000029_000002|And next, what did you get this dagger for? Come, no evasions!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000033_000000|"Now don't say your Word and Honour!" groaned the other Conspirator. "Why, they aren't worth half the money, put together!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000034_000000|"On my birthday," my Lady concluded in a meek whisper.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000034_000001|"One must have a dagger, you know.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000035_000000|"Oh, don't talk of Conspiracies!" her husband savagely interrupted, as he tossed the dagger into the cupboard.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000035_000001|"You know about as much how to manage a Conspiracy as if you were a chicken.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000035_000003|Now, just look at this!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000037_000002|"You do look, oh, such a perfect Fool!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000038_000000|The Fool smiled a doubtful smile.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000038_000001|He was not quite clear whether it was a compliment or not, to express it so plainly.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000038_000002|"You mean a Jester?
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000038_000003|Yes, that's what I intended.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000038_000004|And what do you think your disguise is to be?" And he proceeded to unfold the parcel, the lady watching him in rapture.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000039_000000|"Oh, how lovely!" she cried, when at last the dress was unfolded.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000040_000001|"Here, put it on, and look at yourself in the glass.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000040_000002|Why, it's a Bear, ca'n't you use your eyes?" He checked himself suddenly, as a harsh voice yelled through the room,
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000042_000000|But it was only the Gardener, singing under the open window.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000042_000001|The Vice Warden stole on tip toe to the window, and closed it noiselessly, before he ventured to go on.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000042_000002|"Yes, Lovey, a Bear: but not without a head, I hope!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000042_000003|You're the Bear, and me the Keeper.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000042_000004|And if any one knows us, they'll have sharp eyes, that's all!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000044_000000|"Yes, of course," replied the Keeper, laying hold of the chain, that hung from the Bear's collar, with one hand, while with the other he cracked a little whip.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000044_000001|"Now go round the room in a sort of a dancing attitude.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000044_000003|Come up, Bruin!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000044_000004|Come up, I say!"
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000047_000000|The Keeper pretended to be adjusting the bear's collar, which gave him an opportunity of whispering, unheard by Uggug, "my fault, I'm afraid! Quite forgot to fasten the door.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000047_000001|Plot's ruined if he finds it out!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000047_000002|Keep it up a minute or two longer.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000048_000001|"Off with the disguises!" he panted.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000048_000002|"There's not a moment to lose.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000048_000003|He's sure to fetch the Professor, and we couldn't take him in, you know!" And in another minute the disguises were stowed away in the cupboard, the door unbolted, and the two Conspirators seated lovingly side by side on the sofa, earnestly discussing a book the Vice Warden had hastily snatched off the table, which proved to be the City Directory of the capital of Outland.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000049_000000|The door opened, very slowly and cautiously, and the Professor peeped in, Uggug's stupid face being just visible behind him.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000050_000001|"You see, my precious one, that there are fifteen houses in Green Street, before you turn into West Street."
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000051_000000|"Fifteen houses!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000051_000001|Is it possible?" my Lady replied.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000052_000000|My Lady was the first to notice their approach.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000052_000002|"And my precious child too!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000054_000000|The Vice Warden and his wife shook with well acted merriment.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000055_000001|"We've been sitting here this hour or more, reading-," here she referred to the book lying on her lap, "--reading the-the City Directory."
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000056_000000|"Let me feel your pulse, my boy!" said the anxious father.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000056_000001|"Now put out your tongue.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000056_000002|Ah, I thought so!
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000057_000000|"I ain't been dreaming!" his Exalted Fatness remonstrated, as the Professor led him away.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000058_000000|"Bad grammar, Sir!" his father remarked with some sternness.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000058_000001|"Kindly attend to that little matter, Professor, as soon as you have corrected the feverishness.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000060_000000|"No! Certainly not!" the Vice Warden eagerly explained.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000060_000001|"Merely an Emperor, you understand."
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000062_000001|"Where could we find a better?
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000063_000000|"Where indeed!" the Professor fervently responded, quite failing to take the hint.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000064_000000|The Vice Warden resumed the thread of his discourse.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000066_000000|"True, true!" the Vice Warden interrupted.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000066_000001|"Your position, as Court Professor, makes it awkward, I admit.
train-other-500/3819/134146/3819_134146_000066_000003|Then the Election shall be held without you."
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000001_000000|CHAPTER sixteen.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000001_000001|A CHANGED CROCODILE.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000002_000000|The Marvellous-the Mysterious-had quite passed out of my life for the moment: and the Common place reigned supreme.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000002_000001|I turned in the direction of the Earl's house, as it was now 'the witching hour' of five, and I knew I should find them ready for a cup of tea and a quiet chat.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000003_000000|Lady Muriel and her father gave me a delightfully warm welcome.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000003_000002|'The Man with the Iron Mask' was, no doubt, a rarity and a marvel in his own age: in modern London no one would turn his head to give him a second look!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000003_000003|No, these were real people.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000003_000004|When they looked pleased, it meant that they were pleased: and when Lady Muriel said, with a bright smile, "I'm very glad to see you again!", I knew that it was true.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000004_000000|Still I did not venture to disobey the injunctions-crazy as I felt them to be-of the lovesick young Doctor, by so much as alluding to his existence: and it was only after they had given me full details of a projected picnic, to which they invited me, that Lady Muriel exclaimed, almost as an after thought, "and do, if you can, bring Doctor Forester with you!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000004_000002|I'm afraid he studies too much-"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000005_000000|It was 'on the tip of my tongue' to quote the words "His only books are woman's looks!" but I checked myself just in time-with something of the feeling of one who has crossed a street, and has been all but run over by a passing 'Hansom.'
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000006_000001|"Do get him to come!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000006_000002|And don't forget the day, Tuesday week.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000006_000003|We can drive you over.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000006_000005|And our open carriage just holds four."
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000008_000000|The picnic was to take place in ten days: and though Arthur readily accepted the invitation I brought him, nothing that I could say would induce him to call-either with me or without me on the Earl and his daughter in the meanwhile.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000010_000002|"And this open place," I said to myself, "seems to have some memory about it I cannot distinctly recall-surely it is the very spot where I saw those Fairy Children!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000010_000003|But I hope there are no snakes about!" I mused aloud, taking my seat on a fallen tree.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000011_000001|"He's not afraid of them, you know.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000011_000003|He says they're too waggly!"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000014_000000|"Too waggly?" was all I could say in so sudden an emergency.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000015_000000|"I'm not praticular," Bruno said, carelessly: "but I do like straight animals best-"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000017_000000|"But there's more of a dog, isn't there, Mister Sir?" Bruno appealed to me.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000021_000000|"Shortened it up?" I said.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000021_000001|"That's something new.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000021_000002|How does he do it?"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000022_000000|"He's got a curious machine," Sylvie was beginning to explain.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000025_000001|And he shortened it up for us.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000026_000000|"Not both its eyes," Sylvie interrupted.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000027_000000|"Course not!" said the little fellow.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000027_000001|"Only the eye that couldn't see wherever the rest of it had got to.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000027_000002|But the eye that could see wherever-"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000028_000000|"How short was the crocodile?" I asked, as the story was getting a little complicated.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000030_000000|I tried to calculate what this would come to, but it was too hard for me.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000030_000001|Please make it out for me, dear Child who reads this!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000031_000000|"But you didn't leave the poor thing so short as that, did you?"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000033_000000|"Two times and a half, and a little bit more," said Sylvie.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000034_000000|"It wouldn't like that better than the other way, I'm afraid?"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000035_000000|"Oh, but it did though!" Bruno put in eagerly.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000035_000001|"It were proud of its new tail!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000037_000000|"Not quite all the way," said Sylvie.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000038_000003|And it got both its paws on its tail.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000038_000005|And it walked and it walked on its forehead.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000038_000007|There now!"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000039_000000|This was a good deal worse than the last puzzle.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000039_000001|Please, dear Child, help again!
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000040_000000|"I don't believe no Crocodile never walked along its own forehead!" Sylvie cried, too much excited by the controversy to limit the number of her negatives.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000041_000001|"It had a welly good reason.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000045_000000|This time Bruno was at a loss, and left it to Sylvie.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000046_000000|"Squeezeled!" Bruno interrupted.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000047_000000|"Yes." Sylvie accepted the correction, but did not attempt to pronounce the word, which was evidently new to her.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000047_000001|"They get-like that-and they come out, oh, ever so long!"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000050_000000|"Well, we wroted a Nursery Song, and the Professor mangled it longer for us.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000051_000000|"I know the rest," I interrupted.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000051_000001|"But would you say it long I mean the way that it came out of the mangle?"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000052_000000|"We'll get the Professor to sing it for you," said Sylvie.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000052_000001|"It would spoil it to say it."
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000053_000000|"I would like to meet the Professor," I said.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000053_000001|"And I would like to take you all with me, to see some friends of mine, that live near here.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000053_000002|Would you like to come?"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000054_000000|"I don't think the Professor would like to come," said Sylvie.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000054_000001|"He's very shy.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000054_000002|But we'd like it very much.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000054_000003|Only we'd better not come this size, you know."
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000055_000000|The difficulty had occurred to me already: and I had felt that perhaps there would be a slight awkwardness in introducing two such tiny friends into Society.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000055_000001|"What size will you be?" I enquired.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000057_000000|"Could you come to day?" I said, thinking "then we could have you at the picnic!"
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000058_000000|Sylvie considered a little.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000058_000002|"We haven't got the things ready.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000058_000003|We'll come on-Tuesday next, if you like.
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000058_000004|And now, really Bruno, you must come and do your lessons."
train-other-500/3819/134153/3819_134153_000059_000001|"It always show's there's something horrid coming!
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000001|The head of it was just protruding from the Natural Tunnel twenty miles away.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000002|There he sent his horse back, slept in a shanty till morning, and then the train crawled through a towering bench of rock.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000003|The mouth of it on the other side opened into a mighty amphitheatre with solid rock walls shooting vertically hundreds of feet upward.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000004|Vertically, he thought-with the back of his head between his shoulders as he looked up-they were more than vertical-they were actually concave.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000005|The Almighty had not only stored riches immeasurable in the hills behind him-He had driven this passage Himself to help puny man to reach them, and yet the wretched road was going toward them like a snail.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000006|On the fifth night, thereafter he was back there at the tunnel again from New York-with a grim mouth and a happy eye.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000007|He had brought success with him this time and there was no sleep for him that night.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000001_000008|He had been delayed by a wreck, it was two o'clock in the morning, and not a horse was available; so he started those twenty miles afoot, and day was breaking when he looked down on the little valley shrouded in mist and just wakening from sleep.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000002_000000|Things had been moving while he was away, as he quickly learned. The English were buying lands right and left at the gap sixty miles southwest.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000002_000001|Two companies had purchased most of the town site where he was-HIS town site-and were going to pool their holdings and form an improvement company.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000002_000003|Early breakfast was ready when he got back to the hotel.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000002_000004|He swallowed a cup of coffee so hastily that it burned him, and June, when she passed his window on her way to school, saw him busy over his desk.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000002_000005|She started to shout to him, but he looked so haggard and grim that she was afraid, and went on, vaguely hurt by a preoccupation that seemed quite to have excluded her.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000002_000007|The operator who was speculating in a small way himself smiled when he read the telegram.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000003_000000|"A thousand an acre?" he repeated with a whistle.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000003_000001|"You could have got that at twenty five per-three months ago."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000004_000000|"I know," said Hale, "there's time enough yet." Then he went to his room, pulled the blinds down and went to sleep, while rumour played with his name through the town.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000005_000000|It was nearly the closing hour of school when, dressed and freshly shaven, he stepped out into the pale afternoon and walked up toward the schoolhouse.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000006_000001|I won't let 'em touch you." June stopped with him and Hale ran to them.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000007_000000|"Here," he called, "what's the matter?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000008_000002|Then he pointed to the smaller one and spoke to Hale without looking around.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000009_000000|"Why, that little skate there was teasing this little girl and-"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000010_000000|"She slapped him," said Hale grimly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000010_000001|The lad with the cap turned.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000011_000000|"Slapped him!
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000011_000001|She knocked him as flat as a pancake."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000012_000001|He was near bursting with rage.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000014_000000|"Hold on!" said Hale, jumping between them.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000014_000001|"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," he said to the mountain boy.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000015_000000|"I wasn't atter the gal," he said indignantly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000016_000000|The boy with the cap tried to get away from Hale's grasp.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000017_000003|I know the breed.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000017_000004|He'll fight all right and there's no use puttin' it off.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000017_000005|It's got to come."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000018_000000|"You bet it's got to come," said the mountain lad.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000018_000001|"You can't call my brother names."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000020_000002|It's got to stop NOW!" And as Hale dragged him off he added to the mountain boy, "and I'm going to begin with you whenever you say the word." Hale was laughing now.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000021_000000|"You don't seem to understand," he said, "this is my affair."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000024_000000|"Oh, well, you see I didn't know that.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000024_000001|I've only been here two days. But"--his frank, generous face broke into a winning smile-"you don't go to school.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000025_000000|"Sure!
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000025_000001|I'll be very grateful."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000026_000001|It was a great pleasure and I think I'll have lots of fun." He looked at June, whose grateful eyes had hardly left his face.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000028_000000|"June," she said, and a shy smile came through her tears.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000029_000000|"June," he finished with a boyish laugh.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000030_000000|"You haven't told me your name."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000031_000000|"I suppose you know my brothers, sir, the Berkleys."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000032_000000|"I should say so," and Hale held out his hand.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000032_000001|"You're Bob?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000033_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000034_000000|"I knew you were coming, and I'm mighty glad to see you.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000034_000001|I hope you and June will be good friends and I'll be very glad to have you watch over her when I'm away."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000035_000000|"I'd like nothing better, sir," he said cheerfully, and quite impersonally as far as June was concerned.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000035_000001|Then his eyes lighted up.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000036_000000|"My brothers don't seem to want me to join the Police Guard.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000037_000000|"I certainly will."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000038_000000|"Thank you, sir."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000039_000000|That "sir" no longer bothered Hale.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000039_000001|At first he had thought it a mark of respect to his superior age, and he was not particularly pleased, but when he knew now that the lad was another son of the old gentleman whom he saw riding up the valley every morning on a gray horse, with several dogs trailing after him-he knew the word was merely a family characteristic of old-fashioned courtesy.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000040_000000|"Isn't he nice, June?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000041_000000|"Yes," she said.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000042_000000|"Have you missed me, June?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000043_000000|June slid her hand into his.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000043_000001|"I'm so glad you come back." They were approaching the gate now.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000046_000000|"All right," said Hale kindly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000048_000000|"What were you mad about the other time?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000049_000000|"I wasn't mad."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000050_000000|"Then why did you cry, June?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000052_000000|"Cause you was so good to me."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000053_000000|Hale choked suddenly and patted her on the shoulder.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000054_000000|"Go in, now, little girl, and study.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000054_000001|Then you must take a walk.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000054_000002|I've got some work to do.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000054_000003|I'll see you at supper time."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000055_000000|"All right," said June.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000056_000000|"Hello, June!" he called thickly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000059_000000|She only stared at him rebukingly, and he straightened in his saddle with an effort at self control-but his eyes got darker and he looked ugly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000062_000000|"Oh, you ain't ready now.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000063_000000|He whirled his horse with an oath-June was gone.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000063_000001|She saw him ride swaying down the street and she ran across to the hotel and found Hale sitting in the office with another man.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000063_000002|Hale saw her entering the door swiftly, he knew something was wrong and he rose to meet her.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000064_000000|"Dave's here," she whispered hurriedly, "an' he says he's come to take me home."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000065_000000|"Well," said Hale, "he won't do it, will he?" June shook her head and then she said significantly:
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000066_000000|"Dave's drinkin'."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000067_000000|Hale's brow clouded.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000067_000001|Straightway he foresaw trouble-but he said cheerily:
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000000|"All right.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000001|You go back and keep in the house and I'll be over by and by and we'll talk it over." And, without another word, she went.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000003|She tried to study her lessons for the next day, but she couldn't fix her mind on them.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000004|She wondered if Dave might not get into a fight or, perhaps, he would get so drunk that he would go to sleep somewhere-she knew that men did that after drinking very much-and, anyhow, he would not bother her until next morning, and then he would be sober and would go quietly back home.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000006|It was plaited and she had studied just how it was done and she began to wonder whether she could fix her own that way.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000007|So she got in front of the mirror and loosened hers in a mass about her shoulders-the mass that was to Hale like the golden bronze of a wild turkey's wing.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000009|She did it in front, of course, so June divided the bronze heap behind her and pulled one half of it in front of her and then for a moment she was helpless.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000011|When it was finished she looked at the braid, much pleased-for it hung below her waist and was much longer than any of the other girls' at school.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000012|The transition was easy now, so interested had she become.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000013|She got out her tan shoes and stockings and the pretty white dress and put them on.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000014|The millpond was dark with shadows now, and she went down the stairs and out to the gate just as Dave again pulled up in front of it.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000068_000015|He stared at the vision wonderingly and long, and then he began to laugh with the scorn of soberness and the silliness of drink.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000069_000001|The girl never moved.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000070_000000|"Drop that pistol.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000071_000000|"Get off that horse," added the stern voice.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000071_000001|Just then Hale rushed across the street and the mountain youth saw him.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000073_000000|"Take him to the calaboose!"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000074_000000|At that June opened the gate-that disgrace she could never stand-but Hale spoke.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000075_000000|"I know him, boys.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000075_000001|He doesn't mean any harm.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000075_000002|He doesn't know the regulations yet.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000075_000003|Suppose we let him go home."
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000076_000000|"All right," said Logan.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000076_000001|"The calaboose or home.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000076_000002|Will you go home?"
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000077_000000|In the moment, the mountain boy had apparently forgotten his captors-he was staring at June with wonder, amazement, incredulity struggling through the fumes in his brain to his flushed face.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000078_000000|"Will you go home?" repeated Logan sternly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000079_000000|The boy looked around at the words, as though he were half dazed, and his baffled face turned sick and white.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000080_000000|"Lemme loose!" he said sullenly.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000080_000001|"I'll go home." And he rode silently away, after giving Hale a vindictive look that told him plainer than words that more was yet to come.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000080_000002|Hale had heard June's warning cry, but now when he looked for her she was gone.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000081_000000|"She's got a surprise for you," said mrs Crane, smiling mysteriously. "She's been fixing for you for an hour.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000082_000000|June was coming in-she wore her homespun, her scarlet homespun and the Psyche knot.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000082_000003|Nothing was said of Dave-in fact, June said nothing at all, and Hale, too, vaguely understanding, kept quiet.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000082_000004|Only when he went out, Hale called her to the gate and put one hand on her head.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000084_000000|The girl lifted her great troubled eyes to him, but no word passed her lips, and Hale helplessly left her.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000000|June did not cry that night.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000002|She had taken sides with "furriners" against her own people. That was why, instinctively, she had put on her old homespun with a vague purpose of reparation to them.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000003|She knew the story Dave would take back home-the bitter anger that his people and hers would feel at the outrage done him-anger against the town, the Guard, against Hale because he was a part of both and even against her.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000004|Dave was merely drunk, he had simply shot off his pistol-that was no harm in the hills.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000005|And yet everybody had dashed toward him as though he had stolen something-even Hale.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000007|She had cried out impulsively to save Hale, but Dave would not understand.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000008|No, in his eyes she had been false to family and friends-to the clan-she had sided with "furriners." What would her father say?
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000009|Perhaps she'd better go home next day-perhaps for good-for there was a deep unrest within her that she could not fathom, a premonition that she was at the parting of the ways, a vague fear of the shadows that hung about the strange new path on which her feet were set.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000011|Sometimes, when the wind blew up Lonesome Cove, she could hear Uncle Billy's wheel creaking just that way.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000013|Yes, she would go home next day.
train-other-500/3843/176663/3843_176663_000085_000014|She blew out the light and undressed in the dark as she did at home and went to bed.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000001_000001|The improvement company had been formed to encourage the growth of the town. A safe was put in the back part of a furniture store behind a wooden partition and a bank was started.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000001_000002|Up through the Gap and toward Kentucky, more entries were driven into the coal, and on the Virginia side were signs of stripping for iron ore.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000001_000003|A furnace was coming in just as soon as the railroad could bring it in, and the railroad was pushing ahead with genuine vigor.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000001_000004|Speculators were trooping in and the town had been divided off into lots-a few of which had already changed hands. One agent had brought in a big steel safe and a tent and was buying coal lands right and left.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000001_000005|More young men drifted in from all points of the compass.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000002_000000|And the Guard went to its work in earnest.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000002_000001|Every man now had his Winchester, his revolver, his billy and his whistle.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000002_000002|Drilling and target shooting became a daily practice.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000004_000000|"Huh!
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000005_000001|They come into our country and air tryin' to larn us how to run it."
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000007_000001|One bully, who had been conspicuous in the brickyard trouble, after watching a drill went up to him with a grin:
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000009_000001|And others, who might have been bad men, became members and, thus getting a vent for their energies, were as enthusiastic for the law as they might have been against it.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000010_000000|Of course, the antagonistic element in the town lost no opportunity to plague and harass the Guard, and after the destruction of the "blind tigers," mischief was naturally concentrated in the high license saloons-particularly in the one run by Jack Woods, whose local power for evil and cackling laugh seemed to mean nothing else than close personal communion with old Nick himself.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000010_000003|The boy looked over his shoulder without moving a muscle, but the honorable
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000010_000004|Samuel Budd, who came in at that moment, pinioned the fellow's arms from behind and Bob took his weapon away.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000011_000000|"Hell," said the mountaineer, "I didn't aim to hurt the little feller.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000012_000000|"Well, brother, 'tis scarce a merry jest," quoth the honorable
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000012_000001|Sam, and he looked sharply at Jack through his big spectacles as the two led the man off to the calaboose: for he suspected that the saloon keeper was at the bottom of the trick.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000012_000002|Jack's time came only the next day.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000012_000003|He had regarded it as the limit of indignity when an ordinance was up that nobody should blow a whistle except a member of the Guard, and it was great fun for him to have some drunken customer blow a whistle and then stand in his door and laugh at the policemen running in from all directions.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000012_000004|That day Jack tried the whistle himself and Hale ran down.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000013_000000|"Who did that?" he asked.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000013_000001|Jack felt bold that morning.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000014_000000|"I blowed it."
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000015_000000|Hale thought for a moment.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000015_000001|The ordinance against blowing a whistle had not yet been passed, but he made up his mind that, under the circumstances, Jack's blowing was a breach of the peace, since the Guard had adopted that signal.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000015_000002|So he said:
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000016_000000|"You mustn't do that again."
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000017_000000|Jack had doubtless been going through precisely the same mental process, and, on the nice legal point involved, he seemed to differ.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000018_000000|"I'll blow it when I damn please," he said.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000019_000000|"Blow it again and I'll arrest you," said Hale.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000020_000000|Jack blew.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000020_000001|He had his right shoulder against the corner of his door at the time, and, when he raised the whistle to his lips, Hale drew and covered him before he could make another move.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000020_000002|Woods backed slowly into his saloon to get behind his counter.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000020_000003|Hale saw his purpose, and he closed in, taking great risk, as he always did, to avoid bloodshed, and there was a struggle.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000020_000004|Jack managed to get his pistol out; but Hale caught him by the wrist and held the weapon away so that it was harmless as far as he was concerned; but a crowd was gathering at the door toward which the saloon keeper's pistol was pointed, and he feared that somebody out there might be shot; so he called out:
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000021_000000|"Drop that pistol!"
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000022_000000|The order was not obeyed, and Hale raised his right hand high above Jack's head and dropped the butt of his weapon on Jack's skull-hard. Jack's head dropped back between his shoulders, his eyes closed and his pistol clicked on the floor.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000024_000001|Moreover, the Falins, because of a rumour that Bad Rufe Tolliver might come back, and because of Devil Judd's anger at their attempt to capture young Dave, grew wary and rather pacificatory: and so, beyond a little quarrelling, a little threatening and the exchange of a harmless shot or two, sometimes in banter, sometimes in earnest, nothing had been done.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000024_000003|And, in truth, with Hale going away again on a business trip and Bob, too, gone back home to the Bluegrass, and school closed, the little girl was glad to go, and she waited for her father's coming eagerly.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000024_000005|The quiet smile of that astute young woman had told Hale plainly, and somewhat to his embarrassment, that she knew something had happened between the two, but that smile she never gave to June.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000024_000006|Indeed, she never encountered aught else than the same silent searching gaze from the strangely mature little creature's eyes, and when those eyes met the teacher's, always June's hand would wander unconsciously to the little cross at her throat as though to invoke its aid against anything that could come between her and its giver.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000025_000002|June leaned forward a little, and there was the crest of the big tree motionless in the blue high above, and sheltered by one big white cloud.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000025_000004|Thus was she unclad, for Hale had told her that, to avoid criticism, she must go home clothed just as she was when she left Lonesome Cove.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000025_000005|She did not quite understand that, and she carried her new clothes in a bundle in her lap, but she took Hale's word unquestioned.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000025_000007|The soft wind was very good to those dangling feet, and she itched to have them on the green grass or in the cool waters through which the old horse splashed.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000026_000003|He was never anything but kind-Jack was-dear, dear Jack!
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000027_000000|"It won't happen ANY more," she said aloud.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000029_000000|The old man lifted his bushy beard from his chest and turned his head.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000030_000001|How often she had said that to herself-that it would happen no more-she had stopped saying it to Hale, because he laughed and forgave her, and seemed to love her mood, whether she cried from joy or anger-and yet she kept on doing both just the same.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000031_000001|Even out there, Hale had told her, she would go some day.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000031_000005|The valley on the other side was in dazzling sunshine-she had seen that.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000031_000008|Colour came to her face and her heart beat faster.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000031_000009|At the foot of the spur the road had been widened and showed signs of heavy hauling.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000031_000010|There was sawdust in the mouth of the creek and, from coal dust, the water was black.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000031_000011|The ring of axes and the shouts of ox drivers came from the mountain side.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000033_000000|"My Lord!" and came out and stood with her hands on her hips looking at June.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000034_000000|"Why, ye ain't a bit changed!
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000034_000002|Uncle Billy was going home.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000036_000000|"All right, Uncle Billy," said June, "early termorrer." The Red Fox did not open his lips, but his pale eyes searched the girl from head to foot.
train-other-500/3843/176666/3843_176666_000039_000001|Then she looked up into the eyes of her step mother.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000004_000000|twenty six
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000005_000002|And so the Tollivers decided to await the outcome of the trial and rest easy.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000005_000004|Straightway, they gave up the practice of law and banking and trading and store keeping and cut port holes in the brick walls of the Court House and guarded town and jail night and day. They brought their own fearless judge, their own fearless jury and their own fearless guard.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000006_000006|And yet Rufe had no trouble making it almost sure that he had never seen the dead man before-so what was his motive?
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000008_000000|The little Court Room was crowded for the afternoon session.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000008_000001|Inside the railing sat Rufe Tolliver, white and defiant-manacled.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000008_000004|Here and there in the crowd was a red Falin, but not a Tolliver was in sight, and Rufe Tolliver sat alone.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000008_000005|The clerk called the Court to order after the fashion since the days before Edward the Confessor-except that he asked God to save a commonwealth instead of a king-and the prosecuting attorney rose:
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000009_000001|The crowd vibrated, turned heads, gave way, and through the human aisle walked June Tolliver with the sheriff following meekly behind.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000012_000000|"Swear her."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000013_000000|June lifted her right hand, put her lips to the soiled, old, black Bible and faced the jury and Hale and Bad Rufe Tolliver whose black eyes never left her face.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000015_000000|"June Tolliver."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000016_000000|"Your age?"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000017_000000|"Eighteen."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000018_000000|"You live-"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000019_000000|"In Lonesome Cove."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000020_000000|"You are the daughter of-"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000021_000000|"Judd Tolliver."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000022_000000|"Do you know the prisoner?"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000023_000000|"He is my foster uncle."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000025_000000|"I was."
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000026_000003|An anxious look had come into Rufe's eyes-would she lie for him?
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000027_000000|"Never," said June.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000027_000001|Ah, she would-she was a Tolliver and Rufe took a breath of deep content.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000028_000000|"You never heard him express any enmity toward the Police Guard-before that night?"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000029_000000|"I have answered that question," said June with dignity and Rufe's lawyer was on his feet.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000030_000000|"Your Honour, I object," he said indignantly.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000031_000000|"I apologize," said the deep voice-"sincerely," and he bowed to June. Then very quietly:
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000032_000000|"What was the last thing you heard the prisoner say that afternoon when he left your father's house?"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000033_000000|It had come-how well she remembered just what he had said and how, that night, even when she was asleep, Rufe's words had clanged like a bell in her brain-what her awakening terror was when she knew that the deed was done and the stifling fear that the victim might be Hale.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000034_000001|Very well, we propose to prove that now," and then she had heard her name called.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000035_000000|"He said he was going over to the Gap-"
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000041_000000|It was a terrible struggle for June.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000042_000000|"Yes," encouraged the deep voice kindly.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000044_000000|"Yes," repeated the deep voice again.
train-other-500/3845/176676/3845_176676_000044_000001|Again, with her eyes on Rufe, she repeated:
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000000_000000|CHAPTER FIVE
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000001_000000|Disjointed Sketches And Grumbles
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000002_000000|It was my duty to "rare the poddies".
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000002_000002|I did a great amount of thinking while feeding them-for, by the way, I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000003_000000|Poor little calves!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000003_000001|Slaves to the greed of man!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000004_000001|I had to feed thirty calves and wash the breakfast dishes.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000004_000003|I had to relinquish my piano practice for want of time.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000005_000001|It seems to me that dairying means slavery in the hands of poor people who cannot afford hired labour.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000005_000002|I am not writing of dairy farming, the genteel and artistic profession as eulogized in leading articles of agricultural newspapers and as taught in agricultural colleges.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000005_000003|I am depicting practical dairying as I have lived it, and seen it lived, by dozens of families around me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000006_000000|It takes a great deal of work to produce even one pound of butter fit for market.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000007_000000|Hard graft is a great leveller.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000007_000001|Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000007_000002|When the body is wearied with much toil the desire to cultivate the mind, or the cultivation it has already received, is gradually wiped out.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000007_000003|Thus it was with my parents.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000007_000004|They had dropped from swelldom to peasantism.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000007_000005|They were among and of the peasantry.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000008_000000|I say naught against the lower life.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000008_000001|The peasantry are the bulwarks of every nation.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000008_000003|It is honest, clean, and wholesome.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000008_000004|But the life of a peasant to me is purgatory.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000008_000006|They had but two states of existence-work and sleep.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000001|I longed for the arts.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000002|Music was a passion with me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000003|I borrowed every book in the neighbourhood and stole hours from rest to read them.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000004|This told upon me and made my physical burdens harder for me than for other children of my years around me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000005|That third was the strongest part of me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000006|In it I lived a dream life with writers, artists, and musicians.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000009_000008|So on I went with that gleaming lake in the distance beckoning me to come and sail on its silver waters, and Inexperience, conceited, blind Inexperience, failing to show the impassable pit between it and me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000010_000000|To return to the dairying.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000011_000000|Old and young alike we earned our scant livelihood by the heavy sweat of our brows.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000011_000002|We were not ashamed to look day in the face, and fought our way against all odds with the stubborn independence of our British ancestors.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000011_000003|But when eighteen ninety four went out without rain, and 'ninety five, hot, dry, pitiless 'ninety five, succeeded it, there came a time when it was impossible to make a living.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000012_000000|The scorching furnace breath winds shrivelled every blade of grass, dust and the moan of starving stock filled the air, vegetables became a thing of the past.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000012_000001|The calves I had reared died one by one, and the cows followed in their footsteps.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000013_000001|When our strength proved inadequate, the help of neighbours had to be called in, and father would give his services in return.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000014_000000|Many an extra line of care furrowed the brows of the disheartened bushmen then.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000014_000001|Not only was their living taken from them by the drought, but there is nothing more heartrending than to have poor beasts, especially dairy cows, so familiar, valued, and loved, pleading for food day after day in their piteous dumb way when one has it not to give.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000015_000000|We shore ourselves of all but the bare necessaries of life, but even they for a family of ten are considerable, and it was a mighty tussle to get both ends within cover of meeting.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000015_000001|We felt the full force of the heavy hand of poverty-the most stinging kind of poverty too, that which still holds up its head and keeps an outside appearance.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000017_000002|The latter was a precise, collar and cuffs sort of little man.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000019_000000|"Mr Harris!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000020_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000021_000000|"Comparisons are odious, but, unfortunately, I am forced to draw one now."
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000022_000000|"Yes, sir."
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000023_000001|It is very shaky and irregular.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000023_000002|Also, I notice that the children seem stupid and dull.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000023_000003|I don't like putting it so plainly, but, in fact, ah, they seem to be possessed with the proverbial stupidity of country people.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000023_000004|How do you account for this?"
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000024_000000|Poor old Harris!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000025_000003|Most of the elder boys and girls milk on an average fourteen cows morning and evening.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000025_000005|See if you won't look a trifle dozy.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000025_000006|Stupidity of country people be hanged!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000026_000000|The inspector drew back in consternation.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000028_000000|At this juncture they went outside together.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000028_000002|That is all we heard of the matter except the numerous garbled accounts which were carried home that afternoon.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000030_000001|Where is your mother?"
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000031_000000|"I'm ironing.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000031_000001|Mother's down at the fowl house seeing after some chickens.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000031_000002|What do you want?"
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000032_000000|It was my father who addressed me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000032_000001|Time, two o'clock p.m.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000033_000000|"I see Blackshaw coming across the flat.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000033_000001|Call your mother.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000033_000002|You bring the leg ropes-I've got the dog leg.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000033_000003|Come at once; we'll give the cows another lift.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000033_000005|This drought can't last for ever."
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000034_000000|I called mother, got the leg ropes, and set off, pulling my sun bonnet closely over my face to protect my eyes from the dust which was driving from the west in blinding clouds.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000034_000002|It was an arrangement father had devised to facilitate our labour in lifting the cows.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000034_000005|New chum cows would sulk, and we would have great work with them; but those used to the performance would help themselves, and up they'd go as nice as a daisy.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000035_000002|We got the cow up, but the poor beast was so weak and knocked about that she immediately fell down again.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000035_000003|We resolved to let her have a few minutes' spell before making another attempt at lifting.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000035_000005|We were too overdone to make more than one worded utterances, so waited silently in the blazing sun, closing our eyes against the dust.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000036_000000|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000037_000000|A few light wind smitten clouds made wan streaks across the white sky, haggard with the fierce relentless glare of the afternoon sun
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000037_000001|Weariness was written across my mother's delicate careworn features, and found expression in my father's knitted brows and dusty face.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000037_000002|Blackshaw was weary, and said so, as he wiped the dust, made mud with perspiration, off his cheeks.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000037_000004|The poor beast stretched at our feet was weary.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000037_000006|All were weary, all but the sun
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000037_000007|He seemed to glory in his power, relentless and untiring, as he swung boldly in the sky, triumphantly leering down upon his helpless victims.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000038_000000|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000038_000001|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000001|I was fifteen-fifteen!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000002|A few fleeting hours and I would be old as those around me.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000003|I looked at them as they stood there, weary, and turning down the other side of the hill of life.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000005|But here they were.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000006|This had been their life; this was their career.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000007|It was, and in all probability would be, mine too.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000039_000008|My life-my career-my brilliant career!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000040_000000|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000040_000001|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000041_000000|The summer sun danced on.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000041_000001|Summer is fiendish, and life is a curse, I said in my heart.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000041_000002|What a great dull hard rock the world was!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000042_000000|The poor beast moaned.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000043_000002|It is well enough to heap suffering on human beings, seeing it is supposed to be merely a probation for a better world, but animals-poor, innocent animals-why are they tortured so?
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000044_000000|"Come now, we'll lift her once more," said my father.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000044_000004|Then we turned to our work in the house while the men sat and smoked and spat on the veranda, discussing the drought for an hour, at the end of which time they went to help someone else with their stock.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000044_000005|I made up the fire and we continued our ironing, which had been interrupted some hours before.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000045_000000|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000045_000001|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000046_000000|Summer is fiendish and life is a curse, I said in my heart.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000047_000000|Day after day the drought continued.
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000048_000000|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/181096/3845_181096_000048_000001|Weariness!
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000000_000000|CHAPTER fourteen.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000001_000000|The encounter with the carriages having sprung upon Winterborne's mind the image of mrs Charmond, his thoughts by a natural channel went from her to the fact that several cottages and other houses in the two Hintocks, now his own, would fall into her possession in the event of South's death.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000001_000001|He marvelled what people could have been thinking about in the past to invent such precarious tenures as these; still more, what could have induced his ancestors at Hintock, and other village people, to exchange their old copyholds for life leases.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000001_000002|But having naturally succeeded to these properties through his father, he had done his best to keep them in order, though he was much struck with his father's negligence in not insuring South's life.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000002_000000|After breakfast, still musing on the circumstances, he went upstairs, turned over his bed, and drew out a flat canvas bag which lay between the mattress and the sacking.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000002_000001|In this he kept his leases, which had remained there unopened ever since his father's death.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000002_000002|It was the usual hiding place among rural lifeholders for such documents. Winterborne sat down on the bed and looked them over.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000002_000003|They were ordinary leases for three lives, which a member of the South family, some fifty years before this time, had accepted of the lord of the manor in lieu of certain copyholds and other rights, in consideration of having the dilapidated houses rebuilt by said lord.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000002_000004|They had come into his father's possession chiefly through his mother, who was a South.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000003_000000|Pinned to the parchment of one of the indentures was a letter, which Winterborne had never seen before.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000003_000001|It bore a remote date, the handwriting being that of some solicitor or agent, and the signature the landholder's.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000004_000000|The house had been pulled down years before.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000005_000001|This possibility cheered him much, for by those houses hung many things.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000005_000002|Melbury's doubt of the young man's fitness to be the husband of Grace had been based not a little on the precariousness of his holdings in Little and Great Hintock.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000005_000003|He resolved to attend to the business at once, the fine for renewal being a sum that he could easily muster.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000006_000000|Marty met him at the door.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000006_000001|"Well, Marty," he said; and was surprised to read in her face that the case was not so hopeful as he had imagined.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000007_000000|"I am sorry for your labor," she said.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000007_000001|"It is all lost.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000007_000002|He says the tree seems taller than ever."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000008_000000|Winterborne looked round at it.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000009_000000|"It quite terrified him when he first saw what you had done to it this morning," she added.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000010_000000|"Well; can I do anything else?" asked he.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000011_000000|"The doctor says the tree ought to be cut down."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000013_000000|"I didn't send for him mrs Charmond, before she left, heard that father was ill, and told him to attend him at her expense."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000014_000000|"That was very good of her.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000014_000001|And he says it ought to be cut down.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000015_000002|Unluckily the tree waved afresh by this time, a wind having sprung up and blown the fog away, and his eyes turned with its wavings.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000016_000000|They heard footsteps-a man's, but of a lighter type than usual.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000016_000002|Presently his tread was heard on the naked stairs.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000018_000002|That quick, glittering, practical eye, sharp for the surface of things and for nothing beneath it, he had not.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000018_000003|But whether his apparent depth of vision was real, or only an artistic accident of his corporeal moulding, nothing but his deeds could reveal.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000020_000000|Strict people of the highly respectable class, knowing a little about him by report, might have said that he seemed likely to err rather in the possession of too many ideas than too few; to be a dreamy 'ist of some sort, or too deeply steeped in some false kind of 'ism.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000021_000000|"This is an extraordinary case," he said at last to Winterborne, after examining South by conversation, look, and touch, and learning that the craze about the elm was stronger than ever.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000021_000001|"Come down stairs, and I'll tell you what I think."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000022_000000|They accordingly descended, and the doctor continued, "The tree must be cut down, or I won't answer for his life."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000024_000001|Cut it down.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000024_000002|I have not the honor of knowing mrs Charmond as yet, but I am disposed to risk that much with her."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000026_000000|"Then we'll inaugurate a new era forthwith.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000026_000001|How long has he complained of the tree?" asked the doctor of Marty.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000027_000001|The shape of it seems to haunt him like an evil spirit.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000028_000000|They could hear South's voice up stairs "Oh, he's rocking this way; he must come!
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000029_000000|"That's how he goes on," she added.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000030_000001|"The best plan will be to wait till the evening, when it is dark, or early in the morning before he is awake, so that he doesn't see it fall, for that would terrify him worse than ever.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000030_000002|Keep the blind down till I come, and then I'll assure him, and show him that his trouble is over."
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000031_000000|The doctor then departed, and they waited till the evening.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000032_000000|As soon as it was broad daylight the doctor came, and Winterborne entered the house with him.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000032_000002|They ascended the stairs, and soon seated him.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000034_000000|As soon as the old man saw the vacant patch of sky in place of the branched column so familiar to his gaze, he sprang up, speechless, his eyes rose from their hollows till the whites showed all round; he fell back, and a bluish whiteness overspread him.
train-other-500/3845/8894/3845_8894_000036_000000|His whole system seemed paralyzed by amazement.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000001_000001|The next day she kept her room.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000001_000002|Old Jones was called in; he murmured some statements in which the words "feverish symptoms" occurred.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000002_000000|One day, while she still lay there with her head throbbing, wondering if she were really going to join him who had gone before, Grammer Oliver came to her bedside.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000002_000002|It was left by Marty, I think, when she came this morning."
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000000|Grace turned her hot eyes upon what Grammer held up.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000001|It was the phial left at the hut by her husband when he had begged her to take some drops of its contents if she wished to preserve herself from falling a victim to the malady which had pulled down Winterborne.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000002|She examined it as well as she could.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000004|He had probably got it in his wanderings abroad.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000005|She knew but little Italian, but could understand that the cordial was a febrifuge of some sort.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000007|Whatever the risk, if any, she was prepared to run it.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000003_000008|A glass of water was brought, and the drops dropped in.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000004_000000|The effect, though not miraculous, was remarkable.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000004_000001|In less than an hour she felt calmer, cooler, better able to reflect-less inclined to fret and chafe and wear herself away.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000004_000002|She took a few drops more.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000005_000000|"How clever he is!" she said, regretfully.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000005_000003|Probably he only gave it to me in the arrogance of his skill, to show the greatness of his resources beside mine, as Elijah drew down fire from heaven."
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000006_000001|The current of her being had again set towards the lost Giles Winterborne.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000007_000000|"Marty," she said, "we both loved him.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000007_000001|We will go to his grave together."
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000008_000000|Great Hintock church stood at the upper part of the village, and could be reached without passing through the street.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000008_000002|Grace had a trouble exceeding Marty's-that haunting sense of having put out the light of his life by her own hasty doings.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000008_000003|She had tried to persuade herself that he might have died of his illness, even if she had not taken possession of his house.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000008_000004|Sometimes she succeeded in her attempt; sometimes she did not.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000010_000001|On Marty's part there was the same consideration; never would she have been his.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000012_000005|The artifices of the seasons were seen by them from the conjuror's own point of view, and not from that of the spectator's.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000014_000000|Marty shook her head.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000016_000002|She longed to believe that it had not done even this.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000017_000001|Her husband was that man.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000020_000002|He asked himself whether it were not the act of a woman whose natural purity and innocence had blinded her to the contingencies of such an announcement.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000020_000003|His wide experience of the sex had taught him that, in many cases, women who ventured on hazardous matters did so because they lacked an imagination sensuous enough to feel their full force.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000021_000001|He walked about the woods that surrounded Melbury's house, keeping out of sight like a criminal.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000021_000002|It was a fine evening, and on his way homeward he passed near Marty South's cottage.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000021_000003|As usual she had lighted her candle without closing her shutters; he saw her within as he had seen her many times before.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000022_000000|She was polishing tools, and though he had not wished to show himself, he could not resist speaking in to her through the half open door. "What are you doing that for, Marty?"
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000023_000000|"Because I want to clean them.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000025_000000|She replied in the affirmative.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000026_000001|"That will be making you a return for a kindness you did me." His glance fell upon the girl's rare colored hair, which had grown again.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000027_000001|Marty was shy, indeed, of speaking about the letter, and her motives in writing it; but she thanked him warmly for his promise of the cider press.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000027_000003|She would be quite strong enough, with old Creedle as an assistant.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000028_000001|"One who lived where he lived, and was with him when he died."
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000029_000001|When the surgeon heard it he almost envied Giles his chivalrous character.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000030_000000|He would have given much to win Grace's forgiveness then.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000030_000001|But whatever he dared hope for in that kind from the future, there was nothing to be done yet, while Giles Winterborne's memory was green.
train-other-500/3845/8924/3845_8924_000030_000002|To wait was imperative.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000000_000000|This is a LibriVox recording.
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train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000006_000000|CHAPTER one
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000007_000000|At eight o'clock on Sunday morning, Arthur Peachey unlocked his front door, and quietly went forth.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000007_000002|Enough that he was leaving home for a summer holiday-the first he had allowed himself since his marriage three years ago.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000008_000001|De Crespigny Park, a thoroughfare connecting Grove Lane, Camberwell, with Denmark Hill, presents a double row of similar dwellings; its clean breadth, with foliage of trees and shrubs in front gardens, makes it pleasant to the eye that finds pleasure in suburban London.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000008_000002|In point of respectability, it has claims only to be appreciated by the ambitious middle class of Camberwell.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000009_000000|For an hour after Peachey's departure, the silence of the house was unbroken.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000009_000001|Then a bedroom door opened, and a lady in a morning gown of the fashionable heliotrope came downstairs.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000009_000002|She had acute features; eyes which seemed to indicate the concentration of her thoughts upon a difficult problem, and cheeks of singular bloom.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000009_000003|Her name was Beatrice French; her years numbered six and twenty.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000010_000000|She entered the dining room and drew up the blind.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000010_000001|Though the furniture was less than a year old, and by no means of the cheapest description, slovenly housekeeping had dulled the brightness of every surface.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000010_000002|On a chair lay a broken toy, one of those elaborate and costly playthings which serve no purpose but to stunt a child's imagination.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000010_000003|Though the time was midsummer, not a flower appeared among the pretentious ornaments.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000010_000004|The pictures were a strange medley-autotypes of some artistic value hanging side by side with hideous oleographs framed in ponderous gilding.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000011_000000|'Well? what does this mean?'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000012_000000|'The cook doesn't feel well, miss; she can't get up.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000014_000000|Beatrice spoke with vehemence; her cheeks showed a circle of richer hue around the unchanging rose.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000014_000001|The domestic made insolent reply, and there began a war of words.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000016_000001|Her dress was showy, and in a taste that set the teeth on edge.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000016_000002|Fanny French, her name.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000017_000000|'What's up?
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000017_000001|Another row?' she asked, entering the room as the servant went out.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000019_000000|'Is she?
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000019_000001|Well, I shouldn't wonder,' Fanny admitted impartially.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000020_000000|'Are you going to church this morning?' asked her sister.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000021_000000|'Yes.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000021_000001|Are you?'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000022_000000|'Come for a walk instead.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000023_000001|I've got an appointment.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000024_000000|'With Lord?'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000026_000000|Interrupted by the reappearance of the servant, who brought a tray and began to lay the table, they crossed the hall to the drawing room.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000026_000001|In half an hour's time a sluttish meal was prepared for them, and whilst they were satisfying their hunger, the door opened to admit mrs Peachey.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000026_000003|Beneath a loose thin dressing gown her feet, in felt slippers, showed stockingless, her neck was bare almost to the bosom, and the tresses of pale yellow, upon which she especially prided herself, lay raggedly pinned together on the top of her flat head.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000026_000005|Her features resembled Fanny's, but had a much less amiable expression, and betokened, if the thing were possible, an inferior intellect.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000027_000000|'So you've got breakfast, have you?' were her first words, in a thin and rather nasal voice.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000027_000001|'You may think yourselves lucky.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000028_000000|'You have a cheek of your own,' replied Beatrice. 'Whose place is it to see that we get meals?'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000029_000000|'And what can any one do with servants like I've got?' retorted the married sister.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000030_000000|'It's your own fault.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000030_000001|You should get better; and when you've got them, you should manage them.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000030_000002|But that's just what you can't do.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000031_000001|If you're not satisfied, you'd better find board and lodging somewhere else, as I've told you often enough.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000031_000002|You're not likely to get it as cheap.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000032_000000|They squabbled for some minutes, Fanny looking on with ingenuous amusement, and putting in a word, now for this side, now for that.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000033_000001|'You've taken jolly good care of yourselves, it seems to me.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000034_000000|She jumped up, and rang the bell.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000034_000001|When a minute's interval brought no reply, she rang again.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000034_000002|Beatrice thought it probable that the bell might be rung without effect, 'till all was blue.'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000035_000000|'We'll see about that,' answered her sister, and forthwith invaded the lower parts of the house.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000035_000001|Thence, presently, her voice became audible, rising gradually to shrillness; with it there blended the rougher accents of the housemaid, now in reckless revolt.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000035_000002|Beatrice listened for a minute or two in the hall, then passed on into the drawing room with a contemptuous laugh.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000036_000000|'Dirty cat!
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000036_000001|beast!
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000036_000002|swine!'
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000037_000000|The mistress of the house, fairly beaten away by superior force of vocabulary, reappeared with these and other exclamations, her face livid, her foolish eyes starting from their sockets.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000037_000001|Fanny, a sort of Mother Cary's chicken, revelled in the row, and screamed her merriment.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000038_000000|It was long before the domestic uproar wholly subsided, but towards eleven o'clock the sisters found themselves together in the drawing room.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000038_000001|Ada sprawled limply on a sofa; Beatrice sat with legs crossed in the most comfortable chair; and Fanny twirled about on a music stool.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000039_000001|But on tables and chairs lay scattered a multitude of papers: illustrated weeklies, journals of society, cheap miscellanies, penny novelettes, and the like.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000039_000002|At the end of the week, when new numbers came in, Ada Peachey passed many hours upon her sofa, reading instalments of a dozen serial stories, paragraphs relating to fashion, sport, the theatre, answers to correspondents (wherein she especially delighted), columns of facetiae, and gossip about notorious people.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000039_000004|She understood the nature of investments, and liked to talk about stocks and shares with her male acquaintances.
train-other-500/3848/28169/3848_28169_000040_000003|At their marriage, the happy pair first of all established themselves in a modest house near Camberwell Road; two years later, growing prosperity brought about their removal to De Crespigny Park, where they had now resided for some twelve months.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000001|He scented some new development at once, and ran down to meet the trotting, bear like figure.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000003|Ricardo was rather surprised.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000004|He had imagined that the girl would continue to keep out of sight.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000005|That line apparently was given up.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000006|He did not mistrust her.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000007|How could he?
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000001_000008|Indeed, he could not think of her existence calmly.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000002_000000|He tried to keep her image out of his mind so that he should be able to use its powers with some approach to that coolness which the complex nature of the situation demanded from him, both for his own sake and as the faithful follower of plain mr Jones, gentleman.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000003_000000|He collected his wits and thought.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000003_000001|This was a change of policy, probably on the part of Heyst.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000003_000005|Must be.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000003_000006|She would know what she was doing.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000003_000007|Before him Pedro, lifting his feet alternately, swayed to and fro sideways-his usual attitude of expectation.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000003_000009|Ricardo stared into them with calculated contempt and said in a rough, angry voice:
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000000|"Woman!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000001|Of course there is.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000002|We know that without you!"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000003|He gave the tame monster a push.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000005|Vamos!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000006|Waddle!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000004_000007|Get back and cook the dinner.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000005_000001|Advancing a few steps, Ricardo was just in time to see, above some bushes, two white helmets moving side by side in the clearing.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000005_000002|They disappeared.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000005_000004|His attitude towards mr Jones had undergone a spiritual change, of which he himself was not yet fully aware.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000006_000001|He was wildly excited by visions of inconceivable promise.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000006_000002|He waited to compose himself before he dared to meet the governor.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000006_000003|On entering the room, he found mr Jones sitting on the camp bedstead like a tailor on his board, cross legged, his long back against the wall.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000007_000000|"I say, sir.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000007_000001|You aren't going to tell me you are bored?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000008_000000|"Bored!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000008_000001|No!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000008_000002|Where the devil have you been all this time?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000009_000000|"Observing-watching-nosing around.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000009_000001|What else?
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000009_000002|I knew you had company. Have you talked freely, sir?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000010_000000|"Yes, I have," muttered mr Jones.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000011_000000|"Not downright plain, sir?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000012_000000|"no
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000012_000002|You loaf all the morning, and now you come in out of breath.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000013_000000|"I haven't been wasting my time out there," said Ricardo.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000013_000001|"Nothing's the matter.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000013_000003|He was almost distracted by them now.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000013_000004|He forgot himself in the maze of possibilities threatening and inspiring.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000013_000005|"And so you had a long talk?" he said, to gain time.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000014_000000|"Confound you!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000014_000002|Why are you staring at me like a basilisk?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000015_000001|Wasn't aware I stared," Ricardo apologized good humouredly.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000015_000002|"The sun might well affect a thicker skull than mine. It blazes.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000015_000004|What do you think a fellow is, sir-a salamander?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000016_000000|"You ought to have been here," observed mr Jones.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000017_000000|"Did the beast give any signs of wanting to prance?" asked Ricardo quickly, with absolutely genuine anxiety.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000017_000001|"It wouldn't do, sir.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000017_000003|I have a plan.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000017_000004|I have a notion that I can find out a lot in a couple of days."
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000018_000000|"You have?
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000018_000001|In what way?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000019_000000|"Why, by watching," Ricardo answered slowly.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000020_000000|Mr Jones grunted.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000021_000000|"Nothing new, that.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000021_000002|Why not pray a little, too?"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000022_000001|That's a good one," burst out the secretary, fixing mr Jones with mirthless eyes.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000023_000000|The latter dropped the subject indolently.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000024_000000|"Oh, you may be certain of at least two days," he said.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000025_000000|Ricardo recovered himself.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000027_000000|"I am trusting you right enough," said mr Jones.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000027_000001|"It's your interest, too."
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000028_000000|And, indeed, Ricardo was truthful enough in his statement.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000028_000001|He did absolutely believe in success now.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000028_000003|It wouldn't do to tell him of the girl.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000028_000004|Devil only knew what he would do if he learned there was a woman about.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000028_000006|He couldn't confess his sudden escapade.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000029_000000|"We'll pull it off, sir," he said, with perfectly acted cheerfulness. He experienced gusts of awful joy expanding in his heart and hot like a fanned flame.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000030_000000|"We must," pronounced mr Jones.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000030_000001|"This thing, Martin, is not like our other tries.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000030_000002|I have a peculiar feeling about this.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000030_000003|It's a different thing.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000030_000004|It's a sort of test."
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000000|Ricardo was impressed by the governor's manner; for the first time a hint of passion could be detected in him.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000001|But also a word he used, the word "test," had struck him as particularly significant somehow.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000002|It was the last word uttered during that morning's conversation.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000003|Immediately afterwards Ricardo went out of the room.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000005|An elation in which an extraordinary softness mingled with savage triumph would not allow it.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000009|Once or twice he stopped dead short and looked down at his left slipper.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000010|Each time he chuckled audibly.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000011|His restlessness kept on increasing till at last it frightened him.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000014|At that moment mr Jones called him by name from within.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000031_000015|A shadow fell on the secretary's face.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000032_000000|"Here, sir," he answered; but it was a moment before he could make up his mind to go in.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000033_000000|He found the governor on his feet.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000033_000001|mr Jones was tired of lying down when there was no necessity for it.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000034_000000|"I've been thinking, Martin, of something you suggested.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000034_000002|It's less-how should I say?--vulgar.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000034_000003|He will know what it means.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000036_000000|"Why, it was your own notion, confound you!"
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000037_000000|"Who says it wasn't?" retorted Ricardo sulkily.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000037_000001|"But I am fairly sick of this crawling.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000037_000002|No!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000037_000003|No! Get the exact bearings of his swag and then a rip up.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000037_000004|That's plenty good enough for him."
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000038_000000|His passions being thoroughly aroused, a thirst for blood was allied in him with a thirst for tenderness-yes, tenderness.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000039_000001|"You don't even understand my purpose.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000039_000005|Yes, let him lose his money instead of being forced to hand it over.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000039_000007|He's a man of the best society.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000039_000008|I've been hounded out of my sphere by people very much like that fellow.
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000039_000009|How enraged and humiliated he will be!
train-other-500/3848/37389/3848_37389_000039_000010|I promise myself some exquisite moments while watching his play."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000000_000000|"Max, you silly devil, you'll break your neck if you go careering down the slide that way.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000000_000001|Drop it, and come to the Club House with me and get some coffee."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000001_000000|"I've had enough for to day.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000001_000001|I'm damp all through.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000001_000002|There, give us a cigarette, Victor, old man.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000002_000000|"Not for another hour.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000002_000001|It's fine this afternoon, and I'm getting into decent shape.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000003_000000|"I'm cold all through.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000003_000001|That's the worst of this place-the mists-it's a damp cold.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000003_000002|Here, Forman, look after this sleigh-and stick it somewhere so that I can get it without looking through a hundred and fifty others to morrow morning."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000004_000000|They sat down at a small round table near the stove and ordered coffee. Victor sprawled in his chair, patting his little brown dog Bobo and looking, half laughingly, at Max.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000005_000000|"What's the matter, my dear?
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000005_000001|Isn't the world being nice and pretty?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000006_000000|"I want my coffee, and I want to put my feet into my pocket-they're like stones...
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000006_000001|Nothing to eat, thanks-the cake is like underdone india rubber here."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000007_000000|Fuchs and Wistuba came and sat at their table.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000007_000001|Max half turned his back and stretched his feet out to the oven.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000008_000000|Suddenly Fuchs looked at Max, raised his eyebrows and nodded across to Victor, who shook his head.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000009_000000|"Baby doesn't feel well," he said, feeding the brown dog with broken lumps of sugar, "and nobody's to disturb him-I'm nurse."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000010_000000|"That's the first time I've ever known him off colour," said Wistuba. "I've always imagined he had the better part of this world that could not be taken away from him.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000010_000001|I think he says his prayers to the dear Lord for having spared him being taken home in seven basketsful to night. It's a fool's game to risk your all that way and leave the nation desolate."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000011_000000|"Dry up," said Max.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000011_000001|"You ought to be wheeled about on the snow in a perambulator."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000012_000001|Don't get nasty.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000012_000002|How's your wife, Victor?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000013_000000|"She's not at all well.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000013_000002|I told her to stay at home all day."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000014_000000|"I'm sorry.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000014_000001|Are you other fellows going back to the town or stopping on here?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000015_000001|Victor came back a moment and put a hand on his shoulder.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000016_000000|"If you're going right back, my dear, I wish you'd look Elsa up and tell her I won't be in till late.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000016_000001|And feed with us to night at Limpold, will you?
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000016_000002|And take some hot grog when you get in."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000017_000000|"Thanks, old fellow, I'm all right.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000017_000001|Going back now."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000018_000000|He rose, stretched himself, buttoned on his heavy coat and lighted another cigarette.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000020_000001|Someone came stamping up the stairs-paused at the door of her sitting room, and knocked.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000021_000000|"Is that you, Victor?" she called.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000022_000000|"No, it is i.. can I come in?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000023_000001|Why, what a Santa Claus!
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000023_000002|Hang your coat on the landing and shake yourself over the banisters.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000023_000003|Had a good time?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000024_000000|The room was full of light and warmth.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000024_000001|Elsa, in a white velvet tea gown, lay curled up on the sofa-a book of fashions on her lap, a box of creams beside her.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000025_000000|The curtains were not yet drawn before the windows and a blue light shone through, and the white boughs of the trees sprayed across.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000027_000000|"It was good enough," said Max.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000027_000001|"Victor can't be in till late.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000027_000002|He told me to come up and tell you."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000028_000000|He started walking up and down-tore off his gloves and flung them on the table.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000029_000001|And I've got a headache to day; I'm feverish and quite flushed...
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000029_000002|Don't I look flushed?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000031_000000|"No," he said; "I didn't notice it."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000032_000000|"Oh, you haven't looked at me properly, and I've got a new tea gown on, too." She pulled her skirts together and patted a little place on the couch.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000033_000000|"Come along and sit by me and tell me why you're being naughty."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000034_000000|But, standing by the window, he suddenly flung his arm across his eyes.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000035_000000|"Oh," he said, "I can't.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000035_000001|I'm done-I'm spent-I'm smashed."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000036_000000|Silence in the room.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000037_000000|Then she spoke very quietly.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000038_000000|"Come over here and explain yourself.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000039_000000|"You do know-you know far better than i You've simply played with Victor in my presence that I may feel worse.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000040_000000|He turned round deliberately.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000043_000000|"Don't talk to me like that.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000044_000001|You only love Victor on the cat and cream principle-you a poor little starved kitten that he's given everything to, that he's carried in his breast, never dreaming that those little pink claws could tear out a man's heart."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000045_000000|She stirred, looking at him with almost fear in her eyes.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000046_000000|"After all"--unsteadily-"this is my room; I'll have to ask you to go."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000048_000000|"And I LOVE you-I love you; the humiliation of it-I adore you. Don't-don't-just a minute let me stay here-just a moment in a whole life-Elsa!
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000048_000001|Elsa!"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000049_000000|She leant back and pressed her head into the pillows.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000050_000000|Then his muffled voice: "I feel like a savage.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000050_000002|I kill myself when I see you-I'm sick of my own strength that turns in upon itself, and dies, and rises new born like a Phoenix out of the ashes of that horrible death.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000051_000000|Instead, she pushed him away-frightened.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000052_000000|"Get up," she said; "suppose the servant came in with the tea?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000053_000000|"Oh, ye gods!" He stumbled to his feet and stood staring down at her.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000055_000000|The woman went over to the piano-stood there-striking one note-her brows drawn together.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000055_000001|Then she shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000056_000000|"I'll make a confession.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000056_000001|Every word you have said is true.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000056_000003|I can't help seeking admiration any more than a cat can help going to people to be stroked.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000056_000004|It's my nature.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000056_000005|I'm born out of my time. And yet, you know, I'm not a COMMON woman.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000056_000006|I like men to adore me-to flatter me-even to make love to me-but I would never give myself to any man.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000057_000000|"It's immeasurably worse-you've no legitimate excuse.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000057_000001|Why, even a prostitute has a greater sense of generosity!"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000058_000000|"I know," she said, "I know perfectly well-but I can't help the way I'm built...
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000058_000001|Are you going?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000060_000000|"Well," he said, "what's going to happen to us now?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000061_000000|Again she shrugged her shoulders.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000062_000000|"I haven't the slightest idea.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000062_000001|I never have-just let things occur."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000063_000001|"All alone?" cried Victor.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000063_000002|"Has Max been here?"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000064_000000|"He only stayed a moment, and wouldn't even have tea.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000064_000001|I sent him home to change his clothes...
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000064_000002|He was frightfully boring."
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000065_000000|"You poor darling, your hair's coming down.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000066_000001|Oh, you've run a hairpin right into your wife's head-you naughty boy!"
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000067_000000|She flung her arms round his neck and looked up at him, half laughing, like a beautiful, loving child.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000068_000000|"God!
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000068_000001|What a woman you are," said the man.
train-other-500/3848/46063/3848_46063_000068_000002|"You make me so infernally proud-dearest, that i..
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000000_000001|It doesn't matter for the present; there are some hours still to spare before the post goes out.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000001_000000|"Suppose I asked Armadale to lend me the money?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000001_000002|Mean enough this, on my part.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000000|"Half past two-only half past two.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000001|Oh, the dreadful weariness of these long summer days!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000002|I can't keep thinking and thinking any longer; I must do something to relieve my mind.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000003|Can I go to my piano?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000004|No; I'm not fit for it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000005|Work?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000007|A man, in my place, would find refuge in drink.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000003_000009|I'll dawdle over my dresses, and put my things tidy."
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000004_000000|"Has an hour passed?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000004_000001|More than an hour.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000004_000002|It seems like a minute.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000005_000000|"I can't look back through these leaves, but I know I wrote somewhere that I felt myself getting nearer and nearer to some end that was still hidden from me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000005_000002|The cloud is off my mind, the blindness has gone from my eyes.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000005_000003|I see it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000005_000004|I see it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000006_000000|"It came to me-I never sought it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000007_000001|I went through my dresses, and my linen.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000007_000002|What could be more innocent?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000007_000003|Children go through their dresses and their linen.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000008_000000|"It was, such a long summer day, and I was so tired of myself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000008_000001|I went to my boxes next.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000008_000002|I looked over the large box first, which I usually leave open; and then I tried the small box, which I always keep locked.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000009_000000|"From one thing to the other, I came at last to the bundle of letters at the bottom-the letters of the man for whom I once sacrificed and suffered everything; the man who has made me what I am.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000010_000000|"A hundred times I had determined to burn his letters; but I have never burned them.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000010_000001|This, time, all I said was, 'I won't read his letters!' And I did read them.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000011_000000|"The villain-the false, cowardly, heartless villain-what have I to do with his letters now?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000011_000001|Oh, the misery of being a woman!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000011_000003|I read the letters-I was so lonely and so miserable, I read the letters.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000012_000000|"I came to the last-the letter he wrote to encourage me, when I hesitated as the terrible time came nearer and nearer; the letter that revived me when my resolution failed at the eleventh hour.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000012_000001|I read on, line after line, till I came to these words:
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000013_000000|"'...I really have no patience with such absurdities as you have written to me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000013_000001|You say I am driving you on to do what is beyond a woman's courage.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000013_000003|But such collections may be beyond your reach; and I will only refer you to a case in yesterday's newspaper.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000013_000004|The circumstances are totally different from our circumstances; but the example of resolution in a woman is an example worth your notice.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000000|"'You will find, among the law reports, a married woman charged with fraudulently representing herself to be the missing widow of an officer in the merchant service, who was supposed to have been drowned.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000001|The name of the prisoner's husband (living) and the name of the officer (a very common one, both as to Christian and surname) happened to be identically the same.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000002|There was money to be got by it (sorely wanted by the prisoner's husband, to whom she was devotedly attached), if the fraud had succeeded.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000003|The woman took it all on herself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000004|Her husband was helpless and ill, and the bailiffs were after him.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000005|The circumstances, as you may read for yourself, were all in her favor, and were so well managed by her that the lawyers themselves acknowledged she might have succeeded, if the supposed drowned man had not turned up alive and well in the nick of time to confront her.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000006|The scene took place at the lawyer's office, and came out in the evidence at the police court.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000007|The woman was handsome, and the sailor was a good-natured man.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000008|He wanted, at first, if the lawyers would have allowed him, to let her off.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000011|She looked him steadily in the face, and answered: "I would have killed you." There!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000012|Do you think such a woman as that would have written to tell me I was pressing her further than she had courage to go?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000013|A handsome woman, too, like yourself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000014_000014|You would drive some men in my position to wish they had her now in your place.'
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000015_000000|"I read no further.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000015_000001|When I had got on, line by line, to those words, it burst on me like a flash of lightning.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000015_000002|In an instant I saw it as plainly as I see it now.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000015_000003|It is horrible, it is unheard of, it outdares all daring; but, if I can only nerve myself to face one terrible necessity, it is to be done.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000016_000000|"There, in plain words, is the frightful temptation under which I now feel myself sinking.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000016_000001|It is frightful in more ways than one; for it has come straight out of that other temptation to which I yielded in the by gone time.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000017_000000|"Yes; there the letter has been waiting for me in my box, to serve a purpose never thought of by the villain who wrote it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000018_000000|"It might startle any woman to see this, and even this is not the worst. The whole thing has been in my Diary, for days past, without my knowing it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000018_000001|Every idle fancy that escaped me has been tending secretly that one way!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000018_000002|And I never saw, never suspected it, till the reading of the letter put my own thoughts before me in a new light-till I saw the shadow of my own circumstances suddenly reflected in one special circumstance of that other woman's case!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000019_000000|"It is to be done, if I can but look the necessity in the face.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000020_000000|"All but his death is easy.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000020_000001|The whole series of events under which I have been blindly chafing and fretting for more than a week past have been, one and all-though I was too stupid to see it-events in my favor; events paving the way smoothly and more smoothly straight to the end.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000021_000000|"In three bold steps-only three!--that end might be reached.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000021_000001|Let Midwinter marry me privately, under his real name-step the first!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000021_000002|Let Armadale leave Thorpe Ambrose a single man, and die in some distant place among strangers-step the second!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000022_000000|"Why am I hesitating?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000022_000001|Why not go on to step the third, and last?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000023_000002|It is as clear as the sun at noonday.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000024_000000|"To think of my having put all this in my Diary!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000024_000001|To think of my having actually contemplated this very situation, and having seen nothing more in it, at the time, than a reason (if I married Midwinter) for consenting to appear in the world under my husband's assumed name!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000025_000000|"What is it daunts me?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000025_000001|The dread of obstacles?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000025_000002|The fear of discovery?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000026_000000|"Where are the obstacles?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000026_000001|Where is the fear of discovery?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000000|"I am actually suspected all over the neighborhood of intriguing to be mistress of Thorpe Ambrose.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000001|I am the only person who knows the real turn that Armadale's inclinations have taken.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000002|Not a creature but myself is as yet aware of his early morning meetings with Miss Milroy.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000003|If it is necessary to part them, I can do it at any moment by an anonymous line to the major.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000004|If it is necessary to remove Armadale from Thorpe Ambrose, I can get him away at three days' notice.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000005|His own lips informed me, when I last spoke to him, that he would go to the ends of the earth to be friends again with Midwinter, if Midwinter would let him.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000006|I have only to tell Midwinter to write from London, and ask to be reconciled; and Midwinter would obey me-and to London Armadale would go.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000007|Every difficulty, at starting, is smoothed over ready to my hand. Every after difficulty I could manage for myself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000027_000008|In the whole venture-desperate as it looks to pass myself off for the widow of one man, while I am all the while the wife of the other-there is absolutely no necessity that wants twice considering, but the one terrible necessity of Armadale's death.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000028_000000|"His death!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000028_000001|It might be a terrible necessity to any other woman; but is it, ought it to be terrible to Me?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000029_000000|"I hate him for his mother's sake.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000029_000001|I hate him for his own sake.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000029_000002|I hate him for going to London behind my back, and making inquiries about me. I hate him for forcing me out of my situation before I wanted to go.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000029_000003|I hate him for destroying all my hopes of marrying him, and throwing me back helpless on my own miserable life.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000029_000004|But, oh, after what I have done already in the past time, how can I? how can I?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000003|Triumph!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000004|It is more than triumph-it is the salvation of me. A name that can't be assailed, a station that can't be assailed, to hide myself in from my past life!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000005|Comfort, luxury, wealth!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000006|An income of twelve hundred a year secured to me secured by a will which has been looked at by a lawyer: secured independently of anything Armadale can say or do himself!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000007|I never had twelve hundred a year.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000008|At my luckiest time, I never had half as much, really my own.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000009|What have I got now?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000030_000010|Just five pounds left in the world-and the prospect next week of a debtor's prison.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000031_000000|"But, oh, after what I have done already in the past time, how can I? how can I?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000032_000001|Some women would say, 'It's easier the second time than the first.' Why can't I? why can't I?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000000|"I shall sink under it-I shall sink, if I write or think of it any more!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000001|I'll shut up these leaves and go out again.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000002|I'll get some common person to come with me, and we will talk of common things.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000003|I'll take out the woman of the house, and her children.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000004|We will go and see something. There is a show of some kind in the town-I'll treat them to it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000005|I'm not such an ill natured woman when I try; and the landlady has really been kind to me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000034_000006|Surely I might occupy my mind a little in seeing her and her children enjoying themselves.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000035_000000|"A minute since, I shut up these leaves as I said I would; and now I have opened them again, I don't know why.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000035_000001|I think my brain is turned. I feel as if something was lost out of my mind; I feel as if I ought to find it here.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000036_000000|"I have found it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000037_000002|I suppose it has.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000037_000003|I can't account for such extraordinary forgetfulness on my part in any other way.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000038_000000|"Shall I stop and think it out, as I have thought out all the rest? Shall I ask myself if the obstacle of Midwinter would, after all, when the time came, be the unmanageable obstacle that it looks at present? No!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000038_000001|What need is there to think of it?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000038_000002|I have made up my mind to get the better of the temptation.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000038_000003|I have made up my mind to give my landlady and her children a treat; I have made up my mind to close my Diary.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000038_000004|And closed it shall be.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000039_000000|"Six o'clock.--The landlady's gossip is unendurable; the landlady's children distract me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000040_000000|"The dread that I shall sink under the temptation has grown stronger and stronger on me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000040_000001|I have determined to put it beyond my power to have my own way and follow my own will.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000040_000002|Mother Oldershaw shall be the salvation of me for the first time since I have known her.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000040_000003|If I can't pay my note of hand, she threatens me with an arrest.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000040_000005|I will write and say that I am to be found here I will write and tell her, in so many words, that the best service she can render me is to lock me up."
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000041_000000|"Seven o'clock.--The letter has gone to the post.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000041_000001|I had begun to feel a little easier, when the children came in to thank me for taking them to the show.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000041_000002|One of them is a girl, and the girl upset me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000041_000003|She is a forward child, and her hair is nearly the color of mine.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000041_000005|Like me!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000042_000000|"Saturday morning.--I have done well for once in acting on impulse, and writing as I did to mrs Oldershaw.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000042_000001|The only new circumstance that has happened is another circumstance in my favor!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000043_000000|"Major Milroy has answered Armadale's letter, entreating permission to call at the cottage and justify himself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000043_000001|His daughter read it in silence, when Armadale handed it to her at their meeting this morning, in the park.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000043_000002|But they talked about it afterward, loud enough for me to hear them.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000043_000003|The major persists in the course he has taken.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000043_000004|He says his opinion of Armadale's conduct has been formed, not on common report, but on Armadale's own letters, and he sees no reason to alter the conclusion at which he arrived when the correspondence between them was closed.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000044_000000|"This little matter had, I confess, slipped out of my memory.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000044_000003|As it is, they must continue to keep the engagement strictly secret; and Miss Milroy, who has never ventured herself near the great house since the thunder storm forced her into it for shelter, will be less likely than ever to venture there now.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000044_000004|I can part them when I please; with an anonymous line to the major, I can part them when I please!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000045_000000|"After having discussed the letter, the talk between them turned on what they were to do next.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000045_000001|Major Milroy's severity, as it soon appeared, produced the usual results.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000045_000002|Armadale returned to the subject of the elopement; and this time she listened to him.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000045_000003|There is everything to drive her to it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000045_000005|When I left them, they had decided to meet again and settle something on Monday.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000046_000000|"The last words I heard him address to her, before I went away, shook me a little.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000046_000001|He said: 'There is one difficulty, Neelie, that needn't trouble us, at any rate.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000046_000002|I have got plenty of money.' And then he kissed her.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000046_000003|The way to his life began to look an easier way to me when he talked of his money, and kissed her.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000047_000000|"Some hours have passed, and the more I think of it, the more I fear the blank interval between this time and the time when mrs Oldershaw calls in the law, and protects me against myself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000047_000001|It might have been better if I had stopped at home this morning.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000047_000002|But how could I?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000047_000003|After the insult she offered me yesterday, I tingled all over to go and look at her.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000048_000000|"To day; Sunday; Monday; Tuesday.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000048_000001|They can't arrest me for the money before Wednesday.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000048_000002|And my miserable five pounds are dwindling to four! And he told her he had plenty of money!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000048_000003|And she blushed and trembled when he kissed her.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000048_000004|It might have been better for him, better for her, and better for me, if my debt had fallen due yesterday, and if the bailiffs had their hands on me at this moment.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000049_000000|"Suppose I had the means of leaving Thorpe Ambrose by the next train, and going somewhere abroad, and absorbing myself in some new interest, among new people.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000049_000001|Could I do it, rather than look again at that easy way to his life which would smooth the way to everything else?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000000|"Perhaps I might.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000001|But where is the money to come from?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000002|Surely some way of getting it struck me a day or two since?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000003|Yes; that mean idea of asking Armadale to help me!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000005|I'll give him the chance of making a generous use of that well filled purse which it is such a comfort to him to reflect on in his present circumstances. It would soften my heart toward any man if he lent me money in my present extremity; and, if Armadale lends me money, it might soften my heart toward him.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000006|When shall I go?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000007|At once!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000050_000008|I won't give myself time to feel the degradation of it, and to change my mind."
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000051_000001|He has sealed his own doom.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000051_000002|He has insulted me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000052_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000052_000001|I have suffered it once from Miss Milroy.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000052_000002|And I have now suffered it a second time from Armadale himself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000052_000003|An insult-a marked, merciless, deliberate insult in the open day!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000053_000000|"I had got through the town, and had advanced a few hundred yards along the road that leads to the great house, when I saw Armadale at a little distance, coming toward me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000053_000001|He was walking fast-evidently with some errand of his own to take him to the town.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000053_000002|The instant he caught sight of me he stopped, colored up, took off his hat, hesitated, and turned aside down a lane behind him, which I happen to know would take him exactly in the contrary direction to the direction in which he was walking when he first saw me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000053_000003|His conduct said in so many words, 'Miss Milroy may hear of it; I daren't run the risk of being seen speaking to you.' Men have used me heartlessly; men have done and said hard things to me; but no man living ever yet treated me as if I was plague struck, and as if the very air about me was infected by my presence!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000054_000000|"I say no more.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000054_000001|When he walked away from me down that lane, he walked to his death.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000055_000000|"Four o'clock.--Half an hour since, I put on my bonnet to go out and post the letter to Midwinter myself.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000055_000001|And here I am, still in my room, with my mind torn by doubts, and my letter on the table.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000056_000000|"Armadale counts for nothing in the perplexities that are now torturing me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000056_000003|Can I marry Midwinter, without knowing beforehand how to meet the obstacle of my husband, when the time comes which transforms me from the living Armadale's wife to the dead Armadale's widow?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000057_000002|I feel his kisses on my lips; I feel his tears on my bosom; I feel his arms round me again.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000057_000003|He is far away in London; and yet, he is here and won't let me think of it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000000|"Why can't I wait a little?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000001|Why can't I let Time help me?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000002|Time?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000004|What need is there to think of it, unless I like?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000005|There is no post to London to day.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000007|If I posted the letter, it wouldn't go.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000008|Besides, to morrow I may hear from mrs Oldershaw.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000009|I ought to wait to hear from mrs Oldershaw.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000010|I can't consider myself a free woman till I know what mrs Oldershaw means to do.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000011|There is a necessity for waiting till to morrow.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000058_000012|I shall take my bonnet off, and lock the letter up in my desk."
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000059_000000|"Sunday morning.--There is no resisting it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000059_000001|One after another the circumstances crowd on me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000059_000002|They come thicker and thicker, and they all force me one way.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000060_000000|"I have got Mother Oldershaw's answer.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000060_000001|The wretch fawns on me, and cringes to me.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000060_000002|I can see, as plainly as if she had acknowledged it, that she suspects me of seeing my own way to success at Thorpe Ambrose without her assistance.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000060_000003|Having found threatening me useless, she tries coaxing me now.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000060_000004|I am her darling Lydia again!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000061_000000|"I say once more, no mortal creature could resist it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000061_000001|Time after time I have tried to escape the temptation; and time after time the circumstances drive me back again.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000061_000002|I can struggle no longer.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000061_000003|The post that takes the letters to night shall take my letter to Midwinter among the rest.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000062_000000|"To night!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000062_000001|If I give myself till to night, something else may happen. If I give myself till to night, I may hesitate again.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000062_000002|I'm weary of the torture of hesitating.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000062_000004|My letter to Midwinter will drive me mad if I see it staring and staring at me in my desk any longer.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000062_000005|I can post it in ten minutes' time-and I will!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000063_000000|"It is done.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000063_000002|My mind is quieter-the letter is in the post.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000064_000000|"By to morrow Midwinter will receive it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000064_000001|Before the end of the week Armadale must be publicly seen to leave Thorpe Ambrose; and I must be publicly seen to leave with him.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000065_000000|"Have I looked at the consequences of my marriage to Midwinter?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000065_000001|No!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000065_000002|Do I know how to meet the obstacle of my husband, when the time comes which transforms me from the living Armadale's wife to the dead Armadale's widow?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000000|"No!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000002|I am going blindfold, then-so far as Midwinter is concerned-into this frightful risk?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000003|Yes; blindfold.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000004|Am I out of my senses?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000005|Very likely.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000006|Or am I a little too fond of him to look the thing in the face?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000066_000007|I dare say. Who cares?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000067_000000|"I won't, I won't, I won't think of it!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000067_000001|Haven't I a will of my own?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000067_000002|And can't I think, if I like, of something else?
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000068_000000|"Here is Mother Jezebel's cringing letter.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000068_000002|I'll answer it.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000068_000003|I am in a fine humor for writing to Mother Jezebel."
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000070_000000|"...I told you, when I broke off, that I would wait before I finished this, and ask my Diary if I could safely tell you what I have now got it in my mind to do.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000071_000000|"I shall probably be in London before long-and I may tell you by word of mouth what I don't think it safe to write here.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000071_000001|Mind, I make no promise!
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000071_000002|It all depends on how I feel toward you at the time.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000071_000003|I don't doubt your discretion; but (under certain circumstances) I am not so sure of your courage.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000071_000004|l g"
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000072_000002|I decline profiting by the proposal.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000072_000003|The money will be ready when the money is due.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000072_000004|I have a friend now in London who will pay it if I ask him.
train-other-500/3867/173236/3867_173236_000072_000005|Do you wonder who the friend is?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000002_000001|LOVE AND LAW.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000005_000000|If Miss Gwilt had waited long enough in the park, on the previous Saturday, to hear the lovers' parting words on that occasion, she would have been at no loss to explain the mystery of the volume under Allan's arm, and she would have understood the apology which he now offered for being late as readily as Neelie herself.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000006_000000|There is a certain exceptional occasion in life-the occasion of marriage-on which even girls in their teens sometimes become capable (more or less hysterically) of looking at consequences.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000006_000001|At the farewell moment of the interview on Saturday, Neelie's mind had suddenly precipitated itself into the future; and she had utterly confounded Allan by inquiring whether the contemplated elopement was an offense punishable by the Law?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000006_000003|Supposing she could bring herself to consent to the elopement at all-which she positively declined to promise-she must first insist on discovering whether there was any fear of the police being concerned in her marriage as well as the parson and the clerk.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000006_000004|Allan, being a man, ought to know; and to Allan she looked for information-with this preliminary assurance to assist him in laying down the law, that she would die of a broken heart a thousand times over, rather than be the innocent means of sending him to languish in prison, and of cutting his hair off, by Act of Parliament, close to his head.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000006_000005|"It's no laughing matter," said Neelie, resolutely, in conclusion; "I decline even to think of our marriage till my mind is made easy first on the subject of the Law."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000007_000000|"But I don't know anything about the law, not even as much as you do," said Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000007_000001|"Hang the law!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000007_000002|I don't mind my head being cropped.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000007_000003|Let's risk it."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000008_000000|"Risk it?" repeated Neelie, indignantly.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000008_000001|"Have you no consideration for me?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000008_000002|I won't risk it!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000008_000003|Where there's a will, there's a way.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000008_000004|We must find out the law for ourselves."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000009_000000|"With all my heart," said Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000009_000001|"How?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000010_000000|"Out of books, to be sure!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000010_000002|If you really love me, you won't mind going over the backs of a few thousand books, for my sake!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000011_000000|"I'll go over the backs of ten thousand!" cried Allan, warmly.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000012_000000|"For 'Law,' to be sure!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000012_000001|When it says 'Law' on the back, open it, and look inside for Marriage-read every word of it-and then come here and explain it to me.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000013_000000|"I'm certain it isn't," said Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000013_000001|"Can't you help me?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000014_000000|"Of course I can, if you can't manage without me!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000014_000001|Law may be hard, but it can't be harder than music; and I must, and will, satisfy my mind.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000015_000001|Here again, in this, as in all other human instances, the widely discordant elements of the grotesque and the terrible were forced together by that subtle law of contrast which is one of the laws of mortal life.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000016_000000|"Find the place," said Neelie, as soon as they were comfortably established.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000017_000003|We will have 'Good' and 'Bad' opposite each other, all down the two pages; and when we get to the bottom, we'll add them up, and act accordingly.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000017_000004|They say girls have no heads for business.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000017_000005|Haven't they!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000017_000006|Don't look at me-look at Blackstone, and begin."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000019_000000|"I should mind it very much.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000019_000001|In our serious situation, when we have both got to exert our intellects, I wonder you can ask for such a thing!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000020_000000|"That's why I asked for it," said the unblushing Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000020_000001|"I feel as if it would clear my head."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000021_000000|"Oh, if it would clear your head, that's quite another thing!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000021_000001|I must clear your head, of course, at any sacrifice.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000021_000002|Only one, mind," she whispered, coquettishly; "and pray be careful of Blackstone, or you'll lose the place."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000022_000000|There was a pause in the conversation.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000022_000001|Blackstone and the pocket book both rolled on the ground together.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000023_000000|"If this happens again," said Neelie, picking up the pocket book, with her eyes and her complexion at their brightest and best, "I shall sit with my back to you for the rest of the morning.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000025_000000|"Page two hundred eighty," he began.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000025_000001|"Law of husband and wife.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000026_000000|"Is there nothing about Love?" asked Neelie.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000026_000001|"Look a little lower down."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000027_000000|"Not a word.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000027_000001|He sticks to his confounded 'Contract' all the way through."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000028_000000|"Then he's a brute!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000028_000001|Go on to something else that's more in our way."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000029_000000|"Here's a bit that's more in our way: 'Incapacities.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000030_000000|"Stop!" said Neelie; "I must make a note of that." She gravely made her first entry on the page headed "Good," as follows: "I have no husband, and Allan has no wife.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000030_000001|We are both entirely unmarried at the present time."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000031_000000|"All right, so far," remarked Allan, looking over her shoulder.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000032_000000|"Go on," said Neelie.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000032_000001|"What next?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000033_000000|"'The next disability,'" proceeded Allan, "'is want of age.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000033_000001|The age for consent to matrimony is, fourteen in males, and twelve in females.' Come!" cried Allan, cheerfully, "Blackstone begins early enough, at any rate!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000034_000000|Neelie was too business like to make any other remark, on her side, than the necessary remark in the pocket book.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000034_000002|Go on," resumed Neelie, looking over the reader's shoulder.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000034_000003|"Never mind all that prosing of Blackstone's, about the husband being of years of discretion, and the wife under twelve.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000034_000004|Abominable wretch!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000034_000005|the wife under twelve!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000034_000006|Skip to the third incapacity, if there is one."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000035_000000|"'The third incapacity,'" Allan went on, "'is want of reason.'"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000036_000000|Neelie immediately made a third entry on the side of "Good": "Allan and I are both perfectly reasonable.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000036_000001|Skip to the next page."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000037_000000|Allan skipped.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000037_000001|"'A fourth incapacity is in respect of proximity of relationship.'"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000038_000000|A fourth entry followed instantly on the cheering side of the pocket book: "He loves me, and I love him-without our being in the slightest degree related to each other.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000038_000001|Any more?" asked Neelie, tapping her chin impatiently with the end of the pencil.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000039_000000|"Plenty more," rejoined Allan; "all in hieroglyphics.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000039_000001|Look here: 'Marriage Acts, four Geo.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000039_000003|seventy six, and six and seven Will.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000039_000006|Shall we take another skip, and see if he picks himself up again on the next page?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000040_000000|"Wait a little," said Neelie; "what's that I see in the middle?" She read for a minute in silence, over Allan's shoulder, and suddenly clasped her hands in despair.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000040_000001|"I knew I was right!" she exclaimed.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000040_000002|"Oh, heavens, here it is!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000041_000000|"Where?" asked Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000041_000001|"I see nothing about languishing in prison, and cropping a fellow's hair close to his head, unless it's in the hieroglyphics.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000041_000002|Is 'four Geo.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000042_000000|"Pray be serious," remonstrated Neelie.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000042_000001|"We are both sitting on a volcano.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000042_000002|There," she said pointing to the place.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000043_000000|Allan cleared his throat, and Neelie held the point of her pencil ready on the depressing side of the account-otherwise the "Bad" page of the pocket book.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000044_000000|"'And as it is the policy of our law,'" Allan began, "'to prevent the marriage of persons under the age of twenty one, without the consent of parents and guardians'"--(Neelie made her first entry on the side of "Bad!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000044_000003|Infernal gibberish!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000044_000004|I could write better English myself."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000045_000000|"We are not at the end of it yet," said Neelie.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000045_000001|"The Void is nothing to what is to come."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000003|I'd live fifteen days in a dog kennel with the greatest pleasure.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000004|I say, Neelie, all this seems like plain sailing enough.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000005|What are you shaking your head about?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000006|Go on, and I shall see?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000007|Oh, all right; I'll go on.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000009|The consent required by this act is that of the father-'" At those last formidable words Allan came to a full stop.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000010|"The consent of the father," he repeated, with all needful seriousness of look and manner.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000046_000011|"I couldn't exactly swear to that, could I?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000047_000000|Neelie answered in expressive silence.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000048_000000|The lovers looked at each other, across the insuperable obstacle of Blackstone, in speechless dismay.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000000|"Shut up the book," said Neelie, resignedly.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000001|"I have no doubt we should find the police, and the prison, and the hair cutting-all punishments for perjury, exactly as I told you!--if we looked at the next page.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000002|But we needn't trouble ourselves to look; we have found out quite enough already.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000003|It's all over with us.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000004|I must go to school on Saturday, and you must manage to forget me as soon as you can.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000007|Good by," concluded Neelie, rising mournfully, with the tears in her eyes.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000049_000008|"It's only prolonging our misery to stop here, unless-unless you have anything to propose?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000050_000000|"I've got something to propose," cried the headlong Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000050_000001|"It's an entirely new idea.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000050_000002|Would you mind trying the blacksmith at Gretna Green?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000051_000000|"No earthly consideration," answered Neelie, indignantly, "would induce me to be married by a blacksmith!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000052_000000|"Don't be offended," pleaded Allan; "I meant it for the best.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000052_000001|Lots of people in our situation have tried the blacksmith, and found him quite as good as a clergyman, and a most amiable man, I believe, into the bargain.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000052_000002|Never mind!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000053_000000|"We haven't got another to try," said Neelie.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000054_000000|"Take my word for it," persisted Allan, stoutly, "there must be ways and means of circumventing Blackstone (without perjury), if we only knew of them.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000054_000001|It's a matter of law, and we must consult somebody in the profession.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000054_000002|I dare say it's a risk.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000054_000004|He's a thorough good fellow.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000054_000005|I'm sure we could trust young Pedgift to keep our secret."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000055_000000|"Not for worlds!" exclaimed Neelie.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000055_000001|"You may be willing to trust your secrets to the vulgar little wretch; I won't have him trusted with mine. I hate him.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000055_000002|No!" she concluded, with a mounting color and a peremptory stamp of her foot on the grass.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000055_000003|"I positively forbid you to take any of the Thorpe Ambrose people into your confidence.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000055_000004|They would instantly suspect me, and it would be all over the place in a moment.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000056_000000|"Hush! hush!" said Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000056_000001|"I won't say a word at Thorpe Ambrose, I won't indeed!" He paused, and considered for a moment.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000056_000002|"There's another way!" he burst out, brightening up on the instant.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000056_000004|I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll go to London!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000058_000000|"To London?" repeated Neelie, looking up in astonishment.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000000|"To London!" reiterated Allan.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000001|"That's far enough away from Thorpe Ambrose, surely?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000002|Wait a minute, and don't forget that this is a question of law.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000003|Very well, I know some lawyers in London who managed all my business for me when I first came in for this property; they are just the men to consult.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000004|And if they decline to be mixed up in it, there's their head clerk, who is one of the best fellows I ever met with in my life.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000005|I asked him to go yachting with me, I remember; and, though he couldn't go, he said he felt the obligation all the same.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000006|That's the man to help us.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000007|Blackstone's a mere infant to him.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000009|Do pray hear me out.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000010|I won't breathe your name or your father's.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000011|I'll describe you as 'a young lady to whom I am devotedly attached.' And if my friend the clerk asks where you live, I'll say the north of Scotland, or the west of Ireland, or the Channel Islands, or anywhere else you like.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000012|My friend the clerk is a total stranger to Thorpe Ambrose and everybody in it (which is one recommendation); and in five minutes' time he'd put me up to what to do (which is another).
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000013|If you only knew him!
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000059_000014|He's one of those extraordinary men who appear once or twice in a century-the sort of man who won't allow you to make a mistake if you try.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000060_000000|All Neelie's meditated objections dwindled, in spite of her, to one feeble little question.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000060_000001|"Suppose I allow you to go, Allan?" she whispered, toying nervously with the stud in the bosom of his shirt. "Shall you be very long away?"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000061_000000|"I'll be off to day," said Allan, "by the eleven o'clock train.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000061_000001|And I'll be back to morrow, if I and my friend the clerk can settle it all in time.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000062_000001|"I shall sink under the suspense, if you don't promise to write to me every day."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000064_000000|"And mind, whatever those people may say to you in London," proceeded Neelie, "I insist on your coming back for me.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000064_000001|I positively decline to run away, unless you promise to fetch me."
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000000|Allan promised for the second time, on his sacred word of honor, and at the full compass of his voice.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000001|But Neelie was not satisfied even yet. She reverted to first principles, and insisted on knowing whether Allan was quite sure he loved her.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000002|Allan called Heaven to witness how sure he was; and got another question directly for his pains.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000003|Could he solemnly declare that he would never regret taking Neelie away from home?
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000004|Allan called Heaven to witness again, louder than ever.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000005|All to no purpose! The ravenous female appetite for tender protestations still hungered for more.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000065_000006|"I know what will happen one of these days," persisted Neelie. "You will see some other girl who is prettier than I am; and you will wish you had married her instead of me!"
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000066_000000|As Allan opened his lips for a final outburst of asseveration, the stable clock at the great house was faintly audible in the distance striking the hour.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000066_000001|Neelie started guiltily.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000066_000005|"It seems so guilty and so heartless to go away from him and be married in secret.
train-other-500/3867/173237/3867_173237_000066_000007|The conflict of contending emotions, which she had mastered thus far, burst its way outward in spite of her after he had waved his hand for the last time, and had disappeared in the depths of the dell.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000005_000000|Chapter six.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000005_000001|A Laceration In The Cottage
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000000|He certainly was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000001|He had rushed in like a fool, and meddled in what?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000002|In a love affair.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000003|"But what do I know about it?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000004|What can I tell about such things?" he repeated to himself for the hundredth time, flushing crimson.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000005|"Oh, being ashamed would be nothing; shame is only the punishment I deserve.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000006|The trouble is I shall certainly have caused more unhappiness....
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000007|And Father Zossima sent me to reconcile and bring them together.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000008|Is this the way to bring them together?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000009|Then he suddenly remembered how he had tried to join their hands, and he felt fearfully ashamed again.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000006_000010|"Though I acted quite sincerely, I must be more sensible in the future," he concluded suddenly, and did not even smile at his conclusion.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000007_000001|Alyosha decided to go to him in any case before going to the captain, though he had a presentiment that he would not find his brother.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000007_000002|He suspected that he would intentionally keep out of his way now, but he must find him anyhow. Time was passing: the thought of his dying elder had not left Alyosha for one minute from the time he set off from the monastery.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000008_000001|Now Alyosha felt practically certain of this, though he could not have said why.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000008_000002|Thinking of another subject was a relief, and he resolved to think no more about the "mischief" he had done, and not to torture himself with remorse, but to do what he had to do, let come what would.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000008_000003|At that thought he was completely comforted.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000008_000004|Turning to the street where Dmitri lodged, he felt hungry, and taking out of his pocket the roll he had brought from his father's, he ate it.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000008_000005|It made him feel stronger.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000000|Dmitri was not at home.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000001|The people of the house, an old cabinet maker, his son, and his old wife, looked with positive suspicion at Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000002|"He hasn't slept here for the last three nights.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000003|Maybe he has gone away," the old man said in answer to Alyosha's persistent inquiries.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000004|Alyosha saw that he was answering in accordance with instructions.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000005|When he asked whether he were not at Grushenka's or in hiding at Foma's (Alyosha spoke so freely on purpose), all three looked at him in alarm.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000006|"They are fond of him, they are doing their best for him," thought Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000009_000007|"That's good."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000000|At last he found the house in Lake Street.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000001|It was a decrepit little house, sunk on one side, with three windows looking into the street, and with a muddy yard, in the middle of which stood a solitary cow.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000002|He crossed the yard and found the door opening into the passage.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000003|On the left of the passage lived the old woman of the house with her old daughter.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000004|Both seemed to be deaf.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000005|In answer to his repeated inquiry for the captain, one of them at last understood that he was asking for their lodgers, and pointed to a door across the passage.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000006|The captain's lodging turned out to be a simple cottage room.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000009|"Either they are all asleep or perhaps they have heard me coming and are waiting for me to open the door.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000010_000011|An answer came, but not at once, after an interval of perhaps ten seconds.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000011_000000|"Who's there?" shouted some one in a loud and very angry voice.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000000|Then Alyosha opened the door and crossed the threshold.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000001|He found himself in a regular peasant's room.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000002|Though it was large, it was cumbered up with domestic belongings of all sorts, and there were several people in it.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000003|On the left was a large Russian stove.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000005|There was a bedstead against the wall on each side, right and left, covered with knitted quilts.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000006|On the one on the left was a pyramid of four print covered pillows, each smaller than the one beneath.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000007|On the other there was only one very small pillow.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000009|Behind this curtain could be seen a bed made up on a bench and a chair.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000010|The rough square table of plain wood had been moved into the middle window.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000012_000012|On the table was a frying pan with the remains of some fried eggs, a half eaten piece of bread, and a small bottle with a few drops of vodka.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000000|A woman of genteel appearance, wearing a cotton gown, was sitting on a chair by the bed on the left.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000001|Her face was thin and yellow, and her sunken cheeks betrayed at the first glance that she was ill.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000002|But what struck Alyosha most was the expression in the poor woman's eyes-a look of surprised inquiry and yet of haughty pride.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000003|And while he was talking to her husband, her big brown eyes moved from one speaker to the other with the same haughty and questioning expression.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000005|She looked disdainfully at Alyosha as he came in. Beside the other bed was sitting another female figure.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000006|She was a very sad sight, a young girl of about twenty, but hunchback and crippled "with withered legs," as Alyosha was told afterwards.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000007|Her crutches stood in the corner close by.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000008|The strikingly beautiful and gentle eyes of this poor girl looked with mild serenity at Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000009|A man of forty five was sitting at the table, finishing the fried eggs.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000010|He was spare, small and weakly built.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000013_000011|He had reddish hair and a scanty light colored beard, very much like a wisp of tow (this comparison and the phrase "a wisp of tow" flashed at once into Alyosha's mind for some reason, he remembered it afterwards). It was obviously this gentleman who had shouted to him, as there was no other man in the room.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000014_000000|"It's a monk come to beg for the monastery.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000014_000001|A nice place to come to!" the girl standing in the left corner said aloud.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000014_000002|The man spun round instantly towards her and answered her in an excited and breaking voice:
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000015_000000|"No, Varvara, you are wrong.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000015_000001|Allow me to ask," he turned again to Alyosha, "what has brought you to-our retreat?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000000|Alyosha looked attentively at him.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000001|It was the first time he had seen him. There was something angular, flurried and irritable about him.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000002|Though he had obviously just been drinking, he was not drunk.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000004|He looked like a man who had long been kept in subjection and had submitted to it, and now had suddenly turned and was trying to assert himself.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000005|Or, better still, like a man who wants dreadfully to hit you but is horribly afraid you will hit him.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000006|In his words and in the intonation of his shrill voice there was a sort of crazy humor, at times spiteful and at times cringing, and continually shifting from one tone to another.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000007|The question about "our retreat" he had asked as it were quivering all over, rolling his eyes, and skipping up so close to Alyosha that he instinctively drew back a step.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000016_000008|He was dressed in a very shabby dark cotton coat, patched and spotted.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000018_000000|"I quite understand that, sir," the gentleman snapped out at once to assure him that he knew who he was already.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000018_000001|"I am Captain Snegiryov, sir, but I am still desirous to know precisely what has led you-"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000019_000000|"Oh, I've come for nothing special.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000019_000001|I wanted to have a word with you-if only you allow me."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000020_000000|"In that case, here is a chair, sir; kindly be seated.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000021_000000|"Nikolay Ilyitch Snegiryov, sir, formerly a captain in the Russian infantry, put to shame for his vices, but still a captain.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000021_000001|Though I might not be one now for the way I talk; for the last half of my life I've learnt to say 'sir.' It's a word you use when you've come down in the world."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000022_000000|"That's very true," smiled Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000023_000001|I didn't use the word 'sir' all my life, but as soon as I sank into low water I began to say 'sir.' It's the work of a higher power.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000023_000002|I see you are interested in contemporary questions, but how can I have excited your curiosity, living as I do in surroundings impossible for the exercise of hospitality?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000024_000000|"I've come-about that business."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000025_000000|"About what business?" the captain interrupted impatiently.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000026_000000|"About your meeting with my brother Dmitri Fyodorovitch," Alyosha blurted out awkwardly.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000027_000000|"What meeting, sir?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000027_000001|You don't mean that meeting?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000027_000002|About my 'wisp of tow,' then?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000027_000003|He moved closer so that his knees positively knocked against Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000027_000004|His lips were strangely compressed like a thread.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000028_000000|"What wisp of tow?" muttered Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000029_000000|"He is come to complain of me, father!" cried a voice familiar to Alyosha-the voice of the schoolboy-from behind the curtain.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000029_000001|"I bit his finger just now." The curtain was pulled, and Alyosha saw his assailant lying on a little bed made up on the bench and the chair in the corner under the ikons.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000029_000002|The boy lay covered by his coat and an old wadded quilt. He was evidently unwell, and, judging by his glittering eyes, he was in a fever.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000029_000003|He looked at Alyosha without fear, as though he felt he was at home and could not be touched.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000030_000000|"What!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000030_000002|The captain jumped up from his chair. "Was it your finger he bit?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000031_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000031_000001|He was throwing stones with other schoolboys.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000031_000002|There were six of them against him alone.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000031_000004|I asked him what I had done to him.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000031_000005|And then he rushed at me and bit my finger badly, I don't know why."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000032_000000|"I'll thrash him, sir, at once-this minute!"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000033_000000|"But I am not complaining at all, I am simply telling you ...
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000033_000001|I don't want him to be thrashed.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000034_000001|That I'd take my Ilusha and thrash him before you for your satisfaction?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000034_000002|Would you like it done at once, sir?" said the captain, suddenly turning to Alyosha, as though he were going to attack him.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000034_000003|"I am sorry about your finger, sir; but instead of thrashing Ilusha, would you like me to chop off my four fingers with this knife here before your eyes to satisfy your just wrath?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000034_000004|I should think four fingers would be enough to satisfy your thirst for vengeance.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000034_000006|Every feature in his face was twitching and working; he looked extremely defiant.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000034_000007|He was in a sort of frenzy.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000035_000000|"I think I understand it all now," said Alyosha gently and sorrowfully, still keeping his seat.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000035_000002|Now I understand it," he repeated thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000036_000001|And he thinks that will be a satisfactory finish, doesn't he?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000037_000000|"Oh, no! On the contrary, he will do anything you like and in any way you like."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000038_000000|"So if I were to ask his highness to go down on his knees before me in that very tavern-'The Metropolis' it's called-or in the market place, he would do it?"
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000039_000000|"Yes, he would even go down on his knees."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000000|"You've pierced me to the heart, sir.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000001|Touched me to tears and pierced me to the heart!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000002|I am only too sensible of your brother's generosity.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000003|Allow me to introduce my family, my two daughters and my son-my litter.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000004|If I die, who will care for them, and while I live who but they will care for a wretch like me?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000005|That's a great thing the Lord has ordained for every man of my sort, sir.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000040_000006|For there must be some one able to love even a man like me."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000041_000000|"Ah, that's perfectly true!" exclaimed Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000042_000000|"Oh, do leave off playing the fool!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000042_000001|Some idiot comes in, and you put us to shame!" cried the girl by the window, suddenly turning to her father with a disdainful and contemptuous air.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000043_000001|"That's her character," he said, addressing Alyosha again.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000044_000000|"And in all nature there was naught That could find favor in his eyes-
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000045_000000|or rather in the feminine: that could find favor in her eyes.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000045_000001|But now let me present you to my wife, Arina Petrovna.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000045_000002|She is crippled, she is forty three; she can move, but very little.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000045_000003|She is of humble origin.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000045_000004|Arina Petrovna, compose your countenance.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000045_000006|"You must stand up to be introduced to a lady.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000046_000001|The girl at the window turned her back indignantly on the scene; an expression of extraordinary cordiality came over the haughtily inquiring face of the woman.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000047_000000|"Good morning!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000047_000001|Sit down, mr Tchernomazov," she said.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000048_000001|We are of humble origin," he whispered again.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000049_000000|"Well, Karamazov, or whatever it is, but I always think of Tchernomazov....
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000049_000001|Sit down.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000049_000002|Why has he pulled you up?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000049_000003|He calls me crippled, but I am not, only my legs are swollen like barrels, and I am shriveled up myself.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000050_000000|"We are of humble origin," the captain muttered again.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000052_000000|"Buffoon!" blurted out the girl at the window.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000000|"Have you heard our news?" said the mother, pointing at her daughters. "It's like clouds coming over; the clouds pass and we have music again. When we were with the army, we used to have many such guests.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000001|I don't mean to make any comparisons; every one to their taste.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000003|'You black sword,' said I, 'who asked you to teach me?' 'But my breath,' says she, 'is clean, and yours is unclean.' 'You ask all the officers whether my breath is unclean.' And ever since then I had it in my mind.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000005|And what is my breath to them?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000006|The dead smell worse still!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000008|Nikolay Ilyitch, how is it I can't please you?
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000010|Yesterday he brought me an apple.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000053_000011|Forgive your own mother-forgive a poor lonely creature!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000054_000001|The captain rushed up to her.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000055_000000|"Mamma, mamma, my dear, give over!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000055_000001|You are not lonely.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000055_000002|Every one loves you, every one adores you." He began kissing both her hands again and tenderly stroking her face; taking the dinner napkin, he began wiping away her tears.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000055_000003|Alyosha fancied that he too had tears in his eyes.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000055_000004|"There, you see, you hear?" he turned with a sort of fury to Alyosha, pointing to the poor imbecile.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000057_000000|"Father, father, how can you-with him!
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000057_000001|Let him alone!" cried the boy, sitting up in his bed and gazing at his father with glowing eyes.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000059_000000|"Your anger is quite just this time, Varvara, and I'll make haste to satisfy you.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000059_000002|We will go out.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000059_000003|I have a word to say to you in earnest, but not within these walls.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000059_000004|This girl sitting here is my daughter Nina; I forgot to introduce her to you.
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000059_000005|She is a heavenly angel incarnate ... who has flown down to us mortals,... if you can understand."
train-other-500/3871/692/3871_692_000060_000000|"There he is shaking all over, as though he is in convulsions!" Varvara went on indignantly.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000005_000000|Chapter seven.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000005_000001|And In The Open Air
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000006_000000|"The air is fresh, but in my apartment it is not so in any sense of the word.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000006_000001|Let us walk slowly, sir.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000006_000002|I should be glad of your kind interest."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000007_000000|"I too have something important to say to you," observed Alyosha, "only I don't know how to begin."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000000|"To be sure you must have business with me.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000001|You would never have looked in upon me without some object.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000002|Unless you come simply to complain of the boy, and that's hardly likely.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000003|And, by the way, about the boy: I could not explain to you in there, but here I will describe that scene to you.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000004|My tow was thicker a week ago-I mean my beard.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000005|That's the nickname they give to my beard, the schoolboys most of all.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000006|Well, your brother Dmitri Fyodorovitch was pulling me by my beard, I'd done nothing, he was in a towering rage and happened to come upon me.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000008|As soon as he saw me in such a state he rushed up to me.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000009|'Father,' he cried, 'father!' He caught hold of me, hugged me, tried to pull me away, crying to my assailant, 'Let go, let go, it's my father, forgive him!'--yes, he actually cried 'forgive him.' He clutched at that hand, that very hand, in his little hands and kissed it....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000008_000010|I remember his little face at that moment, I haven't forgotten it and I never shall!"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000009_000000|"I swear," cried Alyosha, "that my brother will express his most deep and sincere regret, even if he has to go down on his knees in that same market place....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000009_000001|I'll make him or he is no brother of mine!"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000000|"Aha, then it's only a suggestion!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000001|And it does not come from him but simply from the generosity of your own warm heart.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000002|You should have said so.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000005|I will give satisfaction, though you are a scoundrel.' That's what he said.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000006|A chivalrous spirit indeed!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000007|I retired with Ilusha, and that scene is a family record imprinted for ever on Ilusha's soul.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000008|No, it's not for us to claim the privileges of noblemen. Judge for yourself.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000010|Three ladies, one a cripple and weak minded, another a cripple and hunchback and the third not crippled but far too clever.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000011|She is a student, dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks of the Neva.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000012|I won't speak of Ilusha, he is only nine.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000013|I am alone in the world, and if I die, what will become of all of them?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000014|I simply ask you that.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000015|And if I challenge him and he kills me on the spot, what then?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000016|What will become of them?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000017|And worse still, if he doesn't kill me but only cripples me: I couldn't work, but I should still be a mouth to feed.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000019|Must I take Ilusha from school and send him to beg in the streets?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000020|That's what it means for me to challenge him to a duel.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000010_000021|It's silly talk and nothing else."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000011_000000|"He will beg your forgiveness, he will bow down at your feet in the middle of the market place," cried Alyosha again, with glowing eyes.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000012_000000|"I did think of prosecuting him," the captain went on, "but look in our code, could I get much compensation for a personal injury?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000012_000002|If you proceed against him, I'll publish it to all the world that he beat you for your dishonesty, and then you will be prosecuted.' I call God to witness whose was the dishonesty and by whose commands I acted, wasn't it by her own and Fyodor Pavlovitch's?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000012_000004|I'll speak to my merchant too' (that's what she calls her old man) 'and he will dismiss you!' And if he dismisses me, what can I earn then from any one?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000012_000007|But now let me ask you: did Ilusha hurt your finger much?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000013_000000|"Yes, very much, and he was in a great fury.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000013_000001|He was avenging you on me as a Karamazov, I see that now.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000013_000002|But if only you had seen how he was throwing stones at his school fellows!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000013_000003|It's very dangerous.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000013_000004|They might kill him. They are children and stupid.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000013_000005|A stone may be thrown and break somebody's head."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000014_000002|Not on the head but on the chest, just above the heart.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000014_000003|He came home crying and groaning and now he is ill."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000015_000000|"And you know he attacks them first.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000015_000001|He is bitter against them on your account.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000015_000002|They say he stabbed a boy called Krassotkin with a pen knife not long ago."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000016_000000|"I've heard about that too, it's dangerous.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000000|"Anger!" the captain repeated, "that's just what it is.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000001|He is a little creature, but it's a mighty anger.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000003|Let me tell you more.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000006|For his father and for truth and justice.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000007|For what he suffered when he kissed your brother's hand and cried to him 'Forgive father, forgive him,'--that only God knows-and I, his father.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000008|For our children-not your children, but ours-the children of the poor gentlemen looked down upon by every one-know what justice means, sir, even at nine years old.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000009|How should the rich know?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000010|They don't explore such depths once in their lives.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000012|That truth entered into him and crushed him for ever, sir," the captain said hotly again with a sort of frenzy, and he struck his right fist against his left palm as though he wanted to show how "the truth" crushed Ilusha.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000013|"That very day, sir, he fell ill with fever and was delirious all night.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000014|All that day he hardly said a word to me, but I noticed he kept watching me from the corner, though he turned to the window and pretended to be learning his lessons.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000015|But I could see his mind was not on his lessons.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000017|Mamma began crying, too-I am very fond of mamma-well, I spent my last penny drowning my troubles.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000018_000018|Don't despise me for that, sir, in Russia men who drink are the best.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000000|"On the third day when he came back from school, I saw he looked pale and wretched.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000001|'What is it?' I asked.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000002|He wouldn't answer.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000003|Well, there's no talking in our mansion without mamma and the girls taking part in it. What's more, the girls had heard about it the very first day.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000004|Varvara had begun snarling.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000005|'You fools and buffoons, can you ever do anything rational?' 'Quite so,' I said, 'can we ever do anything rational?' For the time I turned it off like that.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000007|A beautiful and lonely spot, sir.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000009|He has a little hand, his fingers are thin and cold-he suffers with his chest, you know.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000010|'Father,' said he, 'father!' 'Well?' said i I saw his eyes flashing.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000012|'Don't forgive him, father, don't forgive him!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000015|He listened.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000019_000017|When I grow up I'll call him out myself and kill him.' His eyes shone and glowed.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000000|"But he began to come home from school badly beaten, I found out about it the day before yesterday, and you are right, I won't send him to that school any more.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000001|I heard that he was standing up against all the class alone and defying them all, that his heart was full of resentment, of bitterness-I was alarmed about him.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000002|We went for another walk.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000005|'We will put mamma and your sisters inside, we will cover them up and we'll walk, you shall have a lift now and then, and I'll walk beside, for we must take care of our horse, we can't all ride.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000006|That's how we'll go.' He was enchanted at that, most of all at the thought of having a horse and driving him.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000007|For of course a Russian boy is born among horses.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000008|We chattered a long while.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000020_000009|Thank God, I thought, I have diverted his mind and comforted him.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000001|He had gone to school in the morning, he came back depressed, terribly depressed.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000002|In the evening I took him by the hand and we went for a walk; he would not talk.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000003|There was a wind blowing and no sun, and a feeling of autumn; twilight was coming on.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000004|We walked along, both of us depressed.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000005|'Well, my boy,' said I, 'how about our setting off on our travels?' I thought I might bring him back to our talk of the day before.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000006|He didn't answer, but I felt his fingers trembling in my hand.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000008|We had reached the stone where we are now.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000009|I sat down on the stone.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000010|And in the air there were lots of kites flapping and whirling.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000011|There were as many as thirty in sight.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000012|Of course, it's just the season for the kites.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000013|'Look, Ilusha,' said I, 'it's time we got out our last year's kite again.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000015|He looked away and turned sideways to me.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000016|And then a gust of wind blew up the sand.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000017|He suddenly fell on me, threw both his little arms round my neck and held me tight.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000018|You know, when children are silent and proud, and try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000019|With those warm streams of tears, he suddenly wetted my face. He sobbed and shook as though he were in convulsions, and squeezed up against me as I sat on the stone.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000020|'Father,' he kept crying, 'dear father, how he insulted you!' And I sobbed too.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000021|We sat shaking in each other's arms.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000023|God alone saw us, I hope He will record it to my credit.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000021_000025|No, sir, I won't thrash my boy for your satisfaction."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000022_000000|He had gone back to his original tone of resentful buffoonery.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000022_000002|This encouraged Alyosha, whose heart was trembling on the verge of tears.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000023_000000|"Ah, how I would like to make friends with your boy!" he cried.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000023_000001|"If you could arrange it-"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000024_000000|"Certainly, sir," muttered the captain.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000000|"But now listen to something quite different!" Alyosha went on.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000001|"I have a message for you.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000002|That same brother of mine, Dmitri, has insulted his betrothed, too, a noble hearted girl of whom you have probably heard.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000003|I have a right to tell you of her wrong; I ought to do so, in fact, for hearing of the insult done to you and learning all about your unfortunate position, she commissioned me at once-just now-to bring you this help from her-but only from her alone, not from Dmitri, who has abandoned her.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000004|Nor from me, his brother, nor from any one else, but from her, only from her! She entreats you to accept her help....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000005|You have both been insulted by the same man.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000007|She comes like a sister to help a brother in misfortune....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000008|She told me to persuade you to take these two hundred roubles from her, as from a sister, knowing that you are in such need.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000025_000010|But there are brothers even on earth....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000026_000000|They were both standing at the time by the great stone close to the fence, and there was no one near.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000026_000001|The notes seemed to produce a tremendous impression on the captain.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000026_000002|He started, but at first only from astonishment.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000026_000003|Such an outcome of their conversation was the last thing he expected.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000026_000004|Nothing could have been farther from his dreams than help from any one-and such a sum!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000027_000000|He took the notes, and for a minute he was almost unable to answer, quite a new expression came into his face.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000000|"That for me?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000001|So much money-two hundred roubles!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000002|Good heavens!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000003|Why, I haven't seen so much money for the last four years!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000004|Mercy on us!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000005|And she says she is a sister....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000028_000006|And is that the truth?"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000029_000000|"I swear that all I told you is the truth," cried Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000030_000000|The captain flushed red.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000031_000000|"Listen, my dear, listen.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000031_000001|If I take it, I shan't be behaving like a scoundrel?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000031_000003|No, Alexey Fyodorovitch, listen, listen," he hurried, touching Alyosha with both his hands.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000031_000004|"You are persuading me to take it, saying that it's a sister sends it, but inwardly, in your heart won't you feel contempt for me if I take it, eh?"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000032_000000|"No, no, on my salvation I swear I shan't!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000032_000001|And no one will ever know but me-I, you and she, and one other lady, her great friend."
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000033_000000|"Never mind the lady!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000033_000001|Listen, Alexey Fyodorovitch, at a moment like this you must listen, for you can't understand what these two hundred roubles mean to me now." The poor fellow went on rising gradually into a sort of incoherent, almost wild enthusiasm.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000033_000002|He was thrown off his balance and talked extremely fast, as though afraid he would not be allowed to say all he had to say.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000000|"Besides its being honestly acquired from a 'sister,' so highly respected and revered, do you know that now I can look after mamma and Nina, my hunchback angel daughter?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000003|He said it would be sure to do her good, and he ordered baths, too, with some medicine in them.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000005|And he ordered hot baths for Nina with something dissolved in them, morning and evening.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000006|But how can we carry out such a cure in our mansion, without servants, without help, without a bath, and without water?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000011|We wait on her, but she doesn't like it.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000013|She softens even Varvara.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000014|And don't judge Varvara harshly either, she is an angel too, she, too, has suffered wrong.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000016|But we took her money and lived on it, so now she has nothing to go back with.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000018|She is like an overdriven horse with all of us on her back.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000019|She waits on us all, mends and washes, sweeps the floor, puts mamma to bed.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000020|And mamma is capricious and tearful and insane!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000021|And now I can get a servant with this money, you understand, Alexey Fyodorovitch, I can get medicines for the dear creatures, I can send my student to Petersburg, I can buy beef, I can feed them properly.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000034_000022|Good Lord, but it's a dream!"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000036_000001|"Do you know that Ilusha and I will perhaps really carry out our dream.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000036_000002|We will buy a horse and cart, a black horse, he insists on its being black, and we will set off as we pretended the other day.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000036_000003|I have an old friend, a lawyer in k province, and I heard through a trustworthy man that if I were to go he'd give me a place as clerk in his office, so, who knows, maybe he would.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000037_000000|"There would be enough!" cried Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000037_000002|It would be the saving of you, especially of your boy-and you ought to go quickly, before the winter, before the cold.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000037_000003|You must write to us when you are there, and we will always be brothers....
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000037_000004|No, it's not a dream!"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000038_000000|Alyosha could have hugged him, he was so pleased.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000038_000001|But glancing at him he stopped short.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000038_000002|The man was standing with his neck outstretched and his lips protruding, with a pale and frenzied face.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000038_000004|It was uncanny.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000039_000000|"What is it?" asked Alyosha, startled.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000040_000000|"Alexey Fyodorovitch ...
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000040_000001|I ... you," muttered the captain, faltering, looking at him with a strange, wild, fixed stare, and an air of desperate resolution.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000040_000002|At the same time there was a sort of grin on his lips.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000040_000003|"I ... you, sir ... wouldn't you like me to show you a little trick I know?" he murmured, suddenly, in a firm rapid whisper, his voice no longer faltering.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000041_000000|"What trick?"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000042_000000|"A pretty trick," whispered the captain.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000042_000002|He still stared at Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000043_000000|"What is the matter?
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000043_000001|What trick?" Alyosha cried, now thoroughly alarmed.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000044_000000|"Why, look," squealed the captain suddenly, and showing him the two notes which he had been holding by one corner between his thumb and forefinger during the conversation, he crumpled them up savagely and squeezed them tight in his right hand.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000044_000001|"Do you see, do you see?" he shrieked, pale and infuriated.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000044_000002|And suddenly flinging up his hand, he threw the crumpled notes on the sand.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000044_000003|"Do you see?" he shrieked again, pointing to them.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000044_000004|"Look there!"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000045_000000|And with wild fury he began trampling them under his heel, gasping and exclaiming as he did so:
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000046_000000|"So much for your money!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000046_000001|So much for your money!
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000046_000002|So much for your money! So much for your money!"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000047_000000|Suddenly he darted back and drew himself up before Alyosha, and his whole figure expressed unutterable pride.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000048_000000|"Tell those who sent you that the wisp of tow does not sell his honor," he cried, raising his arm in the air.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000048_000001|Then he turned quickly and began to run; but he had not run five steps before he turned completely round and kissed his hand to Alyosha.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000048_000002|He ran another five paces and then turned round for the last time.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000048_000003|This time his face was not contorted with laughter, but quivering all over with tears.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000048_000004|In a tearful, faltering, sobbing voice he cried:
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000049_000000|"What should I say to my boy if I took money from you for our shame?"
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000000|And then he ran on without turning.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000001|Alyosha looked after him, inexpressibly grieved.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000003|He did not turn back.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000004|Alyosha knew he would not.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000005|He would not follow him and call him back, he knew why.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000006|When he was out of sight, Alyosha picked up the two notes.
train-other-500/3871/693/3871_693_000050_000007|They were very much crushed and crumpled, and had been pressed into the sand, but were uninjured and even rustled like new ones when Alyosha unfolded them and smoothed them out.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000002_000000|"Listen!" he said, holding up his hand for silence.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000003_000000|"How did you know I had arrived?" asked Scraps, much interested.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000004_000001|Keep quiet while I play you 'The Speckled Alligator.'"
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000007_000002|"Which one?
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000007_000003|Not the Shaggy Man?"
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000010_000000|"Can't say," replied the soldier.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000011_000000|"But no one ever does that!"
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000012_000000|"Then he must be innocent, and soon will be released.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000013_000001|It covered him from head to foot, but had two holes just in front of his eyes, so he could see where to go.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000017_000000|"That I cannot tell.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000021_000003|Only a six leaved clover!
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000025_000000|"Goodness me!
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000030_000001|Take off those handcuffs, Soldier, for it is impossible for anyone to escape from this house."
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000033_000000|"What name?"
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000035_000000|"Unlucky?
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000035_000001|Ah, that accounts for it," said she.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000043_000003|He cautiously opened one of the doors and found it led into a hallway.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000044_000001|Then she arranged his supper, which proved the most varied and delicious meal Ojo had ever eaten in his life.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000047_000000|"Indeed it is," she replied.
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000049_000000|"Bless the child!
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000049_000001|Of course."
train-other-500/3885/1193/3885_1193_000052_000001|He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000001_000000|Princess Dorothy
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000004_000000|"All right," said Dorothy; "tell him to come right up."
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000006_000000|"Never mind; let 'em all come up," replied Dorothy.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000007_000000|But when the door opened to admit not only the Shaggy Man, but Scraps, the Woozy and the Glass Cat, Dorothy jumped up and looked at her strange visitors in amazement.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000009_000004|But my name is Scraps-and now you know all about me."
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000011_000004|Perhaps you've noticed my different colors.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000014_000003|She told him not to."
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000015_000000|"He only practices magic for the benefit of his own family," explained Bungle, who was keeping at a respectful distance from the little black dog.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000016_000000|"Dear me," said Dorothy; "I hadn't noticed you before.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000018_000001|Come over here and let me see."
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000019_000000|The Glass Cat hesitated, eyeing the dog.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000021_000000|"Beast!
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000021_000002|Toto knows a good many things, too; 'most as much as I do, I guess."
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000025_000001|It's prob'ly brittle and might break if it bumped against anything."
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000029_000000|"He made me," replied the cat; "so I know all about him.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000029_000002|He thinks there's no harm in doing magic things for his own family, and he made me out of glass because the meat cats drink too much milk.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000035_000000|"Don't mention it," said Scraps.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000035_000001|"That's no affair of mine.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000041_000000|Dorothy walked over and patted the Woozy on his square head.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000042_000001|What are you able to do; anything 'special?"
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000043_000000|"I can make my eyes flash fire-real fire-when I'm angry.
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000044_000000|"I don't see as fireworks could help Ojo's uncle," remarked Dorothy. "Can you do anything else?"
train-other-500/3885/1194/3885_1194_000047_000000|"I don't know," she said, shaking her head thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000001_000000|THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE KING'S HEAD
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000003_000000|So the King went out to the sword tree and picked a long, sharp sword, and tied it to his belt and went away to the mountains to fight the Purple Dragon.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000005_000000|"Our King is a good King.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000008_000001|They are by nature thick skinned and tough, as doubtless every one has heard.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000008_000003|So all the King's cutting and slashing had no effect upon the monster other than to make him angry.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000009_000001|So he turned and tried to find his way back to his people.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000012_000000|The people, hearing him speak out of his neck (for he had no mouth), immediately began to laugh, which in a short time led to their being as happy as ever.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000014_000000|"My love," she said to him, "I can not kiss you any more, and that will break my heart."
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000018_000000|According to the royal promise, the young man was now called into the palace and asked to take his pick of the princesses.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000020_000001|So the young man was given the next biggest princess.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000024_000002|This, as you may imagine, made his Majesty look rather undignified, and dignity is very important to every royal personage.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000034_000001|Go home and claim your wife and your kingdom."
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000036_000001|Then the King's head thought: "Who am I bowing to?
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000036_000002|There is no one greater than the King!" And so at once there began a conflict between the wood chopper's heart and the King's head.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000038_000001|All hail, your Majesty!"
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000042_000000|"Here," cried the King's head; "stop this.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000042_000002|The King never weeps."
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000044_000000|"Well, see that you don't," returned the head more cheerfully.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000048_000000|"Probably it is," replied the King; "but it is on another man.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000048_000001|You must confine yourself to kissing my wooden head."
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000051_000001|Finally a happy thought occurred to her.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000054_000000|The wood chopper, however, did not even smile.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000054_000001|He couldn't because of the wooden face.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000055_000000|"Bring hither the princesses," commanded the King.
train-other-500/3885/12149/3885_12149_000055_000001|"This good man shall choose his bride at once, for he has restored to me my own head."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000001_000000|"Oh, mrs Murrett's-was it THERE?"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000003_000000|"I used to pass you on the stairs," she reminded him.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000004_000001|The thought made him steal a longer look.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000005_000000|"But of course you wouldn't remember me," she was saying.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000005_000001|"My name is Viner-Sophy Viner."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000006_000000|Not remember her?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000006_000002|He was genuinely sure of it now. "You're mrs Murrett's niece," he declared.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000007_000000|She shook her head.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000007_000001|"No; not even that.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000007_000002|Only her reader."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000008_000000|"Her reader?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000008_000001|Do you mean to say she ever reads?"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000012_000000|"That I can well believe.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000012_000001|I'm glad to hear," he added, "that you put it all in the past tense."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000013_000001|"Yes.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000013_000002|All is at an end between us.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000014_000000|"Just parted?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000014_000001|Do you mean to say you've been there all this time?"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000015_000000|"Ever since you used to come there to see Lady Ulrica?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000017_000000|She seemed to guess his thought.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000019_000000|"Oh, we never thought anybody came for mrs Murrett!
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000020_000000|"I see."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000022_000001|Were you a cloud of witnesses?"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000023_000001|"Let me see-who was there in your time?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000023_000003|Don't you remember the Polish Countess?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000023_000005|But of course you don't remember.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000023_000006|We were all invisible to you; but we could see.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000023_000007|And we all used to wonder about you----"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000025_000000|"Well-whether it was you or she who..."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000026_000000|He winced, but hid his disapproval.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000026_000001|It made the time pass to listen to her.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000030_000002|"But how could you?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000030_000003|She was false from head to foot!"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000035_000002|Yes-I was envious of Lady Ulrica...Oh, not on account of you or Jimmy Brance!
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000036_000001|Under the flying clouds of her excitement it was no longer a shallow flower cup but a darkening gleaming mirror that might give back strange depths of feeling.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000038_000000|"Good Lord-were you there so long?"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000039_000000|"Five years.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000040_000000|"Well, thank God you're out of it now!"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000041_000000|Again a just perceptible shadow crossed her face.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000041_000001|"Yes-I'm out of it now fast enough."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000046_000000|"It's not, indeed." Real compassion prompted him to continue: "Have you any-any influence you can count on?"
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000047_000000|She gave a somewhat flippant little laugh.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000047_000001|"None but my own.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000047_000002|I've never had any other to count on."
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000048_000000|He passed over the obvious reply.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000048_000001|"But have you any idea how the profession is over crowded?
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000050_000000|"Of course not.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000051_000000|She made no reply for a moment; then she turned a listless glance to the rain beaten window.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000051_000001|"Oughtn't we be starting?" she asked, with a lofty assumption of indifference that might have been Lady Ulrica's.
train-other-500/3885/183973/3885_183973_000056_000001|The fact caused Miss Viner a moment's perturbation; but she promptly adjusted herself to the necessity of proceeding on her journey, and her decision confirmed Darrow's vague resolve to go to Paris instead of retracing his way to London.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000001_000000|It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000001_000002|Anne dropped her flowers and sprang across the kitchen to him at the same moment as Marilla.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000002_000000|"He's fainted," gasped Marilla.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000005_000000|"Oh, Marilla," she said gravely.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000005_000001|"I don't think-we can do anything for him."
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000007_000000|"Child, yes, I'm afraid of it.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000007_000001|Look at his face.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000007_000002|When you've seen that look as often as I have you'll know what it means."
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000009_000002|It contained an account of the failure of the Abbey Bank.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000011_000004|It was the last thing she could do for him.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000014_000000|"Thank you, Diana." Anne looked earnestly into her friend's face.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000014_000001|"I think you won't misunderstand me when I say I want to be alone.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000014_000004|I want to be quite silent and quiet and try to realize it.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000018_000000|"There-there-don't cry so, dearie.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000018_000001|It can't bring him back. It-it-isn't right to cry so.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000019_000001|"The tears don't hurt me like that ache did.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000023_000002|I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000028_000002|I suppose I'd better go and have it over.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000029_000000|"I shall be all right.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000029_000001|Diana will come over for company for me.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000029_000002|I shall attend to the ironing and baking beautifully-you needn't fear that I'll starch the handkerchiefs or flavor the cake with liniment."
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000030_000000|Marilla laughed.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000031_000001|You were always getting into scrapes.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000032_000000|"Yes, indeed.
train-other-500/3885/7167/3885_7167_000032_000006|Marilla, I've almost decided to give up trying to like Josie Pye.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000002|I roused everyone at eight, but it was noon before all the readjustments of load had been made and we were ready to start.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000003|The dogs carried six hundred pounds. of our weight besides the depot (two hundred pounds.).
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000004|It was greatly to my surprise when we-my own party-with a 'one, two, three together' started our sledge, and we found it running fairly easily behind us.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000005|We did the first mile at a rate of about two miles an hour, having previously very carefully scraped and dried our runners.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000006|The day was gloriously fine and we were soon perspiring.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000008|Then the slope got steeper and the surface much worse, and we had to take off our ski.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000009|The pulling after this was extraordinarily fatiguing.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000010|We sank above our finnesko everywhere, and in places nearly to our knees.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000012|All the time they were literally ploughing the snow.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000013|We reached the top of the slope at five, and started on after tea on the down grade.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000014|On this we had to pull almost as hard as on the upward slope, but could just manage to get along on ski.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000016|It appears that Atkinson says that Wright is getting played out and Lashly is not so fit as he was owing to the heavy pulling since the blizzard.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000017|I have not felt satisfied about this party.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000018|The finish of the march to day showed clearly that something was wrong.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000020|True, the surface was awful and growing worse every moment.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000003_000023|p o Evans, of course, is a tower of strength, but Oates and Wilson are doing splendidly also.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000004_000002|Perhaps this wind is a blessing in disguise, already it seems to be hardening the snow.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000004_000003|All this soft snow is an aftermath of our prolonged storm.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000004_000004|Hereabouts Shackleton found hard blue ice.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000004_000006|I take the dogs on for half a day to morrow, then send them home.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000004_000007|We have two hundred pounds. to add to each sledge load and could easily do it on a reasonable surface, but it looks very much as though we shall be forced to relay if present conditions hold.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000004_000008|There is a strong wind down the glacier to night.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000005_000001|Things are not so rosy as they might be, but we keep our spirits up and say the luck must turn.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000005_000002|This is only to tell you that I find I can keep up with the rest as well as of old.'
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000001|A very good day from one point of view, very bad from another.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000003|We pulled on ski and the dogs followed.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000004|I cautioned the drivers to keep close to their sledges and we must have passed over a good many crevasses undiscovered by us, thanks to ski, and by the dogs owing to the soft snow.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000008|Starting about eleven, by three o'clock we were clear of the pressure, and I camped the dogs, discharged our loads, and we put them on our sledges.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000010|Could we pull our full loads or not?
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000011|My own party got away first, and, to my joy, I found we could make fairly good headway.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000012|Every now and again the sledge sank in a soft patch, which brought us up, but we learned to treat such occasions with patience.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000013|We got sideways to the sledge and hauled it out, Evans (p o) getting out of his ski to get better purchase.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000014|The great thing is to keep the sledge moving, and for an hour or more there were dozens of critical moments when it all but stopped, and not a few in it brought up altogether.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000017|I was very jubilant; all difficulties seemed to be vanishing; but unfortunately our history was not repeated with the other parties.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000018|Bowers came up about half an hour after us.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000020|Keohane is the only weak spot, and he only, I think, because blind (temporarily).
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000021|But Evans' party didn't get up till ten.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000006_000022|They started quite well, but got into difficulties, did just the wrong thing by straining again and again, and so, tiring themselves, went from bad to worse.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000007_000000|Just as I thought we were in for making a great score, this difficulty overtakes us-it is dreadfully trying.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000007_000002|Ski are the thing, and here are my tiresome fellow countrymen too prejudiced to have prepared themselves for the event.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000007_000003|The dogs should get back quite easily; there is food all along the line.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000007_000005|To night there is some stratus cloud forming-a hint no more bad weather in sight.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000008_000001|It proved to be a very coarse granite with large crystals of quartz in it.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000008_000002|Evidently the rock of which the pillars of the Gateway and other neighbouring hills are formed.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000009_000006|I really dreaded starting after lunch, but after some trouble to break the sledge out, we went ahead without a hitch, and in a mile or two recovered our leading place with obvious ability to keep it.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000000|It is evident that what I expected has occurred.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000001|The whole of the lower valley is filled with snow from the recent storm, and if we had not had ski we should be hopelessly bogged.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000002|On foot one sinks to the knees, and if pulling on a sledge to half-way between knee and thigh.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000003|It would, therefore, be absolutely impossible to advance on foot with our loads.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000004|Considering all things, we are getting better on ski.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000006|In a week or so I have little doubt it will be strong enough to support sledges and men.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000008|The sledges get bogged every now and again, sinking to the crossbars.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000010_000009|Needless to say, the hauling is terrible when this occurs.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000011_000000|We steered for the Commonwealth Range during the forenoon till we reached about the middle of the glacier.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000011_000002|Observing this, I altered course for the 'Cloudmaker' and later still farther to the west.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000011_000003|We must be getting a much better view of the southern side of the main glacier than Shackleton got, and consequently have observed a number of peaks which he did not notice.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000011_000006|I do not think the glacier can be so broad as s shows it.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000011_000009|There is also a very remarkable difference in temperature between day and night.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000003|Therefore, as the pullers got on the hard patches they slipped back.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000004|The sledges plunged into the soft places and stopped dead.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000006|During lunch I decided to try the ten-feet runners under the crossbars and we spent three hours in securing them.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000007|There was no delay on account of the slow progress of the other parties.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000009|The sun was shining on the surface by this time, and the temperature high.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000010|Bowers started after Evans, and it was easy to see the really terrible state of affairs with them.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000012|When we got away we soon discovered how awful the surface had become; added to the forenoon difficulties the snow had become wet and sticky.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000013|We got our load along, soon passing Bowers, but the toil was simply awful.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000015|Again and again the sledge got one runner on harder snow than the other, canted on its side, and refused to move.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000016|At the top of the rise I found Evans reduced to relay work, and Bowers followed his example soon after.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000012_000017|We got our whole load through till seven p m, camping time, but only with repeated halts and labour which was altogether too strenuous.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000013_000002|As far as the Cloudmaker the valley looks like a huge basin for the lodgement of such snow as this.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000013_000006|Two skuas came round the camp at lunch, no doubt attracted by our 'Shambles' camp.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000014_000001|Indigestion and the soggy condition of my clothes kept me awake for some time last night, and the exceptional exercise gives bad attacks of cramp.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000014_000002|Our lips are getting raw and blistered.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000014_000003|The eyes of the party are improving, I am glad to say.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000014_000004|We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000002|After the first two hundred yards my own party came on with a swing that told me at once that all would be well.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000006|However, we all lunched together after a satisfactory morning's work.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000010|The result is we are pretty cold and clammy now, but escape from the soft snow and a good march compensate every discomfort.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000012|To night the sky is overcast and wind has been blowing up the glacier.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000013|I think there will be another spell of gloomy weather on the Barrier, and the question is whether this part of the glacier escapes.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000014|There are crevasses about, one about eighteen inches across outside Bowers' tent, and a narrower one outside our own.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000015|I think the soft snow trouble is at an end, and I could wish nothing better than a continuance of the present surface.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000016|Towards the end of the march we were pulling our loads with the greatest ease.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000015_000017|It is splendid to be getting along and to find some adequate return for the work we are putting into the business.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000016_000003|We keep up and overhaul either without difficulty.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000016_000004|It was an enormous relief yesterday to get steady going without involuntary stops, but yesterday and this morning, once the sledge was stopped, it was very difficult to start again-the runners got temporarily stuck.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000016_000006|This is a second relief for which we are most grateful.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000017_000002|We could see nothing, and the pulling grew very heavy.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000018_000001|Pray heaven we are not going to have this wretched snow in the worst part of the glacier to come.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000018_000002|The lower part of this glacier is not very interesting, except from an ice point of view.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000018_000003|Except Mount Kyffen, little bare rock is visible, and its structure at this distance is impossible to determine.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000018_000004|There are no moraines on the surface of the glacier either.
train-other-500/3894/6552/3894_6552_000018_000007|The ice falls descending over the northern sides are almost continuous one with another, but the southern steep faces are nearly bare; evidently the sun gets a good hold on them.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000000_000002|At present one gets terrible hot and perspiring on the march, and quickly cold when halted, but the sun makes up for all evils.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000000_000004|Everyone is very satisfied with our summit ration.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000000_000005|The party which has been man hauling for so long say they are far less hungry than they used to be.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000001_000005|After two hours of this I saw a larger wave, the crest of which continued hard ice up the glacier; we reached this and got excellent travelling for two miles on it, then rose on a steep gradient, and so topped the pressure ridge.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000001_000006|The smooth ice is again lost and we have patches of hard and soft snow with ice peeping out in places, cracks in all directions, and legs very frequently down.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000001_000007|We have done very nearly five miles (geo.).
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000002_000004|This has put Mount Hope in the background and shows us more of the upper reaches.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000002_000006|For once one can say 'sufficient for the day is the good thereof.' Our luck may be on the turn-I think we deserve it.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000002_000007|In spite of the hard work everyone is very fit and very cheerful, feeling well fed and eager for more toil.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000002_000008|Eyes are much better except poor Wilson's; he has caught a very bad attack.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000002_000009|Remembering his trouble on our last Southern journey, I fear he is in for a very bad time.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000004_000001|We cover them with the soft silk plaster which seems about the best thing for the purpose.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000005_000000|I'm inclined to think that the summit trouble will be mostly due to the chill falling on sunburned skins.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000005_000001|Even now one feels the cold strike directly one stops.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000005_000002|We get fearfully thirsty and chip up ice on the march, as well as drinking a great deal of water on halting.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000005_000003|Our fuel only just does it, but that is all we want, and we have a bit in hand for the summit.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000006_000001|We have worn our crampons all day and are delighted with them.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000006_000003|The weather is beginning to look dirty again, snow clouds rolling in from the east as usual.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000006_000004|I believe it will be overcast to morrow.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000007_000001|Lunch nearly four thousand feet above Barrier.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000007_000004|We got on a slope which made matters worse.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000007_000007|Wright has found, amongst bits of wind blown debris, an undoubted bit of sandstone and a bit of black basalt.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000007_000009|This morning all our gear was fringed with ice crystals which looked very pretty.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000000|Afternoon.--(Night camp no forty, about four thousand five hundred above Barrier.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000005|Later, the glacier opened out into a broad basin with irregular undulations, and we on to a better surface, but later on again this improvement nearly vanished, so that it has been hard going all day, but we have done a good mileage (over fourteen stat.).
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000006|We are less than five days behind s now.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000007|There was a promise of a clearance about noon, but later more snow clouds drifted over from the east, and now it is snowing again.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000008|We have scarcely caught a gimpse of the eastern side of the glacier all day.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000010|It is very annoying, but I suppose we must be thankful when we can get our marches off.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000008_000011|Still sweating horribly on the march and very thirsty at the halts.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000009_000002|Camp forty one.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000009_000003|Things are looking up.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000009_000004|Started on good surface, soon came to very annoying criss cross cracks.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000009_000007|Seemingly close about us are the various land masses which adjoin the summit: it looks as though we might have difficulties in the last narrows.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000009_000008|We are having a long lunch hour for angles, photographs, and sketches.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000009_000009|The slight south westerly wind came down the glacier as we started, and the sky, which was overcast, has rapidly cleared in consequence.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000010_000000|Night.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000010_000001|Height about five thousand eight hundred.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000010_000002|Camp forty one.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000010_000004|It has not been a strain, except perhaps for me with my wounds received early in the day.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000010_000008|Days like this put heart in one.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000011_000001|six thousand five hundred feet about.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000011_000003|With an afternoon to follow we should do well to day; the wind has been coming up the valley.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000011_000005|We marched on till nearly seven o'clock after a long lunch halt, and covered nineteen and a half geo. miles, nearly twenty three (stat.), rising eight hundred feet.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000011_000007|Pulling the sledges in crampons is no difficulty at all.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000011_000008|At lunch Wilson and Bowers walked back two miles or so to try and find Bowers' broken sledgemeter, without result.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000011_000012|We must be ahead of Shackleton's position on the seventeenth.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000012_000002|I dread this necessity of choosing-nothing could be more heartrending.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000012_000006|After all our harassing trouble one cannot but be satisfied with such a prospect.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000013_000005|Height about eight thousand feet.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000013_000006|Upon Glacier Depot.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000013_000009|We all had falls into them, Atkinson and Teddy Evans going down the length of their harness.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000014_000002|Then the sun began to struggle through and we were off.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000014_000005|We have done a good march, risen to a satisfactory altitude, and reached a good place for our depot.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000014_000006|To morrow we start with our fullest summit load, and the first march should show us the possibilities of our achievement.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000014_000007|The temperature has dropped below zero, but to night it is so calm and bright that one feels delightfully warm and comfortable in the tent.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000015_000000|We have risen a great height to day and I hope it will not be necessary to go down again, but it looks as though we must dip a bit even to go to the south-west.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000016_000003|The weather is a constant anxiety, otherwise arrangements are working exactly as planned.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000017_000000|'For your own ear also, I am exceedingly fit and can go with the best of them.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000018_000000|'It is a pity the luck doesn't come our way, because every detail of equipment is right.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000019_000000|'I write this sitting in our tent waiting for the fog to clear-an exasperating position as we are in the worst crevassed region.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000019_000001|Teddy Evans and Atkinson were down to the length of their harness this morning, and we have all been half-way down.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000019_000002|As first man I get first chance, and it's decidedly exciting not knowing which step will give way.
train-other-500/3894/6553/3894_6553_000020_000002|We ought to get through.'
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000001_000001|If I was astonished to see her, she was as much so in meeting me in such a place.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000003_000000|"You here?
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000003_000001|It reminds me of Queen Elizabeth saying,
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000006_000000|"I am only joking, my dear friend; I am here to see the king, who does not know me; but to morrow the ambassador will present me to his majesty."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000007_000002|But she very likely did not take his fancy, for, continuing to walk on, he addressed to the marshal these remarkable words, which Juliette must have overheard,
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000008_000000|"We have handsomer women here."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000009_000000|In the afternoon I called upon the Venetian ambassador.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000009_000001|I found him in numerous company, with Madame Querini sitting on his right.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000011_000000|"I was not aware of your marriage."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000017_000000|"What news?"
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000019_000000|"Who told you so?"
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000020_000000|"She did."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000021_000000|"Perhaps she has altered her mind."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000024_000001|Juliette left Fontainebleau the next morning.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000025_000000|In the first part of my Memoirs I have spoken of Juliette's beauty; she had a wonderful charm in her countenance, but she had already used her advantages too long, and her beauty was beginning to fade when she arrived in Fontainebleau.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000026_000002|I often called on her, for her intrigues amused me, but I was wise enough not to meddle with them.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000027_000001|He was so deeply in love that he had made up his mind to marry her; but through a caprice which she, perhaps, regretted afterwards, she ill treated him, and the fool died of grief.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000027_000004|He was particularly ugly, and had to purchase small favours with great services.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000028_000001|He would have married her if she had not given him false addresses to make enquiries respecting her birth.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000028_000003|Altogether, Paris did not prove an 'el dorado' for my handsome countrywoman, for she was obliged to pledge her diamonds, and to leave them behind her.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000028_000004|After her return to Venice she married the son of the Uccelli, who sixteen years before had taken her out of her poverty.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000028_000005|She died ten years ago.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000031_000001|Foolishly translating an Italian idiom, I asked her, with an air of deep interest, whether she had well 'decharge'?
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000032_000000|"Sir, what a question!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000032_000001|You are unbearable."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000034_000000|"Never utter that dreadful word."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000035_000000|"You are wrong in getting angry; it is the proper word."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000036_000000|"A very dirty word, sir, but enough about it.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000037_000000|"No, I thank you.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000038_000000|"Dear me!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000038_000001|What a ferocious breakfast!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000038_000002|Pray, explain yourself."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000039_000000|"I say that I have drunk a cafe and eaten two Savoyards soaked in it, and that is what I do every morning."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000040_000000|"You are stupid, my good friend.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000041_000000|"Good indeed!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000041_000002|In Italy we say a 'caffs', and we are not foolish enough to suppose that it means the coffee house."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000042_000000|"He will have the best of it!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000044_000000|"And you call these 'Savoyards'?
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000044_000001|Say biscuits."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000045_000000|"In Italy, we call them 'Savoyards' because they were first invented in Savoy; and it is not my fault if you imagined that I had swallowed two of the porters to be found at the corner of the streets-big fellows whom you call in Paris Savoyards, although very often they have never been in Savoy."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000046_000002|I had given her five or six lessons in Italian, and as she was very fond of that language and studied diligently she was beginning to speak.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000047_000000|Wishing to pay me her compliments in Italian, she said to me,
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000052_000001|I took a book sulkily, in the hope of putting a stop to their mirth, but it was of no use: it lasted a week.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000052_000002|That uncouth blunder soon got known throughout Paris, and gave me a sort of reputation which I lost little by little, but only when I understood the double meanings of words better.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000052_000003|Crebillon was much amused with my blunder, and he told me that I ought to have said after instead of behind.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000052_000005|But if the French laughed at my mistakes in speaking their language, I took my revenge amply by turning some of their idioms into ridicule.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000053_000000|"Sir," I once said to a gentleman, "how is your wife?"
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000054_000000|"You do her great honour, sir."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000056_000000|I meet in the Bois de Boulogne a young man riding a horse which he cannot master, and at last he is thrown.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000056_000001|I stop the horse, run to the assistance of the young man and help him up.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000057_000000|"Did you hurt yourself, sir?"
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000059_000000|"Why au contraire!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000059_000001|The deuce!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000059_000002|It has done you good?
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000059_000003|Then begin again, sir."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000060_000000|And a thousand similar expressions entirely the reverse of good sense. But it is the genius of the language.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000063_000000|"Sir, when I saw you, I was near making the same mistake; I would have betted you were Italian."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000064_000000|Another time, I was dining at Lady Lambert's in numerous and brilliant company.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000064_000001|Someone remarked on my finger a cornelian ring on which was engraved very beautifully the head of Louis the fifteenth.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000066_000000|"It is truly an antique?"
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000067_000000|"The stone, madam, undoubtedly."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000070_000000|We got into the carriages, and reached the fair.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000070_000001|We took several turns before we could find the place.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000070_000002|I was the only gentleman; I was taking care of two ladies in the midst of the crowd, and the witty marquise was walking in front of us.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000070_000004|It is true that the man, dressed in the African fashion, was very dark and enormously stout, yet he had a human and very masculine form, and the beautiful marquise had no business to make a mistake.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000071_000000|"Are you the rhinoceros, sir?"
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000072_000000|"Go in, madam, go in."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000074_000000|One evening I was in the foyer of the Italian Comedy, where between the acts the highest noblemen were in the habit of coming, in order to converse and joke with the actresses who used to sit there waiting for their turn to appear on the stage, and I was seated near Camille, Coraline's sister, whom I amused by making love to her.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000074_000002|I was answering him in an indirect way, looking all the time at Camille, who was laughing.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000074_000003|Everybody had congregated around us and was attentive to the discussion, which, being carried on as an assault of wit, had nothing to make it unpleasant.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000075_000000|But it seemed to take a serious turn when the young fop, turning the conversation on the police of the city, said that for some time it had been dangerous to walk alone at night through the streets of Paris.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000076_000001|An extraordinary circumstance."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000077_000001|Five times twelve are sixty; so you see that it is only a fair exchange."
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000078_000000|The laughter was all on my side, and the fine councillor went away rather crestfallen.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000078_000001|One of the gentlemen present at the discussion, finding my answer to his taste, came up to Camille, and asked her in a whisper who I was.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000078_000002|We got acquainted at once.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000079_000002|I mentioned my brother to him, and he graciously promised to protect him.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000079_000003|Another young nobleman, who conversed with me, invited me to visit him.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000079_000004|It was the Duke de Matalona.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000080_000000|I told him that I had seen him, then only a child, eight years before in Naples, and that I was under great obligations to his uncle, Don Lelio. The young duke was delighted, and we became intimate friends.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000081_000002|He immediately set to work with great diligence.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000083_000001|Two years after his arrival in Paris he fell in love with Madame de Colande, and, finding it impossible to win her affections, he killed himself.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000084_000001|The people want to be free; it is a noble ambition, for mankind are not made to be the slaves of one man; but with a nation populous, great, witty, and giddy, what will be the end of that revolution?
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000084_000002|Time alone can tell us.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000085_000000|The Duke de Matalona procured me the acquaintance of the two princes, Don Marc Antoine and Don Jean Baptiste Borghese, from Rome, who were enjoying themselves in Paris, yet living without display.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000085_000002|It was the same with the Russian princes, to whom the title of prince was refused when they wanted to be presented; they were called "knees," but they did not mind it, because that word meant prince.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000085_000005|The king likewise affected to know a nobleman only when his name was inscribed amongst those who served him.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000086_000002|Nevertheless, Louis the fifteenth. was very polite, particularly with ladies, even with his mistresses, when in public.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000086_000003|Whoever failed in respect towards them in the slightest manner was sure of disgrace, and no king ever possessed to a greater extent the grand royal virtue which is called dissimulation.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000086_000004|He kept a secret faithfully, and he was delighted when he knew that no one but himself possessed it.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000088_000000|Louis the fifteenth. was great in all things, and he would have had no faults if flattery had not forced them upon him.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000088_000001|But how could he possibly have supposed himself faulty in anything when everyone around him repeated constantly that he was the best of kings?
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000088_000003|Sad destiny of kings!
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000090_000002|She was the mistress of Lord Albemarle, the English ambassador, a witty and very generous nobleman.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000090_000003|One evening he complained of his mistress praising the beauty of the stars which were shining brightly over her head, saying that she ought to know he could not give them to her.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000090_000005|There is no doubt that the harmony between two nations depends very often upon their respective ambassadors, when there is any danger of a rupture.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000091_000001|She was fit in every way to become his wife, and the highest families of France did not think that she needed the title of Lady Albemarle to be received with distinction; no lady considered it debasing to sit near her, although she was well known as the mistress of the English lord.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000091_000002|She had passed from her mother's arms to those of Lord Albemarle at the age of thirteen, and her conduct was always of the highest respectability.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000091_000004|I shall have to mention her again in my Memoirs.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000092_000002|She was accompanied by her eldest daughter-a young girl of twelve years, who, notwithstanding her youth, carried on her beautiful face all the signs of perfection.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000093_000000|She is now living in Venice, the widow of Count de Rosenberg, who died in Venice ambassador of the Empress Queen Maria Theresa.
train-other-500/3895/6855/3895_6855_000093_000002|No one can accuse her of any fault, except that of being poor, but she feels it only because it does not allow her to be as charitable as she might wish.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000003_000000|Although, to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that time that hope is strongest or the spirit most sanguine and buoyant.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000003_000001|In trying and doubtful positions, youth, custom, a steady contemplation of the difficulties which surround us, and a familiarity with them, imperceptibly diminish our apprehensions and beget comparative indifference, if not a vague and reckless confidence in some relief, the means or nature of which we care not to foresee.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000003_000004|Distances stretch out before him which, last night, were scarcely taken into account, and the light which gilds all nature with its cheerful beams, seems but to shine upon the weary obstacles that yet lie strewn between him and the grave.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000005_000000|And, even now, as he paced the streets, and listlessly looked round on the gradually increasing bustle and preparation for the day, everything appeared to yield him some new occasion for despondency.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000005_000001|Last night, the sacrifice of a young, affectionate, and beautiful creature, to such a wretch, and in such a cause, had seemed a thing too monstrous to succeed; and the warmer he grew, the more confident he felt that some interposition must save her from his clutches.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000006_000001|By dint of reflecting on what he had to do, and reviving the train of thought which night had interrupted, Nicholas gradually summoned up his utmost energy, and when the morning was sufficiently advanced for his purpose, had no thought but that of using it to the best advantage.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000006_000002|A hasty breakfast taken, and such affairs of business as required prompt attention disposed of, he directed his steps to the residence of Madeline Bray: whither he lost no time in arriving.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000007_000000|It had occurred to him that, very possibly, the young lady might be denied, although to him she never had been; and he was still pondering upon the surest method of obtaining access to her in that case, when, coming to the door of the house, he found it had been left ajar-probably by the last person who had gone out.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000007_000001|The occasion was not one upon which to observe the nicest ceremony; therefore, availing himself of this advantage, Nicholas walked gently upstairs and knocked at the door of the room into which he had been accustomed to be shown. Receiving permission to enter, from some person on the other side, he opened the door and walked in.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000008_000001|It was nearly three weeks since he had seen her last, but there was a change in the lovely girl before him which told Nicholas, in startling terms, how much mental suffering had been compressed into that short time.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000008_000005|Most beautiful-more beautiful, perhaps, than ever-there was something in her face which quite unmanned him, and appeared far more touching than the wildest agony of grief.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000009_000001|The drawing materials were not on their accustomed table, nor were any of the other tokens of her usual occupations to be seen.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000009_000002|The little vases which Nicholas had always seen filled with fresh flowers were empty, or supplied only with a few withered stalks and leaves.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000009_000003|The bird was silent.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000009_000004|The cloth that covered his cage at night was not removed.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000009_000005|His mistress had forgotten him.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000010_000000|There are times when, the mind being painfully alive to receive impressions, a great deal may be noted at a glance.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000011_000000|'Now, sir, what do you want?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000011_000002|Come, sir, address yourself to your business at once.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000012_000000|Nicholas could very well discern that the irritability and impatience of this speech were assumed, and that Bray, in his heart, was rejoiced at any interruption which promised to engage the attention of his daughter. He bent his eyes involuntarily upon the father as he spoke, and marked his uneasiness; for he coloured and turned his head away.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000013_000000|The device, however, so far as it was a device for causing Madeline to interfere, was successful.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000015_000000|'Miss Bray expects an inclosure perhaps,' said Nicholas, speaking very distinctly, and with an emphasis she could scarcely misunderstand.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000019_000000|'I have not thought about it,' returned Nicholas.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000020_000000|'You have not thought about it!' sneered the invalid.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000020_000001|'You know you HAVE thought about it, and have thought that, and think so every time you come here.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000020_000002|Do you suppose, young man, that I don't know what little purse proud tradesmen are, when, through some fortunate circumstances, they get the upper hand for a brief day-or think they get the upper hand-of a gentleman?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000021_000000|'My business,' said Nicholas respectfully, 'is with a lady.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000022_000002|Have you any fresh ORDERS for my daughter, sir?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000023_000000|Nicholas understood the tone of triumph in which this interrogatory was put; but remembering the necessity of supporting his assumed character, produced a scrap of paper purporting to contain a list of some subjects for drawings which his employer desired to have executed; and with which he had prepared himself in case of any such contingency.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000024_000000|'Oh!' said Mr Bray. 'These are the orders, are they?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000025_000000|'Since you insist upon the term, sir, yes,' replied Nicholas.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000027_000000|'And this is the independence of a man who sells his daughter as he has sold that weeping girl!' thought Nicholas.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000029_000001|I have no orders, but I have fears-fears that I will express, chafe as you may-fears that you may be consigning that young lady to something worse than supporting you by the labour of her hands, had she worked herself dead.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000029_000003|Your conscience will tell you, sir, whether I construe it well or not.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000030_000000|'For Heaven's sake!' cried Madeline, interposing in alarm between them. 'Remember, sir, he is ill.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000031_000000|'Ill!' cried the invalid, gasping and catching for breath.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000031_000001|'Ill!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000031_000003|I am bearded and bullied by a shop boy, and she beseeches him to pity me and remember I am ill!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000032_000000|He fell into a paroxysm of his disorder, so violent that for a few moments Nicholas was alarmed for his life; but finding that he began to recover, he withdrew, after signifying by a gesture to the young lady that he had something important to communicate, and would wait for her outside the room.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000034_000000|'You are charged with some commission to me, sir,' said Madeline, presenting herself in great agitation.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000034_000001|'Do not press it now, I beg and pray you.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000035_000001|Oh, madam, if you have but one thought of him who sent me here, but one last lingering care for your own peace of mind and heart, I do for God's sake urge you to give me a hearing.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000036_000000|She attempted to pass him, but Nicholas gently detained her.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000037_000001|'I ask you but to hear me: not me alone, but him for whom I speak, who is far away and does not know your danger.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000038_000000|The poor attendant, with her eyes swollen and red with weeping, stood by; and to her Nicholas appealed in such passionate terms that she opened a side door, and, supporting her mistress into an adjoining room, beckoned Nicholas to follow them.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000041_000000|'What course is this you speak of, and impelled by whom, sir?' demanded the young lady, with an effort to speak proudly.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000042_000000|'I speak of this marriage,' returned Nicholas, 'of this marriage, fixed for tomorrow, by one who never faltered in a bad purpose, or lent his aid to any good design; of this marriage, the history of which is known to me, better, far better, than it is to you.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000042_000001|I know what web is wound about you.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000045_000002|Report this,' said Madeline, 'to my dear friend and benefactor, and, taking with you my prayers and thanks for him and for yourself, leave me for ever!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000046_000000|'Not until I have besought you, with all the earnestness and fervour by which I am animated,' cried Nicholas, 'to postpone this marriage for one short week.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000046_000005|Suffer toil and labour if you will, but shun him, shun him, and be happy.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000046_000006|For, believe me, I speak the truth; the most abject poverty, the most wretched condition of human life, with a pure and upright mind, would be happiness to that which you must undergo as the wife of such a man as this!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000047_000000|Long before Nicholas ceased to speak, the young lady buried her face in her hands, and gave her tears free way.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000047_000001|In a voice at first inarticulate with emotion, but gradually recovering strength as she proceeded, she answered him:
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000001|I do NOT love this gentleman.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000002|The difference between our ages, tastes, and habits, forbids it.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000003|This he knows, and knowing, still offers me his hand.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000004|By accepting it, and by that step alone, I can release my father who is dying in this place; prolong his life, perhaps, for many years; restore him to comfort-I may almost call it affluence; and relieve a generous man from the burden of assisting one, by whom, I grieve to say, his noble heart is little understood.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000006|Do not report so ill of me, for THAT I could not bear.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000007|If I cannot, in reason or in nature, love the man who pays this price for my poor hand, I can discharge the duties of a wife: I can be all he seeks in me, and will. He is content to take me as I am.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000008|I have passed my word, and should rejoice, not weep, that it is so.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000009|I do.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000010|The interest you take in one so friendless and forlorn as I, the delicacy with which you have discharged your trust, the faith you have kept with me, have my warmest thanks: and, while I make this last feeble acknowledgment, move me to tears, as you see.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000011|But I do not repent, nor am I unhappy.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000012|I am happy in the prospect of all I can achieve so easily.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000048_000013|I shall be more so when I look back upon it, and all is done, I know.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000049_000001|Defer this marriage for a week.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000050_000001|His eye grew bright, and his face lightened at the thought.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000050_000002|I will not defer it for an hour.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000051_000000|'These are but tricks and wiles to urge you on,' cried Nicholas.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000052_000002|Some time hence, when I am more composed and reconciled to my new mode of life, if I should live so long, I will write to him.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000052_000003|Meantime, all holy angels shower blessings on his head, and prosper and preserve him.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000054_000000|'There is no retreat,' said Nicholas, in an agony of supplication; 'no withdrawing!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000054_000001|All regret will be unavailing, and deep and bitter it must be.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000054_000002|What can I say, that will induce you to pause at this last moment? What can I do to save you?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000055_000000|'Nothing,' she incoherently replied.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000055_000001|'This is the hardest trial I have had.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000055_000002|Have mercy on me, sir, I beseech, and do not pierce my heart with such appeals as these.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000055_000004|I-I-must not, will not, remain here for another instant.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000057_000001|It is impossible; it is a child's tale.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000057_000002|Time would bring his death.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000058_000000|'It may be the last time we shall ever meet on earth,' said Nicholas, 'it may be better for me that we should never meet more.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000059_000000|'For both, for both,' replied Madeline, not heeding what she said.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000059_000002|Be sure to tell them, that you left me calm and happy.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000059_000003|And God be with you, sir, and my grateful heart and blessing!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000060_000000|She was gone.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000060_000001|Nicholas, staggering from the house, thought of the hurried scene which had just closed upon him, as if it were the phantom of some wild, unquiet dream.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000060_000002|The day wore on; at night, having been enabled in some measure to collect his thoughts, he issued forth again.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000061_000000|That night, being the last of Arthur Gride's bachelorship, found him in tiptop spirits and great glee.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000061_000001|The bottle green suit had been brushed, ready for the morrow.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000062_000001|'Well a day now, this is all my library, but it's one of the most entertaining books that were ever written!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000062_000002|It's a delightful book, and all true and real-that's the best of it-true as the Bank of England, and real as its gold and silver.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000062_000006|It's composed for private circulation, for my own particular reading, and nobody else's.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000063_000000|Muttering this soliloquy, Arthur carried his precious volume to the table, and, adjusting it upon a dusty desk, put on his spectacles, and began to pore among the leaves.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000064_000001|One thousand, four hundred and seventy five pounds, four shillings, and threepence, tomorrow at twelve o'clock.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000064_000002|On the other side, though, there's the PER CONTRA, by means of this pretty chick.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000064_000003|But, again, there's the question whether I mightn't have brought all this about, myself.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000064_000004|"Faint heart never won fair lady." Why was my heart so faint?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000065_000000|These reflections depressed the old usurer so much, as to wring a feeble groan or two from his breast, and cause him to declare, with uplifted hands, that he would die in a workhouse.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000066_000000|'Aha, Peg!' said Arthur, 'what is it?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000066_000001|What is it now, Peg?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000067_000001|Quite a phenomenon of a fowl.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000067_000002|So very small and skinny.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000068_000002|There'll only be she and me-and you, Peg, when we've done.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000069_000000|'Don't you complain of the expense afterwards,' said Mrs Sliderskew, sulkily.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000070_000000|'I am afraid we must live expensively for the first week,' returned Arthur, with a groan, 'and then we must make up for it.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000070_000001|I won't eat more than I can help, and I know you love your old master too much to eat more than YOU can help, don't you, Peg?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000071_000000|'Don't I what?' said Peg.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000072_000000|'Love your old master too much-'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000073_000000|'No, not a bit too much,' said Peg.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000074_000000|'Oh, dear, I wish the devil had this woman!' cried Arthur: 'love him too much to eat more than you can help at his expense.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000075_000000|'At his what?' said Peg.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000077_000000|The last mentioned tribute to the charms of Mrs Sliderskew being uttered in a whisper, that lady assented to the general proposition by a harsh growl, which was accompanied by a ring at the street door.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000078_000000|'There's the bell,' said Arthur.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000081_000000|'Go where?' retorted Peg.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000081_000001|'I ain't doing any harm here, am I?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000083_000001|'What it means I don't quite know; but, if it lasts, we shan't agree together long I see.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000083_000002|You are turning crazy, I think.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000083_000003|If you are, you must take yourself off, Mrs Peg-or be taken off.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000083_000004|All's one to me.' Turning over the leaves of his book as he muttered this, he soon lighted upon something which attracted his attention, and forgot Peg Sliderskew and everything else in the engrossing interest of its pages.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000085_000000|'Thieves!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000085_000002|'Robbers!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000085_000003|Murder!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000089_000000|'Yes, yes,' cried Arthur Gride, shading his eyes with his hand, 'it is a man, and not a spirit.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000089_000001|It is a man.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000089_000002|Robbers! robbers!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000090_000000|'For what are these cries raised?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000090_000001|Unless indeed you know me, and have some purpose in your brain?' said the stranger, coming close up to him. 'I am no thief.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000092_000001|'I came here, because I was shown the way by your servant.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000093_000001|This, however, he declined.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000094_000000|'Good God!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000095_000001|'Who said I was?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000095_000002|How do you know that?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000096_000000|'No matter how,' replied Nicholas, 'I know it.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000096_000001|The young lady who is to give you her hand hates and despises you.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000096_000002|Her blood runs cold at the mention of your name; the vulture and the lamb, the rat and the dove, could not be worse matched than you and she.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000096_000003|You see I know her.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000098_000001|You do.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000098_000002|A lie is trembling on your lips, I see.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000099_000000|He paused; but, Arthur making no reply, resumed again.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000100_000000|'You pay yourself by defrauding her.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000100_000001|How or by what means-for I scorn to sully her cause by falsehood or deceit-I do not know; at present I do not know, but I am not alone or single handed in this business.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000100_000002|If the energy of man can compass the discovery of your fraud and treachery before your death; if wealth, revenge, and just hatred, can hunt and track you through your windings; you will yet be called to a dear account for this.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000100_000003|We are on the scent already; judge you, who know what we do not, when we shall have you down!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000101_000000|He paused again, and still Arthur Gride glared upon him in silence.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000102_000002|Remember the danger to which you are exposed.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000102_000003|You see I know enough to know much more with very little help.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000102_000004|Bate some expected gain for the risk you save, and say what is your price.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000103_000000|Old Arthur Gride moved his lips, but they only formed an ugly smile and were motionless again.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000104_000000|'You think,' said Nicholas, 'that the price would not be paid.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000104_000002|Name your price, defer these nuptials for but a few days, and see whether those I speak of, shrink from the payment.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000104_000003|Do you hear me?'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000105_000000|When Nicholas began, Arthur Gride's impression was, that Ralph Nickleby had betrayed him; but, as he proceeded, he felt convinced that however he had come by the knowledge he possessed, the part he acted was a genuine one, and that with Ralph he had no concern.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000105_000002|As to the fraud on Madeline herself, his visitor knew so little about its nature or extent, that it might be a lucky guess, or a hap hazard accusation.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000105_000003|Whether or no, he had clearly no key to the mystery, and could not hurt him who kept it close within his own breast.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000107_000000|'I hear you,' he cried, starting from his seat, casting back the fastenings of the window shutters, and throwing up the sash.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000107_000002|Help!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000108_000000|'What are you doing?' said Nicholas, seizing him by the arm.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000110_000000|'Wretch!' cried Nicholas.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000001|'You, the disappointed lover?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000002|Oh dear!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000005|But you shan't have her, nor she you.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000006|She's my wife, my doting little wife.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000007|Do you think she'll miss you?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000008|Do you think she'll weep?
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000111_000010|She looks prettier in tears.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000114_000000|'You hound!' said Nicholas.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000114_000001|'If you were but a younger man-'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000115_000001|To be jilted by little Madeline for me!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000116_000000|'Hear me,' said Nicholas, 'and be thankful I have enough command over myself not to fling you into the street, which no aid could prevent my doing if I once grappled with you.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000117_000000|'I'll ask it for all that.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000118_000000|This taunt brought such an expression into the face of Nicholas, that Arthur Gride plainly apprehended it to be the forerunner of his putting his threat of throwing him into the street in immediate execution; for he thrust his head out of the window, and holding tight on with both hands, raised a pretty brisk alarm.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000119_000001|'She'll little think I know about him; and, if I manage it well, I can break her spirit by this means and have her under my thumb.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000119_000002|I'm glad nobody came.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000119_000003|I didn't call too loud.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000119_000004|The audacity to enter my house, and open upon me!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000119_000006|I shouldn't wonder!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000119_000007|That would make it quite complete, that would: quite.'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000122_000000|'Top bolt,' muttered Arthur, fastening as he spoke, 'bottom bolt, chain, bar, double lock, and key out to put under my pillow!
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000122_000001|So, if any more rejected admirers come, they may come through the keyhole.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000122_000002|And now I'll go to sleep till half past five, when I must get up to be married, Peg!'
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000123_000000|With that, he jocularly tapped Mrs Sliderskew under the chin, and appeared, for the moment, inclined to celebrate the close of his bachelor days by imprinting a kiss on her shrivelled lips.
train-other-500/3896/134415/3896_134415_000123_000001|Thinking better of it, however, he gave her chin another tap, in lieu of that warmer familiarity, and stole away to bed.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000001_000000|When she woke the next morning she felt a great lightness of heart.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000001_000002|Now Darrow was once more under the same roof with her, and once more his nearness sufficed to make the looming horror drop away.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000001_000003|She could almost have smiled at her scruples of the night before: as she looked back on them they seemed to belong to the old ignorant timorous time when she had feared to look life in the face, and had been blind to the mysteries and contradictions of the human heart because her own had not been revealed to her.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000001_000004|Darrow had said: "You were made to feel everything"; and to feel was surely better than to judge.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000002_000000|When she came downstairs he was already in the oak room with Effie and Madame de Chantelle, and the sense of reassurance which his presence gave her was merged in the relief of not being able to speak of what was between them.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000002_000001|But there it was, inevitably, and whenever they looked at each other they saw it.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000002_000002|In her dread of giving it a more tangible shape she tried to devise means of keeping the little girl with her, and, when the latter had been called away by the nurse, found an excuse for following Madame de Chantelle upstairs to the purple sitting room.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000002_000003|But a confidential talk with Madame de Chantelle implied the detailed discussion of plans of which Anna could hardly yet bear to consider the vaguest outline: the date of her marriage, the relative advantages of sailing from London or Lisbon, the possibility of hiring a habitable house at their new post; and, when these problems were exhausted, the application of the same method to the subject of Owen's future.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000003_000000|His grandmother, having no suspicion of the real reason of Sophy Viner's departure, had thought it "extremely suitable" of the young girl to withdraw to the shelter of her old friends' roof in the hour of bridal preparation.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000003_000001|This maidenly retreat had in fact impressed Madame de Chantelle so favourably that she was disposed for the first time to talk over Owen's projects; and as every human event translated itself for her into terms of social and domestic detail, Anna had perforce to travel the same round again.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000003_000002|She felt a momentary relief when Darrow presently joined them; but his coming served only to draw the conversation back to the question of their own future, and Anna felt a new pang as she heard him calmly and lucidly discussing it.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000003_000003|Did such self possession imply indifference or insincerity?
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000003_000004|In that problem her mind perpetually revolved; and she dreaded the one answer as much as the other.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000004_000000|She was resolved to keep on her course as though nothing had happened: to marry Darrow and never let the consciousness of the past intrude itself between them; but she was beginning to feel that the only way of attaining to this state of detachment from the irreparable was once for all to turn back with him to its contemplation.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000004_000003|During their excursion Anna found it impossible to guess from his demeanour if Effie's presence between them was as much of a strain to his composure as to hers.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000004_000004|He remained imperturbably good humoured and appreciative while they went the round of the monument, and she remarked only that when he thought himself unnoticed his face grew grave and his answers came less promptly.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000005_000001|Darrow acquiesced, and they got out and sent Effie on in the motor.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000005_000002|Their way led through a bit of sober French woodland, flat as a faded tapestry, but with gleams of live emerald lingering here and there among its browns and ochres.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000005_000003|The luminous grey air gave vividness to its dying colours, and veiled the distant glimpses of the landscape in soft uncertainty.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000005_000004|In such a solitude Anna had fancied it would be easier to speak; but as she walked beside Darrow over the deep soundless flooring of brown moss the words on her lips took flight again.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000005_000005|It seemed impossible to break the spell of quiet joy which his presence laid on her, and when he began to talk of the place they had just visited she answered his questions and then waited for what he should say next...No, decidedly she could not speak; she no longer even knew what she had meant to say...
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000006_000001|When she and Darrow were apart she exhausted herself in appeal and interrogation, she formulated with a fervent lucidity every point in her imaginary argument.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000006_000002|But as soon as she was alone with him something deeper than reason and subtler than shyness laid its benumbing touch upon her, and the desire to speak became merely a dim disquietude, through which his looks, his words, his touch, reached her as through a mist of bodily pain.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000006_000003|Yet this inertia was torn by wild flashes of resistance, and when they were apart she began to prepare again what she meant to say to him.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000007_000000|She knew he could not be with her without being aware of this inner turmoil, and she hoped he would break the spell by some releasing word. But she presently understood that he recognized the futility of words, and was resolutely bent on holding her to her own purpose of behaving as if nothing had happened.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000007_000001|Once more she inwardly accused him of insensibility, and her imagination was beset by tormenting visions of his past...Had such things happened to him before?
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000008_000001|When at length she had been carried off, Anna proposed a game of cards, and after this diversion had drawn to its languid close she said good night to Darrow and followed Madame de Chantelle upstairs.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000008_000002|But Madame de Chantelle never sat up late, and the second evening, with the amiably implied intention of leaving Anna and Darrow to themselves, she took an earlier leave of them than usual.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000009_000000|Anna sat silent, listening to her small stiff steps as they minced down the hall and died out in the distance.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000009_000001|Madame de Chantelle had broken her wooden embroidery frame, and Darrow, having offered to repair it, had drawn his chair up to a table that held a lamp.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000009_000003|The sight of him, so tranquilly absorbed in this trifling business, seemed to give to the quiet room a perfume of intimacy, to fill it with a sense of sweet familiar habit; and it came over her again that she knew nothing of the inner thoughts of this man who was sitting by her as a husband might.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000009_000005|As she watched the hands her sense of them became as vivid as a touch, and she said to herself: "That other woman has sat and watched him as I am doing.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000009_000006|She has known him as I have never known him...Perhaps he is thinking of that now.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000010_000000|He looked young, active, stored with strength and energy; not the man for vain repinings or long memories.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000010_000002|He loved her now; she had no doubt of that; but how could she hope to keep him?
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000010_000003|They were so nearly of an age that already she felt herself his senior.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000010_000004|As yet the difference was not visible; outwardly at least they were matched; but ill health or unhappiness would soon do away with this equality.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000010_000005|She thought with a pang of bitterness: "He won't grow any older because he doesn't feel things; and because he doesn't, I SHALL..."
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000011_000000|And when she ceased to please him, what then?
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000011_000002|But what did she care for his convictions or his theories?
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000011_000004|She put no faith in her own arts: she was too sure of having none!
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000011_000006|She could hardly conceive of wanting the kind of love that was a state one could be cozened into...
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000012_000000|Darrow, putting away the frame, walked across the room and sat down beside her; and she felt he had something special to say.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000013_000000|"They're sure to send for me in a day or two now," he began.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000014_000000|She made no answer, and he continued: "You'll tell me before I go what day I'm to come back and get you?"
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000015_000001|The other day in Paris I saw Miss Viner."
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000016_000000|She saw him flush with the intensity of his surprise.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000017_000000|"You sent for her?"
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000018_000000|"No; she heard from Adelaide that I was in Paris and she came.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000018_000001|She came because she wanted to urge me to marry you.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000018_000002|I thought you ought to know what she had done."
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000019_000000|Darrow stood up.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000019_000001|"I'm glad you've told me." He spoke with a visible effort at composure.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000020_000000|"Is that all?" he asked after an interval.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000021_000000|"It seems to me a great deal."
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000022_000000|"It's what she'd already asked me." His voice showed her how deeply he was moved, and a throb of jealousy shot through her.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000023_000000|"Oh, it was for your sake, I know!" He made no answer, and she added: "She's been exceedingly generous...Why shouldn't we speak of it?"
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000024_000000|She had lowered her head, but through her dropped lids she seemed to be watching the crowded scene of his face.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000025_000000|"I've not shrunk from speaking of it."
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000026_000000|"Speaking of her, then, I mean.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000027_000000|She broke off, confused, and he questioned: "What is it you want to know better?"
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000028_000002|There was nothing she did not want to know, no fold or cranny of his secret that her awakened imagination did not strain to penetrate; but she could not expose Sophy Viner to the base fingerings of a retrospective jealousy, nor Darrow to the temptation of belittling her in the effort to better his own case.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000028_000003|The girl had been magnificent, and the only worthy return that Anna could make was to take Darrow from her without a question if she took him at all...
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000029_000000|She lifted her eyes to his face.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000029_000001|"I think I only wanted to speak her name.
train-other-500/3906/184005/3906_184005_000029_000002|It's not right that we should seem so afraid of it.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000001_000000|The Fuzzies took the manipulator quite calmly the next morning.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000001_000001|That wasn't any horrible monster, that was just something Pappy Jack took rides in.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000001_000003|He came home early and found the family in the living room; they had dumped the wastebasket and were putting things back into it.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000001_000004|Another land prawn seemed to have gotten into the house; its picked shell was with the other rubbish in the basket.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000001_000005|They had dinner early, and he loaded the lot of them into the airjeep and took them for a long ride to the south and west.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000002_000000|The following day, he located the flint vein on the other side of the gorge and spent most of the morning blasting away the sandstone above it. The next time he went into Mallorysport, he decided, he was going to shop around for a good power shovel.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000002_000001|He had to blast a channel to keep the little stream from damming up on him.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000002_000002|He didn't get any flint cracked at all that day.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000002_000004|The family were all sitting under the gunrack when he entered the living room.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000003_000000|The next day he cracked flint, and found three more stones.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000003_000001|It really looked as though he had found the Dying Place of the Jellyfish at that.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000003_000002|He knocked off early that afternoon, and when he came in sight of the camp, he saw an airjeep grounded on the lawn and a small man with a red beard in a faded Khaki bush jacket sitting on the bench by the kitchen door, surrounded by Fuzzies.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000003_000003|There was a camera and some other equipment laid up where the Fuzzies couldn't get at it.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000003_000004|Baby Fuzzy, of course, was sitting on his head.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000004_000000|"Well, what do you think of them, Ben?" Jack called down, as he grounded the manipulator.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000005_000000|"My God, don't start me on that now!" Ben Rainsford replied, and then laughed.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000005_000001|"I stopped at the constabulary post on the way home.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000005_000002|I thought George Lunt had turned into the biggest liar in the known galaxy.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000006_000000|"Been waiting long?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000007_000000|The Fuzzies had all abandoned Rainsford and come trooping over as soon as the manipulator was off contragravity.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000007_000001|He climbed down among them, and they followed him across the grass, catching at his trouser legs and yeeking happily.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000008_000000|"Not so long." Rainsford looked at his watch.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000008_000001|"Good Lord, three and half hours is all.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000008_000002|Well, the time passed quickly.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000008_000003|You know, your little fellows have good ears.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000008_000004|They heard you coming a long time before I did."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000009_000000|"Did you see them killing any prawns?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000010_000000|"I should say!
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000010_000001|I got a lot of movies of it." He shook his head slowly. "Jack, this is almost incredible."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000011_000000|"You're staying for dinner, of course?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000012_000000|"You try and chase me away.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000012_000001|I want to hear all about this.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000012_000002|Want you to make a tape about them, if you're willing."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000013_000000|"Glad to.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000013_000001|We'll do that after we eat." He sat down on the bench, and the Fuzzies began climbing upon and beside him.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000013_000002|"This is the original, Little Fuzzy.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000013_000003|He brought the rest in a couple of days later.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000013_000004|Mamma Fuzzy, and Baby Fuzzy.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000013_000005|And these are Mike and Mitzi.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000014_000000|"George says you call them all Fuzzies.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000014_000001|Want that for the official designation?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000015_000000|"Sure.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000015_000001|That's what they are, isn't it?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000016_000000|"Well, let's call the order Hollowayans," Rainsford said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000016_000001|"Family, Fuzzies; genus, Fuzzy.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000017_000000|That would be all right, he supposed.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000017_000001|At least, they didn't try to Latinize things in extraterrestrial zoology any more.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000018_000000|"I suppose our bumper crop of land prawns is what brought them into this section?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000019_000000|"Yes, of course.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000019_000001|George was telling me you thought they'd come down from the north; about the only place they could have come from.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000019_000002|This is probably just the advance guard; we'll be having Fuzzies all over the place before long.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000019_000003|I wonder how fast they breed."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000020_000000|"Not very fast.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000020_000001|Three males and two females in this crowd, and only one young one." He set Mike and Mitzi off his lap and got to his feet.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000020_000002|"I'll go start dinner now.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000020_000003|While I'm doing that, you can look at the stuff they brought in with them."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000021_000000|When he had placed the dinner in the oven and taken a couple of highballs into the living room, Rainsford was still sitting at the desk, looking at the artifacts.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000021_000001|He accepted his drink and sipped it absently, then raised his head.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000022_000000|"Jack, this stuff is absolutely amazing," he said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000023_000000|"It's better than that.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000023_000001|It's unique.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000023_000002|Only collection of native weapons and implements on Zarathustra."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000000|Ben Rainsford looked up sharply.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000001|"You mean what I think you mean?" he asked.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000003|"Anything-pardon, anybody-who does this kind of work is good enough native for me." He hesitated briefly.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000004|"Why, Jack this tape you said you'd make.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000005|Can I transmit a copy to Juan Jimenez?
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000007|And there's another Company man I'd like to have hear it.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000024_000009|He's a general xeno naturalist, like me, but he's especially interested in animal evolution."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000025_000000|"Why not?
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000025_000001|The Fuzzies are a scientific discovery.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000025_000002|Discoveries ought to be reported."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000026_000000|Little Fuzzy, Mike and Mitzi strolled in from the kitchen.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000026_000001|Little Fuzzy jumped up on the armchair and switched on the viewscreen.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000026_000002|Fiddling with the selector, he got the Big Blackwater woods burning.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000026_000003|Mike and Mitzi shrieked delightedly, like a couple of kids watching a horror show.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000026_000004|They knew, by now, that nothing in the screen could get out and hurt them.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000027_000000|"Would you mind if they came out here and saw the Fuzzies?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000028_000000|"Why, the Fuzzies would love that.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000028_000001|They like company."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000029_000000|Mamma and Baby and Ko Ko came in, seemed to approve what was on the screen and sat down to watch it.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000029_000001|When the bell on the stove rang, they all got up, and Ko Ko jumped onto the chair and snapped the screen off.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000029_000002|Ben Rainsford looked at him for a moment.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000030_000000|"You know, I have married friends with children who have a hell of a time teaching eight year olds to turn off screens when they're through watching them," he commented.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000031_000000|It took an hour, after dinner, to get the whole story, from the first little yeek in the shower stall, on tape.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000031_000001|When he had finished, Ben Rainsford made a few remarks and shut off the recorder, then looked at his watch.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000032_000000|"Twenty hundred; it'll be seventeen hundred in Mallorysport," he said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000032_000001|"I could catch Jimenez at Science Center if I called now.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000032_000002|He usually works a little late."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000033_000000|"Go ahead.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000033_000001|Want to show him some Fuzzies?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000033_000002|He moved his pistol and some other impedimenta off the table and set Little Fuzzy and Mamma Fuzzy and Baby upon it, then drew up a chair beside it, in range of the communication screen, and sat down with Mike and Mitzi and Ko Ko. Rainsford punched out a wavelength combination.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000033_000003|Then he picked up Baby Fuzzy and set him on his head.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000034_000000|In a moment, the screen flickered and cleared, and a young man looked out of it, with the momentary upward glance of one who wants to make sure his public face is on straight.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000034_000001|It was a bland, tranquilized, life adjusted, group integrated sort of face-the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000035_000000|"Why, Bennett, this is a pleasant surprise," he began.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000035_000001|"I never expec-" Then he choked; at least, he emitted a sound of surprise.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000035_000002|"What in the name of Dai Butsu are those things on the table in front of you?" he demanded.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000036_000000|"Family group of Fuzzies," Rainsford said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000036_000002|The gentleman on my left is Jack Holloway, the sunstone operator, who is the original discoverer. Jack, Juan Jimenez."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000037_000000|They shook their own hands at one another in the ancient Terran Chinese gesture that was used on communication screens, and assured each other-Jimenez rather absently-that it was a pleasure.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000037_000001|He couldn't take his eyes off the Fuzzies.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000038_000000|"Where did they come from?" he wanted to know.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000038_000001|"Are you sure they're indigenous?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000039_000000|"They're not quite up to spaceships, yet, dr Jimenez.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000039_000001|Fairly early Paleolithic, I'd say."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000040_000000|Jimenez thought he was joking, and laughed.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000040_000001|The sort of a laugh that could be turned on and off, like a light.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000040_000002|Rainsford assured him that the Fuzzies were really indigenous.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000041_000000|"We have everything that's known about them on tape," he said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000041_000001|"About an hour of it.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000041_000002|Can you take sixty speed?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000041_000003|He was making adjustments on the recorder as he spoke.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000041_000005|And can you get hold of Gerd van Riebeek?
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000042_000000|When Jimenez was ready, Rainsford pressed the play-off button, and for a minute the recorder gave a high, wavering squeak.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000042_000001|The Fuzzies all looked startled.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000042_000002|Then it ended.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000043_000000|"I think, when you hear this, that you and Gerd will both want to come out and see these little people.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000043_000001|If you can, bring somebody who's a qualified psychologist, somebody capable of evaluating the Fuzzies' mentation.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000043_000002|Jack wasn't kidding about early Paleolithic.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000043_000003|If they're not sapient, they only miss it by about one atomic diameter."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000044_000000|Jimenez looked almost as startled as the Fuzzies had.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000044_000001|"You surely don't mean that?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000044_000002|He looked from Rainsford to Jack Holloway and back.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000044_000003|"Well, I'll call you back, when we've both heard the tape.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000044_000004|You're three time zones west of us, aren't you?
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000044_000005|Then we'll try to make it before your midnight-that'll be twenty one hundred."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000045_000000|He called back half an hour short of that.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000045_000001|This time, it was from the living room of an apartment instead of an office.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000045_000002|There was a portable record player in the foreground and a low table with snacks and drinks, and two other people were with him.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000045_000005|The Fuzzies had gotten sleepy, and had been bribed with Extee Three to stay up a little longer.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000045_000006|Immediately, they registered interest.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000045_000007|This was more fun than the viewscreen.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000046_000000|Jimenez introduced his companions as Gerd van Riebeek and ruth Ortheris. "ruth is with dr Mallin's section; she's been working with the school department and the juvenile court.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000046_000001|She can probably do as well with your Fuzzies as a regular xeno psychologist."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000047_000000|"Well, I have worked with extraterrestrials," the woman said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000047_000001|"I've been on Loki and Thor and Shesha."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000048_000000|Jack nodded.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000048_000001|"Been on the same planets myself.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000048_000002|Are you people coming out here?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000049_000000|"Oh, yes," van Riebeek said.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000049_000001|"We'll be out by noon tomorrow.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000049_000003|Now, how do we get to your place?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000050_000001|Van Riebeek noted them down.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000051_000000|"There's one thing, though, I'm going to have to get firm about.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000051_000001|I don't want to have to speak about it again.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000051_000002|These little people are to be treated with consideration, and not as laboratory animals.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000051_000003|You will not hurt them, or annoy them, or force them to do anything they don't want to do."
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000052_000000|"We understand that.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000052_000001|We won't do anything with the Fuzzies without your approval.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000052_000002|Is there anything you'd want us to bring out?"
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000053_000000|"Yes.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000053_000001|A few things for the camp that I'm short of; I'll pay you for them when you get here.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000053_000002|And about three cases of Extee Three.
train-other-500/3906/191426/3906_191426_000053_000003|And some toys. dr Ortheris, you heard the tape, didn't you?
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000003_000000|CHAPTER eleven
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000004_000000|"I THOUGHT YOU HAD ALL FORGOTTEN."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000000|As, after a singular half hour spent among the bracken under the trees, they began their return to the house, Bettina felt that her sense of adventure had altered its character.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000001|She was still in the midst of a remarkable sort of exploit, which might end anywhere or in anything, but it had become at once more prosaic in detail and more intense in its significance.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000002|What its significance might prove likely to be when she faced it, she had not known, it is true.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000003|But this was different from-from anything.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000004|As they walked up the sun dappled avenue she kept glancing aside at Rosy, and endeavouring to draw useful conclusions.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000005|The poor girl's air of being a plain, insignificant frump, long past youth, struck an extraordinary and, for the time, unexplainable note.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000007|What extraordinary disposal was being made of Rosy's money?
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000005_000008|But her each glance at her sister also suggested complication upon complication.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000006_000000|The singular half hour under the trees by the pool, spent, after the first hysteric moments were over, in vague exclaimings and questions, which seemed half frightened and all at sea, had gradually shown her that she was talking to a creature wholly other than the Rosalie who had so well known and loved them all, and whom they had so well loved and known.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000006_000002|At each breath she drew Bettina saw how long the years had been to her, and how far her home had seemed to lie away, so far that it could not touch her, and was only a sort of dream, the recalling of which made her suddenly begin to cry again every few minutes.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000006_000003|To Bettina's sensitively alert mind it was plain that it would not do in the least to drag her suddenly out of her prison, or cloister, whichsoever it might be.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000006_000004|To do so would be like forcing a creature accustomed only to darkness, to stare at the blazing sun
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000006_000005|To have burst upon her with the old impetuous, candid fondness would have been to frighten and shock her as if with something bordering on indecency.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000006_000006|She could not have stood it; perhaps such fondness was so remote from her in these days that she had even ceased to be able to understand it.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000007_000000|"Where are your little girls?" Bettina asked, remembering that there had been notice given of the advent of two girl babies.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000008_000000|"They died," Lady Anstruthers answered unemotionally.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000008_000001|"They both died before they were a year old.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000008_000002|There is only Ughtred."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000009_000000|Betty glanced at the boy and saw a small flame of red creep up on his cheek.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000009_000001|Instinctively she knew what it meant, and she put out her hand and lightly touched his shoulder.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000010_000000|"I hope you'll like me, Ughtred," she said.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000011_000000|He almost started at the sound of her voice, but when he turned his face towards her he only grew redder, and looked awkward without answering. His manner was that of a boy who was unused to the amenities of polite society, and who was only made shy by them.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000012_000001|As far as the eye reached, they did this, and the beholder stood as in a high stately pergola, with breaks of deep azure sky between.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000013_000000|Lady Anstruthers stopped when her sister did so, and glanced at her in vague inquiry.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000013_000001|It was plain that she had outlived even her sense of the beauty surrounding her.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000014_000000|"What are you looking at, Betty?" she asked.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000015_000001|"It is so wonderful."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000016_000000|"She likes it," said Ughtred, and then rather slunk a step behind his mother, as if he were ashamed of himself.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000017_000000|"The house is just beyond those trees," said Lady Anstruthers.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000018_000000|They came in full view of it three minutes later.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000019_000000|"She likes that, too," said Ughtred, and, although he said it sheepishly, there was imperfectly concealed beneath the awkwardness a pleasure in the fact.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000020_000000|"Do you?" asked Rosalie, with her small, painful smile.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000021_000000|Betty laughed.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000022_000000|"It is too picturesque, in its special way, to be quite credible," she said.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000023_000000|"I thought that when I first saw it," said Rosy.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000024_000000|"Don't you think so, now?"
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000027_000000|"We haven't money enough to hold it together," resignedly.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000000|As they climbed the low, broad, lichen blotched steps, whose broken stone balustrades were almost hidden in clutching, untrimmed ivy, Betty felt them to be almost incredible, too.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000001|The uneven stones of the terrace the steps mounted to were lichen blotched and broken also.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000002|Tufts of green growths had forced themselves between the flags, and added an untidy beauty.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000003|The ivy tossed in branches over the red roof and walls of the house.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000004|It had been left unclipped, until it was rather an endlessly clambering tree than a creeper.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000005|The hall they entered had the beauty of spacious form and good, old oaken panelling.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000028_000007|But there were no pictures in places where pictures had evidently once hung, and the only coverings on the stone floor were the faded remnants of a central rug and a worn tiger skin, the head almost bald and a glass eye knocked out.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000029_000000|Bettina took in the unpromising details without a quiver of the extravagant lashes.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000029_000002|She had come to observe situations and rearrange them with that intelligence of which unconsidered emotion or exclamation form no part.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000031_000000|She put a hand on each of Rosy's thin shoulders-she felt sharply defined bones as she did so-and bent to kiss her.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000032_000000|"Oh, Betty!" was Rosy's faint nervous exclamation, "you seem so beautiful and-so-so strange-that you frighten me."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000033_000000|Betty laughed with the softest possible cheerfulness, shaking her a little.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000035_000001|Let you!" in a sort of gasp.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000036_000000|Poor little Lady Anstruthers sank on to a settle and began to cry again. It was plain that she always cried when things occurred.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000036_000001|Ughtred's speech from his window seat testified at once to that.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000037_000000|"Don't cry, mother," he said.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000037_000001|"You know how we've talked that over together.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000037_000002|It's her nerves," he explained to Bettina.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000037_000003|"We know it only makes things worse, but she can't stop it."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000038_000000|Bettina sat on the settle, too.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000038_000001|She herself was not then aware of the wonderful feeling the poor little spare figure experienced, as her softly strong young arms curved about it.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000038_000002|She was only aware that she herself felt that this was a heart breaking thing, and that she must not-MUST not let it be seen how much she recognised its woefulness. This was pretty, fair Rosy, who had never done a harm in her happy life-this forlorn thing was her Rosy.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000039_000000|"Never mind," she said, half laughing again.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000039_000002|I am immensely strong."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000040_000000|"Yes!
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000040_000001|Yes!" said Lady Anstruthers, wiping her eyes, and making a tremendous effort at self respecting composure.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000040_000002|"You are strong.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000040_000003|I have grown so weak in-well, in every way.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000040_000004|Betty, I'm afraid this is a poor welcome.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000040_000005|You see-I'm afraid you'll find it all so different from-from New York."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000041_000000|"I wanted to find it different," said Betty.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000042_000000|"But-but-I mean-you know----" Lady Anstruthers turned helplessly to the boy.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000042_000001|Bettina was struck with the painful truth that she looked even silly as she turned to him.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000042_000002|"Ughtred-tell her," she ended, and hung her head.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000043_000000|Ughtred had got down at once from his seat and limped forward.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000043_000001|His unprepossessing face looked as if he pulled his childishness together with an unchildish effort.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000044_000000|"She means," he said, in his awkward way, "that she doesn't know how to make you comfortable.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000044_000001|The rooms are all so shabby-everything is so shabby.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000044_000002|Perhaps you won't stay when you see."
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000045_000000|Bettina perceptibly increased the firmness of her hold on her sister's body.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000045_000001|It was as if she drew it nearer to her side in a kind of taking possession.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000045_000002|She knew that the moment had come when she might go this far, at least, without expressing alarming things.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000046_000000|"You cannot show me anything that will frighten me," was the answer she made.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000046_000001|"I have come to stay, Rosy.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000046_000002|We can make things right if they require it.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000046_000003|Why not?"
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000047_000000|Lady Anstruthers started a little, and stared at her.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000047_000001|She knew ten thousand reasons why things had not been made right, and the casual inference that such reasons could be lightly swept away as if by the mere wave of a hand, implied a power appertaining to a time seeming so lost forever that it was too much for her.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000050_000000|That she could not believe it a reality revealed itself to Bettina, as by a flash, which was also a revelation of many things.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000050_000001|There would be unpleasing truths to be learned, and she had not made her pilgrimage for nothing.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000050_000002|But-in any event-there were advantages without doubt in the circumstance which subjected one to being perpetually pointed out as a daughter of a multi millionaire.
train-other-500/3906/23193/3906_23193_000050_000003|As this argued itself out for her with rapid lucidity, she bent and kissed Rosy once more.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000001_000000|CHAPTER thirteen
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000003_000001|He had no difficulty about finding his way down to her.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000004_000000|She was walking up and down the flagged walk between her lavender hedges, and as he came in she stopped and rested her elbows on her sundial, and looked mockingly at him, waiting for him to speak. "Between the showers I mark the hours," said the sundial (on the suggestion of Belvane one wet afternoon), but for the moment the Countess was in the way.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000006_000000|"Here we are," said Belvane sweetly.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000006_000001|"All of us."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000007_000000|Suddenly she began to laugh.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000008_000001|Count me as one more of your victims."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000010_000001|"To intelligent people the outside appearance is not everything."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000011_000000|"But it can be very funny, can't it?" said Belvane coaxingly.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000011_000001|"I wished for something humorous to happen to you, but I never thought----"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000013_000001|This sort of tone goes best with one of those keen legal faces; perhaps that is why Belvane laughed again.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000015_000000|"Did what?"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000016_000000|"Turned me into a-a----"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000017_000000|"A rabbit?" said Belvane innocently.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000019_000000|"What makes you think I'm a rabbit?" he asked.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000020_000000|"I don't mind what you are, but you'll never dare show yourself in the country like this."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000021_000000|"Be careful, woman; don't drive me too far.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000021_000001|Beware lest you rouse the lion in me."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000022_000000|"Where?" asked Belvane, with a child like air.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000024_000000|"That," said the Countess, "is not the part of the lion that I'm afraid of."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000026_000000|"Even supposing-just for the sake of argument-that I am a rabbit, I still have something up my sleeve; I'll come and eat your young carnations."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000027_000000|Belvane adored her garden, but she was sustained by the thought that it was only July just now.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000027_000001|She pointed this out to him.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000028_000000|"It needn't necessarily be carnations," he warned her.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000029_000000|"I don't want to put my opinion against one who has (forgive me) inside knowledge on the subject, but I think I have nothing in my garden at this moment that would agree with a rabbit."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000031_000000|This was more serious.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000033_000001|"I'm just keeping it back, that's all."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000034_000000|"Show me how," cried Belvane, clasping her hands eagerly together.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000035_000000|It was not what he had come into the garden for, and it accorded ill with the dignity of the Royal House of Araby, but somehow one got led on by this wicked woman.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000037_000000|The Countess looked at him critically with her head on one side.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000038_000000|"No," she said, "that's quite wrong."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000039_000000|"Naturally I'm a little out of practice."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000040_000000|"I'm sorry," said Belvane.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000040_000001|"I'm afraid I can't pass you."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000041_000000|Udo couldn't think what had happened to the conversation.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000041_000001|With a great effort he extracted himself from it.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000042_000000|"Enough of this, Countess," he said sternly.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000043_000000|"It was i I wasn't going to have you here interfering with my plans."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000044_000000|"Your plans to rob the Princess."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000045_000002|One merely wastes time in arguing with them.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000046_000000|"My plans," she repeated.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000047_000000|"Very well.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000047_000001|I shall go straight to the Princess, and she will unmask you before the people."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000048_000000|Belvane smiled happily.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000048_000001|One does not often get such a chance.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000051_000000|"That noble handsome countenance which is so justly the pride of Araby-how shall we show that to the people?
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000051_000001|They'll form such a mistaken idea of it if they all see you like this, won't they?"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000052_000001|Hyacinth had understood at the very beginning.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000055_000000|"You mean that if the Princess Hyacinth falls in with your plans, you will restore me to my proper form, but that otherwise you will leave me like this?"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000056_000000|"One's actions are very much misunderstood," sighed Belvane.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000057_000000|(To Roger, certainly.)
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000058_000001|He forgot his manners and made a jump towards her.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000058_000003|The fact that his tail had caught in something helped him to decide.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000059_000000|Belvane was up to him in an instant.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000060_000001|"Every little accident teaches us something.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000060_000002|Now if you'd been a rabbit this wouldn't have happened."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000061_000000|"No, I'm not even a rabbit," said Udo sadly.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000061_000001|"I'm just nothing."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000062_000000|Belvane stood up and made him a deep curtsey.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000063_000002|When will your Royal Highness be pleased to retire?"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000064_000000|It was a little unkind, I think.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000064_000001|I should not record it of her were not Roger so insistent.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000065_000001|It was his one really dignified moment in Euralia.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000066_000000|On his way to his apartment he met Wiggs.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000068_000000|Whereupon he retired for the night.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000068_000001|Into the mysteries of his toilet we had perhaps better not inquire.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000069_000000|As the chronicler of these simple happenings many years ago, it is my duty to be impartial.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000069_000002|Thus and thus my characters have acted; how say you, my lords and ladies?"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000070_000000|I confess that this attitude is beyond me; I have a fondness for all my people, and I would not have you misunderstand any of them.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000070_000001|But with regard to one of them there is no need for me to say anything in her defence.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000070_000002|About her at any rate we agree.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000071_000000|I mean Wiggs.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000071_000001|We take the same view as Hyacinth: she was the best little girl in Euralia.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000071_000002|It will come then as a shock to you (as it did to me on the morning after I had staggered home with Roger's seventeen volumes) to learn that on her day Wiggs could be as bad as anybody.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000071_000003|I mean really bad.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000071_000004|To tear your frock, to read books which you ought to be dusting, these are accidents which may happen to anybody.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000071_000005|Far otherwise was Wiggs's fall.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000072_000001|Three nights later, with malice aforethought and to the comfort of the King's enemies and the prejudice of the safety of the realm, she made an apple pie bed for the Countess.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000073_000000|It was the most perfect apple pie bed ever made.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000073_000001|Cox himself could not have improved upon it; Newton has seen nothing like it.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000073_000002|It took Wiggs a whole morning; and the results, though private (that is the worst of an apple pie bed), were beyond expectation.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000073_000003|After wrestling for half an hour the Countess spent the night in a garden hammock, composing a bitter Ode to Melancholy.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000074_000000|Of course Wiggs caught it in the morning; the Countess suspected what she could not prove.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000074_000001|Wiggs, now in for a thoroughly bad week, realised that it was her turn again.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000074_000002|What should she do?
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000075_000000|An inspiration came to her.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000075_000001|She had been really bad the day before; it was a pity to waste such perfect badness as that.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000076_000000|She drew the ring out from its hiding place round her neck.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000077_000000|"I wish," she said, holding it up, "I wish that the Countess Belvane----" she stopped to think of something that would really annoy her-"I wish that the Countess shall never be able to write another rhyme again."
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000078_000000|She held her breath, expecting a thunderclap or some other outward token of the sudden death of Belvane's muse.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000078_000001|Instead she was struck by the extraordinary silence of the place.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000078_000002|She had a horrid feeling that everybody else was dead, and realising all at once that she was a very wicked little girl, she ran up to her room and gave herself up to tears.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000080_000000|However, this is not a moral work.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000080_000001|An hour later Wiggs came into Belvane's garden, eager to discover in what way her inability to rhyme would manifest itself.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000080_000002|It seemed that she had chosen the exact moment.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000081_000000|In the throes of composition Belvane had quite forgotten the apple pie bed, so absorbing is our profession.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000081_000001|She welcomed Wiggs eagerly, and taking her hand led her towards the roses.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000082_000001|"Listen:
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000084_000000|But we shall never know about the butterfly.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000084_000001|It may be that Wiggs has lost us here a thought on lepidoptera which the world can ill spare; for she interrupted breathlessly.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000085_000000|"When did you write that?"
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000086_000000|"I was just making it up when you came in, dear child.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000086_000001|These thoughts often come to me as I walk up and down my beautiful garden.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000087_000000|But Wiggs had let go her hand and was running back to the Palace.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000087_000001|She wanted to be alone to think this out.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000088_000000|What had happened?
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000088_000001|That it was truly a magic ring, as the fairy had told her, she had no doubt; that her wish was a bad one, that she had been bad enough to earn it, she was equally certain.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000088_000002|What then had happened?
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000088_000003|There was only one answer to her question.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000088_000004|The bad wish had been granted to someone else.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000089_000000|To whom?
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000089_000001|She had lent the ring to nobody.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000090_000000|Suddenly she remembered.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000090_000001|The Countess had had it in her hands for a moment.
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000090_000002|Yes, and she had sent her out of the room, and-
train-other-500/3909/11695/3909_11695_000091_000000|So many thoughts crowded into Wiggs's mind at this moment that she felt she must share them with somebody.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000003_000000|Chapter Thirteen
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000004_000000|The Alarm Bell
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000006_000000|Nevertheless, she did not forget to look in the Great Book of Records each day to see if any mention was made of the visit of Ozma and Dorothy to the Enchanted Mountain of the Flatheads and the Magic Isle of the Skeezers.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000006_000001|The Records told her that Ozma had arrived at the mountain, that she had escaped, with her companion, and gone to the island of the Skeezers, and that Queen Coo ee oh had submerged the island so that it was entirely under water.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000006_000002|Then came the statement that the Flatheads had come to the lake to poison the fishes and that their Supreme Dictator had transformed Queen Coo ee oh into a swan.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000007_000001|So Glinda was not worried about Ozma and Dorothy until one morning, while she sat with her maids, there came a sudden clang of the great alarm bell.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000007_000002|This was so unusual that every maid gave a start and even the Sorceress for a moment could not think what the alarm meant.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000008_000001|In giving the ring Glinda had warned the little girl not to use its magic powers unless she and Ozma were in real danger, but then she was to turn it on her finger once to the right and once to the left and Glinda's alarm bell would ring.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000009_000000|So the Sorceress now knew that danger threatened her beloved Ruler and Princess Dorothy, and she hurried to her magic room to seek information as to what sort of danger it was.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000010_000000|"Hasn't Ozma the power to raise the island to the surface?" inquired Glinda.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000012_000000|Then Glinda consulted the past records of the Skeezers in the Great Book.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000012_000001|After diligent search she discovered that Coo ee oh was a powerful sorceress who had gained most of her power by treacherously transforming the Adepts of Magic, who were visiting her, into three fishes-gold, silver and bronze-after which she had them cast into the lake.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000013_000000|Glinda reflected earnestly on this information and decided that someone must go to Ozma's assistance.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000013_000001|While there was no great need of haste, because Ozma and Dorothy could live in a submerged dome a long time, it was evident they could not get out until someone was able to raise the island.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000014_000000|The Sorceress looked through all her recipes and books of sorcery, but could find no magic that would raise a sunken island.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000014_000001|Such a thing had never before been required in sorcery.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000014_000002|Then Glinda made a little island, covered by a glass dome, and sunk it in a pond near her castle, and experimented in magical ways to bring it to the surface.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000014_000003|She made several such experiments, but all were failures.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000014_000004|It seemed a simple thing to do, yet she could not do it.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000015_000000|Nevertheless, the wise Sorceress did not despair of finding a way to liberate her friends.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000015_000001|Finally she concluded that the best thing to do was to go to the Skeezer country and examine the lake.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000015_000002|While there she was more likely to discover a solution to the problem that bothered her, and to work out a plan for the rescue of Ozma and Dorothy.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000016_000000|So Glinda summoned her storks and her aerial chariot, and telling her maids she was going on a journey and might not soon return, she entered the chariot and was carried swiftly to the Emerald City.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000017_000000|In Princess Ozma's palace the Scarecrow was now acting as Ruler of the Land of Oz.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000017_000001|There wasn't much for him to do, because all the affairs of state moved so smoothly, but he was there in case anything unforeseen should happen.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000019_000000|"Something's happened!" cried Trot, as the chariot of the Sorceress descended near them.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000019_000001|"Glinda never comes here 'cept something's gone wrong."
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000020_000000|"I hope no harm has come to Ozma, or Dorothy," said Betsy anxiously, as the lovely Sorceress stepped down from her chariot.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000021_000000|Glinda approached the Scarecrow and told him of the dilemma of Ozma and Dorothy and she added: "We must save them, somehow, Scarecrow."
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000022_000000|"Of course," replied the Scarecrow, stumbling over a wicket and falling flat on his painted face.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000023_000000|The girls picked him up and patted his straw stuffing into shape, and he continued, as if nothing had occurred: "But you'll have to tell me what to do, for I never have raised a sunken island in all my life."
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000024_000000|"We must have a Council of State as soon as possible," proposed the Sorceress.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000024_000001|"Please send messengers to summon all of Ozma's counsellors to this palace.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000024_000002|Then we can decide what is best to be done."
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000025_000000|The Scarecrow lost no time in doing this.
train-other-500/3909/149794/3909_149794_000025_000001|Fortunately most of the royal counsellors were in the Emerald City or near to it, so they all met in the throne room of the palace that same evening.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000001_000000|Marilla said nothing to matthew about the affair that evening; but when Anne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be made to account for her absence from the breakfast table.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000001_000001|Marilla told matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne's behavior.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000002_000000|"It's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down; she's a meddlesome old gossip," was Matthew's consolatory rejoinder.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000003_000001|You know that Anne's behavior was dreadful, and yet you take her part!
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000004_000000|"Well now-no-not exactly," said matthew uneasily.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000004_000001|"I reckon she ought to be punished a little.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000004_000003|You're-you're going to give her something to eat, aren't you?"
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000005_000000|"When did you ever hear of me starving people into good behavior?" demanded Marilla indignantly.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000005_000001|"She'll have her meals regular, and I'll carry them up to her myself.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000006_000001|After each meal Marilla carried a well filled tray to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted. matthew eyed its last descent with a troubled eye.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000007_000001|As a general thing matthew gravitated between the kitchen and the little bedroom off the hall where he slept; once in a while he ventured uncomfortably into the parlor or sitting room when the minister came to tea.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000007_000002|But he had never been upstairs in his own house since the spring he helped Marilla paper the spare bedroom, and that was four years ago.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000008_000000|He tiptoed along the hall and stood for several minutes outside the door of the east gable before he summoned courage to tap on it with his fingers and then open the door to peep in.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000009_000001|Very small and unhappy she looked, and Matthew's heart smote him.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000009_000002|He softly closed the door and tiptoed over to her.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000012_000000|"Pretty well.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000012_000001|I imagine a good deal, and that helps to pass the time.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000012_000002|Of course, it's rather lonesome.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000012_000003|But then, I may as well get used to that."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000014_000000|matthew recollected that he must say what he had come to say without loss of time, lest Marilla return prematurely.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000014_000002|Do it right off, I say, and have it over."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000015_000000|"Do you mean apologize to mrs Lynde?"
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000016_000000|"Yes-apologize-that's the very word," said matthew eagerly.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000016_000001|"Just smooth it over so to speak.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000016_000002|That's what I was trying to get at."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000000|"I suppose I could do it to oblige you," said Anne thoughtfully.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000002|I wasn't a bit sorry last night.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000003|I was mad clear through, and I stayed mad all night.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000004|I know I did because I woke up three times and I was just furious every time.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000005|But this morning it was over.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000007|I felt so ashamed of myself.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000008|But I just couldn't think of going and telling mrs Lynde so.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000009|It would be so humiliating.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000010|I made up my mind I'd stay shut up here forever rather than do that.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000017_000011|But still-I'd do anything for you-if you really want me to-"
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000018_000000|"Well now, of course I do.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000018_000002|Just go and smooth things over-that's a good girl."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000019_000000|"Very well," said Anne resignedly.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000019_000001|"I'll tell Marilla as soon as she comes in I've repented."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000020_000002|She might think I was putting my oar in and I promised not to do that."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000021_000000|"Wild horses won't drag the secret from me," promised Anne solemnly. "How would wild horses drag a secret from a person anyhow?"
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000022_000000|But matthew was gone, scared at his own success.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000022_000001|He fled hastily to the remotest corner of the horse pasture lest Marilla should suspect what he had been up to.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000022_000002|Marilla herself, upon her return to the house, was agreeably surprised to hear a plaintive voice calling, "Marilla" over the banisters.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000023_000000|"Well?" she said, going into the hall.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000024_000000|"I'm sorry I lost my temper and said rude things, and I'm willing to go and tell mrs Lynde so."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000025_000000|"Very well." Marilla's crispness gave no sign of her relief.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000025_000001|She had been wondering what under the canopy she should do if Anne did not give in.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000025_000002|"I'll take you down after milking."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000026_000000|Accordingly, after milking, behold Marilla and Anne walking down the lane, the former erect and triumphant, the latter drooping and dejected. But halfway down Anne's dejection vanished as if by enchantment.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000026_000002|Marilla beheld the change disapprovingly.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000026_000003|This was no meek penitent such as it behooved her to take into the presence of the offended mrs Lynde.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000027_000000|"What are you thinking of, Anne?" she asked sharply.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000028_000000|"I'm imagining out what I must say to mrs Lynde," answered Anne dreamily.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000029_000001|But Marilla could not rid herself of the notion that something in her scheme of punishment was going askew.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000030_000000|Rapt and radiant Anne continued until they were in the very presence of mrs Lynde, who was sitting knitting by her kitchen window.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000030_000001|Then the radiance vanished.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000030_000002|Mournful penitence appeared on every feature.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000000|"Oh, mrs Lynde, I am so extremely sorry," she said with a quiver in her voice.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000001|"I could never express all my sorrow, no, not if I used up a whole dictionary.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000002|You must just imagine it.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000004|I'm a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000005|It was very wicked of me to fly into a temper because you told me the truth.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000006|It WAS the truth; every word you said was true.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000007|My hair is red and I'm freckled and skinny and ugly. What I said to you was true, too, but I shouldn't have said it.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000008|Oh, mrs Lynde, please, please, forgive me.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000031_000011|Please say you forgive me, mrs Lynde."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000033_000000|There was no mistaking her sincerity-it breathed in every tone of her voice.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000033_000001|Both Marilla and mrs Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former under stood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation-was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000033_000002|Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself?
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000034_000000|Good mrs Lynde, not being overburdened with perception, did not see this.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000034_000001|She only perceived that Anne had made a very thorough apology and all resentment vanished from her kindly, if somewhat officious, heart.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000035_000000|"There, there, get up, child," she said heartily.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000035_000001|"Of course I forgive you.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000035_000002|I guess I was a little too hard on you, anyway.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000035_000003|But I'm such an outspoken person.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000035_000005|It can't be denied your hair is terrible red; but I knew a girl once-went to school with her, in fact-whose hair was every mite as red as yours when she was young, but when she grew up it darkened to a real handsome auburn.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000035_000006|I wouldn't be a mite surprised if yours did, too-not a mite."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000036_000000|"Oh, mrs Lynde!" Anne drew a long breath as she rose to her feet.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000036_000001|"You have given me a hope.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000036_000002|I shall always feel that you are a benefactor.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000036_000003|Oh, I could endure anything if I only thought my hair would be a handsome auburn when I grew up.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000036_000004|It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was a handsome auburn, don't you think?
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000036_000006|There is so much more scope for imagination out there."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000037_000000|"Laws, yes, run along, child.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000037_000001|And you can pick a bouquet of them white June lilies over in the corner if you like."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000038_000000|As the door closed behind Anne mrs Lynde got briskly up to light a lamp.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000039_000000|"She's a real odd little thing.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000039_000001|Take this chair, Marilla; it's easier than the one you've got; I just keep that for the hired boy to sit on.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000039_000004|She may turn out all right.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000039_000005|Of course, she has a queer way of expressing herself-a little too-well, too kind of forcible, you know; but she'll likely get over that now that she's come to live among civilized folks.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000039_000007|Preserve me from a sly child, that's what.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000039_000008|On the whole, Marilla, I kind of like her."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000041_000000|"I apologized pretty well, didn't I?" she said proudly as they went down the lane.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000041_000001|"I thought since I had to do it I might as well do it thoroughly."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000042_000000|"You did it thoroughly, all right enough," was Marilla's comment. Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000042_000001|She had also an uneasy feeling that she ought to scold Anne for apologizing so well; but then, that was ridiculous!
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000042_000002|She compromised with her conscience by saying severely:
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000043_000001|I hope you'll try to control your temper now, Anne."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000044_000000|"That wouldn't be so hard if people wouldn't twit me about my looks," said Anne with a sigh.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000044_000001|"I don't get cross about other things; but I'm SO tired of being twitted about my hair and it just makes me boil right over.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000044_000002|Do you suppose my hair will really be a handsome auburn when I grow up?"
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000045_000001|I'm afraid you are a very vain little girl."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000046_000000|"How can I be vain when I know I'm homely?" protested Anne.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000046_000001|"I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000046_000002|It makes me feel so sorrowful-just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000046_000003|I pity it because it isn't beautiful."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000000|"Handsome is as handsome does," quoted Marilla.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000001|"I've had that said to me before, but I have my doubts about it," remarked skeptical Anne, sniffing at her narcissi.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000002|"Oh, aren't these flowers sweet!
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000003|It was lovely of mrs Lynde to give them to me.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000004|I have no hard feelings against mrs Lynde now.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000005|It gives you a lovely, comfortable feeling to apologize and be forgiven, doesn't it?
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000006|Aren't the stars bright tonight?
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000047_000008|I'd like that lovely clear big one away over there above that dark hill."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000049_000002|Far up in the shadows a cheerful light gleamed out through the trees from the kitchen at Green Gables.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000050_000000|"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home," she said.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000050_000001|"I love Green Gables already, and I never loved any place before.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000050_000002|No place ever seemed like home.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000050_000003|Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000050_000004|I could pray right now and not find it a bit hard."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000052_000001|And you should never find it hard to say your prayers."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000053_000000|"Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying," said Anne meditatively.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000053_000001|"But I'm going to imagine that I'm the wind that is blowing up there in those tree tops.
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000053_000003|So I'll not talk any more just now, Marilla."
train-other-500/3909/7140/3909_7140_000054_000000|"Thanks be to goodness for that," breathed Marilla in devout relief.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000004_000000|CHAPTER eight.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000005_000000|The inspiriting appointment which had led Grace Melbury to indulge in a six candle illumination for the arrangement of her attire, carried her over the ground the next morning with a springy tread.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000005_000001|Her sense of being properly appreciated on her own native soil seemed to brighten the atmosphere and herbage around her, as the glowworm's lamp irradiates the grass.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000006_000000|Twenty minutes' walking through copses, over a stile, and along an upland lawn brought her to the verge of a deep glen, at the bottom of which Hintock House appeared immediately beneath her eye.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000006_000001|To describe it as standing in a hollow would not express the situation of the manor house; it stood in a hole, notwithstanding that the hole was full of beauty.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000006_000002|From the spot which Grace had reached a stone could easily have been thrown over or into, the birds'-nested chimneys of the mansion.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000007_000000|The front of the house exhibited an ordinary manorial presentation of Elizabethan windows, mullioned and hooded, worked in rich snuff colored freestone from local quarries.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000007_000001|The ashlar of the walls, where not overgrown with ivy and other creepers, was coated with lichen of every shade, intensifying its luxuriance with its nearness to the ground, till, below the plinth, it merged in moss.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000000|Above the house to the back was a dense plantation, the roots of whose trees were above the level of the chimneys.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000002|A few sheep lay about, which, as they ruminated, looked quietly into the bedroom windows.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000003|The situation of the house, prejudicial to humanity, was a stimulus to vegetation, on which account an endless shearing of the heavy armed ivy was necessary, and a continual lopping of trees and shrubs.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000005|The highest architectural cunning could have done nothing to make Hintock House dry and salubrious; and ruthless ignorance could have done little to make it unpicturesque.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000006|It was vegetable nature's own home; a spot to inspire the painter and poet of still life-if they did not suffer too much from the relaxing atmosphere-and to draw groans from the gregariously disposed.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000007|Grace descended the green escarpment by a zigzag path into the drive, which swept round beneath the slope.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000008|The exterior of the house had been familiar to her from her childhood, but she had never been inside, and the approach to knowing an old thing in a new way was a lively experience.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000009|It was with a little flutter that she was shown in; but she recollected that mrs Charmond would probably be alone.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000008_000011|Being presumably a woman who did not care for solitude, this deprivation might possibly account for her sudden interest in Grace.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000009_000001|She came forward with a smile on her face, and told the young girl it was good of her to come.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000010_000000|"Ah! you have noticed those," she said, seeing that Grace's eyes were attracted by some curious objects against the walls.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000010_000001|"They are man traps.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000010_000002|My husband was a connoisseur in man traps and spring guns and such articles, collecting them from all his neighbors.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000010_000003|He knew the histories of all these-which gin had broken a man's leg, which gun had killed a man.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000010_000005|I don't like them here, but I've never yet given directions for them to be taken away." She added, playfully, "Man traps are of rather ominous significance where a person of our sex lives, are they not?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000011_000000|Grace was bound to smile; but that side of womanliness was one which her inexperience had no great zest in contemplating.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000012_000000|"They are interesting, no doubt, as relics of a barbarous time happily past," she said, looking thoughtfully at the varied designs of these instruments of torture-some with semi-circular jaws, some with rectangular; most of them with long, sharp teeth, but a few with none, so that their jaws looked like the blank gums of old age.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000013_000000|"Well, we must not take them too seriously," said mrs Charmond, with an indolent turn of her head, and they moved on inward.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000013_000001|When she had shown her visitor different articles in cabinets that she deemed likely to interest her, some tapestries, wood carvings, ivories, miniatures, and so on-always with a mien of listlessness which might either have been constitutional, or partly owing to the situation of the place-they sat down to an early cup of tea.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000014_000000|"Will you pour it out, please?
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000014_000001|Do," she said, leaning back in her chair, and placing her hand above her forehead, while her almond eyes-those long eyes so common to the angelic legions of early Italian art-became longer, and her voice more languishing.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000014_000002|She showed that oblique mannered softness which is perhaps most frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than mrs Charmond's was; who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000015_000000|"I am the most inactive woman when I am here," she said.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000015_000001|"I think sometimes I was born to live and do nothing, nothing, nothing but float about, as we fancy we do sometimes in dreams.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000015_000002|But that cannot be really my destiny, and I must struggle against such fancies."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000016_000000|"I am so sorry you do not enjoy exertion-it is quite sad!
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000016_000001|I wish I could tend you and make you very happy."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000000|There was something so sympathetic, so appreciative, in the sound of Grace's voice, that it impelled people to play havoc with their customary reservations in talking to her.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000001|"It is tender and kind of you to feel that," said mrs Charmond.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000002|"Perhaps I have given you the notion that my languor is more than it really is.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000003|But this place oppresses me, and I have a plan of going abroad a good deal.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000004|I used to go with a relative, but that arrangement has dropped through." Regarding Grace with a final glance of criticism, she seemed to make up her mind to consider the young girl satisfactory, and continued: "Now I am often impelled to record my impressions of times and places.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000005|I have often thought of writing a 'New Sentimental Journey.' But I cannot find energy enough to do it alone.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000006|When I am at different places in the south of Europe I feel a crowd of ideas and fancies thronging upon me continually, but to unfold writing materials, take up a cold steel pen, and put these impressions down systematically on cold, smooth paper-that I cannot do.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000007|So I have thought that if I always could have somebody at my elbow with whom I am in sympathy, I might dictate any ideas that come into my head.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000008|And directly I had made your acquaintance the other day it struck me that you would suit me so well. Would you like to undertake it?
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000009|You might read to me, too, if desirable.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000017_000010|Will you think it over, and ask your parents if they are willing?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000018_000000|"Oh yes," said Grace.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000018_000001|"I am almost sure they would be very glad."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000019_000000|"You are so accomplished, I hear; I should be quite honored by such intellectual company."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000020_000000|Grace, modestly blushing, deprecated any such idea.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000023_000000|"What-another student in that retreat?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000024_000000|"There is a surgeon lately come, and I have heard that he reads a great deal-I see his light sometimes through the trees late at night."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000025_000000|"Oh yes-a doctor-I believe I was told of him.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000025_000001|It is a strange place for him to settle in."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000026_000000|"It is a convenient centre for a practice, they say.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000026_000001|But he does not confine his studies to medicine, it seems.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000026_000002|He investigates theology and metaphysics and all sorts of subjects."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000027_000000|"What is his name?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000029_000000|"I am not sufficiently local to know the history of the family.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000029_000001|I was never in the county till my husband brought me here." mrs Charmond did not care to pursue this line of investigation.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000029_000002|Whatever mysterious merit might attach to family antiquity, it was one which, though she herself could claim it, her adaptable, wandering weltburgerliche nature had grown tired of caring about-a peculiarity that made her a contrast to her neighbors.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000029_000004|Have you seen him?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000030_000000|Grace had not.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000030_000001|"I think he is not a very old man," she added.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000031_000000|"Has he a wife?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000032_000000|"I am not aware that he has."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000033_000000|"Well, I hope he will be useful here.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000033_000001|I must get to know him when I come back.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000033_000002|It will be very convenient to have a medical man-if he is clever-in one's own parish.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000034_000000|"I do.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000034_000001|But it is home.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000034_000002|It has its advantages and its disadvantages." Grace was thinking less of the solitude than of the attendant circumstances.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000035_000000|They chatted on for some time, Grace being set quite at her ease by her entertainer.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000035_000001|mrs Charmond was far too well practised a woman not to know that to show a marked patronage to a sensitive young girl who would probably be very quick to discern it, was to demolish her dignity rather than to establish it in that young girl's eyes.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000035_000002|So, being violently possessed with her idea of making use of this gentle acquaintance, ready and waiting at her own door, she took great pains to win her confidence at starting.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000036_000000|Just before Grace's departure the two chanced to pause before a mirror which reflected their faces in immediate juxtaposition, so as to bring into prominence their resemblances and their contrasts.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000036_000001|Both looked attractive as glassed back by the faithful reflector; but Grace's countenance had the effect of making mrs Charmond appear more than her full age.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000036_000002|There are complexions which set off each other to great advantage, and there are those which antagonize, the one killing or damaging its neighbor unmercifully.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000036_000003|This was unhappily the case here. mrs Charmond fell into a meditation, and replied abstractedly to a cursory remark of her companion's.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000037_000000|When Grace had ascended nearly to the top of the adjoining slope she looked back, and saw that mrs Charmond still stood at the door, meditatively regarding her.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000038_000000|Often during the previous night, after his call on the Melburys, Winterborne's thoughts ran upon Grace's announced visit to Hintock House.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000038_000001|Why could he not have proposed to walk with her part of the way?
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000038_000002|Something told him that she might not, on such an occasion, care for his company.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000039_000000|He was still more of that opinion when, standing in his garden next day, he saw her go past on the journey with such a pretty pride in the event.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000039_000001|He wondered if her father's ambition, which had purchased for her the means of intellectual light and culture far beyond those of any other native of the village, would conduce to the flight of her future interests above and away from the local life which was once to her the movement of the world.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000040_000000|Nevertheless, he had her father's permission to win her if he could; and to this end it became desirable to bring matters soon to a crisis, if he ever hoped to do so.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000040_000001|If she should think herself too good for him, he could let her go and make the best of his loss; but until he had really tested her he could not say that she despised his suit.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000040_000002|The question was how to quicken events towards an issue.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000042_000001|He descended the path and looked out, and beheld Marty South, dressed for out door work.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000043_000000|"Why didn't you come, mr Winterborne?" she said.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000043_000001|"I've been waiting there hours and hours, and at last I thought I must try to find you."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000044_000000|"Bless my soul, I'd quite forgot," said Giles.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000045_000000|What he had forgotten was that there was a thousand young fir trees to be planted in a neighboring spot which had been cleared by the wood cutters, and that he had arranged to plant them with his own hands.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000045_000001|He had a marvellous power of making trees grow.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000046_000000|Hence Winterborne found delight in the work even when, as at present, he contracted to do it on portions of the woodland in which he had no personal interest.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000046_000001|Marty, who turned her hand to anything, was usually the one who performed the part of keeping the trees in a perpendicular position while he threw in the mould.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000047_000000|He accompanied her towards the spot, being stimulated yet further to proceed with the work by the knowledge that the ground was close to the way side along which Grace must pass on her return from Hintock House.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000048_000000|"You've a cold in the head, Marty," he said, as they walked.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000048_000001|"That comes of cutting off your hair."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000049_000000|"I suppose it do.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000049_000001|Yes; I've three headaches going on in my head at the same time."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000050_000000|"Three headaches!"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000051_000000|"Yes, a rheumatic headache in my poll, a sick headache over my eyes, and a misery headache in the middle of my brain.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000051_000001|However, I came out, for I thought you might be waiting and grumbling like anything if I was not there."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000052_000000|The holes were already dug, and they set to work.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000052_000001|Winterborne's fingers were endowed with a gentle conjuror's touch in spreading the roots of each little tree, resulting in a sort of caress, under which the delicate fibres all laid themselves out in their proper directions for growth.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000052_000002|He put most of these roots towards the south-west; for, he said, in forty years' time, when some great gale is blowing from that quarter, the trees will require the strongest holdfast on that side to stand against it and not fall.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000053_000000|"How they sigh directly we put 'em upright, though while they are lying down they don't sigh at all," said Marty.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000054_000000|"Do they?" said Giles.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000054_000001|"I've never noticed it."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000055_000000|She erected one of the young pines into its hole, and held up her finger; the soft musical breathing instantly set in, which was not to cease night or day till the grown tree should be felled-probably long after the two planters should be felled themselves.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000056_000000|"It seems to me," the girl continued, "as if they sigh because they are very sorry to begin life in earnest-just as we be."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000057_000000|"Just as we be?" He looked critically at her.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000057_000001|"You ought not to feel like that, Marty."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000058_000000|Her only reply was turning to take up the next tree; and they planted on through a great part of the day, almost without another word. Winterborne's mind ran on his contemplated evening party, his abstraction being such that he hardly was conscious of Marty's presence beside him.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000058_000001|From the nature of their employment, in which he handled the spade and she merely held the tree, it followed that he got good exercise and she got none.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000058_000003|But when he paused she said, "mr
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000058_000004|Winterborne, can I run down the lane and back to warm my feet?"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000059_000000|"Why, yes, of course," he said, awakening anew to her existence. "Though I was just thinking what a mild day it is for the season.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000059_000001|Now I warrant that cold of yours is twice as bad as it was.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000059_000002|You had no business to chop that hair off, Marty; it serves you almost right. Look here, cut off home at once."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000060_000000|"A run down the lane will be quite enough."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000061_000000|"No, it won't.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000061_000001|You ought not to have come out to day at all."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000062_000000|"But I should like to finish the-"
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000063_000001|"I can manage to keep the rest of them upright with a stick or something."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000064_000000|She went away without saying any more.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000064_000001|When she had gone down the orchard a little distance she looked back.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000064_000002|Giles suddenly went after her.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000065_000000|"Marty, it was for your good that I was rough, you know.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000065_000001|But warm yourself in your own way, I don't care."
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000066_000000|When she had run off he fancied he discerned a woman's dress through the holly bushes which divided the coppice from the road.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000066_000001|It was Grace at last, on her way back from the interview with mrs Charmond.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000066_000002|He threw down the tree he was planting, and was about to break through the belt of holly when he suddenly became aware of the presence of another man, who was looking over the hedge on the opposite side of the way upon the figure of the unconscious Grace.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000066_000003|He appeared as a handsome and gentlemanly personage of six or eight and twenty, and was quizzing her through an eye glass.
train-other-500/3911/8888/3911_8888_000066_000004|Seeing that Winterborne was noticing him, he let his glass drop with a click upon the rail which protected the hedge, and walked away in the opposite direction.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000003_000001|The birch trees in the gardens looked as if they were strewn with green fluff, the wild cherry and the poplars unrolled their long, balmy buds, and in shops and dwelling houses the double window frames were being removed and the windows cleaned.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000005_000001|Policemen, with yellow cords to their uniforms and carrying pistols, were on duty, looking out for some disorder which might distract the ennui that oppressed them.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000005_000002|On the paths of the boulevards and on the newly revived grass, children and dogs ran about, playing, and the nurses sat merrily chattering on the benches.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000005_000004|And the people, dressed in their Sunday best, were passing on their way to their different parish churches.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000006_000000|The isvostchik did not drive Nekhludoff up to the prison itself, but to the last turning that led to the prison.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000007_000002|The huge brick building, the prison proper, was just in front, and the visitors were not allowed to come up to it.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000007_000003|A sentinel was pacing up and down in front of it, and shouted at any one who tried to pass him.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000008_000000|At the gate of the wooden buildings, to the right, opposite the sentinel, sat a warder on a bench, dressed in uniform, with gold cords, a notebook in his hands.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000008_000001|The visitors came up to him, and named the persons they wanted to see, and he put the names down.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000008_000002|Nekhludoff also went up, and named Katerina Maslova.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000008_000003|The warder wrote down the name.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000010_000000|"The service is going on.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000010_000001|When the mass is over, you'll be admitted."
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000011_000000|Nekhludoff stepped aside from the waiting crowd.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000011_000001|A man in tattered clothes, crumpled hat, with bare feet and red stripes all over his face, detached himself from the crowd, and turned towards the prison.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000012_000000|"Now, then, where are you going?" shouted the sentinel with the gun.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000013_000000|"And you hold your row," answered the tramp, not in the least abashed by the sentinel's words, and turned back.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000013_000002|But, no! Must needs shout, as if he were a general."
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000000|The crowd laughed approvingly.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000002|Next to Nekhludoff stood a clean shaven, stout, and red cheeked man, holding a bundle, apparently containing under garments.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000003|This was the doorkeeper of a bank; he had come to see his brother, who was arrested for forgery.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000004|The good-natured fellow told Nekhludoff the whole story of his life, and was going to question him in turn, when their attention was aroused by a student and a veiled lady, who drove up in a trap, with rubber tyres, drawn by a large thoroughbred horse.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000005|The student was holding a large bundle.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000006|He came up to Nekhludoff, and asked if and how he could give the rolls he had brought in alms to the prisoners.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000014_000007|His fiancee wished it (this lady was his fiancee), and her parents had advised them to take some rolls to the prisoners.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000015_000000|"I myself am here for the first time," said Nekhludoff, "and don't know; but I think you had better ask this man," and he pointed to the warder with the gold cords and the book, sitting on the right.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000016_000000|As they were speaking, the large iron door with a window in it opened, and an officer in uniform, followed by another warder, stepped out. The warder with the notebook proclaimed that the admittance of visitors would now commence.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000016_000002|At the door there stood a warder who counted the visitors as they came in, saying aloud, sixteen, seventeen, and so on.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000016_000003|Another warder stood inside the building and also counted the visitors as they entered a second door, touching each one with his hand, so that when they went away again not one visitor should be able to remain inside the prison and not one prisoner might get out.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000016_000004|The warder, without looking at whom he was touching, slapped Nekhludoff on the back, and Nekhludoff felt hurt by the touch of the warder's hand; but, remembering what he had come about, he felt ashamed of feeling dissatisfied and taking offence.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000017_000001|In this room, which was called the meeting room, Nekhludoff was startled by the sight of a large picture of the Crucifixion.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000018_000000|"What's that for?" he thought, his mind involuntarily connecting the subject of the picture with liberation and not with imprisonment.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000019_000000|He went on, slowly letting the hurrying visitors pass before, and experiencing a mingled feeling of horror at the evil doers locked up in this building, compassion for those who, like Katusha and the boy they tried the day before, must be here though guiltless, and shyness and tender emotion at the thought of the interview before him.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000000|Letting the hurrying visitors pass before him, he was the last to get into the interviewing room.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000001|As soon as Nekhludoff opened the door of this room, he was struck by the deafening roar of a hundred voices shouting at once, the reason of which he did not at once understand.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000002|But when he came nearer to the people, he saw that they were all pressing against a net that divided the room in two, like flies settling on sugar, and he understood what it meant.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000003|The two halves of the room, the windows of which were opposite the door he had come in by, were separated, not by one, but by two nets reaching from the floor to the ceiling.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000004|The wire nets were stretched seven feet apart, and soldiers were walking up and down the space between them.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000005|On the further side of the nets were the prisoners, on the nearer, the visitors.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000006|Between them was a double row of nets and a space of seven feet wide, so that they could not hand anything to one another, and any one whose sight was not very good could not even distinguish the face on the other side.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000020_000007|It was also difficult to talk; one had to scream in order to be heard.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000021_000000|On both sides were faces pressed close to the nets, faces of wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, children, trying to see each other's features and to say what was necessary in such a way as to be understood.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000022_000000|But as each one tried to be heard by the one he was talking to, and his neighbour tried to do the same, they did their best to drown each other's voices' and that was the cause of the din and shouting which struck Nekhludoff when he first came in.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000022_000001|It was impossible to understand what was being said and what were the relations between the different people.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000022_000003|By the side of the old woman was a young man in a peasant's coat, who listened, shaking his head, to a boy very like himself.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000022_000005|Next to him a woman, with a good woollen shawl on her shoulders, sat on the floor holding a baby in her lap and crying bitterly.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000022_000006|This was apparently the first time she saw the greyheaded man on the other side in prison clothes, and with his head shaved.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000022_000007|Beyond her was the doorkeeper, who had spoken to Nekhludoff outside; he was shouting with all his might to a greyhaired convict on the other side.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000023_000000|When Nekhludoff found that he would have to speak in similar conditions, a feeling of indignation against those who were able to make and enforce these conditions arose in him; he was surprised that, placed in such a dreadful position, no one seemed offended at this outrage on human feelings.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000023_000001|The soldiers, the inspector, the prisoners themselves, acted as if acknowledging all this to be necessary.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000024_000000|Nekhludoff remained in this room for about five minutes, feeling strangely depressed, conscious of how powerless he was, and at variance with all the world.
train-other-500/3912/3831/3912_3831_000024_000001|He was seized with a curious moral sensation like seasickness.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000001_000000|What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself, after starting from midnight slumber!
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000001_000001|By unclosing your eyes so suddenly you seem to have surprised the personages of your dream in full convocation round your bed, and catch one broad glance at them before they can flit into obscurity.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000001_000002|Or, to vary the metaphor, you find yourself for a single instant wide awake in that realm of illusions whither sleep has been the passport, and behold its ghostly inhabitants and wondrous scenery with a perception of their strangeness such as you never attain while the dream is undisturbed. The distant sound of a church clock is borne faintly on the wind.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000002_000000|If you could choose an hour of wakefulness out of the whole night, it would be this.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000002_000002|The moment of rising belongs to another period of time, and appears so distant that the plunge out of a warm bed into the frosty air cannot yet be anticipated with dismay.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000002_000004|You have found an intermediate space where the business of life does not intrude, where the passing moment lingers and becomes truly the present; a spot where Father Time, when he thinks nobody is watching him, sits down by the wayside to take breath.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000002_000005|Oh that he would fall asleep and let mortals live on without growing older!
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000003_000001|Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half drawn window curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frost work, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000003_000002|There will be time enough to trace out the analogy while waiting the summons to breakfast.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000003_000006|Yet look at that one glorious star!
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000003_000007|Its beams are distinguishable from all the rest, and actually cast the shadow of the casement on the bed with a radiance of deeper hue than moonlight, though not so accurate an outline.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000004_000001|It is too cold even for the thoughts to venture abroad. You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction, and drowsily conscious of nothing but delicious warmth such as you now feel again.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000004_000002|Ah! that idea has brought a hideous one in its train.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000004_000004|That gloomy thought will collect a gloomy multitude and throw its complexion over your wakeful hour.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000000|In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music and revelry, above may cause us to forget their existence and the buried ones or prisoners whom they hide.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000001|But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000003|It is too late.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000004|A funeral train comes gliding by your bed in which passion and feeling assume bodily shape and things of the mind become dim spectres to the eye.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000006|Next appears a shade of ruined loveliness with dust among her golden hair and her bright garments all faded and defaced, stealing from your glance with drooping head, as fearful of reproach: she was your fondest hope, but a delusive one; so call her Disappointment now.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000008|Do you remember any act of enormous folly at which you would blush even in the remotest cavern of the earth?
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000005_000009|Then recognize your shame.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000006_000000|Pass, wretched band!
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000006_000002|What if Remorse should assume the features of an injured friend?
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000006_000003|What if the fiend should come in woman's garments with a pale beauty amid sin and desolation, and lie down by your side?
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000006_000004|What if he should stand at your bed's foot in the likeness of a corpse with a bloody stain upon the shroud?
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000006_000005|Sufficient without such guilt is this nightmare of the soul, this heavy, heavy sinking of the spirits, this wintry gloom about the heart, this indistinct horror of the mind blending itself with the darkness of the chamber.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000007_000000|By a desperate effort you start upright, breaking from a sort of conscious sleep and gazing wildly round the bed, as if the fiends were anywhere but in your haunted mind.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000007_000001|At the same moment the slumbering embers on the hearth send forth a gleam which palely illuminates the whole outer room and flickers through the door of the bedchamber, but cannot quite dispel its obscurity.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000007_000002|Your eye searches for whatever may remind you of the living world.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000007_000003|With eager minuteness you take note of the table near the fireplace, the book with an ivory knife between its leaves, the unfolded letter, the hat and the fallen glove.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000007_000004|Soon the flame vanishes, and with it the whole scene is gone, though its image remains an instant in your mind's eye when darkness has swallowed the reality.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000007_000005|Throughout the chamber there is the same obscurity as before, but not the same gloom within your breast.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000008_000001|Her influence is over you, though she have no existence but in that momentary image.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000008_000002|You sink down in a flowery spot on the borders of sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in pictures, all disconnected, yet all assimilated by a pervading gladsomeness and beauty.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000008_000003|The wheeling of gorgeous squadrons that glitter in the sun is succeeded by the merriment of children round the door of a schoolhouse beneath the glimmering shadow of old trees at the corner of a rustic lane.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000008_000004|You stand in the sunny rain of a summer shower, and wander among the sunny trees of an autumnal wood, and look upward at the brightest of all rainbows overarching the unbroken sheet of snow on the American side of Niagara.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000009_000001|In both you emerge from mystery, pass through a vicissitude that you can but imperfectly control, and are borne onward to another mystery.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000009_000003|It is the knell of a temporary death.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000009_000004|Your spirit has departed, and strays like a free citizen among the people of a shadowy world, beholding strange sights, yet without wonder or dismay.
train-other-500/3912/77626/3912_77626_000009_000005|So calm, perhaps, will be the final change-so undisturbed, as if among familiar things, the entrance of the soul to its eternal home.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000003_000000|Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were kept, and washed herself there in a clear stream.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000003_000001|It happened once when the child was a little older, that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000003_000002|Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing, and stole it away, and he took a hen, and cut it in pieces, and dropped some of its blood on the queen's apron and on her dress.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000003_000004|When the king saw the blood on her apron, he believed this, fell into such a passion that he ordered a high tower to be built, in which neither sun nor moon could be seen and had his wife put into it, and walled up.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000003_000005|Here she was to stay for seven years without meat or drink, and die of hunger.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000003_000006|But God sent two angels from heaven in the shape of white doves, which flew to her twice a day, and carried her food until the seven years were over.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000004_000001|The two played together, and loved each other with all their hearts, and the old cook went out hunting like a nobleman.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000004_000002|The thought occurred to him, however, that the king's son might some day wish to be with his father, and thus bring him into great peril.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000004_000005|The king's son remained there a short while longer, and he thought of his mother, and wondered if she were still alive.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000004_000009|Then he mounted up and looked inside, and cried: 'Beloved mother, Lady Queen, are you still alive, or are you dead?' She answered: 'I have just eaten, and am still satisfied,' for she thought the angels were there.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000004_000011|The king said yes, if he was skilful and could get game for him, he should come to him, but that deer had never taken up their quarters in any part of the district or country.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000004_000012|Then the huntsman promised to procure as much game for him as he could possibly use at the royal table.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000005_000002|Whilst he was sitting there, he thought of his dearest mother, and wished that one of the king's principal servants would begin to speak of her, and would ask how it was faring with the queen in the tower, and if she were alive still, or had perished.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000005_000003|Hardly had he formed the wish than the marshal began, and said: 'Your majesty, we live joyously here, but how is the queen living in the tower?
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000005_000005|On this the huntsman asked the king if he would like to see the dog in his true shape, and wished him back into the form of the cook, in the which he stood immediately, with his white apron, and his knife by his side.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000005_000006|When the king saw him he fell into a passion, and ordered him to be cast into the deepest dungeon.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000006_000000|And the king sent two waiting maids and two attendants into the tower, to fetch the queen and bring her to the royal table.
train-other-500/3912/82271/3912_82271_000006_000002|The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king's own heart, and he soon died.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000000_000000|CHAPTER twenty four.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000001_000000|HE GOT up in the morning as soon as he heard the men moving in the yard. He tucked in his little brother so that he could not tumble out of bed, and then went out, leaving the door open, so that if he should cry his mother might hear him at once.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000001_000001|When he got into the yard he found the stable door just opened.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000002_000000|"I'm the early bird, I think," he said to himself.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000002_000001|"I hope I shall catch the worm."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000000|He would not ask any one to help him, fearing his project might meet with disapproval and opposition.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000001|With great difficulty, but with the help of a broken chair he brought down from his bedroom, he managed to put the harness on Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000002|If the old horse had had the least objection to the proceeding, of course he could not have done it; but even when it came to the bridle, he opened his mouth for the bit, just as if he had been taking the apple which Diamond sometimes gave him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000003|He fastened the cheek strap very carefully, just in the usual hole, for fear of choking his friend, or else letting the bit get amongst his teeth.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000004|It was a job to get the saddle on; but with the chair he managed it.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000006|The collar was almost the worst part of the business; but there Diamond could help Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000007|He held his head very low till his little master had got it over and turned it round, and then he lifted his head, and shook it on to his shoulders.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000003_000008|The yoke was rather difficult; but when he had laid the traces over the horse's neck, the weight was not too much for him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000004_000000|By this time there were several of the men watching him, but they would not interfere, they were so anxious to see how he would get over the various difficulties.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000004_000001|They followed him as far as the stable door, and there stood watching him again as he put the horse between the shafts, got them up one after the other into the loops, fastened the traces, the belly band, the breeching, and the reins.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000005_000000|Then he got his whip.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000005_000001|The moment he mounted the box, the men broke into a hearty cheer of delight at his success.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000005_000002|But they would not let him go without a general inspection of the harness; and although they found it right, for not a buckle had to be shifted, they never allowed him to do it for himself again all the time his father was ill.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000006_000000|The cheer brought his mother to the window, and there she saw her little boy setting out alone with the cab in the gray of morning.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000006_000001|She tugged at the window, but it was stiff; and before she could open it, Diamond, who was in a great hurry, was out of the mews, and almost out of the street. She called "Diamond!
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000008_000000|"But he won't upset the cab, will he, Jack?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000009_000000|"Not he, ma'am.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000009_000001|Leastways he won't go for to do it."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000010_000000|"I know as much as that myself.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000010_000001|What do you mean?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000011_000000|"I mean he's a little likely to do it as the oldest man in the stable. How's the gov'nor to day, ma'am?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000012_000000|"A good deal better, thank you," she answered, closing the window in some fear lest her husband should have been made anxious by the news of Diamond's expedition.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000012_000002|But as the evening drew on, the anxiety of both of them increased, and every sound of wheels made his father raise himself in his bed, and his mother peep out of the window.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000013_000000|Diamond had resolved to go straight to the cab stand where he was best known, and never to crawl for fear of getting annoyed by idlers.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000013_000001|Before he got across Oxford Street, however, he was hailed by a man who wanted to catch a train, and was in too great a hurry to think about the driver.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000013_000002|Having carried him to King's Cross in good time, and got a good fare in return, he set off again in great spirits, and reached the stand in safety.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000013_000003|He was the first there after all.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000014_000000|As the men arrived they all greeted him kindly, and inquired after his father.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000016_000000|"No, he wouldn't run away with me," answered Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000016_000001|"He knows I'm getting the shillings for father.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000016_000002|Or if he did he would only run home."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000018_000000|"Thank you, sir," said Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000018_000001|"I'll do what I can.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000019_000000|In the course of the day one man did try to cut him out, but he was a stranger; and the shout the rest of them raised let him see it would not do, and made him so far ashamed besides, that he went away crawling.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000020_000000|Once, in a block, a policeman came up to him, and asked him for his number.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000020_000001|Diamond showed him his father's badge, saying with a smile:
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000021_000000|"Father's ill at home, and so I came out with the cab.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000021_000001|There's no fear of me.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000021_000002|I can drive.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000021_000003|Besides, the old horse could go alone."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000022_000000|"Just as well, I daresay.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000022_000003|"I don't know as I ought to let you go."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000023_000001|"It's not my fault I'm no bigger. I'm big enough for my age."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000024_000000|"That's where it is," said the man.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000024_000001|"You ain't fit."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000025_000000|"How do you know that?" asked Diamond, with his usual smile, and turning his head like a little bird.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000026_000000|"Why, how are you to get out of this ruck now, when it begins to move?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000027_000000|"Just you get up on the box," said Diamond, "and I'll show you.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000027_000001|There, that van's a moving now.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000027_000002|Jump up."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000028_000000|The policeman did as Diamond told him, and was soon satisfied that the little fellow could drive.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000029_000001|Good luck to you, my little man!"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000030_000000|"Thank you, sir," said Diamond, and drove away.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000031_000000|In a few minutes a gentleman hailed him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000032_000000|"Are you the driver of this cab?" he asked.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000033_000000|"Yes, sir" said Diamond, showing his badge, of which, he was proud.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000034_000000|"You're the youngest cabman I ever saw.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000034_000001|How am I to know you won't break all my bones?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000035_000001|"But if you're afraid, never mind me; I shall soon get another fare."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000036_000000|"I'll risk it," said the gentleman; and, opening the door himself, he jumped in.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000037_000000|He was going a good distance, and soon found that Diamond got him over the ground well.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000037_000002|He had given up all hope of finding it out for himself, and he could not plague his father about it when he was ill.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000037_000003|He had thought of the answer himself, but fancied it could not be the right one, for to see how it all fitted required some knowledge of physiology.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000037_000004|So, when he reached the end of his journey, he got down very quickly, and with his head just looking in at the window, said, as the gentleman gathered his gloves and newspapers:
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000038_000000|"Please, sir, can you tell me the meaning of a riddle?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000039_000000|"You must tell me the riddle first," answered the gentleman, amused.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000040_000000|Diamond repeated the riddle.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000041_000000|"Oh! that's easy enough," he returned.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000041_000001|"It's a tree."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000042_000000|"Well, it ain't got no mouth, sure enough; but how then does it eat all day long?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000043_000000|"It sucks in its food through the tiniest holes in its leaves," he answered.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000043_000001|"Its breath is its food.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000043_000002|And it can't do it except in the daylight."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000044_000000|"Thank you, sir, thank you," returned Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000044_000001|"I'm sorry I couldn't find it out myself; mr Raymond would have been better pleased with me."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000045_000000|"But you needn't tell him any one told you."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000046_000000|Diamond gave him a stare which came from the very back of the north wind, where that kind of thing is unknown.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000047_000000|"That would be cheating," he said at last.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000048_000000|"Ain't you a cabby, then?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000049_000000|"Cabbies don't cheat."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000050_000000|"Don't they?
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000050_000001|I am of a different opinion."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000051_000000|"I'm sure my father don't."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000052_000000|"What's your fare, young innocent?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000053_000000|"Well, I think the distance is a good deal over three miles-that's two shillings.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000053_000001|Only father says sixpence a mile is too little, though we can't ask for more."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000054_000000|"You're a deep one.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000054_000001|But I think you're wrong.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000054_000002|It's over four miles-not much, but it is."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000055_000000|"Then that's half a crown," said Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000056_000000|"Well, here's three shillings.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000056_000001|Will that do?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000057_000000|"Thank you kindly, sir.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000057_000001|I'll tell my father how good you were to me-first to tell me my riddle, then to put me right about the distance, and then to give me sixpence over.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000058_000000|"I hope it may, my man.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000058_000001|I shouldn't wonder if you're as good as you look, after all."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000000|As Diamond returned, he drew up at a stand he had never been on before: it was time to give Diamond his bag of chopped beans and oats.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000001|The men got about him, and began to chaff him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000002|He took it all good humouredly, until one of them, who was an ill conditioned fellow, began to tease old Diamond by poking him roughly in the ribs, and making general game of him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000003|That he could not bear, and the tears came in his eyes.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000004|He undid the nose bag, put it in the boot, and was just going to mount and drive away, when the fellow interfered, and would not let him get up.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000005|Diamond endeavoured to persuade him, and was very civil, but he would have his fun out of him, as he said.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000059_000006|In a few minutes a group of idle boys had assembled, and Diamond found himself in a very uncomfortable position. Another cab drew up at the stand, and the driver got off and approached the assemblage.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000060_000000|"What's up here?" he asked, and Diamond knew the voice.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000060_000001|It was that of the drunken cabman.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000061_000001|He pretends to drive a cab," said his enemy.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000062_000000|"Yes, I do see him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000062_000001|And I sees you too.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000062_000002|You'd better leave him alone.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000062_000003|He ain't no oyster.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000062_000004|He's a angel come down on his own business.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000062_000005|You be off, or I'll be nearer you than quite agreeable."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000063_000000|The drunken cabman was a tall, stout man, who did not look one to take liberties with.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000064_000000|"Oh! if he's a friend of yours," said the other, drawing back.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000065_000000|Diamond got out the nose bag again.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000065_000001|Old Diamond should have his feed out now.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000066_000000|"Yes, he is a friend o' mine.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000066_000002|It's a pity he ain't a friend o' yourn.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000067_000000|When Diamond went home at night, he carried with him one pound one shilling and sixpence, besides a few coppers extra, which had followed some of the fares.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000068_000000|His mother had got very anxious indeed-so much so that she was almost afraid, when she did hear the sound of his cab, to go and look, lest she should be yet again disappointed, and should break down before her husband.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000068_000001|But there was the old horse, and there was the cab all right, and there was Diamond in the box, his pale face looking triumphant as a full moon in the twilight.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000069_000000|When he drew up at the stable door, Jack came out, and after a good many friendly questions and congratulations, said:
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000070_000000|"You go in to your mother, Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000070_000002|I'll take care on him.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000070_000003|He do deserve some small attention, he do."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000071_000000|"Thank you, Jack," said Diamond, and bounded into the house, and into the arms of his mother, who was waiting him at the top of the stair.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000072_000000|The poor, anxious woman led him into his own room, sat down on his bed, took him on her lap as if he had been a baby, and cried.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000073_000000|"How's father?" asked Diamond, almost afraid to ask.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000074_000000|"Better, my child," she answered, "but uneasy about you, my dear."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000075_000000|"Didn't you tell him I was the early bird gone out to catch the worm?"
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000076_000000|"That was what put it in your head, was it, you monkey?" said his mother, beginning to get better.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000077_000000|"That or something else," answered Diamond, so very quietly that his mother held his head back and stared in his face.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000078_000000|"Well! of all the children!" she said, and said no more.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000079_000000|"And here's my worm," resumed Diamond.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000080_000000|But to see her face as he poured the shillings and sixpences and pence into her lap!
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000080_000001|She burst out crying a second time, and ran with the money to her husband.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000081_000000|And how pleased he was!
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000081_000001|It did him no end of good.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000082_000000|"Baby, baby!
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000082_000001|I haven't seen you for a whole year."
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000083_000000|And then he began to sing to him as usual.
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000084_000000|THE TRUE STORY OF THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE
train-other-500/392/131210/392_131210_000088_000000|Hey ho!
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000001_000000|They entered with the night, a sullen horde, spattered with slime, faint with hunger and exhaustion.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000001_000001|There was little disorder at first, and the throng at the gates parted silently as the troops tramped along the freezing streets.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000001_000002|Confusion came as the hours passed.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000001_000003|Swiftly and more swiftly, crowding squadron after squadron and battery on battery, horses plunging and caissons jolting, the remnants from the front surged through the gates, a chaos of cavalry and artillery struggling for the right of way.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000002_000000|Dumb with misery the crowd looked on.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000003_000000|All through the day the ambulances had been arriving, and all day long the ragged throng whimpered and shivered by the barriers.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000003_000001|At noon the crowd was increased ten fold, filling the squares about the gates, and swarming over the inner fortifications.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000005_000000|Braith was painting in bed when West came in very much scared.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000007_000000|Braith jumped out of bed and bundled himself into a garment which had once been an overcoat.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000008_000000|"Anybody hurt?" he inquired, struggling with a sleeve full of dilapidated lining.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000009_000000|"no
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000009_000001|Colette is barricaded in the cellar, and the concierge ran away to the fortifications.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000009_000002|There will be a rough gang there if the bombardment keeps up.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000009_000003|You might help us-"
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000011_000000|"No," replied Braith, looking troubled, "he was not at Ambulance Headquarters."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000012_000000|"He stayed to take care of Sylvia, I suppose."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000013_000000|A bomb came crashing through the roof of a house at the end of the alley and burst in the basement, showering the street with slate and plaster.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000013_000001|A second struck a chimney and plunged into the garden, followed by an avalanche of bricks, and another exploded with a deafening report in the next street.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000014_000000|They hurried along the passage to the steps which led to the cellar.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000014_000001|Here again Braith stopped.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000015_000000|"Don't you think I had better run up to see if Jack and Sylvia are well entrenched?
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000015_000001|I can get back before dark."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000016_000000|"no
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000016_000001|Go in and find Colette, and I'll go."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000017_000000|"No, no, let me go, there's no danger."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000018_000000|"I know it," replied West calmly; and, dragging Braith into the alley, pointed to the cellar steps.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000018_000001|The iron door was barred.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000019_000000|"Colette!
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000019_000001|Colette!" he called.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000019_000002|The door swung inward, and the girl sprang up the stairs to meet them.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000019_000003|At that instant, Braith, glancing behind him, gave a startled cry, and pushing the two before him into the cellar, jumped down after them and slammed the iron door.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000019_000004|A few seconds later a heavy jar from the outside shook the hinges.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000020_000000|"They are here," muttered West, very pale.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000022_000000|Braith examined the low iron structure, now trembling with the blows rained on it from without.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000022_000001|West glanced anxiously at Colette, who displayed no agitation, and this comforted him.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000023_000000|"I don't believe they will spend much time here," said Braith; "they only rummage in cellars for spirits, I imagine."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000024_000000|"Unless they hear that valuables are buried there."
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000025_000000|"But surely nothing is buried here?" exclaimed Braith uneasily.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000026_000000|"Unfortunately there is," growled West.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000026_000001|"That miserly landlord of mine-"
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000027_000000|A crash from the outside, followed by a yell, cut him short; then blow after blow shook the doors, until there came a sharp snap, a clinking of metal and a triangular bit of iron fell inwards, leaving a hole through which struggled a ray of light.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000028_000000|Instantly West knelt, and shoving his revolver through the aperture fired every cartridge.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000028_000001|For a moment the alley resounded with the racket of the revolver, then absolute silence followed.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000029_000000|Presently a single questioning blow fell upon the door, and a moment later another and another, and then a sudden crack zigzagged across the iron plate.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000030_000000|"Here," said West, seizing Colette by the wrist, "you follow me, Braith!" and he ran swiftly toward a circular spot of light at the further end of the cellar.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000030_000001|The spot of light came from a barred man hole above.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000031_000000|"Push it over.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000032_000000|With little effort Braith lifted the barred cover, scrambled out on his stomach, and easily raised Colette from West's shoulders.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000033_000000|"Quick, old chap!" cried the latter.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000034_000000|Braith twisted his legs around a fence chain and leaned down again.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000034_000001|The cellar was flooded with a yellow light, and the air reeked with the stench of petroleum torches.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000034_000002|The iron door still held, but a whole plate of metal was gone, and now as they looked a figure came creeping through, holding a torch.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000000|"Quick!" whispered Braith.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000001|"Jump!" and West hung dangling until Colette grasped him by the collar, and he was dragged out.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000003|It was almost dark.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000004|They hurried through the street, now only lighted by burning buildings, or the swift glare of the shells.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000006|Sometimes they passed a female fury crazed with drink shrieking anathemas upon the world, or some slouching lout whose blackened face and hands betrayed his share in the work of destruction.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000007|At last they reached the Seine and passed the bridge, and then Braith said: "I must go back.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000008|I am not sure of Jack and Sylvia." As he spoke, he made way for a crowd which came trampling across the bridge, and along the river wall by the d'Orsay barracks.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000010|A lantern passed, a file of bayonets, then another lantern which glimmered on a deathly face behind, and Colette gasped, "Hartman!" and he was gone.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000035_000011|They peered fearfully across the embankment, holding their breath.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000036_000001|Down from the Champs Elysees and across the Place de la Concorde straggled the fragments of the battle, a company here, and a mob there.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000037_000000|A ragged end of a battalion was pressing past, the spectre of annihilation.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000037_000001|West groaned.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000037_000002|Then a figure sprang from the shadowy ranks and called West's name, and when he saw it was Trent he cried out.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000037_000003|Trent seized him, white with terror.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000038_000000|"Sylvia?"
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000039_000000|West stared speechless, but Colette moaned, "Oh, Sylvia!
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000039_000001|Sylvia!--and they are shelling the Quarter!"
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000041_000001|The cafe was a wreck of splinters and glass, the book store tottered, ripped from roof to basement, and the little bakery, long since closed, bulged outward above a mass of slate and tin.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000044_000000|The letters stared him in the face.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000044_000001|The rat killer finished and stepped back to view his work, but catching sight of Trent's bayonet, screamed and fled, and as Trent staggered across the shattered street, from holes and crannies in the ruins fierce women fled from their work of pillage, cursing him.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000000|At first he could not find his house, for the tears blinded him, but he felt along the wall and reached the door.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000001|A lantern burned in the concierge's lodge and the old man lay dead beside it.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000002|Faint with fright he leaned a moment on his rifle, then, snatching the lantern, sprang up the stairs.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000003|He tried to call, but his tongue hardly moved.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000004|On the second floor he saw plaster on the stairway, and on the third the floor was torn and the concierge lay in a pool of blood across the landing.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000006|The door hung from its hinges, the walls gaped.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000045_000007|He crept in and sank down by the bed, and there two arms were flung around his neck, and a tear stained face sought his own.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000046_000000|"Sylvia!"
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000047_000001|Jack!
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000048_000000|From the tumbled pillow beside them a child wailed.
train-other-500/392/289427/392_289427_000049_000000|"They brought it; it is mine," she sobbed.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000000_000000|NOTE.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000001_000000|Of the many fair scenes of Yedo, none is better worth visiting than the temple of Zojoji, one of the two great burial places of the Shoguns; indeed, if you wish to see the most beautiful spots of any Oriental city, ask for the cemeteries: the homes of the dead are ever the loveliest places.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000001_000003|At these the visitor is warned by a notice to take off his boots, a request which Englishmen, with characteristic disregard of the feelings of others, usually neglect to comply with.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000002_000001|Iyeyasu, seeing that the Abbot was no ordinary man, stopped and asked his name, and entered the temple to rest himself.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000002_000002|The smooth spoken monk soon found such favour with Iyeyasu, that he chose Zojoji to be his family temple; and seeing that its grounds were narrow and inconveniently near the castle, he caused it to be removed to its present site.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000002_000004|Nor were the privileges of the temple confined to barren honours, for it was endowed with lands of the value of five thousand kokus of rice yearly.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000005_000000|The shrines are of exceeding beauty, lying on one side of a splendid avenue of Scotch firs, which border a broad, well kept gravel walk. Passing through a small gateway of rare design, we come into a large stone courtyard, lined with a long array of colossal stone lanterns, the gift of the vassals of the departed Prince.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000005_000002|Inside this is a third court, partly covered like a cloister, the approach to which is a doorway of even greater beauty and richness than the last; the ceiling is gilt, and painted with arabesques and with heavenly angels playing on musical instruments, and the panels of the walls are sculptured in high relief with admirable representations of birds and flowers, life-size, life like, all being coloured to imitate nature.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000005_000003|Inside this enclosure stands a shrine, before the closed door of which a priest on one side, and a retainer of the house of Tokugawa on the other, sit mounting guard, mute and immovable as though they themselves were part of the carved ornaments.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000005_000004|Passing on one side of the shrine, we come to another court, plainer than the last, and at the back of the little temple inside it is a flight of stone steps, at the top of which, protected by a bronze door, stands a simple monumental urn of bronze on a stone pedestal.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000005_000005|Under this is the grave itself; and it has always struck me that there is no small amount of poetical feeling in this simple ending to so much magnificence; the sermon may have been preached by design, or it may have been by accident, but the lesson is there.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000006_000000|There is little difference between the three shrines, all of which are decorated in the same manner.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000006_000001|It is very difficult to do justice to their beauty in words.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000000|The temples in Yedo are not to be compared in point of beauty with those in and about Peking; what is marble there is wood here.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000001|Still they are very handsome, and in the days of its magnificence the Temple of Uyeno was one of the finest.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000005|Among these is a temple in the form of a roofless stage, in honour of the thousand handed Kwannon.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000007|His retreat having been discovered, he was seized and brought bound to Kamakura, the chief town of the house of Gen.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000010|To him this temple is dedicated.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000011|A colossal bronze Buddha, twenty two feet high, set up some two hundred years ago, and a stone lantern, twenty feet high, and twelve feet round at the top, are greatly admired by the Japanese.
train-other-500/3925/57460/3925_57460_000010_000012|There are only three such lanterns in the empire; the other two being at Nanzenji-a temple in Kiyoto, and Atsura, a shrine in the province of Owari.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000001_000000|Chapter twenty.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000002_000000|THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000003_000000|Confirmation is a Sacrament in which, through the imposition of the Bishop's hands, unction and prayer, baptized persons receive the Holy Ghost, that they may steadfastly profess their faith and lead upright lives.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000005_000000|Frequent mention is made of this Sacrament in the Holy Scripture.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000009_000000|It cannot be asserted that the laying on of hands and the graces which followed from it, as recorded in the Acts, were not intended to be continued after the Apostles' times, for there is no warrant for such an assumption.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000009_000002|Hence the successors of the Apostles in the nineteenth century have precisely the same authority and obligation to confirm as they have to preach, to baptize or to ordain.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000010_000000|Those who were confirmed by the Apostles usually gave evidence of the grace which they received by prophecy, the gift of tongues and the manifestation of other miraculous powers.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000010_000001|It may be asked: Why do not these gifts accompany now the imposition of hands?
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000010_000002|I answer: Because they are no longer needed.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000010_000003|The grace which the Apostolic disciples received was for their personal sanctification.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000010_000004|The gift of tongues which they exercised was intended by Almighty God to edify and enlighten the spectators, and to give Divine sanction to the Apostolic ministry.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000010_000006|But after it had taken root in the hearts of the people and spread its branches over the earth it was left to the ordinary agencies of Providence.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000011_000000|saint Augustine writes also on the same subject: "In the first days (of the Church) the Holy Ghost came down on believers, and they spoke in tongues which they had not learned....
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000011_000003|If, then, there be not now a testimony to the presence of the Holy Spirit by means of these miracles, whence is it proved that he has received the Holy Spirit?
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000012_000000|Following in the footsteps of the Apostles we find the Fathers of the Church, from the earliest age, recognizing Confirmation as a Divine and sacramental institution and proclaiming its salutary effects.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000015_000000|saint Cyril of Jerusalem compares the sacred Chrism in Confirmation to the Eucharist: "You were anointed with oil, being made sharers and partners of Christ.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000015_000001|And see well that you regard it not as mere ointment; for, as the bread of the Eucharist, after the invocation of the Holy Ghost, is no longer mere bread but the body of Christ, so likewise this holy ointment is no longer common ointment after the invocation, but the gift of Christ and of the Holy Ghost, being rendered efficient by His Divinity.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000015_000002|You were anointed on the forehead, that you might be delivered from the shame which the first transgressor always experienced, and that you might contemplate the glory of God with an unveiled countenance....
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000016_000002|twenty two) expressly applies the text to the seal of Confirmation.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000016_000003|"Remember," he says, "that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and fortitude, the spirit of knowledge and piety, the spirit of holy fear.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000018_000001|Do you ask where it is written?
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000020_000000|The Oriental schismatic churches recognize Confirmation as a Sacrament, and administer the rite as we do, by the imposition of hands and the application of chrism.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000020_000001|Now, some of these churches have been separated from the Catholic Church since the fourth and fifth centuries.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000020_000002|This fact is an eloquent vindication of the Apostolic antiquity of Confirmation, and is an ample refutation of those who would ascribe to it a more recent origin.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000022_000001|But, in opposition to the uniform teaching of the Catholic, as well as of all the Oriental churches, both orthodox and schismatic, it declares Confirmation to be a mere rite and not a Sacrament.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000023_000000|In violation of the practice of all antiquity it mutilates the rite by omitting the sacred unction.
train-other-500/3925/57660/3925_57660_000023_000001|It retains the shadow without the substance.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000001_000000|PHINEAS FINN IS re-elected.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000000|The manner in which Phineas Finn was returned a second time for the borough of Tankerville was memorable among the annals of English elections.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000002|At Tankerville there was nothing of either, and our hero's guilt was taken as a certainty. There was an interest felt in the whole matter which was full of excitement, and not altogether without delight to the Tankervillians. Of course the borough, as a borough, would never again hold up its head.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000003|There had never been known such an occurrence in the whole history of this country as the hanging of a member of the House of Commons.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000004|And this Member of Parliament was to be hung for murdering another member, which, no doubt, added much to the importance of the transaction.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000005|A large party in the borough declared that it was a judgment.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000006|Tankerville had degraded itself among boroughs by sending a Roman Catholic to Parliament, and had done so at the very moment in which the Church of England was being brought into danger. This was what had come upon the borough by not sticking to honest mr Browborough!
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000007|There was a moment,--just before the trial was begun,--in which a large proportion of the electors was desirous of proceeding to work at once, and of sending mr Browborough back to his own place.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000008|It was thought that Phineas Finn should be made to resign.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000010|Now it was held to be impossible that a man charged with murder should be appointed even to the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000002_000011|The House, no doubt, could expel a member, and would, as a matter of course, expel the member for Tankerville,--but the House could hardly proceed to expulsion before the member's guilt could have been absolutely established.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000000|Then, quite suddenly, there came into the borough the tidings that Phineas Finn was an innocent man.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000001|This happened on the morning on which the three telegrams from Prague reached London.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000002|The news conveyed by the telegrams was at Tankerville almost as soon as in the Court at the Old Bailey, and was believed as readily.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000003|The name of the lady who had travelled all the way to Bohemia on behalf of their handsome young member was on the tongue of every woman in Tankerville, and a most delightful romance was composed.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000004|Some few Protestant spirits regretted the now assured escape of their Roman Catholic enemy, and would not even yet allow themselves to doubt that the whole murder had been arranged by Divine Providence to bring down the scarlet woman.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000005|It seemed to them to be so fitting a thing that Providence should interfere directly to punish a town in which the sins of the scarlet woman were not held to be abominable!
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000006|But the multitude were soon convinced that their member was innocent; and as it was certain that he had been in great peril,--as it was known that he was still in durance, and as it was necessary that the trial should proceed, and that he should still stand at least for another day in the dock,--he became more than ever a hero.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000007|Then came the further delay, and at last the triumphant conclusion of the trial. When acquitted, Phineas Finn was still member for Tankerville and might have walked into the House on that very night.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000008|Instead of doing so he had at once asked for the accustomed means of escape from his servitude, and the seat for Tankerville was vacant.
train-other-500/3926/174988/3926_174988_000003_000009|The most loving friends of mr Browborough perceived at once that there was not a chance for him.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000019_000005|It made things plainer, suddenly, to my curiosity.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000019_000006|It was as if I thought, at that moment, of a windy November evening, that, when I came to think it over afterwards, a dozen unexplained things would fit themselves into place. But I wasn't thinking things over then.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000019_000007|I remember that distinctly.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000019_000008|I was just sitting back, rather stiffly, in a deep arm chair.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000019_000009|That is what I remember.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000019_000010|It was twilight.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000000|Branshaw Manor lies in a little hollow with lawns across it and pine woods on the fringe of the dip.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000001|The immense wind, coming from across the forest, roared overhead.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000002|But the view from the window was perfectly quiet and grey.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000003|Not a thing stirred, except a couple of rabbits on the extreme edge of the lawn.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000004|It was Leonora's own little study that we were in and we were waiting for the tea to be brought.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000005|I, as I said, was sitting in the deep chair, Leonora was standing in the window twirling the wooden acorn at the end of the window blind cord desultorily round and round.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000020_000006|She looked across the lawn and said, as far as I can remember:
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000021_000000|"Edward has been dead only ten days and yet there are rabbits on the lawn."
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000022_000000|I understand that rabbits do a great deal of harm to the short grass in England.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000022_000001|And then she turned round to me and said without any adornment at all, for I remember her exact words:
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000023_000000|"I think it was stupid of Florence to commit suicide."
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000000|I cannot tell you the extraordinary sense of leisure that we two seemed to have at that moment.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000001|It wasn't as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn't as if we were waiting for a meal-it was just that there was nothing to wait for.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000002|Nothing.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000003|There was an extreme stillness with the remote and intermittent sound of the wind.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000004|There was the grey light in that brown, small room.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000005|And there appeared to be nothing else in the world.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000006|I knew then that Leonora was about to let me into her full confidence.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000007|It was as if-or no, it was the actual fact that-Leonora with an odd English sense of decency had determined to wait until Edward had been in his grave for a full week before she spoke.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000008|And with some vague motive of giving her an idea of the extent to which she must permit herself to make confidences, I said slowly-and these words too I remember with exactitude-"Did Florence commit suicide?
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000024_000009|I didn't know."
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000025_000000|I was just, you understand, trying to let her know that, if she were going to speak she would have to talk about a much wider range of things than she had before thought necessary.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000026_000001|It had never entered my head.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000026_000002|You may think that I had been singularly lacking in suspiciousness; you may consider me even to have been an imbecile.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000026_000003|But consider the position.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000027_000000|In such circumstances of clamour, of outcry, of the crash of many people running together, of the professional reticence of such people as hotel keepers, the traditional reticence of such "good people" as the Ashburnhams-in such circumstances it is some little material object, always, that catches the eye and that appeals to the imagination.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000028_000000|Seeing Florence, as I had seen her, running with a white face and with one hand held over her heart, and seeing her, as I immediately afterwards saw her, lying upon her bed with the so familiar little brown flask clenched in her fingers, it was natural enough for my mind to frame the idea.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000028_000001|As happened now and again, I thought, she had gone out without her remedy and, having felt an attack coming on whilst she was in the gardens, she had run in to get the nitrate in order, as quickly as possible, to obtain relief.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000028_000002|And it was equally inevitable my mind should frame the thought that her heart, unable to stand the strain of the running, should have broken in her side.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000028_000003|How could I have known that, during all the years of our married life, that little brown flask had contained, not nitrate of amyl, but prussic acid?
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000028_000004|It was inconceivable.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000029_000000|Why, not even Edward Ashburnham, who was, after all more intimate with her than I was, had an inkling of the truth.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000029_000001|He just thought that she had dropped dead of heart disease.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000029_000003|I mention these last three because my recollection of that night is only the sort of pinkish effulgence from the electric lamps in the hotel lounge.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000029_000004|There seemed to bob into my consciousness, like floating globes, the faces of those three.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000029_000005|Now it would be the bearded, monarchical, benevolent head of the Grand Duke; then the sharp featured, brown, cavalry moustached feature of the chief of police; then the globular, polished and high collared vacuousness that represented Monsieur Schontz, the proprietor of the hotel.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000029_000008|That was how it presented itself to me.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000030_000000|They seemed to take no notice of me; I don't suppose that I was even addressed by one of them.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000031_000000|And I thought nothing; absolutely nothing.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000031_000001|I had no ideas; I had no strength.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000031_000002|I felt no sorrow, no desire for action, no inclination to go upstairs and fall upon the body of my wife.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000031_000003|I just saw the pink effulgence, the cane tables, the palms, the globular match holders, the indented ash trays.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000031_000004|And then Leonora came to me and it appears that I addressed to her that singular remark:
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000032_000000|"Now I can marry the girl."
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000033_000000|But I have given you absolutely the whole of my recollection of that evening, as it is the whole of my recollection of the succeeding three or four days.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000033_000001|I was in a state just simply cataleptic.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000033_000002|They put me to bed and I stayed there; they brought me my clothes and I dressed; they led me to an open grave and I stood beside it.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000033_000003|If they had taken me to the edge of a river, or if they had flung me beneath a railway train, I should have been drowned or mangled in the same spirit.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000033_000004|I was the walking dead.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000034_000000|Well, those are my impressions.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000035_000001|I pieced it together afterwards.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000035_000002|You will remember I said that Edward Ashburnham and the girl had gone off, that night, to a concert at the Casino and that Leonora had asked Florence, almost immediately after their departure, to follow them and to perform the office of chaperone.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000035_000003|Florence, you may also remember, was all in black, being the mourning that she wore for a deceased cousin, Jean Hurlbird.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000035_000004|It was a very black night and the girl was dressed in cream coloured muslin, that must have glimmered under the tall trees of the dark park like a phosphorescent fish in a cupboard. You couldn't have had a better beacon.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000000|And it appears that Edward Ashburnham led the girl not up the straight allee that leads to the Casino, but in under the dark trees of the park. Edward Ashburnham told me all this in his final outburst.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000002|I didn't pump him.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000003|I hadn't any motive.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000004|At that time I didn't in the least connect him with my wife.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000005|But the fellow talked like a cheap novelist.--Or like a very good novelist for the matter of that, if it's the business of a novelist to make you see things clearly.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000007|It appears that, not very far from the Casino, he and the girl sat down in the darkness upon a public bench.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000008|The lights from that place of entertainment must have reached them through the tree trunks, since, Edward said, he could quite plainly see the girl's face-that beloved face with the high forehead, the queer mouth, the tortured eyebrows, and the direct eyes. And to Florence, creeping up behind them, they must have presented the appearance of silhouettes.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000009|For I take it that Florence came creeping up behind them over the short grass to a tree that, I quite well remember, was immediately behind that public seat.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000010|It was not a very difficult feat for a woman instinct with jealousy.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000012|And that miserable woman must have got it in the face, good and strong.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000014|Horrible!
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000036_000015|Well, I suppose she deserved all that she got.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000037_000000|Anyhow, there you have the picture, the immensely tall trees, elms most of them, towering and feathering away up into the black mistiness that trees seem to gather about them at night; the silhouettes of those two upon the seat; the beams of light coming from the Casino, the woman all in black peeping with fear behind the tree trunk.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000037_000001|It is melodrama; but I can't help it.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000000|And then, it appears, something happened to Edward Ashburnham.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000001|He assured me-and I see no reason for disbelieving him-that until that moment he had had no idea whatever of caring for the girl.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000003|He certainly loved her, but with a very deep, very tender and very tranquil love.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000004|He had missed her when she went away to her convent school; he had been glad when she had returned.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000005|But of more than that he had been totally unconscious.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000006|Had he been conscious of it, he assured me, he would have fled from it as from a thing accursed.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000007|He realized that it was the last outrage upon Leonora.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000008|But the real point was his entire unconsciousness.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000009|He had gone with her into that dark park with no quickening of the pulse, with no desire for the intimacy of solitude. He had gone, intending to talk about polo ponies, and tennis racquets; about the temperament of the reverend Mother at the convent she had left and about whether her frock for a party when they got home should be white or blue.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000010|It hadn't come into his head that they would talk about a single thing that they hadn't always talked about; it had not even come into his head that the tabu which extended around her was not inviolable.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000011|And then, suddenly, that-He was very careful to assure me that at that time there was no physical motive about his declaration.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000012|It did not appear to him to be a matter of a dark night and a propinquity and so on.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000013|No, it was simply of her effect on the moral side of his life that he appears to have talked.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000014|He said that he never had the slightest notion to enfold her in his arms or so much as to touch her hand.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000017|The expression upon her face he could only describe as "queer".
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000018|At another time, indeed, he made it appear that he thought she was glad.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000020|He was for her, in everything that she said at that time, the model of humanity, the hero, the athlete, the father of his country, the law giver.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000021|So that for her, to be suddenly, intimately and overwhelmingly praised must have been a matter for mere gladness, however overwhelming it were.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000022|It must have been as if a god had approved her handiwork or a king her loyalty.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000023|She just sat still and listened, smiling.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000024|And it seemed to her that all the bitterness of her childhood, the terrors of her tempestuous father, the bewailings of her cruel tongued mother were suddenly atoned for.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000025|She had her recompense at last.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000027|It wouldn't, I mean, appear at all in the light of an attempt to gain possession.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000028|The girl, at least, regarded him as firmly anchored to his Leonora.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000029|She had not the slightest inkling of any infidelities.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000030|He had always spoken to her of his wife in terms of reverence and deep affection.
train-other-500/3926/891/3926_891_000038_000031|He had given her the idea that he regarded Leonora as absolutely impeccable and as absolutely satisfying.
train-other-500/3928/10094/3928_10094_000006_000000|PREFACE TO THE WHOLE WORK
train-other-500/3928/10094/3928_10094_000010_000001|And they say that if we consider it apart from the Scriptures, the opinions of the ages are so many and so varied that it is difficult to believe one more than the other; and that finally, considering this nobility as they wish it, in one place they lose and in the other they do not win, as may be seen more clearly in the Preface to the Lives.
train-other-500/3928/10094/3928_10094_000017_000006|And let this suffice for the dispute raised between the factions, and for our own opinion.
train-other-500/3928/10094/3928_10094_000019_000005|Kindled by the praise that those so constituted have obtained, they too will aspire to true glory.
train-other-500/3928/153300/3928_153300_000004_000000|eight.
train-other-500/3928/153300/3928_153300_000004_000001|ARREST
train-other-500/3928/153300/3928_153300_000005_000000|The success of this interview provoked other attempts on the part of the reporters who now flocked into the Southwest.
train-other-500/3928/153300/3928_153300_000011_000000|I had expected all this, just as I had expected mr Grey to be absent from the proceedings and his testimony ignored.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000003_000000|The next day saw me at police headquarters begging an interview from the inspector, with the intention of confiding to him a theory which must either cost me his sympathy or open the way to a new inquiry, which I felt sure would lead to mr Durand's complete exoneration.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000005_000002|The word fired me, and I spoke.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000006_000000|"You consider mr Durand guilty, and so do many others, I fear, in spite of his long record for honesty and uprightness.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000006_000001|And why?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000007_000000|"My dear!"
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000008_000000|The inspector had actually risen.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000008_000001|His expression and whole attitude showed shock.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000008_000002|But I did not quail; I only subdued my manner and spoke with quieter conviction.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000009_000003|How could I live in inaction?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000009_000004|How could you expect me to weigh for a moment this foreigner's reputation against that of my own lover?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000009_000005|If I have reasons-"
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000010_000000|"Reasons!"
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000013_000002|Are you willing to do this?"
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000014_000000|"I will try."
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000015_000002|I watched him as I watched others.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000015_000004|Indifferent, almost morose before she came upon the scene, he brightened to a surprising extent the moment he found himself in her presence.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000015_000005|Not because she was a beautiful woman, for he scarcely honored her face or even her superb figure with a look.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000017_000000|"I know.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000017_000001|I have not yet touched on fact.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000018_000000|He stared.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000018_000001|Evidently he was not accustomed to hear the law laid down in this fashion by a midget of my proportions.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000022_000000|Upon which I plunged into my subject.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000023_000000|"mrs Fairbrother wore the real diamond, and no imitation, to the ball.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000023_000001|Of this I feel sure.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000023_000002|The bit of glass or paste displayed to the coroner's jury was bright enough, but it was not the star of light I saw burning on her breast as she passed me on her way to the alcove."
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000024_000000|"Miss Van Arsdale!"
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000001|But now something happened.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000004|I do not know whether or not you have found that man.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000006|"I judge that you have not, so I may go on with my suppositions.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000007|mrs Fairbrother took in this note.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000010|Expect trouble if you do not give him the diamond,' or something to that effect.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000011|But why was it passed up to her unfinished?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000012|Was the haste too great?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000025_000014|I believe in another explanation, which points with startling directness to the possibility that the person referred to in this broken communication was not mr Durand, but one whom I need not name; and that the reason you have failed to find the messenger, of whose appearance you have received definite information, is that you have not looked among the servants of a certain distinguished visitor in town.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000026_000001|But I had come there to speak, and I hastily proceeded before the rebuke thus expressed could formulate itself into words.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000027_000000|"I have some excuse for a declaration so monstrous.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000027_000002|Inspector, have you ever solved the mystery of the two broken coffee cups found amongst the debris at mrs Fairbrother's feet?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000027_000003|It did not come out in the inquest, I noticed."
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000028_000000|"Not yet," he cried, "but-you can not tell me anything about them!"
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000029_000000|"Possibly not.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000030_000000|Here the inspector found speech.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000031_000000|"You saw mr Grey lift two cups and turn toward the alcove at a moment we all know to have been critical?
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000031_000001|You should have told me this before. He may be a possible witness."
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000032_000000|I scarcely listened.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000032_000001|I was too full of my own argument.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000033_000003|But this is simple conjecture; what I have to say next is evidence.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000033_000005|I have, from the pictures.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000033_000006|It is very quaint; and among the devices on the handle is one that especially attracted my attention.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000033_000007|See!
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000033_000008|This is what I mean." And I handed him a drawing which I had made with some care in expectation of this very interview.
train-other-500/3928/153301/3928_153301_000034_000000|He surveyed it with some astonishment.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000001_000000|I was not the only one to tremble now.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000002_000000|"I shall see about this," he muttered, crumpling the paper in his hand.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000002_000001|"But this is a very terrible business you are plunging me into.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000002_000002|I sincerely hope that you are not heedlessly misleading me."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000003_000002|If the blow was struck to obtain the diamond, the shock of not finding it on his victim must have been terrible.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000003_000005|He showed astonishment, eagerness, and a determination which finally led him forward, as you know, with the request to take the diamond in his hand. Why did he want to take it in his hand?
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000003_000007|Is it likely, sir?
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000005_000000|"Because of the fraud he meditated.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000006_000000|"Nonsense!
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000006_000003|You would make him out a Cagliostro or something worse.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000007_000000|He was very patient with me; he did not show me the door.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000008_000000|"Yet such a substitution took place, and took place that evening," I insisted.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000008_000002|Besides, where all is sensation, why cavil at one more improbability?
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000008_000003|mr Grey may have come over to America for no other reason.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000008_000004|He is known as a collector, and when a man has a passion for diamond getting-"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000009_000000|"He is known as a collector?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000010_000000|"In his own country."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000011_000000|"I was not told that."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000012_000000|"Nor i But I found it out."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000013_000000|"How, my dear child, how?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000015_000000|"You-cabled-his name-to England?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000017_000000|He gave me a look in which admiration was strangely blended with doubt and apprehension.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000018_000000|"You are making a brave struggle," said he, "but it is a hopeless one."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000019_000000|"I have one more confidence to repose in you.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000019_000001|The nurse who has charge of Miss Grey was in my class in the hospital.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000019_000004|The messenger was mr Grey's valet, and its destination the house in which her father was enjoying his position as chief guest.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000021_000000|"It has always looked to us as if written in the dark, by an agitated hand; but-"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000022_000000|I said nothing; the broken and unfinished scrawl was sufficiently eloquent.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000024_000001|She did not put the note when written in an envelope, but gave it to the valet just as it was.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000025_000001|Has she that book?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000026_000000|"No, it went out next morning, with the scraps.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000026_000001|It was some pamphlet, I believe."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000028_000000|"What is this nurse's name?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000029_000000|"Henrietta Pierson."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000030_000000|"Does she share your doubts?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000033_000000|"No, only the one time."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000034_000000|"Is she discreet?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000035_000001|On this subject she will be like the grave unless forced by you to speak."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000036_000000|"And Miss Grey?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000037_000001|But she is getting well fast.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000038_000001|He did not give me another look, though I stood trembling before him.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000039_000000|"A girl as ill as you say Miss Grey was must have had some very pressing matter on her mind to attempt to write and send a message under such difficulties.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000039_000002|But don't you see that such conduct as this would be preposterous, nay, unparalleled in persons of their distinction?
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000039_000003|You must find some other explanation for Miss Grey's seemingly mysterious action, and I an agent of crime other than one of England's most reputable statesmen."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000040_000001|I am willing to trust my cause with you."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000041_000000|He looked none too grateful for this confidence.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000042_000000|"What do you want me to do?" he asked.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000043_000000|"Prove something.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000043_000001|Prove that I am altogether wrong or altogether right. Or if proof is not possible, pray allow me the privilege of doing what I can myself to clear up the matter."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000044_000000|"You?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000046_000000|"I will do nothing without your sanction.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000046_000001|I realize the dangers of this inquiry and the disgrace that would follow if our attempt was suspected before proof reached a point sufficient to justify it.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000047_000000|Here I whispered in his ear for several minutes, when I had finished he gave me a prolonged stare, then he laid his hand on my head.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000048_000000|"You are a little wonder," he declared.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000048_000002|However," he added, suddenly growing grave, "something, I must admit, may be excused a young girl who finds herself forced to choose between the guilt of her lover and that of a man esteemed great by the world, but altogether removed from her and her natural sympathies."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000049_000000|"You acknowledge, then, that it lies between these two?"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000051_000000|I drew a breath of relief.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000052_000000|"Don't deceive yourself, Miss Van Arsdale; it is not among the possibilities that mr Grey has had any connection with this crime.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000052_000001|He is an eccentric man, that's all."
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000053_000000|"But-but-"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000054_000000|"I shall do my duty.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000054_000001|I shall satisfy you and myself on certain points, and if-" I hardly breathed "--there is the least doubt, I will see you again and-"
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000055_000001|Turning upon me with some severity, he declared: "There are nine hundred and ninety nine chances in a thousand that my next word to you will be to prepare yourself for mr Durand's arraignment and trial.
train-other-500/3928/153302/3928_153302_000056_000000|And with this half hearted encouragement I was forced to be content, not only for that day, but for many days, when-
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000002_000000|THE START
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000003_000000|IN CAMP ON THE DESERT, august twenty fourth nineteen fourteen.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000004_000000|DEAR mrs
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000004_000001|CONEY,--
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000000|At last we are off.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000001|I am powerfully glad.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000002|I shall have to enjoy this trip for us both.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000003|You see how greedy I am for new experiences!
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000004|I have never been on a prolonged hunt before, so I am looking forward to a heap of fun.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000005|I hardly know what to do about writing, but shall try to write every two days.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000005_000006|I want you to have as much of this trip as I can put on paper, so we will begin at the start.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000006_000000|To begin with we were all to meet at Green River, to start the twentieth; but a professor coming from somewhere in the East delayed us a day, and also some of the party changed their plans; that reduced our number but not our enthusiasm.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000007_000000|A few days before we left the ranch I telephoned mrs Louderer and tried to persuade her to go along, but she replied, "For why should I go?
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000007_000003|I can sleep out on some rocks here and with a stick I can beat the sage bush, which will give me the smell you will smell of the outside.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000008_000000|I love mrs Louderer dearly, but she is absolutely devoid of imagination, and her matter of factness is mighty trying sometimes. However, she sent me a bottle of goose grease to ward off colds from the "kinder."
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000009_000001|Besides, all the others were strangers to me except young mr Haynes, who was organizing the hunt.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000009_000002|Really the prospect didn't seem so joyous.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000000|The afternoon before we were to start I went with mr Stewart and mr Haynes to meet the train.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000001|We were expecting the professor.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000002|But the only passenger who got off was a slight, gray eyed girl.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000003|She looked about her uncertainly for a moment and then went into the depot while we returned to the hotel.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000004|Just as I started up the steps my eyes were gladdened by the sight of mrs O'Shaughnessy in her buckboard trotting merrily up the street.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000005|She waved her hand to us and drove up.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000010_000006|Clyde took her team to the livery barn and she came up to my room with me.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000011_000000|"It's going with you I am," she began.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000012_000000|After she had "tidied up a bit" we went down to supper.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000012_000001|We were all seated at one table, and there was yet an empty place; but soon the girl we had seen get off the train came and seated herself in it.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000013_000000|"Can any of you tell me how to get to Kendall, Wyoming?" she asked.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000014_000000|I didn't know nor did Clyde, but mrs O'Shaughnessy knew, so she answered.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000014_000001|"Kendall is in the forest reserve up north.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000014_000002|It is two hundred miles from here and half of the distance is across desert, but they have an automobile route as far as Pinedale; you could get that far on the auto stage.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000014_000003|After that I suppose you could get some one to take you on."
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000015_000000|"Thank you," said the girl.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000015_000002|I am alone in the world, and I am not expected at Kendall, so I am obliged to ask and to take care of myself."
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000016_000000|mrs O'Shaughnessy at once mentioned her own name and introduced the rest of us.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000016_000001|After supper Miss Hull and mrs O'Shaughnessy had a long talk.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000016_000002|I was not much surprised when mrs O'Shaughnessy came in to tell me that she was going to take the girl along.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000016_000003|"Because," she said, "Kendall is on our way and it's glad I am to help a lone girl.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000016_000004|Did you notice the freckles of her?
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000016_000005|Sure her forbears hailed from Killarney."
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000017_000000|So early next morning we were astir.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000017_000001|We had outfitted in Green River, so the wagons were already loaded.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000017_000002|I had rather dreaded the professor. I had pictured to myself a very dignified, bespectacled person, and I mentally stood in awe of his great learning.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000017_000003|Imagine my surprise when a boyish, laughing young man introduced himself as Professor Glenholdt.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000017_000004|He was so jolly, so unaffected, and so altogether likable, that my fear vanished and I enjoyed the prospect of his company.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000017_000005|mr Haynes and his friend mr Struble on their wagon led the way, then we followed, and after us came mrs O'Shaughnessy, and Miss Hull brought up the rear, with the professor riding horseback beside first one wagon and then another.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000018_000000|So we set out.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000018_000001|There was a great jangling and banging, for our tin camp stoves kept the noise going.
train-other-500/3934/102413/3934_102413_000018_00